All the crappy copilot features in win 11, the annoying upgrade notifications, and the back ported features to Win10 made me switch. You are absolutely correct Win11 is screwing the pooch
@@ldoz13 Yeah I don't have tpm though. My PC isn't terribly old and I'm not going to buy new parts just because ms demands it. I have a Ryzen 5800X - I can enable tpm. However that gives me CPU stutters.
Its crazy just how good linux is now days. I've been using linux for a while with my school laptop, and finally made the jump on my main pc. I couldnt belive first how good games run, and how easy it is to get them to work (ty valve for proton). I think the popularity of linux will keep rising.
What games?! Tried Linux again Last week, fedora, nobara, Nitrux... and 7 more. All games run against Ghost Spectre W11 Like shit. I use a 4090, so i dont want waste the Money for getting only 60% of Power, only for using Linux.
@@m.m.3753 @m.m.3753 So far i've played Gta V, Black ops 3, CS2 and some lighter games. I have a 4070 and run Arch. In GTA V, i had to switch proton version to experimental for it to run good, you should see if theres some tips in Proton Db for that game.
@@m.m.3753 Nvidia's Linux support is still quite horrible. Intel/AMD GPUs rarely encounter any issues. I actually gained a bit of performance in some titles, possibly thanks to basically no telemetry/background noise running on the system.
@@m.m.3753 Did you use the Nouveau driver? 60% sounds like the performance figure for the Nouveau driver. Most of the distros you mentioned don't come with preinstalled Nvidia drivers but instead use the open-source Nouveau driver. From my testing, most games run with no more than a 5% difference from Windows now. A lot of them even run better through Proton, for some weird reason. What game did you play to only get 60%? Most of not all recent AAA games run fine on Linux currently. The only games with problems are those with intrusive anti-cheat systems.
@@vineetkumarmotwani474 TEMPLEOS is an os by Terry A Davis who was apparently as he said, God told him in his dreams to make an os. TempleOS is a real os not a meme
I just hate Windows changing and hiding the settings under 3 different layers of useless menus on every new release. My final straw was seeing a "Copilot Preview" under the taskbar in Windows 11, so now I'm seriously considering Linux.
Same. I was dual-booting Windows XP and Mandrake (now Mandriva, I think) when some exchange students we were hosting got a virus on the Windows partition the Sunday night before my wife needed to print something for an AM meeting. I found the disks that came with the computer, but couldn't re-install -- I don't know if I was typing the serial number wrong (it was something like 24 characters long), or if it was bogus to begin with, or what. Decided to try printing her document from the Linux partition, and it just worked. So I was a Linux user until that laptop died. Got a new laptop running Windows 7, and was dual-booting Ubuntu. Thought I'd try WSL, and it worked well enough that I found myself booting into the Linux partition less and less often. I had a small laptop running Windows 8, and I hated it so much I gave it away. When Windows 10 came out, I upgraded, and didn't hate it. Just before the pandemic, I got a new laptop, runing Windows 10. With WSL 2, I haven't bothered to dual-boot; it does about 95% of what I want Linux for, and most of the GUI software I use (Firefox, GIMP, Krita, kdenlive, Okular) has a Windows version that works fine. So I haven't felt the need to figure out how to disable UEFI or SecureBoot or whatever it's called so I can dual-boot. But I have seen Windows 11, and it is an abomination. In July, I'm switching this laptop to Linux. Probably Mint or Pop!OS. And the next laptop I buy will probably be from System76 or Framework. Even if MS extends support for Windows 10, I'm done with it because I do *not* consent to using every damn thing I do for training so-called "AI". No. Just, No.
Modern mainline Linux distros are easy to pick up, much easier than they were 10 years ago. If you know how to partition your hard drive and have a spare USB drive, you could just install one alongside windows and try it out with no risk.
My final straw was one day after reinstalling and going through the ritual of disabling telemetry and just wondering. Why do I put up with this? I started with dual booting and over time I just spent more and more time in Linux. 5 years later and now a days I only have a Windows virtual machine for the software that requires it. Start with something like Linux Mint if you're looking for stability, or Manjaro if you're looking for bleeding edge. Once you learn to love it, you will be distro-hopping in no time.
Try Pop OS. Easy to install and you can dual boot with it and Windows while getting used to Linux. 2 months into it I realized I had stopped using Windows altogether and finally deleted it permanently.
almost all schools in south india uses Linux , its called Kite ( modified version of ubuntu ) , thats what i used during my school days ( 2014 era ) , moved fully to linux back in 2020 when all my games started worked also moved my friends PC to linux , and they are also happy that they dont have to upgrade to win11 just to surf the web , and since ubuntu 24.04 released a few weeks back its very easy for normies
mobile marketshare only 70? you are telling me there is 30% of people using doumb os phones or iphones, i believe the part about dumb os part, but iphone is not even 10% of the market, on some countries is not even 1%
Steam Deck share is about 42% - by OS "SteamOS Holo" or by GPU "AMD Custom GPU 0405" + "AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)". Without it Linux share is 1.1%
@@sergeykish total Linux desktop share is pushing 4% add Unknown its pushing 9% and its 99% chance devices listed as unknown are Linux. source stat counter. plz try harder to cope.. also the steam hardware survey is not a good measurement lol.. not everyone gets the survey .. I haven't gotten the survey in over a year myself, thus those stats are not even close..
I got kicked out of my student licenses 7 years ago, I was sad for a few months, I even contemplated using cracked software, but then I got over it, now I use Arch btw.
Because Windows does not even have a proper command line. Windows is an absolute joke for devs. Me personally, I use Cygwin. If it wasn't for my employer, I would never use Windows (I switched to Linux back in 2004).
I recently just dropped WSL in favor of just dual booting windows for games and linux for work, WSL was a subpar expeerience, better than the default environment but still had too many caveats.
@@lordwiadro83 Windows absolutely does have a proper command line. It has both a really good terminal app and a command line interpreter. PowerShell has better ux/dx than any posix shell.
So much interest in cost cutting but US businesses barely use Linux anywhere but on the server. They would always rather lay off employees before moving to Linux. Software lock-in is amazingly powerful and anti-user.
This is the depressing part for me. I would love nothing more than to make the switch, but I doubt it will ever happen (unless there are some huge new developments in software compatibility).
Just had to pause and leave a quick comment. I've been using Linux starting in 1999 and you absolutely didn't need to "purchase a floppy drive" to install Linux. Burning a boot CD was already common in 2004 and most desktops still had a floppy drive if you wanted to use a boot disk like that. The scenario you're describing only applied to the first few years of Linux even existing, not 20 years ago.
Yeah, that weirded me out too. I wasn't using Linux then, but CDs were commonplace since mid '90s, and Linux was no exception. That was the main way of distribution to the masses. A friend of mine had Knoppix, which was specifically just for a CD (it booted from the CD, and went fully into RAM, allowing you to use the CD drive for other things. And not need or touch the HDD. You did need 128 MB of RAM though IIRC. All of that was not exactly doable from floppy disks)
In the mid and late 90's, yes, we had to download floppy disk images , and use a special program to write them. But by 2004, Ubuntu was starting to give away CD install discs. I think that my first Linux Server was in 1994, and I tried Red Hat ( Pre RHEL ), Slackware, and a few others back in the day. When Red Hat went to paid only, I moved to Fedora for a while, then to Ubuntu in 6.06LTS, and finally to Mint for Desktop and Ubuntu for servers. I like the fact that I can use .deb, App Image, Flatpack, and Snaps, as needed.
