My Daily Use Linux Applications For My Business

Linux says my daily driver well it has been for about pushing ten years now I started in her with the desktop environments using it instead of Windows roughly ten years ago so around 2009 2010 I didn't set that date in a calendar and over the years you go from using Windows to fully using Linux to the point of I'm a little bit not lost in Windows but I'm gonna say it feels clunky to me I still do admin work in Windows for my day-to-day business but I'm not using Windows for it I'm fixing people's Windows systems fixing domain controllers Active Directory cetera et cetera people misquote or miss state my intentions thinking I just hate Microsoft and I this is just a flaw people have in tech where they assume if you use one thing you hate the other thing I guess this probably goes outside of tech as well but a lot of people make that assumption I don't hate other things I mean choose not to use Windows but it's not because I hate it but it windows after using Linux of once you get comfortable in that environment does feel clunky it is nice though because Windows has brought many of the features that we've enjoyed in Linux for a very long time to the Windows 10 platform somewhat and I'm not gonna get into every little detail on there and I'm also not gonna lie to you I do use for editing is not Photoshop that was probably one of my big challenges that kept me on Windows longer I used to do a lot of graphic design work and is not an absolute equivalent to Photoshop it's very different once you get used to it's a good tool to learn it's a good tool to use I do enjoy it now that there was certainly some pain that took time of reading and watching which the good news is just search for tutorial how to do each thing that you can't figure out how to do and you'll find many of them on YouTube no I don't have links to them and they were so long ago I'm not sure which the best video is now for that I haven't done all the research in it it's kind of a trial and error to get to where I'm at back to the topic here what are my Linux desktop daily use tools that I'm using all the time what do I load on here how do I get my job done how do I get my business up and running so it's a combination of things here and I'm gonna include some of the business tools I use and the tools I use for video because they're kind of one of the same Pfister is a blend I've had for putting all these YouTube videos out yes I spend at least part of not every day but if part of the time like today when producing a video so I'm gonna be using those tools I'm going to start with distribution though and this is where people when they start out in Linux gets super hung up they want to know what distro they should use now big fan of Ubuntu was for a long time it's a kind of a boring distro but it's a good place to start because it's stable it works the drivers work pretty much out of the box for most situations then if you want a little more polish pop OS came along and so now my recommendation generally for people starting out is go right to pop OS it's a bun - with polish you still get all the benefits of a nice stable base not exciting I said stable because some people say but I like the bleeding cutting edge million features I get from insert name of distribution here yeah I get it and KDE for example does have lots of bells and whistles so it's a popular choice and I've used KDE for a while I've used the kdeeny on distribution for a while I'm a pop OS it just it works it works really really well the updates are smooth the whole system the pop store everything is just been great I've got a couple reviews you can find a pop OS but I'll bring it up and this is particularly running on my pop top 480 which is actually a Lenovo ThinkPad el 480 with the i5 8520 UHD 620 graphics nothing great here nothing high-end this is my well this is my only computer I use when I'm not at the office if I take this home and I need to do technology work at all it's this here now the reason I bring up the distribution is one of the things I'm going to pull up right here I am currently VPN back to my house but I do have a handful of different VPNs I can have to provide it a need to be on a VPN no special software to load other than and I've got a video on setting this up it just loads the VPN tools that are built in now I've been a long long time over 20 years Debian user so I'm really familiar with the Debian environment and so Debian based distributions or a bun - is well all use apt and using the app system does help to get these loaded is a little piece of it and I've got a video it shows how to set the VPN up in here but it's really easy to be able just to go in here set this up and manage your networking on here and jump to different networks I'm already at the office so I don't need to VPN there but I do VPN back to my house to synchronize certain things or if I need access to things now in the background here this question comes up a lot because I will do network engineering and Wi-Fi and this little utility which I don't know that it needs its own review because it's really basic and simple but for Wi-Fi scanning link quality measuring in real time I've never found a UI like a whole graphical system it didn't work as good as wave mine does right here wave mom being essentially you know written and working at the command-line level here but you know graphics adequate enough I don't think it's one of those things that requires more but from here I can go in and see things and be able to go okay I need a list and you scan and be able to see the connections the connection speed and details about the connection pretty straightforward and easy to do cuz I have those details that you may want what's the RX rate the bandwidth the width of the channel etc it's wave mod apt-get install wave mod and of course like I said distribution doesn't matter a lot if you're using a sent to s based distribution RedHat distribution I believe it's just young install wave on it's available across a wide variety of platforms I'm going to do a couple other command line ones so this is T MUX I've got a video on getting started with