linux dabblerIn this video i go through the steps of installing Debian on real hardware, from the BIOS to the desktop. Installing only the base system and a tiling window manager... Utilizing startx to leave the TTY.
Debian Minimal Install on Bare Metallinux dabbler2020-03-09 | In this video i go through the steps of installing Debian on real hardware, from the BIOS to the desktop. Installing only the base system and a tiling window manager... Utilizing startx to leave the TTY.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerInstall QTILE on Debian 12 Bookworm with Python Virtual Environmentlinux dabbler2023-10-25 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser qutebrowser -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorBuilding the Suckless Terminal from Scratchlinux dabbler2023-10-20 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text Editorpluginless neovimlinux dabbler2023-10-10 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorHow I installed Debian 12 Bookwormlinux dabbler2023-08-05 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorWhat to expect with Debian 12 Bookwormlinux dabbler2023-07-10 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorAutomatic BTRFS snapshots with APT Hookslinux dabbler2023-02-14 | Of course, snapshots can be made with a CRON job, but I wanted a better way of snapshotting my btrfs file system before every update. This is a safety net for if something goes wrong.
Contents of 80snapshotconf DPkg::Pre-Invoke { "$(which snapctl) root "; };
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorUsing Case Statements and Flags to Consolidate My Bash Scriptslinux dabbler2023-01-31 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorVIFM in-depth look and customizationlinux dabbler2022-12-30 | Intro Music from bensound.com
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorBloating up DWM 6.4 with 12 patcheslinux dabbler2022-11-26 | GitLab gitlab.com/linuxdabbler
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Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorGet Scratchpads in Spectrwm with a simple scriptlinux dabbler2022-10-25 | GitHub github.com/linuxdabbler
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorChange Spectrwm theme with a Dmenu Scriptlinux dabbler2022-09-28 | GitLab gitlab.com/linuxdabbler
Software I use: Debian/Devuan -- Linux distro of choice Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorInstall, Patch, and Customize DWM 6.3 on Debian Testinglinux dabbler2022-08-25 | My dwm gitlab repo has not been updated to dwm 6.3 just yet. I will get around to it soon.
Software I use: Librewolf -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorCool dmenu scripts from my dotfileslinux dabbler2022-06-25 | GitLab gitlab.com/linuxdabbler
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorReplace SUDO with DOAS on Debian/Devuanlinux dabbler2021-11-15 | In this video I go over what DOAS is and how to configure it as a SUDO replacement.
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorLets Make Ubuntu Great!linux dabbler2021-11-05 | Location of the nosnap preference file /etc/apt/preferences.d/nosnap.pref
Contents of the nosnap preference file Package: snapd Pin: release a=* Pin-Priority: -10
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorDebian Bullseye install with BTRFS Subvolumeslinux dabbler2021-09-05 | In this video I go over the steps to install Debian Bullseye with BTRFS subvolumes and explain how the default subvolume configuration does not work with Timeshift. I also explain how to achieve this by changing the root subvolume name from @rootfs to just @. In a later video, I will go over the snapshotting solution I have settled on, but for today, I just want to get it installed.
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorChannel Updatelinux dabbler2021-09-04 | GitHub github.com/linuxdabbler
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorQtile on Debian (Bullseye) revisitedlinux dabbler2021-07-16 | I made a video a while back covering how to install Qtile on Debian. I rather enjoyed my time with qtile and wanted to revisit it to show what my configuration wound up looking like.
if you would like to peruse my config of qtile, the link to my github page is below.
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorInstall Debian Bullseye ahead of Official Releaselinux dabbler2021-06-01 | URL for Debian Bullseye Release Candidate debian.org/devel/debian-installer
Software I use: Brave -- Web Browser Firefox -- Web Browser OBS Studio -- Recording Software Kdenlive -- Video Editor Audacity -- Audio Editor Vim/Neovim -- Text EditorQtile on Debian First Looklinux dabbler2021-05-03 | commands used in this video: sudo apt update -yy
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerGain Control of your Applications in SpectrWM with Quirks!linux dabbler2021-04-01 | In this video I go over how to use Quirks in SpectrWM for added functionality.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerAdding an Awesome style Hotkey Popup Window to SpectrWMlinux dabbler2021-03-22 | In this video I go over the steps I took to script a hot key popup window like in awesome window manager in my spectrwm config. And maybe give you some ideas about a fun project for yourself.
If you have any cool ideas/recommendations to make my script better... please... let me know...
