Hello, Columbia. I'm your host, Alicia Utsi, and welcome to City View, where we bring you an inside view of the City of Columbia. In our top story, Mayor Steve Benjamin delivered the 2019 State of the City Address to an audience of citizens, community leaders, and business leaders. You see, it's not more information, more innovation, or more ideology that's going to change our city, our state, our nation. It's building a culture of compassion. Compassion will be the fuel to the fire that burns with fervor to save this great democracy, a fire that allows those of us who've rarely or never taken into consideration how a law may impact someone's life in a tremendous way to do so, and do so thoughtfully. Compassionate cities will provide a platform for human potential to flourish, wear compassion, speak compassion, infusing in every conversation, every exchange you have with another individual. Allow compassion to not be a simple gesture each day, but to be a lifestyle for you and also share that impute that to your children. This focus will allow us to become the city that we aspire to be, to become those talented, educated entrepreneurial city in America. February 5th, 2019 marked 40 years of service for Fire Chief Aubrey D. Jenkins. He was honored by Columbia City Council and our city manager. This is an honor. I'm grateful and I'm thankful. The Lord has really blessed me here at the city for 40 years. I never thought that it would ever come to this. I remember when I first came, I never dreamed I'd be here that long. The city has really been good to me. It really has. City Manager Teresa Wilson has a special award called City Light, which is normally presented to an employee who has gone above and beyond the call of service. Recently, Corporal Justin Pogue with the Columbia Police Department received the City Light Award because of his life-saving efforts, which resulted in saving the life of a firefighter recruit, Brandon Zen, following a serious accident. February is Heart Health Month, and Mayor Pro Tem Tamika Iza-Divine hosts an annual Go Red Columbia Day here at City Hall. For many years, we at the City of Columbia have been recognizing in partnership with American Heart Association Go Red for Women and Heart Month as an opportunity for us to make sure that we are encouraging all of our citizens to know their status, understand risk factors, and do what they can to prevent heart disease. The City's Planning and Development Services staff continue to host Lunch with a Planner, where citizens can come out and have lunch with members of our planning staff and discuss Columbia Compass and other planning issues and initiatives here in the City of Columbia. We had a great conversation. We had about six people join us, chat about Columbia's cultural opportunities, our conversation ranged from what kind of arts events take place, what kind of festivals are happening, but also neighborhood issues and how arts and culture or cultural identity relates to housing or other things. So we had a wide-ranging conversation. It was a great opportunity, I think, for people to engage with the planning process. A great way for us to hear what on some people's minds. And speaking of lunch, the Office of Business Opportunities recently hosted a Lunch and Learn workshop for small business owners. The topic was accounting and tax liabilities. The Office of Business Opportunities also held a press conference recently to announce the Commercial Retention and Redevelopment Project in new areas in our City. The Commercial Retention and Redevelopment Program that we've historically known as the Facade Improvement Program has been focused on, on helping us take advantage of the beautiful historic nature of our buildings, helping us give life to historic commercial corridors by refreshing our buildings and helping the businesses that occupy them. It's been operational in some form since 2010 and in the last nine years our Office of Business Opportunities has completed over 70 small business improvement projects throughout the City. Each year the City of Columbia, the Martin Luther King Junior Memorial Foundation, and Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity work together to host a series of events on Martin Luther King Junior Day. City officials participated in a wreath-laying ceremony prior to the City's commemoration celebration. Councilman Edward McDowell spoke at the ceremony. Continue this fight. To continue the message growing every single year. Don't just let one day to remind us of MLK and his mission for freedom and equality. But let's just keep on fighting and keep on reminding all of us and everybody else how hard MLK has fought for freedom. Whether it's a local level, whether it's a federal level, I challenge you to continue that fight to remind our young children how hard it is to fight for what you want. But at the end, it's well worth it. Following the wreath-laying ceremony, the City's Dr. Martin Luther King Junior commemoration celebration was held at King Park. The guest speaker was Cassie Alia. Also, Mayor Steve Benjamin spoke, along with participation from local students for scholarships for our dream keepers, as well as performing music and other activities at the ceremony. If we want a different future, one filled with peace, we must start doing things differently. We must choose connection over division, empathy over blame. We must actively seek opportunities for learning and compassion and understanding with every fiber of our being. We must resist the urge to hide or shelter ourselves from the unknown and bravely chart a new united path together. And when others show up authentically and honestly, we must be willing to embrace them and listen to love them and to let love lead our own actions. Well, that wraps up this edition of CityView. We thank you for watching and stay tuned to CityTV for all the latest news and information about the City of Columbia. You may also visit our website at columnsc.net and make sure you follow us on our social media platforms on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.


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Where was Rusty at? Oh, where was Rusty at? That's for Old Twist. Because the last, you was last seen with Rufty. And all of a sudden you two are. And we all know you can't trust no nigga named Rusty. Yeah, it does sound like something. That's a bad joy. That's a bad handle. But then on top of that, they test your blood and say, you had Rufy, all type of Rufy paraphernalia in your blood. You know what I mean? Oh, paraphernalia is not. That's getting the man out of his worth of game. Paraphernalia is what is coming out. I'm not. Paraphernalia is what it comes. Like the extra thing. The accessories. The accessories. Yeah, but he had it in his blood. He had it in his blood. Paraphernalia in his blood.  He's a nut-ass nigga. Hey, listen. Let's get into this segment of million dollars worth of game, right? Hold up. This segment of million dollars worth of game is sponsored by, have you had any good here lately? Life is about to change for us guys. I'm not going to tell you what's going to happen. But I'm going to just say this. If you can't relate, don't hate. But you know, once again, this is sponsored by, I'm going to have good here lately. Dev going to have good here lately. Gil's going to have good here lately soon. And we're going to be telling you, but it's a sponsor by everythingdivaglam.com. What the fuck, what happened to IG shutdown? IG shutdown. What do you do? What do you do, Dev? I'm going to keep it all be real. If IG shutdown, a lot of these niggas is not going to have any bitches. Yeah.  Because these NB old niggas too. They don't know how to talk to a chick. No. So if you take IG away, a lot of niggas ain't going to handle bitches. You got to think.  Yeah. Like before texting, like it was niggas that couldn't get bitches before texting because they couldn't talk on the phone. They couldn't talk to a chicken in real life and then get on the phone and finesse it. They got to think about what they're going to say and type it and all that.  I love IG. I'm going to tell you like this. If IG shut down, dear Instagram business owner, you're in trouble. Most people got a lot of businesses on Instagram and they connect with people and they just hit the link and it's cool. But people don't handle physical locations. A lot of people is not collecting emails, collecting people emails and none of that. So they're done. It's nowhere.  