T mocks and T mocks is great for being able to split the screen ssh into different things so another command line app i use would be t mocks and of course them for editing I've always just liked them when it comes to editing things but there is times when I'm not using it so go over here to downloads folder and actually exits and we'll see downloads then what is in here tests yeah them got all my stuff how this how is set up I have a link I have to my github so you can have your vim your command-line everything set up the way I do with my team ox all those configs are completely available for free and any time I do customization to them so I'll go to my dot files hit poll cool re I didn't have a change in here so now I'm to the his version of Team ox for a change I had made to it and my config file get is another thing I have installed on here and I'm not gonna go all command-line here in case you're clicking away from this video but I do use the command line quite a bit and including what I need to pull a project so our - f let's just whoops get rid of everything in my git and show you how I use git real quick so let's go over here and we'll look at this repository and I've talked about this as an extra updater and we'll show you I use get all the time and it just makes it really simple you copy this we're gonna go over here and we're just going to go get whoops clone that pull clone drop that in there and now I've got this ad in there so I use get a lot to grab repositories projects different things that I'm working on it's really quick way once you learn how it works and if with you know CDs and aura updater and I find you to update this project you would just go git pull sound groups having trouble typing today get pull pull the latest version make sure you always have it up to date I may do some tutorials on git I'm not an absolute expert at it but it does become very handy when you're doing any type of tooling where you need different updates pull up find the github project grab the files you need I'll start running through it real quick being able to work this from the command line there are you eyes for it but I've been from the command line that difficult to use you know very quickly I can start pulling information here things I want they're not a big deal so I always like to keep things clean now I think that's for the most part I mean I could go on and on about command line utilities and I've got a couple videos on it but for the most part those are the common ones other than looking at things like a CH top so I want to see what's running and how many processors it's using etc etc which we already know Chrome's gonna be sucking up all the memory so let's switch over to Chrome why do I use Chrome there's someone shaking their fist at me about this chrome is integrated into Google very well because well Google makes it I know it supports G sweet very very well my business life is G sweet so people asked why aren't you I fit someone asked why I don't use protonmail for business which kind of is a head-scratcher maybe I'm unaware that they have some business use case that I don't know but yes my business life is in and out of G suite that's how we contact clients is using G suite it's how we do our management of all of our documents even our inbound lead generation is just a series of things on G suite and because it's a web-enabled I'm not gonna dive deep into you know G suite but being web enabled means it doesn't matter if it's on Linux or Windows the platforms the same because it's all done in a browser matter of fact this is one of those things where more and more things have moved to the browser including well Zen Orchestra and allows me to you know fold via management all through a web browser where I can spin up and set up and configure virtual machines migrate and move them and all through a web interface so I have no application so it matter-of-fact out the more things that load that II can load through a web browser generally makes me happy because I don't have to load software on my computer and I only have one platform an update when I update an orchestra to the latest version me and every one of my texts that log into it always are saying the same thing with the same version that goes to our invoicing software yes I still use invoice ninja once again what I've enabled being able to do that all of our invoicing and automation of payments all through a web enabled platform means nothing loaded on there now I will cover because on the topic of Finance K my money this is cross-platform by the way I running in Linux but you can run this in Windows this has been what's managed my company's money for well I think I started using it in 2013 and I've really really enjoyed it I'm not a QuickBooks fan at all I know QuickBooks has a web-enabled platform which is not a fan and keep my money I have a video on this I need to probably do a new one because Kay my money has gone through a lot of versions and has some updates and it keeps getting better but it functionally if you dig around and find why probably one of the few people I think I've seen this done a video on key my money it's a simple process of you get bank files I import them in and do an alignment of all those bank files from each one of my bank accounts and drop them into to do my P&L transaction lists etc etc and understand how the business is well it's as a main you call them KPI or Kate key performance indicators of your business and also money management I need to figure out where all the money is the IRS cares greatly about that and making sure all of this information is properly put together is really really important so I've been using key my money like I said for quite a while now how do i sync all this because obviously I'm using my laptop but I probably do this in my desktop too right you got to have that backed up and I'll just throw up same thing I've done several videos on the sink thing is my favorite way to do this I know a lot of people are big big fans of ownCloud and to me I like keeping my threat surface much much reduced we load sink thing and a couple systems we sink it across a VPN which that's why it