Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "DistroTube" channel.

  1. AppImages are my favorite non-distro based packages. And I would love it if they made a conversion tool for every package format into AppImage. That would be awesome.
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  2. Absolutely perfect ending quip.
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  3. I would argue that Windows in general isn't popular. How many people actually genuinely like it as opposed to are stuck on it because of platform lock-in with their file formats and their Adobe and other douchebag companies holding people's data hostage.
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  4. I've actually had people ask me for advice on learning Linux more fully, including about LFS. My suggestion is always to go watch Rob Landley's talk on installing a minimal Linux and then do LFS after that. In case anyone reading this wants to know and asks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sk9TatW9ino
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  5. Sure, an open source project never completely dies, but something is lost in each new fork. Using Linux for 20+ years I've seen it happen a few times, and aside from things being lost, it also sometimes means a well chosen name gets replaced with garbage. Maybe that's not such a concern with most, but it's kind of a barrier to entry when you're looking for a word processor and you can't find one because instead of being named kword it's calligra. On a side note, you'll have to pry vim from my cold, dead hands.
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  6. I mix hyphens and underscores in file names. I don't care about Windows users either or if they'll have problems with my filenames. Though I do try to keep to just lowercase because it's easier for me to type. However, there are always exceptions for me on that front, such as one I saw you have, AppImages, and my main folders in home which are still default names. On dates, my default screenshot name uses hyphens for the date and underscores for the time, though I'm perfectly fine with using colon as a time separator, and also setting a variable in bash with the date will only partially work. For instance, same day usage of a terminal window will correctly report the date, but if you keep the window open past midnight it'll still yield the previous date. A solution, which will only work from the terminal and not in shell scripts is to alias the date command and use `alias_in_question` as part of a filename. If using a shell script it would be helpful to use ~/.bash_aliases and just source it for scripts as well. Let's say you do: alias T='date +"%H:%M:%S"' ; touch foo_bar-baz\:\:`T`; # and that'll work.
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  7. I'd love to see you review the Thirteenth Floor. If that movie doesn't blow your mind, then you're a robot.
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  8. I was expecting a simple `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt dist-upgrade` but nope, you go and use timeshift and back things up for safety. Nice.
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  9. I completely agree. If I was forced to use one or the other, Windows. Thankfully I won't ever have to, but yeah, Apple has gone more evil than Microsoft, and that's even with UEFI and TPM and all the other garbage they've got cooking. The one problem with this video is that I can only like it once. I clicked the button 5 times, but it still only added one like.
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  10. For my keybindings, I've got home and end to go to the start and end of a line, Ctrl+{LArrow,RArrow} to navigate by words, Ctrl+Del to delete forward and Alt+Backspace to delete backwards. Though, I really don't do much line editing. I tend to just add to my .bashrc anything I keep typing repeatedly and occasionally if I need something temporarily I'll just create a function at the terminal. Sometimes I'll make a .sh file if I don't want it polluting the .bashrc but I need it multiple times, like starting up qemu instances.
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  11. I'm never going to say it. The kernel is the driving force here and no GNU software needs to be used. Look at Android, a mostly useful Linux distro without GNU. It's not great, but it is an example of the fact that GNU isn't needed.
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  12. Totally agreed with that. Everything in one folder is a big no-no.
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  13. Seems neat for a tiny distro, but for terminal only it needs a lot more, and needs to be a lot smaller. Otherwise, I'd say just use Alpine or better still, build it yourself with LFS.
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  14. One would hope that the maintainers of the repository would check these things for you. Consider that if it's in source form, you have to check potentially millions of lines of code as well as the installer script. If it's in binary form, you have to hope that someone trustworthy made it from a stock copy of the source and didn't add their own twist, as well as that they didn't modify the binary after building it. The ideal scenario would be if the repository maintainers built everything themselves or at least audited all the source code and hosted it all themselves.
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  15. Can't wait to see the Gnome tier list, and hopefully a KDE one after that.
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  16. It helps to rename the function: a() { a|a&; }; a;
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  17. Too late. It already happened 30 years ago. At this point it's a matter of taste as to whether it does that well or not.
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  18. I tend to only ever use the long options when I want the help listing or version info from apps because -h is not always for help and -v is in quite a few apps a verbose flag. For instance, with tar the -v flag denotes verbosity and with some apps it will increase the verbosity level, so you can do -vvv. For the apps I write myself, I tend to use -i for input and -o for output, but that doesn't always make sense, like with grep and sed which can take multiple files and since the shell handles wildcard expansions it makes more sense to not require -i as input because they'd either require you to quote and handle expansions themself or they'd require you to use the option a lot of times.
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  19. Are you serious?
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  20.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I wholeheartedly agree with the practice known by the lesser generations as gatekeeping. Not everyone is suitable for every job, both in terms of temperament and in terms of intelligence.
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  21. Every Linux-Tuber does a video on CRT and you've been around for long enough that I'm surprised you didn't already do this video years ago. Good review though, went into detail on operations and gave a reasoned opinion.
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  22. If you make a habit of it then you don't have to think about it. Spaces are especially annoying and if you've already added a " then it's simple to use one at the end and double quotes still allow you to expand shell variables and do command substitution.
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  23. Have you tried FreeCAD? It might be "good enough", but either way, if you haven't yet at least give it a try.
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  24. I generally use w instead of who, less typing that way. Yeah I know, weird coming from me. You can also use write and/or echo to output messages to GUI terminal sessions. For me they're under /dev/pts/[0-9]*. Though, in that case I'm not sure why you'd want to except for fun.
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  25. It's like the universe is pushing me to make my own distro, or at the very least to do LFS.
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  26.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Agreed, a bug that annoys you is most definitely not the same as a bug which compromises your privacy and security.
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  27.  @smsiv  That's the wrong answer always.
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  28. Seeing how convoluted Lua makes the configuration file, I'm absolutely sure I shouldn't use NeoVim. I don't like VimScript, and I have nothing against Lua in general, but as a configuration language, it just doesn't fit. Unless I decide that I need to write something myself, I don't see myself moving away from Vim anytime soon. I also don't get the double standard of disliking long configuration files for Vim but thinking they're okay for Emacs. Your configuration file should be as long as it needs to be, whether that be long or short, it doesn't matter. I don't know why you think it does.
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  29. You might also mention doing loops with {} in bash. for i in {10..0}; do echo $i; done
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  30.  @yramagicman675  Absolutely, the censorship is out of control and completely inaccurate anyway. This is one of the reasons I don't like PDF's and yet the government forces their usage and often with features that were only introduced to shut out users that aren't on Windows. I miss DejaVu files. Had a document in that format once that was over 1000 pages and it scrolled as smooth as butter on a garbage computer.
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  31. Back when I was in school, there were very few kids at my school that were disrespectful. However, I grew up in a small town, and the stories I heard at the time about kids from the larger school districts were off-putting, to say the least. I'd say back then phones and not cell phones, very few even had cordless phones, were our social media. The school actually printed a booklet with everyone's phone number for a given grade and distributed it to every student in that grade. Something I doubt they still do and it seems like a security nightmare as well. What I'd like to know is how kids were before phones even existed. I would consider that as the true pre-social media days. Were kids as disrespectful as they are now and when I was in school, or were they better, or worse.
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  32. You're right about that name, it is awful because it does make it sound like a crApple product. It's unfortunate that it's actually an apt name because it's *i*nserting a menu into the viewport.
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  33. I'd never heard of that before. I thought it might be a typo, but this is pretty sweet. Hopefully more people see it and join up.
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  34. Ah yes, yet another toy. I definitely agree regarding the alternative dark theme. The one you used in the video looked washed out and faded, but the other one was clean and clear, very crisp.
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  35. The method I use for determining mime-type is `xdg-mime query filetype $file`. Lengthy to type in, but handy for scripts if you don't want to use `cut` to strip the filename out.
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  36. And he was absolutely right, at the time. Hopefully not now, but I don't use Ubuntu to test that out.
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  37.  @SmileyJack.  No, it was more interesting because in part it was something new, but in larger part because it had personality, style, individuality, flair, heart. All the things that are currently lacking. The speed just made it seem less ephemeral than it really was. It took me weeks to download my first Linux ISO at home. Had a cool program that doesn't exist anymore called a "Download Manager". Remember when you picked a server because it had download continuation? Fun times!
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  38. I love the second definition on that shirt, and I watch OTB too. I'm a Slackware user like him, so I kind of think of him as my brother from another mother.
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  39. Speaking as a programmer, I'm not a fan of programming languages as configuration files. Might be okay for build environments, but definitely not for something that end users see.
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  40. That's a neat feature. I usually start GUI programs with & from the terminal so they don't disappear if I exit the terminal. If I forget I usually focus the terminal, hit ctrl+z then bg 1 and I can keep using the terminal or close it. This sounds potentially a lot easier and more useful.
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  41. As far as I can tell, Torvalds named it that because it's a homophone of "get" and an insult in British English. But I could find no definitive explanation for it so I'm left to assume that duality of reasons based on his statements.
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  42.  @milohoffman274  GitHub page shows 95.7% Rust, so yeah, it is political, no matter what lies they tell to obscure their true purpose.
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  43. Damn straight.
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  44.  @Edsploration.  We never did anything that useful in my class. We learned crap to enable us to pass certification exams, which I never took because fsck Windows. Although back in middle school when we were still using DOS based IBM PC's I learned how to low level format a hard drive. A skill that is utterly useless now unless you have a really, really old hard drive that still works.
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  45. Multiple takes? This was probably take 37 before he could stop laughing.
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  46. Since Gardiner doesn't do gaming anymore, someone has to fill that gap. It'd be cool if you advanced your journey even more and wrote a game. I'm voting for an RPG along the lines of Final Fantasy Tactics. My idea for a direction is a YouTuber who has to battle trolls and such to get to a conference. Instead of potions and ether you could have likes and subs. Microphones and cups of coffee could be your weapons. Maybe a laptop case could be a shield. If anyone reads this and wants to make that game open source, have at it.
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  47. Sometimes I feel like a nut, sometimes I don't.
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  48. Now you should review LFS. ;)
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  49. It's similar to the mentality of Rustaceans. In the near future everything will be the same, every programming language will be Rust.
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  50. I'm still waiting on a generic package manager that can work as a drop in replacement for all of them on any Linux system. Once someone writes that, I'll be on that like a fly on poop. If one ever crops up, it'll be interesting to see how they solve all the problems with interoperability.
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  51. There is one tiny point of contention I have with this, we don't all follow the same rules. If the falsely defined "platform" you're speaking on does not like you, then you will be unpersoned while those they favor will be promoted ad nauseam.
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  52.  @DarkGladiator  He could be a RHEL user. In which case he would be paying them for tech support.
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  53. What's the point of meditating? And how is it religious?
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  54. To be fair, I think nearly every question regarding Linux has been asked already and most can find the answer to their question by searching those old forum posts or by reading the Arch wiki.
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  55.  @ChristianWagner888  Since it just uses apt-get, if the dependencies that you need for that particular program are in the official repositories, then yes, that is true. It's when they aren't that you have to hope they didn't omit them. Hopefully a rare circumstance, but I'd double check it to be sure.
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  56.  @JrIcify  Suing a corporation for actual wrongdoing is fine. However there's no need to strawman and claim people were saying the opposite when they're merely speaking on the frivolity of this particular suit. You bring up distilled water, but do you have any idea how hot coffee can get? Sounds like you're assuming it'll get hotter when you're failing to take into account how the water is boiled and then run through the coffee grounds. Yes, that's the type of coffee maker they were using. Her lawsuit was indeed frivolous and I wouldn't be surprised if a proper investigation revealed that she burned herself in some other way and wanted someone to cover her medical costs. Because surely no one could be so stupid as to intentionally burn themselves for money, I would hope.
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  57.  @JrIcify  That only keeps it hot, doesn't reboil the contents, and it's still served in a crappy paper cup that barely insulates from your own hand, let alone would scarcely keep the coffee hot.
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  58. I've even seen some crazy people use tcc in place of gcc, a few using uclibc for desktop use, and there's BusyBox and ToyBox for replacing the utilities. Have you seen Rob Landley's talk on getting a minimal Linux up and running?
