Linux Software I Will NEVER Live Without
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- čas přidán 3. 08. 2024
- Over my time using Linux I've messed around with a bunch of software but even with all the duplicates I've tried there are certain pieces that I can never find myself replacing.
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Dmenu: tools.suckless.org/dmenu/
MPV: mpv.io/
SXHKD: github.com/baskerville/sxhkd
Music Player Daemon: www.musicpd.org/
Protonup QT: davidotek.github.io/protonup-qt/
Alacritty: github.com/alacritty/alacritty
Simple MTPFS: github.com/phatina/simple-mtpfs
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0:00 Intro
0:45 Dmenu
2:31 MPV
4:11 SXHKD
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Commentor: *Sees old kernel* Brodie why is your system so out of date.
On this day they learnt my dark secret... I don't upload my videos in the order I record them
An older kernel isn't even a real issue if your hardware works with it.
Brodie, I understand why people use GUIs instead of configuration files; they are allergic to excessive reading. When I say excessive, I mean anything more than a page or two. 😂
I've been accused on some forums of horridly out of date systems but when I explain that is what Linux Mint uses for a kernel they don't understand. There is never an issue of running an older kernel as long as its getting support / patches
I remember hunting for media conversion programs when I was younger until I found out they all use ffmpeg in the back.
"The only way this is going to get cleaned up is by installing a new system." -- And this is why we should be using declarative distros.
Allegedly SteamOS 3.5 adds support for installing software via nix. I'm eager to try that out and can totally see it changing my desktop approach.
Nix sucks though, it's package manager, if you can even call it that, is a pain in the A to use
Nix is a distro, a package manager, and a language. And if nix sucks for you - it's a skill issue.@@Cookiekeks
What is a declarative distro
@@temari2860super trur
"I need to clean this system up"
Me with 2084 Packages: lmao
most of them are libraries, so it doesnt matter even
`pacman -Qeq | wc -l` is what you should care about
I know my LMDE system here has 2500 packages lol
Some of that though is the fact that Debian, Fedora, Arch, Suse... none of them count packages the same way
For sxhkd, there's swhkd, which works both on Xorg and Wayland!
Do you know if it supports X-input (as in, 🎮)? I've been looking for an alternative to input-remapper.
This is why I don't spend oodles of time customizing stuff and running arcane apps for hotkeys or whatever. I get used to using the base system, when I install new boxes, I install 5 packages, and I'm at home. And when stuff changes, I'm not dependent on projects that might not have maintainers anymore and are basically abandoned getting moved to new frameworks.
I can live without propietary codecs, but removing mpv from my life would be the worst
you could not live without propriety codecs
Wait till he learns about h264
So what what did you do before mpv? Tbh regular old mplayer is fine for me, but I do like the Gnome-Mplayer frontend because it has control options to change the brightness; very useful when watching movies where scenes are too dark. Yes I could change the brightness in the monitor, but then I would change it back after the movie is done.
how do i always open my computer, open mercury and come here and click on your video, literally 9 minutes after its uploaded. It happens EVERY time! love these videos so much and i guess they are just destined to be on my home page as soon as i open youtube in the afternoon.
I watch his new videos every morning. It's basically part of my morning routine now.
hey friend what's mercury?
Because Brodie is prolific and seems to release videos about every 9 minutes 😂
fwiw, that Kitty image-display feature does integrate really nicely with Ranger - you get a fully rendered preview in, well, the Ranger preview area
> 1880 packages
me, sitting comfortably at 3649, "what's up doc?"
For me, it's Dolphin, the file manager. A file manager that looks like it's from the 21-st century. It's too good of a file manager to not use. Literally nothing else compares. Everything else seems like it's just lacking in functionality.
And what about krusader? It's unmatched in the category of dual-pane file managers, even with dolphin's dual-pane mode
I will install dolphin on Gnome systems, everything else feels unusable
i myself prefer to use "rm" (short for Richard stallMan's) and "cp" (short for Child Porn Filemanager). it may not have UNDO features, and it may destroy my entire data, but its the best choice
"A file manager that looks like it's from the 21-st century."
What do you mean by that statement? So it's more important to you how a piece of software looks than how it functions? Is this to give a good impression to people who might be looking over your shoulder at you using your computer?
It just really seems to be a strange thing to say, especially when the core of Linux is very much rooted in UNIX from the 1980's.
