Linkarzu Podcast | Neovim, macOS, Emacs, Linux, Terminals and more.

Linkarzu

In YouTube I talk to guests about tech topics: Neovim, macOS, Linux, Terminal emulators, popular GitHub repos, other editors like Emacs, Helix, etc. We also learn how each guest uses their setup, CLI tools they use and how. Videos in my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@linkarzu If you like my content, and want to keep this podcast going, here's the best ways to support me https://linkarzu.com/about/#whats-the-best-way-to-support-me-pick-one

  1. Echasnovski (pt 1): mini.nvim, MiniMax & Neovim Contributions

    14 ENE

    Echasnovski (pt 1): mini.nvim, MiniMax & Neovim Contributions

    Echasnovski is the creator of mini.nvim, as per the website: "Library of 40+ independent Lua modules improving overall Neovim (version 0.9 and higher) experience with minimal effort." He's also the creator of MiniMax: "MiniMax is a collection of fully working self-contained Neovim configs. All of the them: Use mostly MINI to showcase its capabilities. Provide out of the box a stable, polished, and feature rich Neovim experience. Share minimal structure with potential to build upon. Contain extensively commented config files meant to be read." The interview is over 3 hours long, so it is split in 2. Part 2 is going to be released soon Video: https://youtu.be/ypJTkwarAVE What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:01:36 - How do we pronounce your name 00:04:23 - What do you do in the neovim community? 00:07:53 - Neovim 0.5 and the wild wild west of lua plugins 00:10:23 - We've been planning this interview for over 6 months 00:12:20 - Echasnovski's ban on reddit 00:14:59 - Colorscheme theory (that I didn't understand, not normie friendly) 00:22:10 - Color theory is very complex as everyone is different 00:23:30 - Gruvbox is for old people, highly saturated colors 00:27:15 - Echasnovski created the default Neovim colorscheme 00:27:38 - Justin Keyes also likes boring colors. Old soul trapped in a young body 00:29:17 - Is Justin a dictator? 00:32:18 - Why the reddit ban? 00:38:49 - long reddit posts go through mod's approval 00:40:17 - How does the shadown ban work? 00:42:02 - Shoutout to Lukas Reineke 00:43:37 - Account restored by a misterious reddit employee 00:45:19 - Self hosting git server, codeberg, tangled.org 00:48:02 - Why planning on self hosting? 00:49:17 - Explaining the repo structure of mini.nvim 00:50:44 - You also have a picker? mini.pick 00:52:15 - Sylvan Franklin seems to use mini.pick 00:52:53 - Custom pickers? 00:54:03 - Issues with the matching of some pickers 00:56:18 - mini.pick has a frecency option? mini-visits (sounds like a prison conjugal visit) 00:59:30 - Thoughts on telescope? 01:01:00 - Why did you move from vim to neovim? 01:03:48 - Embarrassing experience with vim at work 01:05:32 - vscode neovim plugin 01:07:21 - Do you remember your first times using vim, was it tough? 01:10:38 - Thoughts on distros? What do you recommend to a beginner? 01:16:58 - What happened to lunarvim? 01:18:23 - Lazyvim distro or kickstart 01:19:38 - MiniMax demo 01:21:24 - Is MiniMax designed for complete beginners? 01:25:59 - mini.clue and why not which-key? 01:26:37 - Folke is always on vacation 01:29:11 - Did you copy Helix? 01:31:01 - The which-key hate continues 01:35:29 - Interview with Folke? 01:36:02 - The 30_mini.lua config file 01:39:21 - What if I want to use my own picker with MiniMax? 01:42:14 - Single config file for all plugins or a file per plugin? 01:44:21 - Echasnovski allegedly created the new neovim plugin manager vim.pack 01:48:10 - Should I wait for Neovim 0.12 before trying MiniMax? 01:52:22 - vim.pack doesn't have a healthcheck because it's perfect 01:52:54 - vim.pack demo 01:54:16 - Do you use any other plugins besides mini.nvim?

