I forced EVERYONE to use Linux

[@NetworkChuck]

Try ThinLinc free for up to 10 concurrent users! Mention "NetworkChuck" for a special offer when buying licenses: bit.ly/cendio NetworkChuck makes his entire team switch to a single Linux terminal server using ThinLinc! Watch as Chuck's employees remote into the centralized server, transforming their workflow and showcasing the power of Linux. Alongside Chuck, Alex guides you through installing ThinLinc on both client and server sides. See the team in action as Mike creates a Blender model and Florida Nick edits it, all on the terminal server. Whether you're a Linux enthusiast or curious about remote desktop solutions, discover the power of ThinLinc! LINKS / RESOURCES: Every webpage/resource mentioned in the video: academy.networkchuck.com/blog/ThinLincResources Download the Kokey model from printables: www.printables.com/model/938024-beloved-kokey 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by Cendio 0:00 - Introduction 0:46 - What is a Terminal Server? 3:30 - What do you need? 4:45 - Installing ThinLinc (Server-side) 8:09 - Adding Users 8:55 - Installing ThinLinc (Client-side) 10:36 - Installing VirtualGL 16:42 - The Team Tries out ThinLinc 18:05 - Who is “Kokey”? 19:22 - Mike Update 20:11 - Web Administration Tool

[@GGLVXD]

Ok

[@BurkenProductions]

This is just lame there are free alternatives , no need to use this crap and pay for it when you dont have to.

[@BurkenProductions]

/etc is not pronounced etsy its pronounced etc

[@guynes2013]

​@BurkenProductions I'm reminded of a quote from Michael Bay, responding to the choice to make Bumblebee a Camaro instead of a Volkswagen Beetle, like in the cartoons: "When YOU make a 'Transformers' movie, you can make Bumblebee whatever car you want. I like Camaro's, so I'm MY movie, he's a Camaro." In other words, it's not YOUR channel. Make your own channel, and you can do whatever you want with it. However, since this is Chucks channel, he can/ will do what he wants with it. I support your decisions @NetworkChuck. Don't listen to the naysayers!!

[@Coding_Fun22]

How is it even possible Chuck? Your comment is older than the video itself? What the heck!

[@geniustrash]

Chuck's employees look like snapshots of his looks during growing up

[@LordHonkInc]

Only one possible explanation: mitosis

[@arnavpadwal4464]

😂

[@brtkcs]

especially Alex, his energy maches Chuck's

[@mrmotofy]

@@brtkcs Not yet...but it might get there. It's all an act though. Meet these people in person and most are NOT the same. They're just regular people

[@yensteel]

The beard phase looks like it became permanent.

[@Leseratte]

NetworkChuck: "Lets stop using proprietary Windows and use Linux cause it's free and open!" Also NetworkChuck: Promotes a proprietary, closed-source, paid terminal server alternative that's neither free (except for personal use) nor open ... I was about to say, what a cool solution, then I saw it's proprietary. Sounds like an ad video for that proprietary ***.

[@alastairtheduke]

what's a non-proprietary option(s)?

[@Acrissmester]

Trueee

[@qchtohere8636]

OpenSSH (probably just enabling sshd should be enough in most distros) and local users? And/or OpenLDAP (if you want a common users and groups directory server) and TigerVNC (if you really need a GUI). Although to be fair, this would be a little more focused for technical people.

[@qchtohere8636]

​@@alastairtheduke(sorry, my last reply was for your question, forgot the @ 😅)

[@ivanlawrence2]

@@qchtohere8636 Don't forget about X tunneling through SSH for the times you need that GUI but don't want the latency of painting a mouse across the screen when remotely connecting from across the globe.

[@shubhamranabhat]

not me, typing from my Samsung fridge

[@m.e10150]

😂😂😂😂, it use it actually

[@m.e10150]

Tizen os

[@vanpeters9751]

Linspire 8 2019r1 ​@@m.e10150

[@robertm20]

Doesn't that use Android? Thus linux kernel, so in some sense linux

[@vanpeters9751]

@@robertm20 Bill Gates copied some free unix/Linux code when making an OS that cost money

[@George2647g]

"Terminal services have been around for a long time" understatement of the century... The first office computers WERE terminal services and for a long period of time in 70/80s most offices WERE terminal services..

Longer than pc, but it is less than a hundred years. It is starting to be a long time now

[@theleastofpilgrims3379]

The first business computers were quickly organized around closed shop batch-mode processing to maximize utilization of the fabulously expensive hardware. From this we got improved operating systems, and finally, interactive time-sharing systems like MVS with TCAM/TSO or CP/CMS (later VM/CPS) on the IBM mainframe , ITS, WAITS, Multics, and then a second generation of these systems, such as UNIX, VMS, and also specialized word processors like Wang Labs. From there, we had the breakthrough of personal computers, which were eventually networked and used in a client/server architecture.

