I switched from Windoze to Linux over 15 years ago. I was tired of the problems I experienced with Windoze. I've brought many friends over to the "dark side" as well. Linux is more work and more hands on because it's more secure. Great video. 👍
Mine was in 2015 when M$ said they were recording everything you type. However, I too have been on it a lot for work before then. I rarely get stuck, but I got a bit stuck updating Ubuntu 22 to 24.4.1, idk why. Occasionally it's annoying but at least it's smooth and fast and safe. Bar on the left and mini app menu at the bottom where time and Bluetooth is, similar to windows.... As I'm still using win at work.
I have found windows way easier to use then linux, but prefer linux for security and privacy. Windows 10 is probably the best OS in the world for desktops.
Thank you Rob for the intro to linux. I have used Linux at work but only for a few commands that I know. What I need is what you just explained in this video I now can expand my linux knowledge . I have an old Windows computer that lost its partition . Ubuntu 16.4 is now on the drive. I would like to go to V. 24 but so far I have been unable to learn how to do that. Installing Firefox is another goal.. Thanks I want to install 24 on a bootable flash drive and test it first. If that works then I will update the Laptop. Eagle Soars .. Braxmail user.
I recently switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's been surprisingly easy; no need for command line so far, but I admit I just use Libre Office and the browser for searches and videos
The command line can be scary and i had to re install ubuntu a few times due to mistakes but the power that it gives you is well worth the steep learning curve.
This was great. I struggled initially with these over the years. Your video brought great context for me. I would like to see you bring more of these Linux videos. Thank you.
I started with Slackware in 1996, I distro-hopped for a few years then ended up on Gentoo Linux in 2003 where I have been ever since. I dropped Windows completely when support for Windows 7 ended.
Thank you for the informative video! As shell (terminal) 'sudo' commands can wreak havoc in your file system, it's a good idea in my opinion to first type a hash character, which is the comment character in bash shell, then type the command or paste it from the clipboard (risky!). Examine the command and if everything is fine and you are in the correct directory, press Enter. Nothing happens as the command is just a comment. But it goes to the command history. Then, press the Up arrow to retrieve the sudo command. Remove the hash character but replace it with a space. Then press Enter. Now the command is executed, but it will not go to the command history, where you could accidentally retrieve it when you press Up arrow too many times. The bash history acts as a log of the commands that you have given, but in a safe format as all the logged commands are comments! Back up your command history to later see what you have done and when (add some time stamps as comments, too).
That is a very "belt and suspenders" type approach but actually pretty good advice for people who are just learning, particularly if on a system they can't afford to break. Personally, I think that people who really want to learn should be free to break stuff. Then they have the learning experience of fixing it up again. I also think that people should do a lot more work on VMs which they can break with impunity. It they can't fix it, restore from a snapshot or just recreate the VM.
Running Linux system from last year. problem found with Linux 'experts' are the Linux 'Experts'. Too many of them are arrogant & elitist when it comes to Linux. Been talked to as if I'm a sub-human.
You might get a better response from people if you don't start by calling them "arrogant & elitist". Treat people as individuals and show them the same respect as you expect them to treat you.
@@notjustforhackers4252 No second place mate, he didn't start with that he was reporting his experience you proved his point to a Tee. Your arrogant instructions are there for all to see talking down to him.
I’m sure you might start being a little cynical after trying to explain the same thing to tons of people over and over and over……….. new users are sooooo lazy. Refusing to do any research, and just make a new forum post asking questions that have already been answered
This is great Rob, thank you for this! I've been using Ubuntu as well as LMDE for quite a few years, but grew up on Windows, so this was a great refresher.
These days you see more and more Windows admin type stuff being done in a terminal; either CMD prompt or Powershell. It turns out it's a far more powerful and clearly defined way of getting important jobs done.
@dingokidneys I say using terminals in any OS is powerful, especially if you know the commands and the steps to do the job. I practically use the terminal for everything and the gui for some tasks like web browsers.
@@DV-ml4fm So go read a few Linux books or watch a few more videos - it's called "doing research" and "putting in time and effort" which the modern generations (millennials downwards) don't seem to want to do any more. They are only interested in videos someone else makes for them and, even then, many of them whine about the videos being too long. If you have no patience and the attention span of a subnormal goldfish and you're not willing to put in time and effort to learn Linux, then it's probably not for you. We all started off in the same place by knowing absolutely nothing about anything.
Moving to Linux as soon as I retire. So much of my work depends on proprietary software in Windoze. Early (1980s) user of UNIX. Been through the Windoze NT phase at work, where they tell you all the things that are impossible, due to security, but knowing more stable UNIX was doing those things for years. What the NT gurus wanted you to believe was UNIX was weak and Windoze was best. I just laughed and used commercial servers for my needs.
Although I only had Windows on my desktop at work, I managed to finagle access to a Solaris system on which I was able to automate a lot of things I had to do. I also managed to install Cygwin on my desktop system to give me many of those tasty Linux tools. I guess these days you'd try to use WSL. When work moved us all to thin client desktops I still managed to wrangle some of my favourite tools onto a network share from which they would run. That and more Solaris stuff. When the Solaris system became too out of date to interact with external systems I needed access to, I set up an AWS virtual server to handle the interface. Strangely, though I was an accountant and not an IT person, the IT managers who became aware of what I was doing - I didn't try too hard to hide it - didn't object. When I retired seven years ago I had to sit down for weeks with an IT guy to reimplement a lot of what I had set up in a way he could carry on after I'd gone. While I was there, if I handled stuff that the IT guys didn't really understand and didn't break things, they let me have free range. They knew I wouldn't do anything bad.
I'd use a Commodore 64 in 2024 before using Temple OS. At least.there was.very large library of useful apps for C64. Not to mention I still have my C64.
If you already have permissions to edit a file as a normal user, using sudo isn't going to make any difference - but "overkill" is somewhat of an exaggeration.
@3:47 -- Editing a text file. "nano" is very popular, and is great for beginners, or for folks used to using Windows "notepad". But if you do a lot of text editing, then familiarize yourself with "vi" (or "vim"). "vi" stands for "visual". "vim" takes on a clever "improved" meaning, as in vi improved. When you become proficient with "vi" or "vim", you will blast though your editing sessions. You will not need your mouse. "vi" has been around since before computers used monitors (everything was outputted to a paper feed). So any Linux or UNIX OS will have "vi". And any somewhat recent Linux or UNIX OS will very likely all have "vim", too. If you are editing your own files, there is no need to use "sudo". @7:38 -- exFAT is fine. But you can also use NTFS on nearly any modern Linux distro. That was not the case some years ago. But today, NTFS is supported. NTFS will be much slower than ext4, on a Linux system, because NTFS will run in the much slower "user" space, whereas ext4 runs in the "kernel" space. For a few megabytes, you probably will not notice any difference between ext4, exFAT, and NTFS. But for large files, or countless small files, NTFS will be noticeably slower than ext4. So if your SD card, or USB drive, etc, is already formatted with NTFS, you should be fine.
@@TheRealDrWho I was about to say the same thing, i miss notepad++ in Linux, best editor i ever used and strange it has no Linux version because the source code is freely available
@@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever Well i use it in Bottles (windows emulator) or it can be installed in a virtual machine that has windows installed, but i would rather like to use it as my default editor everywhere in linux instead of putting my files i want to edit inside the bottles directory
I always read 'etc' as "et cetera", I wonder how many others call it "Etsy"? Also kinda funny how entrenched the command line still is in linux, imagine if I had to open command prompt to give a file an icon, Lol~!
