The Secret OS That Really Runs The World

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Windows and Android are universally known as two of the most popular operating systems in existence but what if I told you that there was an operating system that was even more popular? That operating system is Linux. This might sound confusing at first glance given that Linux is usually seen as the background OS only used by nerds but there are actually a lot more applications for Linux. In fact, Android itself is based on Linux and 96.3% of the world’s top 1 million web servers all run Linux. So, Linux is actually a monopoly like we’ve never seen before. The good news though is that Linux is open source and not really profit-driven though there is money to be made. The main question though is whether all of this is actually safe. This video explains the rise of Linux and how Linux became the secret operating system that runs the entire world.
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[@danielbuenrostro]

I use Arch btw

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Ah, wasn’t familiar with Arch

[@TintiKili69]

👋👉🌱🪴🌿🌲

[@skelebro9999]

same (Arco)

[@koneal2000]

​@@LogicallyAnswered"I use arch" is a meme in the Linux community, people who use arch like to brag about it lol

[@blazingblast]

I use Gentoo btw

[@plexyx8399]

just wanted to point out that linux is not unix-based, it is unix-like.

[@e8root]

Not entirely true it is not based on Unix. Linus didn't use Unix source code and implemented certain things like he saw fit rather than trying to replicate each and every ABI quirks that Unix had since its inception so it is not based on Unix in this sense it evolved from Unix like eg. free BSD family did or illumos (which is genuine Unix BTW) but still it was made to work mostly like an unix OS and most of its initial userspace tools it got from GNU were direct ripoffs of Unix utilities.

[@dank3k]

​@e8root Unix is a certification. The linux kernel is not certified as unix. Therefore, it's unix-like.

[@chrimony]

Linus just wrote the kernel. He licensed it under GPL because there was already GNU operating system (licensed under GPL) built on the Unix model, but lacking the kernel. GNU had a windows system (X11), command line tools, compilers, editors, etc. -- but the kernel they were working on was one of these never-finishing dream projects. So it ended up being a match made in heaven when Linus plopped his kernel into the GNU operating system and created Linux.

[@blindsniper35]

And this is why sometimes you'll see it referred to as GNU Linux or GNU + Linux. Although I think that has fallen out of favored is seen as fairly old school.

[@smithrockford-dv1nb]

However, given the reputation of the FSF and Stallman no one should ever refer to it as GNU/Linux or GNU+Linux. It taints a bad image, an plus, even in the 90s the only people calling it that were Stallman, the FSF, and brain-dead followers of theirs

[@scifino1]

@@blindsniper35 At this point, there are so many alternatives to most of the GNU stuff (LLVM instead of GCC, Wayland instead of X11, ...), that it really is valid to refer to Linux as Linux and not GNU/Linux or similar. That said, for distros, that still rely on a lot of GNU stuff, like Debian for example, it is equally valid to use GNU/Linux.

[@ayesaac]

​​​​​​@@blindsniper35 it's just wrong nowadays when referring to the general concept of Linux. Most Linux still uses GNU, to be fair, but Busybox, MUSL C, Wayland, and other software has resulted in fully featured Linux systems, both server and client, which don't use any GNU software. The kernel is what unites them all. I have GNU/Linux systems, but my main laptop and phone are both Linux Kernel + Alpine + Wayland based systems.

[@JmbFountain]

The X Window system (and Wayland for that matter) aren't GNU software. GNU also had and still has a Kernel, Hurd.

[@CHKDG8]

I left Windows over 10 years ago and never looked back. I can play my entire Steam library of 500+ titles with Proton. Linux has come a long way. Linux for life.

[@souravsuman636]

Which distro are you using?

[@morbidiablack5321]

Any luck with epic games?

[@AyushTH]

​@@morbidiablack5321No one has any

[@orkhepaj]

no you can't stop lying

[@orkhepaj]

@@souravsuman636 probably windows 11 :D

[@carlod1605]

3:53 I might be wrong, but linux was open source from the beginning. Linus was using his own custom open source licence that was restricting commercial use. Open source means you can access the source code and make some changes, but redistribution is not always granted. Later Linux switched to GPL 2.0 licence that is both free software and open source and allows both redistribution and commercial use

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.

[@bitwhyze]

It has always been freely accessible but in the very beginning it was only freely distributable. Later on it got GPLed.

[@fuseteam]

Actually redistributing is a part if the core values of open source, without redistribution it's 'source available'

[@jimmyneutron129]

first license was not open source by definition restricting commercial use is not open source

[@gljames24]

​@@jimmyneutron129that would be open use. The term open source just implies freely viewable and can be added to by anyone.

[@kurtmueller2089]

For a reasonably well running company, it is not the price of software or the lack thereof that decides what to use. Case in point: Siemens, which uses Linux on its Sinumerik PLC/SPS boxes (the specialized hardware "computers" that control the big CNC centers). Now Siemens is massive, they dont care if they have to pay 100$ or 1000$ per seat in licensing or support. In fact, they have Siemens employees working directly at Microsoft (yet paid by Siemens) to enhance collaboration. Despite this, one day they asked MS if a certain feature for their PLC boxes could be done in Windows (at the time the OS for Sinumerik). Took MS 6 WEEKS to respond with a "no". Just for fun, one employee decided to ask about the same feature on a random Linux discussion forum. 30 minutes later someone had replied with "yes" including a step-by-step list with how to implement it. Ever since then Siemens uses Linux. (Source: a training program at Siemens over a decade ago where I asked the instructor why those boxes showed the Linux bootup log when started) Also Coop, a swiss supermarket chain, uses SuSe Linux on its self-checkout systems.

