Never had an issue with changing a theme within minutes on any OS. - Now that ranger file browser I'd like to have learned more about, but I installed it and plan to when I'm sober again.
As I transition to Linux from Windows I see these tutorials and my gut reaction is "why does any of this really matter?" but on the other hand it is nice to learn how to control the machine a bit better. So far I am using Linux Mint the way it came out of the box. Maybe one day I'll get bored enough to want to change themes.
Everyone travels their own journey with Linux, that's what makes it so damn interesting. DT being a tiling window manager (TWM) user for so many years tried to incorporate that into his Cinnamon setup, which I think is kinda pointless. I mean you should definitely learn the keyboard shortcuts related to your DE and update it to your preferences but getting rid of something like the default task launcher for dmenu/rofi is crazy when you could do the same with the default task launcher with any DE. Just press the Super key and type in "fire" for example it'll show firefox if installed as one of the top suggestions just like rofi here.
@@flow5718 And If you don't like, that the damn menu pops up everytime you press Meta, I'd think you can change that to keybinding in Mint. I'm on KDE and I find myself using Keybindings a lot more, and having pop up the menu everytime you accidantly hit Meta alone, it becomes kinda tiresome, so I just changed it. But I still kept the default Launcher; I don't know how cinnamon's buitl in handles, but Krunner is fantastic. Tough any built in Launcher should to the Job. Rofi or Dmenu is probably great if you want more options and customize more. However I doubt that most people, that use a full DE would actually need that.
As an absolute beginner I did not know what is the super key. Figured out that you were speaking of the windows key on the keyboard. Excellent video, thank you!!!
Young? I'm 31, and still nervous to take the leap. Looks like the first pre - requisite is to be(come) some kinda #Hackerman. Like I said before, I haven't used at all, so please save your insults for yourself. Instead, you'd want to share some of your knowledge or tutorials, as complement of this one.
@@dec13666 DT is a total noob at linux stuff...he doesn't code or contribute...not even in same universe as Hackerman. Just feed off other channels and open source community to make some extra cash.
This is a guide on becoming a nascent ricer, not a “power user.” Theming and ricing is generally a fun waste of time but a waste of time nonetheless. Linux Mint’s defaults are chosen to make the transition to power user easier for Windows users. That’s why it has things like alt+F4 to close a window. You can actually keep those defaults while adding alternate keybindings through that GUI you had up. A better guide to becoming a power user would be to go through where the GUI tools Linux Mint ships with can be found (for example, you can actually install and switch kernels though the update manager). And what the equivalent CLI commands are to those more advanced operations.
@@CodyCLI theming is a feature but it has nothing to do with being a more powerful user and is a waste of time compared to learning about things like service management, timers, basic scripting, etc. that can give you power and automation over your machine.
My thought exactly, otherwise just use another standard Linux distro. Generally Linux Mint is perfect for leaving windows and keep on using the OS for daily leisure or work tasks. In which case you do not even want to start typing away in the terminal, you want to use it and Mint is great for that. You will have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse for quick work.
Thanks for the push to use terminal mode and hot keys. I use to use command lines years ago in relationships to amature radio. I'm alot older now(70 +) and wanting to use Linux. After installing your dual boot video this is perfect. Thanks again.
I was an early adopter of OS/2 and one of the last users until the end. Now I'm back revisiting OS alternatives to Windows. I can't make major hardware changes without Win freaking out. I'm trying to break free from the chains. I installed Mint yesterday and am impressed by the improvements in the past 15 yrs or so when I last looked at ubuntu...
15:08 I'm not ashamed to say I didn't know middle click was so godly useful! Thanks for pointing out little details like this once in a while, really makes a difference :D
I find middle click awful. Middle button on most mouses is difficult to click without moving the mouse slightly, resulting in a paste in the wrong spot. Just add the shift key when copying and pasting to/from the terminal. ctrl-shift-v/ctrl-shift-c. Easy peasy.
@@fennecbesixdouze1794 Interesting - and sounds odd to me, as I've never felt like that even when using a flimsy, tiny, lightweight and pretty crappy laptop mouse, though using the middle button on that was even more uncomfortable than the rest of the mouse for other reasons; but not because holding the mouse steady was an issue. *However,* who am I to deny your experience? How would you feel about mac-likeish alternative, like ctrl-left click? I'm asking because the reason I find middle click better than pasting from keyboard is that if I'm already selecting something with mouse, keeping my hand on the mouse feels better than having to move it from mouse to keyboard. That's also why I'm a big fan of keyboard oriented use - because the less I have to move my hand between keyboard and mouse, the better. And sometimes it's easier to select something with mouse, and in that case it's better to finish with mouse as well. But that's just me - maybe you'll rather just go with the keyboard shortcuts for the pasting regardless, which is fine by me :)
More time spent on appearance than efficiency like teaching us how to use the ranger file browser. I watched this though as someone who has no interest in Linux Mint. I tried the live disks of it and the DE version. -I'll stick with Manjaro and a much better Firefox.
@@madthumbs1564 I watched it also with no interest to the subject - other than to see what I thought of it as a video for target audience of newbie linux users who have interest in power use. And I think it's pretty good - I mean, for a newcomer from Windows, I think Mint is great! It's not as great (though perfectly usable) for already power users with experience of several distros. But a newcomer - definitely. And for a first video of hopefully more - because for single video it would've been a dud indeed - I find it acceptable to show some of the ways to customise appearances. I know I was all over different customisations, that were so big change from what windows allowed, back in '02 when I switched. One thing you hear about from Linux people is how customizable it is, and he went a bit beyond just going through the readily installed themes, etc., which was good. Before that he had talked about various optimizations with keybindings, window management tricks, etc., setting up a custom launcher... Pretty good for something aimed at n00bs. We older users, especially if we were already power user minded when we first tried Linux, tend to overestimate the n00b. Perhaps even more if we did better when we started. I know I was once guilty of that. And I don't mean "one time", but "once upon a time". I think this was a good, light and user friendly introduction to this. And only time will tell what may come out of this. I have my thumbs up!
Thanks for the tip. I was sure that going max was probably set to a keybinding but I was too lazy to look it up while recording. I'd probably rebind that myself (super+F seems appropriate). ;)
I was wondering what he was saying about tiling managers. Gnome supports 2 tiles, but Cinnamon has much better tiling (though who needs it with Nemo?).
KDE uses Super+Page Up to maximize/unmaximize. Super+Page Down minimizes the window. Also another tip, instead of using the arrow keys to go to the start or end of a line, use either the Home and End keys, or CTRL+A and CTRL+E. :)
I think this is perfect hybrid creation between a wm and a traditional de, for someone still trying to crossover to window manager world. Also makes for relatively useable computer environment for another pc user in the family who might not be going to wm route. Not all of us have multiple PCs for another users at home.
Well, you can have more than one DE and/or WM installed - and you can choose the one you want from the login screen. And if you each have your own user accounts, as you should - for one it allows each to have their own customizations, etc. without messing the other ones, but for other reasons as well, I believe (I haven't actually checked and confirmed, but I would expect it) login managers by default remember the last choice for the specific user, so once you've logged into your default environment, you shouldn't have to choose it everytime you're logging in. Just a friendly hint :)
this guy inspired me to use those keybindings in cinnamon. i'm on LMDE 5 but it's the same. i learned so much about cinnamon...taught me a lot i didn't know..thanx DT.
