@@googletjanster2917 its a great firewall + adblock, sucks hard that bandwidth statistics is a paid feature, including network history. i might want to grab pro to test how well their SPN fares vs just getting mullvad as the extra features in plus are not enough to justify replacing the app i use for network statistics, which is also coincidentally my task manager replacement.
As an artist and graphic designer, I can assure you that your thumbnails are indeed works of art. First of all, they're unique and identifiable to your channel. I always know who made the video because you're the only channel I'm subscribed to who has thumbnails like that. Second, they tell me what the video is about, both directly and indirectly. Not only are your practical titles in them, but also the logos you include in the thumbnails serve as forshadowing. Even if your title doesn't expressly say that the video is about Firefox or gnome, when I see the Firefox or Gnome logos, I know you're going to talk about them. It's simple, but it works. Your thumbnails do their job of building interest in the video very well, but they also do it without succumbing to clickbait cliches like circles, red arrows, or reaction images and memes. They are quality thumbnails that a lot of TH-cam channels should learn from.
Great video! As always. Thanks for your commitment to the open source community. I love to see what everyone uses in the open source world. On video editing, given the transitions and titles you use, I'd be hard pressed to suggest a video editor in the open source space as it stands today. That said, I use Shotcut, and have a fairly fast workflow with it. Though my transitions and titles are nowhere near your level. Well done!
I just realized that my gnome setup looks exactly the same, including wallpapers, but with the dock on the left side (vertical docks ftw!) Edit: Use tenacity, its a fork of Audacity without telemetry and also adds a few themes to modernize the look of it
I agree, and switched to Tenacity not long after the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry BS. I tried the various forks and Tenacity is still the best so far, and by far. too.
@@Ticktok_of_Oz Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, the UI's are nearly identical, although since I switched from Audacity to Tenacity around a year ago, they improved the UI a bit (not much) so I wouldn't be surprised if Audacity didn't get the very same improvements. The real difference between the two is that the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry data collection stunt, which is why a few forked the project and removed that part, Tenacity being the best of the bunch.
@@diarmaid0heineachain314 The software collects Telemetry data (look it up) and sends it to the company that makes Audacity. Audacity was purchased by this company before it happened. Although it may no longer do so, the company violated the GNU public license when they started using it, had it turned on by default, and didn't disclose it to the users or give them a setting to turn it off: If they want to collect data from peoples computers they have to ask the user, and give them a setting to turn it on, not have it on by default. They also have to say exactly what data it collects, so the user can decide whether they will allow it. I believe what was even worse, is that they had the data collection happen through "Google analytics" and Google are big data collectors and sellers, so it wasn't just for the company to get usage data to better understand what features people used... but possibly personally identifiable data that can be extrapolated from the data by Google, and sold to who knows who! So when that happened, and it wasn't the first time that company did something shady like that, many Linux distros removed Audacity from their repo's, a huge uproar went through the community, and since the program was open source, a few other developers forked the program, took out the parts that did the dirty deeds, and released it under a few different names! I use one called Tenacity, it's nearly Identical to audacity, just not from the company that makes audacity, as they cannot be trusted! So far Tenacity has worked great, has had bugs and annoyances fixed right after they forked it... just like a good program should, others who forked it have not made any major improvements or didn't have their shit together in whatever way, and are not as popular. So far I haven't heard anything about Audacity being improved since then, and even if, I won't use it.
I also love Nano, but if you want something a bit more modern, and advanced, I really recommend Micro. It still runs in the terminal like Nano, but it's way cooler.
I just wanted to write this comment. It's such a relief to use ctl+s to save and ctl+q to quit and colour highlighting is also quite handy. People always say that Nano is easier, so Micro is the easiest. If u have any Debian based machine, than try nala instead of apt, same story. It's how apt should be.
I've used both GIMP and Photoshop. I actually prefer GIMP, I just personally find it more intuitive. I've heard Krita is a better Photoshop alternative for artists, and GIMP is a better alternative for photo editing.
The only thing I miss in GIMP (coming from PaintShopPro) are the many buttons for the different tools/features that that app has.. GIMP doesn't have such a feature (and thus appears limited to me because of this).
Thank you for this video! So many people seem to think that open-source software isn't good enough for doing actual work, and this kind of video proves them wrong.
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Amazing video! The exact thing I was looking for. I also want to setup backbone of my digital life. If I am not missing, can you make an in-depth video on how to setup NextCloud server? I won't mind the length of the video ;) I've an old PC that can be re-purposed as a server.
GIMP is amazing, and my high-school computers teacher preferred it over Photoshop because it's made to be easy to learn rather than paying for classes to learn how to use the software. And he would use it for commissions to upscale and touch up old photos, so it wasn't just his personal uses or anything.
Another fantastic presentation, packed full of valuable information... as a noob using Mint and exploring an entirely different environment, I find your videos to be valuable source of information and encouragement.
micro is awesom. it feels way more intuitiv compared to nano if one is used to other small desktop editors such as all variants of gedit or kde's kwrite. (e.g. Ctrl-S saves the document. never could remember what nano is using). personally i'm still addicted to vi. i'm old ;)
Thanks for the great channel, I just bought a Slimbook thanks to your recommendation (they should sponsor you!). I use GIMP mainly for photo editing (contrast, sharpenning, blur, grayscaling, masks and such), to create images and design I prefer Inkscape, don't need to move from one layer to other, easy to draw, move objects, align, distribute, it is much more intuitive to move objects around.
Since you use Audacity, you could raise audio level to be on par with big channels. My standard looks like this: 1. Normalize Remove DC offset: checked Normalize peak: checked -3 dB Normalize stereo: unchecked (maybe checked would be better). 2. Compress Threshold: -20 dB Noise floor: -60 dB Ratio: 2:1 Attack: 0.20 sec Release: 1.0 sec Make up for gain: checked Compress based on peaks: checked 3. Normalize again to -3dB I set them like this. Than, create a macro that can be run as easy as Tools - Apply macro - Macro_name. Almost all of my videos from my other channel have the same audio level and can be played without needing to adjust volume every time ads play (always have your audio level close to that of the ads!).
