Linux Apps I Use Daily

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Common Mistakes Linux Users Make: kzbin.info/www/bejne/o5zVf2erdsh3fc0 How to Choose a Linux Distribution: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n6DbaJmobNVofsU Customize your Terminal and Make it Look Awesome: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n5K7gpevfbd_bq8

[@sleekspeed22]

Have you seen the app-outlet application? is it something I can trust and install?

[@abdullahzafar4401]

What would be your preferred code editor ... ?

[@Stormpix]

I'd used Arch for about four years, fell off the wagon and went back to Windows for a few years, and then came back home to Arch after seeing one of your videos a few months back - it reminded me how much I loved Arch and I really missed it. I guess that makes you my sponsor or something? "Hi, I'm Jeremy, I'm a former Windows user but I've been "clean" for three months."

[@theunconventionaldeal3879]

I've been clean for 2 weeks, got tired of the random updates when I was taking a timed test for school, Manjaro power wipe.

[@ledenec5122]

Hi, Jeremy! :-)

[@mstevensn50]

I have been clean for 5 years

[@2j4ez]

I’m Jeremy and I’ve been window$ free for 14 years

[@seizera7586]

I'm new to Linux and got a ubuntu LTS based distro. I plan on moving to another distro for sure, but havent got to the partition thing to not lose data

[@DilbertCronicles]

Distro: @1:28 - Arch Linux (Manjaro for newbies); DE - MATE (KDE for newbies) Browsers: @5:13 - Brave (Single device) ; @5:37 - Vivaldi (Multi device) Shell: @6:05 - Terminator Text Editor: @6:39 - GEdit & Kate Chat Client: @7:32 - Discord Gaming: @9:49 - Lutris & Steam File Manager: @11:02 - Nautilus Video Editing: @12:19 - Kdenlive Photo Editing: @12:19 - Gimp 2.10 Screenshot: @16:21 - Flameshot

[@aeroshakeel]

Thankyou

[@parthdubey3156]

Gd

[@meowtabby5369]

need to pin this

[@meowtabby5369]

also, 5:27, they just recently have updated the sync functionality, and it is as simple as typing your passphrase, and everything will be synced up quickly

[@vickyvidyarathi353]

Man are u a angel or what 🔥

[@TakticalTekniq]

4:56 Start of the list.

[@edstar83]

0:00 Start of the video for normal people.

[@edstar83]

@zizzy .... Yeah in their basement. I'll come out of the basement when the corona virus outbreak is over. kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3THg3mDpZ2LrdE

[@seltinusjulio]

Thanks

[@c462-]

Not the hero we wanted, but the one we needed, thanks

[@psimbyosis8162]

how we say literally in spanish: "hero without a cape". regards from Chile

[@MikeDawson1]

"Never assume this conversation is private" - best advice ever, I try to preach that to everyone

[@TheMax6808]

"Self-censor all the time"

[@chelonianegghead274]

It's a public chat, so yeah no kidding.

[@voyager.rohit.]

Yeah same here But none of my friends listen to me They think I am just crazy... 🤣🤣🤣

[@digitalspecter]

@@TheMax6808 Yeah, that.. we shouldn't give up the fight for privacy.

[@milindtft]

What about Telegram. I think they are pretty secure and private.

[@MichaelJHathaway]

I find it hilarious how you customize your MATE to look like Cinnamon.

[@asadrafi3577]

I just use cinnamon, make it look good. And is very stable out of the box on Arch.

[@darryllyle5250]

"the distribution doesn't matter" While this is very true one thing that is a complete game changer for me is the AUR. I can't imagine living without it now.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

So true the AUR makes life sooo much easier.

[@DXTR420]

AUR is so important!! It makes installing things so much easier, 99.9% of the time. That moment when you install fresh and forget to turn on AUR and you're like but why can't I find any of my software?!

[@thecaretaker0007]

What is AUR?

[@DXTR420]

@@thecaretaker0007 AUR Stands for Arch User Repository. Essentially it's a very well maintained repository or software, because they allow any one to post software install scripts and dependencies. Makes getting most software a breeze. For example, I recently wanted a what's app of some kind. I saw many listings of ways to do it from the official to most custom ones. Click install, bam builds and installs. It's how canonical apt get wishes it was

[@thecaretaker0007]

@@DXTR420 thanks.

[@RonBillings]

I've been using Ubuntu for nearly 20 years. Love it!

[@MegaMicraman]

I've been using it for 8 years. At first I was missing Windows but now I would never go back.

[@natetronn]

Chris, consider adding links to stuff you talk about in the video under its description.

[@teel3651]

This would remove the need to watch the video, and reduce watch-time significantly. This sounds like it has a negative connotation to it, but Chris also has to earn something of his videos, and i respect it.