Sadly we need to use VPNs and Private DNS on windows. I do use linux often, not running it at the moment but was a longtime Administrator for the Fedora program.....personally I like Debian 12.5 the best... BTW Nordvpn works on Debian (from the command line), Thanks Bob
If you believe you need to use VPNs and private DNS on Windows then Linux won't change that. You're confusing "security" and "privacy" anyway and browsers are a major cause of privacy issues, whether on Windows or Linux - so you have to know how to do browser hardening, whatever OS you use.
About to setup my dual boot for Linux, stopped investing in the Microsoft ecosystem, more of these videos please, think it's going to be a long transition until I feel comfortable making it my main OS. Wish me luck.
Problem with this terminal in Linux is that it makes me feel like i go back to the eighties when i was typing in basic on my commodore 64 and a couple of years later in msdos. I was really happy Windows showed up which made everything not only more easy and better looking, it also made life on a pc so much faster since you didn't need to type everything (and make mistakes and have to start over again) I have been running Linux mint for a month now, i have windows (lite-debloated) in a vm (without acces to the internet) I am very happy with the switch and so far i have no reason to ever go back to windows. (but i also didn't try any games yet, i understand i could install steam but i have many games and iso files of my own that probably will not install)
I also started working seriously on computers in the 1980's, primarily with DOS. When Windows arrived on my work machine I hated it. It was slow and clunky. When I booted up first thing in the morning as soon as the Windows desktop came up I'd close out of it and get back to my beloved DOS prompt. I was however using a load of custom programs, some of which I'd written myself and some of which I'd carefully typed in from code in a PC magazine. I was already starting to toy with Linux about this time on my home PCs and at this time a GUI was advanced stuff and you had to write your own XFree86 config file to get it working. I did eventually just use Windows at work and to a lesser extent at home but I've always been attached to the command line interface. I'm a Linux only household these days and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. Every machine I work on has a terminal session open as it's just the fastest and most precise way to do many tasks.
I am really enjoying your linux videos, i switched to linux mint after you made the dual boot video, i still have win10 in a dual boot system and it still has it's own drive but i haven't booted into windows for weeks
Try to remember to create a copy of it first. Then if you can't boot after the change, you can quickly rename the newly edited file to whatever, or delete it, then name your copy back to fstab. All from a command line accessible before the desktop loads.
Therein lies the fun and a learning experience. I've buggered up my system with a bad fstab many times though I've been using Linux for almost 30 years. The last time was a few months ago with a little FreeBSD file server running on a Raspberry Pi. A sudden power outage, the drives not coming up clean and I needed to edit fstab to get the system to come back onto the network. With the RPi you have options though; either remove the SD card and edit the file on the card on another machine, or set up a serial console to another machine - which is a fun thing to do - and boot to single user mode. On another machine you'd probably need a bootable USB stick plus a screen and keyboard. It's good to practice different recovery techniques so you don't panic and make things worse in the heat of the moment.
Thank you for this video, I switched to Linux full time back in May and still have more to learn, ideas for future videos, some software that don't work on Linux and don't have alternatives, use Virtual box, bottles, wine or how to compile source code?
Rob what about installing Midnight Commander and the sudo mcedit /etc/whatever? It’s a lot easier editor. Also much easier to use gnome-disk-utility to format, create partitions, etc.
Once you're an expert you can come up with your own shortcuts. But as you know the problem is that many apps will not even exist and you'll have to install it. Whereas nano is almost universally pre-installed.
@@robbraxmantech Bingo. That's what I love about this video, you show us Linux newbies how to work with what we have, not with what experienced Linux users think we should have.
I've had less trouble with flatpak than snaps. On my Deb 12 system it gives me the choice to install from repository or flatpak or snaps. Flatpak wins every time here.
No, Linux is NOT the only operating system that doesn't invade your privacy. FreeBSD and other BSDs fall into that category and are superior to Linux in many ways. Also, the Linux community contains many intellectually challenged yahoos who can't get out of their own way, yet are motivated to present themselves as experts. Because of this, the world of Linux is filled with a mind-numbing array of bad choices and incompetent "mentors." The BSD culture is generally more sophisticated, comprising programmers, embedded hardware engineers, etc. Because of this, the BSDs don't have as much built-in compatibility with things like mainstream games. I'm not pointing out these things in an effort to get Linux users to migrate to the BSDs. I hope they don't. We don't want our favorite development platforms, forums, conferences, etc. to be inundated by hoards of people for whom the computer is an entertainment appliance. I am just pointing out that it's incorrect to say that Linux is the only OS that offers privacy.
Perhaps he meant it's the only OS that easily available to the average punter that is secure and private. The BSDs have come a long way but for people who find installing Arch Linux an insurmountable challenge, almost any of the BSDs are out of reach. Well they might handle Nomad or GhostBSD but even then ...
@@GustavAgar Ubuntu is very "plug and play" compared to the early days. Steam works with minimal effort and I can play most games just as easily as I could with Windows. The learning curve has come way down for new users
i installed linux mint with the help of a youtube video, i am complete noob to linux but it was almost as, if not easier then installing windows, everything pretty much worked right after install, even my nvidea card (it did however ask me if i wanted the real driver or the open source version, i tested both, original works much better) and after installing another sound applet it now also shows my 7.1 configuration through hdmi to my amplifier 'out of the box' without any configuration. Only thing that doesn't have anything for linux is my Corsair rgb :( My pc is full with it because it is the only RGB that has unlimited configuration to make unique rgb patterns. After a search i found out that Corsair is not interested in making a linux version of their software (or give the source code so the community van make it themselves). They consider the linux community as 'not profitable'. Other then that i can not complain, it has a good updater program and so far everything i need or test seems to work
I used a Slackware distro way back. It was usefull. Then my school and other educational encounters and persons forced me to windows, which for a while was kinda ok-ish. Now while I was away my dad. 'Helped' me with my laptop, it had a broken power connector socket. And so yeah sure that is ok, meanwhile a day later he also announced proudly to also have upgraded and installed windows 11 without asking my permisssion and clicked all offered boxed that looked soothing and positive. My emotions were a combination of pity sorrow and love and grieve and loss and future extra work to get something of a system resembles a operating system with me having access toy own written documents files etc and versus the hollow plastic terminal to that is has now become. Thanks dad. Sigh.
When I first started using computers many many years ago, I learn MS DOS, and learn its commands. I was smart back then. Then MS Windows (95) launched. Over the years of using it made me STUPID. Now Windows (11) has become STUPID. Because of this, I'm migrating to Linux (Kubuntu), learning its file system and command lines. I feel I'm becoming SMART again.
Thank you for the video, but most Linux users have little or no need to use the command line. The video risks putting off people who would like to switch to a Linux system. Too many topics are covered at once, and several could be the subject of a separate presentation.
You can't do what is needed without the command line as I already said here. The last item, installing a VPN, that you can do without a command line. But the rest -- no.
sudo stands for superuser do (administrator or root) if you want to access bin, etc or other root level folders you will have to be root. an easy way to access root from the command line is sudo -i this will prompt you to enter your admin password and you will have root access throughout your terminal access. I have some reservations about saying you will need to use the terminal for most operations. Your guide is very good, but if I didn't know what you were talking about I would be very confused. for software management, you don't really need the terminal as the software stores of debian based distros will do it all. If you are going to be an admin then leaning the terminal well is necessary. It really depends on what you are going to do. since the content creator does many advanced things, i totally understand his need for mastery of the terminal.
