It's part of the reason i'm so into FOSS and trying to make a move to Linux desktop permanently from windows. I know there's so much stuff out there like it that puts proprietary programs to shame and linux is the gateway to all of it.
I agree with you completely. Chromium will never be like firefox. Many people are abandoning firefox, but doesn't understand why that is wrong. People have been spoiled by mozilla still being able to keep firefox going, but if mozilla were to discontinue firefox, you'd lose the easiest entry software to libre software, and also become completely dependent on Google with Chromium.
VLC is not only media player, it also can convert media from one format to another, and stream media over network (via http for example) to another device, really cool app
So many people don't even think to use it for some reason. It also has the excellent feature of being able to show things with a different radix really easily, or scale up to plotting. Store temporary values with names.
As a calculator: SpeedCrunch. It can units, physical constants, functions (you can also define your own), different levels of precision, the works. Though I often find myself firing up a Python REPL as a calculator too.
Geany feels more like a lightweight IDE. I recommend Lite-XL if you just want something for editing text. Lite-XL also has Lua plugin support, and can do code editing and stuff, but it is also way more minimal out of the box.
VLC is one of the first apps I install on any of my OS' as I can use it on Windows or Linux. KDE generally comes with Dragon player and most of the time won't play movies off a NAS for some reason. VLC works a treat. The only thing I do that's a must is lower the buffer in settings as sometimes it will freeze with the default value. I also allow multiple instances when started from file manager (great when comparing two similar videos). And while I use Brave as a browser as well - Firefox is my default on everything whether it be WIndows or Linux on Laptops, phone and TV as I can easily sync data, plugins and passwords across devices regardless of OS. But yes, you do need to go through and change settings and telemetry. I've never used Qalculate before but I will be from now on. It has a convert function which I'd use all the time and works on multiple OS'. Cheers
VLC is the best free DVD player right now, because it has all but 1 de-interlacing filters included. The one of those included can mostly mimic the functionality of the missing filter. However, DO NOT take VLC screenshots if you can avoid it. VLC dulls the colours somehow, and I did test it. It's an unsolved problem.
My favorite way to use FlameShot is the delay. When I want to capture something from video, I find the exact moment, pause then un-pause to see how long it takes for the timer bar to disappear, roll the video back that amount prior to my desired location, set FlameShot delay to that amount of time +3 (for clicking), start FlameShot's screen capture and roll the video going to full screen.
I prefer mpv over VLC because it gets out of the way (similarly, I use qview or feh for viewing images). All of those I use maximized, zero window border and no window decoration/titlebar. They are just simply panes containing the media that have easy keyboard commands to move around in the video or directory of images.
I just switched to a new Firefox-based browser called Zen. It's privacy focused and kind of like a Firefox-based Arc or Vivaldi, but it's open source unlike Arc or Vivaldi.
I'm using it on a secondary machine but for the main one I'm still sticking with default Firefox with CSS, probably will switch when it's a bit more finished
@@machieu Understood. But I can say I haven't run into any noticable bugs or issues the last few days. I feel like as young as this browser is, it seems quite stable.
i was using LibreWolf as my daily driver when noone else ever thought of using it :D ... now it has reached this channel :D hehehe now we gonna take over the planet!!!!
Hey DT, I've been sitting on something for a while now and could use some honest feedback. For those who don't know, I own the TuxShow domain and channel, and I've been contemplating whether to take the plunge and fully develop it into something special for the Linux server community. ✨ The Potential Plan: 1. A Comprehensive Website - A hub for Linux server resources, community discussions, and in-depth tutorials. 2. A Podcast Series - Exploring Linux topics, interviewing industry experts, and sharing practical server management tips. 3. Video Tutorials - Clear, step-by-step guides to mastering Linux servers, aimed at everyone from newbies to seasoned pros. But here's the thing-I'm still on the fence about whether to go forward with it. Let me know your thoughts (Hamid from the patron chat) Thanks.
