Links from the Video Github Desktop (Windows): desktop.github.com/ GitHub Desktop (Linux): github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases LTT Linux Challenge Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/3E8IGy6I9Wo/v-deo.html
It would be really nice if you could do a follow up video on how to resolve weird issues with git such as the "detached head" and other common problems some of us users randomly run into.
Its great there are ways to get the proper files from Github, but it makes no sense why they have all those ways to get files but don't have "Save As" work properly.
@@TheExileFox One does not exactly run into git issues randomly, but I get where you're coming from. You happily complete a feature and push forgetting to squash commits first and spend another half an hour rebasing it the hard way and making sure you don't break anything rewriting the remote history. Come to think of it, probably outdated forks are the worst to deal with - I once forgot to set upstream on my fork and made a bunch of changes to data files while lagging 100+ commits behind the original repo. Not fun. Atlassian probably has the best tutorial out there, official docs aren't bad either - I usually direct new members of the team there.
Yeah, metaphorically speaking Linus moved to another country expecting that his costumes and language would be the same and got frustrated when realizing he was out of his cozy familiar comfort zone. As like everyone he eventually will go through the 5 stages of grief. BTW, I love git so much I named my cat Git. Yes there is a cat in brazil called git and he really loves pushing things.
Yup. And it's funny how he hates how github and distros manage both of those creations. I completely agree with him on this one. The distros can't agree on packaging for applications and github does a shit job of managing pulls and merges.
@@BlindRambler ".....github does a shit job of managing pulls and merges." - Would you care to elaborate? It seemed quite easy and convenient from the video.
@@JohnSmith-eg6bl github allows users to push commits without pgp key verification.... Which anyone can spoof others name. But while designing git, all these where taken care Also, git is really hard to learn software. But it is so powerful and useful as that, it almost nullify that issue... On the other hand, github made is easy, by sacrificing security.... Also the idea of git itself is decentization, which github completely forgot and made it a centralized software
I think my favourite part of the LTT linux challenge is finding your page. I'm slowly getting back into Linux to digitize old VHS tapes and it's going well. I'm really looking forward to your debian-titus. I also coincidentally started using git about two days ago. All of these videos are so timely for me. Thanks for all your hard work!
@@utubepunk I'm using an old Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 card and VLC. I'd bet any supported TV tuner card should do and then wire the VCR CATV output to the tuner. You may be able to use composite out or S-video depending on the VCR capabilities. Mine was CATV out only. There's a switch on the back of the VCR usually for CH 3 or 4, so make sure that's correct and tune to that. One thing that helped me find that channel was 'scantv -i "Tuner 1" -n NTSC-M -f us-cable -c /dev/video32', so something similar should work as a quick check that the tuner can see the carrier from the VCR. In my case 61.25MHz said '???' instead of 'no station', which all the others said. Then in VLC I used File->convert and make sure you use that frequency in kHz (so 61.25MHz becomes 61250kHz). I also had to specify the audio channel from the capture card as 'pulse://'. For the profile I used MPEG-TS encapsulation, MPEG-1 Codec @ 360x240px 1600kb/s bitrate and 29.97fps. Audio codec was MP3 @ 128kb/s bitrate, 2 channel, 44100Hz sample rate. Another issue was stuttering in the digital version and changing the caching to 2000ms from 300ms (under 'show more options') seemed to fix that. I'm sure there are plenty of better ways, but this worked for me. There was a lot of trial and error on the way though. Getting scantv to show something useful was the first success though. Although if you're using composite or S-video that's not necessary since there's no tuner involved.
@@steveP526 oh wow! Thanks for all the details. Gonna screenshot your reply for my notes. I remember way back when TV cards were a thing. Right after is when media centered PCs took off.
@@utubepunk I think I might have made a UA-cam comment no-no since my last reply didn't go through. Posting links maybe gets you flagged as spam or something. Anyway, keeping with the theme of Chris' original video - I created a new github repo. The user is bigsdawg-2k and the repo is VHS_capture_with_tuner_card. There's one PDF in there that has all my notes in chronological order (starting with a card I eventually learned had a bad tuner). It has a bunch of hopefully useful stuff in there...
@@steveP526 I have a bunch of camcorder VHS-C tapes also I really want to digitize... I did some research on what's involved and found one site where it seemed so complicated if you want to get the best results possible. So basically it seems not doable as a home project unless you don't mind a half assed result.
You definitely must work with both power users and basic users. You clearly grasp that there are levels to this IT world. Your ability to verbalize know the technical aspects to various areas and translate in a way that many people can understand. And the the greatest part is you do it without being condescending , disrespectful like so many elitist. I have been recommending your channel to all of my buddies who previously had a bad taste in there mouth from dealing with the elements in the Linux community who seem to not want Linux to truly be appreciated by everyone even the little guys. You da man Mr. Titus
I don’t disagree with your general sentiments: I have been, and remain, a staunch supporter of Chris and have been form the start. But I don’t rate well this particular video. When I first watched this video I was interested in finding out about GH, - I knew nothing about it. I could not understand most of this video back then. In the meantime I have used GH effectively, (in a limited way to glean a lot of useful info from past and present stuff, and have made some minor contributions.) Watching this a new a few times now, I still can’t make head nor tail of most of it. I think if you understand this video then you must already know all about GH. I think this video was a quick opportunist knee jerk reaction, but for the inexperienced GH user, it rather supports that LTT chaps confusion at trying to understand GH. For me GH remains over confusing, but you can glean good info from there, but a project goes around in circles and gets nowhere fast, partly because most people can’t underfstand the place, and that includes most people using it!, effectively or otherwise.
I think everyone is missing the point. From Linus's point of view, the installation instructions were not clear, and it just said download, but now it is updated. I think being developers/engineers, we always fall behind in documentation.
