An explanation on my semi-recent switch from Windows 10 to Linux Mint. Socials BlueSky - bsky.app/profi.... Bandcamp - woodlakedrift.... Neocities- i-log.neocitie...
dude, your 00's camera quality, paired with the amazing mic quality is SUCH a viewing pleasure. bonus points to it being 4:3. It feels like I'm back on the old youtube. I love it!
@@sifsen I'm really trying to capture some of that "old school" RU-vid energy, when things were a bit slower. I'm happy to hear that people like this style!
I switched to Linux (Mint) when Microsoft was pushing Windows 10 to me forcefully. I don't like to be pushed, so I bought a new HDD and dual-booted Mint and Windows 7, until that Windows hang itself up. At that point I had had some experience with Linux Mint already so I just formatted my old Windows disk to Ext4. Welcome to the Club Mint!
I am still on win7pro because I despise every version after that. I don't think it's as unsafe as he thinks; the biggest malware vector as we all know is the user. Luckily for me I've been building PCs since the late 80s when it was just DOS, until the awful win3.11 came along. So I have kept up with both hardware and software changes over the years. I use the free version of Avast, but I don't enable any of the bloatware functions like driver updater, junk deleter, etc. I DO let it tell me if a page I go to is suspicious or part of a database that is known to have malware on the page. I used to be in a private IRC group for sharing files and just chatting. Most of the guys there were long time Linux users, although some had a separate box for windows or a dual boot system. I freely admit that Linux is by design a more secure and thus safer OS, and want to switch to it. Of course the reasons I haven't yet are the obvious ones- having to attempt to find Linux programs that do what the programs I use daily on windows do. A couple are simple like Firefox or Deluge since they are made for all 3 major OSes. And although VLC is the same, I have never used it before. I have always used the K-Lite codec pack that includes the Media Player Classic Home Cinema for watching videos, and Winamp for mp3s. But I know that using VLC for both of those tasks will be easy to learn. By far the hardest program to find a replacement for is going to be Total Commander. I use that program EVERY day and literally would not be able to use a windows pc w/o it. Windows file explorer is literally painful to use if you have tons of files to manage. Total Commander makes it a breeze. It's not an exaggeration to say that if you are a windows power user and you don't use Total Commander as your file manager instead of file explorer, you are retarded. The other reason I have not switched yet is of course because of all the command line commands I will have to learn to use Linux. And I know there are people that will say that you "very rarely" ever have to use the command line. And that is true the less things you need to do on the system. I took a spare SSD and installed Mint Cinnamon on it. I was able to update the OS with just the mouse. Firefox was already pre-installed. I still need to install Deluge, but I know that you can use just the mouse to install programs from the repository. But I will need to get Wine working because I use Turbotax to do my taxes. 3 years ago TT made it so that it wouldn't run on any OS except 10 or 11. My VPN provider also changed their client so that it requires win10. So I took out my previous PC and installed win10 on it so I could do my taxes and download some torrents once in a while. I use usenet for 90% of my needs. Oh yeah, that reminds me that I also need Wine so I can run my usenet program, Forte Agent. I know that I just need to take the plunge and start using Mint every day. I know that I will drown at least 100 times, and I will get so frustrated I will want to throw my PC through the nearest window at least 1000 times, but I'll never get used to it until I try. As far as going to places like Reddit for help for new Linux users, I've already heard from many places how awful life-long Linux users are. They are like apple users only 1000x more arrogant.....
@@SirReptitious I use Audacious with a WinAmp skin. It works pretty much like WinAmp did. For movies I haven't found anything that would work with DVD menus so I use Handbrake a lot with my own DVDs. But like I said, I feel installing Win7 is too much of a hassle for me. Linux Mint is just easier and ready to run after 10-20 minutes. And I can reinstall it easily with no fear of messing my own settings! I know, as I did that last year, to remove all the bloat I had brought myself. I had tested a bit of this, a bit of that...
I still keep a Win7 option in multiboot. It might be EOL and I never use it to go onto internet anymore, but it can still do everything I need to do while on my local network. I've done Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Mandrake, Ubuntu, Arch, some others. Now I just use Mint. An operating system for people who actually use their computers to do stuff. Not an operating system for technical elites (and technical wannabees) who constantly tweak and tinker with their operating systems.
@@pwnmeisterage Right. I use Mint because I don't like tinkering with the OS. And Win7... well, like I mentioned, it suicided on my computer. Luckily I had Mint on another disk, where I planned to test it. Well, that became a very thorough test.
@@SirReptitious There are total commander alternatives and turbotax is literally as you said for retarded people. You should avoid it, it's trash, it literally acts against your interests (lobby's to make taxes harder to do for individuals and not to have it like in Europe where they do themselves). You couldn't find a more cancerous company and software. VLC is a great piece of software I don't know anyone that uses media player classic, I've moved on to mpv which is just a better piece of modern technology with more customization. VLC is tried and tested and media player classic is outdated most of the forks and original versions have died. Don't see a point of using it tbh. No offense but your entire software stack is horribly outdated or just bad in general. Might be time to find some new programs. Except Deluge that's a fine software.
