All the OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE I use on my servers, laptop & desktop

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    My laptop and my desktop run Fedora workstation 38 with GNOME 44.
    For my servers, I have one running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It's used for my Nextcloud server, it's hosted on Linode, and it's the backbone of all my digital life and the channel. My other server is used to host my podcast, the Linux and Open SOurce News podcast. That server is hosted on Linode, and runs Debian 11.
    I also run HoloISO on a PC in my living room, that serves as my Linux gaming console.
    First thing is Nextcloud. As I said, it's installed as a Snap, and it works beautifully. I don't get the updates as soon as they're out, but when I do get them, they're very well tested and I never had any issues with it. I'm currently on version 26.0.4, so Nextcloud Hub 4, not 5.
    I mostly use Nextcloud as the platform to handle all my online accounts. It hosts my calendar, contacts, tasks, photos, notes, RSS feeds, passwords, and I also use it to share files with sponsors, or to share the link to the weekly patroncast I make for patrons and youtube members.
    My other server hosts my podcast, using YUNOHOST and their Castopod app. Yunohost is a very simple, graphical dashboard to run one or many server applications, it basically just simplifies hosting stuff and has pre packaged apps to install stuff in one click.
    To interact with other Nextcloud related stuff, I use a few apps. The first one is Iotas, it's a GTK application that plugs into Nextcloud notes and lets you take, well, notes, in simple, distraction free markdown. For RSS feeds, I use Newsflash, which is another GTK app.
    I also, of course, use the Nextcloud desktop client to sync all my files to and from my computers, plus the Nautilus Nextcloud integration so I can generate a shared link for any file straight from the file manager. For tasks, I use Endeavour.
    And on my phone, I also use the Nextcloud app to send all my photos automatically from my phone to a folder that is then synced to all my computers, and I use the official Nextcloud Notes app to have access to my scripts while I'm recording.
    For audio, I use Audacity. It looks like crap, it's very old, but it does the trick, it has the 3 effects I need, a noise reduction tool, a compressor, and a normalizing tool.
    For my thumbnails, it's obviously GIMP. It has a bad reputation among people who are familiar with photoshop, but as I've never used that thing, GIMP is really easy to use for me
    And for recording my screen, it's OBS on every device.
    When I happen upon an image I want to use that uses a format Resolve doesn't support, like WebP or AVIF, I use Converter to convert it to PNG. For converting video files, I use ffmpeg in a terminal.
    And when I need to re download one of my old videos that I didn't backup, I use Parabolic.
    Now for a few smaller utilities. FOr virtual machines, I generally run them using GNOME Boxes, because it's really simple.
    For my backups, I use Pika Backup. I also use Safing's portmaster. For editing text, I generally just use Nano in a terminal.
    For music, I use YTM Music, because I pay for UA-cam Premium to avoid ads on my TV, and it comes with a music streaming service, so might as well use it.
    I won't talk much about the web browser, it's Firefox everywhere, even on my phone.
    For my office suite, I use LIbreOffice, everyone knows about it.
    For email and calendar, I moved to Thunderbird, seeing as version 115 is absolutely wonderful and well designed.
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  • @TheLinuxEXP
    @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +31

    Download Safing's Portmaster and take control of your network traffic: safing.io

    • @Quudz
      @Quudz 8 місяців тому +1

      hello

    • @googletjanster2917
      @googletjanster2917 8 місяців тому +1

      I've tried it earlier but it didn't like that I had Mullvad installed, might try as soon as it's fixed tho!

    • @keilmillerjr9701
      @keilmillerjr9701 8 місяців тому

      ​​@@googletjanster2917it's twice the price of mullvad... And no cellular support. 😔

    • @zg9xUmvV
      @zg9xUmvV 8 місяців тому

      too bad it is systemd. :(

    • @imgladnotu9527
      @imgladnotu9527 8 місяців тому

      @@googletjanster2917 its a great firewall + adblock, sucks hard that bandwidth statistics is a paid feature, including network history. i might want to grab pro to test how well their SPN fares vs just getting mullvad as the extra features in plus are not enough to justify replacing the app i use for network statistics, which is also coincidentally my task manager replacement.

  • @f1nger605
    @f1nger605 8 місяців тому +211

    As an artist and graphic designer, I can assure you that your thumbnails are indeed works of art.
    First of all, they're unique and identifiable to your channel. I always know who made the video because you're the only channel I'm subscribed to who has thumbnails like that.
    Second, they tell me what the video is about, both directly and indirectly. Not only are your practical titles in them, but also the logos you include in the thumbnails serve as forshadowing. Even if your title doesn't expressly say that the video is about Firefox or gnome, when I see the Firefox or Gnome logos, I know you're going to talk about them. It's simple, but it works.
    Your thumbnails do their job of building interest in the video very well, but they also do it without succumbing to clickbait cliches like circles, red arrows, or reaction images and memes. They are quality thumbnails that a lot of UA-cam channels should learn from.