says this is disconnected now if I open the VPN back up it'll reconnect I have it connected to that you know so it's all going through encrypted tunnels but by the way syncing also sends things over an encrypted transport layer so it's not like a huge worry but hey why even have things exposed but this allows me and my staff we've this little sink thing we have a shared documents repository that we know is very locked down and private and not shared within a third party and also synced off-site this is I've done some of our videos like it says we won't have to in depth on it but it works really really well for keeping everything in sync and it's really lightweight as you can see here using all of 39 Meg's of my 16 gigs of ram to keep on this particular seam about four gigs files 2090 files all in sync and there's more on different systems in our office and outside for synchronization somebody close that all right now getting back to so is not Photoshop it is not a replacement for Photoshop where are my text features and all this fun stuff I don't know I don't see them because they'd only exist in they just are missing some features it is a learning curve it is not like you just need to learn how to do this compared to Photoshop and I see that because it was a long time Photoshop user and it took me a long time to get off Windows because of Photoshop and I used to just run Photoshop in a VM for a number of years until I just forced myself to learn once I've learned it yes pretty much most every video thumbnail for the last maybe two years or longer has been published by and edited by so most of my channel is done with this as part of my open source workflow is using now producing the videos a matter of fact this video itself is being produced on OBS you don't see it running on the laptop because it actually runs in a studio computer now you will cringe a little yes I use Windows on the studio computer because it just works better because of the little switch box that I have right here I've talked about that in my studio video for those wondering so I use OBS to record one and recording in my office studio versus when I'm recording here so I do have OBS installed on my laptop I don't record it as frequently for my laptop but when I do live streams it is there so OBS is great the open-source version but then I do use Windows on the machine that's actually recording connected to the camera because it works a lot better with this yes there's the Python library yes I'm aware of it it needs to get better though that out there it's okay now file management the file management is actually not that big of a deal to me using the built-in file manager for here for pop OS works great I don't have a problem with it allows me to have SSH connections in two different things I can just quickly go here and go SFTP oops : / / and jump right in - lets go - dozer and now I can SFTP into that particular machine I already have my SSH keys in because and I haven't done a deep dive of this one.you SSH which I would say it seems obvious because it's built-in but it is one of the utilities they use a lot so if I were to go to SSH dozer the way that autocompletes is in your SSH directory let me exit out CD dot s SSH in this I'm gonna start from the command line see that SSH you will see a right here a file for authorized keys and public key authentication is what I use in an inside of there is it config alright and what you're seeing here I just want to make sure I show exactly how it's doing it so LS la config is a symbolic link to Tom LTS bash scripts Tom SSH config and what this actually is is just my simple way of anytime I add a server and I'm not going to list them all interested a lot of servers and information I'm going to do a set SSH and how the config files work this allows me to have properly named systems in there and then sync those systems especially when I'm working on a project I just drop them in there real quick but they in turn work in hand-in-hand with the same names that you have when you're in the file manager which is kind of cool so you see it here as tank now another side of this is what about Windows shares well that's pretty easy too so SMB 192 168 340 we're doing an SMB share we go to the studio folder I'm going to connect anonymously but I could have logged in with the login and here's some of the files that are in the studio share this is an ssh one and they all get mounted and then you can go through a tabbed view so open tab videos go here i can now copy and paste them between here or even open tab again etc etc and this nice tab view makes it really easy to manage a bunch of things that I have open and manipulate files and a lot of my may please show those files is you know dragging them into kdenlive kdenlive definitely an app I love to use it is how almost all of the videos on this channel are done the first handful of videos I used a tool called open shot I just didn't feel robust enough cane live is amazing I'm gonna do some more videos because they keep coming up with more and more versions I've definitely donated a few times and helping out with what they refer to as their code sprint and trying to get more features in there and then people will right away compare this to some of the more premium expensive open non open-source editing platforms no it's not gonna be as full features them but for my channel and what I do I'm not a person who needs lots of advanced effects I just don't bother putting them on my channel because I don't think they would be any value add to what I do this works great I have some videos where I spend a little bit more time in production and those were also producer Kate in life and what you kind of learn the nuances of what you have to do in Kate in life it works it works pretty well for getting things done but yeah it is not going to be it's not like any of the premium products out there that are for pay but if like I said look at my channel you'll see what I've done with it and pretty much anything in the last two years has 100% in the last two years maybe in the last three years has been produced my last three years have been four with kdenlive definitely