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10 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ส.ค. 2024
- Linux holds significant advantage over Windows with few drawbacks.
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Actually, there is antivirus software that you can install on Linux...
It's used to remove viruses from Windows, lmao.
damn
Yeah most of the antivirus detects only windows viruses lol.
True, know at least 3 ClamAV, Eset Antivirus for Linux and Bitdefender.
Point Nr.4 is only partly true. There is Live PE version of windows in Hiren’s BootCD PE, MediCat USB and other tools. Although licensing is whole another debuckle, plus viruses especially on MediCat USB.
I got hit with the dreaded Linux "honor system virus."
It was a text file that read:
"Please delete a few random files on your computer,
Please encrypt a few files and delete the private key,
Please send this file to someone on your contacts list.
Thank you for your cooperation."
@@georgewaring7168 did you honor it?
i'm going to take your advice on putting two task bars in the middle of my screen thank you its a great idea.
not the cross huh like yeah i cant see anything really!!
Windows Joke: Your Keyboard could not be detected, Press Enter to Continue
This actually happens on Bios Post, if you have something like pause on errors (and checks for mouse\keyboard enabled).
I found it super funny when I saw "Press F1 to continue"
@@ClawGr its a joke.....
@@zyan983 he does you degenerate
LOL. It usually means PLUG IN THE KEYBOARD! But why didn't they just print "plug in your keyboard"? I don't know..... LOL
About 2 months ago a lightning strike took out my Linux box, but somebody gave me an old iMac. Trying to install Windows 7 got me to the "which language is your keyboard" thing, but since iMacs use something called Open Firmware instead of a BIOS, neither the mouse or keyboard would work. So, when you got tired of staring at that "which language is your keyboard" thing, your only recourse was to hit the Big Red Switch. Windows XP complained that there was only 384K of low memory available but it needed 512K low memory. Sounds like an MSDOS limitation, no?
OTOH, I now have Slackware and Linux Mint on it with no problems, save DOSbox and certain MS programs on Virtual Box not working correctly.
Windows: You’ve successfully clicked your mouse somewhere. Please reboot.
Are you sure you want to reboot?
Yes
In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot?
Yes
In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot?
No
BSOD
@@LusidDreaming please wait
@@kurokurovich *A few years later *
Number 12. You never have to go into the Registry to fix some annoying behavior like "Balloon Tips"
😂only need to recompile your kernal
@@vaisakhkm783 ?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU IGNOMINIOUS BASTARD??! THEY ARE TIPS!! THEY HELP!!! THEY HAVEN'T EXISTED FOR 10 YEARS!!!!!! I HATE LINUX USERS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
Point 1 is invalid. You can download the source of Linux under windows as well...
You're technically right. The best kind of right.
Eh - I think he means that the source is simply available be it through any means of downloading, and that windows isn't. So you could even download linux on a mac for instance. Like Felix said - a technicality in his phraseology.
It is definitely what I meant, and he knows that, but, trolls...
Maybe that's the reason why MS bought GitHub - to prevent Windows users from downloading Linux sources (won't work though since GitHub is the mirror, not the primary repo)
I should point out that “git fetch” works a bit more reliably on Linux than Windows ...
I recently switched a month ago to Linux as my main OS because I got upset that my last Windows 10 update caused my system to crash and forced me to re-install the OS. I'm impressed with how much it's grown since I've last touched Linux back when Mandrake was around, back then i didnt play with it very much. So far it's been pretty easy to live with Linux even for a somewhat noob like me. It's actually refreshing coming home from working in Windows at work all day to something different too.
20 minutes from start to finish Installing Linux Mint 19.2, getting the system updated and adding all the necessary extra programs I use.
2 and a half hours getting Windows 10 installed, updated, adding all the necessary drivers and extra programs I use.
This clearly shows in terms of fresh installs which OS wins hands down.
I'm a linux fan. However most of your information about windows is only accurate up till windows xp. You probably made the switch to linux during the xp days and never looked back.
You are wrong about not being able to run windows from a flash drive. This is totally possible (and free to do). I've made many custom CDs with windows PE. Just download the windows ADK and you'll get copies of that. If you know what you are doing you can start adding whatever you want.
You are wrong about drivers (for the most part). There is very little browsing out to a vendor site or getting drivers from a disk. Most of that is handled through windows update, and I would say about 90-95% of the drivers are out of the box.
You are wrong about windows updates only happening from the GUI (this can easily be invoked from powershell now) or through sccm, or wsus. To manage patches at an enterprise level.
You are wrong about booting into repair. You can restore windows from a repair disk (based on windows) quite easily, and there are easy ways to create this. It's just that most people really don't know where to look.
You are wrong about themes and customizations. There are plenty of people modding the appearance of the windows shell. If you look around deviant art you'll find some windows machines running that look nothing like windows. Boot screens can be modified too. You can easily replace the windows shell, it's just that there aren't many products out there that do it as there is little market. there is a registry key to change the shell from explorer.exe to something else.
Linux is fantastic. I love what it is and the mentality behind it. But if you want to make the switch to linux, or keep using it. Make the switch for real reasons. Not fake ones.
If you don't want to bother with pe, you can use Rufus to make a Windows to go drive and you can boot from a standard Windows install that is portable.
Real reasons such as forced reboots, forced updates, and data collection
Devon : actually he’s right about nearly everything he said. Even with Windows 10 what he said is true. So yes you can run Windows from disk or USB key, but saying that is misleading and you use the fact that he’s generalizing for his audience. Because he talked about any general Linux distribution that run out of the box on hardware. Which is not the case with Windows, you can’t use it like that, you have to prepare a medium for a specific PC and then it will run.
About drivers you’re wrong too. I had greatest difficulty installing Windows 8 on an old Linux box that worked like a clock for years, because the system discs were SCSI disks. And there were countless problems like that, if you can’t find the drivers you’re dead. Windows have very few drivers now, unless you have only new standardized hardware, it just won’t work without lots of pain. Installing Linux is the easiest option.
Same for customizations, it’s decades behind what you can do on Linux and consumes huge amount of resources for nothing.
One of the truly important things that I need that cannot be done in Windows since 20 years ago to this day is multiseat: having several user sessions at the same time on one computer and one or more monitors. Everytime a new Windows launches people tell me « you can do it now! » and everytime that’s not true. That and countless other things like actually no viruses on Linux (viruses can’t work on Linux, that’s why there’s no need for Linux antivirus), perfect stability, rolling updates (I still use my own Linux OS since 20+ years just updated and migrated to new hardware when the old one dies), security (you have to know what you’re doing), performance (I already had 3-4 simultaneous graphical sessions 20+ years ago which were consuming roughly 1GB RAM together, and on the network, now with fq_codel and BBR congestion control, it’s the top of the art).
@MrOokaze
First lets clarify what a virus is and isn't. A virus IS a malicious program that uses vulnerabilities in either the user (opens email) or in the operating system (think shell shock, or any other number of RCE classification of vulnerabilities that have come out in the past year).
A virus writer could easily, if they wanted to, write something for linux. All the elements exist. But there's simply not much of a market for it. The reason you don't have many viruses on linux is more of an economic one. Same reason you don't have many apps in the windows store, there's just no market for it.
A virus for linux is hard to write as well. The environment changes from distro to distro, and realistically speaking the users of linux are generally far more skilled and aware. These guys aren't the ones opening up a PDF document from an unknown source. (and even if they did board-report.pdf.exe isn't going to actually do anything)
Windows absolutely has multiseat. It's just only in their server editions. Granted you have to pay more. I run entire farms where we have dozens of users logged into the same server and presented a desktop shell.
I'll concede to your argument about drivers. Linux does work often times better on older hardware. Newer hardware is a problem, this is getting better, as more vendors are taking care to provide drivers / support, but it's not quite there yet.
@@Meowfy Those are indeed some very real reasons. I can't argue there at all.
Well, Linux doesn't have all the telemetry data and Windows privacy theft that we all love so much !🤔
Don't you worry, canonical got you covered
You can disable that shit..apt-get remove connectivity something
Maybe it should. Telemetry is always good.
@@wylie2835 you can proceed to say Hey Cortana.. but she already knows everything you do .. and that big fart you did last night , she heard it and reported it as new telemetry.
@@sirwin6161 LOL!
As an mechanical engineer, the one most frustrating thing with linux is, the CAD softwares are from stone age.
Lutris can install autodesk fusion 360. Is that any better than what you've tried?
That is not true. Try Draftsight, it is free for 2D, and need to buy for 3D modelling.
Dmitry C，
Draftsight is no longer free in 2020.
