What is Linux - Why people use Linux - Linux Explained - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Cezar
Sorry Sir, but I do not have a server at home, I do not have more than one user on my desktop and I never used the terminal on my phone. So all these -positive- arguments from an IT specialist are none for normal users. The most normal users have got their electronic devices with a build in OS. They need an IT specialist to install properly linux on their devices because not every linux works out of the box with any hardware. A simple example install Virtualbox with GPU passthrough. I have done it by myself on linux. And the immense variety of distros, I need to study linux only to find out whichone works with my HW, if it's still supported and if the support is user friendly. Even on a page for linux beginners I found only discussions at the highend level, it could have been written on antique klingon dialect. IMHO Android did it exactly right: the OS is there to serve the user. Linux on the other hand feels like I, the user have to serve the OS, have to exactly know what happens when I'm doing ... and so forth; therefore I must be as well an IT specialist. I'm not! I want to be helpt by the OS to do what I like most on my PC: games, internet, chat, photos, office work etc.
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Sorry Sir, but I do not have a server at home, I do not have more than one user on my desktop and I never used the terminal on my phone. So all these -positive- arguments from an IT specialist are none for normal users. The most normal users have got their electronic devices with a build in OS. They need an IT specialist to install properly linux on their devices because not every linux works out of the box with any hardware. A simple example install Virtualbox with GPU passthrough. I have done it by myself on linux. And the immense variety of distros, I need to study linux only to find out whichone works with my HW, if it's still supported and if the support is user friendly. Even on a page for linux beginners I found only discussions at the highend level, it could have been written on antique klingon dialect. IMHO Android did it exactly right: the OS is there to serve the user. Linux on the other hand feels like I, the user have to serve the OS, have to exactly know what happens when I'm doing ... and so forth; therefore I must be as well an IT specialist. I'm not! I want to be helpt by the OS to do what I like most on my PC: games, internet, chat, photos, office work etc.
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robertosinglemalt
I'd leave Windows when they announced that XP will get no support anymore. So, some research and I found Ubuntu, then Elementary. After that I started with some music production and I went to Ubuntu Studio, Manjaro, Ubuntu MATE, and finally....Linux Mint MATE with a low latency kernel. I LOVE IT and it's going to stay in my Thinkpad T-530 ( i5, 16 Gb RAM and 2 Tb Firecuda ) until this beast of machine die.
Any Linux distro with MATE or XFCE will run fast in any computer, and there even lighter desktop environments. Even more, some distros still make 32 bits versions.
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I'd leave Windows when they announced that XP will get no support anymore. So, some research and I found Ubuntu, then Elementary. After that I started with some music production and I went to Ubuntu Studio, Manjaro, Ubuntu MATE, and finally....Linux Mint MATE with a low latency kernel. I LOVE IT and it's going to stay in my Thinkpad T-530 ( i5, 16 Gb RAM and 2 Tb Firecuda ) until this beast of machine die.
Any Linux distro with MATE or XFCE will run fast in any computer, and there even lighter desktop environments. Even more, some distros still make 32 bits versions.
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ped7g
I believe you could have also emphasized the point of linux being also free as in liberty, not only free as in beer... I can see how many people would not realize the value of that, but at least giving them hint. I personally always frown when my household gets some device which I can't easily modify. Not that I often -do- modify devices which allow me, in 99% I never take a peek at the source code ever, but just knowing I -can- if I wish, is very important for me, and often helps with with product decision.
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I believe you could have also emphasized the point of linux being also free as in liberty, not only free as in beer... I can see how many people would not realize the value of that, but at least giving them hint. I personally always frown when my household gets some device which I can't easily modify. Not that I often -do- modify devices which allow me, in 99% I never take a peek at the source code ever, but just knowing I -can- if I wish, is very important for me, and often helps with with product decision.
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Mac
I have recently moved over to Linux Mint 18 Sonya from windows 7 on a 9 year old laptop, have also installed Linux Mint Sonya on my 5 month old laptop as I hate windows 10.
Linux Mint 18 Sonya was fast to install, up and running in 20 minutes, very easy to use if moving from windows 7 .
The only only problem I have is that my Canon printer only works from the top feed tray and won't work on wifi only usb, as my printer is next to my laptop it's not too much of a problem.
