Hey DT, if you put this in the description of the video, it'll show up on the UA-cam player like a chapter select It'll show up a day after you add it to the description, so be patient
@@anonymanonym9004 Zoom is prohibited here. Ministers started investigations against teachers and schools and wanted to impose a 1,000 € fine on them because they had used programs like Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic. At that time, there were no officially sanctioned programs and they used the ones that were popular. What they did not know or ignored out of a lack of choice was that these programs violate data laws in Germany because the servers are located outside the US and they do not follow the new and very strict data laws, called DSGVO (Datenschutzgrundverordnung) here.
@@FeedScrn Yeah, I do think some people have managed to run MacOS in a VM. I think I have tried to do that a long time ago, but its messy to try to setup.
@@KasperSOlesen The easiest way to run MacOSX, is to download a premade VM from someone else, which is what I did. Back then, I had Win7 and I had installed vmware. You have to have an Intel CPU. It has to be Core 2 Duo at least. There is a patch to run it on AMD CPUs. Also, it was very very slow.
It's amazing that these community funded opensource alternatives can be better than their proprietary counterparts in many ways. The opensource world does a lot more with less!
There is the truth right there I've just ditched windows and installed Linux mint on my desktop and Linux mint on my laptop and it's brilliant wish I had done this years ago
@@waltciii3 How are they 'knockoffs'? They have their own interfaces, features and plugins. It's like saying that every spreadsheet program is knockoff of VisiCalc from 1979.
@@mattx5499 Every non command line feature is a knockoff of proprietary. Every current free Office is a knock off of late 90's MS Office. Every Linux Gui is trying to be a Mac or Windows front end. It's like Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Don't be mad, Mac and Windows haven't added much since the mid 2000s other than aesthetics...
As a Linux n00b, thanks for explaining what VIM is. I learned the hard way to use nano if I just need to make a simple edit to a config file. People who post step-by-step guides on edits to config files in Linux and assume everyone is advanced enough to know vim are the type of Linux users that discourage n00bs from learning it.
Thanks for the heads up on App Outlet. I didn't know it existed. I like how it categorizes the different installers much more clearly compared to others.
Hey DT. I watched this video v.recently where you introduced me to FOSS "Jitsi Meet". I broke my ankle so cannot go to school to teach. Some of my classes are >40 mins so Googul Meet, Zoom etc would have caused me 'financial stress'. So I tried Jitsi Meet with my class today. I was able to do a continuous 90mins session and the students reported the session was fine. So a BIG THANKS :) for recommending this, and thanks to the Jitsi team.
Addressing video calling apps was really cool, maybe you can explore it more in a later ad. I feel like video calling has to be one of the most dangerous things to use privacy wise.
Gimp and VLC are amazing. I used them even back in my Windows days. I also really like glabel for label printing. It's so versatile, and I don't think Windows has anything even close to it, definitely not for free.
I switched to Linux 2 years ago because I wanted more control over my computer. I guess its open-source nature is playing some part in that, but I feel like it's less relevant than privacy and security issues. I came to embrace the open-source philosophy anyway after 2 years of experience with Linux. :)
I'm gonna switch to linux when i get a flashdrive i can use to make a back-up and i can actually use my laptop The main thing that convinced me is i can customize the desktop/ui But i also enjoy my privacy so yeah
That’s why I switched because I started listening programming/computer science and windows file management system was being to confuse me and piss me off lol so I made the switch
I'm only six minutes into this video, but I thought I should point out that my brain is auto-completing every time you say "proprietary software" with "proprietary garbage"!
Apps I think ought to be on the list because they are free and open source, and the best at what they do: Blender 3D : 3D editing software that is free and open source. Godot Engine: As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think. Midnight Commander: Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view. OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio. OpenShot: Free and open source video editing software. I have been using DaVinci Resolve but it is not open source. I might switch to OpenShot because I do not need advanced features much, its pretty simple video editing I do, mainly to just take a few things out of videos and maybe do voice hours or adjust the audio if its out of sync. But I guessing fixing some out of sync audio might be too advanced for OpenShot, so I would have to test to see how that works. But there are also Kdenlive and Shotcut, both have more features than OpenShot and are closer to DaVinci Resolve, while still being open source. I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.
Although I had tried Linux in 1998 (I had a win-specific modem) I finally switched completely to Linux by 2005 BECAUSE I was already using StarOffice/OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), Audacity, GIMP, FireFox and wanted to be completely FOSS.
This really isn't for casual users but kvm, qemu, virsh, and libvirt (combined) are a way better alternative to VirtualBox. Since kvm is a part of the Linux kernel, it's a Type-1 hypervisor, which means it has fewer layers of abstraction between the VM and the physical hardware, reducing the performance overhead of the VM. So, VirtualBox is better for trying out something in an isolated environment, whereas qemu and kvm are better when performance matters.
Good video, but I personally switched from Windows to Linux mainly because I had to format the system every year literally. But I'm very passionate about open-source too. As I always say, the future is open-source! :)
@@pieterhartzer7884 yeah, it's not free/open software and it requires a fairly powerful GPU with the appropriate driver installed. Otherwise, it refuses to launch. Then, when it does launch, the Linux version of the application is sort of buggy. I wish it worked better. I try different versions periodically, but I haven't encountered a stable version that I can actually use yet.
@@NathanielStickley It's free, uses GPU or CPU and the only bug I've encountered was the fact that the free version doesn't support all codecs and instead of displaying a message it just doesn't load the video. It logs the problem though. FFMPEG convert and all works well. Admittedly open source would be preferred but for what you get it's amazing.
@@pieterhartzer7884 Point me to the source code. As far as I can tell, the source code isn't available publicly, which means it's not free / open source. As of a few months ago, it will not run unless OpenCL or CUDA are available on the system. Has this changed recently?
