Linux advantages

[@AverageLinuxUser]

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[@steveschnetzler5471]

My linux record is 2 years without a reboot. I have been building network appliances for 25 years now on top of linux, it is great for that also. RaspberryPi's make great mini web servers, and imbedded robot controllers. Great Sw/hw support. Love them.

[@davidyoder5890]

I'm about 80 days away from 3yrs of uptime on one of my systems. It's a network edge gateway currently in production. Definitely rock solid for specific applications. As for desktop use, I feel like GNU/Linux is a giant mess that I don't have time to fight with as a daily driver.

[@alishbista1748]

I am using Set up Box with S905x arm architecture and been using it as dns and reverse proxy for months without reboots 😂

[@markusbuchholz3518]

Your channel is remarkable. Consistent and perfectly done. You are a brilliant person. From my humble point of view, Linux is not only OS, it is the way of lifestyle, attitude to software development, and respect for others. I use Linux for C++, and Python programming in the robotics domain. Linux provides a seamless way to make everything possible without the effort spend doing workaround jobs. Installation dependencies, libraries, building processes, debugging, and other related software and other great domains are straightforward and possible. Linux was created for developers by developers. Most of the research and science is performed on Linux-based machines. Thank you and good luck. cross my finger for your goals.

[@puspamadak]

I am now a full time Linux user after staying on Windows for the past 10 years. I am now in college and do freelancing, had far less problems with Linux than on Windows. People those who say Linux is hard to use, doesn't know about Ubuntu or other beginner friendly distros.

[@kolz4ever1980]

Yeah definitely. There are very user newbie frinedly distros. Linux mint and ubuntu are top tier for that for the move over from windows. Garuda linux is user friendly too even for an arch distro. There are some issues that will come up but that's why dual booting is the safest idea to go with so the user can try everything out in case.

[@Shrapnel_Music]

People that say that, don't just browse the internet we have Work to do. I dual boot with Fedora and work out of windows. Last distro I would ever recommend is Ubuntu. For new users I always say Mint; to me it's a windows drop in for normal email, browsing internet, working in browser. But someone like me I can't use it "Yet". Pipewire with wayland I think maybe in 2 or 3 years at most I might be able to fully swap over and dump windows completely. I'm hoping it happens before EOS of W10, lol

[@didothemeerkat9622]

The chart at the beginning with Primary Operating Systems Among Professional Developers is a bit off. 61+47+44+1 is 153% which makes no sense.

[@Jiova]

dual booting perhaps

[@ToadalChaos]

0:23 that pie chart doesn't make sense... The percentages don't add up.

[@ArniesTech]

Your Channel was amongst the first ones on my fresh Linux journey 💪😎

[@AverageLinuxUser]

No way! 😎

[@NoNameFoundTV]

Good job Dimitry, 100K really soon and well deserved 👍 Keep it up!

[@taidee]

Your website has been helpful to me quite a few times, thank you.

[@maerzbant]

Amazing video, as always! I love your channel and your content!

[@Winnetou17]

Hate to be that guy, but the takes on security and stability are quite outdated. First, on the security side, the viruses are basically not a thing from about a decade ago. Once Windows defender got out, things got significantly better. Not perfect, but quite good. And while it is true that there are less viruses (or malicious scripts, since those are also used/passed around) for Linux, I would argue that that is not an argument. If people are convinced to switch to Linux, then there will be many people on Linux and viruses will start being built to target them. On the stability side, Windows is rock solid, provided you don't have bad drivers or bad hardware, of course. I'm writing this on my laptop that I got from 2016, it still has the original Windows install, just that I upgraded it to Pro version at some point (to disable those f%$@%ing automatic updates). I had 4 blue screens in about 6 and a half years, and I use the laptop all the time (and it's almost always on). My longest uptime was exactly 100 days. At that point, I didn't realized how much time it passed and after doing a screenshot, I went to the windows update, which of course, needed a restart. I usually try to limit it to 30 days, after which I go and do the updates, so I don't end up being the idi0t who got a ransomware because he didn't installed the security updates on time. Frankly, until recently, I would argue that on average, Windows was always more stable than desktop Linux (not to be confused with server Linux). But I agree with the rest. I personally like the performance and lightweight ones. And on the privacy part, at least with Windows 10 and 11, there's no contest, Windows is infinitely worse.

