For the longest time I was unaware that your activation code in Windows is tied to your motherboard. I have sense found this information out and I can't make myself put Windows 10 back on the computer.
@@wesleymercer4536 Same. That was one of my reasons for leaving Windows for good 20 days ago and going full Linux. The whole OEM thing is a sick joke; now in Linux I can install Ubuntu on 2000000000 computers of any type if I needed to.
Going from "Yeah, Ubuntu with Unity is the only thing I need. Arch is waay too complicated and I don't eve know what a window manager is" to "BTW, I use Arch and i3."
Also realize an important fact: The only reason Windows feels so much easier to use at first, is because its we have used it for so many years as the standard in desktops environments. We learned it from where we were young, and therefore a new desktop environment can feel horrible at first.
This is so true, I grew up with Windows. I used it from DOS/Win 3.11 and onwards. Windows STILL feels more familiar to me even after being on Linux for a Year. Then again I did use Windows for literally 27 years. Most of that time was 8+ hours per day on it and you just don't forget that kind of usage.
That is sooo sooo true Johnny! People expect to have the same experience and use meanwhile they have been using Windows for 20 plus years. Overall looking back Linux is easier once you get over the learning curve. A monkey from the zoo can figure out distros like peppermint, mint, Ubuntu Mate etc.. Now Gentoo well that's a whole other story. Lol
I can remember working one summer for a local school district "Upgrading" labs from 3.11 to win95 and how so many folks where complaining about the change.... while I was at home trying to make OS/2 useful..... which failed .. lol.... many moons later and I finally feel like I have the OS/2 experience I wanted... in the form of Linux ;-)
Glad you showed the software center method first. Too many start with the command line and don't mention that there is a GUI for just about everything. For the new user that can be the most annoying and intimidating part of Linux -- and the Tech types are a small fragment of the population that uses computers.
Yeah, I obviously still love the terminal, but it takes a bit to break into and can scare people off. Personally, it is faster and more efficient but starting off is probably not the best method.
Same, the more I use it the easier it feels. And of course part of that is because I don't stop customizing it until I feel satisfied "enough" with it. I just feel so much at home when using my setup I feel sad using anything else.
After 30 years in windows I went ham into Linux and after breaking it a few times just found installing fresh and just using it I'm a lot happier and no need to break what's not broken 🤣😂 100% Linux daily user 2019 😁 thanks to your wonderful support channel 😉
@Jerry L Kreps oh man! you brought back sweet memories! I was only 23 when I started with Linux Mandrake 6.0 in 1999-2000, but wow, yeah, I bought that at compUSA. I do remember going to Books a Million and reading books on Linux, only to go home and try what I could remember! Then I got smart and started buying SuSE Linux, first at the computer show, then at Best Buy! Yep, no such thing as downloading a linux cd or dvd back then! Bookstores and electronics stores was the way to get them there OS cds! And manuals.. I never got free Linux cds back then.. seems that was an illusion for a poor factory worker..
My first days were pure customization, I love that you can "mold" linux the way you want it. And yes, getting used to the terminal still costs me a bit but it's not something you can't find in a search.
Ancient Windows veteran here (I started with v 2.11). I installed Manjaro on a seperate drive after watching your video on gaming on Linux, Lutris one - that was in June. I haven't logged into Windows yet :D Now I'm trying to get off the rest of Microsoft/Adobe (big time OneDrive user here, need to setup my own Nextcloud first), after that the old Windows partition is going to get Fedora Workstation. Really interested in your experience with it btw.
I still use Adobe, but I personally like the FreeOffice suite as it is pretty much a carbon copy of MS Office. They do have a paywall on some advanced configuration, but I haven't run into that yet. XPDF works fine for reading, but for major edits, I fire up a VM or boot into a Windows box to do my PDF edits.
That video thumbnail, lol. By no means am I being mean to you, but around here we call that a "Happy Birthday Face", as it resembles the expression of little kids when they are gifted new toys. Keep up the good work and I wish you the best of lucks. 👍🏻
If you want the audio control granularity in Linux, ditch PulseAudio and switch to JACK. Try it first with UbuntuStudio, see if that audio stack works for you.
"Just go and do your work!". Yep! That's exactly how I feel. 100%. I work as a residential repair tech and man, I'd die if I ever had to go back to Windows or Mac.
Chris, The high cost of monthly subscription fees for graphical and support programs is driving web and other development to Linux. The colleges have started to direct their students to use the Linux tools such as Blender, LibreOffice, inkscape and others.
Just make sure the printer does pcl or postscript. If it’s not some shady subset (I had an older Samsung with an own flavor) it should work (hp, Xerox, brother) . GDI - Printers will only work with Windows, not Apple, not Linux.
I don't miss Windows. I do miss sending telemetry data to Microsoft though. I felt a bit of an emptiness realizing that nobody was listening anymore... So I send my own daily telemetry reports to Microsoft: "Dear Microsoft," "I haven't been very productive today. I just couldn't get anything done. No inspiration whatsoever." "So I've settled to do some RUclips browsing. To see if Chris Titus Tech posted a new video. Oh, for your telemetry database: I really like this channel! (hope this helps a bit)" "The rest of the videos today I clicked via the recommendations in the sidebar. So these aren't necessarily an indication of my commercial interests. (sorry)" "Although, that guy who stuffed his nose with berries was very enjoyable to watch..." "I hope I have more for you tomorrow. I'm going to get a Coka Cola now. And some Pringles crisps. (I usually do that on Wednesdays)" "Cheers!" On a serious note: can't really remember my first 30 days on Linux... :-/ I've still got an original RedHat 8.0 box with 7 CD's and booklets. It's from 2002. Now I'm running Fedora KDE spin.
I'd love to see a review of Void Linux. It's not my distro of choice but it looks really awesome. Also I love the "hacking the matrix" part! Seriously using terminal is a suprisingly satisfying experience!
I'm fully switched to linux now. I've tried switching to linux 2 times before but i wasn't as well versed enough to fully grasp the whole linux thing. Now I'm smart enough to exclusively use manjaro.
@@JessicaFEREM actually it does install anything expect for grub. I tried to install it even manually I searched so many wikis but it didnt install it.
@@eness379 I would try enabling the boot flag on the grub partition, I've had that happen to me with manjaro on other computers and it's a pain in the ass
0:07 Those 2 hours of you hacking around in Linux are definitely worth watching! The "30 day Linux challenge" videos are what got me into your channel. I got excited each time you released a new 30-day Linux challenge/7-day **some distro** challenge video
You made the installation from the Terminal look far simpler than it really is. Windows installs very rarely will come up and ask you to find additional files to install it. Linux often asks you for other dependencies, so you really didn't do a typical Terminal install.
I mean I guess all your doing is typing yes when it asks you if you want to install dependencies Microsoft does it automatically that's a incredibly minor thing
I noticed some improvement in your facial structure since the advent of your channel. You seem to be more rounded and fuller than before. I guess it's the beefsteak and cream potatoes with cheesecake or crẽme brulée as dessert.
I used to use a Star Trek LCARS Theme that matches that. www.gnome-look.org/p/1006793/ I believe what we're seeing is a Star Trek LCARS screensaver. Found some cools ones, don't look like the one we are seeing though. But I like it too. ruclips.net/video/7j3Dq2uzjVE/видео.html ruclips.net/video/Y_4iAWobejY/видео.html
@@zeocamo I used to run Star Trek LCARS. I don't anymore. I'm using MX as my Linux distro currently. When I used Star Trek LCARS then. I believe it was old Ubuntu when it was using GNOME before Unity and now they are back with GNOME. Not using much of theme anymore. i.imgur.com/arAXylg.png
Linux Cons: 1) you can wipe your root partition by mistake. 2) you can do "sudo apt remove sudo" and nobody will prevent you to doing that. Linux Pros: everything else.
I tried Linux in 2000 because I wanted to try something different that LOOKED different. Linux guis have been my most loved thing about Linux since day one for me! Now, as a midi and audio musician, I wanted a OS that did not crash everytime I tried to record my midi multi track compositions like happened many times in Windows 95/98. Well.. as Chris pointed out.. LINUX and AUDIO, and MIDI from the forums I read through today, just do not work together right. In Windows, and even DOS, you can play and record midi notes in REALTIME with little to no delay between the time you press a key on your midi keyboard, and the time you HEAR a note come out of your speaker. In LINUX, you either get very long delay, no sound at all(that was my experience with OSS)or you get sudden sparratic jumbling of notes in your recordings(Jazz++ midi sequencer). In windows, you buy and install a sound blaster live value card, plug your midi keyboard into the game port, and after installing the driver cd which comes with realistic and synthetic keyboard sounds, you can trigger the internal keyboard sounds of the soundcard using your midi keyboard, a game port to midi cable and what ever midi software you could afford to buy with Windows! It just worked!! Until Windows or the app crashed or blue screened :-( . Modern Linux still has these issues of latency(long noticable delay of midi note to sound out), and audio card setup issues(no sound output even with speakers plugged in and volume at max!). Depends on the distro and how the hardware and software is automatically setup for that distro. In the old days of my adventure with Linux in 2000, you had to manually install the card, setup the midi port and audio ports, and game port, and software. But it STILL did not work or worked badly but hey, I wanted something NOT microsoft right? There ya go.. Linux is pretty, and it is free, but unless you are a good programmer, you can not use it to compose music on a pro level without doing ALOT of tweaking and setup,debugging,etc. I use MX Linux and tried some Studio versions recently.. Midi is still an issue. Audio seems to finally work even in multitrack recordings, so that is good at least!!
You might mention sometime that it is a good idea to check hardware compatibility before you go hog wild with the Linux. These days I make purchases based on support. Maybe if more people did that then manufactures would get their ducks in a row. IIRC there are websites that list compatible components, but I also seem to recall that they are not necessarily complete or up to date. (though that was a few years ago.)
