Thanks man. You know how valuable these type of videos are. They help people use Linux as a Desktop OS. We need to keep helping people in doing the switch.
Mr. Collins you are a true blessing. I am longtime windows user. I tried to update to windows 10 back in 2015-16 it was a nightmare it crashed my windows machine. The repairman put windows 7 home premium back on my machine, and it has been stable, but now with the loss of support for windows 7. I am ready to learn Linux & hopefully stay with it for years & drop my windows eventually. Thanks for your very professional, knowledgeable videos. No words to express how they have help with this decision. I believe Linux Mint will be my first attempt at Linux operating system. Bless you for what you are doing to help this community.
Systemback is brilliant backup software that not only lets you easily create, organise, restore from and manage backups, but it also lets you create ISO images from a backup so you can create a Live USB of your computer to take with you anywhere. Doesn't sound like something of interest for most, however you'd be surprised how often I needed to do a quick job on the fly and I didn't bring my laptop with me, so I grabbed the first available PC and had my exact workstation up in under a minute, all from a cheap USB stick. Also, Davinci Resolve is an industry standard video editor that offers a free version for Linux. It's main focus is on colour grading, however with editing and its toolset it performs no worse than Premiere or Final Cut. It may be a slight pain to get running, but its a brilliant cross-platform video editor.
For office: WPS Office It doesn't even want to hide it's a 1:1 clone of MS Office but it does its job REALLY good! Try making a chart under LibreOffice and your day will be ruined. Under WPS its as good as the MS thing. Also Office 2013 now seems to be running quite good under Wine 2.0. A lot of people who don't want to switch to Linux is because they don't have a good office sofware. And nye, LibreOffice is okay but not intuitive. Try to convince a long time MS office user. Good luck, you will need it.
in Libre Office they are bugs that I face quite frequenly (in the styles in LO draw) but charts works without problems since day 1 and I was a user of Open Office before the fork to Libre Office and WPS office is more or less free, not open source, and the native file format is proprietary.
libre office can track changes -> menu/file/property/security/track changes I have wps here on 250 pc and I'm getting rid of it. - it is *not* open source, it belongs to a chinese company so they have to make money - During a time you could not print anything without "wps wps wps wps wps" written in the back ground - now they push add and you have to pay to get rid of it - and this is pure speculation but I really would like to see their code to understand how they got a working office suite so fast from nowhere and that behave exatly the same way as libreoffice on a problematic xls file... my choice is that if I have to put energy and time in a change, it must make a difference, libre office is open source, license free and the file format is also open. Moving from MSoffice to WPS is like choosing betwen the plague and cholera, I would choose MS, at least it produces files formats that can be read by other office suties, wps has it own format.
Kdenlive would be a great choice for video editing, if there wasn't the issue with stability lately. I recommend everyone to take a serious look at Shotcut. I moved on to this one after Kdenlive started to make serious problems (like not finishing rendering tasks at 99% with GPU enabled, slow video playback with GPU disabled, UI/icon issues and sudden crashes). In terms of UI/layout shotcut is quite similar to kdenlive, but everything works including GPU acceleration and GPU accelerated encoding in h.264 baseline. Also shotcut supportshtml/JavaScript for additional effects, next to many other (more basic) built-in filters and effects. I warmly recommend shotcut over kdenlive to all users that need to get their work done reliably. I will continue keeping an eye on kdenlive and hope the team will be able to resolve the issues soon.
Sadly, none of these work for serious video editors or professionals. That's one of the main reasons I've stuck with Windows on my main desktop, I would need something as user-friendly, intuitive, feature-filled, and stable as Premiere Pro. Unfortunately, Linux doesn't have an editor like that.
I did, and I found it to be very unstable. If it had worked properly I would have considered it, but I couldn't justify spending money on it if I wasn't sure it would function properly. I have been using Premiere for a while now and love it, I just wish it was Linux compatible.
I didn't like the video editor in Blender. I found it rather unintuitive, and very basic. More like an after thought than a dedicated editing software. Which makes sense, Blender isn't supposed to be a main editor.
Blender can be used for video editing and compositing as well as 3d. The newest version has features for 2d animation also. The downside to Blender is the learning curve and button overload. However, there are a ton of videos on RUclips for doing anything you want to learn in Blender. Thanks for the overview video!
Thank you for nice video on applications. I've been a linux user for several years now, and I thought about mentioning a couple applications not included in your list, that I have found really useful for me. One would be in category "Photo/Graphics" and application "Krita". The other is category "Virtualization", application "KVM" (Kernel based Virtual Machine). Thanks again for your video.
or type ZZ, or ZQ, or :qa, or :exit, or.... Lots of ways to leave vim. I found it slightly amusing that the creator of a video about Linux tools didn't know how to exit vim. I suppose it's a good sign though--more non-programmers are being drawn to Linux, making it more mainstream. I like that. Then again, I don't know how to exit emacs, so there's that...
Or you can use Uget which downloads your downloads you do from your browser by pausing the downloads and resume them at a later time in which the download manager in Firefox web browser does not do so with Uget you can plus Uget you can also download torrent files as well in which Transmission does only torrent files but Uget does both things in which I find quite amazing but if you only download torrent files then Transmission works fantastic otherwise use Uget :)
Joe, I’ve been a pure Debian user since 2008 and I switched to Arch Linux because a buddy of mine said try Arch and I did and I was pretty hardheaded to switch from Debian to Arch, but I enjoy Arch for what it is and I still use Debian for my backup server because it’s so darn stable and runs for years! Also I cannot stand the new GNOME interface when they switched to Gnome 3. So my default desktop these days is MATE because I’m comfortable with the layout!
