Check out my Toolbox to quickly Add/Remove programs, configure power settings, and system updates with the click of a button. github.com/TheLinuxITGuy/Toolbox
Brilliant and very slick!! Did you know that Neofetch is no longer being developed? Fastfetch acts the same but is a lot faster and still supported. Great work mate.
As a 72 year old first computer Apple IIe, Win 3.1, Mac OS, Windws XP, Mac OS again, Win 10-11, then loaded Linux Mint on wife's 13 year old MacBook Pro (i7, 16GB, 1TB SSD) and it brought it back to life. Got an old Dell and turned into a Linux server of sorts. Saw your Video for your script and said, FINALLY!. Installed and everything works. Thank you for your help and keep up the good work. Don't think I'll ever go back to MacOS or Windows as everything is faster and better than windows. I didn't even talk about how it sees two network printers and 2 wireless scanners without a hitch. I love my Mint!
I never heard of Stacer until today when you mentioned it in this video. It looks like it should be a standard system app for any Linux distro. Edit: Add swappiness... I never heard of that either. Thanks for the new knowledge!
Windows is more gaming & commercial office than anything else these days. I used Linux Ubuntu 12 on an old PC to give it a new lease of life many years ago, the PC lasted another 2 years before it gave up (15 years old XP machine). About 2 weeks ago, I wanted a home PC which was not Windows as I've been wanting to get away from them for a few years, especially with the privacy issues around Windows, they may have backtracked, but I believe they are honestly postponing it. Additional rumours are they will be implementing ads and pop-up ads in Windows 11, which will interrupt all applications. If you do not want the ads, you have to pay a subscription. I got a 5 year old mini PC, new SSD, reapplied the thermal paste, installed Mint, which was blocked by Windows from being install on the existing SSD, hence new SSD. 8 years of not using a terminal, back to learning all those things I have forgotten. Hooked up to a projector, steam films even use the office suite. Will take sometime to get used, but in the long run will be worth it. Additionally, the mini PC is 70w against 1000w, then again that is main gaming PC, so having something with a lower power consumption would be beneficial.
This is brilliant. Maybe, create a way where you can read a configuration file, then that would populate with more Script options for some of us to add our own stuff. Because I sure would love to setup my system like this, because I am new to Linux. But, I can see the great benefits of this. Honestly, it shocks me that more people don't have a setup-system like this. Stupid not to. > Say, have it read something like a CSV file. All you are doing, is grouping a particular application line -- 2 things: text to see and script name, then grouping it to the Tab Name and GroupBox. > So easy to just automate a lot of stuff, and you could have 10+ tabs at the top. And, many people could start suggesting things to add to it. > Many people would do this, and make Linux setups so much easier. Especially, if you had it were they could just edit a text file to configure this themselves ... super easy. And, I thought about doing this myself, once I become better at Linux. But, I thought of a menu system with numbers that I would run. Because I can't remember all of the different command line arguments now or applications (say GParted versus Computer-Management, like in Windows). So, I was planning to have a command line app that I run (like "myp" for my-programs"), and then I would slowly build that out and make it easier for myself.
Been using Mint for a bit myself as a comfort test in preparation for moving over from Windows and i love what you've done here, i use something similar on my windows laptop developed by Chris Titus tech. So seeing this is awesome. Thank you very much for developing this and sharing it, much appreciated.
This is like what CachyOs has right out of the box when you install it. Its called Hello CachyOs. So it gets you everything for gaming, then the whole package manager, kernel, bluetooth. rank mirrors, fixes, dns, spoof/dpi, update, clear cache, reinstall all packages, something that sorts if you have bad connection, browsers, you name it Its pretty handy going over to Linux for people. I remember when I started with linux. My god, that was not an easy task :P
Im going to be keeping an eye on this Toolbox, but it is similar to the Linux Utility from Chris Titus Tech. That tool runs from the terminal, is distro agnostic and written in Rust. All that said, choice is good. Its nice to have options.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Thanks! After 25+ years of using various Linux distros, it's nice to see some of these post-install tools coming out. One feature I'd like to see is to be able to disable asterisks in the terminal when typing a password. That is my #1 pet peeve when using a Mint system, and normally the first thing I disable.