@@terrydaktyllus1320maybe I just don't like looking at ugly things
I don't think I will ever replace helix for my text editor.
mpv is great. I'm using it with mpris plugin so i can control the video from my phone and it automatically pauses when I get a phone call (when also using kdeconnect). I also use svp manager with it to turn anime into 60 fps video and finally i can keep track of my watch progress so i can continue where I left off automatically and also automatically list the anime (episode and series) that i have finished watching
which application you use to keep track of progress and list episodes that you have finished watchining?
Also if you can please list any/all application that you use with Anime.
@@ShivamKumar-nz2qr i use my own software (quickmedia) for keeping track of watch progress, but it's mpv that allows me to easily write script/program for it to make it possible. Other than that I only use svp manager.
I've been using Linux casually for 25 years and this is the first time I've seen and heard of some of these tools. Explaining how they help with work flow is especially helpful! Thanks for sharing!
Brodie, you brought me to LF (I can't use anything else anymore), you start LF pretty much every time you start terminal (at least in this video) - let us give credit to this amazing file manager!
Great video of course, as always 🙂
MPV also just play the video better. At times there can be issues on other video players such as VLC.
Always interesting to see the preferences of other people and getting the way of thinking behind them.
For me it's Terminator, vim, a browser (one of the foxes or something else), Obsidian and syncthing.
Syncthing is the bread and butter here and something we can't live without.
My usecase is syncing mods for various games we play between us in the same group to ensure we have the same mods and the same versions.
All these are FOSS other than obsidian. Try logseq
@@vxer tested it, not suitable for my use case, sadly. Both use markdown, so if Obsidian does some sketchy stuff I could still read my stuff.
For me, Syncthing, Ansible, and Pandoc are huge parts of my workflow.
Whenever I'm on Linux, I usually pull zsh and oh-my-zsh, but I've lately moved things over to fish. However with most apps, I've become too lazy to configure them. Give me a good default and let me tweak it and I'll be happy. If the default isn't useful for me, I usually don't use the app (which is also why I'm probably not going to use any Vim-alikes as my text editor, I'm just too lazy to learn a text editor).
Other than that: tmux, ffmpeg for the ocasional version conversion, yt-dlp and Docker.
Also call me a pleb, but for the initial go, I do enjoy a GUI-based configuration. I would like it to be backed by a simple config file that can be tweaked.
I have the same thing, so I use LunarVIM. It's just Neovim setup as an IDE, still takes time to learn vim, but I don't have to deal with a config file because LunarVIM is setup how I want it.
Thanks for sharing !
one small thing about vlc that i find very useful is 'play from last time you left". If mpv had that small feature, it would be a big W. apart from it, mpv is a good.
I am not sure if I understand you correctly, but if you are looking for the feature where mpv remembers the point in the video where you stopped watching, it does support that.
You just have to close mpv with Q (beware the letter being capital).
If I misunderstood you, I am sorry.
never mind. just saw the config option. 😛
@@joweber7492you can add save-position-on-quit=yes to your mpv config if you want to save playback position without pressing shift+Q
wow very cool brodig 👍
I am using mpv as a video player and it is great but the one thing that i miss in it is the ability to stretch video to cover the width of the screen without changing the height, or the vice-versa changing the height keeping the width same. This functionality I found in Pot player (doesn't support linux) with the num keys keybindings, i.e. 8 and 2 to increase/decrease the height , 6/4 to decrease/increase the width
dmenu... German engineering at its best... nothing else to say.
Meanwhile I'm over here clearing hundreds of gigs of files from borked reinstalls lol
1880 is clean my friend. I've been putting off a clean up, resulting in 5789 pkgs, most of which I probably don't need...
Rofi is my key application since I live in tiling window managers. I do a lot of interaction with my system using it, window switching, power menu, file explorer in a jiffy, installed apps menu, etc. Arch is the distro that gives me that piece of mind and ease of use, and I mean vanilla Arch not Arch-based distros, Qtile had been for a few years my prefered twm (having pleyed around with quite a few) until recently, now Hyprland has taken its place. I used to use sxhkd but reverted back to having my keybinding inside Qtile config, meant less things to install. I like a slim but fully functional system. And for me, Arch has been extremely reliable, when that Grub fiasco hit last year, it didn't touch me being on Systemd-boot.
btw 1880 packages is not so much, I have seen distros by default with bigger numbers
each distro counts packages differently, arch counts a lot lower for the same amount of software a debian
@@-aexc- yeah but Garuda dragonized I think has almost 1500 packages by default and is based on Arch
I'm a simple woman, I just need a terminal, an internet connection, and compilation tools (and also an mp3 player, a simple one being mpg123, in late stages of building my system: mpv). With all of that stuff, I girlboss my way to success by banging my head on the keyboard in hopes stuff, like Skyrim (god bless Todd Howard), just works.