@@NathanielStickley As I mentioned in my comment, it's NOT open source, so I cannot point you to the source code. It is free though and I understand that if it's not open source you won't list it, which is fine. Free != Open Source. Did you mean 'and' when using the slash(/)? It normally means 'or' which is where the confusion might have come in. I never had problems running it without the graphics drivers set up although I set it up because of the speed improvement. Even their tool that comes with it tests your CPU speed.
If you are looking for a couple other good symphonic pieces, I would recommend: Gustav Holst Suite in F major, Four Scottish Dances, and Seville Suite (preferably a version that replaces the oboe solo with an accordion). They were really fun to play in and a good listen too!
GIMP and Inkscape are some of the best graphic manipulation and art programs out there. As someone who had been taught Photoshop and Illustrator back in the early 2000's, learning GIMP and Inkscape felt so natural. And the best part? I have it installed on my Linux driver and my Windows driver.
Yup... I somewhat expected to see Blender on the list. Not that I use it myself, but seems to deserve a spot on a list like this. As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think. Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view. Hmmm... oh yes, OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio. I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.
I recommend Micro as a terminal text editor for normies, it uses the keybindings that we are used to ctrl x - cut ctrl c - copy ctrl v - paste ctrl s - save ctrl q - quit you're also able to use the mouse to select text and move the cursor. Its in insert mode by default. It is extensible, and has a command palette for more advanced options
Interesting. What advantages does it have over nano? (even though I finally started using vim and probably won't check it out, I'm curious since I used nano for like a year and a half)
@@magnusanderson6681 I would say that Nano is a very limited editor and most of the things I mentioned in the first comment are features Nano does not have. It is fine as a basic editor, but I think Micro does a better job.
Hello Derek, Greetings from Belgium! I've ditched VLC and went for mpv, a month or 7 ago. I'm forced to use Windows at work and I've noticed many VLC updates on my work pc. Most probably bloath, I think. I don't think that is secure software anymore. I use Debian for my personal computers. Fan of your channel, btw! Best regards, Philippe
The reason VLC updates often is that it contains it's own Codecs for video/audio playback so the developers are often adding new ones or tweaking existing ones. As for been secure it doesn't send any info back to the developers except crash reports (can you can turn those off) and it's open source so if it was collecting info ppl would see it in the code and let everyone know.
There are TWO versions of VLC. The windows store version and the original in the wild version. They are very different under the hood. Its highly unlikely the work version is anything but the Windows Store VERSION. It is more "secure" from an IT perspective. There is no reason they would install the wild version unless your job set required it. I.E. you requested.
I like your list. Unfortunately, Brave still communicates a lot with Google. On first start, it generates a "BraveServiceKey" which is unique to your PC, Google is still the default search engine and the setting to transmit full product analysis data is turn on by default as well. Brave also loads a lot of JavaScript and Fonts from Google and Facebook and Twitter to keep those things working, and this is loaded when you start the browser without user interaction. So it might be a good browser, but there is still a lot of things you need to tune by hand to make it more private than the developers claim it is. Beside that, you can turn on adds to earn brave credits or whatever they are called to buy things in games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds appimages are great. Works on any distro and you can just uninstall with one click. Way better than Snaps and Flatpaks. Flatpaks all broke on me a bit ago and I needed to launch them from the terminal and snaps are ubuntu
I had vlc for years until I heard about mpv. Vlc is great on Windows, but on Linux I couldn't even fast forward without everything being stuttery afterwards. With mpv i can go back and forth slow, fast, and it has a terminal like input system and uses config files where you can bind your own keys or write your own scripts. Don't know if that's possible in VLC as well, but just for the non-stuttering after skipping alone I'll go with mpv.
@@UToobSteak I've noticed the issue is only if you watch stuff faster. I never watch anything below 2.0x so when I skipped, it became stuttery. So I guess for the normal people vlc is still fine.
Awesome video dude, really enjoyed it. I've 'dabbled' with Linux on and off for a few years, but I now use it as my every day OS. I only keep Win10 (dual boot on a separate drive) for a few games. I might switch completely next year, who knows. Keep up the good work!!
I have not used VLC in years. Feeling nostalgic, I might install it again. Jitsi is one I have had an eye on but the problem is getting others in my circles to use it. I'm really surprised you mentioned Stacer. I don't think I have ever seen you recommend an Electron app. Regarding htop, what do you think of glances, gotop, bashtop, etc (maybe we could have a video on these in future)? Notepadqq was a nice surprise. I once installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu box years ago but I hated the experience. App Outlet is something that I had never heard of until now. Interesting. Deadbeef is another new one to me. Never heard of it. I generally don't explore music players outside rhythm box or ncmpcpp. Vbox is very hit or miss for me. Just struggled to install Kali and Solus. But OpenBSD and MX ran perfectly. My USB now rests with an Arch ISO. Vim! Haha. I honestly thought you would say Emacs haha. Vim and it's keybindings are the only way I can code now.
the number 1 reason for windows's security 'issues' is not the fact that it's proprietary OS but rather the fact that it has by far the largest userbase which makes it by far the biggest target.
@Reine Dedeurwaerder-Sulmon Agree. A few days ago I found Nyxt Browser on this channel. Although I do not know Lisp (I know other programming languages) I am ready to learn emacs lisp to adapt this great browser to my needs (privacy, convenience). This browser has great potential, we just need to create a strong community around it to spread its wings.
Stacer is a Qt app. Because Qt has for example QML (a javascript kind of language) baked in it can be easily made to look a lot like electron app with fewer resources.