Thanks for reviewing these, DT. You always bring uniquely fresh viewpoints and wonderfully new content to your Subscribers. You are my favorite Linux channel -- along with Brody and ChrisT.
The Qalc command, the one in the CLI, has a REPL, which I personally find more comfortable, instead of providing the expression via args, since I usually tend to open up my terminal instead of opening up the GUI
When you played DigDug growing up but it wasn't until now, many, many years later, that you realize those black dots are his eyes and he's not actually in a suit of armor... 😦🤯
@@_Lumiere_ yea. Vlc on startup had color shifted lmao. Had to change some graphics settings to display properly. And on top of that, seek times are slower in comparison
VLC doesn’t even properly work on some codecs on Wayland, and personally the performance of MPV is just better overall, no 50+ms of lag when I scrub a few seconds.
I would recommend Haruna over VLC. It is a QT GUI for MPV and it has better video quality playback, HDR and support for styled .ass subtitles. VLC has strange blockyness to video playback. Though VLC does have some good features that make it a good secondary player.
This is what I use: editor: I use neovim for programming, and I use kwrite if I need to store some text temporarily. video player: mpv (Though I do have VLC installed, and I use it occasionally) screenshots: flameshot (It just works, and it has some useful tools like drawing, pixelation, etc. calculator: SpeedCrunch (it just works, and it is really powerful. For example you can save values as variables, and you can create custom functions) but if I want to do something at the command line, I usually use python. Either through the REPL, or like this: python -c 'print(2 * 2)' browser: firefox / florp (florp is a fork of firefox that I use when screen recording so that I don't accidentally leak anything private)
Pico is so much better. Nano is for losers. Pico is for winners! (For those who don't get the joke: pico and nano are pretty much identical hence arguing about which one is better is long arguing if the word "hello" is better than the word "hello")
I always switch my default to VLC mainly due to its cross-platform nature. One annoying thing is that the default keyboard shortcut for MacOS is not the same as other Win or Linux but I've gotten used to it.
i alias pico="nano" because i have no short term memory of the past 20 years. seriously though.. ctrl+w for find (where) drives me nuts when i'm connected through a web browser like guacamole or something.
Is there a way to get an iso file of your distro? I love your window manager and choice of apps so I was wondering if I can install the distro you're using (as it is) without much tinkering
I accidentally downloaded a blu-ray iso rather than a video file and thought I just wasted all this time downloading this tens of GB file but turns out VLC played it with no issue!
Flameshot looks really good. Curious what you think of Spectacle as a screenshot application. Been using it for a couple months and have really liked it after not having many good offerings on Windows. Thanks for the video!
Hey DT, I saw your video on Firefox and privacy issues (or maybe I had seen something prior about the telemetry enabled by default). I checked my Firefox settings (all default) on MX Linux (debian). All privacy impact features were disabled. I did some "research" and it looks like Debian and Mozilla came to a head with licensing regarding Debian's policy of shipping all software with non-free components disabled. This patching Debian was doing was technically in breach of Mozilla's license. I think this is when IceWeazal or some such briefly became a thing. But Debian won that battle and can now ship Firefox patched with all the creep disabled. My question is: "Do you acknowledge that the underlying distribution may affect the "free"-ness of some software?" It can be easy to say "This software has features you may not like...." but if the distro you're on disables them by default then it's not a worry. Case in point... Android has improved it's permissions system to the point where it doesn't matter if an app requires excessive permissions... they can all be disabled (rather, they have to be granted) at runtime....
A little thing that I don't like with vlc is how it handles subtitles. In vlc, you pick which text encoding to use in a static setting in the application. Then, when you play a video that has the subs in a different encoding, you get gobblygook and/or squares output. Then, when you change the setting to the correct encoding for the current subtitle text, it continues playing the video with nonsense output and only changes to use the newly chosen encoding after you stop the vid and start again. Most other media players use automatic encoding detection. Granted, auto detecting isn't perfect, but it's better.
