My Setup 2025 - Software and My New Desk!

[@TheLinuxCast]

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[@AnadiaShark]

dam that thumbnail, i liturally remember using that PC icon as part of my project at school.

[@W1TEA]

@@AnadiaShark like a bad penny, it keeps showing up. 😂

[@TrustJesusToday]

One of my laptops is a 13 year old TouchScreen HP that runs CachyOS/Hyprland with perfection. An amazing old guy that will not die....

[@manuelabajo]

I have the same Edifier. I use lollypop and Deadbeef as my music player, both in the official openSUSE repositories. Happy 2025 and have fun with that setup. You will surely do so having openSUSE and Edifier ;)

[@davidr8424]

I'm a fairly new follower of your channel. I'm loving it..

[@renealbrechtsen9743]

I recently got a standing desk too. It's such a game changer.

[@GoddamnAxl]

@@renealbrechtsen9743 thinking about getting that for my gf too! How you like that desk? She has neck/shoulder pain. Do you think it'd help?

[@sudeep64ify]

Great video and love your Qtile setup!

[@tex24]

Great video! Thanks and have a happy 2025!

[@cnst2657]

"I tell lies" haha I love that! :D Great setup!

[@johanb.7869]

Happy new year! I don't have a desk. I use a diner table as computer desk. It's 160 wide, 90 deep and 74 centimeters high. Plenty of space. MX Linux Xfce on a refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini with 16G of RAM and 256G Sata SSD. Samsung 27 inch R650 professional monitor 1920x1080 with IPS matte screen. Ajazz A820 75% mechanical keyboard. Does the job perfectly for me.

[@Daonexus]

I haven't watched your previous setup videos and this was the first one I watched. To be honest it was exactly what I imagined it to be.

[@Prodigal2513]

Awesome set up - thank you for sharing the details

[@Prodigal2513]

Also, I appreciate the authenticity and realness (the cable management, etc.). It's very relatable!

[@clashncruz]

You got your setup looking like the Starship Enterprise's Captain's Chair mixed with the Chief Engineer's Data Terminal right there Matt, great work!

[@derekr54]

Very interesting and amazing the difference the new desk makes.

[@sterben4958]

Awesome video, I only wish it was longer!

[@Idfkwhyy]

I love it when KZbin recommends me new linux content

[@glensumner3425]

nice Im loving self hosting searx too need more docker vids when your ready...

[@LinuxRenaissance]

I am amazed by that keyboard. I couldn’t type on it, but I am amazed that you can ❤

[@tmendoza6]

I just purchases a standing desk and love it. Nice setup

[@camerontgore]

Or if you want a good radio like experience, then I highly recommend Azuracast. You can request songs but it is truly like a classic radio station and can be set to shuffle all of your music or you can do individual stations.

[@MENTOKz]

cool setup matt i too have a moonlander

[@jr_Linux]

nice desk matt.

[@unclechris]

Love the video Matt! Thanks for showing us everything. Was really enjoyable to watch.

[@Aygross]

Navidrome+picard+soulseek+symfonium for local music. I love seeing annas archive in your bookmarks

[@sher1x165]

Matt, you have a lot of RPM packages :)

[@零云-u7e]

I live in distrobox and podman. I can mangle my host machine, no prob. I'm not gonna serve up a vm, but k3s is like

[@tex24]

What's your right monitor @ 12:14? Never mind. You covered it. LG dual-up (?). Will look into a dual up configuration. I need it for my day trading setup.

[@intermarer9145]

Best thing I ever did was throw away the multi-monitor setup and put in a 48" LG OLED instead. It's like four monitors in one, but without the horrible desk clutter and config complexity.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I will probably do this someday, but not until these die

[@Winnetou17]

@@TheLinuxCast Something tells me that if they don't die at the same time, the single big monitor will never happen. Truth to be told, I don't think that a single giant monitor is for everyone. Be it something like a normal ratio 40-48" monitor or a ultrawide 32:9 aspect one like Samsung's ... I forgot the model name, that you can split in 2 or 3

[@intermarer9145]

@@Moped_Mike I use a 48" LG C1. Best purchase ever 😊If it broke today I would buy a C4 in a heartbeat! BUT! this will be niche - if you use Linux, remember that these are TVs so no displayport. Meaning, if you want 4k@120hz in Linux you will have to use Nvidia. Neither AMD nor Intel can do HDMI 2.1 in Linux because the HDMI forum people are assholes.