You've got a little editing issue at 7:34, you forgot to cut one of the clips mentionning playerctl
Apart from that great video, i usually just lurk without leaving a comment but this one i can really agree with !
It's a been a while since I missed one of those
For me these tools are konsole, dolpin, and firefox. Tried replacing, just to come back. Same for vscode (not codium, I use the ms one). I tried kdevelop and codium, but none has as much functions as ms vscode*. And I know there are some terminalutils I forgot here, I work in the terminal 90% of the time. (All ui apart from term itself is hidden)
* I also use microsofts features like sync that are gone in codium
Surprisingly, I do the same, only my list is an opposite.
Brodie: "One might say - a little bit too much"
Me: *cries in 5.5k packages*
For me it's Alacritty and Zellij (Interestingly they both happen to be written in Rust). I don't need Alacritty to have a built-in terminal multiplexor because Zellij is super intuitive especially when used with Neovim. I don't like switching tools or distro hopping. I like to stick to one thing and learn it.
I like tools that work right out the box, until I care enough to start customising them to my workflow. If I have to go through 10+ lines of config to get a volume button or basic function to work, I'm downloading something else.
I personally rely on nvim dwm st and firefox. I got so used to them I just don't wanna change them.
im a person who, long ago; got sick of reinstalling a crap ton of apps when i'd do a install/reinstall.. so on my phones and on my pc, i use whatever base apps the os installs.. i use gnome terminal, whatever graphics programs are installed by default, and can count on one hand how many additional apps i actually install (VLC is one of them tho lol).
i even do the same on my phones, android or apple i just dont install apps.. i dont buy them, i dont test them.. i just use whatever comes with the install/os by default.
as for file transfers between phone and os.. google drive.. thats all i use.. lol
love the vids as always!
The main issue I find with Alacritty is that it doesn't support keyboard disambiguation protocols - so several key combinations (some appearing in the default VIM config, for example) simply don't work. I think one was ALT+H. That's basically the only reason I switched to kitty.
for people who use AUR helpers like `yay`, they can sometimes give you the option to "remove make dependencies after install". i found that for quick testing of software this saves me a heck ton of package bloat
I'm living without conkeror somehow.
Actually, "programs that made the linux experience better 10 years ago than it is now" is an easier list to rattle off.
I use sxhkd too and it's been set it and forget it for about 2 years. Every now and then I think of something I can throw in there but other than that, I do not touch it.
I always used mplayer built from source, because apparently no distro can be arsed to pass all the right options to configure. But I looked into mpv now, and... mpv is the same codebase and it can play youtube URLs directly. It doesn't play VCD, but I don't think I've seen a VCD in my life.
OBS is probably the most powerful recording software, period. I've never heard of anything that comes even close. I find it quite interesting that an open source project is dominating the recording software market when in adjacent markets like video and photo editing, and music production the largest players are proprietary.
I actually decided to look into my manjaro's orphan files but I decided there's not way I'm using pacman's remove function once I saw gdm in there. It's sad but baring a brand new install crap will just add up on any system running any os. And I don't intend to reinstall Manajaro again until I buy a new computer. Now let's see in how many seconds it decides to die on me and force me to reinstall :)
MPV is incredible but I kinda need one feature I get from VLC: video effects. I use this when I play HDR content on my non HDR monitor so the image doesn't look super dark. (more or less) easy to toggle when I reproduce something that is not HDR too.
Well, it does have support for loading custom shaders. I for example use this to upscale, and de-noise some videos. It also seems to have HDR tone-mapping built in now that i look it up, so you could set that up. Otherwise "hdr-toys" seems to be the shader you want. You can set up hotkeys to load and unload these shaders on command as well.
Just ran `pacman -Q | wc -l`. Got 2587. 1880 is junior numbers Brodie, junior numbers. Don't worry, my system is still silky smooth. Turns out, modern hardware is pretty powerful when all software actually behave themselves (cough cough Windows cough cough).
There are some good examples of the UNIX philosophy with some of your reasoning Brodie. Me like. Now, FVWM. As long as I can´t run that under Wayland, there simply is no Wayland in my world.
Wayfire though?
@@cameronbosch1213 Can you elaborate? Will it make any WM run under Wayland for instance?
Krusader. It's swell. Conky Manager. My favorite toy.
