Titus vs LTT - Simple Tasks on Linux

i'm chris titus and i use windows linux and mac on a daily basis now linus has released his linux part three and basically we took on 12 tasks i absolutely love this part i did not react to the part two at least not on the main channel here just because i did not like part two but part three it really explained and showed all the different things and different tasks and what that looks like in linux but i want to expand on it today we're gonna take each 12 of these tasks show you how luke linus did it and then how i do it because a lot of these tasks i do do differently and also kind of add a couple caveats to some stuff they showed as uh sometimes it's not as easy as it was for them so this is actually kind of the reverse of what some people say and with that let's get on the desktop and get right into it first up is cutting and pasting a file this is really easy for all of them they just pulled up their file manager they were using dolphin for a lot of the copy and paste but uh for me a lot of times i'm using thunar which i like a little bit better than dolphin they had a lot of criticism of a dolphin and dolphin even for a veteran i think you can utilize some of the good features in it but for a noob i really don't like dolphin uh personally i really love thunar it's a good balance of noob friendly but also has a lot of really cool tools such as like uh copying pasting a file again you could just right click it copy it and then go into wherever you're going and paste that file right in like that but you could also do it uh from terminal so they did not show it this way as a linux you know a lot of times we need to do things from kernel terminal so let's uh just copy trying to do simple tasks and we're going to put that in the games directory and that just kind of takes it and puts it in games like that so that was a copy paste uh or just a copy but if you want to do like cut and paste you could use mv to move or cp to copy so mv is moving and copy is this also if you're interested in terminal remember dash dash help or man which is manual and then like copy command and it kind of gives you an even greater explanation of what's going on so it's really really cool love these copy paste can't really go wrong with it next up was digitally signing luke did it this way which i thought was extremely interesting and frankly i'm gonna actually probably use this program in the future in linux and then linus kind of fumbled around a little bit with his uh doing it because i think he was trying to do it the proper way luke really just kind of copy and pasted an image into a pdf document and that's not really digitally signing uh if you're like submitting it to like a quartz or something like that but for most instances for most documents people don't care about the digital signature and there you go you can do it the copy-paste way like luke did but for linus i can appreciate he ran out of time and and frankly it's a difficult thing when you get into digital signing on windows or even mac i mean all of them are kind of difficult to do me personally i'm just going to say i don't really use linux and pdfs pdf was actually created by adobe so what i do is i usually boot into a windows or mac instance launch adobe reader and then just simply use it in those environments sad to say pdfs sometimes i found just don't react that well to some of the more obscure stuff like adobe portfolios digital signatures can be a little bit troublesome and this is just kind of uh how i do it but it was cool to see luke do it that way now for excel spreadsheets this was actually pretty easy for both linus and luke i'm not even going to play the clip mainly because they had an image just directly in here and all they did was just right click it and then export it directly pretty much any editor or office editor in linux does this libreoffice i'm using only office here you could also use free office all these have really good compatibility and i've actually never run into this problem uh anytime i've ever wanted to export an image from an excel document again very simple to do with just a right click and export now for task four they actually did some cool stuff with fonts now they did it all through there and and basically the gist of it is you need to extract like a font from like fonts.com or wherever you might get it open it up and then extract that and then right click and say install with the editor however i don't install fonts this way both luke and linus did it their own way which i thought was kind of interesting but also kind of it speaks to how good some of the distros they're using are however again i don't i i'm more of a server admin first uh linux desktop user second so how i install fonts usually i extract everything through command line using like a tar but i have all of that in this right here and i put everything pretty much in my fonts folder so anytime i create a new system i usually just mount this drive here which we'll get here in a second and then just copy all the fonts that i like to use so i would just do a copy of this into basically my home folder dot fonts like this and once that's copied i just do fc dash vf for verbose and force and what this does is it goes through that cache directory finds all those fonts and loads them automatically so i just loaded about a hundred fonts in about 30 seconds it's kind of a cool little way to do it and now if i launched and i think there was a like a gotham or overseer font we could actually just go into here let's say we wanted to type something here and i can just