Key thing to remember though is Mint (or any Linux OS) is NOT Windows, it has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Some try to help you transition by being similar with a lot of functions but Mint has a lot of very good and bad differences to Windows. If anyone gives Linux a try because of videos like this go in with an open mind that this is a new eco-system with it's own history and design decisions that can be different than you are used to.
@@lindenreaper8683 Funny enough, my first acceptance of macOS is actually by using it like a Linux, which it does since it's also a POSIX compliance OS.
@@lindenreaper8683 there has been a lot of talk about Linux better than windows I don't see that. No windows pull the Gpt card out. That Linux community won't allow in the command line interface. Wait till windows 11 is stable. Power tool is just the beginning of it.
8:04 worth noting, there's also an ability to "kill" process in the right-click context menu. This command gives a 100% guarantee that the process will stop.
@@joshplaysdrums2143 don't know what snippets are, but there's the xkill command, which you can set to a keyboard shortcut, and it lets you kill programs you click on. Perhaps that's what you're referring to?
@@Pyro-Moloch I got the name wrong, mint calls them applets, pretty much the applets in was thinking off gives a cursor to kill the process with. Helpful for me as its taking me a while to learn keyboard shortcuts lol
@@joshplaysdrums2143 oh, that's right, there is an applet like that. But setting a shortcut is not that hard either. You open the corresponding menu, select custom shortcuts (you can see it in the video where he shows how to set up a shortcut for the system monitor) and just enter "xkill" in the command line. I set mine to Ctrl+Del. There are guides on this on the internet to.
Another simple tasks that come to my idea would be: installing software, compressing and decompressing files, workspace organization (virtual desktops, overview of open windows, etc.) and maybe customizations (although that's its own rabbit hole).
@@carloseltopoquegira7454 Less of a pain than Windwos when I've just deliberately downloaded software and being asked if I really want to run it when I click on it. But if I just want to install it for my user only then I don't need escalated privileges and no need for SUDO. Because Windwos is really a single user system by backward compatibility design, you need admin rights to install any software. Linux was designed as multi user from the outset and so understands the need to separate OS files from application files. That's why escalated privileges are required to install software for everyone - you are bring a system administrator instead of just a user, and the Linux method helps you understand the difference. It also means it is much harder for malware to install itself without your permission.
@@carloseltopoquegira7454 It's neither a pain (it's literally just typing those four letters), nor is it required… All of the things I listed can also easily be done with a few clicks. Go spread your FUD somewhere else!
@@clearkash598 bash comes from unix shell while windows cmd comes from dos. they don't share much in ways they can be scripted, instead of ls you have dir on windows, in bash you can do actual ifs, loops and functions while cmd offers goto statements. you can use bash on windows (ie. mingw has one) the thing that sucks is most scripts expect a posix environment and it'd hard to make one in windows. Nowdays microsoft offers WSL though but I wouldn't call that a windows terminal since it's actually running a full linux vm. Also powershell is kinda cool but 1) it's not posix shell compatible, it does things in it's own way 2) almost no one writes scripts for that 3) check out nushell, it's just better
I just want to point out for anyone used to Windows file searching: Linux file search is _fast._ When I say fast, I mean that on my system, it managed to find a file down in the depths of a 1TB external hard drive in about 20 seconds flat, presumably _after_ searching through my 500GB main SSD. Try doing that on Windows, and you'd be sitting there for 5 minutes, minimum, before anything resembling a useful result came up. I have no idea why the difference is so big, but it is, and it's one of the reasons I switched.
It may have something to do with indexing, and the fact that Windows doesn't just look in the metadata, but also the file contents. So if you search for "London", Windows will not only list files and folders with "London" in their names or details, but also all text files and maybe some PDFs with the expression "London" in them.
i use "everything" app on windows and it's much faster than stock search thing, it finds anything *I N S T A N T L Y* on any stupid laptop hdd amd on pretty slow PCs
A subtle snapping feature in Mint not mentioned is that there is a slight bumper-snap between floating windows. If you bring two windows together and overlap slightly then it will perfectly butt them up against each other. It also allows sliding the two windows against each other. This can let you butt the moved one up against a third window. A perfectly screen filling floating patchwork of windows can be made this way.
6:20 About renaming: you can also click on the name of the file in Windows, and this will allow you to edit it from there. This wasn't the case in Linux Mint until the latest update, where it now mirrors that functionality.
It has been possible on raspberry pi’s for at least 4 years and on mint for at least 2 years. Before that I do not have personal experience but I know for a fact you are mistaken, it happens
i really hope linux mint devs look into this video because i really like their desktop environment. I hope you point out even more issues where the desktop can improve in the future.
Linux Mint has apparently been around since 2006 which will make it a retro Operating System but I want more iconic Windows computers and I am a retro computer collector. I turned one side of our basement into a makeshift retro entertainment center and a retro computer lab almost like how Schools set up their computers. I will eventually be putting every model gaming console known to man down their it will eventually feel like a makeshift museum for retro electronics.
It's worth noting that you will be using the system monitor a lot less than you would the task manager. Apps on linux very rarely hang or stop responding to commands. In Mint, specifically, if you stick to the applications in the software center then you are extremely unlikely to have those issues. It is a very stable distribution. This changes if you start tweaking and messing with the configs and generally experimenting with the freedom linux gives you but you know what they say, with great power comes great responsibility. :)
I always has random stuff hanging, but not the problem with linux, it's me squeezing the specs down to an unreasonable level for my workload. And, it's still just hang not straight up crashing the entire OS
Note the Windows Task Manager has one simplified main tab showing apps on the task bar so that normal people can kill apps easily. The Processes tab is a secondary tab showing all processes, similar to what Mint has.
That main screen is pretty much useless though nowadays, even when using windows 10 the first thing I would do when opening task manager is go to the processes tab. People saying that task manager is good at killing tasks must not know/have forgotten how it used to be. Task manager has become extremely poor at it's job. The moment a crash happens that is outside the normal it kind of loses it's ability to deal with it. The fact that it's a normal window makes this even worse. I do remember a time in windows where using the ctrl alt delete option would just hard kill any program, now you have to go through task manager and it's not very good by comparison.
It might be cool to compare a KDE Plasma distro to windows as well. KDE does many things even better than Windows, not on par like Mint Cinnamon. I suggest either KDE neon, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
@@Pyro-Moloch As someone who daily drives Arch Linux with KDE no new user should use KDE, Sure it looks good by default and still has plenty of customization but you need to be willing to fix things when they break. Cinnamon was the first DE (in Linux mint) that I used when I permanently switched to linux.
@@sus-ln1nmThe 'old man' is right though. I love KDE but it still needs a year or two of polishing until i would be willing to recommend it to people that ain't into modifying (and fixing) their desktop. It might work good on some hardware, but more often than not KDE ends up being a painful hell on most systems for most users. No need to deny this fact... Unless you want to be an ignorant butt about it. Everything that has to do with the discover program in KDE crashes if you look at it too hard this day, also it's slow as hell.
i love that on KDE i can configure to zoom in the screen on command by just pressing Super+(= or -), no questions asked, or that to kill a window i can just press Ctrl+Super+Escape and then click the window i wanna forcibly close. while the start menu is way better than Cinnamon because of KRunner, i still find it to be laggy when loading up long lists of programs available as i hover through the categories in it. i'll be happy to recommend KDE when the team eventually publishes their version 6. Cinnamon is still a solid choice tho.
I've been using Linux full time since the windows 8 atrocity. I play all manner of high end games, routinely handle office files, edit photos and videos, and of course browse the internet. Have yet to find a single thing that I cant do on Linux that i could on Windows. Of course there are varying degrees of learning required to accomplish that at times, but this makes the computer fun to use again. The idea that I am in control of everything my computer does at all times is quite appealing :)
I have a few. There's no equivalent (not even close) to Photoshop. If you need photo editing, you're SOL. Same for good video editing. There's a few, but they're vastly inferior. If you need accounting software, you're screwed. If you need to use banking software, you're screwed. If you play games that use anti-cheat, you're usually (but not always) screwed. I could go on for a few hours. I do use Linux since Kernel 0.96, and pre-KDE/Gnome on Enlightenment. It's good for some things, good for the average illiterate grandparents, not so great in any serious office environment. Admittedly, gaming (via Wine/Proton/Steam) has improved a ton in the last 5ish years. The whole X11/Wayland mess on the other hand has just devolved the desktop into an infernal hellscape.
@@wombatdk if you are speaking of software.from Adobe or Intuit that require subscriptions to use them I'll pass everytime. If you absolutely MUST use them in a professional setting then get a Mac...they work better there anyway. I'm not speaking about the tiny percent of users who have those needs, I'm talking about the 95% plus who do not.
As someone who's planning to at least partially transition over to Linux Mint in the near future, I'm very happy to see that batch renaming feature. I recently updated the names of a bunch of old music files to add artist names, and ended up having to look up PowerShell commands that could do it efficiently. Just having it built into the context menu sure is a lot more convenient.
Very useful. A simple task that gave me some trouble at first was getting different language input running. Like when you want to type Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
@@GinanjarUtomo Just pressing printscr will take a picture of the whole screen on any Windows version since at least 95 or 98. Windows 11 just added 3 options at the top on what you want to do after you press Printscr. I remember this because when you wanted to prank someone back in the days you just took a printscreen, pasted it into Paint, saved it and used it as the desktop while removing all real icons. Then you also just hide the start menu. I have never tried it on multiple monitors but it always worked like this with 1 monitor.
There’s only TWO reasons why I still using windows in my daily routine. Office and gaming. Although for office I’m using wps, it’s a very compatible tool and all but still lacks some of the ms office components. And for gaming I just have to search for the Linux compatibility list in Steam. But for now that’s ok.
@@lindenreaper8683the problem is that single player games aren't the problem. Otherwise I wouldn't dualboot Win and Lin on the same PC just to Game and Work. I just don't want to pirate Office 365.
@@lindenreaper8683 are you an AI bot or something? I saw you text like this under other comments lol. Tell your developer to fix your text recognition or switch your theme of a talk. "Keep Windows offline", "MS Office is trash" stop spamming pls.
@@lindenreaper8683MS Office may be shit but one doesn't have much choice when your employer demands it or you have to keep fixing compatibility issues with your colleagues using office and don't care that it's crap Similar to how WhatsApp is inferior to signal I'm stuck using it because my contacts don't care enough to switch
Photo viewing and send it somewhere, maybe to a friend. Change wallpapper. Change time for sleep mode/screensaver. Installing Microsoft Teams or play a popular game. Setup backup to external drive.
