 I've had a really hard time starting this video. This is like the sixth time I've tried to start this video. And so I decided to just start it like this. This video is all about things that I would change about Linux. And I've talked about this type of thing before, but I'm going to do something a little bit different today. Usually when I talk about Linux and its flaws, I usually talk about it in the scope of trying to make it easier for new users to come to Linux and use it and be happy and be productive. Those are the things that I usually try to focus on because it makes more sense. And I always like to try to talk about how we can make Linux better for the new user. But today, what I'd instead like to talk about are things that I would change for myself. If I could make any changes to Linux, these are the ones that I would make. So I'm going to talk about five such things. But before I do, I want to prevail upon you, dear viewer, to go down into the comment section below after you've watched this video and tell me a few things you would change about Linux. If you had ultimate power over the Linux kernel, Linux desktops, whatever. So just say you're the new head honcho at Canonical. How would you change Ubuntu? Or if you're the new maintainer of art, how would you change arts? Whatever. You have this ultimate power. What would you do to make changes to Linux? So that's what we're going to talk about today from my point of view. And I look very much forward to which y'all have to say down there in the comments. So the first thing I would change about Linux is that I would make the AUR standard across all distributions. There'd be no more fiffle faffle about, oh, let's use snaps, let's use flat packs, let's just use what we've always used. None of that stuff. Everyone gets the AUR, you get the AUR, you get the AUR, everyone gets the AUR. Now if you don't know what the AUR is, well, the AUR is the Arch user repository. And it is a community based repository filled with just oodles of software. Now it obviously has its downsides, but I feel it is the absolute best repository in existence bar none. So that would be the first thing I would do every single distribution that exists would use the AUR. The next one on the list is a little bit more controversial. And I say this knowing full well, that terminal for life is out there watching this video. And he's the biggest bash fan in the universe. And he's going to be shouting at his computer saying that I'm such a dumb ass. But I think that ZSH should be the default shell. And the reason why I say this is not for any technological reason, or for any really usability reason, it's just that I prefer ZSH over bash. I don't necessarily prefer scripting in ZSH over bash, but I do prefer in terms of actually customizing your shell, the features that ZSH offers. Now, from someone who has talked many times to a bash purist, I know that bash is just as customizable as ZSH. There's just a ton of stuff there in bash that you can do. But from an ease of use and customizability span standpoint, I think ZSH is easier to customize. Now it's also 100% possible to the reason why I think it's easier to customize ZSH than bash is because I've spent all of my time customizing ZSH. And I've never actually tried to customize bash. But again, go back to the beginning of this video where I saying I'm making these changes for me. I don't give a damn much stress, y'all. So for me personally, ZSH is the way to go. Now moving on to the next one, now that I've offended every single bash user in existence. The next one I think will redeem my reputation amongst those bash users, I think that them should be installed on every single distribution. The fact that it's not is just mind blowing to me. Like I understand that not everybody uses VIM, but a lot of people use VIM and you would think that VIM would be installed by default. But if you download a boot to like actual boot to the most popular distribution out there, and you type in VIM, and then the document or file or something, it'll say could not find command or whatever it is, or and it'll tell you to do pseudo apt install VIM, because VIM isn't installed by default. It's the same pretty much on every distribution, at least the main ones that I'm aware of, none of them ship them by default. And I really do think that they should simply because a lot of people use it. They ship by default and hardly anyone uses by okay, it's just not something that most people use now. I mean, there's going to be somebody out there in the comments section that says, Oh, I use by every day. Well, I mean, that's good for you. But most people use VIM now. And then there's going to be the people who say, well, you want nanos on there, you should just use nano. And into those people, I just say, no, I'm not going to use nano, I prefer VIM. So VIM would be installed on my distribution of choice by default. And I think it should be on all distributions. So moving on to the next one, now that I've offended nano people, I'm going to move on to the next one. So I don't think that anybody is going to disagree with this one. But I'm saying that knowing that there's going to be someone in the comments that's going to disagree with me about this. I think that every single desktop environment should default to a dark theme. I don't understand in this day and age, why this isn't a thing, like, it's really weird that I've never seen a desktop environment at least by default ship as a dark in a dark thing. Now I've seen some of them do a mixture of light and dark, which is what Ubuntu used to do, but they've even abandoned that. And now they shipped just a white theme, a bright theme. And you have to enable the dark thing. Now I'm glad that dark theme now exists in most distributions or most desktop environments, I mean, but the fact that it's not default, I don't understand because I feel like dark mode or dark themes are more popular. It feels like most people are going to switch to a dark thing. Now maybe I'm wrong about this, maybe that's just me. But for at least if I were to make the changes, if I were if I had that ultimate power, I would make sure that all of my desktop environment shipped with a dark theme by default. Now there'd still be a light version that people could switch to if they wanted to. But there'd be some penalty for using it, like they'd have to pay me a dollar or something. I don't know. Again, ultimate power goes to my head like almost instantaneously. So moving on to the last one, the last one is something that I think is probably something that more people should pay attention to. And I'm guilty of this as well. I think that disk encryption should be the default. So when you install Linux, the there's usually a little checkbox if you're in that calamaries or something, or if you're using the boot to installer, there's a more option where you can choose LVM to encrypt your disk. But the problem is it's opt in. It's something that you have to actively check and know what the hell you're doing in order to use. If I were in charge, if I had this ultimate power, disk encryption would be default and on for every single install, you'd have to actively turn it off in order to not encrypt your hard drive. And the reason why I say that this is something that I would change is simply because it would improve security much more than anything else we could basically do in terms of keeping our physical machines secure. And the fact that it's not enabled by default just has kind of always maybe just question like I understand that it's something that people would have to get used to now but if it was always if it had always been default people would just be used to it by now you'd put up in your computer enter your your encryption password do it again in order to get into your desktop environment, it would provide the extra layer of security and it just makes a ton of sense to me now. I know that as someone who doesn't encrypt their hard drives nearly as often as they should, that a lot of people just aren't used to doing it so they don't do it at all. So that's the reason why I think it should just be default. So those are the five things that I'd change for me on my distribution, or if I had the ultimate power to control all of Linux, those are the things that I would change. 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