[@MeiinUK]

Many things uses linux, doesn't it ? But the thing is.... how do you.... I want to know what actually happened since windows 3.1. Am I actually in a matrix already ? And what happened to those old actual websites gone to ??????!!!

[@JamesTDG]

Man, this is such an amazing story

[@dylangtech]

I'm typing this on my Mint Linux desktop. I used to use Windows Subsystem for Linux for my software engineer escapades, but it became such a chore to keep things working when it's inside of Windows that I eventually made the jump. I even play games on it now :)

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Playing games on Linux is how you know you’re really committed haha

[@hopelessdecoy]

Same here, Mint is awesome. All the benefits of Linux with the completeness feeling a lot of Distros don't have. Proton/Wine is also an amazing piece of software

[@mskiptr]

​@@LogicallyAnswered Valve has made that easy in the past couple of years

[@JamesTDG]

​@@hopelessdecoyfor sure

[@bullshitman155]

@@hopelessdecoy imagine using a DE💀

[@bvd_vlvd]

In a world where all the apps and websites are littered with ads, learning to use Linux was the best decision I made last year. I'm eagerly waiting for Fedora 39 and the upgrades to already astonishing gnome 44 desktop. I couldn't believe something nerdy could look nicer than MacOS. I'm never paying for Windows ever again!

[@thomwalks]

Do you use NVIDIA gpu or AMD/INTEL? Should I go for an AMD if I'm gonna be gaming on Linux?

[@tabzoo7819]

​@@thomwalksjust go with whatever you want, nvidia has drivers for Linux just they aren't open source, they work well tho! Everything works well using Linux in my experience

[@divyanshbhutra5071]

I had the same experience. The experience on Fedora 38 is just so amazing. And I can find the most niche apps on the store. And I've learnt a lot that I wouldn't have otherwise. And tbh it's solid colors are a fresh feel compared to the overly frosted acrylic effect in windows.

[@mskiptr]

@@thomwalks You're probably better off with AMD. NVIDIA drivers may or may not be solid, depending on what exactly you want to run. Though there is an in-development, independent and fully-open source Vulkan driver for ≥Turing, so it will hopefully eventually be on-par with all the other platforms supported by Mesa.

[@StaffyDoo]

Take a look at Universal Blue, the next iteration of OSTree-based Fedora systems. The way uBlue implement the delivery of system updates using OCI containers is nothing short of awesome.

[@易利亚]

Why you choose linux: F-R-E-E and Open Source

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

Also companies like Valve are opening up admitting Steam is aimed at Linux they should force everything to work permanently on Linux rather than Windows to kill Microsoft off.

[@fedora]

The Tux side of computing is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be... unnatural.

[@luisemiliopadilla6027]

Where can I learn these powers? xD

[@jimbo-dev]

@@luisemiliopadilla6027 For example youtube has some great tutorials 🤔

[@imperfect_analysis]

​@@luisemiliopadilla6027start with linux mint on a virtual machine. What you need : a video tutorial, and a virtual machine program, such as Virtual Box.

[@TheCultureCallout]

As a IT student we use a linux to learn cybersecurity. Love that OS ❤️

[@AIC_onyt]

@@aqfj5zy linux based OSes are simple and if you have the knowlege you can modify it to do anything. and no, you can't "just hack" it as alot of the security loopholes get patched really fast. also, in what part of the comment was he flexing?

[@avisprimey]

It's not uncommon to see young Windows shills here@@AIC_onyt

[@fvs666]

hi, i am thinking of going into cybersecurity, what to except and where to start ?

[@adidibrani]

Steam is using Linux for their newest gaming device, which will accelerate game adaption for Linux. With distros such as PopOS and Fedora which are super user friendly and more software and game support, I see schools and organizations giving MS the middle finger

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

Schools were using Chromebooks in mass, which are Linux based. However many schools are beginning to switch to windows laptops and MS's attempt to copy the Chromebook: surface laptops. The supposed reasoning is that you will need to use Microsoft's Office suite (which is now a service rather than a single purchase). Realistically if you are going into software and tech work you need Linux experience. If you are in the office you do not necessarily have to use Microsoft office, because I can do the same work on Libreoffice or Google Docs easily. There is some software that is only native to Microsoft which is still used in the offices, a lot of places where I worked ran all of their monitoring and control software on XP. Microsoft knows that their dominance of the software world is slowly slipping. I jumped off of the Microsoft train back when Vista came out.

[@JamesTDG]

Don't forget Mint! I actually have plans to do some local volunteer work with a bunch of schools in my district to help introduce kids to Linux and help make hardware easier to maintain for school staff.

[@JamesTDG]

​@@user-nu8in3ey8cI love me some libre office

[@user-nu8in3ey8c]

@@JamesTDG Mint looks cool, I have never used it yet. I currently use POP! OS

[@piens51]

​@@user-nu8in3ey8cchrome OS is probably amongst the most nerfed and kneecaped versions out there. Iys not suprising that its decresing in user share.

[@wigglz]

I have used and worked with Linux for over 20 years - Fedora, Slackware, Redhat, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu and now Arch. Great overview of how Linux has grown over the years with the communities. Almost everything we use and interact with touches the Linux OS in some shape or form.

[@AutoMotoZ]

Which is distro of linux is best for a powerful Desktop build which can do programming ,coding ,industry,Networking and alittle games ? And video editing and multimedia animation ??

[@gwgux]

@@AutoMotoZ Almost all of them. You can make a distro do what ever you want it to do. A distro is just a starting point with a selection of default software and configurations to get you started on using the computer the way you want to. Some distros start you off better than others for certain tasks and that's about it. If unsure, just start with Mint, Pop!_OS or maybe even Fedora. Then as you learn how Linux works in general, branch out to some of the other distros to see how they work for you. As you hit other distros you'll see it's not so much about the distro, just where you want to start. Some distros do some cool things and have cool customizations out of the box already done for you while others require you to put the system together yourself from the ground up.

