Dope Tech Episode 2

<<@Qupear says : There is Edge browser on linux.>> <<@carsonjamesiv2512 says : I am just getting started with learning about Linux OSes.😃👍>> <<@0grey0 says : Very much appreciating your videos. I'm becoming less and less happy with Microsoft/Windows, and refuse to "upgrade" to Windows 11 when they drop support for Windows 10 next year. You present information in a very easily digestible way which is incredible for someone like me who is very new to all of this, and I'm honestly quite slow in grasping anything that has to do with computers. I have a feeling there's many more users like me who are switching over.>> <<@jjcoolaus says : Microsoft edge is supported natively in Linux So is visual studio code and teams>> <<@HelenHarris-r7b says : Hernandez Elizabeth Harris Kevin White Elizabeth>> <<@sbalogh53 says : I don't want to switch to Windows 11 but at the same time I have dozens of programs running on Windows 7 that I use at various intervals ranging from almost continuous to once in a blue moon. I don't want to lose access to these applications and fear that the Linux equivalent, assuming one exists, will not function as well as the original. This is what is keeping me from switching to Linux and being forced to stay with Windows.>> <<@davidorr8682 says : Chris, I've tried various distros of Linus over the last 25 years, initially out of curiosity but more recently with the idea of switching, but I always come back to Windows. Usually because I find it difficult to manage files, some piece of hardware doesn't want to play or I need to use some software which is "awkward" on Linux and I can't find an alternative. In this video, you offer some very serious contenders to Windows only apps. I currently use LibreOffice on my Windows 10 desktop and I noticed that this was one of your suggestions. But you also offered Google Docs and Microsoft 365. For documents, spreadsheets and the like, do you have a preference between these 3 contenders and why do you prefer whichever you picked?>> <<@heldercoelho5403 says : Because you are a nerd, that's why. And so are the rest of us!!! :D>> <<@mitchellmcminn-g5c says : This is a fantastic intro for an old fella like me, who is not very up to speed with PCs. Thank you for sharing your knowledge., and no nonsense approach.>> <<@leonard8766 says : Feels like im back in the 90s lmao ❤ it!>> <<@r1berto1 says : I dumped Windows just over 23 years ago. I then started using Red Hat Linux. I did experiment with a couple of other distros before becoming a full time Debian user. I use it for everything. I'm now starting to look into FreeBSD.>> <<@Lardandbacon says : before you whine use wine.>> <<@JVAN073 says : Using Balena, downloading LInux my flashdrive instanly gets ruined and useless by turning into read only mode. No way i can downlad linux and put it on a flash . Why is that ?>> <<@russellbrooks3622 says : I guess my reason for switching to Linux a number of years ago fits with your second reason, although I've always put it differently... Windows sucks. Good video.>> <<@MindCaged says : I have the opposite problem of most people with Linux, it's not that I'm a computer noob and don't understand technical things, or that I need software like MS Office or Adobe, it's that I'm been a windows power user for decades and have become extremely familiar with the OS and I've collected all sorts of niche tools and utilities to customize and optimize my usage which do not port to linux well or at all. Also, the background workings of linux in general is just so different to do low-level operations that I'm left completely lost on what commands or tools to use to accomplish some power-user task that I already have the knowledge to perform trivially on windows. Linux has pretty well nailed the most basic user usage. Just about anybody with a modicum of computer know-how and the ability to follow one of the hundreds of tutorials can get linux on a flash drive or maybe a VM and boot into a live environment and/or install it. And as long as there's no major hardware incompatibility like a wifi adapter that requires drivers maybe, then figuring out how to navigate the interface is pretty darn intuitive for launching programs. And once you find the software center you can pretty simply install new programs with a few clicks and typing of the password. And as long as the program is mostly self-contained as most are, and don't need to have access to other apps or the base system it'll probably work just fine. Anything that needs say reliable access to a different drive or to edit system configs or needs permissions to do something or is just