Always a pleasure to hear you, Joe. About a decade ago, I was considering installing Linux, I came across your videos & it eased my phobia of Linux. Still I was a bit hesitant, so I wrote you an email about installing Linux Mint. You gave me some pointers & I installed Mint. Never went back to Windows. Thank you.
Linux certainly does not suck. I switched very successfully when I started watching your videos during the pandemic. So grateful, and have never looked back.
@@goodchildmusic0 Had a lot of time on my hands during the start of the Pandemic and having dabbled in the past, I thought it was a good time to seriously dive into Linux. A friend (here in the UK) pointed me in the direction of Joe's channel. I binged watched and still return to some of the old videos from time to time. I might add I was a Windows Insider checking out all the new stuff, but got disillusioned when some builds came with nothing in them as they were starting A/B testing. It became a total waste of time. That and the introduction of Windows 11 was the last straw. It took some time to get comfortable with a different OS (I started with Ubuntu), but I eventually got there on a separate PC. I have moved over to Linux MInt on one PC, and MX Linux on another. I finally formatted the Windows 10 machine late last year, as I was not using Windows by then. I'll add I'm coning up to 78 years old. If I can move to Linux, anyone can, unless you use Adobe stuff perhaps but then there are alternatives. It just takes the time and effort to learn. That includes the terminal. People should go and watch all of Joe Collins' videos. You won't go far wrong. Best of Luck to anyone with the bottle to "go for it".
Thanks a lot Joe, good to hear this experience. And indeed, whenever you look for that very hardcore linux answer it's gonna be either in the Arch wiki, but also in the Ubuntu forums. So much i learned from those forums (even as a non-ubuntu user), with viable answers dating back to 2012, 2016. Keep them coming, much appreciated!
You were my guide for my move from XP to Linux. Your manner was just what a new guy needed. We went through several updates over the years, and my interest in music albums was rekindled. Still with the Penquin, know more that I did then, but not a whole lot more. Thank you.
My grandfather introduced me to Linux when I was 13, then my dad gave me an old laptop as my first computer so that I could run Linux on it. I tried dual booting with Windows at first, but couldn't get Windows to work, so I just stuck with Linux. I've been using Linux as my primary OS ever since. I'm very glad I stuck with it. Now I manage Linux servers as part of my job!
A good father helps his kids learn many lessons, big and small. I can tell you're a good dad, and I can't think of anything in life more important than that.
The cool thing is that if he ever does anything more than gaming, he can start out trying to use open source software, or at the very least, cross platform software. I wish I was able to do that. In particular I learned music production on ableton live and I really don't want to start from square 1 and learn a new DAW.
@@EzeeLinux If the "User Account" that you created was not a local account but a Microsoft account, as Microsoft practically demands people to do these days, then Bitlocker is automatically enabled with the most recent Windows 10 updates. It is not enabled if using a local account though. They've been automatically adding small "Features" like this that automatically enable certain things. It's one of the reasons why I'm migrating to Linux. I've had enough of the big brother surprises that Microsoft has been adding in recent years. That recall "Feature" is what broke the camels back in my case.
I love your approach to helping your son with computers. Giving him the freedom to use Windows if he wants and watching him circle back to Linux for his own reasons and with your help. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Man it doesn't feel like that long since 2014... I feel old now. Been here through it all, and don't plan on leaving. Good to see a video coming out from you.
My daughter has been on LMDE since 5 came out, recently updated to 6. She uses it mostly for Minecraft and Krita using a drawing display pad. She has gotten really, really good at drawing. Some of her drawings look like professional cartoons, and I don't mean the prevalent bubble/stick figure type. She's 10. Anyway, yeah, it's just a useful computer to her. It being a Linux based system isn't something she thinks about at all.
@@l0gic23 I'll ask. I'm not at home. It uses USB cables for mouse/stylus input and power to her laptop which is a Linovo ThinkPad and HDMI out from her laptop to the drawing tablet's screen. OK, just got a message back... It's the XP-Pen Artist 13.3 Pro. Cheers.
I took off Windows 10 off our Laptop about a year ago, and installed Mint Cinnamon. I'm very used to Linux, but my girlfriend isn't and loves Windows. Since using it, she now prefers Linux to Windows. Great story.
Hey, a hot tip for anybody trying to game on linux, you don't need to install proton. It comes built into steam. I haven't had to touch it or think about it I literally play games the exact same way I do on Windows, except for there's a compatibility box checked in each game in steam. I have done this with several distros
After using Linux off-and-on since the mid 90s, keeping old laptops useful and learning C programming, I finally switched the main streaming PC over to Mint 21.3 full-time. My only regret is not doing it sooner. OBS and Firebot work better than they did under Win11; it even solved my random frame loss problem.
Linux content on TH-cam is becoming more abundant, too. I don't know if you've left the game, but maybe you should get back to making a few videos... Glad to watch this one, though! 👍
great to see another video thanks Joe, I've been onboard linux since 2012 only limitation I found is printer choice, I have used brother and hp printers no problem but I,m currently looking to buy a smart ink printer but seemingly they don't support linux at my price point
You're some of the people who got me looking at linux back in the day. I really do enjoy using linux, but for the moment I can't use it due to wayland being a near requirement for me and using an nvidia card.
I also have one of those HP Refurbs. It blue screens on Windows 10 and even 11 with an error on the UEFI/BIOS. No warranty, even though it was right out of the box. I installed Tumbleweed on it and I have been using Proton to run MechWarrior Online with it ever since.
Good on your son for going into the trades and not college. I wish I had done the same. It's been a while since seeing one of your videos. I watched your video after seeing another tuber complaining about linux sucks in 2024.
Good to hear all is well with you! How about a refresher on your Back Up Tool. Got lazy for a while on updating LM versions, so now I am in update mode.
I once changed an acer laptop monitor, and it wouldn't turn on to show neither the bios or windows, but Linux worked fine. I tried connecting it with an external monitor to get windows on it but it would just bork itself. The laptop came back to me a couple of times because somebody else tried getting windows on it and it got borked every single time. Unfortunately the person could not use Linux for her use case and got a new laptop. I tried to buy it from her, to investigate but was unsuccessful.
It's great to hear from you again finally! About 15 years ago when I first heard about Linux, I seen a couple of your videos. At the time I thought Linux looked and sounded interesting. So I tried it out a couple of times and at the time it was unfamiliar, definitely a learning curve you had to learn. So I went back to Windows, couple years later I took an IT class and the instructor was heavily into Linux. From that point on, I really liked the Linux OS. It's been about 12 years now since I switched completely to Linux, I have never looked back. I have been running Manjaro KDE for about 10 years now and never had any major problems, minor hickups here and there but easily fixed. Linux is so much more Awesome then Windows will ever be. Linux is customizable in so many ways, especially the KDE version. To be honest, I don't know why Windows is still on top as an OS. Sorry I'm starting to ramble, but I guess Linux does that to you, hearing all the wonderful stories of people transitioning to Linux. Slowly but surely, Linux is rising to the top. Anyways, I wanted to say it is good to hear from you once again. For the longest time I couldn't remember your channel, but for some reason, algorithms or whatever, I came across your name and for some reason your name rang a bell. To echo some of the comments, the community owes you alot. Thx for continuing to share your insights and expertise. Thank you.
