damn

Yeah most of the antivirus detects only windows viruses lol.

True, know at least 3 ClamAV, Eset Antivirus for Linux and Bitdefender. Point Nr.4 is only partly true. There is Live PE version of windows in Hiren’s BootCD PE, MediCat USB and other tools. Although licensing is whole another debuckle, plus viruses especially on MediCat USB.

I got hit with the dreaded Linux "honor system virus." It was a text file that read: "Please delete a few random files on your computer, Please encrypt a few files and delete the private key, Please send this file to someone on your contacts list. Thank you for your cooperation."

@@georgewaring7168 did you honor it?

not the cross huh like yeah i cant see anything really!!

This actually happens on Bios Post, if you have something like pause on errors (and checks for mouse\keyboard enabled). I found it super funny when I saw "Press F1 to continue"

@@ClawGr its a joke.....

@@zyan983 he does you degenerate

LOL. It usually means PLUG IN THE KEYBOARD! But why didn't they just print "plug in your keyboard"? I don't know..... LOL

About 2 months ago a lightning strike took out my Linux box, but somebody gave me an old iMac. Trying to install Windows 7 got me to the "which language is your keyboard" thing, but since iMacs use something called Open Firmware instead of a BIOS, neither the mouse or keyboard would work. So, when you got tired of staring at that "which language is your keyboard" thing, your only recourse was to hit the Big Red Switch. Windows XP complained that there was only 384K of low memory available but it needed 512K low memory. Sounds like an MSDOS limitation, no? OTOH, I now have Slackware and Linux Mint on it with no problems, save DOSbox and certain MS programs on Virtual Box not working correctly.

Are you sure you want to reboot? Yes In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot? Yes In order to reboot, Windows needs to reboot. Are you sure you want to reboot? No BSOD

@@LusidDreaming please wait

@@kurokurovich *A few years later *

😂only need to recompile your kernal

@@vaisakhkm783 ?

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU IGNOMINIOUS BASTARD??! THEY ARE TIPS!! THEY HELP!!! THEY HAVEN'T EXISTED FOR 10 YEARS!!!!!! I HATE LINUX USERS SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

You're technically right. The best kind of right.

Eh - I think he means that the source is simply available be it through any means of downloading, and that windows isn't. So you could even download linux on a mac for instance. Like Felix said - a technicality in his phraseology.

It is definitely what I meant, and he knows that, but, trolls...

Maybe that's the reason why MS bought GitHub - to prevent Windows users from downloading Linux sources (won't work though since GitHub is the mirror, not the primary repo)

I should point out that “git fetch” works a bit more reliably on Linux than Windows ...

I`m junior developer and always have used Windows 10. Now i install a VM and start practicing linux

Please tell me you didn't give up on the better way to live...

I did the jump a week ago, and I like it especially how you can change themes

@@Bernardopoyer I am also a developer, and Linux is WAY better. Windows: install a bunch of stuff to make it a little more linuxy, such as git bash, reboot, download other stuff, install, reboot again, start coding. Linux: most of it's already there. apt-get the other stuff. Start coding.

Welcome to the club, hope you're enjoying your decision

Lutris can install autodesk fusion 360. Is that any better than what you've tried?

That is not true. Try Draftsight, it is free for 2D, and need to buy for 3D modelling.

Dmitry C， Draftsight is no longer free in 2020.

@@esphilee oops. You are right it is not free anymore. Missed that.

As a fellow engineer, this kind of thing is the only reason I have a dual boot for Windows. A lot of engineering software is Windows only unfortunately.

Don't you worry, canonical got you covered

You can disable that shit..apt-get remove connectivity something

Maybe it should. Telemetry is always good.

@@wylie2835 you can proceed to say Hey Cortana.. but she already knows everything you do .. and that big fart you did last night , she heard it and reported it as new telemetry.

@@sirwin6161 LOL!

If you don't want to bother with pe, you can use Rufus to make a Windows to go drive and you can boot from a standard Windows install that is portable.