Pretty much. It doesn't really save time if you have to constantly be changing the directory, much easier just to drag and drop files between folders if you ask me. Not to mention it's only faster if you already know the commands. If you have to look them up, it's really no quicker than having to use the GUI app centre or the browser like every other OS. Sure, the terminal looks cooler, but is it really more efficient? A lot of the time I would bet that it is minimal time savings, and at worst, actually slower.
Great video, i sat through all of it and i didn't feel like you are wasting my time and that's the best thing about this channel. There are creators out there who put out 10 minutes videos and at the end of it you are like what the hell did i just watch, 10 minutes for a couple of sentences. I enjoy the vids about twms too even though i don't ever see myself going that route because the apps i use will never display correctly inside that kind of environment.
Thank you so much for this video! I am a Linux Mint user and I have been looking for something like this forever! You're work is amazing! For those who don't understand, even though he was changing the theme, just by doing the commands and changing things with different commands....was to put you on the path of becoming more of a super user. Once you understand the commands and shortcuts/key bindings...every things else is cake.
My progressions was the following: I used manajaro for 2-3 weeks and learned almost nothing. After that I went to vanilla arch because I heard it was a meme to use and very hard. Installed Arch successfully using youtube video and reading the wiki. After 2-3 weeks I removed windows 10 which fucked the efi partition. I tried to install systemd-boot and grub and neither detected arch so I just installed fedora. After 2-3 weeks I decided to test void linux. So I tried to resize the main partition of fedora which was not as easy as you migth first think since fedara uses lvm as default. I tried to resize the partition for 6h and just wiped the whole disk and indtalled Void. Been on Void since and It's very nice minimal distro.
Very interesting video, I'd really like it becoming a series. So far I still run a dual boot with Windows so I appreciate all hints and tips in becoming a poweruser in Linux as well.
I'm really grateful to you my man! This is like a CLASS that I would need to pay real money to learn from someone knowledgeable on the linux. And from the beginning till the end a lot of useful information! Thanks It would be could if you could do more of this kind of videos
He pronounces a lot of things kind of this way, I find it amusable in a good way.
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Thanks for this video, man. After using windows since 2005 I'll follow up your tips. I'll try to make the turn from a noob to a more advanced Linux Mint user.
I know we mostly just did some personalizing, but I actually learned a few things doing this. As a totally new user I thought this was valuable and it kind of also reinforces "Don't try to make this Windows" ... good video for the intended audience!
This was seriously an AWESOME video man. I barely used 20% of what you did..but it always gave me other power using ideas of things to condense and customize. Cheers man!
@@MichaelJHathaway well if you watch his comparisons he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Making shit up as he goes. His older videos showed he know something. But I guess God told him to devote himself to conspiracy theories going forward.
Great video, Derek! You compressed things that took me about 2 years to gradually accrue. Hot keys for common apps and window actions. Check. Rofi menu. Check. Nice themes. Check. Eliminate menubars and toolbars in terminal. Check. Vifm. Check. And so on and so on. I gathered these up as a result of using tiling WMs and Openbox, then gravitated back to xfce, but modified with these items. Now I feel I have the best of both worlds. I'm sure this will be one of your most viewed videos.
I was coming here to say exactly the same ... but you beat me to it! Just as easy, and you don't have to install that (ugly by modern standards) menu program. Not to mention, easy to find a program if you can't quite remember the name.
I guess you didn't learn how menus are just something that's in your way. Be cool, walk into a fast food joint and order the number 6. -Just don't ever order the number 2.
Those steps in between skill levels are some very fun and rewarding steps. Especially when you learn how to fix a broken system. Learning compiling from source and use flags is rewarding as well. Just to name a couple. They're are many.
@@graham9045 Based on balls, I'll say!! Seriously, no disrespect for mr. balls, just having fun :D though with such a name, I'm sure I didn't need to explain myself ;P
Check out Manjaro Cinnamon, you will be always be on the most up to date version of cinnamon instead of having to wait 6 months for a point release or two years for an LTS release.
As an avid cinnamon user I don't know how I feel about some of stuff in this video. On the one hand there is a lot of cool content some of which ill probably be checking out. On the other it kinda felt an exercise how to make cinnamon as much like a tiling window manager as you can without just installing a tiling window manager. Great video overall but im gonna stick to my own method of power using cinnamon :P
Yea, you nailed it on what I was trying to do here. I was trying to get past Cinnamon (or any DE that might have been installed here). Once you get past relating so much to the particular DE (and in some cases the particular distro), your view of the Linux ecosystem really changes. Obviously, what I did in this video isn't for everyone. But this didn't make any permanent changes to anyone's system either. People can try it out and see if this kind of workflow fits them. If not, just revert back to the original settings.
@@DistroTube I think the biggest reason most of these modifications don't work for me is my idea of power using needs to be easily portable to a freshly installed distro. This typically means sticking primarily to packages available in the repo and programs that store their configuration as plain text and not in dconf. The more I have to modify my system after I install it the more I should just be using something else that is closer to what I want. For me the biggest thing I have added to my mint cinnamon install that greatly improves my efficiency is a dropdown terminal. Rather than pressing a series of multiple keys to pop out a terminal that I then have to find again when I need to check on it I have one terminal (with tabs that I can cycle through with keyboard shortcuts) and I just press 1 key to make it appear and the same key to make it minimize.
>needs to be easily portable to a freshly installed distro. Exactly! And we are ALMOST there with what I did on this video. The next step...move to a proper stand-alone window manager where you can set all of your rules in a config file. Save your config(s) to GitHub or GitLab. Then...reinstalling or even distro-hopping no longer matters, because you can just "git clone" your configs. Boom, it's like you never hopped. For a drop-terminal, there are many good options. If you switch to a tiling window manage, most of them have a scratchpad function where you have a hot key that toggles show/hide a program (such as a terminal).
@@Drazil100 Austin Allman What I've done is with a fresh install, I open a terminal and run "dconf watch /". That will print out any settings that are changed, and their location. So then I open system settings and start changing them to what I like, while keeping track of these dconf settings in a script (dconf write /path/to/setting value). So that I have a single script that can set all my dconf configuration.
I have been a Windows user for SO many years. recently Ive been wanting to make the jump. I have Mint Cinnamon installed on a secondary drive to tinker and slowly learn about it. Booting onto that drive makes me feel like a kid at Christmas, lol. So many things to play with and discover. I love it so far. There are some things that confuse me. But honestly, I thought it would be way worse. So far all my games and stuff work, and some things even seem better than Windows (sound, etc). My RGB, fan curves, etc even work just fine. Nervous about scrubbing windows completely, but I'm getting there. Videos like these help a LOT, so thanks so much. Been binging your videos while I tinker and stuff.
I was using dmenu but after trying rofi i like it more, you can customize it quite more, so tip for those who want to replace dmenu with rofi, just symlink rofi to dmenu sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rofi /usr/bin/dmenu Or you can also do ln -s /usr/bin/rofi ~/.local/bin/dmenu
Thank you so much, I stumbled across the Dracula theme midway through the video and changed everything to Dracula which made my whole desktop experience feel seemless.
It's not that you go too fast, it's just that you deftly handle EVERYTHING that you do, that the noob gets sucked into a Padawan Force Trance and now I'm rewinding ROFI for like the 8th time. ROCK!
