All the OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE I use on my servers, laptop & desktop

most of the software I use day to day is open source from my computer and server operating systems to most of my apps and what I actually run on my servers well excluding on my phone because most of the apps that you will run on a phone are proprietary unfortunately maybe there's a video in there we'll look at that in the future so today we'll take a look at all the open source software I use on a daily basis for my personal life and for the channel and this includes today's sponsors application this video is sponsored by savings portmaster portmaster is an all-in-one tool to easily take your privacy to the next level and it's a tool I use myself on all of my Linux devices portmaster lets you automatically block all trackers and malware in every application you run on your computer not just your web browser but everything you run it's easy to use with defaults already in place that lets you just set it and forget it but if you like to configure every Rule and every app you also can portmaster is completely free and open source and also free of charge as it's funded by users that subscribe to the SPN a super powered VPN that gives you multiple identities for every connection of every application so if you want to easily improve the privacy of your system whatever the Linux distro you use or even on Windows click the link in the description below and download the portmaster for free so let's begin with the operating systems the stuff that actually lets me use these computers my laptop and my desktop run Fedora workstation 38 with gnome44 I won't spend too much time on that I have a dedicated video on my workflow for each of these devices and for the extensions I added suffice it to say it's very stable it's easy to use it's perfect on a laptop with a touchpad and it does everything I needed to I might replace that with NYX OS in the future probably when plasma 6 releases and is a available in NYX and if you're wondering why it's because replicating my entire system with just one config file on any other computer is exactly what I need as I very often Test new devices and Hardware now for my servers I have one running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS it's used for my next Cloud Server it's hosted on lenode and it's the backbone of all my digital life and the channel why Ubuntu and y20.04 well it was the LTS release when I created that server and I picked Ubuntu because installing nexcloud as a snap is extremely easy with just one command line yes I don't like snaps on the desktop but for Server stuff man are they easy and yes I am a lazy bastard my other server is used to host my podcast the Linux and open source News podcast if you don't know it's like the Linux and open source News videos that I make but more detailed with more topics in audio form the link is in the description This Server is hosted on linode and it runs Debian 11 because 12 wasn't out yet when I created the server and because I like Debian and I'm familiar with how it works I will generally also have a bunch of other distros that I run at any given time on spare laptops but these are just for testing purposes for what I use day to day these are the operating systems that I use oh wait I forgot I also run Holo ISO on the PC in my living room that serves as my Linux gaming console I also have a video about it if you want to see what I used and how well it runs I will have to update my servers at some point to move to a more recent Ubuntu LTS or to Debian 12 but I will probably only do that when support ends or when it becomes impossible to apply updates to the software I run on these servers so let's talk about exactly that what I run on these servers and yeah don't worry we'll talk about desktop apps in a minute the first thing is nexcloud as I said it is installed as a snap and it works beautifully I don't get the updates as soon as nexcloud publishes them but when I do get them they're very well tested and I've never had any issues with that I'm currently on version 26.0.4 so next Cloud Hub 4 not 5. I personally don't care about all the AI related stuff that nexcloud added in Hub 5 so I'm not in a hurry to update apart from the nerdy part of me that wants to use the latest thing all the time I mostly use nexcloud as the platform to handle all my online accounts it hosts my calendars contacts tasks photos notes RSS feeds passwords and I also use it to share files with sponsors or to share the link to the weekly Patron cast I make for patrons and YouTube members it is secured with an authentication app passwords or end-to-end encrypted and accessed through a browser extension and generally I don't use the web interface much everything is access through various desktop or mobile apps which we will all cover in a minute my other server hosts my podcast using why you know host and their casterboard app what you know host is a very simple graphical dashboard to run one or multiple server applications it basically just simplifies hosting stuff and it has pre-packaged apps to install stuff in one click do you notice the theme here I'm lazy and I don't want to install stuff manually now the only app that runs on this thing is castopod it's a fediverse enabled podcast platform that gives you a full website for your podcast the RSS feed you need to publish it to other platforms detailed anonymized statistics and a lot of other features and you get an admin dashboard to publish new episodes It's really really good and it uses the activity Pub standard which means that you can follow the podcast for example on Mastodon and get each new episode as opposed on your Mastodon app or more soon you will be able to follow it on the threads app from meta just kidding don't use that thing now to access these servers I use SSH and the Black Box terminal app it's a relatively recent one for Gnome but it looks good and it does what I need it to now to interact with next Cloud related stuff I use a few apps the first one is iota's it's a gtk application that plugs into next Cloud notes and lets you take well notes in simple distraction free markdown it doesn't have all the features the new next Cloud Notes app has like a what you see is what you get editor but it's more than enough for me for RSS feeds I used news flash which is another gtk app they're actually going to release a new version soon but the current one is great maybe I will move my RSS feeds into Thunderbird but I sort of like having an app for each task as much as possible true Unix philosophy here I also of course use the next Cloud desktop client to sync all my files to and from my Computers Plus the Nautilus next Cloud integration so I can generate a shared link for any file straight from the file manager and I would really like this integration to work with the flat pack version of the next Cloud desktop client but for now it doesn't support it for tasks I use Endeavor it's pretty basic but it's enough for my needs and it also syncs with next Cloud tasks so I can get these on any device I use and on my phone I also use