10 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows
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- Опубліковано 6 чер 2024
- Linux holds significant advantage over Windows with few drawbacks.
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Windows Joke: Your Keyboard could not be detected, Press Enter to Continue
This actually happens on Bios Post, if you have something like pause on errors (and checks for mouse\keyboard enabled).
I found it super funny when I saw "Press F1 to continue"
@@ClawGr its a joke.....
@@zyan983 he does you degenerate
LOL. It usually means PLUG IN THE KEYBOARD! But why didn't they just print "plug in your keyboard"? I don't know..... LOL
About 2 months ago a lightning strike took out my Linux box, but somebody gave me an old iMac. Trying to install Windows 7 got me to the "which language is your keyboard" thing, but since iMacs use something called Open Firmware instead of a BIOS, neither the mouse or keyboard would work. So, when you got tired of staring at that "which language is your keyboard" thing, your only recourse was to hit the Big Red Switch. Windows XP complained that there was only 384K of low memory available but it needed 512K low memory. Sounds like an MSDOS limitation, no?
OTOH, I now have Slackware and Linux Mint on it with no problems, save DOSbox and certain MS programs on Virtual Box not working correctly.
Actually, there is antivirus software that you can install on Linux...
It's used to remove viruses from Windows, lmao.
damn
Yeah most of the antivirus detects only windows viruses lol.
True, know at least 3 ClamAV, Eset Antivirus for Linux and Bitdefender.
Point Nr.4 is only partly true. There is Live PE version of windows in Hiren’s BootCD PE, MediCat USB and other tools. Although licensing is whole another debuckle, plus viruses especially on MediCat USB.
I got hit with the dreaded Linux "honor system virus."
It was a text file that read:
"Please delete a few random files on your computer,
Please encrypt a few files and delete the private key,
Please send this file to someone on your contacts list.
Thank you for your cooperation."
@@georgewaring7168 did you honor it?
i'm going to take your advice on putting two task bars in the middle of my screen thank you its a great idea.
not the cross huh like yeah i cant see anything really!!
Windows: You’ve successfully clicked your mouse somewhere. Please reboot.
Are you sure you want to reboot?
Yes
In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot?
Yes
In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot?
No
BSOD
@@LusidDreaming please wait
@@kurokurovich *A few years later *
Number 12. You never have to go into the Registry to fix some annoying behavior like "Balloon Tips"
😂only need to recompile your kernal
@@vaisakhkm783 ?
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU IGNOMINIOUS BASTARD??! THEY ARE TIPS!! THEY HELP!!! THEY HAVEN'T EXISTED FOR 10 YEARS!!!!!! I HATE LINUX USERS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
Point 1 is invalid. You can download the source of Linux under windows as well...
You're technically right. The best kind of right.
Eh - I think he means that the source is simply available be it through any means of downloading, and that windows isn't. So you could even download linux on a mac for instance. Like Felix said - a technicality in his phraseology.
It is definitely what I meant, and he knows that, but, trolls...
Maybe that's the reason why MS bought GitHub - to prevent Windows users from downloading Linux sources (won't work though since GitHub is the mirror, not the primary repo)
I should point out that “git fetch” works a bit more reliably on Linux than Windows ...
As an mechanical engineer, the one most frustrating thing with linux is, the CAD softwares are from stone age.
Lutris can install autodesk fusion 360. Is that any better than what you've tried?
That is not true. Try Draftsight, it is free for 2D, and need to buy for 3D modelling.
Dmitry C，
Draftsight is no longer free in 2020.
@@esphilee oops. You are right it is not free anymore. Missed that.
As a fellow engineer, this kind of thing is the only reason I have a dual boot for Windows. A lot of engineering software is Windows only unfortunately.
Me before this video: I’m used to Windows and it’s fine but I’ll watch this anyway.
Me after this video: ok I’ll just use Linux.
I`m junior developer and always have used Windows 10. Now i install a VM and start practicing linux
Please tell me you didn't give up on the better way to live...
I did the jump a week ago, and I like it especially how you can change themes
@@BernardinhoBeiraMar I am also a developer, and Linux is WAY better.
Windows: install a bunch of stuff to make it a little more linuxy, such as git bash, reboot, download other stuff, install, reboot again, start coding.
Linux: most of it's already there. apt-get the other stuff. Start coding.
Welcome to the club, hope you're enjoying your decision
I'm a linux fan. However most of your information about windows is only accurate up till windows xp. You probably made the switch to linux during the xp days and never looked back.
You are wrong about not being able to run windows from a flash drive. This is totally possible (and free to do). I've made many custom CDs with windows PE. Just download the windows ADK and you'll get copies of that. If you know what you are doing you can start adding whatever you want.
You are wrong about drivers (for the most part). There is very little browsing out to a vendor site or getting drivers from a disk. Most of that is handled through windows update, and I would say about 90-95% of the drivers are out of the box.
You are wrong about windows updates only happening from the GUI (this can easily be invoked from powershell now) or through sccm, or wsus. To manage patches at an enterprise level.
You are wrong about booting into repair. You can restore windows from a repair disk (based on windows) quite easily, and there are easy ways to create this. It's just that most people really don't know where to look.
You are wrong about themes and customizations. There are plenty of people modding the appearance of the windows shell. If you look around deviant art you'll find some windows machines running that look nothing like windows. Boot screens can be modified too. You can easily replace the windows shell, it's just that there aren't many products out there that do it as there is little market. there is a registry key to change the shell from explorer.exe to something else.
Linux is fantastic. I love what it is and the mentality behind it. But if you want to make the switch to linux, or keep using it. Make the switch for real reasons. Not fake ones.
If you don't want to bother with pe, you can use Rufus to make a Windows to go drive and you can boot from a standard Windows install that is portable.
Real reasons such as forced reboots, forced updates, and data collection
Devon : actually he’s right about nearly everything he said. Even with Windows 10 what he said is true. So yes you can run Windows from disk or USB key, but saying that is misleading and you use the fact that he’s generalizing for his audience. Because he talked about any general Linux distribution that run out of the box on hardware. Which is not the case with Windows, you can’t use it like that, you have to prepare a medium for a specific PC and then it will run.
