Episode 249: Home Grown FUD

The Linux community is eating its own this week, as attention seeking plucky YouTuber’s trade on free software’s good name for clicks. We learn the real story behind some of the Internet’s recent free software freak-out. Plus a fantastic batch of community news and updates, some cool tools, and we discuss if it’s time to give up the Qt or GTK purist lifestyle. Sponsored By: Ting : Visit linux.ting.com and get a $25 discount off a device, or $25 in service credit if you bring one! Linux Academy : Visit linuxacademy.com/unplugged to support the show and sign up for a 7 day free trial. DigitalOcean : Visit do.co/unplugged for a limited time special offer, or enter dounplugged after you create your account for a $10 credit. Promo Code: dounplugged Support LINUX Unplugged Links: ArchiveOS GNOME Is Removing the Ability to Launch Binary Apps from Nautilus general: Don't allow launching binaries or programs in general Deep Dive: New bookmark sync in Nightly System76 and the LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes — tl;dr: Don’t buy System76 hardware and expect to get firmware updates from the LVFS System76 Blog — System76 and LVFS - What Really Happened — Wednesday there was an…