Please explain why I can’t download Parrot OS via Firefox but I can via Chromium. I turned off extensions and still wasn’t able to download the ISO through Firefox and had to install Chrome just to download it. Btw, I was using Arch while trying to download the Parrot ISO.
How do you make your VLC look like that? Also does anyone know of any media player that can get metadata and basically act like plex? Lightweight and with/without server capabilities. I downloaded jellyfin but it's literally empty. New to linux
ASs a Windows (for now) user I thank you too. These are neat tools available on Win. As a 1st timer in Linux which distro would you recommend? Also, can you use dual boot to run Linus on the same machine as Win? I heard that you need a separate HD to install them separately, Win doesn't play along nicely w/ Linux installed on the same HD, it that true?
VLC is great from the past to this day. Only thing that bothers me about it is the library functionality. It would be nice if someone creates a plugin that makes the library function more like winamp back in the day when winamp was still alive. Those that have experienced winamp would probably understand what i mean.
New linux user here. I tried Flameshot to see if it could replace Greenshot (Windows), but I couldn't immediately find a way to name the screenshots with anything other than date and time. In Greenshot I named my files with date, time and window title. Is there a way to do that with Flameshot? I'm trying Spectacle now, it's supposed to catch window title as well, but for some reason it doesn't on my system (Pop OS). I don't just want a long list of files with only date and time, I use window title to help me find screenshots.
This is very true about windows. For the most part the included apps in a linux distro are all good. Not with windows. This is where linux is so different to windows. Windows comes with garbage included apps. I think microsoft doesn't want to compete with software developers. This means that the included apps will never be any good, if you use them allot you will need to find a replacement. e.g. notepad vs notepad++, examples are endless.
shout out to mplayer - I usually make sure to have both mplayer and vlc. mplayer has a much nice cmd line interface (in my opinion). I feel mplayer looks more professional in a theatre environment. But I use VLC for the GUI features - I have two dvd drives and can never remember which is which. Also some dvd titles do not have the main feature as the first title, which makes mplayer harder to use. But I find mplayer easier when it comes to applying special filters on cmd line for peculiar situations.
How tf do you get your vlc to look that nice. I use kde neon and it looks like crap with my theme set up. So much I deleted it in favor of haruna. As for the kde browser they have Firefox as a default but also make a file explorer that has internet browser capability called konqerer and a chromium based web browser called Falkon and while lacking a large extension library and drm support it's not that bad and I use it as my daily driver and chromium for any DRM tasks and it works just fine.
i like having 2 text editors, a real simple basic one as a config editor, and a full IDE like Pulsar or Zed. gedit is great on my Zorin Gnome install, but i haven't found one i really like on my Endeavour Plasma install, i haven't tried to slim down Kate, but i'll give that a try now i thought of it, but i've tried xed and gedit and there are few weirdnesses with how it behaves in Plasma, or more accurately how it behaves without Nautilus. i'm actually using Zed for the basics now too, its pretty simple when you don't have a project open.
as much as i like vlc i ran often into problems where there was codex lacking whereas mpv i somehow never did ? i don't know if it's a me specific issue but it happened at least a couple of times, ofc by design mpv is barebones and really strictly a video player, but i feel that if someone JUST wants a video player mpv is a decent option
Anyone have any recommendations for a good music player? My distro defaults to Celluloid (Which does fine I suppose), wondering if there are any commonly used better options. If there was something like WinAmp used to be back in the day, I would be ecstatic.
Hi @DistroTube, thanks for video. I'd like know, at 1minute 15 seconds into the video, what utility do you use that enables you have the panel to the right of your screen with the info ( CPU/RAM usage, and some qtile keybindings listed there)? I'm currently using hyperland and I'd like to setup something similar as well.
Hi! I love your content! Thank you for this! Would you share with me, what's you rectangle floating box is, where you have the clock, cpu, ram key bindings etc. was looking for it in your git repos but don't have a clue.
A couple of things... Gnome's default text editor is no-longer "gedit"... !! - Also, for GTK at least Celluloid is a /really/ great video player, that has all the features of VLC, for the most part, but hides them away behind keyboard shortcuts etc... so it behaves like a simpler video player when you don't need those features. Will definitely look at Geany tho.