[@natetronn]

@@teel3651 I think it's common courtesy to leave links to stuff one talks about but, that's just me. If I wrote a blog post about a bunch of apps I use and didn't link to said apps in the hopes that people would stay longer on my site and maybe I'd get more ad views or something, I'm fairly certain people would stop reading my articles and never come back. It's not a perfect analogy being that this is video we're talking about and not blog posts but, I hope you get my point. Now, I do realize there may be some truth to what you're saying, and of course Chris needs to make money to continue to provide content (and why I don't blame him for plastering his description with affiliate links) but, there is also this thing called loyalty and one way to build a loyal base is to go above and beyond for your viewers and this by providing them with the best content and making their lives easier as the same time. Since watching this video I've instead Googled these apps and have since found other people who have offered articles and videos about them so, instead of coming directly back to Chris after checking out a link Chris provided me, I'm off watching and reading these other people's stuff instead. Had Chris linked to the apps, I'd have checked them out, one by one and come back to Chris for each app until the video was over. That back and forth, Chris' video, app, Chris' video, app, Chris' video, app would actually have a powerful affect on me and I'd probably be more likely to remember about Chris going forward. Of course, it's his show and he can do what he wants but, now he has competition he didn't have before and this due to not linking to the apps he's talking about in his video.

[@genkiferal7178]

@@teel3651 if he didn't talk so much and repeat himself, his long videos would be half the size, so we'd be more likely to watch the entire thing

[@mich2k1]

@@teel3651 this just makes people close the video

[@reljoy]

I tried to find the game platform he mentioned as well as steam. I can't find it. I don't know how it is spelt. My ears are not good enough to tell from his speech. So I vote for links in the description.

[@retrocomputeruser]

Raspberry Pi 4 with Debian Buster is my daily driver now. This credit card sized computer is amazing when it is set up right.

[@yorik9845]

I think Endeavour OS is a really good alternative to Manjaro. It s much more close to stock Arch . For productivity, I recommend i3wm environment (+ rofi, i3-expo, clearine ) , Suckess terminal, lf/ranger file manager, mail client neomutt, cmus for music. For content creation etc Gimp, Krita, Blender, Maya, Kdenlive/Natron. I ' m still looking at Clearlinux developpement, but it is not ready to production. Good video as usual!

[@mathgeniuszach]

EndeavourOS is a much cleaner alternative to Manjaro with a lot more flexibility and without the bad decision making. You'll also be able to use the AUR without issue.

[@TrashPC_lol]

just use base arch I use arch btw KDE plasma

[@SquishySenpai]

I made my first attempt at editing a video a couple days ago. Never used a video editor before so I had no clue what I was doing. I fired up Kden and within seconds I'd crashed it. Great first experience. 😅

[@JayPatelVlogs]

Use Filmora x 😁

[@RegErvin]

Over the years, I have tried several different windows managers but always come back to Gnome. For some reason, I just love it.

[@weaksupremacy3799]

I just downloaded manjaro kde iso. After watching your channel, I am leaving Ubuntu.

[@igorthelight]

Great! I advice to update system using sudo pacman -Syu and not using a GUI.

[@weaksupremacy3799]

@Jenna Talia For most of the people, Ubuntu is the only linux distro they know. For others " what's linux?" Me: An OS Them: what's an OS? Me: 😕

[@emjaycee]

@@igorthelight Definitely not GUI for updates... I personally use TTY for updates these days, just found it safer overall.

[@shamrock-]

Please explain why command line over GUI?

[@emjaycee]

@@shamrock- This is just my personal experience but Manjaro only does bulk updates every 10 to 14 days on average, but it is still Arch and a LOT changes. I have found that GUI only updates can potentially break the system because so much has been changed. These days I don't even use terminal, which is still attached to the desktop, I prefer to go to TTY (usually Ctl-Alt-F2) and then just use the same commands as per terminal. If you're not using TTY (and maybe sometimes even if you are lol), it is probably better to check in with the Manjaro website before you update in case there are specific things/approaches they want you to take with that update. Still, I'm sure everyone has their own individual approach. My approach has seen me safe on Manjaro for over 12 months now. I'm not a total beginner, but I'm definitely not a computer and/or Linux advanced user either. Good luck :)

[@VIPPERゝ]

But MATE looking like something straight out of the 90s is part of the appeal.

[@bapfreak]

I always thought it looked the cleanest. Now, the *buntu theme for it is not good; clearlooks looks classic.

[@sumantakollya8573]

Linux should be a tool to get things done rather than us spending time on it.

[@agenttank]

it can be fun to rice the system though

[@aswintgopal]

Well that's one of many ways to use Linux.