About drivers you’re wrong too. I had greatest difficulty installing Windows 8 on an old Linux box that worked like a clock for years, because the system discs were SCSI disks. And there were countless problems like that, if you can’t find the drivers you’re dead. Windows have very few drivers now, unless you have only new standardized hardware, it just won’t work without lots of pain. Installing Linux is the easiest option.
Same for customizations, it’s decades behind what you can do on Linux and consumes huge amount of resources for nothing.
One of the truly important things that I need that cannot be done in Windows since 20 years ago to this day is multiseat: having several user sessions at the same time on one computer and one or more monitors. Everytime a new Windows launches people tell me « you can do it now! » and everytime that’s not true. That and countless other things like actually no viruses on Linux (viruses can’t work on Linux, that’s why there’s no need for Linux antivirus), perfect stability, rolling updates (I still use my own Linux OS since 20+ years just updated and migrated to new hardware when the old one dies), security (you have to know what you’re doing), performance (I already had 3-4 simultaneous graphical sessions 20+ years ago which were consuming roughly 1GB RAM together, and on the network, now with fq_codel and BBR congestion control, it’s the top of the art).
@MrOokaze
First lets clarify what a virus is and isn't. A virus IS a malicious program that uses vulnerabilities in either the user (opens email) or in the operating system (think shell shock, or any other number of RCE classification of vulnerabilities that have come out in the past year).
A virus writer could easily, if they wanted to, write something for linux. All the elements exist. But there's simply not much of a market for it. The reason you don't have many viruses on linux is more of an economic one. Same reason you don't have many apps in the windows store, there's just no market for it.
A virus for linux is hard to write as well. The environment changes from distro to distro, and realistically speaking the users of linux are generally far more skilled and aware. These guys aren't the ones opening up a PDF document from an unknown source. (and even if they did board-report.pdf.exe isn't going to actually do anything)
Windows absolutely has multiseat. It's just only in their server editions. Granted you have to pay more. I run entire farms where we have dozens of users logged into the same server and presented a desktop shell.
I'll concede to your argument about drivers. Linux does work often times better on older hardware. Newer hardware is a problem, this is getting better, as more vendors are taking care to provide drivers / support, but it's not quite there yet.
@@Meowfy Those are indeed some very real reasons. I can't argue there at all.
Well, Linux doesn't have all the telemetry data and Windows privacy theft that we all love so much !🤔
Don't you worry, canonical got you covered
You can disable that shit..apt-get remove connectivity something
Maybe it should. Telemetry is always good.
@@wylie2835 you can proceed to say Hey Cortana.. but she already knows everything you do .. and that big fart you did last night , she heard it and reported it as new telemetry.
@@sirwin6161 LOL!
Reason to use Windows: it runs the software that I need.
Wine Bottler
A lot of popular Windows software either has been made to work on Linux through Wine or has free and open-source alternatives with nearly the same functionality.
My newish HP laptop and Win10 sucks. It takes minutes to start and sometimes just when Bill wants updates or telemetry. Learning linux now
@@jamescollier3 Great idea learning to use Linux! It’s great to do more advanced things and to bring back life into your hardware! What distro and DE are you using?
@@user-cw3yj8jv1s Ubuntu. What is DE? Desktop environment? I have the GUI, but want to only focus on line commands now. I started at Hack The Box, classic version. Is there a good course or hand holding to get started you know of? I can do the very basics (ls, cmd, pwd etc), but want to start learning more mid-bottom level sudo, grep a bit more middle level stuff. Thanks. What do you use?
5:34 "Windows update only updates Windows"
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Linux updates update everything, not just the kernel. WIndows just updates its kernel and base system functions. WHen Linux updates, it pulls the latest updates from the repositories stored in its conf files, and then looks at the apps that the user has installed and updates those, as they are either part of the saem repositories, or the repositories are shared with the distro that you use. Windows does not do this, and you manually have to install updates for each app on your system. This is what he means. And ufortunatly you didnt get that, nice joke, but your joke was its own punchline.
@Sushovan Shakya Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.
You can download the source for Linux with Windows too ;)
checkmate Linus
"software from official repositories will never contain malicious software"
I guess supply chain attacks don't exist.
Mint exists
Never say never. But I'd say it's a lot more secure to get your software from a curated repository of open source software than from some random download site you googled and never heard of before.
@@Kenionatus I download lots of software I've never heard of before. Never installed by root and only used by my user account what can it really do? I do get it from the upstream source though. besides if you're really that curious about what any software is doing on your system Linux does contain utilities that will show you exactly what's going on. You can monitor what files it is accessing, what system calls it is making etc.
Supply chains are much more common on Windows tho. When you find like 5 "official" websites for the program you want to download and then the Windows Defender comes beeping (usually too late)
I always audit my software source code line by line before compiling from source. I then compile on a VM box running inside a VM box on a separate build computer that's not connected to my home network. After that, I use a custom assembly translator (similar to radare2) to verify the binaries, debugging where necessary. Once I've fully verified the compiled binaries, I transfer the source code to the target machine and repeat the process. This is the beauty of open source software. I'm super excited to finish compiling binutils using this method. If I stay on schedule, I should be able to have GCC up and running by 2022.
I recently switched a month ago to Linux as my main OS because I got upset that my last Windows 10 update caused my system to crash and forced me to re-install the OS. I'm impressed with how much it's grown since I've last touched Linux back when Mandrake was around, back then i didnt play with it very much. So far it's been pretty easy to live with Linux even for a somewhat noob like me. It's actually refreshing coming home from working in Windows at work all day to something different too.
Years ago when I first heard about Linux, it sounded like an OS built only for specialists. But ever since I've started using it, I've come to love it. It's the best thing in the world. You can configure everything, if you know what you're doing. And now I have different flavors of Linux running on all my machines.