[@joshlexcelius2573]

​​@@AutoMotoZdepends if you want Stabality or Bleeding Edge. Thanks to Valve almost Any Distro can Game Through Proton/Wine without Fiddeling beyond the Steam Settings for the Most Part. Choose Something Debian, Ubuntu, or Red Hat Based if you Want Stability. Choose Something Arch, Void or Nyx Based if you Want Bleeding Edge and don't mind doing Frequent Backups of you're Data Frequently, because it's Bleeding Edge and if don't Take Precautions to Limit it. Bleeding Edge Distros will Break themselves.

[@adriancoanda9227]

take kata os it has 0 bad code

[@kwando472]

​@@joshlexcelius2573Red hat and Ubuntu are shit.

[@thatoneguywifi]

another win for the linux community!

[@orkhepaj]

okay less than 2% userbase :D

[@thatoneguywifi]

you wanna challenge us @@orkhepaj?

[@ItsTheWhale]

The Year of the Linux Desktop is at long last upon us...

[@GalaxyTheReal]

@@orkhepaj over 3% my friend :) we're growing slowly

[@estiennetaylor1260]

​@studyid284Irrelevant when work gets done on Windows only.

[@st.altair4936]

Desktop Linux has come a long way too. The last thing missing was games having Linux support, and that's pretty much fixed now thanks to Wine and Valve's efforts. Switched to Nobara Linux a year ago and haven't come across a game I want to play yet that doesn't run these days.

[@fetB]

its not really fixed. It works in many cases but its nowehre near fixed. Fixed would be native support

[@st.altair4936]

@@fetB Native support is of course ideal. Modding is still an issue with some non native games. Other than that though, it's already pretty great. Not much more issues with game compatibility than windows

[@fetB]

​@@st.altair4936 well, you do have to jump through various hoops and there is also things like peripherals support in racing sims for example. To say its not much issues and its fixed, is just not accurate. It imples there is nothing to do, which is not the case.

[@verifeli]

And they said Valve is a bad company...

[@KarabauPlay]

native support depends on game developers not linux developers.

[@marufbepary100]

I'm a Linux user, I use Fedora. In my experience, Linux either works perfectly without issues or it doesn't work at all. It is perfect for my development needs, it performs like an absolute beast and it most cases it is easier to use. I just turn my computer on, do my work and turn it back off. If you don't try to break it then it wont break, unlike Windows where there is something that doesn't work or some Windows update breaks something. I just wish more people would use it so that there would be more apps for regular users.

[@klebleonard]

fellow fedora user here, greetings

[@Hydridity]

Exactly, if running on hardware that vendor does support Linux, for example with full AMD build as i do have, it's as much as plug and play experience without any issues Just recently I did switch my personal desktop to daily drive Linux after what I've seen what advancements Valve did with their Proton tech and I had no issues at all even tho I'm using very unusual distro NixOs, all my games do work perfectly And I've been very surprised after plugging in random bluetooth dongle my friend had problem with on his windows machine, it just worked on my system no question asked. Speaking about the vendor support, when it comes to Nvidia, sadly plug & play becomes plug & pray And for gamer's or professional peripherals it just boils down to their software (Like Corsair ICUE or various drawing tablet software) not having native app for configuration available for Linux just because they dont bother with it as they dont expect users to use it on linux, And so does also professional software like Adobe stack, if they did port they apps to natively support Linux more users could leave windows behind. I just do sincerely hope this changes in the future and more users can start using Linux.

[@rajendrameena150]

Corporate players like Adobe will never provide Linux support because it knows that those users will crack the source code of the software anyhow and will not pay for the software. They will just play safe with windows.

[@sacredbanana1683]

@@Hydridity plug and pray lol

[@dmknght8946]

actually Linux distro could have problem upgrading packages. idk about fedora (i tried 1 day, upgraded it and it gave me error plymouth service. it couldnt boot at all lol) but in Debian based, the dependencies could be a nightmare. and upgrade libc (sometime ) would bring huge issues. but to be honest, Linux distro are much better than windows

[@rockin935]

I've been using Desktop Linux since 2019, and it has turned me into a tech enthusiast. It has made me feel more secure, tech-savvy, and conscious about my digital consumption. Arch, Ubuntu, Zorin, Ultramarine, Linux Mint, and PopOS stand out as my favorites. I truly believe that Linux represents the future.

[@JJFlores197]

I think if we want Linux to be the future, there has to be a huge push to get the average user to even know it exists. Do your friends and family know about Linux? When was the last time you saw a computer (be it desktop or laptop) in-store that came with Linux? You can buy computers pre-loaded with Linux online, but again, the vast majority of people have never heard of brands like System76. I know a lot of the major computer manufacturers sell PCs with Linux pre-installed, but they don't advertise them.

[@kenbaird7454]

"I use arch BTW" lol. Anyway, yeah, the biggest reasons people don't use linux are this:1.They don't know it exists. 2.They think its for IT gurus and nerds, and have no interest in switching. 3. They honestly don't care about privacy and control. They own nothing and are happy. 4. They are baffled by the number of choices, and get stuck on choosing a distro.

[@Stealth86651]

Sometimes I wonder what a world without a free/open source operating system(s) like Linux would be. Imagine how much slower the internet would have expanded.

[@Seacat17]

It would die because of monopoly.

[@silvy7394]

@@Seacat17 Bruh Open source is what encourages a monopoly. Look at any open source market. Even the web browser market right now.

