My Workflow 2023

Today I talk about my current workflow. I do not talk about my VM situation in this video, that will be a separate video.
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[@TheLinuxCast]

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[@vehementham]

I love this kind of video! Your setup is really cool and I love to see what you have done with it. I think that the way you ave set up changing your wallpaper and color scheme with pywal is perfect and is exactly what I am striving for with my set up.

[@thingsiplay]

As I watch every video from you, I already know lot of the daily stuff. The most interesting part was to me when you talked about gaming, as I am a pretty much gamer guy. I'm actually impressed by how many playtime you have for Cities: Skyline.

[@Cavi587]

Me just sitting here with 3000 hours in my fav game.

[@mikeginta]

Great video! Will be great to see your workspace and hardware configuration.

[@MrNeilypops]

Great presentation. Thanks so much!

[@keikogaming]

Great video, thanks Matt!

[@jaylittlegm]

Man I love hearing about your job... that's pretty cool. Not what I would have guessed.

[@tsukkidreams]

thanks to you I've been a happy qtile user for a month now, it's so versatile and powerful, I pretty much don't have a reason to switch, great content as always

[@lvill3633]

I just finished installing Arch witb xfce. So far, so good. Had to do it twice, first is for experimental stuff 😊

[@NatePick]

Nice man. Pretty clean workspace. (OS wise that is) :'D

[@shatteredvidrio]

9:35 You can have "Nested Folders" with Firefox's TST add-on. It's really good that I even ditched horizontal tabs altogether and went for vertical with TST.

[@antongranzow5033]

Sideberry is also really good

[@shatteredvidrio]

@@antongranzow5033 What I didn't like about Sideberry is that its toggle-show animation was tooo clumsy and also didn't integrate that nice with my theme.

[@dianaalyssa8726]

TY

[@mylinuxforwork]

Thanks for the video. Qtile is a great WM. I use Qtile for my daily work with Office 365 as web apps incl. MS Teams, Windows 11 in a Virtual Machine and several customization to speed up my workflows.

[@superangrybrit]

You have a good setup. +1 for qtile. 👍👍

[@Tech-my7nu]

Great video! In Firefox, Sidebery is pretty similar to Vivaldi's workspaces. Maybe you could give it a shot.

[@BahijAlkhoury]

thank you for all your videos ❤. davinci resolve works on nobara 37 out of the box

[@rogueyun9613]

Love your channel. Can you do one about your computer hardware now?

[@MH_VOID]

Have you tried EasyEffects for noise suppression? I use it (with some other filters) and it works really well. Just set your mic as its input and hook its output up to OBS or whatever. It has a ton of other stuff you can do with it too that can be fun to play with, especially when echoing my audio back to me (it can make me actually like the sound of my digitalized voice!). Imagine having Harmony and FlowerPot in your most used (at least I'm assuming that's what it is - I've never used vivaldi, and never will), but not Haphne and Honks. At least there's no Hinny I guess. Thalia > Annabeth. What's Josh/Donna from? Personally in Firefox I just make move tabs on other subjects into their own window, then set that workspace to be tabbed. Not as nice as what vivaldi seems to have though. 170 is indeed not a lot. I have over 2000 in multiple games, and 500+ in a lot more, over the last decade.

[@drlukewhite]

I'm always curious about your workflow as an editor, working with others. As an academic in the humanities, even though I like to write in something simple, all the editors and publishers I've worked with are geared up to work with Word files, so I have to use pandoc to make the conversion and then go through processes of editing and correction with them through Track Changes / comments on the Word doc. (And then usually final proofs on a PDF.) I would love to know more about how you go about moving text from Vim to collaborating with 'normies' in the process of editing...

[@TheLinuxCast]

So, I'm a dumb person, and also obsessive about vim. So I take them out of Google Docs, which is where they are sent to me, open them in vim, edit there with all of my awesome keybindings, and then copy and paste into WordPress. Luckily, I don't have to track changes because they're not going back to the writers. I just make the changes and then publish. Unless something is horrendous, which does, happen. It's amazing how many freelancers think they can write and really know nothing about how to spell. Or spell check for that matter.

[@anon_y_mousse]

You said you tried a lot of distros to get DaVinci Resolve to work, did you try Slackware? I was looking into using it and maybe getting a camera to record some stuff with it, but it requires registration, which I'm not going to do.