quirky suddenly gets harder, and stops being intuitive really fast. And for being an OS that's supposed to let you have full control, there's a lot of stuff which makes you really have to work to get it to do what you want and there's other things like installing software on secondary drives that's trivial on windows but very much not on linux. Then there's some software that gives problems based on how it's installed, through either packages or flatpack or snap, etc. And trying to get windows software to run is a bit of a mixed bag. Frankly the fact that it can run windows programs at /all/ while in a completely different OS is remarkable especially since they at least /look/ like they're just another program running even though they're pretty much sandboxed and have trouble seeing the rest of the system like what other programs are running e.g. The frustrating thing for me is that my brother who barely knows how to boot up a computer and launch a browser/text editor/minecraft could very well have a far easily time using linux than I would when I've got decades of computer experience(just in a completely different OS) because he only /needs/ the basic functions. He'd need help installing it and doing stuff like installing updates and such, but other than that I can't imagine him having much in the way of issues unless updates break something. We've had trouble with browser updates breaking extensions for example.>> <<@fernandogoncalves8994 says : Brilliant, clear... subscribed. Thank you.>> <<@nkhjk3457 says : excellent presentation !>> <<@wolfgangkrebl3056 says : the problem in my case is that i have to learn using linux from the scratch. use windows till version 3.0 and currently still use windows 7 on my main pc. i am planning to buy a new pc when witcher 4 and elder scrolls 6 comes out,and as far as i know the hardware i then need only runs under win 10 and upwards. i don't know if i can windows 10 without permanent internet connection,and therefore search for an os that fullfills this requirement and run those games. And this is my second problem: i would have to learn to config linux for gaming. And when i think about the amount of time i will have to invest in learning to install and use linux,to learn how to install and run the new hardware,and finally how to install those games, i think all those advantages you mentioned using linux ain't worth it in my case. 😢>> <<@sparxz2145 says : Thanks Chris for remembering to cover this increasingly important subject.>> <<@johnbolt665 says : I'm so glad to be out of wind blows using a Linuxboot flash but may cut the cord so to say>> <<@tigerscott2966 says : That is still a big HURDLE... Getting people to actually use Linux everyday... I've shown Linux Mint to older people and Hispanics too.. As soon as I tell them Linux is FREE, they FREEZE like a deer staring at a headlight... Perhaps they would feel better if I wrote and manual and charged for it... Thanks..>> <<@briggal1 says : I have followed your instructions for a dual drive dual boot system in one of you other videos and your instructions to install Linux Mint Cinnamon from the USB flash drive. After installing the mouse moves the mouse pointer but clicking the left or right mouse buttons does nothing and there is no response from the keyboard! Any suggestions are most welcome! This is the first time I have done anything with Linux so I am a complete newbie!>> <<@ejdavis72 says : Been on Pop for about a year now. Never going back to MicroSUCK.>> <<@SaptarshiRoySRoyPC says : Dear CB, Please show some love for KDE/Kubuntu too. Kind regards.>> <<@francis400 says : I like the linux distros I have but I find they freeze on me and there is little you can do but restart. I put this down, most times to the fact it seems not like too many processes at one time. Still it would be nice to know a reason for a crash, of software conflicts.>> <<@andreyansimov5442 says : My exact reason was second one. Totally unhappy with Windows starting V. 8.1. 😂😂😂 Good for me, I started to use open s😅ftware many years ago and use Google services as daily environment. Distro was a struggle, because, quantity of them is just crazy, and this is not a plus. I use LMDE. I struggled a lot to make it work best on gaming laptop with intel+nvidia video chips this year. It works good. Not perfect. OS resets(not full reset, what we know in Windows) itself when I do something normal in Prusa slicer or GIMP.>> <<@fridaycaliforniaa236 says : Ok, you got me on this one : I'll try a VM thingy, let's hope this time Linux doesn't scare me...