Siduction...This Linux Distro Keeps Shining On

today I'm going to be taking a quick first look at the recent release of Seduction seduction for those of you not familiar with this Linux distribution is based on debian's unstable branch which is called Sid hence the name for this distribution seduction right so it's kind of a play on word that's seduction spelled s and this particular distribution is one that I've loved playing around with in the past it's great as far as if you want to install Debian unstable now I've shown you guys how to install Debian unstable using debian's expert installer the in curses installation program that comes with Debian but if you want a graphical way of installing Debian unstable using the Calamar installer seduction may be the right distribution for you now today I'm not going to go over the installation process with seduction because it's just a very plain calamaras installer if you've used the calamari installer on any distribution before you know how that particular installation program works they don't really do any kind of extreme customization with their installer you just download the iso for seduction for the desktop environment you want to use for their isos I believe they offer a few different desktop editions I chose the KD plasma desktop for purposes of today's video but they also have a xfce Edition as well as a LX cute Edition I think the last time I took a look at it I took a look at the LX cute Edition so today I wanted to switch it up I'm going to take a look at KD plasma of course they will be on plasma six so I've already run through a quick installation the installation process takes about 5 to 10 minutes it's your standard Linux installation using the calamari installer now one thing to note when you install seduction obviously here in the KDE Edition you would expect them to be defaulting to a whand session because these days KD plasma defaults to using whand but they're actually using X11 as the display server so what you want to do probably is go head and change over to Wayland now the reason they had X11 as the default they had some issues with the calaris installer on Plasma in a a whin session that's why they were defaulting to X11 but I would probably recommend trying out the whin session unless you have some issues with whin so that's what I'm going to be taking a look at today let's go ahead and log in now this particular version of Seduction they have code named shine on dot dot dot and I believe this particular code name shine on dot dot dot that is the name of a Pink Floyd album so I I guess the person that uh named this obviously is a Pink Floyd fan which I think is kind of neat one other thing with the wallpaper here that is code named you also have a little Santa Claus hat as part of the seduction logo my mouse cursor has become very large which you guys have told me that that is actually a feature now in plasma I I guess I can turn that Mouse Zoom thing off but yeah You' got the holiday themed wallpaper here of course we can change the wallpaper we may take a look at some of their default wallpapers later but for now why don't we take a look at what they install out of the box because obviously seduction although it's based on Debian they are not just shipping you know typically vanilla packages they theme things you know they they tweak Debian a little bit so let's see what they have installed out of the box so I'm going to go into the menu system let's just go through the categories here so under development not much here we have Kate which is our text editor Kate is a really nice plain text editor obviously designed to work in the Kate desktop environment but Kate is so good uh many people use Kate as a plain text editor regardless of what desktop environment you're running Kate has a lot of neat features all all especially if you're a programmer or a scripter it's got all your syntax highlighting and it's got like your side mini map and all of that neat stuff as well already built into it so really neat little text editor under the graphics category we have flame shot wellow so that is a screenshot utility it's interesting that they chose to install flame shot because KDE obviously has its own screenshot utility but they've chose to go with flame shot if you launch flame shot nothing happens it actually is a cyst tray program so you'll have flame shot down here in your Cy tray and when you click on it uh you could have options of you know various things you could screenshot which application which monitor or you could just draw on the screen with the cursor the square or rectangle section of the screen that you're trying to screenshot really neat little utility also under Graphics so we had installed gwy view which is KD's image viewer image magic which is a dependency for a lot of this stuff inkscape is installed as well let's see what version of inkscape We're on these days inkscape is not a program I use very often let's go ahead and open a new document here go into the menu system go to help about inkscape and this is inkscape 1.3.2 so inkscape is for your scalable vector graphics you know your SVG Graphics uh for raster based Graphics you probably want to stick with instead we also have our K color Chooser and our color paint tool that's color with a K these are KD programs K ruler we also have ocular which is your document viewer that's uh basically a PDF viewer and then we have xan which is a scanning utility for those of you that still have need for a scanner and you know some printers still to this day do have built-in scanners if you're one of those people that still use Printing and scanning it seems like that's kind of a a thing of the past nobody really prints and stuff like we used to used to be every single computer was connected to a printer and you everybody was just printing all this paper and thankfully for the environment you know I'm not like a environmental nut but it's it's kind of insane when you think