Tech Over Tea

Today we have The Evil Skeleton back on once again to talk about flatpaks, the future of the Linux desktop and some other random topics as tends to happen on this show. =========Guest Links========== Blog: https://theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/blog Github: https://github.com/TheEvilSkeleton Gitlab: https://gitlab.com/TheEvilSkeleton Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@TheEvilSkeleton ==========Support Th...

Once again Matt from The Linux Cast is back on the show and of course he's here to talk about some of comments he's been making about the adoption of Wayland. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheLinuxCast Twitter: https://twitter.com/thelinuxcast Podcast: https://anchor.fm/thelinuxcast ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/...

Today we have the one of the 2 founders of System76 and current CEO of the company Carl Richell on the show to chat about the history of the company, how we got here and some of the cool stuff they've got in store. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://system76.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/system76 Personal Twitter: https://twitter.com/carlrichell ==========Support The Show=====...

Today we're talking to the one and only ThePrimeagen, software engineer, HTMX shill and most importantly the man who spends way too much time telling you why Vim is the greatest text editor. =========Guest Links========== YouTube 1: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeagen YouTube 2: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePrimeTimeagen YouTube 3: https://www.youtube.com/@TheVimeagen Twitter: https://twitter...

Linux gaming has really only been in a good state since post 2018 and even then it was a bit rough, only now after the Steam Deck can we really say it's good but Mathieu has been around a lot longer than that with the Lutris project since 2009 closing in on 15 years of development. =========Guest Links========== Website: https://lutris.net/ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@lutris Github: https...

I've spoken quite a bit about multi window apps on Wayland and today we have the Matthias Klumpp the man himself who is trying to solve exactly this problem to discuss the journey he's taken to get here. =========Guest Links========== Github: https://github.com/ximion Twitter: https://twitter.com/matxpp Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@matk Blog: https://blog.tenstral.net/ ==========Supp...

Today we have Ryan Sipes the Business Development & Community Manager of Thunderbird on the show who was crucial to the recent funding increases seen by the project but has also been involved in the project for a couple years more than that and has a lot to say on the project. =========Guest Links========== Thunderbird Website: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-GB/ Ryan Sipes Twitter: https://twi...

There's a program you've probably never heard of called KDE Networks which aims to build local KDE communities with local members around the world and today we have a member of the Australian branch on to talk about it. =========Guest Links========== The KDE Network: https://community.kde.org/The_KDE_Network KDE Get Involved: https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved ==========Support The Sho...

Livakivi is back on the show again, originally we planned to talk about his recent endeavours playing around with Linux again but that didn't happen at the start as we got a bit side tracked with some language learning but it is what it is. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/Livakivi Twitter: https://twitter.com/Livakivi Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/Livakivi ===...

We're getting very close to the release of Plasma 6 so I decided to bring Nicco Love Linux back on the show to chat about all things KDE Plasma. =========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://youtube.com/niccolove Twitter: https://twitter.com/veggero Instagram: https://instagram.com/veggero Tiktok: https://tiktok.com/@niccolovespoetry Github: https://github.com/veggero/ Chess Challenges: http...

Today we have 10leej otherwise known as Joshua Lee back on the show, he originally mentioned he bought a bunch of Intel Arc cards so I had to find out why plus it's always fun to just chat a bit with Josh ==========Guest Links========== YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@10leej Website: https://10leej.com/ ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ►...

Today we have Karol Herbst on the show who you may know from his work on projects like nouveau, NVK and starting the RustiCL project bringing much better OpenCL support than before. He's been in this space for a long time and has a lot to say about driver development. ==========Guest Links========== Mastodon: https://chaos.social/@karolherbst Github: https://github.com/karolherbst Gitlab: http...

Mirko Brombin the developer of Bottles is back on the show this time to talk about the new interface that's in the works with Bottles Next along with a bunch of awesome new features coming to the project. ==========Guest Links========== Github: https://github.com/bottlesdevs/Bottles Website: https://usebottles.com/ Bottles Next: https://usebottles.com/blog/bottles-next-a-new-chapter/ =========...

