Switching to Linux? At the 45 Drives Creators Summit, Jay gave a presentation that goes over the five stages of switching to Linux, …
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Sorry but trying every disto and rejecting the distros you don't like, is not an "easy tip"
ROFL! The Intel WiFi card, that was the first thing I did with older Dell Latitudes, if they didn't come with it already. There are also WiFi dongles available that work just fine, but check the specifications before purchase! Many work just fine, some you have to do that compile thing again, which is never good, and then there are some that there just isn't a Linux driver available. I have usually had good luck with the Edimax brand WiFi dongles.
Just wanted to say I love all of your videos and thanks for being such a great resource. I am a long time casual off and on user of Linux until about 2 years ago when I had to give up the ghost with Windows 7. I have been on Linux Mint and it has treated me very well. It is so much easier than 20 years ago when I was using it in a business environment along with Solaris.
I reminded myself to post a comment as I saw a great custom license plate today, which was "AWK NERD".. This inspires me to perhaps try and get one that is either "GREP GEEK" or "SED STUD" if those are not taken… 🙂
What program did you use to build the presentation? LibreOffice? (EDIT: Said it later in the video)
What presenter are you using there?
Just curious….i held a presentation recently and decided to give OnlyOffice a try. Aaand…I found a few issues while presenting my slides… 😅 Aiming to write post an issue to their GitHub once I’m able to replicate 😇
btw. Thanks to Your channel I made the switch to PopOS 2 years ago, which was a great decision.
Keep up the great work! 🤗
For anyone still on the fence about switching to Linux….
I made the full jump in 2003 / '04, when I lost an entire album of my baby son's pictures, I SWORE I'd never use Windows again, and went on the hunt. Call it a mistake or chance, but when I went to a friend's house to look up alternatives to Windows? (because I had a BSOD and WASN'T re-installing Windows XP!) I THOUGHT I had cl9icked on a link for Apple…(talk about a close call? had I done so?..I'd be ranting right now about how nothing beats Macs!…hahah) instead I must have hit the down arrow or something with my thumb first and when I clicked I landed on a page with an article stating that this person was the "Leader Of The Free World"…I'm thinking to myself?…"the US president?….or were they talking about a movie star?….maybe a millionaire in the public eye?? but they were talking about Linus Torvalds…I read that article (It might have been Time?..or Wired?..or maybe even Networking World..can't rem,ember) but it got me going down the rabbit hole…until about 3 months later I took my first step into the Open Source world by installing Fedora Core 2….and from that day?….even with the few "pot holes" that existed in the way…(Dependency Hell….Audio Video Driver Hell….Graphics Issue) I stayed with it, and now I can honestly say?…DO IT….yes..you can keep your windows…on a laptop…that will eventually collect dust over time…(until you decide to wipe Windows from it and install another Linux distribution that you like!) or you can just leave it around for the times when you just HAVE to do something in the world of Microsoft that either can't be done in the world of Linux or else it would be too time consuming or resource intense.
But make the move….Windows 12 is eventually coming and you don't want to get caught in yet another "Patch Tuesday Nightmare" where the fix won't be forthcoming for the next EIGHT MONTHS!…LOL! Also?…with the number of security breaches that are happening in companies across the globe, you want to run an Operating System that's just a little bit harder fomr a hacker to corrupt or infiltrate. No….Linux is not a "Silver Bullet" that's impervious to hacking and viruses…
BUT…..Because Linux is an ever-evolving beast?…it makes it a harder target. Sure…the Linux SERVERS that exist out there might be a bit more "uniform"?…in that they run pretty much the same packages and software for security?…but a HOME user?..who knows their way around a Linux system…is a harder nut to crack:
(Are they using ClamAV?…with or without the TK?, what about chrootkit?…and do they have their UFW configured correctly?) plus there is the "DE" to consider…while we've all grown accustomed to Windows and Apple's formats when it comes to how a desktop should look, suppose you were offered different "takes" on those?….suppose you could take that bar at the bottom of the MacOS and not only MOVE it…but change it's color….its dimensions…its transparency?….what about if you could change the very icons themselves?..or maybe you prefer Windows….suppose you could change the very behavior of the open windows…the icons..the shade of the taskbar?…
With Linux a large portion of that is possible..and there's even more….but I won't spoil it for y'all…for those who have never "partook"?…go get you an 8GB USB flash drive….head to "htps://http://www.DistroWatch.com" and check out the vast number of Linux distributions that are in existence. There are feature packed distros….like Ubuntu Studio or AV Linux…there are modern yet utilitarian distros like Linux Mint, Like Ubuntu MATE….there are very light distros…..like Xubuntu…or Puppy Linux. Go "shopping" and :Learn Linux"!…..
This reminds me when I was asking a question about a confusing phrasing on the Arch Linux Wiki page for LUKS, so I asked on r/archlinux for help, explaining that I read the manual and was asking for clarification. The replies? Direct link to the manual page I already read and was asking for clarification on, followed by a "why would anyone want to do that", followed by "that's stupid, I do X". So, anyways, I don't use Arch anymore. lol
I think it's good that you're advising against recklessly migrating, because I've had unpleasant experiences noticing after an OS installation that network drivers were missing. This happened with both Linux and Windows.
Hi Jay, new subscriber here. Found your channel recently being a fairly new Linux user (skirted in and around it for many years but now want to get more hands on). You mentioned you weren't a presentation guy, but that was great and I'd respectfully disagree 😉 Seeing how software in general (but specifically OS's) have become more and more intrusive, I'm just not comfortable using the big players now.
