 Okay, so I've been trying over the last month or so to figure out how to do distro reviews in a more interesting way because honestly doing a distro review when a distro does a release and then just going through it and installing it and you know looking at the applications is that's kind of boring. I've been toying with the idea of doing long term reviews where I install it on my laptop and I use it for you know a couple months or whatever and then do a video about it. And I'm still thinking about that. That's something that I would do. If you're interested in that make sure you leave a comment in the comment section below. But in the meantime what I've decided to do to kind of spice things up is kind of steal an idea from many other Linux YouTubers and Linux podcasts and do a random distro install. So what the plan is is that every Tuesday if this proves popular is I'll go to distro watch our favorite website and hit the random distro button and whatever distro comes up I'll install it right there on camera. Now there are some caveats I guess. It has to be an actively maintained distribution. It has to be a desktop distribution it can't be for servers in other words. And I think those are the only two that I come up with but I reserve the right to pass one by if it's something I'm really truly just not interested in. But that's what we're going to do today. It's random distro Tuesday. If this is something you'd like to see more of hit the like button leave a comment make sure you subscribe. Let's go ahead and jump in. So here we are on our favorite website distro watch and what I'm going to do is hit the random distribution button up here and see which one we get. Reborn OS. So let's see here reborn is based on Arch so that should be fun. It offers a GNOME desktop according to this. It has a live medium-minute desktop version and it is active. Let's go ahead and see when the last release was. We have a website here so we should be able to go through and see if they have an active release in a website which they do have a website. That's a fancy website. What moves around with the mouse cool cool cool. Okay. That looks a lot like Antrigos. If I remember right that Antrigos install it looked almost like precisely like that. Colonel manager package manager that's basically AMAC. Let's see what else we got here over 10 desktops though. I wanted to rule them all. Whether you are Arcana, Katie, GNOME, Deepen, Budgie, Cinnamon, Ate, OpenBox, i3, XFC, Enlightment, or AlexQ or no desktop at all. Okay. Tons of optional features. Friendly Community 21609. So yeah this is definitely actively maintained which is because that was June of the 9th June which is 20 days ago. Okay. Let me go ahead and or download this and then I'll be right back. Okay. Now I've got that downloaded. So what I'm going to do is create a virtual machine to install it in. This should be fairly easy. So we'll just do new here and we'll call this reborn OS and this is actually based on Arch. We'll keep this as Linux and so we're all up here to Arch Linux 64 bit and then we'll hit next and I will give this 8 gigabytes of RAM and this is right and we'll choose the middle one here and here and we'll give this approximately 40 gigabytes. Now most people will tell you that 25 or 20 will be enough for our Linux distro and for the most part they're right but I've come across a few Linux distributions that require more than that. So I'm gonna go ahead and give it more in this case 46. That's just what the mouse kind of landed on and we'll go ahead and create. Now the next task is to give it some video memory. I do this out here because it actually allows you to give you give the machine more memory out here for video than if you choose the settings and then we'll insert the optical disk drive or the ISO I mean scroll down here reborn is right here open choose. Okay and then the last thing what we'll want to do is go here and give it some more processing power. Why you can't do that from the other the main page I don't know when you can change everything else but that's okay and now we'll just go ahead and hit start see if this will actually boot in and we'll let it capture the mouse and we'll hit enter. So we're installing we're on the road as they say typical ISO boot up time so this boots into a GNOME live environment which is fascinating. Okay now yeah this is not the Calamari's installer like I thought it was this is actually I think it's called cinchy. I'm not actually sure if I'm pronouncing that right but this is the exact same installer the Antigos use so if you ever installed Antigos when it was around this is what it looked like so we're gonna go ahead and install this and English is right so next and we got ourselves some check marks we can close this here next English US we need to find the US one version here and then next and then New York is fine next English US for keyboard is also fine alright so here's where we're gonna choose our desktop environment so I'm gonna go ahead and go with something that I haven't tried in a while oh let's see here why don't we choose okay so the ones that are available so we got budgie cinnamon deep in GNOME i3 KDE Alex cute mate open box Pantheon and XFC so let's go ahead and choose budgie I haven't used budgie in quite a long time so let's go ahead and use budgie we'll do that next and let's