LMAO, live in a distro for 3-6 months before you know if you like it or not. These are the same people who switch distros twice in a day simply because something wasn't the way they wanted it. Nobody tries a distro for 3-6 months if they don't like it. IDK about anyone else, but I can tell in about a half hour if I'm going to like a distro enough to carry on with it. Then give me a day and I'll know if I can use it long term.
That's not true for me. I download an iso, hate it delete the iso, re-download it after 1 2 months after listening what good features it has and install it and it looks awesome and works awesome. I hated ubuntu budgie and linux mint on first look but now like them very much. Also liked Manjaro for intial days but didn't like it after some days
Thank you, Derek. The first impression approach is appropriate. (You did not like Pop-shell which is fine. It has evolved a great deal since then. You still won't like it much because it's based on Gnome. But I would be interested in what you might think of it now.) But what I really enjoy are your in-depth pieces or introductions to obscure tools.
> No one has tried to open-source a game When it comes to open-sourcing games everyone seems to forget that id Software and the Doom and Quake series exist. Those games are still being sold for money, the engines are is licensed under the GPL, only the assets are non-free. I asked Stallman himself and he sees no problem, game assets are not programs, so they are relevant to Free Software. Free Software and video games are perhaps the least controversial issue. Just sell the game and open-source the engine code. The real reason is that companies either use proprietary middleware, or they want to re-license their own middleware as proprietary to other companies. Think of Epic and the Unreal Engine. But for someone using either Free middleware or writing their own, there is no reason to keep the game proprietary.
You're right (3:50), First impressions is where it's at. If something doesn't look right or work the way you would expect it to work, then it's not worth my time. If I have to look through the key commands on a website to find out they're not even close to what I expect them to be then it's not worth my time. Sure, you could have taken ArchCraft and spent the day fixing the keybindings and whatnot but then, what do you have at the end of the day? Manjaro with different backgrounds. Browsers: I love Firefox. I used Netscape in it's heyday and prefered it over Microsoft Exploder (back when I ran Windows). Brave is also good but it's Chrome based and that sort of gives me the willies.
I had thought briefly once about trying to make videos for YT, but then i realized I had no idea what kind of content I would like to create, and like many of my other projects started and then forgotten about, it would die of neglect. I'll stick with being a content consumer and not a content creator. Keep up the good work DT.
The thing about subscriptions is that it requires you to use that subscription regularly for that to make sense. If I buy a game a played it once in a while, then 10 dollars a month is a huge amount of money
DT release his first video. People on YT: git gud! DT: hold my freedom. Gets actually good at it . Joke aside, Derek, after seeing your channel first time I was intrigued. Time passed and listened to Taking into account series I realized that I could actually have my nerdy, Linux questions answered or discussed at a very good level, bordering on professional. More and more driving to work listening to Derek voice and witty comments until I clicked on Subscribe. Derek, you are not perfect, but for sure you how to make the best of it and teach us a LOT about internet mannerisms, Linux and life. Championship freedom and free software nowadays is almost a lost cause. Even so, Derek your videos about freedom and privacy made me write an article about those things. And your message was transmitted even further. I am hoping to have this channel for the longest time possible, and hope that you become even better at spreading freedom and free software.
About the video monetization. Some people really do think money grows on trees. Although being ethical and put out quality content instead of clickbait garbage isn't the norm. But you're cool and I like you.
DT is for me the best Linux Tech Channel, I dont care about other haters neither, keep doing your great job DT, We all Support you. There are more of Lovers of your channel than those Haters, ( fuck them all)
I agree DT distro doesn’t matter. Linux is Linux first impression is all that matters. If you start changing stuff it’s called customizing it... at that point it’s becoming “ your OS” not the development systems.
ID software has done that since the Quake. All of the "IdTech" engines have been open source for a looong while. And yeah Carmack (John) wanted to open-source Doom earlier, there was push-back from inside ID. And from Epic Games, Unreal is open source. CryEngine is open source. Hell, unreal even says licenses for UE are free up until you sell you first million dollars, so yeah. A LOT of game production tools are open source.
qutebrowser is amazing, i will instantly switch to it the day they start supporting extensions. for now i have to live with brave and the vimium extension.
I saw a comment somewhere saying that Switched to Linux looks at distros better than you. The only thing Tom knows is what version of libre office a distro is using. I always learn something when I watch you. Keep it up Derek.
Give Tom some credit, he does good work in his own right. But I do agree that Distro Tube usually gives a more in-depth look at the technical side, whereas Tom gives me of a look at how you can be productive with a given distro.
Not same content, one is tinkering with Linux mint and Ubuntu, the other made tutorials for Arch, vim Emacs and mostly all tiling wm, most of Linux RUclipsrs aren't really Linux RUclipsrs, checking the new Ubuntu theme doesn't have anything to do with Linux and open source software
Our organization is falling apart. What should we do? Clearly we should get rid of the only thing that we make that people actually care about and focus on some nonsense that no one is going to use! That will work!
