 Welcome to another edition of DT Live. Today is going to be a gaming stream. I'm going to be playing a little zero AD, which is one of the free and open source games that I play somewhat regular basis on the channel. I've probably played zero AD on camera half a dozen times at this point. It's one of my favorite games and it's just a fantastic real-time strategy game, very similar to the Age of Empires games. For those of you that are in the YouTube chat hanging out, I see a lot of you guys are already here. Give me a yay or nay on the audio about myself. Yep, I can hear the stream a little bit so it sounds like audio is working just fine. Time for some gaming. Yeah, and today what I wanted to do and I've been planning this for a while is do a little bit of a tutorial on zero AD. I mean I'm going to play the game as well, but especially for the beginning part of the stream, I want to give you guys some tips. Those of you that are just starting out with zero AD. I see new players trying it out and a lot of new players, especially I seem, you know, making a lot of mistakes. I made these same mistakes when I started out because it's a complicated game. There's a lot to this game and if you actually want to be successful, I'm going to show you some tips and I'm going to show you some mistakes that you should avoid making. So yay, yay, yay, yay. Okay, audio is good. Do you have a favorite nation in zero AD? So you have like a dozen civilizations in zero AD. The one I played the most and I'm most comfortable with are the Carthaginians, but at some point I've probably played them all. So and I'm going to go over some of the differences between the civilizations as well today. Big Pods came to say hi. He's not listening since he's still in a meeting. Well, that's good that you're at work. And I guess that's good that you're actually paying attention at work and not paying attention to YouTube. I appreciate that. Fans from Bulgaria, we've got viewers from all over the world. When I check my YouTube analytics, it's really quite amazing how global the channel is. I think it's partly to do with just how global Linux is, how global free and open source software is, right? It spans all nationalities, all races, ethnicities, there's no language barrier, free and open source software, it's ideology and everyone can be a part of it. You know, regardless of who you are, background, whatever. Now, fan from Belgium. All right, well, let me get into the game because we've got a lot while like that. A lot I want to cover and typically I stream for about an hour and a half on my live streams. That's typically a good time to shoot for, although usually I end up going a little over. But because we've got so much stuff to cover, you know, I really need to get here. So I'm going to go ahead and launch the game. And the first thing I want to do is ask you guys, can you hear the game audio, which I'm pretty sure you guys can. So I'm looking at OBS right now. Go into audio properties. Nope. No game audio. Let me open up the old trusty pulse audio volume control and see what is going on here. Let's see, recording desktop audio from the wrong source, of course. You guys are hearing me now though, or you're hearing the game now. Pulse audio, it never picks the right sources. All right. So how is the music compared to me speaking right now? I know it's loud. I'm going to turn it down. This is about where I'll probably have it in game. All right. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to load up a single player because I want to pull up the civilization. So the civilization overview. So we have all of these various civilizations. They're all slightly different. They're very similar. I mean, you have different troop options, different building options. But for the most part, they're all very similar. You have different melee troops that you could train, ranged units you could train. For example, let me pick the Britons here. Just as an example and go to their structure tree. When you first start, you have a civic center. This is your town center. This is your most important building that gives you the most area. You don't want to lose your starting civic center typically unless you've already built a second one somewhere and you're kind of okay with losing that civic center. Losing the civic center typically is the end of the game for you. And you have troops that you can train. You always have female citizens. So typically you train women and you send them to usually farming or collecting wood. That's what the women are for. The women can't really fight. They technically have a dagger on them and can do a little damage in a pinch, but they really don't do any real damage. They can't really do anything to male citizen soldiers. The women can actually do pretty good damage against rams. So if you have a ram attacking your civic center and you have about 50 women there, having them attack a ram, actually, one ram, a single ram, usually can stop it oddly enough. But multiple rams, no matter how big a group of women you have forming, know your civic center, they're not going to stop that. Then you have the houses. The houses give you extra population. That's going to vary from civilization to civilization. This civilization we're looking at the Britons, a house gives you a population bonus of five. So for every five population you want, you have to build a house. So typically these games are typically either a 200 pop max or a 300 pop max game, meaning a max population. So if I do a 300 population max game with the Britons, I'm going to have to build a ton of houses, right? Because each house gives me five population. There are some other buildings that will give you a population bonus. The most obvious one will be the barracks. Now this is where you train soldiers. And that is typically one of the first buildings you need to start thinking about getting up once you've trained enough women initially in the game. One of the mistakes I see is a lot of new players don't realize how important the barracks is. So you want to build early on, but not not early on, you don't want to waste all your starting wood, but you want to build as many barracks as you can once you have a comfortable wood economy. Because having multiple barracks allows you to train multiple soldiers as fast as possible. Some of the other interesting civilizations here, the morians, the morians are interesting because they start with a unique worker elephant. So they have a there's elephants in the game that are war elephants. But the morians have a special elephant called a worker elephant that acts as a mobile storehouse because of that it makes them one of the best new user friendly civilizations. Like if you don't know which civilization to start with, the morians are really nice. Let me go ahead and play a game here. And I've got the AI set to really hard. I really don't want to play against multiple really hard AIs. I'm going to pick a two player map. This particular map here, I doubt we're going to see the AI early on. I'm not really interested in fighting. I'm just going to show you what you should think about starting out. So the very first thing you should know is click on to the Civic Center. When you click on it, there is this ring around it. What this ring is, is that is when you have the Civic Center garrisoned. When the Civic Center is firing arrows, that's how far out the arrows will go. That is the range, meaning it's a really good idea when you're building farms and you're building houses around the Civic Center to keep them near that circle. Because if you get rated early from your opponent, if they're within the circle, they're going to be under fire from the Civic Center. Now let me go ahead and take the worker elephant here, zoom in here. And where do I want to start? Well, you know what? I'm going to move the worker elephant over here to these fields here. These are berries. I'm going to double click one of the women to select them all and I'm going to send them to the berries. Now typically, you'd have to either have the women walk the berries they collect back to the Civic Center or build a farmstead. But the more ends has the worker elephant that's a mobile drop site. They can just drop that off right there to him. And then I can have the men here, these two men and these two men. I need them chopping wood. So let's go ahead and we'll just chop the wood right here next to the Civic Center because we really need to get rid of those straggler trees here anyway so we can build some fields here initially. And then I'm going to take the one calf unit and have him hunt the sheep. This is really quick and easy food. And then you have enough wood in the beginning to train about six women. Typically, I like to train them in batches of three just because the batch of six takes so long to train splitting it up. You get some coming out, you know, a little quicker. Because I've got I'm going to have so much food here because I've got the women on the berries and then I've got all these sheep here. We're just going to have a ton of food. So all these women that come out, I'm just going to send them straight to wood. And the reason they're going straight to wood is because I click the Civic Center and then you know, I could write I could click the Civic Center and then right click on the wood here and that sends them to these trees. But I'm not going to send them that far. I want them chopping wood right here next to the Civic Center so they don't have to walk as far. Now one of the things here, let me go ahead and pause this. And one of the things that you should be aware of is there's four resources in the game that you have to collect. There's food. There's wood and there's stone and there's metal. And early on in the game, it's all about food and wood. One of the mistakes I see new players make and why they struggle is they start collecting stone and metal early in the game and you don't want to do that because you can't even use that stone and metal. There's there's nothing you can do with it early in the game because the units that you can train with that and the buildings that you can build with that