@@agenttank Yeah, that's the biggest productivity issue with Linux, it's so much fun to tinker with.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Agreed, there is so many options but I am much more productive now once I figured out what works for me

[@agenttank]

@ i am done setting up my system with sway/i3 and now i can work very effiecient. it was fun too and i rarely really have to tinker now

[@sarf9069]

my mum is 75 years old, switched her to linux mint MATE on her old i3 laptop. No problems ever since. lol. she loves it!

[@johntiles]

Love it

[@joaquim.garcias]

Desktop: Distro: MX Linux WM: Xfce4 Editor: Pluma (Fork of gedit gnome 2) File Manager: Caja (Fork of nautilus gnome 2) Music: Clementine (Internet streams) Laptop: Distro: AntiX WM: Fluxbox Same as above

[@digitalsparky]

"I use MATE" ... You're welcome Chris ;)

[@peterjansen4826]

As long as he doesn't say "by the way, I use MATE". :p

[@yomurita]

lmao i was the other person telling him to use MATE, glad he did try it out haha

[@tomasramirezthemythtoon]

@Jessica Sinclair xD

[@ocentrodokaos4952]

i mint i love it

[@MattMcCullough]

DigitalSparky love Mate

[@AllanOlsen1970]

Regarding to Discord and privacy, it is not what you say in chatrooms and private messages. Discord reads directly on your system and what processes you run on your computer, It is for showing other Discordusers what games you playing and what music you listening to. You can turn this off in configuration, but it runs anyway. That is not a good policy, sadly.

[@Mibmu]

I'm soon making the change to Linux, after all these years. Your channel and these videos really helped me. I want the customization and the free stuff that are just for linux. Thanks!

[@seventhspirit]

1 Distro: Arch (Manjaro - beginner friend-lier) (but it can be ANY distro really :D ) 2 Desktop environment: MATE 3 Browsers: Brave & Vivaldi 4 Shell: Terminator 5 Text editor: Gedit & Kate 6 Chat Client: Discord 7 Gaming: Lutris & Steam 8 File manager: Nautilus (& maybe Dolphin) 9 Video Editing: Kdenlive (other mantioned: Lightworks, DaVinci, Resolve) 10 Photo Editing: GIMP BONUS: 11 Screenshot: Flameshot

[@IgorStojkovic]

Best file manager ever: Double Commander!!!

[@ChrisTitusTech]

I'll have to try this out, thanks Igor!

[@grimfistgaming7694]

Good joice. Because I use KDE I went for Krusader. Same thing but well integrated into KDE

[@kunt230]

Krusader is pretty nice too

[@the_notorious_bas]

my favorite as well, although I sometimes have to restart it because its not responding on mouse commands

[@mas_puti_it0]

Looks like Windows/Total Commander I've been missing all these years using Linux, will try this out

[@LouisBlanchard]

Like your nonsensical approach in the video. Your audio is great where you are understood and no other audio distractions. Thanks and I'm a new subscriber 😉

[@vivian3205]

I’m using elementaryos, I love their politic and their design way..

[@-Insert_Name_Here.-]

me too. all HAIL the Elementary OS!

[@robertcortez1109]

I really like manjaro, arch and mint those are just my favorite. Thank you for this video chris

[@jeffrey589]

You helped me learn how to install arch linux on a vm. Then I used that knowledge to install in on my desktop. Now it's my daily driver at home, and I love it. I use enlightenment for my desktop environment, and terminator as my shell. You've been a big help.

[@ExacoMvm]

As a Windows user i've realized that in Linux you can't do pretty much anything except hacking, programming and science stuff. Gaming - Not all games are supported and those who are is pretty much hassle to setup or run ( Wine, Lutris ) and on top games stutter or doesn't perfom as good as on windows even after the Steam Proton. Production / Content Creation - You partially can do some design work and 3D Graphics, but major applications aren't supported such as: Photoshop ( yes there's alternatives but Photoshop has many specific workflows and plugins associated with 3D ) , Cinema 4D, After Effects, 3ds Max, Maya is barely supported ( insanely hard to install ), many middleware is also not supported such as xNormal which is must have for every 3d artist. Basically there's alot of Industry Standard stuff that's not supported, but since Blender is pretty damn good right now i think some ppl can live without these missing softwares. As an OS itself i think Linux ( e.g. something like Manjaro KDE Plasma ) might be better, only the support/compatibility kills it.

[@Lycanite]

I think Krita is pretty awesome and I also love working with Atom as my PHP IDE at work, I refuse to touch VSCode out of stubborness but from what I've seen of it I'm pretty happy sticking with Atom.

