 Welcome to the Linuxcast. I'm your host, Matt. Good night, Tyler. All right, so welcome to the Linuxcast. Welcome to 2024. We're in our new year. Welcome to season eight. This is season eight. No, we haven't been doing this for eight years. This is the four plus. This is the seventh year. So technically, but there was one year where I did two seasons. So, so, so me. I can't count. Whatever. Anyways, welcome to season eight. Welcome to 2024. I hope everyone's having a wonderful 2024 so far. And you had a wonderful holiday season. We're back and at it again. Today, we'll be doing our 2024 predictions after we go back and look over last year's predictions, which I'm sure we were all very accurate about. Both of us, I'm sure, just had wonderful predictions where there's no possible way we could be wrong on anything. I'm sure that's true. Oh, yeah. But anyways, but before we jump into our weeks in FOS, we're going to go over that a little bit. We'll have to discuss the elephant in the room that there's only two people here. Yes, there's only two people here. So, I asked Josh and Steve to take a step back because of editing reasons. So, you guys got to realize that when there are four audio streams, it like quadruples the time of editing. It's horrendous. Now, that wasn't really my problem anymore because I shafted that all over on to Nate. But the poor man, that last podcast that we did took him 18 hours almost to edit. And that's just, he's volunteer. Okay? Like, I'm giving him some money, but it's like, it's Nuggy's money, okay? I don't, matter of fact, I don't even think he could get Nuggy's with the money that I'm paying him. So, just, that's the reason why Josh and Steve aren't here. They graciously agreed to step back. They will be around, I'm sure. They're on the, at the top of the substitute list when Tyler decides he's going to play 0AD all night and not show up for the podcast the next day. So, they'll be around for then. But as of now, we're going to go back to two people in hopes that it makes it easier to edit the podcast. And we do want to keep editing the podcast because it just makes it so much better when we do edit the podcast. So, that's the reason why there are two of us here and not four of us here. So, also, just as a shout out, both Josh and Steve have YouTube channels. If you guys want to keep up with them, TenlyJ for Josh on YouTube, and Steve is at ZeroLinux on YouTube. He's supposedly going to be doing some more content on his YouTube channel. So, if you guys are interested in keeping up with the Joshes and the Steves, head on over to their YouTube channels and give them a subscribe and catch it. Also, by the way, just a shout out Josh one last time. He did his second video on the Home Lab stuff. That was an excellent video. I learned to crop-load about ButterFS that I didn't know. So, there you go. All my shouting out is done. Welcome to 24. Welcome to Linuxcast. But as we usually do before we jump into the main topic, we're going to be talking about what we've been doing in open source. So, Tyler, in the last week since we've been off, do anything good? Are you still on Linux or are you using Windows? I think last year, the true story, we stopped the podcast in 2021. We took our break. He was using Linux. He came back. He was an Apple fanboy. He had all the Apple products for Christmas. And he came back. He was like, he had a MacBook Pro and he had an iPhone. He had the AirPods and Apple Watch and all this stuff. Tyler, are you still using Linux? Please tell me you're using Linux. Yes, I am. I have not... I do still have my iPhone. But other than that, still rocking all the same stuff. Well, actually, that's not true at all. I got a Sony A6000 camera. So, if discord wasn't, you know, brutally mean to this thing, the quality is extremely nice. It's very good. I also got a new audio interface and I'm going to take quite some time to play around with it and stuff so I can do some, like, really fun effects, like turn my pitch way up and do that kind of stuff. Come on. The lollipop guilty. You got to do the lollipop guilty. I refuse. I refuse. It'll be too good. But, yeah, so it's really nice but I'm still on NixOS. I'm really liking it. I have I've started using Flakes on NixOS so I've got, like, all of my configs include my I can run a simple command and just change out which configuration for the device I want to install to. So, I've got my laptop configuration on there, my desktop configuration and eventually I'll have my file server's configuration so redeploying or, you know, doing anything like that, super easy. I really like NixOS. It's been really nice. I'm astonished that you're still on NixOS. I mean now you don't hop as much as Josh does but you have been known to not be on distros for very long and this has been, like, what three or four weeks, right, almost a month? Yeah, yeah. That's insane. I think that might be a record. And I do want to say that I have to agree with a lot of people that are very happy that I'm using NixOS. It is extremely nice and I definitely do really like it and I do agree with the sentiment. The people who really fall in love with NixOS tend to try to pitch it to every single person out there don't do that. NixOS probably is a little bit too different and not what most people want out of their system so I'm not shilling Nix. I don't think everyone should go out there and start using it. I just am really liking it and I don't think I'm going to leave it. Everything is working really good. I'm having a really nice time and since I do really like Hyperland, NixOS is made using Hyperland very easy, extraordinarily easy. So I like it. And also someone in chat said the normal message I'm high. No. I am not. I have not been hitting it. Thank you to Nix2 for the Super Chat. I appreciate that. I think we're playing Super Chat. Bingo here. I gave him $2. Now he's giving me $2. Now I'm going to have to give him $2 