Just got into linux, currently running Ubuntu, considering hopping to arch at some point but I'm going to continue to learn in Ubuntu for the time being. But your videos have been very comprehensive and helpful and I thank you for covering everything a new user would need to know to get there feet wet. I particularly like your videos because of honesty, consistency, and overall coverage. When I click on a video from you, I am comfortable immediately as you always have the new user in mind and I can not stress enough how thankful I am. :)
Don't feel compelled to jump to Arch just because many elitists claim to be the holy grail of the linux world, always use whatever keeps you happy, since most linux is free trying out what suits your taste is encouraged also Ubuntu with its apt and snap apps is a different experience from Arch like even the installation is something entirely different
i am currently using mint right now cause when i installed arch it kinda was difficult for me, i couldnt even get propriatary nvidia drivers working at first but i got it in the end. do note my pc is potato and i needed to use older nvidia drivers so yeah. and i am comfortable at mint in general (not that arch is bad, infact its quite good and i love its aur and its helpful community) but just had to continue using mint personally
Who ? Me ? It begins with D and ends with an n. Which one ? I got Crunchies, Sparks, Mint flavored=Cinnamon tasting, some are umm Qt(cute)One speaks Argentine Spanish.One has feathers and they roll around a lot. Many are rate X----fce. None come from Africa and none are snappy. Most are very accurate ! 100% Bullseye ! 2 are nothing but damn bookworms and a bit of a pain in the ass...for a bit ;-). They''ll grow up after a couple of terminator type slaps. Uncle Sid needs to come over and kick a lil more bootay. Sometimes he's a bit slow to arrive. Like ol Aury is... but always is much better disciplined ! PS the only thumb up this reply will ever get is from a person with a serious geekizzm disorder ;-)
@@peterjansen4826 It's sometimes pain to configure, it's not that versatile, and it overall feels like a crutch. I'm perfectly fine with Dolphin as GUI file manager.
Peter Jansen The file managers I use the most (GUI-wise) are Caja & Dolphin, and there are specific reasons based on my Workflow & preferences. Mainly having an editable path, the way they connect to Network places (my FreeNAS servers, other network machines), and then the biggest reason: The right-click options for moving & copying files. I'm CONSTANTLY moving files & directories around to different locations, internal drives, FreeNAS, and so on. e.g. right-click, move-to, select location/folder. With Dolphin I love the options that are present directly within the options themselves AND/or via the full file browser window. However pcmanfm & vifm are on my list of options that I plan on looking into & testing to see if they work well for my use-case. Nautilus is okay, but when I was running Ubuntu based Distro's I would always install caja right away. Just my $0.02 😬
I want to let you know DT that the developers of qtile recently completely removed the Pacman widget from the built in widgets. It’s been deprecated for a long time and they finally decided to remove it.
DT, you gotta make a vid about firefox containers (the multi-account containers extension). Very little information out there about how to set it up properly and configure it to your liking.
I'll make one for you ! You prefer plastic,metal, galvanized or wood ? Trash containers come in many forms. Sounds like metal is best for you. Fire-resistant
Why bother with Firefox containers? Your OS keeps multiple instances of _every_ application running in different user accounts separated from each other already.
XFE, the X File Explorer, is a perfectly capable GUI file manager, and I think that it has even fewer dependencies and is even more lightweight than PCManFM. It is easy to install, configure, and theme in any GNU/Linux distribution and probably in any BSD. I do not know for sure why it is never mentioned in this sort of thing, but I suspect that has something to do with the fact that XFE is a standalone project rather than affiliated with any DE or WM. For any minimalist who needs a GUI file manager, I recommend taking a look at it. At any rate, it is nice to have some options; PCManFM, of course, is also great.
I only recently found and started watching your channel, just want to say hello. Full confession, I'm a long time FreeBSD guy though in the early 2000's I was on Slackware. I first found you because of your video about why you prefer Linux over BSD, and while I disagree with some of that, the other videos I've looked at so far are excellent, I love that someone is doing such awesome work in support of open source. This particular video satisfies a bunch of random curiosity by the way 😏 Cheers to you sir.
I have been following this channel for a while now. Interesting content! Keep it up! What linux distro would you suggest for a math professor? I use Davinci Resolve and Blender 3D extensively for my video lectures. The other programs I use are mostly cloud-based. So I want to try linux on a partition. The motivation is being able to customise almost everything(I hate windows-10 desktop) and I am really liking linux after watching all these videos. I have an Alienware Area 51m (i7-9700k, RTX 2070).
I love it. I would switch to it only because I could move the search bar to the bottom but I get desktop level ad blocking and Firefox's reader mode. All things I have grown accustomed to and it's all amazing!