Today the one and only Georges Stavracas is here, you may know him from his frequent commits to GNOME, Wayland, XDG Portals or even ending the GNOME file picker meme but he's got a lot to say and we didn't even touch on OBS ==========Guest Links========== Blog: https://feaneron.com/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5Qw7uMu8_QMJHBw3mQJ62w Github: https://github.com/GeorgesStavraca...

Today we have another big name in the KDE space, the only and only Nate Graham who you may recognise from his blog Adventures in Linux and KDE along his general contributions to the overall project. ==========Guest Links========== Season Of KDE: https://dot.kde.org/2022/12/14/join-season-kde-2023 KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davided...

It's been a while since I last did a solo episode and today I'm here to discuss the recent adblocking situation of youtube a bit of Linux driver nonsense and of course some gaming stuff, namely the big Activision Blizzard King acquisition. ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/brodierobertson ► Paypal: https://www.paypal.me/BrodieRobertsonVideo ► Amazon US...

Today we have the one and only David Edmundson a frequent KDE Plasma and QT contributor who's been responsible for things like the XwaylandVideoBridge and the recent KDE robustness changes. ==========Guest Links========== Season Of KDE: https://dot.kde.org/2022/12/14/join-season-kde-2023 KDE Twitter: https://twitter.com/kdecommunity/ KDE Website: https://kde.org/ Blog: http://blog.davidedmunds...

Joshua Strobl once involved in Solus project then not involved then involved again but more importantly the Budgie desktop is here to talk about the current state of the project, where it's going with Wayland support and we get a bit sidetracked with MMO discussions. ==========Guest Links========== Budgie Website: https://buddiesofbudgie.org/ Budgie Github: https://github.com/BuddiesOfBudgie B...

Recently Godot started receiving a lot more attention thanks to the Unity drama and today we have Emilio Coppola the Executive Director of the Godot foundation on the show to talk about Godot, what it's good for, what it's not good for and the general state of the project. ==========Guest Links========== Emilio Website: https://coppolaemilio.com/ Emilio Twitter: https://twitter.com/emi_cpl...

Today we have Lea otherwise known as lleyton on the show, one the main people involved in starting up the the XDG Accent Color portal merge request, this I had hoped would be an easy thing to bring in, it turns out that trying to collaborate with all of the different desktops is a nightmare. ==========Guest Links========== Lleyton Github: https://github.com/lleyton Lleyton Twitter: https://twitter...

Today we have the one and only Neal Gompa on the show, if you've done been involved in Fedora or OpenSUSE SIGs you've almost certainly heard the name, in fact he runs some of the major SIGs like the Asahi Linux and KDE SIGs and has a big focus on doing things upstream. ==========Guest Links========== Github Sponsor: https://github.com/sponsors/Conan-Kudo Github: https://github.com/Conan-Ku...

Curl is such an important project to the Linux world and today we have the one and only Daniel Stenberg the BDFL of the project here to talk about it and how we got to where we are today. ==========Guest Links========== Website: https://curl.se/ Blog: https://daniel.haxx.se/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/bagder Mastadon: https://mastodon.social/@bagder ==========Support The Show========== ► Patreon...

Linux gaming is in a much better state than it's ever been and that's thanks to Proton but there is a modified version of Proton you've probably heard of and maybe even used called Proton GE and here is Glorious Eggroll the developer of this project, also he is the developer of a distro called Nobara Linux ==========Guest Links========== Twitter: https://twitter.com/GloriousEggroll Pro...

Today we have the one and only Cassidy James on the show, the co-founder of Elementary OS and now a Partner Success Engineer at Endless OS foundation. He's been in the FOSS world for a very long time and has a lot of things to say. ==========Guest Links========== Website: https://cassidyjames.com/ Blog: https://cassidyjames.com/blog/ Elementary OS: https://elementary.io/ Endless OS: https://ww...

Today we sit down with the Daytime Devs who recently released there first game Super Bawk Bawk Chicken, after playing there game at AVCON 2023 I was very curious to hear there story and how we got here. ==========Guest Links========== Website: https://www.daytimedevs.com/games/super-bawk-bawk-chicken/ Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2054850/Super_BAWK_BAWK_Chicken/ Twitter: https://twitt...