[@lollllloro]

For screenshots you can also just make different keybinds to scrot for [full screen], [current window], [select area with mouse] as you see fit. :)

[@SceneTurkey]

xfce is the sweet spot for me. Low memory usage, quick environment, stable releases, looks and feels good, and you type in "pacman" to install things. It's great.

[@AveemAshfaq]

I use Manjaro XFCE on my Acer Swift 3 and my GPD Pocket 2. XFCE is harder to setup but once done, you are setup exactly the way you want it to be. I use firefox everyday for browsing, kdenlive for video editing, libreoffice suite for my office work

[@lsatenstein]

My use is: browser=Firefox because I like it, I use WPS as an office suite, and gcc and clang for compiling c, c++. I watch many youtube videos for learning and relaxation.

[@ArthLud]

Yeah, Kubuntu because of KDE! Kate, VLC, Audacious, Steam, Discord, LibreOffice suite. I tried Nautilus and I liked it but I will stick to Dolphin as it suits me better. Great video!

[@tkorkunckaya]

Fav text editor, gedit kate... Speechless

[@rhvc2734]

7:56 I've learned something.

[@JessicaFEREM]

FYI if you experience screen tearing in Firefox, turn off smooth scrolling. dunno why or how that works but it does

[@RomanMlejnek]

smooth scrolling itself hurts my eyes

[@RomanMlejnek]

@Prem Kumar I use Firefox with smooth scroll off

[@uniqhnd23]

Even though Linux can be customized, I'd recommend totally new users to use Zorin OS. It will give you the smoothest transition from Windows to Linux ever. One really cool thing I found is how Zorin automatically get's the latest stable version of Wine when you download Lutris from their store. And I recommend Telegram for chatting. Open source, encrypted, cloud sync and 1.5GB for files, has more features than Discord, transparent as hell and they recognize that absolute anonymity can't be accomplished with mainstream apps but they still try their best to protect your privacy. The only thing it needs is group and video call support.

[@frataltay4543]

Zorin OS is my daily driver and it looks and feels wonderful.

[@briansepolen4917]

This is the video I been looking for! I didn't know it existed. I was hoping something like this would be front and center on your website.

[@briansepolen4917]

3:48 looking through the description for the referenced link 🙄

[@matthewcaylor342]

My setup (in the same order): openSUSE 15, xfce, firefox, xfce termina, vi/notepadqq, zoom(for work), Steam/GOG, thunar, openshot/blender,gimp

[@devynmounteer6696]

Pretty informative video, im a super noob with Linux and had just experimentally put it on an oldish laptop i had given to me that was super slow with windows 10, originally thought it was the hard drive but after installing Ubuntu (I know you and some others dislike it, but I'm new and it was an easy start), the laptop became very snappy and I've been able to actually use the computer for stuff. Once I become more confident with how linux runs as a whole I might try something like arch but for now ubuntu works for what I needed and I've been learning alot with it.

[@Mumble8988]

What I’m expecting before watching the video: Terminal. I web browse in the Terminal, I listen to music in the Terminal, I terminal the terminal in the terminal, I access my pornhu-important documents in the terminal. Jokes aside 8:36 I’ve been using discord for years and I don’t really worry about privacy as far as that is concerned either. I really enjoy using it and it’s on several of my devices. Mac, iPad, although I honestly didn’t know Discord supported Linux so that’s cool.

[@fuseteam]

re: text editors vim is a great text editor especially when it comes to text manipulation

[@fuseteam]

@ItsAllUnity I have found the learning curve isn't as steep if you keep 2 rules in mind: "You can do everything in normal mode, except insert text" "Everything" includes moving around, selecting text, moving text, deleting text, replacing textwhich sends you into insert mode), copy text, pasting text, saving, opening file and more xD Which is why rule #2 is always return to normal mode whenever you finish inserting text, for accessibility you can map tab to escape or use alt combinations(in the terminal) Don't enter a new line with enter escape and press o :p

[@abel6580]

You should try Emacs with Evil mode ;-)

[@fuseteam]

@@abel6580 but but so many modifier keys

[@abrundag]

vim is the Roach Motel of text editors. They check in but they can't check out.

[@matthewcaylor342]

I have used vim for years! It is still my favourite go to for editing text. I use notepadqq for when I need something visually easier to follow.

[@isaiahbriggs2093]

If debian had a official rolling release I feel like debian could be the main distro for development company's don't want to make apps for linux because they say its fragmented but if we had a LTS one that is every 6 Months like Ubuntu and a rolling with the support arch has debian could take up 80% to 90% of distros

[@thamimemel5477]

debian is by far the best distro in terms of stability and security, but software availability isn't that great since using PPA will just break it, but that is getting better with snappy, flatpak and appimages.