@@esphilee oops. You are right it is not free anymore. Missed that.
As a fellow engineer, this kind of thing is the only reason I have a dual boot for Windows. A lot of engineering software is Windows only unfortunately.
Me before this video: I’m used to Windows and it’s fine but I’ll watch this anyway.
Me after this video: ok I’ll just use Linux.
I`m junior developer and always have used Windows 10. Now i install a VM and start practicing linux
Please tell me you didn't give up on the better way to live...
I did the jump a week ago, and I like it especially how you can change themes
@@Bernardopoyer I am also a developer, and Linux is WAY better.
Windows: install a bunch of stuff to make it a little more linuxy, such as git bash, reboot, download other stuff, install, reboot again, start coding.
Linux: most of it's already there. apt-get the other stuff. Start coding.
Welcome to the club, hope you're enjoying your decision
I just installed Linux Mint (duall boot) on my pc, and found it to be fantastic. I didn't know how good it was. Having great fun with literally thousands of programs to install
I've used it for over six years ; 25+ years with Microsoft but use Linux for everything personal now.
@@2112jonr what programs do you use on Linux? Do you have games?
5:34 "Windows update only updates Windows"
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Linux updates update everything, not just the kernel. WIndows just updates its kernel and base system functions. WHen Linux updates, it pulls the latest updates from the repositories stored in its conf files, and then looks at the apps that the user has installed and updates those, as they are either part of the saem repositories, or the repositories are shared with the distro that you use. Windows does not do this, and you manually have to install updates for each app on your system. This is what he means. And ufortunatly you didnt get that, nice joke, but your joke was its own punchline.
@Sushovan Shakya Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.
Years ago when I first heard about Linux, it sounded like an OS built only for specialists. But ever since I've started using it, I've come to love it. It's the best thing in the world. You can configure everything, if you know what you're doing. And now I have different flavors of Linux running on all my machines.
Yeah I have several desktop environments on an old laptop myself.
i took the time out of my day to set it up one day and its been running smoothly for being supposedly unstable (depending on who you ask, i guess)
"software from official repositories will never contain malicious software"
I guess supply chain attacks don't exist.
Mint exists
Never say never. But I'd say it's a lot more secure to get your software from a curated repository of open source software than from some random download site you googled and never heard of before.
@@Kenionatus I download lots of software I've never heard of before. Never installed by root and only used by my user account what can it really do? I do get it from the upstream source though. besides if you're really that curious about what any software is doing on your system Linux does contain utilities that will show you exactly what's going on. You can monitor what files it is accessing, what system calls it is making etc.
Supply chains are much more common on Windows tho. When you find like 5 "official" websites for the program you want to download and then the Windows Defender comes beeping (usually too late)
I always audit my software source code line by line before compiling from source. I then compile on a VM box running inside a VM box on a separate build computer that's not connected to my home network. After that, I use a custom assembly translator (similar to radare2) to verify the binaries, debugging where necessary. Once I've fully verified the compiled binaries, I transfer the source code to the target machine and repeat the process. This is the beauty of open source software. I'm super excited to finish compiling binutils using this method. If I stay on schedule, I should be able to have GCC up and running by 2022.
You are quite behind what the recent Windows server can do.
I still prefer to develop in Linux/Unix but PC is much easier to use at home.
br pare
Windows server might be able to do something. But administration is a nightmare.
You can download the source for Linux with Windows too ;)
checkmate Linus
RE: Moving hard drives in Linux vs. Windows - The registry is also a HUGE problem in Windows with doing this. I think that is one of Windows biggest Achilles Heel of Windows.
You can get software to copy the contents of a Windows boot drive to a new drive, but my experience with it transferring from a HDD to an SSD, still resulted in Windows now thinking it was pirated.
I think the software does a sector-by-sector copy and requires the destination drive has at least as much capacity as there is used space on the source drive.
@@Roxor128 Windows "Machine ID" changes will do this too. Too many changes of certain hardware will force a change in to the "Machine ID" and well since it is "different" from when installed... very annoying to work around in Windows 10.
@@alphatelligence3913 Microsoft is no exception to the rule that trying to combat piracy by any means other than providing a better service makes the product worse. Look at what happened to Norton: Once the gold standard for antivirus, now a joke. All because they shifted their focus from stopping malware to stopping piracy.
@@Roxor128 Oh I agree with you, its a pain in my A$$!! I have audio plugins that if Windows does a build update or I move hardware in or out of my computer(s); the software tells me I don't have a valid license. I love and hate USB Wasp keys like iLok. However I have "soft" licenses only software and have to prove I legal own the rights to it.
The registry is simply a database file on disk. Windows is also massively more forgiving on portability and installation. Of you don't care about changing the wallpaper, you can even run unregistered indefinitely.
When Windows 8 arrived I decided I had enough and jumped into Linux (Ubuntu). Never looked back.
Missing out bud
@@JaimeValladares00 what?
@@alkaupadhyay7650 wdym what? Windows has improved since then
@@JaimeValladares00 Alas. You are the only one saying that. Every other being on earth thinks that it has just degraded. And windows 7 was the peak of humanity, after that notging was good
Never used Windows 8. Heard it was horrible and stuck on Windows 7 until EOL. Or that was the plan until a hardware failure prompted an early move to Linux, because I wasn't going to go through the hassle of reinstalling Windows 7 for only a year of usage, and I sure as hell wasn't going to install Windows 10 anywhere other than a VM.
I laughed so hard on no.3 (drivers)... Because in last 10 or so years my experience has been completely opposite to what you're claiming. I don't need any drivers on windows for my hardware to work, because they come pre-built with windows, where on linux, even with drivers it's a struggle to make the hardware work as it should (mainly because most hardware manufacturers don't give a damn about linux distros, and most of drivers are written by "enthusiasts" in their spare time). And we're not talking about "specialized" hardware... unless you count graphics cards, audio cards, wifi cards.. and basically ALL hardware as specialized. I still remember the late 90's where I had to manually enter how many sectors and heads etc.. my HDD had in order to make it "visible" in Linux, because Linux had about 10 hdd types it "supported" natively... unlike windows where everything worked out of box.. and still does.
In any case... Linux is great for what's it meant to do.. and listing 10 things you can do in linux and can't in windows should really be about terminal and certain pieces of software which simply doesn't have competition on windows, as well as how much access to "bare metal" it gives you. Sadly, most of the points in the video are just nonsense.
Linux users live in a bubble with no contact with the real world.
I installed Windows 7 on 4 or 5 computers and on literally every single one of them, the ethernet did not work after installation due to a missing driver. Of course, the CD that came with the motherboard was long gone, so I booted up Linux from a USB stick and downloaded the drivers without issue.
That said, drivers for graphics cards are... well, they're getting better.
Audio cards? Would you *not* call them specialized? This isn't the 90s, every motherboard has good on-board sound. I have not used a sound card in recent years, so I couldn't tell you about driver support there. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they didn't work properly, though. It's rarely used hardware and Linux sound systems are pretty meh in general.
I've never had issues with wifi cards myself - probably because I seldom use wifi - but I've heard a lot about people having issues with them. I agree on that part - that is commonly used hardware and really should be well supported, but apparently is not.
hahahhahahhahahaha
@Yndostrui
Most? Give me an example of another one, that is bullshit, except for number 3, which I agree is a bit off at least, all of his other points are legit.
@@HSHamster I said nonsense, not BS. I'll give more than one.
No.2 is only true in specific cases. Most of the time, the software updates don't require restart, and only large OS updates require restart on win.
No. 6. untrue. You can run windows on almost any hardware just the same. You can run windows on 80s computer. If you're now thinking (yeah, but it would be windows 1.0, not widows 10! Sure, same as you would need with linux, an 80's computer won't run latest ubuntu with all bells and whistles
No. 7 You can fix broken windows installs with a bootable cd.. or usb.. or pen drive..
No 8. I can let software update itself without even a command on windows :D :D (not that I would recommend using it lols). But I guess it trumps the need for giving those pesky commands
No. 9 ... very questionable... since it hangs on no.3, you might have to rebuild the kernel if you're moving the drive to another machine.
Yeah yeah, every time I plug in a new printer on Windows, I go to the website to download the drivers. Because it's 2003.
Every time i install a new distro i have to download some drivers in linux too and in linux things are more complicated. In windows go hp site download next next finish in linux sometimes you have to compile your own driver
Are you really bringing up printers? That's always been a huge pain in the ass, and in my experience, absolutely intolerable on any Unix/Linux machine I've ever worked with. I do hope things got better, but printers are still _the worst_.
Windows nerds.
