Okay everybody here now. So today we're gonna share like a pretty casual walk through and discussion of WordPress 6.1 and how the release is coming along. So just a few housekeeping items to start us off. This call is being recorded and we'll have a make WordPress core blog post in a few days. The call should also be on WordPress TV and I believe our WordPress YouTube channel too. So just give us a few days to get those links up and shared. We also have live captioning I believe and a text transcription enabled. So for the folks attendees following you can use the Q&A question and answer option in your zoom menu bar. You can also post over at the walkthrough channel on WordPress Slack if you have questions and we'll have a Q&A session toward the end of this call to kind of cover everybody's questions. So hey I'm Justin Tadlock. I'm a developer advocate. I focus on like our WordPress communities developers and extenders and we have several people from the WordPress 6.1 release team and I just want to do a quick thank you for everybody joining us for our core tech co-lead Dave Baumwald and Jeff Paul, editor Triage, Nick Diego, on the design team, Rich Tableau, themes Sarah Norris, release coordinator and our note taker today Jonathan Desrosiers. If I got your name right I hope I did. And our lead project architect is Matthias Ventura. So in a moment I'm going to give the mic over to meet Matthias and he'll discuss like the main goals and features of 6.1 then we'll have our panelists introduce their sales and share a comment or two about their role and the release and like interesting things they're working on. And then after that section we'll do the Q&A. But so Matthias you're ready to kick things off? Sure thank you. Hello everyone. Let me get things started. I'll jump straight into it. Last time we've run a bit out of time so I hope I don't derail too much into into conversations. So the first thing is to do a quick recap of what was the plan for 6.1. We had planned work on the main template editor on patterns, global styles, block design tools and there was this sort of appendix about gradual adoption of these tools. And that ended up being the theme for at least the Gutenberg side of the work for 6.1. There's been a lot of refinement, consolidation and expansion of the features. And so if we jump into it, we're again packing about 11 releases that right now that amounts to around 360 updates and 370 block themes on the plugin. We'll probably have a bit more once the latest releases come out and during the beta period. So I'll jump straight into the one that's most exciting probably, which is the new default theme 2023. And 2023 is going to look kind of like just this white theme by default, but the beauty of it is going to be in the style variations that it packages. That was a pretty fun, like the first time that we did this sort of call to the community to submit styles for a default theme. So it's really pushing what the features that we introduced, I guess theme JSON was 5.9 or maybe 5.8 even. I don't remember, but it's been a it's been a couple of releases. And this thing really pushes that to its almost. So let's just right now we have these, I guess it was 10, but I don't see nine. I don't know. Anyways, so these style variations just drastically change everything in the theme. It's pretty fun. You might see that we have a bug here in trunk, which is the query loop is supposed to be full width. But I'm running trunk where we added the latest feature, which is this thing where you can just align. And we don't have like something is wrong there that is not making it full width. So I guess it's supposed to be something like, is that correct, Sarah? I think it's it should be something like this. Yeah, that looks right. Okay. So anyways, we'll just play with it there. Going to jump. This is not probably not making it into 6.1, but this is you can toggle this in the plugins and experimental mode. But it's really nice to see the it's fun to do with the style variations because you see more of the whole thing at once. So the idea here is just to like again showcase a lot of variety in all the styles, buttons and so on. This one is quite nice. It works with like smaller sized titles, but it's and this is the default. Quite like this one, which is like just default it's like lower case typography, all the same size. That's quite interesting. It's nice that there's actually like an animation between the transitions between the styles. And of course, the cool thing about style variations not being just CSS is that the user would always be able to pick the one they want, but actually get to modify exactly all the details if they want to. So that's tricky. It's actually switches to this pattern. Yeah, so this layout is not that bad. So this is I guess there's still some work being done on the templates and whatnot. I was seeing the see the front end here. Yeah, I don't know if we want to, for example, like if the default template is going to crop the feature images. So it's all aligned because otherwise we have this sort of staircase thing. There are some details there on the on the thing that I guess will be polished, but it's pretty cool to just see the amount of change that you can get just with the with the style variations. Any any any reactions so far to this? I'll start jumping into the next pieces. Because we have a lot to cover. So when the next step that is important to highlight, we had the template editor introduced before. This time there's a ton of new templates being added. This was possible to do from a if you just open the theme folder and modify the code, but now it's exposed to users in a match. You can create custom templates. Directly you can create a template for a specific post type. You can pick the post you want to create a template for. This is really I'm really excited about this because it really opens up a lot of the power of WordPress to any user. Now if you want to say, I don't know, you have a special category of travel and you want to create a template for that category, you can do it. And there's another improvement here. Let's see if we create one. Yeah, so before when you were creating a template, it will start completely blank. Now it loads the most relevant template for this. In this case, it was the archive. So it's using you. You're modifying the tag template, but it's using the archive type as its basis. So you don't need to start from scratch. Obviously here in the future, we'll probably have different starting points. Like the same way that we have patterns when you create a new page and so on. You know, remove these. I think you just did a cool post sort of reviewing all the new templates. There's quite a bit to dig through there. So if people want to check that out because we have page specific templates, custom post types, taxonomy based templates and so on. The other really cool thing. In this release, we're going to have a lot of developer focus tools as well. So to sort of leverage a lot of this stuff. Shampoos quickly into that. For example, in 6.0, we introduced the this started pattern. So if you register a block pattern with and you're restricted to these block types, so it only shows on post content. When you were creating a new post, you would get to choose a or a new page. You would get to choose a starter pattern. Now that's open up to any post type. So you can, if you have a custom post type, you can restrict a pattern to a specific custom post type and also the post content. So that would allow you to imagine you have a book or something and when you create a new book, you will see like these are the patterns for books and only for that custom post type. I think that's going to be a pretty cool flow for people to hook into. So the other one, we have improved the locking tools a lot and I'll quickly show some of that. This is like the next step of locking and what it does is here I have a full block. That's like a full pattern, but it feels like I cannot really do anything to mess up the design. Like if you see the block tools, I don't have movers. I cannot remove. I cannot really do anything with this. I can only just replace the content from my media library and so on. But I cannot do like again anything to the, let's find one that's taller. I cannot really get rid of stuff. I can modify the text force, but I cannot do even here. It's only, again, I have access to alignment, bold and so on, but nothing else. And the cool thing is that if you open the, the insertor, it's like, it feels like it's like its own set of things. So you can jump between the elements of this pattern quickly. And the only access you have again is to these things that get exposed. So this is, you can imagine this as a really nice way to create custom logs in a sense. Like especially if you like this is now open up for the pattern directory. So you can create a pattern where again, everything is locked down and you get this sort of experience. So you don't need to dive into code at any point to create these kind of patterns. I have a few others. Yeah, so this pattern is from like the the directory. And again, you get access to like, again, some of these tools, but nothing, nothing else. I think this one is pretty, to me, it's pretty exciting what we, what we can do with this. I think in the future, we want to expose like a few other style properties here said you want to allow, I don't know, some colors for the, restrict the amount of colors, but still allow them for some of these that should also be, should also be possible. And let's see if I, and right now it's not exposing this set of tools, but it will be here for like admin users and so on. I'll skip this one. This is a briefly show there, but it essentially allows you. Yeah, so this before like, if you were locking many blocks at once, it was a bit painful because you had to go like one by one. Now you have access to this, that you can apply the locking properties to all the blocks inside so you can quickly create this stuff. Oh yes, this is, we're bundling now a few header and footer patterns. These patterns are specific to, let's go back to this side. So these patterns are specific to template parts. So here I have my header and if I go to replace header, I can see these are all bundled patterns, so I can quickly swap out, say like, I actually prefer this header and users. These are right now bundled in core. The idea is that this will be just surfacing the pattern directory, but they affect only the semantic template parts, right? So in case the header and the footer also has, yeah, so you have like some specific footers and these are using like relevant blocks, like the site logo, site title, your navigation and so on. So it's pretty nice. Footers, we already went through these. Cool. So the other area where there's been a lot of work is in design tools. I really like the, actually let's see if we switch to the one that have the gigantic font. This one, yes. Well, the other thing is like, again, I replaced the header thing and it still like, still works with a like style variation. So you can start to imagine all the combinations that you can do. Well, I wanted to check here. Yes. So if we go to, yeah, mobile or table, like the, we have some of the fluid typography working there and fluid typography is enabled. The theme has to opt in into it, but the cool thing is that the theme doesn't need to define, it can define its own boundaries like max and minimum size, but it works for user values as well, which is really nice. Spacing presets, this is improvements to existing tools. So let's see if we have the, let's check merging. Yeah. So here, like now the spacing tools like go in increments, like a theme can define the sort of the presets that it's using.  