"How did you first get into Linux?"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ย. 2024
- Here's the story of how I became a Lincuck: it involves BoomerOS (Windows 95), Civilization II, n00buntu, Gentoo, Manjaro, ThinkPads, my thesis, vim and LaTeX. I talk about why I started using it after many years of knowing that it was out there, and what makes GNU/Linux unique.
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It is endlessly meme worthy that Lukes dad is a gentoo user
My dad was a gentoo user
@@milesrout good that you disowned that dumb fuck
Can someone explain the meme-y part of this? Is it just that there's no tangible reason to compile everything yourself?
@@connorazzarello5514 Because its about the freedom to do everything about the system
Luke's dad must be a hell of a neckbeard XD
>CLICKING ON BUTTONS
>WEARING RALPH LAUREN (knock off?)
>HATING ON NERDS
>DISLIKING LINUX
>WINDOWS 95 SUPREMACY
we are reaching levels of normie not thought possibe.
Normie extremism.
lol. Your list is a few points short of the Generation-X Hipster checklist. All that's missing is brooding nihilism and a flannel shirt tied around the waste.
That's USPA, not a Ralph Lauren.
TH-cam showed me "Translate to English" specifically for your comment xD
I'm at the Manjaro with i3 stage. Soon I'll have to get an old Thinkpad and move out to the woods...
I got the Thinkpad and then decided to get ínto Linux. Seems like there's a bond between Linux and that machine!
To assure you: With exchangable batteries that many models feature you may stay in the woods for long enogh to come back as an Arch user
I love scratchpad on i3.
10:12 "It sounds a lot more complicated, but it's actually a lot more easy"
- A linguist with a PHD who uses GNU/Linux
GNU + Linux*
PhD + Linux
If you're supporting a previous statement, "more easy" is grammatically correct and even preferred.
If you're not supporting a previous statement, "more easy" is still grammitcally correct, but less commonly used.
P.h.D candidate *
hytwoxy I believe that he’s no longer in his program? Not sure. He’s in Florida now.
"Vim on Windows... I was very confused at the beginning"
yes
Father Gentoo user produces biological child process that uses Arch! Boom!
He uses artix.
@@devikapluspoint8306 its basically arch tho it's just it isnt soyware
I had a crush on a girl who run Linux, 15 years back. So i needed to install it too, because reasons.
morgulbrut firm and bouncy dd reasons
A woman using Linux? You're such a liar.
>women
>anything computers
Pick one
A Crush on a girl work 10x better than Evangelism. Linux... step your game up. lol
this is the best reason
I'm so glad that I found this channel a year, or 2, ago...
Today I was watching the "cabin tour" video (besides other videos), and I gotta say: maaaan, you are living a life that I want to live in the future...
> living in nature (walking in the woods and such xd): check,
> growing your own food: check,
> your own home: check,
> rambling about tech and software etc: check.
> memes?!: check!
What makes this channel unique is that we can just close our eyes and listen to your thought process. The way you think and why you have the opinion that you have... it's just awesome.
I was hesitating to make this comment (idk why, maybe it will look like an "I'm your biggest fan" comment (I hope that it doesn't)) but I've decided to do so. I'm hoping that you'll see it and just continue to make these videos.
Also, the other comments here are just priceless... so much laughing, so much truth.
Anyway, to all of you out there, greetings from Serbia.
Luke recorded this video because he's about to switch to FreeBSD.
OpenBSD for maximum autism.
After seeing him move to Bspwm, it ls only a matter of time
Installed FreeBSD to view pictures and it couldn't do such a simple task proparly
@@jascoolo Why would you install a BSD flavor to view pictures O.o
@@ibrudiiv As an artist I've got one old laptop just to view pictures and I was tired of linux, which was working way too loud
Arch used to be a meme distro. Now it is THE distro.
Memes become reality.
@wzeyctfvgtgfryc Only if everyone has 3rd gen Threadrippers for doing basic office tasks, then the compile time wouldn't be that bad.
Here in Brazil a lot of People that during the 90s were a teenager was introduced to Linux with a Brazillian distro called Kurumin (child in Indigenous Guarani) that was sold with a magazine on newsstands.