@lifesbutastumble It's called Tails. Read only won't remember anything, you actually have to set it up to have a persistent storage if you want to save anything locally.
There's another factor, GPT-4 was able to assist people to doing basic setup, configuration and trouble shooting in Linux, greatly lower the entry barrier of Linux.
@paultapping9510 if those Windows root kits run in the kernel, then a fresh install of Linux that replaces Windows will get rid of them. The Windows kernel is a different kernel than the Linux kernel.
I'd like to resist the agreement on the efficacy of LLMs in assisting users. I'm often called to assist when GPT-4 leads a new Linux user down the wrong path. I always recommend to new users to watch a Linux UA-camr when they are confused about something like LearnLinuxTV
@@kevinrineer5356 Learning from doing and from mistake is a natural process of human progressing, even with reading documents, people will make mistakes, too. It's not a perfect solution, but it's okay, it's a solution. People with critical thinking will find the correct path one way or another, and LLM is great for those who know how to ask correct questions. Not for everyone? yes. But it can bring more people into the rabbit hole, that's net positive.
LLMs is a great way to ask Linux questions because you get a reply instead of an insult. Maybe the community has become less toxic since I last tried it (at the time of the Vista release), but why risk it when there are LLMs.
I switched to linux last month after 30 years on windows. I can NEVER go back. I'd rather deal with the jank and bugs in linux that I can actually fix, than Windows tracking/ads/bullshit
Hi, i think there is few barriers for windows user its environment for work (adobe, 3d max)or fl studio and need to stabilise NVIDIA experience for newcomers . I use arch btw
The increase is Steam metrics is most likely because of the Steam Deck which runs a custom version of Arch. Hopefully it spawns more people interested in Linux. I hadn’t used it for a desktop in a long time myself, and getting a Steam Deck made me consider it again.
In 2006 Ubuntu installer was GUI. It had GUI package manager. Terminal was not required but there was not much software, Firefox and Web 2.0 solved a lot of needs.
I used it at that time and it was waaay more quirky with hardware. Things that today are taken for granted like wifi or webcam being picked up automatically were not the case back then. Hardware support was spotty or poor, for instance binary ATI driver was horrible, a lot of peripherals would require building out-of-tree drivers from source.
I stuck to windows 7 after the release of win8 and win10. I switched to Linux when Windows 7 finally got dropped by Firefox and Steam. Linux has become more attractive due to the massive gains in gaming and hardware support. It just works for the most part.
I'm from India. I started with Ubuntu 8.04 after school and during college, our department head said no coding without linux(Mandrake and later Mandriva).
It's interesting how Linux use in India 🇮🇳 is high. The German government has switched to Linux. Both nations have populations that have high percentage of tech savvy adults.
I bought my first Windows desktop in 1993. Since that time, I have owned 1 or more Windows desktop or laptop systems up until last week. I have used every version of Windows from 3.1 to 11, with the excepion of 95 either on my own computers or on work computers. I started test driving Linux distros back in August of '23, and set up dual-drive, dual-boot on my laptop shortly after. With the changes coming to W11 24H2, I decided it was time to bail on Windows, and I certainly do not regret that decision in the least. I'm now running 3 different Linux distros on 2 old desktops and my laptop, and will be doing my first ground up deesktop build in the next couple of months. Messing around with Linux has made computing fun again, as opposed to just putting up with all the increasingly frustrating aspects of modern Windows!
Linux Mint on an old laptop makes a great internet machine... I've been using Mint since 2018... I've never had any issues period... The first computer I had Mint on was connected to the internet 24/7.... It ran flawlessly for 3 years straight!😅
I've been using Linux Mint for years now an swear by it. Compared to the Windows experience for simple everyday usage? It smashes my Windows box! I brag about it to everyone and I have helped people move over to Linux. Subbed bro!
I think it was around w2k/winXP era that microsoft put in their terms of service they can potentially own anything you create in the OS. I was using Linux off and on for a few years by that point and just dumped Windows. I have only used it to play VR, so a few years ago I installed it again. It is only to play VR games, flat screen games I use Linux. That might change soon, Valve has been releasing SteamVR updates on Linux lately.
Live CDs with full user-friendly graphical installers have existed for over 20 years. The Ubuntu installer from 2006 (when I first installed Linux) is more modern than the Windows installer, maybe even now.
I believe most of your existing microsoft office documents should open up fine with libreoffice suite applications, but you'd have to give it a try and be sure. Just pick any three, Ubuntu, Linux mint and Fedora are all great.
no, LibreOffice has format layout changed, for employment they'll be rejected. maybe you all should tell people around to test libreoffice on Windows, I'm sure they will complain
The year of Linux has already begun. And we should start talking about Market of Linux or Share of Linux now. How to bring it to the mainstream of the mainstream.
Manuscripted videos are almost always much more concise and informative than unprepared presentations. I use to recommend to my (programming) pupils to write a manuscript and speak from it if they're unsecure. It is always good for the presentation to have a manuscript in the case that you forget what to say, even if you make a "script-less" informal presentation. With time the presentations get much better and more informal in tone. Keep doing it the way you do!
I switched to Linux recently. It didn't stick. I got everything working except surround sound and my water cooling hardware. I got the water hardware working passed through to a VM, but that sucks. There is no workaround for the surround sound though.
Linux needs to get more mainstream app developers to make native non-shimmed linux versions of their apps. This MUST include game developers. Yeah, we have the WINE derivative shims but everyone gets very inconsistent results.
Fedora managed to get me in full tilt. First - sound keep crackling and fixing it was a royal pain in the ass. This happens on almost every distro actually. It's like my realtek on board is cursed and needs quantum adjustments in order to work hassle free. Secondly, Wayland. This hot mess barely works. The moment I decide to play a game is the moment that thing just throws it's digital hands and gives up. Had problems with a bunch of other programs as well. Switching to x11 instantly fixes everything. Ultimately had to give up on the mainline spins of Fedora and switched to Aurora, since that one had a distro that keeps it's nVidia drivers updated. I swear it's like Linux has a hate boner for nVidia.
I think something that's going to help Linux this time as opposed to every other time before is that Windows 11 doesn't have a fall back OS. Everyone loved 7, but then 8 came out as the worst version of Windows by far. Luckily, 7 had a very long life-span that went well into 10's lifespan and people were by and large happy since 10 is still a very user friendly OS. Maybe we'll get Windows 12 before 10 dies, but if 12 doesn't stick the landing, it may very well bolster Linux to a much greater market share.
This was informative and I am glad it doesn't blow the number increase out of proportion. Bringing the reasons for the trend changes instead of *number go up Linux popular everywhere now*
I could make a video about the shift from proprietary and anti-competitive business practice of Microsoft under Gates and Ballmer to now being the second biggest open source contributor behind Google thanks to Satya Nadella as CEO.