I'm certainly not going to support a company that does not support my OS choice. Why would I? If they do not specifically say they support Linux then no soup for them! In fact I like to see some enthusiasm from manufacturers about Linux. Although sometimes I will settle for just having an enthusiastic Linux community supporting hardware. But I still need to see something tangible before I financially support anything. This Internet thing is a great information resource.
WHAT? Really! How? That number means you started using Linux before the release of Wine, Ubuntu and / or Mandrake (now openMANDRIVA), viable software alternatives and you probably first used Slackware! Was Linux installation really hard back than? I've heard some distros requred you tu use hex editors!
@@frataltay4543 it's really good to see Turkish people are watching these videos. I watched a video before just was explaining sql injection of a scam site that's made by a retarded turk.
Old video I know, but it's worth noting that Brother has EXCELLENT Linux support. My current Brother printer/scanner/copier I bought around 2013. It's a wifi and ethernet capable greyscale laser printer with scanner and double-sided printing support. Drivers available directly from the manufacturer, direct, network, and even mobile (android at least; I don't buy iproducts so didn't test) all worked excellently. In fact, it actually worked better on Linux than in Windows, as I found Windows tended to replace certain mathematical symbols with Asian characters (not sure which language) whereas I had no issues ever on Linux.
I went 100% Linux about 20 days ago, after 10 years of being in Windows. I'd like to add my thoughts on hardware: I have a Canon mf printer/scanner. At first it didn't work. The options to get it to work: 1. [best] find the Linux .deb printer files on the manufacturer site. On the Canon site it says for Ubuntu 19.10 that they do not make any Linux files/drivers. BUT if this occurs for your hardware there MAY still be hope. If you can find an older set of drivers you can still win; I found for my canon mg 7700 printer drivers from Ubuntu 15.10; they got my printer and scanner to work! 2. [2nd best] there are companies that sell reverse engineered tools to get printers to work. Two companies that do this are Turboprint and Hamrick software. 3. [3rd best] Google Cloud Print. I don't know much about this. 4. [last resort and worst] run Windows as a virtual machine to get hardware working. This is insecure. You might have to buy antivirus for the VM. There is the hassle of opening the VM. You don't want to do this unless you absolutely have to.
Great video. I've been bouncing back and forth lately. While game support is getting better on linux, having a 144hz monitor and 60hz monitor is still troublesome at times. If I want to watch a video on one while playing a game, it gets choppy. I've mostly replaced a lot of the other software I used. When I want to do some advanced audio routing I use Voicemeeter Potato, and am still looking for a replacement on linux. Application parity can be a thing, too. The Discord client on linux needs some minor catch-up. I'm 50/50 now, and love my bash shell.
Even if you have 2 SSD's or other hard drives, they can still accidentally install the bootloaders to same EFI partition. So I made my first Linux install through the "manual partition" option. Having the OS's and their bootloaders on separate SSD's prevents the dual booting window, which would appear on boot. Instead to access the other OS, I had to go to BIOS and change the boot order. It's more work, but it does not mess up your install partitions. Only thing I noticed was that after switching from Linux back to Windows, the clock was in wrong time for some reason.
My first seven days... Well actually it was fixing WiFi and Bluetooth and trying to install vlc using snap when Ubuntu software center servers were down.
When? Wifi and Bluetooth worked perfectly for me from the first moment, I never had repo issues beyond ppas not being updated to Eoan (well I started with Disco). My only issue was the GPU (NVIDIA, but I wanted to mainly use the Intel UHD 620 unless I'm gaming because I need the battery life on my laptop)
@@liranpiade4499 with pop os on hp laptop with realtek wifi device. That server down issue comes and go here and there. So instead of waiting i opted for snap.
@Donald Mickunas got it with a simple Google search. From GitHub, though I had to compile it. Imagine a normal user..., they'd head scratch and then settle for Windows.
I know it might sound counter intuitive or a bit dumb, but distrohopping or reinstalling multiple times while learning what you are actually doing and whatnot was the best way for me to learn linux so far. I really love arch and will probably build it myself when I upgrade pc in few months(since I don't see much point of wasting so much time to build system just to use it for like a month), so I stick to manjaro, but I was reinstalling it multiple times and learnt how to make my system just for me with all the tablet customizations, gamepads, bluetooth gamepad settings etc in a matter of maybe 1hour including OS install. It's really, really cool. Now I move very fluently in stuff. Well besides applications, I am missing my windows applications that I paid for like clip studio paint since I had a lot of materials there and lovved the online functionalities- I was able to install it and it works even with tablet and stuff but online is gone which is quite not fun. Yea audio quallity and settings is instantly noticeable when getting on linux as well. It's quite annoying to have to check if game I want to get works on linux and seeing that it doesn't. Also some mods like recently I wanted to get for nier- the better textures and game optimization known as FAR doesn't work either because of dxvk : ( I am really cheering up for linux and I see huuuuuge improvement especially this year and I hope it will be respected by more developers and we won't have to check half the internet for ways to make something we love work or just outright get to know that it won't work and will be able to just go onto pacman and install what we want without carrying about abovementioned.
I have a dual booted windows and Linux for almost 20 years. Never has Windows done anything to any of my Linux partitions. It will overwrite the boot manager, but that is fairly easy to fix. It's hard to imagine Windows modifying partitions other than its own.
Chris Titus Tech Awesome! I’m a 1) day trader so I need to battle test Linux and my platform before switching.... and 2) we buy businesses. As we buy them we intend to transfer them to Linux, Nextcloud, and OpenOffice. If I own 100 companies, why should I shell out $10,000 a year EACH to Microsoft (just office), Dropbox, or GSuite to sell my sensitive company data or waste computing resources when the open source is just as good. Now obviously upper executives like myself need MS Office occasionally for lawyers and accountants...... but there’s no reason why the systems we use at the lower tiers can’t be open source. Fun Fact, Windows 10 can’t pull data off my Drobo, it seems to think ALL my files are corrupt. This was really the last straw. MacBook, amazing, Linux bootable USB, just as great. Windows? Nope. That would be too easy.
Thank you, Chris. When I defenestrated I missed running Crap Cleaner and various malware bleaches every day because those had made the OS workable. Since I had been using whatever FLOSS had a cross-platform version there were no other apps I missed. Using something called "PhotoShop" with a proprietary tone to the name compared to something hilarious like The GIMP was a delight.
Started computing in the 70's with dos and GW basic. finally got Win 3.1and was writing subroutines in basic. Switching to linux was easier than the good old days,and cost nothing but a little time.
One good but not perfect alternative that I personally use both on Windows and Linux is OnlyOffice, it doesn't have all features like Word. But one really cool feature I dig, is the ability to have different tabs of pptx, docx etc without needing many windows of the application, it makes everything less messy when working.
I know you have said this before not just in your 30 day series but in other videos as well. Worth mentioning frequently to newbies to the platform: There is a LOT of outdated information out there when searching for a solution to an issue. My advice: Watch a lot of current Linux videos to grock the terminology (it is a bit of a sub-culture), search your distribution's forums, Level1Techs has a great forum that is distribution and OS agnostic (mostly) with lots of helpful people. The community will help you grow and learn.
Well, you certainly said that correctly--my first days in Linux were NOT smooth. They might have been somewhat smoother if I'd had an internet connection on that machine at the time (and if I'd started with Ubuntu instead of Fedora). But I knew from the first moment I saw it, that I was staying. A weird experience installing stuff? Well, I found it was certainly a NEW experience, but there was nothing weird about it. It was friggin' revolutionary! Choose almost anything you want from a FREE app store, and install it without opening your browser? This was one of the things about Linux that told me I had come home. This system felt like it was literally made to eliminate Microsoft's crap from my life. It wasn't, of course...but that made it even better, because it was eliminating Microsoft's crap from my life without even trying! Workflow was the other thing about Linux that completely blew my mind. Keep in mind, this was the Gnome 2 days. The idea of having pretty much my entire computer in three little menus in one corner of my screen was so genius, that it really brought home to me how Linux is made FOR THE USER. Almost every single thing in it is someone's attempt to make their own life easier, and as a result ends up making your life easier--because the person who made whatever feature this is, is a user too! It's the Golden Rule put into an operating system. Never had too much problems with audio. Video? Uh, yeah, about that...but all I had to do was install the proprietary drivers, and that was much easier once I got my internet connection up and running. Printers are one of the strongest aspects of Linux. Gaming is...well, installing Wine used to be just "sudo apt-get install wine", click a few things in the config box, and you're off to the races. Now it takes a series of long, weird-looking commands, and if you screw any of them up, you break your package system and you have to start all over. This is one of the areas where I wish Linux would go back to its roots.
A) @5:55 I know that bridge. Great place to go biking. B) Is that LCARS display in the background functional, or decorative? C) I've tried the dual boot method in the past. I always ended up staying on Windows because shutting down and rebooting is a pain. What worked for me was when it was time for a full system upgrade, don't put windows on the new machine at all. I am now 11 months into using Linux (Arch) as my primary OS. No plans to change. My first 30 days were spent getting a Windows VM to work in Linux so I could play that one windows game that doesn't work well enough on Linux (PoE). The PCI Passthrough part was easy. Sound, networking, and sharing inputs between guest and host was the challenge.
@Lics Norgi Creating a windows VM is really not hard on Linux. Takes only about 5 minutes or so to get windows started installing. Its when you go about trying to eek out every bit of performance possible on the Windows VM that it becomes a challenge.
