Hi folks- so apparently RUclips is now doing a thing where they auto-dub my video into other languages. I have questions. But before I turn it off, I want to know what non-English-speaking viewers are experiencing. If you like or dislike this feature, can you let me know here via reply? If it gets to be a real nuisance I'll happily disable that feature. For all I know I'm being mistranslated!
So someone I know listened to the Spanish translation just now and was concerned that the context wasn't right. Ugh. I'm sorry if folks are getting a bad experience, please let me know what you all think and I'll see what I can do about disabling whatever this new dubbing feature is.
@Andreradio1 Irmão, vi teu comentário sobre a legenda automática e o quanto foi importante para ti. Neste comentário da Veronica a que estou respondendo agora, ela diz o seguinte: "Olá, turma! Então... aparentemente o RUclips agora está numa de legendar automaticamente meus vídeos para outras línguas. Tenho algumas perguntas a respeito. Mas antes de desligar tal função, eu gostaria de saber como está sendo a experiência daqueles que falam outras línguas. Se você gosta ou não da funcionalidade, poderia, por gentileza, informar-me via resposta? Caso se revele um incômodo, desativá-la-ei com prazer. Até onde tenho sido informada, estou sendo muito mal traduzida!
@@VeronicaExplains I'm from Brazil. The comment from @Andreradio1 about this called my attention. It was written in Portuguese and here's my translation of it: "Today I watched for the first time a video with RUclips's autodub feature. I was suprised and happy! I felt closer. I'm from Recife, northeast Brazil. Congratulations for your work, I've been following you for years! Merry Christmas! God bless you!!"
Hi Veronica, thanks for this question! I'm German and get the auto-generated German translation (here and on other RUclips channels). It is pretty annoying for me because it ruins the entertaining and authentic style of your videos. The auto-generated voice is super boring and I cannot really imagine anyone would like to listen to that. My English is certainly not the best and I don't get everything you tell, but IMHO the original soundtrack is a must for your channel. I guess there are probably not so many people who are interested in Linux but don't speak English at all.
I'd say leave it. I'm from West Africa and speak excellent English. But I believe in Linux and it's changed my life as someone from a third world it gives me hope. I can't imagine someone from a third world and what will change his life is in a language he doesn't understand. RUclips should give option of listening in original language and subtitles.
I'm a Linux user, not a pro at all. I've been this way for over 20 years. Mint is my distro of choice. Very stable, everything works on my laptop, I can play all my games, emulators, and retro PC games. (Thanks Lutris). I recommend anyone that is OS curious to try Linux.
Mint is by far my favorite distro for desktop. I find Cinnamon to be incredibly intuitive and conducive to my work flow without needing to customize. There's other options that are more shiny and modern looking but I've never found anything that just works the way Mint + Cinnamon does.
Same here. I started with Mint a year ago. Curious about Arch so I installed it on my laptop. Tried out KDE and a couple WMs. But I'm back to Cinnamon. It just works great. It's simple. Feels like my cozy little home.
I have been using Linux since 1994 (Yikes!) That was a Slackware distribution that came on 4,283 floppies! (For those suffering from numerical OCD…that's an exaggeration.) I consider myself a semi-expert as I have not contributed to the kernel. I recently switched to Mint because it's the easiest way to DO things.
I love btop-it's gorgeous, and I find it conveys important information way better than htop or glances. Unfortunately, it requires a minimum width and height that are below what I get on my phone's ssh client, so it can never be my _sole_ top.
I've been an XFCE user for over a decade, ever since I felt Gnome getting slower and taking away configurations. At this point, it's what I'm used to, it always works for me, and is lightweight for even my older hardware.
@@moocapiean XFCE is pretty nice. All they need to do is add proper Wayland support along with per ponitor fractional scaling and it's a perfect no fuss environment.
@@pedroalbuquerquebs yes to everything, except please stop calling it "fractional scaling" - it's HiDPI, except if you mean GNOME's (past) horrible implementation.
Out of curiosity, have you tried Mate? It's supposedly a lot like classic Gnome 2. I never cared for Gnome 2, and used XFCE and occasionally KDE 3 back in the day. Personally (and I know this will sound weird), I didn't care for Gnome until 3 came around; I use it about 75% of the time now.
I'm not even a beginner yet, but I am very fond of how patiently you balance an understanding of newcomers with anticipatory snark towards splainers who have validation issues! You've helped me make some choices about what I'll be exploring on my old MacBook's Linux partition, and I thank you.
Yeah almost all Linux youtube channels give their personal opinion on Linux which always results in all Linux users fighting in the comments. Just because nobody can agree and all want their opinion to be the only valid one. So much for what you can call it a community. But this channel is different, Veronica just does what she promises: explaining!
About fractional scaling: Support for this has gotten better, and on most DEs and Compositors it's basically free performance-wise now. I'm using a 13 inch laptop with a 2256x1504 display, and fractional scaling is very necessary there. To get equivalent ui size feel to what a 1080p monitor provides, I need a scale of 1.175x. As for performance: If implemented properly, Wayland fractional scaling actually costs no performance at all: The UI isn't scaled as an extra step after rendering, rather each supporting application calculates how big in actual device pixels it should render its content, and renders it accordingly. There are some applications that don't support it yet, and in that case it does cost performance: In those cases, the application renders at 2x and is manually scaled down by the compositor, but the performance hit is still relatively low as long as the app doesn't do software rendering. Apps that render this way will also sometimes look slightly blurry due to the manual scaling.
I gave my wife a 10 year old laptop with Linux Mint Mate and as a non technical Windows user she had no problem adapting to the OS. I wrote a couple of scripts to dim the screen and shut down, but apart from that it’s exactly as it comes out of the box. Fast, crash free and perfect for non technical end users.
Hoje foi a primeira vez que assisti o video com dublagem nativa do RUclips. Fiquei surpreso e feliz. Me senti mais próximo. Sou do Recife, Nordeste do Brasil. Parabéns pelo trabalho, há anos te acompanho. Feliz natal! Deus te abençoe!!
The one thing I dislike with Wayland is that sometimes the applications default to the Wayland icon rather than the icons I want. But that's on an app level, not a desktop environment level, and I hope it will eventually get fixed.
This is actually a limitation of Wayland. Currently, applications are not allowed to set their own window icons - your desktop environment has to look up the corresponding icon from a .desktop file. If the application is not installed globally, the icon won't be found.
There's a Wayland protocol in the works to fix that (XDG top-level icon) in the mean time, on Plasma, you can set a window rule to fix your favorite applications.