Most of this push for linux is coming from Valve, making games compatible. Without it most people using linux today would at least doing dual boot all the time.
yes... i am here back installing Linux on my old machine , trying to grasp what I missed in the last 20 years... I recorded many lightweight distro... thanks for this video uncle...
well, it is not, but by usong it you are not closer to windows or to ios kernel is linux, parts of the startup are linux, the desktop environment definitively is not linux, but if you use android, you dont feel like you are loosing something or things are being hidden from you or things were dumbed down so you cpuld feel better about yourself
@@joebulfer Android is a fork of the Linux kernel and a UI layer designed by a company that was acquired by Google. There's been an effort to merge changes back to the main Linux kernel but there's still differences. Android does things for the sake of power management that Linux kernel developers are not keen on.
There should be an AndroidOS for the computer for dual booters I keep looking at cool Linux the only thing I hate is VUDU not working and wish that Blizzard would get World of Warcraft to work on Linux even if it's through Steam.
As soon as Linux is natively compatible with all windows games and apps and they're perfectly optimized, I'll be switching to Arch. For now, Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 is the way to go.
That's probably never going to happen especially when windows exclusives go out of their way to keep it that way or at times build literal rootkits in their games.
There is a major problem concerning the switch. And that's the fact that not everyone can adapt to using Linux over WIndows. My computer specialist tells me that my year old laptop has problems with running Linux distros, and are unable to service a device that uses Linux. So not only is switching to Linux an issue for some people, it's also an issue for some computers, especially modern ones. Hopefully, I'll have better luck installing it on my previous computer, but I can't know for sure without doing so first.
@@Tialian Fair enough. But what I meant to say was my laptop was meant to run Windows, not Linux. I've tried to install Linux on there, but it always causes me problems.
I would think you could cover all those topics, in the long term. It's just a matter of scheduling, in terms of you not getting bored or burnt out. Covering Linux commands, bash shell, scripting from an administrative perspective, and other aspects of administration in an approachable way is always a good thing.
It is also worth mentioning that UA-cam had an issue earlier this year had had a solution of changing the useragent string to not reflect Linux to fix performance issues.
Love hearing a way to explain OS’s to people who don’t know what that is. Also, my friend and I are setting up a production server, and would love to know more about the things that will need to be done to transition from development to production. Hope these ideas help
Most people primarily use web apps which are hosted on primarily linux servers, so one can argue that most people use linux on a daily basis regardless of platform. To put it another way - electron wrapped apps and web browsers are both essentially a thin client to access linux in many cases.
Hello Joe! I like the casual, yet informative presentation of this video. I'm also a subscriber to The Linux Experiment, and I believe they recently reported that Linux's market share finally broke through that 4% mark. Anyway, I would love to see more technical Linux videos, especially related to disk partitioning. Disk partitioning is always something that scares me on a fresh Linux install, because I'm always afraid that I'd partition the disk incorrectly, or set my main '/' partition to an incorrect file system. I'm a recent computer engineering graduate, now working in embedded software in aerospace. I learned Linux at work using RHEL and my first home distro was Debian 11 (Bullseye). Maybe it's due to my major and my occupation, but I love learning how to do as much on the command line as I can.
Linux is fine, but so are Windows and macOS. I just want the OS to get out of the way. Most of the time when I'm using a computer I forget which OS I'm using.
I think it's maddening that many PC builders and enthusiasts still stick with Windows. I get that the masses do due to the OEMs bundling Windows with every device, but if you're an enthusiast and have experienced a good modern Linux distro it's really hard to go back to Windows again. With Windows 11 having TPM requirement most of my less tech-savvy relatives have switched to Linux (with my help, all of them run Manjaro Gnome). Most of them have perfectly serviceable core i5's and i7's with 16GB of RAM, so they don't need a new computer. The biggest change for me when they have gone with Linux is that I no longer get any support calls from them. (like I always did when they had Windows. Like how they they would go online, download a program, get mcafee spamware installed by mistake, and then get a never-ending stream of fearmongering pop-ups) When I ask them if we should install Windows again. None of them wanted to go back. My mother thinks the settings is really easy to navigate in gnome, and she feels safe downloading software from the "app store"/repository. (even downloaded some games by herself, like mahjong) xD
I first encountered Slackware linux way back in the mid 90's. Since 2007 I have used Linux exclusively: everything i want to do just works. As an old "hacker" from the 70's who built a kit conputer which only understood machine code, I just love the fact that linux is so configureable. Its a nice feeling that you own your computer and are not dictated to by a huge corporation!
I've just built an Arch Linux with KDE Plasma desktop on modern AM5 hardware. Good lord am I in love! You need to see it to believe how great Linux is these days.
I guess it's pretty safe to say that Windows 11 is the first installment of Windows to literally exclude a considerable chunk of hardware with their stringent requirements. Before Covid hit, Windows 10 was supposedly said or rumoured to be the last version but then with the lockdowns, the amount of people working remotely and people playing games on pc kinda skyrocketed and MS and OEMs "smelled the blood on the water" and decided to pull a 180 and push a "new" OS that would force folks into dumping their old but functional computers in favor of newer machines that could have these latest installment of Windows, with MS taking more and more control over users computers and shoving Ads left to right down people's throats, along with other anti-consumer measures. And with their intention of pulling the plug on Windows 10, those folks with less cash that can't buy a brand spanking new computer to suit MS' "needs" might really have to switch to Linux or use it along with a permanently offline Windows 10 install for those programs that simply don't work with Linux and don't have appealing alternatives. The small form factor gaming PC space will likely do at least a small push for Linux use because of the Steam Deck and if Valve and Nvidia work together SteamOS might be more viable for gaming machines other than the Steam Deck. Aside from enabling users to customize their machines to their heart's content, Linux has the otherwise underestimated value of not trying to tell users what they can or can't do with their computers
Microsoft pivoted into Cloud quite a while ago. They don’t give a rats ass about Windows. The entire development stack is now platform agnostic (though some geek was trying to tell me that .Net doesn’t run on Linux, which is arrant and demonstrable nonsense, since v5) the only tool hanging on for dear life to Windows is Visual Studio, there’s a Linux version of everything else. (The only reason we use Visual Studio now is that it supports NCrunch and that became moot this month as NCrunch runs on Jetbrains Rider on Linux, so there’s that…) Windows does have a big hold in corporates, of course, and they are very slow to move. I think there might still be a few still running XP! The two big office programs, Word and Excel will keep a solid market share for a while yet. Especially Excel. I don’t think there’s a truly competitive product out there yet. Edit - looking around I may well be wrong about Excel too, it I could t find a feature by feature comparison of a fully featured Linux Excel alternative. Interested to know if there is one (feature by feature comparison… as well as the alternative )
Imagine the feeling when my daughter called me by phone few days ago: Daddy, I'm in my friend's house, I have to eject the USB, but I don't know how to do it because they don't have Linux, they use Windows 🤣
Both you and your daughter are stupid then. Because the USB icon is where it is on many versions of Linux. And in actuallity you haven't had to eject a USB drive in over a decade and a half.
