Show Notes
This week we spent time with Braden Stroot, a highly detail-oriented professional engineer who was a hardcore Mac enthusiast and recently switched to Linux. He walks us through his journey to Linux and shares the distro and environment he’s chosen to meet his high bar for perfection on the Linux desktop.
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00:48 Intro
Been a week
Braden Stroot
Engineer
Recent Linux convert
01:55 Standing Desks - Byron
Finishing final edits
Will be up on the docs site
02:57 LLM Usage - Jeremy
Will AI hamper innovation?
Could allow people more "innovation time"
Innovation vs modification
Dealing with AI submissions
10:00 News Wire
Libreoffice 26.8 - libreoffice.org
Openshot 4.0 - openshot.org
Kdenlive 26.08 - kdenlive.org
Calibre 9.14 - calibre-ebook.com
Cosmic 1.7 - phoronix.com
Ardour 9.8 - ardor.org
Vanilla OS 3 - vanillaos.org
EndeavourOS Titan Nova - endeavouros.com
Ur Project - phoronix.com
Epic Games Store Linux Support - steamdeckhq.com
Microduck - techcrunch.com
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face - theinformation.com
Debian Allows Responsible AI - debian.org
Linus Torvalds AI Demo - freedesktop.org
CA Age Verification Law Exemption - tomshardware.com
Braden Stroot Interview
Why did you become an engineer?
What did you use before?
When did you start using Linux?
Started with Pop!_OS and Cosmic
Building a computer
Rough edges of developing DE
Nobara Linux
CachyOS and Hyprland
Desktop performance
Learning topics to fix problems
Audio on Linux
What rough edges did you find?
Package availability
Stability of Arch
Update frequency
What made you interested in Hyprland?
My Linux 4 Work ML4W
Is Linux only for geeks?
Never going back "switch flip"
Remote into a Mac
RustDesk
What hardware platform would you choose?
Framework Laptop
Every OS has rough edges
What causes you to still reach for the Mac?
What audio work do you do?
Ardour
Zynthian
Easy Effects
Room EQ Wizard
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