Do You Control Your Computer or does Microsoft? - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Centurion
CTT - -raises hand, trying not to be noticed- I was a high schooler who learned a little machine lang. Dad had a PDP-11 in the basement. Basic in 11. 12 we had 1 minute on a 3070, at the Uni, Fortran! I was 25, when I dragged the rest of my management, into tech, because of what I did, with old broken tech. Win 95 on floppies. I grabbed Fedora around 8 or so. I really never gave myself enough time to learn. For 22 yrs I looked after my sweethearts tech needs. I never got really hooked on linux until I was looking around and found Kali 18. I have railed against W10 several times. I kept it longer than WinME. That was 20 min. I took a hammer to the DVD. I finally loaded Kali as the only system on a laptop. When I was in one room, Win7. But in the living room, only Kali. I started with a slim version - and then used cmd to get the whole house, sinks and all. It ran fine, till the HD burned up. It was a 20 yr old laptop.
I just spent 2 days running thru 7 versions of W10, 2 of Server and tonight, W10 wants to install an upgrade, instead of just shutting down. Oh - and the Chipset and Audio drivers are now involved in a death spiral of endless reboots, to uninstall and re-install the drivers, that don't work.
I have watched you work away and blaze a path in linux. Your presentations have lead me, to challenge myself.
At work - we had an old UNIX guy, who was from way back. He could code in his head, but you had to have his vocabulary, to understand what he was doing. The rest of the building was windows. Once Active Directory was understood, well that was the end of Unix, in the place. I forget how much it was -per chair-. Bill made a lot of $.
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CTT - -raises hand, trying not to be noticed- I was a high schooler who learned a little machine lang. Dad had a PDP-11 in the basement. Basic in 11. 12 we had 1 minute on a 3070, at the Uni, Fortran! I was 25, when I dragged the rest of my management, into tech, because of what I did, with old broken tech. Win 95 on floppies. I grabbed Fedora around 8 or so. I really never gave myself enough time to learn. For 22 yrs I looked after my sweethearts tech needs. I never got really hooked on linux until I was looking around and found Kali 18. I have railed against W10 several times. I kept it longer than WinME. That was 20 min. I took a hammer to the DVD. I finally loaded Kali as the only system on a laptop. When I was in one room, Win7. But in the living room, only Kali. I started with a slim version - and then used cmd to get the whole house, sinks and all. It ran fine, till the HD burned up. It was a 20 yr old laptop.
I just spent 2 days running thru 7 versions of W10, 2 of Server and tonight, W10 wants to install an upgrade, instead of just shutting down. Oh - and the Chipset and Audio drivers are now involved in a death spiral of endless reboots, to uninstall and re-install the drivers, that don't work.
I have watched you work away and blaze a path in linux. Your presentations have lead me, to challenge myself.
At work - we had an old UNIX guy, who was from way back. He could code in his head, but you had to have his vocabulary, to understand what he was doing. The rest of the building was windows. Once Active Directory was understood, well that was the end of Unix, in the place. I forget how much it was -per chair-. Bill made a lot of $.
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Olim
Your reaction when switching to Linux was the same. Linux a lot better and you have more control than Windows 10. Making Linux so much better to use. You can choose the ways of using your computer. You can optimize it for Typing, Video Production, Photoshopping, Consuming media and so much more! (Accept gaming) I found Linux an amazing thing to switch and... It's just amazing. I was stunned by the things that I can do that I can't do in Windows 10! And there is just one thing that stop me from using Linux. And that is Playing non-Steam games such as Roblox (Grapejuice fixed this compatibility issue and also switching to a gaming Kernel also fixes the performance problem), Genshin Impact, Fortnite, and so much more that I cannot play over in Linux.
And doing a GPU Passthrough in KVM is such a pain the butt to deal with! And the one thing that stunned me using Linux and that is installing apps in Linux, I thought at first that -Installing apps in Linux must be a pain!- and it was the exact opposite of that, it was super-easy to download and install apps over in Linux, less painful and so much easier and less painful to install apps! Linux is better in every single way accept Gaming... I HOPE THAT MORE DEVELOPERS CREATE FUN GAMES THAT IS ALSO COMPATIBLE IN LINUX! I LOVE LINUX I LOVE IT! Gaming is just not good. I got depressed.
-Windows 10 gets worse!- Oh, how naive you are Chris... Ohhh..... IT GETS WORSE FROM HERE.... I hope I endure this stabbing swords through my brain 240,423,309 times... Hoping that Linux Gaming gets better.
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Your reaction when switching to Linux was the same. Linux a lot better and you have more control than Windows 10. Making Linux so much better to use. You can choose the ways of using your computer. You can optimize it for Typing, Video Production, Photoshopping, Consuming media and so much more! (Accept gaming) I found Linux an amazing thing to switch and... It's just amazing. I was stunned by the things that I can do that I can't do in Windows 10! And there is just one thing that stop me from using Linux. And that is Playing non-Steam games such as Roblox (Grapejuice fixed this compatibility issue and also switching to a gaming Kernel also fixes the performance problem), Genshin Impact, Fortnite, and so much more that I cannot play over in Linux.