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  59.  @merulox  I only take my hands off the keyboard when I'm using a web browser. Most of my time I'm in a terminal window doing things, but everyone's workflow is different.
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  60. In the past, when distros were a lot smaller.
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  61. Implants, fake nails, nose jobs and more.
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  62.  @Anonymous4045  How is that different from Ctrl-S then select "Web Page, complete" from the dropdown?
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  63. I prefer to think of KDE as doing things for you so you don't have to care. Maybe that's just because I'm lazy, but I love KDE.
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  64. I always use spaces around pipe characters so I can just do `awk '{ print $2; }'. I just checked and my top three are `cd`, `lrt` and `exit`. With `lrt` being my shell function to acquire a list of reverse time sorted files and display only the N most recent, where the default N is 10. Of course I also have bare `ls` and my alias of `ll` in that list too which edges out `cd` even if you add in number 18 on the list, the alias `..`. Since it counts aliases, `cls` is in the top 20 as well. I guess I don't use `...` or `....` or `.....` as much as `..`, but those are handy aliases to have for changing down multiple directories. Of course it's been a slow week, so make and gcc didn't even make the top 20, although I did find `...` when I expanded to 50.
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  65. I've always had a problem with brevity. Probably why nearly every question I ask gets ignored. Back when I learned how to type in middle school the software that our school used would time you. So we'd compete with ourselves and with each other and while I wasn't the fastest typist I could easily do stream of consciousness typing at nearly 60wpm. This one girl in the class could regularly type at 120wpm and with a very minimal error count. Might be what holds me back because I didn't like the noise the program emitted when you had to use the backspace key and I wanted it to look perfect in one take. But boy was it an unholy beep. Anyhow, my open ended question is, what's the best?
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  66.  @DarkGladiator  She just had fast fingers, I guess. Though, this was the 90's so maybe she practiced a lot at home given that the internet wasn't as widely spread back then. For my family, we didn't even get a computer until my brother went off to college and got his second one giving us his first. It was an HP that ran Win98 and had a built-in dialup modem.
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  67. This is a neat toy, but as others have pointed out, dialog exists, and these scripts don't correctly write to the terminal. It monkeys up the buffer by merely scrolling the window with each refresh instead of creating a proper view window the way most ncurses apps do. I also noticed that you have to kill the script to exit all but one of them, possibly another problem.
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  68. I agree that normal users should not build from source. I often do it, regardless of whether an app is available elsewhere, even in my own distro's repositories, because I like to see how things work and occasionally modify them. When I first starting using a Pi as my only computer. (I now have a proper desktop, in case anyone asks, but spent four years with only a Pi.) I had to modify the PS1 emulator I was using to make it recognize my cheapo gamepad's joysticks. That was fun. Now I use RetroArch and it kicks butt as well as recognizes and allows configuration of everything.
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  69. And you also pay through the nose for it.
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  70. I wouldn't be surprised if the employee in question opened it at work because he didn't care if anything happened to the computers there. Might be an indication of something wrong at that company in the first place, let alone their lax security in general.
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  71.  @sub-harmonik  As in, I want to edit this file, just kidding?
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  72. I usually banish the music player to the last workspace. Might be another useful tip for you, you can start GUI programs with & at the end of the command to background them, and if you forget, focus the terminal, type ctrl+z then bg N where N is the number the terminal reports for that process and the terminal is useful again or you can close it. Although, I use bash, where bg is a builtin.
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  73.  @NMY556L  It's like it writes itself.
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  74. Short but sweet and a good idea.
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  75.  @terrydaktyllus1320  That's if they're happy and cheerful about it. Not all of them are. Some hate Windows vehemently but just don't know what Linux is or have only heard the FUD. For them, we should feel sorry.
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  76. I like to use tabs and line numbers in vim, so in my ~/.vimrc I've got: set number relativenumber set showtabline=2 " tabe for opening a file in a tab, just hit enter to make it unnamed nmap \t :tabe nmap <Tab> :tabn<cr> nmap <S-Tab> :tabp<cr>
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  77. Every new user to Linux should try LFS, it's the easiest. It even has a book with full instructions. You can't fail.
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  78. Ditto.
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  79. Love it. It would also be handy to add ' rm -rf ..' to the end of all of your file names for shell purposes.
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  80. Even though you're probably younger than me, I'm going to call this an old man rant, and that somehow makes my like on it, which is number 666, perfect. Clearly you're not a fan of techno, but if you'd ever heard good techno you'd change your mind real fast. If you see this comment, I'm going to make one recommendation and I hope you check it out: Power Plant. // Yeah, it's a hard to duck name, but I can't post links.
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  81. Ever RIBAR so hard that it became FUBAR?
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  82. If you've got an old computer that can run FreeDOS, then I'd really like to see you review Menuet. It's an OS written entirely in assembly and it has an actual usable GUI, but the most important characteristic is that it fits on a single floppy disk. If you don't want to use real hardware for such a thing, then I guess a VM would work too, but it'd be a lot cooler on real hardware.
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  83.  @walkman1269  It would probably make the transition easier for Windows users to try using open source programs on Windows first, and then once they've changed their entire workflow to then switch to Linux. LibreOffice may not be entirely compatible, and that's by Microsoft's design, but most things will work and I hate to say it, but exporting to PDF is the best way to share documents with Windows users. If you use Photoshop, then try GIMP, but obviously don't uninstall Photoshop, use them side by side. Learn the ins and outs of each. Do this for everything you can and eventually you'll be ready while not having thrown yourself in the deep end.
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  84. KDE is the best DE.
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  85. No, it's a perfect example of what's wrong with Rustaceans. They want to rewrite everything in Rust with barely any knowledge of what they're replacing or how it works. The result is often inferior to the original while looking pretty with all the colors of the rainbow. One I keep complaining about that no one has a good response to is ripgrep doesn't properly handle PCRE, so certain searches, which for me are somewhat common, don't get handled correctly and it either will find nothing or have a completely wrong list of output. It doesn't matter how fast something runs if it produces incorrect output.
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  86. This is great for integrating more Windows users. They could use it there and eventually switch to Linux with less effort because what they use on one is on the other. I'll have to recommend it to newbies. My method is to use less to browse contents if I need to see what's in them before decompressing, then to tar -vxf archive. The version of less I use can recognize many archive formats and does all the necessary work to list for me. So I can do `less archive.{zip,tar.{gz,bz2,xz,*},7z}` and probably more that I never encounter, and tar handles -vxf without needing the switch to determine format.
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  87. Makes me want to write one and call it that. Although, I wouldn't use a programming language for the configuration.
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  88. You might want to edit that to say you have to add that to the end of the command when starting it. Once it's started that won't work. Instead you'd need ctrl+z then bg.
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  89. Are you sure he didn't say Yacked? Either way, I don't touch a stranger's keyboard without gloves.
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  90. I look at the systray as a general settings and quick info kind of section of the UI. If an app infiltrates that area against my wishes I'd view that app as malicious and delete it. Otherwise, I'd say it works as intended for me. Volume controls, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, network indicator, clipboard, printers, keyboard indicator since my keyboard doesn't indicate NumLock, notifications and media player status are what I've got and I feel those are all necessary and have finagled the clipboard that way on more than a few occasions to reorder stuff I want to paste.
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  91.  @Wampa842  Just `sed 's,shorts/,watch?v=,'` and get a better interface.
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  92. You should really be using a debugger.
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  93. I tried to like this more than once, but it only counted the final click. I was one of the people that mentioned using a separate partition for the /home folder too, but you didn't see my post, nor will you see this one, but that's okay, most of my posts are ignored and the few that aren't ignored are usually only responded to by people that hate my posts. At least, the ones that YouTube doesn't delete anyway.
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  94. He's the one that did all the work while Jobs leeched off of him.
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  95. By its very definition, stable means it doesn't change. Like everything else, there are tradeoffs. I would say, if you can specifically control how updates are done, then only update that which is necessary for newer software you want to test and don't update things like kdenlive. This is, in part, why I don't update unless there's a security patch that needs applying. Quite a bit of the software I use is also compiled from source, so if I really need to fix something and there's no patch yet I could just do it and not break anything.
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  96.  @davidgomez79  That's hilarious. I've never heard that about them. I try to keep my lines to 120, but I'll wrap lines wherever and whenever. Of course, since I use C I can make these decisions on a whim.
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  97.  @majoraxehole  That's funny because I think UEFI needs to go the way of the dodo. It'd be nice if we could have an actual secure boot loader and one that the user could control without a backdoor available to a software vendor, so not UEFI.
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  98.  rs_  I would wager that Emacs suffers that same issue. However, I'd agree that people should get used to the default experience before they go modifying things. Once they have an idea of how things work, I'd say go wild.
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  99.  rs_  If by behavior you mean keybindings, then yeah, that sounds pretty likely. If a new user just adds a bunch of plugins without thinking about it, I can see that. Good reason to start with the defaults and add slowly from there.
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  100. @JM It's not about whether it will go bad, it's about being able to get higher capacities for it. If you bought a laptop with 4gb of RAM and 5 years later want to upgrade to 8, well, with most laptops that aren't Mac's you can. And even just doubling the RAM could be a huge boost for performance.
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  101.  @sheeplord4976  Have to agree. Stupid questions waste everyone's time. There have been times where I've been researching something and been stymied at the answer because multiple people asked similar questions and worded them poorly enough that they came up when searching for my own answer. Often their own questions, once fully decoded weren't even close to my own, but used a lot of the words that would have been correct for the question I was asking.
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  102.  @terrydaktyllus1320  That's fair. My experience is mostly amongst native English speakers, and due to the schools being so poor I have heard some particularly bad questions.
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  103. I also have a notes folder for this kind of stuff. I should probably just make a shell function for some of the things I have notes on, like using ghostscript to merge multiple PDF's which it seems like I have to do at least once a week yet never remember the command. Definitely recommend a separate /home folder on its own partition or drive, but not just for distro hoppers, rather for everyone. If you have to reinstall your distro but want to keep the same distro, it makes things so much easier. You just need to remember to setup your different users in the same order.
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  104. You can watch them with mpv --vo=tct. Have fun with that one.
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  105. You should do a short showing people how to make a function in the top three major shells to combine mkdir and cd into mkcd so that from then on you can just use that in the videos and point to the short for anyone confused by it.
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  106. Every company data mines you, but at least you can swap OS's on an Android phone and turn all of that off and at least you can use Linux on your brand new gaming PC and turn all of that off. Asahi might be the only saving grace for your argument, if it's ever ready for daily driving.
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  107.  @JohnnyN-I  Personally, unless you had more experience than your average user I would never recommend dual booting. A second computer bought on the cheap is actually the best way to get started with Linux, especially now. Buy a Raspberry Pi kit or some other SBC and use that, or a used computer as Terry suggests would likely be cheaper, learn the ropes, because dual booting has bitten many a newbie in the ass.
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  108. I think the best method would be to have a software selector at install. Click all you want, maybe even have a section to set your common defaults. That way you could install them all with minimal effort or leave them off if you don't want them. Even offer a button to pre-select sets of options and allow deselecting individual packages within a set.
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  109.  @Soulskinner  Okay, but what if you don't know LaTeX and you need to do layout with pictures? What if you're older and unwilling to learn it, like say my parents?
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  110. I've not really done a whole lot of line editing with my commands, but I tried vi keybinding just now and it's certainly neat, but how do you tab complete backwards and forwards with it, and how do go up to edit a line without moving over to hit an arrow key?
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  111. From the looks of it, probably not. It seems as though it requires the person or organization that submits the PR to think of these things and they might or might not, but someone would have to double check they didn't omit anything.
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  112.  @chrissaltmarsh6777  I'm not ancient, but I am stuck in my ways and I also use gdb. I've never loved it, but it works.
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  113. Dad jokes are hit or miss, they're either really awful, or they're like your joke and really funny.