It's just a huge pain developing for. Which GUI system to support? Will wayland be supported? Should we dynamically load xorg support? QT? What sbout GTK? What packages will be available? Etc. etc. huge headache. Don't get me wrong, I do like me some open source OS, but it's just so fragmented.
do you know that Photoshop and Foobar2000 load the psapi.dll library for no reason? psapi is used by taskmgr to fetch aliases on processes. why would Photoshop do that? spyware?
Windows stopped be the proper OS from 7 version. After win 8 become restricted slowly in every new version you feel some ' choke' become tight and more tight . Win 11 do that completely. So one of reasons I use only Linux from 2017
Do grab other creators ideas? Ya, I wonder about github. Microsoft even owns linkdln. You press the start menu and that sends packets to microsoft, that has me concerned.
Microsoft is a software company. Pretty much all software developers use Github, it's a strategic acquisition. They also own LinkedIn and a bunch of other stuff. Big companies swallow smaller ones.
Not much personal experience. But there's this joebulfer.com/Linux/Linux%2B/1.+0+System+Management/1.1+Linux+Fundumentals#Preboot+Excecution+Environments+(PXE)
UserAgent is not "personal identifier" because it does not contain information that are specific to only one person. All it contains is what browser what browser version what operating system and what version of that system you are using. Sometiems it does not contain every one of those information or contains wrong informations like Brave is claiming that it is Chrome. Tracking software is using their own identifiers that are person specific or try to be.
Good point, a user agent only has that info, but the combination of several of those details may be unique enough to be considered personally identifying.
Hi Joe, thanks for the video. I have questions that might be good ideas for a future video. I want to repurpose an old laptop and install Linux Mint. I'm interested in methods to #1 clear out the hard drive for a clean Linux OS install. Are tools like GParted, dd, or shred good for this purpose? And, #2 how do I set up a swap file? Do I need to set up swap in the partition table, or will the Linux OS installation app take care of it?
I'm not Joe but I can answer: almost all Linux Distros will let you choose what to do with the hard drive at install time. When you boot from the installation media (USB or maybe Live CD if it is REALLY old), you can use the bundled partition program to reformat the hard drive if you want to make sure everything is fresh. The install SHOULD automatically create a swap volume for you (usually asks how much swap you want to create). TL;DR: its all mostly automatic these days, and Mint should handle that for you at install time.
Hey there Joe, this was a good format. I liked the concise format, the use of statistics and the supporting narrative. I am also a councillor, community manager and developer for Kubuntu. We would love to collaborate with you on some more videos like this, if you're interested ?
Absolutely! I was just putting together a video comparing linux distros, just some trouble running KVM to show them off. You can check out the Contact Me page on my site.
You forgot the biggest part imo. Windows 11 is so bad it is Linux strongest soldier.
All the crappy copilot features in win 11, the annoying upgrade notifications, and the back ported features to Win10 made me switch. You are absolutely correct Win11 is screwing the pooch
@@timothyvandyke9511 i switched to linux cuase of win 11 bullshit and ai shoved in my system
I don't know why everyone is saying this, you can manually turn off the ai copilot and all. for me windows is smooth and ad-free
@@ldoz13 Yeah I don't have tpm though. My PC isn't terribly old and I'm not going to buy new parts just because ms demands it.
I have a Ryzen 5800X - I can enable tpm. However that gives me CPU stutters.
@@ldoz13Linux is snappy on my hardware, Windows 10 is incredibly sluggish, Windows 11 is not supported.
(Dell Latitude 7480, i5-7300U, 32GB RAM)
Its crazy just how good linux is now days. I've been using linux for a while with my school laptop, and finally made the jump on my main pc. I couldnt belive first how good games run, and how easy it is to get them to work (ty valve for proton). I think the popularity of linux will keep rising.
What games?! Tried Linux again Last week, fedora, nobara, Nitrux... and 7 more. All games run against Ghost Spectre W11 Like shit. I use a 4090, so i dont want waste the Money for getting only 60% of Power, only for using Linux.
@@m.m.3753that's NVIDIA issue and it finally makes steps to resolve it.
Linux works great on supported hardware.
@@m.m.3753 @m.m.3753 So far i've played Gta V, Black ops 3, CS2 and some lighter games. I have a 4070 and run Arch. In GTA V, i had to switch proton version to experimental for it to run good, you should see if theres some tips in Proton Db for that game.
@@m.m.3753 Nvidia's Linux support is still quite horrible. Intel/AMD GPUs rarely encounter any issues. I actually gained a bit of performance in some titles, possibly thanks to basically no telemetry/background noise running on the system.
@@m.m.3753 Did you use the Nouveau driver? 60% sounds like the performance figure for the Nouveau driver. Most of the distros you mentioned don't come with preinstalled Nvidia drivers but instead use the open-source Nouveau driver. From my testing, most games run with no more than a 5% difference from Windows now. A lot of them even run better through Proton, for some weird reason. What game did you play to only get 60%? Most of not all recent AAA games run fine on Linux currently. The only games with problems are those with intrusive anti-cheat systems.
2025 the year of TempleOS.
MandirOS
😄 I am sure GOD would approve of that.
@@vineetkumarmotwani474 TEMPLEOS is an os by Terry A Davis who was apparently as he said, God told him in his dreams to make an os. TempleOS is a real os not a meme
If we will get ww3 then its pretty true 😂
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I just hate Windows changing and hiding the settings under 3 different layers of useless menus on every new release. My final straw was seeing a "Copilot Preview" under the taskbar in Windows 11, so now I'm seriously considering Linux.
Same. I was dual-booting Windows XP and Mandrake (now Mandriva, I think) when some exchange students we were hosting got a virus on the Windows partition the Sunday night before my wife needed to print something for an AM meeting. I found the disks that came with the computer, but couldn't re-install -- I don't know if I was typing the serial number wrong (it was something like 24 characters long), or if it was bogus to begin with, or what. Decided to try printing her document from the Linux partition, and it just worked. So I was a Linux user until that laptop died.
Got a new laptop running Windows 7, and was dual-booting Ubuntu. Thought I'd try WSL, and it worked well enough that I found myself booting into the Linux partition less and less often. I had a small laptop running Windows 8, and I hated it so much I gave it away. When Windows 10 came out, I upgraded, and didn't hate it.
Just before the pandemic, I got a new laptop, runing Windows 10. With WSL 2, I haven't bothered to dual-boot; it does about 95% of what I want Linux for, and most of the GUI software I use (Firefox, GIMP, Krita, kdenlive, Okular) has a Windows version that works fine. So I haven't felt the need to figure out how to disable UEFI or SecureBoot or whatever it's called so I can dual-boot.
But I have seen Windows 11, and it is an abomination. In July, I'm switching this laptop to Linux. Probably Mint or Pop!OS. And the next laptop I buy will probably be from System76 or Framework.
Even if MS extends support for Windows 10, I'm done with it because I do *not* consent to using every damn thing I do for training so-called "AI". No. Just, No.
Modern mainline Linux distros are easy to pick up, much easier than they were 10 years ago. If you know how to partition your hard drive and have a spare USB drive, you could just install one alongside windows and try it out with no risk.
My final straw was one day after reinstalling and going through the ritual of disabling telemetry and just wondering. Why do I put up with this? I started with dual booting and over time I just spent more and more time in Linux. 5 years later and now a days I only have a Windows virtual machine for the software that requires it. Start with something like Linux Mint if you're looking for stability, or Manjaro if you're looking for bleeding edge. Once you learn to love it, you will be distro-hopping in no time.
