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hey everyone this is nick and i can safely say that i do not know everything there is to know about linux i've been using it since 2006 and along the way i've made a ton of mistakes that really hampered my growth and progress and learning experience with linux some of these are personal and might not seem like mistakes to you some others you probably made yourself and some others i still regret to this day so don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if you made any specific mistakes with linux and what these mistakes are but first let's take a look at everything i did wrong and everything i could have done better what was definitely not a mistake though was speaking today's sponsor tux care this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they are giving you access to an independent study by idc peerscape that analyzes if when and how to implement open source solutions alongside 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dust on pixi's wings right you you do see the the pixies as well right so when i started using linux it was on an old refurbished laptop that didn't have wi-fi or an ethernet port i was living at my parents house and their router didn't have wi-fi either so i ordered a cd from canonical got ubuntu 6.06 that per drake and installed it on my laptop without access to the internet it did have a 56k modem though although at that point even my technology hating parents had moved on to dsl and let me tell you using linux without an internet connection almost made me drop it immediately see i needed some drivers and so i had to download packages from the repos manually and copy them to a usb key transfer them to the laptop copy them there install them only for dpkg to tell me that dependencies were missing and so i went downloading dependencies and more dependencies for these dependencies again and again until i finally had all the packages i needed pure nightmare and the same went for installing packages from the repos at the time no app images no flat packs no snaps you had to use the repos or download an archive and compile it which also needed dependencies so installing anything was just a pain and i promptly concluded that linux sucked because at least on windows you could download installers and use them offline fortunately i bugged my parents enough so they bought the pcmcia card expansion for the router to get wi-fi and i got myself a usb dongle for wi-fi on my laptop which also needed me to use packages downloaded offline to use endis wrapper and the windows driver to make it work but that's another story in the end with wifi the experience was much much better and that made me stick to linux even though my connection speed was about 300 kilobits per second so yeah using linux without an internet connection big mistake it's completely unusable might be easier nowadays but not by much now of course it's not something that most people will run into nowadays because well everybody has the internet mostly second mistake i took way too long to correct was not setting up a separate slash home partition most of you probably already do and if you don't you probably should have see you can reinstall a whole other linux distro and reuse that exact same slash home partition to keep all your settings files configurations and more and avoid losing hours setting everything up again at the time ubuntu didn't do that out of the box and since i almost exclusively used ubuntu until 2013 yet another mistake i'll talk about next i never got that separate partition except i was using the betas all the time and my system broke all the time needing me to reinstall very often because i didn't know my way around the command line well enough to fix my problems so i had to think about what i needed to backup copy everything to a usb drive or hard drive copy it back set up everything again after each reinstall and realize i had forgotten half of my stuff after my music collection and so i had to rip my cd collection again and again i must have done it about 20 times yeah i just do not learn nowadays distros generally also don't default to a separate slash home partition which is a mistake in my opinion it should absolutely be the default because even if you supply a backup tool or restore tool you know that most people just don't do regular backups and they are going to lose some stuff when distro hopping or when they ultimately follow the wrong guide online and break their systems speaking of distro hopping that's another mistake i made i did not distro hop enough when i started using linux this might seem weird and maybe not a mistake but the diversity of linux distros and what they offer is undeniably the greatest strength of our ecosystem granted it can also be a weakness but it's mostly a strength i was way too comfortable with my ubuntu debian packages aptitude then apt-get then just appt gnome then unity and i just didn't really experience all the breadth of tools and systems we could use i'm a man of habit and also i was too scared to change anything and also i was lazy which i still am mostly dystro hopping is how you learn about all the various things you can do on linux it's how you try other desktop environments unless you want to clutter your existing install with hundreds of apps from different toolkits and it's also how you learn what the differences are what the advantages of each distro each system are not distro hopping sooner meant that i just didn't learn anything new while using linux for a long time i didn't learn about rpms and dnf i didn't learn much about xfce or even kde although i did use it a bit on kubuntu i didn't learn what gen 2 was what arch was what open souza brought to the table i just stuck in my corner and professed that ubuntu worked better except that i couldn't know that until i tried something else which i finally ended up doing after i caught the distro hopping fever and reinstalled my system about 20 times in the length of a few months like be honest we all caught that virus at some point or another had i not waited several years to do that i might have started this channel a lot sooner or at least i might have been more proficient with linux's underlying systems and tools in the same vein i also put off trying out new projects for a long time flat pack wayland image based operating systems like silver blue gnome extensions i used to stay safe in my little comfort zone and i judged everything else by the standards of what someone else had written online welland it's not ready it will never be flatback it wastes space it's just inefficient just use regular packages image-based operating systems why would i want to use something so limiting oh to be young and so wrong when i started the channel i decided not to limit myself to what i already knew so i tried it all well maybe not all but a lot of things and that changed my perception of most projects i was sneering at before after using weyland for a while i wouldn't go back to x11 if i can avoid it all the benefits it brings are just amazing flat packs are now my main way of getting software when i swore by good old packages before for no well-explained reason and while i wouldn't use an image-based os on my main computer because i do tinker too much on my system i actually really love the benefits it brings to my steam deck for example yeah i got a steam deck but it was before it was cool and every poser had one there is nothing better to learn something new than looking online to try and find a justification for your fast five years of disdain for that thing really another mistake that might be more personal is dual booting for too long yeah that is definitely a mistake in my opinion i kept a window system on my devices for a long long while up until i started this channel actually in 2018 i used windows as a crutch when something didn't work immediately on linux i just rebooted on windows i did the thing and then i stuck to windows for the day because rebooting was annoying and then the next day i still used windows because i knew i had something to do that i already knew how to do on windows and so i didn't learn how to do a lot of things on linux even though it would have saved me time in the end now don't get me wrong dual booting isn't bad at all i think it's actually really really good when you get started with linux but once you get your bearings and linux works for you i think you should get rid of windows having that windows crutch just slowed me down instead of taking the time to adapt to another system to another way of doing things to the things i could or couldn't do i just knew i had a system i already knew that i could do whatever i wanted in until i took the plunge for this channel trying to experiment with using linux only which i did and i still do none of my computers have a windows partition anymore do i miss anything no i can do everything i need on linux i've been working at a day job and running this channel exclusively on linux for the past four years if there's a game that i want to play but isn't compatible i just accept that i can't play it i don't need to play everything or i just play it on my xbox if it's there if there's a program that doesn't work on linux i use an alternative and i learned how to use that and in the end i learned much more than if i had stuck to windows and used the same thing that i already knew how to do and also my os doesn't spy on me or tell me which browser i should use i'm the one doing that to other people now another big mistake i made back in the day was avoiding the command line like actively avoiding using it i felt it was hacky and dangerous and that it would destroy everything on my system which you absolutely can do on linux using the command line linux provides many many foot guns and my foot is riddled with holes and okay i'm a strong proponent for graphical user interfaces nowadays most if not all linux distros can be used without using the command line at all you just need to find and download the right program and you'll do everything you want whether it's editing a config file changing some hidden options transcoding a file reinstalling your system whatever you can do it all using a gui but that doesn't mean i should have shied away from the command line it's a wonderfully powerful tool to get things done updating your software repos and installing multiple apps at once is just more convenient from the command line fixing an error is also way faster this way or transcoding a video using ffmpeg although yeah that's only if you already know of ffmpeg's various multiple command line options which are going to take you a lifetime to master so that's probably not the best example the command line is in most cases faster and easier to use than navigating a software store finding the right graphical app installing it and then enabling the right setting or option so don't fear the terminal it's your friend it might look intimidating but if you dive in it's really really going to make your life a lot simpler if you want to and think of all the looks of envy you're gonna get when you're hacking away at a full screen terminal although maybe do not do that on a plane or an airport because you're gonna freak people out and of course i made a ton more mistakes reinstalling windows after installing linux and having to reinstall grub from a ch route wiping out the wrong disk when using dd also short for this destroyer wiping out my whole disk by mistyping a command breaking all the dependencies on my system by forcefully installing the wrong package from stupid ppa or not installing linux on my mom's computer sooner so the tech support would have been kept to a minimum or using arch or chrome sorry i couldn't resist we all make a ton of mistakes but most of the time they're also learning opportunities mine taught me why i prefer linux over everything else and in the end i also learned a lot more things about various programs how to use them where to find them and how to fix errors but now what about you what did you do what horrible horrible things did you do to your linux systems when you got started let me know down there in the comments and let's not forget about the worst mistake you could make not checking out today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can pick from a big selection of popular distros when you configure your own device or you can install your own afterwards and get access to all the things you need from tuxedos repos to actually make everything work perfectly so when you buy a device from tuxedo you know that everything is just going to run well with linux which is cool they have a huge range from small ultrabooks to high-end mega monster gaming pcs and laptops like the solaris 15 in the back that i just reviewed on the 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hey everyone this is Nick and if there's a desktop environment that I haven't given enough love over the years it's definitely the deep in desktop it's mostly available under this row of the same name but you can also get it on Manjaro or Ubuntu the last time I looked at it was three years ago and deepen at the time was hands down the most beautiful desktop environment that you could get on Linux but since then it has evolved a lot and gnome KDE and others also have progressed a ton in the looks department so let's see if d-pin can claw its way onto the podium next to gnome Kitty and Elementary OS what definitely makes it to the podium though is today's sponsor internext thanks to internext for sponsoring this video they offer you some cloud storage space focused on privacy and security they encrypt all the data you store on your internet drive and your data isn't visible by any third party at any point during the upload storage or download process everything is encrypted end to end 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and the possibility to switch to a Windows like layout now both layouts are more windows like the default one fashion mode is more windows 11 inspired with a floating panel Center task list and app shortcuts indicators on the right but keeping the menu in the bottom left corner the other Mode called efficient mode is basically the previous windows layout with the panel stuck to the bottom and the task list aligned to the left whether a Windows 10 layout should be called efficient and a Windows 11 layout should be called fashion I'll leave that up to you all I'll say is that it's not the specific terms that I would have picked you can set the dock to Auto Hide intelligently or always and you can set its screen Edge and its size the main deep in menu lets you open apps or quickly access certain preset folders and it has search and a category view as well as your power options to reboot shutdown or log out you can turn this menu into a full screen grid of apps like what gnome offers or like the Mac OS equivalent although you can display apps per categories here as well that appear as scrolling folders apps in the grid can be rearranged but you cannot create your own folders unfortunately it's all very familiar if you ever had the distinct pleasure of using Windows at any point in your life well I say pleasure but that's because I'm a masochist now Jokes Aside it works pretty well and it looks really good while doing it the indicators in the bottom right get you a notification center which looks good you get power options an on-screen keyboard for touch devices access to the Grand Search tool which I'll talk about in a minute and a quick screenshot button the rest of the indicators can be collapsed or expounded and they work as you would expect with a few quick options by clicking them you can decide to always show or hide some of these in the docs settings now let's talk about search or grand search as they call it you gotta love that specific brand of English that you often seem to find in Chinese developed products although who am I to talk about someone else's English because I'm a Frenchman with an audible English accent Grand search is basically Spotlight from Mac OS you can open it by hitting shift plus space and it lets you search through files folders documents apps settings or even web searches all of these can be toggled off individually if you prefer to really limit your search and it's a pretty Grand tool to have although it doesn't seem to search inside of files like a full text search for documents for example now let's finish with the task list which works as you would expect one click to start an app right click to get a jump list of various options and apps that are in docked appear at the end of the list where you can pin them by using the not very clear dock option from the right click menu dragging an undocked app from the end of the list to another spot in the dark also doesn't pin it which is weird as that's generally the behavior every dog has and thankfully this task list has click to minimize so you do not need to hunt for that minimize button the desktop shell is good it's not aiming at people who want to customize everything it's more of a like it or don't use it situation but there is a lot to like here at least if a Windows layout doesn't make you run away screaming now let's talk looks because d-pin is in my opinion the most beautiful desktop you can get on Linux not only because it's nice and modern and a bit flashy but also because that design actually seems well thought out the first thing is do not use d-pin in a VM it won't let you use the compositor and the desktop effects and so you're going to miss out on a lot of what makes it look good I installed the d-pin distro on a spare laptop to make sure I got the real experience and holy crap is it impressive the default look of the desktop is all soft transparency with blur rounded Corners nice little highlights it's just a joy to use and navigate I mean I do like how gnome Elementary or KDE look by default look and feel is fine but compared to how deep in looks out of the box it's not even close and of course it's a personal thing if you hate transparency blur and all that modern crap then deepen isn't going to woo you I'm generally not really in favor of pushing effects and looks over function but here I really feel that they struck a really good compromise between looks and usability the effects here serve a purpose the desktop itself isn't super heavy on effects and transitions window animations are really fast and only happen when you minimize maximize or tile the window or when opening the notification panel everything else is simply a nice quick fade in so you don't get parts of the interface zooming in and out of the time the blur and transparency only apply to the desktop elements themselves and the apps have a solid white or black background with very good contrast you get very dark gray text and buttons with blue highlights by default the default theme deep in apps use is also used on other apps you decide to install gtk or KD apps or even stuff like LibreOffice and all apps look sort of coherent like that it's rare enough to be noted although you might want to favor gnome and gtk apps over caddy apps as their handlebars are going to integrate a lot better with the rest of the deep in apps menu bars aren't really welcome here hey menu bars aren't welcome anywhere anymore get out of there with your small click targets and your text everywhere or at least have the decency to slot yourself into a global menu of course you can tweak all of that with a dark mode or an auto light and dark switch and accent colors you can also disable effects tweak transparency and adjust the rounded Corners to be square small or large the yakon theme is good and you get an out of the box choice between a few options just like with the cursor theme it is a very very good looking desktop but once you start to step outside of the world Garden you see the cracks in the wall itself basically everything you install that is not a default deep in app will look sort of weird with accent colors not being picked up by gtk apps rounded Corners not necessarily being respected and sort of highlight and contrast issues using the dark mode it's it's just not perfect when you use not deep in apps window Management on dpin desktop is pretty basic it has Edge styling and drag up to maximize as you would expect although Corner tiling isn't there it also has a multitasking view that combines virtual desktops and an expose a view of all your currently open apps this view is pretty laggy and doesn't feel very smooth with choppy animations even on a relatively good integrated AMD GPU at high performance mode it looks good but it's not very fluid there are touchpad gestures as well to switch between desktops and activate the multitasking view but these aren't really good either first they are not one to one as what you would get on Wayland with gnome and KDE or even on X11 with pop OS and Elementary these gestures activate once you finish moving your fingers and it doesn't feel great second they're hard to pull off four fingers up should bring the multitasking view but half the time it just opens the main menu it's not a fantastic experience and most if not all other desktop environments have this solved for a while now and since d-pin uses kwin as its window manager which is the same Window Manager as what Katie uses it should absolutely be able to deal with this there is also no holding super to drag a window from anywhere which is weird I tried the ALT key but it doesn't work either apart from that apps use a familiar window button layout with minimize maximize and close on the right side of the window and the default apps use header bars which I like so yeah it's pretty basic it's not lacking much but the stuff that's implemented isn't really up to code basically other desktops just do it better in 2022 and there are also absolutely no configuration options for window behavior in here either although at least new windows you open have the decency to open centered which is something deep in desktop comes with a lot of apps and utilities the file manager looks good but it's on the same level as Nautilus in terms of feature set you have tabs an icon view or List view with an optional properties panel it can search sort open as administrator or open in the terminal and it does have a few nice settings like single click to open choosing the default folder when opening a new window selecting icon sizes enabling full text search inside of documents and a few other things it's basically exactly like the gnome file manager which also means you need to press Ctrl L to actually edit the path bar manually yeah I'm Petty like that but seriously can you name a single reason why it would be confusing for anyone to click on a URL bar and get a typable URL like in a web browser name one in the comments I dare you the web browser is just another chromium derivative based on an old chromium version on top of that so I wouldn't recommend using it over virtually anything else no reason not to use your usual favorite browser which has better be Firefox by the way just kidding just use whatever you like or use Firefox or use anything else the terminal emulator is also relatively simple with tabs a few visual options customizable keyboard shortcuts but no profiles or customizable colors you can add custom commands that you can invoke quickly from a side panel and it can handle a list of remote servers to access quickly good app good enough for most people who only drop in the terminal for a few command lines here and then probably not powerful enough for terminal die-hards though then you have a basic calendar app that cannot sync with any kind of online account and a pretty good email client with Integrations with a few Chinese providers as well as Gmail or Yahoo but that also works with generic iMap accounts as well it's actually a really good email client in my opinion it's fast it has support for calendar and contacts a bunch of configuration options it lets you create new folders or labels it lets you pin messages Mark as spam or earn Mark as spam something neither kmail or Geary do and it has a very very fast Search tool that works really well honestly I could see myself using deep in mail outside of the deep in desktop while I wait for thunder number to fix their interface in their next release you also get a very basic image viewer that can do OCR but no image editing you get a local music player that's okay a simple PDF viewer a text editor and a movie player you get a paint like tool and a powerful screenshot tool that lets you immediately annotate the screenshot as you take it which is nice you also get a download manager a scanning tool a voice note utility a nice looking system monitor a calculator a Debian package installer a Disk Utility a font manager an archive manager and a webcam tool and you also get a very complete user manual for the whole desktop and all apps which is really nice and its English translations aren't even that bad or are they foreign I'll stop about the badly translated Chinese to English jokes although it is an important point if your main language isn't English or Chinese the deep in translations might not be as complete or as high quality as on other desktop environments since deepen isn't used all that much outside of China compared to gnome or KDE so this might be something to look out for now the set of default apps is really good really comprehensive and basically everything that's shipped is good enough for the usage of most people it's just a very very cool set of applications including some very good ones like the email client the system monitor and the very very complete device manager and then there's the deep in app store I'm not sure you get this one if you're not using dpin as a distro and there are advantages and downsides to that first it's a beautiful looking piece of software which unfortunately doesn't respect your dark mode it handles app updates but not system updates which are located in the settings and it lets you search through all apps you've installed or that you'd want to install on the deep end distro though it's a mess the app store isn't well stocked at all and most apps you will find are outdated like very outdated gnome calendar was version 3.30 for example that's six main releases behind six ocular hasn't seen an update since March 2021 and a lot more seem completely out of date probably because deepen as a distro uses Debian as a base and so has its very old outdated apps in its repos others seem more up to date like audacity or only office but the deep in app store has also some very interesting features first it has editorial content with big categories that link to a list of apps related to a specific purpose like what you would find on the Mac App Store you still don't get these nice articles like what Apple has and most text in here is in Chinese and isn't following your system language but it is still pretty handy to discover applications and second it has app bundles that you can install in one click now supposedly it also has Windows and Android apps available in there but I couldn't find any so the deep in app store isn't really good but not in its design the design is actually really really nice and the app bundles the app discoverability and the look and fill out things that I wish you could find on gnome software or on Discover but the repos and the app selection is just abysmal compared to what you would get even on Elementor EOS it's it's just not good so deep in as a desktop yes it's a really nice looking desktop but it's not just for show it also does look legible intuitive and it's a really complete desktop environment with a huge number of utilities and applications that will be enough for most people it's not extremely configurable I would put its config options on the same level as gnome with gnome tweaks installed so higher than Elementary OS but way lower than KDE but there are some cavities yet first the touchpad gestures are just no good compared to what you're used to on other desktops second there are some fluidity issues with window management and third the whole desktop lacks integration with any kind of online account which is really bad I would also advise to use dpnde outside of the deep in distro while the spyware concerns of old seem mostly dissipated as the code is open source and no one really has noticed anything weird going on in a long time the issues remains that it uses an old kernel version old libraries and old repos I think d-pin will be a much better experience using Ubuntu DDE or Manjaro d-pin so would I use dpin as my main desktop well honestly it's not far off fix the performance issues in the multitasking view fix the touchpad gestures and add some kind of next Cloud online account integration and I'm in I will save it a slot on one of my laptops one of my laptops that I got from today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in Germany that makes computers with Linux print start you can pick from a selection of very popular distributions when you configure your own device or you can install anything you like knowing that the compatibility is basically 100 and if there are some tweaks needed you have access to all the configurations that tuxedo made in their repos that they offer as well so it's just all good they have a huge lineup from the smallest nugs and Ultrabooks to the biggest gaming towers and gaming laptops and you can configure basically every machine with CPU options gpus Ram storage whatever keyboard layouts everything you can even add your own logo laser etched on the back I just bought the Stellaris 15 from them which is their high-end gaming laptop workstation laptop thingy and I use it to edit all my videos it has 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hey everyone this is nick and i just bought this laptop the tuxedo stellaris 15 gen 4. i had already reviewed the previous iteration and while i found it really amazing i just didn't need such a powerful laptop at the time turns out that now i do because i plan to be a lot more mobile and to edit on the go and i've been using the stellars 15 to edit all the videos dating back to the plasma 5.25 review and i've been loving the experience so let me tell you why i think it's a great laptop and why i'm buying it let's start with a small disclaimer tuxedo is a sponsor of the channel as you might already know but they didn't get to see this review beforehand and they don't get to tell me what to do and also buying this laptop basically gave them back all the money they ever gave me for sponsoring the channel so either i'm an idiot or i'm unbiased i will let you pick which so let's begin with the build quality and this thick boy is built like a tank it's made of matte black aluminium with the back plate being made out of plastic it's 15.6 inches and it's 2.6 centimeters thick at a total weight of 2.2 kilograms which means it's definitely not an ultrabook or an ultra portable laptop it's designed as a desktop replacement that can also be carried around the chassis is super rigid without any hint of deck flex either in the middle of the keyboard the palm rests or the top grille it's an extremely sturdy device and you can feel it when moving it around it doesn't flex creak or bend at all in terms of branding it's also super limited you get the tuxedo logo on the back and that's it well mine got my own logo because that's something you can configure from tuxedo so you can get any graphics of your choice laser etched to the back plate i think my logo looks absolutely amazing in these shades of glossy and matte black but i am not very objective you can of course open up the device very easily with a few screws and upgrade the ram and the storage up to 64 gigabytes of ram and you have two nvme slots for ssds the screen isn't covered in glass which is probably a good idea to keep the weight manageable and it limits reflections and while the bezels around the display are pretty big especially the bottom one they do house a pretty decent webcam that i'll talk about a bit later this laptop just feels very good and very solid it might not be very thin but it has a tapered profile in the front that makes it look a bit slimmer than it actually is and it has a nice sturdy hinge that you can still open with one finger it's a tank basically but it's a very elegant tank in terms of hardware let's start with the display it's a 1440p screen at 2560x1440 with a 16 by 9 ratio people might lament the lack of 16 by 10 but for video editing and working with two windows side by side i actually prefer 16 by nine it's a 240 hertz refresh rate panel which is pretty cool for gaming which this thing can absolutely do and it's matte and anti-reflective which is also really good as a matter of fact i never noticed any reflections while using it in brightly lit rooms it's not the brightest panel though at 350 nits but it does support 95 of srgb color accuracy felt good at least compared to the ultra wide i use at home i couldn't see much difference and editing videos on it never felt like the colors were off it's a good display although the resolution is a bit of a problem for me 1440p on a 15 inch screen is too small for me so you will need fractional scaling on top of the display you get a decent webcam a 1080p one in fact it's still not amazing in terms of colors and how it handles lighting but it's a nice step up from the basic 720p webcams that are often seen on most laptops these days the microphone is decent although it does pick up your keyboard sounds and the fan noise nothing horrible but not extremely well tuned either i feel like i say this for every laptop review but really there needs to be a standard way to mask out the sounds of the keyboard and the sounds of the fan whether it's hardware or software i do not care but those sounds should not be audible on the internal mic we are in age where everybody works remotely and uses those microphones they need to get better onto the keyboard and it's the best keyboard i ever used on the laptop simple as that i already loved the previous iteration on the gen 3 and this one doesn't feel different maybe the keys are just a tiny bit easier to press offering less resistance it's optomechanical which means the actuation is triggered by a contact cutting off a light switch in practice it has really nice key travel great key stability the actuation happens even if you only hit the side of a key and the sound is clicky and very nice to hear i typed most of that review on the stellars 15 next to a friend that was reading and they never complained once so they might just have been too polite or too afraid of my bulging muscles but it's probably just that the sound is really nice to hear it's also backlit with individual leds per key which means you can do some crazy rgb things with it although tuxedo doesn't offer a software way to control that for now slim book has one but their software isn't yet compatible with ubuntu 22.04 or more modern distros the touchpad is nice if not incredible it's smooth and it feels good for gestures but it's a bit small for this size of laptop the click feels solid even though it's a click board style touch pad so you can only really click it in the bottom half i would have liked it to be a bit bigger and centered please center your touch pads in the middle of the palm rest especially when you have a small divot to help you lift the screen it just feels off-center and i know this laptop uses a standard tong fang design but please tuxedo pass on that feedback touch pads need to be centered onto the speakers and they're decent [Music] they don't sound incredible but they get pretty loud without distortion without sounding tinny and echoey they won't rock your socks off but they aren't bad finally the io and this laptop has it all on the left side you get a full size usb 3.2 gen 2 port a mic jack and an audio jack plus that can sink to unlock to make sure that no one steals your laptop on the right you have a full size sd card reader and two usb a 3.2 gen 1. i'm really glad they included an sd card reader on the laptop it made transferring all the files from the camera to the laptop for editing a lot easier than using that horrendous dongle that i have that also blocks other ports finally on the back you have a thunderbolt 4 port an hdmi 2.0 port a gigabit ethernet jack and the barrel charger and what is that weird flap you're going to ask well it's the connectors for the tuxedo aquaris system and what is that you're also going to eagerly ask it's a water cooling system that you can plug into your stellaris 15 to actually freaking water cool your laptop externally for when you need the absolute best performance now the drivers only exist for windows for now but tuxedo are hard at work writing them for linux which is really cool so when they're done i'll definitely ask for a review unit because that's just too fun to pass on now small nitpicks the thunderbolt 4 port doesn't charge the laptop which forces you to use the enormous power brick and the barrel charger i guess the hardware is just too powerful to be charged by a regular port like that i would also have liked a 10 gig ethernet port instead since it's 2022 and fast wired connections are basically everywhere apart from that it will handle anything you want to plug in okay now let's talk internals cpu gpu that's what matters right well at least it matters to me this thing has a lot of different configurations mine has an intel core i7 12700h but you can get up to an i9 12900h the base model comes with an nvidia rtx 3060 mobile with 6 gigabytes of vram but you can get up to a 3080 ti and ram ranges from 16 to 64 gigabytes with storage being ssd based up to four terabytes my unit has the 30 60 16 gigabytes of ram and one terabyte of ssd which is more than enough to get started but i will probably upgrade the ram to 32 gigs and probably add a second ssd just for fun now let's talk numbers and benchmarks the i7 12700h is a monster it's a 14 core 20 thread cpu which goes up to 4.68 gigahertz on geekbench 5 it scores 1815 in single core and 11 588 in multi-core it's the most powerful cpu i own out of all my devices including my desktop ryzen 7 5800 h it's also called using liquid metal and some big fans which means that while you will definitely hear it when under heavy load like when gaming and it can be pretty loud you will definitely not hear it scream all the time when you're just browsing the web in terms of graphics performance i ran my usual shadow of the tomb raider and resident evil 2. this laptop can handle that without any issues at the native resolution on ultra shadow of the tomb raider got an average of 115 fps if you drop these down to medium or lower the resolution you will absolutely be able to make use of the 240hz panel in resident evil 2 you can turn everything up to the max at the native screen's resolution and still get a nice smooth 60fps with very rare drops if you lower the resolution and use super sampling you will absolutely reach higher than that i was expecting a little better to be honest but that's the game running through proton so there might be bottlenecks i'm not aware of if you want to fully use the 240hz refresh rates though you'll need to go down to 1080p which on a 15 inch screen absolutely will still look amazing especially at high details it's just a very very powerful laptop for gaming and also for other stuff i've been editing all my videos since the plasma 5.25 review on that device and it's been buttery smooth i can preview the final video at its native 1080p resolution and everything just works great and keep in mind that it's just a 3060 you can also get a 3070 or 3080 ti which are going to make things even better in terms of battery life of course it will depend on what you do using only the intel graphics card with a typical workload for me consisting of writing on next cloud notes inside of firefox listening to music watching the occasional youtube video with wifi on bluetooth on for the mouse and headphones plugged in at mid brightness the laptop got up to 7 hours of use thanks to the 93 watt hour battery when using the nvidia dedicated gpu for gaming though if you let it run as fast as it can you can expect something more along the lines of three to four hours video editing lasted about four and a half hours for me the six performance scores and eight efficiency cores of the newer intel cpus mean that you can absolutely handle a full day of work on this laptop unless you need the dedicated gpu on all the time but generally hybrid graphics mode is where it's going to be at for most people and my experience with that was mediocre the stellaris 15 comes with tuxedo os 22.04 it's basically kubuntu 22.04 with a custom theme and the tuxedo control center installed plus a few customizations pre-applied to ensure everything runs smoothly on the device that all the hotkeys work as intended that sort of stuff i wanted to try another distro on it and since i enjoyed using pop os on the hp dev 1 i decided to go with that i added the tuxedo ppas to make sure i had everything i needed in terms of software support and installed the required tweaks for the stellar s15 which i must say should be provided in the product's description page tuxedo os does a great job of pre-installing it but the package names inside of the ppas are not exactly explicit to which device they apply so having a list of which configurations you should install from the tuxedo ppa to make things work would be a great help everything worked out of the box except for sound it's not specifically related to the solaris 15. it seems there's an issue in supporting the latest intel audio hardware pipe wire was masked for some reason and so no audio input or output was detected it took me three hours of online search to fix the issue but it was only one command line in the end i left the command i used in the description for those who might need it apart from that everything went great except that hybrid graphics mode is still a mess on linux with nvidia first you get really bad screen tearing on it even though it's using the intel graphics by default you can fix that by adding the tail free option in the x.org settings again the stuff you need to add is in the description but enabling that tear-free option causes performance issues everything feels less responsive and even apps using the dedicated gpu start to stutter so either you get horrible screen tearing or you get bad performance i couldn't find a suitable compromise which is a shame because it means that i basically use the laptop in nvidia graphics mode all the time and only switch to intel graphics mode which necessitates a reboot when i just know i'm not going to be gaming i'm just going to be writing or watching videos that kind of defeats the purpose of the dual gpus so please nvidia fix your crap make better drivers i hope that the new open source module thingy that you opened will make things a lot better because for now it's a mess now on pure intel or pure nvidia mode there is no screen tearing at all and performance is just amazing which is good and the rest of the software experience was pretty great everything works as you would expect apart from the scaling i needed to enable that to 125 percent because 100 was too small and 200 was too big quick reminder to all hardware manufacturers either you ship a 1080p panel or you ship a 4k panel anything in the middle is just stupid for all devices except a 17-inch 1440p on a laptop is dumb and should not be done now you can quote me on this or fight me if you disagree but my eyes will not accept 1440p and that's that so why did i buy this laptop well because it allows me to edit videos and game on a portable form factor with great performance sometimes higher than my desktop and because the hardware is just really really nice and solid the keyboard is incredible and an absolute joy to type on the screen is really good apart from the stupid resolution you get a decent webcam which is rare enough to be mentioned and the i o is just perfect for my needs of course this comes at a price my unit with the 360 is already out of stock and the next one with a 30-70 is about 2 500 euros which is not cheap i would say it's worth it for the incredible chassis durability the amazing keyboard combined with very good battery life but whether you're ready to sync that much into a laptop will largely depend on what you intend to do with it if you're looking for something more affordable you can also check out all the other devices that tuxedo offers they have smaller ultrabooks nugs they have gaming pcs they have high-end workstations and they have a huge variety of configurations for each and a lot of keyboard layouts they're based in germany but they ship worldwide and you can really tailor your device to your needs and you just know that it's going to run well with linux because they provide distros out of the box that you can select at configuration or you can just install your own all of them can be opened up and upgraded they're just really really cool devices so if you need a new device that you can be sure runs linux just head over to the link in the description below and grab a device from tuxedo they are really cool so thanks everyone for watching i hope you enjoyed the video if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you didn't like it but you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments and if you have enough cash at hand to buy three or four stellaris 15s why not support the channel you can use the super thanks button below or the paypal link in the 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hey everyone this is nick and apparently i'm lazy because i just display scrolling web pages instead of recording something specific for each news article that's something i could absolutely do if i hired someone but i can't because i don't have a million subs and 200 000 views per video and so here is your weekly laziness in the form of linux and open source news this time we have thunderbird getting one of its biggest updates ever we have google getting hit by yet another antitrust complaint in the eu and we have gnome web also called epiphany getting support for web extensions and of course we have a ton of updates to gnome kde plasma mobile the steam deck and a lot more so let's get started just like you can get started with your own linux or gaming server thanks to today's sponsor and the hundred dollars free credit they're giving you thanks to linode for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like pyhol to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started thunderbird 102 was released in what's probably the biggest update to the email client it brings a revamped inbox and folder list with colored folders for a more modern look as well as a new address book with a completely redesigned contact presentation and a bunch of new information fields it's also compatible with the vcard standard and you can initiate a new email or event right from the contact page thunderbird also gets a new spaces toolbar letting you switch to and from the various features mail address book calendar tasks chats and your add-ons as well as the settings and that spaces bar can even be customized with various colors so it looks exactly how you want there's also a new import export wizard with a guided experience to let you get all your data in or out of the program from outlook c-monkey or another thunderbird installation emails have a redesigned message header as well that you can configure to display the information that's most important to you and it can be used to star messages or convert them into a calendar event or task finally thunderbird 102 integrates matrix chat out of the box so you have a one one-stop shop for all your instant messaging needs with that your release what they have planned for the future and the future release of thunderbird for android with same capabilities between the two i can definitely say that thunderbird is looking on a great path i will definitely try it again and maybe i'll just go back to using it daily as my email client amd published the source code to their upscaling super sampling tool fidelity fx super resolution 2 also known as fsr2 it's under the mit license so it can be reused in almost every way possible it's the successor to the first release of fsr supporting vulkan and directx 12 and is fully supported on linux on top of being available on different gpus not just the ones amd makes if you're unfamiliar with what this does it lets you render a game at a lower resolution and uses algorithms to reconstruct your screen's native resolution with anti-aliasing added which results in the ability to play with much better performance at very little cost in image quality fsr2 replaces the game's native anti-aliasing with higher quality solutions it improves on image quality compared to fsr1 and supports dynamic resolution scaling so the game can adjust the resolution to stick to a specific frame rate the steam deck already implements fsr1 natively in its window manager and i would love to see them implementing fsr2 as well these super sampling tools are really really awesome they let me play some aaa titles on the steam deck that this device has no rights to be able to run with acceptable frame rates and high level of quality it's really good it looks like the linux kernel should get rust support for the 5.20 release so not in the next release planned for the end of july the kernel developers are laying down the infrastructure to enable rust code and a few sample drivers to guide new contributions the support will be optional when building the kernel so you can build it without rust or enable certain features that use rust 5.20 will also bring performance improvements the usual improved hardware support especially for amd devices and the rdna 3 architecture and the addition of rust supports might mean more contributions for drivers as well so i guess it's all good news of course nothing has been merged yet so things can still change before 5.20 releases now i'm not a developer and i am not savvy enough to know what rust brings or doesn't bring for drivers or for a kernel but i guess supporting more languages might be good to get more people involved i guess kde developers are still keeping up with their weekly updates and this week was mainly focused on bug fixing four 15-minute bugs have been fixed bringing the total under 60. as a reminder these are bugs you can encounter in your first 15 minutes with kde and that can really detract from your first impressions of the desktop there are also some improvements of course like kd letting you disable middle click to paste in wayland discover now following your priority for flatback repos by using the same one as the command line flatback tool the new letter grid in the kickoff menu that lets you navigate to a certain letter in your list of apps now gets a nice animation kirigami apps get some fixes for their sidebar plasma now updates icons within 1 second instead of 10 when they change on disk the battery widget now shows the battery level for wireless touch pads the open width dialogue no lets you find apps in discover and there were a ton of bug fixes most of which should make their way to you in future bug fix updates to the current plasma releases as always kde plasma seems to have a tick-tock rhythm for updates no not that kind of tick-tock tick-tock tock lacking a clock like you get one feature update and then one bug fix update and that's good plasma mobile also got some love with the release of the plasma mobile gear compilation version 22.06 the task switcher now sorts my last app open instead of alphabetically the action drawer this little quick settings panel that you can drag from the top can now display pages like on android so you can get more toggles in one place the quick settings can also be pulled entirely by dragging from a screen corner the navigation bar now emits vibrations when tapped which can be customized and there's a swipe left and right gesture on that bar to quickly switch between open applications shadows on buttons and controls are now re-enabled as the team fixed performance issues that prevented them from being usable on lower end devices various apps also received updates like audiotube the youtube music client casts the podcast client or tocodon the mastodon client and i think it's high time i did another deep dive into the various linux mobile let's say desktop mobile interfaces because it's been a while and they seem to have evolved quite nicely gnome developers were also hard at work on their core libraries and applications files gets a new list view redeveloped almost from the ground up with new features like rubber band selection empty spaces between items to make it easier to use the context menu highlighting rows on hover file names being ellipsed in the middle to be more readable the ability to change sorting order with that order being shared with the grid view and more it's still a work in progress but it should make that list view a lot more usable calendar gets a pinch gesture for the weak views to compact and expand the hour range you can see on screen and you can also use it by holding ctrl and scrolling calendars events also look nicer more in keeping with the latest gnome design trends pica backup got an update to fix issues with scheduled backups login manager fixes a bunch of distro specific bugs and added new translations and lock screen message has been released as a gnome extension for gnome 42 finally shell configuration another gnome extension that lets you configure gnome shell in details now also supports gnome 42 and 41 and has more configuration options nothing that makes me super excited this week i like the work that they're doing to make apps more responsive more touch friendly but seeing as we still lack a flagship phone to run for example fosh or the future gnome mobile shell it's hard to get super excited for me krita 5.1 looks like it's going to be a very good release for users of the digital painting tool the team has added operations for multiple layers so you can copy cut paste and clear selections from multiple layers at once and layers are easier to manage in the layer docker they also added a ton of new formats like webp photoshop layered tiffs open exr 2.3 and 3 jpeg xl psd fill layers and color labels and the ase and acb color palettes used mainly by adobe's application krita will also be better at retrieving images from the clipboard touch gestures are now configurable there are new fill tools like continuous feel and enclose and fill and you can drag and drop swatches onto the canvas to autofill parts of the image there are also a ton of fixes and improvements to brushes the ui the implementation of the gmic plugin and more i started dabbling with krita on my android tablet and i must say it's a very very nice tool to use now with daily work and maybe a little bit more improvement on my part maybe i'll be able to produce something that's okay more okay than this at least endless os a linux distribution aiming at the education market posted a nice blog post about how they collaborate with gnome to make both and less os and the whole upstream project better it's an interesting look at how companies can work together and initiate changes in upstream projects instead of going at it alone endless os uses gnome and they were part of the big gnome 4d redesign sponsoring the gnome foundation to start user testing and define how best to improve gnome shell they also helped redesigning gnome software for gnome 41 collaborating with purism and red hat as well in the process it seems they also sponsor some other projects like bringing verified applications to flat hub integrating web apps in gnome software and more it's always super interesting to me to get these insights into how communities and companies can work together to make products better for everyone it's just nice to see epiphany or gnome web as it's also called now has support for web extensions this standard is used by a lot of chrome firefox and safari browser extensions and should help make epiphany a way more interesting browser for a lot of people starting with version 43 at least with plans to expand support to more and more extensions over time they are modeling their behavior after firefox's manifest v2 api and they support a host of apis already alarms cookies downloads menus notifications storage tabs and windows web request isn't yet supported so most content blocking extensions shouldn't work just yet like ublock origin or privacy badger that support is planned but it requires changes to webkit jdk first so it might take a bit more time this extension support is already available in epiphany 43 alpha and extensions can be installed by downloading them from mozilla's website and opening them from the new extension item in epiphanies menu really really cool stuff even though it's obviously early days now epiphany or gnome web has already improved its performance and its website compatibility in the past few months and so with support for extensions it might finally make it into a real daily browser for mostly everybody which is nice i'll give it a shot when it's released as version 43. google faces yet another antitrust complaint in the eu for yet another one of its services a job search portal in denmark has filed that complaint accusing google of stifling competition and undermining labor markets through its google for jobs service this service was already being probed by the eu since 2019 as they had received letters from 23 job search services complaining about the exact same thing the plaintiffs accuse google of abusing its market dominance in search to push google for jobs in the search results instead of other results and the latest complaint alleges that they've lost 20 percent of their search traffic since google for jobs launched and they also say that google service is inferior and thus results in hiding more relevant job offers from the search results google answered recently saying that they're happy to partner with any job offer provider to add their offers to google for jobs which would fix part of the complaint but is definitely not as interesting as getting traffic onto your own website directly which is what a search engine is for now by now you're probably all familiar with my own position on google's blatant abuse of its dominant position in virtually every market it enters and the job market is virtually no different either but yeah they'll probably just get a fine that seems huge but for google is just a mosquito bite they'll pay it and they'll shrink it off and they'll keep doing what they do because that's how it's been for forever and let's conclude this with some big steam deck news first people who are still waiting for their devices are probably going to get them quite fast now as valve announced they'll be shipping double the number of decks each week than they previously did as production finally ramps up people in the q3 gang should now be relatively close to getting their hands on deck the deck also got a client update mostly for bug fixing as the experience had degraded somewhat after the last few updates so this new one fixes issues with navigation controller configurations failing to load or with the touchscreen being stuck in mouse emulation mode and the deck passed another milestone 3600 games now certified to be playable this time including assassin's creed director's cut edition lego batman quake 4 imperator rome and a lot more i've been gaming more and more on my steam deck and my xbox one and my main powerful pc that i use to game and edit videos both of these are just gathering dust now there's just something more personal to playing these games on the steam deck even though its performance isn't amazing at mostly 30 fps for most aaa titles what is amazing though is today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo makes laptops and desktops that run linux out of the box you can choose between a huge selection of popular distributions or you can just buy a device and install your very own and get access to all the software configurations needed from tuxedos repositories which is really cool they are based in germany but they ship worldwide with a huge range of keyboard layouts and they have configuration options for virtually every device in their huge lineup from the smallest ultrabooks to the biggest gaming laptops and gaming pcs like the stellaris 15 i just bought from them whether you just need a new device that you want to run linux on or you want to help support linux development or you just want to make sure that what you buy is absolutely compatible with linux head over to the link in the description and just click it and get yourself a tuxedo device they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it well dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you don't think i'm a lazy bastard and you want to help support the videos that i make you can click on the super thanks button below the video or you can click on the paypal link in the description or if you want to be a monthly donator you can join my patreon subscribers or youtube members and get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is Nick and if you follow the channel for a bit you know that privacy is pretty important to me which is why I'm not using any Google services today apart from YouTube because let's be honest there's basically nothing else but every time I talk about privacy I get the same myth myth and misconception being posted in the comments or written somewhere else if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care about privacy at all privacy is already dead just accept it the cloud is just someone else's computer all of these myth and misconceptions need to be laid to rest so let's take a look at why they're mostly wrong and like today's sponsor which is absolutely right if you want to protect your privacy and secure your internet connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the portmaster which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free safeing also makes the SPN or safing privacy Network it's a powerful VPN alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with ESPN you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional VPN that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the SPN right now or download the portmaster by heading in the link Link in the description below so let's begin with the most egregious one which is probably also the most frequent if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care about privacy at all this stance is extremely common but it also completely misses the mark first are you sure you have nothing to hide have you never taken a fake sick day off have you never trashed talked to your employer to your friends and family have you never written edgy jokes online that taken out of context would make you look like a horrible human being have you never searched for anything weird online or sent a compromising picture of yourself or a specific body part to someone else nice elbow pic dude because while all these things might not strictly be illegal depending on where you live they could still get you in a lot of trouble everyone has something to hide whether they think so or not and why is that a problem well if tomorrow a new law passes that requires all companies that store all your messages emails pictures tweets Facebook posts Instagram photos and more if these companies well required by law to give that information to your employer for example well you could get fired if they were required to give them to your bank or insurance company you could lose your health insurance for example if there's a picture of you smoking a cigarette when you declared you were a non-smoker or if you said you needed that line of credit to renovate your flat and you post a picture with a new car instead you wouldn't believe how many people get caught on minor offenses or tax evasion just because they posted an Instagram photo like seriously bunch of idiots just use the fetty verse it's basically like not posting anything at all no one goes there okay sorry about that one I love of the flavors I'm on it all links are in the description well done Nick a joke that turns into self-promotion you you need to stop watching LTT right now so unless you're the most upstanding citizen who never absolutely never did anything that could be held against them and in that case welcome because you're probably the only one or you've just been born unless you're that most upstanding citizen you do have something to hide whether you realize it or not then there are things that aren't problematic for you now but could become in the future look at how the law evolves you might be lucky enough to live in a country that's quite tolerant to every gender sex sexual orientation skin color religious or political views for now but as recent news clearly demonstrated that's not necessarily something that is set in stone if all companies and everyone knows everything about you these things can and will be used against you to discriminate when a less tolerant government takes charge and finally there's the hacking risk all the data you store on these big company's servers can be hacked it happened a lot in the past and do you really want all that sensitive or even mild information about you floating around accessible to everyone your home address your phone number your email address or your loved ones and all their contacts details or your credit card number or social security number all of that means that even if you feel that you have nothing to hide first you're probably wrong and second it doesn't mean that you should let big companies or anyone compile all that data into a giant profile about you the second misconception you often hear online is privacy is already dead don't even bother it's impossible to stay private online and if you believe that you probably do not know how to use a search engine online or you haven't been listening to me well enough which shame on you but also I understand still if you look online you will find a ton of ideas guides and videos that do just that tell you what is private and what isn't privacy respecting alternatives are everywhere from your web browser to your search engine your email service your cloud storage your office suite your operating system or even your phone's operating system or the very apps you use there is a privacy respecting alternative for everything and if not there's at least a way to make the stuff you already use more private if not completely bulletproof because while it is possible to stay private online it is extremely difficult to become a ghost and leave no choices at all I still use YouTube and Twitter and therefore work for this channel but they are still tracking me one day one of them is gonna catch me I cannot run forever they're here privacy isn't dead it's never been so alive laws get passed all the time in the eu's for example to ensure companies cannot do anything they want for as long as they want with your data anti-applications have the sole selling point of being good enough and private to replace the ones you currently use that's the main selling point of Brave for example or slash EOS for your Android phone and then you have companies that try and serve on that privacy wave to try and sell you more stuff like apple yeah these guys are just as not private as Google they collect a ton of stuff and they just keep it for themselves but they still use it and that's the real issue privacy isn't dead it's so alive that it's even hard to know what is really private and what isn't because privacy will be thrown around like a marketing term without any real basis all the privacy policy to back that up which means you either read through every giant legal strolling pane of text and decide for yourself or you trust other people that recommend things or you try and stick to open source trusting that if there was something nefarious going on someone would have noticed by now so yeah going private is not easy you give up comfort you give up ease of use and what you know to try and learn some new things that you also have to research but privacy isn't dead at all it's never been so vibrant the next misconception is one that is harder to dispel they give me great services so it's worth it this is hard to dispel because it's very personal if you think your privacy doesn't matter I think you're wrong but you're absolutely entitled to having that opinion and you're absolutely entitled to thinking that those three services are a good deal in exchange of all your personal data but let's consider this for a moment first the services aren't free the price for these Services is your data the constant omnipresent Gathering of everything you view you do you click on you write you exchange or you send online now if that surprised you're willing to pay well then perfect but that's definitely not free another thing to consider is that you could absolutely get services that are just as good and just as free but do not invade your privacy just because they're not as well known doesn't mean they don't exist and if you don't want to change your habits then that's fine as I said it's a personal choice is the time you're going to lose relearning a new service or even finding a new service worth it or not in exchange for not leaking data all over the Internet personally my choice is that it is absolutely worth it especially considering that there are tons of Alternatives that offer great features at no cost and even if they are paid for I would rather pay ten dollars a month and have a private solution then use something for free that builds a giant profile hey I would even pay for all the Google services if they offered a privacy respecting tier that does not gather any data I would pay for that and the final myth that annoys me to no end which will probably result in a wave of people writing it again and again in the comments because people are like that that final myth is the cloud is just someone else's computer and boy is that not true because of course if you store your files on a company server then yes they're stored on a computer that doesn't belong to you that's actually true while Google Apple Microsoft and a lot of other companies will absolutely parse every single bit of data or file that you send on their servers whether they parse it on device or on the cloud not all companies do a lot to use end-to-end encryption which means that your data is encrypted on your device sent in that form to the server and stored in that form there where basically no one can decode it but you so yes that data is not on your computer it's on someone else's but that doesn't mean it's accessible to everybody and then that's completely ignoring the fact that you can build your own personal cloud yeah imagine that and it's actually extremely easy to do if you want a replacement for cloud storage photo management notes RSS feed reading collaborative wikis calendars office suites and a lot more all you have to do is find an old computer install Ubuntu on it run snap install nextcloud and you're done you have access to every single one of these services from anywhere in the world as long as your house has power and internet and you remember the IP address or the domain name you chose that's the exact definition of the cloud and it's on your computer so sure it might not be as easy as just signing up for a Google or Microsoft account but honestly with the number of guides floating online virtually anyone can do it or has a friend or family member that can so yeah privacy is a complex topic because while I personally believe that everyone should care about it and switch to private Alternatives if only for the basic services that you use every day like your web browser or your search engine version it is a personal choice some people do not care and that's perfectly fine what is not fine is these people trying to discourage others by repeating the same old busted myth and misconceptions online privacy respecting alternatives are everywhere my operating system my web browser my search engine my own complete personal cloud all of these are completely private and sure it was not extremely easy to replace everything with more private alternative but it's absolutely doable just like getting a computer that runs Linux out of the box is also absolutely doable thanks to today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in Germany that makes laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box you can pick from a big selection of distributions right at your device's configuration on the website or you can install virtually any other distro you want knowing that it's going to work completely on those devices and if there's any tweak you need to make Tuxedo provides repositories with configuration options and packages that fix the most common issues they have a huge range of devices from the smallest nugs and Ultrabooks to the biggest gaming desktops or laptops like this one the Stellaris 15 that I just reviewed and just bought from them which is a monster of a laptop with the best keyboard I ever used on any laptop period and all of their devices can be configured immensely with tons of CPU options GPU options RAM storage and you can even engrave your own logo on the back it's laser etched and it looks amazing so if you need a new device that you can be sure runs Linux 100 head over to the link in the description below click it and maybe grab yourself a new tuxedo laptop or desktop they are really nice so thanks everyone for watching the video I 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hey everyone this is Nick and if you follow the channel for a bit you know that privacy is pretty important to me which is why I'm not using any Google services today apart from YouTube because let's be honest there's basically nothing else but every time I talk about privacy I get the same myth myth and misconception being posted in the comments or written somewhere else if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care about privacy at all privacy is already dead just accept it the cloud is just someone else's computer all of these myth and misconceptions need to be laid to rest so let's take a look at why they're mostly wrong and like today's sponsor which is absolutely right if you want to protect your privacy and secure your internet connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the portmaster which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free safeing also makes the SPN or safing privacy Network it's a powerful VPN alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with ESPN you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional VPN that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the SPN right now or download the portmaster by heading in the link Link in the description below so let's begin with the most egregious one which is probably also the most frequent if you have nothing to hide you shouldn't care about privacy at all this stance is extremely common but it also completely misses the mark first are you sure you have nothing to hide have you never taken a fake sick day off have you never trashed talked to your employer to your friends and family have you never written edgy jokes online that taken out of context would make you look like a horrible human being have you never searched for anything weird online or sent a compromising picture of yourself or a specific body part to someone else nice elbow pic dude because while all these things might not strictly be illegal depending on where you live they could still get you in a lot of trouble everyone has something to hide whether they think so or not and why is that a problem well if tomorrow a new law passes that requires all companies that store all your messages emails pictures tweets Facebook posts Instagram photos and more if these companies well required by law to give that information to your employer for example well you could get fired if they were required to give them to your bank or insurance company you could lose your health insurance for example if there's a picture of you smoking a cigarette when you declared you were a non-smoker or if you said you needed that line of credit to renovate your flat and you post a picture with a new car instead you wouldn't believe how many people get caught on minor offenses or tax evasion just because they posted an Instagram photo like seriously bunch of idiots just use the fetty verse it's basically like not posting anything at all no one goes there okay sorry about that one I love of the flavors I'm on it all links are in the description well done Nick a joke that turns into self-promotion you you need to stop watching LTT right now so unless you're the most upstanding citizen who never absolutely never did anything that could be held against them and in that case welcome because you're probably the only one or you've just been born unless you're that most upstanding citizen you do have something to hide whether you realize it or not then there are things that aren't problematic for you now but could become in the future look at how the law evolves you might be lucky enough to live in a country that's quite tolerant to every gender sex sexual orientation skin color religious or political views for now but as recent news clearly demonstrated that's not necessarily something that is set in stone if all companies and everyone knows everything about you these things can and will be used against you to discriminate when a less tolerant government takes charge and finally there's the hacking risk all the data you store on these big company's servers can be hacked it happened a lot in the past and do you really want all that sensitive or even mild information about you floating around accessible to everyone your home address your phone number your email address or your loved ones and all their contacts details or your credit card number or social security number all of that means that even if you feel that you have nothing to hide first you're probably wrong and second it doesn't mean that you should let big companies or anyone compile all that data into a giant profile about you the second misconception you often hear online is privacy is already dead don't even bother it's impossible to stay private online and if you believe that you probably do not know how to use a search engine online or you haven't been listening to me well enough which shame on you but also I understand still if you look online you will find a ton of ideas guides and videos that do just that tell you what is private and what isn't privacy respecting alternatives are everywhere from your web browser to your search engine your email service your cloud storage your office suite your operating system or even your phone's operating system or the very apps you use there is a privacy respecting alternative for everything and if not there's at least a way to make the stuff you already use more private if not completely bulletproof because while it is possible to stay private online it is extremely difficult to become a ghost and leave no choices at all I still use YouTube and Twitter and therefore work for this channel but they are still tracking me one day one of them is gonna catch me I cannot run forever they're here privacy isn't dead it's never been so alive laws get passed all the time in the eu's for example to ensure companies cannot do anything they want for as long as they want with your data anti-applications have the sole selling point of being good enough and private to replace the ones you currently use that's the main selling point of Brave for example or slash EOS for your Android phone and then you have companies that try and serve on that privacy wave to try and sell you more stuff like apple yeah these guys are just as not private as Google they collect a ton of stuff and they just keep it for themselves but they still use it and that's the real issue privacy isn't dead it's so alive that it's even hard to know what is really private and what isn't because privacy will be thrown around like a marketing term without any real basis all the privacy policy to back that up which means you either read through every giant legal strolling pane of text and decide for yourself or you trust other people that recommend things or you try and stick to open source trusting that if there was something nefarious going on someone would have noticed by now so yeah going private is not easy you give up comfort you give up ease of use and what you know to try and learn some new things that you also have to research but privacy isn't dead at all it's never been so vibrant the next misconception is one that is harder to dispel they give me great services so it's worth it this is hard to dispel because it's very personal if you think your privacy doesn't matter I think you're wrong but you're absolutely entitled to having that opinion and you're absolutely entitled to thinking that those three services are a good deal in exchange of all your personal data but let's consider this for a moment first the services aren't free the price for these Services is your data the constant omnipresent Gathering of everything you view you do you click on you write you exchange or you send online now if that surprised you're willing to pay well then perfect but that's definitely not free another thing to consider is that you could absolutely get services that are just as good and just as free but do not invade your privacy just because they're not as well known doesn't mean they don't exist and if you don't want to change your habits then that's fine as I said it's a personal choice is the time you're going to lose relearning a new service or even finding a new service worth it or not in exchange for not leaking data all over the Internet personally my choice is that it is absolutely worth it especially considering that there are tons of Alternatives that offer great features at no cost and even if they are paid for I would rather pay ten dollars a month and have a private solution then use something for free that builds a giant profile hey I would even pay for all the Google services if they offered a privacy respecting tier that does not gather any data I would pay for that and the final myth that annoys me to no end which will probably result in a wave of people writing it again and again in the comments because people are like that that final myth is the cloud is just someone else's computer and boy is that not true because of course if you store your files on a company server then yes they're stored on a computer that doesn't belong to you that's actually true while Google Apple Microsoft and a lot of other companies will absolutely parse every single bit of data or file that you send on their servers whether they parse it on device or on the cloud not all companies do a lot to use end-to-end encryption which means that your data is encrypted on your device sent in that form to the server and stored in that form there where basically no one can decode it but you so yes that data is not on your computer it's on someone else's but that doesn't mean it's accessible to everybody and then that's completely ignoring the fact that you can build your own personal cloud yeah imagine that and it's actually extremely easy to do if you want a replacement for cloud storage photo management notes RSS feed reading collaborative wikis calendars office suites and a lot more all you have to do is find an old computer install Ubuntu on it run snap install nextcloud and you're done you have access to every single one of these services from anywhere in the world as long as your house has power and internet and you remember the IP address or the domain name you chose that's the exact definition of the cloud and it's on your computer so sure it might not be as easy as just signing up for a Google or Microsoft account but honestly with the number of guides floating online virtually anyone can do it or has a friend or family member that can so yeah privacy is a complex topic because while I personally believe that everyone should care about it and switch to private Alternatives if only for the basic services that you use every day like your web browser or your search engine version it is a personal choice some people do not care and that's perfectly fine what is not fine is these people trying to discourage others by repeating the same old busted myth and misconceptions online privacy respecting alternatives are everywhere my operating system my web browser my search engine my own complete personal cloud all of these are completely private and sure it was not extremely easy to replace everything with more private alternative but it's absolutely doable just like getting a computer that runs Linux out of the box is also absolutely doable thanks to today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in Germany that makes laptops and desktops that run Linux out of the box you can pick from a big selection of distributions right at your device's configuration on the website or you can install virtually any other distro you want knowing that it's going to work completely on those devices and if there's any tweak you need to make Tuxedo provides repositories with configuration options and packages that fix the most common issues they have a huge range of devices from the smallest nugs and Ultrabooks to the biggest gaming desktops or laptops like this one the Stellaris 15 that I just reviewed and just bought from them which is a monster of a laptop with the best keyboard I ever used on any laptop period and all of their devices can be configured immensely with tons of CPU options GPU options RAM storage and you can even engrave your own logo on the back it's laser etched and it looks amazing so if you need a new device that you can be sure runs Linux 100 head over to the link in the description below click it and maybe grab yourself a new tuxedo laptop or desktop they are really nice so thanks everyone for watching the video I 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hey everyone this is nick and i can safely say that i do not know everything there is to know about linux i've been using it since 2006 and along the way i've made a ton of mistakes that really hampered my growth and progress and learning experience with linux some of these are personal and might not seem like mistakes to you some others you probably made yourself and some others i still regret to this day so don't hesitate to let me know in the comments if you made any specific mistakes with linux and what these mistakes are but first let's take a look at everything i did wrong and everything i could have done better what was definitely not a mistake though was speaking today's sponsor tux care this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they are giving you access to an independent study by idc peerscape that analyzes if when and how to implement open source solutions alongside 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dust on pixi's wings right you you do see the the pixies as well right so when i started using linux it was on an old refurbished laptop that didn't have wi-fi or an ethernet port i was living at my parents house and their router didn't have wi-fi either so i ordered a cd from canonical got ubuntu 6.06 that per drake and installed it on my laptop without access to the internet it did have a 56k modem though although at that point even my technology hating parents had moved on to dsl and let me tell you using linux without an internet connection almost made me drop it immediately see i needed some drivers and so i had to download packages from the repos manually and copy them to a usb key transfer them to the laptop copy them there install them only for dpkg to tell me that dependencies were missing and so i went downloading dependencies and more dependencies for these dependencies again and again until i finally had all the packages i needed pure nightmare and the same went for installing packages from the repos at the time no app images no flat packs no snaps you had to use the repos or download an archive and compile it which also needed dependencies so installing anything was just a pain and i promptly concluded that linux sucked because at least on windows you could download installers and use them offline fortunately i bugged my parents enough so they bought the pcmcia card expansion for the router to get wi-fi and i got myself a usb dongle for wi-fi on my laptop which also needed me to use packages downloaded offline to use endis wrapper and the windows driver to make it work but that's another story in the end with wifi the experience was much much better and that made me stick to linux even though my connection speed was about 300 kilobits per second so yeah using linux without an internet connection big mistake it's completely unusable might be easier nowadays but not by much now of course it's not something that most people will run into nowadays because well everybody has the internet mostly second mistake i took way too long to correct was not setting up a separate slash home partition most of you probably already do and if you don't you probably should have see you can reinstall a whole other linux distro and reuse that exact same slash home partition to keep all your settings files configurations and more and avoid losing hours setting everything up again at the time ubuntu didn't do that out of the box and since i almost exclusively used ubuntu until 2013 yet another mistake i'll talk about next i never got that separate partition except i was using the betas all the time and my system broke all the time needing me to reinstall very often because i didn't know my way around the command line well enough to fix my problems so i had to think about what i needed to backup copy everything to a usb drive or hard drive copy it back set up everything again after each reinstall and realize i had forgotten half of my stuff after my music collection and so i had to rip my cd collection again and again i must have done it about 20 times yeah i just do not learn nowadays distros generally also don't default to a separate slash home partition which is a mistake in my opinion it should absolutely be the default because even if you supply a backup tool or restore tool you know that most people just don't do regular backups and they are going to lose some stuff when distro hopping or when they ultimately follow the wrong guide online and break their systems speaking of distro hopping that's another mistake i made i did not distro hop enough when i started using linux this might seem weird and maybe not a mistake but the diversity of linux distros and what they offer is undeniably the greatest strength of our ecosystem granted it can also be a weakness but it's mostly a strength i was way too comfortable with my ubuntu debian packages aptitude then apt-get then just appt gnome then unity and i just didn't really experience all the breadth of tools and systems we could use i'm a man of habit and also i was too scared to change anything and also i was lazy which i still am mostly dystro hopping is how you learn about all the various things you can do on linux it's how you try other desktop environments unless you want to clutter your existing install with hundreds of apps from different toolkits and it's also how you learn what the differences are what the advantages of each distro each system are not distro hopping sooner meant that i just didn't learn anything new while using linux for a long time i didn't learn about rpms and dnf i didn't learn much about xfce or even kde although i did use it a bit on kubuntu i didn't learn what gen 2 was what arch was what open souza brought to the table i just stuck in my corner and professed that ubuntu worked better except that i couldn't know that until i tried something else which i finally ended up doing after i caught the distro hopping fever and reinstalled my system about 20 times in the length of a few months like be honest we all caught that virus at some point or another had i not waited several years to do that i might have started this channel a lot sooner or at least i might have been more proficient with linux's underlying systems and tools in the same vein i also put off trying out new projects for a long time flat pack wayland image based operating systems like silver blue gnome extensions i used to stay safe in my little comfort zone and i judged everything else by the standards of what someone else had written online welland it's not ready it will never be flatback it wastes space it's just inefficient just use regular packages image-based operating systems why would i want to use something so limiting oh to be young and so wrong when i started the channel i decided not to limit myself to what i already knew so i tried it all well maybe not all but a lot of things and that changed my perception of most projects i was sneering at before after using weyland for a while i wouldn't go back to x11 if i can avoid it all the benefits it brings are just amazing flat packs are now my main way of getting software when i swore by good old packages before for no well-explained reason and while i wouldn't use an image-based os on my main computer because i do tinker too much on my system i actually really love the benefits it brings to my steam deck for example yeah i got a steam deck but it was before it was cool and every poser had one there is nothing better to learn something new than looking online to try and find a justification for your fast five years of disdain for that thing really another mistake that might be more personal is dual booting for too long yeah that is definitely a mistake in my opinion i kept a window system on my devices for a long long while up until i started this channel actually in 2018 i used windows as a crutch when something didn't work immediately on linux i just rebooted on windows i did the thing and then i stuck to windows for the day because rebooting was annoying and then the next day i still used windows because i knew i had something to do that i already knew how to do on windows and so i didn't learn how to do a lot of things on linux even though it would have saved me time in the end now don't get me wrong dual booting isn't bad at all i think it's actually really really good when you get started with linux but once you get your bearings and linux works for you i think you should get rid of windows having that windows crutch just slowed me down instead of taking the time to adapt to another system to another way of doing things to the things i could or couldn't do i just knew i had a system i already knew that i could do whatever i wanted in until i took the plunge for this channel trying to experiment with using linux only which i did and i still do none of my computers have a windows partition anymore do i miss anything no i can do everything i need on linux i've been working at a day job and running this channel exclusively on linux for the past four years if there's a game that i want to play but isn't compatible i just accept that i can't play it i don't need to play everything or i just play it on my xbox if it's there if there's a program that doesn't work on linux i use an alternative and i learned how to use that and in the end i learned much more than if i had stuck to windows and used the same thing that i already knew how to do and also my os doesn't spy on me or tell me which browser i should use i'm the one doing that to other people now another big mistake i made back in the day was avoiding the command line like actively avoiding using it i felt it was hacky and dangerous and that it would destroy everything on my system which you absolutely can do on linux using the command line linux provides many many foot guns and my foot is riddled with holes and okay i'm a strong proponent for graphical user interfaces nowadays most if not all linux distros can be used without using the command line at all you just need to find and download the right program and you'll do everything you want whether it's editing a config file changing some hidden options transcoding a file reinstalling your system whatever you can do it all using a gui but that doesn't mean i should have shied away from the command line it's a wonderfully powerful tool to get things done updating your software repos and installing multiple apps at once is just more convenient from the command line fixing an error is also way faster this way or transcoding a video using ffmpeg although yeah that's only if you already know of ffmpeg's various multiple command line options which are going to take you a lifetime to master so that's probably not the best example the command line is in most cases faster and easier to use than navigating a software store finding the right graphical app installing it and then enabling the right setting or option so don't fear the terminal it's your friend it might look intimidating but if you dive in it's really really going to make your life a lot simpler if you want to and think of all the looks of envy you're gonna get when you're hacking away at a full screen terminal although maybe do not do that on a plane or an airport because you're gonna freak people out and of course i made a ton more mistakes reinstalling windows after installing linux and having to reinstall grub from a ch route wiping out the wrong disk when using dd also short for this destroyer wiping out my whole disk by mistyping a command breaking all the dependencies on my system by forcefully installing the wrong package from stupid ppa or not installing linux on my mom's computer sooner so the tech support would have been kept to a minimum or using arch or chrome sorry i couldn't resist we all make a ton of mistakes but most of the time they're also learning opportunities mine taught me why i prefer linux over everything else and in the end i also learned a lot more things about various programs how to use them where to find them and how to fix errors but now what about you what did you do what horrible horrible things did you do to your linux systems when you got started let me know down there in the comments and let's not forget about the worst mistake you could make not checking out today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can pick from a big selection of popular distros when you configure your own device or you can install your own afterwards and get access to all the things you need from tuxedos repos to actually make everything work perfectly so when you buy a device from tuxedo you know that everything is just going to run well with linux which is cool they have a huge range from small ultrabooks to high-end mega monster gaming pcs and laptops like the solaris 15 in the back that i just reviewed on the 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hey everyone this is nick and i just bought this laptop the tuxedo stellaris 15 gen 4. i had already reviewed the previous iteration and while i found it really amazing i just didn't need such a powerful laptop at the time turns out that now i do because i plan to be a lot more mobile and to edit on the go and i've been using the stellars 15 to edit all the videos dating back to the plasma 5.25 review and i've been loving the experience so let me tell you why i think it's a great laptop and why i'm buying it let's start with a small disclaimer tuxedo is a sponsor of the channel as you might already know but they didn't get to see this review beforehand and they don't get to tell me what to do and also buying this laptop basically gave them back all the money they ever gave me for sponsoring the channel so either i'm an idiot or i'm unbiased i will let you pick which so let's begin with the build quality and this thick boy is built like a tank it's made of matte black aluminium with the back plate being made out of plastic it's 15.6 inches and it's 2.6 centimeters thick at a total weight of 2.2 kilograms which means it's definitely not an ultrabook or an ultra portable laptop it's designed as a desktop replacement that can also be carried around the chassis is super rigid without any hint of deck flex either in the middle of the keyboard the palm rests or the top grille it's an extremely sturdy device and you can feel it when moving it around it doesn't flex creak or bend at all in terms of branding it's also super limited you get the tuxedo logo on the back and that's it well mine got my own logo because that's something you can configure from tuxedo so you can get any graphics of your choice laser etched to the back plate i think my logo looks absolutely amazing in these shades of glossy and matte black but i am not very objective you can of course open up the device very easily with a few screws and upgrade the ram and the storage up to 64 gigabytes of ram and you have two nvme slots for ssds the screen isn't covered in glass which is probably a good idea to keep the weight manageable and it limits reflections and while the bezels around the display are pretty big especially the bottom one they do house a pretty decent webcam that i'll talk about a bit later this laptop just feels very good and very solid it might not be very thin but it has a tapered profile in the front that makes it look a bit slimmer than it actually is and it has a nice sturdy hinge that you can still open with one finger it's a tank basically but it's a very elegant tank in terms of hardware let's start with the display it's a 1440p screen at 2560x1440 with a 16 by 9 ratio people might lament the lack of 16 by 10 but for video editing and working with two windows side by side i actually prefer 16 by nine it's a 240 hertz refresh rate panel which is pretty cool for gaming which this thing can absolutely do and it's matte and anti-reflective which is also really good as a matter of fact i never noticed any reflections while using it in brightly lit rooms it's not the brightest panel though at 350 nits but it does support 95 of srgb color accuracy felt good at least compared to the ultra wide i use at home i couldn't see much difference and editing videos on it never felt like the colors were off it's a good display although the resolution is a bit of a problem for me 1440p on a 15 inch screen is too small for me so you will need fractional scaling on top of the display you get a decent webcam a 1080p one in fact it's still not amazing in terms of colors and how it handles lighting but it's a nice step up from the basic 720p webcams that are often seen on most laptops these days the microphone is decent although it does pick up your keyboard sounds and the fan noise nothing horrible but not extremely well tuned either i feel like i say this for every laptop review but really there needs to be a standard way to mask out the sounds of the keyboard and the sounds of the fan whether it's hardware or software i do not care but those sounds should not be audible on the internal mic we are in age where everybody works remotely and uses those microphones they need to get better onto the keyboard and it's the best keyboard i ever used on the laptop simple as that i already loved the previous iteration on the gen 3 and this one doesn't feel different maybe the keys are just a tiny bit easier to press offering less resistance it's optomechanical which means the actuation is triggered by a contact cutting off a light switch in practice it has really nice key travel great key stability the actuation happens even if you only hit the side of a key and the sound is clicky and very nice to hear i typed most of that review on the stellars 15 next to a friend that was reading and they never complained once so they might just have been too polite or too afraid of my bulging muscles but it's probably just that the sound is really nice to hear it's also backlit with individual leds per key which means you can do some crazy rgb things with it although tuxedo doesn't offer a software way to control that for now slim book has one but their software isn't yet compatible with ubuntu 22.04 or more modern distros the touchpad is nice if not incredible it's smooth and it feels good for gestures but it's a bit small for this size of laptop the click feels solid even though it's a click board style touch pad so you can only really click it in the bottom half i would have liked it to be a bit bigger and centered please center your touch pads in the middle of the palm rest especially when you have a small divot to help you lift the screen it just feels off-center and i know this laptop uses a standard tong fang design but please tuxedo pass on that feedback touch pads need to be centered onto the speakers and they're decent [Music] they don't sound incredible but they get pretty loud without distortion without sounding tinny and echoey they won't rock your socks off but they aren't bad finally the io and this laptop has it all on the left side you get a full size usb 3.2 gen 2 port a mic jack and an audio jack plus that can sink to unlock to make sure that no one steals your laptop on the right you have a full size sd card reader and two usb a 3.2 gen 1. i'm really glad they included an sd card reader on the laptop it made transferring all the files from the camera to the laptop for editing a lot easier than using that horrendous dongle that i have that also blocks other ports finally on the back you have a thunderbolt 4 port an hdmi 2.0 port a gigabit ethernet jack and the barrel charger and what is that weird flap you're going to ask well it's the connectors for the tuxedo aquaris system and what is that you're also going to eagerly ask it's a water cooling system that you can plug into your stellaris 15 to actually freaking water cool your laptop externally for when you need the absolute best performance now the drivers only exist for windows for now but tuxedo are hard at work writing them for linux which is really cool so when they're done i'll definitely ask for a review unit because that's just too fun to pass on now small nitpicks the thunderbolt 4 port doesn't charge the laptop which forces you to use the enormous power brick and the barrel charger i guess the hardware is just too powerful to be charged by a regular port like that i would also have liked a 10 gig ethernet port instead since it's 2022 and fast wired connections are basically everywhere apart from that it will handle anything you want to plug in okay now let's talk internals cpu gpu that's what matters right well at least it matters to me this thing has a lot of different configurations mine has an intel core i7 12700h but you can get up to an i9 12900h the base model comes with an nvidia rtx 3060 mobile with 6 gigabytes of vram but you can get up to a 3080 ti and ram ranges from 16 to 64 gigabytes with storage being ssd based up to four terabytes my unit has the 30 60 16 gigabytes of ram and one terabyte of ssd which is more than enough to get started but i will probably upgrade the ram to 32 gigs and probably add a second ssd just for fun now let's talk numbers and benchmarks the i7 12700h is a monster it's a 14 core 20 thread cpu which goes up to 4.68 gigahertz on geekbench 5 it scores 1815 in single core and 11 588 in multi-core it's the most powerful cpu i own out of all my devices including my desktop ryzen 7 5800 h it's also called using liquid metal and some big fans which means that while you will definitely hear it when under heavy load like when gaming and it can be pretty loud you will definitely not hear it scream all the time when you're just browsing the web in terms of graphics performance i ran my usual shadow of the tomb raider and resident evil 2. this laptop can handle that without any issues at the native resolution on ultra shadow of the tomb raider got an average of 115 fps if you drop these down to medium or lower the resolution you will absolutely be able to make use of the 240hz panel in resident evil 2 you can turn everything up to the max at the native screen's resolution and still get a nice smooth 60fps with very rare drops if you lower the resolution and use super sampling you will absolutely reach higher than that i was expecting a little better to be honest but that's the game running through proton so there might be bottlenecks i'm not aware of if you want to fully use the 240hz refresh rates though you'll need to go down to 1080p which on a 15 inch screen absolutely will still look amazing especially at high details it's just a very very powerful laptop for gaming and also for other stuff i've been editing all my videos since the plasma 5.25 review on that device and it's been buttery smooth i can preview the final video at its native 1080p resolution and everything just works great and keep in mind that it's just a 3060 you can also get a 3070 or 3080 ti which are going to make things even better in terms of battery life of course it will depend on what you do using only the intel graphics card with a typical workload for me consisting of writing on next cloud notes inside of firefox listening to music watching the occasional youtube video with wifi on bluetooth on for the mouse and headphones plugged in at mid brightness the laptop got up to 7 hours of use thanks to the 93 watt hour battery when using the nvidia dedicated gpu for gaming though if you let it run as fast as it can you can expect something more along the lines of three to four hours video editing lasted about four and a half hours for me the six performance scores and eight efficiency cores of the newer intel cpus mean that you can absolutely handle a full day of work on this laptop unless you need the dedicated gpu on all the time but generally hybrid graphics mode is where it's going to be at for most people and my experience with that was mediocre the stellaris 15 comes with tuxedo os 22.04 it's basically kubuntu 22.04 with a custom theme and the tuxedo control center installed plus a few customizations pre-applied to ensure everything runs smoothly on the device that all the hotkeys work as intended that sort of stuff i wanted to try another distro on it and since i enjoyed using pop os on the hp dev 1 i decided to go with that i added the tuxedo ppas to make sure i had everything i needed in terms of software support and installed the required tweaks for the stellar s15 which i must say should be provided in the product's description page tuxedo os does a great job of pre-installing it but the package names inside of the ppas are not exactly explicit to which device they apply so having a list of which configurations you should install from the tuxedo ppa to make things work would be a great help everything worked out of the box except for sound it's not specifically related to the solaris 15. it seems there's an issue in supporting the latest intel audio hardware pipe wire was masked for some reason and so no audio input or output was detected it took me three hours of online search to fix the issue but it was only one command line in the end i left the command i used in the description for those who might need it apart from that everything went great except that hybrid graphics mode is still a mess on linux with nvidia first you get really bad screen tearing on it even though it's using the intel graphics by default you can fix that by adding the tail free option in the x.org settings again the stuff you need to add is in the description but enabling that tear-free option causes performance issues everything feels less responsive and even apps using the dedicated gpu start to stutter so either you get horrible screen tearing or you get bad performance i couldn't find a suitable compromise which is a shame because it means that i basically use the laptop in nvidia graphics mode all the time and only switch to intel graphics mode which necessitates a reboot when i just know i'm not going to be gaming i'm just going to be writing or watching videos that kind of defeats the purpose of the dual gpus so please nvidia fix your crap make better drivers i hope that the new open source module thingy that you opened will make things a lot better because for now it's a mess now on pure intel or pure nvidia mode there is no screen tearing at all and performance is just amazing which is good and the rest of the software experience was pretty great everything works as you would expect apart from the scaling i needed to enable that to 125 percent because 100 was too small and 200 was too big quick reminder to all hardware manufacturers either you ship a 1080p panel or you ship a 4k panel anything in the middle is just stupid for all devices except a 17-inch 1440p on a laptop is dumb and should not be done now you can quote me on this or fight me if you disagree but my eyes will not accept 1440p and that's that so why did i buy this laptop well because it allows me to edit videos and game on a portable form factor with great performance sometimes higher than my desktop and because the hardware is just really really nice and solid the keyboard is incredible and an absolute joy to type on the screen is really good apart from the stupid resolution you get a decent webcam which is rare enough to be mentioned and the i o is just perfect for my needs of course this comes at a price my unit with the 360 is already out of stock and the next one with a 30-70 is about 2 500 euros which is not cheap i would say it's worth it for the incredible chassis durability the amazing keyboard combined with very good battery life but whether you're ready to sync that much into a laptop will largely depend on what you intend to do with it if you're looking for something more affordable you can also check out all the other devices that tuxedo offers they have smaller ultrabooks nugs they have gaming pcs they have high-end workstations and they have a huge variety of configurations for each and a lot of keyboard layouts they're based in germany but they ship worldwide and you can really tailor your device to your needs and you just know that it's going to run well with linux because they provide distros out of the box that you can select at configuration or you can just install your own all of them can be opened up and upgraded they're just really really cool devices so if you need a new device that you can be sure runs linux just head over to the link in the description below and grab a device from tuxedo they are really cool so thanks everyone for watching i hope you enjoyed the video if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you didn't like it but you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments and if you have enough cash at hand to buy three or four stellaris 15s why not support the channel you can use the super thanks button below or the paypal link in the 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hey everyone this is nick and if you've been hit by the heatwave get ready for another wave but this time it's made of linux and open source news this week we have the first indications about valve's new autonomous vr headset we have microsoft cracking down on open source app copycats in their store and their abusive pricing and we have the epic online services coming to linux and mac to bring cross-play between operating systems but also between steam and epic games and of course we have a ton more stuff to cover like updates to gnome to caddy a new image viewer and editor for gnome fixes for blurriness on weyland and of course the traditional wine release and we also have today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit to start your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine i'm just a poor dude working from his flat from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started gnome developers shared some more progress on their apps and underlying technologies and this week there's progress on gnome calendar to make it more useful while the developers work on a new adaptive design they added a new sidebar which contains a small month view of the calendar and an agenda view to let you see what comes next something you can also get straight from the date and time indicator in the panel in gno warp the app that lets you send files to a specific computer with a passcode got some design improvements and supports mobile devices the coder the qr code scanner and generator now displays qr codes in black on white for more legibility and lets you preview the text content of scanned qr codes which are all added to the history for easy access amber all the music player now lets you search just by typing without having to click on the search field and it can run in the background using the sandbox portal bottles also got a new update using gtk4 and libervita as well as performance enhancements and small interface tweaks and fractal the matrix client is getting help from students participating in the google summer of code to implement a media history viewer yes i know how it sounds when i say bottles but yeah i don't know how to pronounce that differently microsoft updated their policies in the windows store to fight open source apps being redistributed as paid applications on their platform something that has been a problem since that store opened its gates you can find or libreoffice or others listed under their original names or new ones for crazy high sums of money and in multiple versions published by multiple developers none of them the original developers of the application itself they won't prevent the official developer to charge for their own open source apps but people redistributing them won't be able to do so and they're also putting guidelines in place to avoid exorbitant pricing relative to the features of the application it might look like a good move at first glance preventing copycats that might have privacy invasive stuff added from appearing in the search results and these apps also might not get updated as the original app does but it also directly infringes on one of the main rights that most licenses grant people the right to redistribute and even sell open source software even if they are not the original author they also didn't say how they'll judge which price is correct for a certain feature set and they also didn't explain how they'll check which developer is the original developer of the app microsoft also apparently has a fast fund program that grants money regularly to open source projects probably mostly as a bid to try and lose the image of a big bad evil company that wants to embrace extend and extinguish everything that's not coming from them this fund is attributed every month by votes from microsoft's employees for may it's gnome that got the votes and the project was awarded ten thousand dollars previous winners include systemd and leaflet the little javascript framework for maps on the web looks like gnome was an easy choice this time as microsoft software to test for linux workstation compliance only runs on ubuntu lts so gnome is basically the desktop environment that microsoft employees use if they want to use linux at all it might not look like a huge amount of money especially for a company like microsoft but it could fund a developer's work for a few months and maybe we'll see libertvita recoloring apis or accent colors or the gnome mobile shell faster thanks to that kde developers also have a lot to share this week and their work will probably make you very happy if you're a wayland user it looks like in plasma 5.26 users of high dpi displays won't get blurry applications anymore as the team has solved an issue that made all apps using x wayland so x11 on wayland all blurry these apps used the compositor scaling which made everything look fuzzy but ensured that all apps supported the scaling factor well these apps will now be able to use the pre-existing x11 high dpi scaling at the risk of the apps not scaling at all if they don't support that scaling a new preference will be added to let the user pick between both behaviors other things include the ability to sort minimize tasks last in the task switcher the cover flip and flip switch effects will now use the same blurred background as the overview effect so everything is more consistent and on the x11 section you can now reboot directly from the message telling you you need to reboot for scaling changes to be effective and as usual there were various usability improvements and bug fixes i think plasma 5.26 will make a lot of weyland users happy i've been getting a ton of comments about this blurriness issue on high dpi displays still that's four months to live with your eyeballs being completely destroyed by that issue epic games keeps working on their epic online services which is their toolkit to integrate games into the epic game store add anti-cheat with easy anti-cheat manage authentication achievements matchmaking online chat and a lot more and this time it's good news for us linux users as well while this new release only supports windows for now they want to extend that support to mac os and linux and the major new feature is enabling cross play between operating systems but there's also a lot more stuff an overlay will let you bring steam and epic friends in one single list invites can be sent to steam players from epic games to cross-play without having to create an epic accounts themselves as that creation will happen automatically in the background and all cross-play features will be auto updated from the self updating overlay that sounds really good for people who like playing online with their friends which i don't because i don't have friends and also i don't like playing online with other people and i don't like competition or invites i don't like anything i'm french gnome got some interesting mock-ups for a new image viewer and editor from alan day one of the most prolific designers for gnome while these are just proposals and there's no code attached to them either gnome has the nice habit of moving pretty fast from design to implementation when there's consensus so there's hope that this might see the light of day relatively soon this new viewer slash editor would let you not only view zoom in out and navigate images but also access all metadata crop rotate and flip resize adjust brightness and contrast and markup images it would also be adaptive so it would run well with the newly announced mobile gnome shell and the markup tools look comprehensive with paint brushes highlights rectangles and arrows and text plus a color picker and undo redo buttons this new tool would also integrate really well with the new screenshot utility in gnomeshell so you could open a screenshot immediately and start editing just like what mac os offers by default so it's really cool to see better new default tools being worked on ubuntu published another blog post detailing their efforts to improve the firefox snap performance if you use ubuntu you probably noticed that the default browser still takes way longer to open on its first run than it should and while improvements have been made it's still not great the ubuntu snap team is looking at more stuff they can do first they're fixing access to various external files from the browser that was rendered impossible because of the snap sandbox specifically jupyter notebooks firefox also defaulted to software rendering by failing to identify the gpu it should use and they fixed the issue partially because there are still reports that things aren't perfect yet they have identified a fix to prevent firefox from loading all language packs at startup even the ones that are not in use and they're also making progress on enabling native messaging support to enable support for two-factor authentication devices and installing gnome extensions from the browser other issues not solved yet are the ability to interact with network mounts handling icons and fonts better and a bunch of others there still seems to be a long ways to go before the snap version of firefox can even catch up with the good old previous package or even a flat pack or an app image still these improvements might be avenues to explore for further improvements of snap performance for all snap apps so maybe it's not so bad brave search the search engine developed by the company making the web browser of the same name has passed 2.5 billion queries after a year of being active in beta they also added an interesting feature to let users further refine their search queries as they say even if brave search doesn't actively downrank search results unless the law forces them to any algorithm inherently has a bias to show certain things more than others and this new feature dubbed google um sorry goggles lets you counteract that bias in the direction of your choosing for now the various filters are preset so users can get a feel for the syntax that will be available in the future and they let you filter by re-ranking content from tech blogs hacker news removing pinterest results boosting rust related programming content removing copycat content like github translations or stack overflow threads or removing pages from the top 1000 ranked websites it's an interesting feature that might ensure that your searches are more personal and tailored to what you actually like to see although it will also definitely reinforce the filter bubble effect looks like valve is working on a vr headset to pick up where the valve index left off brad lynch a hardware analyst has been looking through some files and it seems like the name decart pops up again and again with a lot of text strings being added to steam's code this would be a wireless headset that works on its own without needing to be plugged into a pc which is cool valve also has a recent patent showing off a potential design with references to antennas wireless receivers and a battery which could confirm the standalone headset thing there's no word yet on what it would run but seeing that steamos is getting a lot of love since the release of the steam deck and looking at the deck's success being the best selling item on steam for a while i would be surprised if they didn't go with that other steam related news the steam deck has now passed 3500 games certified on its little platform there are now 1736 titles marked as verified so playable without any issues provided the testers did a good job and 1774 games marked as playable so you'll be able to enjoy them but a few features might be too small or not adapted for the deck's form factor new games added include anno 2017 moonlighter brawlhalla or pirate outlaws i would be extremely interested in a standalone autonomous vr headset from valve running steam os and playing my steam games especially since i have no more vr capable hardware since i sold my ps4 and psvr so yeah we'll have to wait if that actually materializes and if it's good but that's something i would definitely love to buy and this time we finally have a new wine release wine 7.11. i can finally end one of those videos with a wine update again in this new update the android driver for wine has been converted to the pe executable format because yes wine can also run on android g streamer gets zero copy support so media streams can be transferred without being copied in memory multiple times which should increase performance for media playback and there were 34 bug fixes including for mayhem triple mafia and mafia 2 definitive edition launchers saints row the third remastered civilization 4 cyberpunk 2077 doom maternal with ray tracing greed fall the epic games launcher or ubisoft connect more awesome work to maximize game compatibility on linux although it does seem that wine has really shifted focus to old windows programs to games specifically personally i don't care i haven't needed to run a single windows program on linux for the past five years and if that's also your case why not just grab a laptop or desktop that runs linux out of the box from today's sponsor for example tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make laptops and desktops that do just that they run linux out of the box you can pick between a selection of distros add configuration among a ton of other options for ram for storage for cpu for gpus or even for screens in some laptops but you can also install your own distro and get access to all of tuxedos ppas or repos to just install all the compatibility things that they did to ensure that that hardware runs perfectly with basically anything they have a huge range of devices from the smallest ultrabooks to the higher end laptop gaming workstations or even desktop towers i've been editing all my videos from the plasma 5.25 reviews on their stellaris 15 a really powerful laptop that i'm definitely going to buy and use when i need to edit on the go as i've done for the past about two weeks so if you need a new device that definitely can run linux out of the box without any issues click the link in the description below and get your own device from tuxedo now thanks everyone 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hey everyone this is nick and if you've been hit by the heatwave get ready for another wave but this time it's made of linux and open source news this week we have the first indications about valve's new autonomous vr headset we have microsoft cracking down on open source app copycats in their store and their abusive pricing and we have the epic online services coming to linux and mac to bring cross-play between operating systems but also between steam and epic games and of course we have a ton more stuff to cover like updates to gnome to caddy a new image viewer and editor for gnome fixes for blurriness on weyland and of course the traditional wine release and we also have today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit to start your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine i'm just a poor dude working from his flat from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started gnome developers shared some more progress on their apps and underlying technologies and this week there's progress on gnome calendar to make it more useful while the developers work on a new adaptive design they added a new sidebar which contains a small month view of the calendar and an agenda view to let you see what comes next something you can also get straight from the date and time indicator in the panel in gno warp the app that lets you send files to a specific computer with a passcode got some design improvements and supports mobile devices the coder the qr code scanner and generator now displays qr codes in black on white for more legibility and lets you preview the text content of scanned qr codes which are all added to the history for easy access amber all the music player now lets you search just by typing without having to click on the search field and it can run in the background using the sandbox portal bottles also got a new update using gtk4 and libervita as well as performance enhancements and small interface tweaks and fractal the matrix client is getting help from students participating in the google summer of code to implement a media history viewer yes i know how it sounds when i say bottles but yeah i don't know how to pronounce that differently microsoft updated their policies in the windows store to fight open source apps being redistributed as paid applications on their platform something that has been a problem since that store opened its gates you can find or libreoffice or others listed under their original names or new ones for crazy high sums of money and in multiple versions published by multiple developers none of them the original developers of the application itself they won't prevent the official developer to charge for their own open source apps but people redistributing them won't be able to do so and they're also putting guidelines in place to avoid exorbitant pricing relative to the features of the application it might look like a good move at first glance preventing copycats that might have privacy invasive stuff added from appearing in the search results and these apps also might not get updated as the original app does but it also directly infringes on one of the main rights that most licenses grant people the right to redistribute and even sell open source software even if they are not the original author they also didn't say how they'll judge which price is correct for a certain feature set and they also didn't explain how they'll check which developer is the original developer of the app microsoft also apparently has a fast fund program that grants money regularly to open source projects probably mostly as a bid to try and lose the image of a big bad evil company that wants to embrace extend and extinguish everything that's not coming from them this fund is attributed every month by votes from microsoft's employees for may it's gnome that got the votes and the project was awarded ten thousand dollars previous winners include systemd and leaflet the little javascript framework for maps on the web looks like gnome was an easy choice this time as microsoft software to test for linux workstation compliance only runs on ubuntu lts so gnome is basically the desktop environment that microsoft employees use if they want to use linux at all it might not look like a huge amount of money especially for a company like microsoft but it could fund a developer's work for a few months and maybe we'll see libertvita recoloring apis or accent colors or the gnome mobile shell faster thanks to that kde developers also have a lot to share this week and their work will probably make you very happy if you're a wayland user it looks like in plasma 5.26 users of high dpi displays won't get blurry applications anymore as the team has solved an issue that made all apps using x wayland so x11 on wayland all blurry these apps used the compositor scaling which made everything look fuzzy but ensured that all apps supported the scaling factor well these apps will now be able to use the pre-existing x11 high dpi scaling at the risk of the apps not scaling at all if they don't support that scaling a new preference will be added to let the user pick between both behaviors other things include the ability to sort minimize tasks last in the task switcher the cover flip and flip switch effects will now use the same blurred background as the overview effect so everything is more consistent and on the x11 section you can now reboot directly from the message telling you you need to reboot for scaling changes to be effective and as usual there were various usability improvements and bug fixes i think plasma 5.26 will make a lot of weyland users happy i've been getting a ton of comments about this blurriness issue on high dpi displays still that's four months to live with your eyeballs being completely destroyed by that issue epic games keeps working on their epic online services which is their toolkit to integrate games into the epic game store add anti-cheat with easy anti-cheat manage authentication achievements matchmaking online chat and a lot more and this time it's good news for us linux users as well while this new release only supports windows for now they want to extend that support to mac os and linux and the major new feature is enabling cross play between operating systems but there's also a lot more stuff an overlay will let you bring steam and epic friends in one single list invites can be sent to steam players from epic games to cross-play without having to create an epic accounts themselves as that creation will happen automatically in the background and all cross-play features will be auto updated from the self updating overlay that sounds really good for people who like playing online with their friends which i don't because i don't have friends and also i don't like playing online with other people and i don't like competition or invites i don't like anything i'm french gnome got some interesting mock-ups for a new image viewer and editor from alan day one of the most prolific designers for gnome while these are just proposals and there's no code attached to them either gnome has the nice habit of moving pretty fast from design to implementation when there's consensus so there's hope that this might see the light of day relatively soon this new viewer slash editor would let you not only view zoom in out and navigate images but also access all metadata crop rotate and flip resize adjust brightness and contrast and markup images it would also be adaptive so it would run well with the newly announced mobile gnome shell and the markup tools look comprehensive with paint brushes highlights rectangles and arrows and text plus a color picker and undo redo buttons this new tool would also integrate really well with the new screenshot utility in gnomeshell so you could open a screenshot immediately and start editing just like what mac os offers by default so it's really cool to see better new default tools being worked on ubuntu published another blog post detailing their efforts to improve the firefox snap performance if you use ubuntu you probably noticed that the default browser still takes way longer to open on its first run than it should and while improvements have been made it's still not great the ubuntu snap team is looking at more stuff they can do first they're fixing access to various external files from the browser that was rendered impossible because of the snap sandbox specifically jupyter notebooks firefox also defaulted to software rendering by failing to identify the gpu it should use and they fixed the issue partially because there are still reports that things aren't perfect yet they have identified a fix to prevent firefox from loading all language packs at startup even the ones that are not in use and they're also making progress on enabling native messaging support to enable support for two-factor authentication devices and installing gnome extensions from the browser other issues not solved yet are the ability to interact with network mounts handling icons and fonts better and a bunch of others there still seems to be a long ways to go before the snap version of firefox can even catch up with the good old previous package or even a flat pack or an app image still these improvements might be avenues to explore for further improvements of snap performance for all snap apps so maybe it's not so bad brave search the search engine developed by the company making the web browser of the same name has passed 2.5 billion queries after a year of being active in beta they also added an interesting feature to let users further refine their search queries as they say even if brave search doesn't actively downrank search results unless the law forces them to any algorithm inherently has a bias to show certain things more than others and this new feature dubbed google um sorry goggles lets you counteract that bias in the direction of your choosing for now the various filters are preset so users can get a feel for the syntax that will be available in the future and they let you filter by re-ranking content from tech blogs hacker news removing pinterest results boosting rust related programming content removing copycat content like github translations or stack overflow threads or removing pages from the top 1000 ranked websites it's an interesting feature that might ensure that your searches are more personal and tailored to what you actually like to see although it will also definitely reinforce the filter bubble effect looks like valve is working on a vr headset to pick up where the valve index left off brad lynch a hardware analyst has been looking through some files and it seems like the name decart pops up again and again with a lot of text strings being added to steam's code this would be a wireless headset that works on its own without needing to be plugged into a pc which is cool valve also has a recent patent showing off a potential design with references to antennas wireless receivers and a battery which could confirm the standalone headset thing there's no word yet on what it would run but seeing that steamos is getting a lot of love since the release of the steam deck and looking at the deck's success being the best selling item on steam for a while i would be surprised if they didn't go with that other steam related news the steam deck has now passed 3500 games certified on its little platform there are now 1736 titles marked as verified so playable without any issues provided the testers did a good job and 1774 games marked as playable so you'll be able to enjoy them but a few features might be too small or not adapted for the deck's form factor new games added include anno 2017 moonlighter brawlhalla or pirate outlaws i would be extremely interested in a standalone autonomous vr headset from valve running steam os and playing my steam games especially since i have no more vr capable hardware since i sold my ps4 and psvr so yeah we'll have to wait if that actually materializes and if it's good but that's something i would definitely love to buy and this time we finally have a new wine release wine 7.11. i can finally end one of those videos with a wine update again in this new update the android driver for wine has been converted to the pe executable format because yes wine can also run on android g streamer gets zero copy support so media streams can be transferred without being copied in memory multiple times which should increase performance for media playback and there were 34 bug fixes including for mayhem triple mafia and mafia 2 definitive edition launchers saints row the third remastered civilization 4 cyberpunk 2077 doom maternal with ray tracing greed fall the epic games launcher or ubisoft connect more awesome work to maximize game compatibility on linux although it does seem that wine has really shifted focus to old windows programs to games specifically personally i don't care i haven't needed to run a single windows program on linux for the past five years and if that's also your case why not just grab a laptop or desktop that runs linux out of the box from today's sponsor for example tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make laptops and desktops that do just that they run linux out of the box you can pick between a selection of distros add configuration among a ton of other options for ram for storage for cpu for gpus or even for screens in some laptops but you can also install your own distro and get access to all of tuxedos ppas or repos to just install all the compatibility things that they did to ensure that that hardware runs perfectly with basically anything they have a huge range of devices from the smallest ultrabooks to the higher end laptop gaming workstations or even desktop towers i've been editing all my videos from the plasma 5.25 reviews on their stellaris 15 a really powerful laptop that i'm definitely going to buy and use when i need to edit on the go as i've done for the past about two weeks so if you need a new device that definitely can run linux out of the box without any issues click the link in the description below and get your own device from tuxedo now thanks everyone 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hey everyone this is nick and i can't code i've been working for the past 12 years as a product owner project manager chief product officer any other title you want to put on that same exact job so i did pick up a few notions along the way but the closest thing to a real program i ever wrote was a graphical rpg for my casio calculator when i was in high school but if that's also your case don't let that deter you from trying to contribute to any fast project you might want of course coders and developers are at the heart of any project you need them to actually write the code but other skills are also required into the making of a fast project so let's take a look at what you can do what today's sponsor can do is help you make sure that your internet connection stays secure and private this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay so one of the first things you can do to help a project is to talk about it yeah that might seem dumb but it's true a lot of fast projects linux desktop included lack notoriety people just don't know they exist and even among people who use linux you would be surprised at how many people don't know about a lot of the apps available every time i do a linux apps video i get comments from viewers telling me that they didn't know about this or that and it's really cool to help people discover these new things so you can just talk to your friends to your family or to people online about the core applications and the cool linux distros that you use that you discovered and that you like all the while respecting the fact that some people might not be interested talking about things does not mean pestering people with your preferences obviously there's a line between recommendation and straight up being annoying to others and forcing your favorite things down their throats do not cross that line it does more damage than good and if like me you do not have any friends you can always start a blog or a youtube channel to talk about the things you like these are also good ways to help spread the word about projects you like explaining how you're using them how they might be better than other solutions the various features you enjoy even if this isn't met with overwhelming success and a giant audience in the first years the people that do read and watch will absolutely thank you for it and might even teach you a few things it took me 4 years to bring this channel to a point where i would consider it successful and still i kept on babbling about elementary os and various applications that i love do not let a small audience prevent you from talking about the things you like that really helps various projects around you another way you can help a project more directly is by writing documentation a lot of projects are spearheaded by developers understandably and developers while they're amazing at writing code and developing features and fixing bugs they do tend to not spend as much time actually explaining how things work a lot of fast projects lack further documentation than a simple github readme file and documentation is important whether it's just a first steps page to help people install the application where to find it how to get started or if it's a complete user manual with screenshots and all the details and all the text paragraphs that you might want to add it's really really helpful a bunch of projects also have out of date documentation with all the screenshots options that have moved new things that aren't documented or entire pages that are now completely irrelevant going over that and fixing it can be a great help to let new users get to grips with an app and then you can also contribute tutorials this is more for bigger projects that have tons of features but a good tutorial can go a very long way compared to a simple manual that explains what a feature does learning how to use or caden life was way easier for me thanks to a bunch of youtube videos and written tutorials that guided me step by step these are invaluable and a lot of projects just don't have them documentation is a very good way to get started contributing to various projects and i think a lot of projects will be very grateful for people who want to write said documentation because that frees up time for them to actually write the app and write the code another great way of making sure your favorite app stays great is by testing and writing bug reports the more you use an app the more you're bound to find issues small or big that make your favorite project less usable or detract from the experience and instead of immediately going to twitter and tell people how atrocious this is and how this bug ruins your life you can also contribute a bug report on the github or gitlab page for the application and make sure that the developer knows about it there generally is a process in place for this often detailed on the home page of the project for some linux distros you even have a button directly in the settings to report an issue generally what you will want to do is look through existing bug reports to see if your issue has already been contributed if it has then you can add a comment to let the developer know you're affected or add a plus one or a thumbs up to the issue to increase its count and help the developers prioritize it writing a good and legible bug report also requires a bunch of information on how you've encountered it to let the developer reproduce it and fix it just saying this doesn't work doesn't work trust me i tried that for most of my career [Music] [Music] what you'll actually want to do is give as much information on the steps you took to encounter that issue your specific system any tweaks you might have made to the app the expected behavior and the actual behavior that seems bugged writing a good bug report is a skill it's actually even a job but don't worry if you have forgotten some information the developer will ask you for it generally when they try fixing the bug so you will learn by doing and learn what to include and what is useless testing beta software is also super useful the more configurations something is tested on the less chance there is to have a big problem down the track most big projects like kde gnome distributions obs and others have a beta track that you can follow and each time you encounter a problem you can just report it easily and help ensure your project goes as smoothly as possible it's also a great way to try features out before they actually release and give your feedback on it and also you can post online because your pc can do stuff that other pcs can't if you speak more than one language you can also help translate projects most fast projects are in constant need of translations for the new stuff they add the stuff they change and tweak or they just lack a translation in your language completely contributing translations is a cool way to just use your natural language skills to help others use an application you love depending on the size of the project there are multiple ways to go about it some have their translations in a centralized translation platform some have their own platforms like kde or gnome and smaller projects generally just handle their translations in the project's code itself the best thing to do is to head over to the contributors documentation that most big projects have and see how you can contribute or join a team for smaller projects you can generally just reach out to the developer and ask how they want you to contribute a translation generally there are a few guidelines to ensure that translations are consistent across the whole project so that something isn't called by three different names in three different places or to avoid certain terms that aren't clear enough bigger projects generally have these well explained and teams already exist for most major languages that you can join to help or you can create your own team to start translating into a language that isn't supported time to translate glom into the hat language i guess if all of that looks too time-consuming or too scary you can also provide support for other users online not as in tech support headphones and microphone and dealing with angry people that can't explain their issue more like answer people's questions online if you have experience with a project or an app your knowledge is invaluable you know what the options are where they are you know how to use the thing configure it install it and maybe fix a bunch of problems you've already encountered that knowledge can serve others as well most projects either have a discord server forums or for older ones irc and joining these just makes you more helpful to others as long as you don't tell them to rtfm rtfm for read the subscribe manual is probably the least constructive and intelligent way of answering a question if a user asks that question that might seem super stupid to you it might not just be laziness it might just be that the answer wasn't easy to find either by lack of documentation tutorials or because the resources aren't well laid out or well explained or sometimes just by lack of motivations some beginners are just very lazy and did not take the time to research their issue before asking a question even if it's a very common one in that case it's time to introduce them to lmddgtfy or letmo that for you jokes aside a civil behavior always helps if you want to help others telling them to do their homework takes you just as long as answering their question as dumb as it is a few projects mostly big ones will also benefit from some project management and prioritization big projects receive a ton of bug reports feature requests and general demands and triaging this making sure that the most urgent bugs are fixed first and the most interesting features are done first can be a pain when you have 300 issues open a project manager can definitely help with that to sort things into what's critical what's easy to fix for beginner coders what's really an edge use case or even what's a desirable feature or not these roles might not be the first ones you'll be able to do when you start contributing they'll be entrusted to people that are well known within the project and that have proven they understand the project's vision and structure but once you've contributed for a time opening bug reports answering some testing new features or writing documentation that's definitely something that you can offer to help with that's not something that i would personally do because i've been doing that for the past 12 years and i'm pretty much sick of it but if it's a skill you have or a skill you want to acquire and take into the professional world is definitely a great way to help and there are a ton of other ways to contribute you could help design marketing material for events like flyers posters you could help redesign icons for a project or even make mock-ups for new features you'd like to see we often see this in gnome and kde for example where mockups are shared feedback is given and then the actual mock-up is being implemented if you have good design skills and have good ideas for features there is no reason why anybody would not want to work on them you can also organize events like linux install parties or help organize these you can give talks to various events help others install software on their devices you can join the various telegram groups or servers to discuss new features and give your input not knowing how to code doesn't mean you can't contribute to a project projects need more skills than just coding and a lot of people already have these skills and can use them and if you really want to learn how to code there are a bunch of issues in most projects marked as easy to fix or for beginners or a page written as where to start so you can try tackling these small issues and small bugs to learn how the code works and hone your skills and of course if you don't want to contribute that's also completely fine no judgment here apart from a few pages of documentation for the ubuntu french community back in 2006 a few tutorials for bug fixes and my videos i haven't exactly been extremely helpful that's the beauty of open source even by using it you're already doing your part just like today's sponsor is doing its part to let you get a device that runs linux out of the box tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can choose from a selection of distros when you configure your device among a ton of other configuration options for ram for ssd for graphics card for cpus even your logo on the back but of course you can also install your own distro on them because you know that the hardware is well supported under linux i've personally been moving most of my workflow to a stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming workstation laptop and i've been editing all the past videos since the plasma 5.25 review on it and it's been amazing expect a review in the coming days but if you need something else an ultrabook a knock a desktop pc a gaming pc they have it all so check the link in the description below click it and get your new device from tuxedo they're really cool so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you dislike it well dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you make way too much money i'm always happy for you to donate with the super thanks button at the bottom of the video the paypal link in the description or by joining my patreon subscribers and youtube members both get access to a weekly podcast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and i can't code i've been working for the past 12 years as a product owner project manager chief product officer any other title you want to put on that same exact job so i did pick up a few notions along the way but the closest thing to a real program i ever wrote was a graphical rpg for my casio calculator when i was in high school but if that's also your case don't let that deter you from trying to contribute to any fast project you might want of course coders and developers are at the heart of any project you need them to actually write the code but other skills are also required into the making of a fast project so let's take a look at what you can do what today's sponsor can do is help you make sure that your internet connection stays secure and private this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay so one of the first things you can do to help a project is to talk about it yeah that might seem dumb but it's true a lot of fast projects linux desktop included lack notoriety people just don't know they exist and even among people who use linux you would be surprised at how many people don't know about a lot of the apps available every time i do a linux apps video i get comments from viewers telling me that they didn't know about this or that and it's really cool to help people discover these new things so you can just talk to your friends to your family or to people online about the core applications and the cool linux distros that you use that you discovered and that you like all the while respecting the fact that some people might not be interested talking about things does not mean pestering people with your preferences obviously there's a line between recommendation and straight up being annoying to others and forcing your favorite things down their throats do not cross that line it does more damage than good and if like me you do not have any friends you can always start a blog or a youtube channel to talk about the things you like these are also good ways to help spread the word about projects you like explaining how you're using them how they might be better than other solutions the various features you enjoy even if this isn't met with overwhelming success and a giant audience in the first years the people that do read and watch will absolutely thank you for it and might even teach you a few things it took me 4 years to bring this channel to a point where i would consider it successful and still i kept on babbling about elementary os and various applications that i love do not let a small audience prevent you from talking about the things you like that really helps various projects around you another way you can help a project more directly is by writing documentation a lot of projects are spearheaded by developers understandably and developers while they're amazing at writing code and developing features and fixing bugs they do tend to not spend as much time actually explaining how things work a lot of fast projects lack further documentation than a simple github readme file and documentation is important whether it's just a first steps page to help people install the application where to find it how to get started or if it's a complete user manual with screenshots and all the details and all the text paragraphs that you might want to add it's really really helpful a bunch of projects also have out of date documentation with all the screenshots options that have moved new things that aren't documented or entire pages that are now completely irrelevant going over that and fixing it can be a great help to let new users get to grips with an app and then you can also contribute tutorials this is more for bigger projects that have tons of features but a good tutorial can go a very long way compared to a simple manual that explains what a feature does learning how to use or caden life was way easier for me thanks to a bunch of youtube videos and written tutorials that guided me step by step these are invaluable and a lot of projects just don't have them documentation is a very good way to get started contributing to various projects and i think a lot of projects will be very grateful for people who want to write said documentation because that frees up time for them to actually write the app and write the code another great way of making sure your favorite app stays great is by testing and writing bug reports the more you use an app the more you're bound to find issues small or big that make your favorite project less usable or detract from the experience and instead of immediately going to twitter and tell people how atrocious this is and how this bug ruins your life you can also contribute a bug report on the github or gitlab page for the application and make sure that the developer knows about it there generally is a process in place for this often detailed on the home page of the project for some linux distros you even have a button directly in the settings to report an issue generally what you will want to do is look through existing bug reports to see if your issue has already been contributed if it has then you can add a comment to let the developer know you're affected or add a plus one or a thumbs up to the issue to increase its count and help the developers prioritize it writing a good and legible bug report also requires a bunch of information on how you've encountered it to let the developer reproduce it and fix it just saying this doesn't work doesn't work trust me i tried that for most of my career [Music] [Music] what you'll actually want to do is give as much information on the steps you took to encounter that issue your specific system any tweaks you might have made to the app the expected behavior and the actual behavior that seems bugged writing a good bug report is a skill it's actually even a job but don't worry if you have forgotten some information the developer will ask you for it generally when they try fixing the bug so you will learn by doing and learn what to include and what is useless testing beta software is also super useful the more configurations something is tested on the less chance there is to have a big problem down the track most big projects like kde gnome distributions obs and others have a beta track that you can follow and each time you encounter a problem you can just report it easily and help ensure your project goes as smoothly as possible it's also a great way to try features out before they actually release and give your feedback on it and also you can post online because your pc can do stuff that other pcs can't if you speak more than one language you can also help translate projects most fast projects are in constant need of translations for the new stuff they add the stuff they change and tweak or they just lack a translation in your language completely contributing translations is a cool way to just use your natural language skills to help others use an application you love depending on the size of the project there are multiple ways to go about it some have their translations in a centralized translation platform some have their own platforms like kde or gnome and smaller projects generally just handle their translations in the project's code itself the best thing to do is to head over to the contributors documentation that most big projects have and see how you can contribute or join a team for smaller projects you can generally just reach out to the developer and ask how they want you to contribute a translation generally there are a few guidelines to ensure that translations are consistent across the whole project so that something isn't called by three different names in three different places or to avoid certain terms that aren't clear enough bigger projects generally have these well explained and teams already exist for most major languages that you can join to help or you can create your own team to start translating into a language that isn't supported time to translate glom into the hat language i guess if all of that looks too time-consuming or too scary you can also provide support for other users online not as in tech support headphones and microphone and dealing with angry people that can't explain their issue more like answer people's questions online if you have experience with a project or an app your knowledge is invaluable you know what the options are where they are you know how to use the thing configure it install it and maybe fix a bunch of problems you've already encountered that knowledge can serve others as well most projects either have a discord server forums or for older ones irc and joining these just makes you more helpful to others as long as you don't tell them to rtfm rtfm for read the subscribe manual is probably the least constructive and intelligent way of answering a question if a user asks that question that might seem super stupid to you it might not just be laziness it might just be that the answer wasn't easy to find either by lack of documentation tutorials or because the resources aren't well laid out or well explained or sometimes just by lack of motivations some beginners are just very lazy and did not take the time to research their issue before asking a question even if it's a very common one in that case it's time to introduce them to lmddgtfy or letmo that for you jokes aside a civil behavior always helps if you want to help others telling them to do their homework takes you just as long as answering their question as dumb as it is a few projects mostly big ones will also benefit from some project management and prioritization big projects receive a ton of bug reports feature requests and general demands and triaging this making sure that the most urgent bugs are fixed first and the most interesting features are done first can be a pain when you have 300 issues open a project manager can definitely help with that to sort things into what's critical what's easy to fix for beginner coders what's really an edge use case or even what's a desirable feature or not these roles might not be the first ones you'll be able to do when you start contributing they'll be entrusted to people that are well known within the project and that have proven they understand the project's vision and structure but once you've contributed for a time opening bug reports answering some testing new features or writing documentation that's definitely something that you can offer to help with that's not something that i would personally do because i've been doing that for the past 12 years and i'm pretty much sick of it but if it's a skill you have or a skill you want to acquire and take into the professional world is definitely a great way to help and there are a ton of other ways to contribute you could help design marketing material for events like flyers posters you could help redesign icons for a project or even make mock-ups for new features you'd like to see we often see this in gnome and kde for example where mockups are shared feedback is given and then the actual mock-up is being implemented if you have good design skills and have good ideas for features there is no reason why anybody would not want to work on them you can also organize events like linux install parties or help organize these you can give talks to various events help others install software on their devices you can join the various telegram groups or servers to discuss new features and give your input not knowing how to code doesn't mean you can't contribute to a project projects need more skills than just coding and a lot of people already have these skills and can use them and if you really want to learn how to code there are a bunch of issues in most projects marked as easy to fix or for beginners or a page written as where to start so you can try tackling these small issues and small bugs to learn how the code works and hone your skills and of course if you don't want to contribute that's also completely fine no judgment here apart from a few pages of documentation for the ubuntu french community back in 2006 a few tutorials for bug fixes and my videos i haven't exactly been extremely helpful that's the beauty of open source even by using it you're already doing your part just like today's sponsor is doing its part to let you get a device that runs linux out of the box tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can choose from a selection of distros when you configure your device among a ton of other configuration options for ram for ssd for graphics card for cpus even your logo on the back but of course you can also install your own distro on them because you know that the hardware is well supported under linux i've personally been moving most of my workflow to a stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming workstation laptop and i've been editing all the past videos since the plasma 5.25 review on it and it's been amazing expect a review in the coming days but if you need something else an ultrabook a knock a desktop pc a gaming pc they have it all so check the link in the description below click it and get your new device from tuxedo they're really cool so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you dislike it well dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you make way too much money i'm always happy for you to donate with the super thanks button at the bottom of the video the paypal link in the description or by joining my patreon subscribers and youtube members both get access to a weekly podcast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and plasma 5.25 should release today it's absolutely packed with new features for the plasma desktop and its default applications to the point that i think it's probably one of the biggest releases of the whole kde plasma 5 cycle it brings a ton of new personalization options with more accent color features it has floating panels it has more touch gestures for touch screens and touch pads and it has a lot more whale and support i've been using it on my laptop for the past few weeks and it's been an amazing experience so let's take a look at everything new right after we take a look at an amazing app that you can use on all your linux desktops only office this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next cloud server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it so let's begin with the new customization stuff and since this is kde there is a ton of things to cover we already had accent colors in the appearance settings but these now go a bit further first you can pick an accent color from your wallpaper so every time you change your background you'll get the accent color to match based on the dominant colors but if you want that accent to permeate even more and you're tired of the default gray of the default breeze theme you can also opt into the breeze classic theme which will apply the accent color to the window title bars as well and if that's not enough and you want less contrast you can even go further just edit a color scheme and in the options tab you can choose to tint all colors using your accent color so you get the same hue everywhere not all colors will look amazing together and you might end up with something that looks like hannah montana linux but it's still a fantastic option to just change the look of your desktop from time to time you just pick the accent color from your wallpaper and each time you change your desktop you change the whole look and colors of your whole desktop it's really cool and of course everything changes smoothly with a nice fade so the transition is super pleasing the second big change is the floating panels panels on kde used to be stuck against the screen edge but no longer you can now make them float above the screen edge they sit on in the more options button when editing the plasma panel the effect is pretty cool although it's not very configurable yet the height is fixed so you can't adjust it and the corners of the panel will automatically be rounded with a fixed radius that you can't adjust yet either look how they float they all flow down here sorry about that what i meant to say was it's getty so either the settings are