again. They're going to be passing around the same $2 bill the entire time. So I've been using NixOS on an extra hard drive on this one and on the main disk around the standing S behind me and I have many thoughts on it. So I'll do my long-term review in March but overall it's just I don't think you can classify NixOS as a Linux distribution. I just don't think it's a Linux distribution. It doesn't work like a Linux distribution. Yes, it uses a Linux kernel. That's literally, yes, it probably has the GNU core utility. So technically it's the GNU slash Linux. But other than that, it doesn't function like a Linux distribution. The file system is completely different. I completely agree. It is fundamentally different than any Linux distro you might possibly be familiar with. And that's going to cause people a lot of problems. Well, especially if you're just a browser person, you just do browsing and maybe a little bit of media work or something or you do just regular GIMP work, whatever. You're just like a normal Linux, normal computer user, you'll probably be fine because you're never going to go delve deep into trying to install scripts or whatever or trying to figure out where the path is actually at or any of that stuff. When you try to deal with the nerdy stuff it's like, this is completely different. Where the fuck has the user been talking about? Then you find out that doesn't actually exist. I mean, it exists on the system, but there's nothing that should be there. It's all under the next door bin slash user bin slash bin slash the applicant. Binarys are in different locations. Everything has to be what's called Nixified on it. That's a hurdle to learn and it causes problems with some things. My argument for that is just that it feels like they've looked at Linux and like let's do everything different. What if we did everything different? And sometimes like, they have a good reason to do so but other times, it just feels like they did because they wanted to be different. Also, for those of you who use Home Manager and then have the audacity to share your .files on GitHub, how dare you? I can't use that shit. I don't use NixOS as my main distro so therefore your .files are completely useless to me. If you go on Unix porn, half the people there now use NixOS and they share their .files. Can you share your .files? Sure. Here you go. Here's some Home Manager. Bullshit. Good luck using that on your regular plebian Linux distribution. Fuck you. Hold on. I do have to just go ahead and show this so I'm going to switch over to my desktop and if I load up a terminal here in CD into my NixOS like configuration files, this is what someone's Git repo will look like if they're talking about if they're using NixOS. Config files aren't even normally laid out as easily as mine. I have a folder with config files in it for people to go in that's separate from the Home Manager stuff and these are just normal config files that anyone could use on Linux. Most people using Home Manager don't do it that way. No they don't. Not even a little. It causes so much config. Before I was using NixOS when I would see those I'm like, what the hell have you done to this? This isn't even the config file syntax. What is happening? Where's the because with Home Manager some programs you can entirely set up inside of your home.Nix file and so you go looking for someone's configs and they're running NixOS you get their configs but then there's not even a regular config file for the program that you're looking but there are other programs config files in there. So what's happening? It's not good for Linux cohesiveness. Let's put it that way. What I have to say to this is if you use NixOS for a long time good luck going to something different afterwards. It's like getting really reliant on org mode and emacs. Technically, you can get the stuff out of org mode and put it into them if you decide to switch to them you're two down the road but it's going to take some work and you're obviously going to lose some features because org mode is the best lock-in on Linux. Org mode is fantastic but if you stop using org mode, those files not as good. We got a little bit of a tangent there. That's good. A little bit of a NixOS review for you guys. That's good. Anyways, so for me I've been having monitor problems as tradition that's a problem that just doesn't go away and then I've been having Darth Vader who's in the chat right now and is also in our discord servers has challenged me to use the same color scheme for a year. So I'm on a... You guys may not know this about me but if you've watched my... Can I guess which color scheme you've picked and just tell me if I'm right I bet you I'm right. What did you guess? Crocox. Oh, I wish. The part of the rules had to be that it was a non-mainstream color scheme so I'm using Kanagawa. It's basically like a mixture of Tokyo Night and Cappuccine I don't know how to pronounce it and it's okay but I'm missing Grubbox a lot and I just asked Darth and I've been a whiny little bitch about it so you guys may not know this but I used to change my color scheme four times a day so I had a color... No, seriously I work from home. I work on my computer all the time. I'm sending here probably 10 or 12 maybe 14 hours a day so the best way for me to make things fresh and seem like I'm not just staring at the same thing all the time is to change my color scheme so I had a color changing script and I would, you know, do the key binding and I would be able to cycle through all the rices that I've done over the years. It just allowed me to change color schemes and it kept things fresh and made it so I wasn't always staring at the same wallpaper and the same terminal color scheme and like that. That's the way that I did things. Now I'm staring at the same purple color all the time and I hate it. Actually how long am I? I've been using this for hold on a second I've been using Kanagawa