see here let's see if I can actually move this over so it actually appears all on screen so let's see the AUR support is checked by default which is good common applications perform since some maintenance I think I'm gonna read the rest of it unchecked except for I'm gonna yeah I think the rest of I'll just leave all this as defaults it selects the LTS version of the kernel by default it doesn't install like LibreOffice or anything but we're just gonna see what they install if you leave everything else just completely unchecked now there's a lot of options here for you to install stuff you know so that you don't have to install like afterwards that's really cool so like wine and steam and Spotify and several different browsers here I saw Libre Office Megasync Google Chrome Free Office so that's actually really cool it's kind of like a more kind of toned-down version of what Arco offers Arco obviously offers way more options in terms of installing stuff but we're just gonna leave everything else here as default so hit next okay and we'll close and you can use the additional device or partition as to use as package cache in case you need to restart this installation you won't be needing to redownload all the packages again I think we'll just pass this by but that's a cool option in case the install fails you can save the packages to a different like drive or whatever so you don't have to redownload them we'll let it find its own mirrors we'll go ahead and erase it offers encryption LVM ZFS if you encrypt probably and set your home in a different partition which is also cool so that way you don't have to do that manually we'll just leave it like this for now and then we'll make sure we select the right drive which seeing as that's the only drive is fine and then we'll enter our password and username Matt for the name Matt this is reborn OS VM Matt for username strong and complicated password as DT would say and then we'll hit next again and this kind of confirms everything that we've done here and then we'll hit next again and then yes and we should be on our way to installing this see how it goes okay that finally got done that was a good 15 minutes worth of installation time which is interesting because it downloaded a ton of stuff and I find that surprising because the ISO was 2.4 gigabytes or so maybe it was 2.2 but still it was a large ISO so the fact that it still has to download stuff on top of that is a little surprising it's probably just installing the most recent versions of stuff but still it was definitely on the longer side of installations for a graphical installer so it's installed now what I'm going to do here is just hit no and then power this machine off because I'm going to actually have to go through and remove the ISO so we'll do this and power off and remove the ISO and then we can start up again okay we're logging into reborn OS now and I've only thing I've done since I did the little cutaway was installed a virtual box guest additions that was a little bit of a task because it didn't let me install them like it normally was so I had to install them from the terminal and I'd never done that before so it was a learning experience so nothing I'll should have changed this is reborn OS with the budgie desktop and this is there about pay they're about app or their welcome app I guess you should say so we got some documentation here we don't need to really need that documentation or is for other people links just from support ways to contribute and that's literally it that's the links and we got some utilities over here so install on install programs with PAMAC we got edit repositories managed kernels so there's a managed kernel thing here let's go and click on that let's so that's really cool so that's kind of similar to what Manjaro does only it's a different application obviously but that's cool we don't actually need to change the kernel all the us is fine for now system monitor which is stacer but you have to install it cancel we don't actually install it bleach bit that's probably not installed either it's interesting that they put these links here but don't have them install pre you know by default now I do remember back in the installation process that it had one of those little checkboxes next to a thing for system maintenance that's probably what these things were you know indicating or it's probably what it would have installed I should say for these things here so we got G part it reflect your simple for doing the pack the mirrors for Pac-Man hardware info and so on and so forth so that is all we got for the welcome app all right let's go ahead and go through some of the applications so we'll start with accessories documents what could that possibly be I actually don't think that's gonna open up anything okay interesting extensions this is gonna be for that you know extensions okay so that allows you to go through and install economic extensions for the budget desktop which accepts them surprisingly that froze interesting okay so obviously haven't there we go now decide we can close that go back to accessories firmware hardware device measures for printing support maps which is gonna be you know max maps this is probably gonna be G edit yep this is G edit so that's a good little text editor let's see here we got weather which is gonna be known whether windows server