Embracing Linux: Mint Week
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Video diary of a Windows user trying out Linux for seven days! Including setting up fonts, installing Google Chrome and Inkscape, working in Google Docs and GIMP, and installing Linux Mint on a desktop PC.
Linux Mint is available from: www.linuxmint....
This video is a follow-up to “Embracing Linux: Bootable USB Drive”: • Embracing Linux: Boota...
You can learn more about Inkscape in my video here:
• Inkscape Free Vector G...
And about GIMP in my video here: • Free Photoshop Alterna...
You may also like to watch “The Future for Windows 7 Users”: • The Future for Windows...
More videos on computing-related topics can be found at: / explainingcomputers
You may also like my ExplainingTheFuture channel at: / explainingthefuture
I love it when brilliant people explain things so the average person can understand the concept and yet not feel like the subject was dumbed down.
i dont mean to be so offtopic but does someone know of a method to log back into an instagram account??
I somehow lost the account password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me.
@Brian Reginald instablaster =)
In my opinion Christopher is one of the best computer educators on RUclips, if not the best. His 'terminal' video is the best one I’ve seen, he gives a really good general grounding. Very much an under subscribed channel.
Thank you for embracing Linux, It's lovely that people start exploring and videos like yours help people with that quite a bit.
Agreed, whilst I'm not much of a Linux person myself (nothing against the OS, the community is just a bunch of viscous dogs)I do agree it's good to try to embrace alternatives to spywa... I mean er, windows 10
Justin Noker Haha! Yes, there are quite a few remarkable people in the Linux community, but I have experienced the same thing with Windows experts as well. Try to see passed that, because when I learned Linux back in the day I never encountered people like that at first.
Also, install a network packet inspection software tool on Windows 10 to see what data they send (I'm assuming you were secretly meaning that haha). When you disable all the 'Send anonymous data to M$ to improve ...... ' - it doesn't send so much any more.
Bas Groothedde I have actually seen a video on that, even that doesn't really stop it, as some packets are able to get past a sniffer and need to be detected somewhere between the PC and the modem, and what I saw one IT researcher discover is that even with all options disabled, it still sent keystroke and search Data to MS, even though he had everything disabled and all known links blocked, even if he reblocked them a new update would just add in more links for MS to mine your data from, he estimated total amount of links for MS to use is either in the hundreds of thousands or even millions, so just windows 10 online at all isn't anywhere near private
Bas Groothedde also for the Linux, I mean, I am wanting to try again, using a distro based off Ubuntu, though what initially put me off was I was trying to install a game, no big deal. Then it said I needed a graphics driver, when I tried doing the instructions I got from google, it didn't work, so I went to a forum for help, that's where all hell broke loose, a third of the replies were criticizing my choice in Distro, second third was just blatantly calling me dumb and telling me to go back to Windows, and the final third was basically, well, more criticism, after that, I chose to leave Linux, as my first dive into the community really put me off. I wish I can just find one guy real good in Linux and just go to them as a resource instead, though for now, if I get an issue, I just gotta raise the white flag to that damn penguin
Justin Noker Maybe try a few different forums, some times the less friendly folk seem to group up on one forum or category or something.
A dead MacBook Pro video chip inclined me to replace it with a PC desktop, and Win10 has inclined me to migrate to Linux. Thanks for helping along with this.
same thing here.
I feel like this was made in the 80s, and but RUclips is telling me it was 2016. This guy is great! Encapsulation of nostalgia
12:25 did he ... just install the HDD the other way around?
Well done, Chris! That just made my day, hahaha!
Beautiful!!! :)
I am sure it was the right way around -- is only goes in one way, and it worked! :) The SSD I removed was in a 2.5 to 3.5 inch convertor, which may have confused things here!
+ExplainingComputers The SATA port was facing the front of the case.
Well blow me! You are right! :) I am an idiot. No wonder I could not recognize the drive in Linux! :) I know the drive will not go in upside down, but it clearly does fit nicely back-to-front! So there we are, you have solved why I had problems -- and I will look twice in future. :)
+ExplainingComputers Happens to the best ones... And props for Skelpolu which was the first finding the mistake. Take care... and use more GNU/Linux.
Linux mint 18 is rock solid and arguably the best Linux desktop on the market right now
Agree, I know different distros fit other people, but IMO Linux Mint is the best overall, I tried over 10 other distros and always return back to Mint, it's always been the one that remains stable and just works. Can't wait for Mint 18.1
I personally love KDE Neon. I used mint for over a year but it just never felt right for me :(
19 cant handle 32bit apps and even wine
@@CarinoGamingStudio wine works
@@sybrenvandenakker9064 well i search for answer and yep it works but you need to install needed.
After 4 years, this video still useful and very informative. Thank you sir.
Here to do some catching up before the RISC-V Week video! I love how on your business card (17:40), you're just looming over a planet. 😅
Thanks for your work on Linux. Your videos have inspired me to try various flavours of Linux, as I'm trying to move away from Windows, both at home and at work.
Your relaxed presentation lends itself to long format, all thumbs up! I am making good experiences with ~ 10 years old 1.5 gb dual core 2 gb ddr ram graphics below hd OEM lenovo think pad, stand alone Linux Mint (I think, also cinnamon). In comparison to Ubuntu before, really remarkable: with the exception of an adequate printer driver, all drivers are there! No hunting for ! The other very noticible difference, is the speed! From my experiences I definitely would recommend Mint for old systems!