@@I-LOGfrom my experience I find that Windows is the caveman's operating system. Mac, and Linux both rewrite the OS to fix problems and bugs whereas Windows just adds new files causing the hard drives to become bloated with garbage and you need to buy bigger hard drives if your system can handle bigger drives just to use your own programs because Windows uses all the space.
today i fought with my girlfriend's new laptop we bought and learned there exist a Windows "S Mode", which probably stands for Shit Mode, got it solved after a few tutorials, but yeah your point is valid, after the S crap next step is a subscription based OS which certainly i won't support
Wait until you see the Microsoft bill each month at our company, plus we need a staffed helpdesk. In 2020 they no longer allow anything not Windows or MacOS in our network. Silly people, but they get paid the big kickbacks..... allegedly of course.
It already is in many ways. And you're paying for it with your personal data. This data may be even more valuable than direct cash payments, as companies can exploit it to generate further revenue by selling it to others. It's a rather ingenious business plan: provide a "free" platform where you collect user data with unparalleled accuracy. You gain direct, unlimited access to everything. This data allows you to target ads, receive side payments from products, sell ad spots to companies, and trade your information for even more profit. The "free" platform turns into a goldmine, far exceeding the income from paying customers. By mandating online accounts, they ensure precise data ownership. Now, add some government backdoors, and you have one of the largest spy platforms ever created - capable of real-time location tracking, activity monitoring, and instant file retrieval. If I were an evil overlord plotting world domination, developing something like Windows would be my first step. The best part is, people will defend your scheme simply because they believe they're getting a good deal.
Vista definitely had bugs but it was pretty. It was ambitious and the Live tiles were great until it's discovered they're a huge security vulnerability. I want Microsoft to be bold but with Windows 11 they wanted to make a clone of MacOS. Copying isn't being Bold. Jumping to Linux would be easier if there were less distros to choose from. Not sure which distro is best for a PC with a built-in DVD rewritable drive. So, when one can't pick a distro to use, one heads out to Microcenter to get the Raspberry Pi kit. Not that Raspbian was better but it seemed easier than choosing between Debian, Linux Mint and the 31 other Baskin-Robbins flavors. And was Linux Mint before or after Ryan Reynolds' Mint Mobile
@@Eeveewashere There are only a few good beginner distro's and most of the are just forks or forks of forks of debian because of stability. You really should just choose either Ubuntu or Linux mint
@@521cjb Raspbian is built on Debian directly and not Ubuntu (which makes it much better). On a side note, Mint has the LMDE version that is not built on Ubuntu but on Debian as well, which makes it a lot better IMHO.
To be fair, XP's extended lifespan was a special case. "Windows Longhorn" was botched so badly that they more or less had to throw out what would become Windows Vista and start over, which delayed it from a planned 2003 ship date to 2006.
Technically, Vista wasn't that much botched, just 1) too aggressive with admin rights 2) to resource heavy for the computer of the time. Win7 barely change anything from Vista beside being softer with admin rights. But it came at a time when RAM was cheap again, and after Vista that people hated, and thus liked Win7. I still use 7 to this day, and it's really stable. Too bad drivers are less and less easy to come by. And programs are artificially made incompatible (looking at you, Chrome...) So, I will probably switch to LMDE sooner than later...
I switched to Linux Mint about 9 months ago, running it on my 2012 Mac Mini that I upgraded with an SSD and 16gb ram. It runs so smooth and brought new life to this pc, so much so that I don't need a new computer, it works perfect. Mint has a big advantage over other distros with their Driver Search app, which allowed me to install the wifi driver for the Mini in seconds. I recommend Linux Mint to everyone that doesn't require specific Mac or Win software like iTunes or Adobe. Most if not everything you do can be done easily in Linux, including Steam for games (with Proton).
This was a great rambling. You did well. You held my attention. I'm 65 years old and you covered all the bases. I appreciate that. You got my vote. Thank you for sharing this. I'll be checking out your channel.
I've been using Linux for 7 years now. It works for me, but I'm a natural problem solver, and I've come to realize that it's best to recommend Linux to people that are naturally curious and want to learn. Learning a new operating system is an ordeal and takes time, much like how learning how to use a new program or game is.
I've been finding more and more that Windows is causing people so much pain, that even if they aren't a natural problem solver, they still find Linux better to work with. People I never expected to ever switch to Linux have been switching, and finding it good enough for their use cases.
That’s a good observation. I switched from Windows to Mac about 10 years ago because I was sick of MS’s shit and although I am an IT guy, I’m an old IT guy that didn’t feel like going through the Linux desktop learning curve (I drive Linux servers at work but as a DBA I need to know how to use them.. not worry about apt vs yum etc….) and after 30 years of Windows, I just wanted something that worked. But it even took me time to get used to Mac, and Mac OS is about as simple as it gets. Once you have to get below the presentation layer is when you start to see the differences between MacOS and other OS’s and that it’s a pain in the ass too… the difference being that 30 years in IT helps explain why they do what they do and most people don’t even notice. Eventually, I will wind up on Linux desktop because I’m sick of Apple’s shit too. But yeah, you need to find someone that wants to take on that challenge.