O famoso
O famoso
O famoso
Bons tempos
Bons tempos
the "straw" for me was that I had enough of this "anti-malware service executable"".
i was dabbling in linux because i heard that it was great for c development. i was switching back and forth because apt seemed alien to me. reinstalling windows because i was such a n00b then, i realized how much personal info windows wanted. first, it would ask me to connect to the internet. it then *saved* that information so that it could persist through restarting the installation process, because having connection to microsoft servers is such a cardinal priority to the windows installation. then it would force me to give personal information and make a microsoft account, which again required personal information. that was the last straw for me. since i switched to linux mint, i learned so much more about c, the unix philosophy in practice, how much freedom i was missing out on, and how good it feels without excessive bloatware, integrated advertisements, corporate collusion (im looking at you, microsoft defender), and the distrust that comes of closed source software in my very operating system.
yes i know this is a year old. maybe others might find it interesting
@@teachies902 1 year later still feel the same
I replaced it with my own exe which was just an empty C program "int main() { return 0; }" And then my CPU stopped getting 100% usage for no f***** reason
Holy crap. One of the main driving forces for me too! I hated that damn service with a passion.
Moral of the story: You don't need a service to remove malware if your system barely has any :)
Mine was that I had a really bad machine that came with win8 pre-installed and it ran like dogshit, so I googled alternatives for windows and learned what linux is
I became a full Linux user when I discovered this channel
this channel got me started on the "suckless" bandwagon. ST + DWM = 4 + Life
I was trying to find informative FreeBSD channels. Got this one instead. I'm OK with this.
@NostraDavid ibsd and robonuggie are two decent feeebsd channels
Dual booting paradox: If you know what your doing you wouldn't do it.
It's a little shame every time you see a reminder of that chunk of memory dedicated to something else that you don't use.
i thought your profile picture was sam hyde for a sec
@@afivey yeah i have an ssd 100% formated in ntsf and i have linux installed in my old computer's hdd. i've been using exclusively linux for at least 5 months now. i'm thinking about installing linux on the ssd, but i just want to keep windows fucking 10 for some dark reasons, idk.
There are some people that need it for work or games.
I literally only boot up windows for gaming. I know what I am doing, and although Proton/Wine has come improved so much it's mind-blowing, for 99% of games it runs better on windows and Anticheat makes multiplayer unusable for Linux users still for many games.
"it was like, so boring, or whatever" very 90s way of putting that
I'll be honest, hearing that Luke only has roughly 4-5 years of experience with Linux makes me feel more confident that these OS concepts will come to me in time
How goes it now? I have no idea how to break into all this stuff, or even why. All I know is that I don’t like the big tech companies and don’t trust them at all.
Written from my iPhone btw…help
@@fakename3208 iPhones are good, don't sew distrust without first garnering understanding
@@naoltitude9516 It tracks where I am even when it’s off. It’s constantly listening to me. It costs hundreds of dollars and I can’t fix it myself when it breaks. It wants to know the shape of my face. It’s CEO is unwittingly satanic. I can’t even uninstall safari (trying to make a “dumb phone” out of it).
I don’t trust apple at all.
@@fakename3208 How goes it now for you?
My final switch to Linux was probably thanks to this channel. Obviously I had known about Linux for a long time and I have always been dissatisfied with how cryptic Windows makes configuration seem. However, I never found a compelling introduction or overview of the possibilities. Only when I saw here how simple and easy setting up and configuring Linux can be when you start from a minimalist distribution is when I comitted all the way. So I guess what I am trying to say is: Thank you.
Papa Luke is a gentoo user
Gentoo gang
@@ultrahalf 😂😂😂
@José Tobias Well ... OpenBSD or LFS?
What you hear when someone talks about minimalism when you're Windows user: "Yeah, I am just a hipster and from time to time I want to throw out some words no one can't understand".
What you hear when someone talks about minimalism when you're Linux user: "At some point you realize you don't need like 90% of things you think you use".
You are absolutely right. I often do some work on Arch Linux with i3 before classes and it gets a lot of attention, people often ask me "how did you get your system to look and do something so cool?" and when I tell them that it's linux with window manager they are often surprised that you can do that kind of stuff on linux.
same. its become a meme in my school friendgroup, that every time they see a computer with a terminal, they say
looks like you installed linux again.
gets me every time XD
Much respect for Luke's pop for using Gentoo!
