
Episode 5:11: Qt Vibes and a New Standard
04/21/25 • 71 min
Coming up in this episode
- Vibe Coding Coming to a Plasma Near You
- We Need Another Standard
- The Newest of the New
0:00 Cold Open
2:01 Weird Vibes in Qt-Land
21:51 Rust Is Inevitable
41:04 Fedora, Ubuntu and a Journey
1:08:25 Next Time
1:10:24 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/4Y_u6TPPMvI
What a Qt little AI?
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
We need another standard
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Releases
Ubuntu 25.04 and Official Flavors release
Fedora 42 and Spins release
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
- 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
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- 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch
- 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon
- 📜 Linux User Space Twitter
- 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids
- 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to cover our exploration of the new releases.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements.
Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
Producer
- Bruno
- Dave
- John
- Visaggio & Co
Co-Producer
- --verbose
- LqLarry
- MarshMan
- GrouchyM
- Tim
- A.J.
- Advait
- Amanita
- Backshift6090
- CubicleNate
- Eduardo S.
- FrozenGorilla
- Hausken
- Jeff3ix
- Jefferson
- Jill and Steve
- Larry
- LiNuXsys666
- Livet
- Musical Coder
- Mick
- Nicholas
- Rotted Mood
Coming up in this episode
- Vibe Coding Coming to a Plasma Near You
- We Need Another Standard
- The Newest of the New
0:00 Cold Open
2:01 Weird Vibes in Qt-Land
21:51 Rust Is Inevitable
41:04 Fedora, Ubuntu and a Journey
1:08:25 Next Time
1:10:24 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/4Y_u6TPPMvI
What a Qt little AI?
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
We need another standard
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Releases
Ubuntu 25.04 and Official Flavors release
Fedora 42 and Spins release
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
- 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
- 📰 Linux User Space subreddit
- ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server
- 📲 Linux User Space Telegram
- ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix
- 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch
- 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon
- 📜 Linux User Space Twitter
- 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids
- 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to cover our exploration of the new releases.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements.
Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for your support!
Producer
- Bruno
- Dave
- John
- Visaggio & Co
Co-Producer
- --verbose
- LqLarry
- MarshMan
- GrouchyM
- Tim
- A.J.
- Advait
- Amanita
- Backshift6090
- CubicleNate
- Eduardo S.
- FrozenGorilla
- Hausken
- Jeff3ix
- Jefferson
- Jill and Steve
- Larry
- LiNuXsys666
- Livet
- Musical Coder
- Mick
- Nicholas
- Rotted Mood
Previous Episode

Episode 5:10: Handle With Care
Coming up in this episode
- The Thunder rolls
- We flatten out the History
- And Package Up Our Experience
0:00 Cold Open
1:34 Thundermail for Everyone!
23:21 The History of Flatpak
- 24:32 From Glick to Bundles
- 29:55 From Bundles to xdg-app
- 30:54 From Flatpak to the Future! 37:44 Are Flatpaks the Best Solution? 1:02:46 Next Time 1:05:14 Stinger
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/_fXr6fCPJ8U
Thundermail
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
The history of flatpak packages
- Autopackage
- Listaller
- AppStream
- The roots
- Klik
- Rethinking the Linux distribution
- Flatpak 4 years in
- Goodbye xdg-app, hello Flatpak
- Initial Flatpak press release
- KDE's Discover found its support of Flatpak
- Firefox begins Flatpak builds
- OBS begins Flatpak builds too
- Thunderbird gets official support
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Extra Flatpak Resources
- https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/category/glick/
- https://dot.kde.org/2005/09/16/dont-install-just-copy-klik/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20071020104212/https://kdedevelopers.org/node/2920
- https://web.archive.org/web/20050125005333/http://klik.atekon.de/docs/
- https://web.archive.org/web/20101025040336/http://people.gnome.org:80/~alexl/glick/
- https://blogs.gnome.org/alexl/page/12/
- https://github.com/alexlarsson/bundler
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
- 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
- 📰 Linux User Space subreddit
- ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server
- 📲 Linux User Space Telegram<...
Next Episode

Episode 5:12: 10,000 Tabs and an Extended Warranty
Coming up in this episode
- Extended service warranty for your Linux
- 10,000 Tabs Made Easy!
- A Chrome Firesale
The Video Version
https://youtu.be/pTGaEsSA12I
0:00 Cold Open
1:40 Extended Warranty for Ubuntu
17:36 Tab Groups and Unwanted Cookies
41:39 A Google Chrome Firesale!
58:33 The Science of Next Time
1:11:14 Stinger
Upgrade or ESM? Why not both?
- This blog post reminded Leo he needed to make a decision.
- Ubuntu Pro could let him kick the can a little.
- Upgrades generally go well unless you have a bunch of 3rd party repos.
- Always have a backup before any major changes.
📣Announcements📣
This program was made possible by:
Browser Watch!
- Firefox brings tab groups to the browser
- How to get started with tab groups
- Brave browser adds Cookiecrumbler
- Brave adds native translation
- Chrome's Privacy Sandbox is dead
📣More Announcements📣
- Want to have a topic covered or have some feedback? - send us an email, [email protected] OR jump on over to the open forum on Lemmy
Chrome breakup speculation
🧹Housekeeping🧹
Catch these and other great topics as they unfold on our Subreddit or our News channel on Discord.
- 🗞️ Linux User Space Lemmy
- 📰 Linux User Space subreddit
- ⌨️ Linux User Space Discord Server
- 📲 Linux User Space Telegram
- ✉️ Linux User Space Matrix
- 📽️ Linux User Space Twitch
- 🐘 Linux User Space Mastodon
- 📜 Linux User Space Twitter
- 📺️ Linux User Space TILVids
- 📱 Linux User Space Bluesky
Quick look at our Snap and Flatpak journey
- Inital systems have been setup.
- Leo and Dan won't necessarily be installing the same software though some may overlap.
- We will be keeping tabs on the sizes of just the containerized applications.
🔭Next Time🔭
We plan to cover more topics, feedback and a look in our Snap/Flatpak research.
Come back in two weeks for more Linux User Space. Watch for our livestream announcements.
Stay tuned📡 for announcements of our return and interact with us on Lemmy, Twitter, Mastodon, Telegram, Matrix, Discord whatever. Give us your suggestions on our subreddit r/LinuxUserSpace Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas. All the links in the show notes and on linuxuserspace.show.
We would like to acknowledge 🤩 our top patrons. Thank you 🙏 for y...
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