stone and metal, you can't train. You can't actually build any of that stuff in phase one, which is the beginning of the game. So you know, we have our stone mine here. We have our metal mine here and new users again, you see a lot of them immediately start sending people to mine. You're just wasting your time because you're mining all of this stone and metal and then can't do anything with it. So that is time you could have had all of your units chopping wood or hunting or farming. And I've got so many so much food and wood now. I'm population max here's the 19 of 20. So I really need to start building a house. I'm going to take three women and I'm just going to have them build a house here. Actually, I've got enough wood. I'm just going to go ahead and have them on house building duty for a while. I'm just going to build all those houses and then go back to chopping wood. Also, I've got enough wood. I could build a storehouse. Now, I'm going to build a storehouse. I'll eventually need one near this stone mine for men to mine stone. So it makes sense to go ahead and have these women build one here so they can chop this wood. Of course, I'm taking my time here. The very hard AI in this game is probably way ahead of me, but I'm not interested in actually winning this game. This is more for demonstration purposes. Now, we don't really have any male citizens yet, right? We need to start thinking about what we're going to do here as far as an army because if I got attacked right now, I would be completely screwed. So most civilizations have the ability to train about three different units at the beginning of the game. Most of them have a spearman available. Most of them have some kind of ranged units such as a slinger, a skirmisher, or an archer. I have spearmen and archers. And then you usually have a cav unit. Typically, the cav unit is going to be either a cav spearman or a cav javelinier. I've got the cav javelinier. I'm going to go ahead and start training spearmen. I'm going to train three spearmen. And when they come out, I'm going to send them over here to chop wood. Just so if we got attacked right now, it's not all women because if it's all women, we're in for a bad time. I'm going to go ahead and start making my first farm or my first field here. We'll eventually need to build a farmstead because I didn't build one initially because I had the elephant over here. The farmstead is where you get farming upgrades and we will eventually need those. So these women here, what I'm going to go ahead and do. I wonder if I want to build this farmstead. I'll just build it over here. And one of the things you really want to do is you want to be training troops all the time. Now I'm a little slow here because of just talking and demonstrating things. But if you actually want to win the game, it is a real-time strategy game. Meaning if you're not constantly collecting resources and constantly training units, even for a few seconds, that is the difference between winning and losing the game. So I'm going to go ahead and start queuing up more women because I'm going to need a lot of women on farms here in a minute. Go ahead and start them building a lot of fields. These berries won't last. Now one of the important things at the beginning of the game is food. Food, you always want to take the berries first. There's always, almost always, going to be berries near the Civic Center. That's quick and easy food. And if you have hunt, which I did on this map, which is animals to hunt, not all maps will have it, but I had all of those sheep. That is a ton of basically free food that my calf, you know, can go and grab. One other thing you want to do in the game with a lot of new players don't do this is you want to know what your opponent is up to. Because my opponent could have a huge army right here ready to attack all of these women that I've got farming and I wouldn't even know it. But why don't I just send this one calf unit that I start the game with? He's not really doing anything right now that he killed all the sheep, right? So he can't farm, he can't collect wood. So let's have him do something useful such as find out what my opponent is doing. Let's just send him around a little bit. Got idle units here that's not good. You never want any unit that can actually collect resources ever standing around. They're standing around that's essentially losing the game for you. And you always have to be mindful of the pop max. Right now I'm pop maxed 40 of 40. That means I need to start building more houses. I'm just gonna go ahead have a couple of units. Build a couple of houses. I'll have this unit here. Build that house. I'm gonna go ahead and keep building farms if I can. That tree right there is gonna get in my way of farming. I probably should send some units out to I'm gonna train some archers because I've already trained a few spearmen. Now one thing you want to do and this is another mistake you see a lot of beginning players make. You never want to train one type of soldier. One of the things you often see people is you know they fall in love with spearmen or archers or slingers and that's the only male unit they trained right. They'll have 200 archers right and it looks cool and when they encounter something that archers are really good against you know they just wipe out their opponent right that's great but when they encounter something that archers can't you know do anything against like rams for example battering rams which are made of wood arrows don't do anything to it right and then you end up with battering rams coming towards your civic center and you built this gigantic army that can't do a dang thing against that what your opponent chose to send against you. So you have to be mindful of the army you build and unless you know what your opponent is building never build a single type of unit unless again you know what your opponent's doing and you build this massive swordsmen or spearmen or archers whatever to counter the one type of unit you know your opponent is building typically you want a mixture a good mixture of melee and ranged so in my case spearmen and bowmen what I'm going to do is I'm going to build some spearmen they're always going to be on the front lines of a fight and all my archers I'm going to make sure I keep them behind the spearmen constantly firing arrows that's how you win battles. Beginning players they just typically just send everybody to a battle whatever formation however they arrive they may not even arrive in a group right you see a lot of beginning players sending one unit at a time into a battle one unit at a time that one unit is going to get killed before he ever does anything right always send groups and think about group placement. Back to the game here on pause where did my calf unit end up he is here now this map here is rather interesting I'm already at the bottom of the map so I probably should have went this way with that calf unit now this map here has water and one thing about zero ad is you can build a dock and you can build ships you can actually cross oceans now this map I don't actually have to build a dot to get across the map because there is a bit of land in the center that actually connects the two halves of the map I believe this is it here yeah this is the bit of land that connects our two halves of the map let's go ahead and send this cab unit though over here and see what's going on I got all of these guys I still haven't built a barracks yet even though I said I needed one my one cab unit died apparently oh he's about to die but the good thing is I know where my opponent is he's actually a lot closer than I thought so what I'm gonna do is go ahead and build our first barracks because we're gonna need a barracks go ahead and build a store house out here next to the barracks one thing that's a really good idea is when you're placing barracks the barracks do extend your territory quite a bit and a lot of people you they tend to put them on the front lines sometimes too far on the front lines because it would be really easy hey I want all these trees out here right so let me put this barracks all the way out here by itself well that's great and then all my territory extends here where I can get to these trees but then I also have a barracks all by itself out here where if my opponent sends his army this one building by itself it's not gonna last very long he's gonna take that from me and it's just a bad idea so you again you want to be mindful of where you where you build things right now I'm building basically this wall of houses in the back but really I should probably build a wall of houses in the front because that's really where the action is going to come built one barracks let's go ahead and get a second barracks and then start training from the barracks now I'm gonna have the barracks actually training all my male soldiers and I'm gonna just keep the Civic Center mainly to train more women because I'm gonna need oh at least I would say 60 women or so just for a farming operation might want to put a tower out here as well to protect the barracks and to protect the wood here that we're collecting because this is a lot of wood one thing you also want to be mindful of is when you're starting out with zero AD it's very easy to mass a whole bunch of women very quickly and then we're gonna go out here and we're gonna start chopping wood because we need wood well don't make 20 30 female citizens and then have them here on the front lines chopping wood by themselves that's a bad idea if your opponent attacks you're gonna lose all of those women you're just gonna completely throw them away you're gonna lose the game so make sure have either a mixture of men and women out on the front lines or just strictly men and if you got stuff in the back that the women can do if there was wood lines back here have them you know working on that now I don't have any wood lines in the back so I need that house built they stopped building that house we need a lot more houses and now the moreans are one of those civilizations you have to build a ton of houses and I've got to be mindful of that I don't play the moreans that often