@@JimAllen-Persona I switched to Linux from Mac, actually. Not too difficult for me, but I was already one of those weirdo Mac users who used the Mac terminal a lot. I learned CS on Solaris workstations in college, where we pretty much did everything with the Unix terminals. I was already familiar with GNOME and KDE (very old versions though) before I switched to Linux. My advice to people, and I’ve helped a few make the switch from both Mac and Windows, is to try out some VMs first. Don’t just leap straight into it. I played around with Debian in a VM for a couple years before I actually installed it as a boot drive. And even then I was dual booting for a while. Gradually, over time, I stopped booting into any other OS, and I only do it now for the occasional Windows game or some weird utility tool I’m too lazy to make a Wine wrapper for. Nowadays, with Steam Proton, games typically just work in Linux if there isn’t a native build. I’ve found alternative apps for just about everything I want to do. And browsers are pretty much the same experience everywhere.
Yes I think the same, I'm a Linux user since 2012 and back then, when I first discovered Linux it was Linux Mint Cinnamon 13, it was love at first sight. Linux system is worth all the effort even if it's not easy.
@@fakecubed Yeah. I mean I don't mind tech troubleshooting at all but I switched my new laptop to mint a few weeks ago and so far it's worked a whole lot better out of the box than any windows installation I've had for a long time, and it's been way more pleasant to use. I often forget I'm even using linux, until it reminds me by being nice to use in some way. I definitely think it's in a place now where you don't have to be particularly computer literate to make the switch. There's a couple of things you have to do differently but not a lot (though there's always the option to do them differently if you want).
I have had a linux server running for over 2 years, without a reboot. Not my desktop, but an active mail and file server. It just runs. Any old windows box I have I re-purpose with linux eventually. Love it.
As a recent jumper to Mint myself, I can say that I am glad to finally have an OS that *just works*. Minimal bloat, if any at all. I can actually uninstall *anything* that I don't use. And I can modify the system to fit my needs and a few of my wants. Yes, absolutely, Pulse Audio is a PITA, and I'm slowly trying to integrate native usage of Pipewire along with the Wireplumber add-on just so I can get friggin Discord to stream audio. but overall, I have learned what it will take for me to build my own OS to do what *I* want it to do. I couldn't have done that on Windows without completely bricking my whole PC. Welcome to Linux. For those who just want something that works, without Windows trying to tell you "Eugh You're not secure enough for 11", This is your next best bet. Will everything work right off the bat? Oh lord no. But will the struggle be worth it when you finally solve that problem that 100s of other people have? absolutely. Embrace the curve and build your system. Make cool things.
As a penguin devotee that came started for scientific pursuits and stayed for the philosophy this is a nice video. It is hard for me to say how good our creative apps are since I would only ever use the minimum feature sets. It will be an interesting and niche blog to see someone do creative work in Linux.
I ended my relationship with Windows 2 days ago and moved to Linux Mint. I was fed up of Microsoft continually forcing me to update my OS, and removing more and more my ability to control my own setup. Then the final indignation, forcing me to buy a new PC with Windows 11, which I can’t afford to do. Microsoft is a closed OS and they are obviously in league with computer manufacturers on a commercial basis. My feeling is they have overstepped the mark on too many occasions with the end user being disregarded in favour of their own commercial advantage. Linux is great. I feared changing thinking it would be too much of a learning curve and imagining that the Windows driven software I use would not be available for Linux. So what have I learned? Linux is very easy to use. It is more secure, and, all the programs I used in Windows are in fact available to install on Linux. If I want, it is more configurable than the increasingly restrictive Windows and best of all the alternative software available and the open source user community programs are the icing on the cake. There is no going back now. I am a proud Linux user and all my fears of installing it were unfounded, and I no longer need to fund 3rd party utilities and programs to keep Windows in working order. Moving to Linux means I can cancel a number of monthly subscriptions which were draining my funds. Things like efficient driver updaters, system checkers and software updaters. These are all unnecessary in Linux because Linux does all that itself easily and efficiently. Finally, while Microsoft is blocking some 3rd party software now because of the Windows 11 system requirements, or, cynically perhaps to get yet more commercial leverage, I don’t face that issue with Linux.
Switched to Linux 10 years ago, started on Ubuntu 14.04, and I loved it! Switched off Windows 8 to it. I still use Linux to this day in the form of Vanilla Debian. Good luck!
Mint is a good choice. I’ve hopped between different desktops and distributions but I always somehow gravitate back to Mint Cinnamon. With MS Widows, your technology wallet is a bottomless. I stopped using Windows in 2007. I remember missing some windows workflow for a while, but that eventually faded away. Linux isn’t perfect but I never feel ripped off. As for the pulse issue, I’ve not had a problem with it but then I don’t use it productively. It sounds like one of those pain in the ass Linux glitches that is encountered with some hardware. If you’re tired of repeatedly manually removing the config file, create a batch file to do it, make it executable and add it as a startup app to run on boot. I use such boot tasks for a number of one-off duties like updating Thunderbird email filtering rules between my different machines to make sure they all hold the latest rules. The good thing about Linux is that if there is a repetitive task, you can automate it and forget it.