[@esra_erimez]

16:52 That looks like it might be an HP z440 worksation, the little brother to the computer I'm typing this on right now the HP z640.

[@TheLinuxCast]

Sounds about right. It's honestly overkill for what I use it for. I could do this with a couple mini think stations.

[@DefCantGame]

I use an re20 its a great mic once you have it setup properly

[@sho6501]

man sorry about your laptop. i had a portable ssd fail on me, for the first time, in less than a year! and guess what... it was also hp!! screw hp. I swear their warranty support is broken on purpose.

[@bstar777777]

Love the LG DualUp. I had no idea how much that monitor would improve my workflow. It's been a game changer for complex programming workflows.

[@JessicaFEREM]

I have 4 monitors. I rarely use the 4th one unless I'm streaming or playing a game with KZbin in the background. Honestly the screen could probably be replaced with my phone if I really wanted to.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I don't know if the fourth monitor will stay this year or not. We'll see. Most of the time it's unused. And it'd give me more desk space and flexibility by getting rid of it.

[@christopherkurilla7458]

the post issue on that laptop is probably a dead cmos battery

[@mrthp]

Vivaldi is the best browser ! for real

[@infinitivez]

I have to ask how do you hook up multiple monitors to your system? Does your video card have multi output, or are you using a device (USB?) to output to them? Asking for a "friend" 😉

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@infinitivez yeah it has three display ports and an HDMI

[@zakkypatronu]

How can i get the qtile bar from your config from the start of the video because on gitlab its diffrent now

[@TheLinuxCast]

Use the gruvbox shapes config in the themes directory

[@zakkypatronu]

@@TheLinuxCast Thank you very much

[@tristen_grant]

18:58 The Nux Ca.

[@pocketglove]

how did you do the "days left" and "days since" on your fetch?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Bash scripts.

[@drumitar]

i got an ergodox wanna try out the dactyl soon

[@sho6501]

put the computer tower on a surface that is not carpet. pc will eat so much dust and it's annoying to clean.

[@TheLinuxCast]

It's actually not that bad. It's been tha way for years.

[@hipdad9461]

Vivaldi fixed the sync

[@tridens6708]

Never seen a keyboard like that what type is it?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Dactyl Manuform

[@robinsonrom]

Use that RC(hinese)M with pride, buddy!

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@robinsonrom what does this mean

[@robinsonrom]

@@TheLinuxCast lol sorry if that was unclear, you mentioned you had "Random Chinese Memory" - nothing wrong with that.

[@TheLinuxCast]

@@robinsonrom 😂

[@MuhammadSalman7236]

have you tried Zen browser?

[@TheLinuxCast]

Yup. Made a video too

[@ComputerLI]

👌

[@GoolagThemTube]

For people in my country Sweden: Deezer = 119 swedish kronor per month for Premium Spotify = 119 swedish kronor per month for Premium The cost is exactly the same. Hmmm.... 🤔

[@TheLinuxCast]

@GoolagThemTube as I said in the video, I got a deal.

[@GoolagThemTube]

​@@TheLinuxCast I understand. Unfortunately there's no deal for people in my country. We can't even use Dezeer Free. I have no idea why.

[@Prabhjots188]

21:05 how do you do the these transitions?. Like you were recording the video, then you pressed something and it just happened, i don't think its edited. Also how do you use Elgato stream deck?

[@tristen_grant]

OBS transitions.

[@TheLinuxCast]

I do that in post using davinci resolve.

[@tristen_grant]

@@TheLinuxCast Oh! I stand corrected.

[@IceBlade1992]

so we are not allowed to ask what that tissuebox is on the floor sens its not on the desk xD.

[@TheLinuxCast]

It's a tissuebox. For when my nose runs. Get your mind out of the gutter

[@IceBlade1992]

@@TheLinuxCast i dont know what your talking about hehe

[@esra_erimez]

12:12 where the magic happens. Looks very cozy.

[@artemsmushkov766]

Wow, someone on KZbin does NOT use ghostty.

[@spageen]

Can't wait to see what your new setup will be next week! ;)

[@TheLinuxCast]

I had the same desk for 20 years.

[@afroceltduck]

Me: "I don't think I have enough room on my desk for 2 monitors" Matt from last year: Monitor stand LITERALLY hanging off the side of the desk