Taking Ubuntu To The Next Level

[@nikkehtine]

Hey Derek, would be nice if you could put this in the description so we would have the video divided into these little segments Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 0:59 Installing a terminal prompt 4:32 Setting the Dracula color scheme for Gnome Terminal 8:14 Setting Dracula for Gedit 10:10 Installing the Dracula GTK theme 15:09 Setting a wallpaper for the theme 17:04 Setting up keybindings 22:27 Using apt for installing programs 24:13 Controlling startup applications 25:56 Enabling the GRUB menu 29:16 Disabling Ubuntu dock 31:30 Outro

[@forestsmills]

I like how he hearted the comment but didn't do it.

[@LowSpecLinuxLaptop]

@@forestsmills He didn't need to he just pinned the comment.

[@ramongonzalezfernandez8904]

@@LowSpecLinuxLaptop if he added it to the description it would show in the video player scrub bar

[@lpentertainmnt]

@@ramongonzalezfernandez8904 it also positions the youtube video at the very top in a related google search

[@peanut-butter-e1r]

@@forestsmills 🤣

[@bluey7520]

New Wallpaper = Power User

[@TH3WEIRD0thescum]

Hell yeah

[@mrreese2342]

Bro did NOT only change the background 😂

[@LegendaryMarvin]

"Pro Tip: Power users rarely read manuals, we just hit enter and hope for the best" Shush! you are not supposed to tell them that!

[@russellrussell5495]

Classic :-D

[@abucket3915]

Yeah because if there's something wrong about the command a help list shows up

[@Nunya58294]

Exactly lol

[@harshal.rathore]

So you mean to say that I am already a Power user. and i was thinking that i am lazy or is it just that power users are all lazy ass

[@abucket3915]

@@harshal.rathore of course, why do we optimize our workflows.

[@eenvlaamsegaai]

19:07 Derek: " Don't grab a mouse just to close a window " 21:19 Also Derek: * grabs a mouse to close a window *

[@nyanates]

Y I noticed this too.

[@SA77888]

The BASTARD...............I really AM disappointed.

[@robert58]

11:28 you can re-run your previous command as sudo with 'sudo !!' in case you didn't know!

[@mrfluffy9273]

Only in bash but yeah its useful

[@indrajitsarkar3169]

@@mrfluffy9273 works in zsh too

[@ShahFahad-zf3iz]

Matter of fact !! is shortcut for previous command, you can use !! at any place and with any command

[@dav1301]

wow that is insanely useful thanks

[@antares1694]

Not just that, you can run `history` and print your command history, after that, you can run any command with !n n being the nth line in the output of history.

[@MstanhopeTX]

Yeah exactly Derek, any Linux can be used as advanced or simplistic as you want. That’s the beautiful thing about Linux....the choice is yours!

[@waltereikrem]

big true

[@mTrader1]

YEH

[@hellohigoodbye]

But yet many MANY Linux users hate if a Distro is being friendly to new users. They forget this term that "Linux is your choice"......If a Distro tries to make a GUI for anything, the community just rages and tells "oh it's bloat! yuck! why put more bloat!"....everything is just bloat to them. All they want is a text editor, a web browser, and terminal.

[@MstanhopeTX]

@@hellohigoodbye my whole thing is don’t scrutinize people for their choice of distro. It’s at least getting their foot in the door. A lot of people who are coming from Windows or MacOS don’t with a CLI. I say instead of scrutinizing we should praise them and motivate them to keep learning!

[@hellohigoodbye]

​@@MstanhopeTX Exactly. But who will puts these in the mind of those people? They just hate new users. Some even say "Linux is good as it is, we don't need new baby newbie users coming from Windows"

[@KyleLanmon]

my favorite tip for when a command needs sudo but I forgot to type it the first time is: sudo !! the !! means the previous command

[@agenttank]

and !$ is the last argument of the last command :) very convenient shortcut for example: systemctl status zabbix-agent systemctl restart !$

[@vasiovasio]

This is useful! Thank you!

[@slalomsk8er397]

arrow up ctrl +a sudo is my solution but yours is one space shorter ;)

[@slalomsk8er397]

@@agenttank alt + . also works in most terminals

[@manix17]

I have seen double [ESC] working in zsh shell, It automatically prepends sudo before the command.

[@lilianahategan7939]

"I'm going to zoom in so you guys can see" - thanks

[@Eishventura]

me tooo

[@danieltheone706]

How to be a power user: 1. Change wallpaper 2. Change theme

[@Rustyuoiman]

Ubuntu is really comfy for servers or no nonsense machines, usually my older ones or business type ones.

