Martin Wimpress

Martin Wimpress

Desktop Linux user and developer since the dark ages. Purveyor of fine bash scripts. Podcaster since 2014. Live coding streamer since 2020. Once chose the code name for an Ubuntu release 🕶️🦍

Martin has been using UNIX since 1990 and Linux since 1994; progressing through DRS 6000 (SVR4), Xenix, Yggdrasil, Slackware, SunOS, Solaris, RedHat Linux, CRUX, IRIX, Debian and Fedora before installing Ubuntu when it was still a Warty Warthog. Switched to Arch Linux in early 2012, became an Arch Linux Trusted User and started contributing to the MATE Desktop project. Returned to Ubuntu in the summer of 2014, co-founded Ubuntu MATE and has led the project ever since. Package maintainer for Debian and Ubuntu and an Ubuntu Member.

Currently Running NixOS BTW while working at Determinate Systems as a Developer Relations Engineer. Mostly busy making Nix easier and contributing to the NixOS project ❄️ Previously worked at Canonical as Engineering Director for Ubuntu.

Episodes Hosted By Martin Wimpress

44: A textual rummage with Jason 43: Cuthbert, Dibble and Grub 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