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Randy Hanley
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Thanks for checking out my UA-cam channel, where you will find Tech Tips, Reviews, and Gaming!
Nobara 40 Official - Quick Review
One of my all-time favorite versions of Fedora Linux! You need to check it out if you haven't already.
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system76 Oryx Pro 16" Laptop - Not Just a Laptop - A Beast
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This is a quick review, where I talk about the Oryx Pro Laptop from system76. This is a well-built, amazing piece of machinery. system76.com/laptops/oryx
Damn Small Linux (DSL) 2024 - Review
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It has been over a decade since the last release of Damn Small Linux. It's back. Lets check out one of my favorite "LIVE CD" Distributions. Site: www.damnsmalllinux.org/ If you enjoy this content, please like and subscribe! I appreciate every one!
Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 6 "Faye" - Post Install Tips!
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Here are a few things that I like to do after installing Linux Mint. Here is the link to the Debian Edition that I'm using in this video: linuxmint.com/download_lmde.php Please like and subscribe! I appreciate it every bit.
Fedora 40 Mate-Compiz Quick Review!
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Light on system resources, while keeping things fun! Check out the MATE-COMPIZ Spin of Fedora 40: fedoraproject.org/spins/mate/ Please be sure to like and subscribe! Thank you.
Pop!_OS - A Revisit of Pop!_OS 22.04 and Why System76 is Awesome
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A while back, I did a video on Pop!_OS 22.04 and it received over 13,000 views, somewhat putting my little UA-cam channel on the map. What is so great about this OS and the System76 company behind it?
Deepin Linux 23 RC - Quick Review
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This is a very interesting Linux distribution. If you're interested in checking it out yourself, this is their website: www.deepin.org/index/en Please be sure to like and subscribe and play the video all the way through if you like this content! I really appreciate it.
Manjaro 24 Wynsdey Quick Review
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Manjaro 24 has been released! Check out the official announcement from their forums here: forum.manjaro.org/t/manjaro-24-0-wynsdey-released/161527 Please be sure to like and subscribe if you like this content! I enjoy making it for you.
Fedora - Cinnamon 40 Spin
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Here is my quick review of Fedora 40 (The Cinnamon Spin) available here: fedoraproject.org/spins/cinnamon/ Please be sure to like and subscribe!
Tuxedo OS Plasma 6 - Quick Review!
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I've never tried out Tuxedo OS. They are a company that has their own line of laptops, that runs this custom OS, with a custom kernel, optimized FOR those laptops. Very cool. It's nice that they also have this OS made available for us to run on our own hardware. I gave it a shot. Check it out. Their site: www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-OS_1.tuxedo Please like and subscribe!
Linux Noob Tries i3 Tiling Window Manager for the First Time
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I have no clue what I'm doing. However, I wanted to try out the i3 tiling Window Manager that I see a lot of the Linux professionals using. In this video, I'm using the i3 WM Spin of Fedora, from here: fedoraproject.org/spins/i3/ Please like this video and subscribe to my channel. If you like these videos that I'm making, I'll continue to make more of them. Thanks for watching!
Linux Lite 7 RC1 - Review
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Linux Lite 7 RC1 has been announced and I wanted to take it for a test ride. All in all, really cool, simple, fast. Here is the link to the Release Announcement: www.linuxliteos.com/forums/release-announcements/linux-lite-7-0-rc1-released/ Please Like and Subscribe! Thank you!
Ubuntu Unity 24.04 Walkthrough
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I haven't used Unity in so long! I had to just give it a try again. Do I even know what I'm doing? Not really, but it's fun, so who cares. here is the Ubuntu Unity website: ubuntuunity.org/
Garuda Linux KDE Dr460nized - Quick Review (walkthrough)
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It has been some time since I gave Garuda Linux a look. Is it easy to use, does it "just work"? Watch me use it, including a few stutters I ran into along the way. Please be sure to like and subscribe! Thank you! Garuda Linux Website: garudalinux.org/
Quadrapassel is not Tetris, but it basically is! Free Game on Linux
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Quadrapassel is not Tetris, but it basically is! Free Game on Linux
Installing Gnome Tweaks to give Fedora a Minimize and Maximize Button!
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Installing Gnome Tweaks to give Fedora a Minimize and Maximize Button!