>> <<@ITMSS-r9r says : good informative topic great effort>> <<@matkeyboard8054 says : Windows 11 task bar kept crashing .. now I've try linux and oh my the speed and also the amount of ram.. it so much better>> <<@mariuszfuchs2010 says : I have used Linux for 20 years but still like watching all new linux distros>> <<@demonreacts2133 says : Nice video but i have a question. Does Linux compatible with nvidia drivers? I've been searching last week and it says Pos_os!, Ubuntu, Mint, etc... My Laptop has nvidia optimus btw so any suggestions for fully installation of a distro.>> <<@hariranormal5584 says : You are the one which thought me what a Raspberry Pi is. From that, what even Linux is. I first thought it's some hard, "poor man's" (yep, call me a Microsoft lol) OS that doesn't work as well. Stayed away from it, hardly played with the RPI my parents got me at the time (I was 10/11 or something) Then after all these years, now I've been running Linux on my own laptop for 3-4 years with no plans to switch back to Windows, it just works well enough for me. Thanks for your content over all these years. I just realized, I also learned that you could assemble your own PC's from this channel, nowhere else. My IT interest today comes from you :)>> <<@bauer9101 says : I'm here due to Windows 10 ending support next year. Its ridiculous my 2200G is not supported but it will continue to function with Linux.>> <<@lundsweden says : Beginner: I'm so confused about how many Linux distros there are! But how many versions of Windows are there? Its the same thing, Linux is the base, then the "distros" have different features/packages. Linux Mint and Ubuntu are the go to beginner distros, can't go wrong there!>> <<@ChristianJull says : Microsoft has had Edge installers and support for Linux for several years. I run it on Mint (along with Chrome, Firefox, Brave, and Vivaldi) and it syncs without issue with Edge on my Windows laptop and Android phone.>> <<@iserlohner_tastings7169 says : Unser Karl Lauterbach der Nerds 😌>> <<@googleaccountuser3116 says : I was the second category trying virtualization in windows. Turned out Debian is much better at virtualising windows than the other way around. With Debian as my host I now can play all these windows games with gpu pass-through without having had to pay anyone or lookup some nasty serial code. Notice that the windows 7 service pack 1 installation takes more time than installing an entire 2024 Debian 12 system with libreoffice! 🥴>> <<@BlaecHrim says : Ackshully, Linux does run Edge natively>> <<@IanHodgetts says : Now I want to hear some of your "Lighter Metal" 😉>> <<@IanHodgetts says : "Yoda would not be happy" LOL! 😆>> <<@Supernaut2000 says : Wonderful sir! I will keep your video on my iPad as I install Mint OS on an older PC. Your videos are most certainly the only definitive guide to help me wean off the MS hegemony.>> <<@paulwmoreland says : I've found that swapping in a spare hard drive before installing Linux allows me to keep the original Windows disk at hand "just in case". It also allows me to be able to swap the Windows drive in, do a factory reset and sell the computer later on. Just another way of testing the water without irreversible consequences. Again, many thanks for the video. I'd never heard of Zorin before, so will be setting up a USB drive to check it out. Currently running Mint, but have played with Red Hat, Ubuntu, Debian, etc over the years. Linux distros just keep getting easier and easier to use.>> <<@FARDEENKHANQWE123 says : why do you have a printer, what do you need printing stuffs for.>> <<@voerazvi9435 says : Using balena etcher the USB works for both MBR (old BIOS - 13 YO pc) and GPT (EFI) laptops? Or do i need to use rufus?>> <<@guessundheit6494 says : 1:00 - You left out the most important one: you can't install and use Lose11 offline. An internet connection is DEMANDED (not "required") to install it. I use Lose10 offline only which I can reinstall anytime without harassment from microsloth. For a company that claims to be "focused on security", they seem itent on preventing the best security of all: no internet.>> <<@mikeZL3XD7029 says : Thank you Chris, I have tried a few times to use Ubuntu in a dual boot situation. I really like the look of Zoran.>> <<@roklaca3138 says : First step: software engineer degree rwquired, learn 15488 commands in terminal, learn assembly, C, then even think about doing somethinhg>> <<@emuhill says : Perhaps doing a video on the Systemd controversy along with the pros and cons of using a distro that uses Systemd vs the pros and cons of a distro that doesn't use Systemd.>> <<@Mebakanı says : so I use arch BTW>> <<@andreasboe4509 says : Excellent video. Thanks.>>