[@3polygons]

And later, specially in "nominally" (only) first world countries (I bet in the US, too, in many places and companies).The typical IBM AS/400 serving all the admin employees terminals. I remember that ('95 or so, if I recall well). All those green or orange monitors, the dumb terminals. Oh, and the videotex. And I had to support all of that. Kindda fun times. :D

[@fyrestorme]

Ok.. please do not manually edit the /etc/group file. usermod -aG group user instead

[@Maescool]

yeah, he also did it wrong 14:49 that should have been comma's not colon's...

[@drstefankrank]

@@Maescool and the useless use of "sudo su -" instead of just prepending just sudo in front of the command or just "sudo -s". I'm using Linux for well over 20 years and I never used "sudo su -".

[@llearch]

Something something also tab completion something something. >.

[@thatoddshade]

or have a NixOS installation in which you declaratively set user groups with, for a user named „alice“, `users.users.alice.groups` in `configuration.nix` or a file imported by it.

[@jongeduard]

Yep I noticed that too. But the fun thing is that they did the same but correctly for the sudo group at 8:48. So why not always do it that way? :P

[@MaddMo]

Came here to talk about the hilarious Chuck background on Alex's laptop. 😂

[@charlesetwaroo5796]

That threw me off when I saw that 😂😂😂

[@liblevi45s53]

At 13:09 you can just press CTRL+ALT+F2 - F4 and it'll open another shell on the system, there's no need to login through SSH. When you shut the display manager down the active one(whichever it is) will be inactive. Even if the display manager is running it'll switch to a shell.

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

also they should've run vglrun glxinfo -B to make sure that the right gpu was selected. Linux defaults to igpu

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

also also they should've used apt instead of dpkg

[@jackkraken3888]

I was thinking about that. I thought it only killed the graphics subsystem then I was confused but it makes more sense now.

[@KosmosAc]

So this is basically a 23 minutes cendio commercial, shwing off a single user using blender through the terminal session and claiming that someone else is working in another session (19:55), while proving a few xeconds later that he isn't (20:39 and 20:46). Don't get me wrong: I really love the idea and I really hope this works as promised, but I haven't seen anything that convinces me.

[@theloniousMac]

Ironically you're actually going into the past for this. Before PCs became powerful enough to take over the Enterprise, this is how large businesses used mainframes. It was called Time Sharing. Everyone had a terminal, basically a dumb terminal that connected to a terminal server that connected to a port on the main frame. On the mainframe there would be dozens upon dozens of users each with the illusion that he/she was the only user on the computer. Some systems used UNIX, others used operating systems by DEC like RSTS/E, RSX, VAX/VMS and so on. One problem with this method was that if the computer went down, all of those dozens upon dozens of users I just spoke about would be shit out of luck. So we often had large backup systems the whole thing in a cluster. If one went down, we'd shift all the users to another system. Back then I was writing load balancing software for the mainframes. I dare say it is humorous watching you advocate going back to the same old method in 2024!

[@Johan-rm6ec]

Like the Bible told us there is nothing new under the sun.

[@NeverSuspects]

Well, with how things are going the goal might be to just sell everyone a rpi or equal and have you subscribe to a virtual machine that is ran from a large datacenter cloud network and then you can subscribe to the os, sub for your allocated gpu, cpu, memory, and storage, subscribe to each application you run and then ultimately.... own nothing.

[@victorudoye5364]

Yo.. ​@@NeverSuspects

[@karanjoshi2662]

isn't that the same as cloud computing now in some ways? you log into aws or asure and they give you a scalable computer system.

[@monster2slayer]

isnt that even why the teminal got its name from?

[@Starfire42]

I'd rather use XDM or X over SSH than proprietary stuff. That is really free with no strings.

[@framegrace1]

VNC is better. X over network is awful on any modern DE. Also all that "propietary stuff" does, is packaging it and have a config page. You can do exactly the same manually not having to pay a dime. and is fairly easy in fact.

[@vilian9185]

​@@framegrace1don't forget X over network having more security vulnerabilities than Windows xp

[@user-zv8li7eu1w]

@@vilian9185 Hey, could you explain what X over network comprises please? is it ssh -X? And is RDP better?

[@vilian9185]

@@user-zv8li7eu1w basically the X11 protocol made in the 70 is composed of a server and it's clients, in the early days of unix universities had one server and it's students used it clients( the server being separated from the clients like a central server), and that model stayed the same since them even today with GPU in the same desktop as your monitor(with hacks, a lot of them) but because of that you can have that server in a machine at long distances from you(like your company server), and you having a client in your PC at home, and it's supported natively in ssh(with -x), the problem, it's that slow, old (since the 70th) a lot of security issues, unmaintained, because x11 is dying, etc, but there's a lot of people that insists in using it instead of RDP or VNC because 'reasons', they know that's old, slow and insecure they just refuse to switch, even when there's a perfect replacement called waypipe, that uses the Wayland protocol, instead of the old x11, it has the benefit of having lower latency than RDP/VNC, because it shares the blocks to build the screen and applications not a video stream like RDP/VNC. Keep using RDP or waypipe, don't use the old x11 one, it's not recomended to use any unmaintained program ESPECIALLY one this old.

