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One of the most frequently asked questions that potential new Linux users ask veteran Linux users is “Do you ever miss Windows?” For me, the answer is a bit of YES and NO. I don’t miss the things that most new Linux users will miss, but I do miss one thing about Windows (and this…
I use GNOME as my primary desktop environment on my Linux PC at home. GNOME gives me an easy-to-use graphical desktop that provides the flexibility I need yet doesn’t get in my way when I focus on my work. GNOME recently released GNOME 44 with a bunch of new features. I reached out to the…
Ubuntu recently release version 23.04 “Lunar Lobster” featuring the GNOME 44 desktop environment. This latest release of Ubuntu sports some new software, some nice theming and some amazing wallpapers. REFERENCED: ? https://ubuntu.com/ WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube ? Paypal: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=channel_banner&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazNocEhiaGFBT1l1MnRHbnlIcHFKbXJWVnpQd3xBQ3Jtc0tsLVZJc19YeFlwZ2JqbXVOa3g0Skw4TVhTV2otNm1tM3A1bUNnamh3S2V6OGQtLTBnSjBxYTlvUXMxeEVIS3o4US10NENHMUQ3STk2a01FOFBhUnZjZFctMEhFUTg1TVctQmFfVUdxZXJ4TDl0azlYNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_donations%26business%3Dderek%2540distrotube%252ecom%26lc%3DUS%26item_name%3DDistroTube%26no_note%3D0%26currency_code%3DUSD%26bn%3DPP%252dDonationsBF%253abtn_donateCC_LG%252egif%253aNonHostedGuest ?? Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi ? Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube Read moreKali’s stable Docker image is…
In this edition of “From Noob To Power User” I will be taking Manjaro KDE edition and customizing it slightly to fit my workflow. This will include theming, some software installations, setting keybindings, shell aliases and some other essential changes (in my opinion). REFERENCED: ? https://manjaro.org/ PREVIOUS VIDEOS REFERENCED: ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKX29fJ8U2Y – From Noob To…
This special live event will be a chat amongst a few of Linux content creators who are coming together to not only chat about Linux, but we also want to bring awareness to the dire situation in Lebanon. Due to government restrictions on power, the creator of XeroLinux (Steve), is struggling to maintain his distribution…
Archiso is a highly-customizable tool for building Arch Linux live CD/USB ISO images. The official Arch images are built with Archiso. But, it can be used to create your own customized Arch ISO for personal use, or for potentially building your own Arch-based distro. REFERENCED: ? https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Archiso WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube…
Recently, I couldn’t help but notice that a VERY large percentage of packages for Arch Linux are packaged by the same man. In fact, if you run Arch or an Arch-based distro, chances are that a huge percentage of your installed programs where packaged by this fellow… REFERENCED: ? https://archlinux.org/packages/?packager=felixonmars ? https://github.com/felixonmars WANT TO SUPPORT…
Peropesis is a small-scale, minimalist, command-line-based Linux operating system. It’s an incomplete system, but it’s constantly being improved. The Peropesis project includes the operating system itself and this website, that contains all the necessary information about this operating system. REFERENCED: ? https://peropesis.org/ WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL? ? Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube ? Paypal: https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=channel_banner&redir_token=QUFFLUhqazNocEhiaGFBT1l1MnRHbnlIcHFKbXJWVnpQd3xBQ3Jtc0tsLVZJc19YeFlwZ2JqbXVOa3g0Skw4TVhTV2otNm1tM3A1bUNnamh3S2V6OGQtLTBnSjBxYTlvUXMxeEVIS3o4US10NENHMUQ3STk2a01FOFBhUnZjZFctMEhFUTg1TVctQmFfVUdxZXJ4TDl0azlYNA&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.paypal.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwebscr%3Fcmd%3D_donations%26business%3Dderek%2540distrotube%252ecom%26lc%3DUS%26item_name%3DDistroTube%26no_note%3D0%26currency_code%3DUSD%26bn%3DPP%252dDonationsBF%253abtn_donateCC_LG%252egif%253aNonHostedGuest ?? Amazon:…
In the last couple of weeks, I’ve received some questions about Solus. Their website was offline for a couple weeks. Packages are horribly out of date. And their doesn’t appear to be anyone really in charge. Now, DistroWatch is labelling Solus as a “dormant” distro. REFERENCED: ? https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=solus ? https://getsol.us/ WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?…
In this video, I will discuss three very useful command line utilities: ‘cmp’, ‘diff’ and ‘tput’. The ‘cmp’ and ‘diff’ commands are useful when comparing two files. The ‘tput’ command is useful if wanting to add some text formatting to terminal output. For example, maybe you want to change the color of the text in…
So many people that install Arch Linux for the first time do so by following videos, articles or blog posts. These sorts of guides are a great resource for those looking for help with the Arch installation. But whatever you do, don’t tell the Arch community that you installed Arch using these! WANT TO SUPPORT…
For over month now, I have been living in Bspwm. You guys know that I had been living in XMonad mostly for the last couple of years, and Bspwm is quite a bit different than XMonad. So…how am I getting along with Bspwm? REFERENCED: ? https://github.com/baskerville/bspwm – Bswpm ? https://github.com/baskerville/sxhkd – Sxhkd WANT TO SUPPORT…
One of the coolest customizations that you can make to your file manager is to add your own custom actions to the context menus. For example, in this video, I create a custom action where if I right click on a directory, the context menu now offers me a choice to open that directory inside…
On this edition of HEY DT: 0:00 Intro 0:21 You say that you don’t care if people use free software or proprietary software… 4:31 How best to set up a window manager so that it doesn’t automatically shut off the monitors after 10 minutes? 6:11 Why don’t you use ‘printf’ for ensuring the right amount…
Wednesday 13th, March 2013, 10 years ago, Kali Linux v1.0 was first released. Today we want to celebrate Kali’s 10th anniversary! Time has flown. And gosh, a lot has changed since then! They grow up so fast! This is the story of how Kali came to be, and some of the challenges along the way….
Today we are releasing Kali 2023.1 (and on our 10th anniversary)! It will be ready for immediate download or updating by the time you have finished reading this post. Given its our 10th anniversary, we are delighted to announce there are a few special things lined up to help celebrate. Stay tuned for a blog…
One of the primary goals of Kali Linux is to put the tools you need as close to you as possible. Over the years this has resulted in a number of different ways to get Kali, but not everyone knows about all the options! In this post we are going to do an overview of…
Before the year is over, we thought it was best to get the final 2022 release out. Today we are publishing Kali Linux 2022.4. This is ready for immediate download or updating existing installations. A summary of the changelog since August’s 2022.3 release: Microsoft Azure Its been a long time coming, but we are very…
In Secure Kali Pi (2022), the first blog post in the Raspberry Pi series, we set up a Raspberry Pi 4 with full disk encryption. We mentioned that we can leave it somewhere as a drop box. This brought up the question, “If it is not on my local network how do I connect to…
The following blog post was written by a moderator on the Kali Linux & Friends Discord server, Tristram. A massive thank you to Tristram for writing this blog post and to all of the participants! This past summer we held our first community event on the Kali Linux & Friends Discord. With this event, we…