I am a developer and I use Windows11 and Linux (Mint, Fedora) for productive work. The only real problem I see these days with Windows is still privacy and the fact that you are not controlling what's going on with your data and your machine. I never had any performance issues wth Windows or Linux. If you are aware of what you are doing, you can live in both worlds and use the tools provided there. Funny thing: I own a desktop computer (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO ) that does not like Linux Mint. No matter what I do, no matter how often or different I try to install Linux Mint, it just does not boot up. Every other Linux Distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc) are working just fine. Anyway, thanks for the video, a pleasure hearing from you again. All the best.
Thanks for your video, I enjoyed listening to the whole story about your son's computer windows to Linux thing and I learned a couple of things there. I watched your videos back in 2015, that's when I first started using Linux, I learned a lot from your videos thanks for all the fish. MX 23 is pretty much my favourite Linux distro, like you say Ubuntu has a lot of support but I prefer Debian based, anyway thanks again.
Hey Joe, i did a different strategy, i have 2 SSD M.2 drives here PCI-E 3.0, and i bought one with mid range speed, which doesn't heat much, its chinese, but it has aluminum heat sinks, anyways, my configuration, i did a cross use, this config of mine depends on 2 SSD's and Hard drives. Well what i did is, I did install Linux with its EFI and boot partitions in the beginning of one, and Windows on the other SSD (i have only for backups sake, i never use it.) home folder is on SSD, but i symlink the personal folder files to a HD drive that haves all my files, my programs i have a big "/opt" partition, i store there all programs i find on the internet and try to configure from there (including appimages), but i install various others to /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and flatpaks as well. but tarballs and proprietary ones i hold all in "/opt" on the other SSD that has windows. So the load my system has is on both SSD's, its shared by both, running applications and so forth, so my system doesn't intensively use one SSD for all of it. Games i use hard drive as well, i don't hold game files on SSD, Projects as well, and My SSD's has 20% of OP (Over Provisioning), to prolongs its life, so 20% of the SSD's is unformatted free drive, for the SSD's operations to use it. and thats how i got it working here.
Joe, I enjoyed your video. One thing that you talked about in passing was about smoothing out the ability to boot up from a USB stick containing a Linux ISO. I foreone would love to see a video on your procedure to bo that. Thanks for all you have done to help others like me to embrace the Linux world. John R.
OEM install of windows has device encryption by default. But I don't think ebay sellers usually use OEM, apart from using the manufacturer's installer which may add encryption.
I remember having a boot problem with Windows on a buggy Asus motherboard. It would boot from usb if you had the stick in a 2.0 slot. 3.0 slots wouldn't work. Repaired it that way. In the end I spent some money, got rid of the Asus board and bought an MSI. Now my workstation runs so smooth! Probably will install 11 next year. Using that for work, vmware, photgraphy and gaming. My laptop has Kubuntu installed though, using it for internet, email and office.
Windows 11 Recall had me on edge about running Windows on my main machine..... Then it updated one day and I logged in and MS Edge opens - I was like why is Edge open? I don't use it. Then I look closer - it's opened all the tabs I had open in Chrome and installed all my Chrome extensions on it's own. That was the last straw - I've been on Mint for the last 3 weeks. It's working so far, however I haven't tried the games I used to play on Windows though.
Thank you so much for sharing this Video. After windows 10 is done I can rest my worries to finally making Linux Mint My Only trusted platform rather going to windows 11. From all the bad publicity that I have been hearing and trying to get out of sticky situations - Linux just Works - and Microsoft just quits and is not hearing there users complaints fast enough and like you said all the e-waist that will happen - It would bury Microsoft. Almost as bad as apple. As always Joe It's so nice to hear your voice in support of Linux. And to Mr Torvol we sure are in his debt of creating a OS that can include everyone...
It didn't seem to be an issue here, but soon as you mentioned the Samsung SSD, I wondered if that might be the problem if it was one with the notorious firmware bug. Whenever I buy a Samsung SSD I first update the firmware just to be safe.
How good is the Nvidia support in Ubuntu/ mint? Because I use proprietary Nvidia technology everyday in my line of work [whether that be AI, audio denoising or creating nerfs] And I really kind of need to be able to do that...
I think the best way to answer that would be to suggest that you do some research with your use-case in mind. Go look to see how other are accomplishing what you need to do with Linux. :)
Vinyl question. Sorry for the off-topic post, Joe (but hey, you did use a vinyl image here). And I'm sure you've heard this but I still want to say it -- why be a fan of vinyl other than to get recordings unavailable in any other format? Surely any improvement in audio quality over CD (debatable, and achievable in ideal expensive conditions if at all) is basically always trumped in real life by the inevitable crackle caused by dust, not to mention scratches, fingerprints, etc. If we're going to advocate quirky retro hobby media, why not MiniDisc? Yes ATRAC is proprietary but the audio quality (with no crackle) has to beat vinyl, and it must be fun to make "mixtape" disks, moving and renaming tracks without needing a PC, etc. And CDs are also prone to scratches, fingerprints etc like vinyl is. It's just a real shame MD didn't take hold and survive. I almost wish someone would make a kind of sibling format in the form of MiniCDs in a caddy. With MiniCDs of course being smaller than full size CDs, to fit a whole album you'd need compression like MD uses - MP3 is the obvious boring choice but we could then go ultra quirky and advocate they have Ogg (Vorbis, Opus etc). Anyway just some ideas - what do you think?
For decades now, I've been dipping my toe into Linux now and again. Compiled my first kernel back around 2000. Two months ago, I finally walked away from Microsoft. Some of their decisions recently have been really bad. Gaming on linux is so much easier than it has been in the past. Due, in no small part, to Valve. I chose the Fedora path. I am glad to see that the Linux community has improved quite a bit. Thank you for a great video.
Last year I bought a Windows laptop and this year a cousin of mine gave me an old Window Acer desktop, but she lost the password. So I installed Linux from my USB an ever since January I've been using only this desktop with Ubuntu.
Great to hear from you again! I've been using linux, in one form or another, since the 90's. Your so right, it has come a long way. Almost 3 years now that I have been using Arcolinux as my daily. Once I found a "native" linux app for my security cameras, See Ya! Bill. To tell you the truth there have been a few "hiccups" but nothing catastrophic like what happened to your son. IMHO if you are computer savvy, what are you still using windows for!
