Customizing Cinnamon: playing with Linux Mint on a livestream!
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- Опубліковано 2 чер 2024
- I just reinstalled Linux Mint on a laptop for fun. Let's play with making Cinnamon look different than default!
Cinnamon Rolls in the thumb are by Wikimedia Commons user "Pannet", CC BY 4.0.
NOTE: the subtitles for this livestream were automatically generated and may not be accurate, good, or useful. - Наука та технологія
Veronica sounds like my school teacher; nice and calm. Good to have someone so dedicated to show the new kids in class how they can use Linux without feeling like they need to live in the same house as you. Linux with color and personality. Also let the new kids to get comfortable with the penguin before you let them dip into the deep sea of knowledge on Linux.
Praise be to the mom of Linux
This is the way.
How is she even more adorable and wholesome live? It's like if Daria just had a perfectly well adjusted twenties and just ended up being perfectly pleasant in every way. Like a unicorn / aunt / neighbor lady / just really cool chick.
I echo your sentiments!
For this old man, it's as though one of the actors from "Zoom" or "The Electric Company" popped out of the TV and started teaching me about Linux! How can there be a better experience than that?
Wonderful!
I'm so sorry I didn't catch this stream live, though...
@@jimcabezola3051 Seriously, One of my absolute favorite channels. I have a very short list of special content creators I consider UA-cam unicorns in my personal headcanon and as soon as I saw her first video, she went straight to the top of said list. Hope I'm not coming across as patronizing in any way, these are my very sincere, earnest, and genuinely appreciative sentiments, just so that's clear.
@@keiot-and-J9 Agreed..."unicorn" is a good description of our Veronica. It's said that the name "Veronica" means "true icon." She is exactly what the name says on the tin!
@@jimcabezola3051 Adorbs all the way around! And that includes you, "Old Man". 😎
Veronica, explain the whole split home thing for people. I think - genuinely, I believe - having a separate home partition is going to help a lot of people out when it comes to comparmentalisation, and for a system low on disk space, letting home fill up before root can stop some I / O issues from full Ext4 parts occurring with root. As well, (not many people know this) people can use ln with a persistently-mounted NTFS partition using windows to symlink directories from there into $HOME.
This is the setup I had been using for all of my time using Linux with Windows PCs where I just treat the NTFS partition as the largest contiguous free space on my machine, which saves me from having to juggle two separate suites of directories at-once where I can instead just barrow things from the NTFS part Windows is on. It's honestly rather awesome.
These days Linux on a laptop is usually pretty easy. Every Dell I have had for 10 years has been fully supported except for one fingerprint scanner.
from my experience Dells are among the best supported brands when it comes to Linux
@@penguin2137 Dell and Lenovo have
all been easy to install Linux ( Mint especially) I have installed Linux on Dell vostro, Acer 7560, Samsung , and a batch of lenovo x series. everything has always just worked!
Finally switched over to Mint from Windows on my main (and mostly gaming) computer after having it on my laptop for ages, been looking to customise things myself so this is wonderful timing!
EDIT: that was a brilliant end hahahaha, gonna try out a secondary vertical panel for launching frequently-used apps! As for NVIDIA stuff, I'm on an RTX 2060 Super (had a great deal locally and way before I decided to switch whoops), had a little trouble but after switching to Mint's recommended proprietary drivers, it's been perfect for me I think
I played the "Rodeo Song" for Microlimp about a month ago. I started with Debian 12, and after a month, I switched to Mint, Yes, much better for my noob self. Thanx for your work!
I love Mint but I needed a lighter distro for a laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron with a i5 5300U cpu and 6 gigs of memory that was so slow with Windows. I put Mx linux on it. I love that little laptop now. On the desk top pictures I like the one that shows the golden gate bridge lighted up at night looking back at San Franciso. It's lovely and romantic. Reminds me of my dating days.
Sad i missed the steam. I love Mint. Im also big on Pop OS these days but Mint was my first ever Linux experience back in like 2014.
I'm loving Cosmic on PopOS. I use Arch btw on my main system.
Mint-X = Super old original mint theme from the early 2000s, still maintained with the original look and feel
Mint-L = "Legacy" mint theme from the mid 2010s-2024 with the old muted green color
Mint-Y = New mint theme from earlier this year with more vibrant colors and new folder icons, still a lot like Mint-L
Veronica, you make everything seem so easy. Your videos are inspiring and motivate me to want to learn more. We always enjoy watching... it's like visiting with a cherished friend. --- Wishing you continued success! ~ Allen and Mike 🐸😍
Thanks for reminding me about Cake, not listened to them since mp3 became a thing in the 90s. Awesome :)
Mint XFCE makes old potato laptops happy!
LMDE with Xfce would be excellent, but they only have Cinnamon.
This year I started using Mint. I chose the LMDE 6 version because it comes with Pipewire by default. So far everything works fine and I haven't missed the Ubuntu base.
