InstantOS Is A Refreshing Take On Desktop Linux
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- Опубликовано: 19 мар 2023
- instantOS is an Arch Linux based distro that is designed to just work out of the box, yet it is still aimed at power users. Everything is light, fast, and flexible. instantOS sports it own window manager that can handle tiling as well as floated windows.
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The dmenu installer is really cool and unique.
It's a very intereting take on a desktop. It's very functional and VERY low RAM/CPU. It does take some getting used to. I ran it as a VM then liked it enough to put it on an OLD asus laptop i5-3rd gen. It runs amazingly well! I like that someone is pushing the idea of what a desktop can be. It's not for everyone, but as a basic system on old HW I think it's great. It's also only beta so I think it will get better over time.
the advanced settings include cool stuff, like adding software at install-time and other things. Pretty nice that they have it
Always fun to see distro's I've never heard of. I personally would never use it though, since I like the process of configuring the window manager myself. But as always, a great video!
These are some sick DWM customizations, I’ll have to steal some of these.
What ACTUALLY happened last time DT reviewed InstantOS: "This looks nice..." InstantOS: "DT is bald. " DT: "Imma 'bout to end this man's career "
Fantastic review DT! ❤️
Feeling so happy to see your new video😊😊
Dude, you are the best, ive been looking for your channel for ages, saw you once on someone elses video, finally found your channel, much happines, keep it up, great content and info / insight
Top of the morning DT...tis almost 6am in Fiji....love the content...keep it up
Looks so nice it's exactly what I was looking for in a wm because i can't configure that much by myself
Interesting project, I like the installer, and the whole thing definitely has some nice personality to it.
Wow, this looks really cool, frankly!
Very cool. I wish every distro was so VM friendly.
I don't know, the menu style, is interesting, but I can't shug the feeling like something is off with it. I don't know if it's the color on highlight on the side or something else. I can't say I have an idea how to change it though.
But I have to say, I am really pleased with all the info and tips baked in so somebody new can still pick it up in no time. That's a lesson that many devs can learn! Kudos to the instantOS dev for that!
Great video Thank you
Paper Benni provided a response video to the first review 2 years ago. He stated that the file manager choice was because of its search capabilities and that he also doesn't like Gnome. Ranger is also installed. The menu comes up with mouse click or space bar when there is no other application in focus. As for those asking if it is a fork of DWM, he stated that 60% of the code is original.
I think I agree with the desktop mouse click, but this is a pretty friendly wm, could tempt me
Thanks DT, :)
I didn't think you would ever revisit it. Glad you did. Been using it for some time and loving it.
Amazing
Quit fun typical of any any other linux distros but with it's own niche. Thanks for the update.
You are so awesome and funny DT, I just Love you're password remarks "Needs to be strong and complicated" 1,2, :=)
Why so many app laucher are configured to display the content of /usr/bin instead of the /usr/share/applications ?
Very reminiscent of the "Material" GNOME extension but built from the ground up.
Think they'll need to add some aliases for stuff like file managers so people don't need to check through for the app you want (you had to try 3 or 4 apps before finding nautilus).
Also noticed a lot of screen tearing in this video. Could be my crappy windows laptop but just thought I'd mention :)
If the screen tearing is on your side the best option is probably to switch to Wayland
@@itdepends604 It's worse than that mate, its my work W*ndows laptop 😭
They stuff an 11th Gen i7 in it and it still struggles running microsoft teams.
I used to have it (in the beta5 days) as a daily driver on a desktop and a 2in1, and kept InstantWM and some utils after switching to NixOS for more than a year before eventually switching to Hyprland. (Actually the Instant "DE" is quite well supported on NixOS by InstantNix). IMHO InstantOS shines by finding the sweet spot between Non-DE and DE by using the linux philosophy (small specialized scripts) throughout the DE (and now even in the installer), basically for every (instant)menu item, and using instantmenu for all script-user interactions. In a sense it's a "scripted DE" and quite well done at that, maybe a next video could focus on that. The only reason I eventually switched away was that I've come to believe that imperatively configuring your system is a waste of time on the long run (and instantWM alone is not enough reason to stay), so now it's NixOS all the way...
