Trafotin flashing a thumbs up to various Linux distribution logos

Distrobox: The Last Frontier of Installing Linux Things

Distrobox is a universal way to run virtually any Linux application. Want to install a Debian package on Fedora? Are you tired of Linux distributions screwing around with software or failing to update it? Are you sick and tired of installing every single Linux package under the sun? Here鈥檚 some of the cool ways Distrobox can serve you!

March 22, 2026 路 11 min 路 Trafotin

The Way Steven Deobald Left GNOME Should Be Celebrated

I wasn鈥檛 going to make a video about this until a certain YouTuber with hundreds of thousands of subscribers took bad information from conspiracy theorists online.

September 3, 2025 路 1 min 路 Trafotin
A sweating Trafotin with a cartoon crack in his back with the logos of Docker, nginx, Cloudflare, and Traefik.

It's Impossible to Self-Host Anything "Correctly"

Why it鈥檚 insurmountable to self-host this website. If it wasn鈥檛 for YouTube and Patreon, I鈥檇 shut it down forever.

August 26, 2025 路 10 min 路 Trafotin
Me smugly shrugging my shoulders over speech bubbles depicting Linux drama

Why Does Linux Have So Much Drama?!

The Linux community seems like it鈥檚 filled with so much drama! How do we make sense of it all? Is Fedora going to kill my games? Did you hear the latest thing Linus said? Is GNOME really blocking all Wayland progress? Let鈥檚 analyze if an issue was worth our time or not and how Linux news has dire consequences to Linux鈥檚 developers.

July 14, 2025 路 11 min 路 Trafotin
Jordan Petridis talking with Trafotin and Winward laughing

Debugging Desktop Linux and Its Users With GNOME's Jordan Petridis

I got speak with GNOME鈥檚 release manager Jordan Petridis, his journey into open source development, the work GNOME has done with Flatpak and accessibility, and how open source developers deal with harrassment from Linux losers.

June 23, 2025 路 3 min 路 Trafotin, Jordan Petridis