# Favorite Linux Tweaks URL: /show/linux-unplugged/379/ > We round up our favorite tweaks to the desktop, and apps that make it great. - Show: [LINUX Unplugged](/show/linux-unplugged/) - Episode: 379 - Date: 2020-11-10 - Hosts: chris, wes - Guests: drew-devore - Duration: 01:11:03 - Audio: https://aphid.fireside.fm/d/1437767933/f31a453c-fa15-491f-8618-3f71f1d565e5/bf40661f-ee38-4e87-8656-848722235f10.mp3 - YouTube: https://youtu.be/LaSJnpuQ7P8 Sponsors: - [Linode Cloud Hosting](/sponsors/linode.com-lup/index.md): A special offer for all Linux Unplugged Podcast listeners and new Linode customers, visit linode.com/unplugged, and receive $100 towards your new account. - [A Cloud Guru](/sponsors/acloudguru.com-lup/index.md): Hundreds of courses, thousands of hands-on labs. ### Episode Links * [Arch Conf 2020 Videos](https://media.ccc.de/c/arch-conf-2020 "Arch Conf 2020 Videos") * [media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future](https://media.ccc.de/v/arch-conf-online-2020-6379-arch-linux-past-present-and-future#t=134 "media.ccc.de - Arch Linux: Past, Present and Future") * [Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix](https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Project-X-AMD-Zen-Coreboot "Project X - Pure Open-Source Coreboot Support On AMD Zen - Phoronix") — Project X is about "eXcising binary blobs from the x86 part of Zen CPUs." * [OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference](https://osfc.io/ "OSFC 2020 - Open Source Firmware Conference") * [Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player](https://www.debugpoint.com/2020/11/linux-mint-chromium-iptv-player/ "Linux Mint pre-loads Chromium and Brings New IPTV Player") — The package is available Linux Mint repository as “chromium” which you can install using standard “apt-get” or via the package manager. This is pure native Chromium and not a snap version. * [Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog](https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3978 "Monthly News – October 2020 – The Linux Mint Blog") * [LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware](https://linuxunplugged.com/360 "LINUX Unplugged 360: The Hard Work of Hardware") * [Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US](https://futurism.com/the-byte/starlink-beta-outperformed-most-internet-us "Starlink Beta Has Outperformed Most Internet in the US") * [SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/11/spacex-starlink-beta-tester-takes-user-terminal-into-forest-gets-120mbps/ "SpaceX Starlink users provide first impressions and unboxing pictures | Ars Technica") — New speed-test data collected by Ookla and published by PCMag last week found average Starlink download speeds of 79.5Mbps and average upload speeds of 13.8Mbps in October * [All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows](https://feed.jupiter.zone/allshows "All Jupiter Broadcasting Shows") * [profile-sync-daemon](https://github.com/graysky2/profile-sync-daemon "profile-sync-daemon") — Symlinks and syncs browser profile dirs to RAM thus reducing HDD/SDD calls and speeding-up browsers. * [GPU-Viewer](https://github.com/arunsivaramanneo/GPU-Viewer "GPU-Viewer") — A front-end to glxinfo, vulkaninfo, clinfo and es2_info. * [Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer](https://gitlab.gnome.org/YaLTeR/video-trimmer "Ivan Molodetskikh: Video Trimmer") — Video Trimmer cuts out a fragment of a video given the start and end timestamps. The video is never re-encoded, so the process is very fast and does not reduce the video quality. * [junegunn/fzf](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf "junegunn/fzf") — A command-line fuzzy finder * [Fish shell](https://fishshell.com/ "Fish shell") — fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell for Linux, macOS, and the rest of the family. * [cxreg/smartcd](https://github.com/cxreg/smartcd "cxreg/smartcd") — Alter your bash (or zsh) environment as you cd. * [wting/autojump](https://github.com/wting/autojump "wting/autojump") — A cd command that learns - easily navigate directories from the command line. * [gsamokovarov/jump](https://github.com/gsamokovarov/jump "gsamokovarov/jump") — Jump helps you navigate faster by learning your habits. * [muammar/mkchromecast](https://github.com/muammar/mkchromecast "muammar/mkchromecast") — Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices * [xat/castnow](https://github.com/xat/castnow "xat/castnow") — commandline chromecast player * [xat/dlnacast](https://github.com/xat/dlnacast "xat/dlnacast") — Cast local media to your TV through UPnP/DLNA * [skorokithakis/catt](https://github.com/skorokithakis/catt "skorokithakis/catt") — Cast All The Things allows you to send videos from many, many online sources to your Chromecast. * [tridactyl](https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl "tridactyl") — A Vim-like interface for Firefox, inspired by Vimperator/Pentadactyl * [philc/vimium](https://github.com/philc/vimium "philc/vimium") — The hacker's browser. * [Use your ~/.local folder!](https://askubuntu.com/a/14536 "Use your ~/.local folder!") * [Liquorix kernel for Debian users](https://liquorix.net/ "Liquorix kernel for Debian users") — Liquorix is a distro kernel replacement built using the best configuration and kernel sources for desktop, multimedia, and gaming workloads. * [PipeWire nightly for Fedora users](http://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mfrey/pipewire-nightly/ "PipeWire nightly for Fedora users") — PipeWire nightly builds from the projects git master. Use at your own risk. * [Firefox Adwaita Theme](https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme "Firefox Adwaita Theme") — This is a bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps. * [Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl](https://slexy.org/view/s2BXbK88KG "Feedback: Thoughts after youtube-dl") * [Feedback: FreeIPA](https://slexy.org/view/s20jlcoujt "Feedback: FreeIPA") * [Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server](https://slexy.org/view/s20M7ALnPQ "Feedback: Zentyal as an AD Server")