[@soda3185]

Really cool setup. Also, I'd recommend Factorio and Terraria, awesome games, the latter will have an update soon (v1.4.5) with stuff from Dead Cells (which also has stuff from Terraria).

[@badrakhariunchimeg1031]

i am doing okey

[@EliasNPC]

Olive-Editor I like how it is so far

[@elnino7628]

You move from Fedora to Gentoo definetly? Great video btw

[@chrislanejones]

Thanks for making this channel, I ended up switching to Ubuntu from Windows. Windows 11 sucks. I have used Linux back-and-forth for almost twenty years and Focal Fossa runs vastly better than older Ubuntu versions.

[@cejannuzi]

LOL. Just thinking about my old 'workflow' on Win 10 before I switched.

[@darkphotonstudio]

Shotcut works for me and is not a garbage video editor but I’m open to alternatives. Is Kdenlive still unstable and crashy?

[@WarmProp]

Vivaldi ❤

[@MarkusHobelsberger]

"It's like having nested folders inside of a file system" .... Hmmmm, where have I seen something like that in a browser before....?

[@wyfyj]

I remember March or so of last year you were using i3 and I first moved over to Linux. Shortly after I took the jump and tried out window managers. I stuck with Qtile and never looked back. I still love the curent flavor of Gnome (Cosmic) that Pop! ships. But when I use a wm, I stay with qtile. Trying out bspwm and just always go back to my fave. For some reason, I am too smooth brained to use qtile as a wayland compositor. For that I typically just use hyprland. I have been liking wezterm as my terminal of choice. Lunarvim is my editor of choice still. But if I make the move to NixOS, I can't use it and need to be a big boy and make my own config.

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

My journey was much more gradual - first mint with cinnamon, then manjaro with kde, then arch with xfce and i3, then gentoo with bspwm.. then void with wmutils and bash scripts, now I don't really care anymore, I lost interest in these things.

[@leediffusion]

My workflow involves the use of Bottles. A flatpak that runs on my Debian 12 laptop. I do a bit of small time trading (fx, stock markets etc). This needs Windows software to run either Metatrader 4 or 5. Both run well under WINE. I used to do a full WINE install from the repository, but now I use Bottles. Lutris would probably work too. I can also play some retro Chris Sawyer games too like Locomotion (under Steam/Proton or Heroic. There is of course OpenTTD and OpenRCT that have native Linux versions. I also have Nix pickages installed. If I want to run openttd-jgrpp (a patched version of the game) I can just run it in a nix shell.

[@esra_erimez]

My workflow involves the use of bottles of beer

[@the_linux_legend6199]

My wprkflow recently has changed drastically to do everything in emacs. Obviously with hyprland as the wm/wayland compositor.

[@esra_erimez]

I use vi for my wprkflow

[@guardianbob]

Where does the secret door behind the other desk go?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Closet that should never be opened for fear that everything will fall out and crush me.

[@dod_ytent9984]

What is the newtab extension u showed in vivaldi? Nice video as usual matt.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I have every new tab set to this. github.com/Tressley/_traichu

[@themroc8231]

You seemed pretty sold on thunar on your video. So what is it that Krusader does best in your opinion?

[@lmnts556]

Other than neovim I use sublime text when I need something else. Give it a try and see if it works for you.

[@slalomsk8er397]

last time I had to edit a video I used blender, belief it or not but some how that worked very well

[@TheLinuxCast]

That app scares me. 😂

[@skelebro9999]

when are you going to make a video on nixos? really want to know your opinions on it.

[@VictoriaMan69]

What type of Stream Deck are you using on linux? I have the Stream Deck + and last time I was on linux it was not supported. Would love to know if there is a way to make it work, it's the best.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I use the mrk2 or whatever the new one is called. And I use this to make it work: github.com/muesli/deckmaster It's awesome.

[@4n0n87]

I remember you saying at one time you was a historian, if it interests you I'd like to share with you if you don't already know a open source genealogy program called MY Heritage. I enjoy watching your videos man. Edit: Gramps is the software not My heritage.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Sounds interesting, I'll have to take a look

[@vdochev]

Since I'm a KDE user, I use KWave instead of Audacity. For my tasks it works great, but I can't really say if it can 100% substitute Audacity.

[@Aoitori365]

I have heard that davinchi resolve works on nobara os

[@AhmedFaisal13]

let's say I use QTile on two monitors. monitor one is my main workspace, monitor two is just a place to hold a good zooming application that magnify the main screen for me.(closest thing to the gnome style when you set it to work on the right half). how can I do that?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Keep your mouse on the first monitor all the time. The workspace focus follows the mouse.