Great video! Very interesting. Would you maybe like to do a more detailed video (maybe step by step) on what you used to get away from Google Drive with Pros and Cons and security topics (run the server locally or on the cloud)? Thanks a congrats for the channel!
Dude your thumbnails are awesome, i know a new video dropped because they are unique and stand out in the best way. Dont knock the work, its well presented
I love the theme on running server and services. "I'm lazy and just want it to work". I am the same way I have been using unraid to host stuff like Nextcloud and Vaultwarden
I experienced the same problem with Gnome Boxes before as I'd installed it from Flatpak and then from Snap. After that, I installed it from the deb version in the store and it works perfectly ever since. I think the problem arisen was casused by the sandbox feature of Flatpak and Snap as well as incompatibility between the Gnome version of the host OS and that of Gnome Boxes when you update it. Have Fun with it !
Hobby musician here. I used Audacity until Muse acquired it and added some controversial telemetry. I moved to Audacium after that which was one of the fork of Audacity (audacium still had the optional build flag with the Audacity Telemetry). I use Ardour now which is a bit more advanced with a multi-channel recording/mixing and supports plethora of lv2 plugins. From the news, it seems that Audacium has been merged with Tenacity which is hosted over in codeberg. Maybe could do a video on floss audio software for recording and/or live streaming music/podcasts ;).
No. Do not take any other suggestions. Nano is great and you are right. That being said, the nextcloud integrations expand farther than I imagined and I will probably be setting up a docker/lxc install of it after I get my DNS server pair set up.
Great video Nick! I'd would recommend you to move from Gimp to Inkscape, as it makes more sense for your workflow than Gimp (and might be faster once you get used to it)
@@TheLinuxEXP Both have their advantages depending on what exactly you are doing in each, so I use both often for the very same piece of art. Inkscape has been improving much faster though, and now giving Illustrator a run for it's money, and just got a lot better with the recent version, so I haven't even found and used some of the improvements from two versions ago, and just got a whole bunch more! I found it very easy to use and fairly quick to learn though, but it still has some annoyances in the GUI I wish they would address, mainly related to high res displays.
@@mephisto-- And where exactly did I say it was privat or Open source? I didn't! I don't use Illustrator, and only said that Inkscape is "giving it a run for it's money" (A saying meaning: showing itself to be just as good or even better). Illustrator has way more users, and a lot of them are finding Inkscape to be more than sufficient for what they do, even better on some levels, and many Illustrator users are switching to Inkscape now than ever before.
To fix gnome-boxes you have to *sudo apt purge -y gnome-boxes* , delete the *~/.config/libvirt* directory and any directories inside your home folder that contain the phrase "gnome-boxes" or "boxes". Note: this will delete the VMs you have on there currently, so back up what you need to back up before doing anything. After cleaning up, *sudo apt install -y gnome-boxes* will install it again and it should work again. [EDIT]: Sorry, you use fedora, not something debian-based, so just replace the APT commands with their fedora counterpart…
For the gnome boxes bug, you have to enable cpu virtualisation in bios If that is already turned on then install the libvirt-daemon-system package in debian/ubuntu, then enable and start 'libvirt' using systemd, then 'sudo usermod -aG libvirt username'
greetings, thanks for the video mate. as a long time win user *ugh* i believe that the PTB invested heavily w/ gill bates in mutual prostitution, skanky but not stupid. you are fortunate to have avoided the MS vaccines. learning linux equivalents for win apps is tedious for a lazy bastard. peace, an old fart. ☕
Regarding the filters in thunderbird, you have the option of manually importing and exporting the filters to a file. Yes, still requires manual work, but once you get most of them setup in one device, do you really change them that often?
I've not been an open-source geek like you, but I have used those when needed. I must say I loved the details of your server and desktop environments running open source software. Do you have a list of these opensource software that you used posted somewhere?
Hey Nick! Great video as always! I also run an Ubuntu server (on Oracle, not Linode) and I changed the apt.sources file to replace lunar where it was focal or whatever it was back then. I also did this with debian, from buster to bookworm. It's not 100% safe but I didn't have any problems. Saves you a reinstall.
Safing is probably the only product sponsor I'm legitimately considering spending money on in years.. they look solid. I am looking forward to trying it out on some test systems.
Regarding Kdenlive -> when rendering to mp4 i easily get 200+ frames/second rendering times on my Intel integrated GPU laptop. So if its set up correctly rendering actually works just fine. And since I'm using it as a Flatpak its also much more stable.
It's interesting to see how someone who has a "Windows" mindset sets up Linux. I'm not a FOSS purist but sure am an Arch/Vim guy, but I respect your takes a lot even if our approach often differs
Your content is great and you can improve your audio quality further when you reduce the echo of your room. Place 4 absorbers in your room where you record (one above your head, one left of you, one right of you and one in front of you at the height of your mouth; size usually 40x100x10cm). I would recommend Basotec 10cm (4inch) and this is the most important detail: the absorbers have to be placed 3-4 inches (at absorber 4 inches thickness) away from the wall depending on the thickness of the absorber. Why? The most wave sound power is not directly at 0 inches away from the wall when the wave is reflected, it's beneath the 0 wall point (depending on the wave frequency) and when you place your absorber at this place it's most effective or doesn't effective at all. it can be calculated via formula with lambda. This would have the most effect. Another tip is the order your use your (minimal) sound tools: Noisegate, Deesser, Compressor, Equalizer (usually reduce couple db around 2k Hz and low cut 70 Hz), Reverb (via insert channel). Hear/mix your sound at 80 db loudness to get the best impression of it. Keep up your good work
I installed parabolic and tried it. It worked fine. Thank you.
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For my audio and podcast recording I use oceanaudio and reaper (oceanaudio for the recording and reaper for the mixing). They are not FOSS, but I worked with those for more than a decade on a Mac (so I got my workflow dialed in) - and as I am making the slow transition, I am happy to be able to continue using them on Linux.
