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Have a safe Holiday!

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'll never see or hear me discuss divisive world politics.

Things have gotten pretty crazy in the world lately and my only request from you, no m...

Idea's for tomorrow's Live Stream

This 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?

Nitrux - Where's vmx and VMetal?

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 this blog post. Yet, it was nowhere to be seen in the latest iso - not even mentioned.

I've made accidental omissions in prev...

Poll - Which format would you like to see return?

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!

New Old Video Idea

A 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 Windows NT era machine build for PLC programming and related stuff. Amazing it, it has a pair of USB slots and the chipset is all Intel so.. It shoul...

Linux Mint 20 - Quickdraw

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 live stream about how I felt about Linux Mint's snapd shenanigans and I think I summarized it well in this video.

Admittedly, this video was pretty...

Chakra Linux - Just Wow

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 we, as a community, have moved on from attitudes like his.

I decided not to showcase the forum posts in the video but the maintainer s...

Too many Distros to Delve!

At 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!

I'm so pleased that people enjoy the series so much. I never would have thought that a series like Distro Delves would transform the channel as...

New Comish! - Voice-Over Egee!

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 incredibly happy with this piece. They captured the expression I had in mind for Egee perfectly.

For Egee's tail, I think I'm going to basically let t...

Reviews, Overviews, or Opinions?

I'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 little bit of everything, even benchmark results. But if I'm not comparing distros against one another, what is the point?

I've started calling them ...

New regular live stream maybe?

I'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 had some projects drag on for years. The Egee.io website is probably th...

Poll - Twitch or YouTube?

I'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?

The Egee channel & Distro Delves is going to stay on YouTube because I already have a following there and I think it would be really thrashy for eve...

Centos 8 - Way better than expected

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 8 feels an awful lot like Fedora (in a good way).

Centos 8 was 2020-06-19 18:40:19 +0000 UTC View Post

Poll - Pick the game I will stream this weekend

Finally 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 😜

Sabayon Linux - Closer to a "real" episode

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 after) and I feel like it made the episode flow together much better than when I follow the checklist and record the voice-over on the fly wi...

Egee's Sprint Velocity

As 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 probably a better word than schedule though because I really can't commit to specific release dates because the work I do IRL throughout the week eb...

Post Frequency Poll

I'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 and I don't write posts for fun... I write to connect with my readers - you guys, basically!

So when it comes to blog posts here on Patreon, wheth...

KDE neon - Surprisingly Negative

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 Geekbench. The episode was over 10 minutes long so I'll just use that as an excuse (I actually totally forgot to write them into my notes 🤐).

T...

Egee Commish - Pride Month!

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 it turned out. Rainiing's art style makes Egee look younger so it's like this as a teenage Egee showing support for Pride Month!

Arco Linux - Not Installer Delves

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 think the joke was executed really well. Based on the comments on other episodes, I get the feeling that most people don't realize there are goofs hidd...

Fedora Silverblue 32 - Unfinished?

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 not the purpose of the show.

If you wonder how another non-desktop distro made it onto the show, it started 2020-06-04 18:14:20 +0000 UTC View Post

Thoughts on a Room Tour?

I'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 now or later on.

So basically, I could record the way the room is currently set up or I could rearrange everything and record i...

Clear Linux - The Best Ever?

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 Clear Linux over something like RancherOS or even just plain Ubuntu?

It starts up and shutdowns super quick but on my hardware, that was pretty...

Analytics & Optics

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!

As I said in the video, if people don't dig the furry thing or the episodic non-review format of the Distro Delves show, by all means...

Battle of The Two Clouds

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:

Special thanks to my friend moochie for putting all this data together!

tl;dr Vultr offers faster servers and closer data ...

2020-05-31 15:31:57 +0000 UTC View Post

Possible Stream Schedule?

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 it an official thing.

At 7:30am my time on Saturday, nobody is awake and there is literally nothing around to distract me so it seems like a perf...

No more Arch Distro Delves episodes

Now 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-based distros on the show since there is always a group of people that complain about how the distro isn't "pure Arch", as if that means anything.

Arch Linux / Zen Installer - Yey?

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. It doesn't like my hardware (allegedly, my Mobo or SSD) and it likes to randomly lock up - you can see this happen in the 2020-05-28 18:27:43 +0000 UTC View Post

KDE vs XFCE - Paying off video debt

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 doing it.

The test cases were contrived but I feel like I make that clear in the video. I also tried to encourage the community to "take the tou...

Finally made the video!

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 projects have anthropomorphic animals as mascots! 😛

This video went through a couple revisions before settling on the 3-minute version you see here....