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +53

      Thanks! I try to avoid clickbait as much as possible, so my options are limited 😅

    • @lpolarisl219
      @lpolarisl219 8 місяців тому +13

      ​@@TheLinuxEXPAlthough I'm not a professional, I second his/her opinion. Your thumbnails are quite unique with pleasant colours in them 😊

    • @Monarchias
      @Monarchias 8 місяців тому +3

      @@TheLinuxEXP Not limited at all. You're free to express yourself genuinly. And we apreciate.

    • @rolandixor
      @rolandixor 8 місяців тому +1

      Agreed

    • @salimmonder4175
      @salimmonder4175 8 місяців тому +1

      totally agree 😊

  • @FriskGamer1
    @FriskGamer1 8 місяців тому +157

    Open source is the best.
    Edit: I think i created a war in the replies

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +32

      Oh yeah

    • @Mempler
      @Mempler 8 місяців тому +24

      But the most toxic and the most underpaid.

    • @wilh3lmmusic
      @wilh3lmmusic 8 місяців тому +15

      FREE SOFTWARE (AS IN FREEDOM) IS THE BEST

    • @ForceGamerrr
      @ForceGamerrr 8 місяців тому

      Sometimes

    • @redrush-hp9li
      @redrush-hp9li 8 місяців тому +4

      ​@@TheLinuxEXPyeah that's why ur using an IPhone right?

  • @ulysg
    @ulysg 8 місяців тому +38

    Okay, maybe you're a Nano guy, but have you looked at Micro? It's Nano with better mouse support and standard shortcuts

    • @samuelsurfboard9887
      @samuelsurfboard9887 8 місяців тому

      Finally seen someone else who likes Micro 😏

    • @c__0ne
      @c__0ne 8 місяців тому

      Micro is good, one problem i got its not in the repositories of the distros. Nano is inside alm9st every repo

    • @PieroZanetti
      @PieroZanetti 8 місяців тому

      Came in the comments just to suggest Micro, it's awesome

  • @AwesomeOpenSource
    @AwesomeOpenSource 8 місяців тому +50

    Great video! As always. Thanks for your commitment to the open source community. I love to see what everyone uses in the open source world. On video editing, given the transitions and titles you use, I'd be hard pressed to suggest a video editor in the open source space as it stands today. That said, I use Shotcut, and have a fairly fast workflow with it. Though my transitions and titles are nowhere near your level. Well done!

    • @xansurnamehere
      @xansurnamehere 8 місяців тому

      Omg I love both of your videos, it's crazy to see you here.

    • @cjmoss51
      @cjmoss51 8 місяців тому

      Love the vids. Id love to see you do a video on AdGuard Home.

  • @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration
    @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 8 місяців тому +13

    RECOMMENDATION: When you speak words that are mnemonics or other generally accepted terms, please consider putting a screen text indicating the name and what is means, for newer users to help them understand what the spoken word means.

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +6

      Isn’t that what I did in the video?

    • @ThomasOlvera
      @ThomasOlvera 8 місяців тому +3

      ​@@TheLinuxEXPthey want a whole essay 😂

  • @ambreiaju
    @ambreiaju 8 місяців тому +39

    I just realized that my gnome setup looks exactly the same, including wallpapers, but with the dock on the left side (vertical docks ftw!)
    Edit: Use tenacity, its a fork of Audacity without telemetry and also adds a few themes to modernize the look of it

    • @RyanWAFFELYoung
      @RyanWAFFELYoung 8 місяців тому +7

      I just installed tenacity yesterday and it's fantastic. I have always loathed audacity's UI, so it's a very welcome change.

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid 8 місяців тому +5

      I agree, and switched to Tenacity not long after the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry BS. I tried the various forks and Tenacity is still the best so far, and by far. too.

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid 8 місяців тому +8

      @@RyanWAFFELYoung Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, the UI's are nearly identical, although since I switched from Audacity to Tenacity around a year ago, they improved the UI a bit (not much) so I wouldn't be surprised if Audacity didn't get the very same improvements. The real difference between the two is that the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry data collection stunt, which is why a few forked the project and removed that part, Tenacity being the best of the bunch.

    • @diarmaid0heineachain314
      @diarmaid0heineachain314 8 місяців тому

      I use Audacity and find it very good but don't know about this telemetry issue. What does the telemetry do?