Why does nobody talk about Palemoon browser?? i wonder....just a few reviews about it...it's great, small, fast....just Firefox "junior"....just much less ram using..
The Blink engine is BSD/LGPL. The project has contributions from several companies other than Google, such as Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Opera, Samsung... The Gecko engine is MPL based. However, the mozilla foundation is known for making contributions difficult for other companies. This may explain why there is a preference for the blink engine.
I think the reason people put video games in their own category because they're entertainment software and not productivity software. There is nothing really useful you can do with them (unless you're a content creator), you spend money on them to entertain yourself the same way you spend money on cinema tickets or books or whatever else you do when you're not working. Personally I'm in the same camp, if there was a software developed using video game engine that was used for something productive (like simulation for education/military industries etc) then I'd very much like that software to be open source. Games? Who cares Also, the very important difference you're missing is that Oracle and RedHat and Suse and all those other companies making money on open source software develop software aimed at business customers and not individual end users.
Firefox lacks vital configuration settings. It just annoys the hell out of me not being able to decide the folder to download to each time AND have my downloads folder as the default.
It seems to me that you say only what you believe to be true always, in a very "simple" and honnest way. It is something that feels realy good in a time where everything is about apperance and so little about facts (sorry for my french-english =p)
Your position on religion/philosophy has upped my level of respect for you 1000%. We need more people like you to help sort out the scisms all over the place, leading by example.
..a 6 month distro review? Ain't nobody got time for that! ...and btw, you are absolutely correct Derek. The distro is the distro for the first few days. After that it becomes your flavour of someones elses distro. After 6 months, it's damn near your own distro. When it's arch based guys, just install Arch and make your own distro. Roll your own and roll it well... Distro hopping is fine for beginners. It's actually a very useful thing to do. But once you find your feet? ....roll your own.
with regards to foss projects making money.. I've one example to share.. there is one foss music player (android) named phonograph but the developer has made some features as paid (in app purchases) another dev forked that project and renamed and redistributed it under the name vinyl player and made all the features free of cost. now some people are installing vinyl player instead of original phonograph... isn't it a loss to the developers of original project?
@@evertonsap Firefox used to be the browser everyone used like 10 to 15 years ago before Google Chrome existence, but since Chrome was created. Firefox has losing ground, especially now if you count all the other Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera...
I try and use Firefox as much as possible. Sadly though, I'm watching your RUclips video (a Google Product) on my widescreen TV via Chromecast (Another Google Product) from my Linux Laptop. Thus Firefox won't do that and I need to use Brave or one of the other Chromium based browsers that work with Chromecast. Catch-22 ;)
DT, are you going to make a video or make some kind of post about ZSA’s Moonlander MK1? (The next gen ErgodoxEZ.) My BF bought an ErgodoxEZ because you liked yours and literally the next weak the next version came out that their calling Moonlander MK1 and it would be cool to know what you think about the improvements over the ErgodoxEZ. There’s no good information on user experience with it and it would be awesome to watch/read your impressions, concerns, tips, ect on it.
Brave was caught redirecting users urls to affiliate pages that got them paid without user consent. So much for that quality open source software. That's not the first time Brave did something like this either. I wouldn't touch that browser if you paid me. BTW DT, Qutebrowser now defaults to using chromium as it's backend (qtwebengine) If you want the old qtwebkit backend it has been forked and you must install it separately and then configure Qutebrowser to use it. Qutebrowser claims it is "less secure" but on my Arch box where I use it i can tell you it is much faster and lighter on resources. Firefox is a resource hog. There are many many webkit browsers that are light and fast. Surf, Vimb, Luakit, Lariza, Badwolf to name a few.
7:18 you know I just saw that at the beginning of the video, and I watch a lot of your videos lol but that question did just now pop into my mind EDIT: I myself love the Pastafarian religion, look into it lol really.. it will make your day
"You trashed my favorite /r/unixporn distro with your fair and honest criticism!! You suck!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" A lot of people in the Linux community take themselves and their opinions way too seriously... just pick a damn distribution and make it your own... it really doesn't matter after you've been in it for a few months. It ain't stupid/bad/awful/crap/[your favorite adjective] if it works for the person using it. If people out there can't understand that... go back to Windows. BTW... I use Pop!_OS. :D
Brave. Gave it a go. No Recently-Used Tab Switching order !?! Are you kidding me ?? What am I ? My great grandmother ?! Also missing too much from Vivaldi like gestures, Back on Backspace, Dbl-Click on Tab to Close, Quick Commands, Tab stack position, etc.
It's so ironic that the web is almost entirely run by a "Web 2.0" company. The company that popularized the concept of the "Web" (Netscape/Mozilla Corporation) out of its academic roots. I think it's time to break up "Alphabet", honestly. And then go after Google. I mean holy CRAP they have their hands in basically every facet of modern life.