I'm just gonna start spamming houses up got the little quake style drop down there that's not what I wanted have those women build that row of houses there that pretty much walls off an attack from back here and I've got the barracks and the men here so they'll see an attack and I've got the tower as well these men here I'm gonna go ahead and have them build a store house right here because I'll need one for that middle eventually when they're done with that straggler tree I'm gonna go ahead and send them to metal because it's about time we move on to metal and what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna double click these two barracks and then I'm gonna do control one and that set that to one on the keyboard so now if I just hit one on the keyboard I select both barracks and I could start training troops from both barracks see we've got two that's one unit per barrack but I could scale that up if I wanted to with the mouse scroll wheel I could say shift and the mouse scroll wheel I could say I want to train eight spearmen and it's gonna train four from each and then since I've got both barracks selected I could select a muster point you know where I'm sending the units I'm gonna send them right here to these trees here go ahead and get more store houses built because we've got so many trees out here I don't want the units to have to walk too far for a storehouse one other rookie mistake you see a lot of people make is you never want you never want your units to have to walk very far to deposit the resources they're collecting whether it be food wood metal stone if you can build a storehouse right next to where they're working that is maximum efficiency they have to walk a few feet that's not a problem like right here if they had to chop wood here and walk to this store house that's getting a little far and certainly if they've got a walk you know say from this tree way over here to this storehouse that's way too far is they're wasting a lot of times because their walk is kind of slowly these units don't move that fast it's a few seconds wasted every time they have to walk back and forth to a drop site all right so have the drop sites right on the resource work that you're collecting I'm gonna pause the game just for a second let's go back to the YouTube chat I'm gonna go ahead drink my coffee I made me a cup of coffee before the stream started and I haven't drank it not the first sip it's probably getting cold on me see what kind of questions and comments we have in the chat BSD yeah yeah the soldiers yeah when you click on them they ask a question yeah like hey what's going on that they're saying I think it's Latin TST TST right but it the way it's whoever recorded it it sounds just like they're saying BSD actually right it's weird I need a lot of women on my farm you want five women per farm for maximum efficiency five is the max meaning if you put a sixth woman on that field she's just gonna be idle she can't do anything so five women per farm so typically you're gonna build eight farms because you're gonna build them in a grid around the Civic Center so you're at least gonna build eight five women per you need 40 women on those eight fields and then depending on how the game is going you may need more farms typically I like to have about 10 to 12 farms so that's why when I said I'm gonna need about 60 women earlier that's why that number and you want women farming they farm better than men right when we come to mining because I'm at the game the stage of the game where I need to start mining stone and metal men are gonna mine much quicker than women don't don't have men farm don't have women mine now the woodcutting you can have men or women get the wood they they both gather wood at a rather decent rate when are you gonna upgrade the Civic Center so typically if you're talking about the phases so there's three phases in the game there's phase one which is the phase you start with you can think of it as like a village phase and then there's phase two the town phase which how you get to the town phase is you pay a bunch of resources an amount of food and wood you collect enough you pay it and you're upgraded to the town phase and then to get to the third phase which is the city phase you have to build at least three special buildings and also collect some some resources some stone and and some metal to pay to go to that phase so and typically you want to get to phase two in about 10 minutes the ideal what you want to start with is you want to aim for about a hundred population in 10 minutes that's not hard I am talking and going really slow right now and I am at 77 of 95 max population and I've had a lot of idle time I haven't been constantly training units from these buildings even though I said that's what you have to do or it's a mistake but again I'm talking through this video right I easily could have had 120 population by now easily right so having a hundred population in 10 minutes is is easy once you get the hang of it many really good players can get to a hundred and about eight minutes and typically once you get that population to about a hundred you know you that's whenever you want to go ahead and push the button and go to phase two Roland says hello DT how you doing Roland and so what should I do in Greek TST yeah okay yeah I knew it was it's inquisitive right and they're obviously asking a question but it sounds like the question they're asking us BSD as in hey should I try BSD well try Linux first but BSD is okay all right back to the game again the opponent that I'm playing the very hard AI is probably way ahead because again we're just kind of I'm just talking through a lot of stuff here mainly for demonstration purposes because I've had people in the past when I play the game I'm moving so fast they have no idea what's going on I'm gonna hit one on the keyboard and train up some archers just keep training from both barracks so I've got a ton of wood I've got so much wood and food I need to go ahead and click up I need to start building more houses I need to build more farms these women that last farm up and I'm just going to have a dedicated house builder here just go ahead and wall all of this off and this is a technique you see most players do were a basically have your farms and then the houses especially if you're one of these civilizations like the Moorians you got to build a ton of houses because it's only a five population bonus some civilizations your houses are 10 you don't have to build as many houses in that case but in this case I've got to build so many houses I might as well essentially build them as a wall for defensive purposes there there's no reason not to because now I basically force my enemy once this is up he can only come through here and here has the barracks the tower of course all these soldiers get one on the keyboard I'm still training but I can't train anymore until I get some houses up guess I can build some houses out here have these men build a house or two really behind I don't want to build houses too far out oh well you see this my opponent is trying to build a military colony right there a military colony is essentially like a second civic center which some civilizations have the military colony all civilizations have a civic center so I could actually go out here I see this metal right here it would be great if I wanted it I can there's metal here but really I think the civic center I'll put it out of the way this will be a good spot because I've got the metal once these guys build that I want them to go to metal except the women got these women out here they need to head back here let's go ahead and get some farming upgrades so the farmstead I built I never did upgrade I'm gonna click on one of the storehouses let's get the wood cutting upgrade the stone mining upgrade the metal mining upgrade I need to start training troops to mine let me go ahead start sending troops to stone I've got some troops over here on metal where's all these troops are about to be on metal they make sure I still have more bowmen more spearmen coming out I want them going to this wood here we're getting a little further away from the trees now that they've emptied these trees the storehouse is a little too far so I built another storehouse closer the storehouses are not very expensive as far as it doesn't take a lot of wood to build them and because you get so much wood from the trees there's no reason again to have them walk it is worth it to build the storehouses closer to where they're where they're chopping that wood than have them walk I've got these people walking a million miles away these are three women I don't know why they're all the way over there chopping wood I wasn't paying attention to them would be great if I could build a field there but I can't because of that tree let's build a storehouse and have all these people clear out those trees alright and then I've got all the men I can on that mine let's go ahead and get some of them on this mine as well definitely don't want to delete anything hit the wrong key hit the delete key on the keyboard some of these men can actually chop wood right here next to that civic center oh and they're coming so let's go ahead garrison the civic center so it's firing arrows I don't want to garrison everybody though I do need oh I want it's the spearmen out here the long bowman like to move them over here I'm just gonna lead these people that are chasing my bowman on a merry little chase see he's got pikemen his pipe man against my archers they can't do anything unless they get to me but my archers can actually kill this pipe man rather quickly if I just turn around and start picking them off one at a time so this here did not go very well because I mean he can't take that civic center while it's garrison but he still got all these troops down here that I need to take care of go ahead train some more spearmen train some more archers and then we need to go clean this up I guess I don't want to send everybody he's probably got another attack coming actually the civic center the arrows from the civic center cleared that up I don't have to send anybody perfect