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid 8 місяців тому

      @@diarmaid0heineachain314 The software collects Telemetry data (look it up) and sends it to the company that makes Audacity. Audacity was purchased by this company before it happened. Although it may no longer do so, the company violated the GNU public license when they started using it, had it turned on by default, and didn't disclose it to the users or give them a setting to turn it off: If they want to collect data from peoples computers they have to ask the user, and give them a setting to turn it on, not have it on by default. They also have to say exactly what data it collects, so the user can decide whether they will allow it. I believe what was even worse, is that they had the data collection happen through "Google analytics" and Google are big data collectors and sellers, so it wasn't just for the company to get usage data to better understand what features people used... but possibly personally identifiable data that can be extrapolated from the data by Google, and sold to who knows who!
      So when that happened, and it wasn't the first time that company did something shady like that, many Linux distros removed Audacity from their repo's, a huge uproar went through the community, and since the program was open source, a few other developers forked the program, took out the parts that did the dirty deeds, and released it under a few different names! I use one called Tenacity, it's nearly Identical to audacity, just not from the company that makes audacity, as they cannot be trusted! So far Tenacity has worked great, has had bugs and annoyances fixed right after they forked it... just like a good program should, others who forked it have not made any major improvements or didn't have their shit together in whatever way, and are not as popular. So far I haven't heard anything about Audacity being improved since then, and even if, I won't use it.

  • @pretendcolours
    @pretendcolours 8 місяців тому +21

    I also love Nano, but if you want something a bit more modern, and advanced, I really recommend Micro. It still runs in the terminal like Nano, but it's way cooler.

    • @michaelenelmar
      @michaelenelmar 6 місяців тому

      I just wanted to write this comment. It's such a relief to use ctl+s to save and ctl+q to quit and colour highlighting is also quite handy. People always say that Nano is easier, so Micro is the easiest. If u have any Debian based machine, than try nala instead of apt, same story. It's how apt should be.

  • @bluesillybeard
    @bluesillybeard 8 місяців тому +43

    I've used both GIMP and Photoshop. I actually prefer GIMP, I just personally find it more intuitive.
    I've heard Krita is a better Photoshop alternative for artists, and GIMP is a better alternative for photo editing.

    • @joansparky4439
      @joansparky4439 8 місяців тому

      The only thing I miss in GIMP (coming from PaintShopPro) are the many buttons for the different tools/features that that app has.. GIMP doesn't have such a feature (and thus appears limited to me because of this).

  • @stes1647
    @stes1647 8 місяців тому +8

    Is there any reason to use Virtualbox instead of just using KVM and libvirt?

  • @aghnos9
    @aghnos9 8 місяців тому +19

    You should give a shot to Micro as an alternative to Nano, I think it's almost the perfect terminal editor

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +3

      I’ll give it a try!

    • @ChristianHartmannBerlin
      @ChristianHartmannBerlin 8 місяців тому +2

      micro is awesom. it feels way more intuitiv compared to nano if one is used to other small desktop editors such as all variants of gedit or kde's kwrite. (e.g. Ctrl-S saves the document. never could remember what nano is using). personally i'm still addicted to vi. i'm old ;)

  • @TheDevarshiShah
    @TheDevarshiShah 8 місяців тому +7

    Amazing video! The exact thing I was looking for. I also want to setup backbone of my digital life. If I am not missing, can you make an in-depth video on how to setup NextCloud server? I won't mind the length of the video ;)
    I've an old PC that can be re-purposed as a server.

  • @anonymous_opinions1924
    @anonymous_opinions1924 8 місяців тому +5

    Thank you for this video! So many people seem to think that open-source software isn't good enough for doing actual work, and this kind of video proves them wrong.

  • @kepler186f4
    @kepler186f4 8 місяців тому +3

    Another fantastic presentation, packed full of valuable information... as a noob using Mint and exploring an entirely different environment, I find your videos to be valuable source of information and encouragement.

  • @JohnCBarbu
    @JohnCBarbu 8 місяців тому +4

    Regarding the filters in thunderbird, you have the option of manually importing and exporting the filters to a file. Yes, still requires manual work, but once you get most of them setup in one device, do you really change them that often?

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +1

      True, that could work!

    • @jkaw963
      @jkaw963 8 місяців тому +2

      @@TheLinuxEXPsyncthing might help 😉

  • @guandulin
    @guandulin 8 місяців тому +2

    Thanks for the great channel, I just bought a Slimbook thanks to your recommendation (they should sponsor you!).
    I use GIMP mainly for photo editing (contrast, sharpenning, blur, grayscaling, masks and such), to create images and design I prefer Inkscape, don't need to move from one layer to other, easy to draw, move objects, align, distribute, it is much more intuitive to move objects around.