If I had to choose religion I would choose Zen Buddhism. It is a merge of Taoism and Buddhism both very wise and benevolent with solid foundation underneath [Yogi, i'ching]. Christianity is very obfuscated - you need to to dig very deep and filter to get the core message [mystical branch of Meister Eckhart]. Judaism is tribal religion which is an obstacle to higher wisdom [us vs them is implied]. Also OT and Talmud has to be heavily cherry picked. Islam is more universal but too political [founder and exemplary was a political figure]. Also has a problem with fatalism [everything is Allah's will - less room for free choice/responsibility].
I'd slap the guy for asking that first question. Also Firefox will only survive through it's forks if Mozilla keeps fucking up like they've been for a decade. They really need to make more intelligent business decisions, or else they won't last for much longer. Give the fans what they want, lighten up the browser. Dump Yahoo for a real search engine, like Startpage or Duckduckgo. Cause I doubt Google will take them back, so they have to move on, from their past mistake.
Customization is personal, and yeah I/we will do that. We could probably makes any distro work, and that is honestly the best part. What I am interested in is high-level distro differences, and comments to that, which is review worthy. A 6 month experience will surely make for a much better and realistic review, but I don't think it takes 6 months to make an assessment enough for a "review". This makes me think of a car review in Motor Trend or Car and Driver, and how they do a car review with specs and comparison, and then later a "long-term report". I love a first impression review, that is super-helpful, and then a follow-up on further and in-depth experience is great. Love your work DT! Truly an awesome channel.
about youtube : 1) DT said youtuber fail because they create content they don't like 2) But also YuuTube terminate channel w/ politically incorrect view : by first demonetizing them (using not suitable bla bla...), and then kick them out of the galaxy.
I'm one of the people who believe that Mozilla should, or should've focused on their browser instead of various other ventures such as Firefox OS and their VPN and what not and should've stayed as an organization. I'm afraid that the recent layoffs are affecting the development of their great technologies such as the deep speech engine. But I always keep firefox installed on my computer. However, I usually use Chromium. I think I should start using Firefox more from today onwards.
Firefox had to gain support of new web technologies like custom scrollbars, backdrop-filter (blur on websites) but FF is a pain on ass for webdevs, bcs we have do compatibility with older Technics bcs Firefox doesn't support new ones, if it doesn't change, Firefox will use their marketshare
Buncha princesses out there who can't figure it out. I hopped the top hundred or so at distrowatch because I wasn't satisfied with Mint. I went exclusively with first impressions. If it didn't install easily I turfed it. If it did the look and feel were next on my hit list. Then I watch DT's Regolith first look and got into i3, which lead to Erik's scripts, which lead to Arco. I couldn't care less about reviews either. Does it work or does it just jerk me around? How simple is that to understand?? :)
DT you got it right. First impressions make a big difference. It's just like going on a job interview. If you come in looking sloppy. The interviewer is not going to take you seriously. If you come in a suit and everything is in its place. You're going to be taking more seriously. DT you are talking about the out of the box experience. Real people don't want to spend 15 hours setting up an operating system. People want to get on with their lives. DT I see both sides of the arguments when it comes to a distro review. They can be helpful and harmful at the same time. If the reviewer used the product and didn't read the instruction manual. Of course the reviewer going to give a negative review. But if the reviewer read the instruction manual and did not have any preconceived notions. The reviewer will give a positive review. Distro reviews are a necessary evil that you have to put up with in order to gain the benefits.
I fear the reality that a few select companies currently control everything. Linux/Firefox/Open source software isnt always the best but at least it is still free of chains.
No, all religions are not the same. The Christian faith is centered around love. Around the love and mercy of our heavenly Father. And it leads by example, with the Crucifixion and Resurrection of the one and only begotten Son, and God himself. Around the martyrdom of His apostles, and so many followers. Some people who claim, think or even have eventually become His followers, have committed heinous crimes. But that is due to the corrupted state of men, not the religion. Christs teachings are all about love and peace and forgiveness and there is no evil in it, not a drop. Merry Christmas to you all.
that argument, you need x amount of time to review something is bs. It's the same argument common in MMORPG reviews. if the early experience is bad, it's not that you haven't spent enough time in it, but the distros/games fault for having a poor experience, or it might just not be something suitable for you subjectively (humans recognize pretty fast whether they like something or not, it doesn't take 6 months), and it only gets better later, because either you make it better, or you get used to all the stuff that annoys you at first.
You haven't read the Bible though, it really doesn't have many similarities with religions. Jesus instructed us not to judge others because it's hypocritical. Judging someone for sinning while you yourself are actively a sinner, if just silly.
Hey DT or any well-informed comment guy, is Chrome OS a violation of the GPL? Since Chrome OS is closed-source proprietary software but based on Gentoo which is GPL'd, isn't this exactly what the GPL forbids?
