Thank you so much for demonstrating Newsboat! This has really helped me out. I had been using Newsblur since Google Reader went away. Every year I see a reminder to find an alternative but I always fail and end up renewing Newsblur. Based on this video I am now a Newsboat user. I will *not* be renewing Newsblur. Derek, you're the man!
Another excellent video. I cancelled my LinkedIn, Twitter and now Facebook account. If you go to my website, I only have email which I love. Simple and direct. I'm trying to do as much as I can using the terminal instead of the GUI. One cool thing you can do Derek is to have the terminal on the left side of the screen and a file manager on the right side. This way you can show us the terminal way of doing things like copy, move, create folders etc... compared to the GUI way of doing the same. Then users can see how easy and flexible and fast it is to do most things in the terminal compared to the GUI. 😀
Hello Derek! You need to set the env variable EDITOR to your editor of choice. If you want to have it for your session only you might do something like: export EDITOR=vim; links If you want it permanently open ~/.bash_profile and append that line in it: export EDITOR=vim For videos you use youtube-dl and then you can see them with mpv or mplayer. For audio music player: MOC, mp3blaster, SoX and for radio PyRadio For reading a PDF from the CLI either Ghostscript or Xpdf tools and XpdfReader. Have a look at this article: stackoverflow.com/questions/3570591/cli-pdf-viewer-for-linux And otherwise gotbletu is your best friend! Best regards.
Hey distrohuggers, I am in a good mood today. I just installed LibreOffice as a flatpak in the fresh new SparkyLinux 4.8 RC. That is somewhat of a pain, if you don't understand the process. But once you do one flatpak install, all the rest are exactly like it. Having the very latest LibreOffice is kind of cool. I have always had a version that was a few months old. And the one in the repo of Sparky is about a year old. So now the trick is to find the flatpaks. Since Flathub isn't yet working as it will someday, I found the trick is to just google the app your looking for along with the word flatpak, and look for somebody that has posted the 2 commands to get it going. I do not believe I have ever installed a snap or a appimage. I think I once tried to download a app and extract it and install it but I forgot how already. So next up is VLC, and then I plan to surf around and probably install several more. So with my current setup, I have the alleged super stable Debian 9.4, along with kernel 4.16.2 and several of my apps tucked safely away in their little flatpak. How much better can it get ? Kudos to Mr. Sparky. He is a great guy.
Newsboat is awesome. Check out Luke Smith's tutorial from a day ago, he goes into depth on how to add alternative RSS feeds like YT and Twitter, etc. Awesome!
You should scroll through these: github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps There are ones for facebook and twitter, too, in there as you were wondering that. (Haven't tried them, though!)
How will work an encrypted mail like proton? I mean, if I send you an encrypted mail with a password, how will look on Neomutt? Can you show it in a next video? Great work, as always, Derek.
Use rainbowstream or turses for twitter.(both written in python) (If you use turses make sure you downgrade python2-urwid prior to 2.x release, turses builds successfully but fails to launch because of that.) There's twterm(written in ruby) for twitter too. (Some of its dependencies are out-of-date last I checked). Don't really use Facebook that much so don't know about terminal clients for it.
Hey dude love your videos they have really helped. Is there any chance you couple do a video about config files? I'm working on learning vim but I can't quit get how to set up neomutt or this newsboat thing. Regardless, Keep it up dude your videos are great. Thanks!
if I did such a 30 day challenge I would go Emacs wm and live entirely inside emacs. just needed to make sure that evil mode works. haven't been able to make spacemacs work inside exwm yet.
LOL. Crazy coincidence actually. Luke published a video on Newsboat today. Funny how these things happen. Hadn't watched his video prior to this. But I'm sure he's actually going to go much more indepth with it. I literally just discovered Newsboat this morning. Had never heard of it before. Only reason I found it was because the only other terminal RSS readers I knew (Newsbeuter and Canto) just would not install/work for me.
I used to distro hop for distro and environment. Now it's just to wonder what i3 is like in distro X or what software is available. At present i'm between my 2 favourites Arch (vanilla) or MX Linux. Its always i3 though.