An audio/video guy using Linux! That's good to see! Mint is a good choice and after you learn a bit more and get more experience with Linux, maybe consider Fedora. A lot of audio/video folks tend to end up on Fedora for Fedora's newer software packages at some point and if you use the KDE Plasma desktop on it, you'll feel right at home after spending most of your computing life on Windows.
Yeah, my immediate reaction was that probably Fedora would work better with the audio software (and probably DaVinci Resolve) without as much fiddling. But Mint is a great starter distro for newbies. If he's happy with Kdenlive and he's able to work through the Pulse Audio issues temporarily until Pipewire comes along, there might not be any reason to change.
I stopped using windows when XP was kicked to the curb and have been using Linux ever sense, this has saved me money from not having to buy soft ware and newer computers to run it on.
I switched to Linux about a week ago. I chose mint as my first distro and used for three days and it was great but i wasn't fan of the design. so... i downloaded ZorinOS and im currently running it and im loving it
I never liked that Fisher Price theme of XP. I used the classic look. Fun Fact: The older windows systems that had the Appearance Theme Tweaker you could have a FULL DARK MODE. Windows 8.1 did not bring back the start menu. It just added a button to the taskbar that sent you to the metro screen.
Just to let you know, though I am not a big fan of PulseAudio, it isn't usually as problematic as it has been for you. PulseAudio is a sound server while ALSA is the sound driver layer, so it is in use whether you use PulseAudio or not (technically, the last I knew you could switch your driver layer to OSS4, but that would be very unusual for someone to do in Linux). You can run sound on Linux without a sound server, and ALSA will take care of some of the functions of a sound server. PulseAudio is the sound server layer (the equivalent sound server in Windows is currently called "Windows Audio Service"). There have been several different sound servers in Linux, but PulseAudio was the first to be almost universally deployed in various distributions and desktop environments. Another sound server that has been popular for use with DAWs or other recording engineering programs in Linux is JACK, but it tends to be complicated to set up and use. The aim of PipeWire is to replace both PulseAudio and JACK with a reliable sound server that can be used for run of the mill purposes like PulseAudio or for complicated sound routing like JACK.
just found your channel, great video! i really like the different style, it seems much more down-to-earth than many other tech channels. welcome to linux
When Win11 came out w the TPM chip debacle, I sold my Surface. I bought a laptop w Win11. It's trash still. I pulled the drive and left Win11 on it. I quit C#, went to Rust and Go. Linux Mint, I needed to get work done without a rolling distro on my laptop. It's solid. I have Manjaro on a tower if I want to see rolling updates, but a lot of multimedia software comes as deb.
Great move, congratulations! I recently switched from Mint to Suse Tumbleweed (KDE) because I got a new laptop and needed a newer Linux kernel to support it. It's really amazing, everything worked out of the box, even updates of the firmware and the bios! I couldn't be more happy!😊
had to switch from mac to linux for similar reasons, i couldn't afford a new macbook/imac. i gotta say, the learning curve was quite steep, but it was worth it. started out with Ubuntu, 3 years later i'm using Linux Mint and loving it. i've been playing around with arch on a vm, challenging but definitely worth it if you're into tinkering, and i'm saying this as an amateur. oh, also, i had the pleasure of buying a pc with windows 11 and i regret it, it's sooo needlessly complicated. i doubt i'll ever stop using Mint tbh
I've had Windows 11, and I can tell you it's actually a downgrade. My daily driver had Windows 10. I could have "upgraded" it to Windows 11, but I objected to not having options by Microsoft so I decided to try out Linux Mint in a dual boot setup. After about a month, I didn't use Windows anymore and decided to erase it from all my computers and switch to Linux. After trying several distibutions, I was torn between Linux Mint Cinnamon and Linux Lubuntu, so I dual boot those now, giving each computer two awesome operating systems that don't harvest my data. It's fantastic, and Linux is so fast on my machines. Give it 8 or 16 GB RAM and it's lightning fast. I love it.
Glad you migrated to Linux. The biggest challenge going forward is being able to leave your system alone. Customizing and playing around with it is addictive, and most who do tend to eventually break it, yours truly included.😊 Also, FYI, MacOS is built on the same platform (file system) as Linux, the Unix system, only with MacOS proprietary layer on top.