[@uuu12343]

​@@framegrace1VNC does support audio output/passthrough

[@jacekmowinski]

2:48 Whole premise seemed silly, then it turned out it's just an elaborate ad.

[@richarddaugherty8583]

Love it! Retired dev here. Was a Visual Studio/T-SQL/Oracle developer for 30 years. Been a big fan of your channel for a long time with Raspberry Pi projects! I just dumped Windows because I refuse to buy a new computer just to run Windows 11. Switched to Linux Mint and am very happy!

[@mrmotofy]

Yep I agree that 1 action will likely push more to other options than anything in history. Although if I understand right one can still run WIN11 on old hardware. Just can't use the upgrade path. It requires using an install USB and a fresh install of 11...at least for now

[@joeyoungs8426]

I’m with you. I’m a Unix/Linux work related admin/dev from the early 80’s to present and last year dropped W11 for Linux Mint for home. Turned my laptop from a brick to something usable. Probably should’ve did it long ago given my OS and dev experience.

[@LukeKendall-author]

You do know that UNIX/X always supported multiple users connecting from terminals; and back in the 90s and even earlier, this included graphical terminals like NeWS or X11 or Display Postscript (NeXTStep). Not to mention desktop, VNC... All basically because UNIX and Linux are multiuser systems from the ground up. Always have been.

[@W0lfCL]

We are bringing back mainframes and terminals with this one

[@MiniKodjo]

Cloud computing is basically mainframes over http

[@entelin]

@@MiniKodjo cloud computing is technically almost the exact opposite from mainframes architecturally. The whole point of cloud computing is distributed everything. Every piece being able to be provisioned and released on demand. A mainframe was a monolithic system.

[@bloepje]

Terminals have primarily been a unix thing. I had a few unix servers at home, with 48+ tty's per server for enduser terminals. I've also seen insanely expensive dual seat sillicon graphics 19" 10U high "desktop" systems. Mainframes don't have users, they have timeslots and batches, no interactivity. You do not work on a mainframe. Only the operator will start your batch. And later you can collect the result.

[@treelineresearch3387]

@@entelin Most cloud computing is just flexible scaling nodes with a pretty conventional load balancer architecture in front. It's distributed computing only in the sense that multiple individual computers and automation are utilized to do one task, not a true distributed architecture where many physical computing devices can be treated like one big logical one.

[@Trev0r98]

@@bloepje "Terminals have primarily been a unix thing." WRONG. Long before there was Unix, there was IBM's multi-user, remote terminal-based operating systems: CP-40/CMS, CP-67, VM/370, TSS/360, OS/360 MVT-TSO ("Time Sharing Option"), OS/VS2 SVS-TSO, MVS-TSO, CICS (Transactional system), and Michigan Terminal System ("MTS", non-IBM). All ran on IBM terminals (2740, 2741, 1050 - all "golf ball" type terminals , and 2250 vector graphics terminal).

[@mikecondo]

0:01 it sounded like you censored the word Mac lol

[@TheRobot13]

You better not say M*c, how dare you...

[@USB3.2]

M** is offensive to the Linux Community.

[@Chris-ib8lw]

Most likely the reason you didn't see the pretty window when you went to install ThinLinc is because of that sh you put at the start of the command. You essentially forced the script to use sh as the script interpreter which doesn't have a ton of support for GUI elements. You could have run it by simply typing ./thinlinc-install and the interpreter called out in the script by the installer (most likely bash) would have taken over and ran the install the same way but with the GUI elements if available.

[@italienn]

Employees plural! Proud of the growth of NetworkChuck. Love to see it.

[@sunnymon1436]

Force everyone to use Linux, but it's actually an ad for spying on your employees! Gotcha!

[@averagemamil4523]

Oh no - it’s almost like they’re being paid to work and the employer wants ROI…..

[@aubreypwd]

This; this was so cringe!

[@LibreGlider]

Have you EVER been issued a laptop by your employer?

[@judewestburner]

Back around 2000 I was an administrator running a Citrix, so that's 24 years ago and it was awesome. 350 thin clients sitting across about 7 Windows NT 4 terminal server machines with Citrix Metaframe. Upgrade everyone in one night to the latest software, no problem. Roll out that bug fix, no problem. Set up 20 new staff, no problem.

[@ninthjake]

That's awesome. We still use Citrix in our company. Works well enough even with over a thousand users across 60+ servers. Some bugs here and there but overall a solid experience.

[@judewestburner]

@@ninthjake I never operated in that sort of league - but it is a technology when I first saw it I was instantly amazed by how powerful it was at creating centralized distributed infrastructure. Keep it up!!