Yeah I have several desktop environments on an old laptop myself.
i took the time out of my day to set it up one day and its been running smoothly for being supposedly unstable (depending on who you ask, i guess)
When Windows 8 arrived I decided I had enough and jumped into Linux (Ubuntu). Never looked back.
Missing out bud
@@JaimeValladares00 what?
@@alkaupadhyay7650 wdym what? Windows has improved since then
@@JaimeValladares00 Alas. You are the only one saying that. Every other being on earth thinks that it has just degraded. And windows 7 was the peak of humanity, after that notging was good
Never used Windows 8. Heard it was horrible and stuck on Windows 7 until EOL. Or that was the plan until a hardware failure prompted an early move to Linux, because I wasn't going to go through the hassle of reinstalling Windows 7 for only a year of usage, and I sure as hell wasn't going to install Windows 10 anywhere other than a VM.
RE: Moving hard drives in Linux vs. Windows - The registry is also a HUGE problem in Windows with doing this. I think that is one of Windows biggest Achilles Heel of Windows.
You can get software to copy the contents of a Windows boot drive to a new drive, but my experience with it transferring from a HDD to an SSD, still resulted in Windows now thinking it was pirated.
I think the software does a sector-by-sector copy and requires the destination drive has at least as much capacity as there is used space on the source drive.
@@Roxor128 Windows "Machine ID" changes will do this too. Too many changes of certain hardware will force a change in to the "Machine ID" and well since it is "different" from when installed... very annoying to work around in Windows 10.
@@alphatelligence3913 Microsoft is no exception to the rule that trying to combat piracy by any means other than providing a better service makes the product worse. Look at what happened to Norton: Once the gold standard for antivirus, now a joke. All because they shifted their focus from stopping malware to stopping piracy.
@@Roxor128 Oh I agree with you, its a pain in my A$$!! I have audio plugins that if Windows does a build update or I move hardware in or out of my computer(s); the software tells me I don't have a valid license. I love and hate USB Wasp keys like iLok. However I have "soft" licenses only software and have to prove I legal own the rights to it.
The registry is simply a database file on disk. Windows is also massively more forgiving on portability and installation. Of you don't care about changing the wallpaper, you can even run unregistered indefinitely.
20 minutes from start to finish Installing Linux Mint 19.2, getting the system updated and adding all the necessary extra programs I use.
2 and a half hours getting Windows 10 installed, updated, adding all the necessary drivers and extra programs I use.
This clearly shows in terms of fresh installs which OS wins hands down.
As far as #4 goes, I have some information. There is a toolkit called Hirens which can be installed on CD or USB, and it has a Mini-XP. So.. it's a very trimmed version of Windows XP that can run from a thumb drive.
Yep. I've got Mr. Hirens. Very handy to have. Priceless for going into stand-alone sessions and removing s##t from automatic update attempts that I'm just not allowed to remove any other way.
I just installed Linux Mint (duall boot) on my pc, and found it to be fantastic. I didn't know how good it was. Having great fun with literally thousands of programs to install
I've used it for over six years ; 25+ years with Microsoft but use Linux for everything personal now.
@@2112jonr what programs do you use on Linux? Do you have games?
Yeah yeah, every time I plug in a new printer on Windows, I go to the website to download the drivers. Because it's 2003.
Every time i install a new distro i have to download some drivers in linux too and in linux things are more complicated. In windows go hp site download next next finish in linux sometimes you have to compile your own driver
Are you really bringing up printers? That's always been a huge pain in the ass, and in my experience, absolutely intolerable on any Unix/Linux machine I've ever worked with. I do hope things got better, but printers are still _the worst_.
Windows nerds.
Yes, printers can be a problem in linux. It's worth buying a printer that is well supported. A small research effort is totally worth it to achieve the advantages.
@@mustafacandan9831 Since when is it complicated to click about 5 total times to check for an update drivers? The damn Driver Manager in Ubuntu and Mint is stupidly easy to deal with.
Either the kernel already has the driver code for your devices..or it doesn't. And these days, these 4.18 and newer kernels are awesome. Ya don't have to do very much at all for amd gpu's that are rx series as well as now vega for the 4.20 and newer kernels.
level1techs.com/article/gaming-linux-updated
Ukuu kernel update utility and mesa vulkan drivers for both red and green team gpu's are reasonably explained there.
The only reason I'd see you would have to compile your own driver is if you're using some more hardcore barebones Linus distro such as something along the lines of Arch or Slackware ( aka puppy linux..I think) which I gave up on both of those years ago. I respect being able to BUILD a damn house, but If i have to hand dig the damn land ...BY MYSELF....pack it...level it...pour gravel...AND I haven't even gotten to the part when it makes sense for it to be time to start harvesting lumber TO cut it..TO start laying it down to start building the sub floor and floors.....shit...fuck that..
I'm not trying to a damn distro builder. That's waaaay too much headache for me. It's just not worth my time.
I'd actually like to USE the damn operating system and get work and play done. I"ve have absolutely no problems with 19.1 cinnamon with my 4790k cpu at 4.6ghz + rx 580 8GB sapphire nitro+ vid card playing all , so far, of my windows only games in Steam or Lutris.
Man really thank you! You answered my question about my perfect tuning of my ASIO ur 22 mkii on Linux without driver installation!!! That's why! I'm just 2 days Linux Ubuntu distro user and of course I have an ocean of things to learn! But my major question's been answered by you!
Slight point around number 2. Yes if you update Windows you probably need to reboot but the references in relation to user outages and cloud, you would engineer your solutions with routine maintenance in mind. If your workloads require 24/7 uptime for users, you would engineer the workload to avoid user outtage if a node needs to be rebooted
You are quite behind what the recent Windows server can do.
I still prefer to develop in Linux/Unix but PC is much easier to use at home.
br pare
Windows server might be able to do something. But administration is a nightmare.
Really nice video, but a few things you got wrong on the Windows side:
#4. Actually, yes you can, but in a limited fashion. Since Windows 8/8.1, Enterprise users have what's called Windows-to-go.