It's not the same file system, but macOS is based on a proprietary Unix-like kernel so you got that part right. Linux was created to be a free kernel that was compatible with common Unix software packages, and is a Unix-like operating system. But Linux is a completely separate and unique kernel, with no Unix code in it. But because it was built around the same basic ideas, it is extremely easy to get most basic software to compile for both Linux and Unix based systems (including macOS), and many of the common command line tools are identical on both Linux and Unix systems and come from the same open source projects. There is a set of standards called POSIX which was intended to maintain compatibility between operating systems. Most mainline proprietary Unix operating systems are POSIX-certified, or were back in the day. Unix-like operating systems like BSD and Linux are said to be mostly POSIX-compliant. I think Apple achieved full POSIX-compliance and got POSIX-cerified with Mac OS X since 10.5, and may still be POSIX-compliant in the newer macOS versions. Linux does use the same sort of "everything is a file" paradigm that Unix has, which may be where your confusion comes from. In Linux, like in Unix, practically everything is treated as simply being a stream of bytes just as if it was a document. Network sockets, even peripherals like a keyboard or printer, are treated the same way documents stored on a drive are, they are all just byte streams that are read or written to, as far as the OS is concerned. File systems are how files are stored on hard drives, SSDs, etc., and there are many different ones out there for how the raw 1s and 0s are stored in hardware to represent files, and made accessible to operating systems. Various flavors of Unix typically use UFS, or the more modern ZFS (a Solaris creation). Apple currently uses APFS, and before that they used HFS+. Windows uses NTFS, and they want to eventually replace NTFS with ReFS. Most operating systems can handle FAT and exFAT which are used for a lot of USB drives and such, FAT being originally developed for use by DOS and early Windows versions. Linux uses all sorts of different file systems, generally depending on the distribution, and use case. There's ext4, XFS, btrs, OpenZFS, and many more.
I recall that the backlash from "not having a start menu" in Windows 8 was so bad, Microsoft said they would fix it, released 8.1, which provided you with a Windows logo start menu, but it brought you back to the same, atrocious full screen menu that rips you away from whatever you were doing. Like, seriously, Microsoft. Window management in Windows is so awful, you don't need to add to it by making sure we lose track of what we were looking at.
You get a like and subscribe from me. Honestly, I think every release of Windows loses more and more users. As Linux becomes easier to use, more people stick with Linux after they try it. I know I converted my 60+yo mother in law over to Linux. She's had a blast with it for years now. Some fun facts. Steam's Proton is their fork of Wine. You can absolutely utilize Proton for normal Windows applications. One way to do it is to just use Wine to install whatever application, and then in Steam you click Games -> Add a Non-Steam Game to my Games Library. An alternative would be to do the Steam portion of the instructions, except with the installer file itself. You then of course have to remove that installer from your library after it's done installing, and then you add the non-Steam game wherever Proton installed it. Good luck to you on your Linux journey! I love to hear from...I guess I want to say non-technical users, but I don't mean that in a negative way. I just mean that your life doesn't revolve around keeping up with computer hardware and software. You're a regular user, and you're using Linux. And I think that's fan-freakin'-tastic!
@@fakecubed Good to know. How is Pipewire with 24/96 Flac playback and will it work with an external Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi Surround 5.1 Pro which I use cause the stock Realtek soundcard that came with my laptop was crap.
I'm impressed how well articulated your points and facts are, everything is on point, you are way too smart for Windows, graduating from it will only make you smarter
I've used Linux for quite a while, but didn't go full time till the last couple of years. I started trying out Linux in 2008. The thing that kept me from going full time Linux for the longest time was printer support. I don't use the printer as much as I used to, and Linux printer support is sooo much better now. Switching to any OS will be a challenge, especially if you discover that the new OS doesn't work very well with something that you need to use or use quite often. Good luck on your Linux journey, and I hope it continues to work well for you.
Linux does things better and doesn't require hardware upgrade. I installed Mint to a coworker and he loved it for studying. For that same purpose I use Fedora on my laptop and for my gaming desktop I use Arch for almost 3 months. You can check wikis from Arch or Debian about your audio problem. Since you're running Mint probably Debian would be better. Mint is based on Ubuntu which is also based on Debian. Ubuntu was my first distro back in 2011 or something. Had to switch back to Windows due to gaming compatibility. Things have been improving really a lot since then.
Really good to hear an honest, real world, experience of moving from windows to Linux. Your experience mirrors mine as I have done the same over the last couple of months. I still run a Windows box for a couple of things I have not yet worked out how to run on Linux but am working on that and the process is making me more comfortable with Linux. The bottom line is that for most everyday tasks, Linux Mint was usable straight from install, other things, like my scanner, have taken a bit longer but, ultimately, just requiring a bit more time, because I am new to Linux, than just plain difficult..
I went to Mint as well. I'm running a 7th gen i5 and as someone who understands cybersecurity, I do not trust EOL computers to be on the internet. Welcome to Linux, Casey!
I 1st tried Linux back in 2016 with Ubuntu 16.04 because i was just curious about Linux and then i distro hopped for a while before finally settling on Fedora Mate because Fedora feels like the perfect balance between stability and bleeding edge and the Mate desktop is just a nice lightweight DE that feels really fast and responsive.
15:50 this editing was hilarious. I like the whole 1990s aesthetic of this video. Super nice. Anyway, to make music on Linux, it's worth checking out Bitwig, or Ableton Live inside Wine, or Studio One which just became Linux native. I really loved this entire video. You are so well spoken and I agree with pretty much everything you're saying. I've used Ubuntu and Linux Mint and Pop OS extensively, and they're good, but I only switched full time to Linux in 2021 when I discovered Fedora, due to the updated software on it. But these days, Flatpak ensures that even Ubuntu-based distros have access to fresh software versions.