Oh Chris, if only you would have had a better camera and sound-setup for your first 30 days. That would have been golden material. I still recommend people to watch it though. Frankly, at times it was a bit cringy for many of us Linux-users because we saw how you were stuck in doing things the Windows-way, once you accepted that Linux is different and you started to do things the Linux way we saw you blossom up and enjoy it. That was a nice moment. By the way, great improvement on the sound since you amplified it less. ;)
I started out by putting a toe in the water by running a dual boot machine. Quickly found I hardly ever booted into Winders. Of the three machines I'm currently using, only my laptop still has a Winders partition. I'm not sure a switch to Linux for an average Windoze user would be so traumatic. Linux Mint I think would be pretty good for a first time user. Linux Mint is the best version of WIN98 I've ever used. Too bad you didn't cover the package manager. Audio can be a hassle. With Lucid Lynx I had to play around with B43. In Mint, everything's worked out of the box. I did have to mess around a bit to get my printer to work. Printer was 30 years old. Found a driver that worked. I'm not a gamer, so no comment there. -- Sent from my Linux box
I've tried Linux past ~12 years many many times. I always come back to windows when i have to get something done. There is always some software that makes me turn back, because of no linux support. ...in my laptop i have ubuntu, just because it is light weight.
Thank you so much for your videos. I have been watching a lot of your content lately and each video is enjoyable and educational. I do have a question, is there a reason you recommend a dual boot? The reason I ask is, I have vmware workstation pro on my PC, and am comfortable with the vmware software. Is there a benefit to dual booting, or would it be just as good creating a VM? Thank you again for the amazing content!
The only thing I dislike about any major linux distros; MOST DO NOT COME WITH the " Volume Auto Leveling/ Normalization(think its called Loudness optimization in windows!" settings.. gets pretty annoying during watching a movie as you constantly need to adjust the volume to hear the dialog in between other noises/sounds.
One of the things that helped me was just realizing that i don't really use MS products and services. Just on occasion. For that there are plenty of replacements on parity.
I tried Ubuntu back in 2007 in a virtual machine and absolutely HATED it, being a Windows user. I now have Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server in VMware Fusion that I am trying out and use for my intro to Linux courses on ITProTV. I have found that I like the RHEL branch of Linux vs. Debian. Haven't tried Arch yet though. I do prefer the Cinnamon desktop environment, with KDE in second and then XFCE in third. I HATE gnome. BLAH! I do want to find that custom XFCE desktop that looks like Windows 98 at some point. BTW, I love your LCARS graphics on the bottom monitor behind you. Did you make that yourself or did you find it online?
To be more realistic & truthful, here's what one can expect in the first 30 days in Linux: many hours asking questions on Linux forums to accomplish tasks that take no thought in Windoze or macOS, countless commands copy/pasted in the terminal (again, to accomplish the most basic tasks done in Win/macOS), and lastly, very little productivity. These are not shortcomings of Linux but simply the result of using a server OS in a desktop environment.
Most people just use their computers for facebook, youtube, and/or email.... Last I checked, you don't have to be some Linux genius to do any of those three... Nice try, though...
@@philosophyofpolitics4504 You're quite the power user -- checking email & stuff. Apologies for hurting your feelings. By the way, I didn't have to "try" to do anything, I just gave you facts. Feel free to rearrange them to suit your narrative.
This is partly true, but part of the reason tasks are so easy in Windows and macOS is because people have already learned how to do it in a particular way. How do you handle drives in Windows? Disk Management - it's ingrained into you, but people who didn't learn Windows yet don't know this. To them, Linux and Windows are the same and they can learn either one. The benefits of Linux is it's a completely free OS with no mystifying license agreement and no telemetry, is more stable, and isn't completely plagued by viruses (yet). It's by far a completely different experience and by no means is it something for everyone, but it's come a long way in 10 years.
My experience with Linux has been... "Emotionally torn" I suppose someone might say. Many years ago I was forced to use Ubuntu (pretty sure it was Ubuntu) and while it was an insanely switch from Windows XP it did have some features that Windows 10 STILL HAVE NOT IMPLEMENTED. however. Recently I've gotten a bit tired of Windows 10 and it's oddities and the rediculous inability to disable telemetry these days. I'm running a GTX 1080ti with a ryzen 5 3600 on an msi x470 Mobo. But my WiFi adapter don't have a driver installed by default and WiFi is the ONLY possible way to connect to the internet. Tethering from my phone won't work. Ethernet isn't possible. And driver's insist driver dependancies are not possible to fix. So far I've attempted Ubuntu and meet with tech jargon even in not familiar with. I've tried mint which I'm rather... Well I really like mint. But mint insists WiFi isn't possible. I've tried Manjaro in the hopes it's hybrid like driver installation options will help and and it's a no go. I've tried peppermint and didn't like the majority of the GUI - but again... No wifi driver. I even tried Chalot and it said unsupported CPU. Last night I hit up Amazon for a new WiFi adapter - this time ditching the USB solution and opting instead for a more permanent pcie card based solution. That'll be here sometime Tuesday. Hoping I can manage to get things running before Tuesday as I certainly haven't the cash for another WiFi card. I do have discord on Windows and in my phone so if anyone feels like wasting a few hours and doing a good deed, perhaps someone can help me? I'll give my discord if someone responds to my comment here
i dont recommend dual booting, as windows update can wipe out the bootloader (because windows doesnt like other os's installed) and/or change the UEFI to boot windows only, requiring you to go into bios to change it. instead install virtualbox and run linux in it. there are others, but virtualbox is free (but not open source), and reasonably easy to use.
My first 30 days..... if I can recall, I broke Linux after I update the Nvdia driver. I got black screen after booting. I did a few attemp to boot into the recovery mode, but failed. At the end, I reinstalled the OS. Luckily, i have all my data in second drive. Re-install linux was simple enough, I got all my software reinstalled using apt. One thing I found out thought the experience was the size of software. Linux software are generally very small foot print in the harddisk. I downloaded all my linux softwares, over 12 of them from apt totaling over 800MB. I got linux and all its software back in running in 30minutes. While a single software in Windows (Autodesk Viewer) needed 1.8GB download and occupying 2.3 GB foot print after installation. That also mean the start up time for software in linux is much faster compared to windows. Gimp, synfiq and krita starts much faster in linux.
You might have mentioned Synaptic as a fairly straightforward method of installing software, though maybe as a Fedora user you don't encounter it. Also gdebi is occasionally useful. One or two programs do allow you to use a method similar to that used in Windows, by clicking on an executable. You can do this with a program like Veracrypt in certain distros.
You must hate me... Lol. I actually made an entire playlist about PCI passthrough ruclips.net/p/PLc7fktTRMBozLJFvsfBgX3W2VPjKOHYae and you can easily add Looking glass after you get pass-through working. However, I didn't continue this as it only appeals to a very select number of users due to the complexity involved in getting this working.
I agree with most things you said. I first used linux debian on raspberry pi because I had to. 30 days into mint 19.2 and my skills are improving. I got freebasic to build and install then used freebasic to compile great cow basic..a pic/avr basic compiler. It was not easy but most apps are as easy as win to install. apt get install or there software manager in mint which is like playstore in android. For everyday stuff like google chrome and even kodi, mint is faster than win 10 dual boot. Installing mint on another drive is not an option in install and how to was beyond my capabilities. I think joe user could get by using linux instead of windows in fact I installed mint 18 on a mates laptop because win was old and duff and he's been happy with it.
Everyone's going to have a different experience, but in my initial 30 days, what I learned is Linux gives us power. The power to run our computers the way we want to outside of the limitations set by Microsoft and Apple and others. That said do not forget: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is a different world than the closed source alternatives. Linux is made with expectation that the end user is capable of using the power responsibly. Windows and MacOS are made with the expectation that the end user needs to be protected from themselves. However, they still manage to break their systems in ways the developers of those operating systems didn't think of so they continue to clamp down on what the end user can and cannot do. As a result they end up interfering in processes the end user uses to get what they want done and then you hear all about it in the form of: "Damn Microsoft broke my app again!" It's a power struggle. Even back in the Win2k and WinXP days when I first learned about Linux I could see the power struggle between the end user and the software developers of the big tech companies. In my initial 30 days of Linux, I learned what it meant to have full control over my own computer and I loved it. Learning a new platform was pretty hard and documentation back then was no where near what it is now so it was often a battle just to get it to boot and get X working (anyone remember having to write X server config files for your hardware?). I hated that Linux wasn't there with hardware and software support yet (remember this was early 2000s), so after using it alongside Windows for so long I'm happy to say I can finally ditch Windows for good.
@@Zandman26 Yes... I have "played" with Linux since mid 90s ... and find I am never "quite happy" just to stick with it. If I was just browsing? Perhaps. But I am interested enough to keep venturing back ... however, unlike Chris ... I feel no need to leave M$ Wxxxx (and I aloud to say that OS here?)
@@gheffz Yes, a big component of switching is usually that your fed up with the previous system and want to find something new. So would just say you lack the motivation.
@@Zandman26 Somewhat agree, I have used Linux systems since mid 90s but never as primary OS ... I dual boot a lot of systems but gravitate to M$W more than not. Today's editions are a lot better supported than mid-90s. On the server side, I prefer Linux solutions as they offer a lot more control. Every year or so I build a Linux GUI edition to see how the user experience is has improved ... more from interest than seriously wanting to leave M$W. A big reason I stay with M$ is because I develop WinApps. The platform I use has recently included Linux as an objective platform, so that has sparked my interest again.
That odd sense of accomplishment when you first install a program from the terminal... although it’s something simple it feels like you actually did something other than running an executable or clicking “Get” in the App Store.
Recommendation. 1st switch to open sources applications. Edge / Internet Explorer -> Chrome / Firefox Outlook -> Thunderbird MS office - > Libre office Photoshop -> Gimp If you can do that, the transition will be easier
Hi Chris, I work in IT and most of our infrastructure is Windows obvcourse, when I am at home the last thing I want to deal with is Windows 10, I use a Chromebook and it does everything I need, I have a Plex server running on a NUC so remote into that if I'm playing around with a windows thing but overall find it hard to see why I would want to learn/love using linux over Chrome os, Everything I do is in browser for home use, what reason is there? The only one logically would be if you think your data is safer not using Chrome but I really am not that type to care. my model can download android apps but all honesty I don't use any
I like Kubuntu Linux. It looks great. It is easy to install for me and my hardware. It works well for me and my hardware. There is a lot of useful free software for it. Linux downloads a lot faster than windows 10 even with the tricks to make windows 10 download faster. The desktop is easy to use. I like the way you can install software through the terminal or package managers. Linux is free and a lot of good software for it is free. I still use windows 10 because there are more games available on it that work better on windows. I like Microsoft office more than Linux alternatives. Important programs like Asus ep4 that allow me to set the voltage lower on my CPU making the CPU cooler less noisy, does not work on Linux and there is not a good alternative.