This might end up being my first distro using a tiling window manager
This seems really cool, i might switch to this if it doesn't have any usse
This looks great. I'm sad that I never heard of this distro before
I have a laptop that is about 13 years. I have Linux mint on it. I was watching you on one of them. It does not work or boot up. Can you help. Thanks
Hey DT.....This is my first post to you all the way from South Africa...I have so many things I would like to comment on in the past, but just got absorbed in so much content. Thank you for all your videos and opinion... I looked briefly at the best way to communicate say on email/im/ etc....just to ask things like today -- have you seen / used looking glass - for VMachines? I am about to do a full re-do of my main machine, and this caught my eye --- as well as arcolinux-hyperland ---seems cool, just going through the pros and cons...as I use both yucky ms and Linux, but about to redo it all. Thanks again. Glenn
I liked the wallpaper before you changed it. It looked familiar but I couldn't quite place it but then it clicked. It's Assassin's Creed Odyssey
What GUI file manager should they have used? I don't have one. I used dragon_drop for the few things that I can't do well in the terminal.
Pcmanfm perhaps
My first think to always ask is "what does it bring to the table, that the parent distro couldnt achieve with a couple clicks or packages" 😊
Instant tools
With that in mind, how do you feel about Nobara Linux? It kinda blurs that line for me.
It's basically just Fedora, same repos and everything, but it applies a bunch of tweaks for gaming, going so far as a custom kernel.
Same
@@proctoscopefilms so its just fedora with packages and minor config changes
@@duckmeat4674 definitely not minor. the entire changes are listed on the website of them.
Hi @DistroTube, isn't it called tags, because you can tag multiple workspaces/desktops simultaneously? I use that a lot in Awesome. If I have a fullscreen video on workspace 8 and I am coding in workspace 2, I can simply tag both and have them arranged in one workspace.
Concerning Nautilus: If I remember correctly, the dev once stated, that he likes it for the search functionality/indexing which works quite well in Nautilus.
Thought I would share my drinking game- watch Distro Tube and everytime DT says "distribution" you drink. It is hard to get more than one or two episodes in and still be coherent enough to digest his content.
MPV seems to be the video player
Really liked the theming of this one. Also looks butter smooth even on a VM. Is wm xorg or wayland?
If it's based on dwm (I'm not sure if it is), then it's Xorg
@@plokil i meant if it just resembles dwm or it's really based on dwm. Because river and dwl is inspired by dwm and look like dwm but they are wayland.
@@denizkendirci neofetch in livecd lists wm as dwm and de as instantwm
@@plokil oh ok, then it's definitely xorg. because couldn't find if it's or not on their website. thanks, you saved me the trouble to test on VM.
do you heard of Obsidian and Zettelkasten?
my bad days are always related to mother in law bull,good stuff again and again
I really like the Instant menu. I don't really like the top bar so much and the multiple workspaces
yes, could use this one "out-of-the-box' ...
Is that Alexios in the bg??
The Dev for InstantOS mentioned that he chose Nautilus because it has the best file search :D
Interesting Distro. Completely different than what I am used to, as I live in Cinnamon and MATE', and mostly use a mouse to navigate, but use Alt-Tab to switch between windows. I don't think that would be an easy transition to a tiling window manager.
when you have more than just a few like more than 3 windows open on a regular basis that's where tiling window managers really shine in usability once you're familiar with them. when using alt tab with many applications open you need to hit tab while holding alt an unknown number of times to select the program that you actually want where as with tiling window managers you know that program y is on workspace 4 so you hit the workspace 4 keybind and there's no fenagling about with spamming tab 1 to many times or anything like that
@@tylorthurston1751 Shift Alt Tab backs it up one, unless you let go. I have tried working with multiple work spaces, and I just find it confusing. I would rather fight with Alt Tab.
instantOS has an alttab menu that can be enabled in settings->instantOS->alttab.
Also instantWM is a hybrid window manager, I explicitly made every windowing feature usable with a mouse as well as with keyboard shortcuts, as my programming workflow is pretty keyboard heavy, but when doing other things using a mouse is nice as well
@@PaperBenni I may have to try it out when I get time. Too many servers to keep up with at the moment.
I would never use it, but looks cool 😎
Which one would be a better file manager compared to Nautilus?
I like Nemo.
ah, instant OS makes me want to try using it. my distro hopper habit is recurring back again...😓
When you mentioned that it is based on the Suckless tools I knew it wasn't for me. It's my opinion that Suckless tools suck more, not less!
yeah thunar and ranger is what i like
im currently using Thunar as my FM on Ubuntu 22.10 Gnome
And i prefer it over Nautilus
Where can i steal their wallpapers
github meaby?
BTW I don't know if you ever tried the "advanced" settings during another install. It's not that bad. haha I hope no new user to Linux tries this distro yet. There are way better options for a new user.