"I can't play any of this music I don't want a copyright strike" - folder full of Beethoven songs that entered the public domain like 100 years ago lmao
11:28 hmm, it totally skipped from my mind that N++ is n/a for linux. But anyways, glad u shared it. I hope i remember the essence of this whole part of video about it. 11:36 - 12:04
I just found your channel, and I'm gradually watching all your videos. Good Stuff. It's nice to see someone actually Recommend Vi. I've been using *nix since the 90's and started on the good old Green Screen serial terminals, where the keyboards didn't have Arrow keys. Hence hjkl for movement through the file.
I used Linux as a server for years and I also used it as a desktop for quite some time. Also got me an android phone for a bit. I actually left though and returned to windows an apple not because I was looking for open-source but, I wanted something that just worked. Most users don’t even think about the underlying code of the application they are using. They have a problem they want to solve. They have a task that they want to get done. They want to do it as quickly, painlessly and efficiently as possible. I got tired of all the tinkering you have to do in Linux. Sometimes, you just want to sit down and get whatever you need to get done without having to worry about dependencies and without having to worry about hardware compatibility with new releases or edit an initiation file with arcane code to get the application to run properly and any of that other stuff. I still like the operating system. I will still visit from time to time. I like to keep up with what’s going on with it. But, I don’t ever see myself using it as my primary desktop operating system anytime soon. The majority of users feel like me which is why the majority of people do not use Linux. That’s why chrome has an 80% market share in the browser community. It just works.
Most of the mainstream Linux distros work straight out of the box these days. Your view was correct some years ago but it's way, way out of date now. I use Arch, btw. 😊
Great video. I would suggest you work on your microphone recording. With your voice,tthe setup is very clear but the top end has some very Sharpe edges,wwhich can be hard for long listening.II would advice taking that down some, whether it's with more base or less treble or just covering the mic better. Just a suggestion, I really enjoyed this video and others you've done.
Thanks for the discussion of your top 12 Apps. I am considering setting up a couple Linux machines for general use and internet access. It would be helpful to have the name of the App on screen for the duration of your discussion of it.
nice summary. I replaced vlc by mpv because less resource consuming. checkout glances instead of htop. audacious with the winamp classic interface is a MUST.
Linux is just a kernel. My must have programs are 1. OpenSSH, for remote access and more 2. GNU SCreen, more works, more screens. 3. GNU Emacs and it's clone, might be too used with GNU Emacs'' keybindingss. 4. GCC, no apps? no problem, just compile it.. 5. FFmpeg, swiss army knife for multimedia. 6. MPlyer, an excellent multimedia player. 7. LaTeX, Just beautiful. All these programs runs in text console/terminal.
I've stopped using LibreOffice, OnlyOffice is way better when it comes to compatibility with MS Office. I HATE office and I write my documents in Latex, but most people will still write documents in Microsoft Word that I have to read, and libreoffice messes the formatting way too often, that's why I'm not using it anymore
I agree. I had to complete an exam by editing a word document and (even though i was running windows at the time) libre office just couldn't open the damn docx file. had to use wordpad. thankfully it didn't mess with the formatting of the file. i got real mad at it.
@@necrobynerton7384 The problem wouldn't exist if we all used .odt, regardless of the suite, but Word users just won't do it. Thank god there's OnlyOffice, dealing with documents that aren't written in LaTeX is a pain in the ass for me, but at least I can open them and visualize everything correctly now
@@baldpolnareff7224 Why do people blame the "little guy" for things not changing? It isn't because of the personal use people but big mega corporates that makes it a pain for all of us. You can yell and demand you smaller targets but that will do nothing until the mega corps actually use something different. And that goes for your mega "higher learning" college scam too. It would take MILLIONS of people to demand mega to change and good luck with that!
Hey DT, I love your video's. I have been a heavy Mac user for years however I started in computers in the early 80's when everything was at the command prompt. Because of mainly you and other fine youtubers I have installed (on a brand new laptop, it came with windows and I never even fired it up) *Arch Linux* . I did it the hard way. I'm using sddm as a login manager, and qtile as a tiling window manager. I've been trying out brave but also have firefox. Now because of this video I have some other missing pieces. Next I"m exploring Dmenu. I love how your menuing in this video works. One question, do you know of any full screen zoom apps or code for qtile? Being an old guy my eyes are quite bad. I'll be supporting you on patreon. Keep up the great work and I'll see you over on your new chanel want to hear what you have to say about options trading. 🙂
vlc sucks, if you only need basic functionality use celluloid, but if you'd like the same amount of features vlc has without the problems, use smplayer. It's quite frankly incredible that people use vlc more than smplayer what an amazing video player.
15:16 Good news: deadbeef is available on windows too. will be trying that soon. * i dont like vlc for music either. and * i dont want to be dependent on Microsoft's groove music player (win ≥ 10) * plussss, it seems to showcase the audio's waveform tooo? (in the screenshots on the webpage) this can be so cool even if it can do that for video tracks too somehow
Recently i found out we can click and interact with htop using mouse. Select processes, kill processes, quit htop etc. Instead of F keys, you can click the the bottom row.
I usually use MPV as my media player. It's more minimalistic than VLC it seems, but it works really well for anything you might want to play. Even music where it would put the wallpaper as a static image (maybe VLC does that too?).
Hi Derek, Fascinating and well thought out as usual, Thank you! I was wondering if you could *ahem* scratch an itch for me? :D I noticed in your HTOP, lots of 'obs' processes ... Can you tell me what they are please? Thanks again
VLC has lots of features that MPV doesn't. I use MPV for TV / films, but VLC is great for learning videos etc. as I have shortcuts for slowing down or speeding up the playback. That helps a ton. Some lecturers are slow, some topics are easy, and then there are those math lecturers that I just have to slow down or I wouldn't learn a thing. That feature alone makes VLC great.
