
macOS Power User Asks DistroTube: Which Linux Never Breaks?
Let's talk about Linux distros, Emacs, Neovim, org mode and more with Distrotube.
Link to the video:
https://youtu.be/bWX7jI9t7j8
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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 - Video Highlights
00:02:49 - When started YouTube and why?
00:04:42 - Linux popularity over the years
00:05:48 - 264,000 subscribers 1600 videos
00:06:26 - DT hasnt used mac since 1990
00:07:13 - Thoughts on GNU coreutils rust rewrite
00:09:57 - uutils MIT License
00:10:58 - Thoughts on PewDiePie Linux Video
00:12:06 - PewDiePie users coming to linux
00:13:35 - Find DistroTube on YouTube and Odysee
00:14:06 - Background, how you ended up in Tech?
00:14:39 - Bachelors and master in music performance
00:15:18 - Started putting the hours after Covid
00:16:51 - Quality of videos when you get started
00:17:39 - Equipment when got started
00:19:51 - Recommend someone starting a channel?
00:21:18 - How long it took to see YouTube results?
00:22:46 - Your YouTube growth exponential?
00:24:54 - 2 favorite music bands
00:25:56 - king diamond
00:29:44 - 2 favorite movies
00:32:50 - Thoughts on videogames
00:35:21 - IDE of choice, mainly emacs
00:35:46 - If in terminal, Neovim
00:36:33 - qtile config written in org mode
00:37:11 - vterm terminal in emacs
00:38:06 - Org-bullets
00:38:56 - What is the emacs literate config
00:39:02 - Joshua Blais video
00:39:59 - DistroTube dotfiles
00:41:53 - How to make org headings bigger
00:43:05 - Linkarzu Markdown headings in Neovim
00:44:07 - Variable font size in emacs GUI app
00:44:55 - Why do you go out of emacs?
00:46:06 - Why Alacritty terminal?
00:46:23 - Thoughts on Ghostty
00:49:24 - Thoughts on terminal splits, tabs
00:52:32 - Thoughts on TMUX
00:53:12 - Own emacs config or distro?
00:55:12 - Use Emacs as an SSH client
00:55:59 - Emacs SSH key based auth?
00:56:10 - Tool to push to gitlab github
00:57:38 - Thoughts on macOS
01:00:04 - Ubuntu or Debian server
01:01:34 - Snap packages, docker, kubernetes
01:03:04 - Debian repos, old packages
01:04:02 - Really long preamble to ask something
01:05:42 - Stable Linux distro, similar to macOS
01:05:55 - Thoughts on Fedora
01:07:25 - snaps, flatpaks, app images
01:08:14 - Drawbacks to flatpaks?
01:09:42 - Distro hopping
01:10:56 - Install Neovim as a flatpak?
01:11:40 - Rivalry between Linux and MacOS?
01:12:13 - Microsoft and Linux issues
01:13:57 - What if Microsoft was still unix based?
01:15:48 - Favorite Linux command, dir
01:16:26 - Thoughts on system76 and Framework
01:16:53 - Hardware compatibility in Linux
01:19:41 - Thoughts on Windows
01:23:36 - Keyboard, zsa moonlander
01:23:57 - zsa ergodox
01:24:21 - zsa plank
01:25:41 - Layout, qwerty
01:26:17 - Thoughts on homelabs
01:27:54 - Gluster Cluster for storage
01:28:33 - AWS reliability for storing videos
01:29:18 - Why keep backup of youtube videos?
01:30:04 - YouTube videos demonetized
01:30:55 - YouTube strikes?
01:32:07 - 2nd channel dtoptions
01:32:30 - Working on DTOS linux distro
Information
- Show
- Published13 September 2025 at 17:30 UTC
- Length1h 34m
- Season1
- Episode19
- RatingClean