JustAGuy Linux: Let's talk About the King, Debian

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.

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/iPZbd1GEV7s

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

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