You can stay within the boundaries. And if it's open up, you can always like go into like custom values, but I think can control this, which is called spacing presets. I'll keep going fast because, but please anyone, if, if I went too fast on something and someone who has a question or a thumbs in to point out, let me know. We have other border tools to a couple of blocks. So images. And while I'm here, you see like you can achieve these effects, but there's also seeing, so images can have borders. And if we do it to the, it's interesting. Okay. There it is. There's some weird back there on selection because I'm adding it to the future image, so it should be adding it to all of them, but it's only showing on selection for some reason. It's fine. And columns as well got access to border properties. There's also some work on elements. Elements is like a new API that defines things that are relevant across blocks. So some obvious ones are like captions where you can have them on images and videos and galleries and so on. Buttons as well. So these are right now, captions are not exposed to users just yet, but you can control them through theme JSON. So you can ensure that image, image captions, anything else that they all look like you want to. And it will be unlocked in mobile styles in the same way that we have links, text, headings. You will see one for, for captions here. And I have a lot of effort went into consistency in, in this release. And that meant we used to have many blocks that were exposed in some, but not all the tools in typography colors and so on. So there was, there's been a lot of work in and, and I really mean like a lot of work because there's, yeah, there's a lot of pull requests merge, just consolidating these design tools in blocks so that you get the consistent and, and more familiar experience. Oh, and hover states were also added for both links. And what else did we add them? I think it's not here, but it might be button. We have it on buttons. Okay. Yeah. So there's support for hover states and focus states and in buttons on links, but I cannot access it now. So that's more or less the same tools. There's one more that's important. And this is more relevant for, for classic themes. There's a new theme support that people cannot team to that is out theme support for appearance tools. And that would allow you, if you're not using a theme JSON file on a classic theme to still expose a lot of these design tools to blocks, if you want to. That's part of the, the gradual adoption milestone. And another one that people were really asking for was consolidating the classes output on blocks. So again, container classes, layout classes that showed now show up on the front end. That that was also a big part of the part of the effort in the 61. Where was I? Okay, blocks. What time? Okay, we're fine. Before you stray too far, I can point you to where the hover states are. I think it's a really cool feature. So if you go back to the site editor. And then you go to the global styles and then under colors. There you go. And then if you click on buttons and links. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, I was, I was expecting that we were also exposing it on, on the blocking instances. Right. So we're not fully integrated through everything, but it isn't there. Yeah, we need to and on group blocks. I was also trying to find it. Right. But yeah, it's like one step at a time. Yeah. So here, and you can see here, like again, I don't have a hover, but I'll put a hover and then you'll see that you get the two color circles as well. And the same for buttons. I guess here in buttons, we could actually probably fix this. In buttons, it's not showing. Yeah. The color background. I guess buttons still, buttons has it, but I guess only on the theme Jason is not exposed on the UI just yet. But yeah, it's like, that's one, one example of like the consolidation stuff that is, there's a lot of volume to, to consolidate. Thanks for shining. So for blocks, well, let's talk like quickly about the one of the big ones, which is that quotes and lists now support nested blocks, which is pretty cool. Like the, especially on quotes, that was a big limitation that you couldn't have images or lists inside quotes. So sometimes even when you were transforming classic content, it would fail because you might have nested content that wasn't supported. And for leases, the same thing. The other thing that it allows is now you can just again, reorder list items because each item is again a block. So you get access to all of them. There are some, still some refinements that need to happen on the writing experience, like with a keyboard, like because sometimes it focuses on the, on the block wrapper that we need to address. But it's like these were some of the longstanding pending improvements is 5.0 even to have all these supports on, on quotes and lists. The other thing that improved a lot and some of that was visible here. Let me see. Yeah. So if we add a, let's add an image. Yeah. So if you have, like the image placeholders have all been updated and they have the, so before, if we had this thing just with the outline, in some cases, it would be hard to visualize it. So now if you have it inside a cover, there's this blur out effect. So you can go here and select the image. So placeholders in general have been addressed and improved quite a bit. The navigation block is a, let's remove this one and add a new one. Where am I? I messed up the color. Let's have a navigation here. Yeah. So now the navigation in most cases is just going to work. It's going to pull from the most relevant navigation that you have. Before when you inserted an empty navigation, you would have this weird placeholder thing. This is, there's been a lot of work on that. There's still some pending work on the navigation block, which is again, you can, it's, we have some more stuff exposed here. Yeah. So you can select the menu from here and so on. But it's the placeholder was a pretty big, a pretty big issue before that it was showing in that weird state. So that's pretty cool. Let's move on. This feature image on blocks is just quickly. Again, there are some cases. Let's restore the header I had. Yeah. So if I'm using this one. Yeah. So now you can use the feature image on like the, like we have it on cover and stuff, but you can also use it on, I guess, if we wish us insert after cover. Yeah. You can select to use the feature image by the pole there. So that would be set up already for you. Prioritized transform. This is super recent. It's not even on one of the releases just yet. Let me see. So let's add some text. So the prioritize transform is that now headings list and quotes and paragraph are all going to be at the top all the time. This started to get a bit out of hand as we added a lot more transforms. You may end up with, I don't know, a block that wasn't easy to transform into a heading because you just ended up with all these options. So these basic transforms are now always going to be at the top just to simplify the writing experience. So from list back to paragraph and so on. So these basics are always there. This is an anxious quality of life improvements to the way that the post content and so on, the templates are presented if we go to single. Yeah. So these, the content of these blogs post title on the content was before was just saying post content. Now it's like it actually has a few paragraphs so you can more correctly guess what it what it's doing. The query block itself got a lot of improvements. So what one that I'm really like glad we finally got to is the exposing the so one of these is the so the query block is actually now registers all these variations like post list. And if you have some custom post type, it should also be available. So you can, you don't need to like a user doesn't need to figure out what a query is. They can just insert the post list and they can also start from one of the patterns. By the way, if we're taking notes, we should point out that the is really underwhelming the patterns we have for query. We should have some nicer like block patterns here. And they are all like fairly image heavy. Like it'd be nice to have some without feature images, I think. But anyways, like this is the this is all powered by the query, but it's exposed as post list and it only deals with the post post types. So and and this is again offered for all custom post types and developers if you have will products or portfolio items or whatever it is, you will be able to discover this. The same for taxonomies. I don't have anything registered here. But yeah, like categories list. These are all auto generated from a general taxonomy list. So if you have different taxonomies created, you will get access to these blocks by their name by the taxonomy name as variations of the taxonomy block or you are sure because I'll skip that. Okay. Yeah. And the last one I wanted to mention here on on depth tools is the we're opening up. We're adding filters for theme JSON for all of the stuff that theme JSON is doing. We're adding some low level filters for developers so that you can essentially interact with the theme level of stuff with the block level of stuff and with the user level of stuff. Like it's a because the how how we end up computing this is what the thing what work process it should be what the theme says it should be what the blocks as it should be and what the user there are many layers to this all of these should have hooks now so that you can again a plugin can register its own set of the fall thing JSON properties through this which is going to be pretty fun. I think some interest I'm curious if people are going to be extending it to support. I don't know different like either tailwind or bootstrap or whatever like there's there's probably some opportunities there for people to hook up at this low level and try to figure out again if they have a design system from somewhere else and they want to hook it in that you can do some of that stuff. I think that's about it from me so we should have more time for questions. I'll leave everything open so like maybe we can answer some questions by showing stuff we can do that but yeah otherwise I'll stop sharing. Okay well thanks MacDais as very walkthrough so let's just kind of move it along to each individual panelist. I've just kind of go go down the list David can you tell us about you know what your role is and you know some about things you've been working on on this release. Sure so for core we've mainly been focused on bug fixes from there was a lot of a lot of caching improvements that were made in 6.0 that have been there were a couple of bugs found and so just kind of improving on that as we've gotten more feedback and more testing on different environments and such so we've gotten a good handle on fixing some of these caching bugs that remain on the core side. A lot of the features are still a little bit in limbo some are probably going to be punted but we do have a few that are going in one in particular for developers we have a big ticket that I actually forgot that I had committed for uh escaping identifiers and MySQL queries which was a big uh developers probably know you had to write all sorts of ignores or disables around any sort of WPDB queries because you're hardcoding your table names in there throwing them into a variable that weren't being escaped by prepare so now we have support in there for that we don't yet we haven't converted the rest of core to actually use it yet we'd like to see it in the wild and see if we get any feedback if it can be in actual implementation can be improved so hopefully we can actually get core converted over in 6.2 maybe and then set an example for everybody else going forward and to how you know safer ways to run a db query with db prepare but I think other than that webp as everybody knows has been kind of scaled back for now and I think really focus on making it really a really really good feature for for the public to pick up once it becomes available as a what's seemingly been called a canonical plugin for now but yeah other than that it's just a bunch of bunch of bunch of bug fixes so some of them are really old some of them are newer from some of the bundle themes recently but but yeah we're we're still moving forward great and y'all definitely ask questions about anything about our our panelists are talking about in the q&a and we'll get to them Jeff do