    1 h y 56 min
  2. YouTux: Linux Distros, Supporting FOSS, Apple & More

    7 ENE

    YouTux: Linux Distros, Supporting FOSS, Apple & More

    YouTux is a fairly new YouTube channel, only 1.5 years and it has double my subscribers, we'll touch on a lot of interesting and probably controversial topics. If you want to support open source projects, for every $5 donate as superchats, YouTux will donate the same amount to an open source project. All the superchats will also be donated to an open source project. All of the podcast episodes are available in all podcasting platforms, like spotify, apple music, deezer, etc. If you don't find it in one, let me know and I'll add it Video: https://youtube.com/live/TOUby-uuZ4I What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00 - Introduction and Audio Check 02:00 - Guest Introduction and Channel Growth 04:00 - Discussing Linux Distributions and Hardware 06:00 - Transition to Void Linux and Debian Politics 09:00 - Polarization in the Open Source Community 12:00 - Debian's Political Changes and Systemd 16:00 - Value of Disagreement and Text Editors 18:00 - Critique of Systemd and Unix Philosophy 20:00 - IBM's Role and Linux Fragmentation 24:00 - Wayland vs X11 and Ubuntu's Evolution 28:00 - Critique of Zorin OS and Distro Recommendations 32:40 - Thoughts on arch 35:51 - Donations dynamic 37:42 - Zorin OS scam 43:55 - What terminal do you use 45:00 - Thoughts on Omarchy 46:27 - woke non woke 48:20 - Debian king, Slackware the queen 49:48 - Linkarzu switching to Void Linux? 51:15 - 21K subs, burnout? 54:44 - background, studies 55:38 - sponsorships and intellectual freedom 59:00 - tired of watching youtube and the algorithm? 01:01:45 - favorite youtubers RiccardoPalombo and antirez 01:04:28 - Bathroom break and pulp fiction mask 01:06:33 - Thoughts on NixOS 01:07:30 - I have no mercy 01:08:12 - The queen @AndreaBorman and why the mask? 01:09:45 - Thoughts on macOS 01:12:40 - Apple M series hardware 01:13:55 - Snapdragon and ARM on Linux? 01:14:45 - Thoughts on Window's 01:16:35 - THE "FREE" WORD MISCONCEPTION 01:20:00 - immick, Jellyfin, SearXNG, Mail server 01:23:28 - how to fix the poor FREE mentality 01:26:05 - Is your channel an AI? 01:28:57 - AI thumbnail fail 01:30:40 - Nobody uses AI, but everyone builds now, suspicious? 01:33:35 - Thoughts on substance abuse 01:36:00 - 2 favorites movies 01:39:00 - books 01:40:40 - talking about the queen again 01:42:45 - split the channel? 01:44:50 - Video analytics and money 01:50:00 - Superchats, you will match the donations

    1 h y 51 min
  3. 4 Linux Queens vs 1 MacOS Virgin

    3 ENE

    4 Linux Queens vs 1 MacOS Virgin

    Stability wisdom and a peaceful life, or bleeding edge? Some say Debian is a legacy distro with legacy packages, some say Arch gives them nightmares. I'm still trying to get a response for the question I've been asking in all these interviews, which distro should I try first 😂 So who is right then, who should we trust? Video: https://youtu.be/pkLG2SwR7J8 Participants: https://youtube.com/⁨@AndreaBorman⁩ https://youtube.com/⁨@DistroTube⁩ https://youtube.com/@tony-btw https://youtube.com/@LinuxRenaissance What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:01:55 - 4 linux queens vs 1 mac gigachad 00:03:23 - Andrea Borman 00:06:51 - DistroTube 00:10:44 - Darth 00:14:21 - Tony 00:17:53 - Darth's hat and red hat 00:20:30 - FreeBSD 00:21:27 - Andrea Borman Demo 00:24:45 - SuperChat by Darth 00:26:36 - DistroTube Demo 00:30:37 - Wheres DT from and weather 00:32:30 - DT switching to CachyOS and audio issues 00:36:42 - Copyright strikes 00:41:25 - DT strikes tony on the "Propietary Garbage" phrase 00:41:53 - Andrea issues with ads, brave, firefox, chromium 00:43:45 - Darth demo 00:49:15 - Wallpapers do most of the heavy lifting when ricing 00:49:57 - Transparent terminal? 00:50:45 - Tony's demo (OXWM) 00:53:49 - Only If you do YouTube you need more than 1 monitor 00:56:01 - Andrea, why Debian and not Arch 00:59:23 - DT's thoughts on Debian 01:01:49 - Darths thoughts on Arch as a Debian user 01:06:18 - Gaming and streaming at the same time on Debian 01:08:08 - Malware in the AUR 01:09:26 - DT: Do you trust the AUR with your soul? 01:10:23 - Andrea dissing on the AUR 01:11:54 - Dependencies and the chaotic AUR 01:13:48 - Tony's thoughts on Debian 01:14:20 - Debian is gentoo with a GUI installer 01:16:13 - Dependency hell in Debian 01:17:05 - Thoughts on Omarchy 01:25:02 - Tonarchy 01:27:32 - X11 vs Wayland