13:01 I use Windows extensively, and I need to point out that complaints about appearances are far greater than one might imagine. Whenever a new update comes out and they uses a new style of windows that calls to an older style of windows, oh boy, the people will complain. I also use mac a lot too, and they have similar complains, albeit in less volume. I will even say that Windows users will accept a lot of sh*t from the OS yet hate that some things still look "old"
Thank you Amiga voice for making things clear. Oh how I miss you. We really are spoiled for choice in Linux. Love you Veronica. Merry whatever holiday you celebrate.
Not only is Mint great for beginners, but you can add whatever window manager on top of it that you want. Following a DT video about "becoming a Mint power user", I installed awesome wm (a tiling window manager for those not aware) over top Cinnamon and used that as my default. It took me out of my comfort zone and required me to acquaint myself with the terminal, which has been very handy to learn for Linux.
I installed Mint on this laptop because I heard someone call it "Kubuntu done right." While my experience has taught me that it's a reasonable description, it did get me confused into thinking it was running some heavily modified KDE for a while. Because who's going to look at this Windows 7 style layout and assume it's forked from Gnome of all things? Once I learned the truth, I had so much more respect for what they've done. Building your own DE, complete with making a full suite of default apps, is no small task, but anyone serious enough to go through with it probably knows what they're doing. While I wouldn't describe my experience with Kubuntu as frustrating, it's been fun discovering that all the issues I had with it instantly disappeared when I switched.
I also think the Cinnamon folks have done wonders and I applaud their standing up to the GNOME tyranny - but whoever described mint to you as "Kubuntu done right" had made you a disservice. It's maybe "Ubuntu done right".
I use KDE on my desktop PC, I use XFCE on my laptop. Both of these run Debian. However i use Windowmaker on NetBSD on an SBC (not Raspi, olimex a20 micro, allwinner a20 SoC).
I'm looking forward to XFCe devs finally getting moved over to Wayland. The _only_ problem I encountered with XFCe was needing to use a script to force windows to switch outputs, which worked sporadically and needed spammed, but it _did_ work on fullscreen windows that steal control of the mouse and keyboard... which was nice for Windows games that open themselves wherever the heck the feel like. Also super hyped for Cosmic's beta. Depending on how that works. GNOME had the my favorite workflow when customized, but the add-ons are constantly broken by devs and there are countless stupid decisions made by the GNOME devs. Wayfire does everything I wanted from GNOME and more. Though, right now I'm using Hyprland. Don't even like tiling window managers. Hyprland is just that nice.
IIRC, I had a machine with slow graphics at work, and Gnome took away the "don't show contents while dragging" option. When people brought it up, the response was literally "you don't need that."
Please explain how to do system snapshots including whether/how to save them to a USB drive (how big should it be?), and the relative pros and cons of rsync vx btrfs. Also, what is a rational schedule? Timeshift vs. BTRFS Assistant, etc. would be nice too. I'm a 74 year old Linux noob since 2005 (not to imply that I wasn't 55 in 2005) and I love your channel.
Rsync vs. BTRFS is a comparison I didn't think about until now. I guess both can be used for backups? From my perspective (and most IT people) a "backup" isn't "keeping another copy of your files and syncing them from time to time". If you can't restore to a point in time n backups ago, you aren't backing up and you are just one failure away from losing your data - which is why I recommend restic.
@@guss77 You bring up another good point for Veronica to cover if she discusses snapshots: the (big) difference between a system snapshot and a data backup, and why it would be foolish to use, for example, Timeshift or BTRS Assistant to back up your files. I would never suggest that rsync or BTRFS be used for backups, so thanks for bringing up that point of potential confusion. I'm no expert, but I have set up both Timeshift (on Endeavour OS and Pop!_OS) and BTRFS Assistant (on Fedora 41) it having a system snapshot allowed me to roll back effortlessly to a working system when a bad firmware update pooched my wi-fi. I use deja-dup for backing up my files.
I'm a longtime Linux user who's ended up settling on Pop OS as my daily driver. I've actually installed the alpha of version 24.04 which includes the alpha of Cosmic as its DE by default, and I'm loving it already. Really excited to see where it goes once it's feature complete.
"or to ditch them all as bloatware" damn, you got me 🤣 to be honest on my arch+hyprland i just ditch the session sleep feature (suspension/hibernation), and the bar, and my background is a beautiful plain black, and i dont have space between tiles, to maximize screen usage
XFCE was my favorite for a long time. Loved LXDE for a bit too when memory management was an issue. Now that they're all mostly performant and I'm not bound to a wimpy system, I've been running GNOME mostly. I used Debian and Debian derivatives for 11 years and am on Arch now, really enjoying the newer kernel and package situation.
Fractional scaling is a matter of sight and cost specially for 1080p and 1440p. Is a matter of accessibility of price and disabilities. It's not a must, but it is really good to have.
I've heard the argument that most people who want fractional scaling are best served upping the system font size. And I've definitely had that work well for me on single-display systems. It does fall apart when you have screens that have considerably different DPIs, though.
My monitor is a TV and I sit in a reclining chair about 9 feet away. I use 125% scaling, and even then, some text is just barely readable. I've tried font-only scaling. I can't remember the exact problems with it, but there were problems. I think the font-scaling didn't work with some programs, maybe LibreOffice.
Long time watcher, first time commenter! I've been using Mint with XFCE since 2018 when Valve released their Proton compatibility layer for games. Video games were the last things that kept me tethered to Windows, and I've been happily daily driving XFCE ever since! I love how speedy it is on everything from my low end laptop that I use for my writing projects all the way up to my main rig......
I'd say that one thing that may help cement KDE as being the most used is the fact that it is the default for Steam Deck. To be fair, KDE Plasma 6 finally reached a point that it does basically everything I missed from GNOME on Plasma 5, like the desktop overview. But GNOME is still usually more polished, but MUCH MORE (often too much) opinionated. I also feel that, more often than not, I have had more issues with "third party" apps on KDE than on GNOME since things tend to be more focused on GTK+ and GNOME. For instance, until recently Zoom had issues with screen sharing on KDE on Wayland, whereas on GNOME it worked just fine on Wayland. That said, I'm actually an heretic that has been mostly using Windows in more recent times :P
Until recently Zoom literally blocked screensharing unless the environment variable "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" was set to "gnome". That's why it wasn't working on KDE.
Yeah, I use KDE because I like it's customization. I've got the global menu from Mac OS, a task bar like Windows, a theme that looks a lot like Irix, and a warm and light color scheme. It looks good, and works pretty well too. It's nice having a color picker on the global menu.
Suggestion for the next video: covering what distros people might be interested in transitioning to after onboarding with Mint and why they might consider them (and also how to try out a new distro or desktop environment within your current one.) I think the title "Post Mint Clarity" would be kinda funny but also the subject would be ideal to target the audience this channel is aimed towards and, honestly, there's not a lot of clarity about where to go from Mint or why you might choose another option so I think it's fitting.