for 13 days so tomorrow will be 2 weeks I've been an uncooperative whiny little bitch about this Hulk challenge it has been horrible poor Darth, I've been pinging him over and over and you're like how dare you choose a year? Why could it have been 6 months? Could it have been a month? Could it have been literally anything other than a year? How dare you? Like I've been so bad about it and yes I know guys that I'm on many different challenges at the moment. I like challenging myself to things that I find uncomfortable just because it, you know, broadens my horizons a little bit and sometimes challenges end up being really good so like I found Open Sousa through a challenge I'm still on Open Sousa, it's fucking awesome it's the best Linux distro out there I will fight you, I have stickers to prove it but on an Emacs challenge right now I despise Emacs so actually the more that I use Emacs the less I like it, it's not good for some people I'm sure it's fine but if you don't use Emacs as your operating system it's not good, that's just my opinion I'll make a video about it and stuff but it's not it's not a good thing if you do anything outside of it like if you're messing around in files in a terminal and then you want to edit a file in the terminal you actually have to go to Emacs to go do it now I understand Emacs has a terminal version but it's not good it's slow as fuck even with the demon running the Emacs in the terminal is very very bad maybe I'm doing something, I'm sure I'm doing something wrong but it doesn't matter, those are my thoughts on Emacs so I'm on that challenge I'm doing the color scheme challenge don't mind me, I'm challenge obsessed but anyways that's what I've been doing I'm messing around with trying to get Qtile working again I've been messing around with Moanad and also I've been trying my hardest to mess around with Python a little bit more I kind of slacked towards the end of the year on my classes and stuff on Python so I'm delving back into that and what I've found is that I don't remember shit guys once you pass 35 you can't remember anything that you learned unless it's literally pounding into your head so don't turn 35 or higher just don't do it basically what I've had to do so I was well into learning like all the stuff you'd learn with Python that you have to go I was well past the beginner stuff, I was into the immediate stuff and I was actually writing scripts that I was actually pretty proud of went back to it around Christmas time I don't remember shit that I learned nothing it's all gone, it's completely gone I don't even remember learning half this shit I had to start over again basically I guess I go through the tutorials again and I go oh yeah I remember learning that but I have to it really is true if you don't use it you lose it now that's a 40 year old virgin quote if you ever saw one I mean it is true maybe you can still ride a bike after not doing it for like 5 years but it's going to be terrible and it's kind of the same thing alright so this is the prediction show we're obviously Tyler and I haven't spoken basically since before Christmas so we're bullshitting because we're catching up so you just have to deal with some some tangents here but anyways this is our prediction show and what we're going to do is before we jump into this year's prediction we're going to go really quickly over last year's predictions so it would have been actually good if I had these up but I didn't okay so my first prediction from last year was that there would be no Steam Deck 2 and I think I was right on this one but I did not foresee them to actually come out with a new Steam Deck at all I don't really remember what I said about it but I'm pretty sure that I said that there would be absolutely no new Steam Deck in 2023 and if I did say that as emphatically as I remember saying it I was wrong because there was a brand new Steam Deck this year they did the OLED version that shocked the pants out of me I think it shocked the pants out of everybody because they said basically that they weren't going to do it and then they went and they did it they did it Valve literally did say we're not going to do another Steam Deck for years yeah they said for years is what they said oh yeah that's right yeah they did say multiple years because you and I did a podcast after they said that like oh this is a mistake man they're going to let all the windows handhelds get way ahead of them and people are going to go over there and nobody's going to ever use the Steam Deck again and what the hell is Valve doing and yeah they made fools of all of us there's a brand new Steam Deck there now now it's not a Steam Deck 2 so take a close right about that but it's still a new Steam Deck also did any interest in getting an OLED version of the Steam Deck or are you just happy dandy with what you have I gave my friend my regular Steam Deck because I will be getting the OLED version let me know how it is I have no plans at the moment to buy one to be honest with you because I don't well I already know a guy who's got one of the OLEDs and from everything that I've been told it's a Steam Deck with a better screen that's it and that's kind of what I'm excited about because that's really my only problem with the Steam Deck was the screen should be much clearer and like more vibrant and an OLED will do just that so I mean supposedly has a better battery life and is slightly cooler and it's a little lighter and stuff like that but I don't know if you'd really notice that also I'd want it to be a lot cooler because I don't know if you know this but if you have to notice this but on some games like you played like God of War that thing gets hotter in hell like ow you're burning my hands oh trust me after like a good three four hours of playing Daisy that thing gets pretty warm so God of War didn't even make it that long it got to I played for about four or five minutes at the