I truly believe that Instagram going to be gone one day. I deeply believe that. Of course. A lot of people think it's like everything is about taking something away from you. Your alerts don't go to everybody when you post something no more. Everything is about to take, take, take, take. And then it might just say oof. And Facebook might buy something else that's on the move. Right. So everything that you was living on the gram, which is the black CNN. That's what you need to hear your news first. Anything that you know you hear first on the gram. Oh, what's the name got shot? Oh, what's the name did this? Trump did it. You hear first on the gram. Somebody posting it, but putting it there. But I just say, if you got a business right now, take advantage, collect people emails, build a relationship with your customers. Because if Instagram shut down, a lot of pieces of people is done. When I'm talking about done. Yeah. Building a relationship is most important because I've run my whole, my whole operation off of social media. And let me tell you something. If Instagram, it's pros and cons to Instagram shutting down though.  You know how many niggas ain't got the fraud? No, motherfucking more.  They can just go back to being regular because all these niggas is fraud on the gram. Let's keep it real. All these niggas is living a lie. You know how many niggas is standing on Bentley with H&M jeans on?  He just probably enjoying living his best life. No, that don't go together. Like you, but niggas, say they money up, they run in Miami, they run a car for one day and take 11,000 pictures in that one motherfucking day. Yeah, me? Them niggas, listen. Niggas, now the niggas go back to being regular now. It's no more regular niggas out here. Everybody's living a life. Every, these bitches could go back to being regular. Yeah, me? They ain't got a front. They ain't got to be in competition.  Do you believe the Instagram raised the insecurity rate? Yes. Because Instagram, let me tell you something, motherfuckers can go back to not arguing, because let's be for real. A lot of arguments that happen to be about Instagram.  People got killed about Instagram.  So there's some proves and some kinds to it, you know? But so you're saying that, and you believe, do y'all agree that 90% of our problems in the black community all come from Instagram as a beef is a problem.  I would say 90% but I'll probably say about 70%. That's a large percentage though. That's sad. Most people don't like each other. What's the name? Because, oh, y'all post this. Oh, but it's crazy that in people's minds, Instagram give you validation. No. Oh, my girl posted me on her Instagram. She loves me more. Oh, my boyfriend posts me on Instagram. He really loves me. A lot of times I don't mean that.  And it might not be, but for people, that's validation. IG is like instant validation. I think it's because if people have a page and they show everything in their life but they don't show the girl or their dude in people's minds, it looks weird.  Because let's be for real. A lot of these bitches be stepping stones. No disrespect. Dudes too. Right. So I'm with you. I love you.     You like this, you hugging Caesar. She all on your Instagram page. Go. What do you do? You go to Facebook now? So, yeah, they wanna go to something else. So, sometimes my fucks gotta face reality. Oh, he don't, she don't, she don't never post me. You ain't a good look. Yeah. Is that true? I mean, I could see that being an issue. It could be plenty of things, man. Is that true? But that's why, but that would make it a validation thing because it's validating from what Gil's saying, and their minds is validating that he is proud of how I look or who I am. So he posts me up, so he feel validated. They feel like what you said, they could be sneaky, but it's really like, at least he's letting bitches know that I exist, you know what I mean? That's what they look for.  I know I'm a secret. You don't even acknowledge me.    So, it's a difference player. So if Instagram shut down, a lot of people gonna be disconnected from getting the bills paid. What? Absolutely. What?  Let's be for real. They're not saying Instagram is back page. Shit. They just changed the name? Hey, anytime I put something up, it's bitches in my comments. You wouldn't believe my story when you see it.   Who are you talking about? But see, I understand what he's saying because a lot of women will put it on these stories and put it on a page. Oh, don't DM me if you can't pay my bills. Damn, maybe straightforward. Don't DM me if you can't pay my bills. Don't want to chill if you can't pay a bill, nigga. If you can't pay a bill, you can't chill. Shit real around here. Shit real.  They made it sound real smooth. I ain't got no time. No, no, my time is worth money and all that. Let me tell you something. You got to respect a woman that's like that because she letting you know what it is. She letting you know she's selling something. You want me to put this lips on your dick? You better have a grip. You got to respect that. Nah, but some of them, that's not that they say, they don't say it like in a prostitution way. They try to make it more like this is what a man supposed to do. Wait, hold on. I'm saying that's how they deliver it. Wait, hold on. Who don't know when a woman's selling pussy? That's not what I said.  Yeah, but that's not what I said.  Who? They have no vibe.  When? Tell the story, tell it. Oh, all right. Okay. I want to hear it.  No, I didn't.  That don't count, man.  Everybody was buying something back then. No, it wasn't. Listen, listen, listen. He was with me. Listen, listen, listen.  Now, Granny, she had just started smoking.  No, no, no. Listen, Granny, she just started smoking, but she was a nice smoker. Like she wasn't all the way out there yet.  Let me ask you something real, real, and be real. He was 13.    He was a rat, man. You was a rat. Well, snitch back. Let's snitch back. No, no, I'm not gonna snitch back. Snitch back. Dude, that's not cool. He was snitching back.  Snitch back. He's a rat. He's a rat. I ain't going to wait with that. I'm gonna snitch back. Snitch back. Go ahead. Go ahead. Damn, get it in the civilian mind. Snitch back. Snitch on me. I'm a snitch back. Snitch back. Do you hit me? You hit me.    You think it is civilian mind? I don't know. He was just about to make up a story on me just now. You know what I'm saying?  I just didn't want to see where I heard it from. Tell it. Tell me never about it. Tell it. Because this is how factual and sure is like, I've never done that. OK, hold on.   It's real stuff. Like she had just started. Everybody is watching this. Everybody is watching this. I'm gonna just say, Gil, you a rat. You a rat. And I'm not saying I've done nothing, but you telling old people. Like, we're taking time. You see, you might have got me mixed up with somebody else. We live our troops here.  And you're like, tell the truth. I'm gonna keep a holy grail. I'm gonna keep a holy grail. You lost count. You lost count. No, no. I'm gonna keep it all the way real. I don't play to pay. You know what I mean? He said he only tip. I don't play to pay. You know what I mean? I ain't never, I ain't never passed off no duh for some love. Before everybody, listen, I'll put it out there. I'll put it out there. I'll put it out there. I'll put it out there. I'll put it out there.  A hundred, a hundred and I've done it. How about this? I don't know what you're talking about. How about this? How about this, Kenneth? How about this? You remember I had the gray, piney, xumburibus on me in the gym? Yes, I do. Do you? It was a bad motor mouse on me. He had a gray sunburn with bad motor mouse. No, no, no, no, no. Do you remember this? How about this? We go down on a side block in Benjamin Franklin.  And you tell him a while ago, get out the car.  You knocked the chick off on the backseat of my car. Snitch back. Listen, you knocked it off for the backseat. You put your snitch back. You put your snitch back. You put your snitch back. Like, you a rat.   I just want to know this. I just want to know this. Listen, how much did you pay? How much did you pay? How much did you pay? To watch this. That was before. Two, we was kids. Two, this don't count. Two to do. We was kids. This don't count. This don't even count. But I'm just saying, listen, you jumped in the back.  