I've been using Wayland exclusively since February of 2024; I really like it, I currently use KDE Plasma (And have for the last 3 years), but tried Hyprland for about a month sometime in October. I really liked Hyprland, but their lack of proper support for direct scanout was a real deal breaker being a longtime counter strike player; Plus, for whatever reason, GZdoom also has a large amount of random issues (mouse input not being read, menus breaking, direct scanout artifacting, etc.), also being another hard deal breaker. At the end of the day, KDE Plasma just works, is full featured, and customizable enough. I really like the future being Wayland; It's nice to have a multi-monitor set-up with a primary at 240hz with VRR, and a secondary at a static 60hz with minimal issues.
Since Mint was my first distribution and made a lasting impression on my Linux experience, my favorite desktop environment is GNOME with extensions that make it look and act similar to Cinnamon. This way, I can have the benefits of Cinnamon’s familiar interface without software inconsistencies.
It bothers me that one would choose their distro based on the (default) desktop environment, because you should be able to pick & install whatever desktop environment you want and there are far more important aspects of distros to drive your decision, such as the release model, package manager, file system structure, init system, package build systems, early boot facilities, and even libc implementations.
Well, some distros are tied heavily to their default Windowing environment. Their special utilities are made to run in that environment too. You can manage without those features but doing so would require knowledge that new users don't possess. New users have enough of a workload to deal with too. So heaping more on them at the outset isn't productive.
It's really great. Gorgeous, incredibly intuitive. Best time I've had tiling since Windows 3.1. That said, it's got a *ton* of "Alpha problems." For example: if I want screen capture (screenshots, OBS, whatever), I have to log in, log out, then log back in. And that's honestly the least of my issues atm. Even so, it's my daily driver, but I'd be lying if I said that the chaos wasn't part of the appeal. 🙃
Fractional scaling is a major problem for modern users with 1440p monitor or small 12-14'' 1080p monitor that becomes increasingly common especially towards laptop users that small interface can become very challenging to use. Windows effectively solved the issue by simply scaling apps with bilinear filtering if the app doesn't handle it itself. I have heard that you have options to disable it and keep the small UI, but I never have seen it being done before. On Linux, there aren't many apps that handle it by default or rely on GTK/Qt to scale apps fractionally, but in practice it's mostly sloppy and sometimes outright break the interface.
The Text to speech: Nicely done. Also, in the comment space, challenges with new computers and video drivers, vs older Thinkpads that mostly just work on most distros. Or distros that are best suited on Arm based machines.
I use KDE currently, with the odd look into Hyprland. I also recommend Linux Mint to newcomers, its such an easy to use distro, its layout makes good sense.
After all these years of trying the new "best window manager" or "best desktop environment" and learning how to rice and what not, nowadays I personally just go with Gnome and no extensions. I spend the time customizing my terminal like tmux, neovim, etc. but otherwise this is how I stay productive without getting caught up in hype cycles.
I've been a fan of XFCE for a long time and i've often run it on netbooks and servers where I want to keep the resources low but I have to admit it took Cinnamon and it's sheer easy to use to make me move to linux as my main OS. The idea of trying new DEs in VMs is a really good one i'd not considered before.
I recently switched to full-time Linux from Windows. I run Fedora 41 and Gnome. I have some extensions and a theme that has helped me transform my DE to a theme similar to a dark version of MacOS. I tried, multiple times, to use Plasma, but I just felt more at home with Gnome. I started in Linux 20 years ago with Red Hat 8, then 9, and Fedora Core 1. I love running Linux full-time.
Oh ! So happy to get a video :) I learned so much, thank you! Currently, I'm playing around with desktop's theme and stuff like that. I'd like to find "something new" (basicallly, I don't know what to do or where to place the taskbar... I think there much better to do with mutlti-destkop combined to plasma activities...) Anyway, I think talking about architecture (x86, x64, amd64, arm, etc...) could be fun interresting next time :) Merry Christmas and happy new year Veronica !
I know XFCE allows you as many task bars as you like, and you can place them anywhere you like. And any size you like. For instance you could make a "panel" just big enough for a clock, make the clock the size you want, and put it in the upper right hand corner. And nothing else. This works surprisingly well because right clicking anywhere on the desktop will bring up a menu of basic commands and a sub-menu of all your applications. So you don't really have to have a taskbar at all, especially if you use Conky. I do use a panel myself, at the top, almost exclusively for information. Time, processor temperature, fan speed, notifications, and a few widgets for controlling things like volume that I don't need very much but like to keep handy.
I'm on Linux Mint for 3 years and its almost perfect. The only thing I'm missing is HDR support. This is the only reason why I installed Kubuntu 24.10 on my new Laptop. Gnome is for people who hate themselves.
Ah yes KDE is amazing! A little bit too good since I haven't really felt like anything else in years, although I do am starting to experiment with Hyprland on a side laptop. Also now that I've seen that Pop OS has a tiling manager I think that I'll try it a bit, thanks for showing that :)
To anyone new or considering switching to Linux, congratulations and welcome! Don't let any Linux gatekeepers or elitist types dissuade you from using whatever distro and desktop environment or window manager you like. Linux is about choice and freedom from corporate restrictions and telemetry and that's what's most important regardless of what choices suit your needs 😊 Remember, it's YOUR computer. Not Microsoft's or anyone else's
Good Fun! Great job differentiating the Desktop Environment, Window Manager and Compositor elements! And having the Amiga's 1985 text to speech utility ask the questions made me smile bigly! 100% agree on the Mint recommendation for Linux newbies -- I've probably done a couple dozen Mint installs for friends and family with great appreciations FUTURE SUBJECT suggestion: Do a similar breakdown of the Linux Audio stack and subsystems now that you've covered the graphics side. (You can close your eyes, but you can't close your ears!) 😉
A Desktop Environment is a software suite that contains a Window Manager. The Window Manager is the part responsible for drawing windows and the menu. At least I've never seen a Window Manager that didn't have a menu. I've seen most of them too.
KDE Plasma user for a good bunch of years now, previously LXDE, Xfce and Cinnamon. Also a pretty early adopter of Wayland, and an early adopter of Pipewire. Oh my goodness, it's just so awesome, being able to route your audio streams however you want - it does wonders without having to go through the hassle of setting up JACK and resolving any application incompatibilities because some were JACK only, others were ALSA or Pulseaudio only. "Modern Windows is an exercise in removing your choices" - true... It's so frustrating whenever I have to use one. Fortunately, I stick with Debian on most of my machines. Any thoughts on the 6.12 kernel? No more PREEMPT_RT flavor since it became standard, and I wonder if it will bring any revolutionary change for the better or worse.
I would like the next episode of Verónica Explains to focus on the massive Windows error caused by an issue with CrowdStrike, and whether solutions based on Free and Open Source Software could prevent such massive failures. Thank you!