[@treyquattro]

99.2K subs as of April 3 2023. Soon...! I think you had 20-something K users when I first found your channel about 3 years ago. I've definitely found it useful in my Linux journey, educational, and entertaining too.

[@Soromeister]

You need to fix CORS for your website since posting comments feature is broken due to CORS.

[@johanb.7869]

Linux is great and especially Kubuntu with Plasma 5.27.3. Quick and very stable.

[@HikingFeral]

The biggest disadvantage for me is the inconsistent reliability. Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is running like a dream on my laptop but I am having trouble with the desktop, even though it's from the same USB stick. Steam won't even launch because it says it's offline when I have 5g. Meanwhile my laptop can run steam and proton, almost any windows or retro game I throw at it.

[@zenova9926]

​@@MrOrtmeieryepp I've tried to use nvidia gpu with some well known linux distro and can't stand more than 5 days because how buggy it was

[@derekr54]

Excellent video as usual thank you.

[@mymoonum]

Hello, I want the most fluent linux. Would you suggest?

[@trp225]

8:11 yes but be aware that more distros are dropping 32bit support

[@brianhasty6971]

At 00:22, Primary operating systems among professional developers: 61% Windows + 44% + 1% Other + 47% Unix/Linux = 153%🤔???

[@profittaker6662]

Great videos, so much value packed information on each of your videos, really great.

[@rollinas1]

I'm using Linux only since 2019, currently doing my master's and writing everything on Linux.

[@betterwomen8181]

Thank you for this video

[@MrDarkcoldIce]

This comment is completely off topic, but... I have a problem, I can't install Kubuntu on my Lenovo IdeaPad 1 11IGL05 laptop. Maybe you know the cause of this problem?

[@andrewsalnikov438]

I installed linux the first time in 2010. And learning linux during all that time. Finally, in 2023 remmina can correctly work wit RDP-connection... unfortunately, clipboard between rdp-machine and local machine doesn't still work. It is general reason why I still continue using windows 11 together with WSL2 like my primary and universal operation system, but have Linux on my old machine for fun🙃.

[@pavelperina7629]

From my perspective (software developer of industry specific windows application), I can agree with the most. However I found Windows more stable. It crashed maybe twice in last six months, but it wakes it self from sleep, installs updates and reboots, which is super annoying (once or twice per month). Yes, it gives you few days for restart. If you run computations for days, it's unacceptable. Linux may crash while playing video including add on a web page due to bug in driver. Windows can do it as well, but in general i'd say drivers are better on Windows, simply because they have more users and they collect some crash dumps (which is controversial). I'm not saying all drivers are perfect and I never had issues with drivers (hello NVidia, Qualcomm and Microsoft default driver for B550 chipset last winter). Cost is not important at all. Windows costs like 120EUR/USD (if i recall) for live time of a PC which is 7 years, which may be one or two day income. In the end I use Windows for one reason: software. I want to play some specific games, I need microsoft visual studio for work at home office, I'm not sure if Garmin watch has support on Linux, same with Fuji camera which is able to process RAWs using it's software and proprietary USB dirver (also I never tried dark table, Rawtherapee is fine, but clunky. All image viewers on Linux are inferior (missing some simple editing, annotations, batch conversions and so on without loosing capability of being more viewer than editors). Software I use the most on Windows runs on Linux (browser, vscode, python), but both systems are good and I'm not using Linux with exception of 12 years old notebook and one low power single board server with celeron and 2gb ram ... and as windows subsystem for Linux with convert, gnuplot, pandoc and some other stuff. Both systems are good (right now I use mostly OpenSuse Leap which seems like distro with which I had least problems) For C++ software development, Linux has huge advantages: all libraries and header files are located at the same and predicable place. Not randomly where you unzip them on Windows and when you need to somehow point build system for each application to them. And compiler usually gives more useful error messages (both gcc and clang) Despite there are too many distros, few are worth it: If you can stand Gnome: Fedora and Ubuntu. If you like KDE: OpenSuse, Manjaro. Notable mentions: Zorin, Mint (PopOS?). If you like to play and have up-to-date system: Arch. If you want server: OpenSuse Leap, Debian, Ubuntu LTS, (Rocky Linux)?.