Thank-you for making this video. Now people can start embracing the beauty of Linux. What I have noticed is that the flash drive you were using on your netbook was a preview of Linux mint. I'd recommend making a video of how to install Linux mint fully on a flash drive via a virtual machine, making the install process less stressful because of human error (erasing all data on your main drive...).
I truly enjoyed the video and encourage you to make more!
Thanks for this. I will certainly extend my range of "Embracing Linux" videos. Though next week, and the one after that, I am back to storage. And then a Raspberry Pi video. :)
I have an 'older' laptop that I'm now going to change over to Linux Mint and make a concerted effort to migrate away from Windows. I certainly wouldn't have thought of this without your helpful videos - thanks for sharing your work. It was very cool to see you in a more relaxed, informal setting and I would hope for more videos in this manner. As always, I wish other content creators were as engaging. I wish you a great week and hope that all is going well for you and yours.
Thanks Kevin. Good Luck with the laptop.
Your 'older' laptop will run surprisingly smooth with Linux. I'm a Windows and Linux user, and all my semi-old devices run Linux Mint these days. They all run better than they've ever done on Windows. It's just a big adaptation if you're not used to Linux, but I think you'll like eventually.
Hi Bas. Yes, thanks for that! I love the positive, helpful comments! ;-) I do need to make the jump for many reasons and not to continue to be a computer laggard as I have been! Once I get that snowball rolling, I'll be away. It's the same with my hesitancy with Raspberry Pi; once I get a little bit, I can find the energy to roll with it - it's just that initial jump-start! Many thanks again for chipping in!
How old is the laptop? Windows XP? Windows 7? What are the specs? It might be worth just cleaning it out and repairing the OS.
Kevin H Exactly, the start is always the most challenging thing when you learn something new. Good luck with your laptop and the Pi!
Thank you for the Mint week.
I didn't know it was a dairy - very interesting and funny.
I just like your british accent - I've been in Britain three times in my life (1979-1987-2000) and I like your country.
I enjoyed watching this video, It opened my eyes to how easy a Linux distro like mint could be. I'm seriously considering installing it on my netbook. Looking forward to seeing new videos about mint in the future!
All late but just burn iso image on a flash drive
Hi Chris, I've been using Linux Mint for a couple years, and although I can't give up Windows yet, I really enjoy it. Recently, I came in to possession of an HP Stream 14. Yes, a real piece of work it is! LOUSY Windows computer. However, I was able to upgrade it to 8gb/RAM, and I installed Linux Mint 18.1 on it, and it makes an outstanding little Mint box.
I gave it to my four year old Granddaughter, and she simply loves it! She's learning Linux, and computers a little at a time now, and doesn't seem to be getting bored with it at all! If someone has one of these extremely "budget" laptops, I highly recommend Linux Mint for it! Even with the 32gb eMMc drive on it, there's plenty of room for Linux Mint!
This is great to hear!
@@ExplainingComputers She's only had it for a couple days now, and she can already turn it on by herself, find all her games, and play. She likes the see-and-say games, and TuxPaint, and TuxMath. We're still working on the shutdown routine. :) She seems to be really interested. Now, I need to get her a little pink mouse, and a mousepad. I'm so exited, she's picking it up so quickly, and loves to use it. Thanks for your help! Have a GREAT day!
Mint on a netbook. That takes me back. Mint was the first distro I ran full time on my NC10.
I have a Lenovo T400, that has Linux Mint 19.3 on it. Runs quite nicely.
Thank you for showing people the Linux Mint option to computing. It has its place and we have had it in our home environment for a few years now with much success. 😃😃😃😃😃
Greetings Linux Mint new user I've been using Linux Mint for about 7 years congratulations you're stepping up into the world and since you are so smart we'll probably learn things I don't know I probably will be picking your brain
I've been hoping to fully switch over to some sort of Linux distro, Mint has made it easier, but ultimately I do find myself missing the little things here and there I took for granted in Windows. WINE works pretty well for almost everything I've thrown at it though. Getting used to the Linux file structure has been the most difficult for me, finding files and configuring things that require me to know where they've gone and been installed.
But for all of the trouble I do still enjoy it and hope it gets better, using Linux feels like living off the grid, like a house with solar panels and windmills doesn't depend on residential power you don't feel like you depend upon the Microsoft juggernaut anymore. Although in the end just like a house that's off the grid you can't just call the power company when your solar and wind power acts up, you're on your own or depending upon the knowledge of others, it can be a bit daunting at first.
Found that really useful. I've been looking at starting down the Linux path and seem to be finding myself drawn to Mint. Enjoying your channel. Thank you
Thanks. And the comments here are heavily Mint positive! :)
Thank you ! As a 4-week newbie now, your videos have helped to make my journey a soother ride. Did want point out that your comment on having to make a bootable CD for Cinnamon Mint 19.2 provided an answer to a question that was (surprising) missing everywhere I looked. For my install, I had had to load 18.3, then upgrade to 19, & upgrade again to 19.2 (the only solution that I could find to the problem at the time). Wish I had see your video before all that trouble.
Thank you so much for this video Chris. After seeing this, I wiped my hard drive and I'm all in with Linux Mint. This is the perfect example of a great RUclips video. Well done, Chris!
Wonderful! :)
Your conclusion was great, I wanted to comment about Wine and about some of the apps you could have used, but it seems you'll keep talking about them later on. Excited to watch that!
One should be able to give a thumbs-up for each item in the video that was new and well explained......Old video, I know, but still very relevant.. I have just installed Linux Mint on an older HP laptop...Thanks to you in this and the previous video...