That app outlet knocked me off of my rocker, I have been missing AVIDemux since I upgraded to linux mint 17 years ago. Now I got it back, WOW such a neat and tidy quick video splicer re-compressor size changer , why they took it out of the repos I will never understand.
I switched because I’m a masochist and wanted a challenge! So I jump directly in the deep end with Arch :) It’s been fun and I’ve learned a whole lot :)
When one takes the time to learn the commands of VIM, it is quite a powerful wordprocessor. One of the few that are still around after such a long time.
1:13 Mozilla Firefox (Browser)
4:09 VLC (Media player)
5:27 Libre Office (Microsoft office alternative)
6:24 JITSI (Confrence call, Zoom alternative)
7:30 GIMP (Image manipulation, Photoshop alternative)
8:24 Stacer (System Monitor)
9:24 Htop (System Monitor)
11:03 Notepadqq (Text editor)
12:13 App outlet (App store)
14:07 Deadbeef (Music player)
15:23 Virtualbox (Virtual Machine)
16:54 Vim (Highly configurable text editor)
I would also suggest these programs:
- Krita (Image manipulation, Photoshop alternative)
- Cmus (Cli music player)
- Qemu (Virtual Machine)
And ffmpeg, for sure. It's probably the most known cli music player.
Hey DT, if you put this in the description of the video, it'll show up on the UA-cam player like a chapter select
It'll show up a day after you add it to the description, so be patient
@@FoxMaccloud Blender and kdenlive also deserve a mention imo
youtube-dl, Inkscape and geany are some apps I always install.
BTW: In Germany, in one of its 16 states called North Rhine-Westphalia, Jitsi is the standard for video conferencing at schools.
That's cool. Unfortunately in India everyones still using google meet and Zoom.
I live in switzerland. In the beginning of the quarantine we used jitsi as well, but later we switched to zoom :(
@@anonymanonym9004 Zoom is prohibited here. Ministers started investigations against teachers and schools and wanted to impose a 1,000 € fine on them because they had used programs like Zoom at the beginning of the pandemic. At that time, there were no officially sanctioned programs and they used the ones that were popular. What they did not know or ignored out of a lack of choice was that these programs violate data laws in Germany because the servers are located outside the US and they do not follow the new and very strict data laws, called DSGVO (Datenschutzgrundverordnung) here.
In Bavaria even organisations like the red-cross use Zoom
No it isn't. I live there and we have to use Zoom.
15:45 "What is a virtual machine?"
"It not a physical machine, it is a virtual machine"
LOL
VirtualBox is nice. As DT said, it has a Linux and a Windows vrs... (possibly Mac as well).
@@FeedScrn Yeah, I do think some people have managed to run MacOS in a VM. I think I have tried to do that a long time ago, but its messy to try to setup.
"Brawndo's got electrolytes"
@@KasperSOlesen to install Mac OS I am using VMware workstation and it works perfectly
@@KasperSOlesen The easiest way to run MacOSX, is to download a premade VM from someone else, which is what I did. Back then, I had Win7 and I had installed vmware. You have to have an Intel CPU. It has to be Core 2 Duo at least. There is a patch to run it on AMD CPUs.
Also, it was very very slow.
Love it! Notepadqq was one of the first things that I used daily when I moved over to Linux. Perfect for editing YML files.
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Hi TechHut , i love you videos 😄
Same. But then I moved on to use others depending on what I need.
xed being one of them
Hey Techhut...you guys are my two favorite Linux and everything tech-related Content Providers
same
What's fantastic about cross-platform FOSS is not only making your transition to Linux easy, but it improves your experience on proprietary systems.
It's amazing that these community funded opensource alternatives can be better than their proprietary counterparts in many ways. The opensource world does a lot more with less!
There is the truth right there I've just ditched windows and installed Linux mint on my desktop and Linux mint on my laptop and it's brilliant wish I had done this years ago
@@happyfeet4506 same here.
Perhaps. But all these Linux apps are knock offs / imitations of a proprietary original.
@@waltciii3 How are they 'knockoffs'? They have their own interfaces, features and plugins. It's like saying that every spreadsheet program is knockoff of VisiCalc from 1979.
@@mattx5499 Every non command line feature is a knockoff of proprietary. Every current free Office is a knock off of late 90's MS Office. Every Linux Gui is trying to be a Mac or Windows front end. It's like Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. Don't be mad, Mac and Windows haven't added much since the mid 2000s other than aesthetics...
I saw SuperTuxKart in the thumbnail and now I just played it for a whole 7 hours. Dang it man!
As a Linux n00b, thanks for explaining what VIM is. I learned the hard way to use nano if I just need to make a simple edit to a config file. People who post step-by-step guides on edits to config files in Linux and assume everyone is advanced enough to know vim are the type of Linux users that discourage n00bs from learning it.
Thanks for the heads up on App Outlet. I didn't know it existed. I like how it categorizes the different installers much more clearly compared to others.
Hey DT. I watched this video v.recently where you introduced me to FOSS "Jitsi Meet". I broke my ankle so cannot go to school to teach. Some of my classes are >40 mins so Googul Meet, Zoom etc would have caused me 'financial stress'. So I tried Jitsi Meet with my class today. I was able to do a continuous 90mins session and the students reported the session was fine. So a BIG THANKS :) for recommending this, and thanks to the Jitsi team.
I still don't understand why folks don't ship htop de facto with every linux distro.
Lubuntu does.
glances and gtop are great too! they should be included as well, imo.
it is ugly
"Top" from the terminal is basically the same thing.
manjaro does
Addressing video calling apps was really cool, maybe you can explore it more in a later ad. I feel like video calling has to be one of the most dangerous things to use privacy wise.
but they are essential when institutes force you to use it for official purposes.
