Linux User Space

Linux User Space

How did your favorite Linux distribution get its start? Join us and find out! Linux User Space is hosted by Leo and Dan, and every two weeks we deep dive into the history of Linux distributions and the things that matter to us. Episodes drop every other Monday.

  1. Episode 6:07: New WebKids on the Block

    2 DAYS AGO

    Episode 6:07: New WebKids on the Block

    Coming up in this episode The New XFWindow Lanager A New WebKid on the Block And a little food for the trolls 0:00 Cold Open 2:23 The XF Window Lanager 17:09 A New WebKid on the Block 41:13 Feeding the Trolls 😉 41:53 @queenkjuul 45:59 @KnoochyPoochy 48:24 @dluckie747 51:06 @schemage2210 1:00:54 @sinisterdesign 1:08:01 Next Time 1:11:21 Stinger The Video Version! https://youtu.be/WYdRc6G-100 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 XFCE Plans for Wayland XFCE Blog post 9to5 Linux article Smithay 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Browser Watch Orion Browser Kagi Search Just The Browser script Register article about Just The Browser Servo Browser 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Feedback @queenkjuul (on the WinBoat segment) photoshop "runs" but recent versions (2022+) dont actually work @KnoochyPoochy (On the Gentoo year checkin) Spoiler: Gentoo sucks. @dluckie747 (On the Gentoo year checkin) can yall do an update to this? @schemage2210 (On the new Mozilla CEO segment) Is a little skeptical about Mozilla changing their ways and about their focus on the browser. @sinisterdesign (On the new Mozilla CEO segment) "Cautiously optimistic" is not the overwhelming majority attitude that you think it is. 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose MarshMan Rotted Mood CubicleNate Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 Eduardo S. Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 14m
  2. Episode 6:06: The Epic Epoch

    22/12/2025

    Episode 6:06: The Epic Epoch

    In this episode we spend a lot of time hyping things up, including some things you might not expect (from a Linux show, not so much Leo). We open up with Zorin making some money moves that helps WinBoat among a few other projects, then really dive into the show with Cosmic! A bit about how we've fared now that the 1.0 Cosmic Epoch is here, how things have changed, and what other goodies System76 has up their sleeve (it's a lot!). Then, we spend some time dissecting Mozilla's newest AI move. It turns out, if you dig deep enough, there's still hope, contrary to the wildly hot-take style news about things so far. And our final topic, Snapscope, a way to scan your Snaps for vulnerabilities, but then end up chatting way more about Snaps in general. There's also a bit of SteamThing errata we need to cover before ending it all on a high note for the holidays. Hope you enjoy and we'll see you soon. Happy holidays! Coming up in this episode The stars have aligned for a release The top fox is on fire Set your scope on snap and a wee bit of feedback 0:00 Cold Open 3:44 Cosmic's Epic Epoch 33:52 New CEO, New Mozilla? 1:06:38 360 SnapScope 1:28:31 Errata + Next Time! 1:37:40 Stinger The Video Version https://youtu.be/Sbaswr_EJcA 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Cosmic and Pop!_OS have a release The Blog announcement 9to5 Linux article Carl's Ubuntu Summit presentation 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Mozilla's Next Chapter The new CEO's blog post Mozilla's SWOT Waterfox's reaction 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky SnapScope Alan Pope's SnapScope OMG Ubuntu article Darren Horrocks' Snap Unsnapped post Feedback --verbose in Discord Desktop mode runs in X11. This GitHub issue proposes to change it Gamma in Discord Gamer's Nexus revealed the Steam Machine will have SODIMMs 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. ** We hope everyone enjoys the holiday season and we will see you in the new year.** Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 39m
  3. Episode 6:05: Plasma is the Way-Land

