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Drew Howden Tech
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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 27 ต.ค. 2019
Drew Howden Tech is a TH-cam channel that creates tech tutorials, tech discussions, Linux distro tests, and tech experiments. This channel is focused on Linux.
The channel's mission is to promote awareness of free and open-source alternatives (such as Linux) to proprietary software (such as Windows), educate people on how easy to use these alternatives really are, and to push the tech industry towards a more balanced model. One that respects the rights and freedoms of everyone. Not just the interests of big tech corporations.
If you think you will be interested, I encourage you to subscribe to the channel.
The channel's mission is to promote awareness of free and open-source alternatives (such as Linux) to proprietary software (such as Windows), educate people on how easy to use these alternatives really are, and to push the tech industry towards a more balanced model. One that respects the rights and freedoms of everyone. Not just the interests of big tech corporations.
If you think you will be interested, I encourage you to subscribe to the channel.
elementary OS 8 Review
In this video, I go over some new features in elementary OS 8, and give my overall impressions of the new release.
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Your Options After Windows 10 DIES
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In this video, I go over options for migrating from Windows 10, which will reach end of life on October 14, 2025. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 2:49 1. Upgrade to Windows 11 3:57 1a. Buy a new PC with Windows 11 4:28 1b. Upgrade your unsupported PC anyway 8:42 2. Windows 10 ESU 10:14 3. Switch to Mac 11:27 4. Switch to Chromebook 12:04 4a. Install ChromeOS Flex 12:41 5. Switch to Linux 14:59 The ...
How to Use Ubuntu's "Automated Installation" Feature
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In this video, I show you how to write an autoinstall.yaml file, and how to provide it on Ubuntu desktop and server editions. Chapters: 0:00 Introduction 0:43 autoinstall.yaml Example 26:23 Providing autoinstall.yaml on Ubuntu Desktop 31:18 Tweaking autoinstall.yaml for Ubuntu Server 32:16 Providing autoinstall.yaml on Ubuntu Server 37:18 Creating a Custom Autoinstall ISO for Ubuntu Server Link...
How to Maximize Privacy on Your Google Account
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In this video, I show you a few settings you can change in your Google account to minimize Google's data collection as much as possible. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
How to Upgrade Your Linux Mint Release
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In this video, I'll be showing you how to upgrade to a new version of Linux Mint. I demonstrate this going from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22. IMPORTANT: Make a backup BEFORE proceeding with this, just in case anything goes wrong! Commands: Install mintupgrade utility: sudo apt install mintupgrade Run mintupgrade utility: sudo mintupgrade Remove mintupgrade utility: sudo apt remove mintupgrade Remove u...
How to Customize LibreOffice to Behave More Like Microsoft Office
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In this video, I show you ways to make LibreOffice look and feel more like Microsoft Office, including (but not limited to) switching to a tabbed interface, and changing the default file formats to the Microsoft Office ones. Commands to Install Microsoft Fonts on Linux: For Debian/Ubuntu: sudo apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer For Arch/Manjaro: sudo yay -S ttf-ms-fonts ttf-vista-fonts ttf-o...
Linux Packaging Formats
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In this video, I explain the various packaging formats for applications, that exist on Linux, and the differences between each one. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
Microsoft Office Alternatives for Linux
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In this video, I discuss alternatives to Microsoft Office that are available on Linux, that will allow you to get your work done, as well as the advantages and drawbacks of each. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
Why We Need to Change the Way We Introduce People to Linux
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In this video, I discuss what we, the Linux community, need to change about our approach to introducing people to Linux, and why. Although this video is targeted at those who are already part of the Linux community, it also contains some important information for people looking to switch to Linux. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
How to Install Linux on Secure Boot-enabled PCs
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In this video, I discuss installing Linux on PCs with the Secure Boot feature. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
How to Dual-boot Linux with Full-Disk Encryption (LUKS/LVM)
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In this video, I show you how to install another operating system (such as Windows) alongside a Linux installation with full-disk encryption set up (with LUKS). I demonstrate this with installing Windows alongside a Ubuntu installation installed on an LVM setup with encryption (LUKS). Disclaimer: I would strongly recommend MAKING A BACKUP before doing this, just in case anything goes wrong duri...
