Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

There is some utterly insane C code out there and the IOCCC or International Obfuscated C Code Contest is the place for this code to shine and how off the crazy ideas some people have ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierober...

You may have heard that Debian Linux was going to be dropping GNU Core utils in favor of the Rust rewrite being pushed by Ubuntu Linux, this is not true at all, and is a complete misunderstanding of what is taking place on the making list. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodier...

Installing Arch Linux in 2026 has never been easier, Archinstall is now an absolutely incredible project that has saved me so much wasted time. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ==========Resources==...

Many drawing tablets work perfectly fine on Linux, but support could and should be much better, the infrastructure is there and the interest is even there but there's some blockers in the way. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https...

KDE Plasma has 2 major projects going on right now, the KDE Goals to decide on the short term future of the project and the Sovereign Tech Fund investment which is aiming to massively improve the state of some backend infrastructure. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodieroberts...

Could you imagine a version of Windows even worse than what you already know, well don't you worry because that's exactly something that Microsoft was playing around with in Project Aion otherwise known as Copilot OS. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz...

There's a million different ways to recommend a Linux distro but Distrofighter I think is a neat little way to do so where you pit different distros against each other in combat. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierober...

Recently we saw the release and tagging of the first alpha/preview release of XFWL 4, XFCE's wayland compositor so lets check it out and see what state it's in. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amaz...

Have you ever delved in the backlogs of the LKML to find out what Tux really is, why we have a penguin logo and perhaps some of the hilarious comments that Torvalds has made about Tux's design. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: http...

You can now go and try the very first publicly available version of GIMP on a modern system thanks to it being preserved as a flatpak. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ==========Resources==========...

People have been talking about doing a DIY Steam Machine but SteamOS is still really intended for Valve hardware so let's see what goes wrong with an install. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa =...

I was excited for the revival of the KDE Plasma's Oxygen theme and now that it's actually here, I think it very well might be my new favorite stream. Donate to KDE: https://kde.org/donate/ ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: http...

Check out Blacksmith: https://brodierobertson.dev/blacksmith Daniel Stenberg of the CURL project has decided to take the entirety of July off in what he's calling the CURL summer of bliss ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://br...

I've said many times that SteamOS was probably not going to get a general hardware release for generic hardware but it turns out that following the launch of Steam Machine pricing we now know that this is not true ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapa...

Stack Overflow is having a crisis and now the company has decided to launch what has been dubbed Stack Overflow for Agents a version intended to be used by AI. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa =====...

I don't hate X11 but X11 is on the way out so if you don't want that to happen, now is not the time to sit around and complain about how bad it is that your favourite distro and desktop is dropping it, now it is the time to start working on projects. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liber...

Today I wanted to discuss an interesting topic and dotfurry just happened to be an interesting way to do so, did you know that there were top level domains outside the ones that you can access normally. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA:...

With all of the AUR malware stuff going on, how would one actually stay safe on the AUR, what should you as an Arch Linux user actually be looking for. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ==========Res...

Recently there was a bad release of Rsync following Andrew Tridgell otherwise known as Tridge introducing Claude into the code base and now Tridge has responded to the situation with a blog post on the matter. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazo...

KDE Plasma 6.7 has finally arrived, so now it's time to find out what you're going to get with this new release Support KDE: https://kde.org/donate/ ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ======...

Arch the initial set of malware discovered on the Arch Linux AUR you might think that this had all been dealt with, well it tuns out that this is not the case and in fact it's still being discovered to this day. AUR Malware List: https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA# Remove Malware: https://ioctl.fail/preliminary-analysis-of-aur-malware/ ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: htt...

The Ladybird browser has been going through a lot of changes recently and most recently was deciding to change from open to closed contribution in the run up to the alpha, but what does this actually imply. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon U...

It's time for the final part of the Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge so now it's time to find out whether Linux is truly ready or will the members of LTT be going back to Windows ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodier...

It's almost time for KDE Plasma to completely drop support for X11, we're only 1 major release away, but what does that actually mean for you as the user. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa...

Well it was bound to happen eventually, there has been another major attack on the AUR, this time compromising over 400 packages within a day and possibly more to come as the vector has not been fixed. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: h...