Linux Mint is a good choice as daily driver :-) I like it
"Hey Veronica [waving my arms about] you're really awesome!"
You make it look so easy !
21:50 bang on. Websites are designed for portrait, not landscape. That's why I prefer to have my docks to the left or right. I was even looking for some kind of single tab page spanning extension that splits a page tab into two, where the page continues to the right as you scroll in real-time. This would be super useful.
The taskbar being anchored to the bottom in Windows 11 is a huge negative for me. I only run into it at work, but one of the few things Mac OS does right is the topbar: it's aligned closer to window controls. I even put it on the right for Windows 8.
The worst part is they removed the registry fix to change the position (to the top) in Windows 11. It's ludicrous the number of things they've removed in "upgrades."
1:22:42 - 💗💗💗
1:23:01 - ooh, I'll totally have to out jellyfin! Thanks for the rec! -- and 1:25:12 - yes, please! 😊
1:29:01 - haha, nice. I generally don't wear watches at all anymore, and if I do, I go mechanical analog (24hr, though! - unlike you, I guess (1:31:54), which is fine)... but back in the day, I loved my Casio Data Bank. :) Anyway, great stream, Veronica. Thanks for all you do!
I went from XFCE which allows you to shorten the tool bar cinnamon doesn't which surprised me. So I made the tool bar transparent. That being said I love all the knew features in cinnamon and now use cinnamon as my desktop. There are just a few things Im going to recommend to the cinnamon team. Adjusting the tool bar width is one of them.
would love to see you do a video about recording music on Linux. I understand that's a pretty niche topic though.
Great video. 🎉
I love Linux Mint but I installed the XFCE edition and then switch to KDE Plasma on my desktop but went with Cinnamon on the laptop and every time I use the laptop I wish I'd gone with KDE Plasma on that too.
For the dock like panels, I have set the panel to transparent using the extension.
I'm currently running Kubuntu as my main, but thinking of going back to Mint. Not sure. Also have a NAS running Ubuntu which i'm not a big fan of at all now. It used to be good but it seems so many features have gone.
That thumbnail gave me type III tribetes.
other than termux, debian on a tty (and luckily for my sanity sshd) was my first ever linux experience and it was so much fun.
Cairo is a great dock alternative. Not sure if it has been updated lately.
Thanks for this video. I also use Debian as my server but had trouble setting up OpenVPN on it. Do you have your own VPN on the server and if so could you do a video on how to set one up on a debian server? My favourite dock, btw, is Belfast Dock, I go there quite often and watch the boats come in!!
Veronica destroying the installation at the end of the stream: She's now the Pete Townsend of Linux UA-camrs.!!
Pop OS runs so well on my old Thinkpad. P52S
She is just so sweet she’s is the type of person I strive to be like daily and I haven’t got there yet be safe Veronica! Aka the Linux mom
Speaking as a former Linux Mint user, regardless if it is the main OR Debian edition [LMDE], I would always use Xfce or MATE as the DE because anything with a Gnome Shell [including Cinnamon] involves too many dependencies.
I love Linux Mint Cinnamon 👍
I’m really excited for what this stream is setting up.
I’ve wanted to move to Linux for years but what if my sound or wifi or Bluetooth drivers don’t work? I work in IT and don’t want to tinker heaps at home
I saw someone talking about Linux DAWs. I’d love videos on amazing Linux software for different kinds of things
YES to a Jellyfin video. I tried to make a server 3 years ago and it was not fun
the red transparent task bar means that that bar is still in edit mode.
nice stream
I wasn't here for the stream but I'd be interested in Jellyfin. I've got two users on my laptop to isolate work from home and it works great EXCEPT that I don't know a good way to let Work User listen to Home User's mp3 library without either duplicating the files or breaking the isolation.
Linux Mint is my favourite OS.
I'm a simple human-person. I see new Veronica Explains video, I watch it, like it, call all my friends and blackmail them to watch, like and subscribe.
Hello, it's me, your friend. I loved the video!
Please return my cat.
Ok another dumb question, do you have a "Good" dropbox alternative that works well on Linux? The reason I ask is that the disk space saving feature that let's your laptop function like a "MOBILE" device, ie it shows you a list of the files in your dropbox, but it ONLY downloads the actual file when you use it, and then it only keeps it for a little while then if you need it again later it redownloads it again. This is probably only a problem for a few people that have a working dropbox over 420 gig, but the functionality doesn't work on linux, and I haven't had any luck moving the dropbox data location to an external usb drive either on Mint. So I either am stuck with Win and working dropbox, or I need to find a viable dropbox alternative to continue trying to move to Linux!!
I can see the confusion with the different jargons for Linux Mint, I hope the Mint team sees this.
Applet,
Desklet,
Extension,
Themes,
and of course programs.
This can be confusing for new people, don't know a solution other than a small tutorial or something though.
Cinnamon is too sweet for me
I run Mint Mate... don't need all the icing!