How to Install Ubuntu on a Dual-boot with Windows (Updated 2024)
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In this video, I show you how to install Ubuntu on a dual-boot with Windows. This is an updated tutorial for the new Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which released on April 25, 2024. What's changed in this version is the installer. The process for creating a bootable USB is the same. If you already know how to do that, you can skip to 4:04. Prerequisites: 1. USB drive (at least 8 GB) Links: Ubuntu ISO: ubunt...
Ubuntu 24.04: What's New & Should You Upgrade?
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In this video, I showcase Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, which just released on April 25, 2024. Specifically, I discuss the new features (since 22.04 LTS), and if you should upgrade right now. Join this channel to get access to perks: th-cam.com/users/drewhowdentechjoin
How to Reinstall GRUB (Alternate Method)
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In this video, I show you another, better way to reinstall the GRUB bootloader on Linux. Prerequisites: 1. A Linux install media (any GRUB-based distribution with a live ISO should do) THAT'S IT! Commands used in this video: Mount root partition: sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt (example: sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt) Mount boot partition (if applicable): sudo mount /dev/sdXY /mnt/boot (example: sudo mou...
The Ultimate Triple-boot Setup | Windows, Ubuntu, and Manjaro
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In this video, I install both Ubuntu and Manjaro alongside Windows. This procedure can be used with any combination of Linux distributions that you want; even more than two. Disclaimer: Although it is very unlikely, there is always a very small chance of data loss when messing with partitions. For this reason, I would strongly recommend making a backup of your data before doing this! Prerequisi...
How to Switch Desktop Environments on Linux
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How to Resolve Graphics Issues in Linux
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How to Reinstall GRUB | Repair Boot on Linux
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How to Secure a Linux Server (or Desktop)
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A Guide to Switching to Linux | Manjaro Edition: Part 4 (Removing Windows)
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A Guide to Switching to Linux | Manjaro Edition: Part 4 (Removing Windows)
A Guide to Switching to Linux | Manjaro Edition: Part 3 (Encrypting the Home Folder)
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A Guide to Switching to Linux | Manjaro Edition - Part 2 (Installing Software)
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How to Install Manjaro on a Dual-boot with Windows
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How to Install Manjaro on a Dual-boot with Windows
So much easier to have a MXlinux live USB stick handy to boot into and simply use their utility "boot repair"
Once again, thank you so much for this tutorial and i love your videos!
Clonezilla worked, just doing the gparted bit. need a bit of clarification for the download for that because i downloaded it and it downloaded as a disk image, instead of zip and wouldnt boot on my laptop so i had to use another video to find out how to get gparted to run. have now ran gparted and it seems to be stuck on the screen before it boots into my desktop. ive ended up using the command prompt to sort it out for me.
Where is the video regarding gparted you said you would link??????
It should display in an info card. If not, check the description.
I know this video is a year old, but I'm glad I found it. Saved me so much time and effort. Great tutorial and easy to follow.
This was great content -- I'm glad I stumbled onto your channel. I definitely subscribed and am looking forward to catching up with some of your other content. Although the title didn't advertise the fact, this was a great walk through of how to resize/shrink an encrypted LUKS partition. I learned some new stuff. Thanks. A few things I'd add about some other things you touched on. 1) installing Windows first. There's a video from a creator KMDTech, called "Install Ubuntu Full Disk Encryption LUKS | Dual Boot With Windows", which shows the trick of getting the Ubuntu installer to choose a LUKS install for Ubuntu (around 3m in the video -- basically, selecting LUKS in the Advanced Features of the "Erase disk..." install, and the shifting to the "Install... alongside" install). It seems this works, as he shows, even for installations with another OS present, and even if having to do a resize of the existing Windows NTFS partition. (Of course, BItLocker would need to be disabled in this instance.) However, even with a still encrypted Windows install, I've also managed to get this technique to work as long as there was sufficient unallocated space at the end of the drive with an existing OS, or multiple OS, installation. In my case, I got the Ubuntu installer to auto install with LUKS in the empty space after a Windows, and Fedora install (creating its own desired boot and root partitions). From my testing, however, the LUKS selection doesn't persist if you switch to "Manual installation", nor does the "alongside" option work if you just have free space in the middle, rather than the end, or your drive. 2) Rebuilding GRUB. I'm not sure if the Windows installed re-formats the EFI partition, but I'd assume it doesn't, but rather just adds/modifies the EFI/boot and EFI/microsoft directories to the EFI partition, and then sets the EFI boot order to prefer a Windows boot (leaving the EFI/ubuntu directory intact, and probably just decrementing the Ubuntu boot preference.) If that's the case, after the Windows install, you could get back into Ubuntu with the computer's (or VMs) UEFI boot menu (choosing the lowered Ubuntu boot choice), and then once back in your Ubuntu, you could use efibootmanager to reorder Ubuntu to the top of the boot preference (or just do it in your BIOS).
