Dorian you are a pro. I've subscribed to so many other Linux related channels and I must say that I find your videos extremely informative and a notch above the rest. Please continue to produce these high quality content. Belated birthday wishes by the way.
Hi Dorian, I enjoyed watching your video. You answered a lot of questions for people like us in the Linux community who are constantly bombarded with introductions to various Linux distros. It has been said that "this distro is the best Linux distro". You made us aware that whatever our needs that exist in our preference for a desktop, that is what it should be. Like you said, if someone asked us which car should they purchase, or what pair of shoes should they buy...that depends on their particular preferences and needs. Dorian, thank you for showing us how to approach our needs when considering a desktop, distro, etc. according to our needs, preferences, and specifications of our hardware as it pertains to the RAM, hard drive and model year of our laptop or desktop computer. To sum it all up, your series of videos are very informative. I did not mean to take up so much of your time! Again, thank you. I look forward to more of your videos. God bless you!
Hi Myron, thank you so much for the kind comments! I try to help new and not-so-new users as much as possible by attempting to remain unbiased towards any one distro. I do of course have my favorites, and some that I dislike, but I think it's important for people to understand how to make the proper choice based on what is available. Thank for the comment and I hope you enjoy all my videos! If you haven't already subscribed, dont' forget to! ;) Cheers
For newbies I break recommendations down to 3 categories. 1. IT/Devs, 2. Hobby, 3. Business production. The 1st should have the ability to choose what is best for them. The 2nd doesn't matter so much because if you don't like it change it. But for business production I have advocated either Ubuntu Gnome DE or Linux Mint Cinnamon DE, the LTS Long Term Support versions on either. These are for newer higher performing systems OR Ubuntu Mate or Linux Mint Mate for slightly older, lower spec systems. They are simple, stable, and have huge software selections along with many PPA
That's great advice! Being an IT/Dev guy myself, I actually prefer Gnome as well. Just works well for me all-around. But I do ALWAYS use the Dash to Dock extension because I like having the side bar.
I've been hunting for a good comparison for days! Thanks for your very clear and useful input :) Keep it up! And an advice: make a written script of what you're going to say and try it. This would help you to shrink down the duration of the videos :) All the best!
Thanks! I do write bullet points most of the time, then lose my place, wing it a bit etc lol I have been meaning to write things down in more details and I've been editing a bit more too to "trim the fat". Thanks for the comment! Glad you found it useful :)
Yes !!! They want to know what is a desktop is made of and their differences. What the environments look like. They need a glossary for some of those words used; You did this. Excellent Delivery.
Really like the way you try to explain this. Linux is a bit of a shock to the system for most windows crossovers. New to linux myself, spent a month looking and distro hopping. Learnt a lot, but was frustrating too. Some Linux users are a little special sometimes. Coming from having used dos through to win 10, linux does feel a little janky at times, getting things how you want, although sometimes more customisable than windows, its not always easy or straight forward (careful of misinformation.). Anyone out there looking for the perfect distro, forget it, its not going to happen, find one that you can customize to your taste imo. I found that so far in endeavorOS (KDE), pamac-all package gui, and added chaotic repos (from garuda OS). So far very happy. I highly recommend. Others distros to note, Manjaro (nice all round package, stable, with a slower type rolling release, but limited on own repos). Garuda (similar to manjaro, but uses arch repos + their own AUR chaotic, a unique take on memory usage and insistent on the use of brtfs with snapshot recovery, use of zen kernel as default and have some lovely utils for tweaking the system) and then there is Mint, the cinnamon creators, probably the best debian/ubuntu based distro IMO and cinnamon is a very nice DE (although some what limited). Only 1 I say to avoid, Ubuntu gamepak, its a lie, not even really ubuntu, its shady, bloated and not trust worthy and has not benefit over regular Ubuntu (they just trying to sell their "Crossover" proprietary crap that you eventually have to pay for).
Hey, Seeking advice from the community and especially from Dorian, So I got a old Dell computer running Windows 8 pro, I had it for a very long time and factory reset it because of how slow it was running. Major issues I had was I couldn't update it to Windows 11, I also tried many methods on how to fix it but Microsoft Edge is too old and tons of deadends and failed youtube tutorials. So I heard alot about Linux and some suggest for starters use Linux Mint, For learning the inner working of a PC and how to maintain a PC with better cyber security do you think I should start out with a Pre made Linux Distro or make one myself, Also is there a RUclips tutorial on how to make one from scratch like shown in this video! I would like to understand computers better without feeling like I need a college degree or read 20 books of coding! I just want better security and a healthy running PC! Any advice helps! Any ideas and suggestions regarding computer maintenance is also helpful!