a great program and yes that's my Tesla on there I got more Tesla videos I've been wanting to do I've actually shot a bunch of stuff for it I just haven't had a time to do all the editing this is actually in a fall and yes it's the winter now so yes I'm behind on those those are sometimes harder for me to produce now behind that is Jeannie love Jeannie this is a great tool matter of fact if we go over here what do we have that we can drag in here so Jeannie will let us do code editing so let me go over here yes I like vim but you know hey sometimes you want to do something a little bit nicer than that we erased that so let's just look in the Downloads folder well drag in a jnlp file you can see it can do the formatting and everything else it looks pretty nice and actually let's go back over here real quick let's clone something there so let's do that go over to get whoops clone that in there real quick so we have some files home get and then from here we're gonna go and let's just pull the these two piles and there was drag them in here Hey look how we can jump from section to section on this Jeannie's just really nice for doing this definitely handles well so I can find files search and replace pull things out of there it recognizes a large variety of formats so you can go through here reload as recent files new template HTML Python Java so many different options in here which I really like so it's like I said a very great tool for doing this and when you're doing a search and replace you can do things globally document only sections only etc etc it does have hooks to build things and tie into more more development that I don't usually do mostly I'm just editing config files and this is a quick way to do it especially I've any time you probably see me do videos on how to do some raw editing I like a PF sense I'm Jeannie's kind of my go-to easy way to do it vim is to but Jeannie's a little bit nicer in terms of being able to you know work at all in the GUI here VirtualBox love VirtualBox I've got a couple of videos on this I still use it Xen orchestra and XenServer maybe for my back-end and stuff we do for a lot of clients but on the other side of that stuff I need to do locally which only thing even loaded in here at the moment is tails when I was doing some playing with the latest version on there this is great I usually have a few other things loaded but then I delete them because this computer is fast but not super fast so what I'll do is I'll update them on my main work station and then re-import them so this is that in between when I purged them and then I'll import a Windows VM sometimes I need to spend that up on a meta client and it's nice to have this so I can snapshot it run a Windows VM pass things true as needed it does have USB pass-through support usually not necessary usually I just have to run some application which I can create a snapshot so I load something and then destroy the snapshot or special thing I had to do for the client so no big deal there VirtualBox is free it works great I don't even bother loading the extra enhanced extensions that I know are proprietary and apparently somewhat controversial because I know they're trying to get people for license fees for it now one of the other things is shutter I love shutter now you know other people will talk about and I've I've used it have you tried Tom flame shot yes flame shot is pretty neat but I'm not the biggest fan of it flame shot it's kind of cool it adds some context and things like that maybe it needs its own video at some point but flame shots it's just not my favorite when it comes to grabbing these things matter of fact it doesn't even show in the bar here does it nope it's hidden there's a way I could probably just play it but I don't care enough with shutter on the other hand I do this all the time this is my favorite thing to do is shutter I do this I click Edit I go to this you know you tell people this is where you're supposed to click this is so frequently things I post on well replies to messages and stuff like that people always ask me questions you'll see this in the forums I'll just throw a couple arrows on there or throw a couple texts over there I also frequently to remove location type data that I mean that's why there's a screenshot in here of something else I'll take a picture and I know I can strip it out I just frequently will grab a screenshot with shudder of a picture of a thing also it allows me to do that same thing I can quickly go in and grab it and then mark it up and be like I'm pointing at this you know what I mean and then you kind of get the idea I can quickly edit something or the other thing you do with shutter that is frequently done is this right here it has a blur tool so I'm like well that's private information we're gonna hide and now I have part of it hidden and arrow pointer to what I want to point to and then this gets posted you'll see me post these on Twitter looks like Twitter or any other social media platform or just in forums replies I'm when I'm in discussions with people ok click here to click here or I'll show something out of my system but I don't want to share pertinent personal information out but show people where how to do something so that works really well a couple of things I will mention and we're gonna scroll down here real quick I sometimes do like Zen map I know I do know how to use that map from the command line Zen map makes it easy it's simple yeah you're not running as root it does work better if you run as root but you can throw a target in here do a quick scan and 3.1 to 200 and we'll just do a quick scan scan and you can start building data information very quickly host services etc etc and a cool we know what's open on this particular network ports host topology and you can start diving into this real quick and then save this file send it out and start processing in a new rating and network very really quickly I just started enumerate all this information in here so it worked pretty well for that I'm gonna close anyways so Zen map is in there and so is Wireshark Wireshark is really a great go-to when you're trying to do network diagnostics it needs