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We're back for another solo episodes, this time to talk about my switch back to KDE plasma, the upcoming Steam Machine, some video game stuff and the kinda revival of X11.

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Today we have Nuno Pinheiro the mind behind KDE 4's Oxygen theme who is now back on the project for the revival of the theme withing KDE Plasma 6 and he's here to talk about that effort and design in general.

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Been a while since we did a solo episode and today we've got a lot to discuss, AI is basically everywhere now, I'm worried about the Steam Machine due to the recent Steam Deck pricing, and the GNOME Foundation is a mess, but I also discuss some of the recent Summer Games Fest week

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Today we have the developer of Super Productivity on to chat about about the development process and what it's capable of.

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Today we have the creator of the Odin programming language on the show, Gingerbill to talk about the creation of the language and eventually have some fun talking about his page being removed from Wikipedia.==========Support The Channel==========

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Today we have Filip Fila on the podcast who got started on the revival of the Oxygen theme for KDE Plasma 6 the main theme from the KDE 4 era.

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Today we have David Cantrell on the podcast, one of the authors of the Slackware book and one of the early developers from the Slackware project to talk about what things were like back then before Slackware became the oldest surviving Linux and longest running distro.

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Today we have Stefano Zacchiroli primarily to talk about the Software Heritage Foundation and the service it runs Software Heritage Archive an organization that aims to preserve our open source software history for generations to come long after there individual repos are gone.

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Today we have one of the creators of Wayland FYI on the show which I and others have been referring to as Suckless Wayland and we are here to rant about Wayland, X11 and all random things going on in the Linux world
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Today we have an early developer of the ZDoom project on and the creator of ECWolf to talk about the early days of the project and how all of this actually got started.

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Today we have the father side of a father and son indie game development team on to talk about the platformer they're working on and in general just to discuss some game design concepts.==========Support The Channel==========

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Today we have members of Lantern Jump the developers of up coming indie metroidvania game called Goldstained, I got a chance to play it at a recent con and it was a ton of fun.

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Today we have members of Lantern Jump the developers of up coming indie metroidvania game called Goldstained, I got a chance t...

Today we have Jurgen from Digital Freedom who run the yearly Software Freedom, Hardware Freedom and Document Freedom days, yearly events to celebrate and promote free and open source.

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Today we have Joshua Strobl of the Budgie project and Buddies of Budgie back on the show to talk about the projects move over to the Qt library and KDE frameworks as well as the Budgie 11 future.

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Today we have Mirko Brombin back the show, the creator of Bottles, VanillaOS and the now upcoming Singularity desktop mostly to talk about what's going on with this new desktop project.

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Today we have Andreas Kling back on the podcast to talk about the Ladybird browser but this time to talk about the porting of the project from C++ over to Rust after abandoning the goal of porting to Swift

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Today we have the maintainer of OpenSUSE Slowroll on not to mainly talk about that project but instead his other endeavour, identifying and resolving Year 2038 bugs.

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Today we have 2 developers from the ReactOS project on the show to talk about the history of the project and what exciting changes are coming up in the near future.

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Today we have Aiden from Catalyst Games the developers of the upcoming Dungeon and Dining Tables on the show to talk about the game, a dungeon crawler combined with a house building mechanic where how you decorate the house is directly tied with your combat stats.

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Today we have the developer of a Wayland compositor on the show, but not just any, a Wayland compositor for the world of MacOS and even iOS on Apple's hardware

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Today we have KyloNeko back on the show to talk about the improvements made to the Vtuber guide for Linux and what he's been getting up to on Linux.

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Today we have the developer of both GPU Screen Recorder as well as the upcoming Phoenix X11 server, a new X11 server that isn't built off of a fork of Xorg and aims to add a lot more functionality

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You may be aware of the way Valve is doing with the Steam Machine but that's not the only project going on out there and Cubix is building there own independent device.

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Today we have the developer and maintainer of the EasyEffects project to talk about the project transitioning from GTK4 and Libadwaita over to Qt with Kirigami leaving the GNOME ecosystem and in some sense becoming a KDE app.

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Today we have the developer of the upcoming Blood Vial on the show, we planned this back when he was getting a lot of hate for absolutely no reason a few months back but regardless the conversation I think is still interesting.

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Today we have the founder of the Linux Audio Plugin Development an initiative to bring audio production plugins natively over to Linux.

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Following GNOME dropping the ability to run the desktop without the use of Systemd there was some confusion about what would happen next and today we have the developer on who made it so that was still going to be possible going forward.

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Today we have the developer of Wireplumber on the show to talk about what it does, why it exists and how the project came about

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Today we have Xaver Hugl from the KDE Plasma project, Kwin and various things involving KDE on the show to talk about the migration from X11 to Wayland and ultimately dropping the X11 session.

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Today we have 2 developers from the Graphite project on the show to talk about the project that could very possibly become the future of image editors.

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Today we have Andy Betts on the podcast from the KDE Visual Design Group to talk about how design happens in KDE and how things are improving behind the scenes even if you can't see it.

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Today we have the man behind OpenPrinting on Linux who is keeping printing working, Till Kamppeter to talk about how we got here and his experience being fired from Canonical.

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You may have heard about Enderman being banned from Youtube the other week and today he's on the show to talk about what happened with Youtube, with it's AI detection and more.

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Today we have Eric Curtin from the Docker Model Runner project on the show the Docker projects attempt at bringing the ease of Docker to running AI models on your local hardware or deployed as a service.

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Once again we the 2 of the members of Paper Cactus Games on the show to talk about Fox and Shadow, it has been about a year since they were both on the show so lets find out what has changed since then.

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Today we have the developer of the Operese project on the show, a new tool for migrating to Linux directly from WIndows without ever having to manually install Linux.

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A few weeks back the idea of a mixed Linux conference for both KDE and GNOME taking the events GUADEC and Akademy and merging them together was proposed and today we have the 2 others of that proposal to talk about it.

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Today we have Veni back on the show, celebrating both a whole year on Arch Linux and also the debut of her 2.0 Vtuber model.

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Today we have Ship It, the developers of the upcoming action tower defense game called Blood Vow: Survive The Night on the show, and this episode was a little chaotic with a lot of things being prepared on the fly.

Wishlist the game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3461150/Blood_Vow_Survive_the_Night/

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Today we have the creator of Pedel Rebel VR on the show, a VR exercise game where you speed through traffic on a bike through neon covered city.Wishlist on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2909380/Pedal_Rebel_VR/

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