People often don't familiarize themselves enough with one D. E. or a distro to only jump to another. But for the reason of being kind of "shallow" in it, they are not being familiar with its particular bells, whistles, and goodies. Sometimes there are tweaks and options exist which would change their minds about a particular distro - they just overlook them.
don't give up on this channel, its set to explode with subs. one tip though: add some more emotion to your voiceover and boost the volume of your voiceover.
Thanks :) Oh I've far from given up, although I've taken a short break due to a new baby in the family :) And yes, this video was one of my "low-energy" recordings and I've done much better since then in both energy and editing/recording quality lol Thanks for the comment! And check out my newer videos :)
I’m scrolling through your videos. I’ve distro hopped a lot 3 years ago. I tried all those you mentioned. I miss Antergos. I was happy using that but then it got outdated.
Sweet job on breaking it all down. Quick question, I hope, how dose the DE's framework of QT or GTK fit into all of this? Isnt that a critical component of software choices playing nicely?
Thanks! GTK and Qt are hard to choose from. Qt is older, but it's had a rough life and been passed around many projects. It's getting better now, and it's a solid framework that's well documented. But GTK has always been with Gnome, and has also been used by other DE's as well. From both a user and dev point of view, it's just a matter of preference. One is not "better" than the other, and they both perform the same. Personally, I prefer GTK because it's just what distros use. Also, it can be recompiled to work in Windows and MacOS. The only downside as a Dev is that Qt's IDE options are better than GTK's Glade, but that's sure to change. Thanks for the comment! :)
Hello Dorian! So what i want to do is to install the minimal ISO of ubuntu 18.01 or ubuntu 20.04 and install the deepin desktop enviorment (DDE) on it, how should i do that? should i just do a "sudo apt install dde"?
Hello DDS! Gentoo has emerge as its "package manager". In XFCE you can have the whisker menu which gives you a search function. Or you could install Albert or Synapse. At the beginning you are not immediately interested in conceptual debates but later you might decide to choose a distribution based on his init system. You might decide to avoid certain DE's because of your hardware limitations or because of the philosophy behind it. I utterly dislike Gnome 3: a hog for your resources and systemd related, a team of devs who doesn't care for the users. Qt handles the resources in a much better way: LXQt uses less than 200 MB of RAM after cold boot and KDE Plasma around 440 while Gnome 3 uses at least 850 in the best scenario. Since the migration to Gtk3 Mate has become "heavier" (more than 400 MB while it was around 300 MB under Gtk2). Best regards, Serge
Thanks for the comment Serge. Yes there are tons and tons of things to consider. I could probably make a 3 hour video if I were to compare absolutely everything from every distro lol There's plenty of reasons why people choose a certain distro and desktop, and that's the great thing about Linux; you can use whatever you want, and if you don't like it anymore, switch! I use Synapse in my distro, Scion Linux. It's handy for sure, but I've left it disabled by default because you usually only use less than a dozen apps regularly. Those apps can be pinned to the dock. Thanks for watching!
When you update your distro to a new version, will it maintain your customizations? For example, if your desktop did not have a default virtual desktop manager, and you installed one, will your new version of your distro maintain that virtual desktop manager? Same question for all of the other particulars about how you have your desktop organized. Thank you.
Usually yes. Themes will typically stay. Some things have issues on occasion, like if you use Gnome Shell extensions. Sometimes a new version of Gnome will not work with the extension. This is typically fixed quickly in an update shortly after.
i wanted to move away from windows for a wile. after searching for a nice, macos-like desktop that is stable, has a top menu and can do some nice macos-like animations like that magic lamp effect, i now installed linux mint cinnamon
Edwin Chen now that’s a good question that will have a long answer... Being completely fair here, almost any distro is good for software devs, you just install what you need. But you also have to think about what tools are available as well as what kind of community support you can get to help you along the way if you hit a snag. Tools are usually found in the repos, or on the web as a downloadable package, and maybe even source code. The advantage of using repo packages is getting updates easily. Likewise, some software is available for download as a precompiled package, which are commonly in .deb and/or .rpm format. Debian (and child distros like Ubuntu) use .deb, and Fedora/openSUSE use .rpm. Other distros would need to download and compile source code manually, or have precompiled packages available like in the AUR for Arch-based distros. Ubuntu and Arch-based distros have the most packages available in their repos. Arch probably has more if you include the AUR, but there are some security issues you should read up on before using it. The community support is also very important, and in my opinion Ubuntu wins this one hands-down mostly because of its size, but Arch and openSUSE are also pretty good. As for which Desktop Environment to use, that’s a complete personal preference. But if you’re planning to develop desktop applications, you may want to choose wisely. For example, if you’re making Qt apps, use KDE even if you prefer Gnome because KDE uses Qt and Gnome uses GTK. You can still use what you want, you’ll just have to install a lot more libraries on your system, and it might not look how it’s intended. So even though this is more of an explanation rather than a straight answer and picking one single distro, I hope that clears things up a little.