Personally, when I've had people talk to me about Linux DEs that are similar to Windows, they're more talking about UI vs how closed down to customisation they are. A few of them have specifically unusual preferences with things that Windows 11 breaks, like taskbar positioning, so knowing KDE's as open as it is means I can recommend it and know the defaults are close enough to Windows defaults, while knowing if they want to break out of that default they can tweak it how they want (and usually I'll offer to give them a hand with that, because while I'm not the most knowledgeable person and have only been using it myself for a year, because I still have more familiarity with it than most of my friends). That said, I haven't tried Mint; I might take a look and see just how things go on that to see whether that'll take over my recommendation for them
If you're using the Gnome desktop environment, is there a way to selectively, or in one shot - remove all of the icons on the screen and just leave the background image?
Veronica, single vertical panel? I've been doing that on XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon. None of them are quite perfect with it, but they all can do it. Kinda. The thing Windows users would call the system tray and the workspace switcher are always the parts that don't quite work right. Still, it is nice to have a panel and have it stay out of my way.
Few points I disagree (yes one of these guys typing already in the comments!) 1. Fractional scaling is a must on almost all laptops nowadays. Sure, you can increase font but that makes ui be rendered inconsistent 2. Wayland is not new - it was default in Fedora 6 years ago and is currently default on most mainstream distros. Great video!
Ran into some hiccups but I’m working on converting my first laptop over to Mint. Thanks for the video! It’s good motivation to keep trying to get it to work.
I'm going to hang onto X for as long as I can. Which will be quite some time being as I've already built X. So X not being included in distros won't be a barrier for me. I'm sure Wasteland is all well and good but I've 30 years experience running X that I'm loath to flush.
@@VeronicaExplains Ah, but this is GNU/Linux land where every project is a superhero (sarcasm). That was the joke I was making. Presumably not a very good one. When Wayland was first proposed, it was heralded as the modern replacement for X. X was widely criticized for being overly complex, bogged down by decades of legacy code, and struggling to adapt to modern graphics demands. Wayland promised a new era, streamlined, faster, and more secure, a revolution for the Linux desktop. Alas, as with many ambitious projects in the Linux ecosystem, the lofty vision of Wayland never quite fully materialized.
I always stick to XFCE. Whether I'm using a powerful PC, a potato, or a VM. I always get the best performance out of it. And yes I know LXQT is slimmer, but it lacks even more bells and whistles than XFCE does, so for me XFCE is a happy medium. It's functional, and It doesn't have a severe lack of themes. But for one quality of life improvement, I do tend to install SOME Gnome apps. Weather, Calendar, etc. XFCE doesn't have those. Plus the Gnome Calculator simply looks better.
I have a question....Why does the Windows drive format box need to be updated? Formatting a hard drive is a simple operation, other than what file system is being implemented, what information is necessary?
It doesn't! But it stands as an example of the type of visual discrepancy I see folks critique in Linux desktops. I just wanted to point out that it happens in Windows as well and folks don't seem to complain the same way.
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Hi folks- so apparently RUclips is now doing a thing where they auto-dub my video into other languages. I have questions. But before I turn it off, I want to know what non-English-speaking viewers are experiencing. If you like or dislike this feature, can you let me know here via reply? If it gets to be a real nuisance I'll happily disable that feature. For all I know I'm being mistranslated!
So someone I know listened to the Spanish translation just now and was concerned that the context wasn't right. Ugh. I'm sorry if folks are getting a bad experience, please let me know what you all think and I'll see what I can do about disabling whatever this new dubbing feature is.
@Andreradio1 Irmão, vi teu comentário sobre a legenda automática e o quanto foi importante para ti. Neste comentário da Veronica a que estou respondendo agora, ela diz o seguinte: "Olá, turma! Então... aparentemente o RUclips agora está numa de legendar automaticamente meus vídeos para outras línguas. Tenho algumas perguntas a respeito. Mas antes de desligar tal função, eu gostaria de saber como está sendo a experiência daqueles que falam outras línguas. Se você gosta ou não da funcionalidade, poderia, por gentileza, informar-me via resposta? Caso se revele um incômodo, desativá-la-ei com prazer. Até onde tenho sido informada, estou sendo muito mal traduzida!
@@VeronicaExplains I'm from Brazil. The comment from @Andreradio1 about this called my attention. It was written in Portuguese and here's my translation of it: "Today I watched for the first time a video with RUclips's autodub feature. I was suprised and happy! I felt closer. I'm from Recife, northeast Brazil. Congratulations for your work, I've been following you for years! Merry Christmas! God bless you!!"
Hi Veronica, thanks for this question! I'm German and get the auto-generated German translation (here and on other RUclips channels). It is pretty annoying for me because it ruins the entertaining and authentic style of your videos. The auto-generated voice is super boring and I cannot really imagine anyone would like to listen to that. My English is certainly not the best and I don't get everything you tell, but IMHO the original soundtrack is a must for your channel. I guess there are probably not so many people who are interested in Linux but don't speak English at all.
I'd say leave it. I'm from West Africa and speak excellent English. But I believe in Linux and it's changed my life as someone from a third world it gives me hope. I can't imagine someone from a third world and what will change his life is in a language he doesn't understand. RUclips should give option of listening in original language and subtitles.
I'm a Linux user, not a pro at all. I've been this way for over 20 years. Mint is my distro of choice. Very stable, everything works on my laptop, I can play all my games, emulators, and retro PC games. (Thanks Lutris). I recommend anyone that is OS curious to try Linux.
Mint is by far my favorite distro for desktop. I find Cinnamon to be incredibly intuitive and conducive to my work flow without needing to customize. There's other options that are more shiny and modern looking but I've never found anything that just works the way Mint + Cinnamon does.
Same here. I started with Mint a year ago. Curious about Arch so I installed it on my laptop. Tried out KDE and a couple WMs. But I'm back to Cinnamon. It just works great. It's simple. Feels like my cozy little home.
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I have been using Linux since 1994 (Yikes!) That was a Slackware distribution that came on 4,283 floppies! (For those suffering from numerical OCD…that's an exaggeration.) I consider myself a semi-expert as I have not contributed to the kernel. I recently switched to Mint because it's the easiest way to DO things.
@@Arfonfree I haven't been using Linux quite that long but I'm in a similar boat and have consistently found Mint to be a pleasure to use.
10 points for btop
The "B" stands for "best".
How about bloated? Yet I think of it as of bloated and best at the same time
btop is pretty, htop is useful.
I love btop-it's gorgeous, and I find it conveys important information way better than htop or glances. Unfortunately, it requires a minimum width and height that are below what I get on my phone's ssh client, so it can never be my _sole_ top.