there but i just couldn't find them or they don't exist yet but they probably will in the next release it's getty it's like rule 34 but for settings if you maximize a window the panel will simply expand to occupy space on the left and right and towards the screen edge so you don't see just a slim part of your background at the bottom of the screen i did notice a small issue that might be fixed in the final release where maximizing a window will expand the panel but unmaximizing will leave some kind of transparent shadow around it it's not terribly distracting but i hope it still get fixed hey it's gotta be a good sign if my only nitpick is something super small like this floating panels work for any screen edge and i think they really do look pretty good they also did a good job with the click targets which mean that you can overshoot and click under the panel and still activate the right applet pretty cool attention to detail but that's not all when applying a global theme which are great to change the whole look and feel and layout of your desktop in one click you now get to pick which parts you want to change you don't have to apply the global theme in bulk another good thing for people who like having more consistency is the integration of gnome applications at least the known libid vita ones header bars will have a border radius more consistent with the breeze look and feel and the menus look a bit more native as well apps with title bars will also use your accent color settings although apps using handlebars won't leave it to kde to theme gnome more than gnome ever themed itself full disclaimer i love gnome just as much as scary i'm not attacking any of these desktop environments they're all great for different people why did the internet decide that constructive criticism was equivalent to on something all desktop environments are beautiful in their own way and no desktop environment was ever armed in making of these videos now the last smaller visual detail is on the login screen which will now shake when you enter the wrong password like on most other desktops onto the plasma desktop itself and there are plenty of things to cover here as well the user switcher applet also has a nicer look with a picture of the currently logged in user and the popup when clicking that applet now looks nicer as well with more spacing the pop-up menu for copying the date to the clipboard in various formats has also been revamped to be more legible okay are these improvements too small for you sure let's move on to the big things then first is touch mode kd plasma has a tablet mode that was toggled automatically when the system detected that you were using a touch screen only now you can decide to toggle it on and off yourself this setting lives in the workspace behavior settings page and unfortunately it can't be found by searching for tablet mode or touch mode in the settings you can now decide to automatically enable that mode when needed to have it always on or always off what this mode does is simply make touch targets bigger everywhere in the system title bars get bigger with bigger controls and more spacing all buttons are also enlarged if you're using the breeze theme and the task switcher also gets more spacing so it's easier to actually tap on the app you want to open or focus it's been largely improved and it's great for two-in-one users or users of devices with touch screens i don't own any of these devices so i just couldn't give it a good shot still on that note you now get the ability to do gestures from the screen's edge basically like hot corners you can configure an action for each screen edge ranging from toggling the overview to showing the desktop showing all windows or opening k runner there's a lot you can do here although these only work on wheyland as far as i know and if you're a pleb like me and you still use a touchpad then there are some good stuff for you here as well swiping four fingers down on the touchpad will open the overview with your open windows virtual desktops and a search bar that was the big new feature for plasma 5.24 swiping four fingers up will bring an overview of all your virtual desktops basically it's the desktop grid and swiping four fingers left or right will move to the next or previous workspace all these gestures are now one to one which means they follow your fingers as they move on the touchpad and they're exclusive to weyland as well but they also work on touch screens unfortunately there are some issues with these gestures that i just couldn't let slide first i couldn't find a way to configure these gestures looking for gestures or touchpad in the settings doesn't bring any configuration option i prefer my gestures to only use three fingers not four but it doesn't look like i can change that again maybe i missed the setting but it also wasn't in the configuration options of the related desktop effect second while these gestures feel really good if you do them slowly if you move too fast then they don't animate at all you just jump from one stage to the other and finally if you swipe down for the overview you would expect a swipe up to bring you back to the desktop but if you have the desktop grid enabled then swiping up will move you to the desktop grid instead and there doesn't seem to be a smooth way to cancel out a gesture once you're in the end state of it you either repeat the same gesture which jarringly brings you back to the desktop or you enter a new gesture which starts from the desktop and so is also jarring i feel that gnome did a better job on the touchpad gestures at least for their overview but this is only the first step for kde so it probably will improve and get better over time and also my virtual desktops don't appear anymore in the overview and no disabling the desktop grid did not bring them back in the overview you can also opt to exclude minimized windows so your workspace can be a bit cleaner other small changes include the ability to select a non-native resolution for your display on wayland you can now see the frequency your wi-fi network uses if your network uses both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz and the k-runner's spell checker action now detects the language you're using and tells you if the spelling is correct on to the default apps and let's start with discover discover now can display the permissions that flat pack apps use they're at the bottom of the apps page and they will tell you with nice icons and a bit of text what your applications will have access to and what that means pretty handy to check that they don't ask for more than what they really need to you can't sell an app to not have access to something but there's flat seal for that the app page also has been overhauled with instant access to some details like the license of an app the size on disk or the version and it can now tell you when an app has been uninstalled but still has some data on disk so you can clear that data and make sure you're not wasting space the sidebar will also show all subcategories that were previously located in the applications submenu so space is better used and you're not wasting clicks finally proprietary apps will now have a warning you can display by clicking a small icon next to the license name to warn you that this app might do weird things or collect data i feel like discover does not really live up to its name it's not really easy to use it to discover new applications it doesn't do a great job at showcasing apps or even kd apps and the search is still pretty bad but at least now you can get all the available information about an app before you install it there are smaller changes the kde info center now displays more data about your device especially the serial number and there's a new firmware security page that displays the state of uefi secure boots uefi keys linux swap and more finally the system monitor now lets you configure the various pages to load when you open the app so you don't have to wait for them to load when you actually need to use them in a hurry of course there are a lot of other default apps that get updates regularly through the kde gear releases but these are not bundled with the kde plasma releases which is unfortunate for me because it would make covering the new releases of kde a lot easier but i guess there might not be a good technical reason for bundling these updates together plasma 5.25 is a big release it improves a ton of things in the look and feel department with more powerful accent colors the floating panels and better gtk app integration it also adds gestures for the most important effects so using kde on a laptop or a touchscreen is a much nicer experience and whalen support is now basically fully fleshed out there are still some kinks to iron out in these new features and the gestures need some more configuration options but it's still a great step forward and yes i did just ask for more options in kde but i'm sure that if these settings already exist someone will point them out to me politely in the comments politely kde seems to have that cycle of releasing two or three versions focused on polish and bug fixing followed by one or two releases of new features and i must say i quite like this approach you release something get some feedback and ideas and then make it as smooth as you can it does mean that some releases are more polished than others but fortunately 5.25 really does feel like a solid solid upgrade it works really well apart from 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hey everyone this is Nick and as you can see from the background I am not home but that's not going to prevent me from bringing you all the Linux and open source news that you might want for this week this time we have Adobe planning to make photoshop on the web free for everyone except it's Adobe so of course there's gonna be some paid features then we have Thunderbird merging with the canine mail client on Android to make Thunderbird for Android and we have a nasty Linux malware that seems pretty Adept at concealing itself on various servers and of course we also have tons of updates to gnome to Getty we have plasma 5.25 and a lot of other things including a nice Fair phone Subscription Service a nice service you say well I've got another one for you and that's today's sponsor who's gonna give you a hundred dollars free credit for your own Linux or gaming server thanks to linode for sponsoring this video Lino code is the best choice to deploy your own Linux or gaming server getting 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looks like members of the Thunderbird team approached the developer of K9 mail one of the best open source email clients for Android back in 2018 and that this collaboration will start bearing fruits really soon canine mail will transform in the future into Thunderbird for Android which means that Thunderbird will contribute financially to the male client to add brand new features and more quality of life enhancements there will be Auto configuration for accounts improved folder management support for message filters and syncing between desktop and mobile Thunderbird it looks like it made more sense to work with an existing client than to redevelop something from the ground up and that won't affect the pace of development of the desktop client which is still on a nice path to pick up an improved user experience in its future release it's really cool to see this email client picking up steam being actively worked upon and I guess an Android app really can't hurt the brand recognition and it can only help push open source further so I'll be waiting eagerly for the new Android client that I'll try out and the revamped desktop client that should arrive in the coming month plasma 5.25 was released one of the biggest updates to the desktop environment in the KDE plasma 5 Series among other changes the headline feature is floating panels which look really cool and add some Flair to your desktop there's also a lot more work on accent colors letting you pick the color from the wallpaper apply it to the title bars or even tint all the colors with the accent color so your desktop feels more personal and the touch mode for touchscreens and tablets is now allowed better and can be toggled manually touch gestures are also vastly improved on Wayland they are smoother faster and follow your fingers movement on the touchpad or your touchscreen oh and there's also new screen Edge gestures for touchscreens discover now displays more important information about applications and a lot more and of course I made a video about this brand new release and it's filled with dumb jokes so go check it out in the car up top somewhere here or there or in the link in the description it's really a fantastic release if you own an iPad and use Linux on your computer you might regret the lack of that famous continuity feature from Mac OS that would among other things let you use your iPad as a second display well fear not as OMG Ubuntu has tested ways to make that happen and it looks like it's actually super easy using RDP which is built into gnome since Gundam 42 along with screen sharing you can extend your desktop to a virtual monitor such as an iPad and actually use that iPad as a second display that doesn't just replicate your desktop but acts like a complete monitor it also uses Hardware acceleration and in-frame tracking so the experience is really fluid and nice although your network connection will need to not be too crappy for that to work reliably you will also need to run a G settings command to ensure that this feature is enabled as it's not currently considered polished Enough by gnome devs to be available by default pretty neat feature I'll have to try that with my Galaxy Tab S8 plus I'm sure it will work super well although I will need to wait to get back home to do that because the Wi-Fi here is Dreadful Adobe had already released a version of Photoshop that ran in a web browser a while ago it's not feature complete and it was mostly aimed at collaborating on minor edits to a document and it was limited to paid subscribers or people invited by paid subscribers it looks like this might change as photoshop on the web might end up being free for everyone this is now in testing in Canada where all you need to use Photoshop on the web is a free Adobe account and the goal is to expand that to the world once the test is complete with more advanced features being limited to paid customers Adobe still expects that all core functions of Photoshop will be available for free users so people who don't need it professionally can still use it whatever the OS they're using the end game is of course to hook users with a free product and make them move to the full desktop version once they've outgrown the features they get for free still it's really cool as it means that people who only double in Photoshop and think they need Photoshop for everything that they do can actually stick to what they know and more professional users still get to go use Windows I guess to use the full desktop version I do hope that they include enough of the premium features in the free version so that it's actually a useful tool and that's something that you could replace with like paint.net or Pinta or something yet more tools are coming to Linux as AMD announced they are now supporting their Radeon memory visualizer on our OS of choice this thing is a tool that lets developers solve video memory problems and analyze the usage of vram on Radeon gpus so they can ensure that their titles are optimized for the platform they're only officially supporting Ubuntu 20.04 for now which is weird but there is no reason that the tool wouldn't work on other distros as well as long as all dependencies are met the experience seems to be identical to the windows version which is nice and it already lets developers analyze Vulcan applications on Linux why did they put this to Linux well they cite the rising popularity of gaming on the Linux OS if I may interject AMD Linux is just a kernel it's not an OS but but jokes and patentry aside it's good to see that these tools are making their way to Linux and I hope that they bring their more gamer consumer focused AMD radiant software suite to Linux as well that would be really nice you didn't really think I would publish one of these News videos without including the latest updates to gnome apps did you this week gnome software gets an uninstall option for its command line and Amber all the new music player that still sounds like medicine now joined gnome Circle officially getting into that quite open list of unofficial but endorsed gnome apps authenticator an app that lets you generate authentication codes now supports Google Authenticator workbench the sandbox to learn and test gnome Technologies now supports Valor it can preview templates and Signal handlers and includes all the icons you might need finally farsh the mobile shell developed by purism also got swipe gestures for the top and bottom bar and has better quick settings people keep telling me that these updates are very small but keep in mind that these are weekly updates as in they've been done over the past five to seven days and I think that's nothing to scuff at let's not leave out KD either as they've not only released plasma 5.25 but they've also been working on the new features that we'll enjoy in four months one 15-minute bug has been resolved and plasma gets support for changing the wallpaper when switching to a dark theme so you can have these nice dual wallpapers that have a light and a dark variant Arc the archiving tool will check to see if there's enough disk space before unarchiving something system settings Pages get more priority in the search results from the menu or k Runner and you can now drag Windows between screens in the overview and the present Windows effect Breeze buttons no longer have a gradient until you hover over them giving a little flatter look and the analog clock now respects your accent color on top of now supporting your color scheme entirely these guys just never stop and plasma 5.26 is gearing up to be another amazing release and I would expect it to fix all the small little issues that I noticed in my 5.25 review at least the developers told me that they would probably be fixed a new Linux malware has been discovered by researchers and this one is a bit concerning as it's not specifically new it's very mature and very Adept at concealing itself on Infected servers which makes it quite hard to detect it can scrub all signs of infection on the infected file system on the system processes and on the network traffic it's called symbiote and has been targeting financial institutions in Brazil its first detection was in November and it works by infecting other processes it's not an app it's a library that loads itself when running other programs using preload and once it has infected all running processes it provides rootkit functionality to the person who needs it with the ability to harvest credentials and access the server remotely pretty concerning stuff even though it's not stated to be super widespread at the moment although since it seems to be super capable that hiding itself is really hard to know users of calendar one of the best looking calendar and tasks app not only on Katie but on Linux as a whole we'll be happy to know that the contact manager is being revamped quite nicely the contact view will look a hell of a lot nicer with a nice contact list better sorted and the contact details page being a lot better laid out as well the settings now have access to the same sources as the current contact module so webdav exchange or local vCard files and you can share contacts by generating a QR code there's also a plasma applet in the works to let you search for your contacts and send them an email or call them using KD connect the contact editor is still lacking a lot of features but it's progressing nicely as well it also supports contact groups calendar is shaping up nicely to be a full replacement for contact the Outlook replacement suite for KDE all it needs now is an email and a notes module and basically you'll get everything you need and probably something that I will use even on my gnome systems yeah it's that good even a consistency nerd like me would drop their principles to use that app it's really nice cinnamon 5.4 has been tagged for release and it will be available for Linux Mint 21 codenamed Vanessa this summer of course it can also be integrated by other distributions as well 5.4 comes 7 months after the previous release and brings a bunch of new stuff it has a newer more stable window manager that more closely follows gnome's matter so it will be easier to update in the future 5.4 also brings the ability to copy system info to the clipboard for easier bug reporting better fractional scaling better Hot Corner setup support for application actions in the menu as well as support for logical monitors improved keyboard navigation in the menu and a ton of bug fixes on the various applets this desktop environment provides I'll give it a good look when Min 21 is released so stay tuned for that and don't forget to subscribe of course you know that little red button in the bottom of the video that actually doesn't guarantee that you'll see my videos in your feed just click it fairphone is an initiative that I really like trying to build a completely repairable and user serviceable smartphone all while 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hey everyone this is nick and plasma 5.25 should release today it's absolutely packed with new features for the plasma desktop and its default applications to the point that i think it's probably one of the biggest releases of the whole kde plasma 5 cycle it brings a ton of new personalization options with more accent color features it has floating panels it has more touch gestures for touch screens and touch pads and it has a lot more whale and support i've been using it on my laptop for the past few weeks and it's been an amazing experience so let's take a look at everything new right after we take a look at an amazing app that you can use on all your linux desktops only office this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next cloud server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it so let's begin with the new customization stuff and since this is kde there is a ton of things to cover we already had accent colors in the appearance settings but these now go a bit further first you can pick an accent color from your wallpaper so every time you change your background you'll get the accent color to match based on the dominant colors but if you want that accent to permeate even more and you're tired of the default gray of the default breeze theme you can also opt into the breeze classic theme which will apply the accent color to the window title bars as well and if that's not enough and you want less contrast you can even go further just edit a color scheme and in the options tab you can choose to tint all colors using your accent color so you get the same hue everywhere not all colors will look amazing together and you might end up with something that looks like hannah montana linux but it's still a fantastic option to just change the look of your desktop from time to time you just pick the accent color from your wallpaper and each time you change your desktop you change the whole look and colors of your whole desktop it's really cool and of course everything changes smoothly with a nice fade so the transition is super pleasing the second big change is the floating panels panels on kde used to be stuck against the screen edge but no longer you can now make them float above the screen edge they sit on in the more options button when editing the plasma panel the effect is pretty cool although it's not very configurable yet the height is fixed so you can't adjust it and the corners of the panel will automatically be rounded with a fixed radius that you can't adjust yet either look how they float they all flow down here sorry about that what i meant to say was it's getty so either the settings are there but i just couldn't find them or they don't exist yet but they probably will in the next release it's getty it's like rule 34 but for settings if you maximize a window the panel will simply expand to occupy space on the left and right and towards the screen edge so you don't see just a slim part of your background at the bottom of the screen i did notice a small issue that might be fixed in the final release where maximizing a window will expand the panel but unmaximizing will leave some kind of transparent shadow around it it's not terribly distracting but i hope it still get fixed hey it's gotta be a good sign if my only nitpick is something super small like this floating panels work for any screen edge and i think they really do look pretty good they also did a good job with the click targets which mean that you can overshoot and click under the panel and still activate the right applet pretty cool attention to detail but that's not all when applying a global theme which are great to change the whole look and feel and layout of your desktop in one click you now get to pick which parts you want to change you don't have to apply the global theme in bulk another good thing for people who like having more consistency is the integration of gnome applications at least the known libid vita ones header bars will have a border radius more consistent with the breeze look and feel and the menus look a bit more native as well apps with title bars will also use your accent color settings although apps using handlebars won't leave it to kde to theme gnome more than gnome ever themed itself full disclaimer i love gnome just as much as scary i'm not attacking any of these desktop environments they're all great for different people why did the internet decide that constructive criticism was equivalent to on something all desktop environments are beautiful in their own way and no desktop environment was ever armed in making of these videos now the last smaller visual detail is on the login screen which will now shake when you enter the wrong password like on most other desktops onto the plasma desktop itself and there are plenty of things to cover here as well the user switcher applet also has a nicer look with a picture of the currently logged in user and the popup when clicking that applet now looks nicer as well with more spacing the pop-up menu for copying the date to the clipboard in various formats has also been revamped to be more legible okay are these improvements too small for you sure let's move on to the big things then first is touch mode kd plasma has a tablet mode that was toggled automatically when the system detected that you were using a touch screen only now you can decide to toggle it on and off yourself this setting lives in the workspace behavior settings page and unfortunately it can't be found by searching for tablet mode or touch mode in the settings you can now decide to automatically enable that mode when needed to have it always on or always off what this mode does is simply make touch targets bigger everywhere in the system title bars get bigger with bigger controls and more spacing all buttons are also enlarged if you're using the breeze theme and the task switcher also gets more spacing so it's easier to actually tap on the app you want to open or focus it's been largely improved and it's great for two-in-one users or users of devices with touch screens i don't own any of these devices so i just couldn't give it a good shot still on that note you now get the ability to do gestures from the screen's edge basically like hot corners you can configure an action for each screen edge ranging from toggling the overview to showing the desktop showing all windows or opening k runner there's a lot you can do here although these only work on wheyland as far as i know and if you're a pleb like me and you still use a touchpad then there are some good stuff for you here as well swiping four fingers down on the touchpad will open the overview with your open windows virtual desktops and a search bar that was the big new feature for plasma 5.24 swiping four fingers up will bring an overview of all your virtual desktops basically it's the desktop grid and swiping four fingers left or right will move to the next or previous workspace all these gestures are now one to one which means they follow your fingers as they move on the touchpad and they're exclusive to weyland as well but they also work on touch screens unfortunately there are some issues with these gestures that i just couldn't let slide first i couldn't find a way to configure these gestures looking for gestures or touchpad in the settings doesn't bring any configuration option i prefer my gestures to only use three fingers not four but it doesn't look like i can change that again maybe i missed the setting but it also wasn't in the configuration options of the related desktop effect second while these gestures feel really good if you do them slowly if you move too fast then they don't animate at all you just jump from one stage to the other and finally if you swipe down for the overview you would expect a swipe up to bring you back to the desktop but if you have the desktop grid enabled then swiping up will move you to the desktop grid instead and there doesn't seem to be a smooth way to cancel out a gesture once you're in the end state of it you either repeat the same gesture which jarringly brings you back to the desktop or you enter a new gesture which starts from the desktop and so is also jarring i feel that gnome did a better job on the touchpad gestures at least for their overview but this is only the first step for kde so it probably will improve and get better over time and also my virtual desktops don't appear anymore in the overview and no disabling the desktop grid did not bring them back in the overview you can also opt to exclude minimized windows so your workspace can be a bit cleaner other small changes include the ability to select a non-native resolution for your display on wayland you can now see the frequency your wi-fi network uses if your network uses both 2.4 and 5 gigahertz and the k-runner's spell checker action now detects the language you're using and tells you if the spelling is correct on to the default apps and let's start with discover discover now can display the permissions that flat pack apps use they're at the bottom of the apps page and they will tell you with nice icons and a bit of text what your applications will have access to and what that means pretty handy to check that they don't ask for more than what they really need to you can't sell an app to not have access to something but there's flat seal for that the app page also has been overhauled with instant access to some details like the license of an app the size on disk or the version and it can now tell you when an app has been uninstalled but still has some data on disk so you can clear that data and make sure you're not wasting space the sidebar will also show all subcategories that were previously located in the applications submenu so space is better used and you're not wasting clicks finally proprietary apps will now have a warning you can display by clicking a small icon next to the license name to warn you that this app might do weird things or collect data i feel like discover does not really live up to its name it's not really easy to use it to discover new applications it doesn't do a great job at showcasing apps or even kd apps and the search is still pretty bad but at least now you can get all the available information about an app before you install it there are smaller changes the kde info center now displays more data about your device especially the serial number and there's a new firmware security page that displays the state of uefi secure boots uefi keys linux swap and more finally the system monitor now lets you configure the various pages to load when you open the app so you don't have to wait for them to load when you actually need to use them in a hurry of course there are a lot of other default apps that get updates regularly through the kde gear releases but these are not bundled with the kde plasma releases which is unfortunate for me because it would make covering the new releases of kde a lot easier but i guess there might not be a good technical reason for bundling these updates together plasma 5.25 is a big release it improves a ton of things in the look and feel department with more powerful accent colors the floating panels and better gtk app integration it also adds gestures for the most important effects so using kde on a laptop or a touchscreen is a much nicer experience and whalen support is now basically fully fleshed out there are still some kinks to iron out in these new features and the gestures need some more configuration options but it's still a great step forward and yes i did just ask for more options in kde but i'm sure that if these settings already exist someone will point them out to me politely in the comments politely kde seems to have that cycle of releasing two or three versions focused on polish and bug fixing followed by one or two releases of new features and i must say i quite like this approach you release something get some feedback and ideas and then make it as smooth as you can it does mean that some releases are more polished than others but fortunately 5.25 really does feel like a solid solid upgrade it works really well apart from 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[Music] hey everyone this is nick and i got my hands on an hp dev one that laptop made in collaboration with hp and system 76 that runs pop os out of the box and without spoiling anything i can definitely tell you that it's a very very good device that might even make think bad lovers rethink their next purchase if they live in the us that is and before anyone jumps to conclusion no i wasn't paid to say that this video isn't sponsored either by hp or system 76 it's also a bit of a historical laptop because it's the first time that a big manufacturer has designed a notebook from the ground up to work with linux it's not a windows machine that's also sold with ubuntu or fedora like we can see on other manufacturers this thing has been designed from the start to run linux so let's take a look at the hardware how well the software has been integrated and i'll even sprinkle in some little tidbits of information about how system 76 and hp collaborated on this one just like i love 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organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay let's begin with the hardware because the hp dev one is an absolute beauty the dev one is a device that targets developers but it is definitely suitable for everyone else as well although it has that pro look to it it's made out of aluminium and the chassis is very rigid with almost no deck flex at all it looks pretty good in that apple-esque space gray color and there's the metallic hp logo on the back and under the display the screen is covered in glass and has a very sturdy hinge so sturdy that you can't open it with one finger the chassis is very resistant to fingerprints so it won't look too dirty after a few weeks of use and it's also relatively resistant to scratches the device itself has a wedge shape and it's pretty thin at less than two centimeters at its thickest point it weighs less than 1.5 kilograms although it does feel relatively heavy and solid that's three quarters of an inch for thickness and 3.24 pounds for weight if you live in areas where standard units don't apply of course it has two small stickers but they're easy to remove if like me you hate these sticky little bastards but the best part is it's user serviceable you can open the back by removing the five screws and upgrade the ram and storage or just completely dismantle it as a matter of fact the first units they sent system 76 for testing was just the box of spare parts that they had to assemble themselves so i guess that's pretty reassuring in terms of how maintainable and repairable it really is and it seems derived from a line of laptops at hp that regularly get a 8 to 9 out of 10 by ifixit it's simply a very well built laptop i would say not quite on par with the latest macbooks from apple because there is a bit more deck flex than these devices but it's a very reassuring laptop you won't feel like it's going to twist bend or break when you drop it or carry it around on to the hardware it packs and let's start with the display it's covered in glass and so it's pretty reflective and susceptible to fingerprints although there is no reason to touch it as it's not a touch screen it's 14 inch at 1920 by 1080 and it can go up to a thousand nits of brightness which is pretty high although again the glass cover does reduce that brightness a bit about 20 according to hp it's sharp and it's got good color accuracy but it's definitely not a laptop you will want to take outside too much the glass isn't anti-reflective and so you're going to see yourself or just the light around you quite a bit for inside work it's absolutely good enough hey they made this for developers do you know a developer that likes to go outside i thought they all lived in little basements with tons of cables and rgb everywhere but okay i'll stop now the bezels are relatively large for today's standards but they are nothing to complain about and the top one hosts a 720p webcam with a privacy shutter included which is cool no need for duct tape or post-it notes that webcam is your usual potato quality it's not full hd it's a bit grainy and it doesn't handle lighting very well the microphone isn't bad at all though although you'll want to drop the mic volume in gnome to avoid it distorting and it still picks up any keyboard activity and the fan noise even though it's not very distracting as always this is an area i wish they would spend a little bit more time on like microphones and webcams are often overlooked now for video conferencing it's definitely going to be suitable but it's not fantastic let's move on to the i o on the left side you have your kensington lock and two usb a ports that go up to 5 gigabits per second as well as the holy headphone jack on the right side you have the port for the barrel charger included in the box an hdmi 2.0 port and two usbc 10 gigabit per second that also support displayport and charging which is good because since it's only available in the us it came with a us power plug and i lost my adapter so thankfully he charges through usbc or that review would have been delayed oh and also it supports fast charging so you can top up 50 percent of the battery in 30 minutes the speakers are really good and don't distort at all even on max volume they have enough bass to sound right and they won't let you down if you want to watch a video a movie or for conferencing good job on that often overlooked part [Music] moving on to the keyboard and trackpad whether you like these inputs or not will depend on whether you like thinkpads or not the keyboard is fantastic either way the keys have full travel they're well spaced and they make an appropriately clicky noise the keys feel very solid they are very stable they actuate well and even the space bar when you press it on the very side the function row works as a function keys first so you'll have to press the fn key to get f1 f2 and the likes unless you change that in the vios of course i personally prefer it the way it is by default and then you have that little nub in the middle of the keyboard look i never could use or understand these things they just feel completely imprecise and weird and they force my hand to cramp in uncomfortable positions but if you're used to them i guess it's cool to have it the acceleration curve seems a bit high to me with the slightest movement of my finger jerking the mouse cursor all over the place but it might just be me not being used to using that thing the touchpad appropriately has two buttons on top so you can click while using the knob but that unfortunately reduces the surface for touchpad users like me and there is no clickable middle button still that touchpad is really really good it's covered in glass and it's extremely smooth for gestures although pop os uses x11 by default so you don't get the smooth one-to-one gestures that glom introduced recently you still have gestures but they're not as nice to use so i guess if you swear by the little knob you're gonna have a good experience with it and if you don't like it you're not that worse off for its presence so i think it's good either way in terms of internals the dev1 only comes in one configuration horizon 7 pro 5850u 16 gigabytes of ram and one terabyte of storage but you can upgrade the ram and the storage yourself after the fact the cpu is eight core 16 threads and has a base clock of 1.9 gigahertz up to 4.4 when boosting it's a very very powerful beast indeed with a geekbench score of 1550 in single score and 77.07 in multicore this definitely will get you through any task or code compilation you need to do it even beats my desktop ryzen 7 5800x in single core although in multicore the desktop still has the edge it is a very very powerful chip and being of the u line of the amd ryzen cpus it focuses on low tdp and battery life which we'll see in a minute is pretty good now this laptop isn't aimed at gamers and its integrated graphics aren't anything special i ran shadow of the tomb raider on it and at 1080p on medium settings the benchmark ran only at around 20 fps lowering things to low graphics resulted in the game reaching about 25 fps not really playable if you lower the resolution at 720p then you start getting much better performance and it's not horrible to look at on a 14 inch screen on resident evil 2 performance is a bit better at 1080p on medium you hover a bit under 30fps and on low settings you definitely achieve a solid 30 fps at 1080p once the shaders have been combined as it's a game running with proton so yeah it's still an integrated graphics component from a cpu it's on par with what you would expect it's not terrible but it's not great and for less demanding games it's definitely going to do the trick as per battery life i left the laptop on a youtube loop with firefox over wi-fi at mid brightness and it lasted for eight and a half hours before shutting down on a more typical workload i used it to write scripts using firefox and next cloud nodes listening to music and wi-fi on bluetooth mouse connected at mid brightness and it lasted for 7 hours so on the hardware front i was kind of positively surprised i hear horror stories about hp laptops often in the comments but this this does not reflect those horror stories at all it's super well built it's very sturdy the cpu choice is probably the right mix between power and power consumption you've got an awesome keyboard great trackpad that little nub if you need it and the screen webcam and mics aren't amazing but they're definitely good enough okay let's move on to the software the dev1 runs pop os 22.04 and there's been a lot of work done by both teams on that front system 76 collaborated with hp to deliver the same image for pop os as the one you can download of the internet except that it will auto detect the dev one and install everything needed to ensure it works great the integration goes up to the support as well just like a system 76 laptop you can create a support ticket right from the settings and hp has a dedicated support team for that device to ensure that things run smoothly with a process to pass on tickets to system 76 if they're software related both teams also worked with amd to ensure that suspend and resume work as well as possible and they achieved a super super low tdp on suspend so you can be sure that the laptop will not die while it's stored in your backpack all these improvements have of course been upstreamed to the kernel it doesn't run core boots but this has been discussed between system 76 and hp and it might happen if they make a second generation of that product also all firmware updates will be distributed through lvfs which is nice because you won't have to reboot your dual boot windows to be able to install these updates rebooting into windows now there are some kinks to the software first you have to agree to a license agreement to use the device i actually read it and it's box standard here is what license applies to what we're not liable if you do stupid things this kind of stuff nothing untowards or privacy invasive then there's the analytics it's completely opt-in and not enabled by default it's a step you have to go through at first setup but you can say no if you let them hp will collect a lot of data about the device nothing personal or linked to what you've actually done on the device it's all hardware related like system temps battery health fan tachometry and driver versions if you decide to opt in you can always opt out in the future from the privacy settings and you can even delete all analytics on server in one click now the license agreement and analytics will probably ruffle some feathers but yeah the license agreement doesn't have anything weird in it and the analytics can be like disabled immediately you don't even have to enable it to then go and disable it so i don't see this as an issue the rest of the os is just standard pop os it works as well as you would expect but why did hp go with pop os and not let's say ubuntu well it seems that they surveyed a bunch of developers and pop os is the os that came the most often and i guess the experience that system 76 has to actually shipping their os on actual hardware must have helped a lot now the dev one can be purchased with two accessories the hp wireless creator mouse and the launch keyboard from system 76 while i didn't get that launch keyboard to test things out because it's not in europe i guess i did get the mouse and it's a good alternative to the mx master series that i use daily it's very comfortable with a thumb rest with a nice scroll wheel that feels good and that you can switch from free-flowing scrolling or with steps and it has three configurable buttons yes configurable because hp made a graphical utility called mouse configurator and it's available in the pop shop it's a graphical tool for linux to configure that mouse it lets you remap any button to a lot of different actions either for media playback browser control or controlling the os there are tons of choices and you can save your configurations and switch them on the fly as well as adjust the mouse dpi it's pretty cool to see this kind of support here and the mouse uses bluetooth but it also comes with a usb adapter if you prefer so it can be paired with up to three devices two with bluetooth and one with the adapter as per the launch keyboard it's a highly customizable mechanical keyboard that you can tweak to your liking swapping keys around configuring it with a dedicated app and all configurations are stored on the board itself so you can take it from one computer to the next and not have to redo all those steps i hope i can get one and review one once system 76 opens their distribution center in europe this should happen in the coming month so the hp dev one is a very interesting device from a hardware standpoint it clearly aims at developers that use thinkpads and i think it provides a great experience for them awesome build quality fantastic keyboard and trackpad and that little nipple which is also there for people who like it the i o is powerful and while the display camera and mic are nothing to write home about they're good enough for the intended target performance and battery life are very very good as well and user repairability and upgradability is a very nice plus on top of that the dev1 is also at a very good price point 1099 us dollars for that kind of performance and build quality you're cheaper than a macbook air at comparable performance build quality but lower battery life and so we come to the conclusion the hp dev1 is a great device that i can absolutely recommend if you live in the us if you don't there is no word yet on when or if this device will come to other countries i guess that will depend on sales so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to 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hey everyone this is Nick and as you can see from the background I am not home but that's not going to prevent me from bringing you all the Linux and open source news that you might want for this week this time we have Adobe planning to make photoshop on the web free for everyone except it's Adobe so of course there's gonna be some paid features then we have Thunderbird merging with the canine mail client on Android to make Thunderbird for Android and we have a nasty Linux malware that seems pretty Adept at concealing itself on various servers and of course we also have tons of updates to gnome to Getty we have plasma 5.25 and a lot of other things including a nice Fair phone Subscription Service a nice service you say well I've got another one for you and that's today's sponsor who's gonna give you a hundred dollars free credit for your own Linux or gaming server thanks to linode for sponsoring this video Lino code is the best choice to deploy your own Linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app Marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a Minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linode has Moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuff like pie hole to block ads you can block mine but it's going to make me even poorer from focalboard a Trello alternative to Rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams linode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started the Thunderbirds team announced their plans to put Thunderbird on Android in the near future the blog post written by my friend Jason evangelo of Linux for everyone Fame explains their reasoning behind this and how they will approach the move to the mobile OS it looks like members of the Thunderbird team approached the developer of K9 mail one of the best open source email clients for Android back in 2018 and that this collaboration will start bearing fruits really soon canine mail will transform in the future into Thunderbird for Android which means that Thunderbird will contribute financially to the male client to add brand new features and more quality of life enhancements there will be Auto configuration for accounts improved folder management support for message filters and syncing between desktop and mobile Thunderbird it looks like it made more sense to work with an existing client than to redevelop something from the ground up and that won't affect the pace of development of the desktop client which is still on a nice path to pick up an improved user experience in its future release it's really cool to see this email client picking up steam being actively worked upon and I guess an Android app really can't hurt the brand recognition and it can only help push open source further so I'll be waiting eagerly for the new Android client that I'll try out and the revamped desktop client that should arrive in the coming month plasma 5.25 was released one of the biggest updates to the desktop environment in the KDE plasma 5 Series among other changes the headline feature is floating panels which look really cool and add some Flair to your desktop there's also a lot more work on accent colors letting you pick the color from the wallpaper apply it to the title bars or even tint all the colors with the accent color so your desktop feels more personal and the touch mode for touchscreens and tablets is now allowed better and can be toggled manually touch gestures are also vastly improved on Wayland they are smoother faster and follow your fingers movement on the touchpad or your touchscreen oh and there's also new screen Edge gestures for touchscreens discover now displays more important information about applications and a lot more and of course I made a video about this brand new release and it's filled with dumb jokes so go check it out in the car up top somewhere here or there or in the link in the description it's really a fantastic release if you own an iPad and use Linux on your computer you might regret the lack of that famous continuity feature from Mac OS that would among other things let you use your iPad as a second display well fear not as OMG Ubuntu has tested ways to make that happen and it looks like it's actually super easy using RDP which is built into gnome since Gundam 42 along with screen sharing you can extend your desktop to a virtual monitor such as an iPad and actually use that iPad as a second display that doesn't just replicate your desktop but acts like a complete monitor it also uses Hardware acceleration and in-frame tracking so the experience is really fluid and nice although your network connection will need to not be too crappy for that to work reliably you will also need to run a G settings command to ensure that this feature is enabled as it's not currently considered polished Enough by gnome devs to be available by default pretty neat feature I'll have to try that with my Galaxy Tab S8 plus I'm sure it will work super well although I will need to wait to get back home to do that because the Wi-Fi here is Dreadful Adobe had already released a version of Photoshop that ran in a web browser a while ago it's not feature complete and it was mostly aimed at collaborating on minor edits to a document and it was limited to paid subscribers or people invited by paid subscribers it looks like this might change as photoshop on the web might end up being free for everyone this is now in testing in Canada where all you need to use Photoshop on the web is a free Adobe account and the goal is to expand that to the world once the test is complete with more advanced features being limited to paid customers Adobe still expects that all core functions of Photoshop will be available for free users so people who don't need it professionally can still use it whatever the OS they're using the end game is of course to hook users with a free product and make them move to the full desktop version once they've outgrown the features they get for free still it's really cool as it means that people who only double in Photoshop and think they need Photoshop for everything that they do can actually stick to what they know and more professional users still get to go use Windows I guess to use the full desktop version I do hope that they include enough of the premium features in the free version so that it's actually a useful tool and that's something that you could replace with like paint.net or Pinta or something yet more tools are coming to Linux as AMD announced they are now supporting their Radeon memory visualizer on our OS of choice this thing is a tool that lets developers solve video memory problems and analyze the usage of vram on Radeon gpus so they can ensure that their titles are optimized for the platform they're only officially supporting Ubuntu 20.04 for now which is weird but there is no reason that the tool wouldn't work on other distros as well as long as all dependencies are met the experience seems to be identical to the windows version which is nice and it already lets developers analyze Vulcan applications on Linux why did they put this to Linux well they cite the rising popularity of gaming on the Linux OS if I may interject AMD Linux is just a kernel it's not an OS but but jokes and patentry aside it's good to see that these tools are making their way to Linux and I hope that they bring their more gamer consumer focused AMD radiant software suite to Linux as well that would be really nice you didn't really think I would publish one of these News videos without including the latest updates to gnome apps did you this week gnome software gets an uninstall option for its command line and Amber all the new music player that still sounds like medicine now joined gnome Circle officially getting into that quite open list of unofficial but endorsed gnome apps authenticator an app that lets you generate authentication codes now supports Google Authenticator workbench the sandbox to learn and test gnome Technologies now supports Valor it can preview templates and Signal handlers and includes all the icons you might need finally farsh the mobile shell developed by purism also got swipe gestures for the top and bottom bar and has better quick settings people keep telling me that these updates are very small but keep in mind that these are weekly updates as in they've been done over the past five to seven days and I think that's nothing to scuff at let's not leave out KD either as they've not only released plasma 5.25 but they've also been working on the new features that we'll enjoy in four months one 15-minute bug has been resolved and plasma gets support for changing the wallpaper when switching to a dark theme so you can have these nice dual wallpapers that have a light and a dark variant Arc the archiving tool will check to see if there's enough disk space before unarchiving something system settings Pages get more priority in the search results from the menu or k Runner and you can now drag Windows between screens in the overview and the present Windows effect Breeze buttons no longer have a gradient until you hover over them giving a little flatter look and the analog clock now respects your accent color on top of now supporting your color scheme entirely these guys just never stop and plasma 5.26 is gearing up to be another amazing release and I would expect it to fix all the small little issues that I noticed in my 5.25 review at least the developers told me that they would probably be fixed a new Linux malware has been discovered by researchers and this one is a bit concerning as it's not specifically new it's very mature and very Adept at concealing itself on Infected servers which makes it quite hard to detect it can scrub all signs of infection on the infected file system on the system processes and on the network traffic it's called symbiote and has been targeting financial institutions in Brazil its first detection was in November and it works by infecting other processes it's not an app it's a library that loads itself when running other programs using preload and once it has infected all running processes it provides rootkit functionality to the person who needs it with the ability to harvest credentials and access the server remotely pretty concerning stuff even though it's not stated to be super widespread at the moment although since it seems to be super capable that hiding itself is really hard to know users of calendar one of the best looking calendar and tasks app not only on Katie but on Linux as a whole we'll be happy to know that the contact manager is being revamped quite nicely the contact view will look a hell of a lot nicer with a nice contact list better sorted and the contact details page being a lot better laid out as well the settings now have access to the same sources as the current contact module so webdav exchange or local vCard files and you can share contacts by generating a QR code there's also a plasma applet in the works to let you search for your contacts and send them an email or call them using KD connect the contact editor is still lacking a lot of features but it's progressing nicely as well it also supports contact groups calendar is shaping up nicely to be a full replacement for contact the Outlook replacement suite for KDE all it needs now is an email and a notes module and basically you'll get everything you need and probably something that I will use even on my gnome systems yeah it's that good even a consistency nerd like me would drop their principles to use that app it's really nice cinnamon 5.4 has been tagged for release and it will be available for Linux Mint 21 codenamed Vanessa this summer of course it can also be integrated by other distributions as well 5.4 comes 7 months after the previous release and brings a bunch of new stuff it has a newer more stable window manager that more closely follows gnome's matter so it will be easier to update in the future 5.4 also brings the ability to copy system info to the clipboard for easier bug reporting better fractional scaling better Hot Corner setup support for application actions in the menu as well as support for logical monitors improved keyboard navigation in the menu and a ton of bug fixes on the various applets this desktop environment provides I'll give it a good look when Min 21 is released so stay tuned for that and don't forget to subscribe of course you know that little red button in the bottom of the video that actually doesn't guarantee that you'll see my videos in your feed just click it fairphone is an initiative that I really like trying to build a completely repairable and user serviceable smartphone all while compensating workers fail and limiting the impact on the environment I used the fairphone 4 for a while when reviewing the latest release of Slash EOS and while that phone doesn't suit my own personal needs it's still a pretty cool device well users that want to use a fair phone will now have access to a subscription service that turns the model on its head the more you keep your phone the less expensive it becomes with monthly discounts every year you keep your phone as long as it's undamaged since you will have to send it back at the end of the contract so it can be properly recycled plans start at 21 Euros per month and after the third year it will only cost you 13 euros once the discount for long ownership comes into play and once you finally change your phone for something else you can rest assured that they will recycle it properly which is a nice Plus a pretty great initiative and I would love to see fairphone making a more Flagship level device with a high refresh rate screen and better specs I would be very willing to pay a premium for that proton 7.0-3 was released by Valve directly inside of steam to help you get even more game support on Linux and on the steam deck this new release adds a ton of playable games like beneath a steel Sky make Warrior online Warhammer end times vermintide Star Wars Episode 1 racer or we were here forever among a ton of others of course it includes the latest dxvk mono and dxvk envy API so compatibility is the best it can be it also includes a lot of bug fixes for Elden ring death Loop the Turing test Resident Evil Revelations 2 as well as for video playback in a lot of titles using vp8 and vp9 codecs the windows gaming input API is Now supported as well and steering wheels detection should now be much better and yes I am still amazed at the pace of these incredible updates and at the pace at which game support on Linux is evolving it's just amazing work amazing just like today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in 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[Music] hey everyone this is nick and i got my hands on an hp dev one that laptop made in collaboration with hp and system 76 that runs pop os out of the box and without spoiling anything i can definitely tell you that it's a very very good device that might even make think bad lovers rethink their next purchase if they live in the us that is and before anyone jumps to conclusion no i wasn't paid to say that this video isn't sponsored either by hp or system 76 it's also a bit of a historical laptop because it's the first time that a big manufacturer has designed a notebook from the ground up to work with linux it's not a windows machine that's also sold with ubuntu or fedora like we can see on other manufacturers this thing has been designed from the start to run linux so let's take a look at the hardware how well the software has been integrated and i'll even sprinkle in some little tidbits of information about how system 76 and hp collaborated on this one just like i love 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organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay let's begin with the hardware because the hp dev one is an absolute beauty the dev one is a device that targets developers but it is definitely suitable for everyone else as well although it has that pro look to it it's made out of aluminium and the chassis is very rigid with almost no deck flex at all it looks pretty good in that apple-esque space gray color and there's the metallic hp logo on the back and under the display the screen is covered in glass and has a very sturdy hinge so sturdy that you can't open it with one finger the chassis is very resistant to fingerprints so it won't look too dirty after a few weeks of use and it's also relatively resistant to scratches the device itself has a wedge shape and it's pretty thin at less than two centimeters at its thickest point it weighs less than 1.5 kilograms although it does feel relatively heavy and solid that's three quarters of an inch for thickness and 3.24 pounds for weight if you live in areas where standard units don't apply of course it has two small stickers but they're easy to remove if like me you hate these sticky little bastards but the best part is it's user serviceable you can open the back by removing the five screws and upgrade the ram and storage or just completely dismantle it as a matter of fact the first units they sent system 76 for testing was just the box of spare parts that they had to assemble themselves so i guess that's pretty reassuring in terms of how maintainable and repairable it really is and it seems derived from a line of laptops at hp that regularly get a 8 to 9 out of 10 by ifixit it's simply a very well built laptop i would say not quite on par with the latest macbooks from apple because there is a bit more deck flex than these devices but it's a very reassuring laptop you won't feel like it's going to twist bend or break when you drop it or carry it around on to the hardware it packs and let's start with the display it's covered in glass and so it's pretty reflective and susceptible to fingerprints although there is no reason to touch it as it's not a touch screen it's 14 inch at 1920 by 1080 and it can go up to a thousand nits of brightness which is pretty high although again the glass cover does reduce that brightness a bit about 20 according to hp it's sharp and it's got good color accuracy but it's definitely not a laptop you will want to take outside too much the glass isn't anti-reflective and so you're going to see yourself or just the light around you quite a bit for inside work it's absolutely good enough hey they made this for developers do you know a developer that likes to go outside i thought they all lived in little basements with tons of cables and rgb everywhere but okay i'll stop now the bezels are relatively large for today's standards but they are nothing to complain about and the top one hosts a 720p webcam with a privacy shutter included which is cool no need for duct tape or post-it notes that webcam is your usual potato quality it's not full hd it's a bit grainy and it doesn't handle lighting very well the microphone isn't bad at all though although you'll want to drop the mic volume in gnome to avoid it distorting and it still picks up any keyboard activity and the fan noise even though it's not very distracting as always this is an area i wish they would spend a little bit more time on like microphones and webcams are often overlooked now for video conferencing it's definitely going to be suitable but it's not fantastic let's move on to the i o on the left side you have your kensington lock and two usb a ports that go up to 5 gigabits per second as well as the holy headphone jack on the right side you have the port for the barrel charger included in the box an hdmi 2.0 port and two usbc 10 gigabit per second that also support displayport and charging which is good because since it's only available in the us it came with a us power plug and i lost my adapter so thankfully he charges through usbc or that review would have been delayed oh and also it supports fast charging so you can top up 50 percent of the battery in 30 minutes the speakers are really good and don't distort at all even on max volume they have enough bass to sound right and they won't let you down if you want to watch a video a movie or for conferencing good job on that often overlooked part [Music] moving on to the keyboard and trackpad whether you like these inputs or not will depend on whether you like thinkpads or not the keyboard is fantastic either way the keys have full travel they're well spaced and they make an appropriately clicky noise the keys feel very solid they are very stable they actuate well and even the space bar when you press it on the very side the function row works as a function keys first so you'll have to press the fn key to get f1 f2 and the likes unless you change that in the vios of course i personally prefer it the way it is by default and then you have that little nub in the middle of the keyboard look i never could use or understand these things they just feel completely imprecise and weird and they force my hand to cramp in uncomfortable positions but if you're used to them i guess it's cool to have it the acceleration curve seems a bit high to me with the slightest movement of my finger jerking the mouse cursor all over the place but it might just be me not being used to using that thing the touchpad appropriately has two buttons on top so you can click while using the knob but that unfortunately reduces the surface for touchpad users like me and there is no clickable middle button still that touchpad is really really good it's covered in glass and it's extremely smooth for gestures although pop os uses x11 by default so you don't get the smooth one-to-one gestures that glom introduced recently you still have gestures but they're not as nice to use so i guess if you swear by the little knob you're gonna have a good experience with it and if you don't like it you're not that worse off for its presence so i think it's good either way in terms of internals the dev1 only comes in one configuration horizon 7 pro 5850u 16 gigabytes of ram and one terabyte of storage but you can upgrade the ram and the storage yourself after the fact the cpu is eight core 16 threads and has a base clock of 1.9 gigahertz up to 4.4 when boosting it's a very very powerful beast indeed with a geekbench score of 1550 in single score and 77.07 in multicore this definitely will get you through any task or code compilation you need to do it even beats my desktop ryzen 7 5800x in single core although in multicore the desktop still has the edge it is a very very powerful chip and being of the u line of the amd ryzen cpus it focuses on low tdp and battery life which we'll see in a minute is pretty good now this laptop isn't aimed at gamers and its integrated graphics aren't anything special i ran shadow of the tomb raider on it and at 1080p on medium settings the benchmark ran only at around 20 fps lowering things to low graphics resulted in the game reaching about 25 fps not really playable if you lower the resolution at 720p then you start getting much better performance and it's not horrible to look at on a 14 inch screen on resident evil 2 performance is a bit better at 1080p on medium you hover a bit under 30fps and on low settings you definitely achieve a solid 30 fps at 1080p once the shaders have been combined as it's a game running with proton so yeah it's still an integrated graphics component from a cpu it's on par with what you would expect it's not terrible but it's not great and for less demanding games it's definitely going to do the trick as per battery life i left the laptop on a youtube loop with firefox over wi-fi at mid brightness and it lasted for eight and a half hours before shutting down on a more typical workload i used it to write scripts using firefox and next cloud nodes listening to music and wi-fi on bluetooth mouse connected at mid brightness and it lasted for 7 hours so on the hardware front i was kind of positively surprised i hear horror stories about hp laptops often in the comments but this this does not reflect those horror stories at all it's super well built it's very sturdy the cpu choice is probably the right mix between power and power consumption you've got an awesome keyboard great trackpad that little nub if you need it and the screen webcam and mics aren't amazing but they're definitely good enough okay let's move on to the software the dev1 runs pop os 22.04 and there's been a lot of work done by both teams on that front system 76 collaborated with hp to deliver the same image for pop os as the one you can download of the internet except that it will auto detect the dev one and install everything needed to ensure it works great the integration goes up to the support as well just like a system 76 laptop you can create a support ticket right from the settings and hp has a dedicated support team for that device to ensure that things run smoothly with a process to pass on tickets to system 76 if they're software related both teams also worked with amd to ensure that suspend and resume work as well as possible and they achieved a super super low tdp on suspend so you can be sure that the laptop will not die while it's stored in your backpack all these improvements have of course been upstreamed to the kernel it doesn't run core boots but this has been discussed between system 76 and hp and it might happen if they make a second generation of that product also all firmware updates will be distributed through lvfs which is nice because you won't have to reboot your dual boot windows to be able to install these updates rebooting into windows now there are some kinks to the software first you have to agree to a license agreement to use the device i actually read it and it's box standard here is what license applies to what we're not liable if you do stupid things this kind of stuff nothing untowards or privacy invasive then there's the analytics it's completely opt-in and not enabled by default it's a step you have to go through at first setup but you can say no if you let them hp will collect a lot of data about the device nothing personal or linked to what you've actually done on the device it's all hardware related like system temps battery health fan tachometry and driver versions if you decide to opt in you can always opt out in the future from the privacy settings and you can even delete all analytics on server in one click now the license agreement and analytics will probably ruffle some feathers but yeah the license agreement doesn't have anything weird in it and the analytics can be like disabled immediately you don't even have to enable it to then go and disable it so i don't see this as an issue the rest of the os is just standard pop os it works as well as you would expect but why did hp go with pop os and not let's say ubuntu well it seems that they surveyed a bunch of developers and pop os is the os that came the most often and i guess the experience that system 76 has to actually shipping their os on actual hardware must have helped a lot now the dev one can be purchased with two accessories the hp wireless creator mouse and the launch keyboard from system 76 while i didn't get that launch keyboard to test things out because it's not in europe i guess i did get the mouse and it's a good alternative to the mx master series that i use daily it's very comfortable with a thumb rest with a nice scroll wheel that feels good and that you can switch from free-flowing scrolling or with steps and it has three configurable buttons yes configurable because hp made a graphical utility called mouse configurator and it's available in the pop shop it's a graphical tool for linux to configure that mouse it lets you remap any button to a lot of different actions either for media playback browser control or controlling the os there are tons of choices and you can save your configurations and switch them on the fly as well as adjust the mouse dpi it's pretty cool to see this kind of support here and the mouse uses bluetooth but it also comes with a usb adapter if you prefer so it can be paired with up to three devices two with bluetooth and one with the adapter as per the launch keyboard it's a highly customizable mechanical keyboard that you can tweak to your liking swapping keys around configuring it with a dedicated app and all configurations are stored on the board itself so you can take it from one computer to the next and not have to redo all those steps i hope i can get one and review one once system 76 opens their distribution center in europe this should happen in the coming month so the hp dev one is a very interesting device from a hardware standpoint it clearly aims at developers that use thinkpads and i think it provides a great experience for them awesome build quality fantastic keyboard and trackpad and that little nipple which is also there for people who like it the i o is powerful and while the display camera and mic are nothing to write home about they're good enough for the intended target performance and battery life are very very good as well and user repairability and upgradability is a very nice plus on top of that the dev1 is also at a very good price point 1099 us dollars for that kind of performance and build quality you're cheaper than a macbook air at comparable performance build quality but lower battery life and so we come to the conclusion the hp dev1 is a great device that i can absolutely recommend if you live in the us if you don't there is no word yet on when or if this device will come to other countries i guess that will depend on sales so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to 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hey everyone this is nick and despite my office looking like an electronics shop with all the device i own plus all the ones i have to review and then send back i still found time to scour the internet and find you the best linux and open source news for this week in this one we have some crazy developers who managed to boot a linux kernel on ipads we have ubuntu overzealously killing off apps in the background like it's an old smartphone and we have system 76 planning to open a distribution center in europe so we might finally be able to get all their devices there and of course we have weekly updates to our desktop environments and their applications we have the hp dev1 which i have in the background there being available in the us and we also have the traditional wine release and we also have this segue to today's sponsor who's giving you a hundred dollars free credit to launch your own linux or gaming server it's what i use for my own next cloud and only office instances so take a 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security issues its multimedia backend has also been improved display capture using pipe wire is fixed and video streaming should also work better gnome software now has support for listing other apps by the same developer inside of app pages calls the phone dialer can now do voice over ip calls gav4 the modelling tool has better activity diagrams and you can now drag and drop elements from the tree view to a diagram itself flat seal now can handle global overrides that apply to all your flatback apps it highlights the changes you've made and it supports system level color styles amberol the new music player also received plenty of ui fixes and colors and spacing have been improved they also mentioned the efforts to bring shell to phones and tablets although nothing new has been published yet on that front but i'm kinda excited about the changes to webkit gdk maybe it's gonna make epiphany a lot better i have to give it another shot kd developers were also hard at work on their own stuff and while they focus on fixing the remaining issues before plasma 5.25 releases next week they still got some new stuff done there's one new 15-minute bug locked so the number is now 65 issues to fix dolphin gains the ability to remove individual items from the recent files and recent locations lists and in the file dialogs so you can make sure nothing embarrassing shows up here you can preview wallpapers by just clicking on them instead of having to hit apply although you will still need to apply the change to make it permanent and file open and save dialogs now lets you sort hidden files last elisa can now sort your music tracks by date modified and it now handles touch screens better there were also a ton of bug fixes this week and shortcuts have been tweaked to use the meta key or the super key to be more consistent most of these changes should land in plasma 5.26 so in four months from there or in august in the kde gear software compilation linux will soon run on as many types of devices as the good old doom as some developers managed to run it on ipads based on the a8 and a7 chips these devices while not that old since they date from 2013 and 2014 are out of updates from apple which makes this all the better they managed to run a linux kernel version 5.18 on an ipad air 2 using post market os it looks like they needed to use a bootrom exploit to get it onto the hardware and it can't mount a file system just yet just like most other basic features like usb bluetooth networking audio or graphics but it's a first step these devices could absolutely be used as small home servers and maybe in the future as full graphical tablets running a full desktop environment and in the future it might also open the door to running linux based operating systems on phones on iphones because they also use the same chips imagine running like fosh or kd plasma mobile or ubuntu touch on an iphone would be cool ubuntu 22.04 seems to be a problematic release for their users after the whole app images don't work anymore thing and a host of kernel vulnerabilities that were not specifically ubuntu's fault it now seems that the lts version kills off applications a bit too eagerly 22.04 introduced systemdomd for out of memory daemon a system that kills applications when the kernel reports it's out of memory something that can happen often if your device doesn't have much ram well it looks like this system is a bit overzealous and also kills applications when memory isn't necessarily strained chrome as the biggest memory hog ever invented is often shut down when you're trying to do something else there are mitigations like increasing the swap file size or disabling the feature entirely but it's still something that needs to be fixed quickly by ubuntu 22.04 is an lts it's supposed to be very stable so these kind of issues just shouldn't happen on it i think their testing process needs a little bit more work and also it's going to add more water to the mail of people that didn't like systemd before if you don't like youtube and you're looking for alternatives you might know about peertube while it clearly doesn't have the breadth of content you'd find on google's platform and creators won't find the same size of audience the federated network is still growing and adding more features version 4.2 now lets creators edit their videos directly through the web interface it only lets you do basic edits but that lets you remove a part of your video you think doesn't work or move things around without having to re-render the whole video from your editing software and without having to re-upload it or you can fix small mistakes post upload it's a neat feature you also get more detailed video statistics like average and total watch time peak viewers and the number of countries your viewers stem from people who watch streams on peertube can now set the latency value they prefer instead of the fixed 30 seconds that was the rule before and all live streams can now be preserved as a replay some of my videos do make it to peertube on the til vids instance they're uploaded with my permissions by the host of the instance but maybe i look into setting up my own or uploading to an already existing one i like this fetiverse thingy and on that note i'm also on mastodon and pixelfed both links are in the description of all videos more good news for linux users in apple land apple will allow linux virtual machines to run x86 applications in macs that use the new apple silicon cpus starting with mac os ventura the recently announced new version of their os as of now you simply cannot run x86 systems at all on these devices including windows and while it could run oss made for armed cpus this limited the number of applications you could effectively use on your vm thankfully this now won't be the case at least in a few months you still won't be able to run oss made for intel or amd cpus but the oss that you can run will be able to run x86 apps inside the vm although it seems it requires a few commands and the creation of a shared directory between mac os and the virtual machine apparently it might even enable non-apple arm cpus to run rosetta their x86 on arm emulator although that is not something we'll see in the near future still it's pretty cool that these devices will finally allow their users to run full linux virtual machines i'm actually kind of intrigued by their new cpus the new m1s and m2s maybe i'll get a new macbook just to try azahi linux when it's completely fully operational with gpu support might be fun system 76 which you might know for making pop os is also a manufacturer of laptops and desktops running linux out of the box they also make the launch keyboard a fully customizable mechanical board that looks pretty powerful but until now a lot of their devices were us only they didn't ship their desktops to europe or the rest of the world for example this might start to change as they're opening a distribution center in europe in the coming month to begin with they'll only stock their launch keyboard and a future light variant of that one but there are definitely plans to expand that to other types of devices in the future so we might finally be able to get our hands on these sweet sweet felio desktops soon they'll need to address more keyboard layouts for laptops if they want to distribute them in europe so it will take a bit more time but i hope they do it because their approach to integrated hardware and software is one i really like apparently they are looking at the netherlands for a potential location for that distribution center so come on system 76 bring us those review units in europe and maybe let me keep a fellow i know i have too many computers but it would look very very cool on my desktop and speaking of system 76 and linux hardware the hp dev1 is now available i mentioned it in a previous news video but i got to spend an hour or so with people from hp and system 76 at a briefing and i have a review unit so i can tell you a bit more about it while it is still us only for now and they don't know yet if it will make it to other countries it's a great device that could really make thinkpad users rethink their future purchases it has that weird nipple thing and a fantastic keyboard and a very very powerful cpu namely a ryzen 7 pro 5850u that goes up to 4.4 gigahertz and packs a pretty powerful gpu as well system 76 worked hand in hand with hp to provide support directly from the os with a dedicated team at hp to handle requests for this device it also has a mouse configurator app for the hp creator mouse so you can configure its buttons inside of linux graphically and it also looks like they worked with amd to make suspend and resume work better and improve battery life and they claim up to 12 hours firmware will also be made available through lvfs i only spent a few days with the device but initial impressions are really good the build quality is awesome the keyboard is excellent the battery life is really nice and the hardware and software integration really makes it shine so expect that review in the coming days and subscribe if you want to see it if you were a fan of the unity desktop environment there might be a feature you're missing well there might be plenty like the hud or the global menu but at least one of these features might make its way back into the ubuntu dock on regular gnome unity lets you click on an apps icon to spread all of its windows in an exposed view something really more practical than small thumbnails or outstabbing well someone is working on bringing that back to modern day ubuntu which is pretty cool it's only a merge request and hasn't been accepted yet and it would also be an option that users have to opt into but i would still like this to be included as i feel like it's a great window management method that also keeps up with gnome's overview design and whether you liked or disliked unity back in the day i still took a look at it to see how it holds up in 2022 check out the video in the card like somewhere up top and how could i end this video without including a new wine release wine 7.10 is now out with the mac os driver converted to the pe executable format an update to the moto engine and more wow 64 support in various 32-bit libraries 56 bugs were also marked as solved including for singularity panzer core tribes ascend steam hitman 2 from 2018 the farm mod for near automata star citizen ea origin per royal 4 and more as always you can expect all these improvements and bug fixes to land in a proton release very soon or you could just use wine on its own right now or inside of lutres or the heroic games launcher or from bottles your choice just like it's my choice to tell you about today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make laptops and desktops that run linux out of the box you can choose any distro you want add configuration or you can 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hey everyone this is nick and i have a dirty secret to confess i always loved unity the desktop environment not the 3d engine i would have no idea where to start with this thing so when ubuntu introduced unity i was super excited and i loved it and when they candid i was pretty bummed out until i forgot it even existed because i thought it was dead but turns out it really wasn't the great thing about open source projects and linux in general is that anybody can just grab the code back and get working on updating it and maintaining it and that's what's happening with unity and it's all being done by a very very young guy that also makes ubuntu web remix or gamebone2 so in 2022 is the unity desktop environment still a viable solution let's take a look now something that's definitely a viable solution to store your files and photos securely and privately is today's sponsor internext thanks to internext for sponsoring this video they offer you some cloud storage space focused on privacy and security they encrypt all the data you store on your internext drive and your data isn't visible by any third party at any point during the upload storage or download process everything is encrypted end to end and gdpr compliant internext offers you an online drive and a photo storage solution in the same package complete with syncing sharing and backups and they have apps for all platforms to handle all of that including linux macos windows android and ios so you can get all your files on all your devices you can get 10 gigabytes for free and they have plans that go up to 2 terabytes for 8.99 euros per month and if you want an even better deal you can use my code linux experiment written in the description below to get 25 of your purchase of an annual plan for two terabytes of storage so click the link in the description below to learn more and use the offer code linux experiment and start storing your files securely and privately okay so let's first take a look at how unity works because it's been a long while and i can't quite remember it old age man it's not just a greying beard it's also memory loss so first unity is a shell not really a desktop environment it doesn't provide its own set of apps it ships mostly gnome applications and a shell to replace gnome shell that is the default on regular ubuntu this creates a few issues but i'll detail them as we go the unity shell is definitely the inspiration for modern ubuntu you get a dock on the left side of the screen and a top bar things do differ a bit though in terms of how things work first the dock it can't be moved to another screen edge it's firmly on the left and it's not moving the dock or launcher as they call it holds the dash button with the ubuntu logo as well as app shortcuts and opened applications and everything else you might have plugged in like hard drives there's also the trash can at the bottom right clicking an app brings a jump list with a few contextual options depending on the application and damn these still look good legible bold typeface nice spacing transparent and blur that's just pretty the dock displays all opened windows on all workspaces and clicking the apps icon will take you to that workspace with a nice little animation now the first small issue here apps don't seem to always lock to their shortcut if i open a settings panel it opens a new icon in the dock instead of linking it to the settings favorites that i already have if i click the settings icon again it closes the settings panel that i have and makes its icon disappear from the dock now look it might be nitpicky but it's still not very tidy hovering over an app icon doesn't have an effect or highlight but you get the name of the app so at least you know what you're looking at if you have many many apps visible in the dock they also fold on themselves so you can see them all and click them but they don't use as much space it's pretty nice looking and it's pretty useful another nice hidden feature is long pressing the super key which brings numbers for each app shortcut pressing that number will launch the app and you also get a nice recap of all keyboard shortcuts of which there are many unity is definitely very usable for keyboard focused users who probably all will now start writing a comment below telling me that i3 is better go on i'll wait you're done let's move on to round up the base behavior of the dock you can tune a few things like auto hiding it or displaying the workspace switcher as well as a show desktop icon and you can change the icon size although that setting is in the look tab instead of the behavior tab now let's talk about the top panel it holds the current focused apps name the global menu bar and the system indicators yes a global menu my favorite solution to handle menu bars it's just so much easier for me to have that menu always at the same spot instead of trying to aim at it inside of the window now don't worry if you don't like the global menu there's a setting to disable it and display the menu bars inside of the windows themselves like an animal but also you probably will want to enable that setting because there are issues see menu bars aren't that useful for gnome apps as most gdk3 and gtk4 apps don't have one so that top bar mostly stays empty with the default apps libreoffice does make use of it but firefox and thunderbird haven't been patched for it even if you use the debian package for thunderbird which would benefit from a global menu as well doesn't use it if you use the snap or the flat pack but it does if you use the dev package some flat pack apps do work with the global menu like kde apps for example it's just pretty inconsistent and annoying to deal with as some apps will just not work in the same way as others also that global menu isn't always displayed by default it's hidden and you have to hover over it to reveal it again you can change it in the settings and have it always on but the default isn't great the usefulness of a global menu compared to a normal menu bar inside of the apps window is the muscle memory you can just throw your mouse up to the right menu and not worry about overshooting the menu itself it's just generally a good solution except if you don't see where the menus are exactly where each menu is located then you have to hover over it and then move the mouse to the right menu which is less efficient i think the menu bar should be visible at all times as the default another nice thing that unity does with its top bar is using it as the title bar when you maximize a window its title bar disappears and is merged with the top bar which means you're saving precious vertical space if you need the window controls they are also in the top bar now and you can reveal them by hovering over it again i'd prefer them to be always visible but at least they're always in the same spot on the left side so you can just basically aim for it without really knowing where they are exactly as for the system indicators they have that older feeling of being drop down menus tightly packed much like what you'd find on mate or xfce they let you access the network language and audio basic settings and you can turn off or reboot from there too it's definitely super familiar and it works much like gnome does that part hasn't aged a bit there are also two features that unity has that i really really loved when i used it the dash and the hud the dash opens when you click the unity button with the ubuntu logo or when you hit the super key it's kind of the precursor to the gnome app grid and overview it has global search to let you find anything you want apps files videos music pictures or folders all results can be filtered to only display the things you want and you can also look for individual categories using the little lenses at the bottom or switching between them with control plus tab you used to be able to add new lenses to the dash thanks to various ppas but these don't seem to be maintained anymore so i don't think that's possible nowadays the dash is still pretty useful you hit super you type what you want you hit enter and it opens it's the basic workflow for gnome as well nowadays you can drag applications to the dock to pin them there and you can right click an item to get more information although that rarely displays anything very useful it should display reviews for the app and screenshots but right now it doesn't work you also can't see apps you might want to install from the software center although you can enable that source it just doesn't work and you also don't get those amazing amazon search results anymore i love those okay now i lied that was terrible that was privacy invasive it's good that it's not there anymore now these lenses at the bottom don't feel super practical anymore for example in the app lens you can't move apps around or create folders which makes it a bit less useful than the gnome apps grid for documents and pictures it's okay as it's an easy way to find the recent documents you interacted with although it seems to take the dash a while to index new files i downloaded a bunch of pictures to my pictures folder and they don't show up in my photos lens for example same for videos the dash is still competent but i think that other desktop environments have surpassed it nowadays the gnome overview and apps grid or k-runner and the plasma menu just do more stuff and they just work better the dash does look beautiful though with a nice tinted blur and these white little category icons it hasn't aged at all in the looks department the hud is another useful feature you press alt and it summons it what it allows you to do is find an action or menu item related to the current open window and just type to find it while it might seem less efficient than just doing the action it's extremely useful if you know there's something you can do but you don't remember where it's located in apps with big convoluted menus like libreoffice it can be extremely useful and it also gives you the path for this action so you can find it later if you can remember where it was which i never do unfortunately it only works if the app exposes its menu bar so for libreoffice it's okay but for firefox it doesn't work and it will only display the window actions you can do the hud is definitely a great idea but it has its origins in the time where all apps had menu bars nowadays even kde apps are moving away from them gnome doesn't have them at all and so the usefulness of the feature is kinda diminished which is unfortunate because it's great i think most desktop environments that still have menu bars in their apps should implement something like this it's just good now in the end as it's shipped on ubuntu unity you can feel that both these features are good but they're not as good as they were back in the day there are just better ways to do things nowadays or apps have evolved in a direction that's not really compatible with the unity vision anymore let's move on to window management and on that front unity hasn't really aged first you get window tiling it's super familiar just drag an app to a screen edge and it's styled there or drag it to the top and it's maximized you can drag the whole top bar down to and maximize which is handy there is no corner tiling unfortunately so you can't put your apps in quarters of the screen then you have the workspace switcher clicking it zooms out on a grid of all your virtual desktops there are four by defaults and you can move apps directly from one to another by just dragging them you can also position them between workspaces you don't have to anchor them to a particular one if you have multiple windows opened at the same time clicking on the docs icon brings an overview of all of them which is extremely nice that's something you don't get out of the box on other desktop environments these days and i think it's an absolutely perfect way of navigating between app windows especially with a dock or an icon only task switcher although someone seems to be trying to bring this feature to the ubuntu dock inside of gnome so all hope is not lost you also have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to handle your windows like super plus w to get to an exposed view of everything that's open unfortunately the workspaces grid doesn't display all windows in the exposure view so to move them you might have to drag windows one by one until you reveal the one you actually wanted to move generally though window management on unity is really really good it works as you'd expect and you get all the familiar features that we still have nowadays it was really ahead of the curve back then on the performance side of things unity used up 1.5 gigabytes of ram out of 16 which is on par with modern gnome or kde when you have that amount of available ram maybe it's a little bit higher things are pretty smooth and don't stutter although the minimizing animation seems to take a really long time for me for some reason the dash the hud the workspace switcher and all associated animations just fly by and open very quickly it's nice to see i remember that back when unity was introduced a lot of computers struggled to run it well it was just hecape and performance was terrible but it seems that hardware has finally caught up to it although you would still not want to run it on a potato computer unity is old but not potato old so is unity still good in 2022 well it's going to depend on whether you think it was good in the first place personally i think it was one of the best options available at the time gnome 3 was a mess and kde 4 was well let's say not finished unity had personality it had great looks it had great features and it was really ahead of the curve in terms of window management and how you searched for files and apps nowadays though its main selling points are also present in all other alternatives the dash has aged a bit and i think the gnome overview and k-runner are more powerful and easier to use the hud has been rendered a bit obsolete by the disappearance of menu bars from a lot of applications and while the window management was pretty advanced for the day everyone else does it just as well or better these days i also think that unity should be shipped with kd or mint apps that still have menu bars unity is developed with cute so there's no reason to stick to gtk apps specifically and since kde and mint apps do tend to work better with a global menu than gnome apps i think ubuntu unity at least should ship these apps instead also if time allows shipping a patched version of firefox and thunderbird so that the menu bar works with the global menu would be pretty cool so yeah the strength of unity being the global menu and the hud those are things you can also kinda get in kde plasma nowadays with the global menu applet and with krunner so maybe these strengths aren't that important anymore still unity is very usable these days and it does look pretty good with tasteful use of blur an updated theme and look and while its features are no longer head turning they are absolutely still viable for day to day use and with someone that's actually interested in maintaining it and developing it further there is no real reason to shun it as an obsolete product unless you want to use weyland because unity is still x11 only unlike this segway to today's sponsor which can run wayland okay now this one doesn't make sense anyways tuxedo is a company based in germany and they sell laptops and desktops that ship with linux pre-installed you can either choose your distro when you set up your computer among a ton of other configuration options and a lot of keyboard layouts or you can install any other distro you might want on there because if the distros that tuxedo ship work your distro will also work on the same hardware which is really cool they have a huge range of devices from the smallest nugs 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hey everyone this is nick and despite my office looking like an electronics shop with all the device i own plus all the ones i have to review and then send back i still found time to scour the internet and find you the best linux and open source news for this week in this one we have some crazy developers who managed to boot a linux kernel on ipads we have ubuntu overzealously killing off apps in the background like it's an old smartphone and we have system 76 planning to open a distribution center in europe so we might finally be able to get all their devices there and of course we have weekly updates to our desktop environments and their applications we have the hp dev1 which i have in the background there being available in the us and we also have the traditional wine release and we also have this segue to today's sponsor who's giving you a hundred dollars free credit to launch your own linux or gaming server it's what i use for my own next cloud and only office instances so take a look thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynnoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started gnome developers published another update about what they've been working on webkit gtk is now up to date with security issues its multimedia backend has also been improved display capture using pipe wire is fixed and video streaming should also work better gnome software now has support for listing other apps by the same developer inside of app pages calls the phone dialer can now do voice over ip calls gav4 the modelling tool has better activity diagrams and you can now drag and drop elements from the tree view to a diagram itself flat seal now can handle global overrides that apply to all your flatback apps it highlights the changes you've made and it supports system level color styles amberol the new music player also received plenty of ui fixes and colors and spacing have been improved they also mentioned the efforts to bring shell to phones and tablets although nothing new has been published yet on that front but i'm kinda excited about the changes to webkit gdk maybe it's gonna make epiphany a lot better i have to give it another shot kd developers were also hard at work on their own stuff and while they focus on fixing the remaining issues before plasma 5.25 releases next week they still got some new stuff done there's one new 15-minute bug locked so the number is now 65 issues to fix dolphin gains the ability to remove individual items from the recent files and recent locations lists and in the file dialogs so you can make sure nothing embarrassing shows up here you can preview wallpapers by just clicking on them instead of having to hit apply although you will still need to apply the change to make it permanent and file open and save dialogs now lets you sort hidden files last elisa can now sort your music tracks by date modified and it now handles touch screens better there were also a ton of bug fixes this week and shortcuts have been tweaked to use the meta key or the super key to be more consistent most of these changes should land in plasma 5.26 so in four months from there or in august in the kde gear software compilation linux will soon run on as many types of devices as the good old doom as some developers managed to run it on ipads based on the a8 and a7 chips these devices while not that old since they date from 2013 and 2014 are out of updates from apple which makes this all the better they managed to run a linux kernel version 5.18 on an ipad air 2 using post market os it looks like they needed to use a bootrom exploit to get it onto the hardware and it can't mount a file system just yet just like most other basic features like usb bluetooth networking audio or graphics but it's a first step these devices could absolutely be used as small home servers and maybe in the future as full graphical tablets running a full desktop environment and in the future it might also open the door to running linux based operating systems on phones on iphones because they also use the same chips imagine running like fosh or kd plasma mobile or ubuntu touch on an iphone would be cool ubuntu 22.04 seems to be a problematic release for their users after the whole app images don't work anymore thing and a host of kernel vulnerabilities that were not specifically ubuntu's fault it now seems that the lts version kills off applications a bit too eagerly 22.04 introduced systemdomd for out of memory daemon a system that kills applications when the kernel reports it's out of memory something that can happen often if your device doesn't have much ram well it looks like this system is a bit overzealous and also kills applications when memory isn't necessarily strained chrome as the biggest memory hog ever invented is often shut down when you're trying to do something else there are mitigations like increasing the swap file size or disabling the feature entirely but it's still something that needs to be fixed quickly by ubuntu 22.04 is an lts it's supposed to be very stable so these kind of issues just shouldn't happen on it i think their testing process needs a little bit more work and also it's going to add more water to the mail of people that didn't like systemd before if you don't like youtube and you're looking for alternatives you might know about peertube while it clearly doesn't have the breadth of content you'd find on google's platform and creators won't find the same size of audience the federated network is still growing and adding more features version 4.2 now lets creators edit their videos directly through the web interface it only lets you do basic edits but that lets you remove a part of your video you think doesn't work or move things around without having to re-render the whole video from your editing software and without having to re-upload it or you can fix small mistakes post upload it's a neat feature you also get more detailed video statistics like average and total watch time peak viewers and the number of countries your viewers stem from people who watch streams on peertube can now set the latency value they prefer instead of the fixed 30 seconds that was the rule before and all live streams can now be preserved as a replay some of my videos do make it to peertube on the til vids instance they're uploaded with my permissions by the host of the instance but maybe i look into setting up my own or uploading to an already existing one i like this fetiverse thingy and on that note i'm also on mastodon and pixelfed both links are in the description of all videos more good news for linux users in apple land apple will allow linux virtual machines to run x86 applications in macs that use the new apple silicon cpus starting with mac os ventura the recently announced new version of their os as of now you simply cannot run x86 systems at all on these devices including windows and while it could run oss made for armed cpus this limited the number of applications you could effectively use on your vm thankfully this now won't be the case at least in a few months you still won't be able to run oss made for intel or amd cpus but the oss that you can run will be able to run x86 apps inside the vm although it seems it requires a few commands and the creation of a shared directory between mac os and the virtual machine apparently it might even enable non-apple arm cpus to run rosetta their x86 on arm emulator although that is not something we'll see in the near future still it's pretty cool that these devices will finally allow their users to run full linux virtual machines i'm actually kind of intrigued by their new cpus the new m1s and m2s maybe i'll get a new macbook just to try azahi linux when it's completely fully operational with gpu support might be fun system 76 which you might know for making pop os is also a manufacturer of laptops and desktops running linux out of the box they also make the launch keyboard a fully customizable mechanical board that looks pretty powerful but until now a lot of their devices were us only they didn't ship their desktops to europe or the rest of the world for example this might start to change as they're opening a distribution center in europe in the coming month to begin with they'll only stock their launch keyboard and a future light variant of that one but there are definitely plans to expand that to other types of devices in the future so we might finally be able to get our hands on these sweet sweet felio desktops soon they'll need to address more keyboard layouts for laptops if they want to distribute them in europe so it will take a bit more time but i hope they do it because their approach to integrated hardware and software is one i really like apparently they are looking at the netherlands for a potential location for that distribution center so come on system 76 bring us those review units in europe and maybe let me keep a fellow i know i have too many computers but it would look very very cool on my desktop and speaking of system 76 and linux hardware the hp dev1 is now available i mentioned it in a previous news video but i got to spend an hour or so with people from hp and system 76 at a briefing and i have a review unit so i can tell you a bit more about it while it is still us only for now and they don't know yet if it will make it to other countries it's a great device that could really make thinkpad users rethink their future purchases it has that weird nipple thing and a fantastic keyboard and a very very powerful cpu namely a ryzen 7 pro 5850u that goes up to 4.4 gigahertz and packs a pretty powerful gpu as well system 76 worked hand in hand with hp to provide support directly from the os with a dedicated team at hp to handle requests for this device it also has a mouse configurator app for the hp creator mouse so you can configure its buttons inside of linux graphically and it also looks like they worked with amd to make suspend and resume work better and improve battery life and they claim up to 12 hours firmware will also be made available through lvfs i only spent a few days with the device but initial impressions are really good the build quality is awesome the keyboard is excellent the battery life is really nice and the hardware and software integration really makes it shine so expect that review in the coming days and subscribe if you want to see it if you were a fan of the unity desktop environment there might be a feature you're missing well there might be plenty like the hud or the global menu but at least one of these features might make its way back into the ubuntu dock on regular gnome unity lets you click on an apps icon to spread all of its windows in an exposed view something really more practical than small thumbnails or outstabbing well someone is working on bringing that back to modern day ubuntu which is pretty cool it's only a merge request and hasn't been accepted yet and it would also be an option that users have to opt into but i would still like this to be included as i feel like it's a great window management method that also keeps up with gnome's overview design and whether you liked or disliked unity back in the day i still took a look at it to see how it holds up in 2022 check out the video in the card like somewhere up top and how could i end this video without including a new wine release wine 7.10 is now out with the mac os driver converted to the pe executable format an update to the moto engine and more wow 64 support in various 32-bit libraries 56 bugs were also marked as solved including for singularity panzer core tribes ascend steam hitman 2 from 2018 the farm mod for near automata star citizen ea origin per royal 4 and more as always you can expect all these improvements and bug fixes to land in a proton release very soon or you could just use wine on its own right now or inside of lutres or the heroic games launcher or from bottles your choice just like it's my choice to tell you about today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make laptops and desktops that run linux out of the box you can choose any distro you want add configuration or you can 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hey everyone this is nick and i hope you're not getting tired of all the exciting stuff happening in linux and open source land because there is more there is always more this week we have the gnome developers trying to adapt a gnome shell to a smartphone and tablet form factor and no that's not fosh that's a separate project which is not gnome shell this is the real deal we also have deep in 20.6 releasing with huge improvements to the desktop environment and the default apps and we have time shift being taken over by the linux mint team but there's also some new info about elementor os 7 horus there are some new nvidia drivers releasing and there are some new plugins for the steam deck among a lot of other things so let's get started just like it's super easy to get started with your own linux or gaming server thanks to today's sponsor and the hundred dollar free credits they're gonna give you thanks to linode for sponsoring this video lynnode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started the google summer of code has started and gnome has grabbed two interesting projects to improve their applications the first one is to revamp the new document creation feature of nautilus the file manager this feature has been a bit neglected and suffered some regressions with the gdk4 port so ignacio kuczynski sorry if i'm butchering the name a polish student is going to work on improving it by exposing an entire tree of all available document templates instead of using some nested submenus they're going to use icons to be more legible they're going to show the new document menu even if the templates folder is empty so users can add new templates they're going to let users search the templates list and quickly rename the newly created files the second project is to improve gnome health a little known app used to track your fitness activities and weight the goal is to let the app sync with google fit to automatically pull steps and weights and also if time allows to work on a pine time companion app as well other projects of google summer of code will help improve chromecast support ptv the video editor fractal the matrix client and the various gnome websites these are all cool projects although i'm more interested in the revamp of the new document menu from nautilus because that thing has been bothering me since the gnome 2 era gnome developers are looking into the mobile form factor and are starting to think about porting gnome shell to smartphones yeah i know fosh exists but it's an entirely new shell developed for the libra m5 and it's not gnome shell itself so i guess we can always use another variant a lot of the various pieces already exist in gnomeshell with a customizable app grid and one-to-one gestures for moving around workspaces or opening the overview and app grid the project is actually funded by a grant of the german ministry of education and that should be enough to get a first version out even though it won't be daily drivable just yet the goal is to enable shell navigation launching apps search and using an on-screen keyboard and all the other basics for this they will need a new gesture api a way to detect the screen size adding a separate panel layout for mobile making every app a full screen workspace so you can switch from one to the other easily and a portrait mode on-screen keyboard as well as quick settings they already have some concepts of what that might look like and how it might work even though it's all experimental stuff for now now all these efforts will also make gnomeshell a first-class citizen on tablets which is good for me because i have a pad which has been abandoned by the original developers and it's just sitting there collecting dust so i would love to be using gnomeshell on that thing we have even more gnome updates with the gdk4 port of nautilus being much improved from mouse users and the middle mouse button can now be used to open multiple selected files all at once workbench the sandbox to learn how to use gnome technologies now supports previewing templates and can convert files between xml and blueprint furtherance the time tracker can now auto-save and tasks can be added manually amber all the music player received a refresh of its icon and styling tweaks to look even better finally the blur my shell extension that lets you get compies like effects on chrome got two new effects to close or open your windows and a lot of internal preferences have been tweaked which might result in your preferences being lost unfortunately there are also a ton of new translations for blur machel smaller updates this week but it's still kinda cool to see the gtk4 port of nautilus advancing along because it's kind of annoying to use the gdk3 version on gnome 42 because it doesn't look like any of your other libervita apps now we're done with gnome for this video but kde developers also have some stuff to share this week the team has reduced the number of bugs in the future plasma 5.25 to 15 issues so the release is definitely on track for next week the number of 15-minute bugs actually increased with three added and two resolved notably a fix 4k when crashing when plugging in an hdmi monitor ocular can now change its color scheme independently of the system so you can have it in dark mode when the rest of your desktop is light elisa lets you disable the automatic music scan and all plasma popups are now resizable from their edges and corners and will retain the size you selected and there are a bunch of improvements to dolphin spectacle the screenshot utility and to discover which specifically can now be closed while installing or updating turning it into a system notification a lot of these changes won't make it to 5.25 because it's almost out there so they'll be pushed to 5.26 we also have some monthly updates to elementary os this week clarifying the situation with elementary os 6.1 and what's left to do on os 7 before it releases users that stick to 6.1 or wait for os 7 can still look forward to some app updates at least for those using flat pack for example the default browser gnome web was updated recently to web 42 and they will also get apps using gtk4 when they release they won't be stuck on older gtk 3 versions the terminal got a small update as well with new keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs and the system settings can now manage caldav accounts offline as per elementary os 7 codenamed horus it will get automatic app updates for flat pack apps as an option there won't be a warning dialogue anymore when installing apps from flat hub and performance and navigation in the app center will be much improved the new music player will also be available in horus and multiple apps will receive icon updates and style updates with a new header-less design that merges the header bar with the content of the window all apps will progressively migrate to that but the first one that will use it is male if you're using elementary tasks you can already see an example of that design in action now os 7 will definitely not be a revolutionary update it's going to be small touches here and there and moving to the newer base of ubuntu 22.04 but since all the apps and the desktop will be updated as a rolling release it will keep getting better and better over time the release is currently planned for mid-june but there are still some regressions with the window manager that needs to be fixed so it might be pushed back deep in 20.6 has been released and it brings with it a bunch of improvements and changes their app store now allows filtering and categorizing of search results separating linux native programs windows programs and android apps because yeah you can install all of these from the dpin app store if you use dpin itself as a distro you can also now choose the default search engine for your web browser at install there's now support for logical volume management or lvm and you can now manually allocate the root partition size when installing the systemwide search tool lets you locate and examine files that might have the same name but different path the calendar now lets you add and manage custom event types the mail app lets you create email accounts and manage emails with exchange and the various default apps also received a bunch of improvements oh and also they bumped the kernel version to 5.15 so the distro should now support a lot more hardware okay no more procrastinating this time it is noted in my calendar and planned tasks next month i'm taking a look at d-pin nvidia released a new version of their proprietary drivers which begins the new 515 series the one that also brought us the new open source modules and it looks like nvidia is investing a lot of time in their drivers now speaking of their open source module they added a file in the source that shows which gpus are compatible with them the new driver now has support for more vulcan extensions it will limit problems with hibernation or suspend the nvidia x server settings app is now less dumb in terms of asking you to save your changes even though you just did there are game scope improvements for future steam os 3 support and they fixed an issue where audio output wasn't working on hdmi with high refresh rates displays the kernel module also got updated and the source is still available they apparently plan to release new source code with each new release of the proprietary driver it's really good to see nvidia finally starting to catch up to other manufacturers in terms of drivers on linux and while yes the proprietary drivers are still needed they might finally be really really good now since they are actually committing to them slash e os or eos under the new umbrella name marina got its first stable 1.0 release for those who never heard about it it's a de-googled android rom that i already talked about in a video a while ago the goal of the project is to provide as complete an android experience as possible without any google services version 1.0 brings a ton of improvements to the system including app lounge their own app store that lets you access android apps including the complete google play store but that last part will require to log in with a google account which kinda defeats the purpose there's an advanced privacy feature to let you know which trackers are running and to be able to block them or even to hide your iep address and set a specific location and there's also an alias feature called hide my email marina also offers marina cloud a replacement to google services with file storage an email account calendar photos tasks and notes based on next cloud and completely confidential and they also even launched their own smartphone the marina one which is a mid-range smartphone that will ship to the usa canada europe the uk and switzerland i personally used eos for a long while but i had to give it up because it didn't support safetynet or my banking app which i really really do need on my smartphone but they did send me a fairphone 4 running eos 1.0 as a review unit so i will definitely be making a video about it in the next few days subscribe if you want to see it clemonte fev the lead developer for linux mint posted an update on mint's blog and there are some interesting things happening there first time shift will be adopted by the mend team as one of their x apps the original developer and maintainer lacked time to keep working on it so it's good to see someone picking up the project as it's one of the best system backup tools on linux mint will also move away from blueberry their front end for gnome bluetooth since they would have to rewrite a large part of it to make it compatible with the more recent updates to the back end they'll move to blue man which is a gdk front end for another bluetooth stack instead the user interface won't be as simple and accessible but it also provides more features and the developers of blue man seem open to mint's feedback so it will only improve in the future it's always really nice to see projects being passed on from a team to another instead of being left to slowly become obsolete i can't wait to see what the mint team will do with time shift it's a great system backup tool the heroic games launcher that lets you play your epic games games and also your god games on linux like you would with steam and proton has just received a new update first there's a no gui parameter you can add to your shortcuts to launch your games without opening the heroic launcher itself pretty handy to start your games on a steam deck for example the launcher will also look for proton versions and various runtimes outside of its main library so it should detect them on other drives or partitions and there were a few fixes mainly for wine tricks on the flat pack version for force downloading and force uploading of cloud saves which didn't work properly and actually killed my borderlands 3 saves a while ago or for styling issues it's still a crucial part of your gaming experience if you enjoy those 3 epic games every month heroic is just a must-have the steam deck has a new plugin available yes if you didn't know the steam decks ui can be expanded upon with plugins thanks to plugin loader the new quick launch plugin allows you to list all your installed flat pack apps and start them directly from the steam decks ui without having to add them manually as a non-steam game other interesting plugins lets you tweak more performance options connect to paired bluetooth devices or display spotify controls and in other steam deck news it has now passed 3 120 games in the verified programs this includes 1570 certified titles and 1550 playable ones that's still about 27 games validated per day and newcomers include strider a reboot of the older mega drive genesis title hitman absolution or not a hero very cool to see that the steam deck software can be expanded upon i might look into these plugins and use some myself and maybe i'll make a video about it what i'll definitely conclude this video with is today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany they sell laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can choose any distro when you configure 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hey everyone this is nick and i have a dirty secret to confess i always loved unity the desktop environment not the 3d engine i would have no idea where to start with this thing so when ubuntu introduced unity i was super excited and i loved it and when they candid i was pretty bummed out until i forgot it even existed because i thought it was dead but turns out it really wasn't the great thing about open source projects and linux in general is that anybody can just grab the code back and get working on updating it and maintaining it and that's what's happening with unity and it's all being done by a very very young guy that also makes ubuntu web remix or gamebone2 so in 2022 is the unity desktop environment still a viable solution let's take a look now something that's definitely a viable solution to store your files and photos securely and privately is today's sponsor internext thanks to internext for sponsoring this video they offer you some cloud storage space focused on privacy and security they encrypt all the data you store on your internext drive and your data isn't visible by any third party at any point during the upload storage or download process everything is encrypted end to end and gdpr compliant internext offers you an online drive and a photo storage solution in the same package complete with syncing sharing and backups and they have apps for all platforms to handle all of that including linux macos windows android and ios so you can get all your files on all your devices you can get 10 gigabytes for free and they have plans that go up to 2 terabytes for 8.99 euros per month and if you want an even better deal you can use my code linux experiment written in the description below to get 25 of your purchase of an annual plan for two terabytes of storage so click the link in the description below to learn more and use the offer code linux experiment and start storing your files securely and privately okay so let's first take a look at how unity works because it's been a long while and i can't quite remember it old age man it's not just a greying beard it's also memory loss so first unity is a shell not really a desktop environment it doesn't provide its own set of apps it ships mostly gnome applications and a shell to replace gnome shell that is the default on regular ubuntu this creates a few issues but i'll detail them as we go the unity shell is definitely the inspiration for modern ubuntu you get a dock on the left side of the screen and a top bar things do differ a bit though in terms of how things work first the dock it can't be moved to another screen edge it's firmly on the left and it's not moving the dock or launcher as they call it holds the dash button with the ubuntu logo as well as app shortcuts and opened applications and everything else you might have plugged in like hard drives there's also the trash can at the bottom right clicking an app brings a jump list with a few contextual options depending on the application and damn these still look good legible bold typeface nice spacing transparent and blur that's just pretty the dock displays all opened windows on all workspaces and clicking the apps icon will take you to that workspace with a nice little animation now the first small issue here apps don't seem to always lock to their shortcut if i open a settings panel it opens a new icon in the dock instead of linking it to the settings favorites that i already have if i click the settings icon again it closes the settings panel that i have and makes its icon disappear from the dock now look it might be nitpicky but it's still not very tidy hovering over an app icon doesn't have an effect or highlight but you get the name of the app so at least you know what you're looking at if you have many many apps visible in the dock they also fold on themselves so you can see them all and click them but they don't use as much space it's pretty nice looking and it's pretty useful another nice hidden feature is long pressing the super key which brings numbers for each app shortcut pressing that number will launch the app and you also get a nice recap of all keyboard shortcuts of which there are many unity is definitely very usable for keyboard focused users who probably all will now start writing a comment below telling me that i3 is better go on i'll wait you're done let's move on to round up the base behavior of the dock you can tune a few things like auto hiding it or displaying the workspace switcher as well as a show desktop icon and you can change the icon size although that setting is in the look tab instead of the behavior tab now let's talk about the top panel it holds the current focused apps name the global menu bar and the system indicators yes a global menu my favorite solution to handle menu bars it's just so much easier for me to have that menu always at the same spot instead of trying to aim at it inside of the window now don't worry if you don't like the global menu there's a setting to disable it and display the menu bars inside of the windows themselves like an animal but also you probably will want to enable that setting because there are issues see menu bars aren't that useful for gnome apps as most gdk3 and gtk4 apps don't have one so that top bar mostly stays empty with the default apps libreoffice does make use of it but firefox and thunderbird haven't been patched for it even if you use the debian package for thunderbird which would benefit from a global menu as well doesn't use it if you use the snap or the flat pack but it does if you use the dev package some flat pack apps do work with the global menu like kde apps for example it's just pretty inconsistent and annoying to deal with as some apps will just not work in the same way as others also that global menu isn't always displayed by default it's hidden and you have to hover over it to reveal it again you can change it in the settings and have it always on but the default isn't great the usefulness of a global menu compared to a normal menu bar inside of the apps window is the muscle memory you can just throw your mouse up to the right menu and not worry about overshooting the menu itself it's just generally a good solution except if you don't see where the menus are exactly where each menu is located then you have to hover over it and then move the mouse to the right menu which is less efficient i think the menu bar should be visible at all times as the default another nice thing that unity does with its top bar is using it as the title bar when you maximize a window its title bar disappears and is merged with the top bar which means you're saving precious vertical space if you need the window controls they are also in the top bar now and you can reveal them by hovering over it again i'd prefer them to be always visible but at least they're always in the same spot on the left side so you can just basically aim for it without really knowing where they are exactly as for the system indicators they have that older feeling of being drop down menus tightly packed much like what you'd find on mate or xfce they let you access the network language and audio basic settings and you can turn off or reboot from there too it's definitely super familiar and it works much like gnome does that part hasn't aged a bit there are also two features that unity has that i really really loved when i used it the dash and the hud the dash opens when you click the unity button with the ubuntu logo or when you hit the super key it's kind of the precursor to the gnome app grid and overview it has global search to let you find anything you want apps files videos music pictures or folders all results can be filtered to only display the things you want and you can also look for individual categories using the little lenses at the bottom or switching between them with control plus tab you used to be able to add new lenses to the dash thanks to various ppas but these don't seem to be maintained anymore so i don't think that's possible nowadays the dash is still pretty useful you hit super you type what you want you hit enter and it opens it's the basic workflow for gnome as well nowadays you can drag applications to the dock to pin them there and you can right click an item to get more information although that rarely displays anything very useful it should display reviews for the app and screenshots but right now it doesn't work you also can't see apps you might want to install from the software center although you can enable that source it just doesn't work and you also don't get those amazing amazon search results anymore i love those okay now i lied that was terrible that was privacy invasive it's good that it's not there anymore now these lenses at the bottom don't feel super practical anymore for example in the app lens you can't move apps around or create folders which makes it a bit less useful than the gnome apps grid for documents and pictures it's okay as it's an easy way to find the recent documents you interacted with although it seems to take the dash a while to index new files i downloaded a bunch of pictures to my pictures folder and they don't show up in my photos lens for example same for videos the dash is still competent but i think that other desktop environments have surpassed it nowadays the gnome overview and apps grid or k-runner and the plasma menu just do more stuff and they just work better the dash does look beautiful though with a nice tinted blur and these white little category icons it hasn't aged at all in the looks department the hud is another useful feature you press alt and it summons it what it allows you to do is find an action or menu item related to the current open window and just type to find it while it might seem less efficient than just doing the action it's extremely useful if you know there's something you can do but you don't remember where it's located in apps with big convoluted menus like libreoffice it can be extremely useful and it also gives you the path for this action so you can find it later if you can remember where it was which i never do unfortunately it only works if the app exposes its menu bar so for libreoffice it's okay but for firefox it doesn't work and it will only display the window actions you can do the hud is definitely a great idea but it has its origins in the time where all apps had menu bars nowadays even kde apps are moving away from them gnome doesn't have them at all and so the usefulness of the feature is kinda diminished which is unfortunate because it's great i think most desktop environments that still have menu bars in their apps should implement something like this it's just good now in the end as it's shipped on ubuntu unity you can feel that both these features are good but they're not as good as they were back in the day there are just better ways to do things nowadays or apps have evolved in a direction that's not really compatible with the unity vision anymore let's move on to window management and on that front unity hasn't really aged first you get window tiling it's super familiar just drag an app to a screen edge and it's styled there or drag it to the top and it's maximized you can drag the whole top bar down to and maximize which is handy there is no corner tiling unfortunately so you can't put your apps in quarters of the screen then you have the workspace switcher clicking it zooms out on a grid of all your virtual desktops there are four by defaults and you can move apps directly from one to another by just dragging them you can also position them between workspaces you don't have to anchor them to a particular one if you have multiple windows opened at the same time clicking on the docs icon brings an overview of all of them which is extremely nice that's something you don't get out of the box on other desktop environments these days and i think it's an absolutely perfect way of navigating between app windows especially with a dock or an icon only task switcher although someone seems to be trying to bring this feature to the ubuntu dock inside of gnome so all hope is not lost you also have a bunch of keyboard shortcuts to handle your windows like super plus w to get to an exposed view of everything that's open unfortunately the workspaces grid doesn't display all windows in the exposure view so to move them you might have to drag windows one by one until you reveal the one you actually wanted to move generally though window management on unity is really really good it works as you'd expect and you get all the familiar features that we still have nowadays it was really ahead of the curve back then on the performance side of things unity used up 1.5 gigabytes of ram out of 16 which is on par with modern gnome or kde when you have that amount of available ram maybe it's a little bit higher things are pretty smooth and don't stutter although the minimizing animation seems to take a really long time for me for some reason the dash the hud the workspace switcher and all associated animations just fly by and open very quickly it's nice to see i remember that back when unity was introduced a lot of computers struggled to run it well it was just hecape and performance was terrible but it seems that hardware has finally caught up to it although you would still not want to run it on a potato computer unity is old but not potato old so is unity still good in 2022 well it's going to depend on whether you think it was good in the first place personally i think it was one of the best options available at the time gnome 3 was a mess and kde 4 was well let's say not finished unity had personality it had great looks it had great features and it was really ahead of the curve in terms of window management and how you searched for files and apps nowadays though its main selling points are also present in all other alternatives the dash has aged a bit and i think the gnome overview and k-runner are more powerful and easier to use the hud has been rendered a bit obsolete by the disappearance of menu bars from a lot of applications and while the window management was pretty advanced for the day everyone else does it just as well or better these days i also think that unity should be shipped with kd or mint apps that still have menu bars unity is developed with cute so there's no reason to stick to gtk apps specifically and since kde and mint apps do tend to work better with a global menu than gnome apps i think ubuntu unity at least should ship these apps instead also if time allows shipping a patched version of firefox and thunderbird so that the menu bar works with the global menu would be pretty cool so yeah the strength of unity being the global menu and the hud those are things you can also kinda get in kde plasma nowadays with the global menu applet and with krunner so maybe these strengths aren't that important anymore still unity is very usable these days and it does look pretty good with tasteful use of blur an updated theme and look and while its features are no longer head turning they are absolutely still viable for day to day use and with someone that's actually interested in maintaining it and developing it further there is no real reason to shun it as an obsolete product unless you want to use weyland because unity is still x11 only unlike this segway to today's sponsor which can run wayland okay now this one doesn't make sense anyways tuxedo is a company based in germany and they sell laptops and desktops that ship with linux pre-installed you can either choose your distro when you set up your computer among a ton of other configuration options and a lot of keyboard layouts or you can install any other distro you might want on there because if the distros that tuxedo ship work your distro will also work on the same hardware which is really cool they have a huge range of devices from the smallest nugs and small ultrabooks to the biggest most powerful desktop workstations or gaming laptops and you can just configure them to your heart's content including your logo on the back or any other engraving that you might want it's really really cool they also have some super cool projects in the works like for example an external water cooling solution for the stellaris 15 that i've got back there i don't know if you can see it you just plug it in the back and it's going to water cool the nvidia dedicated gpu so you can use it at its maximum performance i think it's super cool so if you need a new device and you want something that you can be sure that runs 100 with linux head over to the link in the description below click it and get yourself a tuxedo laptop or their stuff they're really cool so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't you can also dislike but do 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hey everyone this is nick and if you're a longtime follower of the channel you know about my quest to try and remove as many google services from my life as possible and yeah i know it's ironic to publish that on youtube but there is no real alternative just yet i mean i'm on autosay and some of my videos are on puretube but that's just not the same audience i have successfully removed a ton of google related stuff from my life from google search gmail google drive google docs but there's still an area where i just can't find a replacement and that's android i used eos or slash e os for a long while but it was lacking a few features especially safety net support which meant that a lot of applications just wouldn't work at all well this de-googled android rom that i used to use now has a new 1.0 release and on paper it fixes all my issues with it and it also adds a bunch of privacy related features on top so let's see if it can live up to its promises what definitely delivers on their promises to keep your internet connection safe and secure is safing today's sponsor this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free safing also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below so slash e os or eos while the name might be super dumb and basically impossible to look up on the internet it still hides a very very nice android rom it's based on lineage os but it goes a lot further than this one in terms of de-googling the operating system they don't just replace the default apps with their own all based on open source applications and the launcher with their own ios like version but they also remove the connectivity check that calls home to google as well as the time servers that let google track you they let you change the dns servers they removed the google play services and replace them with micro g and open source implementation that now does pass safety net check reliably and they don't use a google account by default but that leaves you without a lot of what makes google interesting right a lot of their services well not exactly because slash e also offers a bunch of online services you can use they offer users what they call marina cloud marina being the global brand that regroups the os the services and the smartphones they sell marina cloud is basically a next cloud instance complete with your own email address your calendar and contacts an online cloud storage space and an online office suite namely only office you only get one gigabytes for free as the non-profit is pretty small and they just don't have the same scale as google but you can go up to two terabytes although the prices are pretty steep at 25 euros per month for that kind of storage and now you might be saying that's just giving all your data to someone other than google so what's the point well first this account is optional you can perfectly plug in any other services you prefer to use and second they don't scan the data they don't log application usage they don't use ads and so they have no incentive or project to sell your data to anyone it's all completely private and it's also really well integrated right at the beginning when you boot up your phone and it's accessible from any other os including linux as a normal next cloud account basically it's the promise of a fully integrated one login ecosystem that i've been clamoring for for a long while okay so what does eos 1.0 specifically bring compared to other android systems well the marina team was nice enough to send me a fairphone 4 as a review unit running eos 1.0 i'll take a look at the smartphone itself in a few minutes but let's first take a look at the os the launcher hasn't really changed much since i last used eos a few years ago it's still a grid of apps very ios like without an app drawer i personally prefer this layout although the launcher defaults to the three button navigation layout you can change it to the newer gestures which i think works better for me swiping to the left gives you access to widgets you can't place them directly on your home screen they're all located in that side view now that's something ios used to do but nowadays even they allow you to place widgets directly on your home screen and that's something i wish the slash e team put inside their launcher as well it's just much more practical and powerful and customizable by default in that side view you get a search bar a view of how much storage you're using in your marina cloud account the weather and the new advanced privacy feature so let's talk about that this is a feature that to the best of my knowledge is exclusive to slash eos and that lets you hide your ip address provide a fake location and denies all trackers it will show you a graph of all blocked trackers and you can manage these per app to see which app tried to track you and with what you also get access to the app's permissions and you can select another location if you don't want it to be randomized your ip address can also be changed to appear from another country if you prefer and you can enable or disable that feature for each app it's an amazing addition to make sure that even if an app manages to grab some data it's going to be completely unusable it can be coupled with an alias email to hide your real email and it just makes you feel safer and just more private when browsing the phone it can also serve as a vpn of sorts although weirdly the system uses map box which is detected as a tracker inside of this app privacy page now that's all well and good but what about the apps what made me drop slash eos in the past was the fact that micro g services just didn't cut it and a lot of apps didn't work because safety net didn't work either if you don't know what it is safetynet is a security solution implemented by google to ensure the integrity of the os incidentally it's also a way to ensure that manufacturers do make use of google services and of the play store there was also the issue that a lot of applications weren't available or failed to open without an error turns out slash eos 1.0 claims to have fixed that and in my tests they did instead of the google play store you get the app lounge it looks like the aurora store and it's probably a fork of it but it contains most if not all the android apps you'll find on google play including paid ones the app lounge allows you to log in anonymously or using a google account the latter being here mostly to let you restore your purchases and to buy paid apps if you don't want or need these things then you don't need a google account on the app lounge and not provide any data that's the option i chose i downloaded a bunch of apps including my banking app twitter firefox youtube game pass freelance or youtube music and they all worked flawlessly as you would expect even the samsung galaxy wearable app worked perfectly and allowed me to connect to my galaxy birds and my galaxy watch active 2 which didn't work previously on the the older versions of slash e you would basically never notice that you're not using the google play services at all the app lounge still retains its privacy ratings giving a score out of 10 for each app powered by exodus privacy so you can know before installing if the app will try to track you and with what it's definitely a way better experience than when i use slash e before in the past all my apps are there everything works out of the box you just click install and it installs and it works i guess using a 1.0 stable release does make a difference the consistency of the os was also something that felt off to me back in the day with default apps having a riot of colors and different user interfaces and while things aren't perfect just yet they're a lot better now all default apps use a light blue color and look more like part of a whole coherent experience than the disjointed collection of apps they were before dark mode support is also fully implemented in all the apps which wasn't the case before and you can customize your experience by choosing the style of the icons used by the system an accent color the icons shape and you can even save these styles to quickly switch between them customization options why didn't anybody tell me we entered kdeland here in terms of internals eos is still based on lineage 18.1 so it's on android 11 but it does have all the latest security patches and gets updated regularly of course the experience isn't as powerful by default as other android phones or os's because the launcher is quite simple but there's nothing stopping you from installing any launcher you want to replace it like nova launcher for example they are only in the app lounge so yeah the experience with eos 1.0 for the past few days has been really excellent it's all coherent it's secure it's more private than alternative roms and it just feels like a lot of thought has been put into it and you can still customize everything to your liking it's a winner in my book now i'm less excited about the fairphone 4 while i absolutely love the mission behind this phone it doesn't feel like a device that suits my needs so first if you don't know about it the fairphone initiative has very noble goals at its heart the phones are made with recyclable materials they have a five year warranty they're certified fair trade and they're neutral in terms of electronic waste the fair phones have an ifixit score of 10 out of 10. it doesn't use any glue and you can repair it yourself and buy the repair parts freely take that apple it's extremely nice to see this initiative and i love the concept of using a phone that you know will last a long time and have a very minimal impact on the world including in how it's made and how the workers are compensated but as a tech nerd that likes to change phones and devices regularly it just doesn't suit my purposes you can really feel there are some trade-offs here first it's pretty heavy at 228 grams compared to 168 grams for my already too big samsung galaxy s21 second the screen it's full hd more than enough for a phone seriously 4k screens on the phone it's just a waste of battery life and you'll never notice the difference unless you pixel peep with your eyes glued to the screen but the screen doesn't have high refresh rate and after using a phone and a tablet and a pc screen that run at least at 100 hertz the return to 60hz is brutal everything feels a bit sluggish and stuttery and the size of the display is much too big for my tastes at 6.3 inches although that will be a matter of personal preference a lot of people love big phones make smaller android phones you cowards 6.3 inches is too big for a phone it's too big for a phone the fairphone 4 uses a snapdragon with 5g support it has 6 to 8 gigabytes of ram depending on the storage either 128 gigs or 256 gigs the battery is 3900 milliamp hours and definitely lasts the whole day without any problems especially when you block all trackers that use your internet connection in the background the cameras are pretty good with dual 48 megapixel on the back at f 1.6 and f 2.2 aperture so you get a wide angle and the selfie camera is 25 megapixel at f 2.2 with a small notch they all produce good clear images without most of the post processing most manufacturers apply so they won't smooth your face like samsung does or tweak the colors again it's a matter of personal preference but i could absolutely live with these cameras no problem they even have an advanced image stabilization for video and night mode the phone itself comes in green gray or speckled green i got the gray variant and you can add a charger and cable optionally if you don't already have them it uses usbc obviously what manufacturer in its right mind would not use usbc in their own smartphones in 2022 oh wait now the price is pretty high too for these specs at 579 euros but that's the price you pay for a sustainable phone with a huge warranty and repairability you also get a fingerprint reader to unlock it i love the idea behind this phone but there are too many trade-offs in terms of size of weight of bezel size of screen refresh rate it's just not for me but if you don't care about these technical details and you're okay with paying a premium for a sustainable phone then it's really really good what if you don't want a fair phone but you like eos well you can do that as well after all i used it on a galaxy s8 plus before also a phone that's way too big they have three ways to get eos first you have their online store where they offer a variety of devices including the fairphone 3 and 4 galaxy s9s and s9s plus as well as the terra cube2 and the marina 1 which is their own smartphone that's also mid-range and currently out of stock but very affordable they ship these to the eu canada and the us second you can use their easy installer it's available on linux and windows and only supports a few devices but it will guide you step by step download what you need automatically and do all the background work for you it's a 30 minute to one hour procedure that's really easy with graphics and detailed instructions and finally if your device isn't supported by the easy installer you can just flash eos on a lot of phones and i mean a lot from plenty of manufacturers it's more manual work and it might be trickier but if you're already used to flashing android roms it will be easy enough to follow the various instructions that are also pretty detailed if you're not used to flashing android roms like me things will largely depend on your phone manufacturer if you have a samsung phone get ready to pull your hair as if i had enough to do that so what do i think about this new release of eos well i loved it before and i only abandoned it because some apps didn't work now they do work and all my small issues with it are fixed i still think the default experience is great as i always found android way too convoluted for my tastes with thousands of settings and things everywhere and eos fixes that so yeah i could definitely see myself coming back to eos but the fairphone doesn't cut it for me my samsung galaxy s21 isn't supported so i would have to look specifically for a decently recent phone with high refresh rate displays and that's not too big but if i can find that and that's supported by eos i will definitely move back to it i just love it eos just has that safe feeling you know you're in control of what data companies grab from your smartphone something i've always struggled with on android and ios the fact i can use my own next cloud account if i want to or that it has great integrated online services is a plus and since it uses open source apps by default i also feel a bit more free in my use of android if you're looking to escape google even on your smartphone then i don't think there's any better rom than eos it's more private than other custom android roms it's safe the experience is really good and it has basically all the apps you might ever want it's got my seal of approval just like today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can select a 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hey everyone this is nick and while i always loved the kd plasma desktop i also always felt that it lacked in good simple applications but it turns out i was completely wrong it was a preconceived notion that i should have dispelled a long time ago because while researching for this specific video i found a ton of cool applications for kd that look good are simple to use and just work perfectly for a specific purpose so many cool apps in fact that i kind of had to lump a bunch of utilities at the end of the video because i just didn't have enough time to cover everything but what i had time for is this segue to today sponsor who's gonna let you store securely and privately your photos and files in the cloud thanks to internext for sponsoring this video they offer you some cloud storage space focused on privacy and security they encrypt all the data you store on your internext drive and your data isn't visible by any third party at any point during the upload storage or download process everything is encrypted end to end and gdpr compliant internext offers you an online drive and a photo storage solution in the same package complete with syncing sharing and backups and they have apps for all platforms to handle all of that including linux macos windows android and ios so you can get all your files on all your devices you can get 10 gigabytes for free and they have plans that go up to 2 terabytes for 8.99 euros per month and if you want an even better deal you can use my code linux experiment written in the description below to get 25 of your purchase of an annual plan for two terabytes of storage so click the link in the description below to learn more and use the offer code linux experiment and start storing your files securely and privately so let's begin with productivity a domain that getty is very very good at and it might not be the sexiest app to begin with but we're gonna start with calendar with a k yes that's going to be a recurring theme in this video calendar as its name indicates is an app to handle your calendars but also your tasks it integrates with your online accounts so if you have a google nexcloud or own cloud set up in plasma you'll automatically get all your calendars and task lists it looks really really good and it presents everything with nice colors and a modern interface calendar offers you multiple views to check on your calendar per month week or as a schedule and there's a dedicated task view that you can sort by due date priority level or alphabetically it handles lists and completion percentages as well as tags that you can manage directly in the app itself as per calendar appointments you can set them to repeat select a time zone add tags a location attendees attachments and reminders calendar is a very complete and modern app that symbolizes well what you can do with kd by mixing power and ease of use if you want something more hardcore for project management than a task list kde also has plan not k-plan or planck yeah sometimes you do get normal names plan is a project management application that lets you handle tasks and subtasks but it goes a lot deeper you'll have to enable the view selector docker to see more and in there you can handle work periods hours resources as in people working on the project the cost of various tasks and more each task can have its own dependencies a time and cost estimate a risk factor an optimistic and pessimistic estimates to let you juggle the things that don't go according to plan get it that's the name of the app okay then plan also gives you tons of views to better grasp your project like a gans diagram one focused on milestones resource assignments a cost breakdown and more each project can have an assigned work package file that people can download you can add documents to any task generate reports it's truly the project management app you'll want to use on linux if your manager is always on your back about time estimates costs and who's working on what it's too bad that i don't have a real job anymore because that's an app i would absolutely have used okay yeah we have to add an office suite here and kde has its own now granted it will mostly be usable if you exchange documents with people using the odf document format as its compatibility with microsoft office formats isn't the best out there but if you work on your own documents that you don't share there's a lot to love in caligra first it's packed with software with a word processor a spreadsheet module a visual database editor a vector drawing app with a way easier interface than inkscape although admittedly less powerful the aforementioned plan app and a presentations module the interface is based on tabs and dockers that you can move at your heart's content to make the interface adapt to everything you need and while you won't get as many features as libreoffice or only office in there the app will perfectly respect your desktop settings complete with global menu support and theming caligra isn't something i would recommend to everyone looking for a full featured replacement for microsoft office but if you only work on your own documents like writing a few words making a personal budget it's definitely worth a look now speaking of personal budget if you need something a bit more fleshed out than a spreadsheet you've got scrooge with another k in the name while it would definitely benefit from a nice wizard to let you create what you need to get started like a budget the bank account it depends on and a few operations once you get the hang of it it's really nice if you struggle to keep count of how much you're spending which we all do right i cannot be the only one who's surprised to be in the negative at the end of the month even though i only bought like 20 000 stupid things from amazon that i only use once each expense or operation can be attributed to an account get an amount a comment a mode of payment a payee and a category all of which you can then use to sort your expenses and see where you're over or under budget it also handles scheduled operations and can import various file types to automatically populate your budget it's definitely an app that i'm gonna start using right now because i do need to keep a track on what i'm spending especially on take out and stupid other gadgets now let's move on to media related applications and on that front caddy really shines for video editing you've got the linux staple caden live it's a full featured non-linear video editor that lets you manage video and audio using tracks it got tons of effects and transitions that you can apply and it can import and export to a ton of formats it can also be expanded with your own wipe transitions it has a few integrated galleries for clip arts and wipes and it supports proxy files if your computer can't handle full resolution files so you can edit on smaller resolutions and then export using the real full size recordings the workflow is super simple with clear tabs that let you sort clips edit color grade and export and it has tons of advanced tools and a customizable interface to place elements where you want them caden live is the non-linear video editor that i use to run the channel for the better part of its life i started with ptv for a few months then moved to canon live and i only moved to resolve because canon life doesn't support gpu acceleration which shouldn't stop you from trying it out if you have a small project you want to work on now for artists there is no better drawing tool on linux than krita it's a digital painting application with tons of tools and brushes to let you create what you want it's not only on linux but also on android so you could even use it there and it handles graphic tablets and their lovely styluses styli styluses the little pen like thing is krita also can let you do 2d animation with a new editor it supports vector and text the interface is entirely customizable it uses opengl so it's hardware accelerated and uses your gpu to stay fast and smooth it can import psds and you can even record your painting sessions directly from the app it's something i dabbled with on android and i produced this fantastic masterpiece yeah i know i'm such an artist okay so if like me you've got no talent for painting or drawing but you still want a simple app to edit screenshots i'll draw a few doodles here and there color paint is going to be your go-to it's basically microsoft paint for kde with anti-aliasing which of course you can disable if you like that pixel art look it even has a few effects like embossing grayscale inverting colors changing the color u or saturation and it can draw shapes fill color pick and more who needs layers and blur and effects and all of that crap real artists just drawn a single sheet of paper real artists use color paint if you have a local music collection and you're looking for a simple but nice looking music player then eliza is the one for you it's basic and will automatically detect your music in your music folder although you can add other directories if you prefer it handles playlists