I make all of my video thumbnails with Inkscape primarily, but I do copy/paste into GIMP when I need to do certain things. I spend most of my time doing visual work in Inkscape. On Arch I use Openbox/XFCE, but I've yet to dive into a real barebones window manager setup. I spend most of my time in Ubuntu/Gnome, but I run Elementary OS on all my laptops because I love the Gala window manager. When it comes to VM's/servers I run mostly Ubuntu in VMware Workstation Pro, but I used to keep a dedicated VMware ESXi server and access the VM's on Linux with VMware Workstation.
I know you want to learn linux but Linux from scratch is a project that one should do for fun in free time. It does not teach you nothing about programming and that level of knowledge about Linux is absolutely unnecessary. It is not even ideal for daily use.
@@spaghetta5497 It teaches you how to build linux from the source code available online. It doesn't teach you how to program. In simple terms lfs is like Gentoo but you build your own tar ball.
@@spaghetta5497 nothing teaches you programming other than programming. With LFS you're compiling already written software, it's gentoo with extra steps. You don't use a package manager or auto-buils gentoo offers, you type the command and compile and copy. At best it's a little bit of shell scripting not programming.
Hey DT, nice video :) good job. I have a recommendation and a questions: 1.) give emacs dired for file managing a chance (maybe its cool stuff for a video) 2.) can you make a video about emacs as windows email client (its really a tough task...) Thx and best regards from germany
I probably did watch your channel at the beginning, but never stuck around as I was only looking at Linux half seriously as I had no prior experience with it and and saw no need to switch for a good while as most things still worked and windows served my purposes just fine. Linux was simply an odd curiosity to me, whereas now I see it as more of a necessity. From jumping in the deep end a few months ago and playing around with it casually on dual boot/other physical machines for about a year or two, the level of freedom and vast amount of software just a few keystrokes away is amazing to put it simply. The only thing that annoys me really is system drivers, where certain software/games will randomly hang/misbehave at times without any obvious reason whereas they would perform perfectly otherwise. Once Linux performs with the same level of "just works" that windows offers and the streamlined UI of MacOS I really don't see a reason to use either of them.
Im trying to utilize DWM here and knowing your programs will somewhat help me not to make choosing to much bloated software for my system. =) I was used with XFCE which has a lot of functionalities that I use but some could be deactivated, maybe. =)
If you haven't looked at Krusader, you should do a side by side comparison of that with Midnight Commander. They look identical except one is terminal-based the other is a GUI. I like them both.
The # key in mpv should cycle audio tracks. For the more obscure binds I sometimes look up the manual on the website. (although now that I look at the man page, it seems to mention the same stuff)
Hey Distrohuggers, and Distrolovers, I guess you all heard there is a beta version in the wild of Fedora 33. Well I am here to tell you about Fedora 34, ( presently known as, "Rawhide" ) Fedora quietly works on Rawhide and it is my opinion they discourage users from trying it. Maybe that is an understatement. But there is often an unofficial iso to install, ( at your own risk, of course ). Today's Rawhide update was special. For one, the package manager is finally the stable version 4.16.0. I know you are saying whoopedie-doo. But one of my biggest gripes with rpm distros, is they could not all get on board with the direction of the package manager and used different versions, and now finally there is a stable 4.16 version. But you will likely have to be in Rawhide to get that. I doubt OpenMandriva, ROSA, Mageia, OpenSUSE have 4.16 yet, but let me know if I am wrong. Sometimes Rawhide does fall behind the other's developmental branch ( Cauldron, Cooker, etc ? ) on some specific item. In addition to that are the regular biweekly or weekly or bi-monthly type updates to packages. The kernel is the very latest you can get your hands on, unless you are on Torvald's kernel team. The lovely systemd is now the beloved 246.6-3. Qt is 5.15.1-5. hplip is 3.20.9-1. And some tweaks were done to Gnome-bluetooth. While I would not recommend you live in Rawhide, I live in it, and so I can vouch that it is feasible. But I do recommend people install it on metal just to see what it is and how it differs. In its present form, it only has a few packages different from the latest nightly iso of Fedora 33. And while I have your attention, a Ryzen 3 and 16 GB of RAM are fully capable of running Rawhide ( Gnome Workstation ). I got mine through www.aaawave.com My personal opinion about why Fedora is not more popular, is that they are short-handed on developers that really know how to fix bugs. For example, Fedora 33 is not out yet, due to several alleged blockers. Those alleged blockers would likely be fixed quicker if other developers in the Linux community had the spare time to help Fedora. But those people have their own priorities or not interested in rpm-based distros.
Hey DT look into the ion shell. Its made in Rust just like alacritty. It is being developed alongside Redox-OS, a huge undertaking to write a OS in Rust. The shell brings a lot of syntax that you'd see in a modern programming language into scripting. It looks cool.
It’s my third video since I have subscribed (I also seen other in the past) this is very interesting 🤔 I am just from a different world and I have an iPhone I use chrome and Microsoft VScode but it’s still interesting 🧐 to see different point of view ...