Quake comes to my mind as an example of an open-source game, and I think it was an AAA game back in the days. So the source code is now open and free, but you need your own copy of “proprietary” part with textures, models, sounds, etc
hey dt you say aaa games could just make money otherwise. or do a service of some kind. a few thoughts on that: support is rarely needed since there is enough of these digital store fronts like steam out there that make installing and starting the games easy. backup copies are an eyesore to the industry for the most part so selling those aint gonna happen. selling a piece of software that enables you to deploy your own dedicated aaa-game server for multiplayer once offical multiplayer is shutdown are a possibility but next to noone actually does that. if the companies discontinue offical multiplayer its mostly for monetary reasons (ie. game does not make money anymore) so why bother anyway. and monetizing other parts of the game will either encourage pay to win strategies or put in unnecessary cosmetics just so microtransactions (which are widely hated) can be "justified"... and thinking of other services in respect to gaming leads my mind mostly to geforce now, stadia and alike. which is an entirely different problem afterall. once we used to own physical copies of games without any drm/copy protection then we got physical copies with copy protection then virtual copies with drm. and seems like there is already a huge effort to take even that away from the customer with a rise of streaming services across the board including gaming lately. --> side effect through these efforts gray/secondary market is elimnated (for the most part). so getting rid of a game (non physical form) these days after you completed it for a " cash back" is basocally not possible...
Hey DT will you please go over configuring xmobar from scratch I took the plunge into xmonad and the main issue I'm having is getting workspaces and stuff into my xmobar so if you could make a video about it that would be amazing :)
Your first impressions of distros would maybe be better if you used VirtualBox (most people use virtualbox for desktop VMs and distros could be better configured for it)
I have been raised Catholic, but Im not hard core and find all religions fascinating also and take things that click with me so I understand where you're coming from.
Everything comes with success, the more viewers you are, statistically, the more haters and jealous you will have, the best is just to ignore them almost, like the wind over your head :)
@@Berntisso Yeah I don't. I know it's important and all that, but I'm the kind of linux user who got intrigued of linux mainly because of being able to customize and optimize everything. What are the privacy flaws it has?
costing google money? yeah youtube is costing google money for a while now. youtube is not terribly profotable if at all. one of the reasons why it turned into the ad-riddled-abomination it is today.
after watching him compare speeds on browsers I did the same thing and Qutebrowser won by a landslide. I also liked GNOME's Web because it was the exact right amount of features for like a normie type of layout like if you want other people to be able to use ur pc, but qutebrowser is just faster and better than any of the others for me, with the exception of the couple of miliseconds at the startup.
I was a firefox user for a long time the problem that I ran into was one it does not work with some websites and also there is a printing problem on some websites that it will print but you get a page that you cannot read and when you go to another browser on the same website it does not happen
"So does your mother."
-DT
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LMAO, live in a distro for 3-6 months before you know if you like it or not. These are the same people who switch distros twice in a day simply because something wasn't the way they wanted it. Nobody tries a distro for 3-6 months if they don't like it. IDK about anyone else, but I can tell in about a half hour if I'm going to like a distro enough to carry on with it. Then give me a day and I'll know if I can use it long term.
Exactly lol. What's the point of modifying a distro you can't feel right on as opposed to installing one that is inherently likeable to you..
3 ~ 6 months is a total waste of time just for reviewing a distro...
Distro reviews are also pointless because its a personal opinion.Unless you have the exact same taste like the reviewer.
That's not true for me. I download an iso, hate it delete the iso, re-download it after 1 2 months after listening what good features it has and install it and it looks awesome and works awesome. I hated ubuntu budgie and linux mint on first look but now like them very much. Also liked Manjaro for intial days but didn't like it after some days
8:55 Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering. -Yoda
Suffering leads to improvement.
@Peter Andrijeczko LMAO!! That's a really good one...
@Peter Andrijeczko ouch...did not check .....correcting it now...my bad...
Hey DT, I like your voice. It’s relaxing 🙂
Thank you, Derek. The first impression approach is appropriate. (You did not like Pop-shell which is fine. It has evolved a great deal since then. You still won't like it much because it's based on Gnome. But I would be interested in what you might think of it now.) But what I really enjoy are your in-depth pieces or introductions to obscure tools.
> No one has tried to open-source a game
When it comes to open-sourcing games everyone seems to forget that id Software and the Doom and Quake series exist. Those games are still being sold for money, the engines are is licensed under the GPL, only the assets are non-free. I asked Stallman himself and he sees no problem, game assets are not programs, so they are relevant to Free Software. Free Software and video games are perhaps the least controversial issue. Just sell the game and open-source the engine code.
The real reason is that companies either use proprietary middleware, or they want to re-license their own middleware as proprietary to other companies. Think of Epic and the Unreal Engine. But for someone using either Free middleware or writing their own, there is no reason to keep the game proprietary.
Yeah, FOSS engine and commercial content sounds like a very plausible model for many games companies to use.
You're right (3:50), First impressions is where it's at. If something doesn't look right or work the way you would expect it to work, then it's not worth my time. If I have to look through the key commands on a website to find out they're not even close to what I expect them to be then it's not worth my time. Sure, you could have taken ArchCraft and spent the day fixing the keybindings and whatnot but then, what do you have at the end of the day? Manjaro with different backgrounds.
