DistroTube on Odysee

By DistroTube

DistroTube (DT) is a YouTube channel started by me, Derek Taylor (also DT), in October 2017, where I initially focused on Linux distribution installations and reviews. As the channel grows and I matu... more

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The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.

DistroTube on Odysee episodes:

January 30, 2026 Not Bald Boomer Rants About Bad Weather
A quick update after the ice storm that has left me without power for several days.

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
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🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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January 26, 2026 My Xonsh Shell Experiment Failed! (...Kind Of)
Xonsh (sounds like "consh") is a modern, full-featured and cross-platform python shell. I recently switched to using Xonsh as my default user shell, but I ran into a big problem with it, mainly because I installed it the wrong way!

REFERENCED:
► https://xon.sh/

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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7min
January 23, 2026 The Dank Material Shell - A Wayland Desktop Suite
DankMaterialShell is a complete desktop shell for niri, Hyprland, MangoWC, Sway, labwc, Scroll, and other Wayland compositors. It replaces waybar, swaylock, swayidle, mako, fuzzel, polkit, and everything else you'd normally stitch together to make a desktop.

REFERENCED:
► https://github.com/AvengeMedia/DankMaterialShell

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ILZevPGgJw
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15min
January 19, 2026 The Kensington Orbit Trackball Mouse (Will It Solve My Hand Pain?)
I switched to the Kensington Expert trackball about 5 years ago. I even did a video about it (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaG4sCXTkrw). But recently I have been having a bit of hand pain, and I suspected that the mouse was the problem. So...I decided to try a different Kensington trackball--the Orbit!

REFERENCED:
► https://amzn.to/45eSLvF - Kensington Orbit Trackball Mouse

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZqHn8w0MGg
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12min
January 16, 2026 A Quick First Look At The Niri Window Manager
I'm taking a quick first look at Niri, which is a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

REFERENCED:
► https://github.com/YaLTeR/niri/

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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17min
January 12, 2026 Fair Source Software Is Incredibly Unfair
There is a new "software movement" that seems to be gaining ground. It's the "fair source" movement, and it's quite discriminatory in nature. Sadly, I see some within the FOSS community actually advocating for "fair source."

REFERENCED:
► https://fair.io/

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_L0MNy8Mpg
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16min
January 08, 2026 Qtile On Wayland...It Kinda Works!
I've been using Qtile on-and-off again for probably a decade or longer. Qtile is a full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python. It was originally written for X11 but it does have a Wayland session. Let's try it out!

REFERENCED:
► https://qtile.org/

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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18min
January 04, 2026 Vibe Coding Is The Evolution Of Programming
We have entered a new age of programming. It is the age of "vibe coding," which is using A.I. tools like ChatGPT or Gemini to write your programs.

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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15min
January 01, 2026 'awk' - a programming language for working on files - Video Man Pages
The 'awk command' is really an entire programming language used for working with files and text.

- Print a file (similar to 'cat'):
awk '{print}' path/to/file
OR
awk '{print $0}' path/to/file

- Print the 2nd field of each line:
awk '{print $2}' path/to/file

- Print the last field of each line:
awk '{print $NF}' path/to/file

- Search for lines containing 'string' and print the second field of those lines:
awk '/string/ {print $2}' path/to/file

- Use a different field separator (instead of space) and print 1st and 7th fields with a TAB in between:
awk -F ":" '{print $1 "\t" $7}' /etc/passwd

- Find a specific string in any column:
ps -ef | awk '{ if($NF == "/usr/bin/pipewire") print $0};'
NOTE We search if the last field is '/usr/bin/pipewire' and print the line.

- Search 1st field if it starts with 'b' or 'c', then prints the line:
awk '$1 ~ /^[b,c]/ {print $0}' .bashrc
NOTE The '~' character is the regex match operator.

- Use the 'substr' function to print each record from the 2nd character onward:
awk '{print substr($0, 2)}' .bashrc
NOTE It essentially prints the document but omits the first character of each line.

REFERENCED:
► https://gitlab.com/dwt1/vidman

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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9min
December 30, 2025 'cut' - cut sections from lines of text - Video Man Pages
The 'cut' command is used to cut sections from lines of text.

- Print the third character (-c) on each line:
cut -c 3 /path/to/file
command | cut -c 3

- Print characters 5-10 of each line of a file:
cut -c 5-10 path/to/file

- Split each line using a delimiter into fields, and print fields (-f) 2 and 5:
cut -f 2,5 path/to/file
NOTE The default delimiter is the TAB.

- Split each line using a specified delimiter (-d) and print field 4 and all fields after:
cut -d ":" -f 4- /etc/passwd
NOTE The /etc/passwd file uses colons to separate fields of information.

- Split each line using a specified delimiter (-d) and print field 4 and all fields previous:
cut -d ":" -f -4 /etc/passwd

- Do not print lines that do not contain the delimiter (-s):
cut -d " " -f -4 -s .bashrc

REFERENCED:
► https://gitlab.com/dwt1/vidman

WANT TO SUPPORT THE CHANNEL?
💰 Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/distrotube
💳 Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=MW3ZFGS8Q9JGW
🛍️ Amazon: https://amzn.to/2RotFFi
👕 Teespring: https://teespring.com/stores/distrotube

DT ON THE WEB:
🕸️ Website: http://distro.tube
📁 GitLab: https://gitlab.com/dwt1
🗨️ Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@distrotube
👫 Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/DistroTube/
📽️ Odysee: https://odysee.com/@DistroTube:2

FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE THAT I LIKE:
🌐 Brave Browser - https://brave.com/
📽️ Open Broadcaster Software: https://obsproject.com/
🎬 Kdenlive: https://kdenlive.org
🎨 GIMP: https://www.gimp.org/
💻 VirtualBox: https://www.virtualbox.org/
🗒️ Doom Emacs: https://github.com/hlissner/doom-emacs

Your support is very much appreciated. Thanks, guys!
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FAQs about DistroTube on Odysee:

How many episodes does DistroTube on Odysee have?

The podcast currently has 159 episodes available.