 So every year I make a video about my workflow now It's been about eight or nine months since I did the last one and there have been some changes So I thought I'd make another video Now this is not going to be my entire workflow because there's some stuff that I just It's would be hard to show on camera But the point I want to talk about the apps that I use and how I use them the window manager that I use and things like that I'll talk a little bit about my hardware and stuff So this will answer some of the questions that I get quite often in the comments like you know What do you use to record your videos? What do you use to edit your videos? What's your computer like and all this stuff right now? I'm not doing a room tour I know other youtubers do a I got an office tour But mine is a bloody mess and I'm not showing it on camera as much as possible What you see here is about the cleanest part of the office folks That's as good as it's gonna get now It's not it's not it's a pigsty or anything But the you know it just it's not as clean as it would need to be if it was gonna show it on camera So we'll just focus on the digital aspect of my workflow today Maybe if I can get around and actually find some shelves to put some stuff on I will do an office tour But anyways, I'm today. I'm gonna talk about my workflow before I jump in if you'd leave a thumbs up on this video I'd really appreciate it really does help the channel. So let's go ahead and I'll show you My setup right now. So this right here is Q-tile now. I tend to switch between work or window managers quite often I even talk about that many times in videos I talked about it a week ago when I was taught was gonna switch to DWM and I did switch to DWM for a little while and Then I got Q-tile working again and ended up coming back to Q-tile now See that's the thing about this whole situation is that Q-tile has my heart. It's in its grasp. It's not letting go Q-tile is fantastic, and I'm never going to leave it behind unless I absolutely have to I'm out of my never you guys know me. I like to switch. I changed my mind very very fast So tomorrow I may end up hating Q-tile. I don't think that that's going to happen though because I've been using Q-tile now for Months and it is fantastic. So First of all, I like workspaces. I like the way that that Q-tile does workspaces So if I'm on workspace three, which is where I'm at right now I can move workspace three to the other monitor So if I wanted to go to workspace six, which was actually on the other monitor right now monitor Or workspace three is on the other monitor even though it was on this monitor and I can just go back if I want You know, it's just that workflow of workspaces works really really well for me and it's better than i3's it's better than DWM's It's better than basically any other window manager. I know Q-tile does or Xmonad does it basically the same but That has the downside of actually being Haskell, which I I hate so Q-tile is fantastic I really like the bar and I have it set up in terms of my racing or I should say theming I'm not supposed to use the word racing anymore. So I have it so that I can go to my Wallpaper folder and go to like say my dedicated color theme. I'll do monokai. Let's just do this one I can hit a keybinding here and actually change The entire setup for me. So if you notice now the bars a different color, I can go to a different one Let's just go to solar eyes. Why not? I'm not actually using gen2 But what the hell would just do that and then As you can see now, I have a solar eyes setup and While I hate solar eyes, which is the reason why I only have one wallpaper for it I'm really really liking the pie wall thing. So the way I did this was with pie wall and Pie wall has integrations for basically everything including Q-tile and it just looks and works Fantastically well as you can see now I have a button on my stream deck that allows me to do a random setup I will not be pressing that because it's possible that I'll get a not a not safe for work wallpaper So I won't I won't do that, but I do have that set up So I do have a stream deck that sits in front of my mouse and I have just I just got it So I only have a little bit of things configured for it. I have the pie wall thing I have one to save the current wallpaper as a favorite And then I have three buttons set up so far for OBS I have one for the main cam which is this one here and then the no cam Which is that one there and then the patreon at the end So I do have that set up now. It's doesn't work 100% well because if I'm in a Window manager that has the key bindings that are set to those buttons It doesn't actually work for for OBS. So I have to fix that But that's that's the way that I switch scenes I know a lot of people just use the keyboard But I now have the stream deck and actually works really really well with deckmaster Deckmaster is the thing that I use to Configure the stream deck on Linux I don't think that I'll actually make a video on that but I am in the process of writing a blog post So that'll be out in a couple weeks for everybody else to be it for patrons patrons here in a few hours as of me recording this so in terms of my theme That's how