[@rdoetjes]

I've been using Linux since kernel 0.99. I have always been efficient in Linux, even when it was just in a shell. And with X it was completely a no brainer. What really helped was that in early days you had DOS and Windows 3.1x which both SUCKED MONKEY BALLS! So when I saw Minix at school I already liked the ease with which I could develop in C and assembler (that;'s what it was used for in college). When Linux came it suddenly was also multi user! I had a "big boy" development system and server. My dad who was using OS/2 at the time and was a VMS sysadmin couldn't believe that speed and functionality and was not convinced that it was free :D

[@rkrzbk]

MATE is the best for beginners. The “90s” look gave me a familiar first impression. Especially if your 30+ yrs old. Still use MATE, even though tried many others since. And it was the only one that worked “out of box” on my old 2008 laptop. Just had to wire to Ethernet to update drivers. Everything else was either slow or much more difficult (or wouldn’t even work)

[@MstanhopeTX]

Heck Chris, my first distro was Ubuntu 7.04 and then I switched to Debian because someone recommended it to me and I managed to install it and get all my stuff installed, etc and it has been my go-to distro for a long time for running my server, but as I started to advance over the years I did my first Arch install a year ago and I love as a daily driver!

[@keiichiiownsu12]

"Linux apps". Thumbnail is of an ipad, iPhone, and mac. Mac looks like it's running OSX. I lol'ed

[@sarveshk09]

After a lot of experiments, I finally settled on Xubuntu. Nothing I tried had a simplycity and power that XFace running over Ubuntu core (Xubuntu) provides, required for everyday desktop computing. If you're not into experiments, and wish to use Linux to get things done, you may safely move to Xubuntu.

[@wisteela]

Re MATE: I really like the Gnome 2 style. I gave up on Ubuntu after the switch to the TERRIBLE UI. Now if it's Ubuntu I use Xubuntu. Xfce for the win. Also Raspbian on the Pi is excellent.

[@cats824]

I recently switched to arch, and it was the best switch ever

[@mdzaid5925]

Get yourself nvidia and you will never feel the same. After years of using arch, i have finally moved to long term distro's ( currently opensuse leap)

[@cats824]

@@mdzaid5925 I have a nvidia gtx 960

[@cats824]

It's working fine, and everything else has, even discord stopped crashing like usual

[@danilovilasboas]

@@cats824 Node is a pain even in Arch for me.

[@mdzaid5925]

@@cats824 For me, gtx1050ti gaved me hell lot issues at every update , it broke.

[@peterjansen4826]

Chris, you haven't tried out Notepadqq yet? :surprised: How about Vim? Give it a chance, you will probably like it once you get used to it. At first you disliked i3, now you love Awesome. For me any text-editor is off the list if it doesn't have good support for dark themes.

[@ChrisTitusTech]

Yeah it is time to give Vim another go.

[@campbellbamble5138]

@@ChrisTitusTech Noooo Vim never deserves another go :)

[@danielg9851]

Thanks for sharing Chris! Took LinuxMint 19.3 beta MATE out for a skeptical spin... and it is now my home base! Wow! Super duper fast and light! Vivaldi is my fav too! :)

[@osamakaiser4205]

I used shutter for my screenshots, I'm used to that for quite a while during my time working in Linux. It has all the feature you need including editing the screenshot in one app (maybe simple, but useful for quick edits)

[@mizhimo]

My favorite software: +Distro/WM/DE Arch with Openbox. Lately, I'm using Deepin. It is so gorgeous and so bloated lol. (for hotkey I use sxhkd). +Browser Firefox for almost everything. Chromium for sites optimized for Chrome. +Terminal Termite +Text-editor Mousepad or Geany +Chat None, if necessary google duo on the browser. +Games +File manager Pcmanfm. Thunar and dde-file-manager are not bad. +Video taking/ editing / player Fffmpeg, Kdenlive, smplayer +Photo/images Gimp, Inkcape, Nomacs, Rawtherapee, Imagemagick, ImageJ

[@worsethanjoerogan8061]

Chris: "Ubuntu sucks" Also Chris: "Don't distro hop" Mixed messages!

[@meghrajpardesi4248]

Make your Ubuntu the way you want.

[@marksmod]

switching once is fine

[@FunkCakes]

I’ve used Gnome , KDE , Xfe and LXDE but always go back to Mate and looks as though it’s really been improved recently in stability and it works very well with apps native to other desktop environments which I feel other desktop environments don’t do as well. The other desktop environments are not bad but Mate is really great for someone who likes to mix and match.