Thanks to you I am going to start embracing Linux for my laptop
Thanks for another highly informative video Chris. It's always good to have an alternative OS to Windows, Linux Mint is a good choice among many Linux offerings... hard to beat the price! A while ago I had my main Windows 10 system go down and was forced to switch to an older Apple Power Mac G5 running a PPC CPU... and Lubuntu for PPC. After a few hours of setting up software/settings I was able to continue my days work. Lubuntu is a great option for older computers that ran Windows XP and can't get newer software update for browser etc. Best of success with your new book.
After watching mint videos on your channel, I tried using mint (earlier I used Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Pop OS, Lubuntu, and Manjaro)
Struggled with wifi drivers in Pop, Xubuntu, and Manjaro. Mint didn't disappoint. Thought I had to build wifi drivers from source. But rest everything is clean and tidy.
And today I just stumbled upon this video once again.
Rather enjoyed watching your Linux experience. I loved Win 7. I moved to Linux Mint about 10 months ago and love it. Not one screen flicker, freeze or crash and I use it 10 hours a day. My installation on my Dell system went tickety-boo, everything ran perfectly including my AMD graphics - immediately. If you are just a regular computer user Linux Mint is an awesome OS. It is lighter than Windows so breathes new life into older hardware and runs faster. Speciality proprietary Windows software is purposely designed not to be used out of Windows. If you had used Gimp in Windows, files would open perfectly in Mint. As I left Windows for personal security and privacy, I also left behind Microsoft's biggest competitor in gathering personal data - Google Chrome. Love Firefox and it flies in Linux Mint - now with Netflix capability.
Great video, even though you never showed how users can really personalize LM and jazz up its appearance.
dwbsovran There's themes all over the place - check out DeviantArt, gnome-look, and so on. There's also tutorials for customizing your lock/login screen (if you use Mint, here's a hint: the theme for the login/lockscreen is written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript)
For fonts, some are in the repos, and any other ones you can drop in /usr/share/fonts/truetype or /usr/share/fonts/opentype and do a "fc-cache -fv".
If you use Grub, there's an alternative and "fancy" fork of it called BURG.
For the boot animation, there's plenty of Plymouth themes (or make your own).
Fancy a Rainmeter-like widget on your desktop? Conky saves the day.
I'm looking forward to more of your Linux content! You are really good at showing the differences between one OS and another, as your focus on the video is about real world workloads/tasks, available software and its applications. Most linux videos focus on minor OS features/aesthetics and don't help the viewer understand what's the actual user experience about.
I am not particularly geekish but a few years ago, I easily installed a duel boot on my own. Since the Win10 debacle I have had nothing but trouble finding the boot menu and failed several times. Sometime between then and now, they made something so simple, frustrating and complicated. I broke out in hives. Finally with the help of a friend and with your encouragement I have one computer on Mint/Cinnamon and the other fine tuned for gaming is still on Win7.
Christopher, thank you for your encouragement. My Linux machine is excellent.
Linux Mint is the only operating system I use for my desktop and laptop computing. I use it for 3D modeling, Gaming, Audio Editing and Production, Web Browsing, Image Editing, and Programming. Where Linux Mint falls short is in video editing. Much of the issue is developers' refusal (or laziness) regarding support for Linux. I have access to Adobe CC 2014 because of the license I paid for back then and would pay for a newer version if it weren't for my visit to Adobe in Fremont, WA (which I was under a pointless NDA regarding from 2012- 2014 [I didn't have any secrets revealed to me]). During my visit to Adobe's office in Fremont, WA I asked if they thought Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, or Premier would ever be made available for Linux users (like Autodesk's programs are) to which they responded "Don't hold your breath". You better believe that when they allowed me and my group to visit the snack bar I raided it after that response! Fuck Adobe!
Yes I made it to the end & found it all very interesting. Thank you for your time & trouble !!!!
excellent Chris... thank you!! I think this video proves for everyday computing the transition is seamless... I am curious to find any issues you may have encountered with the very basics... I'll keep watching. This is a great contribution!!!
I've been using Linux Mint for over a week and I haven't missed windows. Thank you Christopher for opening my eyes to Linux Mint.
Brilliant! :)
Thanks for a well balanced review of using Linux, one of the better ones I have seen on RUclips.
I've been using Linux Mint now for more than three years and the rest of my household is now also on Linux. The Windows software I run in "PlayOnLinux" or directly in "Wine". WPS Office is a great replacement for MS-Office and the rest is history.
Having peace of mind not needing all sorts of virus scanners and malware protection is a great way of using your computer for what is was designed and not for fighting off threads and intruders all day long using valuable resources. On the Desktop, Linux Mint is certainly the future and I think Ubuntu in the server space. I have played with Zorin before but Linux Mint wins it every time for me.
Your video tutorials are great for us beginners, thank you so much!
Hey been using Mint for 3 years and now only return to Win 10 for video gaming. Also have 3 Raspberry Pi`s and love your videos of them. Enjoy your future channel as well.
Thank you for the the Linux Mint review. You can do many things in Linux and they are free to use. Some are now asking for a small donation but, it is voluntary. I look forward to your next video. Thanks, Professor
This man is fantastic at explaining things, finally I can understand how to install Linux
Do look at my more recent video: ruclips.net/video/eI7QQqnV1P8/видео.html :)
I did your USB thumb drive Linux install a few days ago, I've been playing with it on my laptop off and on. Not extremely fast using it from a thumb drive, but it would definitely scream on a SSD. Plans in the near future to install on a SSD and run on my netbook.