The place you live is so beautiful. It looks like those default wallpapers coming with OS. If I had a view like that I can get up early every Saturday morning. I’m living in Tokyo and am so jealous of you. What we’ve got at 8am on Saturday are groups of noisy crows, salary-man having hang over, and desperate traffic. I just want to stay in bed and try to get far away from them as I can.
You can enjoy wonderful views if you just get out of the big cities.
Tokyo landscape has a depressing mood due to overcrowd and lack of WILD nature.
The tree rows are out of place, unattractive
@@nykal1510 it's a tree farm. They're actually too "in place" (aligned)
@@bryceforsythe8072 I know, that's why I don't really think it's pretty, it's obviously unnatural. If OP likes it that's fine of course
My argument for Linux and for open systems in general is that the design philosophy is based on the idea that the user *should* be allowed MORE control over their devices, instead of having the devices dictate user experience (ie Mac philosophy)
I've been dual booting my main work/gaming rig from Win98/Debian Potato all the way to Win10/Buster today.
It's absolutely worth it, and helps me use my most powerful machine for gaming on Windows and work on Linux. It helps keep separation and it helps you not fire up a quick game and procrastinate. You're missing out.
Nah he’s not he doesn’t game
I had a setup like this but I was getting addicted to competitive games (valorant, call of duty etc..) My main reason for linux it's that I cannot play those games anymore. I still game though but not those kind of games
can anyone explain me why Lenin rants about how he did get into Linux?
Thos days circa late 1990s, I rememberd creating my own small Linux system for dailup+gateway on a 3.5" floppy disk. Yes, 1.44 MB is enough for proper minimal Liinux system. The best thing was, it loded into RAM and the floppy disk can be ejected. It was the true meaning of minimalist. :)
Demo disc on a magazine was my gateway drug. Fedora 5 I believe. Miss breaking the family computer so bad.
"Think different". Apple claims it, Linux delivers it.
Think stupid (Linux)
Linux + Thinkpad = Think Different
The only one who thought different was Terry A. Davis. RIP.
@@lucioinnocenzo2328 you missed a coma. It is Think, stupid.
@@user-fw5uh5ne3o It is not the high price which is a problem, it is the low value/$ which people don't like. The OS is just based on (Free)BSD with their own GUI on top of it. The GUI is not bad but also not any better than many alternatives.
Gen-Xer here. Started with HPUX, then worked with Solaris, AIX, Tru64. Then starting running Linux at home when Linux was at kernel 2.0 version I think. Later worked with Linux in dayjob. Run both Linux and NetBSD currently. Nice to see you young folk enjoying UNIX :-)
Just note that programs from the AUR can be harmful too
I started using Linux in 1992. It was Slackware. I think the kernel was .92 or something but I don't really remember. We had to download it onto 1.44mb diskettes. Now I'm a Windows 10 user but I still play with Linux.
c. 5:00 : I did use to dual boot for years, and looking back I don't really think it was a waste of time. Rather, it was my gateway to becoming a full-time Linux user. That was back in the days of Ubuntu 9.04, and I wasn't really sure about making the switch yet. I didn't want to lose the games I was playing back then, nor bet everything on a horse I didn't yet know how to ride. By dual booting, Ubuntu allowed me to work with Linux and play on Windows. Plus, I could access the Windows partition from Ubuntu, which allowed me to erase a number of viruses that my antivirus could only locate.
After a while, I only booted into Windows when I felt like playing The Sims or something -which I ultimately lost interest in. Then the "upgrade" to Win10 screwed up my dual boot setup, which finally made me get M$ and its products out of my system for good.
I don't think I'd have taken the jump into Linux as easily as I did (perhaps not at all, as a daily driver) if it hadn't been for dual boot.
I'm a teacher in Spain, and in many autonomous regions, such as mine (Extremadura, the #1 Linux pioneer here), state schools, the public health service, and many other public bodies use Linux. Yet most fellow teachers I know use Windows at home (doctors tend to use Mac), continuously complaining about how their texts translate badly between both systems, screwing up their layouts. Why is that? Well, they don't want to switch all the way (yet) and think that dual booting is hard to do. But having a well-running, dual booting machine at home could take away their fears and smooth over the initial adaptation shock.
In my case, it was just a few weeks of dual booting before I started perceiving using Windows as a nuisance. And how many convinced Linux users and contributors started out in a similar way? I'd be very, very surprised if the proportion were small.
