 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. My name is Matt and this is the second episode in a series I'm calling what the fuck is that distro now some of you were confused before and wondered what the actual Title of the series was and I'll reiterate. It's what the fuck is that distro now? I can't say that as well as say Samuel L. Jackson could say it But what are you gonna do so in this series? I find distributions that I've never heard of before I install them and I Roast them or if they're good. I applaud them for existing most of the time I roast them So Today's distribution is called blue star Linux now if you have never heard of blue star Linux I don't blame you because I've never heard of blue star Linux either and the thing is is if you go to Distro watch comm our beloved distro watch and you look at their rankings Which we all know are the most accurate things to ever exist You'll find blue star Linux on that list. It's like let me go see Let's go ahead and go look at distro watch right now. We'll go We'll come back to this page here in a minute, but if we if we Zoom in here and scroll down a bit. We'll see blue stars actually at number 39 So it's in the top 40. It's above things like peppermint and Zubuntu and Void and ghost PSD and Bodhi all things that are really really good and get go Linux Which is awesome based on open Suza. I've never heard of blue star Linux before so I was looking through this list I was like, you know, most of these things I've heard of before like Rocky and Magia and Sparky Linux and Q4 OS and You know, I've heard of all these things before and tried many of them And they're all you know varying levels of good But I got down to here I was like, yeah, well, I've never heard of Linux FX before but then I looked saw a blue star I was like, what the hell is blue star? So according to distro watch blue star Linux is a GNU slash Linux Distribution that is based on arch Linux. So this is an arch based distro The blue star distribution features up-to-date packages a full range of desktop and media Multimedia software and default installation in a live desktop DVD. We have a lot of information in that one paragraph Woo boy, lots of information. We know it's based on arch and so Linux distribution We also know that it has Let's see here. It's based it has comes with a plasma desktop and it's comes out of Germany. So We have information. So I have downloaded this thing and We're gonna install it here in a minute, but I thought we'd go to the website such as it is This is the actual website So they do have a little bit more information here will zoom in so you can actually see this thing Blue star Linux is an arch Linux based distribution built with an understanding that people want and needs solid operating system That provides breadth of functionality and ease of use without sacrificing aesthetics blue star is offered in three editions desktop desk pro and developer Each tailored to address the needs of a variety of Linux users blue star Can be installed permanently as a robust and fully configurable operating system on a laptop or desktop system Or it can be run effectively as a live installer and supports the addition of persistent storage for those who choose Not to perform a permanent installation So in other words, you can run this thing off my USB key and not have to install it on an actual hard drive if you So choose something like tails or one of those security based Linux distributions a blue star Linux software repository is also maintained in order to provide additional tools and applications when needed or requested So that's a little all we have it doesn't actually have its own Website and if you just click the download thing here, you're gonna get just a regular ISO It says it has three versions, but I went over here to the files and I'm not exactly sure what they want you to download here because if you just go to the distro You have this one ISO here. I guess there is another ISO here But it's not label anything different other than the version number is different. I don't see The three distro the three versions that they were talking about their file system here is a little bit not great I would say if they have three different versions. I could only find one So anyways, it doesn't matter. We're gonna install this thing now and find out what the fuck this Linux distribution is I probably didn't bleep that fuck out fuck Damn it. Fuck. Oh Let's see if I can swear some more. Shall we? Now because I'm a lovely no genome here. I can just switch over to my Virtual box virtual VM manager thing. I'm a jig here and we're gonna I've already set up the VM here I've given this thing. I believe I've given it like 54 gigabytes worth of storage because I've been burned several times on OSes that need more storage than what I would normally give them. So I'm giving it more I also have given this thing like eight gigabytes of RAM and four CPU cores and all the video memory It could handle. So let's go ahead and hit start and see what this thing is all about now It's been a long time since I've actually used a virtual box in a Floating window manager. So this looks really weird to me But we're gonna go ahead and actually see if we can make this full screen, which we can We're waiting 10 seconds for our device here. Hopefully this loads right the first time If this doesn't actually load and we can't install the damn thing then this episode is going to end prematurely And I'll be swearing up a storm because I've been planning this episode for a while I haven't actually installed this this distribution yet This is completely new for me. I have a look at tooltip there. It went away. Good. So we have a cursor and We have a splash screen. So that's good Interesting choice of background other than that. I just look like the standard KDE plasma splash screen This definitely does look interesting Because normally