All the OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE I use on my servers, laptop & desktop

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My laptop and my desktop run Fedora workstation 38 with GNOME 44.
For my servers, I have one running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. It's used for my Nextcloud server, it's hosted on Linode, and it's the backbone of all my digital life and the channel. My other server is used to host my podcast, the Linux and Open SOurce News podcast. That server is hosted on Linode, and runs Debian 11.
I also run HoloISO on a PC in my living room, that serves as my Linux gaming console.
First thing is Nextcloud. As I said, it's installed as a Snap, and it works beautifully. I don't get the updates as soon as they're out, but when I do get them, they're very well tested and I never had any issues with it. I'm currently on version 26.0.4, so Nextcloud Hub 4, not 5.
I mostly use Nextcloud as the platform to handle all my online accounts. It hosts my calendar, contacts, tasks, photos, notes, RSS feeds, passwords, and I also use it to share files with sponsors, or to share the link to the weekly patroncast I make for patrons and youtube members.
My other server hosts my podcast, using YUNOHOST and their Castopod app. Yunohost is a very simple, graphical dashboard to run one or many server applications, it basically just simplifies hosting stuff and has pre packaged apps to install stuff in one click.
To interact with other Nextcloud related stuff, I use a few apps. The first one is Iotas, it's a GTK application that plugs into Nextcloud notes and lets you take, well, notes, in simple, distraction free markdown. For RSS feeds, I use Newsflash, which is another GTK app.
I also, of course, use the Nextcloud desktop client to sync all my files to and from my computers, plus the Nautilus Nextcloud integration so I can generate a shared link for any file straight from the file manager. For tasks, I use Endeavour.
And on my phone, I also use the Nextcloud app to send all my photos automatically from my phone to a folder that is then synced to all my computers, and I use the official Nextcloud Notes app to have access to my scripts while I'm recording.
For audio, I use Audacity. It looks like crap, it's very old, but it does the trick, it has the 3 effects I need, a noise reduction tool, a compressor, and a normalizing tool.
For my thumbnails, it's obviously GIMP. It has a bad reputation among people who are familiar with photoshop, but as I've never used that thing, GIMP is really easy to use for me
And for recording my screen, it's OBS on every device.
When I happen upon an image I want to use that uses a format Resolve doesn't support, like WebP or AVIF, I use Converter to convert it to PNG. For converting video files, I use ffmpeg in a terminal.
And when I need to re download one of my old videos that I didn't backup, I use Parabolic.
Now for a few smaller utilities. FOr virtual machines, I generally run them using GNOME Boxes, because it's really simple.
For my backups, I use Pika Backup. I also use Safing's portmaster. For editing text, I generally just use Nano in a terminal.
For music, I use YTM Music, because I pay for KZfaq Premium to avoid ads on my TV, and it comes with a music streaming service, so might as well use it.
I won't talk much about the web browser, it's Firefox everywhere, even on my phone.
For my office suite, I use LIbreOffice, everyone knows about it.
For email and calendar, I moved to Thunderbird, seeing as version 115 is absolutely wonderful and well designed.

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@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

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@Quudz 10 ай бұрын

hello

@googletjanster2917 10 ай бұрын

I've tried it earlier but it didn't like that I had Mullvad installed, might try as soon as it's fixed tho!

@keilmillerjr9701 10 ай бұрын

@@googletjanster2917it's twice the price of mullvad... And no cellular support. 😔

@zg9xUmvV 10 ай бұрын

too bad it is systemd. :(

@imgladnotu9527 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@f1nger605 10 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq channels should learn from.

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! I try to avoid clickbait as much as possible, so my options are limited 😅

@lpolarisl219 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXPAlthough I'm not a professional, I second his/her opinion. Your thumbnails are quite unique with pleasant colours in them 😊

@Monarchias 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXP Not limited at all. You're free to express yourself genuinly. And we apreciate.

@rolandixor 10 ай бұрын

Agreed

@salimmonder4175 10 ай бұрын

totally agree 😊

@AwesomeOpenSource 10 ай бұрын

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!

@xansurnamehere 10 ай бұрын

Omg I love both of your videos, it's crazy to see you here.

@cjmoss51 10 ай бұрын

Love the vids. Id love to see you do a video on AdGuard Home.