Browsers: I love Firefox. I used Netscape in it's heyday and prefered it over Microsoft Exploder (back when I ran Windows). Brave is also good but it's Chrome based and that sort of gives me the willies.
Hey, DT. When are we getting another anime thumbnail?
Well I'm among the people who are happy you started the channel, you are every good on it. You are one of the guys are helping us enjoy our hardware.
I had thought briefly once about trying to make videos for YT, but then i realized I had no idea what kind of content I would like to create, and like many of my other projects started and then forgotten about, it would die of neglect. I'll stick with being a content consumer and not a content creator. Keep up the good work DT.
I *love* your distro reviews, don't change a thing. Your sense of humor is very entertaining.
The thing about subscriptions is that it requires you to use that subscription regularly for that to make sense. If I buy a game a played it once in a while, then 10 dollars a month is a huge amount of money
DT release his first video.
People on YT: git gud!
DT: hold my freedom. Gets actually good at it .
Joke aside, Derek, after seeing your channel first time I was intrigued.
Time passed and listened to Taking into account series I realized that I could actually have my nerdy, Linux questions answered or discussed at a very good level, bordering on professional.
More and more driving to work listening to Derek voice and witty comments until I clicked on Subscribe.
Derek, you are not perfect, but for sure you how to make the best of it and teach us a LOT about internet mannerisms, Linux and life.
Championship freedom and free software nowadays is almost a lost cause.
Even so, Derek your videos about freedom and privacy made me write an article about those things. And your message was transmitted even further.
I am hoping to have this channel for the longest time possible, and hope that you become even better at spreading freedom and free software.
Mr DT, what is the Matrix code app that you have running on your Thinkpad in the background? It looks great!
Cmatrix
@@mikaelrask many tks, sir!
@@snewnham01 your welcome
About the video monetization. Some people really do think money grows on trees. Although being ethical and put out quality content instead of clickbait garbage isn't the norm. But you're cool and I like you.
Hey, DT !
Have you dabbled in software development, code level customization or maintainance?
DT is for me the best Linux Tech Channel, I dont care about other haters neither, keep doing your great job DT, We all Support you. There are more of Lovers of your channel than those Haters, ( fuck them all)
Simple answer to the question about FOSS games making money: Make the code free, not the game assets, sell support, and don't release binaries gratis.
firefox recently employed some semi-shady default privacy options, it concerns me.
You're a good guy DT. Thanks for introducing me to xmonad.
I would love to use firefox but I get CORS blocked when doing web development. It only happens with firefox which is quite sad.
I agree DT distro doesn’t matter. Linux is Linux first impression is all that matters. If you start changing stuff it’s called customizing it... at that point it’s becoming “ your OS” not the development systems.
ID software has done that since the Quake. All of the "IdTech" engines have been open source for a looong while. And yeah Carmack (John) wanted to open-source Doom earlier, there was push-back from inside ID. And from Epic Games, Unreal is open source. CryEngine is open source. Hell, unreal even says licenses for UE are free up until you sell you first million dollars, so yeah. A LOT of game production tools are open source.
Great video, good content. I like your logic. Keep doing it.
Hey DT, love your Hey DT videos.
You forgot about super tux kart
qutebrowser is amazing, i will instantly switch to it the day they start supporting extensions. for now i have to live with brave and the vimium extension.
Hey DT ... Just want to ask...do you speak impromptu or you write a script?
Firefox works great for youtube than chrome!
firefox 🧡💙
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"If you have YT channels out there, be genuine", best advice, as a small YTer I can strongly agree with this statement! You rock man ❤️
Hey DT, there's a spam comment in this video with a weird link. Just saying you should consider banning 18 from the comments sections of your vids.
I love this channel, thanks DT!
Glad you enjoy it!
I saw a comment somewhere saying that Switched to Linux looks at distros better than you. The only thing Tom knows is what version of libre office a distro is using. I always learn something when I watch you. Keep it up Derek.
Give Tom some credit, he does good work in his own right. But I do agree that Distro Tube usually gives a more in-depth look at the technical side, whereas Tom gives me of a look at how you can be productive with a given distro.
@@onldhes You can be as productive in any distro once you make it your own.
@@Jorge-xf9gs It takes time (+ some knowledge) and sometimes that time is not worth.
@@MarkHobbes Yeah, but I don't think he's that kind of person if he watches DistroTube.
Not same content, one is tinkering with Linux mint and Ubuntu, the other made tutorials for Arch, vim Emacs and mostly all tiling wm, most of Linux RUclipsrs aren't really Linux RUclipsrs, checking the new Ubuntu theme doesn't have anything to do with Linux and open source software
Please look into the Baha'i Faith as well. They believe as you do.
Unfortunately Mozilla said that them are slowing down Firefox development to focus in projects that bring revenue to them.
Our organization is falling apart. What should we do?
Clearly we should get rid of the only thing that we make that people actually care about and focus on some nonsense that no one is going to use! That will work!