"Photo viewing" has nothing to do with the OS though on the off chance to do with some proprietary media codecs, that Mint provides to you during the installation. The wallpaper itself is a window in the XOrg display server that Mint flavours use, and is completely exposed to a protocol called EWMH, meaning you can do much more than have a photo or video wallpaper. Theoretically you could make a live mathematical graph, rendering in real-time, be your wallpaper. Do you see any reason why "Microsoft" Teams is difficult to install on an OS that isn't "Microsoft" Windows? It's developed in Electron which is a cross-platform framework so what difficulty could there even be?? oh maybe it's the fact that they dropped linux support last December. In Valve's own words with association to their development on ProtonDB, "80% of Steam's top 100 games are now playable within Linux". is that a good enough metric?
@@bhavyakukkarI’m a Linux user and I enjoy Linux, but for the gaming part, I need to be realistic. 80% is not enough, especially if like 90% of the remaining 20% consists of online multiplayer games, aka the big hits that the vast majority of gamers care about.
@@bhavyakukkarI tried to mention some tasks that the average user might do with a computer. Will it be easier or harder to do on Mint? Teams is pretty common for work, Slack as well. With wallpaper I meant just setting a photo as the wallpaper, people like to see a photo of their loved ones on the Desktop. How easy is it to share a photo to a friend? Utilize the applications installed or do you have to search and install extra software to archive this?
@@Girgoo ah I see, that's embarrassing. people usually pick some of the things you mentioned to criticize linux and the instinct to defend kicked in. I apologise
1. the screen capture tool in Windows 11 seems horribly buggy with multiple monitors at different screen resolutions, and it is slow. And I think it worked in previous versions. 2. Does Ctrl-Insert and Ctrl-Delete work with the clipboard in Linux Mint? 3. Does Linux Mint have tabbed file manager windows? 4. For my 25+ years of Windows experience, the search feature has been horrible. I swear it has a less than 50% success rate and I assume MS knows this from all the metrics data I must be sending back to the mothership.
2: idk what ctrl+ins is supposed to do but Ctrl+del does work (deleting words to the right of the cursor, instead of single letters. 3: yep. Mint's default file manager is named "nemo", which supports tabs. Other file managers like nautilus and dolphin also do. 4: can confirm and relate
Yeah agree. Sometimes it's convinient, sometimes it's not. In Linux (I use GNOME), I just use Super and arrow key like the uploader showed and to get another window resized, Alt+Tab and then super + arrow key again. It's almost as fast when you get used to it and you have much more control. And if I want complex tiling, I have multiple tiling extensions that far surapass what Windows offers, as they essentially emulate and full blown tiling window manager.
You can disable that (in Win10, at least). Settings -> Multitasking (Or type "snap settings" from the Start menu) uncheck "When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it"
@@ratamacue0320 Nice, thanks! Never thought of looking for it in there (then again not much is where it's supposed to be in the control pan... sorry, settings)
Kinda surprised you don't mention making a rich text document or extracting an archive. Both are very common tasks if you ask me. I do them almost every day lol
As an avid Linux hater (I might end up switching anyways because windows is trying its best to become bad) I wanted to share some notes: - you showed what essentially looked like a gui-implemented script utility for the mint batch renaming, (which admittedly is nice and tidy) but then for some reason didn’t show a power shell on windows which could definitely do the same thing? Yeah it’s probably a bit more tedious but to be fair few people will likely use batch naming anyways imo so seems like an odd omission especially since it would be a convenient place to show windows ‘open terminal here’ context menu item -someone correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t win+printscreen auto save to the screenshots folder? I think the copy to ms paint thing is kinda a mark of the past outside of doing it to actually edit the photo in there (which definitely still has its place) also on a tangent I’ve had weird issues with the snip tools markup feature on my multimonitor setup at work, granted that’s win10 not 11. But yeah as someone begrudgingly thinking of switching to Linux as a daily driver I appreciate the comparison. I probably will go with Ubuntu over mint just because of popularity (aka more resources and support from things) but regardless a nice video. Ok now a fun rant for those who are curious about my self prescribed anti Linux label: I like open source and free software as a concept; so I love Linux in that respect- however what frustrates me endlessly about Linux is that it’s community (and because it’s open source thus the devs themselves) will tout how Linux is definitely easy to use and an obvious choice while in the same breath criticize people for wanting Linux distros to…be simple and easy to use. The year of the Linux desktop is a meme for a reason, and it’s not just because of the power Microsoft’s wallet and influence- it’s also because there are 10 billion Linux distros, more of which naturally are poorly maintained, rather than people actually making a single really solid distro or two. And when people are in good faith trying the ecosystem out, forum dwellers are quick to shit on them for not scouring for 30 pages of forum posts somewhere else as well as not just knowing better automatically. Anyways I’m still maybe switching because holy fuck Microsoft stop with your forced updates, ad and telemetry shoves and anti consumer lack of legacy support. I hate how perfectly functional hardware becomes sketchy to use just because windows has either arbitrarily decided you can’t use it or actually can’t simply because the os is too fucking bloated to run decently on older hardware So yeah if you can be bothered switch to Linux tbh, make a dual boot ideally especially for gaming/productivity since that is generally a better experience on windows
@lindenreaper8683 yes Ubuntu is the basis for many distros mint included, but my point is to go with the big one since it has the most support. Also, it seems like you didn’t quite get the spirit of what I was saying, which is fair tbh cuz I posted and rant wall- but I did end that with “anyways yeah probably just run both”. I already run Linux on a tertiary device because it’s too low spec to handle modern windows. Legacy compatibility is obvious a massive W to Linux over windows in a lot of situations. However for many myself included their just isn’t really a way to run the software I want on Linux- wine is great but obviously it’s usually a performance hit at least and a buggy and/or not working mess at worst. I’m a musician and DAWs are generally, unfortunately, just not made with Linux in mind. And again like people keep saying with good reason- the game support is just less. It’s getting better, it’s come a long way, but it ain’t it chief. In other words, a dual boot is the strat for most people still, even if the full switch is looking less painful over time
An interesting feature to compare would be on file operation conflicts, when copying or moving things to somewhere that already has the same stuff with the same name. From my previous use of Linux, I think Windows and most Linux distros work quite similar, bit macOS, mind bogglingly, gives the option to REPLACE the destination folder, instead of merging them.
I am glad somebody is talking about it, thanks for making this video. Maine bhe aise he sabko dekh kar MERN stack sikha tha, now i am in my 3rd year, almost katham hai, what should I do now? Next.js? Devops? How to get a carrier??
I've been using Void Linux for years. But I appreciate the fact that there are distributions like Mint that are friendly to newcomers. I wish there was Linux Mint without systemd.
@@arianitonline8748 it's bloated, it's not following UNIX philosophy, it complicates things, and just personal preferance not to use it. There always should be an alternative, but systemd became a 'system layer', and grown to be so mainstream that people bareley have any alternative. I prefer simple init scripts as opposed to 'services'. It's becoming more and more Windows'ish and less UNIX-like. Average GNU/Linux user shouldn't care though. Until it gets in their way somehow. But I've been running GNU/Linux distributions for over 17 years, and I like the older approach without systemd. Good thing that there is a big community that thinks the same, so here I am running one of the distributions that suits my purposes AND doesn't have systemd.
@@arianitonline8748 it does everything. Seriously, not only does it handle startup, but it can handle stuff like NTP through systemd-timesyncd and serve as a bootloader through systemd-boot. It does too many things.
well systemd is the mainstream choice even for advanced distros like Arch or NixOS so if you want non-systemd I doubt there's a newbie-friendly distro for you
Seems you might need a hard drive checkup as the Windows search feature mechanics called indexing, pre searches your computer and sometimes file content then displays it super fast. If that isn't working for you out of the box, I'd suspect you have either hardware issues or system file corruption.
On Windows there's the "Everything" program that searches your files pretty fast And yeah, natively Linux mint searches files a lot faster for me. I can also recommend "Catfish" search program, it's nice
Definitely so, but I see why OP chose to use Cinnamon, as a newcomer would likely have mint recommended to them. I’d personally recommend Mint to noobs too.
@@steventechno i usually recommend Fedora because it is stable and has the GNOME desktop environment which has great support and looks very polished. I installed it on my gf's laptop
On Windows 11 if using a touchpad you can also show all windows with 3 fingers swipe up and select the window you wanna switch to. Touchpad gestures are really nice. I know GNOME has them though but not sure about Cinnamon.
I'm wondering if you did any comparisons in usb handling, I switched to linux mint on an old Samsung all in one and noticed that usb 3 speeds had gotten a pretty decent boost when transferring files from my external ssd and I'm wondering if you noticed any difference between the two.
8:30 hmm, that (searching for individual settings) come a lot handy in windows 10. but that's partly 'cz it is fragmented in soo so many dialogs. i have heard that linux settings app are much more coherent, and most all things are available in that app itself - so, this won't be too much of an issue in that land either.
Took two Linux classes but haven’t used it outside of there, been wanting to change that. Seeing that selection screenshots can still copy to the clipboard might finally do me in, that setting has become crucial to my entire existence LOL
6:20 On Windows you can also rename by "slowly" double-clicking the name. As in, first selecting the file, and then single clicking it and waiting ~0.2 seconds.
