Ghostty terminal, Nobara, CachyOS, GIMP, & more Linux news

[@guss77]

The first GPU accelerated terminal emulator is actually Konsole - it draws using the Qt Painter architecture that uses the GPU for rendering as much as possible.

[@MegaManNeo]

Imagine you get hyped about GPU acceleration when using SSH mainly to update server/NAS packages.

[@DenisFalqueto]

Konsole/yakuake always had all the features that other terminal apps brag

[@michael_tunnell]

Wait what?! My precious Konsole was the first?

[@goose-lw6js]

it's weird for a default app of a main DE but i feel konsole is insanely underappreciated. it has almost all the features of the others and you really have to bend your head to come up with a use case where it wouldn't be fast enough.

[@epsipsychpt]

New Windows terminal is also GPU accelerated

[@Daktyl198]

I installed CachyOS after using Garuda for 2 years. It's been a rock-solid experience where everything "just works". The dev team is also extremely active, engaged, and enthusiastic about their work. I don't foresee myself leaving this Distro for anything else for a long, long time.

[@TuxUser-X11]

I've been on CachyOS for about 3 months now. It's been a game changer for me in Linux gaming. Best experience I have had on any distro I have tried yet.

[@ProtoXoa]

I've been on Nobara since 37 up to 40. I've been keeping an eye on Cachy and am strongly leaning towards it. But on the otherhand I'm probably going to try Nobara 41 before that as it's been decent as well

[@nukedoom]

Same here, Cachy OS cured my 2y distro hoping.

[@lukeskywalker7029]

try nix 🤓

[@Daktyl198]

@@lukeskywalker7029 Never.

[@knofi7052]

Yes, please, make a Gimp 3.0 reaction video! Very appreciated! Happy New Year!😊

[@SapioiT]

Thanks for letting us know about Nobara. Too many people only know of Bazzite and not enough people know of Nobara.

[@MarkConstable]

I've been using CachyOS (Plasma) for year now and it's been absolutely excellent.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

How does cachy handle breaking changes in the arch base?

[@donkey7921]

There's breaking changes in arch? Never had them in the past 9 months I've used it.

[@TroubledTrooper]

I am using Arch Linux, but it kind of just proves to me that Arch team needs to get going and actually create a GUI installer. People are using Endeavour and Cachy without ANY issue and they dont need to do the manual install.

[@jeremybowden3134]

​@@NJ-wb1cz I haven't had an arch build break in over 4 years. I don't even have a backup.. living life on the edge lol

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@donkey7921 of course there are. Like, how would you update gnome in arch without breaking your extensions if the new version of gnome breaks extensions? Same for everything. New app versions have no obligation to work the exact same way as the old ones, and have no obligation to have an automatic upgrade path. New bugs appear all the time in all sorts of packages, including system level ones and kernel modules. You would have to use very specific apps, avoid touching your system, and be lucky to never experience anything break

[@codeman99-dev]

7:05 GPU acceleration is good for - Mountains of text - say several gigabytes of logs every few seconds in the same pane as your editor - Displaying actual images - Making really crazy ncurses programs actually look nice - the bottom process manager is an example, on a typical terminal, you get an update every 80 milliseconds? With a GPU you'll see some much closer to the beloved 16 millisecond range. --- This is not personal experience, so I might be pulling these number out of no-where.

[@caseycu]

Extract is the terminology used in Premiere for the same function you described as ripple-delete, whereas they call standard delete (leaving a gap) “lift”.

[@michael_tunnell]

That’s what I thought it meant but I haven’t used Premire Pro in so long I don’t know if it even had that feature back then lol Thanks for the explanation! I’ll make a note of it for future reference.

[@KaKi87]

Thanks for making me discover that there's now a Ghostty community build for Ubuntu-based distros. When I first looked into that app, there wasn't, turns out it was made 2 days later.

[@monkeyofwar6818]

Really nice episode. You mentioned a lot of exciting things, thanks man.

[@DefCantGame]

Can confirm Marvel works pretty smoothly on linux. have played it on fedora, arch and ubuntu

[@jktolford8272]

A GIMP 3.0 RC video would be much appreciated.

[@Mario-vt2ss]

Ghostty supports different font size in split screens, something I always wanted.

[@fredsvlogandreviews5867]

I use nobara and bazzite so was good to see an update to nobara as bazzite seems to be more up to date but is very close to the same. Personally the 2 distros have so few differences that I can very easily forget which one I am using they just feel like the same distro with some small differences.