Why does nobody talk about Palemoon browser?? i wonder....just a few reviews about it...it's great, small, fast....just Firefox "junior"....just much less ram using..
Uniquenameosaurus has video called Creators SHOULDN'T Own their Creations that talks about copyright and about how to monetize without copyright.
The Blink engine is BSD/LGPL. The project has contributions from several companies other than Google, such as Microsoft, Adobe, Facebook, IBM, Intel, Opera, Samsung... The Gecko engine is MPL based. However, the mozilla foundation is known for making contributions difficult for other companies. This may explain why there is a preference for the blink engine.
I think the reason people put video games in their own category because they're entertainment software and not productivity software. There is nothing really useful you can do with them (unless you're a content creator), you spend money on them to entertain yourself the same way you spend money on cinema tickets or books or whatever else you do when you're not working. Personally I'm in the same camp, if there was a software developed using video game engine that was used for something productive (like simulation for education/military industries etc) then I'd very much like that software to be open source. Games? Who cares
Also, the very important difference you're missing is that Oracle and RedHat and Suse and all those other companies making money on open source software develop software aimed at business customers and not individual end users.
Firefox lacks vital configuration settings. It just annoys the hell out of me not being able to decide the folder to download to each time AND have my downloads folder as the default.
It seems to me that you say only what you believe to be true always, in a very "simple" and honnest way. It is something that feels realy good in a time where everything is about apperance and so little about facts (sorry for my french-english =p)
Your position on religion/philosophy has upped my level of respect for you 1000%. We need more people like you to help sort out the scisms all over the place, leading by example.
I use netscape navigator btw😋
Google still runs ads if you are demonetized or turn ads off...
..a 6 month distro review? Ain't nobody got time for that! ...and btw, you are absolutely correct Derek. The distro is the distro for the first few days. After that it becomes your flavour of someones elses distro. After 6 months, it's damn near your own distro. When it's arch based guys, just install Arch and make your own distro. Roll your own and roll it well... Distro hopping is fine for beginners. It's actually a very useful thing to do. But once you find your feet? ....roll your own.
Buddhism isn't a religion, it's a way of live.
hey DT ! you sound is awesome you should be a sound engineer!! ( youre probably are already...)
with regards to foss projects making money.. I've one example to share..
there is one foss music player (android) named phonograph but the developer has made some features as paid (in app purchases)
another dev forked that project and renamed and redistributed it under the name vinyl player and made all the features free of cost.
now some people are installing vinyl player instead of original phonograph...
isn't it a loss to the developers of original project?
I wish Edge forked Firefox rather than Chromium... oh well.
@@evertonsap Why do people hate Firefox? I've tried chromium based browsers before but I always come back to Firefox. Its my favourite browser.
@@evertonsap Firefox used to be the browser everyone used like 10 to 15 years ago before Google Chrome existence, but since Chrome was created. Firefox has losing ground, especially now if you count all the other Chromium-based browsers like Edge, Vivaldi, Brave, Opera...
Man, Stay safe. Just me being old.
I try and use Firefox as much as possible. Sadly though, I'm watching your RUclips video (a Google Product) on my widescreen TV via Chromecast (Another Google Product) from my Linux Laptop. Thus Firefox won't do that and I need to use Brave or one of the other Chromium based browsers that work with Chromecast. Catch-22 ;)
use the phone
he is distro hoping with religion lmao
however i like your point of view
DT, are you going to make a video or make some kind of post about ZSA’s Moonlander MK1? (The next gen ErgodoxEZ.) My BF bought an ErgodoxEZ because you liked yours and literally the next weak the next version came out that their calling Moonlander MK1 and it would be cool to know what you think about the improvements over the ErgodoxEZ. There’s no good information on user experience with it and it would be awesome to watch/read your impressions, concerns, tips, ect on it.
dt should buy corne for minimalism meme(it looks so good though)
Brave was caught redirecting users urls to affiliate pages that got them paid without user consent. So much for that quality open source software. That's not the first time Brave did something like this either. I wouldn't touch that browser if you paid me.
BTW DT, Qutebrowser now defaults to using chromium as it's backend (qtwebengine) If you want the old qtwebkit backend it has been forked and you must install it separately and then configure Qutebrowser to use it. Qutebrowser claims it is "less secure" but on my Arch box where I use it i can tell you it is much faster and lighter on resources.
Firefox is a resource hog. There are many many webkit browsers that are light and fast. Surf, Vimb, Luakit, Lariza, Badwolf to name a few.
Support the "Bold Browser" team, they forked brave and try to make it live up to the hype
Surf is buggy for me. I can't be the only one.
@@AkamiChannel Define buggy?
@@jonathanrealman8415 Yes. The sound on lichess doesn't work properly. Lichess dot org
7:18 you know I just saw that at the beginning of the video, and I watch a lot of your videos lol but that question did just now pop into my mind
EDIT: I myself love the Pastafarian religion, look into it lol really.. it will make your day
Firefox is good browser indeed. 5:06
What's your favorite app in the Microsoft Store?