I am a part time Linux user since it has some superior partitioning tools and terminal programs, but I can't leave Windows because I have to have the Adobe suite and its shortcuts
Tell Adobe that... If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me in a comment, I'd be rich. Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't listen to me when they make decisions but if if enough folks like yourself tell them they wan Adobe on Linux, they may listen to that. :)
I had a multi drive Windows / Linux. Began accessing Windows from Linux w/ Wine. Now I have Windows on VirtualBox. Office runs faster and doesn't freeze on me. I save all my files on an ext. drive. That lets my access them from Linux as well.
The standard "gedit" isn't bad in Cinnamon but I have settled on "Geany" for text editing. For the torrents I usually use "Deluge" which has worked good over the years. My biggest decision to stay with LMDE Cinnamon was the filemanager which is "Nemo". The "Thunar" filemanager in the XFCE Distros is another good one. I really don't have anything good to say about the "Nautilus" filemanager used in the Gnome 3 desktops. I think it was a bad selection. Thanks for the suggestions.
The only annoying thing with Vivaldi is that it's closed source. As for OBS, never try to capture windows with it. The program will end in a state where it segfaults after you add the window capture source.
For the webå browsers I would recommend Brave over Chrome. It’s lighter, has more functionality, much better privacy policy, and you can still use all your regular chrome extensions natively.
Many of the better (supported/developed) applications for Linux users (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Darktable, Blender, OBS, Steam, Kodi, Audacity, etc.) also work perfectly with Windows 7/8/10. I used GIMP for so many years, that I'd be lost without it, and it works great with Windows 10.
Hey, Joe :) Great video! If it is possible to drop a pitch for a possible future video (unless you already looked into that and I missed it), I would really love to see something about how to use checksums (md5, sha256) and how to verify downloaded files.
I haven't show that in a vid but all you do is run 'mdf (file-name)' and compere the value you get to the one they gibe you and if they match up your good. :)
I use transmission on the notebook but it's a little bit dry, qBittorrent is a great open source torrent client that works similar if not better to popular adware (uTorrent and BitTorrent).
I know this is an older video but I did find it useful as I'm getting (back) into Linux now. Can I ask what desktop of Linux Mint did you use here? I'm currently using Linux Mint 20.1 with the Cinnamon desktop. I have A REALLY hard time to customize the start/main menu. I can't hardly add items, I can't seem to move items around between submenu's or even create new submenu's to put apps in... 🤔😱 Why is the menu so hard to manipulate (for sure compared to Windows)? I even tried Mate, but that didn't really make it easier. Are things easier if using KDE? Or another?
I think this was LM 17.3... There is a more advanced menu editor available by right clicking on the menu icon, choosing configure and the opening the 'Menu tab.... You'll see it toward the bottom of the page. Linux menus work the same no matter what desktop, by the way. If you figure out how to edit and manipulate it on one, it pretty much works the same for all.
@@EzeeLinux yeah, that's the one I've been trying to use... Maybe it's my desire to make the menu work like I have it in Windows. There I have it several layers deep like you can do it on Windows, prior to like 7 or 8... And you can just drag and drop things, including submenu's/folders and program items back and forth. That doesn't seem to be doable in Linux... I may have to adopt another way of working.
Great video, this is your very best one and it is the best video on Linux in general of all the videos I have seen on the subject. I will install many of the apps u recommend. I use wine because there is one program I absolutely cannot do without, Lucas Chess and it only runs with wine in Linux. Your videos and website ezeelinux are great helps to me! I have been using Windows up to a few years ago but have switched to Linux and am now using Linux Mint 18.3 with Cinnamon. Looks and works very much like Windows XP which is what I was using for a long time.
I know we all have favorites and there is wide choice, but this is a good list of apps to start with. I use most of these. I found, like you, that Wine was not the way I preferred to use Windows software. I prefer Virtualbox to run any Windows programs that I don't want to abandon. It's rare that I can't find an alternative in Linux that will provide the features I want.
Just watched your video regarding linux unrealistic expectations, that had a comment ban on it, and I just want to say I will recommend anyone it, whatever skill level. But my one criticism is, that some basic pieces of useful info - maybe taken for granted by developers has been left out in key areas...maybe my mission in life when I get to the stage will be to plug in those minor areas and create a distro for real beginners that is simple and easy.
There was a lot of applications that Linux of all flavors did not have when I started converting to Linux in 2006. I had to keep a few Windows computers around to fill in the gaps, but since 2015 there are Linux apps that cover everything I used to do in Windows and I have been fully converted to Linux ever since
Me too no more Windows YAY it is like night and day LOL and I sometimes look at my Linux OS and go "Where have you been all of my life" to the point of making my wife jealous LOL :)
I agree with you about wine. I only use it anymore to play classic games that I find in thrift stores. I still have LtSpice installed with Wine, but I have not used it for a while. I am trying to learn Gnu Electric instead of using LtSpice.
Being a video editor myself, I never tried kdenlive and found it to be reliable. It used to crash on me when I had only a couple of still pictures on the timeline, so I can't imagine using it for any actual editing.. but it might be my experience, I surely can't speak for anybody else Personally, I think the one that is really good at the moment is LightWorks.. AFAIK, It was actually used in Hollywood, and when I tried it, it seemed to be stable enough The one that can really kick ass if you have the patience to install it, and the money to buy some extra hardware is DaVinci Resolve
Wine/PlayOnLinux/Crossover are all part of the same family. PoL is a frontend for wine that allows individual programs to have their own version of wine to run them. Crossover is the commercial side of wine. There is a new office suite that is said to have much better MS Office compatibility than LibreOffice. It is OnlyOffice. I thought it was odd you didn't mention anything about password vaults. Software to keep track of your multitude of online passwords that can even generate fairly difficult to crack passwords. I use Password Gorilla. I have seen KeePassX mentioned. Dropbox is another useful tool.