1. I didn't realize you could do that! Thanks for sharing! 2. Yes, you could just change your boot order after installing Windows, *if you have a UEFI BIOS*, but that doesn't work with a legacy BIOS; In the latter case, you have to rebuild GRUB. I wanted to make this video with both in mind.
show de bola! I shall try here if my Linux boot ; greetings from Brazil!
my target usb isn't showing up
I haven't had the time to do the research/trial and error process on the autoinstaller. Thanks for giving us a great video that's going to save me a ton of time.
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"and empowers our diverse community through Inclusive Design" not thanks, looks like Arch linux is the only way to go, all these debian based crap is going woke.
Basically all that "inclusive design" means is accessibility tools, strong translation effort and sane UI so that everyone can use the OS without difficulty. I can't see why someone would be against that unless they're against disabled people, foreigners and newcomers being able to use Linux.
@@felipe_valerio I was referring to the practices of the developer. Debian has gone woke with their hiring. Hiring based on DEI and not passion and merit, never lead to anything good, 2024 is a glaring example of this. How much of the bad coding will spill over to all the "forks" we'll see. Quality code should have nothing to do with the ethnicity of the person producing the work. Only DEI hiring is discriminatory anyway, and ironically by doing so is painting DEI hires as weak and need special treatment to succeed. I would never want to work at a company as a DEI hire.
EOS 5 was great. Everything after Cassidy left has been pure garbage.
So if i want to download a modpack do i need to download the server pack? If yes do I put the server rar file into the unbuntu mod folder or do I need to extract it first and then transfer all the mods into the mods folder?
You need to extract all the mods from the modpack into the server's mods folder.
@@DrewHowdenTech So I copied and extract all the mods into my ubunutu sever''s mods folder but no matter which modpack i do I always get the issue of "mismatched mod channel list" (specifically my clients mod pack has more mods then the server mod folder) which i dont know why because i double check and make sure all the mods are moved to the server's mod folder. Do you know a work around or am I just doing something wrong. PS. thank you for your time to respond to my issues.
Are there mods on your computer's mods folder that aren't in your server's mods folder.
@@DrewHowdenTech Hey after some troubleshooting I got the server to work with the modpack. But of course after one problem is solve another one pops up. This issue doesn’t correlate with your video (I think). The modpack im trying to implement is DeceaseCraft and I got it to work on the server. I can join and all the mods work until I realize the mod that generate cities dont spawn. it works on single player but not on my server. I look over the server status and I see a lot of red text when exploring the world. Dont know if you can help with that but I understand that this issue is beyond what your video details. I will say your videos are very intuitive and helpful. Overall I got the ubuntu server to work. Im close to just giving up and trying a different modpack but ill give it this weekend to see if i can fix this issue.
Help! Cloning my drive failed due to damage to the source disk. I’ve only found out yesterday that my source drive has a problem and I acted immediately to clone it, so what do I do now?
First of all, get anything important off that failing drive in any way that you can! Second, what error message is Clonezilla giving you?
Where do I learn all this from?
All instructions are in this video. If you find this method confusing, check the pinned comment for an easier method.