>pronouncing GNOME as "gnome" to flex on pedants
I respect and fear it.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as GNOME, is in fact, GAHNOUM, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GAHNOUM plus systemd.
He can say GNOME properly, but he can't say Ubuntu correctly. I'm Just saying. Even so, I liked the video immensely.
One of the things that drew me in to Linux was git. Installing it and having it work consistently on Windows is such a pain in the ass. It's amazing how such a basic program works completely differently on a different OS.
Been using Linux daily since 1994 Yggdrasil distribution on a 0.94 pre-beta kernel!
I still have the original CDROM around somewhere!
I started in about '96 shortly after building my first PC. Tried a load of distros, as you do, learned about the FSF and GNU and became pretty dedicated to the ideals of Free Software. Settled on Debian (no-non free), have reservations about systemd not being "the unix way" but I manage it. I had settled on XFCE but recently I went back to the window manager I fell in love with while trying distros, Window Maker. My WM is there to manage my browser and terminal windows ;)
I used to dual boot windows often. Since kdenlive was able to replace Sony Vegas for me I have booted win 10 once every 6 months to install updates or play a game on steam.
What keeps me on windows is NETcore development in Visual Studio
16:21
*Don't swear on our Christian Minecraft server*
sir, do you have a moment to talk about our lord and saviour TMUX?!
As an 18 year Gentoo user, and a 22 year Linux user... nothing compares. Even BSD feels limited in comparison to Linux.
It started with Knoppix for me. Amazing how you could take the CD or USB stick and boot most machines with it.
I first got Linux from a CD in the sleeve of a book I found at the uni co-op book store. It was slackware Linux and a book which introduced it back in 1995. Windows 95 had just come out. This was at a time when the state of the art internet connection was a 14.4kbps modem which I used to dial into the university's SLIRP server which was managed by the "computer club". Honestly, I feel like that's when computers were the most fun. I was happy to mess around with the command line.
For me it started with Linux Mint Cinnamon in 2016, I thought it was impressive, I love being able to customize things to the extreme. Kind of already had a little bit of exposure through that cheap Alienware Alpha i7 I got on sale for $350 through Steam OS, which I didn't like, so I changed the OS to Windows 10 and then downgraded to 7 because it's better and less frustrating, then dual booted it along with Antergos with KDE because I like how it looks.
Indeed, Vim is a gateway to Linux. I used to use WSL on Win10 just to essentially use Vim, and then I realized that wait a minute, why do I boot into the graphical environment just to run a terminal to use a terminal application? Next thing I remember - me thinking "Manjaro is sure nice, but there's just too much stuff, I guess it'll be easier to install something that doesn't have that much stuff to uninstall", and bada bing bada boom, I'm using Arch.
Started with Ubuntu cause of college, tried Mint, tried Manjaro (hella liked it, but gave up on it after some bugs), went Arch and it's perfect, running on both of my computers.
Left Windows to rot, not dual booting anymore.
As a exuser of Ubuntu I cannot deny it
and I have still have some affection toward it
(and I suggest it for beginners till this day)
but MANJARO maaan changed everything LUV
Same here, started with Ubuntu, then moved to Manjaro i3 and havent looked back.. But I still have a soft spot for Ubuntu and recommend it too newbies
I'm on Windows 10 and Elementary OS dual boot, I love both systems and have zero problems with dual boot. Windows 10 is great and that's coming from someone who has used windows since Windows 3.11.
@K19 lol
In 2014 I started learning about Linux and the command line because I got sick of windows updating automatically etc. Started with Linux mint, went to ubuntu, then manjaro, then arch, then debian, then feeebsd and open bsd and now I am using mx Linux and popOS
Someone snuck behind me in school when i didn’t notice him, he then proceed to Whisper “I use arch btw”.
A blinding light exploded and i found myself on the computer, sitting in front of a screen with “Grub rescue”
Welcome to my story
That guy was the human manifestation of github and he saw in you The One
13:20 - For me it was.
Oh, this dude has in his bio: "I proudly run Arch (btw)".
A few days later another dude's bio: "I use Arch btw".
Basically I started using Arch thanks to meme.
Windows Vista was about to be discontinued, so I installed Ubuntu 16.04 and never looked back.
Based.
My C++ professor made us ssh into the school's Linux server to do and submit projects.