2 yr ago I switched to Linux, 1st os was PopOS, then Ubuntu, Then Debian, Then Fedora, Finally Settled with Arch. Using Arch from 11+ months no breakage till now. A tip always keep a Timeshift backup min 10 days a month.
Welcome to Linux Casey hope you enjoy it, there will be frustrations but there are great communities which are more than happy to help in the mint community.
KDE plasma is the most customizable desktop on Linux. It easily mimics Mac os including the global menu, the most iconic windows have their visuals adapted to themes. But particularly I like to use with my custom configuration. You should give it a try, it's very focused on customization. KDE neon is a good distro to experience KDE. It's also Ubuntu based and maintain by KDE developers.
I haven't used DaVinci Resolve on Linux Mint, but I believe it will tell you what libraries you're missing if you try running the installer using the terminal. Wherever you download the file, right click on the folder, and choose "open on therminal", and in the terminal, type ./[name of file] and hit enter. If it errors out, it will probably tell you why. From what I could find by searching the web, Linux Mint seems to be missing some libraries that you can install using the terminal, by typing the following: sudo apt install libapr1 libaprutil1 libxcb-composite0 libxcb-cursor0 libxcb-damage0 After that is done, you're supposed to be able to run the installer and it will work. Then again, like I said, I haven't tested this myself.
I've managed to get DaVinci Resolve running on an older install of Ubuntu, a while ago, so in theory Mint should be able to use it. I remember the installation was not as straightforward as it would be over in Red Hat world.
Win XP ..... damn, I started with a Commodore Amiga 500 and then Win2000. Never got Vista nor Win8 ....... no doubt MS is trying to get all the control they want on us. Great video.
I have Linux Mint LMDE 6. Sounds and Easyeffects work fine on it. For some reason, when I turned off the CPU default settings in the bios, everything works even better now. Now the CPU works with Intel's default settings, and no longer with the motherboard manufacturer's default settings. I believe that motherboard manufacturers favor more Windows users in motherboard settings. I'm not a gamer.
I feel your pain. I used to sell my old computers if I upgraded but I found out that was really dumb because people don't spend more than a couple hundred dollars on anything used. So now I'm planning to run my computers into the ground and re purpose them. I hope Windows doesn't lock me out of new versions like they did for pre 8th gen.
The problems I face with Linux are: 1. When installed, not everything works out of the box as there are incompatibilities with Hardware and one has to try to fix it. 2. So many programs I like to use and Games I play are not available on Linux. I don't mind any OS. OS is just needed to manage hardware resources by being an intermediary and what really matters are application software/apps, and they are missing on Linux. I am all in for privacy and understand the deeper implications of retaining one's data in his or her lifetime as well as I understand how evil big tech is. But then computers are just a small part of life and life is small. I just want peace and want to do my work. My primary purpose of PC is learning and productivity (which is again managing and learning), and sometimes a little gaming. I hope governments all around the world would implement stricter privacy laws and provisions for allowing users to have control over their data (Instead of allowing data brokers to collect it and then buying it from them for surveillance and state control over individual liberty), even if Windows OS has to become a subscription. And if the world is going to improve, I hope the days of free data will be over and Windows OS will in spirit become something like Windows 7, free from tracking and bloatware, and truly directed towards providing great and stable user experience to its users, not unlimited hunt for profits.
@user-hv9sg5pl8b the Reasons are not the problem. The Facts are that Linux is undersupported because of the shortcomings of low investment in documentation and user support.
When is the last time you tried Linux? There's improvements all the time, particularly when it comes to things like hardware support. At this point the only games that don't run on Linux are those that require you to rootkit your machine and give the game total control over things at the kernel level, which, frankly is insane and it's utterly baffling to me that Microsoft allows that on Windows. That's a massive security problem that I'm glad Linux doesn't allow, and I don't want to support the game companies trying to push that on their customers.
@fakecubed I'm not referring to hardware support totally, but user usability and control. The commands are even more obtuse than Windows, and the range of tutorials is sparse and badly organised. Hundreds of gotcha s that take ages to resolve, not helped by the ridiculous number of distro,s variations etc It's a nightmare for the non native user.
I switched to Linux Mint LMDE after some distro hopping and happy with it. My PC also has Windows 10 on another drive but it often needs like 5 reboots to get a stable video screen for whatever reason so I may upgrade the Windows to 11 which might solve that issue. I installed Windows 11 on my laptop plus Linux mint and paid around $12 for the W11 license from an online discount store which worked fine. On big pain point I have with Linux is the bad experience of getting some new Blu Tooth keyboard and mouse working which needed a 5.1 dongle where these are notoriously problematical getting to work with Linux. The things worked fine with Windows 11.
TPM is a security-related module, with a hardware-level backdoor that MS wants to exploit. They want to make sure no-one is able to block their forced bloatware installations. TPM will allow them to do just that. I have Windows 10 installed on a secondary boot drive in my main PC. I was able to disable automatic updates before I did anything else with that install. The primary boot drive, and all other PC's, are running various Linux distros. Although I still rely on Windows for a few tasks, I hope to completely drop Win 10 before EOL.