@@demianschultz3749 -_- this ideology is so foolish, the harm done by miss information far outweighs the harm done to the persons channel. Their influence has a huge level of responsibility that come with it
@@jonathanvazquez1737 We shouldn't harm a channel with a massively undeserved following, in favor of better quality information. /s I'm not sure what you mean by "ideology" though. I suspect you were dealing with a simple fanboy/parasocial relationship half, feeling overprotective. Or they were taking the piss.😄
Nice video, please make a part 2 for more in-depth information like how branches work. And 2 things I noticed: 1) sometimes you use git as a term for both git and GitHub which could cause confusion (but to be fair those points are quite minor) 2) when you highlight a part of the screen (like at 9:13) and blur the background your camera also blurs which I think doesn't look good
Thanks for the feedback, yeah I'll change that title template to leave me in focus as well. I originally had branches in this video, but cut the part out as I didn't like my presentation and the fact it ran 10 minutes longer as I explained why we use branches for tests and rambled a bit too long for the purposes of this video.
So basically. If you're contributing: clone it, make changes, commit, push. If you want to see changes made/ contributing and collaborating at the same time: fetch every now and then to see changes take effect on your end. gotcha. It really is simple and I was intimidated at first because i've never used github and all of the files and small projects that I've made are all locally saved or saved somewhere else like onedrive. And this video has made things simpler and clear. thankyou verymuch Chris!
RCS/CVS for me. Then subversion and bazaar. Darcs and monotone were interesting but never really took off. Fossil is a nice alternative if you want something slightly tidier than git and comes with ticketing, forums, web interface... Mercury is good too, but I like git’s feel of a set of idiosyncratic but well worn tools.
As a pretty new user to Linux, I very recently started using git to manage a couple of things for myself, and to be honest, one can pretty much be up an running with some of the basic tools that git provides very quickly. The advanced features might take some time, but again, they're advanced and I don't need them just yet. It's amazing how powerful these tools are and how efficient they can make your workflow.
git advanced features can be mind benders for an already awesome tool. it can get *crazy*, crazy good once you get used to all of its details and inner workings, cause knowing how it ticks makes the thing unbreakable to some extent.
@@brianhsu_hsu You know the crazy thing is, I am not even a software developer :P . I am using git to mainly manage my config files, to aid me in making a website (teaching myself how to do this too), and most importantly experimenting with managing ifc files (BIM stuff, I'm an Architect). I just want people to realize git can be used for a lot of stuff beyond software development. Gotta love the open source community :')
Neither did I. I think he was frustrated as this was from the Linux Challenge Part 2 when he was trying to use a GitHub project to get his GoXLR working.
Why dose that code say code. And not clone or download or something that looks like hey click here too download me. Code sounds like something that the programers owner would use to make a change
Great tutorial on this! I've been a little lost and I think this is a nice overview. I will admit, there have been times where I just wanted to download a single folder and didn't want to download the entire repo, so I've used downgit for that. I think it would be nice if there was a download button next to each file and folder by the commit id or something. I know it will be a while before that happens, but I don't it's an unreasonable improvement that could be made at least years down the line.
Good that you show all the various ways to get files off of github, but it would be even more helpful to talk about why you'd pick one method over the other.
If I could heart this video instead of like it I could since this is what I need right now for website design thanks so much this video means a lot to me it came in the right place and the right time!
And this is why I like the Linus Linux challenge series look at all these great videos people are making explaining this stuff. The neck beards are spend their time laughing at Linus but look people are making videos explaining the stuff he gets wrong. Now new users get a better understanding of things that experienced Linux users normally don't think to explain.
I'm so confused. I just want to learn how to install an app/software on my Linux system. I can't seem to find any tutorials on how to do that. Every so called tutorial just talks about what is GIT and GITHUB and how to put your own info into Git.....I just want to get some software from Git and install it.........Why is it so difficult? Yes, I'm sorry for the rant, I am still a n00b on Linux since Win 7 lost support. I am an average users, but Git and trying to get Vaulkan drivers for my GPU is so F*ing difficult. Otherwise, I love Linux in all it's glory.
You monetize your expertise and educating through your videos. That's way better than a black-box product, and more sustainable. The open-source model fuels collaboration and naturally spawns sell-able services. The short-sighted old guard who think of every product as a patented black box just don't get what they're missing out on, both in terms of professional satisfaction and monetary gain.
Very nice comment. Explains how UA-cam can be good, provided it does not get filled with too much crap. BTW, can this github stuff be monetized? I think very briefly Chris made a short comment in the video, but I am not sure
And this is exactly the reason why I stopped even bothering with LTT. If he doesn't like how something is done he throws a fit and bashes whatever tech he doesn't like and pretty much tells everyone that the tech is wasted and useless, he's in it for the clout not the tech. You on the other hand I just stumbled onto and because of your explanation of Github I now want to dive into the world of Lynux and scripting. Tell me you wanna improve the world without telling me you wanna improve the world, LTT ya got some learnin to do!
Lol, I know but I didn't want to grab too much of the clip. Hopefully that mystery person can watch this video and never do that again... Or, maybe they were just trolling Linus.
Found his "if GitHub is just for developers, then desktop Linux is only for developers" take so bizzar. I'm not a developer, I cant code, and use Github probably 5 days out of the weeks, and now thanks to you Linux 90% of the time. Think it says more about his lack of experience with the opensource projects more then anything else.
I don't think your experience makes the statement illogical. Your experience just shows that Github is not just for developers. His statement is "IF Github is just for developers, then desktop Linux is only for developers".
@@babsNumber2 Im not a devoloper and I use GitHub and Linux desktop...Ergo, it makes his coment moot and illogical IMHO. long and short of it is he doesn't seem to understand what Github is or how it works, and linking it to linux is just a bizarre take and misses the fact that GitHub is as much about distribution as it is development to the majority of users.
06:00 Exactly! I brought Linux awareness to nearly 2million people in a video instead of getting everyone's focus into my business to make money.. Great feeling!
Downloads can be made with creating a release (or clicking download zip file from the repo). A download button for each file would just clutter the ui in my opinion.
