Setting Up a Linux Machine For Development

Setting Up a Linux Machine For Development
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[@thepaulcraft957]

I use Arch btw

[@Johnny-tw5pr]

No one asked

[@Mud.77]

Typical Arch User

[@novaimsh]

Arch is not ideal for beginners bruh !!

[@thepaulcraft957]

@@novaimsh I never said that

[@zarchie]

'Was looking for this exact comment not to be alone in this :((() Ps : you've gotta convince Kalle to run this distro :)/

[@enkiimuto1041]

A few points: 32GB for ram is way too overkill, I have 10 in a 24GB ram and never used it half of it. Especially if swap file can replace it and be more dynamic if your worry is not being able to hibernate fast enough. Balena etcher is great, but if you are watching this, chances are you are still testing linux in general, ventoy allows you to not install every single iso you go through, you can also have multiple OSes to test. Root partition could benefit from those other 32GB on the swap. Some applications are incredibly heavy on the system at first, and they get lighter as applications share the same libraries overtime. Getting a full root partition is incredibly annoying to fix. Note on the home partition: This will prevent you from needing to reinstall all your settings and personal files like you would need on windows. Keep that in mind in case you need to reinstall the system. NOTHING in this video (that i noticed) is inherently wrong, but he is following common instructions thrown on the internet without understanding or explaining the why. That is what happens when we first learn it, it is perfectly acceptable to do this, but do question those things and do your own research if this, it will help making decisions in things that (like this) aren't set in stone, and will help you being a better developer in general. Especially if this is your only machine.

[@enkiimuto1041]

Oh right, the terminal customization looks pretty cool, gonna go check if I can do it on Tilix

[@thepaulcraft957]

I think he shouldn't make such a video if he doesn't know anything about Linux.

[@louistournas120]

It's good to have plenty of RAM if you plan on having VirtualBox. I use VMs to test my applications, to see if it runs, to see how it looks. I'm not sure what the point of a separate home partition is. Is it for backing up? I backup my files regularly.

[@SuperSuperChato]

Yeah I think I followed the same article or at least the same instructions and got my root full within about a month. Haven’t fixed it yet but yeah, it’s a hassle.

[@enkiimuto1041]

@@louistournas120 home partiton saves the user personal files and settings. If you reinstall a system, unlike windows, you just need to format root and boot. The system will recognize home and it makes repairing easier. You don't need to do any partitions, and the system will allocate automatically. But if you format your computer you'll lose anything not backed up just like windows.

[@davidhiguera3078]

Hallden: "im gonna show you how to setup a dev environment" Also hallden: "I dont know how to run an .sh file"

[@alastairtheduke]

I actually loved the honesty there

[@llortaton2834]

Being a develloper and not knowing how to run a simple script is such a linux thing! You learn everyday.

[@darsparx]

This is me...I need to learn but the documentation is so daunting....esp for my choice of fish over bash 😆 😅

[@fate9958]

Honestly, as a linux user that used ubuntu for almast 2 years, don't use it. Almost everything on the os, after the new update, is built with snap packages, which make it incredibly slower than other distros. Ofc if you like it stick with it, but just saying as a general piece of advice ;)

[@hexisXz]

thats why i use pop os because even trying to install stuff on ubuntu is stupid af i couldn't install alacritty because i had to add a ppa just like everything else you can install on ubuntu i spent more time adding ppa's then actually using my computer 😒

[@fate9958]

@@hexisXz Pop os is probably my top 1 for ppl who start with linux for the first time I love it

[@watynecc3309]

Real Linux mint is better than ubuntu right now

[@fate9958]

@No_Name Honeslty many distros are good. Lately I have really been into Fedora, which is super clean and stable, or Manjaro for an "easier" arch experience. I would probably choose Fedora tho

[@keshavk6953]

Use ventoy to flash ISOs, it is just drag and drop and can have any number of ISOs without flashing the usb every time.

[@earthling_parth]

I had never heard about Ventoy before. Thank you for giving me a new solution 😍

[@PH0ENiX-._.-PH0ENiX]

I was also going to mention Ventoy but got me covered

[@umeshwalagedara]

I have a question ? :) how do you get away from distractions like social media when working from home.... How to stay productive with facebook, youtube and etc... hope you would share your thoughts in this... :D. Mean time your vlogs are interesting keep it up..