10:15 Negative of the Linux: "Audio is little tricky".... Sudo apt install pulseaudio audacity = you have got all you need for 99,9% of your work/fun ...uff that was tricky :-)
About gaming in Linux, I don't know if this has been mentioned before here but, at the time it is seemingly impossible to run online games that have some sort of anticheat feature like GameGuard. That is why I haven't switched, there is no way of playing Black Desert Online on Linux because of that issue, and I play BDO a lot. So, I'd rather put that on hold until I can get my hands on an external SSD to install Linux on and boot it up whenever I want to.
@@Shin_97 Id rather use windows with WSL than use windows in a virtual machine for gaming. If you're a die hard gamer I cannot recommend linux right now. In fact for most people period, I cannot recommend linux. Windows gets a lot of hate, most of it deserved but it still remains the logical choice for gaming. No sense handicapping yourself for the sake of it.
Tbh. Printers work for me a lot better on Kubuntu than on windows. Idk even why. I opened Skanlite and I can Scan. Nearly the same for printing. On windows I need like 3 different softwares to even see if my printer is connected. And then there are so many annoying overlays. I use a HP MFP Laser something 135W. Before that we used some brother printer and it worked also fine from the start.
If you want to test out Linux, start by buying an old laptop. If you dual boot, you are more likely to end up kicking out Linux than Windows, as Linux doesn't always deliver what most people need
My first 30 days. First set your mine frame; Linux isn't Windows. I knew Linux wasn't Windows, so I never try to make Linux as Windows. I treated Linux as Linux. The first thing I learn was how to install programs. I found out about the Package Manager and I went with Synaptic Package Manager, since I was on a Debian base Linux distro. I spent my first two hours just inside Synaptic Package Manager. This got me familiar of the names of the Linux packages. And familiar how to use Synaptic Package Manager efficiently. The second thing I learn was the File System; www.linux.com/tutorials/linux-filesystem-explained/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem#Conventional_directory_layout Then made a complete list of everything I done on Windows. And try to do that same task in Linux, including getting all my peripheral devices to work under Linux. I didn't bring over any Windows Luggage not even my Windows games. I just started playing native Linux games. I never stop gaming, I just change how I game. Then I found many cheat sheets about Linux commands and start learning them 10 at a time. In my first 5 days with Linux I was completely comfortable using Linux. Doing every single task I was doing in Window, now I'm doing it in Linux. I'm on my 16th year with Linux, never went back to Windows. Windows XP was the last Windows OS I touch. I'm currently using MX as my Operating System.
I don't even have synaptic installed. It's a waste of disk space. Learn the package manager commands. aptitude search, aptitude show, apt-file search, apt-cache rdepends, dpkg -L, dpkg -l and combine those with regular expression filters. $ aptitude search ttf | grep ^p That shows me every ttf package that I don't have installed. But how did I know all of those packages had ttf in their name? I looked at what I had installed and saw the common thread. $ dpkg -l | grep font Elementary my dear Watson. For real learn the CLI commands. They're way more informative than the GUI front end is.
@Donald Mickunas I've been running Linux since 1995. My background is a technology enthusiast. I have taught a few people a thing or two over the years I suppose. What I told you is elementary to everyone once they're aware of it. I am not worried about Linux turning into Windows someday either. Because I know that's impossible. I know a bit about things having been around for as long as I have.
@Donald Mickunas understanding how the GPL works is interesting. Steve Ballmer praised it as a, "cancer". Which must mean he thought it was a difficult entity to eradicate himself.
@Donald Mickunas I'll be running the same system I am right now a decade from now. With the same OS install on it too. Nothing's changed about Linux since the cancer claims either. Same license.
Thats what i called rose colored glasses here. Your videos are simple. Lets not beat around the bush thus your OS have nothing to do with the speed of production. Yeah u might be used to an interface here and there or a shortcut or location for some things but such basic edits can be made on Haiku or even amiga OS if required. HOWEVER if you required extremely high production time videos with hundreds of effects and modifications, windows with the likes of adobe CS or sony vegas or even mac with final cut would make such work much much simpler and faster than making same edits on linux. Every OS is simple efficient and productive if you take time to put things the way its convenient for work. In fact if you are used to do things in kdenlive you can do exactly the same things on kdenlive Windows edition, theres absolutely nothing that should slow you down at all.
I wouldn't jump to the terminal so quick. Try software center first, then package manager (& AUR) then terminal (& ppas) then find download for a tar/zip/sh file or find a windows installer and try it in wine. If non of that worked you're sol&jwf :/
I don't understand why anyone thinks an app store like system for programs is a good idea. Sure 100% it can be helpful to have then I'm not saying don't have them. But for Linux it seems like you either use the app store or the app store equivalent command, Which I would say is unacceptable no matter how simplistic that command may be. However, the major flaw in this if my understanding is correct is that you only have access to these programs if they've already been manually been added to the package manger your using. Just because a program exists doesn't mean its automatically added to the package manager let alone all package managers that may be used. Many people could free live stream on both twitch and youtube simultaneously. It doesn't mean everyone does. So the more obscure your program is the less likely it will be in these managers and the more headaches you'll have installing it. Not to mention apparently depending the method you use to install you can get errors or buggy installs. Why on earth would anyone consider this superior to just simply downloading and running an installer in windows. It's simple, consistent, requires zero use of a terminal, requires zero understanding of installation methods, Will be almost guaranteed to work and install correctly with little to no chance of you somehow installing it wrong, and will never run into a situation where the program isn't available via some app store or package manager.
Its an old version of a 2200 Cyberpower. I ripped it apart and replaced the fan and batteries as it was a throwaway. Here is the new version: www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/smart-app-online/ol2200rtxl2u/
i have a 4k monitor laptop with win10 and a lot of programs dont display correctly (very very tiny) . i run mint in a vm with same issue. considering dual boot but any advice?
BEWARE: Linux is (can be) a rabbit hole that goes very deep and is one that you might NOT want to leave ever again! I speak from experience ;)
User discretion advised? XD
It is indeed a wonderland.
For the longest time I was unaware that your activation code in Windows is tied to your motherboard. I have sense found this information out and I can't make myself put Windows 10 back on the computer.
@@wesleymercer4536 Same. That was one of my reasons for leaving Windows for good 20 days ago and going full Linux. The whole OEM thing is a sick joke; now in Linux I can install Ubuntu on 2000000000 computers of any type if I needed to.
Going from "Yeah, Ubuntu with Unity is the only thing I need. Arch is waay too complicated and I don't eve know what a window manager is" to "BTW, I use Arch and i3."
Also realize an important fact: The only reason Windows feels so much easier to use at first, is because its we have used it for so many years as the standard in desktops environments. We learned it from where we were young, and therefore a new desktop environment can feel horrible at first.
This is so true, I grew up with Windows. I used it from DOS/Win 3.11 and onwards. Windows STILL feels more familiar to me even after being on Linux for a Year. Then again I did use Windows for literally 27 years. Most of that time was 8+ hours per day on it and you just don't forget that kind of usage.
@@ChrisTitusTech , How are you enjoying Fedora now compared to your Debian install?
Yup. Even "obscure" things like i3 are way easier to learn than Windows. Didn't expect to take me just 2 days to completely get comfortable using it.
That is sooo sooo true Johnny! People expect to have the same experience and use meanwhile they have been using Windows for 20 plus years. Overall looking back Linux is easier once you get over the learning curve. A monkey from the zoo can figure out distros like peppermint, mint, Ubuntu Mate etc.. Now Gentoo well that's a whole other story. Lol
I can remember working one summer for a local school district "Upgrading" labs from 3.11 to win95 and how so many folks where complaining about the change.... while I was at home trying to make OS/2 useful..... which failed .. lol.... many moons later and I finally feel like I have the OS/2 experience I wanted... in the form of Linux ;-)
Glad you showed the software center method first. Too many start with the command line and don't mention that there is a GUI for just about everything. For the new user that can be the most annoying and intimidating part of Linux -- and the Tech types are a small fragment of the population that uses computers.
Yeah, I obviously still love the terminal, but it takes a bit to break into and can scare people off. Personally, it is faster and more efficient but starting off is probably not the best method.
My first 7 days were by far the hardest. Linux gets significantly easier the more you use it.
This is so true, I remember how much I struggled in that first week.
Same, the more I use it the easier it feels. And of course part of that is because I don't stop customizing it until I feel satisfied "enough" with it. I just feel so much at home when using my setup I feel sad using anything else.
My switch was very smooth. Probably because I'm using Zorin OS which works a lot like Windows.
its because everyone tries to use it like its windows and tries to make things work exactly like they do in windows
After 30 years in windows I went ham into Linux and after breaking it a few times just found installing fresh and just using it I'm a lot happier and no need to break what's not broken 🤣😂 100% Linux daily user 2019 😁 thanks to your wonderful support channel 😉
That is awesome, Great Job!
First IT rule: if it ain't broke, don't fix it 😂
@@Shin_97 absolutely 👍🏻
@@ChrisTitusTech Im going getting there too!, I have learned so much from Chris!!!! You are a great mentor sir!