the next Cloud app to send all my photos automatically from my phone to a folder that is then synced to all my computers and I use the official nexcloud note app to have access to my scripts while I'm recording tasks are accessed to the reminders app contacts and calendars through the default apps of the phone as well it is a very easy setup it's just as convenient as using the Google or Apple's ecosystem except you have to enter your login information into multiple apps because for some reason some don't use the next Cloud online accounts that I set up in Gnome now for what I use to make videos and the podcast for audio I use audacity it looks like crap it's very old but it does the trick it has the three effects I need a noise reduction tool a compressor and a normalizing tool if you have simpler more modern looking apps that do the same thing I am open to suggestions for editing videos I used to use PTV and then Caden live but they were just too slow they were not Hardware accelerated and Kaden live started crashing a lot so I moved to resolve which unfortunately is not open source so we will not talk about it here for my thumbnails it is obviously it has a bad reputation among people who are familiar with Photoshop but as I've never used that proprietary thing is really easy to use for me although I'll freely admit that my thumbnails are far from being works of art so maybe I'm the exception here lets me handle layers gradients removing shapes from my usual white cutouts Place some tags draw some Shadows or outlines it's just very simple and I'm used to it is the name stupid yes does the program work also yes and for recording my screen it's OBS on every device it's very powerful it lets me record in a format resolve can use it uses my Nvidia gpus and NV Inc to avoid completely destroying the CPU while I'm recording it's just good I don't use most of its features I don't stream I don't use plugins but for basic recordings it just works really well and I also use a few utilities to make video editing a little bit easier when I happen upon an image I want to use that uses a format resolve doesn't support like webp or avif I use converter to convert it to PNG it's a simple gnome utility that just converts images either just one or multiple ones for converting video files I use ffmpeg in a terminal I started using handbrake for a while but it was just too cluttered compared to the good old command line and what I need to re-download one of my old videos that I didn't backup I use parabolic previously tube downloader you just paste the URL set the quality in format and it downloads it it's easy as pie and that's about it for video and audio production I wish I could replace resolve with an open source video editing tool but for now I have yet to find one that suits my needs now for a few smaller utilities for virtual machines I generally run them using gnome boxes because it's really simple it automatically changes the resolution when you resize the window and it just runs really well I also use virtualbox on my desktop because for some reason gnome boxes stopped working there after an update the create button for virtual machines stays grayed out all the time and I could not find a way to fix it on that computer if you have a solution I will gladly take it I much prefer gnome boxes to virtualbox for my backups I use PC our backup it's a small tool you can exclude files and folders but it's just meant for personal file backups not a whole system restoration I don't use anything for that but at least I have two backups of my personal files one on next cloud and one on an external drive I also use saving sportmaster which you will know about if you listen to the sponsor segment of this video I will not present it again it's a wonderful open source tool to analyze the connections leaving your computer and even to toggle a system-wide Tracker or ad blocker for editing text I generally just use Nano in a terminal time to let me know I should use Vim or emacs instead which I want I love Nano I'm a nano guy it's really great for music I use YTM music because I pay for YouTube premium to avoid ads on my TV and it comes with a music streaming service so I might as well use it the app itself is open source but it's also just a wrapper for YouTube music's website which isn't open source as far as I know so I'm not sure it counts and now for productivity apps I won't talk much about the web browser it's Firefox everywhere even on my phone it's fast it has all the extensions I want I rarely happen upon a website that doesn't work with it and I can theme it with this really nice lip advisor theme so it looks like a gnome app I love it it's the only browser to use to fight Google's Monopoly on rendering engines and I use almost no extensions apart from the next Cloud password manager an ad in tracker blocker which is ublock origin and the ecosia search extension for my office suite I use LibreOffice everyone knows about it it's great for my needs especially with the tabbed interface it looks decent on gnome and it does all I need from it although admittedly that's not much because I don't work well I do work I make these videos but I don't work in an office I don't need to exchange documents back and forth with other people so compatibility is very low on my list of priorities so LibreOffice has all the features that I actually need for email and calendar I moved to Thunderbird saying as version 115 is absolutely wonderful and very well designed I switched it to cards view for more legibility I went to a lower information density and I removed all the buttons I didn't need from the header bar and I also hit most of the panels that I didn't need I applied this libid Vita theme that makes Thunderbird blend a lot more in my desktop environment as well I'm still waiting for the Sync features to land to actually use tags and filters because I don't want to have to do this on every computer I use look I'm not recreating all my filters on two different computers and recreating and re-tagging every email on two different computers I do YouTube which should tell you that I don't really like to work I plugged my next Cloud account in there so I get all my calendars and contacts synced on every device and my email address is provided by the registrar for my website and so that's about it for all the open source software I run on a daily basis there are a bunch of smaller utilities that I use varying frequently to help me do a few things like manage PDF documents or convert other file formats but on a day-to-day basis these are all the things that I use and I also use today's sponsors devices on a daily basis tuxedo is a Linux Hardware manufacturer which means that they create laptops desktops nooks and whatever else that runs Linux out of the box the hardware is specifically picked to run well with Linux and if there are a few incompatibilities they actually 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Channel: The Linux Experiment

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Length: 16min 17sec (977 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 23 2023