6:02 This is what Open Source is all about ♥ Only a True Developer can feel this inner peace and that satisfaction is priceless. Power of Open Source is Unlimited ∞
well, about that "save link as..." thingy not everything is that straight forward when you try to save file with 'save link as...' you saving actual file with correct file extension problem with github is that it is NOT link to the file, it's reference to another HTML page but the way files/folders are shown on github(or similiar platgorms) user can think that he tries to save file and IMHO github could actually allow to save file via 'save link as...' and still redirect to html page on click
Very helpful and easy to understand, unlike a lot of other demonstration videos where they don't know how to communicate this kind of knowledge effectively, thank you
Hey Chris, thanks for this github video. I do have one suggestion. The video was difficult to view with your machine in dark mode. It might be better for your video production if it's not in dark mode. Just saying.
@@thatguyalex2835 I use dark mode most of the time; however, when I share my screen during a training session I've learned to set it back to light mode to make it more visible to the viewer.
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, so that he'd have an easier way to collaborate with other people who wanted to help him develop Linux. Git is something I'm gonna have to learn, one of these days.
For a beginner, this video is very confusing. You didn't make clear the difference between a fetch and pull, and you didn't make clear when you were switching between tools. Things like that. I'm somewhat familiar with some of this stuff, so it mostly made sense to me, but for a total noob, this would be very confusing.
So what's the difference between you pushing something and someone else creating a pull request? Is a "Pull Request" completely different? Where the code goes to some sort of pending state to be reviewed by you before merging with the master?
I had a comment here, quite innocent. But it keeps getting deleted no matter how I re word it. I have tried loads of times, also deleting and starting again completely rewritten Amazing what the Bot seems to be capable of. Something in what I was saying it did not like and no matter how I re word it, it still knows that I am trying to say the same thing. Scary
Good video! I am one of those who normally just using the command line for anything Git related so I haven't seen those graphical utilities. They do look like they could be good for me so I'll have to check them out. Thanks for all you do in explaining these things to folks!
so what Linus did is akin to right clicking this youtube video and saving it to desktop as if you were trying to download the video, but you'd only get some random file
i feel like Linus had 30 minutes to get through that task, reached github, saw the file and right clicked on it to save it, without even seeing if there was any other available option, and rambled about it.
The day the Debian Titus touches the surface, I will make it run in at least 100 machines at least by making it a pre-installed os option for Mass adoption.
I'm the windows/linux dual boot daily user, and when i'm on windows i use command-line version of git, it just doesn't feel right when i look at app/gui version.
Linus teaching tubers how to do it by playing the fool and giving everyone work roasting him... now that's a biz man... learn well young grasshoppers...
So True, At the end of the day it equates to more views for him. I always try to leave a link to the source video when I take a snippit and I think many others do the same.
I don't think everyone should learn GitHub. If you are not a developer or building projects, then don't bother. And Sourceforge is easier and it will store more variable file types. If you do use GitHub and you need help, look into adding bounties to your project. I have gotten help from high level programmers by attaching $100 bounty to a project.
thank you as someone who uses this once in a blue moon .... i knew there was a zip file some where also. right click save i only ever seen that trying to grab a photo from a website or something. or downloading a website for offline viewing
Please consider explaining terminology, like "commit, git, pull" etc. when explaining how to use github and also try not to go through pages as fast so we can see what you're doing without having to go back in the video a few times.
No its just the way i think. i prefer note pad, abc flow chart or Raptor. Raptor really lets you feel the algorythim and how it works without all the assembly language ( dont like hlls). Takes some time to manually convert however it has really given me a certain appreciation for how windows xp was made as i de code the leaked source. Just dont really like the github perspective of view. Not that its bad or anything like that its just a preference of understanding.
Disappointed he didn't show what to actually do after downloading the zip file. Because I've downloaded zip files, extracted them, and then can't seem to find any kind of .exe file in them to do anything with it. I've had this issue with numerous files from github, so I know it's something I must be doing wrong. I go to Code -> Download zip -> I create a folder on my desktop that I put the zip file in -> Right click the zip and click Extract here -> the zip file has "-master" at the end -> I look into the extracted folder and there is no .exe file to start anything up with or install anything. No idea what I'm doing wrong. Had this issue with both XOutput and ViGEmBus that I tried to download from github
Exactly! From a "plain user" standpoint, is not common sense to have the knowledge that you need to compile or work in some way what you have downloaded. It may be obvious for a developer, but a standard user may not know (and shouldn't be required) how to work around compiling, troubleshooting dependencies and other difficulties that you need to work out after you download that GitHub content.
So i have a question. im very new to PC and i could be using this completely wrong, but i am trying to download a script i can use for a game. I understand i need to save the script that is on Git. but is there a certain way i need to execute it or something so i could use it?
If you go into it with an open source mindset, can you eventually make money somehow? I guess donations right? And how do you acquire an open source license?
The one thing i dont u derstand is that. What if multiple people fetch the latest version and commit different changes. U still have to do the pulls on that. So lets say 5 people committed changes since u last did a pull. What will then happen? Will stuff just get overwritten or does only the part that they changed get updated?
I always knew there will be workaround for everything in linux.. simply the point is it wasn’t that easy to directly figure out for a common person grown up forced to use windows
@@barry5 He didn't mention Github anywhere in his comment. He just said it wasn't that easy to directly figure out for a common person grown up forced to use windows. That's true for Linux desktops.
One thing i don't get... why developers don't put executable in their project. You always have to build from source and for linux newbies it means a total nightmare which end it up always on dependency errors and whatnot. Don't even mention how hard is remove something built from source... At the moment github is manly for "real" linux users. Too complicated and not practical for the general user. Personally speaking i find github more scary than the terminal.