[@Seacat17]

@@silvy7394 man, ask Duck about Firefox.

[@the_mariocrafter]

Would free/share-ware exist?

[@amogoose2971]

@@silvy7394 anyone can fork an open-source software though, thus making a competitor of the original software

[@wsippel]

It's often overlooked for some reason, but Linux is also the most popular embedded operating system by a country mile. So a ton of people have several Linux devices running in their home, often without even realizing. Your entire network equipment most likely runs Linux (routers, access points, modems, IP doorbells and surveillance equipment), as does your smart TV and many smart home appliances, and even your car.

[@ollimustonen]

Yep. Almost every embedded little gadget runs Linux. Obviously… Scalability baby…

[@DeveloVooshGWeb]

even your phone (android) is based on Linux

[@Tracenji]

@@ollimustonen some stuff runs on BSD like the info screen on the bus i took to school, for some reason they chose BSD for that? and sometimes it didn't even start correctly and it was just showing the TTY and some error message (not blaming BSD for that, probably just set up badly or they made the bus info system badly)

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@DeveloVooshGWebiOS (Darwin) is slowly trying to replace Android worldwide and already is causing the extinction of Android in the Anglo-world (USA, Great Britain, IreLand, Australia, NZ).

[@the_mariocrafter]

@@ollimustonenThe only smart TVs that aren’t Linux are Apple TV, but it’s not even a TV in the first place.

[@skelebro9999]

With some of the decisions Microsoft is taking with their Windows, I can see Linux slowly becoming more and more popular in the future. It's crazy to think that such an operating system even exists in the modern times when APIs and sites are willing to paywall everything (Looking at you, Twitter and Reddit)

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Yeah, it truly is

[@electric7487]

I honestly didn't even see Windows 11's crap coming but I jumped ship on the first day of the 2020's and haven't looked back since. And once I DID find out about how invasive and bloated Windows 11 is, I couldn't have been more glad.

[@animotiondesign]

It already is, in the last year the desktop usage went from around 2.5% to 3.14% (or around 7% if you count chromeOS and some other Linux obscure OS')

[@felixjohnson3874]

It has not ever lost marketshare except for windows xp. (At least from the metrics I've seen)

[@altrag]

99% of people don't care about the decisions Microsoft is making for Windows. More importantly, massive companies either don't care or have the influence to direct those decisions. Windows is easy and its what everyone already knows how to use. It will keep being what everyone uses as long as that remains true. Microsoft would have to be a hell of a lot more egregious than just collecting usage data that users are already voluntarily feeding to Google, Meta or Microsoft themselves before sufficiently many people give sufficiently many shits to switch en masse. End users also don't care about developer-facing paywalls either for the most part. Those costs are hidden from them (even if they're paying them in some fashion it just gets wrapped up in the single price tag and users just assume its inflation). And even all those stars aligned and people started abandoning Microsoft, most would switch to Mac rather than Linux so you'd need also Apple to be equally egregious before serious Linux adoption happens on the desktop. The only thing that could seriously drive a switch to Linux is if someone like Google invested the time to wrap it in a pretty UI similar to what Apple did with BSD. Not a "highly configurable" UI. Not "pick your window manager from this list of cryptic names you've never heard of and can't distinguish". Most end users won't understand and aren't going to bother - it has to be something that looks good and functions well out of the box. Such a system would also have to be generic - it can't be something heavily restricted to Google's ecosystem and products (see ChromeOS). Having access to the Play store would be great. _ONLY_ having access to the Play store not so much, at least not if they want to compete with Windows and Mac on equal footing. Also, Google's not the only company who could do that - they're just the most obvious. Someone like Sony could attempt it using a PlayStation tie-in - though again it couldn't be hard restricted to the PS store or require a PS+ subscription or anything like that). Meta might be able to do it if they ever get their head out of their asses as retarget their "Metaverse" idea to actual consumers rather than targeting it to shareholder-friendly buzzwords and assuming consumers will care. They might have had the best shot at it really as they could have built an entire ecosystem around their VR universe rather than just being an app running on a traditional system. But I expect their head to be firmly ass-planted for the foreseeable future and at this point it feels more likely that their Metaverse idea will continue falling on the priority list until its entirely trashed. Hopefully they at least spin Oculus off again and don't end up taking the entire 3D industry down with them. Getting a bit off-topic now though! Of course any such attempt by any company would have Apple's problem, and the first point I already mentioned: 99% of Windows users just don't care enough to switch. Change is hard and most people avoid it when they can.

[@rodolfo9876a]

Linux is very interesting. Some time ago this year I was taking the bus to school (I live in Brazil). The ticket gate (roleta, as we call here) had an issue where whenever the collector pressed the button to unlock it (for people who payed with live money) it just simply didn't. So, upon re-starting the system for it (it ran on a system that allowed for reading for the cards), I saw the Linux penguins there, and I was shocked, because I had never expected Linux to be used for a bus ticket gate system.

[@DerivativeOfLog7]

I'd be shocked to find a similar system that did NOT run Linux (or maybe Android, like I've seen running on the screen of some buses) (edit: I know Android is based on Linux, but it's very different compared to "traditional" distros so I count it as separate) I've ever seen it on a cash register!

[@rodolfo9876a]

@@DerivativeOfLog7Wow! Linux is surely such an interesting OS.

[@asunavk69]

​@@rodolfo9876ayou can complety turn a distro like gentoo to 'whatever' you could think of, for such things, basically with enough work could as well be built like some dedicated os. Other oses are a bit different but for desktop usage will give also more than enough freedom to do crazy stuff.