Thats why he shows virtualbox lol
Gimp and VLC are amazing. I used them even back in my Windows days. I also really like glabel for label printing. It's so versatile, and I don't think Windows has anything even close to it, definitely not for free.
I don't like VSC.
@@andrzejandrzejski229 try VLC then you'll like it
I use gimp every day for cleaning scans. I'm a window 10 user.
@@mTrader1 I think he wanted to write VLC and not VSC
The App Outlet is the one thing i have been looking for and criticizing Linux distros for not doing, thank you for showing me
I switched to Linux 2 years ago because I wanted more control over my computer. I guess its open-source nature is playing some part in that, but I feel like it's less relevant than privacy and security issues.
I came to embrace the open-source philosophy anyway after 2 years of experience with Linux. :)
I'm gonna switch to linux when i get a flashdrive i can use to make a back-up and i can actually use my laptop
The main thing that convinced me is i can customize the desktop/ui
But i also enjoy my privacy so yeah
That’s why I switched because I started listening programming/computer science and windows file management system was being to confuse me and piss me off lol so I made the switch
I'm only six minutes into this video, but I thought I should point out that my brain is auto-completing every time you say "proprietary software" with "proprietary garbage"!
lol I have the same auto-completion, with "privacy thief, to profit" tho.
Nice to hear that both my main browsers (Firefox and Brave) are recommended. By the way, Stacer ditched Electron in 2019; it's been rewritten in C++.
Apps I think ought to be on the list because they are free and open source, and the best at what they do:
Blender 3D : 3D editing software that is free and open source.
Godot Engine: As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think.
Midnight Commander: Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view.
OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio.
OpenShot: Free and open source video editing software. I have been using DaVinci Resolve but it is not open source. I might switch to OpenShot because I do not need advanced features much, its pretty simple video editing I do, mainly to just take a few things out of videos and maybe do voice hours or adjust the audio if its out of sync. But I guessing fixing some out of sync audio might be too advanced for OpenShot, so I would have to test to see how that works. But there are also Kdenlive and Shotcut, both have more features than OpenShot and are closer to DaVinci Resolve, while still being open source.
I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.
re: 7zip alternatives, peazip is a good one if you like gui applications
I'm trying to leave Windows because I can customize my pc to my heart's content. I love how beautiful linux can look and how productive in makes me.
then you realize you wasted weeks customizing it and your not any more productive at all
I speak from experience
then you realize you wasted weeks customizing it and your not any more productive at all
I speak from experience
@@feschber *Laughs on perfectionism*
You not only CAN customize your PC, you will have to do this ;)
@@feschber thats why you always install a just werks distro
Another outstanding video!
I watched on LBRY but came here to like & comment.
What's the difference between flatpack, appimage and snap?
See that wheel there? We need to start yet again from scratch on it.
Although I had tried Linux in 1998 (I had a win-specific modem) I finally switched completely to Linux by 2005 BECAUSE I was already using StarOffice/OpenOffice (now LibreOffice), Audacity, GIMP, FireFox and wanted to be completely FOSS.
This really isn't for casual users but kvm, qemu, virsh, and libvirt (combined) are a way better alternative to VirtualBox. Since kvm is a part of the Linux kernel, it's a Type-1 hypervisor, which means it has fewer layers of abstraction between the VM and the physical hardware, reducing the performance overhead of the VM. So, VirtualBox is better for trying out something in an isolated environment, whereas qemu and kvm are better when performance matters.
This is by far my favorite OS channel.
Good video, but I personally switched from Windows to Linux mainly because I had to format the system every year literally. But I'm very passionate about open-source too. As I always say, the future is open-source! :)
Worth mentioning: Byobu, Krita, Darktable, FFMPEG, OBS Studio, KdenLive, Olive (video editor), Qt Creator, Blender, FreeCAD, LyX
DaVinci Resolve for video editing too.
@@pieterhartzer7884 yeah, it's not free/open software and it requires a fairly powerful GPU with the appropriate driver installed. Otherwise, it refuses to launch. Then, when it does launch, the Linux version of the application is sort of buggy. I wish it worked better. I try different versions periodically, but I haven't encountered a stable version that I can actually use yet.
@@NathanielStickley It's free, uses GPU or CPU and the only bug I've encountered was the fact that the free version doesn't support all codecs and instead of displaying a message it just doesn't load the video. It logs the problem though. FFMPEG convert and all works well.
Admittedly open source would be preferred but for what you get it's amazing.
@@pieterhartzer7884 Point me to the source code. As far as I can tell, the source code isn't available publicly, which means it's not free / open source. As of a few months ago, it will not run unless OpenCL or CUDA are available on the system. Has this changed recently?
@@NathanielStickley As I mentioned in my comment, it's NOT open source, so I cannot point you to the source code. It is free though and I understand that if it's not open source you won't list it, which is fine. Free != Open Source. Did you mean 'and' when using the slash(/)? It normally means 'or' which is where the confusion might have come in.
I never had problems running it without the graphics drivers set up although I set it up because of the speed improvement. Even their tool that comes with it tests your CPU speed.
Thanks for this video. Glad to see there's a notepad++ equivalent in Linux. It's a very useful app. Simple and efficient.
yeah same.
Thumbs up for choosing Deadbeef... The best alternative to Foobar on Windows (imo)
have a nice weekend DT !!
Same to you!
Good list. This prompted me to dig much harder into firefox settings to try to come up with a more private setup.
If you are looking for a couple other good symphonic pieces, I would recommend: Gustav Holst Suite in F major, Four Scottish Dances, and Seville Suite (preferably a version that replaces the oboe solo with an accordion).
They were really fun to play in and a good listen too!
Why this channel doesn’t have like a million subscribers at least?!
😂 because computer geeks like us are less
»I forgot to add Emacs to the list« I really was wondering about this! 😁 Great list!