[@cru2006]

sign out

[@umeshwalagedara]

@@cru2006 yeah can do that with FB and instagram... must get away from you tube as well..

[@beamishjames]

Use an RSS feed reader for your favourite channels and don’t actually open YT :) That way you can still watch new content from your favourite channels and avoid the trap of mindlessly surfing videos

[@redpie907]

@@beamishjames actually this is not a bad idea 🤔

[@iAmTheWagon]

I remind myself what a loser I'll be if I'm not successful and I use that kick in the ass to stay on track.

[@adivmt]

Lot of people recommend not to use snap to installation, it increases the loading time

[@gr0undbg]

Honestly I love how you do set ups and isntall stuff you must be a good coach !!

[@sunnyheheheh9401]

Please remove snaps and replace them with apt packages, u will se great improvement in day to day usage in terms of speed and performance

[@enderpirate9887]

Fun fact about Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on launch it had several bugs and issues and system76 released pop os 4 days later and all the bugs were ironed out with less bloatware present

[@novaimsh]

Much needed. I was planning to work on Linux, Currently coding on VSC.

[@FrankZosso]

For my C++/QT, Golang, Python tool chain I always maintain a setup script for the latest Ubuntu LTS machine. Should make this script public, because after a fresh install it just takes like 20 minutes, depending on internet speed to have a fresh machine with everything installed I need to just get on and find all the tools I'm used to.

[@AimoN1337]

Would love to try this script

[@jonathanthomas2449]

Same here

[@dudemanperson100]

Me three. I'd love to have this

[@trtlphnx]

Love Your Hard Work And Presentations

[@Leo-wm7cd]

Recentely I ve heard that snaps are slowers than other types of packages (that is one of many criticizes that Ubuntu has been receiving), in your experience with this machine, have you noticed any unusual slowness ?

[@filipefigueiredo8271]

God please no snaps, lsblk is used to list block storage devices and not snap crap, just use flatpaks

[@capfarps]

snap is a crappy bloat

[@proro485]

Well just install the deb package or flatpak of the software if you are using ubuntu or any ubuntu based disto.

[@thepaulcraft957]

Snaps arent fully foss so they suck

[@justin7oo994]

@@proro485 yeah there's just so many ways to not use snaps

[@CLU2O10]

This whole video looked like a Deja Vu to me lol because I'm a first year bachelor student studying computer science and just a few days ago I was setting up my development environment on my laptop. (Accidentally nuked my windows bootloader a couple of times in the process lol) and my roommate was watching Rick and Morty in the background. Really liked this video!! Please keep more of these videos coming. Wishes from India!! :)

[@easylearn8924]

then what you do after??

[@capfarps]

Do not use Snap, one of my mistakes when I started using GNU/Linux

[@N0purpose]

RIGHT

[@redpie907]

If somebody would like to install ubuntu on an external hard drive use Virtual box Make a bootable USB In the Virtual box you don't need to create a new virtual machine just add the bootable USB for start + you can set Virtual box can notice 2.0 and 3.0 usb devices (external hdd/sdd) with the new pack nowdays, plug in the external hdd/ssd and in the setting you can add it in the USB settings then unplug it After the USB's ubuntu start click on "Try Ubuntu" Then plug in the external hdd/sdd The Ubuntu will notice the device Finally you click on Install Ubuntu and the best thing about this method is you just see one device for the Ubuntu installation So just one easy option "Install Ubuntu" or if the hdd/ssd have not important information you can choose "Erase Ubuntu amd reinstall"

[@scoty_does]

Im an old unix guy, everyone googles everything. They just look smart when they remember the third time :D. Keep notes so you can do it quickly the second and third time.

[@ahmedsaadsabit1749]

What is more calming than Kalle installing linux in a machine

[@kuroikenshi9217]

If I am not wrong, you don't have to set up swap partition if you have more than 8 GB RAM, or set it up the same RAM size

[@SriHarshaChilakapati]

You're not wrong, if you'd have setup a swap to file instead. Otherwise what happens is you won't be able to hibernate. Hibernate is most important for devs so as to not restart all their services up which can take up to half an hour from cold boot.