Sounds interesting, I'm wondering if it can be set up to fake out a system to think it's a different time or date so as to generate documents or files so as to be date or time stamped different from what they other wise would be? I've often wanted something like that...🤫
Hi Joe Collins Thank you so much for your video about Linux . I learn so many many thing from your video. and I like your joke "I do not know how to get out of VI". I do have this feeling at the very first time I start to do thing on Terminal. but now my every day using Linux is really amazing I never has have. again ,Thank you very for your video.
hi got a new ASUS VivoPC K20 with endlles instaled. i dont want windows so. what do you recommend me to do? i want to install linux mint instead ..but i like this distro too. i never used linux before...
Hi, howcome your icons and open applications on the task bar look just like on a windows desktop, on mine, the icons are in a square shaped box and the opened applications appear as a square on the taskbar
Hi Joe Nice video. I have also installed Opera browser in my Mint 18. I like Opera. I must admit that I am not a fan of Chrome and Chromium. I use them as a last resort. I like Digikam, I use it for my photo and wallpaper collections. I have found Audacity to be a difficult program to use. In Windows I used to use Soundforge which I think is a lot easier to use. I agree with your comments about Wine. I use it to run a few programs like BigJig and Format Factory. I tried to use it to connect to a number of Game Shards that I belong. It did not work, most of the time my PC just locked up. Regards Philip
I just watched this video, as I am planning to upgrade to Linux mint cinnamon this upcoming weekend. Is your list of applications current or? I am an newbie with Linux but trying to learn.
@@EzeeLinux Thank you for your quick response and information. I just finished watching your video on installing Linux Mint 19 for beginners and making notes. I have been a Windows user since 1996 and my devise in question is a Surface Pro 3. I am open to any advise or guidance. Thank you!
@@stephenabm7779 Linux does not run well on MS SUrface Pro 3... I'm not saying you can't install it but I would guess it's not going to be very easy. This isa bit out of date but still might be useful: www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/6yjkw5/installation_of_mint_182_with_4130_kernel_on_a/
I still have a Windows 10 computer ....I don't care about all of my Adobe and Microsoft software I invested in for my college studies ... don't use any of them anymore. However, I have several Digital Audio Workstation programs (digital recording) that I really do need and there is not a good enough Linux alternative for those.
LibreOffice aren't superbly compatible with Microsoft Office and sometimes It lacks a some options of Microsoft Office programs. Gnumeric is much better for spreadsheet than LO Calc and MS Excel. Abiword is a little buggy in many distros. For full compatibility with MS Office you need WPS Office and OnlyOffice.
Call me crazy, but I got used to ripperX for ripping music and I like it. It's old school, but it works just fine once it is set up to your liking. It's old and just works.
I feel the same too as sometimes people change applications for the sake of changing but in reality sometimes it does the same thing as the old school application therefore in option sometimes old school is just best to keep but then again that could be because I am getting older so I tend to not like change as much as before LOL :)
I found this video helpful & will be watching more mr collins. I would have liked to see you use your one favorite pick from each category, just 1-2 min per title. Most impotently, keep making your helpful videos, we linux noobies thank you sir.
@@EzeeLinux Only if you use a "dumb" installation mode "replace everything with Linux" - that's not the standard setting in a single Linux I ever installed and should not be in any.
It's sad that most of the applications work awful in VirtualBox to use and using it as main machine on MacBook, it consumes the battery life about 2-3 hours. Mostly it's because of graphic issues that Vbox offers but I like to use Firefox, even sync my settings on it(even tho I used chrome since 3-4 years and currently using Safari...too confusing). I don't use torrent at all(quitted to download crack apps etc.) so transmission is the app that I used very rare. I think Geary is a good tool for emails, also evolution. Keep going
evolution is great, i think. too bad there's no effective way to sync it with an android phone without resorting to google & friends. there's something called "syncevolution" but does not seem to be maintained anymore. would be great if you showed us how to use it.
awesome video thanks, anyone know of a suitable substitute for adobe acrobat pro? im planning to use linux mint on a spare laptop and my main apps will be googles apps, docs, sheets, drive, from what i understand they can work but i do need a suitable pdf editor that allows me to create,edit and annotate, i dont need anything overly complex beyond that to be honest, would appreciate any advice.
good list. just curious, what don't you like about clementine? i use it all the time. it does library organization, ripping, tag editing, cover downloading, lastfm scrobbling.. rythmbox was allways kinda buggy and slow for me
I have to agree, also Clementine's CD ripper is shockingly basic. Rythnbox will rip your CD, tag it correctly and place it in to it's own library as well as saving the files in the correct folders.
I have a Dell laptop which came with Linux Ubuntu installed on it. When I try to save a file I keep getting the message that the drive don't have enough space. What can I do to fix this problem.
@@EzeeLinux I thought about that but didn't know what I could delete. I am considering buying another drive and just getting one much larger in size to put in that computer.
I honestly wouldn't know what is the best but there are a few to choose from: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256138/is-there-any-decent-speech-recognition-software-for-linux
My last attempt to upgrade Chromium from version 64.0.3282.119 did not upgrade, but instead installed Google Chrome (Beta) version 64.0.3282.119.So I now have Chromium and Chrome on my Linux, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Looks like they have decided to stop calling the Linux version Chromium.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard Yes....and MOST WIndows users looking to migrate to Linus..USUALLY start on Ubuntu or Mint...so knowing about Synaptic Package manager is a benefit for a few use cases. Although, I'll admit, Software Boutique for Ubuntu mate and Software Center or manager for Mint both have adding the last couple of remaining programs I use often in Winblows. So far in min 19 and ubuntu 18.04 ( be it vanilla or mate) I have had no real need to use synaptic yet.