albums artists and genres as well as web radios and has a super simple and clean interface you can also reduce its window to a mini player if you prefer a very simple single purpose app something i wish we could see more on kde speaking of which casts does just that it plays podcasts it's described as a mobile app but don't worry it works just as well on desktop with an adaptive interface you can add your own podcast feeds or search for a specific podcast in the discover tab and add it this way you'll get a list of all episodes that you can then download and play it integrates with g podr or the next cloud g podr app to sync your played episodes between devices and you can manage if and how you want to delete played episodes how the app works on metered connections and the storage the app uses it's a fantastic little app and with support for syncing your podcast between devices this might really get me back into podcasts because i use like three or four different devices to listen to them and just checking where i was on one device and picking back up on another was a nightmare so let's complete this with a grab bag of a few various utilities you might find useful on kd first is kde connect if you're a regular of the channel you've probably heard me rant about this app it basically lets you integrate your android phone or now iphone with your desktop you can send files to and from each device use the phone as a remote for audio or presentations or as a trackpad you can run commands from the phone to the computer and you can even sync your clipboard between devices and receive notifications and answer to messages from your pc not only does it work between a phone and a computer but also between two computers if you prefer and you can also use it on gnome using the gs connect extension a fantastic must-have utility if you often interact between multiple devices don't fall into the twitter trap like me get your notifications on your desktop and learn to ignore them a bit more niche but still pretty useful if you're into that kind of thing subtitle composer as its name indicates it lets you create subtitles for your videos or for someone else's videos you have tons of options to make those subtitles look like what you want open an existing file to modify it select which language you're working on and export your file animate dabbers that's the thing you need if you're a regular terminal user but you don't like opening a terminal window just to run a simple command why not use yak wake yakuake or yakuaki i'm not sure how you pronounce that although the second option sounds like a word that should not be said on this channel anywho with this one you just press f12 or any other key you prefer and you get a nice little terminal that drops down from the top of your screen you run your command you press f12 and your terminal is nicely hidden doing its thing you can of course configure everything about how it looks where it comes from what screen space it occupies and more a must have if you often run terminal commands or if you don't want to clutter your window manager with a terminal window are you afraid of bloat of unnecessary files are you aware of your privacy then install another app to do the cleanup for you sweeper lets you clean a bunch of stuff that might take up space on your hard drive like various caches cookies web history recent documents command history and more it's also really useful to remove stuff that you'd like to stay private dolphin is a very powerful file manager but what if you want more power in that case go with crusader it handles archives in the file manager it handles ftp it has multiple panels to open folders side by side and tabs inside of each panel it can sync folders compare file contents it can batch rename and it's completely customizable on top of having a super powerful search module dual pane file managers are a sign you're a complete chat couple that with arch and i3 and you've just won the game of being a human being i guess and that's just the tip of the iceberg i had time to include in this video kd also offers falcon a simple web browser that integrates with your desktop environment kde itinerary impossible to pronounce for non-english speaker like me but amazing to plan trips marble if you like google earth but want an open source kde app to look at the earth articulate to let you learn how to pronounce words in foreign languages and help you learn k algebra and lab plot for all your math learning needs and a lot more so i can safely say that i was really wrong before kde does not lack great applications it has simple ones powerful ones but it has apps for virtually everything so if you weren't using kd and had the same preconceived notion maybe this video will help change your mind and if you were already using kde maybe you found out a nice little gem that you might want to try just like you might want to try to own your own computer that runs linux out of the box thanks to today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany that sells laptops and desktops that run linux perfectly and out of the box you can pick the distro you want to run or you can just install any destroy you want knowing that every single component will work perfectly on your distro of choice they offer a super wide range of devices from the smallest knocks and ultrabooks to the biggest high-end workstation desktops or gaming laptops they offer a wide range of keyboard layouts and of configuration options for each device and i just received like probably something like two hours ago the latest stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming laptop or workstation laptop with 12th gen intel cpus and rtx 3080s and everything you might want in the middle i will review it on the channel pretty soon but just know it already has the best keyboard i used on a laptop period and a fantastic 3k panel that lets you see everything super crisp so if you need a new device that runs linux perfectly just head over to the link in the description below click it and get yourself a new device from tuxedo now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you liked it don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you are super rich and you want to share that wealth with me just click on the super thanks button or on the link for my paypal in the description or become a patreon supporter or youtube member both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and while i always loved the kd plasma desktop i also always felt that it lacked in good simple applications but it turns out i was completely wrong it was a preconceived notion that i should have dispelled a long time ago because while researching for this specific video i found a ton of cool applications for kd that look good are simple to use and just work perfectly for a specific purpose so many cool apps in fact that i kind of had to lump a bunch of utilities at the end of the video because i just didn't have enough time to cover everything but what i had time for is this segue to today sponsor who's gonna let you store securely and privately your photos and files in the cloud thanks to internext for sponsoring this video they offer you some cloud storage space focused on privacy and security they encrypt all the data you store on your internext drive and your data isn't visible by any third party at any point during the upload storage or download process everything is encrypted end to end and gdpr compliant internext offers you an online drive and a photo storage solution in the same package complete with syncing sharing and backups and they have apps for all platforms to handle all of that including linux macos windows android and ios so you can get all your files on all your devices you can get 10 gigabytes for free and they have plans that go up to 2 terabytes for 8.99 euros per month and if you want an even better deal you can use my code linux experiment written in the description below to get 25 of your purchase of an annual plan for two terabytes of storage so click the link in the description below to learn more and use the offer code linux experiment and start storing your files securely and privately so let's begin with productivity a domain that getty is very very good at and it might not be the sexiest app to begin with but we're gonna start with calendar with a k yes that's going to be a recurring theme in this video calendar as its name indicates is an app to handle your calendars but also your tasks it integrates with your online accounts so if you have a google nexcloud or own cloud set up in plasma you'll automatically get all your calendars and task lists it looks really really good and it presents everything with nice colors and a modern interface calendar offers you multiple views to check on your calendar per month week or as a schedule and there's a dedicated task view that you can sort by due date priority level or alphabetically it handles lists and completion percentages as well as tags that you can manage directly in the app itself as per calendar appointments you can set them to repeat select a time zone add tags a location attendees attachments and reminders calendar is a very complete and modern app that symbolizes well what you can do with kd by mixing power and ease of use if you want something more hardcore for project management than a task list kde also has plan not k-plan or planck yeah sometimes you do get normal names plan is a project management application that lets you handle tasks and subtasks but it goes a lot deeper you'll have to enable the view selector docker to see more and in there you can handle work periods hours resources as in people working on the project the cost of various tasks and more each task can have its own dependencies a time and cost estimate a risk factor an optimistic and pessimistic estimates to let you juggle the things that don't go according to plan get it that's the name of the app okay then plan also gives you tons of views to better grasp your project like a gans diagram one focused on milestones resource assignments a cost breakdown and more each project can have an assigned work package file that people can download you can add documents to any task generate reports it's truly the project management app you'll want to use on linux if your manager is always on your back about time estimates costs and who's working on what it's too bad that i don't have a real job anymore because that's an app i would absolutely have used okay yeah we have to add an office suite here and kde has its own now granted it will mostly be usable if you exchange documents with people using the odf document format as its compatibility with microsoft office formats isn't the best out there but if you work on your own documents that you don't share there's a lot to love in caligra first it's packed with software with a word processor a spreadsheet module a visual database editor a vector drawing app with a way easier interface than inkscape although admittedly less powerful the aforementioned plan app and a presentations module the interface is based on tabs and dockers that you can move at your heart's content to make the interface adapt to everything you need and while you won't get as many features as libreoffice or only office in there the app will perfectly respect your desktop settings complete with global menu support and theming caligra isn't something i would recommend to everyone looking for a full featured replacement for microsoft office but if you only work on your own documents like writing a few words making a personal budget it's definitely worth a look now speaking of personal budget if you need something a bit more fleshed out than a spreadsheet you've got scrooge with another k in the name while it would definitely benefit from a nice wizard to let you create what you need to get started like a budget the bank account it depends on and a few operations once you get the hang of it it's really nice if you struggle to keep count of how much you're spending which we all do right i cannot be the only one who's surprised to be in the negative at the end of the month even though i only bought like 20 000 stupid things from amazon that i only use once each expense or operation can be attributed to an account get an amount a comment a mode of payment a payee and a category all of which you can then use to sort your expenses and see where you're over or under budget it also handles scheduled operations and can import various file types to automatically populate your budget it's definitely an app that i'm gonna start using right now because i do need to keep a track on what i'm spending especially on take out and stupid other gadgets now let's move on to media related applications and on that front caddy really shines for video editing you've got the linux staple caden live it's a full featured non-linear video editor that lets you manage video and audio using tracks it got tons of effects and transitions that you can apply and it can import and export to a ton of formats it can also be expanded with your own wipe transitions it has a few integrated galleries for clip arts and wipes and it supports proxy files if your computer can't handle full resolution files so you can edit on smaller resolutions and then export using the real full size recordings the workflow is super simple with clear tabs that let you sort clips edit color grade and export and it has tons of advanced tools and a customizable interface to place elements where you want them caden live is the non-linear video editor that i use to run the channel for the better part of its life i started with ptv for a few months then moved to canon live and i only moved to resolve because canon life doesn't support gpu acceleration which shouldn't stop you from trying it out if you have a small project you want to work on now for artists there is no better drawing tool on linux than krita it's a digital painting application with tons of tools and brushes to let you create what you want it's not only on linux but also on android so you could even use it there and it handles graphic tablets and their lovely styluses styli styluses the little pen like thing is krita also can let you do 2d animation with a new editor it supports vector and text the interface is entirely customizable it uses opengl so it's hardware accelerated and uses your gpu to stay fast and smooth it can import psds and you can even record your painting sessions directly from the app it's something i dabbled with on android and i produced this fantastic masterpiece yeah i know i'm such an artist okay so if like me you've got no talent for painting or drawing but you still want a simple app to edit screenshots i'll draw a few doodles here and there color paint is going to be your go-to it's basically microsoft paint for kde with anti-aliasing which of course you can disable if you like that pixel art look it even has a few effects like embossing grayscale inverting colors changing the color u or saturation and it can draw shapes fill color pick and more who needs layers and blur and effects and all of that crap real artists just drawn a single sheet of paper real artists use color paint if you have a local music collection and you're looking for a simple but nice looking music player then eliza is the one for you it's basic and will automatically detect your music in your music folder although you can add other directories if you prefer it handles playlists albums artists and genres as well as web radios and has a super simple and clean interface you can also reduce its window to a mini player if you prefer a very simple single purpose app something i wish we could see more on kde speaking of which casts does just that it plays podcasts it's described as a mobile app but don't worry it works just as well on desktop with an adaptive interface you can add your own podcast feeds or search for a specific podcast in the discover tab and add it this way you'll get a list of all episodes that you can then download and play it integrates with g podr or the next cloud g podr app to sync your played episodes between devices and you can manage if and how you want to delete played episodes how the app works on metered connections and the storage the app uses it's a fantastic little app and with support for syncing your podcast between devices this might really get me back into podcasts because i use like three or four different devices to listen to them and just checking where i was on one device and picking back up on another was a nightmare so let's complete this with a grab bag of a few various utilities you might find useful on kd first is kde connect if you're a regular of the channel you've probably heard me rant about this app it basically lets you integrate your android phone or now iphone with your desktop you can send files to and from each device use the phone as a remote for audio or presentations or as a trackpad you can run commands from the phone to the computer and you can even sync your clipboard between devices and receive notifications and answer to messages from your pc not only does it work between a phone and a computer but also between two computers if you prefer and you can also use it on gnome using the gs connect extension a fantastic must-have utility if you often interact between multiple devices don't fall into the twitter trap like me get your notifications on your desktop and learn to ignore them a bit more niche but still pretty useful if you're into that kind of thing subtitle composer as its name indicates it lets you create subtitles for your videos or for someone else's videos you have tons of options to make those subtitles look like what you want open an existing file to modify it select which language you're working on and export your file animate dabbers that's the thing you need if you're a regular terminal user but you don't like opening a terminal window just to run a simple command why not use yak wake yakuake or yakuaki i'm not sure how you pronounce that although the second option sounds like a word that should not be said on this channel anywho with this one you just press f12 or any other key you prefer and you get a nice little terminal that drops down from the top of your screen you run your command you press f12 and your terminal is nicely hidden doing its thing you can of course configure everything about how it looks where it comes from what screen space it occupies and more a must have if you often run terminal commands or if you don't want to clutter your window manager with a terminal window are you afraid of bloat of unnecessary files are you aware of your privacy then install another app to do the cleanup for you sweeper lets you clean a bunch of stuff that might take up space on your hard drive like various caches cookies web history recent documents command history and more it's also really useful to remove stuff that you'd like to stay private dolphin is a very powerful file manager but what if you want more power in that case go with crusader it handles archives in the file manager it handles ftp it has multiple panels to open folders side by side and tabs inside of each panel it can sync folders compare file contents it can batch rename and it's completely customizable on top of having a super powerful search module dual pane file managers are a sign you're a complete chat couple that with arch and i3 and you've just won the game of being a human being i guess and that's just the tip of the iceberg i had time to include in this video kd also offers falcon a simple web browser that integrates with your desktop environment kde itinerary impossible to pronounce for non-english speaker like me but amazing to plan trips marble if you like google earth but want an open source kde app to look at the earth articulate to let you learn how to pronounce words in foreign languages and help you learn k algebra and lab plot for all your math learning needs and a lot more so i can safely say that i was really wrong before kde does not lack great applications it has simple ones powerful ones but it has apps for virtually everything so if you weren't using kd and had the same preconceived notion maybe this video will help change your mind and if you were already using kde maybe you found out a nice little gem that you might want to try just like you might want to try to own your own computer that runs linux out of the box thanks to today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is a company based in germany that sells laptops and desktops that run linux perfectly and out of the box you can pick the distro you want to run or you can just install any destroy you want knowing that every single component will work perfectly on your distro of choice they offer a super wide range of devices from the smallest knocks and ultrabooks to the biggest high-end workstation desktops or gaming laptops they offer a wide range of keyboard layouts and of configuration options for each device and i just received like probably something like two hours ago the latest stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming laptop or workstation laptop with 12th gen intel cpus and rtx 3080s and everything you might want in the middle i will review it on the channel pretty soon but just know it already has the best keyboard i used on a laptop period and a fantastic 3k panel that lets you see everything super crisp so if you need a new device that runs linux perfectly just head over to the link in the description below click it and get yourself a new device from tuxedo now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you liked it don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you are super rich and you want to share that wealth with me just click on the super thanks button or on the link for my paypal in the description or become a patreon supporter or youtube member both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and i hope you're not getting tired of all the exciting stuff happening in linux and open source land because there is more there is always more this week we have the gnome developers trying to adapt a gnome shell to a smartphone and tablet form factor and no that's not fosh that's a separate project which is not gnome shell this is the real deal we also have deep in 20.6 releasing with huge improvements to the desktop environment and the default apps and we have time shift being taken over by the linux mint team but there's also some new info about elementor os 7 horus there are some new nvidia drivers releasing and there are some new plugins for the steam deck among a lot of other things so let's get started just like it's super easy to get started with your own linux or gaming server thanks to today's sponsor and the hundred dollar free credits they're gonna give you thanks to linode for sponsoring this video lynnode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started the google summer of code has started and gnome has grabbed two interesting projects to improve their applications the first one is to revamp the new document creation feature of nautilus the file manager this feature has been a bit neglected and suffered some regressions with the gdk4 port so ignacio kuczynski sorry if i'm butchering the name a polish student is going to work on improving it by exposing an entire tree of all available document templates instead of using some nested submenus they're going to use icons to be more legible they're going to show the new document menu even if the templates folder is empty so users can add new templates they're going to let users search the templates list and quickly rename the newly created files the second project is to improve gnome health a little known app used to track your fitness activities and weight the goal is to let the app sync with google fit to automatically pull steps and weights and also if time allows to work on a pine time companion app as well other projects of google summer of code will help improve chromecast support ptv the video editor fractal the matrix client and the various gnome websites these are all cool projects although i'm more interested in the revamp of the new document menu from nautilus because that thing has been bothering me since the gnome 2 era gnome developers are looking into the mobile form factor and are starting to think about porting gnome shell to smartphones yeah i know fosh exists but it's an entirely new shell developed for the libra m5 and it's not gnome shell itself so i guess we can always use another variant a lot of the various pieces already exist in gnomeshell with a customizable app grid and one-to-one gestures for moving around workspaces or opening the overview and app grid the project is actually funded by a grant of the german ministry of education and that should be enough to get a first version out even though it won't be daily drivable just yet the goal is to enable shell navigation launching apps search and using an on-screen keyboard and all the other basics for this they will need a new gesture api a way to detect the screen size adding a separate panel layout for mobile making every app a full screen workspace so you can switch from one to the other easily and a portrait mode on-screen keyboard as well as quick settings they already have some concepts of what that might look like and how it might work even though it's all experimental stuff for now now all these efforts will also make gnomeshell a first-class citizen on tablets which is good for me because i have a pad which has been abandoned by the original developers and it's just sitting there collecting dust so i would love to be using gnomeshell on that thing we have even more gnome updates with the gdk4 port of nautilus being much improved from mouse users and the middle mouse button can now be used to open multiple selected files all at once workbench the sandbox to learn how to use gnome technologies now supports previewing templates and can convert files between xml and blueprint furtherance the time tracker can now auto-save and tasks can be added manually amber all the music player received a refresh of its icon and styling tweaks to look even better finally the blur my shell extension that lets you get compies like effects on chrome got two new effects to close or open your windows and a lot of internal preferences have been tweaked which might result in your preferences being lost unfortunately there are also a ton of new translations for blur machel smaller updates this week but it's still kinda cool to see the gtk4 port of nautilus advancing along because it's kind of annoying to use the gdk3 version on gnome 42 because it doesn't look like any of your other libervita apps now we're done with gnome for this video but kde developers also have some stuff to share this week the team has reduced the number of bugs in the future plasma 5.25 to 15 issues so the release is definitely on track for next week the number of 15-minute bugs actually increased with three added and two resolved notably a fix 4k when crashing when plugging in an hdmi monitor ocular can now change its color scheme independently of the system so you can have it in dark mode when the rest of your desktop is light elisa lets you disable the automatic music scan and all plasma popups are now resizable from their edges and corners and will retain the size you selected and there are a bunch of improvements to dolphin spectacle the screenshot utility and to discover which specifically can now be closed while installing or updating turning it into a system notification a lot of these changes won't make it to 5.25 because it's almost out there so they'll be pushed to 5.26 we also have some monthly updates to elementary os this week clarifying the situation with elementary os 6.1 and what's left to do on os 7 before it releases users that stick to 6.1 or wait for os 7 can still look forward to some app updates at least for those using flat pack for example the default browser gnome web was updated recently to web 42 and they will also get apps using gtk4 when they release they won't be stuck on older gtk 3 versions the terminal got a small update as well with new keyboard shortcuts to switch between tabs and the system settings can now manage caldav accounts offline as per elementary os 7 codenamed horus it will get automatic app updates for flat pack apps as an option there won't be a warning dialogue anymore when installing apps from flat hub and performance and navigation in the app center will be much improved the new music player will also be available in horus and multiple apps will receive icon updates and style updates with a new header-less design that merges the header bar with the content of the window all apps will progressively migrate to that but the first one that will use it is male if you're using elementary tasks you can already see an example of that design in action now os 7 will definitely not be a revolutionary update it's going to be small touches here and there and moving to the newer base of ubuntu 22.04 but since all the apps and the desktop will be updated as a rolling release it will keep getting better and better over time the release is currently planned for mid-june but there are still some regressions with the window manager that needs to be fixed so it might be pushed back deep in 20.6 has been released and it brings with it a bunch of improvements and changes their app store now allows filtering and categorizing of search results separating linux native programs windows programs and android apps because yeah you can install all of these from the dpin app store if you use dpin itself as a distro you can also now choose the default search engine for your web browser at install there's now support for logical volume management or lvm and you can now manually allocate the root partition size when installing the systemwide search tool lets you locate and examine files that might have the same name but different path the calendar now lets you add and manage custom event types the mail app lets you create email accounts and manage emails with exchange and the various default apps also received a bunch of improvements oh and also they bumped the kernel version to 5.15 so the distro should now support a lot more hardware okay no more procrastinating this time it is noted in my calendar and planned tasks next month i'm taking a look at d-pin nvidia released a new version of their proprietary drivers which begins the new 515 series the one that also brought us the new open source modules and it looks like nvidia is investing a lot of time in their drivers now speaking of their open source module they added a file in the source that shows which gpus are compatible with them the new driver now has support for more vulcan extensions it will limit problems with hibernation or suspend the nvidia x server settings app is now less dumb in terms of asking you to save your changes even though you just did there are game scope improvements for future steam os 3 support and they fixed an issue where audio output wasn't working on hdmi with high refresh rates displays the kernel module also got updated and the source is still available they apparently plan to release new source code with each new release of the proprietary driver it's really good to see nvidia finally starting to catch up to other manufacturers in terms of drivers on linux and while yes the proprietary drivers are still needed they might finally be really really good now since they are actually committing to them slash e os or eos under the new umbrella name marina got its first stable 1.0 release for those who never heard about it it's a de-googled android rom that i already talked about in a video a while ago the goal of the project is to provide as complete an android experience as possible without any google services version 1.0 brings a ton of improvements to the system including app lounge their own app store that lets you access android apps including the complete google play store but that last part will require to log in with a google account which kinda defeats the purpose there's an advanced privacy feature to let you know which trackers are running and to be able to block them or even to hide your iep address and set a specific location and there's also an alias feature called hide my email marina also offers marina cloud a replacement to google services with file storage an email account calendar photos tasks and notes based on next cloud and completely confidential and they also even launched their own smartphone the marina one which is a mid-range smartphone that will ship to the usa canada europe the uk and switzerland i personally used eos for a long while but i had to give it up because it didn't support safetynet or my banking app which i really really do need on my smartphone but they did send me a fairphone 4 running eos 1.0 as a review unit so i will definitely be making a video about it in the next few days subscribe if you want to see it clemonte fev the lead developer for linux mint posted an update on mint's blog and there are some interesting things happening there first time shift will be adopted by the mend team as one of their x apps the original developer and maintainer lacked time to keep working on it so it's good to see someone picking up the project as it's one of the best system backup tools on linux mint will also move away from blueberry their front end for gnome bluetooth since they would have to rewrite a large part of it to make it compatible with the more recent updates to the back end they'll move to blue man which is a gdk front end for another bluetooth stack instead the user interface won't be as simple and accessible but it also provides more features and the developers of blue man seem open to mint's feedback so it will only improve in the future it's always really nice to see projects being passed on from a team to another instead of being left to slowly become obsolete i can't wait to see what the mint team will do with time shift it's a great system backup tool the heroic games launcher that lets you play your epic games games and also your god games on linux like you would with steam and proton has just received a new update first there's a no gui parameter you can add to your shortcuts to launch your games without opening the heroic launcher itself pretty handy to start your games on a steam deck for example the launcher will also look for proton versions and various runtimes outside of its main library so it should detect them on other drives or partitions and there were a few fixes mainly for wine tricks on the flat pack version for force downloading and force uploading of cloud saves which didn't work properly and actually killed my borderlands 3 saves a while ago or for styling issues it's still a crucial part of your gaming experience if you enjoy those 3 epic games every month heroic is just a must-have the steam deck has a new plugin available yes if you didn't know the steam decks ui can be expanded upon with plugins thanks to plugin loader the new quick launch plugin allows you to list all your installed flat pack apps and start them directly from the steam decks ui without having to add them manually as a non-steam game other interesting plugins lets you tweak more performance options connect to paired bluetooth devices or display spotify controls and in other steam deck news it has now passed 3 120 games in the verified programs this includes 1570 certified titles and 1550 playable ones that's still about 27 games validated per day and newcomers include strider a reboot of the older mega drive genesis title hitman absolution or not a hero very cool to see that the steam deck software can be expanded upon i might look into these plugins and use some myself and maybe i'll make a video about it what i'll definitely conclude this video with is today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany they sell laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can choose any distro when you configure 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hey everyone this is nick and if you're a longtime follower of the channel you know about my quest to try and remove as many google services from my life as possible and yeah i know it's ironic to publish that on youtube but there is no real alternative just yet i mean i'm on autosay and some of my videos are on puretube but that's just not the same audience i have successfully removed a ton of google related stuff from my life from google search gmail google drive google docs but there's still an area where i just can't find a replacement and that's android i used eos or slash e os for a long while but it was lacking a few features especially safety net support which meant that a lot of applications just wouldn't work at all well this de-googled android rom that i used to use now has a new 1.0 release and on paper it fixes all my issues with it and it also adds a bunch of privacy related features on top so let's see if it can live up to its promises what definitely delivers on their promises to keep your internet connection safe and secure is safing today's sponsor this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free safing also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below so slash e os or eos while the name might be super dumb and basically impossible to look up on the internet it still hides a very very nice android rom it's based on lineage os but it goes a lot further than this one in terms of de-googling the operating system they don't just replace the default apps with their own all based on open source applications and the launcher with their own ios like version but they also remove the connectivity check that calls home to google as well as the time servers that let google track you they let you change the dns servers they removed the google play services and replace them with micro g and open source implementation that now does pass safety net check reliably and they don't use a google account by default but that leaves you without a lot of what makes google interesting right a lot of their services well not exactly because slash e also offers a bunch of online services you can use they offer users what they call marina cloud marina being the global brand that regroups the os the services and the smartphones they sell marina cloud is basically a next cloud instance complete with your own email address your calendar and contacts an online cloud storage space and an online office suite namely only office you only get one gigabytes for free as the non-profit is pretty small and they just don't have the same scale as google but you can go up to two terabytes although the prices are pretty steep at 25 euros per month for that kind of storage and now you might be saying that's just giving all your data to someone other than google so what's the point well first this account is optional you can perfectly plug in any other services you prefer to use and second they don't scan the data they don't log application usage they don't use ads and so they have no incentive or project to sell your data to anyone it's all completely private and it's also really well integrated right at the beginning when you boot up your phone and it's accessible from any other os including linux as a normal next cloud account basically it's the promise of a fully integrated one login ecosystem that i've been clamoring for for a long while okay so what does eos 1.0 specifically bring compared to other android systems well the marina team was nice enough to send me a fairphone 4 as a review unit running eos 1.0 i'll take a look at the smartphone itself in a few minutes but let's first take a look at the os the launcher hasn't really changed much since i last used eos a few years ago it's still a grid of apps very ios like without an app drawer i personally prefer this layout although the launcher defaults to the three button navigation layout you can change it to the newer gestures which i think works better for me swiping to the left gives you access to widgets you can't place them directly on your home screen they're all located in that side view now that's something ios used to do but nowadays even they allow you to place widgets directly on your home screen and that's something i wish the slash e team put inside their launcher as well it's just much more practical and powerful and customizable by default in that side view you get a search bar a view of how much storage you're using in your marina cloud account the weather and the new advanced privacy feature so let's talk about that this is a feature that to the best of my knowledge is exclusive to slash eos and that lets you hide your ip address provide a fake location and denies all trackers it will show you a graph of all blocked trackers and you can manage these per app to see which app tried to track you and with what you also get access to the app's permissions and you can select another location if you don't want it to be randomized your ip address can also be changed to appear from another country if you prefer and you can enable or disable that feature for each app it's an amazing addition to make sure that even if an app manages to grab some data it's going to be completely unusable it can be coupled with an alias email to hide your real email and it just makes you feel safer and just more private when browsing the phone it can also serve as a vpn of sorts although weirdly the system uses map box which is detected as a tracker inside of this app privacy page now that's all well and good but what about the apps what made me drop slash eos in the past was the fact that micro g services just didn't cut it and a lot of apps didn't work because safety net didn't work either if you don't know what it is safetynet is a security solution implemented by google to ensure the integrity of the os incidentally it's also a way to ensure that manufacturers do make use of google services and of the play store there was also the issue that a lot of applications weren't available or failed to open without an error turns out slash eos 1.0 claims to have fixed that and in my tests they did instead of the google play store you get the app lounge it looks like the aurora store and it's probably a fork of it but it contains most if not all the android apps you'll find on google play including paid ones the app lounge allows you to log in anonymously or using a google account the latter being here mostly to let you restore your purchases and to buy paid apps if you don't want or need these things then you don't need a google account on the app lounge and not provide any data that's the option i chose i downloaded a bunch of apps including my banking app twitter firefox youtube game pass freelance or youtube music and they all worked flawlessly as you would expect even the samsung galaxy wearable app worked perfectly and allowed me to connect to my galaxy birds and my galaxy watch active 2 which didn't work previously on the the older versions of slash e you would basically never notice that you're not using the google play services at all the app lounge still retains its privacy ratings giving a score out of 10 for each app powered by exodus privacy so you can know before installing if the app will try to track you and with what it's definitely a way better experience than when i use slash e before in the past all my apps are there everything works out of the box you just click install and it installs and it works i guess using a 1.0 stable release does make a difference the consistency of the os was also something that felt off to me back in the day with default apps having a riot of colors and different user interfaces and while things aren't perfect just yet they're a lot better now all default apps use a light blue color and look more like part of a whole coherent experience than the disjointed collection of apps they were before dark mode support is also fully implemented in all the apps which wasn't the case before and you can customize your experience by choosing the style of the icons used by the system an accent color the icons shape and you can even save these styles to quickly switch between them customization options why didn't anybody tell me we entered kdeland here in terms of internals eos is still based on lineage 18.1 so it's on android 11 but it does have all the latest security patches and gets updated regularly of course the experience isn't as powerful by default as other android phones or os's because the launcher is quite simple but there's nothing stopping you from installing any launcher you want to replace it like nova launcher for example they are only in the app lounge so yeah the experience with eos 1.0 for the past few days has been really excellent it's all coherent it's secure it's more private than alternative roms and it just feels like a lot of thought has been put into it and you can still customize everything to your liking it's a winner in my book now i'm less excited about the fairphone 4 while i absolutely love the mission behind this phone it doesn't feel like a device that suits my needs so first if you don't know about it the fairphone initiative has very noble goals at its heart the phones are made with recyclable materials they have a five year warranty they're certified fair trade and they're neutral in terms of electronic waste the fair phones have an ifixit score of 10 out of 10. it doesn't use any glue and you can repair it yourself and buy the repair parts freely take that apple it's extremely nice to see this initiative and i love the concept of using a phone that you know will last a long time and have a very minimal impact on the world including in how it's made and how the workers are compensated but as a tech nerd that likes to change phones and devices regularly it just doesn't suit my purposes you can really feel there are some trade-offs here first it's pretty heavy at 228 grams compared to 168 grams for my already too big samsung galaxy s21 second the screen it's full hd more than enough for a phone seriously 4k screens on the phone it's just a waste of battery life and you'll never notice the difference unless you pixel peep with your eyes glued to the screen but the screen doesn't have high refresh rate and after using a phone and a tablet and a pc screen that run at least at 100 hertz the return to 60hz is brutal everything feels a bit sluggish and stuttery and the size of the display is much too big for my tastes at 6.3 inches although that will be a matter of personal preference a lot of people love big phones make smaller android phones you cowards 6.3 inches is too big for a phone it's too big for a phone the fairphone 4 uses a snapdragon with 5g support it has 6 to 8 gigabytes of ram depending on the storage either 128 gigs or 256 gigs the battery is 3900 milliamp hours and definitely lasts the whole day without any problems especially when you block all trackers that use your internet connection in the background the cameras are pretty good with dual 48 megapixel on the back at f 1.6 and f 2.2 aperture so you get a wide angle and the selfie camera is 25 megapixel at f 2.2 with a small notch they all produce good clear images without most of the post processing most manufacturers apply so they won't smooth your face like samsung does or tweak the colors again it's a matter of personal preference but i could absolutely live with these cameras no problem they even have an advanced image stabilization for video and night mode the phone itself comes in green gray or speckled green i got the gray variant and you can add a charger and cable optionally if you don't already have them it uses usbc obviously what manufacturer in its right mind would not use usbc in their own smartphones in 2022 oh wait now the price is pretty high too for these specs at 579 euros but that's the price you pay for a sustainable phone with a huge warranty and repairability you also get a fingerprint reader to unlock it i love the idea behind this phone but there are too many trade-offs in terms of size of weight of bezel size of screen refresh rate it's just not for me but if you don't care about these technical details and you're okay with paying a premium for a sustainable phone then it's really really good what if you don't want a fair phone but you like eos well you can do that as well after all i used it on a galaxy s8 plus before also a phone that's way too big they have three ways to get eos first you have their online store where they offer a variety of devices including the fairphone 3 and 4 galaxy s9s and s9s plus as well as the terra cube2 and the marina 1 which is their own smartphone that's also mid-range and currently out of stock but very affordable they ship these to the eu canada and the us second you can use their easy installer it's available on linux and windows and only supports a few devices but it will guide you step by step download what you need automatically and do all the background work for you it's a 30 minute to one hour procedure that's really easy with graphics and detailed instructions and finally if your device isn't supported by the easy installer you can just flash eos on a lot of phones and i mean a lot from plenty of manufacturers it's more manual work and it might be trickier but if you're already used to flashing android roms it will be easy enough to follow the various instructions that are also pretty detailed if you're not used to flashing android roms like me things will largely depend on your phone manufacturer if you have a samsung phone get ready to pull your hair as if i had enough to do that so what do i think about this new release of eos well i loved it before and i only abandoned it because some apps didn't work now they do work and all my small issues with it are fixed i still think the default experience is great as i always found android way too convoluted for my tastes with thousands of settings and things everywhere and eos fixes that so yeah i could definitely see myself coming back to eos but the fairphone doesn't cut it for me my samsung galaxy s21 isn't supported so i would have to look specifically for a decently recent phone with high refresh rate displays and that's not too big but if i can find that and that's supported by eos i will definitely move back to it i just love it eos just has that safe feeling you know you're in control of what data companies grab from your smartphone something i've always struggled with on android and ios the fact i can use my own next cloud account if i want to or that it has great integrated online services is a plus and since it uses open source apps by default i also feel a bit more free in my use of android if you're looking to escape google even on your smartphone then i don't think there's any better rom than eos it's more private than other custom android roms it's safe the experience is really good and it has basically all the apps you might ever want it's got my seal of approval just like today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can select a 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hey everyone this is nick and if you're looking for some reassurance after you switch to linux and you want to ensure it's still the best thing then you've come to the right place bios remorse is definitely a thing although in our case it's probably more switcher's remorse after distro hopping 20 times and realizing that your first distro was actually the right one for you anyway this time we have hp announcing a new laptop running pop os out of the box instead of windows we have budgie listing all their goals and the future features that are coming to the desktop environment and we have the first beta for kde plasma 5.25 which i'm currently running on my laptop and it's great and of course we have the traditional new wine release we have the steam deck getting better and better we have updates to gnome and kde and we have duckduckgo being embroiled in a controversy what will never be controversial though is the way i handle these segways to today's sponsor which is going to give you a hundred dollars of free credit to start your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so hp is now getting in the linux game with a new laptop called the hp dev 1. it's meant for developers it looks very sleek and it runs pop os out of the box yes pop os made by system 76 a direct competitor although a lot smaller than hp the new laptop has a super key with a more neutral label instead of a windows key it starts at 1099 us dollars and it comes with an eight core amd ryzen 7 pro processor 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram one terabyte of ssd a 14 inch 1080p display and integrated radeon graphics there is no exact date for when it will be available but it's pretty nice to see devices from big manufacturers shipping with linux pre-installed hp joins lenovo and dell on that front and i love it although this specific laptop seems to be us only for now unfortunately and it's still aimed specifically for developers which is definitely not going to help linux's image that is mainly made for developers which it's not not anymore at least the linux kernel version 5.18 was released the main change is the integration of intel's software defined silicon driver which limits access to certain cpu features if an intel certificate isn't present this addition is definitely controversial it seems because it means that while your cpu is able physically to do certain things it won't do them because you didn't pay for a license that lets you use these features it's basically like having dlc on the disk for a game it's there but you can't use it unless you pay apart from that we also have support for the raspberry pi zero 2w as well as for the razer blackwidow keyboards and we have better support for apple magic keyboards and acpi power profile support on amd powered thinkpads there are also improvements to amd virtualization freesync is enabled by default on the amd gpu driver and better fs has faster sync this intel thing seems to open the door to basically renting your cpu instead of outright owning it and i do not want to pay to have the right to use my course it's not that not yet but it might be so now let's just hope no one from intel watches this and gets any stupid ideas gnome developers shared their progress on apps and libraries just like every week this time around gnome software works better with different font sizes and better formats file sizes warp the app i talked about last week that lets you send files device to device is now part of gnome circle the unofficial but approved gnome apps list pcap backup 0.4 is now out with lib advaita support scheduled backups rule-based removal of older archives and a new user interface we also now have crosswords a game to well do crossword puzzles telegram the gnome telegram client now has better support for the protocol as a whole including message event types user action reports more authentication methods ability to pin chats and to open specific chats by clicking on a notification geopart the gemini client and amber all the music player also received a few tweaks and ui improvements i personally use deja dub for backups but pika backup looks like an interesting solution i might try it as well is backup app hopping a thing caddy developers also like to talk about what they do and so we have more weekly news here this week they focused on fixing bugs since they just released plasma 5.25 beta they sold 5 15 minute bugs including for the lock screen and auto hiding panels and you can now display two different calendars inside of the main date and time widget pop-up which means you can for example track the occidental and the chinese calendar at the same time dolphin gains a tooltip when hovering over the remaining disk space to get more info the kickoff menu now works better for chinese japanese or korean users gnome apps using client-side decoration so basically most of gnome apps now have a more kde look and feel with the correct border radius menu shadows and highlights other small ui tweaks include the search page in the system settings a nicer user switcher widget using your profile pic and a bunch more all of this will land in kde plasma 5.25 next month which is awesome and i'm also going to give keddie a little bit more love before the end of the month so stay tuned for that speaking of which that 5.25 beta has now been released it includes a ton of new features like accent color title bars on the breeze theme a screen shake when entering an incorrect password the ability to apply an accent color from the wallpaper or to tint the whole color scheme using your accent color global themes now will let you pick which parts of the theme you actually want to apply you can control when tablet mode is enabled you have floating panels if you want to enable that for the view icons are now saved on a per resolution basis so moving from multiple display configurations to another shouldn't move your icons around there are new touchpad gestures to open the overview new screen edge gestures on wayland discover now displays permissions for apps the app pages are also revamped in there and there's a lot more stuff that i will cover in my dedicated video i can't spoil everything here can i but i already replaced fedora on my laptop with kd neon unstable so i'm already using the beta and it's awesome don't forget to subscribe to the channel to see my video on the final release you know you're coming back every week for these news videos anyway so why not get everything in your feed just subscribe microsoft issued a warning about xor ddos a malware specifically targeting linux devices they observed a 254 percent increase in activity from that trojan which causes denial of service on linux servers and endpoints microsoft provides a very detailed explanation of how that malware works how it propagates and also how to defend against it of course they also use the opportunity to plug their microsoft defender anti-malware and anti-virus solution which i guess isn't completely stupid in that case but they also pushed microsoft edge because it supports integration with microsoft defender as well to that credit they also listed a few things that are not microsoft related and that can help you can always count on the redmond company to push their services to people and even linux users these days it seems except the services that people actually want to have like microsoft office the framework laptop known for its complete upgradability and ease of repair can now be upgraded to 12th gen intel cpus this requires a new motherboard but since you can replace the old one with a new one you can keep your current device and everything else and just change the heart of the laptop which is the thing i really really like you can also pre-order the new framework laptops from their website with any of three cpu choices one variant of an i5 or two variants of the i7 you can of course also pre-order just the motherboard which is good since the previous motherboard can also be used as a separate pc if you want to you could slap it into an enclosure and use it as a small desktop if you wanted oh and linux runs perfectly on these devices so that's pretty cool as well i would love to get my hands on one of these amazing devices but i also wish they offered them with ryzen cpus instead of intel's joshua strobel the lead developer for the budgie desktop environment wrote a very detailed article about the state and the future of budgie it goes over literally everything from the workshops the team conducted to define the core values the organization the goals for bird g10 and budgie 11 and the minimum viable platform that they want to ship so what do we know well budget 10 will eventually be replaced by budgie 11 but in the meantime it's still getting improvements like a brand new app menu app indexing back-end more spec compliant system tray applets and more as per budgie 11 the goal is to move as much back-end stuff as possible in a daemon so the various parts of the desktop will be much simpler to work on they want to add an app overview like the mac os expose or the gnome overview a new control center better desktop icons a guided tour well on support and more all while keeping feature parody with budgie 10. it's a long read but if you like budgie it's definitely worth a look i always liked budgie but it always seemed to me like it lacked a flagship distro since solas doesn't ship budgie as the developers intended they apply tweaks and configurations to it so i think it's really good that they have a plan for the future and i think it's really good that it's getting implemented into other distros like fedora for example if you're using ubuntu and firefox then you're probably using the snap version and you've probably noticed it opens very slowly after rebooting your computer the good news is that canonical is working on that they published a blog post explaining what they're doing to try and make firefox faster when using the snap there and some benchmarks which are pretty appalling in terms of how fast the browser opens and they've identified a bunch of areas where they could improve things the first one is the fact that the snap package is compressed and needs to be uncompressed at first start which creates a bottleneck on less powerful systems the firefox snap also seems to fail to detect the correct gpu and so uses software rendering instead which taxes the cpu more extensions are also not handled in the best way possible nor are icon themes and fonts now let's hope that all these improvements can be applied in bulk to all the snap packages because if they can't then snap will probably still be left behind by other packaging formats when it comes to performance do you use plex do you wish you had a desktop app to play your video or audio files from your plex server well now you have an app for linux this new official plex app is currently only available as a snap package but it brings a few cool things first you can get either the desktop interface or what they call the htpc interface which is basically the one you can get on your tv both of these benefit from a powerful playback engine that should make things nice and smooth during playback it has gamepad or remote support refresh rate switching multi-channel audio and a lot more a flat pack version that will be on flat hub is also planned and should come soon but there are no plans to release the app as an app image or a regular package and i would expect this trend to continue and to extend to other companies because why bother creating tens of packages for tens of different distros when you can just support everything with one snap and one flat pack bad news about privacy though as it seems that duckduckgo isn't as private as it might have seemed they have a search agreement with microsoft to source results from bing to supplement their own search results and this agreement seems to prevent them from blocking microsoft trackers in their browser and their mobile app and i would guess also their browser extension what's worse is that this was only disclosed after a security researcher found out about it which isn't a good look duckduckgo is pretty clear about the microsoft ads that are running in their search results but not at all regarding how the data gathered from microsoft trackers is used since it seems they have a confidentiality agreement about this they're apparently trying to improve on this deal and they expect to add more protection against microsoft trackers in future updates but this is still a letdown that's quite a shock to me as i've been using duckduckgo for a long while and i'll probably be taking my searchers elsewhere while we wait for clarification on how are going to fix the issue the steam deck has now reached 3 000 games that are officially playable that's a huge milestone for a few months of existence and do keep in mind that these are just the games that valve has reviewed a ton more will work perfectly even though they haven't been officially vetted we now have 1 535 verified games 1493 playable games and a big number of unsupported titles as well 1322 this means that out of all the games valve looked at 30 percent are unsupported on the deck either because they don't work on linux at all or because they are not suited for the steam decks hardware performance wise or controls wise newcomers this time include serious sam-4 beyond the steel sky or far loan sales i mean 30 of games being unsupported isn't huge but it's still a sizable chunk of the steam library so i hope they can improve that in the future but i'm still very very satisfied that we get to place 70 of the titles on steam that have been reviewed anyways we didn't get a wine release last week so the last news video was pretty sad but now we do with wine 7.9 this one is starting the work on converting mac os drivers to the pe executable format there are fixes for a number of test failures on windows and 35 bug fixes this time they regard lego rock raiders the stellaris launcher and edit pad light 7 among other bug fixes that will affect various apps and games more generally not an eventful release but i'll take a new wine version over no wine at all just like i'll take this segue to today's sponsor tuxedo these guys make great laptops and desktops that are running linux out of the box you actually order them with a choice of distro although you can install anything you want on them because if they support linux distros they probably support like every linux distro they have a huge range of devices from the smaller ultrabooks and nox to the biggest gaming pcs or workstation laptops and they just let you configure basically everything you can even add your little logo on the back it's laser engraved it looks really cool and you have a huge range of keyboard layouts as well they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end workstation laptop gaming laptop with 12th gen intel cpus rtx 3080s and basically every amount of ram or storage that you might need to run on such a laptop it's got a 3k panel that is amazing it's got the best keyboard i ever used on the laptop period and i'm gonna get a review unit very very soon i already had reviewed the previous model which i really loved but this one seems even more powerful and i might even buy it for my own on-the-go video editing needs so if you need a new device and you want something that you're sure will run with linux well just click on the link below and check out tuxedos devices they're really good now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video i'm always fine with you disliking it and telling me why in the comments as well but don't dislike without telling me why that's just rude and if all my studies in economics served me well inflation means more money right no well even if it doesn't but you have too much of it you can click on the super thanks button or on my link for paypal 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hey everyone this is nick and if you're looking for some reassurance after you switch to linux and you want to ensure it's still the best thing then you've come to the right place bios remorse is definitely a thing although in our case it's probably more switcher's remorse after distro hopping 20 times and realizing that your first distro was actually the right one for you anyway this time we have hp announcing a new laptop running pop os out of the box instead of windows we have budgie listing all their goals and the future features that are coming to the desktop environment and we have the first beta for kde plasma 5.25 which i'm currently running on my laptop and it's great and of course we have the traditional new wine release we have the steam deck getting better and better we have updates to gnome and kde and we have duckduckgo being embroiled in a controversy what will never be controversial though is the way i handle these segways to today's sponsor which is going to give you a 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a new laptop called the hp dev 1. it's meant for developers it looks very sleek and it runs pop os out of the box yes pop os made by system 76 a direct competitor although a lot smaller than hp the new laptop has a super key with a more neutral label instead of a windows key it starts at 1099 us dollars and it comes with an eight core amd ryzen 7 pro processor 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram one terabyte of ssd a 14 inch 1080p display and integrated radeon graphics there is no exact date for when it will be available but it's pretty nice to see devices from big manufacturers shipping with linux pre-installed hp joins lenovo and dell on that front and i love it although this specific laptop seems to be us only for now unfortunately and it's still aimed specifically for developers which is definitely not going to help linux's image that is mainly made for developers which it's not not anymore at least the linux kernel version 5.18 was released the main change is the integration of intel's software defined silicon driver which limits access to certain cpu features if an intel certificate isn't present this addition is definitely controversial it seems because it means that while your cpu is able physically to do certain things it won't do them because you didn't pay for a license that lets you use these features it's basically like having dlc on the disk for a game it's there but you can't use it unless you pay apart from that we also have support for the raspberry pi zero 2w as well as for the razer blackwidow keyboards and we have better support for apple magic keyboards and acpi power profile support on amd powered thinkpads there are also improvements to amd virtualization freesync is enabled by default on the amd gpu driver and better fs has faster sync this intel thing seems to open the door to basically renting your cpu instead of outright owning it and i do not want to pay to have the right to use my course it's not that not yet but it might be so now let's just hope no one from intel watches this and gets any stupid ideas gnome developers shared their progress on apps and libraries just like every week this time around gnome software works better with different font sizes and better formats file sizes warp the app i talked about last week that lets you send files device to device is now part of gnome circle the unofficial but approved gnome apps list pcap backup 0.4 is now out with lib advaita support scheduled backups rule-based removal of older archives and a new user interface we also now have crosswords a game to well do crossword puzzles telegram the gnome telegram client now has better support for the protocol as a whole including message event types user action reports more authentication methods ability to pin chats and to open specific chats by clicking on a notification geopart the gemini client and amber all the music player also received a few tweaks and ui improvements i personally use deja dub for backups but pika backup looks like an interesting solution i might try it as well is backup app hopping a thing caddy developers also like to talk about what they do and so we have more weekly news here this week they focused on fixing bugs since they just released plasma 5.25 beta they sold 5 15 minute bugs including for the lock screen and auto hiding panels and you can now display two different calendars inside of the main date and time widget pop-up which means you can for example track the occidental and the chinese calendar at the same time dolphin gains a tooltip when hovering over the remaining disk space to get more info the kickoff menu now works better for chinese japanese or korean users gnome apps using client-side decoration so basically most of gnome apps now have a more kde look and feel with the correct border radius menu shadows and highlights other small ui tweaks include the search page in the system settings a nicer user switcher widget using your profile pic and a bunch more all of this will land in kde plasma 5.25 next month which is awesome and i'm also going to give keddie a little bit more love before the end of the month so stay tuned for that speaking of which that 5.25 beta has now been released it includes a ton of new features like accent color title bars on the breeze theme a screen shake when entering an incorrect password the ability to apply an accent color from the wallpaper or to tint the whole color scheme using your accent color global themes now will let you pick which parts of the theme you actually want to apply you can control when tablet mode is enabled you have floating panels if you want to enable that for the view icons are now saved on a per resolution basis so moving from multiple display configurations to another shouldn't move your icons around there are new touchpad gestures to open the overview new screen edge gestures on wayland discover now displays permissions for apps the app pages are also revamped in there and there's a lot more stuff that i will cover in my dedicated video i can't spoil everything here can i but i already replaced fedora on my laptop with kd neon unstable so i'm already using the beta and it's awesome don't forget to subscribe to the channel to see my video on the final release you know you're coming back every week for these news videos anyway so why not get everything in your feed just subscribe microsoft issued a warning about xor ddos a malware specifically targeting linux devices they observed a 254 percent increase in activity from that trojan which causes denial of service on linux servers and endpoints microsoft provides a very detailed explanation of how that malware works how it propagates and also how to defend against it of course they also use the opportunity to plug their microsoft defender anti-malware and anti-virus solution which i guess isn't completely stupid in that case but they also pushed microsoft edge because it supports integration with microsoft defender as well to that credit they also listed a few things that are not microsoft related and that can help you can always count on the redmond company to push their services to people and even linux users these days it seems except the services that people actually want to have like microsoft office the framework laptop known for its complete upgradability and ease of repair can now be upgraded to 12th gen intel cpus this requires a new motherboard but since you can replace the old one with a new one you can keep your current device and everything else and just change the heart of the laptop which is the thing i really really like you can also pre-order the new framework laptops from their website with any of three cpu choices one variant of an i5 or two variants of the i7 you can of course also pre-order just the motherboard which is good since the previous motherboard can also be used as a separate pc if you want to you could slap it into an enclosure and use it as a small desktop if you wanted oh and linux runs perfectly on these devices so that's pretty cool as well i would love to get my hands on one of these amazing devices but i also wish they offered them with ryzen cpus instead of intel's joshua strobel the lead developer for the budgie desktop environment wrote a very detailed article about the state and the future of budgie it goes over literally everything from the workshops the team conducted to define the core values the organization the goals for bird g10 and budgie 11 and the minimum viable platform that they want to ship so what do we know well budget 10 will eventually be replaced by budgie 11 but in the meantime it's still getting improvements like a brand new app menu app indexing back-end more spec compliant system tray applets and more as per budgie 11 the goal is to move as much back-end stuff as possible in a daemon so the various parts of the desktop will be much simpler to work on they want to add an app overview like the mac os expose or the gnome overview a new control center better desktop icons a guided tour well on support and more all while keeping feature parody with budgie 10. it's a long read but if you like budgie it's definitely worth a look i always liked budgie but it always seemed to me like it lacked a flagship distro since solas doesn't ship budgie as the developers intended they apply tweaks and configurations to it so i think it's really good that they have a plan for the future and i think it's really good that it's getting implemented into other distros like fedora for example if you're using ubuntu and firefox then you're probably using the snap version and you've probably noticed it opens very slowly after rebooting your computer the good news is that canonical is working on that they published a blog post explaining what they're doing to try and make firefox faster when using the snap there and some benchmarks which are pretty appalling in terms of how fast the browser opens and they've identified a bunch of areas where they could improve things the first one is the fact that the snap package is compressed and needs to be uncompressed at first start which creates a bottleneck on less powerful systems the firefox snap also seems to fail to detect the correct gpu and so uses software rendering instead which taxes the cpu more extensions are also not handled in the best way possible nor are icon themes and fonts now let's hope that all these improvements can be applied in bulk to all the snap packages because if they can't then snap will probably still be left behind by other packaging formats when it comes to performance do you use plex do you wish you had a desktop app to play your video or audio files from your plex server well now you have an app for linux this new official plex app is currently only available as a snap package but it brings a few cool things first you can get either the desktop interface or what they call the htpc interface which is basically the one you can get on your tv both of these benefit from a powerful playback engine that should make things nice and smooth during playback it has gamepad or remote support refresh rate switching multi-channel audio and a lot more a flat pack version that will be on flat hub is also planned and should come soon but there are no plans to release the app as an app image or a regular package and i would expect this trend to continue and to extend to other companies because why bother creating tens of packages for tens of different distros when you can just support everything with one snap and one flat pack bad news about privacy though as it seems that duckduckgo isn't as private as it might have seemed they have a search agreement with microsoft to source results from bing to supplement their own search results and this agreement seems to prevent them from blocking microsoft trackers in their browser and their mobile app and i would guess also their browser extension what's worse is that this was only disclosed after a security researcher found out about it which isn't a good look duckduckgo is pretty clear about the microsoft ads that are running in their search results but not at all regarding how the data gathered from microsoft trackers is used since it seems they have a confidentiality agreement about this they're apparently trying to improve on this deal and they expect to add more protection against microsoft trackers in future updates but this is still a letdown that's quite a shock to me as i've been using duckduckgo for a long while and i'll probably be taking my searchers elsewhere while we wait for clarification on how are going to fix the issue the steam deck has now reached 3 000 games that are officially playable that's a huge milestone for a few months of existence and do keep in mind that these are just the games that valve has reviewed a ton more will work perfectly even though they haven't been officially vetted we now have 1 535 verified games 1493 playable games and a big number of unsupported titles as well 1322 this means that out of all the games valve looked at 30 percent are unsupported on the deck either because they don't work on linux at all or because they are not suited for the steam decks hardware performance wise or controls wise newcomers this time include serious sam-4 beyond the steel sky or far loan sales i mean 30 of games being unsupported isn't huge but it's still a sizable chunk of the steam library so i hope they can improve that in the future but i'm still very very satisfied that we get to place 70 of the titles on steam that have been reviewed anyways we didn't get a wine release last week so the last news video was pretty sad but now we do with wine 7.9 this one is starting the work on converting mac os drivers to the pe executable format there are fixes for a number of test failures on windows and 35 bug fixes this time they regard lego rock raiders the stellaris launcher and edit pad light 7 among other bug fixes that will affect various apps and games more generally not an eventful release but i'll take a new wine version over no wine at all just like i'll take this segue to today's sponsor tuxedo these guys make great laptops and desktops that are running linux out of the box you actually order them with a choice of distro although you can install anything you want on them because if they support linux distros they probably support like every linux distro they have a huge range of devices from the smaller ultrabooks and nox to the biggest gaming pcs or workstation laptops and they just let you configure basically everything you can even add your little logo on the back it's laser engraved it looks really cool and you have a huge range of keyboard layouts as well they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end workstation laptop gaming laptop with 12th gen intel cpus rtx 3080s and basically every amount of ram or storage that you might need to run on such a laptop it's got a 3k panel that is amazing it's got the best keyboard i ever used on the laptop period and i'm gonna get a review unit very very soon i already had reviewed the previous model which i really loved but this one seems even more powerful and i might even buy it for my own on-the-go video editing needs so if you need a new device and you want something that you're sure will run with linux well just click on the link below and check out tuxedos devices they're really good now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video i'm always fine with you disliking it and telling me why in the comments as well but don't dislike without telling me why that's just rude and if all my studies in economics served me well inflation means more money right no well even if it doesn't but you have too much of it you can click on the super thanks button or on my link for paypal 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hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video brought to you by my overstuffed rss reader this time we learned that microsoft has multiple linux distros in the works although they're for internal use only budgie is being pushed to fedora's official repositories to provide a default budgie experience for the distro and we have some massive funding for some open source project of course there are also the enormous releases that are inkscape 1.2 and only office 7.1 as well as updates on gnome and kde and some good and bad linux gaming news what's really good though is this study on the state of linux security that you can get for free thanks to today's sponsor this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tux care solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached the gnome developers have some new updates to share not only on their apps but also on the governance of the gnome foundation they have outlined three initiatives they want to focus on making newcomers more welcome by employing paid contributors to polish the documentation adding payment support to flat hub to help compensate developers for their work probably in a pay what you want model like what elementary os does and making gnome a local first platform to reduce cloud dependency gtk 4 also got some performance improvements to the scrolling in list and column views and there's a fix to avoid fps drops when opening pop-up menus gnome software now has basic web app support our note the handwritten note-taking app now supports more shape types and handwriting should have less latency warp an app to let you transfer files to a specific device with a word-based code also saw its first release and workbench the sandbox to test gnome technologies now supports a blueprint a markup language and valor i'm interested to see if these three new initiatives will actually bring more developers and so more users to the gnome platform as gnome is already one of the most used desktop environments being shipped on most of the major distros out of the box it's also the only one with a super solid and stable platform for developers so it's going to be interesting to see if this provides any benefits and if this drags more people in microsoft already had a linux distribution designed for internal use only called cbl mariner for common base linux and it's used in the windows subsystem for linux azure and other microsoft products but it seems that microsoft has another linux distro out there called cbld for common base linux delrig it's been published at the same time as their regular cbl distro in 2020 with one main difference where mariner is a linux from scratch distro not using a specific base delrig is using debian at its core it powers azure's cloud shell which is microsoft set of management tools packaged in a container even though delridge is based on debian microsoft compiles all packages for it themselves to guard against supply chain attacks for now both mariner and delridge seem limited to internal microsoft use only which makes me wonder do they actually share the code for these distros because since they're using gpl components they should have to share every modification that they brought so unless they only repackage stuff without changing anything then this code should be public right still it's not the windows powered by a linux kernel system that everybody wants to see except me because i don't think it would be interesting or i don't think it's ever going to happen the open 3d foundation which manages the open3d engine initially donated by amazon announced a new big release improvements include better stability installer validation motion matching updates automated testing improvements and support for user-defined properties for the asset pipeline all things that completely escape my understanding they plan to have two releases per year with the next being in october the foundation also announced a new conference taking place in october in austin texas united states earth and they are looking for people to host talks if you're interested you can submit a proposal the conference will also be available virtually for people who can't or don't want to go to texas it's taking a bit of time to actually get going but i'm still pretty excited about this open source 3d engine if the community rallies around it and supports it well it could be a very solid foundation to make games that run on linux and other platforms and run well google announced flutter 3 a cross-platform software framework that notoriously has the support of ubuntu which is planning to use it for their new installer and firmware manager mac os and linux support were previously in beta well now it's full stable support for our platform which is cool canonical collaborated with google to get it to that point and linux specific packages will provide apis for core systems like dbus g settings network manager bluetooth and notifications it will also include a complete widget and theme set for yaru the ubuntu theme the goal seems to be to offer a highly integrated option for development and i wouldn't be surprised if ubuntu decided to develop more desktop apps using it to reduce their dependency on gnome which they seem to butt heads with these days personally i will always favor an app that looks native to my desktop to a web app so if flutter can actually bridge the gap between native looking apps and apps that are as easy to develop as web apps then i'm all for it we'll have to see if anybody makes something out of flutter because for now it hasn't really materialized yet joshua's trouble one of the main budgie developers has now submitted budgie for inclusion in fedora the goal is to put the budgie desktop and all its software in the fedora repos for fedora 37 with a backboard for fedora 36. this includes the budgie control center budgie screensaver and budgie desktop view on top of its default applets the raven panel and every other goodness this desktop brings this inclusion would come with official support as joshua strobel used fedora on his laptop and will move his desktop to silver blue he also encouraged people to introduce a fedora budgie spin to let users get budgie out of the box on fedora's base this would be a minimal spin with a few select defaults for budgie to provide a stock experience with the materia gtk theme and the papyrus icon thing i hope this call for inclusion goes through as it would be pretty cool to have a distro that ships stock default budgie which apparently solus doesn't keddie developers also have been hard at work with a new weekly update two 15-minute bugs have been solved so the first experience with kde should be better for everyone eliza the music player is now able to display lyrics embedded in files using the rc format and will automatically scroll those lyrics as the song plays so you can use kde for your karaoke parties there is now a visible option to control tablet mode to let you switch it on automatically or toggle it on and off manually the system monitor can also make its pages load as soon as the app is open and not when you switch to that specific page so the app will feel more responsive the login manager will now shake when you enter incorrect credentials tabs in gtk using the breeze theme will now look like normal kde tabs menu bars will now use the correct color for headers that the color scheme specifies text alignment has been improved in buttons without icons and touchscreen gestures are now one-to-one as well on weyland a bunch of good stuff that will also land in plasma 5.25 and this release is looking more and more packed with amazing new features and fixes i just can't wait to get my hands on it and of course you can expect a video about it you might have heard of rocky linux the linux distro that aims to pick up the slack from centos after the move to santos stream seems like this rebuild of centos is getting massive funding 26 million dollars to be precise the distro was kicked off by greg cortzer one of centos's founders and it's serviced by a company called ciq which sells support for rocky linux ciq lended 26 million dollars in series a funding after a massive adoption from the community the distro now reaches 250 000 monthly downloads and up to 750 000 downloads in the best month they already have 10 000 developers and contributors interested which is even too much for such a young project the project even gained support from greg koa hartman the maintainer for the linux kernel to try and work on an optional optimized kernel for it it's always awesome to see open source projects just taking off like this and it's also a nice reminder that there is money to be made in the open source space at least on the server side of things only office the open source office suite for linux but also available on windows and mac os has a new release out version 7.1 has performance improvements especially noticeable on big documents thanks to improvements to the javascript engine they use as the desktop app is mostly a web app there are also now print previews in spreadsheets which is pretty useful a new viewer for pdf files the ability to convert pdf documents to docx the addition of the view tab in the ribbon on text documents and presentations so you get more options to change how your work is displayed there's improved handling of shapes the ability to open smart art objects and support for new chart types it is a huge update and it's still not on flat hub as i'm recording this video but if you're using only office that's definitely something that you'll want to update too soon as a reminder only office is also a sponsor for some videos on the channel although not for this one inkscape 1.2 has been released and it's a huge update to the open source vector drawing app documents now support multiple pages and there's a new page manager to let you interact with these name them arrange them or save them as a multi-page pdf document which you can also now import in inkscape now the color palette tool can now be customized with changing its size to colors and scrolling through available palettes the objects and layer dialogues have been merged to simplify the workflow and quickly see which object is on which layer there's a new tiling live path effect to let you create grids and patterns with multiple options to change how that pattern looks and snapping on the canvas is now much easier with new options in the preferences finally you get a new gradient editor editable markers for your lines and a batch export option to let you export multiple objects as individual files extremely useful for icon makers inkscape is just getting better and better and with the addition of these tools there is just one more reason to try it out google announced a new initiative to try and make sure the open source software supply chain is as secure as possible they will now curate and distribute a collection of open source packages that they have vetted for security issues these will be available to google cloud customers it's called assured open source software and it aims to bring an answer to the recent issues with major open source pieces of software like lock4j or the intentional self-sabotage of various libraries there's currently 550 packages the full list is available on github and the service is in early access with general availability planned for the third quarter of 2022. google also recently announced the formation of an open source maintenance crew to work with the maintainers of various popular open source libraries and help them improve security security has long been one of the major selling points for open source software so it's good to see that reputation getting some help to be restored even though it's google doing it heroic the amazing app to let you handle all your epic and gog games like you would with steam and steamplay has a new update first the app supports themes with a variety of color schemes including dracula and a bunch of others heroic also now lets you install the windows version of a game from god if you prefer or if that version runs better with proton as often happens if you use the app image version it will now auto update heroic also lets you add games as favorites although i couldn't see any specific use for that as the ui doesn't let me filter them specifically and there isn't a sidebar option to only view favorites you can also now hide games from your library there are some new accessibility options to change phones and make the interface bigger useful for people with disabilities or on smaller screens like the steam deck and you'll now see how much space is left on the device when installing a game heroic is a fantastic program that i use to handle all the free games that epic throws at me every month i must say i really prefer it to the implementation of the epic game support thingy in lutress as you don't need to have the official epic game store client installed you can just run your games from heroic just works better the steam deck keeps getting more and more titles as the number of officially playable titles reaches 2 900 including 1478 games marked as certified and 1424 titles listed as playable there are some big hitters added to the list this time like daze gone anachronics half-life opposing force ghost warrior tokyo chrono cross star wars squadron far cry 3 and 4 or dying light 2. in other good news gamescope the window manager for steam os now supports nvidia image scaling so games will be able to use either fsr or the nvidia equivalent note that it is not dlss as the two seems like different implementations of image scaling don't ask me the difference between the two finally less good news as fall guys is now an epic exclusive and will leave steam just as rocket league did before on june 21st new players will have to get the game on epic but existing players will still get to play their game on steam and get updates right now full guys can be made to work on linux by moving its easy anti-cheat file around but there is no guarantee that this will still work on the epic version kind of a sucky move but hey what can you expect from epic games right mesa 22.1 the open source graphics stack for intel and amd gpus has been released and it's got a lot of improvements first it supports intel's new alchemist platform for their dedicated gpus it supports the newest versions of various graphics apis like vulcan and opengl and it has the copper interface for zync to run opengl apps on devices that only support vulkan on top of that there are bug fixes for various games like eldon ring apex legends grid autosport baldur's gate dark alliance rage 2 the evil within 2 ghost wire tokyo or age of empires 4. it's still a development release so if you want stability you might want to wait a few weeks but if not i'm sure you'll find it in various ppas or the aur it's amazing how many ways we have to fix issues in games nowadays in proton in vulcan extensions in the mesa drivers or in the nvidia drivers it still feels like magic just like the devices that today's sponsor makes you probably all have heard about tuxedo they're a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops that run linux out of the box they have a huge range of devices that you can all configure to your heart's content from the smallest ultrabooks to a giant gaming pc to a gaming laptop to a knock you can basically do anything you want with their devices they ship worldwide and they have all keyboard configurations that you might want they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end production laptop or gaming laptop i reviewed the previous one which was already super powerful had an amazing optomechanical keyboard a great 3k panel and basically a nice chassis with tons of io and great performance but now it has even better cpus and gpus and i should receive a review unit very very soon with my own logo engraved on the back and i might even end up buying it for my on the go video editing needs so if you need a new tuxedo device head over to the link in the description below click it and find something that you want thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to give me all of your hard earned money you can also click on the super thanks button down there or on the paypal link in the description or join my patreon members or my youtube members both get access to the weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

man finding b-roll for this one is gonna be a nightmare hey everyone this is nick and not all open source software is created equal the rights you have regarding this software is defined in the license that's attached to the software and while most of them mean that you can get basically any rights you want over the code some are more permissive and some are more restrictive so let's take a look at the most commonly used licenses for free and open source software and which rights they actually grant you just like today's sponsor he's gonna grant you a hundred dollars to get your own linux or gaming server thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay let's begin with the new general public license or gpl in 2021 the gpl and all its versions and variants represented about 21 of all fast licenses used yes i'm saying variants and versions because the gpl is used in many forms namely the gpl version 3 its older version gpl v2 and also its lesser versions the lgpl yes fragmentation also exists for licenses the original gpl was created by richard stallman for the new project in 1989. it's what we call a copyleft license which means that someone using code licensed under the gpl can't decide to make that code proprietary or private nor can they do that to any modifications they brought to the code all modifications made have to be redistributed under the same terms the gpl generally gives you the right to download and use modify and redistribute the code using the license without any restrictions now the various variants of the gpl have a few important differences the gpl version 3 compared to version 2 is more comprehensive and more in line with how modern code is written and distributed it adds three main clauses a compatibility clause that makes it easier to mix different licenses on the same project something the gpl version two made a bit more difficult there's a digital rights management clause that was made to prevent the use of gpl software in products that would infringe on users privacy like the dmca act and there's a patent clause that ensures that every user of patented code is protected in the same way if for example a patent applies to the code that's under the gpl now the lesser gpl or lgpl is another variant of the license that makes it easier to use gpl code inside of your project without spreading the gpl to the whole project as long as the work is considered non-derivative something that is a bit vague and generally considered a legal issue more than a licensing issue a lot of projects use the gpl like the linux kernel most new software wordpress notepad plus plus or git also any project under the gpl can be sold by the original creator or anyone else whether they modified the code or not but the person who bought that software has every right to redistribute the code for free themselves basically the gpl and all of its variants are what we call the true free software license they prevent code from being turned proprietary and they let you do basically whatever else you want with it now it's important to note that you only have to redistribute your code that you changed if your project is made public if for example i decided to modify the linux kernel for my own use case i wouldn't be forced to publish all the modifications that i made to that linux kernel not that i would be able to do that because the closest thing i ever did to coding was writing a graphical rpg on my casio calculator now another much used license is the mit license with about 31 of fast projects using it in 2021 it's been created by the massachusetts institute of technology or mit and it's also a free software license that grants you the rights to copy modify merge or distribute the code it's a very permissive license much more flexible than the gpl as it doesn't restrict what you can do with the code you're using there is no copyleft or copyright included so you can include code licensed under the mit license in your proprietary software and not redistribute any of your changes which makes projects licensed under the mit license a treasure trove for a lot of companies you get free work that will probably be maintained by someone else that you can include in your proprietary project and not redistribute any of your changes provided of course that you do include a copy of the mit license in your project which is a very small price to pay the mit license is used in some form or another by a lot of projects like the x11 display server dot net core angular react node.js or jquery the mit license also allows you to sell your work or someone else's work even without modifications now onto the apache license also used a lot by 14 percent of fast projects in 2021. the apache license is some form of middle ground between the gpl and the mit license it grants you all the freedoms of downloading using modifying distributing and selling software using the license whether it's for personal internal or commercial use these rights include copyrights and patents so anyone who contributed to the project grants everyone else a right to all patents they might have on that specific code with additional protections if future work contributed by someone else infringes on a patent that you have in that case your patent is still valid and protected since you didn't contribute the code infringing on the patent yourself you didn't grant a right to that patent because you didn't include work that makes use of that patent yourself in the code the apache license isn't a copy left license like the gpl which means your modifications don't have to use the apache license but the original work must still be published under the apache license and every modification has to be labeled clearly so everything you add on top of a project licensed under the apache license can be using any license you want it can even be proprietary but the original project must still be licensed under the apache license you can't change its license so in that it's in between the gpl that makes all your modifications gpl as well and the mit license that allows you to make the original code proprietary inside of your project that specific license is used by android the apache http server kubernetes or the open 3d engine then we have the bsd license which is a low restriction type of license it was created by the berkeley source distribution project known as bsd originally in 1969 there are multiple variants but most ground the same freedoms to download use modify redistribute the software as long as the copyright notice and the license are included the bsd license doesn't force any modification to be distributed under the terms of the bsd license compared to the mit license the bsd license is basically similar apart from the fact that you can't promote your derived software using the name of the license so you can't say my project is awesome because it is endorsed by bsd just because you have the bsd license that's not allowed compared to the apache license the bsd license is less clear about patent rights and doesn't force someone who's distributing modified code to include a notice of all changes the vsd license being more permissive is also more compatible with other licenses like the gpl v2 compared to the apache v2 which isn't which is also what prompted the creation of the gpl v3 as with most licenses used by open source off-free software you can definitely sell work that's licensed under the bsd license even if you're not the original author but licenses don't only apply to code you can also license your creative work like a book a video a drawing any form of photo or art basically anything you create can be covered by a license and one of the most well-known and used is the creative commons and boy is this one fragmented if you thought we had too many distros we definitely do have too many creative commons licenses the creative commons lets people use your copyrighted work without having to contact you to know if and how they can make use of what you created there are six types of that license which define what you can do and how you can use the work these licenses are maintained by a non-profit which means that it's up to you to check if people actually respect the license much like with code which generally is a problem for free and open source software there is no real simple way to check if a proprietary project has based its work under the gpl but not redistributed any of their changes it's just very complicated to check now what are the various types of creative commons first you have the basic attribution which applies to all creative commons licenses they let people distribute remix adapt and build upon your work even commercially as long as they credit the original author then you have the share alike license that is basically the copyleft version which means that any modification to the original work also has to be shared under the creative commons sharealike license the non-derivative license means you can reuse the work even commercially but you can't share it if you modified it the non-commercial license lets people use modify and distribute their modifications but they can't sell it or use it for a commercial purpose they don't have to respect the same license for their modifications though which is why there's also the non-commercial share alike variant which forces all your modifications to be distributed under the same sharealike non-commercial license and finally there's the most restrictive one the non-commercial sharealike non-derivative license which basically means you can't distribute any modifications to the work or use the original work in commercial form all my videos are distributed under the creative commons non-commercial sharealike license which is probably something i should write somewhere in the description of my videos at some point basically you can grab any of my videos you can modify them and share them again as long as you're not trying to make a profit from them or trying to copyright them as well which i'm looking at you baby woke if you're using my face in your videos you are not authorized to monetize them sorry okay so that only covers a few of the major licenses there are a ton more and differences can be pretty minor all pretty major mostly what you need to remember is the difference between copyleft licenses which extend to all the modifications you bring to the original project and more permissive licenses which lets you do basically anything you want with different ways of handling attribution copyright and patents and if you just create stuff that isn't code the creative commons is basically your go-to just choose the one that limits or authorizes everything that you want to let people do with it finally almost no license used in open source or free software prevents the sale of a project whether you're the original author or whether you added any modifications on top of it even if it's just a rebrand you have the right to take that code and sell it as long as you keep redistributing it free software doesn't mean free of charge i hope this brought a bit more clarity to the various licenses our projects use and that it made the first jargon a little bit more digest what's always very digest though is this segue to today's sponsor tuxedo these guys make laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can install any distro of your choosing afterwards but you can also get one shipping with the distro you like immediately they have a huge range of keyboard layouts they ship worldwide even though they're based in germany and they have an enormous range of devices from the smallest knocks and and the smallest ultrabooks to the biggest gaming pcs or gaming or workstation laptops they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming laptop or workstation laptop and it now has 12th gen intel cpus nvidia rdx 3080s well up to 3080s and it's just a wonderful device with a 3k panel the best keyboard i ever used in any laptop period and great io i should receive a review unit for this new model pretty soon with my logo engraved on the back because that's something that tuxedo can also do for you and i will probably buy it afterwards to use for my own on-the-go video editing needs so if you need a new device running linux check out the link in the description below click it and see what tuxedo has to offer they're really cool products now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and since we all know we're all rolling around in cash right now why not give a little bit to me by clicking on the super thanks button or clicking on my paypal link in the description of the video or by joining my patreon or youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] [Music] [Music] 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man finding b-roll for this one is gonna be a nightmare hey everyone this is nick and not all open source software is created equal the rights you have regarding this software is defined in the license that's attached to the software and while most of them mean that you can get basically any rights you want over the code some are more permissive and some are more restrictive so let's take a look at the most commonly used licenses for free and open source software and which rights they actually grant you just like today's sponsor he's gonna grant you a hundred dollars to get your own linux or gaming server thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay let's begin with the new general public license or gpl in 2021 the gpl and all its versions and variants represented about 21 of all fast licenses used yes i'm saying variants and versions because the gpl is used in many forms namely the gpl version 3 its older version gpl v2 and also its lesser versions the lgpl yes fragmentation also exists for licenses the original gpl was created by richard stallman for the new project in 1989. it's what we call a copyleft license which means that someone using code licensed under the gpl can't decide to make that code proprietary or private nor can they do that to any modifications they brought to the code all modifications made have to be redistributed under the same terms the gpl generally gives you the right to download and use modify and redistribute the code using the license without any restrictions now the various variants of the gpl have a few important differences the gpl version 3 compared to version 2 is more comprehensive and more in line with how modern code is written and distributed it adds three main clauses a compatibility clause that makes it easier to mix different licenses on the same project something the gpl version two made a bit more difficult there's a digital rights management clause that was made to prevent the use of gpl software in products that would infringe on users privacy like the dmca act and there's a patent clause that ensures that every user of patented code is protected in the same way if for example a patent applies to the code that's under the gpl now the lesser gpl or lgpl is another variant of the license that makes it easier to use gpl code inside of your project without spreading the gpl to the whole project as long as the work is considered non-derivative something that is a bit vague and generally considered a legal issue more than a licensing issue a lot of projects use the gpl like the linux kernel most new software wordpress notepad plus plus or git also any project under the gpl can be sold by the original creator or anyone else whether they modified the code or not but the person who bought that software has every right to redistribute the code for free themselves basically the gpl and all of its variants are what we call the true free software license they prevent code from being turned proprietary and they let you do basically whatever else you want with it now it's important to note that you only have to redistribute your code that you changed if your project is made public if for example i decided to modify the linux kernel for my own use case i wouldn't be forced to publish all the modifications that i made to that linux kernel not that i would be able to do that because the closest thing i ever did to coding was writing a graphical rpg on my casio calculator now another much used license is the mit license with about 31 of fast projects using it in 2021 it's been created by the massachusetts institute of technology or mit and it's also a free software license that grants you the rights to copy modify merge or distribute the code it's a very permissive license much more flexible than the gpl as it doesn't restrict what you can do with the code you're using there is no copyleft or copyright included so you can include code licensed under the mit license in your proprietary software and not redistribute any of your changes which makes projects licensed under the mit license a treasure trove for a lot of companies you get free work that will probably be maintained by someone else that you can include in your proprietary project and not redistribute any of your changes provided of course that you do include a copy of the mit license in your project which is a very small price to pay the mit license is used in some form or another by a lot of projects like the x11 display server dot net core angular react node.js or jquery the mit license also allows you to sell your work or someone else's work even without modifications now onto the apache license also used a lot by 14 percent of fast projects in 2021. the apache license is some form of middle ground between the gpl and the mit license it grants you all the freedoms of downloading using modifying distributing and selling software using the license whether it's for personal internal or commercial use these rights include copyrights and patents so anyone who contributed to the project grants everyone else a right to all patents they might have on that specific code with additional protections if future work contributed by someone else infringes on a patent that you have in that case your patent is still valid and protected since you didn't contribute the code infringing on the patent yourself you didn't grant a right to that patent because you didn't include work that makes use of that patent yourself in the code the apache license isn't a copy left license like the gpl which means your modifications don't have to use the apache license but the original work must still be published under the apache license and every modification has to be labeled clearly so everything you add on top of a project licensed under the apache license can be using any license you want it can even be proprietary but the original project must still be licensed under the apache license you can't change its license so in that it's in between the gpl that makes all your modifications gpl as well and the mit license that allows you to make the original code proprietary inside of your project that specific license is used by android the apache http server kubernetes or the open 3d engine then we have the bsd license which is a low restriction type of license it was created by the berkeley source distribution project known as bsd originally in 1969 there are multiple variants but most ground the same freedoms to download use modify redistribute the software as long as the copyright notice and the license are included the bsd license doesn't force any modification to be distributed under the terms of the bsd license compared to the mit license the bsd license is basically similar apart from the fact that you can't promote your derived software using the name of the license so you can't say my project is awesome because it is endorsed by bsd just because you have the bsd license that's not allowed compared to the apache license the bsd license is less clear about patent rights and doesn't force someone who's distributing modified code to include a notice of all changes the vsd license being more permissive is also more compatible with other licenses like the gpl v2 compared to the apache v2 which isn't which is also what prompted the creation of the gpl v3 as with most licenses used by open source off-free software you can definitely sell work that's licensed under the bsd license even if you're not the original author but licenses don't only apply to code you can also license your creative work like a book a video a drawing any form of photo or art basically anything you create can be covered by a license and one of the most well-known and used is the creative commons and boy is this one fragmented if you thought we had too many distros we definitely do have too many creative commons licenses the creative commons lets people use your copyrighted work without having to contact you to know if and how they can make use of what you created there are six types of that license which define what you can do and how you can use the work these licenses are maintained by a non-profit which means that it's up to you to check if people actually respect the license much like with code which generally is a problem for free and open source software there is no real simple way to check if a proprietary project has based its work under the gpl but not redistributed any of their changes it's just very complicated to check now what are the various types of creative commons first you have the basic attribution which applies to all creative commons licenses they let people distribute remix adapt and build upon your work even commercially as long as they credit the original author then you have the share alike license that is basically the copyleft version which means that any modification to the original work also has to be shared under the creative commons sharealike license the non-derivative license means you can reuse the work even commercially but you can't share it if you modified it the non-commercial license lets people use modify and distribute their modifications but they can't sell it or use it for a commercial purpose they don't have to respect the same license for their modifications though which is why there's also the non-commercial share alike variant which forces all your modifications to be distributed under the same sharealike non-commercial license and finally there's the most restrictive one the non-commercial sharealike non-derivative license which basically means you can't distribute any modifications to the work or use the original work in commercial form all my videos are distributed under the creative commons non-commercial sharealike license which is probably something i should write somewhere in the description of my videos at some point basically you can grab any of my videos you can modify them and share them again as long as you're not trying to make a profit from them or trying to copyright them as well which i'm looking at you baby woke if you're using my face in your videos you are not authorized to monetize them sorry okay so that only covers a few of the major licenses there are a ton more and differences can be pretty minor all pretty major mostly what you need to remember is the difference between copyleft licenses which extend to all the modifications you bring to the original project and more permissive licenses which lets you do basically anything you want with different ways of handling attribution copyright and patents and if you just create stuff that isn't code the creative commons is basically your go-to just choose the one that limits or authorizes everything that you want to let people do with it finally almost no license used in open source or free software prevents the sale of a project whether you're the original author or whether you added any modifications on top of it even if it's just a rebrand you have the right to take that code and sell it as long as you keep redistributing it free software doesn't mean free of charge i hope this brought a bit more clarity to the various licenses our projects use and that it made the first jargon a little bit more digest what's always very digest though is this segue to today's sponsor tuxedo these guys make laptops and desktops running linux out of the box you can install any distro of your choosing afterwards but you can also get one shipping with the distro you like immediately they have a huge range of keyboard layouts they ship worldwide even though they're based in germany and they have an enormous range of devices from the smallest knocks and and the smallest ultrabooks to the biggest gaming pcs or gaming or workstation laptops they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming laptop or workstation laptop and it now has 12th gen intel cpus nvidia rdx 3080s well up to 3080s and it's just a wonderful device with a 3k panel the best keyboard i ever used in any laptop period and great io i should receive a review unit for this new model pretty soon with my logo engraved on the back because that's something that tuxedo can also do for you and i will probably buy it afterwards to use for my own on-the-go video editing needs so if you need a new device running linux check out the link in the description below click it and see what tuxedo has to offer they're really cool products now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and since we all know we're all rolling around in cash right now why not give a little bit to me by clicking on the super thanks button or clicking on my paypal link in the description of the video or by joining my patreon or youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] [Music] [Music] 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hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video brought to you by my overstuffed rss reader this time we learned that microsoft has multiple linux distros in the works although they're for internal use only budgie is being pushed to fedora's official repositories to provide a default budgie experience for the distro and we have some massive funding for some open source project of course there are also the enormous releases that are inkscape 1.2 and only office 7.1 as well as updates on gnome and kde and some good and bad linux gaming news what's really good though is this study on the state of linux security that you can get for free thanks to today's sponsor this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tux care solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached the gnome developers have some new updates to share not only on their apps but also on the governance of the gnome foundation they have outlined three initiatives they want to focus on making newcomers more welcome by employing paid contributors to polish the documentation adding payment support to flat hub to help compensate developers for their work probably in a pay what you want model like what elementary os does and making gnome a local first platform to reduce cloud dependency gtk 4 also got some performance improvements to the scrolling in list and column views and there's a fix to avoid fps drops when opening pop-up menus gnome software now has basic web app support our note the handwritten note-taking app now supports more shape types and handwriting should have less latency warp an app to let you transfer files to a specific device with a word-based code also saw its first release and workbench the sandbox to test gnome technologies now supports a blueprint a markup language and valor i'm interested to see if these three new initiatives will actually bring more developers and so more users to the gnome platform as gnome is already one of the most used desktop environments being shipped on most of the major distros out of the box it's also the only one with a super solid and stable platform for developers so it's going to be interesting to see if this provides any benefits and if this drags more people in microsoft already had a linux distribution designed for internal use only called cbl mariner for common base linux and it's used in the windows subsystem for linux azure and other microsoft products but it seems that microsoft has another linux distro out there called cbld for common base linux delrig it's been published at the same time as their regular cbl distro in 2020 with one main difference where mariner is a linux from scratch distro not using a specific base delrig is using debian at its core it powers azure's cloud shell which is microsoft set of management tools packaged in a container even though delridge is based on debian microsoft compiles all packages for it themselves to guard against supply chain attacks for now both mariner and delridge seem limited to internal microsoft use only which makes me wonder do they actually share the code for these distros because since they're using gpl components they should have to share every modification that they brought so unless they only repackage stuff without changing anything then this code should be public right still it's not the windows powered by a linux kernel system that everybody wants to see except me because i don't think it would be interesting or i don't think it's ever going to happen the open 3d foundation which manages the open3d engine initially donated by amazon announced a new big release improvements include better stability installer validation motion matching updates automated testing improvements and support for user-defined properties for the asset pipeline all things that completely escape my understanding they plan to have two releases per year with the next being in october the foundation also announced a new conference taking place in october in austin texas united states earth and they are looking for people to host talks if you're interested you can submit a proposal the conference will also be available virtually for people who can't or don't want to go to texas it's taking a bit of time to actually get going but i'm still pretty excited about this open source 3d engine if the community rallies around it and supports it well it could be a very solid foundation to make games that run on linux and other platforms and run well google announced flutter 3 a cross-platform software framework that notoriously has the support of ubuntu which is planning to use it for their new installer and firmware manager mac os and linux support were previously in beta well now it's full stable support for our platform which is cool canonical collaborated with google to get it to that point and linux specific packages will provide apis for core systems like dbus g settings network manager bluetooth and notifications it will also include a complete widget and theme set for yaru the ubuntu theme the goal seems to be to offer a highly integrated option for development and i wouldn't be surprised if ubuntu decided to develop more desktop apps using it to reduce their dependency on gnome which they seem to butt heads with these days personally i will always favor an app that looks native to my desktop to a web app so if flutter can actually bridge the gap between native looking apps and apps that are as easy to develop as web apps then i'm all for it we'll have to see if anybody makes something out of flutter because for now it hasn't really materialized yet joshua's trouble one of the main budgie developers has now submitted budgie for inclusion in fedora the goal is to put the budgie desktop and all its software in the fedora repos for fedora 37 with a backboard for fedora 36. this includes the budgie control center budgie screensaver and budgie desktop view on top of its default applets the raven panel and every other goodness this desktop brings this inclusion would come with official support as joshua strobel used fedora on his laptop and will move his desktop to silver blue he also encouraged people to introduce a fedora budgie spin to let users get budgie out of the box on fedora's base this would be a minimal spin with a few select defaults for budgie to provide a stock experience with the materia gtk theme and the papyrus icon thing i hope this call for inclusion goes through as it would be pretty cool to have a distro that ships stock default budgie which apparently solus doesn't keddie developers also have been hard at work with a new weekly update two 15-minute bugs have been solved so the first experience with kde should be better for everyone eliza the music player is now able to display lyrics embedded in files using the rc format and will automatically scroll those lyrics as the song plays so you can use kde for your karaoke parties there is now a visible option to control tablet mode to let you switch it on automatically or toggle it on and off manually the system monitor can also make its pages load as soon as the app is open and not when you switch to that specific page so the app will feel more responsive the login manager will now shake when you enter incorrect credentials tabs in gtk using the breeze theme will now look like normal kde tabs menu bars will now use the correct color for headers that the color scheme specifies text alignment has been improved in buttons without icons and touchscreen gestures are now one-to-one as well on weyland a bunch of good stuff that will also land in plasma 5.25 and this release is looking more and more packed with amazing new features and fixes i just can't wait to get my hands on it and of course you can expect a video about it you might have heard of rocky linux the linux distro that aims to pick up the slack from centos after the move to santos stream seems like this rebuild of centos is getting massive funding 26 million dollars to be precise the distro was kicked off by greg cortzer one of centos's founders and it's serviced by a company called ciq which sells support for rocky linux ciq lended 26 million dollars in series a funding after a massive adoption from the community the distro now reaches 250 000 monthly downloads and up to 750 000 downloads in the best month they already have 10 000 developers and contributors interested which is even too much for such a young project the project even gained support from greg koa hartman the maintainer for the linux kernel to try and work on an optional optimized kernel for it it's always awesome to see open source projects just taking off like this and it's also a nice reminder that there is money to be made in the open source space at least on the server side of things only office the open source office suite for linux but also available on windows and mac os has a new release out version 7.1 has performance improvements especially noticeable on big documents thanks to improvements to the javascript engine they use as the desktop app is mostly a web app there are also now print previews in spreadsheets which is pretty useful a new viewer for pdf files the ability to convert pdf documents to docx the addition of the view tab in the ribbon on text documents and presentations so you get more options to change how your work is displayed there's improved handling of shapes the ability to open smart art objects and support for new chart types it is a huge update and it's still not on flat hub as i'm recording this video but if you're using only office that's definitely something that you'll want to update too soon as a reminder only office is also a sponsor for some videos on the channel although not for this one inkscape 1.2 has been released and it's a huge update to the open source vector drawing app documents now support multiple pages and there's a new page manager to let you interact with these name them arrange them or save them as a multi-page pdf document which you can also now import in inkscape now the color palette tool can now be customized with changing its size to colors and scrolling through available palettes the objects and layer dialogues have been merged to simplify the workflow and quickly see which object is on which layer there's a new tiling live path effect to let you create grids and patterns with multiple options to change how that pattern looks and snapping on the canvas is now much easier with new options in the preferences finally you get a new gradient editor editable markers for your lines and a batch export option to let you export multiple objects as individual files extremely useful for icon makers inkscape is just getting better and better and with the addition of these tools there is just one more reason to try it out google announced a new initiative to try and make sure the open source software supply chain is as secure as possible they will now curate and distribute a collection of open source packages that they have vetted for security issues these will be available to google cloud customers it's called assured open source software and it aims to bring an answer to the recent issues with major open source pieces of software like lock4j or the intentional self-sabotage of various libraries there's currently 550 packages the full list is available on github and the service is in early access with general availability planned for the third quarter of 2022. google also recently announced the formation of an open source maintenance crew to work with the maintainers of various popular open source libraries and help them improve security security has long been one of the major selling points for open source software so it's good to see that reputation getting some help to be restored even though it's google doing it heroic the amazing app to let you handle all your epic and gog games like you would with steam and steamplay has a new update first the app supports themes with a variety of color schemes including dracula and a bunch of others heroic also now lets you install the windows version of a game from god if you prefer or if that version runs better with proton as often happens if you use the app image version it will now auto update heroic also lets you add games as favorites although i couldn't see any specific use for that as the ui doesn't let me filter them specifically and there isn't a sidebar option to only view favorites you can also now hide games from your library there are some new accessibility options to change phones and make the interface bigger useful for people with disabilities or on smaller screens like the steam deck and you'll now see how much space is left on the device when installing a game heroic is a fantastic program that i use to handle all the free games that epic throws at me every month i must say i really prefer it to the implementation of the epic game support thingy in lutress as you don't need to have the official epic game store client installed you can just run your games from heroic just works better the steam deck keeps getting more and more titles as the number of officially playable titles reaches 2 900 including 1478 games marked as certified and 1424 titles listed as playable there are some big hitters added to the list this time like daze gone anachronics half-life opposing force ghost warrior tokyo chrono cross star wars squadron far cry 3 and 4 or dying light 2. in other good news gamescope the window manager for steam os now supports nvidia image scaling so games will be able to use either fsr or the nvidia equivalent note that it is not dlss as the two seems like different implementations of image scaling don't ask me the difference between the two finally less good news as fall guys is now an epic exclusive and will leave steam just as rocket league did before on june 21st new players will have to get the game on epic but existing players will still get to play their game on steam and get updates right now full guys can be made to work on linux by moving its easy anti-cheat file around but there is no guarantee that this will still work on the epic version kind of a sucky move but hey what can you expect from epic games right mesa 22.1 the open source graphics stack for intel and amd gpus has been released and it's got a lot of improvements first it supports intel's new alchemist platform for their dedicated gpus it supports the newest versions of various graphics apis like vulcan and opengl and it has the copper interface for zync to run opengl apps on devices that only support vulkan on top of that there are bug fixes for various games like eldon ring apex legends grid autosport baldur's gate dark alliance rage 2 the evil within 2 ghost wire tokyo or age of empires 4. it's still a development release so if you want stability you might want to wait a few weeks but if not i'm sure you'll find it in various ppas or the aur it's amazing how many ways we have to fix issues in games nowadays in proton in vulcan extensions in the 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hey everyone this is nick and the linux desktop is getting increasingly accessible and user-friendly by the day desktop environments are now super easy to use and understand we have better hardware compatibility than ever before gaming on linux is now a thing we've got app stores to install thousands of apps in one click and we have tons of efforts to polish and improve the user experience and yet some people in the linux community think that making linux more accessible and more user-friendly also means that we're dumbing it down that we're making it less powerful and less capable and this notion isn't new i found traces dating back to 2000 where people were asking the same question are we dumbing linux down and yes in the 2000s linux was basically unusable on the desktop by anybody who was non-technical and still people had like issues and reservations with the efforts trying to make linux more accessible so let's see if these concerns are justified but they'll never be as justified 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be done and all desktop environments aren't taking the same approach to this but the main point is getting more user-friendly means getting more accessible being user-friendly means offering users tours of the user interface to let them get to grips with how things work it means having a legible user interface well designed and with the most prominent features the ones 99 of people will actually use being put front and center power user features can also be there but they don't have to be in the spotlight yeah i'm talking about dual panes in the file manager about the inspector to see the source code of a web page in a web browser i'm talking viewing the metadata for an image file those are interesting and useful things but they should not be prominent in the user interface because 99 of people will never actually use these features being user friendly means having simple legible apps that do one thing and do it well having an easy to understand default desktop and metaphor and supporting accessibility features for people with disabilities that's something we still need to work on on linux the goal is to not be confusing or drown the user in buttons menus features applications system tools and settings that they will never use and will just confuse them that doesn't mean users are stupid or can't handle 5 preferences in the file manager it just means that the default should be very simple and the power user features should be hidden away accessible easy to use but not there to be seen by everybody kde has actually a great approach to this although we could also argue that there is still some work needed to curb the the settings and feature creep in that desktop and make every single default app more simple although i'm sure some plasma users will now be insulting me for that opinion gnome is another extreme example they don't shoot for power users they should for keep it stupid simple and they mostly succeed this means leaving out some of the less used preferences to keep things simple tidy and make sure beginners whatever their computer experiences can use it easily and they also keep a lot of stuff configurable either through deconf or extensions i made a video about that check it out in the card up top on the kde side the moto is simple by default powerful when you need it which i would say similar to what gnome offers except kd ships all the settings and modules out of the box so you don't have to add anything to configure stuff the recent design trend of removing menu bars simplifying toolbars and having hamburger menus to let more advanced users find what they need is a very good design choice it lets you use the app even if you're just trying to copy paste files in dolphin and if you want your file manager to do as many things as emacs it still can what i'm trying to convey here is that our desktops are user-friendly whether it's caddy or gnome or cinnamon but it doesn't mean that they're dumbed down being user-friendly doesn't mean that we need less options less preferences or to get rid of the command line entirely or only have projects with three buttons that even a baby could use it means we need the major projects on linux to be usable by anyone however technical they are it means letting everyone understand what they're doing and how the system reacts and yes it means preventing users to do destructive things that they didn't know would result in breakage data loss or hardware damage and i think this is a goal that everybody can get behind making our linux desktops easier more accessible more usable even if you don't think that linux needs to have more users and more people even if you think that linux is fine as it is it should be a goal that everybody is interested in making sure that everything works is polished and is usable by everyone it doesn't mean that we're gonna turn our desktops into some kind of fisher-price toy that looks like windows xp now all these changes to be more user-friendly they don't remove anything and they don't prevent power users to still use linux how they want to or how they used to the command line is still there all desktops have a terminal emulator and access to multiple ttys options are still there in kde in gnome in cinnamon you have tons of preferences panels extensions configuration options and various apps you can use to replace the components you don't like or you'd prefer not to use if you think about it even gnome is way more configurable than the default windows experience you can tweak it and change it a lot more than you can on windows you still get access to the full file system when you want it through the file manager or the command line you can still install and compile anything you want and you can still completely break and destroy your system if that's something that you want to do no one is stopping you and it's gonna give you that extra excuse to install that shiny new distro that's making bedroom eyes at you you know you want to if something feels dumbed down it's easily replaceable don't like a file manager install another one you can even decide to use plasma with all gnome apps if you want or gnome shell plus only kde applications nothing has been removed nothing has been dumbed down okay that's not entirely true there were some compromises being made in order to achieve the new linux desktop vision i'm talking about the weyland flatback portals image-based systems vision for the linux desktop weyland for example does remove a few features from x.org x could let you display a device's stuff on another device through the network for example weyland doesn't do that welland also means most of the implementation has to be done in the window manager and compositor so gone are the days of smaller window managers that could be written in a few days but weyland also offers a bunch of new stuff that simply couldn't be done in x.org like different refresh rates or scaling on different monitors treating each monitor as a separate surface and people who still prefer using x.org can i do on my desktop it still works and it will work for a long time even though no one really wants to work on it anymore or add features for it it's still there now there's also the gnome 2 to gnome 3 transition and oh boy was that one messy when gnome 3 released people were so angry that it resulted in the creation of three new desktops unity mate and cinnamon gnome 2 was beloved and gnome 3 removed a lot of the customization and the power people were used to that sentiment stuck to gnome but it's just untrue nowadays over the course of its life gnome has added back all the features gnome 2 had and can now be even more customizable and powerful than gnome 2 ever could be with extensions so sure there was a trade-off at the beginning and there still is one if you prefer the gnome 2 defaults over the gnome 3 ones but the end result is a more modern desktop not just in terms of how it looks or works but also in terms of performance underlying technologies or hardware utilization and again people who want to use what gnome 2 was have mate then there's flat packs and portals again a technology you don't have to use but that i would expect to become the standard quite fast these can introduce limitations the permission system isn't perfect and permissions can be incorrectly set so your app doesn't have access to the file system when it needs it for example screen sharing can require you to press a button to authorize it and using an app store to install stuff is definitely less efficient than the command line if you know what you're doing so the flat back syntax for installing apps turns into a nightmare compared to apt or dnf it's still more legible than the syntax for pac-man for example seriously what the hell is it with these letters that have no correlation to the word or the action that they refer to it's nuts basically the sentiment seems to be we're making linux more accessible to a vast number of beginners and non-technical users at the detriment of technical power users and while there's a bit of truth to that the modularity of linux means that these power users can still run the setup they like and use their systems like they want to the defaults are not tailored to power users anymore but that doesn't mean they can't still do whatever they want now there's another underlying issue with making the linux desktop more accessible new users generally don't really need help to get setup and begin they don't really need to ask questions anymore they can just burn their live usb install the distro and start using it there are no major road blocks anymore but this also means that when they're confronted with a real big issue they don't really have the etiquette needed to talk online about that issue or ask their questions this means that they duplicate forum threads that they duplicate bug reports or that they don't really ask in a way that's perceived as nice or polite or or how people are used to interact with others on forums and that's a problem because these new users will then get treated very badly because they don't really know how to express themselves on the forum or the bug report because they never had to do it from the beginning of using linux so sure making our linux desktops easier to use more secure and advancing them technologically to really take advantage of new hardware does come with some compromises as more and more people are able to just pick up a distro install it and run it we remove barriers to entry but we also remove a technical requirement on our users which means that in our current imperfect state where issues still appear these non-technical users don't really know how to act it also means that some features that weren't all that useful to the vast majority of computer users are being neglected or removed in favor of stuff that most computer users would prefer like better multi-monitor support in exchange for network display these are growing pains and sure the linux desktop has been growing for a long while now and new growing paints keep popping up to replace the ones that we had already fixed but i'm still convinced that fixing these issues will not make the linux desktop less powerful the terminal is a given it will always be at the core of linux for people who want it choices and options will always be present in one desktop environment or the other that's the basis of open source beginners are getting a simpler default experience more guided with simple apps no headaches and power users can still replace components tweak their systems and do anything they want to their heart's content the community's efforts have made developing distributing and installing applications a breeze something that has always been a pain point for linux when you had to package your app 20 times to reach the majority of users security is being improved with sandboxed apps portals and permissions so apps can't just access whatever they want read the whole screen and you get more control over them i really don't feel that the linux desktop has been dumped down since i started using it in 2006. if anything it's gotten more powerful but graphically and the underlying power is still there so to conclude no we're not dumbing linux down we're making linux more accessible to the general public and this means that there are some compromises that have to be made but technical power users can deal with these compromises relatively easily where beginners could not deal with the roadblocks that implementing these compromises lifted it's a transfer of the complexity of using linux less complexity for beginners more complexity for technical and power users which are better equipped to deal with that complexity anyways now if you want to be super well equipped to deal with complexity then you should definitely check out today's sponsor tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops 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hey everyone this is nick and today we're going to take a look at email clients for linux and we have a ton of choice here and i know a lot of people prefer to see their mail in a webmail but if you prefer to have a native app that integrates correctly with your desktop if you prefer to have something that really works offline or just that extra little bit of functionality nothing beats a local client unfortunately you have a lot of choices on linux from the simplest experience to the most powerful one powerful like today sponsor which lets you monitor and secure your internet connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay let's begin with the main one here which is thunderbird thunderbird is a cross-platform email client that was initially developed by mozilla using the same technologies as firefox since then it was almost abandoned for a brief period but the community rallied around it and is now being actively improved again with the new version 102 being planned for june with the beta at the end of this month thunderbird does a lot it has a nice wizard to guide you to add your own email account and once that's done you get access to the email obviously duh but you also get a calendar and tasks list and a complete address book the interface doesn't quite look like a gtk or cute application but it does pick up on your dark theme correctly the user interface isn't my favorite it looks a bit dated in my opinion but the thunderbird team is working hard to refine it in the next releases with a big update planned for the version that will come after version 102. thunderbird also has plenty of configuration options to let you tweak how it looks and works to manage tags offline use spell checking and how your email actually displays it also has plenty of hidden features like a complete rss feed reader that you can access by adding a new feed account in the settings and you can even use it as a chat client for google talk irc or any app using the xmpp protocol and if you're an emacs fan and you like your apps to be operating systems basically you also have access to a ton of plugins you can add for example sticky notes or integrate thunderbird with nexcloud to upload your large attachments to your storage and send them via a link in the email you can add a conversation view you can turn your favorite folders into tabs in the interface you can add google calendar support or even exchange support there's basically anything you want to either add features remove them or change how thunderbird works it's extremely powerful thunderbird is available on most if not all linux distros either through the default repositories or flat hub snap the aur wherever it's everywhere i personally find it too feature packed for my needs and its interface just doesn't look native enough to my tastes but i'm eagerly waiting to see what the team has in store for version 102 and the next one and maybe i'll give it another shot after that and also my good friends jason from linux for everyone and alessandro castellani from the youtube channel alicad they both work on thunderbird which is pretty awesome now if you're looking for something that will look right at home on your gnome desktop with a simple and easy experience geary is what you want it uses a three pane layout with an inbox and folder list on the left a message list in the middle and a conversation view and emails on the right it's very very simple without any options to change how it works you can just let it run in the background to check for new mail and enable a few plugins like email templates mail merge and playing a sound when an email is sent it's also responsive which means the interface will adapt to any window or screen size which is useful if you plan to use it on the linux phone although i'm not quite sure how many of you actually daily drive a pine phone or equivalent geary supports any email provider with special integrations for gmail outlook and yahoo it supports message search in all folders and inside a conversation it supports archiving labels and starring conversations to find them easily now it's definitely on the simpler side as it doesn't let you create folders or labels and if you're not into how it works out of the box you also won't be able to change that it just does email in pure one app one purpose gnome fashion so you will also have to use a separate app for your calendar for your tasks for your contacts and all this stuff like that this is the one i personally use because my email needs are extremely simple and it integrates really well with gnome so yeah it's my default client when i use gnome if you're more of a caddy plasma user you'll probably want to head towards kmail which is designed to look right at home on that desktop environment kmail also has a nice wizard to get you started although it didn't automatically detect my email providers incoming and outgoing parameters so i had to enter them manually the default interface looks like what you would expect from a kde app with a menu bar toolbar and a few panels the good thing is as with most kde apps you can configure it exactly how you want you can put the message list on the right or the bottom remove the folders list the menu bar and generally add anything you want in the toolbar so you can virtually replicate any other email client's interface inside of kmail caddy is generally very good for that isn't it my mac os replicating friends kmail can work with exchange accounts it supports open pgp with a nice key generation wizard so your email can be encrypted you can integrate spam assassin or bogo filter to remove spam if your email provider isn't really up to the task and it can work offline entirely now if you want a more complete suite for handling all your productivity needs kml can also integrate with contact which brings in an address book a calendar a to-do list rss feeds a journaling solution and some sticky notes basically everything you could add to thunderbird but with the kde look and feel contact basically grabs individual programs for kde and integrates them in a single shell so you can switch from one to the other easily it's a very cool solution kmail is the client i used back when i used kd on all of my devices it's great it's super customizable although it did need a little bit of work at the start to work look and feel like an email app i could actually use it was a little bit too complex for me just out of the box on to the granddaddy of linux email clients the outlook wannabe evolution and while it doesn't get many updates these days and it looks more at home on a gnome 2 desktop than on a gnome 3 one it's still a super useful email application its first run wizard is super comprehensive it lets you restore from a backup it auto detects the account app you're using whether it's a basic imap account or gmail outlook and a lot of others evolution will pick up on your dark theme and gtk theme and you get access to your email contacts calendars tasks and notes you can change how things look with the message panel on the right or the bottom although with virtually every computer now having a wide screen i don't really see why you would want the message list in the bottom at all and you can also change how the little icon switcher on the bottom left works as well as display a to-do list on the right it even integrates with the gnome online accounts so it will pull your contacts tasks and calendars automatically which is pretty handy to avoid configuring it again something that you will have to do manually with thunderbird for example you also get a ton of preferences to change how you write your email how you manage your labels how the calendar and tasks work if you want to load external content in html emails it's very complete on that front it also has an advanced search tool that lets you add conditions to filter your email how you want it evolution might not really conform to today's gnome human interface guidelines but if you want to use a gtk app and geary is too simple for you evolution is definitely a fantastic solution i used it for a long while at work because i was swamped with email and to-do lists and i just needed to have a complete overview of everything which evolution managed pretty well onto mail spring it might not look like your other linux applications but it's a pretty nice email client that you can get from flat hub it will ask you to create an account at startup to get access to snoozing emails and read receipts but you can skip it if you don't want to use these features it can use most email providers like gmail icloud gmx office 365 or outlook and of course independent imap accounts although it will ask you to enter these accounts details manually it comes with multiple themes out of the box including one that looks like yaru ubuntu's theme and it has a dark theme as well although it won't use your desktop's exact theme mail spring kinda just looks like an older mac app out of the box it's especially visible in its preferences but if that doesn't deter you it's pretty nice it's got a comprehensive set of keyboard shortcuts including presets that mimic outlook apple mail or gmail and you can set rules for incoming email you can create html signatures as well as configure a lot of things to let the app work how you want it to mail spring is open source and free to use but there's a pro subscription available for more advanced stuff like snoozing messages read receipts mail templates send emails at a planned date and time and reminders to tell you when you've not replied to an email mailspring is a competent solution if you don't really care if your apps look like one another personally i'm a consistency nerd and apps that look out of place just irk me i'm super weird about that so it's not for me to complete this list we have bluemail which isn't open source so if that's something that bothers you you might want to skip to the end of the video but still it has a linux version and it has an interesting approach which is treating your inbox as a to-do list it works with any email account including gmail yahoo outlook or icloud and of course your basic imap accounts once you're in you get the traditional 3 pane layout with a conversation view and a few buttons in the bottom left these let you access the interesting features of bluemail like the later board this thing is a small kanban board to let you organize your emails as if there were tasks you just drag them to a column like today later or done and you've got yourself a little organizer to avoid using another app to convert your actionable emails into tasks you can create other columns if you like to sort your work exactly how you like the email list can also be sorted to hide emails that aren't from normal existing people like marketing email newsletters and the like and you've got a ton of preferences including a dark mode i know you're gonna ask dark mode fans are loud you also can create signatures sync your account between devices so you can get your later board on mobile devices or other computers and this doesn't require an account just a sync code you can also use the calendar your email provider gives you but you can't add an external calendar if your email account doesn't come with one i personally do not want to use my email list as a to-do list as i try but completely failed to adhere to the inbox zero principle but if you're not put off by proprietary software and your email is your to-do list then bluemail is definitely going to do the trick and of course i know someone will mention tutanota in the comments but it is not listed here as it only works if you're using a tutanota mail client so you can't use it with your existing email still their desktop app while not integrated without linux desktops is pretty handy there's an email client for everyone on linux whether you want something that is packed with features like thunderbird or evolution something super simple like geary or very customizable like kmail there's an option for you a webmail can definitely do the trick for a lot of people but if you don't like web apps or if you get lost in browser tabs then a local email client with desktop notifications potential system tray icon and a look that's more native to your desktop that just can't be beat i used a bunch of them at some point or another k-mail geary thunderbird evolution nowadays i use geary because i'm on gnome and my email needs are very simple but if they ever get complicated again i'll probably move to evolution or maybe thunderbird if the team can seduce me with their new features and if you live in a terminal there's also mutt the command line email client although at that point if you're using that your web browser is probably links and well i'm sorry what i'm not sorry about is today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany but they ship worldwide and they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can of course install any distro you want but you can also pick 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hey everyone this is nick and today we're going to take a look at email clients for linux and we have a ton of choice here and i know a lot of people prefer to see their mail in a webmail but if you prefer to have a native app that integrates correctly with your desktop if you prefer to have something that really works offline or just that extra little bit of functionality nothing beats a local client unfortunately you have a lot of choices on linux from the simplest experience to the most powerful one powerful like today sponsor which lets you monitor and secure your internet connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or safing privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay let's begin with the main one here which is thunderbird thunderbird is a cross-platform email client that was initially developed by mozilla using the same technologies as firefox since then it was almost abandoned for a brief period but the community rallied around it and is now being actively improved again with the new version 102 being planned for june with the beta at the end of this month thunderbird does a lot it has a nice wizard to guide you to add your own email account and once that's done you get access to the email obviously duh but you also get a calendar and tasks list and a complete address book the interface doesn't quite look like a gtk or cute application but it does pick up on your dark theme correctly the user interface isn't my favorite it looks a bit dated in my opinion but the thunderbird team is working hard to refine it in the next releases with a big update planned for the version that will come after version 102. thunderbird also has plenty of configuration options to let you tweak how it looks and works to manage tags offline use spell checking and how your email actually displays it also has plenty of hidden features like a complete rss feed reader that you can access by adding a new feed account in the settings and you can even use it as a chat client for google talk irc or any app using the xmpp protocol and if you're an emacs fan and you like your apps to be operating systems basically you also have access to a ton of plugins you can add for example sticky notes or integrate thunderbird with nexcloud to upload your large attachments to your storage and send them via a link in the email you can add a conversation view you can turn your favorite folders into tabs in the interface you can add google calendar support or even exchange support there's basically anything you want to either add features remove them or change how thunderbird works it's extremely powerful thunderbird is available on most if not all linux distros either through the default repositories or flat hub snap the aur wherever it's everywhere i personally find it too feature packed for my needs and its interface just doesn't look native enough to my tastes but i'm eagerly waiting to see what the team has in store for version 102 and the next one and maybe i'll give it another shot after that and also my good friends jason from linux for everyone and alessandro castellani from the youtube channel alicad they both work on thunderbird which is pretty awesome now if you're looking for something that will look right at home on your gnome desktop with a simple and easy experience geary is what you want it uses a three pane layout with an inbox and folder list on the left a message list in the middle and a conversation view and emails on the right it's very very simple without any options to change how it works you can just let it run in the background to check for new mail and enable a few plugins like email templates mail merge and playing a sound when an email is sent it's also responsive which means the interface will adapt to any window or screen size which is useful if you plan to use it on the linux phone although i'm not quite sure how many of you actually daily drive a pine phone or equivalent geary supports any email provider with special integrations for gmail outlook and yahoo it supports message search in all folders and inside a conversation it supports archiving labels and starring conversations to find them easily now it's definitely on the simpler side as it doesn't let you create folders or labels and if you're not into how it works out of the box you also won't be able to change that it just does email in pure one app one purpose gnome fashion so you will also have to use a separate app for your calendar for your tasks for your contacts and all this stuff like that this is the one i personally use because my email needs are extremely simple and it integrates really well with gnome so yeah it's my default client when i use gnome if you're more of a caddy plasma user you'll probably want to head towards kmail which is designed to look right at home on that desktop environment kmail also has a nice wizard to get you started although it didn't automatically detect my email providers incoming and outgoing parameters so i had to enter them manually the default interface looks like what you would expect from a kde app with a menu bar toolbar and a few panels the good thing is as with most kde apps you can configure it exactly how you want you can put the message list on the right or the bottom remove the folders list the menu bar and generally add anything you want in the toolbar so you can virtually replicate any other email client's interface inside of kmail caddy is generally very good for that isn't it my mac os replicating friends kmail can work with exchange accounts it supports open pgp with a nice key generation wizard so your email can be encrypted you can integrate spam assassin or bogo filter to remove spam if your email provider isn't really up to the task and it can work offline entirely now if you want a more complete suite for handling all your productivity needs kml can also integrate with contact which brings in an address book a calendar a to-do list rss feeds a journaling solution and some sticky notes basically everything you could add to thunderbird but with the kde look and feel contact basically grabs individual programs for kde and integrates them in a single shell so you can switch from one to the other easily it's a very cool solution kmail is the client i used back when i used kd on all of my devices it's great it's super customizable although it did need a little bit of work at the start to work look and feel like an email app i could actually use it was a little bit too complex for me just out of the box on to the granddaddy of linux email clients the outlook wannabe evolution and while it doesn't get many updates these days and it looks more at home on a gnome 2 desktop than on a gnome 3 one it's still a super useful email application its first run wizard is super comprehensive it lets you restore from a backup it auto detects the account app you're using whether it's a basic imap account or gmail outlook and a lot of others evolution will pick up on your dark theme and gtk theme and you get access to your email contacts calendars tasks and notes you can change how things look with the message panel on the right or the bottom although with virtually every computer now having a wide screen i don't really see why you would