LMDE is considered experimental and a backup plan for Mint if they ever had to stop using Ubuntu as a base. I run it to help the project mostly and it has proven to be super stable and does what I need. It's not nearly as pointy-clicky as regular Mint, though. Therefore, I would only suggest LMDE for advanced Linux users. :)
Literally the only reason my workplace has not become a Linux haven is because it will never ever ever ever run Quickbooks at least natively if at all. There are a few other things where it helps to have a Windows box laying around like Midiox and Audio Architect but QB is core to them Thank you Joe for doing these videos.
Thank you for sharing this story, I really enjoyed it. I just installed Ubuntu 24.02 I believe and I was wondering if you had any idea why I’m stuck in 640x480 window? I have a 27inch 120hz IPS monitor and it’s 1440p resolution, it only has DisplayPort for the connection to my graphics card and my graphics card is an AMD Radeon 6800xt. My CPU is Intel core i9 10900k and in Windows 11 works flawless, but for some reason I can’t change the resolution in Ubuntu, first I ran all updates then rebooted same, then I installed latest AMD drivers which Ubuntu said they were already installed. I’m just at a loss. Btw Ubuntu is on a separate SSD from my windows drive, so I’m dual booting them.
You can easily put win11 on any pc with a few basic cmd prompt inputs during install. Bypass check cpu, ram, tpm etc. Bypass NRO to create local account. Easy peasy.
I switched to Linux Mint about 2 months ago, because Windows 11 isn't supporting my CPU. It hasn't been perfect (nothing in this life is), but dang it if it isn't close to perfect! I totally agree with you about Windows/Microsoft basically creating unnecessary e-waste by having such a hard cut off for system requirements. I hope more users switch over to save these computers.
together with htop you would want to also run nvtop for the gpu processes to ensure you are using the correct gpu, also nvidia-smi to check on browser video decoding, sometimes you need to tweak things a bit to make it work. My personal story is that I don't game much anymore but I have been using linux for a long time, I still remember playing unreal tournament 99 & 2004 on our crappy family computer we built with my dad back in the day running debian and gentoo, and a year ago I played a lot of Deep Rock Galactic in what's been my distro of choice for over a decade (yes, I use the meme BTW); sometimes I cannot believe it's been 20 years since I stopped using windows (I have to use macOS on my work tough), and as opposed to some might say, linux does indeed not suck at all, it's better than ever thanks to great individuals and companies like Valve, and I hope it keeps getting more awesome.
It's nice to see more people who aren't really as interesting in playing with their computers as the majority of linux users I chat with, be able to just use their like they have been able to for years on windows.
I bought a Windows 10 refurbish computer off of Amazon two years ago. I had been using Linux and was surprise how many Linux features it had . Left the operating system be. Now I am looking at end of life for Windows 10. I just bought a System76 computer and after I get it and set it up to my liking I plan on putting Mint on my old machine which is a fairly powerful machine ,(why I bought it in the first place) giving it to my daughter. The system76 computer offers drive encryption at installation. I might on occasion want to compile hardware . Wonder how drive encryption would effect that, if I choose that option. That machine would be in my house and I would be the only user on it. It is a desktop, if I bought a laptop, oh yes I encrypt the hard drive. That feature of their Linux Distro (Pop!_OS) is a reason for laptop users to consider it.
Been a hot minute since I watched a video of yours, but it's just as pleasant as when I did regularly. And the story was wonderful, glad you could do it I've only stayed on Windows out of laziness, which I do feel kinda bad about. Practice what you preach as they say, I've said it elsewhere before. But I'd argue people don't like Windows, but what it allows them to do. Because even as someone who can't stand Apple, they actually design an experience
18:38 your graphic should have been with a > symbol. != means not equal. > is greater than. If he wants a decent WiFi dongle, I'm using the EDIMAX AC1200 USB adapter. It's okay, it has mixed reviews and sometimes it just stops working. But if you unplug/replug it, it works again. Alternatively if there's a free PCIe x1 slot in the machine you could always get one of the cheap Intel AX200 chipset based cards and get Bluetooth as well. Either option should be pretty cheap.
Hi Joe...nice to see a new video. I have a question pertaining to Linux and installing the OS on an Alienware machine. I haven't seen any videos on how Alienware systems are with the installing of Linus OS's on them, except for one which was a dell Alienware notebook. I guess it's something I will just have to do and see what happens. My warranty has ended this past May, and I think I use my system like your son does. I installed a 2 tb nvme into it...and have the original 1 tb nvme. I guess I won't break the system doing that and seeing what happens. My system is a liquid cooled, AMD R9/10 5900, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 32G running Win11...and getting pretty tired of all the things Microsoft are doing. Have been using Linux off and on...but would like to just get On the Penguin train and say good bye to windows. Anyways...thanks for a new video...have you have a good one eh!! Shawn
It can't hurt to try... Take the time to research what others say about installing Linux on that machine. You'll find out very quickly if there's some sort of issue. :)
Joe, you were talking about playing with 24.04 and finding some bugs. When you did your install, did you dump everything into a single partition, or did you multi-partition on a singe disc? I decided that I was coming to EOL on my 20.04 desktop and was going to upgrade to 24.04. Well, whenever I ran the installer, whenever I got to the partitioning portion ("something else on the older installer), the installer would crash. Worked fine, if I tried installing the entire program on a single partition as is the default, but would crash if I tried to touch the partitioning. Even tried downloading new iso files and new boot drives. Same thing. So, I tried installing Unity, and that worked fine with the multiple partitioning. Just wondering whether that might be another bug to add to your list. THEN, I went to do my monthly backup on a drive that I've been using for, maybe a decade, and 24.04 wouldn't read it --- and gave a "bad fs" error message. I had a laptop with 24.04 gnome on it and same thing happened. Plugged it into a different laptop with 22.04 Budgie on it, and IT worked fine. Another bug for 24.04??? BTW, with Windoze --- be aware that 11 comes with their files encrypted with BitLocker and Linux won't touch those either. Hope you are doing well.
If I could ever figure out how to run Uniden Sentinal to program my scanners as I can not figure out how to access the sd card in the scanner to retrieve and write data to the scanner I would be finished with Windows. I can program my Baofeng ham radios using Chirp software but not the Uniden software to program the scanner.
It is scary how far Linux has come. I started in 2008 and it was not pleasant so I went back to Windows till 2014 and I tried again and eveything worked for the most part. Sure Netflix at that time didn't work and a few other things. Now pretty much everything works. I have no desire to go back to Windows, ever.
I find the Arch Wiki my goto for any Linux software or issues I'm facing. There is no better learning guide hands down. And it is all in one place. The issue with Ubuntu is that the documentation is so fragmented and often stale. I would only argue for it's use as a server, not a desktop.