Stumpvm and ratpoison can be configured to use "normal keybinds" with super + whatever etc(with no escape key at all), and kinda need you to know gnu screen to not be too foreign. It's pretty cool idea actually I.e gnu screen for X. Not using it myself either, dwm user here, but did use ratpoison for a few years previously.
Very nice... Very nice. That xmonad has really caught my attention....i promised myself i wouldn't run and play with any new window managers...no no no...
While watching your video, I had a software idea. Something simple to map to a shortcut. It would read the clipboard and "insert" the files as drag and drop even into current window. This way you can grab anything in your terminal with xclip and then insert the files into a graphical application. What do you think? If I wasn't busy with another project, I would do it.
It is theoretically possible, but it has one issue Most of the software/websites that ask you to drag and drop files, have a specific designated box for dropping, and I honestly can't think of a way for a program to find exactly where that box is
@@artemis-arrow3098 For which application can't you think of? It depends on the program. In example in a graphical filemanager if you have filepath in the clipboard, then it would copy or move the files into the current focused window. There is no box to drop into at all. Most desktop applications don't need a box, just drag and drop or copy paste.
@@thingsiplay even in file managers, you still have a specific box for dropping, and that's the area where the files of the current directory are displayed You don't want to drop into the side bar, nor onto the options that are on top Sure, the area where you could drop is like, 90% of the window, but you still have to implement a way to locate it
@@thingsiplay on most TWMs the focus is where the mouse cursor is (assuming you didn't move using a shortcut) so, you'd have to move your cursor to a window, copy the file, move the cursor back to another window, and then press the shortcuts, at that point it's just too much to code that'd barely affect workflow in the slightest
You mentioned using vim because you're already in the terminal, but I believe there is a terminal version of emacs so you don't actually have to launch the full emacs.
Hey DT, what do you think about Vivaldi? I know it's bloated, but if you spend a lot of time on internet i feel like you have to use a bloated une just so everything works correctly. But if i research a topic i tend to open every link in a new tab and keep it if i find the site useful. And, when i get the information i want, god bless the multitab selection, right click, close 34 tabs. Maaaan just watching those tabs go is bliss. :-D
I might be kind of new to Linux in general, but how do you get that colorful topbar? Looks kind of nice and would also like to have that if it's possible.
It's the effect I was going for. I actually set my wallpapers to give me the desired lighting in my videos, since having three monitors right in front of me puts off a ton of light. I definitely can't have a light wallpaper on while recording, since it will completely wash me out.
hey dt time for an update video since firefox is dead. and audacity is gone. i'd also like more videos like your recent "screen shot top 5" im curious what other software suggestions there is. for the common user
Give a look to Kiwi browser on Android instead of Brave, has a similar set of features, ad blocker and those things and you can install extensions from the Chrome webstore, it also has a pretty sexy dark mode for all websites, besides recently it has become open source.
Hey DT, since you showed your phone on camera, are you running stock android on it? or do you have installed a custom ROM like lineageOS or something similar?
Maybe i'm just a little outdated, but didn't you say that Openbox was one of your faves a while ago? what happened? also, for the web browser, I be usin' Opera. the File manager program varies but I mainly switch between Dolphin, Nautilus, and PCmanFM (i don't use the qt version). Also, (you being a FOSS zealot and all [forgive me if I'm wrong about that]) I thought you'd have the Librem 5 or something like that.
Since I have gnome, kde, cinnamon, mate, lxde, lxqt and a bunch of WMs, I already have most libraries and of course dolphin as well. Also I use dolphin on gnome as well
One of the things I'd love in a proper terminal file manager is good support for MTP so I could easily transfer files to and from my phone. Idk why that protocol is such a pain to use but I've used mtp-connect and things like that in the past. It's a pain to be honest. I'd be ok with a lightweight graphical file manager if it could be used with the keyboard like what you showed. For that kind of use simple use case you often have to use bloated file managers like dolphin or nautilus.
Why i dont use brave? "Brave has been redirecting searches to crypto companies to affiliate links that give it a commission." The CEO has since apologized and said he'd never do it again but... if he thinks thats acceptable, what else does he think is acceptable that we dont know about right now?
@@arrtemfly DT uses a Chromium browser on his phone. The few addons on Fenix are already a big step up from what he's used to and Fenix is much more faster than Fennec so from his POV, Fenix would be the superior product.
I often hear you say that i3 is not a dynamic tiling window manager, and to some extent it is true, but it is so customizable that you can turn it into one: github.com/chlyz/i3ipc-dynamic-tiling.
Hey DT family. I am curious if anyone has experience with Xmonad with multiple monitors at multiple resolutions? I have an RX 6800 and have had issues with both Gnome and Windows 11. Windows pop up on screens that are turned off, scaling can be funny and monitors sometimes switch positions if I turn them on in the wrong order, just all kinds of weird stuff. I have zero issues on KDE Neon and Windows 10. Everything just acts how I would expect it to. I am installing to a thumb drive to test it but that is going to be super slow for me to daily drive with.