Thanks a lot for your response, that helped a lot, I guess I am stuck with Ubuntu due to the community support and convenience of pre-compiled packages.
Edwin Chen Anytime. Although I'm curious why you said you're "stuck" with Ubuntu. Are you wanting to move on and try something else? Or do you dislike Ubuntu?
Weird that you have less subscribers than Chris Titus Tech. You explain and show the screen with clarity and he just talks. I really wonder why IT yt watchers like this kind of content. Maybe its more podcast like so you can listen to it while you do something else or it is more entertaining to see a face ?
No idea. But my video uploading has slowed down a couple times which is probably why. And I'm currently working overseas until the end of summer so I've been too busy for videos the past couple months.
Dorian you are a pro. I've subscribed to so many other Linux related channels and I must say that I find your videos extremely informative and a notch above the rest. Please continue to produce these high quality content. Belated birthday wishes by the way.
Thank you very much! I've been putting in some effort the past couple months to try to produce more uploads. I really appreciate the great comment! :)
Three years later, these videos still help people! Thanks for that!
Very nice to hear, thanks!
Hi Dorian,
I enjoyed watching your video. You answered a lot of questions for people like us in the Linux community who are constantly bombarded with introductions to various Linux distros. It has been said that "this distro is the best Linux distro". You made us aware that whatever our needs that exist in our preference for a desktop, that is what it should be. Like you said, if someone asked us which car should they purchase, or what pair of shoes should they buy...that depends on their particular preferences and needs. Dorian, thank you for showing us how to approach our needs when considering a desktop, distro, etc. according to our needs, preferences, and specifications of our hardware as it pertains to the RAM, hard drive and model year of our laptop or desktop computer. To sum it all up, your series of videos are very informative. I did not mean to take up so much of your time! Again, thank you. I look forward to more of your videos. God bless you!
Hi Myron, thank you so much for the kind comments! I try to help new and not-so-new users as much as possible by attempting to remain unbiased towards any one distro. I do of course have my favorites, and some that I dislike, but I think it's important for people to understand how to make the proper choice based on what is available. Thank for the comment and I hope you enjoy all my videos! If you haven't already subscribed, dont' forget to! ;) Cheers
For newbies I break recommendations down to 3 categories. 1. IT/Devs, 2. Hobby, 3. Business production. The 1st should have the ability to choose what is best for them. The 2nd doesn't matter so much because if you don't like it change it. But for business production I have advocated either Ubuntu Gnome DE or Linux Mint Cinnamon DE, the LTS Long Term Support versions on either. These are for newer higher performing systems OR Ubuntu Mate or Linux Mint Mate for slightly older, lower spec systems. They are simple, stable, and have huge software selections along with many PPA
That's great advice! Being an IT/Dev guy myself, I actually prefer Gnome as well. Just works well for me all-around. But I do ALWAYS use the Dash to Dock extension because I like having the side bar.
I've been hunting for a good comparison for days! Thanks for your very clear and useful input :)
Keep it up! And an advice: make a written script of what you're going to say and try it. This would help you to shrink down the duration of the videos :)
All the best!
Thanks! I do write bullet points most of the time, then lose my place, wing it a bit etc lol I have been meaning to write things down in more details and I've been editing a bit more too to "trim the fat". Thanks for the comment! Glad you found it useful :)
Yes !!! They want to know what is a desktop is made of and their differences. What the environments look like. They need a glossary for some of those words used; You did this. Excellent Delivery.
Thank you very much :)
Your videos are high quality. Please keep making them.