Hey distrohuggers, I am having fun tonight learning about flatpaks and installing every flatpak I can find. I can see a bright future in this. I am listening to Spotify radio right now via flatpak on my new SparkyLinux 4.8 RC install. I have installed 17 flatpaks so far. I just installed Krita 3.3.3 right now, ( but this requires wired connection ) [ listening to THE BAND play THE WEIGHT ]. What a life ? Sure beats being married !! If I could only flatpak install a girlfriend, or s*x-robot, I would be in Heaven. I have not mastered this flatpak thing yet, but I am on a roll: I installed Corebird, Peek, MyPaint, Spotify, LibreOffice, GIMP, pitivi, lollypop, Gnome MPV, Gnome Twitch, VLC, Inkscape, Peek, Discord. My first attempt at Skype just failed, but 2nd try with a different link worked. I just installed Firefox, while Lou Reed sings, "Walk on the Wild Side." Holy Cow ! Look at the version of Firefox - 61.0a1 (2018-04-14). It updates every fricking night. Now I have Steam as a flatpak installed.
The flatpak of Firefox works better than the other browsers I have tried. I am removing Pale Moon from my install, and only using Firefox flatpak until I find something better. I would say the best experience with all of this is to get a wired connection and a large SSD, and partition your install so that you don't ever have to worry about 200 flatpaks. Then install Spotify first, and enjoy your favorite beverage and then install Firefox, and then while watching your favorite DistroTube episode, install LibreOffice followed by the other popular apps.
Hello elstan! As an LXQt lover you might install Falkon. It took me 2 h 10 min to compile it on a pure Gentoo LXQt and it took less than one minute on Calculate Linux LXQt!!! Best regards
DistroTube: I was about to start my 11th round. But that will have to wait. Been to ABQ last year while on a road trip across the US. photos.app.goo.gl/VAhxBUsR3XstNoOT2
Thank you so much for demonstrating Newsboat! This has really helped me out. I had been using Newsblur since Google Reader went away. Every year I see a reminder to find an alternative but I always fail and end up renewing Newsblur.
Based on this video I am now a Newsboat user. I will *not* be renewing Newsblur.
Derek, you're the man!
Thanks, Eduardo!
Another excellent video. I cancelled my LinkedIn, Twitter and now Facebook account. If you go to my website, I only have email which I love. Simple and direct. I'm trying to do as much as I can using the terminal instead of the GUI. One cool thing you can do Derek is to have the terminal on the left side of the screen and a file manager on the right side. This way you can show us the terminal way of doing things like copy, move, create folders etc... compared to the GUI way of doing the same. Then users can see how easy and flexible and fast it is to do most things in the terminal compared to the GUI. 😀
Hi, DT. If your looking for cli twitter program, you should take a look at turses. Enjoying the show!
Hello Derek! You need to set the env variable EDITOR to your editor of choice.
If you want to have it for your session only you might do something like:
export EDITOR=vim; links
If you want it permanently open ~/.bash_profile and append that line in it:
export EDITOR=vim
For videos you use youtube-dl and then you can see them with mpv or mplayer.
For audio music player: MOC, mp3blaster, SoX and for radio PyRadio
For reading a PDF from the CLI either Ghostscript or Xpdf tools and XpdfReader.
Have a look at this article: stackoverflow.com/questions/3570591/cli-pdf-viewer-for-linux
And otherwise gotbletu is your best friend!
Best regards.
Thanks, Serge.
Thanks for all the useful documentation above, Serge.
Serge excellent!! 😀
What about abcde?
Hello rmcellig! Very useful for people who need to rip CD's or there is also cdparanoïa
Hey distrohuggers,
I am in a good mood today. I just installed LibreOffice as a flatpak in the fresh new SparkyLinux 4.8 RC. That is somewhat of a pain, if you don't understand the process. But once you do one flatpak install, all the rest are exactly like it. Having the very latest LibreOffice is kind of cool. I have always had a version that was a few months old. And the one in the repo of Sparky is about a year old. So now the trick is to find the flatpaks. Since Flathub isn't yet working as it will someday, I found the trick is to just google the app your looking for along with the word flatpak, and look for somebody that has posted the 2 commands to get it going. I do not believe I have ever installed a snap or a appimage. I think I once tried to download a app and extract it and install it but I forgot how already. So next up is VLC, and then I plan to surf around and probably install several more.
So with my current setup, I have the alleged super stable Debian 9.4, along with kernel 4.16.2 and several of my apps tucked safely away in their little flatpak. How much better can it get ? Kudos to Mr. Sparky. He is a great guy.
