About Me & Linux

I thought I share something different with you guys today about the channel and finding work with Linux.
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Distro: Arch Linux
Video editing software: Kdenlive
Twitter: / ermanno_ferrari
Gitlab: gitlab.com/eflinux
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[@ronnierush9379]

Some people are lucky enough to be good teachers and I can honestly say that in my opinion here on KZbin you are one of the best. 🙂

[@callmedrecksack]

I second that opinion.

[@Adrii0x29A]

I'm so glad you picked Linux up, your videos have helped me so much on my journey to better understand Linux and its inner workings and fix all the mistakes I've inevitably made along the way (or that windows has decided to make for me). I really couldn't be more grateful to you. Not only did you help me so much but you also inspired me to go back to Arch from Manjaro and I couldn't be happier, it really is my favorite distribution and it was my first too, which always makes it special. Thank you so much for your effort and dedication to the channel, it's really been wonderful discovering it.

[@dwebman11]

I viewed your video on using BackInTime software and was very impressed with your teaching ability. Years ago I successfully set up a PC with FreeBSD but felt my success was more good luck than good management! For the past 5 years I've been running Ubuntu and just recently loaded Trisquel 9.0 on another older laptop. However, again I don't feel that I am using Linux as it should be used, more like a lightweight Windows 7 type of experience. I try to use the terminal to rekindle the excitement I felt back in the late '70s when I bought my first Commodore 64 using the command line to accomplish ,what seemed at the time, magic. I'm now 75 years old and it's do or die time, so I will embark on this journey of learning Linux with you as my guide. Winter will be here in northern Canada before you know it and this seems like a worthwhile project to pass those long days. Thank you for this channel.

[@isaacvicente]

Someone from the brazilian Arch Linux community told me about your channel and for me, it is, by far, one of the best that I've seen. Well, I'm still a beginner on Linux but I really think that Arch Linux is worth it, especially for me, a future CS student. Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷

[@SKWDiesel1]

Even though I have used GNU/Linux for 23 years your channel has given me insight in Arch customisation and configuration that I might not have otherwise found. Thank you and please keep up the good work.

[@dmiracle74]

I've really enjoyed your videos and have learned from them. That is even after decades of Linux use. I am 48 so I can relate to you on that. You are never to old to learn.

[@pranavraval194]

Ermano,,, You served motivation needed for me to shutdown Windows and start using ArchLinux as my primary desktop. It’s been 8 months since I switched recovered from 3 crash using BTRFS snapshot. I even challenged my manager, coworker and friends to switch to Arch Linux and suggested your video as 1st step towards this. You keep video free from sale pitch and personal opinion and share what you know with humble heart and I appreciate that wholeheartedly.

[@Appalling68]

Thank you for sharing your insights, Ermanno. I think I’ve learned more about Arch from you than all other sources combined, even the WiKi. You rock, sir!

[@SebastianHonsa]

You've helped me couple of times when I started with Arch. Thank you for your videos, Ermanno!

[@abdelbolanos]

I just wanted to mention that, when I decided to install Arch, I was not sure how to start and looked for KZbin videos. At that time, the third to come up was one of your videos and it was that the video that gave me confidence of continue and install Arch with all the perks. I still follow your approach of having bash files with the commands to install specific desktop environment and for reset Arch installation (That for me was one of the best videos). Thank you so much for your work. Keep it up!!!!

[@erwinvos9846]

Thanks for sharing your personal journey in Arch/Linux. I really appreciate it.

[@keikogaming]

You are the Swiss Gentleman of the Linux community, an amazing person and content creator! :)

[@kantoscad3583]

I love arch for the same reason. I've been using ubuntu based distros for around 10 years and never found the motivation to dig deeper into the linux world. Then a month with manjaro did the trick and it immediately convinced me to try arch. After a whole day of trying I managed to install it for my first time... and two days later I also broke it. But damn if I didn't find it entertaining and educational! For a few months I kept reinstalling and breaking arch every few weeks while trying different options, learning some of the linux basics and to actually pay attention to the damn manual. Needless to say, your channel helped me a lot during my first days as an archer and your "last" arch linux installation (I think it was the one from May 6th 2020) was my reference back then. Now I still watch your Arch installations whenever there are interesting upgrades, like the last one with the updated archinstall script, and your channel is still the first one where I search linux-related stuff that picks my interest, for example recently I was curious about RHCSA and Fedora Silverblue and of course I found out you talked about both! Thanks a lot, Ermanno.

