Brodie Robertson | Linux Tips & Tricks on Odysee

Would you ever pay for a web browser is a question that the Brave Browser team wants to answer, it is free on Linux and thankfully it isn't a subscription but what do you even get for your money ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: htt...

When you think of Ubuntu LTS you probably expect things to remain unchanging for an entire release well turns out that's not exactly what you're going to get with a recent Ubuntu 24.04 LTS change completely breaking support for Kepler GPUs ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https...

2 years ago Sonny Piers was out of nowhere removed from the GNOME Foundation board and banned from the GNOME Foundation, this demolished trust in the organization and now Sonny has decided for the first time to publicly speak on the matter. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodie...

LTS Linux distros are something that a lot of people use but at the same time a lot of people completely misunderstand what there function actually is. ==========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...

A few years back I put out a video on some really dumb software licenses but that wasn't all that's out there so lets talk about some more. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ==========Resou...

For a long time now a basic feature of OBS has been completely broken under Wayland and finally one more piece is in place to make it finally happen. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa ==========Resou...

Recently Flathub added a new LLM policy basically blocking all AI apps, except not all at all because there's a massive exception for existing apps and anything deemed "well maintained". For good reason because a lot of what's already on Flathub has AI code in it. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobe...

Check out Convex: brodierobertson.dev/convex Canonical has been diving more and more into the Flutter toolkit and now they've decided to take over maintenance responsibility from Google but I wonder if that's all there is to it. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodiero...

There's been a situation going on in Rsync following the creator and now back as lead maintainer Tridge introducing Claude into the code base and a bunch of new issues being discovered, some of which happen to be regressions but it turns out that a happened to be older problems and the Github exploded. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Pa...

Excalidraw is a popular infinite whiteboard application, even though it is open source it's sadly a web based tool and Drawy aims to replicate the core functionality but with C++ and qt ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brod...

Between GNOME 2 and 3 were the first major defining changes the environment and at the time this lead to the creation of something called GNOME Fallback, but did you know it was still being worked on today as GNOME Flashback ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/li...

It's time for the next part of the LTT Linux challenge, this time the goal is to complete a sequence of tasks and to my surprise it mostly just worked without any serious hitches at least caused by the presenters. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapa...

About a year back OpenSUSE pulled out of shipping the Deepin desktop and around the same time Fedora Linux also opened up an issue on the matter and now they've also decided to drop the desktop. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: htt...

Recently at LAS the Linux App Summit there was the announcement of a new major version of Flatpak called Flatpak Next or Flatpak v2 and instead of focusing on the cool stuff that's happening, there is instead a focus on a dumb drama that never had to happen. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Li...

You may recall the announcement of Project Glasswing and Anthropic's Mythos recently and the creator of Curl was given access to it through The Linux Foundation, but he's not as convinced about it. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon...

Upstream or downstream, the software developer or the Linux distro, who is ultimately responsible for the software on Linux, who should be fixing problems, who should be packaging the software. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://b...

When we talk about ricing on Linux what does that actually mean, not just the fact that it's theming but where did the term come from and why do we use it on Linux ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazon...

I thought we'd be done with IPv8 by now but it turns out that a website for it was created and I guess the creator is now trying to fund its creation. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/amazonusa =========...

KDE has got some big work in store, they recently just got a big investment from the Sovereign Tech Agency, Sovereign Tech Fund for over 1.2 million euros. ==========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 am not joking at all, someone decided to make a Wayland compositor for Minecraft, and it works way better than I would have ever expected it to work, it is mostly a full featured compositor with a few minor caveats. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay...

KDE's Union theming system is almost ready to ship it's first version, this aims to completely change how theming works with KDE, making it far more approachable. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://brodierobertson.xyz/am...

Discord has always been a bit of a mess on Linux and finally it looks like things are actually changing for the better. ==========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========== Discord May 202...

We've been having a lot of major vulnerabilities on Linux as of late and recently there was a set of Linux kernel patches to introduce a kill switch that blocks entire functions running. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA: https://bro...

For the past month or so Fedora Linux has been having a massive discussion around the inclusion of AI in the distro and this has caused a massive split in the community over the direction to take things. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapay ► Amazon USA:...

Part 2 is a bit late but it's finally time for more of the Linus Tech Tips 30 Day Linux challenge for 2026, part 1 was a little bit rough but I think part 2 addressed a lot of the issues I had with the first part. ==========Support The Channel========== ► Patreon: https://brodierobertson.xyz/patreon ► Paypal: https://brodierobertson.xyz/paypal ► Liberapay: https://brodierobertson.xyz/liberapa...