Wish list for Scarthgap 6.3.2

[fredx181]

6. Replace YouTubeDL GUI with a yt-dlp alternative (because yt-dlp is an active project).

youtube-dl as used by the GUI, is an active project:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
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Not really active IMO if the latest release is from 2021.

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ytdl-nightly is ok, being updated frequently https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly

[BarryK]

6. Replace YouTubeDL GUI with a yt-dlp alternative (because yt-dlp is an active project).

youtube-dl as used by the GUI, is an active project:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
...

Not really active IMO if the latest release is from 2021.
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ytdl-nightly is ok, being updated frequently https://github.com/ytdl-org/ytdl-nightly

That's right, they have been tardy with the releases.
However, look at the commits, can see it is an active project.
I download from ytdl-nightly, which has the latest.

[pp4mnklinux]

@BarryK , It is very demanding for my knowledge, but for sure you can implement this option in your next EasyOS (I think it is no ilegal or similar).

Some members of my team need some videos for their explanations at university and schools , and they can't download them.

They are registered to this page, but they don't wanna use it at the University because they are not sure about the windows system security and they are not the admins.

We need an adition to use download helper for mozilla firefox ......

https://github.com/aclap-dev/video-down ... recognized

Can u prepare your next distro with it?

Thanks a lot.

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Really easy to solve, you only need to install this .deb package https://github.com/aclap-dev/vdhcoapp/r ... x86_64.deb and you can download with video download helper without problems.

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Hope it helps.

[james2]

I like Barry's basic idea of small and simple easy without turning it into a gigabyte extravaganza.
i would like an easy that has a long life that could be installed after it's not maintained ,and still work.
Am using mint lmde presently and it works good but is turning into a "microsoft and windows feel. Losing freedoms, a bit of a jail, and i don't like TPM and other additions including cross platforming growing and system accessing abilities.
On Easy i would like to be able to turn my files, music, pics, art and inventions, etc into SFS. Am only a PC novice with commandlines etc. I noticed in older editions there was a sfs converter.
If i have to run Easy on it's own pc i will do that to keep it and keep an Easy beside another linux extravaganza on another pc. Running an extravaganza OS beside Easy is to me, a breach of privacy and security and access though file swapping and other downloads is convenient. I don't want to breach what Easy is in it's brilliant basic Idea and function.
An installer would be great. Or DD to partition , could only load it by legacy not ufei on a mini pc with dos . Am yet to learn language for editing etc and have no success installing to partition. Yet to see if my laptop has 2 drive capability than more pc chords. i run easy on usb with pc and laptop and have it installed alone on a mini pc. I have chords everywhere living on the road and camping. Using an Easy for offline work only is also on the cards than having to use a linux extravaganza exposed to the world and it's ills.
Thx all who are able to contribute to Easy by education and time. I'm hooked on it, absolutely love it.

[Stogie]

I like Barry's basic idea of small and simple easy without turning it into a gigabyte extravaganza. ... Am using mint lmde presently and it works good but is turning into a "microsoft and windows feel. Losing freedoms, a bit of a jail, and i don't like TPM and other additions including cross platforming growing and system accessing abilities. ... having to use a linux extravaganza exposed to the world and it's ills.

I went right from Windows to Easy, some years back. Never used Mint, Ubuntu or any other conventional version of Linux (except way back in the 1990s).

So Mint is being crappified into being more Windows-like? Big brother stuff, unexplained connections in the "netstat" listing when nothing's running, privacy concerns, bloat, etc.?

Give some examples if you can, thanks!

If true that's disappointing to hear. And, it makes Easy even more important.

Thx all who are able to contribute to Easy by education and time. I'm hooked on it, absolutely love it.

I also love it. It's so small, fast, simple, zero apparent privacy issues, clean "netstat" listing when I'm not running anything, and it has advanced capabilties. It can run from a USB stick forever with no install, not just running from a USB stick to evaluate before doing an install. No need for an internal HD/SDD to even be present! Works in-RAM with flushing to USB stick only when requested, which eliminates USB stick write-cycle lifespan issues. Can plug that stick into almost any PC and use it instantly, totally portable OS and all your programs and data too with zero effort!