I haven't watched every moment of this, but I would point out, that's Windows v Mint + Cinnamon. I'm a Mint + Mate user, have been for a very long time. There's also an XFCE version. Windows only has one desktop. Linux has about 8 common ones and a few that are obscure. Many major distros have a selection of desktops you can install them with. Cinnamon is designed to be (far as I understand it) a soft landing for people who just got here from Windows. If you're an older Windows user, like '95 / 2k / XP stuff, then Mate is a very familiar experience. There are also a number that mimic the Apple desktop very closely. If you don't LIKE the way Windows does things, tough luck. But if there's something you don't like about your Linux distro a) there are over a hundred others, and b) you can very likely change it yourself. [edit ~ 8 months later] 3:55 or so ~ I'm not on Cinnamon, I use Mate. Shortcut for the terminal is Cntr + Alt + t (or T). Shortcut for opening a file manager (Caja) is Cntr + Alt + e (or E). I didn't know about the screenshot shortcuts. Thanks for that. I did put a launcher / shortcut up on the top panel, which opens the screenshot tool, and I use that often enough to justify the placement on the 'task bar'. Yes, I have a lot of gadgets and widgets lined up on the top panel, like a network throughput tell, like a cpu clock-speed tell, and a cpu core temp tell, along with the text editor, calculator and the system monitor (Task Manager analogue.) And a workspace switcher with 4 desktops, 2x 1080p monitors each. And launchers for Chrome and Firefox. Yes, I have both. At this point, I'm primarily using Firefox but that's subject to change depending on mood and whim and which one glitched most recently. My current grudge with Chrome is the recent change to using their own themes, and the hell with what your desktop looks like ~ we're Google and you will be assimilated. Ok ~ you do you. I'll do Firefox. There's a question. This box is an i7-6700. It's due to be replaced in 3 or 4 months by an AMD R9 9950X. I will be running the same Linux Mint on that. I can have 4 temperature tells on the top panel, that all fits neatly, but I don't think there's room for 16 of them... I think I might have to do 16 for a few days, and get a feel for what I need to keep an eye on and what I don't. Hmmm ~ Ok, little experiment then. I can add another panel, top bottom or side, and I can stack some or all the gadgets in that one, then just load all the cpu temps across the new one ~ I'm not about to run out of panel real-estate. What I was trying to do, was put another panel at the bottom of the secondary display. Have to research how to do that.... Seems panels go in the primary display. That's why it's primary ~
Windows no longer feels snappy though. Like.. you click on a ss notification.. the snip window first appear small.. then it pops to bigger size.. Just be responsive and snappy
I just switched to mint from windows a few weeks ago!! Cant recomend it enough, if you have a spare hardrive i can easily recomend flashig mint on it. Now im already thinking of reclaiming my windows harddrives for linux lol. Also gaming is very easy (if you have amd gpu). I have nvidia and it is now running just as well as it did on windows but freesync is goddam jank, im hoping xorg gets some fixes eventually but theres always workarounds in the meantime. In reality it just means ill get an amd gpu when i next upgtade though thats no time soon
Great video.🎉🎉❤❤Thank you very much for sharing all the Information about the Linux mint and the overall comparison between Linux mint and windows 11🎉🎉❤❤I have actually learned how to create a screenshot, a selected screenshots on the screen in Linux mint.🎉🎉❤
Largely the only thing thats been keeping me from going to Linux is the gaming. Which I've been told has gotten a lot better thanks to Valve. I hope that it's has gotten even better by the time that support for Win10 is dropped.
I haven't tried in a while so I might be wrong but one thing that bothers me in Mint is deleting stuff from a USBstick or an external harddrive because regardless of the method of deletion with will not delete the file but create a directory in the USBstick or external harddrive where it stores the deleted file, basically like it's creating a recycling bin from scratch
@lindenreaper8683 ... because you told it to? You plug in a USB stick with a file on it, you decide you don't want that file anymore, you tell the OS to delete the file... this... should result in the file being deleted, one would expect?
Any idea why print screen key on my Linux Mint doesn't make screen shot? Is there any option in system that i changed by default? i didnt change that on purpose.
@@guyman1570 I don't see why it would be any different in a virtual machine compared to a regular installation, from my knowledge it should be the exact same
Make a video on the current situation of the Internet and many sites and companies suddenly paywalling their services e.g Twitter, Reddit, Unity etc. and how can deal with it.
Hiya! I'm new to your channel - now subbed - like the content. I know everyone wants to be a critic, but just one thing... whatever microphone you are using seems to be losing all of the top-end, where I'm sat. Sounds very muffled. If no-one else is having the same issue, it's just me :)
Linux mint doesn't have Wayland support, X does stuff like scale incorrectly and lag out, as well as security issues. KDE or something would be considerable instead
x11 works on my nvidia card prefectly, but wayland doesnt scale my screen up to 1920x1080, idk why but x11 works better by me than wayland. maybe it is a gpu problem
@@yogakumi nvidia cards are known to have issues with wayland and linux in general, so stay with X until either you do an upgrade or bugfixes get added to the linux drivers
Kubuntu has given me some issues on my gaming laptop, Mint does gpu switching so much nicer too with the icon on the task bar and only having to logout instead of actually restarting the pc.
I don't know why all these youtube channels are shilling Linux Mint specifically, there are better options out there. At least Linus Tech Tips gave multiple distros a try.
In windows file explorer you can group and sort files at the same time but there is not a single file manager in any linux distro that can do the same. You can not group files by type and sort individual groups by date modified in any linux file manager.
I moved from Windows to Linux mint three years ago because I got tired of Windows approach to updates. I decided to give Linux a go for a year to see if i could "survive it" for that long. Never went back and never going back. I use Windows at work and those updates are still a killer,. Linux just get on with it and politely asks for a reboot only if the kernal has been upgraded. It won't force you though. A reboot on my system takes just 27 seconds with Mint so I don't mind doing one. As an added bonus when the system comes up it's using only about 800mb of memory! The applications are all free and also very memory efficient. Oh, and it never crashes, freezes or blue screens, even if you leave it running overnight or for a few days (yep i did that once) So Microsoft ... Why? ... just why ... why can't you do this?
@@Fataha22 Two things about that, the first is that if you work in a corporate environment updates are pushed and not optional, the machine will shut down on you. The second it that if you don't take updates you're not addressing vulnerabilities in the system thereby leaving you open to attack and new and exciting viruses. So while you can on a private machine, it's not wise.
@@Fataha22 Well work sets the shut down time for the windows machine not me. Even if you do shut down and walk away there the "Applying updates" rubbish that's waiting when you turn it back on again, I had to wait over 30 minutes for that to finish one day while it took a security patch. Windows will also leave the remains of an upgrade all over your disks just taking up space and doing nothing. Linux is just better at updates and does everything I need so I run it on my own machines at home and the only Windows machine I have is the one I have to use for work.
How about comparing the following 1. Set default program for general file types e.g. videos, photos etc 2. Add a different language keyboard 3. Use a new printer for the first time
23H1 now has the option to use the win print sc to automatically open the snipping app. Which is now set to be defaulted on. Making it, imo the best all rounded print screen. Really nice.
@@lindenreaper8683 don't be so quick to bash windows, it's not like the original print screen had no use. For one I'd say it was easier for regular people to understand than the new snipping tool. People are quick to ignore that not everyone is as smart as they are. As a support technician I can say the average user would still prefer the old method.
6:12 To rename a single file in Windows, I click on the file name below the icon, wait half a second and click on the name again. I‘m not the only one, am I? 🤔
That does very much depend on manufacturer, some will work without any issue, some wont because vendor does not bother supporting them or they use some kind of never ever before seen protocol for printing From my experience on managing Linux workstations at work, printers we bought with Windows users as priority, do work basically just plug & play on linux too (not literally plugging the cable, but discovering and connecting to them over network) We even did manage to connect them to SafeQ
Printers either work flawlessly out of the box, or not at all. I have yet to use one that doesn't just work, but have heard of people having issues. Drivers depend on hardware. AMD GPU drivers are included in the kernel, while Nvidia needs a proprietary blob driver (for now). Other devices are hit and miss, some just work, others need manual installs, and some don't exist. Capture cards are known to be problematic.
@@LaughingOrangeI have an Epson ET-2750 at home and it worked on Ubuntu, but not on EndeavourOS. I installed the driver, so I have yet to find the cause of the issue.
Can you name any printer brands that you've had good/bad experiences with when it comes to Linux driver compatibility? Just so I can have some idea for when the time comes around and I need a printer.
In rare cases your system may freeze. In Windows, if I remember correctly, you enter it with alt+ctrl+supr and in file explorer you click restart. In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart.
@MichaelDustter I mean not always. I've had systems with 2 or less GB of RAM lockup because of Linux's shitty RAM MM and you could still unfreeze them most of the time.
> In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart. only on Xorg sessions. this is not supported by Wayland.
idk why people still think u need to hold ctrl/alt/win + prtsc in windows, just a single tap of the prtsc btn has worked since xp or vista if i'm not mistaken
@@RayOfSunlight984An even simpler solution is to make a virtual machine. Sure, performance will suffer due to the virtualization overhead, but day to day tasks won’t make people notice that.
You could also install it on a USB 3.0 flash drive if you are very limited on disk space. You have three different ways to give Linux Mint a shot with losing Windows, each with it's own advantages. Good luck! 🐧
@@johnettipio replying so that OP can see, i recommend this, booting from a USB flash drive. this is what got me to try linux with no strings attached, and then i could go back to my computer without having anything changed. it's what charmed me to linux.
For future videos comparing Linux to Windows you should use a distro that uses the KDE desktop environment instead of cinnamon. Way more configurable and customisable and also very very close to a windows like experience. It is the the most advanced DE on linux imo and it works great and even has Wayland support and because of that gesture support on touchpads on laptops which DEs that use X11 don't. Recommended distros for trying KDE are the KDE neon (straight from KDE devs based on ubuntu lte), Kubuntu, Tumbleweed and Arch (both Tumbleweed and Arch are rolling release distros so not recommended for new users). Both Kubuntu and KDE neon are great for new users
I don't fully agree OS video won't be future proof regardless of which you choose because although some stay the same for longer, change will happen and that goes for Windows too And when looking from the perspective of this video (a simple Windows user) Mint is easer to transition to because it was made for that and the KDE distros just aren't as good at that Don't get me wrong KDE is a good desktop and Wayland support is also useful but it's just not as seamless (especially for a Windows user) So while I agree that KDE is good and customizable, I think that Mint is a better choice for this video But if someone wanted to move from Mint or Cinnamon my recommendation would most likely be KDE
KDE Plasma can easily be overwhelming for Windows users. The only thing that makes it that recommendable today is Wayland support and good fractional scaling, which are both lacking on Cinnamon.
Then there's also Gnome with yet another drastically different way of doing things. With the focus on desktop environments it's more like a GUI comparison rather than an OS comparison.
I always after installing Windows, searching in searchbar "Print Screen" to setup Sniping tool lauching as default when I press "prt sc" / "print screen" button.
The worst version of Windows since Vista is still better than Linux for general purposes. That won't change for the next 2 decades, but I do like the strides that Linux is making. There are a lot of things Linux is missing. I can't count the number of times that I had to use the terminal to install a driver or a library, while using a StakOverflow answer from 2012 which worked 50% of the way.
@lindenreaper8683 Yeah, no. I also ended up troubleshooting more often than not on Linux than on Windows. First day I used it, I precisely couldn't use the GUI manager because I was installing network drivers. It was a pain in the ass finding the right ones when on Windows it automatically booted up with a basic driver, and eventually Windows Update could find a more adequate one, or I could easily install another with the right exe. Nonetheless when I finally solved my network issue on Linux, it was overall a pretty snappy experience and felt smoother than Windows, until that didn't matter anymore because I had to do more troubleshooting and "doing" copying more complex commands into the terminal to solve them. I'd say I'm somewhat experienced when it comes to PCs, so if I'm had my share of trouble, imagine someone less knowledgeable. Linux might be here to stay and overcome Windows, and I really hope that considering how Windows is progressively getting worse, but its just not getting there anytime soon.