[@pixxel17]

I just switched to EndeavorOS on my desktop, but my laptop is my school machine and Ubuntu just works 100% of the time. I need something that I can just start doing work on as soon as I open my laptop, Ubuntu works great for that!

[@rishirajsaikia1323]

One of the main reasons people like arch is because of the AUR.

[@ramunassilent1657]

Well, arch is bleeding edge. You will always get the newest applications or updates.

[@Chewbury]

*seriously* comfy. Which is why one of our 8,000 Xeon cores, 98,000 cuda cores, 3TB RAM *per node* compute clusters runs Ubuntu server.

[@CrypticConsole]

@@Chewbury wtf do you run on 8k Xeon cores?

[@sumnerd69]

dammit DT, you made me want to go back to the dracula theme after I just finished configuring my system with gruvbox

[@PhilipHarwell]

“We just hit enter and hope for the best.” 😆

[@Gavchannel321]

Real

[@PopShorts420]

And then randomly spamming error and u are using kitty terminal and don't know the command to force shut it off ;-;

[@zoliky]

Hey, DT! The quality of your content is getting better and better. I love your channel. Best wishes from Romania, the country of Dracula.

[@vanadium4167]

Don't agree. The quality is already stellar for quite some time ;)

[@prefixel5747]

I love these noob to power user videos!

[@ChrisM243]

I really like these kinds of videos like the last one "From noob to power user". I really wish this would become a more regular series since there is a lot to learn from.

[@OGBhyve]

This is a great video DT! It perfectly demonstrates to users some ways they can become better power users and addresses the myth that distributions like Ubuntu are only for newbies.

[@tomatocat]

Hi, I just wanted to thank you for this video. I only actually started using linux about 2 months ago, and this video was very helpful, since I use ubuntu.

[@swayamshree5951]

Thank you for saying it's a good distro. I recommend it to a lot of people who ask me what distro to use. I used it myself for a long time. All linux distros can work for you if you know how to use them.

[@unsafecast3636]

You can hold shift while booting to show the grub screen only one time.

[@immahati]

Small tip for when you need to rerun a command with root privileges, in this case you can run sudo !! The !! Gets replaced with the last run command and saves you some time from moving to the beginning of the line.

[@bluepenguin2993]

Adding shortcut for frequently used apps is very useful, Thanks DT.

[@PavelUrusov]

There is absolutely nothing wrong with Ubuntu, and it has an added advantage of being the "default Linux distribution" which is really important if you need to run some commercial Linux software which only gives you a choice between Ubuntu and Red Hat. Also many dev teams standardise on Ubuntu because it is 100% fuss free.

[@davebrowning9290]

I started off with Red Hat and switched to Ubuntu after I got tired of Fedora's upgrade cycle.

[@seanld444]

First time I've seen a bigger KZbinr deck out their system with Dracula. I was beginning to think I was the only one. It looks so slick.

[@Scrawlerism]

You're a king! This is perfectttt.

[@waltereikrem]

can we just take a min to acknowledge how badass the new set looks?

[@samuelitooooo]

I'm not the biggest fan of the Dracula purple but it's the wallpaper that completes it and now I like it a little more haha

[@kevmullins27]

This is a very informative. I kinda fall into the newb category because I haven't had much experience with Linux since playing with Red Hat in college back in 2005. Great work!

[@MatthiasStiller]

Thanks for that video. A nice looking theme you found and showed to us!

[@averrytallperson7634]

Ubuntu is my favourite distro it’s a really good option due to it being so popular almost everything is on it it’s a high priority distro alongside Mint

[@alex-vq1yy]

After seeing this video I can apply some commands that you tell in your video ( Beginner Guide to the Linux terminal ) and now I am able to understand those code and learn something new. So thanks form my side that you are giving so many good content in free . I am from India 😌

[@nicio1393]

Hey Derek, this is a excellent video on Ubuntu. Thanks for the tips.

[@mirrormirage0]

Gem of a video. Thank you for your patience DT. 🙏

[@sarthalion]

Great videos DT, I enjoy watching them! Here's what I think: Most of the so called "advanced" Linux users use Ubuntu or something like Fedora because with those you don't need to spend time tinkering with the operating system. Instead you can spend the time developing drivers for embedded devices and whatnot. I think it's a misconception that advanced users somehow configure their desktops more than new users. I think it's almost the other way around. After 15 years of Linux I can't bother playing with themes and different desktop environments or window managers. Whatever is there by default and works is usually fine. However I do spend some time configuring Emacs sometimes.