Thankyou Christopher for opening my eyes to the Linux "World". My Dell Inspiron 6000 with XP (circa 2004), was slated to be recycled. It is now running Linux Mint from its hard drive, and I am having a blast exploring Linux! I hope this will help me with my RPi "fumblings" too. Now if I can eliminate the "Encryption" option that I mistakenly selected at the Mint installation, and can find a way to write a "backup" Micro SD that will actually boot my "Sump-Pump-Monitoring" Pi, I will be in "Linux Heaven"! What does "reinitiate your boot" mean any way? (Rhetorical question).
Have you explored using 'dd' to copy the micro sd to a file?
Thanks Paula. Yes I have done multiple attempts at using dd to create an SD clone that will boot my Pi2B, but with no success. I am now working on the premise that I have not been properly Formatting the blank SD Card before hand. None of the tutorials I have found so far seem to explain this in detail. My current approach is to use SD Formatter and select "full overwrite" and "adjustable partitions" to prepare the "blank" Card for the dd image write. I will see if that works. Suggestions are welcomed.
Installed Ubuntu on a valued Dell Latitude E6400. Cake walk for 'Windows 10 never-was' notebook. Life Skill. Hybrid SSD+1TB hard drive. Plays x265.
All my family's computers have run Linux Mint for 5 years now and they are all happy. I no longer get called up to remove a virus the kids have installed every few weeks too which is a bonus! All I do is upgrade the system to a newer version every couple of years and that's all.
Linux Mint is indeed cool.
Very nice video in a very nice RUclips channell, Chris! Congratulations! I began using Linux Mint 19.1 (now updated to version 19.3) last year (2019), and I rapidly got accustomed to it. Generally, in older computers, Linux Mint performs better than Windows 10. Besides LibreOffice, Gimp or Chromium/Chrome, many other softwares to edit sound, render video, create 3D objects, IDEs for Python, Javascript... and also games are available for Linux. Many of them can easily be installed using the application manager.
Talking about the free software Gimp, it also has a version for Windows, with the same features as the version for Linux. Although it cannot deal with CMYK images, you can, for example, use layers to apply visual effects on images, before exporting them to a format JPG, BMP, etc.
Good stuff. Best of luck with any migration you decide on. Happy Linuxing :)
Excellent narration. For once a youtuber who speaks and explains clearly without forgeting that most viewers dont speak or comprehend english as their native language. Subscribed and liked and kudos to you sir!
Google is your best friend when it comes to finding good software, or getting help with problems. Websites like OMG!Ubuntu! also makes nice posts abut new software, or big updates. I really enjoyed branching out and trying all of the different desktops before settling down on one. Mint is famous for just working.
It's always fun to watch people make the transition to Linux... I've tried wine, but it can be pretty complicated. I now use a program called "Crossover" which is basically wine, but a lot easier to use. The bad thing with Crossover is you have to pay for it.
My two experiences running Linux involved Mint, first 16, then later, 17.
If some software I constantly use hadn't failed to work in WINE, I'd still be running Linux Mint to this day.
Always enjoy your videos, but would like to see you do one on Linux Lite. It is by far my favourite of all the distros. Linux Lite on an SSD is pure bliss.
Linux Lite noted for a future video! :)
Agree! I use Linux Lite on an old netbook that used to run XP, it wouldn't be able to take anything beyond XP so I put LL on it and got allot more years of use out of it. I'm still using it now for E-Mail, Stellarium and controlling my telescope. Great little distro!
@@TheNeville Linux Lite, is a pretty decent version of Linux. Not quite as "polished" as Linux Mint - MATE, but was close to going on my Grandson's computer. I'll install LL on a future computer, that I need to make useful.
Thank you for the video . I love Linux mint so simple and fast .
I don't believe it's fair to say that it's a "fail" for Linux that GIMP doesn't 100% support the proprietary .psd format - Try opening a GIMP .xcf file in Photoshop and see how far you get (last time I checked there is no support whatsoever). I think what you said when using Inkscape that it's a compatibility issue with working between the two systems is more accurate. I think it's a shame that Linux distributions are so commonly marked in their ability to become a replacement for Windows, that is, they are marked on how easy they make the transition. If that transition didn't exist in the first place e.g. if a person had never used Windows in the first place, then Linux mint would be absolutely adequate for them.
I think you didnt get what that GIMP issue was about: With Linux/GIMP you are not able to process CMYK Picture Files. Those CMYK Files are absolutely (!!!) necessary for professional printing of any Image. The Problem wasnt the PSD File, but the color Format. That is a huge Problem for designers. Years ago, i wanted to switch to Ubuntu, because i strongly dislike Microsoft, but i work as a graphic designer. If you work with media, Linux is the worst choice. Sad video editing, no support from Steinberg (Cubase), Adobe, etc. It just doesnt work. And No, Wine is not an option either, because of compatibility issues. To top it off, there are far far less games on linux, even with Steam and SteamOS. You can use Linux for Office work and Internet stuff, but thats it.
And CMYK support is not a priority for the GIMP people either as it's not even in their roadmap.
"With Linux/GIMP you are not able to process CMYK Picture Files."
Why don't you try opening those files in GIMP when it's installed in Windows and let us know how it works out. Since it won't open them, is it then a Windows issue?