My music directory is its own partition on a second drive. But the contents of the directory are owned by my home user. I did a video about this: ruclips.net/video/tEnnEhziLn8/видео.html
Hey DT (or anyone else) what image preview tool do you use. I use feh because it’s lightweight but it does weird things with my tiling WM. I think I’m actually looking for something similar to the terminalfm where I have files on the left side and a preview on the right.
Not exactly that, but if you use the kitty terminal, it has what's known as kittens, basically python scripts to automate some shit, one of the default ones is called icat, it's used to display images in kitty (not a window on top of kitty, no, in the terminal itself, it's really neat)
Not sure for doom emacs, it may set some keybindings that recognized only with X session running, but emacs and emacsclient are working perfectly fine inside terminal, just run it with "-nw" flag: "emacs -nw" or "emacsclient -nw", I working with emacs in ssh terminal all the time ;)
oh, and by the way - mb you havent seen it yet - emacs have beautiful vterm and multi-vterm packages, where you can set all your keybindings to do whatever you want, it makes tmux/screen obsolete, and you have "text/terminal" toggle, so you can move around/copy your terminal history in one shortcut also, I like it very much.
i actually found a greasemoney script for qutebrowser that just speeds up youtube ads, so an ad will be on screen from anywhere between half a second to 2 seconds, it's great
Just got into linux, currently running Ubuntu, considering hopping to arch at some point but I'm going to continue to learn in Ubuntu for the time being. But your videos have been very comprehensive and helpful and I thank you for covering everything a new user would need to know to get there feet wet. I particularly like your videos because of honesty, consistency, and overall coverage. When I click on a video from you, I am comfortable immediately as you always have the new user in mind and I can not stress enough how thankful I am. :)
Don't feel compelled to jump to Arch just because many elitists claim to be the holy grail of the linux world, always use whatever keeps you happy, since most linux is free trying out what suits your taste is encouraged also Ubuntu with its apt and snap apps is a different experience from Arch like even the installation is something entirely different
i am currently using mint right now cause when i installed arch it kinda was difficult for me, i couldnt even get propriatary nvidia drivers working at first but i got it in the end. do note my pc is potato and i needed to use older nvidia drivers so yeah. and i am comfortable at mint in general (not that arch is bad, infact its quite good and i love its aur and its helpful community) but just had to continue using mint personally
@@zippycat first rule of Linux , don't blame yourself, blame Nvidia
@@guycohen4403 role?
@@tristen_grant rule*
-So what's your distro?
-Emacs.
Arch.
Instablaster...
Who ? Me ? It begins with D and ends with an n. Which one ? I got Crunchies, Sparks, Mint flavored=Cinnamon tasting, some are umm Qt(cute)One speaks Argentine Spanish.One has feathers and they roll around a lot.
Many are rate X----fce.
None come from Africa and none are snappy.
Most are very accurate ! 100% Bullseye !
2 are nothing but damn bookworms and a bit of a pain in the ass...for a bit ;-). They''ll grow up after a couple of terminator type slaps.
Uncle Sid needs to come over and kick a lil more bootay.
Sometimes he's a bit slow to arrive. Like ol Aury is... but always is much better disciplined !
PS the only thumb up this reply will ever get is from a person with a serious geekizzm disorder ;-)
@@dougtilaran3496 the thumbs up has arrived
Yeah, that's the gist of this video.
3 Years!!!! WOW! i think i found you on November 2017, it's been great to see you grow this way DT!
Hey, DT ! Thx for the stuff you've making on this channel.
ps. This hoodie is looking nice on you, heh.
Hey, thanks!
You can use dragon-drag-and-drop to drag and drop from the terminal
@UC0yppm6ZjmjEApkoj4Vir9Q c'mon, look it up
I'd never do so, it's just bad.
@@peterjansen4826 It's sometimes pain to configure, it's not that versatile, and it overall feels like a crutch. I'm perfectly fine with Dolphin as GUI file manager.
Peter Jansen The file managers I use the most (GUI-wise) are Caja & Dolphin, and there are specific reasons based on my Workflow & preferences. Mainly having an editable path, the way they connect to Network places (my FreeNAS servers, other network machines), and then the biggest reason: The right-click options for moving & copying files. I'm CONSTANTLY moving files & directories around to different locations, internal drives, FreeNAS, and so on. e.g. right-click, move-to, select location/folder. With Dolphin I love the options that are present directly within the options themselves AND/or via the full file browser window.
However pcmanfm & vifm are on my list of options that I plan on looking into & testing to see if they work well for my use-case.
Nautilus is okay, but when I was running Ubuntu based Distro's I would always install caja right away.
Just my $0.02 😬
Dragon drop is mega helpful.