[@granturismo3wasgreat]

Linux is pretty much present on almost every brazilian eletronic at this point: Voting machines, bus terminal screens, tvs, ATMs, etc

[@rodolfo9876a]

@@granturismo3wasgreat Shocking how much time I took to realise that! Amazed to know

[@whatthepick]

Linux really does rule the world I love that it can also be plugged and played as a Portable app if you need a really lightweight OS

[@elyassaa6136]

Richard Stallman is gonna want this guy's head on a spike lol not a single mention of him or the GNU project in the entire video.

[@KeithBoehler]

Surprised I have not seen the meme posted yet.

[@Eren_Yeager_is_the_GOAT]

and when he did mention GNU at 3:30 he mispronounced it 😑

[@TheRealSeamless]

Good work sorting the audio sync! Last 2 drops have been perfect :)

[@LogicallyAnswered]

🙏 glad to hear that man!

[@TinyHomeLabs]

That network chuck terminal... wonder where that b-roll came from lol

[@kh_trendy]

G N U is usually pronounced "Ga New" BTW.

[@hlkihglkhglkhg]

“I run Linux” is akin to “Hi, I’m a vegan”, and I love it!

[@the_mariocrafter]

Using exclusively ChromeOS is more of that vegan feel to it than using full Linux.

[@nou712]

@@the_mariocrafter Using linux is going hunting / gathering or farming your own food. Using windows is buying poisoned meat from the store. Using mac os is veganism with small quantities of corporate poison added and insufficient protein. Using ChromeOS is having no food. Linux requires you to do more, but it's more rewarding.

[@Alkaris]

Many regular folks might want to jump over to Linux as their main time OS if there's an easy and appealing way that introduces people to Linux, like how Valve did when they came out with the Steam Deck to try out the gaming experience on a mini Linux PC handheld, and use Proton to still be able to get access to play games meant only for Windows. You can even use it as a portable workstation PC since you are able to drop to a Desktop user space and everything.

[@fuseteam]

Kinda ironic that dell and hp kickstarted linux but neither have full linux support on their consumer hardware

[@LilCow]

I started using SuSE in 2004 then OpenSUSE. With Valve working on Proton I finally felt confident enough to kick Windows completely in 2018 and never looked back (a number of Blizzard games had a tendency to break after updates under Wine and early versions of Proton). IMHO Proton has been one of the greatest contributions to Linux, at least for gaming. I am also really liking where OpenSUSE is headed with MicroOS.

[@teevee3407]

I wish this video mentioned Richard Stallman, but overall very educational and well said.

[@Bianchi77]

Nice video, well done,thanks for sharing it with us :)

[@masterchiefburgess]

I started using Linux back in 2000. Needed to build up a LAMP server so I could host my hockey team's website (I couldn't afford Microsoft IIS). I started with the Slackware distro (not as many options back then), taught myself Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP over the course of a year and had my website/s up and running. In the course of doing this, I started using Linux on my personal desktop, even though my job was tech support in a Windows based business. I've been using Linux now for over 23 years, and have tried various distros (Slackware, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Zorin among others). Currently using POP! OS and Zorin on my laptops & desktops. De-Googled one of my old phones and installed Ubuntu Plus.

[@m4rt_]

I left Windows for good shortly after the Windows 11 leak. I'm glad that I did, Linux is objectively better. My current desktop configuration is maybe not for everyone (Arch Linux), but using something like Linux Mint, Fedora, etc is relatively simple. Linux Mint resembles Windows (It uses Cinnamon), and includes a lot of stuff out of the box and has a lot of guides. Fedora is mainly GNOME which isn't so similar to Windows, but it's not that hard to learn, and it also includes a lot of stuff out of the box and has a lot of guides. It won't be easy to begin with, but everything has a learning curve. If you're on windows you likely think that windows is easier, but it's not, it's overcomplicated, and you just think that it's easy because you've probably used it since you were a kid in school and just got used to it.

[@bullshitman155]

"and includes a lot of stuff out of the box" funny way to say "is bloated"

[@m4rt_]

@@bullshitman155 for some that means bloated, for others it means they don't have to install a bunch of useful programs they might want; It's kinda like batteries included vs batteries not included. Would you call batteries included bloat? I personally don't call it bloat, but I prefer to have only the stuff I want/need installed.

[@Hollowdude15]

Amazing video man🎉

[@blindsniper35]

I kept windows around for certain engineering software and games. Now there's more engineering software for Linux and steam made games work very well. Add what Microsoft's been doing with Windows 11 and I completely ditched windows. Although to be completely fair I had already ditched windows before Windows 11 came out but now I'm definitely not installing Windows.

[@sarvasvudawant8815]

Linux is not an Operating System, its a kernel.

[@barry5]

Congratulations, you are technically correct

[@sarvasvudawant8815]

@@barry5 ok not gonna lie, I was just watching a video about France selling a Dinosaur named Barry

[@CZghost]

It should be noted that Linux was based on the Unix platform, which has existed since 1960's and was widely in use throughout 1970's and 1980's. Just like Linux, Unix also wasn't just one OS, but rather a platform that bridges various distributions together. One of the most popular Unix distributions was Xenix, developed by Microsoft, for PDP-11. You may also find some Unix clones for x86 platform, so you may run Unix on an IBM compatible PC. Linux is based on Unix, so it essentially takes its POSIX file system and the Unix commands and utilities. Bash is heavily based on the original Unix shell, and it's called pretty conveniently Bourne Again Shell (as the original shell was called Bourne Shell), from which the Bash acronym is taken. Linus essentially took Unix and turned it into an open-source platform.

[@CZghost]

Oh, it's being said in the video. Well, that's one way to summarize it. :D

[@sthecommenter76]

Awesome video. Great information.