Real reasons such as forced reboots, forced updates, and data collection

Devon : actually he’s right about nearly everything he said. Even with Windows 10 what he said is true. So yes you can run Windows from disk or USB key, but saying that is misleading and you use the fact that he’s generalizing for his audience. Because he talked about any general Linux distribution that run out of the box on hardware. Which is not the case with Windows, you can’t use it like that, you have to prepare a medium for a specific PC and then it will run. About drivers you’re wrong too. I had greatest difficulty installing Windows 8 on an old Linux box that worked like a clock for years, because the system discs were SCSI disks. And there were countless problems like that, if you can’t find the drivers you’re dead. Windows have very few drivers now, unless you have only new standardized hardware, it just won’t work without lots of pain. Installing Linux is the easiest option. Same for customizations, it’s decades behind what you can do on Linux and consumes huge amount of resources for nothing. One of the truly important things that I need that cannot be done in Windows since 20 years ago to this day is multiseat: having several user sessions at the same time on one computer and one or more monitors. Everytime a new Windows launches people tell me « you can do it now! » and everytime that’s not true. That and countless other things like actually no viruses on Linux (viruses can’t work on Linux, that’s why there’s no need for Linux antivirus), perfect stability, rolling updates (I still use my own Linux OS since 20+ years just updated and migrated to new hardware when the old one dies), security (you have to know what you’re doing), performance (I already had 3-4 simultaneous graphical sessions 20+ years ago which were consuming roughly 1GB RAM together, and on the network, now with fq_codel and BBR congestion control, it’s the top of the art).

​ @MrOokaze First lets clarify what a virus is and isn't. A virus IS a malicious program that uses vulnerabilities in either the user (opens email) or in the operating system (think shell shock, or any other number of RCE classification of vulnerabilities that have come out in the past year). A virus writer could easily, if they wanted to, write something for linux. All the elements exist. But there's simply not much of a market for it. The reason you don't have many viruses on linux is more of an economic one. Same reason you don't have many apps in the windows store, there's just no market for it. A virus for linux is hard to write as well. The environment changes from distro to distro, and realistically speaking the users of linux are generally far more skilled and aware. These guys aren't the ones opening up a PDF document from an unknown source. (and even if they did board-report.pdf.exe isn't going to actually do anything) Windows absolutely has multiseat. It's just only in their server editions. Granted you have to pay more. I run entire farms where we have dozens of users logged into the same server and presented a desktop shell. I'll concede to your argument about drivers. Linux does work often times better on older hardware. Newer hardware is a problem, this is getting better, as more vendors are taking care to provide drivers / support, but it's not quite there yet.

@@Meowfy Those are indeed some very real reasons. I can't argue there at all.

checkmate Linus

br pare

Windows server might be able to do something. But administration is a nightmare.

Mint exists

Never say never. But I'd say it's a lot more secure to get your software from a curated repository of open source software than from some random download site you googled and never heard of before.

@@Kenionatus I download lots of software I've never heard of before. Never installed by root and only used by my user account what can it really do? I do get it from the upstream source though. besides if you're really that curious about what any software is doing on your system Linux does contain utilities that will show you exactly what's going on. You can monitor what files it is accessing, what system calls it is making etc.

Supply chains are much more common on Windows tho. When you find like 5 "official" websites for the program you want to download and then the Windows Defender comes beeping (usually too late)

I always audit my software source code line by line before compiling from source. I then compile on a VM box running inside a VM box on a separate build computer that's not connected to my home network. After that, I use a custom assembly translator (similar to radare2) to verify the binaries, debugging where necessary. Once I've fully verified the compiled binaries, I transfer the source code to the target machine and repeat the process. This is the beauty of open source software. I'm super excited to finish compiling binutils using this method. If I stay on schedule, I should be able to have GCC up and running by 2022.

I've used it for over six years ; 25+ years with Microsoft but use Linux for everything personal now.

@@2112jonr what programs do you use on Linux? Do you have games?

Yeah I have several desktop environments on an old laptop myself.

i took the time out of my day to set it up one day and its been running smoothly for being supposedly unstable (depending on who you ask, i guess)

You can get software to copy the contents of a Windows boot drive to a new drive, but my experience with it transferring from a HDD to an SSD, still resulted in Windows now thinking it was pirated. I think the software does a sector-by-sector copy and requires the destination drive has at least as much capacity as there is used space on the source drive.

