It's the 4th of July here in the 'States and I know many European countries take holiday in July & August.
I've been seeing more and more Linux YouTuber's and personalities use their platform as a place to share their political beliefs and I want you all to know that Egee, the character, and the channel, are apolitical and you...
2020-07-04 21:01:48 +0000 UTC View PostThis week has been so busy for me that I haven't had time to consider what to live stream tomorrow.
Any ideas? For games or other activities?
2020-07-03 15:03:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm a tiny bit worried that I somehow missed details about Nitrux with this episode. Where the heck did VMetal go? What happened to the whole AppImage thing?
The founder of Nitrux announced VMetal and a tool called vmx last year in 2020-07-02 20:08:24 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't really have a standard video "format" before doubling down Distro Delves but I did have a few reoccurring formats or subjects that people seemed to enjoy.
Besides Distro Reviews, what video type or subject matter would you like to see again? Feel free to elaborate in the comments!
2020-07-01 17:34:06 +0000 UTC View PostA couple of years ago I had an idea for a "mini-series" to acquire old computers to see if Linux could "revive" them.
The idea came from an old industrial computer my Dad had collecting dust in his garage.
This thing:
It's a...
2020-06-30 00:43:08 +0000 UTC View Post
I produced this video in about 6 hours, start-to-finish.
I was planning to record Nitrux but I woke up to a DM asking me to look at Linux Mint 20. That, along with the numerous comments I've seen in the past couple days about Mint, I made the tactical decision to just look at Mint. Again.
I rambled on at length during yesterday's liv...
2020-06-28 22:25:25 +0000 UTC View Post
In many ways, Chakra Linux embodies the climate of Linux in the early 2010's. Most distros simply did not work out of the box and the maintainers usually expected the users to just "figure it out".
I used nicer language in the video, but the primary maintainer of Chakra seems to be a total asshole and I'm so happy...
2020-06-26 20:24:47 +0000 UTC View PostAt the current rate of 2 distros per week, there isn't enough time left in the year to cover all of them!
Distro Delves will end on October 31 and I haven't decided whether to release the special episodes throughout October or in November/December. But even then, there are too many Distro requests to cover before October!...
2020-06-25 21:11:35 +0000 UTC View Post
I've wanted to get a picture of Egee in his element for quite a long time and I finally got one!
Just a week ago, Stardust Fox on Twitter opened up for commisions and I wrote up this big long scene I had in mind and they accepted it!
I'm so incred...
2020-06-23 15:01:00 +0000 UTC View PostI've had trouble categorizing Distro Delves episodes since I started the series.
I thought they were reviews at first. But I'm pragmatic and I know my use-cases only scratch the surface of what a Linux distro is capable of and I simply don't have the time to do complete end-to-end reviews.
A Distro Delves episode has a littl...
2020-06-23 14:58:40 +0000 UTC View PostI've always had a habit of making too much work for myself so I always had something to work on. But yesterday was the first weekend day where I legitimately had no project debt to pick up.
I've started to use the term debt as a way to organize projects that I've lost interest in but still need to finish. I've ha...
2020-06-22 16:16:22 +0000 UTC View PostI'm thinking of streaming regularly on The Other Channel but since I don't have a big following yet on that channel, do you guys think I should stream on Twitch instead?
Th...
2020-06-22 00:44:28 +0000 UTC View Post
I know some of you use Centos & RHEL professionally and I hope I did it justice with this video.
I'm not terribly familiar with Centos and every professional interaction I've had with it has been poor. That being said, I was really expecting this video to be a bit of a train wreck. Instead, I was pleasantly surprised to see that Centos...
2020-06-19 18:40:19 +0000 UTC View PostFinally getting back around to this!
As an aside - if I were to do something besides gaming, what would it be? Installing a distro is kind of a separate thing I need to prepare for so it can't be that 😜
2020-06-18 02:05:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This just might be the first episode that feels like a Distro Delves episode. It was rife with technical difficulties so bad that I thought my Elgato actually died on me. I was seriously tempted to film parts of the video in a VM.
Besides the technical challenges, I wrote a script of notes as I filmed Sabayon (instead of ...
2020-06-17 00:00:50 +0000 UTC View PostAs Egee, I want to maintain a sustainable velocity producing videos for Distro Delves so that I avoid burn out & continue to produce top-notch quality videos for my audience.
