Mark Johnson

Mark started gaming on a Commodore Amiga 500 with 2 floppy drives. He discovered Moria at age 10 in a box of disks with questionable provenance, which introduced him to the roguelike genre.

He moved on to PC gaming with Windows 95, and discovered Linux with Knoppix live CDs after developing a fascination for customising the desktop interface.

Mark joined HantsLUG in 2005 where he met his future podcast co-hosts. He released his first open source web apps at around this time, and began contributing to the Moodle Learning Management System in 2011. He became an Ubuntu Member in 2021.

He currently works as a Senior Developer at Catalyst IT Europe, contributing to Moodle and maintaining several community plugins. He now does all his gaming on Linux and the Nintendo Switch.

Episodes Hosted By Mark Johnson

42: Somewhere over the Keybow 41: Punch up in the garden 40: The Reply Guys 39: Rock around the underclock 38: A pair of comfortable GPUs 37: Lipstick on a font 36: Themes, Streams and Audio Machines 35: Mark was right, twice 34: All of a Flutter 33: Welcome Homepage 32: Quick, quicker, quickest 31: Searching for a New Voice 30: Quickemu rising from the Bashes 29: Desktop of the gods 28: Wake-On-LAN for Preschoolers 27: If I could just interject 26: Snappy Snap Snapshots 25: The joy of Linux torture 24: A mini swap adventure 23: An Exodus of Bitcoin 22: Magazines reloaded 21: Fetch is going to happen 20: Unfold Your Coding Potential 19: This is how I roll 18: Snap, Crackle and Desktop 17: Bottom is the new Top 16: Blogging to the Fediverse 15: Mish Mash Mesh 14: One Hundred Percent Colombian 13: Um, actually 12: Steam Deck Emulation Done Right 11: Using Two GPUs at Once 10: History All The Way Down 9: Big Backup Bonanza 8: Picking Apart the Steam Deck 7: Immutable Desktop Linux for Anyone 6: Writing A Game For Linux 5: Extending GNOME is hard 4: Automatic for the people 3: Soaking up the Cider 2: Lawful evil monitor alignment 1: Mastodon on my résumé 0: Introducing Linux Matters Podcast