I use Shotcut as Video editor. It supports hardware acceleration but I only use it in conjunction with auto generated asset proxies for 4-K assets and preview acceleration during the cutting work. The export render melt files in XML format can be used to delegate the final render job on any other machine. My 4-K videos are rendered via an ubuntu-server headless machines while my desktop machine is free to be used for other purposes meanwhile. Also, as render time gets less crucial with delegated rendering I choose non-hardware accelerated rendering for final production as I discovered that hardware acceleration comes with a price! Accelerated encoding implementations tend to miss out on modern features of h265 in favor of render speed thus the end result will be larger files with lower quality. Instead I am using a Ryzen 7950X CPU on the server side to have the final rendering done thoroughly with latest encoding features implementations while having a desktop machine available freely. I am using the Flatpak version 23.07.29 of shotcut.
13:25 Totally agree that we need sync feature for tab/label and filter rules so can sync between computers and mobile. In fact the lack of label/filter rules in most email client made it hard for me to justify to move out of Gmail ecosystem. If developers put in serious effort to solve these problem, I'd be happy to go back to using local email client software using IMAP. I wonder if the lack of label/tag and email filter rules were due to IMAP? If that's the case, need to update IMAP protocol to support these features!
on the gnome boxes thing: you could install virt-manager on the side as they both use qemu-kvm/libvirt which means you can create a vm in one and use it in the other. i do remember boxes defaulting to a libvirt user session while virt-manager defaults to the system session but that's just a matter of setting up another connection. 3 clicks and you're done. also: nano rules. i can use both vim and nano but nano just feels way better to me. more modern as it uses hotkeys and stuff.
I dual boot Fedora and Windows 11 on my laptop. And I’m always using beta stuff so I frequently wipe my Drive and start new. Thunderbird lets you back up your profile you can export it to a zip file and back up everything. I can then use that file to re-import in either the Linux version or the Windows version of Thunderbird. it’s a great time saver.
Great video! I also use GIMP and have used photoshop and I find PS to be way too bloated compared to GIMP. I also still use kdenlive and have not had any crashes recently (knock on wood) and use a profile that takes advantage of my GPU when rendering. I used to use audacity, but recently I switched to Ardour to be able to record from multiple inputs at the same time and I will never go back to audacity.
I never understood why people criticize GIMP. What do non-professionals (or even most professionals) need in GIMP that is only available in Photoshop? I used Photoshop in my "previous life", but now I use GIMP and it covers all my photo editing needs. It's a fantastic application. Nick uses the secret model of iPhone, the one without a notch ))) Thanks for the video!
What I prefer in Photoshop when compared with Gimp is the cleaner UI and the superiour edge detection when separating a model from his/ her background. That UI is by far not enough to pay subscription fees to Adobe, because I hate subscriptions for software, though I'm making an exception for Antivirus tools.
Can you create several additional button menus for the different tools and whatnot and align them customized around the screen? PaintShopPro (yeah, not PSP, something else entirely) can do that.. GIMP afaik can't.
I was kind of shocked to see you only had 4 firefox extensions. For some reason I expected more. I have 17 +4 that are disabled at the moment because I rarely need them. I guess I really like to change defaults everywhere.
Oh boy... I currently have 35 active, with another 50 inactive on my primary Firefox account. Of those active ones, about 10 of them I use daily and would extremely quickly notice their absence, and a further few I would be horrified to lose. TBH the extensions are pretty much the only thing (besides laziness and phone synchronization) keeping me from migrating to the Nyxt browser
@@affieuk Comprehensive list here we go: Enabled: "Absolute enable right click & copy": Some websites prevent you from selecting text. I don't like that. "Bitwarden": my password manager "Firefox Color": adds customisation for every color in firefox. it's coupled with a custom userChrome.css for a completely custom look "Firefox multi-account containers": allows you to automatically open certain websites in container tabs (different sets of cookies) "Firefox relay": firefox's anonymous email relay. the extension isn't terribly useful, it just makes it easier to copy the emails you've generated. "Nitter redirect": not even sure it works anymore because I avoid twitter like the plague. "Skip-redirect": Skips redirects such as the google results "Personal blocklist (not by google)": Allows you to block certain websites from your google search results. useful for sites that just copy (and sometimes translate) the stackoverflow answer you've already looked at 3 results earlier "Return youtube dislike": it actually feels fairly accurate "sponsorblock": skips sponsored segments in videos "stylus": add custom css pages to websites. I use it to customise the youtube interface "tineye reverse image search": lets you right-click an image to reverse search it on tineye rather than doing it by hand "ublock origin": my beloved. on top of blocking ads and malicious redirects, I also love blocking parts of a website. I've removed tons of useless stuff from youtube "user-agent switcher and manager": rarely useful, but it is when I'm trying to download a windows ISO from microsoft's website on a windows machine. if you're on windows it redirects you to the upgrade tool "wayback machine": makes it easier to look at a page's history on the wayback machine "youtube nonstop": skips "video paused. continue playing?" which is really annoying when I'm listening to music "youtube-shorts block": restores to the normal youtube interface when I accidentally click on a short. it doesn't actually block them. Disabled: "refined prime video": Makes prime video slightly less bad "cookie quick manager": I don't own the prime account so I copy the auth tokens from one PC to another rather than asking the owner to type in their password every time "custom style script": adds custom js on pages. i'm not sure it's the best "privacy pass": somehow allows you to skip certain captchas. I don't know if it's very trustworthy.
Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, after Audacity's new owners got... weird (not going into those details, but there were some weird social media attacks after the fork). It's on Codeberg, and handles the jobs i would do on Audacity (but bear in mind that I am an audio amateur with no special needs).
Good video!. I also use a lot of the software you showed in this video. I also don't mind using GIMP. It's pretty fine for me. And your thumbnails are really good to me. They're simple, legible and pretty.
on phone you run proprietary software just because you chose to use an iPhone for some reason On an android phone you can run: - AOSP (Fully open source Android) - Open source base applications - Open source frontends for almost any service you can think of The only proprietary software android forces you to use are the binary blobs and drivers for the phone
Everybody needs to start uploading 1440p content, even if it's just upscaled from 1080p. TH-cam completely butchers 1080p which then looks like sub quality 720p.