It requires Windows Enterprise, but makes it so, just like a Linux Live CD, you have a Windows Enterprise image on your USB stick, ready to boot on any hardware that can boot from USB.
#7: Yes and no for Windows.
Since Windows 8/8.1, the recovery options are way different than just "system restore", namely, having access to the Command Prompt.
You can also (mostly used in businesses but can be used at home too) use what MS calls DaRT - Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset.
It's an ISO that you boot from on a USB stick, which gives you a lot of... well, diagnostics and recovery tools to repair broken Windows installs.
With Rufus, you can install Windows on a stick, and even home editions work no problem
#2 is a big one. When I was working, we had several Linux based appliances but no Linux based application servers. Too bad - updating important apps on Windows servers usually had to be done nights or weekends, just in case it was going to need a reboot. Way back in the Novell NetWare server days, you could find screen shots of some of those servers with uptime of more than 1000 days, so NetWare also had a similar advantage for application servers over Windows, in its day.
Enlightning video... You shared stuff about Linux that I never heard before... and I've been using it off and on for years.
Thanks.
Glad I could share something fresh.
That's strange. I have to reboot each time the kernel is updated. There's a message in the update window. Otherwise the new kernel is not activated.
Well I can say that point 3 did not work for me on Ubuntu at all, but Windows worked fine for same device (plugging in the second monitor...) I still havent found a good fix for hdmi second screen not being recognized on Ubuntu...
Thanks for the reminder, updated my system while watching the video. One command, never so much as a blink in the video streaming, and it updated the kernel, too.
Awesome to see a fellow Xubuntu user out here! Thanks for the video.
Gaming on Linux has come a long way especially for steam games. Steam recently released proton, a wine fork, that can run many titles fairly effortlessly.
I've recently found out this channel and i LOVE how you just get to the point and make short educational videos like this. It's very professional and i hope you keep it up. Thanks!
@Hairy Chinese Kid Same here!
I agree. I hate videos that take 5 mins to get to the point of the video. Drives me crazy.
I really love your channel and your content is very interesting.
One thing to say though... The Windows repair menu features a command prompt which lets you work on your system. You are even "logged in" as the user system meaning you are allowed to do more things than an admin. But your right with not having a "functioning system" to use as a repair method.
Depends on what you mean. Windows has a safe mode, and on some versions you are able to stick the disc in and trick your way onto a basic shell.
@@justanotherviewer4821 The Disk method is basically what I meant...
There are basically two ways to get to a shell...
Way a) (the one I use mostly) Install Medium in and then recovery mode where I can open a command line...
Way b) actually involves a) and uses the elevated privileges of a trusted installer to exchange the utilman.exe with the cmd.exe. That way you will get a command line when clicking on the ease of Acces button on the lockscreen. this command promo has also elevated privileges (system iirc)
This is an age old trick to recover locked up systems... 😅😅
Which distro of Linux would you recommend for a beginner? Also, I have noticed that the operations system is updated every six months or so. Do these updated cause incompatibility issues with software already installed on the computer? Thanks for you help.
3:30 Acktchually Hiren's boot cd is a thing and the latest version runs Windows 10. It's pretty handy.
This is actuslly Windows PE. It is based off of windows 10, but is **not** windows 10.
I laughed so hard on no.3 (drivers)... Because in last 10 or so years my experience has been completely opposite to what you're claiming. I don't need any drivers on windows for my hardware to work, because they come pre-built with windows, where on linux, even with drivers it's a struggle to make the hardware work as it should (mainly because most hardware manufacturers don't give a damn about linux distros, and most of drivers are written by "enthusiasts" in their spare time). And we're not talking about "specialized" hardware... unless you count graphics cards, audio cards, wifi cards.. and basically ALL hardware as specialized. I still remember the late 90's where I had to manually enter how many sectors and heads etc.. my HDD had in order to make it "visible" in Linux, because Linux had about 10 hdd types it "supported" natively... unlike windows where everything worked out of box.. and still does.
In any case... Linux is great for what's it meant to do.. and listing 10 things you can do in linux and can't in windows should really be about terminal and certain pieces of software which simply doesn't have competition on windows, as well as how much access to "bare metal" it gives you. Sadly, most of the points in the video are just nonsense.
Linux users live in a bubble with no contact with the real world.
I installed Windows 7 on 4 or 5 computers and on literally every single one of them, the ethernet did not work after installation due to a missing driver. Of course, the CD that came with the motherboard was long gone, so I booted up Linux from a USB stick and downloaded the drivers without issue.
That said, drivers for graphics cards are... well, they're getting better.
Audio cards? Would you *not* call them specialized? This isn't the 90s, every motherboard has good on-board sound. I have not used a sound card in recent years, so I couldn't tell you about driver support there. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they didn't work properly, though. It's rarely used hardware and Linux sound systems are pretty meh in general.
I've never had issues with wifi cards myself - probably because I seldom use wifi - but I've heard a lot about people having issues with them. I agree on that part - that is commonly used hardware and really should be well supported, but apparently is not.
hahahhahahhahahaha
@Yndostrui
Most? Give me an example of another one, that is bullshit, except for number 3, which I agree is a bit off at least, all of his other points are legit.
@@HSHamster I said nonsense, not BS. I'll give more than one.
No.2 is only true in specific cases. Most of the time, the software updates don't require restart, and only large OS updates require restart on win.
No. 6. untrue. You can run windows on almost any hardware just the same. You can run windows on 80s computer. If you're now thinking (yeah, but it would be windows 1.0, not widows 10! Sure, same as you would need with linux, an 80's computer won't run latest ubuntu with all bells and whistles
No. 7 You can fix broken windows installs with a bootable cd.. or usb.. or pen drive..
No 8. I can let software update itself without even a command on windows :D :D (not that I would recommend using it lols). But I guess it trumps the need for giving those pesky commands
No. 9 ... very questionable... since it hangs on no.3, you might have to rebuild the kernel if you're moving the drive to another machine.