@@motoryzen There is no benefit in using Synaptic anymore because the Software Center has taken its place and you need to install Synaptic either through apt in the terminal or with the Software center as it is not in the default program list anymore and most probably will be obsolete within the year.
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Transmission is fine if you're just downloading another distro!
One thing: Since your biggest gripe with Windows is their included EULA clauses where they actually state they have full access to everything you have on your machine. Have you looked at Google Chome's EULA? It's not really different at all. They also make you accept that agreement and have all rights to everything you create. Anything you do in Chrome Google has the right to take ownership of and sell to other companies. Just what that means in practise is a bit vague, but it could be construed that even your content created here is not yours at all, even if it wasn't already placed onto a google server through the youtube apps. Food for thought, not saying Chrome is bad, just saying horses for courses.
I'm having tremendous problems with Linux PDF readers. Pages take ages to load, disappear and reload, tools are poor. It's barely usable. Currently, I use Atril. I have to admit I regret Windows Foxit reader. I don't want to look like i'm complaining and hating, i'm still very grateful to all those who make this ecosystem possible but I don't understand this, it's a huge weakness. Is it technical ? Or just lack of development ? Or else ? I'd be happy to help but I don't know what to do.
I have to agree with you. Joe is focused on video/audio, understandably, but some of us are focused on documents and need pdf handling like Adobe acrobat. Best so far for me is pdf studio 11 which you will have to pay for. But it's still not as good as Adobe Acrobat.
I use the Linux Mint distro therefore it has a Linux Mint default program that they created themselves by the name USB Image Writer in which if you open the Software Center and type mintstick you will then find it so that what I use as it is stupid simple but that how I like it to be LOL :)
Thanks man. You know how valuable these type of videos are. They help people use Linux as a Desktop OS. We need to keep helping people in doing the switch.
Mr. Collins you are a true blessing. I am longtime windows user. I tried to update to windows 10 back in 2015-16 it was a nightmare it crashed my windows machine. The repairman put windows 7 home premium back on my machine, and it has been stable, but now with the loss of support for windows 7. I am ready to learn Linux & hopefully stay with it for years & drop my windows eventually. Thanks for your very professional, knowledgeable videos. No words to express how they have help with this decision. I believe Linux Mint will be my first attempt at Linux operating system. Bless you for what you are doing to help this community.
"That's all I'm going to say about text editors" - that quote brought back memories of Forrest Gump. Thanks. :)
"It's kind of difficult to figure out how to get out of VI"
Haha, adorable.
andrew zuo a joke among the communiy is that you could make a suitable RNG by opening vim and telling a newbie to try to exit.
andrew zuo
LOOOOOIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOIOIIIOOIOOOOOOL
Alt-F4
I feel the same way every time I find myself stuck in emacs.
C-x C-c, lol
i think gnu/linux or free/open source software in whole is one of the most promising achievements of the human race in history
Systemback is brilliant backup software that not only lets you easily create, organise, restore from and manage backups, but it also lets you create ISO images from a backup so you can create a Live USB of your computer to take with you anywhere. Doesn't sound like something of interest for most, however you'd be surprised how often I needed to do a quick job on the fly and I didn't bring my laptop with me, so I grabbed the first available PC and had my exact workstation up in under a minute, all from a cheap USB stick.
Also, Davinci Resolve is an industry standard video editor that offers a free version for Linux. It's main focus is on colour grading, however with editing and its toolset it performs no worse than Premiere or Final Cut. It may be a slight pain to get running, but its a brilliant cross-platform video editor.
All apps I usually use in Windows are somehow available in Linux.
I'm gonna try Linux now !!!!
the one i know is adobe acrobat reader.
Go ahead & do it. It's definitely worth it!
julius carino there are plenty of good pdf readers on Linux.
Windows as a VM in Virtualbox? Probably an easier/better/more reliable solution than wine? Just a thought, since you mentioned Virtualisation.
I do it that way
@@alat_ka and how does it work? Any gross defects?
For office: WPS Office
It doesn't even want to hide it's a 1:1 clone of MS Office but it does its job REALLY good!
Try making a chart under LibreOffice and your day will be ruined. Under WPS its as good as the MS thing.
Also Office 2013 now seems to be running quite good under Wine 2.0.
A lot of people who don't want to switch to Linux is because they don't have a good office sofware.
And nye, LibreOffice is okay but not intuitive. Try to convince a long time MS office user. Good luck, you will need it.
in Libre Office they are bugs that I face quite frequenly (in the styles in LO draw) but charts works without problems since day 1 and I was a user of Open Office before the fork to Libre Office
and WPS office is more or less free, not open source, and the native file format is proprietary.
Try onlyoffice
+David Stievenard
Please file bug report about those! Thanks you.
toomoii
Another option is also OnlyOffise but WPS is still the best :D
libre office can track changes -> menu/file/property/security/track changes
I have wps here on 250 pc and I'm getting rid of it.
- it is *not* open source, it belongs to a chinese company so they have to make money
- During a time you could not print anything without "wps wps wps wps wps" written in the back ground
- now they push add and you have to pay to get rid of it
- and this is pure speculation but I really would like to see their code to understand how they got a working office suite so fast from nowhere and that behave exatly the same way as libreoffice on a problematic xls file...
my choice is that if I have to put energy and time in a change, it must make a difference, libre office is open source, license free and the file format is also open.
Moving from MSoffice to WPS is like choosing betwen the plague and cholera, I would choose MS, at least it produces files formats that can be read by other office suties, wps has it own format.
