It's part of the reason i'm so into FOSS and trying to make a move to Linux desktop permanently from windows. I know there's so much stuff out there like it that puts proprietary programs to shame and linux is the gateway to all of it.
I agree with you completely. Chromium will never be like firefox. Many people are abandoning firefox, but doesn't understand why that is wrong. People have been spoiled by mozilla still being able to keep firefox going, but if mozilla were to discontinue firefox, you'd lose the easiest entry software to libre software, and also become completely dependent on Google with Chromium.
VLC is not only media player, it also can convert media from one format to another, and stream media over network (via http for example) to another device, really cool app
As a calculator: SpeedCrunch. It can units, physical constants, functions (you can also define your own), different levels of precision, the works. Though I often find myself firing up a Python REPL as a calculator too.
Geany feels more like a lightweight IDE. I recommend Lite-XL if you just want something for editing text. Lite-XL also has Lua plugin support, and can do code editing and stuff, but it is also way more minimal out of the box.
VLC is one of the first apps I install on any of my OS' as I can use it on Windows or Linux. KDE generally comes with Dragon player and most of the time won't play movies off a NAS for some reason. VLC works a treat. The only thing I do that's a must is lower the buffer in settings as sometimes it will freeze with the default value. I also allow multiple instances when started from file manager (great when comparing two similar videos). And while I use Brave as a browser as well - Firefox is my default on everything whether it be WIndows or Linux on Laptops, phone and TV as I can easily sync data, plugins and passwords across devices regardless of OS. But yes, you do need to go through and change settings and telemetry. I've never used Qalculate before but I will be from now on. It has a convert function which I'd use all the time and works on multiple OS'. Cheers
My favorite way to use FlameShot is the delay. When I want to capture something from video, I find the exact moment, pause then un-pause to see how long it takes for the timer bar to disappear, roll the video back that amount prior to my desired location, set FlameShot delay to that amount of time +3 (for clicking), start FlameShot's screen capture and roll the video going to full screen.
I prefer mpv over VLC because it gets out of the way (similarly, I use qview or feh for viewing images). All of those I use maximized, zero window border and no window decoration/titlebar. They are just simply panes containing the media that have easy keyboard commands to move around in the video or directory of images.
I just switched to a new Firefox-based browser called Zen. It's privacy focused and kind of like a Firefox-based Arc or Vivaldi, but it's open source unlike Arc or Vivaldi.
I'm using it on a secondary machine but for the main one I'm still sticking with default Firefox with CSS, probably will switch when it's a bit more finished
@@machieu Understood. But I can say I haven't run into any noticable bugs or issues the last few days. I feel like as young as this browser is, it seems quite stable.
Hey DT, I've been sitting on something for a while now and could use some honest feedback. For those who don't know, I own the TuxShow domain and channel, and I've been contemplating whether to take the plunge and fully develop it into something special for the Linux server community. ✨ The Potential Plan: 1. A Comprehensive Website - A hub for Linux server resources, community discussions, and in-depth tutorials. 2. A Podcast Series - Exploring Linux topics, interviewing industry experts, and sharing practical server management tips. 3. Video Tutorials - Clear, step-by-step guides to mastering Linux servers, aimed at everyone from newbies to seasoned pros. But here's the thing-I'm still on the fence about whether to go forward with it. Let me know your thoughts (Hamid from the patron chat) Thanks.
i was using LibreWolf as my daily driver when noone else ever thought of using it :D ... now it has reached this channel :D hehehe now we gonna take over the planet!!!!
The Qalc command, the one in the CLI, has a REPL, which I personally find more comfortable, instead of providing the expression via args, since I usually tend to open up my terminal instead of opening up the GUI
Thanks for reviewing these, DT. You always bring uniquely fresh viewpoints and wonderfully new content to your Subscribers. You are my favorite Linux channel -- along with Brody and ChrisT.
VLC is the best free DVD player right now, because it has all but 1 de-interlacing filters included. The one of those included can mostly mimic the functionality of the missing filter. However, DO NOT take VLC screenshots if you can avoid it. VLC dulls the colours somehow, and I did test it. It's an unsolved problem.
I would recommend Haruna over VLC. It is a QT GUI for MPV and it has better video quality playback, HDR and support for styled .ass subtitles. VLC has strange blockyness to video playback. Though VLC does have some good features that make it a good secondary player.