[@moneybuas4942]

Yup. I'm convinced that most people that scream at the top of their lungs that a mouse is bad and they should keyboard everything just want to feel like a "hackerman". Your life is not going to change drastically by taking 2 seconds longer to click something once in a while. The time I have seen actual keyboard only be useful in extremely high level banking and trading. Those people are machines with their excel and application shortcuts. Opening like 8 terminals with a key combination is not impressive. It is not the dividing line between being a power user or a noob.

[@urimc]

@@moneybuas4942 its actually because of the low ram usage on window managers and the ability to make it look however tf u want

[@coverscollection8775]

Can anyone help me hide this error log? Whenever I type gedit namefile it shows like that and its annoying. Thanks.... (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.376: Theme directory actions/24 of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.376: Theme directory actions/32 of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.376: Theme directory actions/16@2x of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.377: Theme directory actions/22@2x of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.377: Theme directory actions/24@2x of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.377: Theme directory actions/32@2x of theme Dracula has no size field (gedit:4820): Gtk-WARNING **: 11:02:35.377: Theme directory actions/symbolic of theme Dracula has no size field

[@tempest-523]

Thanks for the video. I used your tip to remove the menu bar after binding key commands for my favorite apps / actions. I love the streamline look, and with the background you suggested it looks amazing. I also like the average person wouldn't even know what to do if they came across the computer even if it was logged in. Gives me that extra layer of obscurity.

[@lawfultune]

Used it a year and couple months ago when I started using Linux, still remember the good times:D, thanks!

[@AbdelaliAbdallah]

I kinda miss ubuntu it's really nice distro and you just made it even nicer great vid!!

[@ganjarseo]

I'm not an advanced user of Linux, but hell yeah I love watching any Linux videos, and this is one of the best out there..

[@mitchelvalentino1569]

“…really weird kinda purplish color…” Ah, yes, Canonical’s _aubergine_ the color of desktop pathos, of Mark Shuttleworth’s fever dreams, and of the ultimate FrankenDebian, Ubuntu itself. It’s iconic and unsettling, yet superior to the old Ubuntu Brown.

[@cam0227]

I like the color

[@MartinAhlman]

@@cam0227 That's ok too! And that brown was ok too. It was easy to change and still is.

[@cam0227]

@@MartinAhlman I don't like the brown

[@MartinAhlman]

@@cam0227 That's ok too! If only there was a way to change things in Linux... ;-)

[@cam0227]

@@MartinAhlman There is a way. Just make your own

[@SagnikDuttaegor92]

albert would be a valuable addition to the tips, which were great btw!

[@phonewithoutquestion80]

I kinda wish I started with Ubuntu on my Pi, I could have broken a lot less in the process lol. Very useful tips here dude.

[@bhaveshverma8629]

Very good video. I appreciate your hard working sir.

[@flame.sniper]

Great vid! Truly you can customize everything in linux, im amazed. Please do one for Fedora.

[@baskett98]

Whatever he's done here will work on any distribution with GNOME. You can try fedora yourself

[@edupazz]

@@baskett98 except the ubuntu left dock

[@simratjitsingh5048]

thanks for this tutorial man, you are the best

[@tomvsaji474]

This was great 🔥

[@picclejar]

Joke's on you, i started with CentOS not knowing anything about linux at all! I was an idiot

[@Thwy]

I thought this would be about Ubuntu minimal for some reason

[@raushonmunni2633]

that exist?

[@TarebossT]

@@raushonmunni2633 Yeah, I think is called Ubuntu Server or something which provides you only a tty after installation.

[@TheGodzilla2201]

I just got Ubuntu installed alongside Windows 11. I'm enjoying it so far. I installed Pantheon Desktop.

[@AndrewGulak]

Any one of the obstacles you hit would have completely nuked my install, and resulted in a fresh install of whatever Arch distro was most popular at that moment

[@rudeviper]

Wow performance of the system on a vm is really impressive...!

[@orangeshoes]

Prolly a buffed up machine. His VM's specs likely surpass our regular machines.

[@locxha96]

he might be using virt manager which uses kvm and its faster.

[@bonumonu5534]

I can't believe you spend 15 minutes to change terminal and icons theme and called it power user move. Otherwise great and detailed explanation for every move! Waiting for advanced vdeos

[@davebassi7340]

New to Linux. Thanks!

[@gustavoviana5508]

Whenever I have to make a new Ubuntu install I come back to this video and I everytime I laugh at him saying "I'm really digging this" when he sees that Dracula theme in Ubuntu is actually really cool hahaha

[@h2o40fpv]

DT so far everything except the starship have been accomplished thank u. Ok so im following you and is getting alone really nice thank u DT.