Nice video and absolutely correct. I've been running Mint 18.3 for quite some time and simply love it! It runs great on my Quad Core 3.4 GHz w/ 8 GB memory. I do have a Windoze 10 computer setup next to me, but rarely even power it up. Basically it is there in case I need to do something directly related to Windows 10 and / or wish to play a Windows only game. I don't wish to run wine on my Linux box if I can help it. Great video & I just sat here and nodded (in approval of) all the way thru your 11 items.
my experiences with linux were raging with driver issues after driver issues
finding code and compiling it myself ...still not working ...
linux broken ... etc
Chinese arduino boards have am other USB chip (ch340) and this doesn't work with standard windows or standard Linux.
Question: if I build and link(? ) the suitable files to the kernel... Should I do this step again if a new kernel is installed?
Is there more than one way to activate the ch340 chip to Linux AND save the connection/status to the next kernel?
6:51 LOL that's EXACTLY what I need!!! X'-D
7. You can load up a bookable recovery USB and jump into cmd. You are able to fix most windows issues with the bookable usb.
Worth hearing again + some new ones I never thought about. Very COoL. The permanent move (for me) was the 8/10 slow motion train wreck.
You can delete a file even if an application is using it. You can recover it by copying it back from /proc/ as long the app is still running.
4. Windows has PE versions which are used as Live OS. Even windows 10 has a PE version. Macrium Reflect for example uses Windows PE (You can choose what version) as the rescue OS.
9. You can use "sysprep /generalize" to use the same windows installation in another computer with different hardware.
11. Some software repositories contained malicious software in the past, sometimes even because someone snuck highly obfuscated, malicious code into open source software. Also the Ubuntu repository can arguably be called malicious since they stopped honoring the users privacy.
4. Windows PE? Gosh, i bet that doesnt work 90%
9. You have to generate one? Thats not an argument, he meant just switching out the HDD and it works.
11. *contained* Sure, but it got removed, no? On Windows you got viruses by fucking Windows Defender. How fucked up can your ANTIVirus be?
11 too. Sure, Ubuntu isnt really safe anymore, but: you can switch to 100 different distros. If you hate Windows 10, what you gotta switch to? Windows 7? XP? Have luck with the compatibility
4. Ya bet wrong, it works great.
You can get malicious software through anything, damn there was a possibility to execute malicious code through Counter-Strike at on point. McAfee was vulnerable, Kaspersky was, but so were ssh-servers on unix, apache, httpd, etc. It's not a Windows problem, it's a problem of developers making mistakes.
I actually put the ssd from my laptop in my tower with totally different hardware (Intel to AMD, nVidia to AMD) and it booted without issue. (Windows 10 1803.)
I just forgot to uninstall gpu drivers which caused issues.
No sysprep generalize needed. (I actually forgot that too)
Lmao popularity-contest
I miss the days when the installer asked you If you wanted that shit removed.
Now you have to specifically know that it exists and remember to remove it, which most users won't lol
I enjoyed that vid. Very informative even tho I've fiddled with Linux, I feel "strapped" to Windows because of all the proprietary applications in my life so far. My current machine is down and recovery doesn't work... I'm thinking strongly about migrating to Linux.
Thanks man, great video!!!! I'm getting started learning linux in general, but Red Hat Ad specifically .
Great video!
Thanks for the info
Is this video made in 2019 or 2012?
Half of these negative points about Windows are outdated.
There are tons of reasons to use Linux, you don't need to lie or distort the truth.
Drivers: Windows does this automatically now.
Live boot: Most recently you have Windows On The Go, previously you have Windows PE. I have even booted Windows live on a server with HP ILO remotely, and fixed some registry issues in the HKLM hive.
Updates: Yes you can update without rebooting, but you need to restart the services to be able to use the new files installed by updating. Like if a security patch is installed for OpenSSH, you need to restart that service, same with whatever you are hosting on the service, giving you downtime. Unless you run a High-Availability cluster, which also you can on Windows.
Uptime: Ref. the previous point, having 1002 days uptime is only impressive if you have all the security patches installed, and in effect.
Malware in repos: Malicious code has made it into both Arch (btw I use arch, not at work though) and Gentoo repos. Not likely to happen often, but the truth you preach sounds absolute.
About malwares, you are wrong. It did come into NON OFFICIAL repos, like the AUR, not the official ones.
Try 2001
those "security patches" are just wastes of time ...
i never allowed any to be installed and never had issues..
it's just paranoid linux users who think HaCkErS are after them ...
I just dual-boot on my machine with both.
Thanks a lot for the video. I’m gonna try it out on my new computer build. Gonna get my feet wet with Linux the first time ever.
00:30 This is the source for the kernel only, not the whole installation. Linus Torvalds owns the kernel (the core program), while the libraries and the GNU tools (including most of the common commands) have source in another public location. Purists will refer to this combination as GNU/Linux, as those are the two most important contributors to an OS many of us find useful.
At 1:45 you say you can run machines without rebooting,but for ubuntu server when you ssh in it after a while you get the restart required flag. How do you avoid it ? Or you use other distros for servers ?
Thank you man, great stuff on the channel, keep up the good work 👏
I remember a time when I could run Ubuntu on my Windows to delete viruses on my PC.
Spent most of my life in Windows. Dipped a toe in the Linux pool once every decade. Been too cold for me in the past, but this time it's feeling just about right. I'm working on a full stack switch to FOSS. If I make it I'll try to pull everyone I know with me. :D
Thanks for the video. I'll be sharing it with friends and family.
So did you make it?
@@adamlevine2046 Yes and No. I use Linux for my entertainment system. Tried some server stuff. Window is still my daily driver.
@@adamlevine2046 Oh. I also did it some Linux projects with my kids.
@@glenw3814 That's awesome. I hope your kids will love it more as they dig into Linux deeper. :))
OK, this was the one that made me Subscribe!
Thank you.
with windows, even the act of downloading updates make changes that cause software to fail to operate correctly. Effectively forcing the reboot at that exact time, whether the user is ready to do this or not.