Y'all made up snitch back. What did you say? I'm just saying, listen, you was on top of it. And you had a missionary backseat. The first one you know how hard it is. All I see was his hand on the window in the back. I was like, yo, Cous, what you doing in there? You MK. I be like, Jim, Cous, watch out. Watch out. Make sure the cops don't. You know you MK missionary and killer. Anybody fulfilling, they know about that side block. That side block end. And we used to go in Fox Valley, used to buy something. Used to try something. You said, they said, you want to try something? You got to buy something. Fox Valley. Only bought a hand me. Only bought a hand you listen. You got a hand job from some hands. You got a hand job from a hand and gave out a thousand hand jobs. No, she, no, she was. She didn't watch that. Yeah, it's a dirty hand. Listen, Fox Valley was dark. It was dark in there.  No, I didn't hold weed. I don't know. No, I didn't. This dude, listen, this is.  He lying here. This dude would get drunk, right?  Wait, wait, these niggas is selling to you.   I'm going to just say this.  Don't discriminate against me. You ain't quake a soldier boy on a fan business. Don't discriminate. I will say this. I will say this. I will say this. He got a hand job. I'm going to keep it all the way real. From a hand job master.  And you just, you just was next. I just wanted to drop some, some lotion in a palm. That's what I'm going to get out of here. She already had lotion on a palm. I wanted to drop some burship. Wow. Yeah.  Talk about it. Now all the women want to get married. I mean, I want to just a husband that's going to love me. Who going to take care of me? Who going to be there for me? Hey, step out of the way. You got niggas all in me. I just want to be with my woman for the rest of her life. Man, you know me, my baby. But 50% of marriages end in divorce. 50%? 50. In America today, we did research. 50% of people are getting divorced. So let me tell you something.  And you got to remember, marriage is a business. So when you marry somebody, you know, you get married. Their debt is your debt.  You got to help them. Right. So you mean to tell me, if you're on April get married, your debt is her debt? April, watch yourself if you're saying. I don't know what you're talking about. I ain't got no debt out there. I ain't got no debt. Let me see. You old niggas from when you went to jail, motherfucker.  I don't know, I was on the streets. All my stuff was cash money, bro. Cash money like your boy baby, records. Oh, OK. Yeah, you love baby, don't you? No, I'm just saying like.  I ain't got to listen. I ain't got nothing to worry about. I got 800 credit score. I'm out here doing my thing. I don't owe nobody nothing. So, you know what I mean? We doing it one, two. OK, so you just want to shout out to your guy. What did you just look at? He going to pull his credit score up, bro. No, he wasn't. A ball, baby. 802, he wasn't. I'm out here, this is it. That's what's up. You got to eat. All right, you got to 802. By the way, that's the Flex. That's the new Flex. With your credit score? It ain't about no dripping out of that. I don't need all that. That's the big drip. So the marriage is safe. So you just Flexed. Yeah, I think that's what they call it. Was that a weird Flex?   They call it the big drip. That's the big drip. Big drip. So let me ask you a question. So what do you feel about the marriages? I mean, 50%, that's a large number. How many people do you know just getting married just to say they got married? Just to Flex on a family member or just saying, I got married. I'm married. I'm better than you.  How many people you think do that? How many people just want to have these stuff on Instagram and just had his life like everything is perfect?  They really don't like them. OK, so this is what I'll understand. Because we talked about this. This is what I'll understand. How could a couple be together for 10 years, get married, and be together for two years, and then it's over? It's over.  Sometimes women or men might think they have more of an ownership over a person once they get married. You know what I'm saying?  Like I've heard that so many times.  Yeah.  I got to change my daily life around because I said I do. Yeah, that's what they think.  Let me ask you a question though. How much do the average wedding cost? A shitload of money. I'm talking about a regular down, like a regular. I think like 25 to 30. What? Well, you can get married for cheap. Yeah, for cheaper, yeah. But you know, most people can't don't want to do it cheap because at the end of the day for the woman is, I've been dreaming of this day since I was three, since I was two and a half and I could be able to dream. I just wanted to walk down the aisle and have doves flying and flowers dropping on me. Oh, but that's easy. That's easy. Oh, listen, that ain't that don't cost a lot of money.  No, no, but hold up, hold up. The higher the rules. Let me make this all these dreams. You make all these dreams come true. You know what you take them to? What?  Could you go to Walt Disney World with us over here? They're not going for that, bro. Wait, wait, wait. That's everything he said.   That's everything he said.  I'm just saying.  No, you said that's, I've been dreaming about it.    Then they can say, fly to Orlando, get a reverend, and go to Disney World and get married.  Because everything he said, everything about it's there. Everything he said described anywhere.  Goofy be his best man. That is my boy though, I would. That wouldn't be bad, Goofy right there. Goofy is what Goofy does. But hold on, Goofy can be. And we already knew you were a rat. One, two, three snitches. What's the name of the game? Goofy, Goofy. What is Goofy? Goofy's a dog. He's a nut. He's a dog. He don't even know who Goofy is. That's Mickey Mouse. Oh, I'm saying.  I just said you would be with Goofy.  That's what I said. Then I said Goofy is what Goofy does.  So that's both of them. Now, just because you two slow niggas' brains don't work like minds. Please forgive me. Let me say this, Dev. I wouldn't have Goofy on the ring because he might lose it because he Goofy. Think about that. But you're in a room with two people that work in that wedding industry. You feel them saying like me and B-Rock. And they spend that bread even on the photographer, the videographer. How much of a photographer call? A videographer. 3,000. The package deal? Yeah, B-Rock. No, no, no, it's not a package deal. I'm about to be B-Rock manager. That nigga do a wedding every week. Yeah, it is. It's 12,000 a month. How about this? How about this? What's the mo- We had to put the wedding together right here. Somebody say, so what did we spend? 3,000 for photo, 4,000 for photos. How much of a dress call? No, no, no, you might have spent 3,000 to 4,000 for video. You might have spent 2,000 to 3,000 for your photos. Two different things.  Right. Huh? 100 dollars per head to eat. You know what I'm saying? Like, 70 motherfuckers there. Look, the DJs be cakey. No, cousin Booboo, everybody tell me that's cool.  Yeah, but the fact that 50% of the divorces is happening in America and all over the world. What's the problem? A lot of times the father figure ain't in the home. So now the father ain't home? What impact do you think they have on the kids? Right. So what impact do you think the father figure, not fucking, take the father figure out of the kid life. What factor do you think a father figure not being in the kid's life plays? That's major. Because I'm going to keep it all the way real. My dad came back into my life when I was 15 turning 16. Right?  He ain't here for me. I never felt like that because honestly, none of my friends had fathers. Correct.  It's like the normal.  Who do we come from? It's honestly. I never regretted my pop on the type of time.  He, I never did because none of my homies had a father.     It didn't play no psychological effect on me or none of that. No, it might have. You just didn't notice it in that way, bro. Because if you think about it like this, I didn't grow up with no father figure either, right? So I think that this is my opinion. I think it might have fucked up me taking authority from a man. Like I do, like I literally felt like I can't no nigga. I would listen to a woman, an older woman, but couldn't no nigga tell me nothing.  It's like I'm a man. You a man.  You feel what I'm saying?  