 Hey everybody, welcome back to the channel. My name is Matt and today we're gonna be starting a brand new series We're gonna be calling it. What the fuck is this distro now if you didn't know what the bleep was it was And if you didn't want that bleep was it was I could keep doing this over and over again But everybody knows what the bleep was the point of the series is that I'm going to find a distribution I've never heard of before and I'm going to install it today and see what the hell it's all about so That's literally as simple as it's gonna get I don't know how deep I'll get into the distro I'm gonna install it. We'll see how it goes. I have not planned for this whatsoever other than finding a distro Which I have done so if you'd like to see more in this series or if you Might want to see more in this series Hit the like button hit the subscribe button leave a comment all that stuff It really helps the channel and it makes me want to do more stuff. So let's go ahead and jump in so today The distribution we're gonna be looking at is called I'm actually I have to go look at the name because it was really weird. It's called X ticks X ticks Linux EX TIX and we can actually go to the website right now and you can see what this is all about so They call this the ultimate Linux system now We will be able to judge that but basically what X ticks is and I'm gonna just Seriously regret choosing this distro by the time we're done here because that name is just ridiculous It's a distribution based on deep in Linux now deep in itself is actually based on Debian so This is a very long-form way of saying this is based on Debian, but We'll see what this is actually about other than the name and what it's based on I know very little about it So we're gonna be discovering all this stuff together just the way it should be So it says if we go back to the home page actually not the download page We'll see if there's an actually gonna about section here. Here we go. We have an about section. So I Was can I'm very confused so This is the about X 10 which is I mean let's get past the point where you you're spelling your distribution in two different ways But we'll just assume maybe that's a language thing or there all X 10 Linux distributions are hosted on The Swedish litic by the hosted by the Swedish Linux society 16 X 10 distributions can be just downloaded from source for net This says absolutely nothing about your Linux distribution and we scroll down to the comments. You're about page says absolutely nothing about your Linux sister That's just makes me laugh so hard. That's so good But we'll give them a benefit out. They do have two links here Let's go ahead this one and see if this one tells us anything else about x ticks It says those x ticks deep in 21.9 live based on deep in 20 that 2.3 That's confusing those numbers are confusing as fuck Skype Spotify refractive snapshot and kernel 5.14.2 dash X 10. Okay I've released a new version of this today the x ticks bill is based on deep in 20.2 that three released by deep in technology new functions exciter one You can now run x ticks from Ram, okay. Yeah, that doesn't really tell me all I mean we could read more and see if there's so it has some new functions I mean, I'm assuming this means like updates or new features. I'm assuming this is probably a Translation thing because it says it was Swedish. So they're pride English is probably not their native language, but that doesn't really tell us much about the distribution itself Just about the update. Let's click this link here Also doesn't give us anything in terms of What it actually x ticks is Okay, well now I'm glad I didn't try to do any Restrict beforehand because it would have been you know come come up just empty then as I did now So this is gonna be interesting. So we're going in completely blind. All we know is it's based on deep in Let's go ahead and Install it shall we let's go ahead and do this because it's gonna be interesting So I have a VM here set up for it I was not going to install this on hard, you know hardware I mean because yeah, I just I'm not sure if I'm gonna trust it or not. So we'll just do it in a VM Go ahead start here and we'll make the full screen so you can actually see x ticks default We'll just go and do the default one and see how this goes We'll see if we get a live environment Now it's been a while since I've used anything deep in related So we'll it'll be an interesting experience all around and I don't know what they've actually changed because again They have not told us on the website literally anything about what's different between deep in and their version of well Deeping because all this stuff here is Just saying this is just deep in so It'd be interesting to see if this is actually just you know deep in Linux and somebody's you know rebranded it Okay We should be looking into the live environment. I would expect here pretty soon a few moments later Anytime now. Oh, we