I use fish and man I can't go back to the HORRORS of bash (and zsh) scripting
A fish-lover wrote the Ansible playbooks for my former employer's entire data science stack, which meant that every time I logged into an EC2 I had no idea what the 🐠 was going on.
mpv, foot, mpv, syncthing, jellyfin, neovim, sway
"Dmenu is all I know at this point"
Why did that sound oddly ominous...
Base system - critical software
Distrobox - all the rest
Have your cake and eat it too.
MPV with the SMPlayer front end, and Nemo file manager.
GNOME, it's hot corner in particular. Literally cannot use other operating systems of DEs because i grew so accustom to it.
Whenever someone says "I want the simplest solution" my ears prick up: "let's hear *your* definition of *simple*".
Because, contrary to popular belief, "simple" is very *very* subjective. To some it may be "I installed this additional program and wrote this 20 line shell script so I can type a custom command to do exactly what I need, then type another command when I'm done", while for another it might be "I see the menu pop up, I click the icon and get file manager, and when I'm done I click the eject button". To each their own 🤷
I'm a little surprised you don't test software in a distrobox or similar so its easy to separate and purge when you're done
Kitty has multi platform support as well and its the terminal i can live without.
I have some fancy hacked together font. That does a lot of fancy terminal visuals for zsh + plugins which doesnt play nicely with alacritty. I tried alacritty + tmux using it and I found it generally buggy especially with passing sudo through and kitty just works out of the box. Also I dont what it is but kitty does text rendering real pritty and i have used it preview fotos since I use my own very roided up nvim config to do dumb things like foto viewing.
But alacritty is honestly a great project as well and thats what makes linux great. There is an option for everyone even if what you do can objectively be considered stupid.
Alacritty config can import other files. So you don’t need to have the whole config in a single file. If you care about this.
You almost have no software installed... I have 5212 packages + some commercial software not installed from packages + flatpak + games launchers and games inside...
I didn't know mtpfs, now I can use rsync with my Android devices. Thanks.
If you want a wireless option, AndFTP supports rsync over ssh.
i use croc to get files between devices, installed in a terminal on windows, linux and android and just works, wirelessly, over the net
Nice to watch, but honestly, I'll probably never use this or similar toolset on my device, too exotic and to some degree impractical for me. The only one of your list, that I use is MPV.
"dwm" of course :3 Will only switch when Suckless switch to Wayland
Hearing you list all the things you "don't need" in a video player, I'm shaking my head and groaning because mpv has all those things too. It just doesn't come with a user interface out of the box (for that, I use SMPlayer).
But the most frustrating thing, is that you don't even mention why mpv is BETTER than VLC. Things like how it has vastly superior frame timing. VLC averages fps for a video, so if the framerate varies a lot VLC will play it wrong.. But mpv can actually play back everything accurately.
Not only that, but mpv is the ONLY video player with _proper_ colorspace conversion built in. You can even have it bake multiple LUTs that get loaded dynamically, that specifically converts from various video standards to your EXACT display specifications (assuming you have a colorimeter and have used it to properly profile your display).
The MacOS version of Quicktime also has support for using a display profile, but the Windows version doesn't (from what I hear), and honestly? I don't have a Mac, but I've seen how much effort mpv's developers have put into the correctness of their algorithms and I _suspect_ that Apple has likely taken many more shortcuts than mpv's developers have.
I used to love VLC, but when I found out how much better mpv is for frame-accurate and color-accurate playback (VLC still can't go back or forward one frame at a time in a video, something mpv and even CZcams can do), I ditched it hard.
Besides, mpv has video conversion and other utilities. They're part of ffmpeg, which mpv uses for its backend. However, in general mpv is somewhat more limited than ffmpeg, so it's recommended to just use ffmpeg.
this is the privilege of new linux users. they can jump right into new/hype technologies like pipewire, wayland, btrfs and s6/runit(like I did)
Rewriting those keybindings is a 5 minute operation.
Maybe he can only type 5 WPM?
Mandatory for me is at least 4 different DOOM sourceports.
Though fr. Mpv, qimgv, nwg-launchers, and Lutris are definitely at the top for me.
MPV supports NVDEC which is great for people like me stuck with a Nvidia GPU.
Hey Brodie, i also use sxhkd but only for bspwm can you upload your dotfiles to check that? the last commit was on Feb 11, 2021 that is like 3 years now almost 2024
I need to update all of my dotfiles tbh
1880 packages, v my 2478. No contest. LOL. Lightweight! [grin]
hope one day i'll configure hyprland and stuff myself instead of just using other's configs
Do you use mpv-thumbfast or something else for the seekbar thumbnail?