Yes, printers can be a problem in linux. It's worth buying a printer that is well supported. A small research effort is totally worth it to achieve the advantages.
@@mustafacandan9831 Since when is it complicated to click about 5 total times to check for an update drivers? The damn Driver Manager in Ubuntu and Mint is stupidly easy to deal with.
Either the kernel already has the driver code for your devices..or it doesn't. And these days, these 4.18 and newer kernels are awesome. Ya don't have to do very much at all for amd gpu's that are rx series as well as now vega for the 4.20 and newer kernels.
level1techs.com/article/gaming-linux-updated
Ukuu kernel update utility and mesa vulkan drivers for both red and green team gpu's are reasonably explained there.
The only reason I'd see you would have to compile your own driver is if you're using some more hardcore barebones Linus distro such as something along the lines of Arch or Slackware ( aka puppy linux..I think) which I gave up on both of those years ago. I respect being able to BUILD a damn house, but If i have to hand dig the damn land ...BY MYSELF....pack it...level it...pour gravel...AND I haven't even gotten to the part when it makes sense for it to be time to start harvesting lumber TO cut it..TO start laying it down to start building the sub floor and floors.....shit...fuck that..
I'm not trying to a damn distro builder. That's waaaay too much headache for me. It's just not worth my time.
I'd actually like to USE the damn operating system and get work and play done. I"ve have absolutely no problems with 19.1 cinnamon with my 4790k cpu at 4.6ghz + rx 580 8GB sapphire nitro+ vid card playing all , so far, of my windows only games in Steam or Lutris.
00:30 This is the source for the kernel only, not the whole installation. Linus Torvalds owns the kernel (the core program), while the libraries and the GNU tools (including most of the common commands) have source in another public location. Purists will refer to this combination as GNU/Linux, as those are the two most important contributors to an OS many of us find useful.
Gaming on Linux has come a long way especially for steam games. Steam recently released proton, a wine fork, that can run many titles fairly effortlessly.
I've recently found out this channel and i LOVE how you just get to the point and make short educational videos like this. It's very professional and i hope you keep it up. Thanks!
@Hairy Chinese Kid Same here!
I agree. I hate videos that take 5 mins to get to the point of the video. Drives me crazy.
As far as #4 goes, I have some information. There is a toolkit called Hirens which can be installed on CD or USB, and it has a Mini-XP. So.. it's a very trimmed version of Windows XP that can run from a thumb drive.
Yep. I've got Mr. Hirens. Very handy to have. Priceless for going into stand-alone sessions and removing s##t from automatic update attempts that I'm just not allowed to remove any other way.
Slight point around number 2. Yes if you update Windows you probably need to reboot but the references in relation to user outages and cloud, you would engineer your solutions with routine maintenance in mind. If your workloads require 24/7 uptime for users, you would engineer the workload to avoid user outtage if a node needs to be rebooted
7. You can load up a bookable recovery USB and jump into cmd. You are able to fix most windows issues with the bookable usb.
4. Windows has PE versions which are used as Live OS. Even windows 10 has a PE version. Macrium Reflect for example uses Windows PE (You can choose what version) as the rescue OS.
9. You can use "sysprep /generalize" to use the same windows installation in another computer with different hardware.
11. Some software repositories contained malicious software in the past, sometimes even because someone snuck highly obfuscated, malicious code into open source software. Also the Ubuntu repository can arguably be called malicious since they stopped honoring the users privacy.
4. Windows PE? Gosh, i bet that doesnt work 90%
9. You have to generate one? Thats not an argument, he meant just switching out the HDD and it works.
11. *contained* Sure, but it got removed, no? On Windows you got viruses by fucking Windows Defender. How fucked up can your ANTIVirus be?
11 too. Sure, Ubuntu isnt really safe anymore, but: you can switch to 100 different distros. If you hate Windows 10, what you gotta switch to? Windows 7? XP? Have luck with the compatibility
4. Ya bet wrong, it works great.
You can get malicious software through anything, damn there was a possibility to execute malicious code through Counter-Strike at on point. McAfee was vulnerable, Kaspersky was, but so were ssh-servers on unix, apache, httpd, etc. It's not a Windows problem, it's a problem of developers making mistakes.
I actually put the ssd from my laptop in my tower with totally different hardware (Intel to AMD, nVidia to AMD) and it booted without issue. (Windows 10 1803.)
I just forgot to uninstall gpu drivers which caused issues.
No sysprep generalize needed. (I actually forgot that too)
Lmao popularity-contest
I miss the days when the installer asked you If you wanted that shit removed.
Now you have to specifically know that it exists and remember to remove it, which most users won't lol
Really nice video, but a few things you got wrong on the Windows side:
#4. Actually, yes you can, but in a limited fashion. Since Windows 8/8.1, Enterprise users have what's called Windows-to-go.
It requires Windows Enterprise, but makes it so, just like a Linux Live CD, you have a Windows Enterprise image on your USB stick, ready to boot on any hardware that can boot from USB.
#7: Yes and no for Windows.
Since Windows 8/8.1, the recovery options are way different than just "system restore", namely, having access to the Command Prompt.
You can also (mostly used in businesses but can be used at home too) use what MS calls DaRT - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.
It's an ISO that you boot from on a USB stick, which gives you a lot of... well, diagnostics and recovery tools to repair broken Windows installs.
With Rufus, you can install Windows on a stick, and even home editions work no problem
That's strange. I have to reboot each time the kernel is updated. There's a message in the update window. Otherwise the new kernel is not activated.
Spent most of my life in Windows. Dipped a toe in the Linux pool once every decade. Been too cold for me in the past, but this time it's feeling just about right. I'm working on a full stack switch to FOSS. If I make it I'll try to pull everyone I know with me. :D
Thanks for the video. I'll be sharing it with friends and family.
So did you make it?
@@adamlevine2046 Yes and No. I use Linux for my entertainment system. Tried some server stuff. Window is still my daily driver.
@@adamlevine2046 Oh. I also did it some Linux projects with my kids.
@@glenw3814 That's awesome. I hope your kids will love it more as they dig into Linux deeper. :))
1) Didn’t know Windows wouldn’t download from github based on it being closed source. 2) Didn’t know Linux is an updatable-cloud OS”. 3) Didn’t realize that my USB WiFi 802.11N dongle with an 8 yr. old chip was a ‘highly- specialized device’ because it required me to compile its driver. 4) YOU don’t realize that a cloud OS needed a pen drive to boot 5) Didn’t know Linux kernel >V4 updates wouldn’t lock up all running apps, stop com port activity and limit system memory to exclude cache drives. 6)Didn’t realize a bootable pen drive would boot on devices regardless of USB boot support lack 6) Didn’t realize that Linux could read 9) Didn’t realize that moving a Windows install to another identical machine would set off a zero day exploit. 10) There is no antivirus for Linux, notably any Posix operation with ‘ROOT’-credentials despite a straw man lookalike of UAC can not only destroy itself but also any whole partition or individual files whenever it can mount those.
3. Except if it's a graphics card. Or a sound card. Just the important ones :)
Actually it is a graphics adapter if you want to get pedantic about things.
The audio have been annoying on Linux Mint, but the default graphics driver is just as good unless you're doing 3D gaming.
At least you have audio systems to choose from. It would be so annoying to have just one working system, with Linux you can choose from several which all have their own issues
@@Symbiatch nothing seems to work with everything. Back in the day I had a commercial OSS license for audio drivers. Today if you are not using PulseAudio you will not get sound support in many applications either. As devs have dropped support for the low level driver in their software. If you are using PulseAudio I've heard that can cause other problems itself. I know I've had applications not have sound running Pulse. Others speak of delay issues too. I can't run Firefox or use OBS because neither supports the native low level Linux sound drivers as best as I can tell. I'm not really wasting my time finding out more about either at this point. Don't work. Round file it.
Printer Drivers are the ultimate counter-example IME, but that was the example he gave.
idk... ymmv? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
#2 is a big one. When I was working, we had several Linux based appliances but no Linux based application servers. Too bad - updating important apps on Windows servers usually had to be done nights or weekends, just in case it was going to need a reboot. Way back in the Novell NetWare server days, you could find screen shots of some of those servers with uptime of more than 1000 days, so NetWare also had a similar advantage for application servers over Windows, in its day.
i like both, these are my OWN opinion and personal experience results as normal user + retro gamer ( i use HDMI to CRT tv often )..so:
what's bad in Linux:
1- no screen color settings( laptops ), display is washed out, xrandr settings is difficult to configure ,no scaling/ overscan settings.
2- no power management settings, harddisk spin problems, heat, high fan speed, fast bettery drain.
