Nick @ The Linux Experiment / is on Nostr

YouTube content creator and Linux user living in Brest, Brittany. Might post gaming related stuff, especially if it runs on Linux, natively or not !  #fedi22 #linux #opensource #tech #gaming

YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment
PeerTube: https://tilvids.com/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel/videos
Website: https://thelinuxexp.com/
Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/TLENick

Last Notes

2024-07-26 14:12:00

Anyone who says Linux is difficult to use, annoying, or requires a lot of user time and input to work needs to watch the latest video from @npub1wpq…nt3y.
Just seeing the amount of pop-ups, updates, issues, and hoops you need to jump through to use a new Windows PC is insane (granted, some issues in the video are because it’s an ARM PC, but most of the annoying interactions aren’t dependent on that).
As Quinn says, it’s likely faster to install Arch than to setup a new Windows PC…

2024-07-08 08:21:27

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I am so relieved. As a French citizen, this was a pretty horrifying week, with a surprisingly delightful conclusion.

2024-07-08 08:20:09

I can’t overstate how relieved I am with the election results in France.
It’s still very worrying, the far right is growing in terms of influence, but at least it’s still widely considered as the most dangerous option by everyone else, and it’s still being effectively blocked.
We won’t get an efficient government with how the parliament is split, but at least it won’t be run by the far right. Congrats to all the people who voted to avoid running the country into a totalitarian wall!

2024-07-06 17:21:33

In this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video, we have:
- #Fedora 42 getting a proposal for telemetry (opt-in, fortunately)
- Deepin adding #AI features to their future release, and most of it is running locally
- #Google making changes to #ChromeOS, which might spell the end of ChromeOS Flex
And a lot more as well, including some good progress on x86 emulation on ARM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vChR45Waq5I

2024-06-25 17:17:17

We’re all pretty much used to the old desktop metaphor, with windows, menus, panels, launchers, system trays, a desktop and icons, etc.
But these sort of suck, if you really think about it it, so I took a look at these old UI conventions, and tried (and failed) to come up with a better solution for each:
https://youtu.be/r776pFhnxw8

2024-06-22 16:51:05

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I Hope so too, it was just way too convenient to have everything sync automatically. It apparently doesn’t affect everyone, mostly users of instances hosted on VPS, at least that’s what the owner of the instance I use tells me!

2024-06-22 15:59:51

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I know manual upload is possible, but I honestly don’t have the time to do that for every video.
Peertube is great, but duplication of work is just not something I want to do.

2024-06-22 15:58:45

To anyone wondering why videos aren’t on the Peertube channel anymore: apparently, it’s an issue with the yt-dlp library used to sync from YouTube to Peertube. The instance I use is affected, and plenty of other VPS users seem to have the same problem.
The gist of it is: Google reports the library as a bot, and thus the sync can’t be performed. So, for now, videos will be on YT only, until this can be circumvented.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

2024-06-19 12:02:06

I'm a day late, but here is my video review of the new features you can expect in @npub1ncy…3x0q Plasma 6.1!
A new, better (but still a bit flawed) edit mode for the desktop, explicit sync, triple buffering, input capture portal support (for Barrier-like apps), unified rounded corners, remote desktop support in the settings, Wayland session restore, and more, all make Plasma 6.1 the best Linux desktop, in my opinion:
https://youtu.be/XMZrIXjxrLI

2024-05-26 08:09:19

Today, I learned that diversity, equality and inclusivity is apparently a bad thing, and will kill a project? (From the comments under my latest news talking about #GNOME’s 5 year plan).
So, wanting people to feel comfortable contributing to a project is bad and woke now? Serisouly, what do they put in these people’s water? They’re going insane.

2024-05-22 09:27:22

I'm doing another one of my little surveys, this time to see which parts of using #Linux on the desktop are the most problematic, and the various issues people are having.
I'll make a video on these results next week, and depending on the answers, maybe I'll make more videos on specific issues, either to explain these topics, or to see how we could improve.
So, here is the form, feel free to fill it out and share it around, so we have as many answers as possible!
https://nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/aMfgfisXZopCBQ6LtCHzYzTM

2024-05-04 17:30:23

TIme for this week's #Linux and #OpenSource News video!
Since I'm currently being destroyed in my game of Warhammer 40K , you'll have to watch it to know what's inside!
https://youtu.be/yqZVtkW_J3k

2024-04-18 08:35:16

Did MKBHD ruin an AI company and their product because of their negative review of it?
No, the bad AI product ruined itself and its company. Just because someone created a business, found funding and created a thing doesn’t mean they should get instant recognition, and a pass for crappy stuff.
Entrepreneurs aren’t your friends, they aren’t superior, they don’t deserve to be coddled. When they make sh*t products, they should be told that they made sh*t. MKBHD did their job.

2024-04-08 09:57:09

All it would take for AI to completely collapse is a ruling in the US saying these companies have to licence the content they used to train these tools.
They simply would never reach a sustainable business model if they had to fairly compensate all the people who wrote, drew, edited, sang or just created the content they use.
Simply being forced to respect attribution and licenses would kill them. Will that ruling ever happen? Maybe not. Should it? I think so.