@DrewHowdenTech I understood everything. But these things, I want to learn, but was never taught in Linux or OS courses, so I was asking how did you learn these
I learned Linux just by using it. For this particular video, I learned from other online guides on how to repair/reinstall GRUB.
Great video, thank you!
How to do this on a windows 7 pc
There should be a "Repair Your Computer" option on the Windows 7 disc.
I like Nextcloud but I wish I could put movies on it and just watch them on Tv by just casting it but seems like it's impossible!
thanks drew... this will be useful 🙂
Great videos, if could u please make one tutorial on installing ubuntu 18,20,22 simultaneously on a win10 system and doing it low CLI commands way, for education. Thanks
Downloaded the file, tried to make it bootable and it's telling me no bootable file was found and that it may not support a x64 UEFI. Any idea what's going on?
Go to your BIOS settings, and change the boot mode from UEFI to UEFI/CSM or CSM.
Solution to the folks having issues on 1.21: Beginning with the release of 1.21, Mojang requires Java 21 or later. Additionally it must be a JDK AND NOT JRE. So when you write out the command to install Java all you have to do is type 17 instead of 21, and jdk instead of jre. Additionally, fire the BuildTools file with arguments -nogui -version latest. Hope this helps!
Thanks for this guide subs btw.. question after following all the steps is it possible to add a domain name of my website? Would i nèed edit on snap nextcloud directory or nextcloud admin settings via web ui or potentially both? Thanks
All you have to do is forward ports 80 and 443 to your server in your router settings, then point your domain name to your public IP address.
@ thanks for your reply drew I will look into that… merry Xmas 🎄🥳
hey drew, just wanted to ask.. how did you get email server (send test email) to work? i was using outlook but read in docs that it is not supported so, went with gmail but still cant get that to work as demonstrated in your video, I have setup gmail account in the mail section which is working as all email is syncing but just cant get Nextcloud to send me an email error msg: A problem occurred while sending the email. Please revise your settings. (Error: Email could not be sent. Check your mail server log) any ideas? or what I may need to edit? many thanks 🙂
At the time I made this video, I didn't realize that most residential ISPs, and VPS providers, block outbound port 25, which is needed for sending email.
Can't we just use the built-in Windows "Disk Management" tool to manage the unallocated disk space?
Unfortunately Windows Disk Management can’t move the recovery partition out of the way (you need GParted for that).
Thank you very much. Mine was stuck on ubuntu and couldn't load windows. I followed the same step as you, installed boot repair, let boot repair do it's thing and now i can access my windows.
Hello Drew.. i have a question. In your example here, you used Virtual Machines as your Source and Target. I have VMware, and i'm able to make VMs, but i'm trying to clone my physical drive on my laptop to another SSD. In that case, do i even need to use VMs? or can i just use Clonezilla on a USB Disk to assign my Laptops SSD (as the source) to the External SSD? 4:04 "Device to Device" .. Also, when you did the chkdsk, the disk you were checking was the cloned disk, correct?
Yes, you can run Clonezilla off a USB flash drive.
@@DrewHowdenTech Super.. Thank you for the Christmas day reply.. After doing a lot of Clonezilla research, i found Rescuezilla and that's going to be my weapon of choice
Thank you so much! Works on Fedora 41. It is also in the RPM repositories.
Worked perfectly. Thank you!
thank you so much!! amazing video
can you explore the methods with which we can automate the installation of Ubuntu OS (Desktop & Server) such that once the installation starts, it won't ask/prompt for the information/data and will complete the installation automatically. can you do it in wsl ubuntu
Followed everything. No errors. Didn't work.
What is the output of “grub-install /dev/sda” and “update-grub”? Also, what’s happening when you boot the system?
@@DrewHowdenTech I reinstalled linux put the grub in the efi partition and it is working. Thanks.
thank you dear Instruc.
could I set up the server in my normal laptop using a gui to automatically install the mods i want etc, snd then ftp the whole server files to the u untu server and run it there? or are there config that would be misconfigured since I changed the computer it's running on?
Yes that would work, assuming you install Java on the Ubuntu server.