[@davidgrisez]

One of the most interesting things that I have seen in the Linux Community is the development of a distribution of Linux to run on the new Apple Silicon Macs. A group of programmers got to work developing Asahi Linux for Apple Silicon Macs. At the present it is now called the Fedora Asahi Remix. These distributions of Linux for Apple Silicon Macs must have been a lot reverse engineering work to figure out how Apple did things with their M1 and M2 systems on a chip.

[@Decommissioned]

I think whats more impressive is the GPU driver. It took like 2 years of reverse engineering to get that working, and it was written from scratch.

[@clashgamers4072]

Calling linux secret os is the understatement of the century

[@verifeli]

So it's an overstatement then?

[@hopelessdecoy]

I left Windows for Linux Mint last year and I'm not looking back. Gaming, developing and everything is working well for me. I just have 1 Windows laptop for testing apps on the platform. Everything else is Mint!

[@raw2085]

That was awesome. Thanks!

[@osayami]

Great video.For a long time now I wanted to suggest that you make a video on why Valve choose to support Linux.

[@felixjohnson3874]

I would also bring up that the Steamdeck is running linux and linux is just generally better on a technical level across the board. Additionally, at least personally, even in terms of a user experience and features linux really outpaces anything and everything else. (And I'm using the arch repos) It seems complicated sure, but if your techie enough to watch a video like this your probably going to get more long term value from taking a month or so being a bit uncomfortable while you relearn some shit than you would just gritting your teeth and dealing with MS or Apple. In under a year dozens of things I've wanted to do on windows for a decade I can just... do. Not to mention everything runs smoother, I can be confident the vast majority of the software I run is perfectly private & safe, etc. Even my performance in games is just night and day. (Not as much in terms of FPS, but frame timings got a massive bump to consistemcy) Yes, it took a months to learn fully, but in one year I'm doing laps around what I did with well over a decade of windows power use. It takes a while to learn sure, but when you compare it to how long it took for you to learn windows/mac that gets recontextualized real fast.

[@TulioG]

Excellent choice of topic... kudos As Stallmann would emphasize.. the "free" in GNU isn't free of cost like free beer.. it's free from freedom..

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Thanks man!

[@Winnetou17]

Free as in free speech!

[@balpreetsingh6834]

Great video as always

[@ThejaKarnati]

That's a great way of narrating a story. Fascinating

[@LUL2]

I love Linux because you can customize it perfectly for your needs

[@nerd26373]

The Secret OS does seem a bit more discreet than any of us could ever expect. The most prominent would've been the iOS which we all know are only exclusive for all things Apple while Android has their own.

[@apIthletIcc]

the ">" symbol is a great way to look at this too since the > command for capturing stdout in a file represents a sort of similar concept

[@needsLITHIUM]

Linux user since my high school days, I discovered the existence of Ubuntu and Fedora around 2005, 2006 when I was still below the age of majority. I remember trying out installing Knoppix, Fedora, and Lubuntu on an old refurbished Pentium 2/GeForce 2 Dell laptop my mom bought from the IT guy at her office job. Off to the races, as it was. Long before I ever rooted or loaded a custom ROM on an Android phone, my first attempts at recording music were done with Ardour. Now I only use Windows for recording, because VST bridges annoy me. For gaming, all my favorite games run native or run really well on Proton, and for everything else I do, even practicing guitar, my favorite amp sims all run on Linux. My favorite office suite runs on everything (onlyoffice).

[@capitanodessa7472]

Nowadays I use Windows at works, and Linux for everything else. Even gaming is now possible on linux thanks to Steam and Proton, with even more performance and less telemetry and ads than Windows. Not only that, customization is key, so I made my linux OS look like Windows XP because it brings me good memories :)

[@testtest8399]

Wow, steam really set them selves up as saviors, did they help gaming on linux a bit? Yes, but wine that proton is based on has been here for ages, It ran decently well for a lot of things even before "savior" got there. Honestly Steam gets way too much credit there and wine project not nearly enough.

[@capitanodessa7472]

@@testtest8399 I know Wine existed for a long time, but Proton is great. It's literally a couple of clicks and it just works, without having to install anything else. That alone is enough to encourage people to try Linux as their main OS.

[@Winnetou17]

Everybody mentions Steam and Proton, but too few mention the DECADES of work done by WINE also with the help of ReactOS developers. Without them, Proton would not exist.

[@barry5]

@testtest8399 try playing a modern video game using wine and tell me how it goes.

[@testtest8399]

@@barry5 I played Shadow of the tomb raider with next to no problems

[@bugseater1]

I really think that when Wayland (windowing system) gets a bit more mature, Linux on the desktop will be far easier for most people. I don't see it realistically taking over Windows for... probably ever? Several decades? Easy-to-use distros are getting easier to use, and Debian is already far more stable than Windows, as long as you get a lucky roll with your hardware. Even my Surface Pro from Microsoft was able to run Debian amazingly (albeit with a custom kernel.) I love Arch (But do not recommend it unless you REALLY are a nerd who loves customization), and the easier options are getting better :)

[@UncleJemima]

Wayland is just a technical detail, why would it affect how easy Linux is to use?

[@FlyHighROFLcopter]

@@UncleJemima The better out of box support for stuff like multi-monitor setups, high refresh rates, etc. X11 works, but is kinda a mess compared to how these things work on Windows and MacOS

[@the_mariocrafter]

Based on Microsoft’s activity, I think Windows might end up becoming a Linux distro with Windows support, which is basically how Apple A/UX worked.

[@raderator]

Linus is actually Swedish. Sweden conquered Finland and a lot of the people near the coast are Swedes. They speak Swedish at home.

[@vladislavkaras491]

Thanks for the video!