This is what I use: editor: I use neovim for programming, and I use kwrite if I need to store some text temporarily. video player: mpv (Though I do have VLC installed, and I use it occasionally) screenshots: flameshot (It just works, and it has some useful tools like drawing, pixelation, etc. calculator: SpeedCrunch (it just works, and it is really powerful. For example you can save values as variables, and you can create custom functions) but if I want to do something at the command line, I usually use python. Either through the REPL, or like this: python -c 'print(2 * 2)' browser: firefox / florp (florp is a fork of firefox that I use when screen recording so that I don't accidentally leak anything private)
When you played DigDug growing up but it wasn't until now, many, many years later, that you realize those black dots are his eyes and he's not actually in a suit of armor... 😦🤯
Pico is so much better. Nano is for losers. Pico is for winners! (For those who don't get the joke: pico and nano are pretty much identical hence arguing about which one is better is long arguing if the word "hello" is better than the word "hello")
@@_Lumiere_ yea. Vlc on startup had color shifted lmao. Had to change some graphics settings to display properly. And on top of that, seek times are slower in comparison
VLC doesn’t even properly work on some codecs on Wayland, and personally the performance of MPV is just better overall, no 50+ms of lag when I scrub a few seconds.
I always switch my default to VLC mainly due to its cross-platform nature. One annoying thing is that the default keyboard shortcut for MacOS is not the same as other Win or Linux but I've gotten used to it.
Flameshot looks really good. Curious what you think of Spectacle as a screenshot application. Been using it for a couple months and have really liked it after not having many good offerings on Windows. Thanks for the video!
shout out to mplayer - I usually make sure to have both mplayer and vlc. mplayer has a much nice cmd line interface (in my opinion). I feel mplayer looks more professional in a theatre environment. But I use VLC for the GUI features - I have two dvd drives and can never remember which is which. Also some dvd titles do not have the main feature as the first title, which makes mplayer harder to use. But I find mplayer easier when it comes to applying special filters on cmd line for peculiar situations.
Is there a way to get an iso file of your distro? I love your window manager and choice of apps so I was wondering if I can install the distro you're using (as it is) without much tinkering
ASs a Windows (for now) user I thank you too. These are neat tools available on Win. As a 1st timer in Linux which distro would you recommend? Also, can you use dual boot to run Linus on the same machine as Win? I heard that you need a separate HD to install them separately, Win doesn't play along nicely w/ Linux installed on the same HD, it that true?
Hi! I love your content! Thank you for this! Would you share with me, what's you rectangle floating box is, where you have the clock, cpu, ram key bindings etc. was looking for it in your git repos but don't have a clue.
Hi @DistroTube, thanks for video. I'd like know, at 1minute 15 seconds into the video, what utility do you use that enables you have the panel to the right of your screen with the info ( CPU/RAM usage, and some qtile keybindings listed there)? I'm currently using hyperland and I'd like to setup something similar as well.
i alias pico="nano" because i have no short term memory of the past 20 years. seriously though.. ctrl+w for find (where) drives me nuts when i'm connected through a web browser like guacamole or something.
A little thing that I don't like with vlc is how it handles subtitles. In vlc, you pick which text encoding to use in a static setting in the application. Then, when you play a video that has the subs in a different encoding, you get gobblygook and/or squares output. Then, when you change the setting to the correct encoding for the current subtitle text, it continues playing the video with nonsense output and only changes to use the newly chosen encoding after you stop the vid and start again. Most other media players use automatic encoding detection. Granted, auto detecting isn't perfect, but it's better.
A couple of things... Gnome's default text editor is no-longer "gedit"... !! - Also, for GTK at least Celluloid is a /really/ great video player, that has all the features of VLC, for the most part, but hides them away behind keyboard shortcuts etc... so it behaves like a simpler video player when you don't need those features. Will definitely look at Geany tho.
The best GUI calculator out there is SpeedCrunch, which is also cross-platform across Linux, Windows, and Mac.
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VLC is great from the past to this day. Only thing that bothers me about it is the library functionality. It would be nice if someone creates a plugin that makes the library function more like winamp back in the day when winamp was still alive. Those that have experienced winamp would probably understand what i mean.