You need to define "access" better. You can always access ("read") the applications in root directories as any user (unless specifically restricted) but you cannot change the directories or the applications within ("write"). This is an important distinction to make when you have a lot of new users here.
Great refresher course, and great tips, thanks. Is there a way to associate and merge an icon file into an image file? Personally I use gedit, you might consider using it while introducing Linux to Windows users. One less thing to learn. They can always use any text editor they like once they've learned theirway around LInux.
Linux isn't the only operating system that can provide you privacy, this also includes the bsd family of operating systems, risc os, Haiku, & serenity os, & maybe even morphos, pretty much any opensource operating system, with morphos being the exception since that one is paid for(& only works on ppc based macs right now), but the rest are all free opensource ones.
Hi Rob, thank you for all the tips… i was wondering about the latest ubuntu release noble numbat. You mentioned in a previous video there are microsoft files that you can remove which i did for jammy jellyfish but have forgotten which ones you said. Do you recommend updating to noble or should i have kept jammy and can you please direct me to the right video or explain which files i can delete that are microsoft files. I realise microsoft has a lot of input in the development of linux.
Instead of rebooting to see the SD card mounted, you could do a: % sudo mount -a One advantage of this is that if there is an error, you can fix it before having a system that won't boot (ask me how I know). On the fstab, the last two digits are "0 0" ... if the SD card is not present when you reboot, won't that cause a boot error? (I had this recently, I commented out the /etc/fstab line for the missing device). If you change the trailing "0 0" to "0 2" will that fix it? Great video.
yeah good point ) fstab should be edited with an especial care And btw if you don't know some command or parameters, you don't have to search an online help for it. Try using man, info commands, or typing - -help after any command you really don't have to remember all these parameters or arguments
Linux is a POSIX-inspired OS that should suit the majority of Windoz users, its very similar to Windows with its binary distributions, bundling and update strategies; for security and privacy anything is better than Microsoft and Google, and Linux can be a good pick but not a top security pick.
If you use something like linux mint you basically never need use the terminal. Even easier than Windows to use. For the 1% you need to run a command you could probably chatgdp for what you should type and it could also explain it
THANK YOU! Everybody is recommending linx like a grail but only a few support or explain things At the moment I still fail to use my favorite vpn mullvad :/ On multiple times, i tried to use linux, but it is such a battle in long run that i give up depressed every time. I tried 2005 with linux mint - hated it. i tried 2015 with ubuntu - hated it. Im trying OpenSuse now and so far im struggling but not giving up yet. It won't be a replace for certain software but as a dual boot, its doing fine in the moment
On Linux Mint Cinnamon you can open any folder in file manager as root. Very easy and no need for terminal. Graphical windows will always be easier for most people.
Yes there is"no need "to use the terminal in Mint (most of the time) but I find some actions are easier using terminal than using the GUI. But this is one of the reasons I switched to Linux. I'M THE ONE WHO CHOOSES, not the management at Microshaft.
I have totally gone Linux with the exception of a windows desktop which also will be given its walking papers soon enough. Here’s a question, I have had a challenge installing “session”. I use Qubes, and my distros are Debian, and fedora, I would like a tutorial for installing session on Qubes
Do you know what the biggest pain for me was? I installed LAMPP as a local server, for testing out Wordpress sites I was developing. In order to start LAMPP, I had to use the command line. I couldn't work out even by searching online, how to make a shortcut on the panel, or desktop.
If there was a book that listed all of of the commands and their uses, I'd be inclined to delve deeper into Linux and run it from a USB drive whilst learning it. Eventually I'd run a 2 OS system (NOT DUAL BOOT) with a specific setup. I did learn MS-DOS, many moons ago, so I have experience with command line, I just need to know the differences/similarities to MS-DOS and the commands and I'll begin to daily drive Linux and only use Windows for gaming.
"The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts, available to download as a free PDF. The command line also has a built in manual.... type in "man man" to see the landing page.
Using sudo as default is bad practice and dangerous. It is good to know when you might need it. If someone sent a file with execute rights and it removed all files in /, you would be destroyed.
HATE command line. An extreme PITA too. Gimmie a GUI any day. With lots of selections in those as well. Not just a lame BS choice either. I used command line once and destroyed ALL the data on a 2TB hard drive. All because of the nonsense way Linux labels things. So, I will only use a GUI to get things done. If it ain't there, I will try to use Windoze if the task can be done there. NEVER wiped a hard drive accidentally in windows...
PS ALL my devices are listed in the tree. Storage drives I click on to mount and unmount as needed. ExFAT is not the best way to format a storage drive. Best for maybe a flash drive. NTFS if you want both win and linux to see or ext4 for linux only. You WANT that journaling! Linux needs to toss the 's' on drive labeling. Use something like A,B,C, similar. They also need to stop labeling by UUID as well. Dang too much to remember and type when you want to do something via command line. Notice: be careful installing outside of your package manager. You are stuck relying on the software maker being honest. For deb files - I love them! EASY to install that way. And the installer does check for issues. Usually. Realistically, the vast majority of people absolutely DO NOT want to do all that typing, memorizing complicated syntax, etc. They just want to point and click as much as possible. Linux is a long way from being de-geek-ified. But it is still easy enough to use for most people. Generally there are 4 basic things people use a conputer for: 1) browsing & watching videos 2) Messaging/email 3) Multimedia playing (movies, music, similar) 4) Game play. I notices he didn't mention CHOWN.... Many things you cannot install without using that command. Yep, then you have to make the file executible. THEN you have to run the file. THEN cross your fingers that you didn't make any mistakes. That is why you want DEB files. FAR EASIER....
Windows programs yes those that are not browser for work does not work on linux, same for mac. You should choose you OS based on software that runs on it that does the job best. Not The other way round.
Don't use it for a desktop system unless to really know why you want it. It's a great server system. The thing about Linux is that it has support for newer hardware way before almost anything else. It also has much better desktop user support than the BSDs. Linux forums expect newbies. The BSDs essentially expect that you have some idea of what you're doing on that system and why.
Hey Rob. How does one set up a private home address? Just had my ss# stolen and need to hide my physical address but insurance doesn't accept a PO address. They are threatening to cancel. I don't mind paying more for privacy but we can't trust these companies to protect our privacy. Need alternate Home address.
A serious question - I was working with GRUB-2 (actually wanted to add newly complied kernel after looking through stack overflow). The thing that confuses me - how do I know the physical address of MBR on hard disk, or similar address in SSDs. For example - If I want to write a bootloader (for testing my skills) how would I know where to actually put the code. Kindly throw some light in this regard. I am extremely frustrated.
Another question that piqued me - difference between $ sudo shutdown -h now and $ sudo shutdown -P now So, how are halt and Power off different? If I halt my laptop, is it still power on?
MBR is in a fixed sector on the hard drive. (Boot sector). First sector. Back in the day you couldn't move it. I think if there's a bad sector you can relocate it.