end of it it crashed it was so hot oh whoa yeah it got really really hot now I think there was like an update and it got better so I could play a little bit longer but if you're the game that I played it I don't remember which one it is that's one of the ones I bought on Steve but basically the beginning of the thing is with him with a son and he forces his son to kill the deer with the blue antlers it got there and it was like the beginning of the fucking game and it crashed because it was so hot but yeah that's my biggest wish for the Steam Deck is that they do a better job with thermal management because that's what it is right now on some games it's just almost unplayable because it really hurts like a hot potato it's really hard to like like we're kind of trying like at this point we're trying to like be with thermal dynamics because we're like how do we play a really powerful AAA game and have it render and be performant on a device that you want to hold in your hand and it's just going to generate heat no matter what and it needs some wattage going in water cooling that's what I'm saying is water cooling I'm not going to lie I've seen people do those like super tiny water cooling systems for like the raspberry pies and stuff and I think there's nothing cooler than that so if there was to be a water cooled steam deck I you better believe I'm upgrading to that someone on YouTube has to have done it like as a hat job or something but so there's like you know those like those ROG gaming phones or whatever they're like you know $1500 or whatever and they're supposed to make your Android gaming experience better they have like a water like a vapor thing in them that is like kind of like water cooling I don't know how it works I've never had one of those phones and I have no desire to have one but something like that maybe but what I'm envisioning is like an actual like custom loop thing on there and it's like I've got some like cyberpunk shit off hanging off the back of it and it's going to be awesome but yeah something water cooling is I think that's where you almost have to go if you're going to want to because as it is right now air cooling just blows the hot air out onto the user and like yeah they did they blew it out the only place that they could which is through the top but still your fingers are up there you know like there are buns up there you got to press and make it I think the steam deck is like one of those devices that can actually cheat a little bit because it's exhaust port can be put like up there and towards the middle of the screen where your fingers aren't really going to be sitting over it but most devices around the same size and especially if you're going to try to make a steam deck more compact than it already is you start running out of that room real quick and air like I mean the problem is like no matter what there's got to be hot air going somewhere out of the thing just how can we transfer the best way possible it's like the only air cooling solution that's going to get better than what we already have is those like piezoelectric systems and stuff like that like the like Linus Tech Tips did a video on like one of the super thin ones like I don't know how long ago it was but I mean I don't know I know those are going to be as reliable if not more reliable than a water cooling system but I wouldn't be surprised if you told me the cost of manufacturing those things was just as much if not more than a small water cooling system well probably more than a steam deck actually some of those water cooling blocks are like three or four hundred dollars which is just nuts if you think about it alright so your first one from last year was that web 3.0 will see heavy regulation and be investigated by authorities and people will lose interest in not discussing I'm assuming that what you meant by web 3.0 is like crypto and stuff like that in which case point for you everyone that did that went to jail oh no there's still people going to jail I mean Logan Paul has a class action lawsuit against him for his crypto zoo project that's been in the news here lately he's still doing shady things around it shocker I see kids buying prime bottles oh my god what are you doing prime lie okay I don't know what that is oh it's some Gatorade BS drink that like Logan Paul and another youtuber I saw it in the coffee zoo so like pretty much all of the web 3.0 stuff is crumbling I have found there's a guy on YouTube I found who is big on promoting NFTs he's actually heavily invested in a whole bunch of NFTs his icon is the monkeys he's got like one of those this is like profile picture but he's got like 300 subs and his shorts all have like not the best comments in them so I really think NFTs the whole web 3.0 stuff it's either dead or dying and people actually go to jail so nice we made so much fun of the people who were spending hundreds of thousands of actual real hard earned dollars on those stupid NFTs and like can you imagine if you were the guy who spent like 2 million dollars or whatever it was on the first tweet or whatever it was like Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as an NFT and someone paid like a gigantic amount of money for that thing and it was worth nothing when they bought it and it's even worth less now because the NFT thing just doesn't it was stupid to begin with it's still stupid and you were 100% right on this thank goodness because if we're still now we've moved on to other nonsense it's at least useful in some points you know at least AI has some use cases that you know like oh yeah that's kind of cool it feels like that whole market has the fact that it were moving on past it has freed up a lot of a lot of room for stuff with actual like substance behind it yeah yeah nice thank goodness that was 2 years of our lives were never getting back and all of that money went to people who were scumbags I mean like it's hard