But with a woman, I kind of just, oh, I got my mom, my aunt, to everybody always around. You feel what I'm saying? It was just different. I'm going to say this. When I grew up in my hood, it was only Mr. Said around. This was my brother from another mother, Said, dad. Mr. Said, he was the only dad in the neighborhood. But everybody in my neighborhood didn't have no father. And all of us was locked up before we was in the system before I got killed. Every homie that I had, I don't remember nobody father being a man. I mean, the father was dead on drugs or he was in the joint. So I'm going to say this, it was crazy. It was real crazy, man, growing up. And it's like, you heard what he said, nobody had fathers. And that's normal. It's like, we didn't normalize dudes not taking every responsibility or dudes being mentally in another place to where they said they don't want to, that fatherhood ain't for them.    But this goes to anybody, no matter your race.  Because you don't, the impact that a father not being in a house, it's just crazy, it's devastating. Now your child getting introduced to drugs, again, introduced to crime, it's just getting, somebody there can take advantage of your child.  Because if you're not in your children life, somebody else might be in your children life and the person that's in your children life might not be there to look out for your children the way you supposed to be there to look out for them. You know how many boys and girls been molested? Because another man was in the house that had whatever on their mind and you wasn't there to protect your child.  And they ain't got nobody to come to. And they ain't got nobody to come to. So it was like, if you out there, you in the streets, whatever you at, I advise you, man, that you put your children first and try to figure about. And you know what I mean?     Like you got, it's a must.  So what do you think I supposed to do? Like, you know, he gave me game, but he gave me game on how to navigate in the streets. Right. That gave me a thought on something Gil said too. Like, Gil, did you know where your dad was? Like seeing him around or anything? No, my dad was in the ATL. So this is the difference, like with my situation, my pop would be two blocks from where we at right now.  So I would see my pop, my pop might see me on the street. Oh, what's up son? Give me $10 or something like that.  I go home singing his praises. You feel them saying like, Mom, my dad gave me this and my mom would be like, you, you sold him?  But, but when I got older, cause it was just like your dad's still a superhero. When I got older, I didn't feel like Gil felt like none of my boys had dads either. But I felt a resentment once I realized like, this nigga live here, like he around here. You feel them saying like, yeah, he around here. And so it gave me a different feeling than what Gil might have felt. Cause I used to be on some like, if I run into my pop, like as a teenager, I'll run into my pop. Yo, we, we won't stroll him. You know what I'm saying? And my friends felt the same way about their father.  So I had to go live with my pop. But at this time, I'm like 16 years old. And he like, yeah, you're gonna be coming to use your curfew at 11 o'clock. Like, I ain't came in at 11 o'clock when I was 11.   Nigga, I was snatching earrings at 12. Like you think I'm coming in at 11?  I should create. We were right through it in my nanny house. Think I tried to stab him or something. I love you, pop. How did you gain a certain- I was just telling the story. I think I tried to poke a hole in you with it. How did you gain that respect for him though? How did that develop, yo? Because at the end of the day, he came into my life. I was probably 15, 16 years old. A few years later, I had my first child. You feel what I'm saying? I was out in my mom house at 18. So now when you start living an adult life, you start to understand what adults go through. Damn, I gotta pay these motherfucking bills on the first. Damn, I got a child. Damn, my daughter need Pampers. My whole thing was, I feel like the most that I took from my dad not being around was me saying I would never, my kids ain't gonna never feel like that. No, I'll get that. You feel what I'm saying? I never really took it like, because like I said, it was a normal thing. Like I couldn't, I didn't get a chance to be jealous and envious.    He ain't around.       He basically reads himself. Like it's like you don't really get a chance to be jealous and envious. Does your dad bring up any guilt from the past now? Like as a grown man? No, because at the end of the day, me and my dad is the best of. They got a great relationship. Yeah, you got a great relationship. I'm not no nigga that hold on to yesterday. Listen, man, whatever you and my mom was going through, y'all was going through that. I ain't got no fucking, no issues with that, man. What's crazy is my me and my pop is tight now and we cool, but he's still like, every once in a while, he'll get like in that emotional mood. Cause like, I ain't going to get into it, into it.  And I had to leave Jersey for two years. And the only place that I could, I didn't know nowhere to go in the country. I didn't know nowhere to go. And my, my dad lived in South Carolina. And I had to, I had to make it. That's the facts. Dave Robb, the liquor store. No, that's not what happens. No, it was deep in there. No, no, no, no. For real, for real.   So I had to go somewhere. My pop was like, all right, you would come here. And that's where we from. Dave Robb, Marlon Plates. That's not what happened. I didn't rob a liquor store. But that's how we got cool. It was out of necessity. I had, I needed to go somewhere. Rob, the liquor store next to Cousins. No, no, no. That joint was like, that joint is only a block away, but no, that's not what happened. Nigga Robb, the liquor store right next to Cousins and Camden.   It was the dirtiest grocery store ever when we shopped there. Cousins? Yeah, it was good. I still get my steaks in there. No, but it was dirtier back in the day. It was like dirty in the 80s. In the 80s it was crazy. He love them steaks. I love the dirty steaks from Cousins. He love what Mickey and Money, Mickey, Mickey, Mickey and Minnie run over the food in there. You know how you go there, your bread have holes in there. Cause they didn't visit it. That's just different.  What's the difference between, and we talking today's ever. Between the younger street niggas and the oldest street. Oh, that's easy. Oh, that's easy. Because you be having a lot of old niggas out here still trying to live a hold on it yesterday. No, no, see they hold life as a throwback Thursday. See the problem with this.  A lot of them be out of touch with the reality. Some of them come home, some of them used to be and they be, and they hold thing is what they used to be. The motherfuckers is all like, listen man, ain't nobody trying to hear that. And what's different between then and now, that mindset and gorilla that you used to be as a young boy, you're not that no more because you didn't did time or you got a kids now, you got a family or whatever life. Now, if I go out there, not just me, if somebody do something to a young boy, you're an older cat or whatever's going on. A young boy is not thinking about jail. They're not thinking about losing their wife, their family, their kid. A young cat is moving right out. Bang, come right back. You do something, they're going to get, boo boo boo, they not playing.  And I'm not saying all of them. Some of them understand the reality of now and they know how to navigate through this world as it is now. No, all of them. No, no, no, not all of them. No, I'm telling you.  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. You're talking about the streets. You're talking about the streets. Oh, yeah, streets. Because if you older than you know what time it is, it's best to slide out and just let them do whatever they doing because young boys is not thinking. They ain't got no time to think.  And they're very impulsive. And I'm not letting no man disrespect me because once again, the father wasn't there. Ain't nobody never, my dad was.  No respect for elders.   And you want to be telling the story about what you used to be. Let me tell you what them niggas is thinking. Yeah, old head, I know what you used to be. I heard about it. And guess what?     Yeah, you got to.  Yup.   Man, I got more work than you ever put in.  I don't want to hear about the niggas you shot 96. Nigger, I wasn't even born. 86.  What you was doing in jail? You shot some niggas before I was born.      So please let them niggas go through their journey in life into the young niggas who want to be young thundercats. Just know all the young ain't gonna make it through. Some of you niggas are gonna take that escalator ride to heaven.    