Kdenlive would be a great choice for video editing, if there wasn't the issue with stability lately. I recommend everyone to take a serious look at Shotcut. I moved on to this one after Kdenlive started to make serious problems (like not finishing rendering tasks at 99% with GPU enabled, slow video playback with GPU disabled, UI/icon issues and sudden crashes). In terms of UI/layout shotcut is quite similar to kdenlive, but everything works including GPU acceleration and GPU accelerated encoding in h.264 baseline. Also shotcut supportshtml/JavaScript for additional effects, next to many other (more basic) built-in filters and effects. I warmly recommend shotcut over kdenlive to all users that need to get their work done reliably. I will continue keeping an eye on kdenlive and hope the team will be able to resolve the issues soon.
Sadly, none of these work for serious video editors or professionals. That's one of the main reasons I've stuck with Windows on my main desktop, I would need something as user-friendly, intuitive, feature-filled, and stable as Premiere Pro. Unfortunately, Linux doesn't have an editor like that.
Jake , did you take a look at LightWorks? That's a pro application and it's not free.
I did, and I found it to be very unstable. If it had worked properly I would have considered it, but I couldn't justify spending money on it if I wasn't sure it would function properly. I have been using Premiere for a while now and love it, I just wish it was Linux compatible.
You have Blender? You can edit video in it.
I didn't like the video editor in Blender. I found it rather unintuitive, and very basic. More like an after thought than a dedicated editing software. Which makes sense, Blender isn't supposed to be a main editor.
Can you update the video - year 2022 edition?
Not mentioned in the video is that LibraOffice is cross-platform. There are versions that run on Linux and on Windows.
Blender can be used for video editing and compositing as well as 3d. The newest version has features for 2d animation also. The downside to Blender is the learning curve and button overload. However, there are a ton of videos on RUclips for doing anything you want to learn in Blender. Thanks for the overview video!
Thank you for nice video on applications. I've been a linux user for several years now, and I thought about mentioning a couple applications not included in your list, that I have found really useful for me. One would be in category "Photo/Graphics" and application "Krita". The other is category "Virtualization", application "KVM" (Kernel based Virtual Machine). Thanks again for your video.
To leave vi(m), escape to command mode then type :q, or :q! to quit and discard unsaved changes. 😁
or type ZZ, or ZQ, or :qa, or :exit, or....
Lots of ways to leave vim.
I found it slightly amusing that the creator of a video about Linux tools didn't know how to exit vim. I suppose it's a good sign though--more non-programmers are being drawn to Linux, making it more mainstream. I like that.
Then again, I don't know how to exit emacs, so there's that...
Great video - one question is, what microphone do you use to record audio into SSR as you always have good sound quality?
CAD u37.
for bittorrent on Linux you can also use Deluge or rtorrent
Or you can use Uget which downloads your downloads you do from your browser by pausing the downloads and resume them at a later time in which the download manager in Firefox web browser does not do so with Uget you can plus Uget you can also download torrent files as well in which Transmission does only torrent files but Uget does both things in which I find quite amazing but if you only download torrent files then Transmission works fantastic otherwise use Uget :)
they say Deluge isn't being updated, so I switched to qBittorrent
vidyacz
Use qBitTorrent, it has lot of settings and you can make it use VPN & proxies.
I like qbittorrent, it's an open-source uTorrent clone. I know uTorrent sucks, but this takes out all of the stuff that sucks about it.
I love Deluge. I have been using it headless on a Raspberry Pi for years now and connect remotely from any desktop I use.
Joe, I’ve been a pure Debian user since 2008 and I switched to Arch Linux because a buddy of mine said try Arch and I did and I was pretty hardheaded to switch from Debian to Arch, but I enjoy Arch for what it is and I still use Debian for my backup server because it’s so darn stable and runs for years! Also I cannot stand the new GNOME interface when they switched to Gnome 3. So my default desktop these days is MATE because I’m comfortable with the layout!
I am a part time Linux user since it has some superior partitioning tools and terminal programs, but I can't leave Windows because I have to have the Adobe suite and its shortcuts
Tell Adobe that... If I had a dollar for every time someone said that to me in a comment, I'd be rich. Unfortunately, Adobe doesn't listen to me when they make decisions but if if enough folks like yourself tell them they wan Adobe on Linux, they may listen to that. :)
I had a multi drive Windows / Linux. Began accessing Windows from Linux w/ Wine. Now I have Windows on VirtualBox. Office runs faster and doesn't freeze on me. I save all my files on an ext. drive. That lets my access them from Linux as well.
The standard "gedit" isn't bad in Cinnamon but I have settled on "Geany" for text editing. For the torrents I usually
use "Deluge" which has worked good over the years. My biggest decision to stay with LMDE Cinnamon was the
filemanager which is "Nemo". The "Thunar" filemanager in the XFCE Distros is another good one. I really don't
have anything good to say about the "Nautilus" filemanager used in the Gnome 3 desktops. I think it was a bad
selection. Thanks for the suggestions.
opera is good so is brave, chromium is only used to download firefox and chrome when using ubuntu, like edge, with windows
The only annoying thing with Vivaldi is that it's closed source. As for OBS, never try to capture windows with it. The program will end in a state where it segfaults after you add the window capture source.
For the webå browsers I would recommend Brave over Chrome. It’s lighter, has more functionality, much better privacy policy, and you can still use all your regular chrome extensions natively.
Many of the better (supported/developed) applications for Linux users (Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, GIMP, Inkscape, Darktable, Blender, OBS, Steam, Kodi, Audacity, etc.) also work perfectly with Windows 7/8/10. I used GIMP for so many years, that I'd be lost without it, and it works great with Windows 10.
Hey, Joe :)
Great video!
If it is possible to drop a pitch for a possible future video (unless you already looked into that and I missed it), I would really love to see something about how to use checksums (md5, sha256) and how to verify downloaded files.