VLC is the true "old reliable". no matter which distro i use, VLC just works. one of the most solid pieces of software of all time
Bein using vlc for more than 20years now
Been using it like 10 or 12 years now
It's part of the reason i'm so into FOSS and trying to make a move to Linux desktop permanently from windows. I know there's so much stuff out there like it that puts proprietary programs to shame and linux is the gateway to all of it.
@@francoisjohannes3648 I read your comment and thought "that's crazy"! Then I realized it has been about 18 years for me.
agreed, i get the mpv love too tho, both options we are lucky to have
Using Firefox since beta. I'm not switching from it. There needs to be a non chromium browser on the market.
I agree with you completely. Chromium will never be like firefox. Many people are abandoning firefox, but doesn't understand why that is wrong. People have been spoiled by mozilla still being able to keep firefox going, but if mozilla were to discontinue firefox, you'd lose the easiest entry software to libre software, and also become completely dependent on Google with Chromium.
Does librewolf count?
Ladybird will hopefully be ready in a few years 💔
@@Jdizzle111 I hope so
Pale moon?
VLC is not only media player, it also can convert media from one format to another, and stream media over network (via http for example) to another device, really cool app
VLC has proven to be quite useful for playing my personal Blu-Ray collection.
I once used it to watch Escape from LA rendered in coloured ACII. Alien looks pretty interesting in ACII too. Fits my Cyberpunk themed rice.
I think I used it as a screen recorder too.
Why does it just resize itself to full screen with black bars when a video loop starts over
Hence the title - Video LAN Client, although it can work as a server too. So you could run a TV channel from it.
My favourite calculator is the Python console
Real
@@lloydbush then you do floating point and eventually it messes up
bc is even more fastly accessible
So many people don't even think to use it for some reason. It also has the excellent feature of being able to show things with a different radix really easily, or scale up to plotting. Store temporary values with names.
Qalculate also has a Qt UI for us KDE people too :)
I kinda prefer the gtk version, even on KDE, but both are good :)
As a calculator: SpeedCrunch.
It can units, physical constants, functions (you can also define your own), different levels of precision, the works.
Though I often find myself firing up a Python REPL as a calculator too.
My all time favorite calculator always been this Java calculator. superbcalc
Qalculate has everything you said btw
Geany feels more like a lightweight IDE. I recommend Lite-XL if you just want something for editing text. Lite-XL also has Lua plugin support, and can do code editing and stuff, but it is also way more minimal out of the box.
VLC is one of the first apps I install on any of my OS' as I can use it on Windows or Linux. KDE generally comes with Dragon player and most of the time won't play movies off a NAS for some reason. VLC works a treat. The only thing I do that's a must is lower the buffer in settings as sometimes it will freeze with the default value. I also allow multiple instances when started from file manager (great when comparing two similar videos).
And while I use Brave as a browser as well - Firefox is my default on everything whether it be WIndows or Linux on Laptops, phone and TV as I can easily sync data, plugins and passwords across devices regardless of OS. But yes, you do need to go through and change settings and telemetry.
I've never used Qalculate before but I will be from now on. It has a convert function which I'd use all the time and works on multiple OS'. Cheers
for kde plasma vlc is a must, gstreamer backends are stalled or undeveloped so installing vlc is doing yourself a favor.
VLC is the best free DVD player right now, because it has all but 1 de-interlacing filters included. The one of those included can mostly mimic the functionality of the missing filter.
However, DO NOT take VLC screenshots if you can avoid it. VLC dulls the colours somehow, and I did test it. It's an unsolved problem.
My favorite way to use FlameShot is the delay. When I want to capture something from video, I find the exact moment, pause then un-pause to see how long it takes for the timer bar to disappear, roll the video back that amount prior to my desired location, set FlameShot delay to that amount of time +3 (for clicking), start FlameShot's screen capture and roll the video going to full screen.