go linux right here and put that in the forefront so you can see the overseer font in action and i think uh o's are the ones with like the fallout theme which is kind of cool so anyways uh that's just font installs which is just a different way of doing it next up is like printing a document now they were printing to um their own respective printers i actually haven't installed any printer here if i did i haven't had any issues with printing i have a brother i think it's a m277 is a great mfp out there but one thing they didn't touch on or i probably would have been a better challenge although it would have been very difficult for their respective printers is if they had mfps which is multi-function printers to scan sometimes that can be a little bit troublesome in linux for my specific printer i just hard coded it on that network printer to scan into my network drive on my synology box back there so i don't really have any issues with that but i also just kind of want to say when it comes to scanning and some of the extra tools that some multi-function printers come with it's a little bit dodgy on the actual support in linux however i've never really had much problems actually getting to just plain printing aspect of linux and they didn't either it was really easy to add all of them even more so than it is in windows so for compressing files a lot of times you would go into here select them and then they would compress them using here i actually don't have any compression programs installed to do that through the gui because i don't i don't like it that way i know i probably should install something but i just haven't so how i usually do it is just do a vcf and i usually like let's say i want to enable this fonts.tar.xz this is just a way to zip files in linux and then i just want to put all those into that fonts files so if we just do that do a listing again you can see this right here has my new font star and this is all the fonts that are installed on this system so if i did want to let's say go thunar right here you can see that's my zip file and i could take this put it everywhere the reason why i do terminal 1 i think it's a little bit faster than trying to select all these although you know control a right click compress that's pretty easy too but with all the options here i find terminal edges it out a little bit also speed wise i find this to be a little bit superior than the graphic elements because you can get hangs and other things that they kind of talked about in their video when they were doing the compression so this is just a kind of another workaround for those out there trying to compress and send files now as far as screenshots go uh this was kind of cool to see linux does probably the best on screenshots i love it now on windows i like sharex it's a fantastic program for use windows users out there i even did a video on it i'll try and link it above but i would say for this uh screenshots i do all hotkey based on my specific like custom build desktop like i have here i do windows p to go ahead and take a screenshot of this entire screen like i just did or i do ctrl shift p and then i just select what it is and then i just hit save and it saves my screenshot you might be like where'd that go and i just have a screenshots folder with all kinds of different stuff in here and then i just get it put it and then i'm done so it takes very very few seconds to do all of my screenshots as i use flame shot with custom hotkeys and in windows i do the same thing with custom hotkeys but with share x very similar now as far as making shortcuts to things uh they actually did something i've never seen a linux user do in in a good way so it was actually very good how they made some of the shortcut keys like i think linus did it this way which i thought was cool as far as shortcuts go in linux for me a lot of times i do symbolic links to to let's say link a directory that makes it a shortcut or you could do aliases as well so if we look here let's say i wanted to make a shortcut for that image file to open up in per se so what i could do here is just make an alias of ltt equals and then what i do is just say and then i just make the home folder and then put this from downloads into ltt challenge right here like that so what this little shortcut does is it makes something to where i can just do ltt and then it would open up this thumbnail kind of cool but it's a way to do challenge and you might be like well how do you make that permanent there's a lot of different ways to do it but a lot of times people just like to use like bashrc and then put this at the end of the file and as far as network shares that was actually pretty easy for them they just pulled this up and i have a lot of network shares in my environment actually most of everything you see here is the network share this is the network share images final cut pro that's dedicated drive on my synology all these are actual network shares but i have them as local pass which makes this so much easier but if you wanted to do just like an smb and then pull up this network share i could just do something like this and type in my password to log in type in our password um and i'll just do a forward slash and this kind of connects to my network share and then i can go into images if i had any images i wanted to download i could grab them from my my nas box back there very simple to do right here again this is not really how i connect to it though uh so you could actually do put it directly in what's called etc stab you could put it in here you can see i have these kind of commented out