@shateqI only open btop when I want to convince others I'm busy working 😅
I've been an XFCE user for over a decade, ever since I felt Gnome getting slower and taking away configurations. At this point, it's what I'm used to, it always works for me, and is lightweight for even my older hardware.
@@moocapiean XFCE is pretty nice. All they need to do is add proper Wayland support along with per ponitor fractional scaling and it's a perfect no fuss environment.
@@pedroalbuquerquebs yes to everything, except please stop calling it "fractional scaling" - it's HiDPI, except if you mean GNOME's (past) horrible implementation.
@@moocapiean gnome is weird. I am on xfce too but i want to try kde
Out of curiosity, have you tried Mate? It's supposedly a lot like classic Gnome 2. I never cared for Gnome 2, and used XFCE and occasionally KDE 3 back in the day.
Personally (and I know this will sound weird), I didn't care for Gnome until 3 came around; I use it about 75% of the time now.
@@pedroalbuquerquebsxfce also still missing proper fractional dpi scaling.
I'm not even a beginner yet, but I am very fond of how patiently you balance an understanding of newcomers with anticipatory snark towards splainers who have validation issues! You've helped me make some choices about what I'll be exploring on my old MacBook's Linux partition, and I thank you.
Yeah almost all Linux youtube channels give their personal opinion on Linux which always results in all Linux users fighting in the comments. Just because nobody can agree and all want their opinion to be the only valid one. So much for what you can call it a community. But this channel is different, Veronica just does what she promises: explaining!
Amiga voice!!! That takes me back. Thank you for an excellent video.
"Because" AmigaOS "was awesome".
The most ahead of its time OS of the last century.
Blast from the past.
What's an Amiga??
@@Thiesi A computer.
About fractional scaling:
Support for this has gotten better, and on most DEs and Compositors it's basically free performance-wise now.
I'm using a 13 inch laptop with a 2256x1504 display, and fractional scaling is very necessary there. To get equivalent ui size feel to what a 1080p monitor provides, I need a scale of 1.175x.
As for performance: If implemented properly, Wayland fractional scaling actually costs no performance at all: The UI isn't scaled as an extra step after rendering, rather each supporting application calculates how big in actual device pixels it should render its content, and renders it accordingly.
There are some applications that don't support it yet, and in that case it does cost performance: In those cases, the application renders at 2x and is manually scaled down by the compositor, but the performance hit is still relatively low as long as the app doesn't do software rendering. Apps that render this way will also sometimes look slightly blurry due to the manual scaling.
By chance is that a Framework 13? I scale mine at 125% which seems to work well for me.
Pleeeeeeeease, make the ancient text to speech syntethizers a regular thing!
I did just pick one up for my TI-990...
"ancient"? No way man. Amiga was way ahead of its time. Still kicks many OS'a ass in many areas.
I used to play with a Votrax Type and Talk (for pay) about a gazillion years ago. (around 1983-84) Fun times.
Always great to see a new Veronica video. Happy Holiday's to you and yours!
Guh-nome, Mah-tay. Thank you for correctly pronouncing these. Makes my day.
I gave my wife a 10 year old laptop with Linux Mint Mate and as a non technical Windows user she had no problem adapting to the OS. I wrote a couple of scripts to dim the screen and shut down, but apart from that it’s exactly as it comes out of the box. Fast, crash free and perfect for non technical end users.
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Everytime I look at a Budgie screenshot I think for a second, "yeah that's Windows 10.”
Hoje foi a primeira vez que assisti o video com dublagem nativa do RUclips. Fiquei surpreso e feliz. Me senti mais próximo. Sou do Recife, Nordeste do Brasil. Parabéns pelo trabalho, há anos te acompanho. Feliz natal! Deus te abençoe!!
It is a gloomy rainy day today but thanks for making it better. 😀
XFCE just released version 4.20.
Blaze it up!
@@HisVirusness oh
Does it have fractional dpi scaling support?
The one thing I dislike with Wayland is that sometimes the applications default to the Wayland icon rather than the icons I want. But that's on an app level, not a desktop environment level, and I hope it will eventually get fixed.
@@DissertatingMedieval on KDE you can sort of fix it, by adding a window/application rule that points it to the right desktop file.
This is actually a limitation of Wayland. Currently, applications are not allowed to set their own window icons - your desktop environment has to look up the corresponding icon from a .desktop file. If the application is not installed globally, the icon won't be found.
There's a Wayland protocol in the works to fix that (XDG top-level icon) in the mean time, on Plasma, you can set a window rule to fix your favorite applications.
13:01 I use Windows extensively, and I need to point out that complaints about appearances are far greater than one might imagine. Whenever a new update comes out and they uses a new style of windows that calls to an older style of windows, oh boy, the people will complain. I also use mac a lot too, and they have similar complains, albeit in less volume. I will even say that Windows users will accept a lot of sh*t from the OS yet hate that some things still look "old"
Thank you Amiga voice for making things clear. Oh how I miss you.
We really are spoiled for choice in Linux.
Love you Veronica. Merry whatever holiday you celebrate.
Not only is Mint great for beginners, but you can add whatever window manager on top of it that you want. Following a DT video about "becoming a Mint power user", I installed awesome wm (a tiling window manager for those not aware) over top Cinnamon and used that as my default. It took me out of my comfort zone and required me to acquaint myself with the terminal, which has been very handy to learn for Linux.
"Install fancy window managers to get better at your terminal skills!" That's a slogan I can get behind 👍👍
"Its bridged to matrix" got a bigger laugh out of me than it should've, always love to see it though.
I installed Mint on this laptop because I heard someone call it "Kubuntu done right." While my experience has taught me that it's a reasonable description, it did get me confused into thinking it was running some heavily modified KDE for a while. Because who's going to look at this Windows 7 style layout and assume it's forked from Gnome of all things? Once I learned the truth, I had so much more respect for what they've done. Building your own DE, complete with making a full suite of default apps, is no small task, but anyone serious enough to go through with it probably knows what they're doing. While I wouldn't describe my experience with Kubuntu as frustrating, it's been fun discovering that all the issues I had with it instantly disappeared when I switched.
I also think the Cinnamon folks have done wonders and I applaud their standing up to the GNOME tyranny - but whoever described mint to you as "Kubuntu done right" had made you a disservice. It's maybe "Ubuntu done right".
Love the terminal shout out, especially in a Q&A about desktop environments.
I would love a BSD vs Linux (or even more generally Unix vs Linux)....
Manjaro XfCE here btw.
woo, Manjaro Xfce on my RUclips laptop and any box I touch :)
i don't think that theres a linux out there old enough to do a reasonable comparison :D
@@AlexandraKnopf Both Manjaro users in the same comments? What are the chances?!
@@tylerboothman4496 hey! I'm sure there are two or three of us, ok? ;)
Bsd vs linux for desktop? Bsd has no video drivers. Try to install printers on bsd
Veronica Explains why it's OK to use LCDs with vintage PCs
I use dwm tiling manager.