I prefer mpv over VLC because it gets out of the way (similarly, I use qview or feh for viewing images). All of those I use maximized, zero window border and no window decoration/titlebar. They are just simply panes containing the media that have easy keyboard commands to move around in the video or directory of images.
thanks to you and others mentioning some cool features of mpv. i'm going to try it.
Qalculate has both gtk and qt versions. Graphical user interface requirements:
GTK (>= 3.10) or Qt (>= 5.6)
libqalculate (>= 5.2.0)
I just switched to a new Firefox-based browser called Zen. It's privacy focused and kind of like a Firefox-based Arc or Vivaldi, but it's open source unlike Arc or Vivaldi.
I will try it out....
I'm using it on a secondary machine but for the main one I'm still sticking with default Firefox with CSS, probably will switch when it's a bit more finished
@@machieu Understood. But I can say I haven't run into any noticable bugs or issues the last few days. I feel like as young as this browser is, it seems quite stable.
@@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb I've gotten a bunch of crashes on it on linux, but other than that is mostly fine.
@@pylotlight Ah interesting. No problems on Void Linux with it for me. But Zen Browser is allpha software, so I guess it should be expected.
VLC is also my go-to. Very useful. I installed Librewolf.
i was using LibreWolf as my daily driver when noone else ever thought of using it :D ... now it has reached this channel :D hehehe now we gonna take over the planet!!!!
Also I learned about Tabliss extension from your videos, love it.
Hey DT, I've been sitting on something for a while now and could use some honest feedback. For those who don't know, I own the TuxShow domain and channel, and I've been contemplating whether to take the plunge and fully develop it into something special for the Linux server community.
✨ The Potential Plan:
1. A Comprehensive Website - A hub for Linux server resources, community discussions, and in-depth tutorials.
2. A Podcast Series - Exploring Linux topics, interviewing industry experts, and sharing practical server management tips.
3. Video Tutorials - Clear, step-by-step guides to mastering Linux servers, aimed at everyone from newbies to seasoned pros.
But here's the thing-I'm still on the fence about whether to go forward with it.
Let me know your thoughts (Hamid from the patron chat)
Thanks.
Ngl, I think it can be a good idea. But, I feel like it's gonna be a difficult endeavor.
I subscribed to you just in case
Thanks for reviewing these, DT. You always bring uniquely fresh viewpoints and wonderfully new content to your Subscribers. You are my favorite Linux channel -- along with Brody and ChrisT.
The Qalc command, the one in the CLI, has a REPL, which I personally find more comfortable, instead of providing the expression via args, since I usually tend to open up my terminal instead of opening up the GUI
big fan of the theme and style you have going
Geany evolves a lot since the last years. Is amazing
Derek, them glasses mad fresh!
When you played DigDug growing up but it wasn't until now, many, many years later, that you realize those black dots are his eyes and he's not actually in a suit of armor... 😦🤯
Now this is the type of subject that makes me subscribe
MPV > VLC
anyone else?
Straight up works better than vlc for me. Had issues with vlc on fedora for some reason, flatpak, too.
@@_Lumiere_ yea. Vlc on startup had color shifted lmao. Had to change some graphics settings to display properly. And on top of that, seek times are slower in comparison
VLC doesn’t even properly work on some codecs on Wayland, and personally the performance of MPV is just better overall, no 50+ms of lag when I scrub a few seconds.
I've basically always ended up having to juggle both. I like MPV's UI more though.
Aymen
Hey, this was a nice video. I would like it a lot if you did more of these.
I would recommend Haruna over VLC. It is a QT GUI for MPV and it has better video quality playback, HDR and support for styled .ass subtitles.
VLC has strange blockyness to video playback. Though VLC does have some good features that make it a good secondary player.
.. ass?
Good recommendations.