[@maksympletiuk5311]

Actually tried many screenshot apps for Linux. There is a Lightshot which is a very convenient screenshot tool that runs on Windows and macOS, but it doesn't have native support for Linux. I used a flameshot, but it's very glitchy, it freezes a lot when you need to select an area. Also, it's very slow and may even crash in the background, at least I had these issues. I've also tried apps like Shutter, ScreenCloud and some standard for some desktop environments (these are not so feature-rich). After a long time, I discovered that the one that works very well is ksnip, but for some reason, it is not so popular. It satisfies all my requirements: it has an imgur uploader (you can authorize), can quickly edit screenshot (arrows, icons, censorship, text, marker, etc.), can be customized to your needs, and it works well without freezes or crashes. Highly recommend!

[@maksympletiuk5311]

​@Juana Marín Androjosa well, I think it depends from your needs. I find shutter inconvenient. Anyways I like ksnip and it satisfies all my requirements.

[@FahamNegini]

My setup: distro: Arch window manager: i3wm browser: chromium text editor: vim/nvim download tool: aria2c file manager: pcmanfm/nnn photo editro: gimp screenshot: flameshot video player: mplayer music player: ncmpcpp

[@zanez7953]

What bar do you use with i3?

[@geraldhenrickson7472]

I think maybe you’ve lost sight of how difficult some versions of “Linux” can be in the beginning. I found Mint Cinnamon to be the most acceptable (coming from a Windows platform) and that some distributions of GNU/Linux completely ludicrous for use by a newbie. I guess we’ll just have to agree to disagree on this one. Thanks for the video

[@adnaniftekhar2650]

I use MATE with Arch Linux on Laptop, Ubutnu with Gnome on Desktop. Applications on both machines are Terminal, Chrome, Mendeley, TexMaker, Foxit PDF, Visual Studio Code, Draw.io, Steam, Virtual Box. Distro does not matter, Desktop Environment does not matter. Efficiency and productivity is same. What really does matter is "Release Model".

[@DollopussD]

I'm running Sparkylinux after a rather lengthy distro tour. Your videos really helped me with the software side and set up 👍 If there is ever a featherweight Arch distro in the future that is 32bit, plays DVDs without any hassle and has a browser that can handle Filmzie and Pluto TV let me know and I'll switch 👍

[@randyvanheusden732]

I am a MATE user, and love the flexibility. I like the ease of use and for new customers to Linux. I am a Linux Mint user with MATE.

[@menthe885]

Agree, STAM = AWESOME! Really appriciate the proton movement!

[@logangraham2956]

i love arch 2 , arch + gentoo FTW :) unlike a lot of distributions that shove all their fancy bloatware(not necessarily crapware though) in your face right off the bat, Arch and Gentoo are pretty much designed to just get out of your way and i like that a lot.

[@kasperspangejensen5496]

Manjaro does this and I Hate it, but Im too lazy to try install arch.

[@logangraham2956]

@@kasperspangejensen5496 that fine really , as long as you don't mind removing the packages you don't want or whatever. i just personally like starting 'from scratch'

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

THank you, Chris. btb me pop shebop. EDIT: A while ago I found that I can run two instances of Gedit tiled, with tabs in each, and also group tabs so that they run together in a split-screen. This tremendous for writing and translating and having reference texts immediately available. I had started with Gedit, then used Geany, Leafpad etc etc. At one point Gedit couldn't display Chinese or Japanese characters properly so I dropped it. But that cleared up a few years ago. Now I use Gedit almost all day, every day. That said, my version of "gaming" is trying to use Vim and Emacs from time to time.

[@j800r_aswell]

You know, I used to be of the same mindset of "distros" don't matter but the fact I always keep coming back to Manjaro Gnome. With any other distro it takes a lot of work to get it close to my tastes. Manjaro's logo/accent colour is in green which is my preference, then all I really need to do is use the dark variant of their theme and I'm good. With their recent layout chooser it takes even less work for me to get the design that best speaks to me. Plus the AUR aids in almost any software desired is available. I had a random issue of blank screen with cursor the other day after unlocking my laptop with TTY not coming up. I was initially going to switch away as on top of other glitches it felt like Manjaro stable had gotten less stable. I just couldn't do it in the end because I realised I couldn't easily get my perfect Linux environment/setup. Sometimes distros don't matter. It really depends on how much you're willing to do and whether a particular distro speaks to you out of the box.

[@srgk26]

Thumbs up for Arch Linux!! And must say as I'm obligated to do so, I use arch btw!