@lindenreaper8683 Again, Linux is fine for general purpose and power users, everyone in the middle is pretty lost when something needs troubleshooting. Not that Windows doesn't have its share, but anyway, I understand why someone who knows his way around Linux would not understand where I'm coming from.
@lindenreaper8683 Very mature, and also a perfect example of the typical Linux user with the passive-aggressive attitude towards any kind of valid criticism. Linux is great, so much so that less than 3% of people use it as a Desktop option, and if its popularity depends on people like yourself, it will stay that way for another 2 decades at the very least. But hey, at least you don't have to memorize dozens of terminal commands, oh, wait... I guess you win...
@lindenreaper8683 I see that you keep sperging out and liking your own posts with your alt accounts dreaper2087 or dreaper5813 or lindora6744, best regards from MichaelDustter lmao
Nobdy cares. There is no good bussiness software for Linux. Cost of Win Pro licence is too small to moving client app to Linux - the on of 300+ distributions.
The Windows 11 window layouts feature is nifty... But I still haven't met anyone who even wants it. In fact, everyone I know with Windows 11 uses Windows 11 against their will.
does linux automatically fix corrupted files because damned if I can locate a simple way to do this manually like in microsofts sfc /scannow command in command line .
It is popular, so there is a lot of community support. The Cinnamon environment is simple and resembles Windows in a lot of ways, making it an attractive option for those coming from Windows. It is stable and highly unlikely to crash. It doesn't come with the privacy concerns that Ubuntu does (Canonical has a questionable history with privacy, still much better than Microsoft). What distribution would you recommend for newcomers?
@@bhavyakukkar Yeah I still don't like the MacOS-style dock. When Apple introduced that, I was like "OK, I get it; you're desperate to be different from Microsoft by any means necessary." But then GNOME copied it and I was like "Wait, people unironically like using this?"
@@stevethepocket I think a lot of those people who unironically like the dock like it BECAUSE it has a macOS-ness to it; there is a sort of macOS-envy prevalent in the online desktop linux sphere, you see every other KDE user trying to get their desktop looking like Catalina or Big Sur. I get it though, Macs do generally outperform Windows and Linux PCs on the hardware front, a Mac is a pleasing (locked down) aesthetic/brand
@@lindenreaper8683 I love Linux, I daily drive it. I just thought it was funny how the video never really said much bad about mint and yet all the comments are defending it.
you are literally the shining example of what OP has said @@lindenreaper8683 here's my words: reminder, there's nothing wrong with using X over Y. they all have their drawbacks and benefits. which one you choose has most benefits and least drawbacks is up to you, but the more aggressively you do it, the more people can't stand you. one favors freedom while the other one favors stability and functionality. with everyone being scattered on their own project, it's hard to get a cohesive set of systems that do everything windows does. and with windows being a conglomeration and a corporation, you get everything you need but it's hard to get any creativity and freedom. human stubborn-ness is also a very large thing that can't be beat unless the person themselves hit a tipping point (like I did). this issue will not be remedied if you're intentionally pushing people away by having their first representation of Linux be "Because Linux is just better, and I said so. What? You have an issue? rtfm." or "What? You thought Linux was a choice? No. You're using what I want. Fuck you.", and then also proceed to intentionally bar people from decisions like using NVIDIA GPU's (no, the excuse of "just use another GPU lol" does not work. i can assure you most newcomers, especially LESS TECH SAVVY ONES will not end up buying a new $500 brick, installing it just to try out something new). little timmy does not need linux to play fortnite and you're not justified for saying that he should give up his favorite game just to switch OS and possibly deal with a new whole host of issues arising from it. this is stupid, and if you want to convert people from one side to another, you need to give them the same luxury or benefits that are above Windows to specifically THEM. the average poweruser that's also a programmer doesn't need to be confined to the restrictive, bloated and a snooping space that windows is. windows users should cope with the fact that a person has more preference and they sacrifice stability for freedom. complaining about it is stupid. for a platform designed for unified freedom and infinite customizability you're certainly narrow minded for not having that sort of mentality. i also daily drive Arch, have for like a year at this point and i've loved it. so far what i've gleamed is that the higher up you go, the more narcissistic garden-walled elitists you get.
The windows snapping thing is getting different on a systems with multiple displays. As far as I am aware Windows won't snap to the right side of left monitor, while Mint will.
@@Saphoxide takes longer and often times, "I" don't need to take a screenshot of only a segment of the screen. Most of the times I need the entire screen
im a windows main user, recently back in nov i moved to nobara linux for gaming cause i saw a vid of it and it was pretty much plug and play, so far im ok with it to the point where if MS were like "you know what? we will put windows on a subscription base and only windows home with limited stuff will be free for everyone!" i could just switch to linux and keep gaming normally but what i feel hurts linux reputation is one of its greatest charactesitic and its there's a world of distros to pick from and if someone says "what distro should i use?" there would be people fighting over the best one
He shows the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. If you have a different DE installed, the options and features available will be different. It's also the latest Mint, 21.1 Victoria. Older menus might be different.
You have to hold down the Windows Key while pressing PrtSc now? Oh I see, it's because they assigned PrtSc to open snipping tool. That's... arguably more useful than putting the whole screen into the clipboard. I pretty much never capture the whole screen anymore now that they added the ability to select an area.
Key thing to remember though is Mint (or any Linux OS) is NOT Windows, it has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Some try to help you transition by being similar with a lot of functions but Mint has a lot of very good and bad differences to Windows. If anyone gives Linux a try because of videos like this go in with an open mind that this is a new eco-system with it's own history and design decisions that can be different than you are used to.
Mac is easier to learn than Linux and all it's "flavours".
@@lindenreaper8683 Funny enough, my first acceptance of macOS is actually by using it like a Linux, which it does since it's also a POSIX compliance OS.
@@lindenreaper8683when Linux can run auto CAD I'll switch.
@@lindenreaper8683 I hear u
@@lindenreaper8683 there has been a lot of talk about Linux better than windows I don't see that. No windows pull the Gpt card out. That Linux community won't allow in the command line interface. Wait till windows 11 is stable. Power tool is just the beginning of it.
8:04 worth noting, there's also an ability to "kill" process in the right-click context menu. This command gives a 100% guarantee that the process will stop.
I also added a tool to my menu bar that kills processes you click on. I think mint calls them snippets ? I forget the name but it's useful!
@@joshplaysdrums2143 don't know what snippets are, but there's the xkill command, which you can set to a keyboard shortcut, and it lets you kill programs you click on. Perhaps that's what you're referring to?
@@Pyro-Moloch I got the name wrong, mint calls them applets, pretty much the applets in was thinking off gives a cursor to kill the process with. Helpful for me as its taking me a while to learn keyboard shortcuts lol
@@joshplaysdrums2143 oh, that's right, there is an applet like that.
But setting a shortcut is not that hard either. You open the corresponding menu, select custom shortcuts (you can see it in the video where he shows how to set up a shortcut for the system monitor) and just enter "xkill" in the command line. I set mine to Ctrl+Del. There are guides on this on the internet to.
With the next update Windows will have the option to end a task added in the app's jump list
Another simple tasks that come to my idea would be: installing software, compressing and decompressing files, workspace organization (virtual desktops, overview of open windows, etc.) and maybe customizations (although that's its own rabbit hole).
And updating software/the OS itself.
@@cigmorfil4101that's like only a good experience in linux, though winget is a good first step
This is missing on video because SUDO for installing a simple program is just a pain in the and that's the reality of linux users.
@@carloseltopoquegira7454
Less of a pain than Windwos when I've just deliberately downloaded software and being asked if I really want to run it when I click on it.
But if I just want to install it for my user only then I don't need escalated privileges and no need for SUDO.
Because Windwos is really a single user system by backward compatibility design, you need admin rights to install any software. Linux was designed as multi user from the outset and so understands the need to separate OS files from application files. That's why escalated privileges are required to install software for everyone - you are bring a system administrator instead of just a user, and the Linux method helps you understand the difference. It also means it is much harder for malware to install itself without your permission.
@@carloseltopoquegira7454 It's neither a pain (it's literally just typing those four letters), nor is it required… All of the things I listed can also easily be done with a few clicks. Go spread your FUD somewhere else!
Need a April fools day follow up where you do the same tasks but strictly in the terminal on Linux.
ok but when you compare bash/zsh and cmd/powershell windows loses on all fronts
@@ovi1326I just tried Linux for the first time today. what’s the difference, I thought cmd uses bash also? Bc l commands like ls and cd are the same
@@clearkash598 bash comes from unix shell while windows cmd comes from dos. they don't share much in ways they can be scripted, instead of ls you have dir on windows, in bash you can do actual ifs, loops and functions while cmd offers goto statements.
you can use bash on windows (ie. mingw has one) the thing that sucks is most scripts expect a posix environment and it'd hard to make one in windows.
Nowdays microsoft offers WSL though but I wouldn't call that a windows terminal since it's actually running a full linux vm.
Also powershell is kinda cool but
1) it's not posix shell compatible, it does things in it's own way
2) almost no one writes scripts for that
3) check out nushell, it's just better
Thats like saying french and spanish are pretty much the same they both have si and la
@@PatricioGonzalezCabrerano i genuinly didnt know then lmao
I just want to point out for anyone used to Windows file searching: Linux file search is _fast._ When I say fast, I mean that on my system, it managed to find a file down in the depths of a 1TB external hard drive in about 20 seconds flat, presumably _after_ searching through my 500GB main SSD. Try doing that on Windows, and you'd be sitting there for 5 minutes, minimum, before anything resembling a useful result came up. I have no idea why the difference is so big, but it is, and it's one of the reasons I switched.
It may have something to do with indexing, and the fact that Windows doesn't just look in the metadata, but also the file contents. So if you search for "London", Windows will not only list files and folders with "London" in their names or details, but also all text files and maybe some PDFs with the expression "London" in them.
i use "everything" app on windows and it's much faster than stock search thing, it finds anything *I N S T A N T L Y* on any stupid laptop hdd amd on pretty slow PCs
Well cuz it works differently in Windows.
use the tool called "everything"
Use tool everything
A subtle snapping feature in Mint not mentioned is that there is a slight bumper-snap between floating windows. If you bring two windows together and overlap slightly then it will perfectly butt them up against each other. It also allows sliding the two windows against each other. This can let you butt the moved one up against a third window. A perfectly screen filling floating patchwork of windows can be made this way.
It's called window edge snapping and I really really really wish Windows had it. It's such an amazing feature for desktop organization.
i love edging my windows to one another
6:20 About renaming: you can also click on the name of the file in Windows, and this will allow you to edit it from there. This wasn't the case in Linux Mint until the latest update, where it now mirrors that functionality.