A few things: 1. Exa looks cool. But for the home user, probably unneeded. I don't feel the need to color-code my permissions. Also, having to install another package manager to install a single thing, is overcomplicating the process. It's also extra bits, when you want to maintain a clean system. If they ever add it to the apt repo, I may use it. 2. You are incorrect that the Mint menu is bad. It's just as easy to press , type the command, and press . And if you happen to forget the command name, you can find it again in the menu. No need to install yet another menu, reconfigure keybinding, yada yada ... 3. Speaking of keybindings ... thank you for reminding me! I'm typically a point/click guy, but I'll endeavor to use keybindings more!
I already knew it was possible to have "your" own version of a linux independent of DE/WM, but seeing it is quite different About using what is already present in the system, with 1900+ packages installed, one would think that most stuff would already be installed. I prefer my arch with 480 packages and my build of dwm with all of the config files already present =). A show of workspaces in cinnamon would be nice too, with my 2 monitors, my DWM has 18 workspaces, and power users benefit a lot from them. Great video DT Cheers
DT you're a ripper legend! I think its great that you went from saying Linux mint shouldn't even exist to making this vid for people who will find a good use for it. This show open mindedness and top notch character. I've learned a lot form your vids, thank you for your time!
The only thing I've liked from Mint Cinnamon is Nemo, but it has some bugs and works in Gnome. Haven't regretted installing Manjaro Gnome yet. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint asfaik are still running the old crappy Firefox.
Linux Mint really doesn't need to exist, though. Maybe 10 years ago it was a better option than Kubuntu, but KDE 5 Plasma is so vastly superior to all other menu-and-taskbar desktop environments (including its own predecessor, KDE 4 Oxygen), that nowdays you're much better-off going with Kubuntu so you can benefit from a codebase that's 18 months newer than the Ubuntu LTS build that Linux Mint is based on.
I understand the complain of some of your viewers, I am still a newbie on linux im still unable to transfer/create/copy files using terminal but im getting into it! I move at my own paced and I completely understand, I really like the archlinux content because I just recently hoped to arch and I hope this is the last time I will hop and from the looks of it I feel like it is going to be my last hop. just keep doing you and I will keep watching your great content!
Would've been helpful to explain what the "super key" is, I've never heard this term in 25 years of Windows and Mac computing. For those also curious, it's the Windows key on a PC keyboard and the Command key on a Mac keyboard. Great video! Giving Linux a chance again and have been seriously enjoying your content.
Linux Mint + 10 Years: I just works well to get my work done! I haven't "tweaked" it at all. Compared to Windows, Mint is a blessing. Highly recommended.
Thanks for your time on this ricing. There is peoples like me who love the dual boot with arch and run something more stable so it is sweet to have our custom habits ported into other distros.
Though i have used ubuntu in my college desktop, im a total noob in linux world. Had an old laptop lying around that couldn't handle windows 10 anymore and gave it a new lease of life by switching it to Mint. I love how things are in this though it was pretty tough for someone using Windows since Windows 2000. Thanks for posting this video. I really am appreciating this new operating system.
This was one of the more informative video tutorial I have ever followed along with! Thank you for the work you put into each video. My desktop environment feels more pro now!
Thanks for the walkthrough... I did the first few switches and stopped at the things that removed the menus. I actually enjoy the intuitive point-and-click process of Windows-based systems. These instructions helped me understand the thinking behind much of what Linux users are into..
i believe videos on improving linux mint with your own example are a great value as linux mint is widely used. my suggestions after lm install: turn off all sounds, turn off all animations, remove menu icon leaving "Menu", overwrite/add .bash_rc customizations in a separate file, StartQ close window, StartM system monitor, OnStreenDisplay delay - 0 for instant workspace switch, StartZ workspace up, StartX workspace down, StartC ToggleMaximizationState (extremely useful for me). I use maim scripts from HexDSL StartF for fullscreen capture, and StartG for crop capture. Terminal - Alt` and Start` (` was opening console in old games). I heard a lot of times that Gnome 3 is designed for keyboard usage, but as I can see form keyboard shortcut options - Linux Mint has more space for key combinations. I like the simplicity and default whiteness of xed, colour schemes are quite good for defaults. Rofi seems very nice, will have to try that. Glad to see Linux Mint video. p.s. most commonly used aliases: alias ll='ls -lA --group-directories-first', alias aps='apt search', alias yt='youtube-dl'
You know, I was really on the fence about wanting to switch to Linux or not for a long time now, but this video might have just sold me on it. There's so much customization and versatility! I NEED it!!
@@DistroTube I used to be a Linux user, back in 1973 Xerox Alto not sure if U remember that one🤷🏿♂️.has much changed since the 1980's for Linux Mint. & xfce Linux 🖥️🐧 program Wine🍷from UB40 Red wine🍷was great. Back in the day. With the Terminal Commands 👍🏿.
Hey DT! Not a Linux n00b, but I watched the video through and enjoyed it looking from the perspective of how good advice you would be giving me if I had stuck with Windows *and* forgotten several power user type things I already had with DOS (+ 4DOS) CLI in and out of Win95, LOL. Luckily I was already highly CLI-minded and had the best mindset for enjoying and being more than willing to learn what I didn't know when I switched from Win95 in '02 (old hardware - didn't want to try XP, planned to install Win2k on new machine along with Linux but forgot the W2k and never looked back after 1st installing Red Had 7.1 ;) ), I had mostly only good times figuring all the things... So I didn't expect to learn anything from this video - but I did, and it felt bad. First, I learned that my aging OS release (CentOS 7, a dead distro release) didn't have new enough versions of all the required 3rd party libraries for building rofi (which, surprise surprise, wasn't available through repo's). But what does a run-launcher like it need all those libraries for? And for 2nd, I learned that 'exa' is the first Rust application that failed to build - and with a very unhelpful error message. Apparently it was some kind of floating-point math error. I'm willing to bet that this too is most likely because of my aging OS. So the lesson for me was that I *really* have to become more comfortable with reinstalling the OS of my primary computer - I mean, if it was any of the other PC's I have, I would've done it when the CentOS was killed (and then resurrected as CentOS Stream, which is a bit different thing). Although admittedly I've already had that lesson before - and I really have no excuses to not do it already. A decade ago I wouldn't have hesitated a day, and half-decade ago I would've done it within a week... It just seems I've gotten lazy about it when I've aged.
DT how could you! - don't install sl ( you know what it is xD) - don't install mc (best terminal copy machine if you have to deal with a ton of files) - don't install cmatrix - don't install htop (or better grace) hey but you did the neofetch bashrc mod, you know it is mandatory for power users :DDDD
if you wanted to know i switched to linux mint and im doing your tutorial. also i accidentally fucked windows so im going to be a linux user from now on.
Want to say thank you for this video. Been on and off to mint. Have an old laptop, decided to use mint, use it for basic stuff, libreoffice and browsing. Left college, and gave the laptop to my younger brother. Now have a job and able build a pc again, use it for basic stuff and gaming. Back to windows again. Then the holoiso steam os came. Have a terrible headache using it.hahaha Probably never have gave linux enough chance. But i like the idea of less clicking and moving mouse. Hope to be able to familiar with steamos/arch. Right now I dont even know how to update discord,hahaha. but slowly i think i can be more familiar with it. Thx again for the video. Its a beautiful video to watch.