I fell in love with qalculate S2
This is what I use:
editor: I use neovim for programming, and I use kwrite if I need to store some text temporarily.
video player: mpv (Though I do have VLC installed, and I use it occasionally)
screenshots: flameshot (It just works, and it has some useful tools like drawing, pixelation, etc.
calculator: SpeedCrunch (it just works, and it is really powerful. For example you can save values as variables, and you can create custom functions) but if I want to do something at the command line, I usually use python. Either through the REPL, or like this: python -c 'print(2 * 2)'
browser: firefox / florp (florp is a fork of firefox that I use when screen recording so that I don't accidentally leak anything private)
Nano is the best text editor of all time. No learning curve, no tutorials, just you and your lines of code.
Pico is so much better. Nano is for losers. Pico is for winners! (For those who don't get the joke: pico and nano are pretty much identical hence arguing about which one is better is long arguing if the word "hello" is better than the word "hello")
😮
I legit have a harder time exiting nano than vim
@@The1mAgiN4ry- I once had to format my HDD with an axe to get out of VIM.
Thanks for sharing this video.
Geany is my favorite for programming. Very light and adaptable.
thx for flameshot
I always switch my default to VLC mainly due to its cross-platform nature. One annoying thing is that the default keyboard shortcut for MacOS is not the same as other Win or Linux but I've gotten used to it.
Mine are
Light editor: mousepad
Video player: mpv
Screenshot: also flameshot
Calculator: fend
Browser: firefox
How did you customize your brave homepage with your links and the search in the middle? It looks so good
this is the best video that I've come across. Where can I drop a donation to you??? you are a great fellow respect to you
100% agree. Mpv is much better for video, I even love the simple but absolutely sufficient interface
I love mpv media player and I'm a firefox lover....👍
I'm pretty comfortable with KDE, kate, konsole, haruna, dolphin, spectacle and settings. For me are one of the best apps on all the market share.
In my opinion, Konsole is the best terminal on ANY desktop or distro.
I frequently prefer Krusader to Dolphin, I know dolphin has a multi-pane mode but not fond of it.
@@code8986 doesnt integrate well with other desktops
10:05 is this some kind of new tab extension or a custom homepage? where can I find it?
i really like when a distro lets me pick my de. let me pick everything at setup time.
Hey DT, You make me love Linux. I have always wanted to switch to Mac but everytime I come back and watch such videos.
great video
Libre wolf is my go to for every os
At 10:04 Please let me know start page extension name. Thank you.
I install Micro at every distro installation because Nano shortcuts are disturbing.
I install vim every time because Nano shortcuts are disturbing
I install Emacs at every distro because I don't like my pinky.
i alias pico="nano" because i have no short term memory of the past 20 years.
seriously though.. ctrl+w for find (where) drives me nuts when i'm connected through a web browser like guacamole or something.
You're trolling
@@averagejoey2000agreed, it's such an easier text editor, it has even less shortcuts than nano!
Your desktop setup look sleek . Can you do a video how to set it up ?
what is the statusbar u are using?
Checked for apps better than the defaults; instead find the most default-vanilla apps of all time. Baited.
The best GUI calculator out there is SpeedCrunch, which is also cross-platform across Linux, Windows, and Mac.
Is there a way to get an iso file of your distro? I love your window manager and choice of apps so I was wondering if I can install the distro you're using (as it is) without much tinkering
I accidentally downloaded a blu-ray iso rather than a video file and thought I just wasted all this time downloading this tens of GB file but turns out VLC played it with no issue!
What is the desklet you are running for CPU and RAM load?
I'd like to know this as well
I want to know as well
Conky
Flameshot looks really good. Curious what you think of Spectacle as a screenshot application. Been using it for a couple months and have really liked it after not having many good offerings on Windows. Thanks for the video!
Hey DistortUbe!
Can i know how you added that system controll on right side bar with hyprland
Great video, but very weird bots in the comment section.
I get that a lot of people just love VLC, but I'm not one of them. I find the mpv wrappers very superior, e.g Mplayer, Smplayer
They work very nice yes, just being using vlc for over 20years, so not going to change. But yeah they nice
@@francoisjohannes3648 In truth I was spoiled by PotPlayer in my Windows days, and that made me picky wrt video players
@m4ss1ck: Agree 100% with you man!