to find someone in the crypto space that's like a good person is the thing they all feel like their Ponzi schemes I'm going to get sued for that probably but you can sue me I have no money so you ain't going to get much just don't steal my monitors they're nice I got good monitors you can't have those those are safe anyways let's see here so my next one was that Microsoft will buy something big in Linux or open sources here I I mean, Josh linked a whole bunch of acquisitions here I looked through them I didn't see anything that I could consider big because I deliberately used the word big in the prediction so I think I was thinking of something like you know canonical obviously didn't happen so we'll just move on from that because Microsoft they tend to be doing their own Linux thing now they creating their own Linux distribution and stuff like that or another Linux distribution so apparently they'll be still going as strong as they wanted to so whatever so your next one was Tyler will be streaming on YouTube every single day in 2023 for at least four hours a day now, Josh is obviously my good friend because he put obviously failed at this and then just makes another comment in the show notes like just obviously he failed at this let's move on which he's not wrong I did fail I think you said it earlier but it was probably it probably took a day for me to fail at that maybe two yeah just to go along with that apparently I said that I wanted the 080 streams back and that I would play 080 with you I still haven't done that by the way just as bad at it as the one time that I've played it and since that time that you told me that she would play with me I think you said like yeah I'll hop in and join you boys maybe like you do always say that you do always leave yourself out where you're like maybe maybe I'll show up and you've said that like probably like eight times since then I've shown a couple like I showed up one time to commentate that one time that was godawful like you can't have someone who has no idea what the game is about to commentate it was it was not very good but I did come and play with the other game that we played the other war game what was that the one time the one that was like oh open all right yeah yeah I played that with you guys once so that happened so that was when it wasn't 080 but it was basically that all right so my next prediction was classic window managers will move to Wailand or begin to move to Wailand this year that didn't happen really I mean Xmonet is probably the only one that's closest to discovering a plan but they're still in the process of finding someone who wants to do it for them as far as I know and Qtile was already there so yeah that was that was a failure now the desktop environments are moving right along like probably by this time next year the Xorg thing will just not be a thing on desktop environments anyways Qtile your next one was AI and Linux will become a big part of the small business success I don't know about Linux but definitely AI is literally fucking everywhere and Josh did say it's debatable and I agree with that sentiment it's like AI all that stuff definitely part of big business but small business debate like are there some yes definitely making use of it but everyone know not really my sister in her small business does not use AI for anything and probably for the best like I don't know that I don't know that she would actually edit and go over what chat GPT gives her sometimes chat GPT will give you something that's like the first sentence or like three sentences is real good like real good and the rest is just nonsense so what I've been surprised most about the AI thing is that the people who you would expect to like literally hate its guts like because they're like the most staunch privacy advocates ever some of them they're using AI like what is going on here like this is not something this is not there's no privacy respecting AI out there right now because it's all farmed on public data like literally that's how they created it it's not like it just was born out of nothing it's you so there have been there have been some real surprises to me over some of the people who have been using it that I thought that would like never ever use it or it be at all interested in like it feels like something that I would be interested in but I can't for me it just still feels like mostly a gimmick like I've used some chat GPT stuff and yeah okay you know it's kind of neat like saying yeah I need a bash script to do blah blah blah and it'll shoot out a black bash script that will maybe work but I'm also a little worried that somewhere along the line it learned a little bit more like somewhere in that bash script is like RM-RF slash star and like oh I'm a dumbass and because I didn't go actually go through the bash script that I asked it to create and then all of a sudden my car drives completely wiped or there's a random e-command in there you know just for reasons I don't trust chat GPT to not troll me either I assume it's going to happen sometime in the future like someone's going to get some chat GPT code that is a little bit funny like questionable it's going to happen I'm sure it's probably already happened but maybe not like destructive but you know it's just like they sent you some code for whatever and it just completely ruined your program or whatever so I'm assuming that that has happened I am with you I would rather that happen to somebody else than me like I'm going to check it before I do anything yeah definitely line by line if you do use it you're going to want to go through that thing definitely just in just in case of course that requires you to know there can't be a complete utter bash like if you're just doing a ask for a bash but you know no bash going through that line by line it's going to be much good because you still don't know what's going on but at least you'll be able to look for RM