[@kuroikenshi9217]

@@SriHarshaChilakapati Thanks for information :)

[@hexisXz]

I have 64 gigs of ram and i have a swap partition

[@errodememoria]

@@hexisXz but the partition has 64 gigs?

[@cryptosecuritytools]

I just did this yesterday and deleted Ubuntu today. Pop OS gets my vote. Ubuntu is so slow

[@darsparx]

Whats funny is nowadays you don't need a swap bc most distributions use newer methods for swap. Also always check things arent in software either through the gui or otherwise. Android studio definitely shouldve been in the repos. That was a hard habit for me to break coming to linux to not check that first 😅

[@n.m4497]

Fedora, Linux Mint, Linux MX or OpenSuse Tumbleweed are the Top for usability.

[@adinchandra1797]

It just reminds me his Previous Videos about Garuda Linux and it also the first time, I knew his channel

[@Rahul-mv8lm]

Fedora with btrfs is the best thing currently.

[@Elhamidi0249]

Could also be Arch with BTRFS or even Linux Mint Debian Edition with BTRFS which I currently daily drive right now.

[@yousefkhaled2]

is making home partition a logical one is a right thing?

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@Eimantasks]

swap partition is no longer needed, we use swap file these days. You can modify its size straight from OS via terminal. Can also just create one partition set as / for everything, it will partition automatically, not the best practice but for regular use is probably fine, as I did that for years on my laptop. But for production desktop I still make a few partitions manually.

[@themuhammad1]

Teach us how to compile software on Linux machine from their source. Like i downloaded a software called Zotero but it needed compilation in order to install. I don't know how to do it. My life will be in heaven if i learn compilation.

[@cru2006]

yooo ive been needing this thanks a ton

[@anesukafesu7875]

What laptop are you using?

[@A4orce84]

Nice video. What happened to the XPS 15?

[@artificialcode]

I don't wanna be negative here, but he first didn't know how to run a shell script, and next he installed vscode as a snap. I mean, ubuntu is shit because of snaps, and this guy just seems to love them

[@dimalmfao]

hey hallden, what laptop is that???

[@RavenousFallen]

Samsung galaxy

[@dimalmfao]

@@RavenousFallen thanks

[@panter_skilla4514]

Nice Video! Arch linux is still the best distro for development.

[@PoojaYadav-ll8mw]

Why don't you check the new Linux distro for retro console who loves retro games :)

[@braiinworms]

I love that there's a sofa right there but you're asian squatting anyway lmao

[@psfgtech]

made it simple, crazy, you forgot terms, oh borther, my job is all about terms and nothing gets done, we need to hire you

[@harrivayrynen]

Good video. But I think that Ubuntu is nowadays slow. Ubuntu was great before. Firefox starts slowly etc.

[@DarkZuckerberg]

yeah you're right, it has 1 problem, and the only one. The Snaps, if they remove it, I might use it again, it looks good and is stable.

[@Linxy]

Hey man are you going to get one of those sleek new M2 Macbook Airs?

[@veteranashoe]

Ventoy is super useful tool for creating bootable USB no need to flash all the time.

[@Ahmed-to9hi]

Fedora is crushing it

[@delusionalaar4031]

Do OpenBSD next.

[@Elhamidi0249]

Yeah that would be really funny, really cool.

[@jonas-werner]

Can you do a video on what software you have on your Laptop and what it is for.

[@maxl9425]

Really nice video, Kalle. Just want to know what Laptop you would advice to a Software engineering student who's on a really tight budget ? Trying to get a new laptop

[@oni7729]

I major in Computer science, and got a dell xps 13 9370 for $500 on eBay, it's been great for me for what I do, let me know what's on your mind

[@cabpacedilla]

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is rock solid. The newer versions are still very buggy at the moment. 20.04 is supported until 2025

[@WebMentorDev]

i saw PKR. do you use Pak VPS or something? really great video. i started using Linux after i watched your first linux video :)

[@HolyG2k6]

you should give 'ventoy' a try for multiboot usb disk os installations

[@Chop_stiX]

im pretty sure he meant to install arch when he said "install linux on a machine"

[@JD96893]

I'm not a Ubuntu fan. I prefer finding a distro specifically for what I'm doing. Not that I use Linux much, but why use a generic distro if your going be doing something specific with it?

