A universal update / maintenance script would be great! Things like cleaning unused dependencies and old logs, updating the system, and snaps / flatpak if available. A Steam installer for Debian / Ubuntu / Arch (without the AUR perhaps) could be good for new users, and maybe even a “universal” package manager too.

A few things I can think of: 1. Improved font rendering configuration. Also probably installation of Microsoft fonts. 2. Setting up and configuring Wine/Proton. 3. Allow setting up swap file, to enable hibernation

Hey Chris. A thing that would be nice is DaVinci Resolve working out of the box for builds with AMD GPU's 🙃

Your not becoming worthless, its called growing old and becoming a boomer, i think XD

DEVICE DRIVERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WEBCAM. MONITORS. PRINTERS. FINGERPRINT READERS. BASIC STUFFFF!!!!! just point the direction for noobs like me to fix and make my hardware work.

What's the name Linutil 🙂? May be I can help this time. Windows is not my home, but Linux is since decades. If you open a repo as for Winutil, for sure a lot of people will join,

This is really awesome. Will be watching this space!

You are a hero, I've been using the winutil since the command lines times, and I love'd it. switched some of my pc's to linux (zorin os) and i'm supper happy to see a project for linux from you. good luck

Awesome Thank you for Sharing! 💯✴

Linutil sound exactly like « The useless » in french (L'inutile) :D

One thing that would be pretty sick is some sort of Samba/NFS mounting shortcut script Client feels more necessary but certainly Server side would be nice too.

I saw the github repo and instantly gave it a star :)

This is very exciting

THIS IS SUPER COOL. This is more exciting to me than the windows toolbox even though I absolutely love the windows toolkit XD

The worst thing I absolutely hate about Linux is that $HOME becomes the dumping ground for all dot craps! If you can make them move to a folder or folders that the user specifies WITHOUT having to resort to symlinks (cause let's face it, you're just swapping dot junk with symlink junk if you use symlinks), especially for those apps that just do not respect XDG spec, that would be gold!

beer under the bench seems like a perfect place to start :)

Yay! I was wondering if you were going to create a utility for Linux desktop :)

The most current Problem with Linux I have, is configuring the samplerate and bit depth settings for my two DACs. GUI has no settings for that and all the "documentation" about pipewire, pulse or whatever just don´t work, or talk about config files that don´t exist anymore... It´s things like these, which I consider to be absolute basics, that keep me from using Linux. I mean, even Windows 3.1 could do that in 1992...

My basic problem is the inconsistency in the GUI or (GUI's because you need from experience QT and GTK based applications - so need to remember the difference between the two and which application is using which). A GUI doesn't mean you should be restricted, (rather than what modern times dictates), just that it saves a certain amount of time to do the same result as typing it. It just seems the course of modern interface design is presentation rather than functionality.

I'm in, i'll contribute. I just switched fully to Linux.

fzf can also be used, in addition to zenity.

Hey Chris, how did you get the chatgpt link into your editor. Its pretty good idea. I know i will need to check it after chatgtp

This is so awesome!

What kind of de / window manager are you using? Edit: Just as I asked it I got the answer lol

I would recommend gum is brilliant at this

If you're thinking of doing a Grub theming tool then why not a full settings tool? Things like for resolution fixing, although that's probably more with virtual machines that I've personally had a problem with. And what about other boot theming if possible such as systemd-boot and the newer Limine?

Call it Utilix ( utility + linux )

The number 1 stumbling block for me as a new (like, 2 weeks!) linux user was getting the closed nvidia drivers. The guide from nvidia is insane. Searching reveals a dozen different ways to install them for each distro. I still have no idea what AKMOD is.

By the way what is the best way you recommend to learn bash

Awesome!

i ran linux exclusively for 6 months. in the end, i decided my problem with linux (apart from the poor hardware support) was the root OS itself. i just don't like it. the best linux distro i found is windows running WSL... i get the best of both worlds. a super stable and awesome underlying OS, and linux in a box, in a fully controlled environment.

Setup/enable TMUX? Perhaps with scripting in .bashrc? Not sure what the typical set up is but I have mine set so that if there are no TMUX sessions it starts a new one. If there are existing sessions it presents a menu. I find myself often copying .bashrc's and .dircolors when setting up a new machine or new user.

