 Every so often I put a question and answer video out and it's time for another one of those so there's no need for any grand Introduction, this is just people on my channel asking me questions, and I'm going to provide answers Whether they're not they're good answers That's gonna be up to you to decide. So let's go ahead and jump in The first question comes to us from BG and BG asks Do you think the standard toolbar will die out eventually? I love the standard toolbar menu button Left and really hope it stays so the answer to this question Which is basically do you think the windows paradigm will remain? I think the answer to that question is yes until we no longer use computers and when I'm talking about computers I mean as they are now It's possible once we move to like Brain-inserted computers or something that they will go away. I'm assuming it probably will because we'll need some new You know input paradigms then but as long as we're still using monitors in front of our faces people are so used to That type of layout It's probably going to stay It's kind of like QWERTY on the keyboard QWERTY is not the most ergonomic Keyboard layout nor is it the one that people can type the fastest on you know really if they you know try hard and But we couldn't change away from I mean people are just so used to QWERTY You can't change away from it by default. It just wouldn't be possible The next one comes to us from Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna call you Arco Shaw. I have no idea how to pronounce your name. I'm sorry about that Why Arco instead of vanilla arch the answer to that question is really simple and the answer is that I'm lazy It's really like I said as simple as that the thing is I Can install vanilla arch. It's not hard but over time You for like the first two or three weeks that you have vanilla arch installed You'll always keep coming across pieces of the OS or distribution that you have forgotten to install Whether it's like a dunced or just little pieces that aren't necessary For the functioning of the distro itself but that you're going to need in order for certain pieces of software to work and I don't like that experience. I just want my distribution to be ready to go from the day, you know from the from day one and Maybe if I was So used to vanilla arch that I knew all the packages that I Absolutely needed and can install them all at once and didn't have that experience. I'd be fine But for the most part, it's just pure laziness. I prefer Arco. It works for me really well Now I am about to distro hop probably tomorrow So we'll see where I land then but it's still going to be probably a arch based distro Okay, the next one comes to us from wild I'm again probably mispronouncing your name. Have you thought about pursuing a Linux certification? The answer to that is no now. I'm thinking about it Maybe someday. I don't know it would be I don't know that making videos on it would be really suitable for the audience that I've built So far, but I don't know. Let me know in the comments below if you'd like to see videos on something about Linux certification You never know maybe The next one comes to us from immortality if you self-hosted a website, what OS distro would you choose now? See the hilarious thing is I'm an arch guy like I'm an arch based distro guy, but I would not choose arch for a server So I'd probably choose Debian or Ubuntu probably Ubuntu I like Ubuntu quite a bit more than I like Debian. So it's probably be Ubuntu although things like CentOS or Maybe fedora not probably not fedora, but CentOS or red hat would probably be a good idea too. I like all those I will I will say that I really enjoy open SUSE I've been using open SUSE now for a few days and I really like it. I Don't enjoy how slow their package management system is so it that would probably keep me from using on a server But if that was just a little bit faster Open SUSE would be my choice for a server as well because the desktop version is really nice Okay, so the next one comes to us from Arch MTG Since you're in the stand into stand alone window managers Would you consider making a video on TWM tab window manager? I think he may be talking about Tom's window manager Maybe I don't know If you are talking about Tom's window manager the answer to that question be no That's just the window manager that comes default with X server and it's not good at all It's from the things that I've seen it's not good at all now. I've never used it so it's possible that it's spectacular but From the videos I've watched it's just very very basic. It's meant to be there for You to use in order to install something else as far as I'm aware If you're talking about something called tab window manager never heard of it, okay? Next one comes to us from Norther Tyrant. Okay? What's a good false replacement for Gmail Outlook mail services for you now? Answer this question is there isn't one Email is not secure even if you secure it with like PGP keys and stuff like that It's still going to have weaknesses and stuff like that. So in terms of open source Your best Hope there probably is to host it yourself Because you can use a whole bunch of false tool tools in order to Create an email server that would serve your stuff That's quite a bit of work Although I know Luke Smith has like a script that it will do it for you on like Ubuntu and Debian servers So maybe you could use that I don't know if proton mail is open source. I couldn't speak to that I don't think it is but it's possible it is I've never used it I've never saw the point of paying for email I've always been of the opinion that I know email is not secure So I just give all my information to Google. So I Gotta remember I start I didn't start out as a false guy. I was a Windows user So when I was signing up for email for the first time, I think I used Yahoo And actually hotmail was my first email address and then I went to Yahoo And then I went to Gmail and I've just had Gmail ever since so Switching away now would be just a pain in the ass As much as I hate Google, you know, all right. The next one comes to from Abdullah I'm again if I pronounce your name wrong. I apologize for that Why did you start this amazing channel? First of all, thank you for calling my channel amazing a second of all Why did I start I started it for the podcast? So Ricky Williams and I he's one of my friends. We started a podcast for Linux in 2017. I Can't believe we've actually been doing the podcast since 2017, but it's true and Had nothing to do with YouTube. It was just an audio version. We never did video We did it once a month and it was never think anything serious. We just did it for a while Eventually we fell away from doing that when he and I still do podcasts for about movies and stuff like that But we just stopped doing the next one About I would say Maybe July of 2020 I went into the anchor FM back and where the podcast was hosted and realized that people were actually watching Or listening to the episodes that had been posted. I was like people are actually listening to this I mean, it was like hundreds of people. It was really weird These are really old podcasts. They're not edited at all I didn't do any editing like