Destination Linux 176: Best Beginner Distros and Stool Merch!

Coming up on this week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re covering community feedback, we’re giving our opinions on the BEST Beginner Friendly Linux Distros, tips & tricks and software spotlight . . . and STOOL MERCH! All of this and much more on Episode 176 of Destination Linux! Topics covered in this episode: 00:00:33 = […]

Coming up on this week’s episode of Destination Linux, we’re covering community feedback, we’re giving our opinions on the BEST Beginner Friendly Linux Distros, tips & tricks and software spotlight . . . and STOOL MERCH! All of this and much more on Episode 176 of Destination Linux!

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Topics covered in this episode:

00:00:33 = Intro to DL17600:00:49 = Last Airbender of Linux00:02:20 = What Michael has been up to00:04:04 = What Ryan has been up to00:07:43 = New “Active Sitting” Merch (Stool Shirts)00:09:56 = Sponsored by Digital Ocean00:11:57 = Community Feedback about Audio on Linux like PulseAudio JACK Alsa00:16:59 = Best Beginner Distros00:43:09 = Raspberry Pi 4 with 8 GB RAM00:59:58 = Hardware Addicts: Ryan vs Wendy00:49:03 = Google Stadia00:54:32 = Software Spotlight: Weather Apps for Linux00:58:28 = Tip & Trick: Bash Shortcuts (Community Submitted)01:00:58 = Become a Patron of DL (Watch Live Unedited Versions & More)01:01:28 = Join the DLN Community (Forums Telegram Discord & more)01:02:13 = How to Send Community Feedback01:02:38 = DLN Store: Stool Merch & More01:03:36 = Where To Find Our Other Content01:04:31 = Active Sitting DVDs (apparenty lol)01:05:18 = The Journey Itself . . .01:05:26 = Outtake 101:05:48 = Outtake 201:06:12 = Outtake 301:06:26 = Outtake 401:07:14 = Switching to the Patron Post Show

Our Picks for DL176

Software Spotlight:

Weather Apps because geeks don’t go outside it’s important we have a good weather indicator on our computers. Here are a few to check out:

GNOME Weather:Backend: libgweatherForecast Length: 5-dayHourly conditions: YesLocation Search: YesAuto-location: YesMeteoBackend: OpenWeatherMapForecast Length: 5-dayHourly conditions: YesLocation Search: YesAuto-location: YesOr from the Terminal like a real geek usingcurl https://wttr.in

Tips & Tricks:

Hello all,

First time listener, I caught your most recent podcast regarding, and heard you mentioning little useful terminal command. Ctrl+L is an interesting one I’ve never heard before. Much like the others, I don’t see myself needing to hide my terminal lol, but my haste tends to cause me to typo ‘clear’ so that’s useful.

You also mentioned Ctrl+U and I actually use that a lot, but mostly with Ctrl+Y which returns the previous line that disappeared with Ctrl+U.

This can be useful for, if example, you’re about to run a series of commands on a target directory, and already wrote out the command. Instead of typing the absolute path each time, you can Ctrl+U after you’ve already typed out the command, change to target directory, and then press Ctrl+Y to return the typed out command.

It’s a small thing, but there are plenty of times where this allows you to complete a missed step without having to clear what you wrote.

I enjoy your podcast, and will probably keep listening!

Steven