It was always a setting
It has been possible on raspberry pi’s for at least 4 years and on mint for at least 2 years.
Before that I do not have personal experience but I know for a fact you are mistaken, it happens
I don't know man, I've always pressed F2 to rename, so I can't tell.
i really hope linux mint devs look into this video because i really like their desktop environment.
I hope you point out even more issues where the desktop can improve in the future.
Linux Mint has apparently been around since 2006 which will make it a retro Operating System but I want more iconic Windows computers and I am a retro computer collector. I turned one side of our basement into a makeshift retro entertainment center and a retro computer lab almost like how Schools set up their computers. I will eventually be putting every model gaming console known to man down their it will eventually feel like a makeshift museum for retro electronics.
It's worth noting that you will be using the system monitor a lot less than you would the task manager. Apps on linux very rarely hang or stop responding to commands. In Mint, specifically, if you stick to the applications in the software center then you are extremely unlikely to have those issues. It is a very stable distribution. This changes if you start tweaking and messing with the configs and generally experimenting with the freedom linux gives you but you know what they say, with great power comes great responsibility. :)
Lol true!
Unless you're using wine / proton to play a game, then it might hang.
@@Triro Hasn't been my experience in the last few years of playing tbh
@@Triro Yeah, when I used to game on Linux, the launcher to my game would "hang" and fail to halt.
@@mikem9536Huh weird, only time that happens is when I play cities skylines, it will hang for a bit then come back.
I always has random stuff hanging, but not the problem with linux, it's me squeezing the specs down to an unreasonable level for my workload. And, it's still just hang not straight up crashing the entire OS
Note the Windows Task Manager has one simplified main tab showing apps on the task bar so that normal people can kill apps easily. The Processes tab is a secondary tab showing all processes, similar to what Mint has.
However - it almost never kills apps easily. Which is the problem.
@@FullMetalGladiatorYes, it does. What are you talking about?
@@FullMetalGladiator Excuse me but what? Task Manager has a 100% assassination completion rating.
That main screen is pretty much useless though nowadays, even when using windows 10 the first thing I would do when opening task manager is go to the processes tab.
People saying that task manager is good at killing tasks must not know/have forgotten how it used to be. Task manager has become extremely poor at it's job. The moment a crash happens that is outside the normal it kind of loses it's ability to deal with it. The fact that it's a normal window makes this even worse. I do remember a time in windows where using the ctrl alt delete option would just hard kill any program, now you have to go through task manager and it's not very good by comparison.
@@Person01234 You can change the default screen it opens to. Task Manager > Settings > Default start page
Oh please let this channel become a Linux channel
I'm all for it
Let's gooo
...and change the name to Chmod Tech!
@@ratlinggull2223xd
nah, i prefer it to be linux propaganda for windows user.
Nah, just a general OS channel, so Linux, Windows and Mac
It might be cool to compare a KDE Plasma distro to windows as well. KDE does many things even better than Windows, not on par like Mint Cinnamon. I suggest either KDE neon, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Tumbleweed had kernel sads with my Wi-Fi driver I compiled every time I updated and it rolls kinda fast, but yeah
Cinnamon might be simpler, but it's not a buggy mess like KDE. Don't ever suggest Windows users to use KDE, unless you want them to hate Linux.
@@Pyro-Moloch As someone who daily drives Arch Linux with KDE no new user should use KDE, Sure it looks good by default and still has plenty of customization but you need to be willing to fix things when they break. Cinnamon was the first DE (in Linux mint) that I used when I permanently switched to linux.
@@sus-ln1nmThe 'old man' is right though. I love KDE but it still needs a year or two of polishing until i would be willing to recommend it to people that ain't into modifying (and fixing) their desktop. It might work good on some hardware, but more often than not KDE ends up being a painful hell on most systems for most users. No need to deny this fact... Unless you want to be an ignorant butt about it. Everything that has to do with the discover program in KDE crashes if you look at it too hard this day, also it's slow as hell.
i love that on KDE i can configure to zoom in the screen on command by just pressing Super+(= or -), no questions asked, or that to kill a window i can just press Ctrl+Super+Escape and then click the window i wanna forcibly close.
while the start menu is way better than Cinnamon because of KRunner, i still find it to be laggy when loading up long lists of programs available as i hover through the categories in it. i'll be happy to recommend KDE when the team eventually publishes their version 6. Cinnamon is still a solid choice tho.
I've been using Linux full time since the windows 8 atrocity. I play all manner of high end games, routinely handle office files, edit photos and videos, and of course browse the internet. Have yet to find a single thing that I cant do on Linux that i could on Windows. Of course there are varying degrees of learning required to accomplish that at times, but this makes the computer fun to use again. The idea that I am in control of everything my computer does at all times is quite appealing :)
I have a few. There's no equivalent (not even close) to Photoshop. If you need photo editing, you're SOL. Same for good video editing. There's a few, but they're vastly inferior. If you need accounting software, you're screwed. If you need to use banking software, you're screwed. If you play games that use anti-cheat, you're usually (but not always) screwed. I could go on for a few hours.
I do use Linux since Kernel 0.96, and pre-KDE/Gnome on Enlightenment. It's good for some things, good for the average illiterate grandparents, not so great in any serious office environment. Admittedly, gaming (via Wine/Proton/Steam) has improved a ton in the last 5ish years. The whole X11/Wayland mess on the other hand has just devolved the desktop into an infernal hellscape.
@@wombatdk if you are speaking of software.from Adobe or Intuit that require subscriptions to use them I'll pass everytime. If you absolutely MUST use them in a professional setting then get a Mac...they work better there anyway. I'm not speaking about the tiny percent of users who have those needs, I'm talking about the 95% plus who do not.
@lindenreaper8683 exactly.. I've never had a person I brought into Linux ask to go back 🙂
@lindenreaper8683 one side effect is many of my customers never call me again because their Linux machines do not crash and don't get viruses
@lindenreaper8683 I don't mind.. they trust me with anything else needed :)
As someone who's planning to at least partially transition over to Linux Mint in the near future, I'm very happy to see that batch renaming feature.
I recently updated the names of a bunch of old music files to add artist names, and ended up having to look up PowerShell commands that could do it efficiently. Just having it built into the context menu sure is a lot more convenient.
Keep making these videos because all of us is moving to Linux as soon windows 10 Is not supported anymore, Great work keep it up 🤘😎
Very useful. A simple task that gave me some trouble at first was getting different language input running. Like when you want to type Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
I think it might be interesting to see a 'cool' features in Linux mint video
For screenshot. You can just press the Printscr button alone and it'll give you 3 options on what you can do.
No need to hold down the Windows key.
this was not the case until recently on Windows.
@@GinanjarUtomo Just pressing printscr will take a picture of the whole screen on any Windows version since at least 95 or 98.
Windows 11 just added 3 options at the top on what you want to do after you press Printscr.
I remember this because when you wanted to prank someone back in the days you just took a printscreen, pasted it into Paint, saved it and used it as the desktop while removing all real icons. Then you also just hide the start menu.
I have never tried it on multiple monitors but it always worked like this with 1 monitor.
@@GinanjarUtomo it was the case since forever
@@sunofabeach9424no
@@GinanjarUtomo Это было всегда, сама кнопка об этом как бы говорит
Thank you, I learned a lot of this video, including how to rename a lot of files in Mint.
Years of using windows and just now I know batch renaming.
There’s only TWO reasons why I still using windows in my daily routine. Office and gaming. Although for office I’m using wps, it’s a very compatible tool and all but still lacks some of the ms office components.
And for gaming I just have to search for the Linux compatibility list in Steam. But for now that’s ok.
@@lindenreaper8683the problem is that single player games aren't the problem. Otherwise I wouldn't dualboot Win and Lin on the same PC just to Game and Work. I just don't want to pirate Office 365.
@@lindenreaper8683 are you an AI bot or something? I saw you text like this under other comments lol. Tell your developer to fix your text recognition or switch your theme of a talk. "Keep Windows offline", "MS Office is trash" stop spamming pls.
@@lindenreaper8683MS Office may be shit but one doesn't have much choice when your employer demands it or you have to keep fixing compatibility issues with your colleagues using office and don't care that it's crap
Similar to how WhatsApp is inferior to signal I'm stuck using it because my contacts don't care enough to switch
7:40 you can also end tasks directly from the task bar by enabling the kill feature in the developer settings
Photo viewing and send it somewhere, maybe to a friend. Change wallpapper. Change time for sleep mode/screensaver. Installing Microsoft Teams or play a popular game. Setup backup to external drive.
"Photo viewing" has nothing to do with the OS though on the off chance to do with some proprietary media codecs, that Mint provides to you during the installation. The wallpaper itself is a window in the XOrg display server that Mint flavours use, and is completely exposed to a protocol called EWMH, meaning you can do much more than have a photo or video wallpaper. Theoretically you could make a live mathematical graph, rendering in real-time, be your wallpaper. Do you see any reason why "Microsoft" Teams is difficult to install on an OS that isn't "Microsoft" Windows? It's developed in Electron which is a cross-platform framework so what difficulty could there even be?? oh maybe it's the fact that they dropped linux support last December. In Valve's own words with association to their development on ProtonDB, "80% of Steam's top 100 games are now playable within Linux". is that a good enough metric?
@@bhavyakukkarI’m a Linux user and I enjoy Linux, but for the gaming part, I need to be realistic. 80% is not enough, especially if like 90% of the remaining 20% consists of online multiplayer games, aka the big hits that the vast majority of gamers care about.
@@bhavyakukkarI tried to mention some tasks that the average user might do with a computer. Will it be easier or harder to do on Mint?
Teams is pretty common for work, Slack as well. With wallpaper I meant just setting a photo as the wallpaper, people like to see a photo of their loved ones on the Desktop. How easy is it to share a photo to a friend?
Utilize the applications installed or do you have to search and install extra software to archive this?
@@Girgoo ah I see, that's embarrassing. people usually pick some of the things you mentioned to criticize linux and the instinct to defend kicked in. I apologise
It'd be nice if you also compare Gnome DE and windows.. I find it one of the easiest environment if one's not blaming it for not working as windows
0:30 which audio visualizer is it? I see it very often on UA-cam
1. the screen capture tool in Windows 11 seems horribly buggy with multiple monitors at different screen resolutions, and it is slow. And I think it worked in previous versions. 2. Does Ctrl-Insert and Ctrl-Delete work with the clipboard in Linux Mint? 3. Does Linux Mint have tabbed file manager windows? 4. For my 25+ years of Windows experience, the search feature has been horrible. I swear it has a less than 50% success rate and I assume MS knows this from all the metrics data I must be sending back to the mothership.
