Hey, DT! Which Distro Should I Use? Which Music Player? DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Otis
music players : I use mpv as my music player. It works great. And as an added benefit, it also does what it's supposed to do, play videos. Installing addons to give extra functionality, like the ability to bookmark a position on any video or audio file, is super easy. If you are looking for a program that automagically finds and sorts your music then IMO your barking up the wrong tree. You would be better served to learn how to use your file manager as well as your terminal to properly manage your files. Then it's just a simple matter of highlighting the files you want to play, right click, and open with MPV, or if you really want to get geeky, you can write a script to scrape your file list for what you want, create a link farm in a temporary folder, and then play everything in that list. Mpv is a command line utility and you can command it from shell script. I suppose you could also use VLC for your media player, but I like MPV better because it's just a player. It's not a swiss army knife that contains streamers and servers and converters and everything else under the sun. MPV plays video and audio of all kinds, and it does it well, and it's very compact and efficient.
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music players : I use mpv as my music player. It works great. And as an added benefit, it also does what it's supposed to do, play videos. Installing addons to give extra functionality, like the ability to bookmark a position on any video or audio file, is super easy. If you are looking for a program that automagically finds and sorts your music then IMO your barking up the wrong tree. You would be better served to learn how to use your file manager as well as your terminal to properly manage your files. Then it's just a simple matter of highlighting the files you want to play, right click, and open with MPV, or if you really want to get geeky, you can write a script to scrape your file list for what you want, create a link farm in a temporary folder, and then play everything in that list. Mpv is a command line utility and you can command it from shell script. I suppose you could also use VLC for your media player, but I like MPV better because it's just a player. It's not a swiss army knife that contains streamers and servers and converters and everything else under the sun. MPV plays video and audio of all kinds, and it does it well, and it's very compact and efficient.
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WK-47
One thing I'd add regarding package managers is something that's true of any and all aspects of Linux (as well as tech, and even life, in general) is simply trial and error, particularly through learning by example.
Say you install Mint, it's all very new and exciting but a little daunting, and you want to install a specific app. Most help articles or videos you'll find online will show commands needed to do some task. You'll see something like -sudo apt install steam-, you follow the instructions and (hopefully) get it working. You realise you can punch in the command yourself for whatever other package you come across. You find out you can enter -apt --help- or -man apt- and... then you're already down the rabbit hole.
Anyway, good stuff as always and glad to hear you got over the 'rona. Keep preaching the truth, brother!
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One thing I'd add regarding package managers is something that's true of any and all aspects of Linux (as well as tech, and even life, in general) is simply trial and error, particularly through learning by example.
Say you install Mint, it's all very new and exciting but a little daunting, and you want to install a specific app. Most help articles or videos you'll find online will show commands needed to do some task. You'll see something like -sudo apt install steam-, you follow the instructions and (hopefully) get it working. You realise you can punch in the command yourself for whatever other package you come across. You find out you can enter -apt --help- or -man apt- and... then you're already down the rabbit hole.
Anyway, good stuff as always and glad to hear you got over the 'rona. Keep preaching the truth, brother!
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Joscha
As for -choosing your first distro- : perhaps the best advice I, personally, would give a prospective noob is to think about whom they know personally who uses Linux.
Linux has a way to become a hobby -the experience of really owning your own computer, of interacting with like-minded people, learning immediately useful stuff... well, it's close to addictive, and you'll know how we like to go on about it. Tap us.
Here in Extremadura, Spain, Linux is used in schools, healthcare centres, and so on -teachers and healthcare professionals here definitely know someone, a workmate, who's proficient with Ubuntu. Tap 'em.
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As for -choosing your first distro- : perhaps the best advice I, personally, would give a prospective noob is to think about whom they know personally who uses Linux.
Linux has a way to become a hobby -the experience of really owning your own computer, of interacting with like-minded people, learning immediately useful stuff... well, it's close to addictive, and you'll know how we like to go on about it. Tap us.
Here in Extremadura, Spain, Linux is used in schools, healthcare centres, and so on -teachers and healthcare professionals here definitely know someone, a workmate, who's proficient with Ubuntu. Tap 'em.
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Crux161
Linux is like ice cream. So many flavors, some no longer made ( - )- no matter what flavor you like you can eat it a number of ways too. Straight from the carton (server), in a bowl (desktop), in a cone (laptop) rofl - sundaes, milkshakes, the list goes ooooon. Oh and don-t get started on the toppings!! Linux is ice cream, and or frozen yogurt, sorbet, sherbet, and or Italian ice/granita. I guess the point I-m trying to make is - there are a Lot of options and many ways those options can be expressed and in different forms.