[@hruettimann]

24:41 „Extract“ is a term used in Avid Media Composer (commercial NLE) for the ripple delete function in the timeline.

[@caseycu]

Extract is also the term used in Premiere.

[@michael_tunnell]

That’s what I thought it meant but I haven’t used Avid ever and haven’t used Premire Pro in so long I don’t know if it even had that feature back then lol Thanks for the explanation! I’ll make a note of it for future reference.

[@TrustJesusToday]

CachyOS and Hyprland are on my five PCs. Excellent. I rested kitty and installed Ghostty. It looks like it belongs in Hyprland theming-wise. In fact, nwg-look is extremely helpful in maintaining a consistent theme for most apps throughout Hyprland.

[@goose-lw6js]

GTK literally stands for GimpToolKit... so yeah they share some history 😅 kinda crazy that GIMP is unable to keep up with the toolkit they originally created. it used to be the reference implementation but nowadays i feel a bit embarrassed when ppl recommend GIMP to someone new to the FOSS world. especially to digital artists, when we have Krita for this specific purpose.

[@KiraSlith]

Linux users pushing for terminal-embedded rendering and terminal GPU acceleration is fascinating, reminds me of Windows Vista trying to dump everything on the GPU.

[@guss77]

Re: GTK look and feel - you're probably talking about libadwaita. Non-libadwaita GTK looks mostly fine on Plasma and great on the like XFCE or Cinnamon, but libadwaita apps look foreign on non-GNOME GTK desktops.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Libadwaita is about as native as Electron

[@ashketchum6139]

GIMP REACTION VIDEO IS REALLY NEEDED!!!!

[@Ozzymand]

GPU Acceleration makes it actually look good on higher than 60hz refresh rate monitors, also the text tends to look smoother.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Generally speaking, the 2D text and regular native interfaces on your operating system are also supposed to be GPU accelerated and run at whatever hz is set in your OS.

[@Ozzymand]

@@NJ-wb1cz idk, that's just what my experience has been like. Call it misconfiguration on my part, but this is simply what I have observed in my case. Or maybe its a placebo effect...

[@ChadsHobies]

Here is a benefit for GPU acceleration in the terminal. Not having to wait for your terminal to catch up to your compiled program in Gentoo. GPU acceleration literally saved me 30 minutes on the compile time for Firefox recently. Compile time when from 90 minutes in Konsol to 60 minutes running Alacrity. To think, all of that time waiting, on the terminal to catch up and exit emerge -vu firefox.

[@TFLetzebuergCouncilOfWorlds]

I really like if you could show us in a next video a preview of Gimp 3

[@soheil7019]

I used EndeavourOS and It was pretty good but 1 problem was the kernel, I had to change it to a lts so after a restart I wont get a Kernel panic. Used Tumbleweed and it wanted to download specific NVidia Drivers where it completely mess up the system, there were to graphic output and it wouldnt let me delete it and replace it with something stable (I think its a feature of tumbleweed that it keeps reinstalling some packages,And I couldnt get around it so I gave up). Recently switched to CachyOS and it is excellent out of the box, im using KDE. no kernel panic, no driver Issues, Smooth and fast

[@foxtwo]

RE Subtitles - I do a lot of subtitle processing (converting from US -> UK English mostly)... and I always reformat any Substation format subs to SRTs, cuz SRT is virtually the most common format where "smart TVs" and TV boxes recognise. Plus, sometimes the original author(s) of the Substation subs go overboard with so many different fonts and gaudy colours for the subs, or placing subs in weird fixed positions in the video file. I strip them all out in SRTs.

[@Ortus-Fx]

I installed cachyos without a WM and build it with river WM. So sweet and fast

[@abelolsen9656]

The Marvel Rivals on Linux runs better than Windows, due to Vulkan on AMD GPU's, but beware when you see a black screen with music on background, since it is running and loading the game, also at the main menu, there's no background on the first page, but you can scroll sections and play the game, just fine.

[@etmix7722]

The black screen problems can be fixed by using ProtonGE. Probably a codec valve can't include for copyright reasons.

[@The_Firefly]

Hi Michael, according to the dev team CachyOS is pronounced "KasheeOS" ;)

[@michael_tunnell]

Thanks. So I was right in my assumption! Nice! 😎

[@Ross96D]

is still don't know how would you render a ttf font with high quality with out the gpu

[@Hid4ri]

I dont know what has happened for cachyos for me. I checked the forums and any past issues, but I cant update it. something is causing an issue where I cant boot into my PC anymore. I get to the grub screen, it goes to boot in then a lot of text showing me all devices connected to it and just hangs there. I dont see any issues, just a load of info. Its definitely something in the update as if I boot into emergency mode I can use snapper to go back before I do the update and then it is fine. I have tried to manually update packages separately to try and see what the issue could be but octopi, yay, pacman, pamac whatever wont let me install the updates separately, I have to do it all in one go. Thinking of trying Nobara...