There's a big difference and it's best to just get out the way. Change the game. Now we're gonna take you to stories from the cell. It's crazy. The ingenuity of guys in prison is unbelievable. I remember I was in the shower one time and this was later in the game of me being in prison. I was in greatest full penitentiary and in greatest full penitentiary is different than like another jail like in Dallas. And you know, you had to, you only could take a shower at eight o'clock at night. Like it was a rat.  So if you in jail, you gotta be a vicious, a vicious, you gotta be a sank warrior.   You use the king of the bird baths. No, I'm just saying you gotta be one but I'm breaking it down the whole shower one process.  But in greatest full, you was able to shower whenever time, as soon as they open the door up in the morning, you out. You could just, cause that was a penitentiary. It's different. Dallas was too, but it was different. It was just wide open and more. So it's early, go to the yard on the side yard. Anybody knew greatest full, they was in the side yard.  Let me jump in the shower. I jump in the shower. Old school come up in there. Cause in greatest full, them, the old kids that been in prison, a lot of them, they got like on a minimum side, already got 30 in, 30, 40, 55, 60 years in. Literally been in the penitentiary that long. So they hold mine and how they think they still stuck in the time that don't exist no more.  So I jump in the shower.  So the oil it comes in, snatch his towel off. All he got on is these boxes, right? So I ain't paying him no attention. Hey, what's going on? I always respect the OGs. I don't care. That's just how it came up. Like, but you speak to niggas in the shower? Yeah, niggas talking. Niggas even talking in the shower. But like, that's the penitentiary.   You acknowledge he walked in that joint. What's going on, OG? What's up, young, what's up, blood? All right, what's that? Whatever, young blood, whatever. So I'm doing my thing. And like two minutes in him to being in the shower. Oh, under the water. He's a nut. Under the water. All I heard is ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.   And it fell. I heard that joint job.  He was STD. I wasn't scared to death, but you don't know.  I'm like, you know, I had to make sure that wasn't about me or who was it? I had to make sure that wasn't, I wasn't, that whole thing wasn't described to me.   I'm ready to bend.  Like your roofie boy. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So I'm like, so when I turned around, I do like, oh, anything cool? You're like, yeah, anything cool, blood, joint fell. He go back. I'm like, I'm listening. Only thing I'm activating is, I usually dry off, but I ain't worried about dried up. I slid over to the jaw. So listen, listen. I slid over to the jaw and grabbed my towel and I bit out there, Joe. Excuse me. I bit out there, Joe. I went back to the cell and I'm like, I'm like, hold up. I know how you just see what I'm about to see. So when I go back to the cell, my door, I was in B2E11. Anybody know, on Abelot, it ain't too far from the, so you can look at your door and see the shell. So I had to make sure that wasn't about me. So I'm still like, even though he notified me that it wasn't, I had to make sure, right? Cause I know, the old school players, you gotta stand a lot of old heads. Listen, and it's not to nobody personally, but a lot of old heads that was in jail back in the day, like they're still down. I'm talking about been down. Not all of them. Not all of them. Don't get me wrong.  But times changed where a bunch of young people started to come. So now jail changed because dudes, grandsons who was coming to jail, they defused and they ain't with that smut back on the street.  He had somebody in the cell with him. Somebody in the cell. Yeah. He had this boy in the cell with him named Keisha. Keisha, they got women in there.  So listen, that's what happened. And what happened was, it became a lot of tension. Cause I ain't going to tell you, like in the, like in the nineties, I ain't going to hold you like in the nineties. A lot of old heads was mad cause a lot of young boys started, cause a lot of young boys started coming to jail and they had to put the, and they had to put their dick back on the shelf.  They was mad.      It is not saying nobody was jiggly.   That little cuffs in. Yeah.  So somebody stabbed a little cuffs get them shipped out.   Stabbed it and it can get out of here. So it was some real shit, it's like, it was like, no, it was crazy, man. Because you don't know, like you got old heads, right? And you'll be talking to one of the old heads from down the way. They from back of the day be like, damn, OG, what's going on, old head? He be like, hey, young blood, what's going on? Let me out and listen. What's going on with such a thing? You could get a little conversation. Like, say me and Gil standing there and that might be an old head from down the way. He might knew a pop or knew somebody, right? So you talking to him for a minute.   I'm here, don't have me. And you just be like, he be like, no, that's cool. That's cool. She cool. I know she not.   Like you really don't know. And you're always like, no, that's good. No, it's not.  That nigga was, that nigga's animal. What you mean the animal? That nigga, man, he had, he had, listen, he been in jail for 15 years. He had 15 boyfriends there. I was like, what?  We did that nigga was a legend down the way. That nigga ain't who he was. All them stories you heard about that nigga.  When they think I love my homie. Dude, I grew up with, I ain't saying nobody named. Anybody that know us, they know. He's always told my pops, he just, he that, my pop this down the through. We go up to jail, I go up to jail, ran into his papa caught out of the way.   I'm not, excuse me.  You're like, what? Yeah. He's a, he's a, like what? No, I'm not. He already go tell him to say, hold on, don't tell him that cause his pop's still here. I don't want to run into his pop. Don't give me no problems. You know what I'm saying? They catch you in the shower, nigga. Don't give me no problems. You know what I'm saying?  He don't stab you two ways, nigga. He's like, Walo try to wash up with a phone book, tape to his tracks. How you gonna do that? Nah, man, you need some ross. He's getting to me, I was worth a game. Me and I was worth a game. He say, yo, I've been talking to this girl for a while now. And everything has been going good. The only problem is we started talking right after she broke up with her boyfriend.  Well, at the end of the day, bro, just trust the process because, I'm gonna keep it all the way real.   That's why he, that's why he really wanted to.  Enjoy life right now, player. She taking all the frustrations out on you.  Don't worry about B Dennis Rappin, nigga. Get all the rebounds. No pussy like, let me tell you something, because if it is rebound, you're getting the best of the best right now. So if y'all do end up being together, it's only gonna get worse if I'm here, player.  Let me tell you something the old here told me back in the day, I think I told y'all this already.    Did you see that?   Enjoy, sir. Enjoy yourself, sir. Enjoy that vagina.  Enjoy that vagina, young man. You know what I mean? And if you end up going somewhere else, then enjoy the motherfucking ride. All right? Listen, who would you be? Not her. Now, this is gonna get a little crazy.  Oh, two of you calling. You sure you want to answer that last time? Last time she called you, she played you. Put it on. Two, I'm in the middle of, I'm in the middle of my podcast too. You want to do this every week? You want to do this every week? Yeah, just working sure you're okay because there's like a billion cops in the alley way. Because what? A billion cops in the alley way.  Upstairs? Yes, that's why I was like, what?  Is that them knocking on the door? Oh my God. Hey, stop! How are we going down? Oh my God. That's them knocking on the door. Hold, hold, too. I hit you back. They knocking on the door, too. We going to jail, Tootie. Oh my God. Oh my God. Hey, listen. You get $30 million. Yo, the cops is upstairs, man.  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's wrong. You get $30 million, but you got one leg.   Who you going to be?   Yes, you will. You'll use the leg. They got prosthetic joints.    His piece don't work. I got 30 minutes. I go get hooked up. What?  How you going to say you can't get hooked up? You said I got 30 million. My piece don't work. You can't do it.  You can't do it.  That's the part of the joint.        No, I'm paying. Listen, listen, listen. If you got 30m, you going to pay to get your piece, baby. But no, he's saying you can't get your piece back. What you doing? What you doing, Gil?   