on a KDE plasma desktop We don't get you know, it's just looks like a KDE plasma desktop, you know, it has the bar along the bottom looks like windows This is different. So I'll judge it once I've installed it But so far kind of cool auto hide on that bar up there And let's see here your display resolution has changed the look and feel theme you're using is blue star Linux Abstract color. Would you like to reset your desktop layout scale to the resolution? Sure? Okay Interesting, okay, so it made the bar bigger. All right, so let's see here. What if we want to install we get the install thing right here All right, so this is the calamari's installer. Okay, so here's where we're gonna get to choose which version of the blue star installation we want to use I'm gonna choose desktop, but oddly they don't really tell you what the difference is between these even on their Website, there was no hey, this is what you get if you install this one. This is what you can install this one This is what you get. I don't install this one Weird for the basings is this here for the basic installation without internet access disable your internet connection and restart the installer This may prevent issues with DVD based installation. Okay, so you can't install this without the internet Which is nice other than that. I think I'm just go ahead and hit next and That time zone is fine That keyboard is fine and we're gonna just go ahead and erase the desk We don't need a swap here. That doesn't really matter It's installing on the right hard drive because there is only one hard drive in this VM And then we're gonna give it our credentials. So my name is Matt The name to log in is Matt we can name this blue star OS thing and We'll give it a very strong and complicated password much stronger than anybody else's password ever has been now I will Select this to use the same password as the administrator account and we'll not log in Automatically because then what would be the point of providing the world's strongest password? We'll hit next What's this so this please choose a look and feel for the KD plasma desktop Why would they have you choose the look and feel before you do the installation? Why not after? weird You get multiple choices Which one do we want to choose now this one here right here is that we're using right now is that the default? I have to say I'm not then pressed with it. I don't care for this color scheme. So let's choose a different one Let's choose this one here. Oh It actually changes in the background kind of What else do you got here? Oh, this one here looks fun. We'll choose that one All right, fine. It doesn't matter We'll see if we were able to change that afterwards because I'd much rather be able to change them and see the changes live Like you would normally would in a plasma desktop Okay, hitting install Install now. Okay, so I'm going to cut the video here and I'll come back when it's ready a few moments later All right, I'm back as you can see This thing is not installing it has now been very close to 20 minutes. I've run out of patience I'm gonna let it keep installing here in the background and we're gonna take a Gander around the operating system just in case it can't be installed. I Don't know what the hell's going on. It's been stuck at 91% for the vast majority of the time. It's been Installing and I don't know what's going on it did open up the system update thing over here where it showed some progress, but it's been on 19 out of 19 for ages and ages and Yeah, it's just stuck there now I have half a mind to go through and just restart it and see if it will try you know try again And maybe I will I'm thinking about it. What should I do this? Oh I hate when things go wrong You want to find oh wait a minute hold on a second something else came up Maybe I had to close that all the Maybe the whole thing is I had to go through and close that in order to get to proceed that'd be hilarious Because I would have just been sitting there forever and ever We'll see if this makes any progress now Okay So after a further five or six minutes and letting it go through installing even more packages That did seem to be the problem is that I had to close that window in order to get to actually proceed Zero instructions on whether or not you know to tell you you had to do that You just had to you know figure that out yourself so I could have been sitting there for hours on end expecting it to eventually finish and Granted, I would have never actually done that. I lost my patience after 20 minutes. So there was no way I was actually going to sit there for an hour, but Okay, so first impressions of the installing of bluestar OS that was crap Calamari's is a very well-rounded well-defined well refined Installer there's a proper way of doing it. There's a reason why Every distribution out there except for like the Ubuntu based distros and even half of them use it You know, there's a reason why so many distributions use Calamari's is because it's good You know, you don't have to change it to the point where you have to bring up pop-ups to outside programs in order to install stuff this is that's Why Don't mess with something that works. Okay Just don't alright. So what I'm going to do is I'm gonna go ahead and hit the restart system and see if it will go through and Remove the installation media itself. If not, we'll do that for it for it but sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't we'll see how this goes and Let's see here. So I think it's just trying to do the live one so we're gonna go ahead and do this and we'll see what the startup time looks like and Oh boy, that is a very unseamed SDDM Okay, so we're gonna type in our username and our very strong complicated password and enter here and We get we're gonna go ahead and wait for plasma to load up Very pretty background much. This is the much better looking background than the default