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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 (https://www.libreoffice.org/release-notes/)
Openshot 4.0 - openshot.org (https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/)
Kdenlive 26.08 - kdenlive.org (https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.0/)
Calibre 9.14 - calibre-ebook.com (https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/generated/en/calibre.html)
Cosmic 1.7 - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.7)
Ardour 9.8 - ardor.org (https://ardour.org/whatsnew.html)
Vanilla OS 3 - vanillaos.org (https://vanillaos.org/blog)
EndeavourOS Titan Nova - endeavouros.com (https://endeavouros.com/news/titan-nova-is-available/)
Ur Project - phoronix.com (https://www.phoronix.com/news/The-Ur-Project)
Epic Games Store Linux Support - steamdeckhq.com (https://steamdeckhq.com/news/epic-games-store-will-support-linux-soon/)
Microduck - techcrunch.com (https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/hugging-face-is-selling-a-cute-399-open-source-duck-robot-microduck/)
Nvidia Buys Hugging Face - theinformation.com (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-agrees-buy-open-source-model-repository-hugging-face-12-9-billion)
Debian Allows Responsible AI - debian.org (https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002)
Linus Torvalds AI Demo - freedesktop.org (https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2026-August/590630.html)
CA Age Verification Law Exemption - tomshardware.com (https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/california-lawmakers-unanimously-pass-linux-exemption-from-age-verification-law-software-distributed-under-the-gpl-mit-bsd-and-apache-licenses-are-exempt)
Braden Stroot Interview
Why did you become an engineer?
What did you use before?
When did you start using Linux?
Started with Pop!_OS (https://system76.com/pop) and Cosmic (https://system76.com/cosmic)
Building a computer
Rough edges of developing DE
Nobara (https://nobaraproject.org/) Linux
CachyOS (https://cachyos.org/) and Hyprland (https://hypr.land/)
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 (https://www.ml4w.com/)
Is Linux only for geeks?
Never going back "switch flip"
Remote into a Mac
RustDesk
What hardware platform would you choose?
Framework Laptop (https://frame.work/)
Every OS has rough edges
What causes you to still reach for the Mac?
What audio work do you do?
Ardour (https://ardour.org/)
Zynthian (https://zynthian.org/)
Easy Effects (https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects)
Room EQ Wizard (https://www.roomeqwizard.com/)
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26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Ask Noah Show 503
This week we talk about alternative ways to remote into your PC. Eric the IT guy joins us to talk about BootC, and we celebrate Linux' 35 birthday!
-- During The Show --
00:48 Intro
Being a perfectionist
PLA 3D printing
06:00 Remoting in - David
Archiving 35mm photos and 8mm film
Mainframes
Sunshine (https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine) and Moonlight (https://moonlight-stream.org/) over Tailscale
Cyclical trends
Convergence device
Interface to the "mainframe"
"Hack" steam streaming
15:41 BootC Interview
EricTheItGuy (https://itguyeric.com/) - Eric Hendricks
What is bootc
Why bootc?
Roll back and reproduce-ability
Updates
Troubleshooting
Initial experience
What you should know first
Mind shift
Local bootc
Advantages of bootc
Getting started
Installing the desktop
Eric's bootc pitch
41:30 Happy Birthday Linux
Linux turns 35 years old
Impact of Linux on Steve
Impact of Linux on Eric
Impact of Linux on Noah
The world runs Linux
9 to 5 Linux (https://9to5linux.com/happy-35th-birthday-linux)
49:24 Struggling with "Good Enough"
Building bridges
Loosing sight of the MVP
Steve's example
Eric's example
Being good stewards
Write in!
News Wire
KDE Gear 26.08 has been released (https://kde.org/announcements/gear/26.08.0/)
Filezilla 3.71 is now available (https://filezilla-project.org/download.php?platform=win64)
RPM 6.1 is out (https://rpm.org/releases/6.1.0)
Rust 1.98 has been released (https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/Rust-1.98.0/)
COSMIC Desktop 1.6 is now available (https://www.phoronix.com/news/COSMIC-Epoch-1.6)
Thunderbird 154 is out (https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/154.0/releasenotes/)
Firefox 154 is also out (https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/154.0/releasenotes/)
The GNU Linux-libre 7.2-gnu has been released (https://www.phoronix.com/forums/node/1652309)
The tails team has announced the availability of Tails 7.11 (https://tails.net/news/version_7.11/)
Garuda Linux has pushed out its latest release (https://garudalinux.org/editions)
Slackware based Porteux 2.8 is now out (https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=12929)
OpenAI Open Sources Codex Harness Framework (https://www.opensourceforu.com/2026/08/openai-open-sources-codex-harness/)
TrueFoundry's open source AI agent harness TrueForge boasts 30%-75% cheaper task completion than Claude Managed Agents (https://venturebeat.com/orchestration/truefoundrys-open-source-ai-agent-harness-trueforge-boasts-30-75-cheaper-task-completion-than-claude-managed-agents)
AT&T is Using Open Source Models to Curb Anthropic Bills (https://www.theinformation.com/newsletters/applied-ai/t-using-open-source-models-curb-anthropic-bills)
A New Nonprofit Aims to Build Open-Source Software for the ARM Industry (https://www.acainternational.org/news/new-nonprofit-aims-to-build-open-source-software-for-the-arm-industry/)
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26 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 501: Ask Noah Show 501
Host Noah and guest Steve Scale explore BootC, LG monitor ads, and the CachyOS Linux distribution, offering insights into modern tech and system management.
Inside a recent episode
Ask Noah Show 504
Published 2 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But I could see for things like that, it being something that frees time for people. Okay. Steve, you're going to tell me that this is a massive impetus to innovation. I'm going to say part of that. I would think I want to split the hair on what innovation means. So for me, there's a difference between modification and innovation. And I don't think that innovation will largely be helped by AI. The reason why that is, is while Braden makes some interesting points about the human driving it. Most people are not doing that. There will be some. There will be some. But most people are like, hey, bot, make thing happen, right? […]
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