Gnome is the next gen gui
Missed this as I was working, but watching now. Hoping to find something in my Mint I didn't know I could manipulate. :) Edit: I am the weirdo who has the panel (autohide) on the left side. lol Also I use Plank, as invisible, and icon zoom, so it shows like the Mac dock icon on hover over.
jellyfin video would be pretty cool yeah
To completely remove the data you could do "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1(or whatever your drive is)"
It probably won't get everything if you're running off that drive.
Solid state drives are built differently with different controllers which overprovision blocks. So simply overwriting doesn't guarantee the data is destroyed. And my understanding (I'm not a physicist) is that it can actually cause performance issues long term. The preferred method is the secure erase functionality built into the controller which can hit the overprovisioned blocks as well as those exposed to the OS.
The dd method can work for a mechanical hard drive, but that's where I think nwipe provides a more friendly user experience, even at the expense of being UNIX-y.
Enterprise was good. Fight me.
Too bad I missed this, only found your channel now. This info could have helped me a lot when I gave Microsoft the collective birds and ritually cleansed my machine of Bill Gates and Co.
Watched a few vids, downloaded Mint Ubuntu and took a the dive. Two weeks later, I am cutting my tether from Microsoft, I'm done with all their jazz.
@VeronicaExplains, ¿serías tan amable de habilitar los subtítulos..?, felicitaciones por lo que haces y desde ya muchas gracias.
Un saludo
Hi there! I don't speak spanish but I gathered you're hoping for subtitles. UA-cam is still processing everything but I've got my own PC working to auto-caption it as well, will upload my auto-transcription soon. Sorry UA-cam isn't quick with the streams!
@@VeronicaExplains No hablo inglés y es gracias a los subtítulos que no pierdo detalle de tus aportes.
Soy usuario de Linux desde hace muchos años (actualmente Debian 12) y mi pasatiempo es la retroinformática.
Sigo con atención tus vídeos donde se te ve con muchas ganas y entusiasmo y no solo explicas muy bien, también enseñas.
Ahora llega la hora de situarte geográficamente, para que te hagas la idea desde donde y quiénes somos tus seguidores.
Soy de Uruguay pero vivo y te sigo desde Valencia, España.
Un saludo y reitero las gracias.
piper has a lot of logitech items listed in their list, if that helps (piper remapper)
Installed Debian 12 unchecked everything but Cinnamon. The only thing I can't get to happen is change the mouse cursor. The cursor for a link is ugly af.
popos has become my got to. but i do owna system 76 laptop
Nobara / fedora is the best for graphics work or gaming it future distro
I installed Linux mint but I went back to windows. It ate my cpu when I was using Firefox. I liked Linux but it was unusable.
22:10 so why is the taskbar at the bottom "shrinking" the space, yet the taskbar at the top isn't????
Just saying you're using debian stable isn't really the whole story like it is with Windows is it? How much customization are you doing on those debian systems? There it is at 50:30 Desktop etc etc or are you actually running a "STOCK" out of the box debian system???
I'm not using Debian in this video, that's Mint. And I was only editing one taskbar at a time, I'd created two.
@@VeronicaExplains I saw all the part about plank, over on the left side, not sure how far I got before something else took my attention away, will finish up later I'm still arguing with the mint install on my old Lenovo E420, very sluggish
Use LMDE, it's cinnamon debian, but again you know that.
They should just have minimal installs so that you can just install your own desktop environment or make it easier to uninstall the default one without breaking the system.
Debian does that! One of the reasons I like it. So does Arch. Mint's aimed at a different type of user though.
@@VeronicaExplains Yeah but I meant mint and other distro's that don't want to provide images of all the different desktop environments. Or only provide their preferred desktop environment. I don't know how much different they'd be without whatever desktop environment they prefer,though.
New Linux user 6 weeks my distro op suse LMD Debian 12.5
Easy on the sugar
I know you know this but, I can't help myself......it's called copilot/recall. There I did it my OCD is appeased.
40:06 Team Red!
Hmmm this will not now be a stock Mint..........
18:46 to 18:58 Taking OBS to new level 😂
The taskbar at the bottom isn't visible. Thanks for the tour.
at 26.10 you have panel height
Yes, totally clear. But she didn't caught it. Maybe because of live stream, busy with a lot of things going on?
That's the panel height for a horizontal panel. Not the panel height for a vertical panel. I want to shrink the *height* on a *vertical* panel (or the *width* on a *horizontal* panel) so it appears more like a traditional dock. A small thing to be sure.
Hi. I use Zorin OS. Try Mint. I like it but couldn't connect to the Internet so I installed Zorin instead. But it is so much better than Windows. Windows is too bloated and just over the telemetry.
Microsoft is very out of touch in terms of what their customers actually want. They push all this crap nobody wants and now a lot of users are looking for alternatives.
Don't care about gaming, but my Nvidia cards work great for Cuda under Linux.
Try not to fall in love challenge
Cinnamon is the only DE that is really unbearable to me. Too "cartoonish".
Linux mint is trash.
What's not "trash"?