And doing a GPU Passthrough in KVM is such a pain the butt to deal with! And the one thing that stunned me using Linux and that is installing apps in Linux, I thought at first that -Installing apps in Linux must be a pain!- and it was the exact opposite of that, it was super-easy to download and install apps over in Linux, less painful and so much easier and less painful to install apps! Linux is better in every single way accept Gaming... I HOPE THAT MORE DEVELOPERS CREATE FUN GAMES THAT IS ALSO COMPATIBLE IN LINUX! I LOVE LINUX I LOVE IT! Gaming is just not good. I got depressed.
-Windows 10 gets worse!- Oh, how naive you are Chris... Ohhh..... IT GETS WORSE FROM HERE.... I hope I endure this stabbing swords through my brain 240,423,309 times... Hoping that Linux Gaming gets better.
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gwgux
It's funny, I can relate to 20+ years of using Windows as well and at work we have a new sys admin that's about 10 years younger than I am and didn't even know what a ROM chip was, but he's an adamant Windows fan. He sits at his desk working on power shell scripts and then still looks a Linux server like -what am I supposed to do without a GUI?-. Hypocrisy aside, I can tell he's slowly dying inside and he refuses to acknowledge it. Every time another update comes out I can see it in his eyes that he feels stuck like he's wasting hours of his life keeping up with all the things Microsoft keeps breaking while they -fix- things. It's like going through the 5 stages of grief and he's at about stage 2 or 3 right now.
It's sad really. He has more talent in him than he knows and has the ability to catapult himself into much better jobs if he could break out of the shackles of Microsoft. In another 10 years we'll see if he finally breaks out of it when he finally reaches the fifth stage of grief. So not only does Microsoft hold the average user back from being more efficient and having a more enjoyable experience, it also holds many IT workers back from really learning how a computer can be used and freeing up their minds to better develop their skill sets. Learning Linux and then going back to Windows can spark more creativity in how one uses Windows to make it less of a burden.
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It's funny, I can relate to 20+ years of using Windows as well and at work we have a new sys admin that's about 10 years younger than I am and didn't even know what a ROM chip was, but he's an adamant Windows fan. He sits at his desk working on power shell scripts and then still looks a Linux server like -what am I supposed to do without a GUI?-. Hypocrisy aside, I can tell he's slowly dying inside and he refuses to acknowledge it. Every time another update comes out I can see it in his eyes that he feels stuck like he's wasting hours of his life keeping up with all the things Microsoft keeps breaking while they -fix- things. It's like going through the 5 stages of grief and he's at about stage 2 or 3 right now.
It's sad really. He has more talent in him than he knows and has the ability to catapult himself into much better jobs if he could break out of the shackles of Microsoft. In another 10 years we'll see if he finally breaks out of it when he finally reaches the fifth stage of grief. So not only does Microsoft hold the average user back from being more efficient and having a more enjoyable experience, it also holds many IT workers back from really learning how a computer can be used and freeing up their minds to better develop their skill sets. Learning Linux and then going back to Windows can spark more creativity in how one uses Windows to make it less of a burden.
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Mike
I said this many many times before that Linux (whatever distro) in spite of the very small percentage of market share some 3% as of today IS the future in computing. Windows is pure crap, can't customize it, it constantly interrupts your work with updates which as of late completely wipes out your files. Wndows 98 was far more superior in quality that Window 10 will ever be. Windows is getting worse exponentially with every new version they put out. I left Windows forever a year ago and it was the best decision I have ever made. Now I settled on Arch after having tried almost all distros from Ubuntu to Mint, to MX, to Fedora, to openSUSE, to Debian and Manjaro. Manjaro is arch based so I installed the pure Arch and slapped on it the Black Arch since they're compatible. I never regretted it. With Windows there always was that nagging little window saying -you must restart you computer now- while I was in the middle of writing a math document, meaning there were pushing updates without my knowledge or permission. No longer the case in Linux (whatever flavor you choose). Chris is right: Linux is the future.
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I said this many many times before that Linux (whatever distro) in spite of the very small percentage of market share some 3% as of today IS the future in computing. Windows is pure crap, can't customize it, it constantly interrupts your work with updates which as of late completely wipes out your files. Wndows 98 was far more superior in quality that Window 10 will ever be. Windows is getting worse exponentially with every new version they put out. I left Windows forever a year ago and it was the best decision I have ever made. Now I settled on Arch after having tried almost all distros from Ubuntu to Mint, to MX, to Fedora, to openSUSE, to Debian and Manjaro. Manjaro is arch based so I installed the pure Arch and slapped on it the Black Arch since they're compatible. I never regretted it. With Windows there always was that nagging little window saying -you must restart you computer now- while I was in the middle of writing a math document, meaning there were pushing updates without my knowledge or permission. No longer the case in Linux (whatever flavor you choose). Chris is right: Linux is the future.