I want to let you know DT that the developers of qtile recently completely removed the Pacman widget from the built in widgets. It’s been deprecated for a long time and they finally decided to remove it.
DT, you gotta make a vid about firefox containers (the multi-account containers extension). Very little information out there about how to set it up properly and configure it to your liking.
Thanks for the idea!
I'll make one for you ! You prefer plastic,metal, galvanized or wood ? Trash containers come in many forms. Sounds like metal is best for you. Fire-resistant
Why bother with Firefox containers? Your OS keeps multiple instances of _every_ application running in different user accounts separated from each other already.
XFE, the X File Explorer, is a perfectly capable GUI file manager, and I think that it has even fewer dependencies and is even more lightweight than PCManFM. It is easy to install, configure, and theme in any GNU/Linux distribution and probably in any BSD. I do not know for sure why it is never mentioned in this sort of thing, but I suspect that has something to do with the fact that XFE is a standalone project rather than affiliated with any DE or WM. For any minimalist who needs a GUI file manager, I recommend taking a look at it. At any rate, it is nice to have some options; PCManFM, of course, is also great.
Love you dt. Been watching you since last year.
Great work 🫰🏻🫰🏻🫰🏻 Thank you 💜💜💜
Wow congrats on 80k, i remember watching you at 5k subs.
10:44 "No one would install Dolphin unless they were running KDE."
Me: 👀
I've been using Bromite as browser on my android phone for a while now. Really been enjoying it.
I only recently found and started watching your channel, just want to say hello. Full confession, I'm a long time FreeBSD guy though in the early 2000's I was on Slackware. I first found you because of your video about why you prefer Linux over BSD, and while I disagree with some of that, the other videos I've looked at so far are excellent, I love that someone is doing such awesome work in support of open source. This particular video satisfies a bunch of random curiosity by the way 😏 Cheers to you sir.
I have been following this channel for a while now. Interesting content! Keep it up!
What linux distro would you suggest for a math professor? I use Davinci Resolve and Blender 3D extensively for my video lectures. The other programs I use are mostly cloud-based. So I want to try linux on a partition. The motivation is being able to customise almost everything(I hate windows-10 desktop) and I am really liking linux after watching all these videos. I have an Alienware Area 51m (i7-9700k, RTX 2070).
arch
I’d recommend Debian. It’s fast, stable, and is very well documented. It’s like Ubuntu without all the crap :D
Firefox on android has became amazing, it is fast and the ui is intuitive.
It's what I use on Android, but I still find Chrome to have much better performance.
I love it. I would switch to it only because I could move the search bar to the bottom but I get desktop level ad blocking and Firefox's reader mode. All things I have grown accustomed to and it's all amazing!
Well, the only thing FF is superior to Chrome is having sort of extensions. But FF is sluggish, it doesn't support any gestures, and it's a bit buggy.
@@night_h4nter used to be sluggish, it is not now.
@@RonnieNissan I've tried using it I guess a couple months ago. It was sluggish AF compared to Chrome.
I make all of my video thumbnails with Inkscape primarily, but I do copy/paste into GIMP when I need to do certain things. I spend most of my time doing visual work in Inkscape. On Arch I use Openbox/XFCE, but I've yet to dive into a real barebones window manager setup. I spend most of my time in Ubuntu/Gnome, but I run Elementary OS on all my laptops because I love the Gala window manager.
When it comes to VM's/servers I run mostly Ubuntu in VMware Workstation Pro, but I used to keep a dedicated VMware ESXi server and access the VM's on Linux with VMware Workstation.
The firefox mobile is also quite good. Especially with their most recent overhault it's quite unique
Hey DT, are you ever going to do a LFS install?
I know you want to learn linux but Linux from scratch is a project that one should do for fun in free time. It does not teach you nothing about programming and that level of knowledge about Linux is absolutely unnecessary. It is not even ideal for daily use.
@@spaghetta5497 LFS more teaches you how Linux and its components work.
@@spaghetta5497 That's not something I can really answer as I've never used gentoo.
@@spaghetta5497 It teaches you how to build linux from the source code available online. It doesn't teach you how to program. In simple terms lfs is like Gentoo but you build your own tar ball.
@@spaghetta5497 nothing teaches you programming other than programming. With LFS you're compiling already written software, it's gentoo with extra steps. You don't use a package manager or auto-buils gentoo offers, you type the command and compile and copy. At best it's a little bit of shell scripting not programming.
Hey DT,
nice video :) good job.
I have a recommendation and a questions:
1.) give emacs dired for file managing a chance (maybe its cool stuff for a video)
2.) can you make a video about emacs as windows email client (its really a tough task...)
Thx and best regards from germany
I probably did watch your channel at the beginning, but never stuck around as I was only looking at Linux half seriously as I had no prior experience with it and and saw no need to switch for a good while as most things still worked and windows served my purposes just fine. Linux was simply an odd curiosity to me, whereas now I see it as more of a necessity.