you want to kind of take off from there now sure yeah and his background I'm director of open source at top thanks them for the time to be able to contribute and participate here um been part of other release squads in the past different in my role to davids and and mics as the other cortex lead and not being a committer I have to lean a bit more on some of the other skills out there as as David mentioned kind of heavy focus had been on some of the back channels and supporting ever it's on webp and now that that's shifting to a canonical plugin trying to help with that as it may relate to 6.1 a bit too early to really fully tell on that there some of the other things that have led it in that end users will will see are some new OM bed partners with pocketcasts in google data studio and then some of the areas that I tend to focus in on focus wise is internationalization privacy accessibility right to left and and mobile items and trying to find new contributors to help craft patches prs you know testing writing copy etc there just trying to help pull more people into the contribution funnel so that's been more of my focus is kind of the back channel coordination aspects thanks Jeff that's great and I'm going to kick it over to Nick tell us about you know your your role in the release and yeah great some awesome things you're working on so I'm the editor triage lead for 6.1 this is a relatively new position on the team we started it in 6.0 and now again in 6.1 the goal here is to kind of triage all the prs and especially the bugs as we move as we get past our initial release candidates and betas and all that sort of stuff so we're starting to consolidate all the all the things that need to get tightened up before 6.1 goes out the door taking notes on our walk through today on a few things but the thing that I'm honestly most excited about and dedicated most of my personal time to Mitya's mention this is that's consistency you know throughout the block editor and the site editor you know we have things like introduction of font family you know the ability to change the font type on different blocks and any team developer who's working with with blocks is probably this resonates with you is that you could change font family maybe headings but not paragraphs we use paragraphs everywhere and so now you can the 6.1 and that same functionality is across all sorts of blocks so there's been a huge effort especially like in the last month to really standardize things and I could it seems really small but it's going to have a huge impact on adoption of kind of all this new stuff also editing more block heavy themes and I couldn't be more excited if you've if you've been waiting to jump on board 6.1 is the time to do so we have a lot more consistency and it's it's it's really exciting yeah I'll say uh the consistency like just add in the font family to a paragraph is like uh one of my favorite like just small feature it is small but it's it's a big thing for you theme authors so thanks for the work you've been doing there and I worried everybody yeah and it really shines through on the style variations as well because otherwise a lot of that wouldn't be really be possible so like that consistency really unlocks the the ability to put together these things and actually affect everything and have the user be able to manipulate them as well all of those things at once requires that yeah it makes it a delightful experience like yeah all right uh smooth on over to rich hey everyone I'm rich taber design lead for 6.1 I would say I'm probably most excited about the style variations included in 2023 like Matias said they were community submitted I think we went from 38 submitted designs either in figma or in json down to nine or 10 which is pretty cool I think that just having that sort of interest from design the design community around WordPress really inspired and it kind of helps us look forward to the tools that we should build to help and further empower that sort of innovative innovative front and WordPress along the design tool in front I'm also very keen on the tools that really level up the capacity to design so like the margin and padding controls that use the scaled scale scale the design systems so you can create a design system that scales out within demo json just a few entries and and then use that to have consistent spacing throughout your site with with all those values fluid typography also brings um you know auto responsiveness to text so based on your viewport is really something very interesting especially with some of the themes like even older themes that supported big text right out of the box like 2021 being able to have something like that like a design that looks cool and just up also scaled down without you having to really think about it and then also the locking patterns or functionality is also very intriguing it creates you know Matias also mentioned it creates like basically many blocks that you can manipulate without having to rebuild blocks so kind of taking that atomic component based system and making it much more intuitive and approachable for the editing experience and you know driving towards going to be intuitive and approachable is something we should continue to push forward but 6.1 definitely shoots for those and that's a really good thing sorry but i i didn't i didn't get to to show that part but one thing that is really exciting connected to that is the the ability to use template parts on classic themes and i think i think like there's some articles being written on on that documentation but it'd be really cool to see i don't know i imagine i was thinking about the the Kubrick theme the original Kubrick theme that had this special place where you went to like modify the header and gradients and so on and now you can sort of designate any page on the any part of the site in a classic php theme and just have a built-in interface in the editor where you're just manipulating blocks there and if you combine that with the locked pattern things you can essentially have like build really quickly without touching code like a really rich but really locked down experience that then you can just reference in a php call somewhere in your php templates so the combination of all of those things again it was a it's like the the sum of well not that small i think each one of these took some effort but but all in all put together i think that's really i'm really curious what people are going to do that because opening that up to plugins and that really i don't know like if you have a plugin for you're doing i don't know a subscribe now thing that shows up in a model you can say oh i want to give some design access to the model you can put it in a template part call it there and restrict the design and just let people edit it and so i'm really i just wanted to mention that because i forgot to to go walk through yeah i think that's great yeah okay uh sarah you're up next hey i'm sarah i'm a development lead for 2023 it's also my first time being part of the release squad six nine so i've been working with um our design lead beer on building the most unopinionated base theme possible and so it's designed to allow as much flexibility as possible for many style variations i've really just enjoyed seeing all the designs come in from the community it's been great seeing contributions from both developers and designers this time as well so for 6.1 i think i'm going to echo a lot of what you said rich i'm really excited to see how creative we can be with variations and how far we can push them especially with fluid typography and the spacing presets um i think there's been lots of calls for responsive design and and how that's best achieved and i think both these features combined like really unlocks loads of responsive capabilities and also without thinking too hard like you've just been saying i think that but it really helps um and finally the elements api as well i think that unlocks lots of flexibility just from theme jason itself yeah that was cool how many uh style variations did we end up having for 2023 we will have nine in total and i'm going to say sorry we'll turn in total to 20 at nine um but yeah there'll be 10 included yeah that's awesome there's quite a few submitted so yeah we should we should probably package like the 38 or so in some plugins so that people because there's some pretty cool stuff there even if it's not done really cool yeah we have had um there's been a quick conversation about what we do next um which is also equally exciting actually about whether we just continue creating style variations for 2023 in a separate repo um and you know just all together and then we can bounce off each other test scoop and work and i think that we found we needed to get to the 5000 themes or something this is how we do it yeah uh all right uh jonathan did you want to add some stuff today too yeah if you've heard me talk before i might be a little different sounding i'm i'm recovering from a bug from the weekend but um like jeff i'm kind of in a unique uh a unique role for my skill set so jeff is more in the core tech position and not a as technical person i'm the opposite i'm a core committer and i'm in a release coordinated position um so i still work on things on the side and make sure i can help with the more nitty gritty of uh you know the day to day developer work um so i'm i'm going to be helping urge the new default theme in so that everybody can get that tested in their on their sites um something i've been looking at a lot lately is you know how we can slim down WordPress a little bit uh so for example a couple of areas that identified our uh global terms which is a really old multi site feature that hasn't worked for quite a while and it's kind of disingenuous to continue including it when it doesn't work and we don't want people to stumble upon that and have a bad experience um so in this release my plan is to actually deprecate that uh officially so that will be one of the things that i'm working on the next couple weeks um the link api that i mentioned is a little bit more widely used so that will be more of a long tail deprecation where um we're gonna there's a actual official plugin for that already so we need to actually move some of that functionality into the plugin get everybody that's running it which is the recommended way to use that api now because it's not turned on by default uh to update and then eventually we can deprecate that core and it would only be available in the plugin and kind of get that out of core itself um and then i generally dated i'm a build tool maintainer so i work a lot on github action workflows for core and making sure that tests run properly and all of those things continue to run so um if that interests you take a look at those things i'm always happy to talk with anybody about that but uh it seems github does a lot of great work there and is constantly improving that experience and trying to make sure that we're taking advantage of those new new features and changes that they're making in core and make our lives better as developers and contributors yeah great uh did i get around to everybody thanks so so we're going to move on to uh q and a um y'all we still have a few uh a few minutes left and on this call so you know any more questions y'all have just go ahead and send them in but first uh let me just kind of start walking through i'm a anonymous attendee says they're excited about the functionalities and feature uh that everybody's worked so hard at and developing not really a question but just you know thanks to everybody but let's move on uh i think this will be for matias uh could you stand on the info about block query filters uh i think you just want more general information yeah for sure there's a i can i can also drop in the walkthrough channel a few of the relevant prs but essentially like there's uh the filters there's filters for parents there's filters for uh query variables and there's uh it's just a lot of a lot of that was just like housekeeping like ensuring that the query loop supports a lot of the things that