want the message list in the bottom at all and you can also change how the little icon switcher on the bottom left works as well as display a to-do list on the right it even integrates with the gnome online accounts so it will pull your contacts tasks and calendars automatically which is pretty handy to avoid configuring it again something that you will have to do manually with thunderbird for example you also get a ton of preferences to change how you write your email how you manage your labels how the calendar and tasks work if you want to load external content in html emails it's very complete on that front it also has an advanced search tool that lets you add conditions to filter your email how you want it evolution might not really conform to today's gnome human interface guidelines but if you want to use a gtk app and geary is too simple for you evolution is definitely a fantastic solution i used it for a long while at work because i was swamped with email and to-do lists and i just needed to have a complete overview of everything which evolution managed pretty well onto mail spring it might not look like your other linux applications but it's a pretty nice email client that you can get from flat hub it will ask you to create an account at startup to get access to snoozing emails and read receipts but you can skip it if you don't want to use these features it can use most email providers like gmail icloud gmx office 365 or outlook and of course independent imap accounts although it will ask you to enter these accounts details manually it comes with multiple themes out of the box including one that looks like yaru ubuntu's theme and it has a dark theme as well although it won't use your desktop's exact theme mail spring kinda just looks like an older mac app out of the box it's especially visible in its preferences but if that doesn't deter you it's pretty nice it's got a comprehensive set of keyboard shortcuts including presets that mimic outlook apple mail or gmail and you can set rules for incoming email you can create html signatures as well as configure a lot of things to let the app work how you want it to mail spring is open source and free to use but there's a pro subscription available for more advanced stuff like snoozing messages read receipts mail templates send emails at a planned date and time and reminders to tell you when you've not replied to an email mailspring is a competent solution if you don't really care if your apps look like one another personally i'm a consistency nerd and apps that look out of place just irk me i'm super weird about that so it's not for me to complete this list we have bluemail which isn't open source so if that's something that bothers you you might want to skip to the end of the video but still it has a linux version and it has an interesting approach which is treating your inbox as a to-do list it works with any email account including gmail yahoo outlook or icloud and of course your basic imap accounts once you're in you get the traditional 3 pane layout with a conversation view and a few buttons in the bottom left these let you access the interesting features of bluemail like the later board this thing is a small kanban board to let you organize your emails as if there were tasks you just drag them to a column like today later or done and you've got yourself a little organizer to avoid using another app to convert your actionable emails into tasks you can create other columns if you like to sort your work exactly how you like the email list can also be sorted to hide emails that aren't from normal existing people like marketing email newsletters and the like and you've got a ton of preferences including a dark mode i know you're gonna ask dark mode fans are loud you also can create signatures sync your account between devices so you can get your later board on mobile devices or other computers and this doesn't require an account just a sync code you can also use the calendar your email provider gives you but you can't add an external calendar if your email account doesn't come with one i personally do not want to use my email list as a to-do list as i try but completely failed to adhere to the inbox zero principle but if you're not put off by proprietary software and your email is your to-do list then bluemail is definitely going to do the trick and of course i know someone will mention tutanota in the comments but it is not listed here as it only works if you're using a tutanota mail client so you can't use it with your existing email still their desktop app while not integrated without linux desktops is pretty handy there's an email client for everyone on linux whether you want something that is packed with features like thunderbird or evolution something super simple like geary or very customizable like kmail there's an option for you a webmail can definitely do the trick for a lot of people but if you don't like web apps or if you get lost in browser tabs then a local email client with desktop notifications potential system tray icon and a look that's more native to your desktop that just can't be beat i used a bunch of them at some point or another k-mail geary thunderbird evolution nowadays i use geary because i'm on gnome and my email needs are very simple but if they ever get complicated again i'll probably move to evolution or maybe thunderbird if the team can seduce me with their new features and if you live in a terminal there's also mutt the command line email client although at that point if you're using that your web browser is probably links and well i'm sorry what i'm not sorry about is today's sponsor tuxedo tuxedo is based in germany but they ship worldwide and they make laptops and desktops that ship with linux out of the box you can of course install any distro you want but you can also pick one directly from them they let you engrave your own logo on the back of their laptops they have tons of options to customize every device to perfection to something that suits your needs and their range is just huge from the biggest gaming desktops to the highest powered gaming or productivity laptops with everything in the middle small nugs ultrabooks anything you name it they recently refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end gaming workstation gaming laptop and now it has 12th gen intel cpus it has the most powerful nvidia rtx gpus you can find and it's in a relatively small and light package with the best optomechanical keyboard i've ever used it's the best laptop keyboard i've used period it also has a fantastic 3k panel and tons of i o i reviewed the previous iteration on the channel and i should receive the new one very very soon which i will probably end up buying for my editing needs on the go so if you need a new device running linux out of the box check out tuxedo in the link in the description below their devices are amazing and i'm sure you'll find something that you will like now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to throw a comment at your screen and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you feel like you're really way too rich and you want to help me make more of these videos you've got the super thanks button in the bottom or you can use one of the links in the description below for paypal patreon or youtube members the last two patreons and youtube members get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and today i'm gonna take a look at mac os but from the viewpoint of somebody who's been daily driving linux for the past five years now mac os has often been taken as the master reference for ux ui and generally is considered super simple super easy to use although a little bit limited so we're going to take a look at how it works with all the bad faith and all the unjustified criticism that i'm probably going to get accused of what i can't be accused of though is not telling you about today's sponsor a fantastic open source office suite for linux this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next live server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it but first a warning i won't be running the very latest version of mac os because i only own an old intel xeon cheese grater mac pro that was supposed to stop getting updates a while ago while i got it up to big sur i never found the time to try and update it to monterey so some things might not look exactly like you want them to still monterrey doesn't fundamentally change the experience apart from the new safari tab bar the ability to move your mouse pointer and keyboard seamlessly between multiple devices and a few face time improvements so that won't really be relevant as this review of mac os as an operating system in itself on to the desktop itself the much wanted mac os experience let's see how it holds up you get a top bar and a bottom dock a layout that's now really common and easily replicated on any linux desktop mac os goes for the global menu which i like if i have to have a menu bar i would rather it used up the exact same spot on the top of the screen rather than have to hunt for the menu position on each window i know not everyone enjoys that but i always found it was the best solution if you had to use menu bars the dock itself just hosts open applications and open windows for apps that aren't in the dark plus it has the trash can recent applications and a few nice features you can minimize your windows to the apps icon you can add folders for quick access to various files or even to your applications if you add your apps folder to it you can change the minimize effect used automatically hide the dock and you can move it to any screen edge except the top one take that windows taskbar it also has one very annoying limitation you cannot minimize an app by clicking on its icon which is very very frustrating clicking on the apps icon is much easier and a much bigger click target than that super small orange stoplight thing in the corner of the window the desktop holds icons by default only your disk drives but you can store anything you want there with a nice feature the ability to automatically stack files by file type this means that even if you want to make a mess over your wallpaper that mess can still be relatively organized and usable instead of being a huge creep of files and folders that you will never be able to sort through the top bar also has the apple menu for quick access to system functions like rebooting shutting down the system preferences and more and you get a clock and notification tray icons which are less a problem on mac os because they have a well-defined api for it and developers tend to care about how things look on mac os so you rarely have a weird riot of colors shapes and sizes up there unlike what you would find in the system tray on windows or on most linux desktops seriously use monochrome icons please you also have a nice little control center with quick access toggles that you can drag and drop in the top bar to always get a look at them if you don't want them hidden in a sub menu clicking on the time brings the notifications and widgets desktop notifications are something i very rarely use and i also have literally no use for widgets in there but for people who want them this is a very nice implementation it looks pretty and it can be pretty useful i guess generally the desktop on mac os looks good it's pretty it's simple it's efficient and while it hasn't really changed much in the past 10 years it's still fine we definitely took some inspiration from it in gnome and kde and that's also fine in terms of options and look and feel you find a light or dark mode with an auto switch depending on the time of day and accent colors including one that is based on the dominant color of your wallpaper nothing very complicated here you can't really use themes or change how the desktop works it's a default experience with a few locks options you also can't really change the default file manager although you can change the default browser easily and the default apps for various file types it's definitely not as powerful as our linux desktops which offer a lot more customization out of the box on kde and a lot more options with extensions on chrome finally to run applications you either launch them from the dock or you have a full screen app grid with search that works pretty much like the gnome app grid you don't get an applications menu the closest thing you can get is dropping your applications folder in the dock and using that it's not bad but it's not integrated with the multitasking view which we'll talk about later so you can't just drag apps from the launcher to a virtual desktop to open them you can rearrange them though into folders or change their order not bad but also not the best implementation of an apps grid that i've seen gnome beats that handily finally you get the excellent spotlight which lets you search for virtually anything files apps settings web pages you name it hit super plus space and you can launch anything you want it's super handy it's blazing fast and it's something that we have on our distros but less well integrated in my opinion now sure you get the same features in gnome's overview but why open a full screen interface for this and on kde kroner is even more powerful than spotlight but it's so small and tiny on the top edge of the screen why not make it more visible now onto the weakest point of mac os window management window management on mac coming from linux even from a default window manager on globe or kde is a nightmare you get the close button the maximize button and the minimize button they're all on the left which i don't mind the close button doesn't close the app it closes the window the app stays open in the background ready to be reopened when you need it the minimize button reduces the window in the dock either on the apps icon or in a separate segment of the dock if you minimize to the apps icon and you have multiple windows minimized clicking on the apps icon will only bring back the last window you minimized subsequent clicks don't do anything so to restore the other windows you need to right click the icon and select the right window in a list no thumbnails no previews that's pretty bad but it's not the default behavior by default the windows minimize any specific corner so you can have multiple ones of them so that makes it all right no no it doesn't it's still terrible then there's the maximize button which doesn't really maximize it takes the window full screen which means your top bar is gone your dock is gone and to get them back you have to hover over the top or bottom of the screen not great if you press the alt key and then click on the green button then your window will not maximize or go full screen it will just expand to fit as much of the content as it can which again could be useful but not hidden behind a shortcut that's never explained there is no way i could find to maximize the window while not going full screen which really really sucks like maximizing is a basic thing to want to do with your windows without them going completely full screen it just feels weird and i'm sure there's an arcane shortcut that you can do with shift alt and clicking on the green button but it's not explained and it definitely should be the default behavior then there's the tiling you can't just drag a window to an edge of the screen to tile it you have to long press the green button to access a small submenu that lets you pick an edge to tile the window except it doesn't do just that it also forces you to pick another window to tile on the other half if you didn't want to have two tiled windows side by side you're out of luck your window will not stay tiled so if you have an ultra white display you can have three windows in three thirds of the screen you can't even have a window stuck on an edge and floating windows on the other side probably there's another weird unexplained keyboard shortcut that lets you do that but i couldn't find it why is mac os at least five years behind in that regard like no drag to tile is bad enough no maximize is stupid but also not letting you tile a window and having floating windows on the other side also makes no sense even windows does it way better these days it's baffling now there's a good part still the multitasking view called mission control you can access it with an icon on the dock a hot corner or a keyboard shortcut it looks like the kd overview effect or the gnome activities view with virtual desktops on the top and all your open windows spread out except minimized windows don't appear here and you can't drag a window from a desktop to another you have to switch to the desktop which takes you out of mission control then reopen mission control and then drag the window to the right desktop again a good idea but a half-assed implementation gnome or kde beat that without any problems basically window management on mac os is just bad whether you come from windows or from a linux desktop handling windows on mac os sucks there is no two ways about it it hasn't evolved a tiny bit since mac os 10 was introduced like i don't know 15 or 20 years ago and i don't understand why they don't have this experience out of the box you can install third party tools to fix that but why isn't it part of the system out of the box onto application updates and installing them here your default option is the mac app store it's a beautiful face on a not so well stocked app selection contrary to ios you can't find everything in there for example vlc isn't libreoffice also isn't although there is a paid version in there that's not from the library office developers inkscape basically most open source apps you're used to on linux aren't there probably a licensing issue or apple store restrictions i don't really know but who am i kidding mac users don't use these apps they have a plethora of applications developed just for their os and that follows their systems conventions to the ladder so for that the store is a good starting point we could even learn a thing or two about how they present apps they have editorial content presenting stuff users might need by type of activity they present the most used and downloaded apps first something we still don't do head over to the gaming category in discover or gnome software you should see steam first like it's the first thing that people are going to want to install in terms of gaming but it's not there and that's stupid but to be fair on the mac app store steam is also not present right front and center when you open the gaming tab so yeah still i really like the fact that they have small listicles that present one thing you might want to do with your computer and present apps that are suited for that purpose it would be amazing to also have that on linux to help people discover alternatives to the things they're used to on windows or mac it would also reduce the need to make videos for best apps for this thing or best apps for doing that but that also would reduce my income so i guess it's for the best you get a user account here of course so things you bought are kept ready for you to reinstall except if the developer decided not to update for your version of mac os in that case you're boned and you lost your money app detail pages are basically identical to what we now have on discover or gnome software they're good legible and useful and you can install in one click basically our app store experience is pretty close on linux to what mac os offers except we lack the ability to buy apps except on elementor ios we don't have app bundles and we can't really restore purchases or downloads that we already might have done on another computer or another distribution now flat hub developers are working on the ability to pay for apps if developers choose to and they're working on user accounts that would let you re-download stuff maybe they'll interface with what elementor ios does so the two solutions might work better together if you can't find what you're looking for on the store then you can still resort to the hunt online for a downloadable app solution what you get in the process is a dmg file which is a disk image to install your application you have to open the dmg file and then drag the app which is in a single file to your applications folder it sounds simple on paper and most dmg files have some kind of visual explanation to let users know they need to drag the app into the folder the issue here is that i've met an incredible number of people who never understood that they opened the app from the dmg image which means it works read-only in most cases and never saves any preference this is not a good way to install applications again on paper it sounds like a super simple solution you double click on a file you drag the app to the apps folder and it's all installed add it to your menu and whatever except a lot of people are just not used at all to that installation method and they just don't understand it why not make it simpler you open the dmg file you get a pop-up telling you we're going to copy this app to your apps folder are you okay with that yes or no and if you say yes boom everything gets downloaded in the right folder and the dmg file is deleted boom you're done of course there's also the weird security gatekeeping that mac os is doing showing pop-ups to let you know the app is signed by a certain developer would you really want to run that or sometimes just refusing to run it at all until you give it permission in the system settings i understand the reasoning but again the implementation is terrible and convoluted still if you can find what you're looking for in the mac app store then the experience is smooth as hell and super easy if you can't a lot of people will just pick up on the drag the app to the apps folder and everything will work nicely and a lot of others will just get confused run the apps from the dmg and then wonder why nothing works like it's supposed to so mac os isn't a bad operating system its conventions are old but work well a top bar and a dock is a good combo the global menu is a good solution for menu bars it has a nice store to install apps it has a few look and feel options and you can extend it with a few third-party utilities to better handle its shortcomings but it also shows its age badly in some ways window management is really really bad not being able to minimize a window with a click on the dock is annoying not asking you which window you want to restore when clicking on an apps icon is stupid no tiling and no real maximize button means that you'll have to resize windows manually all the time or buy your third-party utility mission control is good on paper but it doesn't really work well if you want to quickly swap windows to different virtual desktops opening apps isn't that complex with launchpad or spotlight but there is no easy way to set up your environment by dragging apps to virtual desktops for example all in all the feeling i get when using mac os is that of a system that has evolved by adding features on top of each other but that were never designed to work together at all all these features are isolated and i feel that in the same vein gnome does things a lot better you have one single overview for apps for windows for search for virtual desktops and it all makes it a lot easier you just drag your app icons to virtual desktops you just drag windows from one virtual desktop to another you start typing to search it's just better integrated and it feels smoother and easier to use honestly apart from that apple obviously still does the store thing better than what we do on linux not ethically or in terms of monopolistic practices although they don't really have a monopoly on mac os but in terms of how apps are presented featured and explained they're really good we could learn a thing or two here of course the sync capabilities and integration with other apple devices can't be beat we don't have a linux ecosystem to do all that but with kdconnect and an xcloud server you're really not that far off it just likes the simple easy single sign-on experience so could i use mac os daily yes of course and i did in the past back when i had a macbook for work and on my previous job before that i used mac os a ton and i like that system but nowadays after using gnome and kd for a long time i just don't really see any major advantages that i would absolutely want to use i think that our desktops nowadays are just better integrated the features are more cleverly designed and sure while we might lack a super polished app store or all the breadth of applications that you might get on mac os i think we're still better and yes i would rather use a linux desktop than mac os but that's the conclusion you were probably expecting i just think our linux desktops are better thought out what would also be very thought out would be to buy a computer with linux print style from today's sponsor tuxedo is a company based in germany they make laptops and desktops with linux print styled out of the box their devices are sleek they all sport a nice matte black look they've got great chassis great keyboard options for virtually every language they ship worldwide and they have a long long range of products with a ton of configuration options for each i used a ton of them in the past i reviewed a bunch of them on the channel and for example they just refreshed their stellaris 15 laptop which is their high-end production station or gaming laptop i already reviewed the previous model but now it's got intel 12th gen cpus rtx 3080s and a bunch of nice things on top of its already stellar 3k screen and optomechanical keyboard which is probably the best laptop keyboard i ever used period i'm gonna get a review unit for the new model soon and i might even buy it to use it as my main production device when i'm on the go so if you need a new device running linux out of the box check the link in the description below click it and see what tuxedo has to offer i'm sure you'll find something that suits your needs now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment to click on the super thanks button to give me a donation and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments if you want to support the channel you can 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hey everyone this is nick and this time again we have so much good stuff to cover in this linux and open source news video that i didn't even know in which order to put each topic hell finally froze over as nvidia open sourced parts of their drivers for touring and unpaired gpus china is moving 50 million pcs to linux and provided you have a good enough internet connection you can now play fortnite on linux as well and there's fedora 36 updates to gnome to kde to the steam deck and a lot more so let's talk about linux and let's talk about today's sponsor which is going to let you get a free study on the state of security on linux this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached in a totally surprising but totally welcome move nvidia just released an open source kernel module for their gpus it's a first step and it's not the complete display driver for regular gaming gpus but it is still an amazing step in the right direction this module won't be upstreamed in the linux kernel just yet as it currently doesn't conform to the kernel's design conventions but they're willing to work on it so basically you will get nvidia drivers in the kernel out of the box in the future they will accept user contributions on github as well now it's important to note that this driver will only support gpus based on the turing architecture and newer so basically the rtx line all the gpus will still depend on the proprietary nvidia driver for now only the data center related parts are fully production ready and for workstations and gaming pcs the drivers are still alpha quality so we won't be able to make use of them immediately all the user space components like cuda opencl vulkan support are still proprietary and will require a separate binary blob to work it seems red hat has been working closely with nvidia for years now to help prepare for this move and developers for the nuvo driver have also participated in meetings and code review according to christian schaller the desktop lead at red hat one of the goals set for the future is also to try and get a single kernel driver for nouveau and for the nvidia binary driver so users of other gpus that can use nuvo would have it right in the kernel and could use mesa as the user space driver and users of more recent gpus would turn to the proprietary blobs that would interface with the kernel driver one of the advantages we might also see down the path is a signed nvidia driver that would enable secure boot it's an amazing move that i really didn't expect to see anytime soon or at all now whether it's linked to devices such as the steam deck or to advances in machine learning and ai where linux is the most run os or if it's those pesky hackers that just put all of this into motion i don't really know all i know is that it's amazing and it makes me super happy you might remember that gnome had to fight a patent troll a while ago in 2019 a company that can only be defined as a patent troll decided to attack the gnome project for infringing on one of their patents specifically on the way shotwell the photo manager could be used to grab pictures from an external device the way all photo managers have done for all time the community had rallied around gnome donating around a hundred and fifty thousand us dollars and gonna settle the dispute getting a complete free license to the patent for all open source software but it turns out that this wasn't the end of the story as mccoy smith a lawyer specializing in fighting patent trolls asked the u.s patent authority to re-examine the specific one which has since been found invalid it's a pretty great move and it might dissuade future troll companies to attack open source software on very vague claims now software patterns aren't a thing in france where i live or in the eu and i think it's a good thing like patenting the way code works instead of patenting the code itself seems completely logical to me but i'm not a lawyer the gnome developers published another weekly update packed with new stuff for gnome apps characters the small utility that lets you use special characters or emoji now has support for composite emojis which means it supports skin tones or gender modifiers for emoji that represent people or a body part and it also now displays emojis in their correct order there's a new app called geopart which lets you browse gemini capsules gemini seems to be a project that provides another protocol to access content over the internet like http citations the manager for bibtex references also saw the light of day and a new operating system installer was also released soberly called os installer it follows the gnome human interface guidelines and it can be customized to be used by any os the blog post concludes with updates to workbench the test bench and sandbox for gnome features and a list of linux app summit stocks including the one on flat hub i recommended last time very interesting stuff this time i didn't know about gemiini that protocol to access content over the internet and i think having an os installer designed with the gnome hig in mind might be a pretty good thing to have for linux distros that ship grown by default of course kde developers won't let the gnome devs beat them to a good weekly article so they also have updates to share two of these pesky 15-minute bugs were solved but two more were added so the count still stands at 70. new features include the floating panels it just lets you make your plasma panels float above the screen edge it looks great and while i wasn't sure that it would make it for the next plasma release it seems that it will which is good news discover also shows which resources will be accessed by various apps so it's basically displaying all the permissions that sandboxed apps need access to and you can also delete the settings and user data when uninstalling an app something i wish gnome software also did kate's menu has been rearranged to be less intimidating more effects can be activated by swiping from the screen's edges unlocking with your fingerprint is now more seamless and you can scale icons up to 512 pixels in the file open and save dialogs good to see those floating panels making it to plasma 5.25 and i also think the improvements to discover are really nice so i can't wait to test this new release of plasma it's going to be coming out next month and i think it's going to be packed with interesting stuff to cover the chinese government seems to have decided to let windows go in favor of linux they ordered government offices and state-backed companies to replace their pcs from non-chinese manufacturers with alternatives built at home and so they're on track to replace 50 million computers just in government agencies this also means that windows will be phased out for linux although there is no word on what exactly they will use china being china they'll probably use something they develop internally or at least a distribution developed in china like d-pen or harmony os the distro developed by huawei they intend this plan to be carried out over two years and it's been brewing for a long time with traces of this decision going back to 2014 and it's very much the continuity of china's position on trying to be technologically independent from the west i'm not sure this move will have huge impacts on the whole linux community as i'm certain that china will be very protective of their homegrown initiative or homegrown distro but still we might see some more contributions to the linux kernel and application so we'll have to see kde connect is now finally officially available for ios devices so you can integrate your linux desktop with your iphone and ipad previously you could download a beta and try it out but it's now a fully stable release available to download from the app store it lets you do a ton of things but not all features available in the android client made it to ios since the platform is much more restrictive in what it allows apps to do you can still share the clipboard between your device and computer send files and urls to your computer use the device's screen as a virtual touchpad use it as a remote control for presentations and run commands from the phone to be executed on your computer it will work with the kde connect app on kde plasma or the js connect extension for gnomeshell kdeconnect is an amazing tool and a much needed one if you often interact between two devices and if you pair that with a syncing solution like nexcloud then you're getting dangerously close to what apple provides in terms of device integration with ios and mac os fedora 36 was released after being delayed twice and promptly got installed on my desktop and my laptop it brings with its gnome 42 with better input latency and responsiveness under load a ton of apps ported to libertvita and the new gtk4 theme that comes with it a new shell and the universal dark mode preference welland is now the default for everyone including nvidia gpus although i faced a few issues on that front there's also a new screenshot tool to record your screen and take well screenshots and gnome software's update interface now gives you more information text editor is now the default instead of get it and there are plenty of under the hood improvements with dnf the package manager systemd and the notophones which are now used for more languages by default to have the best character set coverage possible on my amd laptop fedora 36 using weyland has been a dream i get awesome gestures better battery life better performance everything is smooth and works nicely on my desktop with an nvidia gpu though i had to revert to x.org as trying to record anything with obs only gave me a black screen do you wish you could play fortnite on linux or the steam deck right now it doesn't work natively although the game could run because epic decided not to include support for easy anti-cheat and proton in their game files for obscure cheating reasons that always seemed weird to me while microsoft is coming to the rescue assuming you have a good internet connection fortnite is now playable on xbox cloud even without a game pass subscription all you need is a microsoft account and you'll be able to stream the game on any device a phone a linux computer or a steam deck as always with xbox cloud resolution might be good or bad depending on your internet connection and how far away you are from a server on the steam deck though it should look pretty good as the resolution is already pretty low latency has never been an issue in my tests of that cloud gaming service but again your mileage may vary all you need is edge or chrome and you're good to go it's not the perfect solution to play a game but it's still pretty good if you have a steam deck but are annoyed by the fan noise you'll be happy to know it's an issue valve is working on the latest steamos beta tries to address the problem that stems from one of the two fan designs the deck is using one of the manufacturers seem to be noisier than the other what valve is doing specifically is adding an os controlled fan curve to improve the use of the fans in low resource usage scenarios and to adjust how the fan responds to temperature they're also fixing an issue where that fan control would not resume after waking up the device from sleep it won't make the issue disappear but it should still be a little bit better and still on the deck there are now 2700 games that are verified this time including sonic and sega all-stars racing merchant of the skies or gods will be watching i don't know if i personally have the whiny fan on my steam deck but the fan noise is definitely very noticeable when playing graphics intensive games like god of war for example now on top of that the steam deck got another huge update to steam os this times it brings per game performance profiles which means that while you had to tweak the frame rate the gpu core speed or the tdp every time you started a game to tailor the experience to each title you now can either use a system-wide performance profile or you can save these settings per game which means you won't have to redo all your tweaks every time you plan to play another game the steam hardware survey is also added to the deck so people using the device can now report their usage and the linux numbers should see a nice healthy rise there are also performance improvements fixes for the keyboard and the recently played list now also displays games you've streamed from another device that's a great update that will definitely make switching from game to game a lot easier if you want to have the best battery life possible that's personally the way i play games i have three or four at the same time because my attention span is extremely low wine 7.8 was released with the x11 and oss drivers being converted to the pe executable format and adding wow 64 support in the sound drivers as a reminder wow 64 stands for windows 32-bit on windows 64-bit it's basically the dll that emulates 32-bit support for 64-bit systems and operating systems so this move should make using a 64-bit prefix of wine a bit better 37 bugs were also fixed including for games such as assassin's creed 4 black flag guilty gear xx reload the evil within command and conquer generals adobe lightroom 2.3 or freehand 9. it might all seem pretty arcane but the tldr or tldw for a video i guess is that it's going to make gaming and running programs on linux better so it's all good just like today's sponsor tuxedo these guys are based in germany and they make laptops and desktops shipping with linux pre-installed out of the box they have a huge range of device from the biggest gaming towers to knocks to gaming laptops to small ultrabooks to super nice 3k screens they have awesome keyboards all keyboard layouts they can personalize your logo on the back of the device which is always super cool basically they have something for all price points and all needs they just refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their high-end production or gaming laptop which i already reviewed the previous one on the channel i found it super good in terms of chassis of keyboard it has an amazing screen it's relatively lightweight for such a device and i should receive the review you need for the new one pretty soon with my own logo engraved on it and i might even buy it for my own needs so if you need a new device from tuxedo or just a device that runs linux out of the box check the link in the description below click it and see what they have to offer i'm sure you'll find something you need now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments below and if you want to help support the channel you can click that super thanks button down there and give a one time donation or you can 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hey everyone this is nick and this time again we have so much good stuff to cover in this linux and open source news video that i didn't even know in which order to put each topic hell finally froze over as nvidia open sourced parts of their drivers for touring and unpaired gpus china is moving 50 million pcs to linux and provided you have a good enough internet connection you can now play fortnite on linux as well and there's fedora 36 updates to gnome to kde to the steam deck and a lot more so let's talk about linux and let's talk about today's sponsor which is going to let you get a free study on the state of security on linux this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached in a totally surprising but totally welcome move nvidia just released an open source kernel module for their gpus it's a first step and it's not the complete display driver for regular gaming gpus but it is still an amazing step in the right direction this module won't be upstreamed in the linux kernel just yet as it currently doesn't conform to the kernel's design conventions but they're willing to work on it so basically you will get nvidia drivers in the kernel out of the box in the future they will accept user contributions on github as well now it's important to note that this driver will only support gpus based on the turing architecture and newer so basically the rtx line all the gpus will still depend on the proprietary nvidia driver for now only the data center related parts are fully production ready and for workstations and gaming pcs the drivers are still alpha quality so we won't be able to make use of them immediately all the user space components like cuda opencl vulkan support are still proprietary and will require a separate binary blob to work it seems red hat has been working closely with nvidia for years now to help prepare for this move and developers for the nuvo driver have also participated in meetings and code review according to christian schaller the desktop lead at red hat one of the goals set for the future is also to try and get a single kernel driver for nouveau and for the nvidia binary driver so users of other gpus that can use nuvo would have it right in the kernel and could use mesa as the user space driver and users of more recent gpus would turn to the proprietary blobs that would interface with the kernel driver one of the advantages we might also see down the path is a signed nvidia driver that would enable secure boot it's an amazing move that i really didn't expect to see anytime soon or at all now whether it's linked to devices such as the steam deck or to advances in machine learning and ai where linux is the most run os or if it's those pesky hackers that just put all of this into motion i don't really know all i know is that it's amazing and it makes me super happy you might remember that gnome had to fight a patent troll a while ago in 2019 a company that can only be defined as a patent troll decided to attack the gnome project for infringing on one of their patents specifically on the way shotwell the photo manager could be used to grab pictures from an external device the way all photo managers have done for all time the community had rallied around gnome donating around a hundred and fifty thousand us dollars and gonna settle the dispute getting a complete free license to the patent for all open source software but it turns out that this wasn't the end of the story as mccoy smith a lawyer specializing in fighting patent trolls asked the u.s patent authority to re-examine the specific one which has since been found invalid it's a pretty great move and it might dissuade future troll companies to attack open source software on very vague claims now software patterns aren't a thing in france where i live or in the eu and i think it's a good thing like patenting the way code works instead of patenting the code itself seems completely logical to me but i'm not a lawyer the gnome developers published another weekly update packed with new stuff for gnome apps characters the small utility that lets you use special characters or emoji now has support for composite emojis which means it supports skin tones or gender modifiers for emoji that represent people or a body part and it also now displays emojis in their correct order there's a new app called geopart which lets you browse gemini capsules gemini seems to be a project that provides another protocol to access content over the internet like http citations the manager for bibtex references also saw the light of day and a new operating system installer was also released soberly called os installer it follows the gnome human interface guidelines and it can be customized to be used by any os the blog post concludes with updates to workbench the test bench and sandbox for gnome features and a list of linux app summit stocks including the one on flat hub i recommended last time very interesting stuff this time i didn't know about gemiini that protocol to access content over the internet and i think having an os installer designed with the gnome hig in mind might be a pretty good thing to have for linux distros that ship grown by default of course kde developers won't let the gnome devs beat them to a good weekly article so they also have updates to share two of these pesky 15-minute bugs were solved but two more were added so the count still stands at 70. new features include the floating panels it just lets you make your plasma panels float above the screen edge it looks great and while i wasn't sure that it would make it for the next plasma release it seems that it will which is good news discover also shows which resources will be accessed by various apps so it's basically displaying all the permissions that sandboxed apps need access to and you can also delete the settings and user data when uninstalling an app something i wish gnome software also did kate's menu has been rearranged to be less intimidating more effects can be activated by swiping from the screen's edges unlocking with your fingerprint is now more seamless and you can scale icons up to 512 pixels in the file open and save dialogs good to see those floating panels making it to plasma 5.25 and i also think the improvements to discover are really nice so i can't wait to test this new release of plasma it's going to be coming out next month and i think it's going to be packed with interesting stuff to cover the chinese government seems to have decided to let windows go in favor of linux they ordered government offices and state-backed companies to replace their pcs from non-chinese manufacturers with alternatives built at home and so they're on track to replace 50 million computers just in government agencies this also means that windows will be phased out for linux although there is no word on what exactly they will use china being china they'll probably use something they develop internally or at least a distribution developed in china like d-pen or harmony os the distro developed by huawei they intend this plan to be carried out over two years and it's been brewing for a long time with traces of this decision going back to 2014 and it's very much the continuity of china's position on trying to be technologically independent from the west i'm not sure this move will have huge impacts on the whole linux community as i'm certain that china will be very protective of their homegrown initiative or homegrown distro but still we might see some more contributions to the linux kernel and application so we'll have to see kde connect is now finally officially available for ios devices so you can integrate your linux desktop with your iphone and ipad previously you could download a beta and try it out but it's now a fully stable release available to download from the app store it lets you do a ton of things but not all features available in the android client made it to ios since the platform is much more restrictive in what it allows apps to do you can still share the clipboard between your device and computer send files and urls to your computer use the device's screen as a virtual touchpad use it as a remote control for presentations and run commands from the phone to be executed on your computer it will work with the kde connect app on kde plasma or the js connect extension for gnomeshell kdeconnect is an amazing tool and a much needed one if you often interact between two devices and if you pair that with a syncing solution like nexcloud then you're getting dangerously close to what apple provides in terms of device integration with ios and mac os fedora 36 was released after being delayed twice and promptly got installed on my desktop and my laptop it brings with its gnome 42 with better input latency and responsiveness under load a ton of apps ported to libertvita and the new gtk4 theme that comes with it a new shell and the universal dark mode preference welland is now the default for everyone including nvidia gpus although i faced a few issues on that front there's also a new screenshot tool to record your screen and take well screenshots and gnome software's update interface now gives you more information text editor is now the default instead of get it and there are plenty of under the hood improvements with dnf the package manager systemd and the notophones which are now used for more languages by default to have the best character set coverage possible on my amd laptop fedora 36 using weyland has been a dream i get awesome gestures better battery life better performance everything is smooth and works nicely on my desktop with an nvidia gpu though i had to revert to x.org as trying to record anything with obs only gave me a black screen do you wish you could play fortnite on linux or the steam deck right now it doesn't work natively although the game could run because epic decided not to include support for easy anti-cheat and proton in their game files for obscure cheating reasons that always seemed weird to me while microsoft is coming to the rescue assuming you have a good internet connection fortnite is now playable on xbox cloud even without a game pass subscription all you need is a microsoft account and you'll be able to stream the game on any device a phone a linux computer or a steam deck as always with xbox cloud resolution might be good or bad depending on your internet connection and how far away you are from a server on the steam deck though it should look pretty good as the resolution is already pretty low latency has never been an issue in my tests of that cloud gaming service but again your mileage may vary all you need is edge or chrome and you're good to go it's not the perfect solution to play a game but it's still pretty good if you have a steam deck but are annoyed by the fan noise you'll be happy to know it's an issue valve is working on the latest steamos beta tries to address the problem that stems from one of the two fan designs the deck is using one of the manufacturers seem to be noisier than the other what valve is doing specifically is adding an os controlled fan curve to improve the use of the fans in low resource usage scenarios and to adjust how the fan responds to temperature they're also fixing an issue where that fan control would not resume after waking up the device from sleep it won't make the issue disappear but it should still be a little bit better and still on the deck there are now 2700 games that are verified this time including sonic and sega all-stars racing merchant of the skies or gods will be watching i don't know if i personally have the whiny fan on my steam deck but the fan noise is definitely very noticeable when playing graphics intensive games like god of war for example now on top of that the steam deck got another huge update to steam os this times it brings per game performance profiles which means that while you had to tweak the frame rate the gpu core speed or the tdp every time you started a game to tailor the experience to each title you now can either use a system-wide performance profile or you can save these settings per game which means you won't have to redo all your tweaks every time you plan to play another game the steam hardware survey is also added to the deck so people using the device can now report their usage and the linux numbers should see a nice healthy rise there are also performance improvements fixes for the keyboard and the recently played list now also displays games you've streamed from another device that's a great update that will definitely make switching from game to game a lot easier if you want to have the best battery life possible that's personally the way i play games i have three or four at the same time because my attention span is extremely low wine 7.8 was released with the x11 and oss drivers being converted to the pe executable format and adding wow 64 support in the sound drivers as a reminder wow 64 stands for windows 32-bit on windows 64-bit it's basically the dll that emulates 32-bit support for 64-bit systems and operating systems so this move should make using a 64-bit prefix of wine a bit better 37 bugs were also fixed including for games such as assassin's creed 4 black flag guilty gear xx reload the evil within command and conquer generals adobe lightroom 2.3 or freehand 9. it might all seem pretty arcane but the tldr or tldw for a video i guess is that it's going to make gaming and running programs on linux better so it's all good just like today's sponsor tuxedo these guys are based in germany and they make laptops and desktops shipping with linux pre-installed out of the box they have a huge range of device from the biggest gaming towers to knocks to gaming laptops to small ultrabooks to super nice 3k screens they have awesome keyboards all keyboard layouts they can personalize your logo on the back of the device which is always super cool basically they have something for all price points and all needs 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hey everyone this is nick and i've been using linux since 2006 and back then things were a bit different ubuntu was the new kid on the block we had just started catching up to windows and mac os in terms of user friendliness and features and basically daily driving linux was reserved to geeks and nerds like i was and like i still am since then the linux desktop has grown and matured and caught up to windows and macos and even in some areas it has surpassed them but it's still not mainstream there are clear signs though that linux is starting to get more mainstream appeal and one of the main drivers behind that is gaming but can gaming alone help put linux in the spotlight all i know is that i'm going to put today's sponsor in the spotlight to help you get your internet connection in check and make sure it only does what you want it to do this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a 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windows library it was unstable it performed terribly in most cases and native linux games were almost non-existent wine appdb was your only source to know if something was playable or not and that website wasn't and still isn't the most user-friendly thing you can come across we had plenty of open source titles some of them being really amazing but if you wanted to play a windows game you had to set your sights on games that had been released years ago no day one gaming for us linux nerds and then the holy gabon came and gave us native steam and steam machines and these failed hard even with native steam the native linux sports were not the most frequent thing ever it started a trend sure but it definitely wasn't fantastic steam machines were supposed to be the spearhead of that effort to let valve not depend on windows anymore and not risk losing market share to the windows store it was basically an effort to make steam its own platform the gaming platform for pc while microsoft wanted the windows store to be the exact same thing both ambitions really fell flat as the steam machines never really picked up any steam and the windows store is just now starting to be a place where you might want to go to download something that you actually would want to run valve then changed gears and introduced steamplay and proton with the results we know today we have 54 of the top 100 steam games running perfectly on linux and 41 of the top 1000 at least according to proton db we have day one support for a ton of new releases and games that don't work on day one generally work after a week even anti-cheat is no longer the issue it once was with major players adding support for proton and linux to their updates and builds and that trend is only going to get stronger with time steam machines fell flat probably because valve let all their hardware partners endorse all the risk from manufacturing selling distributing those things and so it just never picked up but they had the right idea hardware is what drives people to use software good hardware is what people buy and then they use what ships by default so your software is dependent on the hardware that it runs on provided your software is actually good enough which it wasn't when steam machines released there is no operating system market people do not go and buy operating systems or download operating systems they buy hardware that comes with an os print installed and that is what they're going to use on that hardware sure some people will try other things our community is proof of that but the vast majority of people they're going to stick with what came in the box and that's where the steam deck came it runs linux out of the box it runs a ton of games it's appealing hardware that feels a niche that just doesn't have competition yet at least not at that price point and it's got backing from one of the biggest gaming companies and the steam deck is a prime driver to help linux grow not only in the gaming space but with a halo effect no gaming pun intended it can also drive growth for the linux desktop itself see users like the stuff they own they get attached to the software the features the experience and the hardware itself they actually go out of their way to confirm that what they bought is the best thing that they could have bought it's called confirmation bias when you buy something expensive and you want to make sure that you didn't get scammed you tend to go online and look for reviews that are mainly positive about the thing you bought just because then you feel less like a fool for spending all that money on something that you love but you're afraid that maybe wasn't the best thing you could get and while that's a stupid behavior we mostly all do it and it has the potential to help linux growth while more and more steam decks ship more and more users will get used to the amazing features it brings you have a nice curated store and experience you have great performance you have a good user interface with plenty of gaming specific features that you simply cannot find on any other desktop os including windows you get performance data out of the box you get great control of support you get super sampling technologies you get compatibility ratings you get sliders and tweaks to optimize your performance basically you get everything that you would expect from a gaming console and more and that you just cannot find on windows and users will probably expect this kind of experience on their gaming pcs after they use the deck see steam deck users are mainly pc gamers they are the people who own games on steam and that means that they also have or had a gaming pc which probably ran windows and windows doesn't have that same ease of use that steamos provides even with the new steam ui being ported to windows they still won't benefit from all the gaming related features which are exclusive to steamos and gamescope its compositor this means that once you've used the steam deck windows gaming will look like a subpar experience and this might lead these users to want to use steam os on their pcs or to buy devices that run steam os out of the box the steam deck does a lot to get you involved into steam as a platform before the steam deck i could not care less about steam my profile my achievements curating my games into collections i just didn't care steam was a hindrance to play the games that i actually wanted to play i did not care about the launcher or the store ever since i got the deck i updated my profile i triaged all my games into various collections i tried to get more achievements i tried to interact more with people on steam i just use team more and i like it now hey don't judge me i knew steam when it was a stupid launcher that made counter-strike fail to run two times out of three and i don't forget easily i'm basically a warhammer dwarf look i even have my book of grudges ubuntu abandoned unity still not settled jokes aside i won't be alone in getting into the steam ecosystem people will get attached to steam more once they tried the deck and they will want to replicate that experience on a pc and that's where it's going to be make or break for valve and for linux either valve can foster a good development community around steam os with people helping making it better faster more durable and involving hardware partners to distribute new steam os devices or they don't manage to do all of that and the push that the steam deck has started will falter immediately i personally think that it's going to succeed steam os will be open to download for anyone and other hardware manufacturers have shown interest in making devices with steamos out of the box like 1x player i wouldn't be surprised if alienware origin pc razer and other manufacturers of gaming hardware would also offer the option to get a pc with steam os or windows and this will definitely have a ripple effect on the whole linux desktop because once manufacturers start to ship devices with steam os out of the box they're going to want to test their hardware to make sure it works well which means they're going to have more traction and more push against gpu and cpu manufacturers to write better drivers to get their applications of software suites ported to steam os and this means that there's also going to be a push towards application and game developers to make sure that they support steemo as well it just benefits the whole linux desktop but of course a gaming pc is still a pc and people also do non-gaming stuff on these devices and that's where the desktop mode of steam os will come into play you have a super stable os which is read only image based updates so people should have a pretty great experience in terms of using that as their main pc they will also have to get to grips with kd plasma though and how it works on steam os this might be a challenge because kde doesn't really have a guide or a tour to let you know how it works and what are the differences with other operating systems valve probably only included it because they could and because they knew people would ask for it the linux community myself included can be pretty vocal sometimes it's not always a positive conversation but at least we speak our minds valve doesn't really have an interest at least not business-wise to make kde better or easier to understand and use even if steam os grows into a major player it's a secondary feature for them the main point is to get steam into more people's hands and to get them to buy games still caddy is really easy to use it's close to the windows layout you have an app store to download and install apps from flat hub but it's also different and limited at the moment the app loadout out of the box is scarce you don't get a calendar an email client a screenshot tool an office suite basically anything beyond a web browser and a file manager this could also be make or break for the steam os experience on other devices than the steam deck and it could also be make or break for the linux desktop as a whole if users feel like the gaming experience is great but they don't really like how the desktop mode works it doesn't do it for them they're gonna switch back to windows the the gaming experience itself and the gaming specific features won't be enough to overshadow the things that they cannot do with plasma there's also the mentality shift needed to get non-steam games running people using battle.net the epic games launcher origin or ubisoft connect they might not understand why they can't just download and install these launchers directly and why they need third-party tools to get them working now fortunately with the steam deck we already have tons of guides in video or article formats to let people do just that so this might not be too complex if people think about looking for all that stuff online so let's imagine steamos does well people like it want it on their desktops laptops or buy devices with steamos print start how does that benefit the linux desktop it clearly benefits valve and steam and steamos but how does that help the rest of the distributions well the first part as i said is drivers if manufacturers see that steamos is used more and more and if hardware is being sold in a variety of configurations with steam osprey installed then there's an incentive to make sure that most stuff works on steam os not just the gpus the cpus or the wi-fi and bluetooth chips but also all the gaming peripherals all the streaming peripherals all the microphones the webcams the gaming steering wheels of the joysticks for for flight simulators all of those things will tend to work better on steam os and you know what a driver for steam os is a driver for linux surprising i know then there's software developers will want their stuff on steam os from the gpu configuration tools from nvidia amd and intel the various launchers we already mentioned which could follow steam in adding proton by default and certification methods there will also be a bigger incentive for developers to make sure their games run well on steam os once they release or even make a native version there would be more interest from regular app developers to get their stuff running on steam os even if that stuff isn't gaming focused it would be pretty ironic to end up getting microsoft office on linux and steam os just because valve took away market share from microsoft basically if steamos a linux based operating system succeeds it might just make all other linux distros better in the process while we as a community argue on which destroys the best and should be pre-installed valve could actually be doing something to get linux in the hands of more people and that would lead to a complete linux community collapse because arch linux would become the most rare distro in the world no more bragging rights everyone runs arch by the way so to conclude the linux desktop has been growing at a snail space but gaming might just be the final push it needs to get into more hands and become a mainstream option but there are conditions that will need to be met for that to happen first valve needs to release update and market steam os 3 as something gamers can actually run anywhere people need to know it's not limited to the deck and that it's also an option for their current gaming pcs second valve needs to get hardware manufacturers on board to shape devices with steamos pre-installed so more people can use it in stores discover it and decide to buy it and third to really benefit the whole linux community and all distros steamos needs to make sure that desktop mode isn't just a secondary feature but that's it's also a complete desktop that people can actually use every day this means more work into kde plasma more apps available as flat packs and more work on that format to ensure that it's the best experience for everyone if this all happens then yes gaming will have been the trojan horse that helps linux get mainstream even if it's steam os specifically that succeeds it doesn't matter because it's going to benefit all linux distro so yes i do think that gaming alone can make linux into a more mainstream operating system but there's a lot that valve needs to do to make sure that this can happen what also can happen is you getting a device with linux pre-installed out of the box don't wait for steam os 3 just get one right now from today's sponsor tuxedo is based in germany and they make linux laptops and desktops well at least laptops and desktops with linux pre-installed they ship worldwide they have a huge range of keyboard layouts and they have an enormous lineup of laptops and desktops as you can configure to your heart's content from the smallest and most lightweight laptops that are pretty affordable to the biggest gaming desktops or monster gaming laptops that you can buy they have everything they just refresh their stellaris 15 with intel 12th gen cpus and 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hey everyone this is nick and one of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of the linux desktop is the amount of distributions we have it's a strength because it means anyone can get something tailor-made for their needs but it's also a weakness because a lot of users just are perplexed by the amount of choice they're faced with when they try to move to linux now of course we all know that this doesn't matter at all and beginners should just choose from one of the five most popular distros out there but newcomers don't know that and they're a bit baffled by the amount of use case distributions that there is out there so let's see why the very existence of these use case distributions mean that the linux desktop might not be ready for the mainstream just yet what's ready for the mainstream though is today's sponsor that i use for all my linux and gaming server needs thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started now to begin with what is a use case distro well the oxford learner's dictionary defines now i'm just kidding this is not a high school essay pro tip never begin anything with a dictionary definition unless you're writing a dictionary definition so use case distro is basically a more mainstream distribution with added tools and packages to make it more suitable for a specific purpose they generally also include a different theme wallpaper name but the internals are usually just the exact same as the distro they use as a base and they differentiate themselves by trying to make a specific niche easier to get into when moving to linux examples of these would be nobara the unofficial fedora gaming version that adds lutris steam obs studio and caden live and a few tweaks to make some games run better there's also ubuntu studio which actually changes a lot more internals with a lower latency kernel and all the tools any creative might want whatever the domain they want to work on audio video graphics design anything goes really all of these cater to a specific use case whether it's gaming audio video studio work and they're not all equal while some of them really do bring some interesting and needed stuff compared to baseline distributions a lot of others just jam-packed their iso with tons of applications and tools that will then come pre-installed and avoid the user a trip to the app store to install them and these use case distros while they can serve a purpose are a clear indication that linux desktops just aren't completely ready or completely user-friendly enough now don't get me wrong this doesn't mean that these use case distros are useless far from it that's the beauty of linux people who actually know what they want to do can get a system perfectly tailored for their needs with the right kernel the right tools the right applications for some people using a mainline distro like mint ubuntu fedora or arch is a pain every time they reinstall they have to grab all their apps again switch kernels install what they really need remove what they don't and it can be time consuming even if you don't reinstall every two month not everyone has distro hopping madness you know some of us do keep our installs for more than two months these use case distros should not disappear and i'm not saying they should be made obsolete or that their developers should all move on to work on more mainstream distros after all if they felt there was a need for their project and if they have users then they are probably right there is a need for specific distributions that cater to specific needs but these distros also create issues the first one is that they make users doubt what they should install by making the choice too complex between the run-of-the-mill distros that everyone recommends and the use case district that might provide an edge no no no not microsoft edge who would ship that by default in a linux distro come on the second issue is that if use case distros are needed it means that the purpose they serve isn't well served by generic distributions and that's a problem let's begin with the user confusion part because we all know that linux can be confusing at the start even without 50 choices to pick from linux has always offered a ton of choice it's not of its core values but it's a by-product of open source and free software that anyone can run with the code and make something else out of it this means we already have tons of general purpose distros like ubuntu mint fedora elementary os manjaro and all their desktop variants choosing between these is pretty tough they all offer a simple stable user-friendly experience and the differences between them besides their choice of desktop color scheme and defaults isn't super evident at first glance is ubuntu just orange fedora with the side dock is manjaro green ubuntu or is that linux mint is elementary os just mac os but for pcs that aren't max nobody knows that choice gets even more confusing when you add distros with specific purposes see these distros try to cater to one use case specifically like gaming or audio work but rarely do new users focus on one single use case people tend to use computers for a variety of stuff i use mine for office work for gaming for video editing for writing for watching what's another one that starts with poor ports i like watching ports i watch ports on it i love ports what does a user choose then if i'm a gamer but i also like to read comics and i need my computer for school do i go with the gaming distro not knowing if it's going to be capable of running other things i need do i go for the general purpose distro with the risk of having a worse gaming experience if i don't already know about linux i could absolutely assume that a gaming distro isn't good for using an office suite or that the non-gaming distro won't allow me to play games at all after all in the windows world you do not have that kind of difference you have windows which is moderately good at everything you don't have a windows gaming spin or a mac os server spin okay that one might have been too soon they just can't that thing some people might compare use case distros to appliance oss like what you would find on a gaming console it's an operating system it just doesn't let you do everything the device would be capable of that's highly confusing and the fact that your choice has to be on the base the color scheme the desktop the default applications and now you also have to decide if you want a variant that's made for one of the use cases you need your computer for that might just push users away making them think linux is only good for one thing at a time when in reality your gaming distro will handle all your office needs perfectly and a mainline distro will handle your gaming needs just as well the second major issue is that the very existence of use case distros means that our mainline distros are still perceived as too complex for specific use cases if you've used linux in the past you know that getting up and running with gaming for example isn't that hard you just head over to your package manager you install steam then look for lutress and heroic install game mode install wine just in case make sure that your gpu drivers are installed and up to date install a few libraries for vulkan to work and then you can download all your games and play them wait a second that doesn't sound easy at all yep we long time linux users might perceive the various tasks we accomplish as extremely simple it's just a couple packages to hunt for install nothing tricky except users coming from other operating systems don't know all these steps because most of them are already done by the time they open their computers on windows you don't have to install directx manually it's installed when installing a game your drivers are generally already pre-installed as well unless you manually install windows which no one really does if you know how to install an os manually why would you install windows in the first place right you also don't have to use third party programs to run games you just get the launcher for the game or the developer and you run that in some ways if you know what you're looking for some of these steps are easier on linux you can get all your software from one single place instead of hunting for it online what a barbaric way to download and install software really imagine not using a package manager and yeah chocolaty and winget blah blah blah no one cares no regular user uses that or even knows they exist drivers are also in your package manager or app store or in dedicated utility you do not need to go download them for the manufacturer's website and lutress lets you play games from all launchers instead of using three different ones it can be easier if you know that you need all of this and that it's not pre-installed but that's not the point the point is it's not easy it might seem like it is because we knew the previous ways which were even harder but to a newcomer that's a bunch of mumbo jumbo and that's why we have gaming distros they come with everything pre-installed and pre-configured you don't need to look for anything you just log in and get started just like with studio distros where you don't need to hunt for which apps you need to get creative they're already all there plus all the tools you need so this means that our main line distributions just aren't easy enough just yet for specific use cases and to get users up and running in no time they still have to look for and hunt online for solutions and ways to do things they're already familiar with and i would argue that this is an important learning experience to make sure that you understand what you're doing but most people prefer when things just work as long as these simple tasks can't be performed in seconds or are already done when the user gets their system installed then use case distros will still have a reason to exist so what should be done should we all delete all the use case distros to force users to go to mainline distros and have limited choices no absolutely not we need to make the standard better and that's no easy task it means that all basic drivers should be pre-installed when they're needed yes that goes for nvidia drivers too there's been a lot of progress on that front but some distros still don't offer an option to download them at install and configure them immediately having to hunt for them in the software store is not a good solution and if you don't want proprietary stuff on the iso just make the user download them from a repo at install by ticking a check box it also means that we need more applications in these stores distros using traditional repos and packages need to package feature updates for applications they need to include apps faster in their repos those using flat pack need to include flat hub out of the box to make sure users have the wider range of apps available and those using snap need to keep burying their head in the sand i guess now i'm joking mostly and developers need to work to ensure that their apps whether they are distributed in repos in flat hub or the snapstore have all the correct permissions set to avoid users needing to use command line or third-party utilities to give access to the home folder for example i'm looking at you discord no file uploads by default because you don't have access to slash home that's dumb to solve the i need to download 20 apps each time i reinstall issue we can also offer app bundles in one click get krita inkscape or steam heroic and lutris one click install for bundles super useful and would definitely save some time also having some kind of account or user downloadable app list that you could import after you reinstall to get all your usual apps would be pretty useful and finally we could also work on helpers for people for example if you plug in a mouse that has configurable buttons you could prompt the user to install the correct utility plug in the logitech dongle prompt to install solar we already do automatic printer configuration we could expand that to other devices if someone installs steam maybe make sure that everything needed for dxvk to work is also installed if someone installs an audio program maybe prompt them to switch to a low latency kernel or maybe let's ensure that the default kernel also works well for this kind of job basically it all resides in ease of use if the user feels guided and if we automatically do things when there's 99 chance that the user would have to do that step anyways then we've won we're even more user friendly than windows or mac os but until then use case distros still have a good reason to exist our mainline distros should absolutely stand on their own and be able to fulfill all these niches perfectly well and the people who want something super specific can actually still get it because those use case distros aren't going anywhere and today's sponsor isn't going anywhere as well tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make linux laptops and desktops so they have linux pre-installed out of the box with a wide choice of distributions of keyboard configurations and of general configurations the device range is huge you have smaller laptops bigger laptops small desktop big desktops small nuts basically everything you might want to buy just head over to the link in the description below to find out what they have for example they just refreshed their stellaris 15 which is their big 15-inch gaming laptop with 12th gen intel cpus and nvidia rtx gpus i reviewed the previous model which has the same chassis the same keyboard the same awesome screen and i loved it so with even better internals it's a no-brainer so head over to the link in the description and check things out now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members or whichever one you prefer both 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hey everyone this is nick and one of the greatest strengths and weaknesses of the linux desktop is the amount of distributions we have it's a strength because it means anyone can get something tailor-made for their needs but it's also a weakness because a lot of users just are perplexed by the amount of choice they're faced with when they try to move to linux now of course we all know that this doesn't matter at all and beginners should just choose from one of the five most popular distros out there but newcomers don't know that and they're a bit baffled by the amount of use case distributions that there is out there so let's see why the very existence of these use case distributions mean that the linux desktop might not be ready for the mainstream just yet what's ready for the mainstream though is today's sponsor that i use for all my linux and gaming server needs thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started now to begin with what is a use case distro well the oxford learner's dictionary defines now i'm just kidding this is not a high school essay pro tip never begin anything with a dictionary definition unless you're writing a dictionary definition so use case distro is basically a more mainstream distribution with added tools and packages to make it more suitable for a specific purpose they generally also include a different theme wallpaper name but the internals are usually just the exact same as the distro they use as a base and they differentiate themselves by trying to make a specific niche easier to get into when moving to linux examples of these would be nobara the unofficial fedora gaming version that adds lutris steam obs studio and caden live and a few tweaks to make some games run better there's also ubuntu studio which actually changes a lot more internals with a lower latency kernel and all the tools any creative might want whatever the domain they want to work on audio video graphics design anything goes really all of these cater to a specific use case whether it's gaming audio video studio work and they're not all equal while some of them really do bring some interesting and needed stuff compared to baseline distributions a lot of others just jam-packed their iso with tons of applications and tools that will then come pre-installed and avoid the user a trip to the app store to install them and these use case distros while they can serve a purpose are a clear indication that linux desktops just aren't completely ready or completely user-friendly enough now don't get me wrong this doesn't mean that these use case distros are useless far from it that's the beauty of linux people who actually know what they want to do can get a system perfectly tailored for their needs with the right kernel the right tools the right applications for some people using a mainline distro like mint ubuntu fedora or arch is a pain every time they reinstall they have to grab all their apps again switch kernels install what they really need remove what they don't and it can be time consuming even if you don't reinstall every two month not everyone has distro hopping madness you know some of us do keep our installs for more than two months these use case distros should not disappear and i'm not saying they should be made obsolete or that their developers should all move on to work on more mainstream distros after all if they felt there was a need for their project and if they have users then they are probably right there is a need for specific distributions that cater to specific needs but these distros also create issues the first one is that they make users doubt what they should install by making the choice too complex between the run-of-the-mill distros that everyone recommends and the use case district that might provide an edge no no no not microsoft edge who would ship that by default in a linux distro come on the second issue is that if use case distros are needed it means that the purpose they serve isn't well served by generic distributions and that's a problem let's begin with the user confusion part because we all know that linux can be confusing at the start even without 50 choices to pick from linux has always offered a ton of choice it's not of its core values but it's a by-product of open source and free software that anyone can run with the code and make something else out of it this means we already have tons of general purpose distros like ubuntu mint fedora elementary os manjaro and all their desktop variants choosing between these is pretty tough they all offer a simple stable user-friendly experience and the differences between them besides their choice of desktop color scheme and defaults isn't super evident at first glance is ubuntu just orange fedora with the side dock is manjaro green ubuntu or is that linux mint is elementary os just mac os but for pcs that aren't max nobody knows that choice gets even more confusing when you add distros with specific purposes see these distros try to cater to one use case specifically like gaming or audio work but rarely do new users focus on one single use case people tend to use computers for a variety of stuff i use mine for office work for gaming for video editing for writing for watching what's another one that starts with poor ports i like watching ports i watch ports on it i love ports what does a user choose then if i'm a gamer but i also like to read comics and i need my computer for school do i go with the gaming distro not knowing if it's going to be capable of running other things i need do i go for the general purpose distro with the risk of having a worse gaming experience if i don't already know about linux i could absolutely assume that a gaming distro isn't good for using an office suite or that the non-gaming distro won't allow me to play games at all after all in the windows world you do not have that kind of difference you have windows which is moderately good at everything you don't have a windows gaming spin or a mac os server spin okay that one might have been too soon they just can't that thing some people might compare use case distros to appliance oss like what you would find on a gaming console it's an operating system it just doesn't let you do everything the device would be capable of that's highly confusing and the fact that your choice has to be on the base the color scheme the desktop the default applications and now you also have to decide if you want a variant that's made for one of the use cases you need your computer for that might just push users away making them think linux is only good for one thing at a time when in reality your gaming distro will handle all your office needs perfectly and a mainline distro will handle your gaming needs just as well the second major issue is that the very existence of use case distros means that our mainline distros are still perceived as too complex for specific use cases if you've used linux in the past you know that getting up and running with gaming for example isn't that hard you just head over to your package manager you install steam then look for lutress and heroic install game mode install wine just in case make sure that your gpu drivers are installed and up to date install a few libraries for vulkan to work and then you can download all your games and play them wait a second that doesn't sound easy at all yep we long time linux users might perceive the various tasks we accomplish as extremely simple it's just a couple packages to hunt for install nothing tricky except users coming from other operating systems don't know all these steps because most of them are already done by the time they open their computers on windows you don't have to install directx manually it's installed when installing a game your drivers are generally already pre-installed as well unless you manually install windows which no one really does if you know how to install an os manually why would you install windows in the first place right you also don't have to use third party programs to run games you just get the launcher for the game or the developer and you run that in some ways if you know what you're looking for some of these steps are easier on linux you can get all your software from one single place instead of hunting for it online what a barbaric way to download and install software really imagine not using a package manager and yeah chocolaty and winget blah blah blah no one cares no regular user uses that or even knows they exist drivers are also in your package manager or app store or in dedicated utility you do not need to go download them for the manufacturer's website and lutress lets you play games from all launchers instead of using three different ones it can be easier if you know that you need all of this and that it's not pre-installed but that's not the point the point is it's not easy it might seem like it is because we knew the previous ways which were even harder but to a newcomer that's a bunch of mumbo jumbo and that's why we have gaming distros they come with everything pre-installed and pre-configured you don't need to look for anything you just log in and get started just like with studio distros where you don't need to hunt for which apps you need to get creative they're already all there plus all the tools you need so this means that our main line distributions just aren't easy enough just yet for specific use cases and to get users up and running in no time they still have to look for and hunt online for solutions and ways to do things they're already familiar with and i would argue that this is an important learning experience to make sure that you understand what you're doing but most people prefer when things just work as long as these simple tasks can't be performed in seconds or are already done when the user gets their system installed then use case distros will still have a reason to exist so what should be done should we all delete all the use case distros to force users to go to mainline distros and have limited choices no absolutely not we need to make the standard better and that's no easy task it means that all basic drivers should be pre-installed when they're needed yes that goes for nvidia drivers too there's been a lot of progress on that front but some distros still don't offer an option to download them at install and configure them immediately having to hunt for them in the software store is not a good solution and if you don't want proprietary stuff on the iso just make the user download them from a repo at install by ticking a check box it also means that we need more applications in these stores distros using traditional repos and packages need to package feature updates for applications they need to include apps faster in their repos those using flat pack need to include flat hub out of the box to make sure users have the wider range of apps available and those using snap need to keep burying their head in the sand i guess now i'm joking mostly and developers need to work to ensure that their apps whether they are distributed in repos in flat hub or the snapstore have all the correct permissions set to avoid users needing to use command line or third-party utilities to give access to the home folder for example i'm looking at you discord no file uploads by default because you don't have access to slash home that's dumb to solve the i need to download 20 apps each time i reinstall issue we can also offer app bundles in one click get krita inkscape or steam heroic and lutris one click install for bundles super useful and would definitely save some time also having some kind of account or user downloadable app list that you could import after you reinstall to get all your usual apps would be pretty useful and finally we could also work on helpers for people for example if you plug in a mouse that has configurable buttons you could prompt the user to install the correct utility plug in the logitech dongle prompt to install solar we already do automatic printer configuration we could expand that to other devices if someone installs steam maybe make sure that everything needed for dxvk to work is also installed if someone installs an audio program maybe prompt them to switch to a low latency kernel or maybe let's ensure that the default kernel also works well for this kind of job basically it all resides in ease of use if the user feels guided and if we automatically do things when there's 99 chance that the user would have to do that step anyways then we've won we're even more user friendly than windows or mac os but until then use case distros still have a good reason to exist our mainline distros should absolutely stand on their own and be able to fulfill all these niches perfectly well and the people who want something super specific can actually still get it because those use case distros aren't going anywhere and today's sponsor isn't going anywhere as well tuxedo is a company based in germany and they make linux laptops and desktops so they have linux pre-installed out of the box with a wide choice of distributions of keyboard 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hey everyone this is nick and i've been using linux since 2006 and back then things were a bit different ubuntu was the new kid on the block we had just started catching up to windows and mac os in terms of user friendliness and features and basically daily driving linux was reserved to geeks and nerds like i was and like i still am since then the linux desktop has grown and matured and caught up to windows and macos and even in some areas it has surpassed them but it's still not mainstream there are clear signs though that linux is starting to get more mainstream appeal and one of the main drivers behind that is gaming but can gaming alone help put linux in the spotlight all i know is that i'm going to put today's sponsor in the spotlight to help you get your internet connection in check and make sure it only does what you want it to do this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a 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windows library it was unstable it performed terribly in most cases and native linux games were almost non-existent wine appdb was your only source to know if something was playable or not and that website wasn't and still isn't the most user-friendly thing you can come across we had plenty of open source titles some of them being really amazing but if you wanted to play a windows game you had to set your sights on games that had been released years ago no day one gaming for us linux nerds and then the holy gabon came and gave us native steam and steam machines and these failed hard even with native steam the native linux sports were not the most frequent thing ever it started a trend sure but it definitely wasn't fantastic steam machines were supposed to be the spearhead of that effort to let valve not depend on windows anymore and not risk losing market share to the windows store it was basically an effort to make steam its own platform the gaming platform for pc while microsoft wanted the windows store to be the exact same thing both ambitions really fell flat as the steam machines never really picked up any steam and the windows store is just now starting to be a place where you might want to go to download something that you actually would want to run valve then changed gears and introduced steamplay and proton with the results we know today we have 54 of the top 100 steam games running perfectly on linux and 41 of the top 1000 at least according to proton db we have day one support for a ton of new releases and games that don't work on day one generally work after a week even anti-cheat is no longer the issue it once was with major players adding support for proton and linux to their updates and builds and that trend is only going to get stronger with time steam machines fell flat probably because valve let all their hardware partners endorse all the risk from manufacturing selling distributing those things and so it just never picked up but they had the right idea hardware is what drives people to use software good hardware is what people buy and then they use what ships by default so your software is dependent on the hardware that it runs on provided your software is actually good enough which it wasn't when steam machines released there is no operating system market people do not go and buy operating systems or download operating systems they buy hardware that comes with an os print installed and that is what they're going to use on that hardware sure some people will try other things our community is proof of that but the vast majority of people they're going to stick with what came in the box and that's where the steam deck came it runs linux out of the box it runs a ton of games it's appealing hardware that feels a niche that just doesn't have competition yet at least not at that price point and it's got backing from one of the biggest gaming companies and the steam deck is a prime driver to help linux grow not only in the gaming space but with a halo effect no gaming pun intended it can also drive growth for the linux desktop itself see users like the stuff they own they get attached to the software the features the experience and the hardware itself they actually go out of their way to confirm that what they bought is the best thing that they could have bought it's called confirmation bias when you buy something expensive and you want to make sure that you didn't get scammed you tend to go online and look for reviews that are mainly positive about the thing you bought just because then you feel less like a fool for spending all that money on something that you love but you're afraid that maybe wasn't the best thing you could get and while that's a stupid behavior we mostly all do it and it has the potential to help linux growth while more and more steam decks ship more and more users will get used to the amazing features it brings you have a nice curated store and experience you have great performance you have a good user interface with plenty of gaming specific features that you simply cannot find on any other desktop os including windows you get performance data out of the box you get great control of support you get super sampling technologies you get compatibility ratings you get sliders and tweaks to optimize your performance basically you get everything that you would expect from a gaming console and more and that you just cannot find on windows and users will probably expect this kind of experience on their gaming pcs after they use the deck see steam deck users are mainly pc gamers they are the people who own games on steam and that means that they also have or had a gaming pc which probably ran windows and windows doesn't have that same ease of use that steamos provides even with the new steam ui being ported to windows they still won't benefit from all the gaming related features which are exclusive to steamos and gamescope its compositor this means that once you've used the steam deck windows gaming will look like a subpar experience and this might lead these users to want to use steam os on their pcs or to buy devices that run steam os out of the box the steam deck does a lot to get you involved into steam as a platform before the steam deck i could not care less about steam my profile my achievements curating my games into collections i just didn't care steam was a hindrance to play the games that i actually wanted to play i did not care about the launcher or the store ever since i got the deck i updated my profile i triaged all my games into various collections i tried to get more achievements i tried to interact more with people on steam i just use team more and i like it now hey don't judge me i knew steam when it was a stupid launcher that made counter-strike fail to run two times out of three and i don't forget easily i'm basically a warhammer dwarf look i even have my book of grudges ubuntu abandoned unity still not settled jokes aside i won't be alone in getting into the steam ecosystem people will get attached to steam more once they tried the deck and they will want to replicate that experience on a pc and that's where it's going to be make or break for valve and for linux either valve can foster a good development community around steam os with people helping making it better faster more durable and involving hardware partners to distribute new steam os devices or they don't manage to do all of that and the push that the steam deck has started will falter immediately i personally think that it's going to succeed steam os will be open to download for anyone and other hardware manufacturers have shown interest in making devices with steamos out of the box like 1x player i wouldn't be surprised if alienware origin pc razer and other manufacturers of gaming hardware would also offer the option to get a pc with steam os or windows and this will definitely have a ripple effect on the whole linux desktop because once manufacturers start to ship devices with steam os out of the box they're going to want to test their hardware to make sure it works well which means they're going to have more traction and more push against gpu and cpu manufacturers to write better drivers to get their applications of software suites ported to steam os and this means that there's also going to be a push towards application and game developers to make sure that they support steemo as well it just benefits the whole linux desktop but of course a gaming pc is still a pc and people also do non-gaming stuff on these devices and that's where the desktop mode of steam os will come into play you have a super stable os which is read only image based updates so people should have a pretty great experience in terms of using that as their main pc they will also have to get to grips with kd plasma though and how it works on steam os this might be a challenge because kde doesn't really have a guide or a tour to let you know how it works and what are the differences with other operating systems valve probably only included it because they could and because they knew people would ask for it the linux community myself included can be pretty vocal sometimes it's not always a positive conversation but at least we speak our minds valve doesn't really have an interest at least not business-wise to make kde better or easier to understand and use even if steam os grows into a major player it's a secondary feature for them the main point is to get steam into more people's hands and to get them to buy games still caddy is really easy to use it's close to the windows layout you have an app store to download and install apps from flat hub but it's also different and limited at the moment the app loadout out of the box is scarce you don't get a calendar an email client a screenshot tool an office suite basically anything beyond a web browser and a file manager this could also be make or break for the steam os experience on other devices than the steam deck and it could also be make or break for the linux desktop as a whole if users feel like the gaming experience is great but they don't really like how the desktop mode works it doesn't do it for them they're gonna switch back to windows the the gaming experience itself and the gaming specific features won't be enough to overshadow the things that they cannot do with plasma there's also the mentality shift needed to get non-steam games running people using battle.net the epic games launcher origin or ubisoft connect they might not understand why they can't just download and install these launchers directly and why they need third-party tools to get them working now fortunately with the steam deck we already have tons of guides in video or article formats to let people do just that so this might not be too complex if people think about looking for all that stuff online so let's imagine steamos does well people like it want it on their desktops laptops or buy devices with steamos print start how does that benefit the linux desktop it clearly benefits valve and steam and steamos but how does that help the rest of the distributions well the first part as i said is drivers if manufacturers see that steamos is used more and more and if hardware is being sold in a variety of configurations with steam osprey installed then there's an incentive to make sure that most stuff works on steam os not just the gpus the cpus or the wi-fi and bluetooth chips but also all the gaming peripherals all the streaming peripherals all the microphones the webcams the gaming steering wheels of the joysticks for for flight simulators all of those things will tend to work better on steam os and you know what a driver for steam os is a driver for linux surprising i know then there's software developers will want their stuff on steam os from the gpu configuration tools from nvidia amd and intel the various launchers we already mentioned which could follow steam in adding proton by default and certification methods there will also be a bigger incentive for developers to make sure their games run well on steam os once they release or even make a native version there would be more interest from regular app developers to get their stuff running on steam os even if that stuff isn't gaming focused it would be pretty ironic to end up getting microsoft office on linux and steam os just because valve took away market share from microsoft basically if steamos a linux based operating system succeeds it might just make all other linux distros better in the process while we as a community argue on which destroys the best and should be pre-installed valve could actually be doing something to get linux in the hands of more people and that would lead to a complete linux community collapse because arch linux would become the most rare distro in the world no more bragging rights everyone runs arch by the way so to conclude the linux desktop has been growing at a snail space but gaming might just be the final push it needs to get into more hands and become a mainstream option but there are conditions that will need to be met for that to happen first valve needs to release update and market steam os 3 as something gamers can actually run anywhere people need to know it's not limited to the deck and that it's also an option for their current gaming pcs second valve needs to get hardware manufacturers on board to shape devices with steamos pre-installed so more people can use it in stores discover it and decide to buy it and third to really benefit the whole linux community and all distros steamos needs to make sure that desktop mode isn't just a secondary feature but that's it's also a complete desktop that people can actually use every day this means more work into kde plasma more apps available as flat packs and more work on that format to ensure that it's the best experience for everyone if this all happens then yes gaming will have been the trojan horse that helps linux get mainstream even if it's steam os specifically that succeeds it doesn't matter because it's going to benefit all linux distro so yes i do think that gaming alone can make linux into a more mainstream operating system but there's a lot that valve needs to do to make sure that this can happen what also can happen is you getting a device with linux pre-installed out of the box don't wait for steam os 3 just get one right now from today's sponsor tuxedo is based in germany and they make linux laptops and desktops well at least laptops and desktops with linux pre-installed they ship worldwide they have a huge range of keyboard layouts and they have an enormous lineup of laptops and desktops as you can configure to your heart's content from the smallest and most lightweight laptops that are pretty affordable to the biggest gaming desktops or monster gaming laptops that you can buy they have everything they just refresh their stellaris 15 with intel 12th gen cpus and 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hey everyone this is nick and today i've got what is probably the longest linux and open source news video that i ever made it's long but don't worry it's packed with interesting stuff among the usual app updates and new projects we've got more details about elementor ios 7 and specifically the fact that it's going to let you upgrade in place finally we also have an unofficial steam os iso which is the closest thing you can get to the real thing from valve and we have the only major update to the unity desktop in 6 years yes it is still alive just like today's sponsor makes me feel more alive because they take care of all my linux server needs thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuff like buy hold to block ads go ahead i don't need the money anyway from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so gnome app developers brought some nice big changes again to the core gnome applications interface and two apps from the gnome circle the big change that is planned is two dimensional gestures for gnome shell which means you'll be able to do workspace switching while doing the overview gesture it might not sound like much but it should make using these touchpad and touchscreen gestures a lot smoother shortwave the web radio player now supports gnome's dark mode and it uses libadvita login manager settings an app that does exactly what its name says now has settings for the mouse cursor it supports right to left languages and it's now on flat hub amber all the new music player got some design tweaks and some stability and reliability updates other apps got some smaller changes as well i just love these weekly updates to various applications and projects it's so cool to see great design and really well involved developers i love it microsoft has now joined the open 3d foundation joining the likes of adobe amazon web services huawei intel or niantic as a reminder the open3d foundation is the organization who handles the open 3d engine whose source was donated by amazon microsoft will get a member in the governing board as the company joined as a premier member which means they should have donated some nice amount of money to the project it's easy to see how microsoft might benefit from investing in an open engine as they could more easily place integrations with their own graphics apis various windows apis and maybe even offer it to developers who want to make games for xbox or windows as they had already open sourced their game development kit last year containing all the tools needed to build games for game pass for pc xbox consoles and xcloud i for one am glad to see big companies like microsoft investing in open source software even if it's only to further their own goals and not specifically for the good of the whole open source community in the end we've got better software for everyone and these kind of organizations generally have a good governance board that prevents giant companies from imposing their own vision if you've been lusting after a steam os 3 iso to install on your own desktop or laptop or to create your own steam console they are good news holo iso isn't an official release from valve but it's the closest thing yet it packages everything from steam os as it's currently available on the steam deck in a convenient iso that you can install on any computer you get the first run experience the kd desktop mode amd fsr the gamescope compositor basically every single feature of steamos but you also get its current limitations the iso won't work at all on nvidia based systems as nvidia drivers and gamescope don't really know how to talk to each other yet and intel based computers will also require package downgrades if your device runs on amd hardware though you should be up and running in no time i'd personally rather wait for the official iso i'm not in such a hurry but if you are that's the closest thing yet teddy developers are getting into high gear to prepare the release of plasma 5.25 next month and this means more weekly updates a ton of stuff has been ported to cute quick so they should align more with modern kde ui design on top of offering streamlined code and better separated internals new features include support for exporting searchable pdfs using ocr in scan page dolphin letting you sort files by file extension and the plasma wayland section lets you use resolutions beyond the officially supported ones applications using the desktop portals api now have a better app chooser dialog to choose which app to open a file with and there's a new preference to decide if you want to skip minimize tasks when scrolling over the task manager in the visual department nicolo venerandi has also pretty much completed work on floating panels which means your plasma panels will now be able to float above the screen edge if you so choose although that change might not make it to 5.25 i really hope it does though as these floating panels were one of the main reasons i used latte duck back when i used kd plasma eye candy it's worth every crash if you thought unity died when ubuntu ditched it for gnome well turns out you were wrong unity 7 got its first new major release in 6 years with a bunch of new changes it brings a redesigned dash and hud and the whole desktop has a flatter more modern look while keeping the blur unity users are used to all the docs menus and tooltips have also been redesigned and speed improvements have been brought to the whole desktop including on the low graphics mode ram usage has been reduced to about 700 to 800 megabytes and plenty of bugs have also been fixed including the empty trash button in the dock and broken app info and ratings in the dash preview unity 7.6 is now also completely migrated to gitlab which should help people contribute and it now compiles on ubuntu 22.04 as well looking at the screenshots it does indeed look pretty good and unity is a desktop i loved and that i always regretted that ubuntu kind of abandoned when they moved back to gnome so for nostalgia's sake i will probably give it another go and another look maybe next month matthew miller the fedora project lead was recently interviewed by tech republic on the future of linux the whole interview is an interesting read but here are some highlights matthew points out that there is no mass market for operating systems which does limit the growth of the linux desktop people just don't generally think about that stuff as such he thinks we need to take a different approach to marketing linux than it's tech and it's super interesting matthew thinks that our messaging should be built around the fact that you own the os and its applications and that you are in control without falling into the if it's free you're the product pit he also says that fedora's vision isn't to get it running everywhere but to build an open and inclusive community that benefits everyone matthew points out that while having developers is crucial non-technical contributors are severely lacking like writers artists communicators and organizers the interview continues on to talk about fedora its mission its five year plan and the benefits of the open source community it's a very interesting read and i'm not just saying that because i use and love fedora promise danielle foray published a new blog post detailing the latest changes in elementary os 6 and the plans for os 7. it's now possible to set the super key to display the multitasking view which is a change that gnome users might find pretty useful and you can now set the refresh rate for imap in online accounts the window manager has plenty of bug fixes to better handle the multitasking view when display configuration change and code the text editor slash ide can now understand regular expressions when searching it displays hidden folders in the sidebar and a few crashes were fixed as per os 7 while there is no firm release date as the work continues to complete all issues assigned to this version we know it will be codenamed horus that it won't have many major new features compared to os 6 apart from power profiles automatic app updates a new minimal music player and a lot of migration to gdk4 for a lot of components well end is still not planned but there will finally be a way to upgrade from os 6 to os 7 without needing to reinstall everything apart from the galactic heresy that is linked to this codename the upgrade tool alone should be a huge boon for all elementary os users and since elementary is also a rolling release as far as the desktop and default apps are concerned then it's probably going to get more and more interesting features as it evolves looks like the pine buds weren't just an april's fools as the pine 64 is planning to make their own wireless headphones complete with ambient and environment noise cancellation and a long battery life of course as with all pine products they will be user flashable so people can experiment with weird use cases or just fun projects as always they will get the community involved and if that community grows then the product will have assured longevity the first step is to let developers tinker with the board which features bluetooth 5 2 coaxial optical input and outputs a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and 4.4 and 2.5 millimeters balanced jacks as well as usb-c and ports for touch and an lcd we'll have to see how much interest there is in this project but i always loved the pint 64's approach to hardware development so i'm pretty confident while i firmly believe that flat pack is the future of application distribution on linux there is no denying that this future is not there just yet that's kind of the definition of the future i guess in the meantime a lot of programs are only distributed through debian packages and ppas for ubuntu and for that there is a new tool built by martin wimpress ex-canonical employee deb get wants to replicate apt-get functionality but for external debian packages and repos the tool has a curated list of repos that it can download stuff from and it can keep your apps updated as well it works through the command line exclusively for now and has a very similar syntax to apt-get it will automatically install any required dependencies and it already has a pretty nice list of applications including google chrome vs code discord dropbox figma only office spotify zoom and a lot more if you prefer regular debian packages but you don't want the hassle of dealing with all these ppas and the consequences of using such ppas when upgrading to the newest release of your distro then this tool is definitely something that you should look into if you're an apple music user but you also run linux you might be delighted to learn of the existence of cider an open source application that lets you listen to apple music using the official apple api it's based on vue.js and electron so don't expect a full native client for gnome or kde and it doesn't support apple's loss less audio apparently because the api won't let them but the quality is supposedly higher than the web version of apple music or what itunes plays it's also available on mac os and windows and it's on flat hub if you're using linux it also integrates apple podcasts lyrics spatial audio and a remote control feature to let you control music from your iphone it even has a system tray icon a system tray icon what is this man 2006 now come on i'm joking for a music player system tray icon is super useful and it also might double as a nice apple podcast client if you like to sync playback between your phone and your computer do you like steam on linux but do you wish it was available as a snap maybe not but apparently some people did and so it happened ubuntu actually is trying to focus more on gaming related features and their first step is to introduce steam in the snapstore as a beta for now they say ubuntu is the most popular distro for gaming basing themselves on a steam survey and they deduced from these numbers that about 250 000 people use ubuntu to play games the steam snap doesn't do anything special compared to its previous debian package version or to the flat pack release but i guess it will be easier to maintain there as ubuntu seems decided to keep moving with snaps over other packaging formats i mean i'm not a snap fan personally but if it helps ubuntu users get a user-friendly and easy access to steam and all his games then it's all good and while ubuntu's market share in the gaming sector has been slowly falling it is still the most popular distro out there so getting these kind of packages is always nice firefox has existed for 17 years and it has now reached version 100. while that's an arbitrary number with what some would qualify as minor versions getting a major number it's still a big milestone and it has new features to celebrate it the picture in picture mode now supports captions and subtitles from youtube amazon prime video and netflix and every site that uses the webvtt format firefox can also spellcheck in multiple languages instead of just one and the new gdk scroll bars are now implemented by default there are also improvements to video playback for windows and mac os including hdr support on the ladder and hardware accelerated av1 video decoding on the former for gpus that support it let's hope firefox will be able to celebrate another 100 versions and if you want to know why that's important check out this video the linux app summit has taken place and there's one talk that specifically piqued my interest regarding flat hub it seems that the app repository is growing quite fast having reached 1600 applications and 1.2 petabytes of downloads which roughly corresponds to 4.5 million apps downloaded each month and 10 million updates the two speakers also presented a few interesting things happening on flat pack and flat hub namely portals which seem to be the true linux desktop api as they let you interact with the system safely without having to use various methods and underlying systems that come from different frameworks they also reiterated that flathop's goal was not to package apps but to offer a distribution platform where developers have control they cite a few examples like obs bottles or even microsoft edge published by microsoft directly to flat hub for easy distribution on the steam deck after the flat hub team reached out to them to let them know there was an easier way than what they had initially wanted to use the speakers also said they want to focus on letting developers make money off of their applications if they so choose without going into the traditional app store model people know on android or ios they're implementing developers and user accounts with a verification system various sliders to let developers decide how much they want for their work as a payment or as an optional donation with options to donate to various projects instead if the developer doesn't want to keep the money for themselves they also concluded on the various issues that flatback still has like permissions not being correctly set up on all apps screen sharing problems and others all in all it was a great talk and i really encourage you to watch it in its entirety especially if you want to know why i think that flatback and flat hub are the future of app distribution on linux you might remember the kubuntu focus a very powerful laptop for gaming or anything else that requires intense graphics and processing power well there's a new version of that device the focus m2 it comes with an i7 12 700 h a 165 hertz 1440p display at 15 inches and up to 64 gigabytes of ram complete with thunderbolt 4 up to an rtx 3080 ti and 4 terabytes of nvme ssd storage it starts at 1895 us and it's a chunky device at 2.4 kilograms made out of aluminium which also embossed tons of ports like usb-c multiple usb-a headphone and mic jacks thunderbolt mini displayport hdmi microsd and ethernet it supports up to four external 4k displays and has a privacy shutter for the webcam of course it comes with kubuntu 22.04 and some special tools to configure all of its features it looks like a tuxedo laptop with a specific branding and some specific configurations and it starts shipping in a few days of course some of the profits will be paid directly to kubuntu and kde so if you want to support these projects that's the laptop you want to buy and speaking of tuxedo they're our new channel sponsor tuxedo makes devices that run linux out of the box i've reviewed a lot of them on the channel and they're great you have tons of choice from small and affordable laptops to the biggest gaming or production desktops each device has a plethora of options to configure it to your needs and they can engrave a custom logo on your device they have that all-important tux branded super key and they also ship worldwide with a large variety of keyboard layouts for example they recently upgraded their stellaris 15 a super powerful gaming laptop with the best intel or amd cpus nvidia rtx graphics and a full aluminium chassis i reviewed the previous model and i really enjoyed using it click the link in the description below if you want to learn more about all the stuff that tuxedo has to offer they are really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video if you 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hey everyone this is nick and today i've got what is probably the longest linux and open source news video that i ever made it's long but don't worry it's packed with interesting stuff among the usual app updates and new projects we've got more details about elementor ios 7 and specifically the fact that it's going to let you upgrade in place finally we also have an unofficial steam os iso which is the closest thing you can get to the real thing from valve and we have the only major update to the unity desktop in 6 years yes it is still alive just like today's sponsor makes me feel more alive because they take care of all my linux server needs thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuff like buy hold to block ads go ahead i don't need the money anyway from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so gnome app developers brought some nice big changes again to the core gnome applications interface and two apps from the gnome circle the big change that is planned is two dimensional gestures for gnome shell which means you'll be able to do workspace switching while doing the overview gesture it might not sound like much but it should make using these touchpad and touchscreen gestures a lot smoother shortwave the web radio player now supports gnome's dark mode and it uses libadvita login manager settings an app that does exactly what its name says now has settings for the mouse cursor it supports right to left languages and it's now on flat hub amber all the new music player got some design tweaks and some stability and reliability updates other apps got some smaller changes as well i just love these weekly updates to various applications and projects it's so cool to see great design and really well involved developers i love it microsoft has now joined the open 3d foundation joining the likes of adobe amazon web services huawei intel or niantic as a reminder the open3d foundation is the organization who handles the open 3d engine whose source was donated by amazon microsoft will get a member in the governing board as the company joined as a premier member which means they should have donated some nice amount of money to the project it's easy to see how microsoft might benefit from investing in an open engine as they could more easily place integrations with their own graphics apis various windows apis and maybe even offer it to developers who want to make games for xbox or windows as they had already open sourced their game development kit last year containing all the tools needed to build games for game pass for pc xbox consoles and xcloud i for one am glad to see big companies like microsoft investing in open source software even if it's only to further their own goals and not specifically for the good of the whole open source community in the end we've got better software for everyone and these kind of organizations generally have a good governance board that prevents giant companies from imposing their own vision if you've been lusting after a steam os 3 iso to install on your own desktop or laptop or to create your own steam console they are good news holo iso isn't an official release from valve but it's the closest thing yet it packages everything from steam os as it's currently available on the steam deck in a convenient iso that you can install on any computer you get the first run experience the kd desktop mode amd fsr the gamescope compositor basically every single feature of steamos but you also get its current limitations the iso won't work at all on nvidia based systems as nvidia drivers and gamescope don't really know how to talk to each other yet and intel based computers will also require package downgrades if your device runs on amd hardware though you should be up and running in no time i'd personally rather wait for the official iso i'm not in such a hurry but if you are that's the closest thing yet teddy developers are getting into high gear to prepare the release of plasma 5.25 next month and this means more weekly updates a ton of stuff has been ported to cute quick so they should align more with modern kde ui design on top of offering streamlined code and better separated internals new features include support for exporting searchable pdfs using ocr in scan page dolphin letting you sort files by file extension and the plasma wayland section lets you use resolutions beyond the officially supported ones applications using the desktop portals api now have a better app chooser dialog to choose which app to open a file with and there's a new preference to decide if you want to skip minimize tasks when scrolling over the task manager in the visual department nicolo venerandi has also pretty much completed work on floating panels which means your plasma panels will now be able to float above the screen edge if you so choose although that change might not make it to 5.25 i really hope it does though as these floating panels were one of the main reasons i used latte duck back when i used kd plasma eye candy it's worth every crash if you thought unity died when ubuntu ditched it for gnome well turns out you were wrong unity 7 got its first new major release in 6 years with a bunch of new changes it brings a redesigned dash and hud and the whole desktop has a flatter more modern look while keeping the blur unity users are used to all the docs menus and tooltips have also been redesigned and speed improvements have been brought to the whole desktop including on the low graphics mode ram usage has been reduced to about 700 to 800 megabytes and plenty of bugs have also been fixed including the empty trash button in the dock and broken app info and ratings in the dash preview unity 7.6 is now also completely migrated to gitlab which should help people contribute and it now compiles on ubuntu 22.04 as well looking at the screenshots it does indeed look pretty good and unity is a desktop i loved and that i always regretted that ubuntu kind of abandoned when they moved back to gnome so for nostalgia's sake i will probably give it another go and another look maybe next month matthew miller the fedora project lead was recently interviewed by tech republic on the future of linux the whole interview is an interesting read but here are some highlights matthew points out that there is no mass market for operating systems which does limit the growth of the linux desktop people just don't generally think about that stuff as such he thinks we need to take a different approach to marketing linux than it's tech and it's super interesting matthew thinks that our messaging should be built around the fact that you own the os and its applications and that you are in control without falling into the if it's free you're the product pit he also says that fedora's vision isn't to get it running everywhere but to build an open and inclusive community that benefits everyone matthew points out that while having developers is crucial non-technical contributors are severely lacking like writers artists communicators and organizers the interview continues on to talk about fedora its mission its five year plan and the benefits of the open source community it's a very interesting read and i'm not just saying that because i use and love fedora promise danielle foray published a new blog post detailing the latest changes in elementary os 6 and the plans for os 7. it's now possible to set the super key to display the multitasking view which is a change that gnome users might find pretty useful and you can now set the refresh rate for imap in online accounts the window manager has plenty of bug fixes to better handle the multitasking view when display configuration change and code the text editor slash ide can now understand regular expressions when searching it displays hidden folders in the sidebar and a few crashes were fixed as per os 7 while there is no firm release date as the work continues to complete all issues assigned to this version we know it will be codenamed horus that it won't have many major new features compared to os 6 apart from power profiles automatic app updates a new minimal music player and a lot of migration to gdk4 for a lot of components well end is still not planned but there will finally be a way to upgrade from os 6 to os 7 without needing to reinstall everything apart from the galactic heresy that is linked to this codename the upgrade tool alone should be a huge boon for all elementary os users and since elementary is also a rolling release as far as the desktop and default apps are concerned then it's probably going to get more and more interesting features as it evolves looks like the pine buds weren't just an april's fools as the pine 64 is planning to make their own wireless headphones complete with ambient and environment noise cancellation and a long battery life of course as with all pine products they will be user flashable so people can experiment with weird use cases or just fun projects as always they will get the community involved and if that community grows then the product will have assured longevity the first step is to let developers tinker with the board which features bluetooth 5 2 coaxial optical input and outputs a 3.5 millimeter audio jack and 4.4 and 2.5 millimeters balanced jacks as well as usb-c and ports for touch and an lcd we'll have to see how much interest there is in this project but i always loved the pint 64's approach to hardware development so i'm pretty confident while i firmly believe that flat pack is the future of application distribution on linux there is no denying that this future is not there just yet that's kind of the definition of the future i guess in the meantime a lot of programs are only distributed through debian packages and ppas for ubuntu and for that there is a new tool built by martin wimpress ex-canonical employee deb get wants to replicate apt-get functionality but for external debian packages and repos the tool has a curated list of repos that it can download stuff from and it can keep your apps updated as well it works through the command line exclusively for now and has a very similar syntax to apt-get it will automatically install any required dependencies and it already has a pretty nice list of applications including google chrome vs code discord dropbox figma only office spotify zoom and a lot more if you prefer regular debian packages but you don't want the hassle of dealing with all these ppas and the consequences of using such ppas when upgrading to the newest release of your distro then this tool is definitely something that you should look into if you're an apple music user but you also run linux you might be delighted to learn of the existence of cider an open source application that lets you listen to apple music using the official apple api it's based on vue.js and electron so don't expect a full native client for gnome or kde and it doesn't support apple's loss less audio apparently because the api won't let them but the quality is supposedly higher than the web version of apple music or what itunes plays it's also available on mac os and windows and it's on flat hub if you're using linux it also integrates apple podcasts lyrics spatial audio and a remote control feature to let you control music from your iphone it even has a system tray icon a system tray icon what is this man 2006 now come on i'm joking for a music player system tray icon is super useful and it also might double as a nice apple podcast client if you like to sync playback between your phone and your computer do you like steam on linux but do you wish it was available as a snap maybe not but apparently some people did and so it happened ubuntu actually is trying to focus more on gaming related features and their first step is to introduce steam in the snapstore as a beta for now they say ubuntu is the most popular distro for gaming basing themselves on a steam survey and they deduced from these numbers that about 250 000 people use ubuntu to play games the steam snap doesn't do anything special compared to its previous debian package version or to the flat pack release but i guess it will be easier to maintain there as ubuntu seems decided to keep moving with snaps over other packaging formats i mean i'm not a snap fan personally but if it helps ubuntu users get a user-friendly and easy access to steam and all his games then it's all good and while ubuntu's market share in the gaming sector has been slowly falling it is still the most popular distro out there so getting these kind of packages is always nice firefox has existed for 17 years and it has now reached version 100. while that's an arbitrary number with what some would qualify as minor versions getting a major number it's still a big milestone and it has new features to celebrate it the picture in picture mode now supports captions and subtitles from youtube amazon prime video and netflix and every site that uses the webvtt format firefox can also spellcheck in multiple languages instead of just one and the new gdk scroll bars are now implemented by default there are also improvements to video playback for windows and mac os including hdr support on the ladder and hardware accelerated av1 video decoding on the former for gpus that support it let's hope firefox will be able to celebrate another 100 versions and if you want to know why that's important check out this video the linux app summit has taken place and there's one talk that specifically piqued my interest regarding flat hub it seems that the app repository is growing quite fast having reached 1600 applications and 1.2 petabytes of downloads which roughly corresponds to 4.5 million apps downloaded each month and 10 million updates the two speakers also presented a few interesting things happening on flat pack and flat hub namely portals which seem to be the true linux desktop api as they let you interact with the system safely without having to use various methods and underlying systems that come from different frameworks they also reiterated that flathop's goal was not to package apps but to offer a distribution platform where developers have control they cite a few examples like obs bottles or even microsoft edge published by microsoft directly to flat hub for easy distribution on the steam deck after the flat hub team reached out to them to let them know there was an easier way than what they had initially wanted to use the speakers also said they want to focus on letting developers make money off of their applications if they so choose without going into the traditional app store model people know on android or ios they're implementing developers and user accounts with a verification system various sliders to let developers decide how much they want for their work as a payment or as an optional donation with options to donate to various projects instead if the developer doesn't want to keep the money for themselves they also concluded on the various issues that flatback still has like permissions not being correctly set up on all apps screen sharing problems and others all in all it was a great talk and i really encourage you to watch it in its entirety especially if you want to know why i think that flatback and flat hub are the future of app distribution on linux you might remember the kubuntu focus a very powerful laptop for gaming or anything else that requires intense graphics and processing power well there's a new version of that device the focus m2 it comes with an i7 12 700 h a 165 hertz 1440p display at 15 inches and up to 64 gigabytes of ram complete with thunderbolt 4 up to an rtx 3080 ti and 4 terabytes of nvme ssd storage it starts at 1895 us and it's a chunky device at 2.4 kilograms made out of aluminium which also embossed tons of ports like usb-c multiple usb-a headphone and mic jacks thunderbolt mini displayport hdmi microsd and ethernet it supports up to four external 4k displays and has a privacy shutter for the webcam of course it comes with kubuntu 22.04 and some special tools to configure all of its features it looks like a tuxedo laptop with a specific branding and some specific configurations and it starts shipping in a few days of course some of the profits will be paid directly to kubuntu and kde so if you want to support these projects that's the laptop you want to buy and speaking of tuxedo they're our new channel sponsor tuxedo makes devices that run linux out of the box i've reviewed a lot of them on the channel and they're great you have tons of choice from small and affordable laptops to the biggest gaming or production desktops each device has a plethora of options to configure it to your needs and they can engrave a custom logo on your device they have that all-important tux branded super key and they also ship worldwide with a large variety of keyboard layouts for example they recently upgraded their stellaris 15 a super powerful gaming laptop with the best intel or amd cpus nvidia rtx graphics and a full aluminium chassis i reviewed the previous model and i really enjoyed using it click the link in the description below if you want to learn more about all the stuff that tuxedo has to offer they are really really good so thanks everyone for watching the video if you enjoyed it don't hesitate to like to subscribe and especially to turn on notifications if you want to see my videos in your subscription feed or at all if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments and if you want to help me make more of these you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast on mondays or on tuesdays when i'm a bit too lazy on monday nights or the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] so [Music] [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and one thing that comes back often in the comments of my videos is when will linux be finally able to run android applications one thing i also often see in the comments is an answer to that saying why would you even need android apps on linux it's a desktop but making a video about running android apps on linux is far more interesting than making a video telling you why you don't need android apps on linux so here we are and we're going to talk about way droid it's a solution that lets you run your android apps directly on linux with near native performance it's still in development though and it's not perfect what's perfect though is the fact that today's sponsor is gonna let you get a free study on the state of the security on linux this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay let's begin with a quick explanation of what way droid is because android is based on linux right it uses the linux kernel so applications made for android should have no issues running on linux right well no see android only uses a linux kernel that's also not very close to the kernel we use in our linux desktops apps themselves run on a java virtual machine called dalvik this means that apps are isolated from the os itself and cannot do whatever they want that's good that's secure but it also means that android applications need a specific runtime to be able to talk to the kernel which is called the art android runtime and then the linux kernel used in android also has very specific features that you cannot find in the mainline linux kernels that we use on our desktops and then there's also the fact that the linux graphics system with x11 or wayland has nothing in common with the thing that android uses to display graphics on a screen which means that android apps just don't know how to display themselves on your linux desktop or laptop this is why running android apps on another system than android requires a container like what waydroid implements waydroid is based on a version of lineage os which is based on android 10 and it can access any needed hardware it can run android apps on x86 or arm cpus it's fully open source it can add your android apps to your menu it can display apps in their own windows or full screen it can display the android ui for navigation and it has near native performance one caveat way droid only runs as its name kind of implies on wayland if your distribution or if your system is using x.org then you're out of luck you can move to walen though because it's pretty much ready these days as long as you're on intel or amd graphics if you're using nvidia drivers there are still a bunch of issues ubuntu actually did a u-turn on making weyland the default for nvidia graphics so yeah but that doesn't really matter either because there's a second caveat which is that way droid doesn't really run on nvidia gpus it works with mesa drivers so it's going to work with intel and to some extent some amd cards but apparently not all work as well i personally ran it on my laptop with a ryzen 7 4800h and its integrated graphics which are made from amd and it works really well so your mileage may vary but generally intel cards seem to be the preferred way to run this thing way droid can be easily installed on ubuntu or debian through the addition of a repository all the instructions are on their website i left a link in the description you can also install it on fedora through a copper repo i left a link to the instructions in the description of the video as well and it's also in the aur if you're using an arch-based distribution once you get it installed properly then you'll need to initialize way droid by typing in the terminal sudo way droid init this changes depending on the distribution you're using i know that for fedora i had to type a different command line again i left the link to the full install instructions in the description of the video just check it out if you need to have a step-by-step process once way droid is installed and initialized then you need to start the system service that lets it do its job you'll need to open the terminal and type sudo systemctl start waredroids-container so systemctl is a command that lets you interact with services on your linux desktop the start argument tells it to start a specific service and waydroid-container is the name of the service you want to start and once that's done you can launch way draw it from your applications menu if it's not there for any reason you can also start it using the command line by typing way droid show dash full dash ui not exactly a one click install and this kind of program is really one that would benefit from being packaged as an app image as a flat pack or dare i say it as a snap command line is fun and powerful but gooey is better now you can start throwing rotten vegetables at your screen i'm not the one cleaning that up once way droid is installed and open you should notice a full screen user interface appearing which resembles the android ui on a tablet for example your mouse should also work you can click and hold to drag stuff around and if you do that from the bottom of the screen you'll see that there's an app drawer which is kind of empty so let's try to remedy that way droid lets you install dot apk applications which you can download online relatively easily but to begin with you might want to get an app store which will make this process a lot simpler let's go with f droid which has tons of open source applications for android that will also work on way droid so head over to fdroids.org and download the apk file then open a terminal and type waydroid app install and then the path to your apk file and hit enter you will then have to restart the system service for way droid using the previous command sudo systemctl start waydroid dash container your app should now be added to your applications menu and you can open it through there from f droid you can then install any application you want and they'll also get automatically added to your applications menu no more command line needed of course at first install you'll need to enable installing applications from an untrusted source like on a real android device you can also head over to the android settings and add your language or keyboard language to make things easier because by default everything will be in english you can also completely disable the on-screen keyboard which you shouldn't really need on a laptop or a desktop just head over to the settings to apps and notifications click all apps then android keyboard and click disable technically you should be able to enable a multi-window mode on way droid especially on gnome it doesn't seem to work well on other desktop environments with other window managers this mode should let have each android app its own little window that's floating on top of your regular linux desktop instead of having a full screen wayland or a waydroid interface the thing is it never worked for me it prevented way droid from even starting when i enabled this feature but you can still try it on your end by typing in a terminal waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.multi underscorewindows true maybe you'll be more successful than i was now you might not find everything you want on android and fortunately there is a way to install google apps and the google play store on wade droid it's a small python script called way droid extras i left a link to the install instructions below it's not an easy one-click install by any means and you will have to run multiple command lines install a few packages on your distro register a fake device with google clear the play store cache install magisk and more once all of that is done though you do get a fully functional android system complete with google apps and the google play store you can log in with your google account and use waydroid as a full android system apps that require the google play services will also work including youtube google maps gmail and a lot more you will also be able to download apps that you might already have purchased in the play store on an android device if you so choose i couldn't find certain apps in the play store though like netflix for example which might be a problem with identifying which country i'm in and which apps it want to offer me some applications would also crash at startup like amazon prime video xbox game pass worked to a point i could navigate the ui and launch a game with xcloud but after that games would just not display anything sticking to a black window which i had to quit to resume using way droid my banking app also failed with an error message telling me the service wasn't available twitter worked perfectly duolingo also did although it opened in portrait mode now that's the bane of most android apps developers generally tend to make them only for phones because android tablets are just not a thing in terms of market share so apps well open in portraits but displayed sideways on your landscape display probably multi-window mode should fix that and display your portrait apps in portrait on your linux desktop but as i said i just couldn't get that to work flashing g apps really does make way droid 10 times more appealing as long as you're okay with relinquishing basically all privacy on what you're doing with ware droid itself but i guess if you're already heavily dug in into the google ecosystem that's not really going to be an issue some apps also just don't work and that's probably more on way droid as it's a young project and its way of handling graphics might just not be up to bar just yet which brings us to the why why would you want to use way droid well in theory running android apps on a desktop or laptop has plenty of use cases you could get services that don't really work well or at all on web browsers or services that use weird drms to limit what you can do you could run games that don't exist on your platform you could run apps that don't have the exact equivalent on linux like microsoft office or the lite versions of lightroom and photoshop you could test your own applications on your system use various chat apps or some games but that's where way draw it kinda falls flat sure you can install it you can run android apps and you can even flash g apps and the google play store but it's far from an easy install process for way droid itself because you have to run multiple command lines start the service every time you reboot your computer and there's also the fact that flashing g apps is not a simple process either it's like 10 to 15 command lines a 25 minute wait stuff that you have to paste in a browser window as i said it's really an application or a service that would benefit from being packaged with an installer script or a simple experience because right now it's just too convoluted of a process you could have a graphical installer with checks for g apps for starting the service at startup etc and it would just do that automatically in the background for you for now it's just too complex to install and once it's installed not everything works either it's still impressive for a relatively young project but as long as it's still kind of hacky to install an app and then cross your fingers that is going to work it's never going to be a real solution for most people i would personally use it for streaming services if they worked with a way better experience than in the browser and higher quality video it also has tons of potential for linux based phones to enable access to a wide variety of apps that we just cannot match on our own but again as long as you can't just install way droid and flash g apps in just a few clicks in a graphical installer it's never going to become an android subsystem for linux it's just too convoluted if the developers manage to package it in a way simpler format then sure it has tons of potential and i'm sure the last issues that it has with displaying apps or running some apps will be fixed in the future and it's going to become quite perfect just like today's sponsor slim book slim book makes laptops and desktops they're based in valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they have a wide range of devices at every price point from the smallest ultrabook laptop that's really affordable to the biggest gaming laptop you can ever find with rtx graphics in it they have gaming towers they have small form factor pcs they have everything in the middle basically if you have a need for a device running linux out of the box just click the link in the description below and i'm pretty sure that you'll find something that you're gonna love so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you absolutely truly love this video and you 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hey everyone this is nick and one thing that comes back often in the comments of my videos is when will linux be finally able to run android applications one thing i also often see in the comments is an answer to that saying why would you even need android apps on linux it's a desktop but making a video about running android apps on linux is far more interesting than making a video telling you why you don't need android apps on linux so here we are and we're going to talk about way droid it's a solution that lets you run your android apps directly on linux with near native performance it's still in development though and it's not perfect what's perfect though is the fact that today's sponsor is gonna let you get a free study on the state of the security on linux this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 percent of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay let's begin with a quick explanation of what way droid is because android is based on linux right it uses the linux kernel so applications made for android should have no issues running on linux right well no see android only uses a linux kernel that's also not very close to the kernel we use in our linux desktops apps themselves run on a java virtual machine called dalvik this means that apps are isolated from the os itself and cannot do whatever they want that's good that's secure but it also means that android applications need a specific runtime to be able to talk to the kernel which is called the art android runtime and then the linux kernel used in android also has very specific features that you cannot find in the mainline linux kernels that we use on our desktops and then there's also the fact that the linux graphics system with x11 or wayland has nothing in common with the thing that android uses to display graphics on a screen which means that android apps just don't know how to display themselves on your linux desktop or laptop this is why running android apps on another system than android requires a container like what waydroid implements waydroid is based on a version of lineage os which is based on android 10 and it can access any needed hardware it can run android apps on x86 or arm cpus it's fully open source it can add your android apps to your menu it can display apps in their own windows or full screen it can display the android ui for navigation and it has near native performance one caveat way droid only runs as its name kind of implies on wayland if your distribution or if your system is using x.org then you're out of luck you can move to walen though because it's pretty much ready these days as long as you're on intel or amd graphics if you're using nvidia drivers there are still a bunch of issues ubuntu actually did a u-turn on making weyland the default for nvidia graphics so yeah but that doesn't really matter either because there's a second caveat which is that way droid doesn't really run on nvidia gpus it works with mesa drivers so it's going to work with intel and to some extent some amd cards but apparently not all work as well i personally ran it on my laptop with a ryzen 7 4800h and its integrated graphics which are made from amd and it works really well so your mileage may vary but generally intel cards seem to be the preferred way to run this thing way droid can be easily installed on ubuntu or debian through the addition of a repository all the instructions are on their website i left a link in the description you can also install it on fedora through a copper repo i left a link to the instructions in the description of the video as well and it's also in the aur if you're using an arch-based distribution once you get it installed properly then you'll need to initialize way droid by typing in the terminal sudo way droid init this changes depending on the distribution you're using i know that for fedora i had to type a different command line again i left the link to the full install instructions in the description of the video just check it out if you need to have a step-by-step process once way droid is installed and initialized then you need to start the system service that lets it do its job you'll need to open the terminal and type sudo systemctl start waredroids-container so systemctl is a command that lets you interact with services on your linux desktop the start argument tells it to start a specific service and waydroid-container is the name of the service you want to start and once that's done you can launch way draw it from your applications menu if it's not there for any reason you can also start it using the command line by typing way droid show dash full dash ui not exactly a one click install and this kind of program is really one that would benefit from being packaged as an app image as a flat pack or dare i say it as a snap command line is fun and powerful but gooey is better now you can start throwing rotten vegetables at your screen i'm not the one cleaning that up once way droid is installed and open you should notice a full screen user interface appearing which resembles the android ui on a tablet for example your mouse should also work you can click and hold to drag stuff around and if you do that from the bottom of the screen you'll see that there's an app drawer which is kind of empty so let's try to remedy that way droid lets you install dot apk applications which you can download online relatively easily but to begin with you might want to get an app store which will make this process a lot simpler let's go with f droid which has tons of open source applications for android that will also work on way droid so head over to fdroids.org and download the apk file then open a terminal and type waydroid app install and then the path to your apk file and hit enter you will then have to restart the system service for way droid using the previous command sudo systemctl start waydroid dash container your app should now be added to your applications menu and you can open it through there from f droid you can then install any application you want and they'll also get automatically added to your applications menu no more command line needed of course at first install you'll need to enable installing applications from an untrusted source like on a real android device you can also head over to the android settings and add your language or keyboard language to make things easier because by default everything will be in english you can also completely disable the on-screen keyboard which you shouldn't really need on a laptop or a desktop just head over to the settings to apps and notifications click all apps then android keyboard and click disable technically you should be able to enable a multi-window mode on way droid especially on gnome it doesn't seem to work well on other desktop environments with other window managers this mode should let have each android app its own little window that's floating on top of your regular linux desktop instead of having a full screen wayland or a waydroid interface the thing is it never worked for me it prevented way droid from even starting when i enabled this feature but you can still try it on your end by typing in a terminal waydroid prop set persist.waydroid.multi underscorewindows true maybe you'll be more successful than i was now you might not find everything you want on android and fortunately there is a way to install google apps and the google play store on wade droid it's a small python script called way droid extras i left a link to the install instructions below it's not an easy one-click install by any means and you will have to run multiple command lines install a few packages on your distro register a fake device with google clear the play store cache install magisk and more once all of that is done though you do get a fully functional android system complete with google apps and the google play store you can log in with your google account and use waydroid as a full android system apps that require the google play services will also work including youtube google maps gmail and a lot more you will also be able to download apps that you might already have purchased in the play store on an android device if you so choose i couldn't find certain apps in the play store though like netflix for example which might be a problem with identifying which country i'm in and which apps it want to offer me some applications would also crash at startup like amazon prime video xbox game pass worked to a point i could navigate the ui and launch a game with xcloud but after that games would just not display anything sticking to a black window which i had to quit to resume using way droid my banking app also failed with an error message telling me the service wasn't available twitter worked perfectly duolingo also did although it opened in portrait mode now that's the bane of most android apps developers generally tend to make them only for phones because android tablets are just not a thing in terms of market share so apps well open in portraits but displayed sideways on your landscape display probably multi-window mode should fix that and display your portrait apps in portrait on your linux desktop but as i said i just couldn't get that to work flashing g apps really does make way droid 10 times more appealing as long as you're okay with relinquishing basically all privacy on what you're doing with ware droid itself but i guess if you're already heavily dug in into the google ecosystem that's not really going to be an issue some apps also just don't work and that's probably more on way droid as it's a young project and its way of handling graphics might just not be up to bar just yet which brings us to the why why would you want to use way droid well in theory running android apps on a desktop or laptop has plenty of use cases you could get services that don't really work well or at all on web browsers or services that use weird drms to limit what you can do you could run games that don't exist on your platform you could run apps that don't have the exact equivalent on linux like microsoft office or the lite versions of lightroom and photoshop you could test your own applications on your system use various chat apps or some games but that's where way draw it kinda falls flat sure you can install it you can run android apps and you can even flash g apps and the google play store but it's far from an easy install process for way droid itself because you have to run multiple command lines start the service every time you reboot your computer and there's also the fact that flashing g apps is not a simple process either it's like 10 to 15 command lines a 25 minute wait stuff that you have to paste in a browser window as i said it's really an application or a service that would benefit from being packaged with an installer script or a simple experience because right now it's just too convoluted of a process you could have a graphical installer with checks for g apps for starting the service at startup etc and it would just do that automatically in the background for you for now it's just too complex to install and once it's installed not everything works either it's still impressive for a relatively young project but as long as it's still kind of hacky to install an app and then cross your fingers that is going to work it's never going to be a real solution for most people i would personally use it for streaming services if they worked with a way better experience than in the browser and higher quality video it also has tons of potential for linux based phones to enable access to a wide variety of apps that we just cannot match on our own but again as long as you can't just install way droid and flash g apps in just a few clicks in a graphical installer it's never going to become an android subsystem for linux it's just too convoluted if the developers manage to package it in a way simpler format then sure it has tons of potential and i'm sure the last issues that it has with displaying apps or running some apps will be fixed in the future and it's going to become quite perfect just like today's sponsor slim book slim book makes laptops and desktops they're based in valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they have a wide range of devices at every price point from the smallest ultrabook laptop that's really affordable to the biggest gaming laptop you can ever find with rtx graphics in it they have gaming towers they have small form factor pcs they have everything in the middle basically if you have a need for a device running linux out of the box just click the link in the description below and i'm pretty sure that you'll find something that you're gonna love so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you absolutely truly love this video and you want to help me make more of them you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both links are in the description and both get access to the same perks the weekly patreon cast on mondays and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and it's clearly time i learned how to iron my shirts but it's also clearly time we talked about what happened in the past week in the linux and open source world this time we have elon musk buying twitter and announcing that he wants to open source twitter's algorithm we've got pop os 22.04 landing hot on the heels of jammy jellyfish and we have the ubuntu founder mark shuttleworth who's explaining why ubuntu won't support flatback for the moment or ever what i support though is today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars off your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video