I accidentally downloaded a blu-ray iso rather than a video file and thought I just wasted all this time downloading this tens of GB file but turns out VLC played it with no issue!
Hey DT, I saw your video on Firefox and privacy issues (or maybe I had seen something prior about the telemetry enabled by default). I checked my Firefox settings (all default) on MX Linux (debian). All privacy impact features were disabled. I did some "research" and it looks like Debian and Mozilla came to a head with licensing regarding Debian's policy of shipping all software with non-free components disabled. This patching Debian was doing was technically in breach of Mozilla's license. I think this is when IceWeazal or some such briefly became a thing. But Debian won that battle and can now ship Firefox patched with all the creep disabled. My question is: "Do you acknowledge that the underlying distribution may affect the "free"-ness of some software?" It can be easy to say "This software has features you may not like...." but if the distro you're on disables them by default then it's not a worry. Case in point... Android has improved it's permissions system to the point where it doesn't matter if an app requires excessive permissions... they can all be disabled (rather, they have to be granted) at runtime....
This is very true about windows. For the most part the included apps in a linux distro are all good. Not with windows. This is where linux is so different to windows. Windows comes with garbage included apps. I think microsoft doesn't want to compete with software developers. This means that the included apps will never be any good, if you use them allot you will need to find a replacement. e.g. notepad vs notepad++, examples are endless.
New linux user here. I tried Flameshot to see if it could replace Greenshot (Windows), but I couldn't immediately find a way to name the screenshots with anything other than date and time. In Greenshot I named my files with date, time and window title. Is there a way to do that with Flameshot? I'm trying Spectacle now, it's supposed to catch window title as well, but for some reason it doesn't on my system (Pop OS). I don't just want a long list of files with only date and time, I use window title to help me find screenshots.
Hey DT, thanx for all your videos. Flameshot is wonderful but now I face a big bug, I'm on 2 monitors with arcolinux wayland plasma, it opens but not in the right screen and and you can even take a screenshot when it opens, hope they fix this quikly, right now I'm using spectacle and it's good too.
VLC probably powerful tool, but I avoiding it a long time because it so glitchy (at least when I tried it several times). Every time you want watch something, you open it with VLC and the video not playing, the video playing but some artifacts, or for some reason video not syncing with audio... Or the most "popular" - VLC simply crashed! Grub some other app to play same video and everything is working fine. Besides, there are too much tools in the VLC, I don't think average user need those. So, the player that can change audio tracks and subtitles, make screenshots... and play most of formats without glitches is already a fine application for me.
i think that's the Qt setting to have uniform look with GTK. depending on your distro, you need to install proper packages (in Arch that would be qt5gtk2 and qt6gtk2, in Debian - qt5-gtk2-platformtheme and qt6-gtk-platformtheme) and set it in /etc/environment file
@@penguin2137 Thanks for the reply! Which variable are you talking about when you say "set it in /etc/environment file"? I checked if I already have any of the mentioned packages in my Pop!_OS system, and I already have `qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64` installed. After searching a bit on the internet, I find myself confused. My main concern is that I don't want any lasting changes, in case I want to revert the system to the current state as it is in right now after installing any packages. It would be a pain to find and change individual setting for things.
i like having 2 text editors, a real simple basic one as a config editor, and a full IDE like Pulsar or Zed. gedit is great on my Zorin Gnome install, but i haven't found one i really like on my Endeavour Plasma install, i haven't tried to slim down Kate, but i'll give that a try now i thought of it, but i've tried xed and gedit and there are few weirdnesses with how it behaves in Plasma, or more accurately how it behaves without Nautilus. i'm actually using Zed for the basics now too, its pretty simple when you don't have a project open.
How tf do you get your vlc to look that nice. I use kde neon and it looks like crap with my theme set up. So much I deleted it in favor of haruna. As for the kde browser they have Firefox as a default but also make a file explorer that has internet browser capability called konqerer and a chromium based web browser called Falkon and while lacking a large extension library and drm support it's not that bad and I use it as my daily driver and chromium for any DRM tasks and it works just fine.
the only thing VLC is good for is handling damaged files that other apps crash on, it's slow, has compatibility issues and often manages to output worse quality than a proper player would
I love gnome but I started on budgie with Ubuntu years ago then I left Debian for manjaro gnome shortly after that something made me wanna try manjaro budgie lol I ended up with a gnome and a few budgie specific tools
VLC takes up 200KB, Totem takes up 204KB. What would the harm in having both be?? I understand that you need content, but more resources are better than less as long as you can afford to have them both, then why not? If you don't have lots of disk space, then you have to choose, but were not talking windows executable sizes here. They can co-exist on your system just fine.