Never used it
even netflix app is bugged
Is it a thinkpad x1 there behind ???
An E535.
"You trashed my favorite /r/unixporn distro with your fair and honest criticism!! You suck!! REEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" A lot of people in the Linux community take themselves and their opinions way too seriously... just pick a damn distribution and make it your own... it really doesn't matter after you've been in it for a few months. It ain't stupid/bad/awful/crap/[your favorite adjective] if it works for the person using it. If people out there can't understand that... go back to Windows.
BTW... I use Pop!_OS. :D
Brave. Gave it a go. No Recently-Used Tab Switching order !?! Are you kidding me ?? What am I ? My great grandmother ?! Also missing too much from Vivaldi like gestures, Back on Backspace, Dbl-Click on Tab to Close, Quick Commands, Tab stack position, etc.
It's so ironic that the web is almost entirely run by a "Web 2.0" company. The company that popularized the concept of the "Web" (Netscape/Mozilla Corporation) out of its academic roots. I think it's time to break up "Alphabet", honestly. And then go after Google. I mean holy CRAP they have their hands in basically every facet of modern life.
If I had to choose religion I would choose Zen Buddhism. It is a merge of Taoism and Buddhism both very wise and benevolent with solid foundation underneath [Yogi, i'ching].
Christianity is very obfuscated - you need to to dig very deep and filter to get the core message [mystical branch of Meister Eckhart].
Judaism is tribal religion which is an obstacle to higher wisdom [us vs them is implied]. Also OT and Talmud has to be heavily cherry picked.
Islam is more universal but too political [founder and exemplary was a political figure]. Also has a problem with fatalism [everything is Allah's will - less room for free choice/responsibility].
I'd slap the guy for asking that first question. Also Firefox will only survive through it's forks if Mozilla keeps fucking up like they've been for a decade. They really need to make more intelligent business decisions, or else they won't last for much longer. Give the fans what they want, lighten up the browser. Dump Yahoo for a real search engine, like Startpage or Duckduckgo. Cause I doubt Google will take them back, so they have to move on, from their past mistake.
Mozilla as Company -> amazing
Mozilla Firefox -> garbage without support to modern web technology
Customization is personal, and yeah I/we will do that. We could probably makes any distro work, and that is honestly the best part. What I am interested in is high-level distro differences, and comments to that, which is review worthy.
A 6 month experience will surely make for a much better and realistic review, but I don't think it takes 6 months to make an assessment enough for a "review".
This makes me think of a car review in Motor Trend or Car and Driver, and how they do a car review with specs and comparison, and then later a "long-term report".
I love a first impression review, that is super-helpful, and then a follow-up on further and in-depth experience is great.
Love your work DT! Truly an awesome channel.
about youtube :
1) DT said youtuber fail because they create content they don't like
2) But also YuuTube terminate channel w/ politically incorrect view : by first demonetizing them (using not suitable bla bla...), and then kick them out of the galaxy.
I'm one of the people who believe that Mozilla should, or should've focused on their browser instead of various other ventures such as Firefox OS and their VPN and what not and should've stayed as an organization. I'm afraid that the recent layoffs are affecting the development of their great technologies such as the deep speech engine.
But I always keep firefox installed on my computer. However, I usually use Chromium. I think I should start using Firefox more from today onwards.
Firefox had to gain support of new web technologies like custom scrollbars, backdrop-filter (blur on websites) but FF is a pain on ass for webdevs, bcs we have do compatibility with older Technics bcs Firefox doesn't support new ones, if it doesn't change, Firefox will use their marketshare
Buncha princesses out there who can't figure it out. I hopped the top hundred or so at distrowatch because I wasn't satisfied with Mint. I went exclusively with first impressions. If it didn't install easily I turfed it. If it did the look and feel were next on my hit list. Then I watch DT's Regolith first look and got into i3, which lead to Erik's scripts, which lead to Arco. I couldn't care less about reviews either. Does it work or does it just jerk me around? How simple is that to understand?? :)
DT you got it right. First impressions make a big difference. It's just like going on a job interview. If you come in looking sloppy. The interviewer is not going to take you seriously. If you come in a suit and everything is in its place. You're going to be taking more seriously.
DT you are talking about the out of the box experience. Real people don't want to spend 15 hours setting up an operating system. People want to get on with their lives.
DT I see both sides of the arguments when it comes to a distro review. They can be helpful and harmful at the same time. If the reviewer used the product and didn't read the instruction manual. Of course the reviewer going to give a negative review. But if the reviewer read the instruction manual and did not have any preconceived notions. The reviewer will give a positive review. Distro reviews are a necessary evil that you have to put up with in order to gain the benefits.
Moved from Chrome to Firefox.
The reason annoying "are you a human captcha" repeatedly even when simple browsing.
I fear the reality that a few select companies currently control everything. Linux/Firefox/Open source software isnt always the best but at least it is still free of chains.