one at least in my opinion Here we go. All right. So the all right good and we can go ahead. Yes That way the resolution is proper. Okay, so we have a conchie here along the side And this we do this as a conchie because you can't move them We have a like a file manager slash number of icons here at the at the top on the top left Not necessarily something I would do in my desktop But whatever we also have a this big honking icon here. It's just please donate. I'm you know, whoa, it even gets bigger Okay I don't really have anything wrong with that, but it's weird that it's not, you know, like Side-aligned or something. It's weird. That's right in the middle. Anyways, we also have the weather over here at the On the side and we hover over that we actually get some more weather. Okay, so this is blue star Linux so along the top here we have regular plasma bar with a with a time and a Standard drop-down menu which you can hardly see because of that transparency. I like transparency But a little bit less transparency there probably would be good in order to actually be able to see it And then we have a little bit of a system tree up here at the top Most of the icons that you normally get with plasma seem to be missing So that's something you'd have to decide whether or not you want it to fix and we have a calculator icon at the top because Calculator is what we all need in life Okay, so here along the bottom we have what Looks like latte doc, which it is latte doc latte doc and we have pen dolphin console Gimp VLC LibreOffice Writer FileZilla is installed apparently by default Thunderbird, Firefox, Chromium Pigeon and transmission cute and system settings. So first we'll go to console here and One thing I hate about console is that it really really a lot of times opens up in weird dimensions So we're going to do is zoom in here and we'll do you name dash a first We do have a neo fetch up here so we can see that this is Using 5.14. So I guess I don't really have to do you name and We K-Win KD and 1700 packages by default. That's quite high for a Arch-based distro. So that means they're installing quite a lot of programs. We'll take a look at that here in a few minutes and Let's see here. It's using just the standard arch Icon here. So we'll go ahead and try you you name it. It won't hurt anything 5.14.9. That's just a regular arch based Colonel and we'll do free dash M. This is a plasma one. So I wouldn't expect to be using too much Actually, that's quite high. Wow Plasma is usually around 600. So this is quite a bit more than normal. This is more in GNOME levels I'm quite shocked to see that so that means they have quite a bit of stuff running behind So let's go ahead and clear this and see if H top is installed. It is Okay, so in terms of memory usage Plasma is using the most of it in latte doc. So My guess is the reason why is because they have a ton of stuff on the desktop that you know Normal plasma desktops don't have out of the box. So you have 92 tasks 195 threads and We're using 1.21 gigabytes of RAM right now now that H top is running Okay, so that's a little high we can close we can close that so let's go ahead and take a look and see what all this installs So because so far It looks like a very bloated arch install and there's nothing wrong with that Out of the box arco linux is very bloated as well But the difference is during the arco linux install You get a choice of a ton of different software you can go through and choose a lot of what you have installed a lot of the bombs This just installed the stuff. So let's go ahead and like I said see what they have in terms of Stuff installing unfortunately the trans the transparency here is just gonna be a pain in the ass So in development we have Translation icon I console see and make cuttlefish G hex while a lot of the stuff here See remember we did not choose the developer edition as far as I'm pretty sure I just chose the basic one So we shouldn't get all this developer stuff But we do I'm not gonna read the rest of the stuff because we're not I mean wow compares there, too That's a look a cute version of mel. They believe Education mathematics LibreOffice math is basically you're in two places Interestingly games we have card games and that's K patients. So we're gonna have a lot of the KDE plasma stuff Let's see Digicam Gimp Gwenview color paint K photo album LibreOffice draw ocular pseudo photo veer noir Xdvi More applications K color choose or in cave ruler Internet who here we got a lot of stuff aggregator Avahi VNC server chromium dropbox file is a little Firefox. I am context KD. I am log viewer K get KML conquer Copied some of the stuff. I don't even know Ktor I'm just gonna skip some of this stuff mega sink pigeon PIM data explorer exporter putty see Editors Skype is installed by default Libre Thunderbird transmission cute and WPA gooey Okay, so there's a ton of stuff that they've installed here and to including two different browsers Although I don't oh three different browsers could conquer or is here just in case you wanted to use conquer Firefox and chromium dropbox and file Zilla that stuff is not stuff that you normally see in a distribution But you know, there's no problem with it being here ton of office different stuff here. We have calibrate e-book stuff K mail and contact K organizer Libre offices here the full suite ocular and Localize which is interesting. I haven't seen that in ages SCR under settings. We have been the normal setting stuff Including the iced tea web control panel. What the fuck is that? I've never This is a control panel for setting deployment properties so that Again, we did not install the development version of the ISO so Why did it install the stuff? That's really weird. Okay, I'm gonna close that. I don't know what the hell that's all about Going back So utilities, I'm not going through all that stuff. Holy hell Most of that stuff is gonna