@ulysg 10 ай бұрын

Okay, maybe you're a Nano guy, but have you looked at Micro? It's Nano with better mouse support and standard shortcuts

@samuelsurfboard9887 10 ай бұрын

Finally seen someone else who likes Micro 😏

@c__0ne 10 ай бұрын

Micro is good, one problem i got its not in the repositories of the distros. Nano is inside alm9st every repo

@PieroZanetti 9 ай бұрын

Came in the comments just to suggest Micro, it's awesome

@Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 10 ай бұрын

RECOMMENDATION: When you speak words that are mnemonics or other generally accepted terms, please consider putting a screen text indicating the name and what is means, for newer users to help them understand what the spoken word means.

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Isn’t that what I did in the video?

@ThomasOlvera 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXPthey want a whole essay 😂

@anonymous_opinions1924 10 ай бұрын

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.

@ambreiaju 10 ай бұрын

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

@RyanWAFFELYoung 10 ай бұрын

I just installed tenacity yesterday and it's fantastic. I have always loathed audacity's UI, so it's a very welcome change.

@Bob-of-Zoid 10 ай бұрын

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.

@Bob-of-Zoid 10 ай бұрын

@@RyanWAFFELYoung 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 10 ай бұрын

I use Audacity and find it very good but don't know about this telemetry issue. What does the telemetry do?

@Bob-of-Zoid 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@FriskGamer1 10 ай бұрын

Open source is the best. Edit: I think i created a war in the replies

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Oh yeah

@Mempler 10 ай бұрын

But the most toxic and the most underpaid.

@wilh3lmmusic 10 ай бұрын

FREE SOFTWARE (AS IN FREEDOM) IS THE BEST

@ForceGamerrr 10 ай бұрын

Sometimes

@redrush-hp9li 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXPyeah that's why ur using an IPhone right?

@pretendcolours 10 ай бұрын

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.

@michaelenelmar 8 ай бұрын

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.

@bluesillybeard 10 ай бұрын

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.

@joansparky4439 10 ай бұрын

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).

@kepler186f4 10 ай бұрын

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.

@stes1647 10 ай бұрын

Is there any reason to use Virtualbox instead of just using KVM and libvirt?

@TheDevarshiShah 10 ай бұрын

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.

@aghnos9 10 ай бұрын

You should give a shot to Micro as an alternative to Nano, I think it's almost the perfect terminal editor

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

I’ll give it a try!

@ChristianHartmannBerlin 10 ай бұрын

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 ;)

@sma92878 10 ай бұрын

This was really nice, thank you for walking through this.

@mephisto-- 10 ай бұрын

I'm really happy I discovered your channel ! Your videos are amazing :)

@declancottle991 10 ай бұрын

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.

@truthdoesnotexist 10 ай бұрын

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

@guandulin 10 ай бұрын

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.

@fabricius2642 10 ай бұрын

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.

@scottlewis2372 10 ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks for sharing your environments.

@enricotamellini83 10 ай бұрын

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!

@ddman7867 10 ай бұрын

didnt he do a whole series on de-googling his life? or am i thinking of someone else?

@chuckowens2010 10 ай бұрын

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

@blakedennis6213 10 ай бұрын

I just noticed that HoloISO started getting updates again a few days ago. Really excited for that, as I much preferred it over ChimeraOS.

@ricardo_vergara 10 ай бұрын

Excellent video, what settings do you use on the laptop to save battery?

@CyborusYT 10 ай бұрын

Could be interesting to see all the software you use that _isn't_ FOSS

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

There isn’t much: the phone, resolve and steam, plus Discord, that’s it!

@CyborusYT 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXP That's kinda impressive ngl!

@Loader7272 9 ай бұрын

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. ☕

@FaisalMasood 10 ай бұрын

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?

@richd6362 10 ай бұрын

Thank you. Very helpful video.

@joewakaki4828 10 ай бұрын

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 ;).

@AlanTwoRings 10 ай бұрын

This was helpful. Thanks!

@byteseb 10 ай бұрын

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.

@bigbay1159 8 ай бұрын

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

@tiborbogi7457 10 ай бұрын

I installed parabolic and tried it. It worked fine. Thank you.

@cue108 10 ай бұрын

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.