got a cursor. We got a wallpaper and we have a bar. Whoo, and that looks like deep in. Wow, okay Interestingly enough, it's perfectly okay in the Linux world to take somebody else's ISO and just make it your own But let's go ahead and see what we got here. So do we have like an install Unlock key logging key ring For what purpose So I'm going to cancel on that and we're gonna cancel that again because I don't know what you want a password for I don't actually need you to do that new system addition available So it's probably updates is probably what it needed the password for as you can see Interestingly enough. It doesn't say X ticks or X done or whatever it was saying on the website. It just says deep in so I'm gonna actually just open up a terminal here and We'll zoom in because this is probably just gonna I'm terminal Or deep in terminal probably is probably what it actually is and we'll see if neo fetches installed It is not so pseudo apt install neo fetch and It's not actually in the repo Weird we'll try again after installing it, but I'm I'm gonna put a bet on it right now That when we do eventually get to that point, it's just going to say deep in So let's go ahead and see if I'm right. So we'll go ahead and click install deep in here We had a we had a weird desktop flash there. Okay, this is seriously This is just deep in okay Next friendly note you are installing deep in on a virtual machine, which may result in suboptimal performance That's just because it won't allow me to do like transparent stuff, but that's okay. I don't care I'm gonna do full disc install here and then You need at least 64 gigabytes of space to install deep and I hate it when distributions do this Absolutely despise it. Let's go on. I gave this VM 54 gigabytes of RAM if your distribution needs more than 54 gigabytes of Storage not Ram. I said wrong earlier, but if you Don't make a distribution just don't I don't understand Okay When you see me next time, I'll have calmed down and I'll redone the stupid virtual machine so I can actually you know Do this properly? Okay, I think I'm back. I took a nap there for a minute. That was ridiculous. Okay, we'll see if it works this time this Good Lord, I don't want to give you a password. Just stop And again reloaded the desktop for whatever reason we hit the install deepen I did notice that in the grub menu the second time around it does say x ticks or whatever it is in The grub menu so they did change that they'd have not so far at least changed anything else and also stop asking for the password Okay next next Looks like we're good. I gave it 90 gigabytes of space this time Because seriously, what is wrong? I wonder I didn't check it the last time because I was too pissed off I wonder if I went through and did a manual partition if it would do it because deep into some stupid shit with your partitions when you go through and Do what automatic partition? Look at this. It's gonna give you two gigabyte boot 35 gigabytes for data 11 gigabyte recovery 15 gigabytes just random ex-t4 for whatever reason a 15 gigabyte root B. This is oh No, this is not random. That's gonna be the root partition This is okay root B partition of 15 gigabytes and a swap of 12 gigabytes. So it does a really I'm assuming it's doing this for like UEFI reasons. I don't know I I've complained about this before but deepen has always done this It's just really really weird. I could do an advanced thing here, but I'm just whatever We're just gonna go Okay continue and then it looks like it's going to go ahead and install I Will say one thing about this thing is it does not appear to like to be just, you know full screen Anyways, I'll cut the video here so that you don't have to watch this and we'll come back when it's done. Okay That took about five or six minutes or so. So I'm going to head go ahead and Reboot this and we'll see if it requires me to Remove the installation media. Sometimes it doesn't sometimes it doesn't know it's gonna bring to the law live media. So We'll see if this worked. Yeah, there we go. All right so so far this looks like deep in and It says deep in so yeah, so the answer to the what t wtf is Xtix Linux the answer to the question is it's deep in it's not based on deep in it is deep in at least So far this startup time is not Very impressive Deep in definitely starts faster than this. What is going on here? Oh, I meant I just wasn't patient enough okay so next and Yeah, that's fine next and a time zone New York is fine And we'll create a countless if you want we'll take we'll take the kitty and We'll use the username Matt and Matt PC is fine. We'll use a Very strong and complicated password. It's more complicated than and strong than DT's password Or at least stronger than his password used to be so we're tuning the system This reminds me very much of Windows. So you're scaring the crap out of me What do you mean you're tuning the system that doesn't take that long to tune us? It's