LUP 656: Why KDE Linux Surprised Us¶
- Air Date: 2026-03-01
- Duration: 71 mins 3 secs
About this episode¶
We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.
Your hosts¶
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Episode links¶
- 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
- 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
- SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
- PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
- Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
- KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
- Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
- Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
- KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
- suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS
- xuars/kdelinux-tailscale
- Nix - KDE Community
- Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
- Nebula Commander
- DEMO Nebula Commander
- Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
- Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control
- Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
- Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
- Launcher Studio on Flathub
- Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
- Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy
Tags¶
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