Your entire comment reads like this: "Software companies don't make their software available for Linux, therefore Linux is bad." Blaming Linux for the shortcomings of GIMP or the fact Adobe doesn't make Linux-compatible versions of their programs is just plain stupid. Linux Mint is an OS, not the programs that run on it. You don't blame your car for not running when all you have available is diesel fuel, do you?
First of all, i "blame" no one for nothing. Be fair here. I just talk about facts. I specifically said: "If you work with media, Linux is the worst choice.". Please understand that an OS is only as good as the programs running on it. Thats why Linux doesnt get mass attention. For work/games it is clearly inferior. For the average User (Internet/Sort Photos/Listen to music/Light office work) Linux is pretty ok. Not Superior to Windows or MacOS by any means, but its usable and free. (For the record: i dont like either Win or MacOS that much...) You could run older machines with Linux quite well too and have a nice desktop experience. It didnt say Linux is no good at all.
And yes its true: Gimp/SoftwareDevelopers who dont support CMYK in a Linux application are responsible for this BIG issue, not Linux. But: At the end of the day, its all the same: You cannot work in print professionally with Linux. What really matters is: Can i work with Linux? If the Answers is no, i dont care for Linux. It doenst matter whose fault that is. To stay with your car comparison: When i need to travel and there is only Diesel-fuel available worldwide and the Linux car needs normal fuel, then that Linux car is unusable to me.
And please calm down, will you. Why is everything always "stupid" to you people and did you really mean me to be stupid? If so, mind your Manners please. LOL.
_"Please understand that an OS is only as good as the programs running on it."_
That's a complete falsehood, but even if it were true, please explain how it's the OS's fault that developers make the choice to not write software for it. You're saying it's only as good as the programs you can run on it, right? So it's the developers of those programs who make it bad by not putting their programs on it!
Oh, wait, that makes it worse, doesn't it?
No, an OS is *not* only as good as the programs running on it. It has to be stable in the first place to have programs running on it. It has to have a decent security system in case those programs are corrupted or hacked so as to not allow access to the underlying OS. These are two issues that plague Windows but are basically nonexistent in Linux. When Windows suffers memory leaks due to poor programming in apps running on it, it can bring down the whole OS and not just the guilty apps. On Linux, it's rare to see the OS suffer because of *any* malady a piece of software suffers. It's quite easy to kill processes in Linux and avoid rebooting even when your entire screen goes blank or even freezes. Not so much in Windows, though...
_"You cannot work in print professionally with Linux. What really matters is: Can i work with Linux? If the Answers is no, i dont care for Linux. It doenst matter whose fault that is."_
Actually, you can work in print professionally in Linux. Some people make it work because they choose different tools than the ones chosen by people who use Windows or OSX.
Also, it does matter whose fault it is, because you don't blame the waitress for preparing your food the wrong way. And you don't blame the bank teller because you spent all your money. And you don't blame the ticket seller because the movie was bad. You place the blame where it's justified, and in this case it's the developers who don't make their software available for Linux.
_"To stay with your car comparison: When i need to travel and there is only Diesel-fuel available worldwide and the Linux car needs normal fuel, then that Linux car is unusable."_
My analogy was to counter your claim that the OS was only as good as the programs that run on it. Your analogy is that you make the right choice when your options are limited. Those are different analogies, and yours falls flat once you realize your options aren't limited and there are alternatives to Photoshop, Sony Vegas, Microsoft Word, etc. Just because you decide to choose the the options that only run in Windows doesn't make it a valid analogy. That would be more like, "Diesel and unleaded fuels are available worldwide, but I prefer the cars that run on diesel because unleaded fuel isn't as appealing to me as diesel fuel. Therefore, I reject the cars that use unleaded and their fuel based on personal preference."
I've just installed today a copy of Ubuntu MATE on a 32 bit windows vista laptop!
It's great! Thank you for leading me into Linux!
Wonderful! It seems that many people here are giving new life to an old laptop or PC using Linux. :)
+ExplainingComputers have you ever tried Ubuntu MATE?
It's very similar to LinuxMint, but it uses separate task bars for opened Windows and for the status bar and programs!
And it also has by default the ability to use multiple virtual desktops much like in win10 and MacOS!
AL_O0 I have used Ubuntu MATE fairly extensively on a Raspberry Pi. A very nice Linux distro. I almost used it for this video diary, and I'm sure I will feature it in a video at some point.
The most frustrating thing about Linux, for me, is that it's SO close to being perfectly usable everyday. I've dabbled with it since Ubuntu 10.04 was first released. It has never been my OS of choice for daily tasks, despite how much I admire it. I cannot completely trust LibreOffice to get the formatting right when I want to get some work done, because there's not 100% cross-compatibility. I also like to play games, and no matter how much Steam for Linux is growing in support, I still will be losing out when it comes to being able to play brand new games on release.
However, despite all that, I've got Ubuntu Studio installed on a partition, and I am trying to find ways of integrating it into my computing life a bit more. I love the satisfaction of getting something running, after feeling rather spoiled by the user experiences on Windows and Mac. Enough rambling. Great video, as always.
I totally agree with this, Linux is so close as you say.
Have you tried using Microsoft Office Online in a browser? Either that or try WPS office, it's about as close as you can get to 100% compatibility with MS Office without using a Microsoft product.
Nick I have tried the MS online apps many times, but now they make you pay! :) And also, at least last time I tried the Word app, the functionality compared to Google Docs/Drive was dire, especially in terms of simultaneous editing. This said, we all tend to stay with what we are used to. I have now written (nearly) seven books and thousands of other documents in Google Docs, so am very unlikely to migrate -- unless I have to. :)
As a Unixy geek, I have a bit of enthusiasm for UNIX. I run Cygwin for Windows.