I don't usually give negative comments on videos, but when someone states that dealing with drivers is more straightforward on linux than on windows... Then I must
Depends totally on what distribution you choose to use, this is one of the reasons many people recommend Linux Mint for example for new users. Then installing Nvidia drivers is as hard as pressing a button.
@@Zandman26 but his point still stands. On Mint it's as hard as pressing a button, on windows its as hard as not doing anything. Windows installs drivers automatically now.
Well this is awkward, I responded to a comment that no longer exists. Thx Zandman26
@@lonttugamer2939 Yes Nvidia has been slacking when it comes to Linux.
If you buy a AMD or use Intel card you don't even have to download anything, it just works in Linux.
I find that it is largely true. Plug in some random scanner on Windows... Windows wants a driver CD, on Linux it's like "oh, some Canoscan derivative... loads driver". I plug in some random USB-ethernet thing, secretly worrying a bit that it's not going to work.. and Linux is like "oh, ethernet... loads driver, DHCP, icon shows up top right". Nice.
BUT, conversely, when I buy printers or video cards, I KNOW my fear is warranted, and that is why I pick hardware carefully when buying these things. For printers and video cards... Windows will still ask me for the driver (as it always does), but this time... so will Linux.
I'm watching this on Linux, Android Distro.
*But not GNU/linux
Its not the same thing.
Doesn't Windows download and install drivers for the vast majority of devices automatically?
I've also moved a laptop harddrive with Windows 10 into a Desktop and it worked not caring after it ran through a quick driver fetch for a minute. The Desktop did have an activated version of W10 on it at one point though so there was no "Please activate windows" thing but still... not sure exactly where you're getting the "It likely won't even work" part from...
What kind of hobby software do you make on the side? I think for new programmers it's useful for them to know things they should focus on and try and get a step up these days
I use Linux, it's great, I don't really feel the need to use Windows anymore, especially Windows 10 !
i have dual booted windows 10 and forgot why i did because i never used it
@@clerickx1642 I just spent a nice part of my day fixing a File History recovery.
I wrote some Java code to remove duplicates and UTC timestamps, and that fixed it. Mind you, I had to recover those files due to reinstalling Windows 10. BitLocker froze when it was unencrypting. I backed everything up with File History and reinstalled Windows 10. But that only led to the backup corrupting.
But that's just not something I've ever had to do with Linux, not even on Arch Linux.
Windows 10, and now 11, is basically malware for gaming, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Outside of those uses, it's useless garbage.
About Windows on pendrive - Windows-To-Go :)
Driver situation aren't that great thou. Windows still support more hardware. But I love linux :)
Regarding #2, lately Fedora has been requiring reboots for all updates done through the GUI. Of course, you can always bypass the GUI and issue the update command in the terminal
I want to learn more from you. This channel is great
You've just made up my mind about moving over to Linux.
don't install it yet...
see if there are any linux drivers for your hardware....video , audio , wifi , bluetooth ..etc
i had the surprise to not be able to run linux because it's shit in terms of compatibility
the guy in the video must have been talking about windows XP or 2000 ...almost all of his points are either crappy useless shits regarding updates or straight lies because he isn't familiar with windows 10 or 7
I would switch over if it ran Ableton Live + my VST plugins
Have you tried it under wine? It might work. Issue with linux and audio is the confusing drivers. There's ALSA and PulseAudio and JACK.. They are highlyflexible,but confusing to set up.
Regarding #4 - 3:14 - There is Windows Pre-installation Environment (WinPE) images, that can be placed on a USB. But the Linux live CDs/USBs feel like the full OS, where as WinPE images are typically slimmed down to just troubleshooting tools.
I used to use only Windows until I began to need to use linux for some specilized programs, since I'm a physicist. Since that i've been wondering... is there really any advantage in using windows?
Just outta curiosity are you planning or have done any Linux gaming related videos? I'm still on windows primarily for gaming but have been thinking about switching for awhile
I recently got Rocket League to work on my Linux install. I was quite thrilled at that. One less thing Windows is necessary for.
@@EngineerMan I've heard Linux is getting much better than it used to be for gaming. I'm mostly a gamer when it comes to pc use, which is probably my biggest hurdle in making the switch
@@TheMrfrodough Steam supports Linux now natively, and all the games that run under Steam Play will run on Linux. Of course you can have Wine for other stuff with something like Playonlinux (which can be used to create virtual disc drives with Wine being automatically set up for this drive for specific games)
I use Linux (OpenSUSE) for almost everything I do, and the only game I have that I found some problems with is Danganronpa v3 because of DirectX11, but that was 1.5 years ago, and nowadays Wine supports DirectX11
@@TheMrfrodough steam has proton now and it can run almost any windows title under it, unless you don't like steam which can be understandable but since you are a gamer you probably use it already.
0:14 You can also download the source for linux on windows
I was so confused by this :D
Even more, you can't download windows' source code on linux! Checkmate penguins
Nice comparison. I have one objection. I’ve noticed that if I let my Manjaro box run for a day, UA-cam videos start to stutter. I think I’ve heard the Arch distribution in general has this problem.
Woo, Xubuntu; I've been running it as the distro of choice for years, even going so far as using it for gaming (still waiting to be able to set different UI scaling for each monitor)
#12 You can run linux without a GUI. I tend to do that on Raspberry Pi when it is used as a controller (GPIO) or server. Opting to not use/or shutdown the xserver frees up a lot of resources.
Atomkey Sinclair i mean you can completely uninstall xorg. As long as you have a ssh server running you got all you need
I have Pi 3 running Raspbian for my NAS and it does the job brilliantly and was doddle to set up but special cases don't make Linux superior to Windows for most people most of the time.
I don't know why Linux evangelists like the one in this video have to tell so many lies. Why can't they just say "Linux is better for this, this and this and Windows is better for this, that and the other"? It would at least be true.
@@xxxggthyf Engineer Man never claimed it was better for most people most of the time. He claimed Linux did 10 things better than Windows, and he's right about the vast majority. In the years since he uploaded some things have changed, but it's still mostly true.