[@lucaswang8457]

You are my role model. Keep hard working, keep learning at this age. Really impressive.

[@techfan7808]

How can I like the video 50 more times. Love that you've shared your experience.

[@omargl81]

Thanks for sharing your passion!! You inspire so many people, thanks for helping us understand linux! Congratulations on your new apartment!!!!

[@DocLow]

Thanks for making your videos! You're the reason I was able to install Arch and why I've been learning about linux!

[@krisbrightspirals]

Very cool getting to hear a bit of your story. Your videos have brought me more help on Linux than any other channel! I would love to see a video going over your recommendations for how to pass the Linux certification as that is my next goal!

[@ulfsjodin7872]

I just wanted to say hello. It was a while ago I watched your videos now. I learned a lot when I did. As some of Arch Linux users do, I also did. I tried OpenBSD and found that OS very interesting. That's why I haven't been here for a while. But I glad to see there are a lot of new videos to watch. Greetings from a curious guy from Sweden.

[@taidee]

Oh man, you're an overachiever 🤣, you are good on this for someone relatively new to this. You have become the great master fast Master Ermanno, keep creating these wikis.

[@trapspringer9891]

Thank you, Ermmano, for this wonderful video. It is great to have a better grasp of your mental processes.

[@gerds.9956]

Hello Ermanno, thank you for the interesting Video. I wish you all the best for your job and keep up the good work. Through you I learned to install Arch Linux properly and could deepen my Linux knowledge. Your channel is one of the best in the field for me. No blah blah or the like but factually presented instructional videos. This is great work that you provide for us. Thank you for it! Greetings from northern Germany (Glinde near Hamburg) Gerd

[@eflinux]

Herzlichen Dank Gerd!

[@gerds.9956]

@@eflinux Sehr gern geschehen, Ermanno. Ich wusste gar nicht das Du deutsch sprichst. Nochmals danke für Deine super gute Arbeit 👍🏻👍🏻

[@nielsroetert]

Love this video, a little background on your Linux career and background. Although I had installed Arch a couple of times prior to discovering your channel, it's great to see you cover some more advanced setups with filesystems like BTRFS and encryption and so on. Big fan of the channel and your videos.

[@eflinux]

Thanks Niels 😊

[@AnilKumaryashrajsen]

I too started loving arch Linux and it's installation along with multiple window managers. I had done multiple installations of arch Linux on my PCs and learnt a lot from almost all of your videos. I would recommend your channel for any new person who is willing to learn Linux. Thank you for all of your work.

[@mattiacardone4501]

Ermanno, ho visto tantissimi tuoi video ma questa è la prima volta che commento. Davvero tanti complimenti! I tuoi contenuti sono chiari molto e interessanti. Questo video anche se non tecnico io l'ho apprezzato tantissimo, per chi come me ti segue e attende i tuoi video è stato un modo per conoscere un po' meglio questo magnifico insegnante!! Continua così!!!

[@NoNameFoundTV]

Ermanno, carissimo, mi sono fatto una risatina al "i don't know everything about Arch": magari sara' vero, ma e' impossibile non sorridere. Un abbraccio grande

[@CGA111]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us, and keep on doing what you're doing. Your channel is one of the very few Linux channels I subscribe to.

[@clumsypanda1039]

i learn arch alot from you Ermanno, thank you so much.

[@shahramaghaei6755]

Your content is superb! I have learned a lot from you.