From jumping in the deep end a few months ago and playing around with it casually on dual boot/other physical machines for about a year or two, the level of freedom and vast amount of software just a few keystrokes away is amazing to put it simply.
The only thing that annoys me really is system drivers, where certain software/games will randomly hang/misbehave at times without any obvious reason whereas they would perform perfectly otherwise. Once Linux performs with the same level of "just works" that windows offers and the streamlined UI of MacOS I really don't see a reason to use either of them.
Im trying to utilize DWM here and knowing your programs will somewhat help me not to make choosing to much bloated software for my system. =) I was used with XFCE which has a lot of functionalities that I use but some could be deactivated, maybe. =)
If you haven't looked at Krusader, you should do a side by side comparison of that with Midnight Commander. They look identical except one is terminal-based the other is a GUI. I like them both.
The # key in mpv should cycle audio tracks. For the more obscure binds I sometimes look up the manual on the website. (although now that I look at the man page, it seems to mention the same stuff)
Hey Distrohuggers, and Distrolovers,
I guess you all heard there is a beta version in the wild of Fedora 33. Well I am here to tell you about Fedora 34, ( presently known as, "Rawhide" ) Fedora quietly works on Rawhide and it is my opinion they discourage users from trying it. Maybe that is an understatement. But there is often an unofficial iso to install, ( at your own risk, of course ). Today's Rawhide update was special. For one, the package manager is finally the stable version 4.16.0. I know you are saying whoopedie-doo. But one of my biggest gripes with rpm distros, is they could not all get on board with the direction of the package manager and used different versions, and now finally there is a stable 4.16 version. But you will likely have to be in Rawhide to get that. I doubt OpenMandriva, ROSA, Mageia, OpenSUSE have 4.16 yet, but let me know if I am wrong. Sometimes Rawhide does fall behind the other's developmental branch ( Cauldron, Cooker, etc ? ) on some specific item.
In addition to that are the regular biweekly or weekly or bi-monthly type updates to packages. The kernel is the very latest you can get your hands on, unless you are on Torvald's kernel team. The lovely systemd is now the beloved 246.6-3. Qt is 5.15.1-5. hplip is 3.20.9-1. And some tweaks were done to Gnome-bluetooth. While I would not recommend you live in Rawhide, I live in it, and so I can vouch that it is feasible. But I do recommend people install it on metal just to see what it is and how it differs. In its present form, it only has a few packages different from the latest nightly iso of Fedora 33.
And while I have your attention, a Ryzen 3 and 16 GB of RAM are fully capable of running Rawhide ( Gnome Workstation ). I got mine through www.aaawave.com
My personal opinion about why Fedora is not more popular, is that they are short-handed on developers that really know how to fix bugs. For example, Fedora 33 is not out yet, due to several
alleged blockers. Those alleged blockers would likely be fixed quicker if other developers in the Linux community had the spare time to help Fedora. But those people have their own priorities or not interested in rpm-based distros.
Hey DT look into the ion shell. Its made in Rust just like alacritty. It is being developed alongside Redox-OS, a huge undertaking to write a OS in Rust. The shell brings a lot of syntax that you'd see in a modern programming language into scripting. It looks cool.
You should check out penrose window manager. its a one man operation written from scrach in rust and is looking promising.
It’s my third video since I have subscribed (I also seen other in the past) this is very interesting 🤔 I am just from a different world and I have an iPhone I use chrome and Microsoft VScode but it’s still interesting 🧐 to see different point of view ...
Love your keynote DT - RTFM :-)
friend: what software do u us-
DT: *EMACS*
Stumpvm and ratpoison can be configured to use "normal keybinds" with super + whatever etc(with no escape key at all), and kinda need you to know gnu screen to not be too foreign. It's pretty cool idea actually I.e gnu screen for X. Not using it myself either, dwm user here, but did use ratpoison for a few years previously.
Very nice... Very nice. That xmonad has really caught my attention....i promised myself i wouldn't run and play with any new window managers...no no no...
While watching your video, I had a software idea. Something simple to map to a shortcut. It would read the clipboard and "insert" the files as drag and drop even into current window. This way you can grab anything in your terminal with xclip and then insert the files into a graphical application.
What do you think? If I wasn't busy with another project, I would do it.
It is theoretically possible, but it has one issue
Most of the software/websites that ask you to drag and drop files, have a specific designated box for dropping, and I honestly can't think of a way for a program to find exactly where that box is
@@artemis-arrow3098 For which application can't you think of? It depends on the program. In example in a graphical filemanager if you have filepath in the clipboard, then it would copy or move the files into the current focused window. There is no box to drop into at all. Most desktop applications don't need a box, just drag and drop or copy paste.
