Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "DorianDotSlash" channel.

  1. I think the whole Snap/FlatPak idea was created to accommodate proprietary software vendors. They find the idea of 300+ Linux distros too horrible to contemplate. So by just providing a self-contained installation in a cross-distro format like this, they don’t have to worry. They probably won’t want to support theming anyway, and proprietary developers like to think they control your machine and they know best where to put stuff. So corralling them inside a Snap/FlatPak helps to reduce the havoc they can cause.
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  2. 32:13 I suffer a mental framing error every time I see YouTube UI cues (like the buffering animation) show up in a YouTube video I’m watching. ;)
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  3. 30:06 There is (almost) no such thing as a “system time zone” in Linux. The system clock is in UTC, and every process can have its own setting for the “TZ” environment variable. The /etc/localtime setting is just supposed to be a default. So I don’t understand why you have to keep setting the time every time you do an install, unless there’s something wrong with the battery backing up the hardware clock.
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  4. In Windows, mounting a partition to a folder only works with NTFS. In Linux, it works with any filesystem.
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  5. 13:31 I’m impressed that you can continue to do screen captures while it’s playing content protected with WideVine. I thought that would be blocked.
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  6. 08:40 Don’t be scared about running GNOME apps under KDE. Lots of people do it (and the other way round).
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  7. 11:45 SuSE had a good installer, too. That’s what my biggest Linux-using client was running at the time, so I switched away from Mandrake to that on my own Linux machine. Then I also set up servers with SuSE for this other client that was getting more heavily into Linux.
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  8. @jdavidgea No, Linux allows the BIOS clock to be either in UTC or local time. UTC is preferable, but some people have to dual-boot with Windows, which insists on interpreting it as local time, so Linux allows for that for compatibility. The Linux system clock is maintained entirely within the running kernel, and is quite separate from the BIOS clock aka “hardware clock”. https://linux.die.net/man/8/hwclock
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  9. 09:15 Actually, their architectures for accomplishing common tasks are shared a lot in common nowadays. E.g. the use of D-Bus as the common high-level IPC mechanism.
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  10. 6:49 Does each snap contain its own copy of all the standard themes?
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  11.  @Doriandotslash  But your demo showed the snapped apps changing theme in synchrony with your system setting -- at least as far as they were able.
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  12. Do snaps come from a single repo? Or do you download and install them from different places, like Windows apps? Because if it’s the latter, then the burden is put on you to keep returning to those places to look for updates, instead of being able to do a single “apt-get update && apt-get upgrade” to keep your entire system up to date. Not to mention having to download an entire new snap every time ... Windows users may be used to multi-gigabyte downloads for minor updates, but Linux users are not going to put up with that ...
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  13.  @TheDragShot  What about /sys ?
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  14. Debian Stable is tough as old boots and just boringly reliable. Great for mission-critical server deployments. On the desktop, though, I like a bit more excitement. That’s why I run Debian Unstable.
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  15. 1:28 I’m sure there’s a way to write an auto-reconnection script. How much of a Linux geek are you? 🐧
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  16. 7:50 How about automatically using the “snap list” output to drive the “snap remove” command, e.g. try this first for f in $(snap list | tail -n +1 | cut -f1 -d' '); do echo snap remove "$f" done and when you are sure it is outputting the right commands, take out the “echo” word and run it again.
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  17. 8:26 OK, that’s actually a bit easier than my idea.
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  18.  @Doriandotslash  That’s why I had the “echo” in there. It’s a good way to test the logic before actually turning it loose.
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  19. 11:31 Hey, the first non-Apple PC I bought -- a Pentium-4 Shuttle in 2004 -- came with a copy of Mandrake 9.1 “Discovery Edition” in the box. The “Discovery” bit meant that it was missing the 3rd CD with the developer tools. So one of my early experiments in Linux tweaking was figuring out how to download and install those tools from the online repo.
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  20. 32:38 That 50fps looks a bit choppy—is that an artifact of your screen recording? For comparison, I went to view the original directly https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9l6KNHSlv4 , and it looks much smoother.
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