Why Derek focuses on Linux and free software

Let's talk about Linux distros, Emacs, Neovim, org mode and more with Distrotube.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/bWX7jI9t7j8

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Video Highlights

00:02:49 - When started YouTube and why?

00:04:42 - Linux popularity over the years

00:05:48 - 264,000 subscribers 1600 videos

00:06:26 - DT hasnt used mac since 1990

00:07:13 - Thoughts on GNU coreutils rust rewrite

00:09:57 - uutils MIT License

00:10:58 - Thoughts on PewDiePie Linux Video

00:12:06 - PewDiePie users coming to linux

00:13:35 - Find DistroTube on YouTube and Odysee

00:14:06 - Background, how you ended up in Tech?

00:14:39 - Bachelors and master in music performance

00:15:18 - Started putting the hours after Covid

00:16:51 - Quality of videos when you get started

00:17:39 - Equipment when got started

00:19:51 - Recommend someone starting a channel?

00:21:18 - How long it took to see YouTube results?

00:22:46 - Your YouTube growth exponential?

00:24:54 - 2 favorite music bands

00:25:56 - king diamond

00:29:44 - 2 favorite movies

00:32:50 - Thoughts on videogames

00:35:21 - IDE of choice, mainly emacs

00:35:46 - If in terminal, Neovim

00:36:33 - qtile config written in org mode

00:37:11 - vterm terminal in emacs

00:38:06 - Org-bullets

00:38:56 - What is the emacs literate config

00:39:02 - Joshua Blais video

00:39:59 - DistroTube dotfiles

00:41:53 - How to make org headings bigger

00:43:05 - Linkarzu Markdown headings in Neovim

00:44:07 - Variable font size in emacs GUI app

00:44:55 - Why do you go out of emacs?

00:46:06 - Why Alacritty terminal?

00:46:23 - Thoughts on Ghostty

00:49:24 - Thoughts on terminal splits, tabs

00:52:32 - Thoughts on TMUX

00:53:12 - Own emacs config or distro?

00:55:12 - Use Emacs as an SSH client

00:55:59 - Emacs SSH key based auth?

00:56:10 - Tool to push to gitlab github

00:57:38 - Thoughts on macOS

01:00:04 - Ubuntu or Debian server

01:01:34 - Snap packages, docker, kubernetes

01:03:04 - Debian repos, old packages

01:04:02 - Really long preamble to ask something

01:05:42 - Stable Linux distro, similar to macOS

01:05:55 - Thoughts on Fedora

01:07:25 - snaps, flatpaks, app images

01:08:14 - Drawbacks to flatpaks?

01:09:42 - Distro hopping

01:10:56 - Install Neovim as a flatpak?

01:11:40 - Rivalry between Linux and MacOS?

01:12:13 - Microsoft and Linux issues

01:13:57 - What if Microsoft was still unix based?

01:15:48 - Favorite Linux command, dir

01:16:26 - Thoughts on system76 and Framework

01:16:53 - Hardware compatibility in Linux

01:19:41 - Thoughts on Windows

01:23:36 - Keyboard, zsa moonlander

01:23:57 - zsa ergodox

01:24:21 - zsa plank

01:25:41 - Layout, qwerty

01:26:17 - Thoughts on homelabs

01:27:54 - Gluster Cluster for storage

01:28:33 - AWS reliability for storing videos

01:29:18 - Why keep backup of youtube videos?

01:30:04 - YouTube videos demonetized

01:30:55 - YouTube strikes?

01:32:07 - 2nd channel dtoptions

01:32:30 - Working on DTOS linux distro