and DD alright so those are the predictions from last year I didn't really keep count of how many we got right and wrong we don't really need to score I'm surprised that there were a couple that you got at least one right there and I don't think that I did any but maybe next year we'll keep score so next year next year we have a actually put this in the show so we remember next year instead of doing it this way we're going to do a reaction type video where we'll play this next part live and you guys will see us reacting to it so it'll be a better way of doing this other than just reading the ones from last year out so let's go ahead and move on to 2024's predictions now my rules for this that you had to have at least one prediction the other one could be broader tech I did both the next one it doesn't really matter but it's going to do two you can go first so Tyler what is your first 2024 prediction hyperland will become the new arch like if I think it's already kind of happening now but and I mean that in the sense not not you know hyperland and archer actually similar projects but everyone like there's a whole bunch of memes around using arch because so many people run arch and there's you know a mentality of letting people know that you use it because you know it takes skill to use which that is debatable archers pretty simple to use but hyperland will become that new thing that everyone memes about and you know makes fun of people for like using and talking about using I think I think that's going to happen a lot this year because it's going to get also I guess part of that prediction is I also think hyperland is going to get more popular throughout this year well because it's the only like whaling compositor other than sway which is like really ready to use I mean it's just it just is unfortunately I mean X moment ads still in the hiring phase Qtiles there and it's better than it was in the most recent release but it's not all the way there and then the traditional managers that we used to use like DWM I mean DWDWL is around but is that still maintained nobody knows like River is a thing but nobody uses it there's a couple other ones that just nobody use so if you want to use a whaling compositor and have a window manager like experience it's hyperlander sway those are the two and that makes me astonishingly sad I mean just really really sad because the best part about the window manager space was that you had a ton of choice it was choice that was built up over 25 years so we're still at the beginning of the whaling compositor space so maybe 25 years from now we'll have a ton of choice again but as of right now the choice has gone away you could choose from DWM and I3 and BSPWM and all that stuff right but now there's two choices if you don't want to use sway or hyperland you're fucked just the truth and it makes me very very sad also makes me even more anti-whaling than I already was by the way which is hard to do because I'm really anti-whaling fuck whaling exorc for life yeah stop with the gang signs man I don't know as somebody who's really liking it it's nice I have no problems but I do get change is definitely not for everyone and even I don't like change I would say some of the time but there's a lot of times I don't like change so but it cracked me up someone in chance Tyler's next 2024 prediction next will become the next arch by the way that's already happened by the way that's already there the arch guys are jealous of the fanaticism that goes on about the NYXOS guys they're like even we're not that bad I mean like NYX has gotten to a point where I wouldn't be surprised with me talking about using NYX I don't have like a handful of dudes over the course the next couple of months come in and pitch me on why I should use NYX even though I already use NYX no they'll be like you're not using NYX in the right way like can you there's probably factions within the NYX community like there are probably those who would be like me who don't use home manager right they just use they just manage their configuration and home directories in the traditional Linux manager so that it's easy to move away from so there's probably like the people who do use home manager that go in and talk to those people who don't use home manager like you're not using NYX in the proper way why aren't you using NYX with home manager why aren't you using flakes why aren't you using NYX environments and NYX shells and all this stuff but you're not using NYX in the proper way why are you doing it the wrong way that that happens already a lot with flakes like they're as far as far as I've been told like I don't know this as a fact but from what I've been told there's a rift in the actual like NYX like NYX OS core like development team over whether or not like people should be using flakes or not so yeah I gotta be honest both ways work just fine whether you're using flakes or not they both work just fine it doesn't matter you can use NYX 100% without using NYX or home manager and use I don't know I mean whatever I've been using NYX since October and I'm still very much like I don't know about this I think I prefer the traditional way of doing things like I was pretty upset about like silver blue doing things slightly differently than regular Linux and then you go to NYX and NYX is like wow it's really different I'm not sure I'm comfortable with this I think I'm this is very triggering it makes silver blue look like it's normal like no and really it really does alright so my first one is that Canonical speaking of immutable distros Canonical will roll out the official Ubuntu immutable distro this year now it exists it's already technically available for you to download it's all snaps obviously and they don't have a name for it but they don't even have an official download link for you to you have to go to their github page and download the ISO there so it's very very early days as of