How do THESE guys use Linux? - Linux for Newbs EP 0

if you've been watching Tech influencers lately you might have noticed something a certain subset of these influencers all use the same setup I'm talking about the primagen TJ D and Chris at machine amongst many others now what's interesting though is watching these people use these setups it looks like magic they're all just flying through their workspaces and their windows and their panes and their hands never even leave the keyboard and they seem to move so quick what the hell is this setup well to tell you up front it's essentially Linux a tiling window manager neovim and t-mo and a few other goodies and it's clear that these bespoke tools give these creators insane productivity and guess what it's not that hard to have this setup and I want to show you how to do it so this is the start of a new series in this series I'm going to show you how to install Linux from scratch and we're going to use Arch by the way and we're going to show off neovim t-mo our tiling Window Manager a cool status bar and all this stuff we're going to Rice it we're going to make it look super nice and along the way we'll be exploring Linux and some of the philosophy behind Linux as well so without further Ado welcome to Linux for noobs let's go [Music] nerds now we aren't going to be installing Linux in this episode just yet this episode is more about just showing you these amazing tools how they work together so that we can all get all jazzed up about tiling window managers Linux the customizability of it all and Shucks even neovim and t-u I'm going to show you the amazing productivity boosts you can get with this setup and then in later episodes we're actually going to get into the nitty-gritty of installing Linux installing and configuring and tiling Window Manager choosing a terminal choosing a status bar all that great stuff this is going to be an amazing course and I cannot wait to get into it but first let's talk about our Linux distribution now believe it or not I don't think the actual distribution of Linux is all that interesting in this setup you can use anything you like any mainstream distribution of Linux and get the same results but for me personally I like Arch Linux and let me tell you a few reasons why number one is the rolling release model essentially the rolling release model allows you to update all of your packages to the latest security updates and latest patches that keep everything on your machine at the latest and greatest now some other distributions like auntu red hat have package managers that point to repositories that don't get updated that frequently mostly because they want a long-term sort of structure so that things don't break but the rolling release model is amazing because you can keep everything nice and up to date do you remember that XZ exploit that was found recently in Arch in the rolling release model you can update really quickly and easily to the latest security patch of the software that was vulnerable now to update all my packages it's actually pretty simple you can type something like Pac-Man DS Yu and that will sync all of of our repositories update everything and then every package on our system is going to be up to date and it's just that simple yes so now every package on my machine is at the latest and greatest patched version no more security vulnerabilities no more exploits it's now at the latest and greatest it's pretty cool and another reason to love Arch is the minimalist approach Arch doesn't even ship with a display manager there's no goys when you install Arch you're dropped into the terminal and then you can choose what gooey and what display manager you want and that's great for us because we're not just choosing some random display manager we're choosing a tiling window manager and so that minimalism really helps us out now a third reason to love Arch is the great Community the arch user repository the Aur has amazing packages and it's very well documented it's all really well set up and it just feels very professional and it feels like a nice stable solid Community the arch Community really is great and the last reason I love Arch so much is because I can say I use Arch by the way and that means a lot especially on the internet now there's one downside to Arch and that's always been the case is that the installation can be a little bit difficult Arch is actually kind of notorious for this however it's not that difficult anymore and in the next episode I will show you why it's really not that bad so now let's talk a little bit about the tiling window manager so what exactly is a tiling Window Manager well to explain this let's go over a little bit about like the general Linux stack let's see what that looks like now I don't know if you've noticed but in the past for diagramming we we've been using this company called eraser. and they've actually been partnering up with us and they showed off some new features to us that I think are really cool it's basically Aid driven diagramming which I think is kind of awesome so let's check this out essentially we can type in plain language what we want to put in our diagram so let me just talk about the Linux system in general so we want to generate a diagram that shows the main parts of the Linux system organization there are three parts one is the hardware two is the Linux kernel this includes Process Management memory management and other things and three is the user processes and these include your guy your servers and your shell and we can say that the hardware includes your memory