2- intel/ nvidia drivers are bad ,no enough settings.
3- pulse audio server latency problems, capture/playback input/output source switching problems,server breaks randomly.
4- hangs, bugs, screen freeze, shell problems(gnome / cinnamon desktops ),fullscreen program crashes,hangs.
5- limited apps.
6- laptop touchpads sensitivity problems.
7-xbox 360 controller manufacturer name / ID problem, swapped buttons.
why windows is better:
1- great power management.
2- great color management ( brightness/gamma/saturation), custome aspect ratio / scaling / overscan settings ( for HDMI out displays )
2- good enough sound quality / streams handling.
3- easiness.
4- software.(apps / programs).
5- games.
6- drivers support.
what bad in windows:
1- updates takes so long time to install ( forced updates ).
2- registery errors, conflicts.
3- explorer crashes/restarts.
4-mouse pointer freeze
hangs
5- privacy/ user data collecting/ telemetry.
6- viruses, trojans, mailware, addware.
7- unsettled system (windows 10) duplicated settings and software in the same environment ( desktop .exes/ windows 10 store apps).
what good in Linux:
1- easy app install /update
2- themes and customization
3- less storage space needed
4- good preinstalled software ( office, pdf reader )
5- almost no privacy issues nor virus threats.
6- FREE and open source software.
Both systems has stability issues.
sorry for my bad English.
Enkidu l إنكيدو Windows burns my resources to hell, maybe I just have a virus on it though
Reason to use Windows: it runs the software that I need.
Wine Bottler
A lot of popular Windows software either has been made to work on Linux through Wine or has free and open-source alternatives with nearly the same functionality.
My newish HP laptop and Win10 sucks. It takes minutes to start and sometimes just when Bill wants updates or telemetry. Learning linux now
@@jamescollier3 Great idea learning to use Linux! It’s great to do more advanced things and to bring back life into your hardware! What distro and DE are you using?
@@user-cw3yj8jv1s Ubuntu. What is DE? Desktop environment? I have the GUI, but want to only focus on line commands now. I started at Hack The Box, classic version. Is there a good course or hand holding to get started you know of? I can do the very basics (ls, cmd, pwd etc), but want to start learning more mid-bottom level sudo, grep a bit more middle level stuff. Thanks. What do you use?
I don't usually give negative comments on videos, but when someone states that dealing with drivers is more straightforward on linux than on windows... Then I must
Depends totally on what distribution you choose to use, this is one of the reasons many people recommend Linux Mint for example for new users. Then installing Nvidia drivers is as hard as pressing a button.
@@Zandman26 but his point still stands. On Mint it's as hard as pressing a button, on windows its as hard as not doing anything. Windows installs drivers automatically now.
Well this is awkward, I responded to a comment that no longer exists. Thx Zandman26
@@lonttugamer2939 Yes Nvidia has been slacking when it comes to Linux.
If you buy a AMD or use Intel card you don't even have to download anything, it just works in Linux.
I find that it is largely true. Plug in some random scanner on Windows... Windows wants a driver CD, on Linux it's like "oh, some Canoscan derivative... loads driver". I plug in some random USB-ethernet thing, secretly worrying a bit that it's not going to work.. and Linux is like "oh, ethernet... loads driver, DHCP, icon shows up top right". Nice.
BUT, conversely, when I buy printers or video cards, I KNOW my fear is warranted, and that is why I pick hardware carefully when buying these things. For printers and video cards... Windows will still ask me for the driver (as it always does), but this time... so will Linux.
I use Linux, it's great, I don't really feel the need to use Windows anymore, especially Windows 10 !
i have dual booted windows 10 and forgot why i did because i never used it
@@clerickx1642 I just spent a nice part of my day fixing a File History recovery.
I wrote some Java code to remove duplicates and UTC timestamps, and that fixed it. Mind you, I had to recover those files due to reinstalling Windows 10. BitLocker froze when it was unencrypting. I backed everything up with File History and reinstalled Windows 10. But that only led to the backup corrupting.
But that's just not something I've ever had to do with Linux, not even on Arch Linux.
Windows 10, and now 11, is basically malware for gaming, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Outside of those uses, it's useless garbage.
If everybody have access to the source code, how does that makes it more secure???
While it's true that hackers and authors of viruses can see the source code and find vulnerabilities, there are also other people who can find those vulnerabilities and write code to patch them. I guarantee you the latter outweighs the former.
More people looking for vulnerabilities, for starters, and also complete transparency. You know there are no inbuilt vulnerabilities and you know what gets fixed, when it gets fixed, and how it gets fixed.
you people are doing absolutely great job in helping people understand why linux is secure. I am a professional penetration tester but believe me when I say I patched two such loopholes in the github source code at the first place and thousands of people like me exist.
@@BADEASTWIND While being open source does help a lot to make Linux safe, i think the biggest contribution goes to the fact that so few people use it, only about 2% or so. And the vast majority of them are tech oriented people. So there will be vastly more people trying to patch it and make it more secure than people trying to crack it. Releasing ransomware for Windows is a vastly more profitable business than doing the same for Linux, so next to no one will be looking for vulnerabilities in Linux with the purpose of exploiting them.
@@CristiNeagu thats true except only one fact, the profit. the tech monsters like Microsoft apple google or IBM, cognizant and almost any tech monster you can think of even facebook uses only linux in their core systems due to the fact that linux never requires a restart. And so if you find that good a vulnerability in Linux u r probably gonna steal data worth billions.
Is this video made in 2019 or 2012?
Half of these negative points about Windows are outdated.
There are tons of reasons to use Linux, you don't need to lie or distort the truth.
Drivers: Windows does this automatically now.
Live boot: Most recently you have Windows On The Go, previously you have Windows PE. I have even booted Windows live on a server with HP ILO remotely, and fixed some registry issues in the HKLM hive.
Updates: Yes you can update without rebooting, but you need to restart the services to be able to use the new files installed by updating. Like if a security patch is installed for OpenSSH, you need to restart that service, same with whatever you are hosting on the service, giving you downtime. Unless you run a High-Availability cluster, which also you can on Windows.
Uptime: Ref. the previous point, having 1002 days uptime is only impressive if you have all the security patches installed, and in effect.
Malware in repos: Malicious code has made it into both Arch (btw I use arch, not at work though) and Gentoo repos. Not likely to happen often, but the truth you preach sounds absolute.
About malwares, you are wrong. It did come into NON OFFICIAL repos, like the AUR, not the official ones.
Try 2001
those "security patches" are just wastes of time ...
i never allowed any to be installed and never had issues..
it's just paranoid linux users who think HaCkErS are after them ...
I just dual-boot on my machine with both.
Funny thing from yesterday: had to reboot Ubuntu to get a new keyboard layout working. :)
could you not have logged out and then back in?
@@SimonWoodburyForget I've found hardly ever.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Oh, I make changes, but still hardly ever have to reboot.
@@SimonWoodburyForget As I've said, I've hardly NEEDED to restart.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Well, I mostly use a laptop, so it's gets restarted pretty often. And I kind of know when I need to restart.
6:51 LOL that's EXACTLY what I need!!! X'-D
Thanks for the reminder, updated my system while watching the video. One command, never so much as a blink in the video streaming, and it updated the kernel, too.
0:14 You can also download the source for linux on windows
I was so confused by this :D
Even more, you can't download windows' source code on linux! Checkmate penguins
I remember a time when I could run Ubuntu on my Windows to delete viruses on my PC.
Hi sir, I enjoyed watching your video. I ask if Windows charges you money to update to a newer version? Is Linux free ?
Linux is free.
Windows doesnt allow autorun with usb anymore my dude...
It hasn't since before Windows XP.
AFAIK autorun isn't the automatic behavior anymore. Nowadays, you're asked what you want the default behavior to be, and then will remember it for that particular device.
for #11 you should point out that Linux will not save you if you go to suspicious websites and download directly from them. Also many people are getting viruses from emails nowadays, so linux will not help you there either. Especially if the payloads are crafted to determine OS and callback to remote server and download the corresponding malicious code.
good vid tho man.
When I run Linux, I don't go to suspicious websites and download directly from them. I only have to do that when I run Windows. That's because the sorts of programs you get from those suspicious websites are part of the Linux distribution's repositories so you get them from official sources.