    08/12/2025

    Episode 6:05: Plasma is the Way-Land

    Coming up in this episode Wayland is inevitable... RAM is now Unobtanium and a Linux User Space OS? Today in User Space, we RE-remind everyone that Wayland is certainly the only way forward for the big dogs. Gnome had adopted a Wayland-only stance quite a while ago, and now it looks like Plasma will be following suit. Then, we dive into the wonderful world of Everything terrible that AI is doing to us in the form of RAM price hikes (as much as 500%... so far). And finally, we hit up the feedback that's been piling up! There's a little more to get to eventually, but it'll all get there since we went a little long in this episode. 0:00 Cold Open 1:05 Wayland Is Inevitable... 26:53 RAM Is Now Unobtanium 49:54 The LUS Mailbag 50:19 Mailbag: Daniel 57:40 Mailbag: schemage2210 1:03:19 Mailbag: ewanmarshall 1:10:13 Mailbag: michaelchalmers 1:15:26 Next Time 1:23:08 Stinger The Video Version https://youtu.be/dyfMTBn7AoM 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Plasma is all in on Wayland KDE blog post We shouted back in 2023 on Season 4 Episode 5 The Steam Deck which runs on KDE Plasma has high sales numbers 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy RAM prices are silly. It is all AI's fault. Micron, the manufacturer of Crucal memory, will stop selling RAM to consumers Leo spotted prices in the store and they were high. 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Feedback Daniel via Fireside Daniel published an example using KDE environment ewanmarshall at YouTube WinBoat gives a big warning about access to the filesystem. schemage2210 at YouTube plocate is only great if you know the file name. 😉😂 michelchalmers at YouTube Two passwords are better than one on encrypted systems that have multiple users. No disagreement. While it is an extra step it can be solved when you add the second user. 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 24m
  4. Episode 6:04: Attack of the 50 Foot-Guns

    17/11/2025

    Episode 6:04: Attack of the 50 Foot-Guns

    Coming up in this episode We got WinBoat Drama We got Kubuntu Drama and We got Flatpak Drama 0:00 Cold Open 1:34 FreeRDP Caught in the Crossfire 25:38 Maybe Announce Beforehand? 41:11 Fedora's Manifest Copy and Paste 1:00:20 Next Time (Three weeks!) 1:02:48 Stinger (This one's important) The Video Version https://youtu.be/fedhh0D_WWw 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 WinBoat/FreeRDP Drama OMG Ubuntu article Reddit Thread Github Drama 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Kubuntu Website got a makeover Gaming on Linux noticed on Mastodon It was also spotted on Reddit here and here linuxiac article The official notice from the Ubuntu Discourse 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Flatpak Copy Pasta Fedora is called outon Mastodon for re-using Flatpak manifests The Fedora Discussion post 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 4m
  5. Episode 6:03: Boot Slide N' Boogie

    03/11/2025

    Episode 6:03: Boot Slide N' Boogie

    Coming up in this episode All the distro news All the browser news And a Cosmic Recap 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Disro Watch! Fedora 43 release Fedora 43 Release Announcement Fedora Immutables Also Release Fedora develops a policy for AI assisted contributions Gaming On Linux Coverage Fedora Discussion Post Pagure Ticket Xubuntu Website Hacked! (Now Fixed) OMG Ubuntu article Sean Davis replies on Mastodon Ubuntu Unity Needs Help! Ubuntu Discourse Post 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Browser Watch! Firefox 144 is Released Firefox Lives Continues on Old Windows Servo Browsing Engine Chrome to Warn About HTTP sites Browser Prompt Injection (Perplexity Comet, OpenAI Atlas, Fellou) From Brave Bleeping Computer #1 Bleeping Computer #2 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Cosmic Recap LUS Live Stream Episode - The B-side COSMIC 1.0 has a Tentative Launch Date! 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 35m
  6. Episode 6:02B: The Cosmic B-Side

    20/10/2025 · BONUS

    Episode 6:02B: The Cosmic B-Side

    This past week, as we were gearing up to record an episode, life had to just get in the way. We had a little wiggle room mid-week, so we decided to get something on tape anyway. Just something a little less structured. And so, this B-side was born. The object of the game was to dive deep into Cosmic, the first "reference implementation" in our two desktop series (Cosmic and Plasma) and give you honest opinion, good and bad, as we experienced it on livestream... for two hours. Of course there are tangents, because, well, it's still us. The desktop is quite amazing for something that's only (publicly) existed for a little over a year. We poke almost everything that comes with the default install of Pop_OS! 24.04. We'll poke the rest over the next few weeks. We're interested to hear what you think, especially on the audio version. We tried to describe everything we saw as we went because obviously, you can't see, but surely there's room to improve. If you're curious, the video to go with all this is at: https://youtu.be/RwGZiMTtaoI The audio comes from a few odd sources, so things might not sound normal. Still turned out quite well, overall, but at 1:45:20, we lose Dan's voice. I know, I know, we should have had a backup. We usually have three! But the on-the-flyness of the recording kept us from remembering to even bring in the backup-backup. Either way, sorry about that! It's just Leo at that point, so bear with. We know it's not a normal episode, but we still hope you enjoy!

