 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. Today we're going to take a first look at Deepin 20.1, which just was just released, because I can't say recently. We're going to do this in a virtual machine, so let's switch on over to the main monitor here and take a look. So it still defaults to what I'm assuming is Mandarin, because this is a Chinese distro. A lot of times this bothers me, so you have to agree to use your experience program, which I guess you don't have to, but you have to agree to the terms of service. A Linux distribution that has the terms of service that you have to agree to is always something that I, you know, not all that great. Friendly note, if you're installing Deepin on a virtual machine, this may result in suboptimal performance. Well friend, I'm not going to install on metal, but we'll try. Here's another thing. If you are installing this on a virtual machine, you have to have at least 64 gigabytes of storage allocated to the virtual drive. You can't do like 25 like every other distro. It's dumb, but what are you going to do? So let's slick this and hit next and continue and see how long this takes. I will likely cut out the video from here until, you know, this is done. And then I'll time it a little bit. Okay. I'm back. The installation took around four and a half minutes on a virtual machine, which is pretty quick, but you gotta remember, we didn't create a user or any of that kind of stuff. And make sure you check your language again, which is interesting. Um, this is the setup after install. So keyboard layout is all done afterwards. Detroit, and then deep in. That's good enough. I think it'll do a different password. Interesting. So you can't use your user name. Okay. That's fascinating. That's a nice little secure security thing that you can't use your thing, your username for your password. I was just trying to be, you know, I didn't really want to use my normal password, but I did do it anyways. Anyways, so, so far the design of the installer is very, very good. But I expected that, you know, it's definitely different than most other ones. Now it reminds me quite a lot of the, what was the one that I just did not too long ago that didn't, I think it was, I think it was Fedora that has a post install setup, kind of like this. And I really enjoyed that. It's kind of gives you a sense that it's kind of professional. I don't know, kind of more like Windows, I guess. It's a technique that you're using, a virtual machine, which will affect system up. I think I'm just going to use normal mode and see how it works. Okay, so here's our welcome app. Next, fashion mode, which looks like this or efficiency mode, which looks like us. Oh, I like efficient mode. That's better. Yeah, I like that. Good stuff. Normal mode or effect mode. We've already chosen normal mode. Here's you can choose icon themes, because there's no, as far as I know, the last time I used deep on deep deep in, you can't actually go through and change your icon theme other than what they provide. I don't think like anything like you know, tweaks would actually work. The thing is, these look almost exactly the same to me. I mean, you can tell there's difference in color, but the design is basically the same. We'll try to do this one. So you can choose in that little welcome app, later dark theme. Let's go into our settings. Let's go, you know, always start with a setting. So apparently, there's some changes here from the previous version. So apparently in the power settings, you can now choose a power plan. Not a big deal for me because I'm on a virtual machine in a on a desktop. You can also send easily some files over Bluetooth in the control center. So do do do. That's in Bluetooth. It's not going to recognize Bluetooth because I'm in a virtual machine. So that's one thing you can do if you're on a thing. There's also more touchpad gestures and support. So that would be here. It's not going to show a touchpad because they don't have a touchpad. So that's actually really good because sometimes these Linux distributions will actually go through and show you hardware that you don't actually have. So this does have a left hand mode, which is cool. Where is the, here's personalization. Let's go to the dark thing. Oh, that's nice looking. Let's look at the file manager. That's a good load time. It kind of has like a start page, like similar to Windows Explorer. That's kind of cool. Now this is based on, let's see if there's like an about section here. This is the control center version 5.3, but let's see if there's like an about system. Look at the terminal here. What's terminal? This is going to be deep. Deepen has all their, I believe that it's all their own stuff. So this is the deep end terminal. It's probably a fork of the GNOME terminal, given the design of this. This has the fairly old kernel. This is 5.4. Like a 5.10. It just came out not too long ago and 5.11 is not too far away. So this is actually a fairly old kernel, but it's a stable, you gotta remember this is based on Debian. So Debian is not known for their most up to date kernels. They're meant to be completely stable, which is good. It's not like Arch Linux where you get a new kernel every other day. Performance wise so far, this looks pretty good. So apparently a lot of the apps here have gotten updates for mostly bug fixes and minor changes is