I've been theming inside of Qtile. I do use ranger as a terminal file manager I still use crusader as my default GUI file manager now I know I talked about Thunar a couple weeks ago I still do like Thunar, but I ended up going back to crusader just because it's just so good guys It doesn't have any flaws Like the only flaw that it has is that it's Qt and that's not a big enough flaw to keep me away from it Right so it has all the features that I want plus many many more and while yeah, it could be considered bloated I still prefer this and it's just I keep coming back to it and and there's just nothing out there that compares to it Unfortunately, so yeah I'm back with crusader now. I do use Kaden live to edit my videos so people ask what I use to edit my videos I use Kaden live. It's the best video editor on Linux and if you notice a little bit of a tone there when I say that it's because well It's not much of a competition to be honest with you the rest of the video editors on Linux are kind of garbage Now I have for a long time wanted to use DaVinci resolve to give that a try, but I cannot get it to run on any distribution I'm just not smart enough to do it apparently. I don't I don't know It's apparently too hard for me, but that's what I use to edit videos I do still use Audacity to record videos sometimes I've been trying to just to record it in OBS for the last couple of videos because I'm It does a better job of filtering out the air conditioner in the fan Which I have to have because it's like 90,000 degrees outside. So usually I use audacity I've been trying to just use OBS for the last couple of videos and you notice here when I watch this this is actually a Rofi and I've been working on Rofi a little bit So I have it display more applications the text a little bit bigger and I use the crap out of Rofi So I have things like clip menu, which still won't launch in open Suiza for some reason and I'm not sure why So I have to launch that manually. So yeah, I have clip menu there Still not working with my key binding. I'm not sure why I also have used scratch pads a lot So I have a scratch pad for my music player, which I've been listening to this Buck cherry album for like a month I do that a lot So if you guys watch my videos and you see the thing the music that I'm playing probably like man This guy never listens to music But what I do is I pick an album that I really really like and then I listen to it over and over again I don't know why I do that. It's just kind of the way that I do it I also have one for just a regular terminal and I actually have two for that So I have that that one and then I have that one and then I have I have Newsboat so that's news boat and then I have pulse mixer and I have another ranger here I use the crap out of scratch pads. They're fantastic. I cannot do without them Super ship B brings up my movies So this is my movie Rofi script and I can play a movie from here So if I wanted to you know play, you know 300 I could just do that and it would play 300 Obviously, I don't want to play that here and get the copyright strike But still that's another thing that I do now in terms of browser. I use Vivaldi now I know Vivaldi's proprietary nonsense I guess I'm bad. I'm a bad bad person a bad advocate for open source because I use proprietary Vivaldi But it is honestly one of the few proprietary applications that I use if that's better most of everything else is open source I'm justifying us so the reason why I use Vivaldi and I've made a video on this is because of workspaces If you look here, I have quite a few tabs open It doesn't actually show the number that I have in Maine That's because it's in another window, but I have you know the 35 tabs open for my stories And stuff that I'm reading. I have a research tab for work I have an ideas tab, which is where I have all my ideas for future videos I have some things that I'm working on for to do and then I have one that I use for the video spaces for Stuff that I'm using in future Videos or past videos like this one was for the the video I did in fedora same with that one And I think that one was as well So I can actually close these but that's that's the reason why I use Vivaldi is because fedora or because Excuse me workspaces exist and it's fantastic. So if I actually show you my ideas Pain here the best part so like this is my ideas workspace and within my ideas workspace I can actually have groups within side of that workspace. So I have a group for apps I have a group for distros I have a group for window managers and then If there's any extraneous ones I can have those up here as well So I have basically you can have groups inside of groups and I adore organization like that It's just fantastic. It's like having nested folders inside of a file system. You couldn't live without it, you know, so The fact that this has that is good Now I still like Firefox and if Firefox had the workspace functionality like that was like this I'd use it in a heartbeat because I'd much prefer to have an open source browser But it doesn't have this exact functionality and I like it too much to leave So with all these the place where I am right now in terms of browsers I have been doing a lot