Episode 614

Episode 6:14: Kernels of Truth with Nate Graham

May 11th, 2026

1 hr 54 mins 51 secs

Season 6

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About this Episode

Coming up in this episode

  • Ubuntu's Ups and Downs
  • An KDE Linux Chat with Nate Graham

0:00 Cold Open
1:37 Ubuntu's Ups and Downs
24:04 The Present and Future of KDE Linux (with Nate)
1:08:43 AI and Unenforceable Policies (with Nate)
1:47:18 Next Time: Season 7!
1:53:47 Stinger

The Video Version
https://youtu.be/wUQtmVpj1OE

Today in User Space we start out by covering a couple of the newest Ubuntu issues. Namely, the outages, but that alone wasn't terrible, until you added update failures that prevent folks that needed to from patching themselves against Copy Fail! Some good things, too, though. PS5 Linux is bringing all the nostalgia back from the PS3 era of full Linux desktop enjoyment.

Then, we let a guest, Nate Graham of KDE, crash the back half of the show, and it goes quite long! In the first half we hear everything from why Snaps could, but ultimately don't work for KDE Linux, Printing, and the possible future cadence of the OS once there's a full release (and more, of course). We actually split the interview in two to be a little more digestible and postable later on.

In the second half of the interview, we discuss our thoughts on AI, what's good (and mostly bad) about it all, and how KDE and Nate look at submissions and humanity. What we don't need, it seems, is unenforceable policies. Then, a couple final questions like what's up with Full Disk Encryption?

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