  • @declancottle991
    @declancottle991 8 місяців тому +3

    GIMP is amazing, and my high-school computers teacher preferred it over Photoshop because it's made to be easy to learn rather than paying for classes to learn how to use the software. And he would use it for commissions to upscale and touch up old photos, so it wasn't just his personal uses or anything.

  • @sma92878
    @sma92878 8 місяців тому

    This was really nice, thank you for walking through this.

  • @scottlewis2372
    @scottlewis2372 8 місяців тому

    Great video! Thanks for sharing your environments.

  • @blakedennis6213
    @blakedennis6213 8 місяців тому +3

    I just noticed that HoloISO started getting updates again a few days ago. Really excited for that, as I much preferred it over ChimeraOS.

  • @CyborusYT
    @CyborusYT 8 місяців тому +11

    Could be interesting to see all the software you use that _isn't_ FOSS

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +23

      There isn’t much: the phone, resolve and steam, plus Discord, that’s it!

    • @CyborusYT
      @CyborusYT 8 місяців тому +5

      @@TheLinuxEXP That's kinda impressive ngl!

    • @Loader7272
      @Loader7272 8 місяців тому

      greetings, thanks for the video mate. as a long time win user *ugh* i believe that the PTB invested heavily w/ gill bates in mutual prostitution, skanky but not stupid. you are fortunate to have avoided the MS vaccines. learning linux equivalents for win apps is tedious for a lazy bastard. peace, an old fart. ☕

  • @tiborbogi7457
    @tiborbogi7457 8 місяців тому

    I installed parabolic and tried it. It worked fine. Thank you.

  • @mephisto--
    @mephisto-- 8 місяців тому +1

    I'm really happy I discovered your channel ! Your videos are amazing :)

  • @truthdoesnotexist
    @truthdoesnotexist 8 місяців тому +2

    I use shotcut for my video editor and it was very easy to learn, I just watched one 10 minute video with all the basics and picked it up right away

  • @FaisalMasood
    @FaisalMasood 8 місяців тому +2

    I've not been an open-source geek like you, but I have used those when needed. I must say I loved the details of your server and desktop environments running open source software.
    Do you have a list of these opensource software that you used posted somewhere?

  • @academicalisthenics
    @academicalisthenics 8 місяців тому +1

    I've encountered the same problem with boxes recently and switched to Virt-manager for the time being.
    For music I use Moosync.

  • @fabricius2642
    @fabricius2642 8 місяців тому +1

    Hey Nick! Great video as always! I also run an Ubuntu server (on Oracle, not Linode) and I changed the apt.sources file to replace lunar where it was focal or whatever it was back then. I also did this with debian, from buster to bookworm. It's not 100% safe but I didn't have any problems. Saves you a reinstall.

  • @enricotamellini83
    @enricotamellini83 8 місяців тому +7

    Great video! Very interesting. Would you maybe like to do a more detailed video (maybe step by step) on what you used to get away from Google Drive with Pros and Cons and security topics (run the server locally or on the cloud)? Thanks a congrats for the channel!

    • @ddman7867
      @ddman7867 8 місяців тому

      didnt he do a whole series on de-googling his life? or am i thinking of someone else?

  • @ricardo_vergara
    @ricardo_vergara 8 місяців тому

    Excellent video, what settings do you use on the laptop to save battery?

  • @AlanTwoRings
    @AlanTwoRings 8 місяців тому

    This was helpful. Thanks!

  • @johnnylee3505
    @johnnylee3505 8 місяців тому +1

    I experienced the same problem with Gnome Boxes before as I'd installed it from Flatpak and then from Snap. After that, I installed it from the deb version in the store and it works perfectly ever since. I think the problem arisen was casused by the sandbox feature of Flatpak and Snap as well as incompatibility between the Gnome version of the host OS and that of Gnome Boxes when you update it. Have Fun with it !

  • @13thravenpurple94
    @13thravenpurple94 8 місяців тому

    Good stuff 👍👍 Thank you 💜💜

  • @khalidelgazzar
    @khalidelgazzar 7 місяців тому

    Thank you. That's helpful

  • @richd6362
    @richd6362 8 місяців тому

    Thank you. Very helpful video.