Beaver Notes! Privacy-respecting note-taking app for Mac OS, Windows and GNU/Linux
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Beaver Notes! Privacy-respecting note-taking app for Mac OS, Windows and GNU/Linux
"GPU Screen Recorder" Is a Screen Recorder That Works in Wayland! (Linux)
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"GPU Screen Recorder" Is a Screen Recorder That Works in Wayland! (Linux)
Fedora 40 - Gnome 46 - Nice and Simple
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Fedora 40 - Gnome 46 - Nice and Simple
Want to Try "Self Hosting", but not really? Pika Pods is a bargain!
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Want to Try "Self Hosting", but not really? Pika Pods is a bargain!
How to Check For Driver Updates on a Dell Computer
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How to Check For Driver Updates on a Dell Computer
Nobara 39 Official (KDE-Based) First Look!
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Nobara 39 Official (KDE-Based) First Look!
sudo dnf install gnome-software is correct, thanks! DNF Dragora is like synaptic - powerful but slooow.
"I live in the United States, we're not that good at reading time". 😂 No we are not. 🤣 Especially when you live in a state that supports DST. Good video.
Tuxedo OS was added to the 1-DOT poplinks page as one of 4 custom Linux options along with MX, Rhino Linux and Endeavour .
Thank you for this update!
Is there a way to save the whole page as a pdf afterward. I only get the first page when saving to pdf on Edge.
I usually just “print” to a pdf and it works for me in most cases
i cant hear your voice, so i will give this video a thumb down
So I've seen quite a few distros, and this one does seem more straightforward and has a few more options. Sadly, the colors hurt my eyes, so this might not be for me, but i just dont see the advantage this has over any other distro. Can you tell me what makes arch better than Ubuntu? I've been using budgie, and it just seems the same, just skinned differently. Thanks in advance.
Arch Linux is considered a "DIY" Linux distribution…usually, meaning you install and configure almost everything yourself, making it ideal for power users who want more granular control. But lately, some of these Arch spins have some built-in scripts to make the customization much easier. Ubuntu was always sort of considered the more user-friendly distro that has everything out of the box that you need. That is cool that you are trying budgie as it’s a lesser known environment, but definitely really cool and polished.
@RandyHanley thank you, I will definitely try it on my toss around laptop. it only has an i7 7500, but it'll do for a test subject, same one I have budgie on. My main laptop I've been trying to research on, but it'll be hard to switch because of proprietary software for it is only on windows. It's the zenbook duo. Slowly, I'll make a full switch. Lol 😆 been a Ubuntu user off and on since 2012 but stopped using it for years until just recently. I even tried Debian on an asus tinkerboard, and man, it was slow.
@ that sounds like it will be fun to try out. Good luck!
how to connect vida internet can u make a video
Ashampoo PDF Pro 3 was my first portable document file editor until last year in 2024. I immediately upgraded to Pro 4. Pro 3 worked nicely for me, and I have used it nearly every week to send other Microsoft Office documents and files portably. Perhaps I have not seen any reviews about PDF Pro 3 nor PDF Pro 4, my experiences with Pro 3 have been quite good. Also, I captured the electronic user manual and saved it my beloved computer that I call my Keyboard, as my powerful typewriter. Your show delights me very much. 💙
That is very cool and thanks for stopping by!
I will buy rode podmic usb in the near future, do you think it is very good?
nice
I appreciate it!
I just got Deepin Os 23 installed and I like it so far.
Awesome!
I can't seem to make a usable bootable iso from their website download, I don't what's wrong. Ubuntu works well.
you didn't check the file manager
Good point and sorry I missed that!
my next laptop will be a system76
Excellent choice!
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read the interview with TinyCoreLinux and you'll know to stay away from DSL
How to put the icons and texts bigger?
How was the sound quality coming from the speakers?
For a laptop I thought it was pretty good actually. Thank you.
Americuh fuck yeah!!
It ran better on an older machine I had sitting around and just overall it seemed much better than the standard Mint and LMDE not to mention it looks 100x better without that ugly green and black plastic looking desktop. I also had much less hardware issues except trying to get NVIDIA drivers installed and that turned out to be primarily because 99% of the tutorials/articles on the subject were either severely outdated or plain wrong.
Very cool and thanks for stopping by!