Logical Volume Manager GUI and Virtual File System for Cloud Service so you can use say "Dropbox" on demand without it taking up storage on a laptop.

Great!

Did you have experience with wixtoolset?

Tuxutil was a good name.

Installing rocm amd drivers would be sick, and some way to escape dependency hell too.

13:35 Instead of using the distro to determine the package manager, wouldn't it make more sense to just test for the existence of the package manager? Smells kind of like looking at browser user agents instead of doing feature detection. But I don't really do much scripting, might be the wrong way to approach it.

Personally, i don't reinstall often, but if i did, i would probably set up a zsh shell and install powerlevel10k on a fresh install. Then, i get distrobox/podman running, and then install Klassy, my theme of choice on KDE. I use Fedora and i like its default, but enabling RPM fusion repos along with installing NVIDIA drivers and importing the secure boot key is also a pain. Also, speaking a student. I would really appreciate if you had a verbose option in the script where it explains what it is doing/installing. That way i can look into the commands and learn what you cooked up.

ever since i found your windows utility tool ive been waiting and wondering why you hadnt done this yet lol

Good LUCK with Linux Nerd's criticism :D

What about tuxutil as name for this new tool?

lol... the only thing I say is: hmmm need to reboot to windows to work in Lightroom or play some COD... So... an in-depth video about pass-through? :)

Did you finally change your monitor to 2k?

Can you merge WinToolkit prorgram and merge it with msmg toolkit and create a new program? Not a fan of microwin yet

the tools for clean up things

While you're toying with Zig and Rust, you would have had it up and running in Go 😂

let's make Chris Titus Linux distro

Figured would give Debian another shot as I do with Linux every 5 years or so. Spent a day installing things and tweaking it. DisplayPort monitor wasn't working though so followed the official Debian guide to install NVIDIA drivers... Paths written there don't exist, the guide is wrong and now the OS is bricked. For some reason, all screens work for login then all disappear (with secureboot disabled because like most things with linux there is an entire backlog of information and acronyms you need to somehow onboard before you can do even basic config). Disappointing that it's still so jank for such a mainstream release and lacking in documentation on an issue that surely a lot of people would face. I'm technically inclined and the learning curve is still too steep, simply because I can't take that amount of screen-time right now to get through it all to the point where it's intuitive. I did make a snap-shot but probably won't bother to restore it (would still have a monitor that I can't use so it's a deal-breaker). I'll give it one more shot with Nobara, failing that several more years to mature some more... 😤

The only problem that bash couldn't solve is speed.

the problem i have with linux right now is VR... no drivers for my Headset :(

one of my biggest is graphics drivers I can boot with nomodeset yet can never get it fixed all the way with an AMD Radeon HD 5750

What text editor is that? Fleet by jetbrains?

What about LUA to code it in simple, lightweight and more popular. I really look forward to using the toolbox and hopefully use it as a tool to learn Linux, Thanks for your efforts in making life easier for everybody Chirs.

I have been hoping you would start helping in Linux. I am getting better at it, and I wish to dump Microsoft as soon as possible! Truly amazing, the things you have done to make Windows bearable. Can't wait to see the things you do!

Tux'tility!

One thing that gets old in arch...you need to get something working, so you go to the arch wiki. it tells you exactly what commands you need to gather the information for your setup. then it tells you what you need to install, with what flags, using whatever env variables, kernel modules and all this other mess... why the hell isn't all this stuff just included in the package installation? if I always have to add environment variables and kernel modules when installing the nvidia drivers, WHY DOESN'T INSTALLING THE NVIDIA-DKMS PACKAGE AUTOMATICALLY MAKE THESE CHANGES?

Python would be cool because it is preinstalled in all major linux distros and it is perfect for scripting and rapid development compared to something like C which is not really safe or Rust which is harder. But BASH is the primary choice i mean im just sayin

I have done this, and in no big way, I have created a lot of tools in windows, that resembles tools in Linux. I even created one I called Tina, which means This is not awk

Everyone of my linux installs on 3 different computers fill of my logs with ACPI errors. No matter the distro I get them. One time the log got so big that i filled 2 TB. If you could get a tool for that It would be a god send.