I think Linux generally does everything that Windows and other operating systems can do.
However, two things I do miss is an Microsoft Exchange client and the ability to edit Visio documents, though LibreOffice Draw will open Visio files.
However, this is only an issue if I want to work in Linux.
For a long while, I used Ubuntu. New machines I use come with Windows, though I did get one netbook with Ubuntu pre-installed.
64 bit Linux Mint after a little messing around runs well on my dual-core AMD-64 1GHz Acer Aspire One 722 with 8Gb of RAM quite well and installed without a problem. The live DVD that I used from a USB DVD drive seemed a bit temperamental, but once booted it installed and runs happily. This is my first proper trial of Mint 18, but so far so good.
The Acer originally came with Windows 7, but it started to slow and the upgrade to Windows 10 which I hoped might have helped just didn't. So Mint has extended the life of what actually is nice to use hardware, even if the specification isn't exactly Cray supercomputer. Hope this is useful feed back.
For displaying NTFS drives you require some additional packages (ntfs-3g). You could open Gparted (partition manager) and manage the drive from there.
NTFS support is already in Linux Mint; I use LM as my main OS, and read and write NTFS-formatted drives all the time. I'm not sure what the problem EC had was.
the drive was the wrong way around (look at when he inserts the drive in the cage, the sata ports are in the front lol)
10:42 - your office is very interesting! I thought you would of had a bigger monitor like 1920x1080 or 2560x1440. You seem to have standard monitor sizes. I guess your main focus is not gaming or movies though.
Correct. My main focus is writing, and for that a 5:4 screen I find by far the best.
My first Linux server was using Redhat 7.2 back in year 1999. Good old days :)
Yep. I remember maintaining some Redhat systems back then. My first one was when someone else was trying to get me to use Linux and gave me a 486/33 with Slackware in 94 or so. I didn't really grok the system though and just played around with it for 1-2 months before going to Desqview, but I came back to it in 1998ish.
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Our school had the OS/2, Solaris and IRIX back in 1998 I was so crazed with the SGI systems back then. They were too ahead of the world and very expensive so they didn't catch on unfortunately. I remember watching the stock of SGI going downward to nothing and same for Sun Microsystems :(
I used OS/2 for about 6 years after I decided Desqview was too limiting. I never got a chance to try the IRIX/Solaris stuff.
I briefly used Amiga around the same time I was doing OS/2. That was one of the best systems of the time. Too bad it didn't catch on. Was briefly on BeOS too.
In order to open CMYK .psd files, simply install Krita and you'll be able to open the CMYK .psd file almost flawlessly depending on which effects or filters were applied used.
Yeah, seems for the graphics stuff it was more about interoperability than about what the Linux programs could do in isolation. Would be good to see how well a person could do all their work without ever going over to Windows and only being a Linux user from start to finish. It’s a context that would be good so as to show all of the good and bad without any compatibility issues dominating the narrative.
As a user of BOTH Windows, an Linux, I mainly use Windows for Gaming.It goes without saying, Windows has it's advantages, i.e Gaming.As for everything else, Linux has alternatives that are the same or better.What people forget about Linux, is that it's NOT A CORPORATE OS, but a free an open source operating system.Linux offers people who are looking for an alternative OS to either Windows, or Mac, a new experience, allowing them to 100% fully customize their OS to their liking.
As for Productivity, Linux has alternatives that offer the same, an sometimes better features in terms Video an Audio production, along with Photo editing.Software such as Kdenlive, Davinci Resolve (Also On Windows), OpenShot an ect.If you are a Photographer, Gimp, an DarkTable is a great photo editing alternative.If you are wanting to do some Audio editing, software such as Audacity, OceanAudio an so many others are available.
you can install the font manager package and then drag and drop all the fonts, they will be all installed en masse
I'll go with Linux after 7 is gone
David T That will come up pretty fast - those three years. :P
5 months and counting...
@@IamSonoma he switched to Windows 10
month and some spare days left :D im also switching to linux mint on a laptop
I used Win10 for 1 Year now and im pissed.
Now i switch to Linux (Pop! OS).
I am really enjoying your videos. I use Linux Mint on a couple of machines currently I have found it too be very nice.
ChaletOS user here... Mint is on a spare pc, both great systems for newbies to Linux.
Thanks Chris, excellent video! I've used various versions of Linux over the years and I never come away without learning something new. I am extremely exited about you releasing a video on Wine. I have tried that avenue in the past with mixed results, but I am confident that I am was doing something incorrectly. So I am hoping your video can help me out. Thanks again!
Thank you for the video. I for one would definitely enjoy a video about setting up a dual boot install with Mint and Win 10
I love your humour especially when you are talking about the titles of your 3d printing books 🤣
:)
Been using ubuntu 10.04LTS for so many years. Played with other versions but ubuntu was more user friendly at that time. Revived a few laptops and pc's, recovered files and generally used it to surf the net. Got two remastered linux OS's with pre-installed apps in it. Ubuntu 10.04 -for mid range and Puppy (ubuntu based as well) for light weight computers.
I just started using Linux Mint Xfce 18.3 a few months ago just on a lark. Normally, I use Windows 10 or Chrome OS, but I had a real old Dell it was the first OS I finally got to work after Windows XP. I know you did this video about 5 years ago at the beginning of the dark age, but I'm always interested in learning more about solving software problems using BASH like you did with the Libre Comic font. Thanks.