He does have a point. I used regular flat mice all my life, and at the age of 36 my right hand started hurting when I used the mouse. I've since changed to a vertical mouse, which has solved the problem, but who knows, if I had been using the keyboard more I might've been problem-free for a couple of more years. Can't run from age, but one can prepare.
Awesome video! Been using mint for about 6 months now and these tips are really handy. Also make me wanna try some window managers in the future. Thanks!
Thank you Derek! You would be surprised how many advanced people use Linux Mint as their main distro. It's not a beginner distro, it is a highly refined, stable, reliable and polished Debian distro that new users can install in minutes and can go directly into their workflow. Chris and I have shown that you can do all kinds of modifications to Mint to make your work flow faster.
> You would be surprised how many advanced people use Linux Mint Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all. I've said forever that distros don't matter (not to the advanced crowd anyway). And I've stated so many times that I personally could run any Linux distro with any DE and make it work. Too many people relate to their distro or to their DE. And I hope to show people how that kind of thinking limits them.
@@DistroTube This is exactly what Chris and I set out to do. When you said to stop throwing a million new distros at new users, we took that literally. But instead of giving them Ubuntu, we chose Linux Mint because of it's past success in bringing Windows users into Linux. We started with a multi-part series of Mint videos, starting from the ground up with the first series being lighter for beginners and then transitioning into advanced concepts. We test out the content first on Twitch during a live stream with advanced users and then Chris makes the content for TH-cam, Lbry, etc. for the series. I have transformed my commercial banner on LinuxMint.com to point to the new Linux Mint series we have created. Again, thank you for all that you have done and for sparking this with your brilliant direction you have given all of us in the community!
Tilling window managers aren’t for everyone. I’m a lot more happy with my Linux set up since moving away from the tilling window manager hell I was in a couple of years ago.
@@johanb.7869 I was once. Now I'm finding ways to do things without damaging my wrist tendons and shoulder muscle imbalance, and it turns out the keyboard methods are quicker.
I tend to be very mouse oriented as well, but I think a setup where you use the keyboard almost exclusively would be great for someone with a laptop, since I cannot usually stand the mouse on those.
Not just useful for new users! I've been using Linux on and off (mostly on) since 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10, used a variety of distros and DEs/WMs with varying success in that time. I've used GUIs that I've hated and GUIs that I've loved. For the last 2 years I've been using Arch with GNOME3 but was unhappy with some of the changes in the switch over to GNOME40, and I've been looking for something I can make better use of keybinds with without making the full switch to a tiling WM just yet. This is perfect. I've moved both my laptop and my desktop over to this, with a few small tweaks. Thank you DT.
I'm not sure if it has been changed since this video was produced but if you are doing this with a virtual machine, for example running VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host, then make sure you autocapture the keyboard. Otherwise, pressing the "Superkey" or "Windows key" can get grabbed by the host and then you won't be able to press another key to set the shortcut. In VirtualBox it is Input | Keyboard | Keyboard Settings | Autocapture keyboard
Thanks for the extremely helpfull tip on rofi! that was awesome! I'm using SSH alot in my homelab :D I'm not bothered by the application menu. Mint has changed the behavior of the special key in later versions i guess... holding start will not popup the start menu and you are free to use any shortkey with it. It will not popup the menu unless you release the button without touching other keys (also invalid combos will not make it popup).
I love Mint mate and I am not a noob by any stretch. I just like stuff to work without taking all day. I mean I do have an XPS developer's edition to code after all. But I get it. It's fun to set all that stuff up, but time...
This is the video that made me go full autismo After watching it and doing everything on it. I installed Arch for the lols and now I'm running dwm Thanks!
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- How do you choose your clothes?
- Monokai.
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this comment is underrated! haha!
I couldn't stop laughing for a bit lmao
Weirdly, official Monokai apparel actually exists.
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I am loving it
You know he's a real power user when he has a Matrix window open on the background laptop
No. You are a real power user when you can read what the matrix window is saying.
@@mrcvry I heard that they just set there a Japanese menu(from a restaurant)
@@zakhariihusar6975 Sushi $5
Cmatrix
cmatrix goes brrr
- How to become power user?
- Let me change some themes first...
Never had an issue with changing a theme within minutes on any OS. - Now that ranger file browser I'd like to have learned more about, but I installed it and plan to when I'm sober again.
"I cat into grep, but at least I have a decent rice"
Best part: ends by changing theme and start menu for rofi
@@madthumbs1564 Try changing the icon theme on Windows and get back to me.
@@praetorxyn It has folder icons but they're from Windows 98/XP era. And you have individually change the icons of folders you wish to modify.
As I transition to Linux from Windows I see these tutorials and my gut reaction is "why does any of this really matter?" but on the other hand it is nice to learn how to control the machine a bit better. So far I am using Linux Mint the way it came out of the box. Maybe one day I'll get bored enough to want to change themes.
Everyone travels their own journey with Linux, that's what makes it so damn interesting. DT being a tiling window manager (TWM) user for so many years tried to incorporate that into his Cinnamon setup, which I think is kinda pointless. I mean you should definitely learn the keyboard shortcuts related to your DE and update it to your preferences but getting rid of something like the default task launcher for dmenu/rofi is crazy when you could do the same with the default task launcher with any DE. Just press the Super key and type in "fire" for example it'll show firefox if installed as one of the top suggestions just like rofi here.
@@flow5718 And If you don't like, that the damn menu pops up everytime you press Meta, I'd think you can change that to keybinding in Mint.
I'm on KDE and I find myself using Keybindings a lot more, and having pop up the menu everytime you accidantly hit Meta alone, it becomes kinda tiresome, so I just changed it.
But I still kept the default Launcher; I don't know how cinnamon's buitl in handles, but Krunner is fantastic. Tough any built in Launcher should to the Job. Rofi or Dmenu is probably great if you want more options and customize more. However I doubt that most people, that use a full DE would actually need that.
As an absolute beginner I did not know what is the super key. Figured out that you were speaking of the windows key on the keyboard. Excellent video, thank you!!!
lol when i heard for the first time the super key it was exactly like that but lets not call it windows key cz you know why
@@someonehere4380 lol so many definitions for 'windows key'.
I'm with you trying to understand what the super key was. I was guessing the windows flag key but wasn't sure.
also known as the command key
It's not like Microsoft have copyright on the Windows key...
Congratulations, you have most likely started a trend with young GNU Linux users.
And the trend will influence this Old Dog with bad Windows habits established since 1987.
no richard, its linux
@@servo5156 Well yes, but actually no.
Young? I'm 31, and still nervous to take the leap.
Looks like the first pre - requisite is to be(come) some kinda #Hackerman.
Like I said before, I haven't used at all, so please save your insults for yourself. Instead, you'd want to share some of your knowledge or tutorials, as complement of this one.
@@dec13666 DT is a total noob at linux stuff...he doesn't code or contribute...not even in same universe as Hackerman. Just feed off other channels and open source community to make some extra cash.
This is a guide on becoming a nascent ricer, not a “power user.” Theming and ricing is generally a fun waste of time but a waste of time nonetheless. Linux Mint’s defaults are chosen to make the transition to power user easier for Windows users. That’s why it has things like alt+F4 to close a window. You can actually keep those defaults while adding alternate keybindings through that GUI you had up. A better guide to becoming a power user would be to go through where the GUI tools Linux Mint ships with can be found (for example, you can actually install and switch kernels though the update manager). And what the equivalent CLI commands are to those more advanced operations.