@@Roxor128 Windows "Machine ID" changes will do this too. Too many changes of certain hardware will force a change in to the "Machine ID" and well since it is "different" from when installed... very annoying to work around in Windows 10.

@@alphatelligence3913 Microsoft is no exception to the rule that trying to combat piracy by any means other than providing a better service makes the product worse. Look at what happened to Norton: Once the gold standard for antivirus, now a joke. All because they shifted their focus from stopping malware to stopping piracy.

@@Roxor128 Oh I agree with you, its a pain in my A$$!! I have audio plugins that if Windows does a build update or I move hardware in or out of my computer(s); the software tells me I don't have a valid license. I love and hate USB Wasp keys like iLok. However I have "soft" licenses only software and have to prove I legal own the rights to it.

The registry is simply a database file on disk. Windows is also massively more forgiving on portability and installation. Of you don't care about changing the wallpaper, you can even run unregistered indefinitely.

Missing out bud

@@JaimeValladares00 what?

@@alkaupadhyay7650 wdym what? Windows has improved since then

@@JaimeValladares00 Alas. You are the only one saying that. Every other being on earth thinks that it has just degraded. And windows 7 was the peak of humanity, after that notging was good

Never used Windows 8. Heard it was horrible and stuck on Windows 7 until EOL. Or that was the plan until a hardware failure prompted an early move to Linux, because I wasn't going to go through the hassle of reinstalling Windows 7 for only a year of usage, and I sure as hell wasn't going to install Windows 10 anywhere other than a VM.

Every time i install a new distro i have to download some drivers in linux too and in linux things are more complicated. In windows go hp site download next next finish in linux sometimes you have to compile your own driver

Are you really bringing up printers? That's always been a huge pain in the ass, and in my experience, absolutely intolerable on any Unix/Linux machine I've ever worked with. I do hope things got better, but printers are still _the worst_.

Windows nerds.

Yes, printers can be a problem in linux. It's worth buying a printer that is well supported. A small research effort is totally worth it to achieve the advantages.

@@mustafacandan9831 Since when is it complicated to click about 5 total times to check for an update drivers? The damn Driver Manager in Ubuntu and Mint is stupidly easy to deal with. Either the kernel already has the driver code for your devices..or it doesn't. And these days, these 4.18 and newer kernels are awesome. Ya don't have to do very much at all for amd gpu's that are rx series as well as now vega for the 4.20 and newer kernels. level1techs.com/article/gaming-linux-updated Ukuu kernel update utility and mesa vulkan drivers for both red and green team gpu's are reasonably explained there. The only reason I'd see you would have to compile your own driver is if you're using some more hardcore barebones Linus distro such as something along the lines of Arch or Slackware ( aka puppy linux..I think) which I gave up on both of those years ago. I respect being able to BUILD a damn house, but If i have to hand dig the damn land ...BY MYSELF....pack it...level it...pour gravel...AND I haven't even gotten to the part when it makes sense for it to be time to start harvesting lumber TO cut it..TO start laying it down to start building the sub floor and floors.....shit...fuck that.. I'm not trying to a damn distro builder. That's waaaay too much headache for me. It's just not worth my time. I'd actually like to USE the damn operating system and get work and play done. I"ve have absolutely no problems with 19.1 cinnamon with my 4790k cpu at 4.6ghz + rx 580 8GB sapphire nitro+ vid card playing all , so far, of my windows only games in Steam or Lutris.

Wine Bottler

A lot of popular Windows software either has been made to work on Linux through Wine or has free and open-source alternatives with nearly the same functionality.

My newish HP laptop and Win10 sucks. It takes minutes to start and sometimes just when Bill wants updates or telemetry. Learning linux now

@@jamescollier3 Great idea learning to use Linux! It’s great to do more advanced things and to bring back life into your hardware! What distro and DE are you using?

@@user-cw3yj8jv1s Ubuntu. What is DE? Desktop environment? I have the GUI, but want to only focus on line commands now. I started at Hack The Box, classic version. Is there a good course or hand holding to get started you know of? I can do the very basics (ls, cmd, pwd etc), but want to start learning more mid-bottom level sudo, grep a bit more middle level stuff. Thanks. What do you use?

I recently got Rocket League to work on my Linux install. I was quite thrilled at that. One less thing Windows is necessary for.