  • @chuckowens2010
    @chuckowens2010 8 місяців тому

    I love the theme on running server and services. "I'm lazy and just want it to work". I am the same way I have been using unraid to host stuff like Nextcloud and Vaultwarden

  • @cue108
    @cue108 8 місяців тому +1

    I use Shotcut as Video editor. It supports hardware acceleration but I only use it in conjunction with auto generated asset proxies for 4-K assets and preview acceleration during the cutting work.
    The export render melt files in XML format can be used to delegate the final render job on any other machine. My 4-K videos are rendered via an ubuntu-server headless machines while my desktop machine is free to be used for other purposes meanwhile. Also, as render time gets less crucial with delegated rendering I choose non-hardware accelerated rendering for final production as I discovered that hardware acceleration comes with a price! Accelerated encoding implementations tend to miss out on modern features of h265 in favor of render speed thus the end result will be larger files with lower quality. Instead I am using a Ryzen 7950X CPU on the server side to have the final rendering done thoroughly with latest encoding features implementations while having a desktop machine available freely.
    I am using the Flatpak version 23.07.29 of shotcut.

  • @theFPVgeek
    @theFPVgeek 8 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing! Been watching many of your videos after getting back into Linux after a long break. Saw you started with KDE then moved to Gnome to get more experience, and now I see you're going to possibly go back to KDE. After using both productively for some time now, do you have a preference? I keep bouncing between the two.

  • @foollonggone4727
    @foollonggone4727 8 місяців тому

    Thanks for sharing.

  • @joewakaki4828
    @joewakaki4828 8 місяців тому +1

    Hobby musician here.
    I used Audacity until Muse acquired it and added some controversial telemetry. I moved to Audacium after that which was one of the fork of Audacity (audacium still had the optional build flag with the Audacity Telemetry). I use Ardour now which is a bit more advanced with a multi-channel recording/mixing and supports plethora of lv2 plugins. From the news, it seems that Audacium has been merged with Tenacity which is hosted over in codeberg.
    Maybe could do a video on floss audio software for recording and/or live streaming music/podcasts ;).

  •  8 місяців тому

    For my audio and podcast recording I use oceanaudio and reaper (oceanaudio for the recording and reaper for the mixing). They are not FOSS, but I worked with those for more than a decade on a Mac (so I got my workflow dialed in) - and as I am making the slow transition, I am happy to be able to continue using them on Linux.

  • @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration
    @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 8 місяців тому

    THANK YOU!!!

  • @rccmhalfar
    @rccmhalfar 8 місяців тому +2

    I would be interested to know more about the opensource apps you use for the occasional use

  • @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration
    @Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 8 місяців тому

    EXCELLENT
    VERY INFORMATIVE

  • @byteseb
    @byteseb 8 місяців тому

    Good video!. I also use a lot of the software you showed in this video.
    I also don't mind using GIMP. It's pretty fine for me. And your thumbnails are really good to me. They're simple, legible and pretty.

  • @Nk-ti4st
    @Nk-ti4st 8 місяців тому

    You can see the arch wiki's list of applications page for checking out more video editors

  • @aram4939
    @aram4939 8 місяців тому +2

    For virtualization Virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) is the best on Linux.

  • @salvadoraugustovitko1396
    @salvadoraugustovitko1396 8 місяців тому +1

    For video editor, lightworks is supposed to be looking to go open source, and it's pretty good, I tell you coming from da Vinci myself

  • @frangrau3750
    @frangrau3750 8 місяців тому +8

    Great video Nick!
    I'd would recommend you to move from Gimp to Inkscape, as it makes more sense for your workflow than Gimp (and might be faster once you get used to it)

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +10

      Yeah, I should learn vector graphics anyway!

    • @experimental0000
      @experimental0000 8 місяців тому

      @@TheLinuxEXP to be fair, once you do, you can update/refine your brand logo if there were things you wanted to experiment with for it

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid 8 місяців тому

      @@TheLinuxEXP Both have their advantages depending on what exactly you are doing in each, so I use both often for the very same piece of art. Inkscape has been improving much faster though, and now giving Illustrator a run for it's money, and just got a lot better with the recent version, so I haven't even found and used some of the improvements from two versions ago, and just got a whole bunch more! I found it very easy to use and fairly quick to learn though, but it still has some annoyances in the GUI I wish they would address, mainly related to high res displays.

    • @mephisto--
      @mephisto-- 8 місяців тому

      @@Bob-of-Zoid Illustrator is 0% private or open source

    • @Bob-of-Zoid
      @Bob-of-Zoid 8 місяців тому

      @@mephisto-- And where exactly did I say it was privat or Open source? I didn't!
      I don't use Illustrator, and only said that Inkscape is "giving it a run for it's money" (A saying meaning: showing itself to be just as good or even better). Illustrator has way more users, and a lot of them are finding Inkscape to be more than sufficient for what they do, even better on some levels, and many Illustrator users are switching to Inkscape now than ever before.