@Jerry L Kreps oh man! you brought back sweet memories! I was only 23 when I started with Linux Mandrake 6.0 in 1999-2000, but wow, yeah, I bought that at compUSA. I do remember going to Books a Million and reading books on Linux, only to go home and try what I could remember! Then I got smart and started buying SuSE Linux, first at the computer show, then at Best Buy! Yep, no such thing as downloading a linux cd or dvd back then! Bookstores and electronics stores was the way to get them there OS cds! And manuals.. I never got free Linux cds back then.. seems that was an illusion for a poor factory worker..
My first days were pure customization, I love that you can "mold" linux the way you want it. And yes, getting used to the terminal still costs me a bit but it's not something you can't find in a search.
Ancient Windows veteran here (I started with v 2.11). I installed Manjaro on a seperate drive after watching your video on gaming on Linux, Lutris one - that was in June. I haven't logged into Windows yet :D Now I'm trying to get off the rest of Microsoft/Adobe (big time OneDrive user here, need to setup my own Nextcloud first), after that the old Windows partition is going to get Fedora Workstation. Really interested in your experience with it btw.
I still use Adobe, but I personally like the FreeOffice suite as it is pretty much a carbon copy of MS Office. They do have a paywall on some advanced configuration, but I haven't run into that yet. XPDF works fine for reading, but for major edits, I fire up a VM or boot into a Windows box to do my PDF edits.
"Hacking The Matrix" 🤣😂 that's the best part of Linux 😁
Not going to lie... It does give me that sense of awesome that is hard to achieve when using a GUI.
I mean, you're not wrong.
best? worst
That video thumbnail, lol. By no means am I being mean to you, but around here we call that a "Happy Birthday Face", as it resembles the expression of little kids when they are gifted new toys. Keep up the good work and I wish you the best of lucks. 👍🏻
Lol, exactly what I was going for.
If you want the audio control granularity in Linux, ditch PulseAudio and switch to JACK. Try it first with UbuntuStudio, see if that audio stack works for you.
yup pulse audio just broke my kubuntu installation
@@eness379 I'm good with pulse and kde neon
I personally got no issue with Pulse audio
"Just go and do your work!". Yep! That's exactly how I feel. 100%. I work as a residential repair tech and man, I'd die if I ever had to go back to Windows or Mac.
Mac looks really good. But in the land of property software you get what you pay for!
Chris, The high cost of monthly subscription fees for graphical and support programs is driving web and other development to Linux. The colleges have started to direct their students to use the Linux tools such as Blender, LibreOffice, inkscape and others.
Before you buy a printer, check online at the forum of the distro you favour to see if it's supported.
Just make sure the printer does pcl or postscript. If it’s not some shady subset (I had an older Samsung with an own flavor) it should work (hp, Xerox, brother) .
GDI - Printers will only work with Windows, not Apple, not Linux.
I don't miss Windows. I do miss sending telemetry data to Microsoft though. I felt a bit of an emptiness realizing that nobody was listening anymore...
So I send my own daily telemetry reports to Microsoft:
"Dear Microsoft,"
"I haven't been very productive today. I just couldn't get anything done. No inspiration whatsoever."
"So I've settled to do some RUclips browsing. To see if Chris Titus Tech posted a new video. Oh, for your telemetry database: I really like this channel! (hope this helps a bit)"
"The rest of the videos today I clicked via the recommendations in the sidebar. So these aren't necessarily an indication of my commercial interests. (sorry)"
"Although, that guy who stuffed his nose with berries was very enjoyable to watch..."
"I hope I have more for you tomorrow. I'm going to get a Coka Cola now. And some Pringles crisps. (I usually do that on Wednesdays)"
"Cheers!"
On a serious note: can't really remember my first 30 days on Linux... :-/
I've still got an original RedHat 8.0 box with 7 CD's and booklets. It's from 2002. Now I'm running Fedora KDE spin.
sudo apt remove sudo
LOL
don't execute that lol
You lose root access
@The Bengalee Sceptic some distros removes root users for security reasons
@The Bengalee Sceptic If you didn't encrypt your partition you always can open /etc/shadow from a LiveCD and enable root login and password.
I used the sudo to destroy the sudo.
I'd love to see a review of Void Linux. It's not my distro of choice but it looks really awesome. Also I love the "hacking the matrix" part! Seriously using terminal is a suprisingly satisfying experience!
What to expect in the first thirty days of Linux: Freedom!
I missed that opportunity of playing that clip of Mel Gibson yelling "Freeeedom" at the end. Man that would have been epic!
🤜🤛💥
@@ChrisTitusTech You can still do that with a re-upload!
@Donald Mickunas I couldn't agree more 😉
I'm fully switched to linux now. I've tried switching to linux 2 times before but i wasn't as well versed enough to fully grasp the whole linux thing.
Now I'm smart enough to exclusively use manjaro.
same here but my computer can't run Manjaro unfortunately.
@@eness379 Manjaro is a great distro, sorry to see you can't join the club :(
@@JessicaFEREM actually it does install anything expect for grub. I tried to install it even manually I searched so many wikis but it didnt install it.
@@eness379 I would try enabling the boot flag on the grub partition, I've had that happen to me with manjaro on other computers and it's a pain in the ass
@@JessicaFEREM thanks I will try that later
Man! You're starting to spoil me with these everyday videos. Much love appreciated 😎🦾
0:07 Those 2 hours of you hacking around in Linux are definitely worth watching! The "30 day Linux challenge" videos are what got me into your channel. I got excited each time you released a new 30-day Linux challenge/7-day **some distro** challenge video
You made the installation from the Terminal look far simpler than it really is. Windows installs very rarely will come up and ask you to find additional files to install it. Linux often asks you for other dependencies, so you really didn't do a typical Terminal install.
I mean I guess all your doing is typing yes when it asks you if you want to install dependencies Microsoft does it automatically that's a incredibly minor thing
I noticed some improvement in your facial structure since the advent of your channel. You seem to be more rounded and fuller than before. I guess it's the beefsteak and cream potatoes with cheesecake or crẽme brulée as dessert.
Damn I need to get to the gym again! Thanks for the motivation. ;) No sarcasm as I really do like the feedback!
But OMG, please respect the crème brulée, it's one of the best dessert ever so please write it correctly...
LOVE THE STAR TREK IN THE BACKGROUND
I used to use a Star Trek LCARS Theme that matches that. www.gnome-look.org/p/1006793/ I believe what we're seeing is a Star Trek LCARS
screensaver. Found some cools ones, don't look like the one we are seeing though. But I like it too.
ruclips.net/video/7j3Dq2uzjVE/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Y_4iAWobejY/видео.html
What program are you running ???
@@zeocamo I used to run Star Trek LCARS. I don't anymore. I'm using MX as my Linux distro currently. When I used Star Trek LCARS then. I believe it was old Ubuntu when it was using GNOME before Unity and now they are back with GNOME. Not using much of theme anymore. i.imgur.com/arAXylg.png
Linux Cons:
1) you can wipe your root partition by mistake.
2) you can do "sudo apt remove sudo" and nobody will prevent you to doing that.
Linux Pros: everything else.
I don't know if it still works but in windows/dos you can do "echo y|format c:" and not even be prompted for a login to wipe your system drive
Thanks Chris! I've switched to Linux and I love it indeed! Appreciate your tutorials!
I tried Linux in 2000 because I wanted to try something different that LOOKED different. Linux guis have been my most loved thing about Linux since day one for me! Now, as a midi and audio musician, I wanted a OS that did not crash everytime I tried to record my midi multi track compositions like happened many times in Windows 95/98. Well.. as Chris pointed out.. LINUX and AUDIO, and MIDI from the forums I read through today, just do not work together right. In Windows, and even DOS, you can play and record midi notes in REALTIME with little to no delay between the time you press a key on your midi keyboard, and the time you HEAR a note come out of your speaker. In LINUX, you either get very long delay, no sound at all(that was my experience with OSS)or you get sudden sparratic jumbling of notes in your recordings(Jazz++ midi sequencer). In windows, you buy and install a sound blaster live value card, plug your midi keyboard into the game port, and after installing the driver cd which comes with realistic and synthetic keyboard sounds, you can trigger the internal keyboard sounds of the soundcard using your midi keyboard, a game port to midi cable and what ever midi software you could afford to buy with Windows! It just worked!! Until Windows or the app crashed or blue screened :-( . Modern Linux still has these issues of latency(long noticable delay of midi note to sound out), and audio card setup issues(no sound output even with speakers plugged in and volume at max!). Depends on the distro and how the hardware and software is automatically setup for that distro. In the old days of my adventure with Linux in 2000, you had to manually install the card, setup the midi port and audio ports, and game port, and software. But it STILL did not work or worked badly but hey, I wanted something NOT microsoft right? There ya go.. Linux is pretty, and it is free, but unless you are a good programmer, you can not use it to compose music on a pro level without doing ALOT of tweaking and setup,debugging,etc. I use MX Linux and tried some Studio versions recently.. Midi is still an issue. Audio seems to finally work even in multitrack recordings, so that is good at least!!
You might mention sometime that it is a good idea to check hardware compatibility before you go hog wild with the Linux. These days I make purchases based on support. Maybe if more people did that then manufactures would get their ducks in a row. IIRC there are websites that list compatible components, but I also seem to recall that they are not necessarily complete or up to date. (though that was a few years ago.)
I'm certainly not going to support a company that does not support my OS choice. Why would I? If they do not specifically say they support Linux then no soup for them! In fact I like to see some enthusiasm from manufacturers about Linux. Although sometimes I will settle for just having an enthusiastic Linux community supporting hardware. But I still need to see something tangible before I financially support anything. This Internet thing is a great information resource.
My first 9496.5 days of Linux has been lots of fun. Yes, I've been a Linux (and 386BSD then FreeBSD) user for decades.
WHAT? Really! How? That number means you started using Linux before the release of Wine, Ubuntu and / or Mandrake (now openMANDRIVA), viable software alternatives and you probably first used Slackware! Was Linux installation really hard back than? I've heard some distros requred you tu use hex editors!