you are used to in wp query and so on um i'll drop some of the because it's a bit more technical than and to show it so i'll put it on the on the channel assuming people are checking their walkthrough channel okay uh i'm not really sure uh what this one is uh will the new theme support dominant color there is uh uh sarah you may be able to tackle this uh there's a core link in the uh q&a section i can uh i can actually handle this one um so this is related to a proposal that was made by the performance team a few months ago a few weeks ago um and essentially what it would do is when an image is uploaded there would be some scripts that run and it determines what the dominant color in the image is and the idea there is that instead of having a blank space on the page that dominant color would be displayed until that image is able to load and whether that's because it's being loaded lazily below the fold or a slow network or whatever that may be to my knowledge a final decision has not been made to actually include this in 6.1 so i don't think that we should assume that the new default theme should support it just yet but we i i like to think that the bundle theme contributors do a very good job of making sure that new features are supported retroactively as best as possible in all the default themes that are supported um so uh i i can say confidently that i think that that's one that if it does land in core we'll go back and we'll make sure that all the default themes can support that properly um that said it's not going to work out of the box i don't think for pre-existing images so this would still be one that would be progressively a progressive enhancement that unless someone takes steps to support older images with that feature um it would only be for newer images so um yeah i think that that's when that one stands not a bad proposal it just needs a little bit more discussion and of course a final decision before we can speak a little more definitively on that okay yeah um i was just kind of waiting to see if we had any other questions coming through it doesn't look like it anybody else want to add anything before we close things out there were a couple of ones that came in that i answered um while we were chatting um i think it'd be good to just mention them out loud someone had asked about any updates for the web fonts api um so this was merged in 6.0 with the plans of reworking some parts of it and iterating on it when it was initially introduced it was done in a way that um it protected itself from being used in certain ways so that we could control how it was used in the ecosystem so as we made these improvements we didn't have to worry about certain aspects of backwards compatibility because we had a certain level of confidence that they they were being used in certain ways um there's no adjustments being planned right now in 6.1 because that there's a team that's actively re-architecting certain parts of it um there are some parts behind the scenes in wordpress that already existed that this api should be able to reuse and and result in some performance improvements and um you know just less code be doing the same thing in multiple locations um and so because of that being a big overt undertaking it's just taking a little bit longer so look for that in 6.2 but it's not something that we're anticipating will be ready in 6.1 um and then finally uh another question was about webp and um if you were on the make blog this weekend you would have seen that there were a couple posts from matt suggesting um that some features be explored more in in a canonical plugin um so core in the past has followed this approach called the feature plugin approach where something that we wanted to add to core would be built in a plugin first tested and and iterated on there before a decision was made if it was ready to be in core or if it should be in core if it wasn't it wasn't a big deal it could just continue to live as a plugin we would officially uh adopt it as a as a core or a team adopted plugin um and so um the suggestion was made that webp while we scale back this for this release maybe it should belong in its own plugin instead of the performance lab plugin um so someone had asked how people would find that if if that was the path that the performance team chose um and I shared a few suggestions that I have there's a beta tab that is on the plugin install screen when you are running WordPress under certain conditions um and we have the ability to pin certain plugins on that screen uh for example Gutenberg comes up there I believe um the design experiments plugin the performance labs plugin also shows up there now so we could also we could pin it there but I also think that there's opportunities to reach out to the groups in the community and ask them to help us install um install the plugin for groups of users to help us get some feedback on that but I also want to explore better ways to collect this feedback because unless the people that install this plugin come to Slack or open GitHub issues there's no real ways to collect this feedback as far as what they're experiencing and so I've been thinking a lot about a more central way to gather feedback for these adopted plugins that we have these these officially recognized plugins to better iterate and improve these these featured plugins to uh you know make them succeed more and potentially increase their opportunity to be merged into core for everybody yeah so we had a couple more questions come through there uh I don't know if they're specific enough um for the query loop will we ever add a way to query multiple posts I don't uh I don't know if that means like like my post id or yeah because that's it that's the what it does it's quite a multiple post so I would imagine maybe like by like specific posts uh sorry uh they're saying okay they updated so uh they're asking if we can uh we'll be able to query uh multiple post types at once okay I see yeah yeah I think that that's also part of the filters infrastructure is being able to move to something that's where you can compose a lot of these things together a bit more um I don't know where we are at right now on that but we can follow up and all right uh next question is uh since WP is unlocking the ability for end users to essentially become theme creators uh via the site editor is there a thought on the horizon for allowing patterns to be created and saved uh with a theme export from an end user end user creators anyone want to jump on that one um I can cover it up was it's uh I think it's really where things are going like the even even right now it would be would be great if we allow people there's this create blog theme plugin that allows you and a lot of people in the community have been building similar things where you can sort of create a theme and then release it and publish it the same should be true for patterns like the the way that you should be able to create a pattern and publish it from your site to the uh to the directory um you should be able to create a style variation and submit it from your site I think all of that really opens up like the creator sort of community to really contribute lower the barrier to contributing a lot more we'll probably be doing that through plugins again canonical plugins at first initially because I think that that would allow us to move faster and experiment a bit faster but yeah I think all of this is uh we should be allowing the software to empower people to to contribute to the whole community through it I think that's really where where things should be going more yeah uh the uh the other question is are there any improvements for the UI in the admin panel just kind of still kind of vague I don't know if that's just general WordPress uh admin uh you know admin or what if it's the general administration um there's uh there's one post on that I think on the design make or design too that is sort of like showing a few paths of general improvements to the admin interface if it's like smaller contained like in the in the editor for example the the post settings and panels have been improved in this release a lot of the components system have been improved and many plugins are using these components so their own admin interfaces should be improving so there's a lot of ongoing work in like those smaller details but for general like WP admin and improvements like probably check out that post we can add it somewhere yeah we can add that and the show notes all right uh that looks like we're we've covered all the questions um and we got about a minute left uh on our time uh so I just want to first I want to thank like you know all our panelists uh Matias for you know screen sharing you know all the stuff that's coming up and uh this we will have a post with the the video and transcript and the details of this call on the make or website in a few days 6.1 beta release uh September 20th so that's just a week away now uh so I'm excited about that um other than that uh everybody have a great week and thanks for joining us thank you you celebrate don't eat too much candy on halloween because November 1st is our uh release day all right David's got to take care everyone it's nice to see you you as well


It's now time for a member's statements. I recognize the member for Kitchener's South Heskiller. I'm standing up today to shout out a great organization, hard at work in my riding of Kitchener's South Heskiller, Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region. Their mandate is to support women and children in moving beyond abuse through outreach services, education, and safe shelter. Last Friday, I got a tour of their newest project, Aspen Place. Aspen Place is a residential building, a triplex that the organization was able to buy outright back in May. It will provide transitional housing for up to a year for women and children fleeing abuse. The building was purchased largely through community support, but our local restorer, home hardware, and Activa homes were especially generous. Aspen Place is meant to feel like a home, without a shelter. And I was so touched and impressed by the dedication of the Crisis Services staff to making that goal a reality. When I was there, I met Fawn and Ashley, who were both absolutely covered in sawdust and paint and hard at work cutting down cabinets to build toy storage. Jen Hutton is the CEO, and we had a great conversation about how financial dependence binds women to abusive partners. I got the chance to share some of the amazing retraining and skills upgrading initiatives developed by our very own, Monty McNaughton. And Jen and I are excited to meet again soon and talk about how our government is continuing to empower women to achieve financial independence through new employment opportunities. Today is the official ribbon cutting for Aspen Place. I can't be there in person, but I'm there in spirit. Great work, ladies, and I appreciate all that you do. Thank you. Members statements? Thank you, Speaker. It is my pleasure to recognize the 2022 Canada Summer Games in Niagara that officially came to a close Sunday, August 21st. I had the opportunity to witness many visitors and victories by impressive athletes from all across Canada. These young individuals showed true sportsmanship and dedication to their sport. It was truly an honour to present winning medals to these athletes at Beach Volleyball Long Jump and Rowing events that took place over the past two weeks. A huge congratulations to all 509 athletes from Team Ontario for collecting a total of 198 medals, 86 golds, 60 silver, 52 bronze. You have made all of us very proud, and you should be incredibly proud of your personal accomplishments. Going home to your family and friends knowing you served your province and did your best. These wins would not have been possible without the guidance of many coaches, managers, and parents. Thank you for your dedication for uplifting young athletes. Big wins were also celebrated by 12 provinces' territories that participated in the Summer Games, and thank you to the dedication of 3,000-plus volunteers who really