CPU Etc now we type control enter to generate this and let's see what it comes up with okay that's actually pretty awesome now this in general is your Linux system organization and our tiling Window Manager fits right in here in our user processes this includes our guey our servers and our shell so let's make another rectangle titled window managers and it'll include a list including all of the great tiling window managers there's i3wm there's awesome WM there's hyperland which is for Wayland by the way there's sway which is basically I3 for Wayland and don't worry we'll go over what Wayland is in the next episode we're just showing off how these things are set up so let's generate that so now this diagram kind of lays out what we're looking at here we have our GUI our servers and our shell under our user processes and within the user processes that's where we put our tiling Window Manager that's where this gets installed in the Linux stack so to speak and we have a lot of window managers to choose from there's i3wm there's awesome WM there's hyperland there's sweat there's a lot of interesting stuff here my favorite is i3wm it's a little bit Antiquated but it's stable and it works really well and it's also very configurable and the fact that it's a little bit older means that there's a lot of packages that support i3wm again we're going to go over this in the future in another episode we're going to show off how to install it how to configure it all that great stuff but honestly you wouldn't go wrong with any of these choices these are all really great now of course there's another piece to this that we haven't really talked about and that is uh the general like display managers right these include gome KDE and other things so over here let's talk display managers and again these include things like gnome or KDE and essentially what a display manager is is it's part of the user processes but it has a lot more stuff built into it it's not just a window manager a window manager really just manages your windows but a whole display manager comes with a lot of extra built-in features like gnome comes with with gnome settings it comes with other tweaks and other various things that you can use to change the look and the feel of all of your windows and KDE comes with a similar Suite of packages that can change how things look and feel and how you can set up and configure your stuff it also comes with other packages and they're really great but we're not talking about these right now we are getting into the nitty-gritty of actual tiling window managers that's what gives you that feeling that you're just attached to your computer and that you can do anything you want it truly is an amazing feel now to show the difference between these things I actually have a tiling Window Manager installed right here I don't know if you've noticed this but this is where it is now this is i3wm I love i3wm it's my favorite tiling window manager and essentially what a tiling Window Manager allows you to do is have really easy key bindings in order to create Windows and manage windows and panes and all kinds of stuff let me just show you really quickly how this works if I exit my terminal all I have to do is hit mod enter and mod is my option Key by the way and that will open up a new terminal now if I hit mod D it opens up a small program that selects the thing I want it to run so if I type Firefox I can run Firefox right next to it now I can easily cycle back and forth between my two windows in this same window it's super easy to do and it's really fun so now I can open up a new workspace really easily by typing something like I don't know mod 6 now I'm in the six workspace and I can open up something different like Spotify so now I have Spotify on on my sixth workspace I have our diagram on our second workspace and eraser and our third workspace we have a terminal and Firefox so 236 236 it's super easy to go in between all of these windows it takes no time at all so I feel like I'm connected to my computer and I'm just like in there but it truly is amazing and now this is the same computer the same Linux distribution running gnome gnome is a great display management environment it has a lot of great defaults and the windows look really great but this is stacked window management kind of setup where you have to drag and drop all your windows where you want them to be now gnom is really nice but it just doesn't give you that kind of flexibility and freedom a tiling Window Manager gives you and that's why I love tiling window managers so I'm excited to have you join me on this course to show off all of these tools how to install all of them how to configure them so you can get the insane productivity boosts that a lot of other creators are showing off so be sure to subscribe and follow along and hey thanks nerds [Music]

X: https://twitter.com/typecraft_dev discord: https://discord.gg/Zp3d8rcaQH This video is sponsored by https://eraser.io! If you've ever watched tech influencers, you may have noticed something unusual. A small subset of them use a very similar configuration using linux, a tiling wiindow manager -- like i3wm, neovim, and tmux. This is the start of a new series where we install linux from scratch, and configure a tiling window manager, a cool status bar, and way more goodies! So stick around nerds, its going to be a fun one! Chapters: 0:00 - intro 1:18 - The setup we're going to make together 1:55 - The linux distribution 4:30 - The tiling window manager in a linux system 8:02 - Showing off i3wm 9:18 - Comparing with Gnome 9:44 - LETSGO