[@xair0_]

I use arch btw

[@AndersHass]

Pretty sure IBM, Dell and HP had UNIX OS, not sure it was Microsoft Windows that made them shift.

[@LogicallyAnswered]

Which one?

[@AndersHass]

@@LogicallyAnsweredIBM was called IBM AIX, HP was called HP-UX and Dell was called Dell UNIX. I think the reason the shift from UNIX to Linux happened was Linux was developed to more easily work on various hardware where each UNIX OS had to be made to work on particular hardware and thereby more expensive to make. Edit: I can see they were all based of UNIX System V if that is what you meant by which one.

[@supercellex4D]

@@AndersHass UNIX had a big license clusterfuck due to Bell Labs having monopoly status over SysV causing every vendor to fight over Bell's OS, while GNU's kernel (Hurd over Mach) wasn't quite ready leading people to slap the GNU userland utilities over the Linux kernel as an alternative to the then near monopolistic Windows NT over shortfalls in the Windows paradigm and a need for Unix on x86 architecture computers

[@AndersHass]

@@supercellex4D I dunno if IBM, HP and Dell moved away from UNIX because of that but it is certainly another reason why the overall market moved to Linux.

[@supercellex4D]

@@AndersHass no, people were getting sued all over, that was a reason why people were fleeing 'True UNIX's

[@SamarthCat]

Great video! But I think you should give credit to Fireship for using some of his footage in the video.

[@yerenzter]

I used Debian with XFCE 4 DE in my Dell Chromebook 11 (3120), I used it for my school, programming, web server and multimedia I customize them from scratch like the way you customize Android by changing the themes, taskbar, window managers, icons etc.

[@krekelyt]

Android is based on linux Edit: I just found out he talks about it in his video lol

[@YTlearnertamil]

Mint user 🙃

[@LindonSlaght]

Logically Answered's face is so different from what I expected that my brain literally thinks it's a voiceover of someone else talking.

[@ashleyanne2056]

Love that sneaky loop at 4:09

[@yerielzamora]

I like linux

[@JV-pu8kx]

One could argue that the actual most common OS is _Unix,_ or Unix-based operating systems. Think about it. Linux was created as an open source alternative to Minix, a flavor of Unix. Mac OS is built on a flavor of Unix. Microsoft's Azure service.

[@EHKvlogs]

after trying ubuntu, xubuntu and kubuntu, i finally settled on debian 12 with kde plasma. Might try arch or gentoo in the future.

[@chickywilly]

Excellent quality video. Thank you for your great presentation. 🙂👍 Linux rules! 🐧

[@odesangel]

Why no mention of Unix? The idea of Linux didn't just come out of nowhere. It began as a clone of Unix, which had already been around for decades. An important part of the story of Linux is why Linus created Linux in the first place.

[@reynold.lariza]

I don't think anyone would question the parent of Linux, hence there are no mention... Put it this way... your success in life is credit to you, but its not (if at all) always credited to your parents.

[@odesangel]

​@@reynold.lariza It depends on who you ask. The average middle-aged person may have heard of Unix, but most people under 40 probably have not. The point of my comment was to highlight WHY Linux was created. This is an important part of the story of Linux because it's a major reason why it became a success.

[@reynold.lariza]

@@odesangel hahaha, are we that old? 🤣🤣

[@jens5906]

Linux has come from "Still need to dualboot it with windows, because lots of software is missing" 2008-2016? over "Mostly software runs, highly specialized stuff can be run from Wine or a Windows virtual machine" 2016-2020 to "You dont provide a Linux version of your software? Well fuck you I'll go with 1 of the 3 alternatives that do" 2020-present Eventually it will even challenge Microsoft in corporate applications like Office 365

[@Wilker_uwu]

overlooked on the desktop user side, yes. secret? uhh coming for the title, i thought there would be a direct answer as to why would it be considered "secret".

[@aaronaustrie]

Cool stuff ✊🏾💯

[@FlVE]

I tried using linux on my laptop. As a user who does not need anything other than a browser and a file explorer i thought it was fine at first but then i found out the battery life issue. As it was a laptop and i was a college student, batterylife was THE most important thing. Also, the touchpad experience was horrible on linux. Had to switch back.

[@damnstupidoldidiot8776]

It seems to me that some distributions come with battery life saver support. Which distribution did you use?

[@fury999_]

The story does not begin from 1991 and Torvalds. It begins from Richard Stallman in 1983. Stallman is the true hero behind this operating system yet most people don't know his name. Linus got all the credits which Stallman deserved. Stallman started the GNU project to create the GNU Operating System. At the beginning of 90s it was almost complete except one last component was yet to be made that is the kernel. Linus torvlads created that component as linux. The operating system started to be called as GNU + linux or GNU/linux but nowadays people surprisingly ignore GNU and only call it Linux which is very unjust. We should give atleast equal if not more mentions to GNU project

[@barry5]

There's non-gnu Linux distros too, so calling them all gnu/linux doesn't make sense... (Chimera, for example)

[@mk-ps6xv]

people managed to make linux work independently from gnu ages ago

[@fury999_]

@@barry5 There are distributions of GNU that do not use the linux-kernel. Secondly linux-kernel would never be open source or even be compiled if GNU Project did not exist.

[@morbidiablack5321]

A non-scandalous story, and it's about Linux. As a new Linux user, thank you. I've learnt things

[@balloontune1769]

1:00 Spotted network chuck 👀

[@nitinkumar6913]

I use ubuntu

[@electric7487]

Ubuntu Gang

[@DannerBanks]

Linux isn't an OS, it's a kernel

[@LordGooben]

Another great episode

[@woohoo2491]

I thought this video was going to be about Minix, and how it has been present on every single Intel based computer since ~2007 and still is to this day

[@L0gicalPsych0]

Terrible take. Linux isn't even an OS.