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Linux is like ice cream. So many flavors, some no longer made ( - )- no matter what flavor you like you can eat it a number of ways too. Straight from the carton (server), in a bowl (desktop), in a cone (laptop) rofl - sundaes, milkshakes, the list goes ooooon. Oh and don-t get started on the toppings!! Linux is ice cream, and or frozen yogurt, sorbet, sherbet, and or Italian ice/granita. I guess the point I-m trying to make is - there are a Lot of options and many ways those options can be expressed and in different forms.
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Gary
I disagree that some has to learn about distros, dte, etc in order to use Linux. Nothing wrong with not knowing things. So many Linux users choose a distro by what they want out of it and how deep into the want to get.
The whole point of some distros is to make using it easier without caring about things like the dte, etc.
otherwise no distro would have a dte but simply a terminal at boot until the user installs what they want.
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I disagree that some has to learn about distros, dte, etc in order to use Linux. Nothing wrong with not knowing things. So many Linux users choose a distro by what they want out of it and how deep into the want to get.
The whole point of some distros is to make using it easier without caring about things like the dte, etc.
otherwise no distro would have a dte but simply a terminal at boot until the user installs what they want.
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Julien
Linux sysadmin here, been doing that for more than 10 years and I still run -beginner friendly- distros for my daily driver. Why? Well let me try to tell my boss: could not work today I decided to install Arch instead - installing Manjaro or Ubuntu or Mint is a matter of 30min to an hour, feels like installing a windows software lol you just hit next. Ans when it-s done you can slowly add and remove stuff to make it your OS :-)
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Linux sysadmin here, been doing that for more than 10 years and I still run -beginner friendly- distros for my daily driver. Why? Well let me try to tell my boss: could not work today I decided to install Arch instead - installing Manjaro or Ubuntu or Mint is a matter of 30min to an hour, feels like installing a windows software lol you just hit next. Ans when it-s done you can slowly add and remove stuff to make it your OS :-)
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Finn
-That's not me trying to keep Linux as this elitist club, no I think anybody can run Linux, but I do think you do have to have the right mindset and not everybody does.
Not everybody wants to learn about computers or about their operating system.-
-If you can't do a 30 second Google search, then honestly you don't deserve to be a Linux user.-
As conflicting as they are, I agree with both of these quotes.
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-That's not me trying to keep Linux as this elitist club, no I think anybody can run Linux, but I do think you do have to have the right mindset and not everybody does.
Not everybody wants to learn about computers or about their operating system.-
-If you can't do a 30 second Google search, then honestly you don't deserve to be a Linux user.-
As conflicting as they are, I agree with both of these quotes.
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Jordan
I first experimented with Linux when I was 16, installed lindows, yes before they got sued and had to change to linspire.
Then I branched out to redhat (oops I meant fedora), Ubuntu.
Then I tried those weird minimal live images like puppy, then got stuck on debian for a looooong time. Really excited to spend next weekend wetting my appetite with arch.
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I first experimented with Linux when I was 16, installed lindows, yes before they got sued and had to change to linspire.
Then I branched out to redhat (oops I meant fedora), Ubuntu.
Then I tried those weird minimal live images like puppy, then got stuck on debian for a looooong time. Really excited to spend next weekend wetting my appetite with arch.
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Norse
With windows 11 and the hardware/account requirements, now is the time to take advantage of what will be a massive windows exodus. It's a shame Linux distros don't have the kind of budget for advertising. I guess we the linux users have to hammer it home whenever we get the chance on forums and comment sections.
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With windows 11 and the hardware/account requirements, now is the time to take advantage of what will be a massive windows exodus. It's a shame Linux distros don't have the kind of budget for advertising. I guess we the linux users have to hammer it home whenever we get the chance on forums and comment sections.
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Fordon,
I think you have wrong, many I know run linux and they don't have a clue about what's under the hood or thiere hardware, they still loves Linux and use it in the same way they had used windows or osx and they don't care about the mindset, they just want a OS with as little problems as possible
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I think you have wrong, many I know run linux and they don't have a clue about what's under the hood or thiere hardware, they still loves Linux and use it in the same way they had used windows or osx and they don't care about the mindset, they just want a OS with as little problems as possible
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