• 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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Ubuntu's Ups and Downs

• Ubuntu's AI Ambitions
• Ubuntu's DDoS
• Discourse Post about the DDoS
• PS5-Linux (based on Ubuntu)

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Interview With Nate Graham

• Nate's Blog
• KDE Linux
• KDE Linux Wiki
• KDE Discuss
• KDE Linux Matrix
• KDE Bug Tracker
• This Week In Plasma

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🔭Next Time🔭 We're On Break

We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we plan to check in on Kagi, Orion and our KDE Linux journey.

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• Wayland is inevitable...
• RAM is now Unobtanium
• and a Linux User Space OS?

Today in User Space, we RE-remind everyone that Wayland is certainly the only way forward for the big dogs. Gnome had adopted a Wayland-only stance quite a while ago, and now it looks like Plasma will be following suit. Then, we dive into the wonderful world of Everything terrible that AI is doing to us in the form of RAM price hikes (as much as 500%... so far). And finally, we hit up the feedback that's been piling up! There's a little more to get to eventually, but it'll all get there since we went a little long in this episode.

0:00 Cold Open
1:05 Wayland Is Inevitable...
26:53 RAM Is Now Unobtanium
49:54 The LUS Mailbag
50:19 Mailbag: Daniel
57:40 Mailbag: schemage2210
1:03:19 Mailbag: ewanmarshall
1:10:13 Mailbag: michaelchalmers
1:15:26 Next Time
1:23:08 Stinger

The Video Version
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Plasma is all in on Wayland

• KDE blog post
• We shouted back in 2023 on Season 4 Episode 5
• The Steam Deck which runs on KDE Plasma has high sales numbers

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RAM prices are silly. It is all AI's fault.

• Micron, the manufacturer of Crucal memory, will stop selling RAM to consumers
• Leo spotted prices in the store and they were high.

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Feedback

Daniel via Fireside

• Daniel published an example using KDE environment

ewanmarshall at YouTube

• WinBoat gives a big warning about access to the filesystem.

schemage2210 at YouTube

• plocate is only great if you know the file name. 😉😂

michelchalmers at YouTube

• Two passwords are better than one on encrypted systems that have multiple users. No disagreement. While it is an extra step it can be solved when you add the second user.

🔭Next Time🔭

We plan to cover your feedback, and some interesting topics. Stay Tuned, we intend to cover the history of YaST in a future episode.

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• Notating the Notes
• The History of KDE
• And Plasma, Straight from the Tap

Timestamps
0:00 Cold Open
1:44 A Note on Notes
22:52 The History of KDE
28:29 History: KDE 1
30:42 History: KDE 2
33:03 History: KDE 3
36:21 History: KDE 4
45:36 History: Plasma 5
51:34 History: Plasma 6
53:17 Plasma 6 Raw (hide)
1:20:49 Next Time: Topics, then MATE
1:27:37 Stinger

Watch the video
https://youtu.be/CsdW0bDOjIM

🔥Warm Up🔥

• Leo hits the books and learns about reference style links in markdown. Thanks go to Dominic and Furicle.
• Eric mentioned MarkText and now the squirrels have Dan chasing that.
• Leo tries settling on Vivaldi Notes.

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The History of KDE

• The email on October 14, 1996 to start it all.
• KDE ONE
• K Desktop Environment first real beta release.
• Beta 1 Screenshots
• KDE 1.0 was released on July 12, 1998.
• 1998 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KFM turned into Konqueror.
• Konqi
• KDE 2.0
• KDE 2.1
• In April of 2002, KDE 3.0 was released.
• 2003 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• 2004 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE Community World Summit 2004 "aKademy".
• 2005 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• April 8, 2005 Kubuntu.
• KDE 3.5
• KDE Four Core Meeting
• KDE 4
• Oxygen
• 2008 Interview of Matthias Ettrich
• KDE hit the 1,000,000 commit
• Starting from 4.3.4, is a "software compilation".
• November 2009, K Desktop Environment is just KDE, now.
• Fork of KDE 3.5 becomes Trinity Desktop Environment.
• KDE SC 4.5.
• October 2010, an official split from KOffice
• Plasma Active
• KDE Manifesto
• December 2012, a redesigned Konqi.
• KDE release structure changed.
• KDE SC 4.14 the last in the series.
• Plasma 5 and Frameworks 5
• 2015 Wayland enters the room.
• Plasma Mobile
• Plasma Bigscreen
• KDE Neon
• Slimbook
• KDE Plasma is chosen for the Steam Deck when in Desktop Mode!
• The development and chat platforms move to Gitlab and Matrix.
• The first release candidate for Plasma 6
• Plasma 6's release date is planned for February 28th of 2024.

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Some topics and feedback. Our next history exploration is the Mate Desktop Environment.

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1. Plasma's Kind of Hot Right Now
2. Brush your passwords
3. Browser Watch!
4. A little feedback
5. And a little FOCUS

0:00 Cold Open
1:33 Akademy Awards
3:22 Plasma 5.27
24:33 Your Last Pass... Word
47:05 Browser Watch!
55:36 The Mailbag
1:05:35 Community Focus: Vashinator
1:08:08 App Focus: ClamAV
1:20:24 Next Time: EndlessOS History
1:22:25 Stinger

Watch this episode on Youtube
https://youtu.be/L3haDDxBJU0

Banter

• Akademy videos are online
• Plasma 5.27 is ❤
• Nick from The Linux Experiment did a video that goes over some highlights.
• Jupiter Broadcasting covered it in Linux Action News too.
• The question of why isn't KDE Plasma the main DE for a main distro comes around every once and a while.

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Password hygiene is all the rage

• LastPass Blog announcement of the security incident
• We talked a lot about password managers in episode 11.
• Mozilla's pitch.
• Brian Krebs has this to say.
• You can check your passwords against Have I Been Pwned.
• If you use Bitwarden/Vaultwarden, you can use the reports to check exposed, reused, and weak passwords.

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Browser Watch

• Gnome Web has a new UI for handling permissions.
  • We pitched Gnome Web a couple of episodes ago.
• Version 110, Firefox got the addition to import bookmarks, passwords and history from Opera, Opera GX, and Vivaldi.
• Vivaldi makes improvements to their Window Panel.
• Brave does HTTPS everywhere.
• Microsoft Edge adds Adobe Acrobat.

Feedback

"ee" "dee", gotcha 😉

• Turns out we were the joke instead of making one. Apologies.

Anonymous Listener suggests ownCloud

• ownCloud
• We'll check it out and report back.

Daniel M. says...

• Podman
• Daniel's document

Frank W. says...

• Brave is great and cheer from the Great White North, eh!
• Thanks Frank!

Eric M. on Youtube says...

• Pixar and other animation studios use RHEL for their workstations.
• In Podman, the pod comes from kubernetes. A pod is a group of containers that are in the same namespace.

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Community Focus - Vashinator

• Vash's YouTube channel.

App Focus ClamAV

• ClamAV

Next Time

The history of EndlessOS, a few thoughts, and whatever else we can cram into the show*

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