[@thedanmethenyshow.6004]

Great insight. I am thinking about how to go about similar things right now since I love GNU/Linux and the BSDs and I've been thinking about LFS and Gentoo. Using it it and how it all works. I would love job interview videos for sure. Cool video!

[@morenteria2988]

It's very true with me. You Ermanno help me install Arch for the first time. Thank you Ermanno.

[@shaddow1dog]

I enjoyed this episode and what you say is so true. I started with Linux way back in 1992 writing scripts and in 1998 was using Linux full `time with everybody telling me I was crazy. Like you said I was fascinated loved what I did and still after so many years still doing it yes with Arch. Did you know that back in 1992 the Linux kernel was only 11 pages long and the Master himself was still going to university the story I could tell about Linux.

[@josefpre]

Since i distro hop i always come back to arch usually. i always follow your guides to install arch each and everytime. Thanks for everything

[@thiagolopes4978]

I am using Arch, Ermanno. Two years ago I was using Linux Mint, so thank you for this channel. Your content is really great! Greetings from Petrópolis, RJ, 🇧🇷.

[@stephen6409]

i enjoy your channel it helps me alot to learn more about arch and tiling window managers

[@amarmisra9582]

Thanks Ermanno, to know about you and your passion towards Linux. I swear I was very scared of Arch Linux, but after following you, I have installed it and learning alot. Boldened by this last week I have installed Gentoo and experiencing it's nuts and bolts, certainly a very time consuming as it is compiling everything in your computer...Any way thanks again and good wishes for your new apartment.

[@3d_neofit]

You are a very positive person. I'm really looking forward to the next stream. Thank you for sharing your love for linux and for your videos. Good luck to you in everything.

[@lucacavedale676]

amazing Ermanno, you are a good man and a motivator for youthness :) keep it up!

[@guinuxbr]

Thanks for your hard work, really good content. I like the idea of videos about certification tips, but Arch Linux + Btrfs + Snapshots + Encryption + Secure Boot would be awesome.

[@sahaskamble4467]

Thanks you for sharing your experience with us about certification. when ever it comes to linux I only trust your channel you taught me a lot about linux and coz of you my interest came back on linux

[@MartinErman]

The monthly installs has been awesome, I've learned so much thanks to them.

[@act.13.41]

Moving is a real pain. Let's all hope you get through it as painless as possible. We will be waiting for you when you get back on.

[@jas0x139]

Almost a year and a half ago I switched to Linux. I saw one of your Arch install videos and went for it. Though I broke my first install a couple days later, I went for round two using the notes I wrote from your video and I'm still using that same install. The struggles have taught me that struggling is progressing and I shouldn't be afraid of learning difficult things.. I now have my own Arch install script that I wrote, plus a few system tools I built after I learned python. I'm thinking my next project will be a system configuration tool using Ncurses and C. It will manipulate my dotfiles so I can quickly make changes on the fly to my system. So thank you a ton for sharing your knowledge!

[@shutdowncnn6086]

Ermanno excellent videos. I am also a big Archlinux fan. Gentoo (source code install OpenRC) is another favorite of mine. Gentoo is easy compared to LFS. Also done a several installs of Linux From Scratch (LFS), one System V and other Systemd. If your into pain and deep research of editing code LFS will keep you busy for weeks if you plan on both a Base and GUI install. LFS is a true bottoms up install of Linux. :) Look forward to seeing your quality videos again.

[@jamestarrant8876]

My first experience with Linux was Red Hat 4.2. I enjoy Arch for the same reasons. I believe you are a wonderful human being for sharing knowledge as you do. Peace.

[@derekr54]

Thanks for the channel as it is very informative and you are a very good tutor in Linux and good luck in your move and future.

[@act.13.41]

I spent 2 decades working as a systems analyst for a large casino corporation. My number 1 piece of advice is this. If you don't know the answer, don't be afraid to say "I don't know. Let's figure it out before we do anything that might break something." No one is expected to just know everything. You don't have to know it all. You just have to know how and where to find the answers.