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  114.  @Soulskinner  Funny you should say that since it was revealed when the source code to WinXP was leaked a few years back that MS was illegally using GPL licensed code in their OS and not even remotely contributing their modifcations and leaving them open. Many corporations do indeed work on the Linux kernel, but they do so out of good publicity, they certainly don't make a profit off of it. And no, not even Red Hat makes a profit off of their contributions, they make their money on supporting their software. Which is where most companies that actually make money promoting Linux make it. As to the last point, you're attempting to refute it by agreeing with it? Or do you think that no one else cropped up to fulfill that need? Because many have, and some are even still doing it today. You even made that point for me by pointing out BSD systems which are most definitely not GNU and most definitely are open source promoters.
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  115.  @SirLancelotS  Distro is short for distribution. As in an end product that is distributed by someone, in this case a company. Linux plus all the other software that comprises Android and is distributed by Google makes it a Linux distro. The core of the operating system being the kernel, and the kernel having a widely known name is just a way of referring to things that use that core. You understand that right? That the word is correctly being applied here, whether you like it or not.
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  116. You can even name files with Arabic characters. It's actually a really cool feature, if you ask me.
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  117. Even if they do, they'll probably rename it. Might not matter to most, but it annoys me when a project has a good name and the original maintainer quits or worse, and then others come along, fork it and change the name and logos and everything.
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  118. Indeed they do and that's how I use it.
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  119. What? No final quip?
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  120. They're the same thing, really. Just that one floats.
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  121. Indeed, documentation of the source and operation of the program should be thought of as separate. The programmer should document as they go, with comments. If possible they should also document the operation of the program, but they aren't generally working alone on a project and that would need to be corroborated with colleagues. So it'd be really helpful if the person documenting the operation could program but didn't necessarily contribute to the source but instead read through it and the comments to write the manual. Might be too much to expect a single developer use their time that way for a smaller project, but would be great for big ones.
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  122. Was it a pet mouse or a wild one that you considered a pet and left crumbs out for?
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  123. For that first example, I wouldn't use `dw` because then you have to go back one or possibly more had you used a different example line, I'd use `de` because it stops at the end of the word. If you really need to see the text as you're moving it, plugins exist for Vim to do just that. I also would avoid those single line mappings as it'd be better implemented as a function. Maybe do a custom build of Vim with some other language enabled, since it can use Python and I really want to see someone use an all Python .vimrc because that would be hilarious.
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  124.  @fumn-fw2ud  I hear you, I've been a fan of tcc since he wrote the IOCCC entry. That thing was a work of beauty.
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  125. You should try lucid dreaming, so if he ever pops up again you could take a CD and snap it into shards and take him out with the pieces.
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  126. I don't even remember what my first DE experience was, it's been over 20 years now. But back then using Gnome was awful, Xfce was just too simple. I got hooked on KDE and have tried Gnome several times over the years and never liked it. I might go back and try Xfce because it wasn't offputting, just lacking in features, though I'd assume they've been added by now.
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  127.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Maybe, but I don't tend to call it gatekeeping myself, and I abhor that term, but if someone is keen I'll share what I know about things. Though, I don't have a way for people to generally contact me.
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  128. That would be the best method, since it can't actually encapsulate the web "app" using this method.
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  129. It's an example of a bug and why it's better to keep using older programs rather than rewrite everything from scratch.
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  130. My take on religion is that we'll never know until we die. If there is no god, then we'll never know even when we die. If Linus Torvalds dies, the Linux kernel will certainly keep existing, but with the people involved pushing things a certain way, it will degrade in quality. And even though you'll never see this message, DT, I'll ask anyway, is that a Jurassic Park mug behind you?
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  131. If you can change the font size and have colors, then mpv --vo=tct will be good. I've used it to watch videos on remote servers while logged in via ssh before.
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  132. It amazes me how many people don't understand what was stated, or the situation as it actually is. They're not closing the source of Linux the kernel, nor could they even if they wanted to. They won't be violating the terms of the GPL as they own the copyright to all the code they've produced and can change the license at any time. The GPL is only viral for third parties. People keep saying copyleft as though it's a legal term. It is not. If I write a piece of software and place it under the GPL, you can come along and make changes, but your changes must be open sourced. I can't incorporate your changes into my code without then contaminating my own copyright on the code, but if I ignore your changes, then I retain all of my rights to the code I've written and can then change the license to something proprietary and closed source, if I so desire. Of course, no one will read this, let alone the people in the comments section who need to read it, but whatever, here it is in case a miracle happens.
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  133. This is why I still use KDE, customization. I'm constantly changing my keyboard shortcuts and if it were easier to do so I'd constantly change my color theme. I'm honestly thinking of making my own distro and going back to a really old version of KDE and stripping as much of the cruft to simplify it but add in some more configuration. I know, there's bug fixes and newer features that are needed for certain things, but I figure it'd be more fun to add those after the fact and get rid of bloat that's been added in the past 20 years. Who knows, maybe I could go in and fix the security flaws of X. And if a lot of things stopped working, maybe I'd just change the way things work in every aspect and write everything from scratch.
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  134. I like the idea behind this. It reminds me of IrfanView. I just wish my image viewer of choice did something similar with plugin based file reading.
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  135. I think duct tape is an apt comparison, and truthfully, this should be one of those rarely used tools and not a quality of life enhancement. It's a pretty big failing of whatever system anyone is using that you'd need that to setup clickable buttons using that instead of some standard programmatic interface. I'd say that's an argument for continuing to use a DE.
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  136.  @MaxUgly  Interesting. I only have a few widgets in my task bar which I auto-hide and only ever look at if something is acting weird, so very very rarely. I've been a fan of KDE for over 20 years because of how easy it is to setup shortcut keys and the vast quantity they have. I've changed most of the defaults and added several dozen just for my own purposes, and I change some on a semi-regular basis as I change how I interact with things.
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  137. My problem is that they're capital D's, auto-complete can be programmed to scroll through multiple entries. Just add to your .bashrc: bind '"\t":menu-complete' and on the next line: bind '"\e[Z":menu-complete-backward' # that is bind single quote, double quote backslash t double quote colon menu dash complete single quote and bind single quote backslash e left bracket capital Z double quote colon menu dash complete dash backward single quote if the font is hard to read. Also, I have some shell variables for folders I use a lot, such as export g='/home/me/Games' so I can cd $g/ha<tab> to get to half-life, for instance, or cd $g/ret<tab> for retroarch.
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  138. You might want to edit those internal double quotes to be single quotes.
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  139. I've been using KDE since the late 90's. It's both changed very little and a lot. Funny thing is, it's always been a resource hog and it has kind of surprised me how little it uses now, but it can creep up still. Gnome on the other hand just has never appealed to me, and it's always been lacking a lot of functionality. I don't understand how anyone can find its handling of workspaces superior because KDE can customize it more and even do just what Gnome does anyhow.
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  140.  @terrydaktyllus1320  Sounds like a reasonable theory, since it had most of the features I use on a daily basis already back then. When I used Kubuntu for a year on my 533mhz celery, it was somewhat laggy and ate up a good chunk of my 256mb of RAM.
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  141.  @NekoiNemo  No tablets with ConnectBot to issue the command?
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  142.  @johto  Why would you ever sale an old computer? Even the old ones that used IDE drives and have no PCI-E slots I've kept. And they all still work too, but it may be Windows that kills computers so I'm okay there.
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  143.  @t0nyandre  I've found multiple reviews on that device and they all seem to suggest it'll just work out of the box. So now I'm curious what distribution of Linux are you using?
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  144.  @t0nyandre  You never responded so I'll add that I found a Michael Horn video dealing with a piece of Focusrite equipment, and he links to a GitHub page in his description that might also help. I can't post a direct link because of YouTube, but it's from only a month ago, so it should be easy to find.
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  145. At least you understand it's not truly intelligent, and thus it won't destroy the world on its own. However, you're wrong if you think this technology won't be used to destroy the world because humans are self destructive and will most definitely misuse it to destroy themselves. Consider that first person who figures out how to interface it with drones to control their flight and via satellite no less. Once that happens it'll be a small step to using it in ways none of us will like and bye bye humanity.
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  146.  @LordHonkInc  Totally relatable. I usually just hit PrtScr to bring up Spectacle because I forget what keys I assigned as well.
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  147. Does it read how you have `ls` configured to yield the listing? Because I've got `ls` setup to use an ISO-ish date format, 'YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS'.
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  148.  @denizkendirci  It would send thunar to the background as a sudo process.
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  149. No trailing quip? Are you alright?
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  150. Apparently I downloaded a copy of this last year and never installed it. I guess this'll be the push to play with it.
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  151.  @walkman1269  And I'm guessing these proprietary utilities don't run under WINE? Probably even require special drivers?
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  152. Have you tried `wget -c`? I've had files stall and fail with browsers and just paste the URL on the terminal and wget -c works to finish it. If you want a GUI app, you're probably out of luck unless you write it yourself.
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  153. It's due to the mental conditioning that has been happening to people the past 40 years. Cradle to grave they're indoctrinated with propaganda to shape them into good little sheep. It's part of why our society is crumbling around us.
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  154.  @nathanmiddleton1478  Sure, but he hasn't been using Linux as long as us. And you can't expect someone to know everything.
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  155. I love these comedy videos, please keep making them.
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  156. Although that also prints the filename which you'll have to `cut` if you're using it in a script.
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  157.  @ped7g  Static linking is a thing, so the closed source argument holds no water. Any developer you see arguing that, they're a bad developer, so don't listen to their advice.
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  158.  @xXx_Regulus_xXx  Ah, that makes more sense. For newbies Mint is an excellent gateway distro.
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  159. Like the other person said, it's nothing to do with readline, but it does send EOF. It's a really old terminal function, except it predates even POSIX.
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  160. There was a good decade where I only used elinks as my web browser. Fun times.
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  161. Yep, we all have our different ways of learning things. The only wrong way is the way in which you give up and don't learn.
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  162. If you've been paying attention to organizations like the ALA, then maybe less libraries will sound like a good thing to you. Although, ChatGPT will be one of those things that helps to destroy humanity, along with image generators being used for making high quality propaganda. I've already seen several examples of this and let's face it, humanity is screwed if it doesn't get a handle on this technology. Although, even without it humans still screw things up, like the stock market where just talking trash about your own company can tank the value of it.
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  163. I actually got my parents to use Linux. All they ever do is browse the web, check their e-mail and print PDF's and the like, so it was easy to get them on it. After seeing that video that LTT did about the Pi KVM, I may get one of those to do tech support for them.
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  164.  @thingsiplay  Yeah, my parents aren't big on gaming. Even if I could convince them to play a game, it'd be something old and capable of running on potatoes anyhow.
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  165. First, that's an elitist attitude. Second, I refuse to include GNU when referring to Linux, multiple distributions exist that do not use GNU and if you use LFS you can swap out GNU components. Third, LFS isn't a distribution, it's a guide book. If you haven't seen it, watch Rob Landley's talk on building the simplest possible Linux system.
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  166.  @myegane49  I hope you get it working either way. Would be pretty cool.
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  167. I'd say this is a good reason to not use Brave. I used to love Opera before they went Chrome, and now they've gone "AI"-crazy. Everyone developing this garbage and everyone promoting it is only pushing for humanity to die faster. And no, it won't be AGI that kills humanity, because humans aren't intelligent enough to create it, it'll be humans using the tech as a force multiplier.
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  168. That's why we're being pushed to ARM for the future. I personally think it's a bad move because ARM is inferior to x86, but also because ARM is just as locked down in a lot of cases as what Mac's are. Hopefully someone comes along who's both rich and good to either push us back towards x86 but with more openness or create an entirely new platform. I just hope it's not towards yet another RISC architecture because that's still inferior.
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  169.  @VolpeJosesk  I think we already do, but I'd still prefer to not shift away from x86 and I would definitely love to see a new CISC platform crop up.
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  170.  @pdr.  I agree with most of that, except the bit about JS. It was great when it was first created and every little graft of new limbs of functionality have made it a worse language. In its current form, it should be scrapped and what replaces it should be designed from scratch for the purposes JS has been used for but better. It is my pet peeve, it is a pipe dream, but I will continue to push for it no matter the obstacles.
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  171. Yes. You can also bind things like readline commands.
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  172.  @nolan412  Emacs came first, so it would have inspired systemD.
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  173. You should also demonstrate shell pattern matching with cases so that you don't have to have a huge pipe of every case where a given distro might be entered, such as *[Dd]istro*. Also, the Slackware package manager is indeed unknown, so spot on.