Having the video divided into labelled chapters would be Really helpful.
I looked at the LaTeX capability of notepadqq - pretty cool for a basic text editor.
GIMP and Inkscape are some of the best graphic manipulation and art programs out there. As someone who had been taught Photoshop and Illustrator back in the early 2000's, learning GIMP and Inkscape felt so natural. And the best part? I have it installed on my Linux driver and my Windows driver.
I struggled so much with gimp onde time that I uninstalled it kkkkk. I'll try again sometime.
Good video, I would like to see Blender 3d in that list but it's a good list, thank you.
Yup... I somewhat expected to see Blender on the list. Not that I use it myself, but seems to deserve a spot on a list like this. As a game developer, I also think Godot deserves a place on the list... it could of course quickly turn into a top 20 then, but I do not see a problem with that. So much great free open source software out there that people should now about I think.
Personally I would also put Midnight Commander on the list. Its just a great file manager program that can run in a shell and reminds me of Norton Commander for DOS, but there are alternatives and some prefer a pure command prompt / shell. It can be configured so that left and right arrow goes in and out of directories, but also you can click ctrl-o to just hide Midnight Commander and use the shell again, and then click ctrl-o again to bring up Midnight Commander. Its just such a time saver, especially if you are wanting to delete, copy or move a lot of files around. Especially with its left and right view.
Hmmm... oh yes, OBS Studio. Free and open source video recording / streaming software. I had to check but it is for Linux, Windows and MacOS. I do not think there is any free and open source alternative that comes close to this... unless maybe you want something that does not have as many features as OBS Studio.
I guess 7zip is also worth listing. Its free and open source and... not sure what alternatives there are since I think they are mainly not open source.
I recommend Micro as a terminal text editor for normies,
it uses the keybindings that we are used to
ctrl x - cut
ctrl c - copy
ctrl v - paste
ctrl s - save
ctrl q - quit
you're also able to use the mouse to select text and move the cursor.
Its in insert mode by default.
It is extensible, and has a command palette for more advanced options
Interesting. What advantages does it have over nano? (even though I finally started using vim and probably won't check it out, I'm curious since I used nano for like a year and a half)
@@magnusanderson6681 I would say that Nano is a very limited editor and most of the things I mentioned in the first comment are features Nano does not have.
It is fine as a basic editor, but I think Micro does a better job.
ungoogled chromium is the FOSS version of chrome, in case people are wondering if they need to use brave, which also has some "baggage"
I tried Dissenter for a while, instead of Brave. I don't see people talking about it
What baggage?
Deadbeef :-)
My favorite music player for years.
and it have bitperfect mode, what other linux player have that?
I'm a Tauon Music Box man myself. Relatively new but looks cool
Been using Nano for text editing, installed notepadqq after learning about it here. Thanks!
have you heard of or tried atom?
@@braydenburr1776 have you heard of or tried VS code
Have you heard of or tried Bluefish?
I love how excited he got when he started talking about Vim 😄
Hello Derek,
Greetings from Belgium!
I've ditched VLC and went for mpv, a month or 7 ago. I'm forced to use Windows at work and I've noticed many VLC updates on my work pc. Most probably bloath, I think. I don't think that is secure software anymore.
I use Debian for my personal computers.
Fan of your channel, btw!
Best regards,
Philippe
Vlc might be bloat but it's definitely secure.
@@AbhishekBM VLC works great in Windows but is a mess in Linux.
The reason VLC updates often is that it contains it's own Codecs for video/audio playback so the developers are often adding new ones or tweaking existing ones. As for been secure it doesn't send any info back to the developers except crash reports (can you can turn those off) and it's open source so if it was collecting info ppl would see it in the code and let everyone know.
There are TWO versions of VLC. The windows store version and the original in the wild version. They are very different under the hood. Its highly unlikely the work version is anything but the Windows Store VERSION. It is more "secure" from an IT perspective. There is no reason they would install the wild version unless your job set required it. I.E. you requested.
The background on your system is phenomenal
fired keepar
Oh man I didn't know you can kill a process using htop. Oh man, love you so much
xkill is another one of my favourite commands :)
Thanks for information on app-outlet. That looks like something I will definitely use!
To be honest I love Brave. Which was made one of the same founders of Firefox.
Man!! The sound is incredible
I like your list. Unfortunately, Brave still communicates a lot with Google. On first start, it generates a "BraveServiceKey" which is unique to your PC, Google is still the default search engine and the setting to transmit full product analysis data is turn on by default as well. Brave also loads a lot of JavaScript and Fonts from Google and Facebook and Twitter to keep those things working, and this is loaded when you start the browser without user interaction.
So it might be a good browser, but there is still a lot of things you need to tune by hand to make it more private than the developers claim it is.
Beside that, you can turn on adds to earn brave credits or whatever they are called to buy things in games. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
are these problems still extant in Brave?
I have found this to be your most useful video so far. I have used Linux for years but there were several apps that I had never heard of. Thanks.
Stacer is an electron application in an appimage... sounds like a meme xD !
yeah
DT content is horrible nowadays
this man unironically likes appimage
what the hell, why havent i unsubbed yet?
@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds unsub then. What is wrong with appimages?
@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds appimages are great. Works on any distro and you can just uninstall with one click. Way better than Snaps and Flatpaks. Flatpaks all broke on me a bit ago and I needed to launch them from the terminal and snaps are ubuntu
@@CoolGuyAtlas yeah, bloat is great.
sometimes you need some bloat because you can't just use your storage effectively
@@firstnamelastname-hr9ds I don't think AppImages would replace coventional installations, they look good for portable USB software though I guess
Between you and KeepItTechie I'm learning (relearning) a LOT of things. Thank you Sir.
