"dad im going to Nick's house for the school project, we will just copy from Wikipedia" "Son get this pendrive, and install gentoo on his computer when he isnt looking"
Basically - gaming... I personally use Mac everything work related (I've used Linux but it's a pain, especially with high-end ultrabooks and battery life/drivers, so I went the MacBook route), but you just can compete with gaming on Windows. I'm not saying Windows is a good OS, but it's the largest market for gaming and all games are optimized for it, plus GPU manufacturers don't really care about other markets (except AMD writing superb drivers for math crunching stuff for macOS apps like Final Cut Pro).
i think hes also a bit sour because he designed linux as a Personal Computer operating system and it's the one market where it unfortunatley hasn't been successful.
"Linus, we have got to do something about our daughter. I caught her in bed this morning ...... using Windows. Could you imagine if the neighbors find out?"
Imagine now something else crazy, like for example, the representative of the Linux foundation, doing a presentation about "The future of Linux on the desktop"... on a Mac
@@diegomarquez3293 Yeah that was what I was referring to: He did two presentations on a mac. They don't even bother to pretend they use Linux and they are paid a huge amount of money to represent the OS. It is insulting. The Linux foundation is harmful and a joke.
TaiFerret A colleague of mine came by my desk and saw that I had a lot of windows opened. He stated that and he was like waiting of an explanation. So I said "It was getting really hot in here so....."
@@Bokto1 That's a bit different. If one is sufficiently deep into an obscure subject, the universe must seem full of babbling idiots who have to be repelled. Given the ordinary character of geek discourse, flames are a normal response to them.
The answer to your question is that Linus is Funnish(opps mean Finnish. I look a LOT like Linus cause I'm of Finnish descent) and attended Helsinki University BUT comes from a southern area of Finland where folks speak Sweedish....so this question of "Why do you speak BOTH languages; Sweedish AND Finnish?" ALWAYS comes up.
That's... interesting... I guess? What's also interesting is the uploader decided to make you sit through that question, when everyone is here for some good old Windows bashing. Interesting choice.
+michael allen It's the south and west coast area where is some Swedish speaking people. Not all in the south either speak Swedish, but it is the 2nd official language in the whole country, and about 5% of the population speak it as mothers tongue.
i was ready to use Ubuntu dde or deepin on my laptop. The thing is, power management is horrible + touchpad doesnt work well + it doesnt switch automatically when i plug headphone jack and so on. I'm too lazy to solve all these sh*ts.
@@mrarcticaaa1101 I agree, the power management and touchpad with gesture "can" be fixed but you need to do "some" things (or even lots) there on ubuntu
I wrote all my degree work in Open Office, never used Word once, so I can agree with Linus here. It can be difficult to find Linux friendly printers though. My Epson all-in-one hates Linux, but it is a few years old and everyone used Windows back when I bought it.
Yeah with proprietary software but there are some GNU/nuts out there who want a printer that doesn't require proprietary software. Personally I think the herd and RMS are clinically insane but that's just my opinion.
@@belisariussmith9095 There are no such as Linux games, it just Windows games running on Linux. If you want to hate Windows you can do that, but just makes sure you don't use Wine, GVLK or sort of those bullshit to run Windows games or software, otherwise you are just the hypocrites Linux nerd.
@@runninginthe90s75 Lmao dude then youre a hypocrite if you translate a language? Like if you translated a sentence in English to German? Because that's what Wine does lol, It just translates the syscalls that Windows understands to syscalls that linux could understand. Also your first point itself is so ignorant, native Linux games exist lol.
I think the issue about computers and school is not which operating system to use, but which document formats. If the school is insisting on using closed Microsoft formats (that aren't even compatible from one version of MS Office to the next) then you've got problems. But most schools I've spoken to don't care: hand in your assignment in something they can read, formatting isn't important. One teacher mentioned plain text! Another PDF. They all said not Word: we might not be able to read it.
You know what is really funny about it? When Microsoft starting making the Windows NT kernel (the one they used in all their desktops systems since windows 2000) they tried to emulate the way UNIX handled things... I guess they got it wrong...
No, when Dave Cutler started heading the NT design project he had the idea to fix the way UNIX handled things that he felt were stupid and broken. He did not like UNIX and his aim was not to emulate it.
Would you recommend Slackware? Slackware was my first ever GNU/Linux distribution, but I haven't used it for like 15 years, should I go back by getting the Slackware 14 CD set? I have Ubuntu, but the system seems too commercial to me...