control this is gonna be like a windows shuffler I'm not actually sure what that is if anybody knows what that is you can put that you can let me know in the comments below I'm not actually sure what that is I've never heard of that before okay so let's go ahead we got through accessories for image viewer that's probably gonna be the GNOME image viewers photos probably gonna be shot well shot put whatever it shot whatever is that also is not going to open up anything it's interesting that they have entry entries in the menu for things that aren't actually installed that is interesting okay so we have Firefox for our browser normal SSH and VNC stuff here office there's nothing here this is going on calendar and going on contacts other this Pamac oh wait a minute finally got to the photos thing that was a long time loading wouldn't it I bet you that's a snap this is going on photos version 40 yeah that was an obnoxiously long load time for something you know that's just a photos application what did I just click on first it didn't actually load up anything documents that never loaded anything less year programming see make an icon browser sound and video we got cheese music this is probably rhythm box now see that was a fairly that was a fairly fast load time and I'm actually not sure what this is because it doesn't tell me but I'm the icon looks like rhythm box there's not actually an about thing there okay let's see right here pulse audio volume control sound recorder and probably get on videos there for videos system tools most of this stuff is fairly normal pace is for Oregon oh this is does the the this changes the repositories and the mirrorless so this is basically a GUI front-end to change your Pac-Man com configuration file most art users probably never use that but it's good for noobs I would recommend not changing stuff in there unless you absolutely know what you're doing universal access and utilities this is basically going to be be setting the stuff so let's go ahead and see what we got in terms of memory usage here so I should have done this beforehand and actually what I'll do is I will go ahead and restart just so that I can get a fresh look at the memory and stuff because I don't want to actually give us a fair I actually want to get this a fair shake you know I want to say it uses like three gigabytes of memory but I opened up all this stuff so let's restart it it should be fairly quick it's been a long time since I've used budgie so I don't know actually how much memory it usually takes so we'll just open up terminal here and this here is actually gonna I'm terminal I believe yeah this is going to terminal so we'll just zoom in here a little bit and do free dash M those are using 492 megs out of the box with nothing started which is very good for a GTK based distribution or that some environment that's about half of what genome uses so very good let's see you name dash a is gonna tell where you tell us we're using the LTS kernel of 5.12 so that's really good let's see if neo fetch is installed it is installed so we have it a really cool logo here we're using bash 5.1.8 this is budgie 10.5.3 using the mutter window manager the theme is at a wait this is gonna I'm terminal and it has 971 packages installed by default that's about normal for a arch-based installer that you didn't actually install anything extra on so this is probably about what you'd get with you install something like arco or something without adding anything extra now see when I installed arco I actually went up to almost 2000 packages installed but I installed a ton of window managers and stuff so that's cool all right so that is reborn OS so far now let's go ahead and get into the utilities let's look for now does this come with genome tweaks installed out of the box I bet you it does not system tools do we have what budgie desktop settings okay right here so yes this is basically a fork version of genome tweaks but for budgie so we should be able to change a whole bunch of stuff here so we should be able to change the dark theme and built-in theme and animations and all that stuff so we can change the icon so we got a ton of icon packs installed here which is cool we'll use papyrus darks that's the cool one interestingly enough it doesn't let you change the it does it just calls them widgets when away it calls it widgets that's a weird thing to call a window this is not a widget okay so by default it comes with basically arc the arc theming here what's even what's we're though as you can't change back data weight at a weight and once you change it to one thing it doesn't actually let you change it to anything else okay so that is probably need something needed we'll go through and yeah that's interesting once you probably would require a like a logout or something actually to get that cool but it did change live the first time why didn't this time I don't know so desktop icons you can actually turn those things on that's really cool you can see a single or double-click in the turn in like a file manager which will actually look at the phone did we see a file manager it has to be in like a system tools right utilities okay so we're looking for a file manager here let's see if we can type in files yeah here we go this is gonna be not a less yeah okay and that actually did file follow the brand new theme