let's go ahead build a temple right here just so some of my guys that are hurt can heal get these guys out get them back on stone or a metal there now that we're at phase two I need to build three special buildings to get to phase three the temple is one and you see I'm healing my her troops the other special building I really would like to have is a market so let me get some of these men here to build a market the market I would like to build in the back kind of away from the action because it's an important building you don't want to build it way out here to be destroyed or to be taken another important building I would like to have is the forge that's where you get your weapons upgrades one of these guys start that and then once I have those I can pretty much go to phase three now I can also start training units from this civic center ahead get units out here send them to that metal get one on the keyboard for my barracks here I've only got two barracks really I'd like to have quite a few more build another barracks out here more barracks the better you'll be able to train from as many buildings as possible and the good thing is if he destroyed this civic center now that I have a second one I mean I could actually just start building farms and everything over here to where if something really bad happened to this civic center it would be okay but I don't think he can touch me I've built a pretty good defensive position here starting to run out of wood at least over here at some point what I want to do essentially let's go poke around on the other side of the map and see what he's doing I can go ahead move up to phase three now can I cost I haven't finished building the third building here yep so I called him he was on his way definitely want to upgrade that tower these guys I'm housed and I'm going to lose that barracks there but that's fine it's gonna get all my troops back here and do what I can it's these elephants I can do much against these elephants I've probably have lost this game but again I talked way too much at the beginning of this game I went twice as slow as I really should have done now I've got these units back here got women actually here near the front lines yeah yeah I'm gonna lose this game what I would have to do at this point I just need to send every male soldier I've got but it's not going to be enough but again this was more of a demonstration of the farming operation the storehouses the farmsteads the drop sites how to build an economy now that I've given you some of the pointers and I built the buildings to get to phase three the only thing you didn't see there was once we got to phase three start building siege engines such as battering rams and elephants yeah my population is down to under 20 I think I can safely resign so that was that I'm gonna play another game here in just a second for real where I actually move as fast as I can I probably want to explain anything all right DT you ever play Caesar 3 it's an old game I never heard of that one I'm not much of a gamer though so I don't know a lot of games that's not unusual for me so like zero ADs one of my favorite games I haven't played zero AD probably in three weeks four weeks last time I played it and on game that much yeah is I am I playing online though I'm not playing a multiplayer game because if I played a multiplayer game trying to explain things talk people through as a tutorial I'd get killed right well real live people that actually know the game are even better than the very hard AI so no this it wouldn't be appropriate for me to jump in a multiplayer game and actually try to talk you guys through stuff well let's see please build more houses yeah again obviously doing this video I wasn't keeping up with the house building I knew I was gonna lose that game I mean I knew when I started it I was gonna lose that game just by talking a lot so so let's briefly cover again or I move on to the actual game and I'm gonna rush through it and I'm gonna win I'm gonna beat the very hard AI I may play against multiple very hard AIs but you know it's all in the beginning go to berries and if you got hunt on the map train a calf unit or two and hunt all the sheep deer if you got elephants they're a ton of food be careful elephants are dangerous they can kill yeah get as much food as much wood early on and never what like in that game I had a ton of food and wood all the time that that's bad if you're actually collecting resources and you're not using it that's bad as soon as you have wood and food in the bank spend it right train units or build houses right this you should never have resources just sitting there if you do I promise you your opponents that know what they're doing they spent their resources right they spent it on an army that's coming to kick your ass right so all right so I'm gonna play the game for real this time without you know really trying to talk you guys through anything so go to single player and let's see maybe I'll do a three player match and I'll play against two very hard AI opponents I could even try a four player match against three very hard AI opponents that's tough though that would be a lot to ask for see that's a three player map it's a three player map here's an interesting three player map that also involves water so I could build a Navy I wanted to go that route yeah why don't we do that so we'll do that map this time I'll play the Carthaginians which is the civilization I play the most and I know the best because this is gonna be tough this is gonna be tough for me to win let's go ahead and you see got a civilization on the map here a civilization here and a civilization at the top so it's it's not like this map is balanced every civilization's gonna have different resources immediately available the person that has the big island it's gonna be in much better shape than the other folks here yeah I don't know if I might want to pick a better map as far as a more balanced map is that one seems like one of the players really gets a big advantage you know what I said I was gonna play it let's just play it so Carthaginians Barcania is the map me against two very hard AI opponents all right so first thing I'm gonna do is look the women have them collect the berries double click the men have them start on the wood go ahead and train women where are one archer and seven women but it says I have 11 units where are they am I missing something here scroll around the map where are the announces I got 14 where they at I've only got 11 on the map that is weird that is really really weird I'm probably not gonna play this map because I have no idea where we're three of at least three of my units are they are not well now they're on screen maybe it counted the people I was training well I wasted some time there I'll restart that in just a second you know what I'm gonna pick a different map but first what I'm gonna do is I am going to run to the little girls room and take a tinkle I will be right back guys and then we'll play some more zero AD for real this time what did I miss alright let me see I can find a better map there's a three player map the Gambia River yeah I know this map and this map is pretty fair for each player I guess if there was one unfair part about this one player starts here one player starts here when player starts here the person in the middle obviously is between two enemies so I guess the middle player technically has a disadvantage but that's fine it's not huge that last map I played or was thinking about playing that map was a little weird let's go ahead and get into this and then I'm going to play this as fast as I can to try to win zoom in here a little bit get all four these women let's go build a farmstead and collect those berries take these two men these two men for total there this cab unit there is no hunt so let's go see what our opponents doing just go spy on our opponents and then train six women when they come out and I need food in a major way because we didn't have the hunt I'll send the first three that come out to the berries the next three I'll send to the wood see get him to cross they can't cross where the water is deep but right here where it's shallow he can cross these women out here there is red actually just gonna bring my horse back right here I just let him stand guard for now because I really can't do anything else with him because again there's no there's nothing to hunt on this map and the cab units can't actually collect wood or anything and I need a house pretty soon the Carthaginians their houses give you a population bonus of 10 couple of these women have them start on the next house and I try to build my population as fast as I can I said you want a hundred population in about 10 minutes typically let's see if I can get there faster than that the real trick will be food it's food it's gonna be tough I'll go ahead and build a farm I got extra berries though actually didn't need that farm the next group of women have them come out here start collecting these berries that I also need to build my first storehouse right now the wood is close enough having them walk to the Civic Center was okay but eventually I want a storehouse makes sense to have one near that stone but it really squeeze one in there put one back here these women I really need a farmstead out here light on wood right now I'll wait a second for these folks to drop off that wood at the Civic Center and then when they finally do I'll build the farmstead there we go farm right there keep training and just light on food light on wood but again this is it's not horrible because again you don't want a ton of extra food and wood the main thing is that we're always spinning it I haven't built an army of any kind I've trained nothing but women so that's the cheap way to go women only cost food the problem is if I got attacked I'd been a lot of trouble so eventually I need to start thinking about an army of male soldiers so I need to start thinking about that first barracks yes so I need to keep building houses and start the house there yes we send these two archers out here to build a barracks out here but there's there's nothing to build I don't