I haven't show that in a vid but all you do is run 'mdf (file-name)' and compere the value you get to the one they gibe you and if they match up your good. :)
that part normally works, but I did encounter situations where it was more.complex.
thx for the reply :)
I use transmission on the notebook but it's a little bit dry, qBittorrent is a great open source torrent client that works similar if not better to popular adware (uTorrent and BitTorrent).
I know this is an older video but I did find it useful as I'm getting (back) into Linux now.
Can I ask what desktop of Linux Mint did you use here?
I'm currently using Linux Mint 20.1 with the Cinnamon desktop. I have A REALLY hard time to customize the start/main menu. I can't hardly add items, I can't seem to move items around between submenu's or even create new submenu's to put apps in... 🤔😱
Why is the menu so hard to manipulate (for sure compared to Windows)? I even tried Mate, but that didn't really make it easier.
Are things easier if using KDE? Or another?
I think this was LM 17.3... There is a more advanced menu editor available by right clicking on the menu icon, choosing configure and the opening the 'Menu tab.... You'll see it toward the bottom of the page. Linux menus work the same no matter what desktop, by the way. If you figure out how to edit and manipulate it on one, it pretty much works the same for all.
@@EzeeLinux yeah, that's the one I've been trying to use... Maybe it's my desire to make the menu work like I have it in Windows. There I have it several layers deep like you can do it on Windows, prior to like 7 or 8... And you can just drag and drop things, including submenu's/folders and program items back and forth. That doesn't seem to be doable in Linux...
I may have to adopt another way of working.
Great video, this is your very best one and it is the best video on Linux in general of all the videos I have seen on the subject. I will install many of the apps u recommend. I use wine because there is one program I absolutely cannot do without, Lucas Chess and it only runs with wine in Linux. Your videos and website ezeelinux are great helps to me! I have been using Windows up to a few years ago but have switched to Linux and am now using Linux Mint 18.3 with Cinnamon. Looks and works very much like Windows XP which is what I was using for a long time.
I know we all have favorites and there is wide choice, but this is a good list of apps to start with. I use most of these. I found, like you, that Wine was not the way I preferred to use Windows software. I prefer Virtualbox to run any Windows programs that I don't want to abandon. It's rare that I can't find an alternative in Linux that will provide the features I want.
What about GParted? Seems like an essential program missed --- I am not fully finished with the video yet
Great video Joe! Very helpful for new people.
Just watched your video regarding linux unrealistic expectations, that had a comment ban on it, and I just want to say I will recommend anyone it, whatever skill level. But my one criticism is, that some basic pieces of useful info - maybe taken for granted by developers has been left out in key areas...maybe my mission in life when I get to the stage will be to plug in those minor areas and create a distro for real beginners that is simple and easy.
I use KVM and VMM for Virtualisation, there's no comparison to a type1 hypervisor.
There was a lot of applications that Linux of all flavors did not have when I started converting to Linux in 2006. I had to keep a few Windows computers around to fill in the gaps, but since 2015 there are Linux apps that cover everything I used to do in Windows and I have been fully converted to Linux ever since
Me too no more Windows YAY it is like night and day LOL and I sometimes look at my Linux OS and go "Where have you been all of my life" to the point of making my wife jealous LOL :)
I agree with you about wine. I only use it anymore to play classic games that I find in thrift stores. I still have LtSpice installed with Wine, but I have not used it for a while. I am trying to learn Gnu Electric instead of using LtSpice.
Being a video editor myself, I never tried kdenlive and found it to be reliable. It used to crash on me when I had only a couple of still pictures on the timeline, so I can't imagine using it for any actual editing.. but it might be my experience, I surely can't speak for anybody else
Personally, I think the one that is really good at the moment is LightWorks.. AFAIK, It was actually used in Hollywood, and when I tried it, it seemed to be stable enough
The one that can really kick ass if you have the patience to install it, and the money to buy some extra hardware is DaVinci Resolve
Wine/PlayOnLinux/Crossover are all part of the same family. PoL is a frontend for wine that allows individual programs to have their own version of wine to run them. Crossover is the commercial side of wine.
There is a new office suite that is said to have much better MS Office compatibility than LibreOffice. It is OnlyOffice.
I thought it was odd you didn't mention anything about password vaults. Software to keep track of your multitude of online passwords that can even generate fairly difficult to crack passwords. I use Password Gorilla. I have seen KeePassX mentioned.
Dropbox is another useful tool.
I use Blender for video editing. It's not the most convenient, but does a really good job. I use it on Windows though.
one of the best vids ever very informative thank you so much
Good job on the video man. One really good software wich I really love is "Timeshift"
That program saved my butt many times. xD
Sounds interesting, I'm wondering if it can be set up to fake out a system to think it's a different time or date so as to generate documents or files so as to be date or time stamped different from what they other wise would be? I've often wanted something like that...🤫
Guess not, (sigh) just a backup utility. I'm sure that could also be a good idea.
@@sammcrae8892 type this in a terminal:
man touch
It's been part of the UNIX and Linux systems for about -- ohh -- 25 years give or take.
@Peter Mortensen from what I understand, Timeshift is a service that automatically creates system backups
Hi Joe Collins
Thank you so much for your video about Linux .
I learn so many many thing from your video.
and I like your joke "I do not know how to get out of VI".
I do have this feeling at the very first time I start to do thing on Terminal.
but now my every day using Linux is really amazing I never has have.
again ,Thank you very for your video.
hi
got a new ASUS VivoPC K20 with endlles instaled. i dont want windows so. what do you recommend me to do? i want to install linux mint instead ..but i like this distro too. i never used linux before...
DaVinci resolve 15 is available for linux.
Hi, howcome your icons and open applications on the task bar look just like on a windows desktop, on mine, the icons are in a square shaped box and the opened applications appear as a square on the taskbar
There are lots of different icon sets for you to choose from.