Thats good practice. I wanted to bring up the email attachment thing too because linux cannot save you from a browser exploit sometimes because they can be cross-platform. Stay safe!@@jonathanguthrie9368
This is not true. Email lists are a constant target. Hence, the "have I been pwned" service growing exponentially since its inception. Also consider that it is not about you being a target, but someone in your circles who you frequently email being compromised as well. You only have to open a suspicious link once to be compromised. Im saying too much here, however, let me end by just saying never trick yourself into lowering your defenses by thinking "this won't happen to me". stay safe!@@theblankuser
@@theblankuser Well thing is linux is much more under watch of security experts/hackers then windows. You have to remember that linux kernel works on android and heavy majority of servers in the world run on linux. Now hacking average user having windows you have limited gains - even if you access somehow bank account there is 2-factor authentication etc. But hacking server gives you way way more possibilities.
the only problem thoughwindows is more prone to virus. because of downloaded apps or even a file. unlike linux it cannot run that unless you point out what apps will open that file. if you point that out as a installable deb file then your screwed up.
#6 is very true. One of my Linux machines at home is a clunky old 450 MHz Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM. It has more than enough power for what it does: firewall, DNS server, DHCP server.
You can do the same thing on a stripped down version of Windows. What's the point?
@@nilpo19 The point is I don't have to run a stripped down version of Linux. I'm running a full version of Linux and that machine will do all the things my six-core, 3.8 GHz, 16 GB machine will do, albeit more slowly.
More than enough power... I am guessing the machine is so power inefficient that a modest upgrade would save money and the planet lol
At 1:45 you say you can run machines without rebooting,but for ubuntu server when you ssh in it after a while you get the restart required flag. How do you avoid it ? Or you use other distros for servers ?
Thank you man, great stuff on the channel, keep up the good work 👏
I started using Ubuntu 18.04 on a Live USB 2 days ago and I'm loving it (despite not having permanent storage and memory swap on the way I've formatted).
I am planning on installing it on my computer as dual boot with Windows.
that's good
never replace windows
most software people use for work does not exist for linux ....
drivers are next to ghosts in linux...etc
keep windows too m8
for your sake when you'll need it
@@doktork3406 yeah, I'm gonna do that
You can run windows from USB,SD. You can do windows pe live from CD, but that's different. But yes you can run windows from portable media.
Must be a trick they picked up from Linux. Because Linux was running live off removable media years before Windows could.
@@1pcfred It's not a trick. PE's date back to Windows ME. They are just not easy to find. They are mainly for development and OEM use.
@@ChristopherCobra Linux live images have always been easy to find. I got 526 days of uptime running one once.
@@1pcfred I think both you and the video miss the point. It's not factually correct to say you can't do it. Like a number of things in the video, it seems to be comparing Windows and Linux from 1998. But there is a bigger problem. I have gone close to two years up time in the past with a win box. It can be done (as can a number of other things the video would imply can't) - but for 98% of windows users, they don't care - it requires knowledge they don't want and they turn off their machines off at night anyway (GASP!). They don't care about repairing their OS - they just run recovery or nuke and pave because it is easier. Drivers not included with Windows are also not generally included for Linux distros because they are new hardware - and in Windows they will often BG DL - other driver are already there. You can in fact hot swap drives in Windows (not with OS usually - but I have), but users won't. Point is - the video is not speaking to typical Windows users, it's speaking to Windows power users who are well aware that many of the points are exaggerated or not true. Some are totally legit - to be sure, but not enough to make me switch for instance. All that said - I really do like Linux - and long for the days when I had more time for it - and used it as a "go to". I have Debian in Hyper V running under Windows 8.1Pro. I need it for a few specialized programs, but generally, productivity demands trump figuring out how to get the most from Linux these days.
The vid would be far more effective I think if it stuck to "Try it out - it's free, and you don't even have to install it to try it!" And it should push a distro with a good GUI - because asking a typical modern Windows or Mac user to drop to the CLI = no way! This has been a philosophical issue that had plagued Linux distros for so very long. And maybe push the privacy/security and fact that you are breaking free of "the man". I'm not sure most distros really want typical user popularity though. They seem to have other goals.
@@ChristopherCobra you think a lot has changed? It seems like more of the same to me. Windows is Windows and Linux is Linux. My PCs have a life cycle. For a while I'll constantly upgrade them. Then I run them for a period of time. Then I finally retire them. This rig I'm still adding to. A few more upgrades and it'll be what it's going to be. Then I won't have any reason to shut it down and I can try to rack up some good up times with it. No one is going to get very far in Linux if they can't handle the command line. Issuing commands is the essence of power user. It is not a philosophical issue either. Expressing concepts with words is a time honored tradition. Trying to do stuff in a gui is like playing Pictionary. I'd rather just spell out what I want to do. The right command is like an incantation, it is magic.
Are you comparing Linux vs windows 95? Some of this data is way out of date.
In my business I used Windows 95 as a file server. It ran for more than 5 years without needing to be rebooted - that was about ten years ago. I changed to using Slack as a file server only because Windows 95 I could not run 95 with new hardware (motherboards and hard drives)
1. True
2. Partially true. Not all updates for Windows require a reboot. The only reason most update require it, is due to the fact that Windows distributes updates as a full package. Linux has separate updates for each independent piece of software. It was only recently that the kernel in Linux was allowed to update without a reboot. Your point is still valid, however.
3. Technically speaking, Windows has a driver for ALMOST every piece of software that you would plugin. The only exception to this, is very specialized equipment, or very specialized features of equipment. So that printer you plugin will print within seconds on a driver, but you might need a separate piece of software to allow the wireless capability. Usually this is just a ui element that a Web based UI already exists to do, if you know how to get to it.
4. Sort of. Windows has a runable version through the use of Windows PE. Not really a fully functional environment such a Linux, but still can be customized to be fairly useful, depending on your experience doing so. Linux is still better at this however.
5. Yep, Agreed, lol
6. True, but a bit misleading. Some Linux OS's can be installed like that. Different versions of Windows can be installed like that, but you have to use a version that was created for the era of hardware that you are trying it on. In the same fashion RHEL 7, I wouldn't suggest it on much older hardware than a couple of year, unless you are using it in only init 3, as it has a slew of updated graphical elements, that take their toll on older hardware. Similarly, Windows XP works on many older hardware, but that same older hardware would fail to run Windows 10. Again, you hit this point near the end, but you can also choose an older version of Windows, which still gets Security updates. I do agree that Linux does this better, but it is far from saying Windows cant do this.
7. Again, Windows PE. It does work, I have done it. It will not fix a Linux system, at least not that I have seen; but it does allow you to fix Windows systems without a "recovery" disc.
8. Very true, I love yum! This is where Linux shines in my opinion. They have done awesome things with updates and repositories. Specifically, I love the ease of setting up offline Repos.
9. Yes and No. The only thing that is really though for Windows is the move from one Architecture to another. I have done this on several occasions, and to great success. Personally I have run into several problems with Linux systems being moved from one set of hardware to another as well.; it really is a matter of what hardware to what hardware, and which flavor of Linux is currently running. The license resetting is true, but needing to pay more money is not. You can simply reactivate the system, at most is a simple call to Microsoft, which you tell them you moved the system to another set of hardware, and do not have the OS on the previous system, and they will allow you to activate the system as is.
10. While Windows is better at this now, you are absolutely correct about Linux being superior in this matter.
11. Please, please, please, DO NOT suggest that Anti-Virus software is not needed.... Getting your software from a single source, ie official repo, is great; but it is far from foolproof. And virus' have many more ways of entry than just updates. The new UAC stops many of the problems you mentioned in the WIndows section, but it is far from foolproof as well.
To be transparent, I am a Sys Admin for Windows and Linux systems; both workstations and servers. I strongly believe that both bring positive and negatives to the market, and one must choose the best option for the environment they are working in.
For me it is that if you learn almost any scripting language (even PHP), you can easily create a bits of programs that do useful stuff on your system. For example, if you're a server guy, you can download a public list of malicious IPs and null-route them every day (this is sort of firewalling, but without a firewall, because there's too many of them to use iptables). Or you can auto-upload photos from your network drive to your website. Or auto-manage backups of your files. Or start/stop apps. There are no limits to this.
You've just made up my mind about moving over to Linux.
don't install it yet...
see if there are any linux drivers for your hardware....video , audio , wifi , bluetooth ..etc
i had the surprise to not be able to run linux because it's shit in terms of compatibility
the guy in the video must have been talking about windows XP or 2000 ...almost all of his points are either crappy useless shits regarding updates or straight lies because he isn't familiar with windows 10 or 7
3:30 Acktchually Hiren's boot cd is a thing and the latest version runs Windows 10. It's pretty handy.
This is actuslly Windows PE. It is based off of windows 10, but is **not** windows 10.
