The Linux Action Show! Video

We review Linux Mint 18 & our experience turns out to be a roller coaster ride from impressed glee to cautious concern. We’ve never felt more conflicted over a version of Linux Mint. Plus we discuss the Ubuntu Forum hack, a Fedora bug that’s bricking some laptops & why we just can’t quit FreeNAS.

This week we take a look at what Noah's using at Altispeed to provide remote assistance to his clients. We ponder over what Microsoft might have planned for Skype on Linux, cover why Android's full disk encryption might not be as secure as you think, Mycroft's collaboration with Canonical, the picks, your feedback & more!

We go back in time and take a look at what you missed at SELF 2016. Plus we're 1% closer to the Linux Desktop, why Evernote sucks & more!

Fedora 24 is both a delight & simply frustrating at the same time. We share our experiences with one of the most highly anticipated Fedora releases. Plus Canonical makes good on the code, a big hole in Linux & more!

We review the ThinkPad x260 with Linux & compare it to the XPS 13. Then we discuss Snaps, AppImage, Flatpak & the Universal Package war that’s brewing, what the major downsides are & why we think this concept of universal Linux apps is not going away. Plus our picks of the week, a laptop giveaway & more!

A special celebration of 10 years of the Linux Action Show. We drop the format & have fun on a couple of projects we’ve really been wanting to share with you. How a nonprofit ISP built on tops of trees running Linux, with impressive engineering & custom code connected an entire community to the Internet. Then a special project that celebrates 10 years of Linux, our show & more!

Frank & Jos of Nextcloud join us to discuss their fork of ownCloud, some of the history behind the fork, the reaction by ownCloud, & what they plan to do differently this time around. Plus we debate if Valve’s Steam Machines are a bust, a bit more on Oracle vs Google & much more!

Purism has sent us the Librem 13 for review, does a laptop designed to protect your digital life make a good Linux workstation? With physical kill switches, and a well built aluminum housing, we answer if this could be your next ultimate Linux laptop. Plus why were not so excited about Google’s recent win against Oracle, new features coming to Linux, what the heck is going on at OwnCloud & more!

We share our early experiences with virtualization, then show you how Linux’s built-in enterprise grade virtualization curb stomps some commercial options. The discussion wraps up with examples of awesome hardware passthrough, and the major shift Linux has made possible. PLUS: Chromebooks outsell Macs, the sad story of an important project fading away, the big choice facing Fedora & more!

We go behind the scenes & give you details on our new Linux rig builds, using OBS to stream to multiple services, the hard lessons we learned & our Linux powered production pipeline. After our year long skunkworks project this episode is living proof of how for media production under Linux has come. Plus now we can all say ZFS is officially on Linux, Intel’s plans to make up for their Linux Skylake screw up, Ubuntu gets some snaps, Fedora “attempts” H.264 support, some games worth your time & more!

The Oryx Pro from System76 claims to be a desktop replacement, with a lot of expandability & a ton of compute power. But do the specs & features match the price? We review one of the most potentially promising laptops built for Linux yet. If you could only buy one machine, should this be it? Tune in to find out! Plus is Linux Mint rushing into a collapse? We get really excited about the Pyra and you might too, big updates on the Linux desktop & more!

Noah & Emma set out to switch as many users to Linux as possible. Our team documents their competition to switch the most people to Linux within two hours in the Pacific Northwest!

Our biggest live event yet, from the floor of LinuxFest Northwest 2016. We chat about the future of Linux desktop software, old friends from the past stop by & the switch competition is on!

We review Ubuntu 16.04 & it’s various flavors. We discuss the new features that make this one of the most important Ubuntu releases in years & debate the major challenges that modern distributions have solved, that Ubuntu still struggles with. Plus the latest stats show Ubuntu dominating where it counts, how Red Hat is making all that money, Linux in ALL the places, our weekly picks & more!

It started with speaking about Open Source. Were you thinking the Emma vs Noah showdown wasn't worth making it out? Do you have doubts that Noah can switch your friends & family? Take a trip with us & see for yourself what it takes to convert Mac & Windows users to Linux! We dive in & spend an evening with the Sandbagger crew switching their whole house to Linux, then they talk about how they're going to switch the class they're teaching next semester! Plus Linus’ hopes for the Linux desktop, setting up a network wide ad blocker using Pi-Hole & more!