Unfortunately, I'm locked into Windows for a couple of apps but aside from that I'm kinda done with MS. The only thing I need to figure out is whether a dual boot approach is better than going for a seperate drive entirely approach as it seems like Windows has a nasty habit of screwing around with dual boot setups. I'm not sure if using the seperate drive approach comes with it's own problems regarding any bios issues either (legacy bios not UEFI)..anyways, thanks for uploading this 👍
Thank you Jay for your excellent content and videos. You are providing the excellent marketing for Linux. Please keep up the great work. The only issues that I have every had with my Linux experience is with Bluetooth. Specifically, my Bose Mini II, but it has been fixed with the most recent kernel updates. But in general, Bluetooth dongles and keyboards with older distributions. It appears good now.
The lack of Turbo Tax for Linux is one of my biggest issues and what keeps me kind of tethered to using Windows.
That, and our company still uses Windows apps.
I do like the KVM and I do run vmware on LM with a windows VM. Doom, DOS version, works fine for me as well as Duke Nukem 3D.
Thanks and take care.
1. Delete windows.
2. Install linux.
3. Use linux.
4. ???
5. Profit.
I am still hoping for Microsoft to produce Office for Linux. Then I think I will migrate to Linux, fully. I am aware that there are several alternatives e.g. LibreOffice etc., but working with colleagues that using Microsoft Office makes it difficult sometimes. I also know that there are methods like using Wine etc., but AFAIK, not the latest Office can be used (2013 IINM). My company uses Office 365. If we can use Office 365 in Linux, I will be happily to move. The web version of Office 365 is not my target since many features are not there.
Really, finding equivalents for your apps is the very FIRST thing to do,
Doesn't a DUAL BOOT arrangement mean that each OS has the ENTIRE COMPUTER to itself while it is loaded and active?
Are you suggesting that Linux or Windows can modify certain MICRO CODE that the other OS would need to run properly?
16 years ago I was looking for an alternative to Windows and discovered Ubuntu and it was the bees knees. I loved Linux so much that I pushed through every hurdle I had and replaced my printer, threw away my flat bed scanner, gave away all of my game CDs/DVDs, I was determined to make it work and it was the best decision I ever made. Perservere and stay determined and be willing to make major changes to hardware selection and be willing to use software alternatives. It hurts a little in the short term but is awesome in the long term.
I definitely didn't follow some of those steps when I switched to Linux a month ago. I was soo tired of Microsoft and Windows that I loaded up 4 usbs with installers and just installed without testing. I did at least spend like two weeks before hand researching to know my personal bias towards being an AMD fanboy greatly benefitted my transition at least. I did start off with Fedora Workstation Gnome but was operating too slow especially for a fresh install with nothing left over. Not sure if it was due to me selecting all of storage units to partition during the install since I have 1 m.2., 1 SSD, and 1 HDD or if I was just unlucky. But then I replaced Fedora with a fresh install of Nobara KDE and had no installs of slow operations. Month later still running good. Though I am keeping an eye on Cosmic Desktop and wonder if it would be hard for me to replace KDE with Cosmic when it comes out or if I should consider a distro hop to Debian
Here my tips:
1. Start using the same programs on Windows as which run natively on Linux: LibreOffice, gimp, Krita, KDEnlive/Openshot, vim/VSCode/VSCodium etcetera. That way switching to another operating system is much less impactful and much easier.
2. Don't focus on the many kitchensinkdistros, focus on the rootdistros, for beginning Linux users those are Debian, Arch, Fedora and OpenSUSE. Pick one of these four, don't overthink it. If you need newer software then you pick Arch, OpenSUSE rolling (Gecko) or Fedora. If you don't need or want newer software then you pick Debian.
3. Pick the desktop-environment which you prefer. If you come from Windows then you pick KDE (W7/W10-like), Cinnamon (W7-like) or Xfce (WXP-like). If you want it even better, explore a good tiling window manager in which case I highly recommend dwm, but this will require some effort from the user to patch and configure it and that can be done later.
4. Now combine points 2 and 3 and pick a distro which has the required root distro and desktopenvironment and install that.
5. If you want to try out another desktop-environment then don't reinstall another Linux-distro, just install that desktop-environment and switch to that one. Easy.
6. If you like to play videogames, learn how to make mesa the default driver and how to overrule it with amdvlk in case that is required (very few games, among other the last 2 Tomb Raider games).
7. Learn to use the terminal! It is not required and you can get by perfectly fine with only GUI-tools. But you will become more efficient and enjoy using your system more by learning how to use the terminal. It is just a userinterface like a GUI, but with much more flexibility and faster.
Hi. Watching your talk at the 45 Drives event many days later,like it a lot. I am a subscriber to your channel since many years,you have the absolute best Linux channel out there at YouTube! Now..i have been using Linux since 1998 (on Desktop and on my servers) after beeing frustared not to be able to customice Win 2000. After litte search i found Debian net-install and i was totally sold! Ever sicne i been using Linux (all the iterations of Ubuntu for example, and a slight detour in trying FreeBSD on desktop…). Anyway, i am still using Linux on Desktop and servers after all these years (Endeavour OS and Linux Mint) . Just want to thank you for awesome content on your channel!
So thats how you say your name, Jay … hmmm … 😛
So this is timely… Today we have to hand a Linux VM to a team that uses 100% Windows servers. We have a call with them to do a walk-through, and my team mates are thinking how are we going to make them proficient enough in a couple hours. I do believe this video could help! Watching now ..