@@turtle421 Your laptop may power off or it may not with the 'halt' option. You'd have to test it. It is more common these days when shutting down from the command line to use "sudo poweroff". There's also "sudo reboot" to warm reboot the system. The 'shutdown' command is old and more appropriate to environments where the hardware needs some careful handling on startup and shutdown; i.e. where disk packs needed to be loaded or unloaded but you still needed the device to be powered on get that to work. You might then invoke "shudown -h now", park the heads and unload the disk pack and then flick off the big red switch.
@@robbraxmantech You doing fantastic thingy for community., appreciate it. Please do more of things that's not available on the internet. Like a ham radio was classic and good. Cheers.
Debian based systems dont have SeLinux installed and configured by default. For someone who is all about security, i would expect him to use redhat based distros
If linux scares regular users. Freebsd is even more frightening to them. Lol My main OS is linux but I also use freebsd in a KVM. Freebsd is awesome too.
if you require even more stable system. But for most people linux is stable enough ) Stability of FreeBSD comes at the price of limited amount of applications. It's normally use in servers or network devices, including routers
Linux has better hardware support, especially for newer hardware or odd peripheral devices. You will also find lots more Linux information for whatever distro you choose. FreeBSD is great and I run it on a small file server and on an old laptop. However, it doesn't support all the laptop hardware (i.e. camera, microphone, tap on trackpad to click). Unless you really want to learn a BSD for some reason, I'd strongly recommend that you just run with a Linux. There are loads to choose from and there's almost guaranteed to be a distro to suit anyone. Most of what you learn on Linux is directly translatable to the BSDs in any case.
Switched to Linux. Arch with Hyprland (tiling window manager). Research the distro you are supporting for politics and community. I'll never go back, I can do things 10x faster. Also, it's non-negotiable to make the switch. While you are at it, encrypt your drives LUKS for system, veracrypt for storage.
I setup ubuntu on a second drive and now windows has made it impossible to boot to it. I would like to get back to dual boot and then have access to data on the windows drive while in ubuntu and ubuntu data while in windows. is this possible. Thank you
"Installing apps should be trivial as it is with Windows, but it's not." Burn! One commenter says no fair, Linux is not as complicated as Windows. Another says don't show the complicated things in Linux, implying they are not necessary. The lack of perspective is stunning.
If you really want to go to the trouble then you can use a vulnerability scanning tool like Tenable Nessus or a Qualys tool to scan any system. Why are you specifically mentioning "back doors"? What about vulnerabilities that exist because of software bugs because these are probably a lot more common? Back doors in Linux are extremely unlikely due to Open Source code being under constant peer review - all you need to do is make sure that you download or applications from a trusted source. Distros do not "feed Facebook", your web browser provides the data that Facebook collects, hence it's a browser issue. Do you not watch Rob's other videos because much of this is explained in those? I am also a "Linux Man" and proud of it - making it sound like a slur or something negative on your part usually results from jealousy because you know you'd have to put in a lot of time and effort to learn Linux but you probably can't be bothered.
Wrong, Wrong.. Wrong... With Respect! ! Especially for every departing; Windows, DOS, Power Shell, user the explanation is wrong. The very 1st command you are teaching the way EVERYONE else teaches it.. In Windows, DOS (with the backslash \) it's: cd\home\worker\ in Linux it's: cd /home/worker... cd (space) /home/worker. This messed me up from touching Linux again from 1996 to 1997. because I can listen effectively & take exacting instructions from the experts around me... I kept saying it's Not working the way your explaining it & They kept swearing I was typing it wrong... I was typing EXACTLY what they were saying... After abandoning Linux for a year... With the same tech by my side, I asked, "Kindly, show me the CD command argument again..." Once again... The words out of his mouth were: cd/home/worker yet What he typed was: cd /home/worker. I shouted... You SOB That's: cd (space) /home/worker There were too many lessons from that experience but the point is ... If the very 1st thing you try is so simple yet is a fail & you have to figure it out for yourself... What incentive is there to dig deeper? to abandon what you know? what actually works!! It goes back to why... why the Linux Desktop is so excited about consistently exceeding 3% of the desktop user market for the 1st time...
I switched a few months ago. Why, why, why in the 21st century does Linux still need so much command line? NOBODY likes typing line after line of Klingon curses just to install a simple program or mount a network share. C'mon man!
I switched from Windoze to Linux over 15 years ago. I was tired of the problems I experienced with Windoze. I've brought many friends over to the "dark side" as well. Linux is more work and more hands on because it's more secure. Great video. 👍
Mine was in 2015 when M$ said they were recording everything you type. However, I too have been on it a lot for work before then. I rarely get stuck, but I got a bit stuck updating Ubuntu 22 to 24.4.1, idk why. Occasionally it's annoying but at least it's smooth and fast and safe.
Bar on the left and mini app menu at the bottom where time and Bluetooth is, similar to windows.... As I'm still using win at work.
I have found windows way easier to use then linux, but prefer linux for security and privacy. Windows 10 is probably the best OS in the world for desktops.
@@glee21012But whose EOL is August 2025
@@glee21012 you haven't used Linux enough obviously. The ISS switched to a Linux based OS in 2015 because it's a more stable, reliable OS.
Thank you Rob for the intro to linux. I have used Linux at work but only for a few commands that I know.
What I need is what you just explained in this video
I now can expand my linux knowledge .
I have an old Windows computer that lost its partition . Ubuntu 16.4 is now on the drive.
I would like to go to V. 24 but so far I have been unable to learn how to do that.
Installing Firefox is another goal.. Thanks
I want to install 24 on a bootable flash drive and test it first.
If that works then I will update the Laptop.
Eagle Soars .. Braxmail user.
I recently switched to Linux Mint Cinnamon. It's been surprisingly easy; no need for command line so far, but I admit I just use Libre Office and the browser for searches and videos
The command line can be scary and i had to re install ubuntu a few times due to mistakes but the power that it gives you is well worth the steep learning curve.
Mint User here
I find command line makes things easier, but is not necessary, but I still strive to learn MORE command line
I use LMDE6, Linux Mint based on Debian since 3-4 years ago and i dont regret. Best choice i have made ever
I use Arch
Debian. Straight white men or Asians need apply.
Not Cool Debian... Not Cool
This was great. I struggled initially with these over the years. Your video brought great context for me. I would like to see you bring more of these Linux videos. Thank you.
I have been running Arch for many years. I started on Debian and Ubuntu. This a great info for beginners. Thanks for putting this out.
Same here. Started on ubuntu for a couple years, then switched to Arch and never looked back
I started with Slackware in 1996, I distro-hopped for a few years then ended up on Gentoo Linux in 2003 where I have been ever since. I dropped Windows completely when support for Windows 7 ended.
Thank you for the informative video! As shell (terminal) 'sudo' commands can wreak havoc in your file system, it's a good idea in my opinion to first type a hash character, which is the comment character in bash shell, then type the command or paste it from the clipboard (risky!). Examine the command and if everything is fine and you are in the correct directory, press Enter. Nothing happens as the command is just a comment. But it goes to the command history. Then, press the Up arrow to retrieve the sudo command. Remove the hash character but replace it with a space. Then press Enter. Now the command is executed, but it will not go to the command history, where you could accidentally retrieve it when you press Up arrow too many times. The bash history acts as a log of the commands that you have given, but in a safe format as all the logged commands are comments! Back up your command history to later see what you have done and when (add some time stamps as comments, too).
That is a very "belt and suspenders" type approach but actually pretty good advice for people who are just learning, particularly if on a system they can't afford to break.