have enough wood hmm that's still 63 wood shy is a group of there's a whole bunch of trees out here maybe that's where I should start sending folks for right now though I'm training mostly women I'm going to send the women to the back right again you don't want to send them out front at least not until I have some men to go along with it go ahead and queue up four spearmen I'll send those four spearmen here with these two archers so I'll have at least six units there plus the cab standing guard to warn me that something's coming the women over here finished go ahead and have them start farming I build a field right there let's go ahead and click on the storehouse get the wood cutting upgrade I'm good on food wood is going to be the problem yes see yes see another house yes see yes see let's go ahead and get that first barracks up because that's the big thing once I have that first barracks up I feel pretty confident that I can defend so now I can train more male soldiers quicker try to put a farm right there let's just queue up a whole bunch of women we're going to run out of berries here not too far from now so start thinking about putting all the farms down all right go ahead and train I'll train some archers so I trained a group of spearmen last time we want a mix of spearmen and archers melee and ranged again you never want all of just one type of unit you'll run in a situation where one type of unit is completely useless really gonna need a storehouse near that mine eventually I didn't leave myself much room to build one keep training women put them on the farms yeah I'm gonna need more food a lot more food now so let's go ahead take six women build a field right here one of the problems is these straggler trees that are in the way from where I could potentially build farms and I got these trees over here they send some women out here to chop that get that out of my way so I can build a field there ahead and get the farming upgrade eight houses keep building houses some women here to right next to that door house build a couple of them that'll give me a boost of about 20 population it's right now I'm pop maxed meaning what I had queued up those well those four women will come out but these three men will not till a house goes up I got to be mindful always mindful of the houses and these women here in the back build some houses back here guess why not some good place to put a house safe out of the way so the berries are done so these women that were on the berries can build a field right next to that forms did and have they cleaned up these trees enough to where I could squeeze a field in here that kind of yeah that's what I want all right all right so we are eight minutes 36 seconds in and I'm at 82 population but I've got 20 queued up I've got enough queued up to to make it to 100 easily in 10 minutes and again oh that wasn't like blazing fast speed but I feel pretty good like if I got attacked right now I feel like I've built enough of an army let's go ahead and build another barracks a second barracks would be good our opponent this territory is extending a little bit here you see he's putting what is that I don't know what that was but I stopped him building it but he's close yes we need to start thinking about defense maybe a tower somewhere right here as well let's see we can get another farm there's this farmstead out here squeeze a field right there yes this tower I'm going to go ahead and garrison it if it was further back where I built the tower I wouldn't bother garrison in just yet I'd wait till we were attacked but because this is right on the front lines you'd be surprised that you know when we get attacked you know I won't be prepared for it and my opponent will take that tower away from me before I ever have a chance to get it garrison so I'm just going to go ahead and stick three three guys in it now also let me go ahead and control group these two barracks queue up a mass of spearmen now my population's over 100 with more to come as far as I'm training a bunch more I'm just going to go ahead and move to phase two because we're ready matter of fact I need to start thinking about maybe maybe doing something here that's a pretty good group I'm just going to go poke around a little bit my horse is getting ahead of everybody well you know what let's deposit some wood first you see they're they're holding wood I don't want to send them into battle with all that wood because they're going to die right and then I'm going to lose all that wood so have them drop that off and then what was this he was building a market that would be great if I could steal that market if I can steal his market that would be fantastic let's go ahead and make sure we're still training folks again always training because these guys they might die right they didn't know we did a we did a good job but this market I got to destroy it perfect that was one of his phase three buildings you know well phase two buildings to get to phase three so that really put a hamper on him you know getting to that next phase this is a storehouse strategically not important at all I shouldn't even wasted my time taking it but since I did I'll destroy it we're or his female citizens because that's what I would like to do is uh take some of them out let's go ahead and get my own market up while we're destroying his market ah there is a civic center I can't take a civic center though let's go back we did enough that was a pretty good little excursion into his territory I don't want to build my forge that close to enemy lines I'd rather put it back here the forge it's essentially the blacksmith that's where you get your weapons upgrades oh he's he's chasing me really I didn't expect that after doing what I did to him I would think he would be happy I was leaving but it is a AI sometimes they do act kind of dumb need more houses some of these women on a house or two out here got to mark it up while we can buy metal cheaply buy some metal got the forge up let me go ahead and get the first two weapons upgrades well we'll go ahead and get all the phase one upgrades make our troops stronger it'd be great if I could afford a temple but I don't have any stones so let's train some troops and send them straight to stone some more women farming yeah since you guys are just standing here chop some wood don't want any idle folks or can I build some houses that are safe as I can build some houses out here we can't really touch me back here got that tower upgraded build a storehouse out here so they don't have to walk as far can I build that temple yet nope ah let me go ahead and trade I've got plenty of wood trade for the stone got plenty of food as well yeah see I want a temple and then I want to move up to the next phase and the temple being on the front line here it's a nice place for it this is going to be hard for him to get through he's got to come this way unless he builds a ship to cross the river he's got to come at me through this path right here which I've got my barracks a tower the scarison so it's going to be firing arrows and of course I've got my temple that'll be healing my troops so if I'm fighting right here I'm happy if my opponent is fighting right here he's not happy yes see I should go ahead and fully garrison this tower again just so I don't have to think about it later I need to build a storehouse next to this metal here I'm going to put one right there yes see how many women do I have 60 let's get all 60 women arming make sure I don't have any men there I do a couple of men got wrapped up in all of that make sure we have enough fields so everybody can farm another farm yeah I'm gonna have to get a little further away that farm's dead than I'd like but that's okay can I push the button on phase three and I need metal yes see but other than that we're pretty good yes see eight houses I'm just gonna spam some houses while I wait to move to the next phase that'll get me up to about 200 pop max it's a 300 pop max game got some of you guys a couple of houses out this way use another barracks when the fighting happens again you want to be able to spam out troops put a barracks over here to extend my territory a little closer to these trees here now can I move up to phase three I can when I get to phase three I build a fortress to get my hero and then I'll build some elephant stables to get some elephants and then I'm just gonna steamroll the guy in red which we should have set him back a little bit I should have done a little bit of damage to him let me go ahead start thinking about doing a little more damage to him so I'm gonna go ahead and take these guys so we know where a civic center is oh he put a temple right here this is what you don't do you don't put important buildings way off by themselves that is just a free building for me now I'm gonna put all three barracks in that control group I'm just gonna start sending people forward I think I'm gonna garrison the temple I'm gonna keep that temple I ain't giving it back not gonna do it and when I've reached phase three my territory should extend far enough I may actually just get that temple in my territory now would it allow me to build a barracks here it wouldn't that's unfortunate could I build a storehouse it's not gonna let me build anything right here that's fine could I build a civic center yes I could that's how I beat him my new civic center right there plus we get to chop all that wood yeah he's in trouble now now that I get a foothold over there in his territory he's in a lot of trouble building houses I guess he he wants to stop that me building that he's attacking that's fine I've got more troops then he can stop though because I can send everybody forward pretty much that I've got I mean I've got so many troops matter of fact I should probably send everybody forward that I've got there's no reason not to because there's nobody behind me to attack I mean the only attacks coming this way so let's get all of my people up front I could go ahead and garrison the civic center a little bit not everybody though chop wood and now actually before we do that let's capture that that's the market he keeps giving me a market these