Lovely to see you at your desk, Christopher!
what is that you are using like a mouse that looks like a game controller?
I like the look of that wrist rest for keyboard use.
One day you could do a video about all the different computer accessories you have chosen and tell us what you like about them.
It is a 3M Ergonomic Mouse. :) Nice video suggestion, noted.
Linux Mint is my primary OS. I'm glad you decided to showcase Linux Mint over Ubuntu. I find it far more cohesive. The only thing I still require Windoze for are my databases. I wish there was a real performance database available for Linux. They have many valid options, but none nearly as fast as I require. However I get along just fine being able to RDP into my database desktop. I hope you are able to find a way to work more with Linux over WIndoze especially given the reasons you've brought up in previous videos which you are apparently concerned about. Privacy in principle is my primary motivation to keep away from MS.
Wut? There are loads of performant db's, heck, most of the db's of the world run on linux/unix. Try postgres for example. And I doubt you are running into performance issues due to the dbms, it's either the system or your code. If not, you should buy an IBM mainframe with z/OS for a couple of hundred thousand dollar.
Nice video. I'll note it down and will show it to my classmates later on, as we (they, actually, since I already have a previous degree in IT and have worked with IT, professionally for 4 years) progress the next 2 years.
Just one thing I'd like to mention, which I feel is worth to show, in a later Mint-video.
When you installed Inkscape, we saw one way of doing it.
The command "sudo apt-get update" is of course necessary, but the commandline installation might be scaring off a lot of people.
There is a second method, which involves a graphical user interface, that is called "software manager or software center".
This will let people see, which programs/packages/apps are available for the Linux Mint with decription (for the most part) of the given software.
Thanks for this. Fair point on the command line install. :)
I saw that I forgot to mention, prior to using the software center, one have to go to the terminal and write "sudo apt-get update", *then* starting the software center. :)
Have a nice Sunday, sir.
Sincerely.
/Jan W
i know its much to late, but there is a good prog. for ubuntu/mint called font manager in the software center that can be used to install, delete and organize fonts.
To delete a harddrive in Linux, you can use the dd-command im the terminal ! Example: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda. The drive sda is the first drive on the sata/eide connector. You can additionaly add the parameter bs, if you want. I use for old drive bs=512 and for drives higher than 1 Terrabyte bs=4096. (example: dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda bs=4096) You can interfer the process after 2 Minutes with the keystroke ctrl+z. If you want the complete deleting, it could be running for hours with no response in the terminal window. This process is necessary, if you want to sell the harddisc. After deleting you must add a new partitiontable. This can be done with Gparted. Gparted is part of every Linux-Distro and can addionaly installed.
Thanks again, Christopher, for another exciting and informative video tutorial. If I had been patient enough, I wouldn't have asked the question in the last video--how do you install Linux Mint to your hard drive to make it your primary operating system. Now I know how to do it thanks to you. Thank you very much.
After reading all the crap below, I had to use a squeegee and several screen wipes to clean all the "stuff" off of my screen! :-(
You could have burned SuperGrub 2 iso on the DVD.It would come pretty handy and it lets you boot from USB.
You should use Clover in Windows. It's a little buggy, but adds tabs and makes browsing so much less confusing.
4:55 Don't forget to make use of Ctrl + F ..then type the name of the item you're trying to quickly get to. It's an instant way of doing that instead of scrolling forever. Cheers
Much useful info, hanging on every word. Carry on.
I am running Linux on my desktop on a separate HDD and dual boot with Windows 7. So far I really like it after 5 days
Isn't necessary to use the terminal to install/remove software. Linux Mint comes with a graphical program called "Software Manager" (Found in Menu -> Administration) which does the same thing as "apt-get".
You could have made and used a Plop Boot Manager CD to boot into a USB despite the lack of native USB booting.
Excellent video diary!
I run mint on my daily driver laptop. And older Dell 5420 with a Sandybridge i5 in it. Works very well for normal things. I actually find my self using CLI for almost everything these days. At least for tweaking and running the machine.
i like linux mint learning it now
I don’t know what can be difficult in everyday use of Linux OS. I have been using it for the past 20 or 22 years.
I fully switched to Linux about a week ago. I've been using Mint on my laptop for almost two years, but I always had trouble when I tried to do the same on the desktop so I abandon it until about a week ago.
And it's a good thing to embrace linux Ihave switched to linux completely since long time and I find Enough to my needs even I do engineering design works on it
I have tried linux mint 18 and I find it little bit buggy but if you tried older version of this distro like 17.3 which is still supported you will find things much better
What bugs have you come across in 18 in particular? Haven't updated yet myself...
several bugs in WiFi connectivity also I have issues regarding power management and sleep mode the cpu sometimes gets so hot I barely could touch the laptop finally bugs with display the youtube had bad tearing problem and some other annoying issues so I ditch linux mint 18 and returned to my old favorite linux mint 17.3 which is running flawlessly whut out any problem what so ever
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Thanks for the info
+Janice Royal Roy's Cresanova you are welcome 😊
Those are the bugs from Ubuntu. Ubuntu 16 total fail
I started a large part of my professional life doing work on windows. So I've accumulated tons of "windows-made" data (docs, pics, vids, etc) along the way. When the time came and I decided to move on to Linux I didn't try to open my windows data on Linux. I open them on a spare windows machine that I have. However, any new project in my work, I do it on Linux from beginning to end. And guess what? I've never needed windows for anything new. I use Libreoffice, Dia, Evince, Pdf-shuffler and Pdf chain for my doc work; Kdenlive, Openshot and Blender (yes Blender is an excellent video editor) for video editing; Gimp, Krita, Darktable and Inkscape for graphics and image editing in general; Audacity, Lmms and Ardour for audio editing, SimpleScreenRecorder and Obs for screen casting; Curlew for multimedia conversion; Aegisub for subtitling; FreeFileSync to synchronize and backup my hard drives; I also use Recoll as a searching tool...and so on. If I need something else, I just google it, and up to now there have always been an alternative or another on Linux. Thank you.