Please explain why I can’t download Parrot OS via Firefox but I can via Chromium. I turned off extensions and still wasn’t able to download the ISO through Firefox and had to install Chrome just to download it. Btw, I was using Arch while trying to download the Parrot ISO.
VLC is the true "old reliable". no matter which distro i use, VLC just works. one of the most solid pieces of software of all time
Bein using vlc for more than 20years now
Been using it like 10 or 12 years now
It's part of the reason i'm so into FOSS and trying to make a move to Linux desktop permanently from windows. I know there's so much stuff out there like it that puts proprietary programs to shame and linux is the gateway to all of it.
@@francoisjohannes3648 I read your comment and thought "that's crazy"! Then I realized it has been about 18 years for me.
agreed, i get the mpv love too tho, both options we are lucky to have
Using Firefox since beta. I'm not switching from it. There needs to be a non chromium browser on the market.
I agree with you completely. Chromium will never be like firefox. Many people are abandoning firefox, but doesn't understand why that is wrong. People have been spoiled by mozilla still being able to keep firefox going, but if mozilla were to discontinue firefox, you'd lose the easiest entry software to libre software, and also become completely dependent on Google with Chromium.
Does librewolf count?
Ladybird will hopefully be ready in a few years 💔
@@Jdizzle111 I hope so
Pale moon?
VLC is not only media player, it also can convert media from one format to another, and stream media over network (via http for example) to another device, really cool app
VLC has proven to be quite useful for playing my personal Blu-Ray collection.
I once used it to watch Escape from LA rendered in coloured ACII. Alien looks pretty interesting in ACII too. Fits my Cyberpunk themed rice.
I think I used it as a screen recorder too.
Why does it just resize itself to full screen with black bars when a video loop starts over
Hence the title - Video LAN Client, although it can work as a server too. So you could run a TV channel from it.
As a calculator: SpeedCrunch.
It can units, physical constants, functions (you can also define your own), different levels of precision, the works.
Though I often find myself firing up a Python REPL as a calculator too.
My all time favorite calculator always been this Java calculator. superbcalc
Qalculate has everything you said btw
My favourite calculator is the Python console
Real
@@lloydbush then you do floating point and eventually it messes up
bc is even more fastly accessible
Qalculate also has a Qt UI for us KDE people too :)
I kinda prefer the gtk version, even on KDE, but both are good :)
Geany feels more like a lightweight IDE. I recommend Lite-XL if you just want something for editing text. Lite-XL also has Lua plugin support, and can do code editing and stuff, but it is also way more minimal out of the box.
Qalculate has both gtk and qt versions. Graphical user interface requirements:
GTK (>= 3.10) or Qt (>= 5.6)
libqalculate (>= 5.2.0)
VLC is one of the first apps I install on any of my OS' as I can use it on Windows or Linux. KDE generally comes with Dragon player and most of the time won't play movies off a NAS for some reason. VLC works a treat. The only thing I do that's a must is lower the buffer in settings as sometimes it will freeze with the default value. I also allow multiple instances when started from file manager (great when comparing two similar videos).
And while I use Brave as a browser as well - Firefox is my default on everything whether it be WIndows or Linux on Laptops, phone and TV as I can easily sync data, plugins and passwords across devices regardless of OS. But yes, you do need to go through and change settings and telemetry.
I've never used Qalculate before but I will be from now on. It has a convert function which I'd use all the time and works on multiple OS'. Cheers
for kde plasma vlc is a must, gstreamer backends are stalled or undeveloped so installing vlc is doing yourself a favor.
My favorite way to use FlameShot is the delay. When I want to capture something from video, I find the exact moment, pause then un-pause to see how long it takes for the timer bar to disappear, roll the video back that amount prior to my desired location, set FlameShot delay to that amount of time +3 (for clicking), start FlameShot's screen capture and roll the video going to full screen.
Does flameshot work with wayland now?