[@NetScalerTrainer]

It’s still the same to this day.

[@capulater]

Next video: 2nd redundant server to take over if the main terminal server fails Next video after next video: UPS when the power goes out

[@FluffyPuppyKasey]

So as someone who daily drives Linux I'd genuinely recommend using Fedora if your machine is running brand new hardware, which based on the RTX 4090 is probably the case. That's simply because Fedora ships with MUCH newer kernels, meaning it has fixes and improvements for new hardware. It's also, in my experience, rock solid! Also, I just ran glxspheres64 on my RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPU and I'm getting 10x the performance. Please install the Nvidia driver!! I LOVE the cutaways to Florida Nick editing, 10/10

[@just_michael402]

0:35 "But with Windows 11, we can't do that. But with Linux we can't" There's a bug in your captions.

[@TheCelestial]

That sounds really funny ks

[@yensteel]

There's a slight t sound that could be heard. That's what confused the captions.

[@JedHurricane]

I rarely have captions on, but I spotted that lol, Didn't think anyone would call it out.

[@Shutter_Priority]

And with the statement itself, because you CAN do that in Windows 11.

[@Faladrin]

Windows 11 doesn't provide any concurrent remote desktop support. It's in fact explicitly not allowed per the Microsoft license. There are third party apps that would give you access to programs on the Windows 11 machine that would allow concurrent access, but I'm not ware of any that give you the actual desktop to interact with. TSPlus makes programs available via web browser for instance, but not the desktop. VNC lets you access the desktop, and you can configure that to allow multiple connections, but then everyone is sharing the same desktop (they do not all get their own). You can install SSH servers and access programs, but again, no desktop, and no GUI at all unless you also have X forwarding setup (which is possible, but most Windows software isn't going to work that natively).

[@Fine_art_aerial]

6:48 Pepsi?? Why not coffee?? Missed a opportunity on that one

[@wobbled5609]

cos the coffee shit is overdone

[@HeliusSlayer]

I feel like that was the joke.

[@abandonedbuildingexplorer]

There is a classic movie called "Hackers". Please watch that if you haven't already! The weird lanky guy with the braided hair is epic. You will like it. My friends and I recorded it to VHS and would watch it at every LAN party we held at either my parents place, their parents place back in the 2001-2004 period. I love you all. Keep gaming and hacking. Keep having fun.

[@Cokodayo]

I love how the host name is "the room of requirements" lol

[@gfixler]

When I moved into this house, I just dumped a ton of boxes of things into the spare bedroom, filling it up, and I'm only this week finally into going through them and getting the room usable, and all the things either where they should have been for 11 years now, or in piles to donate or sell. I've been calling it my Room of Requirement for most of this time, and my Roborock even knows it as that, and knows never to try to burrow in there.

[@burreetoman]

Ah. You have seen the LIGHT. I'm an old FreeBSD guy but you cant beat the major Linux distributions. Welcome to the freeworld.

[@Viking8888]

Kokey is even creepier than ET. Something I never thought possible!

[@jackkraken3888]

Bollywood made their own version too. I forgot the name though but it had a much higher production value than Kokey

[@banjotramp1]

I had a LTSP (Linux Thin Server Project) running for about 5 years at the High School I taught at > 14 years ago. One server ran 20 crappy pc's in the lab. It ran a straight Ubuntu system, totally open source. Short answer, it was great.

[@jeremyself6984]

So um, when’s someone going to tell Alex about tab completion?

[@jackkraken3888]

Yeah that was a little weird even for me since tab completion exists in windows command line and the Linux command she'll

[@TimVels]

Very funny employees at the beginning of the video 😅

[@tonyscalleta]

Filipino fan here! Glad to see one of your staff is from the Philippines. Keep up the good work! Nostalgic to see Kokey. 😂

[@mrmotofy]

Kokey is freeky and cool at the same time LOL

[@JanzJanz]

nagulat aq na feature c Kokey. 😂

[@SakuraChan00]

just know you could of did ctrl+alt+F3 again or even F2 -F6 to get back into text mode to runn the commands during 13:15

[@Jet1323]

i like florida nicks dedication, to push and work at the same time! what a patriot.

[@MiaHjjdd]

We want you to.make hack the box walk throughs we realy enjoyed it.

[@zayneytem]

I literally did not expect to get a blast from the past with that Kokey drop. 😂 I was like, 4 or 5 when that aired on TV.

[@theprodagy9426]

Brilliant! Network Chuck my wife and i are HUGE fans of your from Johannesburg South Africa! Your teachings are SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUN Chuck :)

[@jackkraken3888]

Hey you're from South Africa! Do you know if Raspberry Pis are easily available and and for how much?

