Zorin is my favorite

Personally I think vim got it right in the order they chose. Mostly because of what you mentioned. We think/say delete word. That's what comes naturally I use vim without thinking really it just comes naturally. I think that's why people love it as much as they do. It just makes sense. There are a lot of other reasons I think vim, and particularly neovim are the better options. Like more extensibility, more options out of the box on how to edit, and the keybindings being found more commonly outside of vim. Obviously this is all just what I think. Everyone is free to use, and find useful what they like. I personally like having the commands in the order vim has them, having a separate visual mode. I think the only time wasted in the way vim does things, is unironically a skill issue. Which just gets better with time, understanding what the key binds do. Like dw, I use that all the time, because I like deleting from where I am to the end of the word. And I know what it will do from use. Or in the same place I can do diw and delete the whole word. Really there is more I could say but this is already too long.

Nice review. May I suggest actual pics of your laptop vs just reading specs. Nova Custom sounds like an viable addition to the repairable, upgradable, sustainable , open source friendly laptop category.

hi Jake, can you do a video about CWM?

THANK YOU SIR

Good Luck mate. I am on mid 30's also 5 years on linux and now changing career too. I was an electrician engineer now switching to web dev. As for distros i disagree. They are different for a reason. Void is ranked #1 on distrowatch for a reason. Security, speed, simplicity are reasons to avoid the one over the other distribution. SystemD is a crucial reason too. I also happen to use openbsd and trying tribblix too. Give them a shot although they are not linux based.

You can run your script without leaving ed by using ! followed by your script.

jump scare there 😂

Quick tip >> If you don't know what the command does just ask chatgpt what it does to get a general idea.

I use MX Linux ans RebornOS - I like the stability of Debian and with Arch based I`m tinkering... 🙂

This is exactly what i needed, thanks

Great Vid Man. No need to apologize…. You’re helping us.

Instructions unclear… ended up on Hannah Montana Linux

I completely agree with don't use Windows as s fall back. It wasn't until i ditched windows for about 3 weeks that I didn't want to use it again. I don't completely sgree with you on distros. It's not things that you want to add but things you don't want. For example, systemd. If you don't want that, you are really limited to which distros you choose.

So many good points. I found your channel when I started my journey. I tried a ton of distros, even ran Void for a while and it was close but didn't jive with me. This is where i disagree a little, I landed on Alpine and it just makes sense to me. Alpine does not translate to other linux distros as well, no GNU make a huge difference in the tools you use. My wife is a dev and uses Mint, she asks me for help now and then and I have to dig through documentation for stuff I can just do in Alpine without thinking. Not all distros are the same but you can get them to do what you want.

I installed MX Xfce, made it my own and started using it. It runs like muck of a stick, smooth. But no developing. programming, gaming, streaming etc., just email (Thunderbird) and browsing (Floorp) and sometimes Brave.

Been trying to move to the lowest ram setup i can and thinking about gentoo or void but man idk if i can...i think i can knowledge wise but don't think i have the time/patience and i consider myself pretty patient lol

I love the natural pace of the video while still being straightforward

I like this channel. I found a lot of useful things. One thing which I still didn't get is with clear understanding is: After installed Void Linux with hyperland from previous video on Thinkpad T14s Gen4 (amd). Firefox download files as *.part extenstion and with Intellij I can't use drug and drop. Looks like i missed something. Chat GPT and googling didn't help. Maybe someone faced with the same issues. I have no idea how resolve those issues.

Unsolicited tip: Apropros is an amazing tool! New and old users should check it out

Great video Jake!

For me dual booting or having a mac additionally is never wrong espially when you are new to linux.

For the first time distro it literally doesn’t matter. The only thing I’d recommend is that it has an easy, well documented install process. Then give it a go and then try a heap on VMs

I'm new to Linux, but Id just like to say the answer is Mint, You don't have to love computers to understand the basic functions its basically windows, If you want to grow, it has a terminal just like any other distro. The real thing a new user need understand all distro's are not identical and it's important to search for information concerning your family of distro's; Keywords for mint are Ubuntu, Debian, or just mint. On the hardware end go buy yourself a cheap mini PC, a 720p monitor, cheap Keyboard and mouse this will cost approx. $300. the mini PC's companies seem to have Linux in mind when the configure their systems. My geekom sensed the WiFi right away which is a very common first problem. finally documentation, I'm not sure because I am still piecing things together on you tube and forums which are mostly (read the documentation statements.) but based on my encounters with most Linux wizards it was probably written by someone on the spectrum and using English has a second language. Good luck with your journey and Remember the world is a better place with you in it. (You might want to repeat that statement often while trying to figure this s*&t out.)

Void, nix, gentoo defo not for new linux users

You're 100% right that there is no perfect distro. I think the closest to a perfect distro is the one you install that has close to everything you need with the least amount of effort to do so and is stable. By stable I mean doesn't tend to break with every update. This could be a LTS version or a rolling or semi rolling release. It really depends on your use case. Personally I'll advocate for dual boot or at least have a backup OS. I also think that by installing only Linux on a machine (any machine) and trying to work your way through the problems as you come across them you'll leant more than just reverting back to Windows or Mac. But you also have the advantage that if there's something you can't fix straight away, you can still get your work done on another machine using your old OS. I still use both because there's certain apps that are Windows only and the Linux equivalent app sucks. It doesn't have to be one or the other. But my Windows use has declined steeply.

it's this line of thinking why most people who try linux give up and go back to windows after a day or less than a week. if you make it hard out the gate for them they are less likely to stick with it. I tried your suggestion and others to try arch. I crashed every arch distro in a few hours to almost a month. debian was stable but didn't have as much as linux mint had when it came to switching from windows. It's my daily driver I tried all flavors of linux mint before settling on xfce it's easiest to configure and most like windows 7. ubuntu I wasn't a fan of the gnome desktop environment or the limited customization of the system tray panel with the clock. arch has the least amount of support when it comes to learning arch. the arch community is extremely rude. dual boot only works if you have 2 seperate hard drives.

I've been trying to get Deb based to work for music creation. Then I tried arch. Omg. Archinstall Pacman s pro-audio. Wow

Been on Ubuntu since I was 13 and now I'm 31. I'm not going anywhere and I've tried them all