The original Rocks n Diamonds review was the third video I made for the channel and the first Open Source game I had ever reviewed. It's what gave me the idea of d...
2020-12-17 19:03:29 +0000 UTC View Post
I've talked about making a game for a loooong time. That PhaserJS video I did years ago was actually driven by my desire to make a game. And now here we are!
I'm calling th...
2020-12-14 14:35:16 +0000 UTC View Post
This video started out as an idea to remake the original review using the subtitles as a script.
Unfortunately, the voice over for that video was aimless and too rambley fo...
2020-12-13 21:46:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I've wanted to do something like this for a long time. As a fun little treat for finally passing 1000 followers on Twitter, I thought now might be a good time to do something like this.
It's a bit more like a music video bec...
2020-12-06 06:15:19 +0000 UTC View Post
This video has a funny story.
I originally wrote it to be a huge punch at Kdenlive, specifically, why I use 18.12 instead of the mess that it 20.08.
When I was preparing the voice over, I decided that rather than attacking it, why not ...
2020-12-04 17:56:50 +0000 UTC View PostGah I meant to ask this yesterday!
I've been too darn busy with life & work stuff to research interesting distros to test so I've been picking from DistroWatch.
I pulled these OS's from the Distro Delves Github. Lemme know which on...
2020-12-02 15:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Garuda Linux was a weird one! Probably the most fun I've had testing a distro...
In many ways, it feels like a more daring Manjaro. I don't know if I would recommend Arch or Manjaro users to it, though, because it's still pretty rough around...
2020-11-29 17:45:53 +0000 UTC View Post
I have a simple rule on Twitter - if an artist shows up in my feed and I like their artwork, I will follow them.
I'm not even sure where I found Jupi (@starwhiskers).. probably a retweet? But I'm so glad I did because her artwork is beautifu...
2020-11-23 13:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
I remember Endless OS being super cool but this release was really underwhelming.
Looking at the release notes, they actually removed a lot of features that were in the previous version such as their custom "Exploration Center" browser home ...
2020-11-22 18:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Linux Lite takes the cake for the most underwhelming Linux distro release I've ever used. Maybe not the most underwhelming distro every, but definitely for a new release.
I had pretty low expectations because Linux Lite 4.x was kind...
2020-11-08 13:51:32 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had the Subaru for almost a month and I've been telling myself to make a video about it already. But I haven't made a video like this in quite a while so I didn't know exactly where to start.
The parking lot was mostly dead (at first), ...
2020-11-03 17:12:59 +0000 UTC View PostOn Tuesday, our VCS provider sort of imploded and we stayed up late to recover it. It was quite an event but we pulled it off without any downtime.
Last night I successfully deployed a massive but risky network infrastructure change. It caus...
2020-10-29 18:11:43 +0000 UTC View Post
tl;dr Ubuntu Kylin is a weird GTK/Qt hybrid with few redeeming qualities when compared to contemporaries such as Deepin.
Between the networking issues and poor styling, I don't really even see a point in Ubuntu Kylin at all ...
2020-10-24 00:16:03 +0000 UTC View PostI've wanted to get back into non-tech content (cars, guitars, maybe vlogs, etc) for a long time. 2019 & 2020 have been rough and I haven't done much outside of Linux tech stuff.
I've had my other personal-ish 2020-10-21 18:14:38 +0000 UTC View Post
It's going to be slow at work next week so I'm going to work on a new feature-length Distro Delves episode!
How about you guys pick the distro?
2020-10-18 02:00:53 +0000 UTC View PostI got the feeling from this community post that people think feature episodes have been replaced by Live Strea...
2020-10-15 12:55:22 +0000 UTC View Post
I get asked this question in Twitter DMs, Discord, and YouTube comments all the time. Not sure why people are so interested in the Linux distribution I use but here's the answer:
Solus 4.1 with Gnome
I used K...
2020-10-09 12:00:01 +0000 UTC View PostThe trusty Distro Delves PC had another hardware failure and I spent about an hour trying to track it down. This time, it is either the motherboard, cpu, or possibly the psu.
Debugging hardware issues like these just isn't a good us...
2020-10-08 19:48:48 +0000 UTC View PostI've had a draft of this post written for a while and I've received payment for my last invoice so now I can talk a little bit about the project.
tl;dr it was an interesting & enlightening experience. And while I'm...
2020-10-02 19:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Unity will always have a place in my heart, especially after producing this episode.
It is such a slick Desktop Environment and it is a crime that Canonical just unceremoniously axed it.
The current evolution of Unity is quite...
2020-10-01 03:12:49 +0000 UTC View PostI've been failing on the whole "Work Life Balance" thing. I haven't even picked up my guitar since the last IRL live stream on YouTube ðŸ˜.
I have a backlog of ideas and things planned, not to mention post drafts that I need to finish, but ...
2020-09-30 21:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostEgee will be coming to life by the end of the year.
That is all.
EDIT: this was 2020 RIP
2020-09-25 13:24:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Yep, its the same person/company as last time.
I'm very happy to hear that this is their final offer!
2020-09-21 16:17:39 +0000 UTC View Post
This video was super weird to make!
I've been producing Distro Delves videos for nearly a year and my delivery style is very tailored to riffing about Operating Systems. And coding videos are not that.
I also produced this vid...
2020-09-20 23:32:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode 50 features possibly the "best" Linux distro on Distro Delves so far. Peppermint OS passed every test on the checklist!
I'm honestly quite blown away. English Bob used to rave about this stupid Linux distro. I used ...
2020-09-20 01:10:47 +0000 UTC View PostIt seemed like a cool idea at first...
What am I saying? It is a cool idea and I'm ending it to replace it with something better:
It's really just a more formal title to the Saturday Stream ...
2020-09-19 01:38:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Still playing with the typeface and placement but here are the almost-finished logos!
There are two main logos - a primary and an alternate. I originally just wanted one but the old-style logo with the CRT and the Tux plushie was just too go...
2020-09-15 21:09:36 +0000 UTC View Post
I admit - I feel a little bad for the Drauger OS developer here. But c'mon, he clearly didn't do enough testing with his Linux distro.
The only other distro with lots of bugs out of the gate like this was OpenMandriva but Drauger is orders o...
2020-09-12 23:33:04 +0000 UTC View PostI originally inteded to write a post here on Patreon for each commission I get done but unfortunately, I've fallen pretty far behind.
As I figure out what to write about for each commission I've wondered if it would be valuable to people if ...
2020-09-11 16:41:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Ahh!! I just wanted to tell somebody!
I've been working on the site(s) for a loooong time and egee.xyz just sort of fell into place last weekend.
There's still a tiny bit more work to do (specifically on the OC's page) but I'm super ex...
2020-09-10 17:42:46 +0000 UTC View Post