gave a gold medal performance. As Canada Game Torch Prayer for St. Catherine's, the 2022 Games will forever remain a special memory. We are all very much looking forward to watching the 2023 Summer Games in Prince Edward Island next year, with Team Ontario sweeping another big win. Members' statements? I recognise the member for Windsor to come see. One week ago, I had the sincere privilege to represent our government at the National Ceremony for the 80th anniversary of the Dieppe Raid hosted in Windsor by Veterans Affairs Canada. It was a tremendous honour to meet three veterans at the ceremony, each of who epitomised courage under fire and sacrificed so much to protect us. Sapergeonelle Date was presented with the national order of the Legion of Honour at the event from Colonel Bruno Elwé of the Government of France, recognising his service with the 11th Canadian Field Regiment in the Dieppe Raid. I also recognised for their service to Canada, where Arthur Boone of Perth Middlesex, who served with the Canadian forces on the beaches of Normandy, France on D-Day, and Charles Davis of Windsor to come see, a proud veteran of the Normandy Campaign who landed on Juno Beach on D-Day plus four. It was a sincere honour to meet, have dinner and speak with Mr. Date, Mr. Boone and Mr. Davis last week. I want to thank them tremendously for their service to us. I'd like to take this opportunity to as well congratulate Mr. Davis in advance for his upcoming hundredth birthday on September 27th. A special thanks to Veterans Affairs Canada for delivering a national ceremony in Windsor that demonstrated a tremendous dignity and respect for the sacrifice of our veterans. Thank you. Member Stateless. Member Stateless. I recognise the member for Davenport. Thank you. Thank you, Madam Speaker. I just want to talk for a moment this morning. I'm looking forward to speaking a bit about our health care system because we in Ontario we cherish our public health care system and the right to health care for everyone regardless of income or where they live is part of our identity as Canadians. So it's no surprise that Ontarians are reacting to this government's recent attack on public health care and seniors care with growing fear and anxiety. And I want to take the few moments that I have here this morning to speak to something very specific which is this government's decision to table a time allocation motion on their government bill G7 on long-term care. This is the bill that would deny seniors and their families the right to consent to where they want to be sent for long-term care. And I wanted to raise that because the government's table to time allocation motion that would prevent committee hearings, prevent this bill from going to committee, which means that the people of this province who care about these issues, which are most Ontarians, will not have an opportunity to speak, to present and to frankly outline their concerns or arguments around this legislation. I think it's really unfortunate. I think that we need to do better here in this place. This government was elected with a majority. They can do whatever they want pretty much at this point. I encourage them, please, to provide an opportunity for people to speak to this bill, for experts to come and express their concerns. And maybe we can actually create some good legislation in this place. Thank you Mr. Speaker. Member Statements. We're here. Elgin Middle Sex London. Speaker, next week marks the beginning of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Every September we are given the opportunity to remember those who have lost their lives to childhood cancer and honor more than 10,000 children who are currently getting treatment while fighting this ongoing battle. Approximately one in five children will not survive their battle with cancer. Dave and Maureen Jenkins, daughter Maggie Jenkins, was a bright and loving girl from my riding who tragically lost her life on March 14th, 2014. After complications from an aggressive cell cancer that had previously gone undiagnosed, sadly, she was only 12 years old. The fight of childhood cancer survivor never ends. Approximately 95% of survivors live with chronic health problems for the remainder of their lives. Speaker, childhood cancer is the number one cause of death by disease of Canadian children. The Jenkins family is pleased to provide every member of this legislature a gold ribbon lapel pin through the Maggie Project in memory of those who have fought and continue to fight childhood cancer. I would like to encourage all members of this legislature to reflect upon this reality over the coming month and encourage all Ontarians to continue our hard work towards ending childhood cancer. Thank you for your time and attention. Thank you, Member Statements. The Member for the House of Commons. My constituents in Nicolle Belt continue to wait for this government to follow through on their commitment to provide affordable childcare spices. Parents like Janelle from Chemsford in my riding. Janelle has had her child on a registry since April of last year that 16 months ago, but she has yet to find a childcare spot. This young woman travels and is willing and has applied to 10 different childcare center. Yet she's still empty handed. Her maternity leave ends in September. She wants to go back to work, but she cannot do that without childcare for her baby. KG lives in Hanmer, is a registered nurse. She has two young children on multiple wait lists. She would accept driving to two different daycare twice a day every day so that she can get back to caring for patient as a nurse. Her maternity leave is done. She wants to get back to work. She is very much needed as a nurse, but she cannot go back to work until she can find childcare for both of her children. Yesterday, the government stated every job that sits unfilled hurts Ontario economy. I agree, Speaker, but those are just two of the thousands of professional jobs across the province that are unfilled because this government won't follow through on the commitment to deliver childcare to the working parents of Ontario. Talk about an easy solution that would help our health care system tremendously. Thank you. The member for Lanark Frontenac Kingston. This past Friday, I joined the Honorable Member for Leeds, Grenville Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes with members of the Rural Alcohol Syndrome Disorder Network. Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Network, FASD. At Southport Park to hear more about the impact that a $500,000 Youth Opportunities Fund grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation will have. The four-year-long grant was awarded in 22 and is designed to help the organization and its organizational mentor group open doors for Lanark children and youth to expand on their work with individuals with FASD and their caregivers. Individuals diagnosed with FASD experience unique and complex challenges in all stages of life. This investment will go a long way to provide the appropriate support for individuals with FASD and their caregivers. In addition to improved access to programs and training, the Rural FASD Support Network will be able to expand upon its peer facilitated support and fellowship and provide additional forms for people with FASD to share their voice and lived experiences. The network connects with the individuals with FASD and their caregivers from across Ontario with local FASD informed service providers and provides evidence based research training. And thanks to the grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, people with FASD will be able to access those needed supports to achieve their full life potential. Thank you. The Member for Orléans. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It's an honour to stand and speak today about an important event that happens in Ottawa's east end. DAPO Day held the third Saturday in August and this past Saturday was its 20th anniversary. 20 years ago, the Agora family lost their son and brother at DAPO Agora to senseless knife violence. The DAPO Agora Foundation for Peace was born out of the loss and the Agora family wanted to not only honour their son and brother DAPO, but to be a catalyst for change. As humans, we all face trauma, adversity and stress on a daily basis and the ability to recognise and recover is a tool that we all need both as individuals but also as a community. The DAPO Agora Foundation is a non-profit organisation that promotes non-violent conflict resolution. This year's anniversary featured a virtual panel discussion around the road to resilience. The panel explored the definition of all that resilience means, including what it means when someone can be too resilient and shared personal examples of this resilience. The attendees left with new insights and connections within Ottawa for help and learning. Sadly, it's a daily occurrence to read in the news of young men and women being heard and killed by violence, Mr. Speaker. Nevertheless, this foundation continues to honour DAPO Agora's memory by exploring how to build a healthier, stronger community to support our youth and help them navigate their lives. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Member for Markham Thornhill. To rise in December, Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank the residents of Markham Thornhill, the most ethnically diverse riding in Canada for putting their faith and trust in me and re-electing me for the second term. I want to thank all the re-elected and newly elected colleagues in the House. Mr. Speaker, I would like to specially thank our Premier for his strong leadership in Ontario. My success wouldn't have been possible without my wonderful campaign team. I would like to take this opportunity to thanks my volunteers, my family, my core team. Mr. Speaker, when I escaped from fear of persecution, I came to Canada as a refugee. I had nothing. I lost almost everything except for my hopes and dreams to live in this wonderful province to have a peace and harmony. And here I am, an elected representative in the legislative assembly of Ontario, simple of democracy. I never thought that one day I'll be become an MPP and the parliamentary assistant. Mr. Speaker, thank my parents for giving me the values, principles and courage to become who I am today. I regret that they are not here but they are looking at from above. Mr. Speaker, as Ontarians reopen, we have now started to re-encage with our community. I was happy to attend the 25th anniversary of Wadi Cultural Centre in my riding. I would like to congratulate President Garf Kabooji and his team. Mr. Speaker, in this 43rd parliament, my call is to drive on forward and get it done. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you, Member Statements. The Member for Mississauga Streetsville. TRIOS College on celebrating their 30th anniversary this summer. TRIOS began and are still headquartered in my riding of Mississauga Streetsville. They began 30 years ago by offering network operating systems training to computer resellers and corporations. In the 90s, they expanded into career training of unemployed adults, acquired a five chain career colleges and became TRIOS College of Information Technology. After the dot com meltdown of 2001, they pivoted from IT to offering business, healthcare, law and supply chain programs. They've since expanded to eight campuses in Ontario plus four more locations in the Maritimes as Eastern College. In the past two years, they've launched an online college and partnered with So College and Mohawk College as their GTA training partner. TRIOS College employs over 700 staff and faculty, train over 5,000 students daily and has graduated over 60,000 adults into meaningful jobs including thousands, yes, thousands of PSWs. TRIOS has recognized as one of Canada's best managed companies for the past 12 years. Please recognize their co-founder and CEO, Frank Gorenza, together with his team, John Crookshank and Massimo Noce in the members gallery today. Welcome. Thank you very much. That concludes our member statements for this morning.