Ubuntu 24.04 is fantastic feels and looks runs better than previous versions. I loved Eoan 19.10 shame it was a seasonal version for me atleast that was the best solid UB version. This 24.04 runs perfect for me. Loving it. I do dual boot with Win 10 necessity with certain games with VR.
htop is not a tool to measure computer load while playing a game, just RAM and CPU load not GPU load, for nVidia you could use something like nvidia-smi or jtop
Joe, I would be interested in hearing you comment on the recent issues with CrowdStrike. It seems to me this episode is more evidence that critical infrastructure needs to start moving away from MS Windows ASAP.
I agree that Linux is the way forward. Very recently my Win-10 PC had a very major catastrophe. I lost everything. So I purchased a new PC, only to find just how invasive, intrusive and exploitative is Win-11. Then the old PC case was rebuilt on Linux Mint Virginia. That meant i had two computers to choose from - a contest between Win-11 and Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop. Windows was a clear loser in that contest. Linux even drove my old laser Printer and other peripherals, without any shagging about - Plug and play.
About 17:21 I think I heard a furious approaching crowd wailing "I use Arch, btw." Maybe I'm too debianized. I'll tell you when I see burning torches, sharpened scythes and funnily tied up ropes, anyway (And, no matter the noise, they have a nice lot of awesome documentation, "btw").
I literally had the exact same issue with Nvidia drivers. Oddly, my machine ran BETTER on the 470 drivers in most cases, but i needed the 535+ drivers to run specific games because proton/wine wouldnt detect my graphics card on 470, but id also get AWFUL flickering on 535. Since nvidia released 555, almost all my issues have finally melted away. Switched to Fedora almost a year ago at this point and i can do 95% of everything that i did on Windows. This was not the case a decade ago.
I need some help So, I switch to Zorin os from windows 10 2 months ago, now my issue is that I just can't play native windows games via steam on it ......I do have wine proton and steam Linux runtime but the game ether crashes or it just show some wired artifacts on loading screen and doesn't open
Company tend to install windows with bitlocker. I always wipe a new computer and install windows myself . It was really unnecessary to switch to Linux. Especially since windows is really easy to install.intel+Nvidia is just a pain to handle on Linux .
Yes. I’ve been using Linux for very long time now. Switching back and forth for all those years. Ending up going back in 2019-20 due to windows update that turned my computer very slow. But in Linux, it runs smoothly. It still using it until now without any reformatting in that particular NVME M.2. I started as Ubuntu f several months. Then switched to KDE neon and the another one (laptop) is running in Big Linux. For several years, it’s been that way. My students ask me, did you reinstall in the past years. Nope, I answered. It’s been like that for years. Only, moving and creating new partition for testing. It’s all in my videos. Anyways, I agree with you. Linux is getting better and better each year.
My issues still to this day since last time I checked Linux also has sucky RDP clients. Like all of them. Issues with multiple displays and touch screen. Parsec can't be used to host remote gaming session for example (best for slow internet scenarios plus ease of use compared to su stream + moonlight) Also unknown devices, missing drivers is a bit more difficult to figure out (no device manager equivalent)
Wayland sort of fixes issues with multiple displays and touchscreen displays. RDP is pretty bad, Remmina is the only real option for getting remote desktops up and running, client side. Also, Parsec < looking glass
I've been running Linux on multiple computers since the '90s. I purchased an early Red Hat CD and played with that first. There were many issues with hardware support (video and network). I ran an HP RISC version of Debian on an HP UX workstation for a while as well. Over the years I've run SUSE, Mandrake, Knopics and others. My preferred and current distro now is Mint. I am currently running it on several machines. I also run Steam and have found that Proton does a great job with Windows versions of games. I have to run some games that have Linux native versions using Proton because of multi-player game version support issues. Basically a Windows game has been updated to newer versions and the Linux version is not. I don't have any playability issues with Windows games. With over 20 years of running Linux on various hardware and platforms, I have seen monumental improvements these years. Linux has grown up from a novelty to a real contender to Windows. I'm OK with it not having the installed base of Windows. I like your videos and have learned much from you. Keep up the good work.
I literally reimaged my gaming computer to an Arch based gaming distro this year (Garuda) in large part because I knew steamOS is based on Arch these days. I hardly play games anymore because I'm an adult, so I just decided there's so many games that do play on linux, that if there's a game that doesn't run, I'll just go look to play something else.
Always a pleasure to hear you, Joe. About a decade ago, I was considering installing Linux, I came across your videos & it eased my phobia of Linux. Still I was a bit hesitant, so I wrote you an email about installing Linux Mint. You gave me some pointers & I installed Mint. Never went back to Windows. Thank you.
Linux certainly does not suck. I switched very successfully when I started watching your videos during the pandemic. So grateful, and have never looked back.
Snap! Would love to hear about the experience. No joke. I love meeting peeps that have moved to Linux for their daily driver. FUDGING GREAT.
@@goodchildmusic0 Had a lot of time on my hands during the start of the Pandemic and having dabbled in the past, I thought it was a good time to seriously dive into Linux. A friend (here in the UK) pointed me in the direction of Joe's channel. I binged watched and still return to some of the old videos from time to time. I might add I was a Windows Insider checking out all the new stuff, but got disillusioned when some builds came with nothing in them as they were starting A/B testing. It became a total waste of time. That and the introduction of Windows 11 was the last straw. It took some time to get comfortable with a different OS (I started with Ubuntu), but I eventually got there on a separate PC. I have moved over to Linux MInt on one PC, and MX Linux on another. I finally formatted the Windows 10 machine late last year, as I was not using Windows by then. I'll add I'm coning up to 78 years old. If I can move to Linux, anyone can, unless you use Adobe stuff perhaps but then there are alternatives. It just takes the time and effort to learn. That includes the terminal. People should go and watch all of Joe Collins' videos. You won't go far wrong. Best of Luck to anyone with the bottle to "go for it".
Joe, it's always a pleasure when you post. The community owes a lot to you. Thanks for sharing your insight and expertise!
You have helped so many Linux users Joe, we owe you a lot.
You are the only person who can make my excited when I see a 30 minute video in my subscriber feed ready to be clicked. Cheers!
Thanks a lot Joe, good to hear this experience. And indeed, whenever you look for that very hardcore linux answer it's gonna be either in the Arch wiki, but also in the Ubuntu forums. So much i learned from those forums (even as a non-ubuntu user), with viable answers dating back to 2012, 2016. Keep them coming, much appreciated!
Not mentioning the Arch wiki was blasphemous. ;D
Yeah, as a Debian user, I've found that most fixes for Ubuntu also work on Debian.
You were my guide for my move from XP to Linux. Your manner was just what a new guy needed. We went through several updates over the years, and my interest in music albums was rekindled. Still with the Penquin, know more that I did then, but not a whole lot more. Thank you.
My grandfather introduced me to Linux when I was 13, then my dad gave me an old laptop as my first computer so that I could run Linux on it. I tried dual booting with Windows at first, but couldn't get Windows to work, so I just stuck with Linux. I've been using Linux as my primary OS ever since. I'm very glad I stuck with it. Now I manage Linux servers as part of my job!
