Linux Matters
Experienced Open Source professionals exploring the tech we actually use. If it runs on Linux, we're into it. Whether you're tweaking your desktop, gaming, self-hosting, developing software, improving terminal productivity, or running production infrastructure - we cover the tools and workflows that actually matter. New episode every fortnight. Upbeat and family-friendly for Linux enthusiasts of all ages.
Episodes
In this episode:
- Martin makes a programmer for the XFKEY One Key Max called WonKey - One key, to rule them all 1️⃣
- Mark switches up his home network with PoE and 5G ⚡
- Alan makes a discovery portal to help you find Linux Machines 🐧💻
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In this episode:
- Alan talks about leaving Developer Relations for a grown-up job at Chainguard.
- Martin creates a simple (his words) note-taking workflow with zx, fsf, Fuzzel, Syncthing, markless, Manuscript, and weave.
- Mark plays some retro games after decorating his office.
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In this episode:
- Mark has been decorating his home office with hexagons and the help of Krita.
- Alan has been improving NøughtyLinux.
- Martin has been adding all the chat clients to herdr
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In this episode:
- Martin uses lan-mouse to use his main workstation to control two laptops, one sitting on a PUTORSEN 2 in 1 Laptop Arm Mount and connected via UGREEN Revodok Pro 14-in-1 USB-C Docking Station.
- Mark get a nostalgia hit from playing Agent 64: Spies Never Die
- Alan is challenged to create a PeerTube instance after our YouTube channel was deleted.
In this episode:
- Alan introduces Canopy, a community insights tool he built.
- Martin finds talking to people isn’t enough, and now talks to his computer with Voxtype.
- Mark once again fights the fungi in The Last of Us Part II.
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In this episode:
- Mark explores the online exam center at ETH Zurich.
- Alan replaces a shell script with a node script, to keep track of his snaps
- Martin finally gets on board with terminal multiplexers, after discovering herdr
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In this episode:
- Martin is on a break, and will be back next time
- Mark attends MoodleMoot DACH 2026 in Zürich, and hacks together support for the Fediverse in Moodle.
- Alan buys a Mangmi Air X as a game development test-bed.
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In this episode:
- Alan reports back from the Ubuntu Summit,
- Martin updates Jivetalking
- Mark combats the cordyceps in The Last of Us Part I
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In this episode:
- Mark creates DOSsier, a system for retro PC gaming.
- Martin replaces his editor (again), this time with Fresh
- Alan creates a new app for event attendance.
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- The L...
In this episode:
- Martin transforms Neovim into an unyielding modeless VSCode-style IDE with CUA keybindings.
- Some of this was achieved with novim-mode and snacks.nvim.
- Mark has been playing Solasta: Crown of the Magister.
- Alan wants you all to install flatpak with a snap. Gather round children, it’s story time.
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In this episode:
- Alan eschews one gaming fad for a more bespoke, artisanal gaming experience using R4 cards, and ZXDS.
- Martin no longer considers Grammarly his friend, new friend is Harper
- Mark continues his Kobo journey with ventures in NickelMenu and KOReader.
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In this episode:
- Mark throws his cook books in the bin and buys a Kobo Libra Colour.
- Alan tidies up Mojinav and puts the source on github.
- Martin builds his own Framework desktop.
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In this episode:
- Martin goes over why and how he’s stepping down from Ubuntu MATE after 12 years, and the project is seeking new maintainers 🧉
- Mark discovers new life, and new civilisations in Star Trek: Voyager - Across the unknown 🖖
- Alan outsources busywork to Minnie Love, his OpenClaw personal AI assistant, with help from OpenClaw for dummies, and two gists 🤖
In this episode:
- Alan optimistically crafts an alternative to the official Snapcraft store website - snapupdates.popey.com.
- Martin swaps Cider for Sidra.
- Mark dives deep into the data bucket and comes up richer! This time next year, Rodney.
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In this episode:
- Mark works out how to run commands at the right point in the boot process, with
NetworkManager-dispatcher - Alan has been confining things with Lincubate.
- Martin has been VNCing here, there and everywhere with wayvnc and noVNC.
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In this episode:
- Martin has created
tailor: Ready-to-wear project templates for GitHub repositories 👔 - Mark’s ageing Microserver N36L has finally met its end, and the new beginning is off to a rocky start.
- Alan has been building snaps on an IBM mainframe thanks to LinuxOne.
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In this episode:
- Mark explains synesthesia and the experience of how it manifests in a Linux user,
- Alan spring cleans his GitHub,
- Martin gets busy with lazygit.
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- The Linux Matte...
In this episode:
- Alan builds a new website whose link and name is mysteriously unknown at this time.
- Martin removes VS Code in favour of Zed Editor.
- Mark gets started with Meshtastic
supher-highwaycountry lanes.
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In this episode:
- Martin creates a automated audio engineer.
- Jivetalking - Professional podcast audio preprocessing - broadcast-quality results with zero audio engineering knowledge required 🕺
- Mark create a very specialised Roku remote using External Control Protocol (ECP)
- Alan created SnapScope (source code)to scan Snap for CVEs and accidentally became a security blogger.
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In this episode we round up our listener feedback and discuss:
- HyperMegaTech! Super Pocket
- Kazeta
- Recipe-Scribe
- FossFLOW
- Terminal Velocity - The A to Z of Modern Unix
- Toniebox Reverse Engineering
- Tonuino
- Yarg-lang
Events
- SCaLE (Southern California Linux Expo) Pasadena, California, USA: March 5-8, 2026.
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