Yes Linux Mint have tabbed file manager windows
1. On linux mint screenshotting will screenshot every screen
2. I don't think so, but I don't know what these shortcuts are supposed to do.
3. Yes
2: idk what ctrl+ins is supposed to do but Ctrl+del does work (deleting words to the right of the cursor, instead of single letters.
3: yep. Mint's default file manager is named "nemo", which supports tabs. Other file managers like nautilus and dolphin also do.
4: can confirm and relate
Great snapping in Mint works as expected, Win10 and 11 imposing you fill the space that is left while you didn't ask for it bugged me endlessly
Yeah agree. Sometimes it's convinient, sometimes it's not. In Linux (I use GNOME), I just use Super and arrow key like the uploader showed and to get another window resized, Alt+Tab and then super + arrow key again. It's almost as fast when you get used to it and you have much more control. And if I want complex tiling, I have multiple tiling extensions that far surapass what Windows offers, as they essentially emulate and full blown tiling window manager.
You can disable that (in Win10, at least).
Settings -> Multitasking
(Or type "snap settings" from the Start menu)
uncheck "When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it"
@@ratamacue0320 Nice, thanks! Never thought of looking for it in there (then again not much is where it's supposed to be in the control pan... sorry, settings)
@@patrickcardon1643 welcome 🙂
Kinda surprised you don't mention making a rich text document or extracting an archive. Both are very common tasks if you ask me. I do them almost every day lol
As an avid Linux hater (I might end up switching anyways because windows is trying its best to become bad) I wanted to share some notes:
- you showed what essentially looked like a gui-implemented script utility for the mint batch renaming, (which admittedly is nice and tidy) but then for some reason didn’t show a power shell on windows which could definitely do the same thing? Yeah it’s probably a bit more tedious but to be fair few people will likely use batch naming anyways imo so seems like an odd omission especially since it would be a convenient place to show windows ‘open terminal here’ context menu item
-someone correct me if I’m wrong but doesn’t win+printscreen auto save to the screenshots folder? I think the copy to ms paint thing is kinda a mark of the past outside of doing it to actually edit the photo in there (which definitely still has its place) also on a tangent I’ve had weird issues with the snip tools markup feature on my multimonitor setup at work, granted that’s win10 not 11.
But yeah as someone begrudgingly thinking of switching to Linux as a daily driver I appreciate the comparison. I probably will go with Ubuntu over mint just because of popularity (aka more resources and support from things) but regardless a nice video.
Ok now a fun rant for those who are curious about my self prescribed anti Linux label: I like open source and free software as a concept; so I love Linux in that respect- however what frustrates me endlessly about Linux is that it’s community (and because it’s open source thus the devs themselves) will tout how Linux is definitely easy to use and an obvious choice while in the same breath criticize people for wanting Linux distros to…be simple and easy to use. The year of the Linux desktop is a meme for a reason, and it’s not just because of the power Microsoft’s wallet and influence- it’s also because there are 10 billion Linux distros, more of which naturally are poorly maintained, rather than people actually making a single really solid distro or two. And when people are in good faith trying the ecosystem out, forum dwellers are quick to shit on them for not scouring for 30 pages of forum posts somewhere else as well as not just knowing better automatically. Anyways I’m still maybe switching because holy fuck Microsoft stop with your forced updates, ad and telemetry shoves and anti consumer lack of legacy support. I hate how perfectly functional hardware becomes sketchy to use just because windows has either arbitrarily decided you can’t use it or actually can’t simply because the os is too fucking bloated to run decently on older hardware
So yeah if you can be bothered switch to Linux tbh, make a dual boot ideally especially for gaming/productivity since that is generally a better experience on windows
thank you, thought i was going crazy, linux is mad overrated, windows just works out of the gate and is just easy and accessible
@@nealgoogs Windows is israeli spyware.
@lindenreaper8683 gargle Linux balls more. You Linux lovers are lunatics
@lindenreaper8683 yes Ubuntu is the basis for many distros mint included, but my point is to go with the big one since it has the most support. Also, it seems like you didn’t quite get the spirit of what I was saying, which is fair tbh cuz I posted and rant wall- but I did end that with “anyways yeah probably just run both”. I already run Linux on a tertiary device because it’s too low spec to handle modern windows. Legacy compatibility is obvious a massive W to Linux over windows in a lot of situations. However for many myself included their just isn’t really a way to run the software I want on Linux- wine is great but obviously it’s usually a performance hit at least and a buggy and/or not working mess at worst. I’m a musician and DAWs are generally, unfortunately, just not made with Linux in mind. And again like people keep saying with good reason- the game support is just less. It’s getting better, it’s come a long way, but it ain’t it chief. In other words, a dual boot is the strat for most people still, even if the full switch is looking less painful over time
@lindenreaper8683 ah yes the classic Linux argument:
“What’s that? The software you use isn’t supported? Just get different software 5head!”
No.
Note: if you hit Win+PrtScr on Windows, it will automatically save the screenshots on the Pictures/Screenshots folder
An interesting feature to compare would be on file operation conflicts, when copying or moving things to somewhere that already has the same stuff with the same name. From my previous use of Linux, I think Windows and most Linux distros work quite similar, bit macOS, mind bogglingly, gives the option to REPLACE the destination folder, instead of merging them.
I am glad somebody is talking about it, thanks for making this video. Maine bhe aise he sabko dekh kar MERN stack sikha tha, now i am in my 3rd year, almost katham hai, what should I do now? Next.js? Devops? How to get a carrier??
I've been using Void Linux for years. But I appreciate the fact that there are distributions like Mint that are friendly to newcomers. I wish there was Linux Mint without systemd.
what's wrong with systemd?
@@arianitonline8748 it's bloated, it's not following UNIX philosophy, it complicates things, and just personal preferance not to use it. There always should be an alternative, but systemd became a 'system layer', and grown to be so mainstream that people bareley have any alternative. I prefer simple init scripts as opposed to 'services'. It's becoming more and more Windows'ish and less UNIX-like.
Average GNU/Linux user shouldn't care though. Until it gets in their way somehow. But I've been running GNU/Linux distributions for over 17 years, and I like the older approach without systemd. Good thing that there is a big community that thinks the same, so here I am running one of the distributions that suits my purposes AND doesn't have systemd.
@@arianitonline8748 it does everything. Seriously, not only does it handle startup, but it can handle stuff like NTP through systemd-timesyncd and serve as a bootloader through systemd-boot. It does too many things.
@@arianitonline8748 あっぷ
well systemd is the mainstream choice even for advanced distros like Arch or NixOS
so if you want non-systemd I doubt there's a newbie-friendly distro for you
The search of files in windows (at least for me) is sometimes very slow, is that the same in mint?
Seems you might need a hard drive checkup as the Windows search feature mechanics called indexing, pre searches your computer and sometimes file content then displays it super fast. If that isn't working for you out of the box, I'd suspect you have either hardware issues or system file corruption.
Buy an ssd
On Windows there's the "Everything" program that searches your files pretty fast
And yeah, natively Linux mint searches files a lot faster for me.
I can also recommend "Catfish" search program, it's nice
@@SpaceCadet4Jesus No, win10 and win11 are much slower than its precedessors even after indexing.
@@guyman1570 I've not experienced that at all.
What about Win+V, that uses clipboard history, that in theory should work between multiple devices with the same account?
I would love to see tasks in the video but in comparison with KDE and GNOME vs Windows, since those DEs are leading in desktop linux
Definitely so, but I see why OP chose to use Cinnamon, as a newcomer would likely have mint recommended to them. I’d personally recommend Mint to noobs too.
@@steventechno i usually recommend Fedora because it is stable and has the GNOME desktop environment which has great support and looks very polished. I installed it on my gf's laptop
While KDE and GNOME lead the Linux desktop, Windows leads the entire desktop market.
@@ettoreatalan8303 well not really, if you look at the stats you'll see that a portion of the market belongs to Apple, BSD, Linux and other variants
@@ettoreatalan8303 that's because they bribe every desktop maker to preinstall it, and defaults matter.
On Windows 11 if using a touchpad you can also show all windows with 3 fingers swipe up and select the window you wanna switch to. Touchpad gestures are really nice. I know GNOME has them though but not sure about Cinnamon.
Touchegg
Yeah Linux mint have gestures it got added in 21.3
fullscreen screenshot of the current screen you are on that goes to your clipboard: ALT + PrntScr
I'm wondering if you did any comparisons in usb handling, I switched to linux mint on an old Samsung all in one and noticed that usb 3 speeds had gotten a pretty decent boost when transferring files from my external ssd and I'm wondering if you noticed any difference between the two.
8:30 hmm, that (searching for individual settings) come a lot handy in windows 10. but that's partly 'cz it is fragmented in soo so many dialogs.
i have heard that linux settings app are much more coherent, and most all things are available in that app itself - so, this won't be too much of an issue in that land either.
excellent! plz make a whole series of these videos comparing win 11 to linux mint.
Took two Linux classes but haven’t used it outside of there, been wanting to change that. Seeing that selection screenshots can still copy to the clipboard might finally do me in, that setting has become crucial to my entire existence LOL
Loving your videos, need more content on daily usage of linux.
6:20 On Windows you can also rename by "slowly" double-clicking the name. As in, first selecting the file, and then single clicking it and waiting ~0.2 seconds.
I haven't watched every moment of this, but I would point out, that's Windows v Mint + Cinnamon. I'm a Mint + Mate user, have been for a very long time. There's also an XFCE version.
Windows only has one desktop. Linux has about 8 common ones and a few that are obscure. Many major distros have a selection of desktops you can install them with.
Cinnamon is designed to be (far as I understand it) a soft landing for people who just got here from Windows. If you're an older Windows user, like '95 / 2k / XP stuff, then Mate is a very familiar experience. There are also a number that mimic the Apple desktop very closely.
If you don't LIKE the way Windows does things, tough luck. But if there's something you don't like about your Linux distro
a) there are over a hundred others, and
b) you can very likely change it yourself.
[edit ~ 8 months later]
3:55 or so ~ I'm not on Cinnamon, I use Mate. Shortcut for the terminal is Cntr + Alt + t (or T).
Shortcut for opening a file manager (Caja) is Cntr + Alt + e (or E).
I didn't know about the screenshot shortcuts. Thanks for that. I did put a launcher / shortcut up on the top panel, which opens the screenshot tool, and I use that often enough to justify the placement on the 'task bar'. Yes, I have a lot of gadgets and widgets lined up on the top panel, like a network throughput tell, like a cpu clock-speed tell, and a cpu core temp tell, along with the text editor, calculator and the system monitor (Task Manager analogue.) And a workspace switcher with 4 desktops, 2x 1080p monitors each. And launchers for Chrome and Firefox. Yes, I have both.