I prefer mpv over VLC because it gets out of the way (similarly, I use qview or feh for viewing images). All of those I use maximized, zero window border and no window decoration/titlebar. They are just simply panes containing the media that have easy keyboard commands to move around in the video or directory of images.
thanks to you and others mentioning some cool features of mpv. i'm going to try it.
I just switched to a new Firefox-based browser called Zen. It's privacy focused and kind of like a Firefox-based Arc or Vivaldi, but it's open source unlike Arc or Vivaldi.
I will try it out....
I'm using it on a secondary machine but for the main one I'm still sticking with default Firefox with CSS, probably will switch when it's a bit more finished
@@machieu Understood. But I can say I haven't run into any noticable bugs or issues the last few days. I feel like as young as this browser is, it seems quite stable.
@@MichaelWilliams-lr4mb I've gotten a bunch of crashes on it on linux, but other than that is mostly fine.
@@pylotlight Ah interesting. No problems on Void Linux with it for me. But Zen Browser is allpha software, so I guess it should be expected.
Hey DT, I've been sitting on something for a while now and could use some honest feedback. For those who don't know, I own the TuxShow domain and channel, and I've been contemplating whether to take the plunge and fully develop it into something special for the Linux server community.
✨ The Potential Plan:
1. A Comprehensive Website - A hub for Linux server resources, community discussions, and in-depth tutorials.
2. A Podcast Series - Exploring Linux topics, interviewing industry experts, and sharing practical server management tips.
3. Video Tutorials - Clear, step-by-step guides to mastering Linux servers, aimed at everyone from newbies to seasoned pros.
But here's the thing-I'm still on the fence about whether to go forward with it.
Let me know your thoughts (Hamid from the patron chat)
Thanks.
Ngl, I think it can be a good idea. But, I feel like it's gonna be a difficult endeavor.
I subscribed to you just in case
VLC is also my go-to. Very useful. I installed Librewolf.
i was using LibreWolf as my daily driver when noone else ever thought of using it :D ... now it has reached this channel :D hehehe now we gonna take over the planet!!!!
The Qalc command, the one in the CLI, has a REPL, which I personally find more comfortable, instead of providing the expression via args, since I usually tend to open up my terminal instead of opening up the GUI
Thanks for reviewing these, DT. You always bring uniquely fresh viewpoints and wonderfully new content to your Subscribers. You are my favorite Linux channel -- along with Brody and ChrisT.
VLC is the best free DVD player right now, because it has all but 1 de-interlacing filters included. The one of those included can mostly mimic the functionality of the missing filter.
However, DO NOT take VLC screenshots if you can avoid it. VLC dulls the colours somehow, and I did test it. It's an unsolved problem.
I would recommend Haruna over VLC. It is a QT GUI for MPV and it has better video quality playback, HDR and support for styled .ass subtitles.
VLC has strange blockyness to video playback. Though VLC does have some good features that make it a good secondary player.
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Geany is my favorite for programming. Very light and adaptable.
Also I learned about Tabliss extension from your videos, love it.
big fan of the theme and style you have going
Derek, them glasses mad fresh!
Hey, this was a nice video. I would like it a lot if you did more of these.
This is what I use:
editor: I use neovim for programming, and I use kwrite if I need to store some text temporarily.
video player: mpv (Though I do have VLC installed, and I use it occasionally)
screenshots: flameshot (It just works, and it has some useful tools like drawing, pixelation, etc.
calculator: SpeedCrunch (it just works, and it is really powerful. For example you can save values as variables, and you can create custom functions) but if I want to do something at the command line, I usually use python. Either through the REPL, or like this: python -c 'print(2 * 2)'
browser: firefox / florp (florp is a fork of firefox that I use when screen recording so that I don't accidentally leak anything private)
When you played DigDug growing up but it wasn't until now, many, many years later, that you realize those black dots are his eyes and he's not actually in a suit of armor... 😦🤯
Nano is the best text editor of all time. No learning curve, no tutorials, just you and your lines of code.
Pico is so much better. Nano is for losers. Pico is for winners! (For those who don't get the joke: pico and nano are pretty much identical hence arguing about which one is better is long arguing if the word "hello" is better than the word "hello")
😮
I legit have a harder time exiting nano than vim
@@The1mAgiN4ry- I once had to format my HDD with an axe to get out of VIM.
MPV > VLC
anyone else?