Replacements that are still Firefox based: Waterfox, Floorp, Palemoon, LibreWolf.
Hey DT, I saw your video on Firefox and privacy issues (or maybe I had seen something prior about the telemetry enabled by default). I checked my Firefox settings (all default) on MX Linux (debian). All privacy impact features were disabled. I did some "research" and it looks like Debian and Mozilla came to a head with licensing regarding Debian's policy of shipping all software with non-free components disabled. This patching Debian was doing was technically in breach of Mozilla's license. I think this is when IceWeazal or some such briefly became a thing. But Debian won that battle and can now ship Firefox patched with all the creep disabled. My question is: "Do you acknowledge that the underlying distribution may affect the "free"-ness of some software?" It can be easy to say "This software has features you may not like...." but if the distro you're on disables them by default then it's not a worry. Case in point... Android has improved it's permissions system to the point where it doesn't matter if an app requires excessive permissions... they can all be disabled (rather, they have to be granted) at runtime....
What window manager do you use?
qtile
A little thing that I don't like with vlc is how it handles subtitles.
In vlc, you pick which text encoding to use in a static setting in the application. Then, when you play a video that has the subs in a different encoding, you get gobblygook and/or squares output.
Then, when you change the setting to the correct encoding for the current subtitle text, it continues playing the video with nonsense output and only changes to use the newly chosen encoding after you stop the vid and start again.
Most other media players use automatic encoding detection. Granted, auto detecting isn't perfect, but it's better.
What keyboard do you use? It sounds amazing
im more interested how to make new tab in brave to look like that in windows brave im still planning on moving to linux 10:18
I think with a plugin called Tabliss. He mentions it down below. I'm going to look for his video on it right now...
Please explain why I can’t download Parrot OS via Firefox but I can via Chromium. I turned off extensions and still wasn’t able to download the ISO through Firefox and had to install Chrome just to download it. Btw, I was using Arch while trying to download the Parrot ISO.
How do you make your VLC look like that?
Also does anyone know of any media player that can get metadata and basically act like plex? Lightweight and with/without server capabilities. I downloaded jellyfin but it's literally empty.
New to linux
ASs a Windows (for now) user I thank you too. These are neat tools available on Win. As a 1st timer in Linux which distro would you recommend? Also, can you use dual boot to run Linus on the same machine as Win? I heard that you need a separate HD to install them separately, Win doesn't play along nicely w/ Linux installed on the same HD, it that true?
How about a good file manager?
That's mission critical.
Pcmanfm-qt is very lightweight and fully functional for me, not perfect but it has some neat features like quick keyword filtering of files
Midnight Commander.
@@saszabI like MC but the missing preview icons...
Ranger is fine
VLC is great from the past to this day. Only thing that bothers me about it is the library functionality.
It would be nice if someone creates a plugin that makes the library function more like winamp back in the day when winamp was still alive.
Those that have experienced winamp would probably understand what i mean.
Hey DT! Do you recommend some note / to do application, alternative of notion or Evernote, thanks!!
I’m using Brave too but I’m curious how did you set up your home page?
Check out my video on the browser plug-in Tabliss, for Firefox and Chrome based browsers.
@@DistroTube thanks
1:14 Gedit was replaced by the new GNOME Text Editor since GNOME 42.
I used to use VLC by default back in the days before streaming. What do you guys use VLC for these days?
New linux user here. I tried Flameshot to see if it could replace Greenshot (Windows), but I couldn't immediately find a way to name the screenshots with anything other than date and time. In Greenshot I named my files with date, time and window title. Is there a way to do that with Flameshot? I'm trying Spectacle now, it's supposed to catch window title as well, but for some reason it doesn't on my system (Pop OS).
I don't just want a long list of files with only date and time, I use window title to help me find screenshots.