From there, my interest in Linux was piqued when I heard about the security, and privacy. Also, everyone said that it was better for programmers, so I took a Linux fundamentals class to count toward my degree. We used Ubuntu, and mostly learned some basic commands, and some surface level bash scripting. Honestly, it was pretty fun, and I've only felt the need to go back to Windows when I got sick of trying to troubleshoot games.
I suppose Luke is currently preparing his departure to OpenBSD.
Insert lawnmowing boomer meme.
I left the small company I'd worked for and started a consulting practice. This was 2002. I do embedded system development, and I needed to be able to lay out printed circuit boards. I couldn't afford $40,000 for fancy Mentor Graphics etc. software. So I put together a Linux box and ran the gEDA package - for FREE. It got the job done just fine. Linux definitely had some rough edges back then. Stability issues, etc.
Gratz on 70k subscribers
How did you first get into Linux?
Well it's funny, a long time ago I was walking up this very road in the middle of nowhere a and I found thrown in the grass an Ubuntu Live CD and said what's this?
Cool dad! You should try a Gentoo install too, just look at it as a digital ayahuasca ceremony.
I love that metaphor
Started playing around with modded Skyrim. Started using the Steam controller. Liked making different configurations and fell in love with the intracacies involved of being able to tinker, operate, and enhance the things you already bought. I was becoming frustrated with having to make all these workarounds in an operating system that I bought and paid for just to make it work how I want it to work then to only be restricted from tampering with it to the degree that I need. I don't like the idea of updates being forced on me as there have been more than once where an update broke up my everday tasks. I then figured if I'm going to go through this much trouble modding Windows, I might as well just start from the ground up so I started with Arch. It was a bit frustrating at first but now that I have it up and running everything has been pretty smooth from there.
I was also really impressed with seeing what some people had done with their desktops on Linux and all the different "flavors" of OS and DEs available to Linux users. Linux has made computing fun to me, rather than just using my computer as a glorified game console / web browser. Also I really like editing videos, recording gameplay, and editing images and am interested in 3D modeling. I was looking for Adobe alternatives since I was using Premiere and Photoshop a lot and came across Davinci Resolve and GIMP. The cool thing was that not only were they free, but they were also available on Linux. Then I saw a video of a guy who tested Blender 2.8 on both Windows and Linux and the Linux version in a lot of cases was literally twice as fast so that's when I decided to take the dive. Windows isn't really offering me it's value for my particular use case in comparison to the free alternatives that are out there.
I'm still not using Linux full time. I just started using it for the first time about 4 days ago. I have a whole drive dedicated to Arch and another drive dedicated to Windows, but I haven't booted into Windows for those 4 days, so we'll see.
My first contact with Linux was in the late 90s-early 2000s, via Red Hat 5.1. The machine in question was an old clunker with no mouse, so I had to go command line only. To me it looked like DOS but behaved like something aboard a UFO. There was even a neat text adventure. Obviously I stuck with Windows as my daily driver, but the Linux box was nice for hobby tinkering.
When Windows started fingerprinting people's hardware during the XP years, I got fed up and started looking for a way out. So I asked a guy at my church about Linux, and he got me a copy of Fedora 9. That was my first "real" Linux experience, and I fell completely in love. This time the machine I was running it on had a mouse, but no internet connection...so installing stuff was REALLY fun, if you know what I mean (does anyone have a noose handy?)
Not long after that, a school mate hooked me up with a wireless router, and I discovered the software center (or whatever Fedora was calling it at the time) and never looked back.
Linux is not an easy journey--freedom never is. But it is worth it. Take the plunge, friends. Don't look back. You will not regret it.
I love tiling windows, that 's why I use Pop OS as my laptop system. And Pop OS taught me that minimize and maximize window buttons are obsolete. You have tiling window manager, and there is no need to minimize and maximize your windows. I use Manjaro for a while, but I am not a powerful user yet, and I could not shoot all the troubles yet. Thanks, Luke. I installed Manjaro on my spare computer X220 again.
most inspiring story on the internet thankyou Luke
My first Linux experience was when I brought a Linux book with a CD-ROM bundled in a local book shop. The CD-ROM is a Linux distro. It is Red Flag Linux, a Red Hat Linux with Chinese language accomodation. Years later I am a Fedora guy.