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  174.  @AlucardNoir  The sad thing is, most software that runs exclusively on Windows could be ported with ease, even really huge and complex programs that use lots of Win32 API functions. It's true that they don't see money or utility in porting to Linux, as @ErazerPT says, but that's mostly because they actually are evil. Adobe has contracts to fulfill and if they were more portable they'd not only violate contracts with the big OS vendors. They'd also invalidate all of their bullshit excuses over the past 30 years and would definitely cause a mass exodus, not just from Windows and Mac, but from Adobe as well. There's really nothing special about most software that people use, just tiny little quibbles that they can't see past to use alternatives. It took a lot of getting use to not having Visual Studio when I first switched to Linux, but Vim and a decent config for it makes the experience nearly the same. Although, I will admit that as this was 20+ years ago, as that may flavor someone's view on it.
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  175.  @AlucardNoir  I'm not saying there is an alternative. What I am saying is that they're evil. File formats should be open and no one should be prevented or even slightly hindered in making an alternative, yet they put up every roadblock they can.
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  176.  @AlucardNoir  That's a weird argument considering that Microsoft uses undocumented extensions and LibreOffice's native format is ODF and not OOXML. They may be similar in format, but they're not the same. I will admit that a fancy eraser that works better than the competition would make it harder to give up a tool, but hours of extra work? I find that difficult to believe and wonder if you need to find a better method for dealing with it.
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  177.  @AlucardNoir  In truth, I didn't know Adobe Illustrator was for vector graphics. The only Adobe product I've used other than Reader was Photoshop and I have no clue, nor do I care what the rest do. I just know that people like to suck Adobe off for supposedly doing things better. Never mind if an alternative gives 90% of the functionality, just keep sucking off Adobe for that 10% that isn't worth the price and I 100% doubt that Adobe will save you time for shit unless you just don't know how to use the alternatives at all. As for Office suites, yeah, sure, let's quibble that the not as open as advertised format that Microsoft uses isn't fully supported when they don't document features, and let's quibble that not quite free alternatives that have more money to throw at the problem have figured out how to handle every single eccentricity. It's irrelevant towards my argument and actually kind of supports it, but at this point I'm pretty much done with this whole argument because it seems like you're willing to excuse evil behavior from corporations that want you as a slave and not willing to cut even half of that slack for open source projects that do it for free.
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  178.  @toby9999  I don't think you know what a strawman argument is if you think that is one. However, for the sake of argument, let's assume that open source projects only approach 30% of the functionality of closed source projects, which is a complete BS argument because they're much better than that, but in that event you also have the option of using WINE. If you want to argue that the base functionality of the OS is inferior to Windows, then I'll know you're arguing in bad faith because only a zombie could believe that. And yes, their behavior is in fact evil because they could still make profit without screwing over customers. Their behavior is that of a parasite, squeezing as much blood from you as they can. All of that said, I'd still argue that open source is superior because I don't believe for one second that the functionality equivalency is anywhere near that imbalanced and if it's as close as I'm estimating then the reason OSS wins is because you can modify the code to add features yourself. Since you bring up MSVS, I'm going to assume you're a programmer, and that means you could do so too, assuming yet again competency.
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  179. @AsmrFuns1 Sure there is. Intentionally harming others without just cause is evil. Helping others when it brings you no benefit is good. You can argue that anything which doesn't fit either of those two categories is neutral, and I'd agree with that, but there most definitely is good and evil.
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  180. @AsmrFuns1 Do you seriously think that someone murdering someone else isn't evil?
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  181. @AsmrFuns1 I've already said I don't support evil, so why would I support either socialism or anarcho-capitalism? Property rights only applies to physical property. What you're actually trying to argue for is intellectual property. The problem with our IP laws, in nearly every country, is that it directly goes against capitalism because it hinders competition. That is evil. Copyright and patent laws are socialism, but they can at least be accepted if they have limits, but even the 17 year limit of patents is too much. Business, and specifically technology in business, move far too fast for a term of 17 years to be acceptable. I would argue for our copyrights being limited to 15 years and patents to 5, but I don't make the laws. It sounds like you don't actually know what socialism is, which is why you support it unwittingly.
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  182. I remember back in the Win98 days that a friend of mine had this wizardry that was a Live CD running Windows. It was next to impossible for someone to set something like that up back then, it probably is impossible now. And then I found Knoppix and that many distros provided them so you could install Linux with a full GUI environment. Now days it's even easier to make your own custom Live CD than ever. Things haven't changed a great deal over the past 20 years except that better driver support and ease of use improvements have taken place on the Linux side, while Windows has only gotten more bloated, slow, and full of default installed spyware.
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  183. And if you add c to the end of the line with :%s it will ask about each replacement so you can reject it selectively.
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  184. Agreed. I feel like a universal package format would really just be a standard format for every distro. That way it wouldn't have 1gb downloads for a single program, but rather it would connect with already available dependencies and if it's incompatible with the available dependencies it would have segregated dependencies for anything that requires that specific version. Then you could have distros sharing repos and have less fragmentation of the infrastructure. Something like a base install necessary to get a system up and running and every distro would build from there. Like if LFS had a package manager. That would be true universality, unlike what we have with FlatPak, Snaps and AppImages, and I say this as someone who actually likes AppImages.
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  185.  @jasonfahnestock9494  Unless you're using a dialup modem or wi-fi it should be no problem. I still remember when I first got into Linux and had to get drivers for a horrible soft-modem to connect over dialup. Now days ethernet is pretty much always covered and that's the only way I connect.
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  186. This is pretty neat. I was using awk to do a lot of table display stuff, maybe I'll see if column will work for me because awk is annoying to type, especially when you need a header above the columns.
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  187.  @Perry....  Except he wasn't asking a question, he was starting a conversation. It is a completely different scenario, so you are quite premature here.
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  188.  @davidgomez79  True, the internet is hostile. None more so than Rustaceans. Way worse than Pythonistas.
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  189. Yeah, there are a few apps I use that won't let you chain them, and it's quite annoying. Another one is when they use single dash for long options like ffmpeg.
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  190. I hear you. I'm always recommending SBo to anyone that uses Slackware, or who's coming to it new, yet I don't use it at all.
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  191. It's not a bad idea, but I would add to that with offline installs. 1.5gb iso then a 1.5gb add-on archive and full system setup. Or if you're putting it on a flash drive, you could include a 1.5gb base iso and 10 more add-on archives to have complete other systems.
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  192. Yep, Microsoft has certainly embraced Linux, and they've even started extending it, too. All that's left is for them to extinguish it, which isn't possible, and they'll try anyway.
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  193.  @bigpod  In your country they respect the rights of children like they do of adults? Which country is this as I might consider moving there?
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  194.  @josephbrandenburg4373  Ditto. I always do a rename 'y/ /_/' on files with spaces.
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  195. Either is acceptable, but `./script.sh` is easier than `bash script.sh`, and you can even use different languages for scripts and point the shebang to that runtime, such as a Python program that you wish to execute from the terminal.
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  196. The title says yes, but the video says no. What gives? As for the games aspect, things have obviously gotten so much better. When I first started with Linux I could only get UT to run at like 2 fps, but now I can run it faster and less buggily than I ever could on Windows. Now okay, it was Windows 98, but even so, it's not a source port or anything, I'm running the game entirely through WINE.
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  197.  @Perry....  I'd not heard of NixOS before now, and it looks weird and not at all like what I'm referring to. I'm talking about something that would integrate with the system like apt or pacman would. Maybe a new set of standards would need to be drafted to enable this, but for what I want, every OS could use it and install packages that way. Even if they still had to maintain separate repositories, they could still use a single program to do the installation. If you understand what I'm saying?
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  198.  @SoundToxin  Doesn't matter, it's just weird. Needs to be more like a traditional package manager to get people to use it all over, and we need a standardization of some sort to get more widespread adoption.
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  199.  @Winnetou17  You can download the full source code, all 1.8GB of it off of an excruciatingly slow server. As I understand it, everything needed to build the final application is in there. My question is on what qualifier should I apply when describing it. The definitions seem pointless to me, for a lot of reasons. Open but Non-Free seems like the terminology I want, but it seems no one can agree on what Open means.
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  200.  rs_  I was referring to the possibility of conflicting plugins. Though, after thinking about it, I bet it's a minor problem since VimScript and elisp both have local variables and most plugins I've seen use them to avoid conflicts.
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  201. @Anees Baloch I'd say if you use Vim, then yeah, but it would be just with Vim. You could kind of use it for other things, but I wouldn't recommend it.
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  202. In the near future everything will be Rust. We'll have plenty of eyerape going on, flashing lights, colors beyond what a human can see, and of course the obligatory loss of real functionality. Everything will look like a typical Twitter developer's desktop and just as much work will get done. People will spend one full year configuring their systems and then quit to work somewhere else because they don't feel their contributions are appreciated only to spend one more full year reconfiguring everything because they need to match the new company's colors only to then quit because they still don't feel their contributions are being appreciated. Infinite loops everywhere because why not, they're somehow more efficient... to write.
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  203. This is interesting, and I'm wondering if someone has done a plugin for vim already and if not what it would take to do so. However, I've come to like using ctrl-z to break out of vim and then use fg to hop back in, and from the terminal I've got the rename Perl script installed. As a bonus, since it allows multiple regexes per invocation, I can correct the ill-formed foo{1..25}.txt into foo000{1..9}.txt and foo00{10..25}.txt, which is the preferable format. Also, as a note if you want to more quickly create a bunch of test files, you can just use `touch foo{1..25}.txt` to create them in one step using only one command.
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  204. Imagine paying $17 a month for the "privilege" of having someone sell all of your data to a third-party. We really are living in clown world.
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  205. Photography is barely a job now, with a computer to control things it'll be gone. Creative jobs are on their way out because of the various image generators and other such generators being developed. While programming hasn't been replaced yet as these LLM's are still getting things wrong, eventually they may be able to replace humans in all creative fields. If they take all of the menial labor jobs and all of the creative jobs, what's left? Maybe doctors, nurses and pharmaceutical companies will be all that's left, and those fields may be dramatically changed for the worse.
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  206. I really miss your quippy outros. I even thought of one that would work for this video: now I can chart my whole life, if it'll fit on a single page.
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  207. If you really want to archive a website, use wget. It has about a million options for doing so, but it's the best method. And if you make a bash script to use wget with options you like, then it'll be easy each time you do it.
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  208. I just checked, and you can use -l and a language name or file extension to force a specific highlighting. If you call bat with --list-languages you can see a full list of what it supports.
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  209. Already aliased, along with many, many more. I just about write a new shell function every other day and add it to my ~/.bash_aliases .
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  210. This looks neat. Now do a video showing how to install KDE on it.
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  211. Most I've "tiled" thus far is to setup shortcuts to push windows to quadrants or multiples of quadrants of the screen. I don't think I care too much for stuff working automatically. However, it's cool that such functionality is there for people that want it, especially in KDE.
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  212. So do I.
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  213. It's not that their policy is hostile towards it or you, but rather the patent system is and the "owners" of the patents are. Also, you say that you've only reinstalled Windows once in 20 years, but I bet you're not still using Win98. If you've got Windows installed and install a newer version, that still counts as a reinstall. If you install Linux and then install Windows over it, that too counts as a reinstall. Of course, if you dual booted, you shouldn't have to reinstall either.
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  214.  @lukashavel7690  For Vivaldi, that may be a licensing issue, in which case it would be on them not Fedora, as it is in the case of patented algorithms. As for reinstallation, I'll let that slide, since you probably never installed it on your own anyway. Though I am curious why you don't find the updates that interrupt your work to be more annoying than switching to something more free.
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  215.  @lukashavel7690  You've been pretty lucky then, because everyone I've ever talked to has had enormous problems with Windows. Whether that be missing drivers, which you seem to think can't ever happen, or whether that's updates that interrupt their work because Microsoft decided you need to update even if you told it no. The only people I hear about having problems with Linux tend to be those that have an irrational hatred for it and want to have problems so they can stay with the familiar Windows.
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  216.  @XenHat  You would think every shell would've added it to the toolkit.