@@thingsiplay even in file managers, you still have a specific box for dropping, and that's the area where the files of the current directory are displayed
You don't want to drop into the side bar, nor onto the options that are on top
Sure, the area where you could drop is like, 90% of the window, but you still have to implement a way to locate it
@@artemis-arrow3098 It can just drop where the current focus is (or cursor).
@@thingsiplay on most TWMs the focus is where the mouse cursor is (assuming you didn't move using a shortcut)
so, you'd have to move your cursor to a window, copy the file, move the cursor back to another window, and then press the shortcuts, at that point it's just too much to code that'd barely affect workflow in the slightest
currently listening music and watching YT, when you started to talk The Beatles suddenly started to sing...
Please try a Wayland window manager like Sway!
You missed to mention nitrogen I know you use it and personnaly I prefer feh
Just use xwallpaper or hsetroot
@@ichaa3tech I thought I was the only one using Xwallpaper
@@Joe-ud1de Luke made a vid about it so it seems pretty popular to me.
You mentioned using vim because you're already in the terminal, but I believe there is a terminal version of emacs so you don't actually have to launch the full emacs.
Try: "emacs -nw file-to-open"
Thanks for sharing
I am from the very first video!
My distribution is Richard Stallman.
I'm so new I don't even know what I use.
Linux Mint Cinnamon edition. Go from there.
Hey DT, what do you think about Vivaldi? I know it's bloated, but if you spend a lot of time on internet i feel like you have to use a bloated une just so everything works correctly. But if i research a topic i tend to open every link in a new tab and keep it if i find the site useful. And, when i get the information i want, god bless the multitab selection, right click, close 34 tabs. Maaaan just watching those tabs go is bliss. :-D
Its not open-source.
Your awesome, been watching since early 2018 when i started doing more CLI stuff.
I might be kind of new to Linux in general, but how do you get that colorful topbar? Looks kind of nice and would also like to have that if it's possible.
love your content from india 😊
the combined lighting of monitors (blue) and lights (tungsten) make it look like some scenes from the joker movie
It's the effect I was going for. I actually set my wallpapers to give me the desired lighting in my videos, since having three monitors right in front of me puts off a ton of light. I definitely can't have a light wallpaper on while recording, since it will completely wash me out.
@@DistroTube cool stuff!
hey dt time for an update video since firefox is dead. and audacity is gone. i'd also like more videos like your recent "screen shot top 5" im curious what other software suggestions there is. for the common user
Give a look to Kiwi browser on Android instead of Brave, has a similar set of features, ad blocker and those things and you can install extensions from the Chrome webstore, it also has a pretty sexy dark mode for all websites, besides recently it has become open source.
Hey DT, since you showed your phone on camera, are you running stock android on it? or do you have installed a custom ROM like lineageOS or something similar?
DT, check the modus themes for Emacs, they are professional light and dark themes.
Maybe i'm just a little outdated, but didn't you say that Openbox was one of your faves a while ago? what happened?
also, for the web browser, I be usin' Opera. the File manager program varies but I mainly switch between Dolphin, Nautilus, and PCmanFM (i don't use the qt version).
Also, (you being a FOSS zealot and all [forgive me if I'm wrong about that]) I thought you'd have the Librem 5 or something like that.
I guess im no one, i use dolphin on bspwm
I use desktop icons on bspwm
Since I have gnome, kde, cinnamon, mate, lxde, lxqt and a bunch of WMs, I already have most libraries and of course dolphin as well. Also I use dolphin on gnome as well
Same
It's the best file manager. I'm also dependent on kdeconnect and I appreciate the integration between KDE's softwares.
I made i3 a dynamic tilling wm with a script found on a manjaro forum and it's great
I have in fact been here since the beginning. I have just changed accounts a few times.
One of the things I'd love in a proper terminal file manager is good support for MTP so I could easily transfer files to and from my phone. Idk why that protocol is such a pain to use but I've used mtp-connect and things like that in the past. It's a pain to be honest. I'd be ok with a lightweight graphical file manager if it could be used with the keyboard like what you showed. For that kind of use simple use case you often have to use bloated file managers like dolphin or nautilus.
WAT in a heck is wrong with me? Why I wasn't subscribed on your channel before?
When you hear someone else bring up using the font you have used since moving to Linux.
Why i dont use brave? "Brave has been redirecting searches to crypto companies to affiliate links that give it a commission." The CEO has since apologized and said he'd never do it again but... if he thinks thats acceptable, what else does he think is acceptable that we dont know about right now?
I'm sure this has been answered before, but what is the name of the bar at the top of DT's screen?
Why don’t you use Firefox on your phone? It even supports plugins.
the new update made it really shit ngl
@@arrtemfly DT uses a Chromium browser on his phone. The few addons on Fenix are already a big step up from what he's used to and Fenix is much more faster than Fennec so from his POV, Fenix would be the superior product.