Ironically actual Copilot, which is part of Bing, is vastly superior to Bing. Forcing Copilot to also act like Cortana is just stupid.
Try Pop OS. Easy to install and you can dual boot with it and Windows while getting used to Linux.
2 months into it I realized I had stopped using Windows altogether and finally deleted it permanently.
almost all schools in south india uses Linux , its called Kite ( modified version of ubuntu ) , thats what i used during my school days ( 2014 era ) , moved fully to linux back in 2020 when all my games started worked also moved my friends PC to linux , and they are also happy that they dont have to upgrade to win11 just to surf the web , and since ubuntu 24.04 released a few weeks back its very easy for normies
In Bihar , we used Ubuntu right away from 2013 , when i was in class 3
And also other distros like mint and fedora was also used by most of the labs
I looked up Kite and Maya OS, it's awesome to see government agencies creating their own linux distros!
Normies meuzovo
you don't really paint a good pictures for linux users right there
2 weeks later "we're going to spy on everything you do every 30 seconds. It's a new feature!" -Microsoft
That literally just happened too except it's every 3 seconds 😂
The time has come we can say: "Its not a bug, its a feature!" unironically.
"It's not spyware, it's for AI!!1!!1!"
Server marketshare: ~ 77%
Mobile marketshare: ~ 70%
Desktop marketshare: ~ 3%
Embedded marketshare: ~ 38%
HPC market share 100%
mobile marketshare only 70?
you are telling me there is 30% of people using doumb os phones or iphones, i believe the part about dumb os part, but iphone is not even 10% of the market, on some countries is not even 1%
Sounds accurate. The Linux server market share has been increasing since Microsoft gave up on Windows Server and starting using Linux VMs for Azure.
Microsoft: "Linux is a malignant cancer". That has aged well.
@@betag24cn That's good too, Apple would been even worse than Microsoft had they been the dominate market.
reason its growing on steam is most games just work now days
Are you a sock-puppet of Vapezizi?
Steam Deck share is about 42% - by OS "SteamOS Holo" or by GPU "AMD Custom GPU 0405" + "AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)".
Without it Linux share is 1.1%
@@sergeykish its funny watching you winblow bots make excuses for your POS OS
@@sergeykish total Linux desktop share is pushing 4% add Unknown its pushing 9% and its 99% chance devices listed as unknown are Linux. source stat counter. plz try harder to cope.. also the steam hardware survey is not a good measurement lol.. not everyone gets the survey .. I haven't gotten the survey in over a year myself, thus those stats are not even close..
Steam dropping windows 7 support persuaded me to upgrade to Linux
I got kicked out of my student licenses 7 years ago, I was sad for a few months, I even contemplated using cracked software, but then I got over it, now I use Arch btw.
You said the line! 😂
Man clapped back a chad
That line by the way 😂
Guys, I have something very important to say:
im using Arch btw.
He said it he said the line
Everyone praise him for crying out loud
HE SAID THE LINE 😂
Don’t forget nowadays developers using windows mostly use wsl.
Because Windows does not even have a proper command line. Windows is an absolute joke for devs. Me personally, I use Cygwin. If it wasn't for my employer, I would never use Windows (I switched to Linux back in 2004).
And even the Windows powershell is adopting Linux commands like sudo.
I recently just dropped WSL in favor of just dual booting windows for games and linux for work, WSL was a subpar expeerience, better than the default environment but still had too many caveats.
@@lordwiadro83 Windows absolutely does have a proper command line. It has both a really good terminal app and a command line interpreter. PowerShell has better ux/dx than any posix shell.
@@ex-xg5hh dude pass along the weed
So much interest in cost cutting but US businesses barely use Linux anywhere but on the server. They would always rather lay off employees before moving to Linux. Software lock-in is amazingly powerful and anti-user.
Everyone at my job uses Alma Linux (RHEL Clone). We are in the US. Granted we are a software company where the CEO himself is an engineer.
@@joebulfer On the rarer side I'm afraid.
This is the depressing part for me. I would love nothing more than to make the switch, but I doubt it will ever happen (unless there are some huge new developments in software compatibility).
The fact you cant answer the underlying question to your own premise concerns me.
Wine Project, Gdiplus/Cairo, DotNet. they are there, people just don't want to help provide feedback to devs, for example Adobe Premiere.
Just had to pause and leave a quick comment. I've been using Linux starting in 1999 and you absolutely didn't need to "purchase a floppy drive" to install Linux. Burning a boot CD was already common in 2004 and most desktops still had a floppy drive if you wanted to use a boot disk like that. The scenario you're describing only applied to the first few years of Linux even existing, not 20 years ago.
Yeah, that weirded me out too. I wasn't using Linux then, but CDs were commonplace since mid '90s, and Linux was no exception. That was the main way of distribution to the masses. A friend of mine had Knoppix, which was specifically just for a CD (it booted from the CD, and went fully into RAM, allowing you to use the CD drive for other things. And not need or touch the HDD. You did need 128 MB of RAM though IIRC. All of that was not exactly doable from floppy disks)
The standard to allow booting from CD was issued in 1995. By end of the 90s most PCs supported it.
In the mid and late 90's, yes, we had to download floppy disk images , and use a special program to write them. But by 2004, Ubuntu was starting to give away CD install discs. I think that my first Linux Server was in 1994, and I tried Red Hat ( Pre RHEL ), Slackware, and a few others back in the day. When Red Hat went to paid only, I moved to Fedora for a while, then to Ubuntu in 6.06LTS, and finally to Mint for Desktop and Ubuntu for servers. I like the fact that I can use .deb, App Image, Flatpack, and Snaps, as needed.
@lifesbutastumble you can just fire up a live environment. The system never writes to any disk then, while you still can do most of the things.
@lifesbutastumble It's called Tails. Read only won't remember anything, you actually have to set it up to have a persistent storage if you want to save anything locally.
There's another factor, GPT-4 was able to assist people to doing basic setup, configuration and trouble shooting in Linux, greatly lower the entry barrier of Linux.
absolutely! I used it to make sure I had fully disabled all of win11s nasty little rootkits and whatnot before installing linux.
@paultapping9510 if those Windows root kits run in the kernel, then a fresh install of Linux that replaces Windows will get rid of them. The Windows kernel is a different kernel than the Linux kernel.
I'd like to resist the agreement on the efficacy of LLMs in assisting users. I'm often called to assist when GPT-4 leads a new Linux user down the wrong path.
I always recommend to new users to watch a Linux UA-camr when they are confused about something like LearnLinuxTV
@@kevinrineer5356 Learning from doing and from mistake is a natural process of human progressing, even with reading documents, people will make mistakes, too.
It's not a perfect solution, but it's okay, it's a solution.
People with critical thinking will find the correct path one way or another, and LLM is great for those who know how to ask correct questions.
Not for everyone? yes. But it can bring more people into the rabbit hole, that's net positive.
LLMs is a great way to ask Linux questions because you get a reply instead of an insult. Maybe the community has become less toxic since I last tried it (at the time of the Vista release), but why risk it when there are LLMs.
