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JustAGuy Linux: Let's talk About the King, Debian
Season 1 Episode 33
Let's get to know Drew from @JustAGuyLinux a bit more. I want to hear his thoughts on why he sticks to Debian, thoughts on Emacs, Neovim, other IDEs, macOS, Windows, other linux Distros, etc.
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Timeline:
00:00:00 - Highlights
00:01:47 - All these kids fighting about distros, why are you on Debian?
00:05:58 - Do you need the latest packages?
00:07:32 - tony neovim installing skill issues with Debian
00:09:21 - Fflatpaks and appimages
00:11:15 - How drew edits his videos without a video editor
00:14:18 - Sponsorhips?
00:15:36 - Drew's YouTube channel
00:16:12 - Do you distrohop like them kids?
00:19:35 - Drew's technical background
00:22:22 - Thoughts on Nix
00:23:26 - Thoughts on Omarchy by DHH, bloat?
00:24:48 - What window manager do you use? DWM
00:26:36 - What about i3?
00:27:46 - bspwm for beginners, it's more modular
00:31:44 - Butternotes demo
00:34:56 - Why did you start a youtube channel?
00:36:45 - What IDE do you use? Geany
00:38:03 - Why haven't you committed to Neovim?
00:40:10 - Can you teach an old dog new tricks?
00:41:26 - Working on the linux cast server
00:42:36 - Geany demo
00:44:46 - Picom compositor smooth animations, what is a compositor?
00:46:32 - From Ghostty to Wezterm, why?
00:49:27 - Kitty?
00:50:08 - Support projects
00:50:48 - Kovid Goyal has a bad image in the community
00:51:29 - Tmux?
00:52:18 - Why Geany?
00:53:55 - Neovim config for markdown, folds demo
00:56:04 - neovim plugins
00:57:52 - Emacs?
00:59:55 - macos?
01:01:51 - Wife and son on linux?
01:03:01 - Windows
01:07:34 - Is Debian the king of all distros?
01:08:18 - Thoughts on AI
01:10:06 - Do you train the models with your notes?
01:11:51 - Homelab
01:13:57 - More on AI usage
01:18:24 - Single or multiple monitors?
01:19:51 - @DistroTube in the chat
01:20:45 - Laptop?
01:22:27 - Are tiles bloat?
01:25:34 - Keyboard? Thoughts on split keyboards
01:27:26 - QWERTY or a different layout?
01:28:14 - What movies do you recommend. Dune is bloat
01:31:28 - Fan of the office?
01:32:37 - What about music?
01:34:01 - What bands do you recommend
01:35:58 - Are you into videogames?
01:36:23 - What distro do you recommend to new users?
01:37:15 - Debian servers, docker, kubernetes, DNS, glusterfs
01:38:40 - DEMO dwm, different layouts
01:41:17 - Show the keybinds in case you forget
01:43:07 - Thunar file manager
01:43:26 - Codeberg DWM setup install script
01:44:02 - Install Drew's deployment script on a debian server
01:45:01 - What is xorg?
01:46:28 - Why xorg and not wayland?
01:47:38 - You can't get hyprland to work on Debian, using stable packages
01:50:00 - Do stuff breaks on debian? When was the last time it happend?
01:54:00 - How did you install brave?
01:54:39 - Why firefox?
01:55:09 - For a new Debian version, upgrade or fresh install?
01:58:14 - What is codeberg?
02:00:09 - Thoughts on proprietary software
02:01:13 - Open source users. DON'T BE DICKS
02:03:29 - Don't demand stuff in open source projects, approach things the right way
02:05:56 - Final words. Go and subscribe to Drew
02:07:08 - Episode will be available as a podcast
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