Hi Joe
Nice video. I have also installed Opera browser in my Mint 18. I like Opera. I must admit that I am not a fan of Chrome and Chromium. I use them as a last resort. I like Digikam, I use it for my photo and wallpaper collections. I have found Audacity to be a difficult program to use. In Windows I used to use Soundforge which I think is a lot easier to use. I agree with your comments about Wine. I use it to run a few programs like BigJig and Format Factory. I tried to use it to connect to a number of Game Shards that I belong. It did not work, most of the time my PC just locked up.
Regards
Philip
I just watched this video, as I am planning to upgrade to Linux mint cinnamon this upcoming weekend. Is your list of applications current or? I am an newbie with Linux but trying to learn.
Not much has changed since this video was posted. Start with Linux Mint Cinnamon and you'll get pretty much all of what you need. :)
@@EzeeLinux Thank you for your quick response and information. I just finished watching your video on installing Linux Mint 19 for beginners and making notes. I have been a Windows user since 1996 and my devise in question is a Surface Pro 3. I am open to any advise or guidance. Thank you!
@@stephenabm7779 Linux does not run well on MS SUrface Pro 3... I'm not saying you can't install it but I would guess it's not going to be very easy. This isa bit out of date but still might be useful: www.reddit.com/r/SurfaceLinux/comments/6yjkw5/installation_of_mint_182_with_4130_kernel_on_a/
@@EzeeLinux Thank you, Joe.
Coming from using winrar for 30 tears, archive manager was completely natural when I switched. Didn't even know windows handled zip natively.
I still have a Windows 10 computer ....I don't care about all of my Adobe and Microsoft software I invested in for my college studies ... don't use any of them anymore. However, I have several Digital Audio Workstation programs (digital recording) that I really do need and there is not a good enough Linux alternative for those.
hello,
I'm searching for an audioplayer that could save equalizer presets for each song. just like winamp. any idea?
LibreOffice aren't superbly compatible with Microsoft Office and sometimes It lacks a some options of Microsoft Office programs. Gnumeric is much better for spreadsheet than LO Calc and MS Excel. Abiword is a little buggy in many distros. For full compatibility with MS Office you need WPS Office and OnlyOffice.
Very Informational Thank you.
Great video. Learned a lot. Thanks!
Call me crazy, but I got used to ripperX for ripping music and I like it. It's old school, but it works just fine once it is set up to your liking. It's old and just works.
I feel the same too as sometimes people change applications for the sake of changing but in reality sometimes it does the same thing as the old school application therefore in option sometimes old school is just best to keep but then again that could be because I am getting older so I tend to not like change as much as before LOL :)
Don't forget mousepad, which comes with XFCE. Not featureful but adequate
I found this video helpful & will be watching more mr collins. I would have liked to see you use your one favorite pick from each category, just 1-2 min per title. Most impotently, keep making your helpful videos, we linux noobies thank you sir.
Hi Joe. I'm going to download Linex Mint from Windows 7. Will I be able to keep all my family videos and photos?
You'll need to make copies on an external drive and then copy them back in. Installing Linux wipes the hard drive clean. :)
@@EzeeLinux Only if you use a "dumb" installation mode "replace everything with Linux" -
that's not the standard setting in a single Linux I ever installed and should not be in any.
@@dirkhaar2243 LOL... You haven't installed a lot of Linux then... All of them have an option to nuke the whole drive and start over.
It's sad that most of the applications work awful in VirtualBox to use and using it as main machine on MacBook, it consumes the battery life about 2-3 hours. Mostly it's because of graphic issues that Vbox offers but I like to use Firefox, even sync my settings on it(even tho I used chrome since 3-4 years and currently using Safari...too confusing). I don't use torrent at all(quitted to download crack apps etc.) so transmission is the app that I used very rare. I think Geary is a good tool for emails, also evolution. Keep going
evolution is great, i think.
too bad there's no effective way to sync it with an android phone without resorting to google & friends.
there's something called "syncevolution" but does not seem to be maintained anymore.
would be great if you showed us how to use it.
Please bring opensource CAD that work.
What are your thoughts about tor browser
Thanks for the upload. Agree with pretty much everything. But I do think Qemu/KVM is best when it comes to virtualization.
awesome video thanks, anyone know of a suitable substitute for adobe acrobat pro? im planning to use linux mint on a spare laptop and my main apps will be googles apps, docs, sheets, drive, from what i understand they can work but i do need a suitable pdf editor that allows me to create,edit and annotate, i dont need anything overly complex beyond that to be honest, would appreciate any advice.
Excelent recommendations !
Darktable is good for photographers and Krita is good for digital artists.
Oh Joe you had the vm names listed at the bottom but didn't talk about them.
good list. just curious, what don't you like about clementine? i use it all the time. it does library organization, ripping, tag editing, cover downloading, lastfm scrobbling.. rythmbox was allways kinda buggy and slow for me
It does too much and I can't turn features off. I like to keep it simple and use dedicated apps for a lot of those things :)
I have to agree, also Clementine's CD ripper is shockingly basic. Rythnbox will rip your CD, tag it correctly and place it in to it's own library as well as saving the files in the correct folders.
It's ugly.
I still use Wine I found it harder to get up and running on my machine after I switched to Mint 18.3 but it may be just me.
No love for virsh / virt manager? (Virtualization solution). It kicks ass and runs fine. It's also in most distro's natively
Hexachat is the only useful chat service Pidgin is abandonedware, not a lot of updates are going on in Pidgin.
I have a Dell laptop which came with Linux Ubuntu installed on it. When I try to save a file I keep getting the message that the drive don't have enough space. What can I do to fix this problem.
