Linux is full of trashy aplpha software, it doenst have all vendor support, trashy sound integration, if your hardware is not supported or has driver issues, things turn absolutely bad. Nobody cares for privacy -> take a look around how many ppl use smartphones, smarthomes, smartcars... There is no point in selling Linux to other ppl. Use it if you like. I do.

That buff Tux in the thumbnail (proper name GigaTux). The artist is Seedenco, he's on twitch but I found him on funnyjunk like the lv.10 autist that I am. I convinced him to draw it on stream and then proceeded to meme it out. I'm so happy it's taken off, If you get a chance give me guy a watch sometime.

Today I removed Windows 11 from my laptop and moved to mint

microsoft had NO reason to discontinue their best operating system

Sadly if you use your pc primarily for games, you just cant just switch to linux, even when considering prothom a lot of games just dont work, but iam planning on making the switch in my laptop

When I made the move away from Windozs I tried a few distros and settled on Mint. I have been useing Mint for around 10 years now and I agree it is very good as well as easy to use. This is very good advise and yes printers have been my biggest problem (Brother is pretty good). I have been told that companies are prevented (by MS) from supporting Linux but they do work. Installing the OS is sooo much easier (and faster) too.

bruh idid the same shit for my phone after looking at the screentime

Yes it does. For me at least since Linus killed support for older 340.x Nvidia drivers in new kernels. Damn, even new Windows supports these drivers. I was told that Linux is great for my older 2010 notebook. There is some workaround, I know, but didn't work. I guess Linus had good reason to do this but it still piss me off :/

I've been using Linux for the last 20 years, and for the last 5+ it has been my main OS, but to be honest the user experience had stayed in a sort of limbo for the last ten years. So many different package managers and tools (Flatpak, Snap, APPImage, AUR, DEB, RPM, ...) that come with pros and cons, never-ending Wayland migration that is kinda productive but also may not be. I had given up giving money to NVIDIA, and use only AMD/Intel hardware for GPU cards because of driver issues. The fact that you can buy a Win11 key for cheap and install it on a relatively modern low-end desktop really is not going in Linux's favor. Trying to fix specific software problems that you might have on your distro can be a mayor headache and time-sink.

A downside with Linux is, if you have a Dell computer, let say. Firmware notifications are only available within a Windows installation.

Some of these atoms are in-order execution so they are immune to speculative execution hacks. On top of that, they don't have intel ME.

Remember when a full os could run on 16mb of ram?

Get a 11" HP Stream for writing. Long battery life, comfortable keyboard, very portable.

If they people want Linux they will just buy Chromebooks and install Flatpak apps.

omg.. you use librewolf as well?? subscribe

Been thinking about getting a machine like this for my writing. Can you also link the atomic shrimp video that inspired this?

Can it hack?

Why the f*** am I dual booting Fedora and Mint

I tried Linux and went back to Windows. The reason Grub sucked and it wouldn't boot after adding a new hard drive. Windows didn't care.

Windoze sux Linux Mint Mate🙌

At least Debian supports these legacy platforms too.

linux lore

Nice resolution tho. -- I also still have my netbook lying around. Thought about using it as a server, but by that time I already had several old thinkpads that can do that as well, haha

I thought Boris was another hypervisor compared to something like KVM or Xen. Bamboozled 😢

This reminds me of the netbook I wrote all my essays on during highschool, the glorious Asus Eee PC 901. Ironically, it also has a broken keyboard now (dunno what happened to it), so this gave me the idea to maybe use it as a sort of mini server for my writings. Great video! I love when people reuse old tech that can still *do* something. It is sad how much technology has gotten about being flashy and good-looking, rather than being used for actual work.

I run octoprint on mine, really useful actually

But can it run Crysis?

2GB ram is bloat

Every computer I've bought was either a pre-built or a Raspberry Pi. First thing I've done with every pre-built is install Linux. Possibly a non sequitur, but I really hate UEFI.

you should know it's not worth it

Note: Google isn't selling Chromebooks at all, really. Google sells advertising. Chromebooks (as well as any and everything running Android) exist to provide a platform for Google to show ads on. This is also why they created Chromium, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars making it so pervasive: Firefox is not under their control, and Firefox allows ad blockers. Chromium (and any of its derivatives) do not and will not ever allow any form of ad blocking. And that is the ONLY thing Google was trying to achieve, both with their OS, and their browser backend. It's entirely about selling advertising, by controlling what users are allowed to do with their computers.

I have two and under two parenting is going to be a challenge I;ve realized how much I'm on my phone thanks to my kids and am getting us all outside etc more as a result

I thought this is common knowledge. The success of Windows is only due to MS aggressively showing it down everyone's throat. They made exclusive deals with OEMs so they couldn't offer any other OS. They also used their EEE strategy to destroy other products. GNU/Linux was initially spared because Bill didn't treat it as serious competition, Steve Ballmer later acknowledged it as a competitor. They're highly unethical company, unfortunately people are too ignorant and get locked into vendors through whole history of civilization perhaps. Te WSL you mentioned was actually an attempt to used the EEE strategy on Linux by integrating a VM with ubunut (thanks Canonical, another shady company).

Don't 😂 stay with windows

Too many distros. Bad printer support. Need to focus on one consumer oriented distro. and drivers.

RK3399 is unfortunately too weak to be usable for most modern day tasks. They should really make another revision with upgraded board with more powerful SoC and at least 8 GB of RAM. I don’t get why they already didn’t as they are selling SBC with more powerful SoC that would handle modern desktop much better than old RK3399.

I used linux not because I liked it better than windows. I liked it because it was open source, protected by the GPL and that I did not have to install any drivers for it !! That was 24 years ago although wifi cards are still crappy but dkms takes care of that.

the question posed in the beginning of the video is already flawed. you want to know why Linux is not popular but then arbitrarily decide you want to focus on preinstalls and basically assume that that is the cause. it's not preinstalls. it has already been done. do you remember the news story about the girl that wanted to drop out of college after ordering a Dell laptop with Ubuntu preinstalled? it's a usability problem which is the reason why it's not preinstalled. you can't look at preinstalls in isolation. i wish people would stop bringing up the old excuse of preinstalls

I wonder if Linux has a problem at all? Why should (GNU)Linux be promoted to anyone in any way - it is no product. Linux offers a choice. But this doesn´t mean it offers a one on one alternative for proprietary software - only for free. It offers the possibility to take back your system and data into your own hands. But since nothing comes for free, you have to invest something else than money or your data: it´s your time and maybe a little of your passion. Linux is super right as it is. Just like veg from your own garden. You have to do by yourself and maybe ask a community for some help. And I do like to help people around me (locally). I think this is essential for the success of Linux. Googles name was big enough to make people try out Chromebooks. That is why they would not buy a Linux laptop, even if there was a budget hardware option.

a bunch of meaningless drivel from someone who doesn't know shit

The problem with Linux is that it thinks it will be run on a VT52 terminal.

1:50 i just like edge its decent

mental outlaw trying not to be a right wing nightjob impossible

> channel name is GNULectures > keeps calling the system "Linux", even after explaining the difference 😢

Linux should not be free. no funds for OS development are sole reason for faulty Linux distros.

my printer just decided to add itself on Ubuntu