"my thumbnails are far from being works of art" still a helluva lot better than I've been able to do so far. Plus your thumbnails look professional to me *shrug*
I would love a video dedicated to getting the most out of Thunderbird! I just installed and applied the GNOME theme you suggested and it is great! But I feel like I am only scratching the surface.
About compatibility between office suites, the better in my tests was WPS, it has an excelent compatibility with microsoft office, if you had used the fonts that you have both on windows and linux you will not have compatibility issues!
GIMP is great for simple edits! However if you need photo editing capacity I've found it lacking. Thumbnails and entirely digital image creation seems to be perfectly simple on it though, so just consider what you need to do before choosing between PS and GIMP!
You did forget to mention that there is a lot of open source software that stands as the basis of these applications, like the linux kernel, the gcc and clang compilers, mesa and all the libraries that these applications require. I think these should have gotten a bit more attention in this video, since they are very important and often forgotten
Love your videos. Give Olive video editor a try. Please do a review of the project. This editor is what the community needs but it needs support. Maybe the blender community could step in and save it.
Thanks for sharing! Been watching many of your videos after getting back into Linux after a long break. Saw you started with KDE then moved to Gnome to get more experience, and now I see you're going to possibly go back to KDE. After using both productively for some time now, do you have a preference? I keep bouncing between the two.
Fix gnome boxes by uninstalling and reinstall from flat hub or repo opposite of which version you used first. I found the Gnome Boxes in Fedora crash out and jammed so I installed flathub, and then at the time RPM had a version too. You might have to do a full flush of it first as if broken it might leave crap behind if it fail to uninstall right
Olive 2.0 might be worth a look for Video editing. I think it is still in Beta. The Project does not get enough attention. With some more finances and devs Olive could become one of the best and comparable to Davinci and Co
@@TheLinuxEXP I don't remember what it does exactly from your video, but I imagine it can serve as Jira/Trello/Confluence alternative? What about Slack's alternative?
Wasn't there an issue with audacity being bought some time ago? Allegedly the purchasing party was known for or suspected of changing audacity to start harvesting user information.
What I remember is Muse Group bought them, put some logging crap in Audacity. it sent back no user information, except what plugins you are using for some weird reason. They walked it back at one point but I think they still went through with it. There were 3 forks or so that got Linux news media attention but I think they fizzled out. I have no idea if it still sends telemetry or if it’s opt in or out or whatever. I don’t use any audio editing software; I just remember some of the kerfuffle that was reported on at the time.
I've checked the tuxedo site. One midi tower, if I would see similar front side front panel on the max tower, I would be very tempted. But all the front panels are going to top these days, just to be an immersive dust collector. Not good. :( What one man could do. :)
Audacity is now owned and made by a company that collects questionable telemetry data, it's fork "Tenacity" doesn't, and is very stable compared to other forks. I never had stability issues in Audacity, and none in Tenacity now, although it has had it's bugs and annoyances here and there, like most software.
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I've tried it earlier but it didn't like that I had Mullvad installed, might try as soon as it's fixed tho!
@@googletjanster2917it's twice the price of mullvad... And no cellular support. 😔
too bad it is systemd. :(
@@googletjanster2917 its a great firewall + adblock, sucks hard that bandwidth statistics is a paid feature, including network history. i might want to grab pro to test how well their SPN fares vs just getting mullvad as the extra features in plus are not enough to justify replacing the app i use for network statistics, which is also coincidentally my task manager replacement.
As an artist and graphic designer, I can assure you that your thumbnails are indeed works of art.
First of all, they're unique and identifiable to your channel. I always know who made the video because you're the only channel I'm subscribed to who has thumbnails like that.
Second, they tell me what the video is about, both directly and indirectly. Not only are your practical titles in them, but also the logos you include in the thumbnails serve as forshadowing. Even if your title doesn't expressly say that the video is about Firefox or gnome, when I see the Firefox or Gnome logos, I know you're going to talk about them. It's simple, but it works.
Your thumbnails do their job of building interest in the video very well, but they also do it without succumbing to clickbait cliches like circles, red arrows, or reaction images and memes. They are quality thumbnails that a lot of TH-cam channels should learn from.
Thanks! I try to avoid clickbait as much as possible, so my options are limited 😅
@@TheLinuxEXPAlthough I'm not a professional, I second his/her opinion. Your thumbnails are quite unique with pleasant colours in them 😊
@@TheLinuxEXP Not limited at all. You're free to express yourself genuinly. And we apreciate.
Agreed
totally agree 😊
Okay, maybe you're a Nano guy, but have you looked at Micro? It's Nano with better mouse support and standard shortcuts
Finally seen someone else who likes Micro 😏
Micro is good, one problem i got its not in the repositories of the distros. Nano is inside alm9st every repo
Came in the comments just to suggest Micro, it's awesome
@@c__0ne So is micro.
Open source is the best.
Edit: I think i created a war in the replies
Oh yeah
But the most toxic and the most underpaid.
FREE SOFTWARE (AS IN FREEDOM) IS THE BEST
Sometimes
@@TheLinuxEXPyeah that's why ur using an IPhone right?
Great video! As always. Thanks for your commitment to the open source community. I love to see what everyone uses in the open source world. On video editing, given the transitions and titles you use, I'd be hard pressed to suggest a video editor in the open source space as it stands today. That said, I use Shotcut, and have a fairly fast workflow with it. Though my transitions and titles are nowhere near your level. Well done!
Omg I love both of your videos, it's crazy to see you here.
Love the vids. Id love to see you do a video on AdGuard Home.
I just realized that my gnome setup looks exactly the same, including wallpapers, but with the dock on the left side (vertical docks ftw!)
Edit: Use tenacity, its a fork of Audacity without telemetry and also adds a few themes to modernize the look of it
I just installed tenacity yesterday and it's fantastic. I have always loathed audacity's UI, so it's a very welcome change.
I agree, and switched to Tenacity not long after the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry BS. I tried the various forks and Tenacity is still the best so far, and by far. too.