So he's going to let his piece be out. Hold on. You going to let your piece go out? You ain't going to feel nothing.  All right, but think about this. No, I'm not. I don't want to be like that. Listen, shout out, you know, no disrespect to anybody who's lost their leg. But I don't want to be like that.  So imagine this. Imagine this. If we were single, though, you got one leg, right? You got 30 million. Imagine the episodes you could do with one leg, like more heads, the chicks could fit, because you only got one leg right here. You can do how they got a fit. You're crazy. But I'm saying now, you can get four jumps. He always go back to his point of view. Well, he'd be dead with the kickstand. That's cool. Kickstand death. Yo, one leg jump. Just line him up. He ain't on this joint. In point of 30.  Lean him up. He get a show. But he wasn't listening.  He got one leg, they lean against the wall.  Talk about, all right, so you taking a one leg. That's cool. Yo, what, too? No, I'm not.    I ain't taking a one leg. I ain't taking a, what you doing? You doing the 10 years in jail?  My peace, my peace guy go out. For real? Yo, y'all crazy. No way. Listen, man, listen straight up. I can't do that, man. Yo, yo, one leg. They got prosthetic joints. Prostetic legs.  No, your whole purpose is so you could do some pouring that ain't out yet. I'll be a big nigga, man.   Damn.   But I believe my peace is coming back alive one day.  There's no peace. It's not coming back. It's dead. Your peace is in heaven.  Yeah, it's a noodle. It is what it is. I got my peace going to come back alive. I can't do, listen, the thought of me, like that would be horrifying on my pieces. That nigga be on eight Rangers. Yo, but then what you gonna do?  You can't let the clip go. Like how you live? Like what are you gonna do? You gotta go to the doctor, get a drink. I'm at work. I'm trying to figure this out.  I'll tell you one thing. It's more bullets keep going in the clip and you can't shoot them. I'll tell you one thing.  Give Dev one leg. He gonna lose his mind.   You got people out there. Not like you would be able to do that. That's right. Listen, listen, listen, listen. He got no balance.  Wham! Wham!  I'll be dropping. He be trying to get up, struggling, trying to get a roll over.  Troy the joint. What's this joint? You gonna take advantage of it. Damn, I can't do the arts. You would take advantage of it. What's the joint where you, when you put your arms under a nigga joint?   He ain't got no balance. He got a roll up.  Picky Mala, dumpy Monacea. But he got 30 minutes. He got 30 minutes. He'll get you hit. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Listen, I get my karate brothers. Look, he met them. Look at that. Yo, he met them the other day. Two niggas on steroids in a short old head with the burden. Oh, he's anxious.   No, he's anxious.   Yeah, he's dangerous.  He had two. Did I out leave? He texted me. Yo, the guy just walked in, one of the strongest man in the world.  You're not in the world in America. In America, you're done. Okay, all that tells me is he needs some pussy.  This piece might be dead. You know that stuff.  They say the Roy's kill your piece. They said it's him. Oh my God. It's a man on the Roy's. I'm on the Roy's. I'm on the Roy's.  Red Rangers, blue Rangers, two Rangers, three Rangers, four Rangers. That's why in front of him, I take the one leg. Your piece already dead. You can just imagine getting 30 million right now.  This is the craziest part. Now I'm thinking like, damn, I can't do the arts with one leg. Well, you can, but... He ain't worrying about no arts. You got that brain. He ain't worrying about no arts. He tripping. Damn, but the fact that he can just sweep my leg is crazy.  He ain't got no balance.  As you go right out his ear, listen to his leg being ear. As you hit it, wham! Oh! Boom! He's trying to hold his biscuit. He be holding his top. Now listen, to change the subject, what you listening to right now? Lil Dirk, new album. He love it. He listen, he's a... Do you know Dirk? Listen, he love Dirk.  I listen to this dude named Xavier Molley. He got a joint called Russia, he dope. Xavier Molley. Molley, yeah, he dope. That's a freak name. What did you say? And you still listening to Dirk? Now, Molley, I'm like, M-A-L-I. So you listen to that new Dirk now? Yeah. I'm telling you that new Dirk. You listen to that new Dirk. That new Dirk, man, it's crazy. For me personally, I'm listening to a lot of young cats, but right now I'm really zoning on the anthology of JZ. I'm listening to every joint he ever put out. Just right now I'm just having everything. Four, four, four reasonable doubt, everything. Four, four, four. Whack-ass album. No, it was a lot of information. I didn't like it as much as people talked about it. People talked about it like it was crazy. It was on his lower level of albums for me, and I'm a whole thing.  Listening to four, four, four, four, four, you need to listen to five, five, five, four, five. And I'm listening to trial and call questions always. Always listening to trial and call questions.  We already, please. I don't listen to trial and call questions. All right, that's cool. Okay, that's cool. I like that. I like that. Get some peace of fire. That was usually doing better. That's what's up, man.   I wasn't even saying it like that. You know what I'm saying? So I'm gonna get a proper respect. Okay, I respect that. That's cool. But I don't listen to them niggas. Thank y'all for tuning in to me and I was worth a game. Me, me, me, me, me, me, me. We appreciate y'all every single week, making us the number one music podcast in the country. I'm Gilly the King. I'm Wildo 267. And it's just like, wait, hold on. And that's Devyn Nasty with an I in on the end. Yeah. That sound too pornish.  I was a porn star. All right, let's leave it alone. And it's just like that. Right.


there are approximately 10 million Linux distributions. Okay, so maybe that is a little bit of an X overestimation, but there are a ton of Linux distributions out there, and we know that because if we go to DistroWatch, our favorite site, you'll know just by searching that you can scroll through Linux distributions for days and days and days, and there's just a ton of them out there. So one of the things that allow a distro to differentiate themselves from other distros is the look and feel of their desktop environment, whatever desktop environment they've chosen, right? So things like theming and icons and cursors and those kind of things, those all kind of play into how a distro differentiates itself from one another. There's a reason why it's okay for there to be 12 dozen art space distros out there. They all try to at least look a little bit different. So what I thought I would do today is talk about the top five Linux distributions that are the best looking according to me. Now I want to very much emphasize the according to me part of that statement because when it comes to what's good looking, what I think is that is not necessarily what you think is good looking, right? It might be that you really like the deep end desktop environment.  Me personally, I don't like it. I don't really care for the aesthetic all that much. It's just kind of my opinion. So when it comes to making a list like this, it's very much a subjective thing. So just keep that in mind. What I think is the best looking isn't necessarily the official be all end all opinion on the matter. It's perfectly fine. If you're just getting into Linux to try all of them, try everything as much as you can. Eventually you'll find what's good for you. So let's go ahead and jump in. The first one on the list is Gerudo Linux. Now, if you're watching the b-roll now that should just be popping up just about now, you'll notice that this is very flashy. Like this is definitely not going to be for everyone. This is a distribution that takes design very seriously. The developers have a very eclectic idea of what good design is. That's for sure, but it does stand out. Like you're not going to find another Linux distribution that looks like this one unless they've blatantly copied it, right? This looks very unique and that's why it's on the list. It's definitely a good looking distribution if you like this kind of thing. And I happen to like it quite a lot. It's unique, right? It's definitely not something that you're going to find other places. So let's talk a little bit about the particulars. This is based on Arch