Personally, I think that people who really want to learn should be free to break stuff. Then they have the learning experience of fixing it up again. I also think that people should do a lot more work on VMs which they can break with impunity. It they can't fix it, restore from a snapshot or just recreate the VM.
this is great, you don't sugar-coat Linux to make it easier than it really is while at the same time not over-complicating stuff like "those folks".
Running Linux system from last year. problem found with Linux 'experts' are the Linux 'Experts'.
Too many of them are arrogant & elitist when it comes to Linux. Been talked to as if I'm a sub-human.
You might get a better response from people if you don't start by calling them "arrogant & elitist". Treat people as individuals and show them the same respect as you expect them to treat you.
@@notjustforhackers4252 No second place mate, he didn't start with that he was reporting his experience you proved his point to a Tee. Your arrogant instructions are there for all to see talking down to him.
I’m sure you might start being a little cynical after trying to explain the same thing to tons of people over and over and over……….. new users are sooooo lazy. Refusing to do any research, and just make a new forum post asking questions that have already been answered
FreeBSD has a much more pleasant community with incredible support. You might find that to be a better experience than Linux.
You are sub human
This is great Rob, thank you for this! I've been using Ubuntu as well as LMDE for quite a few years, but grew up on Windows, so this was a great refresher.
Linux user since 2000. You barely scratched the surface of the powerful terminal and the commands. But it's great for new users.
You are welcome to make a video that goes deeper 😊
@keylanoslokj1806 sorry, not a content creator. Lol
These days you see more and more Windows admin type stuff being done in a terminal; either CMD prompt or Powershell. It turns out it's a far more powerful and clearly defined way of getting important jobs done.
@dingokidneys I say using terminals in any OS is powerful, especially if you know the commands and the steps to do the job. I practically use the terminal for everything and the gui for some tasks like web browsers.
@@DV-ml4fm So go read a few Linux books or watch a few more videos - it's called "doing research" and "putting in time and effort" which the modern generations (millennials downwards) don't seem to want to do any more. They are only interested in videos someone else makes for them and, even then, many of them whine about the videos being too long.
If you have no patience and the attention span of a subnormal goldfish and you're not willing to put in time and effort to learn Linux, then it's probably not for you.
We all started off in the same place by knowing absolutely nothing about anything.
Moving to Linux as soon as I retire. So much of my work depends on proprietary software in Windoze. Early (1980s) user of UNIX. Been through the Windoze NT phase at work, where they tell you all the things that are impossible, due to security, but knowing more stable UNIX was doing those things for years. What the NT gurus wanted you to believe was UNIX was weak and Windoze was best. I just laughed and used commercial servers for my needs.
Although I only had Windows on my desktop at work, I managed to finagle access to a Solaris system on which I was able to automate a lot of things I had to do. I also managed to install Cygwin on my desktop system to give me many of those tasty Linux tools. I guess these days you'd try to use WSL. When work moved us all to thin client desktops I still managed to wrangle some of my favourite tools onto a network share from which they would run. That and more Solaris stuff. When the Solaris system became too out of date to interact with external systems I needed access to, I set up an AWS virtual server to handle the interface.
Strangely, though I was an accountant and not an IT person, the IT managers who became aware of what I was doing - I didn't try too hard to hide it - didn't object. When I retired seven years ago I had to sit down for weeks with an IT guy to reimplement a lot of what I had set up in a way he could carry on after I'd gone. While I was there, if I handled stuff that the IT guys didn't really understand and didn't break things, they let me have free range. They knew I wouldn't do anything bad.
Temple OS is the ultimate for privacy. Open BSD also a good option
I'd use a Commodore 64 in 2024 before using Temple OS. At least.there was.very large library of useful apps for C64.
Not to mention I still have my C64.
Please, dont use "sudo" if you managing your user data. Editing text in user ownership with sudo is overkill.
If you already have permissions to edit a file as a normal user, using sudo isn't going to make any difference - but "overkill" is somewhat of an exaggeration.
I almost choked on my lunch when you said squiggly character. That was hilarious.
ISN'T that it's official name?
@3:47 -- Editing a text file.
"nano" is very popular, and is great for beginners, or for folks used to using Windows "notepad".
But if you do a lot of text editing, then familiarize yourself with "vi" (or "vim").
"vi" stands for "visual".
"vim" takes on a clever "improved" meaning, as in vi improved.
When you become proficient with "vi" or "vim", you will blast though your editing sessions. You will not need your mouse.
"vi" has been around since before computers used monitors (everything was outputted to a paper feed). So any Linux or UNIX OS will have "vi". And any somewhat recent Linux or UNIX OS will very likely all have "vim", too.
If you are editing your own files, there is no need to use "sudo".
@7:38 -- exFAT is fine. But you can also use NTFS on nearly any modern Linux distro. That was not the case some years ago. But today, NTFS is supported.
NTFS will be much slower than ext4, on a Linux system, because NTFS will run in the much slower "user" space, whereas ext4 runs in the "kernel" space.
For a few megabytes, you probably will not notice any difference between ext4, exFAT, and NTFS. But for large files, or countless small files, NTFS will be noticeably slower than ext4.
So if your SD card, or USB drive, etc, is already formatted with NTFS, you should be fine.
Idk, I still miss notepad++
Emacs for real men.
@@TheRealDrWho is there not a notepad++ Linux version? If not, I'm not switching!
@@TheRealDrWho I was about to say the same thing, i miss notepad++ in Linux, best editor i ever used and strange it has no Linux version because the source code is freely available
@@LynyrdSkynyrd.4Ever Well i use it in Bottles (windows emulator) or it can be installed in a virtual machine that has windows installed, but i would rather like to use it as my default editor everywhere in linux instead of putting my files i want to edit inside the bottles directory
I always read 'etc' as "et cetera", I wonder how many others call it "Etsy"?
Also kinda funny how entrenched the command line still is in linux, imagine if I had to open command prompt to give a file an icon, Lol~!
In my head I think etcetera but that is not the true description of that folder
Switched to Linux Mint year ago, I refuse to be Microsoft's puppet.
luv my Kubuntu plasma KDE.. its smokin fast.. been using Linux for 20yrs...
I love Unix/Linux ! Windows sucks. I recommend the Oreilly book series for Linux and scripting !
On Mint, drives can be accessed via the 'media' folder without doing any mounting. However, it is handy to have them mounted in other locations too.
Tab is the most important button... it's so important you gotta hit it twice.
Sadly we need to use VPNs and Private DNS on windows. I do use linux often, not running it at the moment but was a longtime Administrator for the Fedora program.....personally I like Debian 12.5 the best... BTW Nordvpn works on Debian (from the command line), Thanks Bob
If you believe you need to use VPNs and private DNS on Windows then Linux won't change that. You're confusing "security" and "privacy" anyway and browsers are a major cause of privacy issues, whether on Windows or Linux - so you have to know how to do browser hardening, whatever OS you use.
Fabulous review of various ways to install apps on linux. You're right, nobody tells you about that. Keep up the great work!
About to setup my dual boot for Linux, stopped investing in the Microsoft ecosystem, more of these videos please, think it's going to be a long transition until I feel comfortable making it my main OS.
Wish me luck.