I had vlc for years until I heard about mpv. Vlc is great on Windows, but on Linux I couldn't even fast forward without everything being stuttery afterwards. With mpv i can go back and forth slow, fast, and it has a terminal like input system and uses config files where you can bind your own keys or write your own scripts. Don't know if that's possible in VLC as well, but just for the non-stuttering after skipping alone I'll go with mpv.
thanks a lot for input
I haven't had any problems, but I'll stick this in my hat. Thanks
@@UToobSteak I've noticed the issue is only if you watch stuff faster. I never watch anything below 2.0x so when I skipped, it became stuttery. So I guess for the normal people vlc is still fine.
Some I have used for Evah, but VIM is what I need. Thanks.
I really like your presentation, and above all your good attitude.
Awesome video dude, really enjoyed it. I've 'dabbled' with Linux on and off for a few years, but I now use it as my every day OS. I only keep Win10 (dual boot on a separate drive) for a few games. I might switch completely next year, who knows. Keep up the good work!!
same case like mine.. i need windows for some casual gaming with RX580
Hi, many thanks for your tip App Outlet!!!! Best wishes from Germany, Ralf
7:52 >inkscape
>amazing program
choose one
I have not used VLC in years. Feeling nostalgic, I might install it again.
Jitsi is one I have had an eye on but the problem is getting others in my circles to use it.
I'm really surprised you mentioned Stacer. I don't think I have ever seen you recommend an Electron app.
Regarding htop, what do you think of glances, gotop, bashtop, etc (maybe we could have a video on these in future)?
Notepadqq was a nice surprise. I once installed Notepad++ on my Ubuntu box years ago but I hated the experience.
App Outlet is something that I had never heard of until now. Interesting.
Deadbeef is another new one to me. Never heard of it. I generally don't explore music players outside rhythm box or ncmpcpp.
Vbox is very hit or miss for me. Just struggled to install Kali and Solus. But OpenBSD and MX ran perfectly. My USB now rests with an Arch ISO.
Vim! Haha. I honestly thought you would say Emacs haha. Vim and it's keybindings are the only way I can code now.
I know right! He said he forgot to add Emacs to the list at the end.
the number 1 reason for windows's security 'issues' is not the fact that it's proprietary OS but rather the fact that it has by far the largest userbase which makes it by far the biggest target.
I like your well mixed and practical approach to the topic. It can be useful for new members.
Firefox, VLC, GIMP, and Blender for life!
@Reine Dedeurwaerder-Sulmon Agree. A few days ago I found Nyxt Browser on this channel. Although I do not know Lisp (I know other programming languages) I am ready to learn emacs lisp to adapt this great browser to my needs (privacy, convenience). This browser has great potential, we just need to create a strong community around it to spread its wings.
Stacer is a Qt app. Because Qt has for example QML (a javascript kind of language) baked in it can be easily made to look a lot like electron app with fewer resources.
Big shoutout to VLC where ever you use it, since it's god tier software that will play anything you throw at it.
"I can't play any of this music I don't want a copyright strike" - folder full of Beethoven songs that entered the public domain like 100 years ago lmao
i don't use VLC because idk why every time i wanted to open the program again it didn't worked, so i just switched to MPV
Great video, DT. Didn't know about notepadQQ and Stacer. Both are great!!!
Thanks man, i been thinking a lot about trying out vim for programming, i will check your tutorials✌🏻
Thank You DT Awesome Picks! 🥳
Been using mpv instead of VLC for a while. I've had issues with the latter on Windows, most of which followed me to Linux as well.
you mean the former?
@@garkeinen7034 he wouldn't be using the one that is bugging.
11:28 hmm, it totally skipped from my mind that N++ is n/a for linux. But anyways, glad u shared it.
I hope i remember the essence of this whole part of video about it.
11:36 - 12:04
For a replacement for Htop, maybe i suggest bpytop.
I believe you covered an htop clone made in bash script. This is a port of that into python.
Whoa! Thank you. And not cancerous GPL too. Switching immediately.
I just found your channel, and I'm gradually watching all your videos. Good Stuff. It's nice to see someone actually Recommend Vi. I've been using *nix since the 90's and started on the good old Green Screen serial terminals, where the keyboards didn't have Arrow keys. Hence hjkl for movement through the file.
All the applications you mentioned are essential and must-have applications. Keep up the great work!
I used Linux as a server for years and I also used it as a desktop for quite some time. Also got me an android phone for a bit. I actually left though and returned to windows an apple not because I was looking for open-source but, I wanted something that just worked. Most users don’t even think about the underlying code of the application they are using. They have a problem they want to solve. They have a task that they want to get done. They want to do it as quickly, painlessly and efficiently as possible. I got tired of all the tinkering you have to do in Linux. Sometimes, you just want to sit down and get whatever you need to get done without having to worry about dependencies and without having to worry about hardware compatibility with new releases or edit an initiation file with arcane code to get the application to run properly and any of that other stuff. I still like the operating system. I will still visit from time to time. I like to keep up with what’s going on with it. But, I don’t ever see myself using it as my primary desktop operating system anytime soon. The majority of users feel like me which is why the majority of people do not use Linux. That’s why chrome has an 80% market share in the browser community. It just works.
Most of the mainstream Linux distros work straight out of the box these days. Your view was correct some years ago but it's way, way out of date now. I use Arch, btw. 😊
This video packs so much freedom it ought to be illegal
Great video. I would suggest you work on your microphone recording. With your voice,tthe setup is very clear but the top end has some very Sharpe edges,wwhich can be hard for long listening.II would advice taking that down some, whether it's with more base or less treble or just covering the mic better. Just a suggestion, I really enjoyed this video and others you've done.
Does Stacer clean itself?
Thanks for the discussion of your top 12 Apps. I am considering setting up a couple Linux machines for general use and internet access.