I switched to linux last month after 30 years on windows. I can NEVER go back. I'd rather deal with the jank and bugs in linux that I can actually fix, than Windows tracking/ads/bullshit
Finally, 2024 is going be the year of Desktop Linux!!!!!
Hi, i think there is few barriers for windows user its environment for work (adobe, 3d max)or fl studio and need to stabilise NVIDIA experience for newcomers . I use arch btw
I think it's gradual year by year, but perhaps we'll see a significant jump this year from interest generated from Steamdeck.
@@joebulfer i must admit that steam deck users its not the same as desktop users
After about 10 years without using Linux as a desktop I returned, 3 months ago.
@@kayzzen because there is something in linux (its nice to see how it evolve ) i tried back to windows few weeks later i tried archlinux
I wish Linux supported my VR headset... I would love it if Linux would become the default (a user-friendly distribution though)
Android only uses the Linux kernel but not the rest of the common ecosystem that people are usually referring to when they talk about Linux.
When someone call linux, it mean Linux kernel based distribution and Android is Linux kernel based distribution os
Linux is the kernel.
For people worried about Privacy Android smartphones makes Windows look like Microsofts Dr. Watson to Alphabets Sherlock Holmes.
@@ThePhoenixcompaniesWhat does that even meannn 😭😭😭
How about a video series teaching Windows (and Mac?) users how to switch to Linux?
The increase is Steam metrics is most likely because of the Steam Deck which runs a custom version of Arch. Hopefully it spawns more people interested in Linux. I hadn’t used it for a desktop in a long time myself, and getting a Steam Deck made me consider it again.
In 2006 Ubuntu installer was GUI. It had GUI package manager. Terminal was not required but there was not much software, Firefox and Web 2.0 solved a lot of needs.
I used it at that time and it was waaay more quirky with hardware. Things that today are taken for granted like wifi or webcam being picked up automatically were not the case back then. Hardware support was spotty or poor, for instance binary ATI driver was horrible, a lot of peripherals would require building out-of-tree drivers from source.
@@dominik2327 I had desktop, ethernet and NVIDIA card. Unlike Windows XP fresh install it has booted into native screen resolution. It was like magic.
I stuck to windows 7 after the release of win8 and win10. I switched to Linux when Windows 7 finally got dropped by Firefox and Steam. Linux has become more attractive due to the massive gains in gaming and hardware support. It just works for the most part.
It Just Works is amazing when Windows Just Doesn't.
Firefox still works great unter 7
I'm from India. I started with Ubuntu 8.04 after school and during college, our department head said no coding without linux(Mandrake and later Mandriva).
It's interesting how Linux use in India 🇮🇳 is high. The German government has switched to Linux. Both nations have populations that have high percentage of tech savvy adults.
geopolitical BRICS moment, Germany aswell
I bought my first Windows desktop in 1993. Since that time, I have owned 1 or more Windows desktop or laptop systems up until last week. I have used every version of Windows from 3.1 to 11, with the excepion of 95 either on my own computers or on work computers.
I started test driving Linux distros back in August of '23, and set up dual-drive, dual-boot on my laptop shortly after. With the changes coming to W11 24H2, I decided it was time to bail on Windows, and I certainly do not regret that decision in the least. I'm now running 3 different Linux distros on 2 old desktops and my laptop, and will be doing my first ground up deesktop build in the next couple of months.
Messing around with Linux has made computing fun again, as opposed to just putting up with all the increasingly frustrating aspects of modern Windows!
lot more hearts to click here we go
I am from India, people use Linux because they run on any hardware you can think of. No virus, or bloat and very stable.
The "no virus" part might start changing soon if Linux gets popular enough.
Linux Mint on an old laptop makes a great internet machine...
I've been using Mint since 2018...
I've never had any issues period...
The first computer I had Mint on was connected to the internet 24/7....
It ran flawlessly for 3 years straight!😅
I've been using Linux Mint for years now an swear by it. Compared to the Windows experience for simple everyday usage? It smashes my Windows box! I brag about it to everyone and I have helped people move over to Linux. Subbed bro!
I haven't seen your other videos, but this format was spot on and streight to the point.
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When are we getting a viable linux mobile phone os? Closed source android and iOS are not ideal
There are others, depending on your phone you can get them and be viable today, but mass market? Pack up and wait a good while.
Linux for 20+ years now. Switched mom last year and she has had no issues. Anyone can install it now
I think it was around w2k/winXP era that microsoft put in their terms of service they can potentially own anything you create in the OS. I was using Linux off and on for a few years by that point and just dumped Windows. I have only used it to play VR, so a few years ago I installed it again. It is only to play VR games, flat screen games I use Linux. That might change soon, Valve has been releasing SteamVR updates on Linux lately.
Live CDs with full user-friendly graphical installers have existed for over 20 years. The Ubuntu installer from 2006 (when I first installed Linux) is more modern than the Windows installer, maybe even now.
I have a lot of custom software written in Excel, Word, PowerPoint VBA, and flows in Power Automate Desktop. How can I move to Linux?
I believe most of your existing microsoft office documents should open up fine with libreoffice suite applications, but you'd have to give it a try and be sure. Just pick any three, Ubuntu, Linux mint and Fedora are all great.
no, LibreOffice has format layout changed, for employment they'll be rejected. maybe you all should tell people around to test libreoffice on Windows, I'm sure they will complain
Linux today is just mind-blowing.
It's so cool.
The year of Linux has already begun. And we should start talking about Market of Linux or Share of Linux now. How to bring it to the mainstream of the mainstream.
Manuscripted videos are almost always much more concise and informative than unprepared presentations. I use to recommend to my (programming) pupils to write a manuscript and speak from it if they're unsecure. It is always good for the presentation to have a manuscript in the case that you forget what to say, even if you make a "script-less" informal presentation. With time the presentations get much better and more informal in tone. Keep doing it the way you do!
Yet again more amazing videos have surfaced including this I'm very proud of you're work Mr Bulfer and may Linux be with us
I switched to Linux recently. It didn't stick. I got everything working except surround sound and my water cooling hardware. I got the water hardware working passed through to a VM, but that sucks. There is no workaround for the surround sound though.
In India government agency and some schools are using BOSS OS.
Yes as technical as you want, new subscriber and will watch anything you make. Thank you
Linux needs to get more mainstream app developers to make native non-shimmed linux versions of their apps. This MUST include game developers. Yeah, we have the WINE derivative shims but everyone gets very inconsistent results.
Fedora managed to get me in full tilt. First - sound keep crackling and fixing it was a royal pain in the ass. This happens on almost every distro actually. It's like my realtek on board is cursed and needs quantum adjustments in order to work hassle free. Secondly, Wayland. This hot mess barely works. The moment I decide to play a game is the moment that thing just throws it's digital hands and gives up. Had problems with a bunch of other programs as well. Switching to x11 instantly fixes everything.
Ultimately had to give up on the mainline spins of Fedora and switched to Aurora, since that one had a distro that keeps it's nVidia drivers updated. I swear it's like Linux has a hate boner for nVidia.