Problem with this terminal in Linux is that it makes me feel like i go back to the eighties when i was typing in basic on my commodore 64 and a couple of years later in msdos. I was really happy Windows showed up which made everything not only more easy and better looking, it also made life on a pc so much faster since you didn't need to type everything (and make mistakes and have to start over again)
I have been running Linux mint for a month now, i have windows (lite-debloated) in a vm (without acces to the internet)
I am very happy with the switch and so far i have no reason to ever go back to windows. (but i also didn't try any games yet, i understand i could install steam but i have many games and iso files of my own that probably will not install)
I also started working seriously on computers in the 1980's, primarily with DOS. When Windows arrived on my work machine I hated it. It was slow and clunky. When I booted up first thing in the morning as soon as the Windows desktop came up I'd close out of it and get back to my beloved DOS prompt. I was however using a load of custom programs, some of which I'd written myself and some of which I'd carefully typed in from code in a PC magazine. I was already starting to toy with Linux about this time on my home PCs and at this time a GUI was advanced stuff and you had to write your own XFree86 config file to get it working.
I did eventually just use Windows at work and to a lesser extent at home but I've always been attached to the command line interface. I'm a Linux only household these days and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything. Every machine I work on has a terminal session open as it's just the fastest and most precise way to do many tasks.
Command line and a shell allow you to automate repeated commands instead of ad infinitum point and click.
I am really enjoying your linux videos, i switched to linux mint after you made the dual boot video, i still have win10 in a dual boot system and it still has it's own drive but i haven't booted into windows for weeks
Careful in fstab, getting it wrong can stop your system booting.
Try to remember to create a copy of it first. Then if you can't boot after the change, you can quickly rename the newly edited file to whatever, or delete it, then name your copy back to fstab. All from a command line accessible before the desktop loads.
Therein lies the fun and a learning experience. I've buggered up my system with a bad fstab many times though I've been using Linux for almost 30 years. The last time was a few months ago with a little FreeBSD file server running on a Raspberry Pi. A sudden power outage, the drives not coming up clean and I needed to edit fstab to get the system to come back onto the network. With the RPi you have options though; either remove the SD card and edit the file on the card on another machine, or set up a serial console to another machine - which is a fun thing to do - and boot to single user mode.
On another machine you'd probably need a bootable USB stick plus a screen and keyboard. It's good to practice different recovery techniques so you don't panic and make things worse in the heat of the moment.
,when i install linux for the first time and used it i could not go back to windows any more. i love using linux terminal. linux is such a joy.
Excellent video.
This video should have a M+ views already!
Thank you for this video, I switched to Linux full time back in May and still have more to learn, ideas for future videos, some software that don't work on Linux and don't have alternatives, use Virtual box, bottles, wine or how to compile source code?
Rob what about installing Midnight Commander and the sudo mcedit /etc/whatever? It’s a lot easier editor. Also much easier to use gnome-disk-utility to format, create partitions, etc.
Once you're an expert you can come up with your own shortcuts. But as you know the problem is that many apps will not even exist and you'll have to install it. Whereas nano is almost universally pre-installed.
@@robbraxmantech Bingo. That's what I love about this video, you show us Linux newbies how to work with what we have, not with what experienced Linux users think we should have.
I've had less trouble with flatpak than snaps. On my Deb 12 system it gives me the choice to install from repository or flatpak or snaps. Flatpak wins every time here.
No, Linux is NOT the only operating system that doesn't invade your privacy. FreeBSD and other BSDs fall into that category and are superior to Linux in many ways. Also, the Linux community contains many intellectually challenged yahoos who can't get out of their own way, yet are motivated to present themselves as experts. Because of this, the world of Linux is filled with a mind-numbing array of bad choices and incompetent "mentors." The BSD culture is generally more sophisticated, comprising programmers, embedded hardware engineers, etc. Because of this, the BSDs don't have as much built-in compatibility with things like mainstream games.
I'm not pointing out these things in an effort to get Linux users to migrate to the BSDs. I hope they don't. We don't want our favorite development platforms, forums, conferences, etc. to be inundated by hoards of people for whom the computer is an entertainment appliance. I am just pointing out that it's incorrect to say that Linux is the only OS that offers privacy.
Perhaps he meant it's the only OS that easily available to the average punter that is secure and private. The BSDs have come a long way but for people who find installing Arch Linux an insurmountable challenge, almost any of the BSDs are out of reach. Well they might handle Nomad or GhostBSD but even then ...
OpenBSD is awesome.
On using flatpak also install flatseal for improving privacy
I tried Ubuntu a long time ago. Really big learning curve. Drivers for EVERYTHING 😂
I should try again
isn't 1998 anymore, definitely you should give a try ;D
@@GustavAgar Ubuntu is very "plug and play" compared to the early days. Steam works with minimal effort and I can play most games just as easily as I could with Windows. The learning curve has come way down for new users
i installed linux mint with the help of a youtube video, i am complete noob to linux but it was almost as, if not easier then installing windows, everything pretty much worked right after install, even my nvidea card (it did however ask me if i wanted the real driver or the open source version, i tested both, original works much better) and after installing another sound applet it now also shows my 7.1 configuration through hdmi to my amplifier 'out of the box' without any configuration.
Only thing that doesn't have anything for linux is my Corsair rgb :( My pc is full with it because it is the only RGB that has unlimited configuration to make unique rgb patterns. After a search i found out that Corsair is not interested in making a linux version of their software (or give the source code so the community van make it themselves). They consider the linux community as 'not profitable'.
Other then that i can not complain, it has a good updater program and so far everything i need or test seems to work
I used a Slackware distro way back. It was usefull. Then my school and other educational encounters and persons forced me to windows, which for a while was kinda ok-ish. Now while I was away my dad. 'Helped' me with my laptop, it had a broken power connector socket. And so yeah sure that is ok, meanwhile a day later he also announced proudly to also have upgraded and installed windows 11 without asking my permisssion and clicked all offered boxed that looked soothing and positive.
My emotions were a combination of pity sorrow and love and grieve and loss and future extra work to get something of a system resembles a operating system with me having access toy own written documents files etc and versus the hollow plastic terminal to that is has now become.
Thanks dad.
Sigh.
@@blueredbrick 😂😞
When I first started using computers many many years ago, I learn MS DOS, and learn its commands. I was smart back then. Then MS Windows (95) launched. Over the years of using it made me STUPID. Now Windows (11) has become STUPID. Because of this, I'm migrating to Linux (Kubuntu), learning its file system and command lines. I feel I'm becoming SMART again.
LOL!
Thank you for the video, but most Linux users have little or no need to use the command line. The video risks putting off people who would like to switch to a Linux system. Too many topics are covered at once, and several could be the subject of a separate presentation.
You can't do what is needed without the command line as I already said here. The last item, installing a VPN, that you can do without a command line. But the rest -- no.
sudo stands for superuser do (administrator or root) if you want to access bin, etc or other root level folders you will have to be root. an easy way to access root from the command line is sudo -i this will prompt you to enter your admin password and you will have root access throughout your terminal access.
I have some reservations about saying you will need to use the terminal for most operations. Your guide is very good, but if I didn't know what you were talking about I would be very confused.
for software management, you don't really need the terminal as the software stores of debian based distros will do it all. If you are going to be an admin then leaning the terminal well is necessary. It really depends on what you are going to do. since the content creator does many advanced things, i totally understand his need for mastery of the terminal.
You need to define "access" better. You can always access ("read") the applications in root directories as any user (unless specifically restricted) but you cannot change the directories or the applications within ("write").
This is an important distinction to make when you have a lot of new users here.