Thanks for this very helpful list of Linux apps. I have tried some of them. I will definately try the others! :)
I have good news for you: Libre Office is like 99.9% MS Office compatible so it'll probably open all your old Win documents without any problem. Yes, even the most stupidly .DOC formatted ones. Of course no professional would use such a proprietary walled garden format ever. But it still works if you're such inclined.
that acer is pretty snappy running linux mint. i am impressed.
Embrace Linux, Linux is better than Windows
Please do a video on setting up Linux Mint Cinnamon for Gaming and other graphics-related processes for those migrating to Linux and NVIDIA Graphics Driver installation, thank you
Thanks for this. I've yet to do a Linux gaming video, but I covered GPU driver installation in the latest edition of my Linux Survival Guide here: ruclips.net/video/Lah9rMX1FnI/видео.html
@@ExplainingComputers Thanks a lot for the information you give.
I would say image editing under Linux is quite straight forward if you start doing it in Linux and if you don't use locked down formats like .psd as it's only supported by a single program. That being Photoshop, also using MS fonts that has not been installed using the repositories is probably not the best idea. Using platform agnostic fonts or Linux fonts I suspect you would have had no issues.
Yes, you are right, if you start from scratch in Linux things would be easier. But all professionals will have an archive of legacy work that needs to be accessed, and clients are liable to provide pdf and their own font related files. For colour print work, CMYK workflow is also essential, and GIMP at least does not offer that (as its website makes clear) -- which is a great pity.
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PDF support Linux does have, you might have typed it wrong and was referring to PSD. As you said GIMP might not have CYMK support but another Linux program called Krita used by professional aritist has this feature. I haven't worked with printing company's so I can't say what formats they support.
However there are professional artist and writers working in Linux so there must be support for it at least at some of them.
Zandman26 Sorry, yes, you are right -- I meant to type "psd" above. I must also investigate Krita as several people have now indicated that it is a good option with CMYK support (and to be fair, Inkscape has CMYK support too if working on structured graphics). I also get the impression -- again from some of the comments here -- that people are using Wine or Crossover to run native Windows apps in Linux. There are so many things for me to investigate and cover in future videos -- which is great! :)
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Yes it's a lot to discover, the thing wanting me to point you away from Crossover and Wine is that it might work, but in many cases it does not. I use it my self for some games but I would not depend on it for something work related.
So just sharing my knowledge and trying to advocate routes that leads to the least pot holes:)
Zandman26 Thanks for this, very useful feedback. I have always had my doubts about Wine and Crossover, and reading their websites does not make me feel any easier about getting complex software to run or run reliably -- and for "easy" software, there are clearly good Linux alternatives. I will experiment as there is clearly an appetite for that here! :) But I suspect that native will be the way to go for whatever I end up doing with Linux -- and I hope that the range of native pro software will grow. It is certainly an interesting time in computing.
A video on Wine and PlayOnLinux showing Windows Users how to configure, install and run Windows softwares on Linux Mint would be nice. :)
Mystic Bardock LSSGSS Most tutorials with Wine would recommend you install Winetricks for the dependencies. Of course POL will have that preincluded.
With plain Wine you have more flexibility to set where you want your prefixes and POL has the ease of managing your Wine prefixes and installations.
[ Smiles ] Hi Christopher, the first thing to do after installing Linux Mint is to download the latest security updates, etcetera. I noticed that you ignored it for the entire week.
That exclamation mark in the Update Manager of your task bar is an indication that updates for the system are available (You should never ignore them).
By the way, I am a very happy Linux Mint user; I gave up using Windows in March 2016.
A will slap my wrist for this. :( A very important point you make here!
Setting the refresh rate is something you can do in Linux, but requires support from the display drivers you're using. The open source ones generally make you force it in the x config if you're doing something that it can't detect. The closed source drivers often have utilities for fully configuring that stuff. (Like AMD's Catalyst Control Center, though that's the old variant.)
If Wine has trouble with them, you should probably use VirtualBox to run Photoshop/Illustrator in a VM. That's what I do for the few things that won't work in Wine.
Of course, Virtualbox and Wine are mainly crutches to use while you haven't fully integrated into the alternative software. Sometimes alternative software is never released, as is the case with TelePACE, one of the apps I keep VirtualBox around for.
11:49 nice family pics on the wall :)
You can also install Windows fonts, including Comic Sans, from the repositories. Just install the package called:
ttf-mscorefonts-installer
Indeed, but that only does certain Windows fonts, eg not those you may have purchased. I used Comic here as an example as it is very clear to see. :)
Tahoma and Veranda look identical. They even look the same on my Windows 7.
Type a sentence and make a copy of it. Format one in Tahoma, and the other in Verdana, same point size. This will show that Verdana is far more spaced out, and hence generally more accessible to read. :)
Well slap me with a 5.25in 200K BBC formatted floppy disk, they are different. Thanks Chris :-)