Linux User Space

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] https://youtu.be/dyfMTBn7AoM [https://youtu.be/dyfMTBn7AoM] 📣ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube [https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace] * 📽️TILvids [https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace] * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons [https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace] like you 😍 PLASMA IS ALL IN ON WAYLAND * KDE blog post [https://blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/going-all-in-on-a-wayland-future/] * We shouted back in 2023 on Season 4 Episode 5 [https://www.linuxuserspace.show/405] * The Steam Deck which runs on KDE Plasma has high sales numbers [https://www.techspot.com/news/106921-handheld-gaming-pcs-surpass-6-million-sales-steam.html] 📣MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 * Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show [contact@linuxuserspace.show] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum] RAM PRICES ARE SILLY. IT IS ALL AI'S FAULT. * Micron, the manufacturer of Crucal memory, will stop selling RAM to consumers [https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/12/after-nearly-30-years-crucial-will-stop-selling-ram-to-consumers/] * Leo spotted prices in the store [https://mastodon.social/@leochavez/115651809388374401] 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 [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show] * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit [https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit] * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server [https://linuxuserspace.show/discord] * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram [https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram] * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix [https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix] * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch] * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon [https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon] * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter] * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids [https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids] * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky [https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky] FEEDBACK DANIEL VIA FIRESIDE * Daniel published an example using KDE environment [https://github.com/sigulete/kde-bootc] EWANMARSHALL AT YOUTUBE * WinBoat [https://www.winboat.app] gives a big warning about access to the filesystem. SCHEMAGE2210 AT YOUTUBE * plocate [https://plocate.sesse.net] 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 Support Linux User Space [https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace]

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] https://youtu.be/fedhh0D_WWw [https://youtu.be/fedhh0D_WWw] 📣ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube [https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace] * 📽️TILvids [https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace] * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons [https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace] like you 😍 WINBOAT/FREERDP DRAMA * OMG Ubuntu article [https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/11/linux-ppa-ransomware-investigated-no-malware] * Reddit Thread [https://www.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/1op33pa/ransomware_help/] * Github Drama [https://github.com/TibixDev/winboat/issues/216#issuecomment-3492664617] 📣MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 * Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show [contact@linuxuserspace.show] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum] KUBUNTU WEBSITE GOT A MAKEOVER * Gaming on Linux noticed on Mastodon [https://mastodon.social/deck/@gamingonlinux/115503814225208945] * It was also spotted on Reddit here [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/comments/1oq0vwt/cant_access_kubuntuorg_because_of_invalid_https/] and here [https://www.reddit.com/r/Kubuntu/s/6G25iwhnMr] * linuxiac article [https://linuxiac.com/kubuntu-website-inaccessible-due-to-ssl-configuration-mistake/] * The official notice from the Ubuntu Discourse [https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-new-kubuntu-org-website/71909] 🧹HOUSEKEEPING🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show] * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit [https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit] * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server [https://linuxuserspace.show/discord] * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram [https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram] * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix [https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix] * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch] * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon [https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon] * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter] * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids [https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids] * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky [https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky] FLATPAK COPY PASTA * Fedora is called outon Mastodon for re-using Flatpak manifests [https://social.treehouse.systems/@TheEvilSkeleton/115489390800217986] * The Fedora Discussion post [https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/some-fedora-flatpaks-re-use-flathub-apps-manifests-without-crediting-the-authors/171724/2] 🔭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 Support Linux User Space [https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace]

