The story of an open-source hero who became a villain. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

Robert McQueen shares the inside scoop on Flathub’s ambitious plans to create a universal app store for all distros—and we ask the hard questions. Special Guest: Robert McQueen.

We're celebrating 500 episodes with the biggest announcement yet. Special Guest: Listener Jeff.

Ubuntu makes its anti-Flatpak stance official, while KDE and GNOME team up to turn Flathub into a universal Linux app store. Plus, we try the Intel Arc GPU. Could this new hardware make Linux bulletproof?

Sometimes running the latest and greatest means you have to pave your own path. This week two examples from living on the edge.

How Chris wasted three months tracking down a Wi-Fi problem, plus we debate if immutable distros need to be simplified.

Chris attempts to get Fedora 37 on his M1 Max MacBook Pro, while Wes and Brent try the "every distro at once" desktop.

Are the free software alternatives good enough? The conclusion to our 60-day challenge to drop Google, Apple, and the iPhone.

Today we are finally taking on a project months in the making, and we're switching to an entirely new generation of Linux tech in the process.

Chris' sticky upgrade situation, and we chat with the developer behind an impressive mesh VPN with new tricks. Special Guest: Ryan Huber.

Join us on a journey to true software freedom. We embark on our 30-day challenge and discover a whole new philosophy that will change the way you think about technology. Special Guest: Alex Kretzschmar.

We assemble to predict what will happen in 2023 and score how our 2022 predictions turned out.

It's the third annual Unplugged Tuxies; our community votes on the best projects, distros, desktops, and services of 2022.

Brent's been hiding your emails; we confront him and expose what he's been keeping from the show.

We complete a year-long journey and discover some unspoken truths about a great Linux distro. Plus one small, and one major update on our GrapheneOS adventure.

After nearly half a year of woe, Brent is ready to give Linux the go. Join us as we compare and contrast two Linux distros and end up with one going on Brent's machine. Plus, follow-up on Chris' GrapheneOS adventures and more.

Chris ditches the iPhone and switches to GrapheneOS, a security and privacy-focused project that lets you take control back from Google.

We dig into Shufflecake, a tool that lets Linux users hide data with plausible deniability, then let our live stream SSH into our server and see if they can discover our secret data. Plus, we follow up on Brent's never-ending desktop distro search and Chris' new Linux rig.

Why this latest release of Fedora misses the mark, and Ubuntu's quiet backing away from ZFS.

We surprise each other with three different topics, and Chris has a big update on the ODROID H3+.