Bitchute Needs Our Help

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[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

youtube-DLG is just a gui front end for youtube-dl

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

I take you like the code version for some reason? I've never tried it. Don't even know how to image using it. I like my simple GUIs, though I have a big list of requests/improvements I'd love to see. I need to finish it and finally share it with them.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Those options you may be looking for may be in the terminal version. Typically gui's only include the more basic options.

I can tell you for sure that youtube-dl's help page is quite a long read. It has a lot of functionality.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Good to know! I should read it before submitting my list. I need to get my Notepad++ working properly again first, then find it.

IMO, ideally, any good GUI should have basic, advanced, and expert modes to meet the variety of user types. Few even have basic and advanced. For the most part I'd hang in the middle.

Here's one of the worst things: When it closes (for whatever reason(s)), you forever lose the cue list of videos not yet downloaded. I'd like to see it reopen with the list-in-progress intact. I'd also like to set up multiple sorting filters to multiple directories. The GUI only does one folder at a time.

Beyond that the whole interface needs an overhaul to be pragmatic, ergonomic, and conform to typically established interfaces. It's actually peculiar in many ways. Now knowing those ways I know how to use it and its limits, but there shouldn't be that much of a learning curve. Also, there's absolutely no use of colour which can indicate a LOT of things.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

IMO, ideally, any good GUI should have basic, advanced, and expert modes to meet the variety of user types.

True... but that is a lot more work to program. You want to add more functionality to a command line program, you just add it. You don't normally have to re-code other parts that often. And lets face it.. the expert user is going to use the command line version. Its easier to call that functionality that way (if you know how).

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I agree. But for non-specialized, well-known, common things like browsers, text editing, image editing, playback, etc. it should be extremely doable and I'd warrant popular.

I OFTEN think Silicon Valley's agenda is to intentionally dumb down the plebs - much like the schools and media are meant to.

It's time for me to quit procrastinating and return to Linux full time after 22 years.

[–]whistlepig 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

It has changed A LOT in the last two decades... to say the least. I'm a graphic designer, not some uber 31337 haxor, so let me say that switching to linux is typically no harder than switching to mac. If you're knowledgeable enough to have messed with it 22 years ago, then I think "procrastinating" is the correct word here. ;]

also.. steam makes most windows games work easy. And I run my adobe programs in virtualbox with no problem, so you don't even need to screw around with wine. You can even get a free already put together virtual machine of windows that microsoft provides so you don't even need to waste time setting that up.

Yep.. I've read enough of your comments to know where your head is so I imagine you are aware of how much more spying win10 is doing. Time to quit procrastinating. ;]

ps.. start with some ubuntu derivative. Don't do Kali. That one is a special purpose OS that is made to run on a flash drive.

[–]JasonCarswellDAT Mod[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

As a 3D computer animator I used Unix from 1994 to 1998 or 1999 and a bit in 2003. I used it for a while again in 2013. Last year I started a Mint box, but I really need to dedicate myself and get more monitors to have my several systems going at once to gradually migrate over and gradually develop a work flow type thing (I also have to find the Linux version of my preferred programs).

My greatest fear is the permanence of mistakes and ignorance in avoiding or fixing them. At least in the shells.

I also want to go 100% open source if I can and dedicating myself to GIMP, Inkscape, and Blender will be a big learning curve and pain.

I don't do games.

I'm on Win7. Won't go 8 or 10, ever. I don't like spying but I've nothing to hide either. I'm an open book. The "worst" thing about me to the authorities is already all here on SaidIt and beyond - my ideas.

Money is my biggest hurdle. And considering the world, I don't see that changing soon.

Kali is for hardcore or hacking. I've done Ubuntu but don't like them anymore for many reasons, including political. I'm going Mint, though I'm not quite sure which. I think Cinnamon. Unless there's something new in the last year. I think many can be on flash drives now. I just need a newer box that can boot off USB - that old box was great for CG in 2009, but has limits.

[–]whistlepig 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

scary.. we're like brothers ;]

I also did a lot of 3d in college and a little after but was never able to make it a career. Went to scad, class of 96. Used Wavefront and Softimage on irix. First tried slackware in 95 when a friend told me about it. Was useless for a graphics person at the time. Finally made the switch to linux in 2007 when ubuntu was hot and it was all pretty usable for a graphics person.

Gimp and Inkscape are good, but you really want to check out Krita. Krita is the effin' bomb these days. It does different color models like photoshop, works well as a vector program as well as bitmap, painter brushes/tools and a great interface for stylus use. Blender is a very powerful 3d program these days. I haven't kept up with commercial 3d programs, but blender presently is way better than anything that existed 15 years ago.

But yea... its all a learning curve. The more so the longer we use the programs we are use to. But I strongly urge you to try out Krita. Its multi-platform of course.

I'm an open book.

I get it... but it isn't hard to have both a private and a public version.

I guess I still think of Mint as being an Ubuntu derivative.. but I do think they changed to building off of Debian a couple years ago. They Cinnamon is good for windows users, but I wouldn't worry about it. It is easy to install and run a bunch of different desktop and windows environments in the same linux install. You just install them with the package manager like any other program and then choose it in login screen. I'd just install it on whatever box you got available to get started. And on a real drive. USB is slow.