Jesus said something amazing two thousand years ago. He said the father and I are one Which I think is amazing because if you think of God as the creator or that the prime cause and Christ as the effect Or the perfect extension of that prime cause the father and I are one it means in heaven that God and Christ are not two separate beings that they're just one spirit of love and this world is the belief that cause and effect are separate somehow that the son Or the Christ could leave the father or leave the creator and have its own autonomous life life in form life in in the temporary and What I discovered is I look close at that is that everything we study in this world every housing University for ten years undergrad and grad every discipline you study in this world is Different as they are they all have one Commonality and that's the belief in causes and effects in this world The belief that cause and effect are separate The cause comes first and the effect comes second And every perception in this world is a denial that cause and effect are together That that Christ is an idea in the mind of God and has not left its source So this whole world is an attempt on authority problem a question of who is my author Was I offered by time and space? do I have Parents and conception is my beginning or do I have a divine? Parents a divine source though. That's what we're deciding between every second of every day Who's your daddy? All we have to do is solve that one riddle who's your daddy? And then you're happy Imagine that every question every struggle the world put politics Environmental I mean all the things that the mind just goes around around and it's really a question of source Who is my source? Is love my source? When we give in to that and we accept that then everything changes


Are you a new Linux user or are you thinking about switching to Linux? Maybe you're thinking about leaving Windows or Mac and switching over to Linux. If you are, you've probably done a little bit of research. You vast around on the internet. Hey, what's the best Linux distribution for a beginner? Probably one of the most common answers to that question is Linux Mint. Linux Mint is a Linux distribution that many people begin with as far as a first Linux distribution to install. And it's great. It's perfect for beginners. It's very new user friendly, but when you go to Linux Mint, their website to download an edition of Linux Mint, they actually have three different editions as far as main desktop editions. They have the Cinnamon edition, they have the Mate edition, and they have the XFCE edition. And if you're brand new to Linux, you probably have no idea what those terms are. What's the difference between these three Linux Mint distributions? Which one should I choose as a brand new user? So today I'm going to cover the differences between the three main flavors of Linux Mint and which one is probably the best one for you to choose. So let's first take a look at Linux Mint Cinnamon, because Cinnamon really is kind of their flagship desktop environment. The Linux Mint team actually develops the Cinnamon desktop environment. It is probably what they spend most of their time on actually is developing this particular desktop environment. Now, if you're new to Linux, we should talk about what a desktop environment actually is. So when we talk about Cinnamon, Mate, and XFCE, those are desktop environments. There's dozens of desktop environments available for you to use in Linux. A desktop environment, what that is, that is a bundle of components that makes up your desktop. So we're talking about the panel or the dock, and we're talking about the menu system. We're talking about the suite of applications that come bundled with the desktop environment. We're talking about everything you're seeing on the screen right now. This is your desktop environment. Another common term for this would be a graphical user interface. Sometimes you'll hear that term, a GUI GUI, and what we're talking about there is, again, the graphical user interface. It's what you're seeing. We're essentially talking about your desktop environment. Now, one of the really cool things that the Linux Mint team does is they really make Cinnamon, Mate, and XFCE look very similar. Like, when you first log in to any of the three editions of Linux Mint, the workflow and the look and feel is almost exactly the same. When you log into Cinnamon, the very first thing you notice is you get a welcome screen. This is a little helper screen here where you can read documentation and figure out a little bit about Linux Mint and how to tweak it and things like that. You'll notice that you have this traditional Windows kind of workflow. As far as there's a panel at the bottom, you have the menu system at the far left. You can think of it as like the Windows start menu. If I switched over to the Mate desktop, this is the Mate desktop when you first log in. Once again, you get the Linux Mint welcome screen here. You have a panel at the bottom. You have a menu system. It looks a little different. The menu system here in Mate compared to Cinnamon, but it's very traditional as far as Windows users would be very comfortable in both Mate and Cinnamon. If I switch over here to the XFCE edition of Linux Mint, you see it has that same kind of paradigm, that same look and feel. You have the welcome screen that first pops up. You have a panel at the bottom. You have your start menu, if you will, at the bottom left. Again, the menu system is a little different because, again, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE, they're different desktop environments. The panels are actually different programs. The menu system is a different program. The suite of applications, they're going to be differences between they're not all going to have the same text editor, for example, or the same terminal emulator, maybe not even the same audio player and video player and things like that. You'll have their own suite of applications that make up that particular desktop environment. Let me go back to this Cinnamon desktop environment. Let's talk about Cinnamon. What is Cinnamon? Well, it's a modern, innovative, full-featured desktop environment. It's very polished, very slick-looking. The downside to Cinnamon is that because it's more modern, it does require a little bit more system resources. It'll take up a little bit more CPU, a little bit more RAM to run. It's still much, much lighter than things like Windows and Mac. But for Linux desktop environments, Cinnamon is a little heavier. It's going to be the heaviest of the three. But if you've got any halfway-decent computer, Cinnamon will run just fine on it. If you've got something that's really old, maybe it's something that doesn't even have a multi-core CPU. Maybe you only have four gigs of RAM or even less. Maybe you have a hard drive rather than a SSD. You know, something kind of old, right? You've got a potato of a machine. Cinnamon is probably the worst of the desktop environments to put on a machine like that. But if you've got anything halfway-decent, Cinnamon will run just fine. Looking at some of the applications that come installed with Linux Mint Cinnamon, let's start with the web browser, because that's the application most computer users spend most of their time in, right? Everybody these days spends pretty much 99% of their time in a web browser. So let's talk about the web browser, because it's going to be the same in all three editions. It doesn't matter if it's Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE. The web browser is going to be Mozilla Firefox, which is free and open source software. It's one of the biggest pieces of free and open source software on the planet. And this is Firefox version 89.0.2. By the way, the version of Linux Mint that we are running, all three versions we're running today are version 20.2, which was just released just a few days ago. The file manager inside Linux Mint is a program called Nemo. It's a very slick looking file manager. It's one of the best file managers available. And file managers, we have dozens available on Linux, kind of like we have dozens of desktop environments. You can find alternatives to all the software on Linux. If you find a program that's just not working for you, chances are there's dozens of alternatives for that task. So if you don't like the text editor or the terminal or the file manager or your audio player, just open up the software center and find a replacement for it. We should talk about software. All three versions of Linux Mint are going to have a software center here. The software manager. So the software manager, for those of you that are used to other operating systems, think of it as your app store. And you just do a search. For example, if I wanted a video player, I could just start typing video player and let's just see what comes up for suggestions.  I could just read through this and pick one that sounds good and I can try it out. If I install something and I don't like it, you can always uninstall it too. So removing software is really, really easy in Linux. It's completely different than the way you did it in Windows where typically in Windows you go and find a random piece of software on somebody's website, download it. Hope it's not something malicious. Hope it's not full of viruses and things like that. You install it and hope it runs right. And then when you don't want it anymore, how do you get rid of it? Typically people don't uninstall things from Windows. They just leave stuff around. That's not the way it works on Linux. So remove all of your software and remove all of your software through a package manager such as the Software Center that I just showed you on the screen. Everything's managed through that and you never have to worry about if this package malicious because you're getting it from the Linux Mint team. They curate that software center so you don't have to worry if you're downloading something that all of a sudden is going to take over your machine and start mining Bitcoin unbeknownst to you. That doesn't really happen to us on Linux. I think that Cinnamon was the heaviest of these three desktop environments meaning it's the one that's going to require the most CPU, the most RAM. It's the one that's going to benefit the most from having things like a SSD rather than a spinning hard drive. Now that's not to say that Cinnamon again is slow and bloated or heavy. Compared to Windows, Cinnamon is blazing fast. Chances are if you're coming from Windows you wipe out Windows and install Linux Mint Cinnamon. You're going to be amazed at the speed improvements. It's just compared to the other desktop environments that Linux Mint has available. Cinnamon is probably the slowest of the three. So let me open up a terminal and I'll actually show you what I'm talking about here. So I'm going to open up this terminal. I'm going to make it a little bigger so you guys can read this. I'm going to run this program called H-Top. H-Top is not installed in Linux Mint by default. I installed it off camera. But what this does, it tells me is how much CPU and how much RAM I'm actually using. And I gave this virtual machine that I'm running Linux Mint in. I gave it four gigs of RAM and Cinnamon's taking up 736 megs. That's actually pretty good. Even though that's going to be heavier than the other two desktops I show, 736 megs of 4 gigs of RAM is actually very, very good. It's using a little CPU, about 4%, 5% of the CPU and we're not really doing much. So it is taxing the CPU just a little bit. So now I'm back in the Monte desktop environment and I'm going to once again open a terminal. I'll make it full screen and I'll zoom way in and I'll run the H-Top program here and you can see 4 gigs of RAM once again. But now we're only using 559 megs of RAM. So a couple of hundred megs of RAM less than Cinnamon. So Monte is a little lighter, also the CPU. It's not really being taxed at all. We're only using 102% of the CPU where we're using about 4% or 5% on Cinnamon. And finally let's switch over to the XFCE desktop environment and once again I'm going to open up a terminal make it full screen and I'll zoom in and we will run H-Top one more time and this time 4 gigs of RAM but we're only using 516 megs. So just slightly less than Monte. Actually Monte and XFCE are about the same. XFCE is a little lighter. No CPU really being used at all. So almost none. XFCE is the lightest of the three choices.  