Straight up works better than vlc for me. Had issues with vlc on fedora for some reason, flatpak, too.
@@_Lumiere_ yea. Vlc on startup had color shifted lmao. Had to change some graphics settings to display properly. And on top of that, seek times are slower in comparison
VLC doesn’t even properly work on some codecs on Wayland, and personally the performance of MPV is just better overall, no 50+ms of lag when I scrub a few seconds.
I've basically always ended up having to juggle both. I like MPV's UI more though.
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Now this is the type of subject that makes me subscribe
this is the best video that I've come across. Where can I drop a donation to you??? you are a great fellow respect to you
I always switch my default to VLC mainly due to its cross-platform nature. One annoying thing is that the default keyboard shortcut for MacOS is not the same as other Win or Linux but I've gotten used to it.
Mine are
Light editor: mousepad
Video player: mpv
Screenshot: also flameshot
Calculator: fend
Browser: firefox
Hey DT, You make me love Linux. I have always wanted to switch to Mac but everytime I come back and watch such videos.
I fell in love with qalculate S2
100% agree. Mpv is much better for video, I even love the simple but absolutely sufficient interface
Flameshot looks really good. Curious what you think of Spectacle as a screenshot application. Been using it for a couple months and have really liked it after not having many good offerings on Windows. Thanks for the video!
Good recommendations.
shout out to mplayer - I usually make sure to have both mplayer and vlc. mplayer has a much nice cmd line interface (in my opinion). I feel mplayer looks more professional in a theatre environment. But I use VLC for the GUI features - I have two dvd drives and can never remember which is which. Also some dvd titles do not have the main feature as the first title, which makes mplayer harder to use. But I find mplayer easier when it comes to applying special filters on cmd line for peculiar situations.
Great video, but very weird bots in the comment section.
Is there a way to get an iso file of your distro? I love your window manager and choice of apps so I was wondering if I can install the distro you're using (as it is) without much tinkering
Hey DT! Do you recommend some note / to do application, alternative of notion or Evernote, thanks!!
ASs a Windows (for now) user I thank you too. These are neat tools available on Win. As a 1st timer in Linux which distro would you recommend? Also, can you use dual boot to run Linus on the same machine as Win? I heard that you need a separate HD to install them separately, Win doesn't play along nicely w/ Linux installed on the same HD, it that true?
Hi! I love your content! Thank you for this! Would you share with me, what's you rectangle floating box is, where you have the clock, cpu, ram key bindings etc. was looking for it in your git repos but don't have a clue.
I'm pretty comfortable with KDE, kate, konsole, haruna, dolphin, spectacle and settings. For me are one of the best apps on all the market share.
In my opinion, Konsole is the best terminal on ANY desktop or distro.
I frequently prefer Krusader to Dolphin, I know dolphin has a multi-pane mode but not fond of it.
@@code8986 doesnt integrate well with other desktops
What keyboard do you use? It sounds amazing
Hi @DistroTube, thanks for video. I'd like know, at 1minute 15 seconds into the video, what utility do you use that enables you have the panel to the right of your screen with the info ( CPU/RAM usage, and some qtile keybindings listed there)?
I'm currently using hyperland and I'd like to setup something similar as well.
Conky
I install Micro at every distro installation because Nano shortcuts are disturbing.
I install vim every time because Nano shortcuts are disturbing
I install Emacs at every distro because I don't like my pinky.
i alias pico="nano" because i have no short term memory of the past 20 years.
seriously though.. ctrl+w for find (where) drives me nuts when i'm connected through a web browser like guacamole or something.
You're trolling
@@averagejoey2000agreed, it's such an easier text editor, it has even less shortcuts than nano!
thx for flameshot
i really like when a distro lets me pick my de. let me pick everything at setup time.
7:49 that is some serious commitment to the terminal! 😂
I get that a lot of people just love VLC, but I'm not one of them. I find the mpv wrappers very superior, e.g Mplayer, Smplayer
They work very nice yes, just being using vlc for over 20years, so not going to change. But yeah they nice
@@francoisjohannes3648 In truth I was spoiled by PotPlayer in my Windows days, and that made me picky wrt video players
@m4ss1ck: Agree 100% with you man!
Your desktop setup look sleek . Can you do a video how to set it up ?
Checked for apps better than the defaults; instead find the most default-vanilla apps of all time. Baited.