Really help stuff, thank you! - would be cool if it could also install Nvidia drivers, mini-conda, samba (and allow for shares to be created/defined) and also maybe add entries to /etc/sysctl.conf for custom tcpip settings etc... but maybe these are beyond the scope of what you intended the script for - I have forked it on Github and will maybe have a play when I have hte time.... excellent stuff tho - cheers!
I’m going to work on the config file idea. The Toolbox will come with a slate of apps by default, and allow for user defined as well. VLC and MPV should definitely be in the default list. Thanks for the comment and suggestion.
User should have the option (if both are available) to choose flatpak or system install. I had a bad experience on Linux Mint 21.3 with Audacity Flatpak. With version 3.6.1, a bug was created with the auto-height resizing of the waveform. Randomly, the waveform can disappear when zooming in/out. When you go to full-screen it appears again, but as you zoom again, it can randomly disappear again. So, you constantly have to full screen and normal size the program's window over and over again, making it infuriating! Thankfully, the system install of Audacity in Linux Mint 22 is 3.4.2 and solved that problem.
Please excuse my ignorance of Linux as I am new. Is there some kind of config file in Linux. The reason I ask is because I can't get my sound working on my Panasonic toughbook CF-19ZA813DM laptop, i got the sound to work but not over Bluetooth or after I reboot the system. I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 22 on a 1tb Samsung 850 pro sata ssd and my laptop has 16gb of ram. Can you please help me? But please don't just tell me to check the forums because I have already.
From: www.linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php Linux Mint moved to a new sound server called Pipewire. To check which sound server is running, use the following command: inxi -A If you're unable to get the sound working, you can try to go back to the older sound server called PulseAudio. apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin systemctl enable --user pulseaudio sudo reboot
Ok, 1st of all, thanks for this, 2nd... I installed this, used the swap fix, restarted... Now how do I start the program again? It's not included in the menu with the rest of the installed applications.
Please, start a Video Series on this app. Look at what Chris Titus did with something he threw together, and it has really grown. I'd even give donations if you really spent some time. [SUBBED]
Check out my Toolbox to quickly Add/Remove programs, configure power settings, and system updates with the click of a button. github.com/TheLinuxITGuy/Toolbox
Brilliant and very slick!! Did you know that Neofetch is no longer being developed? Fastfetch acts the same but is a lot faster and still supported. Great work mate.
Thank you so much. Yea, I’ve used fastfetch before. Once it goes mainstream I’ll probably switch over. Thanks for watching and commenting.
@@TheLinuxITGuywhy not just use FastFetch and add a system alias to have neofetxh launch it?
You should definitely add to the script an option to disable mouse acceleration on XFCE!
Thanks for the suggestion. Will look into it.
As a 72 year old first computer Apple IIe, Win 3.1, Mac OS, Windws XP, Mac OS again, Win 10-11, then loaded Linux Mint on wife's 13 year old MacBook Pro (i7, 16GB, 1TB SSD) and it brought it back to life. Got an old Dell and turned into a Linux server of sorts. Saw your Video for your script and said, FINALLY!. Installed and everything works. Thank you for your help and keep up the good work. Don't think I'll ever go back to MacOS or Windows as everything is faster and better than windows. I didn't even talk about how it sees two network printers and 2 wireless scanners without a hitch. I love my Mint!
Awesome! Glad to hear it and welcome home to Linux.
I never heard of Stacer until today when you mentioned it in this video. It looks like it should be a standard system app for any Linux distro.
Edit: Add swappiness... I never heard of that either. Thanks for the new knowledge!
Anytime! Thanks for watching.
Nice, It's good to see all these utilities are scrips come out! Would love something like this for other distros too.
