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Young folks, please be smart and listen to James and learn how to touch-type. It’s extremely useful skill to have which unfortunately, and thanks to my extreme laziness, I never learned - despite being introduced to typewriter at age of 10 (that's 45 years ago) and having two years of dactylography classes back in high school. Please, trust me - James knows his [YT_censored]!

Hyprland seems to be the best environment for me. I understand the fractional toe dipping into tiling in the floating window manager world. However, after 30+ years in Microsoft-land, I find a tiling window manager provides a level of freedom that the old click click click PC experience did not provide. It's all an illusion of course and your mileage may vary.

You might not believe me but yesterday i was searching about the same topic what a coincidence 😂 and i use vimium extension for that

My folks always told me that it was not polite to point.

I respect vim and use it while touchtyping, but I do not see how to web-browse with these. My web activity would win from the following actions: close cookie-banner, input some dumb email-like line, go to the next page of some forum, open page in google translator (the simplest way to bypass some government's craziness), save the picture in the FS, open PDF not in browser and open the link (typically all links in the list) in another tab(s). If vim does nothing for these, I prefer to be a stupid monkey with mouse. BTW my biggest ergonomy dream is a USB "doomscroll" wheel for reading books/papers with few extra keys for scaling and next/prev. No, bluetooth will not make it better.

I'll boost your recommendation to learn to touch-type. It's an immense productivity booster! I like the fact this training website has specific drills for programming typing... it really is different than writing straight prose or emails and such. Since I switch between a few different keyboards for different laptops or desktop keyboards, hitting some of the special symbols/punctuation used in programming is trickier than if I focused on using just one device.

Good to know, thanks! Personally, I use vi shortcuts only in Vim, for the rest I prefer readline ones - they just work about everywhere.

Hi James, Thanks for your Video I confess I'm hooked to mouse (it takes too much time to work only with the terminal compared with takink help of the mouse) I'm sorry!

11:42 isn't moving your hand away from home-row to the num-pad the same as moving it to the mouse except that num=pad is worst!

Some split keyboard like the Moonlander implement the analog mouse control really well.

an analog key close to the homerow is what will help you replace your mouse sensor and scroll wheel, and the other keys are just keys.

have you tried the friendly interactive shell?

2:40 @BrodieRobertson

You seem to like testing interesting software. I think you might want to take a look at KSH and forks, they are very good shells and much faster than Bash while leeping the features people actually use. I use MKSH particularly.

Agree, the LWN guy is such a normie. A proper mouseless setup consists of a standalone tiling WM and terminal based programs. Learning vim and proper touch typing helps a lot too. I can confirm vimium, vimvixen, tridactyl can't assign link shortcuts to certain JS elements which are tied to mouse events directly in the source code of the page. This shouldn't be a thing but soydevs sprinkle them in everywhere unfortunately.

Since article is talking about other DE’s, in KDE: System Settings/Accessibility/Mouse Navigation (check “Use number pad to move cursor”) Also, please check jordansissel/ keynav (Control the mouse with the keyboard) and rvaiya/ warpd (…keyboard driven interface for mouse manipulation) projects on github

I admit - I hardly can imagine using computer w/o mouse - professional deformation, I spent my career in reprographics & printing; can’t really do repro w/o mouse. Said that, even in older Mac OS (7-9) I rarely used mouse in Finder, I preferred keyboard shortcuts for almost all Finder tasks; sadly, I never got to be so keyboard proficient in Win 🤷‍♂.

Thanks for the video! I got bit surprised that you didn’t know about LWN, but then I realized that not everyone is Methuselah like me - I’ve been reading them since they were first published in cuneiform on clay tablets back in ’99 😉

I haven't had a chance to watch the video yet. Though I resonate with that sentiment, and typically use only the keyboard. When I carry my laptop, I always bring a keyboard but usually leave the mouse behind. I rarely plug in a mouse to my laptop since I prefer using the keyboard. However, on my desktop PC, I occasionally use a mouse for clicking when I'm feeling a bit lazy. I use Sway as my window manager, the Tridactyl extension on Firefox for Vim keybindings, and the Helix text editor for editing files/programming. Most of my tasks are performed in the terminal, with the primary exception of web browsing. Also Alacritty and Zsh have neat Vim bindings.

Linux mint for me never looked back to windows.

>framebuffer web browser I worked on a chromium fork for "smart tvs" at my previous job and it ran chromium with DirectFB. However we later switched to X11, but it still works with DirectFB.

I use tmux on a daily basis, 1 session, 2 windows (each one with its name; Documents and SSH), 4 panels and always on the tty3, it's the first thing I do when I turn on the computer and that way, I work with a certain speed. Years ago I used screen (and I still have it on retro computers with old debian, 3.1, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, etc..) and recently on this work computer, I started using it again following your guidelines that I find very interesting. I like screen and it brings back fond memories, but I can't work as quickly as I did with tmux. ....we are creatures of habit..!! Greetings and congratulations on your work and dedication.