[@pavelperina7629]

@Henry Haggard Truth is I have ASRock B550M steel legends board with Ryzen 5900x, first three weeks system crashed like 10 times on machine check exception which suggests bad CPU, board or RAM, then I installed chipset drivers from AMD which I forgot to do and since then it's stable. Also system goes through BIOS for like 20s and Windows need like 30s to boot whereas on my previous i5 it was like 5s for BIOS and 7s for Windows 10, but I'm using hibernation. Yes experience could be random with both I guess. On 12 years old notebook which does not officially support Windows 10, I risked update and it was horrible (part of it was dying hard drive). Linux runs flawlessly (on old 80GB SSD)

[@PaulG.x]

Research Institutes such as CERN and companies such Pixar and Weta Workshop use Linux because it is less stable than windows? Not likely

[@Shrapnel_Music]

I haven't had windows crash since Windows XP. How is people doing that? I'm not joking legit question I'm curious for real. Or did the logs even say why? My computer in boots like under 10 seconds, are you on an SSD? or NVME? I am on a 3rd gen NVME. That statement is true for Fedora and Windows. Fedora is as up to date if not more than Arch now. They use all new stuff also (they might not have back when this was posted, lol). I really like Fedora I did have to dash to dock though. I got to see what is running, hehe.

[@Shrapnel_Music]

@@PaulG.x They literally program their own. You can't compare that, that's like saying our Military is running the same linux version you are.

[@pavelperina7629]

@@Shrapnel_Music I guess nearly all windows crashes are either drivers or extremely rare memory issues, idk. Windows 11 boots like 10s on my kaby lake notebook, Windows 10 booted 10s on my old i5-4590, but it takes about 40s? on Ryzen. Don't ask, i guess it's something with BIOS or chipset drivers. Maybe fastboot is disabled. By the way I have Fedora with KDE on one Linux miniPC since April and it's perfectly fine. I'm not saying worse or better than openSuse - only Leap is outdated and tumbleweed has too many updates to my liking.

[@aliasname5518]

0:11 sooooo, how about this as a desktop background - please? (:

[@tanchelm]

First time when i had contact with linux i guess it was in 2008, i remember that i was using CD/DVD lol, debian, open suse and linux mint were my first distros. That gecko i never liked it :D

[@ricardodelano2205]

i have a verifi finger print reader , but do not know to use it in ubuntu squid, is there a way of activating in ubuntu

[@paullafleur6112]

Very helpful. Thanks!

[@mylinuxgr5050]

Greetings from a fellow bioinformatician!

[@lukeholloway7836]

Ive been using mini it definally runs way faster less cpu and ram than 11 and nice and simple almost like crome os

[@r0yce]

I like linux because the folders make sense..... Pretty much. Yeah. I hate linux because most softwares are made for windows and often the ones I want for linux are way more difficult to install than people think. If everything was as simple as a sudo pacman -S software I would never have to worry about windows ever again.

[@mahendrasrivastava9885]

After watching your vedios I started to use Linux. But I am unable to install latest version of python 3.11.* and pip. if possible plz make a video on it.

[@jonaskeepauthor1935]

Might want to mention your distro of choice, the correct procedure will be different for debian/Ubuntu, red hat/fedora, suse, arch, Gentoo, Slackware, etc...