@@terrydaktyllus1320 fair point. Thank you for pointing that out.
Great refresher course, and great tips, thanks.
Is there a way to associate and merge an icon file into an image file?
Personally I use gedit, you might consider using it while introducing Linux to Windows users. One less thing to learn. They can always use any text editor they like once they've learned theirway around LInux.
Thanks Rob . Amazing Content
Linux isn't the only operating system that can provide you privacy, this also includes the bsd family of operating systems, risc os, Haiku, & serenity os, & maybe even morphos, pretty much any opensource operating system, with morphos being the exception since that one is paid for(& only works on ppc based macs right now), but the rest are all free opensource ones.
Hi Rob, thank you for all the tips… i was wondering about the latest ubuntu release noble numbat. You mentioned in a previous video there are microsoft files that you can remove which i did for jammy jellyfish but have forgotten which ones you said. Do you recommend updating to noble or should i have kept jammy and can you please direct me to the right video or explain which files i can delete that are microsoft files. I realise microsoft has a lot of input in the development of linux.
Thank you. Excellent video
I started with Mandrake many years ago, used Windows also, currently on Mageia 9, duel boot with Win 11, pretty much for games...
You should do one flashing degoogled phones using linux including editing the .img files to work with other devices.
Instead of rebooting to see the SD card mounted, you could do a:
% sudo mount -a
One advantage of this is that if there is an error, you can fix it before having a system that won't boot (ask me how I know).
On the fstab, the last two digits are "0 0" ... if the SD card is not present when you reboot, won't that cause a boot error? (I had this recently, I commented out the /etc/fstab line for the missing device). If you change the trailing "0 0" to "0 2" will that fix it?
Great video.
yeah good point )
fstab should be edited with an especial care
And btw if you don't know some command or parameters, you don't have to search an online help for it. Try using man, info commands, or typing - -help after any command
you really don't have to remember all these parameters or arguments
don't use sudo unless you really need it!
You could see that he was causing himself permissions problems with that file he was creating. I also cringed when he did that.
Linux is a POSIX-inspired OS that should suit the majority of Windoz users, its very similar to Windows with its binary distributions, bundling and update strategies; for security and privacy anything is better than Microsoft and Google, and Linux can be a good pick but not a top security pick.
I have been using Linux for over 10 years. I find whenever I need to use windows 10 I am using a toy OS.
Yeah.......kinda eliminates the whole point of using a PC. That being convenience and ease of use. 90+% of users will never switch.
If you use something like linux mint you basically never need use the terminal. Even easier than Windows to use. For the 1% you need to run a command you could probably chatgdp for what you should type and it could also explain it
THANK YOU! Everybody is recommending linx like a grail but only a few support or explain things
At the moment I still fail to use my favorite vpn mullvad :/
On multiple times, i tried to use linux, but it is such a battle in long run that i give up depressed every time. I tried 2005 with linux mint - hated it. i tried 2015 with ubuntu - hated it. Im trying OpenSuse now and so far im struggling but not giving up yet. It won't be a replace for certain software but as a dual boot, its doing fine in the moment
On Linux Mint Cinnamon you can open any folder in file manager as root. Very easy and no need for terminal. Graphical windows will always be easier for most people.
Yes there is"no need "to use the terminal in Mint (most of the time) but I find some actions are easier using terminal than using the GUI. But this is one of the reasons I switched to Linux. I'M THE ONE WHO CHOOSES, not the management at Microshaft.
I have totally gone Linux with the exception of a windows desktop which also will be given its walking papers soon enough. Here’s a question, I have had a challenge installing “session”. I use Qubes, and my distros are Debian, and fedora, I would like a tutorial for installing session on Qubes
Relatively new Mint newbie here. Maybe after i watch this video a few (dozen) more times I'll get the hang if it. LoL
Do you know what the biggest pain for me was? I installed LAMPP as a local server, for testing out Wordpress sites I was developing. In order to start LAMPP, I had to use the command line. I couldn't work out even by searching online, how to make a shortcut on the panel, or desktop.
If there was a book that listed all of of the commands and their uses, I'd be inclined to delve deeper into Linux and run it from a USB drive whilst learning it. Eventually I'd run a 2 OS system (NOT DUAL BOOT) with a specific setup.
I did learn MS-DOS, many moons ago, so I have experience with command line, I just need to know the differences/similarities to MS-DOS and the commands and I'll begin to daily drive Linux and only use Windows for gaming.
"The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts, available to download as a free PDF. The command line also has a built in manual.... type in "man man" to see the landing page.
Increase font size for RUclips, 20 should be the minimum.
What is "20" in a RUclips sense? All the commands are in the description though.
This is the second channel in about 20min I've heard call it the 'squiggly character'. '~'` is a *tilde*.
the squiggly line is a spanish "virgulilla" over the n. The tilde is used for accentuation in a word...
I don't think you need to say "forward slash". There are only two kinds, slash and backslash.
Using sudo as default is bad practice and dangerous. It is good to know when you might need it. If someone sent a file with execute rights and it removed all files in /, you would be destroyed.
HATE command line. An extreme PITA too.
Gimmie a GUI any day.
With lots of selections in those as well.
Not just a lame BS choice either.
I used command line once and destroyed ALL the data on a 2TB hard drive. All because of the nonsense way Linux labels things.
So, I will only use a GUI to get things done. If it ain't there, I will try to use Windoze if the task can be done there.
NEVER wiped a hard drive accidentally in windows...
PS ALL my devices are listed in the tree. Storage drives I click on to mount and unmount as needed.
ExFAT is not the best way to format a storage drive. Best for maybe a flash drive.
NTFS if you want both win and linux to see or ext4 for linux only.
You WANT that journaling!
Linux needs to toss the 's' on drive labeling. Use something like A,B,C, similar.
They also need to stop labeling by UUID as well. Dang too much to remember and type when you want to do something via command line.
Notice: be careful installing outside of your package manager.
You are stuck relying on the software maker being honest.
For deb files - I love them!
EASY to install that way. And the installer does check for issues. Usually.
Realistically, the vast majority of people absolutely DO NOT want to do all that typing, memorizing complicated syntax, etc.
They just want to point and click as much as possible.
Linux is a long way from being de-geek-ified.
But it is still easy enough to use for most people.
Generally there are 4 basic things people use a conputer for:
1) browsing & watching videos
2) Messaging/email
3) Multimedia playing (movies, music, similar)
4) Game play.
I notices he didn't mention CHOWN....
Many things you cannot install without using that command.
Yep, then you have to make the file executible.
THEN you have to run the file.
THEN cross your fingers that you didn't make any mistakes.
That is why you want DEB files. FAR EASIER....
Windows programs yes those that are not browser for work does not work on linux, same for mac. You should choose you OS based on software that runs on it that does the job best. Not The other way round.
what are your thoughts on OpenBSD?
Don't use it for a desktop system unless to really know why you want it. It's a great server system.
The thing about Linux is that it has support for newer hardware way before almost anything else. It also has much better desktop user support than the BSDs. Linux forums expect newbies. The BSDs essentially expect that you have some idea of what you're doing on that system and why.
Using the command line is, generally, NOT necessary when using a modern Linux distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint.
Hey Rob. How does one set up a private home address? Just had my ss# stolen and need to hide my physical address but insurance doesn't accept a PO address. They are threatening to cancel. I don't mind paying more for privacy but we can't trust these companies to protect our privacy. Need alternate Home address.