Man really thank you! You answered my question about my perfect tuning of my ASIO ur 22 mkii on Linux without driver installation!!! That's why! I'm just 2 days Linux Ubuntu distro user and of course I have an ocean of things to learn! But my major question's been answered by you!
1) For some reason both MS Edge and Google Chrome read the VB download site as unsafe. Didn't use to be that way. 2) Drivers on Linux is a mixed bag. Some OS's, it takes a bit of tinkering to get things going. On others, like Pop! OS or Linux Mint, it just works out of the box. 3) If you're thinking about switching to Linux for whatever reason, you should do your homework/research. There are sooooooo many options/Linux OS distros to get your feet wet. Some are very similar to Windows and others are not so much. Test driving a Linux distro in a virtual setting is a great way to help you make your decision without sacrificing Windows. 4) Gaming on Linux is getting closer to being equal with Windows. This is thanks to Lutris and SteamPlay. There are several heavy hitters backing the movement to make gaming on Linux better. 5) Last but not least, don't let anyone tell you that choosing Windows or Linux is a right vs wrong choice. It's your choice and, as long as Linux is around, it will always be your choice.
I would switch over if it ran Ableton Live + my VST plugins
Have you tried it under wine? It might work. Issue with linux and audio is the confusing drivers. There's ALSA and PulseAudio and JACK.. They are highlyflexible,but confusing to set up.
Well I can say that point 3 did not work for me on Ubuntu at all, but Windows worked fine for same device (plugging in the second monitor...) I still havent found a good fix for hdmi second screen not being recognized on Ubuntu...
I really love your channel and your content is very interesting.
One thing to say though... The Windows repair menu features a command prompt which lets you work on your system. You are even "logged in" as the user system meaning you are allowed to do more things than an admin. But your right with not having a "functioning system" to use as a repair method.
Depends on what you mean. Windows has a safe mode, and on some versions you are able to stick the disc in and trick your way onto a basic shell.
@@justanotherviewer4821 The Disk method is basically what I meant...
There are basically two ways to get to a shell...
Way a) (the one I use mostly) Install Medium in and then recovery mode where I can open a command line...
Way b) actually involves a) and uses the elevated privileges of a trusted installer to exchange the utilman.exe with the cmd.exe. That way you will get a command line when clicking on the ease of Acces button on the lockscreen. this command promo has also elevated privileges (system iirc)
This is an age old trick to recover locked up systems... 😅😅
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Thanks a lot for the video. I’m gonna try it out on my new computer build. Gonna get my feet wet with Linux the first time ever.
About Windows on pendrive - Windows-To-Go :)
Driver situation aren't that great thou. Windows still support more hardware. But I love linux :)
4:35 Yes, I'm one of those guys who has a mothballed i386 with an old Mandrake system. 32Mb with a 2MB Diamond Stealth VGA ISA-bus video card.
In addition to the usual primary & seconday IDE/PATA controllers, it has 2 SCSI-2 controllers, with full chains of drives in external towers. I think the largest were 9Gb.
Has surprisingly good network response, and does robust NFS hosting!
In 1992 we used a SparcStation 1 as our main server, with 32MB or RAM, 1 GB hard drive, serving one user on the main system, and 7 other users on X-terminals.
One thing completely wrong is about drivers.
Nowadays mostly all major and casual drivers are included on Windows. And if not, autosearch of Windows 10 will find and install them.
For Linux you have to search for them and even compile in some cases.
I think that your knowledge of Windows is far behind the development stuck at Windows 98 or XP.
Thats a thing of the past, intel are out and micropuff anounced the other day anti virus software losers are out too...
Strangely, my last windows vs Linux experience, I had a random WiFi card with a half broken antenna and Linux found and utilized it fine, but I couldn't get windows to discover it for anything. I tried downloading drivers, tried pulling drivers from the computer I ripped it out of, everything!! Mind you, this was a few years back as I haven't had a desktop personally in almost 6.5 years. I keep wanting to go back, but I can't ever find the money and the space at the same time.
crckdns Your spreading typical Windows FUD. I've been a Linux user for more than 20 years, and for the last 10 have almost never had to use Windows. My expereience with printers is that mostly the just work. HP & Canon have drivers you can download just like you can with the Windows ones. The difference is that the support runs out on Windows. Every single time I have had to fire up a new version of Windows to cope with helping a friend or relative printer and graphics drivers have been a deal breaker. I have a 2006 Dell Inspiron laptop running the latest version of Lubuntu. Trying to install Win 8 to dual boot, failed because there is no driver for the graphics card. I recently I helped an aunt upgrade to Win10, and had to revert to Win8 as there was no driver for her Canon printer! I have a nearly 20 year old HP LaserJet. It still works fine with ALL my Linux devices, but not with Win8 or 10. And the worst thing about Windows and printers? They still don't know how to set-up network printing properly. In fact Windows 10 still has what looks like the Win2000 network stack underneath. Linux has always had the best network stack and with CUPS network printer set-up is a doddle.
I enjoyed that vid. Very informative even tho I've fiddled with Linux, I feel "strapped" to Windows because of all the proprietary applications in my life so far. My current machine is down and recovery doesn't work... I'm thinking strongly about migrating to Linux.
7 is wrong. Windows does use repair tools on installation media (which is not a live CD I know but it replaces dead files and does much more)
11 is wrong. There is auto run in linux
I support both OS as I use both on a daily life basis. From servers to client normal user usage I use both. I love them both. And Ubuntu, oh my god.
I’m just stating a mistake atleast in my point of view :)
with windows, even the act of downloading updates make changes that cause software to fail to operate correctly. Effectively forcing the reboot at that exact time, whether the user is ready to do this or not.
Bought this laptop for 25 dollars. Got Ubuntu and got rid of the old windows by installing by a flash drive.
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3:13 what about Windows PE and Windows to Go?
I didn't know that Windows PE and Windows to GO are fully functional OSs
They aren't.
@@EngineerMan Windows to go is. I use it to have a windows environment I can boot into if I need ti without wasting disk space on my internal drives. Can play games, install store apps whatever you want.
Additional bonus: For those graphical interface users out there, you have a choice of installing, running and switching the GUI and Desktop Manager (e.g., Gnome, KDE, etc.) of your choice ... and, like always, no reboot required!
Why does Ubuntu ask me to reboot after some upgrades?
Because this guy doesn't have a clue what he's talking about.
#4 is wrong tho, you can run Windows from a pen-drive for a while now. #7 is kinda wrong since you can fix a lot of parts the same way, even from Windows itself (usually repairs sys critical files.). #9 is wrong with Windows 10 too, you can move pretty much effortlessly, except that you need a licence (within some time) if it''s a whole new machine. Specific drivers are needed for specific devices, if generics don't work.
totally agree with theese points
And Windows has generic drivers for almost everything nowadays and better support for exotic hardware. And of course you can make a Windows live CD, though Linux is faster and more lightweight if you just have to fix some files.
#4 Run on a USB stick, yes, but only in the system you have installed that USB, in linux you plug that USB in ANY computer and runs fine. #7 Yeah, since W8 the recovery environement is more powerfull, but nothing closer to a linux live-cd. #9 It depends a lot on the hardware. If you put a hdd with W10 from an intel machine in a AMD machine the chances that does not work are very high. And the license, off course.
Shut ur mouth....I don't wanna hear your logic...it's interrupting my penguin porn
Of course, as Windows includes more and more drivers, people complain about the installation size... and before that, people complained that you need to insert the CD/DVD/floppy to install drivers. And god forbid having to _download_ the drivers! :)
It's cringy when someone is so obviously biased, they claim false facts. I'm a Linux fan myself, but I can make a pretty sizable list too, about stuff you can do on Windows, that's not possible on Linux...
Windows is not that crappy OS we used to hate so much anymore, hey and guess what? Linux is hosted on GitHub, guess who owns GitHub now?
And claiming Linux just works, is talking complete chocolate yoghurt emoji...
The Linux kernel hosted on GitHub is a mirror. Did you literally even check the repo?
I didn't used to hate Windows XP. It was rock solid and reasonably fast on a K6-2 400MHz CPU. (A computer store clerk who had never even seen my computer tried to claim over the phone that it wasn't fast enough, but he was trying to sell me a new computer.) Every system crash I ever had with that machine was due to hardware failure, not the OS or other installed software.
Let me reverse the question: who wrote git?
Mmm... The fact that Microsoft bought GitHub doesn't make the Linux a product from Microsoft. It bought the platform, not the user's creations.
I completely missed that he made that implication. Amazing.
On windows defense (linux admin here) , you don't have to reboot after installing updates. There's registry keys that you can clear so you don't have to reboot, however, in order for the patches to take effects you will have to reboot it.
