Shell Bling Ubuntu and finstem now have what I’m calling “speed paints” of how someone, starting from scratch on a standard Ubuntu VM, might install the programs.

This came out of me realizing ffmpeg makes speeding up a video recording of a VirtualBox session a one-line operation:

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ffmpeg -i output.webm -filter:v "setpts=0.1*PTS" -an output-fast.webm

When I watched them back, I realized it gave me a really good sense of what the installation should feel and look like, even if I hadn’t actually tried it yet. That in turn made me think “Oh, installing this thing really isn’t that bad after all.” So I decided it was worth including.

I had already made some videos of installing both of these projects from scratch on a fresh Ubuntu Linux VM, but I had found out that the video file size was too large for Github. So I split the difference, and put the original video on YouTube for anyone who wants to investigate the details.