@@TheTurnipKing I just know i tried in the past to install polybar many times unsuccesfully, i struggle to install kvantum as well (i had to search through heaps of tutorial to fix dependency issues and whatnot). Recently i wanted to try a new calendar app (in beta version) but no luck again. If you are a newbie with basic linux knowledge github is a no-go place unfortunately. Easier to rely on the old sudo apt install or some appcenter
I still don't get why VLC is so "must have". Last time I was watching video from file was like ages ago. As for the git. First lets remember what is git, what is git repository and what is git hub. I think you mix this up a bit. Cloning repo isn't really the same as downloading it as zip from github. Cloning creates local repository. It's something more. Also to clone you need git to be installed. It's obvious. So if you only want files -> use zip. And for raw is pointless. I can see what's in file in normal view (with formating which helps). I can also copy from it. When I need specific file, this raw -> save as is just 1 step too much. You could change it to "download as" and nobody would cry about lack of "raw". Also raw opens file in browser. Not always it's good idea. As for the git desktop. I would say it quick. IDEs nowadays have pretty much built in "git desktop" in them. 10 years ago it was very important sofware, I remember we used tortoise git for that, but now you either have it intregrated or there is some plugin for it. What is sometimes still needed is git commands installed (so git as a tool), because sometimes you just need to use terminal commands for some specif git related jobs. Still not everything can be done by gui in that regard.
you might exclusively consume streaming but a lot of people such as me enjoy not being fully dependent on a remote library controlled by someone else ( isn't it this whole "control your own stuff" philosophy that makes us into linux ?) and VLC is complete garbage, especialy in Linux so i wouldn't call it a must have.... it got popular ages ago for being opensource an able to open anything without needing external codecs, but other than some niche usages ( like reading some DVR-like flux protocols etc) MPV-based players work better on linux, and MPC-HC on windows
@@nickiebanchou Plex server is mostly used to play videos on different devices. Still don't see any point in buying videos instead of just watching them as part of streaming service.
@@21yarpen some people value ownership some other people don't have the luxury of bandwidth there's different kinds of people with different kinds of needs in the world
bro need you help regarding arch linux thing is that i have installed freach arch and chose xfce4 dex and the proble is that i am unable to configure the way of diaplaying network tray in xfce4 pannel and same in the case of bluetooth plz help
One thing I don't get about Linus's rant about GitHub and the right-click. Why on earth would anyone knowing basic internet navigation do that? It's not just github. Same idiotic "argument" can be made for *every* website in existence.
You didn’t have thousands of contributors and never will get anything approaching that. Maybe a couple of hundred is more accurate. Some contributions were fantastic, ( half of which you missed ) , some were very good , some were good. More than half were crap. Not criticising, just saying. I realise that you have to make the video impressive and entertaining or else you won’t get viewed, subscribed, and that would be a shame as most of your stuff is great. ( IMO this video’s content was untypically not so good )
what a big pile of $%^& git hub wants to sort itself out (or linux) after watching this i wanted to slit my wrists no wonder windows is so unstoppable, im sick of hearing "all you have to do is" followed by 6 weeks of lessons 44 ways to do one thing, i like GUI as does most the world for example windows is still GUI watch as its terminal takes a back seat for 99% of the world. i will continue using linux but its got to look at its self and ask why dont people like our text way of doing same stuf as one click windows lets go back and paint on cave walls. p.s your still the best tech tuber ty for trying chris
Links from the Video
Github Desktop (Windows): desktop.github.com/
GitHub Desktop (Linux): github.com/shiftkey/desktop/releases
LTT Linux Challenge Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/3E8IGy6I9Wo/v-deo.html
It needs a big blue download button. Lol... Simple as that.
Edit: Or at least a download button of older versions as well. :)
It would be really nice if you could do a follow up video on how to resolve weird issues with git such as the "detached head" and other common problems some of us users randomly run into.
Its great there are ways to get the proper files from Github, but it makes no sense why they have all those ways to get files but don't have "Save As" work properly.
@@TheExileFox One does not exactly run into git issues randomly, but I get where you're coming from. You happily complete a feature and push forgetting to squash commits first and spend another half an hour rebasing it the hard way and making sure you don't break anything rewriting the remote history. Come to think of it, probably outdated forks are the worst to deal with - I once forgot to set upstream on my fork and made a bunch of changes to data files while lagging 100+ commits behind the original repo. Not fun.
Atlassian probably has the best tutorial out there, official docs aren't bad either - I usually direct new members of the team there.
Yeah, metaphorically speaking Linus moved to another country expecting that his costumes and language would be the same and got frustrated when realizing he was out of his cozy familiar comfort zone. As like everyone he eventually will go through the 5 stages of grief.
BTW, I love git so much I named my cat Git. Yes there is a cat in brazil called git and he really loves pushing things.
Git was first released 16 years ago by Linus Torvalds to manage the development of the Linux kernel.
Really?
Yup. And it's funny how he hates how github and distros manage both of those creations. I completely agree with him on this one. The distros can't agree on packaging for applications and github does a shit job of managing pulls and merges.
@@BlindRambler ".....github does a shit job of managing pulls and merges." - Would you care to elaborate? It seemed quite easy and convenient from the video.
@@JohnSmith-eg6bl github allows users to push commits without pgp key verification....
Which anyone can spoof others name.
But while designing git, all these where taken care
Also, git is really hard to learn software. But it is so powerful and useful as that, it almost nullify that issue...
On the other hand, github made is easy, by sacrificing security....
Also the idea of git itself is decentization, which github completely forgot and made it a centralized software
@@vaisakhkm783 Thank you for the explanation.
I think my favourite part of the LTT linux challenge is finding your page.
I'm slowly getting back into Linux to digitize old VHS tapes and it's going well. I'm really looking forward to your debian-titus. I also coincidentally started using git about two days ago. All of these videos are so timely for me.
Thanks for all your hard work!
I also need to digitize a box or 5 of vhs tapes. What are you using to do it?