lynode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynnoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so elon musk acquired twitter as you might have heard somewhere maybe but that's not the point in this acquisition one of the main points was to make the twitter algorithm open source which is the thing that interests me here musk said that he wants to increase trust defeat spam bots and generally make the whole thing more legible so people can know why they see specific things and why others are not displayed other concerns of his were to turn twitter into a free speech haven authenticate all humans and add new features the most prominent of which should be the long-awaited edit button we'll have to wait and see if the acquisition goes through and how truly open source the algorithm will be though okay i'm not going to go into more details here this is a controversial topic for some reason but i made my own positions pretty clear on twitter i think elon musk mistakes moderation through censorship i think he's a narcissistic immature troll but i can't fault him for wanting to open source an algorithm that dictates what people see or don't see his other propositions though well we'll see how they go in my recent review of ubuntu 22.04 i highlighted the move to wayland by default including through systems using the proprietary nvidia drivers turns out ubuntu did a u-turn and decided not to use weyland for nvidia drivers after all it seems like there was a last minute bug that rendered an incorrect frame which materialized as a doubling of moving objects or some high frequency judders the gnome display manager used by ubuntu got an update to default to x.org on nvidia systems although people who really want to can still switch to a weyland section even with these proprietary drivers anything based on amd or intel will still default to waylon though that's too bad i was really excited for this move to weyland for all gpus now i'll have to wait and see if fedora 36 keeps the default on weyland for nvidia proprietary drivers or if they revert that move as well mark shuttleworth the founder of ubuntu explained why flatback won't be supported on ubuntu anytime soon or at all he says that flat pack wouldn't work for them because he thinks they are not as secure as snaps and that they don't have the same ability to deliver integrity of execution over time he says they can deliver a far better experience to developers and to users with snaps and he feels like there's an enormous number of apps available in that format already which seems to indicate that developers like the experience and that consumers enjoy the simplicity he also acknowledges issues like startup performance and managing security for when you want your app to get out of the sandbox i can say i agree with him on this one clearly everything on the internet points out to the community favoring older packages app images and flat packs over snaps and while they might have a ton of applications a lot of them are also commercial proprietary or electron based while the native open source ones are mostly on flat pack and also that comment on flatback security kinda needs a citation to work another week with a bunch of updates for gnome applications gnome sushi the quick look equivalent for gnome is now looking for a new maintainer which i hope it can find because it's an amazing application libertvita now has entry rows to let users enter text with the same gusto as all other libervita widgets pica backup can detect settings from existing backups so you don't have to recreate these every time and performance has been improved authenticator is now ported to gdk4 it can use the camera portal to scan qr codes and it has a gnome shell search provider pods the podman client now has a manual dark mode lets you rename containers and has better indicators for cpu and memory status for your containers amber all the new audio player also displays the current position in the waveform it has an adaptive ui layout and it lets you edit the playlist i really hope gnome sushi can enroll somebody new as a maintainer because it would be fishy if it became orphaned i also had a rice pun but i forgot about it plasma mobile keeps getting better with the release of plasma mobile gear 22.04 the compilation of apps for that mobile environment the task switcher now lets you sort tasks by when they're opened rather than alphabetically quick settings can now be reordered and there is now support for third-party home screens the media player can control multiple streams so you can control simultaneous playback from multiple applications the mastodon client called tokudon got a lot of improvements including for the desktop interface calendar is no part of the compilation there's a new next cloud talk app in alpha and a lot of bugs were also fixed it's been a while since i took my pine phone out of its drawer so maybe it's time to revisit all these mobile environments i think it might have been a year since i looked at them or maybe it's time to ask the pine 64 if they have an extra fine phone pro to send me maybe teddy developers aren't just focused on mobile though as we have another round of weekly updates applying a global theme will now tell you everything it's going to change from the layout to the splash screen and it lets you uncheck certain parts of it so it's only going to change what you want that's pretty useful to not destroy your carefully crafted plasma layout accent colors can now also be used to tint all other colors so your desktop looks super coherent via light the disk space usage analyzer now has a new home page discover can show all categories in the sidebar instead of nesting them kirigami apps can now use a standard loading component to display while the app is searching for what to display and there were a ton of bugs and smaller ui improvements all around and the list of 15 minute bugs which are bugs that people can encounter in their first 15 minutes of using plasma has been decreased by three but also increased by two new bugs so no big changes here all in all it's still good updates that should land in plasma 5.25 speaking of which it should release at the beginning of june and there's a new headline feature that should please people who like to customize their desktop which should be most scary users i guess plasma will support an auto accent color based on the wallpaper's main color just like what android does with its material u interface so every time you change your wallpaper your desktop will reflect that change that's something that already exists on elementary os but was not included in the latest ubuntu release 22.04 even though it did get accent colors of course that's optional so you can still keep a specific color if you prefer that i'm not a fan of the android implementation i find its colors too muted and too pale but we'll see if kd does it better after the release of ubuntu 22.04 there's pop os 22.04 the distribution made by system 76 and that they ship on all their devices apart from the whole new internals pop os now lets you apply automatic updates and lets you configure notifications to be alerted when new stuff is available there's a new support panel in the system settings to let you access documentation the community support chat as well as professional support if you're on system 76 hardware it supports dark and light backgrounds it has an improved scheduler for better performance and the pop shop is now more responsive displays nvidia drivers and generally catches up to the elementary os app center which it's based on pipe wire is also the default for audio finally the workspaces view now has better multi-monitor support increased performance and the layout is fixed on high dpi displays they also say that the new cosmic desktop environment is progressing nicely with new designs being tests and new elements starting to be packaged in the new rust code base as always it's a pretty solid release for that distro and i'll admit i'm tempted to install it on my main pc every time they have something new there's a new progress report on the maui framework which you might have heard about through the relatively recent maui shell release among other changes the file manager index got a nice ui decluttering and an optional action bar with quick actions the wave music player now supports the adaptive color scheme and has quick search other apps also received ui improvements and updates to use the latest controls available from the maui kit framework including the note text editor the pix image viewer and editor communicator the contact manager and station the terminal emulator and hot damn these apps look incredible i should definitely save a slot in the month to come to talk about maui shell and the maui apps they look super good tuxedo announced a refresh to their stellaris 15 laptop it's still made out of old black matte aluminium but this time it comes with an rtx 3080 a choice between a core i7 11800h or a ryzen 9 5900 hx and it still brings the incredible opto mechanical keyboard that i loved in my initial review it has a 93 watt power battery and a 1440p 165hz 15 inch display the i o selection is still pretty large with thunderbolt 4 on intel cpus 3 usb type a a full size sd card reader an ethernet port an hdmi port and audio jacks for a mic or some headphones it starts at 2 115 euros with only 8 gigabytes of ram and 250 gigabytes of ssd so you'll probably have to pay a bit more to get a more acceptable system with at least 16 gigabytes of ram it can also ship with ubuntu 22.04 i reviewed the previous model on the channel so if you're interested you can check that video in the card up top or you can subscribe because i should receive a review unit for the new model pretty soon so yeah subscribe if you're interested to see that if you like halo do you wish it ran better on linux well there's good news if you're on amd a developer is working on the radv amd gpu driver to help halo infinite run better or at all on linux turns out halo uses directx 12 in specific non-trivial ways and that vkd3d the library that maps directx 12 calls to vulkan has a hard time interpreting the whole vulcan specification might need some tweaks to get this to work but basically the developer wants to send more work to the gpu through vulcan extensions this won't happen overnight since this new implementation seems to be causing gpu hangs for now and upstreaming this work into the driver might need a lot more testing but it's still pretty cool to see people who are so invested to make things work well i still can't believe that we have so many games that were never designed for linux and that we can run from steam or other platforms it still feels like magic to me honestly the steam deck got a brand new update probably the biggest it got since it launched this time we get a lock screen with the ability to set a passcode that you can enter with the touchscreen or the controls and that lock screen will also apply to switching to desktop mode so you can now use your deck as a laptop of sorts and not fear anyone stealing it and being able to access everything the achievements page for games has also been redesigned it now has localized keyboards in 21 languages and it can switch between multiple windows which means that games using launchers won't start flickering like crazy when the launcher stays open in the background you'll also get a warning when your charger is too slow and you can force games to use 2x2 variable rate shading to save power massive update here that i promptly installed on the steam deck that valve generously donated to me for free being a youtuber does have its perks it's not just anxiety and horrible insulting comments all the time and there's always more wine in these videos and as a frenchman i'm always happy to see that wine 7.7 was released with more x11 and oss drivers converted to the pe executable format there's also added theming support for the control panel airplanes so things should look a bit better with the new themes wine ships and there are 11 bugs fixed including for earphone view steam con mu and anno 1602 as always small incremental changes but wine does so much already i can't be mad at it gotta love some wine just like you got a lot of today's sponsor slim book slim book makes linux laptops and desktops they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have a whole range of keyboard layouts they make devices for virtually every price point and every need from the smallest form factor pcs equivalent to raspberry pi's to the biggest gaming towers or gaming laptops like the slimbook titan or the slimmer chimera which is the desktop i use every day i'm sure that if you click on the link in the description below you will definitely find something that suits your needs at a reasonable price so head over there click it and start enjoying your new device with linux out of the box now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to throw a comment at your screen and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments probably something to do with elon musk or something and if you didn't dislike it and you even loved it and you want to help me make more of these videos you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast on mondays and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and it's clearly time i learned how to iron my shirts but it's also clearly time we talked about what happened in the past week in the linux and open source world this time we have elon musk buying twitter and announcing that he wants to open source twitter's algorithm we've got pop os 22.04 landing hot on the heels of jammy jellyfish and we have the ubuntu founder mark shuttleworth who's explaining why ubuntu won't support flatback for the moment or ever what i support though is today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars off your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video lynode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynnoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so elon musk acquired twitter as you might have heard somewhere maybe but that's not the point in this acquisition one of the main points was to make the twitter algorithm open source which is the thing that interests me here musk said that he wants to increase trust defeat spam bots and generally make the whole thing more legible so people can know why they see specific things and why others are not displayed other concerns of his were to turn twitter into a free speech haven authenticate all humans and add new features the most prominent of which should be the long-awaited edit button we'll have to wait and see if the acquisition goes through and how truly open source the algorithm will be though okay i'm not going to go into more details here this is a controversial topic for some reason but i made my own positions pretty clear on twitter i think elon musk mistakes moderation through censorship i think he's a narcissistic immature troll but i can't fault him for wanting to open source an algorithm that dictates what people see or don't see his other propositions though well we'll see how they go in my recent review of ubuntu 22.04 i highlighted the move to wayland by default including through systems using the proprietary nvidia drivers turns out ubuntu did a u-turn and decided not to use weyland for nvidia drivers after all it seems like there was a last minute bug that rendered an incorrect frame which materialized as a doubling of moving objects or some high frequency judders the gnome display manager used by ubuntu got an update to default to x.org on nvidia systems although people who really want to can still switch to a weyland section even with these proprietary drivers anything based on amd or intel will still default to waylon though that's too bad i was really excited for this move to weyland for all gpus now i'll have to wait and see if fedora 36 keeps the default on weyland for nvidia proprietary drivers or if they revert that move as well mark shuttleworth the founder of ubuntu explained why flatback won't be supported on ubuntu anytime soon or at all he says that flat pack wouldn't work for them because he thinks they are not as secure as snaps and that they don't have the same ability to deliver integrity of execution over time he says they can deliver a far better experience to developers and to users with snaps and he feels like there's an enormous number of apps available in that format already which seems to indicate that developers like the experience and that consumers enjoy the simplicity he also acknowledges issues like startup performance and managing security for when you want your app to get out of the sandbox i can say i agree with him on this one clearly everything on the internet points out to the community favoring older packages app images and flat packs over snaps and while they might have a ton of applications a lot of them are also commercial proprietary or electron based while the native open source ones are mostly on flat pack and also that comment on flatback security kinda needs a citation to work another week with a bunch of updates for gnome applications gnome sushi the quick look equivalent for gnome is now looking for a new maintainer which i hope it can find because it's an amazing application libertvita now has entry rows to let users enter text with the same gusto as all other libervita widgets pica backup can detect settings from existing backups so you don't have to recreate these every time and performance has been improved authenticator is now ported to gdk4 it can use the camera portal to scan qr codes and it has a gnome shell search provider pods the podman client now has a manual dark mode lets you rename containers and has better indicators for cpu and memory status for your containers amber all the new audio player also displays the current position in the waveform it has an adaptive ui layout and it lets you edit the playlist i really hope gnome sushi can enroll somebody new as a maintainer because it would be fishy if it became orphaned i also had a rice pun but i forgot about it plasma mobile keeps getting better with the release of plasma mobile gear 22.04 the compilation of apps for that mobile environment the task switcher now lets you sort tasks by when they're opened rather than alphabetically quick settings can now be reordered and there is now support for third-party home screens the media player can control multiple streams so you can control simultaneous playback from multiple applications the mastodon client called tokudon got a lot of improvements including for the desktop interface calendar is no part of the compilation there's a new next cloud talk app in alpha and a lot of bugs were also fixed it's been a while since i took my pine phone out of its drawer so maybe it's time to revisit all these mobile environments i think it might have been a year since i looked at them or maybe it's time to ask the pine 64 if they have an extra fine phone pro to send me maybe teddy developers aren't just focused on mobile though as we have another round of weekly updates applying a global theme will now tell you everything it's going to change from the layout to the splash screen and it lets you uncheck certain parts of it so it's only going to change what you want that's pretty useful to not destroy your carefully crafted plasma layout accent colors can now also be used to tint all other colors so your desktop looks super coherent via light the disk space usage analyzer now has a new home page discover can show all categories in the sidebar instead of nesting them kirigami apps can now use a standard loading component to display while the app is searching for what to display and there were a ton of bugs and smaller ui improvements all around and the list of 15 minute bugs which are bugs that people can encounter in their first 15 minutes of using plasma has been decreased by three but also increased by two new bugs so no big changes here all in all it's still good updates that should land in plasma 5.25 speaking of which it should release at the beginning of june and there's a new headline feature that should please people who like to customize their desktop which should be most scary users i guess plasma will support an auto accent color based on the wallpaper's main color just like what android does with its material u interface so every time you change your wallpaper your desktop will reflect that change that's something that already exists on elementary os but was not included in the latest ubuntu release 22.04 even though it did get accent colors of course that's optional so you can still keep a specific color if you prefer that i'm not a fan of the android implementation i find its colors too muted and too pale but we'll see if kd does it better after the release of ubuntu 22.04 there's pop os 22.04 the distribution made by system 76 and that they ship on all their devices apart from the whole new internals pop os now lets you apply automatic updates and lets you configure notifications to be alerted when new stuff is available there's a new support panel in the system settings to let you access documentation the community support chat as well as professional support if you're on system 76 hardware it supports dark and light backgrounds it has an improved scheduler for better performance and the pop shop is now more responsive displays nvidia drivers and generally catches up to the elementary os app center which it's based on pipe wire is also the default for audio finally the workspaces view now has better multi-monitor support increased performance and the layout is fixed on high dpi displays they also say that the new cosmic desktop environment is progressing nicely with new designs being tests and new elements starting to be packaged in the new rust code base as always it's a pretty solid release for that distro and i'll admit i'm tempted to install it on my main pc every time they have something new there's a new progress report on the maui framework which you might have heard about through the relatively recent maui shell release among other changes the file manager index got a nice ui decluttering and an optional action bar with quick actions the wave music player now supports the adaptive color scheme and has quick search other apps also received ui improvements and updates to use the latest controls available from the maui kit framework including the note text editor the pix image viewer and editor communicator the contact manager and station the terminal emulator and hot damn these apps look incredible i should definitely save a slot in the month to come to talk about maui shell and the maui apps they look super good tuxedo announced a refresh to their stellaris 15 laptop it's still made out of old black matte aluminium but this time it comes with an rtx 3080 a choice between a core i7 11800h or a ryzen 9 5900 hx and it still brings the incredible opto mechanical keyboard that i loved in my initial review it has a 93 watt power battery and a 1440p 165hz 15 inch display the i o selection is still pretty large with thunderbolt 4 on intel cpus 3 usb type a a full size sd card reader an ethernet port an hdmi port and audio jacks for a mic or some headphones it starts at 2 115 euros with only 8 gigabytes of ram and 250 gigabytes of ssd so you'll probably have to pay a bit more to get a more acceptable system with at least 16 gigabytes of ram it can also ship with ubuntu 22.04 i reviewed the previous model on the channel so if you're interested you can check that video in the card up top or you can subscribe because i should receive a review unit for the new model pretty soon so yeah subscribe if you're interested to see that if you like halo do you wish it ran better on linux well there's good news if you're on amd a developer is working on the radv amd gpu driver to help halo infinite run better or at all on linux turns out halo uses directx 12 in specific non-trivial ways and that vkd3d the library that maps directx 12 calls to vulkan has a hard time interpreting the whole vulcan specification might need some tweaks to get this to work but basically the developer wants to send more work to the gpu through vulcan extensions this won't happen overnight since this new implementation seems to be causing gpu hangs for now and upstreaming this work into the driver might need a lot more testing but it's still pretty cool to see people who are so invested to make things work well i still can't believe that we have so many games that were never designed for linux and that we can run from steam or other platforms it still feels like magic to me honestly the steam deck got a brand new update probably the biggest it got since it launched this time we get a lock screen with the ability to set a passcode that you can enter with the touchscreen or the controls and that lock screen will also apply to switching to desktop mode so you can now use your deck as a laptop of sorts and not fear anyone stealing it and being able to access everything the achievements page for games has also been redesigned it now has localized keyboards in 21 languages and it can switch between multiple windows which means that games using launchers won't start flickering like crazy when the launcher stays open in the background you'll also get a warning when your charger is too slow and you can force games to use 2x2 variable rate shading to save power massive update here that i promptly installed on the steam deck that valve generously donated to me for free being a youtuber does have its perks it's not just anxiety and horrible insulting comments all the time and there's always more wine in these videos and as a frenchman i'm always happy to see that wine 7.7 was released with more x11 and oss drivers converted to the pe executable format there's also added theming support for the control panel airplanes so things should look a bit better with the new themes wine ships and there are 11 bugs fixed including for earphone view steam con mu and anno 1602 as always small incremental changes but wine does so much already i can't be mad at it gotta love some wine just like you got a lot of today's sponsor slim book slim book makes linux laptops and desktops they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have a whole range of keyboard layouts they make devices for virtually every price point and every need from the smallest form 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hey everyone this is nick and if you've been looking up stuff online about linux you absolutely have come across this phrase this is the year of the linux desktop is it this year was it last year is it next year what does it mean no one even knows my opinion is that there will never be a specific year of the linux desktop but it's not because linux is not good enough will never grow or will never win against windows or mac os whatever that means let's discuss but let's also discuss why you should check out today's sponsor to get your own server running thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so is 2022 the year of the linux desktop no no it isn't but what does that even mean in the first place the general consensus is that the famed year of the linux desktop is the year where linux finally gets to a point where any average user would have heard about it and would have no reservations to install it themselves easily on their own devices it also entails that the general public would encounter no major issues that couldn't be sold very easily either through a search engine or through tools available on the system itself so basically it would be the year where linux is finally good enough for the average consumer the average user and there's also an added expectation that linux would then start growing up and eat windows or mac os's market share until it surpasses them in my opinion that is not something that can happen but before you whip out your pitchforks and try to burn me alive let me explain linux is already good enough it might sound like pure fanboyism but the vast majority of people using your computer don't need most of what windows or mac os offer they generally don't even know half of the features of these operating systems they also don't need most of the apps available there they need a web browser and linux has all of the web browsers linux is good enough to be used by the vast majority of people who could absolutely use libreoffice for the very few times they need to write a cover letter a curriculum vitae or do a home budget it's a matter of habit not of quality and so if linux is good enough is this the year of the linux desktop is it already passed no because quality has never been the factor that would let linux grow and finally beat every other os in terms of quality linux is already there the linux desktop has progressed in leaps and bounds over the past 10 to 15 years ubuntu made it more popular and well known and together with other user-facing distros and gnome and kdd and the rest of the community they made our desktops more usable 100 usable by any idiot myself included we now have automatic printer detection on networks we have solid driver support for most manufacturers we have tons of amazing apps that definitely can handle most people needs we have gaming with steam heroic lutris and the steam deck is proof of how well that works we have more hardware support than ever before with dell lenovo and even razer selling computers with linux pre-installed all be not very prominently we have brand recognition thanks to android and chrome os most people have heard about linux although maybe not on the desktop side of things fragmentation is a thing of the past thanks to flat back snap or app images with these packaging formats no matter what distro you use you can run anything is that still fragmentation well that's three ways of packaging your apps compared to the previous tens of packages you needed to support most linux distros before and let's be honest most people just provide a flat pack or a snap and let's be more honest flatback is definitely the community's choice over snaps also our communities have never been as dynamic as they are today we have tons of new applications updates all around all year long on our desktop environments on our applications on the underlying technologies with weyland pipe wire and flat pack there are very few things that you cannot do today on linux that you could do on windows or mac os the quality of the linux desktop cannot be questioned so sure some people will say that some stuff doesn't work perfectly for them some will say that they can't still play their favorite game some will say they hate flat pack or pipe wire or wayland or whatever modern system is being implemented at the moment we have the quality so why do people think linux desktops aren't ready to begin the year of the linux desktop the issue here is that linux is generally never compared on an equal footing with windows or with mac os people are comparing running linux on a device that's never been designed to run it running apps that they're unfamiliar with or even running apps that have never been designed to run on linux in the first place that's not only unfair it's also dishonest we can't compare something pre-installed for which hardware has been tested to a freely installed piece of software that you decided to install yourself without the support of the manufacturer we can't compare a program we've known and used for years to something we're just learning to use we can't compare running a game made for a specific os and set of libraries to running it on a completely different platform that was never intended to run it at least not by the developers well yes we can and it turns out we can even beat the native platform in some cases held on ring what i mean is that linux is still in the overwhelming majority of cases a system you install instead of what the manufacturer chose to provide this means that by definition it has to work extra hard to offer the same level of integration and of hardware support and apple's to apple's comparison no mac pun intended would be comparing the level of functionality of a laptop with linux pre-installed to the same laptop with windows pre-installed in these cases a linux desktop does work just as well as windows does and even outperforms it in a few cases like resource usage general reactivity or privacy battery life unfortunately is still a sore spot but who needs 17 hours of battery on their laptop no one needs that that's all crap my camera is dying the point is if we're going to try and argue that linux isn't ready for most people let's at least argue from an equal standpoint with the system pre-installed on hardware sold by your manufacturer and then it becomes way harder to say that linux desktops aren't good enough but if the linux desktop is good enough then does that mean that the year of the linux desktop has already happened well no not really because we're still not at a point where most people would even consider using linux as their daily driver they are still way too much bad first impressions floating around too many preconceived notions about linux dispelling them is also part of the process to make the year of the linux desktop happen and that can only come from using a linux desktop itself can you see how this might be a problem people don't use linux because they're afraid it's too technical or they don't know about it or they had a first contact five or six years ago with it and they didn't like it and then linux doesn't get more use and then those preconceived notions just never disappear the actual quality of linux doesn't matter the year of the linux desktop can only happen if people know and believe that linux is good enough not when linux actually is good enough which happened a while ago for me and probably a few years ago for most people the quality doesn't matter if people don't even give linux a try and regular people will not install any os from the internet and replace the default people don't even replace most of the default apps on their phones which makes the battle giant tech companies fights to prevent that from happening even more stupid but that's not the point if we can't get johnny my phone is fine as it is to replace their web browser how are we gonna get jane my pc works well already to install linux and once again we end up at the same point i've been trying to hammer over and over again linux needs hardware to be used more to be known more hardware sold in retail stores hardware that people can actually try and buy once that happens then sure the year of the linux desktop might start to happen until then i don't think it ever will and sure as i mentioned that part is slowly starting to change we have big manufacturers selling laptops with linux pre-installed we have the steam deck which might not advertise linux specifically but it's still linux hardware the issue is these things aren't really available in retail stores where people can open them play around look at the ui get a feel for it and see how fun and nice looking or speedy it can be it's a first step but it's not solving the issue not yet all of this hardware is still designed for enthusiasts mostly not for the general public there is also a notion that the linux desktop needs to beat windows or mac os in terms of market share to finally be successful that it needs to overtake both of them and fortunately that is not the case or the year of the linux desktop might be even more impossible than i think it already is mac os is proof that an os doesn't need 50 or more market share to have a nice healthy community well healthy might be a bit of an overstatement because most apple fanboys will defend anything that has an apple logo on it if you think i'm trolling or i'm being hateful just look at what people are saying to defend the position of the charging port on the magic mouse yeah linux also doesn't need to reach 50 market share to have some impact to have more third-party app developers attention to have slots in retail stores and more with about eight to ten percent there would be enough of a market for companies to view linux as a healthy potential market for their stuff at eight to ten percent you get the likes of adobe microsoft office better versions of zoom or teams better support for the latest linux stack like wayland or flatback or pipewire at this kind of market share you basically get what most people have been saying linux lacks to grow you get the apps that people already know and already use i'm not sure which should come first though the growth which doesn't need the apps to happen or the apps which definitely do need the growth to happen linux is currently at around two percent market share on the desktop that's too small to matter for most people too small for retail stores to take a chance on selling linux hardware and too small for big companies to take an interest in at eight to ten percent you definitely erase most of these issues and some will say that people would not buy anything with linux pre-installed on it because it doesn't run the same apps they're used to and i totally disagree people buy chromebooks in droves and chrome os doesn't run microsoft office it doesn't run photoshop and most chromebooks don't run steam either still these devices get sold linux devices in stores would also get sold the gear of the linux desktop can only happen once the general public is completely comfortable trying buying and using a linux device until then it's an also ran that requires users to go out of their way to replace the default and deal with the potential hardware issues this is why i think there will never be a year of the linux desktop there will never be a specific year where in walmarts in snacks or whatever else you find all of a sudden tons of linux desktops and laptops it will happen but as a trickle slowly over time it won't happen in one year and so there will never be a specific point marked that means this is where linux started really beating the crap out of windows the quality of linux desktops is already absolutely good enough for most people whether you prefer gnome or kitty or cinnamon all are good enough for most people they are simple to get to grips with they offer fast and fluid experiences and all have a wealth of apps that anyone can get used to in a few hours of use in a way i think no there won't be a year of the linux desktop but there will be a decade of the linux desktop a decade over which linux grows into its own and starts being accepted and used by more people and i think we already entered that decade in the meantime it means that we will still do things as we've always done them slowly but steadily and we know what wins the race just like today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops they have a wide range of keyboards they ship worldwide and their whole range of devices can cater to basically every need or every budget from the slimbook essential which is a small ultrabook on the cheaper side of things or to the huge slim book titan which is a magnificent gaming laptop they also have desktops rgb keyboards small form factor pcs you name it anything you need you can find on slimbox website so head over to the link in the description below click it and see if there's something in their lineup that suits your needs i'm sure you'll find a fantastic device with linux print style so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed if 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hey everyone this is nick and if you've been looking up stuff online about linux you absolutely have come across this phrase this is the year of the linux desktop is it this year was it last year is it next year what does it mean no one even knows my opinion is that there will never be a specific year of the linux desktop but it's not because linux is not good enough will never grow or will never win against windows or mac os whatever that means let's discuss but let's also discuss why you should check out today's sponsor to get your own server running thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so is 2022 the year of the linux desktop no no it isn't but what does that even mean in the first place the general consensus is that the famed year of the linux desktop is the year where linux finally gets to a point where any average user would have heard about it and would have no reservations to install it themselves easily on their own devices it also entails that the general public would encounter no major issues that couldn't be sold very easily either through a search engine or through tools available on the system itself so basically it would be the year where linux is finally good enough for the average consumer the average user and there's also an added expectation that linux would then start growing up and eat windows or mac os's market share until it surpasses them in my opinion that is not something that can happen but before you whip out your pitchforks and try to burn me alive let me explain linux is already good enough it might sound like pure fanboyism but the vast majority of people using your computer don't need most of what windows or mac os offer they generally don't even know half of the features of these operating systems they also don't need most of the apps available there they need a web browser and linux has all of the web browsers linux is good enough to be used by the vast majority of people who could absolutely use libreoffice for the very few times they need to write a cover letter a curriculum vitae or do a home budget it's a matter of habit not of quality and so if linux is good enough is this the year of the linux desktop is it already passed no because quality has never been the factor that would let linux grow and finally beat every other os in terms of quality linux is already there the linux desktop has progressed in leaps and bounds over the past 10 to 15 years ubuntu made it more popular and well known and together with other user-facing distros and gnome and kdd and the rest of the community they made our desktops more usable 100 usable by any idiot myself included we now have automatic printer detection on networks we have solid driver support for most manufacturers we have tons of amazing apps that definitely can handle most people needs we have gaming with steam heroic lutris and the steam deck is proof of how well that works we have more hardware support than ever before with dell lenovo and even razer selling computers with linux pre-installed all be not very prominently we have brand recognition thanks to android and chrome os most people have heard about linux although maybe not on the desktop side of things fragmentation is a thing of the past thanks to flat back snap or app images with these packaging formats no matter what distro you use you can run anything is that still fragmentation well that's three ways of packaging your apps compared to the previous tens of packages you needed to support most linux distros before and let's be honest most people just provide a flat pack or a snap and let's be more honest flatback is definitely the community's choice over snaps also our communities have never been as dynamic as they are today we have tons of new applications updates all around all year long on our desktop environments on our applications on the underlying technologies with weyland pipe wire and flat pack there are very few things that you cannot do today on linux that you could do on windows or mac os the quality of the linux desktop cannot be questioned so sure some people will say that some stuff doesn't work perfectly for them some will say that they can't still play their favorite game some will say they hate flat pack or pipe wire or wayland or whatever modern system is being implemented at the moment we have the quality so why do people think linux desktops aren't ready to begin the year of the linux desktop the issue here is that linux is generally never compared on an equal footing with windows or with mac os people are comparing running linux on a device that's never been designed to run it running apps that they're unfamiliar with or even running apps that have never been designed to run on linux in the first place that's not only unfair it's also dishonest we can't compare something pre-installed for which hardware has been tested to a freely installed piece of software that you decided to install yourself without the support of the manufacturer we can't compare a program we've known and used for years to something we're just learning to use we can't compare running a game made for a specific os and set of libraries to running it on a completely different platform that was never intended to run it at least not by the developers well yes we can and it turns out we can even beat the native platform in some cases held on ring what i mean is that linux is still in the overwhelming majority of cases a system you install instead of what the manufacturer chose to provide this means that by definition it has to work extra hard to offer the same level of integration and of hardware support and apple's to apple's comparison no mac pun intended would be comparing the level of functionality of a laptop with linux pre-installed to the same laptop with windows pre-installed in these cases a linux desktop does work just as well as windows does and even outperforms it in a few cases like resource usage general reactivity or privacy battery life unfortunately is still a sore spot but who needs 17 hours of battery on their laptop no one needs that that's all crap my camera is dying the point is if we're going to try and argue that linux isn't ready for most people let's at least argue from an equal standpoint with the system pre-installed on hardware sold by your manufacturer and then it becomes way harder to say that linux desktops aren't good enough but if the linux desktop is good enough then does that mean that the year of the linux desktop has already happened well no not really because we're still not at a point where most people would even consider using linux as their daily driver they are still way too much bad first impressions floating around too many preconceived notions about linux dispelling them is also part of the process to make the year of the linux desktop happen and that can only come from using a linux desktop itself can you see how this might be a problem people don't use linux because they're afraid it's too technical or they don't know about it or they had a first contact five or six years ago with it and they didn't like it and then linux doesn't get more use and then those preconceived notions just never disappear the actual quality of linux doesn't matter the year of the linux desktop can only happen if people know and believe that linux is good enough not when linux actually is good enough which happened a while ago for me and probably a few years ago for most people the quality doesn't matter if people don't even give linux a try and regular people will not install any os from the internet and replace the default people don't even replace most of the default apps on their phones which makes the battle giant tech companies fights to prevent that from happening even more stupid but that's not the point if we can't get johnny my phone is fine as it is to replace their web browser how are we gonna get jane my pc works well already to install linux and once again we end up at the same point i've been trying to hammer over and over again linux needs hardware to be used more to be known more hardware sold in retail stores hardware that people can actually try and buy once that happens then sure the year of the linux desktop might start to happen until then i don't think it ever will and sure as i mentioned that part is slowly starting to change we have big manufacturers selling laptops with linux pre-installed we have the steam deck which might not advertise linux specifically but it's still linux hardware the issue is these things aren't really available in retail stores where people can open them play around look at the ui get a feel for it and see how fun and nice looking or speedy it can be it's a first step but it's not solving the issue not yet all of this hardware is still designed for enthusiasts mostly not for the general public there is also a notion that the linux desktop needs to beat windows or mac os in terms of market share to finally be successful that it needs to overtake both of them and fortunately that is not the case or the year of the linux desktop might be even more impossible than i think it already is mac os is proof that an os doesn't need 50 or more market share to have a nice healthy community well healthy might be a bit of an overstatement because most apple fanboys will defend anything that has an apple logo on it if you think i'm trolling or i'm being hateful just look at what people are saying to defend the position of the charging port on the magic mouse yeah linux also doesn't need to reach 50 market share to have some impact to have more third-party app developers attention to have slots in retail stores and more with about eight to ten percent there would be enough of a market for companies to view linux as a healthy potential market for their stuff at eight to ten percent you get the likes of adobe microsoft office better versions of zoom or teams better support for the latest linux stack like wayland or flatback or pipewire at this kind of market share you basically get what most people have been saying linux lacks to grow you get the apps that people already know and already use i'm not sure which should come first though the growth which doesn't need the apps to happen or the apps which definitely do need the growth to happen linux is currently at around two percent market share on the desktop that's too small to matter for most people too small for retail stores to take a chance on selling linux hardware and too small for big companies to take an interest in at eight to ten percent you definitely erase most of these issues and some will say that people would not buy anything with linux pre-installed on it because it doesn't run the same apps they're used to and i totally disagree people buy chromebooks in droves and chrome os doesn't run microsoft office it doesn't run photoshop and most chromebooks don't run steam either still these devices get sold linux devices in stores would also get sold the gear of the linux desktop can only happen once the general public is completely comfortable trying buying and using a linux device until then it's an also ran that requires users to go out of their way to replace the default and deal with the potential hardware issues this is why i think there will never be a year of the linux desktop there will never be a specific year where in walmarts in snacks or whatever else you find all of a sudden tons of linux desktops and laptops it will happen but as a trickle slowly over time it won't happen in one year and so there will never be a specific point marked that means this is where linux started really beating the crap out of windows the quality of linux desktops is already absolutely good enough for most people whether you prefer gnome or kitty or cinnamon all are good enough for most people they are simple to get to grips with they offer fast and fluid experiences and all have a wealth of apps that anyone can get used to in a few hours of use in a way i think no there won't be a year of the linux desktop but there will be a decade of the linux desktop a decade over which linux grows into its own and starts being accepted and used by more people and i think we already entered that decade in the meantime it means that we will still do things as we've always done them slowly but steadily and we know what wins the race just like today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops they have a wide range of keyboards they ship worldwide and their whole range of devices can cater to basically every need or every budget from the slimbook essential which is a small ultrabook on the cheaper side of things or to the huge slim book titan which is a magnificent gaming laptop they also have desktops rgb keyboards small form factor pcs you name it anything you need you can find on slimbox website so head over to the link in the description below click it and see if there's something in their lineup that suits your needs i'm sure you'll find a fantastic device with linux print style so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed if 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hey everyone this is nick and while this weekly news video might be a day late it is not a dollar short because we have tons of linux and open source stuff to cover this time razer and lambda labs partner to offer us a linux laptop with linux print styled out of the box we have duckduckgo revealing more details about their web browser and ubuntu 22.04 was released amongst a lot of other updates to gnome to kde to hardware from star labs but also to linux gaming and proton let's dive in just like you should dive into this small browser extension that will help you stay private online thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third-party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below so kde gear 22.04 was released the compilation of kde software received a lot of changes with dolphin getting better compatibility with mtp devices and thumbnails for epub files console has a better ssh plugin that lets you map different color profiles to different ssh accounts caden live got support for m1 max and its render dialog is now more legible ocular has a welcome screen and calendar is now part of the whole software compilation smaller changes include better support for touch screens in the music player eliza spectacle the screenshot tool gets more annotation features kde itinerary supports more train companies and airlines and gwenview can now guide you to import media from a camera kate is also faster and lets you differentiate files that have the same name but different locations big updates to the core kde apps i just wish these could be released at the same time as new kde plasma releases to make my job easier at the detriment of others and the kde developers never rest because there's another one of these nice weekly kde blog posts this time we have two 15-minute bugs that were fixed including a nasty one that made discover crash with specific flat pack remotes the slide gesture on wayland is also now one to one so you get more touchpad goodness the night color slider now changes the color u in real time so you can actually see what it's going to do and a ton of work went into libreoffice to make it work better on kde including with interface scaling and finally desktop icons can now remember their position for each resolution a ton of bugs were also fixed for the whale on session and for various desktop components less screenshots and user visible improvements this time but i still love that kd takes the time to polish things up to remove bugs and make the experience just smoother and better for everyone not to be outdone gnome application developers are also hard at work fractal the matrix client now has static location advanced support and can display some nice maps musai the shazam of the linux desktop has a new beautiful ui and uses libidvita furtherance the time tracking tool now displays the total time it tracked for the day and it got german spanish and italian translations workbench a sandbox to learn and prototype using gnome technologies now has demos and examples and fosh the mobile gnome shell now has swipe gestures in the top and home bar to quickly navigate around callbird a twitter client now uses libidvita and has an account system and there's a new beautiful audio player for users who don't need full library management it's called amberol great work happening on the gnome application scene i think we're really starting to see the beginnings of the making of a real true app ecosystem there sousa linux a distro i definitely don't talk about enough is developing what they call an adaptable linux platform or alp for short this alp will be the successor to souza linux enterprise 15. they're going to split the distribution into a small hardware enabling part a host os and a layer providing and supporting applications which will be container and vm based it's not exactly clear to me what this will entail but it seems like it's close to what silver blue is doing alp will also be developed openly with the opensuse build service so everyone can look at it contribute and maybe also create their own stuff based on these modular components we'll have to wait a bit to get more details about how this new thing is going to come together but it's still super interesting to see linux distros that's been here for a long time go back to the drawing board and try something new especially when it's all open oracle now the owner of solaris formerly owned by sun is making a new version of solaris 11.4 which is freely available for non-production personal use and for open source developers it's called open solaris cbe for common built environment and it's a rolling release users will be able to upgrade to paid releases if they so choose and there's a license agreement to sign on top of an oracle account being needed to download it oracle seems to hope that this new release will ease the integration of open source software that solaris relies upon i don't know if solaris is relevant in any market whatsoever so to me it seems like it's a little bit late to get the community involved in that but i'm not in the know in an amazing development razer teamed up with lambda labs to make the tensorboard a laptop made for deep learning that runs linux out of the box it's a stunning device with a beautiful chassis a nice white chiclet keyboard with purple accents an rtx 3080 max q 64 gigabytes of ram an intel core i7 cpu two terabytes of pcie 4 storage and 165 hertz 1440p display at 15 inches in terms of i o it has an sd card reader 2 thunderbolt 4 ports 3 usb 3.2 ports an hdmi port and a headphone jack it's not cheap as the base model goes for 3 500 with ubuntu 20.04 although i would expect them to update that to 22.04 soon you also get the lambda stack pre-installed which contains all the latest drivers and tools for machine learning like pytorch tensorflow cuda and more i mean i do not do anything machine learning or deep learning related but i would still love to have that device as a daily driver it sounds like a dream machine star labs a manufacturer of devices shipping with linux out of the box has a new small form factor desktop to complement their laptop lineup the starlabs byte is a ryzen based system with an 8 core ryzen 7 5800u and it can get up to 2 terabytes of ssd with extremely fast read and write speeds as in all star labs devices that's what they call an over provisioned drive it can go up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 ram and it's got some nice i o with two hdmi ports four usb a ports an ethernet jack a micro sd slot a usb c port for power and expansion a barrel charger and an audio jack it can be shipped with core boot and you can open it without voiding the warranty but it starts at 780 euros i don't know if starlabs designed the chassis this time as they do with all their laptops but it looks like a powerful tiny and cute little device for just a simple desktop i'm not sure about the price though still on starlabs the starbook they're really nice looking ultrabook now has the option to use ryzen cpus previously it was limited to intel 11th gen processors but that oversight has now been fixed your only option is the ryzen 7 5800u same as what the star labs byte will ship with and this will add 150 euros on top of the base price by replacing an i3 11 15 g4 admittedly the 5800u is clocked lower than the other option the i7 1165 g7 but it also makes up in terms of cores at 8 versus only 4 for the intel i7 the rest of the laptop should be unchanged apart from the integrated gpu which i would expect to be better on the amd processor than on both intel options i personally would always go for an amd cpu in a laptop instead of an intel one because i generally tend to benefit from the higher core count so it's really cool to see that option being available though i made a review of the starbuck a while ago i left the link in the card somewhere in one of these corners duckduckgo gave more details about their incoming web browser designed for privacy they actually released the mac version with the windows version coming soon it comes with duckduckgo as the default search engine of course it has a tracker blocker a new cookie pop-up blocker a one-click button to delete all data it has email protection and all by default without any configuration needed it's also supposedly fast building on safari's web engine on mac they say they're faster than chrome on motionmark and they use 60 less data it also has all the features you might expect with tabs bookmarks password management and more and what about linux well they said they would love to support us as well but they are focusing on mac and windows first which makes sense in terms of market share i would love to give it a shot on linux if it ever comes to our systems but they seriously need to not use the duckduckgo logo as a browser icon i do not want that thing in my dock ubuntu 22.04 was released the new lts comes packed with updates and new features the most prominent of which is accent colors letting you pick from 10 different views to tweak how your desktop looks it of course still has dark mode and the light theme is now whiter all around including in the gnome shell it comes with gnome 42 and all its nice features like redesigned on-screen display elements a better looking shell theme updated applications and better performance ubuntu 22.04 also brings the kernel up to version 5.15 and the messa driver is to version 22. it will be supported until 2027 and will be the base for a lot of user-centric distributions so it's kind of a big deal all the usual ubuntu flavors also got their updates i already made a video review of ubuntu 22.04 and all of its flavors so check it out in the card up top if you haven't seen it already you might be familiar with proton db the website that lets you check for various steam games compatibility analyzing this data boiling steam seemed to notice that the number of games marked as borked as in they just won't work at all on linux has been decreasing rapidly from almost 50 percent in 2018 to less than 20 in 2022 the real shift seemed to happen in october or november 2021 which also seems to coincide with the release of proton 7 which solved a bunch of issues for a lot of titles on the other hand in terms of distros used for gaming ubuntu seems to be slowly losing relevance data from proton db indicates that people who leave reviews for how well games work are less and less on ubuntu and more and more on arch or manjaro this is probably not a totally accurate depiction of the state of the market but it's still interesting to look at i just love to see these kind of trends well on the number of games being bought going down on the amount of people using ubuntu or something else i really don't care people will use whatever they want to use another week another milestone for the steam deck which now reaches 2200 games marked as verified or playable there are 1139 games that should run without issues as long as the deck review team has improved a bit in terms of testing and 1071 playable titles which will also run fine but might have small issues with the controls of the deck or with elements being a bit small on screen some titles included this time are eternal radiance vampire the masquerade redemption gta san andreas the lord of the rings online guilty gear or final fantasy 6 which isn't the best final fantasy final fantasy 7 is the best final fantasy and probably should have been the last the final final fantasy i'll fight you on this if you like to game on linux but you think that installing all the various compatibility tools launchers libraries and other necessary stuff is too complex there's a new project that might suit your needs if you like flat pack the aptly named gaming flat pack is basically a script that will let you install tons of gaming related software including steam lutress the heroic launcher proton ge various emulators minecraft but also discord teamspeak obs caden live or mango hud it's still mostly in french and english and the project has just started but it's already very easy to use just run the script you get a nice window you check what you want to install hit ok and it will automatically install all of that for you using flat pack it can even install flat seal if you need to change permissions for a few of these applications it's a great project but it also highlights the difficulty for new users to actually find and use all the various little programs needed to actually play all their games on linux proton also got a new update version 7.0-2 and it's a big one a ton of games are now playable with proton including devil may cry hd collection dragon quest builders 2 a way out call of duty black ops 3 eldon ring or double dragon trilogy amongst others it also fixes a ton of bugs for games using the unity engine and a lot more games should now be able to play video files and cut scenes when using pattern protected video formats of course it also updates the xvk vkd3d proton and the xvk nv api the implementation of the nvidia api for dxvk so every game should perform at its best as always you can get that latest release directly from steam there is still a long way to go before we're able to play every single windows game on linux if that ever happens but the work that valve wine and the community have done is astounding if you had told me two or three years ago that we would be able to play two-thirds of steam games on linux i would have loved you of the room and yet here we are and here's our sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops linux all in ones linux small form factor pcs basically every single type of device that you might want with linux print styled out of the box they ship worldwide they've got a huge range of keyboard layouts and they've got devices for virtually every need and every price point from their cheaper laptop the slim book essential to their higher desktop tower the slimbo camera which i use to run the channel and edit all my videos if you need a new device with linux pre-installed on it check the link in the description below and click it and see what they have i'm sure you'll find something that you need so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] 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hey everyone this is nick and while this weekly news video might be a day late it is not a dollar short because we have tons of linux and open source stuff to cover this time razer and lambda labs partner to offer us a linux laptop with linux print styled out of the box we have duckduckgo revealing more details about their web browser and ubuntu 22.04 was released amongst a lot of other updates to gnome to kde to hardware from star labs but also to linux gaming and proton let's dive in just like you should dive into this small browser extension that will help you stay private online thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third-party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below so kde gear 22.04 was released the compilation of kde software received a lot of changes with dolphin getting better compatibility with mtp devices and thumbnails for epub files console has a better ssh plugin that lets you map different color profiles to different ssh accounts caden live got support for m1 max and its render dialog is now more legible ocular has a welcome screen and calendar is now part of the whole software compilation smaller changes include better support for touch screens in the music player eliza spectacle the screenshot tool gets more annotation features kde itinerary supports more train companies and airlines and gwenview can now guide you to import media from a camera kate is also faster and lets you differentiate files that have the same name but different locations big updates to the core kde apps i just wish these could be released at the same time as new kde plasma releases to make my job easier at the detriment of others and the kde developers never rest because there's another one of these nice weekly kde blog posts this time we have two 15-minute bugs that were fixed including a nasty one that made discover crash with specific flat pack remotes the slide gesture on wayland is also now one to one so you get more touchpad goodness the night color slider now changes the color u in real time so you can actually see what it's going to do and a ton of work went into libreoffice to make it work better on kde including with interface scaling and finally desktop icons can now remember their position for each resolution a ton of bugs were also fixed for the whale on session and for various desktop components less screenshots and user visible improvements this time but i still love that kd takes the time to polish things up to remove bugs and make the experience just smoother and better for everyone not to be outdone gnome application developers are also hard at work fractal the matrix client now has static location advanced support and can display some nice maps musai the shazam of the linux desktop has a new beautiful ui and uses libidvita furtherance the time tracking tool now displays the total time it tracked for the day and it got german spanish and italian translations workbench a sandbox to learn and prototype using gnome technologies now has demos and examples and fosh the mobile gnome shell now has swipe gestures in the top and home bar to quickly navigate around callbird a twitter client now uses libidvita and has an account system and there's a new beautiful audio player for users who don't need full library management it's called amberol great work happening on the gnome application scene i think we're really starting to see the beginnings of the making of a real true app ecosystem there sousa linux a distro i definitely don't talk about enough is developing what they call an adaptable linux platform or alp for short this alp will be the successor to souza linux enterprise 15. they're going to split the distribution into a small hardware enabling part a host os and a layer providing and supporting applications which will be container and vm based it's not exactly clear to me what this will entail but it seems like it's close to what silver blue is doing alp will also be developed openly with the opensuse build service so everyone can look at it contribute and maybe also create their own stuff based on these modular components we'll have to wait a bit to get more details about how this new thing is going to come together but it's still super interesting to see linux distros that's been here for a long time go back to the drawing board and try something new especially when it's all open oracle now the owner of solaris formerly owned by sun is making a new version of solaris 11.4 which is freely available for non-production personal use and for open source developers it's called open solaris cbe for common built environment and it's a rolling release users will be able to upgrade to paid releases if they so choose and there's a license agreement to sign on top of an oracle account being needed to download it oracle seems to hope that this new release will ease the integration of open source software that solaris relies upon i don't know if solaris is relevant in any market whatsoever so to me it seems like it's a little bit late to get the community involved in that but i'm not in the know in an amazing development razer teamed up with lambda labs to make the tensorboard a laptop made for deep learning that runs linux out of the box it's a stunning device with a beautiful chassis a nice white chiclet keyboard with purple accents an rtx 3080 max q 64 gigabytes of ram an intel core i7 cpu two terabytes of pcie 4 storage and 165 hertz 1440p display at 15 inches in terms of i o it has an sd card reader 2 thunderbolt 4 ports 3 usb 3.2 ports an hdmi port and a headphone jack it's not cheap as the base model goes for 3 500 with ubuntu 20.04 although i would expect them to update that to 22.04 soon you also get the lambda stack pre-installed which contains all the latest drivers and tools for machine learning like pytorch tensorflow cuda and more i mean i do not do anything machine learning or deep learning related but i would still love to have that device as a daily driver it sounds like a dream machine star labs a manufacturer of devices shipping with linux out of the box has a new small form factor desktop to complement their laptop lineup the starlabs byte is a ryzen based system with an 8 core ryzen 7 5800u and it can get up to 2 terabytes of ssd with extremely fast read and write speeds as in all star labs devices that's what they call an over provisioned drive it can go up to 64 gigabytes of ddr4 ram and it's got some nice i o with two hdmi ports four usb a ports an ethernet jack a micro sd slot a usb c port for power and expansion a barrel charger and an audio jack it can be shipped with core boot and you can open it without voiding the warranty but it starts at 780 euros i don't know if starlabs designed the chassis this time as they do with all their laptops but it looks like a powerful tiny and cute little device for just a simple desktop i'm not sure about the price though still on starlabs the starbook they're really nice looking ultrabook now has the option to use ryzen cpus previously it was limited to intel 11th gen processors but that oversight has now been fixed your only option is the ryzen 7 5800u same as what the star labs byte will ship with and this will add 150 euros on top of the base price by replacing an i3 11 15 g4 admittedly the 5800u is clocked lower than the other option the i7 1165 g7 but it also makes up in terms of cores at 8 versus only 4 for the intel i7 the rest of the laptop should be unchanged apart from the integrated gpu which i would expect to be better on the amd processor than on both intel options i personally would always go for an amd cpu in a laptop instead of an intel one because i generally tend to benefit from the higher core count so it's really cool to see that option being available though i made a review of the starbuck a while ago i left the link in the card somewhere in one of these corners duckduckgo gave more details about their incoming web browser designed for privacy they actually released the mac version with the windows version coming soon it comes with duckduckgo as the default search engine of course it has a tracker blocker a new cookie pop-up blocker a one-click button to delete all data it has email protection and all by default without any configuration needed it's also supposedly fast building on safari's web engine on mac they say they're faster than chrome on motionmark and they use 60 less data it also has all the features you might expect with tabs bookmarks password management and more and what about linux well they said they would love to support us as well but they are focusing on mac and windows first which makes sense in terms of market share i would love to give it a shot on linux if it ever comes to our systems but they seriously need to not use the duckduckgo logo as a browser icon i do not want that thing in my dock ubuntu 22.04 was released the new lts comes packed with updates and new features the most prominent of which is accent colors letting you pick from 10 different views to tweak how your desktop looks it of course still has dark mode and the light theme is now whiter all around including in the gnome shell it comes with gnome 42 and all its nice features like redesigned on-screen display elements a better looking shell theme updated applications and better performance ubuntu 22.04 also brings the kernel up to version 5.15 and the messa driver is to version 22. it will be supported until 2027 and will be the base for a lot of user-centric distributions so it's kind of a big deal all the usual ubuntu flavors also got their updates i already made a video review of ubuntu 22.04 and all of its flavors so check it out in the card up top if you haven't seen it already you might be familiar with proton db the website that lets you check for various steam games compatibility analyzing this data boiling steam seemed to notice that the number of games marked as borked as in they just won't work at all on linux has been decreasing rapidly from almost 50 percent in 2018 to less than 20 in 2022 the real shift seemed to happen in october or november 2021 which also seems to coincide with the release of proton 7 which solved a bunch of issues for a lot of titles on the other hand in terms of distros used for gaming ubuntu seems to be slowly losing relevance data from proton db indicates that people who leave reviews for how well games work are less and less on ubuntu and more and more on arch or manjaro this is probably not a totally accurate depiction of the state of the market but it's still interesting to look at i just love to see these kind of trends well on the number of games being bought going down on the amount of people using ubuntu or something else i really don't care people will use whatever they want to use another week another milestone for the steam deck which now reaches 2200 games marked as verified or playable there are 1139 games that should run without issues as long as the deck review team has improved a bit in terms of testing and 1071 playable titles which will also run fine but might have small issues with the controls of the deck or with elements being a bit small on screen some titles included this time are eternal radiance vampire the masquerade redemption gta san andreas the lord of the rings online guilty gear or final fantasy 6 which isn't the best final fantasy final fantasy 7 is the best final fantasy and probably should have been the last the final final fantasy i'll fight you on this if you like to game on linux but you think that installing all the various compatibility tools launchers libraries and other necessary stuff is too complex there's a new project that might suit your needs if you like flat pack the aptly named gaming flat pack is basically a script that will let you install tons of gaming related software including steam lutress the heroic launcher proton ge various emulators minecraft but also discord teamspeak obs caden live or mango hud it's still mostly in french and english and the project has just started but it's already very easy to use just run the script you get a nice window you check what you want to install hit ok and it will automatically install all of that for you using flat pack it can even install flat seal if you need to change permissions for a few of these applications it's a great project but it also highlights the difficulty for new users to actually find and use all the various little programs needed to actually play all their games on linux proton also got a new update version 7.0-2 and it's a big one a ton of games are now playable with proton including devil may cry hd collection dragon quest builders 2 a way out call of duty black ops 3 eldon ring or double dragon trilogy amongst others it also fixes a ton of bugs for games using the unity engine and a lot more games should now be able to play video files and cut scenes when using pattern protected video formats of course it also updates the xvk vkd3d proton and the xvk nv api the implementation of the nvidia api for dxvk so every game should perform at its best as always you can get that latest release directly from steam there is still a long way to go before we're able to play every single windows game on linux if that ever happens but the work that valve wine and the community have done is astounding if you had told me two or three years ago that we would be able to play two-thirds of steam games on linux i would have loved you of the room and yet here we are and here's our sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops linux all in ones linux small form factor pcs basically every single type of device that you might want with linux print styled out of the box they ship worldwide they've got a huge range of keyboard layouts and they've got devices for virtually every need and every price point from their cheaper laptop the slim book essential to their higher desktop tower the slimbo camera which i use to run the channel and edit all my videos if you need a new device with linux pre-installed on it check the link in the description below and click it and see what they have i'm sure you'll find something that you need so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] 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hey everyone this is nick and ubuntu 22.04 is out it's an lts release which means it will stay relevant for a long time until 2027 as a matter of fact it will also be used as the base for a lot of user-centric distributions like elementary os linux mint zorin os and a lot more but how good is it this time around really because this time ubuntu has actually fixed some of the issues that made me drop it as a recommendation for beginners what i never dropped as a recommendation though is today's sponsor thanks to linode for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create your own learning management 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versa it should be smoother and a lot more stable of course as always users will be able to upgrade to the future releases of ubuntu either the non-lts ones or jump straight from 22.04 to the next lts 24.04 and while jammy jellyfish still keeps its locked application versions and library versions in the repos meaning you'll only get security updates for anything that's not a snap or a flat pack if you added that yourself they will also have the same hardware enablement program as usual with regular drops of newer kernels and newer drivers to ensure that 22.04 stays usable on newer devices for the next two years so yeah basically it's an lts but it's nice to see them catching up to the version of gnome that other distributions tend to ship they're not holding back anymore there are also a few things that are not going to be shipping with this release namely the new flutter based ubuntu installer because it's not ready yet and the new firmware tool that's also flutter based which also is not ready yet under the hood there's also a major change wayland is the default for everyone including nvidia proprietary driver users this means that x11 just lost a major foothold in the desktop market fedora 36 will also make the same move and while you can still reinstall x i guess a lot of people will stick to the default as gnome's wayland support is pretty much perfect these days it also means you get these sweet one-to-one touchpad gestures that make using gnome on the laptop so amazing now let's see what's new on the visual front because ubuntu 22.04 also refines the yarrow theme and icons this new theme is really more of an adaptation of the new gnome 42 lib advaita style in the shell you don't get these little arrows pointing to the element you clicked on you get fully rounded menus instead and they're all white by default as these menus will now respect the light or dark mode you chose the system menu also has a redesigned look with submenus being more visually linked to their parent elements these soft grey on pure white accents aren't the most legible ever but they still work the purple aubergine color is now gone as well in the shell replaced by the traditional ubuntu orange i personally really liked the purple and orange color combo but it also reminded me of the french train company which also triggered memories of me not actually being able to ride the train because these bastards are on strike every holiday in the settings you can still go dark mode in the appearance tab but there's also a nice change accent colors ubuntu didn't wait around for gnome to add these and they made the change themselves bringing it up to par with kd plasma elementor ios or zorin os the selection of colors isn't customizable and some of them look a bit too vibrant to my eyes but they're still pretty nice to have the accent color is applied to all highlights in various applications to the shell's interactive elements and to the folder icons as well it even transitions smoothly from one color to the other so it's not jarring same goes for the dark mode with a nice fade between light and dark to complete the new look you get new on-screen display elements smaller rounder less intrusive and that's a good thing you'll also notice that no default app looks like the advaita theme despite using gnome 42 which includes libertvita and that's as far as i know because ubuntu doesn't ship libertvita they decided to stick to older application versions that aren't compiled with libervita at their core or versions of gnome 42 efide applications that don't rely on libid vita we will probably have to wait for the next release to see what ubuntu does either they can ship a remixed version of flipadvita by changing the style sheet to yarrow they could also decide to include libervita as is and have the default advisor theme or they could try and maintain versions of applications that don't depend on libervita at all so they can be themed i suspect it's the first option and they probably just didn't have enough time to test everything out oh and there's the new logo at startup and in the about page i like it but i know a lot of people don't it would probably look less weird if it wasn't that tall and there's also a new wallpaper which i find really nice i love these geometric renderings of animals and at least it keeps the purple tones in the ubuntu desktop also brings a bunch of changes this time around and it's a good thing because i felt that they kind of stagnated in place for the previous two or three releases first you get all the nice improvements of gnome 40 41 and 42 so if you were coming from the previous lts you're in for a nice bunch of changes the apps grid is way more responsive it scrolls horizontally and it lets you rearrange icons as you please into folders or not the whole desktop is also a lot more responsive and faster and it can even run on the raspberry pi 4 this time around you also get horizontal workspaces which are bigger easier to use easier to drag your windows or your app icons into they still kept the dock on the left side and they added a few nice things to it first it now holds the trashcan so that thing is not cluttering your desktop and it also displays all removable media and network devices you can disable both of these behaviors in the appearance settings you can also move that dock to any side of the screen and make it look like a real dock without it extending from screen edge to screen edge if you were using ubuntu 220.04 you'll also be happy to note that desktop icons are now way better integrated you can drag and drop stuff from the desktop to the file manager and vice versa and the right click menu looks a lot more like a native context menu for gnome than it ever did before for some reason all the new icons that get added to the desktop are added in the bottom left corner i don't really understand why that makes sense but since i also don't really understand why you would want desktop icons in the first place i'm not the best person to judge from gnome 42 you also get the new screenshot ui which isn't a dedicated app anymore but more of an overlay it lets you do the exact same things as in take a screenshot of the whole desktop a section of it or off a window and it lets you show or hide the mouse pointer and even record the desktop itself it doesn't have an option to use a delay before taking the screenshot but that shouldn't be needed as menus and pop-ups now appear on screenshots if they were open when you press the print screen key you'll even get a nice small indicator in the top bar to let you know that you're recording your screen and you can click it to end it all in all whether you're coming from 21.10 or 20.04 there are a bunch of changes that should make your life easier and the desktop a lot smoother and faster unfortunately or fortunately depending on your position on this packaging format ubuntu still uses snaps for a few default apps including firefox for example which means you will have to deal with a long first run experience the ubuntu software store finally started to catch up to the default gnome software with nicer app pages more space for screenshots more legible information about download size safety and update notes it's still not as smooth its category pages aren't as detailed without recommended apps and it still doesn't have all the information that gnome software has like links to the project the open source of free software status of a program and more it's too bad really i don't understand why this kind of information cannot be added to the ubuntu software store as well it's been there for two releases of gnome now and maybe it's snaps that don't support all that kind of metadata maybe the ubuntu team doesn't think it adds anything to the mix but i personally think that the ubuntu software app should be a carbon copy of the gnome software app using snaps instead of flat packs there is no good reason i can think of for it to not be up to date with gnome software but hey i guess this gives me a reason to complain the app loadout hasn't changed at all apart from that you still get the latest stable versions of thunderbird firefox libreoffice and shotwell you also get older versions of gnome apps like calendar which is not version 42 or the settings app which is also not the latest version but it's not as bad as it usually is on ubuntu it does mean that not all apps have these cool bottom rounded corners though and at least most non-gnome third-party apps seem to be provided as snaps this time around which means that they will get feature updates and they won't stay locked in to the repo versions which is a good thing i would still love ubuntu to just ditch the snaps for desktop applications for server they're fine for desktop they should really just move over to flat pack just like virtually everybody else and help make that format better if they have complaints about how it works but yeah i mean at least users of 22.04 can still get app updates through snap which is good now let's move on to a quick rundown of the main ubuntu flavors kubuntu 22.04 gets the latest kde plasma version 5.24 with its new overview effect much inspired by the gnome activities view the newer notification system the new breeze theme and the accent colors as well apart from that you also get the latest releases of thunderbird firefox and libreoffice and all kd frameworks are up to date nothing too special here kubuntu does tend to stick to vanilla kde as much as possible so if you want to know everything that went on in this latest release you can check the video in the card up top ubuntu mate gets a lot of changes it uses mate 1.26.1 with full compatibility with the yaroo theme including all accent colors users of previous releases will be moved over to the new theme automatically as the old ones got the boot there's also full support for the dark theme some interesting ai generated wallpapers and there are a lot of improvements to the mate tweak tool with better reliability for desktop layout switching the default image is also 41 smaller than the previous one by removing unused stuff that can be optionally downloaded at install they even managed to add gnome clocks gnome maps and gnome weather to the default install it also supports regular packages snaps app images and flat pack out of the box so you can use whatever source you prefer and of course the minimal install option is still there mate also transitioned to the ayatana indicators which should make all these notification tray icons work properly those are big big updates to ubuntu mate and i'm still very surprised at the amount of work and passion the community still pours into mate it's great to see ubuntu studio still uses kde plasma version 5.24 this time with all the same changes that kubuntu 22.04 brings the previous lts used xfce so if you're moving from that you'll get a wholly different experience all included software got bumps to their latest stable versions and the studio controls app got improved mixers and plugins it also moves to pipe wire by default which seems to mean that you might need to use the command line to manage it as the default ubuntu studio tools don't seem to have been updated just yet to take advantage of it ubuntu studio is still an amazing choice for everybody who needs a complete multimedia studio workstation they provide everything lubuntu 22.04 won't be using lxqt 1.1 unfortunately so it's going to be stuck on 0.17 this is a shame as 1.1 brought a ton of improvements to this lightweight desktop environment lubuntu still adds kd's discover package manager and it's also moving to the calamares installer instead of the default ubuntu one it also gets an update to its file manager pc man fm which is a bit more full featured i'm kind of bummed that they couldn't find the time to include the latest release but i guess that just wasn't enough time to test it out properly as perks ubuntu 22.04 it doesn't get a new version of xfc it's still on 4.16 just like 21.10 was but there's initial support for and lib handy in the default grey bird theme which means that gdk4 apps from gnome shouldn't look horrible thunder the file manager also should perform better looks like the ubuntu 22.04 is more of a point release than a full complete update apart from the internals now hopefully xfc 4.17 will bring more new stuff to the table finally ubuntu budgie it uses version 10.6 of that desktop with better support for ayatana indicators and notification tray icons and evolution and thunderbird can now integrate with a desktop notification system the gnome control center is replaced by the budgie control center which gives you all options to configure your desktop how you like it it also updates a bunch of the default icon and gtk themes and the welcome tool lets you pick brave or microsoft edge as your browser plus there's a new chrome os like layout for the desktop now we'll have to see in the future when budgie moves away from gnome if ubuntu budgie follows suit or does something else ubuntu 22.04 isn't revolutionary it's an lts it needs to be stable and it still suffers from the same problems that made me not recommend it anymore to beginners outdated packages in the repos and snaps that just don't receive the attention they need to shine on the linux desktop but this time the mishmash of older gnome versions seems mitigated and i hope ubuntu continues on this trend to keep up to date with gnome and it also restarted adding stuff to gnome that gnome doesn't ship by default a better dock better desktop icons accent colors it's good to see ubuntu trying to bring something new to the table instead of just slapping a dock and calling it a desktop it's a good thing i also like the fact that they moved to wayland by default because while this new display server thingy is not perfect yet it's almost close to being totally usable by everyone and it just needs that big push from a huge distro like ubuntu to be able to just move over to that next step so all in all it's the same conclusion every time if you like ubuntu and it's enough for you then there is no reason not to upgrade and if you didn't like ubuntu or snaps before you still won't want to move to it with this release i for one will stick to fedora for the time being and i'll see how well fedora 36 treats me today's sponsor always treated me well though slimbook makes desktops and laptops that ship with linux pre-installed out of the box you get a pick from multiple distributions you get all the keyboard layouts you might want they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of devices from all-in-ones to desktop towers to mini pcs to laptops gaming laptops ultrabooks cheaper models basically there's no way you can't find something that suits your needs from their catalog i use their slimbook pro x14 laptop i use this limbo chimera desktop i even use their slimbook rgb keyboard so if you think you might need a new device that has linux print installed on it and you want to give it a shot click the link in the description below and get your own device right now now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to leave a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to the same perks the weekly patreon cast on monday and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and ubuntu 22.04 is out it's an lts release which means it will stay relevant for a long time until 2027 as a matter of fact it will also be used as the base for a lot of user-centric distributions like elementary os linux mint zorin os and a lot more but how good is it this time around really because this time ubuntu has actually fixed some of the issues that made me drop it as a recommendation for beginners what i never dropped as a recommendation though is today's sponsor thanks to linode for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create your own learning management 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versa it should be smoother and a lot more stable of course as always users will be able to upgrade to the future releases of ubuntu either the non-lts ones or jump straight from 22.04 to the next lts 24.04 and while jammy jellyfish still keeps its locked application versions and library versions in the repos meaning you'll only get security updates for anything that's not a snap or a flat pack if you added that yourself they will also have the same hardware enablement program as usual with regular drops of newer kernels and newer drivers to ensure that 22.04 stays usable on newer devices for the next two years so yeah basically it's an lts but it's nice to see them catching up to the version of gnome that other distributions tend to ship they're not holding back anymore there are also a few things that are not going to be shipping with this release namely the new flutter based ubuntu installer because it's not ready yet and the new firmware tool that's also flutter based which also is not ready yet under the hood there's also a major change wayland is the default for everyone including nvidia proprietary driver users this means that x11 just lost a major foothold in the desktop market fedora 36 will also make the same move and while you can still reinstall x i guess a lot of people will stick to the default as gnome's wayland support is pretty much perfect these days it also means you get these sweet one-to-one touchpad gestures that make using gnome on the laptop so amazing now let's see what's new on the visual front because ubuntu 22.04 also refines the yarrow theme and icons this new theme is really more of an adaptation of the new gnome 42 lib advaita style in the shell you don't get these little arrows pointing to the element you clicked on you get fully rounded menus instead and they're all white by default as these menus will now respect the light or dark mode you chose the system menu also has a redesigned look with submenus being more visually linked to their parent elements these soft grey on pure white accents aren't the most legible ever but they still work the purple aubergine color is now gone as well in the shell replaced by the traditional ubuntu orange i personally really liked the purple and orange color combo but it also reminded me of the french train company which also triggered memories of me not actually being able to ride the train because these bastards are on strike every holiday in the settings you can still go dark mode in the appearance tab but there's also a nice change accent colors ubuntu didn't wait around for gnome to add these and they made the change themselves bringing it up to par with kd plasma elementor ios or zorin os the selection of colors isn't customizable and some of them look a bit too vibrant to my eyes but they're still pretty nice to have the accent color is applied to all highlights in various applications to the shell's interactive elements and to the folder icons as well it even transitions smoothly from one color to the other so it's not jarring same goes for the dark mode with a nice fade between light and dark to complete the new look you get new on-screen display elements smaller rounder less intrusive and that's a good thing you'll also notice that no default app looks like the advaita theme despite using gnome 42 which includes libertvita and that's as far as i know because ubuntu doesn't ship libertvita they decided to stick to older application versions that aren't compiled with libervita at their core or versions of gnome 42 efide applications that don't rely on libid vita we will probably have to wait for the next release to see what ubuntu does either they can ship a remixed version of flipadvita by changing the style sheet to yarrow they could also decide to include libervita as is and have the default advisor theme or they could try and maintain versions of applications that don't depend on libervita at all so they can be themed i suspect it's the first option and they probably just didn't have enough time to test everything out oh and there's the new logo at startup and in the about page i like it but i know a lot of people don't it would probably look less weird if it wasn't that tall and there's also a new wallpaper which i find really nice i love these geometric renderings of animals and at least it keeps the purple tones in the ubuntu desktop also brings a bunch of changes this time around and it's a good thing because i felt that they kind of stagnated in place for the previous two or three releases first you get all the nice improvements of gnome 40 41 and 42 so if you were coming from the previous lts you're in for a nice bunch of changes the apps grid is way more responsive it scrolls horizontally and it lets you rearrange icons as you please into folders or not the whole desktop is also a lot more responsive and faster and it can even run on the raspberry pi 4 this time around you also get horizontal workspaces which are bigger easier to use easier to drag your windows or your app icons into they still kept the dock on the left side and they added a few nice things to it first it now holds the trashcan so that thing is not cluttering your desktop and it also displays all removable media and network devices you can disable both of these behaviors in the appearance settings you can also move that dock to any side of the screen and make it look like a real dock without it extending from screen edge to screen edge if you were using ubuntu 220.04 you'll also be happy to note that desktop icons are now way better integrated you can drag and drop stuff from the desktop to the file manager and vice versa and the right click menu looks a lot more like a native context menu for gnome than it ever did before for some reason all the new icons that get added to the desktop are added in the bottom left corner i don't really understand why that makes sense but since i also don't really understand why you would want desktop icons in the first place i'm not the best person to judge from gnome 42 you also get the new screenshot ui which isn't a dedicated app anymore but more of an overlay it lets you do the exact same things as in take a screenshot of the whole desktop a section of it or off a window and it lets you show or hide the mouse pointer and even record the desktop itself it doesn't have an option to use a delay before taking the screenshot but that shouldn't be needed as menus and pop-ups now appear on screenshots if they were open when you press the print screen key you'll even get a nice small indicator in the top bar to let you know that you're recording your screen and you can click it to end it all in all whether you're coming from 21.10 or 20.04 there are a bunch of changes that should make your life easier and the desktop a lot smoother and faster unfortunately or fortunately depending on your position on this packaging format ubuntu still uses snaps for a few default apps including firefox for example which means you will have to deal with a long first run experience the ubuntu software store finally started to catch up to the default gnome software with nicer app pages more space for screenshots more legible information about download size safety and update notes it's still not as smooth its category pages aren't as detailed without recommended apps and it still doesn't have all the information that gnome software has like links to the project the open source of free software status of a program and more it's too bad really i don't understand why this kind of information cannot be added to the ubuntu software store as well it's been there for two releases of gnome now and maybe it's snaps that don't support all that kind of metadata maybe the ubuntu team doesn't think it adds anything to the mix but i personally think that the ubuntu software app should be a carbon copy of the gnome software app using snaps instead of flat packs there is no good reason i can think of for it to not be up to date with gnome software but hey i guess this gives me a reason to complain the app loadout hasn't changed at all apart from that you still get the latest stable versions of thunderbird firefox libreoffice and shotwell you also get older versions of gnome apps like calendar which is not version 42 or the settings app which is also not the latest version but it's not as bad as it usually is on ubuntu it does mean that not all apps have these cool bottom rounded corners though and at least most non-gnome third-party apps seem to be provided as snaps this time around which means that they will get feature updates and they won't stay locked in to the repo versions which is a good thing i would still love ubuntu to just ditch the snaps for desktop applications for server they're fine for desktop they should really just move over to flat pack just like virtually everybody else and help make that format better if they have complaints about how it works but yeah i mean at least users of 22.04 can still get app updates through snap which is good now let's move on to a quick rundown of the main ubuntu flavors kubuntu 22.04 gets the latest kde plasma version 5.24 with its new overview effect much inspired by the gnome activities view the newer notification system the new breeze theme and the accent colors as well apart from that you also get the latest releases of thunderbird firefox and libreoffice and all kd frameworks are up to date nothing too special here kubuntu does tend to stick to vanilla kde as much as possible so if you want to know everything that went on in this latest release you can check the video in the card up top ubuntu mate gets a lot of changes it uses mate 1.26.1 with full compatibility with the yaroo theme including all accent colors users of previous releases will be moved over to the new theme automatically as the old ones got the boot there's also full support for the dark theme some interesting ai generated wallpapers and there are a lot of improvements to the mate tweak tool with better reliability for desktop layout switching the default image is also 41 smaller than the previous one by removing unused stuff that can be optionally downloaded at install they even managed to add gnome clocks gnome maps and gnome weather to the default install it also supports regular packages snaps app images and flat pack out of the box so you can use whatever source you prefer and of course the minimal install option is still there mate also transitioned to the ayatana indicators which should make all these notification tray icons work properly those are big big updates to ubuntu mate and i'm still very surprised at the amount of work and passion the community still pours into mate it's great to see ubuntu studio still uses kde plasma version 5.24 this time with all the same changes that kubuntu 22.04 brings the previous lts used xfce so if you're moving from that you'll get a wholly different experience all included software got bumps to their latest stable versions and the studio controls app got improved mixers and plugins it also moves to pipe wire by default which seems to mean that you might need to use the command line to manage it as the default ubuntu studio tools don't seem to have been updated just yet to take advantage of it ubuntu studio is still an amazing choice for everybody who needs a complete multimedia studio workstation they provide everything lubuntu 22.04 won't be using lxqt 1.1 unfortunately so it's going to be stuck on 0.17 this is a shame as 1.1 brought a ton of improvements to this lightweight desktop environment lubuntu still adds kd's discover package manager and it's also moving to the calamares installer instead of the default ubuntu one it also gets an update to its file manager pc man fm which is a bit more full featured i'm kind of bummed that they couldn't find the time to include the latest release but i guess that just wasn't enough time to test it out properly as perks ubuntu 22.04 it doesn't get a new version of xfc it's still on 4.16 just like 21.10 was but there's initial support for and lib handy in the default grey bird theme which means that gdk4 apps from gnome shouldn't look horrible thunder the file manager also should perform better looks like the ubuntu 22.04 is more of a point release than a full complete update apart from the internals now hopefully xfc 4.17 will bring more new stuff to the table finally ubuntu budgie it uses version 10.6 of that desktop with better support for ayatana indicators and notification tray icons and evolution and thunderbird can now integrate with a desktop notification system the gnome control center is replaced by the budgie control center which gives you all options to configure your desktop how you like it it also updates a bunch of the default icon and gtk themes and the welcome tool lets you pick brave or microsoft edge as your browser plus there's a new chrome os like layout for the desktop now we'll have to see in the future when budgie moves away from gnome if ubuntu budgie follows suit or does something else ubuntu 22.04 isn't revolutionary it's an lts it needs to be stable and it still suffers from the same problems that made me not recommend it anymore to beginners outdated packages in the repos and snaps that just don't receive the attention they need to shine on the linux desktop but this time the mishmash of older gnome versions seems mitigated and i hope ubuntu continues on this trend to keep up to date with gnome and it also restarted adding stuff to gnome that gnome doesn't ship by default a better dock better desktop icons accent colors it's good to see ubuntu trying to bring something new to the table instead of just slapping a dock and calling it a desktop it's a good thing i also like the fact that they moved to wayland by default because while this new display server thingy is not perfect yet it's almost close to being totally usable by everyone and it just needs that big push from a huge distro like ubuntu to be able to just move over to that next step so all in all it's the same conclusion every time if you like ubuntu and it's enough for you then there is no reason not to upgrade and if you didn't like ubuntu or snaps before you still won't want to move to it with this release i for one will stick to fedora for the time being and i'll see how well fedora 36 treats me today's sponsor always treated me well though slimbook makes desktops and laptops that ship with linux pre-installed out of the box you get a pick from multiple distributions you get all the keyboard layouts you might want they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of devices from all-in-ones to desktop towers to mini pcs to laptops gaming laptops ultrabooks cheaper models basically there's no way you can't find something that suits your needs from their catalog i use their slimbook pro x14 laptop i use this limbo chimera desktop i even use their slimbook rgb keyboard so if you think you might need a new device that has linux print installed on it and you want to give it a shot click the link in the description below and get your own device right now now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to leave a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to the same perks the weekly patreon cast on monday and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and not everyone can or wants to move to linux but this doesn't mean that you can't get from under the grasp of the big companies in terms of the software you run even if you stick to windows or mac os there's a huge number of open source applications that can replace or even sometimes exceed their proprietary counterparts and most of the time for free just like today's sponsors saving which makes tools dedicated to help you manage your internet connection there are open source and they're all free this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the master by heading in the link in the description below okay but why would you want to go the open source route if you're already familiar with a few tools that you use every day well there are multiple reasons the first one is of course to reduce costs most open source software is also free of charge and if you use a bunch of adobe tools or microsoft office the bill at the end of the month can be quite high compound that over a few years and you'll realize you're syncing thousands of dollars into software that could probably be replaced the second reason might be to prepare a smooth transition to linux taking the plunge and changing your habits for your os and your apps at the same time can be a big barrier to entry so you could start by replacing applications first and once you're comfortable move over to linux finally you could also just want to get out of the world garden that proprietary software locks you in with open source software you could use open formats that are interoperable you get better backwards compatibility and generally just more freedom to use other things and i know you can't always replace a proprietary piece of software with an open source one but most non-professionals could definitely switch to open source alternatives i've been running my day job as a product owner for the past five years on open source software exclusively and my channel almost runs on open source software exclusively as well apart from the video editor which i use davinci resolve for so if a dumbass like me can do it there's no reason why you couldn't so now let's begin with open source apps for graphics design 3d modeling or photo editing the most obvious one here is it's an amazing piece of software that i personally use for all my design needs for mockups at my freelance job for youtube thumbnails or for quick photo edits if you're not convinced check out davies media design they're using exclusively for photo editing and graphics design and what they're doing is pretty amazing if you're more used to photoshop and its shortcuts you can also extend using photogimp a plugin that makes game behave as closely to photoshop as humanly possible even adding a variety of tools to fill in the gaps there's also a huge library of plugins you can add to to make it even more powerful and it's very customizable with tool panels you can move anywhere you want and a ton of options to tailor it to your needs it takes a bit of time to learn the workflow but once you do it's amazing it's name might be dumb but it's free of charge it's open source and it runs on every major desktop operating system there is so it might be worth it to relearn a thing or two if you're more into digital painting krita is what you're looking for it's super flexible again with panels that you can move around to suit your workflow it has tons of brushes and you can further extend that by downloading new ones it supports vector graphics and text it can open psd files from photoshop and it's hardware accelerated with opengl so things stay fast and responsive of course it works with various tablets to draw freehand and it even supports hdr there are tons of examples of people painting masterpieces with krita and some even use it for 2d animation thanks to audio import support and exporting options to let you render a video krita is also completely free of charge and gets frequent updates adding some great new features the last major update brought for example a built-in recorder to record your painting sessions or a storyboard editor if someone pointed a gun to my head and told me to paint something amazing or die i would absolutely die but you don't have to try krita and stay alive for vector graphics the go to open source app is inkscape whether you want to mock up an application or a website or design an icon or just draw something inkscape can do it all it exports to virtually any image format you might want including svg of course but it also has great pdf export support you'll find all the usual tools you're used to including pencils calligraphy shape tools bezier curves z order operations transformations layers node editing for path and a lot more stuff i have no mastery of at all it's once again completely free of charge and available for every major desktop os it's also completely out of my skill range as i have zero talent for design and also i'm too lazy to learn but if you're not inkscape has tons of tutorials on their website for 3d modeling you probably already know about blender one might argue it's the best tool for the job used by animators vfx artists and modelers all around the world it's so powerful it can even be used as a video editor if you're so inclined it lets you model sculpt and texture anything you can rig models and animate them it supports simulations for particles water and a lot more but it also lets you color grade do camera tracking motion tracking and compositing can you guess what i'm going to say now that's right i have no idea how to use blender i'm no modeler i'm the vfx artist but i would like to try the video editing part of blender in the future this video is going to make me real humble before it's done let's finish this section with some photo editing dark table is probably your best option here it lets you edit your pictures non-destructively and your original images are of course preserved it supports raw files of course and uses the gpu to process most of its operations so stuff stays pretty fast throughout it supports display color profiles and lets you export to a variety of formats and platforms and can even generate a simple html image gallery to embed on your own website it also supports hdr it can be scripted using the lua language and it's very customizable in terms of keyboard shortcuts here again you can find a ton of tutorials on youtube to learn how to use it something i'm too lazy to do myself as i generally take an amazing photo using my smartphone and then never look at it again now let's move on to media related tools for video playback you can't find something as versatile as vlc it's not the prettiest but it will play virtually anything even badly damaged files that it can even repair it's probably the most powerful video player you can find with support for playing from disks from network streams or capture devices it also handles playlists chapters subtitles and it can change the playback speed or even add a delay between the video and the audio on top of that you can even use it to convert videos to another format or just get very detailed information about the codecs bitrates and formats of a specific file i probably don't need to go further everyone knows vlc another example of an app that doesn't look good at all but that lets you do a ton of stuff audacity it's a powerful audio recording and editing station it can digitize anything import and export virtually any format and even combine audio files it has a ton of effects to make your audio sound a lot better even with a low end microphone and it supports a big range of plugins i use audacity a lot to fix my recording mistakes but also to record and edit my patreon cast which i publish every monday for my patrons and youtube members and i even used it for some english dubbing work that i did as a freelance something i don't know what my title would be in this case it's just great it looks bad but it's really powerful on to productivity applications now first libreoffice if you've ever used openoffice forget all about it because libreoffice is where it's at it's faster it looks better it's more stable and it's extremely customizable to let you work with either a toolbar and menu bar or with a more modern ribbon it comes with all the tools you might need for spreadsheets presentations visual databases word processing math formulas it's basically a complete replacement for microsoft office unless you're an excel wizard and use macros all the time it's also very compatible with office file formats and the best thing is it doesn't cost to send it gets very frequent updates to bridge the few gaps that remain make the interface more polished and improve performance and compatibility it's a very very good program if you had bad memories of open office or early libreoffice versions do give it a shot it has evolved nicely and it's very very powerful another solution is only office its compatibility is better than libreoffice and i've been using it for a year or so now trading files back and forth with people using microsoft office without any issues whatsoever it offers less than libreoffice with only a word processing module a spreadsheet app and a presentation tool but it does all three very well the app mimics the microsoft office look with the ribbon and it can integrate with cloud services to edit files online and collaborate in real time you can even run it on a server and access it through web browser which is what i do most of the time full disclosure only office is a regular sponsor of the channel not for this video specifically but still it bears mentioning let's complete this video with video production for video editing kaden live will probably be your go-to it's a wonderful non-linear video editor with very powerful features to organize your media edit your project and render it in a format of your choosing it has tons of transitions to smoothly go from one clip to another it has a huge range of effects to stabilize footage color grade transform elements or do compositing you can completely rearrange the interface to suit your workflow and customize all the keyboard shortcuts you can also use proxy clips to edit to not tax your computer too much add titles download new effects and transitions from a built-in library and even access a clipart repository i have a few tutorials about getting live on the channel i left a link to the playlist in the card up top i use skater live to run the channel for at least 2 years and apart from the lack of gpu acceleration it's a fantastic program that basically does it all for converting video into other formats handbrake is what you need it can rip dvds into a single file convert any format to any other it can use any codec you might want for audio and for video and any container format you prefer it can even add filters to the resultant file embed subtitles or chapter markers and it has presets for a huge range of devices to quickly convert your stuff into a format your device can actually read if you'd like to automate this kind of conversion work handbrake also has a command line interface i know that at least one person has an automated ripping station pop the disk in rip and convert it before dropping it into a plex server i make use of it all the time to turn random video files into stuff that my video editor can actually work with definitely recommended of course the list doesn't stop here for male clients you can use thunderbird or mail spring for web browsers you have firefox chromium or brave you can replace slack with mattermost zoom with jitsi you have joplin for note taking natron to replace after effects freecad or brl cad to replace autocad and a ton more and yes as i said previously not anyone can replace their proprietary software with open source software but for people who want to learn a new skill and don't have any prior experience with a proprietary piece of software why would you go the proprietary expensive route when you can teach yourself to use an open source tool that costs zero i personally only use open source software to get my job done as a product owner but also as running this youtube channel the only piece of software i use that is proprietary is well the drivers i use for my nvidia graphics card and davinci resolve and that's only because i have outgrown caden live after a few years of using it exclusively just like i exclusively use slim books devices to get my work done slim book is a sponsor of the channel they make linux laptops and desktops they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide they've got a wide range of devices and as i said i only use their stuff nowadays to get work done i use their slim book pro x14 laptop i use their chimera desktop and i use their rgb keyboard as well they have devices for virtually any use case and if you're interested and you want one for yourself just head over to the link in the description below click it and see if they have something for you i'm sure you'll find something that suits your needs so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed 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hey everyone this is nick and just like every week i have to give you the latest linux and open source news because if i didn't you probably would make your own list of rss feeds and that would be way too much to ask what do you mean no one uses rss feeds anymore everybody's wrong then okay so this week we have fedora dropping support for older legacy bios we have nvidia dropping some open source code for drivers although their intent isn't exactly clear and we have more details about how steam will run on chrome os let's get into it but first if you're interested in making sure that your organization is up to par in terms of linux security best practices you might want to listen to this message this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay so it seems that fedora wants to drop support for legacy bios as in everything that's not based on uefi fedora 37 will mark older bios installs as deprecated and new installs won't be possible on these architectures existing installs of fedora will still be supported and will keep working but your older devices won't be able to get a new fresh fedora install while the move might seem surprising it's driven by the fact that a lot of modern features depend on more recent uefi bios for example secure boot support or using the firmware update tool fw upd it also makes the installer and live session for fedora way easier to maintain as it allows the team to stop supporting an architecture that seems to require a range of ancient hacks and complex code to be at future parody with uefi fedora has always looked to the future and is generally one of the first main distros to implement new tech so i'm not super surprised about that change but i'm sure that it's going to piss a lot of people off though what would these videos look like without more kde news we won't find out today as nate graham keeps on publishing articles detailing what the kde team is working on this time there's a new 15 minute bug fixed and changing accent colors will now be done with a smooth cross fade so the change is less jarring much like what gnome does when moving from light to dark mode the info center in the system settings now displays more details about your device including the serial number or the product name and manufacturer on weyland apps that need access to screen recording won't prompt you every time you open them they'll remember that they got access once there are also tons of bug fixes as always and a few user interface improvements for eliza the music player as well as for kate and k wright which now share the same code base and the four finger swipe gesture used to open the kde overview effect is now one to one so it follows your fingers that's a lot of good stuff and i really like seeing the portals being implemented they really add a ton of polish and security to the desktop it's top-notch raspberry pi os is getting some big updates first the setup wizard is now mandatory because it lets you create a user account on your system the default pi user made brute force attacks a bit too easy since each raspberry pi had the same username so you only had to guess the password people who wouldn't be able to see the graphical wizard also have a solution of course the raspberry pi imagery tool lets you pre-configure an image with the user already created the team also added a way to rename the user for existing installs so you won't have to reinstall the whole system to get the same level of security as if you had a fresh one the wizard also allows you to pair a bluetooth keyboard or mouse right from the start without plugging it in through usb which should make the initial setup a bit less irritating they also added experimental wayland support although it's not complete yet and more of a hybrid between wayland and x pretty good stuff all around and it should make these teeny tiny pcs a teeny tiny bit more secure if your distro already graced you with gnome 42 but you were using a few extensions that had not been updated yet you can rejoice two of the major ones are now compatible with gnome 42 namely dash 2 panel and material shell dash 2 panel doesn't have any new features in their latest release version 46 apart from being compatible again you can install it from the gnome extensions website or from extension manager a great app i already talked about a few times users of material shell can also now move to gnome 42 and enjoy its styling window manager-like features for people who never heard about it material shell automatically organizes your windows by tiling them to the various halves or corners of the screen much like what you'd find on popos it's also very keyboard friendly of course and can be installed as every other extension from the gnome extensions website or from extension manager so now you have no excuse to not move to the latest and greatest gnome release nice linux mint 21 revealed itself in more details it will of course be based on ubuntu 22.04 lts still and still supports cinnamon mate and xfc but that's not all its code name is vanessa and the team is working on a new upgrade tool to make moving from one version to the next even easier it will be fully graphical and localized as opposed to the current one that is only in english it will perform a few checks to see if it's safe to upgrade it automatically migrates your ppas and repos to the right version if that exists and it should generally be a much safer and cleaner approach to upgrading your system of course you will be able to skip some of the checks the app performs if you're certain of what you're doing like for example skipping the check to see if a time shift backup exists it will also preserve the mirrors you might have picked for apt so download speeds should be at their best for the upgrade the tool will be made available for linux mint debian edition 4 to move to the latest version 5 and then it will roll out to mint 20.3 to upgrade to mint 21. it's nice to see distributions paying attention to the in-place upgrade process because that can be pretty tricky especially if you have tons of ppas and repos which don't get migrated and break your libraries and stuff it's a good choice a few distros also got some nice updates this week first is endeavor os an arch-based distro that sees its latest release codenamed apollo it brings the linux kernel version 5.17 and the mesa 22 graphics drivers so you should be all caught up in terms of hardware support it also brings a new window manager called worm it seems to be made for x11 and not wayland and it supports styling or floating windows it's also very lightweight you will also get a new graphical utility to pick the apps you want to install and a command line tool to install nvidia drivers mx linux also got a new release version 21.1 it's based on debian 11 and packs the linux kernel 5.16 the disk utility right on the iso and it also improves the installer and updates most of the pre-installed packages both look pretty good i might give them a shot in the future i know the mx linux crowd is pretty vocal about how they like their distro christian schaller the desktop lead at red hat wrote a blog post detailing new things happening on zync which is an opengl implementation that runs on top of vulkan basically it means that devices that don't have a native opengl driver but only a vulcan driver can still have opengl support because that thing is still widely used by our desktops and applications this might seem like a minor development but as manufacturers release new devices they are progressively phasing out support for opengl and focusing on vulkan so this ensures that we'll keep compatibility for the time being this new support will be included in mesa 22.1 and will be made available on fedora 36 performance is still a bit slower than native opengl but they expect that difference to shrink as the codebase becomes more refined it seems important to maintain compatibility with older games and older apps so i'm all for it speaking of drivers it looks like nvidia is making another step towards open source they released the code for their tegra 4 driver for linux and this seems to be accompanied by a previously unseen kernel driver that's also open source but not based on nuvo it actually includes references dating back to the 90s so it might be a more all encompassing driver for a lot of their gpus this new driver is licensed under the mit license and it appears to be derived from their proprietary driver for now it's limited to tegra graphics hardware support and regular desktop gpus don't work with it but since it mentions a lot of these gpus in its code there might be hope that nvidia has finally seen the light and will work on a complete open source driver in the future or maybe they just decided to not clean up a lot of the old code in the driver and i'm getting excited for nothing only time will tell lx cute is a desktop environment i don't talk about much so it's time to remedy that the team published an article detailing changes to their next release version 1.1.0 that was at the end of march so sorry for missing it this new version brings color palettes matching the dark themes as well as two new menu choices simple and compact the latter as you can guess using a bit less horizontal space there's also an improved color picker a separate settings panel to configure the look of gtk apps and they added some icons on the desktop by default accompanied with a new theme a new wallpaper and new icons lxqt 1.1 will also start the transition to q6 and will support the portal spec that's used by a lot of flat pack apps i was inclined to give it a shot when it releases but they added desktop icons i need to think about it more obs is a wonderful tool but its performance impacts can be quite high especially when recording gameplay footage fortunately we might have a new solution in the works called gpu screen recorder a very descriptive name that aims to be the shadow player of linux it will start with nvidia and nvnc support initially but the team has plans to make it work with amd and intel gpus in the future initial performance tests seem to indicate that it does have a much smaller footprint than obs and nvinc and might not disturb gameplay as much the reason the developers gave is that while obs does use the gpu to record the screen each frame is still passed to the cpu and then back to the gpu which slows everything down and causes fps drops this new solution keeps everything on the gpu using cuda so the cpu usage stays at zero percent and only your gpu is being used pretty cool stuff and i hope they can add that back into obs in the future or maybe at least provide a nice graphical user interface to let you like start a recording start streaming or at least just configure what you're recording the steam deck journey continues with 2100 games now being playable on the not so small device we now have 1090 verified titles and 1013 playable games that's still about 30 games added to the list per day big names this time include metro 2033 redux resonance of fate overlord equinox or deus ex invisible war okay admittedly this last one blows but equinox come on for fans like me of the polaris rpg like pen and paper rpg this was an amazing game other good steam deck related news back for blood added experimental support for linux and the deck and more importantly halo the master chief collection now includes the necessary easy anti-cheat files to be playable online on linux and on deck unfortunately it seemed to also have broken the game for some but gaming on linux has a solution for that link in the description that's pretty nuts isn't it a microsoft game making changes specifically to be able to run on linux and on the steam deck it's crazy times we live in google detailed the inner workings of steam on chrome os and it's quite interesting steam will run using a virtual machine which runs a modified version of arch linux specifically designed for gaming the image is named borealis and gets updates with every chrome os update so you don't have two systems to manage separately it also seems to use a very recent version of mesa to ensure the best performance possible in fact google says that this system offers near native performance thanks to venus a lightweight vulcan virtualization driver basically apps will use vulkan and opengl the frames are then passed to x-wayland and to sommelier which is their wayland compositor and finally to chrome's wayland display server everything should be transparent and seamless for the user and developers just need to make games for linux or ensure they run with proton for them to run on chrome os hopefully this will open up the linux gaming market even more because chromebooks seem to be very popular they already passed desktop linux in terms of market share and maybe we'll see more games being compatible with our systems in the future and as always there's a new version of wine out wine 7.6 updates the mono engine used to run.net apps to version 7.2 and graphics drivers are being progressively moved to the pe executable format to be more compatible it also fixes 17 bucks including for the crew the uplay version the oculus runtime silk road tale of the star island or adobe photoshop 7. and as always wine 7.6 will serve as the basis for the next releases of proton so don't you worry you're pretty little ahead about it you'll get the new stuff soon just like you can get some hot new stuff from today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops linux all in ones linux knucks keyboards whatever you name it it runs linux out of the box i use their laptop the slimbook pro x14 i use their desktop the slimbook chimera i use their keyboard the slimbook rgb keyboard and well they've been partners of the channel for a while now i really enjoy working with them they make really cool stuff head over to the link in the description if you want to learn more about their devices and maybe grab one for yourself so thanks everyone for watching the video if you enjoyed it don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications or to leave a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast every monday and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover on the channel so thanks everyone for watching and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and just like every week i have to give you the latest linux and open source news because if i didn't you probably would make your own list of rss feeds and that would be way too much to ask what do you mean no one uses rss feeds anymore everybody's wrong then okay so this week we have fedora dropping support for older legacy bios we have nvidia dropping some open source code for drivers although their intent isn't exactly clear and we have more details about how steam will run on chrome os let's get into it but first if you're interested in making sure that your organization is up to par in terms of linux security best practices you might want to listen to this message this video is sponsored by tuxcare but this time i'm not going to talk to you about their services to handle and manage your linux server fleet this time they want you to take a look at a report that they sponsored about linux security best practices this research was conducted by the independent ponemon institute and the results which are freely downloadable will let you benchmark your processes against a set of best practices for example research shows that organizations spend about 1075 man hours monitoring and patching systems each week including 340 hours of downtime to apply those patches 45 of respondents also indicated that their organization has no tolerance for system patching downtime of course that's a problem that tuxcare solves with their live patching services but if you want to learn more about linux security best practices how to implement them in your organization head over to the link in the description below and download the full report for free no strings attached okay so it seems that fedora wants to drop support for legacy bios as in everything that's not based on uefi fedora 37 will mark older bios installs as deprecated and new installs won't be possible on these architectures existing installs of fedora will still be supported and will keep working but your older devices won't be able to get a new fresh fedora install while the move might seem surprising it's driven by the fact that a lot of modern features depend on more recent uefi bios for example secure boot support or using the firmware update tool fw upd it also makes the installer and live session for fedora way easier to maintain as it allows the team to stop supporting an architecture that seems to require a range of ancient hacks and complex code to be at future parody with uefi fedora has always looked to the future and is generally one of the first main distros to implement new tech so i'm not super surprised about that change but i'm sure that it's going to piss a lot of people off though what would these videos look like without more kde news we won't find out today as nate graham keeps on publishing articles detailing what the kde team is working on this time there's a new 15 minute bug fixed and changing accent colors will now be done with a smooth cross fade so the change is less jarring much like what gnome does when moving from light to dark mode the info center in the system settings now displays more details about your device including the serial number or the product name and manufacturer on weyland apps that need access to screen recording won't prompt you every time you open them they'll remember that they got access once there are also tons of bug fixes as always and a few user interface improvements for eliza the music player as well as for kate and k wright which now share the same code base and the four finger swipe gesture used to open the kde overview effect is now one to one so it follows your fingers that's a lot of good stuff and i really like seeing the portals being implemented they really add a ton of polish and security to the desktop it's top-notch raspberry pi os is getting some big updates first the setup wizard is now mandatory because it lets you create a user account on your system the default pi user made brute force attacks a bit too easy since each raspberry pi had the same username so you only had to guess the password people who wouldn't be able to see the graphical wizard also have a solution of course the raspberry pi imagery tool lets you pre-configure an image with the user already created the team also added a way to rename the user for existing installs so you won't have to reinstall the whole system to get the same level of security as if you had a fresh one the wizard also allows you to pair a bluetooth keyboard or mouse right from the start without plugging it in through usb which should make the initial setup a bit less irritating they also added experimental wayland support although it's not complete yet and more of a hybrid between wayland and x pretty good stuff all around and it should make these teeny tiny pcs a teeny tiny bit more secure if your distro already graced you with gnome 42 but you were using a few extensions that had not been updated yet you can rejoice two of the major ones are now compatible with gnome 42 namely dash 2 panel and material shell dash 2 panel doesn't have any new features in their latest release version 46 apart from being compatible again you can install it from the gnome extensions website or from extension manager a great app i already talked about a few times users of material shell can also now move to gnome 42 and enjoy its styling window manager-like features for people who never heard about it material shell automatically organizes your windows by tiling them to the various halves or corners of the screen much like what you'd find on popos it's also very keyboard friendly of course and can be installed as every other extension from the gnome extensions website or from extension manager so now you have no excuse to not move to the latest and greatest gnome release nice linux mint 21 revealed itself in more details it will of course be based on ubuntu 22.04 lts still and still supports cinnamon mate and xfc but that's not all its code name is vanessa and the team is working on a new upgrade tool to make moving from one version to the next even easier it will be fully graphical and localized as opposed to the current one that is only in english it will perform a few checks to see if it's safe to upgrade it automatically migrates your ppas and repos to the right version if that exists and it should generally be a much safer and cleaner approach to upgrading your system of course you will be able to skip some of the checks the app performs if you're certain of what you're doing like for example skipping the check to see if a time shift backup exists it will also preserve the mirrors you might have picked for apt so download speeds should be at their best for the upgrade the tool will be made available for linux mint debian edition 4 to move to the latest version 5 and then it will roll out to mint 20.3 to upgrade to mint 21. it's nice to see distributions paying attention to the in-place upgrade process because that can be pretty tricky especially if you have tons of ppas and repos which don't get migrated and break your libraries and stuff it's a good choice a few distros also got some nice updates this week first is endeavor os an arch-based distro that sees its latest release codenamed apollo it brings the linux kernel version 5.17 and the mesa 22 graphics drivers so you should be all caught up in terms of hardware support it also brings a new window manager called worm it seems to be made for x11 and not wayland and it supports styling or floating windows it's also very lightweight you will also get a new graphical utility to pick the apps you want to install and a command line tool to install nvidia drivers mx linux also got a new release version 21.1 it's based on debian 11 and packs the linux kernel 5.16 the disk utility right on the iso and it also improves the installer and updates most of the pre-installed packages both look pretty good i might give them a shot in the future i know the mx linux crowd is pretty vocal about how they like their distro christian schaller the desktop lead at red hat wrote a blog post detailing new things happening on zync which is an opengl implementation that runs on top of vulkan basically it means that devices that don't have a native opengl driver but only a vulcan driver can still have opengl support because that thing is still widely used by our desktops and applications this might seem like a minor development but as manufacturers release new devices they are progressively phasing out support for opengl and focusing on vulkan so this ensures that we'll keep compatibility for the time being this new support will be included in mesa 22.1 and will be made available on fedora 36 performance is still a bit slower than native opengl but they expect that difference to shrink as the codebase becomes more refined it seems important to maintain compatibility with older games and older apps so i'm all for it speaking of drivers it looks like nvidia is making another step towards open source they released the code for their tegra 4 driver for linux and this seems to be accompanied by a previously unseen kernel driver that's also open source but not based on nuvo it actually includes references dating back to the 90s so it might be a more all encompassing driver for a lot of their gpus this new driver is licensed under the mit license and it appears to be derived from their proprietary driver for now it's limited to tegra graphics hardware support and regular desktop gpus don't work with it but since it mentions a lot of these gpus in its code there might be hope that nvidia has finally seen the light and will work on a complete open source driver in the future or maybe they just decided to not clean up a lot of the old code in the driver and i'm getting excited for nothing only time will tell lx cute is a desktop environment i don't talk about much so it's time to remedy that the team published an article detailing changes to their next release version 1.1.0 that was at the end of march so sorry for missing it this new version brings color palettes matching the dark themes as well as two new menu choices simple and compact the latter as you can guess using a bit less horizontal space there's also an improved color picker a separate settings panel to configure the look of gtk apps and they added some icons on the desktop by default accompanied with a new theme a new wallpaper and new icons lxqt 1.1 will also start the transition to q6 and will support the portal spec that's used by a lot of flat pack apps i was inclined to give it a shot when it releases but they added desktop icons i need to think about it more obs is a wonderful tool but its performance impacts can be quite high especially when recording gameplay footage fortunately we might have a new solution in the works called gpu screen recorder a very descriptive name that aims to be the shadow player of linux it will start with nvidia and nvnc support initially but the team has plans to make it work with amd and intel gpus in the future initial performance tests seem to indicate that it does have a much smaller footprint than obs and nvinc and might not disturb gameplay as much the reason the developers gave is that while obs does use the gpu to record the screen each frame is still passed to the cpu and then back to the gpu which slows everything down and causes fps drops this new solution keeps everything on the gpu using cuda so the cpu usage stays at zero percent and only your gpu is being used pretty cool stuff and i hope they can add that back into obs in the future or maybe at least provide a nice graphical user interface to let you like start a recording start streaming or at least just configure what you're recording the steam deck journey continues with 2100 games now being playable on the not so small device we now have 1090 verified titles and 1013 playable games that's still about 30 games added to the list per day big names this time include metro 2033 redux resonance of fate overlord equinox or deus ex invisible war okay admittedly this last one blows but equinox come on for fans like me of the polaris rpg like pen and paper rpg this was an amazing game other good steam deck related news back for blood added experimental support for linux and the deck and more importantly halo the master chief collection now includes the necessary easy anti-cheat files to be playable online on linux and on deck unfortunately it seemed to also have broken the game for some but gaming on linux has a solution for that link in the description that's pretty nuts isn't it a microsoft game making changes specifically to be able to run on linux and on the steam deck it's crazy times we live in google detailed the inner workings of steam on chrome os and it's quite interesting steam will run using a virtual machine which runs a modified version of arch linux specifically designed for gaming the image is named borealis and gets updates with every chrome os update so you don't have two systems to manage separately it also seems to use a very recent version of mesa to ensure the best performance possible in fact google says that this system offers near native performance thanks to venus a lightweight vulcan virtualization driver basically apps will use vulkan and opengl the frames are then passed to x-wayland and to sommelier which is their wayland compositor and finally to chrome's wayland display server everything should be transparent and seamless for the user and developers just need to make games for linux or ensure they run with proton for them to run on chrome os hopefully this will open up the linux gaming market even more because chromebooks seem to be very popular they already passed desktop linux in terms of market share and maybe we'll see more games being compatible with our systems in the future and as always there's a new version of wine out wine 7.6 updates the mono engine used to run.net apps to version 7.2 and graphics drivers are being progressively moved to the pe executable format to be more compatible it also fixes 17 bucks including for the crew the uplay version the oculus runtime silk road tale of the star island or adobe photoshop 7. and as always wine 7.6 will serve as the basis for the next releases of proton so don't you worry you're pretty little ahead about it you'll get the new stuff soon just like you can get some hot new stuff from today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops linux all in ones linux knucks keyboards whatever you name it it runs linux out of the box i use their laptop the slimbook pro x14 i use their desktop the slimbook chimera i use their keyboard the slimbook rgb keyboard and well they've been partners of the channel for a while now i really enjoy working with them they make really cool stuff head over to the link in the description if 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hey everyone this is nick and not everyone can or wants to move to linux but this doesn't mean that you can't get from under the grasp of the big companies in terms of the software you run even if you stick to windows or mac os there's a huge number of open source applications that can replace or even sometimes exceed their proprietary counterparts and most of the time for free just like today's sponsors saving which makes tools dedicated to help you manage your internet connection there are open source and they're all free this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the master by heading in the link in the description below okay but why would you want to go the open source route if you're already familiar with a few tools that you use every day well there are multiple reasons the first one is of course to reduce costs most open source software is also free of charge and if you use a bunch of adobe tools or microsoft office the bill at the end of the month can be quite high compound that over a few years and you'll realize you're syncing thousands of dollars into software that could probably be replaced the second reason might be to prepare a smooth transition to linux taking the plunge and changing your habits for your os and your apps at the same time can be a big barrier to entry so you could start by replacing applications first and once you're comfortable move over to linux finally you could also just want to get out of the world garden that proprietary software locks you in with open source software you could use open formats that are interoperable you get better backwards compatibility and generally just more freedom to use other things and i know you can't always replace a proprietary piece of software with an open source one but most non-professionals could definitely switch to open source alternatives i've been running my day job as a product owner for the past five years on open source software exclusively and my channel almost runs on open source software exclusively as well apart from the video editor which i use davinci resolve for so if a dumbass like me can do it there's no reason why you couldn't so now let's begin with open source apps for graphics design 3d modeling or photo editing the most obvious one here is it's an amazing piece of software that i personally use for all my design needs for mockups at my freelance job for youtube thumbnails or for quick photo edits if you're not convinced check out davies media design they're using exclusively for photo editing and graphics design and what they're doing is pretty amazing if you're more used to photoshop and its shortcuts you can also extend using photogimp a plugin that makes game behave as closely to photoshop as humanly possible even adding a variety of tools to fill in the gaps there's also a huge library of plugins you can add to to make it even more powerful and it's very customizable with tool panels you can move anywhere you want and a ton of options to tailor it to your needs it takes a bit of time to learn the workflow but once you do it's amazing it's name might be dumb but it's free of charge it's open source and it runs on every major desktop operating system there is so it might be worth it to relearn a thing or two if you're more into digital painting krita is what you're looking for it's super flexible again with panels that you can move around to suit your workflow it has tons of brushes and you can further extend that by downloading new ones it supports vector graphics and text it can open psd files from photoshop and it's hardware accelerated with opengl so things stay fast and responsive of course it works with various tablets to draw freehand and it even supports hdr there are tons of examples of people painting masterpieces with krita and some even use it for 2d animation thanks to audio import support and exporting options to let you render a video krita is also completely free of charge and gets frequent updates adding some great new features the last major update brought for example a built-in recorder to record your painting sessions or a storyboard editor if someone pointed a gun to my head and told me to paint something amazing or die i would absolutely die but you don't have to try krita and stay alive for vector graphics the go to open source app is inkscape whether you want to mock up an application or a website or design an icon or just draw something inkscape can do it all it exports to virtually any image format you might want including svg of course but it also has great pdf export support you'll find all the usual tools you're used to including pencils calligraphy shape tools bezier curves z order operations transformations layers node editing for path and a lot more stuff i have no mastery of at all it's once again completely free of charge and available for every major desktop os it's also completely out of my skill range as i have zero talent for design and also i'm too lazy to learn but if you're not inkscape has tons of tutorials on their website for 3d modeling you probably already know about blender one might argue it's the best tool for the job used by animators vfx artists and modelers all around the world it's so powerful it can even be used as a video editor if you're so inclined it lets you model sculpt and texture anything you can rig models and animate them it supports simulations for particles water and a lot more but it also lets you color grade do camera tracking motion tracking and compositing can you guess what i'm going to say now that's right i have no idea how to use blender i'm no modeler i'm the vfx artist but i would like to try the video editing part of blender in the future this video is going to make me real humble before it's done let's finish this section with some photo editing dark table is probably your best option here it lets you edit your pictures non-destructively and your original images are of course preserved it supports raw files of course and uses the gpu to process most of its operations so stuff stays pretty fast throughout it supports display color profiles and lets you export to a variety of formats and platforms and can even generate a simple html image gallery to embed on your own website it also supports hdr it can be scripted using the lua language and it's very customizable in terms of keyboard shortcuts here again you can find a ton of tutorials on youtube to learn how to use it something i'm too lazy to do myself as i generally take an amazing photo using my smartphone and then never look at it again now let's move on to media related tools for video playback you can't find something as versatile as vlc it's not the prettiest but it will play virtually anything even badly damaged files that it can even repair it's probably the most powerful video player you can find with support for playing from disks from network streams or capture devices it also handles playlists chapters subtitles and it can change the playback speed or even add a delay between the video and the audio on top of that you can even use it to convert videos to another format or just get very detailed information about the codecs bitrates and formats of a specific file i probably don't need to go further everyone knows vlc another example of an app that doesn't look good at all but that lets you do a ton of stuff audacity it's a powerful audio recording and editing station it can digitize anything import and export virtually any format and even combine audio files it has a ton of effects to make your audio sound a lot better even with a low end microphone and it supports a big range of plugins i use audacity a lot to fix my recording mistakes but also to record and edit my patreon cast which i publish every monday for my patrons and youtube members and i even used it for some english dubbing work that i did as a freelance something i don't know what my title would be in this case it's just great it looks bad but it's really powerful on to productivity applications now first libreoffice if you've ever used openoffice forget all about it because libreoffice is where it's at it's faster it looks better it's more stable and it's extremely customizable to let you work with either a toolbar and menu bar or with a more modern ribbon it comes with all the tools you might need for spreadsheets presentations visual databases word processing math formulas it's basically a complete replacement for microsoft office unless you're an excel wizard and use macros all the time it's also very compatible with office file formats and the best thing is it doesn't cost to send it gets very frequent updates to bridge the few gaps that remain make the interface more polished and improve performance and compatibility it's a very very good program if you had bad memories of open office or early libreoffice versions do give it a shot it has evolved nicely and it's very very powerful another solution is only office its compatibility is better than libreoffice and i've been using it for a year or so now trading files back and forth with people using microsoft office without any issues whatsoever it offers less than libreoffice with only a word processing module a spreadsheet app and a presentation tool but it does all three very well the app mimics the microsoft office look with the ribbon and it can integrate with cloud services to edit files online and collaborate in real time you can even run it on a server and access it through web browser which is what i do most of the time full disclosure only office is a regular sponsor of the channel not for this video specifically but still it bears mentioning let's complete this video with video production for video editing kaden live will probably be your go-to it's a wonderful non-linear video editor with very powerful features to organize your media edit your project and render it in a format of your choosing it has tons of transitions to smoothly go from one clip to another it has a huge range of effects to stabilize footage color grade transform elements or do compositing you can completely rearrange the interface to suit your workflow and customize all the keyboard shortcuts you can also use proxy clips to edit to not tax your computer too much add titles download new effects and transitions from a built-in library and even access a clipart repository i have a few tutorials about getting live on the channel i left a link to the playlist in the card up top i use skater live to run the channel for at least 2 years and apart from the lack of gpu acceleration it's a fantastic program that basically does it all for converting video into other formats handbrake is what you need it can rip dvds into a single file convert any format to any other it can use any codec you might want for audio and for video and any container format you prefer it can even add filters to the resultant file embed subtitles or chapter markers and it has presets for a huge range of devices to quickly convert your stuff into a format your device can actually read if you'd like to automate this kind of conversion work handbrake also has a command line interface i know that at least one person has an automated ripping station pop the disk in rip and convert it before dropping it into a plex server i make use of it all the time to turn random video files into stuff that my video editor can actually work with definitely recommended of course the list doesn't stop here for male clients you can use thunderbird or mail spring for web browsers you have firefox chromium or brave you can replace slack with mattermost zoom with jitsi you have joplin for note taking natron to replace after effects freecad or brl cad to replace autocad and a ton more and yes as i said previously not anyone can replace their proprietary software with open source software but for people who want to learn a new skill and don't have any prior experience with a proprietary piece of software why would you go the proprietary expensive route when you can teach yourself to use an open source tool that costs zero i personally only use open source software to get my job done as a product owner but also as running this youtube channel the only piece of software i use that is proprietary is well the drivers i use for my nvidia graphics card and davinci resolve and that's only because i have outgrown caden live after a few years of using it exclusively just like i exclusively use slim books devices to get my work done slim book is a sponsor of the channel they make linux laptops and desktops they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide they've got a wide range of devices and as i said i only use their stuff nowadays to get work done i use their slim book pro x14 laptop i use their chimera desktop and i use their rgb keyboard as well they have devices for virtually any use case and if you're interested and you want one for yourself just head over to the link in the description below click it and see if they have something for you i'm sure you'll find something that suits your needs so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it which can happen you can also dislike it and write a comment as well to tell me why if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast every monday where i discuss linux open source and some personal things and you also get the right to vote on the next topics i will cover on the channel so thanks everyone for watching i hope you enjoyed the video and i guess you'll see me in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and according to some the reason why the masses haven't moved to linux yet is because linux apps have a reputation for being crappy they perform worse than their proprietary counterparts they do less they have bad ux or bad ui that's just generally bad and bad apps means no one moves to linux we're gonna talk about that in this video and we're gonna see why i think that this argument doesn't hold any water unlike today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit on your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like pihole to block ads but please don't block mine i'm just a poor dude working from his flat from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so first let's talk user interface or user experience some people say that linux apps have bad ui or bad ux the problem is most people don't really know what that means user interface is the look and feel of the application how it looks how the buttons look where they're positioned the capacity of the app to adapt to various window sizes in short it's the visual part of the application user experience is a more nebulous concept it refers to the whole feeling of using the app does it feel good to use do you feel efficient with it is it well guided in short it's the user friendliness of the application from what i understand what people mean when they say that linux apps have bad user interface or bad user experience is i couldn't use it after using it for five minutes oh really of course you're not going to be proficient with a completely different application after a few minutes especially for complex programs like an office suite or graphics design stuff how long did it take people to be proficient with microsoft office with photoshop with adobe premiere or autocad the linux alternatives aren't copies of these programs they don't aim to copy the user interface or the user experience of their proprietary counterparts it's unreasonable to expect them to work like what you know so in most cases this argument boils down to this is not the user interface i'm used to use i don't know how this app works and that's not a fault of the linux application itself unless it does try to be a complete clone of a proprietary piece of software that people are familiar with which is rarely the case take a look at libreoffice the first launch offers tips to help you use it they offer you a choice of user interface to let you get something close to what you know that is good user experience you cater to the user inkscape has a nice guided wizard every time you open it to help you create a new project that's also good user experience in terms of user interface it's more subjective but i don't think anyone would say that libreoffice shows a terrible way to place their buttons and controls either it's a menu bar and toolbars or a ribbon in both cases the most used features are front and center they use standard icons that people are used to same goes for or inkscape these applications don't have bad ui or bad ux they're just not familiar to people so it's a matter of habit of muscle memory not of design people will assume that because they can't replicate the workflow they know from a similar app then the new app must be bad but that's not the case these apps aren't clones of course they're gonna have a different workflow and that's totally normal it doesn't make the application itself bad i would also argue that some linux apps have a better user interface than their proprietary counterparts they are generally much better integrated with some desktops if you're using gnome for example inkscape or libreoffice integrate very well with it they pick up on your theme on your dark theme they use the same button design you're used to they just fit that's not the case for adobe programs or microsoft office on windows for example gnome apps or elementary apps also do a great job of onboarding the user with very clear first run screens and they all display great ui with legible controls descriptive icons and large click targets kd apps also made a lot of progress on that front by only exposing the necessary buttons and options and moving all the more convoluted less used items in a hamburger menu so to sum up this point linux apps in general don't have bad ui or bad ux at least not worse than what you can find on other systems they're just