..when the drumbeats go like this! Your wallpaper made my day..;o)
Good to hear from you. Miss your Linux greatness!
A good father helps his kids learn many lessons, big and small. I can tell you're a good dad, and I can't think of anything in life more important than that.
The cool thing is that if he ever does anything more than gaming, he can start out trying to use open source software, or at the very least, cross platform software. I wish I was able to do that. In particular I learned music production on ableton live and I really don't want to start from square 1 and learn a new DAW.
It sounds like they installed Win 10 with Bitlocker.
Maybe...
People have had weird stuff happen on Discord 🤔
@@EzeeLinux If the "User Account" that you created was not a local account but a Microsoft account, as Microsoft practically demands people to do these days, then Bitlocker is automatically enabled with the most recent Windows 10 updates. It is not enabled if using a local account though. They've been automatically adding small "Features" like this that automatically enable certain things. It's one of the reasons why I'm migrating to Linux. I've had enough of the big brother surprises that Microsoft has been adding in recent years. That recall "Feature" is what broke the camels back in my case.
I always appreciate and enjoy your Linux videos, Joe!
LINUX RULES! I went to it full time when Microsoft announced Windows Recall. I haven't looked back. I'm currently running FerenOS and I love it.
I hadn't heard of FerenOS. Very cool distribution!
I love your approach to helping your son with computers. Giving him the freedom to use Windows if he wants and watching him circle back to Linux for his own reasons and with your help. Thanks for sharing your experience!
Man it doesn't feel like that long since 2014... I feel old now. Been here through it all, and don't plan on leaving. Good to see a video coming out from you.
My daughter has been on LMDE since 5 came out, recently updated to 6. She uses it mostly for Minecraft and Krita using a drawing display pad. She has gotten really, really good at drawing. Some of her drawings look like professional cartoons, and I don't mean the prevalent bubble/stick figure type. She's 10. Anyway, yeah, it's just a useful computer to her. It being a Linux based system isn't something she thinks about at all.
Which pad do y'all have working? If she has her eye on anything for the future, which pad is that?
Thanks
@@l0gic23 I'll ask. I'm not at home. It uses USB cables for mouse/stylus input and power to her laptop which is a Linovo ThinkPad and HDMI out from her laptop to the drawing tablet's screen. OK, just got a message back... It's the XP-Pen Artist 13.3 Pro. Cheers.
@@WR3ND thanks! This has been on the list for our daughter. Appreciate the solid pointer!
Joe I'm happy you made this. You have with these videos about Linux get into fully because you made it so clear with some humor with it...
I took off Windows 10 off our Laptop about a year ago, and installed Mint Cinnamon. I'm very used to Linux, but my girlfriend isn't and loves Windows. Since using it, she now prefers Linux to Windows. Great story.
Great video Joe,it's always a pleasure to watch your videos.
That is a FUDGING awesome story. I've been on Linux for 10 years and do not miss Windows at all.
I have 2 decades with about 90% linux usage, it was rough for the first decade but its smooth sailing now.
Hey, a hot tip for anybody trying to game on linux, you don't need to install proton. It comes built into steam. I haven't had to touch it or think about it I literally play games the exact same way I do on Windows, except for there's a compatibility box checked in each game in steam. I have done this with several distros
After using Linux off-and-on since the mid 90s, keeping old laptops useful and learning C programming, I finally switched the main streaming PC over to Mint 21.3 full-time. My only regret is not doing it sooner. OBS and Firebot work better than they did under Win11; it even solved my random frame loss problem.
For nvidia gpus nvtop is a great package, like htop, to observe loads and temps on the dedicated graphics
Yay🎉 an old school Linux video
I always enjoy your content. Waiting patiently for your next video😄
Linux content on TH-cam is becoming more abundant, too. I don't know if you've left the game, but maybe you should get back to making a few videos... Glad to watch this one, though! 👍
Yes Joe please do the videos like in the old days cant get enough of your expertise
great to see another video thanks Joe, I've been onboard linux since 2012 only limitation I found is printer choice, I have used brother and hp printers no problem but I,m currently looking to buy a smart ink printer but seemingly they don't support linux at my price point
Me too. It will come along soon, though. :)
You're some of the people who got me looking at linux back in the day. I really do enjoy using linux, but for the moment I can't use it due to wayland being a near requirement for me and using an nvidia card.
DOn't worry too much. They are working on that now. Wayland will work with your new Nvidia card right about the time you're ready to buy it. :)
Issue is already solved. Use the beta 555 driver and plasma 6.
Great video, story, and ideas on Linux vs M$. I have been using Linux since 2018 and have loved every second of it.
I also have one of those HP Refurbs. It blue screens on Windows 10 and even 11 with an error on the UEFI/BIOS. No warranty, even though it was right out of the box. I installed Tumbleweed on it and I have been using Proton to run MechWarrior Online with it ever since.
Thanks for the feedback. I ended up tweaking the BIOS quite a bit. I turned off as much of the redundant security theater stuff as I could.
Good on your son for going into the trades and not college. I wish I had done the same. It's been a while since seeing one of your videos. I watched your video after seeing another tuber complaining about linux sucks in 2024.
You can also use nvtop to keep track of how hard the GPU is working
Good to hear all is well with you! How about a refresher on your Back Up Tool. Got lazy for a while on updating LM versions, so now I am in update mode.
I once changed an acer laptop monitor, and it wouldn't turn on to show neither the bios or windows, but Linux worked fine. I tried connecting it with an external monitor to get windows on it but it would just bork itself. The laptop came back to me a couple of times because somebody else tried getting windows on it and it got borked every single time. Unfortunately the person could not use Linux for her use case and got a new laptop. I tried to buy it from her, to investigate but was unsuccessful.
Hey joe, love watching your videos. I would love to see a video on making a bootable memory stick that would save my settings
It's great to hear from you again finally! About 15 years ago when I first heard about Linux, I seen a couple of your videos. At the time I thought Linux looked and sounded interesting. So I tried it out a couple of times and at the time it was unfamiliar, definitely a learning curve you had to learn. So I went back to Windows, couple years later I took an IT class and the instructor was heavily into Linux. From that point on, I really liked the Linux OS. It's been about 12 years now since I switched completely to Linux, I have never looked back. I have been running Manjaro KDE for about 10 years now and never had any major problems, minor hickups here and there but easily fixed. Linux is so much more Awesome then Windows will ever be. Linux is customizable in so many ways, especially the KDE version. To be honest, I don't know why Windows is still on top as an OS. Sorry I'm starting to ramble, but I guess Linux does that to you, hearing all the wonderful stories of people transitioning to Linux. Slowly but surely, Linux is rising to the top. Anyways, I wanted to say it is good to hear from you once again. For the longest time I couldn't remember your channel, but for some reason, algorithms or whatever, I came across your name and for some reason your name rang a bell. To echo some of the comments, the community owes you alot. Thx for continuing to share your insights and expertise. Thank you.