More to come. Next release I want to support the big three. Arch, Debian, Fedora
Windows is more gaming & commercial office than anything else these days.
I used Linux Ubuntu 12 on an old PC to give it a new lease of life many years ago, the PC lasted another 2 years before it gave up (15 years old XP machine).
About 2 weeks ago, I wanted a home PC which was not Windows as I've been wanting to get away from them for a few years, especially with the privacy issues around Windows, they may have backtracked, but I believe they are honestly postponing it. Additional rumours are they will be implementing ads and pop-up ads in Windows 11, which will interrupt all applications. If you do not want the ads, you have to pay a subscription.
I got a 5 year old mini PC, new SSD, reapplied the thermal paste, installed Mint, which was blocked by Windows from being install on the existing SSD, hence new SSD. 8 years of not using a terminal, back to learning all those things I have forgotten. Hooked up to a projector, steam films even use the office suite. Will take sometime to get used, but in the long run will be worth it.
Additionally, the mini PC is 70w against 1000w, then again that is main gaming PC, so having something with a lower power consumption would be beneficial.
Nice! 70w vs 1000w is amazing. Thanks for watching.
This is brilliant. Maybe, create a way where you can read a configuration file, then that would populate with more Script options for some of us to add our own stuff. Because I sure would love to setup my system like this, because I am new to Linux. But, I can see the great benefits of this. Honestly, it shocks me that more people don't have a setup-system like this. Stupid not to.
> Say, have it read something like a CSV file. All you are doing, is grouping a particular application line -- 2 things: text to see and script name, then grouping it to the Tab Name and GroupBox.
> So easy to just automate a lot of stuff, and you could have 10+ tabs at the top. And, many people could start suggesting things to add to it.
> Many people would do this, and make Linux setups so much easier. Especially, if you had it were they could just edit a text file to configure this themselves ... super easy.
And, I thought about doing this myself, once I become better at Linux. But, I thought of a menu system with numbers that I would run. Because I can't remember all of the different command line arguments now or applications (say GParted versus Computer-Management, like in Windows). So, I was planning to have a command line app that I run (like "myp" for my-programs"), and then I would slowly build that out and make it easier for myself.
+1
Great idea. So more of a template and a shell.
Been using Mint for a bit myself as a comfort test in preparation for moving over from Windows and i love what you've done here, i use something similar on my windows laptop developed by Chris Titus tech. So seeing this is awesome. Thank you very much for developing this and sharing it, much appreciated.
Great to hear! Welcome to Linux.
This is like what CachyOs has right out of the box when you install it. Its called Hello CachyOs. So it gets you everything for gaming, then the whole package manager, kernel, bluetooth. rank mirrors, fixes, dns, spoof/dpi, update, clear cache, reinstall all packages, something that sorts if you have bad connection, browsers, you name it
Its pretty handy going over to Linux for people. I remember when I started with linux. My god, that was not an easy task :P
Thanks for watching.
Thank you for neat script.
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching.
Im going to be keeping an eye on this Toolbox, but it is similar to the Linux Utility from Chris Titus Tech. That tool runs from the terminal, is distro agnostic and written in Rust.
All that said, choice is good. Its nice to have options.
Very cool. I’ll have to check it out. Gratz on 6k subscribers!
@@TheLinuxITGuy Thanks! After 25+ years of using various Linux distros, it's nice to see some of these post-install tools coming out.
One feature I'd like to see is to be able to disable asterisks in the terminal when typing a password. That is my #1 pet peeve when using a Mint system, and normally the first thing I disable.
Excellant work this will save a ton of time.
Thanks. Glad to hear it.
Really help stuff, thank you! - would be cool if it could also install Nvidia drivers, mini-conda, samba (and allow for shares to be created/defined) and also maybe add entries to /etc/sysctl.conf for custom tcpip settings etc... but maybe these are beyond the scope of what you intended the script for - I have forked it on Github and will maybe have a play when I have hte time.... excellent stuff tho - cheers!