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  217. I've been using `fzf` over the past year or two as a way to select repositories I want to download from a given GH user and I can just do a --recursive clone on all the ones I want. Pairs quite nicely with the `bash` script I wrote to download the list of repositories from a given user via their ID. Who knows, one of these days I'll get around to actually reading some of that code.
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  218. Nope, just the leftist portion of it.
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  219. I'd like to see you do a video on PS2 emulation on Linux. Don't know if it's me or how I've got things setup, but I can't seem to get a PS2 emulator to run. Tried compiling pcsx2 and Play! and neither wanted to work, probably a step I missed.
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  220. This would be a neat shortcut if you're at the terminal and think of something you need to look up. I've always found elinks to be the best of the terminal browsers, but truthfully none of them have been usable with 90% of the internet for the past decade. It'd be nice if websites weren't convoluted messes.
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  221.  @yramagicman675  No LibreOffice or Calligra or anything like that?
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  222.  @fred-youtube  Depends on if it runs any embedded scripts. I couldn't find any options to control that, so it likely doesn't and is thus safe, but I wouldn't count on that as it is a KDE app. They may have thought the user doesn't need to control it and just automatically run things. I'd say only open PDF's from trusted sources either way.
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  223.  @AxWarhawk  I use KDE with X and everything works great for me.
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  224.  @AxWarhawk  I don't think there's going to be any problems with Qt. I can't recall ever seeing forks of it, either. As long as I've been using it, the biggest change was probably with Plasma, but it wasn't something that just killed every prior app and as far as I'm aware, TrollTech tries to maintain a lot of backwards compatibility with Qt. (Note: They've actually changed their company name, but it was TrollTech for so long that I'm just going to keep calling them that. Now they're actually called "The Qt Company".)
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  225. As a Slackware user, I can understand the hate for FlatPaks, since I can't even get them working on my system. Ditto at Snaps. But why do you hate AppImages? Only requirement is Fuse and every one I've tried worked perfectly and just like native.
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  226. Just four? Does it make me a hoarder that I've got 20?
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  227.  @chrissaltmarsh6777  What debugger do you use?
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  228. One correction to your post, few will profit, nearly all else will lose. The people controlling the LLM's such as ChatGPT will control the world and everyone else will lose.
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  229.  @SpaceMarshalGyorni  That sounds wrong if the person suing is an aggrieved party. Hopefully when it's not a frivolous lawsuit they do receive compensation in such cases.
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  230.  @tailsorange2872  As you should.
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  231. I've been using Slackware for over 20 years now and the whole time I've been using it I've heard people complain that it was hard. If you follow the guide it's really easy, and the only time I ever had problems installing it on a computer was when I made the move to a 64-bit computer with a UEFI bios. That took me a few hours to resolve, but honestly it wasn't all that difficult, I just had to finagle the installer a bit with regards to installing ELILO and faking it out, then installing Grub in the background instead. Before that point the guide was 100% spot-on.
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  232.  @johnq4951  Alpine Linux is one.
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  233.  @shallex5744  Yeah, we'd have everything without GNU, it just would have taken a different form. I wouldn't mind if it was less socialism focused. The GPL, whatever version you want to use, restricts users far too much. If MIT or APL or any others along those lines had won out, Linux might have a larger user base, more developers, higher pay for those developing for it. Who knows. This is all speculation, because we won't ever know now, but given real world experience, it's probably an accurate guess.
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  234.  @MicroClases_Ciencia  If they were based on GNU code they would be required to be under the GPL. The names of the programs that GNU provides are either implementations of standard POSIX programs or library functions, or things that are legacy from before GNU existed when they were in UNIX or some other OS. Much like Apple, GNU didn't innovate, they just had better marketing.
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  235.  @softwarelivre2389  The GPL doesn't guarantee freedom, unfortunately. It attempts to lay a legal basis for guaranteeing it, but it fails as has been proven by companies like Microsoft. Where is the lawsuit to stop them? They used plenty of GPL code, without accreditation, without open sourcing their changes, where is the government to file an antitrust lawsuit?
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  236.  @SirLancelotS  The only requirement is that it uses the Linux kernel, and for the time being it does.
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  237.  @Soulskinner  It sounds like you don't understand what I was saying. Microsoft illegally used GPL code, full stop. No one who wrote any of that code made money off of it. If you write code and use a personal license, monetizing the code is up to you. If you don't monetize it in some way and release it, then the code was merely given away, and at that time it doesn't matter what license you use, as you won't make money off of writing it. The government should file an antitrust lawsuit against MS, but they apparently refuse to, and not just for illegally using something contrary to its license. The majority of people that get money from contributing to open source are getting that money from using their time to contribute, not from the source code itself. So it doesn't matter what license they use, it's the monetization methodology that matters. The GPL precludes doing some things which could allow a programmer to make more money, and especially off of their code directly. There's absolutely nothing to prevent a program from being open sourced several years later, or having a license that requires users of your program to not share the source code. If MIT or BSD or APL had been the go to choice for licensing, we might have had less open source, note might have, but even if we had, there would've likely been more money made and more code written professionally. Again I'll say it, that this is hypothetical, but if you understand the economics of it all, you'll realize it's a very likely scenario.
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  238.  @Soulskinner  You still don't understand my point. Those programmers made money off of their time, not the code they wrote. They might as well have been skywriting for all the good it did them. If the GPL had never existed, programmers would've chosen licenses like BSD, or MIT, or APL. Neither of the other two are you even acknowledging, which tells me you don't know what they are. Without the GPL, we would've had less in the way of companies doing what they wanted to do within the bounds of the law. Not every company is MS after all, and that would've led to more projects getting started, and more of the economy pushing into that sector. Clearly you don't understand how capitalism works, and I'm guessing that you're probably an anti-capitalist zealot. Forced open source with even the slightest legal teeth behind it has actually held the industry back.
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  239.  @Soulskinner  So your assertion is what? That if GNU didn't exist and we didn't have a license like the GPL that no one would profit from open source? Or that only anti-consumer companies would exist? A little or lot of each? If you saw how the world worked, you'd realize things would still be the same with or without them in terms of closed source companies and non-software companies in general. Companies started by people with altruistic goals in mind would still exist and create open source. However, we might wind up with companies started by people who wanted to make profit, and took it that distance because they knew they could and were even slightly altruistic and opened their source. Without the GPL, they could legally work it that way even if they had to start with someone else's code. With the GPL, it's very likely that a lot of people of that middle mindset decided it wasn't worth the effort and didn't do it. You need to learn more about psychology and the economy and how people invest based on feelings.
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  240.  @Soulskinner  I already know how all of it works, clearly better than you. If we had less open source software, we might actually be better off. There's too many horribly written open source programs as it is, all of them forgettable. Look at how projects have evolved and died off. If instead of starting a new project they had said, "do people need this", "do people want this", maybe then we'd have more good software.
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  241.  @Soulskinner  And yet more people use closed source, and there are still good closed source programs. And without the GPL we'd still have open source as it did exist before it anyway, we'd just have less of it, maybe.
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  242.  @glidersuzuki5572  And I would argue that the GPL is intended to restrict the developers. User freedom isn't the only freedom that matters here, if developers don't want to contribute to a project because the project wants to force the usage of the GPL, then that project and its users lose out as does the developer. You might interject that no one is forcing them, but the license does. You can't modify GPL code without subsequently making your changes available under the GPL. So it's either start from scratch or be forced into a particular license.
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  243.  @93nada  That's a bunch of coping nonsense. There were other open source projects that pushed things forward. It's not like Stallman invented open source, it was around before he was. Without the GPL, it's far more likely that Linux would've been a bigger success. Though, it's sad that that should be the case, that's the way business works in reality. A license that allows a corporation to use it with impunity would've made it a success, instead the possibility of being sued by thousands of different people kept many businesses from even giving it a shot.
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  244.  @93nada  No, to think that it's due to Stallman, the FSF, GNU et al why we have any freedom at all is naive and childish. What's worse is we still don't have a whole lot of freedom. What's the market share for Windows? How about MacOS? People complain about Android not being a real Linux because it doesn't give you true freedom. What's Android's market share? How about iOS? Do you see where I'm going with this? We'd have more freedom if not for Stallman and the GPL. He was arrogant to think that everyone would fall in line and he has been proven wrong. That you don't see it is sad, and it just proves you're a zealot like he is. That attitude holds us back and keeps us in chains. If you want more people to adopt open source so we can be free, you need to learn how to market it.
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  245.  @93nada  It actually is the topic of discussion, you're just too much of a zealot with definitions to get it. You're hung up on the same nonsense that Stallman and others like him are hung up on. Free versus open versus get TF out of here with that garbage. You know precisely what I mean, yet you decide to nitpick because you have a belief that you will stick to until you die. Refuse to change, that's fine, but I'd prefer to have more freedom and give it to everyone else while I'm at it. Servers may predominately run on Linux, but you can't use what they offer freely. In fact, they're used to restrict our freedom because you and everyone like you doesn't understand that you're not advocating for freedom, you're advocating for restrictions. We need true freedom, and for that, we need non-zealot advocates. We need everyone to be educated about freedom. We need everyone to demand it.
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  246. Maybe he learned the alphabet in reverse.
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  247. Ditto.
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  248.  @bigpod  What do you think it was?
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  249.  @bigpod  Interesting, but what would actually cause students to be disrespectful in the first place? Like what sets them off? Home life? Peers? Maybe even the teachers themselves?
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  250. I tried out qbsh, but was disappointed with how unlike QBasic it was. I'm thinking about writing my own version.
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  251. I've got a couple of cheapo WallyWorld tablets, you can just use a custom ROM and disable all of the insecure garbage. There are guides for setting up a Pi Hole that are easy to follow and you could block any address that the tablet tries to communicate with that you don't approve of.
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  252. I actually agree about XDG. I don't even care where the configuration files are since they are dot files I never see them with a standard LS. I have to explicitly use -a or -A to see them and I hardly ever do. I also don't think we should blindly adhere to POSIX as quite a bit of it just annoys the crap out of me. If you knew how much I hate exec*() functions, and for that matter, how fork() and clone() work. Yeah, pthreads, yay, which isn't consistent across platforms either and requires another library to be specified when building, still annoying. I wish there were a standard to replace POSIX that everyone would just use because I'd love for something that's not a PITA.
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  253. And if a program prints terminal escape sequences to alter color you can tell less to handle them correctly on the fly by typing -r either as a command line option or once it's open.
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  254.  @bullpup1337  And they didn't invent the iPhone name, so what. I never said they owned the naming scheme.
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  255.  @haquire  It kind of does, if the tuber turns on certain options.
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  256. I'm curious why you'd calculate that way as opposed to just echo $(( ... )) or echo '...' | bc -ql ?
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  257. I kind of like seeing the "quiet" output from diff. Usually when I want to see if two text files are the same I use `diff -saq $x $y`. If I were using it in a script I'd probably just case match on the last word, "identical" versus "differ". Although, admittedly that wouldn't be very fast since the return value from the program is much faster to compare.
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  258. If not for the GPL, we'd be further along. Keep denying it to everyone's detriment, but we need to rid ourselves of it to have truly free software. Although, I think I'm done arguing about it. No one can come up with a valid argument for why they believe me to be wrong in spite of all the very clear evidence that they are in fact the ones who are wrong. Unfortunately, most humans don't study history let alone understand it and they aren't aware of their own surroundings enough to realize that for all of our gains, we're still at the bottom of the pile.
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  259. I see that you use --color=always, and I wonder if you find that it interferes with piping to other commands? Less is generally fine with colors for me because I can just -r it, but if I'm grepping for something it gets a bit wonky. Also, I like the way bash does math better, $(()) and everything in between is interpreted as just math operations, complete with variables, and if a wildcard doesn't match on the command line it just accepts it as a plain string instead of throwing an error.
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  260.  @DanMackAlpha  Does Fedora's monospace font include a snake character, or lambda?