At this point, I'm primarily using Firefox but that's subject to change depending on mood and whim and which one glitched most recently. My current grudge with Chrome is the recent change to using their own themes, and the hell with what your desktop looks like ~ we're Google and you will be assimilated. Ok ~ you do you. I'll do Firefox.
There's a question. This box is an i7-6700. It's due to be replaced in 3 or 4 months by an AMD R9 9950X. I will be running the same Linux Mint on that. I can have 4 temperature tells on the top panel, that all fits neatly, but I don't think there's room for 16 of them...
I think I might have to do 16 for a few days, and get a feel for what I need to keep an eye on and what I don't. Hmmm ~
Ok, little experiment then. I can add another panel, top bottom or side, and I can stack some or all the gadgets in that one, then just load all the cpu temps across the new one ~ I'm not about to run out of panel real-estate. What I was trying to do, was put another panel at the bottom of the secondary display. Have to research how to do that.... Seems panels go in the primary display. That's why it's primary ~
why is mint's system monitor and trash icons in the thumbnail switched...
Windows no longer feels snappy though. Like.. you click on a ss notification.. the snip window first appear small.. then it pops to bigger size..
Just be responsive and snappy
You can literally disable animations if you're weird and think animations makes the PC feel slow.
@@silvy7394 animations are fine. Even when disabled current windows (10 n higher) are no longer as responsive as windows 7.
is that really weird though? it helps speed things up a bit as well and even if you like the animations, you don’t even notice after like a day
You will notice believe me @@benjamindourney7716
What icons and theme are you using on your Linux mint?
You might want to compare KDE as well, as it's also very similar.
Snipping tool is great if you don't know keyboard shortcuts or you are working on touch screen - does Mint have similar program?
i dont know about mint, but using KDE you have "spectacle". does the same thing, arguably even better
yes, it is called snap or screenshot
I just switched to mint from windows a few weeks ago!! Cant recomend it enough, if you have a spare hardrive i can easily recomend flashig mint on it. Now im already thinking of reclaiming my windows harddrives for linux lol.
Also gaming is very easy (if you have amd gpu). I have nvidia and it is now running just as well as it did on windows but freesync is goddam jank, im hoping xorg gets some fixes eventually but theres always workarounds in the meantime. In reality it just means ill get an amd gpu when i next upgtade though thats no time soon
@lindenreaper8683 The Steam Deck also still uses X for the Plasma desktop.
Great video.🎉🎉❤❤Thank you very much for sharing all the Information about the Linux mint and the overall comparison between Linux mint and windows 11🎉🎉❤❤I have actually learned how to create a screenshot, a selected screenshots on the screen in Linux mint.🎉🎉❤
Largely the only thing thats been keeping me from going to Linux is the gaming. Which I've been told has gotten a lot better thanks to Valve. I hope that it's has gotten even better by the time that support for Win10 is dropped.
Windows 10 IoT LTSC, it's officially developed by Microsoft, comes debloated, and has support until 2032.
@@skinwalker69420 you can't get it legally though, that could be a problem for someone
After trying out Nobara OS and Pop OS for almost a year now, I think I've finally settled on Linux Mint for my home distro (for now)
I haven't tried in a while so I might be wrong but one thing that bothers me in Mint is deleting stuff from a USBstick or an external harddrive
because regardless of the method of deletion with will not delete the file but create a directory in the USBstick or external harddrive where it stores the deleted file, basically like it's creating a recycling bin from scratch
@lindenreaper8683 ... because you told it to? You plug in a USB stick with a file on it, you decide you don't want that file anymore, you tell the OS to delete the file... this... should result in the file being deleted, one would expect?
i thought you had to do ctrl + delete or something
rm (-rf if necessary)
Any idea why print screen key on my Linux Mint doesn't make screen shot? Is there any option in system that i changed by default? i didnt change that on purpose.
5:29 Don't use a DE if you want tiling, use a tiling WM!
Can you explain what the different experience will be like when using tiling in a VM instead?
Just asking out of genuine curiosity
@@guyman1570 I don't see why it would be any different in a virtual machine compared to a regular installation, from my knowledge it should be the exact same
8:47 I think that only shows recently used files and folders
Make a video on the current situation of the Internet and many sites and companies suddenly paywalling their services e.g Twitter, Reddit, Unity etc. and how can deal with it.
Mastodon Lemmy Godot
@@bhavyakukkar I was asking for a deeper analysis but ok.
@@bhavyakukkarlemmy is garbage, run by pro-CCP people who censor all criticism
isnt there a bunch of compatibility issues for linux?
@MichaelDustter you type like you argue politics on youtube
I haven't had a WIndows install where the search index wasn't corrupted in a few years, resulting in continuous indexing...
Hiya! I'm new to your channel - now subbed - like the content.
I know everyone wants to be a critic, but just one thing... whatever microphone you are using seems to be losing all of the top-end, where I'm sat. Sounds very muffled. If no-one else is having the same issue, it's just me :)
Linux mint doesn't have Wayland support, X does stuff like scale incorrectly and lag out, as well as security issues. KDE or something would be considerable instead
x11 works on my nvidia card prefectly, but wayland doesnt scale my screen up to 1920x1080, idk why but x11 works better by me than wayland. maybe it is a gpu problem
@@yogakumi nvidia cards are known to have issues with wayland and linux in general, so stay with X until either you do an upgrade or bugfixes get added to the linux drivers
Kubuntu has given me some issues on my gaming laptop, Mint does gpu switching so much nicer too with the icon on the task bar and only having to logout instead of actually restarting the pc.
Mint is working on adding Wayland support to Cinnamon, but your statement is indeed true for now.
I don't know why all these youtube channels are shilling Linux Mint specifically, there are better options out there. At least Linus Tech Tips gave multiple distros a try.
In windows file explorer you can group and sort files at the same time but there is not a single file manager in any linux distro that can do the same. You can not group files by type and sort individual groups by date modified in any linux file manager.
I moved from Windows to Linux mint three years ago because I got tired of Windows approach to updates.
I decided to give Linux a go for a year to see if i could "survive it" for that long.
Never went back and never going back.
I use Windows at work and those updates are still a killer,.
Linux just get on with it and politely asks for a reboot only if the kernal has been upgraded. It won't force you though.
A reboot on my system takes just 27 seconds with Mint so I don't mind doing one.
As an added bonus when the system comes up it's using only about 800mb of memory!
The applications are all free and also very memory efficient.
Oh, and it never crashes, freezes or blue screens, even if you leave it running overnight or for a few days (yep i did that once)
So Microsoft ... Why? ... just why ... why can't you do this?
Why?
-ans is profit
I usually left my windows laptop sleep and rarely get blue screen
Also nowadays you can just shutdown without installing updates on windows
@@Fataha22 Two things about that, the first is that if you work in a corporate environment updates are pushed and not optional, the machine will shut down on you.
The second it that if you don't take updates you're not addressing vulnerabilities in the system thereby leaving you open to attack and new and exciting viruses.
So while you can on a private machine, it's not wise.
@@ravenmadd1343 so shutdown when work is done and left!
@@Fataha22 Well work sets the shut down time for the windows machine not me.
Even if you do shut down and walk away there the "Applying updates" rubbish that's waiting when you turn it back on again, I had to wait over 30 minutes for that to finish one day while it took a security patch.
Windows will also leave the remains of an upgrade all over your disks just taking up space and doing nothing.
Linux is just better at updates and does everything I need so I run it on my own machines at home and the only Windows machine I have is the one I have to use for work.
How about comparing the following
1. Set default program for general file types e.g. videos, photos etc
2. Add a different language keyboard
3. Use a new printer for the first time
Simple taks: Watch a movie in Dolby Digital Audio
Windows: does it without problem
Linux: Cant do it
23H1 now has the option to use the win print sc to automatically open the snipping app. Which is now set to be defaulted on. Making it, imo the best all rounded print screen. Really nice.
@@lindenreaper8683 don't be so quick to bash windows, it's not like the original print screen had no use. For one I'd say it was easier for regular people to understand than the new snipping tool. People are quick to ignore that not everyone is as smart as they are. As a support technician I can say the average user would still prefer the old method.
@@lindenreaper8683 least toxic linux user
6:12 To rename a single file in Windows, I click on the file name below the icon, wait half a second and click on the name again.
I‘m not the only one, am I? 🤔
You are not. I have a lot of use of that at work.
if i'm feeling lazy i'll navigate the file explorer with the arrow keys and rename with F2
You can SS in Windows just like in Mint by just pressing prtscr key, but theres no popup, you have to manually paste it in.
Printers, Drivers, and Capture Cards are imo a good way to show the differences between Windows and Linux
That does very much depend on manufacturer, some will work without any issue, some wont because vendor does not bother supporting them or they use some kind of never ever before seen protocol for printing
From my experience on managing Linux workstations at work, printers we bought with Windows users as priority, do work basically just plug & play on linux too (not literally plugging the cable, but discovering and connecting to them over network)
We even did manage to connect them to SafeQ
Printers either work flawlessly out of the box, or not at all. I have yet to use one that doesn't just work, but have heard of people having issues.
Drivers depend on hardware. AMD GPU drivers are included in the kernel, while Nvidia needs a proprietary blob driver (for now). Other devices are hit and miss, some just work, others need manual installs, and some don't exist.
Capture cards are known to be problematic.
@@LaughingOrangeI have an Epson ET-2750 at home and it worked on Ubuntu, but not on EndeavourOS. I installed the driver, so I have yet to find the cause of the issue.
Can you name any printer brands that you've had good/bad experiences with when it comes to Linux driver compatibility? Just so I can have some idea for when the time comes around and I need a printer.
@@michalsvihla1403 Pick a popular brand and you'll have no problems. Pick one nobody has heard of, and it might be an issue.
In rare cases your system may freeze.
In Windows, if I remember correctly, you enter it with alt+ctrl+supr and in file explorer you click restart.
In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart.
@MichaelDustter I mean not always. I've had systems with 2 or less GB of RAM lockup because of Linux's shitty RAM MM and you could still unfreeze them most of the time.
> In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart.
only on Xorg sessions. this is not supported by Wayland.
ctrl alt backspace will restart the window manager in Mint
idk why people still think u need to hold ctrl/alt/win + prtsc in windows, just a single tap of the prtsc btn has worked since xp or vista if i'm not mistaken
Because each of those key combinations performs a different screen capture action.
nice video
this video makes me wanna switch to linux mint
Switching to linux requires time getting used to, a good advice would be dual booting, but you decide
@@RayOfSunlight984An even simpler solution is to make a virtual machine. Sure, performance will suffer due to the virtualization overhead, but day to day tasks won’t make people notice that.
