My Wife Switched to Linux
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- Hi everyone! My wife switched to Linux about 6 months ago, and I thought it would be interesting to interview her about the experience. She originally expressed interest in Linux after watching me use it on my personal computer. She's at the point now where she is self-sufficient, and even teaches me some new things every once in a while.
If you're curious, she uses Debian 12 with KDE.
Thanks for watching!
Props for not making the title all caps with lots of exclamation marks and "you won't guess what happened!!!" in the end.
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Seriously, like a human being for once.
A wife that games? You’re winning bro!
That was a nice interview, good job both of you, lovely testimony for Linux and KDE. GOD bless you and yours.
I’m female and I don’t think I know a single other person who uses Linux, let alone another female, lol. Your wife seems tech-savvy, so no surprise she was ok. I installed Fedora on a brand new laptop (no dual boot!) just by following a couple of UA-cam guides and it’s been such a pleasure to use and install the Gnome customizations. I know there’s a world of other distros but just getting used to Fedora/Gnome setup for now. Anyone who doesn’t get overwhelmed and is willing to do a bit of research can switch to Linux.
Thanks for sharing! So glad you decided to give it a try. Fedora is great -- it's very stable but also has much newer software compared to Debian-based distros. You're right, GNOME is a pleasure to use. It just works, and it's so elegant.
Way to go! Welcome to Linux.
I like fedora, my favorite part is the Fedora spins that are officially part of the project rather than ubuntu flavors which are run by 3rd parties.
I knew a girl in high school who used Ubuntu! (2012)
Fedora is actually a great distro. Don't let pseudo-nerds make you install a pointless distro like Mint, Zorin, PopOS or an overengineered one like NixOS, VanillaOS, etc.
My wife switched because she saw how excited I was about it and wanted to be apart of that vibe. Plus, when things do break - because we're not perfect people - she loves how much faster I can get her computer back to the way she likes it compared to when it was Windows. In any case, she's been a Linux user for 5 years now and has never once felt the need to so much as bring up Windows since.
She does bitch now that her job uses Windows and she's like - you know, if they would just run Linux task x and y would just be so much easier. LOL, I've truly converted her.
Nice! What distro are you guys using?
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This was a fun watch. Many years ago my wife at the time used Linux a bit here and there. She wasn't near as "techie" as me but didn't find it too difficult to use. I've never really taken the plunge to daily drive Linux on my main PC (there are FAR too many programs I use that would need to be replaced) but I have been using LinuxMint on several other PCs in my house in addition to my Unraid server and my game server that runs Ubuntu. It's been a lot of fun to get back to using Linux and the more things I get setup the more I am liking it over Windows. Also you guys are such a cute couple, thanks for sharing!
My granny used to use linux mint. She didn't set it up, but she really liked it, it ran great on her old computer (6GB ram and a Core 2 quad). Recently, she got a new computer with Windows 11 and she just doesn't like it as much.
You should swap it out for her!
Send me her laptop, I will install linux mint on it for free.
this was a fun watch!
here we have two computers, one with endeavourOS and the other with mint for my grandmother, and i never heard a single complain since then.
Nice! Great combo. How do you like EndeavorOS? I still haven't tried it yet.
@@Community-Compute its great, it comes with some preinstalled programs but the ach experience is there!
Great video! I think I am as tech savvy as your wife, and seeing her talk about how she can use and understand this open source tech is really cool, makes me want to try these alternatives myself and deprecate the usage of tech-corporate solutions
Love what you're doing! Keep on posting!
*Thank you very much, it's a great idea to do this interview, because many people probably wonder whether they should / cam motivate their family members to replace Windows.*
*And most importantly, take care of your wife, she's great!* 🙂
Thanks! We all have to do our part!
We need more of these sort of videos.
We have used Arch Linux in all computers in the house for many years now.
My wife saw Windows 11 on a new HTPC we bought, and she couldn't understand that it was actually Windows
Nice, going all in with Arch!