    2h 3m
  7. Episode 6:02: The Lizard and The Wyzyrd

    06/10/2025

    Episode 6:02: The Lizard and The Wyzyrd

    Coming up in this episode Summaries will change the world It's the Last version of YaST F-Droid is Doomed 0:00 Cold Open 1:32 Summaries Will Change the World (Wide Web) 22:54 The Last Version of YaST! 41:54 F-Droid Is Doomed! 1:01:32 Feedback: Ant 1:05:09 Feedback: @Tacoghost 1:08:12 Feedback: @RafaelFarreiraPimenta 1:11:09 Feedback: @Fractal_32 1:16:54 Next Time on Linux User Space... 1:20:25 Stinger The Video Version https://youtu.be/0uNoVIyFVmA 🔥Warm Up🔥 AI search summaries aren't always great. MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Myrlyn will cast the spells now Myrlyn Myrlyn repo Gone for Leap, still around for TW Agama is slated to be the new installer. Cockpit is proposed be the gui configuration tool. 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy F-Droid is doomed AOSP is hanging on by a thread F-Droid is dying The Android Developers Decree 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky Feedback Ant via Fireside Ant is following along the Cosmic journey @Tacoghost via Youtube Gentoo isn't that hard if you follow the directions. @Fractal_32 LFS when? @RafaelFerreirapimenta Why Systemd with Gentoo? Because we could 😉. Collectively we did use multiple options. 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 22m
  8. Episode 6:01: Yet Another Clanker

    22/09/2025

    Episode 6:01: Yet Another Clanker

    Coming up in this episode We took a break over the break Windows 10 pulls a fast one Firefox brings in another clanker 0:00 Cold Open 2:27 A Distro, a Router and a Choice 25:26 Windows 10 Isn't Dead Yet... 43:45 Browser Watch (feat. Firefox) 1:09:58 Next Time! 1:14:57 Stinger The Video Version! https://youtu.be/Rsn57QtNsiI 🔥Warm Up🔥 Leo has been playing with some UniFi gear Dan explored some OpenSUSE Tumbleweed We plan to explore KDE Linux Alpha and System76's Cosmic this season. 📣Announcements📣 This program was made possible by: 📺️Youtube 📽️TILvids And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons like you 😍 Windows 10 is going away... sort of Windows 10 gets another year, if you meet the requirements. End of 10 Campaign Leo and Dan recommend Linux Mint and Ubuntu as great places to start. There are other suggestions though, what do you recommend? 📣More Announcements📣 Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy Mozilla Watch 👀 Firefox 141 brings [tab grouping and lower memory usage in Linux](www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/141.0/releasenotes/) Firefox 142 brings pocket like article suggestions and long press previews Firefox 143 adds Copilot to the AI selection Firefox 144 will bring better encryption for the password manager Browser options continue to grow. Zen Browser looks interesting. What are you using? 🧹Housekeeping🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy 📰 Linux User Space subreddit ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server 📲 Linux User Space Telegram ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon 📜 Linux User Space Twitter 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky 🔭Next Time🔭 We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Watch for our livestream announcements. Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show. We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support! Producer Bruno Dave John Visaggio & Co Co-Producer --verbose LqLarry MarshMan GrouchyM Rotted Mood Tim Super User A.J. Advait Amanita Backshift6090 CubicleNate Eduardo S. Hausken Jeff3ix Jefferson Jill and Steve Larry LiNuXsys666 Matt M. Musical Coder Mick Nicholas sleepyeyesvince

    1h 16m
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How did your favorite Linux distribution get its start? Join us and find out! Linux User Space is hosted by Leo and Dan, and every two weeks we deep dive into the history of Linux distributions and the things that matter to us. Episodes drop every other Monday.

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  • Creator
    Linux User Space
  • Years Active
    2020 - 2026
  • Episodes
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