of gaming lately. So I have steam installed So the games that I have installed our airport CEO, which I haven't played yet American truck simulator Which I've only played a little bit city Skylines, which is my jam. I played that probably the most. Let's see I've played that 170 hours, which is you know for people who do a lot of gaming that probably doesn't seem like much for For me who's not a gamer at all. That's a lot. I have cyberpunk somebody 70, which I haven't actually played yet I have dead cells. I love this game even though I've only played about 90 minutes or so I'm horrible at it. I'm so bad. I am getting better Slowly, but I'm just not I when you die, you have to go all the way back to the beginning and I'm getting quite sick of that make mechanism. I have a Skyrim here. I've played that for about an hour or so Here on spot on steam anyways, I played it on Xbox back when it first came out That's a good game. I've played God of War that plays really well on Linux Halo Master Chief collection. I haven't played that yet. Hopefully pretty soon I have nb2k haven't played very much of that I don't care for it all that much and I just got into red dead redemption the other day So I've only played about an hour of that. That's also really cool And then I have a couple others others So I have been have been gaming quite a bit more than I usually do thanks to the steam summer sale Which I've bought like half of these games that I have installed right now came from this year's summer sale Damn you steam I really don't need to buy any more games But anyways, I've been doing that now the vast majority of my work that I do is inside of Neo Vim so most of my editing for my main job is done inside of Vim Sometimes I'll open up if it's a truly long Like series of articles which I so if you don't know I work as a editor for historical magazine It as my day job That's what I do for an actual living because obviously YouTube is not going to cut it I'm not mr. Beast. So that's what I do for an actual living a lot of times when I get articles to edit They'll come in a pack of 10 all in one document and I hate that they do this because it's usually around 20 to 50 to 100,000 words depending on what article the pack that they're sending me right sometimes It's 10 20 articles that they want me to edit all at once now I could theoretically break those things up But that's usually more trouble than it's worth and unfortunately with the way I have my Vim setup It does not handle a long documents all that well. There's some plugin that's bothering That doesn't handle that all that well. I'm not getting rid of it in my plug-in. So sometimes I have to open up Kate I've been using Kate as my visual editor for a little while It doesn't look all that great right now because I'm still kind of fighting or Fighting against actually theming any of my qt applications beyond using a little bit of covantum So I need to fix that if I'm going to continue to use it I have used Geary and a couple others in the past whenever I need to open up a document That's that long they tend to work better in those applications So yeah, those are the things that this right here is usually where I spend most of my time So so I'm usually just in Vim doing editing Doing some writing every once in a while when when the need hits So that's usually where I spend the vast majority of my day is inside of of neovim Now I've chosen neovim simply because it seems to be more Updated than than Vim is and it has a few of the features a few extra features that I like But honestly, I could do just as well with them because I don't use lua Inside of the configuration and the big at the big thing that nvim can do that Vim can't do at least not yet or at least not as well I should say is the lua integration So if you if you are into lua nvim is probably better But I don't do any of that stuff my configuration file is just kind of plain old vanilla vim script still I I haven't gotten around to move over to lua And I don't know that I ever will because I don't really care for lua all that much to be honest with you So my configuration of of neovim and that's pretty static I don't really Do a ton of stuff when it comes to Configuring neovim anymore. It's basically the way that I want it So I can open up a document and just kind of go along with my day I don't have to worry about the theme or the Keybindings or anything like that. I just have it the way that I like it and I don't need to change it So that's that's where I spend the vast majority of my day that in the browser Those are the two things. So that's my basic workflow. I spend most of my time in them I use katie and live. I use audacity. I use obs to record my videos. I didn't talk about that Although I did show it on screen But other than that, it's nothing all that special, right? I'm pretty boring when it comes to my workflow So special apps that I use You've seen all of them and they're not all that special So anyways, if you have thoughts on this, if you want to talk about your workflow, leave those in the comment section below I'd love to hear from you If you haven't already leave a like on this video. 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