This is very true about windows. For the most part the included apps in a linux distro are all good. Not with windows. This is where linux is so different to windows. Windows comes with garbage included apps. I think microsoft doesn't want to compete with software developers. This means that the included apps will never be any good, if you use them allot you will need to find a replacement. e.g. notepad vs notepad++, examples are endless.
brother, even in Windows VLC is the GOAT.
I've never used another player for the last 10 years
shout out to mplayer - I usually make sure to have both mplayer and vlc. mplayer has a much nice cmd line interface (in my opinion). I feel mplayer looks more professional in a theatre environment. But I use VLC for the GUI features - I have two dvd drives and can never remember which is which. Also some dvd titles do not have the main feature as the first title, which makes mplayer harder to use. But I find mplayer easier when it comes to applying special filters on cmd line for peculiar situations.
I want to run blue ray movie app and voice to text app plz..
How tf do you get your vlc to look that nice. I use kde neon and it looks like crap with my theme set up. So much I deleted it in favor of haruna. As for the kde browser they have Firefox as a default but also make a file explorer that has internet browser capability called konqerer and a chromium based web browser called Falkon and while lacking a large extension library and drm support it's not that bad and I use it as my daily driver and chromium for any DRM tasks and it works just fine.
Why does ur vlc look different?
I agree with VLC.
i like having 2 text editors, a real simple basic one as a config editor, and a full IDE like Pulsar or Zed. gedit is great on my Zorin Gnome install, but i haven't found one i really like on my Endeavour Plasma install, i haven't tried to slim down Kate, but i'll give that a try now i thought of it, but i've tried xed and gedit and there are few weirdnesses with how it behaves in Plasma, or more accurately how it behaves without Nautilus. i'm actually using Zed for the basics now too, its pretty simple when you don't have a project open.
as much as i like vlc i ran often into problems where there was codex lacking whereas mpv i somehow never did ? i don't know if it's a me specific issue but it happened at least a couple of times, ofc by design mpv is barebones and really strictly a video player, but i feel that if someone JUST wants a video player mpv is a decent option
How does VLC compare to the Adobe version like - Sound Forge?
Disagree on vlc, on windows vlc is Excellent. On linux its less..good I stick to mpv
I like MPV and I also love SMplayer too! I agree on your opinion on VLC for Linux!
@@ezequielortiz4188 yes I use these two also mpv and smplayer
I do like vlc but for me, I found that MPV seems to would a lot faster for general video files
Does vlc have Wayland version? Last time i used it it was blurry and laggy
ubuntu's screenshotting thing works very well I find. Not sure what it is.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good music player? My distro defaults to Celluloid (Which does fine I suppose), wondering if there are any commonly used better options.
If there was something like WinAmp used to be back in the day, I would be ecstatic.
Hi @DistroTube, thanks for video. I'd like know, at 1minute 15 seconds into the video, what utility do you use that enables you have the panel to the right of your screen with the info ( CPU/RAM usage, and some qtile keybindings listed there)?
I'm currently using hyperland and I'd like to setup something similar as well.
Conky
Funny thing, last time I watched video on my desktop was probably 5 years ago or so
Hi! I love your content! Thank you for this! Would you share with me, what's you rectangle floating box is, where you have the clock, cpu, ram key bindings etc. was looking for it in your git repos but don't have a clue.
A couple of things... Gnome's default text editor is no-longer "gedit"... !! - Also, for GTK at least Celluloid is a /really/ great video player, that has all the features of VLC, for the most part, but hides them away behind keyboard shortcuts etc... so it behaves like a simpler video player when you don't need those features. Will definitely look at Geany tho.
I am afraid that Flameshot doesn't work well with Wayland...
i fecomend kde's spectacle for wayland
hey DT!
Hey dt. Would appreciate if you can do a vid on yazi file manager. I've recently found the app and the app is great.
yazi is a godsend. i use it everywhere.
What kind of name is yazi have to be careful with autocorrect lol
Thanks DT -- Always like your tech type vids. Learn something with everyone...
NeoVim is the best text editor tho 😤
So.. what if i use arch btw