@@Ticktok_of_Oz Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, the UI's are nearly identical, although since I switched from Audacity to Tenacity around a year ago, they improved the UI a bit (not much) so I wouldn't be surprised if Audacity didn't get the very same improvements. The real difference between the two is that the purchasers of Audacity pulled that telemetry data collection stunt, which is why a few forked the project and removed that part, Tenacity being the best of the bunch.
I use Audacity and find it very good but don't know about this telemetry issue. What does the telemetry do?
@@diarmaid0heineachain314 The software collects Telemetry data (look it up) and sends it to the company that makes Audacity. Audacity was purchased by this company before it happened. Although it may no longer do so, the company violated the GNU public license when they started using it, had it turned on by default, and didn't disclose it to the users or give them a setting to turn it off: If they want to collect data from peoples computers they have to ask the user, and give them a setting to turn it on, not have it on by default. They also have to say exactly what data it collects, so the user can decide whether they will allow it. I believe what was even worse, is that they had the data collection happen through "Google analytics" and Google are big data collectors and sellers, so it wasn't just for the company to get usage data to better understand what features people used... but possibly personally identifiable data that can be extrapolated from the data by Google, and sold to who knows who!
So when that happened, and it wasn't the first time that company did something shady like that, many Linux distros removed Audacity from their repo's, a huge uproar went through the community, and since the program was open source, a few other developers forked the program, took out the parts that did the dirty deeds, and released it under a few different names! I use one called Tenacity, it's nearly Identical to audacity, just not from the company that makes audacity, as they cannot be trusted! So far Tenacity has worked great, has had bugs and annoyances fixed right after they forked it... just like a good program should, others who forked it have not made any major improvements or didn't have their shit together in whatever way, and are not as popular. So far I haven't heard anything about Audacity being improved since then, and even if, I won't use it.
I also love Nano, but if you want something a bit more modern, and advanced, I really recommend Micro. It still runs in the terminal like Nano, but it's way cooler.
I just wanted to write this comment. It's such a relief to use ctl+s to save and ctl+q to quit and colour highlighting is also quite handy. People always say that Nano is easier, so Micro is the easiest. If u have any Debian based machine, than try nala instead of apt, same story. It's how apt should be.
I've used both GIMP and Photoshop. I actually prefer GIMP, I just personally find it more intuitive.
I've heard Krita is a better Photoshop alternative for artists, and GIMP is a better alternative for photo editing.
The only thing I miss in GIMP (coming from PaintShopPro) are the many buttons for the different tools/features that that app has.. GIMP doesn't have such a feature (and thus appears limited to me because of this).
Thank you for this video! So many people seem to think that open-source software isn't good enough for doing actual work, and this kind of video proves them wrong.
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Isn’t that what I did in the video?
@@TheLinuxEXPthey want a whole essay 😂
Amazing video! The exact thing I was looking for. I also want to setup backbone of my digital life. If I am not missing, can you make an in-depth video on how to setup NextCloud server? I won't mind the length of the video ;)
I've an old PC that can be re-purposed as a server.
GIMP is amazing, and my high-school computers teacher preferred it over Photoshop because it's made to be easy to learn rather than paying for classes to learn how to use the software. And he would use it for commissions to upscale and touch up old photos, so it wasn't just his personal uses or anything.
Another fantastic presentation, packed full of valuable information... as a noob using Mint and exploring an entirely different environment, I find your videos to be valuable source of information and encouragement.
You should give a shot to Micro as an alternative to Nano, I think it's almost the perfect terminal editor
I’ll give it a try!
micro is awesom. it feels way more intuitiv compared to nano if one is used to other small desktop editors such as all variants of gedit or kde's kwrite. (e.g. Ctrl-S saves the document. never could remember what nano is using). personally i'm still addicted to vi. i'm old ;)
Thanks for the great channel, I just bought a Slimbook thanks to your recommendation (they should sponsor you!).
I use GIMP mainly for photo editing (contrast, sharpenning, blur, grayscaling, masks and such), to create images and design I prefer Inkscape, don't need to move from one layer to other, easy to draw, move objects, align, distribute, it is much more intuitive to move objects around.
I use shotcut for my video editor and it was very easy to learn, I just watched one 10 minute video with all the basics and picked it up right away
I just noticed that HoloISO started getting updates again a few days ago. Really excited for that, as I much preferred it over ChimeraOS.
Since you use Audacity, you could raise audio level to be on par with big channels.
My standard looks like this:
1. Normalize
Remove DC offset: checked
Normalize peak: checked
-3 dB
Normalize stereo: unchecked (maybe checked would be better).
2. Compress
Threshold: -20 dB
Noise floor: -60 dB
Ratio: 2:1
Attack: 0.20 sec
Release: 1.0 sec
Make up for gain: checked
Compress based on peaks: checked
3. Normalize again to -3dB
I set them like this. Than, create a macro that can be run as easy as Tools - Apply macro - Macro_name.
Almost all of my videos from my other channel have the same audio level and can be played without needing to adjust volume every time ads play (always have your audio level close to that of the ads!).
Great video! Very interesting. Would you maybe like to do a more detailed video (maybe step by step) on what you used to get away from Google Drive with Pros and Cons and security topics (run the server locally or on the cloud)? Thanks a congrats for the channel!
didnt he do a whole series on de-googling his life? or am i thinking of someone else?
Dude your thumbnails are awesome, i know a new video dropped because they are unique and stand out in the best way. Dont knock the work, its well presented
I love the theme on running server and services. "I'm lazy and just want it to work". I am the same way I have been using unraid to host stuff like Nextcloud and Vaultwarden
I experienced the same problem with Gnome Boxes before as I'd installed it from Flatpak and then from Snap. After that, I installed it from the deb version in the store and it works perfectly ever since. I think the problem arisen was casused by the sandbox feature of Flatpak and Snap as well as incompatibility between the Gnome version of the host OS and that of Gnome Boxes when you update it. Have Fun with it !
Hobby musician here.
