Linux Mint 19 For Windows Users 

@@MohidRehman Lol🤣

True, i miss videos like these. No frills straight to the point and simple. All the immature youtubers out there making it worse. lol

@Donald J Can't the same thing be achieved with virtual machines for free, and without needing to use a crapbook? If you have a nice, powerful computer, you can have a nice, powerful virtual machine. Not only that, but you can run a Linux distro as the main OS and then run Windows or your preferred OS on the virtual machine. That way, neither Windows, Apple, nor Google can steal any data that isn't on your virtual machine. Another benefit is that you can have as many virtual machines for as many uses you need so all the data is stored separately from eachother. This way, you could use your physical computer for anything private/secure, and if you want to travel to any dangerous websites you can use a VM. Also, it's really not porn they're interested in. If they wanted porn, they could just visit the same sites their viruses are on. Hell, with a VM you could even download one of their viruses and get rid of it by deleting the VM. It's a completely self-contained virtual environment. Doesn't let anything affect your physical computer.

I'm 21 years old and I''m so done with this "YO, WHAT'S POPPIN' GUYS!" gimmick.

what is wrong with music?

I feel exactly the same!

THis... There should be much more of pro stuff out there.

but Windows have a lot of software to use。

windows is big daddy

Illusion Crap

Fnord Fnordington good one lol

But if he's John Lennon, where's Yoko? She wouldn't be impressed with Linux; Yoko would be a Chromebook girl.

// ... choose '' *concider* recommended packages...etc // CON CI DER ??? Not *consider ???*

Huh? Installing dependencies is the default behavior of apt.

thanks man

No proton still doesn't work fine, stop spreading false info. Some games do work and some doesn't you are just lucky if your game of choice works. Its still in beta and things will only get better. Peace

am i triggered ? how did you even assumethat lol btw who edited comment ik what you said, good job on editing your comment.

People are so easy to trigger online. Doesn't matter if it's as something petty about a piece of software. Always surprises me how people get through life being triggered by everything they see.

Give Steam Play a chance but know it is still in beta although it is showing great overall progress. You'd be surprise at which Windows games ACTUALLy work with it. Valve colaborated with Wine and Crossover ( aka Code Weavers). I'm hoping you're only about to get a conslow for the exclusives ( Zelda, Mario, Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, whatever else that isn't available on PC).

@@motoryzen already running witcher 3 in 60 fps with gtx 1070

@tgmforum What? My Alfa Awus works perfectly without configs, maybe it's a driver thing. I'm not sure what distro you're using but in Kali/Parrot i've got no issues, realtek Atheros and Ralink tends to work good. What did you need to change if i may ask?

probably an amateur lol

lets better say it's ours

@tgmforum try a brother printer. i had to install that in a terminal, but it worked just fine. it's still a long way to go,especially the support of manufacturers. at least the linux gurus got the acpi going: no more overheating laptops. that took them a long time....

*+tgmforum* what kind of adapter¡¿ and which HP printer model? if you vould provide a link to the adapter or atleast an image link thanls

Thanks. :)

The crooks at microdick want you to think it's the computer that needs replacing when it's just the operating software you need replace and there are shedloads of great O/S on the net and most are free so no one needs ms

I did the same with my old compaq 615 laptop, it runs seamlessly but the fans are always loud and it is heating a lot. On windows 7, it is much quieter

It's more like "modernized Vista-like" interface :-)

you really should go look at the xp interface again. Mint (18 and newer) and xp are worlds apart.

Who cares! It is Linux, it is better. Broken Wind-blows is trash, so celebrate a better OS. Thank you.

@@turtlewax3849 Linux is better in many ways especially as a host OS for an internet browser. But not in every way. Software usually has poor GUI's compared to Windows. That is *IF* there is a suitable GUI. MUCH harder to do some things. I do not like file permissions whatsoever. Stuck using fat32 or NTFS for my data. Gimp is no where near as good as many of the Windows programs. Many Linux users use XP just to use Windows Movie Maker, I use several Linux distro's. AND WIndows XP & Win 7. It all depends on the tools I need to do certain things.