I remember it being so that while C# written for mono will compile in .NET, the same is not valid the other way around. Kinda like C-code not written for the windows compiler will not necessarily compile with gcc.
My dad has been using Linux distros since 1995 and I have used Ubuntu since my first pc in 2012. My mom wants to buy a new laptop because her laptop is "too slow" and she REFUSES to use any form of Linux. We spent days removing bloatware, upgrading her laptop to 16gigs of ram, a ssd, and a new display panel because she wants to use windows (also i was bored and wanted to throw 80$ at a 8yr old laptop for a project) linux would have taken a few mins to install, but trying to make windows a slight bit faster takes hours
Juntemos voces para que el Sr. Linus Torvalds y Sr. Richard stallman sea nominado para recibir el reconocimiento de la Unesco como " La ciencia al servicio de la sociedad ", me parece que el aporte que el hizo para la gente es digno de un gran reconocimiento, soy un suario del grandioso Linux.
C# is actually cross-plattform. It is a language that is compiled into an intermediate byte code and can be technically run on any machine. It's just that the interpreter is not available for every plattform. But you seem to forget Mono.
I've have heard a phrase "We don't play with Windows" in a serious meeting in a respectable Swedish bank from a person (a respectable bank employee) that (I believe) hasn't seen anything except Windows on his computer screen (he had a Thinkpad). It was 6 years ago.
Thank you for interesting details. I did not know Linus is native Swedish speaker though one could guess from his last name which is apparently Swedish.
On the subject of languages I have a similar issue. I've lived in England since I was 3. I'm noe and have an 11 year old sister. I only speak in Russian to my sister and my mum (sometimes get annoyed with my sister when she speaks to me in English lol).
Having used a computer for more than a decade and a half, I have never really had much of a need for Photoshop. You know, you can use your computer for other things too, like programming, creating simulations, computation, etc. Of course there are professionals who prefer Windows, but that depends on the profession. A professional might choose to drive a Chevy Impala over a Subaru Impreza WRX, but their profession most likely isn't racing.
I used to be a market analyst who uses Excel for data analysis. Last year I started learning Python and its packages... I admit that I used Windows for Python programming at first. But after several weeks of studying using Linux on one Linux server, I noticed Windows is a joke🤣 Never use it when you are programming, just for games! That is OK~
Thanks to Steam Proton you can play next to every game that's available on Steam runs well on Linux! Except for a few games that struggle with specific hardware drivers, I can't notice a difference.
You should be able to find any sort of plug in to render pretty much anything but if it gets really down to nitty gritty especially for clients you have no choice sometimes. When I was in college though like I said, did everything I needed to with no costly software needed, it wasnt just me giving the middle finger to conformity I really wanted to save money so I found my ways to do so.
Yes. They just released the beta a month or so ago. I'm glad to hear that you're using opengl. I look forward to seeing gaming on linux and more gaming across other platforms, not just windows. I guess thanks to windows 8, the push to bring gaming to other platforms will be greater. I hope to see more on linux than just games. I hope to see professional software such as photoshop and video editors to bring the mainstream over to the platform.
@@joemann7971 how? you can't play a lot of games on linux and any game with EAC which is one of the most widely used anticheats and none of the software you are talking about is on linux just substitutes like before.
@@courier3567 most games will run on Linux now. Sure, not all of them, but most of them do. Not to mention Steams upcoming Steam Deck is Linux based. Linux has come a long way since I posted this.
@@courier3567 there are a lot more tools now to get windows apps running perfectly on Linux. I've pretty much accepted that Linux will never be as popular as windows or even mac but its certainly gained a lot more traction among power users. I haven't tried getting those two apps working on my Linux machine but I'm sure I can get them to work without resorting to alternatives. I was still dual booting 9 years ago. I certainly don't have to anymore. There is no need for it.
I think it's the parents fault for putting the children on an english school in their home country. You don't need that, on this globalized world english is everywhere. I'm also in favour of preserving the small languages and nationalities. Peace!