@@frataltay4543 it's really good to see Turkish people are watching these videos. I watched a video before just was explaining sql injection of a scam site that's made by a retarded turk.
That’s awesome! Much respect. I’ve been on Linux for a little over 9000 days. I also remember the early days of FreeBSD. Good times!
@@frataltay4543 Before Slackware, there was SLS, TAMU and others
@@mitchelvalentino1569 Good times indeed. Do you remember crazy Bill Jolitz?
*You did a great job Chris on setting up people's expectations, very realistic*
Old video I know, but it's worth noting that Brother has EXCELLENT Linux support. My current Brother printer/scanner/copier I bought around 2013. It's a wifi and ethernet capable greyscale laser printer with scanner and double-sided printing support. Drivers available directly from the manufacturer, direct, network, and even mobile (android at least; I don't buy iproducts so didn't test) all worked excellently. In fact, it actually worked better on Linux than in Windows, as I found Windows tended to replace certain mathematical symbols with Asian characters (not sure which language) whereas I had no issues ever on Linux.
I went 100% Linux about 20 days ago, after 10 years of being in Windows. I'd like to add my thoughts on hardware:
I have a Canon mf printer/scanner. At first it didn't work. The options to get it to work:
1. [best] find the Linux .deb printer files on the manufacturer site. On the Canon site it says for Ubuntu 19.10 that they do not make any Linux files/drivers. BUT if this occurs for your hardware there MAY still be hope. If you can find an older set of drivers you can still win; I found for my canon mg 7700 printer drivers from Ubuntu 15.10; they got my printer and scanner to work!
2. [2nd best] there are companies that sell reverse engineered tools to get printers to work. Two companies that do this are Turboprint and Hamrick software.
3. [3rd best] Google Cloud Print. I don't know much about this.
4. [last resort and worst] run Windows as a virtual machine to get hardware working. This is insecure. You might have to buy antivirus for the VM. There is the hassle of opening the VM. You don't want to do this unless you absolutely have to.
Thanks Chris. Btw, love the Star Trek screensaver.
Great video. I've been bouncing back and forth lately. While game support is getting better on linux, having a 144hz monitor and 60hz monitor is still troublesome at times. If I want to watch a video on one while playing a game, it gets choppy. I've mostly replaced a lot of the other software I used. When I want to do some advanced audio routing I use Voicemeeter Potato, and am still looking for a replacement on linux. Application parity can be a thing, too. The Discord client on linux needs some minor catch-up. I'm 50/50 now, and love my bash shell.
Even if you have 2 SSD's or other hard drives, they can still accidentally install the bootloaders to same EFI partition.
So I made my first Linux install through the "manual partition" option. Having the OS's and their bootloaders on separate SSD's prevents the dual booting window, which would appear on boot. Instead to access the other OS, I had to go to BIOS and change the boot order. It's more work, but it does not mess up your install partitions.
Only thing I noticed was that after switching from Linux back to Windows, the clock was in wrong time for some reason.
My first seven days... Well actually it was fixing WiFi and Bluetooth and trying to install vlc using snap when Ubuntu software center servers were down.
When? Wifi and Bluetooth worked perfectly for me from the first moment, I never had repo issues beyond ppas not being updated to Eoan (well I started with Disco).
My only issue was the GPU (NVIDIA, but I wanted to mainly use the Intel UHD 620 unless I'm gaming because I need the battery life on my laptop)
I should have mentioned that Wifi can be a bit of a mess depending on the model you have.
@@liranpiade4499 with pop os on hp laptop with realtek wifi device. That server down issue comes and go here and there. So instead of waiting i opted for snap.
@Donald Mickunas got it with a simple Google search. From GitHub, though I had to compile it.
Imagine a normal user..., they'd head scratch and then settle for Windows.
Embrace the invention of the miraculous wire.
Please keep these videos coming!!!
Where are the cats? They are the heroes!
I know it might sound counter intuitive or a bit dumb, but distrohopping or reinstalling multiple times while learning what you are actually doing and whatnot was the best way for me to learn linux so far.
I really love arch and will probably build it myself when I upgrade pc in few months(since I don't see much point of wasting so much time to build system just to use it for like a month), so I stick to manjaro, but I was reinstalling it multiple times and learnt how to make my system just for me with all the tablet customizations, gamepads, bluetooth gamepad settings etc in a matter of maybe 1hour including OS install. It's really, really cool. Now I move very fluently in stuff.
Well besides applications, I am missing my windows applications that I paid for like clip studio paint since I had a lot of materials there and lovved the online functionalities- I was able to install it and it works even with tablet and stuff but online is gone which is quite not fun.
Yea audio quallity and settings is instantly noticeable when getting on linux as well.
It's quite annoying to have to check if game I want to get works on linux and seeing that it doesn't.
Also some mods like recently I wanted to get for nier- the better textures and game optimization known as FAR doesn't work either because of dxvk : (
I am really cheering up for linux and I see huuuuuge improvement especially this year and I hope it will be respected by more developers and we won't have to check half the internet for ways to make something we love work or just outright get to know that it won't work and will be able to just go onto pacman and install what we want without carrying about abovementioned.
Just discovered this channel! Thanks for all your videos
I have a dual booted windows and Linux for almost 20 years. Never has Windows done anything to any of my Linux partitions. It will overwrite the boot manager, but that is fairly easy to fix. It's hard to imagine Windows modifying partitions other than its own.
Do the business Linux transition video mentioned in 3:40!
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Chris Titus Tech Awesome! I’m a 1) day trader so I need to battle test Linux and my platform before switching.... and 2) we buy businesses. As we buy them we intend to transfer them to Linux, Nextcloud, and OpenOffice. If I own 100 companies, why should I shell out $10,000 a year EACH to Microsoft (just office), Dropbox, or GSuite to sell my sensitive company data or waste computing resources when the open source is just as good. Now obviously upper executives like myself need MS Office occasionally for lawyers and accountants...... but there’s no reason why the systems we use at the lower tiers can’t be open source.
Fun Fact, Windows 10 can’t pull data off my Drobo, it seems to think ALL my files are corrupt. This was really the last straw. MacBook, amazing, Linux bootable USB, just as great. Windows? Nope. That would be too easy.
Thank you Chris for telling the truth😁❤
Thank you, Chris. When I defenestrated I missed running Crap Cleaner and various malware bleaches every day because those had made the OS workable. Since I had been using whatever FLOSS had a cross-platform version there were no other apps I missed. Using something called "PhotoShop" with a proprietary tone to the name compared to something hilarious like The GIMP was a delight.
Started computing in the 70's with dos and GW basic. finally got Win 3.1and was writing subroutines in basic. Switching to linux was easier than the good old days,and cost nothing but a little time.
One good but not perfect alternative that I personally use both on Windows and Linux is OnlyOffice, it doesn't have all features like Word. But one really cool feature I dig, is the ability to have different tabs of pptx, docx etc without needing many windows of the application, it makes everything less messy when working.
I know you have said this before not just in your 30 day series but in other videos as well. Worth mentioning frequently to newbies to the platform: There is a LOT of outdated information out there when searching for a solution to an issue. My advice: Watch a lot of current Linux videos to grock the terminology (it is a bit of a sub-culture), search your distribution's forums, Level1Techs has a great forum that is distribution and OS agnostic (mostly) with lots of helpful people. The community will help you grow and learn.
Well, you certainly said that correctly--my first days in Linux were NOT smooth. They might have been somewhat smoother if I'd had an internet connection on that machine at the time (and if I'd started with Ubuntu instead of Fedora). But I knew from the first moment I saw it, that I was staying.
A weird experience installing stuff? Well, I found it was certainly a NEW experience, but there was nothing weird about it. It was friggin' revolutionary! Choose almost anything you want from a FREE app store, and install it without opening your browser? This was one of the things about Linux that told me I had come home. This system felt like it was literally made to eliminate Microsoft's crap from my life. It wasn't, of course...but that made it even better, because it was eliminating Microsoft's crap from my life without even trying!
Workflow was the other thing about Linux that completely blew my mind. Keep in mind, this was the Gnome 2 days. The idea of having pretty much my entire computer in three little menus in one corner of my screen was so genius, that it really brought home to me how Linux is made FOR THE USER. Almost every single thing in it is someone's attempt to make their own life easier, and as a result ends up making your life easier--because the person who made whatever feature this is, is a user too! It's the Golden Rule put into an operating system.
Never had too much problems with audio. Video? Uh, yeah, about that...but all I had to do was install the proprietary drivers, and that was much easier once I got my internet connection up and running.
Printers are one of the strongest aspects of Linux. Gaming is...well, installing Wine used to be just "sudo apt-get install wine", click a few things in the config box, and you're off to the races. Now it takes a series of long, weird-looking commands, and if you screw any of them up, you break your package system and you have to start all over. This is one of the areas where I wish Linux would go back to its roots.
A) @5:55 I know that bridge. Great place to go biking.
B) Is that LCARS display in the background functional, or decorative?
C) I've tried the dual boot method in the past. I always ended up staying on Windows because shutting down and rebooting is a pain.
What worked for me was when it was time for a full system upgrade, don't put windows on the new machine at all.
I am now 11 months into using Linux (Arch) as my primary OS. No plans to change.
My first 30 days were spent getting a Windows VM to work in Linux so I could play that one windows game that doesn't work well enough on Linux (PoE).
The PCI Passthrough part was easy. Sound, networking, and sharing inputs between guest and host was the challenge.
@Lics Norgi Have what built in?
@Lics Norgi Creating a windows VM is really not hard on Linux. Takes only about 5 minutes or so to get windows started installing.
Its when you go about trying to eek out every bit of performance possible on the Windows VM that it becomes a challenge.