@@crazysquirrel9425 Depending on which GUI you are using. So far, I like GNOME 3.0 and Cinnamon.

This is great to hear. I bet there are a lot of people in your situation who would find Linux Mint is right for them.

@@ExplainingComputers Same here. Am going to shift to linux. So excited!!! Great video btw!

Great observation.

No doubt Windows 10 had a hand in helping Linux become more popular. I'm still on Windows 7 and I'm looking around to see if a Linux distribution can do the job someday for me when it's finally time to ditch Windows 7. I'd be OK with Mint if it weren't for the sketchy Wine game compatibility that still plagues it these days. I haven't tried Wine but I can't just delete Windows and see if Linux + Wine works and later find out it's not for me and have to go back to Windows. And how's trying Linux and Wine on a VM? Like there would be Game > Wine > Linux > VMware > Windows layers already, not counting drivers sandwiched between some layers.

Linux could of taken off earlier. I feel we had a missed opportunity to take more share of the Desktop world when Windows Vista launched and fell on its face. We had Ubuntu looking really good, with compiz and all the great effects, looking nice and polished. But no marketing... Now Ubuntu has taken a plunge and Mint 19 is looking really good to pull new users. Great video by the way.

@@ronch550 I would recommend Manjaro for gamers, there is a good reason its leading the Distrowatch charts for quite some time now... Yes, yes, thats not indicative, yadda, yadda, nevertheless its undeniably popular, and rightfully so. As for parallel OS'es, you can just resize your Windows partition and dualboot until youve moved in your junk and set up shop. And sure, you can run Linux in a VM ofc, alltho Virtualbox handles gaming rather poorly(only allows you to allocate a whooping 128mb of vram for 64bit Linux). I havent really bothered to try VMWare yet, but i allso really dont think its much of a difference(the other way around makes alot more sense, see below). Allso, keep in mind that allmost every Linux distro comes as live media theese days, so generally "testing" them shouldnt be an issue. The good news is, theres allso KVM(Kernel VM) which is capable of PCIE passthrough, and offers full feature, near real-hardware performance. Off the top of my head id only know how to set up a Windows VM that way if it had its own dedicated grafics card available, with which Windows can do whatever it wants, but im confident you could "somehow" get it to work with just one(well lets say maybe. :p dualboot is still an option if everything else fails).

@@ronch550 wine is a bad idea as it leaves you vulnerable to .exe files from malicious sources.

Thank you very much. I am always happy to see your RU-vid video.

kind of dating yourself there :). Win 3.1 was the first usable Windows. I did have 3.0 and even GEM before that. But in 1985, the Amiga was better than PC or Mac.

jose gonzales I have an Atari STFM 520 with GEM TOS that I get out from time to time. A bee is better than an eggtimer or a beachball heh

You want to abandon MS windows because it went all censorship on a platform, over a few posts... Can I point you to Twitter, YT, or any social networking site, and what about some suspicious events like someone 'alex jones' suddenly being banned from how many platforms in what short order? What you're complaing about (stupidly I might add) isn't a MS problem is a political shit storm problem, and outrage mobs... not a windows issue.

In a world without walls, who needs gates and windows.

Yeah, Microsoft and other big name companies are not companies you can trust.

Great to hear!