You could also install it on a USB 3.0 flash drive if you are very limited on disk space. You have three different ways to give Linux Mint a shot with losing Windows, each with it's own advantages. Good luck! 🐧
@@johnettipio That works too
@@johnettipio replying so that OP can see, i recommend this, booting from a USB flash drive. this is what got me to try linux with no strings attached, and then i could go back to my computer without having anything changed. it's what charmed me to linux.
8:00
You forgot to mention the Ctrl+K which I think is the true force end.
For future videos comparing Linux to Windows you should use a distro that uses the KDE desktop environment instead of cinnamon. Way more configurable and customisable and also very very close to a windows like experience. It is the the most advanced DE on linux imo and it works great and even has Wayland support and because of that gesture support on touchpads on laptops which DEs that use X11 don't. Recommended distros for trying KDE are the KDE neon (straight from KDE devs based on ubuntu lte), Kubuntu, Tumbleweed and Arch (both Tumbleweed and Arch are rolling release distros so not recommended for new users). Both Kubuntu and KDE neon are great for new users
I don't fully agree
OS video won't be future proof regardless of which you choose because although some stay the same for longer, change will happen and that goes for Windows too
And when looking from the perspective of this video (a simple Windows user) Mint is easer to transition to because it was made for that and the KDE distros just aren't as good at that
Don't get me wrong KDE is a good desktop and Wayland support is also useful but it's just not as seamless (especially for a Windows user)
So while I agree that KDE is good and customizable, I think that Mint is a better choice for this video
But if someone wanted to move from Mint or Cinnamon my recommendation would most likely be KDE
KDE Plasma can easily be overwhelming for Windows users. The only thing that makes it that recommendable today is Wayland support and good fractional scaling, which are both lacking on Cinnamon.
Then there's also Gnome with yet another drastically different way of doing things. With the focus on desktop environments it's more like a GUI comparison rather than an OS comparison.
When renaming multiple files in windows, you can cycle through selected files with the tab key.
linuxmint gesture customization is great
Customization is great, but gesture implementation isn't.
@@akashsahu933 If you mean that they are not 1-to-1 gestures that's right. It's just an effect after the gesture has finished.
@@gragogflying-anvil3605 i think they will make them 1:1 in some future release.
6:03 Except if it is an NTFS drive because you're dual booting windows. In which case there is no Recycle bin, and you get a warning.
I just love Linux ♥️
I always after installing Windows, searching in searchbar "Print Screen" to setup Sniping tool lauching as default when I press "prt sc" / "print screen" button.
PowerToys will unlock much more useful tools like power rename just like Linux mint.
You mean the FREE PowerToys. Gotcha.
@3:27 I woud love to see here, direct upload to somecloud and get a link to share the pic
The worst version of Windows since Vista is still better than Linux for general purposes. That won't change for the next 2 decades, but I do like the strides that Linux is making. There are a lot of things Linux is missing. I can't count the number of times that I had to use the terminal to install a driver or a library, while using a StakOverflow answer from 2012 which worked 50% of the way.
@lindenreaper8683 Yeah, no. I also ended up troubleshooting more often than not on Linux than on Windows. First day I used it, I precisely couldn't use the GUI manager because I was installing network drivers. It was a pain in the ass finding the right ones when on Windows it automatically booted up with a basic driver, and eventually Windows Update could find a more adequate one, or I could easily install another with the right exe. Nonetheless when I finally solved my network issue on Linux, it was overall a pretty snappy experience and felt smoother than Windows, until that didn't matter anymore because I had to do more troubleshooting and "doing" copying more complex commands into the terminal to solve them. I'd say I'm somewhat experienced when it comes to PCs, so if I'm had my share of trouble, imagine someone less knowledgeable. Linux might be here to stay and overcome Windows, and I really hope that considering how Windows is progressively getting worse, but its just not getting there anytime soon.
@lindenreaper8683 Again, Linux is fine for general purpose and power users, everyone in the middle is pretty lost when something needs troubleshooting. Not that Windows doesn't have its share, but anyway, I understand why someone who knows his way around Linux would not understand where I'm coming from.
@lindenreaper8683 Very mature, and also a perfect example of the typical Linux user with the passive-aggressive attitude towards any kind of valid criticism.
Linux is great, so much so that less than 3% of people use it as a Desktop option, and if its popularity depends on people like yourself, it will stay that way for another 2 decades at the very least. But hey, at least you don't have to memorize dozens of terminal commands, oh, wait... I guess you win...
@lindenreaper8683 I see that you keep sperging out and liking your own posts with your alt accounts dreaper2087 or dreaper5813 or lindora6744, best regards from MichaelDustter lmao
@lindenreaper8683 Cry moar *mic drop*
I would love if you did a video for macOS vs Windows too
Nobdy cares. There is no good bussiness software for Linux. Cost of Win Pro licence is too small to moving client app to Linux - the on of 300+ distributions.
What Software do you mean? So much stuff is browser based nowadays.
The Windows 11 window layouts feature is nifty... But I still haven't met anyone who even wants it. In fact, everyone I know with Windows 11 uses Windows 11 against their will.
Day 3 of asking to make a video on how turning machine works
What kind of keyboard is that?
windows runs circles around mint, bro.
he says, with 80% memory usage
And that's why the vast majority of the systems on the planet run some version of linux.
does linux automatically fix corrupted files because damned if I can locate a simple way to do this manually like in microsofts sfc /scannow command in command line .
Why Linux Mint?
It is popular, so there is a lot of community support. The Cinnamon environment is simple and resembles Windows in a lot of ways, making it an attractive option for those coming from Windows. It is stable and highly unlikely to crash. It doesn't come with the privacy concerns that Ubuntu does (Canonical has a questionable history with privacy, still much better than Microsoft). What distribution would you recommend for newcomers?
@@johnettipio Ubuntu.
@@CuteSkyler Gnome is a large style-change for someone arriving from Windows
@@bhavyakukkar Yeah I still don't like the MacOS-style dock. When Apple introduced that, I was like "OK, I get it; you're desperate to be different from Microsoft by any means necessary." But then GNOME copied it and I was like "Wait, people unironically like using this?"
@@stevethepocket I think a lot of those people who unironically like the dock like it BECAUSE it has a macOS-ness to it; there is a sort of macOS-envy prevalent in the online desktop linux sphere, you see every other KDE user trying to get their desktop looking like Catalina or Big Sur. I get it though, Macs do generally outperform Windows and Linux PCs on the hardware front, a Mac is a pleasing (locked down) aesthetic/brand
Today I learned about the snipping tool. Much easier than cropping screenshots using paint.
Linux users try to cope with criticism challenge
@@lindenreaper8683 I love Linux, I daily drive it. I just thought it was funny how the video never really said much bad about mint and yet all the comments are defending it.
you are literally the shining example of what OP has said @@lindenreaper8683
here's my words:
reminder, there's nothing wrong with using X over Y. they all have their drawbacks and benefits. which one you choose has most benefits and least drawbacks is up to you, but the more aggressively you do it, the more people can't stand you.
one favors freedom while the other one favors stability and functionality. with everyone being scattered on their own project, it's hard to get a cohesive set of systems that do everything windows does. and with windows being a conglomeration and a corporation, you get everything you need but it's hard to get any creativity and freedom. human stubborn-ness is also a very large thing that can't be beat unless the person themselves hit a tipping point (like I did).
this issue will not be remedied if you're intentionally pushing people away by having their first representation of Linux be "Because Linux is just better, and I said so. What? You have an issue? rtfm." or "What? You thought Linux was a choice? No. You're using what I want. Fuck you.", and then also proceed to intentionally bar people from decisions like using NVIDIA GPU's (no, the excuse of "just use another GPU lol" does not work. i can assure you most newcomers, especially LESS TECH SAVVY ONES will not end up buying a new $500 brick, installing it just to try out something new).
little timmy does not need linux to play fortnite and you're not justified for saying that he should give up his favorite game just to switch OS and possibly deal with a new whole host of issues arising from it. this is stupid, and if you want to convert people from one side to another, you need to give them the same luxury or benefits that are above Windows to specifically THEM.
the average poweruser that's also a programmer doesn't need to be confined to the restrictive, bloated and a snooping space that windows is. windows users should cope with the fact that a person has more preference and they sacrifice stability for freedom. complaining about it is stupid.
for a platform designed for unified freedom and infinite customizability you're certainly narrow minded for not having that sort of mentality.
i also daily drive Arch, have for like a year at this point and i've loved it. so far what i've gleamed is that the higher up you go, the more narcissistic garden-walled elitists you get.
The windows snapping thing is getting different on a systems with multiple displays. As far as I am aware Windows won't snap to the right side of left monitor, while Mint will.
I’m not gonna say it… FIRST
I mean it's the only comment I can see.
Is win+prntscrn a shortcut that really no one uses? Why would you not use the fastest way to take a screenshot?
Most people use Win+Shift+S.
It allows you to take a picture of a segment of your screen as opposed to the entire screen.
It's much more useful imo.
@@Saphoxide takes longer and often times, "I" don't need to take a screenshot of only a segment of the screen. Most of the times I need the entire screen
@@Custmzir Personally, I generally only need a segment of my screen. I guess both options exist at once for a reason.
im a windows main user, recently back in nov i moved to nobara linux for gaming cause i saw a vid of it and it was pretty much plug and play, so far im ok with it to the point where if MS were like "you know what? we will put windows on a subscription base and only windows home with limited stuff will be free for everyone!" i could just switch to linux and keep gaming normally
but what i feel hurts linux reputation is one of its greatest charactesitic and its there's a world of distros to pick from and if someone says "what distro should i use?" there would be people fighting over the best one
im on linux mint, but for some reason i don't have the alt-tab settings menu, even tho the shortcut works, does anyone know how to fix this
He shows the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. If you have a different DE installed, the options and features available will be different. It's also the latest Mint, 21.1 Victoria. Older menus might be different.
@@Leo0718 nah i have the regular cinnamon de, and i am on linux mint 21.2
You have to hold down the Windows Key while pressing PrtSc now? Oh I see, it's because they assigned PrtSc to open snipping tool. That's... arguably more useful than putting the whole screen into the clipboard. I pretty much never capture the whole screen anymore now that they added the ability to select an area.
No you don't. Just PrtSc. You can turn this on by going to settings accessibility and go to keyboard. And there click to have clipping in PrtSc.