@@LabGecko You may be right but it's also true that I have Linux Mint as a dual boot on my desktop and rarely boot into it because Win 10 is still so much easier.
That being said I brutally bludgeoned Mint onto my low spec, lightly used laptop which involved nuking the Win 10 on the pitiful 32gig SSD it has as its only internal drive. Partly because 32gig isn't enough for Win 10 to update properly but mostly for performance. Absolutely no regrets at all on that front even if it did take me several days to get past a bios that was determined to stop me.
Actually, Microsoft launched a basic version of Windows for the Raspberry Pi without the GUI... (Windows 10 IoT?) not sure why someone would pick that over Linux.
3. Except if it's a graphics card. Or a sound card. Just the important ones :)
Actually it is a graphics adapter if you want to get pedantic about things.
The audio have been annoying on Linux Mint, but the default graphics driver is just as good unless you're doing 3D gaming.
At least you have audio systems to choose from. It would be so annoying to have just one working system, with Linux you can choose from several which all have their own issues
@@Symbiatch nothing seems to work with everything. Back in the day I had a commercial OSS license for audio drivers. Today if you are not using PulseAudio you will not get sound support in many applications either. As devs have dropped support for the low level driver in their software. If you are using PulseAudio I've heard that can cause other problems itself. I know I've had applications not have sound running Pulse. Others speak of delay issues too. I can't run Firefox or use OBS because neither supports the native low level Linux sound drivers as best as I can tell. I'm not really wasting my time finding out more about either at this point. Don't work. Round file it.
Printer Drivers are the ultimate counter-example IME, but that was the example he gave.
idk... ymmv? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
About the hardware point - I am a linux noob and struggling to get my canon lbp6030 printer working on ubuntu.
I also am still looking for a tool to manage the c922 cam settings like we have the logitech tool for windows.
Got any ideas? Will help a lot. Thanks.
Linux, you had me at screensavers. You are so right about drivers I was so happy when I discovered my old Mustek flat-bed scanner worked instantly while for Windows ME it had 5 floppy disks for drivers. I almost scrapped the machine but it's great. Thanks E-Man!
I just got a new laptop, good thing I didn't get rid my old one, now I know what to do with that old one haha
install linux on the new one too
I actually got away with moving one of my C: drives from one machine to another, with Windows, and it still works. On boot it behaved as if it was a fresh install tho, installing new drivers and rebooting a few times. Maybe I just got lucky with this one.
Since Windows 10 a migration to other hardware has improved a lot. Changed my friends mainboard, cpu and ram at once. A few reboots and it worked fine.
That's because changing hardware isn't as much of an issue as it's made up to be.
Remember, you have the gaming community on windows, which change out hardware a lot.
Whenever I added, moved, removed or swapped any part of my windows machine I didn't even have the slightest of problems.
@@ikat_tracer You're lucky. I've built and upgraded hundreds of Windows systems and it is rare for hardware changes - especially if multiple changes are involved or a motherboard is switched - to not cause problems ranging from having to do the uninstall drivers-reboot-install drivers-reboot dance a few times to as much as being forced into purchasing a new Windows license.
Hi E-man , I am having troubles & problems installing the sound driver for sound chip ALC888c. Appreciate if you could instruct me , how to go about installing the driver and enjoy my 5.1 sound sys.
I'm on my 4th system, a notebook, and I have my 3 previous systems. I used Disk2vhd app to move my first desktop system which was a triple boot: XP,Win2000,Win2003 to a vhd. I did the same thing with my next to notebooks XP and a dual boot win7/8.1. So now my new notebook has 3 .VHDs from all previous systems and can run as a VM. As a VM I have the added benefits of snapshots and rollbacks should I want to undo changes.
I've been trying to get Linux Ubuntu running in a VM, but the video refresh is so slow. Not sure how to fix it.
What is this 32MB linux?
Can say the name?
Or make a list of minimalistic linux distributions?
Kirsch kern TinyCore
SliTaz is small, too
Damn small...
Slitaz too
Are you comparing Linux vs windows 95? Some of this data is way out of date.
In my business I used Windows 95 as a file server. It ran for more than 5 years without needing to be rebooted - that was about ten years ago. I changed to using Slack as a file server only because Windows 95 I could not run 95 with new hardware (motherboards and hard drives)
Can you please give me some help, I've been given 2 dell precision m4300 laptop with Ubuntu 12.04 and when I turn on it boot to password black screen, I've been through the grub menu to change password and that's as far it goes, after psswd it's still on the black screen when I type control panel it says not installed, I've no idea on what to do next, as you can probably tell I'm not that computer literate, can I get to the Internet and do things like Windows do, I've tried ask Ubuntu but that didn't work out for me, any help would be much appreciated.
Technically, you can update the kernel w/o rebooting, but you won't be *running* the new kernel until after reboot. unless you're running a live kernel patching service. It updates the kernel image in /boot but not the kernel running in memory
Great video - even if the drivers point is somewhat optimistic!
Oh and my 3D printer "doesn't support Linux"....
A big problem all along is the big printer manufacturers all making "win-printers", i.e. printers that are just dumb raster imagers. All the image conversion magic is done in Windows drivers. This made for cheap printers, but set you into vendor lock. Seems the ink-jet market is all like this. On the other hand, laser printers tend to have real on-board firmware like Postscript. Buy one of those, it will work once you tell the OS where it is on the network, and modern Linux printer-config tools can auto-detect the printer once you finish setting up your local network.
3:13 what about Windows PE and Windows to Go?
I didn't know that Windows PE and Windows to GO are fully functional OSs
They aren't.
@@EngineerMan Windows to go is. I use it to have a windows environment I can boot into if I need ti without wasting disk space on my internal drives. Can play games, install store apps whatever you want.
Weird my Ubuntu always restarts when I download new software for it. I’ll check later this week
Though I've used Linux before, a decent amount, didn't know about these basic advantages! Thanks! Will install it on one of my old laptops where Windows7 wasn't enough.