That sounds familiar but I'm away from my PC right now
Ditto for Alacritty. I use a mac, tried kitty and a handful of others. It's perfection. I can't live without Yabai (tiling manager for mac). Also can't live without bash-my-aws.
I experimented with Enlightenment for a bit, it was mostly an unstable disaster, but it's going to be hard to get me away from Terminology.
I love alacrity, but I REALLY am a ligatures fanboy, I just can't use it, which is very annoying because it's objectively better than most terminals. I'm using konsole rn, it's nice too
Sorry to bother! I need some help. My problem is that I keep my scripts in the ~/.local/bin folder, and they can execute from anywhere in the terminal. However, when I launch dmenu or rofi, these tools do not read any of my scripts in the ~/.local/bin folder; they only read the scripts I wrote in /usr/local/bin. The weird thing is that dmenu only reads my scripts if I execute dmenu_run through the terminal, but with a keybind, none of the scripts are visible.
>1880 packages installed is a lot?
>guess I'll check how many I have
>almost 3000 packages installed
>mfw
Video player has no stop button?
I must be one of the most 'normie-est' Arch Linux user. I installed it the manual way, set up secureboot with my own self made keys, fscrypt encrypted my f2fs drive and even compiled my own kernel with patches from Intel's Clear Linux project .etc
But I use GNOME 45 with my personal small selection of GNOME software, even installed a modified Gnome-Software-Centre that can update pacman packages, Flatpak GUI apps are prioritized over native ones wherever possible. Even got the Plymouth boot animation screen. GTK 4 apps are preferred, for other GTK/Qt apps I use a libadwaita theme to match GNOME 45. The upside to this is that Steam and Firefox no longer "disobey" XDG protocols by having dotfiles in the home dir when they're in their own little containers in ~/.var !
It looks like a super-generic corporate workstation and for some reason I like the 'sleeper' look of it.
Has Brodie explained why his videos are filmed on i3 these days? They used to be filmed on Hyprland iirc. I don't mind, I'm just curious.
It's awesomewm not i3 but I had some portal video capture issues a while back
@@BrodieRobertson Thanks for the info. It turns out I didn't know what the i3 logo was lmao. I assumed that the icon in the top right was the i3 logo lol. So, TIL that isn't the i3 logo.
Mpv❤
so relatable
alacritty does not support ligatures that's why i use kitty
Eh 1880? Came back when you hit 9k.
neovim. my config is like 4500 lines long. pls help
Always hilarious to me the state of the *vim ecosystem given that the main reason I learned Vi was -for the memes- because of the "where you're going, you won't need a config file" ethos.
Occasional `vim -u NONE` practice recommended :-)
13:40 WikiFeet already?
I feel really off because all of that i just use the KDE defaults, i have them all really and deeply configured how i like them, yes, but still 😅
All suckless applications scream of sunk cost fallacy.
You're not far off the mark
for me software on linux I can't find a good replacement for, some of it is proprietary, but I don't care, I'm not a purist.
syncthing, jetbrains ide's, ocenaudio, btrfs, kde dolphin, smartgit, kde connect, tailscale
>what could you possibly want for a video player
a loop button. im better off using the browser's reproductor
if i dont have one
shift+L to loop the current video infinitely
epic@@finderOC
632 packages on my Arch, fully loaded.
Yuk Alacritty, praise be Terminator ! :'D
Im curious why you choose Arch as your distro?
To say that he uses arch btw
Probably because some Wayland compositors like Hyprland and some WMs require very up to date packages. In that case, Arch is your best bet.
@@cameronbosch1213 no kidding, hyprland is like kryptonite but for debian (personal experience)
@@cameronbosch1213 Not up to date on Linux since Redhat in the 90s lol so its interesting to see who uses what distro now.
Replace your mount script with Syncthing and be happy.
You wouldn't have that problem with Nix BTW 😗
Just make a new shell to test software or put it at the bottom of your default.nix(or mark them with '#somethingsomething') and you know what is for testing and what is part of your core system.
praying Wayland works on nvidia one day 😭
Imagine putting down window transition silliness while using a gpu accelerated terminal.
This is what Linux is about imo.
Emacs, mpv, yt-dlp
Yeahhh so many applications
*stares at 1500 packages installed*
what is your terminal file manager?
Lf
06:39 why do you need networking to play music? i just use mp3 files in directory
You don't?
@@BrodieRobertsonso music server ≠ network server?