Congratulations PVD! It is good to hear that it works out well for you. I hear many people complaint about Windows for all of its known problems (I have an extensive list myself :)) but most people don't do anything about it. You improved your desktop experience. I myself dual boot because I like to play games but soon it won't even be necesary to do that anymore for most users. There is a trick to run Windows in a virtual machine alone so that you can still use all Windows software but without dual booting, in the next years it will become possible to runs most games in Steam without using anything of Windows. Google for Steam Play Proton in the news section to find out more. Basically they automatically translate DX11 to Vulkan and use Wine, the user only has to click on install and the developer and Valve take care of the rest. Cool. :) I had the same experience as you, I started to use LInux in the late 00's but it just wasn't good enough yet. Too many issues with sound-hardware. Now most of these issues have been solved and my sound even works better in some Linux distros than in Windows, my internet immediately works while in Windows I have to first download and install a driver for my ethernet card (brilliant, Microsoft :')), with my electrical piano I can immediately record while in Windows I need to install a proprietary driver from Yamaha (for the MIDI interface). Also my mechanical keyboard (Corsair Strafe) and gaming mouse immediately work. If I want to use LaTeX (used for most professional publications, probably Christopher uses or used it too given his academic background), in Linux it takes me around 1 minute to set it up, in Windows it takes fifteen minutes to set it up and it is more complicated (if you do anyhing wrong it won't work, in Linux you simply click on install).

I run my Linux desktop on a 240GB SSD. Most of my media is on a NAS, so I don't really need a lot of storage locally. I do still have an old SSD that has Windows 8.1 if I ever do have a need for it and I have an old system that has Windows 10 on it to keep my knowledge relevant, but that hasn't even been plugged in for like 3-4 months. (I'm still a few major updates behind.) The only thing I have to troubleshoot is hardware video acceleration. I have a GTX 1070 running on an FX 8350, so I should be able to watch a video at 1080p on RU-vid (fullscreen) without stuttering. It does that sometimes.

Yes, the lack of hardware-acceleration in browsers in Linux is quite annoying. The same probleme here! My CPU can handle it fine (i5-750 with 3.3 GHz boost) but it still is annoying because it is much better to let the GPU handle this. A GPU has a few thousand processors and that is ideal for video-transcoding because that way you can keep the clock frequency and the voltage very low. On the GPU you would get a 3% load on average while on the CPU you get 20% load for a simple 1080p video. Only I prefer to have 1440p or higher because it highy improves the sound quality on RU-vid because RU-vid compresses the sound even more agressively on lower resolutions (112 kbps for 1080p, 128 kbps for 1440p, it is ridiculous given the tiny amount of data that is shaved off compared to the data for the video!). Anyway, I would like to see browsers just support hardware acceleration, in Windows this has been a thing for at least 10 years, in this regard Linux is running far behind and that is a shame given how much better it is in many other regards. Do you have any advice on how to get the hardware-acceleration to run in the browser? I myself have a AMD-card and my next card will also be an AMD card. It has to do with keeping some competition alive, GPP, Gameworks and PhysX (all anti-competition behavior which I disapprove of).

It hasn't been tested on AMD, but for Intel/Nvidia cards this is an interesting work around (www.linuxuprising.com/2018/08/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerated.html).

sorry, this link should work www.linuxuprising.com/2018/08/how-to-enable-hardware-accelerated.html

I like your videos, especially the ones on the Raspberry Pi.

Better than Pop OS?

iPads are great. Mine Has been working flawlessly for 4 years now and hasn't slowed down at all! And the battery still works great! Great product

" it is hands down best OS ever made" Except it's not... at all...

Most terminal commands the noobs would need to use can't hurt the kernel. So sudo apt-get update/upgrade or another command for kernel upgrades. Those would be the only ones they would ever need to see.

William Paxton Robinson On puppy Linux, the users I have given copies to have never had to use a terminal. Adding software from the repository is done with a GUI and works fine.

I was making the point that most new Linux Users wouldn't need to use the terminal for the majority of the time they are using Linux. The 3 commands mentioned were for ease of use that any hairless primate that can read can use. That was my point.

William Paxton Robinson Your point may apply to Linux versions other than Puppy but it doesn't apply to Puppy. Perhaps the issue is that most new users are just using the wrong distro as their first one.

linux mint, has a nice and pretty gui program to update drivers omegalol good luck with that if you have nvidia card... it has a nice package and software manager... good luck if you want to install anything that is not in the manager... do i really need to continue?

Thanks for your kind feedback. Appreciated.

I will get Windows in a VM eventually. But Linux does everything I need, if not everything I want.