22:30 "would I recommend" As a long time Mint user I just wanna say you'll lose nothing by simply trying out Mint from a USB stick for like 10 minutes and makes sure everything you want works, and then (only then) make a switch (which you can revert later anytime). I recommend everyone exercise their freedom once in a while
@@I-LOG Should be soon. Mint is a fork of Ubuntu, and they base their versions off of Ubuntu's long term support (LTS) versions. The newest Ubuntu LTS should in theory release today, actually. Might be delayed a few days, because the beta was delayed a bit, but I haven't heard anything. Mint will need to take the new Ubuntu LTS, do whatever Mint things they do with Ubuntu LTSes, and then release Mint 22 in 2-3 months probably.
Don't worry about it. I'm old enough to vaguely remember pre-Windows 3.1 DOS and I was STILL blind enough to Windows XP's themability that I refused to upgrade to what I saw as "Fisher-Price OS" for a year or two. (I then later got sufficiently fed up with how my Litestep on Windows XP configuration was flaky and switched to MandrakeLinux 10.0.)
it seemed like you were wondering about how proton works, basically valve just packaged wine, the "general windows combatability layer" you mentioned. together with a program called dxvk, something that effectively just converts microsoft's graphics library to something linux understands, it's basically just wine for graphics merging them, we have proton - which shockingly just works:tm:
As a Windows and Linux user, having the option to delve into a separate ecosystem that isn't locked down by the protocols set in stone by Microsoft is a great thing. Having open source projects that can be tweaked and used in place of Windows native apps is a tedious, yet rewarding task. And the ever evolving windows application layer (wine) is another great addition to those who wish to use linux through the many distros available. It's definitely no cake walk, but Zorin OS does a great job of assisting the user on installing the proper version of wine for anything from the Windows ecosystem. And even then, it's not 100% perfect. But for what it's worth for a beginner, Zorin and Linux Mint are the best options in my opinion for a daily driver. Less bugs than Arch or some Debian distros continuing in the wild. Even though Mint is based on Debian in some instances. The community forums by far for any Linux distro have always seemed to be more helpful on tracking down shared issues and finding resolutions to various problems from audio and video, and even gaming tips and tricks worth testing out. I loved the video and some of the personal experience brought to light in your personal commentary. Keep up the great work, and I hope to see more great content!
Renting operating systems and subscribing to software was never anything I would want to do. I have been using Linux for many years. I have been usimg Linux Mint for 3 years because it seems better than Ubuntu.
As someone who spends a not insignificant amount of time testing out running various games on Linux, Pipewire is a constant thorn in my side. Don't get me wrong, it's better than OSS, and ALSA, and PulseAudio ever were. In fact, I think what makes the problems so annoying is how close to perfection it actually is, if that makes sense. Normally it never acts up, but when pretty much the whole CPU is busy doing something else the cracks really start to show.
I heard microsoft is going to be running a paid subscription service for windows 10 support beyond its end of life date. It will be a bit pricey as the subscription cost will apparently double each year.
Microsoft has been doing ESUs (Extended Security Updates) for quite a while for older versions of Windows that go End Of Life. I think it's mostly designed for businesses that rely on older versions of Windows and won't/can't update (especially with the way it's priced).
Linux Mint is awesome. I've been using it as my main OS since 2017, and Ubuntu since 2009 before that - switched from Vista. You made a great choice. PulseAudio has been stable for me for many years now. I have an HDMI cable going to my home theatre AVR from my Nvidia graphics card and I get 7.1 surround sound without any problems.
I switched to mint when windows 7 went end of life. I use the free version of resolve and found the lack of mp4 support annoying, but I found a handy script to convert mp4 to .mov using Ffmpeg so I can edit them in resolve. Then I render it out and pop it into kdenlive to convert it back to mp4. Just go to the software manager and install Ffmpeg if you haven't already. I made a folder for the script, drop the video to be converted in the folder and run the script. The script makes a new sub folder and the converted video goes in to it. Not sure if a YT comment will allow me to post the line of code in the script, so i will try adding a reply to this comment with the info to make the script.
To make the script, create a text document and paste this into it mkdir transcoded; for i in *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vcodec mjpeg -q:v 2 -acodec pcm_s16be -q:a 0 -f mov "transcoded/${i%.*}.mov"; done save it with the .sh file extension. I called mine encodemp4.sh I made a folder called encode and keep the script in it. I drop in an mp4 and right click an empty space in the folder and click open in terminal. I then drag the script into the terminal window and hit enter. It will start encoding and will show its progress. Once done it will be placed in a sub folder called transcoded. You can also double click the script and click run, but you don't get any feedback on whats happening if you do it that way. This new video it converted should now load properly into resolve. You can drop a batch of videos in and convert them all at once too, so make sure the only mp4 files in the folder are ones you actually want to be converted. So don't forget to remove any old mp4 files before converting more, or they will be converted again :)
Thank you much for sharing that. If I need to ditch open shot in favor of resolved and that's one less possible minor hurdle or headache I'll have to figure out how to get around now. Cheers🙂
Great video. I started with 95 as a kid too and grew up with the newer iterations. But a couple of years back i became disgusted by MS's predatory business practices. Dual-booted Ubuntu with Win 10 so I could keep gaming. Later realized that Ubuntu, being owned by a private company, could easily fall prey to MS's shortcomings. So tried Mint and loved it. A year ago I removed Windows completely and solely use LM to this day. I quit gaming for good and It's helped me with productivity, mental health, physical health etc. Sure you can play many games on Linux but meh. Quitting gaming was a really positive choice for me. I think in time, more and more people will make the same choice, because gaming isn't what it used to be. When that happens, more people will ditch windows
The thing about mint's start menu is that it actually works. It lists your programs and folders and when you search it just works. With windows 10, if it isn't just crashing, it's slow and often not even really able to find the program or file/folder I want unless I type the full name in exactly, instead showing me useless internet search results and random garbage. So yeah I've been using Mint's start menu a whole lot more myself.