[@smartxmusculado]

Bearded due is awesome. Love NetworkChuck! He makes great videos, although I don't watch his videos to the end, but videos still great

[@kaz49]

The opening song makes my brain scream SCARRRR

[@APigeonWhoFlew]

4:51 mmm yes, ubuntu 20.04, when that is the ubuntu 24.04 wallpaper

[@amoldhamale3202]

I was thinking the same

[@randomblogger2835]

I was wondering... it makes more sense that he fumblde the number than installed an ubuntu from 4 years ago,

[@amoldhamale3202]

@@randomblogger2835 It's an LTS release mate, I use it regularly and it's quite stable

[@WDCallahan]

Great thumbnail! Friendship ended with Windows 11. Now Linux is my best friend.

[@TheNoirKamui]

The virtualgl part is kinda mysterious and scary... Does that mean that ThinLinc is only there to establish the connection, but is actually not able to access all the hardware? I don't really understand why not... Or maybe, ThinLinc can access the hardware, and virtualgl is not there to send the graphics, but virtualgl helps split the gpu resource for the different virtualgl users? I don't know...

[@programmerkg]

KOKEEY!!! That's my childhood right there! damn, thank you for adding him!

[@yalnisinfo]

he really looks like a cool guy even though it is a static face 😂

[@markarca6360]

Filipinos has entered the chat.

[@kxuydhj]

the terminal instructions sounded a bit off to me... don't get me wrong, it's an amazing video and i'm glad you guys actually show what you're doing but there's a lot of edge cases where cutting corners could cause issues. first, sh ./install-server sounds like a bad idea because the script has a shebang to specify the preferred interpreter and overriding that with sh is almost always a bad idea because that launches a barebones posix shell which can break a lot of stuff. just leave the sh part and instead give the script execute permissions or check the first line to see what interpreter it wants. note that some scripts will incorrectly request sh as interpreter while they should be requesting bash so i'd personally go one step further and run shellcheck on the script just in case. second, dpkg install thinlinc*.deb isn't a problem until you have 2 thinlinc packages in which case it will probably install both. it still shouldn't cause trouble because it'll order alphabetically which effectively results in it starting with the older one but still, best to just specify the one you want instead of using a wildcard. third, sudo su - is a pretty well-known yet useless command, use sudo -i instead. again, amazing video, it's just that i've blindly followed instructions like this before which have caused me varying degrees of pain and i don't want other people to waste their time like that.

[@marcinoo97]

i have multi user windows 11 for free. not even a server version just enterprise. RDP is so much easier here almost no setup needed.

[@jacekmowinski]

2:48 Yeah, this whole video is just an ad.

[@nickt5390]

I just love how those guys are just fooling around with the tech they have just explained. It makes it even more then a tutoral, cause it although shows courage. Love it.

[@EhurtAfy]

10 years ago, gaming on Linux SUCKED, but now we have thousands of Steam games that work fine natively or through Proton. Games not working has been the biggest hurdle to adoption imo. I'm a computer science nerd, but at the end of the day I still need a way to play my favorite games. Add to that way more Windows software works well or at least has a browser app like Office 365, its doable imo. I still want a pure Windows machine for maximum performance and compatibility, but I could survive on Linux

[@Kvantum]

I'm in about the same boat as you, as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer. Full Office 365 functionality (especially Outlook) and game compatibility are the only things Windows has going for it anymore. Even Microsoft doesn't care about Windows anymore. The entire OS is as important to their bottom line as computers are to Apple, ie, about a 10% rounding error. The truth MSFT doesn't want most people to know: Azure runs more Linux machines than Windows.

[@mrmotofy]

Could just dual boot which is easy and cheap these days

[@mrmotofy]

@@Kvantum What does Azure itself run on?

[@aussiegruber86]

See I do automation stuff, think PLCs and robots. And all the software is built for windows.

[@NickDoddTV]

SteamOS is awesome... almost as good as Ubuntu for a general Os for everyday use

[@Tin-m5c]

man i love the chuck team and their editing, i never knew id laugh this hard on a computer related video

[@PhysicsLaboratory-cp7eq]

7:33 by default the command will search Vi, if you want to open in Nano just like in video you should type -->> sudo EDITOR=nano visudo

[@mrfoodarama]

GoodtimeswithScar Approves!

[@DavidZetaKrone]

The guy doing 3D modeling is logged in to a session with a framebuffer size of 1024x768? Most commonly seen in the Pre-Windows XP era?

[@Munitionne]

chuck after the video: > Reinstalls Windows 11 > And sells the PC on eBay > Pretends to have the computer with editing

[@adamk.7177]

Highly doubt that he's ACTUALLY forcing his employees to use that computer. This was a showcase of ThinLinc. Also, Windows 11 WAS an option for ThinLinc but Windows 11 is notoriously resource hungry, so Linux WOULD be a better option for this scenario.

[@andresoliz1544]

Wow, love the growth Chuck. Been watching since your CBT Nuggets days, it's great to see the channel where it's at now, definitely came a long way. The team looks like they're awesome to work with. Keep it up, love the hustle and determination!