I use KDE on my desktop PC, I use XFCE on my laptop. Both of these run Debian. However i use Windowmaker on NetBSD on an SBC (not Raspi, olimex a20 micro, allwinner a20 SoC).
@nou712 That's cool! I love the BSDs. My two most favorites are freebsd and netbsd. I have freebsd in a VM. Linux mint on real hardware.
Honestly, it's either KDE or XFCE for me, nothing in between.
I'm looking forward to XFCe devs finally getting moved over to Wayland. The _only_ problem I encountered with XFCe was needing to use a script to force windows to switch outputs, which worked sporadically and needed spammed, but it _did_ work on fullscreen windows that steal control of the mouse and keyboard... which was nice for Windows games that open themselves wherever the heck the feel like.
Also super hyped for Cosmic's beta. Depending on how that works. GNOME had the my favorite workflow when customized, but the add-ons are constantly broken by devs and there are countless stupid decisions made by the GNOME devs. Wayfire does everything I wanted from GNOME and more.
Though, right now I'm using Hyprland. Don't even like tiling window managers. Hyprland is just that nice.
When Gnome adopted their "you don't need to change that" philosophy to so many previously-configurable items, I ran to kde and never looked back.
Let's hear it for Team Cinnamon
IIRC, I had a machine with slow graphics at work, and Gnome took away the "don't show contents while dragging" option. When people brought it up, the response was literally "you don't need that."
Xfce is so nice to me. Wish i it is not so i can try kde 😂
Oh god using a 1980s voice synthesizer lol
The Amiga makes a comeback!
Stephen Hawking has entered the chat.
Would you like to play a game
@@tyemich8820 👌♥️
Please explain how to do system snapshots including whether/how to save them to a USB drive (how big should it be?), and the relative pros and cons of rsync vx btrfs. Also, what is a rational schedule? Timeshift vs. BTRFS Assistant, etc. would be nice too. I'm a 74 year old Linux noob since 2005 (not to imply that I wasn't 55 in 2005) and I love your channel.
Rsync vs. BTRFS is a comparison I didn't think about until now. I guess both can be used for backups?
From my perspective (and most IT people) a "backup" isn't "keeping another copy of your files and syncing them from time to time". If you can't restore to a point in time n backups ago, you aren't backing up and you are just one failure away from losing your data - which is why I recommend restic.
@@guss77 You bring up another good point for Veronica to cover if she discusses snapshots: the (big) difference between a system snapshot and a data backup, and why it would be foolish to use, for example, Timeshift or BTRS Assistant to back up your files. I would never suggest that rsync or BTRFS be used for backups, so thanks for bringing up that point of potential confusion. I'm no expert, but I have set up both Timeshift (on Endeavour OS and Pop!_OS) and BTRFS Assistant (on Fedora 41) it having a system snapshot allowed me to roll back effortlessly to a working system when a bad firmware update pooched my wi-fi. I use deja-dup for backing up my files.
I'm a longtime Linux user who's ended up settling on Pop OS as my daily driver. I've actually installed the alpha of version 24.04 which includes the alpha of Cosmic as its DE by default, and I'm loving it already. Really excited to see where it goes once it's feature complete.
MATE, MY BAE!!!! I LOVE the MATE desktop environment! my absolute favorite now and forever!!
"or to ditch them all as bloatware"
damn, you got me 🤣
to be honest on my arch+hyprland i just ditch the session sleep feature (suspension/hibernation), and the bar, and my background is a beautiful plain black, and i dont have space between tiles, to maximize screen usage
XFCE was my favorite for a long time. Loved LXDE for a bit too when memory management was an issue. Now that they're all mostly performant and I'm not bound to a wimpy system, I've been running GNOME mostly. I used Debian and Debian derivatives for 11 years and am on Arch now, really enjoying the newer kernel and package situation.
also fight me but Canonical's Unity was fantastic and I wish their Ubuntu Touch mobile OS succeeded.
@@devon-crain Unity desktop is actually back and pretty usable
Love the new segment! ASK-V is a super clever and funny name. It reminds me of RISC-V architecture, which is pretty cool. Keep up the great work!
YAY! ANOTHER VIDEO!!
I like that V1 is the one asking questions for some reason
I use Linux Mint it does what I need, and is stable and doesn't change much, very consistent. Just the way I love it.
Fractional scaling is a matter of sight and cost specially for 1080p and 1440p. Is a matter of accessibility of price and disabilities.
It's not a must, but it is really good to have.
I've heard the argument that most people who want fractional scaling are best served upping the system font size. And I've definitely had that work well for me on single-display systems.
It does fall apart when you have screens that have considerably different DPIs, though.
My monitor is a TV and I sit in a reclining chair about 9 feet away. I use 125% scaling, and even then, some text is just barely readable. I've tried font-only scaling. I can't remember the exact problems with it, but there were problems. I think the font-scaling didn't work with some programs, maybe LibreOffice.
Long time watcher, first time commenter! I've been using Mint with XFCE since 2018 when Valve released their Proton compatibility layer for games. Video games were the last things that kept me tethered to Windows, and I've been happily daily driving XFCE ever since! I love how speedy it is on everything from my low end laptop that I use for my writing projects all the way up to my main rig......
Linux tends to be pretty responsive. Windows can lose the plot from time to time and leave you hanging for a bit.
Merry Christmas and have an awesome 12025, Veronica & entourage! :)
I'd say that one thing that may help cement KDE as being the most used is the fact that it is the default for Steam Deck.
To be fair, KDE Plasma 6 finally reached a point that it does basically everything I missed from GNOME on Plasma 5, like the desktop overview. But GNOME is still usually more polished, but MUCH MORE (often too much) opinionated.
I also feel that, more often than not, I have had more issues with "third party" apps on KDE than on GNOME since things tend to be more focused on GTK+ and GNOME. For instance, until recently Zoom had issues with screen sharing on KDE on Wayland, whereas on GNOME it worked just fine on Wayland.
That said, I'm actually an heretic that has been mostly using Windows in more recent times :P
Until recently Zoom literally blocked screensharing unless the environment variable "XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP" was set to "gnome". That's why it wasn't working on KDE.
Yeah, I use KDE because I like it's customization. I've got the global menu from Mac OS, a task bar like Windows, a theme that looks a lot like Irix, and a warm and light color scheme. It looks good, and works pretty well too. It's nice having a color picker on the global menu.
Well I loved the electronic music video. I loved that someone uses something that most people don't know it can be used for. Bravo!
I don't run any Linux distros as a main OS, but every time one of your vids show up, I get closer to converting. Thanks for the digestible knowledge.
But you have run Linux?