The only key differences in linux distributions are package managers and how updates are delivered. (bleeding edge or stable)
not really. this is just the most obvious difference from the surface level. What is generally more important for how the whole system functions is the init system and the service management interface. For some distro's what sets them apart is a special kernel configuration, or configuration management strategy.
The only reason I use Windows are CAD softwares (AutoCAD, Revit and the likes)
99% of the time. I use Linux.
I never used Linux and I dont particulary plan to, yet find his vids entertaining, am I austistic
Perhaps
still don't use linux?²
What about now?
Install Linux or your gay!
still don't use linux?
I thought Windows 98 was way more customizeable than 95. I remember it had themes with crazy 90's fonts.
Screwing around with all those Windows 98 themes was 70% of my motivation to use computers back then
The other 30% were, of course, playing Genesis ROMs and Flash games
Boomer rants about why Windows 95 is the best
BoomerOS
Great Uncle TED Talk, Luke
In 1995 a local ISP owner got me into it. Slackware. Couldnt get X to work but used it anway lol. Man those were the days!
Gosh i spent soooooo many hours playing civ 2
Got sick of running win recovery or having to buy a new license.
I also got older and wiser and learned to just say f'it that's good enough.
I got to Linux because I started CS, that's it.
Its amazing how few of my current undergrad classmates actually use Linux. I definitely agree with your point though, my intro programming lab forced us to use Vi and it made so much sense.
I wonder if Luke vlogs long enough, will he walk around the globe and end up back home
Windows 2000 professional was my favorite of all time. I got so far with customs and comy goodness with it!!! Nothing is better so far 🤔🤔
5:34 ... and this was back in the gnood old days
I use Windows and Linux and might migrate fully to Linux once I have a good enough grasp on it.
The snag in that journey is ironically enough Ubuntu which is supposed to be the more user friendly Linux.
But for a programming newb like me it's a pain to compile anything, and the PPA system can be a bit of a pain.
One evening I was watching George Hotz install Arch and I was like "fuck it, let me try".
I followed the wiki for once (normally it's youtube or something) and it was like 'bim, bam, bosh' and I was done.
I got a window manager up and running not super good but I was blown away by how easy it was.
And the AUR is like git, make, done and it seems like everything is ported to Arch.
I first met your channel because of LaTeX. I'm not even a linux heavy user but in a couple of years I'm planning on fully leaving Windows.
Alright you convinced me to use arch.
I ran Arch once. I'll never get that 15 minutes back ever either.
came to the comments to read about why people do/dont use whatever distro they use, or opinions about linux as a whole
instead all i see for miles around is people shit posting. Ngl, i love it
floating/stacking window managers make sense because they do not assume very much about how much screen real estate the user has or how much they know or care about the window management philosophy. Modern tiling window managers throw you into a world where every time you open a new window you are chopping away at screen real estate, and you are forced to start thinking about the concept of UI layout.
I prefer tiling for certain workflows, but (usually) I just don't want to care about the window manager at all. I don't want opening a new browser window requiring me to start caring about how important/relevant other windows are. I usually use a stacking/floating manager to manage my display at the top level, and if I want tiling, I start an instance of xephyr and let a tiling window manager control that.
Yes, most tiling window managers have a floating mode, or a floating layer, but that also seems to be missing the point.
I started with trying to understand FreeBSD. Used Ubuntu for a week after breaking my school laptop. Then used i Xubuntu, Debian, Gentoo, Manjaro (a "temporary" replacement to my desktop after some GPU issues with Gentoo), then i fell in love with OpenBSD (which i still love). And have settled on Void Linux for my laptop and my desktop when i get around to changing it.
I started using ubuntu linux in 2007 by a friends suggestion, distrohopped a couple of years until 2014 when I settled up with Debian!
my first linux was Red Hat 4. year 200 was leading linux for our IT Dept. in the big company . Today i use Fedora 40 for my personal pc/laptop. That's all my linux story.
I got into Linux because I had too many Windows Problems. Then a friend had gotten me into Arch Linux, when I looked into other Distros than Ubuntu to actually learn how to use Linux Shell and how Linux works
My step father introduced me. He ran a linux server for Unreal tournament multi-player LAN back in the '90s.
