264: Interview with Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez of KDE & Jill's Robot Wars Story

This week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re going to talk with Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez from KDE. Then we’re going to chat about some cool robotics you can get your hands on from Red Hat. Plus we’ve also got our famous tips, tricks and software picks. All of this and so much more this week on Destination Linux. So whether you’re brand new to Linux and open source or a guru of sudo. This is the podcast for you.

Podcast (mp3): Play in new window | Download | Embed

Special Guest:

Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez from KDE = kde.org

Hosts of Destination Linux:

Ryan (DasGeek) = dasgeekcommunity.com
Michael Tunnell = tuxdigital.com
Jill Bryant = jilllinuxgirl.com

Want to Support the Show?

Support us on Patreon = https://destinationlinux.org/patreon
Support us on Sponsus = https://destinationlinux.org/sponsus
Destination Linux Network Store = http://dlnstore.com

You can find all of our social accounts at https://destinationlinux.org/contact

Chapters:

00:00 = Welcome to DL 264
00:44 = Community Feedback: Suggestion to Improve DL Visuals
02:16 = Community Feedback: More choices in distro installers
07:51 = DigitalOcean: App Platform ( https://do.co/dln )
09:24 = Interview with Aleix Pol i Gonzàlez of KDE
37:10 = Bitwarden Password Manager ( https://bitwarden.com/dln )
38:54 = News: Robotic Hand Kit from Red Hat & SparkFun
41:11 = Jill and Robot Wars!
46:58 = Another Kit from Red Hat & SparkFun
47:57 = Linux Gaming: Tower of Time
51:38 = Software Spotlight: Slay
54:16 = Tip of the Week: History command (and bash history)
55:12 = Announcements: Linux Out Loud Voting Has Started!
55:58 = Outro

Comments

In 2:16 of the Community Feedback: More choices in distro installers

Systemd-boot is a great simplistic way to boot your OS. Over the years, I have had issues with Grub/Grub2, so switching to a boot loader as simple as systemd-boot has made things very easy for me. Here is a quick guide on how to dual boot with systemd-boot.

or this guide on github

github.com

spxak1/weywot/blob/main/Pop_OS_Dual_Boot.md

# Dual Boot Pop!_OS with Windows using systemd-boot
### The ultimate guide for any combination

**EXTREMEY SHORT TL:DR**: If you know what you're doing - The absolute quickest:

1. ```sudo apt install os-prober```
2. ```sudo os-prober```. The output is ```/dev/sdb1@/efi/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi:Windows Boot Manager:Windows:efi```
3. ```sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt``` (you can find your drive in the first part of the os-prober's output)
4. ```sudo cp -ax /mnt/EFI/Microsoft /boot/efi/EFI``` (you can find the folder after the word ```efi``` in os-prober's output. It's always ```Microsoft``` but you need capital ```EFI``` when copying.
5. Reboot. Spam your spacebar for the menu. Select with arrows, add timeout with "t" or reduce with "T" (+/- also work), select default with "d". Hold "l" to boot linux after POST or "w" to boot Windows after POST without visiting the menu.


**TL:DR**: Dual boot from the same drive with Windows and Pop!_OS already installed: See **4. TL:DR** at the end of this document.

## Abstract
To dual boot Windows and Pop!_OS with a menu, both operating systems' EFI files need to be in the same FAT32 partition. This guide elaborates on how to either install OS's using the same EFI partition or **copy Windows's EFI ```Microsoft``` folder into Pop!_OS's ```/boot/efi/EFI```**. 

## 1. Introduction
Pop!_OS uses **systemd-boot** as its boot manager. Most new users don't know how **systemd-boot** works and the fact that it is mostly transparent to the user (as a boot-manager should be), makes it hard for some users to understand. As such a common advice when new users want to dual boot with Windows is to install **grub**. Grub is better known as it is commonly used by other distributions, namely **Ubuntu** and has a visible menu at boot, which new users grow to expect. As such it is common *advice* between new users to install **grub** in order to dual boot Pop!_OS with Windows. This, is **totally unecessary** as not only it removes the ease and simplicity of **systemd-boot** and replaces it with the rather complex configuration of **grub**, but also **grub** has the tendency to break with **Windows updates**, while **systemd-boot** does not.

This file has been truncated. show original

ak2020 says:

March 6, 2022

Thanks, everyone. I’m still catching-up but wow - what another great episode! @jill_linuxgirl 's awesomeness is just endless - please write us an autobiography, Jill, so we can buy ourselves a signed copy - I’m serious! And @MichaelTunnell 's rapping - yet another hidden talent - also awesome! Thanks for the recommendation, @dasgeek - I was fascinated more by the debates on artificial consciousness when I was studying computing back in the early nineties, so ideas such as presented in Blade Runner, though of course the battle-droid side of the Terminator films was also interesting. I guess because I pretty-much stopped watching TV regularly in the late 80s, I missed Robot Wars? Maybe worth going back to see on YouTube.

Always a pleasure to hear from developers, thanks Aleix. Over the years I’ve kept an eye on open source projects where I feel I might fit in. Previously I was looking at Ubuntu Touch, because we have such a huge need for an open mobile platform. However KDE is looking increasingly attractive for many reasons I mentioned, after the last time we had a KDE guest.

In the early 90s, C was the language to know, then C++ became more popular with its object oriented additions, and was my favourite language for some years. I do find Qt’s non-custom additions a little jarring, but I guess they are proven to be effective in practice and worth learning. Some years later I moved to Java, mainly due to its portable(!) GUI and extensive standard class libraries. Never really got into Python myself, though I gather it became more popular after Google revealed they relied on it for their search engine, if memory serves me correctly? Currently I am learning Ruby, for the first time, and very impressed with that too!

Special Guest:

Hosts of Destination Linux:

Want to Support the Show?

Chapters:

Comments

Continue the discussion at discourse.destinationlinux.network

Participants

Subscribe to the Show

Episode Archive

DL App Picks

Episodes Archive

Special Guest:

Hosts of Destination Linux:

Want to Support the Show?

Want to follow the show and hosts on social media?

Chapters:

Comments

Continue the discussion at discourse.destinationlinux.network

Participants

Subscribe to the Show

Episode Archive

DL App Picks

Episodes Archive