Been running pop for under a year I think.
Thinking seriously about deleting the windows partition
I am a developer and I use Windows11 and Linux (Mint, Fedora) for productive work. The only real problem I see these days with Windows is still privacy and the fact that you are not controlling what's going on with your data and your machine. I never had any performance issues wth Windows or Linux. If you are aware of what you are doing, you can live in both worlds and use the tools provided there. Funny thing: I own a desktop computer (AMD Ryzen 5 PRO ) that does not like Linux Mint. No matter what I do, no matter how often or different I try to install Linux Mint, it just does not boot up. Every other Linux Distro (Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc) are working just fine. Anyway, thanks for the video, a pleasure hearing from you again. All the best.
Thanks for your video, I enjoyed listening to the whole story about your son's computer windows to Linux thing and I learned a couple of things there.
I watched your videos back in 2015, that's when I first started using Linux, I learned a lot from your videos thanks for all the fish.
MX 23 is pretty much my favourite Linux distro, like you say Ubuntu has a lot of support but I prefer Debian based, anyway thanks again.
Hey Joe, i did a different strategy, i have 2 SSD M.2 drives here PCI-E 3.0, and i bought one with mid range speed, which doesn't heat much, its chinese, but it has aluminum heat sinks, anyways, my configuration, i did a cross use, this config of mine depends on 2 SSD's and Hard drives. Well what i did is, I did install Linux with its EFI and boot partitions in the beginning of one, and Windows on the other SSD (i have only for backups sake, i never use it.) home folder is on SSD, but i symlink the personal folder files to a HD drive that haves all my files, my programs i have a big "/opt" partition, i store there all programs i find on the internet and try to configure from there (including appimages), but i install various others to /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and flatpaks as well. but tarballs and proprietary ones i hold all in "/opt" on the other SSD that has windows. So the load my system has is on both SSD's, its shared by both, running applications and so forth, so my system doesn't intensively use one SSD for all of it. Games i use hard drive as well, i don't hold game files on SSD, Projects as well, and My SSD's has 20% of OP (Over Provisioning), to prolongs its life, so 20% of the SSD's is unformatted free drive, for the SSD's operations to use it. and thats how i got it working here.
Joe,
I enjoyed your video.
One thing that you talked about in passing was about smoothing out the ability to boot up from a USB stick containing a Linux ISO. I foreone would love to see a video on your procedure to bo that.
Thanks for all you have done to help others like me to embrace the Linux world.
John R.
Thanks... Honestly, I just poked t it until it worked. I don't know what I did. Start with F2 and go from there... LOL
OEM install of windows has device encryption by default. But I don't think ebay sellers usually use OEM, apart from using the manufacturer's installer which may add encryption.
Hey there Joe! How are things going for for you now a days?? I still see you when you post!
I remember having a boot problem with Windows on a buggy Asus motherboard. It would boot from usb if you had the stick in a 2.0 slot. 3.0 slots wouldn't work. Repaired it that way.
In the end I spent some money, got rid of the Asus board and bought an MSI. Now my workstation runs so smooth! Probably will install 11 next year. Using that for work, vmware, photgraphy and gaming. My laptop has Kubuntu installed though, using it for internet, email and office.
Thank you for your time Joe I love Linux
Windows 11 Recall had me on edge about running Windows on my main machine..... Then it updated one day and I logged in and MS Edge opens - I was like why is Edge open? I don't use it. Then I look closer - it's opened all the tabs I had open in Chrome and installed all my Chrome extensions on it's own. That was the last straw - I've been on Mint for the last 3 weeks. It's working so far, however I haven't tried the games I used to play on Windows though.
Thank you so much for sharing this Video.
After windows 10 is done I can rest my worries to finally making Linux Mint My Only trusted platform rather going to windows 11. From all the bad publicity that I have been hearing and trying to get out of sticky situations - Linux just Works - and Microsoft just quits and is not hearing there users complaints fast enough and like you said all the e-waist that will happen - It would bury Microsoft. Almost as bad as apple.
As always Joe It's so nice to hear your voice in support of Linux. And to Mr Torvol we sure are in his debt of creating a OS that can include everyone...
Good stuff Joe , Great to hear from you again. Still promoting Linux.
I'm still following and enjoying your content. 👍
It didn't seem to be an issue here, but soon as you mentioned the Samsung SSD, I wondered if that might be the problem if it was one with the notorious firmware bug. Whenever I buy a Samsung SSD I first update the firmware just to be safe.
The SSD is not Samsung in his machine. I was showing my machines drives in the video.
I was listening to you the whole time while installing linux on a mini pc
How good is the Nvidia support in Ubuntu/ mint? Because I use proprietary Nvidia technology everyday in my line of work [whether that be AI, audio denoising or creating nerfs] And I really kind of need to be able to do that...
I think the best way to answer that would be to suggest that you do some research with your use-case in mind. Go look to see how other are accomplishing what you need to do with Linux. :)
Vinyl question. Sorry for the off-topic post, Joe (but hey, you did use a vinyl image here). And I'm sure you've heard this but I still want to say it -- why be a fan of vinyl other than to get recordings unavailable in any other format? Surely any improvement in audio quality over CD (debatable, and achievable in ideal expensive conditions if at all) is basically always trumped in real life by the inevitable crackle caused by dust, not to mention scratches, fingerprints, etc. If we're going to advocate quirky retro hobby media, why not MiniDisc? Yes ATRAC is proprietary but the audio quality (with no crackle) has to beat vinyl, and it must be fun to make "mixtape" disks, moving and renaming tracks without needing a PC, etc. And CDs are also prone to scratches, fingerprints etc like vinyl is. It's just a real shame MD didn't take hold and survive. I almost wish someone would make a kind of sibling format in the form of MiniCDs in a caddy. With MiniCDs of course being smaller than full size CDs, to fit a whole album you'd need compression like MD uses - MP3 is the obvious boring choice but we could then go ultra quirky and advocate they have Ogg (Vorbis, Opus etc). Anyway just some ideas - what do you think?
Maybe the graphics setting was lower. But proton has progressed really far.
nvtop is htop for gpu
For decades now, I've been dipping my toe into Linux now and again. Compiled my first kernel back around 2000. Two months ago, I finally walked away from Microsoft. Some of their decisions recently have been really bad. Gaming on linux is so much easier than it has been in the past. Due, in no small part, to Valve. I chose the Fedora path. I am glad to see that the Linux community has improved quite a bit. Thank you for a great video.
Last year I bought a Windows laptop and this year a cousin of mine gave me an old Window Acer desktop, but she lost the password. So I installed Linux from my USB an ever since January I've been using only this desktop with Ubuntu.
