Introduction

1

Zorin OS

My first Linux distro was PopOS and It was a refreshing experience. It was really easy to install, use, and game on. I distro hopped a few times to see what other linux flavors are like. These are the ones that I remember trying Zorin OS and Linux Mint. These ones looked mostly like windows and it was easy to use. At work, I gained most of my linux knowledge from docker and configuring / administrating RHEL servers. This helped give me more confidence in switching my personal computers to linux. I wanted to challenge myself further.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 151 social mentions

2

Shotcut

I used OBS to capture my screen, shotcut to edit the video, and this command to create a gif (Shotcut also supports exporting to a gif, but it seems to take longer to process).

#Video #Video Editors #Video Editor 115 social mentions

3

qutebrowser

Pywal is used to get the colorscheme from my wallpaper for my browser and terminal. left: neovim, top right: qutebrowser, bottom right: cava.

#Web Browsers #Web Development Tools #Web Tools 48 social mentions

4

Pop!_OS

My first Linux distro was PopOS and It was a refreshing experience. It was really easy to install, use, and game on. I distro hopped a few times to see what other linux flavors are like. These are the ones that I remember trying Zorin OS and Linux Mint. These ones looked mostly like windows and it was easy to use. At work, I gained most of my linux knowledge from docker and configuring / administrating RHEL servers. This helped give me more confidence in switching my personal computers to linux. I wanted to challenge myself further.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 450 social mentions

5

OBS Studio

I used OBS to capture my screen, shotcut to edit the video, and this command to create a gif (Shotcut also supports exporting to a gif, but it seems to take longer to process).

#Video Recording #Screen Recording #Live Streaming 1061 social mentions

6

Neovim

Pywal is used to get the colorscheme from my wallpaper for my browser and terminal. left: neovim, top right: qutebrowser, bottom right: cava.

#Text Editors #IDE #Software Development 96 social mentions

7

Linux Mint

My first Linux distro was PopOS and It was a refreshing experience. It was really easy to install, use, and game on. I distro hopped a few times to see what other linux flavors are like. These are the ones that I remember trying Zorin OS and Linux Mint. These ones looked mostly like windows and it was easy to use. At work, I gained most of my linux knowledge from docker and configuring / administrating RHEL servers. This helped give me more confidence in switching my personal computers to linux. I wanted to challenge myself further.

#Linux Distribution #Linux #Operating Systems 423 social mentions

8

Pywal

Pywal is used to get the colorscheme from my wallpaper for my browser and terminal. left: neovim, top right: qutebrowser, bottom right: cava.

#Command Line Tools #Monitoring Tools #Color Tools 38 social mentions

9

dwm

I was looking for a minimal linux distribution that is light on resources, and I found one called Metis Linux, which is based on Artix. The interesting part of metis is that it wasn't using a desktop environment, but a windows manager called dwm. At the time, metis linux had a minimal bash script installer via chroot. This took longer to setup, but I had a better understanding of what the setup involved rather than an automated GUI installer. I learned about how to partition the filesystem. I remembered I ran into some trouble was due to not running mkfs to make the filesystem! I was also planning to dual boot with windows, so I thought more about how to split my partitions. Each OS would have a dedicated portion of my SSD and HDD and a shared HDD portion that would as a generic media filesystem using exfat (since that was cross platform). This would contain my media files like music, pdfs, and other non OS specific files. I also set up a samba server to serve my media. I learned more about /etc/fstab and how that tells the OS what partitions to mount on linux.

#Linux #Window Manager #Utilities 63 social mentions

10

DEV.to

I posted a few things on Medium to experiment with dev blogging, but I don’t like the paywall system. I believe knowledge and ideas should be shared freely without inhibiting learning. Everything I post will be free and always remain so. I decided to try dev.to. I found out about this platform from this article. If you are curious about my previous posts you can see Mortgage App Update (React-Redux ElectonJS Desktop App) and How to Handle Opening and Closing Context Menus with a Custom React Hook. I most likely won't post more to medium, so I will stick with dev.to.

#CMS #Blogging #Blogging Platform 384 social mentions

11

Artix Linux

I was looking for a minimal linux distribution that is light on resources, and I found one called Metis Linux, which is based on Artix. The interesting part of metis is that it wasn't using a desktop environment, but a windows manager called dwm. At the time, metis linux had a minimal bash script installer via chroot. This took longer to setup, but I had a better understanding of what the setup involved rather than an automated GUI installer. I learned about how to partition the filesystem. I remembered I ran into some trouble was due to not running mkfs to make the filesystem! I was also planning to dual boot with windows, so I thought more about how to split my partitions. Each OS would have a dedicated portion of my SSD and HDD and a shared HDD portion that would as a generic media filesystem using exfat (since that was cross platform). This would contain my media files like music, pdfs, and other non OS specific files. I also set up a samba server to serve my media. I learned more about /etc/fstab and how that tells the OS what partitions to mount on linux.

#Linux #Operating Systems #Linux Distribution 52 social mentions