I have always been apprehensive of using windows 11 due to privacy, but when they announced recall that ensured I would never use win 11 as a primary operating system. The fact that it demanded I log into a microsoft account during setup and then the fact that turning off copilot does literally nothing pushed me over the edge to just get rid of it and make the complete switch. I didn't hate the interface from what I used of it (while I was downloading mint), but I know that MS will eventually roll out recall to all win 11 computers and probably start telemetry-ing at least the AI generated metadata to themselves. So I'm not touching it.
I like the way your old camera makes your video look. It looks warm like old youtube. As for pulseaudio I am amazed they had not switched to pipewire yet, though I am guessing if they did it too early they would be stuck with a beta for quite some time. Pulseaudio is an old piece of software and has quite a few issues, that's why pipewire exists and specifically pipewire-pulse. To replace it. the next release should be "soon"
kudos to you for switching. I have switched about 20 yrs ago, and back then it was more difficult as there were not enough programs in linux. much has changed ever since. you can still use windows in a virtual machine for the programs that you simply can't find a replacement in linux. but i suggest you disable the network connection for the windows in the virtual machines to keep your data safe from viruses and attacks
Mint is a great starting place! After you get fully comfortable with it, you might want to look into KDE or Cosmic (once it's released) instead of just Cinnamon. Or Gnome if that's your cup of tea. Tiling window managers are yet another area that draws in some people and repels others (and Cosmic will have a native tiling mode). As for other distributions worth eventually looking into, here's a couple solid options: [in a reply, because of YT shadowmoderation]
_Pop_OS_ - a bit like Mint - easy to use and "for the masses". It's by the same people that are developing the Cosmic DE. _Fedora_ - a bit more advanced. Tends to be one of the first to adopt new technologies. _Debian_ - stable, as in "unchanging". Gives you a lot of choice if you know what you're doing (though that applies to most distros really). This is what Ubuntu is based on btw. [1/3]
_OpenSUSE_ - has a bunch of different versions that provide slower or quicker updates. _Arch_ - rolling release, so you constantly get new versions of everything (no OS releases). Also, a do-it-yourself distro where you can pick all the OS components yourself and there are no defaults really. _Alpine_ - kinda like Arch, but more minimalistic and provides both a rolling release and point releases. [2/3]
_Gentoo_ - not only do-it-yourself, but also compile-it-yourself. Even more choice on basically every level. _NixOS, Guix_ - declarative, as in you write how you want your OS to work in a config file and then it happens. _Fedora Atomic, I think also something from OpenSUSE_ - the base OS is immutable and so should 'just work'. If you want to install or change something, you can either overlay it on top of that base or just stick to things like Flatpak that live in your home directory. [3/3]
Like several other people here, I started with MS DOS 1.1 right after it came out. I have used all versions of Windows up through Win 11 and was a very loyal Microsoft customer. Microsoft has forced me away with Win 11. I am done with it for more reasons than I want to mention here. I, too, moved to Linux Mint and am glad I did. I also run several Raspberry Pi's with various versions of Raspberry Pi OS. I get along just fine with Linux Mint, but I do use Wine for a couple of programs that don't have equally capable Linux versions available. That works fine. BTW, I love the hair...don't cut it!!!
I've been using Windows since Windows 1.0, before that I used MS-DOS. Since then, I've used every version of Windows and many different flavors of Linux. I first encountered Linux in 2005 when I worked at one of the local newspapers. One of the guys on my team introduced me to Suse and I've been running an Ubuntu mini-computer constantly to use as a file server and to run a program that keeps my Sleep Number bed inflated for the last couple of years. I don't find a huge difference (beyond the cosmetics) between Windows and Linux and find moving back and forth between the two to be easy enough that I don't have to think about it. Enjoyed your ramblings.
Glad to see a newbie to the linux space! if you want to dip your toes in more after getting a feel of a stable, Debian derivative, I'd recommend EndeavourOS with KDE Plasma
@@-TheRealThing- I'm weird and I use a mix of things, i like kde plasma for multimonitor setups, and i like sway and window managers in general for laptops, i'm looking into dwm atm
Good for you. I would have went with an Arch based distro with Cinnamon such as Manjaro, but Mint is good too. However, there is something I do want to know. Is NTFS support been properly integrated into the kernel? I don't want to reformat my storage drive if I can avoid it.
