Oddly useful Linux tools you probably haven't seen before

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boar-b-que@reddit

Bread is one of the few linux YTers that doesn't make me want to reach through my screen to strangle them.

That said, I've not watched her non-Linux videos.

She's SERIOUSLY into minimalistic setups, something I just don't go for myself. I've worked for years at a time with nothing but bash, coreutils, and vi, so I don't feel like its silly to deny myself the luxury of a cohesive desktop environment.

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wreath3187@reddit

she seems really down to earth. it helps that she has also non-linux videos where she expresses her thoughts on other topics. fresh content compared to many other sensationalist tech-bros.

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linuxunix@reddit

I know people that brag how little packages they have installed. If I need something, its getting installed. Its the whole purpose of a computer...to you know, do stuff.

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boar-b-que@reddit

Something I say in gaming, 'Why do you have a mana bar if you're not using spells?'

Why do you have 16gb of ram and a multi tb hard drive if your not putting that to use with software?

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MonitorSpecialist138@reddit

I have those specs ( 2tb SSD, rtx 3050 m, i5 12500H ) and I use a minimalist setup ( tty and dwl when needed )

It's just because of preference + I like the stability

It's nice to also be able to daily drive basically even the most potato computers I can get my hands on

I like keeping things as simple as possible

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ThatsFluke@reddit

some games take up to 10gb of ram. OS takes 1-4(depending on windows or linux distro) and some people like discord and a browser open. 16gb is the standard for gaming and especially for less savvy users they should have a little bit of headroom in their RAM.

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ptpcg@reddit

Unless its for a minimal direct purpose deployment with minimal resources, its not even a flex, lol

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ptpcg@reddit

I earned my GNOME desktop 😮‍💨

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Express-Variation412@reddit

agreed. her, brodie robertson, and the linux experiment are the only linux yters i can stand

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11177645@reddit

What about DJWare? I never see him get any mentions, do people not like him?

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Express-Variation412@reddit

havent heard of him; will have to check him out

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11177645@reddit

His Linux internals series is pretty good imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU9m45WWqjM&list=PLWK00SLo2KcQi1hlP2_allMWeG19MkQa7

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STSchif@reddit

Some of Brodie stuff is so... sensationalist and clickbaity that I stopped watching every video of his and only tune in eventually. SavvyNick covers kernel news way more neutrally without leaning to much into drama. Michael Tunnell is sometimes a bit cheesy, but still makes great educational news.

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Express-Variation412@reddit

i'll have to check out savvynick at some point, though i feel like i've heard of him before. thanks for the recommendation.

michael tunnell is pretty good but i'm not a fan of reaction content, which causes me to subconsciously stray away from him lol

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STSchif@reddit

Yep, I mostly look at Michaels topics and read the stuff myself instead of watching his video.

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MarzipanEven7336@reddit

Yup!

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

What do you have against the other linuc yters?

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Little-Stable-989@reddit

My pet peeve is 30-minute videos for every release of popular distros. 'Fedora 42 came out—let's go over everything that's been the same for 10 years, and also the hamburger menu has moved to the right side in Nautilus.'

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thallazar@reddit

I find a lot of them pretty elitist and condescending. Not all for sure, but the community does breed a lot of that IME, then to be popular you have to cater to that mindset.

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crystalchuck@reddit

Don't forget "vague, unsubstantiated, philosophical rambling about how systemd/Wayland sucks"

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WokeBriton@reddit

I like learning about new-to-me tools, even if I'm never going to use them, but as soon as that crap starts, I click away and tell yt not to recommend the channel.

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st33ve0@reddit

I really like Learn Linux TV/Jay LaCroix. He doesn't appear to have the ego and provides some great info.

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opdrone47@reddit

For a girl who doesn't wanna be known as "The girl who does the Linux videos" She sure makes a lot of Linux videos

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tiny_blair420@reddit

She also shares her music, nature content, some introspective and meta content surrounding content creation, etc.

Hella linux videos of course, but because it's one of her fixations- she just wanted to verbally indicate to her viewers that it isn't the pigeonhole she wants for herself.

