Linux Crash Course - Desktop Environments

Great video. I have always wanted to be shown the difference between the DE. I'm still new to Linux and am learning my way around. Thank you.

Sir, How can I make my own desktop environment?

Hi Jay.. Can I run Linode on a chromebook?

That you say gooey instead of gee you eye might be the worst thing ever, at least for my brain.

Hm, considering how many de's that are offered in for example debian 12 I was hoping for a bit more than this.. also did you forget workspaces for KDE or does it just not have them? I was also hoping to hear just a smitch on themes.. is it gnome that has the least amount of customisation?

I don't turn on panel edit mode when I add or remove panel applets. Does not seem to need being turned on.

I love touchscreen. Which Linux desktop / distribution do you recommend for touchscreen laptops? I heard Linux does not always work well with touchscreen.

Excellent tutorial thanks. You have the knack of giving clear visual comparison, and I can see how well scripted it is, because I have a better understanding of three DEs and how they differ in three quarters of an hour.

something occurring to me while watching this informative video relates to installing the Plasma desktop environment, if I chose to install it on an existing Linus Mint installation, how might that be accomplished & would I need to reinstall my existing software applications??

Such a great vid. For a newcomer like me, very informative.

Plasma (now that it is stable) is to me the best, most powerful DE you can get. The only feature missing is an "export setting" button that will save me 3-4 days of work on a new system.

XFCE ???
Light but powerful DE
To name a few features that I really enjoy.

-Custom panels that can look like any other environments you demoed.
-Themes, Workspaces with different backgrounds for each workspace.
-Thunar file manager - Custom actions to run custom scripts based on file type
-Clipman clipboard - with actions based on regex rules

I've used gnome and kde. But i love Xfce

No Xfce? I'm absolutely fuming!

"You can use any desktop environment you want, as long as its not Gnome" - Henry Ford

KDE for me. I don't use work spaces because I only have 3 things open all the time. HTOP, Thunderbird and Firefox. And everything I use I pinned on the taskbar.

As always, a thorough and well-presented video.But- I have to quibble with the implication that Cinnamon has to have a discrete GPU to perform well. I'm running it with no issues on a couple of machines with pretty old Core i5 processors with integrated graphics (my desktop is 10 years old, my laptop is 5), and I think my experience is pretty common.

This is an older version of the Cinnamon desktop.

It's a bit of a shame that you didn't include XFCE in your video. Watching it though, it only served to reinforce the validity of the reasons why I chose it over the others. Another aspect that it might have been useful to cover as well is where desktop managers fit in the grand scheme of things. Yes, the distinction between desktop environments and window managers is easier to explain, but I'd have welcomed if you'd have covered desktop managers and the distinctions between them and desktop environments. Case in point: for my daily driver I use the XFCE version of MX Linux, as it's the perfect mix between customization versatility and in-built system management tools, and this particular XFCE desktop environment uses XFWM as the window manager and LightDM as the desktop manager.

I hate to make requests, especially on channels that do such an awesome job... for free. However, I'm very interested in the sponsor you always mention, Linode. I would like to see your process to create a website on that platform. I already have hosting but I am interested in moving to a new host someday.

As far as DE's go, to me, Gnome feels solid with very little in the way of customizability while KDE gives you many options to customize but it doesn't feel "solid." I find KDE to be floaty. I usually always end up back on Xfce. It takes some time to setup how I like it but it always feels rock solid. I never get the random crashes that KDE gives me. I just wish the Xfce Fedora spin was as polished as the Mint Xfce spin.

ANy chance you will be doing an LPIC cert prep series?

Please make an in depth video on 'graphics card and linux', covering every aspect of it in details including optimus technology.

I mainly want an in depth guide on optimus technology, which could cover every possibilities as mentioned in arch wiki. Basic ones such as using optimus manager, or simply making one as primary is easy, but i saw in the arch wiki that thier are so many things we can do with our two cards (please refer to arch wiki), but due to lack of background in such things, i am heck confused :/

Please make a video about it, or maybe a playlist. Its a good start of learning hardwares too :)

(sorry if i made any gramatical or spelling mistakes😐)

jay: you still liking that HP Dev One?? keep the videos llike this coming. also do one on having multiple drives in Linux for windows users who came over to Linux.

Thanks J, good stuff.
I had hard time with i3 & sway, always comboin' ALT+CTRL+F5 then logging in then reading man pages of them, seek key combos that perform a function
then back to CTRL+ALT+F7
But they do save memory & consume little like 300~400MB of ram

Definitely liked more old intro... But thx for new interesting movie

Thank you for the content Jay ❤️

Omg I love the new intro music

I have tried the gnome flavours on Ubuntu and Fedora and am currently using cinnamon with mint, and cinnamon is definitely nicer to use as a Linux noob and lifelong Windows user. I want to try out kde plasma to see if I have a bit more success doing what I want to do. The pain point in mint is having mirrored panels on each monitor, with both having the same menu bar, shortcuts and status bar.

WAY TO MUCH BASS IN INTRO. I had to quickly kill the volume because it started thumping. NOT GOOD.

I would like to see the alternative, Window Managers

Missing xfce as another major desktop environment in this video

You can rename workspaces or virtual desktops in plasma and it got more custom settings for it too

27 Sep to 03 Feb 🙂

no CDE not interested xD

Thank you for your videos as usual.

Absolutely fantastic Video Jay and perfectly presented, as always. GNOME and Plasma are indeed the Giants of the Linux Desktop 💪🙏

Gnome! That looks really nice!

great video as always Jay. thank or the great explanation. much love from Nairobi Kenya.

Great video! And that’s a long time from recording to release.

Thanks for the video but you really do talk too much.

I respectfully request Window manager videos to move to the next level, thank you.

Great content, as always.
I know the channel name is "Learn linux TV".
But it would be good, to have one episode about BSD,
how it's related to linux, and all the history/legacy stuff.
Just to mention, that linux has an older "brother".
People should know, that BSD is almost fully compatible to linux.
Most linux-applications and software runs fine on BSD, without problems.

I like the new intro, thanks for these great information.

Really nice👍

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