[@dmehus]

I didn't know MATE was pronounced like that; I assumed it was just pronounced like "mate." I'm glad to hear you love it, as it's my favourite lighter weight GUI/window manager. I also think it's pretty intuitive and easy to get accustomed to coming from Windows; KDE is nice, too, but it's just a bit of a resource hog, I think. I straight up can't really stand GNOME and that would be my biggest gripe about Ubuntu. In terms of my second choice, I would probably go with LXDE or Cinnamon; maybe Cinnamon. I also love Nautilus, but am surprised in your choice of text editor and video editor. Why not Open Broadcast Studio? It seems pretty good. I hadn't heard of Kdenlive, so I actually thought OBS was the more popular video editor. Text editor...I never really thought of using a GUI text editor. I just figured I was supposed to launch a terminal and use GNU nano (though I kind of prefer pico, but nano's good too). Web browser...I hummed and hawwed for a year on switching from Chrome to either Vivaldi or Brave. On the one hand, I like Brave's ad blocking but I do like Vivaldi's tab tiling and stacking and the sync features. Screenshots...I like Greenshot. Cheers, Doug

[@marksmod]

apt install i3-wm

[@dmehus]

@@marksmod What will that do? Which question were you replying to/answering?

[@djd34d14]

Terminator + guake = everything you'll ever want from a terminal emulator. (Guake is a dropdown terminal and is amazing for quick hits)

[@phylwx]

Cool. I use Debian with lxde and xfwm4. Works p well, idle loads below 400 mb.

[@vkovalev89]

My favorite Linux-world piece of software: digiKam. Omitting that first library-building step that may take forever with a big file collection (like, a couple terabytes big) - it's just so awesome for image management it's hard to describe. Now I just need to learn proper darktable workflow to untie myself from the Adobe/Windows bundle.

[@MaybeBL1TZ]

i rly read too many comments but i think am the only one here use openSUSE with KDE desktop and it rly feels soo good

[@sohammandal5475]

text editor : mousepad,micro. ide: vscode browser : firefox video player: vlc file manager: nautilus screenshot: gnome-screenshot office suit : libre office torrent client : qbitorrent drawing: krita,pinta other software that i use are steam,write stylus,streamio,popcorntime,discord and TELEGRAM Yesterday i installed ubuntu and absolutely loved what they did in their new 19.10 release. Thinking about buying a ram so that i can finally run gnome.

[@adnaniftekhar2650]

Well said man!!! Distribution does not matter. They are only an entry gate.

[@ushiocheng]

1. I get you, the mindset of thinking all communication is open is good 2. Cell phones are no where near secure, people can tap into that centuries ago 3. Why not try out Keybase? It is convenient and extremely secure as of 2020. I am not going to recommended it tho because its server code is not open source and thus can be closed down.

[@GreyGhost-r4z]

It’s like you mind melded with me. Great review.

[@DavidMBebber]

FYI, Brave Sync has recently gotten a lot of love... And unlike other chromium based browsers the synced info is encrypted locally and then copied across so the content is secure on the Brave server.

[@FoggyMtnDrifter]

Just want to point out that Discord is NOT owned by Tencent. Tencent invested in Discord but it's still a private company.

[@TheSynrgy1987]

I like a mix of KDE/XFCE, leaning towards XFCE with some KDE applications(Kate, KDEnlive, etc), mainly use Manjaro because I'm too lazy to setup Arch but have done in the past. for File managers I like Dolphin although some of their choices in recent times have annoyed me so yeah... Gimp is awesome. OpenShot is also cool for basic video editing.

[@benoit.gerin-lajoie]

YAH, GIMP rocks... Screensaver that rocks is SHARE X (that also records screen full-window-window client-region in a breeze). As for video editor, I like HitFilm Express a lot, and as a complement, I found BORIS Particle Illusion standalone is FANTASTIC. I don't know if all can be installed in Linux though...

[@whiskeyshots]

I used to use Terminator, it's great if you spend a lot of time in a terminal. I found that I don't spend that much time in one though. I pop in, issue a command, then pop out. If you use Gnome, check out Guake. Hit F12, enter your command, then move on with things. It's life changing if you use Linux daily. Edit: I don't use KDE, but if you do, apparently Yakuake is similar. I'm sure there's a version for Mate.

[@artaway6647]

For terminal, I am pretty agnostic about it since I use tmux. For text editor, hands down vim. Even I use vim plugin on vscode.

[@rvndmnmt1]

I've used many flavors. I currently use UBUNTU based distros because they are based off DEBIAN and are a bit easier to use. I like KDE based desktops because you can really customize the desktop environment. I currently use Lubuntu because I am currently running on a thin client and resources are limited. That and I have been away from computers for about seven years. It's been a challenge for me to resurrect basic scripts I used to use only to find out that most of that has been incorporated into the OS already. I mean, the prep for SSD's back in the days is mostly automated. That and other tweaks. I'm not saying what is the best and such. Just use what you are comfortable with. That is what linux is for.