We want more video like these
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So many people, even linux users, go on about how difficult linux is and that hasn't been my experience at all. The most difficult part for me was making the USB drive to install it, but everything else has been smooth. My sister even uses my PC running Linix Mint sometimes with basically no issue. I've even been considering giving the suggestion for my less tech savvy friends to switch. All you need is a user friendly distro/DE, and then navigating linux is not more different than navigating windows tbh.
Gradually people are going to use Linux, average user, this is great!
Nice video and contrast between an experienced and more casual user with Linux.
Cool interview. And those blue eyes!
When my gf is here she uses my laptop that has Mint on it and she's never had any problems getting 'typical' stuff done over the course of a few years. I'm sure I probably had to show her a few things but mostly she was able to figure stuff out. I am an IT person and really didn't like the UI changes and what not in Windows 11 and finally moved my main machine over to Linux. Wasn't completely painless (and I still have a windows mini PC for some work related stuff) but most of my games work (I don't game a ton anymore, ymmv greatly on that one) and a lot of the apps I use were already open source or at least worked on both Linux and Windows. Still haven't found a video player quite as good as MPC but overall i'm more than pleasantly surprised how easy the transition has been compared to the last time I tried Linux as a desktop OS some years ago
Mpv is awesome can add a lot of features with plugins such as video thumbnail seek. Skipping chapters in anime automatically.
@@reigan42 I have it installed but haven't deep dived into the plugins for it yet, I'll keep that in mind, thanks.
The most important conclusion was missing:
What operating system would she prefer to daily drive now that she tried?
I'll have to ask her for part 2! At the moment she seems quite happy with Debian.
I've also switched my "FFXIV rig" to Linux couple of days before Dawntrail release, and it crashed only once in 50+ hours on Linux + Proton Experimental. Even DLSS works fine
The picture of the Gnu is very nice.
Thanks! I thought it was adorable when I saw it on Etsy. Couldn't resist!
@@Community-Compute Well, now I am going to need this as well
Libreboot
@@kackotopi Yep! I think it's the original artwork designed for Libreboot.
@@Community-Compute Yeah, really nice. I want one for my wall too. :)
Katie (the girl dragon mascot of KDE) and Kate (the hummingbird mascot of Kate, KDE’s advanced text editor).
dont forget kiki from krita
Very entertaining. There was this TV couple from years ago that would sit around the patio table and banter for a couple of hours. This was as good, maybe better. Thanks.
Its alright, I corrupted mine to :) We did Linux Mint but I'm sure Debian is a solid choice too
Linux Mint Debian Edition!
Hard for me to understand you in English, but I watch the video entirely with auto subtitles using pauses to read =) so, an hello from France ! =)
Hello from the USA - thanks for watching! My wife has a bit of a southern accent - that might have made it more difficult 🤣
@@Community-Compute🤣 I'm more friendly with the London English 😅 For me, all American accents are very hard to understand. I'm still training my ears watching videos :)
I have been training my ear to many English versions, coming from central Europe, for like 20 years, accustomed the most to the British spectrum. I sometimes struggle with Australian one, they push their vocals to say bed when they mean bad, ped when they mean pad. Don't know why, but it can be confusing at times. In the US there is a growing trend of frying their voices, which is quite annoying, more noticeable in women but some men do it too. What happened to the beautiful clean settled voices from a few decades ago? Movies from 50s, 60s, or even 80s or 90s are the legacy. On the other end of the extreme spectrum, some women literally squeek into the high pitch but that is less frequent now.
introduce her to Gentoo
🤣🤣 - might have to ease her into that. Maybe Arch first?!
@@Community-Compute And then LFS? ;)
@@DASPRiD 😂 Final boss!
Divorce speedrun any%
Cool discussion
As a fellow Linux user, my #1 rule is to never indoctrinate family members into using something they don't understand, I think that's a selfish thing to do... but then there comes my wife asking me "hey, do you think we could install Sims 4 and all its DLCs on your old computer?". I had my Fedora 40 USB stick ready before she even finished that question lmao! I think Fedora / GNOME could have been a better choice for your wife as well, having been a macOS user and all
haha, sounds like you had a similar experience! Yeah, I think either Fedora or Ubuntu would have been more seamless for her, but I wanted us to be running the same setup.