Sir Mark, newbie here to Linux, but not new to jumping in on a new platform and successfully learning/writing code that becomes used in Corporate production on various platforms. No official training, just become one with technology and learn the logic of the code and the rhythm. Hence, Excited to jump into Linux now. QUESTION PLEASE KIND SIR: PLEASE VIEW MY ENTRY TO SIR CHRIS REGARDING THIS VIDEO. GIVES DETAILS WITHOUT REPEATING THEM HERE. PLEASE RESPOND WITH YOUR VIEW AND KNOWLEDGE AS WELL. I WELCOME any input and direction.I'm CONSIDERING DUAL BOOT ON VERY NEW LAPTOP FIRT OR VIRTUAL INSTALLATION. IF WORKS WELL ON DUAL BOOT THEN THAT MEANS THE HW IS FULLY ACCEPTED BY MINT. IF WIFE LIKES IT I WILL WIPE MS WINDOWS OFF SYSTEM AND PUT ONLY MINT ON AT THAT POINT IN TIME. BUT SHE NEEDS TO EXPERIENCE MINT FIRST.HUMBLE THANKS IN ADVANCE AND BEST REGARDS!ALTON D DAVIS JR

If I try to put linux mint through virtual box back to windows, will i be able to get my RAM and Hard drive back?

@@anamaebristol8010 running anyting in a virtual box will consume hard drive space and ram. Hard drive space will stay consumed until you delete the install file for the virtual machine you mad (I think it is an OVA file). Ram is returned once you close out virtualbox

Great to hear you've had a good experience with Linux Mint.

You beat me to it! I thought the same but could understand all of this :)

I was that same kid on front of the telly , watching some bloke in a white coat talk about stuff i never understood , but i do now , its been a long time since i thought about the open university , cheers lol

NZ never had the equivalent of BBC OU shows. I was fascinated by them when I came to the UK in the 1990s. I remember watching them, but don't remember ever coming across anything that was *completely* unfamiliar or un-understandable. They were a great example of the original intention of the BBC charter. I should also say that in my teens I read every anthology of Isaac Asimov's science essays I could find (published from the 1950s to 1980s) which fed my worldview and knowledge. RU-vid channels like this and many others keep both those streams of learning alive, much to my pleasure.

GOD!!! You are old!!. I bet you still take pictures with a camera!!

Thanks. :)

You only say that because you hate windows. M$ doesn't give spyware that;s full of crap.

@@andrewdupuis1151 I hate Windows? LOL I've been using it since Win 95 and I loved it until Win 8. MS dramatically failed and continues to fail at seeing what their consumers want since Win 8. No one wants touch interface on their desktop. No one wants metro apps. We just want good old Windows. The whole concept of continuum died when MS killed the phones. There's no point that Win 10 has "touch friendly" interface now. You can't customize Win 10 properly. You can't change the settings of Win 10 properly. MS just treated their users like they're braindead people. Also Win 10 does have spyware (incl. a keylogger!). Check the privacy settings. It can basically log everything you do on the computer and then send it to MS. You can't even completely turn it off if you don't have group policy editor.

I had the same feelings as you and that is the reason why I (mostly) switched to linux. I would highly reccomend

I'm on Mint, love it! It's a very nice Linux distro for someone who is coming from the Windows landscape.

+Andrew Dupuis It depends on your definition of spyware - since the EULA for Windows requires that you allow Microsoft collect any or all information from your pc you might consider the whole OS as spyware.

IF you're ga gamer, check out Steam play ( aka proton). YEs it is still in beta, but it's starting to show some promise. Long live open source

If I try to put linux mint through virtual box back to windows, will i be able to get my RAM and Hard drive back?

@palladini971 Oh no I won't lol. I don't want to use a cartoon type OS. Far too hard to get things done. Won't use anything newer than win7 or something ubuntu 18 or newer. FLAT icons stink and dark theme doesn't work well for me.

