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The Uncertain Future of Brunchmarks

When I created the Distro Delves series in late 2019, I created a couple of other series' as well. One of them was called:

Brunchmarks!

The spirit of the series goes way back to the beginning of the Egee channel w...

Fixed My First Bug! 🎉

Our Snap has only been live for about a week and we've already received our first bug report on Github!

Obviously bug reports aren't exactly good things but the fact that engineers are already interested enough in our work to try it out and report issues on Github is freaking awesome!<...

Manjaro KDE 20.0.1 - A Step Backwards

Whoever is in charge of Manjaro's styling needs to be throttled a bit.

They've been over saturating the colors more and more with each release and now it just looks bad. The icons in particular just look awful.

Certain apps grossly misuse colors too, such as Pamac, which uses different shades of the same shitty ne...

Ubuntu Budgie 20.04 - It is fine

Truth be told, I think I like Solus' Budgie a bit more. I find Ubuntu Budgie's panel to be really cluttered and the icon sizing inconsistent. And the layouts don't work quite right either - raven is glued to the right side of the screen which causes weird behavior on certain layouts.

Most users aren't as pick a...

Life is Strange

Like, literally life - not the game.

I've been doing the consulting gig for about a month and it's been interesting to say the least.

Their business model is based around Maas, Juju, and Snapcraft - all Canonical technologies. The idea is that they will produce Snaps and Juju charms and then offer professional sup...

KaOS 2020 - Underrated?

Maybe.

Something I didn't mention in the video is that the community (in the forums, at least) seems rather hostile and closed-minded.

When I was trying to figure out the 64-bit thing, I stumbled upon multiple forum posts of users asking about 32-bit packages such as Steam, and people were just rude.

I don't...

Lubuntu 20.04 - On 🔥

I was on fire when I recorded the voice-over for this video.

I've begun recording the intro segment without video so I can sort of focus on coming up with something witty to say and this was the result.

I'm going to be playing XCom 2 during the Lubuntu live stream because a friend gifted it to me and he wants to h...

Top 5 List Glitch - Behind The Scenes

I mentioned the weird glitch at the end of the Top 5 List video in the previous post but I wanted to save the story behind it for its own post.

It started out as a legit mistake

For this video, I actually reco...

A Test of Things to Come

This is a big video.

Not just because its a "Top 5" video (list videos are always popular) but because I'm trying the new thumbnail thing and because I included something weird at the end of the video, similar to what I did with the most recent Distro Delves episode.

Thes...

Thumbnail/Title Proof of Concept

I had some downtime between running builds at work and this crazy idea popped into my head.

I don't know if this is the thumbnail or a short animated title card or what.. but I think it's pretty cool lookin'.

Thumbnails for Distro Delves?

I haven't done the video thumbnail thing for quite a while but I'm wondering if I should start now that Distro Delves is kind of the thing I do on the channel.

My issue with thumbnails is that I hate making them. It's more work than you might think just to create a decent looking picture that l...

Pop!_OS Encore Poll!

It's time for another encore poll!

If you are wondering -

Why don't you just add these polls to the video post?

The answer is simple: I can't 😂. Patreon lets you choose the "type" of post and a poll is a specific type and I can't do a Video and a Poll t...

Pop!_OS 20.04 - Donezo

Well, I did it. It took me less than 12 hours but I managed to produce a video from start to finish in a single day.

This episode was way too much fun to produce. It ended up being the shortest episode to date, too. And some trivia - I had to do 2 takes because I somehow forgot to record the voice-over for the ...

Today's Goal

I want to see if I can produce a Distro Delves episode in a single day.

I produced & published the Ubuntu 20.04 delve in about 12 hours but that was across 2 days, which is still a milestone.

I'm working on Pop_OS today and I'm aimi...

Fedora 32 - Nailed It

In my previous YouTube post I talked about the tone & mood I was aiming for in the voice-over.

I think I really nailed it with this video

If I were to guess, I think it has something to do with not prepari...

The final Distro Delves PC rev 1.2

I actually wrote this post as a draft last week but forgot to post it before episode 20.

If you were expecting something fancy and elegant, prepare to be disappointed! 😂

In future seasons, I will built more presentable Distro Delves PC's but for now, this is what we get. I built it out of spare parts s...

Fedora 32 Live Stream Game Poll!

I am finally starting the Live Stream game poll! I've talked about this for months and months but now that I've had a chance to test the idea, its time to make it a regular thing!

I'm still standardizing on a mini Distro Delve...

Developers In Their Element

My friend Matt sent me this rather nostalgic picture today.

I'm in the middle, my manager Ken is on the left and on the right is a mad lad dev named Justin.

This was a picture from late at night working on the dre...

Unimpressed

I've made it a personal policy to not call people or projects out publicly but sometimes, I really just need to vent.

The FOSS community can really frustrate me. For a long time, people would point the finger at Microsoft and spread 2020-04-28 23:18:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Ubuntu 20.04 - It's OK

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is OK.

That pretty much sums up my feelings about it.

As you guys probably know, I wasn't planning to release this video until a week or so from now, after I produced a few other videos. I've been getting comments on vi...

Scored a new gig!

This year has been nuts.

I've already blogged a few times about my ups and downs finding jobs and getting laid off or losing contracts. But now, I finally have so great news!

I joined up ...

Low Effort - Great Results

I have to admit, I wasn't expecting much from this video.

I almost always record the voice-overs after the footage is captured and after 4 days of fighting to get the right footage, I put almost no effort into recording the voice-over.

I spent about 10 minutes watching the footage this morning an...

I Remember Why I Stopped Making Tutorial Videos

If you saw this post, you'll know that I have/had 3 install .sh videos planned for the weeks ahead.

I already released one of them - the video about using Lutris to play Win...

My history with Linode

I started my relationship with Linode last year when Andrew reached about to me about making a video using Linode's platform. I believe this was sometime after my video about using Ansible on Azure. They set me up an account and gave me a giant credit to use...

[Song] Cherub Rock

The track in this post is a remix - the original track is on Soundcloud!

Lately, I've been so busy that I haven't had the inspiration to record any music.

As you guys probably know, I'm a huge Smashing Pumpkin...

Redefining The Channel

I could go on & on about how weird this year has been for the channel but I'm going to try to keep this post focused on what the channel has become.

Here's a quick timeline:

2014 - 2016: Linux Gaming Reviews & Benchmarks

2016 - 2019: Linux variety & experimental stuff

2020 - Curren...

Game Review Request? Sure!

Over a month ago, this kind indie game developer emailed me and asked me to review his game.

I haven't done legit game reviews in years so I kind of ignored it at first.

I started doing live streams regularly towards the end of March and I got the idea to showcase his game.

Believe it or not, one of...

End to the Patreon Update saga

I've been talking about & teasing Patreon updates for months. In fact, I think I first brought it up a year ago. 😬

I take Patreon and my relationship with you all very seriously and I don't want to make brash changes arbitrari...

Windows games with Lutris - Weirdly Simple

I had a difficult time writing the outline for this video.

"How do you use Lutris?"

Uh well, you install it and then just.. sorta use it. It's really that easy.

Brevity has become a characteristic of my videos lately and this one feels almost too short. In just over 3 minutes, I ex...

Upcoming Video Schedule

I've got the next few weeks of videos planned out!

Distro Delves should return by May and I'm aiming to wrap up my backlog of Install.sh videos entirely.

I talked about Install.sh in a previous post but basically, there are a few target...