Moving along, I found a very very simple screen capture/recording application that seems like it will meet my recording needs: Kazam. Very few options... you can select the output type, location and where you want sound recorded from. Boom.
Now I just need to find a decent video editing tool. I am tempted to see if I can install my windows tool in Wine, but... let's see if there are any super-simple drag and drop tools out there already.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Elementary OS
Well, despite my attachment to Steam on Windows, I decided to shift back to Linux. I did a little research and, while I appreciate the efficiency of Slack, Arch or some other distro, I went with a little more flash and simplicity at the same time.
Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution. It has a strong following and a solid development community (I donated money for the download to help keep that alive).
Elementary OS is designed to look somewhat like Mac OS X, but not quite... it borrows elements.
It had been a few years since I had last used Linux of any flavor (or BSD for that matter) but so far it has been relatively painless. The download was quick, and I was able to push the ISO onto a small USB stick, boot into it and kick off the installation process.
Installation was simple but I wish they had a simpler process for allocating mount points; I have a pretty messed up set up, but that is all on me, not the fault of the distro. Anyway, after several clicks the installation process plowed through and the system rebooted, I pulled out the USB stick and I had a full blown version of Elementary up and running on my PC.
The next part that took most of the day was getting it configured (read app installs) to the way I wanted it. This included installing Wine/PlayOnLinux so I could install my favorite games: Diablo 3 and Star Stable Online. Believe it or not it was pretty painless and I have both games running... and in fact, SSO runs BETTER in Wine than it did on Windows 10 with all UI options checked. Weird. Diablo 3 is a little stuttery at times, but fully playable.
I still need to do some tweaking so I can record and such... but at the time I am writing this I am listening to Pandora, texting my daughter on Skype and earlier created a presentation for a Sunday school class... pretty much anything I need or want to do on my PC is here... and in fact the development environment is better than Windows.
Well that is it for me for now. I will try to update soon.
Elementary OS is an Ubuntu-based distribution. It has a strong following and a solid development community (I donated money for the download to help keep that alive).
Elementary OS is designed to look somewhat like Mac OS X, but not quite... it borrows elements.
It had been a few years since I had last used Linux of any flavor (or BSD for that matter) but so far it has been relatively painless. The download was quick, and I was able to push the ISO onto a small USB stick, boot into it and kick off the installation process.
Installation was simple but I wish they had a simpler process for allocating mount points; I have a pretty messed up set up, but that is all on me, not the fault of the distro. Anyway, after several clicks the installation process plowed through and the system rebooted, I pulled out the USB stick and I had a full blown version of Elementary up and running on my PC.
The next part that took most of the day was getting it configured (read app installs) to the way I wanted it. This included installing Wine/PlayOnLinux so I could install my favorite games: Diablo 3 and Star Stable Online. Believe it or not it was pretty painless and I have both games running... and in fact, SSO runs BETTER in Wine than it did on Windows 10 with all UI options checked. Weird. Diablo 3 is a little stuttery at times, but fully playable.
I still need to do some tweaking so I can record and such... but at the time I am writing this I am listening to Pandora, texting my daughter on Skype and earlier created a presentation for a Sunday school class... pretty much anything I need or want to do on my PC is here... and in fact the development environment is better than Windows.
Well that is it for me for now. I will try to update soon.
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