@academicalisthenics 10 ай бұрын

I've encountered the same problem with boxes recently and switched to Virt-manager for the time being. For music I use Moosync.

@johnnylee3505 10 ай бұрын

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 !

@hacotell 10 ай бұрын

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.

9 ай бұрын

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.

@MartinCode 10 ай бұрын

Micro for text editing in terminal, its human like shortcuts like ctrl+c and ctrl+v and ctrl+s

@theFPVgeek 10 ай бұрын

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.

@khalidelgazzar 9 ай бұрын

Thank you. That's helpful

@rccmhalfar 10 ай бұрын

I would be interested to know more about the opensource apps you use for the occasional use

@13thravenpurple94 10 ай бұрын

Good stuff 👍👍 Thank you 💜💜

@JohnCBarbu 10 ай бұрын

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?

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

True, that could work!

@jkaw963 10 ай бұрын

@@TheLinuxEXPsyncthing might help 😉

@UndoEverything 10 ай бұрын

"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. 😹😻

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Hahaha cats know!

@aram4939 10 ай бұрын

For virtualization Virt-manager (QEMU/KVM) is the best on Linux.

@cjmoss51 10 ай бұрын

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.

@formbi 10 ай бұрын

11:32 you're a monster!

@jpfarias 10 ай бұрын

Hey, what software would you recommend for remote desktop access? I have some VMs running on a server with linux desktop running on them that I need to let other people access and I am currently using dwservice but the experience is not so good, even tho I am on the highest paying tier for maximum bandwidth. Is there anything you recommend for that?

@foollonggone4727 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing.

@soubinan 10 ай бұрын

Did you tried virtmanager instead of virtualbox? As gnome box it is using kvm, so just another UI to manage the same thing actually

@mancampovestiminvatam 10 ай бұрын

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!).

@Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 10 ай бұрын

THANK YOU!!!

@Lampe2020 10 ай бұрын

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…

@devincurrie4145 9 ай бұрын

Which software are you using to edit PDF on Linux? (e.g. assemble, annotate, digitally signing with self-signed certificate, etc.)

@Linux_ASMR 10 ай бұрын

Nano gang rise up 😎

@jeremybyte 10 ай бұрын

@TheLinuxEXP What do you use for email, Proton?

@slavasslava3039 10 ай бұрын

Would you please tell us what icon theme are you using in Fedora? It looks great.

@Nk-ti4st 10 ай бұрын

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'

@MysticMylesZ 9 ай бұрын

Could I turn a VPN on my main device into a server that can be accessed from a mobile app or browser? On a similar idea of accessing things from other devices; does Next Cloud work on older versions of andriod?

@tommyluco 10 ай бұрын

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.

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Doesn’t match Resolve’s performance though ;)

@tommyluco 10 ай бұрын

true that ;) @@TheLinuxEXP

@Nk-ti4st 10 ай бұрын

You can see the arch wiki's list of applications page for checking out more video editors

@salvadoraugustovitko1396 10 ай бұрын

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

@SolveComputerScience 10 ай бұрын

What about docker-compose for server software? It's very powerful and customizable.

@eliasw.1155 10 ай бұрын

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

@Quik-wk5sh 9 ай бұрын

Tenacity is a great Audacity fork and way more modern-looking!

@Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration 10 ай бұрын

EXCELLENT VERY INFORMATIVE

@mwmentor 10 ай бұрын

Thanks Nick - interesting. I prefer Vivaldi to FF because it has awesome memory usage and management - and I did not find that with either FF or Chrome, which is interesting because Vivaldi is also Chrome based. I thought that you used OnlyOffice and ProtonMail, so I am wondering what happened to those apps... maybe I missed something in your video? I currently use Mac,, but I am having a long hard think about that, because whilst I like it - the Apple ecosystem works well for me, and I also like the usability of MacOS, however, I don't like their price points, and the fact that they are completely anti right-to-repair in which I would include upgrades... maybe the EU will add some weight to them being coerced to change, but my head is moving steadily in a Linux direction - it is usable, open-source, reliable, secure, doesn't spy on one, etc. So a lot of things to like - thinking hard... Oh, and BTW, there is one thing about OnlyOffice that I don't like, nor do I understand why - it does not like apostrophe-ed words, and always marks them as spelled incorrect - weird and ridiculous. Enjoy your week and thanks for the video... 👍🙂 (I also hate KZfaq emoticons - they are horrible)

@hippiestafarii 10 ай бұрын

Hello Nick. Can you explain, or point to a video if the answer is already out there, why you choose this config for your nextcloud and not a NAS ? Merci :-)

@bluesangel75 10 ай бұрын

Shortwave is great for listening to web-radios such as Fip (Jazz or Metal), New Morning Radio & so on ...