[@act.13.41]

Number 2 piece of advice. Treat everyone nice. The newest noob, could end up being your boss someday.

[@M.4y]

Hi, 7:38: your arch install videos are entertainment for me! I'd love to see more about the post install for productive environments. You already have one "Arch Linux Post Install: Productivity" but I'd like to see an updated version. Did & how much did your choices change? etc. And well, thanks for your content! You brought me to Arch Linux and I am really happy under Arch. My interest is even much bigger now and I will have a FiSi Ausbildung with a big Linux context (in the company). Thanks! Greetings from Lower Saxony, Germany!

[@SunsetNova]

Fascinating video keep them coming

[@sc0or]

I will not be an original but I’d like to let you know that I installed Arch with using one of your videos, Sir. And I’m on the same distro for already two years afair, which is unique for me ;) You master videos in a way they are short, fully covering all aspects, reproducible, free of issues. This is great. Thank you, Sir, and good luck!

[@ironmanlifts]

Hey Ermanno, hello thanks for the videos. Soon looking forward to move to arch, btrfs, systemd, and luks. That's the dream lol.I have bookmarked some of your videos. Hope all goes well with the moving.

[@eflinux]

Thanks Ritchie, you mean this one? kzbin.info/www/bejne/fnq7n4dnbJ2Hnas

[@jonathanhoyos8191]

I really enjoyed this video. Cause I wanted to know a little bit more about you. As with time you've became smeone I trust

[@myfavouritecolorisgreen]

thanks a lot for your efforts and goodluck for your career ahead :) i aspire to be in the tech industry too even though my degree is not in computer science. have a great day! edit: yess! more videos on the certifications and getting jobs would be great

[@alexanderspeshilov839]

You're amazing man, really!

[@MichaelAMalone]

Thank you for sharing...

[@NOPerative]

Congrats!

[@perserpro3232]

Tatsächlich Ich hätte mein erste arch install dank Ihre videos Sir ! Sie machen sehr gute content , ich bin dankbar das ihre chanel gefunden habe, und toi toi toi beim neue Job Sir.

[@peppe540]

Great story Ermanno, thanks for your insights and continuing efforts to learn us all some more (basically about anything). Do you miss your music (as a profession?). Anyway, good moving and see you soon again!

[@eflinux]

I don't really miss playing, but I love hearing music more than ever 😊

[@M.4y]

@@eflinux A personal question but what are you listening too?

[@eflinux]

Mostly classical, but I like pop, rock, jazz, and country as well.

[@cybersechs1368]

Hey man! Miss your videos!!

[@_Zabamund_]

Definitely interested in tips about Linux sysadmin job searching/qualifications/novice-experience in CH. Grazie per il video!

[@seanpaul7069]

Good video Sir. Didn’t know you were a musician previously. You’re correct that if you put time and energy you can achieve anything. I do have a suggestion about your Arch installation and BTRFS subvol setup. Can I email you if you provide me one?

[@vanhertzisat2416]

:) hi, finally you come again, I always see your videos, well-done edited and always I can learn something, I use archlinux like 5 years sjsjsjsjs thanks for always stay here, docs are good yea...but see you explain it it's better than docs :v, sorry if I miss write .....Im from chile, main language is Spanish....jssjsjsjs 🎉🎉🎉🎉 Windows back to you 😱😱 not to cold for winter?

[@nakedeye44]

good luck.

[@rahilarious]

you should definitely make content on Linux career, as all this desktop ricing and makes u look cool, career makes coins.

[@johnsmith1966]

Thank you for all of the videos that you have made. While I enjoy your normal videos, this "informal" one was good. If you do another, I would appreciate if you talked more about your experiences with getting the Red Hat certification. For example: what you did to prepare for the exam and what the exam was like. In your next Arch installation video, could you show how to get SELinux working? Every time I try, SELinux never works like it does in Fedora for example. Thanks again!