Language is nothing more than a tool for communication, and a tool is rated by how useful it is. Outside of Sweden and Finland, Swedish and Finish aren't useful in the slightest. The usefulness of a language is defined by how big the speaking community is, how scattered it is and how big the barrier of entrance for outsiders is. The Finish speaking community isn't thinly scattered, but it is small; so small in fact that everybody has to communicate with the outside world. The barrier of entrance is huge, meaning nobody will learn Finish if he hadn't got a really really well paying job there. In effect Finish will eventually die. Swedish's community is only double that of Finish's and the same downsides apply, so its chances of surviving history are also meager. English on the other hand is very useful! It has a huge speaking community and a relatively low barrier of entrance. So think of it as a plague if you will, but it is a very beneficial plague. And it would be really really good for the European Union to have a unified standard language. "But what about Japanese or Chinese? They clearly are not going to learn English!" True, because they don't have to. Japan has 13 times the population of Sweden and China accomodates for 1/7 of the world's population. Most of them have never spoken to a person outside of their country. And obviously the barrier of entrance for them is much higher that for any European. But that is also why those countries are relatively secluded. But they also aren't in any political and economic union like the European Union! And being a union obviously means being able to speak to one another.
Hej Linus! Hälsningar från Polen. Alltid undrade om du faktiskt talade svenska, ett språk jag verkligen gillar. Har själv bott många år i Amerika och som många av oss använder engelska dagligen. Men för det, när jag bara kan, och helst dagligen, försöker jag läsa på svenska. Om det bara blir en enstaka sida ur en dagstidning.
i choose to be in the middle. i positioned the door and window side by side and had to greet the owner in English before going inside. i ❤️ linus and bill 🙏🏼
+Kartikey Kushwaha Don't use kali, it runs as root and isn't optimized for anyone other than a pentester. CentOS is generally for servers. Ubuntu if fine, check out the other flavors such as kubuntu, Ubuntu gnome, and xubuntu. There is also other distros such as manjaro and mint. but if you are new, you might want to check out the Ubuntu flavors and find which you like best
And what if what I am looking for is not in the app portal? high/backwards compatibility and ease of installation are two of the strongest arguments for Windows.
I always admired how in other countries you find diversity in language, and here in latinoamerica we barely speak Spanish and just a few of us can speak English.
how could you forget the huge portuguese-speaking community and the few french-speaking countries? there are also lots of indigenous languages, some of them, like quechua and guaraní, spoken by large amounts of people
I was thinking about moving to Linux from Windows 7. But is there a way to install cygwin in Linux? I need cygwin to run git and other tools for development.
Why would you need Cygwin under Linux? The idea of Cygwin is to bring a collection of GNU tools to Windows. Pretty much all of these tools are installed per default on Linux (depending on your distro) or can be added via package manger/manually.
So, perhaps a good way to think about it is that Linux is essentially a UI built on top of cygwin? I've always been a Windows user, and this Linux kernel stuff seems complicated. By package manager, I'm guessing this is like cygwin's installer where I can pick different packages.
After thinking more about it, I'll stick with running cygwin on Win7. In a way, cygwin is like Linux on steroids. I can run the latest and greatest Win7 apps, like Notepad++, IE11, etc. Also, cygwin just works. I've heard many war stories about Linux
@@ilmionomeenessuno5504 i believe everyone will eventually be on Linux simply because it you don't like something about it, you can change it. Windows is more like for dimwits and managers
i seriously doubt it but at least all the ports for mac should be easy to port to linux since mac uses open gl as well. what im hoping is that devs start using opengl for future games but maybe im being too hopeful as well. :(
I feel bad for their kids because they can't play a lot of games because they're windows-only. But I understand them. If my dad had such an amazing life achievement like he does I'd make sure to use his work rather than the competition otherwise it would be a big "fuck you" to him.
@TFIR: Open Source & Emerging Technologies Thanks for replying. The funny thing is, I googled it and read all about it right after I asked the question. You know, Fedora is one of the distros I've never used. I'm a debian man, myself... have been for many years.
@@TheCynicalDude_ Linus and many other kernel developers use Fedora as they need to keep themselves at the cutting edge so 1) They have access to new underneath technologies - packages and tools 2) They themselves can use it as a target for the new technologies they are working on.
Linus speaks Finnish with a slight accent (at least looking at old videos) like many Swedish speaking Finns. However that's just the accent, it's perfectly good Finnish. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I_AB_58Jm9Q.html
Our government schools are only using linux.. when i was in school i used to think why we study linux when we have windows.. and our teachers frequently used to remind us that its open source.. i am not sure if they actually knew what it meant back in those days... 😅😅😅 anyway dont worry linus our schools are using linux....😊😊👍
You download the .deb file from wherever. It's click-to-install, just as you are used to. Also, windows backwords compatability is really, really bad. I have a whole box full of peripherals that don't work on anything newer than XP. Yet, I can use them with Linux no problem.