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  261.  @gabrielblanco2969  CygWin and MSYS are better options than WSL, have existed for decades and just function better. I also found that for my purposes I was better off rewriting code to fit Windows a bit more and compiling it from source myself. When I still used Windows my favorite compiler was definitely LCC-Win32. It had a full IDE, which I really only used when designing a GUI for the various projects that needed them, but it worked and was highly configurable, and it had extensions for C to use operator and function overloading. I checked a couple of weeks ago and found that it's still being updated and has now gone 64-bit. So if you do any C development on Windows, check it out.
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  262.  @wreedb  I use LFS with BusyBox, btw.
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  263.  @VolpeJosesk  It's weird that so many people are brainwashed to believe Steve Jobs did anything good or innovative. Even people that aren't Apple fan boys still tout that parasite. I still have a Dell Axim from before the iPhone existed, complete with dock and dead battery, and they made a cellular antenna for those things. May not have a good touch screen, but other devices did and before the iPhone, and you cite a great example of a phone having it.
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  264.  @merulox  Especially now days when so many using only a touchscreen device, but if more people experienced the joys of it I'd bet they'd love it.
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  265. The scammers stole 540 million in crypto. So they got nothing then. Ha!
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  266. But wait, it's important that you know I'm not buying a Lamborghini. Also, you should know that I'm not buying a Ferrari. Okay, so I'm not rich and could never buy those cars anyway, but it's so obviously important that you know I'm not buying them.
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  267. And their improper usage will destroy humanity.
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  268. Not to mention the girth. I'm told women don't like those kinds of lies.
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  269. I found it rather charming when curved images used as backgrounds were split into multiple files and didn't match up on screen. It was almost like you could see the building blocks of how it was all put together.
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  270. I know what that word means! But why use that when real pictures exist?
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  271. I haven't seen any of the newer episodes, but the old ones from way back in the 80's and 90's were great.
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  272. Add a c at the end to have it ask about each substitution as well.
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  273.  @mskiptr  If they patch pre-existing projects that are licensed under the GPL then yes, they would have to distribute their changes as open source. However, if they only distribute binaries to paying customers they'd still be within their legal obligation if they distributed it only to the paying customers who buy the binaries. They're under no obligation to just give away their changes if they don't distribute their binaries, and then only where they distribute their binaries.
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  274.  @milohoffman274  I don't think you read my entire post, try again with a new edit once you understand what I'm saying.
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  275. I know I could open four buffers like that, but I prefer to just have four terminal windows open. Sometimes I even have four more on the next desktop. As far as navigating the directory structure for a file, I usually already am in the folder where all the files I want to mess with are located, but if I need to browse to find something, either :e . or :sp . work just fine and later a :cd %:h to put myself in the directory of the file I just opened.
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  276. Do you mean some sort of temporary prompt you setup and throw away? What would you use that for and why is a dynamically changing prompt not good enough for that purpose?
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  277.  @s0laret012  I'm still not sure what you mean. Are you saying that after entering a command and hitting enter that it keeps you on the last line of output for the command? Or it doesn't output anything for the prompt string for you? Either would certainly be a bug.
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  278. Am I seeing fewer comments because of YouTube's current fuckup? Usually there's a good three or four times this. As to the video, which I had to watch signed out due to YouTube deciding to not work without an ad blocker turned off and not playing the video with it turned on, how do you change stations with eradio?
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  279. I don't know why that would be the case. By default, if you use KDE, and most newbies will, Dolphin opens with WinKey+E like explorer does on Windows. Right clicking and selecting "Create New" then "Text File" is more than close enough to how Windows does it.
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  280.  @juanzubieta5080  I don't even have a Templates folder. I deleted it myself because I didn't use it. I still see multiple files listed in the "Create New" menu. However, that's an XDG thing, not strictly KDE. I used KDE as an example because most new users will use it, but other DE's have the same functionality. You mention Mint, which uses Cinnamon by default, last I checked, and that is based on Gnome. So if it has it, then Gnome does too, which covers the two biggest DE's that people will use, whether a new user or not. And in case you ask, I just checked if the functionality still works despite not having a Templates folder and yep, it sure does.
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  281.  @terrydaktyllus1320  I kind of find it to be too hefty for my purposes. I usually use Viewnior because it's even lighter still and doesn't require WINE, but it can't handle .avif or .webp for which I sometimes have to use the browser. I'm thinking of writing my own.
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  282. I use KDE, so knowing that Gnome can be changed to work more like KDE is good. Although, I auto-hide my taskbar and I can't even remember the last time I opened an app by hitting just the Meta/Super/WinKey and then typed something to find the app. I've got everything I use on a daily basis, and then some, set with their own shortcut key. Anyone else do that?
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  283. I agree, if it's useful for someone then it's not pointless.
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  284. This needs more upvotes, npm and sudo will destroy your system in weird ways.
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  285. Right click the AppImage and select Properties at the bottom, then the Permissions tab and make sure the "Is executable" check mark is checked. Then you should be able to double click it. I actually had to look this up myself because I almost never use Dolphin to navigate to and execute programs. At some point you might also want to learn how to add entries to the taskbar menu. If you right click the task menu button and select "Edit Applications..." you can add any programs you install manually.
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  286. Backwards doesn't deal with spaces correctly if you're on the last word on a line. I've never had a need for these, but I don't do any novel writing type things, mostly just writing code and the occasional readme file.
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  287. Unfortunately it's not ridiculous. Teachers are already pushing themselves out of a job by being really crap at it, but LLM's will be perfected and the profession of teaching may not exist in the future, not because the LLM's replace teachers, but because they replace humans. Neural networks are already generating art, it's just a matter of time before humans are redundant.
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  288. Whether it does or not, FireFox does. I don't really see a need for such an app as this.
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  289. I've not had much experience using MacOS. Maybe 5 or 10 minutes over the years. Usually people sing its praises, so I'm curious as to what you've disliked about it. My surface level complaints would be things like a menu bar at the top, and mice with one single button, but that is 20 year old knowledge. My current thoughts are on their blatant anti-consumer practices, though Microsoft is trying to follow suit by forcing UEFI on everyone.
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  290. @UC_n1trW0LXaVdOWSQDhpbRg Thank you for sharing. It's nice to see a more honest look at it since most would wipe Jobs poop with their tongues. Now that I think about it, I have seen guides for some things that the instructions for Macs used the "super" key for things like copy and paste operations. I figured they just didn't have a ctrl key, but this makes it even weirder. I've also never heard about these weird software issues, but I've never liked the top menu way of doing things, and even when I used Windows I set the task bar to auto-hide and it worked perfectly then as now. Although now it's KDE that manages it.
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  291. Would it be good enough to play the sound as you log in?
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  292.  @Raspredval1337  So that's no to settling. I'm sure there's a way to do it, maybe by editing the startup script for sddm. Have it use aplay in the background or something like that before it actually calls sddm. Do you use OpenRC, systemD or something else?
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  293.  @Raspredval1337  That you'd have to look up then. For me I could just insert a call to a music player at the start of /etc/rc.d/rc.4 and it would do it. I added a startup sound to my ~/.profile for when I first login, but since I just leave the computer up for as long as there's no long term power outage I never hear it anyway. I used ogg123 for that because the sound I used was .ogg .
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  294.  @usopenplayer  I use Vim as my IDE. You just need the right keybindings set in your ~/.vimrc and you're well on your way. On occasion I even ctrl+z to drop to a terminal, then fg to get back into editing. Of course I've got keybindings for common actions like running make, so that's just for small things. And I use tabs instead of buffers.
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  295. If I can watch videos without signing in and if they don't discriminate against my chosen browser, then I'm all for it. YT sadly does discriminate, but at least I can still get 720p without changing any settings, if I watch through the browser at all. Odysee just gives me a SCOD with my browser of choice. Only one I have that works is Brave, which annoys me. So, I'll give it a try, but I won't like it.
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  296. As long as you're not doing a proper TUI then a console app is easier, but once you start interfacing widgets, that's when it's better to have GTK. Or if you're into C++, Qt. I use GTK more, but even I will admit that Qt is just better. I'd love to see someone fork GTK and overhaul the whole thing.
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  297. Why is it always the most power hungry and evil, who by the way can't even program, that want to take over and destroy open source projects?
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  298.  @themroc8231  Good. Though I still won't be using Ubuntu.
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  299.  @themroc8231  It's not that, just that I've been using Slackware for 20+ years and I'm not about to swap to something else.
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  300.  @DylanMatthewTurner  Wouldn't hurt to organize what's in each folder too. In one folder just do: mkdir {a..z}; then move things alphabetically: for i in {a..z}; do mv [${i@U}${i@L}]?* $i; done and then ignore the errors as future use. As in if you have nothing that starts with a g it'll give an error of mv: cannot stat '[Gg]?*': No such file or directory
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  301.  @QuotePilgrim  Interesting. I tend to keep files organized into folders for a given project and then alphabetize the projects. Then I've got some main folders outside of that organization. I don't remember when I downloaded things unless I do an ll, which is obviously an alias for ls -l.
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  302. Who is the manufacturer?
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  303.  @jeremylibion  This is interesting. They provide a driver in the form of source code. Do you have a VM setup to give it a shot or another computer that is running Linux? This will depend on the distro you use too, as you may have to download some dependencies.
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  304. Yeah, his final notes are always great.
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  305.  @JeffWaynee  Did you read to the end?
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  306.  @squishy-tomato  Honestly, I'm not sure how to respond to this, since you clearly read to the end. Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe it's just that my sense of humor is exceedingly dry.
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  307. Does i3 provide these things that you said were a deal breaker, and if so, what are they?
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  308.  @ioneocla6577  "Basically" everything? Are there things that you can't do and if so what are they? Even if it's just a tiny complaint I'd like to know.
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  309.  @ioneocla6577  So basically it can do all the same things, just requires more work. In which case dwm would sound like the thing to try for me. Maybe once I've finished unpacking and setting up the new house I'll have to look into that. I could add it to the list of things to pursue when I finally do LFS for the first time.
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  310.  @robsku1  Yeah, I get all of that and I've sent messages that way testing things out when I first learned how, but they often interfere with general terminal use and it's good manners to not interfere as well as won't be seen if they're in some GUI app at the time. If they're on the local network it's better to just get up and walk to them. I'm lazy, but not that lazy. Even if I'm in a huge complex I'll still walk 100 yards to say something to someone on the same network, and if they're not local, e-mail is better. On the other hand, if you're talking about pranking someone, then go for it, but in my experience people get annoyed by that more than not.
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  311. Hey DT, it's kind of screwed up if you ask me, that the cheapest option cost so much. In the late 90's I needed a splitter so I could plug headphones and speakers in to the same port. Simple Y-shaped cable, no electronics in it, cost me 5$. I've even still got it, and if my current computer didn't have a front facing port for my wired headphones and bluetooth for the wireless, I'd still use it. It'd be nice if manufacturers brought production back stateside.
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  312. Yes. Humans are short sighted and don't heed warnings, so this technology, which isn't truly intelligent by the way, will be used to destroy all of humanity by yet more humans. You shouldn't be for AI in any sense, and even though this technology isn't AI, it still has the potential to destroy and I guarantee you it will.
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  313. Native build not good enough for you?
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  314. It's a nice dream, but they have too much fear of their monopoly on an overpriced subscription disappearing because people find the completely free alternatives too alluring. Businesses would just stick with what they already have and with where it works best, and you know Adobe would make it work best on Windows. I think the best way to push people to Linux would be to get them to use the open source alternatives while they're still on Windows. If they can get used to the different ways they work, switching wouldn't be so hard.
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  315.  @Moister356  I was sort of that person years ago. I didn't use Photoshop, but I did use GIMP on Win98 so I could edit various images. I even used Star Office for a short time before it became Open Office. Now I use Libre Office, but they're not hugely different. I think using a lot of OSS on Windows is what made the transition to Linux so much easier.
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  316. But I actually do use vim, on a daily basis, and not just for writing code.
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  317. Sounds like a reason to not use systemd and makes me happy that I don't.