Its insane how you can say theming is a "waste of time". That's one of the main features of Linux is the customization.
@@CodyCLI theming is a feature but it has nothing to do with being a more powerful user and is a waste of time compared to learning about things like service management, timers, basic scripting, etc. that can give you power and automation over your machine.
My thought exactly, otherwise just use another standard Linux distro. Generally Linux Mint is perfect for leaving windows and keep on using the OS for daily leisure or work tasks. In which case you do not even want to start typing away in the terminal, you want to use it and Mint is great for that. You will have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse for quick work.
Thanks for the push to use terminal mode and hot keys. I use to use command lines years ago in relationships to amature radio. I'm alot older now(70 +) and wanting to use Linux. After installing your dual boot video this is perfect. Thanks again.
Glad it was helpful!
I was an early adopter of OS/2 and one of the last users until the end. Now I'm back revisiting OS alternatives to Windows. I can't make major hardware changes without Win freaking out. I'm trying to break free from the chains. I installed Mint yesterday and am impressed by the improvements in the past 15 yrs or so when I last looked at ubuntu...
15:08 I'm not ashamed to say I didn't know middle click was so godly useful!
Thanks for pointing out little details like this once in a while, really makes a difference :D
Glad it was helpful!
I find middle click awful. Middle button on most mouses is difficult to click without moving the mouse slightly, resulting in a paste in the wrong spot. Just add the shift key when copying and pasting to/from the terminal. ctrl-shift-v/ctrl-shift-c. Easy peasy.
@@fennecbesixdouze1794 get a proper three button mouse, like a cad mouse.
@@fennecbesixdouze1794 Interesting - and sounds odd to me, as I've never felt like that even when using a flimsy, tiny, lightweight and pretty crappy laptop mouse, though using the middle button on that was even more uncomfortable than the rest of the mouse for other reasons; but not because holding the mouse steady was an issue.
*However,* who am I to deny your experience?
How would you feel about mac-likeish alternative, like ctrl-left click?
I'm asking because the reason I find middle click better than pasting from keyboard is that if I'm already selecting something with mouse, keeping my hand on the mouse feels better than having to move it from mouse to keyboard. That's also why I'm a big fan of keyboard oriented use - because the less I have to move my hand between keyboard and mouse, the better. And sometimes it's easier to select something with mouse, and in that case it's better to finish with mouse as well.
But that's just me - maybe you'll rather just go with the keyboard shortcuts for the pasting regardless, which is fine by me :)
idontknowwhatodowithmytouchpadnow
Excellent tutorial as always. Keep the "between noob and power user" content coming!
More time spent on appearance than efficiency like teaching us how to use the ranger file browser. I watched this though as someone who has no interest in Linux Mint. I tried the live disks of it and the DE version. -I'll stick with Manjaro and a much better Firefox.
@@madthumbs1564 I watched it also with no interest to the subject - other than to see what I thought of it as a video for target audience of newbie linux users who have interest in power use. And I think it's pretty good - I mean, for a newcomer from Windows, I think Mint is great! It's not as great (though perfectly usable) for already power users with experience of several distros. But a newcomer - definitely.
And for a first video of hopefully more - because for single video it would've been a dud indeed - I find it acceptable to show some of the ways to customise appearances. I know I was all over different customisations, that were so big change from what windows allowed, back in '02 when I switched. One thing you hear about from Linux people is how customizable it is, and he went a bit beyond just going through the readily installed themes, etc., which was good. Before that he had talked about various optimizations with keybindings, window management tricks, etc., setting up a custom launcher...
Pretty good for something aimed at n00bs.
We older users, especially if we were already power user minded when we first tried Linux, tend to overestimate the n00b. Perhaps even more if we did better when we started. I know I was once guilty of that. And I don't mean "one time", but "once upon a time".
I think this was a good, light and user friendly introduction to this. And only time will tell what may come out of this. I have my thumbs up!
Lesson :- Using mouse will eventually break your hand.
-- DT
Just use the lenovo trackpad??
Lesson :- Monokai equal power user
-- DT
I've been using the mouse for 20 years. My hand is completely useless now.
Super+Up gives your window the top half of the screen. Super+Up again to make the window fully maximized.
Thanks for the tip. I was sure that going max was probably set to a keybinding but I was too lazy to look it up while recording. I'd probably rebind that myself (super+F seems appropriate). ;)
I was wondering what he was saying about tiling managers. Gnome supports 2 tiles, but Cinnamon has much better tiling (though who needs it with Nemo?).
KDE uses Super+Page Up to maximize/unmaximize. Super+Page Down minimizes the window.
Also another tip, instead of using the arrow keys to go to the start or end of a line, use either the Home and End keys, or CTRL+A and CTRL+E. :)
F11 also maximizes windows.
It's identical to the way Windows does it. I don't use Mint but I admire how easy they make it for people to switch with subtle things like this.
This was one of the most interesting videos i have ever seen about Linux Mint. Thank you very much!
Just installed Mint with Cinnamon yesterday, perfect timing!
I think this is perfect hybrid creation between a wm and a traditional de, for someone still trying to crossover to window manager world. Also makes for relatively useable computer environment for another pc user in the family who might not be going to wm route. Not all of us have multiple PCs for another users at home.
Well, you can have more than one DE and/or WM installed - and you can choose the one you want from the login screen. And if you each have your own user accounts, as you should - for one it allows each to have their own customizations, etc. without messing the other ones, but for other reasons as well, I believe (I haven't actually checked and confirmed, but I would expect it) login managers by default remember the last choice for the specific user, so once you've logged into your default environment, you shouldn't have to choose it everytime you're logging in.
Just a friendly hint :)
this guy inspired me to use those keybindings in cinnamon. i'm on LMDE 5 but it's the same. i learned so much about cinnamon...taught me a lot i didn't know..thanx DT.
So I appreciated this video but as far as I can tell the only productivity gains were from the the shortcuts-the rest was just eye candy.
Better than eye thorns
Pretty much.
It doesn't really save time if you have to constantly be changing the directory, much easier just to drag and drop files between folders if you ask me.
Not to mention it's only faster if you already know the commands. If you have to look them up, it's really no quicker than having to use the GUI app centre or the browser like every other OS.
Sure, the terminal looks cooler, but is it really more efficient? A lot of the time I would bet that it is minimal time savings, and at worst, actually slower.
Appreciate your work DT. Always learn something from your videos.
Thanks, Mike! Appreciate that.
Great video, i sat through all of it and i didn't feel like you are wasting my time and that's the best thing about this channel. There are creators out there who put out 10 minutes videos and at the end of it you are like what the hell did i just watch, 10 minutes for a couple of sentences. I enjoy the vids about twms too even though i don't ever see myself going that route because the apps i use will never display correctly inside that kind of environment.
One of The Best videos i have seen in a long time. Just what i needed at my stage of learning linux.
Thank you so much for this video! I am a Linux Mint user and I have been looking for something like this forever! You're work is amazing! For those who don't understand, even though he was changing the theme, just by doing the commands and changing things with different commands....was to put you on the path of becoming more of a super user. Once you understand the commands and shortcuts/key bindings...every things else is cake.