guys are trying to take back that temple these two guys but I've got 20 people inside that temple he's never taking that temple back all right let's go ahead and start thinking about elephants I'm about to roll him with elephants how about right here that's a good place for the elephant stable now I have two markets that's good because I have two markets I could actually train traders merchant traders and they could trade between my two markets you know if I there was a resource I was lacking that's a good way to get it but what do I want here I need a fortress would he allow me to build a fortress right there let's get everybody on that fortress they're building that fortress right next to the temple that's healing them while they're being attacked all right now I've built enough houses for the 300 pop max I just need to get to 300 pop max this guy he's toast there's no doubt I beat the red player once this fortress goes up he's done five elephants come out I want them to go straight to the civic center let's go ahead garrison the fortress can I train the hero I would like to train Hannibal but I don't have enough metal let me use my new market to trade for metal so I can train Hannibal all these guys just want to capture stuff hey go ahead I don't mind that wouldn't mind collecting some more wood while we're here let's get the weapons upgrades for phase two uh I don't have enough metal I'm never gonna have enough metal on this map there's no metal that's the problem these guys I like the fact that they're I might have to garrison that barracks if I want to keep it either that or I need to extend my territory far enough to where I can keep it that's probably what I need to do I'm just gonna gradually build into him until all of his territory's mine yeah without metal I can't really do anything with elephants either and this is gonna be tough this is a tough tough map without metal oh Hannibal is out the hero well if Hannibal's out let's go ahead go to the civic center and capture it because Hannibal's strong enough even without the other elephants they're still training but Hannibal they can knock over a civic center no problem the fortress fully garrisoned either what I need to do is after I take red out I need to go find metal there it is I see it so you guys go mine that's exactly what I needed train some more troops from that barracks send them there that's it we took his civic center he's done I can start training women from my new civic center that's one player down now this player the middle player was at a disadvantage because he may have been under attack from uh the other player because he was in the he was the meat in the sandwich right he was uh in between me and green so that's possibly why I had an easy time with him I'm gonna have a much harder time with green probably because he should be a lot further along than red I'm just guessing and I get weapons upgrades yet I can I want iron weapons I want the archery upgrade so I've strengthened my troops pretty good bit let's go ahead get an army together I'd like some priests to heal us they come out I'd like for them to join as well but let's go get this tower right here it's off kind of by itself that army will easily destroy that tower or capture it either one I'll capture it if I can which again I should have no problem capturing it with seven elephants plus the hero you know that's a that's a easy capture and then I garrison it so that tower is now firing arrows on green because it's my tower we'd be great if I could take this other tower out but I don't know accidentally hit the overview of the civilization but he's sending a pretty good force here he does not want me to take this I think he probably understands the AI understands what's about to happen so I'm about to win let's get some troops out of that civic center coming forward hey go to stone mine oh I've got this barracks here I could train some troops from like this barracks I captured earlier I could train troops from get all of those sending folks forward got my priests all right I ended up destroying that tower not paying attention that army couldn't capture it I guess all they could do was destroy it I captured at that dock though I could build a boat now if I wanted to I didn't even have to build my own dock that's nice all right I'm losing quite a bit of troops not that it matters I've got enough resources here to there's no chance of me losing this game at least I don't think there are well green actually followed me as I was retreating that's interesting I think what I want to do I need to heal all of my people but I don't want to have to walk all the way back to where my temples are so let me get 20 archers right there building that and then you guys gonna need a barracks closer just so I don't have to train people and have them walk a million miles somebody destroyed that barracks before it started getting built build it further back then I guess okay that one's going up see if I can get a second one up right there they took the dock back I should have destroyed it if I wasn't going to keep it that's my fault see if I can train some more elephants yeah I can yeah we got all kinds of troops now yeah green is trying to attack I'm at pop max so I've got all kinds of troops queued up but I can't train them because it's not enough room that's fine what I'll do is I'm gonna send them all into battle if I lose some troops it doesn't matter I've got the rest queued up I've got their replacements ready basically so I can afford to lose some troops here I'm just gonna send a big ass army there's the civic center I wish the elephants were out in front instead of my soldiers let's see if I can swing around here that is a group of about 84 including a lot of elephants and the hero so I should be able to at least destroy the civic center I may not be able to capture it yeah he's got it garrisoned it's a really strong civic center too because this civilization he's playing the iberians have stone buildings so I'm gonna have to destroy it rather than trying to capture it it would have taken me all day to get the capture I just didn't want to wait that long I'm gonna destroy it then back off a little bit he's gonna give chase a little bit but what I would like to do he's got these towers back here if I could take them that'd be great they're losing loyalty so I actually didn't have to take the towers by destroying his civic center all of its territory is starting to lose loyalty oh he's got battering rams wow if he'd have sent those against me that would have been good for him but he never did I don't have a whole lot that could have stopped those battering rams the spearmen are do okay damage against the battering rams they're not great archers do nothing elephants can destroy battering rams though for 29 minutes essentially the game is over so in about half an hour I beat the two AI opponents a real human being would resign at this point because there's no there's no coming back from this actually I it's red defeated I don't even know if I cleared out red completely but what we have to do is I'm gonna go put all of my troops on very aggressive or violent mode here meaning kill anything that you've come across oh we've got towers and stuff up here so what he's gonna do is he's gonna have all those towers probably garrisoned up here I don't want to just send my army up there to die the elephants can handle it but like I had some straight archers and spearmen you know trying to go after those towers by themselves and that's not that's not good they're just gonna die let's get a mass here about 60 folks and go capture that train up some more troops in case I need them looks like I will train up some more healers unfortunately when you're playing the AI he doesn't ever resign you know the only way to defeat the AI in the game is actually to defeat him I mean completely defeat him kill everybody as the garrisoned that tower I'm gonna go ahead and un-garrison this tower because that tower will never be taken no point in having people in it but I'm gonna garrison that one and I actually why don't we go for the capture on this civic center or is that the fortress that's his fortress and again the Iberian just like their civic centers their fortresses and their towers their built of stone they're kind of tough if he's got this garrisoned I may or may not be able to capture it it looks like I will get the capture it's gonna take a minute though what I should do to speed this along build a civic center my civic center here takes all of its territory basically that really pushes things forward a little bit yeah he's got a dock he's got ships he's got people on the ship that's not good uh uh uh uh oh you gotta get back from that ship that ship will wipe out my entire army a garrison ship like that matter of fact that ship is bad news for me he could take that ship down the river to my base unload at my base do I have anything back at my base well I got a lot of men just sitting around but all these men that were mining that no longer have anything to mine what was that that was a storehouse for mining that never got built that was a mistake on my part it's like I could go build a dock yeah his ship probably killed a bunch of my people while I wasn't paying attention let's see if I can go kill that ship again this is annoying because he can't win I can't lose but there's not much I can do about it I may have to go build a dock actually I may have to build my own dock so I can build ships to go get him okay well I destroyed his ships at least there's another civic center over here that I've got to get and I can build a ship now I don't have to build a dock okay well these guys I was actually sending them out to look for a spot to build a dock I don't need that dock now though forget that chop some wood that civic center is destroyed yeah at this point I mean he's got a few structures still down here but got a ship up and he's got a ship my ship destroy his actually yeah he ungarry sent his ship yeah his ungarry sent ship is not going to last long against mine I wanted to there is a special ship I could train called the fire ship do I have one it's not