this year but Canonical moves pretty fast in this stuff I think that by the time we get to the October release we'll see the official Ubuntu immutable distro at least in beta form with an official like page on their website I think that that will happen mostly because I think that they're really they're really feeling the pressure to move on to something like that that's very immutable and I think there's a priority for them and now I'd be shocked if it was around the LTS I doubt it is it's just too soon but by the October release I think that there'll be an immutable version that you don't have to go to github the download you can download it right from their downloads page it may still be marked as beta or early access or something like that but I think that that's the direction that we'll be going in now whether or not it'll be good I'll leave that up to other things what are you giggling about Tyler? I love the fact that we do this live someone said all snaps so hell is real okay so here's some funny this is a sneak preview for a video that will come out on my channel next week but I switched from flat packs to snaps a few days ago and just spoiler alert better than they were yes good okay so the thing is Canonical has fixed the snap problem what's the number one thing we complained about with snaps is that they're slow right they fixed it but the problem is that they were fucking dumbasses and they relied on developers who are a bunch of lazy bastards to fix their applications no offense developers the thing is if you want to do a snap and you want to make it load faster then the new technology fixes that Canonical implemented but unfortunately a lot of the package maintainers on snap haven't instituted that new way of packaging yet the new compression and everything that goes along with it so some snaps like GIMP open faster than flat packs shit you're not same thing with like Kaden live opens faster than a flat pack but then there are some like to do this that hasn't been updated it takes almost a minute to load like it's bad so it's a very fractured experience sometimes loads really really fast sometimes like you'll turn gray before it opens so that's a spoiler for a video that's coming up but that's my experience with snap also fucking loopback devices are still a god damn thing and I hate you also the snap directory is still in the home directory for everybody to see and yes you can hide it from your GUI file manager but you can't hide it from Ranger or from the terminal which is just get out of my home directory I'm gonna murder you so yeah I have some thoughts on snap still I will go ahead and say just in case we're about to move on so a whole bunch of people in chat have said that like they've already announced that it's going the immutable Ubuntu distro going to be beta for 24.04 and they also said that my prediction is pretty much already true so apparently we have set ourselves up for success with these first that's the way I'm going to look at it either they're saying that we're really good at predictions and just predicting things after they already happened or if we don't pay attention we're really bad at predictions okay doesn't it I missed that announcement by the way I had no clue if our other two predictions end up being the ones that are true and these ones Ubuntu ends up delaying it it never ends up happening and then my prediction is no one really talks about hyperland anymore because there's another new awesome Wayland compositor that hits the market that'd be great alright your second prediction what is that mine is that I will still be using NixOS next year when we do this again that does mean still using it on my desktop and laptop like not just installed it the day before I will use it for the entirety of this I want to bet I want to wager on this I will bet you one item any item that you want from my merch store that you're not you can literally choose anything that you want anything and if it's not on there because you're on 4th wall too you know that 4th wall has it and I don't have that actual thing in stock I will make it for you if I'm wrong I would guarantee that you're not salon Nix at the end of the year now and that you use it the entire year through somewhere along the line Josh will be in your ear and I love that someone in chat is like another softball way to go out on a limb Tyler dude what are you talking about Josh was paying me to use Jintu and I stopped using Jintu for the challenge I owe him that monitor there because I didn't keep using it he just hops a lot and that's the reason why I'm so safe in this bet if I win I just want bragging rights I don't even need anything that's how sure I am that I'm going to win I don't even need anything for it because it'd be feel like stealing candy from a baby there's no chance Josh has a better chance of using a single distro for the entire year than you do he has no chance by the way of doing that zero chance so that's how confident I am that this is not going to happen prove me wrong and you can have anything you want off from the shop shop.thedlinkscast.org by the way if you want to help fund my wage my gambling debt alright my second one speaking of softball we're really bad at predictions Plasma 6 will be buggy people will still like it anyway this is a horrible horrible prediction because it's absolutely going to be true it's so true but I'll add a little bit about this is that the KD Devs will say that it's not buggy that it's just the way that Plasma is supposed to be that's literally some of their quotes Plasma is not Plasma is not buggy it's just the way that it's supposed to be and I think that we'll hear the same kind of rhetoric around Plasma 6 that this is the way that it's supposed to be in solar early days or whatever but Plasma 6 will be astonishingly buggy when it first comes out and people will still like it anyways and I will be sitting here like but