[@callmedrecksack]

Thanks for sharing this informations with us. I was indeed very happy to manage an arch installation because of your Videos. Sadly the new installer makes it way too easy to do this so for me it becomes less of a challenge. Actually i am still looking for my fav Linux distribution so i might ask you a question here: Would you do an blackarch installation too to share with us ? That is one distribution i want to look closer onto. However, i hope your movement will go well and we will see new videos from you soon again.

[@BrandonJohnson-yk7tb]

Congratulations on the job maybe in the future give tutorials on my SQL on arch Linux and hosting database and remote connection and updating and alike. Just an ideal really please give this some thought because the uses and possiblies with this are endless

[@sakuragi_hanamichi3263]

I like you and that you like good for other people! What was your old job? and yes I am interested on a video about certifications and jobs!

[@ahmedmorgan348]

I think that you hacked my brain and out what I think. when you talked about yourself and Archlinux, I feel we are share the same.

[@keltyll]

So great, thanks for this very timely video. I'm 43 years and am heavily considering having a job with Linux here in Poland. What are your thoughts over LPIC-1, LPIC-2 and LPIC-3 certifications ?

[@maddancing]

Dear Mr. Ferrari, what are your thoughts on the F2FS filesystem? I have seen that you have covered the btfs filesystem in the past quite extensively, would that be possible for F2FS as well? Thank you for this channel and your hard work!

[@abirahammedbhuiyan2781]

Maybe you should make a video on your linux certification what you have learnt there and what new tricks or your mistakes etc. Just an overview I meant.

[@gamefreak6126]

I have a question! Could you do a video about how to migrate the home partition? For example you’ve added a second drive and want to move to home partition to the new drive and extend the root partition. Or in general an installation with 2 separate drives! Would be awesome!

[@Thomas_Grusz]

👍 LG aus Muttenz

[@eflinux]

Da sind sind wir sehr nah 😁

[@norberttomczyk3558]

How can i jump on linux distro if i dont have all drivers for my hardware ?!

[@endeavour6321]

I wanna learn Arch linux becaus i also love it and i want to learn it from you.

[@jakebush7809]

Am going to make a very long comment as brief as possible. I am going through the Essentials of Linux Administration online training. However, I am not a learner by reading or by just reading and doing. I do much better watching and listening and then getting my hands dirty. Any chance you could do some videos on that? Thanks!

[@idjdbrvvskambvvv9007]

god i'm starting to miss him

[@CoolRahulize]

Hi Ermanno, I really love your work. However I hv come across a major problem with Arch Linux, to be honest, I found out various other blogs and arch wiki, without any major help. The issue seems to be happening more on AMD MOBO DESKTOPS. It would be great, if you can shed some light on this and help us out, because a lot of people are facing this issue on linux machines, especially vanilla arch. The issue is I have 32 GB OF RAM installed on my machine, however Arch shows only 14 GB of RAM. This has bugged me for quite a while now. I don't even know if this is a normal behavior of Arch Linux or not, that too, I don't know.

[@v8metal]

you rule ! I love your vids ! where can we listen to your music ? :D

[@eflinux]

I still have a recording on Spotify and Apple Music ☺️

[@JM-sn5eb]

It's not a passion. It's an addiction 🤣🤣🤣

[@eflinux]

Very true!

[@arkvsi8142]

Let's put the NT kernel.... Then GNU/NT shall be born

[@quandao8208]

Fun fact: Most Linux Users on KZbin often claim "you can build the machine yourself blah blah blah" then they choose Gentoo to show audience how hard core they are but here is the catch: 99% of the time, these self-called Linux users install Gentoo on virtual machine that already has Internet via Ethernet. It means they want to choose the easy way, not the hard way, not the building from scratch like they usually be proud of. #braggers !!! Real Linux users are those who actually wake their network interface up, calling manufacture name with code and get it connects to WIFI, explains to people what stage the Wireless card is ---> this is only found in *Unix / BSD community years ago, these true hard core users don't depend or rely on available Internet (via Ethernet) and knows what devices they use, not by the look of the out side of their machines. They dig into their command lines.