  • @seansingh4421
    @seansingh4421 8 місяців тому

    You should also do a video on all the Hardware you use to run the FOSS. In my experience HW compatibility was the number 1 issue

  • @MartinCode
    @MartinCode 8 місяців тому +2

    Micro for text editing in terminal, its human like shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v and ctrl+s

  • @mancampovestiminvatam1281
    @mancampovestiminvatam1281 8 місяців тому +4

    Since you use Audacity, you could raise audio level to be on par with big channels.
    My standard looks like this:
    1. Normalize
    Remove DC offset: checked
    Normalize peak: checked
    -3 dB
    Normalize stereo: unchecked (maybe checked would be better).
    2. Compress
    Threshold: -20 dB
    Noise floor: -60 dB
    Ratio: 2:1
    Attack: 0.20 sec
    Release: 1.0 sec
    Make up for gain: checked
    Compress based on peaks: checked
    3. Normalize again to -3dB
    I set them like this. Than, create a macro that can be run as easy as Tools - Apply macro - Macro_name.
    Almost all of my videos from my other channel have the same audio level and can be played without needing to adjust volume every time ads play (always have your audio level close to that of the ads!).

  • @Nk-ti4st
    @Nk-ti4st 8 місяців тому +1

    For the gnome boxes bug, you have to enable cpu virtualisation in bios
    If that is already turned on then install the libvirt-daemon-system package in debian/ubuntu, then enable and start 'libvirt' using systemd, then 'sudo usermod -aG libvirt username'

  • @randigitart
    @randigitart 8 місяців тому +1

    My boot drive died last night! Good thing I've been thinking I've been thinking of switching to linux, this was a good resource to help me migrate.

  • @slavasslava3039
    @slavasslava3039 8 місяців тому

    Would you please tell us what icon theme are you using in Fedora? It looks great.

  • @ViciousTurducken
    @ViciousTurducken 8 місяців тому

    I would love a video dedicated to getting the most out of Thunderbird! I just installed and applied the GNOME theme you suggested and it is great! But I feel like I am only scratching the surface.

  • @devincurrie4145
    @devincurrie4145 8 місяців тому

    Which software are you using to edit PDF on Linux? (e.g. assemble, annotate, digitally signing with self-signed certificate, etc.)

  • @ganeshanthiyagarajan1595
    @ganeshanthiyagarajan1595 8 місяців тому +4

    Much needed do it often

  • @cjmoss51
    @cjmoss51 8 місяців тому +2

    No. Do not take any other suggestions. Nano is great and you are right. That being said, the nextcloud integrations expand farther than I imagined and I will probably be setting up a docker/lxc install of it after I get my DNS server pair set up.

  • @kxuydhj
    @kxuydhj 8 місяців тому

    on the gnome boxes thing: you could install virt-manager on the side as they both use qemu-kvm/libvirt which means you can create a vm in one and use it in the other. i do remember boxes defaulting to a libvirt user session while virt-manager defaults to the system session but that's just a matter of setting up another connection. 3 clicks and you're done. also: nano rules. i can use both vim and nano but nano just feels way better to me. more modern as it uses hotkeys and stuff.

  • @UndoEverything
    @UndoEverything 8 місяців тому +1

    "and yes, I am a lazy bastard".
    I had very tiring day and now I am laughing and my cats are thinking that I am gone insane. 😹😻

  • @DJgregBrown
    @DJgregBrown 8 місяців тому

    Fix gnome boxes by uninstalling and reinstall from flat hub or repo opposite of which version you used first. I found the Gnome Boxes in Fedora crash out and jammed so I installed flathub, and then at the time RPM had a version too. You might have to do a full flush of it first as if broken it might leave crap behind if it fail to uninstall right

  • @SolveComputerScience
    @SolveComputerScience 8 місяців тому +1

    What about docker-compose for server software? It's very powerful and customizable.

  • @janb.7522
    @janb.7522 8 місяців тому

    Try the flatpak if you have the rpm version installed.

  • @soubinan
    @soubinan 8 місяців тому

    Did you tried virtmanager instead of virtualbox?
    As gnome box it is using kvm, so just another UI to manage the same thing actually

  • @ScottBeamer
    @ScottBeamer 7 місяців тому

    I dual boot Fedora and Windows 11 on my laptop. And I’m always using beta stuff so I frequently wipe my Drive and start new. Thunderbird lets you back up your profile you can export it to a zip file and back up everything. I can then use that file to re-import in either the Linux version or the Windows version of Thunderbird. it’s a great time saver.