@@utubepunk I'm using an old Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 card and VLC. I'd bet any supported TV tuner card should do and then wire the VCR CATV output to the tuner. You may be able to use composite out or S-video depending on the VCR capabilities. Mine was CATV out only. There's a switch on the back of the VCR usually for CH 3 or 4, so make sure that's correct and tune to that. One thing that helped me find that channel was 'scantv -i "Tuner 1" -n NTSC-M -f us-cable -c /dev/video32', so something similar should work as a quick check that the tuner can see the carrier from the VCR. In my case 61.25MHz said '???' instead of 'no station', which all the others said. Then in VLC I used File->convert and make sure you use that frequency in kHz (so 61.25MHz becomes 61250kHz). I also had to specify the audio channel from the capture card as 'pulse://'. For the profile I used MPEG-TS encapsulation, MPEG-1 Codec @ 360x240px 1600kb/s bitrate and 29.97fps. Audio codec was MP3 @ 128kb/s bitrate, 2 channel, 44100Hz sample rate. Another issue was stuttering in the digital version and changing the caching to 2000ms from 300ms (under 'show more options') seemed to fix that.
I'm sure there are plenty of better ways, but this worked for me. There was a lot of trial and error on the way though. Getting scantv to show something useful was the first success though. Although if you're using composite or S-video that's not necessary since there's no tuner involved.
@@steveP526 oh wow! Thanks for all the details. Gonna screenshot your reply for my notes. I remember way back when TV cards were a thing. Right after is when media centered PCs took off.
@@utubepunk I think I might have made a UA-cam comment no-no since my last reply didn't go through. Posting links maybe gets you flagged as spam or something.
Anyway, keeping with the theme of Chris' original video - I created a new github repo. The user is bigsdawg-2k and the repo is VHS_capture_with_tuner_card. There's one PDF in there that has all my notes in chronological order (starting with a card I eventually learned had a bad tuner). It has a bunch of hopefully useful stuff in there...
@@steveP526 I have a bunch of camcorder VHS-C tapes also I really want to digitize... I did some research on what's involved and found one site where it seemed so complicated if you want to get the best results possible. So basically it seems not doable as a home project unless you don't mind a half assed result.
You definitely must work with both power users and basic users. You clearly grasp that there are levels to this IT world. Your ability to verbalize know the technical aspects to various areas and translate in a way that many people can understand. And the the greatest part is you do it without being condescending , disrespectful like so many elitist. I have been recommending your channel to all of my buddies who previously had a bad taste in there mouth from dealing with the elements in the Linux community who seem to not want Linux to truly be appreciated by everyone even the little guys. You da man Mr. Titus
I don’t disagree with your general sentiments: I have been, and remain, a staunch supporter of Chris and have been form the start.
But I don’t rate well this particular video.
When I first watched this video I was interested in finding out about GH, - I knew nothing about it. I could not understand most of this video back then.
In the meantime I have used GH effectively, (in a limited way to glean a lot of useful info from past and present stuff, and have made some minor contributions.)
Watching this a new a few times now, I still can’t make head nor tail of most of it. I think if you understand this video then you must already know all about GH.
I think this video was a quick opportunist knee jerk reaction, but for the inexperienced GH user, it rather supports that LTT chaps confusion at trying to understand GH.
For me GH remains over confusing, but you can glean good info from there, but a project goes around in circles and gets nowhere fast, partly because most people can’t underfstand the place, and that includes most people using it!, effectively or otherwise.
0:13 "Especially if you're using mac, windows , and linux" WTF else am in ganna use lol
I think everyone is missing the point. From Linus's point of view, the installation instructions were not clear, and it just said download, but now it is updated. I think being developers/engineers, we always fall behind in documentation.
Pointing out a specific channel's mistake is not right because it could get people to distrust the channel, therefore, harming it
@@demianschultz3749 -_- this ideology is so foolish, the harm done by miss information far outweighs the harm done to the persons channel. Their influence has a huge level of responsibility that come with it
@@jonathanvazquez1737 We shouldn't harm a channel with a massively undeserved following, in favor of better quality information. /s
I'm not sure what you mean by "ideology" though. I suspect you were dealing with a simple fanboy/parasocial relationship half, feeling overprotective. Or they were taking the piss.😄
@@demianschultz3749 no one gives a shit about your opinion. figure it out
Nice video, please make a part 2 for more in-depth information like how branches work. And 2 things I noticed:
1) sometimes you use git as a term for both git and GitHub which could cause confusion (but to be fair those points are quite minor)
2) when you highlight a part of the screen (like at 9:13) and blur the background your camera also blurs which I think doesn't look good
Thanks for the feedback, yeah I'll change that title template to leave me in focus as well.
I originally had branches in this video, but cut the part out as I didn't like my presentation and the fact it ran 10 minutes longer as I explained why we use branches for tests and rambled a bit too long for the purposes of this video.
So basically.
If you're contributing: clone it, make changes, commit, push.
If you want to see changes made/ contributing and collaborating at the same time: fetch every now and then to see changes take effect on your end.
gotcha. It really is simple and I was intimidated at first because i've never used github and all of the files and small projects that I've made are all locally saved or saved somewhere else like onedrive. And this video has made things simpler and clear. thankyou verymuch Chris!
The tutorial I've been waiting for, Thanks Chris!
I still remember the old days where git was not so popular and people were still using subversion as collaborative tool, man time really flies...
"and people were still using subversion".... "Where!?" Sadly I live in a world where they still do! :'(
@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 never ever even heard of that through studies or internship. Subversion i mean.
RCS/CVS for me. Then subversion and bazaar. Darcs and monotone were interesting but never really took off. Fossil is a nice alternative if you want something slightly tidier than git and comes with ticketing, forums, web interface... Mercury is good too, but I like git’s feel of a set of idiosyncratic but well worn tools.
As a pretty new user to Linux, I very recently started using git to manage a couple of things for myself, and to be honest, one can pretty much be up an running with some of the basic tools that git provides very quickly. The advanced features might take some time, but again, they're advanced and I don't need them just yet. It's amazing how powerful these tools are and how efficient they can make your workflow.
git advanced features can be mind benders for an already awesome tool. it can get *crazy*, crazy good once you get used to all of its details and inner workings, cause knowing how it ticks makes the thing unbreakable to some extent.
Git is very powerful. Even I'm a software developer, I only use a fraction of it's feature.