Just to mention it: Windows 10 pretty much installs drivers without any steps require by the user too. It might be a basic driver and there might be a more complex or specialized version available on the internet, but in general it already has one for you and updates it too. And the "please restart"-thing is there, but most updates on Windows Servers are not involving a restart neighter.
That is mostly only like that for the desktop counterparts and here it really does not take that long anymore since SSDs are available. Still it can be annoying and you are right: This is done better in Linux. (at least for most software)
The OpenSource-part... this is good and bad and highly depends on what is happening. If it is working out like with OpenSSL, OpenSource is bad. It makes it much easier for anybody who wants to search for a bug to hack into something and if nobody of the "nice guys" finds the problem, the bad guy who want to use the bug for whatever reason won't tell you it is there.
Especially if the source code of smaller projects is not monitored that much by many people, even big errors can be there for a long time. Most people seem to think, that any developer out there is constantly scanning all the code parts of the libraries s/he is including in her/his code. That is very, very unlikely. Developers can have a couple of reasons to get a predefined library into the own program:
1.) It is a very basic task you do not want to program again. (in this case you very likely have already done it before you are using you could use your own code)
2.) It is too much work to write the code for something and you trust another person to do it better or well enough for you.
3.) You just do not know how to do it.
4.) You are just too lazy to do it yourself.
None of those reasons is a good indicator that you are going to scan everything again for hidden bugs.
For 1.): This might be that uninteresting to look at for a programmer, that s/he might just not bother with it. (likely what happend alot with OpenSSL)
For 2.): This is more or less fine, but you are in a hurry pretty likely so your time to search the code is pretty limited.
For 3.): Very likely you can't find the problems here if you can't do it yourself.
For 4.): You are lazy... hopefully not lazy enought to have a look at the code, but this is really just a hope.
And as an end-user I have to trust the software developer anyway. A big more or less "anonymous" crowd of people working on a project who I can't even blame for the stuff they do wrong is not helpful there. If I pay for it, I can at least call somebody and say "this is your software, I paid for it, get it fixed!". For most OpenSource software that is not that easy... "Hey, you gave it to me for free and programmed it in your spare time... now it is not working! Get it fixed!" is not a good standing point, especially if the author just says "no, do not want to do that anymore...". No warrenty of any kind there.
Don't take me wrong: OpenSource is a great thing and I like it much, but it is not flawless and there are valid points for closed source (and paid software) in many situations.
Yep, when I installed Centos on a laptop it automatically had the Broadcom wireless driver. Wait, it didn't. Since the code is so thoroughly vetted a security flaw didn't exist in SSL for decades. Wait... a number of your list items are wrong.
@Nocturn Adrift 🤣🤣🤣
Yes, Broadcom is particularly well known for its non-FOSS license which makes it impossible for anyone to distribute and install OEM drivers... So if anything is installed by default it would be a reverse engineered (non-authentic) driver. And then, you'll need to install the Broadcom driver on your own.
I actually got away with moving one of my C: drives from one machine to another, with Windows, and it still works. On boot it behaved as if it was a fresh install tho, installing new drivers and rebooting a few times. Maybe I just got lucky with this one.
Since Windows 10 a migration to other hardware has improved a lot. Changed my friends mainboard, cpu and ram at once. A few reboots and it worked fine.
That's because changing hardware isn't as much of an issue as it's made up to be.
Remember, you have the gaming community on windows, which change out hardware a lot.
Whenever I added, moved, removed or swapped any part of my windows machine I didn't even have the slightest of problems.
@@ikat_tracer You're lucky. I've built and upgraded hundreds of Windows systems and it is rare for hardware changes - especially if multiple changes are involved or a motherboard is switched - to not cause problems ranging from having to do the uninstall drivers-reboot-install drivers-reboot dance a few times to as much as being forced into purchasing a new Windows license.
Point 4 is wildly incorrect. You can install and run full Windows from a pen drive. And custom LiveCD builds were possible since XP times.
You can delete a file even if an application is using it. You can recover it by copying it back from /proc/ as long the app is still running.
Can you do a version of this: "10 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with macOS"...
...and vice versa.
I watched your other video of an Arch install and given you said you don't really use Windows I'm surprised to see you put up this kind of stuff.
There's plenty of misinformation and misconceptions on this video, so I'll try to remedy more or less:
#2: You can install updates in Windows without rebooting, just like in Linux. It's true that there's no way to patch the kernel live, but unless it's a system update there's no problem in updating whatever it is (be it a 3rd party program or parts of Windows) without rebooting at all. And even if files that need to be replaced are in use, you can choose to close the programs instead of waiting for a reboot (e.g. with C++ runtime updates).
#3: You don't have to worry about drivers at all. I can't remember the last time I had to search drivers for anything in my Windows machines, you just plug something in and if there's not an inbox driver available already Windows will silently download appropriate drivers for you to use the device without needing to interact at all. I've run into more hiccups in Linux / BSD than in Windows to be honest.
#4: There are Windows live environments, there's WinPE to use as a base with tools to author it and Windows RE at least; but there's been plenty of developments based on WinPE throughout the years, with 3rd party build solutions (Bart's PE Builder, WimBuilder, ...) available that even allow get you an almost full Windows experience you can boot off a CD, DVD or USB stick. And there's also Native Boot, which allows you to install Windows to a VHD and boot off it.
Plus Windows to Go, although it's an Enterprise feature it allows them to have a fully fledged installation in an external hard drive or USB memory. There are ways for regular people to create such an environment through 3rd party software, but they'd run into licensing issues.
By the way, you can replace several components of your machine without triggering a new activation, it's only when enough hardware changes are made that you need to activate your copy again (and it's a painless procedure).
#6: Windows' minimum requirements haven't chanced since Windows 7 at least, there was a big generational jump when Vista was introduced if I recall correctly, with plenty of machines not being powerful enough to run it but things have changed since then. Aside from the SSE2 requirement for processors the base 1GHz/1GB is still valid.
#7: Since there are Windows live environments, some geared towards being recovery ones, it is certainly possible to fix a Windows system without resorting to refreshes, resets, etc. And yep, they're also capable to run on RAM directly (by default?).
#8: There's no de facto way to do it on Windows, you're right. There are several repo-like system like Chocolatey for example, but there are none used universally. The stores try to address that although they're either games targeted (Steam, Origin, GOG, Battle.NET, Epic, ...) or "Modern" apps (the Windows Store). I think they're doing something to integrate Win32 apps in the store as well, but I don't know much about how that's going.
#11: The way you worded it is seems you can't install software without worrying about viruses and malware on Windows, you certainly can. I'd even venture to say you can download many things that laced with malware and the built in protection would catch it if you don't have anything else. But it's essentially the same as in Linux where you're putting the trust in the people running the repositories, in Windows you put the trust in the software vendors. Say you want program X made by Y, you'd go to the Y website and download it off there, done; the downside is that it's generally not centralized.
Because of the way it's setup (and the desktop user base it has) it's safer on Linux, most things are authenticated and even Arch which once had unsigned packages have them all GPG signed now, but reputable software vendors (and open source developers) digitally sign their installers so you have some degree of certainty against tampered binaries in Windows.
Overall... poorly researched video, people unaware of it all may get the wrong idea of things; try not to spread misinformation next time please. If you're not versed in something, you should first research it before presenting things as facts.
Nice video and absolutely correct. I've been running Mint 18.3 for quite some time and simply love it! It runs great on my Quad Core 3.4 GHz w/ 8 GB memory. I do have a Windoze 10 computer setup next to me, but rarely even power it up. Basically it is there in case I need to do something directly related to Windows 10 and / or wish to play a Windows only game. I don't wish to run wine on my Linux box if I can help it. Great video & I just sat here and nodded (in approval of) all the way thru your 11 items.
my experiences with linux were raging with driver issues after driver issues
finding code and compiling it myself ...still not working ...
linux broken ... etc
1. Many flaws are easier to find in the machine code
2. Versions 4 and above support live patching with specific consistency model which is in no way a general capability to upgrade the entire kernel.
3. Having all the drivers in the distribution bloats distribution. Windows includes all common drivers in the distribution.
4. True, but also I've never needed to do that
5. Windows is just as stable as Linux. It doesn't have kernel live patching, but certainly 3 year runtime are possible with windows 10.
6. Again, while generally true, also not something that anyone needs it's more a parlor trick than anything useful.
7. Basically this is #4 with a use case. Only useful if your system is prone to becoming broken, something that does happen a lot on Linux but seldom on windows (so it's a feature that's needed because of the fact that Linux is more prone to becoming broken in the first place.