Many more advantages. It's like Puppy Linux but on steroids, and it resolves all the major issues I had with Puppy that prevented me from viewing it as a "real" OS (so to speak).

Barry, do you accept donations for all this awesome work you do on Easy? Just curious.

[james2]

I play with the big boys Stogie. Global assaults. Self defence. Even lightly mentioning of matters gets deleted when i push a post button. I wouldn't go into it all on good Barry's site. There are people here and visit that know and get the gist.
Don't start me on smart phones. And i'm a victim in the decades long matter because of their corruptions on my Family and the public whole. That's why i was forced to bypass being a techie etc. for my own safety. But i know and see the capabilities of things that go into pc's and what programs can use them as tools. iIve been hit importing anything thru AARNET too but no one else will suffer that. Mint has had AAR net marked as untrusted on the occasions of the hits on me thru it. As things work in the corruptions on us, it's a who dunnit mystery of who's the actual culprit by design. I'm comfortable with Easy, it's brilliant, i don't get up to anything bad or corruptions on the net but Easy is a relief. And i love the tech brilliance of it's workings in a world that wants to excell processing people for elitism and class gains and comforts. i apologize to my children for leaving them here.
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[james2]

I would like a way to have my own desktop pictures and a way to make sfs files out of my files and contents.. And ask if there is any literature for the easy commandline chores so i can do some things on my own. I haven't found the search on the forums very accurate with returns and run short of time.

[pp4mnklinux]

I would like a way to have my own desktop pictures and a way to make sfs files out of my files and contents.. And ask if there is any literature for the easy commandline chores so i can do some things on my own. I haven't found the search on the forums very accurate with returns and run short of time.

@Barry guided us about this: Take a look at https://easyos.org/

This is a good starting point .- https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

And, of course, this EasyOS community.- The B3sT 4 sure !!

Have a nice day, @james2

[james2]

Big thx for your trouble @ppkmnklinux, I downloaded the commandline pdf. In the past though, searching, they specifically differ between linux versions.
It is easy to search Mint for a commandline you need as over years the examples have been posted often numerous times via bigger participation and they are simpler. I will go thru the puppy forum for specific chores. Doing that helped me learn basic lines and chores on Mint.

[pp4mnklinux]

I posted for help here viewtopic.php?p=132412#p132412 but I consider useful prepare EasyOS included gimp to open .webp files.

Thanks @BarryK

[Stogie]

pp4mnklinux, see my post about quick-and-easy (with no extra software needed!) batch conversion of WEBP files to JPG or PNG files, here:

viewtopic.php?p=132455#p132455

[Stogie]

Wish list?

1. XFE file manager. Please! I had it on Easy Buster

Quoting my own post so I can report that I just got XFE working on Easy Kirkstone. I copied over the three .DEB files from my Buster machine (the main XFE one, an XFE themes one, and one for the libfox library) to my Kirkstone machine, then in Rox Filer I doubleclicked libfox and installed that package, xfe themes and installed that package, then xfe and installed that package. Or maybe it was libfox, xfe, xfe themes. I can't recall.

Then instead of running xfe from the menu, I typed "xfe" in a commandline instead, and got a missing library notification. So I managed to get a copy of that library and put it in /usr/lib/, and XFE began working, apparently perfectly.

I then went on to get several more .DEB package files I'd copied over from my Buster machine to work on Kirkstone, similarly reading error messages and figuring out what files needed to go where to resolve the problems. Every one of these Buster package files I did that with, I was eventually able to figure out how to get it to work properly on Kirkstone, despite them being "foreign packages" from the point of view of the OE-based Kirkstone.

This experience makes me wonder if maybe on OE-based Easys a clone of the conventional package manager (PKGget) can be made that simply points at the Debian repos instead of the usual OE repos. I mean, I've essentially been doing its job manually. So it seems that might actually work? Could we have OE-based Easy versions with the usual PKGget (that uses OE repos) but also a PKGget-DEBIAN (that uses Debian repos) added too?

Can it really be as simple as adding a second conventional package manager that's aimed at Debian repos? The fact that Barry hasn't done it tells me that it might not be so simple.