I used Audacity until Muse acquired it and added some controversial telemetry. I moved to Audacium after that which was one of the fork of Audacity (audacium still had the optional build flag with the Audacity Telemetry). I use Ardour now which is a bit more advanced with a multi-channel recording/mixing and supports plethora of lv2 plugins. From the news, it seems that Audacium has been merged with Tenacity which is hosted over in codeberg.
Maybe could do a video on floss audio software for recording and/or live streaming music/podcasts ;).
Is there any reason to use Virtualbox instead of just using KVM and libvirt?
Tenacity is a great Audacity fork and way more modern-looking!
No. Do not take any other suggestions. Nano is great and you are right. That being said, the nextcloud integrations expand farther than I imagined and I will probably be setting up a docker/lxc install of it after I get my DNS server pair set up.
Great video Nick!
I'd would recommend you to move from Gimp to Inkscape, as it makes more sense for your workflow than Gimp (and might be faster once you get used to it)
Yeah, I should learn vector graphics anyway!
@@TheLinuxEXP to be fair, once you do, you can update/refine your brand logo if there were things you wanted to experiment with for it
@@TheLinuxEXP Both have their advantages depending on what exactly you are doing in each, so I use both often for the very same piece of art. Inkscape has been improving much faster though, and now giving Illustrator a run for it's money, and just got a lot better with the recent version, so I haven't even found and used some of the improvements from two versions ago, and just got a whole bunch more! I found it very easy to use and fairly quick to learn though, but it still has some annoyances in the GUI I wish they would address, mainly related to high res displays.
@@Bob-of-Zoid Illustrator is 0% private or open source
@@mephisto-- And where exactly did I say it was privat or Open source? I didn't!
I don't use Illustrator, and only said that Inkscape is "giving it a run for it's money" (A saying meaning: showing itself to be just as good or even better). Illustrator has way more users, and a lot of them are finding Inkscape to be more than sufficient for what they do, even better on some levels, and many Illustrator users are switching to Inkscape now than ever before.
To fix gnome-boxes you have to *sudo apt purge -y gnome-boxes* , delete the *~/.config/libvirt* directory and any directories inside your home folder that contain the phrase "gnome-boxes" or "boxes". Note: this will delete the VMs you have on there currently, so back up what you need to back up before doing anything. After cleaning up, *sudo apt install -y gnome-boxes* will install it again and it should work again.
[EDIT]: Sorry, you use fedora, not something debian-based, so just replace the APT commands with their fedora counterpart…
My boot drive died last night! Good thing I've been thinking I've been thinking of switching to linux, this was a good resource to help me migrate.
I've encountered the same problem with boxes recently and switched to Virt-manager for the time being.
For music I use Moosync.
For the gnome boxes bug, you have to enable cpu virtualisation in bios
If that is already turned on then install the libvirt-daemon-system package in debian/ubuntu, then enable and start 'libvirt' using systemd, then 'sudo usermod -aG libvirt username'
For virtualization Virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) is the best on Linux.
Could be interesting to see all the software you use that _isn't_ FOSS
There isn’t much: the phone, resolve and steam, plus Discord, that’s it!
@@TheLinuxEXP That's kinda impressive ngl!
greetings, thanks for the video mate. as a long time win user *ugh* i believe that the PTB invested heavily w/ gill bates in mutual prostitution, skanky but not stupid. you are fortunate to have avoided the MS vaccines. learning linux equivalents for win apps is tedious for a lazy bastard. peace, an old fart. ☕
11:32 you're a monster!
Regarding the filters in thunderbird, you have the option of manually importing and exporting the filters to a file. Yes, still requires manual work, but once you get most of them setup in one device, do you really change them that often?
True, that could work!
@@TheLinuxEXPsyncthing might help 😉
For video editor, lightworks is supposed to be looking to go open source, and it's pretty good, I tell you coming from da Vinci myself
I've not been an open-source geek like you, but I have used those when needed. I must say I loved the details of your server and desktop environments running open source software.
Do you have a list of these opensource software that you used posted somewhere?
Hey Nick! Great video as always! I also run an Ubuntu server (on Oracle, not Linode) and I changed the apt.sources file to replace lunar where it was focal or whatever it was back then. I also did this with debian, from buster to bookworm. It's not 100% safe but I didn't have any problems. Saves you a reinstall.
Safing is probably the only product sponsor I'm legitimately considering spending money on in years.. they look solid.
I am looking forward to trying it out on some test systems.
Regarding Kdenlive -> when rendering to mp4 i easily get 200+ frames/second rendering times on my Intel integrated GPU laptop. So if its set up correctly rendering actually works just fine. And since I'm using it as a Flatpak its also much more stable.
Doesn’t match Resolve’s performance though ;)
true that ;) @@TheLinuxEXP
It's interesting to see how someone who has a "Windows" mindset sets up Linux. I'm not a FOSS purist but sure am an Arch/Vim guy, but I respect your takes a lot even if our approach often differs
I'm really happy I discovered your channel ! Your videos are amazing :)
Your content is great and you can improve your audio quality further when you reduce the echo of your room. Place 4 absorbers in your room where you record (one above your head, one left of you, one right of you and one in front of you at the height of your mouth; size usually 40x100x10cm). I would recommend Basotec 10cm (4inch) and this is the most important detail: the absorbers have to be placed 3-4 inches (at absorber 4 inches thickness) away from the wall depending on the thickness of the absorber. Why? The most wave sound power is not directly at 0 inches away from the wall when the wave is reflected, it's beneath the 0 wall point (depending on the wave frequency) and when you place your absorber at this place it's most effective or doesn't effective at all. it can be calculated via formula with lambda. This would have the most effect. Another tip is the order your use your (minimal) sound tools: Noisegate, Deesser, Compressor, Equalizer (usually reduce couple db around 2k Hz and low cut 70 Hz), Reverb (via insert channel). Hear/mix your sound at 80 db loudness to get the best impression of it. Keep up your good work
I installed parabolic and tried it. It worked fine. Thank you.