what the change log looks is telling me. Let's see if I can see this is a browser. This is like a deep end browser is a deep end browser. No, this is based on Chrome. So this is just interesting. So they forked like chromium or something to make their own browser. I know that you don't want to go through and say, well, you know, this is a Chinese distribution and I'm really, you know, it just worries me just a little bit because I mean, so much your personal information goes to the browser. I don't know if I would use this. But I guess I'd be kind of up to you. What I did notice here is that the browser does not recognize the dark theme. So that's interesting. What I'll see if there's anything else here that photos recognize as the dark thing. I don't have any photos here. As a file, this is a show desktop. The music player, which I will say the load times are really impressive. Fish on a virtual machine that pretty much came right up. Sure. This is the calendar. They're all very pretty. You know, I've only used deep and, you know, a couple of times, you know, in the past. And that's, oh, I mean, that's the thing that you use deep and forest because this is by far the best looking Linux distribution altar. It's just so good looking. If my thing is, I think it's everybody's thing is like, oh, man, if it's just wasn't developed by the Chinese government, I mean, you just, you got to think about that. It's probably not developed by the Chinese government. It's probably perfectly safe. It's like the US government has such a big problem with Huawei and their 5G modems and stuff. Chances are it's perfectly safe. I mean, you wouldn't, I'm sure the Chinese government has better things to do than, you know, mess around with a Linux distribution. But there's always going to be a little, you know, thing in the back of your mind, maybe this is not so safe. And that's, that's what's kind of kept me from even installing because you can get deep in on Arch Linux. And Arco makes it really easy to install it. And I've thought about it because I mean, look, it's pretty, it's very pretty. Let's see here. So they move from the, it's interesting. Okay, so it says the more stable kernel in the release notes. The kernel is upgrade to 5.8. That's not what I've seen. I saw, um, this says it's 5.4. I mean, that wonder where, because it shows me that I installed deep in 5.0 or 20.1 when, you know, I put in in the grub. Yeah, see deep in 20.1. So I'm on the right version. I wonder why I didn't get the newer kernel. Apparently you have to choose it in the installations interface. I didn't see that option. Interesting. Okay, well, you know, I guess it doesn't really matter all that much, but updated system repositories from Debian. So you have better support for newer applications, improved performance, which I'm, I can't really compare this because like I said, I didn't haven't used deepening quite a while. But running on a virtual machine, the launch times have been very impressive. There's not a lot of screen tearing here, which is very good. I did notice that the animations are pretty choppy. But that's just mostly because of the virtual machine thing. So it has some improved settings, which I've shown you mainly the mouse, the Bluetooth, which we can't see because I'm on a virtual machine, and the power settings here. Let's see here. What else? There are new deepen levels. So that the browser, this here is new. This, like I said, this is based on Google Chrome or probably Chromium. And of course, Google's trying to talk to me now because Google's dumb. Package cache wiped interesting. All right. So this is like I said, this is brand new. I would really like this to follow the theme. It's still I'm not sure if I probably just install Firefox. I was going to use deepen at all. There's also a mail client here somewhere. Comes with LibreOffice. Yeah, I won't be adding that to see that. But interesting. Let's see what else goes through here. After a music movie. This is probably a hmm. This is again, it's a custom application. I mean, it's cool that they do all their custom apps. It seems like that's a lot of work. Like they did their very own disk manager. So let's look at this. This is new. Disk manager right here. Oops, apparently I canceled it. All right. We'll try again. Authentication to read disk. Okay. I like going on disks because it doesn't ask you for authentication until you actually try to change something. That way, if you accidentally change something, you know, you're doing it. Now I've been given this pseudo privileges. If I make a change, oh boy. So it does quite a few different partitions. I wonder why that's I'm assuming it's because it's trying it does a probably for you if you if I kind of stuff. That's the reason why there's no. Okay. So this is really weird. All right. So like I said, remember what I said that you have to have at least 64 gigabytes of storage. And no wonder you have seven partitions here, a 52 gigabyte, a 15 gigabyte, another 15 gigabyte. But what is it using all these partitions for? That is very weird. I mean, it's just very weird. Why? And so this one here is labeled a swap. This one is labeled as backup. This one was laid at label as DDE data. That's 22 gigabytes of DDE data. I don't know what that is. This one's labeled as root B, root A. And this is going to be the main one. And then this is going to