I was so excited to use this but my wifi kept turning off and one. It got old to fast soni went back to windows
I totally understand! I had a Linux distribution do that same thing before with WiFi and it’s very frustrating
Thank u for the video it helps keep it up
Sure thing!
I was going to say: you should try Nobara.. but it looks like you already have. I still can't choose which one to use.. Garuda or Nobara. What do you recommend?
I have trouble choosing as well! I personally find myself using Nobara more.
I'm downloading Garuda at the moment after a fresh install of Nobara. Nobara's updater is stuck in a neverending loop of trying unsuccessfully to install updates. Nobara was very kind to me and my Steam games for months, so it's a shame to see it dropping the ball. No harm in trying something else.
@@craigslitzer4857 I like Garuda.. If you can get everything to work. I couldn't get it to play the correct resolution for my odd TV (1366x768).. And also, the mouse scroll wheel was way too fast, and there was no way to adjust it. Maybe they have fixed these things now.. You'll probably be fine if you have a 1080p screen or better.
Don't worry about how Garuda looks: you can easily change everything about it in a few clicks. (look up "Garuda- from ugly to beautiful) . and he'll show you how to change all the aesthetics if you don't like the flashy colors. Super easy to change. Again: you can drop the dock at the bottom and move your bar/panel at the top, back down to the bottom like a classic/windows/traditional setup.. with the start menu on the left and clock on the far right, etc.. It's super easy to do: don't worry about how it looks, just look at all the tools and features and "assist pages and launchers, etc. This distro is hard to beat
Good video!
Thank you so much. I really appreciate that!
It is weird when software developers call their software "beautiful", and the vast majority of the time, they are anything but beautiful. That web browser is ugly as anything.
I agree. I feel like they’re copying Apple by saying that annoying stuff.
why do browsers use so many ram today?
I think it depends on the website but yes browsers do definitely use a lot of RAM for each tab open. At least 50 MB on average.
So why the hell does arch or artix use more than 120MB of RAM even without a GUI or any other bloat but this distro with a GUI idles around 110 MB? Even a tiling WM like i3 or sway alone needs more than 200MB of RAM. I just don't get it.
That is a great question. I don’t think I will ever fully-understand where RAM is being allocated. Sorry, but I don’t know.
@@RandyHanley Ok I searched a bit about this topic and it looks like the old kernel that DSL is using (2.4.31) from 2016 uses waaay less RAM than modern 4/5.x lts and 6.x kernels. Another point is their init system (BusyBox). It's very leightweight in comparison to OpenRC, systemd, dinit or runit.
@@PySnek nice work. This is very good to know.
I am shocked - you show the "packet manager" like this is normal. I watched some videos of Nobara 39... and there was a SOFTWARE Manager - not the PACKET manager. So - is it right? In Nobara 40 there is no modern software manager anymore? You know that this is almost a no go for most gamer who are not deep nerds? Cause if I use Nobara only as game launcher... why not use windows only as game launcher? If I don't do anything with windows except gaming... there is almost no personal stuff Microsoft can collect. The point of replacing Windows is to also do a lot other stuff with Nobara. But therefor a Software Manager would be really recommended. I don't understand why this is almost nowhere directly told. I even found several Nobara 40 videos who didnt click into the packet manager at all - like they wanted to hide this issue.
That is just the application name… you can use the GUI package (not packet) manager just fine.
Once I build my PC, I'm putting this as my OS. Screw microsoft recall and whatever else BS microsoft is doing.
Thank you for commenting! I hear you! Windows recall just got enabled on my windows PC this week and it drives me nuts. Even with it disabled, I still don’t trust that it fully is disabled.
Even Debian KDE looks great to me.. And the fact that it's intended to be the most stable, really has me wanting to use it instead
Kvantum is a tool for making applications like dolphin or other apps appear translucent. Much of what is configured on this system can be added to any arch installation by using the KDE settings > colors and themes and then editing different parts of your plasma shell as needed. I've spent much of the past two days tinkering with these settings. I didn't mean to, but my KDE environment ended up looking similar to the garuda configuration (utterlySweet application style, utterlyRound plasma style, shades of purple window decorations etc.) I didn't spend much time in ~/.config to get the look. I also started using the fish shell, even on clusters at work. My point being, it's difficult to avoid emulating garuda because its just so slick
That is very impressive and sounds like a lot of work! Nice work though.