Very cool video thx for the help but I have one question how to install Modpacks like Sevtech ages?
Thank you. After a lot of trial and error, SuperGrub2 Disk combined with your explanations at the end of your video worked in my case.
Doesn't work. It still boots up in terminal even tho I have gnome installed
Did you switch to gdm3 before removing your other display manager with “sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm3” if you’re on Debian, or “sudo systemctl enable gdm3” if you’re on Arch Linux?
@DrewHowdenTech no I'm on Mint
Mint is based on Debian.
@@DrewHowdenTech it did not work tho
@@DrewHowdenTech mint is based on Ubuntu bro
Thanks a lot!
@DrewHowdenTech I've ran into an issue with a laptop I bought a Dell Latitude 7480 runnng Kali Linux OS. In the BIOS all of the UEFI boot sequences have been removed and the Kali Linux OS is running on Legacy currently. when I try to add the boot sequences back to the UEFI boot I get an error saying "File System Not Found" So I'm guessing that the Kali Linux OS was installed without the GRUB BOOTLOADER installed at the time of installation. I'm trying to figure out how to restore the UEFI boot list options and I've already tried to use the restore settings option at the bottom of the BIOS menu.... no luck. The laptop has a 128GB SSD and Kali OS is using the full disk. I would love some help fixing this issue both with repairing the UEFI boot list as well as fixing the GRUB bootloader and maybe partitioning the 128GB SSD for the possibility of installing Windows 10 as a dual boot system if not at least running Windows 10 To Go via a USB drive. Any help from you or another viewer would be very much appreciated. here's some of the SSD system info. Thanks in advance!! The following is the sudo fdisk -l results Device Boot Start End Sectors Size ID Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 248068095 248066048 118.3G 83 Linux /dev/sda2 248070142 250068991 1998850 976M f W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5 248070144 250068991 1998848 976M 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Looks like Kali Linux was installed in Legacy mode. In that case, there is no way to create UEFI boot entries for it, because it has no UEFI boot.
@DrewHowdenTech how would I fix this reinstall?
A reinstall is the only way to switch to UEFI mode. Or you could just leave it Legacy, since that wouldn’t affect the functionality of it.
@DrewHowdenTech I installed Windows 10 on that laptop and the UEFI settings are still missing and I have no clue what file I need to select to add as a boot option in UEFI. How do I figure that out?
Check your BIOS settings. Is your boot mode setting set to UEFI or Legacy/CSM?
Thank you bro I had problem with BOOT but after your video i fixed
512 is too small now, double is needed.
Man I can't mount anything it shows me that that partition does not exist but is shows I got one SSD disk with 3 partitions Linux one windows one and free space Linux files are there but I cannot boot in any way I tried everything
What is the output of “sudo fdisk -l”?
What is the point of the music?!! And your voice was fine in the introduciton, then went dull in the body of the video, being masked by the aforementioned, really bad music. Can't turn up the sound to hear your voice better, because it makes the music louder too!!!
Very useful and complete step by step tutorial. Thanks❤
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Thank tou so much for this video. I kind of figure the process of uninstalling gnome out by myself but ended up breaking my system.
How did you find this? The link on the official wiki no longer works
When I discovered that the official link stopped working, luckily, I still had the copy of the ISO that I downloaded for this video, so I uploaded that to my own Google Drive account and shared the link to it here. TL;DR: That’s on my own Google Drive account.
does this still work? say with ubuntu 24.10 or what ever is the latest developmental release?
I think so. Haven’t tested it though.
Another Linux video I followed that failed within a minute. Here goes the next three weeks of my life trying to find out why these commands don't work. I should have installed Windows. user@ubuntu:~$ sudo ufw allow 80,443/tcp ERROR: Need 'to' or 'from' clause user@ubuntu:~$ sudo nextcloud.https-enable self-signed sudo: nextcloud.https-enable: command not found
1. Weird, was ufw enabled with “sudo ufw enable”? 2. Watch that part of the video again.
I never got a .jar file to run the server when I installed buildtools, what do i do
Try “sudo apt install openjdk-21-jre”, then run buildtools.jar again.