why I get a lot of shit from people saying why do you bitch about KD all the time you say you like KD but I do I believe that you criticize the things that you love and KDE remains the buggiest desktop environment that I've ever used that's just absolutely truth still awesome you can be awesome and buggy just is the truth I don't think it's awesome I think it's just buggy so I'll take any heat you get for KDE because at the end of the day at least you still like it and appreciate it at all so if anyone's going to send you heat just send them a message send it on my way I'll take all the heat for not liking KD or saying it's buggy and I agree with your prediction I think you're going to get that I think that one's going to be a slam dunk I took a look at last year's prediction I was really wrong I was like I'm going to get two at least apparently I predicted one that's already happened and then I predicted one that we know is going to happen so I'm going to get two points next year way to bring home the chicken dinner it's really really hard to do predictions okay you guys try it alright so we just did two each I think that that's a good number because if I had to come up with a third one it would have been even worse than the first two so I'm just going to put that out there anyway so that is it for the predictions and we're moving on now to the last things of the podcast what would you traditionally do and because I have been basically brow beaten into it we no longer call these the thingies of the week which I thought was a fantastic name it was just a wonderful name apparently it wasn't good enough for my community and everybody's decided it was going to be called nuggies of the week so our nuggies of the week Tyler take it away and it's going to be I have spent a lot of time away from Rofi and such because I'm on Wayland so I tried out I've tried out Tophie I really like Tophie for its speed and everything however I have ended up back on Rofie only because Rofie just looks better like that's genuinely the only reason I'm back on it it just looks better or at least the ability to make it look a certain way there's a lot more options with Rofie so if you're on Wayland I think it's probably the best program launcher you're going to have for anyone who doesn't know and because I can I'll switch over to my desktop this here is Rofie so I've got yeah I've got like a nice banner here you know like load up wonder so it's very nice I do very very much enjoy using Rofie and it was a lot of fun to play around because I've never done a theme with like a picture like that and I just really normally when I spend time on my Rofie setup like I'll theme it with like nice things like transparency and stuff like and that's pretty much as far as I go so now that I'm back on Rofie I'm very much enjoying the ability to make it look so nice because Tophie which if you're going to go with something other than Rofie on Wayland I think Tophie is pretty much your only really good option mainly because it's so freaking performant definitely recommend for a program launcher check out Rofie it's really good and then use Rofie-Wayland if you're on Wayland so my nuggy of the week is Better Discord so first off before I talk about this Darth you're wrong I'm not going to fail the color scheme challenge because the the wager that we have where I have to use vanilla emacs for however long we agree to is not going to happen I'm not using vanilla emacs no I'd rather use the same color scheme forever than I have to use vanilla emacs just put that out there so Better Discord is an overlay for Discord that allows you to theme it also allows you to add some plugins to add some functionality that's basically what it is it's there are a few of them like this so Vencord is one of them there's another one called Webcord or something like that it's something a little bit different they all do basically the same thing they all use the same themes so if you have one theme on one and you switch to another one you can use the same thing which is nice I think the plugins are probably interchangeable to it but I don't know that for sure I like them I like this a lot I don't usually do it because I change themes so often that it just doesn't make sense for me to do so but because now I'm stuck on one theme for the next year Darth you asshole I I've decided to theme my Discord and I have it as the Kanagawa or however however you pronounce it I'm sure I'm mispronouncing it the color scheme there and it looks awesome fantastic I don't really use any of the plugins because I just don't need Discord to take up any more memory but as it is it's really good so better Discord supposedly if you use this you're breaking Discord's terms of service so just keep that in mind if you decide to do this I haven't ever seen them actually ban anybody I've seen them ban developers for doing it but I don't think that they've ever banned individual users for using it so you should be fine but just keep that in mind as you go along just in case you don't blame me if you lose your account anyways so it is against TOS but from everything I've heard they don't really care about it especially as long as you're not using those malicious plugins or you know just plugins that you shouldn't be using I think what they got the one guy for is because he considered it spam or something I don't even know anyways so that is it for the first episode of the year we made it all the way through and I think it was a good one so if you want to if you want to follow us you can do so in any number of ways you can head on over to the website which is thelinuxcast.org there you'll find previous episodes although that hasn't been updated in a while I'm still working on actually getting that up since I switched to different podcast hosts so it's a little bit delayed I'll get that fixed here in the next few 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