[@Winnetou17]

That ship has sailed a long time ago. Too many people just call it that and/or use the term like that, so to a casual, you're really splitting hairs.

[@L0gicalPsych0]

@@Winnetou17 Then too many people are just plain incorrect. Calling Linux an OS shows a real lack of technical knowledge on the subject, and really just a lack of effort (since anyone with access to Google can find out within a couple of minutes that Linux is a kernel). This video contains a lot of misinformation. The fact that someone is a so-called 'casual' doesn't mean they don't deserve factually correct information.

[@Winnetou17]

@@L0gicalPsych0 Yup, you are correct. Sadly, convenience often ... who am I kidding, ALWAYS trumps over correctness, when we're talking mainstream public. That's why I'm saying it's a losing battle. To be fair, when the idea is to get across that you're using an OS which is neither Windows, nor MacOS, nor Android, but uses the Linux kernel... simply calling it Linux ... it DOES the job. The contexts where you would say "I'm running Debian" and the other person is like "Oh, Linux. Nice" and you then go "WRONG! It's GNU/Hurd" are really, really niche contexts.

[@L0gicalPsych0]

@@Winnetou17 I disagree. The title of the video suggests there is a single OS that 'runs the world', while in fact it's a slew of different OS'es. This is a misrepresentation. It's akin to saying "The most bought car brand in the world is not a Ford, but 'secretly' the Diesel car". Besides that it's highly debatable whether Linux-based OS'es actually run the world; they're certainly not the most free, and calling them the most secure is just ignorant.

[@thomaskish8392]

What distro are you running? I was running Fedora but started having trouble as Virtual Box wasn't being updated with Fedora 38 updates. Then I moved back to Mint, where I can get virtual box from the repository.....Fedora, why can't they just support Virtual Box from their repository like Ubuntu & Mint.....frustrating.

[@rickybanzai2199]

I'm using Ubuntu linux since 2010, I'm not a nerd at all, just a little bit over average. Every new distro is a bit more user friendly, by now it is really easy to use and the terminal is rarely needed. That means, copy-past from the community. Windows on my workplace (not my choice) and ubuntu at home, this should tell something... Very interesting video, many thanks!

[@malwaredot]

Using Android/Root, Linux , and windows for almost 11 years now:)

[@therealcsing]

Haven't looked back since I made the switch a couple of years ago.

[@Seacat17]

Arch user here. After my preinstalled Windows 11 broke my GPU driver again I decided that enough is enough. I'm familiar with Linux, so I got Arch on this laptop. Never looked back. I love Linux.

[@NeilHaskins]

Showing the Linux penguin alongside the Windows icon in the thumbnail, and referring to a "secret OS", I figured you were going to talk about something used in firmware. I don't think Linux really qualifies as a secret nowadays.

[@portblock]

At the time, unix was superior to windows on the backend and research arena, like nasa... dos/windows at that time was more of a single user single application, where unix was a mutli user/multi application, and linux was a like a free clone of unix that nasa could put on a server and several users could use at the same time. Windows was more of a single user desktop os at the time and for a while. Note, by multi user, I mean at the exact same time. Thus it was a no brainer for nasa and others to adopt it. I was involved in backend data centers and it made more sense for us than the unix SCO we were using.

[@fazer2275]

It‘s now a year since I switched over to Linux as my daily driver and I never regret it

[@KaushalyaDamithaWeerakoon]

note : You forgot embedded devices (routers, smart devises, Smart TVs, IP Cameras, NVRs ect. ) and Industrial devices ( PLCs, HMIs, IPCs, Robots ) . Almost All of them run some version of linux ( embedded developer here )

[@_.dpac._]

Sneaked in network chuck's tutorial

[@stevejohnson1321]

I often wonder the actual number of Gnu-Linux desktops. For example, I downloaded Kubuntu 23.04 and installed it on seven systems. No one polled me, nor did I have the means to report the seven installs. Still others download and never install. Also I can take a server install and put on XFCE desktop. No one is the-wiser, but it's now a desktop system. The number will still be somewhat low, but it may be higher than the 2 percent that's claimed.

[@Lampe2020]

Ok, so that's why Dell even offers BIOS updates through Ubuntu, simply because they were in Linux nearly from the start! And now I also know why the Window$-purposebuilt HP laptop I have runs Linux so flawlessly without drivers that didn't come preinstalled.

[@OneOfThePetes]

Maybe I missed it, but did you neglect to mention that Linux is a Kernel prior to comparing it to the NT Kernel?

[@glennthompson1971]

I work at a university of around 50,000 people. There is only IT support for MS Windows, MS Office, and some limited support for Macs. Nothing for Linux. I run a Linux-based computer network, with a few Macs in there too. After 5 years, I just put Linux on the Macs, and it gives them new life. If only the university switched to Linux, they could save so much $$$.

[@elGringo69]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[@noway8233]

Its a really incredible story , thanks Linus😊

[@MarsVlogSoon]

Watching it from Fedora :) and using it as my primary OS for the past 12+ years

[@linuxnext]

switched to linux/fedora over a year ago and i can do almost everything to gaming, editing, making thumbnails. only a couple of games left that need support with the use of proton i even switched to amd to fully experience linux with valve supporting the open source amdgpu drivers, so gaming is even better then on windows ngl

[@vinaybhade7046]

In India people use the free or cracked version of Windows. Very few would spend half the cost of a computer just for an OS where one average user will use just Word, Excel, Browser, Media player, etc. Even if an open source OS still charged a small amount I would prefer to pay that.