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Weekly Content Poll for 5/12/21

Still working on the website generator one, that's taking forever. A couple of the vids from last week's polls have already been made. What would you like to see coming up on the channel?

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The Death of Termite

Termite was archived by the maintainer of the project this week. 

Some people have questioned why it mattered to me when the likes of Alacritty, kitty, and st exist. The answer is compli...

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Early Access for Upper Tier Patrons...

Will be a bit finicky this week as my schedule is wonky. Should return to regular service next week. 

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Linux Mint VS Ubuntu - Which is Better for New Users?

Matt and Tyler talk about new graphics cards, xmonad troubles, Ubuntu on mobile, Risc-V, and Mint vs Ubuntu. Which is better for new users? All that and our Apps of the week!

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Weekly Content Poll 5/5/21

grep and sed is coming soon. In the meantime, what would you like to see on the channel?

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First Look at Elementary OS 6.0

I take a very early first look at Elementary OS 6.0, which was just released to public beta. 


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NNN vs Ranger - Which Terminal File Manager is Best?

Matt compares briefly NNN and Ranger, two awesome terminal file managers, and talks about why he's switching from one to the other. 

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Adventures (or Misadventures) In Xmonad Continue

I'll be perfectly honest, I've spent the vast majority of the last few days in dwm, despite promising myself that I was going to give xmonad a real try. 

But there's just something sever...

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Zorin OS 16 Beta First Look - Gnome Made Pretty

Matt takes his first ever look at Zorin OS.



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Are Automatic Updates Good for Linux?

Matt and Tyler talk about automatic updates, The University of Minnesota   and their nonsense, and Plasma Mobile, this week on  @The Linux Cast  


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Android vs iOS

Over the years, I've switched back and forth between Android and iOS many times. I've had the original iPhone, the iPhone 3GS, the iPhone 4, the iPhone 5, the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6s. On the And...

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Can Firefox Be Relevant Again?

Matt  and Tyler talk about Firefox and how what they really need to do is make a good browser. 



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Content Poll for 4/21/21

I'm running behind on winners from previous polls. I still have the Jekyll vs Hugo vid to do, and the NNN vs vifm vs ranger to do as well. But what would you like to see most in the coming weeks? View Post

EndeavourOS With BSPWM First Look

EndeavourOS just released a new iso with bspwm! Let's take a look!



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5 Reasons to Use Arch Linux - And the AUR Isn't One of Them

Matt talks about a few reasons why Arch is awesome. Reasons that have nothing to do with the AUR. 


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Local vs Streaming Music

This has really little to do with Linux, but I was curious? Any of you have a preference between using your own music collection or using a service like Spotify?

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I Wish Vivaldi Was Good and Open Source... But It's Not

Matt talks about his two weeks using the Vivaldi browser.


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First Look at ArcoLinux With FVWM3

Matt takes a very rough first look at ArcoLinux with FVWM3, a floating window manager that is kinda cool. Matt also proceeds to butcher the name of the window manager for the whole effing video. Hi...

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What is the Best Flavor of Ubuntu?

Matt gives his opinion on what he thinks is the best Ubuntu flavor for new and experienced users. 


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Is Proprietary Software Bad for Linux? - The Linux Cast Season 5, Episode 9

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Matt and Tyler talk about proprietary software on Linux and several other topics including OpenBSD, Crappy webcams, and PopOS's new Desktop Environment

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1 Month With LeftWM - Final Thoughts

Matt talks about his experiences with leftwm. 

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Weekly Content Poll 4/14

Upcoming videos this week: How to configure rofi, comparing Jekyll and Hugo, and some leftwm stuff. What would you like to see  next week?

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Retro Gaming on Linux (podcast)

Matt and Martin celebrate Martin's last episode by talking about retro gaming on Linux.   

**What have we been up to Linux related this Week?**

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Live Streaming is Hard and Thoughts on The Channel

That whole saying "it gets easier with practice" better be true. I did my second live stream this week, and I do think that it was better than the first. The audio for sure was better. I watched a ...

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Top 5 Email Clients for Linux

Matt walks through the top 5 email clients for Linux.    

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Finally, Early Access to Videos coming Next Week

I've been promising this forever, but tier 2-4 patrons will start receiving early access to the occasional video starting in about a week. Probably two to three videos a week will show up here befo...

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Weekly Content Poll 4/07/21

Last week's topics should appear sometime this week. 

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I have a Ricing Problem.

Hi. My name is Matt, and I have a ricing problem. 

I change the theme (i.e. rice) my window manager, in this case DWM, every three weeks or so. 

Now, this isn't end of the wor...

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Content Poll for Wed March 31

For the upcoming week, which content would you prefer?

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Bash Scripting Snobbery

I am not good at bash scripting. I'm learning, but it's a long process. I've been watching some Youtube videos on the subject, and found a lot of tutorials that are just seriously off putting. ...

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