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opdrone47@reddit

Totally get it. She seems chill AF, I'd smoke a blunt with her and soak up some of that Linux knowledge

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KaleidoscopePlusPlus@reddit

You think she smokes? I don't get that vibe.

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opdrone47@reddit

I don't see why not. All types of people smoke bud

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KaleidoscopePlusPlus@reddit

Of course, not to create a persona around who smokes or doesn't. I just didn't feel like she does.

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opdrone47@reddit

I don't really want to speculate too much one way or the other, kind of a personal choice, ya know?

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KingMoog@reddit

ill show her this thread and let her answer this question directly

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KaleidoscopePlusPlus@reddit

waiting...

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opdrone47@reddit

Why people downvote this I'll never know

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apocbane@reddit

I do and make a living with Linux

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3dPrintedVeganCheese@reddit

Well, yeah, but the music she makes is really good too.

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opdrone47@reddit

Agreed

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edthesmokebeard@reddit

Video 'articles' suck. This is just clickwhoring.

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

Get help dude

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edthesmokebeard@reddit

I just realized you can mute a subteddit, so this shit won't fill up my feed.

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kronik85@reddit

No one is making you watch it. Move on.

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Aggressive_Job_1031@reddit

Bread, Brodie and PewDiePie are the best linux youtubers

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Aggressive_Job_1031@reddit

downvoters who do u think is the best linux youtuber?

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the_abortionat0r@reddit

I think people downvoted you over the idea you think Pewds is a "Linux YouTuber" which as it stands he isn't.

You gonna say LTT is a Linux channel simply because they mentioned it?

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jalmito@reddit

All 3 post the same, tired, content. Window managers, shell scripts, and utilities focused on “minimalism”.

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Grubbauer@reddit

will try

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Stuffinator@reddit

Cool stuff and all, but I can't get over how high her monitors are set up. It's like above eye level, which is not very ergonomic.

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

Anyone have a breakdown of this? I don't reddit to watch youtube.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

If you have a gmail account you can ask gemini to summarize it, but having good content suggested by the community is a great use of reddit. This girl makes Linux content and original music, wouldn't have known if not for this post.

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

Hard to watch them when the wife is asleep next to me. :)

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WokeBriton@reddit

Have a shop for (a knockoff version of the) "snoozeband"". BT to your tablet and listen without disturbing your wife.

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

Normally I'd have used my airpods... but the case died and wouldn't take a charge anymore. Got a new case for them the next day. Future problem averted. :)

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WokeBriton@reddit

Great stuff:)

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Sixguns1977@reddit

That's the exact same boat I'm in(i work nights). Plus, i would much rather read text and get right to the point.

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

Aw, downvoted by a lonely schmuck? Pound sand.

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Roooker@reddit

The YouTube video "5 Linux Tools I can't Live Without" provides a summary of several useful Linux tools. The tools discussed are:

Webcam Eyes: A shell script that allows a DSLR or other modern camera to be used as a webcam or for video recording [00:15].

DISC: A colorized and better-formatted alternative to the standard df command for listing disk space, which includes a small graph for each disk [01:47].

Pure Bash Bible: A guide that provides Bash alternatives to tasks typically done with external tools [02:46].

Zephyr: A nested X server that runs as an application for testing window managers, working around problematic applications, and sandboxing [05:07].

Copy and Move patch: A patch for the coreutils copy and move commands that adds a progress bar [07:29].

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FrostyDiscipline7558@reddit

You rock, just so you know. :) Thank you.

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lexxwern@reddit

TLDR?

Tldw?

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cubic_thought@reddit

https://github.com/cowtoolz/webcamize Use (almost) any camera as a webcam!

https://github.com/Canop/dysk A Linux/Mac utility listing your filesystems.

https://github.com/dylanaraps/pure-bash-bible A collection of pure bash alternatives to external processes.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xephyr a nested X server that runs as an X application.

https://github.com/jarun/advcpmv Advanced Copy is a mod for the GNU cp and GNU mv tools which adds a progress bar and provides some info on what's going on.

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