that we chose so yeah interestingly enough I don't know what category they put files in other maybe programming sound and video system tools files isn't here universal access is not there utilities is not there either accessories okay so your file manager is in the accessories category weird that is that is weird I wouldn't really consider that an accessory I would consider that a utility or something like that that's weird okay let's see you can change the fonts from here Raven is this thing over here which is something that I don't when I when I use budgie I never actually use this isn't for notifications and applets now these things would be considered widgets let's see this allows you to change the things for windows like it had it would allow you to change where the windows are spawned enable window focus on mouse enter leave so that's really cool if you're used to that functionality like in a window manager or something I'll see it and then you can manage your panels here as well so and then auto surf application so that is the budgie settings that's really all you get what if I wanted to change like other this display nothing there okay I'll wake about like we're regular settings can I get those from like up here or something okay like where's like the regular settings like utilities system monitor screenshot password to his logs fonts document viewer disk use the janitor's disks which is gonna be in GNOME disks archive manager system tools reborn on accessories again interestingly enough I don't see anything I think Adam moves saucers harsh arch Linux kernel manager for scanning like DM greetings manager onborn settings preview control print settings qt file settings ah here we go right here it's in other that is why isn't it in this settings category I mean there is our utilities category I guess system tools one of those but it's in other okay this is just the GNOME settings panel I guess so there's nothing to be a lot new here but at least it does exist took me a while to find it because it was in other that's really weird but it's there okay so let's see the online content just this is gonna be your standard GNOME settings panel there's nothing here let's go ahead and see if there's any cool wallpapers here so it comes with a few wallpapers we these look like the standard but you know wallpapers actually there are a couple extra ones here but there's nothing here specific for reborn it doesn't look like like this is the standard like a wallpaper you get with fedora but it won't actually change to it like that one there won't change to I don't know what that is like that must be like a slideshow or something I don't know it will change to this one so in terms of wallpaper selection not great but it's not the worst ever because I've seen someone that only include one wallpaper so that is reborn OS the installation took a long time and for the little amount of software that's actually here out of the box I don't know why it's possible the mirrors are a little off that's possible because reflector sometimes doesn't always grab the best mirrors and it probably uses reflector in order to actually choose the mirrors that you're on but then start the installation took a long time for not a lot of applications the the customer's my ability of like the kernel and your repositories and stuff that's really cool the categorization of apps is really weird so putting files in the accessories category and your settings in the other category that's also very odd and took a long time to find those things because that's not really where you'd expect those things to be now I understand I could have searched for them but I wanted to find them in the menu system in terms of design it's budgie it's not going to be anything that's different if you've ever used budgie before and it offers the same kind of customization you'd expect from budgie it's a look it's basically GNOME but with more customization on top of it and a better menu I think so budgie is really good if you if you like GNOME but would like a little bit more customization out of the box I'll actually have me go through install GNOME tweaks budgie is probably a good option for you overall it's an art space distro so you could pretty much do whatever you want with it out of the box if you understand how to use Pacman and AAR so it's really it's a good distro I haven't used it obviously that much and so I can't tell you about stability or anything but I enjoyed my time with it so far and I'll probably play around with it for a little while longer I'm not so sure about the whole installation process because like I said I've seen faster installations out there so if that's something that you're thinking about keep that in mind okay so that is it for this video if you enjoyed the randomness of this video give it a like give it a thumbs up give it a subscribe do all that kind of stuff you can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast you can support me on patreon.patreon.com slash linuxcast before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank our current patrons Devin, Marcus, Megalyn, Donny, Sven, East Coast Web Mitchell who has upped his contribution to co-producer level thank you Merrick, Kampum, and Chris thanks everybody for your support thank you for watching I'll see 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