LUP 558: Top 5 Essential Apps¶
- Air Date: 2024-04-14
- Duration: 53 mins 22 secs
About this episode¶
We asked, and you answered: Your top 5 Linux app essentials and post-install rituals. Plus, some news to better cope with "extreme file-system damage."
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Episode links¶
- Berlin with Brent: May Meetup — Brent is back in Berlin! Please join the Jupiter Broadcasting community for an evening together, and bring your friends!
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- Warp — Warp allows you to securely send files to each other via the internet or local network by exchanging a word-based code.
- Bcachefs Repair Code Reaching Complete & Robust Recovery — "This patchset was kindly tested by a user from India who accidentally wiped one drive out of a three drive filesystem with no replication on the family computer - it took a couple weeks but we got everything important back."
- Linux 6.9-rc3 Released With Many Bcachefs Patches — "[...] but hey, if you had a corrupted bcachefs filesystem you'd probably want this, and if you thought bcachefs was stable already, I have a bridge to sell you. Special deal only for you, real cheap."
- Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME
- F42 Change Proposal: Fedora Plasma Workstation — Switch the default desktop experience for Workstation to KDE Plasma. The GNOME desktop is moved to a separate spin / edition, retaining release-blocking status.
- Changes/FedoraPlasmaWorkstation - Fedora Project Wiki
- 412linux.io — N100 Media Serving Efficiency with Quick Sync
- Pick: FreeTube — FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac & Linux thanks to Electron.
- FreeBSD Speedruns — The zero-to-desktop FreeBSD speedrun category records the time taken from the first boot of a FreeBSD image, through installation, to the display of a desktop environment or window manager.
- FreeBSD Zero to Desktop Speedrun Challenge — The operations and commands that needed to be done took me 1:33 and installation of base.txz/kernel.txz datasets took 0:28. Downloading and installing needed pkg(8) packages took 2:22 of time.
Tags¶
alessandro astone, aqua voice, bcachefs, beelink, berlin, bitwarden, brave, budgie, codium, dictation, doom emacs, duf, element, fd, fedora 42, fedora plasma workstation, firefox, fish, flakes, flathub, freetube, gnome, joshua strobl, jupiter broadcasting, keepassxc, linux 6.9, linux podcast, linux unplugged, logseq, marc deop i argemí, meetup, mentat, mentat nextcloud, mumble, nix-command, nix.settings.experimental-features, nixos, onlyoffice, password manager, pcloud, proton pass, qownnotes, remmina, ripgrep, signal, solus linux, spotify, steam, steve cossette, syncthing, tailscale, telegram, ticktick, topgrade, troy dawson