[@Elhamidi0249]

Like Solus for example

[@haam7292]

To be honest i had high expectation when i read the title of the video i thought there will be so much automating and dot files management and more considering you are one of the people who Introduced me to linux but its ok i wont go harsh on you these some recommendation for people who thinking of coming to the dark side of operating system (we have cookies btw) 1 - don't use ubuntu as your first linux distro , yes ik its popular and all but it had it's time now go with ether fedora or any archlinux based distro (you can ask me why in a comment) 2 - screw downloading packages from internet you're using linux (as an example i will show you how to install android studio on -ubuntu- ) I - sudo add-apt-repository ppa:maarten-fonville/android-studio II - sudo apt update III - sudo apt install android-studio i think this is much easier then what kalle did 3 - manage your dot files . for me dot files are the reason why i love linux the reproducibility of them is incredible just to make less confusion dot files are the configs of the software you are using for example at 12:49 kalle is editing a dot file called bashrc which allow him to customize the shell he is using if you can put your hand on that file you will be able to get the same bash shell as him i can go on and on but i think this is a friendly introduction to linux but sorry man you made somethings look harder then how its actually is and the cookie after the slap the editing is cool as always

[@glebyakovlev7098]

why fedora or arch based?

[@Hallden_]

This was such a great comment Haam! This is exactly what the youtube comment section is for! Good quality critique AND how to improve it, without being rude. I genuinely appreciate it!

[@haam7292]

@@glebyakovlev7098 this was faster then i expected the ubuntu desktop by default is going in direction against the linux philosophy (dont bother with it ) that means its slowly turning into something other then a linux distro as an example the snap thing that all the comments talking about is one of those mistakes ubuntu doing yes you can delete it but for new users it will be confusing and to be honest i dont think a new user will be comfortable with any of those decision why fedora first it kinda the most loved linux distro in the current time its more stable then the others (not like linux is not stable the most unstable linux is more stable then windows) its simple and so ease to use well documented and there community is just perfect why arch / arch based simple its the perfect linux distro all you can get in other distros you can get in arch its the most well documented software i can think of (bised gentoo linux but we don't talk that) it had something called *AUR* which is a place where devs put there software and make it more accessible to users (which all the others linux distros trying to copy but they cant that's just how awesome it is) and that make the arch linux at the top in the case of the software availability with more then 90000 packages it might be soooomle compare to windows but compare to linux its huge like ubuntu wich only have a round 1/3 of them or sometimes worse like open suse which have 14000 packages just to say arch may be scary when you look at it but lately they made a simple way to install it dont worry about it simply if you want something that just work go with fedora if you want everything linux have to offer go with arch

[@glebyakovlev7098]

@@haam7292 got it. thank you very much for the detailed explanation :)

[@haam7292]

@@Hallden_ its not a huge thing we surly don't know every thing so doing something wrong is not a mistake he is just a human . providing instruction or documentation for that person to show him the light is the first step then if he make the same mistake again then he is a donkey so give it a month or so fix your mistakes and make a new video im waiting for it and don't use ubuntu

[@Thomate1375]

You should really get a USB stick with ventoy installed ... Basically you could just copy multiple iso files on it and then choose wich one you want to install on boot ^^

[@luisrobles_CL]

Kylo Ren from the light side of the force. Thanks,

[@developer_cha1nsaw]

great video, can you make quick tutorial to how to setup ssh key in linux? I somehow not able to do it. some publickey error is coming all the time. thanks in advance lastly great video

[@markcook8516]

It seems you weren't trying to get people to monkey your movements?

[@KuruGDI]

On Windows I would rather go with Rufus than Etcher.

[@tylerc25]

Love these linux videos!

[@BitCloud047]

Awesome, Now do more LINUX videos!!!

[@koysdo]

this feels like a GRWM >.

[@malitman]

Did you ever made those workout videos?