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerawesome window manager first looklinux dabbler2021-03-12 | In this video I take a look around the awesome window manager, make a few customizations and comment on it's config and behavior. This is not an in-depth look... just first impressions.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerVim / Neovim settings and Plugins I cant go withoutlinux dabbler2021-02-16 | In this video I go over my vim / neovim configuration and show off some of the remaps and plugins.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerMore dwm and slstatus customizationlinux dabbler2021-01-26 | In this video I go over the recent changes to my dwm and slstatus config. links to the stuff I used is down here.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerGet Newer Software in Debian 10 with Backportslinux dabbler2020-12-09 | In this video I go over the steps to take to enable the backports repository in Debian 10 and how to install/update software with apt and synaptic.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerWhats so great about the Fish Shell?... Ill tell you...linux dabbler2020-11-10 | In this video I go over some of the best features of the Fish Shell (IMO). Features like the stellar autocompletion, abbreviations, functions, and customizations.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerIf LD made a distro, What would it look like?linux dabbler2020-11-07 | In this video, I go over the choices I would make if I were to make my own linux distibution and show them in a VM.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerHow to install Debian with BTRFS subvolumes and restore with TimeShiftlinux dabbler2020-10-14 | In this video I go over how to install Debian with a manual partition scheme in a UEFI environment with BTRFS root and home subvolumes. I also show how to manually create a snapshot and how to call it up in /etc/fstab with subvolid and how to create and restore backups from TimeShift.slstatus, the suckless status barlinux dabbler2020-09-30 | In this video I go over the installation and configuration of slstatus on Debian... Installed the Debian way. It is a fantastic piece of software that has completely replaced my dwm bar script and dwmblocks.
Message to Dennis in case my audio was bad...Head up buddy... We're pulling for you.Speeding up my custom terminal fetcherlinux dabbler2020-09-14 | In this video I take my custom terminal fetcher from several months ago and make it lightning fast by simply changing a few of the commands.
Now I have a similar output to neofetch with the speed of pfetch...
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerInstall and first look at Devuan Beowulf with XFCE and a Tiling Window Managerlinux dabbler2020-09-11 | In this video I go through installing Devuan in a virtual machine with the OpenRC init system, Show some of the more common commands for OpenRC and switch gears completely to a Devuan install with no Desktop environment at all and install my build of DWM from my github page.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerGet More out of the apt package managerlinux dabbler2020-08-19 | In this video I go over some of the cool but lesser known things that the
apt package manager can do. Such as editing your sources.list file with an apt command, installing, removing, and reinstalling packages from a single command, and the differences between sudo apt upgrade and sudo apt full-upgrade.
If you noticed my fetcher is different than yours, check out my video on creating a custom fetcher.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerDWM initial setup and config. Icons, Bar Scripts, Keybindings, and Theming.linux dabbler2020-07-16 | I go over how to get the latest version of DWM from the suckless website, make the binary, symlink it to your $PATH configure it to have a nice theme, icons for the tag names, and a nicely populated status bar...
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerHow to build the latest version of Spectrwm from GitHub... the Debian Waylinux dabbler2020-06-30 | In this video I go over the steps you would take to build the latest version of SpectrWM on Debian Buster without switching to Bullseye (Testing) or Sid (Unstable), or enabling the Buster backports. Download the latest build from GitHub, install the dependencies, build the package, and symlink it to your $PATH... The Debian Way...
I Made some mistakes along the way, but I left them in, because I wanted to show how I found the error and recovered from it.
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerVirtualization on Debianlinux dabbler2020-05-26 | Virtualbox is not in the Debian repositories nor will it be added to backports. There is a way to install it, but it is a pain.
Virt-Manager is in the repos and is easy enough to install and configure so let's use that instead.
Thank you for watching.Suckless Debian Installlinux dabbler2020-05-18 | I attempt to install Debian Testing with dwm, st, dmenu, and surf, maybe do a little theming and customizing along the way.
My Testing ISO did not work, So I installed Buster and it worked really well.
If you want to check out my dot files or my scripts I showed in the stream. Check out my Github page.
github.com/linuxdabblerlinux dabblerlinux dabbler2020-05-18 | ...Suckless Debian Testing Installlinux dabbler2020-05-18 | I will attempt to install Debian with no GUI and install dwm, st, dmenu, and surf the debian way.Suckless Debian Testing Installationlinux dabbler2020-05-18 | I attempt to install Debian Testing with no GUI and install DWM, DMENU, SURF, and ST the Debian way.Customizing the SpectrWM Barlinux dabbler2020-05-05 | I go over the steps to customize the bar in SpectrWM and show a few tips to get things working. Like weather information and CPU usage. Links to the files are below.
Twitter: @linuxdabbler Mastodon: @linuxdabbler MeWe: @linuxdabblerLayout Customization in SpectrWMlinux dabbler2020-04-17 | In this video I go through the man page of spectrwm and show how to customize the layouts per workspace. I also show how to "iconify"
Mastodon.social @linuxdabblerCreate your own wallpaper changer for tiling window managers using FEHlinux dabbler2020-04-13 | In this video, I go over the simple process of creating your own wallpaper changer script for tiling window managers using feh.SpectrWM initial setup and config on Debianlinux dabbler2020-03-22 | Initial setup and config of SpectrWM on a minimal Debian Installation because Arch gets all the Tiling Window manager love... why not show it on Debian too.