its own video but a lot of people are familiar with it look it up where a shark just likes to dive into it and great for doing Network packet analysis a couple runners up on here I mean they're important to me because I use them we do our communication through signal and I and one of the important things I'm a review of signal I probably should do an updated reviews they've added so many features is when I communicate with people I don't necessarily want it all to be perfect forever permanent records I should say of things so I use signal to create ephemeral messages what I mean by that is even discussions I have with my wife or kids or whatever I like them to be encrypted because I can not even because there's something super to hide but it's my choice in my opportunity it's my ability to use encryption therefore I do and I like those information to expire so I set timers on all of it I we set messages to expire 24 hours 48 hours etc you can do that in signal and it works really really well and it's a great way to have encrypted communications we've encouraged tons of our clients to use it so we can message them via signal and be able to you know have it encrypted if we want to send them a piece of information not through text and signal does tie to your cell phone which does bother some people because then you do have to reveal your cell phone number yeah but I'm talking about communications between personal friends and the last one I'm not going to pull it up because there's a ton of private messages in there that does not require you do divulge your cell phone number it's gonna be key base have a review of that I need to an updated one they've done an amazing job of adding features of it key base is great.i it has become a go-to for group conversations that I can also know are encrypted and ephemeral which I want them to disappear as well vg1 me and xavier for example we have a couple groups and I have several hacking discussions going on and we like those messages they don't need to be dug up five years from now or permanently in there we share what information you want if there's some nugget of information or we share a github repository I don't use my chat as some deep reference because that's clunky to go oh remember I remember like six months ago you mentioned it let me search for every github link you ever do in there no no I pull those out start the repositories file them where I want to follow them on github I pulled information is relevant out I know the rest will expire that discussion we had can expire I'm fine with that there's enough permanent record of my online activity kept everywhere else and as I kind of stated several times and once again here I have this is all we're talking about is my business life not my personal life my personal life would be separate and I use other browsers for that that's one of the ways you can keep a clear separation between business and personal that's a different topic and I'm actually personally not online as much her as present is talking to you on YouTube so part of my business life I consider it but it's fondue this video talk about the daily usage on there I don't have any problem running my business on this couple other mentions or like yes we still use SolarWinds which is web-based so I can manage client systems and that so much my job is spent doing network engineering or working on servers for clients you're just SSH in and stuff like that for remote access we like screenconnect when using it connect wise control for a long long time it is cross-platform in both ways not only can I support people using other platforms even though I'm using Linux the reverse is true I can connect to Linux boxes if I need to so people running Linux can connect to a screen connect and go out and burn all control that way as well that's the platform we're using for that I think that's it for the list I can leave links down below but yeah this is all great tools and like I said I don't have any problem with doing daily usage on Linux been doing it for years it's not been a problem it's however in my business it's not really been an issue for those times I do there are always some special one-offs like I said that do require Windows for example we have a couple of clients that use a very specific Cisco VPN yes we spent up a virtual box that we have on our server that we then remote into to get to the clients network because they only support getting in via the Cisco app that they have and it just doesn't work right in Linux so therefore that system is designed for that those are the one-off use cases yeah that's why VirtualBox is installed in here and that's why we do only time we really have to use Windows in here is when we're doing that type of went off work and I will at least mention as people are gonna ask about but Tom don't you play any games yes I do it one of my favorite games that I play and will at least show this give you know just so you know I do play some I don't have steam on here so you don't really play any games that aren't in a repository so but this one I got a thing for Tetris and this is great it's I think it's called bass bashed wrists it's bash test dress it's great I I can sit and play this for a while if I'm stuck somewhere waiting for something and I don't have I don't really reading this is just a great way what you're waiting for a circuit turn up to you kill a little bit of time so with that I'll leave you and I'm gonna go play some Tetris cuz once I started I can't just and I got to play it more and more alright thanks and thank you for making it to the end of the video if you like this video please give it a thumbs up if you like to see more content for the channel hit the subscribe button and hit the bell icon if you like youtube to notify you when new videos come out if you'd like to hire us head over to lawrence systems comm fill out our contact page and let us know what we can help you with and what projects you like us to work together on if you want to carry on the discussion hetero to forum style or insistence calm or we can carry on the 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Published: Thu Dec 19 2019