    1 h y 36 min
  4. Kovid Goyal: Linux, Window Managers, and GitHub Controversies

    03/12/2025

    Kovid Goyal: Linux, Window Managers, and GitHub Controversies

    Kovid Goyal is the creator of the Kitty terminal and the Calibre e-book reader. We had an interview around 4 months ago. After that interview, I became a fan of the myth, the legend. So much so that I switched back from Ghostty to Kitty as my main terminal. Well, not just because, but because he implemented a feature I was missing in Ghostty: Sessions. So I was able to replace my beloved tmux with kitty and I've been running without tmux for a few months now, it's been good. Video: https://youtu.be/SY8L-cj4x6k What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:02:31 - 2nd time 00:03:24 - choose-files kitten image and video preview demo 00:07:30 - Does it replace the open file dialogue on macOS or just Linux? 00:09:13 - Why do you create all these protocols and tools? 00:10:34 - The itch of improving your workflow. Do you over optimize? 00:12:06 - What file manager do you use, yazi or something else? 00:13:12 - How is Calibre pronounced? 00:14:20 - The name Kitty 00:15:36 - How and why did you get started with computers? 00:16:07 - Mother PhD got ZX Spectrum 00:16:58 - Book source code of various games 00:19:15 - Sony and the PRS-500 reverse engineering 00:22:05 - Wife thoughts on you leaving Caltech to work on Open Source 00:23:37 - Are you happy going the Open Source route? 00:24:48 - The misconception of the rude maintainer 00:25:57 - 0 bugs philosophy 00:27:15 - More issues, Calibre or Kitty? 00:27:46 - Competition with other terminals, Ghostty, WezTerm 00:28:44 - Kitty got started because terminal sucked back then 00:30:40 - Why not use the computer like a normie? 00:31:59 - Your wife and friends understand your passion for the terminal? 00:33:16 - Kovid's browser Vise 00:38:07 - Are kitty and calibre dead when you're gone? 00:40:58 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines added generated PRs 00:41:42 - Be succinct with your PRs, fight AI with AI 00:44:00 - Finger emoji for PRs not being merged 00:44:35 - Who started GPU accelerated terminals, alacritty or kitty? 00:46:47 - How are kitty sessions going? 00:48:41 - Kovid uses sessions in the window manager 00:51:01 - Scrollback and cursor trail demo 00:52:11 - trails come from neovide 00:52:41 - Alacritty with tmux? 00:54:12 - How would you manage remote persistent sessions without tmux? 00:56:29 - Future kitty tool for remote session persistence 00:57:33 - Kitty remote control via unix sockets 00:59:54 - Why did you go with Neovim and not Emacs? 01:01:05 - Thoughts on Emacs? 01:01:37 - Thoughts on split keyboards 01:04:11 - The OG chair and approvals 01:05:19 - Swimming and stair climbing 01:07:13 - Do you take notes? 01:08:38 - Why linux? 01:10:23 - From redhat to gentoo to arch 01:11:24 - Thoughts on Debian 01:12:23 - Why do you think people have issues with Arch? 01:13:57 - Thoughts on NixOS 01:14:58 - If you maintain 200 computers, nix makes sense? 01:16:36 - Thoughts on macOS 01:17:37 - Using macOS over SSH as a headless server 01:19:49 - Marker 59 01:20:43 - Thoughts on Windows. Mandatory file locking 01:22:55 - Homelab. Keyboard layout qwerty? 01:24:35 - Favorite movies 01:25:09 - Frost nixon 01:25:44 - Doctor Zhivago 01:26:09 - Music? 01:26:58 - multitasking? 01:28:31 - Best way to support you?