available for every sieve yeah it's not available the fire ship is a suicide ship it actually comes out on fire and it's on a timer basically you've got you know so few seconds basically to ram it into another ship now I'm gonna have to go around the map and just find the handful of people he still has around but I'm not going to I'm just gonna resign even though I won the game again against human beings this game was over 10 minutes ago so that was a little bit of zero AD there let me catch up on the chat here me a second guys hey dt opinions on temple os I've taken a look at temple os a couple of times I think I did a video about it where I just installed it in a virtual machine and uh played around with it for a bit it's an interesting little project I mean it's not anything you really do anything with but it I mean it's interesting see I don't know how to explain how I read sub volume I'm not sure what the sub volume topic was let's see well play congratulations yeah that wasn't too bad I've gotten to the point where I can always beat the very hard AI 1v1 obviously I didn't in that very first game talking and trying to show you guys some of how to win the game but in a real game 1v1 the very hard AI I always beat him against two opponents and 50 50 against three very hard AI opponents I usually lose because against three of them you'll be doing well against one or two but then there's that one guy that nobody's ever attacked the the AI and he's done built this gigantic massive army of you know 30 elephants 10 veteran rams and while you're engaged with one opponent the other opponent comes and just wipes out your whole farming operation and your civic center it's really tough the more opponents you have now when you play online multiplayer against real people you're never you know like a free-for-all kind of game it's always a team game so if you have four players it's 2v2 if you have eight players it's 4v4 you know it's always a team game because it's a little crazy when you have to deal with multiple opponents and there's no real allegiances yeah this chat is so bad yeah well the chat on youtube live streams is always bad regardless of what I'm streaming regardless of food streaming it doesn't have to be meat just youtube live streaming the topics that get discussed they can be kind of asinine sometimes let's see jack says I can win any game with one soldier and 10 healers yeah an interesting way to play the game is nothing but women and priests so no soldiers at all try that that is interesting building an army of nothing but women and priests and you know trying to destroy each other you should try zenotic it's open source yeah I'm aware of zenotic we've played zenotic many times on the channel before as well one of my favorite first person shooters here recently I highlighted another first person shooter that's really cool that was unvanquished unvanquished is a really cool first person shooter free and open source and available on linux I think it's available on windows mag and linux zenotic the same though one thing about linux and free and open source gaming we have a ton of open source first person shooters because the engines that these games are built on are open source most of them are built on some of the old quake engines that were open sourced yes zenotic is great yeah agreed zenotic is definitely one of the best so just briefly recapping since this was going to be more of a tutorial kind of video about zero ad for those of you trying it out one of the things don't be passive that game that I won versus the game that I lost where I was kind of talking and going slow what was the difference one of them I was slow right one of them I was constantly building constantly training you want to be aggressive you want to be building as many people as fast as you can and you notice early in that second game I rushed the middle opponent the red opponent and I pretty much crippled him early in the game and once I said him pretty far back early in the game he was never ever going to have as big an army as me because he lost so much early right and that's how you you win the game you have to cripple your opponents early the earlier you can attack them the better many many new players they have in this mindset where I need to build this massive army until I get this massive army built I can't do anything no you have 10 20 30 soldiers masked up at some point you know you can do a lot of damage with those if you put them on the right targets which is typically the women in the fields or you know those buildings you know I I I stole a temple that was just off by itself you know I stole a barracks that was kind of off by itself you know that's how you that's how you win the game you got to be aggressive you got to be aggressive early in the game if you sit back waiting waiting until I have this amount of troops or until I get my elephants or till I get my battering rams or till I train my hero and this and that well you're sitting back doing that well your opponents are getting better right so you're leaving a lot to look and to chance when you're passive when you're aggressive you leave nothing to look because you're in control right you always want to be in control and we should talk about for those of you that want to learn more how to play the game there are several well I won't say several but there's a few YouTube channels that discuss zero AD let me switch to my desktop here I do a search on YouTube for zero AD here is a channel that does a lot of zero AD coverage what this guy does is he gets multiplayer games that not he didn't play in them but other people played and submit to him and what he does is he commentates the gameplay and tells you hey this person's doing this and that and this person you know is doing a good strategy this person is kind of using a dumb strategy right so this guy zero AD newbie rush is really good another really good one is a guy named Valorant I don't know if I spelled his name right Valorant there it is Valorant zero AD and AOE2 Age of Empires and this guy if you really want to know how to play zero AD at an excellent level right like this guy is many people consider him one of the top two players in the entire game and he his channel is him actually playing multiplayer games against live people and he is just incredible there is also one other channel Tom zero AD I haven't seen a video posted from this guy in a while because I'm subscribed to his channel yeah he isn't posted in about four months but his channel has a lot of good tutorial information about the game like he covers the various factions within the game and stuff like that some of this is a little out of date because the game sees new releases all the time and you know things change all the time as far as civilizations and you know they add new stuff and then they make certain civilizations less powerful more powerful and you know every release is a little different so that is a little bit about zero AD for those of you that want to check it out I think you'll be impressed I think it's amazing that that game is a free and open source game right it's so good like the gameplay is amazing the graphics are good the music is good like that's it's a shining example of what free and open source gaming can be I know a lot of people are doubters about you know we can we can have a lot of things that are free and open source software but we can never have free and open source games there's a lot of people that tell you that you know free and open source games never gonna happen you gotta have a bajillion books so it's always gonna be a proprietary software made by proprietary company you know it's gotta pay all these you know developers a lot of money well yeah I don't mind developers being paid a lot of money but what is it have to be closed source I don't think gaming has to be closed source any more than your operating system or your text editor your terminal emulator yeah we've got all this other open source software but we can't have open source games no no no oh wow the chat's really blowing up now we're talking about POSIX standards yeah they they don't mean anything standards don't mean anything as far as linux and free and open source software software in general I get people all the time why doesn't linux have standards why don't why don't we have a standard that everybody agrees to okay well how are you gonna get everybody to agree on everything you can't right even if you did even if you happen to get every single person that's involved with free and open source software to agree to something but eventually one of those people is going to change their mind or a new person is going to be introduced to that concept and say hey you know what I can do better I can do something different and it'll be better and it's always that's the case with free and open source software is everybody is always going to do their own thing because they have the freedom to do their own thing you're never going to have standards it's like people ask me about yeah POSIX standards and the linux standards base and the file system hierarchy why do programs put files somewhere other than .config in your home directory right all your config files should go in .config because that's what the file hierarchy standard is end of story did we all agree to that right no I mean yeah it's like it's because somebody said it's a standard it's a standard no it's not right I could go off on a rant maybe that'll be a video one day my rant about standards and and why people that complain about standards I understand why they complain about it but it's for an open source software there's no standards and they'll never be standards so let's see what distro are you actually using I'm using arco linux the desktop environment is xmonad I've got a bunch of window managers actually installed on this computer the window manager I'm using today is xmonad it's typically what I'm in what I've got DWM and awesome and cutile and i3 and herbs lift and open box BSPWM I think I've got stump WM still installed even though I don't particularly like that window manager and probably three or four other that I escape me off