as this is one way to do it i used to do it this way and there's nothing wrong with this way but i wanted to be a little bit more controlling of when i connect to it so i actually took this out so if you didn't want to do it through fstab or through the gui like linus and luke did you could easily go ahead and do this through a systemd service so if we actually go to etc systemd-system we can actually see all these different ones and what i did is i made little mount services and this mounts them basically after a timeout and then i have a specific thing that says hey i want to do it after you connect the drive so i think uh we have media dash drive here this is more of a tried and true sifs or samba share that they did and this is me just incorporating it into the core of the system and then having it start up as the system starts up and auto connect to everything but those are two different ways to auto connect from command line you can incorporate it with systemd like right here or you could also do it through fstab both ways are great or if you want to just connect to make a shortcut in your gui browser right here do it there too there's no wrong way of doing this all of them are very good and then probably uh some of the other things was just like playing 4k files i thought that was kind of interesting boom there's your 4k file and we can go full screen with it i think linus had some issues with full screen and i made a video a while back about this and what it was was basically me calling vlc trash uh it was probably my worst received videos in my channel's history and what i really should have labeled that is vlc's trash on linux it's not a best experience i always say mpv which i think linus actually did when he played his back but i like to use celluloid which is this it has a really slick front end it's able to scrub really quickly and then also on it you can change a lot of neat little things from pop-ups has all this shortcut keys to where it actually kind of walks through all the little different things you can do with that video as it's playing back so i really like celluloid if you're on kde you might go with like sm player very very similar to celluloid both of them use mpv so you can't really go wrong here and then finally i'll just show my discord here this is kind of a cool little thing i actually run like a little minecraft server minecraft.christitus.com and this is like my little discord server i throw up and i launch this automatically on startup i actually do it a different way than probably anybody in the world does it and if we actually pull this up i do all my configuration again i don't actually have a desktop environment this is all custom that i've just kind of built around a window manager so all my configuration actually happens from the command line which is a little bit weird but i'm going to do a future video of how i set all this up so if you want to replicate it you can but for today let's just come into our home directory we're just going to go into bspwm that's my window manager and then it's a launch file and what it does every time i launch and start my system it just runs through this file and there's a lot of different stuff in here it's a little bit complex but how i actually auto launch discord and synergy and all that other stuff i actually have a little script with a little ping result here and what i'm doing is i'm pinging cloudflare to see hey does cloudflare respond and if it does then i launch my discord into workspace six after that launches i go to here with a completely fresh uh environment which is great and that's kind of how i manage uh my auto launches so i actually auto launch a lot of different things from synergy to pycom which is like my compositor here but you got discord and it goes further and i even do my like my mount drives here which is specific to my thing but i do all this again from just a startup script and and i like to kind of control where all my windows end up and what workspaces oh man you can just go kind of wild with this uh and i think all of them basically had discord startup on pretty easily now now obviously this is not really the easiest way to start up discord for them it was much easier it was more of hey with mint just saying auto start application like luke did or or linus with his kde both of them have easy startups so i hope all this was really informative i really liked part three uh part two kind of got me bummed out i did not like part two at all but it was really good to see kind of like a return to form for uh this challenge and the thing i love the most is there was a lot of things that were educational in that video and that's what i always try and do with my videos here hopefully you learned something new see how i do it compared to them both ways there's nothing wrong with either way they're doing it all these ways we're good everything in that video i actually enjoyed because even i learned a little bit of something because i would never do it that way but it's not to say it's wrong it's just a different way of doing things so it's great what did you guys think of part three what did you think of this educational reacts video and with that let me know in the comments and i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

Views: 193,944

Keywords: chris titus tech, manjaro, arch, pop!_os, mint, linux, daily driver, part 3, print, email, screenshot, zip, using, easy to use, try linux, linus tech tips

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Length: 16min 55sec (1015 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 05 2021