For my audio and podcast recording I use oceanaudio and reaper (oceanaudio for the recording and reaper for the mixing). They are not FOSS, but I worked with those for more than a decade on a Mac (so I got my workflow dialed in) - and as I am making the slow transition, I am happy to be able to continue using them on Linux.
Shortwave is great for listening to web-radios such as Fip (Jazz or Metal), New Morning Radio & so on ...
You can see the arch wiki's list of applications page for checking out more video editors
This was really nice, thank you for walking through this.
Micro for text editing in terminal, its human like shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v and ctrl+s
I use Shotcut as Video editor. It supports hardware acceleration but I only use it in conjunction with auto generated asset proxies for 4-K assets and preview acceleration during the cutting work.
The export render melt files in XML format can be used to delegate the final render job on any other machine. My 4-K videos are rendered via an ubuntu-server headless machines while my desktop machine is free to be used for other purposes meanwhile. Also, as render time gets less crucial with delegated rendering I choose non-hardware accelerated rendering for final production as I discovered that hardware acceleration comes with a price! Accelerated encoding implementations tend to miss out on modern features of h265 in favor of render speed thus the end result will be larger files with lower quality. Instead I am using a Ryzen 7950X CPU on the server side to have the final rendering done thoroughly with latest encoding features implementations while having a desktop machine available freely.
I am using the Flatpak version 23.07.29 of shotcut.
I would be interested to know more about the opensource apps you use for the occasional use
13:25 Totally agree that we need sync feature for tab/label and filter rules so can sync between computers and mobile. In fact the lack of label/filter rules in most email client made it hard for me to justify to move out of Gmail ecosystem. If developers put in serious effort to solve these problem, I'd be happy to go back to using local email client software using IMAP. I wonder if the lack of label/tag and email filter rules were due to IMAP? If that's the case, need to update IMAP protocol to support these features!
on the gnome boxes thing: you could install virt-manager on the side as they both use qemu-kvm/libvirt which means you can create a vm in one and use it in the other. i do remember boxes defaulting to a libvirt user session while virt-manager defaults to the system session but that's just a matter of setting up another connection. 3 clicks and you're done. also: nano rules. i can use both vim and nano but nano just feels way better to me. more modern as it uses hotkeys and stuff.
Shotcut is a decent open source video editor.
5:28 that's not being lazy. That's being time efficient
What about docker-compose for server software? It's very powerful and customizable.
Much needed do it often
"and yes, I am a lazy bastard".
I had very tiring day and now I am laughing and my cats are thinking that I am gone insane. 😹😻
Hahaha cats know!
Vim and Emacs are not replacements for Nano because they are something else but Nano isn't good... I use Micro as an intuitive text editor.
I dual boot Fedora and Windows 11 on my laptop. And I’m always using beta stuff so I frequently wipe my Drive and start new. Thunderbird lets you back up your profile you can export it to a zip file and back up everything. I can then use that file to re-import in either the Linux version or the Windows version of Thunderbird. it’s a great time saver.
Great video!
I also use GIMP and have used photoshop and I find PS to be way too bloated compared to GIMP. I also still use kdenlive and have not had any crashes recently (knock on wood) and use a profile that takes advantage of my GPU when rendering.
I used to use audacity, but recently I switched to Ardour to be able to record from multiple inputs at the same time and I will never go back to audacity.
Great video! Thanks for sharing your environments.
I never understood why people criticize GIMP. What do non-professionals (or even most professionals) need in GIMP that is only available in Photoshop? I used Photoshop in my "previous life", but now I use GIMP and it covers all my photo editing needs. It's a fantastic application.
Nick uses the secret model of iPhone, the one without a notch ))) Thanks for the video!
What I prefer in Photoshop when compared with Gimp is the cleaner UI and the superiour edge detection when separating a model from his/ her background. That UI is by far not enough to pay subscription fees to Adobe, because I hate subscriptions for software, though I'm making an exception for Antivirus tools.
Can you create several additional button menus for the different tools and whatnot and align them customized around the screen? PaintShopPro (yeah, not PSP, something else entirely) can do that.. GIMP afaik can't.
CMYK
I was kind of shocked to see you only had 4 firefox extensions. For some reason I expected more. I have 17 +4 that are disabled at the moment because I rarely need them.
I guess I really like to change defaults everywhere.
I'm curious, what are you using, mine are not anything special, video speed controls, ad blocker, dark mode, password manager, etc
Why so much ?
Personally I have 5/6 extensions
Interesting, I have a total of 0 extensions on all of my firefox installs
Oh boy... I currently have 35 active, with another 50 inactive on my primary Firefox account. Of those active ones, about 10 of them I use daily and would extremely quickly notice their absence, and a further few I would be horrified to lose.
TBH the extensions are pretty much the only thing (besides laziness and phone synchronization) keeping me from migrating to the Nyxt browser
@@affieuk Comprehensive list here we go:
Enabled:
"Absolute enable right click & copy": Some websites prevent you from selecting text. I don't like that.
"Bitwarden": my password manager
"Firefox Color": adds customisation for every color in firefox. it's coupled with a custom userChrome.css for a completely custom look
"Firefox multi-account containers": allows you to automatically open certain websites in container tabs (different sets of cookies)
"Firefox relay": firefox's anonymous email relay. the extension isn't terribly useful, it just makes it easier to copy the emails you've generated.
"Nitter redirect": not even sure it works anymore because I avoid twitter like the plague.
"Skip-redirect": Skips redirects such as the google results
"Personal blocklist (not by google)": Allows you to block certain websites from your google search results. useful for sites that just copy (and sometimes translate) the stackoverflow answer you've already looked at 3 results earlier
"Return youtube dislike": it actually feels fairly accurate
"sponsorblock": skips sponsored segments in videos
"stylus": add custom css pages to websites. I use it to customise the youtube interface
"tineye reverse image search": lets you right-click an image to reverse search it on tineye rather than doing it by hand
"ublock origin": my beloved. on top of blocking ads and malicious redirects, I also love blocking parts of a website. I've removed tons of useless stuff from youtube
"user-agent switcher and manager": rarely useful, but it is when I'm trying to download a windows ISO from microsoft's website on a windows machine. if you're on windows it redirects you to the upgrade tool
"wayback machine": makes it easier to look at a page's history on the wayback machine
"youtube nonstop": skips "video paused. continue playing?" which is really annoying when I'm listening to music
"youtube-shorts block": restores to the normal youtube interface when I accidentally click on a short. it doesn't actually block them.