@@crazysquirrel9425 You can use newer releases and change the Desktop Environment to something that you like, so you could find something older and more XP-like, or something more Windows-7 like with its glossy, smooth, but still 3D finish. The thing about Linux is that it is very customisable, all the way down to the kernel (yes, custom kernels exist). Changing desktop environments is not very difficult.

@@Jupiter__001_ I agree that Linux is 'supposed' to be customizable but trying to customize ti without a decent GUI is not that easy. I tried customizing the taskbar one time. Didn't like it and when I tried to restore it to 'factory'. it did not restore to factory. Things were missing. So R/R the whole thing just to get my taskbar back to 'factory'. Not fun.

Watching this on Linux Mint 17.3 - just haven't bothered updating lately as I'm really happy with 17.3

I have a doubt does Linux mint support hard disk partitioning.

Pandipalli Vivek - Yes, it does. You can choose how to partition your disk when you install Linux Mint and also if you later install the program called Gparted, you can partition your disks again. There is also a program called fdisk that does partitioning at a more basic level.

18 Sara

Linux Mint 17.3 still up and running like a champ no need for upgrade in my case that's why I love Linux you have a good system that will last you a long time.

Ubuntu Kylin would be great if it were completely translated

Great to hear that you have entered a whole new world! :)

+1 for enjoying Cities: Skylines on native Linux Mint 19.1. I just bought the Industries DLC and after playing a near ten-hour session that Linux (with the Nvidia driver update) runs C:S a lot better than the Mac OS did. Before I installed Linux on my near-five-year-old machine I was about to give it to my folks as I had become more disgusted with the macOS and Apple’s practices, and though I bought a full version of Windows 10 Pro (a $200 USB stick), I did NOT want to install it. My iMac, a $2,300 machine, was collecting dust since I graduated from college until I accidentally corrupted my Mac recovery partition experimenting with Linux. Despite a Windows game or two having audio or video problems and having to live without my iTunes library on the desktop, I haven’t regretted it since.

My Thrustmaster T300RS won't work on Linux, and Steam games like Assetto Corsa that have mod support possibly won't be the same on Linux as Windows. I've used Windows all the way back in the XP days, so I know how Windows is as an OS. However, the rage of Windows users moving to Linux has sparked me to look into Linux as well.

@alysdexia late response but, crap is also an adjective and a verb.

That's good to know about Steam. I have over 200 Steam games. That's one of the hold backs for people moving over to Linux. If people had a list of starter replacements for their Microsoft apps, just enough to get them going, then more people would be willing to make the move. Thanks Wkterr.

Great to hear. Thanks for sharing.

Great to hear!

Two hard drives or one ?

Just one, an ssd on my laptop.

Why did you change to linux? Windows looks much better and is for gaming

Great to hear!

Good luck! :)

Good point!

normally you should be able to right click onto the icon and select "Unmount"

Thanks.

As a follow-up, Mit 19 has also some problems with pulseaudio (hiccups while watching YT, for instance). A solution is to edit daemon.conf: sudo nano /etc/pulse/daemon.conf find: ; realtime-scheduler = yes and add this line just below: realtime-scheduler = no you might want to add this to daemon.pa as well.

Since Microsoft bought Canonical as I heard. Does that mean it is now Microsoft Mint in some way. If it happens that Micromanagementsoft tries to play god. Mint will be more derived from Debian as in the LMDE distro that I find just as good.

Canonical Ltd. is a UK-based privately held computer software company. Microsoft bought the coding platform GitHub. Implications, ramifications of this are still unknown, but I'd wager not good long term, MS has a bad history of what it does with the companies it takes over.

Art McTeagle They're boosting Linux Mint with the help of AMD and Valve because billy gates has decided to screw over Windows/Intel/Nvidia. Though to be fair, Intel and Nvidia are ripe for the picking, and after 3 years of Windows 10, you should know better by now.

Not quite free but still free-er

Software?

Excellent! I am replying to this comment in Linux Mint. :)

It was 28+, and got cut down a lot in editing!

Welcome aboard!

This is great to hear . . . Linux can indeed feel very liberating. :)

Great result! Thanks for sharing your experience here.