    1 h y 30 min
  5. Andrea, The GOAT, Borman: Let's talk Linux, OSs & More

    23/11/2025

    Andrea, The GOAT, Borman: Let's talk Linux, OSs & More

    Andrea Borman has been doing YouTube videos for over 15 years, I was quite intrigued to get to know Andrea more on a deeper level, I want to learn about her background, history, why she decides to use Linux, what her favorite text editor is, terminals, thoughts on macOS, Windows, etc. Video: https://youtu.be/iLpIzfZ_2zI What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - highlights 00:02:38 - History with computers and Windows 00:05:34 - The first linux distro, linux mint 9 GNOME edition 00:09:40 - Let the lady cook 00:11:25 - What do your friends say when they find out you use linux? 00:11:54 - Early videos on Windows 00:12:34 - Fedora 43 is the worst 00:13:01 - Thoughts on Arch and the malware in the AUR 00:14:24 - Why did you start a channel? 00:16:21 - What's your favorite distro? 00:17:29 - The good old paint, do you miss anything from windows? 00:19:09 - Let's look at Andrea's multiple laptops 00:24:29 - Andrea's mobile phone and the beef with ebay 00:27:04 - Do you have anything against smartphones? 00:33:33 - Your background, why did you start with computers? Age 00:35:32 - Linkarzu started with windows 95. When XP came out it was awesome 00:39:53 - The worst distro you have used? PC linux and fedora 43 00:41:51 - Why the switch to Debian? 00:44:48 - The freedom you get with open source 00:46:36 - Let me tell you a secret, I use macOS 00:48:16 - Showing macOS to Andrea 00:51:19 - Do you use the terminal a lot? 00:56:01 - Do new Linux users need to be terminal experts? 00:57:41 - What's your favorite text editor? 00:58:51 - Thoughts on Neovim or Emacs 01:00:40 - Reading superchat by GenX 01:02:12 - vim-gtk and gvim 01:03:26 - Have you heard of what Drew uses, Geany? 01:07:54 - Thoughts on Nix 01:11:25 - How do you edit your videos? Shotcut Openshot 01:13:20 - The disappoinment on me using macOS 01:13:51 - My debian version is old 01:16:13 - Is Debian a legacy distro with legacy packages? 01:19:31 - What terminal do you use ptyxis 01:20:43 - What keyboard do you use? 01:21:25 - Favorite movies or music? 01:21:59 - YouTube @NixiePixelGB 01:24:01 - YouTube @DontCallMeLenny 01:24:25 - YouTube @quidsup 01:25:11 - YouTube @ZacOfAllTech 01:26:13 - YouTube @VeronicaExplains 01:26:36 - YouTube @BreadOnPenguins 01:27:01 - YouTube @DistroTube 01:27:25 - YouTube @JustAGuyLinux 01:27:52 - YouTube @thelinuxtube 01:28:44 - YouTube @LearnLinuxTV 01:29:39 - YouTube @tony-btw 01:30:12 - Wayland or X11 01:30:45 - YouTube @TheLinuxCast 01:32:56 - TempleOS? 01:33:40 - YouTube @LinusTechTips 01:33:52 - Thoughts on popos 01:35:41 - What do you do for a living? 01:36:23 - The beef with Ads 01:37:56 - Did you activate youtube monetization? 01:39:32 - What do you do for a living? Try 2 01:40:03 - At what time do you go to bed? 01:41:23 - You want to end the call already? Nope, still wanna diss 01:42:57 - Thoughts on Gentoo and the furries 01:44:36 - Furries 01:46:22 - YouTube @Britec09 01:47:08 - Windows or Linux 01:49:35 - Any final words? 01:51:10 - Final words on Fedora? 01:52:07 - Why linkarzu on macOS and not linux? 01:54:57 - Windows XP was the best 01:55:53 - Do you want ads or no ads? 01:56:37 - What is my job?