@@RandyHanley Lesson learned: the difference between vanilla Arch and Garuda/Manjaro/Endeavor is marginal. I could have saved several hours if I stuck with a garuda installation and made far fewer edits to my desktop
That audio popping is because you're too close to the mic and talking softly.. It's better to pull away from the mic a bit and just speak with a full projected voice.. Then the mic will not be so sensitive to variations. If you're just keeping your voice down to not wake the kids, etc.. Then I can understand.... but otherwise, I would do what I said.. cheers
I love your presentation and voice. Very calm and chill
Oh thank you!
thanks i liked your video you actually show more stuff rather than sticking to like 2 things
I appreciate that!
My 15 “ laptop is the only computer I have. It is difficult to do distro installations on it because of the small screen far away. I have a large monitor for daily use and wish distros installers would get their act together for older customers. Only PopOS recognized my external monitor and allowed me to complete the installation fully. Nobara, Mint and all others were a fight to actually see the monitor and I had to reboot to see what was installed. If PopOS can do that why no one else? That should be easy for all of them. I like Nobara a lot but keep falling back on Mint after each try. Games play fine in Mint but they seem cleaner and faster in Nobara. My laptop has an older Nvidia card so problems pop-up in Nobara (only in games). I have used these versions: 36 Games ran fine (small black streaks) 37 Games have big black areas (cannot play) 38 Like 36 with bigger and more streaks 39 Like 36 with smaller streaks Regards
I hear you. I honestly keep falling back to distros like mint as well.
I just tried the Fedora 41 beta with cinnamon and I was very impressed with the speed running from an USB Stick compared to LMDE6 which is installed on the SSD
This sounds very interesting and I’ll have to try it! Thank you!
probably newer kernel on fedora, have you checked the rest of the specs on each distro?
if i strart to use linux it will be Garuda KDE Dr460nized
Awesome!
Installed yesterday, was an easy and fast installation, gentlemen I'm officially a permanent user of Linux till end of my days.
That is awesome! Thank you for stopping by.
@@RandyHanley subscribed 😎🙌
@@SIRCAM73 Thank you! Very much appreciated.
@@Robyn-Lee-Bee that is so awesome. Congrats on the freedom!
Nice
Thank you!
THANK YOU SO MUCH, I didn't know how to get the software center but you just told me the command!!!! Thank you so muxh
Thank you for stopping by!
Wow! That app is there. I don't know what it is. Sorry, that was funny. As a noob Linux user, mostly, all the names of apps I don't know.
😂Thank you!
@randyhanley I installed flatpack through terminal and they show up in dnfdragora. No need for Gnome software . You can also install everything through the terminal.
Hoping you see this comment, i have an intel arc a770 16gb from sparkle. Will intel Gpus work with an arch based distro?
@@8bittim I’m not 100%!sure but I believe they should
Good video
Thanks for the visit!
Man, I am stoked to have found this channel. Thanks for your videos, they are excellent. I have not heard the words "Sylpheed" and "XMMS" in a long time...loved those programs.
Thank you so much and I am very grateful to hear that. I appreciate you checking out my channel.
Can it span a wallpaper across multiple monitors?😂 That's one of my biggest issues, that and I like my inactive windows to be 50% opacity and active windows 88% opacity! Give me a distro that can do this and remain right on resources and you have a winner! Fully open to suggestions
That is a great question. I’m actually not sure about that. There might be a piece of software that can do that.
In my days at Ubuntu, 20.14 versiin it could span wallpapers, Iwas using two monitors, and tweaks gave full control of windows opacity
how to make dualboot windows plus lmde. two separate physical drives? 1 is windows 2 is lmde? I'm looking for a tutorial.
I may be late but yes IMHO. Utilizing two different drives, one for each OS is my preference. Remove the Windows drive, install the drive intended for LMDE6, and install LMDE6. Replace the Windows drive and update your grub. If the drive locations are not prioritized or the grub screen listings aren't to your liking, that isn't too hard to change.
Thank you but I think you forgot one of the most important component of the OS, the file manager.
I love Deepin OS and use version 20. Version 23 is completely ruined. no floating panel, looks more like Windows 11 rather than Mac. No way i'm upgrading to 23.
I hear you. That’s the beauty with Linux. You don’t have to upgrade but you can still keep the kernel up-to-date, etc. Very cool.