XFCE is definitely the one I would suggest trying first. Let me switch back to the Monte edition earlier I talked about a little bit of the history of Cinnamon, how Cinnamon, the desktop environment, was actually created by the folks at Linux Mint. The Linux Mint team is also behind much of the development of the Monte desktop environment. That's why these two particular desktop environments are main editions of Linux Mint is because they actually help develop these desktop environments. Monte is an old fork of GNOME version 2. GNOME is another desktop environment available in Linux and there was a version of it, version 2 that was end of life about 10 years ago and people really loved that particular desktop environment so they forked the project, renamed it Monte and it kind of lives on today, the old GNOME 2 desktop environment as Monte. Now Monte is spelled M-A-T-E all caps, right? But it's actually an acronym, it's M-A-T-E and it's pronounced Monte the stress is on the first syllable and Monte is actually a recursive acronym. So in free software we love recursive acronyms. For example you guys probably have heard of GNU, GNU. What does GNU stand for? It stands for GNU's not UNIX so a recursive acronym is an acronym that actually refers to itself and that's what Monte is. Monte stands for the Monte traditional advanced environment so it refers to itself in the acronym. It's kind of a nerdy thing that people love to do with free and open source software to use these recursive acronyms. While we're at it we should actually talk about XFCE. What does XFCE stand for? What is its history? XFCE is a very old desktop environment that started more than 20 years ago and XFCE originally stood for the X-Forms common environment and it was spelled all caps XFCE because it was an acronym. But the XFCE has been rewritten a couple of times and it no longer uses the X-Forms toolkit. It is a GTK based desktop environment just like Cinnamon, just like Monte so it didn't make sense for them to rename it to something different. They kept the name XFCE but what they did is they dropped the spelling as far as the capitalization. Now only the X is capitalized and it really doesn't stand for anything anymore. They just kept the name just because that's always been the name. Now getting back to which edition of Linux Mint you should choose if you're brand new to Linux, you're just coming over and you've decided to use Linux Mint as your first Linux distribution. Well I would start with the Cinnamon desktop environment if you have any kind of modern machine that's got a reasonable amount of RAM, say more than 4 gigs. But most machines now I don't think you can even buy machines anymore that have less than 8 gigs so you're probably good on the Cinnamon desktop environment and it looks good. It's the most modern. It's the one that the Linux Mint team spends the most time working on and it's the one they recommend people try first and that's the one I recommend people try first. If you're coming from Windows especially you're going to feel right at home in the Cinnamon desktop environment. Now if you've got an older machine what I would suggest is trying the Mate desktop instead of the Cinnamon desktop. Mate a little easier on CPU usage, RAM usage and it looks good. It's very fast, very pippy and it will really bring older equipment back to life. Machines that they stand no chance of running Windows 10 or certainly not the upcoming Windows 11 that's going to have even more system requirements. Mate will bring those laptops back to life.  It's going to be the fastest and the lightest desktop environment available on Linux Mint and it looks good and maybe it has an older kind of retro look to it because again this desktop environment has been around for a while. It still sees updates and people are still working on it but it does have a little bit of that kind of retro that vintage look to it but if you're trying to get the most speed, the most bang for your buck as far as resource usage XFCE is definitely the way to go. And other than performance and how it works with your hardware the other big thing is just personal preference. You know which one do you like more, which one do you enjoy using more and of course the only way you're going to know that is to actually try out all three and that's very easy to do so what I would suggest start with a Cinnamon desktop you know go download the Cinnamon ISO from the Linux Mint website and burn it to a USB stick and then plug it into your computer and reboot and you will boot into a live version of Linux Mint Cinnamon and just play around with it for a little bit see if you like it. If you like it, maybe that's the one to install.  If that's not working for you try the XFCE or just try all three anyway just to see which one you prefer. Another thing you can do is actually install these inside a virtual machine so VirtualBox is a very popular virtual machine program it's available on Windows, Mac and Linux so if you're on Windows you can install VirtualBox on Windows and then inside that you can install Linux Mint Cinnamon for example and it doesn't affect your hard drives or anything it's perfectly safe but it allows you to test drive some of these other operating systems without ever touching your Windows installation. So try all three out because largely it's a matter of taste which one you prefer and maybe you don't prefer any of these maybe you want to try out another Linux distribution all together. Ultimately the right Linux for you is the one where you feel right at home Now before I go I need to thank a few special people I need to thank James Mitchell Paul West, Akami Allen Chuck Kurt, David Dillon, Gregory Irion, Alexander Peace Arch and Fedora, Polytech Raver, Scott Steven and Willie. 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What's going on and welcome to the solo shot? My name is Tom Vecchio. We have a six game Slate tonight It locks at 705 as always This is one of the many shows on the Fandu podcast network You can find that anywhere whether it's iTunes SoundCloud Stitcher Google Play make sure to give it a like follow or subscribe Writer review that is greatly appreciated Live here for the next 30 or so minutes going over today's slate I'll be back at 4 p.m. On the Fandu YouTube twitch Facebook and Twitter page taking your questions going over the slate Before we hop into things listen up baseball fans Fandu is giving you an exclusive way to get in on the action with the MLB single entry series presented by Roto grinders each week and enter a featured single entry contest to win cash prizes and can meet and compete for a seat in the $40,000 online final just play daily and we'll add your four highest point totals together To give you a combined score and rank for the week head over to Fandu and enter the MLB single entry series today Which ends on August 29th eligibility restrictions apply head over to Fandu.com or download the Fandu app for more details All right hopping into this six game MLB slate again. The lock is set for 705 We are looking to be in a good spot when it comes to the weather despite the Hurricane hitting the northeast we are free of that and we actually should be In a spot where we have zero weather issues on tonight's slate We have six games on tonight's slate of course that means a limited options across the board But starting off at pitching it's clear that Lance Lynn is the best pitcher on tonight's slate He comes in at ten thousand one hundred dollars Obviously having a phenomenal year one of the leaders for the Cy Young in the American League He's carrying a twenty seven point eight percent strikeout rate a seven point nine percent walk rate We'd like to see a little bit lower, but he does have great peripheral stats with a three point seven eight Sierra a three point nine three Exfit a forty four percent five ball rate can always be dangerous But it's paired with a fifty four point seven percent medium contact rate Which is of course good to see now in his most recent start looking at his game log It's not gonna be looking too impressive with only twenty one fendall points But he only pitched four innings against Oakland He had four strikeouts in that time one or run, but he was ejected early from that game So don't really take too much stock when looking at his recent game log Ejected from his most recent game. We don't want to be banking on that We know he has 50 or so fendall point upside given the context of the slate given the fact that we only have 12 Pitchers going it's clear that again Lancelin is the best pitcher on tonight's late $10,100 he's the pitcher that you should be paying up for in your cash games for that overall safety just because he is good Now we can say that there is some danger for him going up against the Toronto Blue Jays But we still want to be siding with Lancelin and the overall skill that he does bring now on the other side of Lancelin He's going up against the Blue Jays the pitcher for the Blue Jays tonight will be Alec Minoa Who's coming in at $9,600 and this is also a player where you don't want to be looking at his recent game log because his most recent Start against the Washington Nationals certainly was not good at all only going three innings giving up six earned runs in that time But we do know that Minoa has a very strong 28.3% strikeout rate this season in eight point five percent walk rate becomes on the solid three point seven seven Sierra and a 4.00 exit he does have a very solid four point one percent brown ball rate and a fifty two point two percent medium contact right now Of course, this is his first year in the major lease He only has sixty two innings pitch So of course take that with a grain of salt now you could say oh the White Sox also present a bit of danger But we did see the White Sox struggle in some of these recent games and we have seen some of their power take half a step back They're also striking out a bit more specifically against right-handed pitchers coming with a twenty four point zero percent Strikeout rate currently with their current roster say versus righties, which is the 13th worst in the league They're also carrying a 167 team ISO, which is 12th in the league So not as powerful of an offense as they were at earlier parts in the year They're also carrying a 108 WRC plus versus righties, which is just above the league average So yes, the White Sox still have some power in their lineup But it's certainly not as dangerous as they were in earlier months of the season Now both of these pitchers Lynn and Mano of course going up against each other And they do have the two highest strikeout rates on the board after that We see a bit of a drop-off and it comes it comes down to a lot of inconsistency for a lot of the pitchers And I will be leaning towards a pitcher a little bit further down and that could be Marco Gonzalez time I simply think that Zach Grinke at ninety two hundred dollars is too expensive to pay for a pitcher That's coming with a seventeen point nine percent strikeout rate. Yes Marco Gonzalez doesn't have that much higher of a strikeout rate sitting at nineteen point seven percent But we do get a bit of savings with Marco Gonzalez at seventy eight hundred dollars compared to Zach Grinke and ninety two hundred dollars Now we can also say that Zach Grinke has an easier matchup going up against the Kansas City Royals at home Where Marco Gonzalez is on the road taking on the athletics, which is no doubt a tougher matchup But I'm still going to be looking at the savings that Marco Gonzalez brings because ultimately Zach Grinke reaching or exceeding value at ninety two hundred dollars with a seventeen point nine percent strikeout rate Is not something that we're going to be seeing from him too often We see this from his most recent start against Kansas City last week when he was on the road Where Grinke went six innings One or a run but zero strikeouts from Zach Grinke and only posting 19 Fandal points and that presents a bit of an issue when he's ninety two hundred dollars So I'll be leaning towards Marco Gonzalez tonight With a nineteen point seven percent strikeout rate a seven point seven percent walk rate He's mostly a medium a medium Medium contact pitcher sitting at fifty point four percent his fly balls can be a slight issue at forty four point eight percent But we do know that he's in Oakland, which is a solid pitchers park So I simply want to take the savings with Marco Gonzalez at seventy eight hundred dollars Rather than pay somewhat of a premium for Zach Grinke and ninety two hundred dollars when we know he has a very limited strikeout upside So Lance Lynn is clearly the best pitcher on tonight's league He's the one that you should be focusing in on using in your cash games. I like alec minoa as a pivot away from him I like going to minoa for Tournament tonight searching for that strikeout upside considering he has a 20 28.3 percent strikeout rate Which is the highest