    1 h y 58 min
  6. Justin M. Keyes: Neovim, Workflow, OSs, Terminals...

    07/11/2025

    Justin M. Keyes: Neovim, Workflow, OSs, Terminals...

    Let's get to know Justin M. Keyes more on a personal level, let's learn about his computer workflow, preferred OS, keyboard, favorite terminals, Neovim history, upcoming Neovim features, thoughts on security, his favorite movies and way more. Link to the video: https://youtu.be/OWk1Y9MrawQ What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:04:24 - Justin in New York but loves Florida 00:06:01 - Why do you do all this? 00:08:15 - Justin works at Amazon 00:09:51 - Hate in reddit at the beginning 00:12:07 - Neovim multiplied Vim's energy 00:13:30 - Does Neovim move faster than Vim? 00:15:03 - Are you Neovim's benevolent dictator? 00:16:04 - Did Neoviim gain a lot of popularity because of Prime? 00:17:46 - Justin will become a streamer 00:19:39 - Thoughts on Security 00:23:08 - Install Neovim on remote VMs? 00:25:19 - Minimal plugins 00:25:53 - Integrating webassembly 00:28:02 - Thoughts on distros, lazyvim 00:29:51 - Making Neovim beginner friendly 00:32:14 - oh my zsh bloat? 00:34:02 - What happened to kickstart? 00:34:58 - Neovim's plugin manager 00:36:17 - Core minimal and modularize? 00:38:17 - Is extending neovim bloat? 00:41:01 - Neovim embedded terminal was called bloat 00:43:41 - Super chat, embedded terminal slow neovim 00:45:23 - libghostty integration 00:47:35 - Thoughts on moving away from defaults? 00:50:21 - How do you get to normal mode 00:51:49 - Relationship with the subreddit community 00:53:04 - Neovim history, you started it? 00:55:43 - Afraid of alligators? 00:56:35 - Open source burdain 00:57:28 - What happens when you go to emacs? 00:59:54 - Theena moving to emacs, thoughts 01:02:51 - Thoughts on emacs 01:04:09 - Relationship with emacs community 01:05:31 - Thoughts on sublime or helix 01:07:39 - promiscuous 01:08:13 - You used helix? 01:10:22 - OS of choice 01:11:13 - Distro for servers 01:12:47 - Thoughts on daily driving linux? 01:15:57 - Distros are an accident 01:16:41 - Pushback for using macos? 01:17:55 - Neovim needs windows maintainers 01:19:07 - Thoughts on 2,000 lines AI generated PRs 01:20:34 - Superchat 01:20:58 - Justin demo 01:21:14 - :restart :connect :detach 01:35:23 - demo progress integration with ghostty 01:38:55 - ghostty built-in inspector 01:41:14 - Neovim window management 01:42:08 - You use OS window manager? 01:43:10 - Terminal of choice 01:44:18 - Scrollback with colors in Neovim with kitty 01:47:18 - Neovide 01:48:48 - Thoughts on Kovid Goyal, kitty maintainer 01:53:54 - Open source misconception 01:56:45 - Kitty graphics and keyboard protocol 01:58:47 - When does neovim 0.12 come out? 02:01:00 - Thoughts on drugs and substance consumption 02:06:26 - Sylvan franklin no show no call 02:08:21 - Thoughts on a supreme being 02:12:36 - Favorite movies 02:15:13 - What's the best way tu support neovim monetarily? 02:17:27 - Corporate sponsorships on Neovim? 02:20:17 - Would you like to work full time in neovim?