I've used Linux as my main Operating System since I'd first ever used a computer. My dad had used it since long before I was born, so after I had taught myself to somewhat program on his computer, I had gotten my first ever laptop when I was about 7, and immediately the first thing installed onto it was Mint, on that laptop I had taught myself to program and configure or rice my systems to my liking. I've since distrohopped from Mint to Debian to Fedora to Arch. I still currently use and love arch, and am in my teenage yrs (not gonna specify as to not doxx my info out to google). I've always been heavily privacy conscious and done all I could to stay away from massive, stupidly greedily money-hungry, American, soulless digital "big tech" corporations.
how could you not instantly be hooked on ubuntu 8.04? it has wobbly windows
there is almost no difference in distros unless you try NixOS
Except upgrading Fedora every few months. That's what got me to switch to Arch, rolling releases are a dream.
first linux was ubuntu 5.04 hoary hedgehog. there was an article in my local town boomer newspaper (kraut here btw) and it was about ubuntu and emphasized the shipit.ubuntu.com website. I already knew and used openoffice and thunderbird and firefox on a daily basis and the article said those programs were the core of ubuntu. so I was very interested if this free of cost shipit thing would really work. And it did. Came on 2 discs with nice packaging and a bunch of ubuntu stickers. the concept of a live-cd blew my mind. so I installed dual boot and made a "migration checklist". So I wanted to do browsing, e-mail, watching DVDs and play mp3s. It all took me a while to figure out but over time I had less and less reason using my Windows 2000 installation. And I wasn't much into vidya ga(y)ming back then. ironically Linux (and Gaben) is to blame that I'm now into gaming. Altogether I will never forget re-loading apt sources in Synaptic the first time with both "universe" (huuuge free software repo, not officially supported) and "multiverse" (contrib, mostly non-free stuff) repositories enabled. The sheer amount of software available blew my mind. I liked frozen-bubble, extreme tuxracer, Grip (cd ripper, back to life very recently), GXine, and Rhythmbox and all on Gnome2. It was a golden time.
He's been bitten by a radioactive minimalism
I cant even imagine writing something as long as a thesis in Word. Especially with all the references. God that sounds like fucking hell.
I wrote my first BASIC program on a Commodore PET computer at the age of six. It was a series of print statements, but fuck.. I was 6!
Listening to this makes me feel soooooooooo old. "Way before Ubuntu Unity", that feels like last week to me!!!
Gaming on Linux is a lot better than it used to be.
Probably would be nice to explain why a CS undergrad could really benefit form using Linux
windows 95 was also filled with questionable and annoying upgrades like the recycle bin that was always sitting on your desktop (you had to edit an undocumented string in the register to get rid of it). i will always remember its random bsods and attempts to automatically find me a driver for my ethernet card... on the internet. still much better than w10 though.
you've got a very russian landscape there. this could be filmed 50 miles away from moscow, any direction.
went to college.
Programming 101 using pascal with freepascal...
I kept using turbopascal on windows... until I had to do something windows specific and my program wasn't compiling on linux platform.
I almost fail that exercise and I understand that I needed to install linux on my computer.
video games are art
How?
I went to a computer shop and asked if they knew what linux was, they said yes and I asked for a CD, they said "we don't have then ready but they arrive soon" at that time I didn't know I just could download it from the official website, I went back to the store, asked for the CD and they gave me an original ubuntu CD version 6.14
I saw linux about 20 years ago on my computer lessons. Red Hat was mysteriously blinking from the monitor. But installed it for the first time in 2007.
i switched all the work machines at my business over to linux mint with xfce and we're loving it.. strange thing is that once you get it dialed in and get used to the quirks, you end up with an operating system that's more stable and trouble free than win10 and especially win11.
SSHFS is the straw that broke windows' back for me. We do web development and do not like having to sync files with FTP. Some of our clients have tens of gigabytes of files or millions. Adds up when you have 1 person servicing 10 clients.
We use a big fat IDE and it performs like garbage over SSHFS direct to the web server on windows but on Linux it works so well that one of my employees that's about 8000 miles away doesn't really notice any lag from running a remote filesystem for that distance. The networking stack on Linux is god-tier compared to Windows.
Okay so what about windows programs? we still have win 10 virtual machines for a couple programs but we're not far from completely cutting the cord and are very happy with linux :)
I can't get away from Arch Linux. I keep going between Debian and Arch. The convenience of the AUR tho... it's a tasty repo, yes'suh. Yes indeed.