Episode 4:09: Giddy Up

Coming up in this episode * Leo makes me a LUSsh 🍻 * Official standings for a browser * We strum some reverberations * Focus on the HQ * Focus on the sounds * Forecast the future Watch the video! https://youtu.be/-b1gHt0v4q8 Timestamps 0:00 Cold Open 2:05 Go to lus.sh 8:38 Fed Up with Ubuntu? 14:20 * Forced Snaps 21:24 * Ads in the Terminal 27:00 * Telemetry?! 29:42 * Ubuntu is Anti-Freedom? 32:21 * Maybe use Linux Mint 34:43 Browser Watch 34:57 * The Vivaldi Flatpak 39:49 * Vivaldi on iOS 42:54 * iOS May Go WebKit Free 47:53 Reverb Focus 48:05 * Ian 53:13 * Dan! 58:26 * TeamLinux01 1:03:16 Community Focus: SteamDeckHQ 1:10:54 Gentoo Focus #5 1:23:46 Next Time: Gnome History 1:26:54 Stinger lus.sh (http://lus.sh) .sh is a common Shell Script file extension .sh is the first two letters in "show" like its bigger domain name brother .sh is also the first two letters in "short" 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 😍 Why Do We Still Use Ubuntu? TLDR we(Leo and Dan) don't mind some of the choices Ubuntu has made but we can appreciate that there are good alternatives for those that want to go a different way. More Announcements Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [e-mail] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy (https://lemmy.linuxuserspace.show/c/forum) Browser Watch! Vivaldi on Flatpak is Officially Unofficial Vivaldi Flatpak on Flathub (https://flathub.org/apps/com.vivaldi.Vivaldi) OMGUbuntu coverage (https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/vivaldi-web-browser-flathub) Vivaldi is also on iOS Vivaldi is on iOS (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-launches-on-ios/) It has great features (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-ios-6-4/) The Chromium devs are developing a Blink version for iOS (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/04/google-working-on-browser-that-would-break-rules/) Firefox devs are developing a Gecko version for iOS (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/02/07/mozilla-developing-non-webkit-version-of-firefox/) 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) Reverb Focus Ian comments on YouTube about Ed You can see the comments on this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUCuzkKGHos) Dan commented about Xfce history, Manjaro and KDE Plasma You can watch our Xfce history on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyI3pMqjQvo) Or TILvids (https://tilvids.com/w/6gFtNH1XywyFNd3heKHFro) TeamLinux01 wants to hear about Valve's Linux journey Thanks for the feedback. I think this might just be the push we needed to look into the history of Steam and Linux. We're both big fans so it makes sense. Community Focus - Steamdeck HQ (https://steamdeckhq.com/) Main Website - Steamdeck HQ (https://steamdeckhq.com/) Steamdeck HQ YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI49gT5yWGP7fLn2ql-DlgA) Steamdeck HQ on Mastodon (https://mastodon.world/@steamdeckhq) Gentoo Focus Last time on LUS Streaming Live (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLkyVxGRY9XYDGw82_Sg8Z9HL_X4fI9_r1) FYI we do these live on Twitch (https://linuxuserspace.show/twitch) the day after an episode is released. Next Time We plan to explore