Suggestion for the next video: covering what distros people might be interested in transitioning to after onboarding with Mint and why they might consider them (and also how to try out a new distro or desktop environment within your current one.)
I think the title "Post Mint Clarity" would be kinda funny but also the subject would be ideal to target the audience this channel is aimed towards and, honestly, there's not a lot of clarity about where to go from Mint or why you might choose another option so I think it's fitting.
I've been using Wayland exclusively since February of 2024; I really like it, I currently use KDE Plasma (And have for the last 3 years), but tried Hyprland for about a month sometime in October.
I really liked Hyprland, but their lack of proper support for direct scanout was a real deal breaker being a longtime counter strike player; Plus, for whatever reason, GZdoom also has a large amount of random issues (mouse input not being read, menus breaking, direct scanout artifacting, etc.), also being another hard deal breaker. At the end of the day, KDE Plasma just works, is full featured, and customizable enough.
I really like the future being Wayland; It's nice to have a multi-monitor set-up with a primary at 240hz with VRR, and a secondary at a static 60hz with minimal issues.
Since Mint was my first distribution and made a lasting impression on my Linux experience, my favorite desktop environment is GNOME with extensions that make it look and act similar to Cinnamon. This way, I can have the benefits of Cinnamon’s familiar interface without software inconsistencies.
ty aunt veronica for this amazing videos you make to help the new ppl on the linux world.
It bothers me that one would choose their distro based on the (default) desktop environment, because you should be able to pick & install whatever desktop environment you want and there are far more important aspects of distros to drive your decision, such as the release model, package manager, file system structure, init system, package build systems, early boot facilities, and even libc implementations.
Well, some distros are tied heavily to their default Windowing environment. Their special utilities are made to run in that environment too. You can manage without those features but doing so would require knowledge that new users don't possess. New users have enough of a workload to deal with too. So heaping more on them at the outset isn't productive.
Of course I’m still watching!
"fedorable" might be the best hostnames I have ever seen!!
It's so little!
I love this channel so much!
I'm really looking forward to Cosmic!
It's really great. Gorgeous, incredibly intuitive. Best time I've had tiling since Windows 3.1. That said, it's got a *ton* of "Alpha problems." For example: if I want screen capture (screenshots, OBS, whatever), I have to log in, log out, then log back in.
And that's honestly the least of my issues atm.
Even so, it's my daily driver, but I'd be lying if I said that the chaos wasn't part of the appeal. 🙃
@GSBarlev LoL! The chaos is less appealing to me so I'll wait for the full release
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I love your humor. Thank you for this entertaining video! A nice overview of the topic of desktop/GUI
Fractional scaling is a major problem for modern users with 1440p monitor or small 12-14'' 1080p monitor that becomes increasingly common especially towards laptop users that small interface can become very challenging to use. Windows effectively solved the issue by simply scaling apps with bilinear filtering if the app doesn't handle it itself. I have heard that you have options to disable it and keep the small UI, but I never have seen it being done before. On Linux, there aren't many apps that handle it by default or rely on GTK/Qt to scale apps fractionally, but in practice it's mostly sloppy and sometimes outright break the interface.
Requesting a part 2 - best DEs for laptops, looking at factors such as battery life, touchpad settings and compatibility etc.
The Text to speech: Nicely done. Also, in the comment space, challenges with new computers and video drivers, vs older Thinkpads that mostly just work on most distros. Or distros that are best suited on Arm based machines.
Its a Christmas miracle! Actually a good video as i am a disyro churner and run vm on devices.
Kde offers me the comfort and customisation that I want from a desktop environment. My distro of choice is Fedora.
Love the channel, Veronica. I'm a new Linux baby, and am enjoying learning from you. Hope to see more content like this for people like myself.
COSMIC DE mentioned! I sincerely think it's going to be a standard default DE in a few years like what GNOME is now
I use KDE currently, with the odd look into Hyprland. I also recommend Linux Mint to newcomers, its such an easy to use distro, its layout makes good sense.
DesktopPal97! It's beautiful, I'm still running the Plasma version. I hope it inspires more retro-style themes to get made.
Mint XFCE is probably the closest thing to a bulletproof distro, especially since they've announced they're working through Wayland support.
I use a Surface GO running Fedora GNOME in 3:2. The default scaling was bad so I just adjusted the scaling factor in gnome tweaks. It works well.
After all these years of trying the new "best window manager" or "best desktop environment" and learning how to rice and what not, nowadays I personally just go with Gnome and no extensions. I spend the time customizing my terminal like tmux, neovim, etc. but otherwise this is how I stay productive without getting caught up in hype cycles.
I've been a fan of XFCE for a long time and i've often run it on netbooks and servers where I want to keep the resources low but I have to admit it took Cinnamon and it's sheer easy to use to make me move to linux as my main OS. The idea of trying new DEs in VMs is a really good one i'd not considered before.
I recently switched to full-time Linux from Windows. I run Fedora 41 and Gnome. I have some extensions and a theme that has helped me transform my DE to a theme similar to a dark version of MacOS. I tried, multiple times, to use Plasma, but I just felt more at home with Gnome. I started in Linux 20 years ago with Red Hat 8, then 9, and Fedora Core 1. I love running Linux full-time.
Oh ! So happy to get a video :)
I learned so much, thank you! Currently, I'm playing around with desktop's theme and stuff like that. I'd like to find "something new" (basicallly, I don't know what to do or where to place the taskbar... I think there much better to do with mutlti-destkop combined to plasma activities...)
Anyway, I think talking about architecture (x86, x64, amd64, arm, etc...) could be fun interresting next time :)
Merry Christmas and happy new year Veronica !
I know XFCE allows you as many task bars as you like, and you can place them anywhere you like. And any size you like. For instance you could make a "panel" just big enough for a clock, make the clock the size you want, and put it in the upper right hand corner. And nothing else. This works surprisingly well because right clicking anywhere on the desktop will bring up a menu of basic commands and a sub-menu of all your applications. So you don't really have to have a taskbar at all, especially if you use Conky. I do use a panel myself, at the top, almost exclusively for information. Time, processor temperature, fan speed, notifications, and a few widgets for controlling things like volume that I don't need very much but like to keep handy.
Very good video explanation. Is this an Amiga keyboard behind you Veronica?
An Amiga and a C128 in this video! I used both for some of the graphics and sound.
@@VeronicaExplains I wish I never had sold my Amiga 2000 that grew up with...😭
"Veronica Explains Nothing" ...I love that reference!
Im daily driving Cosmic Epoch alpha, but i have Plasma 6 as my fall back, basically covers all my needs
Kudos on including an Amiga OS cameo.
I'm on Linux Mint for 3 years and its almost perfect. The only thing I'm missing is HDR support. This is the only reason why I installed Kubuntu 24.10 on my new Laptop. Gnome is for people who hate themselves.