No, all religions are not the same. The Christian faith is centered around love. Around the love and mercy of our heavenly Father. And it leads by example, with the Crucifixion and Resurrection of the one and only begotten Son, and God himself. Around the martyrdom of His apostles, and so many followers.
Some people who claim, think or even have eventually become His followers, have committed heinous crimes. But that is due to the corrupted state of men, not the religion. Christs teachings are all about love and peace and forgiveness and there is no evil in it, not a drop. Merry Christmas to you all.
that argument, you need x amount of time to review something is bs. It's the same argument common in MMORPG reviews. if the early experience is bad, it's not that you haven't spent enough time in it, but the distros/games fault for having a poor experience, or it might just not be something suitable for you subjectively (humans recognize pretty fast whether they like something or not, it doesn't take 6 months), and it only gets better later, because either you make it better, or you get used to all the stuff that annoys you at first.
You haven't read the Bible though, it really doesn't have many similarities with religions. Jesus instructed us not to judge others because it's hypocritical. Judging someone for sinning while you yourself are actively a sinner, if just silly.
Hey DT or any well-informed comment guy, is Chrome OS a violation of the GPL? Since Chrome OS is closed-source proprietary software but based on Gentoo which is GPL'd, isn't this exactly what the GPL forbids?
Quake comes to my mind as an example of an open-source game, and I think it was an AAA game back in the days. So the source code is now open and free, but you need your own copy of “proprietary” part with textures, models, sounds, etc
hey dt you say aaa games could just make money otherwise. or do a service of some kind.
a few thoughts on that: support is rarely needed since there is enough of these digital store fronts like steam out there that make installing and starting the games easy. backup copies are an eyesore to the industry for the most part so selling those aint gonna happen. selling a piece of software that enables you to deploy your own dedicated aaa-game server for multiplayer once offical multiplayer is shutdown are a possibility but next to noone actually does that. if the companies discontinue offical multiplayer its mostly for monetary reasons (ie. game does not make money anymore) so why bother anyway. and monetizing other parts of the game will either encourage pay to win strategies or put in unnecessary cosmetics just so microtransactions (which are widely hated) can be "justified"...
and thinking of other services in respect to gaming leads my mind mostly to geforce now, stadia and alike. which is an entirely different problem afterall. once we used to own physical copies of games without any drm/copy protection then we got physical copies with copy protection then virtual copies with drm. and seems like there is already a huge effort to take even that away from the customer with a rise of streaming services across the board including gaming lately.
--> side effect through these efforts gray/secondary market is elimnated (for the most part). so getting rid of a game (non physical form) these days after you completed it for a " cash back" is basocally not possible...
Just saw this. Loved your response to the religion. I like to be Free and Open Source with my religion as well :)
Hey DT will you please go over configuring xmobar from scratch I took the plunge into xmonad and the main issue I'm having is getting workspaces and stuff into my xmobar so if you could make a video about it that would be amazing :)
Your first impressions of distros would maybe be better if you used VirtualBox (most people use virtualbox for desktop VMs and distros could be better configured for it)
I have been raised Catholic, but Im not hard core and find all religions fascinating also and take things that click with me so I understand where you're coming from.
Love listening to these while biking! About to do that now.
Everybody can argue with Google bcs chromium is open source...
Everything comes with success, the more viewers you are, statistically, the more haters and jealous you will have, the best is just to ignore them almost, like the wind over your head :)
Hey DT, keep up the good fight for good software.
"There are so many good open-source browsers"
Uhm, no.
Bruh qutebrowser is the best shit
@@gogl0l386 It's ok, but it lacks privacy features
@@gogl0l386 Btw do you deal with privacy in any way? Just curious
@@Berntisso Yeah I don't. I know it's important and all that, but I'm the kind of linux user who got intrigued of linux mainly because of being able to customize and optimize everything.
What are the privacy flaws it has?
i keep coming back to firefox every time i switch
On enabling youtube ads, I pay for yourube Red on a monthly basis to opt out of ads - so they get their cash and I don't worry about ads.
costing google money? yeah youtube is costing google money for a while now. youtube is not terribly profotable if at all. one of the reasons why it turned into the ad-riddled-abomination it is today.
Hey DT, thanks. I'm about to start a channel and what you said about that makes total sense! Peace!
after watching him compare speeds on browsers I did the same thing and Qutebrowser won by a landslide. I also liked GNOME's Web because it was the exact right amount of features for like a normie type of layout like if you want other people to be able to use ur pc, but qutebrowser is just faster and better than any of the others for me, with the exception of the couple of miliseconds at the startup.
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Hey DT. Greetings from Australia.
Love your answer regarding religion.
It's good to explore the scenery.
Kindest Regards.
Thanks for watching!
@@DistroTube I agree with your opinion on religion
I was a firefox user for a long time the problem that I ran into was one it does not work with some websites and also there is a printing problem on some websites that it will print but you get a page that you cannot read and when you go to another browser on the same website it does not happen
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