Ask Noah Show 504

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. -- During The Show -- 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 Openshot 4.0 - openshot.org Kdenlive 26.08 - kdenlive.org Calibre 9.14 - calibre-ebook.com Cosmic 1.7 - phoronix.com Ardour 9.8 - ardor.org Vanilla OS 3 - vanillaos.org EndeavourOS Titan Nova - endeavouros.com Ur Project - phoronix.com Epic Games Store Linux Support - steamdeckhq.com Microduck - techcrunch.com Nvidia Buys Hugging Face - theinformation.com Debian Allows Responsible AI - debian.org Linus Torvalds AI Demo - freedesktop.org CA Age Verification Law Exemption - tomshardware.com Braden Stroot Interview Why did you become an engineer? What did you use before? When did you start using Linux? Started with Pop!_OS and Cosmic Building a computer Rough edges of developing DE Nobara Linux CachyOS and Hyprland 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 Is Linux only for geeks? Never going back "switch flip" Remote into a Mac RustDesk What hardware platform would you choose? Framework Laptop Every OS has rough edges What causes you to still reach for the Mac? What audio work do you do? Ardour Zynthian Easy Effects Room EQ Wizard -- The Extra Credit Section -- For links to the articles and material referenced in this week's episode check out this week's page from our podcast dashboard! This Episode's Podcast Dashboard Phone Systems for Ask Noah provided by Voxtelesys Join us in our dedicated chatroom #GeekLab:linuxdelta.com on Matrix -- Stay In Touch -- Find all the resources for this show on the Ask Noah Dashboard Ask Noah Dashboard Need more help than a radio show can offer? Altispeed provides commercial IT services and they’re excited to offer you a great deal for listening to the Ask Noah Show. Call today and ask about the discount for listeners of the Ask Noah Show! Altispeed Technologies Contact Noah live [at] asknoahshow.com -- Twitter -- Noah - Kernellinux Ask Noah Show Altispeed Technologies Special Guest: Braden Stroot. Support Ask Noah Show