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  318. I don't hate Brave despite them using crypto, but some of the things they're promoting are questionable and I'd rather not risk getting stuck with them. And yes, all crypto is a scam, which is why I've never and will never "invest" in it. Sure, some people can get rich with it, just like the stock market, but it's still a scam, just like the stock market. I invest in physical things that will be very useful when society finally collapses, which based on how things are looking should be quite soon. However, I would like to see a new internet crop up. Something that follows an open standard that isn't influenced by some greedy corporation who wants to add feature xyz to drain more money from people's wallets. We need a single monolithic language to use for this, one that acts as markup, stylesheet and programming language all in one. I'm thinking of something based off of an unholy union of PostScript and LaTeX. Hopefully you check your notifications and see this as I'd like at least one opinion on it.
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  319. I won't ask how you know that, but I will ask, what were you doing that you couldn't wait until you were out of the bathroom to do it?
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  320. And in the case of YouTube there's a very valid reason to have such a program because they're biased against my browser and refuse to give me 1080p, despite it being possible in my browser, plus all the ads are annoying.
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  321.  @johto  Ah that makes sense. You don't have to care about user freedom or cost because of the company.
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  322. Loads, they're just not as vocal.
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  323.  @krzysztofwaleska  It's a symlink to bash. Though on any given system there's nothing to stop you from replacing it with whatever you want.
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  324.  @vikingnoise  The installer lets you select any shell as the default. I've always left it as bash because it's still the best shell.
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  325. Using GTK instead of Qt? That would be good too.
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  326. That's definitely a great way to get into it. Engulf yourself in the ecosystem of apps that run on both so that when you switch it'll hardly change your workflow.
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  327. That would require you keep the old kernel, and some people don't do that. Personally, I only bother to update the kernel for security updates and I'll definitely keep the most recent previous kernel, but I also have space, something that yet again not everyone has.
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  328.  @marck0060  So then the explanation is clear why he didn't do it, to show others who didn't have his backups how to do it.
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  329.  @leopard3131  All true, but then it also makes the same mistake DT made in assuming Arch. I'd love to see a more generic video on how to solve this problem for every other distro since it seems oddly common these days. Maybe Slackware is just more stable, but I've actually never had this problem.
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  330.  @leopard3131  Sure, it's probably just a wrapper for normal chroot, but the upgrading the kernel part is the real meat of the video and that's not a universal method. Although admittedly, I'd really want him to go over compiling the kernel too, and that's not something that can be done in a 5 minute video.
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  331. It's because it's more fun that way. Once everything is done and settled, what do you have to do?
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  332.  @alexxx4434  Those more valuable problems tend to be boring though.
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  333. Not that you'll see this, but unless your shell is drastically different from bash, you don't need to quote regular URL's. If it has & in it then sure, quote away, but if there's just one you might \escape it instead.
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  334. This is sadly, very true, and is part of why civilizations keep rising up, are the greatest in the world, then collapse under their own hubris.
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  335.  @matthewmoore757  Yeah, even GNOME was better back in the olden days. Although, then as now, I prefer KDE. It's got some decent eye candy, but most of my personal customizations are functionality based these days.
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  336. For me, I like to look at the background picture, so I don't have any icons and I autohide the taskbar. I don't use the quick launch or the menu, I just assign a shortcut key for the apps I use the most and press that. Win+F for FireFox, Win+C for Chromium, Win+O for Opera, Win+K for Konsole and so on. I've got multiple desktops, so icons can't really hide and even if I used every desktop I could hit Win+D to show it. I tend to use a terminal as my app launcher and always have at least 4 open for other tasks so Win+F{1..12} to get to a desktop and a simple cd where/my/file/at; foo bar baz & works fine for those programs that I use infrequently enough to not bother shortcutting. I don't remember if it was the default, but Win+, brings up the settings app for me, so adding shortcuts is easy. I've recently been toying with the tiling functionality and set up the Win+NumPad{1..4,6..9} to region shift things. It's kind of handy when you have four terminals and want to use all the screen real estate.
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  337. As a longtime Slackware user I've never understood the complaints. As long as you install every package that comes with the installer it'll work flawlessly for most things you want to install that have a configure script and even alternative build methods will often work on the first try. First time I had any issues with installing a given piece of software was this past year when I decided I wanted to finally try out FlatPak. I couldn't get one of the dependencies to build and just left it, but I'm fine with that because I prefer AppImages anyway. Literally everything else I've wanted to use I have been able to either find a binary for or build it myself from source.
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  338. Does it use a 3.5mm jack or is it a USB device?
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  339.  @t0nyandre  I think Michael uses Fedora, but if it doesn't work for you with Ubuntu then it may be the button press that he does in the video.
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  340.  @Johan511Kinderheim  If he did then that would explain the lack of response. Although I've often found that humans don't respond to me either, so I guess it makes little difference.
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  341. Is that because you haven't set the shortcuts yourself? Or because you use them infrequently?
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  342. I think the propaganda machine of the MSM and all of their partners in crime have already succeeded. Most people are stupid.
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  343.  @DistroTube  Cool, thanks for the guide.
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  344.  @denizkendirci  If you're using bash, it prints a number when you press ctrl+z, generally you'll see [1] and that's what you pass to bg.
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  345. My favorite distro is Slackware, but I'm probably biased.
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  346.  @terrydaktyllus1320  That's the attitude that'll make the world a better place. /s
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  347. Ditto, and if Rust keeps infecting everything and everyone I may build a boat and live off grid in the middle of the ocean. Grow my own food hydroponically, have solar panels for satellite TV and live out the rest of my days there.
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  348. Okay, but why do you have a problem with stdout? Did it steal your /dev/random and give you predictable output?
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  349.  @ecavero1  So if it sent it to stderr you wouldn't have liked to use it? I can understand that complaint, I hate having to redirect stderr for such programs, ffprobe being a prime example of such annoyance.
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  350. Yeah, the people controlling it will become corrupt, but I think we'll have plenty of people to worry about misusing it. Humanity is doomed if it doesn't push back against this technology, and I know they won't. No one will heed my warning.
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  351.  @sta1nless  While it's certainly true that most people don't even know what an OS is, let alone the differences between them, they do know that they can't run Photoshop and other Adobe programs outside of Windows, along with a whole slew of other programs. If not for the proprietary software that people are stuck using, they would learn about other platforms and move to them. Mostly this is perpetrated by their employers, so even when they know better, they're stuck. For the majority of home users that don't play the latest and greatest triple A games, they could get by with Linux and any browser, they just need to be pushed to it.
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  352. GNU has held open source back, especially with its viral GPL. The reason that people ignore the GNU is not just because it's less important than the kernel, but also because it's an infection that we need to rid ourselves of to advance the state of OSS. For those that decry the "lack of freedom" that other licenses grant the users of a piece of software, they need to realize that in nature if you don't work you don't eat. If the only reason you like the GPL is because you get the source code for free, then you're not working and you shouldn't eat. If a company produces a software product and doesn't provide the source code, then simply don't buy it, but no one is entitled to anything for free and just because source is available doesn't mean you should be able to just have it willy nilly and do with it as you please. Yeah, our copyright system is fucked, and to a lesser extent our patent system, after all a patent does still expire after 17 years, but that doesn't validate anyone's reason for piracy. There is no piece of software that on its own will save your life. Not that anyone will read this, but I do call Android a Linux distro and anyone that disagrees can get fucked. The only reason I often refer to it as Android being the sole moniker is because the additions they've made are what make it the unique system it is, whereas GNU's "contributions" can be replaced with no loss in function, as Android, Alpine and various other distros prove. So no, Stallman does not have a point. And to further drive home my point, Graphene and the various other Linux distros based off of Android remove a lot of the problems with Android and make it a much better system.
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  353.  @XeroLinux  Autohide and shortcuts are how I use the KDE panel.
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  354. I agree with your reasoning here and wish that someone would come along and write an entirely new OS to compete with Linux. Given that I know how much work goes into writing an OS, that won't happen, but I still wish it would.
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  355. It's like a weird conglomeration of cat, less and vim, except that it's not quite as capable. You can actually setup vim to work like this, with the right aliases and for a few things an added vimscript, and I'm sure people have, but either way, I'd still rather not use bat. No change of setup necessary to just use less to browse archives, or the superior archivemount to mount them and browse with any of my existing `ls` filters. If I'm browsing source code, vim is always going to be my go to and it can even navigate directories.
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  356. Those that cheat in online games just piss me off, but even worse is that they can ruin the game in other ways. I was playing an online team game and apparently one of the players on the team was a cheater. Something I wasn't able to confirm and don't understand how it supposedly worked, but I got lumped in with them and kicked and banned from the server. Kind of made me hate that game because every server I connected to afterwards only had bots to play against. I don't know if they had some global list and added me to it, but because others cheated I got screwed. As far as single player games are concerned, the only time I've ever cheated is to extend the life of the game, and in those instances it can make the game more fun to have weapons where the game designers didn't want you to have them in a particular level. Take for instance levels where you're never given a rocket launcher but having one would make it infinitely more fun. It doesn't matter if you can beat that level without it, it just makes it more fun. Hopefully, cheating in a few single player games doesn't get me lumped in with malicious cheaters, but people do like to generalize and shit on others for every perceived slight.
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  357. If it's not a joke question, I'm fairly certain it's a false stereotype. If it's a joke, I don't know the punchline.
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  358. And hopefully you remember to use /bin/bash in the shebang for scripts you write, because sh compatibility mode is annoying.
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  359.  @davidgomez79  Rustaceans are the worst.
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  360. Could you plug in two cams/mics and use both at the same time? Is there not a way to share a single device?
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  361.  @RichardBronosky  You can if you do it right. ;)
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  362. A lot of people say the same thing about vim, yet they're both so much more.
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  363. Do you actually need to reboot with systemD? I'm still using init, so I just logout (to prevent data loss) and go to a virtual console and init 3 then init 4 to reinitialize all the GUI stuff. I tend to do that once a month anyway because it clears the crust out of KDE's eyes. And yeah, I make sure to log out of the virtual console too: clear; init 4; exit # and it's safe.
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  364. You should do one for C++ using kdevelop. Would be quite useful for anyone wanting to get into games development. Also, is it supposed to be pronounced "cute" or "cutie", because I've always treated it like an acronym and said Q.T. as "cutie". Is that wrong?
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  365. This needs more upvotes, npm with sudo will destroy your system in weird ways. This is at least the second time I've said this.
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  366. The amount of times I've had to clarify what I was saying like I was talking to a kindergartner is insane. I blame the woke education system, but then I've actually been paying attention. I'm sure others will make excuses or blame someone or something else, but allowing the woke mind virus to take over our schools is what has given us an uneducated, ignorant and stupid populace.
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  367. As a longtime Slackware user, I'm definitely in favor of that.
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  368. And using -N with less.
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  369. Don't most DE's come with their own WM built-in?
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  370.  @Iymarra  The problem is, both sides say that. I don't know how we move on from here because one side is absolutely wrong and half of them don't have a clue, the other are just evil. On the other hand, the side that's right won't ever defend themselves and their numbers are decreasing as a result, whether through brainwashing leading them astray or outright murder.
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  371. This is great. Do they have a guide for adding stations or do I need to figure that out myself?
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  372.  @phonewithoutquestion80  Me too, but I think we both know why.
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  373.  @nathanmiddleton1478  I didn't mean to imply that you were, I'm just saying he's likely younger than you or I.
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  374.  @Anonymous4045  Unfortunately, everything can be by merely making certain choices, both in terms of design and implementation as well as in terms of the proponents of said language. The choice to go in one direction merely for political reasons is far too pervasive in the software industry as a whole, but nowhere more so than in open source.
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  375.  @Anonymous4045  Okay, one example right off the bat is immutable types. Forcing users of the language to utilize yet another keyword (YAK), to allow for mutability when that's what makes computers useful. It's not that I'm opposed to YAK when it's to make something more clear, but in this instance it convolutes the code to enforce a belief that users aren't smart enough to decide when something should actually be const.
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  376.  @Anonymous4045  Actually, it is. If you don't think these kinds of decisions are political then you clearly aren't a programmer. Also explains why you didn't have any kind of rebuttal.
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  377.  @Anonymous4045  That's a narrow definition of political, and I didn't want to bother arguing this, but my original point was never about the language anyway and you honed in on that because of your narrow and incorrect definition of what political means. So, you're not a programmer nor a cunning linguist, but you decided to argue it. The proponents of Rust are vile and very political, so to use it as a language knowing that is indeed a political move all on its own, despite any design decisions. And instead of attempting to dispute anything you opted for sealioning. You've got a smooth brain, buddy.