14:33 Haven't we figured out yet that there is no such thing as "better" when it comes to Linux stuff? Personally I find nautilus gedit and nano to be great tools. In fact my go to ones.
this is nice, but i3 and arch is PERFECT i love this
this is not i3 tho
The inclusion of gnome applications is a bit strange. I would immediately uninstall and replace with better applications as I'm sure most here would as well. But certainly a bit of a different desktop than we tend to get. Interesting
😆 👌👍
People can create a script just to make a base installation look and have settings like theirs instead of creating a no purpose distro which they aren't constantly even working on to improve.
lol that wallapaper after the installation is Assassin's Creed Odyssey screenshot with distro logo. Kinda cringey. But nice distro overall.
Please review crystal linux!
"Refreshing Take On Desktop Linux" if mouse was never invented.
Well, it's time for something new to install / test. The test bed system has 4 AMD FX cores, 16 GB of RAM plus an Nvidia video card. What could go wrong, grin.
Where is this guy from? Accent is peculiar.
Im going to try this out on bare metal. Looks pretty sweet imo
Well I finally got around to trying it on bare metal and started the install process. After waiting about an hour for the install to finish I just gave up and went back to Void. I had Void installed and configured in the same time I was waiting on Instant OS to just install.
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I really don't understand why people create another distro instead of contributing to a current one. For example Arch, Debían, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Fedora.
your push request or suggestion might not be accepted, and you might waste your time waiting. but yeay, small and new distro might dies after the developer couldn't create a strong team of developers and getting funds.
I prefer Micro over Nano.
MPV
small hands
Men, look at the keybinding first before do anything and you will find that its and amazing window manager. Easy to navigate, fast and works great on real hardware. Come on DT you know that is Arch and its AAAAAMMMMAAAAZZZZIIIINNNNGGG! Just works and pretty fast...
w0w
This looks like someone's high school project
Looks fine to me.
This looks neat. Now do a video showing how to install KDE on it.
9:42 - you have the option when the terminal opens to not show the quick info text. You need to select it.
He realized already.
It boggles my mind you have a channel previewing distros and still always use virtual machines, you should just get some cheap dedicated hardware to test on. VM installs are so boring.
Bad UI style.
Fffffiiiiiiiiiiiirrrrsssstttt !!!
I'm #50 :)))
Gentoo Linux - leaving any "imagination" up to the user.
Hello again!
Please Super + F1=Keybidings just press space and type to open an application on the system. It has Thunar File Manager... Please I'm your fan, don't do that. don't be unfair. Just give it a real try....
I've been waiting for 7 years now for a decent OneDrive client and nothing. That is why Linux is not largely used, that aren't enough good apps out there and the community does not care.
The "community" cannot create a OneDrive client for Linux or any other operating system. OneDrive is proprietary software and the only persons that can look at the source code and do anything with the source code is the proprietor (Microsoft) of that proprietary software. This is a Microsoft problem...not a Linux community problem. Complain to the right people if you want to see anything get done.
@@DistroTube you got all wrong. There are several Linux clients for OneDrive but none of them works correctly and that is a community problem. Also if the community cared about bringing Linux to everyone they would push for things people need, they probably care for something else
Seems like a child saying Dt got all wrong. like literally all wrong!
Get some knowledge bro,
How can you make it well compatible when you don't even know the source code 😂
And who are you complaining about the linux community doesn't care!
@@alwasif seems like an dumb guy. A quick search can show you there are several clients out there but none works correctly but why? Because the community doesn't care. There is one Linux client that works perfectly but it's a commercial software so again, the community doesn't care. Go get some knowledge.
There is no "official" OneDrive support for Linux. Microsoft only creates OneDrive for Windows and Mac. That's it. There's nothing you or I or the Linux community or Santa Claus can do about that. Only Microsoft can do anything. LEGALLY, only Microsoft can do anything about this. There may be some hacky unofficial Linux workarounds out there that leverage some open source technologies to kind of do what the official OneDrive does, but they aren't official clients because it's impossible to make one if you are not Microsoft. You can whine all you want about this to the "community" but you are wasting your time. Again, go complain to the right people (Microsoft) and you might achieve something. Best of luck to you.
I love Linux and use it but the problem is that there are 100 distros out there nobody needs. More important will be to get better software like a good PS or email client. Don't tell me gimp is a good alternative. It is not!
So another Arch based Linux distribution , that really doesn't bring anything new to the table....
InstantOS is really more about "instantDE" (even though they don't use this word it's actually the core) and the installer, for the rest it's just Arch.
Using a VM to test a distro = heresy.
Im Tired of Every day New "Sub product"Linux Base Distro....