8. Is just nonsense, if the software doesn't use a standard update system, it doesn't matter if it's Linux or windows you won't be able to install it using the standard update system.
9. I move hard drives with windows 10 all the time.
10. Windows is just as customizable, but just as with Linux the further you diverge from standard the more chance you'll run into issues because the configuration is uncommon and thus not well tested. In corporate environments the tolerance for doing that is low, but with a home windows system you can fill your boots.
Thanks for not writing in title that these are the things Linux do better than Windows, because that would obviously be flawed. The third point baffled me the most - I installed Ubuntu on a laptop and couldn't even access my cd drive, while Windows automatically configured the thing for me. "Not worrying about..." I installed manjaro on my PC with GTX 1080 and I had screen tearing in a browser and had to spend a whole day of searching for solution... Tearing in a browser! 8th point is obviously in favour of Windows - the OS is separated from the programs you write for it, which is neat. This "repository" thing in Linux is tiresome as you cannot simply just look for a program on the internet and install it. You have to build it from source or get from repo, which is completely bonkers imo. Thank God, Windows Update does what it says... It updates Windows.
Obviously, I might be missing something...
Even though you might think I'm a hater, I'm not. I agree that the other points are only some of the points why Linux is viable. I use it myself, but just as Windows gets on my nerves some times, so does the GAH NUUUUUUUUUUUU LEEENEEEEEXXXXXXXX. :)
That's the problem with Linux; all is supposingly working without any problem, yet the forums are scattered with issues left, right and center, because basic stuff is just not working. Also, there's 100s and thousands Linux variations and versions, so one can't even say "linux", without specifying a variation and a version. There's also real bad ones out there, since a problem is also that a lot of them are released when still beta, sort of "to help the developers".
Linux most definitely has its share of advantages, but a lot of the ones mentioned in this video aren't really a thing anymore. I personally have to use windows at work, but at home I have dual boot and find that I use Linux just as much as Windows. I think Linux suffers from a "too many chef's" problem and the fact that it's got a comparatively small user base means it can be really hard to find solutions to problems when they do occur.
Package managers are awesome
Windows has Choco
JoeTinnySpace ! Not made by MS. ;)
@@sgky2k If MS made their own package manager, they'd get sued to oblivion by anti-trust fanatics. Indeed, I wonder how Linux distributions (or MacOS) would work in practice if they had to comply with the same regulations. Just look at how much software a typical Linux distribution bundles - and how MS was being pushed around for including Internet Explorer, which was an integral part of the user-mode system, not to mention required to do anything on the internet (good luck downloading Firefox without IE :D ).
Just look at how much flak MS got for just wanting to enforce some quality controls in device drivers, which are the most common cause of Windows failure (and poor experience)...
@@sgky2k why would the package manager be even made by MS. In enterprise you have SCCM which is kind of package manager made by MS.
Sometimes it is better if you have only 1 package manager than dozen per distribution.
The Windows ones are too.
12. The directory structure / symbolic links. Everything in the same directory doesn't need to be on the same hard drive or even system. Need access to some files faster than others? Just move them to an ssd drive and symlink from the original spot. Have some files taking up too much space on your drive? Move them onto a server and symlink from the original spot.
Regarding #2, lately Fedora has been requiring reboots for all updates done through the GUI. Of course, you can always bypass the GUI and issue the update command in the terminal
Have you ever even see a real windows instalation as most of the staff you are saying is not true
Typical, really... Some people here commenting quite recently haven't even heard of wsl.
#12 You can run linux without a GUI. I tend to do that on Raspberry Pi when it is used as a controller (GPIO) or server. Opting to not use/or shutdown the xserver frees up a lot of resources.
Atomkey Sinclair i mean you can completely uninstall xorg. As long as you have a ssh server running you got all you need
I have Pi 3 running Raspbian for my NAS and it does the job brilliantly and was doddle to set up but special cases don't make Linux superior to Windows for most people most of the time.
I don't know why Linux evangelists like the one in this video have to tell so many lies. Why can't they just say "Linux is better for this, this and this and Windows is better for this, that and the other"? It would at least be true.
@@xxxggthyf Engineer Man never claimed it was better for most people most of the time. He claimed Linux did 10 things better than Windows, and he's right about the vast majority. In the years since he uploaded some things have changed, but it's still mostly true.
@@LabGecko You may be right but it's also true that I have Linux Mint as a dual boot on my desktop and rarely boot into it because Win 10 is still so much easier.
That being said I brutally bludgeoned Mint onto my low spec, lightly used laptop which involved nuking the Win 10 on the pitiful 32gig SSD it has as its only internal drive. Partly because 32gig isn't enough for Win 10 to update properly but mostly for performance. Absolutely no regrets at all on that front even if it did take me several days to get past a bios that was determined to stop me.
Actually, Microsoft launched a basic version of Windows for the Raspberry Pi without the GUI... (Windows 10 IoT?) not sure why someone would pick that over Linux.
Point number 9 should be: move a linux install from one machine to another of the same architecture - one "linux machine" to another implies the destination host is "linux specific" (which x86 hosts likely aren't), i.e. "linux machine" = bare metal with os on the hdd (usually). And btw, if the chipset on mobo is the same, you can do the same type of transfer with non-OEM licensed windows installs, or if it's OEM, then deactivate the key for the old hardware, and re-activate on the new. No re-install needed.
0:23 Linux is REALLY the kernel. Here, this is Linus Torvald's Github, here you can se the source code of the kernel…
actually you can see other parts somewhere else.
Even gaming is starting to become a thing on linux.
The only thing that keeps me using Windows is gaming, plus just familiarity. I now understand that Linux is better but I've been using Windows since I was a small child and it's hard to let go
sTiKyt, Wine is not perfect, many games don't run at all, many others have significant issues.
Valve's Proton is a fork of Wine that's more optimised for gaming, but it's still imperfect.
@@unspeci8852 It definitely isn't perfect but it is getting there!
Nanday Birb How did you install your graphics driver on ubuntu because I solemnly failed
@@vineet_kishore
In the terminal enter these commands.
ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
I'm watching this on Linux, Android Distro.
*But not GNU/linux
Its not the same thing.
As a Gentoo Linux user, I think this list is somewhat inaccurate. I would've stuck with things like:
* better integrated filesystem support (as well as those filesystems having proper ownership/execution permissions)
* not as invasive of your privacy
* being able to actually *configure* your kernel (granted- I don't know how many average users care about that sort of thing)
* easy software raid, lvm, etc.
* flat file configs (mostly true; only need a good editor.)
* Little odd things like loop devices, unix (file) sockets, binfmt, the PAM system, etc
* A TRUE multi-user OS that's secure. (Windows 10 may have improved this, but Windows 7 was still crap if your dealing with a user base that really knows what they're doing.)
* Overall better environment if you're a developer.
* Once you know what you're doing, you'll rarely leave a terminal. And chances are, the only real GUI you'll have running is a browser.
* Other things (SELinux policies come to mind, but that's a-whole-nother topic.)
I also like that Linux conforms to POSIX standards regarding their API-- I find the Windows API kind of annoying by comparison.
Both Windows and Linux have come a long way. I hear Windows 10 is pretty decent with the inclusion of PowerShell, as well as finally having proper workspace support. (Yeah, there were after-market products that could add workspace support to prior versions of windows, but they all sucked.)
However,
* Linux on brand new hardware can still cause problems.
* Printers suck regardless of Windows or Linux.
* Specialized hardware is not supported at worse, and poorly supported at best.
* Audio support has improved, but it's not as good as it could be.
* Gaming on Linux is still crap. (if you care about that sort of thing.)
* systemd is a nightmare. I hate it and wish it would go away. (Luckily, I can get away with using openrc.)
* It took something like ~30 years for Xorg to finally 'just work', for them to introduce wayland, which my experience thus far has been: play with it until it works; if it works.
* There really are a lot of distributions, many of which aren't worth using, but even the ones worth using have pro's and con's for the individual user, and nobody's got time to figure that out. (Unless you're a computer person.)
Honestly, at this point, I can't really say Linux is better than Windows or vice versa. Just different ways of tackling the same concept of managing hardwaresoftware efficiently. (That's seriously understated, but I'm not gonna get into Timers, Schedulers, Memory management, Disk I/O, Filesystems, interrupts, Device Drivers, Network stacks, etc)
I guess I should also add, "Linux don't get virus'" is rubbish, things like chkrootkit exist for a reason.
Enlightning video... You shared stuff about Linux that I never heard before... and I've been using it off and on for years.
Thanks.
Glad I could share something fresh.