Bash scripting can not trick adobe photoshop, solid works and alot of games to run on linux, this is the main issue with linux: compatibility

Chat Gippity was coined by the Primeagen.

I don't think you can do anything about that but I have a bluetooth device that tends to be difficult, I got it working once but never again :/ Would be amazing to have something that could tweak the system to get it to work without checking a million guides

Yay. Linux tool box. Same as win utility.

Already watched it 😅

I'd rather people taking ublue's yafti and ujust, adjust it for their distribution as necessary. yafti is powerful yet simple - I'm not even a programmer but I can automate my setups with it. And ujust is simple but very extensible scripting tool - they've even used it for setting up nix, home-manager, and nixgl with it.

LinBox🎉

Is it really wise to be trusting alot of vital tasks to debugged AI code?

my vote is for linutil

Yeeee.

Hello Sir i want video about how to make own linux distro step by step just like other Linux so please make it

I can't watch this anymore, did he ever catch that git might not be installed?

Wake from suspend problems , 12gen intel alder-lake laptob. I tried all distros, no luck

No problems in linux… Because I read the arch wiki

Are you ever gonna try gentoo? I think you might enjoy it, compile times wont be bad at all with that xeon.

YES WE NEED TO FIX NVIDIA WITH THE SCRIPT

If you can make nvidia drivers work secure boot I'll start using linux today

nvidia drivers... if you dare

Can you teach me tje concepts in programing

Wish I didn't have to type in pulseaudio -k almost every time I use my PC. Otherwise the audio gets garbled watching videos/youtube and so on.

Enable/Disable automatic updates

It's a pity you can't run PS on UX.

Libox

Utilinux

do it in c, like a big boy

I've done some python scripting for Windows so that could be considered. Mainly because the powershell scripting just feels really bad to use and that way I can use the scripts on Linux as well. As for a script that would be nice I want a script that will check if Dash is installed and then make it the default for executing scripts while having whatever shell you want to use in a terminal, such as Zsh, still be that. Mainly inspired by Luke Smith talking about Dash making script execution better. And if this toolkit is built on a lot of bash scripting then it probably would be a good idea to use it. I just haven't taken the time to do that and from what I remember Luke Smith talking about he's already done that since he talks about using Zsh for his terminal and Dash for script execution. So I'm sure he has a video on setting it up, or hope he does, and once you know how to do it the manual way you can try to script it. P.S. Regarding using Rust or any other language for the toolkit I think the main list of languages I've seen when it comes to CLI tools are: Rust, Go, C, Python and Lua for configuration, embedding scripts and extending the program in general. There's of course the newer Zig language too.

I kinda gave in (20 y ago?)… Use MacOS for work, windows for games, Linux for… the other 38 of 40 IP addresses in use now. Of course, they’re headless - but four-five old laptops will be fun targets for this tool, they do run distros with desktops. Exciting…!

skibidy Chris mogging zig, hella rizz translation for boomers: "Chris is dominating the game with their sick Ziglang skills and is extremely charming while doing it!" 😅

neovim , tmux with a template

High programming skills required to use linux...sigh

I hope this can support non system d based systems

next: FreeBSD Toolbox

Linutil is a bad name 😂 Inútil is useless in Spanish Basically "useless" L

My problem with Linux is, 1) the UI is ugly. Linux people don't understand anything about UI, they look at the worst UI in the world, and they think it's amazing. 2) I installed Linux 2 times, Ubuntu and Pop OS, both of them were trash. People said Linux will be faster on old devices, I tried Ubuntu years ago, and I didn't see any speed difference. I installed Pop OS recently, and it was slow, the store crashed a few times, it was line 10x worse experience than Windows. 3) What I'm looking for from Linux is, Windows but better. Meaning better performance, better UI and UX. No bugs. I pay games, but if Linux can offer something perfect, I'll be OK with not playing games. The problem with Linux is, it will never be what I want. Linux people were incapable of building a Distro/Desktop that doesn't suck. They are incapable of building good looking UIs. There is no hope.