109: Linux Fest in Texas! · friends

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Topic: 109: Linux Fest in Texas!

Logbot (Sep 19 2025 at 22:15):

Carl George joins the show to talk about Texas Linux Fest, Omarchy, Linux desktop environments, configuring Linux, and more. Use the code CHL15 for 15% off your ticket to Texas Linux Fest. :link: https://changelog.am/109

Ch	Start	Title	Runs
01	00:00	Welcome, Friends!	00:34
02	00:34	Sponsor: CodeRabbit	01:07
03	01:41	Start the show!	04:16
04	05:57	Carl's Linux workstation	03:08
05	09:05	From fresh Fedora using Ansible	13:19
06	22:24	Xorg migration	04:19
07	26:43	Fedora and GNOME	05:38
08	32:21	Adam renounces Windows (again)	14:06
09	46:27	Sponsor: Depot	02:12
10	48:39	Texas Linux Fest	12:25
11	1:01:04	Good Texas BBQ	08:58
12	1:10:02	Homelab flavored talks?	03:35
13	1:13:37	Wraping up	04:09
14	1:17:47	Bye, friends	01:29

Ron Waldon-Howe (Sep 19 2025 at 22:34):

Huh, I was hoping there'd be a cute penguin in a cowboy hat, what a missed opportunity! :D

Andrew O'Brien (Sep 29 2025 at 20:28):

I had a distinct mental image of the J.J. Pickles who the J.J. Pickle Research Campus was and I was a little off (the plural version of Pickles that I misheard is way better than the real singular version).

I assumed he was a rootin’ tootin’ oilman in a cowboy hat. But long serving Texas Congressman is close enough.

Ron Waldon-Howe (Oct 30 2025 at 02:49):

Listening to this now, finally
RE: GNOME and extensions:

I've attempted to write an extension in the past, and GJS is effectively JavaScript as a frontend to C/C++, to the degree that it's extremely easy to make mistakes that will take down the entire desktop session
vanilla GNOME is very polished, and as long as your workflow fits the GNOME vision/philosophy, it's the most polished experience you can have on Linux
the very moment you want to diverge even the slightest bit from that upstream vision, you should NOT reach for extensions (brittle, often poor quality, prone to disappear after each major GNOME update), rather switch to a different desktop environment or different Wayland compositor
this is all personal opinion of course :)

Ron Waldon-Howe (Oct 30 2025 at 02:53):

For Windows refugees, try out https://bazzite.gg/ (gaming) or https://projectbluefin.io/ (workstation)
These are Fedora-based distributions that are pretty similar to Chrome OS in terms of atomic updates and a system base that is hard for a new user to break
GPU drivers are built-in and ready to go

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