KDE = My Choice since 1999 + Fedora Spin + KDE
Ah yes KDE is amazing! A little bit too good since I haven't really felt like anything else in years, although I do am starting to experiment with Hyprland on a side laptop.
Also now that I've seen that Pop OS has a tiling manager I think that I'll try it a bit, thanks for showing that :)
No YOU'RE awesome. This video made my Christmas much better. 42. Peace and prosperity for your new year. Keep being you!
I'm so glad the video was useful, best to you and yours this Christmas!
I've been using a Debian distro with a custom window manager my friend wrote with no DE for a few years now, it's very lightweight
"At least two control panels"... YES!
To anyone new or considering switching to Linux, congratulations and welcome! Don't let any Linux gatekeepers or elitist types dissuade you from using whatever distro and desktop environment or window manager you like. Linux is about choice and freedom from corporate restrictions and telemetry and that's what's most important regardless of what choices suit your needs 😊
Remember, it's YOUR computer. Not Microsoft's or anyone else's
Good Fun! Great job differentiating the Desktop Environment, Window Manager and Compositor elements! And having the Amiga's 1985 text to speech utility ask the questions made me smile bigly! 100% agree on the Mint recommendation for Linux newbies -- I've probably done a couple dozen Mint installs for friends and family with great appreciations
FUTURE SUBJECT suggestion: Do a similar breakdown of the Linux Audio stack and subsystems now that you've covered the graphics side.
(You can close your eyes, but you can't close your ears!) 😉
A Desktop Environment is a software suite that contains a Window Manager. The Window Manager is the part responsible for drawing windows and the menu. At least I've never seen a Window Manager that didn't have a menu. I've seen most of them too.
Hi Veronica. Do you think that Likux on the desktop will show an accelerated or a linear growth in the upcoming years?
Black and white fallacy
KDE Plasma user for a good bunch of years now, previously LXDE, Xfce and Cinnamon. Also a pretty early adopter of Wayland, and an early adopter of Pipewire. Oh my goodness, it's just so awesome, being able to route your audio streams however you want - it does wonders without having to go through the hassle of setting up JACK and resolving any application incompatibilities because some were JACK only, others were ALSA or Pulseaudio only.
"Modern Windows is an exercise in removing your choices" - true... It's so frustrating whenever I have to use one. Fortunately, I stick with Debian on most of my machines.
Any thoughts on the 6.12 kernel? No more PREEMPT_RT flavor since it became standard, and I wonder if it will bring any revolutionary change for the better or worse.
I would like the next episode of Verónica Explains to focus on the massive Windows error caused by an issue with CrowdStrike, and whether solutions based on Free and Open Source Software could prevent such massive failures. Thank you!
Personally, when I've had people talk to me about Linux DEs that are similar to Windows, they're more talking about UI vs how closed down to customisation they are. A few of them have specifically unusual preferences with things that Windows 11 breaks, like taskbar positioning, so knowing KDE's as open as it is means I can recommend it and know the defaults are close enough to Windows defaults, while knowing if they want to break out of that default they can tweak it how they want (and usually I'll offer to give them a hand with that, because while I'm not the most knowledgeable person and have only been using it myself for a year, because I still have more familiarity with it than most of my friends).
That said, I haven't tried Mint; I might take a look and see just how things go on that to see whether that'll take over my recommendation for them
Show us your Sway setup. Also, that Amiga thing is so nostalgic, so show more Amiga stuff like how you implement based on your tastes.
I think it would be cool to use the "Say" utility program from the Amstrad CPC for the speech Synthesizer. (4MHz Z80, 64KB RAM, AY-3-8912)
When your channel is called Veronica Explains, Ask Veronica seems like a very logical segment for a channel so named.
If you're using the Gnome desktop environment, is there a way to selectively, or in one shot - remove all of the icons on the screen and just leave the background image?
Veronica, single vertical panel? I've been doing that on XFCE, MATE, and Cinnamon. None of them are quite perfect with it, but they all can do it. Kinda. The thing Windows users would call the system tray and the workspace switcher are always the parts that don't quite work right. Still, it is nice to have a panel and have it stay out of my way.
This was great! I just rediscovered your channel. :) Linux is awesome, and so are you! :D
Stability, usability, consistency... The less time it takes me to figure out how to use/fix something the more time I have to actually utilize it.
Few points I disagree (yes one of these guys typing already in the comments!)
1. Fractional scaling is a must on almost all laptops nowadays. Sure, you can increase font but that makes ui be rendered inconsistent
2. Wayland is not new - it was default in Fedora 6 years ago and is currently default on most mainstream distros.
Great video!
Next? Could you cover Fedora Atomic distros (or immutable distros in general)? Your view on what they offer in terms of security and stability?
Ran into some hiccups but I’m working on converting my first laptop over to Mint. Thanks for the video! It’s good motivation to keep trying to get it to work.
Waylands been going to save us for 10+ years now, I'm excited to learn this so called saving is right around the corner. Perhaps before I retire.
I'm going to hang onto X for as long as I can. Which will be quite some time being as I've already built X. So X not being included in distros won't be a barrier for me. I'm sure Wasteland is all well and good but I've 30 years experience running X that I'm loath to flush.
Save us from what? It's a display thing not a super hero?
@@VeronicaExplains Ah, but this is GNU/Linux land where every project is a superhero (sarcasm). That was the joke I was making. Presumably not a very good one.
When Wayland was first proposed, it was heralded as the modern replacement for X. X was widely criticized for being overly complex, bogged down by decades of legacy code, and struggling to adapt to modern graphics demands. Wayland promised a new era, streamlined, faster, and more secure, a revolution for the Linux desktop. Alas, as with many ambitious projects in the Linux ecosystem, the lofty vision of Wayland never quite fully materialized.
I always stick to XFCE. Whether I'm using a powerful PC, a potato, or a VM. I always get the best performance out of it. And yes I know LXQT is slimmer, but it lacks even more bells and whistles than XFCE does, so for me XFCE is a happy medium. It's functional, and It doesn't have a severe lack of themes. But for one quality of life improvement, I do tend to install SOME Gnome apps. Weather, Calendar, etc. XFCE doesn't have those. Plus the Gnome Calculator simply looks better.
Great video and live bith your channels! Thanks for sharing
You had me at the Amiga workbench text to speech program!
I use LxQT (and have used XFCE) on my 12 year old dual-core antique of a laptop. Works like a charm (a slow charm, mind you).
I have a question....Why does the Windows drive format box need to be updated? Formatting a hard drive is a simple operation, other than what file system is being implemented, what information is necessary?
It doesn't! But it stands as an example of the type of visual discrepancy I see folks critique in Linux desktops. I just wanted to point out that it happens in Windows as well and folks don't seem to complain the same way.