Great to hear from you again!
I've been using linux, in one form or another, since the 90's. Your so right, it has come a long way.
Almost 3 years now that I have been using Arcolinux as my daily. Once I found a "native" linux app for my security cameras, See Ya! Bill.
To tell you the truth there have been a few "hiccups" but nothing catastrophic like what happened to your son.
IMHO if you are computer savvy, what are you still using windows for!
So LMDE versus Linux Mint Ubuntu (like I have at the moment) what are the advantages of LMDE? Closer to Debian is better?
LMDE is considered experimental and a backup plan for Mint if they ever had to stop using Ubuntu as a base. I run it to help the project mostly and it has proven to be super stable and does what I need. It's not nearly as pointy-clicky as regular Mint, though. Therefore, I would only suggest LMDE for advanced Linux users. :)
Literally the only reason my workplace has not become a Linux haven is because it will never ever ever ever run Quickbooks at least natively if at all. There are a few other things where it helps to have a Windows box laying around like Midiox and Audio Architect but QB is core to them
Thank you Joe for doing these videos.
QuickBooks runs great in a WIndows virtual machine running on a Linux host. Learn how to use VirtualBox and you off and running.
@@EzeeLinux Yes, currently trying to figure out how to sign kernel modules so that vb will work under UEFI.
I wondered if something damaged the windows partition? I just had this occur after a power surge.
Thank you for sharing this story, I really enjoyed it. I just installed Ubuntu 24.02 I believe and I was wondering if you had any idea why I’m stuck in 640x480 window? I have a 27inch 120hz IPS monitor and it’s 1440p resolution, it only has DisplayPort for the connection to my graphics card and my graphics card is an AMD Radeon 6800xt. My CPU is Intel core i9 10900k and in Windows 11 works flawless, but for some reason I can’t change the resolution in Ubuntu, first I ran all updates then rebooted same, then I installed latest AMD drivers which Ubuntu said they were already installed. I’m just at a loss. Btw Ubuntu is on a separate SSD from my windows drive, so I’m dual booting them.
24.04 is very buggy. Try 22.04 and see if it works. Plus, be sure to check for proper video drivers.
@@EzeeLinuxthank you sir I will try your suggestions. 😊
You can easily put win11 on any pc with a few basic cmd prompt inputs during install. Bypass check cpu, ram, tpm etc. Bypass NRO to create local account. Easy peasy.
I switched to Linux Mint about 2 months ago, because Windows 11 isn't supporting my CPU. It hasn't been perfect (nothing in this life is), but dang it if it isn't close to perfect! I totally agree with you about Windows/Microsoft basically creating unnecessary e-waste by having such a hard cut off for system requirements. I hope more users switch over to save these computers.
together with htop you would want to also run nvtop for the gpu processes to ensure you are using the correct gpu, also nvidia-smi to check on browser video decoding, sometimes you need to tweak things a bit to make it work.
My personal story is that I don't game much anymore but I have been using linux for a long time, I still remember playing unreal tournament 99 & 2004 on our crappy family computer we built with my dad back in the day running debian and gentoo, and a year ago I played a lot of Deep Rock Galactic in what's been my distro of choice for over a decade (yes, I use the meme BTW); sometimes I cannot believe it's been 20 years since I stopped using windows (I have to use macOS on my work tough), and as opposed to some might say, linux does indeed not suck at all, it's better than ever thanks to great individuals and companies like Valve, and I hope it keeps getting more awesome.
Great content as always! Thank you for always advocating for Linux!
It's nice to see more people who aren't really as interesting in playing with their computers as the majority of linux users I chat with, be able to just use their like they have been able to for years on windows.
I bought a Windows 10 refurbish computer off of Amazon two years ago. I had been using Linux and was surprise how many Linux features it had . Left the operating system be. Now I am looking at end of life for Windows 10. I just bought a System76 computer and after I get it and set it up to my liking I plan on putting Mint on my old machine which is a fairly powerful machine ,(why I bought it in the first place) giving it to my daughter. The system76 computer offers drive encryption at installation. I might on occasion want to compile hardware . Wonder how drive encryption would effect that, if I choose that option. That machine would be in my house and I would be the only user on it. It is a desktop, if I bought a laptop, oh yes I encrypt the hard drive. That feature of their Linux Distro (Pop!_OS) is a reason for laptop users to consider it.
I've been using Linux for about a year now and it has had it's ups and downs but during that time I haven't felt a need to boot into windows.
Been a hot minute since I watched a video of yours, but it's just as pleasant as when I did regularly. And the story was wonderful, glad you could do it
I've only stayed on Windows out of laziness, which I do feel kinda bad about. Practice what you preach as they say, I've said it elsewhere before.
But I'd argue people don't like Windows, but what it allows them to do. Because even as someone who can't stand Apple, they actually design an experience
I have used Linux for about 10 years now and I agree it's gotten a lot better. I haven't had any problems with my computer for a long time.
Wow nice to hear your rambling joe look forward to your next ramble about linux hopefully
18:38 your graphic should have been with a > symbol. != means not equal. > is greater than.
If he wants a decent WiFi dongle, I'm using the EDIMAX AC1200 USB adapter. It's okay, it has mixed reviews and sometimes it just stops working. But if you unplug/replug it, it works again. Alternatively if there's a free PCIe x1 slot in the machine you could always get one of the cheap Intel AX200 chipset based cards and get Bluetooth as well. Either option should be pretty cheap.
Hi Joe. I have a Stanton d680al with original d6800al stylus what should I track it at
3 grams. :)
Hi Joe...nice to see a new video. I have a question pertaining to Linux and installing the OS on an Alienware machine. I haven't seen any videos on how Alienware systems are with the installing of Linus OS's on them, except for one which was a dell Alienware notebook. I guess it's something I will just have to do and see what happens. My warranty has ended this past May, and I think I use my system like your son does. I installed a 2 tb nvme into it...and have the original 1 tb nvme. I guess I won't break the system doing that and seeing what happens. My system is a liquid cooled, AMD R9/10 5900, Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060, 32G running Win11...and getting pretty tired of all the things Microsoft are doing. Have been using Linux off and on...but would like to just get On the Penguin train and say good bye to windows. Anyways...thanks for a new video...have you have a good one eh!! Shawn
It can't hurt to try... Take the time to research what others say about installing Linux on that machine. You'll find out very quickly if there's some sort of issue. :)
Joe, you were talking about playing with 24.04 and finding some bugs. When you did your install, did you dump everything into a single partition, or did you multi-partition on a singe disc?
I decided that I was coming to EOL on my 20.04 desktop and was going to upgrade to 24.04. Well, whenever I ran the installer, whenever I got to the partitioning portion ("something else on the older installer), the installer would crash. Worked fine, if I tried installing the entire program on a single partition as is the default, but would crash if I tried to touch the partitioning. Even tried downloading new iso files and new boot drives. Same thing. So, I tried installing Unity, and that worked fine with the multiple partitioning. Just wondering whether that might be another bug to add to your list.
