This month we 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.

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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

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)

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• 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

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.

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Intro - 00:00:00

Monthly Foibles - 00:02:21

Updates - 00:21:58

Beautiful Failures - 00:25:11

Reviews - 00:33:21

Feedback and Errata - 01:32:34

Announcements - 01:34:10

Acknowledgements - 01:35:37