My progressions was the following: I used manajaro for 2-3 weeks and learned almost nothing. After that I went to vanilla arch because I heard it was a meme to use and very hard. Installed Arch successfully using youtube video and reading the wiki. After 2-3 weeks I removed windows 10 which fucked the efi partition. I tried to install systemd-boot and grub and neither detected arch so I just installed fedora. After 2-3 weeks I decided to test void linux. So I tried to resize the main partition of fedora which was not as easy as you migth first think since fedara uses lvm as default. I tried to resize the partition for 6h and just wiped the whole disk and indtalled Void. Been on Void since and It's very nice minimal distro.
Great video DT!
I'm not ready to jump over to a tiling WM just yet, but your videos are helping me out a ton.
Cinnamon does tiling, he even showed it but didn't point it out.
Very interesting video, I'd really like it becoming a series. So far I still run a dual boot with Windows so I appreciate all hints and tips in becoming a poweruser in Linux as well.
Great video DT. You'd already coached me into Arch, then tiling WMs, and I'm still learning things from this. Thank you
How is Cinnamon not a tiling manager?
@@madthumbs1564 huh? I think you replied to the wrong comment. Nothing to do with what I said
I'm really grateful to you my man!
This is like a CLASS that I would need to pay real money to learn from someone knowledgeable on the linux.
And from the beginning till the end a lot of useful information!
Thanks
It would be could if you could do more of this kind of videos
Hey DT,
I would really appreciate it if you could make such videos again. It was really useful. Thanks !
You answered a few questions of mine without me even asking. Thanks!
I like the way you pronounce "Mient" haha
Bien
He pronounces a lot of things kind of this way, I find it amusable in a good way.
Thanks for this video, man. After using windows since 2005 I'll follow up your tips. I'll try to make the turn from a noob to a more advanced Linux Mint user.
Thank you sir for everything you do, don't let these Knuckleheads bother you. I learned so much from you thank you for your kindness to be on TH-cam
I know we mostly just did some personalizing, but I actually learned a few things doing this. As a totally new user I thought this was valuable and it kind of also reinforces "Don't try to make this Windows" ... good video for the intended audience!
Congrats, I does that when i
was a windows user and have a lot of time and patient but now with your tutorial gave me a more tasty environment. Thanks
This was seriously an AWESOME video man. I barely used 20% of what you did..but it always gave me other power using ideas of things to condense and customize. Cheers man!
Wow. More Linux Mint content than Switched to Linux has ever put out.
Tom produces good Mint content, it's just more G rated)
He is a college proffessor/minister of the church with tinfoil hats on cats. Not much surprises me at this point. :)
@@MichaelJHathaway well if you watch his comparisons he doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. Making shit up as he goes. His older videos showed he know something. But I guess God told him to devote himself to conspiracy theories going forward.
Cortana makes cofee too and Siri delivers pizza... who needs keyboard anymore :)
@@jumpman1823 lmao
I've used Linux Mint for a long time. This is a nice video for doing some things I haven't done before. I do have a tricked out Tilix for my terminal.
Great video, Derek! You compressed things that took me about 2 years to gradually accrue. Hot keys for common apps and window actions. Check. Rofi menu. Check. Nice themes. Check. Eliminate menubars and toolbars in terminal. Check. Vifm. Check. And so on and so on. I gathered these up as a result of using tiling WMs and Openbox, then gravitated back to xfce, but modified with these items. Now I feel I have the best of both worlds. I'm sure this will be one of your most viewed videos.
super + type to search, the "start menu" isn't that bad used that way. its not like dmenu but still its a quick way to launch a program
I was coming here to say exactly the same ... but you beat me to it! Just as easy, and you don't have to install that (ugly by modern standards) menu program. Not to mention, easy to find a program if you can't quite remember the name.
I use Linux Mint Mate. Really like their redesigned menu!
I guess you didn't learn how menus are just something that's in your way. Be cool, walk into a fast food joint and order the number 6. -Just don't ever order the number 2.
Me too
Thank you, this is exactly the level that I needed. Not too basic, but not too advanced.
This video started my journey. Now, I am on my very own Arch Laptop :). Cheers man. Have a nice day.
Those steps in between skill levels are some very fun and rewarding steps. Especially when you learn how to fix a broken system. Learning compiling from source and use flags is rewarding as well. Just to name a couple. They're are many.
Based name
@@graham9045 Based on balls, I'll say!!
Seriously, no disrespect for mr. balls, just having fun :D though with such a name, I'm sure I didn't need to explain myself ;P
Thanks DT, just the sort of how to video I was looking for. Love your work :)
OMG he closed zed with a mouse click instead of his hot key. BLASPHMEY!!! Also DJWare as a "producer," that's pretty high praise imo. gj!
Been using Mint for 48h, and I'm already in here. This is a awesome new world for a old fart like me.
I been running Linix Mint 19.3 for about 3 months. So far, I'm liking it.
Check out Manjaro Cinnamon, you will be always be on the most up to date version of cinnamon instead of having to wait 6 months for a point release or two years for an LTS release.
As an avid cinnamon user I don't know how I feel about some of stuff in this video. On the one hand there is a lot of cool content some of which ill probably be checking out. On the other it kinda felt an exercise how to make cinnamon as much like a tiling window manager as you can without just installing a tiling window manager.
Great video overall but im gonna stick to my own method of power using cinnamon :P
Yea, you nailed it on what I was trying to do here. I was trying to get past Cinnamon (or any DE that might have been installed here). Once you get past relating so much to the particular DE (and in some cases the particular distro), your view of the Linux ecosystem really changes.
Obviously, what I did in this video isn't for everyone. But this didn't make any permanent changes to anyone's system either. People can try it out and see if this kind of workflow fits them. If not, just revert back to the original settings.
@@DistroTube I think the biggest reason most of these modifications don't work for me is my idea of power using needs to be easily portable to a freshly installed distro. This typically means sticking primarily to packages available in the repo and programs that store their configuration as plain text and not in dconf. The more I have to modify my system after I install it the more I should just be using something else that is closer to what I want.
For me the biggest thing I have added to my mint cinnamon install that greatly improves my efficiency is a dropdown terminal. Rather than pressing a series of multiple keys to pop out a terminal that I then have to find again when I need to check on it I have one terminal (with tabs that I can cycle through with keyboard shortcuts) and I just press 1 key to make it appear and the same key to make it minimize.
>needs to be easily portable to a freshly installed distro.
Exactly! And we are ALMOST there with what I did on this video. The next step...move to a proper stand-alone window manager where you can set all of your rules in a config file. Save your config(s) to GitHub or GitLab. Then...reinstalling or even distro-hopping no longer matters, because you can just "git clone" your configs. Boom, it's like you never hopped. For a drop-terminal, there are many good options. If you switch to a tiling window manage, most of them have a scratchpad function where you have a hot key that toggles show/hide a program (such as a terminal).
@@Drazil100 Austin Allman What I've done is with a fresh install, I open a terminal and run "dconf watch /". That will print out any settings that are changed, and their location. So then I open system settings and start changing them to what I like, while keeping track of these dconf settings in a script (dconf write /path/to/setting value). So that I have a single script that can set all my dconf configuration.
@@DistroTube if you want tiling in cinnamon install tmux 😈🤣
Very cool. Zero waffling. Easy flow and nice to follow.