be the probably the EFI stuff. That is very odd. Like I can understand putting the home and the, you know, the root on different partitions, so probably two or three and then a swap, probably four or four. But I'm not quite sure what these like backup. And then it's not as if this is using some extraordinarily good file system for backup systems. This is just EXT4. It's just EXT4. See, it's not like it's not using as ZFS or ButterFS or any of that kind of stuff. That's very weird. That's just very weird because I mean, how am I supposed to know where I'm storing stuff? Let's go over here. Let's let's close this. Let's look at the data disk, system disk, and it doesn't even show you all them. It only gives you two places that that 50 gigabyte one, the 50 gigabyte partition that I just showed you. This 51 50 gigabyte one isn't even showing up in file manager. That's data disk properties. Just curious. It doesn't give you any information on how much size because it just shows you your sizes here. System disk gives you 15 gigabytes. Data disk gives you 22 gigabytes. So that's this one here. And this one here. Where's the rest of my storage? What are you doing with the rest of my storage? That's really weird. I want to know. I'm so confused. I gave you 75 gigabytes and I only have access to 35 37 of it. What the hell's going on? That is so weird. Where's the rest of that is really odd. Okay. I'm going to I'm going to do some investigating that investigation of why, you know, I'm just going to do this. Let's do their their own little thing here. Why does deep end? It's first Google Google.com. We're not going to use their or if you notice that when you search, it gives you a search, I guess, Chinese search engine. Even though I've chosen English as my main language. Interesting. Okay. So why does deep end partition have so have so many prediction? No, I'm sure I knew I just put that on. No, I don't want it. It doesn't really show me anything here. What I want to know is why not necessarily why it has so many partitions, but why I don't have access to like the biggest freaking partition that gives you, which is 50 gigabytes. I don't have access to it. 12 gigabyte 15 gigabyte. It's really weird. Let's see if maybe if you make this bigger. No. That's very odd. Okay. Well, I'm going to stop obsessing over that, but that's really very weird. So that's just a brief first look at deep end. I'm going to stop there because that's just mind boggling the thing. So the dis thing was they did have a new camera want a camera thing. And that's pretty much it other than a whole bunch of bug fixes and stuff that they've put in since the very 20, which is good. It's nice that they are going through and going, you know, continually getting up bugs and stuff. And it's very actively developed, which is nice. I'm just stunned at the really weird way of partitions. Why does it partition things like this? And where's my storage? Give me back my storage. Like this is the SDA2. Why do I not have access to SDA2? I want to go find out what's on SDA2 before I stop this. Let's go to the terminal here. I want to see LSBLK first. All right. So SDA2 is here is listed as just one K. SDA2 here supposedly has 52. What the hell? And if you notice that 50, SDA2 doesn't even, that is just really weird. So we get the one and a half. And that won't resize. That's interesting. Okay. So we get the one and a half. We get the 15 here. And we get another 15, which is SDA6. SDA7 is the swap, which is 22 gigabytes. SDA3, 11. And SDA4, 11. Really weird. Okay. So what I'm guessing is that they went through SDA2 is actually like a combination of these other ones. So I bet you if we add these up. So let's see. 15 and 15 is 30 plus 22. So that's 32. That's 52 yet. Okay. So that is weird. I've never seen a Linux distribution go through and create like a fake partition because SDA2 doesn't actually exist. If you go to LSBLK tells you the SDA2 actually only has one K of storage. What SDA2 actually is, is the rest of these outside of swap all added together. That is very weird. Why? I don't understand. I mean, is that something? I mean, I don't use EFI. So maybe this is EFI thing. Okay. So this video is about to get here. It's about to get squirrely, people. I need to find this out because this is bothering me bothering to fuck out of me. So Google.com. All right. Deepin SDA2 doesn't really exist. So let's see what this looks like. The next is all resources such as harbors, dispositions as files need to be bounded to certain places. Mountpoint, that didn't help me at all. Files of some hierarchy standards is document that defines layout, public directors and Linux. Okay. I knew that part. I'm trying to figure out management mount points. None of this actually helps me at all. Can someone other than Deepin try to explain that to me? I think I'm going to post on Reddit and find out because somebody will have to be able to explain this to me. And if I find an answer, I'll post it in the comments below on this video. But other than that, that's just really, really very weird. Okay. That first look went off the rails. If you enjoyed it, give it a thumbs up. If you didn't, give it a thumbs down. Support us on Patreon by going to patreon.com slash Linux test. If that's something that you feel like you can do, we do appreciate it. 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