@@EngineerMan I've heard Linux is getting much better than it used to be for gaming. I'm mostly a gamer when it comes to pc use, which is probably my biggest hurdle in making the switch

@@TheMrfrodough Steam supports Linux now natively, and all the games that run under Steam Play will run on Linux. Of course you can have Wine for other stuff with something like Playonlinux (which can be used to create virtual disc drives with Wine being automatically set up for this drive for specific games)

I use Linux (OpenSUSE) for almost everything I do, and the only game I have that I found some problems with is Danganronpa v3 because of DirectX11, but that was 1.5 years ago, and nowadays Wine supports DirectX11

@@TheMrfrodough steam has proton now and it can run almost any windows title under it, unless you don't like steam which can be understandable but since you are a gamer you probably use it already.

Yep. I've got Mr. Hirens. Very handy to have. Priceless for going into stand-alone sessions and removing s##t from automatic update attempts that I'm just not allowed to remove any other way.

While it's true that hackers and authors of viruses can see the source code and find vulnerabilities, there are also other people who can find those vulnerabilities and write code to patch them. I guarantee you the latter outweighs the former.

More people looking for vulnerabilities, for starters, and also complete transparency. You know there are no inbuilt vulnerabilities and you know what gets fixed, when it gets fixed, and how it gets fixed.

you people are doing absolutely great job in helping people understand why linux is secure. I am a professional penetration tester but believe me when I say I patched two such loopholes in the github source code at the first place and thousands of people like me exist.

@@BADEASTWIND While being open source does help a lot to make Linux safe, i think the biggest contribution goes to the fact that so few people use it, only about 2% or so. And the vast majority of them are tech oriented people. So there will be vastly more people trying to patch it and make it more secure than people trying to crack it. Releasing ransomware for Windows is a vastly more profitable business than doing the same for Linux, so next to no one will be looking for vulnerabilities in Linux with the purpose of exploiting them.

@@CristiNeagu thats true except only one fact, the profit. the tech monsters like Microsoft apple google or IBM, cognizant and almost any tech monster you can think of even facebook uses only linux in their core systems due to the fact that linux never requires a restart. And so if you find that good a vulnerability in Linux u r probably gonna steal data worth billions.

i have dual booted windows 10 and forgot why i did because i never used it

@@clerickx1642 I just spent a nice part of my day fixing a File History recovery. I wrote some Java code to remove duplicates and UTC timestamps, and that fixed it. Mind you, I had to recover those files due to reinstalling Windows 10. BitLocker froze when it was unencrypting. I backed everything up with File History and reinstalled Windows 10. But that only led to the backup corrupting. But that's just not something I've ever had to do with Linux, not even on Arch Linux. Windows 10, and now 11, is basically malware for gaming, Photoshop, and Premiere Pro. Outside of those uses, it's useless garbage.

14.04 is end of lifed, so, no more updates. Only option is to upgrade to something like 18.04.

In my business I used Windows 95 as a file server. It ran for more than 5 years without needing to be rebooted - that was about ten years ago. I changed to using Slack as a file server only because Windows 95 I could not run 95 with new hardware (motherboards and hard drives)

@@vidyaWolf If there are so many folk who love it and contribute to making it full of wonder, then why's this simple task not been implimented, for by like pre 2010, seemlesly? Before 2010, surely y'aw had tv's before havin these fancy monitors.

4. Windows PE? Gosh, i bet that doesnt work 90% 9. You have to generate one? Thats not an argument, he meant just switching out the HDD and it works. 11. *contained* Sure, but it got removed, no? On Windows you got viruses by fucking Windows Defender. How fucked up can your ANTIVirus be? 11 too. Sure, Ubuntu isnt really safe anymore, but: you can switch to 100 different distros. If you hate Windows 10, what you gotta switch to? Windows 7? XP? Have luck with the compatibility

4. Ya bet wrong, it works great. You can get malicious software through anything, damn there was a possibility to execute malicious code through Counter-Strike at on point. McAfee was vulnerable, Kaspersky was, but so were ssh-servers on unix, apache, httpd, etc. It's not a Windows problem, it's a problem of developers making mistakes.