THEN, I went to do my monthly backup on a drive that I've been using for, maybe a decade, and 24.04 wouldn't read it --- and gave a "bad fs" error message. I had a laptop with 24.04 gnome on it and same thing happened. Plugged it into a different laptop with 22.04 Budgie on it, and IT worked fine. Another bug for 24.04???
BTW, with Windoze --- be aware that 11 comes with their files encrypted with BitLocker and Linux won't touch those either.
Hope you are doing well.
BTW, that backup drive was formatted with NTFS
If I could ever figure out how to run Uniden Sentinal to program my scanners as I can not figure out how to access the sd card in the scanner to retrieve and write data to the scanner I would be finished with Windows. I can program my Baofeng ham radios using Chirp software but not the Uniden software to program the scanner.
Have you guys tried running through Wine?
It is scary how far Linux has come.
I started in 2008 and it was not pleasant so I went back to Windows till 2014 and I tried again and eveything worked for the most part. Sure Netflix at that time didn't work and a few other things.
Now pretty much everything works. I have no desire to go back to Windows, ever.
I find the Arch Wiki my goto for any Linux software or issues I'm facing. There is no better learning guide hands down. And it is all in one place. The issue with Ubuntu is that the documentation is so fragmented and often stale. I would only argue for it's use as a server, not a desktop.
Ubuntu 24.04 is fantastic feels and looks runs better than previous versions. I loved Eoan 19.10 shame it was a seasonal version for me atleast that was the best solid UB version. This 24.04 runs perfect for me. Loving it. I do dual boot with Win 10 necessity with certain games with VR.
It is a known bug in win10, profiles get corrupted and the only fix is to reinstall
htop is not a tool to measure computer load while playing a game, just RAM and CPU load not GPU load, for nVidia you could use something like nvidia-smi or jtop
I didn't care about the video card. I know that was working harder because the CPU didn't show much of a load. Inference is awesome!
Btop will show GPU load, the default keybind is 5. The terminal needs to be big enough to fit all the information though so it's not shown by default.
Joe, I would be interested in hearing you comment on the recent issues with CrowdStrike. It seems to me this episode is more evidence that critical infrastructure needs to start moving away from MS Windows ASAP.
I changed an old windows laptop to LMDE just for kicks. Everything went well, and the machine works great.
Hi Joe u should do a video on how to properly setup a phono cartridge alignment and tips and tricks
Thanks for the feedback. I can do that for sure. :)
I agree that Linux is the way forward. Very recently my Win-10 PC had a very major catastrophe. I lost everything. So I purchased a new PC, only to find just how invasive, intrusive and exploitative is Win-11. Then the old PC case was rebuilt on Linux Mint Virginia. That meant i had two computers to choose from - a contest between Win-11 and Linux Mint Cinnamon desktop. Windows was a clear loser in that contest. Linux even drove my old laser Printer and other peripherals, without any shagging about - Plug and play.
Yes -myth buster - Debian based has worked OFTB well for many years.
About 17:21 I think I heard a furious approaching crowd wailing "I use Arch, btw." Maybe I'm too debianized. I'll tell you when I see burning torches, sharpened scythes and funnily tied up ropes, anyway (And, no matter the noise, they have a nice lot of awesome documentation, "btw").
I literally had the exact same issue with Nvidia drivers. Oddly, my machine ran BETTER on the 470 drivers in most cases, but i needed the 535+ drivers to run specific games because proton/wine wouldnt detect my graphics card on 470, but id also get AWFUL flickering on 535. Since nvidia released 555, almost all my issues have finally melted away. Switched to Fedora almost a year ago at this point and i can do 95% of everything that i did on Windows. This was not the case a decade ago.
FWIW, I'm still running Budgie on an i386 laptop designed for XP,, so ...
A teen saying I don't need windows and hope we did it earlier says A LOT
I have been watching you since 2016!
I need some help
So, I switch to Zorin os from windows 10 2 months ago, now my issue is that I just can't play native windows games via steam on it ......I do have wine proton and steam Linux runtime but the game ether crashes or it just show some wired artifacts on loading screen and doesn't open
That's a video driver issue. I have no clue how Zorin handles that so I can't help you there but a little research goes a long way.
Install Zorin 17 for him, great for windows users and gaming, comes with wine pre-installled, zero terminal usage needed
Company tend to install windows with bitlocker. I always wipe a new computer and install windows myself . It was really unnecessary to switch to Linux. Especially since windows is really easy to install.intel+Nvidia is just a pain to handle on Linux .
Yes. I’ve been using Linux for very long time now. Switching back and forth for all those years. Ending up going back in 2019-20 due to windows update that turned my computer very slow. But in Linux, it runs smoothly. It still using it until now without any reformatting in that particular NVME M.2. I started as Ubuntu f several months. Then switched to KDE neon and the another one (laptop) is running in Big Linux. For several years, it’s been that way. My students ask me, did you reinstall in the past years. Nope, I answered. It’s been like that for years. Only, moving and creating new partition for testing. It’s all in my videos. Anyways, I agree with you. Linux is getting better and better each year.
My issues still to this day since last time I checked
Linux also has sucky RDP clients. Like all of them.
Issues with multiple displays and touch screen.
Parsec can't be used to host remote gaming session for example (best for slow internet scenarios plus ease of use compared to su stream + moonlight)
Also unknown devices, missing drivers is a bit more difficult to figure out (no device manager equivalent)
Wayland sort of fixes issues with multiple displays and touchscreen displays. RDP is pretty bad, Remmina is the only real option for getting remote desktops up and running, client side.
Also, Parsec < looking glass
I've been running Linux on multiple computers since the '90s. I purchased an early Red Hat CD and played with that first. There were many issues with hardware support (video and network). I ran an HP RISC version of Debian on an HP UX workstation for a while as well. Over the years I've run SUSE, Mandrake, Knopics and others.
My preferred and current distro now is Mint. I am currently running it on several machines. I also run Steam and have found that Proton does a great job with Windows versions of games. I have to run some games that have Linux native versions using Proton because of multi-player game version support issues. Basically a Windows game has been updated to newer versions and the Linux version is not. I don't have any playability issues with Windows games.
With over 20 years of running Linux on various hardware and platforms, I have seen monumental improvements these years. Linux has grown up from a novelty to a real contender to Windows. I'm OK with it not having the installed base of Windows.
I like your videos and have learned much from you. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the feedback. :)
I literally reimaged my gaming computer to an Arch based gaming distro this year (Garuda) in large part because I knew steamOS is based on Arch these days.
I hardly play games anymore because I'm an adult, so I just decided there's so many games that do play on linux, that if there's a game that doesn't run, I'll just go look to play something else.