  • @tommyluco
    @tommyluco 8 місяців тому +5

    Regarding Kdenlive -> when rendering to mp4 i easily get 200+ frames/second rendering times on my Intel integrated GPU laptop. So if its set up correctly rendering actually works just fine. And since I'm using it as a Flatpak its also much more stable.

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +1

      Doesn’t match Resolve’s performance though ;)

    • @tommyluco
      @tommyluco 8 місяців тому

      true that ;) @@TheLinuxEXP

  • @leonardohmkist1910
    @leonardohmkist1910 7 місяців тому

    About compatibility between office suites, the better in my tests was WPS, it has an excelent compatibility with microsoft office, if you had used the fonts that you have both on windows and linux you will not have compatibility issues!

  • @yexela
    @yexela 8 місяців тому

    Thanks! Parabolic is great

  • @eliasw.1155
    @eliasw.1155 8 місяців тому

    Your content is great and you can improve your audio quality further when you reduce the echo of your room. Place 4 absorbers in your room where you record (one above your head, one left of you, one right of you and one in front of you at the height of your mouth; size usually 40x100x10cm). I would recommend Basotec 10cm (4inch) and this is the most important detail: the absorbers have to be placed 3-4 inches (at absorber 4 inches thickness) away from the wall depending on the thickness of the absorber. Why? The most wave sound power is not directly at 0 inches away from the wall when the wave is reflected, it's beneath the 0 wall point (depending on the wave frequency) and when you place your absorber at this place it's most effective or doesn't effective at all. it can be calculated via formula with lambda. This would have the most effect. Another tip is the order your use your (minimal) sound tools: Noisegate, Deesser, Compressor, Equalizer (usually reduce couple db around 2k Hz and low cut 70 Hz), Reverb (via insert channel). Hear/mix your sound at 80 db loudness to get the best impression of it. Keep up your good work

  • @Lampe2020
    @Lampe2020 8 місяців тому +3

    To fix gnome-boxes you have to *sudo apt purge -y gnome-boxes* , delete the *~/.config/libvirt* directory and any directories inside your home folder that contain the phrase "gnome-boxes" or "boxes". Note: this will delete the VMs you have on there currently, so back up what you need to back up before doing anything. After cleaning up, *sudo apt install -y gnome-boxes* will install it again and it should work again.
    [EDIT]: Sorry, you use fedora, not something debian-based, so just replace the APT commands with their fedora counterpart…

  • @Linux_ASMR
    @Linux_ASMR 8 місяців тому +5

    Nano gang rise up 😎

  • @pincopallino9761
    @pincopallino9761 8 місяців тому

    Hey Nick, great video. What program do you use for your accounting?

    • @dfs-comedy
      @dfs-comedy 8 місяців тому

      Not Nick here, but I use Gnucash. When I was running a consulting business, I used it for my business; now, I just use it for my personal accounting.

  • @greg4505
    @greg4505 8 місяців тому +2

    Great video!
    I also use GIMP and have used photoshop and I find PS to be way too bloated compared to GIMP. I also still use kdenlive and have not had any crashes recently (knock on wood) and use a profile that takes advantage of my GPU when rendering.
    I used to use audacity, but recently I switched to Ardour to be able to record from multiple inputs at the same time and I will never go back to audacity.

  • @ConnorMarc
    @ConnorMarc 8 місяців тому

    Taking notes

  • @zenginellc
    @zenginellc 8 місяців тому

    Safing is probably the only product sponsor I'm legitimately considering spending money on in years.. they look solid.
    I am looking forward to trying it out on some test systems.

  • @Quik-wk5sh
    @Quik-wk5sh 8 місяців тому +1

    Tenacity is a great Audacity fork and way more modern-looking!

  • @XanderLeaDaren
    @XanderLeaDaren 8 місяців тому

    OpenShot is a great video editor!

  • @ronm6585
    @ronm6585 8 місяців тому

    Thank you.

  • @bandito241
    @bandito241 8 місяців тому

    I just use Firefox PW manager since it works everywhere as an auto fill app on mobile if needed.

  • @jpfarias
    @jpfarias 8 місяців тому

    Hey, what software would you recommend for remote desktop access? I have some VMs running on a server with linux desktop running on them that I need to let other people access and I am currently using dwservice but the experience is not so good, even tho I am on the highest paying tier for maximum bandwidth. Is there anything you recommend for that?