[@arslanender]

Pardus 2011.1💛 miss you

[@AverageLinuxUser]

Me too 🙁

[@arnavpadwal4464]

Hi sir, I recently purchased a laptop and installed Debian 12 with KDE. My laptop speakers and mic didn't work. I tried multiple linux distros and online solutions, but I was unable to troubleshoot the issue. Laptop has intel i5 1155g7 processor and the issue seems to be with tigerlake sound card detection or drivers (it says dummy audio in some distros). I tried multiple videos on youtube and reddit threads, yet no luck. Speakers not working weren't a big issue, but mic too doesn't work. Pls help me. currently i am forced to use windows for meetings and am willing to switch as soon as i find a fix for this issue. Thanks.

[@celdepescaun39]

Are you saying that many Linux Distros can not make use of your speakers/microphone ?! And the Windows is recognizing them and they are in a working state? Would be nice to make a video about that and to put on your channel , that Linux "addicts" to see... If you are right , although I doubt, THIS IS A SPIT ON LINUX , together with its promotional you-tubers ....

[@zuesr3277]

Post it on the forum detailed specs there you will get the answer in 1 or 2 days

[@EasyGameEh]

how do you even get viruses?

[@hirankaushal3899]

Nice content 🥰

[@celdepescaun39]

Someone here is saying this "Hi sir, I recently purchased a laptop and installed Debian 12 with KDE. My laptop speakers and mic didn't work. I tried multiple linux distros and online solutions, but I was unable to troubleshoot the issue. Laptop has intel i5 1155g7 processor and the issue seems to be with tigerlake sound card detection or drivers (it says dummy audio in some distros). I tried multiple videos on youtube and reddit threads, yet no luck. Speakers not working weren't a big issue, but mic too doesn't work. Pls help me. currently i am forced to use windows for meetings and am willing to switch as soon as i find a fix for this issue. " If he is correct, what Linux users / promoters have to say about it ? That in the eyes of the "normal" people, who only want to get a task done , Linux is still a crap ....

[@johanb.7869]

Debian 12? Are you sure? It isn't even released yet.

[@celdepescaun39]

@@johanb.7869 This was a quote. Not my statement. The dude was complaining that he can not use microphone/speakers ... on Linux... maybe he is a cone head ....

[@johanb.7869]

@@celdepescaun39 Maybe.

[@jonaskeepauthor1935]

More likely that guy unwittingly messed something up, problems like that (with the exception of absolute bleeding edge hardware) simply don't occur across multiple distros without either a user error or a physical fault with the hardware. I have to use windows for work but use Linux in my personal life, I have far more problems with windows than Linux, my experience, in the eyes of a normal person, would suggest that windows is crap. At the end of the day, they are both good operating systems, people will use what they want to use.

[@johanb.7869]

@@jonaskeepauthor1935 I always use refurbished Dells Optiplex mini's. Works perfect with Linux. Used several distro's on my current one and they always installed without problems. But to be honest always the default graphics processor, not NVidia. NVidia and Linux still not okay together. And I don't game, so no need for NVidia.

[@besmart9624]

last week was setting up systems on two Dell laptops (~ same 2021 models). Linux Mint took around 5-10 minutes, Windows 10 took few days. Resume: Dell sucks a lot 😆

[@smallboss8775]

wow cool video

[@StenIsaksson]

Unused RAM is useless RAM ;)

[@akashsxo]

yep,that's why,macOS caches almost all the available

[@kenshinhimura926]

Dude in reality most labtops comes with 4GB of ram thats not enough and if you try to take advantage of it you will just have a unresponsive system beaides ram you need a OS and file system built to handle excess ram in a efficient way which is not easy and most devs are not even attempting it

[@StenIsaksson]

@@kenshinhimura926 I never use laptops.

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

​@@kenshinhimura926 most solid chromebooks come with that. Most solid windows laptops come with 8gb or more.

[@kenshinhimura926]

@@FireFoxDestroyer when you say solid you mean newer models but am talking about older models dude as i had a chrome book at its ram was very low it was a older model and my labtop comes with 4 GB ram out of the book a old model so you cant implement a feature and leave out the users stuck with there old pc and labtop you need something that can adapt to any RAM size while giving good system performance thats not a easy task hence why many developers ignore even attempting it

[@natireson4140]

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