It would be helpful to have the name of the App on screen for the duration of your discussion of it.
What's the taskbar (or window manager) in this video?
probably openbox
Might be tint2
nice summary. I replaced vlc by mpv because less resource consuming. checkout glances instead of htop. audacious with the winamp classic interface is a MUST.
I love how he always laughs when he does a linux trick like 19:04
Linux is just a kernel.
My must have programs are
1. OpenSSH, for remote access and more
2. GNU SCreen, more works, more screens.
3. GNU Emacs and it's clone, might be too used with GNU Emacs'' keybindingss.
4. GCC, no apps? no problem, just compile it..
5. FFmpeg, swiss army knife for multimedia.
6. MPlyer, an excellent multimedia player.
7. LaTeX, Just beautiful.
All these programs runs in text console/terminal.
I've stopped using LibreOffice, OnlyOffice is way better when it comes to compatibility with MS Office. I HATE office and I write my documents in Latex, but most people will still write documents in Microsoft Word that I have to read, and libreoffice messes the formatting way too often, that's why I'm not using it anymore
+1 for onlyoffice
I agree. I had to complete an exam by editing a word document and (even though i was running windows at the time) libre office just couldn't open the damn docx file. had to use wordpad. thankfully it didn't mess with the formatting of the file. i got real mad at it.
@@necrobynerton7384 The problem wouldn't exist if we all used .odt, regardless of the suite, but Word users just won't do it. Thank god there's OnlyOffice, dealing with documents that aren't written in LaTeX is a pain in the ass for me, but at least I can open them and visualize everything correctly now
@@baldpolnareff7224 Why do people blame the "little guy" for things not changing? It isn't because of the personal use people but big mega corporates that makes it a pain for all of us. You can yell and demand you smaller targets but that will do nothing until the mega corps actually use something different. And that goes for your mega "higher learning" college scam too. It would take MILLIONS of people to demand mega to change and good luck with that!
@@ahuman4386 I'm not blaming LibreOffice, if that's what you mean
Hey DT, I love your video's. I have been a heavy Mac user for years however I started in computers in the early 80's when everything was at the command prompt. Because of mainly you and other fine youtubers I have installed (on a brand new laptop, it came with windows and I never even fired it up) *Arch Linux* . I did it the hard way. I'm using sddm as a login manager, and qtile as a tiling window manager. I've been trying out brave but also have firefox. Now because of this video I have some other missing pieces. Next I"m exploring Dmenu. I love how your menuing in this video works. One question, do you know of any full screen zoom apps or code for qtile? Being an old guy my eyes are quite bad. I'll be supporting you on patreon. Keep up the great work and I'll see you over on your new chanel want to hear what you have to say about options trading. 🙂
I've found that VLC on linux tends to hang after you've played the first video file with it. Have to kill the process and relaunch.
Same here, haven't found the fix yet..
@@astor555 My fix was to switch to a different media player. There are lots to choose from.
vlc sucks, if you only need basic functionality use celluloid, but if you'd like the same amount of features vlc has without the problems, use smplayer. It's quite frankly incredible that people use vlc more than smplayer what an amazing video player.
@@milkiasyeheyis5407 I think it's because vlc is present on windows too
I would try changing the rendering back end - but for most things I like MPV on Linux. I use VLC when I have to use Windows
15:16 Good news: deadbeef is available on windows too. will be trying that soon.
* i dont like vlc for music either. and
* i dont want to be dependent on Microsoft's groove music player (win ≥ 10)
* plussss, it seems to showcase the audio's waveform tooo? (in the screenshots on the webpage)
this can be so cool even if it can do that for video tracks too somehow
12 apps? ok:
1. Emacs
2. Emacs
3. Emacs
4. Emacs
5. Emacs
6. Emacs
7. Emacs
8. Emacs
9.Emacs
10. Emacs
11. Emacs
12. Emacs
There, that should about do it.
Recently i found out we can click and interact with htop using mouse.
Select processes, kill processes, quit htop etc.
Instead of F keys, you can click the the bottom row.
I usually use MPV as my media player. It's more minimalistic than VLC it seems, but it works really well for anything you might want to play. Even music where it would put the wallpaper as a static image (maybe VLC does that too?).
Hi Derek, Fascinating and well thought out as usual, Thank you! I was wondering if you could *ahem* scratch an itch for me? :D I noticed in your HTOP, lots of 'obs' processes ... Can you tell me what they are please?
Thanks again
Why use VLC instead of mpv?
VLC has lots of features that MPV doesn't. I use MPV for TV / films, but VLC is great for learning videos etc. as I have shortcuts for slowing down or speeding up the playback. That helps a ton. Some lecturers are slow, some topics are easy, and then there are those math lecturers that I just have to slow down or I wouldn't learn a thing. That feature alone makes VLC great.
That app outlet knocked me off of my rocker, I have been missing AVIDemux since I upgraded to linux mint 17 years ago. Now I got it back, WOW such a neat and tidy quick video splicer re-compressor size changer , why they took it out of the repos I will never understand.
2:22 i was expecting him to say something else there
Proprietary poo?
@@DistroTube yes
1:25
The vine boom sound effect instantly played in my head
no mpv?
I switched because I’m a masochist and wanted a challenge! So I jump directly in the deep end with Arch :) It’s been fun and I’ve learned a whole lot :)
Sound is out of sync in this video. Great content anyways.
When one takes the time to learn the commands of VIM, it is quite a powerful wordprocessor. One of the few that are still around after such a long time.
now I know what will be included in dtOS
You can also use GVim which is an XWindows GUI version of VIM. The nice thing about GVim is it gives you a system cut and paste.
what do u mean by system cut and paste? access to system's clipboard? or smth else?