Thanks so much! I’ve been in a little lull because of a new baby in the family but they will come 😁
Thank you for your clear explanation! You do a good job! (Ray, 20+ years experience with Linux)
Thanks Ray! I hope you enjoy some of my other videos as well 😁
Nice video, openSUSE user myself for years
Same here
Really like the way you try to explain this. Linux is a bit of a shock to the system for most windows crossovers. New to linux myself, spent a month looking and distro hopping. Learnt a lot, but was frustrating too. Some Linux users are a little special sometimes. Coming from having used dos through to win 10, linux does feel a little janky at times, getting things how you want, although sometimes more customisable than windows, its not always easy or straight forward (careful of misinformation.). Anyone out there looking for the perfect distro, forget it, its not going to happen, find one that you can customize to your taste imo. I found that so far in endeavorOS (KDE), pamac-all package gui, and added chaotic repos (from garuda OS). So far very happy. I highly recommend. Others distros to note, Manjaro (nice all round package, stable, with a slower type rolling release, but limited on own repos). Garuda (similar to manjaro, but uses arch repos + their own AUR chaotic, a unique take on memory usage and insistent on the use of brtfs with snapshot recovery, use of zen kernel as default and have some lovely utils for tweaking the system) and then there is Mint, the cinnamon creators, probably the best debian/ubuntu based distro IMO and cinnamon is a very nice DE (although some what limited). Only 1 I say to avoid, Ubuntu gamepak, its a lie, not even really ubuntu, its shady, bloated and not trust worthy and has not benefit over regular Ubuntu (they just trying to sell their "Crossover" proprietary crap that you eventually have to pay for).
Thanks very much! Distro hopping is a must for someone to be able to find the distro that works for them and their hardware.
Hey, Seeking advice from the community and especially from Dorian, So I got a old Dell computer running Windows 8 pro, I had it for a very long time and factory reset it because of how slow it was running. Major issues I had was I couldn't update it to Windows 11, I also tried many methods on how to fix it but Microsoft Edge is too old and tons of deadends and failed youtube tutorials. So I heard alot about Linux and some suggest for starters use Linux Mint, For learning the inner working of a PC and how to maintain a PC with better cyber security do you think I should start out with a Pre made Linux Distro or make one myself, Also is there a RUclips tutorial on how to make one from scratch like shown in this video! I would like to understand computers better without feeling like I need a college degree or read 20 books of coding! I just want better security and a healthy running PC!
Any advice helps! Any ideas and suggestions regarding computer maintenance is also helpful!
A substantial channel you have, Dorian. My only wish is that you'd be making your videos more often.
Thank you! I'm working on it ;) Thanks for watching!
People often don't familiarize themselves enough with one D. E. or a distro to only jump to another. But for the reason of being kind of "shallow" in it, they are not being familiar with its particular bells, whistles, and goodies. Sometimes there are tweaks and options exist which would change their minds about a particular distro - they just overlook them.
don't give up on this channel, its set to explode with subs. one tip though: add some more emotion to your voiceover and boost the volume of your voiceover.
Thanks :) Oh I've far from given up, although I've taken a short break due to a new baby in the family :) And yes, this video was one of my "low-energy" recordings and I've done much better since then in both energy and editing/recording quality lol Thanks for the comment! And check out my newer videos :)
@@Doriandotslash have you made an channel in a youtube alternative?
i think i will go with that Troll.. eehhm Goblin... or was it Ogre? Imp? Gremlin?
I’m scrolling through your videos. I’ve distro hopped a lot 3 years ago. I tried all those you mentioned. I miss Antergos. I was happy using that but then it got outdated.
You could always use Endeavour OS if you liked Antergos.
Sweet job on breaking it all down. Quick question, I hope, how dose the DE's framework of QT or GTK fit into all of this? Isnt that a critical component of software choices playing nicely?
Thanks! GTK and Qt are hard to choose from. Qt is older, but it's had a rough life and been passed around many projects. It's getting better now, and it's a solid framework that's well documented. But GTK has always been with Gnome, and has also been used by other DE's as well.
From both a user and dev point of view, it's just a matter of preference. One is not "better" than the other, and they both perform the same. Personally, I prefer GTK because it's just what distros use. Also, it can be recompiled to work in Windows and MacOS. The only downside as a Dev is that Qt's IDE options are better than GTK's Glade, but that's sure to change.
Thanks for the comment! :)
Hello Dorian! So what i want to do is to install the minimal ISO of ubuntu 18.01 or ubuntu 20.04 and install the deepin desktop enviorment (DDE) on it, how should i do that? should i just do a "sudo apt install dde"?
Hello DDS! Gentoo has emerge as its "package manager".
In XFCE you can have the whisker menu which gives you a search function. Or you could install Albert or Synapse.
At the beginning you are not immediately interested in conceptual debates but later you might decide to choose a distribution based on his init system. You might decide to avoid certain DE's because of your hardware limitations or because of the philosophy behind it.
I utterly dislike Gnome 3: a hog for your resources and systemd related, a team of devs who doesn't care for the users.
Qt handles the resources in a much better way: LXQt uses less than 200 MB of RAM after cold boot and KDE Plasma around 440 while Gnome 3 uses at least 850 in the best scenario. Since the migration to Gtk3 Mate has become "heavier" (more than 400 MB while it was around 300 MB under Gtk2).