[@demetriusjohnson5358]

woww did not know he was from cbt nuggets...i loved cbt nuggets! i wonder if i watched chuck all those years ago and didnt realize here he is back again!

[@JohnnyThund3r]

You paid me to do that is probably the best blender artist line of all time...

[@emntbj]

"you only need to buy one powerful computer" Me struggling to buy one computer :'( :D

[@cap_eath]

I'm using E5 server chips on $80 mobos using recycled server parts. $200 for 12 core CPU, 32 gb ddr4, and mobo. Can't run with the Ryzen 7 5800 I got used for my son, but half the price and more power than I've been able to max. Plus it would thrash on this setup

[@zenceLde]

This camera-ping-pong and cuts after nearly every sentence is exhausting for such an interesting topic to watch

[@zanylyf]

linux is already on 4.45% users worldwide we need more users🗣🗣

[@TheBenSanders]

Waiting on that sweet 5%!

[@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water]

*desktop users. this is more of a server. with servers. we're over 70%, same with phones, and with supercomputers we have all of them. (all the ones from top 500 list used for statistics). If you sum up everything (yes chrome os and android too, they may be weird distros, but they're still linux) linux is the most popular os in the world.

[@LiLBitsDK]

it will come... and it's what 90% of servers on the indernet?

[@zanylyf]

@@TheBenSanders 5? im waiting for 10...

[@zanylyf]

@@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water yup linux rules the world!!

[@lvill3633]

Lots of love from PH 🇵🇭 Been a subscriber since forever ☺️

[@Daphoid]

Alex, Pepsi is not hydrating my guy. Tasty yes, but water is your friend :)

[@mrmotofy]

WE ALL know that, but he makes his own choices. As I sit here sipping my MT DEW

[@Daphoid]

@@mrmotofy And you're welcome to it - but I don't know if I'd assume everyone knows that, you may be surprised what things you think are common knowledge that aren't. Also, even if you know it, an open mind will accept the reminder gladly and grab a glass of water with their next mountain dew :)

[@Vilished]

I use Arch btw.

[@BridgetTheNun]

*Me using openssh and x-fowarding all my stuff with virtual gl for years now* ┬┴┬┴┤(･_├┬┴┬┴ ┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴┬┴ ┬┴┬┴┤(･_├┬┴┬┴ Why are we adding third party proprietary software to manage it? We could just create a *"simple"* script that does all the auto setup work on this? And then use something like cockpit to do the web management stuff and permissions? I know I'm not technologically challenged, but implementing a solution like this does imply the person implementing this server must be technologically literate to also secure the server from third parties and make it accessible either over the web or locally only so they gotta have a high skill level in linux to do so and to debug it.

[@jackkraken3888]

Wait you're saying this server is already available over the web? Like how? Don't you have to port forward the ports?

[@BridgetTheNun]

@@jackkraken3888 port forward? At worst it's just local setup + VPN P2P Service of choice or if your router /modem already has one integrated just using that. I already have everything from SSL certificates to DNS setup so its not a hassle for me to setup everything. For other people however setting up the x forwarding and acceleration is the hard part the VPN bit isn't that much harder as solutions like Nebula and Tailscale exist. Honestly there's no one size fits all solution to this problem what you save in setup time you lose in security. I don't like , personally that is, adding solutions that are jumbles of other software cobbled together from multiple other softwares that have a history of not playing nice. I'd much rather learn the arcane tecnobable lore and setup my scripts and incantations while consuming intense and holy oils at ridiculous rates to please the machine spirit. Jokes aside stuff like this breaks hard and fast and doesn't have enough verbosity to diagnose it's individual components when it does, and then you're stuck asking for tech support from a company that's not up scale yet and is helping multiple other clients while you are Number XY in the Z queue with ∆ people ahead of you, while the anxiety devours your mind flesh and business alive.

[@XaivepA]

How cool! And even more so, I'm from Linköping Sweden where Cendio's originated. (Which I did not know before this video) Super awesome video with great sense of humor whilst educating. 😊👌👏🙌

[@brunekxxx91]

What is the latency of this?

[@jonah1976]

Exactly. This was just a commercial. Can't mention anything bad about the product.

[@wcdeich4]

That coffee sip noise hurts me so bad.

[@gauravvaswani2994]

I'm 15 and I use Linux as my main os 😅

[@Sahan612]

Which distro are you using?

[@hariienesharumugam]

I use Linux too, I'm 13.

[@_lenn.box_]

16, same. just not on my gaming maschine and laptop with touch screen, on any other device i use linux

[@furkankaraslan9040]

​@@_lenn.box_ on your vacoom cleaner?

[@Alexciaooo]

I hope you don't use Kali

[@northwestrepair]

Its mind blowing to see 4090 without anti sag support.