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@hexisXz]

okay i am not trying to be mean or anything but DO NOT USE SNAP TO INSTALL STUFF snap is proven to be bad they are slow and buggy just use apt or flatpak.

[@sadjesse]

I’m pretty sure you wanted to dual boot with Windows, but you delete your Windows partition.

[@BanceY]

Please show how to develop software in Kali Linux

[@bzevendetta5233]

When you could try using Manjaro plasma kde seems almost perfect for developers

[@adannnachik6739]

So you the the bolesn something to pass Ubuntu or Linux? to a pen drive. I only understand half of the video. So maybe when you have time can you do the same but for beginner people .

[@crispyclips2916]

Article Link?

[@slikreos]

Thank you for making this

[@bhomeshrazdan199]

use ventoy for install the operating system without every time wipe out the pen drive

[@IRDazza]

Why ubuntu? Why not a free opensource distro.

[@theencryptedpartition4633]

Missed those videos

[@chrisceo632]

If mine has the option of 'install Ubuntu alongside windows boot manager', should I use it or I should still click on 'something else'??

[@errodememoria]

I think you should stick with "something else". It's not that hard and you can partition it as you want to.

[@adityahpatel]

which laptop are you using?

[@darkunscripted3210]

What laptop where you doing this on?

[@katlegodecostersouth8841]

Hi my name is kaygee from south African your videos are awesome 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@Zachhhx]

1:51 Can someone explain why people do this? I always thought you just mount the image and then drag the files out and into your flash drive

[@Zachhhx]

@gilkesisking I once had a machine with linux that I just formatted the usb and dragged it in and installed it on. I just had to go into the bios and adjust the boot sequence and then it installed. Was there something else that would've been affected by how I did it?

[@Elhamidi0249]

Do a FreeBSD speedrun install next

[@bestineouya5716]

Prepare a video next week on "hacking NASA using a samsung fridge"

[@teknologene]

How is this different from your old setting up video? I feel like some of your contents are just a repeat of what you already before.

[@yirgafuji5159]

Which version is you Download

[@aymaanahamed2781]

Can you give me the wallpaper that you used in windows 11

[@EpistolShow]

So he installed Ubuntu, added flutter, vscode. Almost 15mn of video for that

[@DarkZuckerberg]

linked his github stuff, explained them... what's the point of him showing you how to do it without explaining?

[@avidanmaatuk715]

maybe you could help me , i also have samsung laptop(galaxy book2 pro ) and i try to install kde on my linux but when i install this i dont have brightness control(maybe because the oled panel) , i try a lot tutorial and none work so i stay with gnome, but maybe you stragalle with the same issue and solve it ?

[@BayeuxRU]

So, you did it?

[@wathekghenimi9133]

Why you installing flutter and vscode as snap

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@kundanrai5918]

whenever i see someone use linux ..😊they are pro man

[@iyviish]

4gb or 6gb of swap memory is all enough. believe me

[@0x007A]

Yeah the current recommendation for swap space, whether a file or partition, is the square root of the amount of installed random-access memory. Basically, floor(sqrt(RAM)).

[@nikawritescode]

lol, either you have removed Windows partition and destroyed Windows, or there was additional partition that I couldn't see from list )))))))))))))))

[@RealMazharHussain]

No need to use balena etcher. Ventoy is a much better experience.

[@tanmaypatel3291]

Yeah, Multiple ISOs Big W

[@derekgossett7142]

What are the benefits of using Linux for dev rather than Windows or MacOS?

[@Sqwert-g6h]

For Windows it's an easy answer, it is a major pain to setup for development. Getting something like postgresql installed on windows is something I'd never like to do again.

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@arshhashmi3992]

Name this laptop model

[@NavyNav-]

im using windows but gonna use linux in next pc, (im starting programming, learnin python, will gonna learn smth after python)

[@1993eML]

Thanks for posting Kalle, what laptop for Windows .NET core is the best choice with budget aronund 2,5K-USD/EURO From Sweden!