on the slate it is higher than lance lin at 27.8 percent But of course minoa has a much smaller sample size being called up in his first year in the league So looking to lance lin for that safety looking for minoa for that strikeout upside going up against the chicago white socks and then looking to Marco Gonzalez for that savings at seventy eight hundred dollars You know, we also can make a case for kyle hindricks, but i'll circle back on that in a few minutes Moving on to the stacks on tonight's slate It's clear that we should see the asters as one of if not the most popular Options on tonight's league just because they're at home They have a 5.37 implied total and they're going up against daniel lynch a pitcher We certainly want to be attacking now lynch is actually pretty solid versus left-handed hitters this year Coming in with a 3.7 x-fib and a 29.4 percent strikeout rate He is a left-handed pitcher that shouldn't be too much of a surprise But versus righties he is struggling mightily this year with only a 17.1 percent strike area a 5.03 x-fib He's allowing 1.05 home runs per nine He's allowing a 37.8 percent hard contact rate against righties and a 36 fly ball rate So reaching that 40 40 line I personally like to look for when it comes to attacking pitchers that are certainly home run prone And if we want righties in the houston astros line if we certainly have plenty of them that we can be going to Thus, this is why we should be seeing the astros as a very very popular stack tonight whether it be julie garyell whether it be carlos korea, jose el-tubei whoever it might be we have plenty of options to choose from now This isn't to say you shouldn't be looking to roster kyle tucker or your your don alvarez two lefties in the astros lineup of course, of course, ultimately we'll be looking to attack the The royals bullpen if we get daniel lynch out of the game early So yes, we can be looking to lefties But I'll certainly be starting off the stack with a carlos korea with a jose el-tubei with a julie garyell So the astros with their 5.37 implied run total should be leading the slate tonight And they should be one of the most popular options for stacks You're using the cash games. You could fully stack them with four You could take them as one of searching for that home run upside But yes going up against daniel lynch and his nearly 40 40 line when it comes to fly ball hard contact rates specifically against Reddy's with the 5.03 exit is the spot you want to be attacking We also can look to the arizona diamond backstine the spot. We don't often go They have a a solid 4.51 implied run total there on the road They're going up against the pittsburgh pirates the pirates will have will crow on the mound certainly a picture that we can look to attack He comes in this season allowing 2.58 home runs per nine to righties 1.15 home runs per nine to lefties Is a terrible 14.5% walk rate versus lefties an 8.5% walk rate versus righties A 5.13 exit versus lefties and a 4.59 exit versus righties This is absolutely not a picture. We need to be worried about considering He carries a very modest 22.3 percent strikeout rate versus lefties and a 19.8 percent strikeout rate versus righties A picture that often walks too many hitters Let's them on base and then gets burned by the home runs And he's allowing a 40.2 fly ball rate to lefties a 35 hard contact rate a lower 33.6 percent fly ball rate versus righties We'd like to see that a little bit higher But he does have a bad 26.0 percent home run the fly ball ratio versus righties So a picture that allows too many hitters on base for free and then is getting burned by the fly balls Is absolutely a spot that we want to be looking to when it comes to the arizona diamond backs And ultimately the diamond backs aren't overly expensive Of course cattel marté at 39 hundred dollars is an expensive option But after that we are dropping down to the low 3000 or high $2,000 range when it comes to the potential options for the arizona diamond backs Dalton varshow has a very solid 204 iso in this but I think he is certainly an option tonight And then ultimately comes down to what their lineup looks like we want cattel marté in there But if we're looking to pay up for Lens limits nights like his salary could be a bit of an issue if we're also looking to stack them with the astros Who we know can be very expensive But look to filter in any of christian walker david peralta Carson kelly astruble cabrera the diamond backs have plenty of options even pavement smith at 29 hundred dollars They have multiple options that you can be going to Searching for that home run upside going up against will prow a pitch that we know Is struggling with too many home runs and too many walks this year and again This is the same situation as we see with the astros ultimately if we don't get too much out of Will crowd it's not like we're gonna be worried about the pirates bullpen So yes, this is a great spot to be attacking with the diamond backs something I guess we haven't been able to say too many times this season Now where else can we go in for stacks because there are only six schemes on tonight's slates It wouldn't be a surprise to see some people jumping on board with the cubs jumping on board With the yankees, but I actually want to be looking to the other side of that Yankees game and that will be with the atlanta braves. They're going up against jordan montgomery who Is certainly having a solid year But he's getting burned a little bit when it comes to a home runs versus right-handed hitters this season 1.10 home runs per nine allowed to write ease this year on a 40.1 percent fly ball rate Now he's only he only has a 10.9 percent home run a fly ball ratio Which is below the league average So we could say that he is due for a little bit of regression And yes going up against some of the righties with the power that the braves have Is certainly something now we can be looking to take advantage of tonight We look to the righties on the braves and yes, they're still of course without ronald kunya He's done for the year But the additions that they have made at the deadline We know that the power is going to be there for them Whether it be adam de bol whether it be whore. Hey, so they're austin riley dan's v swanson They have multiple options up and down their lineup. Now. This is a stack that I would be primarily looking to as a A secondary option behind the astros or some other teams just because we know that the Yankees bullpen Is actually very very good So if we don't see a lot of home runs get going early against montgomery This stack could be a bit dead in the water So ultimately the astros are going to be my top stack on tonight's slate But I still want some shares of the braves because we know that there is home run potential against montgomery The braves aren't home. It's a solid hitters park Etc etc and ultimately i'm hoping that the braves just simply aren't as popular as a team like the astros Which of course makes them that much more interesting for tournaments So yes looking to stack azi albies riley swanson Solaire du vol you name it all the righties have power for the braves and that is certainly a spot that I want to be looking So we have some clear stacks on tonight's slate I think that we have some very very clear pitching options on tonight's slate and really it comes down to How much exposure you can get to the astros in your lineup? Can you pair them with lance lin due to his higher 10,100 salary? And then where can we find the savings? So tonight's slate will be very interesting when it comes down to roster construction Again, I can answer all of your questions at 4 p.m. On the fandal youtube twitch and facebook page Make sure you are like follower subscribe there to get a notification when we go live I can answer your questions You know, especially depending on what their linems look like if look like for these teams if anything changes throughout the day I'll take your questions there So looking to the astros as clearly the top stack on tonight's slate Really likes the spot for the diamond backs going up against will crow and the pittsburgh bullpen And then I do like the braves tonight for that home run upside going up against jordan montgomery Now when it comes to the final three things on tonight's sixth game slate I'm also going to be looking to take some shares of kyle hendrix at $8,300 as a pitching option tonight Now I mentioned him briefly before and ultimately he's Basically the same pitcher as zack rinky or marco conzallos I said I like conzallos because his salary relief that he brings compared to zack rinky now Ultimately, yes grinky has a very very easy match of at home going up against kansas city But if we're looking at comparable match specifically for hendrix and grinky Why are we not siding with hendrix or I guess you could say conzallos? Who are who are significantly cheaper again? Grinky is $9,200 and kyle hendrix is $8,300 Grinky has a 17.9 strike every kyle hendrix has a 17.2 strike average Grinky comes in with a 4.4 for seara while kyle hendrix has a 4.61 seara So why are we looking to grinky too many times when the matchup is roughly the same? We have grinky at uh, grinky at home going up against kansas city. They come in with a 144 team iso versus righties hendrix is at home going up against colorado who comes in with a 156 team iso versus righties colorado Also has a 76 wrc plus versus righties While the royals have an 88 wrc plus versus righties with their current rosters So the matchups are essentially the same we're splitting hairs here when it comes to a lot of these stats But the one thing that we're not splitting hairs on is the fact that kyle hendrix is almost $1,000 cheaper compared to grinky So while I do like marco conzallos who's even cheaper than kyle hendrix I do have a lot of interest in kyle hendrix I just have some concerns about grinky reaching value due to his limited strikeout upside at $9,200 And is that much easier for hendrix or conzallos to reach value given the fact that they also have limited strikeout upside It's just due to the fact that they are that much cheaper So looking to some of the mid-range options is the spot i'll be going tonight for pitching Outside of course lanslin and alpinot who i'm certainly very interested in paying up for I will also of course be looking to stack the yankees tonight that goes without saying they have a great park factor They have plenty of home run upside. We'll circle back on the yankees As another team to potentially stack. They are very expensive In terms of their salary stein and stacking them with the lanslin could be very difficult If you were trying to get exposure to houston as well, that could be certainly very difficult to accomplish Now when it comes to the final home run call or I should say the first home run call on tonight's slate It will be julie guerrilla for the houston astros now. I'll give one home run call now I'll give a second home run call on the 4 p.m Q&A you can find right here on the feintle youtube twitch facebook and twitter pages Julie guerrilla the first baseman for the houston astros is my home run call for tonight He comes in with great numbers versus left-handed pitchers again attacking daniel lynch was a 5.03 Exit versus right. He's allowing 1.05 home runs per 9 to right. He's a 36 fly ball rate a 37.8 hard contact uh rate versus Right-handed hitters who looked to guerrilla who comes in with a 46.5 fly ball rate versus lefty's He has a lower 31.8 hard contact rate. We like to see that a bit higher, but He started off a little bit slow since returning from his injury in the most recent few games from him He certainly turned things around so the fly ball potential for guerrilla is certainly very strong in this split And that's a spot that we want to be going of course We could look to korea. We could look to hosé al tuve as well for the astros presenting plenty of power versus daniel lynch So yes, the astros are my top stack julie guerrilla. It's my first home run call for today We will go over more on the 4 p.m Q&A show you can find right here on the fandal youtube twitch and facebook page Lanslin is the top option on tonight slate alec minoa is close behind him, especially for tournaments And then we're going to be looking to drop down a little bit take some savings for For some hitters with kyle hindricks and marco gonzalez really allow the stacks to shine through with their expensive salaries All right, so that does it for today's podcast you can find it on itunes soundcloud stitcher google play Make sure to give it a like follow or subscribe. You can follow me on twitter at dfs underscore tom till next time. Good luck in your contests