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 [https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace] * 📽️TILvids [https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace] * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons [https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace] like you 😍 DISRO WATCH! FEDORA 43 RELEASE * Fedora 43 Release Announcement [https://fedoramagazine.org/announcing-fedora-linux-43/] * Fedora Immutables Also Release [https://fedoramagazine.org/whats-new-fedora-atomic-desktops-in-fedora-linux-43/] FEDORA DEVELOPS A POLICY FOR AI ASSISTED CONTRIBUTIONS * Gaming On Linux Coverage [https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/10/fedora-linux-project-agrees-to-allow-ai-assisted-contributions-with-a-new-policy/] * Fedora Discussion Post [https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/council-policy-proposal-policy-on-ai-assisted-contributions/165092/242] * Pagure Ticket [https://pagure.io/Fedora-Council/tickets/issue/542] XUBUNTU WEBSITE HACKED! (NOW FIXED) * OMG Ubuntu article [https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/xubuntu-website-malware-hack] * Sean Davis replies on Mastodon [https://floss.social/@bluesabre/115401767635718361] UBUNTU UNITY NEEDS HELP! * Ubuntu Discourse Post [https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/regarding-ubuntu-unity-and-a-call-for-help/71095/23] 📣MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 * Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show [contact@linuxuserspace.show] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum] BROWSER WATCH! * Firefox 144 is Released [https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/10/firefox-144-released-new-features] * Firefox Lives Continues on Old Windows [https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/windows-10-updates-support/] * Servo Browsing Engine [https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.0.1-Released] * Chrome to Warn About HTTP sites [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-to-warn-users-before-opening-insecure-http-sites/] * Browser Prompt Injection (Perplexity Comet, OpenAI Atlas, Fellou) * From Brave [https://brave.com/blog/unseeable-prompt-injections/] * Bleeping Computer #1 [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/spoofed-ai-sidebars-can-trick-atlas-comet-users-into-dangerous-actions/] * Bleeping Computer #2 [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zero-trust-has-a-blind-spot-your-ai-agents/] 🧹HOUSEKEEPING🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show] * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit [https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit] * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server [https://linuxuserspace.show/discord] * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram [https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram] * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix [https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix] * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch] * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon [https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon] * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter] * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids [https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids] * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky [https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky] COSMIC RECAP * LUS Live Stream Episode - The B-side [https://youtu.be/RwGZiMTtaoI] * COSMIC 1.0 has a Tentative Launch Date! [https://linuxiac.com/system76-ceo-carl-richell-reveals-cosmic-desktop-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 Support Linux User Space [https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace]

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 [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! Support Linux User Space [https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace]

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] https://youtu.be/0uNoVIyFVmA [https://youtu.be/0uNoVIyFVmA] 🔥WARM UP🔥 * AI search summaries aren't always great. * MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing [https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/] 📣ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 This program was made possible by: * 📺️Youtube [https://youtube.com/linuxuserspace] * 📽️TILvids [https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace] * And by contributions to your L-U-S station by Patrons [https://patreon.com/linuxuserspace] like you 😍 MYRLYN WILL CAST THE SPELLS NOW * Myrlyn [https://news.opensuse.org/category/myrlyn] * Myrlyn repo [https://github.com/shundhammer/myrlyn] * Gone for Leap, still around for TW [https://forums.opensuse.org/t/remove-yast-from-tw-recommendation/185748] * Agama is slated to be the new installer [https://github.com/agama-project/agama]. * Cockpit is proposed be the gui configuration tool [https://en.opensuse.org/Main:Cockpit]. 📣MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS📣 * Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, contact@linuxuserspace.show [contact@linuxuserspace.show] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum] F-DROID IS DOOMED * AOSP is hanging on by a thread [https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-3566882/] * F-Droid is dying [https://f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/google-developer-registration-decree.html] * The Android Developers Decree [https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2025/08/elevating-android-security.html] 🧹HOUSEKEEPING🧹 Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord. * 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy [https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show] * 📰 Linux User Space subreddit [https://linuxuserspace.show/reddit] * ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server [https://linuxuserspace.show/discord] * 📲 Linux User Space Telegram [https://linuxuserspace.show/telegram] * ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix [https://linuxuserspace.show/matrix] * 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch] * 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon [https://linuxuserspace.show/mastodon] * 📜 Linux User Space Twitter [https://linuxuserspace.show/twitter] * 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids [https://linuxuserspace.show/tilvids] * 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky [https://linuxuserspace.show/bluesky] FEEDBACK ANT VIA FIRESIDE * Ant is following along the Cosmic journey [https://system76.com/cosmic/download] @TACOGHOST VIA YOUTUBE * Gentoo [https://www.gentoo.org] isn't that hard if you follow the directions. @FRACTAL_32 LFS when? [https://www.linuxfromscratch.org] @RAFAELFERREIRAPIMENTA Why Systemd with Gentoo [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd]? 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 Support Linux User Space [https://www.patreon.com/linuxuserspace]