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Mythmaker
People complain about all the tinkering Linux requires. It's a fair point if you want to game and you don't use a disto with excellent settings out of the box (like Pop OS) or you have a lot of niche proprietary software that you use or uncommon hardware configurations. There's a lot of reasons someone else may have problems I will never run into.
But - on my system, as a newbie, once I spent a couple days figuring stuff out, I've had to do very little with my system to keep it running properly. Way less than I had to do with Windows with its constant updates, changing settings without my permission, reinstalling programs I removed, reactivating -features- and programs I disabled.
Linux is a lot of work up front and a little tinkering now and then when something breaks, but if you don't want to get deep into the guts of the system and you don't have a niche use case, there's absolutely no reason it can't run smoothly for you.
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People complain about all the tinkering Linux requires. It's a fair point if you want to game and you don't use a disto with excellent settings out of the box (like Pop OS) or you have a lot of niche proprietary software that you use or uncommon hardware configurations. There's a lot of reasons someone else may have problems I will never run into.
But - on my system, as a newbie, once I spent a couple days figuring stuff out, I've had to do very little with my system to keep it running properly. Way less than I had to do with Windows with its constant updates, changing settings without my permission, reinstalling programs I removed, reactivating -features- and programs I disabled.
Linux is a lot of work up front and a little tinkering now and then when something breaks, but if you don't want to get deep into the guts of the system and you don't have a niche use case, there's absolutely no reason it can't run smoothly for you.
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Ice
I wanted ask you what do you think I want to I have windows 10 as my main os (sadly had to upgrade from 7 because of cpu compatibility and dx12) which I use for gaming and the normal stuff, while I install Linux on a 2 tb drive for my computer science studies and all the tech related things cause so far it's quite fun having that much freedom to make it my computer ,to tailor it for my self and my vision that is a beautiful thing,
My question is ,I've heard windows 10 hates other operating systems will I run into problems when I do this ,I'm not that good at writing windows 10 shells and such since I'm still in my last year of highschool
But I always loved windows nt and Linux since my father always used the, on his servers when I was young
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I wanted ask you what do you think I want to I have windows 10 as my main os (sadly had to upgrade from 7 because of cpu compatibility and dx12) which I use for gaming and the normal stuff, while I install Linux on a 2 tb drive for my computer science studies and all the tech related things cause so far it's quite fun having that much freedom to make it my computer ,to tailor it for my self and my vision that is a beautiful thing,
My question is ,I've heard windows 10 hates other operating systems will I run into problems when I do this ,I'm not that good at writing windows 10 shells and such since I'm still in my last year of highschool
But I always loved windows nt and Linux since my father always used the, on his servers when I was young
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Michael
I think most people that use Windows are victims of Stockholm Syndrome. Thy have come to side with their captors.
I was burned by Microsoft when I upgraded to Windows 98 and their support cost me over $5000 to -fix- the issue and they never did and then kept ignoring me till the 90 -free- support ran out. I switched then, and have never looked back.
To be fair, I still have to support Windows at work, but my work laptop is Linux, most of the servers at work I have switched to Linux, and I am starting to get people to at least look at it. There are a few VPNs for customers that only have Windows options so that is why I have to have a VM for that.
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I think most people that use Windows are victims of Stockholm Syndrome. Thy have come to side with their captors.
I was burned by Microsoft when I upgraded to Windows 98 and their support cost me over $5000 to -fix- the issue and they never did and then kept ignoring me till the 90 -free- support ran out. I switched then, and have never looked back.
To be fair, I still have to support Windows at work, but my work laptop is Linux, most of the servers at work I have switched to Linux, and I am starting to get people to at least look at it. There are a few VPNs for customers that only have Windows options so that is why I have to have a VM for that.
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Jeroen
Hey Chris, i feel we both had the same run with the windows versions. Also started with MS-DOS allllll the way up to Win 10.... But i switched to Linux earlier then you, about 4 years ago i have switched completely to Linux. First my personal device, then my servers.
I still love it and would highly recommend Linux to anyone.
I never thought that Linux would work with the games i used to play or wanted to play in the future. But wow, was i wrong !!!
For anyone who want's to switch to Linux. Take the plunge now, i swear i'm making you happy with it in the long run! today 95% of my devices (including 100% servers) are running Linux.
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Hey Chris, i feel we both had the same run with the windows versions. Also started with MS-DOS allllll the way up to Win 10.... But i switched to Linux earlier then you, about 4 years ago i have switched completely to Linux. First my personal device, then my servers.
I still love it and would highly recommend Linux to anyone.
I never thought that Linux would work with the games i used to play or wanted to play in the future. But wow, was i wrong !!!
For anyone who want's to switch to Linux. Take the plunge now, i swear i'm making you happy with it in the long run! today 95% of my devices (including 100% servers) are running Linux.
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