[@mtechson]

First, I am a new Linux user so I use { distribution : Ubuntu, photo editor : Gimp //it is the best video editor : Shotcut, gaming : Wine and Steam, // I don't play a lot of games but I usually use them text editor : Gnome text editor, chating : discord, // I usually make my own chat programs but I use discord because I just love it } I use ubuntu because I just have it my first distribution was kali linux and I don't care about distribution at all I customized my distribution and now it is awesome.

[@CorvusNumber6]

'Bouns'. I like it. Great video Chris. Maybe we'll see a Chrisix distro in the future? :)

[@brianhedley5139]

Video Editors beyond the two usual : Olive, Natron, Flowblade, Cinelerra GG

[@matthewcaylor342]

Add openshot and you can use blender to edit too.

[@RandomFandomOfficial]

Olive is great!

[@-Insert_Name_Here.-]

Natron is DEAD dude.. both of the original developers have left the product.. get away from it. Cinelerra is actuallyy a decent program, however.. I honestly just use Blender. :)

[@brianhedley5139]

@@-Insert_Name_Here.- I agree Natron is no longer being developed but it's still available to download and unlike the others it uses a node based editing system.

[@CMG78]

Distro: Artix (Arch without SystemD) Window Manger: i3 Browser: surf Teminal Emulator: urxvt Shell: zsh text editor: vim heavily customized (once you go vim everything else is grim) File Manager: ranger Chat: dont use it i do have hexchat installed in case I need to hop on the support irc. Games: In university and don't have time for that music player: cmus (fantastic vim like keybinds out of the box) Email: neomutt Productivity: Vim with LaTeX for writing papers.

[@marcvslicinivscrassvs7536]

I miss my Linux Mint with Cinnamon. Been on the road and stuck with MacBook and PCs. Arrggghhh.

[@arnorobinwerkman]

i would use xfce instead of mate. xfce gives me more "power" to mold it in the way i want it to behave. Now i just usew kde with kvantum for some custom apereance and some light eye candy

[@DistroUser]

If you are an absolute newbie to Linux, I think Ubuntu/Mint XFCE would be a great place to start and still easier overall than Manjaro or Arch. MATE might be a good second option either by Ubuntu or Mint...my two cents!

[@cimbakahn]

Chris Titus Tech: Chris. I have a buddy named Richard Jeffries. He has a channel on youtube. He puts out Minetest videos, and he does a pretty good job too considering all the trouble he has had. Sometimes in the middle of recording, the program would crash. Maybe you can go over there and help him out. Give him some tips on recording and maybe his operating system as well. Just type in Richard Jeffries to find him here.

[@silvernode]

I recently watched your 30 days of Linux videos from last year. I remember you saying that on Windows you used Notepad++ and didn't see a comparable alternative.. It turns out there has been a replacement all along called Notepadqq which should be in most distros but if not there is a Flatpak. I wonder if you have discovered this yet. Keep up the good work, I enjoy your videos.

[@silvernode]

@Paolo G I mean on the basis of being a clone of Notepad++

[@Laurent_GameDev]

Hi Chris, you should try Arcolinux. It's like Arch on steroids. Fantastic project. I really love their work to make Arch linux more accessible , nicer and prettier

[@MichaelVash7886]

Probably worth looking at contributing to projects you love like Lutris if you can. Flameshot is pretty awesome imo. One other thing I'd point out is as far as I understand AMD GPU video encoding is behind Nvidia by a bit at least on Linux. Only reason I have not decided which route to go on my new build.

[@johnbamber7374]

I really like Manjaro KDE. For some reason, it also seems to run better on my computer than Kubuntu or Neon. From what I've seen and heard, I like Ubuntu's implementation of Gnome more than plain Gnome.

[@CrazedPerformanceRepair]

can't agree more on most your recomends... I haven't tried flame yet and don't particularly love terminator but then again I spend minimal time in the terminal. For sure I can't do without Kdenlive though and I too have used a ton of other open source editors, I am also growing to be fond of Gimp but it sure is a learning process lol

[@TheWilldrick]

6:25 Chris, you ought to try the Fish shell + byobu combo, it's quite amazing and yo can do all the neat tricks you do on Terminator everywhere, be it a TTY, SSHing to another machine, etc. Also, "Oh my fish" with a powerline based theme like Agnoster. 7:20 gedit is more that meets the eye, check the preferences menu, you can have gedit with a "minimap" scrollbar, grid and numbered lines for easier code browsing

[@mebriner]

I'm really loving Ubuntu budgie right now, had it only a few weeks now and it's awesome on an older HP laptop i use for work...

[@digiver]

I liked Deepin and Mx Linux, but going with Manjaro. Been using it for few months now, and so far happy with it. I find myself using Manjaro more than Windows at home, guess Manjaro seems more personalized?