Newsboat is awesome. Check out Luke Smith's tutorial from a day ago, he goes into depth on how to add alternative RSS feeds like YT and Twitter, etc. Awesome!
Will definitely check it out. Thanks.
You should scroll through these:
github.com/alebcay/awesome-shell#applications
github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
There are ones for facebook and twitter, too, in there as you were wondering that. (Haven't tried them, though!)
Will check them out.
This is a goldmine of apps for the CLI. Thank you for sharing.
How will work an encrypted mail like proton? I mean, if I send you an encrypted mail with a password, how will look on Neomutt? Can you show it in a next video? Great work, as always, Derek.
I'm curious, too!
Use rainbowstream or turses for twitter.(both written in python)
(If you use turses make sure you downgrade python2-urwid prior to 2.x release, turses builds successfully but fails to launch because of that.)
There's twterm(written in ruby) for twitter too. (Some of its dependencies are out-of-date last I checked).
Don't really use Facebook that much so don't know about terminal clients for it.
Hey dude love your videos they have really helped. Is there any chance you couple do a video about config files? I'm working on learning vim but I can't quit get how to set up neomutt or this newsboat thing. Regardless, Keep it up dude your videos are great. Thanks!
Why not qutebrowser if you're focusing on keyboard driven software? Ain't nothing wrong with graphics on web :)
if I did such a 30 day challenge I would go Emacs wm and live entirely inside emacs. just needed to make sure that evil mode works. haven't been able to make spacemacs work inside exwm yet.
someone’s been watching Luke Smith :D
LOL. Crazy coincidence actually. Luke published a video on Newsboat today. Funny how these things happen. Hadn't watched his video prior to this. But I'm sure he's actually going to go much more indepth with it. I literally just discovered Newsboat this morning. Had never heard of it before. Only reason I found it was because the only other terminal RSS readers I knew (Newsbeuter and Canto) just would not install/work for me.
hahaha, btw I love your videos keep up the good work!
Thanks, Tom.
Yeah me too :D
Nice video! I have a quick question: What search engine do you use, in general? (Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo etc.)
I use Google. :D
I used to distro hop for distro and environment. Now it's just to wonder what i3 is like in distro X or what software is available. At present i'm between my 2 favourites Arch (vanilla) or MX Linux. Its always i3 though.
Hey distrohuggers,
I am having fun tonight learning about flatpaks and installing every flatpak I can find. I can see a bright future in this. I am listening to Spotify radio right now via flatpak on my new SparkyLinux 4.8 RC install. I have installed 17 flatpaks so far. I just installed Krita 3.3.3 right now, ( but this requires wired connection ) [ listening to THE BAND play THE WEIGHT ]. What a life ? Sure beats being married !! If I could only flatpak install a girlfriend, or s*x-robot, I would be in Heaven. I have not mastered this flatpak thing yet, but I am on a roll: I installed Corebird, Peek, MyPaint, Spotify, LibreOffice, GIMP, pitivi, lollypop, Gnome MPV, Gnome Twitch, VLC, Inkscape, Peek, Discord. My first attempt at Skype just failed, but 2nd try with a different link worked. I just installed Firefox, while Lou Reed sings, "Walk on the Wild Side." Holy Cow ! Look at the version of Firefox - 61.0a1 (2018-04-14). It updates every fricking night. Now I have Steam as a flatpak installed.
The flatpak of Firefox works better than the other browsers I have tried. I am removing Pale Moon from my install, and only using Firefox flatpak until I find something better. I would say the best experience with all of this is to get a wired connection and a large SSD, and partition your install so that you don't ever have to worry about 200 flatpaks. Then install Spotify first, and enjoy your favorite beverage and then install Firefox, and then while watching your favorite DistroTube episode, install LibreOffice followed by the other popular apps.
Hello elstan! As an LXQt lover you might install Falkon. It took me 2 h 10 min to compile it on a pure Gentoo LXQt and it took less than one minute on Calculate Linux LXQt!!!
Best regards
Heisenberg!!
I am the one who knocks!
DistroTube: I was about to start my 11th round. But that will have to wait. Been to ABQ last year while on a road trip across the US. photos.app.goo.gl/VAhxBUsR3XstNoOT2