Good. I thought it would never return. Most of the good frontends and similar sites have all died.

The approach you covered from LWN does seem overly complex. In contrast , you seem to have a good pragmatic way get along with very little mouse use. Ultimately, however, if one wants to go beyond the Unix+teletype terminal paradigm but still interact through a keyboard, a very different approach would be useful. Are you familiar with Jef Raskin? He was at Apple in the early development of the MacIntosh before Steve Jobs demanded that it be a mini-Lisa. Anyway, Jef took some of the ideas he was attempting to get in the MacIntosh and put them in a charming machine called the Canon Cat. The Cat had special “Leap” keys to help you quickly search through your work in a textual way. It also used a quirky but very efficient scripting/programming language called Forth to embed special snippets of code for calculations and automation in your documents. The Canon Cat was only a limited success business-wise and is now rather obscure, but I’d love to get my hands on one someday! Shortly before Jef passed away, he wrote a book called “The Humane Interface,” which tells some of this history but also attempts to modernize his ideas into a “Zooming” UI that was very graphical but retaining a lot of the textual interactions with leap keys or equivalent. After the book, Jef attempted to build a working THE system that his son Asa (a web UI guy) helped with. Asa attempted to carry on the project for a bit after Jef passed, but I think it was dropped within a year or so. Maybe reviewing that book and/or prototype UI would be good content for this channel, just to offer a wider perspective.

Thanks for the video, very useful! Arch docufolks did a good job w screen(1) digest on their wiki 👍. man page and user's manual are excellent, but quite a long read.

i want to learn i3wm without any desktop environment but unfortunately i am noob

Wait, are you switching from tty to gui and again to try for demo? What is the workflow for accessing browser if you use tty?

Amazing but I rarely find anyone explain these amazing things about Linux I would like to learn more about frame buffer and Linux kernel, where do you think I should start?

I have chrome on mint

Bob 😢 Microsoft will be responsible for land fill

Nice one. doesn't work with wayland though...

Like you, I'm not a huge social media person either, main use is for information gathering. Thank you James for bringing this up, I will be taking a look into it.

Terminal font name?

IDK know about this, thanks, it can be useful 👍 although I dropped social networks a while ago - health issues, I just didn't have a strength; didn't rage quit or anything like that. 🤷‍♂

Huge I loved using nitter.

Thanks for the video! I'll admit that Linux has a lot advantages over FreeBSD in desktop role, but sound system is definitely not one of them; anyway … 😉

Change is inevitable, but, maybe you can revisit alsa and figure it out in the future. Let us know how it goes regardless. Thank you James, thumbs up Sir!

One of the biggest differences is the installation of programs and the file structure. Once those things are dealt with it's smooth sailing, but most linux users forget that bump in the road.

i looked it up and it seems like kdenlive should have an ALSA audio backend, so i wonder why it didn't work for you. another thing you can use on an ALSA system to use programs that only accept pulseaudio is to use a wrapper called apulse, which lets you run pulse applications on ALSA by rerouting pulse functions to basic alsa functions instead

that "bloat" with a straight face 🗣🗣🗣

Screenplay reads as follows INT. ORTHODOX CHURCH MR. CHAMPION Bless me father for I have sinned, I use Pulseaudio now. Am I going to hell? FATHER LUKE SMITH **Whatever!**

Sometimes it’s easier to conform

"6 MBs...bloat" 😆😆😆

This is funny. It's like if you committed a sin and decided to publish this video to ask for forgiveness 😆 just kidding though

Welcome to the party 😁

You have betrayed us!

And I give a special thanks to James for making these videos! Become a member, or just subscribe, James puts alot of time and thought into this endeavor. I know most of my comments are just simple thank you's, I really enjoy how other users are really adding to the dialogue. Keep it going everyone:D

I think I've managed to avoid PipeWire unless it comes along with Ubuntu on a newish install (20.04 and 22.04 I've been using at work). I think those use plain PulseAudio. On my personal/hobby installs I've used OSS and ALSA with reasonable results, but I wasn't doing video editing or streaming on those systems! 😅 Sound is bit of a house of cards in Linux... or at least, it seems to be to me. Maybe it's all sorted in PipeWire now, but that seems like a quite complex solution unless you're a pro media producer or something. My experience in Linux is that sound does seem to be fairly stable for a given kernel & distro release... so once you get it working on a particular bit of kit, it tends to keep working. Unlike Windows that can have mysterious failures randomly. Weird that you had PA fall apart rather quickly. Arch rolling release bite you there? 🤕 Best of luck going forward!

Why you waving your hands like that?

Over 30 years of being in the Linux world and my philosophy is still, I need to be able to get my shit done. If a distro or software package cannot do that simple thing, then I will get something that does. I will go free as much as possible, but not in a way that it will go against my simple philosophy.