not a car Okay tuning the system We're still tuning the system. I'm just gonna I will Speed this part up here quite a bit or maybe cut it out. I guess You're still going. We're still tuning the system So whatever they've done to deepen is at least so far all I've seen is they've Made it slower Now granted. This is a virtual machine. So we'll give them the benefit that I oh and we're at a TTY Why are we at a TTY? That doesn't bode well for anything. Let's see here. So we'll type in our password And we're logged in so if we what start X that actually work That's the greatest thing I've ever seen deep and does come with this display manager, so Oh, it's the greatest thing, okay, and it didn't your specs just straight the resolution So let's see if we can open up a terminal here somewhere Terminal yeah Okay, and do I'm if this is Wayland. I'm gonna be screwed X rander dash S 19 20 by 10 80 That worked excellent I'm still giggling over the start X thing So so far all we've discovered that they've changed is They've changed the grub venue They've made it slower and they removed the display manager or at least the display manager didn't come up. That's just utter hilarity, okay, so let's do first do free dash M because Why not so this thing uses about a gigabyte of memory. That's about Standard for a GTK based actually is deep and still GTK based. I don't even know I don't I'm pretty sure This looks like a GTK based Desktop environment. I've never actually used this deep in for any amount of time But Whatever, let's do pseudo apt install Neofetch Neofetch is not in the repositories Okay, how much I mean How am I supposed to get Neofetch, but I'm gonna get to build the damn thing myself that be hilarious No, let's see. Is this like the browser? This is going to be like Well This has this is gonna be like fire fox No, this is like What is this browser? This is wait a minute go back Where the about thing here This is version browser version 5.3 union tech soft What is this browsers is based on I mean this has almost has to be based on on firefox then right But it looks like a chromium based browser Weird It doesn't matter. I guess we'll just We'll just look for no, we're gonna search through by do so this is it. This is this is literally Google come I don't speak Mandarin or any other Chinese dialect Like not even a little bit so like I can I have one word in Japanese, but everybody has that one word So it's not that impressive Okay We'll search for be fetched because be fetches here and I know that just runs as a script. It's just bash So we're just gonna do this and then we'll go back to the terminal thing, which I apparently closed Yeah, I wonder if it is installed by default Get it's installed by default. Okay, so if we do I believe we should I thought this was just made in bash I thought it was just bash script Let's see what the instructions actual instructions are. Well, while this the scrolling Momentum on that's horrible. I don't care about your story. Just give me installation Option one. Oh, well, okay, we'll just do this. That's what I thought All right, we'll go back to it doesn't have the open Applications here. That's really weird. All right All right, we can failed no such foul or read Pository. All right, this is ridiculous all this for a fetch application Let's go to settings and see if I'll actually tell us what this is This is just gonna be deep in they made no other changes. I guarantee it. Let's see if there's about No deep in ID. Yeah, this is seriously. This is just deep in comes with X term L if you type in terminal, you also get LX terminal and the regular terminal So it comes with a plethora of terminals We'll see Yeah, I need terminal again. Why isn't a terminal? So when you open up something it doesn't like show you the icon down here at the bottom That's just why What kind of I mean why it's so weird. Okay. Anyways, um, we'll do Uname dashed a So this is using 5.4.2 to x and which is exactly what it did say it was going to use Let's see here. Let's just go ahead and look at some of the applications. So we know that this is just basically deep in so we don't have any like Categorization of the Applications here and we also notice that they're not in alphabetical order like at all Which is weird. Oh because they're favorited But even once you get past the favorites, they're not in alphabetical order. Okay, that's really weird. Oh, we do have categories here All right. Good internet. We have firefox and browser which so this is firefox was firefox looks like and not now Sure Sure. All right. Anyways, interestingly enough, they add an extra like a Barred on top of it even though firefox supports a theming from from Different this desktop environments weird. Okay. So what else we have here skype preview Okay, skype is installed by default. Thank you spotify and music. Uh, that's probably gonna be deep in music video Screen capture sm player mpv and voice notes Interestingly enough