the top of my head left WM I think is installed on this system most of them I haven't logged into in many many weeks because there's so many different window managers I mean it's not like I can use them all all the time typically on my videos what you guys typically see these days is usually xmonad if I'm not an xmonad usually I'm in cutile which cutile looks and feels almost exactly like xmonad so it's easy for me to switch between those two particular window managers why arco because it's good why not why not arco right why not any Linux distribution I mean they're all I'm not going to say they're all the same but obviously whether they're static release or a rolling release you know it's different are they source-based or binary-based I don't want a source-based distribution so things like gen2 out right but yeah arco perfect binary-based rolling release based on arch right so why not they do good work I really like what arco Linux does let's see why not install arch with a bash script well why would I need a bash script to install arch linux installing arch it's like a 15-minute process doing it the archway right I don't I mean I understand why some people might want one but I've been around Linux long enough I've installed arch dozens of times so I wouldn't need a bash script to install arch so I'm not sure if you were asking me that or maybe you were talking to somebody else in the jet yeah you don't you don't really need a script like the arch installation is pretty dang easy I've installed arch many many times on camera on this channel come on dt we all know arch Linux based distributions are the best well it depends on what you're doing there is a case to be made for static release stable distributions not for what I do right for everything I do I'm always testing out new software and things I need me personally I need to be on a rolling release or at least I prefer to be but that's for me you know everybody's situation is different if I didn't do this YouTube channel like be honest I'd probably just run Debbie and stable like the furthest thing from arch possible right I'd probably just run Debbie and stable because I would just have my software that's installed that I use and that's it right but because these days you know because of the channel I play with so much software if I didn't play with software right if I just installed stuff that I actually use and that was it yeah Debbie and stable be done with it yeah Emax OS win well I mean that's kind of what I've turned my DTOS in I mean it's a X-mone add but I mean it's a lot of Emax I mean if I didn't want to I mean I could launch PC man FM my file manager here the graphical file manager but why does that have to be my file manager I have a key binding to just launch Dear Ed in Emax right Emax can be my file manager I have that capability and I guess you know development on DTOS is kind of slowed down as far as my work on it because it's one of those things I can't just drop everything and for weeks at a time devote things so like the DTOS script because yeah I don't make any money on DTOS right it's just a side project I have to take time out to do this job here right making videos a lot of people are like hey man why don't you learn this why don't you do that and you know be something that would take you know six months for me to learn you know I get you know comments like that all the time and it's like oh you not like my videos you want me to go away for six months because that's what it'd take before I could actually make a video on some of the topics that some of these people ask me about sometimes uh yeah you just installed Lubuntu on your mother-in-law's old laptop I've even installed Lubuntu on many friends and family machines as far as underpowered machines that's usually my go to is Lubuntu and uh yeah everybody loves it never had a problem with Lubuntu all right we've been streaming for about an hour in 50 minutes I'm gonna try to keep it under two hours because usually if I keep it under two hours the sink over to odyssey goes better if I go over two hours the sink sometimes doesn't happen so I'm gonna go for we'll say another two or three minutes but get your last questions and comments and we're gonna shut the stream down because if you guys got anything else to say in the youtube chat say it now so it will forever be recorded let's see I really have no reason to run linux at this point and windows is disgusting well if windows is disgusting but you don't really want to run linux I mean I guess there's macOS right if you if you got some money you could drop some cash on a macbook how did distro tube get into arch linux the same way I got into every other linux distribution I just installed it to try it out I mean I've distro hopped a lot and there's no getting into something you just try stuff out right at least that's what most people in linux do they usually try out dozens of different distributions at some point if you're in linux for any length of time you're gonna play with a lot of different distributions because you're always gonna think there's something better over there that's the case you know I'm on debbie and now but you know what I hear good things about fedora so let me hop to it for a couple of months and then the arch guys always talk about by the way well let me try out arch and then and then gentoo guys keep telling me that source based distributions are the way to go and hey nix os that's the new hotness let me go try that and void void's really cool too right and then eventually we're gonna get the new release of slack wear and when that comes out you know be the first big release of slack wear in like five years I'm gonna hop to it right well no I'm not but you guys might but that's how it that's how it goes you're constantly hopping especially until you get to a point where I've gotten to the point where now I don't see much difference between various linux distributions I mean there's again there's there's differences but underneath underneath the hood it's always the same linux kernel that's pretty much any linux distribution running the linux kernels gonna always have the same hardware support all your hardware is gonna work no matter what distribution you run they're all gonna have the same bass shell up under the hood so when you drop to a command line you know all the shell commands that you learned on one distribution they work on the other distributions it's all the same at some point you know once again get under the hood where you quit looking at things through well what desktop environment did they ship with what icon set did they ship with what GTK theme did they ship with none of that stuff really matters right let's see ADT do you have some opinion about all open source software these days but not under GPO I mean it means without copy left GPO license it's not used too much as before anything that is licensed under a free and open source license it's free and open source software it doesn't have to be GPO GPO it's just one free license but anything that's licensed under BSD MIT Apache the Mozilla public license MPL those are the five big free and open source licenses that most free software license under one of those five they're all considered free licenses you know by the free software foundation they're all considered open source licenses by the open source initiative so as far as is one better than the other I guess it would depend on again the person that's developing that software maybe the purpose of that software nothing's ever nothing's ever one size fits all you said the GPL though is not being used as much as before yeah the GPL is not as popular these days as before I think a lot of that has to do with there's more free and open source software being developed now it's not that not as many people are using the GPL it's just a lot of the new people that are coming to free and open source software typically corporations like Google Microsoft Navel and Facebook these companies that are never going to use the GPL and they're just ideologically you know a corporation does not like licensing under the GPL because the copy left a nature of it they're they're scared to have anything to do with the GPL so that's the big reason why especially these days the Apache license is very popular and the MIT license is very popular that's typically with the big corporations license there free software under GPL is still used by many people you know the small people in the community you know what we think of the free and open source community right but if you're developing free and open source software for an actual corporation they're going to make you pretty much always license it under again you know usually these days the Apache or the MIT license have you ever thought of licensing your videos under creative comments my videos are already licensed under creative comments check any any show description I got the show description on every video like the last line YouTube actually says hey this is licensed under a creative comments license that's one of the things I did several years back was YouTube has an option you can actually as a creator choose to license your stuff as creative comments which is nice that YouTube allows that so because it would kind of suck if YouTube said well you know everything you post on YouTube is ours which they would have every right I mean I'm posting stuff on their servers they're spending a lot of money to host my video and if they said they had the rights to my video me personally I would understand that but I'm glad they at least allow me the option to license it under a creative comments license so it's freely available for everybody to use can Steam Deck bring more games on Linux in the future it's definitely going to it's not can they it's going to having all right guys well we're coming up on the top of the hour let me go ahead and get out of here of course before I go I want to thank the patrons so let me thank these guys here on screen so I want to thank Devin, Gabe, James, Matt, Michael, Mitchell, Paul, Scott, Wes, and Cami, Ellen, Lenny, Sneenish, Chuck, 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