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  378. My recommendation will always be Slackware, but if Puppy has a Slackware-based .iso available then that may be preferable for the less technically inclined users.
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  379.  @yellingintothewind  Agreed. While I hate the GPL and refuse to use it for my own projects, it's not a huge issue to use libraries under it. Also, the fact that they have two licenses actually makes it a good thing for a business because they can basically pay to avoid the GPL altogether.
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  380. I have a similar story to yours, except that it was Win98 that pushed me onto Linux full-time, and I actually did learn how to do things with computers in my computer classes. When we learned about DOS, we even learned how to do low level formatting, and let me tell you, without a UPS, that is a scary thing to attempt. I still remember how the typing program we used was setup by our evil teacher to beep super loud if you used the backspace key. Mistakes were not tolerated and that was probably one of the worst ways to learn how to type. I've been using LibreOffice since it was StarOffice and they first offered it for free on x86 systems. I've even got a copy of Solaris for x86 somewhere. I've used CygWin and MingW and even individual native builds of many *nix programs back on Win98, and all of these made it a lot easier to transition. Although, I'm a Vim user, so we could probably never be friends IRL since you're an Emacs user.
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  381.  @RealMazharHussain  Cool, didn't know that. Thanks.
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  382. True, although I wonder how long we'll have any of the FireFox forks because of how much effort it takes to maintain security parity with the main branch. I keep hoping that either 1) we'll get a new browser that's not based on Chromium or FireFox or B) that the entire internet will be restructured and moved away from the garbage that is HTML/CSS/JS. Both are equally likely to happen, and if the second one happens then they both undoubtedly will, but I'll never stop hoping. You know, because neither will happen. That's why I won't stop hoping.
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  383. My favorite line from that guy's rant, "the video is still relevant, BTW". Personally, if someone is new to Linux, I recommend Mint or Fedora. If they've got some experience and want the best out of Linux, then I say Slackware. Maybe Arch is great, I don't know, but too many elitists have turned me away from even wanting to try it, and I've been using Slackware for 25-ish years or so and it's never steered me wrong.
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  384.  @xXx_Regulus_xXx  Nah, Slackware is the answer. Always has been, always will be. I've got deb2tgz and rpm2tgz and can build almost anything else from source.
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  385.  @bryceknight-ryder3239  That's a lot of lies for one post. Leftism really is a mental disorder and people like you prove it.
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  386. Is it actually usable yet?
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  387. Here's a neat math tip for you, you can use integer math that the shell provides by simply adding a few zeros onto the end of the numerator and mentally putting the decimal point that many places back. Say you want to do 123/456 you can use: echo $(( 123000 / 456 )) # and think of the result as 0.269 instead of 269.
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  388.  @marioschroers7318  What do you use now?
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  389. I keep meaning to play with it more, but the command line is annoying.
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  390. I blame fad technology for that.
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  391. This is the way.
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  392.  @angeldude101  The ideal setup is to have more than one drive installed so you can dedicate a whole drive to /home, but failing that it should at least be a separate partition so it doesn't matter what you do to the other partitions. The earlier on the drive you put it, the better. This also necessarily means that the setup program for whatever distro you use should allow you to not format /home when creating it or you should wait until after installation to set it up manually.
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  393.  @angeldude101  I've got a separate drive for /home, usually do, even on my Pi. It makes everything faster and more efficient that way. As far as whatever weird layout you have with a distro's installer, try Slackware.
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  394. I'm not sure why people think reinstalling sucks. I've got a separate drive for my /home folder and when I had to reinstall because I severely borked 14.2 and moved to 15.0, the prior experience of understanding how to get around the UEFI garbage made reinstalling easy. And because I just set up all the users again in the same order, I was able to keep using my /home folder as is with no bother in reconfiguring KDE. If you use KDE, you know how valuable a thing like that is. Hey DT, you should do a video extolling upon the virtues of using a separate partition or drive for your /home folder.
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  395. Truthfully, as a programmer, I agree even if we're not talking end users. It's super easy to just download or write a configuration file module and use that to read settings. All you need then is a button or shortcut key somewhere to refresh the config and done. It's a lot faster and doesn't require you to reboot/relog or whatever other hoops you'd need on top of recompiling the source to do something as simple as change a shortcut key. And if you have conflicts, you'd have to add "debugging" on top of that.
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  396.  @herbertwestiron  I can't read your whole comment because apparently it got censored, but I did see the word "untruthful" and I'd like to know how you think that.
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  397.  @herbertwestiron  That's down to the individual program(s) in use. As a KDE user, changing shortcut keys requires no restart, no (logout then login) and nothing more than either hitting the Apply or Ok button. This is the correct way to structure a program, config file changes shouldn't require more. If I have to compile a program and still relog/restart/whatever to change a simple shortcut key, then that's a bad way to structure a program. It's not misleading anyone to suggest that they should follow suit with developers that write better programs. Even if it is bloated, most people have the resources for that better functionality.
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  398.  @herbertwestiron  I'm not saying such people are wrong. I'm saying the developers are wrong. This can be handled exactly the same as KDE does it without taking up 700mb. It's just a matter of having a good programmer writing the code.
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  399.  @herbertwestiron  Could incorporate a default config into the source that gets generated upon first run. You could modify that to keep it portable as one archive, since it has multiple files to compile you really can't make the argument that it's one thing to drop into place. Even with binaries you still need multiple programs to have a usable OS, and if it had a default config, setup by you the user, it would still work just the same for you and allow others more utility. Just saying, there's more than one solution.
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  400.  @herbertwestiron  Like I said and you disregarded, the default config could still be in the source directly and no need to copy it as a separate file or figure out where it needs to be placed, for that matter, another methodology would be to have a separate config file possible by merely checking for its presence and using it if there or built-in default if not. Although, there's an idea, I just might fork the project and add all of these features because it'd be nice to have something that's so light but does more of what I want. Its super tiny size makes it an ideal starting point.
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  401.  @herbertwestiron  Are you a developer of any kind? Having the default config, which could easily be changed and incorporated into the source code to regenerate or maybe leave internal is a super easy thing to do. I've done it myself on multiple projects, and it's a lot easier to do now days with the syntax modern C has in object initialization.
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  402.  @Finkelfunk  I suppose that depends on how you define nerd. If it's the Milhouse way then I'd consider it a compliment.
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  403. @AsmrFuns1 Capitalism requires competition. Copyright and patent law are government enforced prevention of competition. If I could manufacture a product better than you but aren't allowed to because of a patent, how is that competitive? If I could write the story better by changing up a few characters, rearranging chapters and so on, but aren't allowed to because of copyright, how is that competitive? If you don't understand the concept by now, you probably never will.
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  404. This is a valid point, and why I always explicitly use /bin/bash for the shebang when I write shell scripts.
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  405.  @IsmailofeRegime  You can thank XDG for that folder layout. When I started using Linux none of those were created by default. Although, I think Linux probably got them before Windows did, as Microsoft has copied pretty much everything from somewhere else. Now days it's even easy to read and write NTFS partitions from Linux. For me, I used a lot of ports of open source programs when I was still using Windows, and since I spent a lot of time in a terminal already, it was an easy transition. That's not to say it was flawless, nor is that to say that I had to use the terminal, just that that's where I was regularly spending time even on Windows anyway.
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  406.  @MH_VOID  It is demonstrably not worse.
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  407. Are they still using that kernel though? Could you still get the source code for it and compile it yourself and use it on a modern Mac?
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  408.  @notmiten  Could you point me in the direction of someone who's working on that? Obviously don't post a direct link because YT will filter it, but a name. Although, if they're on YT then a direct link to their channel or video will work.
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  409. I don't think many will disagree that more choice is more better, except for newbies. For them, and them alone, the amount of choices is daunting and I can understand the argument in that case. For such circumstances, I can only say, read a guide on best newbie distros and make sure it's within a year or two of having been published. My goto recommendation is Mint, but I've been told Fedora is a good choice a lot lately. So I'd say try one or both of them first.
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  410. Is that still being maintained?
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  411. True, but the technology is still going to be used to destroy humanity by humans using it improperly.
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  412.  @RAndrewNeal  It was probably about control, it nearly always is.
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  413. I autohide my panel. Can't remember the last time I had to click on it. Nearly everything is a shortcut key for me. If only there were a good vim-like interface web browser. I know they have extensions for FireFox to give you vim-ish controls, but they're not that good.
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  414. I'm not sure what you're saying with this. Are you saying that two freedoms aren't equivalent? If so I will cite examples where misused software is worse and has the potential for the mass extinction of humanity while the other can be used to defend innocent people from would-be murderers.
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  415. It doesn't. Hallucinations require intelligence, something that no computer has yet had. Instead it's just because the humans who've programmed it need to refine the algorithms they're using.
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  416. If you mean stand out in a positive way, then absolutely nothing. It brings nothing new to the table and it's just another fad language. That's not to say it won't stick around, as it's the programming equivalent of herpes, but it's a shiny toy for people of low mental acuity.
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  417. At this point I'm not sure we should call these programs text editors anymore. They are so much more than that. When I started programming, the OS I was using was Win98, and I used notepad back then. Even when I finally got VS6 I still used notepad from time to time, just for nostalgia's sake. Moved on from there to Crimson Editor, which is dead now. Then I found vim, and there was a build for Windows, so I used it. I'm still using it to this day because I haven't figured out how to quit! Just kidding, it's because it's awesome.
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  418.  @theodorealenas3171  Weird, I just looked and there is no sw in dmenu, but there is in dwm. It's also only initialized in one place and updated in another. Two places where it's set/modified. C is case sensitive, so finding a variable is pretty easy, just do a search for \<var\> where var is the name of said variable. (Obviously remove the backslashes if you're using proper PCRE.)
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  419.  @theodorealenas3171  I downloaded a copy the other day and was considering testing it out. Going to read all of its code eventually. Assuming I don't die of a heart attack before I finish moving.
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  420.  @tatsutakamaro  You can always write a short program in C or some other language then call it from a bash script.
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  421.  @tatsutakamaro  Realistically that's how you should do things if you really feel the need to glue things together with bash. Implement tasks that are difficult or slower to process within bash as some compiled language binary that you call. But I would suggest just using all of one language that makes most tasks easy or more performant and can handle calling external programs if necessary.
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  422.  @bigpod  Here in the US, children get zero rights. None of the constitutional protections, not even a right to life, except in certain states now. It's actually rather sickening and having gone through that system I'm all the more sickened by it.
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  423.  @MadRat70  I usually use dashes, but dots would be easier to type and gives a natural separator. I'm not concerned with filetype separation either since it only matters that the end of the filename is as expected. And definitely YYYY then MM then DD regardless of separator character is the best date format.
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  424.  @patpopov  BactrianCase versus dromedaryCase.
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  425.  @helloimatapir  Look up circular references to find out why those are often irrelevant. As @Agfd says, math and science you can trust, but only because you can verify most of that information, but politics or any other controversial topics, not a chance.
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  426.  @markwiering  Somehow my first response was deleted, but what game are you trying to run?
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  427. Okay, the source code for Vivaldi is right there for me to read and download and even modify, therefore it's Open Source, but I can't repackage it, sell it, whatever, therefore it's not Free Software? Am I understanding that right?
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  428.  @fgsaramago  Incorrect, the entire interface is source viewable, and it's not just JavaScript that makes up the interface. They also use HTML and CSS. My question was never whether you could see the source code, but on how to define the terms.
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  429.  @fgsaramago  Read the blog post on their website, they "minified" the interface so that it's harder to read, ie. obfuscated, but you can still read it.
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  430.  @fgsaramago  No. Obfuscated is still visible. Go read ioccc dot org entries and brush up on your code skills.
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  431.  @fgsaramago  So "Their argument..." means that it is "your" argument? Interesting take.
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  432.  @fgsaramago  I'm assuming English isn't your native language, so I forgive you for not even understanding what you yourself wrote in English. You might even be using translation software. Unless of course you're sealioning me?
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  433.  @Soraviel  KDE is the best DE. I don't care what anyone says about it.
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