[@r3lativ]

24:45 yes, kdenlive calls ripple delete "extract clip", very confusing. It used to be the case that you had to add the shortcut to that manually, I guess now it's added by default. This said, the extract clip is an annoying a source of problems if you have some scattered clips on different tracks, because extract clip only moves to the left the clips from the track where you're doing the deleting, so it makes the tracks go out-of-sync with each other. I'm just deleting, and then use the move clips, which grabs the clips from all tracks, keeping them in sync. Would be nice if they had a genuine ripple delete.

[@specialk8723]

My only issue with Ghostty is GTK. Does Qt not have zig bindings?

[@michael_tunnell]

Not sure but Konsole has hardware acceleration I think

[@specialk8723]

​@@michael_tunnell Yeah, there are a few that do. Wezterm ,Kitty and Alacritty are all pretty good.

[@3DCharacterArt]

Ghostty Mac Universal Binary doesn't work for Intel Mac running Monterey 12.7, unfortunately for anyone with an i7 Intel Mac mini 2014 Ghostty min req is MacOS 13 or higher 😢

[@SapioiT]

I think the team behind Marvel Rivals saw just how many Linux users they had in general, and decided that they want to keep those players. I mean, would a company of their size decide to just outright deny themselves 10% or more of their player base only because they use Linux? Because many companies would not do that, and many other companies would do that, so I guess it's up to them. And if Linux players end up seeming to have more hackers, then maybe people could have Windows-only characters, and characters of anything-except-windows, and the two groups of characters could simply not be able to interact with eachother in-game, maybe except sending and receiving messages.

[@stupidburp]

The cheaters almost always are using Windows. They fool the anti cheat software into detecting their Windows as Linux in order to try to evade it.

[@desireco]

I have Warp and I am happy... don't see how new terminal would be better

[@marcus6226]

Hello Michael, I'd appreciate a walk through/reaction video for GIMP 3.0 RC2 please 🙂

[@thingsiplay]

Marvel Rivals I'm so happy how the team treats non Windows users. Going out to unban falsely banned users and even publicly saying sorry for their mistake. What a stark contrast to some other companies! Especially this game means to me a lot, as I want to start playing it. I *was* a HUGE Overwatch (1) fan and player since day one and stopped it for lot of reasons. Rivals looks like the exact game I was waiting for many years. I want it to be a "clone".

[@LokiCDK]

Brody went over this on his channel, cuz he made the same assumption, then found out you can turn off the gtk decorators and have no decorators which would make it fit nicely with some of the tiling window managers, or you can also tell it in a can fig file as opposed to the property settings UI, to tell it to use the desktop managers native decorators

[@TJ-hs1qm]

Finally, I can process my video library in vim 🙂

[@Asp1resDS]

Hey everyone is there still problems with nvidia+wayland and still videogaming almost impossible?

[@michael_tunnell]

I don’t have NVIDIA hardware but depending on the generation of the hardware and depending on the distro, it should be good to go these days. If you share information about what hardware you have and which distributions you are interested in then I can provide more info

[@elalemanpaisa]

Bottles in Python (not sure in what it is) or Rust.. what does it matter? it is a wrapper with a flutter or similar gui

[@vixenin]

a note for everyone, Discord no longer supports screen sharing on wayland since the last update on nightly/beta

[@77wolfblade]

They probably fix that later down the line.

[@acubley]

Ghostty- I don't care what an app or OS looks like, within reason. I don't theme, plain black background. As long as it's easy to use, supports the light/dark choice, and gets out of my way, I'm good. Mint Cinnamon really does a great job of this.

[@jjohanss]

At least back in the day Gnome-Terminal had horribly slow text rendering, Like compilations would take more than 30% longer with it, unless you hid it from view. Maybe GPU can help with stuff like that, though I would imagine things have improved a lot since then.

[@kprajat]

I always watch the intro to see you say "Linux. GNews"! love the content . Keep it coming.. ++ KDE Rocks !!!

[@hudsond15]

is the open source nvidia driver worth using now?