Linux. That means that you're going to have access to things like AUR, which means you're not going to have any problems with finding software. You're going to be able to pretty much download whatever you want. All of the software comes from either managing that in the terminal, like you would if you use regular Arch or using the Octopi package manager, which comes pre-installed. Personally, I'm not a big fan of Octopi. I think it's overly confusing. Definitely not as good as PAMAC in terms of being able to manage software on Arch. But if you need a GUI package manager, Octopi is installed by default. It uses ButterFest by default, which is the only one that does that on this list. And that's significant, I think, because I think ButterFest is fantastic. It also includes snapper and snapper tools out of the box so that when you do an update, it's going to automatically create a snapshot for you. That means that if an update breaks your computer, you can roll back if you need to. That is really cool, right? It also has an amazing feature. So after you've done your install, it will offer you the opportunity to go through a ton of categories, like a literal ton of categories of software to choose what you want to install. By default, there's not a lot installed on the ISO. It's just kind of barren. And it's that by default, because it wants you afterwards after you've installed it to choose the packages that you need. So it's kind of following the Arch Linux philosophy in that you kind of build things up on your own. Now, obviously it is not as difficult to install as Arch Linux. It uses the Calamari's installer, but it does give you that option to at least build up some of your package stuff on your own. Finally, it has several different versions, but the KDE version which you're seeing here, this is the Dragonized version actually. They use KDE Plasma, but the KDE Plasma is the default one. Okay, moving on to the next distro on the list. That is elementary OS. Elementary OS is probably one that a lot of people expected to be quite high on the list. And number four is about as high as I would ever put it. Frankly, I'm pretty sure that I'm not going to put this on the next year's list of this, because while it does look nice, it's a very good looking distribution. If you like the macOS aesthetic from like five years ago or so, this aesthetic will do well for you because it looks like macOS from about five years ago. It's not so much the new macOS where it's all transparency and big buttons. This is very much more of a chrome-like, scuromorphic kind of design that macOS is well known for a few years ago. It's based on Ubuntu, so you'll have access to a lot of software and it's meant to be very, very stable. One of the things that is definitely true about it is that they have a very strict UI guideline system, which means that any applications that they use by default look basically the same. So you're going to have a high level of consistency across the entire operating system outside of third-party applications. If you download third-party applications that don't follow the UI guidelines, they're not going to look the same. But they try as hard as they can to make sure that every application you use looks exactly the same. In the most recent version, they did include a dark mode, which looks fantastic. Their dark mode looks amazing. It's way better than their light mode. They should just get rid of the light mode completely, but that's just my opinion. It is by far the best mac-like experience you'll find out of the box on Linux. It's really, really good. And it takes the Mac part really seriously in that it's very focused on UI consistency, having control over where your applications come from and things like that. If you've used Mac before, you'll be very happy in elementary OS, probably. There are a few downsides. The updates for this operating system are notoriously slow. So if you need up-to-date packages, elementary OS is probably not going to be right for you. Just keep that in mind if you decide to try it. The other thing that you'll need to know is that the App Store, which is the elementary OS App Center, is a very well-designed App Center, but it's not really all that well-stocked. You can download things from FlatHub if you want to, and you'll probably have to because it doesn't even include any browsers or office software inside of the App Center. You have to go get that from the FlatHub. So just keep that in mind. Finally, it uses the Pantheon desktop, which is GTK-based. So if you manage to escape outside of the walled garden that is elementary OS, you can customize using things like elementary tweaks, which will allow you to theme it to your heart's content. So that is elementary OS. The next one on the list is Manjaro. Now, Manjaro, specifically the KDE version of Manjaro, is probably the most vanilla of the distros that I'm talking about today. And the reason why it's on there is because a lot of people actually like the look of Manjaro, and I happen to be one of them. I think that they've done a really nice job of keeping things very, very simple. It does look basically like a KDE desktop, but they have their own theme, their own color scheme. They've done a good job of selecting wallpapers, and it's a very well put together distribution that is not as flashy as others, but does a really good job of just being decent looking, right? It's not something that is going to blow you out of the water, but still very much one of those distributions that does a good job of feeling very cohesive and nicely designed. I like the themeing. I like the color palette that they've chosen. I always have that Manjaro green that just kind of stands out amongst all the other themes that you could possibly choose. I mean, a lot of people have, a lot of theme developers have taken that color scheme and kind of ran with it. So it's proven to be very popular. Now, a few particulars, it's based on ARCH. So again, you're going to have access to things like that you are. It uses Pamek as the GUI front end for your software center. It is not the best software center in the world. It is not the worst. I'm not actually sure if this is true or not. I think it might come with this cover. If you use the KDE Plasma version, I'm not actually sure about that, to be honest with you. I didn't check that. It's been quite a while since I've actually used Manjaro, but it's possible that it does. And while I'm focusing on the KDE version, which is what you're seeing in the B-roll, Manjaro does come with XFC and GNOME versions officially and several other community editions if you're looking at using something a little bit different. The XFC and GNOME versions being official versions are also very well styled. So they all have the same basic color schemes, but they all do a very good job of being a well-designed desktop environment on top of a distro. So you won't be losing anything if you decide not to go with KDE and decide to go with GNOME. They really do look similar and that they at least use the same color scheme. So that's something to keep in mind. So that is Manjaro. The second to last distribution on the list is called PopOS. Now, PopOS is an interesting distribution in that it is developed by a hardware manufacturer that focuses on Linux laptops and desktops. And that is one thing to keep in mind if you decide to use this, is that it tends to be very much a distribution that can work well on a wide variety of hardware. So if you're looking for something that needs to run, say, an NVIDIA driver, PopOS has an ISO that has NVIDIA built right in and it works really well. But that's not really why we're here. We're looking at the look and feel. In terms of how it looks, out of the box, I actually don't care for it all that much to be honest with you. That long bar along the bottom doesn't really do anything for me. So the first thing I always do, and you'll see this in the B roll, is I change that so that the panel is just along the bottom. It looks 10 times better out of the box like that. And that's just my opinion, but I think that that should be default. In terms of theming, it's a brighter version of like GrubBox, which is why I like it. GrubBox is one of my favorite versions that use kind of that dark brown color as the base. And it's really, really nice. I like this theme quite a lot. And they haven't exactly copied like GrubBox. It's like not 100% GrubBox. They have like a teal color blue as their secondary color and a yellow color that goes along with that. It just all goes together