Should do more content like this it was great. Even through I don't use Mint it gave alot of pointers for new users
Just switched to Linux from windows full time. This is a MUST watch video imho
I have been a Windows user for SO many years. recently Ive been wanting to make the jump. I have Mint Cinnamon installed on a secondary drive to tinker and slowly learn about it. Booting onto that drive makes me feel like a kid at Christmas, lol. So many things to play with and discover. I love it so far. There are some things that confuse me. But honestly, I thought it would be way worse. So far all my games and stuff work, and some things even seem better than Windows (sound, etc). My RGB, fan curves, etc even work just fine. Nervous about scrubbing windows completely, but I'm getting there. Videos like these help a LOT, so thanks so much. Been binging your videos while I tinker and stuff.
I was using dmenu but after trying rofi i like it more, you can customize it quite more, so tip for those who want to replace dmenu with rofi, just symlink rofi to dmenu
sudo ln -s /usr/bin/rofi /usr/bin/dmenu
Or you can also do
ln -s /usr/bin/rofi ~/.local/bin/dmenu
@@apestogetherstrong341 the first is what the rofi manual suggests
@@apestogetherstrong341 you are the one saying there's only one right way m8, i just gave 2 options, the manual one and the local way ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thank you so much, I stumbled across the Dracula theme midway through the video and changed everything to Dracula which made my whole desktop experience feel seemless.
It's not that you go too fast, it's just that you deftly handle EVERYTHING that you do, that the noob gets sucked into a Padawan Force Trance and now I'm rewinding ROFI for like the 8th time.
ROCK!
A few things:
1. Exa looks cool. But for the home user, probably unneeded. I don't feel the need to color-code my permissions. Also, having to install another package manager to install a single thing, is overcomplicating the process. It's also extra bits, when you want to maintain a clean system. If they ever add it to the apt repo, I may use it.
2. You are incorrect that the Mint menu is bad. It's just as easy to press , type the command, and press . And if you happen to forget the command name, you can find it again in the menu. No need to install yet another menu, reconfigure keybinding, yada yada ...
3. Speaking of keybindings ... thank you for reminding me! I'm typically a point/click guy, but I'll endeavor to use keybindings more!
4:45 damn right. I started to hate using mouse now ever since I switched to linux. And having a key binding to close any window, is awesome. Thanks!
GREAT video, really like a lot of the suggestions here.
Outstanding. Thanks for not forgetting about us noobs. Love your channel.
I already knew it was possible to have "your" own version of a linux independent of DE/WM, but seeing it is quite different
About using what is already present in the system, with 1900+ packages installed, one would think that most stuff would already be installed.
I prefer my arch with 480 packages and my build of dwm with all of the config files already present =).
A show of workspaces in cinnamon would be nice too, with my 2 monitors, my DWM has 18 workspaces, and power users benefit a lot from them.
Great video DT
Cheers
18 workspaces is way to overkill imo
DT you're a ripper legend! I think its great that you went from saying Linux mint shouldn't even exist to making this vid for people who will find a good use for it. This show open mindedness and top notch character. I've learned a lot form your vids, thank you for your time!
The only thing I've liked from Mint Cinnamon is Nemo, but it has some bugs and works in Gnome. Haven't regretted installing Manjaro Gnome yet. Debian, Ubuntu, Mint asfaik are still running the old crappy Firefox.
Linux Mint really doesn't need to exist, though. Maybe 10 years ago it was a better option than Kubuntu, but KDE 5 Plasma is so vastly superior to all other menu-and-taskbar desktop environments (including its own predecessor, KDE 4 Oxygen), that nowdays you're much better-off going with Kubuntu so you can benefit from a codebase that's 18 months newer than the Ubuntu LTS build that Linux Mint is based on.
Congratulations and tank you Sr.
I understand the complain of some of your viewers, I am still a newbie on linux im still unable to transfer/create/copy files using terminal but im getting into it! I move at my own paced and I completely understand, I really like the archlinux content because I just recently hoped to arch and I hope this is the last time I will hop and from the looks of it I feel like it is going to be my last hop. just keep doing you and I will keep watching your great content!
Would've been helpful to explain what the "super key" is, I've never heard this term in 25 years of Windows and Mac computing.
For those also curious, it's the Windows key on a PC keyboard and the Command key on a Mac keyboard.
Great video! Giving Linux a chance again and have been seriously enjoying your content.
Same. I figured it was the windows key though.
Ye a figured it was the windows key, plus when i tried it shows on the Keybinds its super
Linux Mint + 10 Years: I just works well to get my work done! I haven't "tweaked" it at all. Compared to Windows, Mint is a blessing. Highly recommended.
It got really cool! I never thought of customizing a distro with cinnamon like Mint in a WM, hehehe
Thanks for your time on this ricing.
There is peoples like me who love the dual boot with arch and run something more stable so it is sweet to have our custom habits ported into other distros.
probably the best video please it would be great if u make an xfce one
and then a mate one
21:26 My two most useful aliases: alias lt='ls -all -rt' (show latest file last) and alias lss='ls -all -Sr' (show largest file last).
Though i have used ubuntu in my college desktop, im a total noob in linux world. Had an old laptop lying around that couldn't handle windows 10 anymore and gave it a new lease of life by switching it to Mint. I love how things are in this though it was pretty tough for someone using Windows since Windows 2000. Thanks for posting this video. I really am appreciating this new operating system.
Been using mint for 4 years. Excited to see where I'm at on the spectrum
This was one of the more informative video tutorial I have ever followed along with! Thank you for the work you put into each video. My desktop environment feels more pro now!
Thanks for the walkthrough... I did the first few switches and stopped at the things that removed the menus. I actually enjoy the intuitive point-and-click process of Windows-based systems. These instructions helped me understand the thinking behind much of what Linux users are into..
Thank You Derek
Appreciate that, Dave!
i believe videos on improving linux mint with your own example are a great value as linux mint is widely used.
my suggestions after lm install: turn off all sounds, turn off all animations, remove menu icon leaving "Menu", overwrite/add .bash_rc customizations in a separate file, StartQ close window, StartM system monitor, OnStreenDisplay delay - 0 for instant workspace switch, StartZ workspace up, StartX workspace down, StartC ToggleMaximizationState (extremely useful for me). I use maim scripts from HexDSL StartF for fullscreen capture, and StartG for crop capture. Terminal - Alt` and Start` (` was opening console in old games). I heard a lot of times that Gnome 3 is designed for keyboard usage, but as I can see form keyboard shortcut options - Linux Mint has more space for key combinations. I like the simplicity and default whiteness of xed, colour schemes are quite good for defaults. Rofi seems very nice, will have to try that. Glad to see Linux Mint video.
p.s. most commonly used aliases: alias ll='ls -lA --group-directories-first', alias aps='apt search', alias yt='youtube-dl'
You know, I was really on the fence about wanting to switch to Linux or not for a long time now, but this video might have just sold me on it. There's so much customization and versatility! I NEED it!!
Great video! Definitely learned alot from this
Glad it was helpful!
@@DistroTube I used to be a Linux user, back in 1973 Xerox Alto not sure if U remember that one🤷🏿♂️.has much changed since the 1980's for Linux Mint. & xfce Linux 🖥️🐧 program Wine🍷from UB40 Red wine🍷was great. Back in the day. With the Terminal Commands 👍🏿.
Cheers D.T not quite ready to move full time to a window manager yet so this for me would be a good stop gap.