@@roridev Yeah exactly.. Hopefully I get a good grasp of it with time..
@@brianhsu_hsu You know the crazy thing is, I am not even a software developer :P . I am using git to mainly manage my config files, to aid me in making a website (teaching myself how to do this too), and most importantly experimenting with managing ifc files (BIM stuff, I'm an Architect). I just want people to realize git can be used for a lot of stuff beyond software development. Gotta love the open source community :')
Awesome as always!
Thanks, Chris!
My pleasure!
wait what!!??!! I didn't expected that from Linus!!
Neither did I.
I think he was frustrated as this was from the Linux Challenge Part 2 when he was trying to use a GitHub project to get his GoXLR working.
I thought Linus couldn't get any more cringe but I was wrong
@@ChrisTitusTech Linux Tech Tips when?
he barely gets by on Windows, what can you expect? lol
Why dose that code say code. And not clone or download or something that looks like hey click here too download me.
Code sounds like something that the programers owner would use to make a change
Great tutorial on this! I've been a little lost and I think this is a nice overview. I will admit, there have been times where I just wanted to download a single folder and didn't want to download the entire repo, so I've used downgit for that. I think it would be nice if there was a download button next to each file and folder by the commit id or something. I know it will be a while before that happens, but I don't it's an unreasonable improvement that could be made at least years down the line.
Good that you show all the various ways to get files off of github, but it would be even more helpful to talk about why you'd pick one method over the other.
Depends on your environment. For example, if you are already working in the terminal using wget or curl makes more sense.
Sometimes...Life is not about money...THIS IS THE SENTENCE GUYS!
If I could heart this video instead of like it I could since this is what I need right now for website design thanks so much this video means a lot to me it came in the right place and the right time!
Glad I could help!
oh my lands i needed this at the beginning of the school year😅
And this is why I like the Linus Linux challenge series look at all these great videos people are making explaining this stuff. The neck beards are spend their time laughing at Linus but look people are making videos explaining the stuff he gets wrong. Now new users get a better understanding of things that experienced Linux users normally don't think to explain.
That's a big problem with the open source world. It''s full of know-it-all jackasses who would rather be in a secret club than help people.
This is ACTUALLY what im waiting for! Thanks chris!!!
I'm so confused. I just want to learn how to install an app/software on my Linux system. I can't seem to find any tutorials on how to do that. Every so called tutorial just talks about what is GIT and GITHUB and how to put your own info into Git.....I just want to get some software from Git and install it.........Why is it so difficult? Yes, I'm sorry for the rant, I am still a n00b on Linux since Win 7 lost support. I am an average users, but Git and trying to get Vaulkan drivers for my GPU is so F*ing difficult. Otherwise, I love Linux in all it's glory.
You monetize your expertise and educating through your videos. That's way better than a black-box product, and more sustainable. The open-source model fuels collaboration and naturally spawns sell-able services. The short-sighted old guard who think of every product as a patented black box just don't get what they're missing out on, both in terms of professional satisfaction and monetary gain.
Very nice comment. Explains how UA-cam can be good, provided it does not get filled with too much crap.
BTW, can this github stuff be monetized? I think very briefly Chris made a short comment in the video, but I am not sure
Yeah, like Bill Gates, he is really ashamed of his propietary O.S
Your the best one that can explain everything and make it so easily to understand ❤️
هارون. کلیپات عجیبند.
@@ArashRezaee what ?
Talk arabic or English
@@DF1.j Watched your clips, weird.
What is GIT? Is it an abbreviation? I've searched but cannot find the explanation for the name.
This was super helpful. Thanks for breaking this down and helping me wrap my head around how to use this.
And this is exactly the reason why I stopped even bothering with LTT. If he doesn't like how something is done he throws a fit and bashes whatever tech he doesn't like and pretty much tells everyone that the tech is wasted and useless, he's in it for the clout not the tech. You on the other hand I just stumbled onto and because of your explanation of Github I now want to dive into the world of Lynux and scripting. Tell me you wanna improve the world without telling me you wanna improve the world, LTT ya got some learnin to do!
you skipped the part where he mentioned that someone explained to him that that's the way to do it
Lol, I know but I didn't want to grab too much of the clip. Hopefully that mystery person can watch this video and never do that again...
Or, maybe they were just trolling Linus.
Found his "if GitHub is just for developers, then desktop Linux is only for developers" take so bizzar. I'm not a developer, I cant code, and use Github probably 5 days out of the weeks, and now thanks to you Linux 90% of the time. Think it says more about his lack of experience with the opensource projects more then anything else.
I don't think your experience makes the statement illogical. Your experience just shows that Github is not just for developers. His statement is "IF Github is just for developers, then desktop Linux is only for developers".
@@babsNumber2 Im not a devoloper and I use GitHub and Linux desktop...Ergo, it makes his coment moot and illogical IMHO. long and short of it is he doesn't seem to understand what Github is or how it works, and linking it to linux is just a bizarre take and misses the fact that GitHub is as much about distribution as it is development to the majority of users.
06:00 Exactly! I brought Linux awareness to nearly 2million people in a video instead of getting everyone's focus into my business to make money.. Great feeling!
It *might* make sense for github to have a download button for each object in the browser though
no it doesn't, you are mistaking github for something like dropbox.
Its not file sharing platform
@@Praxss Funnily enough, it's exactly that.
Downloads can be made with creating a release (or clicking download zip file from the repo). A download button for each file would just clutter the ui in my opinion.
6:02 This is what Open Source is all about ♥
Only a True Developer can feel this inner peace and that satisfaction is priceless.
Power of Open Source is Unlimited ∞
well, about that "save link as..." thingy
not everything is that straight forward
when you try to save file with 'save link as...' you saving actual file with correct file extension
problem with github is that it is NOT link to the file, it's reference to another HTML page but the way files/folders are shown on github(or similiar platgorms) user can think that he tries to save file
and IMHO github could actually allow to save file via 'save link as...' and still redirect to html page on click
Very helpful and easy to understand, unlike a lot of other demonstration videos where they don't know how to communicate this kind of knowledge effectively, thank you
Hey Chris, thanks for this github video. I do have one suggestion. The video was difficult to view with your machine in dark mode. It might be better for your video production if it's not in dark mode. Just saying.
