Distrohoppers' Digest
We are two Blokes who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a Month at a time, b
Dale, and Eric
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“We are a couple guys who love Linux and trying out new stuff, we thought it would be interesting to share our experience of trying new Linux and BSD distributions and how we found it trying to live with them as our daily driver for up to a Month at a time, by recording a podcast about how we got on.”
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View all 57 episodes57 – CachyOS, and Arch, BTW
Majid reviews CachyOS, Bill from mintCast, and Linux OTC joins us to talk about Arch Linux. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Show Transcript
Episode 56
In this episode Dale uses his iPad as a laptop and Majid fights with Windows 11 and bought a new to him Lenovo Chromebook. We review Ubuntu Budgie 25.10 and Pop!_OS 24.04 with the new Cosmic Desktop. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Show Transcript
Episode 55
This episode was recorded on the 20th of December, 2025. For this show, we will be reviewing Ultramarine Linux Plasma Edition and Ghost BSD. Link To Full Show Notes Link To Full Transcript
Ep 54Episode 54
The pod is being rebooted. We discuss our activities during the past year. Our experiences with Fedora, LMDE6, Debian 13, and more. Link To Full Show Transcript
Ep 53Episode 53
This month Eric reviews Bluefin Project and Dale reviews Archman. In Monthly Foibles, Dale had a productive month setting up Nextcloud, Pi-Hole, Ubuntu Server, and various other systems, while Eric discusses his experience setting up a drawing tablet for his wife using a Dell Active Pen and Windows 11. In Updates, we cover Debian’s adoption of Tmpfs for its /tmp folder and upcoming changes to APT. Beautiful Failures covers challenges encountered by Dale during while attempting to move a hard drive to a new system. Reviews focuses on Archman and Bluefin Project distributions, but specific information is not included in the excerpt. We also cover some New Releases and get some Feedback. Full Show Notes Here 00:02:09 – Monthly Foibles 00:48:07 – Updates 00:51:54 – Beautiful Failures 00:54:36 – Reviews 01:50:24 – Feedback and Errata 01:56:10 – New Releases 02:01:17 – Announcements 02:02:03 – Acknowledgements
Ep 52Episode 52
Welcome to Distrohppers’ Digest Episode 52. In Monthly Foibles, Dale recounts a month of balancing rest and productivity, from exploring Linux Mint’s Backup Tool to diving into Sway customization. Eric shares his quest for the perfect headphones for podcast editing. Updates cover Solus’ vibrant community growth and Ubuntu’s latest LTS release, while our ‘Beautiful Failures’ segment explores Dale’s dual-booting mishap and Eric’s journey through various distros, landing back at Ubuntu 24.04. Eric reviews Ubuntu 24.04 LTD “Noble Numbat” and Dale covers Tuxedo OS. (edited) Full Show Notes Here 00:00:00 – Intro 00:02:11 – Monthly Foibles 00:15:15 – Updates 00:29:59 – Beautiful Failures 00:34:53 – Reviews 01:17:01 – Feedback and Errata 01:23:29 – Announcements 01:24:35 – Acknowledgements
Episode 51
On this episode we talk server upgrades, WiFi woes, Xebian and Fedora fails, and review BunsenLabs Linux Boron and KDE neon User Edition featuring the recently released KDE Plasma 6. Full Show Notes Here
Episode 50
Moss and Dale are back for another episode. This month we are reviewing Sparky Linux 7.2 OpenBox/E25, and Zorin OS 17 PRO. Updates Solus, Redcore, Slackel, DeBodhi 32- and 64-bit, Ubuntu Beautiful failures OpenMandriva 5 ROCK Full Show Notes Here
Episode 49
We took a break from our reviews to do a year in review. We reflect on our favorite distros, activities, and what we look forward to in 2024. Full Show Notes Here
Episode 48
Synopsis Distrohoppers’ Digest Episode48 Introductions Hosts: Moss Bliss, Dale Miracle, Eric Adams Monthly Foibles Updates: Slackel 7.7, Budgie Desktop Beautiful Failures: Reviews: Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 “Faye” New Releases Feedback Announcements Full Show Notes Here
Episode 47
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. The Reviews this Month are: Bodhi 7.0.0, Garuda Sway, Manjaro 23 “Uranos” Cinnamon Edition Full Show Notes Here
Episode 46
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss blend OS, Bodhi 7, OpenMandriva ROME 5, Regolith, Pardus, LMDE 6 Beautiful Failures: Rhino Linux, PCLinuxOS The Reviews this Month are: Linux Lite 4.4, Rhino Linux 1, Lubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Full Show Notes Here
Episode 45
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Linux Mint 21.2 “Victoria” Beautiful Failures: Surprisingly none this month The Reviews this Month are: peppermintOS, blend OS v 3, Pop!_OS 22.04 Cinnamon Full Show Notes Here
Episode 44
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Bodhi 7, Mint 21.2, BlendOS 3, Debian 12. Beautiful Failures: Debian 12 LXQt, Polydock, NotesNook The Reviews this Month are: Debian 12 Cinnamon, Debian 12 Mate, Linux Mint 21.1 Cinnamon Full Show Notes Here
Episode 43
Moss, Dale and Eric are Back. This time they discuss Blend OS, Bodhi, Solus, Void, Debian and Xero Linux. Beautiful Failures: blend OS, Jelly Comb trackball, Void The Reviews this Month are: ArchCraft, Feren OS and Kubuntu 23.04 Full Show Notes Here
Episode 42
This Month Moss and Dale are Joined by Eric our new host and discuss BigLinux, OpenMandriva, ROME, Slackel, FreeBSD, Void, Voyger, Ubuntu Budgie and Xubuntu in updates. Reviews are Elementary OS7, Zinc 22.04.2 and Fedora 37 Full Show Notes Here
Episode 41
We review Endless OS 5.0, PCLinuxOS. Updates on Ubuntu 22.04.2, Bodhi 7 alpha5, Mint, Trisquel, Garuda, Bluestar, openSUSE, Redcore, Xero, StormOS, Debian, Solus. Beautiful Failures on, BlendOS Full Show Notes Here
Episode 40
We review, CachyOS, BigLinux. Updates on OM “ROME”, Void, Bluestar, Debian, OpenSuse, Netrunner, XeroLinux, Storm-OS, Voyager, Ubuntu Budgie, Pardus. Beautiful Failures on. BigLinux, Armbian. New Releases and Feedback. Full Show Notes Here
Ep 39Episode 39
Welcome to Distrohopper’s Digest, Episode 039, recorded on January 3, 2023. For this episode, we will be reviewing wattOS R12, Q4OS, and Garuda. By the end of 2022, Distrohoppers’ Digest had been downloaded (and, we hope, listened to) almost 31,000 times, according to statistics kept at Archive dot org. We hope you had a good holiday season, and on we go with what makes us happy: Distrohopping! Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. Josh: I’m @joshontech on most social networks or email me at [email protected], Also you can find me on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale, and Dylan, at Its MOSS dot com.
Ep 38Episode 38
Moss and Dale are back reviewing StormD OS and Titan Linux Full Show Notes Here Contact Info: Moss: For chatting with us further, you may choose to join our Telegram group or our Discord channel. You can find Josh on @joshontech on most social networks or email him at [email protected], Also you can find him on the CrowbarKernelPanic podcast. Dale: I’m @Dale_CDL on Telegram and Discord. My email is [email protected] Moss: And you can hear me every week on Full Circle Weekly News and mintCast. My email is [email protected], and I’m on Mastodon as @[email protected], plus you can find me, Dale and Dylan, at It’s MOSS dot com.