If more regular people were aware that Linux is not the scary sibling in the closet, Microsoft would be shaking in the corning right now.
Very cool vid! Keep it up man!
FFXIV also ran better for me on Linux. Using the xivlauncher through flatpak was so much easier than installation through lutris. It sets up dalamud on its own so you can just hit run and go.
On the benchmark I got 22k on Linux and 17.5k points on windows with the same hardware and settings
Awesome to hear! Yeah, that launcher is awesome. Better than the official one!
Your eye color is fantastic Lauren.
😊
I'm also a distro hopper. I feel it
🤣 - I always come back to Debian though!
I've considered using NextCloud, but I only ever use my phone as a phone and all the computers in the house can just use the same NAS. Personally, I use Slackware with KDE. I've been using KDE for nearly the entire time I've been using Linux which is nearly as long as KDE has existed as a project and no matter how often I try out alternatives I still say it's the best. I've got 12 virtual desktops setup and dozens of shortcut keys to tile in every direction, shift to any desktop and then some.
That's awesome to hear how well KDE has worked for you over the years. I've done a lot of sampling around the DE space and I always come back to it as well :)
As for NextCloud, it's pretty cool, but likely overkill if you just want basic filesharing. I think NAS or NFS + Syncthing for phone syncing is easier to set up/maintain and works better for those basic use cases.
I use Kubuntu, and have been using it since the windows 95 days, and KDE defo reminds of the old windows 95
Ubuntu and it's spins didn't exist in the windows 95 days, I worked at an ISP back then and pretty much anything running Linux was running Slack.
True, I was using slackware in the mid 90's, Debian was barely a thing back then. @@nadtz
There is dozens of us! Dozens!
Let’s goooo!
Superb video, really good to see use cases like this. I am a Kubuntu Councillor, and would like to talk to you about collaborating to promote your Community Compute channel.
HI Rick! THanks for the comment. Sure, I'd be open to it. You can find my email in the channel details.
thx for vid
this one's gonna be funny! I'm gonna get my girlfried there too someday haha
My wife makes fun of me also for distro hopping.😂😂😂😂
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I'm surprised Debian has that many updates. I'm using MX Linux which is Debian based and most of my updates are flatpak related.
She hadn't updated in in a few months, haha. It was mostly just small security updates and a new minor kernel version.
Elden Ring runs on Linux with Proton 9 on Steam.
Thanks! Yeah, it runs great! She's been playing it on Ps5, but I play it on my Linux PC.
@@Community-Compute if she's ever having issues with a game keep in mind there are big communities doing distros like 'bazzite' which is taking steamdeck OS configs and combining them with a lot of other configs to make "just works" distros for every game. A lot of the anti cheats that are config nightmare to get the game working just auto-start on these distros.
Welcome to the world of FOSS, Lauren. I've been a Linux user since Win 98 Sp3 , so say about 1998~2000. Back in the day we used to deal with such things as Xinerama configs, if you wanted 2 monitors going.... etc, ( Ask your Husband about Make when building an install for an application..... LOL , ... I digress) . CUPS was always and still to this day been an issue due to proprietary property issues, meaning you can't use Ghost-script to make a liaison-type printer language base for your OS, so buying that new 3 function printer for your Linux system.....might have been , and may still be a very expensive Door-stop ..:( . .... Caveat Emptor there.( HP is usually the safer bet) ....
OS's. I've run most of the big ones.. RH, Deb, Ubuntu, Suse, Slack, Kali, Tails, all with either LXDE. XFCE, or KDE.
I've also run some of the BSD builds, ( their Kernel is *nix based, not Linux based, so the command set for the CLI is a whole new learning curve, So I got bored of that right-quick).
The Big Three, .... Slackware-based, Red Hat-based, And Debian based.
Debian is my go to.... APT, (CLI), Synaptic, (GUI) ... Software Updaters.
Desktops: LXDE is for older machines .... before UEFI..... XFCE Looks and operates like, with a few mods, Win XP or better, ...multiple desktops, (up to 40 with the Panel's Workspace-Switcher active). and KDE, with its Plasma DE installed, is more Glitzy than Windows Vista or Win 10 ....