Agreed. Most people like me don't use dark mode. :) It is off-putting also.
@@thatguyalex2835 I use dark mode most of the time; however, when I share my screen during a training session I've learned to set it back to light mode to make it more visible to the viewer.
@@jtodora I just use normal mode. :)
Chris thanks so much for this. Love your content and can’t wait for your distro.
dude, u look and sound so friendly, just wanna wish u luck and hug!
thx for video
Really easy to understand and full of priceless information for a developer, i really would like to see another video about it
Git was created by Linus Torvalds, so that he'd have an easier way to collaborate with other people who wanted to help him develop Linux.
Git is something I'm gonna have to learn, one of these days.
This one was much needed 🤩thanks man
There is so much fun in Linux Community than expected. You never see this in Windows, and if… most of them are toxic!
Now this is a useful video. Thank you
You can actually do commit and push using vscode itself. Saves time kek
If you click and save a link on your browser, it downloads the webpage the link was gonna take you to. Isn't that how browsers work Linus?
Thank you, Chris. Very true.
Ive been searching for this in your channel!!
For a beginner, this video is very confusing. You didn't make clear the difference between a fetch and pull, and you didn't make clear when you were switching between tools. Things like that. I'm somewhat familiar with some of this stuff, so it mostly made sense to me, but for a total noob, this would be very confusing.
Thanks Titus, that fills in a number of blanks for me
Love your channel, man. Been trying to settle in with linux lately and many of your videos have been a great help. Thanks for your work!
Ngl I'm excited about your build of debian. Can't wait to test drive it
Thanks Chris for your contributions.
Why wouldn't you have a download button?
So what's the difference between you pushing something and someone else creating a pull request? Is a "Pull Request" completely different? Where the code goes to some sort of pending state to be reviewed by you before merging with the master?
I loved the part where he showed me how to use a script which is why I clicked on this video in the first place
I had a comment here, quite innocent. But it keeps getting deleted no matter how I re word it. I have tried loads of times, also deleting and starting again completely rewritten
Amazing what the Bot seems to be capable of. Something in what I was saying it did not like and no matter how I re word it, it still knows that I am trying to say the same thing.
Scary
liked and subbed (and now commenting) because you have a good way of explaining by showing and also this video is concise and helpful.
Good video! I am one of those who normally just using the command line for anything Git related so I haven't seen those graphical utilities. They do look like they could be good for me so I'll have to check them out. Thanks for all you do in explaining these things to folks!
so what Linus did is akin to right clicking this youtube video and saving it to desktop as if you were trying to download the video, but you'd only get some random file
i feel like Linus had 30 minutes to get through that task, reached github, saw the file and right clicked on it to save it, without even seeing if there was any other available option, and rambled about it.
Really good video Chris, loved it.
0:40 Linus... that's literally how a web browser works lmao
thanks chris, i was going to learn this on my own, was going to attempt forking a pretty big niche project lol
The save as is from when people used to directly link to the file. In those cases it works. I guess Linux didn't realize the site didn't do that.
looks like I have to learn some other way. this dude is all over the place.
The day the Debian Titus touches the surface,
I will make it run in at least 100 machines at least by making it a pre-installed os option for Mass adoption.
I'm the windows/linux dual boot daily user, and when i'm on windows i use command-line version of git, it just doesn't feel right when i look at app/gui version.
Linus teaching tubers how to do it by playing the fool and giving everyone work roasting him... now that's a biz man... learn well young grasshoppers...
So True, At the end of the day it equates to more views for him. I always try to leave a link to the source video when I take a snippit and I think many others do the same.
I don't think everyone should learn GitHub. If you are not a developer or building projects, then don't bother. And Sourceforge is easier and it will store more variable file types. If you do use GitHub and you need help, look into adding bounties to your project. I have gotten help from high level programmers by attaching $100 bounty to a project.
I think maybe Chris should think about learning GitHub, Lol. He seems to have messed a few thing up on his windows 10 project there, bless him :)
thank you as someone who uses this once in a blue moon .... i knew there was a zip file some where
also. right click save i only ever seen that trying to grab a photo from a website or something. or downloading a website for offline viewing
Thank you for making it so simple to understand.
I blink for 1 SECOND and theres a massive chris in my face
I really need to learn git; this was a big help. Thanks!
Please consider explaining terminology, like "commit, git, pull" etc. when explaining how to use github and also try not to go through pages as fast so we can see what you're doing without having to go back in the video a few times.
No its just the way i think. i prefer note pad, abc flow chart or Raptor. Raptor really lets you feel the algorythim and how it works without all the assembly language ( dont like hlls). Takes some time to manually convert however it has really given me a certain appreciation for how windows xp was made as i de code the leaked source. Just dont really like the github perspective of view. Not that its bad or anything like that its just a preference of understanding.
Disappointed he didn't show what to actually do after downloading the zip file.
Because I've downloaded zip files, extracted them, and then can't seem to find any kind of .exe file in them to do anything with it. I've had this issue with numerous files from github, so I know it's something I must be doing wrong.
I go to Code -> Download zip -> I create a folder on my desktop that I put the zip file in -> Right click the zip and click Extract here -> the zip file has "-master" at the end -> I look into the extracted folder and there is no .exe file to start anything up with or install anything. No idea what I'm doing wrong. Had this issue with both XOutput and ViGEmBus that I tried to download from github
Exactly! From a "plain user" standpoint, is not common sense to have the knowledge that you need to compile or work in some way what you have downloaded. It may be obvious for a developer, but a standard user may not know (and shouldn't be required) how to work around compiling, troubleshooting dependencies and other difficulties that you need to work out after you download that GitHub content.