  • @alecumihnea
    @alecumihnea 8 місяців тому

    May I suggest Reaper DAW for the audio part? It's just great

  • @bluesangel75
    @bluesangel75 8 місяців тому

    Shortwave is great for listening to web-radios such as Fip (Jazz or Metal), New Morning Radio & so on ...

  • @frisosmit8920
    @frisosmit8920 8 місяців тому

    You did forget to mention that there is a lot of open source software that stands as the basis of these applications, like the linux kernel, the gcc and clang compilers, mesa and all the libraries that these applications require. I think these should have gotten a bit more attention in this video, since they are very important and often forgotten

  • @devincurrie4145
    @devincurrie4145 8 місяців тому

    13:25 Totally agree that we need sync feature for tab/label and filter rules so can sync between computers and mobile. In fact the lack of label/filter rules in most email client made it hard for me to justify to move out of Gmail ecosystem. If developers put in serious effort to solve these problem, I'd be happy to go back to using local email client software using IMAP. I wonder if the lack of label/tag and email filter rules were due to IMAP? If that's the case, need to update IMAP protocol to support these features!

  • @tedtheone1
    @tedtheone1 8 місяців тому

    Love your videos. Give Olive video editor a try. Please do a review of the project. This editor is what the community needs but it needs support. Maybe the blender community could step in and save it.

  • @wiking793
    @wiking793 8 місяців тому

    You've mentioned your TV and it made me wonder if it could be upgraded by using something like LibreElec

  • @hippiestafarii
    @hippiestafarii 8 місяців тому

    Hello Nick.
    Can you explain, or point to a video if the answer is already out there, why you choose this config for your nextcloud and not a NAS ?
    Merci :-)

  • @SirRFI
    @SirRFI 8 місяців тому

    Is there any way to make some apps autostart or/and appear in specific workspace/virtual desktop (or w/e is the name for multiple desktops when pressing SUPER key)? For example Discord in workspace 1, Firefox in workspace 2, 2 other programs in #3.

    • @RogerioPereiradaSilva77
      @RogerioPereiradaSilva77 8 місяців тому

      That's mostly dependent on the window manager that you use. Any window manager worth its salt lets you do that. Kwin, the window manager for KDE Plasma, allows that and much more.

    • @SirRFI
      @SirRFI 8 місяців тому

      @@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 What about GNOME?

  • @JohnSmith-yt8di
    @JohnSmith-yt8di 8 місяців тому

    I am curious, do you have the display language of your apps and GNOME set to French (and so you've just set it to English for the purpose of the video), or do you use them in English?

  • @burnedolivetree
    @burnedolivetree 8 місяців тому

    Hi, if I may ask, what domain registrar are you using? You mentioned that you have an email there, and that's exactly what I was searching for

  • @morthemex
    @morthemex 8 місяців тому

    GIMP is great for simple edits! However if you need photo editing capacity I've found it lacking. Thumbnails and entirely digital image creation seems to be perfectly simple on it though, so just consider what you need to do before choosing between PS and GIMP!

  • @MysticMylesZ
    @MysticMylesZ 8 місяців тому

    Could I turn a VPN on my main device into a server that can be accessed from a mobile app or browser?
    On a similar idea of accessing things from other devices; does Next Cloud work on older versions of andriod?

  • @RickE-TV
    @RickE-TV 8 місяців тому +1

    Shotcut is a decent open source video editor.

  • @bigbay1159
    @bigbay1159 7 місяців тому

    Dude your thumbnails are awesome, i know a new video dropped because they are unique and stand out in the best way. Dont knock the work, its well presented

  • @jeremybyte
    @jeremybyte 8 місяців тому

    @TheLinuxEXP What do you use for email, Proton?

  • @xperience-evolution
    @xperience-evolution 8 місяців тому

    Gimp is a great Name. Easy to remeber and write.
    And a great software

  • @rolandixor
    @rolandixor 8 місяців тому

    The OG strikes again 😎

  • @therevanchistv
    @therevanchistv 8 місяців тому

    Serious question whag made you decide to go with linode over digital ocean?

  • @andyleighton3616
    @andyleighton3616 8 місяців тому

    Quick question - you said you run Nextcloud as a snap. Is there a reason for using a snap as opposed to say running it under docker? Not that I think it makes too much difference.

    • @TheLinuxEXP
      @TheLinuxEXP  8 місяців тому +1

      Just convenience, one command line and it’s running!

  • @johngamble5270
    @johngamble5270 8 місяців тому +2

    Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, after Audacity's new owners got... weird (not going into those details, but there were some weird social media attacks after the fork).
    It's on Codeberg, and handles the jobs i would do on Audacity (but bear in mind that I am an audio amateur with no special needs).