    2 h y 23 min
  7. From Arch to Debian with LinuxRenaissance

    24/10/2025

    From Arch to Debian with LinuxRenaissance

    I've been thinking about Linux lately, a lot. But I'm still not sure which distro to go with, everyone keeps saying arch, but my brain, wisdom and soul say Debian. So when I find someone else that went down this path, I want to learn and hear more about it. We'll also touch on many other topics Link to the video: https://youtu.be/0CEYNvEdsag What's the best way to support me? https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough Timeline: 00:00:00 - Highlights 00:02:14 - Why the red hat, is it redhat related? 00:05:10 - youtube channel 00:08:00 - Thoughts on the Red Hat distro 00:12:17 - What is Matrix, is it IRC, Element app, discord 00:16:56 - So Matrix is more about ownership and censorship? 00:19:40 - Thanks for the superchat @tony-btw 00:20:20 - Should we use forums? 00:21:55 - Darth's matrix server 00:25:27 - What are matrix encrypted channels? 00:27:37 - amiga, Commodore 64 00:28:56 - How terminals worked in the past with serial cables 00:30:58 - Debian 1.3 00:33:59 - Darth is 44, terminal showdown 00:36:23 - Unix finger command 00:37:35 - Education background and current profession 00:39:20 - Rocky Linux, RHEL, Red Hat killing CentOS 00:45:32 - Using macOS the way Apple has envisioned it 00:48:43 - Hyprland more like "Hype" rland? 00:51:14 - macOS yabai window manager demo 00:53:43 - Thoughts on Hyprland 00:55:10 - What is X11, xorg, wayland? 00:58:12 - From Debian to Arch, then back to Debian 00:58:44 - KDE plasma, wayland mode 01:00:38 - using X11 as a networking protocol, similar to tmux 01:03:19 - waypipe 01:04:55 - Thoughts on tmux 01:06:49 - Why the switch from Arch back to Debian? 01:12:41 - What's the AUR? People can upload malware to it? 01:15:56 - So if not using the AUR, why to use arch? 01:17:05 - Dependency hell, kdenlive 01:20:01 - Ended up with a lot of flatpaks 01:22:00 - The straw that broke the camel’s back 01:25:31 - Nix users, how can we solve this? 01:27:00 - Am I just lucky with macOS? 01:30:56 - Darth is from Croatia, thoughts on macOS 01:33:56 - Windows is so thoughtful, taking screenshots so you remember 01:40:15 - Been thinking about switching to linux 01:44:24 - Which distro should I use? 01:49:52 - Pacman breaking stuff 01:54:08 - Thoughts on the beef with systemd 01:56:49 - The unix philosophy, do 1 thing, but do it well 02:01:53 - Thoughts on Omarchy 02:06:35 - Zorin OS 02:11:27 - Why do people use something other than Debian on servers? 02:16:11 - Do you upgrade debian or fresh install? 02:17:56 - How often do you upgrade, rule on automatic updates 02:20:09 - Workflow demo 02:28:33 - Thoughts on Kitty, Wezterm, Ghostty 02:30:45 - What is suckless 02:33:49 - No novices asking stupid questions 02:34:23 - KDE plasma bloated? 02:38:16 - What is picom? 02:39:07 - OpenBSD, FreeBSD, what is it and why? 02:44:50 - Who uses BSD? 02:45:40 - BSD when Linus Torvalds is no longer around? 02:49:00 - Is the linux community sub-divided? 02:51:38 - Neovim or Emacs? 02:57:48 - Is debian the king of distros? 03:00:11 - Do you play games?

    3 h y 9 min

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In YouTube I talk to guests about tech topics: Neovim, macOS, Linux, Terminal emulators, popular GitHub repos, other editors like Emacs, Helix, etc. We also learn how each guest uses their setup, CLI tools they use and how. Videos in my YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/@linkarzu If you like my content, and want to keep this podcast going, here's the best ways to support me https://linkarzu.com/about/#whats-the-best-way-to-support-me-pick-one

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