As an FYI, I use XFCE with a lot of KDE apps installed, ( think cross contamination LOL ... JK)
You can use any DT Environment you want and add say KDE apps or XFCE apps to it.. and visa versa for XFCE, Cinnamon. Gnome..... etc,etc..
So yes you can make anything Linux your own.
My current Scenario is MX 21.3, ( Debian 11, Bullseye based, )... MX 23 is out.
Oh yea, if you want ot connect 2 or more PC's together on Linux, You need to install and set up " Barrier ", Have Fun with 4 + monitors via 2+ pcs
And lastly : Check out www dot distrowatch dot com.
Stay Safe.
leiason
I want to clarify here the set up of Barrier.
So you have say your Linux box and you are wishing you had more screens. Then you say to yourself, .... Hmmm , I have this Desktop Win PC also that I'm not using , It's just idle for years, what can I do. I'm going to nuke the OS and put Linux on it ..... But I don't want to be swiveling around between two KBs and two mice.
Answer : If both PCs or Laptops, or a combination there of, .. "are on a common LAN"_ ..... You can use Barrier to act as the KVM for both units on Linux.
My case, DT, Dual 23" monitors... MX 21.3. and a 15" laptop MX 21.3 with an adjunct 24" monitor plugged in to the VGA port.
Install Barrier.
Sudo Synaptic .... search Barrier . Install, ( with depends ). Exit Synaptic.
Run Barrier setup. define the topology , meaning the Server,( mouse control ), and the Clients, ( monitors that will be added as adjuncts to increase screen space just like a KVM scenario_
Start the Server and Clients on both machines. and the mouse and KB will actuate on the client as if it were hardwired to it.
My main goal here in the end will bee to have my intel box as server and my AMD A10 box linked with the laptop as a last of the chain...... if I ever need 6 screens, with a max of 40 DTs each PC...... Like who needs a max of 120 desktops ??? with the 3 PC's topping out at 44 GBs Ram ....Combined ....
Maybe I should be looking at making a Beowulf cluster.... lol
.... as for the leiason thang in the window above ...... bad AI ?? or a copy n paste to google gone wrong and left the artifact from a spell-check .
Anywho Folks
Stay Safe
It's funny they still mention Xinerma in the FVWM docs
What about you? What do you daily drive?
Hey there! Right now, I use Debian 12 with GNOME on my desktop, and Arch with KDE on my laptop.
Lauren, wink if you need help.
Have to say the Apple related mentions are not true, from a non-technical perspective they may appear that way. On any apple device you can choose when to update, it does not have to be automatic, so she is lying about that.
The updates can actually be very important, such as security updates that patch flaws and bugs, so you choose when you want those fixed. Spamming your phone for updates? Dont think so!
That aside I am a Linux fan and plan to install Linux Mint on old systems I have and switch to SteamOS for gaming.
Windows is so bad on many levels and you are wise to move away from it as soon as you can.
Hi there -- thanks for commenting. I don't think she's lying, I think that's a strong word to use here. She hasn't owned an Apple phone for many years, but she did own one from the generation during "Batterygate". That's a well-documented case of anti-consumer practices, with legal settlements and such. Plenty to read up on!
@@Community-Compute I was referring to the macOS updates specifically, They don't have to be automatically downloaded in the background, that's an option you can choose. And the battery gate issue wasn't until much later, well after the iPhone 3G she mentioned came out.
@@onigvd77 Ah ok, well she might have misspoken, then, but I don't think it was malicious or anything :). I've got nothing against Apple or any other brand myself. Try to keep things positive here.
@@Community-Compute yeah cool, sorry lying was a harsh word. but what she said was not correct. i have been a Mac user since 1991 and had an iPhone since the 3GS model came out, i was also an iPhone developer for over 10 years. so i know Apple stuff quite well. But overall glad you guys are pro linux as well, windows is just not the way to go.
Wow. This is awkward... I think i'll just leave.
Good day.
Your wife, eh?
Yep I'm his wife of 5 years now! 😊 9 years together 🎉
Sorry, i didn't paid attention; I got lost in her eyes