[@sharkasaurus220]

2:51 "The default editor on ubuntu is called gedit. It's called Text Editor in the menu system, but the actual program name is gedit." Thanks, that was a point of confusion for me when using ubuntu, and now I finally understand :)

[@sirdee9607]

Thx for ur work. I use POP OS for my daily driver and on my Back-Up-PC and never missed Win since. Kind Regards from Germany

[@eeaaay]

Hey DT! ctrl+a (begin line) and ctrl+e(end line) , you take control of the begin and end terminal line.

[@DistroTube]

Yes, the Bash shell (made by the good folks at GNU) uses Emacs keybindings (also made by GNU). I'm a heretic though. I make my Bash use vim bindings instead.

[@eeaaay]

@@DistroTubeYou know the gospel of emacs! lead us mr. DT!!) P. S. How to exit from vim?..))

[@MassimilianoAdamo1967]

it looks very nice Dracula on Tilix. Thanks for the hint :-

[@LeeCruz337]

Im new to linux and abuntu and this is an absolute powerhouse tutorial thanx so much for making this content i have no doubt its going to help a lot of people myself included thanx again.

[@Coffenos]

hey , how can i make size smaller of panel which is on the left side

[@xX_Lol6_Xx]

@@Coffenos Look for the option, if I remember correctly it's in appearance

[@thomasphilipmeadows4569]

that notification for mailspring at 12:20 looked awesome! Is that regular gnome notifications?

[@DistroTube]

That was dunst notifications from the host machine (running Xmonad). :D

[@iAmTheWagon]

I use the Dracula Theme for almost everything. So nice to look at, clean and easy to read.

[@heraldocastillo8763]

Good night, im using ubuntu for a while now but this is AMAZING THANKS

[@chesterbelle]

this its great content we need more of this

[@vimrichie]

This video has made me into an elite hacker.

[@icy-spoon85]

at 11:55 when changing the org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "Dracula", and the ....wm.preferences theme "Dracula", what is the command to revert these back to the original? Or is that in gnome-tweaks?

[@UnknownPerson-c5e]

After this CUSTOMIZE the RAM can be get Effect?

[@TheTruncks78]

Hey Derek, nices tips,thanks.

[@petrlosev6611]

The Dock isn't useless, you can see what apps are running. Additionally, you can launch the apps from the dock pressing Super+1 ... Super+0 etc. So you could, for example, put Terminal to the first position and launch it with Super+1, Nautilus is to the second one and launch it with Super+2, Chrome is to the third and use Super+3. Also you could move the Dock to the bottom in Settings to be it more like Windows. Finally, I would never use Super+Shift+C for closing apps because I got used to Alt+F4 as a Windows user as well and don't wan't it to be any different, moreover I don't have to close much apps a lot I just switch between workspaces with Super+PgUp/PgDown.

[@gabrielevan148]

I close windows with super+q, since ctrl+shift+c is used to copy lines in terminal Terminal I choose super+t Nautilus I just use the "launch home folder" on keyboard shortcuts instead of creating custom command Browser and other apps I put them on favorite list and launch them with super+1-9

[@nadunur]

Hey derek im noob.. i have a question for you.. if i dont want gnome DE can i uninstall it and just run a tiling window manager only with ubuntu.. im very glad to see tutorial if u have enough time.. thanks a lot !!

[@manee427]

Amazing content , very practical and helpfull

[@MassimilianoAdamo1967]

p.s.: Software Center takes a while to load because it's packaged with Snap, and not only because it's a "heavy program" ;-)

[@sheikhejab]

WARNING: cgroup v2 is not fully supported yet, proceeding with partial confinement getting this warning in terminal after installing starship prompt

[@CayoBuay]

How do these make you a power user exactly? It would have been more power user like if you covered things like aliases, securing, or general things like using top/htop to see whats using up you resources.

[@web-dev.ashishk]

I have searching for this video long time , but i didn't get it , but one things i had done in past subscribed your channel then , today i get your video in suggestion , and i surprised how you explain all the great things in simple words , than you so much for informative video , love you from india

[@unknown009-d]

This video literally opened the potential of linux for me.. thanks😄

[@keikenhate]

i need a real life Dracula theme to be honest.

[@Temon0942]

Sup key + the number at which application appears on side bar are default key binding to open any application which is present on side bar

[@h2o40fpv]

Hey great stuff men thank u.