be the regular K Stuff look at all these K things here a lot taste here I'm Spectacle sweeper Vim. Oh Vim is installed by default You've won me over Most distributions nowadays don't include Vim for whatever reason HP UI scan for printers and stuff is here and Please those please donate button right here in the in the menu Really pushing that I think just a little bit much. I'm surprised. It's not also when the dock I'm just saying okay, so that that's the a brief overview of the number of applications you see installed And now we can see why it took so long because there's quite a lot there. So let's see here Let's take a look at the system settings So by default we get this theme here and this thing here is It's not very good looking if you just asked me because this is I mean What's interesting is they had us choose to look and feel there before Installation was in but we have I've seen nothing of that here. There was no welcome app nothing like that So there's you know nothing we can change here now We can see if they have those apps or those themes pre-installed so we can go through to through to Appearance and they do have those things pre-installed so we can actually change to a couple different ones and see what they look like See if there's anything different We'll just apply this The answer that is no, they all are exactly the same or at least those two have been exactly the same I mean we can close we can Usually pleasant it's pretty good at changing the stuff live and we'll try to try another one Like this one here should be a different one here and So we'll open up dolphin again, and no it looks exactly the same. Okay, so what the point of these themes are I'm not exactly sure why they're not changing. Maybe there's literally nothing different choose this one here Again Nothing there appears to have changed at all. I mean usually Plasma is really good at changing things live and in fact, we'll choose one that we know is completely different So we'll just choose breeze and we'll apply this Yeah, that worked fine Application style we'll go up here and choose breeze as well. If which if we go open up dolphin now Yeah, even if the the window decorations didn't change. That's just because They we probably have to change them somewhere else here in plasma style No, it looks like it should have changed, but it doesn't matter So all the themes that they come pre-installed are all apparently exactly the same Which is makes me wonder why they you know install I'm assuming what is supposed to change is the background, but The system settings won't change the background with theme you have to change that manually So that's just a little weird. Anyways other than that. This looks like a standard KD plasma install I'm assuming that this is the most up-to-date version of plasma which it is and Because this is basically arch so you we should get I mean it's literally reading as arch Linux That's so they haven't done any branding at all. They've installed their themes and stunt installed a ton of software and Fucked around with the the Calamari's installer and that's what they seem to have done and somehow made Plasma so that it runs a ton a ton hotter in terms of memory than what it normally does I don't know exactly what it is that's causing plasma here to use so much memory, but normally it does not do that I don't know if it's this weird theme that they have installed or if it's the conchi that they have on the desktop I don't know we did get that to change interestingly enough Okay, so maybe those aren't actually Yeah, those aren't that is not conchi that that those are actual widgets from KD plasma interesting I've never actually used those things because I don't want those things on my desktop But whatever, okay, so All right, there's not much here more than I can say so the answer to the question what the fuck is Blue star Linux the answer to the question is that it's arch Linux with a bunch of cross on top of it And the reason why it would exist I couldn't really tell you if you're interested in an arch based distro that has a ton of Stuff arcos probably a better choice for you. Garuda is also a good choice endeavor is a good choice Those are all arch based distros that come with a lot of options and you can go through and customize What you install before you install it whereas this just installs a bunch of stuff that you may not need and The fact that it didn't really follow It'd be interesting to see and I'm not going to do this because I don't have that kind of time interesting to see what the developer version actually comes with because If this has so much in terms of developer tools already installed I wonder what the development version has Because he would assume that it would have more development stuff because it's for developers I don't know. It's uh, it's weird I'm all for people making their own, you know, Linux distros. I think it's a good thing to do I don't really even argue that all distros have to have a purpose in order to exist Sometimes people just make distros on a lark for a hobby or something and that's perfectly fine They're making it for themselves And that's okay. What I question Is why this is so far up in distro watches, you know rankings. I mean Now we all know. I mean I made the joke earlier, but Distro watches rankings aren't accurate. This is not the 39th most popular distribution ever We know that So either the developers out there has a bot that keeps visiting their page in order to keep that ranking high Or there are actually people out there installing this thing So in the comments below, let me know if you've heard of bluestar linux Let me know if you've installed it because I would love to know the reason why you've chosen So that is it for this video. If you'd like to see more of this series, leave a like leave a comment Subscribe to the channel. 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