One thing completely wrong is about drivers.
Nowadays mostly all major and casual drivers are included on Windows. And if not, autosearch of Windows 10 will find and install them.
For Linux you have to search for them and even compile in some cases.
I think that your knowledge of Windows is far behind the development stuck at Windows 98 or XP.
Thats a thing of the past, intel are out and micropuff anounced the other day anti virus software losers are out too...
Strangely, my last windows vs Linux experience, I had a random WiFi card with a half broken antenna and Linux found and utilized it fine, but I couldn't get windows to discover it for anything. I tried downloading drivers, tried pulling drivers from the computer I ripped it out of, everything!! Mind you, this was a few years back as I haven't had a desktop personally in almost 6.5 years. I keep wanting to go back, but I can't ever find the money and the space at the same time.
crckdns Your spreading typical Windows FUD. I've been a Linux user for more than 20 years, and for the last 10 have almost never had to use Windows. My expereience with printers is that mostly the just work. HP & Canon have drivers you can download just like you can with the Windows ones. The difference is that the support runs out on Windows. Every single time I have had to fire up a new version of Windows to cope with helping a friend or relative printer and graphics drivers have been a deal breaker. I have a 2006 Dell Inspiron laptop running the latest version of Lubuntu. Trying to install Win 8 to dual boot, failed because there is no driver for the graphics card. I recently I helped an aunt upgrade to Win10, and had to revert to Win8 as there was no driver for her Canon printer! I have a nearly 20 year old HP LaserJet. It still works fine with ALL my Linux devices, but not with Win8 or 10. And the worst thing about Windows and printers? They still don't know how to set-up network printing properly. In fact Windows 10 still has what looks like the Win2000 network stack underneath. Linux has always had the best network stack and with CUPS network printer set-up is a doddle.
Funny thing from yesterday: had to reboot Ubuntu to get a new keyboard layout working. :)
could you not have logged out and then back in?
@@SimonWoodburyForget I've found hardly ever.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Oh, I make changes, but still hardly ever have to reboot.
@@SimonWoodburyForget As I've said, I've hardly NEEDED to restart.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Well, I mostly use a laptop, so it's gets restarted pretty often. And I kind of know when I need to restart.
Have you done, or could you do, one on Linux vs Mac OS?
Although it may not be done with source code organizations outside of Microsoft have found and announced security holes
#6 is very true. One of my Linux machines at home is a clunky old 450 MHz Pentium III with 384 MB of RAM. It has more than enough power for what it does: firewall, DNS server, DHCP server.
You can do the same thing on a stripped down version of Windows. What's the point?
@@nilpo19 The point is I don't have to run a stripped down version of Linux. I'm running a full version of Linux and that machine will do all the things my six-core, 3.8 GHz, 16 GB machine will do, albeit more slowly.
More than enough power... I am guessing the machine is so power inefficient that a modest upgrade would save money and the planet lol
What about apps, I can find Windows apps on the moon! But looking for Linux apps might as well be Raiders of the Lost Ark. I would like to get my hands on it!
Here's a tip for finding apps, the way I usually go about it.
If you find any app on any platform, go ahead and search for it on alternativeto.net and find similar apps, you're able to filter it down to show linux apps.
And you're able to find their open source counterparts too, which imo are less hasle since no ads/subscriptions just earnest features
so any linux will run on any SBC (pi, pine64, sun microsystems, etc...)?
I have a 2003 Power Mac G5 at home. What Linux distro should I try on it?
Even gaming is starting to become a thing on linux.
The only thing that keeps me using Windows is gaming, plus just familiarity. I now understand that Linux is better but I've been using Windows since I was a small child and it's hard to let go
sTiKyt, Wine is not perfect, many games don't run at all, many others have significant issues.
Valve's Proton is a fork of Wine that's more optimised for gaming, but it's still imperfect.
@@unspeci8852 It definitely isn't perfect but it is getting there!
Nanday Birb How did you install your graphics driver on ubuntu because I solemnly failed
@@vineet_kishore
In the terminal enter these commands.
ubuntu-drivers devices
sudo ubuntu-drivers autoinstall
for #11 you should point out that Linux will not save you if you go to suspicious websites and download directly from them. Also many people are getting viruses from emails nowadays, so linux will not help you there either. Especially if the payloads are crafted to determine OS and callback to remote server and download the corresponding malicious code.
good vid tho man.
When I run Linux, I don't go to suspicious websites and download directly from them. I only have to do that when I run Windows. That's because the sorts of programs you get from those suspicious websites are part of the Linux distribution's repositories so you get them from official sources.
Thats good practice. I wanted to bring up the email attachment thing too because linux cannot save you from a browser exploit sometimes because they can be cross-platform. Stay safe!@@jonathanguthrie9368
This is not true. Email lists are a constant target. Hence, the "have I been pwned" service growing exponentially since its inception. Also consider that it is not about you being a target, but someone in your circles who you frequently email being compromised as well. You only have to open a suspicious link once to be compromised. Im saying too much here, however, let me end by just saying never trick yourself into lowering your defenses by thinking "this won't happen to me". stay safe!@@theblankuser
@@theblankuser Well thing is linux is much more under watch of security experts/hackers then windows. You have to remember that linux kernel works on android and heavy majority of servers in the world run on linux. Now hacking average user having windows you have limited gains - even if you access somehow bank account there is 2-factor authentication etc. But hacking server gives you way way more possibilities.
the only problem thoughwindows is more prone to virus. because of downloaded apps or even a file. unlike linux it cannot run that unless you point out what apps will open that file. if you point that out as a installable deb file then your screwed up.
Hey, I tried switching to linux but I decided to switch back to windows since linux kept crashing when I tried to go fullscreen on something. Any reason why this might be an issue?
CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 1600
GPU: AMD RX 560
1x8GB DDR4 @2666MHz
120GB SSD & 1TB HDD
I dont think it's overheating but I don't know what the problem itself is
What does pen drive mean? Is that just a synonym for USB stick or flash drive?