I think something that's going to help Linux this time as opposed to every other time before is that Windows 11 doesn't have a fall back OS. Everyone loved 7, but then 8 came out as the worst version of Windows by far. Luckily, 7 had a very long life-span that went well into 10's lifespan and people were by and large happy since 10 is still a very user friendly OS. Maybe we'll get Windows 12 before 10 dies, but if 12 doesn't stick the landing, it may very well bolster Linux to a much greater market share.
What LINUX -Distro should I switch??
This was informative and I am glad it doesn't blow the number increase out of proportion. Bringing the reasons for the trend changes instead of *number go up Linux popular everywhere now*
I use Arch, btw.
Yes a video about opensource contributers would be awesome!
Linux certification Videos would also be great!
Good video btw.
I could make a video about the shift from proprietary and anti-competitive business practice of Microsoft under Gates and Ballmer to now being the second biggest open source contributor behind Google thanks to Satya Nadella as CEO.
Most of this push for linux is coming from Valve, making games compatible. Without it most people using linux today would at least doing dual boot all the time.
just transferred to linux mint today, saw the news about the copilot plus and said I'm not waiting on this to land on my laptop
I’m close to leaving windows as soon as I get around on how to install Citrix workspace for it.
i tried linux. it didnt support the games i played on windows, then the gui broke. so i switched back. but it was good for coding.
I just switched to Mint and using it as we speak on a 10 year old laptop to try out. Its been mindblowing and eye opening.
The year of the desktop linux 💀💀💀
The good thing about Linux is that - like Unix before it - everyone has their own version. So you always have something to do.
Great stuff. Thanks for the extra info behind the stats.
There's No Need To Run Windows Unless A Program You Need, Won't Run On LINUX. Thank You.
yes... i am here back installing Linux on my old machine , trying to grasp what I missed in the last 20 years... I recorded many lightweight distro... thanks for this video uncle...
Android is not Linux - it might be based on Linux kernel, but it isn't the same operating system.
well, it is not, but by usong it you are not closer to windows or to ios
kernel is linux, parts of the startup are linux, the desktop environment definitively is not linux, but if you use android, you dont feel like you are loosing something or things are being hidden from you or things were dumbed down so you cpuld feel better about yourself
Android is not GNU/Linux. But using the Linux kernel Android is definitely Linux nevertheless.
I believe changes made to the Linux kernel reflect in Android, in other words Android is downstream of the kernel.
@@joebulfer Android is a fork of the Linux kernel and a UI layer designed by a company that was acquired by Google. There's been an effort to merge changes back to the main Linux kernel but there's still differences. Android does things for the sake of power management that Linux kernel developers are not keen on.
@@1pcfred "The Android kernel is based on an upstream Linux Long Term Supported (LTS) kernel" source.android.com/docs/core/architecture/kernel
There should be an AndroidOS for the computer for dual booters I keep looking at cool Linux the only thing I hate is VUDU not working and wish that Blizzard would get World of Warcraft to work on Linux even if it's through Steam.
I would definitely like to know more about disk partitioning.
As soon as Linux is natively compatible with all windows games and apps and they're perfectly optimized, I'll be switching to Arch. For now, Windows 10 LTSC 21H2 is the way to go.
That's probably never going to happen especially when windows exclusives go out of their way to keep it that way or at times build literal rootkits in their games.
Already making the switch to Linux Mint, I'll try to phase out using Windows completely in the next 12 months.
There is a major problem concerning the switch. And that's the fact that not everyone can adapt to using Linux over WIndows. My computer specialist tells me that my year old laptop has problems with running Linux distros, and are unable to service a device that uses Linux. So not only is switching to Linux an issue for some people, it's also an issue for some computers, especially modern ones. Hopefully, I'll have better luck installing it on my previous computer, but I can't know for sure without doing so first.
Your computer specialist is lazy. Linux easily runs on computers over a decade old.
@@Tialian Mine is fairly modern. What I was implying was Linux has trouble installing on new computers, not the other way around.
Which is incorrect. What I was implying is Linux in known to run on both new and also old hardware that Windows would not be able to run on.
@@Tialian Fair enough. But what I meant to say was my laptop was meant to run Windows, not Linux. I've tried to install Linux on there, but it always causes me problems.
@@Cyberbrickmaster1986 PC hardware isn't going to discriminate towards a particular OS.
I would think you could cover all those topics, in the long term. It's just a matter of scheduling, in terms of you not getting bored or burnt out.
Covering Linux commands, bash shell, scripting from an administrative perspective, and other aspects of administration in an approachable way is always a good thing.
i switched topics from big to small and technical. for a while
It is also worth mentioning that UA-cam had an issue earlier this year had had a solution of changing the useragent string to not reflect Linux to fix performance issues.
So having linux in the user agent slowed down requests or something?
@@joebulfer Yup. Increased buffering, increased load times, and in my experience also cuts off the first 1-2 second of the video.
@@AceMcCrank ah, i see. thanks
@@AceMcCrank late reply my b
Love hearing a way to explain OS’s to people who don’t know what that is. Also, my friend and I are setting up a production server, and would love to know more about the things that will need to be done to transition from development to production. Hope these ideas help
I wonder what the percentages would be if you include Chromebooks, which basically also use Linux. A lot of schools give every student a Chromebook.
if its based on the browsers user agent then none, chrome os shows up as "CrOS" not linux
2024 is the year of the linux desktop?
I ran linux but decided to use windows 10 to play games and use fl studio, but all my other machines use linux
Most people primarily use web apps which are hosted on primarily linux servers, so one can argue that most people use linux on a daily basis regardless of platform. To put it another way - electron wrapped apps and web browsers are both essentially a thin client to access linux in many cases.
3:24 to bad in the graph they combined cloud and server products, would have been interesting to know the split
Hello Joe! I like the casual, yet informative presentation of this video. I'm also a subscriber to The Linux Experiment, and I believe they recently reported that Linux's market share finally broke through that 4% mark. Anyway, I would love to see more technical Linux videos, especially related to disk partitioning. Disk partitioning is always something that scares me on a fresh Linux install, because I'm always afraid that I'd partition the disk incorrectly, or set my main '/' partition to an incorrect file system. I'm a recent computer engineering graduate, now working in embedded software in aerospace. I learned Linux at work using RHEL and my first home distro was Debian 11 (Bullseye). Maybe it's due to my major and my occupation, but I love learning how to do as much on the command line as I can.
On any distro you either learn fdisk or parted to initially split up a drive, then on Fedora derivatives (REHL) you use LVM.
Thanks fir your market sharing report
the 597th subscriber is here
Watching this video from India on MacBook Air 2015 running Ubuntu.
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still too many apps not available on linux.
I still cant install nvidia driver
I've been trying to install Ubuntu over the years, but I just can't seem to get by the installation of the mouse and keyboard.
Ubuntu? It have a simple installation nowdays
very strange. are you holding a literal mouse, like a rat? most should work. what is your keyboard?
@@joebulfer Both my keyboard and the mouse are wireless. I think that is the problem.
RECLAIM THE DESKTOP!!!
Linux is fine, but so are Windows and macOS. I just want the OS to get out of the way. Most of the time when I'm using a computer I forget which OS I'm using.