[@michael_tunnell]

For most things they are fine to use but not for gaming and other intensive stuff, need the proprietary drivers for that

[@lindhe]

I believe support for GPU acceleration will enable some quality of life improvements, such as smooth scrolling on high refresh rate monitors. Thanks for yet another great episode! 👍

[@jarekzawadzki]

Or for LLMs.

[@Nohrr79]

Ghostty being developed on NixOS by the creator of Terraform is not very surprising 😁

[@nobodix]

You MIGHT notice GPU acceleration when you have tons of text output on your console and have no way to avoid that. I'm sure that's a rare case.

[@VladPalacios]

I know very little, But, i do feel Yazi is faster running on Ghostty, maybe there the acceleration is needed

[@oCMSo]

gimp 4 will be released just about when GTK69 is finalized

[@midou6104]

7:17 I want to code in 144 FPS

[@NickTheCodeMechanic]

C# is great for xplatform work btw.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

This week in Penguinville!!

[@davguev]

Marvelous.

[@ShaunRoselt]

I tried CachyOS and it was horrible. Things kept going wrong and crashing. I had to completely reinstall my whole OS almost 10 times over a course of a month. So then I decided to try KDE Neon and now it's been a month later and it's running perfect. I've had no issues on KDE Neon yet. Everything just works in KDE Neon unlike CachyOS for me.

[@User-83js7vaby]

It's so funny how there is no unified experience with ANY distribution. There are always people who had issues with the distribution you use. Even ones that are LTS releases. I tried cachyos and it was the very first distribution that had Nvidia video acceleration working out of the box for me. That never occurred. And I never managed to get it running. I had zero issues with COS so far.

[@TrustJesusToday]

Sorry about that chief.

[@richard1311]

Well I'll be damned...maybe I play that marvel game after all.

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

"KAH-SHEE" OS

[@michael_tunnell]

My assumption for pronunciation was right! Nice!

[@Revanced-b2s]

I've been using CachyOS since about May 2024. I'll never go back to Nobara, not even as a backup system. The Nobara updater is notoriously bad for mucking up updates. Which is a shame because when it works it's a great system, as long as you don't upgrade it.

[@Seven_Actual]

Because you use a terminal to do work. Ghosty is aimed at people that use terminal to flex their fetch and their art in screenshots.

[@esra_erimez]

By the way, I use Konsole of Kourse

[@NJ-wb1cz]

But do you use Arkh?

[@Reichstaubenminister]

@@NJ-wb1cz I have no idea why you do what you do but it's pretty interesting.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

@@Reichstaubenminister why do you do what you do?

[@thomaslindell5448]

I spent the last 2 frigging days trying to get cachyos to connect with samba and winning to Active Directory and failed over and over again. Switched back to Mankato used same conf files that failed on cachyos and it worked like a charm I’m fffung pissed. I liked cachyos but after that cluster fuck I’m done. In fact I’m done with the integrated is I’m switching to pure arch tomorrow

[@codylopez2158]

Did you check their forum? There's a specific way to do that, but the instructions are on their forum, I remember seeing it..

[@gelogia]

I would pay for a class on GIMP 3 if you would teach it. Please

[@michael_tunnell]

Unfortunately, I don’t think GIMP is good enough to make a course on. I would consider it when they have true non destructive functions but 3.0 is just the beginning of that effort so it’s likely a long ways away

[@evildragon1774]

the ghostty looks good, but why would it should compete with kitty? imho, kitty has been very well known and matured project.

[@fuseteam]

deffo Ha-shi-corp - your local otaku

[@Devonux]

Being 4% Japanese I support this comment.

[@nikunjkhangwal]

GPU acceleration matters a lot if you're rendering images in Terminal or editing huge text files in vim

[@guss77]

@@nikunjkhangwal debatable if even then. A static image - even when scrolling around - isn't that much of a problem. If you're an FPS twitch gamer and have high refresh rate screen, and you scroll up and down repeatedly on a large screen full of text - then *maybe* you'd be able to tell the difference between a "GPU accelerated terminal" and one that simply wasnt built on braindead libvte.

[@nikunjkhangwal]

@guss77 Device matters too. I'm using 6th gen dual core cpu and using any terminal without gpu acceleration is noticeably laggy while scrolling through multiple images.

[@guss77]

@@nikunjkhangwal Out of curiosity - which non-GPU accelerated terminal have you used that gave you such problems? BTW - one of my workloads is a Plasma 6 desktop running on an i3-7100T w/ GMA, and while I don't scroll through multiple terminal images, the terminal isn't laggy.