different and so of course you're gonna have to relearn the workflow you're gonna have to relearn your muscle memory you're gonna have to retrain yourself to learn how to use these complex apps especially in the case of pro software or niche software like office suites like graphic design apps like video editors you just cannot bring all your knowledge and expect these apps to work exactly like you think they should and just like with linux spending time with it and accepting to be less proficient for a time is generally a path to being more productive in the long run once you learn other ways to do things you tend to realize that some of the stuff you got used to was absurd and that there are other better ways to do things so now that this is out of the way we're also going to see why the quality of linux apps doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of making the masses use linux let's assume that the argument is true that all linux apps suck compared to their proprietary counterparts that there is no redeeming quality to them and that people would never use them they're all horrible no good disgustingly badly designed failures of an application they're all internet explorer let's say well it still wouldn't matter for most people you know why because most people only ever need a web browser the most used app on any os is the web browser by the vast majority of people they check their email on the webmail they do video conferencing on the browser they chat on the browser they use social media on the browser they watch videos on their browser they even use office suites in there apart from the browser they use a file manager and that's about it and linux has all the web browsers you might want we've got google chrome we've got blue google chrome we've got orange chrome red chrome round chrome microsoft chrome and firefox even if all the linux apps were terrible you still have the exact same web browsers that people are used to and that's the only app that matters in most cases native apps are less and less relevant for the masses and as such the quality of linux apps really doesn't have any impact on the popularity of linux of course the lack of certain applications might hurt linux adoption the fact that we don't have microsoft office or adobe photoshop probably deters some people from even trying linux but the quality of the alternatives we offer doesn't really come into play here i would also argue that the applications themselves don't matter not just because most people work in a browser but also because we have way bigger blockers to linux adoption than the quality of our applications see most people don't use linux applications until after they've installed linux that's why we have so many forum posts asking for good alternatives to popular windows or mac software the applications don't really matter for the sheer number of linux installs because not a lot of people research this stuff beforehand it does matter for retention though if our apps were terrible or if people really need something that doesn't exist on linux then obviously they will not stick around but we have way bigger problems than the quality of our apps however good or bad they might be linux has a notoriety problem on the desktop not a quality problem most people haven't heard the word linux except maybe referring to servers or to something linked to android but on the desktop they don't know and they don't care because it's not the thing that shipped with the computer that they bought they don't know that they can replace the default that came with their computer often windows they don't even know that it's possible the biggest blocker for linux adoption is hardware availability until we have computers sold in retail stores with linux pre-installed the masses won't use linux people will be okay to learn something new if they bought it in a store for a while netbooks were very popular and a lot of them ran on linux people are buying chromebooks like crazy that's not windows they can't run their windows apps on that they still don't care and they still can use them if you sell computers with linux pre-installed people will end up buying them and they will use them if you could buy a ps5 you wouldn't be pissed that your xbox games don't run on it if you bought an android phone you wouldn't be pissed that your iphone apps don't automatically transfer if you buy your mac you're not pissed that your windows apps don't run on it i don't know why people would expect that linux would run mac or windows apps those are different systems people don't expect that then once people have bought linux devices that's when quality of applications will start to matter for retention and adoption and as we've seen we don't have a quality problem we have a it's different problem of course things aren't perfect i'm not going to sit here and tell you that all of our apps are great for everyone that all the niches are covered by perfect applications on linux or that even all of our apps are really good that's not the case there are still a lot of niches that have no real alternatives to their windows counterparts for highly specific professional markets our alternatives also just can't work for example the adobe suite can't be replaced with caden live and inkscape while each program is great individually they just don't have the same feature set the same level of integration that adobe programs enjoy and even if they did most pros could not switch to these apps because they would lose compatibility with their older projects and the time they would need to re-learn how to do things would be time not spent being productive and of course some linux apps do have a bad user interface or a bad user experience some apps are developed by developers that just want something for them just because it's open source doesn't mean that they thought the app would be used by millions of people and so some apps are just badly designed and they are not thought out for the user but that's okay that's the case on other platforms too one example is obs while it's very powerful and once you're familiar with it it's really good the ui is really not great button placement isn't intuitive nothing really explains what a source or a scene is options are not super legible or well explained don't be mad i love obs i use it all the time but in terms of design it's not great so yeah of course things aren't perfect some linux apps are crappy or unstable or badly designed just like some windows apps are or like some mac apps are now wait a minute mac apps cannot be badly designed because max r design right linux apps like any other can be bad or can be good i personally think from my 10 years of ui and ux work experience that most of the major linux apps do have good design and good user interface and good user experience but in any case the notion that linux isn't growing on the mass market because its apps are bad that notion is just incorrect linux doesn't grow much on the desktop because people don't know about it the quality of apps doesn't matter if people don't even know that these apps exist and if people knew about linux and were able to buy computers with linux print start most of them would just use a web browser which is no problem at all on linux other people that want to use native applications would find a healthy selection of good quality stuff but they would have to get used to these and relearn some of their habits and that's the most obvious issue for a lot of people relearning something that they already know how to do on another program is deemed unacceptable and if the app doesn't offer the exact same workflow that they're used to and they can't use it after five minutes of trial and error they'll automatically assume that it's bad but that's not true the truth is linux is a different operating system its applications are different it's perfectly normal that they would work in a different way and expecting them to be clones of already existing software isn't reasonable this expectation in my opinion has zero impact on the adoption of linux by the mass market whether you think that linux apps are bad or good that's your opinion that's my opinion that's your choice but it has no impact because people will just not use something that they don't even know exists but for people who do know that linux exists today's sponsor will be perfect it's slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops at all price points they ship worldwide they have a wide keyboard range and they have a great variety of devices from all-in-ones to small form-factor pcs with great aluminum enclosures to bigger desktops to laptops for gaming ultrabooks cheaper ultrabooks basically they've got you covered for every single one of your needs so just click the 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hey everyone this is nick and according to some the reason why the masses haven't moved to linux yet is because linux apps have a reputation for being crappy they perform worse than their proprietary counterparts they do less they have bad ux or bad ui that's just generally bad and bad apps means no one moves to linux we're gonna talk about that in this video and we're gonna see why i think that this argument doesn't hold any water unlike today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit on your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like pihole to block ads but please don't block mine i'm just a poor dude working from his flat from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so first let's talk user interface or user experience some people say that linux apps have bad ui or bad ux the problem is most people don't really know what that means user interface is the look and feel of the application how it looks how the buttons look where they're positioned the capacity of the app to adapt to various window sizes in short it's the visual part of the application user experience is a more nebulous concept it refers to the whole feeling of using the app does it feel good to use do you feel efficient with it is it well guided in short it's the user friendliness of the application from what i understand what people mean when they say that linux apps have bad user interface or bad user experience is i couldn't use it after using it for five minutes oh really of course you're not going to be proficient with a completely different application after a few minutes especially for complex programs like an office suite or graphics design stuff how long did it take people to be proficient with microsoft office with photoshop with adobe premiere or autocad the linux alternatives aren't copies of these programs they don't aim to copy the user interface or the user experience of their proprietary counterparts it's unreasonable to expect them to work like what you know so in most cases this argument boils down to this is not the user interface i'm used to use i don't know how this app works and that's not a fault of the linux application itself unless it does try to be a complete clone of a proprietary piece of software that people are familiar with which is rarely the case take a look at libreoffice the first launch offers tips to help you use it they offer you a choice of user interface to let you get something close to what you know that is good user experience you cater to the user inkscape has a nice guided wizard every time you open it to help you create a new project that's also good user experience in terms of user interface it's more subjective but i don't think anyone would say that libreoffice shows a terrible way to place their buttons and controls either it's a menu bar and toolbars or a ribbon in both cases the most used features are front and center they use standard icons that people are used to same goes for or inkscape these applications don't have bad ui or bad ux they're just not familiar to people so it's a matter of habit of muscle memory not of design people will assume that because they can't replicate the workflow they know from a similar app then the new app must be bad but that's not the case these apps aren't clones of course they're gonna have a different workflow and that's totally normal it doesn't make the application itself bad i would also argue that some linux apps have a better user interface than their proprietary counterparts they are generally much better integrated with some desktops if you're using gnome for example inkscape or libreoffice integrate very well with it they pick up on your theme on your dark theme they use the same button design you're used to they just fit that's not the case for adobe programs or microsoft office on windows for example gnome apps or elementary apps also do a great job of onboarding the user with very clear first run screens and they all display great ui with legible controls descriptive icons and large click targets kd apps also made a lot of progress on that front by only exposing the necessary buttons and options and moving all the more convoluted less used items in a hamburger menu so to sum up this point linux apps in general don't have bad ui or bad ux at least not worse than what you can find on other systems they're just different and so of course you're gonna have to relearn the workflow you're gonna have to relearn your muscle memory you're gonna have to retrain yourself to learn how to use these complex apps especially in the case of pro software or niche software like office suites like graphic design apps like video editors you just cannot bring all your knowledge and expect these apps to work exactly like you think they should and just like with linux spending time with it and accepting to be less proficient for a time is generally a path to being more productive in the long run once you learn other ways to do things you tend to realize that some of the stuff you got used to was absurd and that there are other better ways to do things so now that this is out of the way we're also going to see why the quality of linux apps doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of making the masses use linux let's assume that the argument is true that all linux apps suck compared to their proprietary counterparts that there is no redeeming quality to them and that people would never use them they're all horrible no good disgustingly badly designed failures of an application they're all internet explorer let's say well it still wouldn't matter for most people you know why because most people only ever need a web browser the most used app on any os is the web browser by the vast majority of people they check their email on the webmail they do video conferencing on the browser they chat on the browser they use social media on the browser they watch videos on their browser they even use office suites in there apart from the browser they use a file manager and that's about it and linux has all the web browsers you might want we've got google chrome we've got blue google chrome we've got orange chrome red chrome round chrome microsoft chrome and firefox even if all the linux apps were terrible you still have the exact same web browsers that people are used to and that's the only app that matters in most cases native apps are less and less relevant for the masses and as such the quality of linux apps really doesn't have any impact on the popularity of linux of course the lack of certain applications might hurt linux adoption the fact that we don't have microsoft office or adobe photoshop probably deters some people from even trying linux but the quality of the alternatives we offer doesn't really come into play here i would also argue that the applications themselves don't matter not just because most people work in a browser but also because we have way bigger blockers to linux adoption than the quality of our applications see most people don't use linux applications until after they've installed linux that's why we have so many forum posts asking for good alternatives to popular windows or mac software the applications don't really matter for the sheer number of linux installs because not a lot of people research this stuff beforehand it does matter for retention though if our apps were terrible or if people really need something that doesn't exist on linux then obviously they will not stick around but we have way bigger problems than the quality of our apps however good or bad they might be linux has a notoriety problem on the desktop not a quality problem most people haven't heard the word linux except maybe referring to servers or to something linked to android but on the desktop they don't know and they don't care because it's not the thing that shipped with the computer that they bought they don't know that they can replace the default that came with their computer often windows they don't even know that it's possible the biggest blocker for linux adoption is hardware availability until we have computers sold in retail stores with linux pre-installed the masses won't use linux people will be okay to learn something new if they bought it in a store for a while netbooks were very popular and a lot of them ran on linux people are buying chromebooks like crazy that's not windows they can't run their windows apps on that they still don't care and they still can use them if you sell computers with linux pre-installed people will end up buying them and they will use them if you could buy a ps5 you wouldn't be pissed that your xbox games don't run on it if you bought an android phone you wouldn't be pissed that your iphone apps don't automatically transfer if you buy your mac you're not pissed that your windows apps don't run on it i don't know why people would expect that linux would run mac or windows apps those are different systems people don't expect that then once people have bought linux devices that's when quality of applications will start to matter for retention and adoption and as we've seen we don't have a quality problem we have a it's different problem of course things aren't perfect i'm not going to sit here and tell you that all of our apps are great for everyone that all the niches are covered by perfect applications on linux or that even all of our apps are really good that's not the case there are still a lot of niches that have no real alternatives to their windows counterparts for highly specific professional markets our alternatives also just can't work for example the adobe suite can't be replaced with caden live and inkscape while each program is great individually they just don't have the same feature set the same level of integration that adobe programs enjoy and even if they did most pros could not switch to these apps because they would lose compatibility with their older projects and the time they would need to re-learn how to do things would be time not spent being productive and of course some linux apps do have a bad user interface or a bad user experience some apps are developed by developers that just want something for them just because it's open source doesn't mean that they thought the app would be used by millions of people and so some apps are just badly designed and they are not thought out for the user but that's okay that's the case on other platforms too one example is obs while it's very powerful and once you're familiar with it it's really good the ui is really not great button placement isn't intuitive nothing really explains what a source or a scene is options are not super legible or well explained don't be mad i love obs i use it all the time but in terms of design it's not great so yeah of course things aren't perfect some linux apps are crappy or unstable or badly designed just like some windows apps are or like some mac apps are now wait a minute mac apps cannot be badly designed because max r design right linux apps like any other can be bad or can be good i personally think from my 10 years of ui and ux work experience that most of the major linux apps do have good design and good user interface and good user experience but in any case the notion that linux isn't growing on the mass market because its apps are bad that notion is just incorrect linux doesn't grow much on the desktop because people don't know about it the quality of apps doesn't matter if people don't even know that these apps exist and if people knew about linux and were able to buy computers with linux print start most of them would just use a web browser which is no problem at all on linux other people that want to use native applications would find a healthy selection of good quality stuff but they would have to get used to these and relearn some of their habits and that's the most obvious issue for a lot of people relearning something that they already know how to do on another program is deemed unacceptable and if the app doesn't offer the exact same workflow that they're used to and they can't use it after five minutes of trial and error they'll automatically assume that it's bad but that's not true the truth is linux is a different operating system its applications are different it's perfectly normal that they would work in a different way and expecting them to be clones of already existing software isn't reasonable this expectation in my opinion has zero impact on the adoption of linux by the mass market whether you think that linux apps are bad or good that's your opinion that's my opinion that's your choice but it has no impact because people will just not use something that they don't even know exists but for people who do know that linux exists today's sponsor will be perfect it's slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops at all price points they ship worldwide they have a wide keyboard range and they have a great variety of devices from all-in-ones to small form-factor pcs with great aluminum enclosures to bigger desktops to laptops for gaming ultrabooks cheaper ultrabooks basically they've got you covered for every single one of your needs so just click the 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hey everyone this is nick and on this weekly linux news video we have a lot less gaming news than usual as the steam deck hype starts slowly ramping down but that's okay because we have a ton of linux desktop related stuff to cover this week we have a nice outline for the future plans of gnome including a recoloring api for libervita and also accent colors by default we also have ubuntu 22.04 seeing its first beta and it's gearing up to be a major major release apart from the fact that it's already going to be an lts and we also have an awesome tool that lets you remove snap from your ubuntu installation and replace every snap with a flat pack so let's get started right after i tell you how today's sponsor is going to let you get a hundred dollar free credit for your linux or gaming server thanks to linode for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so chris davis a gnome developer outlined plans for the next releases of gnome including gnome 43 and after the major things they want to work on is accent colors and the recoloring api for libidvita accent colors are self-explanatory they already exist in kde elementor ios or ubuntu and they let you pick a dominant color that will permeate through the desktop and icons and gnome wants to make these desktop agnostic so kde apps would also use the color set for gnome and vice versa the recoloring api is meant for developers mainly to let them change the main colors of lipid vita into something else and give more personality to their apps they also want to work on a new file chooser that would be handled by nautilus and not by gdk anymore and on making nautilus responsive so it can work well on mobile devices finally there's also a new image viewer that's more modern that is touchscreen and touchpad friendly and will get editing capabilities in the future there are a few other interesting ideas and proposals but for now they're just that proposals even though they do look like they're going to make gnome a more interesting platform for developers and for users as well various gnome developers and app developers also made progress last week on a bunch of apps and components the gnome logs app was ported to lipidvita and gtk4 and webkit gdk the built-in rendering engine used by gnome web for example now uses widgets that resemble the ones used in libervita and it also supports css acts and colors shortwave a web radio player can now add local stations that aren't available in the list that shortwave uses and work continues on pcap backup a nice file backup app with a lot of improvements identity the app that lets you compare two files side by side now supports pinch to zoom with the touchpad and there's an interesting app called just perfection that lets you customize the gnome shell and disable ui elements exciting stuff happening here i really feel like the release of libertvita and gnome 42 and gdk4 has really kicked things up a notch in terms of app development and of course if you want to find some interesting no maps i made a video about that a few days ago you can check it up in the card up top caddy developers weren't idle either though and there's a bunch of interesting new things being worked on two 15-minute bugs were fixed and two new were added to the list so no change to the total there and k-right will now use the same code base as kate but with a bunch of features turned off for people who prefer a simpler experience this should make maintaining both apps a lot easier if you choose the picture of the day wallpaper you will now be able to preview it and see some metadata and there's a new and improved tablet mode that will make all breeze themed controls bigger and easier to use with a touch screen icons in the task manager will also get a lot more spacing in this tablet mode there's a new configuration screen to handle wacom express key remote devices in the x11 session and there are a lot of bugs being fixed and user interface improvements for various apps i'm really super excited about every new development on these major desktop environments kde or gnome things are just progressing so quickly new stuff is added all the time it feels like we're in 2006 again and yeah i'm old but still it's nice deep in 20.5 was released and it brings a bunch of improvements to the chinese linux distribution that's often praised for its looks among these changes there's face recognition to let you unlock your computer and authenticate just by using your face similar to what howdy or slim bookface already do screenshots can also be pinned to the desktop and stay on top of open windows that's pretty handy if you often need to use these in bug reports for example the mail app has custom folder management the video player supports more file formats the global search lets you use file types and extensions for your searches and the music player now supports drag and drop to reorder songs in playlists it's been a long while since i tried dpin but since it's based on an older debian release i'd be more inclined to use just the desktop on a more modern distro i need to give it a good look the beta for ubuntu 22.04 was released and can be downloaded right now the next lts version of ubuntu codenamedjammyjellyfish is an interesting one since it renews with the current gnome release cycle shipping gnome 42 and all its improvements like the new shell look that's also completely light this time around if you pick the light mode you also get redesigned on-screen display elements like when changing the volume and the yaro theme seems to apply to libertvita apps so it seems like these can be themed still although they use a lot more orange than they used to there are also accent colors the new screenshot experience a new file manager icon and folder icons that follow the accent color you picked all default apps also got a nice version bump and it uses the kernel version 5.15 with mesa drivers version 22. the software center is still way behind the default gnome experience though the new installer still isn't ready yet so it won't be there out of the box you can expect a video review of ubuntu 22.04 on the channel and a rundown of the major changes on its most important variants or flavors as they call them so subscribe if you're interested in that speaking of ubuntu there's a new tool in town if you like that distro but not the snaps it uses it's called unsnap and it lets you remove all snaps from your distro and replace them with flatback integration it's a very early release so it might not be perfect just yet and it works by generating scripts that you can review before applying basically it backups each installed snap it installs flat pack and enables flat hub it installs the flatback equivalent of all your snaps if they exist it removes these snaps and finally it removes snap d for now it uses a manual list to map snaps to flat pack apps so it's not complete yet and of course anyone can contribute to improve that list for now there is no restoring feature if you want to go back to snaps you'll have to do it manually what's interesting is that this tool is being developed by alan pope which up until a year ago was working at canonical as a snap advocate isn't that ironic well it is according to the alanis morissette definition of irony if you've used fedora or seen one of my videos about it you know that the installer is its weak point it uses weird button placements it's not very legible partitioning isn't super clear and the whole hub design just isn't what users are used to well there are good news as anaconda is being redesigned to use the much more familiar wizard model with step-by-step guided instructions that's what virtually every other linux installer uses from ubuntu to manjaro to pop os and what windows or mac os also uses so while it might not be new or fancy it's still probably the right choice of course it's all just early stages and there's just a simple mock-up made using pattern fly and open source design system we'll probably have to wait a bit before it actually ships in a fedoral release but i for one applaud the decision although at that point if they are going with the wizard approach i don't really know why they wouldn't just reuse something that already exists like the elementary os installer or calamaris for example the linux foundation is now reopening applications for their training scholarships the program started in 2011 and 1100 scholarships have already been awarded to train and certify people on various linux and open source topics if you're interested you have until the end of april to apply in one of 12 topics including the linux kernel system administration blockchain web development cyber security or general open source knowledge most courses are done through e-learning and remotely so virtually anyone can benefit of course not everyone can get one so you'll have to fill in a pretty long application form ironically made with google forms and wait to see if you win one of these scholarships or not can hurt to try though it's a free scholarship and i mean i think one of my viewers last year told me that they got into one of these so kudos something i missed last week mozilla outlined their vision for the evolution of the web they point out that the web is now home to a lot of spyware from corporations and governments and can be hostile sluggish or increasingly complex and it lacks accessibility especially for non-english speakers or for people with disabilities their vision boils down to protecting user privacy and protecting them from malicious code encrypting everything adding new capabilities safely without just making the web browser into an os they also want to make the web fast again and easy for anyone to publish stuff online they want to let people experience the web as they want it rather than just doing what the website wants they also want to make the web more accessible to non-english speakers and to people with disabilities notably through screen readers laudable goals although there aren't any implementation details of what they are planning to do with their own products to support that more user-friendly web there are more details in the full paper but it's mostly just theoretical stuff not really practical features speaking of mozilla firefox 99 was released with support for the gtk overlay scroll bars these will now work a lot like their gdk counterparts being hidden when not in use appearing when scrolling and increasing in size when you try to click on them to drag the webpage around they're not enabled by default but you can turn them on easily enough in the about config page there's also a new shortcut pressing the letter n will toggle narration and firefox now supports the web midi api they also improved sandboxing as the processes that are exposed to web content can't access the x server anymore so things should be more secure but nick chrome reached version 100 before firefox it must means that firefox sucks right lutris gets even better with the new 0.5.10 release the big update for steam deck owners is well steam deck support unfortunately it's still not available as a flat pack although the developer is working on it still if you manage to bypass the read-only protection of the system and are okay with reinstalling lootris after each steam deck update you can get it from the aur adding a new title now brings a new wizard window with a lot of options to streamline adding your games to the library and there is now support for origin and ubisoft connect just like lutrus already works with the epic game store you'll need to install the respective clients in lutris for that integration to work you'll also be able to enable battle life support download patches and dlc for goggy games and fsync will be enabled by default despite some pretty weird anti-noob positions from the main developer of lutris lutrus is a super user-friendly tool to get your gaming on on linux hopefully they can add flatback support really soon so it's a breeze to install on the steam deck and everywhere else it seems like the success of the steam deck and its nice shiny new os is attracting others one x player another maker of gaming handheld pcs traditionally using windows as the main os would be interested in offering devices with steamos 3 pre-installed they've actually started working on that already which is cool 1x player devices are usually a lot more expensive than the steam deck and they don't tend to perform a lot better but maybe using steamos would give them a nice performance boost especially with fsr being integrated out of the box they would at least save up on the cost of the windows license and they could still offer windows for people who really really want total game compatibility it's always super cool to see more manufacturers pushing linux devices and maybe gaming is the last final push that linux needs to actually become mainstream on the desktop speaking of the steam deck it passed the awesome 2000 certified games mark last week there are now more than a thousand verified titles and about a thousand more marked as playable of course a lot more are also playable even though they've not been reviewed by valve but that number is pretty amazing for marketing purposes among the big names now officially compatible we have death stranding director's cut frostpunk or sniper elite can you name any other console that has that many certified titles that can run on it like two months after its release some might argue that there are even more games that you can play on these devices than actual devices shipped to people but yeah sorry q3 people finally proton might get support for nvidia's image scaling feature you're probably familiar with the ability to use amd's equivalent called fsr in any game even those that don't support it officially thanks to a launch argument in steam well nvidia would like to do the same thing with dlss which is pretty cool it's currently only a pull request on proton adding that launch variable and there is no guarantee it will be accepted but i personally hope it will as the more options we have for that stuff the better all titles will be able to run on our linux pcs and who knows it might even make its way into gamescope on steam os 3 so you could make a home console running steam os 3 with an nvidia gpu and still benefit from this super nice technology running natively on your graphics card that would be really nice really nice just like today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops and desktops for all price ranges they ship worldwide they've got most of the keyboard layouts that you might want and they make really cool devices i only use their stuff nowadays their laptop and their desktop they also make the slimbook one which is a fantastic small form factor pc with a great aluminum enclosure good performance with ryzen cpus and they just updated it so i'm waiting for my review unit to give it a good poke and a good review but in the meantime you can already click the link in description below check out the specs check out the look and just buy one if you're 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hey everyone this is nick and on this weekly linux news video we have a lot less gaming news than usual as the steam deck hype starts slowly ramping down but that's okay because we have a ton of linux desktop related stuff to cover this week we have a nice outline for the future plans of gnome including a recoloring api for libervita and also accent colors by default we also have ubuntu 22.04 seeing its first beta and it's gearing up to be a major major release apart from the fact that it's already going to be an lts and we also have an awesome tool that lets you remove snap from your ubuntu installation and replace every snap with a flat pack so let's get started right after i tell you how today's sponsor is going to let you get a hundred dollar free credit for your linux or gaming server thanks to linode for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads you can block mine but it's gonna make me even poorer from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so chris davis a gnome developer outlined plans for the next releases of gnome including gnome 43 and after the major things they want to work on is accent colors and the recoloring api for libidvita accent colors are self-explanatory they already exist in kde elementor ios or ubuntu and they let you pick a dominant color that will permeate through the desktop and icons and gnome wants to make these desktop agnostic so kde apps would also use the color set for gnome and vice versa the recoloring api is meant for developers mainly to let them change the main colors of lipid vita into something else and give more personality to their apps they also want to work on a new file chooser that would be handled by nautilus and not by gdk anymore and on making nautilus responsive so it can work well on mobile devices finally there's also a new image viewer that's more modern that is touchscreen and touchpad friendly and will get editing capabilities in the future there are a few other interesting ideas and proposals but for now they're just that proposals even though they do look like they're going to make gnome a more interesting platform for developers and for users as well various gnome developers and app developers also made progress last week on a bunch of apps and components the gnome logs app was ported to lipidvita and gtk4 and webkit gdk the built-in rendering engine used by gnome web for example now uses widgets that resemble the ones used in libervita and it also supports css acts and colors shortwave a web radio player can now add local stations that aren't available in the list that shortwave uses and work continues on pcap backup a nice file backup app with a lot of improvements identity the app that lets you compare two files side by side now supports pinch to zoom with the touchpad and there's an interesting app called just perfection that lets you customize the gnome shell and disable ui elements exciting stuff happening here i really feel like the release of libertvita and gnome 42 and gdk4 has really kicked things up a notch in terms of app development and of course if you want to find some interesting no maps i made a video about that a few days ago you can check it up in the card up top caddy developers weren't idle either though and there's a bunch of interesting new things being worked on two 15-minute bugs were fixed and two new were added to the list so no change to the total there and k-right will now use the same code base as kate but with a bunch of features turned off for people who prefer a simpler experience this should make maintaining both apps a lot easier if you choose the picture of the day wallpaper you will now be able to preview it and see some metadata and there's a new and improved tablet mode that will make all breeze themed controls bigger and easier to use with a touch screen icons in the task manager will also get a lot more spacing in this tablet mode there's a new configuration screen to handle wacom express key remote devices in the x11 session and there are a lot of bugs being fixed and user interface improvements for various apps i'm really super excited about every new development on these major desktop environments kde or gnome things are just progressing so quickly new stuff is added all the time it feels like we're in 2006 again and yeah i'm old but still it's nice deep in 20.5 was released and it brings a bunch of improvements to the chinese linux distribution that's often praised for its looks among these changes there's face recognition to let you unlock your computer and authenticate just by using your face similar to what howdy or slim bookface already do screenshots can also be pinned to the desktop and stay on top of open windows that's pretty handy if you often need to use these in bug reports for example the mail app has custom folder management the video player supports more file formats the global search lets you use file types and extensions for your searches and the music player now supports drag and drop to reorder songs in playlists it's been a long while since i tried dpin but since it's based on an older debian release i'd be more inclined to use just the desktop on a more modern distro i need to give it a good look the beta for ubuntu 22.04 was released and can be downloaded right now the next lts version of ubuntu codenamedjammyjellyfish is an interesting one since it renews with the current gnome release cycle shipping gnome 42 and all its improvements like the new shell look that's also completely light this time around if you pick the light mode you also get redesigned on-screen display elements like when changing the volume and the yaro theme seems to apply to libertvita apps so it seems like these can be themed still although they use a lot more orange than they used to there are also accent colors the new screenshot experience a new file manager icon and folder icons that follow the accent color you picked all default apps also got a nice version bump and it uses the kernel version 5.15 with mesa drivers version 22. the software center is still way behind the default gnome experience though the new installer still isn't ready yet so it won't be there out of the box you can expect a video review of ubuntu 22.04 on the channel and a rundown of the major changes on its most important variants or flavors as they call them so subscribe if you're interested in that speaking of ubuntu there's a new tool in town if you like that distro but not the snaps it uses it's called unsnap and it lets you remove all snaps from your distro and replace them with flatback integration it's a very early release so it might not be perfect just yet and it works by generating scripts that you can review before applying basically it backups each installed snap it installs flat pack and enables flat hub it installs the flatback equivalent of all your snaps if they exist it removes these snaps and finally it removes snap d for now it uses a manual list to map snaps to flat pack apps so it's not complete yet and of course anyone can contribute to improve that list for now there is no restoring feature if you want to go back to snaps you'll have to do it manually what's interesting is that this tool is being developed by alan pope which up until a year ago was working at canonical as a snap advocate isn't that ironic well it is according to the alanis morissette definition of irony if you've used fedora or seen one of my videos about it you know that the installer is its weak point it uses weird button placements it's not very legible partitioning isn't super clear and the whole hub design just isn't what users are used to well there are good news as anaconda is being redesigned to use the much more familiar wizard model with step-by-step guided instructions that's what virtually every other linux installer uses from ubuntu to manjaro to pop os and what windows or mac os also uses so while it might not be new or fancy it's still probably the right choice of course it's all just early stages and there's just a simple mock-up made using pattern fly and open source design system we'll probably have to wait a bit before it actually ships in a fedoral release but i for one applaud the decision although at that point if they are going with the wizard approach i don't really know why they wouldn't just reuse something that already exists like the elementary os installer or calamaris for example the linux foundation is now reopening applications for their training scholarships the program started in 2011 and 1100 scholarships have already been awarded to train and certify people on various linux and open source topics if you're interested you have until the end of april to apply in one of 12 topics including the linux kernel system administration blockchain web development cyber security or general open source knowledge most courses are done through e-learning and remotely so virtually anyone can benefit of course not everyone can get one so you'll have to fill in a pretty long application form ironically made with google forms and wait to see if you win one of these scholarships or not can hurt to try though it's a free scholarship and i mean i think one of my viewers last year told me that they got into one of these so kudos something i missed last week mozilla outlined their vision for the evolution of the web they point out that the web is now home to a lot of spyware from corporations and governments and can be hostile sluggish or increasingly complex and it lacks accessibility especially for non-english speakers or for people with disabilities their vision boils down to protecting user privacy and protecting them from malicious code encrypting everything adding new capabilities safely without just making the web browser into an os they also want to make the web fast again and easy for anyone to publish stuff online they want to let people experience the web as they want it rather than just doing what the website wants they also want to make the web more accessible to non-english speakers and to people with disabilities notably through screen readers laudable goals although there aren't any implementation details of what they are planning to do with their own products to support that more user-friendly web there are more details in the full paper but it's mostly just theoretical stuff not really practical features speaking of mozilla firefox 99 was released with support for the gtk overlay scroll bars these will now work a lot like their gdk counterparts being hidden when not in use appearing when scrolling and increasing in size when you try to click on them to drag the webpage around they're not enabled by default but you can turn them on easily enough in the about config page there's also a new shortcut pressing the letter n will toggle narration and firefox now supports the web midi api they also improved sandboxing as the processes that are exposed to web content can't access the x server anymore so things should be more secure but nick chrome reached version 100 before firefox it must means that firefox sucks right lutris gets even better with the new 0.5.10 release the big update for steam deck owners is well steam deck support unfortunately it's still not available as a flat pack although the developer is working on it still if you manage to bypass the read-only protection of the system and are okay with reinstalling lootris after each steam deck update you can get it from the aur adding a new title now brings a new wizard window with a lot of options to streamline adding your games to the library and there is now support for origin and ubisoft connect just like lutrus already works with the epic game store you'll need to install the respective clients in lutris for that integration to work you'll also be able to enable battle life support download patches and dlc for goggy games and fsync will be enabled by default despite some pretty weird anti-noob positions from the main developer of lutris lutrus is a super user-friendly tool to get your gaming on on linux hopefully they can add flatback support really soon so it's a breeze to install on the steam deck and everywhere else it seems like the success of the steam deck and its nice shiny new os is attracting others one x player another maker of gaming handheld pcs traditionally using windows as the main os would be interested in offering devices with steamos 3 pre-installed they've actually started working on that already which is cool 1x player devices are usually a lot more expensive than the steam deck and they don't tend to perform a lot better but maybe using steamos would give them a nice performance boost especially with fsr being integrated out of the box they would at least save up on the cost of the windows license and they could still offer windows for people who really really want total game compatibility it's always super cool to see more manufacturers pushing linux devices and maybe gaming is the last final push that linux needs to actually become mainstream on the desktop speaking of the steam deck it passed the awesome 2000 certified games mark last week there are now more than a thousand verified titles and about a thousand more marked as playable of course a lot more are also playable even though they've not been reviewed by valve but that number is pretty amazing for marketing purposes among the big names now officially compatible we have death stranding director's cut frostpunk or sniper elite can you name any other console that has that many certified titles that can run on it like two months after its release some might argue that there are even more games that you can play on these devices than actual devices shipped to people but yeah sorry q3 people finally proton might get support for nvidia's image scaling feature you're probably familiar with the ability to use amd's equivalent called fsr in any game even those that don't support it officially thanks to a launch argument in steam well nvidia would like to do the same thing with dlss which is pretty cool it's currently only a pull request on proton adding that launch variable and there is no guarantee it will be accepted but i personally hope it will as the more options we have for that stuff the better all titles will be able to run on our linux pcs and who knows it might even make its way into gamescope on steam os 3 so you could make a home console running steam os 3 with an nvidia gpu and still benefit from this super nice technology running natively on your graphics card that would be really nice really nice just like today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops and desktops for all price ranges they ship worldwide they've got most of the keyboard layouts that you might want and they make really cool devices i only use their stuff nowadays their laptop and their desktop they also make the slimbook one which is a fantastic small form factor pc with a great aluminum enclosure good performance with ryzen cpus and they just updated it so i'm waiting for my review unit to give it a good poke and a good review but in the meantime you can already click the link in description below check out the specs check out the look and just buy one if you're interested they're really really awesome devices running linux out of the box so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments you can also help me make more of these videos by becoming a patreon member or a youtube member both of these get access to the weekly patreon cast and to the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and while we have some incredible applications on linux sometimes depending on your use case you just need to run a piece of software that's been made exclusively for windows and isn't available on linux for these use cases we have wine which is a compatibility layer to run windows software on linux it's not an emulator it's basically a re-implementation of windows inside of linux problem is running things with wine manually can be quite the hassle especially if you need to run multiple apps with different preferences different windows versions different libraries for that we had play on linux but i don't think it's maintained anymore from what i could find fortunately we now have bottles which is an amazing alternative with a graphical user interface that lets you just run your windows programs on linux so let's talk about it right after i tell you everything about today's sponsor which will let you monitor and control your network connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay let's begin with a quick refresher course on wine wine stands for wine is not an emulator which means it's one of these recursive acronyms that include the acronym itself in the full length name which is a weird thing that linux developers sometimes do wine is an almost complete re-implementation of multiple windows apis in a format that linux can understand when a windows program runs with wine it talks to it like it would talk to windows and wine just grabs these calls and tells your linux system to execute something it can understand so you're not running a virtual machine or emulating the system you have a whole windows environment except it's not developed by microsoft and you don't need a copy of windows to use it wine creates a fake c drive inside your home directory in the dot wine hidden folder and it stores everything there the documents pictures desktop of videos folder from the fake c drive are also mapped to your regular folders inside of your linux environment so you don't need to hunt for various files they are where you expect them to be which can also create some clutter in your main documents folder in your slash home directory on linux because windows apps aren't generally very respectful of where they put their stuff or where it's supposed to be which means that you will probably get a my games folder at some point or various things various folders and files that are just coming from windows apps inside of your linux environment wine can even create multiple fake c drives to install apps in different locations and these are called prefixes handling prefixes in wine can be a boring task and bottles the app we're talking about today makes that a lot easier wine also has a companion tool called wine tricks that lets you install multiple window system components that wine can't redistribute legally but that you can install yourself without any problems like microsoft phones the.net runtime directx and more do note that wine does not protect you from viruses ransomware and other weird malware can still access your fake c drive and sometimes even the regular folders in your slash home directory on linux so don't use it to try some weird stuff you downloaded off the internet because it's still not safe and that's about it wine is a fantastic tool a fantastic program and it's also the base for proton which you might know if you run windows games on linux directly from steam in just one click the problem is handling it manually can be a chore especially if you need multiple prefixes for various apps to handle different windows versions different sets of libraries and that's where bottles the app that we're talking about comes in bottles is a graphical user interface that sits on top of wine it lets you handle each program in its own bottle a bottle being a wine prefix with different rules different dependencies different libraries and settings so each app can run optimally without risking breaking the other ones you're using it also lets you use proton to run games that aren't available on steam for example or if you have boxed copies of various games among other features it also has automated installers for a few applications it lets you run exc and msi executables in the bottle of your choice it lets you manage multiple versions of wine or proton to use the right one for each app it has gaming performance enhancements it lets you install dxvk and vkd 3d which are the compatibility layers needed to run directx games on linux and a lot more in the preferences you can set a custom path for your bottles for example to place them on another hard drive or another partition that the one your user directory is you can download new versions of wine of the lutris enhanced version of wine of proton or of other more obscure distributions of wine and you can also enable proton prefixes which are still an experimental feature but they let you use proton to run things as it might make games work better than the default wine basically bottles is like lootres but it's not made specifically for games it has less automated installer scripts but it also works a lot better for regular programs the first step to install anything will be to create a bottle to run the application in the plus button lets you do that and you'll get a nice graphical window to let you pick between a gaming focus bottle which will have a lot of tweaks specifically for running games an applications bottle with improvements for running desktop apps or a custom one that has no specific tweaks so you can experiment yourself just select the appropriate bottle type enter its name and click the create button that appeared in the top right corner buttons is now going to create automatically the wine prefix that you need set up the windows version install the required dlls and libraries that you might need basically it handles everything automatically and you have to worry about nothing super simple once the bottle is created you can either straight up select an executable you would have downloaded yourself and run it or you can go into more detail you get a useful help button to troubleshoot common issues you can backup the battle delete it stop all running processes in case something crashed or simply reboot or shut the bottle down these actions are faked but some programs will need them to have access to registry entries they created or to reload the dll for example you also get a host of utilities like accessing the fake c drive for that button where everything will be stored you can edit the windows registry for that bottle specifically you can open a task manager configure wine itself uninstall programs or of course run an executable let's try that first and pick a random program for example winrar because why you something that you have to pay for like winzip oh wait no just click that fat blue button pick your.exe or dot msi file and open it and you're done you get the familiar windows installer screens and once that's done your program is installed and can run like any other of course wine isn't perfect and while some programs will run perfectly some won't or will require manual tweaks and that's why we have automated installers for now bottles only has a few that are mostly gaming related but that list can expand as anyone can contribute one of these so i would be surprised if we didn't see a lot of installers appearing pretty soon especially for the most used windows apps these installers all have a rating from platinum to bronze letting you know how well the program will run just like what you could find on proton db platinum means it should run exactly as on windows and bronze means that it will run but expect a few glitches here and there or some performance problems just click on the download button to start installing the program you want and to configure the bottle automatically so you don't have any manual work to do once your installer is done you can just run the app from the main page of the bottle or from the programs tab of course you can also uninstall these programs if you find you don't need them anymore right from the programs list it's all super easy and i personally hope that we will have a lot more business focused installers for apps that aren't gaming related may be based on the work that crossover is doing or on previous play on linux scripts now if your favorite program doesn't have an automatic installer script yet and it's likely to be the case for now you can of course configure your own bottle manually just create a custom button and head over to the details page here you will find a ton of stuff you can configure or install the dependencies tab lets you get a ton of libraries that various apps might need like phones direct text related stuff various runtimes like.net some codecs nvidia physics and more don't go installing all of these at once though you will need to only get what's necessary we'll see how to go about that in a minute in the preferences tab you can enable or disable the use of plenty of gaming focused libraries like dxvk vkd3d and even dlss or fsr to enable better performance at higher resolutions even if the games don't support it natively you can also change the version of wine or dxvk you want to use the windows version that's used or override some dlls to use native windows ones that you manually copied to your fake c drive instead of using the ones wine is providing you can even tell the application to run in a virtual desktop with a limited resolution you can force the program to take focus or set a custom dpi scaling to handle virtually any edge case you might encounter bottles also lets you enable game mode which gives a 2 to 10 performance boost to games and applications if it's installed on your system by making the cpu prioritize the task in the foreground and finally once your app works well in your bottle but you would like to try and squeeze more performance out of it by changing some configs you can create safe states of each bottle so if you mess something up you can just go back to the state where everything worked and pick up from that now you might want to ask why is it so complicated and the answer is because windows is messy wine basically has to re-implement versions of windows that work differently from windows xp to windows 11 and they can't legally ship some of the dlls and libraries that windows use so you have to install them manually through the dependencies tab it's all a big mess and it's actually quite incredible that wine is already as capable as it is but how can you know what you need to change to make sure a program runs well you have wine app db which is the equivalent of proton db but for any windows program not just team games this huge database has results and the various configurations needed for a lot of programs although it can be quite out of date and the website isn't very legible just searching for the name of the program in your favorite search engine plus adding wine and linux as the search terms might also net you some good results with the various things you need to add just head over to the dependencies tab and install what's needed head over to the registry editor and add the keys that are needed and you'll be good to go it can be a hit or miss process and while some apps will work wonderfully well some others just will never run with the current wine versions which is why automated installer scripts are so important because they completely streamline that whole install process and let you just focus on installing the app and not looking it up online for now though you might have to resort to using bottles dependencies tab or registry editor to add the things that are needed for the app to actually work so bottles is a fantastic first step to get more windows programs on linux wine has always been a pretty amazing project but all that manual configuration and trial and error process just doesn't scream user-friendly or reliable and that's why having nice graphical user interfaces like bottles is so important and of course while wine and proton have gone a very very long way since i first used them in 2006 they are still not perfect and while the basic win32 apps will generally run fine without any hiccups the most advanced ones that implement their own ui libraries might be more complex like for example microsoft office or adobe photoshop still for specific programs you can't find an alternative for on linux wine and bottles is just what you need it's also wonderful for all these game launchers like the ea app ubisoft connect or the epic game store although these are starting to be integrated inside of lutress as well bottles is available as a flat pack but it's also on the aur or as a native package for fedora open souza mx linux or nyx os and probably a lot more unofficial packages being on flat hub it also means that you can install it on the steam deck and install those pesky game launchers add them as a non-steam game and run them from the steam decks game mode for all those games that you don't own on steam what you could own though is a nice linux laptop or desktop thanks to today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops for all price points basically all use cases and they're really really cool devices they ship worldwide they have almost all keyboard layouts and i can only recommend them i use their laptop the slimbook pro x14 i use their desktop the slimbook chimera i use their keyboard the slimbook rgb keyboard which is a pseudo-mechanical one which is really cool as well and yeah i can basically only tell you to go check out their stuff click on the link in the description below look it up and maybe you'll find something that you want to use with linux pre-installed out of the box so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers or become a youtube member both get access to the weekly patreon cast on mondays and you also get to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and while we have some incredible applications on linux sometimes depending on your use case you just need to run a piece of software that's been made exclusively for windows and isn't available on linux for these use cases we have wine which is a compatibility layer to run windows software on linux it's not an emulator it's basically a re-implementation of windows inside of linux problem is running things with wine manually can be quite the hassle especially if you need to run multiple apps with different preferences different windows versions different libraries for that we had play on linux but i don't think it's maintained anymore from what i could find fortunately we now have bottles which is an amazing alternative with a graphical user interface that lets you just run your windows programs on linux so let's talk about it right after i tell you everything about today's sponsor which will let you monitor and control your network connection this video is sponsored by safing they make the port master which is an amazing tool that lets you control and monitor your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface you get block lists you get profiles depending on your current connection and you can even tweak settings per app it's also completely open source and free saving also makes the spn or saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once and no website can build a profile from your visits and your location of course you also get all the benefits from a traditional vpn that's something you'd like to try and if you want to help support savings open source work you can subscribe to the spn right now or download the port master by heading in the link in the description below okay let's begin with a quick refresher course on wine wine stands for wine is not an emulator which means it's one of these recursive acronyms that include the acronym itself in the full length name which is a weird thing that linux developers sometimes do wine is an almost complete re-implementation of multiple windows apis in a format that linux can understand when a windows program runs with wine it talks to it like it would talk to windows and wine just grabs these calls and tells your linux system to execute something it can understand so you're not running a virtual machine or emulating the system you have a whole windows environment except it's not developed by microsoft and you don't need a copy of windows to use it wine creates a fake c drive inside your home directory in the dot wine hidden folder and it stores everything there the documents pictures desktop of videos folder from the fake c drive are also mapped to your regular folders inside of your linux environment so you don't need to hunt for various files they are where you expect them to be which can also create some clutter in your main documents folder in your slash home directory on linux because windows apps aren't generally very respectful of where they put their stuff or where it's supposed to be which means that you will probably get a my games folder at some point or various things various folders and files that are just coming from windows apps inside of your linux environment wine can even create multiple fake c drives to install apps in different locations and these are called prefixes handling prefixes in wine can be a boring task and bottles the app we're talking about today makes that a lot easier wine also has a companion tool called wine tricks that lets you install multiple window system components that wine can't redistribute legally but that you can install yourself without any problems like microsoft phones the.net runtime directx and more do note that wine does not protect you from viruses ransomware and other weird malware can still access your fake c drive and sometimes even the regular folders in your slash home directory on linux so don't use it to try some weird stuff you downloaded off the internet because it's still not safe and that's about it wine is a fantastic tool a fantastic program and it's also the base for proton which you might know if you run windows games on linux directly from steam in just one click the problem is handling it manually can be a chore especially if you need multiple prefixes for various apps to handle different windows versions different sets of libraries and that's where bottles the app that we're talking about comes in bottles is a graphical user interface that sits on top of wine it lets you handle each program in its own bottle a bottle being a wine prefix with different rules different dependencies different libraries and settings so each app can run optimally without risking breaking the other ones you're using it also lets you use proton to run games that aren't available on steam for example or if you have boxed copies of various games among other features it also has automated installers for a few applications it lets you run exc and msi executables in the bottle of your choice it lets you manage multiple versions of wine or proton to use the right one for each app it has gaming performance enhancements it lets you install dxvk and vkd 3d which are the compatibility layers needed to run directx games on linux and a lot more in the preferences you can set a custom path for your bottles for example to place them on another hard drive or another partition that the one your user directory is you can download new versions of wine of the lutris enhanced version of wine of proton or of other more obscure distributions of wine and you can also enable proton prefixes which are still an experimental feature but they let you use proton to run things as it might make games work better than the default wine basically bottles is like lootres but it's not made specifically for games it has less automated installer scripts but it also works a lot better for regular programs the first step to install anything will be to create a bottle to run the application in the plus button lets you do that and you'll get a nice graphical window to let you pick between a gaming focus bottle which will have a lot of tweaks specifically for running games an applications bottle with improvements for running desktop apps or a custom one that has no specific tweaks so you can experiment yourself just select the appropriate bottle type enter its name and click the create button that appeared in the top right corner buttons is now going to create automatically the wine prefix that you need set up the windows version install the required dlls and libraries that you might need basically it handles everything automatically and you have to worry about nothing super simple once the bottle is created you can either straight up select an executable you would have downloaded yourself and run it or you can go into more detail you get a useful help button to troubleshoot common issues you can backup the battle delete it stop all running processes in case something crashed or simply reboot or shut the bottle down these actions are faked but some programs will need them to have access to registry entries they created or to reload the dll for example you also get a host of utilities like accessing the fake c drive for that button where everything will be stored you can edit the windows registry for that bottle specifically you can open a task manager configure wine itself uninstall programs or of course run an executable let's try that first and pick a random program for example winrar because why you something that you have to pay for like winzip oh wait no just click that fat blue button pick your.exe or dot msi file and open it and you're done you get the familiar windows installer screens and once that's done your program is installed and can run like any other of course wine isn't perfect and while some programs will run perfectly some won't or will require manual tweaks and that's why we have automated installers for now bottles only has a few that are mostly gaming related but that list can expand as anyone can contribute one of these so i would be surprised if we didn't see a lot of installers appearing pretty soon especially for the most used windows apps these installers all have a rating from platinum to bronze letting you know how well the program will run just like what you could find on proton db platinum means it should run exactly as on windows and bronze means that it will run but expect a few glitches here and there or some performance problems just click on the download button to start installing the program you want and to configure the bottle automatically so you don't have any manual work to do once your installer is done you can just run the app from the main page of the bottle or from the programs tab of course you can also uninstall these programs if you find you don't need them anymore right from the programs list it's all super easy and i personally hope that we will have a lot more business focused installers for apps that aren't gaming related may be based on the work that crossover is doing or on previous play on linux scripts now if your favorite program doesn't have an automatic installer script yet and it's likely to be the case for now you can of course configure your own bottle manually just create a custom button and head over to the details page here you will find a ton of stuff you can configure or install the dependencies tab lets you get a ton of libraries that various apps might need like phones direct text related stuff various runtimes like.net some codecs nvidia physics and more don't go installing all of these at once though you will need to only get what's necessary we'll see how to go about that in a minute in the preferences tab you can enable or disable the use of plenty of gaming focused libraries like dxvk vkd3d and even dlss or fsr to enable better performance at higher resolutions even if the games don't support it natively you can also change the version of wine or dxvk you want to use the windows version that's used or override some dlls to use native windows ones that you manually copied to your fake c drive instead of using the ones wine is providing you can even tell the application to run in a virtual desktop with a limited resolution you can force the program to take focus or set a custom dpi scaling to handle virtually any edge case you might encounter bottles also lets you enable game mode which gives a 2 to 10 performance boost to games and applications if it's installed on your system by making the cpu prioritize the task in the foreground and finally once your app works well in your bottle but you would like to try and squeeze more performance out of it by changing some configs you can create safe states of each bottle so if you mess something up you can just go back to the state where everything worked and pick up from that now you might want to ask why is it so complicated and the answer is because windows is messy wine basically has to re-implement versions of windows that work differently from windows xp to windows 11 and they can't legally ship some of the dlls and libraries that windows use so you have to install them manually through the dependencies tab it's all a big mess and it's actually quite incredible that wine is already as capable as it is but how can you know what you need to change to make sure a program runs well you have wine app db which is the equivalent of proton db but for any windows program not just team games this huge database has results and the various configurations needed for a lot of programs although it can be quite out of date and the website isn't very legible just searching for the name of the program in your favorite search engine plus adding wine and linux as the search terms might also net you some good results with the various things you need to add just head over to the dependencies tab and install what's needed head over to the registry editor and add the keys that are needed and you'll be good to go it can be a hit or miss process and while some apps will work wonderfully well some others just will never run with the current wine versions which is why automated installer scripts are so important because they completely streamline that whole install process and let you just focus on installing the app and not looking it up online for now though you might have to resort to using bottles dependencies tab or registry editor to add the things that are needed for the app to actually work so bottles is a fantastic first step to get more windows programs on linux wine has always been a pretty amazing project but all that manual configuration and trial and error process just doesn't scream user-friendly or reliable and that's why having nice graphical user interfaces like bottles is so important and of course while wine and proton have gone a very very long way since i first used them in 2006 they are still not perfect and while the basic win32 apps will generally run fine without any hiccups the most advanced ones that implement their own ui libraries might be more complex like for example microsoft office or adobe photoshop still for specific programs you can't find an alternative for on linux wine and bottles is just what you need it's also wonderful for all these game launchers like the ea app ubisoft connect or the epic game store although these are starting to be integrated inside of lutress as well bottles is available as a flat pack but it's also on the aur or as a native package for fedora open souza mx linux or nyx os and probably a lot more unofficial packages being on flat hub it also means that you can install it on the steam deck and install those pesky game launchers add them as a non-steam game and run them from the steam decks game mode for all those games that you don't own on steam what you could own though is a nice linux laptop or desktop thanks to today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops linux desktops for all price points basically all use cases and they're really really cool devices they ship worldwide they have almost all keyboard layouts and i can only recommend them i use their laptop the slimbook pro x14 i use their desktop the slimbook chimera i use their keyboard the slimbook rgb keyboard which is a pseudo-mechanical one which is really cool as well and yeah i can basically only tell you to go check out their stuff click on the link in the description below look it up and maybe you'll find something that you want to use with linux pre-installed out of the box so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers or become a youtube member both get access to the weekly patreon cast on mondays and you also get to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and today we're gonna take a look at some amazing applications designed for your linux desktop and specifically for gnome but of course you can run them on any other desktop that you might want we have productivity apps we have torrent clients we've got tons of utilities we've got video editors backup tools you name it just like i'll name today's sponsor that also runs on linux but isn't made specifically for gnome this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next live server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it so let's begin with getting things gnome which is a productivity app which lets you enter all your to-do lists and actually make sure that you do something it's an app that has its roots in gnome 2 but has recently seen a lot of work to look more like a recent gtk app it lets you create tasks of course with start dates and due dates as well as tags that you can create on the fly by preceding any word with the at symbol each task has a long description field to note any ideas you might have and you can add checkboxes inside of each task by making a list with a hyphen tasks open in their own windows so you can have multiple ones open at the same time and every one of them can have subtasks to group things up nicely your tutor items can be filtered by three statuses open actionable and closed open are basically all tasks you haven't completed close regroups everything you've already marked as done and actionable groups or tasks that are startable as in their start date is already passed or that have no uncompleted subtasks basically it shows everything you can do right now which removes the hassle of looking through your long list of stuff to do before actually finding something you can or want to do now it might just be me but if i don't have an app that serves i as my second brain and that just tells me everything i need to do and what i can offload things my brain gets fuzzy and i forget things and i just end up not doing anything and procrastinating so apps like gtg are crucial to making sure that i actually do some work gtg supports plugins to send tasks via email track time or add urgency color coding and you can sync all your tasks through cal dev with for example google tasks or next cloud while using your computer you might also want to listen to some tunes but if you're like me music streaming services just serve you the same playlists over and over again and you get tired of them and since my music tastes are basically all over the place the recommendation algorithms just are hit or miss all the time that's where web radios come in with shortwave it's a handy app that lets you browse web radios and listen to any music genre you want for free it shows you the top voted stations first as well as trending radio stations but of course you can search for anything you might want whether it's a genre or a station name once you play something you get a nice little sidebar to let you stop playback change the volume sync the station details and add them to your library or even cast your audio to another device using the google cast protocol if the stream adds some metadata the song will also be recognized and displayed so you can add it to your own playlists or any service you might want or buy it wherever you usually buy your music from personally i think ownership is dead and that renting is the future and that basically owning things is already shut up okay okay sorry about that let's talk ownership then with torrance fragments is a torrent client and a simple one at that it lets you download these nifty little files using that wonderful peer-to-peer network it's not something you will use if you're a complete torrent nerd as it doesn't have a ton of options but if your thing is more to download a file leave it on to be seated for a while and then remove it then it's perfect what do you mean you just download the file and remove it from the list without even seeding you're a monster fragments still lets you pick a download location limit the number of active downloads turn notifications on or off and select if you want encrypted peers or not you can also get a few download stats removing a torrent also lets you delete the files if you realize that what you downloaded wasn't exactly what was promised like that time when as a kid i wanted to grab star wars and i ended up watching a very weird movie where plumber helps a nice little lady in her underwear to fix her sink that was leaking but now that i think about it there wasn't much plumbing happening i totally deleted the the video file totally deleted it if you like books but reading makes you sleepy maybe you have some audiobooks lying around in that case cozy is going to be amazing for you just point it to the directory where you store your audiobooks and it will auto detect them or you can simply drag and drop files inside the app cozy will auto detect the metadata for each book and add some nice cover art you can filter them by recently listened to by author or by the person reading the book or search through your library it can also auto rewind the last 30 seconds of the current book when you're restarting the app to make sure you remember what happened when picking back up when playing an audio book you can change the speed or put a sleep timer to stop after the current chapter or after a specific period of time you can also jump from chapter to chapter as you please it's a very nice and simple app that audio bookworms will love is that the term audiobook worms like like bookworms i i don't know i don't listen to audiobooks they make my brain woozy and i forget everything i just listen to let's move on to something way more interesting backups okay not the most fascinating thing but you have to make backups and for that we have deja dub it's made to back up your home user directory not your whole system but it's still pretty important to have backups of all your personal files you can pick which folders to exclude and select a backup location including online services like google drive onedrive a network server any external drive that's plugged in or a local folder you can password protect these backups if you want but don't forget that password because if you don't have it anymore your files are toast you can turn on automatic backups that will happen in the background and select for how long you'll keep these although the older ones will automatically get nuked when storage space runs low of course once your backups are done restoring them is super easy just by going to the restore tab where you can pick individual files to restore or just select everything i'm not your computer mom but you really should have backups i really should have backups let's move on to virtual machines these things are super handy to get rid of your distro hopping fevers without reinstalling your whole system or to have dev environments and gnome has a fantastic app for that called boxes not only does it let you create a vm from the isos you already have in your downloads folder but it also lets you download some isos directly from the app or select one yourself you can pick the amount of ram and disk space you want to allow the vm to use and you're done it's running and if you close the vm you can also tweak it a little bit more with enabling 3d acceleration attributing a number of cores to it sharing devices or making snapshots and that's about it it's a very nice very simple app much easier to set up than virtualbox oh and it also resizes the screen space and the resolution of the vm when you resize the window itself which is awesome sometimes you just need a very basic app for drawing a few things on top of a screenshot or create a pixel art masterpiece drawing does just that it's basically microsoft paint but for linux it has a basic pencil tool it lets you draw lines curves or shapes you can crop the pictures select parts of the image and move or delete them you can add text and it also lets you scale rotate or skew the image drawing also has a few filters like adding transparency or blur more tools are even available as experimental like a highlighter selecting by color or a color picker you won't find anything too fancy like layers and elements are locked in place once they've been drawn so it's more for quick annotations or jotting down a few quick ideas in the form of a badly drawn thingy drawing can save your images as png jpeg or bitmap very handy tool if you're often annotating screenshots for bug reports or if like me you're a total artist if you want to start making your own videos but you don't want to use something super complex ptv should be right up your alley it's more like imovie and less like adobe premiere and it's very simple to get started with you just drag your clips to the media library then to the timeline and you start cutting the clips where you want to using the little toolbar on the right it has a few nice transitions and you can transform clips a bit with cropping zooms and coordinates or just add effects to them ptv supports all video formats that gstreamer does so if your computer can play your clips on the video player ptv can edit them and export to the same format exporting is also very easy with a few presets that you can change and save it's the video editing program that i used back when i started the channel and it will definitely do the trick to let you do your handy little holiday montage that you can then inflict on unsuspecting friends when they visit you after your holidays and now we move on to a few small utilities that will absolutely come in handy musai for example is basically shazam for your linux desktop just click the big listen button and it will recognize the song playing in the background if you want to identify something playing on your computer and you don't have a mic it can also listen directly to your desktop audio each song is added to your history and you can click it to get a web page letting you add it to various music streaming services it's a handy tool to complete your music collection or expand on your playlist especially in combination with shortwave for web radios that don't display the song they're currently playing if you have to interact with text a lot text pieces might come in handy just paste any text you want in it and you can then select a tool to use to transform set text and make it more usable for example you can remove blank lines trailing spaces you can escape urls strings or html you can minify or prettify json or xml or even get checksums and sort lines in alphabetical order it's not something that everyone will have a use for but if you have to often make modifications to batches of text and just remove a few annoying things it's going to be super useful if you're a graphic designer or you just like fancy fonts phone downloader will be a cool program to add to your application's grid it just lets you browse a huge list of online phones and download them to your system for immediate installation you can also just download them without installing if you want to keep them stored somewhere or share them you can even filter fonts by alphabets if you don't use aladdin language i discovered it recently and i love it to help me set up a computer with all the fonts i need for my day-to-day job still on the topic of graphic design you might want to compress images and for that curtail is perfect you just drag and drop your images in select if you want lost less compression or if you're okay with a bit of image quality loss and it will just compress everything at once and show you the space savings nice to have if you run a website for example and if you want to check how much that compression process has affected your picture you can use identity it just puts two images or videos side by side to let you compare the quality or the image or specific part of a video to make sure that everything is okay super simple but still easier and nicer than opening two image viewers side by side and resizing them to actually check the differences if you like working with a bit of noise but music distracts you too much blanket might have a solution it lets you select a few white noises like rain storms wind waves or birds and tune each one of them to get the ambiance you want to work or relax you can craft the perfect soundtrack to let you think you're in the office or in the city if that helps you focus don't turn on the tv for background noise it's all horrible stuff in there just listen to the sound of waves let's finish this with meta data cleaner a super handy tool to let you remove any metadata from any file type you have you just add the file to the list and you can see all the metadata and select to clean it as in scrap everything out of the file itself and if that option is a bit too nuclear for you you can opt for lightweight cleaning and keep a few handy attributes like letting text be selectable in pdfs or keeping the compression in images quite useful if you often share pictures with others online and you don't want them to have the geolocation data or any information that you're not comfortable with and grom has tons more apps that are really designed to work with its graphical guidelines head over to circle.gnome.org to find a lot more cool tools to help you make the most out of your linux desktop just like today's sponsor will help you have a linux desktop in the first place it's slimbook they're based in valencia spain and they say linux laptops and desktops they have a wide range of devices covering basically all needs all keyboard layouts they ship worldwide and basically they have everything you need for example the slimbook one this small form factor pc in a nice aluminium enclosure that is highly upgradable super powerful thanks to ryzen cpus and it's just going to be able to do anything you throw at it if you want a new linux device just click on the link in the description below and get yours from slim book they're really cool so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did donate to like to 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hey everyone this is nick and you might have been a firefox user you might even currently be a firefox user like me but you're in the vast minority of people mostly everybody nowadays uses chrome or a chromium-based browser or apple safari now any other browser on ios is virtually safari in disguise so if you're using firefox chrome or whatever edge on ios you're basically using safari but with another ui but this decline of firefox has been slow but steady and it is a real problem for the open web a serious problem i'm wearing a shirt that's how serious it is so let's see why but wait first i want to tell you about today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit for your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video lynode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads go ahead i don't need the money anyway from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started now there is no denying that firefox has been progressively losing ground in the web browser race its highest peak was at the end of 2009 at almost 32 market share when internet explorer had about 55 and chrome was barely edging out the 5 market share fast forward to 11 years later and chrome now has 62 of the market where firefox only has 4.2 how did that happen why did the browser that basically started the work to take ie down that introduced tabs to the masses and that made sure that web standards were respected why did that browser fall so low wokeness that's it go work go broke nah just kidding that notion that mozilla or firefox or trying to be woke or censored the web started taking root in 2020 or 2021 and basically at that time firefox was already at three percent so it had literally zero impact as a matter of fact firefox has been climbing very slightly back up ever since this happened so yeah walkness is not a factor what basically signed the death warrant of firefox is a compound of multiple factors first mozilla completely missed the mobile market when smartphones started becoming really popular at the very beginning of 2009 and 2010 firefox just didn't exist on mobile you had safari on ios and chrome on android and that was it firefox for android only came in early 2011 and it only was available on ios in november 2015. that's two to five years after people started using these devices and people just didn't wait around they just use what was provided as the default on their mobile operating system and then they probably wanted to sync the data from that mobile browser to their desktop so they also moved to the desktop version of that browser if possible there's also the fact that google pushed chrome very aggressively search pages displayed ads for chrome if you visited them with another browser and they still do to this day after a while users just gave it a shot and stuck with it or they used a new device where chrome was pre-installed by the manufacturer and they moved on from firefox firefox also kind of rested on their laurels for a while while chrome worked tirelessly on their engine based on webkit first itself a fork of khtml which was the rendering engine used by conqueror the kde browser at the time and then on blink their own fork of webkit this engine was better in every way it was faster it was more respecting of standards it was adopting newer technology faster and firefox just remained as the grandpa browser reliable but just not excelling at anything anymore as users progressively moved to chrome firefox stagnated more and more until they finally decided to release their quantum update where they caught up in terms of performance and features there's also the fact that google voluntarily neutered some of their online services on non-chrome browsers they implemented worse versions of features that were supported in other browsers just to make the experience slower or buggier for example on youtube after all that it was hard to see firefox as anything other than the new ie and people just abandoned it and now we see the emergence of the chromium-based browsers like bray vivaldi opera or edge all using google's base to make their own stuff and since this base is now the vast majority developers don't test their websites on firefox anymore so stuff just breaks and people just assume it's firefox's fault which it isn't but it also kinda is because for the end user the fact remains using firefox makes some website not work and using chrome make stuff work they don't care whose fault it is you might think that it's a free market and that if firefox makes things way better than in chrome then people will progressively flog back to it and it will still survive but there are issues with that the web relies on being open and it relies on evolution these evolutions to be beneficial to everyone need to be decided collectively by independent organisms supported by all browsers and implemented freely what i mean is that the browser engine shouldn't control how the web runs looks or what it can do the browser engine is just there to ensure that websites and web apps just run like they should the rise of chrome and chromium-based browsers just like any other monopoly turns that on its head developers you see can only implement features if they know that their users will be able to make use of them if everyone uses the same engine and that engine decides to not implement a feature then it's just not going to be used at all because why make something that no user will ever be able to take advantage of right now all chromium-based browsers combined represent about 85 percent market share worldwide combining mobile and desktop webkit is at about 8.8 and firefox is at 7.7 yeah i know that's not the same figure as i gave earlier but data sources don't seem to agree what they agree on is that chromium has a huge monopoly this is a problem not right now but it might become one in the future see chromium is open source as is blink the rendering engine used in chromium and every browser using it it's open source but decisions are made by google in 2019 92 of comments to the code base were made by google employees so let's not kid ourselves google has total control over what goes in and what they don't want to see in chromium if for example in a few months or a few years a great new technology for i don't know nfts or the metaverse or any web3 based is just pushed on and developers want to adopt it but it also makes tracking and ads completely irrelevant google is not going to add that to chromium they're just going to push back against it and so basically the web will not be able to use that feature because developers will just not implement it because no users will be able to use it you might also say someone would fork chromium or blink and start their own browser and that would solve it except no one would move to that browser even big ones like brave or opera haven't much market share today so a new entry on the market without the firepower of a google or a microsoft behind it would never succeed and then we're back to our chicken and egg problem where no developer will implement a feature that's not supported by the most mainstream browser and so no user will take advantage of it and so no other browser has a chance to shine so why is firefox important then what's important isn't firefox specifically it's having rendering engine diversity having two or three engines that have almost equal market share is crucial to avoid that situation because in that case the one that doesn't implement a new technology doesn't hold back the whole web and risks actually losing market share to other browsers that support that feature developers will take the risk to create a web app that works for 33 of worldwide users or 50 not for under 10 and that's where you might say webkit is the engine used in iphones ipads and mac so surely developers will take risks and implement specific new features just for the ios market right sure maybe except webkit is currently the ie of rendering engines apple is actively refusing to implement a bunch of features that literally everyone else has like browser notifications or anything that could bring progressive web apps into competition with the app store because money is tight well no like having money is tight like apple is not short on cash at all so right now only firefox has a current rendering engine with good performance good standard support and the capabilities and the brand name to regain some market share unless apple decides to actually implement things developers want to use only firefox can do that some could also argue that developers prefer having a single rendering engine to work with because that's much easier to test things out and to that i reply internet explorer ie had a complete monopoly on rendering engines for a long time and that rendering engine just didn't evolve the browser ui didn't evolve and developers were raging against it they were stuck with old technologies because most people could just not move on and it took tens of years to actually make the web a more stable place where you could just use a new css feature and not have to do a workaround for ie so no you don't want a single rendering engine of course ie also failed because the ui of the browser was bad compared to what other browsers could offer especially firefox at the time with its tabs but google is not stupid enough to fall into that pit so no a single rendering engine isn't a good option the only way having one dominant rendering engine being a good thing is if it's run by a really community driven project not by a big company that happened to open source the code and decides what goes in or not it needs to be handled by a non-profit or a community that will be much more open to letting things in because they will have no stake in how the web enables them to make money there is another option though another way out but it's not one i would favor see if google starts deciding that things can't go in chromium because that would hurt their revenue another actor would have the firepower to make things go back to a more reasonable state that actor unfortunately is microsoft if they decide to fork chromium and dedicate a real team of people to this new project they could end up dominating the market or at least splitting it up enough to rebalance it the problem with that is that microsoft does not want to maintain their own rendering engine they basically abandoned two of them in the past five or ten years and second i don't think microsoft would be more trustworthy than google in terms of how they would handle a project like this so how can we solve this how can we make sure that chromium doesn't start deciding how the web should run well as users apart from not using chromium-based browsers and supporting other engines financially there isn't much we can do we just have to not use chromium-based browsers to try and re-balance things out the problem is most users the general population does not care about this at all they just want their websites to work and chromium or chromium-based browsers just do that and also they just use the default as proven by the rapid rise of edge it gained like six percent market share in a few years just because microsoft is actively pushing it and it's pre-installed on windows so yeah just not using chromium is not going to work the other option would be to try and take governance of chromium away from google but i don't see that happening anytime soon so yeah i'm all doom and gloom here and i'm mostly extrapolating because google hasn't done anything yet with chromium or blink that would endanger the openness of the web or limit what features can actually be accessed by users but the potential for abuse is here the potential for monopoly abuse is here and google has demonstrated again and again that they are really willing to cross that line they don't have a good track record in terms of consumer friendliness openness and just generally not being a bad company so we'll just have to see what path the market takes to rebalance itself if it ever does but in the meantime i'll die on that hill i'll use firefox or any other engine then chromium and blink and yeah i'll still stand by it the chromium monopoly is terrible for the web for everyone on the web but today's sponsor on the other hand is good for you slim book makes linux laptops and desktops they have a whole range of these devices with linux pre-installed they are based in valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they basically have models for every need for example the slim book one a small form factor pc with a very nice aluminium enclosure super good upgradability good performance thanks to ryzen cpus it's just cute and small and tiny and it's got to do everything you throw at it it's great if you want a new linux running device you can click the link in the description below and get one from slimboard i really recommend them so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to comment and if you didn't like it you can dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these videos you can join my patreon subscribers and my 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hey everyone this is nick and you might have been a firefox user you might even currently be a firefox user like me but you're in the vast minority of people mostly everybody nowadays uses chrome or a chromium-based browser or apple safari now any other browser on ios is virtually safari in disguise so if you're using firefox chrome or whatever edge on ios you're basically using safari but with another ui but this decline of firefox has been slow but steady and it is a real problem for the open web a serious problem i'm wearing a shirt that's how serious it is so let's see why but wait first i want to tell you about today's sponsor which is going to let you get a hundred dollars free credit for your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video lynode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads go ahead i don't need the money anyway from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started now there is no denying that firefox has been progressively losing ground in the web browser race its highest peak was at the end of 2009 at almost 32 market share when internet explorer had about 55 and chrome was barely edging out the 5 market share fast forward to 11 years later and chrome now has 62 of the market where firefox only has 4.2 how did that happen why did the browser that basically started the work to take ie down that introduced tabs to the masses and that made sure that web standards were respected why did that browser fall so low wokeness that's it go work go broke nah just kidding that notion that mozilla or firefox or trying to be woke or censored the web started taking root in 2020 or 2021 and basically at that time firefox was already at three percent so it had literally zero impact as a matter of fact firefox has been climbing very slightly back up ever since this happened so yeah walkness is not a factor what basically signed the death warrant of firefox is a compound of multiple factors first mozilla completely missed the mobile market when smartphones started becoming really popular at the very beginning of 2009 and 2010 firefox just didn't exist on mobile you had safari on ios and chrome on android and that was it firefox for android only came in early 2011 and it only was available on ios in november 2015. that's two to five years after people started using these devices and people just didn't wait around they just use what was provided as the default on their mobile operating system and then they probably wanted to sync the data from that mobile browser to their desktop so they also moved to the desktop version of that browser if possible there's also the fact that google pushed chrome very aggressively search pages displayed ads for chrome if you visited them with another browser and they still do to this day after a while users just gave it a shot and stuck with it or they used a new device where chrome was pre-installed by the manufacturer and they moved on from firefox firefox also kind of rested on their laurels for a while while chrome worked tirelessly on their engine based on webkit first itself a fork of khtml which was the rendering engine used by conqueror the kde browser at the time and then on blink their own fork of webkit this engine was better in every way it was faster it was more respecting of standards it was adopting newer technology faster and firefox just remained as the grandpa browser reliable but just not excelling at anything anymore as users progressively moved to chrome firefox stagnated more and more until they finally decided to release their quantum update where they caught up in terms of performance and features there's also the fact that google voluntarily neutered some of their online services on non-chrome browsers they implemented worse versions of features that were supported in other browsers just to make the experience slower or buggier for example on youtube after all that it was hard to see firefox as anything other than the new ie and people just abandoned it and now we see the emergence of the chromium-based browsers like bray vivaldi opera or edge all using google's base to make their own stuff and since this base is now the vast majority developers don't test their websites on firefox anymore so stuff just breaks and people just assume it's firefox's fault which it isn't but it also kinda is because for the end user the fact remains using firefox makes some website not work and using chrome make stuff work they don't care whose fault it is you might think that it's a free market and that if firefox makes things way better than in chrome then people will progressively flog back to it and it will still survive but there are issues with that the web relies on being open and it relies on evolution these evolutions to be beneficial to everyone need to be decided collectively by independent organisms supported by all browsers and implemented freely what i mean is that the browser engine shouldn't control how the web runs looks or what it can do the browser engine is just there to ensure that websites and web apps just run like they should the rise of chrome and chromium-based browsers just like any other monopoly turns that on its head developers you see can only implement features if they know that their users will be able to make use of them if everyone uses the same engine and that engine decides to not implement a feature then it's just not going to be used at all because why make something that no user will ever be able to take advantage of right now all chromium-based browsers combined represent about 85 percent market share worldwide combining mobile and desktop webkit is at about 8.8 and firefox is at 7.7 yeah i know that's not the same figure as i gave earlier but data sources don't seem to agree what they agree on is that chromium has a huge monopoly this is a problem not right now but it might become one in the future see chromium is open source as is blink the rendering engine used in chromium and every browser using it it's open source but decisions are made by google in 2019 92 of comments to the code base were made by google employees so let's not kid ourselves google has total control over what goes in and what they don't want to see in chromium if for example in a few months or a few years a great new technology for i don't know nfts or the metaverse or any web3 based is just pushed on and developers want to adopt it but it also makes tracking and ads completely irrelevant google is not going to add that to chromium they're just going to push back against it and so basically the web will not be able to use that feature because developers will just not implement it because no users will be able to use it you might also say someone would fork chromium or blink and start their own browser and that would solve it except no one would move to that browser even big ones like brave or opera haven't much market share today so a new entry on the market without the firepower of a google or a microsoft behind it would never succeed and then we're back to our chicken and egg problem where no developer will implement a feature that's not supported by the most mainstream browser and so no user will take advantage of it and so no other browser has a chance to shine so why is firefox important then what's important isn't firefox specifically it's having rendering engine diversity having two or three engines that have almost equal market share is crucial to avoid that situation because in that case the one that doesn't implement a new technology doesn't hold back the whole web and risks actually losing market share to other browsers that support that feature developers will take the risk to create a web app that works for 33 of worldwide users or 50 not for under 10 and that's where you might say webkit is the engine used in iphones ipads and mac so surely developers will take risks and implement specific new features just for the ios market right sure maybe except webkit is currently the ie of rendering engines apple is actively refusing to implement a bunch of features that literally everyone else has like browser notifications or anything that could bring progressive web apps into competition with the app store because money is tight well no like having money is tight like apple is not short on cash at all so right now only firefox has a current rendering engine with good performance good standard support and the capabilities and the brand name to regain some market share unless apple decides to actually implement things developers want to use only firefox can do that some could also argue that developers prefer having a single rendering engine to work with because that's much easier to test things out and to that i reply internet explorer ie had a complete monopoly on rendering engines for a long time and that rendering engine just didn't evolve the browser ui didn't evolve and developers were raging against it they were stuck with old technologies because most people could just not move on and it took tens of years to actually make the web a more stable place where you could just use a new css feature and not have to do a workaround for ie so no you don't want a single rendering engine of course ie also failed because the ui of the browser was bad compared to what other browsers could offer especially firefox at the time with its tabs but google is not stupid enough to fall into that pit so no a single rendering engine isn't a good option the only way having one dominant rendering engine being a good thing is if it's run by a really community driven project not by a big company that happened to open source the code and decides what goes in or not it needs to be handled by a non-profit or a community that will be much more open to letting things in because they will have no stake in how the web enables them to make money there is another option though another way out but it's not one i would favor see if google starts deciding that things can't go in chromium because that would hurt their revenue another actor would have the firepower to make things go back to a more reasonable state that actor unfortunately is microsoft if they decide to fork chromium and dedicate a real team of people to this new project they could end up dominating the market or at least splitting it up enough to rebalance it the problem with that is that microsoft does not want to maintain their own rendering engine they basically abandoned two of them in the past five or ten years and second i don't think microsoft would be more trustworthy than google in terms of how they would handle a project like this so how can we solve this how can we make sure that chromium doesn't start deciding how the web should run well as users apart from not using chromium-based browsers and supporting other engines financially there isn't much we can do we just have to not use chromium-based browsers to try and re-balance things out the problem is most users the general population does not care about this at all they just want their websites to work and chromium or chromium-based browsers just do that and also they just use the default as proven by the rapid rise of edge it gained like six percent market share in a few years just because microsoft is actively pushing it and it's pre-installed on windows so yeah just not using chromium is not going to work the other option would be to try and take governance of chromium away from google but i don't see that happening anytime soon so yeah i'm all doom and gloom here and i'm mostly extrapolating because google hasn't done anything yet with chromium or blink that would endanger the openness of the web or limit what features can actually be accessed by users but the potential for abuse is here the potential for monopoly abuse is here and google has demonstrated again and again that they are really willing to cross that line they don't have a good track record in terms of consumer friendliness openness and just generally not being a bad company so we'll just have to see what path the market takes to rebalance itself if it ever does but in the meantime i'll die on that hill i'll use firefox or any other engine then chromium and blink and yeah i'll still stand by it the chromium monopoly is terrible for the web for everyone on the web but today's sponsor on the other hand is good for you slim book makes linux laptops and desktops they have a whole range of these devices with linux pre-installed they are based in valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they basically have models for every need for example the slim book one a small form factor pc with a very nice aluminium enclosure super good upgradability good performance thanks to ryzen cpus it's just cute and small and tiny and it's got to do everything you throw at it it's great if you want a new linux running device you can click the link in the description below and get one from slimboard i really recommend them so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to comment and if you didn't like it you can dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these videos you can join my patreon subscribers and my 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hey everyone this is nick and today we're gonna take a look at some amazing applications designed for your linux desktop and specifically for gnome but of course you can run them on any other desktop that you might want we have productivity apps we have torrent clients we've got tons of utilities we've got video editors backup tools you name it just like i'll name today's sponsor that also runs on linux but isn't made specifically for gnome this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next live server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it so let's begin with getting things gnome which is a productivity app which lets you enter all your to-do lists and actually make sure that you do something it's an app that has its roots in gnome 2 but has recently seen a lot of work to look more like a recent gtk app it lets you create tasks of course with start dates and due dates as well as tags that you can create on the fly by preceding any word with the at symbol each task has a long description field to note any ideas you might have and you can add checkboxes inside of each task by making a list with a hyphen tasks open in their own windows so you can have multiple ones open at the same time and every one of them can have subtasks to group things up nicely your tutor items can be filtered by three statuses open actionable and closed open are basically all tasks you haven't completed close regroups everything you've already marked as done and actionable groups or tasks that are startable as in their start date is already passed or that have no uncompleted subtasks basically it shows everything you can do right now which removes the hassle of looking through your long list of stuff to do before actually finding something you can or want to do now it might just be me but if i don't have an app that serves i as my second brain and that just tells me everything i need to do and what i can offload things my brain gets fuzzy and i forget things and i just end up not doing anything and procrastinating so apps like gtg are crucial to making sure that i actually do some work gtg supports plugins to send tasks via email track time or add urgency color coding and you can sync all your tasks through cal dev with for example google tasks or next cloud while using your computer you might also want to listen to some tunes but if you're like me music streaming services just serve you the same playlists over and over again and you get tired of them and since my music tastes are basically all over the place the recommendation algorithms just are hit or miss all the time that's where web radios come in with shortwave it's a handy app that lets you browse web radios and listen to any music genre you want for free it shows you the top voted stations first as well as trending radio stations but of course you can search for anything you might want whether it's a genre or a station name once you play something you get a nice little sidebar to let you stop playback change the volume sync the station details and add them to your library or even cast your audio to another device using the google cast protocol if the stream adds some metadata the song will also be recognized and displayed so you can add it to your own playlists or any service you might want or buy it wherever you usually buy your music from personally i think ownership is dead and that renting is the future and that basically owning things is already shut up okay okay sorry about that let's talk ownership then with torrance fragments is a torrent client and a simple one at that it lets you download these nifty little files using that wonderful peer-to-peer network it's not something you will use if you're a complete torrent nerd as it doesn't have a ton of options but if your thing is more to download a file leave it on to be seated for a while and then remove it then it's perfect what do you mean you just download the file and remove it from the list without even seeding you're a monster fragments still lets you pick a download location limit the number of active downloads turn notifications on or off and select if you want encrypted peers or not you can also get a few download stats removing a torrent also lets you delete the files if you realize that what you downloaded wasn't exactly what was promised like that time when as a kid i wanted to grab star wars and i ended up watching a very weird movie where plumber helps a nice little lady in her underwear to fix her sink that was leaking but now that i think about it there wasn't much plumbing happening i totally deleted the the video file totally deleted it if you like books but reading makes you sleepy maybe you have some audiobooks lying around in that case cozy is going to be amazing for you just point it to the directory where you store your audiobooks and it will auto detect them or you can simply drag and drop files inside the app cozy will auto detect the metadata for each book and add some nice cover art you can filter them by recently listened to by author or by the person reading the book or search through your library it can also auto rewind the last 30 seconds of the current book when you're restarting the app to make sure you remember what happened when picking back up when playing an audio book you can change the speed or put a sleep timer to stop after the current chapter or after a specific period of time you can also jump from chapter to chapter as you please it's a very nice and simple app that audio bookworms will love is that the term audiobook worms like like bookworms i i don't know i don't listen to audiobooks they make my brain woozy and i forget everything i just listen to let's move on to something way more interesting backups okay not the most fascinating thing but you have to make backups and for that we have deja dub it's made to back up your home user directory not your whole system but it's still pretty important to have backups of all your personal files you can pick which folders to exclude and select a backup location including online services like google drive onedrive a network server any external drive that's plugged in or a local folder you can password protect these backups if you want but don't forget that password because if you don't have it anymore your files are toast you can turn on automatic backups that will happen in the background and select for how long you'll keep these although the older ones will automatically get nuked when storage space runs low of course once your backups are done restoring them is super easy just by going to the restore tab where you can pick individual files to restore or just select everything i'm not your computer mom but you really should have backups i really should have backups let's move on to virtual machines these things are super handy to get rid of your distro hopping fevers without reinstalling your whole system or to have dev environments and gnome has a fantastic app for that called boxes not only does it let you create a vm from the isos you already have in your downloads folder but it also lets you download some isos directly from the app or select one yourself you can pick the amount of ram and disk space you want to allow the vm to use and you're done it's running and if you close the vm you can also tweak it a little bit more with enabling 3d acceleration attributing a number of cores to it sharing devices or making snapshots and that's about it it's a very nice very simple app much easier to set up than virtualbox oh and it also resizes the screen space and the resolution of the vm when you resize the window itself which is awesome sometimes you just need a very basic app for drawing a few things on top of a screenshot or create a pixel art masterpiece drawing does just that it's basically microsoft paint but for linux it has a basic pencil tool it lets you draw lines curves or shapes you can crop the pictures select parts of the image and move or delete them you can add text and it also lets you scale rotate or skew the image drawing also has a few filters like adding transparency or blur more tools are even available as experimental like a highlighter selecting by color or a color picker you won't find anything too fancy like layers and elements are locked in place once they've been drawn so it's more for quick annotations or jotting down a few quick ideas in the form of a badly drawn thingy drawing can save your images as png jpeg or bitmap very handy tool if you're often annotating screenshots for bug reports or if like me you're a total artist if you want to start making your own videos but you don't want to use something super complex ptv should be right up your alley it's more like imovie and less like adobe premiere and it's very simple to get started with you just drag your clips to the media library then to the timeline and you start cutting the clips where you want to using the little toolbar on the right it has a few nice transitions and you can transform clips a bit with cropping zooms and coordinates or just add effects to them ptv supports all video formats that gstreamer does so if your computer can play your clips on the video player ptv can edit them and export to the same format exporting is also very easy with a few presets that you can change and save it's the video editing program that i used back when i started the channel and it will definitely do the trick to let you do your handy little holiday montage that you can then inflict on unsuspecting friends when they visit you after your holidays and now we move on to a few small utilities that will absolutely come in handy musai for example is basically shazam for your linux desktop just click the big listen button and it will recognize the song playing in the background if you want to identify something playing on your computer and you don't have a mic it can also listen directly to your desktop audio each song is added to your history and you can click it to get a web page letting you add it to various music streaming services it's a handy tool to complete your music collection or expand on your playlist especially in combination with shortwave for web radios that don't display the song they're currently playing if you have to interact with text a lot text pieces might come in handy just paste any text you want in it and you can then select a tool to use to transform set text and make it more usable for example you can remove blank lines trailing spaces you can escape urls strings or html you can minify or prettify json or xml or even get checksums and sort lines in alphabetical order it's not something that everyone will have a use for but if you have to often make modifications to batches of text and just remove a few annoying things it's going to be super useful if you're a graphic designer or you just like fancy fonts phone downloader will be a cool program to add to your application's grid it just lets you browse a huge list of online phones and download them to your system for immediate installation you can also just download them without installing if you want to keep them stored somewhere or share them you can even filter fonts by alphabets if you don't use aladdin language i discovered it recently and i love it to help me set up a computer with all the fonts i need for my day-to-day job still on the topic of graphic design you might want to compress images and for that curtail is perfect you just drag and drop your images in select if you want lost less compression or if you're okay with a bit of image quality loss and it will just compress everything at once and show you the space savings nice to have if you run a website for example and if you want to check how much that compression process has affected your picture you can use identity it just puts two images or videos side by side to let you compare the quality or the image or specific part of a video to make sure that everything is okay super simple but still easier and nicer than opening two image viewers side by side and resizing them to actually check the differences if you like working with a bit of noise but music distracts you too much blanket might have a solution it lets you select a few white noises like rain storms wind waves or birds and tune each one of them to get the ambiance you want to work or relax you can craft the perfect soundtrack to let you think you're in the office or in the city if that helps you focus don't turn on the tv for background noise it's all horrible stuff in there just listen to the sound of waves let's finish this with meta data cleaner a super handy tool to let you remove any metadata from any file type you have you just add the file to the list and you can see all the metadata and select to clean it as in scrap everything out of the file itself and if that option is a bit too nuclear for you you can opt for lightweight cleaning and keep a few handy attributes like letting text be selectable in pdfs or keeping the compression in images quite useful if you often share pictures with others online and you don't want them to have the geolocation data or any information that you're not comfortable with and grom has tons more apps that are really designed to work with its graphical guidelines head over to circle.gnome.org to find a lot more cool tools to help you make the most out of your linux desktop just like today's sponsor will help you have a linux desktop in the first place it's slimbook they're based in valencia spain and they say linux laptops and desktops they have a wide range of devices covering basically all needs all keyboard layouts they ship worldwide and basically they have everything you need for example the slimbook one this small form factor pc in a nice aluminium enclosure that is highly upgradable super powerful thanks to ryzen cpus and it's just going to be able to do anything you throw at it if you want a new linux device just click on the link in the description below and get yours from slim book they're really cool so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did donate to like to 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hey everyone this is nick and if you thought there wasn't enough happening in the linux world to warrant weekly linux news videos you are wrong and i win because we still have one that is packed with interesting new things this week we have intel revealing more detail about their upcoming dedicated arc gpus we have kde adding a lot more touch and gesture support to their desktop and we have the first beta release of fedora 36 which is shaping up to be an amazing release amazing just like today's sponsor which is going to let you a hundred dollar of free credit to get your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like pihole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so another week with yet more kde news as the developers make good progress on touch gestures there's now an edge swipe gesture from the top of a touchscreen that triggers the new kwin overview much inspired by gnome's activities and that gesture is now one to one meaning it will follow your finger as it moves which gives a much more fluid feeling than the previous one more gestures should also work like that in the near future finally bringing kde in the modern age on that front three more 15 minute bugs were fixed and dolphin gets more usability improvements and the list of recent documents is now based on the free desktop standard so documents will be synced with gnome or gtk apps as well no mention on the gesture front to know if they are wayland only or if they work with x11 as well so i'll have to try them out and see if they work with the touchpad as well but that might trigger me to go back to getty so i'll need to be careful about that intel officially revealed the technical details for their new dedicated gpus in the form of the arc series which follows the same naming scheme as their cpus with arc 3 5 and 7 and different models for each these new gpus will roll out starting with the arc 3 and moving on to arc 5 and 7 in the summer all these gpus will support intel's take on super sampling in the form of xcss with that support also rolling out in the summer and they have support for two sinking features similar to g-sync or freesync called speed sync for high frame rate titles and smooth sync that seems lower cost in terms of resource usage and just blurs the screen tearing lines they'll also have their own graphical utility similar to geforce experience although this one might not come to linux as manufacturers tend to only release these tools for windows all arc gpus will also have a media engine optimized for multiple codecs including av1 the new open codec most media giants are pushing and that seems to have much better video quality compared to the traditional h.264 as per linux support i would expect intel to keep honoring their good track record on supporting these gpus on day one although some gaming features will come later to linux than on windows ray tracing and support for av1 will be there on day one though the notion of protest ware seems to establish itself as a few open source developers update their libraries or programs to display anti-war or pro-ukrainian messages or even sabotage their own code by adding malicious stuff that was meant to wipe data stored in russia and belarus the open source initiative published a blog post about this new trend condemning it they state that the damage it creates is indiscriminate and hurts regular citizens and peacemakers as well as people involved in the conflict and as such shouldn't be employed at least not in the case of code sabotage they instead encouraged developers to use open source tools to inform russian citizens of the reality of the war and the harm cost basically they are saying using open source to hurt others hurts open source as well hey you keep your politics out of my free and open source software he says not realizing that all open source and free software is inherently political fedora 36 is out well at least the public beta this new release of one of my new favorite linux distributions is of course not entirely stable but it brings glum 42 as the default with its host of improvements especially in the looks and performance departments with libidvita finally showing its head as the core for gnome and the new shell and gtk theme and official dark mode support of course all other desktops are there and installable as well with their latest releases weyland is finally the default for everyone including users of the nvidia proprietary drivers and it brings tons of updates to the internals with kernel 5.17 the full release should be out in mid-april unless unexpected complications arise while i won't move to the beta because i need my work system to be airtight i will definitely move to fedora 36 as soon as it releases and i'm super happy to finally try out weyland on nvidia thunderbird the venerable but not extremely nice looking or user-friendly email client will receive a nice bunch of updates soon in version 102 a huge upcoming major new release it adds a new spaces toolbar that lets you move quickly between the various features thunderbird offers like email contacts calendars to-do's or messages speaking of contacts the address book has been completely redesigned and is now much nicer to look at and way easier to use the app will also add cards for hyperlinks in the mail composer and adding new accounts will make use of the first run wizard so it will be easier than before thunderbird will also support the matrix protocol and add a native import and export feature apparently further redesigns are to be expected in the next major release so maybe thunderbird will finally regain my seal of approval as a user-friendly and nicely integrated email client for linux if you've seen my latest video on the channel about gnome customization you might have seen a nifty little app called extension manager well it just had a new release bringing some nice features to better handle the few drawbacks of gnome extensions apart from a new icon that i find kinda worse than the previous one it adds user reviews to extension pages so you know what you're in for before jumping in and it also lets you install unsupported extensions if you still want to give them a shot the app should also handle errors and out-of-date extensions better and received performance improvements now speaking of extensions there's a new interesting one if you like your ui to be low profile but still want a taskbar app icons taskbar puts running apps and favorites in the top panel of gnome shell basically giving you dash to dock but in a lower form factor that takes up less space it's pretty cool if you use gnome extensions you should give extension manager a try it's really nice and if you don't use gnome extensions or gnome check out my video in the card up top to know why it's super customizable the release of steam os 3 for all computers whenever it happens will be more appealing now thanks to some good news from valve and nvidia they're working to get the nvidia drivers working with gamescope the compositor used on steam os that implements tons of improvements specifically tailored to running games like scaling fsr frame rate limiting and performance optimizations for now gamescope only works with mesa drivers that cover amd and intel cards but nvidia developers have confirmed that they are working with valve to make sure that their experience on nvidia gpus will be up to par that's very good news for when i make my steam console or if i just want to dual boot steam os 3 on my main gaming pc come on valve release it steam os 3 for everyone come on we're waiting as i mentioned a few times the steam deck verified program has some issues not all games will run perfectly even if they're marked as certified valve seems to be conscious of the issue and they're gathering information on a list of games that have problems on the deck among these titles there's death loop doom 2016 or borderlands the pre-sequel these reports can be posted on the steam forums as as with all crowdsourced data reports will vary wildly this feedback can now also be automated right from the steam deck with a new banner letting you tell them if the gameplay experience matches the label valve has given to the game i've seen this banner pop up a few times and i think it's a really good idea to make sure that the labels that valve gives stay current and that they're informed as soon as there's something not working correctly good call valve still on the steam deck it's library of certified and playable titles has now passed the 1900 games mark and might even be at over 2000 by the time you're watching this the number of titles that valve is reviewing is around a comfortable 30 titles per day with the latest additions being wolfenstein the new order wolfenstein 2 the new colossus nba 2k20 mortal kombat 10 oblivion shadow of mordor the evil within 2 heavy rain or beyond 2 souls the official steam deck library is growing well and i say official because just because the game hasn't been reviewed by valve doesn't mean it's unplayable as i've been playing a bunch of titles that haven't been reviewed yet and work just fine quite the little device they made there with the steam deck i'm still surprised at how many games run and how well they run given the price of the hardware and what's inside it's great looks like there's a way to play steam games with proton on armed cpus using box 86 this little magic piece of software transforms x86 instructions used by amd and intel cpus into rm64 instructions used by you guessed it arm cpus a new release of that tool now apparently lets you play games on linux on arm even if these games are made for windows and x86 cpus some examples are geometry dash or among us and compatibility reports are being added to the github repo of box 86 apparently some games even run on a raspberry pi 4. if it can reach an acceptable compatibility status it could enable some nice linux devices with armed cpus to be used as handheld consoles like the steam deck for example who doesn't want to run a game that was made for another os for another cpu architecture with another graphics api in mind on a device that fills none of that criteria it's amazing oh maybe i'm just a big nerd wine 7.5 has been released with the alsa audio driver converted to the pe executable format support for the hlsl compiler in the bundled vkd3e library and initial support for the online certificate status protocol or ocsp this is a protocol used to maintain the security of a server and various network resources basically checks the validity of certificates in real time so i guess that might be useful for network applications and maybe for some games as well 28 bugs were also fixed including for minecraft for windows 10 the evil within 2 grid 2 and multiple microsoft programs like power toys or the windows terminal we can't have one of these weekly news videos without some wine news right just like i can't have a video without telling you about today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops and desktops that they ship worldwide with all keyboard layouts they have a huge range of devices for basically every use case for example the slimbook one which is a very small form factor pc with a nice aluminium enclosure it's got great design great i o good performance with ryzen cpus and it's also upgradable super easily just remove a few screws and you're done it's a great device so if you need something that runs linux out of the box and you want to support slim book or support the channel or encourage more linux development then click the link in the description below and head over to slimbox website they are amazing now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and to the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and if you thought there wasn't enough happening in the linux world to warrant weekly linux news videos you are wrong and i win because we still have one that is packed with interesting new things this week we have intel revealing more detail about their upcoming dedicated arc gpus we have kde adding a lot more touch and gesture support to their desktop and we have the first beta release of fedora 36 which is shaping up to be an amazing release amazing just like today's sponsor which is going to let you a hundred dollar of free credit to get your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like pihole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so another week with yet more kde news as the developers make good progress on touch gestures there's now an edge swipe gesture from the top of a touchscreen that triggers the new kwin overview much inspired by gnome's activities and that gesture is now one to one meaning it will follow your finger as it moves which gives a much more fluid feeling than the previous one more gestures should also work like that in the near future finally bringing kde in the modern age on that front three more 15 minute bugs were fixed and dolphin gets more usability improvements and the list of recent documents is now based on the free desktop standard so documents will be synced with gnome or gtk apps as well no mention on the gesture front to know if they are wayland only or if they work with x11 as well so i'll have to try them out and see if they work with the touchpad as well but that might trigger me to go back to getty so i'll need to be careful about that intel officially revealed the technical details for their new dedicated gpus in the form of the arc series which follows the same naming scheme as their cpus with arc 3 5 and 7 and different models for each these new gpus will roll out starting with the arc 3 and moving on to arc 5 and 7 in the summer all these gpus will support intel's take on super sampling in the form of xcss with that support also rolling out in the summer and they have support for two sinking features similar to g-sync or freesync called speed sync for high frame rate titles and smooth sync that seems lower cost in terms of resource usage and just blurs the screen tearing lines they'll also have their own graphical utility similar to geforce experience although this one might not come to linux as manufacturers tend to only release these tools for windows all arc gpus will also have a media engine optimized for multiple codecs including av1 the new open codec most media giants are pushing and that seems to have much better video quality compared to the traditional h.264 as per linux support i would expect intel to keep honoring their good track record on supporting these gpus on day one although some gaming features will come later to linux than on windows ray tracing and support for av1 will be there on day one though the notion of protest ware seems to establish itself as a few open source developers update their libraries or programs to display anti-war or pro-ukrainian messages or even sabotage their own code by adding malicious stuff that was meant to wipe data stored in russia and belarus the open source initiative published a blog post about this new trend condemning it they state that the damage it creates is indiscriminate and hurts regular citizens and peacemakers as well as people involved in the conflict and as such shouldn't be employed at least not in the case of code sabotage they instead encouraged developers to use open source tools to inform russian citizens of the reality of the war and the harm cost basically they are saying using open source to hurt others hurts open source as well hey you keep your politics out of my free and open source software he says not realizing that all open source and free software is inherently political fedora 36 is out well at least the public beta this new release of one of my new favorite linux distributions is of course not entirely stable but it brings glum 42 as the default with its host of improvements especially in the looks and performance departments with libidvita finally showing its head as the core for gnome and the new shell and gtk theme and official dark mode support of course all other desktops are there and installable as well with their latest releases weyland is finally the default for everyone including users of the nvidia proprietary drivers and it brings tons of updates to the internals with kernel 5.17 the full release should be out in mid-april unless unexpected complications arise while i won't move to the beta because i need my work system to be airtight i will definitely move to fedora 36 as soon as it releases and i'm super happy to finally try out weyland on nvidia thunderbird the venerable but not extremely nice looking or user-friendly email client will receive a nice bunch of updates soon in version 102 a huge upcoming major new release it adds a new spaces toolbar that lets you move quickly between the various features thunderbird offers like email contacts calendars to-do's or messages speaking of contacts the address book has been completely redesigned and is now much nicer to look at and way easier to use the app will also add cards for hyperlinks in the mail composer and adding new accounts will make use of the first run wizard so it will be easier than before thunderbird will also support the matrix protocol and add a native import and export feature apparently further redesigns are to be expected in the next major release so maybe thunderbird will finally regain my seal of approval as a user-friendly and nicely integrated email client for linux if you've seen my latest video on the channel about gnome customization you might have seen a nifty little app called extension manager well it just had a new release bringing some nice features to better handle the few drawbacks of gnome extensions apart from a new icon that i find kinda worse than the previous one it adds user reviews to extension pages so you know what you're in for before jumping in and it also lets you install unsupported extensions if you still want to give them a shot the app should also handle errors and out-of-date extensions better and received performance improvements now speaking of extensions there's a new interesting one if you like your ui to be low profile but still want a taskbar app icons taskbar puts running apps and favorites in the top panel of gnome shell basically giving you dash to dock but in a lower form factor that takes up less space it's pretty cool if you use gnome extensions you should give extension manager a try it's really nice and if you don't use gnome extensions or gnome check out my video in the card up top to know why it's super customizable the release of steam os 3 for all computers whenever it happens will be more appealing now thanks to some good news from valve and nvidia they're working to get the nvidia drivers working with gamescope the compositor used on steam os that implements tons of improvements specifically tailored to running games like scaling fsr frame rate limiting and performance optimizations for now gamescope only works with mesa drivers that cover amd and intel cards but nvidia developers have confirmed that they are working with valve to make sure that their experience on nvidia gpus will be up to par that's very good news for when i make my steam console or if i just want to dual boot steam os 3 on my main gaming pc come on valve release it steam os 3 for everyone come on we're waiting as i mentioned a few times the steam deck verified program has some issues not all games will run perfectly even if they're marked as certified valve seems to be conscious of the issue and they're gathering information on a list of games that have problems on the deck among these titles there's death loop doom 2016 or borderlands the pre-sequel these reports can be posted on the steam forums as as with all crowdsourced data reports will vary wildly this feedback can now also be automated right from the steam deck with a new banner letting you tell them if the gameplay experience matches the label valve has given to the game i've seen this banner pop up a few times and i think it's a really good idea to make sure that the labels that valve gives stay current and that they're informed as soon as there's something not working correctly good call valve still on the steam deck it's library of certified and playable titles has now passed the 1900 games mark and might even be at over 2000 by the time you're watching this the number of titles that valve is reviewing is around a comfortable 30 titles per day with the latest additions being wolfenstein the new order wolfenstein 2 the new colossus nba 2k20 mortal kombat 10 oblivion shadow of mordor the evil within 2 heavy rain or beyond 2 souls the official steam deck library is growing well and i say official because just because the game hasn't been reviewed by valve doesn't mean it's unplayable as i've been playing a bunch of titles that haven't been reviewed yet and work just fine quite the little device they made there with the steam deck i'm still surprised at how many games run and how well they run given the price of the hardware and what's inside it's great looks like there's a way to play steam games with proton on armed cpus using box 86 this little magic piece of software transforms x86 instructions used by amd and intel cpus into rm64 instructions used by you guessed it arm cpus a new release of that tool now apparently lets you play games on linux on arm even if these games are made for windows and x86 cpus some examples are geometry dash or among us and compatibility reports are being added to the github repo of box 86 apparently some games even run on a raspberry pi 4. if it can reach an acceptable compatibility status it could enable some nice linux devices with armed cpus to be used as handheld consoles like the steam deck for example who doesn't want to run a game that was made for another os for another cpu architecture with another graphics api in mind on a device that fills none of that criteria it's amazing oh maybe i'm just a big nerd wine 7.5 has been released with the alsa audio driver converted to the pe executable format support for the hlsl compiler in the bundled vkd3e library and initial support for the online certificate status protocol or ocsp this is a protocol used to maintain the security of a server and various network resources basically checks the validity of certificates in real time so i guess that might be useful for network applications and maybe for some games as well 28 bugs were also fixed including for minecraft for windows 10 the evil within 2 grid 2 and multiple microsoft programs like power toys or the windows terminal we can't have one of these weekly news videos without some wine news right just like i can't have a video without telling you about today's sponsor slim book these guys are based in valencia spain they make linux laptops and desktops that they ship worldwide with all keyboard layouts they have a huge range of devices for basically every use case for example the slimbook one which is a very small form factor pc with a nice aluminium enclosure it's got great design great i o good performance with ryzen cpus and it's also upgradable super easily just remove a few screws and you're done it's a great device so if you need something that runs linux out of the box and you want to support slim book or support the channel or encourage more linux development then click the link in the description below and head over to slimbox website they are amazing now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me make more of these you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and to the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for 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hey guys this is nick and at the risk of being locked out of the youtube linux sphere i want to state something despite everything you can read or watch on the internet gnome isn't a lockdown platform at all it's actually super customizable thanks to extensions themes icon themes and various tools you can turn it into anything you're comfortable with you don't believe me stay wild and listen just like you should listen to the segue to today's sponsor which will let you get a hundred dollars off your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads go ahead i don't need the money anyway from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started let's begin with the obvious extensions gnome can be transformed entirely thanks to extensions this is a system that lets users completely change the gnome shell the desktop itself by default gnome has a very opinionated user interface with its activities view a hidden dock workspaces front and center and no regular applications menu but you're not stuck with that at all one example that you won't even have to tweet yourself is in pop os these guys have built another entire desktop environment on top of gnome called cosmic now granted they are also redeveloping this whole desktop environment in rust instead of basing it on gnome shell but still what you can use today on pop os is based on gnome extensions you get a default dock visible at all times you get an apps library with quick access to the folders you created you get a separate workspaces menu for window management you get a launcher to quickly start apps without using the menu and auto tiling features that let you organize your windows quickly or get back to free-floating windows all of this is based on gnome extensions the whole set of them is actually open source and can be installed on other distributions either through a ppa for ubuntu-based distros or with a super quick compilation that's done in three command lines these extensions are probably also in the aur because let's be honest everything is another excellent example is zorin os a distro based on ubuntu that offers many different layouts that all use extensions to mimic the well-known windows layout or something that looks like mac os or unity or a lot of other familiar operating systems and no contrary to popular belief elementary os does not use a tweaked version of gnomeshell they use their own thing also cinnamon the desktop environment used by linux mint was also just a set of gnome extensions when it began nowadays it's its own thing but it has its roots in gnome 3. but if these pre-made things aren't your cup of tea you have a whole library of extensions at your fingertips the easiest way to get to these is to install the app called extension manager it's available on flat hub and lets you not only manage your own extensions but also browse and install them in one click if you don't want an app to do that you can also just head over to extensions.gnome.org and look at them this way you might even be prompted to install a small browser extension that lets you install them in one click straight from the browser easy enough although for some reason the default gnome browser gnome web does not offer this kind of support which is super weird you might be overwhelmed with the sheer number of options available so let's take a look of the most useful ones one of the most widely seen is dash to panel it's perfect if you want to replicate a familiar windows-like or kde-like layout it basically just lumps everything you would find in the gnome top bar in the dark in the activities view into a single bottom bar complete with applications menu clock notification icons and app launchers and running app indicators it's also super customizable itself with options like changing the position of the panel itself that's right something that windows doesn't even let you do anymore now who's not customizable now there's also the ability to automatically hide it to change its height its length to show various buttons increase or reduce the margins between applications to change the running app indicator look the panel transparency or its color to show or hide window previews on hover and a lot more it's basically a great go-to to start turning gnome into what you want it can also be combined with other extensions like different menus or the all-important app indicator extension if you ever wondered where your system tray notifications had gone in gnome well they just decided to pack up and leave but you can convince to bring them back thanks to this new extension app indicators does what it says it just lets you add support back for these nasty looking icons in your top bar next cloud discord steam and a lot more will happily live there and you even get to choose where to display them near the system indicators or somewhere else you decide it's something that i personally have not managed to do without yet i don't like seeing them there they're ugly and i would prefer them to go away but there's just no suitable replacement just yet if you don't like a bottom bar why not get a dock an always visible one because dash to dock does just that you'll get the activities dock from gnome but always visible on the bottom you'll get the activities dock from gnome but always visible on the bottom complete with the running app indicators your application launchers which are also separated from apps you haven't pinned you also get a trash can the plugged in storage devices and an applications menu and of course it's also highly customizable with the ability to place it on any edge of the screen changing the size and the scaling adding or removing various icons like the trash can showing window previews or a bunch of appearance preferences to make it look exactly how you want now i heard that all the cool kids want to use a dark mode all the time but what if you want to use a light mode during the day and a dark mode at night you can also do that thanks to knight theme switcher it will simply switch your desktop to dark mode depending on the time of day or on a manual schedule you can also add a visible button either in the system menu or near the notifications and clock to toggle the switch manually it can switch the gnome shell theme and the gtk theme and you can even decide on different themes for light and dark mode light mode could be advaita for example and dark mode could be co gear dark if you're into flashy eye candy and you're nostalgic of the compass days then the burn my windows extension is for you while not really something you need it's still super fun it lets you pick various animations for opening or closing your applications and even apply them to dialogues ranging from actually making your windows catch fire and disappear to being shredded by claws and if you can decide you can pick multiple effects and have them randomized and each effect can be tweaked in terms of duration and scale now i personally can't use it every day it's way too flashy but if you want something that will impress your little brother or your cousin that's definitely it it's never too soon to get them into linux and super flashy effects like that are always the way to go but what about desktop icons i might hate them but that's not everyone's case for that horrible purpose why not use desktop icons ng it basically rehabilitates your desktop as an icon and files folder so you can finally hide that wonderful wallpaper with all sorts of crap you will never sort through or remember is there it lets you show a trash icon external drives network drives choose their alignment and even share some settings with nautilus so it behaves like a real part of your file management tools now finally for fans of eye candy there's also something called blur my shell no it won't blur your window background but it will add some nice blur on the background of the activities view based on the wallpaper your search view your activities view or your apps list will definitely look snazzier with this one and that's just the tip of the iceberg you've got network stats tiling features you've got workspace indicators and a lot more so just head over to the extension website or use the app to browse and find something that you actually want to use of course you might also want to change the look of your gnome applications small warning here it won't be easy to do when gnome 42 arrives because libertvita basically locks all default apps to the default advisor look until someone figures out a way to bypass it in the meantime and as gnome42 will take some time to arrive to all distros you can still have some fun all you need to do is install gnome tweaks and then look for a theme you like for that gnome look is your friend here you can find a ton of gdk themes to change your windows buttons title bars appearance and a ton of icon themes to change how your desktop looks apparently it's now called ricing although i have no idea what the origin of that word is maybe something to do with rice because rice is beautiful and customizable i guess once you've downloaded a theme all you have to do is extract it and place the resultant folder inside one of two directories themes go into the dot themes folder in your user directory and icons go in the dot icons directory these are hidden folders and you might need to create them they might not be there by default don't forget to add the small dot at the beginning of the name showing or hiding hidden folders in nautilus can be done with the press of control plus h once your themes are placed there open gnome tweaks hit the appearance tab and choose the theme you want cursors work in the same way and can be placed in the dot icons folder as well and now you can have something that you really want to use that you find beautiful and that looks exactly the way you want it to it's a super easy way to get a desktop that you really enjoy using and that just looks the way you want it to although be aware that some applications might be broken by custom themes so there's always that possibility but that's not all gnome tweaks that you just installed it's a cool program it lets you change a bunch of settings for your gnome desktops the phones yes that's there with all the installed phones in your system if you want to change or disable the mouse cursor acceleration profiles it's doable as well if you want to scroll on your touchpad using the edges instead of two fingers you can do that startup applications are also handled there just like the ability to display weak numbers in the shell calendar the battery percentage of your laptop or disabling the hot corner for the activities view oh and i almost forgot you can also restore the minimize and maximize button using this gnome tweaks tool and also you can tell your system to always center new windows because why would you want them to pop up in a random position all of that combined makes gnome very versatile in terms of look of behavior and of general user experience so sure all these settings might not be available right from the start as options but that's not the aim for gnome so basically gnome applies the same mantra as kde it's simple by default powerful when needed except in the case of gnome all the power is added voluntarily by the user after the fact when in kde all the power is always there lurking in the background whether you want it or not of course this extension system isn't as solid as what kde offers extensions are independent from the main gnome desktop and might not get updated every time a new version of gnome is released they are notorious for taking a bit of time before being compatible with the latest and greatest gnome but unless you're on fedora or arch or a rolling release that really keeps up with everything new that won't really be a problem now themes are a different beast altogether icons and cursor themes will still be easy to change in gnome 42 using gnome tweaks but the gtk theme is going to be way trickier gnome tweaks won't be able to change the theme for apps using libertvita so they will stick to the default advisor look but i am fairly sure that someone in the community will find a way to replace the whole libertvita style sheet in the future so don't be put off or refrain yourself from trying out gnome because of something you read or watched online while the default gnome experience is very simple and maybe too simple for a lot of people it can be completely overhauled and turned into something that you love just like you love using your new linux laptop or desktop thanks to today's sponsor slim book sales devices running linux out of the box they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have all keyboard layouts that you might want they have devices for all price points all use cases including for example the slim book one which is a very small form-factored pc that you can put on top of your desk it has a magnificent aluminum enclosure it's got powerful amd ryzen cpus and integrated gpus it can be upgraded to a lot of ram and a lot of hard drive storage space it's just super cute and tiny and i just i love it so yes if you want one you can just click the link in the description below and get your own or get any of the other laptops or desktops that slim book offers so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to throw a comment at your screen and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to help me make more of these videos you can join my amazing patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to the weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and if you want the latest linux and open source news you've come to the right place this week we've got xbox game pass running on the steam deck sorta we've got android apps in the cloud and canonical showing a demo of that at