Can't install owl dark mode in android version of Firefox.. That is sad..
nice video👍
I often hear you say that i3 is not a dynamic tiling window manager, and to some extent it is true, but it is so customizable that you can turn it into one: github.com/chlyz/i3ipc-dynamic-tiling.
Just a man and his machine.
Hey DT family. I am curious if anyone has experience with Xmonad with multiple monitors at multiple resolutions? I have an RX 6800 and have had issues with both Gnome and Windows 11. Windows pop up on screens that are turned off, scaling can be funny and monitors sometimes switch positions if I turn them on in the wrong order, just all kinds of weird stuff. I have zero issues on KDE Neon and Windows 10. Everything just acts how I would expect it to. I am installing to a thumb drive to test it but that is going to be super slow for me to daily drive with.
so which distro you use?
dt: actually i use gnu/linux based distro called blah blah blah yati yati yati
(arco)
Let me guess, you edit your videos on Emacs in the terminal
nice thinkpad in the back :) may I ask what model?
I think is the pineboox
@@oscarrzga4615 nope it's a Thinkpad. You can see that It has a trackpoint.
Why not use Firefox for mobile too? It will sync with desktop which is nice :)
The Reason is because we Like it
Subscribing in 2021 lelelele
Dude you have a distro? :)
Why not use vterm in emacs? Never need to use anything else lol. I would love more emacs content.
vterm is quite slow. Also I don't think it's a good idea to run a terminal within a single threaded application.
Are you going to be using the HURD kernel and go full blown emacs?
hi dt why all desktop windows manager dont have desktop icons ? I used their ugliness for me too finish task and place them not on the desktop
what about the things prompting when he opens terminal? that's kinda cool...
Brave ? Secure ? Why AVG antivirus spyware and Fakesbook appear in the cookies section all the time even when I haven´t installed it ?
i noticed that your home Music folder is owned by root. why is that?
My music directory is its own partition on a second drive. But the contents of the directory are owned by my home user. I did a video about this: ruclips.net/video/tEnnEhziLn8/видео.html
When are you going to try out Waymonad?
The only thing keeping me from switching to Alacritty is that it doesn't support font ligatures... yet.
Hey DT (or anyone else) what image preview tool do you use. I use feh because it’s lightweight but it does weird things with my tiling WM. I think I’m actually looking for something similar to the terminalfm where I have files on the left side and a preview on the right.
Not exactly that, but if you use the kitty terminal, it has what's known as kittens, basically python scripts to automate some shit, one of the default ones is called icat, it's used to display images in kitty (not a window on top of kitty, no, in the terminal itself, it's really neat)
@@artemis-arrow3098 that is super neat and I do use kitty. Gonna check that out for sure!
Not sure for doom emacs, it may set some keybindings that recognized only with X session running, but emacs and emacsclient are working perfectly fine inside terminal, just run it with "-nw" flag: "emacs -nw" or "emacsclient -nw", I working with emacs in ssh terminal all the time ;)
oh, and by the way - mb you havent seen it yet - emacs have beautiful vterm and multi-vterm packages, where you can set all your keybindings to do whatever you want, it makes tmux/screen obsolete, and you have "text/terminal" toggle, so you can move around/copy your terminal history in one shortcut also, I like it very much.
alias em=emacsclient -nw
is what I have in my rc file for quickly editing files directly in terminal.
-nw short for --no-window-system
since you are using a terminal emulator many graphical bells and whistles will probably remain active as well.
Yes, I did not get his hollow arguments about vim in term being more handy. Nonsense.
@@ArnaudMEURET He's working entirely with vim keys/commands in Emacs, so it makes more sense for him.
if you want to drag file from the terminal in lf/vifm/etc use dragon .. it is great for that
Since you talked about the phone. Do you use an open source OS for the phone or just the standard android?
@Him he is asking for the OS, in the video we can see his phone.
@Him yeah, sure!
I don't understand these terminals that default to a light colorscheme (white background with black text)
90+% of people don't want that lol.
Sweet wallpaper. Source?
Stumpwm ftw!!!!! :-D
Emacs Exwm is enough for me :-)
Nice !!!!
What software does DT really use? DOOM Emacs! 😀
But can Doom Emacs run Doom?
@@camerontgore yes it can.
Hei dt why you dont create your own linux distro build. Because we love your build
Cause he has a life? lol
I really like that coffee mug.
How were you able to hotkey Emacs to go directly to dired?
If you want proper ad blocker and also tracking & spyware blocker use and extention named Ublock origin for Firefox
What is the firefox extension that is a s with a box around it?
? What window manager would a person who has to use the computer with Accessibility on?
my fav is vifm but ranger is fine too ^^
Maybe it’s just me having trouble but could you do a video on setting up mu4e?
DuckDuckGo android browser is nice too.
i actually found a greasemoney script for qutebrowser that just speeds up youtube ads, so an ad will be on screen from anywhere between half a second to 2 seconds, it's great