[@ray73864]

We use HP ThinClients at work, we've been running HP ThinClients for around 20yrs now at least :) Our Terminal Server is a Windows server, always has been. 5 of them in total for around 200 thinclients. I changed 1 of our stores to RPi 3Bs a few years back, worked ok, ran WTWare (when it was free) which was neat, but they actively refused to support several features that we were using from Remote Desktop Connection (Remote Control, Remote Control with differing screen resolutions, etc...) and then it became non-free. Eventually gave up and went back to HP thinclients.

[@MthaMenMon]

Do they provide directx accel?

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

And then there's me, using an HP thin client... as a home server.

[@ray73864]

@@MthaMenMon Most likely not. But for our purposes, as a point of sale terminal, we don't really need them to.

[@AlJay0032]

The company I used to work at in the 1990s used thin clients. The boss wanted us to have a silent work environment. It's funny when Windows people discover what Unix had 30 or 40 years ago.

[@astar1625]

First time I’ve seen Alex on camera. Never have I seen someone make Linux commands so undaunting. More from Alex please!

[@Jason.M]

I'm going to be the grumpy "you changed something about your content" commenter, but the switch between Chuck and Alex throws me off. The energy is way too different, and it kind of makes me just skip past Alex. 😵‍💫

[@thelaiq]

Alex's bit was better than Chuck's in some areas imo

[@gery49]

1:44 it seems he had a bit too much NetworkChuck coffee

[@ogrooster69]

Have you guys been a Davinci Resolve shop for a while or was it picked up in planning for this deployment?

[@tirtharajkarmakar1192]

Actually I wanted to do this thing long time ago. I don't know at that time thinLinc exists or not but I install ubuntu server and ran windows 11 and mac in kvm simultaneously and experimented a lot with kasm workspace. Also created total active directory setup without this ThinLinc. But this thing is so damn good 💥

[@carrc88]

Are there non-commercial options for Terminal server on Linux ? What about xrdp multi-session ? Thanks for all those great videos 😊

[@notme8232]

Pretty sure you could just use plain SSH with X11 forwarding for this, this seems a bit overengineered imo

[@tappy8741]

@@notme8232 almost like it's a giant advert for some company

[@52Pi_Maker_Education]

Thank you for sharing, your videos always make me feel very interesting. I have been following you for a long time, haha. Your videos cover a lot about Linux and networking, and I feel that you are a very skilled operations engineer. Your previous video "I build a Raspberry Pi Super Computer," where you take the Raspberry Pi array out of the oven, made me laugh so much, it was hilarious, very impressive. Following your steps, I have learned a lot about Kubernetes technology, and the interspersed Minecraft also makes me feel very familiar, haha. I also set up a Minecraft server on the Raspberry Pi and played with friends. Your videos are always very passionate, haha, and I strongly agree with what you said that everyone should learn Linux! Looking forward to your next masterpiece!

[@pud469]

What does Ubuntu 20.04 offer that 22.04 doesn't? Just trying to understand why would you go so far back, when even 24.04 is out. What are you using that has issues with 22.04? I haven't found any software that doesn't work on 22.04. Now on 24 being so new, that is a different story.

[@tappy8741]

probably his crappy proprietary sponsor works best on 20.04.

[@pud469]

@@tappy8741 sorry without going back to watch it, I didn't realize it was sponsored by the software. Maybe it wasn't even mentioned and that was the purpose for the demonstration. New infrastructure that is going to be EOL in less than a year, has to be the dumbest tutorial. Someone is going to show this to their boss, think it's a great idea and then be screwed in a year.

[@opinionrat]

I don't think I can do this, you stopped me at trucks.

[@aikusan1727]

I'm a bit surprise that you guys shared and modeled Kokey the Legendary alien in the Philippines!

[@SneakyV1_]

this is the first NetworkChuck video ive watched in (sadly) a while, and im loving these new personalities coming in.

[@VanDonien]

4:45 I think that's 24.04, not 20.04

[@JoaoVitor-rs2bp]

This is awesome! Big fan from Brazil here!

[@polocatfan]

imagine not specifying this video was sponsored.

[@TheDidiDidi129]

What makes you think that is was?

[@TheDidiDidi129]

Nevermind the description

[@dgmayor]

2:52 - "Thanks to our sponsor, Cendio"

[@OverAndOverAndOver]

When did NetworkChuck turned into the funny version of LTT, goofy ah edits I love it 😂

[@tappy8741]

this video pissed me off, so yes i guess they are a bit like LTT

[@jackkraken3888]

The goofyness is over 9000!

[@ominousSHELL]

18:18 "His name"?

[@Jeppedy]

Alex did a great job!! Not just an employee for long? 😊

[@MrLarryl79]

"sudo -i" instead of "sudo su -" ?

[@bsdjail]

or sudo -s

[@sampikprod]

or just su

[@MrLarryl79]

@@sampikprod sudo -i gives the root enviromnebnt too, not just switch to root user.