about how much paper we all used to print back in the day under the the internet category we have agregator with a K uh that's your kde's u news feed reader so if you're one of those people that love RSS feeds aggregator is a program for managing that stuff you also have Firefox as your default web browser let's go ahead and see what version of Firefox we're on now this of course is rolling release right it's based on debian's unstable branch which is rolling so it's going to be very bleeding edge software but know this I did not update after the installation so this ISO is about 10 days old there will probably be newer versions to some of these programs right now though the iso shipped with Firefox 133.0 do3 64bit also under the internet category we had IRC now that's a generic name that's actually conversation with a K I'm I'm assuming conversation with a K is the default IRC chat client for KDE let's see if it actually connects to like a default uh support channel for s uction let's see I'm not exactly sure it's actually going to do that or not yeah it's so it's IRC doc.net and the channel name is # seduction so that's neat that when you open it it defaults to a proper seduction support Channel which I I think more Linux distributions probably should do makes it a little easier for people to get support if they need it especially if they're running through like an installation of your distribution and something goes wrong also under internet we had cast with a K I'm assuming that's a podcast application it's just weird how they name these things with a K uh yeah looks like a standard kind of audio player but I guess it's design specifically for uh managing podcast and you've got a bunch of other various K utilities under internet such as your kmail which is a email client you have kg which was a download manager K torrent your bit torrent client yada yada yada a really a lot of small little standard KDE utilities under multimedia we have the dragon player which is your video player and we have Alisa which is your music player we also have Juke with a K also as a music player interesting that they include both Alisa and Juke let's actually take a look at Juke go to help and about Juke and this is Juke version default out of the box we also have k3b which is your disc burning utility so if you're still one of those people that burns CDs DVDs Blu-rays k3b is probably the best piece of free and open source software for burning discs and I I love k3b I install it on all of my computers because I actually still occasionally do have the need to burn disc some other things we have MPV and SM player uh MPV I think is a dependency for SM player but it's interesting that they once again include multiples of things because why do you need these video players if Dragon player really is your default player and it was interesting when I jiggled the mouse around and it'ss big I thought that was a bug the other day I was reviewing a different KDE distribution I was wondering why my mouse cursor kept becoming gigantic I guess that is a like an accessibility kind of thing like if you're uh having a hard time finding your mouse just jiggle it and your mouse will become you know gigantic right that's kind of a neat feature now that I think about it I actually don't hate it under the office category we have a lot of the standard uh K Office application so we have K Mill contact with a k k organizer but we do have the full Libre office suite we have bass Cal draw impress math and writer let's take a look at libbre office writer let's see what version We are on so let's go ahead and dismiss the release notes announcement and about Libre office this is Library office 24842 Library office just fantastic piece of fre open source software one of the most popular pieces of free and open source software on the planet it's basically your free and open source version of Microsoft Office it's not exactly 100% compatible with Microsoft Office but it's really good we also have a science and math category nothing is here except lib office math and then the settings we have the synaptic p package manager which is a standard on Debian based distributions uh this is a kind of a graphical package manager it's not graphical in terms of you don't get screenshots and fancy Graphics or anything but it is a very neat little package manager very powerful it lists all of the programs that are available in the Debian repositories and seduction repositories if they have any of their additional repositories enabled here but you can search packages you can go through the list you can actually do a proper search by clicking the search button over here we can search for example htop if htop wasn't already installed htop is already installed I know it's already installed because it has the check box but if it didn't have the check box I could actually check it on and then go to mark all upgrades and you know run an update of the system and it would install all the things that I would have checked on when I went and searched for programs to install synaptic package manager again it's available on Debian all Debian based distributions you can get it on auntu and auntu based distributions it's typically if I'm going to put a graphical package manager on a Debian or in a boom based system synaptic package manager is typically the one I go get also we have a system category this is going to be a lot of your standard KDE system applications so you're going to have things like uh the Discover software Center you're going to have dolphin of course it's KD's file manager really nice file manager it's got a lot of dependencies and it's very closely tied to KDE the desktop environment so dolphin is not one of these file managers people typically use outside of KDE plasma I wish you know it didn't have so many KDE dependencies because I probably use dolphin you know and some of my window managers and things but it just pulls in too many dependencies also under