A little thing that I don't like with vlc is how it handles subtitles.
In vlc, you pick which text encoding to use in a static setting in the application. Then, when you play a video that has the subs in a different encoding, you get gobblygook and/or squares output.
Then, when you change the setting to the correct encoding for the current subtitle text, it continues playing the video with nonsense output and only changes to use the newly chosen encoding after you stop the vid and start again.
Most other media players use automatic encoding detection. Granted, auto detecting isn't perfect, but it's better.
A couple of things... Gnome's default text editor is no-longer "gedit"... !! - Also, for GTK at least Celluloid is a /really/ great video player, that has all the features of VLC, for the most part, but hides them away behind keyboard shortcuts etc... so it behaves like a simpler video player when you don't need those features. Will definitely look at Geany tho.
10:05 is this some kind of new tab extension or a custom homepage? where can I find it?
I’m using Brave too but I’m curious how did you set up your home page?
Check out my video on the browser plug-in Tabliss, for Firefox and Chrome based browsers.
@@DistroTube thanks
The best GUI calculator out there is SpeedCrunch, which is also cross-platform across Linux, Windows, and Mac.
VLC is great from the past to this day. Only thing that bothers me about it is the library functionality.
It would be nice if someone creates a plugin that makes the library function more like winamp back in the day when winamp was still alive.
Those that have experienced winamp would probably understand what i mean.
I accidentally downloaded a blu-ray iso rather than a video file and thought I just wasted all this time downloading this tens of GB file but turns out VLC played it with no issue!
What window manager do you use?
qtile
Thanks for sharing this video.
Libre wolf is my go to for every os
Hey DT, I saw your video on Firefox and privacy issues (or maybe I had seen something prior about the telemetry enabled by default). I checked my Firefox settings (all default) on MX Linux (debian). All privacy impact features were disabled. I did some "research" and it looks like Debian and Mozilla came to a head with licensing regarding Debian's policy of shipping all software with non-free components disabled. This patching Debian was doing was technically in breach of Mozilla's license. I think this is when IceWeazal or some such briefly became a thing. But Debian won that battle and can now ship Firefox patched with all the creep disabled. My question is: "Do you acknowledge that the underlying distribution may affect the "free"-ness of some software?" It can be easy to say "This software has features you may not like...." but if the distro you're on disables them by default then it's not a worry. Case in point... Android has improved it's permissions system to the point where it doesn't matter if an app requires excessive permissions... they can all be disabled (rather, they have to be granted) at runtime....
What is the desklet you are running for CPU and RAM load?
I'd like to know this as well
I want to know as well
Conky
This is very true about windows. For the most part the included apps in a linux distro are all good. Not with windows. This is where linux is so different to windows. Windows comes with garbage included apps. I think microsoft doesn't want to compete with software developers. This means that the included apps will never be any good, if you use them allot you will need to find a replacement. e.g. notepad vs notepad++, examples are endless.
Replacements that are still Firefox based: Waterfox, Floorp, Palemoon, LibreWolf.
New linux user here. I tried Flameshot to see if it could replace Greenshot (Windows), but I couldn't immediately find a way to name the screenshots with anything other than date and time. In Greenshot I named my files with date, time and window title. Is there a way to do that with Flameshot? I'm trying Spectacle now, it's supposed to catch window title as well, but for some reason it doesn't on my system (Pop OS).
I don't just want a long list of files with only date and time, I use window title to help me find screenshots.
I thought the word gnome has a silent "g”. But maybe you have a ger..nome in your garden…
I agree with VLC.
Hey DT, thanx for all your videos. Flameshot is wonderful but now I face a big bug, I'm on 2 monitors with arcolinux wayland plasma, it opens but not in the right screen and and you can even take a screenshot when it opens, hope they fix this quikly, right now I'm using spectacle and it's good too.
Disagree on vlc, on windows vlc is Excellent. On linux its less..good I stick to mpv
I like MPV and I also love SMplayer too! I agree on your opinion on VLC for Linux!
@@ezequielortiz4188 yes I use these two also mpv and smplayer
Evening DT.
What kind of app u using for monitoring the CPU and soo on ? that looks sexy as F
brother, even in Windows VLC is the GOAT.