gdc 2022 and we've got gnome 42 being released and of course we're gonna have today's sponsor which will let you get a hundred dollars off your linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so gnome 42 was released bringing with it a ton of improvements to the desktop environment among the main changes there's a new gnome shell theme simpler and more modern a new gdk theme thanks to libervita that will please minimalists and annoy people with poor eyesight or fans of skeuomorphism and the introduction of gdk4 is also there in a lot of default apps that's not a small change as it enables gpu acceleration inside of apps so everything feels smoother and faster but it also means that people who love to theme their desktops will have more work to do to bypass the new advaita theme that libervida ships nautilus also gets a revamped pathbar which is way more legible and gnomeweb gets hardware acceleration by default i have a video dedicated to that new release so check it out in the card up top there are some interesting updates happening in the gnome application world as well as new tools see the light of day login manager settings is for example a new utility to let you tweak the login window of gnome including enabling nightlight changing the phones or the general appearance and more there's also a new tool to preview and design symbolic icons a pod man client called symphony and more importantly an in-development project from george stavrakas to control a stream deck from elgato it already supports playing sound effects starting and stopping streaming and recording on obs switching obs scenes or opening folders and launching applications and yes that's stream deck not steam deck but still it's equal project for people who use them for streaming or just as a quick launcher for various applications and folders quick someone tell linus from ltt let's get it over with the gnome stuff as libid vitae 1.1 and lib handy 1.6 are released to accompany gnome 42. these updates to the ux and design libraries for gnome bring header suffixes which is a way to put a widget next to the group's titles as well as selectable titles in various rows and better cross-platform support lib handy has been brought up to par with libertvita for applications that want to make use of the in-app transitions and gestures without locking themselves into advaita specifically or without upgrading to gtk it also allows gdk3 apps to support the new dark style preference implemented in gnome 42. now let's hope developers take advantage of that new preference quickly because it's quite hit or miss right now the linux kernel version 5.17 was released a week later than what was initially planned and it brings a few interesting features the biggest is the new amd p-state driver for zen 2 and later architectures apparently valve had a hand in making that driver because it's useful for the steam deck and it should make amd cpus more power efficient there's also a new driver that should let parts of the system firmware be updated without rebooting for intel hardware there's also support for the usi or universal stylus initiative which is a common effort to make sure that styluses work well on all devices whatever the vendor better fs and x4 also got performance boosts and there's a zen usb driver to let a host pass a usb device to zen guests it's all very good stuff that should land in a disro near you soon or not so soon depending on what you're running if you own or want to own an m1 mac but also want to run linux they are good news the first alpha of azahi linux is there and it does just that it works on any m1 mac except the mac studio and it supports wi-fi usb 2 screens storage closing the lid on laptops the keyboard and touchpad the ethernet ports the sd card readers and switching the frequency of the cpu what it doesn't support yet is usb 3 speakers and controlling the display brightness as well as displayport thunderbolt hdmi on macbooks bluetooth and more importantly the gpu and cameras so it's a fantastic first alpha release if you like to tinker and you want to try your hand at using an m1 mac with linux it's still not a ready-made solution because no support for the gpu means that your battery life will be terrible when you try to do anything that requires watching a video or scrolling on web pages or basically anything more distro releases with linux mint debian edition or lmde version 5. the codename is lz and it's based on debian bullseye apart from that nothing changes from the regular linux mint you still get cinnamon by default the same tools and utilities and mostly the same packages this version is really here to have a safe way to get out of under ubuntu's shadow if they ever piss the men's team off too much or if ubuntu disappeared although the former is much more likely it's possible to upgrade from the beta to the final release but not yet from the previous version of lmde although that will happen soon i said it before but i'm kind of surprised that mint hasn't made the transition from ubuntu to debian as its space seeing as they don't seem to agree with most of the decisions that ubuntu is making these days looks like the work to make snap packages faster to open on first launch on the desktop is paying off ubuntu published a blog post detailing some results using kde applications that show a 33 to 40 decrease in startup time thanks to the lzo compression algorithm they implemented a while back they had already tested this with a chromium snap but this new compression algorithm seems like it needs to be enabled on a per-snap basis and the kde team will do so on the 100 plus applications they have available in the snapstore at the same time as they'll update the applications themselves so people using snaps to run kde applications will probably rejoice because while that long delay is only on the first launch it's still super annoying to have to wait multiple seconds after you actually clicked on something speaking of ubuntu 22.04 is gearing up to be a nice release with a few improvements over the base gnome 42 version that they'll use as a base the first one is accent colors we talked about it before but they are now confirmed this is a pretty fantastic feature that i wish was implemented everywhere including in vendor like gnome and was standardized across all toolkits and desktop environments the accent color also impacts some icons in the yarrow theme to round up the look on top of that the new ubuntu logo will replace the previous one much to the dismay of a lot of people and the light theme will this time truly be light including all the gnome shell pop-up windows and context menus which were previously black the top panel and the dark will still remain black by default though this move seems pretty logical partly canonical announced they would be hosting a live talk at gdc 2022 presenting a cloud gaming demo using andbox cloud to run android games in the cloud this service is technically not specifically dedicated to running games it can run any android app that nbox supports but canonical argued that gaming is the part of the service that's most in demand the demo source code is available on github for you to run it provided that you have an nbox cloud commercial subscription it will run on ampere ultra arm cpus and nvidia tesla t4 gpus and clients will connect to it using webrtc and a specific sdk personally i think the biggest use case would be to run android apps in the cloud but on linux smartphones like the pine phone or the libra m5 after all these phones are always online so running these apps in the cloud wouldn't make any difference nate graham from the kde team published another blog post detailing the advancement of the next releases of kde plasma and its associated apps this time two new bugs were fixed from the 15 minute bug initiative and k runner will gain its own config window that also lets you disable the fact that typing when the desktop is focused would open k-runner for research gdk apps will now look more like kde apps when using the breeze gtk theme gestures on wayland will now be more reactive to your finger movements and discover will display a pop-up when installing proprietary software to warn users about their risks i'm not sure how i feel about this specific change though because promoting open source software is one thing but doing it at the detriment and by criticizing proprietary software doesn't seem the right way to go about it although proprietary software does incur some privacy problems and risks so i guess that's fair the steam deck is receiving regular updates that improve the experience of using it there are now new options to ignore notifications for steam deck rewards going to the collections view in the library is now easier the store performance has been improved search is more prominent on the library page and the size of the client has been removed by getting rid of unused sounds scrolling is now also smoother and faster and tons of issues have been fixed as well now still on the steam deck its library has now reached 1600 playable or certified titles including 868 of the latter big names recently added include outlast 2 halo spartan strike or dota underlords now there are still issues with this steam deck verified program but generally you can run a playable or certified title without risking losing your sanity if you have any left i don't finally microsoft acknowledged the existence of the steam deck with an official way to run game pass titles on the handheld console pc well at least if you have a good network connection because it's using xbox cloud and microsoft edge you can install the edge beta through discover the app store of the desktop mode of the steam deck and it can then be added as a known steam game to be run just like any other game well you will have to enter a few command lines first to make it play nice and auto start on the right web page as well for now it's not completely foolproof but microsoft said they are actively working on making it easier maybe with a dedicated app available directly from steam and that just opens edge on the right web page that would be cool but i doubt they'll do that what i don't doubt is the fact that you're gonna love today's sponsor slim book these guys make linux laptops and desktops from valencia spain they have all keyboard layouts they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of laptops and desktops that you can pick from with linux pre-installed out of the box for example the slim book 1 is a super tiny form factor pc in a wonderful aluminum enclosure it's super upgradable it's powerful with ryzen cpus it won't take up too much space on your desk and it can do virtually anything that you would want a pc to do so check it out using the link in the description below and get your own slim book device whether it's the slim book one or one of their laptops so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to throw a comment at your screen and anything else that can help promote the channel if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments comments are engagement and they also help promote the video so go ahead and if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members and you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and if you want the latest linux and open source news you've come to the right place this week we've got xbox game pass running on the steam deck sorta we've got android apps in the cloud and canonical showing a demo of that at gdc 2022 and we've got gnome 42 being released and of course we're gonna have today's sponsor which will let you get a hundred dollars off your linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so gnome 42 was released bringing with it a ton of improvements to the desktop environment among the main changes there's a new gnome shell theme simpler and more modern a new gdk theme thanks to libervita that will please minimalists and annoy people with poor eyesight or fans of skeuomorphism and the introduction of gdk4 is also there in a lot of default apps that's not a small change as it enables gpu acceleration inside of apps so everything feels smoother and faster but it also means that people who love to theme their desktops will have more work to do to bypass the new advaita theme that libervida ships nautilus also gets a revamped pathbar which is way more legible and gnomeweb gets hardware acceleration by default i have a video dedicated to that new release so check it out in the card up top there are some interesting updates happening in the gnome application world as well as new tools see the light of day login manager settings is for example a new utility to let you tweak the login window of gnome including enabling nightlight changing the phones or the general appearance and more there's also a new tool to preview and design symbolic icons a pod man client called symphony and more importantly an in-development project from george stavrakas to control a stream deck from elgato it already supports playing sound effects starting and stopping streaming and recording on obs switching obs scenes or opening folders and launching applications and yes that's stream deck not steam deck but still it's equal project for people who use them for streaming or just as a quick launcher for various applications and folders quick someone tell linus from ltt let's get it over with the gnome stuff as libid vitae 1.1 and lib handy 1.6 are released to accompany gnome 42. these updates to the ux and design libraries for gnome bring header suffixes which is a way to put a widget next to the group's titles as well as selectable titles in various rows and better cross-platform support lib handy has been brought up to par with libertvita for applications that want to make use of the in-app transitions and gestures without locking themselves into advaita specifically or without upgrading to gtk it also allows gdk3 apps to support the new dark style preference implemented in gnome 42. now let's hope developers take advantage of that new preference quickly because it's quite hit or miss right now the linux kernel version 5.17 was released a week later than what was initially planned and it brings a few interesting features the biggest is the new amd p-state driver for zen 2 and later architectures apparently valve had a hand in making that driver because it's useful for the steam deck and it should make amd cpus more power efficient there's also a new driver that should let parts of the system firmware be updated without rebooting for intel hardware there's also support for the usi or universal stylus initiative which is a common effort to make sure that styluses work well on all devices whatever the vendor better fs and x4 also got performance boosts and there's a zen usb driver to let a host pass a usb device to zen guests it's all very good stuff that should land in a disro near you soon or not so soon depending on what you're running if you own or want to own an m1 mac but also want to run linux they are good news the first alpha of azahi linux is there and it does just that it works on any m1 mac except the mac studio and it supports wi-fi usb 2 screens storage closing the lid on laptops the keyboard and touchpad the ethernet ports the sd card readers and switching the frequency of the cpu what it doesn't support yet is usb 3 speakers and controlling the display brightness as well as displayport thunderbolt hdmi on macbooks bluetooth and more importantly the gpu and cameras so it's a fantastic first alpha release if you like to tinker and you want to try your hand at using an m1 mac with linux it's still not a ready-made solution because no support for the gpu means that your battery life will be terrible when you try to do anything that requires watching a video or scrolling on web pages or basically anything more distro releases with linux mint debian edition or lmde version 5. the codename is lz and it's based on debian bullseye apart from that nothing changes from the regular linux mint you still get cinnamon by default the same tools and utilities and mostly the same packages this version is really here to have a safe way to get out of under ubuntu's shadow if they ever piss the men's team off too much or if ubuntu disappeared although the former is much more likely it's possible to upgrade from the beta to the final release but not yet from the previous version of lmde although that will happen soon i said it before but i'm kind of surprised that mint hasn't made the transition from ubuntu to debian as its space seeing as they don't seem to agree with most of the decisions that ubuntu is making these days looks like the work to make snap packages faster to open on first launch on the desktop is paying off ubuntu published a blog post detailing some results using kde applications that show a 33 to 40 decrease in startup time thanks to the lzo compression algorithm they implemented a while back they had already tested this with a chromium snap but this new compression algorithm seems like it needs to be enabled on a per-snap basis and the kde team will do so on the 100 plus applications they have available in the snapstore at the same time as they'll update the applications themselves so people using snaps to run kde applications will probably rejoice because while that long delay is only on the first launch it's still super annoying to have to wait multiple seconds after you actually clicked on something speaking of ubuntu 22.04 is gearing up to be a nice release with a few improvements over the base gnome 42 version that they'll use as a base the first one is accent colors we talked about it before but they are now confirmed this is a pretty fantastic feature that i wish was implemented everywhere including in vendor like gnome and was standardized across all toolkits and desktop environments the accent color also impacts some icons in the yarrow theme to round up the look on top of that the new ubuntu logo will replace the previous one much to the dismay of a lot of people and the light theme will this time truly be light including all the gnome shell pop-up windows and context menus which were previously black the top panel and the dark will still remain black by default though this move seems pretty logical partly canonical announced they would be hosting a live talk at gdc 2022 presenting a cloud gaming demo using andbox cloud to run android games in the cloud this service is technically not specifically dedicated to running games it can run any android app that nbox supports but canonical argued that gaming is the part of the service that's most in demand the demo source code is available on github for you to run it provided that you have an nbox cloud commercial subscription it will run on ampere ultra arm cpus and nvidia tesla t4 gpus and clients will connect to it using webrtc and a specific sdk personally i think the biggest use case would be to run android apps in the cloud but on linux smartphones like the pine phone or the libra m5 after all these phones are always online so running these apps in the cloud wouldn't make any difference nate graham from the kde team published another blog post detailing the advancement of the next releases of kde plasma and its associated apps this time two new bugs were fixed from the 15 minute bug initiative and k runner will gain its own config window that also lets you disable the fact that typing when the desktop is focused would open k-runner for research gdk apps will now look more like kde apps when using the breeze gtk theme gestures on wayland will now be more reactive to your finger movements and discover will display a pop-up when installing proprietary software to warn users about their risks i'm not sure how i feel about this specific change though because promoting open source software is one thing but doing it at the detriment and by criticizing proprietary software doesn't seem the right way to go about it although proprietary software does incur some privacy problems and risks so i guess that's fair the steam deck is receiving regular updates that improve the experience of using it there are now new options to ignore notifications for steam deck rewards going to the collections view in the library is now easier the store performance has been improved search is more prominent on the library page and the size of the client has been removed by getting rid of unused sounds scrolling is now also smoother and faster and tons of issues have been fixed as well now still on the steam deck its library has now reached 1600 playable or certified titles including 868 of the latter big names recently added include outlast 2 halo spartan strike or dota underlords now there are still issues with this steam deck verified program but generally you can run a playable or certified title without risking losing your sanity if you have any left i don't finally microsoft acknowledged the existence of the steam deck with an official way to run game pass titles on the handheld console pc well at least if you have a good network connection because it's using xbox cloud and microsoft edge you can install the edge beta through discover the app store of the desktop mode of the steam deck and it can then be added as a known steam game to be run just like any other game well you will have to enter a few command lines first to make it play nice and auto start on the right web page as well for now it's not completely foolproof but microsoft said they are actively working on making it easier maybe with a dedicated app available directly from steam and that just opens edge on the right web page that would be cool but i doubt they'll do that what i don't doubt is the fact that you're gonna love today's sponsor slim book these guys make linux laptops and desktops from valencia spain they have all keyboard layouts they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of laptops and desktops that you can pick from with linux pre-installed out of the box for example the slim book 1 is a super tiny form factor pc in a wonderful aluminum enclosure it's super upgradable it's powerful with ryzen cpus it won't take up too much space on your desk and it can do virtually anything that you would want a pc to do so check it out using the link in the description below and get 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hey guys this is nick and at the risk of being locked out of the youtube linux sphere i want to state something despite everything you can read or watch on the internet gnome isn't a lockdown platform at all it's actually super customizable thanks to extensions themes icon themes and various tools you can turn it into anything you're comfortable with you don't believe me stay wild and listen just like you should listen to the segue to today's sponsor which will let you get a hundred dollars off your own linux or gaming server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linoid has moodle to create 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on gnome shell but still what you can use today on pop os is based on gnome extensions you get a default dock visible at all times you get an apps library with quick access to the folders you created you get a separate workspaces menu for window management you get a launcher to quickly start apps without using the menu and auto tiling features that let you organize your windows quickly or get back to free-floating windows all of this is based on gnome extensions the whole set of them is actually open source and can be installed on other distributions either through a ppa for ubuntu-based distros or with a super quick compilation that's done in three command lines these extensions are probably also in the aur because let's be honest everything is another excellent example is zorin os a distro based on ubuntu that offers many different layouts that all use extensions to mimic the well-known windows layout or something that looks like mac os or unity or a lot of other familiar operating systems and no contrary to popular belief elementary os does not use a tweaked version of gnomeshell they use their own thing also cinnamon the desktop environment used by linux mint was also just a set of gnome extensions when it began nowadays it's its own thing but it has its roots in gnome 3. but if these pre-made things aren't your cup of tea you have a whole library of extensions at your fingertips the easiest way to get to these is to install the app called extension manager it's available on flat hub and lets you not only manage your own extensions but also browse and install them in one click if you don't want an app to do that you can also just head over to extensions.gnome.org and look at them this way you might even be prompted to install a small browser extension that lets you install them in one click straight from the browser easy enough although for some reason the default gnome browser gnome web does not offer this kind of support which is super weird you might be overwhelmed with the sheer number of options available so let's take a look of the most useful ones one of the most widely seen is dash to panel it's perfect if you want to replicate a familiar windows-like or kde-like layout it basically just lumps everything you would find in the gnome top bar in the dark in the activities view into a single bottom bar complete with applications menu clock notification icons and app launchers and running app indicators it's also super customizable itself with options like changing the position of the panel itself that's right something that windows doesn't even let you do anymore now who's not customizable now there's also the ability to automatically hide it to change its height its length to show various buttons increase or reduce the margins between applications to change the running app indicator look the panel transparency or its color to show or hide window previews on hover and a lot more it's basically a great go-to to start turning gnome into what you want it can also be combined with other extensions like different menus or the all-important app indicator extension if you ever wondered where your system tray notifications had gone in gnome well they just decided to pack up and leave but you can convince to bring them back thanks to this new extension app indicators does what it says it just lets you add support back for these nasty looking icons in your top bar next cloud discord steam and a lot more will happily live there and you even get to choose where to display them near the system indicators or somewhere else you decide it's something that i personally have not managed to do without yet i don't like seeing them there they're ugly and i would prefer them to go away but there's just no suitable replacement just yet if you don't like a bottom bar why not get a dock an always visible one because dash to dock does just that you'll get the activities dock from gnome but always visible on the bottom you'll get the activities dock from gnome but always visible on the bottom complete with the running app indicators your application launchers which are also separated from apps you haven't pinned you also get a trash can the plugged in storage devices and an applications menu and of course it's also highly customizable with the ability to place it on any edge of the screen changing the size and the scaling adding or removing various icons like the trash can showing window previews or a bunch of appearance preferences to make it look exactly how you want now i heard that all the cool kids want to use a dark mode all the time but what if you want to use a light mode during the day and a dark mode at night you can also do that thanks to knight theme switcher it will simply switch your desktop to dark mode depending on the time of day or on a manual schedule you can also add a visible button either in the system menu or near the notifications and clock to toggle the switch manually it can switch the gnome shell theme and the gtk theme and you can even decide on different themes for light and dark mode light mode could be advaita for example and dark mode could be co gear dark if you're into flashy eye candy and you're nostalgic of the compass days then the burn my windows extension is for you while not really something you need it's still super fun it lets you pick various animations for opening or closing your applications and even apply them to dialogues ranging from actually making your windows catch fire and disappear to being shredded by claws and if you can decide you can pick multiple effects and have them randomized and each effect can be tweaked in terms of duration and scale now i personally can't use it every day it's way too flashy but if you want something that will impress your little brother or your cousin that's definitely it it's never too soon to get them into linux and super flashy effects like that are always the way to go but what about desktop icons i might hate them but that's not everyone's case for that horrible purpose why not use desktop icons ng it basically rehabilitates your desktop as an icon and files folder so you can finally hide that wonderful wallpaper with all sorts of crap you will never sort through or remember is there it lets you show a trash icon external drives network drives choose their alignment and even share some settings with nautilus so it behaves like a real part of your file management tools now finally for fans of eye candy there's also something called blur my shell no it won't blur your window background but it will add some nice blur on the background of the activities view based on the wallpaper your search view your activities view or your apps list will definitely look snazzier with this one and that's just the tip of the iceberg you've got network stats tiling features you've got workspace indicators and a lot more so just head over to the extension website or use the app to browse and find something that you actually want to use of course you might also want to change the look of your gnome applications small warning here it won't be easy to do when gnome 42 arrives because libertvita basically locks all default apps to the default advisor look until someone figures out a way to bypass it in the meantime and as gnome42 will take some time to arrive to all distros you can still have some fun all you need to do is install gnome tweaks and then look for a theme you like for that gnome look is your friend here you can find a ton of gdk themes to change your windows buttons title bars appearance and a ton of icon themes to change how your desktop looks apparently it's now called ricing although i have no idea what the origin of that word is maybe something to do with rice because rice is beautiful and customizable i guess once you've downloaded a theme all you have to do is extract it and place the resultant folder inside one of two directories themes go into the dot themes folder in your user directory and icons go in the dot icons directory these are hidden folders and you might need to create them they might not be there by default don't forget to add the small dot at the beginning of the name showing or hiding hidden folders in nautilus can be done with the press of control plus h once your themes are placed there open gnome tweaks hit the appearance tab and choose the theme you want cursors work in the same way and can be placed in the dot icons folder as well and now you can have something that you really want to use that you find beautiful and that looks exactly the way you want it to it's a super easy way to get a desktop that you really enjoy using and that just looks the way you want it to although be aware that some applications might be broken by custom themes so there's always that possibility but that's not all gnome tweaks that you just installed it's a cool program it lets you change a bunch of settings for your gnome desktops the phones yes that's there with all the installed phones in your system if you want to change or disable the mouse cursor acceleration profiles it's doable as well if you want to scroll on your touchpad using the edges instead of two fingers you can do that startup applications are also handled there just like the ability to display weak numbers in the shell calendar the battery percentage of your laptop or disabling the hot corner for the activities view oh and i almost forgot you can also restore the minimize and maximize button using this gnome tweaks tool and also you can tell your system to always center new windows because why would you want them to pop up in a random position all of that combined makes gnome very versatile in terms of look of behavior and of general user experience so sure all these settings might not be available right from the start as options but that's not the aim for gnome so basically gnome applies the same mantra as kde it's simple by default powerful when needed except in the case of gnome all the power is added voluntarily by the user after the fact when in kde all the power is always there lurking in the background whether you want it or not of course this extension system isn't as solid as what kde offers extensions are independent from the main gnome desktop and might not get updated every time a new version of gnome is released they are notorious for taking a bit of time before being compatible with the latest and greatest gnome but unless you're on fedora or arch or a rolling release that really keeps up with everything new that won't really be a problem now themes are a different beast altogether icons and cursor themes will still be easy to change in gnome 42 using gnome tweaks but the gtk theme is going to be way trickier gnome tweaks won't be able to change the theme for apps using libertvita so they will stick to the default advisor look but i am fairly sure that someone in the community will find a way to replace the whole libertvita style sheet in the future so don't be put off or refrain yourself from trying out gnome because of something you read or watched online while the default gnome experience is very simple and maybe too simple for a lot of people it can be completely overhauled and turned into something that you love just like you love using your new linux laptop or desktop thanks to today's sponsor slim book sales devices running linux out of the box they are based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have all keyboard layouts that you might want they have devices for all price points all use cases including for example the slim book one which is a very small form-factored pc that you can put on top of your desk it has a magnificent aluminum enclosure it's got powerful amd ryzen cpus and integrated gpus it can be upgraded to a lot of ram and a lot of hard drive storage space it's just super cute and tiny and i just i love it so yes if you want one you can just click the link in the description 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hey everyone this is nick and gnome42 will release tomorrow i have given it a good solid few days to try it out and there are a lot of changes that will either please you or make your rant even more against the gnome developers there are new themes more dark modes libid vita app updates and changes that virtually don't change anything so stick around and let's give it a good look just like i want you to give a good look to your internet connection thanks to today's sponsor this video is sponsored by safing and you might already have heard me talk about their port master tool on the channel it lets you monitor and control any detail of your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface through the use of block lists profiles depending on your current connection and per app settings it's also completely free of charge and open source but saving is also developing the spn the saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once so just head over to the link in the description below and download either the port master or subscribe to the espn so let's begin with the changes on the desktop side of things because there are plenty gnome 42 brings a revamped shell theme the small arrows that linked each shell popup to their parent element are now gone in their place each pop-up now sits closer to the top bar i'm not sure i find that change to be for the better as having a clear link to the element you clicked on is always good practice but since you still get a highlight over what you clicked on and you know you actually just clicked on that element it also doesn't make things confusing it also makes the whole desktop feel a bit lighter with less visual clutter elements in each menu are now highlighted with a rounded shape more in line with the rest of the desktop and sub menus are now more closely linked to their parent option with a nice rounded card over the whole menu those menus do feel like they have more padding around them though the on-screen display elements or osd are also a lot smaller taking that pill shape that other elements have and being generally a lot less invading of your screen real estate they are still very visible but they won't jump at you anymore these aren't revolutionary changes by any means they look good they are more coherent but unless you're a huge ux or ui nerd like me you probably won't notice and if you are then you'll probably be pleased dark mode support is also now present without the need for gnome tweaks the new appearance preferences panel now gives you the option to switch from light to dark mode just like most distros built on top of gnome already provide this is implemented in a more standard friendly way though as dark mode support is now a free desktop specification that is cross desktop kd plasma pantheon and gnome all support the same preference so apps that take advantage of that preference will respect your dark mode whatever the toolkit or the library they use of course older apps might not pick up on it just yet their developers will have to implement support for it flatback applications can also benefit from it if they support that preference switching from light to dark mode has a nice smooth transition effect added to it so it's not too jarring and if you use a stock gnome wallpaper or one that has a dark variant it will also be switched accordingly these dual mode wallpapers are all visually identified with the split look in the background selector i think it's the right way to implement the dark mode preference as it is some people will probably be angry that older apps or not all apps can actually turn dark when you want them to go dark but it also means that no application will be broken visually by switching to dark mode even though their developer has never planned for it now i just hope that toolkit and application developers take advantage of it really fast because i like having eyes and a huge white window popping up on my whole dark desktop kind of makes my eyes want to leave my skull then there's libertvita gnome 42 is the first version to actually be built with libertvita at its core gnome 41 did ship a few apps that used it but now a lot more of the default applications take advantage of that standardized library what it brings though is also a new refined gtk theme for default gnome and i must say it looks miles better than the previous one most big buttons and tabs are now in line with the header bar and don't have a big shape around them on hover there's definitely a soft button shape still visible around each element and selected ones are also clearly visible menus also have a whiter background by default on the light theme in the various menus the highlights when hovering over an item are way more noticeable search fields feel less heavy with a less delineated box around them and in the various pages of the applications each element is now on a rounded card with a soft shadow underneath it which makes things pop a bit more and i find it more legible some items have gained small arrows to indicate there's something you can further configure when clicking on it and in list views the blue highlights for selected items have been replaced by rounded gray ones which are definitely more elegant but also a little less legible radio buttons and sliders are also slightly larger without the thin black stroke that was around them before it's all going to be very personal whether you like that change or you prefer the other one or you still think that both looks still look like crap i personally think that it looks more modern it looks more elegant and it's really good if you have good eyesight but people that have visual impairments might find it a lot less legible and a lot harder to actually notice the buttons and the highlights purely ui and ux wise i don't think it creates problems because buttons are still very visibly buttons and on your smartphones these days you generally don't have a huge button shape around the things you can click they're just text that you tap on and people are just used to that i don't think that's an issue but if you have trouble seeing if you have problems with your eyesight it might not be the best a lot of apps have been migrated to libertvita like the gnome tour the calendar gnome to do the font manager the disk usage analyzer the clocks app gnome software gnome contacts all the weather app as well as the settings app but some are not there yet especially the file manager although it might just be fedora 36 the distro i used to test drive gnome 42 that decided to use a gdk3 based version of nautilus instead of the gtk4 and libervita beta that is already available still that creates a consistency issue because apps that haven't been updated use the older gdk theme and that doesn't look quite right most third-party apps will also not have been updated just yet so expect a gnome 42 cycle with less consistency while people update their stuff i must say as a big nerd i find this change a little bit jarring i love having a super consistent desktop where every app looks the same uses the same style sheet the same theme the same look the same header bars and glum42 doesn't provide that anymore it's it's a bit of a problem but also a lot of people have told me that i am completely dumb for wanting visual consistency so maybe i'm a dumb nerd in any case i just wish gnome had provided a gtk3 theme that looks exactly like the new libervita one so it could bridge the gap while apps get updated and of course the community is already on that which means that you can download a very close to libadvita theme and use it using gnome tweaks but on the other hand you can't change the theme of libervita apps using gnome tweaks anymore so if you liked your apps not using the default advisor lock it's going to be painful while smarter people than me try and figure out a way to actually enforce another style sheet than the libertvita one also thankfully the beige folders are gone they are now blue and they look so much better it makes a giant difference in how you use your file system i can't overstate that it might look like a small and stupid change but it's the first time in years that the default gnome theme has not used that horrible beige color and i couldn't be happier final detail libervata makes everything a little bit more zippy and smooth especially in the in-app animation department things slide and move in a way better fashion thanks to gpu acceleration in gdk4 it really does make quite a difference the tracker indexer that powers the powerful gnome shell search has also seen a lot of work and it should use half the memory it once did which will please system monitor nerds and owner of potato computers alike they were also working on triple buffer implementation to make the gnome shell feel a lot faster and a lot smoother as well especially on older integrated gpus like intel ones but this change didn't make the cut for gnome 42 itself although distributions have the ability to add it back with a patch like ubuntu 22.04 will do ground 42 also has tons of improvements to its default apps the first one is files the file manager as i said i used fedora to test gnome 42 so it's using a version of files 42 that still uses gdk3 and its older look whether your distro will actually ship with the libertvita version of nodulus42 i don't know what did you think i'm not omniscient and the internet doesn't seem to have an easy to find answer about which version of nautilus will ship in default gnome 42 so shame on you internet i expected more from you still both the gtk3 and gtk4 variants should bring the same updates to the app itself the first one is the new path bar it shows more of the path in the same space and it also displays these all important forward slashes that denote how a linux file system works and i like it it's also clearer that the path is longer than what the window can actually display if the window size isn't large enough to accommodate the whole path and there's also a new path bar menu that gives you the same options as a right click inside the folder itself i'm not exactly sure why this thing is there because you have the right click but maybe it's for older mac users that never had two buttons on their mice if these guys still exist oh and you also still need to press ctrl l to actually be able to type a path in the pathbar which still sucks you also get a bigger rename popup which should let you type longer file names and the undo and redo menu options are now in the main menu instead of being in the sorting menu which makes more sense i guess now not exactly an app itself but the screenshot tool has also been completely revamped it's no longer an application with its own window it appears as an on-screen display element it offers the same three options to capture a selection to capture the whole screen or a specific window and you can also toggle a video recording of the screen which is super handy for people reporting bugs like i do in my freelance job you have the option to hide or show the mouse pointer and you can press the big recording button or hit enter to take the screenshot the tool did lose the option to take a delayed screenshot which sucks because that was super useful the older screenshot tool is still available to install if you preferred it but i found the new one pretty cool you can invoke it using the print screen key and then you get every option you need it's neat there are also two new apps that come as default the first one is console which is replacing the default terminal app it's simpler than its counterpart with way fewer options and is just there for users that want or need to type a command line or two the bigger more featureful terminal app is still available for people who want more power there's also a new text editor that replaces g edit and has the same exact goals be simpler with the more powerful alternative available i honestly can't say i understand why these apps needed to exist in the first place terminal and g8 were already very very simple and i don't see why we should ship as default something that has way fewer options when the interface of g edit and terminal were never confusing in the first place but distros still get to pick which apps they want to ship by default so don't worry gnome devs aren't trying to force you to use simpler applications you'll still get to pick them if you want to another small change is gnome web having hardware accelerated rendering by default which does make it feel a lot faster than it used to although it still has other flaws that i highlighted in the previous video and to complete this tour the gnome settings have been very slightly tweaked when they were ported to gdk4 notably in the displays panel which doesn't have a separate tab for night light it's just another option in the main panel and the remote desktop dialog which now defaults to rdp instead of vnc chrome 42 is cool it's a major step for that desktop environment because it's the first time users will be confronted with the dreaded libadvita much has been written and said on the internet about this thing and despite amazing people trying to make videos to clarify how this thing works there's still a lot of confusion floating around about what it means for developers for users for user theming and stuff like that so this first complete implementation in gnome 42 will set things straight for a lot of users and they'll actually be able to see what it means in terms of theming it will definitely piss off some people that were used to completely theme the way their gdk desktop looked because that's not feasible anymore for now unless some developers find a way to actually change the whole style sheet on top of libervita i for one can appreciate the benefits it brings the advaita theme is now good enough in dark and in light mode to be a daily driver for most people the new blue folder icons round up the look and i think it's quite nice to the eye it also enables developers to make apps that don't break randomly in terms of how they look and since it uses gtk4 it also makes them a lot zippier and smoother thanks to gpu acceleration we will also have to wait and see if this also improves battery life because using the cpu to do graphical tasks is way less efficient than using the gpu so maybe this will bring a change as well the applications themselves didn't change much and those changes are take it or leave it for me but i'm still very excited to get an upgrade to fedora 36 next month and play with all these new features as my daily driver just like i'm super excited to tell you about today's sponsor that will let you get your linux laptop or desktop super easily slim book does just that 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hey everyone this is nick and gnome42 will release tomorrow i have given it a good solid few days to try it out and there are a lot of changes that will either please you or make your rant even more against the gnome developers there are new themes more dark modes libid vita app updates and changes that virtually don't change anything so stick around and let's give it a good look just like i want you to give a good look to your internet connection thanks to today's sponsor this video is sponsored by safing and you might already have heard me talk about their port master tool on the channel it lets you monitor and control any detail of your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface through the use of block lists profiles depending on your current connection and per app settings it's also completely free of charge and open source but saving is also developing the spn the saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once so just head over to the link in the description below and download either the port master or subscribe to the espn so let's begin with the changes on the desktop side of things because there are plenty gnome 42 brings a revamped shell theme the small arrows that linked each shell popup to their parent element are now gone in their place each pop-up now sits closer to the top bar i'm not sure i find that change to be for the better as having a clear link to the element you clicked on is always good practice but since you still get a highlight over what you clicked on and you know you actually just clicked on that element it also doesn't make things confusing it also makes the whole desktop feel a bit lighter with less visual clutter elements in each menu are now highlighted with a rounded shape more in line with the rest of the desktop and sub menus are now more closely linked to their parent option with a nice rounded card over the whole menu those menus do feel like they have more padding around them though the on-screen display elements or osd are also a lot smaller taking that pill shape that other elements have and being generally a lot less invading of your screen real estate they are still very visible but they won't jump at you anymore these aren't revolutionary changes by any means they look good they are more coherent but unless you're a huge ux or ui nerd like me you probably won't notice and if you are then you'll probably be pleased dark mode support is also now present without the need for gnome tweaks the new appearance preferences panel now gives you the option to switch from light to dark mode just like most distros built on top of gnome already provide this is implemented in a more standard friendly way though as dark mode support is now a free desktop specification that is cross desktop kd plasma pantheon and gnome all support the same preference so apps that take advantage of that preference will respect your dark mode whatever the toolkit or the library they use of course older apps might not pick up on it just yet their developers will have to implement support for it flatback applications can also benefit from it if they support that preference switching from light to dark mode has a nice smooth transition effect added to it so it's not too jarring and if you use a stock gnome wallpaper or one that has a dark variant it will also be switched accordingly these dual mode wallpapers are all visually identified with the split look in the background selector i think it's the right way to implement the dark mode preference as it is some people will probably be angry that older apps or not all apps can actually turn dark when you want them to go dark but it also means that no application will be broken visually by switching to dark mode even though their developer has never planned for it now i just hope that toolkit and application developers take advantage of it really fast because i like having eyes and a huge white window popping up on my whole dark desktop kind of makes my eyes want to leave my skull then there's libertvita gnome 42 is the first version to actually be built with libertvita at its core gnome 41 did ship a few apps that used it but now a lot more of the default applications take advantage of that standardized library what it brings though is also a new refined gtk theme for default gnome and i must say it looks miles better than the previous one most big buttons and tabs are now in line with the header bar and don't have a big shape around them on hover there's definitely a soft button shape still visible around each element and selected ones are also clearly visible menus also have a whiter background by default on the light theme in the various menus the highlights when hovering over an item are way more noticeable search fields feel less heavy with a less delineated box around them and in the various pages of the applications each element is now on a rounded card with a soft shadow underneath it which makes things pop a bit more and i find it more legible some items have gained small arrows to indicate there's something you can further configure when clicking on it and in list views the blue highlights for selected items have been replaced by rounded gray ones which are definitely more elegant but also a little less legible radio buttons and sliders are also slightly larger without the thin black stroke that was around them before it's all going to be very personal whether you like that change or you prefer the other one or you still think that both looks still look like crap i personally think that it looks more modern it looks more elegant and it's really good if you have good eyesight but people that have visual impairments might find it a lot less legible and a lot harder to actually notice the buttons and the highlights purely ui and ux wise i don't think it creates problems because buttons are still very visibly buttons and on your smartphones these days you generally don't have a huge button shape around the things you can click they're just text that you tap on and people are just used to that i don't think that's an issue but if you have trouble seeing if you have problems with your eyesight it might not be the best a lot of apps have been migrated to libertvita like the gnome tour the calendar gnome to do the font manager the disk usage analyzer the clocks app gnome software gnome contacts all the weather app as well as the settings app but some are not there yet especially the file manager although it might just be fedora 36 the distro i used to test drive gnome 42 that decided to use a gdk3 based version of nautilus instead of the gtk4 and libervita beta that is already available still that creates a consistency issue because apps that haven't been updated use the older gdk theme and that doesn't look quite right most third-party apps will also not have been updated just yet so expect a gnome 42 cycle with less consistency while people update their stuff i must say as a big nerd i find this change a little bit jarring i love having a super consistent desktop where every app looks the same uses the same style sheet the same theme the same look the same header bars and glum42 doesn't provide that anymore it's it's a bit of a problem but also a lot of people have told me that i am completely dumb for wanting visual consistency so maybe i'm a dumb nerd in any case i just wish gnome had provided a gtk3 theme that looks exactly like the new libervita one so it could bridge the gap while apps get updated and of course the community is already on that which means that you can download a very close to libadvita theme and use it using gnome tweaks but on the other hand you can't change the theme of libervita apps using gnome tweaks anymore so if you liked your apps not using the default advisor lock it's going to be painful while smarter people than me try and figure out a way to actually enforce another style sheet than the libertvita one also thankfully the beige folders are gone they are now blue and they look so much better it makes a giant difference in how you use your file system i can't overstate that it might look like a small and stupid change but it's the first time in years that the default gnome theme has not used that horrible beige color and i couldn't be happier final detail libervata makes everything a little bit more zippy and smooth especially in the in-app animation department things slide and move in a way better fashion thanks to gpu acceleration in gdk4 it really does make quite a difference the tracker indexer that powers the powerful gnome shell search has also seen a lot of work and it should use half the memory it once did which will please system monitor nerds and owner of potato computers alike they were also working on triple buffer implementation to make the gnome shell feel a lot faster and a lot smoother as well especially on older integrated gpus like intel ones but this change didn't make the cut for gnome 42 itself although distributions have the ability to add it back with a patch like ubuntu 22.04 will do ground 42 also has tons of improvements to its default apps the first one is files the file manager as i said i used fedora to test gnome 42 so it's using a version of files 42 that still uses gdk3 and its older look whether your distro will actually ship with the libertvita version of nodulus42 i don't know what did you think i'm not omniscient and the internet doesn't seem to have an easy to find answer about which version of nautilus will ship in default gnome 42 so shame on you internet i expected more from you still both the gtk3 and gtk4 variants should bring the same updates to the app itself the first one is the new path bar it shows more of the path in the same space and it also displays these all important forward slashes that denote how a linux file system works and i like it it's also clearer that the path is longer than what the window can actually display if the window size isn't large enough to accommodate the whole path and there's also a new path bar menu that gives you the same options as a right click inside the folder itself i'm not exactly sure why this thing is there because you have the right click but maybe it's for older mac users that never had two buttons on their mice if these guys still exist oh and you also still need to press ctrl l to actually be able to type a path in the pathbar which still sucks you also get a bigger rename popup which should let you type longer file names and the undo and redo menu options are now in the main menu instead of being in the sorting menu which makes more sense i guess now not exactly an app itself but the screenshot tool has also been completely revamped it's no longer an application with its own window it appears as an on-screen display element it offers the same three options to capture a selection to capture the whole screen or a specific window and you can also toggle a video recording of the screen which is super handy for people reporting bugs like i do in my freelance job you have the option to hide or show the mouse pointer and you can press the big recording button or hit enter to take the screenshot the tool did lose the option to take a delayed screenshot which sucks because that was super useful the older screenshot tool is still available to install if you preferred it but i found the new one pretty cool you can invoke it using the print screen key and then you get every option you need it's neat there are also two new apps that come as default the first one is console which is replacing the default terminal app it's simpler than its counterpart with way fewer options and is just there for users that want or need to type a command line or two the bigger more featureful terminal app is still available for people who want more power there's also a new text editor that replaces g edit and has the same exact goals be simpler with the more powerful alternative available i honestly can't say i understand why these apps needed to exist in the first place terminal and g8 were already very very simple and i don't see why we should ship as default something that has way fewer options when the interface of g edit and terminal were never confusing in the first place but distros still get to pick which apps they want to ship by default so don't worry gnome devs aren't trying to force you to use simpler applications you'll still get to pick them if you want to another small change is gnome web having hardware accelerated rendering by default which does make it feel a lot faster than it used to although it still has other flaws that i highlighted in the previous video and to complete this tour the gnome settings have been very slightly tweaked when they were ported to gdk4 notably in the displays panel which doesn't have a separate tab for night light it's just another option in the main panel and the remote desktop dialog which now defaults to rdp instead of vnc chrome 42 is cool it's a major step for that desktop environment because it's the first time users will be confronted with the dreaded libadvita much has been written and said on the internet about this thing and despite amazing people trying to make videos to clarify how this thing works there's still a lot of confusion floating around about what it means for developers for users for user theming and stuff like that so this first complete implementation in gnome 42 will set things straight for a lot of users and they'll actually be able to see what it means in terms of theming it will definitely piss off some people that were used to completely theme the way their gdk desktop looked because that's not feasible anymore for now unless some developers find a way to actually change the whole style sheet on top of libervita i for one can appreciate the benefits it brings the advaita theme is now good enough in dark and in light mode to be a daily driver for most people the new blue folder icons round up the look and i think it's quite nice to the eye it also enables developers to make apps that don't break randomly in terms of how they look and since it uses gtk4 it also makes them a lot zippier and smoother thanks to gpu acceleration we will also have to wait and see if this also improves battery life because using the cpu to do graphical tasks is way less efficient than using the gpu so maybe this will bring a change as well the applications themselves didn't change much and those changes are take it or leave it for me but i'm still very excited to get an upgrade to fedora 36 next month and play with all these new features as my daily driver just like i'm super excited to tell you about today's sponsor that will let you get your linux laptop or desktop super easily slim book does just that 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hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this week we have steam finally coming to chrome os we've got windows making an underwhelming debut on the steam deck and we've got ubuntu with its brand new logo that doesn't seem up to the standards of everyone oh and arch turn 20 by the way and 20 out of 20 that's the score i'm giving to this segway to today's sponsor which will definitely let you keep your centos servers for a little bit longer while you plan your migration this video is sponsored by tuxcare and you all know by now that centos 8 is end of life it's not getting any patches for any new vulnerabilities in any of its packages unless you use tuxcare's extended lifecycle support service which basically lets you get all these security patches but straight from tux care instead of the distro this means that your systems will stay safe and compliant with all your security requirements while you plan your migration to another os now why would you want to maintain support for an os that just reached end of life why can't you just run it as is well because not having support gets expensive very quickly tuckscare has a calculator on the website i'll left the link in the description below check it out to see how expensive it can get to run an os without security patches now as the log4j issues have shown being at risk and being attacked is not something that only happens to others it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed by all organizations so use the link in the description to check out and subscribe to tuxcare's extended lifecycle support services and plan your migration from centos 8 with a little bit more peace of mind ok let's begin with arch linux it celebrated its 20th birthday on march the 11th it actually started in 2002 with its first 0.1 version a time where ubuntu didn't even exist as anything else than a twinkle in the eye of mr shuttleworth the main advantage at the time was the arch build system which is still the main advantage of arch 20 years later it didn't have a pretty interactive installer back then as the creator put it in the 0.1 release notes and while it does now have an optional installer it's neither pretty nor interactive basically that's a disro that stayed true to its roots even though it's been growing more and more prominent through arch-based distros like endeavour or manjaro but also as the base for the very recent steam os 3. so let's insert here any pun containing the terms by the way and move on to the next story which isn't about arch by the way another vulnerability seems to be affecting linux and this time it's a security hole in net filter an almost ubiquitous firewall program this issue was found by nick gregory a threat researcher at sofas a security firm the vulnerability is exploitable to access the kernel and execute code in order to get local privilege as collection or even escaping a container basically it's very serious thankfully this vulnerability is only present from kernel versions 5.4 to 5.6.10 which aren't that recent but might still be on a lot of servers including some running red hat 8 debian bullseye ubuntu 220.04 lts or souza 15.3 the patch has already been created but isn't yet available for all distributions yet another security vulnerability on linux fortunately these are patched extremely quickly after they've been discovered and disclosed so yeah we're good with that google announced the first alpha of steam for chromebooks this thing has been dragging its feet for years at that point but it seems that it's finally becoming a reality it looks like the steam client for chrome os is just the linux client that runs inside of google's borealis linux container which makes me wonder why it took so long to arrive it's only going to be available on a few select chromebook bottles to begin with although they don't say when or on which models while no chromebook model has a very strong gpu they'll definitely be able to play a few indie games and maybe some older aaa titles in low quality so it's definitely a win for linux gaming as well lots of wins in that area recently you've gotta love how linux is slowly becoming a major player in the gaming market ubuntu is getting a new logo the old circle of friends design is still there and still reminiscent of its first multi-colored iteration but it's also a lot more simple of course as with all redesigns people seem to not really enjoy how it looks citing the giant rectangle the lack of alignment the fact that it doesn't look like three people holding hands anymore or that it looks like a washing machine as reasons to this it personally i find it nice it's simple it's modern it's recognizably the ubuntu brand in any case it's just a logo it probably won't make people use ubuntu over anything else or drop ubuntu for something else do you like it and do you think it looks like a washing machine let me know in the comments i'm actually interested to see how many people like it or not now stadia google's cloud gaming service unveiled more details about their translation layer for porting windows games to linux they only have three people working on their stadia porting toolkit and it seems like it uses dxvk to translate directx instructions into vulkan instructions that linux systems can actually act on they said it's not production ready and that it's really something that requires work on a per-game basis instead of being an all-encompassing solution like wine or proton why not use proton because apparently stelia is very thin as a platform and doesn't embark most of what wine and proton need to work this definitely won't make stadium more appealing to people who already don't like cloud gaming but having more titles available on the platform might make it survive its announced death a little bit longer who knows probably not honestly sorry os 16.1 was released bringing a few things up to date compared to the initial release libreoffice is now at version 7.3 with its better dark mode and better compatibility with microsoft office there's the newer 5.13 linux kernel with the hardware enablement stack so zorin os 16.1 should support newer hardware out of the box and it also gives it full compatibility with the framework laptop the magic mouse 2 or the dual shock 5. users of zorin already got the update and people who aren't on zorin but are interested can download that iso right now the german government had a project to push the use of free software back when they formed a coalition a hundred days ago since then unfortunately it seems that nothing has been done to actually work on that no budget has been defined no plan to identify and promote these technologies had been laid out and there is no indication of how people can get integrated into that process worse it seems that the government seems open to offers from sap using microsoft products which are definitely not free software the free software foundation for europe or fsfe is pushing them to actually make good on their announcement and promises but it's really sad to see another government fall victim to the same trap over and over again instead of finally taking the plunge making the initial investment moving to free software and then just save money over the course of decades another week goes by and we have more kde updates again and this time it's to announce that one of the most reviled bugs that ever existed on kde is now fixed remember these semi-transparent corners that were blurry and square when using third-party decorations for your window manager well themes can and must now specify a mask graphic that will remove that area and make corners nice again of course that's not all as kate and any k-text editor-based program now has access to multiple cursors to write in different places at the same time ocular now has a welcome screen epa files now display thumbnails of the actual contents of the file and there are tons of smaller bugs being squashed user interface improvements and quality of life fixes now the question is will we get these improvements on the desktop mode of the steam deck as soon as they're released or will we have to wait for them flat pack and flat hub continues to gain speed probably thanks to the steam deck's release as developers realize that it's the only user friendly way to get their apps in the hands of deck users so heroic games launcher is now on flat hub which means epic games are just a few clicks away on your handheld pc i tested it myself and even made a video guide you can find in the card up top it works fantastically in desktop mode and in gaming mode and a lot of games i tested just worked with the base proton 7 or with proton ge it can even access the sd card if you use flat seal to give it permission to do so so now you can play all your epic games on the steam deck that you definitely already have right no one's been pushed to after q3 that would be too cruel just like it would be very cruel to insist on the fact that some people got pushed to q3 speaking about the steam deck still it can now run windows thanks to drivers that valve dropped these drivers are only for windows 10 for now as tpm support isn't ready in the firmware just yet and these drivers don't include any audio so you won't get any sound from the audio jack or from the speakers and on top of that the first tests seem to show that windows on the deck as predicted is a way worse experience than using steam os performance is bad the os is not easy to navigate at all battery life is generally worse than on steam os you don't get the new steamos interface yet and you can't dual boot either so you have to erase your whole system and more importantly valve said that they would not support windows on the steam deck so don't expect continually updated drivers to support the hardware better and better or to improve compatibility with certain games it's probably more of a release it once and forget it type of situation but since the steam deck is so popular every studio out there is outlining their policy towards it or their lack thereof xbox studios for example gave a non-committal answer saying that each studio under their umbrella is free to publish games on steam with or without proton support for anti-cheat and that there is basically no global directive as of now a few of their titles are verified like death loop hellblade or the evil within some are playable like sea of thieves and forza horizon 5 and some are unsupported due to anti-cheat like gears 5 or halo infinite come on xbox studios check those check boxes ship those.so library files and let us get some multiplayer halo on the steam deck speaking of game compatibility though we now have apex legends running on the steam deck as mentioned last time because the developers quickly added that small library that they needed to make the game run they checked the checkbox for the anti-cheat and the game had been fully playable on deck and on linux for a few days except that apparently that file wasn't correctly added to the game because it was also quietly removed a few days ago which made the game unplayable for a few hours until the developers finally put it back where it belongs in a new update and this outlines a few issues with the steam deck verified program even while the game was unplayable it was still marked as certified which means that developers have the ability to break your game as with any other platform but valve doesn't really have the bandwidth to ensure that their ratings stay up to date it's going to take a while before that certified seal of approval actually means that the game is fully playable and runs perfectly well because right now it doesn't fortunately we're still going to get a lot more games soon on the deck thanks to valve because they decided to gift a steam deck to the lutrus developers lutris is basically the everything runner for linux thanks to many many community install scripts and thanks to very good integration with the epic game store origin gog humble bundle or ubisoft connect it's on flat hub so it can be run on the deck but it's a beta and it lacks a lot of things that make looters great so this steam deck will definitely help developers make lutris a first class citizen that uses the dex controls to be navigated and maybe works a hundred percent on flat pack now valve's mastery and understanding of the various tools needed to make linux a really viable gaming platform is still astonishing to me i think we have a real ally there and dare i say it maybe it's not just another giant corp here to get some money nah maybe no that's probably going to come back and bite me in the deck still we do have more than 1300 certified and playable games now on the deck so it's not like we'll be lacking options on what to play newly added titles include hitman 2 orcs must die layers of fear 2 max spain 2 or super hexagon that's 25 to 40 games added daily to the list which is still not enough at all to validate the whole steam catalog in less than 5 years on top of that 80 percent of the certified titles are relatively recent dating from 2015 and onwards no one will be surprised by that as of course valve would prioritize games that are more recent and that have more appeal to gamers these titles are also more likely to get an update from the developer to work well on the deck and i know that for some of you kids 2015 isn't really recent it's retro gaming but i grew up with the mega drive or genesis for you americans out there and for me anything younger than the ps2 is not retro gaming and it's relatively recent so i might be super old or you might be super young but every simpsons fan knows that it's always the kids that are wrong and we can't finish one of these videos without an update to wine wine 7.4 was released enabling the new light theme by default it also bundles vk d3d out of the box so it can run direct x12 titles and it converted ynd3d d3d12 and the xgi to the pe executable format so games should work better there are also 14 bug fixes including for enabling vibration in the dual sense controller or for games like psyops league of legends or the godfather now i don't know if seeing less and less bug fixes each release for specific titles is a good thing or not but i personally choose to think it means that less and less titles needs game specific tweaks and that it's a good thing just like today's sponsor is a good thing if you need a new linux laptop or desktop slimbook makes both of these from valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have all keyboard layouts and devices for every price point for example the slimbook one is a small form factor pc with powerful ryzen cpus good integrated graphics and a really nice upgradable aluminum enclosure you can check it out in the link in the description below i already reviewed it on the channel it's a fantastic small form factor pc and honestly if you need a small thing that's really the one you should get so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment to give me money do everything you need to make those videos keep coming you can join my patreon subscribers you can join my youtube members you get access to my weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover and if you dislike the video well give it a dislike tell me why in the comments it also works in the meantime thank you guys for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this week we have steam finally coming to chrome os we've got windows making an underwhelming debut on the steam deck and we've got ubuntu with its brand new logo that doesn't seem up to the standards of everyone oh and arch turn 20 by the way and 20 out of 20 that's the score i'm giving to this segway to today's sponsor which will definitely let you keep your centos servers for a little bit longer while you plan your migration this video is sponsored by tuxcare and you all know by now that centos 8 is end of life it's not getting any patches for any new vulnerabilities in any of its packages unless you use tuxcare's extended lifecycle support service which basically lets you get all these security patches but straight from tux care instead of the distro this means that your systems will stay safe and compliant with all your security requirements while you plan your migration to another os now why would you want to maintain support for an os that just reached end of life why can't you just run it as is well because not having support gets expensive very quickly tuckscare has a calculator on the website i'll left the link in the description below check it out to see how expensive it can get to run an os without security patches now as the log4j issues have shown being at risk and being attacked is not something that only happens to others it's a serious issue that needs to be addressed by all organizations so use the link in the description to check out and subscribe to tuxcare's extended lifecycle support services and plan your migration from centos 8 with a little bit more peace of mind ok let's begin with arch linux it celebrated its 20th birthday on march the 11th it actually started in 2002 with its first 0.1 version a time where ubuntu didn't even exist as anything else than a twinkle in the eye of mr shuttleworth the main advantage at the time was the arch build system which is still the main advantage of arch 20 years later it didn't have a pretty interactive installer back then as the creator put it in the 0.1 release notes and while it does now have an optional installer it's neither pretty nor interactive basically that's a disro that stayed true to its roots even though it's been growing more and more prominent through arch-based distros like endeavour or manjaro but also as the base for the very recent steam os 3. so let's insert here any pun containing the terms by the way and move on to the next story which isn't about arch by the way another vulnerability seems to be affecting linux and this time it's a security hole in net filter an almost ubiquitous firewall program this issue was found by nick gregory a threat researcher at sofas a security firm the vulnerability is exploitable to access the kernel and execute code in order to get local privilege as collection or even escaping a container basically it's very serious thankfully this vulnerability is only present from kernel versions 5.4 to 5.6.10 which aren't that recent but might still be on a lot of servers including some running red hat 8 debian bullseye ubuntu 220.04 lts or souza 15.3 the patch has already been created but isn't yet available for all distributions yet another security vulnerability on linux fortunately these are patched extremely quickly after they've been discovered and disclosed so yeah we're good with that google announced the first alpha of steam for chromebooks this thing has been dragging its feet for years at that point but it seems that it's finally becoming a reality it looks like the steam client for chrome os is just the linux client that runs inside of google's borealis linux container which makes me wonder why it took so long to arrive it's only going to be available on a few select chromebook bottles to begin with although they don't say when or on which models while no chromebook model has a very strong gpu they'll definitely be able to play a few indie games and maybe some older aaa titles in low quality so it's definitely a win for linux gaming as well lots of wins in that area recently you've gotta love how linux is slowly becoming a major player in the gaming market ubuntu is getting a new logo the old circle of friends design is still there and still reminiscent of its first multi-colored iteration but it's also a lot more simple of course as with all redesigns people seem to not really enjoy how it looks citing the giant rectangle the lack of alignment the fact that it doesn't look like three people holding hands anymore or that it looks like a washing machine as reasons to this it personally i find it nice it's simple it's modern it's recognizably the ubuntu brand in any case it's just a logo it probably won't make people use ubuntu over anything else or drop ubuntu for something else do you like it and do you think it looks like a washing machine let me know in the comments i'm actually interested to see how many people like it or not now stadia google's cloud gaming service unveiled more details about their translation layer for porting windows games to linux they only have three people working on their stadia porting toolkit and it seems like it uses dxvk to translate directx instructions into vulkan instructions that linux systems can actually act on they said it's not production ready and that it's really something that requires work on a per-game basis instead of being an all-encompassing solution like wine or proton why not use proton because apparently stelia is very thin as a platform and doesn't embark most of what wine and proton need to work this definitely won't make stadium more appealing to people who already don't like cloud gaming but having more titles available on the platform might make it survive its announced death a little bit longer who knows probably not honestly sorry os 16.1 was released bringing a few things up to date compared to the initial release libreoffice is now at version 7.3 with its better dark mode and better compatibility with microsoft office there's the newer 5.13 linux kernel with the hardware enablement stack so zorin os 16.1 should support newer hardware out of the box and it also gives it full compatibility with the framework laptop the magic mouse 2 or the dual shock 5. users of zorin already got the update and people who aren't on zorin but are interested can download that iso right now the german government had a project to push the use of free software back when they formed a coalition a hundred days ago since then unfortunately it seems that nothing has been done to actually work on that no budget has been defined no plan to identify and promote these technologies had been laid out and there is no indication of how people can get integrated into that process worse it seems that the government seems open to offers from sap using microsoft products which are definitely not free software the free software foundation for europe or fsfe is pushing them to actually make good on their announcement and promises but it's really sad to see another government fall victim to the same trap over and over again instead of finally taking the plunge making the initial investment moving to free software and then just save money over the course of decades another week goes by and we have more kde updates again and this time it's to announce that one of the most reviled bugs that ever existed on kde is now fixed remember these semi-transparent corners that were blurry and square when using third-party decorations for your window manager well themes can and must now specify a mask graphic that will remove that area and make corners nice again of course that's not all as kate and any k-text editor-based program now has access to multiple cursors to write in different places at the same time ocular now has a welcome screen epa files now display thumbnails of the actual contents of the file and there are tons of smaller bugs being squashed user interface improvements and quality of life fixes now the question is will we get these improvements on the desktop mode of the steam deck as soon as they're released or will we have to wait for them flat pack and flat hub continues to gain speed probably thanks to the steam deck's release as developers realize that it's the only user friendly way to get their apps in the hands of deck users so heroic games launcher is now on flat hub which means epic games are just a few clicks away on your handheld pc i tested it myself and even made a video guide you can find in the card up top it works fantastically in desktop mode and in gaming mode and a lot of games i tested just worked with the base proton 7 or with proton ge it can even access the sd card if you use flat seal to give it permission to do so so now you can play all your epic games on the steam deck that you definitely already have right no one's been pushed to after q3 that would be too cruel just like it would be very cruel to insist on the fact that some people got pushed to q3 speaking about the steam deck still it can now run windows thanks to drivers that valve dropped these drivers are only for windows 10 for now as tpm support isn't ready in the firmware just yet and these drivers don't include any audio so you won't get any sound from the audio jack or from the speakers and on top of that the first tests seem to show that windows on the deck as predicted is a way worse experience than using steam os performance is bad the os is not easy to navigate at all battery life is generally worse than on steam os you don't get the new steamos interface yet and you can't dual boot either so you have to erase your whole system and more importantly valve said that they would not support windows on the steam deck so don't expect continually updated drivers to support the hardware better and better or to improve compatibility with certain games it's probably more of a release it once and forget it type of situation but since the steam deck is so popular every studio out there is outlining their policy towards it or their lack thereof xbox studios for example gave a non-committal answer saying that each studio under their umbrella is free to publish games on steam with or without proton support for anti-cheat and that there is basically no global directive as of now a few of their titles are verified like death loop hellblade or the evil within some are playable like sea of thieves and forza horizon 5 and some are unsupported due to anti-cheat like gears 5 or halo infinite come on xbox studios check those check boxes ship those.so library files and let us get some multiplayer halo on the steam deck speaking of game compatibility though we now have apex legends running on the steam deck as mentioned last time because the developers quickly added that small library that they needed to make the game run they checked the checkbox for the anti-cheat and the game had been fully playable on deck and on linux for a few days except that apparently that file wasn't correctly added to the game because it was also quietly removed a few days ago which made the game unplayable for a few hours until the developers finally put it back where it belongs in a new update and this outlines a few issues with the steam deck verified program even while the game was unplayable it was still marked as certified which means that developers have the ability to break your game as with any other platform but valve doesn't really have the bandwidth to ensure that their ratings stay up to date it's going to take a while before that certified seal of approval actually means that the game is fully playable and runs perfectly well because right now it doesn't fortunately we're still going to get a lot more games soon on the deck thanks to valve because they decided to gift a steam deck to the lutrus developers lutris is basically the everything runner for linux thanks to many many community install scripts and thanks to very good integration with the epic game store origin gog humble bundle or ubisoft connect it's on flat hub so it can be run on the deck but it's a beta and it lacks a lot of things that make looters great so this steam deck will definitely help developers make lutris a first class citizen that uses the dex controls to be navigated and maybe works a hundred percent on flat pack now valve's mastery and understanding of the various tools needed to make linux a really viable gaming platform is still astonishing to me i think we have a real ally there and dare i say it maybe it's not just another giant corp here to get some money nah maybe no that's probably going to come back and bite me in the deck still we do have more than 1300 certified and playable games now on the deck so it's not like we'll be lacking options on what to play newly added titles include hitman 2 orcs must die layers of fear 2 max spain 2 or super hexagon that's 25 to 40 games added daily to the list which is still not enough at all to validate the whole steam catalog in less than 5 years on top of that 80 percent of the certified titles are relatively recent dating from 2015 and onwards no one will be surprised by that as of course valve would prioritize games that are more recent and that have more appeal to gamers these titles are also more likely to get an update from the developer to work well on the deck and i know that for some of you kids 2015 isn't really recent it's retro gaming but i grew up with the mega drive or genesis for you americans out there and for me anything younger than the ps2 is not retro gaming and it's relatively recent so i might be super old or you might be super young but every simpsons fan knows that it's always the kids that are wrong and we can't finish one of these videos without an update to wine wine 7.4 was released enabling the new light theme by default it also bundles vk d3d out of the box so it can run direct x12 titles and it converted ynd3d d3d12 and the xgi to the pe executable format so games should work better there are also 14 bug fixes including for enabling vibration in the dual sense controller or for games like psyops league of legends or the godfather now i don't know if seeing less and less bug fixes each release for specific titles is a good thing or not but i personally choose to think it means that less and less titles needs game specific tweaks and that it's a good thing just like today's sponsor is a good thing if you need a new linux laptop or desktop slimbook makes both of these from valencia spain but they ship worldwide and they have all keyboard layouts and devices for every price point for example the slimbook one is a small form factor pc with powerful ryzen cpus good integrated graphics and a really nice upgradable aluminum enclosure you can check it out in the link in the description below i already reviewed it on the channel it's a fantastic small form factor pc and honestly if you need a small thing that's really the one you should get so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to write a comment to give me money do everything you need to make those videos keep coming you can join my patreon subscribers you can join my youtube members you get access to my weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover and if you dislike the video well give it a dislike tell me why in the comments it also works in the meantime thank you guys for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and the steam deck is truly an amazing console and i'm saying console because that's what it's going to be for most people that buy one and that will never touch the desktop mode but it does have the desktop mode and some of you might be wondering if the steam deck could actually replace your laptop or even your desktop so today we're going to take a look at a bunch of use cases and see if the steam deck can fit the bill just like today's sponsor not only fits the bills but also helps me by mine this video is sponsored by safing and you might already have heard me talk about their port master tool on the channel it lets you monitor and control any detail of your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface through the use of block lists profiles depending on your current connection and per app settings it's also completely free of charge and open source but saving is also developing the spn saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once so just head over to the link in the description below and download either the port or subscribe to the spn so let's begin with some everyday tasks the deck doesn't have many ports but it does have a usb c one and a micro sd card slot so you can expand its storage and plug in virtually anything provided you have a usbc hub or a dock it can connect to an external display and its own display can still be used as a secondary one you can plug in a keyboard and a mouse a controller and basically anything that you use to access and that would work on linux and you can also use bluetooth once you have everything set up you can use your steam deck for virtually any day-to-day task you can handle files and folders you can transfer them through the network using something like warpinator which is a super easy solution for computer to computer file transfer on the same local network or you can also just use a thumb drive provided it's formatted in exfat if you want to transfer files to and from a mac or a windows computer what do you mean you don't just use steam decks for everything in your house that's nonsense installing applications also works fortunately and you have access to everything that is on flat hub all these applications are listed in discover the app center for the desktop mode you can also get any application available as an app image which is another packaging format for linux you can find a lot of these on app image hub to run them you just have to place them in any folder you want you can give them the executable permission in the properties of the file which you can access through right click on that file and then you just click the file itself to run the app they won't look good and they probably won't integrate well with your system either but at least they might fill some gaps that the steam deck might have all of this should basically get you covered for your everyday tasks you can browse the web using firefox or chromium including support for any extension you want you can handle all your files with dolphin the file manager you can move them around with warpinator or a usb drive or you can install a calendar and email app like geary or gnome calendar spectacle handles all your screenshot needs you can install vlc for video playback you have spotify or youtube music desktop for youtube music or any number of music players for your local collection you even have a system monitor if you need to kill a few programs in a hurry or check on resource usage because guess what the most asked question has been on every steam deck video i've made pray tell my good sir what would the resource usage of this device at idle be and yes you'll notice that i didn't and still won't answer that question because i couldn't care less if you need to take notes it's also pretty easy you've got obsidian on the steam deck as well as joplin simple node standard nodes or cherry tree all of these things are basic tasks that the steam deck and steam os won't have any issue performing the kde desktop in steam os is pretty bare bones though and it's lacking a few utilities that fortunately you can add easily enough in one click through discover for example you might have to install an archive manager like arc to unzip files or a pdf viewer like ocular now what about gaming and obviously the steam deck can handle gaming in desktop mode as well as in gaming mode you've got your complete desktop steam client for all your steam games but you can also install the heroic games launcher for epic games and good old games or lutress for virtually anything else lutos can let you install battle.net games origin and electronic arts titles ubisoft games on top of plenty of boxed games thanks to community install scripts lutress and heroic are both available on flat hub so they are one click install i already have a guide on the heroic games launcher on the channel you can check it out in one of these corners left or right i don't know where the card will pop up but it's going to be somewhere around here for lutris i would wait a little bit because for now the flat pack version isn't 100 compatible with everything and it doesn't really handle all that well using the joysticks which is kind of important on the steam deck your games will support keyboard and mouse input or using your steam deck as the controller while playing on the bigger screen discord works as well and you can have an audio chat using discord while you're gaming or you can use a regular old steam chat if you're playing a steam game so as you might expect gaming is not an issue on the steam deck fortunately whether in gaming mode or in desktop mode you can get a ton of games running even windows only titles it's not going to be an issue on the desktop mode either if you like to record your gameplay sessions or stream them obs is also available on discover so you can definitely use that and even use a capture card if that's something you want obs supports the default cpu encoder as well as va api which uses the amd gpu but you'll have to put obs in advanced mode and play around with the bit rate to get a good result with it now for office work there aren't many issues either you can install a plethora of office suites like libreoffice or only office or even wps office all of these are on flat hub so they're a one-click install and they will run perfectly well on the deck with word processing spreadsheets presentations databases and most of these suites have good to almost perfect microsoft office compatibility again if you want to choose an office suite a card should be popping up left or right you can click it i made a video about all your options on linux now for email and calendars you can use evolution which is sort of an outlook replacement for linux and plugs in with exchange servers or you can be more nimble with geary and gnome calendar for example if you prefer your apps to all lookalike you can install the contact suite with a k and you'll get basically outlook but made for kde and a bit harder to set up video conferencing works perfectly as well using the onboard mic of the steam deck and a usb webcam you have access to skype discord microsoft teams or zoom so your needs should be covered here including audio calls video calls and screen sharing so no the steam deck will not give you any excuse to skip those stupid useless meetings whose sole purpose is to actually check if you're working from home now any web app you use should also be working perfectly using either the pre-installed firefox or chromium which you can get from discover if you need utilities steamos will also have a lot of available choices with calculators time tracking tools color pickers and a lot more so for regular office productivity the steam deck also fits the build perfectly now let's talk about dev work and for development the proposition is a little bit more complex see the file system is read only so you can't use the package manager to install the necessary libraries that you need to run your local server or to compile your code you can't install docker for example or run your own local server at least not easily you can access pacman the package manager for arch which is the linux distro in which steamos is based and you can use it with the dash r command line option to install stuff somewhere you actually have authorization to write on but that's going to create a few problems as you will have to define the path variables to most of the things you install this way so it will make things a bit more complex and if you've already lost a day or more trying to set up a development environment following the guides that your teammates have written 10 years ago you know that messing with path variables is not something you want to do now you can also disable that read-only part of the file system the only issue is every time your steam deck gets an update it's going to overwrite everything you have installed because the steam deck updates by writing a whole new system image on top of the one you're using so you're gonna have to reinstall everything every time the steam deck updates not practical you could also just use virtual machines because yes the steam deck supports virtualization so you can install gnome boxes and run virtual machines in which you'll be able to install any os run any server you want and compile your code there of course performance won't be incredible you won't take advantage of the entire device and you'll probably have to use an ide or a text editor from inside the vm to actually write your code so that's not ideal but i'm sure that some of you already worked this way on non-steam deck computers so who am i to judge i'm not your supervisor if you don't need a vm and you can run your code locally on the deck then you have your pick of ides you have vs code or its open source counterpart called code you have eclipse you have intellij sublime text or phpstorm for example you also have plenty of dev related tools like postman you can also just use remote desktop clients to connect to any other computer that actually hosts your local server or your development environment if you prefer so devwork won't be extremely easy for sure not as simple as on the less locked down linux distribution but it's definitely possible these are just some examples of the stuff you can do and they show that even with a lockdown file system you can still do pretty much everything on the steam deck you get a large variety of applications including a ton that i didn't cover like inkscape kryta or blender you can edit videos using caden live or shortcut olive or open shot you can record a podcast using audacity you can even install some windows software using bottles which is a great app that simplifies the use of wine to run your windows only stuff in a simple manner you have freecad for cad modeling you've got tons of tools for students for data visualization you can write math formulas plot graphs you have apps to sync files to and from your deck like next cloud or mega or open drive for google drive you have dark table for photo editing figma or gravit for graphics design virtually anything that you'd want to do has apps that you can install to do that whether these are the apps you're used to or you want to use that's another question but there are options now if you're thinking of bringing the steam deck to class or to meetings and use it as a laptop propped up on some kind of dock or using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse i would say don't it is doable for sure but it won't be practical the screen is 7 inches it's small it's very small for note-taking or writing a document you're going to spend your time scrolling around and switching windows all the time it's really not big enough at least not for me and i know the deck looks like a thick boy in photos and videos but let me tell you while that screen is great to immerse yourself in your games for productivity it's really not good so if your plan is to dock the deck at your desk that's a tongue twister for you then i'd say you can go for it one port to plug in and you're ready to work unplug that port and you've got a gaming console it's really definitely doable hell if some people did it on their pine phones you can definitely do it on the steam deck as well also a quick warning do remember that in desktop mode there is no password by default anyone that gets hold of your deck and boots it up can access desktop mode without any security whatsoever and access all your files you can add a password to the default user but i don't know how exactly that will affect your experience with the steam deck as a gaming console of course i can't cover every use case so the best advice i can give you is to check on flathub.com and on app imagehub.com to see if you can find the apps you currently use or at least suitable replacements you can try beforehand anything that is not in there is a no-go for now anything that requires you to install a library or development headers or to use a package manager virtually everything that does not install immediately in your home folder is also going to be more complicated it's doable with pacman but you're going to have to mess with path variables to declare to your system where everything is it can be time consuming and it's error prone now with the huge amount of apps available as flat pack and as app images i would say most people are covered and since you can run virtual machines you can basically get everything else done if you're okay with losing a bit of performance in the process so is the deck usable as a real pc absolutely i was actually very surprised at how much you can do with an immutable file system and only access to flat pack and app images there's virtually nothing you can't do at all so if you're conscious about these few limitations and you're willing to go past them to work on this device then yes you can use it as a desktop and you can use it as a laptop i'd say it's actually unbeatable in terms of price to performance ratio how good this thing is it's there's nothing else on the market that reaches this kind of performance with this kind of price and if you don't think the steam deck can fit your bill then today's sponsors got you covered slimbook makes laptops and desktops running linux out of the box they're based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide they've got all keyboard layouts and they've got devices for every price point if you need for example a mini desktop computer they've got the slimbook one which has a fantastic aluminum enclosure great performance thanks to ryzen processors and it's just small tiny and cute and powerful and i reviewed it on the channel you can check it in the link in the description below and get your own thanks to slim book now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to throw a comment at your screen and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members and you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and the steam deck is truly an amazing console and i'm saying console because that's what it's going to be for most people that buy one and that will never touch the desktop mode but it does have the desktop mode and some of you might be wondering if the steam deck could actually replace your laptop or even your desktop so today we're going to take a look at a bunch of use cases and see if the steam deck can fit the bill just like today's sponsor not only fits the bills but also helps me by mine this video is sponsored by safing and you might already have heard me talk about their port master tool on the channel it lets you monitor and control any detail of your internet connection with a simple graphical user interface through the use of block lists profiles depending on your current connection and per app settings it's also completely free of charge and open source but saving is also developing the spn saving privacy network it's a powerful vpn alternative which spreads your connections across the globe instead of rerouting all your connections to only one server with the spn you can be everywhere at once so just head over to the link in the description below and download either the port or subscribe to the spn so let's begin with some everyday tasks the deck doesn't have many ports but it does have a usb c one and a micro sd card slot so you can expand its storage and plug in virtually anything provided you have a usbc hub or a dock it can connect to an external display and its own display can still be used as a secondary one you can plug in a keyboard and a mouse a controller and basically anything that you use to access and that would work on linux and you can also use bluetooth once you have everything set up you can use your steam deck for virtually any day-to-day task you can handle files and folders you can transfer them through the network using something like warpinator which is a super easy solution for computer to computer file transfer on the same local network or you can also just use a thumb drive provided it's formatted in exfat if you want to transfer files to and from a mac or a windows computer what do you mean you don't just use steam decks for everything in your house that's nonsense installing applications also works fortunately and you have access to everything that is on flat hub all these applications are listed in discover the app center for the desktop mode you can also get any application available as an app image which is another packaging format for linux you can find a lot of these on app image hub to run them you just have to place them in any folder you want you can give them the executable permission in the properties of the file which you can access through right click on that file and then you just click the file itself to run the app they won't look good and they probably won't integrate well with your system either but at least they might fill some gaps that the steam deck might have all of this should basically get you covered for your everyday tasks you can browse the web using firefox or chromium including support for any extension you want you can handle all your files with dolphin the file manager you can move them around with warpinator or a usb drive or you can install a calendar and email app like geary or gnome calendar spectacle handles all your screenshot needs you can install vlc for video playback you have spotify or youtube music desktop for youtube music or any number of music players for your local collection you even have a system monitor if you need to kill a few programs in a hurry or check on resource usage because guess what the most asked question has been on every steam deck video i've made pray tell my good sir what would the resource usage of this device at idle be and yes you'll notice that i didn't and still won't answer that question because i couldn't care less if you need to take notes it's also pretty easy you've got obsidian on the steam deck as well as joplin simple node standard nodes or cherry tree all of these things are basic tasks that the steam deck and steam os won't have any issue performing the kde desktop in steam os is pretty bare bones though and it's lacking a few utilities that fortunately you can add easily enough in one click through discover for example you might have to install an archive manager like arc to unzip files or a pdf viewer like ocular now what about gaming and obviously the steam deck can handle gaming in desktop mode as well as in gaming mode you've got your complete desktop steam client for all your steam games but you can also install the heroic games launcher for epic games and good old games or lutress for virtually anything else lutos can let you install battle.net games origin and electronic arts titles ubisoft games on top of plenty of boxed games thanks to community install scripts lutress and heroic are both available on flat hub so they are one click install i already have a guide on the heroic games launcher on the channel you can check it out in one of these corners left or right i don't know where the card will pop up but it's going to be somewhere around here for lutris i would wait a little bit because for now the flat pack version isn't 100 compatible with everything and it doesn't really handle all that well using the joysticks which is kind of important on the steam deck your games will support keyboard and mouse input or using your steam deck as the controller while playing on the bigger screen discord works as well and you can have an audio chat using discord while you're gaming or you can use a regular old steam chat if you're playing a steam game so as you might expect gaming is not an issue on the steam deck fortunately whether in gaming mode or in desktop mode you can get a ton of games running even windows only titles it's not going to be an issue on the desktop mode either if you like to record your gameplay sessions or stream them obs is also available on discover so you can definitely use that and even use a capture card if that's something you want obs supports the default cpu encoder as well as va api which uses the amd gpu but you'll have to put obs in advanced mode and play around with the bit rate to get a good result with it now for office work there aren't many issues either you can install a plethora of office suites like libreoffice or only office or even wps office all of these are on flat hub so they're a one-click install and they will run perfectly well on the deck with word processing spreadsheets presentations databases and most of these suites have good to almost perfect microsoft office compatibility again if you want to choose an office suite a card should be popping up left or right you can click it i made a video about all your options on linux now for email and calendars you can use evolution which is sort of an outlook replacement for linux and plugs in with exchange servers or you can be more nimble with geary and gnome calendar for example if you prefer your apps to all lookalike you can install the contact suite with a k and you'll get basically outlook but made for kde and a bit harder to set up video conferencing works perfectly as well using the onboard mic of the steam deck and a usb webcam you have access to skype discord microsoft teams or zoom so your needs should be covered here including audio calls video calls and screen sharing so no the steam deck will not give you any excuse to skip those stupid useless meetings whose sole purpose is to actually check if you're working from home now any web app you use should also be working perfectly using either the pre-installed firefox or chromium which you can get from discover if you need utilities steamos will also have a lot of available choices with calculators time tracking tools color pickers and a lot more so for regular office productivity the steam deck also fits the build perfectly now let's talk about dev work and for development the proposition is a little bit more complex see the file system is read only so you can't use the package manager to install the necessary libraries that you need to run your local server or to compile your code you can't install docker for example or run your own local server at least not easily you can access pacman the package manager for arch which is the linux distro in which steamos is based and you can use it with the dash r command line option to install stuff somewhere you actually have authorization to write on but that's going to create a few problems as you will have to define the path variables to most of the things you install this way so it will make things a bit more complex and if you've already lost a day or more trying to set up a development environment following the guides that your teammates have written 10 years ago you know that messing with path variables is not something you want to do now you can also disable that read-only part of the file system the only issue is every time your steam deck gets an update it's going to overwrite everything you have installed because the steam deck updates by writing a whole new system image on top of the one you're using so you're gonna have to reinstall everything every time the steam deck updates not practical you could also just use virtual machines because yes the steam deck supports virtualization so you can install gnome boxes and run virtual machines in which you'll be able to install any os run any server you want and compile your code there of course performance won't be incredible you won't take advantage of the entire device and you'll probably have to use an ide or a text editor from inside the vm to actually write your code so that's not ideal but i'm sure that some of you already worked this way on non-steam deck computers so who am i to judge i'm not your supervisor if you don't need a vm and you can run your code locally on the deck then you have your pick of ides you have vs code or its open source counterpart called code you have eclipse you have intellij sublime text or phpstorm for example you also have plenty of dev related tools like postman you can also just use remote desktop clients to connect to any other computer that actually hosts your local server or your development environment if you prefer so devwork won't be extremely easy for sure not as simple as on the less locked down linux distribution but it's definitely possible these are just some examples of the stuff you can do and they show that even with a lockdown file system you can still do pretty much everything on the steam deck you get a large variety of applications including a ton that i didn't cover like inkscape kryta or blender you can edit videos using caden live or shortcut olive or open shot you can record a podcast using audacity you can even install some windows software using bottles which is a great app that simplifies the use of wine to run your windows only stuff in a simple manner you have freecad for cad modeling you've got tons of tools for students for data visualization you can write math formulas plot graphs you have apps to sync files to and from your deck like next cloud or mega or open drive for google drive you have dark table for photo editing figma or gravit for graphics design virtually anything that you'd want to do has apps that you can install to do that whether these are the apps you're used to or you want to use that's another question but there are options now if you're thinking of bringing the steam deck to class or to meetings and use it as a laptop propped up on some kind of dock or using a bluetooth keyboard and mouse i would say don't it is doable for sure but it won't be practical the screen is 7 inches it's small it's very small for note-taking or writing a document you're going to spend your time scrolling around and switching windows all the time it's really not big enough at least not for me and i know the deck looks like a thick boy in photos and videos but let me tell you while that screen is great to immerse yourself in your games for productivity it's really not good so if your plan is to dock the deck at your desk that's a tongue twister for you then i'd say you can go for it one port to plug in and you're ready to work unplug that port and you've got a gaming console it's really definitely doable hell if some people did it on their pine phones you can definitely do it on the steam deck as well also a quick warning do remember that in desktop mode there is no password by default anyone that gets hold of your deck and boots it up can access desktop mode without any security whatsoever and access all your files you can add a password to the default user but i don't know how exactly that will affect your experience with the steam deck as a gaming console of course i can't cover every use case so the best advice i can give you is to check on flathub.com and on app imagehub.com to see if you can find the apps you currently use or at least suitable replacements you can try beforehand anything that is not in there is a no-go for now anything that requires you to install a library or development headers or to use a package manager virtually everything that does not install immediately in your home folder is also going to be more complicated it's doable with pacman but you're going to have to mess with path variables to declare to your system where everything is it can be time consuming and it's error prone now with the huge amount of apps available as flat pack and as app images i would say most people are covered and since you can run virtual machines you can basically get everything else done if you're okay with losing a bit of performance in the process so is the deck usable as a real pc absolutely i was actually very surprised at how much you can do with an immutable file system and only access to flat pack and app images there's virtually nothing you can't do at all so if you're conscious about these few limitations and you're willing to go past them to work on this device then yes you can use it as a desktop and you can use it as a laptop i'd say it's actually unbeatable in terms of price to performance ratio how good this thing is it's there's nothing else on the market that reaches this kind of performance with this kind of price and if you don't think the steam deck can fit your bill then today's sponsors got you covered slimbook makes laptops and desktops running linux out of the box they're based in valencia spain but they ship worldwide they've got all keyboard layouts and they've got devices for every price point if you need for example a mini desktop computer they've got the slimbook one which has a fantastic aluminum enclosure great performance thanks to ryzen processors and it's just small tiny and cute and powerful and i reviewed it on the channel you can check it in the link in the description below and get your own thanks to slim book now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't mistake to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to throw a comment at your screen and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments if you want to help me make more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members and you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i guess i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and while the steam deck is a wonderful handheld gaming console for those of us who live mostly in steam steam isn't the only launcher there is anymore the epic game store has carved itself a nice niche by offering free games basically all the time i only own two games out of my 70 games library i only bought two of them but still you might want to run some epic games on this thing and fortunately the deck is very versatile steam os is as well and so in this video i'm going to show you how to run your epic games on the steam deck just like the steam deck could run today's sponsor a nice little extension to protect your privacy thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description box the epic game store doesn't yet have an official client for the steam deck or for linux but thankfully we have the next best thing which is called heroic games launcher you could still use workarounds to install the official epic game stores client but this would give you a way more limited experience than what you will get with heroic games launcher namely heroic lets you configure each game individually to make sure that they run as best as they can and the official epic game store client if you install it on the steam deck or on linux will have one configuration for all games so a lot of them might not even run at all when they would with heroic so to install the heroic games launcher we'll need to go into the desktop mode of the steam deck so go to your steam menu then to power and hit switch to desktop just remember to use a mouse and keyboard either through bluetooth or plugged in via usb c herb because navigating that desktop with the right touch surface can be fiddly and you don't get an on-screen keyboard the desktop mode has an app store called discover it's the blue shopping bag in the main bottom bar right after the steam deck logo that's also your menu okay small confession when i recorded the other part of this video the heroic games launcher was way harder to install so i had prepared a tutorial with command line and stuff like that fortunately there's been some improvements and you don't need to sit through all that all you need to do is open the discover app store type heroic click install and then you're done so now we can see how to use heroic how to install your games and how to configure each game so that it runs perfectly okay now let's see how to use heroic and what it can do it's super easy go ahead open it once heroic is open just log in to your epic games account using the login buttons that appear by default after a short loading time your games will appear in the library you can now search download them update them download any dlc and run them you also have a filter to only display installed games you can also access the epic game store with the store tab on the left and even grab these free games if you want the settings have a few interesting things you can change by default your games will install in a games folder in your main user directory you can change that there and even select the sd card as the default location if you want to do that hit the little folder icon then in the file manager that opens go to other locations in the sidebar then computer run media then the sd card name mine was named mmcb something once i formatted it using the steam deck open this click choose and you now have changed the default install path in the other settings you can also toggle an fps counter choose to run your games offline or create shortcuts automatically after installing a game of course these games will run using the same technology that valve uses in steam which is called proton this means that not all games will work to check which games have compatibility you can click a game then the tools tab and click check compatibility it will take you to proton db the ultimate resource to see what runs and what doesn't by default heroic will use the latest official version of proton but if the compatibility reports tell you that a game runs better with another version you can also install that just use the wine manager in the bottom left of heroic and install the version you need for a specific game once that's done head over to the library hover over the game and click the little cog icon there you have a drop down called wine version which lets you choose the version of wine or proton those things are basically the same thing you need to use to run that game that's also where you can choose to sync saved games or turn on auto sync to automatically keep your progress in sync with your other computers you can also add launch arguments to the game for example to skip cinematics in certain titles and you're all set your games should use the steam deck controls as a controller and they should run pretty well provided that they're compatible but what if you actually want to run these games from the main steam deck interface without going to the desktop mode well that's easy just open the desktop steam client in the desktop mode hit the games menu then add non-steam game and find the shortcut for the heroic games launcher check that and click add selected programs after that you can just go back to steam os mode by clicking on the shortcut on your desktop in your library you'll find the heroic launcher in the non-steam section just click it and it will run you can now navigate it using the steam deck controls and install or run any game you want directly from there if you want to add an icon to it you can't seem to do it from the dex interface just yet so you'll have to use the desktop mode to add one also be aware that some of these games might have some pop-ups or some launchers that appear and to navigate these you can either use touch or you can use the right touch surface on your steam deck to pop up a mouse cursor and click wherever you want to click some features of the heroic games launcher will also not work super well in steam os mode like uninstalling a title or anything that opens a window it might flicker and be weird to use for a while now let's see a few examples of the games i could run through the heroic games launcher on my steam deck [Music] do [Music] and that's it a lot of titles will run just fine some won't support controllers all that well some won't run at all because of anti-cheat but you'll still be able to play a sizeable portion of your games through heroic now of course some of you might have games on origin battle.net ubisoft connect gog or other services and for that stay tuned i'll have something for you very soon just like today's sponsor has something for you if you're looking for a linux device slimboard makes linux laptops and desktops from the smallest form factory with the box zero to the biggest all-in-one or the biggest gaming laptops their stuff is excellent like for example the slimbook essential it is their most affordable ultrabook with a great build quality great screen great keyboard and good internals check out the link in the description below if you need a new linux device they're really worth it now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to drop a like a subscribe turn on the notification bell thingy to drop a comment and if you didn't like the video it's okay you can tell me in the comments you can even hit that dislike button it's cool if you want to help me do more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both of them get access to the weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and while the steam deck is a wonderful handheld gaming console for those of us who live mostly in steam steam isn't the only launcher there is anymore the epic game store has carved itself a nice niche by offering free games basically all the time i only own two games out of my 70 games library i only bought two of them but still you might want to run some epic games on this thing and fortunately the deck is very versatile steam os is as well and so in this video i'm going to show you how to run your epic games on the steam deck just like the steam deck could run today's sponsor a nice little extension to protect your privacy thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description box the epic game store doesn't yet have an official client for the steam deck or for linux but thankfully we have the next best thing which is called heroic games launcher you could still use workarounds to install the official epic game stores client but this would give you a way more limited experience than what you will get with heroic games launcher namely heroic lets you configure each game individually to make sure that they run as best as they can and the official epic game store client if you install it on the steam deck or on linux will have one configuration for all games so a lot of them might not even run at all when they would with heroic so to install the heroic games launcher we'll need to go into the desktop mode of the steam deck so go to your steam menu then to power and hit switch to desktop just remember to use a mouse and keyboard either through bluetooth or plugged in via usb c herb because navigating that desktop with the right touch surface can be fiddly and you don't get an on-screen keyboard the desktop mode has an app store called discover it's the blue shopping bag in the main bottom bar right after the steam deck logo that's also your menu okay small confession when i recorded the other part of this video the heroic games launcher was way harder to install so i had prepared a tutorial with command line and stuff like that fortunately there's been some improvements and you don't need to sit through all that all you need to do is open the discover app store type heroic click install and then you're done so now we can see how to use heroic how to install your games and how to configure each game so that it runs perfectly okay now let's see how to use heroic and what it can do it's super easy go ahead open it once heroic is open just log in to your epic games account using the login buttons that appear by default after a short loading time your games will appear in the library you can now search download them update them download any dlc and run them you also have a filter to only display installed games you can also access the epic game store with the store tab on the left and even grab these free games if you want the settings have a few interesting things you can change by default your games will install in a games folder in your main user directory you can change that there and even select the sd card as the default location if you want to do that hit the little folder icon then in the file manager that opens go to other locations in the sidebar then computer run media then the sd card name mine was named mmcb something once i formatted it using the steam deck open this click choose and you now have changed the default install path in the other settings you can also toggle an fps counter choose to run your games offline or create shortcuts automatically after installing a game of course these games will run using the same technology that valve uses in steam which is called proton this means that not all games will work to check which games have compatibility you can click a game then the tools tab and click check compatibility it will take you to proton db the ultimate resource to see what runs and what doesn't by default heroic will use the latest official version of proton but if the compatibility reports tell you that a game runs better with another version you can also install that just use the wine manager in the bottom left of heroic and install the version you need for a specific game once that's done head over to the library hover over the game and click the little cog icon there you have a drop down called wine version which lets you choose the version of wine or proton those things are basically the same thing you need to use to run that game that's also where you can choose to sync saved games or turn on auto sync to automatically keep your progress in sync with your other computers you can also add launch arguments to the game for example to skip cinematics in certain titles and you're all set your games should use the steam deck controls as a controller and they should run pretty well provided that they're compatible but what if you actually want to run these games from the main steam deck interface without going to the desktop mode well that's easy just open the desktop steam client in the desktop mode hit the games menu then add non-steam game and find the shortcut for the heroic games launcher check that and click add selected programs after that you can just go back to steam os mode by clicking on the shortcut on your desktop in your library you'll find the heroic launcher in the non-steam section just click it and it will run you can now navigate it using the steam deck controls and install or run any game you want directly from there if you want to add an icon to it you can't seem to do it from the dex interface just yet so you'll have to use the desktop mode to add one also be aware that some of these games might have some pop-ups or some launchers that appear and to navigate these you can either use touch or you can use the right touch surface on your steam deck to pop up a mouse cursor and click wherever you want to click some features of the heroic games launcher will also not work super well in steam os mode like uninstalling a title or anything that opens a window it might flicker and be weird to use for a while now let's see a few examples of the games i could run through the heroic games launcher on my steam deck [Music] do [Music] and that's it a lot of titles will run just fine some won't support controllers all that well some won't run at all because of anti-cheat but you'll still be able to play a sizeable portion of your games through heroic now of course some of you might have games on origin battle.net ubisoft connect gog or other services and for that stay tuned i'll have something for you very soon just like today's sponsor has something for you if you're looking for a linux device slimboard makes linux laptops and desktops from the smallest form factory with the box zero to the biggest all-in-one or the biggest gaming laptops their stuff is excellent like for example the slimbook essential it is their most affordable ultrabook with a great build quality great screen great keyboard and good internals check out the link in the description below if you need a new linux device they're really worth it now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to drop a like a subscribe turn on the notification bell thingy to drop a comment and if you didn't like the video it's okay you can tell me in the comments you can even hit that dislike button it's cool if you want to help me do more of these videos you can also join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both of them get access to the weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thanks everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and i generally don't do distro reviews i do cover the major new releases to just talk about what's new but i don't do distro reviews per se but this time it's different i've been using fedora for a few months now and the more i use it the more i feel that there's something special about this distribution something that other distributions just don't have something that ubuntu used to have so exceptionally here are my impressions after using fedora for a few months as my daily driver and why i think it's the new ubuntu speaking of new today's sponsor isn't but it's still amazing thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so just to be clear when i say that fedora is the new ubuntu what i mean is that fedora now fills the space that ubuntu used to fill in the linux distribution world ubuntu used to be the model for how to make a distro solid well-stocked repos a focus on user interface and user experience a big community an eye towards the future and pushing innovation in the desktop space nowadays ubuntu has pretty much lost most of these advantages but fedora has picked up the slack in short fedora being the new ubuntu is a good thing one thing that i really enjoy about fedora is that they push the linux desktop towards the future some call it bleeding edge but it's not it's cutting edge you don't get the absolute latest but you get the latest that's also stable fedora was among the first to adopt wayland the first with a pipe wire to push flat pack portholes the first mainstream distro to push immutable file systems with silver blue they've always wanted to implement the latest technology without sacrificing stability and ease of use contrary to a full-on rolling release which kind of feels like playing a blizzard game if you don't read the patch notes you might as well not play the game because your character or your system is now broken this drive towards modern tech was what ubuntu was doing back in the day they were implementing the latest versions of gnome they adopted newly developed programs at the time like banshee or f-spot they pushed to have better driver integration and more software available by embracing all these latest technologies fedora makes sure that they're adopted earlier as well implementing weyland early for example didn't hurt people who couldn't use it who were defaulted to x11 but it also helped weyland a lot by generating more user feedback on what worked and what needed more time in the oven to help make hardware support better they also pushed lvfs which lets hardware manufacturers provide firmware updates in a seamless manner for users where everything is handled graphically and easily same goes for pipe wire os 3 toolbox or for any other tag that they chose to go with before others this drive towards making sure that their desktop is as current as can be is really helpful to make the linux desktop in general progress faster and ubuntu also did that in the past although they tended to favor their own in-house developed solutions rather than contributing to what already existed but both approaches are valid in my opinion in terms of using fedora it also often meant that i was using new technologies without even realizing it i've been using pipe wire for a few months and i didn't even notice when i update to fedora 36 wetland will be the default even with my proprietary nvidia drivers and i bet i won't even notice either so i get to take advantage of all the new stuff with the stability with the security without it breaking anything using fedora i got that same excitement i used to get when i was using ubuntu every six months there's a new drop of amazing updates you get more modern technologies you get improved security you get new features right as they are being released and you get that sense of really taking advantage of all that new stuff the linux community talks about or fights about i don't really get that same sense of excitement with other distributions elementary os and linux mints do have this kind of same feeling of progression but they also feel like they evolve at a slower pace other fixed releases generally aren't current ubuntu or zorin os don't get the latest and greatest gnome for example you get features that were exciting six months to a year ago and rolling releases bombard you with a stream of updates without any real well-defined progression if you're constantly moving forwards a few inches then you never get the feeling that you're moving at all and that sense of excitement means that updates are no longer this ugh moment they're actually something that i look forward to fedora is a current distro which means that you get the latest release of all the interesting stuff like the desktop environments the linux kernel the graphics drivers or wayland and they do this without sacrificing stability and fedora in my experience with it has been rock solid in general i didn't have many problems with any linux distro that i daily drove but all of them tended to exhibit small issues after a while manjaro often had issues after installing updates stuff wouldn't work anymore or require the reboot to be fixed audio stopped working or the microphone input volume was turned all the way down for no reason on the elementor ios on my laptop i have small issues that require a reboot my email account shows as duplicated in the email app bluetooth shuts down and can be re-enabled until you reboot some of my virtual desktops lose their background on fedora the biggest problem i've encountered so far was after updating davinci resolve it wouldn't recognize my gpu anymore and completely uninstalling it and reinstalling it worked without a reboot and it was probably more due to the incomprehensible decision of davinci resolve to provide a dot run installer instead of having a dab an rpm or flat pack i also had the same issue with virtualbox which was fixed by reinstalling the app i still get daily updates for a lot of system components but my system never crashes reboots or displays any undesirable behavior these updates are also applied when i reboot so stuff doesn't get pulled from under my feet all the system related updates only happen when you restart your computer and all the app updates these are handled through flat pack and that's also what makes fedora current while remaining stable the application updates are provided if you so choose through flat pack and either the fedora remote or flat hub if you added it and as i already pointed out in a previous video flat pack is the future a future you'll get dragged into whether you like it or not finish your flat packs or you're not getting any dessert this means that all my apps or at least all the apps that made the right choice are updated independently of the distro without risking anything breaking my experience with fedora has been stellar thanks to this flat pack is wonderfully integrated in gnome software it's all one click install one click update my system updates are applied when i reboot and i literally never think about my system i just use it and that peace of mind is something that i never really had with any other linux distro ubuntu used to offer this as well although they never really offered up-to-date apps their app versions never received feature updates even back in the day they did have a current version desktop environment though which they don't anymore they have a weird mishmash of gnome versions another thing i really like is that fedora has the default experience they ship the desktop as is without any meaningful extensions themes configurations or tweaks some people might think it's a bad thing but it's up to individual choices i can see why you would want to have a tweaked kde or gnome version but i don't not anymore when i started using fedora and vanilla gnome i was a bit apprehensive gnome didn't work at all like what i was used to which was a mac os like version of kde using latte duck in the end it took me a few hours to replace my flinging of the mouse to the bottom edge to reveal the dock into hitting the super key and displaying the dock or just typing the name of the app i wanted after that it was just productivity central gnome for me doesn't need anything else than the default experience it is extremely efficient once you wrap your head around how it works and providing me with a crutch like an always visible dock or desktop icons would just compromise that productivity that's the way it is for me at least don't get all offended your desktop icons might be a monstrosity but you have every right to want to use them you monster that default experience contributes to fedora being current with a lot of extensions and more tools tacked on you often have to delay your update to the latest version of gnome because you can't be sure that you've tested it enough fedora doesn't have that issue and provides me with a more productive desktop as a result that was what ubuntu was doing as well the latest and greatest gnome experience with all the bells and whistles and the default experience except for the theme and when they switched to unity it was the same thing but obviously it was because they developed it so yeah of course they would have the default experience moving to fedora also had me learn a few things especially how to use dnf i didn't need to use it but i wanted to and since i was a lot more familiar with apt i had no idea what i was doing turns out fedora has a huge community as well something ubuntu has had ever since it began and that's another check mark on my fedora is the next ubuntu checklist fedora has very active forums and a lot of online help available to learn about these things applications often have an rpm and if they don't they tend to have a flat back version generally you're not left behind at least i never was everything i wanted to do i could find a guide a tutorial or an application to do so and it was extremely easy so my experience with fedora has been fantastic i enjoy the great stability the absence of issues and the background updates at reboot i love that i can get all my apps through flat pack and how well it's integrated i really enjoyed the vanilla gnome experience without added overhead or crutches that would detract me from gnome's actual productivity at least in my case and i also love that it makes me excited to get updates again before i just didn't really feel like they brought anything or i even dreaded them because they had broken things for me in the past now i'm just updating every day my apps get their fixes and new features right away and my system will be up to date when i put it back up in the morning could i get all of this on another distro probably yeah but i would have to do some extra work to remove stuff i don't need like extensions and i would also not get all the latest and greatest stack without sacrificing the stability and that's why fedora to me is what ubuntu used to be it's up to date it gets new stuff regularly it's stable it's user friendly and it pushes the linux desktop forward which means that in the next few weeks it will also replace elementor ios on my laptop yes it's that good just like today's sponsor slim book these guys make linux laptops and desktops from valencia spain they have all keyboard layouts they ship worldwide they have a wide range of devices at all price points like for example the slim book essential their entry level ultrabook it's greatly designed it's got a good screen good internals great keyboard great build quality and a low starting price if you need a new linux device check the link in the description below and hit slim book up they are really good now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe turn on notifications drop me a comment whatever else works if you didn't like the video or you disagree you can also drop a dislike and tell me why in the comments and if you really enjoy what i do and you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and i generally don't do distro reviews i do cover the major new releases to just talk about what's new but i don't do distro reviews per se but this time it's different i've been using fedora for a few months now and the more i use it the more i feel that there's something special about this distribution something that other distributions just don't have something that ubuntu used to have so exceptionally here are my impressions after using fedora for a few months as my daily driver and why i think it's the new ubuntu speaking of new today's sponsor isn't but it's still amazing thanks to linoad for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps lynode has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like piehole to block ads even though linus said it's piracy from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenoid has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started okay so just to be clear when i say that fedora is the new ubuntu what i mean is that fedora now fills the space that ubuntu used to fill in the linux distribution world ubuntu used to be the model for how to make a distro solid well-stocked repos a focus on user interface and user experience a big community an eye towards the future and pushing innovation in the desktop space nowadays ubuntu has pretty much lost most of these advantages but fedora has picked up the slack in short fedora being the new ubuntu is a good thing one thing that i really enjoy about fedora is that they push the linux desktop towards the future some call it bleeding edge but it's not it's cutting edge you don't get the absolute latest but you get the latest that's also stable fedora was among the first to adopt wayland the first with a pipe wire to push flat pack portholes the first mainstream distro to push immutable file systems with silver blue they've always wanted to implement the latest technology without sacrificing stability and ease of use contrary to a full-on rolling release which kind of feels like playing a blizzard game if you don't read the patch notes you might as well not play the game because your character or your system is now broken this drive towards modern tech was what ubuntu was doing back in the day they were implementing the latest versions of gnome they adopted newly developed programs at the time like banshee or f-spot they pushed to have better driver integration and more software available by embracing all these latest technologies fedora makes sure that they're adopted earlier as well implementing weyland early for example didn't hurt people who couldn't use it who were defaulted to x11 but it also helped weyland a lot by generating more user feedback on what worked and what needed more time in the oven to help make hardware support better they also pushed lvfs which lets hardware manufacturers provide firmware updates in a seamless manner for users where everything is handled graphically and easily same goes for pipe wire os 3 toolbox or for any other tag that they chose to go with before others this drive towards making sure that their desktop is as current as can be is really helpful to make the linux desktop in general progress faster and ubuntu also did that in the past although they tended to favor their own in-house developed solutions rather than contributing to what already existed but both approaches are valid in my opinion in terms of using fedora it also often meant that i was using new technologies without even realizing it i've been using pipe wire for a few months and i didn't even notice when i update to fedora 36 wetland will be the default even with my proprietary nvidia drivers and i bet i won't even notice either so i get to take advantage of all the new stuff with the stability with the security without it breaking anything using fedora i got that same excitement i used to get when i was using ubuntu every six months there's a new drop of amazing updates you get more modern technologies you get improved security you get new features right as they are being released and you get that sense of really taking advantage of all that new stuff the linux community talks about or fights about i don't really get that same sense of excitement with other distributions elementary os and linux mints do have this kind of same feeling of progression but they also feel like they evolve at a slower pace other fixed releases generally aren't current ubuntu or zorin os don't get the latest and greatest gnome for example you get features that were exciting six months to a year ago and rolling releases bombard you with a stream of updates without any real well-defined progression if you're constantly moving forwards a few inches then you never get the feeling that you're moving at all and that sense of excitement means that updates are no longer this ugh moment they're actually something that i look forward to fedora is a current distro which means that you get the latest release of all the interesting stuff like the desktop environments the linux kernel the graphics drivers or wayland and they do this without sacrificing stability and fedora in my experience with it has been rock solid in general i didn't have many problems with any linux distro that i daily drove but all of them tended to exhibit small issues after a while manjaro often had issues after installing updates stuff wouldn't work anymore or require the reboot to be fixed audio stopped working or the microphone input volume was turned all the way down for no reason on the elementor ios on my laptop i have small issues that require a reboot my email account shows as duplicated in the email app bluetooth shuts down and can be re-enabled until you reboot some of my virtual desktops lose their background on fedora the biggest problem i've encountered so far was after updating davinci resolve it wouldn't recognize my gpu anymore and completely uninstalling it and reinstalling it worked without a reboot and it was probably more due to the incomprehensible decision of davinci resolve to provide a dot run installer instead of having a dab an rpm or flat pack i also had the same issue with virtualbox which was fixed by reinstalling the app i still get daily updates for a lot of system components but my system never crashes reboots or displays any undesirable behavior these updates are also applied when i reboot so stuff doesn't get pulled from under my feet all the system related updates only happen when you restart your computer and all the app updates these are handled through flat pack and that's also what makes fedora current while remaining stable the application updates are provided if you so choose through flat pack and either the fedora remote or flat hub if you added it and as i already pointed out in a previous video flat pack is the future a future you'll get dragged into whether you like it or not finish your flat packs or you're not getting any dessert this means that all my apps or at least all the apps that made the right choice are updated independently of the distro without risking anything breaking my experience with fedora has been stellar thanks to this flat pack is wonderfully integrated in gnome software it's all one click install one click update my system updates are applied when i reboot and i literally never think about my system i just use it and that peace of mind is something that i never really had with any other linux distro ubuntu used to offer this as well although they never really offered up-to-date apps their app versions never received feature updates even back in the day they did have a current version desktop environment though which they don't anymore they have a weird mishmash of gnome versions another thing i really like is that fedora has the default experience they ship the desktop as is without any meaningful extensions themes configurations or tweaks some people might think it's a bad thing but it's up to individual choices i can see why you would want to have a tweaked kde or gnome version but i don't not anymore when i started using fedora and vanilla gnome i was a bit apprehensive gnome didn't work at all like what i was used to which was a mac os like version of kde using latte duck in the end it took me a few hours to replace my flinging of the mouse to the bottom edge to reveal the dock into hitting the super key and displaying the dock or just typing the name of the app i wanted after that it was just productivity central gnome for me doesn't need anything else than the default experience it is extremely efficient once you wrap your head around how it works and providing me with a crutch like an always visible dock or desktop icons would just compromise that productivity that's the way it is for me at least don't get all offended your desktop icons might be a monstrosity but you have every right to want to use them you monster that default experience contributes to fedora being current with a lot of extensions and more tools tacked on you often have to delay your update to the latest version of gnome because you can't be sure that you've tested it enough fedora doesn't have that issue and provides me with a more productive desktop as a result that was what ubuntu was doing as well the latest and greatest gnome experience with all the bells and whistles and the default experience except for the theme and when they switched to unity it was the same thing but obviously it was because they developed it so yeah of course they would have the default experience moving to fedora also had me learn a few things especially how to use dnf i didn't need to use it but i wanted to and since i was a lot more familiar with apt i had no idea what i was doing turns out fedora has a huge community as well something ubuntu has had ever since it began and that's another check mark on my fedora is the next ubuntu checklist fedora has very active forums and a lot of online help available to learn about these things applications often have an rpm and if they don't they tend to have a flat back version generally you're not left behind at least i never was everything i wanted to do i could find a guide a tutorial or an application to do so and it was extremely easy so my experience with fedora has been fantastic i enjoy the great stability the absence of issues and the background updates at reboot i love that i can get all my apps through flat pack and how well it's integrated i really enjoyed the vanilla gnome experience without added overhead or crutches that would detract me from gnome's actual productivity at least in my case and i also love that it makes me excited to get updates again before i just didn't really feel like they brought anything or i even dreaded them because they had broken things for me in the past now i'm just updating every day my apps get their fixes and new features right away and my system will be up to date when i put it back up in the morning could i get all of this on another distro probably yeah but i would have to do some extra work to remove stuff i don't need like extensions and i would also not get all the latest and greatest stack without sacrificing the stability and that's why fedora to me is what ubuntu used to be it's up to date it gets new stuff regularly it's stable it's user friendly and it pushes the linux desktop forward which means that in the next few weeks it will also replace elementor 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hey everyone if you follow me on twitter and you should you might have seen that i just had a four-headed talk with liam daw from gaming on linux jason evangelo from linux for everyone and gardener bryant of youtube fame this talk was awesome it lasted for about three hours we talked about everything tech related we just laughed and talked and it was just amazing the full version is on jason's channel liam also shared it on gaming on linux gardner has a lot of clips on his channels as well i left all the links in the description below so if you want to check those out you can but this is a part that i felt was super important because it's about how the deck changed our relationship not only to steam but also to gaming in general so we each have an interesting answer that i'm gonna let you just watch right now well if we want um a good sort of ending question i think this is probably probably a really good one then hit me what are we all most most surprised about with our experience with the deck oh man what's been the biggest surprise this will be another half hour well i have a i have a ready-made answer because i already talked about uh i talked about that on my uh on my patreon cast the podcast i do for my patrons what really surprised me is how much the deck has changed my opinion on steam in general i never viewed steam as a platform or as an interesting thing to use i didn't care about the achievements i didn't care about my games list i didn't curate it organize it i didn't hide the games that i didn't like it was just a launcher and it was basically something that i had to use with the deck i'm basically treating it like i treat my xbox which is i want to get the achievements i want to have a nice friends list well curated i want to organize my games create categories i want to do all of that stuff because it it gives me a connection between the hardware and the software that i never had with the pc if you have the keyboard and the mouse they're they're this intermediate layer between me and the software itself it's disconnecting me from it and so i don't get attached to steam on pc but on the deck i literally touch steam with my hands and it works way better for me and so now it's yet another platform that i'm gonna try to complete games to 100 and stuff like that it really created that connection that i didn't have before with it wow what a great answer yeah how can anybody follow that answer out jesus christ you could have gone last [Laughter] i i feel like uh it has changed my relationships with video games because i i'm very busy like i run a company besides my youtube channel i do all kinds of stuff and when i'm done work for the day i don't want to go to my living room turn on my pc and start fussing around and playing games that way or even console like i have a switch i have a ps4 i don't like playing them that much unless i have other people over and we're playing it back and forth the steam deck has fundamentally changed how i play video games because i don't want to sit here either and play games at my desk where i've been all day so i turn on the tv let some youtube or some other show run and i play games and i think i've played more games on my steam deck in the last two weeks than i have cumulatively over the last year like that's how important i mean that's how fundamentally different this is for me when it comes to video games and and it's you know i started my youtube channel originally because i didn't feel like i was spending enough time playing video games and then it slowly over time became too much it became too distracting to play video games but now i'm back to it because of the steam deck and i love that now i'm gonna play i'm gonna play devil's advocate on behalf of a lot of viewers and listeners do you think that this is just the honeymoon period for you gardener and that's why because of the freshness and newness of it it could be but um i'm usually kind of in tune with that like phenomena like how i experience like the honeymoon period and i don't think that it is like maybe when i start to run out of games in my library and i don't want to spend more money to buy new ones then i might not use the deck as much but like legitimately i i don't think that it's a honeymoon period okay and if you're like basically everyone else you'll never run out of games in your library i've got like 700 games wow okay yeah i've got 200. [Laughter] just like just the games that are on the the certified list now the verified and playable just those games i could be busy for years so yeah especially with your steam master account i'm very jealous yes the mythic the mythic master account does exist it also exists for epic games but um i am not all games i bought final fantasy vii remake um and sometimes i just like to buy the games that to support the developers especially the indie developers but well thank you for such a couple just absolutely eloquent and beautiful answers and now i guess i'll try and top that which i won't um i i have a 5 000 gaming pc from falcon northwest like the lamborghini of of boutique pc makers right i have a asus rog 4k hdr 120hz monitor i could be playing all the games that i have been enjoying on my steam deck on that pc or i could be playing on my xbox series x on a 4k tv in the living room i'm not and i i think i'm not because i mean i'm just gonna basically steal what you guys have said the the same reason that they said it's i feel more connected personally connected and invested in my games and um i i it's it's weird to say that i am more immersed in them on a 7-inch screen but i really am like i'm more immersed in these games i'm more excited about playing them and holding them in my hand than i am sitting on a couch in front of a huge 50-inch tv um and i think part of that has to do with some of the steam input stuff like i i've i never used an elite controller the xbox lead controller i never used a steam controller before and so this is kind of my first experience with those rear uh grip buttons and the first the first time that i realized i could make those the paddle shifters for like dirt rally and forza it changed everything for me and then i was like oh man i really i'm playing god of war right and i absolutely hated the fact that i think you had to press d-pad down do the quick turn which is really kind of cumbersome because i don't want to take my my thumb off the movement stick right especially in battle so i just mapped it to one of the back grip buttons and i did the same thing for a dark alliance balder's gate dark alliance where now instead of having to move off of the the uh the left thumb stick to do to use the d-pad to select my weapon loadout or my my spells i'm just using i'm just going back and forth while i'm moving and fighting and that like that's a literal game changer for me and now every game that i've played before on my pc or or my xbox i want to i want to revisit here and see how i can um uh improve the experience with with the extra control inputs that i have uh i don't know man i just i love this thing i love it yeah i love it i've it's it's hard to get work done it really is my answer's gonna be really boring i doubt that i like that it shoots sd cards yeah yes it says sd cards like a gun um like i could knock somebody out with it um probably myself in bed when it jumps on my head but now my my answer really is partly the same as gardeners um because running gaming or linux i'm either at my desk making a video writing an article or testing a game or answering emails or dealing with many community issues that come up in the evenings i don't want to be here and it i've had this problem for a very long time now and it's why i've i've been out on it a few times and here you go i've wanted something exactly like this that isn't the switch so i can play the same games that i've already been enjoying and not have to buy similar or the same again and just go just go sit on my sofa dis physically disconnect from your like work environment yeah it's about it exactly and and this is it this is freed freed me from the shackles of my desk and it's awesome yeah yeah um and i can't really i can't overstate how how amazing that feels also like i i am happy to admit that i did play the deep rock galactic tutorial in the bathroom today i have not made that step just yet i'm happy to make that step for you no not for you that never mind [Laughter] yeah just don't fall off the toilet when you're uh trying to aim and you know first person i don't like the giant i don't use the gyro by the way i don't i really can't i don't use it really i have to i don't like using a thumbstick my brain cannot work with gyro yeah neither i just i feel like i'm fighting it it's like what am i moving or or moving the stick and then my brain fries and i get shot in the head and die i only tried it with the with the aperture desk job and i was expecting to hate it but i really picked it up super fast and i think that's something i i will probably try in more games just just to try and see if i can make it work not just in a static turret session but in a full-on multiplayer shooter or single-player shooter so that's it these are our answers and basically we all have a different thing but it all ties back into the same thing which is the steam deck is a different way to experience your games it might seem mundane because it's only a handheld gaming console that you might have seen already like the switch is one as well or the aya