This tutorial has taught me a lot, being a fresh out of the box Mint user... Cheers DT 👍
Hey DT! Not a Linux n00b, but I watched the video through and enjoyed it looking from the perspective of how good advice you would be giving me if I had stuck with Windows *and* forgotten several power user type things I already had with DOS (+ 4DOS) CLI in and out of Win95, LOL.
Luckily I was already highly CLI-minded and had the best mindset for enjoying and being more than willing to learn what I didn't know when I switched from Win95 in '02 (old hardware - didn't want to try XP, planned to install Win2k on new machine along with Linux but forgot the W2k and never looked back after 1st installing Red Had 7.1 ;) ), I had mostly only good times figuring all the things...
So I didn't expect to learn anything from this video - but I did, and it felt bad. First, I learned that my aging OS release (CentOS 7, a dead distro release) didn't have new enough versions of all the required 3rd party libraries for building rofi (which, surprise surprise, wasn't available through repo's). But what does a run-launcher like it need all those libraries for? And for 2nd, I learned that 'exa' is the first Rust application that failed to build - and with a very unhelpful error message. Apparently it was some kind of floating-point math error. I'm willing to bet that this too is most likely because of my aging OS.
So the lesson for me was that I *really* have to become more comfortable with reinstalling the OS of my primary computer - I mean, if it was any of the other PC's I have, I would've done it when the CentOS was killed (and then resurrected as CentOS Stream, which is a bit different thing). Although admittedly I've already had that lesson before - and I really have no excuses to not do it already. A decade ago I wouldn't have hesitated a day, and half-decade ago I would've done it within a week... It just seems I've gotten lazy about it when I've aged.
Hurt my heart a bit when you said Gruvbox is bad T_T
Haha it was my first theme to rice onto my systems, it is super easy on the eyes
im completely new to linux and this was the best video i have watched in the last 2 weeks lol
DT how could you!
- don't install sl ( you know what it is xD)
- don't install mc (best terminal copy machine if you have to deal with a ton of files)
- don't install cmatrix
- don't install htop (or better grace)
hey but you did the neofetch bashrc mod, you know it is mandatory for power users :DDDD
Thanks! im sold on linux now, this what i needed to see.
if you wanted to know i switched to linux mint and im doing your tutorial. also i accidentally fucked windows so im going to be a linux user from now on.
and now im going through the tutorial again because i messed everything up and want to start with a new slate.
Want to say thank you for this video. Been on and off to mint. Have an old laptop, decided to use mint, use it for basic stuff, libreoffice and browsing. Left college, and gave the laptop to my younger brother.
Now have a job and able build a pc again, use it for basic stuff and gaming. Back to windows again. Then the holoiso steam os came. Have a terrible headache using it.hahaha
Probably never have gave linux enough chance. But i like the idea of less clicking and moving mouse. Hope to be able to familiar with steamos/arch. Right now I dont even know how to update discord,hahaha. but slowly i think i can be more familiar with it.
Thx again for the video. Its a beautiful video to watch.
Damn didn't know ls -lah was a thing. Thanks learned something new.
He does have a point. I used regular flat mice all my life, and at the age of 36 my right hand started hurting when I used the mouse. I've since changed to a vertical mouse, which has solved the problem, but who knows, if I had been using the keyboard more I might've been problem-free for a couple of more years. Can't run from age, but one can prepare.
What a video, thank you so much
Thanks!
Awesome video! Been using mint for about 6 months now and these tips are really handy. Also make me wanna try some window managers in the future. Thanks!
Thank you Derek! You would be surprised how many advanced people use Linux Mint as their main distro. It's not a beginner distro, it is a highly refined, stable, reliable and polished Debian distro that new users can install in minutes and can go directly into their workflow. Chris and I have shown that you can do all kinds of modifications to Mint to make your work flow faster.
> You would be surprised how many advanced people use Linux Mint
Actually, I wouldn't be surprised at all. I've said forever that distros don't matter (not to the advanced crowd anyway). And I've stated so many times that I personally could run any Linux distro with any DE and make it work. Too many people relate to their distro or to their DE. And I hope to show people how that kind of thinking limits them.
@@DistroTube This is exactly what Chris and I set out to do. When you said to stop throwing a million new distros at new users, we took that literally. But instead of giving them Ubuntu, we chose Linux Mint because of it's past success in bringing Windows users into Linux. We started with a multi-part series of Mint videos, starting from the ground up with the first series being lighter for beginners and then transitioning into advanced concepts. We test out the content first on Twitch during a live stream with advanced users and then Chris makes the content for TH-cam, Lbry, etc. for the series. I have transformed my commercial banner on LinuxMint.com to point to the new Linux Mint series we have created. Again, thank you for all that you have done and for sparking this with your brilliant direction you have given all of us in the community!
@@MichaelJHathaway Where are these videos?
@@folksurvival th-cam.com/play/PLc7fktTRMBoxoDWkt0EzILkG4sCrEOT3e.html
@@MichaelJHathaway Thanks.
Tilling window managers aren’t for everyone. I’m a lot more happy with my Linux set up since moving away from the tilling window manager hell I was in a couple of years ago.
I'm the same. I'm strictly a mouse user.
After learning emacs I really couldn't find any use for a tilling wm.
@@johanb.7869 I was once. Now I'm finding ways to do things without damaging my wrist tendons and shoulder muscle imbalance, and it turns out the keyboard methods are quicker.
I tend to be very mouse oriented as well, but I think a setup where you use the keyboard almost exclusively would be great for someone with a laptop, since I cannot usually stand the mouse on those.
@@scoobydooami2 Before I had my current computer I always used a laptop and always used a mouse on them too.
Not just useful for new users! I've been using Linux on and off (mostly on) since 2008 with Ubuntu 8.10, used a variety of distros and DEs/WMs with varying success in that time. I've used GUIs that I've hated and GUIs that I've loved. For the last 2 years I've been using Arch with GNOME3 but was unhappy with some of the changes in the switch over to GNOME40, and I've been looking for something I can make better use of keybinds with without making the full switch to a tiling WM just yet. This is perfect. I've moved both my laptop and my desktop over to this, with a few small tweaks. Thank you DT.
Thanks, that was fun, I learned some things.
20:02 that info from neofetch is really helpful in communicating most all details
I'm not sure if it has been changed since this video was produced but if you are doing this with a virtual machine, for example running VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host, then make sure you autocapture the keyboard. Otherwise, pressing the "Superkey" or "Windows key" can get grabbed by the host and then you won't be able to press another key to set the shortcut. In VirtualBox it is Input | Keyboard | Keyboard Settings | Autocapture keyboard
Thanks for the extremely helpfull tip on rofi! that was awesome! I'm using SSH alot in my homelab :D I'm not bothered by the application menu. Mint has changed the behavior of the special key in later versions i guess... holding start will not popup the start menu and you are free to use any shortkey with it. It will not popup the menu unless you release the button without touching other keys (also invalid combos will not make it popup).
Great video man, very motivating!
You are awesome, dude. Thanks.
Bravo Derek for well you know what?! [ ; (for w10 users to see something...))
... & from Linux kernel Mint, Cinn. lol
Bravo again !!!
I love Mint mate and I am not a noob by any stretch. I just like stuff to work without taking all day. I mean I do have an XPS developer's edition to code after all. But I get it. It's fun to set all that stuff up, but time...
This is the video that made me go full autismo
After watching it and doing everything on it. I installed Arch for the lols and now I'm running dwm
Thanks!