Comments by "bill fawcett" (@billfawcett3691) on "DorianDotSlash" channel.

  1. Hi Dorian./ Thank you for your informative video. I was the 13th person to give it a thumbs up, hope that's not unlucky. As I live 'off grid', power consumption is a vital issue for me, hence I use my Chromebook - a lot! Would it be possible to put the commands for tlp in your comments section immediately below the video and yes I am being lazy B-) Further to this, do you think swapping my lap-top hard drive for an SSD would noticeably change the laptop power consumption? Thanks again.
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  2. Hi Dorian./ I had used Linux for a long time and realised that I had never removed a software package - and I was stumped lol, so yes think about removal before installation. Nice to see you using Scion, it certainly has a pretty face now! Is it making a comeback?
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  3. "Billy" learning to drive a car and learning to use Linux is a good analogy which made your points easy to follow. Microsoft users are used to being "spoon fed" (users, not sysadmin's etc.) their OS and information so when they dip their toes into the Linux (OK GNU/Linux) environment they are confronted by CHOICE something an MS environment denied them!! In this respect the greatest strength of Linux, for newbies, is its biggest problem. So as you say there are problems on both side of the argument, newbies who are unused to thinking for themselves and Linux "experts" who expect everyone to know the same as them. My advise? Use MX Linux, maybe as a persistent usb installation whilst viewing the Dolphin Oracle YouTube stream B-)
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  4. Hi Dorian./ Be warned, mock your cat at your peril for it will remember and it will get you! B-) So.............if you are happy that Manjaro is a stable rolling (surely an oxymoron) release are you going to build a Manjaro based Scion OS-alike?
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  5. You go away for seven months and then expect us to carry on as if nothing happened? O.K. then ;-) Hope you and your family are all well and I look forward to more of your content.
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  6. Thanks for posting the commands, I will see if tlp ekes out the battery time on my poor old Acer laptop. I would never have guessed that SSD's consume more power than spinning disks, I obviously need to do more research. However the read/write speed improvement (even though connected via an old SATA port) would seem to justify the expense, or at least that is what I will tell my wife! B-)
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  7. Hi Dorian./ One can never not learn something from a video like this one and look forward to more in the same vein. Great reminder re. "!!", saves time when you have been a dunderhead! ;-) Thanks.
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  8. Hi Dorian, The quality of your videos reflect the effort you put into producing them. Personally I do not care for background music, for me the entertainment lays in the video content. It seems I cannot even watch the made up TV "news" without there being some background "musac" to add "quality" to the dross we are fed by the global media companies, but hey I'm just an old wrinkly B-) Regardless of that, please keep your videos coming.
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  9. As I have recently ditched W7 from the hard drive of my 64bit machine I could dual boot it with my MX Linux install, so I will wait patiently.
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  10. Hi Dorian./, Keep up the good work and you will soon hit the magic 1k sub's. I am looking forward to the expanded how to to make your own custom desktop vid's. I tried to follow your original vid's using 32 bit Stretch antiX core rather than Ubuntu 'mini iso' and failed at every hurdle. If I had any hair left I ould have pulled it out lol. It's painful to find out that one is not a competent as one assumes! There is (currently) a 32 bit Ubuntu 'mini iso' so I plan to follow your new vid's with that as a base, that should work; please tell me it should work lol!
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  11. Hi Dorian./ I have a needy old Acer 64 bit laptop that has been running MX linux since MX15, but the Acer is too heavy on the battery for my requirements. My trusty/crusty old Dell mini 9 32bit Intel atom(!) needs something lighter. Much as I admire what anticapitalista and his crew are doing with antiX I find it hard to live with, for example, JWM or icewm and OBWM is an easier WM to live with and configure. I am trying to recreate a Pacbang linux look with the apps but that I want to use but without Arch Linux. Not too worried about the browser as they all tend to overpower the weak processor in the Dell and if I need a dose of youtube I turn to my HP Chromebook B-)
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  12. Hi Dorian, Welcome back, your videos are as good as ever they were. If you want to be spoon-fed Debian perfection then MX Linux is my recommendation. 😷😁
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  13. Hi Dorian ./ Intresting video, but I am still not a Gnome advocate, sorry. However I have to say that I loved the "outro" music, very 8 bit game style!! :-)
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  14. Hi Dorian./, Congratulations to you and your wife/partner/S.O. on the birth of your Son, you must be a proud Dad! I was 29 y.o. when my Son squawked his first and all of a sudden that was nearly 34 years ago, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! B-) Well done on the recycled machine, it looks more than usable Reusable/recycled PC parts are not easy for me to come by as they have usually 'hit the bin' before I find out about them or are REALLY outdated machines. For now I am sticking with my dear old Dell mini 9 (a new battery for it is on my Christmas wish list) despite the enforced demise of most mainstream 32 bit O.S. versions, good old MX/antix keeps it going. However, I might try Void Linux on there before inevitably reverting back to MX! A little off topic here I know but as I/we are talking of lightweight machines what is you experience of tiling managers, DWM looks ok but I have not used a tiling manager for any great period of time.
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  15. Hi Dorian, it turns out that LPM is installed by default on MX17.1. I consulted the/an(?) LPM web site and it seems the config file is the default, so no quick and easy answers there! As I keep off my laptop due to its battery life I only play with LPM when updating the OS. I will keep on tinkering and let you know if I improve anything via LPM.
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  16. "i'm Michael and my wife is Michael"! N.B. This only makes sense if you are a Monty Python (pie-thon) Flying Circus fan/fanatic. Congrats on achieving 1k sub's. I have watched your vid's from the outset and have seen your output improve over that time, keep it up please. It's a shame we never saw that 32 bit version of Scion you were hatching. It seems that the initial release of Ubuntu 18.04 is as poor as 16.04 initial release was, good ol' MX Linux has never let me down, I hope that is not a commentators curse. B-)
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  17. Hi Dorian, @ 1:06 "it lets you change the windows decreations", wow so that is why you prefer Guh-nome because of the decreations. It will be ages before XFCE has those! ;-) Shame gnome-disk-utility wasn't mentioned, handy utility for monitoring and formatting disks writing iso's to usb etc., otherwise all the app's you mentiond are amongst those I have installed and used or tried to use at some time. I am off to sulk about the (football NOT soccer) world cup now, you wouldn't understand on your side of the pond. lol
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  18. dd is ok and I use it regularly, but not for nothing is it sometimes referred to as data destroyer - eek! The world cup tournament comes round once every 4 years, hey ho, back to sulking!
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  19. Hi Dorian./ A wordy yet interesting video, thanks. My answer to your question "What Debian-based distros do you use/like"? There is but one distro to use - MX Linux. MX 17, which is based on stable, affords easy access to Debian backports where the latest/later version of that must-have application may well be lurking.B-) Further to this I enjoy tinkering with Antix which can be installed with either the stable, testing or unstable Sid kernel and of course that hidden gem Miyo Linux, have a look at what this Devuan based distro can do!
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  20. Hi Dorian./, loaded previous versin of Scion on VM and found a couple of "gliches". However I am reluctant to comment as I cannot be sure if the problem is your distro, which I thoroughly enjoy, or a quirk of Virtualbox. Keep up the good work!!
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  21. Erm sorry, I should have listened to what you said about the Spectre et al problems and it's effects on VM's, d'oh! I am looking forward to will giving the latest non "bionic" version a whirl. I subscribe to Distrotube and I was dissapointed for you at the way his review turned out, I can only imagine how dissapointed you were after all the time/effort you have put into Scion.
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