That's about the most unsexy way of saying "I have an upload schedule now!" as it gets. 😂
Cadence is probabl...
2020-06-14 17:54:33 +0000 UTC View PostI've bounced around between blogging services for the past few years and, while I don't love Patreon, I get the best engagement from blogging right here.
I get an absurd amount of throughput in Medium but the relationship I have with readers there isn't very meaningful an...
2020-06-13 19:00:56 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't realize until halfway through writing my notes/script that the overall tone of the episode was negative. I didn't intend for it to be; maybe I'm more critical of things that I like?
The structure of the episode was a bit weird too. It didn't follow the checklist very closely and I left out a couple of segments like Neofetch and Ge...
2020-06-12 23:58:54 +0000 UTC View Post
A friend linked me to an artist named rainiing that is doing really cool Pride Month commissions for June and I had to get one. It is particularly exciting because it's the first time I've used my new Egee reference sheet!
I'm super happy with how i...
2020-06-11 16:33:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't realize ala carte style installers were such a thing. It's not really a "new" thing; YaST, for example, has had the ability to install arbitrary packages from the installer for a long time.
I mean, maybe I should consider an Installer Delves mini-series at some point?
I wrote "Installer Delves" into my notes and I t...
2020-06-09 18:16:36 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe I got my wires crossed with this one but I was under the impression that Silverblue was a complete "out-of-beta" developer-oriented Linux distro.. Is it not?
If it is still in Alpha or Beta, I can excuse the problems I encountered. And I know I didn't dive deep into the containerized aspects of the distro but, as you all know, that's...
2020-06-04 18:14:20 +0000 UTC View PostI've wanted to do and office/studio/room tour for since like 2017 and I've recorded and produced a few really rough videos in the past but they've all sucked.
I feel like I'm in a much better place to make a video like that now but I'm beginning to outgrow my current space so I'm wondering if I should make an "Egee's Room Tour" video ...
2020-06-02 16:23:04 +0000 UTC View Post
The Linux community has a habit of hyping up distros to the point where you'd think they are going to take over the entire ecosystem and become the Linux distro everyone uses.
Is Clear Linux that? No, of course not.
To be honest, it's not even that interesting. For containerized workloads and hosts, I guess maybe but why use...
2020-06-01 23:15:23 +0000 UTC View Post
I've seen a few other Linux YTers talking about their analytics and it made me want to share some of mine as well as my perspective.
As you can see from the post image, the video I did about Egee and furry stuff did rather poorly and it has resulted in a net loss of subscribers.
I am happy with that! 2020-06-01 13:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been meaning to write a post about this for a couple of weeks because I know many of you would find it interesting. Now that the data has been gathered, I finally can!
I posted a teaser of this data as a YT community post but here's the full story:
2020-05-31 15:31:57 +0000 UTC
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Alright so first off - Live Streaming with you all is super fun. I'll admit, it's a little anxiety-inducing for the first five or so minutes but once people filter in and chat starts up, everything is just awesome.
I've done informal Saturday morning streams for about a month and I think I am about ready to make i...
2020-05-29 17:37:05 +0000 UTC View PostNow that the Zen Installer episode is done, I don't plan to revisit Arch for the remainder of season 2.
For season 3, I could see revisiting the Zen Installer again just to flex on the detractors but for now, I'm really not interested in the toxicity that the Arch community brings with it.
I'm undecided whether I want to cover Arch-b...
2020-05-29 03:26:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm glad to be done with this video. I've been working on it since the weekend and it has been a non-stop hassle.
The Zen Installer is fine for the most part but it froze during the actual install portion at least twice and randomly checked out to lunch while partitioning two more times.
And Arch itself was a bit of a bear. ...
2020-05-28 18:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm finally marking that damn KDE/XFCE comparison video off my todo list!
I mentioned it in my previous post about Brunchmarks but I've kind of wanted to book-end the desktop comparison video "series" for a long time and I feel like this video is a great way of ...
2020-05-24 00:08:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I've mentioned wanting to make this video a few times here on Patreon but now I've finally made it!
I am curious about what people think of the title before watching it. Most of the friends I've talked to about it think people will be negative but I'm optimistic. I'm pretty sure people don't realize that many Free & Open Source project...
2020-05-22 12:53:37 +0000 UTC View Post