This video's title should be "how to use github...better"
So i have a question. im very new to PC and i could be using this completely wrong, but i am trying to download a script i can use for a game. I understand i need to save the script that is on Git. but is there a certain way i need to execute it or something so i could use it?
If you go into it with an open source mindset, can you eventually make money somehow?
I guess donations right? And how do you acquire an open source license?
The one thing i dont u derstand is that. What if multiple people fetch the latest version and commit different changes. U still have to do the pulls on that. So lets say 5 people committed changes since u last did a pull. What will then happen? Will stuff just get overwritten or does only the part that they changed get updated?
can u explain about merging, fixing config commit, im still confused about that
what a pleasant piece of content. Very informative !
4:40 i was using the script the other day on a new build and whilst trying to install VLC i did notice it say notepad++ 😅
Im just watching this because I like your channel lol
nice video. underrated channel.
do you have plans for a seperate script for win11? or is the win10 script for both?
Its for both
I always knew there will be workaround for everything in linux.. simply the point is it wasn’t that easy to directly figure out for a common person grown up forced to use windows
Neither git or github are a linux specific thing... Blame Microsoft if you don't like github.
@@barry5 He didn't mention Github anywhere in his comment. He just said it wasn't that easy to directly figure out for a common person grown up forced to use windows. That's true for Linux desktops.
One thing i don't get... why developers don't put executable in their project. You always have to build from source and for linux newbies it means a total nightmare which end it up always on dependency errors and whatnot. Don't even mention how hard is remove something built from source... At the moment github is manly for "real" linux users. Too complicated and not practical for the general user. Personally speaking i find github more scary than the terminal.
Because you might want to run it on something the binary isn't compiled for, among other things.
@@TheTurnipKing I just know i tried in the past to install polybar many times unsuccesfully, i struggle to install kvantum as well (i had to search through heaps of tutorial to fix dependency issues and whatnot). Recently i wanted to try a new calendar app (in beta version) but no luck again. If you are a newbie with basic linux knowledge github is a no-go place unfortunately. Easier to rely on the old sudo apt install or some appcenter
Wow. thank you learned a lot. wanna learned github and this video is a good start
I will just say thx 4 the vid and forget UA-cam again for a week, it’s started deleting all my comments again :(
I still don't get why VLC is so "must have". Last time I was watching video from file was like ages ago.
As for the git.
First lets remember what is git, what is git repository and what is git hub. I think you mix this up a bit.
Cloning repo isn't really the same as downloading it as zip from github. Cloning creates local repository. It's something more. Also to clone you need git to be installed. It's obvious.
So if you only want files -> use zip.
And for raw is pointless. I can see what's in file in normal view (with formating which helps). I can also copy from it. When I need specific file, this raw -> save as is just 1 step too much. You could change it to "download as" and nobody would cry about lack of "raw".
Also raw opens file in browser. Not always it's good idea.
As for the git desktop.
I would say it quick. IDEs nowadays have pretty much built in "git desktop" in them. 10 years ago it was very important sofware, I remember we used tortoise git for that, but now you either have it intregrated or there is some plugin for it.
What is sometimes still needed is git commands installed (so git as a tool), because sometimes you just need to use terminal commands for some specif git related jobs. Still not everything can be done by gui in that regard.
you might exclusively consume streaming but a lot of people such as me enjoy not being fully dependent on a remote library controlled by someone else ( isn't it this whole "control your own stuff" philosophy that makes us into linux ?) and VLC is complete garbage, especialy in Linux so i wouldn't call it a must have....
it got popular ages ago for being opensource an able to open anything without needing external codecs, but other than some niche usages ( like reading some DVR-like flux protocols etc) MPV-based players work better on linux, and MPC-HC on windows
@@nickiebanchou And you get those files from what legal source?
@@21yarpen heard of Plex before?
blurays?
DVDs?
actual cameras?
512k DSL ? data caps?
@@nickiebanchou Plex server is mostly used to play videos on different devices.
Still don't see any point in buying videos instead of just watching them as part of streaming service.
@@21yarpen some people value ownership
some other people don't have the luxury of bandwidth
there's different kinds of people with different kinds of needs in the world
bro need you help regarding arch linux thing is that i have installed freach arch and chose xfce4 dex and the proble is that i am unable to configure the way of diaplaying network tray in xfce4 pannel and same in the case of bluetooth plz help
This type of video is amazing.
Hi. Is there anyway to get HWiNFO to run in Linux Mint? Or is the repository Install button and zip file in GitHub only there to tease us?
There's gonna be a cottage industry cleaning up after LTT.
One thing I don't get about Linus's rant about GitHub and the right-click. Why on earth would anyone knowing basic internet navigation do that? It's not just github. Same idiotic "argument" can be made for *every* website in existence.
You didn’t have thousands of contributors and never will get anything approaching that. Maybe a couple of hundred is more accurate. Some contributions were fantastic, ( half of which you missed ) , some were very good , some were good. More than half were crap.
Not criticising, just saying. I realise that you have to make the video impressive and entertaining or else you won’t get viewed, subscribed, and that would be a shame as most of your stuff is great.
( IMO this video’s content was untypically not so good )
Could be wrong, but I seem to remember that Linus said that the dev told him to save as 🤔🙄😬
I'm so confused but I'm very much interested in this
I'm a bit unsure (and I don't even really mean this in rude way) if Linus actually knows tech. I mean yeah, he builds stuff, but does he ever use it?
3:14 Uh-oh! .....Your giving Linus too many ways to download a file.
what a big pile of $%^& git hub wants to sort itself out (or linux) after watching this i wanted to slit my wrists no wonder windows is so unstoppable, im sick of hearing "all you have to do is" followed by 6 weeks of lessons 44 ways to do one thing, i like GUI as does most the world for example windows is still GUI watch as its terminal takes a back seat for 99% of the world. i will continue using linux but its got to look at its self and ask why dont people like our text way of doing same stuf as one click windows lets go back and paint on cave walls. p.s your still the best tech tuber ty for trying chris