I've been using archlinux for 3 years and know only neofetch, pacman -Syu
, yay -Syu
🤣🤣🤣
I am already on the path of linux, the last straw was i read windows is gimping the control panel, that was the last straw for me.
A serious question - I was working with GRUB-2 (actually wanted to add newly complied kernel after looking through stack overflow).
The thing that confuses me - how do I know the physical address of MBR on hard disk, or similar address in SSDs.
For example - If I want to write a bootloader (for testing my skills) how would I know where to actually put the code.
Kindly throw some light in this regard. I am extremely frustrated.
Another question that piqued me - difference between
$ sudo shutdown -h now
and
$ sudo shutdown -P now
So, how are halt and Power off different? If I halt my laptop, is it still power on?
MBR is in a fixed sector on the hard drive. (Boot sector). First sector. Back in the day you couldn't move it. I think if there's a bad sector you can relocate it.
@@turtle421 Your laptop may power off or it may not with the 'halt' option. You'd have to test it.
It is more common these days when shutting down from the command line to use "sudo poweroff". There's also "sudo reboot" to warm reboot the system.
The 'shutdown' command is old and more appropriate to environments where the hardware needs some careful handling on startup and shutdown; i.e. where disk packs needed to be loaded or unloaded but you still needed the device to be powered on get that to work. You might then invoke "shudown -h now", park the heads and unload the disk pack and then flick off the big red switch.
Squiggly? It's a tilde. ~ 😂😂😂
I never call it that LOL. I don't think the average person knows Tilde!
I like squiggly too. 😊
“Linux is the only OS that offers privacy”
BSD users are very angry now. 😂
Question: I usually get from git compile, build and install,. felt more stable than .deb or other means. Is there a scientific reason for this?
Compiling yourself is even better but to be honest, it's a little tricky because of dependencies so I'm not going to teach that
@@robbraxmantech You doing fantastic thingy for community., appreciate it. Please do more of things that's not available on the internet. Like a ham radio was classic and good. Cheers.
Which Linux distribution are you using?
I'm using PopOS and Ubuntu myself.
Moral of the story is if you want hassle free you will be spyed ,if you want privacy you have to toil.
Debian based systems dont have SeLinux installed and configured by default. For someone who is all about security, i would expect him to use redhat based distros
Whonix or Tails. Those among others for better security. Then use something like QuebesOS with those distros.
I am on linux for 2 years now. I cant use windows anymore..no more bogged down pc with bloatware
There's some nice windows icons for Ubuntu too🎉
What about FreeBSD?
If linux scares regular users. Freebsd is even more frightening to them. Lol
My main OS is linux but I also use freebsd in a KVM. Freebsd is awesome too.
if you require even more stable system. But for most people linux is stable enough )
Stability of FreeBSD comes at the price of limited amount of applications. It's normally use in servers or network devices, including routers
@@ТоварищКамрадовСоциалистКоммун That is true. Linux is my main OS, but I love the unix philosophy. Both are great in my book.
Linux has better hardware support, especially for newer hardware or odd peripheral devices. You will also find lots more Linux information for whatever distro you choose.
FreeBSD is great and I run it on a small file server and on an old laptop. However, it doesn't support all the laptop hardware (i.e. camera, microphone, tap on trackpad to click).
Unless you really want to learn a BSD for some reason, I'd strongly recommend that you just run with a Linux. There are loads to choose from and there's almost guaranteed to be a distro to suit anyone. Most of what you learn on Linux is directly translatable to the BSDs in any case.
flatpak yay, snap nay!
Switched to Linux. Arch with Hyprland (tiling window manager). Research the distro you are supporting for politics and community. I'll never go back, I can do things 10x faster. Also, it's non-negotiable to make the switch. While you are at it, encrypt your drives LUKS for system, veracrypt for storage.
there is no need to use nano in combination with sudo in your exemple. now, only root can edit the file :/
What’s that background music
I setup ubuntu on a second drive and now windows has made it impossible to boot to it. I would like to get back to dual boot and then have access to data on the windows drive while in ubuntu and ubuntu data while in windows. is this possible. Thank you
Disable Secure Boot because that's what's the zucking Microsoft tried to update. I don't use that and I have not been affected
@@robbraxmantech I will give that a try thank you
You must disable fast boot feature..
"Installing apps should be trivial as it is with Windows, but it's not."
Burn!
One commenter says no fair, Linux is not as complicated as Windows.
Another says don't show the complicated things in Linux, implying they are not necessary.
The lack of perspective is stunning.
0:10
Not even a minute in and we have our first wrong statement. BSD? Debian GNU/Hurd? Haiku OS? etc...
Mr robot was hela gei!
Ok Linux man. How do we scan for back doors. I noticed some of the distros are feeding Facebook.
If you really want to go to the trouble then you can use a vulnerability scanning tool like Tenable Nessus or a Qualys tool to scan any system.
Why are you specifically mentioning "back doors"? What about vulnerabilities that exist because of software bugs because these are probably a lot more common?
Back doors in Linux are extremely unlikely due to Open Source code being under constant peer review - all you need to do is make sure that you download or applications from a trusted source.
Distros do not "feed Facebook", your web browser provides the data that Facebook collects, hence it's a browser issue. Do you not watch Rob's other videos because much of this is explained in those?
I am also a "Linux Man" and proud of it - making it sound like a slur or something negative on your part usually results from jealousy because you know you'd have to put in a lot of time and effort to learn Linux but you probably can't be bothered.
Wrong, Wrong.. Wrong... With Respect! ! Especially for every departing; Windows, DOS, Power Shell, user the explanation is wrong.
The very 1st command you are teaching the way EVERYONE else teaches it..
In Windows, DOS (with the backslash \) it's:
cd\home\worker\
in Linux it's:
cd /home/worker...
cd (space) /home/worker.
This messed me up from touching Linux again from 1996 to 1997.
because I can listen effectively & take exacting instructions from the experts around me...
I kept saying it's Not working the way your explaining it &
They kept swearing I was typing it wrong...
I was typing EXACTLY what they were saying...
After abandoning Linux for a year... With the same tech by my side, I asked, "Kindly, show me the CD command argument again..."
Once again... The words out of his mouth were:
cd/home/worker
yet
What he typed was:
cd /home/worker.
I shouted... You SOB That's:
cd (space) /home/worker
There were too many lessons from that experience but the point is ... If the very 1st thing you try is so simple yet is a fail & you have to figure it out for yourself... What incentive is there to dig deeper? to abandon what you know? what actually works!!
It goes back to why... why the Linux Desktop is so excited about consistently exceeding 3% of the desktop user market for the 1st time...
fortunately I included the commands in the description. So yes I don't say everything
Thank you for the information
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Is there any chance there could be a creation called.
Brax wiki wiki pedia?
Pretty please.
Only the truth of course 🍀🖖
I switched a few months ago. Why, why, why in the 21st century does Linux still need so much command line? NOBODY likes typing line after line of Klingon curses just to install a simple program or mount a network share. C'mon man!
Icon? What are those in linux world? lol
You forgot a command line command for new users... "sudo rm -rf /" LOL
"sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root" (To remove everything on the computer)
Flatpak is better than snaps
Do you download Linux?
Switched to Linux 3 months ago. It’s ugly as hell.
Linux is both far too complicated and inadequate for a decent computing.
wrong..
sudo mark zuckerburg/ - delete
Excellent content