[@DarkZuckerberg]

tbh at that price point you could get any laptop, which is good enough. most 'gaming' laptops are around 1.2-2k$ and they have insane specs. look at ROG, Alienware, HP Omen laptops. for business laptops, I'd suggest looking at Framework (Linus is invested in it), and System76 laptops, and Dell XPS, Latitude... I have a business laptop which is a Dell Latitude, I switched to Linux on it for university, and personally I lost some functionality, the Touch ID sensor has no drivers. Also if you are looking to use Linux, stay away from Nvidia for now, it works but it is a headache. My laptop has an intel i7 and AMD GPU, and no distro I tried gave me a headache. I'm currently using Fedora.

[@shirazull4027]

@@DarkZuckerberg I agree with you there, but it seems Emilio wanted buy in Sweden and framework is not available there yet, he could import from germany without any extra costs, but then if something breaks the service won't really work the same and it will be a hassle. So if the framework is interesting, please give them your email address on the swedish framework site to let them know you are interested. I am personally waiting for them to release to the nordic countries as well.

[@DarkZuckerberg]

@@shirazull4027 yeah im sorry, im not from europe, I can't buy framework or system76 laptops. I can't even buy a steam deck, so I got no idea about availability, I was just giving a general suggestion and based on experience.

[@MichaelSchellerwayne]

You better shouldn’t put your keys on yt! They are pretty easy to reconstruct if you show too much

[@smoke4146]

I use arch btw

[@divyanshjoshi1037]

hey, can please tell any method to install Ubuntu if Intel RST is enabled?

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@vaishakhgk2006]

install apps from apt snap will be slower

[@qb3014]

What do you think about Pop os for web development?

[@itstoxicqt]

Any distro is fine for programming theirs no "best distribution" find one you like

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...

[@LSI87]

you should use less then maximum memory rams ..... anyway you good enough for a software engineer 👍

[@Cavi587]

I prefer codium to VScode on linux. Is basically the same thing minus the proprietary Microsoft extensions. There's just something wrong having Microsoft stuff on your linux install.

[@Cavi587]

@No_Name I don't think that's a good comparison. What you said is correct but doesn't really apply in this case. You're the user, you have a choice. 99% of what makes up VSC is open source, but that 1% is telementry added in by Microsoft and I'm not comfortable sharing my data with them because they have a history of misusing it. VSCodium is essentially the 99% of VSC that's open source without the telemetry. For me the choice is more than obvious in this case.

[@Cavi587]

@No_Name As I've said above, it's literally the same thing. The only difference is the lack of Microsoft telemtry and the lack of the official Microsoft extensions. The rest is exactly the same. If you love VSC, you'll love VSCodium. The only thing I can think of that's a worse experience is if you rely on microsoft-heavy workflows such as with C#.

[@Cavi587]

@No_Name It really depends on what you're looking for. For a beginner a debian/ubuntu based OS would be the best because it's harder to break it. Zorin OS is my go to linux distro when I introduce new people to linux. It has some older packages and isn't as up to date, but because of that all packages are well tested and reliable. It also has a smooth wine integration which enables you to run windows exe files without thinking about it. Another great distro and the one I actually use on most of my machines is pop_os. It's a lot more up to date than Zorin, in fact it's ahead of even Ubuntu which it's based on. It has an ISO with nvidia drivers built in if you have an Nvidia GPU which makes it a go to distro for many gamers.

[@Cavi587]

@No_Name Personally I would not recommend Ubuntu. It used to be the top 1 linux distro, but it's been on a decline as of late. But it's still a great base for other distros. The distros that I mentioned in my previous comment are as easy to set up as Ubuntu. I think you might've seen some more advanced os becuase these can be a pain to configure, but most beginnr distros like Ubuntu, Zorin OS, pop_os, Linux Mint etc are basically great out of the box.

[@Cavi587]

@No_Name Yes, Mint is also based on Ubuntu. Mint is often said to be the easiest disto to get into as a Windows user because of it's Cinnamon Desktop Enviroment. Zorin OS is also ery easy for Windows users. Back in the day Ubuntu used to be the only "easy" distro, but these days there are many that are even better than Ubuntu in that aspect.

[@kaidocode]

Please do the same video for fedora 🙏🙏

[@omnimathic]

hello, why he left 20gb?

[@mujaideen.]

Questions can come in ⬆️...