Coming up on this week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re covering community feedback, we’re giving our opinions on the BEST Beginner Friendly Linux Distros, tips & tricks and software spotlight . . . and STOOL MERCH! All of this and much more on Episode 176 of Destination Linux!
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Topics covered in this episode:
- 00:00:33 = Intro to DL176
- 00:00:49 = Last Airbender of Linux
- 00:02:20 = What Michael has been up to
- 00:04:04 = What Ryan has been up to
- 00:07:43 = New “Active Sitting” Merch (Stool Shirts)
- 00:09:56 = Sponsored by Digital Ocean
- 00:11:57 = Community Feedback about Audio on Linux like PulseAudio JACK Alsa
- 00:16:59 = Best Beginner Distros
- 00:43:09 = Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM
- 00:59:58 = Hardware Addicts: Ryan vs Wendy
- 00:49:03 = Google Stadia
- 00:54:32 = Software Spotlight: Weather Apps for Linux
- 00:58:28 = Tip & Trick: Bash Shortcuts (Community Submitted)
- 01:00:58 = Become a Patron of DL (Watch Live Unedited Versions & More)
- 01:01:28 = Join the DLN Community (Forums Telegram Discord & more)
- 01:02:13 = How to Send Community Feedback
- 01:02:38 = DLN Store: Stool Merch & More
- 01:03:36 = Where To Find Our Other Content
- 01:04:31 = Active Sitting DVDs (apparenty lol)
- 01:05:18 = The Journey Itself . . .
- 01:05:26 = Outtake 1
- 01:05:48 = Outtake 2
- 01:06:12 = Outtake 3
- 01:06:26 = Outtake 4
- 01:07:14 = Switching to the Patron Post Show
Our Picks for DL176
Software Spotlight:
Weather Apps because geeks don’t go outside it’s important we have a good weather indicator on our computers. Here are a few to check out:
- GNOME Weather:
- Backend: libgweather
- Forecast Length: 5-day
- Hourly conditions: Yes
- Location Search: Yes
- Auto-location: Yes
- Meteo
- Backend: OpenWeatherMap
- Forecast Length: 5-day
- Hourly conditions: Yes
- Location Search: Yes
- Auto-location: Yes
- Or from the Terminal like a real geek using
- curl https://wttr.in
Tips & Tricks:
Hello all,
First time listener, I caught your most recent podcast regarding, and heard you mentioning little useful terminal command. Ctrl+L is an interesting one I’ve never heard before. Much like the others, I don’t see myself needing to hide my terminal lol, but my haste tends to cause me to typo ‘clear’ so that’s useful.
You also mentioned Ctrl+U and I actually use that a lot, but mostly with Ctrl+Y which returns the previous line that disappeared with Ctrl+U.
This can be useful for, if example, you’re about to run a series of commands on a target directory, and already wrote out the command. Instead of typing the absolute path each time, you can Ctrl+U after you’ve already typed out the command, change to target directory, and then press Ctrl+Y to return the typed out command.
It’s a small thing, but there are plenty of times where this allows you to complete a missed step without having to clear what you wrote.
I enjoy your podcast, and will probably keep listening!
Steven
email sent to comments@destinationlinux.org
Whaaaaat?!? A Kawasaki Ninja!!! We demand PICS!!!

@dasgeek or @MichaelTunnell: Is there any reason why all of the people’s names started with the letter “S”?
The best part about the Ninja is it’s sitting position is 1/2 touring 1/2 sport so you can do something called “active riding”.
I kinda miss my Ninja. It was a yellow 250 and it made me smile every time I looked at it. Spent about $20 on gas every week to get back and fourth to work 80 miles (round trip) 5 days a week.
Yes, because Ryan had already done 3 of the 5 that way and I felt like going all out on the alliteration.
I will try to find one . . . I think I only have one pic left of the time I had it. I wasnt much of a photo person back then and I wish I was.
Ok I am impressed with this trolling! lol This has truth about the ride and also uses it to mock the stool . . .well done sir! lol
I loved the 250 model of the Ninja because it was so flexible and took corners so awesome! I had a black 250 back in the day. I think now the 300 or 350 would be perfect because the 250 was just slightly underpowered at times but now with slightly more power combined with still being flexible. . …man that sounds awesome!
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