Best regards,
Serge
Thanks for the comment Serge. Yes there are tons and tons of things to consider. I could probably make a 3 hour video if I were to compare absolutely everything from every distro lol There's plenty of reasons why people choose a certain distro and desktop, and that's the great thing about Linux; you can use whatever you want, and if you don't like it anymore, switch! I use Synapse in my distro, Scion Linux. It's handy for sure, but I've left it disabled by default because you usually only use less than a dozen apps regularly. Those apps can be pinned to the dock.
Thanks for watching!
The video is awesome. Great work!
Thank you very much 🙂
When you update your distro to a new version, will it maintain your customizations?
For example, if your desktop did not have a default virtual desktop manager, and you installed one, will your new version of your distro maintain that virtual desktop manager?
Same question for all of the other particulars about how you have your desktop organized.
Thank you.
Usually yes. Themes will typically stay. Some things have issues on occasion, like if you use Gnome Shell extensions. Sometimes a new version of Gnome will not work with the extension. This is typically fixed quickly in an update shortly after.
Interview archmerge on the virtual. Like to see what you think : Interesting
Will do! It's on my list now :)
very well made video, thanks for the tips !!
You're very welcome Robert :)
i wanted to move away from windows for a wile. after searching for a nice, macos-like desktop that is stable, has a top menu and can do some nice macos-like animations like that magic lamp effect, i now installed linux mint cinnamon
i can not delete file in my disk in ntfs format from windwos in linux why?
I love manjaro i3
I like the idea of i3 because of its efficiency, but I reply on my mouse too much for many things I do :P :)
What's your opinion of the best distros for software developers with decent desktop environments?
Edwin Chen now that’s a good question that will have a long answer... Being completely fair here, almost any distro is good for software devs, you just install what you need. But you also have to think about what tools are available as well as what kind of community support you can get to help you along the way if you hit a snag. Tools are usually found in the repos, or on the web as a downloadable package, and maybe even source code.
The advantage of using repo packages is getting updates easily. Likewise, some software is available for download as a precompiled package, which are commonly in .deb and/or .rpm format. Debian (and child distros like Ubuntu) use .deb, and Fedora/openSUSE use .rpm. Other distros would need to download and compile source code manually, or have precompiled packages available like in the AUR for Arch-based distros. Ubuntu and Arch-based distros have the most packages available in their repos. Arch probably has more if you include the AUR, but there are some security issues you should read up on before using it.
The community support is also very important, and in my opinion Ubuntu wins this one hands-down mostly because of its size, but Arch and openSUSE are also pretty good.
As for which Desktop Environment to use, that’s a complete personal preference. But if you’re planning to develop desktop applications, you may want to choose wisely. For example, if you’re making Qt apps, use KDE even if you prefer Gnome because KDE uses Qt and Gnome uses GTK. You can still use what you want, you’ll just have to install a lot more libraries on your system, and it might not look how it’s intended.
So even though this is more of an explanation rather than a straight answer and picking one single distro, I hope that clears things up a little.
Thanks a lot for your response, that helped a lot, I guess I am stuck with Ubuntu due to the community support and convenience of pre-compiled packages.
Edwin Chen Anytime. Although I'm curious why you said you're "stuck" with Ubuntu. Are you wanting to move on and try something else? Or do you dislike Ubuntu?
Manjaro Gnome
You've done a good job :)
Thank you so much!
You're very much welcome, this kinda vid is more preferable :)
Xfce Whisker menu and searching apps works :)
The best menu for lightweight DE’s 😁
Hello uncle I have a problem of installating houdini while installing it shows command not found
I have tryied alot but couldn't install please help
Which distribution are you using?
@@Doriandotslash ubuntu
@@Doriandotslash i try update, selecting best server,try repository all that but shows unable to locate package houdini
some times shows command not found and some times shows unable locate package
best channel
Thank you so much :)
I like Mint
Me too, but it's been a long time since I've used it! I might have to revisit it for a bit ;)
Weird that you have less subscribers than Chris Titus Tech. You explain and show the screen with clarity and he just talks. I really wonder why IT yt watchers like this kind of content. Maybe its more podcast like so you can listen to it while you do something else or it is more entertaining to see a face ?
No idea. But my video uploading has slowed down a couple times which is probably why. And I'm currently working overseas until the end of summer so I've been too busy for videos the past couple months.
Thanks man but I had to speed ya up to 1.5x
Haha, it's all good. Some days I'm just too low-energy and probably shouldn't be making videos lol Thanks for watching!
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