[@AslamD]

Dude just turned ubuntu into Dracula 😎

[@deepakshivraj4881]

Thanks for posting this video atleast now Arch users will understand that distros don't matter cuz we're all linux users and its just preferenece for the distro that you choose

[@Slyndc]

Who cares what Arch Linux users?

[@deepakshivraj4881]

@@Slyndc Ikr but they are the loudest bunch ignoring other linux users forgetting a fact that we are all running the same linux kernel under the hood and we should all be proud of that instead of using macos or windows

[@edupazz]

@@Slyndc at least we have pacman, AUR and the greatest wiki ever

[@Slyndc]

@@edupazz and yet life still moves on. 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@edupazz]

@@Slyndc sure

[@oldgeezer4778]

I have been using Ubuntu since '09......................and despite my dislikes...............it has never let me down!!! I have no problem with anybody making money,,,,,,,,,,especially me!! I think Linux would really leap forward if people let people start making money!!! I don't mean from a proprietary standpoint, but from a service standpoint!!! I know that I would be glad to pay someone to either improve a product, or provide assistance in trying to get some of the looney problems that exist in certain distros resolved!!! KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!!!

[@AndersJackson]

Been on Ubuntu since they distributed it on CD... :-) I also installed and run Red Hat when it was free. `eval' means evaluate the text that is argument as if it was entered through the keyboard. That is the output from the command. Recommend `apt´ and `aptuitude´. Aptitude us great when you want to search and get information about packages. For example `apt install emacs´

[@MstanhopeTX]

I remember when they used to send a free Ubuntu CD. That was the good ole days!

[@AndersJackson]

@@MstanhopeTX don't know if it was that Good, but old days it certainly was. :-)

[@KrypteiaXi]

Am I the only one loving the default Magenta terminal to death? whoever thought of this color is a genius.

[@tsh6974]

I use arch btw

[@najmeddinezaga2919]

Man installed linux Man changed Terminal theme Man Changed the Icon theme man changed the folders theme Man happy !!!!!

[@krtirtho]

Alt+F4 to close window is dumb but Super+Shift+c makes sense But Ctrl+Alt+t is too long so use the short one, Super+Enter for terminal "its the paradox of assigning keyboard shortcuts"

[@zzinuecode]

Awesome tips. Thank you so much for sharing

[@liftlinux9421]

So, I am giving out Linux for someone who is willing to use it Just wanna ask that which video should I give to him just for customization, this one or the Linux Mint one...

[@PlanetLinuxChannel]

Regarding application key bindings, the Super (Windows) key plus a number corresponds with the icons you have pinned on the dock. So if Firefox is the top icon, then Super+1 will launch it. Super+2 would launch whatever is below that, and so on. So when you set up your favourite apps in the dock, it also associates those key bindings.

[@FedoraRose]

Great Video thank you😁👍

[@itsmmdoha]

Perfect, I also personally think the dock is useless because I don't ever use that at all.

[@riseabove3082]

Great content DT. I personally can use just about any DE and be at home with it but I have always liked Gnome due to it's great keybindings. I prefer to use keybindings as much as I can but I don't mind overlapping windows since there is always Expose. Interestingly, I had been using i3wm-gaps for quite extensibly but went back to a DE until trying bspwm and wow it is so much more natural to me than i3 ever was. I especially like the fact you move the content inside the window instead of moving the window causing a disruption to my layout which drove me mad in i3. (edit for sp)

[@snipzmattio5887]

I like how you started with complicated distros like sabayon in the channel and now you help the newbies. That's good, I try to do that also but it's really difficult, how do you convince people into getting into linux?

[@RicardoPerezLeon]

Ubuntu Unity remix, no extensions, out of the box.

[@therealslimaddy]

Hi DT, you should have installed material shell as well. Great vid btw

[@ceres11]

No use pop shell that is a much better tiling window manager for Ubuntu

[@blackaura97]

Great video! I'll use it for my Ubuntu installation. Also there's a gnome plugin to tile windows!

[@bskull3232]

Change gedit theme to oblivion, now you can read the current line with a darker theme.

[@Verssales]

I really don't understand what this video is for, like "power users" just change themes ? Or uses a different terminal ? This isn't like optional ? Of course the key binds where ok tips, but many distros already came with a terminal key bind and why I would like to have a key bind for the browser, I work with computer for about 10 hours a day and I open it like once per day... I just open or close tabs... The tips about the package manager where ok, but other than this 2 tips all the others, in my opinion, are just optional and common things that many users do or just don't really need. And btw in the end what changes from distro to distro isn't just the package manager command ?

[@brunoais]

17:52 I also have key bindings to resize and move windows. It's bind to the Super key. Is that Pro enough? :D