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I have recently moved over to Linux Mint 18 Sonya from windows 7 on a 9 year old laptop, have also installed Linux Mint Sonya on my 5 month old laptop as I hate windows 10.
Linux Mint 18 Sonya was fast to install, up and running in 20 minutes, very easy to use if moving from windows 7 .
The only only problem I have is that my Canon printer only works from the top feed tray and won't work on wifi only usb, as my printer is next to my laptop it's not too much of a problem.
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Robert
I'm becoming a fan of Linux. My goto distro, is MX Linux. Reasonably user friendly not as user friendly as Windows, in some respects, but catching up, by leaps and bounds. I think Linux is better than Windows, in many respects, like you can run the complete OS from a flash drive. One feature I stumbled on, was you don't have to update a certain program, If you don't want to. I like this. Free doesn't hurt either. I could say many good things about MX, just try it.
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I'm becoming a fan of Linux. My goto distro, is MX Linux. Reasonably user friendly not as user friendly as Windows, in some respects, but catching up, by leaps and bounds. I think Linux is better than Windows, in many respects, like you can run the complete OS from a flash drive. One feature I stumbled on, was you don't have to update a certain program, If you don't want to. I like this. Free doesn't hurt either. I could say many good things about MX, just try it.
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Musical
Also, as someone who deals with law firms, to my amazement law firms take Linux far more seriously than they did 5 years ago. Now when a law firm sends you a file to open, they give you instructions on how to extract it in Windows, Mac and Linux. That amazes me. The tech literacy of the legal profession has improved a lot. Ten years ago they were a laughing stock. But now they impress me. To even consider that a client uses Linux. Wow.
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Also, as someone who deals with law firms, to my amazement law firms take Linux far more seriously than they did 5 years ago. Now when a law firm sends you a file to open, they give you instructions on how to extract it in Windows, Mac and Linux. That amazes me. The tech literacy of the legal profession has improved a lot. Ten years ago they were a laughing stock. But now they impress me. To even consider that a client uses Linux. Wow.
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Musical
Linux is used almost 100% of the time in computer recycling. For instance in shops that take used computers, refurbish them and sell them at low cost to people in need [e.g you have to prove that you are a pensioner, unemployed etc to be able to shop] Ubuntu Linux is put in. Because Ubuntu is easy to modify and the software that those groups of people like can be pre installed, such as genealogy open source software.
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Linux is used almost 100% of the time in computer recycling. For instance in shops that take used computers, refurbish them and sell them at low cost to people in need [e.g you have to prove that you are a pensioner, unemployed etc to be able to shop] Ubuntu Linux is put in. Because Ubuntu is easy to modify and the software that those groups of people like can be pre installed, such as genealogy open source software.
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David
Equal to the awesomeness of the idea that a computer has been running Linux for 10 years to operate an elevator system is the notion that somewhere on Earth there is a place that has not had a power outage that outlasted a PSU's ability to provide power to a computer in 10 years (and, if that computer did not have a PSU, it's even more awesome because there has been steady power there for 10 years).
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Equal to the awesomeness of the idea that a computer has been running Linux for 10 years to operate an elevator system is the notion that somewhere on Earth there is a place that has not had a power outage that outlasted a PSU's ability to provide power to a computer in 10 years (and, if that computer did not have a PSU, it's even more awesome because there has been steady power there for 10 years).
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Randomizer92mx
What I love about Linux distros is not having to deal with antivirus apps, licensing issues and searching programs manually on websites (instead of repositories). That distro that I have installed is my operating system and I can tweak it as much as I want (as opposed to Windows).
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What I love about Linux distros is not having to deal with antivirus apps, licensing issues and searching programs manually on websites (instead of repositories). That distro that I have installed is my operating system and I can tweak it as much as I want (as opposed to Windows).
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Garth
Drop Fedora and come over to Arch with the best of the best software :-)..oh NASA switched to Linux and this is a throw away comment but they were asked why they changed they said -It's faster- whether that's true they said that is controversial on whether it's faster that's a fact
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Drop Fedora and come over to Arch with the best of the best software :-)..oh NASA switched to Linux and this is a throw away comment but they were asked why they changed they said -It's faster- whether that's true they said that is controversial on whether it's faster that's a fact
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