Disabled:
"refined prime video": Makes prime video slightly less bad
"cookie quick manager": I don't own the prime account so I copy the auth tokens from one PC to another rather than asking the owner to type in their password every time
"custom style script": adds custom js on pages. i'm not sure it's the best
"privacy pass": somehow allows you to skip certain captchas. I don't know if it's very trustworthy.
Tenacity is a fork of Audacity, after Audacity's new owners got... weird (not going into those details, but there were some weird social media attacks after the fork).
It's on Codeberg, and handles the jobs i would do on Audacity (but bear in mind that I am an audio amateur with no special needs).
omg the original Apple Wireless keyboard, I love it
Good video!. I also use a lot of the software you showed in this video.
I also don't mind using GIMP. It's pretty fine for me. And your thumbnails are really good to me. They're simple, legible and pretty.
on phone you run proprietary software just because you chose to use an iPhone for some reason
On an android phone you can run:
- AOSP (Fully open source Android)
- Open source base applications
- Open source frontends for almost any service you can think of
The only proprietary software android forces you to use are the binary blobs and drivers for the phone
Nano gang rise up 😎
Everybody needs to start uploading 1440p content, even if it's just upscaled from 1080p. TH-cam completely butchers 1080p which then looks like sub quality 720p.
"my thumbnails are far from being works of art" still a helluva lot better than I've been able to do so far. Plus your thumbnails look professional to me *shrug*
Thanks!
You should also do a video on all the Hardware you use to run the FOSS. In my experience HW compatibility was the number 1 issue
I would love a video dedicated to getting the most out of Thunderbird! I just installed and applied the GNOME theme you suggested and it is great! But I feel like I am only scratching the surface.
Taking notes
About compatibility between office suites, the better in my tests was WPS, it has an excelent compatibility with microsoft office, if you had used the fonts that you have both on windows and linux you will not have compatibility issues!
GIMP is great for simple edits! However if you need photo editing capacity I've found it lacking. Thumbnails and entirely digital image creation seems to be perfectly simple on it though, so just consider what you need to do before choosing between PS and GIMP!
You did forget to mention that there is a lot of open source software that stands as the basis of these applications, like the linux kernel, the gcc and clang compilers, mesa and all the libraries that these applications require. I think these should have gotten a bit more attention in this video, since they are very important and often forgotten
Love your videos. Give Olive video editor a try. Please do a review of the project. This editor is what the community needs but it needs support. Maybe the blender community could step in and save it.
Thanks! Parabolic is great
Thanks for sharing! Been watching many of your videos after getting back into Linux after a long break. Saw you started with KDE then moved to Gnome to get more experience, and now I see you're going to possibly go back to KDE. After using both productively for some time now, do you have a preference? I keep bouncing between the two.
Fix gnome boxes by uninstalling and reinstall from flat hub or repo opposite of which version you used first. I found the Gnome Boxes in Fedora crash out and jammed so I installed flathub, and then at the time RPM had a version too. You might have to do a full flush of it first as if broken it might leave crap behind if it fail to uninstall right
it is impressive how youtubers can read our mind
Excellent video, what settings do you use on the laptop to save battery?
Olive 2.0 might be worth a look for Video editing. I think it is still in Beta.
The Project does not get enough attention. With some more finances and devs Olive could become one of the best and comparable to Davinci and Co
Gimp is a great Name. Easy to remeber and write.
And a great software
OpenShot is a great video editor!
attend mais tu est francais je savais pas du tout c'est incroyable cocorico
tu parles très bien anglais en tout cas et t'a aucun accent x)
I for one love your thumbnails
Thanks!
Thank you.
I just use Firefox PW manager since it works everywhere as an auto fill app on mobile if needed.
You've mentioned your TV and it made me wonder if it could be upgraded by using something like LibreElec
All my devices ,Server, pc, and laptop, all running Arch with my own personal wm style
Virt-Manager is the best, IMO
Thank you. Very helpful video.
If you were to run a company - what would you choose for project/task management, communication and other tools?
Nextcloud everywhere, probably!
@@TheLinuxEXP I don't remember what it does exactly from your video, but I imagine it can serve as Jira/Trello/Confluence alternative? What about Slack's alternative?
@@SirRFI Mattermost is a great Slack alternative; there's a self-hosted community edition that's really easy to install and set up.
Wasn't there an issue with audacity being bought some time ago? Allegedly the purchasing party was known for or suspected of changing audacity to start harvesting user information.
What I remember is Muse Group bought them, put some logging crap in Audacity. it sent back no user information, except what plugins you are using for some weird reason. They walked it back at one point but I think they still went through with it. There were 3 forks or so that got Linux news media attention but I think they fizzled out. I have no idea if it still sends telemetry or if it’s opt in or out or whatever. I don’t use any audio editing software; I just remember some of the kerfuffle that was reported on at the time.
I've checked the tuxedo site. One midi tower, if I would see similar front side front panel on the max tower, I would be very tempted. But all the front panels are going to top these days, just to be an immersive dust collector. Not good. :( What one man could do. :)
Try the flatpak if you have the rpm version installed.
I thought I was the only one that noticed GNOME Boxes stopped working. At least it's not just me. LOL
I find Ocenaudio to be a lot easier and more stable than Audacity to use, but it is not open source. Might be worth a try.
Audacity is now owned and made by a company that collects questionable telemetry data, it's fork "Tenacity" doesn't, and is very stable compared to other forks. I never had stability issues in Audacity, and none in Tenacity now, although it has had it's bugs and annoyances here and there, like most software.
@@Bob-of-Zoid Yeah, Tenacity is also a great suggestion.
@@Bob-of-Zoidaudacity doesn't collect personal information. I looked into this when it was bought over and it turned out to be FUD.