Delete some stuff.
@@EzeeLinux I thought about that but didn't know what I could delete. I am considering buying another drive and just getting one much larger in size to put in that computer.
Can u suggest good data recovery tools for linux? To get back deleted files,folders,vids,images on a usb drive,HDD,SD cards etc
~thx
This should point you in the right direction... www.linux.com/learn/get-your-data-back-linux-based-data-recovery-tools
Joe Collins thanks
photorec was the tool I needed.
What would you say is the best voice to text software for Linux mint?
I honestly wouldn't know what is the best but there are a few to choose from: unix.stackexchange.com/questions/256138/is-there-any-decent-speech-recognition-software-for-linux
Thanks really helpful for me to get started!
Try out Krita for image editing. I use it as a replacement for photoshop. Just google krita and have a look.
My last attempt to upgrade Chromium from version 64.0.3282.119 did not upgrade,
but instead installed Google Chrome (Beta) version 64.0.3282.119.So I now have Chromium and Chrome on my Linux, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Looks like they have decided to stop calling the Linux version Chromium.
i use deluge for bit-torrents. it is a lot better transmission because of plugins support.
blender can also be used for video editing
BTW I use Kate to code in Python. KDEvelop also uses Kate
to get out of vi, type
[colon] q
That is,
:q
if you need to save the file first, type
:wq
and if you need to quit without saving, type
:q!
wait...
why did i get wine on the virtual ubuntu on my windows computer?
...
I use deluge these days both on linux and windows transmission is good as well
MX16 has an easy download for Google Chrome ;-)
Try onlyoffice it works cross platform and great with your own nextcloud.
Awesome as always !
Kvm should always be mentioned when it comes to VMs!
Gimp/Inkscape/Scribus = Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign.
i dont use gimp i had hard time using it. even in font resizing.
What about adobe project poll ??adobe poll to ship to Linux ..make a video
I use K3b since Brasero (on Ubuntu 16.04) broke 2 blank dvd's I tried to burn an iso on...
Synaptic Package Manager is a very useful program to find or search the useful programs mentioned in this video. I can find an input method there.
Synaptic only works on Debian and Debian alike.
@@ForOdinAndAsgard Yes....and MOST WIndows users looking to migrate to Linus..USUALLY start on Ubuntu or Mint...so knowing about Synaptic Package manager is a benefit for a few use cases.
Although, I'll admit, Software Boutique for Ubuntu mate and Software Center or manager for Mint both have adding the last couple of remaining programs I use often in Winblows.
So far in min 19 and ubuntu 18.04 ( be it vanilla or mate) I have had no real need to use synaptic yet.
@@motoryzen
There is no benefit in using Synaptic anymore because the Software Center has taken its place and you need to install Synaptic either through apt in the terminal or with the Software center as it is not in the default program list anymore and most probably will be obsolete within the year.
Transmission is fine if you're just downloading another distro!
looking for a good solitaire game for desktop
One thing: Since your biggest gripe with Windows is their included EULA clauses where they actually state they have full access to everything you have on your machine. Have you looked at Google Chome's EULA? It's not really different at all. They also make you accept that agreement and have all rights to everything you create. Anything you do in Chrome Google has the right to take ownership of and sell to other companies.
Just what that means in practise is a bit vague, but it could be construed that even your content created here is not yours at all, even if it wasn't already placed onto a google server through the youtube apps. Food for thought, not saying Chrome is bad, just saying horses for courses.
Google Chrome is browser... Windows is an OS. Big difference.
@@EzeeLinux So typing in your banking details and them giving it to anyone they want is ok, but not your cat videos stolen off your hard drive?
I'm having tremendous problems with Linux PDF readers. Pages take ages to load, disappear and reload, tools are poor. It's barely usable. Currently, I use Atril.
I have to admit I regret Windows Foxit reader.
I don't want to look like i'm complaining and hating, i'm still very grateful to all those who make this ecosystem possible but I don't understand this, it's a huge weakness. Is it technical ? Or just lack of development ? Or else ?
I'd be happy to help but I don't know what to do.
I have to agree with you. Joe is focused on video/audio, understandably, but some of us are focused on documents and need pdf handling like Adobe acrobat. Best so far for me is pdf studio 11 which you will have to pay for. But it's still not as good as Adobe Acrobat.
That would run under wine though you do still have the performance hit of running it emulated.
What about a newsreader, telnet and gopher? Note: By telnet I mean like a BBS.
What year is it? I'm sure there's still some use for these of course, but likely very *very* niche.
How to partition disk in ubontu 17.10 it dose not support gparted. So please help
fdisk
Most people from years back called vi by 2 additional letters - 'le' - because originally it WAS pretty vile.
Noooo, that's terrible!
I've been using vi since 1985, and have never found it vile... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What distribution is this?
Linux Mint 17.3.
Great video
how about for after you download ISO what programme do you use to put on USB stick ?
Disks. :)
I use the Linux Mint distro therefore it has a Linux Mint default program that they created themselves by the name USB Image Writer in which if you open the Software Center and type mintstick you will then find it so that what I use as it is stupid simple but that how I like it to be LOL :)
D. Cahill unetbootin or rosa
For Windows. Rufus is a great. or PenDriveLinux.com is a good website that helps you getting your OS on usb drive
I have used the dd command thou it is a bit tricky. Will try Disks did not know I could to it with that program....Thanks for the good info.
Are there any true DAW's for Linux? I'd like to have my Ableton Live on Linux...
I think there is audacity. Not sure I'm not familiar with audio, I don't know even if it is a DAW
HeadsUpHigh Audacity is a audio editor. Pretty good one at that.
Miguel Sensacion Ableton on Linux? Nope. The only DAWs I've known so far is Ardour and LMMS.