Linux Lads Podcast Season 2 - Episode 13: Contrasting Chinwag
Channel: Linux Lads
Date: 04/01/2021

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Chitchat
Conor: Replacing sleep with a 🚆 commute across Dublin
Mike: Playing with a new toy, the 🌟💻 Entroware Kratos (https://www.entroware.com/store/laptops/kratos)
Shane: Playing with a free router and a free network switch from Back From The Future (https://backfromthefuture.ie) and a 🥧 Rapsberry Pi 4 (https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-4-model-b)
News
Pinebook Pro 💻 preorders are going to go live (https://www.pine64.org/2019/07/05/july-update-all-about-the-pinebook-pro) on 📅 25/7/2019.

MintBox 3 looks (https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/linux-mint-doing-a-small-form-factor-mintbox-3-they-dont-sound-too-happy-about-snaps.14493) like it's going to be a decently specced machine. 🖥️ It's based on the passively cooled Compulab Airtop 3, as reviewed in this YouTube video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35OyZzCvG0g) by Linus Tech Tips. (via Gaming on Linux (https://www.gamingonlinux.com))

🎂 10 years (https://zoringroup.com/blog/2019/07/01/celebrating-10-years-of-zorin-os) of Zorin OS

Discussion
What Linux apps do you depend on and why?
Mike: 📝 Vim (https://www.vim.org), more info on Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vim_(text_editor)). Vim Vixen (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vim-vixen) Firefox extension, 🌍 Qutebrowser (https://qutebrowser.org), Visidata (https://visidata.org).

Shane: 💽 GParted (https://gparted.org), 🎥 Creative tools like Blender (https://www.blender.org), 📸 Shotcut (https://shotcut.org/), GIMP (https://www.gimp.org), Inkscape (https://inkscape.org) ✒️✏️. Godot (http://www.godotengine.org) 🎮 game engine. Blender YouTube Tutorials (https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjyuVPBuorqIhlqZtoIvnAVQ3x18sNev4). Kdenlive (https://kdenlive.org/en), if you bend the Plasma way.

Conor: 💽 Clonezilla (https://clonezilla.org), 🌍🕸️ Firefox (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/?redirect_source=firefox-com), Steam (https://store.steampowered.com) ♨️🕹️, qBittorrent (https://www.qbittorrent.org) 📀, Dolphin Emulator (https://dolphin-emu.org), Project64 (https://www.pj64-emu.com/) (runs under 🍷Wine (https://www.winehq.org) ), Mupen64Plus (https://mupen64plus.org/), Snes9X (http://www.snes9x.com) and ZSNES (https://www.zsnes.com/) for the SNES, PPSSPP (https://www.ppsspp.org) for the PSP, PCSXR (https://github.com/iCatButler/pcsxr) for PlayStation 1, PCSX2 (https://pcsx2.net/download/releases/linux.html) for PS2 and the experimental RPCS3 (https://rpcs3.net) for PS3.

Also mentioned: VLC (https://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html), 🗜️ 7Zip (https://www.7-zip.org/download.html), Filezilla (https://filezilla-project.org)