I've never used another player for the last 10 years
VLC probably powerful tool, but I avoiding it a long time because it so glitchy (at least when I tried it several times). Every time you want watch something, you open it with VLC and the video not playing, the video playing but some artifacts, or for some reason video not syncing with audio... Or the most "popular" - VLC simply crashed! Grub some other app to play same video and everything is working fine. Besides, there are too much tools in the VLC, I don't think average user need those. So, the player that can change audio tracks and subtitles, make screenshots... and play most of formats without glitches is already a fine application for me.
Hey dt. Would appreciate if you can do a vid on yazi file manager. I've recently found the app and the app is great.
yazi is a godsend. i use it everywhere.
What kind of name is yazi have to be careful with autocorrect lol
VLC for life
How does VLC compare to the Adobe version like - Sound Forge?
How did you get the dark theme for VLC? I searched a lot but never got a proper replacement for the default skin.
i think that's the Qt setting to have uniform look with GTK.
depending on your distro, you need to install proper packages (in Arch that would be qt5gtk2 and qt6gtk2, in Debian - qt5-gtk2-platformtheme and qt6-gtk-platformtheme) and set it in /etc/environment file
@@penguin2137 Thanks for the reply! Which variable are you talking about when you say "set it in /etc/environment file"?
I checked if I already have any of the mentioned packages in my Pop!_OS system, and I already have `qt5-gtk-platformtheme:amd64` installed. After searching a bit on the internet, I find myself confused.
My main concern is that I don't want any lasting changes, in case I want to revert the system to the current state as it is in right now after installing any packages. It would be a pain to find and change individual setting for things.
Funny thing, last time I watched video on my desktop was probably 5 years ago or so
Does vlc have Wayland version? Last time i used it it was blurry and laggy
what is the statusbar u are using?
I will never get used to fully grown, adult humnas sayiung "Gooey" when referring to a G.U.I.
Thanks DT -- Always like your tech type vids. Learn something with everyone...
i like having 2 text editors, a real simple basic one as a config editor, and a full IDE like Pulsar or Zed. gedit is great on my Zorin Gnome install, but i haven't found one i really like on my Endeavour Plasma install, i haven't tried to slim down Kate, but i'll give that a try now i thought of it, but i've tried xed and gedit and there are few weirdnesses with how it behaves in Plasma, or more accurately how it behaves without Nautilus. i'm actually using Zed for the basics now too, its pretty simple when you don't have a project open.
I used to use VLC by default back in the days before streaming. What do you guys use VLC for these days?
How tf do you get your vlc to look that nice. I use kde neon and it looks like crap with my theme set up. So much I deleted it in favor of haruna. As for the kde browser they have Firefox as a default but also make a file explorer that has internet browser capability called konqerer and a chromium based web browser called Falkon and while lacking a large extension library and drm support it's not that bad and I use it as my daily driver and chromium for any DRM tasks and it works just fine.
the only thing VLC is good for is handling damaged files that other apps crash on, it's slow, has compatibility issues and often manages to output worse quality than a proper player would
Thorium browser is pretty cool too.
I love gnome but I started on budgie with Ubuntu years ago then I left Debian for manjaro gnome shortly after that something made me wanna try manjaro budgie lol I ended up with a gnome and a few budgie specific tools
vlc? you mispelled MPV. No worries, mistakes happen
MPV is like vim, VLC is like emacs
Lacking features how audio tracks or subtitles?
VLC takes up 200KB, Totem takes up 204KB. What would the harm in having both be?? I understand that you need content, but more resources are better than less as long as you can afford to have them both, then why not? If you don't have lots of disk space, then you have to choose, but were not talking windows executable sizes here. They can co-exist on your system just fine.
I'm just going to say hell no to that last browser, lol. I really like Vivaldi for my browser.
Please explain why I can’t download Parrot OS via Firefox but I can via Chromium. I turned off extensions and still wasn’t able to download the ISO through Firefox and had to install Chrome just to download it. Btw, I was using Arch while trying to download the Parrot ISO.
Can i know how you added that system controll on right side bar with hyprland
Hey DistortUbe!
1:14 Gedit was replaced by the new GNOME Text Editor since GNOME 42.
NeoVim is the best text editor tho 😤
Admit it. You yourself use GNU/Emacs, mpv, bc... you managed to mention the runner-ups in each category. 😂
I like Ksnip for screenshots.
Flameshot rules!