neo or the one x player or something but the deck really does have something special compared to these alternatives and when you get your hands on one if you haven't already you'll experience what it is and i think you'll find it transforms your gaming experience as well so thanks everyone for watching the video if you want to watch the full talk you can head over to jason's channel i left a link in the description below or to gaming on linux liam also shared it right there if you want some more extracts gardner has posted a few and he probably will post more in the future yeah if you want more of these talks just hit us up and let us know because we had a blast and we would love to do it again in the meantime i hope you enjoyed the video if you did don't stay to like subscribe turn on notifications if you didn't i don't see any reason why but you can also 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hey everyone if you follow me on twitter and you should you might have seen that i just had a four-headed talk with liam daw from gaming on linux jason evangelo from linux for everyone and gardener bryant of youtube fame this talk was awesome it lasted for about three hours we talked about everything tech related we just laughed and talked and it was just amazing the full version is on jason's channel liam also shared it on gaming on linux gardner has a lot of clips on his channels as well i left all the links in the description below so if you want to check those out you can but this is a part that i felt was super important because it's about how the deck changed our relationship not only to steam but also to gaming in general so we each have an interesting answer that i'm gonna let you just watch right now well if we want um a good sort of ending question i think this is probably probably a really good one then hit me what are we all most most surprised about with our experience with the deck oh man what's been the biggest surprise this will be another half hour well i have a i have a ready-made answer because i already talked about uh i talked about that on my uh on my patreon cast the podcast i do for my patrons what really surprised me is how much the deck has changed my opinion on steam in general i never viewed steam as a platform or as an interesting thing to use i didn't care about the achievements i didn't care about my games list i didn't curate it organize it i didn't hide the games that i didn't like it was just a launcher and it was basically something that i had to use with the deck i'm basically treating it like i treat my xbox which is i want to get the achievements i want to have a nice friends list well curated i want to organize my games create categories i want to do all of that stuff because it it gives me a connection between the hardware and the software that i never had with the pc if you have the keyboard and the mouse they're they're this intermediate layer between me and the software itself it's disconnecting me from it and so i don't get attached to steam on pc but on the deck i literally touch steam with my hands and it works way better for me and so now it's yet another platform that i'm gonna try to complete games to 100 and stuff like that it really created that connection that i didn't have before with it wow what a great answer yeah how can anybody follow that answer out jesus christ you could have gone last [Laughter] i i feel like uh it has changed my relationships with video games because i i'm very busy like i run a company besides my youtube channel i do all kinds of stuff and when i'm done work for the day i don't want to go to my living room turn on my pc and start fussing around and playing games that way or even console like i have a switch i have a ps4 i don't like playing them that much unless i have other people over and we're playing it back and forth the steam deck has fundamentally changed how i play video games because i don't want to sit here either and play games at my desk where i've been all day so i turn on the tv let some youtube or some other show run and i play games and i think i've played more games on my steam deck in the last two weeks than i have cumulatively over the last year like that's how important i mean that's how fundamentally different this is for me when it comes to video games and and it's you know i started my youtube channel originally because i didn't feel like i was spending enough time playing video games and then it slowly over time became too much it became too distracting to play video games but now i'm back to it because of the steam deck and i love that now i'm gonna play i'm gonna play devil's advocate on behalf of a lot of viewers and listeners do you think that this is just the honeymoon period for you gardener and that's why because of the freshness and newness of it it could be but um i'm usually kind of in tune with that like phenomena like how i experience like the honeymoon period and i don't think that it is like maybe when i start to run out of games in my library and i don't want to spend more money to buy new ones then i might not use the deck as much but like legitimately i i don't think that it's a honeymoon period okay and if you're like basically everyone else you'll never run out of games in your library i've got like 700 games wow okay yeah i've got 200. [Laughter] just like just the games that are on the the certified list now the verified and playable just those games i could be busy for years so yeah especially with your steam master account i'm very jealous yes the mythic the mythic master account does exist it also exists for epic games but um i am not all games i bought final fantasy vii remake um and sometimes i just like to buy the games that to support the developers especially the indie developers but well thank you for such a couple just absolutely eloquent and beautiful answers and now i guess i'll try and top that which i won't um i i have a 5 000 gaming pc from falcon northwest like the lamborghini of of boutique pc makers right i have a asus rog 4k hdr 120hz monitor i could be playing all the games that i have been enjoying on my steam deck on that pc or i could be playing on my xbox series x on a 4k tv in the living room i'm not and i i think i'm not because i mean i'm just gonna basically steal what you guys have said the the same reason that they said it's i feel more connected personally connected and invested in my games and um i i it's it's weird to say that i am more immersed in them on a 7-inch screen but i really am like i'm more immersed in these games i'm more excited about playing them and holding them in my hand than i am sitting on a couch in front of a huge 50-inch tv um and i think part of that has to do with some of the steam input stuff like i i've i never used an elite controller the xbox lead controller i never used a steam controller before and so this is kind of my first experience with those rear uh grip buttons and the first the first time that i realized i could make those the paddle shifters for like dirt rally and forza it changed everything for me and then i was like oh man i really i'm playing god of war right and i absolutely hated the fact that i think you had to press d-pad down do the quick turn which is really kind of cumbersome because i don't want to take my my thumb off the movement stick right especially in battle so i just mapped it to one of the back grip buttons and i did the same thing for a dark alliance balder's gate dark alliance where now instead of having to move off of the the uh the left thumb stick to do to use the d-pad to select my weapon loadout or my my spells i'm just using i'm just going back and forth while i'm moving and fighting and that like that's a literal game changer for me and now every game that i've played before on my pc or or my xbox i want to i want to revisit here and see how i can um uh improve the experience with with the extra control inputs that i have uh i don't know man i just i love this thing i love it yeah i love it i've it's it's hard to get work done it really is my answer's gonna be really boring i doubt that i like that it shoots sd cards yeah yes it says sd cards like a gun um like i could knock somebody out with it um probably myself in bed when it jumps on my head but now my my answer really is partly the same as gardeners um because running gaming or linux i'm either at my desk making a video writing an article or testing a game or answering emails or dealing with many community issues that come up in the evenings i don't want to be here and it i've had this problem for a very long time now and it's why i've i've been out on it a few times and here you go i've wanted something exactly like this that isn't the switch so i can play the same games that i've already been enjoying and not have to buy similar or the same again and just go just go sit on my sofa dis physically disconnect from your like work environment yeah it's about it exactly and and this is it this is freed freed me from the shackles of my desk and it's awesome yeah yeah um and i can't really i can't overstate how how amazing that feels also like i i am happy to admit that i did play the deep rock galactic tutorial in the bathroom today i have not made that step just yet i'm happy to make that step for you no not for you that never mind [Laughter] yeah just don't fall off the toilet when you're uh trying to aim and you know first person i don't like the giant i don't use the gyro by the way i don't i really can't i don't use it really i have to i don't like using a thumbstick my brain cannot work with gyro yeah neither i just i feel like i'm fighting it it's like what am i moving or or moving the stick and then my brain fries and i get shot in the head and die i only tried it with the with the aperture desk job and i was expecting to hate it but i really picked it up super fast and i think that's something i i will probably try in more games just just to try and see if i can make it work not just in a static turret session but in a full-on multiplayer shooter or single-player shooter so that's it these are our answers and basically we all have a different thing but it all ties back into the same thing which is the steam deck is a different way to experience your games it might seem mundane because it's only a handheld gaming console that you might have seen already like the switch is one as well or the aya neo or the one x player or something but the deck really does have something special compared to these alternatives and when you get your hands on one if you haven't already you'll experience what it is and i think you'll find it transforms your gaming experience as well so thanks everyone for watching the video if you want to watch the full talk you can head over to jason's channel i left a link in the description below or to gaming on linux liam also shared it right there if you want some more extracts gardner has posted a few and he probably will post more in the future yeah if you want more of these talks just hit us up and let us know because we had a blast and we would love to do it again in the meantime i hope you enjoyed the video if you did don't stay to like subscribe turn on notifications if you didn't i don't see any reason why but you can also 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hey guys this is nick and ubuntu got me into linux in 2006. without it no way this channel exists no way i'm ever interested in linux at all and no way i have any computer interest at all apart maybe from gaming on it still the ubuntu of today isn't the ubuntu of old and it's evolved into something that i just can't recommend to beginners anymore let's see why why you shouldn't use anything else than today's sponsor as your office suite this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint 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as usable as it is today ubuntu really put the focus on ux usability graphical utilities and i have a feeling that gnome's current focus on ux wouldn't be a thing without ubuntu now some people will probably hold that against ubuntu when gnome moved to gnome 3 ubuntu decided to go their own way with unity and while the first versions weren't amazing in terms of performance and stability by the end of that desktop it was probably one of the best options for fully polished shell on linux even their failed projects showed that they had an eye on the user experience on the convergence of devices on gaming on offering an integrated ecosystem you had ubuntu 1 the ubuntu music store the ubuntu edge phone upon to touch all of that pointed towards a real will to be as user-friendly as possible and then the fire nation attacked or maybe it was the shareholders nation after the failure of the ubuntu edge phone if you can call collecting 11 million dollars in pledges of failure after that failure it seemed like ubuntu just gave up in short succession they dropped unity version 7 for the desktop and version 8 which was meant to be the successor that brought convergence between device types they dropped mir their display server that was meant to replace x.org and be an alternative to weyland and they basically settled for gnome 3 plus 2 extensions a dock and notification icons and yeah there's also a theme the visionary for the linux desktop basically decided that it had sunk enough money trying to make that thing happen and that they would just coast on whatever was being developed the money is in the server and iot space not on the desktop so why bother it might just be me but it felt like a betrayal the company the distribution that made the linux desktop viable decided that it wasn't viable in the end and that they would just have that desktop distro to keep a presence in the consumer and enthusiast space how dare they prioritize money in the open source fields those monsters jokes aside this betrayal is not enough to make me not want to recommend ubuntu anymore lacking ambition or lacking a vision doesn't mean that you're not usable or you're not a good choice after all ubuntu still has one of the biggest communities it's one of the most established brands and names in the desktop space it still has regular updates you can still find ppas or their packages for everything and its implementation of gnome is usable so why not recommend this distro anymore well ubuntu has a desktop problem since it basically abandoned the leadership of the desktop to the community it also doesn't seem to anticipate things very much which means that the extensions they apply to gnome pull them backwards ubuntu doesn't follow the gnome release cycle anymore which means that you're always at least one version behind oh no what are we gonna do wait six months to get an update don't laugh it's a real problem waiting six months to get what everyone else can have sucks but also this is done in order to update their extensions and make sure their desktop still works but it has unintended problems first they still ship updated versions of some applications but not of all apps you'll get nautilus version 42 in the next release of ubuntu but you won't get gnome 42 with the vast number of improvements it comes with you'll get gnome 41 released six months ago what's the issue with that well you get a mishmash a a franken ubuntu system of applications and libraries made for one version or another and it just can't be as stable as something that just used the whole release as a complete system ubuntu also has fixed repo versions for apps desktop environments and libraries only security fixes come through apart from a few apps like web browsers this means that this frank ubuntu is locked in place if you use 22.04 lts you're never getting the full gnome 42 in your repos if you want glom42 you'll have to move to 22.10 which won't be an lts and win release when gnome 43 is out and also you'll get a frankenstein monster of gnome 42 and 43. basically ubuntu is not a current distro it's a distro that ships something that's been released six months ago some people might not be bothered by that but a lot will be especially since a lot of users are now used to get regular updates on their phones even when their os doesn't get any system updates anymore they still get app updates and ubuntu also has an apps problem ubuntu pushes snaps their own containerized solution that was initially designed to create ubuntu phone apps through so-called click packages these guys really like their finger-related sounds or maybe they just hope that things would click or snap into place but whatever the reasoning for this name they have been contorted this packaging format has been contorted to work on the desktop the team that is developing them is focused on iot and server not desktop and in these fields snaps are great my own next cloud server is a snap i installed it in one command line and it's been running ever since getting auto updates and it never crashed or failed on the desktop though snaps have issues a lot of issues these issues were shared in the past by other similar formats like flat pack or app images but nowadays snap is really really late to the party it doesn't support dark mode integration it doesn't integrate with themes it doesn't offer a way to solve these issues contrary to flat pack and the flat seal app for example it doesn't use the new portal system to enhance security and sandboxing and more importantly it's a packaging format that's increasingly being left out by other districts is virtually only thereby default on manjaro and ubuntu even ubuntu-based distros remove snap from the base package like linux mint or elementor os and since i have way too much empathy and i see that no one wants these snaps now i want to adopt them all anyway ubuntu has an app problem because it used fixed repos without feature updates it needs a way to bring application updates to the desktop and this way is supposedly snaps the issue is the snapstool doesn't seem to have as many desktop apps as flat hub and snap as a solution is getting increasingly outdated slow to launch and less well integrated than flat pack it's also being aggressively pushed to ubuntu users and this impacts downstream distros for example canonical decided to only ship chromium as a snap which meant that other distros like linux mint had to take on the burden of packaging and maintaining it themselves if they didn't want to adopt the snap version basically ubuntu seems to be betting on the wrong horse in the future of linux app distribution race every other distro that's relevant for beginners has adopted flat pack linux mint elementary os zorin os manjaro all have flat pack by default there's also the steam deck that only runs flat pack apps on a desktop mode this means that publishers will increasingly adopt flat pack and leave snaps behind which means less apps on snap and so less apps for ubuntu in general now ubuntu is still very easy to use but its crown in terms of the easiest distro for beginners is long gone nowadays plenty of options are better than ubuntu for complete linux beginners linux mint has a relentless drive to keep working on what made ubuntu great in the first place everything must have a graphical user interface to configure it zorin os does as well even though its gnome implementation is also a franken ubuntu oy frankenzorin these two options alone are in my opinion much better for beginners than ubuntu they have more quality of life features like built-in accent colors more configuration tools and they support more software plus all the software made for ubuntu other options are catching up as well even though they still have issues that prevent them from being as user-friendly as ubuntu yet elementary os has a laser focus on usability ease of use and having the most polished experience only the lack of software by default in the app center holds them back fedora has a super smooth gnome desktop it's updated fast and constantly it leverages flat pack to distribute applications and only its outdated and infuriating installer holds it back other beginner-friendly distros are circling and ubuntu isn't the king of the hill anymore they're barely top 3 and they might drop out of the top 5 in a few years they're basically just coasting on the brand name at that point still ubuntu isn't bad it's still a good distribution for beginners it has one of the most abundant online documentation every tutorial has instructions for ubuntu it has huge help forums and it's also generally one of the main officially supported districts for commercial software its gnome implementation works even though it's not up to date it has access to plenty of software if you don't care about feature updates and snaps while inferior to alternatives in my opinion are still serviceable if you can swallow the long start times ubuntu is perfectly usable by beginners it's a good distribution but it's also no longer the best choice for beginners in my opinion when people used to ask me what distro should i use i'm starting with linux it was ubuntu no questions asked nothing touched it nothing came close nowadays i just don't recommend ubuntu anymore because there are other alternatives that can serve everybody's use case with less issues or with better tools so thank you for your service ubuntu you'll always have a place in my heart but nostalgia doesn't help beginners but what will help newcomers though is buying a device with linux pre-installed on it and on that front slimbook got you covered they're based in valencia spain and they make linux laptops and desktops they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they have devices for every price point for example the slimbook essential it's a great entry-level laptop at a low price good specs great build quality great screen good keyboard i reviewed it on the channel click the link in the description below if you want to check out slimbox products they are really good so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like and subscribe and turn on notifications and write a comment and give me your first born son whatever else can help and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments if you want to help support what i do you can join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] so [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this time around we have a major vulnerability in the linux kernel version 5.8 and upwards we have the framework laptop having total just works support for most linux distributions and we have stadia maybe looking at running windows games but not through proton let's begin right after i tell you how you can protect your privacy with today's sponsor start page privacy protection thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below if i tell you dirty pipe what do you think of a male pawn star a dj no it's a major linux vulnerability resulting from a bug in the linux kernel it lets anyone with an account even without any privileges to add an ssh key to the root's user account which means that anybody could use that ssh key to access a server remotely using ssh it can also let malicious actors create a root shell or overwrite data in read-only files basically it's really severe and it also affects android it's been introduced in the linux kernel 5.8 which isn't on many production servers but it's still pretty darn bad of course there's already a fix but it won't help people who already have been infected by that vulnerability if you have any servers might be worth taking a look at what you're running just in case nvidia hackers are at it again these crazy kids seem to have used stolen certificates to add malware to driver downloads on windows for nvidia drivers they also had a very peculiar demand release all driver code as open source or get forcefully open sourced as the whole terabyte of stolen data would be leaked well now they also want nvidia to remove the limitations they put on their gpus on crypto mining especially for ethereum obviously both demands are ridiculous because if nvidia doesn't comply then their code is out there and anyone can disable that limitation on crypto mining or access the source to their drivers so it's either do what we say or we do it anyways there's no winning not counting the fact that leaking that source code would actually hurt open source projects that are using nvds stuff because that leaked code would be legal kryptonite you cannot prove that you haven't taken a look at it to develop your own stuff and that equals to huge lawsuit risks stadia google's cloud gaming service seemed on its way to the massive google project's graveyard as user numbers seemed low internal development had been stopped and google generally doesn't seem to give a crap about the service well they still have one last hurrah apparently because it seems that they might be working on a windows emulator to run windows title as is on stadia which could boost its catalog a lot a senior software engineer at google will host a talk at the google for games developer summit titled how to write a windows emulator for linux from scratch their tool isn't based on proton apparently and the engineer in question works for stadia in canada we'll have to see what that implies for the service and if this move can salvage it from what looked like certain death the google graveyard cares not about petty emulators it wants more projects so that google reader feels less alone yeah i'm still pissed about google reader kde has a new project and it seems very interesting for laptop users it's called kde echo and it aims to reduce kde's power consumption not only to give you better battery life but also to reduce environmental impact it looks like a team up with the fast energy efficiency project or feep and kde team members are organizing to tackle the issue starting with collecting energy measurements for various applications via scripted usage scenarios that reproduce standard user behavior once that's done they'll be able to start tackling the moments where software uses the most energy and try to reduce that it's a very cool project that i would love to see generalized to other desktop environments because in the meantime it probably means that kde will take the crown of the most energy efficient desktop at least in the future something i missed last time but the free software foundation has appointed a new executive director the previous one john sullivan has been replaced by zoe cooyman but he will still stay for a few months to help the transition the new director has been with the fsf since 2019 and has a background in project management and event producing like organizing the libra planet events she'll now lead the fsf with responsibilities ranging from operations licensing recruitment or fundraising personally i think it's a great thing because she looks very qualified for that job and as a woman she might help erase or at least alleviate the controversy with richard salman and the fsf linux mint announced a few features that will land on linux mint 21 the next major version of the super popular and super green distro mint 21 will be based on ubuntu 22.04 and will be supported until april 2025 it will use cinnamon 6 the latest version of that desktop environment which will bring its window manager more in line with gnome's mutter compositor it should bring better performance and also make sure that it can benefit from upstream improvements on top of that the blueberry bluetooth config tool will be replaced by blueman which should help support a lot more bluetooth devices since it uses a newer protocol they also publish the roadmap so people can see where things stand and they'll probably avoid too many when does it release questions the budgie desktop got a new update which should alleviate concerns after the departure of joshua's trouble from solus which is the main user and developer for this desktop patchy 10.6 isn't a huge version but it brings 11 months of dev work including a theme revamp including more rounded corners a rewrite of the notification system which should now be usable by other budgie components than the raven panel and improvements to the task list and application tracking that should make using it more reliable with apps like libreoffice and others that didn't provide all necessary information to be correctly displayed it's been a long time since i used budgie i recognize my failing and i'll make sure to correct it firefox 98 was released it simplifies file downloads by automatically downloading them instead of always asking the user if they want to open or save right clicking on a file will net a few options like always opening similar files going back to the download page or showing the file in its download folder apart from that you can also set a specific application to open specific file types the download panel will also automatically open once you start a download so you know that something is actually happening firefox 98 also finally supports the dark mode preference so it will switch to a dark theme correctly on elementary os and godom 42 it also seems that firefox will actually lose a few options for default search engines because they couldn't get formal agreements to include them in firefox again but they didn't mention which search engines would be removed remember that awesome framework laptop that can be repaired upgraded dismantled and also does laptop things well ubuntu just works on it which means you can just slap the basic iso and you won't have to do any tweaking work after install previously the wi-fi and fingerprint reader required a bit of manual work to make them well work the latest lds updates that i mentioned last time makes all these tweaks unnecessary which means that basically all distros should run out of the box on that fantastic piece of hardware which i wish i could get my hands on maybe it's time to send them another email to request a review unit valve continues to wear its good guy hat with a cool new announcement about the steam deck they're open sourcing the steamos devkit client and the steamos devkit service both of these are now available from their gitlab page and they provide clear instructions to install them and see what that's like these tools let developers upload builds from their development device to a steam deck to start testing so they are the crucial part to make sure that games run well on that fantastic new handheld there's no approval process and some nice tools to control the deck remotely like switching to desktop mode or back to gaming mode valve is really doing a fantastic job around the steam deck and to ensure that developers have everything they need to make their stuff run on it and i can't wait to see what it means for the future of linux gaming in general now speaking of the steam deck we now have 1220 games marked as certified or playable specifically 668 certified titles and 555 playable titles they seem to add about 25 new titles per day which isn't too bad but at that rate they'll take ages to finish that review process interesting titles added to the list include apex legend as certified metal gear solid 5 metro exodus dead island riptide need for speed rivals tales from the borderlands or red faction gorilla personally my great own deck list on my steam deck only includes 23 games with the playable games on top of that it goes up to 66 or something which is still way more than i'll be able to play before the next steam sale and i buy some more now still on the topic of linux gaming we now have two new releases for dx vk and vkd3d proton dxvk 1.10 improves performance for assassin's creed origins elex 2 god of war a plethora of resident evil games total war warhammer 3 and others vkd 3d proton which is dxvk's counterpart for running directx 12 games saw its 2.6 release which fixes a black screen issue in horizon zero dawn a startup crash issue for warframe and a hang issue in eldon ring when closing the game there's also reduced loading times and workarounds for games that don't do things the regular way these updates will land in proton pretty soon and i'm very excited to see the performance improvements for total war warhammer 3 because that game has no business being that sluggish on an 8-core ryzen 7 5800 x and on the 30-70 and we also have not so great news about linux gaming support as bungie doubles down on refusing to bring destiny 2 to linux or to the steam deck they had already said that there was no plan to bring the game to us but now they're also adding literal insults to injury in a weirdly worded paragraph which says i quote it means choosing to not support platforms that could provide bad actors so linux is apparently a nest of bad people just waiting to cheat regardless of the market share and the simple volume of players this could bring compared to the already existing player base and also disregarding the fact that battle eye the antique sheet software that destiny 2 uses has linux support and proton support let's wait and see i'm sure the bad actors excuse will vanish in a second as soon as valve posts good numbers for the steam deck purchases and finally the heroic games launcher is getting closer to a full-on flat hub release which also means that it's getting closer to a full-on being available on the steam deck and on that topic stay tuned because in about two days i'll have a video about that as of now it's still available as an app image in a ppa in the aur and other various places but flat pack and flat hub wasn't an option with the release of the steam deck it looks like it's changing and flatback is indeed becoming a priority they've been getting help from the developer of the bottles app that lets you manage your windows software installed through wine in a more legible manner there's also a new update version 2.2.2 which fixes the new gog implementation and prepares that transition to flat pack and that's about it for this video which was brought to you by slimbook these guys operate in valencia spain and they make linux desktops and laptops like for example the slim book essential this is their entry level ultrabook it's small it's lightweight it's not expensive at all it's well built it's got a great keyboard it's got a great display it's got good internals basically it's great value for the money and a lot of people keep asking me where are the cheap linux laptops well they're in the link in the description below if you want to grab a slim book essential just click that link look it up it's a really great device i also have a review on the channel you can search for that if you want as well now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to drop a comment and if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast in which i discuss linux the news my personal stuff the channel and ideas that i have and you'll also get the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover each month so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] bye

hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this time around we have a major vulnerability in the linux kernel version 5.8 and upwards we have the framework laptop having total just works support for most linux distributions and we have stadia maybe looking at running windows games but not through proton let's begin right after i tell you how you can protect your privacy with today's sponsor start page privacy protection thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below if i tell you dirty pipe what do you think of a male pawn star a dj no it's a major linux vulnerability resulting from a bug in the linux kernel it lets anyone with an account even without any privileges to add an ssh key to the root's user account which means that anybody could use that ssh key to access a server remotely using ssh it can also let malicious actors create a root shell or overwrite data in read-only files basically it's really severe and it also affects android it's been introduced in the linux kernel 5.8 which isn't on many production servers but it's still pretty darn bad of course there's already a fix but it won't help people who already have been infected by that vulnerability if you have any servers might be worth taking a look at what you're running just in case nvidia hackers are at it again these crazy kids seem to have used stolen certificates to add malware to driver downloads on windows for nvidia drivers they also had a very peculiar demand release all driver code as open source or get forcefully open sourced as the whole terabyte of stolen data would be leaked well now they also want nvidia to remove the limitations they put on their gpus on crypto mining especially for ethereum obviously both demands are ridiculous because if nvidia doesn't comply then their code is out there and anyone can disable that limitation on crypto mining or access the source to their drivers so it's either do what we say or we do it anyways there's no winning not counting the fact that leaking that source code would actually hurt open source projects that are using nvds stuff because that leaked code would be legal kryptonite you cannot prove that you haven't taken a look at it to develop your own stuff and that equals to huge lawsuit risks stadia google's cloud gaming service seemed on its way to the massive google project's graveyard as user numbers seemed low internal development had been stopped and google generally doesn't seem to give a crap about the service well they still have one last hurrah apparently because it seems that they might be working on a windows emulator to run windows title as is on stadia which could boost its catalog a lot a senior software engineer at google will host a talk at the google for games developer summit titled how to write a windows emulator for linux from scratch their tool isn't based on proton apparently and the engineer in question works for stadia in canada we'll have to see what that implies for the service and if this move can salvage it from what looked like certain death the google graveyard cares not about petty emulators it wants more projects so that google reader feels less alone yeah i'm still pissed about google reader kde has a new project and it seems very interesting for laptop users it's called kde echo and it aims to reduce kde's power consumption not only to give you better battery life but also to reduce environmental impact it looks like a team up with the fast energy efficiency project or feep and kde team members are organizing to tackle the issue starting with collecting energy measurements for various applications via scripted usage scenarios that reproduce standard user behavior once that's done they'll be able to start tackling the moments where software uses the most energy and try to reduce that it's a very cool project that i would love to see generalized to other desktop environments because in the meantime it probably means that kde will take the crown of the most energy efficient desktop at least in the future something i missed last time but the free software foundation has appointed a new executive director the previous one john sullivan has been replaced by zoe cooyman but he will still stay for a few months to help the transition the new director has been with the fsf since 2019 and has a background in project management and event producing like organizing the libra planet events she'll now lead the fsf with responsibilities ranging from operations licensing recruitment or fundraising personally i think it's a great thing because she looks very qualified for that job and as a woman she might help erase or at least alleviate the controversy with richard salman and the fsf linux mint announced a few features that will land on linux mint 21 the next major version of the super popular and super green distro mint 21 will be based on ubuntu 22.04 and will be supported until april 2025 it will use cinnamon 6 the latest version of that desktop environment which will bring its window manager more in line with gnome's mutter compositor it should bring better performance and also make sure that it can benefit from upstream improvements on top of that the blueberry bluetooth config tool will be replaced by blueman which should help support a lot more bluetooth devices since it uses a newer protocol they also publish the roadmap so people can see where things stand and they'll probably avoid too many when does it release questions the budgie desktop got a new update which should alleviate concerns after the departure of joshua's trouble from solus which is the main user and developer for this desktop patchy 10.6 isn't a huge version but it brings 11 months of dev work including a theme revamp including more rounded corners a rewrite of the notification system which should now be usable by other budgie components than the raven panel and improvements to the task list and application tracking that should make using it more reliable with apps like libreoffice and others that didn't provide all necessary information to be correctly displayed it's been a long time since i used budgie i recognize my failing and i'll make sure to correct it firefox 98 was released it simplifies file downloads by automatically downloading them instead of always asking the user if they want to open or save right clicking on a file will net a few options like always opening similar files going back to the download page or showing the file in its download folder apart from that you can also set a specific application to open specific file types the download panel will also automatically open once you start a download so you know that something is actually happening firefox 98 also finally supports the dark mode preference so it will switch to a dark theme correctly on elementary os and godom 42 it also seems that firefox will actually lose a few options for default search engines because they couldn't get formal agreements to include them in firefox again but they didn't mention which search engines would be removed remember that awesome framework laptop that can be repaired upgraded dismantled and also does laptop things well ubuntu just works on it which means you can just slap the basic iso and you won't have to do any tweaking work after install previously the wi-fi and fingerprint reader required a bit of manual work to make them well work the latest lds updates that i mentioned last time makes all these tweaks unnecessary which means that basically all distros should run out of the box on that fantastic piece of hardware which i wish i could get my hands on maybe it's time to send them another email to request a review unit valve continues to wear its good guy hat with a cool new announcement about the steam deck they're open sourcing the steamos devkit client and the steamos devkit service both of these are now available from their gitlab page and they provide clear instructions to install them and see what that's like these tools let developers upload builds from their development device to a steam deck to start testing so they are the crucial part to make sure that games run well on that fantastic new handheld there's no approval process and some nice tools to control the deck remotely like switching to desktop mode or back to gaming mode valve is really doing a fantastic job around the steam deck and to ensure that developers have everything they need to make their stuff run on it and i can't wait to see what it means for the future of linux gaming in general now speaking of the steam deck we now have 1220 games marked as certified or playable specifically 668 certified titles and 555 playable titles they seem to add about 25 new titles per day which isn't too bad but at that rate they'll take ages to finish that review process interesting titles added to the list include apex legend as certified metal gear solid 5 metro exodus dead island riptide need for speed rivals tales from the borderlands or red faction gorilla personally my great own deck list on my steam deck only includes 23 games with the playable games on top of that it goes up to 66 or something which is still way more than i'll be able to play before the next steam sale and i buy some more now still on the topic of linux gaming we now have two new releases for dx vk and vkd3d proton dxvk 1.10 improves performance for assassin's creed origins elex 2 god of war a plethora of resident evil games total war warhammer 3 and others vkd 3d proton which is dxvk's counterpart for running directx 12 games saw its 2.6 release which fixes a black screen issue in horizon zero dawn a startup crash issue for warframe and a hang issue in eldon ring when closing the game there's also reduced loading times and workarounds for games that don't do things the regular way these updates will land in proton pretty soon and i'm very excited to see the performance improvements for total war warhammer 3 because that game has no business being that sluggish on an 8-core ryzen 7 5800 x and on the 30-70 and we also have not so great news about linux gaming support as bungie doubles down on refusing to bring destiny 2 to linux or to the steam deck they had already said that there was no plan to bring the game to us but now they're also adding literal insults to injury in a weirdly worded paragraph which says i quote it means choosing to not support platforms that could provide bad actors so linux is apparently a nest of bad people just waiting to cheat regardless of the market share and the simple volume of players this could bring compared to the already existing player base and also disregarding the fact that battle eye the antique sheet software that destiny 2 uses has linux support and proton support let's wait and see i'm sure the bad actors excuse will vanish in a second as soon as valve posts good numbers for the steam deck purchases and finally the heroic games launcher is getting closer to a full-on flat hub release which also means that it's getting closer to a full-on being available on the steam deck and on that topic stay tuned because in about two days i'll have a video about that as of now it's still available as an app image in a ppa in the aur and other various places but flat pack and flat hub wasn't an option with the release of the steam deck it looks like it's changing and flatback is indeed becoming a priority they've been getting help from the developer of the bottles app that lets you manage your windows software installed through wine in a more legible manner there's also a new update version 2.2.2 which fixes the new gog implementation and prepares that transition to flat pack and that's about it for this video which was brought to you by slimbook these guys operate in valencia spain and they make linux desktops and laptops like for example the slim book essential this is their entry level ultrabook it's small it's lightweight it's not expensive at all it's well built it's got a great keyboard it's got a great display it's got good internals basically it's great value for the money and a lot of people keep asking me where are the cheap linux laptops well they're in the link in the description below if you want to grab a slim book essential just click that link look it up it's a really great device i also have a review on the channel you can search for that if you want as well now thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn on notifications to drop a comment and if you want to help support the channel you can join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast in which i discuss linux the news my personal stuff the channel and ideas that i have and you'll also get the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover each month so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] bye

hey guys this is nick and ubuntu got me into linux in 2006. without it no way this channel exists no way i'm ever interested in linux at all and no way i have any computer interest at all apart maybe from gaming on it still the ubuntu of today isn't the ubuntu of old and it's evolved into something that i just can't recommend to beginners anymore let's see why why you shouldn't use anything else than today's sponsor as your office suite this video is sponsored by only office the free and open source office suite that's fully compatible with microsoft office documents formats only office has a desktop app available in virtually every packaging format you might want on linux but it also runs on windows mac os ios and android the interface is super intuitive especially if you've been using microsoft office as it's really close and if you want to have your own office suite in the cloud you can also run your own only office server and link it to nexcloud owncloud confluence sharepoint redmine jira and a lot of other services i personally only use only office on all my computers running linux or otherwise and i also have my own only office document server linked to my next live server so i can edit documents online or offline using the desktop editors check out the link in the description below and give only office a try you won't regret it ok the ubuntu of old it was glorious back then it single-handedly turned the linux desktop from something that was only usable by really knowledgeable people into something that was really accessible to the masses even then ubuntu worked hand in hand with gnome to push that desktop forwards add configuration utilities fix thousands of small usability issues allow users to have a nice looking graphical app store instead of a package manager sorry synaptic you were cool but you're still ugly and unfriendly to this day without all the work ubuntu did back in the day up until unity was dropped i don't think the linux desktop would be as usable as it is today ubuntu really put the focus on ux usability graphical utilities and i have a feeling that gnome's current focus on ux wouldn't be a thing without ubuntu now some people will probably hold that against ubuntu when gnome moved to gnome 3 ubuntu decided to go their own way with unity and while the first versions weren't amazing in terms of performance and stability by the end of that desktop it was probably one of the best options for fully polished shell on linux even their failed projects showed that they had an eye on the user experience on the convergence of devices on gaming on offering an integrated ecosystem you had ubuntu 1 the ubuntu music store the ubuntu edge phone upon to touch all of that pointed towards a real will to be as user-friendly as possible and then the fire nation attacked or maybe it was the shareholders nation after the failure of the ubuntu edge phone if you can call collecting 11 million dollars in pledges of failure after that failure it seemed like ubuntu just gave up in short succession they dropped unity version 7 for the desktop and version 8 which was meant to be the successor that brought convergence between device types they dropped mir their display server that was meant to replace x.org and be an alternative to weyland and they basically settled for gnome 3 plus 2 extensions a dock and notification icons and yeah there's also a theme the visionary for the linux desktop basically decided that it had sunk enough money trying to make that thing happen and that they would just coast on whatever was being developed the money is in the server and iot space not on the desktop so why bother it might just be me but it felt like a betrayal the company the distribution that made the linux desktop viable decided that it wasn't viable in the end and that they would just have that desktop distro to keep a presence in the consumer and enthusiast space how dare they prioritize money in the open source fields those monsters jokes aside this betrayal is not enough to make me not want to recommend ubuntu anymore lacking ambition or lacking a vision doesn't mean that you're not usable or you're not a good choice after all ubuntu still has one of the biggest communities it's one of the most established brands and names in the desktop space it still has regular updates you can still find ppas or their packages for everything and its implementation of gnome is usable so why not recommend this distro anymore well ubuntu has a desktop problem since it basically abandoned the leadership of the desktop to the community it also doesn't seem to anticipate things very much which means that the extensions they apply to gnome pull them backwards ubuntu doesn't follow the gnome release cycle anymore which means that you're always at least one version behind oh no what are we gonna do wait six months to get an update don't laugh it's a real problem waiting six months to get what everyone else can have sucks but also this is done in order to update their extensions and make sure their desktop still works but it has unintended problems first they still ship updated versions of some applications but not of all apps you'll get nautilus version 42 in the next release of ubuntu but you won't get gnome 42 with the vast number of improvements it comes with you'll get gnome 41 released six months ago what's the issue with that well you get a mishmash a a franken ubuntu system of applications and libraries made for one version or another and it just can't be as stable as something that just used the whole release as a complete system ubuntu also has fixed repo versions for apps desktop environments and libraries only security fixes come through apart from a few apps like web browsers this means that this frank ubuntu is locked in place if you use 22.04 lts you're never getting the full gnome 42 in your repos if you want glom42 you'll have to move to 22.10 which won't be an lts and win release when gnome 43 is out and also you'll get a frankenstein monster of gnome 42 and 43. basically ubuntu is not a current distro it's a distro that ships something that's been released six months ago some people might not be bothered by that but a lot will be especially since a lot of users are now used to get regular updates on their phones even when their os doesn't get any system updates anymore they still get app updates and ubuntu also has an apps problem ubuntu pushes snaps their own containerized solution that was initially designed to create ubuntu phone apps through so-called click packages these guys really like their finger-related sounds or maybe they just hope that things would click or snap into place but whatever the reasoning for this name they have been contorted this packaging format has been contorted to work on the desktop the team that is developing them is focused on iot and server not desktop and in these fields snaps are great my own next cloud server is a snap i installed it in one command line and it's been running ever since getting auto updates and it never crashed or failed on the desktop though snaps have issues a lot of issues these issues were shared in the past by other similar formats like flat pack or app images but nowadays snap is really really late to the party it doesn't support dark mode integration it doesn't integrate with themes it doesn't offer a way to solve these issues contrary to flat pack and the flat seal app for example it doesn't use the new portal system to enhance security and sandboxing and more importantly it's a packaging format that's increasingly being left out by other districts is virtually only thereby default on manjaro and ubuntu even ubuntu-based distros remove snap from the base package like linux mint or elementor os and since i have way too much empathy and i see that no one wants these snaps now i want to adopt them all anyway ubuntu has an app problem because it used fixed repos without feature updates it needs a way to bring application updates to the desktop and this way is supposedly snaps the issue is the snapstool doesn't seem to have as many desktop apps as flat hub and snap as a solution is getting increasingly outdated slow to launch and less well integrated than flat pack it's also being aggressively pushed to ubuntu users and this impacts downstream distros for example canonical decided to only ship chromium as a snap which meant that other distros like linux mint had to take on the burden of packaging and maintaining it themselves if they didn't want to adopt the snap version basically ubuntu seems to be betting on the wrong horse in the future of linux app distribution race every other distro that's relevant for beginners has adopted flat pack linux mint elementary os zorin os manjaro all have flat pack by default there's also the steam deck that only runs flat pack apps on a desktop mode this means that publishers will increasingly adopt flat pack and leave snaps behind which means less apps on snap and so less apps for ubuntu in general now ubuntu is still very easy to use but its crown in terms of the easiest distro for beginners is long gone nowadays plenty of options are better than ubuntu for complete linux beginners linux mint has a relentless drive to keep working on what made ubuntu great in the first place everything must have a graphical user interface to configure it zorin os does as well even though its gnome implementation is also a franken ubuntu oy frankenzorin these two options alone are in my opinion much better for beginners than ubuntu they have more quality of life features like built-in accent colors more configuration tools and they support more software plus all the software made for ubuntu other options are catching up as well even though they still have issues that prevent them from being as user-friendly as ubuntu yet elementary os has a laser focus on usability ease of use and having the most polished experience only the lack of software by default in the app center holds them back fedora has a super smooth gnome desktop it's updated fast and constantly it leverages flat pack to distribute applications and only its outdated and infuriating installer holds it back other beginner-friendly distros are circling and ubuntu isn't the king of the hill anymore they're barely top 3 and they might drop out of the top 5 in a few years they're basically just coasting on the brand name at that point still ubuntu isn't bad it's still a good distribution for beginners it has one of the most abundant online documentation every tutorial has instructions for ubuntu it has huge help forums and it's also generally one of the main officially supported districts for commercial software its gnome implementation works even though it's not up to date it has access to plenty of software if you don't care about feature updates and snaps while inferior to alternatives in my opinion are still serviceable if you can swallow the long start times ubuntu is perfectly usable by beginners it's a good distribution but it's also no longer the best choice for beginners in my opinion when people used to ask me what distro should i use i'm starting with linux it was ubuntu no questions asked nothing touched it nothing came close nowadays i just don't recommend ubuntu anymore because there are other alternatives that can serve everybody's use case with less issues or with better tools so thank you for your service ubuntu you'll always have a place in my heart but nostalgia doesn't help beginners but what will help newcomers though is buying a device with linux pre-installed on it and on that front slimbook got you covered they're based in valencia spain and they make linux laptops and desktops they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they have devices for every price point for example the slimbook essential it's a great entry-level laptop at a low price good specs great build quality great screen good keyboard i reviewed it on the channel click the link in the description below if you want to check out slimbox products they are really good so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like and subscribe and turn on notifications and write a comment and give me your first born son whatever else can help and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike it and tell me why in the comments if you want to help support what i do you can join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you guys for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] so [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this time around we have nvidia being bullied into making their drivers open source for all their gpus we have a potential new theme for ubuntu 22.04 and we have the steam deck being released with a lot of reviews and my first impressions let's take a look but if you don't want big companies to take a look at your data you might be interested in installing this little browser extension thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below so nvidia suffered a big hack in the past weeks with the hackers claiming to have access to 250 gigabytes of hardware related information the group already leaked source code for dlss and information about nvidia's future architecture for their gpus but they are now asking nvidia to open source their drivers for windows mac os and linux they threaten to release all the data they have including all the silicon chip files which while they would be unusable by any serious competitor if they didn't want to be sued could still really screw up nvidia for the foreseeable future i'm all for having fully open source nvidia drivers but this isn't the way to go about it ubuntu released another point update to ubuntu 20.04 with specific updates to the kernel and mesa they got bumped respectively to version 5.13 and version 21.2.6 which means that it's basically up to par in terms of hardware support with 21.10 it's just a minor update but it's interesting because people often tend to forget that ubuntu does have more hardware made available through their hardware enablement program which adds new kernels and new graphics drivers regularly to their lts releases so if you need stability on the latest hardware it's still possible unfortunately you're still stuck with gdm 3.36 on that version of ubuntu so you're missing out on tons of performance improvements features bug fixes new applications basically don't use an lts unless you really need stability speaking of ubuntu lts let's talk about the next one ubuntu 22.04 this one will have a new theme that is very much based on lib advice with different colors namely orange it brings the all-important rounded corners on all four corners of each window softer grey header bars bigger border radius and the nomination of orange as the only accent color you will get the purple is gone the yaru icon theme also got some fixes new symbolic glyphs to work with gnome 42 and a new file manager icon which looks a lot better than the previous one the shell theme is also more in line with the default one in gnome without the triangular arrows sticking out of pop-up menus and aubergine being thoroughly erased it's okay though aubergine what some people call eggplant is a terrible vegetable no one can stop the kd devs from advancing on their updates and this week is another good one the 15 minute bug initiative has progressed with three new bugs fixed including one that regards panel positions on multi-monitor setups and a crash on wayland on multi-monitor setups as well new features that will come to kde gear 22.04 or plasma 5.25 include the ability to share scanned documents from the scanning app scan page there's new generic avatar images for your user accounts and a bunch of new search queries being added to k runner including proton db wine hq the flat pack documentation or ubuntu packages as always that's accompanied by plenty of bug fixes and ux improvements that we shouldn't have to wait much longer to play with the linux kernel is mostly written in c but what you might not know is that the linux kernel is written in the equivalent of shakespearean english of c it uses version c89 which dates from you guessed it 1989. it's not really an issue of compatibility since it can still be compiled without issues with a more modern compiler using the c11 standard from 2011 but it seems that using the c89 standard creates some convoluted code practices that wouldn't be necessary with more modern standards so linus torvalds has decided that the kernel would move to the c11 version for the kernel 5.18 merge window of course depending on the issues it might create this could get pushed back because it's not a majorly important transition it just needed to be mentioned back when microsoft unveiled github co-pilot there was some uproar about how ethical it was to use open source code to train an ai that writes code even for non-open source projects the free software foundation had called for papers that they would fund to explore github copilot in detail and these papers are now here there are five of them not ranked in any particular order from various professors phd candidates or fellows at various universities they all seem to explore the copyright aspect of github co-pilot and while i haven't read them yet they are all in pdf form on my tablet because that's a topic that really interests me everyone knows linux mint is based on ubuntu but did you know it also had a version based on debian lmd e5 for linux mint debian edition it saw a new beta release based on debian bullseye of course apart from the base itself and the library and kernel versions there's no actual user facing difference between the usual ubuntu based mint and this one it's more useful to actually test how mint will behave when it's rebased on the next lts release of ubuntu 22.04 i also can't help but think that since ubuntu and linux mint don't really seem to see eye to eye these days on most topics maybe lmd could become the default linux mint version in the future getting things gnome 0.6 is now released if you don't know about it it's a wonderful app that lets you handle all your tasks and projects following the getting things done methodology not only does the new release fix bugs but it also brings a whole new caldav backend so you can sync your tasks to any next cloud server google tasks or anything else that relies on that open protocol there's also a new gamification plugin to let you get a few milestones and rewards to get you to actually do your work instead of just logging it into gtg the tag editor has been revamped and is now a lot more streamlined and the app got way better error reporting the caldav feature is enough for me to want to give it another go and maybe try and replace planner with it i could use my next cloud tasks as the back end it would be cool a new interesting linux based operating system showed its pretty face this week dahlia os it's an interesting one as it lets you pick between a version that runs the linux kernel and another one that runs the fuchsia kernel that new kernel developed by google that we have yet to see used in anything really it comes with a custom desktop environment called pangolin and its own window manager called utopia pangolin is actually built with flutter just like the default apps and to run something that's not flutter based you'll have to resort to dahlia os containers it looks weird and quirky and i don't really know who it's for but since it's not just another district that's a rerun of gnome it deserved a mention the steam deck embargo has been lifted and people who are the fastest to pre-order might already have been sent theirs i got one this week so expect my review in a few days actually on sunday in the meantime other people seem to think it's fantastic hardware running flawed software which is always better than the opposite since you can't fix hardware with over the year updates the deck now has more than 900 games marked as certified or playable and that's a fantastic size for a launch library personally i published some first impressions on my linux shorts channel the link is in the description and i found it amazing although the battery life isn't great seriously subscribe to the linux shorts channel i left the link in the description i post three to four videos a week there with the major linux news and honestly just because the format is different doesn't mean you have to hate it try it out give it a chance gabe newell the ceo of valve talked to ign about the steam deck and there were some interesting tidbits to be grabbed from that first they want it to be a permanent extension of pc gaming as in something that gamers know exists and that developers plan for gabe also says that demand for the deck has been high higher than anticipated and that shortages might increase which means that if you did not pre-order yet you're not getting closer to getting one he thinks pricing will stay the same but as most people bought the most expensive version they might still want to see what higher end models could look like finally there will be other versions of the deck in the future so maybe now i'll get my chance to have gabe knock on my door to deliver my steam deck pro 2 ole head model in the future need more steam deck news colabora detailed a bit of the inner workings of steam os3 the os running on the steam deck while it's not yet available to everyone for installing on their favorite pcs and turn them into gaming consoles it's still interesting to see how it was tweaked from its arch base and since collabora worked on seamless system updates with valve they have a few details basically steam os has two system partitions that have two different versions of steam os when you update a new system image is written to the currently unused partition and then the system is rebooted the bootloader selects the newer os and starts that and if booting fails the bootloader reboots on the older version of the os that is still there clever and simple i like it although this is probably not how steamos 3 will work on computers when you can user install it on your own hardware on that note valve also released the steam deck system images so you can restore your deck but you can't use those to install on any other system for masochists elder ring is now out and it's been immediately validated for the steam deck and so it can also run on your linux gaming pc if you want to play a game in which george r.r martin wrote a few snippets of text and you like to suffer in boss fights then you can use proton experimental on steam to run that game there seem to be some quirks with the anti-cheat program but it's being worked on also if you prefer multiplayer shooters apex legends now works on linux as well although there has been no official support announcement so play it at your own peril and because not everything can always be roses and rainbows bungie just announced that there would be no steam deck compatibility for destiny 2 and that people who tried to brute force it would get banned this is especially egregious because destiny 2 already has a linux version that runs on stadia it uses battery as anti-cheat which does have proton support and it could already run with proton if anti-cheat didn't act up so basically bungie is saying to destiny 2 players that they'd rather have them not play on their currently owned devices or on their new steam deck than to send an email to battleye to enable product support classy the heroic games launcher keeps improving not only can it support epic games with all the options you would expect proton versioning access to the store to download old games updates and dlcs but it now also handles gog it uses the galaxy api for the windows and mac os version and on linux it lets you use the offline installers that developers provide you can also install dlc or even run the native linux games using the steam runtime to avoid dependency errors and choose language heroic isn't available as a flat pack just yet which means it doesn't run on the steam deck just yet but i have good hopes we might see that in the future finally another news video another wine update as wine 7.3 was released this one brings more cleanups to support the new long variable type there's now proper support for api sets and more dlls are being converted to the pe format because apparently some had escaped that conversion work hid joysticks also got a bunch of fixes just like there were 15 bucks that were tackled including for games such as black and white 2 motocross madness 2 or gray matter of course it shouldn't be long before we see these improvements land into proton just like you could land a sweet sweet linux laptop slim book is the sponsor of this video they make linux devices from valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they make devices for virtually every price point for example the slimbook essential which is their entry level laptop it's got a great keyboard good screen good battery life good performance and great build quality if you need a new linux laptop check out the link in the description below and get your slim book right now they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments if you want to help me make more of these linux news videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] hmm [Music]

hey everyone this is nick and welcome to your weekly linux and open source news video this time around we have nvidia being bullied into making their drivers open source for all their gpus we have a potential new theme for ubuntu 22.04 and we have the steam deck being released with a lot of reviews and my first impressions let's take a look but if you don't want big companies to take a look at your data you might be interested in installing this little browser extension thanks to start page for sponsoring this video you might already have heard about start page as a search engine that uses google results but anonymizing them and removing every single point of data that google could use to track you and your searches but now they've launched a new extension called start page privacy protection it's an extension for chrome and firefox but you can also install it on any chromium-based browser what it does is simple it will set your default search engine to start page but you can still change that back if you prefer another private search engine it will send do not track signals to all websites you visit it will block any third party tracking script and it will replace all social media video and music site tracking with click to activate controls on top of that it will display a privacy rating for each site based on its behavior before everything was blocked and it will also give you a complete privacy report to let you know what you blocked all throughout your browsing session oh and if you're afraid that it's going to break some websites that you visit you can tell the extension to let some cookies or some tracker scripts pass through the extension just so the website can work if you want to try out that new extension just follow the link in the description below so nvidia suffered a big hack in the past weeks with the hackers claiming to have access to 250 gigabytes of hardware related information the group already leaked source code for dlss and information about nvidia's future architecture for their gpus but they are now asking nvidia to open source their drivers for windows mac os and linux they threaten to release all the data they have including all the silicon chip files which while they would be unusable by any serious competitor if they didn't want to be sued could still really screw up nvidia for the foreseeable future i'm all for having fully open source nvidia drivers but this isn't the way to go about it ubuntu released another point update to ubuntu 20.04 with specific updates to the kernel and mesa they got bumped respectively to version 5.13 and version 21.2.6 which means that it's basically up to par in terms of hardware support with 21.10 it's just a minor update but it's interesting because people often tend to forget that ubuntu does have more hardware made available through their hardware enablement program which adds new kernels and new graphics drivers regularly to their lts releases so if you need stability on the latest hardware it's still possible unfortunately you're still stuck with gdm 3.36 on that version of ubuntu so you're missing out on tons of performance improvements features bug fixes new applications basically don't use an lts unless you really need stability speaking of ubuntu lts let's talk about the next one ubuntu 22.04 this one will have a new theme that is very much based on lib advice with different colors namely orange it brings the all-important rounded corners on all four corners of each window softer grey header bars bigger border radius and the nomination of orange as the only accent color you will get the purple is gone the yaru icon theme also got some fixes new symbolic glyphs to work with gnome 42 and a new file manager icon which looks a lot better than the previous one the shell theme is also more in line with the default one in gnome without the triangular arrows sticking out of pop-up menus and aubergine being thoroughly erased it's okay though aubergine what some people call eggplant is a terrible vegetable no one can stop the kd devs from advancing on their updates and this week is another good one the 15 minute bug initiative has progressed with three new bugs fixed including one that regards panel positions on multi-monitor setups and a crash on wayland on multi-monitor setups as well new features that will come to kde gear 22.04 or plasma 5.25 include the ability to share scanned documents from the scanning app scan page there's new generic avatar images for your user accounts and a bunch of new search queries being added to k runner including proton db wine hq the flat pack documentation or ubuntu packages as always that's accompanied by plenty of bug fixes and ux improvements that we shouldn't have to wait much longer to play with the linux kernel is mostly written in c but what you might not know is that the linux kernel is written in the equivalent of shakespearean english of c it uses version c89 which dates from you guessed it 1989. it's not really an issue of compatibility since it can still be compiled without issues with a more modern compiler using the c11 standard from 2011 but it seems that using the c89 standard creates some convoluted code practices that wouldn't be necessary with more modern standards so linus torvalds has decided that the kernel would move to the c11 version for the kernel 5.18 merge window of course depending on the issues it might create this could get pushed back because it's not a majorly important transition it just needed to be mentioned back when microsoft unveiled github co-pilot there was some uproar about how ethical it was to use open source code to train an ai that writes code even for non-open source projects the free software foundation had called for papers that they would fund to explore github copilot in detail and these papers are now here there are five of them not ranked in any particular order from various professors phd candidates or fellows at various universities they all seem to explore the copyright aspect of github co-pilot and while i haven't read them yet they are all in pdf form on my tablet because that's a topic that really interests me everyone knows linux mint is based on ubuntu but did you know it also had a version based on debian lmd e5 for linux mint debian edition it saw a new beta release based on debian bullseye of course apart from the base itself and the library and kernel versions there's no actual user facing difference between the usual ubuntu based mint and this one it's more useful to actually test how mint will behave when it's rebased on the next lts release of ubuntu 22.04 i also can't help but think that since ubuntu and linux mint don't really seem to see eye to eye these days on most topics maybe lmd could become the default linux mint version in the future getting things gnome 0.6 is now released if you don't know about it it's a wonderful app that lets you handle all your tasks and projects following the getting things done methodology not only does the new release fix bugs but it also brings a whole new caldav backend so you can sync your tasks to any next cloud server google tasks or anything else that relies on that open protocol there's also a new gamification plugin to let you get a few milestones and rewards to get you to actually do your work instead of just logging it into gtg the tag editor has been revamped and is now a lot more streamlined and the app got way better error reporting the caldav feature is enough for me to want to give it another go and maybe try and replace planner with it i could use my next cloud tasks as the back end it would be cool a new interesting linux based operating system showed its pretty face this week dahlia os it's an interesting one as it lets you pick between a version that runs the linux kernel and another one that runs the fuchsia kernel that new kernel developed by google that we have yet to see used in anything really it comes with a custom desktop environment called pangolin and its own window manager called utopia pangolin is actually built with flutter just like the default apps and to run something that's not flutter based you'll have to resort to dahlia os containers it looks weird and quirky and i don't really know who it's for but since it's not just another district that's a rerun of gnome it deserved a mention the steam deck embargo has been lifted and people who are the fastest to pre-order might already have been sent theirs i got one this week so expect my review in a few days actually on sunday in the meantime other people seem to think it's fantastic hardware running flawed software which is always better than the opposite since you can't fix hardware with over the year updates the deck now has more than 900 games marked as certified or playable and that's a fantastic size for a launch library personally i published some first impressions on my linux shorts channel the link is in the description and i found it amazing although the battery life isn't great seriously subscribe to the linux shorts channel i left the link in the description i post three to four videos a week there with the major linux news and honestly just because the format is different doesn't mean you have to hate it try it out give it a chance gabe newell the ceo of valve talked to ign about the steam deck and there were some interesting tidbits to be grabbed from that first they want it to be a permanent extension of pc gaming as in something that gamers know exists and that developers plan for gabe also says that demand for the deck has been high higher than anticipated and that shortages might increase which means that if you did not pre-order yet you're not getting closer to getting one he thinks pricing will stay the same but as most people bought the most expensive version they might still want to see what higher end models could look like finally there will be other versions of the deck in the future so maybe now i'll get my chance to have gabe knock on my door to deliver my steam deck pro 2 ole head model in the future need more steam deck news colabora detailed a bit of the inner workings of steam os3 the os running on the steam deck while it's not yet available to everyone for installing on their favorite pcs and turn them into gaming consoles it's still interesting to see how it was tweaked from its arch base and since collabora worked on seamless system updates with valve they have a few details basically steam os has two system partitions that have two different versions of steam os when you update a new system image is written to the currently unused partition and then the system is rebooted the bootloader selects the newer os and starts that and if booting fails the bootloader reboots on the older version of the os that is still there clever and simple i like it although this is probably not how steamos 3 will work on computers when you can user install it on your own hardware on that note valve also released the steam deck system images so you can restore your deck but you can't use those to install on any other system for masochists elder ring is now out and it's been immediately validated for the steam deck and so it can also run on your linux gaming pc if you want to play a game in which george r.r martin wrote a few snippets of text and you like to suffer in boss fights then you can use proton experimental on steam to run that game there seem to be some quirks with the anti-cheat program but it's being worked on also if you prefer multiplayer shooters apex legends now works on linux as well although there has been no official support announcement so play it at your own peril and because not everything can always be roses and rainbows bungie just announced that there would be no steam deck compatibility for destiny 2 and that people who tried to brute force it would get banned this is especially egregious because destiny 2 already has a linux version that runs on stadia it uses battery as anti-cheat which does have proton support and it could already run with proton if anti-cheat didn't act up so basically bungie is saying to destiny 2 players that they'd rather have them not play on their currently owned devices or on their new steam deck than to send an email to battleye to enable product support classy the heroic games launcher keeps improving not only can it support epic games with all the options you would expect proton versioning access to the store to download old games updates and dlcs but it now also handles gog it uses the galaxy api for the windows and mac os version and on linux it lets you use the offline installers that developers provide you can also install dlc or even run the native linux games using the steam runtime to avoid dependency errors and choose language heroic isn't available as a flat pack just yet which means it doesn't run on the steam deck just yet but i have good hopes we might see that in the future finally another news video another wine update as wine 7.3 was released this one brings more cleanups to support the new long variable type there's now proper support for api sets and more dlls are being converted to the pe format because apparently some had escaped that conversion work hid joysticks also got a bunch of fixes just like there were 15 bucks that were tackled including for games such as black and white 2 motocross madness 2 or gray matter of course it shouldn't be long before we see these improvements land into proton just like you could land a sweet sweet linux laptop slim book is the sponsor of this video they make linux devices from valencia spain they ship worldwide they have all keyboard layouts and they make devices for virtually every price point for example the slimbook essential which is their entry level laptop it's got a great keyboard good screen good battery life good performance and great build quality if you need a new linux laptop check out the link in the description below and get your slim book right now they're really good so thanks everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like to subscribe to turn notifications to write a comment and if you didn't like it you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments if you want to help me make more of these linux news videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] hmm [Music]

hey everyone this is nick and better late than never i finally got a steam deck i've been playing with it for about six to eight hours a day ever since i got it which has been almost a week and so i'm finally ready to give you my review of how it is as a gaming console but also as a pc for linux enthusiasts because the deck will have to cater to both populations both the console market where people just expect to buy a device and it runs their games and it works but also to the linux enthusiast market which might think of using that as their only pc and i think i have an answer for both categories so let's begin today's sponsor also has an answer for you if you're looking for a gaming server or a general linux server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so let's begin with the steam deck as a gaming console because that's probably what it's going to be for most people it's a portable handheld that has the added benefit of not asking you to re-buy all your games because if you already own some on steam chances are a lot of these might already run and as a gaming console the steam deck delivers mostly it depends on what you understood from valve's communications no what everybody will agree on is the hardware the deck is amazingly built it's a very wide device almost as wide as a 14 inch laptop it's very long and narrow which might make you think that you can put it in a pocket but you can't it's just too big unless you usually wear super large cargo baggy pants but i don't not anymore the deck is surprisingly lightweight though to the point that it kind of felt cheap at first like a small plastic appliance fortunately it's not the feel in hand is really great from the start and even after a few hours your hands won't cramp on it and your fingers lie comfortably on the controls i have regular sized hands and my favorite controller is of course the xbox controller and the deck isn't far off i'd say for prolonged users it might even be more comfortable than an xbox controller as my fingers rest on the back pedals and aren't cramped around the sides the sticks are really nice and responsive the d-pad is serviceable although probably a bit too rigid for fighting games the main buttons use the familiar xbox layout and they are clicky enough with a great feel the triggers feel really good super nice to press and with a reasonable short travel for these multiplayer fps sessions and the shoulder buttons are clicky and quick to press easy to reach with the top of your finger when it's resting on the triggers an input below that line though feels lower quality the touch surfaces are useful enough once you get used to them but the surface itself the material feels like it should have been more soft touch plastic than something like a hard big clicky button and the steam and quick settings button are mushy and don't click which makes them feel a bit cheap the back pedals though are amazing i never had a controller using this before but it's now going to be very hard to not buy an xbox elite controller to get the same experience when gaming on my xbox or my linux pc and that leaves us with the screen which is okay it's a bit washed out colors don't really pop it's not super vibrant but it's responsive and the 800p resolution doesn't matter at all here it's a good fit but i would like to see what an oled screen would look like on the deck maybe for the steam deck too it's also not super reflective even on the model i received which doesn't have the anti-glare coating in my sunroom i wasn't really bothered by reflections it's a small screen it's easy to twist your position to not have that glare so hardware wise it's really good it's not perfect but for a first iteration of a product that valve has never made before it's really really good in terms of software early reviewers pointed out some quirks and issues and my experience is a bit different i did get all the software updates right from the start so probably most of these quirks were fixed when i started using the deck the only issue i encountered was the install button sometimes not registering me clicking it and a weird looking screen i got when updating the deck it was more something i would expect to see on an android phone while flashing a rom not super friendly for a regular user performance inside the interface itself is also sometimes a bit choppy in terms of navigation the home tab is the default and you get to see your recent games played on the deck or otherwise plus the latest news online friends and recommended games from your library to play next your library shows all the games that are steam deck verified that's 18 for me at the time i'm writing this tabs lets you switch to other games like your favorites or your collections and the interface can be navigated easily using the shoulder buttons or the sticks or the touch screens or the touch surfaces it's really easy to navigate around that interface you can use whatever appendage you have handy even yeah probably that appendage too the all important store tab is also well made although you can feel it's a web page with loading indicators and the fact that it doesn't keep your last open page when moving to another tab through the steam menu game pages display the compatibility rating if the game has already been checked by valve which definitely helps knowing which games will run and you have a great on deck tab for all the latest games that are verified the settings are plentiful you've got a fortunate way to disable the ui sounds that are the bane of my existence on consoles you have the ability to disable steam haptics to disable the rumble you can change the keyboard theme and much much more i won't go into the details of all the settings because there are plenty and i basically never found something i wanted to change that i couldn't change i mean the steam os developers picked kde for the desktop mode so they've gotta love their options right speaking of the keyboard it's unusable with touch unless you set the deck down somewhere the device is too large to let you thumb type comfortably so expect to use the sticks or the touch surfaces to navigate around and type and of course there is remote play for anything that is not installed on the deck or won't run on it or is too demanding except i tried it with two different games cyberpunk 2077 and total war warhammer 3 and in both cases it didn't work it just displayed the black screen on the deck or dropped me out of the game immediately or showed me a mouse cursor that i couldn't do anything around so basically i think that if there's a launcher at the beginning of your game remote play is not going to work at all other games might work better okay but what about actually playing the games on the deck directly and when it works it really works certified and playable games just are an amazing experience i played portal 2 hades shadow of the tomb raider cyberpunk 2077 crash bandicoot and sane trilogy the witcher 3 resident evil 2 deep rock galactic firewatch and more and they are all a fantastic experience at 720p or 800p you can crank the settings to mid in most games or even too high in a lot of indie titles and you'll get at least 30 fps guaranteed some games can go up to 60 without any trouble unverified games can be more hit or miss resident evil 2 for example ran perfectly fine at medium graphics hitting a super stable 60 fps with very few frames dropped space hulk deathwing on the other hand couldn't run at all even though it works on my linux pc generally though all the games i tested got their 60 fps at medium settings which i don't think you really need to go past in most games on that smaller screen only the witcher 3 even on low and cyberpunk couldn't hit that target reliably but you can still get a nice 45 fps on medium in the witcher games will use control layouts that have been created either by the developers or by the community but you can switch between various layouts and inputs you can tweak and get any layout you want whether you prefer sticks or the touch surfaces or even the gyro which works surprisingly well i might add i was expecting to hate it but i actually kind of enjoyed it and if unlike me you play multiplayer titles and you have friends on steam you can access that friends list super easily and actually talk to them with the onboard microphone which sounds okay and finally the speakers are more than enough to immerse you in your games with good clear sound and some bass of course it has an audio jack and it supports bluetooth so you can plug in any other headphones that you want or connect it to any sound system that you want now about the battery life it's just okay if you don't play titles with insanely intensive graphics details you're up for four to five hours which is more than what i would play on a handheld device in a single setting for example portal 2 could last for about 5 hours at 60fps on high settings hades which doesn't look that demanding could only net me 2 hours and 45 minutes of play time at 60 fps just like crash bandicoot at the highest settings at 60 fps 2 and a half to 3 hours fire watch at medium settings and 60 fps could run for about 3 hours capping the frame rate at 30 fps doesn't seem to impact the battery life all that much unless you also reduce graphical detail or limit the tdp or the gpu clock in the quick settings it's average battery life it's not terrible but it's not great either don't expect it to last for six or seven hours in a single sitting unless you play really really really basic games on the steam deck anything else it's gonna be more like three hours than six in sleep mode though it sips battery life it only used three to five percent in one night when i left it unplugged now there is some noticeable fan noise as well even just when downloading titles when the deck is idle when gaming you can definitely hear it and if you thought you would be able to game in bed next to your significant other better hope they are heavy sleepers because personally no way i could sleep next to a running steam deck when used during the day in normal conditions it's not something that's going to bother you the sound is not whiny it's not stringent it's just an audible fan noise and if you have headphones on it's probably going to mask it very well in terms of the game library for games that are certified or playable i don't think the general gaming enthusiast will ever notice they're not running windows just click install then play and you're gaming it's a great experience for anybody expecting a game console you get good performance with the ability to reduce battery drain by changing a few options if you want and other consoles just don't let you do that you have a fantastic catalogue of games playable from the start more than a thousand games at the moment this review is up which is more than any other console on launch day way more nothing touches it but there's a big fat hairy butt this is sold as the steam deck it connects to your steam account and it lists all your steam games and yet some of them won't play as linux users know why proton isn't perfect and anti-cheat can still be a problem but the general gaming public that has no interest in linux doesn't follow linux news and just games on windows i don't think these guys have been suitably worn if they didn't watch a review they will not know that not all of their games will run just look at that page your steam library anywhere the entire steam store experience is accessible from deck your entire steam library shows up just like any other pc it all feels like everything is going to run but that's just not the case and while the certified playable and unplayable labels can help they're not super clear either just because some games are certified doesn't mean i should be worried about the other games that haven't been reviewed yet but i should because a lot of multiplayer titles will just not run because of anti-cheat still as a gaming console the steam deck is a fantastic product all of its quirks including the software compatibility the game compatibility all of it can be fixed with software updates and for the foreseeable future for the next few years at least is going to be able to keep pushing 720p 60 at mid graphics and i think it's going to be able to deliver 720p 30 for the foreseeable future if you want a portable handheld with the biggest launch library there is and access to the games you already purchased and with great input and ergonomics the steam deck is definitely a worthy purchase especially considering the great performance it delivers at its relatively low price but if you were expecting a complete steam device that will run all your games no questions asked then you're going to be solely disappointed a lot of multiplayer titles don't run and even though game compatibility will get better over time right now it doesn't play a hundred percent of your steam games and i wish valve would be more straightforward about that on their website okay so that's it for the gaming console part and if you don't want to tinker with your steam deck you can just leave this video right now but if you're interested in how it runs as a linux pc stick around the deck runs steam os 3 based on arch linux and while the default interface is an appliance specifically tailored for gaming you can access a kde plasma desktop but even before that you also have access to a plethora of options for just gaming i talked about the frame rate limiter which lets you block everything at 30 fps but there's a lot more you can set a thermal limit for the cpu to use less power you can manually control the gpu clock you can change the scaling filter for dynamic resolution tools like fsr and of course you get access to all the graphical options in game just like on any pc but you also get access to mango hud that amazing overlay with multiple levels of details and it's accessed directly through the quick settings you also get to connect anything through usb c hub or through bluetooth a keyboard a mouse bluetooth headsets any gaming peripherals you can definitely just set the deck on your desk that's hard to say and just plug it into a monitor and other input devices and use that as a pc as a matter of fact a dock is also planned to do just that just enable developer mode in the system settings then hit the steam button go to power and switch to desktop there you get access to a full-blown kd desktop and it's a friendly reminder that kde isn't touch ready you can navigate it with touch but it's a bad experience you don't get an on-screen keyboard when you touch input fields you don't get a way to drag your windows around for example unfortunately the right touch surface acts as a touchpad so you can navigate using that but with a mouse and keyboard then it starts being pretty amazing it's just a pc it uses plasma 5.23.5 and x11 with the linux kernel 5.13 which is modified by valve it's not a generic linux kernel once you're inside you can do everything you'd want to do as long as it's using flat pack because the system itself is mounted as read only you can't tweak the system itself you can only install applications that are available through flat pack you can deactivate the read-only mode but it's probably going to cause a lot of issues with your future updates so i would not recommend you do that just yet you can't access the whole file system you can't just install anything you would like you have to use discover or the command line and install flat packs most things you might want to do are available there but not all things for example you can install lutress and all its scripts but you can't install the heroic games launcher for epic games you can also add lutris or any game installed from there to steam as a known steam game so you can just go into the desktop mode install what you want add that to steam and then just launch these games like regular steam games from the steam os interface it's a more locked down experience than what many of you might expect it's comparable to fedora silver blue except you don't get the toolbox tools to actually install whatever else you might want and you can just install packages add them to your image and reboot you can just install what's available through flat pack if you're fine with that then you'll be perfectly happy carrying this small thing around in its carrying case and just use it as your regular pc and switch to desktop mode to work switch to steam mode to game it's going to be a great experience but because here as well there's a big fat hairy butt that's only true if you're content using steam os as your base i have no doubt it will be possible in the future to install any other distro and maybe even get the new steamos interface when you install an open steam you will also be able to install windows on it although drivers are not yet ready and i would expect installing windows on this would create battery issues and performance issues because windows uses a lot more resources than this optimized version of linux you wouldn't get game scope you wouldn't get fsr natively and you also wouldn't get the new steamos interface basically it's going to be a terrible experience in my opinion we'll see when it's possible to install it on it and i'll probably make a video about that so if you were thinking of buying the steam deck as your only pc right now it's not going to be a full open experience it's just flat pack and that's it maybe app images will also run if you download them and run them from your home folder but that's it and this means you won't be able to do everything you want in the future it's probably going to be able to dual boot or maybe you will be able to unlock the system without destroying it but for now i wouldn't recommend it okay so final thoughts as a gaming console the steam deck is a wonderful first generation product it's ergonomically amazing it's got great performance okay battery life i just wish valve was clear about the fact that it doesn't run every single steam game you're gonna have in your library and as a pc the steam deck might do the trick but it's got very severe limitations in the fact that it can only use flat pack or maybe app images as well and that might deter a lot of you from trying it out so maybe just wait a little bit to see if it can run something else in the future before you jump to pre-order this thing as your main pc but if you do need a linux running pc today's sponsor is right there for you slimbook offers desktops and laptops running linux they're based in valencia spain they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of pcs including the slimbook essential which is their entry level ultrabook it's really nicely designed great keyboard good screen good performance and a low price so check it out using the link in the description below and maybe just buy your new linux pc instead of waiting for the steam deck to be ready so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe and turn on notifications and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to support what i do you can also join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and better late than never i finally got a steam deck i've been playing with it for about six to eight hours a day ever since i got it which has been almost a week and so i'm finally ready to give you my review of how it is as a gaming console but also as a pc for linux enthusiasts because the deck will have to cater to both populations both the console market where people just expect to buy a device and it runs their games and it works but also to the linux enthusiast market which might think of using that as their only pc and i think i have an answer for both categories so let's begin today's sponsor also has an answer for you if you're looking for a gaming server or a general linux server thanks to linux for sponsoring this video linode is the best choice to deploy your own linux or gaming server getting started is extremely easy thanks to their app marketplace you can just pick from one of the many many apps they offer select a few configuration options and just one click deploy that server it's super simple it works for a development environment but also for a minecraft or valheim server among the most notable apps linux has moodle to create your own learning management system and teach and sell courses in minutes but they also have stuffs like buy hole to block ads but please don't block mine because i need money to buy more games for the steam deck from focal board a trello alternative to rocket chat which is the equivalent to slack or teams lenode has everything you would want click the link in the description to get your 100 credits and get started so let's begin with the steam deck as a gaming console because that's probably what it's going to be for most people it's a portable handheld that has the added benefit of not asking you to re-buy all your games because if you already own some on steam chances are a lot of these might already run and as a gaming console the steam deck delivers mostly it depends on what you understood from valve's communications no what everybody will agree on is the hardware the deck is amazingly built it's a very wide device almost as wide as a 14 inch laptop it's very long and narrow which might make you think that you can put it in a pocket but you can't it's just too big unless you usually wear super large cargo baggy pants but i don't not anymore the deck is surprisingly lightweight though to the point that it kind of felt cheap at first like a small plastic appliance fortunately it's not the feel in hand is really great from the start and even after a few hours your hands won't cramp on it and your fingers lie comfortably on the controls i have regular sized hands and my favorite controller is of course the xbox controller and the deck isn't far off i'd say for prolonged users it might even be more comfortable than an xbox controller as my fingers rest on the back pedals and aren't cramped around the sides the sticks are really nice and responsive the d-pad is serviceable although probably a bit too rigid for fighting games the main buttons use the familiar xbox layout and they are clicky enough with a great feel the triggers feel really good super nice to press and with a reasonable short travel for these multiplayer fps sessions and the shoulder buttons are clicky and quick to press easy to reach with the top of your finger when it's resting on the triggers an input below that line though feels lower quality the touch surfaces are useful enough once you get used to them but the surface itself the material feels like it should have been more soft touch plastic than something like a hard big clicky button and the steam and quick settings button are mushy and don't click which makes them feel a bit cheap the back pedals though are amazing i never had a controller using this before but it's now going to be very hard to not buy an xbox elite controller to get the same experience when gaming on my xbox or my linux pc and that leaves us with the screen which is okay it's a bit washed out colors don't really pop it's not super vibrant but it's responsive and the 800p resolution doesn't matter at all here it's a good fit but i would like to see what an oled screen would look like on the deck maybe for the steam deck too it's also not super reflective even on the model i received which doesn't have the anti-glare coating in my sunroom i wasn't really bothered by reflections it's a small screen it's easy to twist your position to not have that glare so hardware wise it's really good it's not perfect but for a first iteration of a product that valve has never made before it's really really good in terms of software early reviewers pointed out some quirks and issues and my experience is a bit different i did get all the software updates right from the start so probably most of these quirks were fixed when i started using the deck the only issue i encountered was the install button sometimes not registering me clicking it and a weird looking screen i got when updating the deck it was more something i would expect to see on an android phone while flashing a rom not super friendly for a regular user performance inside the interface itself is also sometimes a bit choppy in terms of navigation the home tab is the default and you get to see your recent games played on the deck or otherwise plus the latest news online friends and recommended games from your library to play next your library shows all the games that are steam deck verified that's 18 for me at the time i'm writing this tabs lets you switch to other games like your favorites or your collections and the interface can be navigated easily using the shoulder buttons or the sticks or the touch screens or the touch surfaces it's really easy to navigate around that interface you can use whatever appendage you have handy even yeah probably that appendage too the all important store tab is also well made although you can feel it's a web page with loading indicators and the fact that it doesn't keep your last open page when moving to another tab through the steam menu game pages display the compatibility rating if the game has already been checked by valve which definitely helps knowing which games will run and you have a great on deck tab for all the latest games that are verified the settings are plentiful you've got a fortunate way to disable the ui sounds that are the bane of my existence on consoles you have the ability to disable steam haptics to disable the rumble you can change the keyboard theme and much much more i won't go into the details of all the settings because there are plenty and i basically never found something i wanted to change that i couldn't change i mean the steam os developers picked kde for the desktop mode so they've gotta love their options right speaking of the keyboard it's unusable with touch unless you set the deck down somewhere the device is too large to let you thumb type comfortably so expect to use the sticks or the touch surfaces to navigate around and type and of course there is remote play for anything that is not installed on the deck or won't run on it or is too demanding except i tried it with two different games cyberpunk 2077 and total war warhammer 3 and in both cases it didn't work it just displayed the black screen on the deck or dropped me out of the game immediately or showed me a mouse cursor that i couldn't do anything around so basically i think that if there's a launcher at the beginning of your game remote play is not going to work at all other games might work better okay but what about actually playing the games on the deck directly and when it works it really works certified and playable games just are an amazing experience i played portal 2 hades shadow of the tomb raider cyberpunk 2077 crash bandicoot and sane trilogy the witcher 3 resident evil 2 deep rock galactic firewatch and more and they are all a fantastic experience at 720p or 800p you can crank the settings to mid in most games or even too high in a lot of indie titles and you'll get at least 30 fps guaranteed some games can go up to 60 without any trouble unverified games can be more hit or miss resident evil 2 for example ran perfectly fine at medium graphics hitting a super stable 60 fps with very few frames dropped space hulk deathwing on the other hand couldn't run at all even though it works on my linux pc generally though all the games i tested got their 60 fps at medium settings which i don't think you really need to go past in most games on that smaller screen only the witcher 3 even on low and cyberpunk couldn't hit that target reliably but you can still get a nice 45 fps on medium in the witcher games will use control layouts that have been created either by the developers or by the community but you can switch between various layouts and inputs you can tweak and get any layout you want whether you prefer sticks or the touch surfaces or even the gyro which works surprisingly well i might add i was expecting to hate it but i actually kind of enjoyed it and if unlike me you play multiplayer titles and you have friends on steam you can access that friends list super easily and actually talk to them with the onboard microphone which sounds okay and finally the speakers are more than enough to immerse you in your games with good clear sound and some bass of course it has an audio jack and it supports bluetooth so you can plug in any other headphones that you want or connect it to any sound system that you want now about the battery life it's just okay if you don't play titles with insanely intensive graphics details you're up for four to five hours which is more than what i would play on a handheld device in a single setting for example portal 2 could last for about 5 hours at 60fps on high settings hades which doesn't look that demanding could only net me 2 hours and 45 minutes of play time at 60 fps just like crash bandicoot at the highest settings at 60 fps 2 and a half to 3 hours fire watch at medium settings and 60 fps could run for about 3 hours capping the frame rate at 30 fps doesn't seem to impact the battery life all that much unless you also reduce graphical detail or limit the tdp or the gpu clock in the quick settings it's average battery life it's not terrible but it's not great either don't expect it to last for six or seven hours in a single sitting unless you play really really really basic games on the steam deck anything else it's gonna be more like three hours than six in sleep mode though it sips battery life it only used three to five percent in one night when i left it unplugged now there is some noticeable fan noise as well even just when downloading titles when the deck is idle when gaming you can definitely hear it and if you thought you would be able to game in bed next to your significant other better hope they are heavy sleepers because personally no way i could sleep next to a running steam deck when used during the day in normal conditions it's not something that's going to bother you the sound is not whiny it's not stringent it's just an audible fan noise and if you have headphones on it's probably going to mask it very well in terms of the game library for games that are certified or playable i don't think the general gaming enthusiast will ever notice they're not running windows just click install then play and you're gaming it's a great experience for anybody expecting a game console you get good performance with the ability to reduce battery drain by changing a few options if you want and other consoles just don't let you do that you have a fantastic catalogue of games playable from the start more than a thousand games at the moment this review is up which is more than any other console on launch day way more nothing touches it but there's a big fat hairy butt this is sold as the steam deck it connects to your steam account and it lists all your steam games and yet some of them won't play as linux users know why proton isn't perfect and anti-cheat can still be a problem but the general gaming public that has no interest in linux doesn't follow linux news and just games on windows i don't think these guys have been suitably worn if they didn't watch a review they will not know that not all of their games will run just look at that page your steam library anywhere the entire steam store experience is accessible from deck your entire steam library shows up just like any other pc it all feels like everything is going to run but that's just not the case and while the certified playable and unplayable labels can help they're not super clear either just because some games are certified doesn't mean i should be worried about the other games that haven't been reviewed yet but i should because a lot of multiplayer titles will just not run because of anti-cheat still as a gaming console the steam deck is a fantastic product all of its quirks including the software compatibility the game compatibility all of it can be fixed with software updates and for the foreseeable future for the next few years at least is going to be able to keep pushing 720p 60 at mid graphics and i think it's going to be able to deliver 720p 30 for the foreseeable future if you want a portable handheld with the biggest launch library there is and access to the games you already purchased and with great input and ergonomics the steam deck is definitely a worthy purchase especially considering the great performance it delivers at its relatively low price but if you were expecting a complete steam device that will run all your games no questions asked then you're going to be solely disappointed a lot of multiplayer titles don't run and even though game compatibility will get better over time right now it doesn't play a hundred percent of your steam games and i wish valve would be more straightforward about that on their website okay so that's it for the gaming console part and if you don't want to tinker with your steam deck you can just leave this video right now but if you're interested in how it runs as a linux pc stick around the deck runs steam os 3 based on arch linux and while the default interface is an appliance specifically tailored for gaming you can access a kde plasma desktop but even before that you also have access to a plethora of options for just gaming i talked about the frame rate limiter which lets you block everything at 30 fps but there's a lot more you can set a thermal limit for the cpu to use less power you can manually control the gpu clock you can change the scaling filter for dynamic resolution tools like fsr and of course you get access to all the graphical options in game just like on any pc but you also get access to mango hud that amazing overlay with multiple levels of details and it's accessed directly through the quick settings you also get to connect anything through usb c hub or through bluetooth a keyboard a mouse bluetooth headsets any gaming peripherals you can definitely just set the deck on your desk that's hard to say and just plug it into a monitor and other input devices and use that as a pc as a matter of fact a dock is also planned to do just that just enable developer mode in the system settings then hit the steam button go to power and switch to desktop there you get access to a full-blown kd desktop and it's a friendly reminder that kde isn't touch ready you can navigate it with touch but it's a bad experience you don't get an on-screen keyboard when you touch input fields you don't get a way to drag your windows around for example unfortunately the right touch surface acts as a touchpad so you can navigate using that but with a mouse and keyboard then it starts being pretty amazing it's just a pc it uses plasma 5.23.5 and x11 with the linux kernel 5.13 which is modified by valve it's not a generic linux kernel once you're inside you can do everything you'd want to do as long as it's using flat pack because the system itself is mounted as read only you can't tweak the system itself you can only install applications that are available through flat pack you can deactivate the read-only mode but it's probably going to cause a lot of issues with your future updates so i would not recommend you do that just yet you can't access the whole file system you can't just install anything you would like you have to use discover or the command line and install flat packs most things you might want to do are available there but not all things for example you can install lutress and all its scripts but you can't install the heroic games launcher for epic games you can also add lutris or any game installed from there to steam as a known steam game so you can just go into the desktop mode install what you want add that to steam and then just launch these games like regular steam games from the steam os interface it's a more locked down experience than what many of you might expect it's comparable to fedora silver blue except you don't get the toolbox tools to actually install whatever else you might want and you can just install packages add them to your image and reboot you can just install what's available through flat pack if you're fine with that then you'll be perfectly happy carrying this small thing around in its carrying case and just use it as your regular pc and switch to desktop mode to work switch to steam mode to game it's going to be a great experience but because here as well there's a big fat hairy butt that's only true if you're content using steam os as your base i have no doubt it will be possible in the future to install any other distro and maybe even get the new steamos interface when you install an open steam you will also be able to install windows on it although drivers are not yet ready and i would expect installing windows on this would create battery issues and performance issues because windows uses a lot more resources than this optimized version of linux you wouldn't get game scope you wouldn't get fsr natively and you also wouldn't get the new steamos interface basically it's going to be a terrible experience in my opinion we'll see when it's possible to install it on it and i'll probably make a video about that so if you were thinking of buying the steam deck as your only pc right now it's not going to be a full open experience it's just flat pack and that's it maybe app images will also run if you download them and run them from your home folder but that's it and this means you won't be able to do everything you want in the future it's probably going to be able to dual boot or maybe you will be able to unlock the system without destroying it but for now i wouldn't recommend it okay so final thoughts as a gaming console the steam deck is a wonderful first generation product it's ergonomically amazing it's got great performance okay battery life i just wish valve was clear about the fact that it doesn't run every single steam game you're gonna have in your library and as a pc the steam deck might do the trick but it's got very severe limitations in the fact that it can only use flat pack or maybe app images as well and that might deter a lot of you from trying it out so maybe just wait a little bit to see if it can run something else in the future before you jump to pre-order this thing as your main pc but if you do need a linux running pc today's sponsor is right there for you slimbook offers desktops and laptops running linux they're based in valencia spain they ship worldwide and they have a huge range of pcs including the slimbook essential which is their entry level ultrabook it's really nicely designed great keyboard good screen good performance and a low price so check it out using the link in the description below and maybe just buy your new linux pc instead of waiting for the steam deck to be ready so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe and turn on notifications and if you didn't like the video you can also dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to support what i do you can also join my patreon subscribers or my youtube members both get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and if you follow the latest free software and open source news you might have seen some strong conversations about various open source libraries that due to lack of funding kind of caused a lot of problems for a lot of companies that relied on these open source software specifically log4j callers and faker are three libraries that have generated a lot of discussion either because they had vulnerabilities that went unfixed or because their developer got tired on working on something that didn't generate any revenue despite being used by giant companies all around the world this begs the question who needs to pay for free and open source software maintenance and security and also who needs anything else than today's sponsor to run their own linux and gaming servers linode is an amazing way to get your linux server up and running they've been voted top provider for infrastructure as a service by g2 and trustradius and they offer tons of one-click deployable servers for example owncast letting you run your own twitch-like streaming server with video broadcast and chat capabilities or apache guacamole which is the easiest way to get your own fully featured linux desktop in the cloud accessible from anywhere in the world if you prefer gaming you can also start your own valheim server on linux and they also have one-click servers available for cs go rust arc or minecraft among others now on top of that linode is currently upgrading all their data centers with faster nvme block storage which means that every server that you currently have with them or that you plan to open with them will have access to that faster storage at no extra cost for you which is pretty freaking amazing now i personally run my own next cloud instance and only office document server both on linux and i couldn't be more satisfied i can only recommend them so if you want to give them a shot and get started click the link in the description below and you will get a free 100 credit to start your own linux server let's start with open source and funding a lot of people assume that open source or free software is free of charge but while that's generally the case it's not an obligation most fast licenses allow their developers to charge for access to the source code or a binary distribution of it most developers choose not to charge for their software and generally tend to sell services around their software to try and pay for the development work some libraries do have free access to the source code for individuals but not for companies although enforcing this and checking that companies do not cheat is virtually impossible this means that most libraries and open source projects are effectively free of charge for their users and have to rely either on services or involuntary donations from users and companies this makes revenue pretty unpredictable and sometimes inexistent especially for smaller pieces of software meant for servers that are used by developers working for a company and that will have a hard time making their company donate to the project in the first place it's important to note that the decision to include free and open source software in a company's project generally isn't made by the ceo or even the cto it's generally a developer that needs something done quick and reliably and they just grab a free and open source library and include it in their project if that developer went to their boss and asked them hey boss we're going to use this fast library maybe we could donate to it it's super useful the answer would probably be how about you do what i pay you for and develop something yourself instead this ends up with a paradox user-facing software that has a graphical interface and is used by regular users tends to have easier access to funding than server-side libraries that are used by giant companies that make billions each year because basic users will part more easily with their cash one dollar at a time than a company that doesn't really know what they use to make their own stuff work and this brings us to the second major point of this video most of the modern web is underpinned by open source software and libraries a hundred percent of the world's top 500 supercomputers run on linux 96 of the world's top 1 million servers run on linux 90 of all cloud infrastructure operates on linux and out of the top 25 websites in the world only two don't use linux if we go one step further android has around 75 worldwide market share and that's also based on linux yeah i know i only say android is linux when it suits my own purposes sue me or actually no don't because i'm pretty poor as it is linux isn't the only open source project underpinning the web for a long while the default stack for server was lamp linux apache my sequel and php all open source projects it's less true nowadays with tons of new technologies being used to replace these various components but most of these new technologies are open source as well with the rise of npm the node package manager it's easier than ever to access hundreds of thousands of libraries for your projects most of them open source as usage of this tool developed more and more components of the modern web are shared between websites and developers and most of the modern web is now underpinned by open source operating systems programs tools and libraries which brings us to this very famous xkcd comic that probably everyone knows there is no telling how much in terms of percentage of the web is currently unmaintained vulnerable or just really not touched at all because most of it is made by open source developers that work without funding without guarantee or without support recent issues have showcased all of that let's begin with log4j it's one of the most popular logging libraries used online it gives software developers a way to build a record of activity to be used for anything from troubleshooting to auditing data tracking whatever else companies such as apple ibm oracle cisco google and amazon all run log4j well that's a success story if i ever saw one oh yeah except this library has only received recent contributions from four people and that's probably because there was a huge vulnerability that affected almost the entire web a few months ago barring that there's probably only one or two people that regularly fix bugs and add stuff to that library let that sink in one to four people only working on one of the libraries that is used by almost every single server on the web the vulnerability that was discovered was very severe letting malicious attackers send a string to the server and use that to basically take control of it wow hacking is easy the vulnerability was actually disclosed to the lock4j team by someone working at alibaba a company that has a market cap of about 330 billion dollars when disclosing this they added please hurry up as in hurry up and fix it so we have a huge company that could have worked on and submitted a patch but which instead decided to tell the responsible developer to hurry up and fix their crap classy another recent issue with a different outcome was the very very popular libraries colors and faker colors enables users to get color and style in their nodejs console it is downloaded over 23 million times per week and has nearly 19 000 projects that depend on it faker creates fake realistic data for testing purposes and is downloaded over 2.4 million times per week and has over 2500 projects depending on it so yeah pretty popular libraries except their developer got fed up of having super successful projects that didn't turn in any money and were used by fortune 500 companies so one day he decided to push an update that booked the output of both libraries that update got pushed to all projects from fortune 500 companies or not thanks to npm and projects that didn't test their stuff before updating got a nice taste of breakage so we have two very different issues one is a giant company that is just taking open source work for granted and assuming that they're gonna do free maintenance and only are interested in how the library works when there's an issue with it and the second one is a developer getting fed up by that exact behavior and doing something very very stupid in reaction both of these issues could have been avoided in a number of ways first it would have been easier to spot the issue in log4j had companies that used that library checked on it more thoroughly or decided to implement a code review process for open source code they want to use and maybe contribute to improving said code second if companies decided that they wanted to make their own work depend on smaller open source projects a monetary contribution doesn't seem so crazy after all if you had to develop the equivalent software in-house you would pay your developer to do it the issue generally seems to be like major big companies tend to think of open source software as a free of charge subcontractor you can grab their work for free they'll maintain it for free they'll update it for free and sometimes you can even put in a request and they develop it for free current open source work is either done by a big company that sells services around it or by small individual developers that depend on github sponsors and patreon for funding which is really unreliable and means that these projects however popular they are can't come with any guarantees maintenance or evolutive work the current model of web giants basing their own offerings on the shoulders of unpaid volunteers and expecting all of that to work flawlessly without ever contributing to it with code or money isn't really sustainable as a project is used by bigger companies it becomes a target for malicious hackers and making sure that this code is secure can become a full-time job that no one can expect an unpaid volunteer to do so what's the solution do open source developers need to take responsibility and always maintain their code up to date and always offer security fixes even though the licenses they use clearly state that this code is provided without any guarantee should big companies grow some kind of better work ethic and decide to implement policies where they contribute review or donate to the major projects that they use or is there a middle ground between the two the solution isn't obvious as i said companies don't really choose as an entity to use open source code and not contribute back open source code is used by developers working at these companies to make their own work easier and faster the legal representatives of the company itself probably have no knowledge of which libraries are actually used and if they are maintained or not but not knowing doesn't mean that the responsibility to make sure that these libraries are correctly funded and work in case something happens isn't their responsibility as well it's a very complex topic it's easy to see the big companies as the bad guys here taking advantage of the little developers and asking them to do unpaid work it's also easy to be a bit gatekeepy and say that no real developer would leave their work buggy and vulnerable and that pride alone demands they fix their code both points of view are probably wrong but what's certain though is that the status quo the current situation means that open source software doesn't look very professional and companies can be reluctant to use open source code after these issues but it all stems from a stupid misunderstanding of what open source code is it's just that it's code it comes with nothing else but code we need to make sure that the web stays underpinned by all these open source technologies because a web where every company redevelops every major building block for a web app for a website would be even less safe and would be more chaotic than it already is but the current situation means that open source work is very unsustainable for a lot of developers even though their work their open source work is used by big companies whose profits majorly depend on that kind of work just like you can depend on me to give you a nice segue to this video sponsor slim book these guys make linux laptops and desktops from valencia spain and they're letting you get 150 euros off your own ultrabook the slim book executive i reviewed it on the channel it's a fantastic computer and with that discount the price is really unbeatable so check the link in the description below if you're interested and get your own while the stocks last because that won't be for long so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like subscribe turn on notifications drop a comment and if you didn't like the video or you disagree with everything just drop a dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me keep making those videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members and 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hey everyone this is nick and if you follow the latest free software and open source news you might have seen some strong conversations about various open source libraries that due to lack of funding kind of caused a lot of problems for a lot of companies that relied on these open source software specifically log4j callers and faker are three libraries that have generated a lot of discussion either because they had vulnerabilities that went unfixed or because their developer got tired on working on something that didn't generate any revenue despite being used by giant companies all around the world this begs the question who needs to pay for free and open source software maintenance and security and also who needs anything else than today's sponsor to run their own linux and gaming servers linode is an amazing way to get your linux server up and running they've been voted top provider for infrastructure as a service by g2 and trustradius and they offer tons of one-click deployable servers for example owncast letting you run your own twitch-like streaming server with video broadcast and chat capabilities or apache guacamole which is the easiest way to get your own fully featured linux desktop in the cloud accessible from anywhere in the world if you prefer gaming you can also start your own valheim server on linux and they also have one-click servers available for cs go rust arc or minecraft among others now on top of that linode is currently upgrading all their data centers with faster nvme block storage which means that every server that you currently have with them or that you plan to open with them will have access to that faster storage at no extra cost for you which is pretty freaking amazing now i personally run my own next cloud instance and only office document server both on linux and i couldn't be more satisfied i can only recommend them so if you want to give them a shot and get started click the link in the description below and you will get a free 100 credit to start your own linux server let's start with open source and funding a lot of people assume that open source or free software is free of charge but while that's generally the case it's not an obligation most fast licenses allow their developers to charge for access to the source code or a binary distribution of it most developers choose not to charge for their software and generally tend to sell services around their software to try and pay for the development work some libraries do have free access to the source code for individuals but not for companies although enforcing this and checking that companies do not cheat is virtually impossible this means that most libraries and open source projects are effectively free of charge for their users and have to rely either on services or involuntary donations from users and companies this makes revenue pretty unpredictable and sometimes inexistent especially for smaller pieces of software meant for servers that are used by developers working for a company and that will have a hard time making their company donate to the project in the first place it's important to note that the decision to include free and open source software in a company's project generally isn't made by the ceo or even the cto it's generally a developer that needs something done quick and reliably and they just grab a free and open source library and include it in their project if that developer went to their boss and asked them hey boss we're going to use this fast library maybe we could donate to it it's super useful the answer would probably be how about you do what i pay you for and develop something yourself instead this ends up with a paradox user-facing software that has a graphical interface and is used by regular users tends to have easier access to funding than server-side libraries that are used by giant companies that make billions each year because basic users will part more easily with their cash one dollar at a time than a company that doesn't really know what they use to make their own stuff work and this brings us to the second major point of this video most of the modern web is underpinned by open source software and libraries a hundred percent of the world's top 500 supercomputers run on linux 96 of the world's top 1 million servers run on linux 90 of all cloud infrastructure operates on linux and out of the top 25 websites in the world only two don't use linux if we go one step further android has around 75 worldwide market share and that's also based on linux yeah i know i only say android is linux when it suits my own purposes sue me or actually no don't because i'm pretty poor as it is linux isn't the only open source project underpinning the web for a long while the default stack for server was lamp linux apache my sequel and php all open source projects it's less true nowadays with tons of new technologies being used to replace these various components but most of these new technologies are open source as well with the rise of npm the node package manager it's easier than ever to access hundreds of thousands of libraries for your projects most of them open source as usage of this tool developed more and more components of the modern web are shared between websites and developers and most of the modern web is now underpinned by open source operating systems programs tools and libraries which brings us to this very famous xkcd comic that probably everyone knows there is no telling how much in terms of percentage of the web is currently unmaintained vulnerable or just really not touched at all because most of it is made by open source developers that work without funding without guarantee or without support recent issues have showcased all of that let's begin with log4j it's one of the most popular logging libraries used online it gives software developers a way to build a record of activity to be used for anything from troubleshooting to auditing data tracking whatever else companies such as apple ibm oracle cisco google and amazon all run log4j well that's a success story if i ever saw one oh yeah except this library has only received recent contributions from four people and that's probably because there was a huge vulnerability that affected almost the entire web a few months ago barring that there's probably only one or two people that regularly fix bugs and add stuff to that library let that sink in one to four people only working on one of the libraries that is used by almost every single server on the web the vulnerability that was discovered was very severe letting malicious attackers send a string to the server and use that to basically take control of it wow hacking is easy the vulnerability was actually disclosed to the lock4j team by someone working at alibaba a company that has a market cap of about 330 billion dollars when disclosing this they added please hurry up as in hurry up and fix it so we have a huge company that could have worked on and submitted a patch but which instead decided to tell the responsible developer to hurry up and fix their crap classy another recent issue with a different outcome was the very very popular libraries colors and faker colors enables users to get color and style in their nodejs console it is downloaded over 23 million times per week and has nearly 19 000 projects that depend on it faker creates fake realistic data for testing purposes and is downloaded over 2.4 million times per week and has over 2500 projects depending on it so yeah pretty popular libraries except their developer got fed up of having super successful projects that didn't turn in any money and were used by fortune 500 companies so one day he decided to push an update that booked the output of both libraries that update got pushed to all projects from fortune 500 companies or not thanks to npm and projects that didn't test their stuff before updating got a nice taste of breakage so we have two very different issues one is a giant company that is just taking open source work for granted and assuming that they're gonna do free maintenance and only are interested in how the library works when there's an issue with it and the second one is a developer getting fed up by that exact behavior and doing something very very stupid in reaction both of these issues could have been avoided in a number of ways first it would have been easier to spot the issue in log4j had companies that used that library checked on it more thoroughly or decided to implement a code review process for open source code they want to use and maybe contribute to improving said code second if companies decided that they wanted to make their own work depend on smaller open source projects a monetary contribution doesn't seem so crazy after all if you had to develop the equivalent software in-house you would pay your developer to do it the issue generally seems to be like major big companies tend to think of open source software as a free of charge subcontractor you can grab their work for free they'll maintain it for free they'll update it for free and sometimes you can even put in a request and they develop it for free current open source work is either done by a big company that sells services around it or by small individual developers that depend on github sponsors and patreon for funding which is really unreliable and means that these projects however popular they are can't come with any guarantees maintenance or evolutive work the current model of web giants basing their own offerings on the shoulders of unpaid volunteers and expecting all of that to work flawlessly without ever contributing to it with code or money isn't really sustainable as a project is used by bigger companies it becomes a target for malicious hackers and making sure that this code is secure can become a full-time job that no one can expect an unpaid volunteer to do so what's the solution do open source developers need to take responsibility and always maintain their code up to date and always offer security fixes even though the licenses they use clearly state that this code is provided without any guarantee should big companies grow some kind of better work ethic and decide to implement policies where they contribute review or donate to the major projects that they use or is there a middle ground between the two the solution isn't obvious as i said companies don't really choose as an entity to use open source code and not contribute back open source code is used by developers working at these companies to make their own work easier and faster the legal representatives of the company itself probably have no knowledge of which libraries are actually used and if they are maintained or not but not knowing doesn't mean that the responsibility to make sure that these libraries are correctly funded and work in case something happens isn't their responsibility as well it's a very complex topic it's easy to see the big companies as the bad guys here taking advantage of the little developers and asking them to do unpaid work it's also easy to be a bit gatekeepy and say that no real developer would leave their work buggy and vulnerable and that pride alone demands they fix their code both points of view are probably wrong but what's certain though is that the status quo the current situation means that open source software doesn't look very professional and companies can be reluctant to use open source code after these issues but it all stems from a stupid misunderstanding of what open source code is it's just that it's code it comes with nothing else but code we need to make sure that the web stays underpinned by all these open source technologies because a web where every company redevelops every major building block for a web app for a website would be even less safe and would be more chaotic than it already is but the current situation means that open source work is very unsustainable for a lot of developers even though their work their open source work is used by big companies whose profits majorly depend on that kind of work just like you can depend on me to give you a nice segue to this video sponsor slim book these guys make linux laptops and desktops from valencia spain and they're letting you get 150 euros off your own ultrabook the slim book executive i reviewed it on the channel it's a fantastic computer and with that discount the price is really unbeatable so check the link in the description below if you're interested and get your own while the stocks last because that won't be for long so thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't stay to like subscribe turn on notifications drop a comment and if you didn't like the video or you disagree with everything just drop a dislike and tell me why in the comments as well if you want to help me keep making those videos you can also join my patreon subscribers and my youtube members and you'll get access to a weekly patreon cast and the right to vote on the next topics i'll cover so thank you everyone for watching and i'll see you in the next one bye [Music] you

hey everyone this is nick and today we're going to talk about linux fragmentation that's something that is often leveled against linux as a criticism the linux desktop is too fragmented there are too many choices developers keep reinventing the wheel and duplicating efforts it makes applications less professional and less ready it makes linux stagnate it makes it not ready for the mass market even linustorvals expressed this opinion fragmentation is what is holding the linux desktop back well sorry linus but i disagree fragmentation in my opinion is what made the linux desktop much much better than it would have been otherwise just like this segway to today's sponsor is much much better than the ones that came before it linode is an amazing way to get your linux server up and running they've been voted top provider for infrastructure as a service by g2 and trustradius and they offer tons of one-click deployable servers for example owncast letting you run your own twitch-like streaming server with video broadcast and chat capabilities or apache guacamole which is the easiest way to get your own fully featured linux desktop in the cloud accessible from anywhere in the world if you prefer gaming you can also start your own valheim server on linux and they also have one-click servers available for cs go rust arc or minecraft among others now on top of that linode is currently upgrading all their data centers with faster nvme block storage which means that every server that you currently have with them or that you plan to open with them will have access to that faster storage at no extra cost for you which is pretty freaking amazing now i personally run my own next cloud instance and only office document server both on linux and i couldn't be more satisfied i can only recommend them so if you want to give them a shot and get started click the link in the description below and you will get a free 100 credit to start your own linux server okay so what do we mean when we say that linux is fragmented and there are two different meanings really the first one being one that is shared by android it's fragmentation as in many different targets for software developers many different distros many different android versions and skins that make it difficult for developers to make good software that supports everything and in that specific meaning of the world then no linux is not fragmented not anymore and i'll tell you why in a few moments the second meaning of fragmentation is that we have too many small projects that work on trying to make the same thing too many desktop environments too many packaging formats too many office suites too many terminal emulators too many distributions too many different cars too many different kinds of shirts you see where i'm going with this generally when people say that linux is fragmented what they mean is that developers are wasting their time and their efforts making too many different things that have the same goal and in that sense then yes linux is fragmented but i disagree that it's a bad thing let's see why but first let's see why linux is not fragmented in terms of developer support and application development this might have been true once many different packaging formats many different distributions and the way they shipped shared system libraries which ones they had which ones they didn't have the necessity to package for multiple releases of the same distro it was all a nightmare basically as a developer you made an rpm that worked for red hat and stopped at that and then ubuntu got popular and you made the dab for ubuntu and stopped at that nowadays this isn't the case at all we now have plenty of packaging formats that work across all distributions with one single package per architecture you don't target ubuntu version 22.04 for 64-bit x86 cpus you target linux for x86 cpus period flat pack snap app images they all allow you to just make one package that runs on all versions of all distros that share an architecture but nick that's still fragmentation there's three different packaging formats that developers have to support well i'm glad you brought that up nick with an annoying voice that is utterly wrong no developers don't have to support snaps and flat packs and app images they just have to pick one of these all of them can run on all distros if you make a flat pack ubuntu can run it if you make a snap fedora can run it if you make an app image gen 2 can run it and graphical app stores make this even more transparent for users from gnome software or discover you can install regular old packages flat packs and snaps and most users won't even notice which packaging format was used and won't care only us giant nerds will fight about flatback is more secure if snaps are bad app images are better or the aur is best no one that is not a nerd cares about that you package once you distribute everywhere it's a one-click install for users fragmentation is fixed well not really because fragmentation still also means duplication of efforts and the waste of developer time that this supposedly entails except that here again it's a generalization that really doesn't apply sure linux has plenty of duplicate projects if you use that word to its loosest sense gnome is a duplication of kde pantheon is a duplication of gnome krita is a duplication of shortcut duplicates the work that canon live is doing hell fedora silver blue duplicates fedora workstation arch duplicates linux from scratch and now i'm sure that pretty much everybody watching this video is disagreeing with what i just said these projects are not duplicates of one another what people call fragmentation i call meaningful choice the fact that developers work on projects that have the same aim but not the same way to reach their goal is not a bad thing gnome and kde and pantheon and xfce all want to make a graphical desktop that's easy to use that has good defaults good programs and that anyone can pick up and use they all manage to do that but in very different ways is that a bad thing is having that kind of choice bad of course not i don't think anyone that's rational and not a complete hater would say that kde is a waste of time and that all kd devs should go work on gnome to make it better and faster it wouldn't make any sense and even if it did do you really think that developers that chose to work on kde will move on to gnome and conform to the project's goals and agree to not implement every option they want do you think gnome developers would be fine with working on kde and not being able to shape the desktop in a specific way if you think that then you're even crazier than me and i'm pretty nuts am i not that you sure are son thanks daddy i'm sure glad that desktop icons didn't kill you after all developers working on open source projects that have the same goal aren't wasting their time because if they didn't work on their own project they also wouldn't work on the competing one because if they shared goals there wouldn't be two projects in the first place i talked at length about this specific topic in a previous video check it out in the card up top if you're interested but fragmentation also hurts linux adoption in the mass market or so i hear that's kinda true but it's also the wrong way to look at the problem first i would argue that fragmentation isn't what makes linux not exist in the minds of the general public when they want to buy a computer in my opinion it's the lack of buyable computers running linux that has hurt the purchase of computers running linux crazy notion i know but still having too many choices can be pretty complex for newcomers to navigate they have to understand the difference between distributions desktop environments and then actually decide what they would like to try and manage to try it and then decide if they want to keep using it it's all pretty difficult there is such a thing as too much choice but the solution isn't to reduce choice it's to make it more legible people can currently choose between hundreds of smartphone models thousands of computers hundreds of cars of clothing items of sneakers of sunglasses models they still manage to make a choice in the end and if they need help they go to various websites to compare read reviews and decide our problem isn't that we have too many choices is that we have no good way of helping users decide between these choices because linux and operating systems aren't as familiar choice to people as picking between different cars what we need isn't fewer choices it's better entry points to let users make those choices i will also conclude by saying that what people perceive as fragmentation on linux is actually a big strength of the linux desktop because we have so many choices so many options so many projects we have competition and competition brings innovation and makes new ideas pop up way faster the linux desktop space is incredibly diverse in terms of what it offers the workflows the way to manage your computer the solidity of the base the ergonomics of the graphical desktop the install experience all of this diversity isn't possible if you remove the ability to be fragmented if you follow a traditional software model like what apple does on mac os or what microsoft does on windows or even google with chrome os you simply can't get that level of diversity our desktops evolve at a much much speedier rate than any competing proprietary offer they have better features faster they get revamps they get ux tests and tryouts they get new applications all the time this is not possible if you don't have fragmentation because fragmentation breeds competition and competition brings better software for everyone so yeah in my opinion fragmentation isn't a problem for linux we have ways to distribute software super easily to any distro and having multiple projects tackling the same problems isn't an issue it's a strength so next time someone says that fragmentation is hurting linux point them towards this video and probably let them write an angry comment because they disagree but what no one can disagree on is today's sponsor slim book slimbook makes desktops and laptops running linux they are based in valencia spain and in this video they are going to let you get 150 euros of your own ultrabook the slim book executive use the offer code in the link below to get your own at that nice discount it's a fantastic ultrabook with a great magnesium chassis awesome track pattern keyboard great screen good internals it's really really a good choice and at that price it's kind of unbeatable so check the link in the description below if you're interested now thank you everyone for watching the video i hope you enjoyed it if you did don't hesitate to like subscribe turn on notifications write a comment and if you didn't you can dislike and tell me why in the comments as well and if you want to help me make more of these videos you 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hey everyone this is nick and today we're going to talk about linux fragmentation that's something that is often leveled against linux as a criticism the linux desktop is too fragmented there are too many choices developers keep reinventing the wheel and duplicating efforts it makes applications less professional and less ready it makes linux stagnate it makes it not ready for the mass market even linustorvals expressed this opinion fragmentation is what is holding the linux desktop back well sorry linus but i disagree fragmentation in my opinion is what made the linux desktop much much better than it would have been otherwise just like this segway to today's sponsor is much much better than the ones that came before it linode is an amazing way to get your linux server up and running they've been voted top provider for infrastructure as a service by g2 and trustradius and they offer tons of one-click deployable servers for example owncast letting you run your own twitch-like streaming server with video broadcast and chat capabilities or apache guacamole which is the easiest way to get your own fully featured linux desktop in the cloud accessible from anywhere in the world if you prefer gaming you can also start your own valheim server on linux and they also have one-click servers available for cs go rust arc or minecraft among others now on top of that linode is currently upgrading all their data centers with faster nvme block storage which means that every server that you currently have with them or that you plan to open with them will have access to that faster storage at no extra cost for you which is pretty freaking amazing now i personally run my own next cloud instance and only office document server both on linux and i couldn't be more satisfied i can only recommend them so if you want to give them a shot and get started click the link in the description below and you will get a free 100 credit to start your own linux server okay so what do we mean when we say that linux is fragmented and there are two different meanings really the first one being one that is shared by android it's fragmentation as in many different targets for software developers many different distros many different android versions and skins that make it difficult for developers to make good software that supports everything and in that specific meaning of the world then no linux is not fragmented not anymore and i'll tell you why in a few moments the second meaning of fragmentation is that we have too many small projects that work on trying to make the same thing too many desktop environments too many packaging formats too many office suites too many terminal emulators too many distributions too many different cars too many different kinds of shirts you see where i'm going with this generally when people say that linux is fragmented what they mean is that developers are wasting their time and their efforts making too many different things that have the same goal and in that sense then yes linux is fragmented but i disagree that it's a bad thing let's see why but first let's see why linux is not fragmented in terms of developer support and application development this might have been true once many different packaging formats many different distributions and the way they shipped shared system libraries which ones they had which ones they didn't have the necessity to package for multiple releases of the same distro it was all a nightmare basically as a developer you made an rpm that worked for red hat and stopped at that and then ubuntu got popular and you made the dab for ubuntu and stopped at that nowadays this isn't the case at all we now have plenty of packaging formats that work across all distributions with one single package per architecture you don't target ubuntu version 22.04 for 64-bit x86 cpus you target linux for x86 cpus period flat pack snap app images they all allow you to just make one package that runs on all versions of all distros that share an architecture but nick that's still fragmentation there's three different packaging formats that developers have to support well i'm glad you brought that up nick with an annoying voice that is utterly wrong no developers don't have to support snaps and flat packs and app images they just have to pick one of these all of them can run on all distros if you make a flat pack ubuntu can run it if you make a snap fedora can run it if you make an app image gen 2 can run it and graphical app stores make this even more transparent for users from gnome software or discover you can install regular old packages flat packs and snaps and most users won't even notice which packaging format was used and won't care only us giant nerds will fight about flatback is more secure if snaps are bad app images are better or the aur is best no one that is not a nerd cares about that you package once you distribute everywhere it's a one-click install for users fragmentation is fixed well not really because fragmentation still also means duplication of efforts and the waste of developer time that this supposedly entails except that here again it's a generalization that really doesn't apply sure linux has plenty of duplicate projects if you use that word to its loosest sense gnome is a duplication of kde pantheon is a duplication of gnome krita is a duplication of shortcut duplicates the work that canon live is doing hell fedora silver blue duplicates fedora workstation arch duplicates linux from scratch and now i'm sure that pretty much everybody watching this video is disagreeing with what i just said these projects are not duplicates of one another what people call fragmentation i call meaningful choice the fact that developers work on projects that have the same aim but not the same way to reach their goal is not a bad thing gnome and kde and pantheon and xfce all want to make a graphical desktop that's easy to use that has good defaults good programs and that anyone can pick up and use they all manage to do that but in very different ways is that a bad thing is having that kind of choice bad of course not i don't think anyone that's rational and not a complete hater would say that kde is a waste of time and that all kd devs should go work on gnome to make it better and faster it wouldn't make any sense and even if it did do you really think that developers that chose to work on kde will move on to gnome and conform to the project's goals and agree to not implement every option they want do you think gnome developers would be fine with working on kde and not being able to shape the desktop in a specific way if you think that then you're even crazier than me and i'm pretty nuts am i not that you sure are son thanks daddy i'm sure glad that desktop icons didn't kill you after all developers working on open source projects that have the same goal aren't wasting their time because if they didn't work on their own project they also wouldn't work on the competing one because if they shared goals there wouldn't be two projects in the first place i talked at length about this specific topic in a previous video check it out in the card up top if you're interested but fragmentation also hurts linux adoption in the mass market or so i hear that's kinda true but it's also the wrong way to look at the problem first i would argue that fragmentation isn't what makes linux not exist in the minds of the general public when they want to buy a computer in my opinion it's the lack of buyable computers running linux that has hurt the purchase of computers running linux crazy notion i know but still having too many choices can be pretty complex for newcomers to navigate they have to understand the difference between distributions desktop environments and then actually decide what they would like to try and manage to try it and then decide if they want to keep using it it's all pretty difficult there is such a thing as too much choice but the solution isn't to reduce choice it's to make it more legible people can currently choose between hundreds of smartphone models thousands of computers hundreds of cars of clothing items of sneakers of sunglasses models they still manage to make a choice in the end and if they need help they go to various websites to compare read reviews and decide our problem isn't that we have too many choices is that we have no good way of helping users decide between these choices because linux and operating systems aren't as familiar choice to people as picking between different cars what we need isn't fewer choices it's better entry points to let users make those choices i will also conclude by saying that what people perceive as fragmentation on linux is actually a big strength of the linux desktop because we have so many choices so many options so many projects we have competition and competition brings innovation and makes new ideas pop up way faster the linux desktop space is incredibly diverse in terms of what it offers the workflows the way to manage your computer the solidity of the base the ergonomics of the graphical desktop the install experience all of this diversity isn't possible if you remove the ability to be fragmented if you follow a traditional software model like what apple does on mac os or what microsoft does on windows or even google with chrome os you simply can't get that level of diversity our desktops evolve at a much much speedier rate than any competing proprietary offer they have better features faster they get revamps they get ux tests and tryouts they get new applications all the time this is not possible if you don't have fragmentation because fragmentation breeds competition and competition brings better software for everyone so yeah in my opinion fragmentation isn't a problem for linux we have ways to distribute software super easily to any distro and having multiple projects tackling the same problems isn't an issue it's a strength so next time someone 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