Oh Chris, if only you would have had a better camera and sound-setup for your first 30 days. That would have been golden material. I still recommend people to watch it though. Frankly, at times it was a bit cringy for many of us Linux-users because we saw how you were stuck in doing things the Windows-way, once you accepted that Linux is different and you started to do things the Linux way we saw you blossom up and enjoy it. That was a nice moment. By the way, great improvement on the sound since you amplified it less. ;)
Chris never shaved his head or donned a saffron robe like he should have. So I still question his ultimate commitment to Linux.
@@1pcfred
He had this period where he grew a beard. Fortunately that went away fast, it doesn't work for him. :)
@@peterjansen4826 beards work for all men. Otherwise we wouldn't have them.
I started out by putting a toe in the water by running a dual boot machine. Quickly found I hardly ever booted into Winders. Of the three machines I'm currently using, only my laptop still has a Winders partition. I'm not sure a switch to Linux for an average Windoze user would be so traumatic. Linux Mint I think would be pretty good for a first time user. Linux Mint is the best version of WIN98 I've ever used. Too bad you didn't cover the package manager. Audio can be a hassle. With Lucid Lynx I had to play around with B43. In Mint, everything's worked out of the box. I did have to mess around a bit to get my printer to work. Printer was 30 years old. Found a driver that worked. I'm not a gamer, so no comment there.
-- Sent from my Linux box
I've tried Linux past ~12 years many many times. I always come back to windows when i have to get something done.
There is always some software that makes me turn back, because of no linux support.
...in my laptop i have ubuntu, just because it is light weight.
What about Raspbian and Pixel? There is an x64 version and it is light on bloat. Put a few extra programs and could use it for 80% of my needs.
I use Sparky Linux for same exact reason. I did like Pixel but I couldn't get WiFi to work on my little netbook. I might try it again one day.
@@rastamouse7861 that's another good one. When you're starting you want something that isn't too bloated and just works.
My (about, around) 120 days on Linux were Great!
That is awesome! Congratulations!
@@ChrisTitusTech Well thanks.
What was your first distro?
@@frataltay4543 Ubuntu but eugh... it comes with so much bloatware.
thanks god , this is my first day without windows
Now THAT'S a clever shirt, Chris. :-)
For scanner support on Linux, windows or Mac look no further than VueScan. They support damn near every scanner ever made.
I see Mutahar from SomeOrdinaryGamers with manjaro installed on his expensive machine as a dualboot. Even the popular techtubers are using linux now
Thank you so much for your videos. I have been watching a lot of your content lately and each video is enjoyable and educational. I do have a question, is there a reason you recommend a dual boot? The reason I ask is, I have vmware workstation pro on my PC, and am comfortable with the vmware software. Is there a benefit to dual booting, or would it be just as good creating a VM? Thank you again for the amazing content!
The only thing I dislike about any major linux distros; MOST DO NOT COME WITH the " Volume Auto Leveling/ Normalization(think its called Loudness optimization in windows!" settings..
gets pretty annoying during watching a movie as you constantly need to adjust the volume to hear the dialog in between other noises/sounds.
One of the things that helped me was just realizing that i don't really use MS products and services. Just on occasion. For that there are plenty of replacements on parity.
I tried Ubuntu back in 2007 in a virtual machine and absolutely HATED it, being a Windows user. I now have Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server in VMware Fusion that I am trying out and use for my intro to Linux courses on ITProTV. I have found that I like the RHEL branch of Linux vs. Debian. Haven't tried Arch yet though. I do prefer the Cinnamon desktop environment, with KDE in second and then XFCE in third. I HATE gnome. BLAH! I do want to find that custom XFCE desktop that looks like Windows 98 at some point.
BTW, I love your LCARS graphics on the bottom monitor behind you. Did you make that yourself or did you find it online?
To be more realistic & truthful, here's what one can expect in the first 30 days in Linux: many hours asking questions on Linux forums to accomplish tasks that take no thought in Windoze or macOS, countless commands copy/pasted in the terminal (again, to accomplish the most basic tasks done in Win/macOS), and lastly, very little productivity. These are not shortcomings of Linux but simply the result of using a server OS in a desktop environment.
Most people just use their computers for facebook, youtube, and/or email....
Last I checked, you don't have to be some Linux genius to do any of those three... Nice try, though...
@@philosophyofpolitics4504 You're quite the power user -- checking email & stuff. Apologies for hurting your feelings. By the way, I didn't have to "try" to do anything, I just gave you facts. Feel free to rearrange them to suit your narrative.
This is partly true, but part of the reason tasks are so easy in Windows and macOS is because people have already learned how to do it in a particular way. How do you handle drives in Windows? Disk Management - it's ingrained into you, but people who didn't learn Windows yet don't know this. To them, Linux and Windows are the same and they can learn either one. The benefits of Linux is it's a completely free OS with no mystifying license agreement and no telemetry, is more stable, and isn't completely plagued by viruses (yet). It's by far a completely different experience and by no means is it something for everyone, but it's come a long way in 10 years.
I like linux, its gives me something to tinker with, sometimes I break something and I work on it for hours to fix it.
Morning Chris 🌄
Morning!
My experience with Linux has been... "Emotionally torn" I suppose someone might say. Many years ago I was forced to use Ubuntu (pretty sure it was Ubuntu) and while it was an insanely switch from Windows XP it did have some features that Windows 10 STILL HAVE NOT IMPLEMENTED.
however. Recently I've gotten a bit tired of Windows 10 and it's oddities and the rediculous inability to disable telemetry these days.
I'm running a GTX 1080ti with a ryzen 5 3600 on an msi x470 Mobo. But my WiFi adapter don't have a driver installed by default and WiFi is the ONLY possible way to connect to the internet. Tethering from my phone won't work. Ethernet isn't possible. And driver's insist driver dependancies are not possible to fix.
So far I've attempted Ubuntu and meet with tech jargon even in not familiar with. I've tried mint which I'm rather... Well I really like mint. But mint insists WiFi isn't possible. I've tried Manjaro in the hopes it's hybrid like driver installation options will help and and it's a no go. I've tried peppermint and didn't like the majority of the GUI - but again... No wifi driver. I even tried Chalot and it said unsupported CPU.
Last night I hit up Amazon for a new WiFi adapter - this time ditching the USB solution and opting instead for a more permanent pcie card based solution. That'll be here sometime Tuesday. Hoping I can manage to get things running before Tuesday as I certainly haven't the cash for another WiFi card. I do have discord on Windows and in my phone so if anyone feels like wasting a few hours and doing a good deed, perhaps someone can help me?
I'll give my discord if someone responds to my comment here
Try using a Ethernet cable then do sudo Pacman -syu I think might be something else but I think that's right on manjaro since you need wifi drivers
i dont recommend dual booting, as windows update can wipe out the bootloader (because windows doesnt like other os's installed) and/or change the UEFI to boot windows only, requiring you to go into bios to change it. instead install virtualbox and run linux in it. there are others, but virtualbox is free (but not open source), and reasonably easy to use.
But then it's slower I think it would be a better idea to run windows on a vm since Linux is superior or you can use multiple computers
My first 30 days..... if I can recall, I broke Linux after I update the Nvdia driver. I got black screen after booting. I did a few attemp to boot into the recovery mode, but failed. At the end, I reinstalled the OS.
Luckily, i have all my data in second drive. Re-install linux was simple enough, I got all my software reinstalled using apt.
One thing I found out thought the experience was the size of software.
Linux software are generally very small foot print in the harddisk. I downloaded all my linux softwares, over 12 of them from apt totaling over 800MB. I got linux and all its software back in running in 30minutes.
While a single software in Windows (Autodesk Viewer) needed 1.8GB download and occupying 2.3 GB foot print after installation.
That also mean the start up time for software in linux is much faster compared to windows. Gimp, synfiq and krita starts much faster in linux.
Is that TNG interface? :D
Right my brothers pc is duel booted with ubuntu while mine is duel booted with zorin os
If you’re coming from macOS and you use the terminal, switching to Linux isn’t hard aside from application compatibility and losing ecosystem perks.
You might have mentioned Synaptic as a fairly straightforward method of installing software, though maybe as a Fedora user you don't encounter it. Also gdebi is occasionally useful.
One or two programs do allow you to use a method similar to that used in Windows, by clicking on an executable. You can do this with a program like Veracrypt in certain distros.
Could you please do looking-glass setup? On a desktop and laptop users who only have one screen if its possible? Live stream a Gentoo install.
You must hate me... Lol. I actually made an entire playlist about PCI passthrough ruclips.net/p/PLc7fktTRMBozLJFvsfBgX3W2VPjKOHYae and you can easily add Looking glass after you get pass-through working. However, I didn't continue this as it only appeals to a very select number of users due to the complexity involved in getting this working.
Does the quirky audio also affect games?
I agree with most things you said. I first used linux debian on raspberry pi because I had to.
30 days into mint 19.2 and my skills are improving.
I got freebasic to build and install then used freebasic to compile great cow basic..a pic/avr basic compiler.
It was not easy but most apps are as easy as win to install. apt get install or there software manager in mint which is like playstore in android.
For everyday stuff like google chrome and even kodi, mint is faster than win 10 dual boot.
Installing mint on another drive is not an option in install and how to was beyond my capabilities.
I think joe user could get by using linux instead of windows in fact I installed mint 18 on a mates laptop because win was old and duff and he's been happy with it.
Everyone's going to have a different experience, but in my initial 30 days, what I learned is Linux gives us power. The power to run our computers the way we want to outside of the limitations set by Microsoft and Apple and others. That said do not forget: "With great power comes great responsibility." This is a different world than the closed source alternatives. Linux is made with expectation that the end user is capable of using the power responsibly.
Windows and MacOS are made with the expectation that the end user needs to be protected from themselves. However, they still manage to break their systems in ways the developers of those operating systems didn't think of so they continue to clamp down on what the end user can and cannot do. As a result they end up interfering in processes the end user uses to get what they want done and then you hear all about it in the form of: "Damn Microsoft broke my app again!"