[@shriramkp9292]

Great video, keep up the good work as always.

[@Not9_]

Forcing everyone to use linux is a gigachad move

[@NickDoddTV]

Nah not really, use Ubuntu or SteamOS and people will hardly notice a difference from MacOS or windows

[@Not9_]

@@NickDoddTV wouldn't relate as an arch user

[@as8kay]

​@@NickDoddTV bruh I'm a not so techy windows user looking forward to trying linux any lightweight distro recommendation for my cheap 2nd PC

[@notme8232]

@@as8kay Gentoo. Seriously though, Mint would probably be best thanks to its simplicity. You can get lighter distros, but someone "not so techy" probably wouldn't know how to best take advantage of them, if you could use it at all.

[@bagdis9000]

​@@as8kayLinux Lite

[@timmooney7528]

15 years ago I was working at a place where we moved most of our users of to thin clients. If a user clicked on malware, all they'd have to do is close the session and log on again. 4 years ago i heard from a former co-worker that the company was switching away from thin clients. They experienced some catastrophic failures at the server and core switch level, which in turn caused every terminal services user to be dead in the water.

[@majutsush1]

Couldn't you just use xrdp to do this for free

[@mrmotofy]

Wonder how the GPU use works in

[@sfcampbell19]

4:50 My head exploded at "Ubuntu 20.04" 😫😫😫

[@doomnationalist]

Now this is a very unique content I don't usually see in the Linux world! Kudos!!

[@AmoghHarish]

Oh man, my homelab and personal PC/laptops are all named after things in the Wizarding World NAS is called Gringotts Media server is called Hogsmeade Laptops and PCs are named Cleansweep, Firebolt, and Nimbus And seeing the random Room of Requirement over there was soo cool! Especially when it fits the description so perfectly!

[@Itreallydoesnotmatter-p9o]

Why not use a hypervisor and VMs? Does this feature exist in fully FOSS?

[@whydoyouaskdude]

I think because spinning up VMs instead of user Sessions requires SR-IOV, which is sadly not on consumer GPUs and an upsell for enterprise hardware (even though consumer cards are technically capable to handle such loads).

[@gorgnof]

​@@whydoyouaskdudeI think Proxmox works on normal GPUs

[@bluefrancis14]

@@gorgnof pcie passthrough? Is that what it is?

[@Itreallydoesnotmatter-p9o]

@@gorgnof That was my impression as well...haven't tested it yet. Never had the use for high GPU demands, my work is more CPU and RAM intensive...

[@Danwolfstone]

@@bluefrancis14 There's definitely GPU passthrough, so I assume PCIE passthrough is a thing as well. SomeOrdinaryGamers showed a similar thing when creating a VM with GPU capabilities for running certain windows games through a VM, so I'm not sure if that would fit what you're looking for

[@donaldwright2426]

Chuck, i like this video nut just because on how to set up terminals and server but because we (at least I) got to know your team. And Chuck, they are good !

[@dominicdit]

why is thinlinc required, users can just RDP into a linux server at the same time... am I missing something here?

[@thooper989]

I think they key here is multiple users using the server at the same time. Also, the amount of admin control through a simple graphical interface.

[@LuxuryBall13]

2:50 "thanks to our sponsor Cendio" is what you're missing

[@aarontrionfi3893]

I believe RDP connections to Windows (not Windows Server) are limited to 1 concurrent connection.

[@OdisHarkins]

@@aarontrionfi3893 There previously was a setting in registry that one could change to "Fix" that limitation, I don't know now.

[@GC-rg6in]

Remmina to the rescue?

[@skylerparker6824]

You're turning into Windows. "You will use Linux and you will like it!"

[@skylerparker6824]

"That's not a bug, it's a feature!"

[@AarenIgnazio77]

We need a way for people impacted by Big Tech layoffs to use their skills for Linux, like a GoFundMe crowdsourcing thing. So people can get paid to help develop Linux and open-source alternatives to Adobe!

[@peacefulexistence_]

What about using that money to fund the existing software that has like 1.5 people working on it each :D

[@cesmarpebres577]

As a Filipino who follows Networkchuck, I learned a lot from you about Linux and cybersecurity one of the best channels to learn from and, it's shocking to see a Filipino comic character included in this video, Thank you and, Thank you very much for this meaningful knowledge.

[@RAyLV17]

0:34 subtitles: but with windows 11 we can't do that, but with Linux we can't

[@fyrestorme]

wth why are you using sysv init style commands instead of systemctl? I'm sure that gdm3 path is just an alias or symlink to systemctl but why use it when you have systemd? systemctl stop gdm3 or systemctl disable --now gdm3 Not angry. Just surprised and confused o_O

[@jfabc5203]

Same for me !

[@PtolemyPetrie]

In Computing there is a recurring saying, Everything Old is New Again! Great video Gents.