I think it's maddening that many PC builders and enthusiasts still stick with Windows. I get that the masses do due to the OEMs bundling Windows with every device, but if you're an enthusiast and have experienced a good modern Linux distro it's really hard to go back to Windows again. With Windows 11 having TPM requirement most of my less tech-savvy relatives have switched to Linux (with my help, all of them run Manjaro Gnome). Most of them have perfectly serviceable core i5's and i7's with 16GB of RAM, so they don't need a new computer. The biggest change for me when they have gone with Linux is that I no longer get any support calls from them. (like I always did when they had Windows. Like how they they would go online, download a program, get mcafee spamware installed by mistake, and then get a never-ending stream of fearmongering pop-ups) When I ask them if we should install Windows again. None of them wanted to go back. My mother thinks the settings is really easy to navigate in gnome, and she feels safe downloading software from the "app store"/repository. (even downloaded some games by herself, like mahjong) xD
I would like you to show how to partition a drive :)
I first encountered Slackware linux way back in the mid 90's. Since 2007 I have used Linux exclusively: everything i want to do just works. As an old "hacker" from the 70's who built a kit conputer which only understood machine code, I just love the fact that linux is so configureable. Its a nice feeling that you own your computer and are not dictated to by a huge corporation!
I've just built an Arch Linux with KDE Plasma desktop on modern AM5 hardware. Good lord am I in love! You need to see it to believe how great Linux is these days.
I guess it's pretty safe to say that Windows 11 is the first installment of Windows to literally exclude a considerable chunk of hardware with their stringent requirements. Before Covid hit, Windows 10 was supposedly said or rumoured to be the last version but then with the lockdowns, the amount of people working remotely and people playing games on pc kinda skyrocketed and MS and OEMs "smelled the blood on the water" and decided to pull a 180 and push a "new" OS that would force folks into dumping their old but functional computers in favor of newer machines that could have these latest installment of Windows, with MS taking more and more control over users computers and shoving Ads left to right down people's throats, along with other anti-consumer measures. And with their intention of pulling the plug on Windows 10, those folks with less cash that can't buy a brand spanking new computer to suit MS' "needs" might really have to switch to Linux or use it along with a permanently offline Windows 10 install for those programs that simply don't work with Linux and don't have appealing alternatives. The small form factor gaming PC space will likely do at least a small push for Linux use because of the Steam Deck and if Valve and Nvidia work together SteamOS might be more viable for gaming machines other than the Steam Deck. Aside from enabling users to customize their machines to their heart's content, Linux has the otherwise underestimated value of not trying to tell users what they can or can't do with their computers
I just migrated to Linux Mint on my old HP Z840. I have a Windows 11 laptop lying around somewhere.
Microsoft pivoted into Cloud quite a while ago. They don’t give a rats ass about Windows. The entire development stack is now platform agnostic (though some geek was trying to tell me that .Net doesn’t run on Linux, which is arrant and demonstrable nonsense, since v5) the only tool hanging on for dear life to Windows is Visual Studio, there’s a Linux version of everything else. (The only reason we use Visual Studio now is that it supports NCrunch and that became moot this month as NCrunch runs on Jetbrains Rider on Linux, so there’s that…)
Windows does have a big hold in corporates, of course, and they are very slow to move. I think there might still be a few still running XP! The two big office programs, Word and Excel will keep a solid market share for a while yet. Especially Excel. I don’t think there’s a truly competitive product out there yet.
Edit - looking around I may well be wrong about Excel too, it I could t find a feature by feature comparison of a fully featured Linux Excel alternative. Interested to know if there is one (feature by feature comparison… as well as the alternative )
The last 20 years have been held annually under the slogan "This year will be Year of Linux"
Imagine the feeling when my daughter called me by phone few days ago: Daddy, I'm in my friend's house, I have to eject the USB, but I don't know how to do it because they don't have Linux, they use Windows 🤣
You can unmount a Windows drive by rebooting Windows.
@@richardb4787 That's what I told her to do 🙂 Actually I told her to shut it down.
Both you and your daughter are stupid then. Because the USB icon is where it is on many versions of Linux. And in actuallity you haven't had to eject a USB drive in over a decade and a half.
It's just a huge pain developing for. Which GUI system to support? Will wayland be supported? Should we dynamically load xorg support? QT? What sbout GTK? What packages will be available? Etc. etc. huge headache. Don't get me wrong, I do like me some open source OS, but it's just so fragmented.
do you know that Photoshop and Foobar2000 load the psapi.dll library for no reason? psapi is used by taskmgr to fetch aliases on processes. why would Photoshop do that? spyware?
Windows stopped be the proper OS from 7 version. After win 8 become restricted slowly in every new version you feel some ' choke' become tight and more tight . Win 11 do that completely. So one of reasons I use only Linux from 2017
Great video. Im glad to find your channel. +1 sub
Why do you think Microsoft bought Github?
Do grab other creators ideas? Ya, I wonder about github. Microsoft even owns linkdln. You press the start menu and that sends packets to microsoft, that has me concerned.
Microsoft is a software company. Pretty much all software developers use Github, it's a strategic acquisition. They also own LinkedIn and a bunch of other stuff. Big companies swallow smaller ones.
Get profit from open source projects??
Embrace Extend Extinquish
yes
Thanks for the really interesting content.🙂
Could you do a Ubuntu boot from network deployment? Like pxe
Not much personal experience. But there's this joebulfer.com/Linux/Linux%2B/1.+0+System+Management/1.1+Linux+Fundumentals#Preboot+Excecution+Environments+(PXE)
In Uruguay all public schooling uses linux, from primary to university
UserAgent is not "personal identifier" because it does not contain information that are specific to only one person. All it contains is what browser what browser version what operating system and what version of that system you are using. Sometiems it does not contain every one of those information or contains wrong informations like Brave is claiming that it is Chrome. Tracking software is using their own identifiers that are person specific or try to be.
Good point, a user agent only has that info, but the combination of several of those details may be unique enough to be considered personally identifying.
Hi Joe, thanks for the video. I have questions that might be good ideas for a future video. I want to repurpose an old laptop and install Linux Mint. I'm interested in methods to #1 clear out the hard drive for a clean Linux OS install. Are tools like GParted, dd, or shred good for this purpose? And, #2 how do I set up a swap file? Do I need to set up swap in the partition table, or will the Linux OS installation app take care of it?
I'm not Joe but I can answer: almost all Linux Distros will let you choose what to do with the hard drive at install time. When you boot from the installation media (USB or maybe Live CD if it is REALLY old), you can use the bundled partition program to reformat the hard drive if you want to make sure everything is fresh. The install SHOULD automatically create a swap volume for you (usually asks how much swap you want to create). TL;DR: its all mostly automatic these days, and Mint should handle that for you at install time.
Most Indian schools use linux.
MOstly because it's free, All of the PCs in my school were plain ubuntu
Can you do a video how to use basic commands in terminal for New users
should i? it will be late tho...cry emoji but sarcastic
Hey there Joe, this was a good format. I liked the concise format, the use of statistics and the supporting narrative. I am also a councillor, community manager and developer for Kubuntu. We would love to collaborate with you on some more videos like this, if you're interested ?
Absolutely! I was just putting together a video comparing linux distros, just some trouble running KVM to show them off. You can check out the Contact Me page on my site.
still up for it?