@ganeshanthiyagarajan1595 10 ай бұрын

Much needed do it often

@janb.7522 10 ай бұрын

Try the flatpak if you have the rpm version installed.

@frangrau3750 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, I should learn vector graphics anyway!

@experimental0000 10 ай бұрын

@@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

@Bob-of-Zoid 10 ай бұрын

@@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-- 10 ай бұрын

@@Bob-of-Zoid Illustrator is 0% private or open source

@Bob-of-Zoid 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@therevanchistv 9 ай бұрын

Serious question whag made you decide to go with linode over digital ocean?

@pincopallino9761 10 ай бұрын

Hey Nick, great video. What program do you use for your accounting?

@dfs-comedy 10 ай бұрын

Not Nick here, but I use Gnucash. When I was running a consulting business, I used it for my business; now, I just use it for my personal accounting.

@SirRFI 10 ай бұрын

Is there any way to make some apps autostart or/and appear in specific workspace/virtual desktop (or w/e is the name for multiple desktops when pressing SUPER key)? For example Discord in workspace 1, Firefox in workspace 2, 2 other programs in #3.

@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 10 ай бұрын

That's mostly dependent on the window manager that you use. Any window manager worth its salt lets you do that. Kwin, the window manager for KDE Plasma, allows that and much more.

@SirRFI 10 ай бұрын

@@RogerioPereiradaSilva77 What about GNOME?

@yexela 10 ай бұрын

Thanks! Parabolic is great

@MyReviews_karkan 10 ай бұрын

I just can't keep one distro on my laptop. I'm always trying others. So, I don't really have a set up. Desktop on the other hand is never touched and has had the same distro for over a year. I run kde plasma and try my best to use all Qt apps for theme consistency.

@JohnSmith-yt8di 10 ай бұрын

I am curious, do you have the display language of your apps and GNOME set to French (and so you've just set it to English for the purpose of the video), or do you use them in English?

@Fidelis94 9 ай бұрын

Wait... Is it better to install NextCloud as a snap or as a Docker container? I've seen others recommend Docker.

@seansingh4421 10 ай бұрын

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

@wouf336 10 ай бұрын

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)

@gabsriel 10 ай бұрын

Flowblade for video editing ?

@burnedolivetree 10 ай бұрын

Hi, if I may ask, what domain registrar are you using? You mentioned that you have an email there, and that's exactly what I was searching for

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

Gandi !

@user-lk2ut2qi7t 10 ай бұрын

How did you get Thunderbird 115? On my Fedora 38 there is no thunderbird 115 package.

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

It’s on flat hub!

@ronm6585 10 ай бұрын

Thank you.

@DJgregBrown 10 ай бұрын

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

@wiking793 10 ай бұрын

You've mentioned your TV and it made me wonder if it could be upgraded by using something like LibreElec

@avalagum7957 10 ай бұрын

Is gnome boxes based on qemu?

@StratosGamesOFFICIAL 10 ай бұрын

Have you tried shotcut? Does it has as many featutes as Resolve? Is it fast?

@TheLinuxEXP 10 ай бұрын

I tried it but it crashed a lot

@Monarchias 10 ай бұрын

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. :)

@joaopauloalbq 10 ай бұрын

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.

@kxuydhj 9 ай бұрын

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.

@ViciousTurducken 10 ай бұрын

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.

@greg4505 10 ай бұрын

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.

@zenginellc 9 ай бұрын

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.

@devincurrie4145 9 ай бұрын

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!

@MysticMylesZ 9 ай бұрын

11:00 man... is there not like a settings backup? And a package backup?

@dfs-comedy 10 ай бұрын

I use kdenlive for video editing; recent 23.04.X releases had some problems but they seem to have resolved them. I've wanted to try Resolve, but it crashes on my machine... I have an AMD graphics card and use the open-source amdgpu driver and Resolve simply refuses to work with it.