at all other than put some music at the front of the in the back That was it. So people were listening to it. So I decided I'm gonna put some stuff on YouTube I'm gonna start making new episodes again. I made them the beginning ones were all by just being myself and That's when I started the YouTube channel. I started it for the podcast eventually September of last year. I decided I was going to start making Linux videos and I just did I Made them every single day from like October or something all the way to the end of the year I'll just like every single day and it started growing. I mean, I think I had like 50 or 60 subscribers and then it just kept growing and growing until I got to like 400 and then DT mentioned me on his channel and Here we are almost 5,000 subscribers later So, yeah, that's the reason why it was for the podcast Okay, next one comes from to us from Daniel E. Have you ever used gentoo? And if so, what is your opinion on it? I think No, would be the most proper answer there I have tried to install gentoo on stream before it still remains. I believe my top rated stream Although that Linux Mint one is probably close. Yeah, I didn't succeed in installing it So I can't say that I've used it. So no, I've never installed gentoo. My opinion on it is that their fan base is very loyal I love those guys. The next one comes from no Paul fee. No Paul fee. I'm sorry. I'm just gonna Butcher your name. I'm apologize for that. It does new Linux youtuber will have a chance to grow or Okay, I Think what this person is asking is if you started a Linux YouTube channel will you have a chance to grow or is it just better to? You know watch other people I'm not actually sure what you're asking So I apologize for that if you are thinking about starting a Linux YouTube channel I highly recommend doing it if you if you want to I mean it don't expect to be like a You're not the next mr. Beast. Okay, you're just not going to that's not gonna happen You're not the next Linus tech tips Don't have those expectations because you're just gonna get disappointed when I went into it I expected nobody to watch it all and oh man, just just every time my videos got like 20 or 30 views I was like that's so great. I was like I was so happy with 20 or 30 views and When I got to when I had a video I did a top five Linux distros of 2020 last year and the number one Distra on there was Arco and the Arco guy shared it and that video got 500 views like in the first week and I was just astonished. I was so happy. I was like that's I went viral at that point It felt like going viral. It was so stupid Nowadays if I have a video that has gets like 700 views I'm disappointed and it's just it's so silly because I used to be just so ecstatic and I try to keep Very humble about it because I don't Want to get greedy. I don't want to keep saying why I don't want to take the growth that I keep Experiencing for granted. So I try to not be so upset when a video doesn't do very well like the Five ways to fix Linux YouTube Phoenix fix Linux YouTube a five when it Five ways to fix YouTube comments that video just absolutely bombed. It was my worst video Since like March, I mean him the YouTube algorithm just did not like the fact that I was criticizing YouTube for some reason so that video just I mean it didn't get 400 views and I've been averaging like 1200 views on it on videos that I was really disappointed by try not to be one videos like that So if you are going to start YouTube channel, my number one recommendation is Have no expectations Be very thankful for every view every subscriber that you get You'll be much happier in the end and that's the way I try to be I don't always succeed, but I try Okay, and the last one also comes to us from Abdullah from before who is your favorite Linux you or excuse me they ask Who is your favorite youtuber not Linux youtubers? So my favorite youtuber? This is a really Really hard question off. You're just asking my favorite Linux youtuber. I Don't know if I could name my favorite Linux youtuber because I'd have to I mean I Could go the the the friend route so I have a couple friends that I've made so like the the Terminal for life is great Zany is great. You should definitely subscribe to those guys and They could be qualified as favorites if you're talking about bigger than those guys and maybe distra tube or Brody Robertson I like both those guys as well now if we're going to open this up to all of YouTube it gets a much much harder because I watch a Disproportionate number of YouTube videos every day Like I shouldn't watch as much YouTube as I do because I should actually do work during those times But I watch a lot of YouTube videos. So if you had if I had to choose one I Would probably choose the history guy history deserves to be remembered now this channel here Which I'll link to in the video description is done by a historian who just is a fantastic Storyteller and for those of you who don't know my degree is in history. So I really enjoy in-depth history stuff and you can't get that on TV anymore the history channel used to be about history and you could watch all you know Engineering an empire or ancient aliens or all these great history stuff on the history channel now It's like pond stars and ice road checkers like what the fuck does ice road checkers have to do with history? I don't know it's dumb like at least with pond stars You can you can see that they at least know something about history and then proceed to be assholes about Getting as much money out of people as possible, but the ice road checkers things that I understand, but anyways the the History guy is amazing and he's just one of several history channels that I actually follow He's really good and you have no idea that that cut scene between me saying if I had to just choose one And then actually choosing one that was about 20 minutes me thinking about it for a while because I could really probably choose about 40 other ones that I just watch way too much. There's one Called the Perkins Builder brothers and they build houses and I just sit there and watch them build houses Like I'm never gonna build a house. Okay, but by hand if I was going to have a house built I'd have somebody else build the house. I have no tech talent or talent about For building a house at all but I like watching them build houses. It's a stupid thing It's a good channel. So anyways Favorite YouTube channel, I would say the history guy, but I have so many I really couldn't choose I could have went the arrogant route and said well, of course my channel is the best channel Definitely subscribe So that's it. That's all the questions that I have so thanks everybody for watching I can't believe I made it to this point And actually rumbled on for this long But anyways if you want to if you want to ask any more questions You can do so in the comments of this video and I'll try to remember to Look at them the next time I make a Q&A video. You can follow me on Twitter at Linux cast You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast Before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Devon Chris east coast web gen 2 is fun too Patrick L. 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