[@nikunjkhangwal]

@@guss77 Foot is one i remember. Your cpu is about 35% faster than mine i7-6600u

[@guss77]

@@nikunjkhangwal Foot is supposed to be pretty fast (at least that's their mission statement) and according to their own analysis - it can beat alacritty in a lot of uses (though not in full screen scrolling - it still shouldn't be massively slower). And an i7-6600u (low TDP high-end 6th) is less than 10% slower than an i3-7100T (medium TDP low-end 7th) on most benchmarks. It should actually have been faster because one gen shouldn't be much of a difference (especially 6 to 7, that was not an architecture upgrade) - if not for how underpowered Intel makes the U SKUs - they usually have a 1/3 the TDP of a low-end desktop chip. Which is the main reason why both mine and my wife's laptops are running an H SKU.

[@damon665]

Got excited when you mentioned Ghostty was "Platform Native GUI" and installed it on KDE. Oops. Looks like a GNOME app and it causes the cursor to double in size (I'm using 200% Scaling). I should have waited 4 minus into your video :D Looks anything but native.

[@monkeyofwar6818]

The Nobara "team"? I thought it was just Glorious Eggroll

[@michael_tunnell]

It is ran by GE and he started it but it’s now a few people last I talked with him about it

[@yusef3132]

I dont see the need for a gpu accelerated terminal.🤔 Yet, anyway. Ill stick to xterm, thanks...

[@gigmach]

Hang on... Did he say "Like that smash button"?

[@michael_tunnell]

Yep 😎

[@yusef3132]

😂 obviously new here... 😂 He has been saying that for quite a while now...

[@danytalksmusic]

I wish Nobara would go back to Gnome 😢

[@tienslabien]

oh god please no !

[@tommytomato6588]

Ähhhmmm, there is a GNOME version available? So what are you complaining about?

[@danytalksmusic]

@tommytomato6588 yes but it's stock gnome! They had a custom gnome that looked great with Nobara 39

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

I like rio terminal

[@atabekkasimov9702]

Fish is a default shell in CachyOs

[@codylopez2158]

You can change that now in settings

[@NeighratorPony]

GNEWS 😂😂 I'm dead

[@elalemanpaisa]

why the f would you want gpu accelaration in a TERMINAL emulator? it is confusing for newbs they think the scripts and cli programs run faster.

[@Walker956]

you forgot timestamps. sad

[@michael_tunnell]

No I didn’t, you can see them in the description

[@rrsp7148]

I'am gonna follow you, just dont let me down

[@michael_tunnell]

I’ll try not to glitch, but no promises-I'm running on 8-bit energy today.

[@sergiovelasquezzeballos3855]

I tried that Ghostty thing on Hyprland, and I dont have any buttons, so it's just shit.

[@NecolasHamwi]

I have no idea honestly why people are hyped over GPU accelerated terminal.. Am I getting old?

[@codylopez2158]

It accelerates building and compiling files, updates, kernel updates, everything you do in the terminal..

[@BRetired]

No tolken

[@TJ-hs1qm]

I've been around since the days of DEC and X11, but I've never seen a terminal emulator as hyped up as Ghostty... strange times.

[@NJ-wb1cz]

Content and news wasn't as monetized in the days of X11. Nowadays it's a hype economy everywhere, everything is converging towards being able to churn out new doses in perpetuity for those addicted to your topic. Same reason why niche distros and languages are so hyped

[@TJ-hs1qm]

Yes, a life lesson learned. Whenever you can't explain sth logically, look who is making money from it!

[@michael_tunnell]

Alacritty was hyped up a couple years ago but I agree Ghostty is a bit more hyped. That’s also why I didn’t play into the hype in my coverage, I pointed out the issues I found

[@faxen123]

Ghostty: just another Terminal, CachyOS: just another Arch-Installer which high claims just going down in the margin of error

[@donaldwilliams6821]

For KDE and TWMs' turning off the Window decorations, removes that top bar and makes it appear less "gnomey"

[@yusef3132]

"TWM" is a window manager since 1987, short for 'Tabbed Window Manager'.

[@Theo-xu3ir]

Gpu acceleration is great if you do all your programming in vim/nvim like i do.

[@MegaManNeo]

A.I. sucks, they said... Upscyle using local LLMs and Kdenlive receive it too, now it's gud. No seriously, I think local LLMs are the way to go, I just upscaled a quite pixelated game title screen for a thumbnail and it worked flawless.

[@michael_tunnell]

I’ve always been cautiously optimistic about AI LLMs but yeah there is a clear line for them

[@ERROR-413]

THX & HNY2k25