[@AhmedFaisal13]

@@TheLinuxCast that's good but for a start, I couldn't manage to make my QTile uses the two monitors to begin with so I couldn't put the magnifying app. also if I did, which app could I use? xzoom? not feel of quality. compiz? pretty good but could I convince it to work in qtile? that PySomething compozitor? does it have zooming?

[@LG51hacker]

I use vivaldi too. It's just simpler.

[@jesse7631]

Your ClipMenu issue might be due to Wayland

[@TheLinuxCast]

No it was an env variable issue. Had to put that variable somewhere not in .bashrc

[@thingsiplay]

@@TheLinuxCast Oh, so you are running Wayland now? Because I'm interested to know how well Qtile works in Wayland in real life.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@thingsiplay nope. Still xorg.

[@JamesSmith-ix5jd]

they allow you to edit articles in plain text for your job? very unusual, I expected a word file or maybe like Indesign project

[@TheLinuxCast]

They come from Google docs, and then get uploaded to wordpress, which cares not what format they came from

[@Metrix2024]

Hey matt, I know you said you're a writer and i kinda want to get into writing, so maybe write a few blogs or some articles on weekends not professional or anything just a hobby, what are some tips that you would give me or do you know any resources that i could use to help me

[@TheLinuxCast]

Writing is all about practice. And don't get too caught up in the tools you use to write. Write and practice. You'll get better. Also, and this was a big one for me when I first started, remember that there is a first draft for a reason. Editing can be done later.

[@Metrix2024]

@@TheLinuxCast Also i haven't wrote anything as yet but the idea of writing something and putting it out there for people to read is kind of intimidating

[@umikaliprivate]

hi

[@francescocostanzini4740]

hey matt, what startpage do you use on your browser?

[@TheLinuxCast]

github.com/Tressley/_traichu

[@erlantzc174]

Wait wait wait... Are all those games working for linux? I know steam itself runs natively. It would be grat if you added a link to a "How to" play steam games in linux.

[@TheLinuxCast]

The ones I said I've played, yes, they work great. The only game I haven't been able to use is Forza.

[@Hennesg]

Why did you go back to OpenSUSE?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Because I like it and I ef'd up my Debian install. So I challenged myself to use opensuse for 2 years.

[@terminallyonline5296]

2:50 why can't you use the word ricing?

[@TheLinuxCast]

I've been told it's racist against Asian people. 🤷

[@alexstone691]

I doubt anyone actually asian would mind

[@terminallyonline5296]

@@TheLinuxCast Oh wow, I have no idea how it could be connected to East Asian stereotypes but if it's founded in that then good call I guess.

[@TheDrunkenAlcoholic]

@@TheLinuxCast you are joking right? otherwise that's one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard. I wont go into how many words are in the English language, but with that type of mentality we will all be talking Swahili as to not offend anyone

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@TheDrunkenAlcoholic nope. I've been told it is racist. It's easier to just go along than argue.

[@ayanakshaupadhyaya]

the hyperland hype just went offline 😅

[@lmnts556]

red dead redemption 2 is amazing.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I've only played a little bit, but yes, it's very good so far.

[@holleey]

people who generalize any and all proprietary software as bad and to be avoided are just as lost as people who never heard of FOSS.

[@chrisMuc1966]

11:47 Are you specialized on a specific century?

[@TheLinuxCast]

In college, I focused on three different areas. Medieval history, the Cold war, and the history of the Catholic church. Now that I'm an editor, I just pretty much anything that anyone else writes.

[@chrisMuc1966]

@@TheLinuxCast Thank you very much for your reply. I assume an editor has the duty to eliminate content errors, right? Typo errors are already eliminated by word processors, so it is probably not part of your job to correct typos.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@chrisMuc1966 typos and dance check. You'd be surprised at how few people don't use spell check. Mostly though it's formatting and citations.

[@chrisMuc1966]

@@TheLinuxCast Now I have a better understanding regarding your daily work at your office. Thank you very much.

[@johanb.7869]

Font rendering, sorry to say it, very bad so difficult to see and way to small.

[@vAstronomia]

Only thing missing is a music visualizer 🪐

[@TheLinuxCast]

lol, I have cava installed, but never use it