It's a power struggle. Even back in the Win2k and WinXP days when I first learned about Linux I could see the power struggle between the end user and the software developers of the big tech companies. In my initial 30 days of Linux, I learned what it meant to have full control over my own computer and I loved it. Learning a new platform was pretty hard and documentation back then was no where near what it is now so it was often a battle just to get it to boot and get X working (anyone remember having to write X server config files for your hardware?). I hated that Linux wasn't there with hardware and software support yet (remember this was early 2000s), so after using it alongside Windows for so long I'm happy to say I can finally ditch Windows for good.
Don't forget to run 'sudo apt remove sudo' first thing, just like his shirt says.
For those who make it to day 30!
If the user does not make it.
That just means that the user was not ready to switch (not willing to give it an actual shoot).
@@Zandman26 Yes... I have "played" with Linux since mid 90s ... and find I am never "quite happy" just to stick with it. If I was just browsing? Perhaps. But I am interested enough to keep venturing back ... however, unlike Chris ... I feel no need to leave M$ Wxxxx (and I aloud to say that OS here?)
@@gheffz Yes, a big component of switching is usually that your fed up with the previous system and want to find something new.
So would just say you lack the motivation.
@@Zandman26 Somewhat agree, I have used Linux systems since mid 90s but never as primary OS ... I dual boot a lot of systems but gravitate to M$W more than not. Today's editions are a lot better supported than mid-90s. On the server side, I prefer Linux solutions as they offer a lot more control. Every year or so I build a Linux GUI edition to see how the user experience is has improved ... more from interest than seriously wanting to leave M$W. A big reason I stay with M$ is because I develop WinApps. The platform I use has recently included Linux as an objective platform, so that has sparked my interest again.
I'm somewhere past day 9,000 now. Still getting the hang of a few things.
What about MX Linux vs Linux Mint for someone new to Linux
That odd sense of accomplishment when you first install a program from the terminal... although it’s something simple it feels like you actually did something other than running an executable or clicking “Get” in the App Store.
Recommendation. 1st switch to open sources applications.
Edge / Internet Explorer -> Chrome / Firefox
Outlook -> Thunderbird
MS office - > Libre office
Photoshop -> Gimp
If you can do that, the transition will be easier
Hi Chris, I work in IT and most of our infrastructure is Windows obvcourse, when I am at home the last thing I want to deal with is Windows 10, I use a Chromebook and it does everything I need, I have a Plex server running on a NUC so remote into that if I'm playing around with a windows thing but overall find it hard to see why I would want to learn/love using linux over Chrome os, Everything I do is in browser for home use, what reason is there?
The only one logically would be if you think your data is safer not using Chrome but I really am not that type to care.
my model can download android apps but all honesty I don't use any
I find myself watching way too many of your postings: May need to become a patron.
I like Kubuntu Linux. It looks great. It is easy to install for me and my hardware. It works well for me and my hardware. There is a lot of useful free software for it. Linux downloads a lot faster than windows 10 even with the tricks to make windows 10 download faster. The desktop is easy to use. I like the way you can install software through the terminal or package managers. Linux is free and a lot of good software for it is free.
I still use windows 10 because there are more games available on it that work better on windows. I like Microsoft office more than Linux alternatives. Important programs like Asus ep4 that allow me to set the voltage lower on my CPU making the CPU cooler less noisy, does not work on Linux and there is not a good alternative.
10:15 Negative of the Linux: "Audio is little tricky".... Sudo apt install pulseaudio audacity = you have got all you need for 99,9% of your work/fun ...uff that was tricky :-)
@Lics Norgi headphones are ghey
About gaming in Linux, I don't know if this has been mentioned before here but, at the time it is seemingly impossible to run online games that have some sort of anticheat feature like GameGuard. That is why I haven't switched, there is no way of playing Black Desert Online on Linux because of that issue, and I play BDO a lot. So, I'd rather put that on hold until I can get my hands on an external SSD to install Linux on and boot it up whenever I want to.
Just dual boot or create a Windows virtual machine with GPU passthrough
@@Shin_97 Id rather use windows with WSL than use windows in a virtual machine for gaming. If you're a die hard gamer I cannot recommend linux right now. In fact for most people period, I cannot recommend linux. Windows gets a lot of hate, most of it deserved but it still remains the logical choice for gaming. No sense handicapping yourself for the sake of it.
Tbh. Printers work for me a lot better on Kubuntu than on windows. Idk even why. I opened Skanlite and I can Scan.
Nearly the same for printing.
On windows I need like 3 different softwares to even see if my printer is connected. And then there are so many annoying overlays.
I use a HP MFP Laser something 135W.
Before that we used some brother printer and it worked also fine from the start.
If you want to test out Linux, start by buying an old laptop. If you dual boot, you are more likely to end up kicking out Linux than Windows, as Linux doesn't always deliver what most people need
I am considering trying to get a job within the Linux field.
I am CIS major in college right now.
Nice Star Trek screen saver on your rack.
My first 30 days. First set your mine frame; Linux isn't Windows. I knew Linux wasn't Windows, so I never try to make Linux as Windows. I treated Linux as Linux. The first thing I learn was how to install programs. I found out about the Package Manager and I went with Synaptic Package Manager, since I was on a Debian base Linux distro. I spent my first two hours just inside Synaptic Package Manager. This got me familiar of the names of the Linux packages. And familiar how to use Synaptic Package Manager efficiently. The second thing I learn was the File System; www.linux.com/tutorials/linux-filesystem-explained/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_filesystem#Conventional_directory_layout Then made a complete list of everything I done on Windows. And try to do that same task in Linux, including getting all my peripheral devices to work under Linux. I didn't bring over any Windows Luggage not even my Windows games. I just started playing native Linux games. I never stop gaming, I just change how I game. Then I found many cheat sheets about Linux commands and start learning them 10 at a time. In my first 5 days with Linux I was completely comfortable using Linux. Doing every single task I was doing in Window, now I'm doing it in Linux. I'm on my 16th year with Linux, never went back to Windows. Windows XP was the last Windows OS I touch. I'm currently using MX as my Operating System.
I don't even have synaptic installed. It's a waste of disk space. Learn the package manager commands. aptitude search, aptitude show, apt-file search, apt-cache rdepends, dpkg -L, dpkg -l and combine those with regular expression filters.
$ aptitude search ttf | grep ^p
That shows me every ttf package that I don't have installed. But how did I know all of those packages had ttf in their name? I looked at what I had installed and saw the common thread.
$ dpkg -l | grep font
Elementary my dear Watson. For real learn the CLI commands. They're way more informative than the GUI front end is.
@Donald Mickunas I've been running Linux since 1995. My background is a technology enthusiast. I have taught a few people a thing or two over the years I suppose. What I told you is elementary to everyone once they're aware of it. I am not worried about Linux turning into Windows someday either. Because I know that's impossible. I know a bit about things having been around for as long as I have.
@Donald Mickunas understanding how the GPL works is interesting. Steve Ballmer praised it as a, "cancer". Which must mean he thought it was a difficult entity to eradicate himself.
@Donald Mickunas I'll be running the same system I am right now a decade from now. With the same OS install on it too. Nothing's changed about Linux since the cancer claims either. Same license.
@Donald Mickunas thanks
Your ad is confusing. I couldn't figure out what you were recommending.
Thats what i called rose colored glasses here. Your videos are simple. Lets not beat around the bush thus your OS have nothing to do with the speed of production. Yeah u might be used to an interface here and there or a shortcut or location for some things but such basic edits can be made on Haiku or even amiga OS if required. HOWEVER if you required extremely high production time videos with hundreds of effects and modifications, windows with the likes of adobe CS or sony vegas or even mac with final cut would make such work much much simpler and faster than making same edits on linux.
Every OS is simple efficient and productive if you take time to put things the way its convenient for work. In fact if you are used to do things in kdenlive you can do exactly the same things on kdenlive Windows edition, theres absolutely nothing that should slow you down at all.
I wouldn't jump to the terminal so quick. Try software center first, then package manager (& AUR) then terminal (& ppas) then find download for a tar/zip/sh file or find a windows installer and try it in wine. If non of that worked you're sol&jwf :/
I don't understand why anyone thinks an app store like system for programs is a good idea. Sure 100% it can be helpful to have then I'm not saying don't have them. But for Linux it seems like you either use the app store or the app store equivalent command, Which I would say is unacceptable no matter how simplistic that command may be. However, the major flaw in this if my understanding is correct is that you only have access to these programs if they've already been manually been added to the package manger your using. Just because a program exists doesn't mean its automatically added to the package manager let alone all package managers that may be used. Many people could free live stream on both twitch and youtube simultaneously. It doesn't mean everyone does. So the more obscure your program is the less likely it will be in these managers and the more headaches you'll have installing it.
Not to mention apparently depending the method you use to install you can get errors or buggy installs. Why on earth would anyone consider this superior to just simply downloading and running an installer in windows. It's simple, consistent, requires zero use of a terminal, requires zero understanding of installation methods, Will be almost guaranteed to work and install correctly with little to no chance of you somehow installing it wrong, and will never run into a situation where the program isn't available via some app store or package manager.
What UPS do you use on your server rack?
Its an old version of a 2200 Cyberpower. I ripped it apart and replaced the fan and batteries as it was a throwaway. Here is the new version: www.cyberpowersystems.com/product/ups/smart-app-online/ol2200rtxl2u/
What do you need a UPS for? Linux uses journaling filesystems.
anyone know what's that theme and icon pack at 14:48??????? please
I'd like to know too.
Titus, can you make a tutorial for setting up egpu on linux by any chance? I'm getting crazy over here
Can u do a video about how to add face id and fingerprint id, too....plz
What are your current pc spects btw?
i have a 4k monitor laptop with win10 and a lot of programs dont display correctly (very very tiny) . i run mint in a vm with same issue. considering dual boot but any advice?