system we already saw that it had htop installed let's go ahead and launch htop and let's see what we're using as far as system resources it looks like we're using a little bit of CPU 5% 9% it's fluctuating a little bit we shouldn't be really using too much CPU because we're not doing anything CPU intensive at the moment now I do have a few things sitting down here in the Cy tray because I opened some things earlier and didn't close them let me close some of the stuff the Juke uh audio player was still running now as far as memory I gave this virtual machine 6 gigs of RAM to use it is using 2 gigs of RAM so that is interesting as well using a lot of RAM more than I would expect now sometimes a high RAM usage could just depend on the file system type that it's using some file systems are better at using your RAM than others so just because it's using a lot of ram it's not necessarily A Bad Thing it could be a good thing it could be that whatever file system they're using is just really good at putting some of that Ram to use U let me open up the terminal so this is console with a let's actually find out what file system type they were defaulting to because I did the standard Cal mari's installation the automatic install I just let seduction do its thing I'm not sure what file system they're using so I'm going to run a LSB space- F and let's see what we're doing we are using extend 4 as the file system so extend four is not one of those file systems that tends to suck up a lot of ram you know usually you would expect maybe butter FS certainly ZFS can use a lot of ram so it's interesting that it is using extend four and using this much RAM so you know we've got some stuff going on in the background some background services that are really uh using a lot more RAM than I would expect let's see how many programs are installed out of the box on seduction KDE so let's do a APT list space- I for installed so what this is it's going to list out all the programs that are installed that the appt package manager knows about it's going to print these on line by line each package line by line so what we could do here is up Arrow and pipe that information into WC which is the word count program tack on- L for a line count rather than a word count let's see how many lines of output are in apt list-i because however many lines of output are in that that's how many packages are installed on the system so let's run that and you can see 2,934 packages it's a lot of stuff installed right also going to check on pipewire I'm assuming they're defaulting to pipe wire these days so where is pipe wire you can see and there is the location to the pipe wire binary now for those wondering about things like flat packs and snaps they have any of that installed out of the box I wouldn't assume but let's do a quick where is flat pack and see flat pack is available you have user bin flat pack here is there anything installed as a flat pack flat pack list no it's empty so flat pack is installed no flat packs have been installed if you want to use it it's there for you if I did a uh where is snap d uh snap is not installed of course you could always install snapd by doing a pseu appt install snapd let's close out of the terminal here one last thing I want to do is I want to go and search for about I'm going to do about this system because I'm sure people will ask about what exact version of KDE plasma we are on again this is a 10day old ISO I don't know if KD has had any point releases since then but as of the release of this so this was plasma version 6.2.4 using KD Frameworks version 6.8.0 cute version 6.7.2 one last thing I want to check you guys know I'm going to right click on the desktop and I'm going to go to desktop and wallpaper and let's see if they have any cool wallpapers available to us it looks like as far as their own wallpapers as far as the Branded wallpapers all we have is what we're looking at now although it looks like they may have light and dark versions of this wall wallpaper we have the Nexus wallpaper which is like a default plasma wallpaper we have Shine On which is shine on without the christmy logo and then we have shine on with the Christmas logo if I move my head this is the one with the Santa Claus hat and this is the one without and other than that not much else to look at here as far as wallpapers unfortunately go ahead and apply that so there you have it a very quick and Cur first look at seduction the latest release of Seduction code named Shine On Now seduction again uh do you necessarily need to install seduction no for those of you that are comfortable installing Debian especially Debian unstable if that's what you're trying to use if you can go through like the expert installation that I did on camera just a couple of weeks ago I showed you guys how to install Debian unstable you certainly can go that route but if you want something a little bit more straightforward because honestly the seduction Calamar is installation process is very easy to run through you can be up and running in under 10 minutes so it's certainly an option and of course with seduction you know they're going to tweak things a little bit right it's not going to necessarily be all standard default packages and default configurations they're going to tweak some things they're going to make some sensible defaults that you may find to your liking now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank the producers of this episode Matt Steve arm Dragon cap caveman daroff disas George Lee methos Aran Paul peace AR Fedor realities for Less red profit Roland waru and auntu and Willie these guys they're my highest tied patrons over on patreon without these guys this quick first look at seduction would not have been possible the show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen all these names you're seeing on the screen right now these are all my supporters over on patreon 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