deep in video is not here Okay Graphics we have image viewer document viewer album and draw Office we have text editor simple scan leaf pad and document viewers no library office By default development. We have icon browser and system That's gonna be all like the system settings or whatever now The ISO for this was over three gigabytes and I'm struggling to find out where those three gigabytes came from because there's no applications here There's hardly any um, so Um, I'm gonna mess around here a little bit off camera and see if I can't get a fetch application to work because that's the last Thing I want to do. I'm very stubborn about it. I want to get neo fetch to work I'm gonna do it a few moments later Okay, so I ended up having to do that manually And as we can see and I probably shouldn't have even bothered because I mean surprise surprise. I said that's deep in Imagine that so it's using it's deep in 20.2.3 With very few changes other than what we've already discovered so far Uh, I did find some more packages, which I'll show you here in a minute But um, it's using bash 5.0 This is uh the k-win window manager interestingly and uh, it's using all the deep end stuff for deep in so After all that Also, one thing I noticed is that if you remember earlier I minimized the browser and then I came back here and clicked the button here and it just opened up a new browser That's because all this does is open up a new browser. It doesn't actually open up the already open instance as far as I can tell There's no way for me to actually get those back Like even like alt tab, which is like universal in every Linux desktop environment that I've ever used Doesn't work control tab doesn't work either. So uh, that is fairly really weird Now, I don't know if that's a deep end quirk, which I'm assuming it probably is because again They haven't made a lot of changes here or if it's a an x-ticks thing But you know, that's really weird. So I did say I would find some more packages So it does have quite a few things that are like duplicates. So like we did already discovered The multiple terminals it has but it also has two different file managers. So it has The deep end file manager and also has pc man fm, which looks like this And surprisingly pc man fm, which doesn't fit in in almost any Scenario I've ever seen in terms of that customizing and themes and stuff looks pretty good here Why they have both not sure we also get things like the deep end software store and the synaptic to package manager And a few other things that are just here. Yeah, so that right there is x-ticks So the as I said the answer To the question that we said at the beginning what the fuck is x-ticks. It's just deep in Linux Now you'll wonder where I found this thing You know, you're like, man, did you go searching for this? No, I didn't go searching for it It was on the front page of distro watch So apparently even distro watch gets fooled every once in a while because normally this isn't the kind of thing that will you know Get voted on I mean, it's really really weird not It wouldn't be a problem if they had an about page saying, hey, you know, we're just getting started Right now, you know, it's just based on deep end. We're tweaking it as we go And this is our vision, you know, if we have a vision to I don't know Something with deep end and we want to make it a little bit different And we're still working on it Find a dandy, you know, whatever I I highly encourage people to get their feet wet and doing stuff on Linux But they're about pages utterly useless And everything else about this is just really weird the fact that they changed the grub menu That seems to be the only thing they really changed because I don't actually think that they pulled out the display manager I don't think that that that they actually did that. I think that was a bug But granted startx actually worked and usually startx doesn't work if you have a display manager installed So it's just I mean utter hilarity. Uh, so basically, uh, if you're going to use this Don't use this just go use deep end because Uh, it'll be a better experience. I guess, um, I would actually recommend using the deep end desktop environment Like an arch or something instead of using the actual operating system, but that's just my Uh, two cents on it. So so that is it for us this video If you enjoy this video, make sure you hit the like button and the subscribe button if you haven't already Leave a comment below if you enjoyed this series and like to see more in the wtf series Coming forward Before I go I'd like to remind you that you can follow me on twitter at the linux cast You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linux cast Before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons dev on christ East coast web gen 2 is fun too marcus makleons fenjax knife and jewel jash will lee Mitchell art center americ camp and j dog. Thanks everybody for watching. See you next time