really nicely. And it's just something that I find very aesthetically pleasing. So now for a few particulars, it's based on the Ubuntu LTS. I believe they have actually come out with the Ubuntu LTS 22.4 version. So that is something that is nice. It's definitely different than something like elementary OS, which is notoriously slow when it comes to update. This one, PopOS actually updates really quickly when a new version of Ubuntu comes out. It uses the Popster, which is actually based on the elementary OS app center. So if you notice, those are actually very similar because they are exactly the same. But the difference is that the PopStore does pull from different software sources so that you have a much wider version of software than you do in elementary OS. It also uses the elementary OS installer, which is a departure from what Ubuntu uses, which is the Ubiquity installer. So that is something, again, to keep in mind. Finally, it uses the Cosmic Desktop. And this is based on GNOME. And it actually is GNOME, by the way. It just is GNOME with many different extensions on top of it to make it look a little bit different. So if you are familiar with GNOME, it'll be very easy for you to customize this. It does have a light and dark mode, like pretty much all these that I've talked about. It doesn't have some of the GNOME features that you would expect if you've used GNOME on other distributions. So it doesn't have the accent colors that stuff hasn't been built in yet. So that's just something that you need to keep in mind.  It's still really very good. One other thing to keep in mind is that if you're watching this video in the future, like a couple of years in the future, this may not be all that accurate anymore because POPOS is actually moving away from GNOME and creating their own desktop environment where it didn't rust. Called the Cosmic Desktop still, but it's going to be a little bit different. It'll probably look basically the same and have most of the same features, but it won't be GNOME anymore. So just keep it in mind. The last one on the list is ZorinOS. And ZorinOS is based on Ubuntu, like several of the other ones on this list. So you can expect to have a wide range of software. And it uses by default two different desktop environments. The one that you're seeing now is GNOME and they also have an XFCE version. Both of those are free versions and they're both very well designed and very similar in terms of functionality. The XFCE version is a little bit better in terms of resource usage just because XFCE is much lighter than GNOME, but they do have quite a few of the same features. They also have a pro version that you can pay for. I believe that also uses GNOME. I'm not actually sure. I've never paid for it to try it out. So if that's something that you're interested in, it basically comes with a whole bunch of software pre-installed. That's basically what you're paying for then, some customer service. So that's something you might be able to consider if you decide you really like ZorinOS. But that's probably for the future. In terms of look and feel, you'll notice that this has a ton of customization. And if you've used GNOME in the past, you'll know that that's a little weird, right? Zorin has done a very good job of making GNOME really customizable. So in addition to dark and light themes, you also have a ton of accent colors or at least a few accent colors that you can then select that will filter throughout the entire distro, which is really nice. Some of them aren't really all that great. Looking in my opinion, like the orange one kind of looks more brown to me, but the other ones are actually really nice. And like I said, it filters throughout the entire distro. So it changes the icon theme. It changes the look and feel of the windows. It's really nice. ZorinOS also offers four different layouts for you. So there's a Mac-like one or at least a traditional GNOME-like one that has the hidden panel along the side. It has a couple of different Windows versions. And they're really nice. And they're very quick to change. Even in the VM that you're watching me chest this in now, the layouts pop up pretty much instantaneously. That's not always a given in these distros that have this type of changer. A lot of times they take quite a while for the change to actually take place. And a lot of times it actually resets your entire session, which is a little weird, but this one doesn't do that. It's almost instantaneously, it's really, really good. In terms of software, it uses the GNOME Software Center as the app store. And it focuses on flat packs and flat hub by default. So you have a very wide range of software in addition to the Ubuntu repositories. So you shouldn't have any problems finding the software that you need. And the reason why I've put this number one is simply because it has a lot of customization for it without being so overwhelming like the KDE versions or the KDE distros that I've talked about today. And it just feels very cohesive. It's one of those things where you can change the between the dark and light theme and every thing changes to dark and light. It uses a GTK theme that just kind of propagates throughout the entire system no matter what applications you're using. As long as they're GTK, they work really well. And it just feels like a very nice put together experience and it just looks amazing, right? So that's why it's number one on my list. Now, I wanna talk a little bit about a couple honorable mentions. Things that didn't quite make the list and I know other people like so I wanted to kind of put them on here. The first one is Deepin OS. I didn't put Deepin OS on here because it's still got that kind of shade of being from China on here. So I don't know whether or not that matters to anybody or not anymore but there's still some kind of reputation there for maybe not being as secure as the other distributions but whether or not that's true and that's not really for me to say but it does garner a lot of attention because it's very unique in terms of look and feel and customization. So if that's something that interests you I'll try to put a screenshot of it here. I didn't actually record any B-roll of that but it is nice looking if that's your kind of thing. And similarly, the other honorable mention that I wanted to talk about is QtFishOS. Now, I didn't put QtFish on here because to me it's still very much in beta. It's not a desktop environment slash distro that you can honestly use and think that it's 100% complete. It's still very, very new. It's only like a year and a half old. They've done a phenomenal job of making it usable but there's still quite a few things that are just there that are not missing but that being said, if and when it does get done it will probably take over for elementary OS as the best Mac-like experience because it looks like an iPad basically. It looks like they took the iPad operating system and put it in on Linux and it looks very, very nice, right? But like I said, it's not quite complete yet so I left that off the list in terms of actually putting it in the top five. So those are the top five best looking distributions in my opinion along with a couple honorable mentions. I again think that these are all my opinions so I'm not pushing this on anybody. These are just things that I find very good looking and I would be happy using them no matter what. These are things that I probably would never change the theme on if I were to use them. I think probably. Everybody knows how I like to customize things so I might not be saying the truth there, I don't know. But the point is that they're all very good looking distributions. So in the comment section below I would love to hear from you. What are your best looking distributions? I wanna hear from you in the comment section below. You can follow me on Twitter, at the Linuxcast. You can follow me on Mastodon or any of my other social media networks. You can find those links in the video description. You can support me on Patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast. I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons. All of you are amazing, amazing people. I can't even ever find the words to say how grateful I am for all of you who support me on Patreon and YouTube. Just thank you so very much. I know that in this day and age it's kind of hard to support just a little YouTuber but I do appreciate it so very much. So thanks everybody for your support. Thanks everybody for watching. 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