Final KDE Linux impressions and VM notes

We take KDE Linux for a spin and push it a little too far. Plus, a friend of the show stops by with a fresh tool: Nebula Commander.

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• 💥 Gets Sats Quick and Easy with Strike
• 📻 LINUX Unplugged on Fountain.FM
• SCaLE 23x | Registration — Get 40% off registration with promo code "UNPLG"
• PlanetNix 2026 — Where Nix Builders Come Together
• Pasadena Linux Party, Fri, Mar 6, 2026, 6:00 PM
• KDE Linux - KDE Community Wiki
• Beta (Enthusiast & Stable editions) · KDE Linux · GitLab
• Install Software Not Available in Discover - KDE Community
• KDE Linux / Kapsule · GitLab
• suikan4github/Using-tailscale-client-on-an-Immutable-OS
• xuars/kdelinux-tailscale
• Nix - KDE Community
• Fitting Everything Together — TLDR: Hermetic /usr/ is awesome; let's popularize image-based OSes with modernized security properties built around immutability, SecureBoot, TPM2, adaptability, auto-updating, factory reset, uniformity – built from traditional distribution packages, but deployed via images.
• Nebula Commander
• DEMO Nebula Commander
• Nebula Commander GitHub — Nebula Commander is a self-hosted control plane for nebula overlay networks.
• Star Trek Comm Badge for Home Assistant Voice Control
• Pick: hcloud-upload-image — Quickly upload any raw disk images into your Hetzner Cloud projects!
• Pick: Launcher Studio — Launcher Studio is a GTK4 desktop application for creating and managing .desktop files on Linux.
• Launcher Studio on Flathub
• Pick: tinyproxy — A light-weight HTTP/HTTPS proxy daemon for POSIX operating systems
• Pick: socks-to-http-proxy — An executable to convert SOCKS5 proxy into HTTP proxy