Future release will have a config file with default apps but allows for user defined as well. Thanks
Stacer is great. I just wish it could be configured to show all physical hard disks, not just one.
That would be cool!
Very handy and helpful script brilliant 💡
Glad it was helpful!
Awesome! Thanks for this...saved me a bunch of time. Can you share that Onedrive script to customize the additional folders to backup?
Here you go: github.com/TheLinuxITGuy/OneDrive-KFR
Thanks for watching.
Any thoughts on adding VLC to your program list?
I’m going to work on the config file idea. The Toolbox will come with a slate of apps by default, and allow for user defined as well. VLC and MPV should definitely be in the default list. Thanks for the comment and suggestion.
User should have the option (if both are available) to choose flatpak or system install. I had a bad experience on Linux Mint 21.3 with Audacity Flatpak. With version 3.6.1, a bug was created with the auto-height resizing of the waveform. Randomly, the waveform can disappear when zooming in/out. When you go to full-screen it appears again, but as you zoom again, it can randomly disappear again. So, you constantly have to full screen and normal size the program's window over and over again, making it infuriating! Thankfully, the system install of Audacity in Linux Mint 22 is 3.4.2 and solved that problem.
Will list this in future update. Thanks for watching and suggestion.
Great Job 👍
Thanks! 👍
You need an "install kde" & " install gnome" button as well.....😅
You got jokes. Thanks for watching.
Thank you very much for the good work.
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Btw i only use HTTPS mirrors, feels better/safe.
Very nice clean script! Thx.
Thanks for watching and commenting. I appreciate it.
Does it work with Pop OS too?
Yes
Please excuse my ignorance of Linux as I am new. Is there some kind of config file in Linux. The reason I ask is because I can't get my sound working on my Panasonic toughbook CF-19ZA813DM laptop, i got the sound to work but not over Bluetooth or after I reboot the system. I did a fresh install of Linux Mint 22 on a 1tb Samsung 850 pro sata ssd and my laptop has 16gb of ram. Can you please help me? But please don't just tell me to check the forums because I have already.
From: www.linuxmint.com/rel_wilma.php
Linux Mint moved to a new sound server called Pipewire.
To check which sound server is running, use the following command:
inxi -A
If you're unable to get the sound working, you can try to go back to the older sound server called PulseAudio.
apt purge pipewire pipewire-bin
systemctl enable --user pulseaudio
sudo reboot
Very good script.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Would it work with LMDE 6 édition of Mint ?
Yes, thanks for watching.
would not work in my Mint 22--Not sure why?
I’m using 22 in the video
Very nice, indeed. Thanks.
Thanks for watching.
Would you be up for a few suggestions on the app?
Always. Whatcha got? A few folks on reddit recommended that I utilize Ansible. I still need to look into that.
@@TheLinuxITGuy There are about 10-12 additional apps I'd like to see on the list plus "install restricted extras" "install preload" and "enable trim"
@@dragonballjiujitsu Thanks for the suggestion. What apps in particular?
@@TheLinuxITGuy I would personally like to see gapless, video downloader, only office (and a one click to purge LibreOffice), grsync.
Ok, 1st of all, thanks for this, 2nd... I installed this, used the swap fix, restarted... Now how do I start the program again? It's not included in the menu with the rest of the installed applications.
You don’t, the script applies the fix. You can check to make sure it is applied with the command in the video. Thanks for watching.
@@TheLinuxITGuy Yep. But I wanted to test out the other options too. My bad if Im doing something wrong, Im still very new to Linux.
Nice
Thanks
Agree
I prefer btop over htop. It's worth trying.
👍
Thanks 😃
Please, start a Video Series on this app. Look at what Chris Titus did with something he threw together, and it has really grown. I'd even give donations if you really spent some time. [SUBBED]
Thanks for subscribing and your time in the comments. Much appreciated. I intend on building this out to be something great.