I actually put the ssd from my laptop in my tower with totally different hardware (Intel to AMD, nVidia to AMD) and it booted without issue. (Windows 10 1803.) I just forgot to uninstall gpu drivers which caused issues. No sysprep generalize needed. (I actually forgot that too)

Lmao popularity-contest I miss the days when the installer asked you If you wanted that shit removed. Now you have to specifically know that it exists and remember to remove it, which most users won't lol

Kirsch kern TinyCore

SliTaz is small, too

Damn small...

Slitaz too

I didn't know that Windows PE and Windows to GO are fully functional OSs

They aren't.

@@EngineerMan Windows to go is. I use it to have a windows environment I can boot into if I need ti without wasting disk space on my internal drives. Can play games, install store apps whatever you want.

With Rufus, you can install Windows on a stick, and even home editions work no problem

So did you make it?

@@adamlevine2046 Yes and No. I use Linux for my entertainment system. Tried some server stuff. Window is still my daily driver.

@@adamlevine2046 Oh. I also did it some Linux projects with my kids.

@@glenw3814 That's awesome. I hope your kids will love it more as they dig into Linux deeper. :))

Linux updates update everything, not just the kernel. WIndows just updates its kernel and base system functions. WHen Linux updates, it pulls the latest updates from the repositories stored in its conf files, and then looks at the apps that the user has installed and updates those, as they are either part of the saem repositories, or the repositories are shared with the distro that you use. Windows does not do this, and you manually have to install updates for each app on your system. This is what he means. And ufortunatly you didnt get that, nice joke, but your joke was its own punchline.

@Sushovan Shakya Mission failed, we'll get 'em next time.

It hasn't since before Windows XP.

AFAIK autorun isn't the automatic behavior anymore. Nowadays, you're asked what you want the default behavior to be, and then will remember it for that particular device.

Because Linux also needs to reboot, it's BS, you can't update certain parts without rebooting

If it's from before 2004 check out puppy Linux. If after 2004 with pae support try lubuntu.

@@toastbuster9050 I tried installing puppy linux using Unetbootin but it fails to install. Is there any other way to install it?

@@blairfernandes6881 You might just have to try another OS. If it has an optical drive you could try Using a CD.

@@toastbuster9050 It has an optical drive but I just wanted to know if there's any other way to do this

@Hairy Chinese Kid Same here!

I agree. I hate videos that take 5 mins to get to the point of the video. Drives me crazy.

IQ 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000

This is actuslly Windows PE. It is based off of windows 10, but is **not** windows 10.

About malwares, you are wrong. It did come into NON OFFICIAL repos, like the AUR, not the official ones.

Try 2001

those "security patches" are just wastes of time ... i never allowed any to be installed and never had issues.. it's just paranoid linux users who think HaCkErS are after them ...

I just dual-boot on my machine with both.

Acad can be run through wine and you can find alot of office suites that does the same job as windows(eg. Libre office).

Actually it is a graphics adapter if you want to get pedantic about things.

The audio have been annoying on Linux Mint, but the default graphics driver is just as good unless you're doing 3D gaming.

At least you have audio systems to choose from. It would be so annoying to have just one working system, with Linux you can choose from several which all have their own issues

@@Symbiatch nothing seems to work with everything. Back in the day I had a commercial OSS license for audio drivers. Today if you are not using PulseAudio you will not get sound support in many applications either. As devs have dropped support for the low level driver in their software. If you are using PulseAudio I've heard that can cause other problems itself. I know I've had applications not have sound running Pulse. Others speak of delay issues too. I can't run Firefox or use OBS because neither supports the native low level Linux sound drivers as best as I can tell. I'm not really wasting my time finding out more about either at this point. Don't work. Round file it.

Printer Drivers are the ultimate counter-example IME, but that was the example he gave. idk... ymmv? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Linux users live in a bubble with no contact with the real world.

I installed Windows 7 on 4 or 5 computers and on literally every single one of them, the ethernet did not work after installation due to a missing driver. Of course, the CD that came with the motherboard was long gone, so I booted up Linux from a USB stick and downloaded the drivers without issue. That said, drivers for graphics cards are... well, they're getting better. Audio cards? Would you *not* call them specialized? This isn't the 90s, every motherboard has good on-board sound. I have not used a sound card in recent years, so I couldn't tell you about driver support there. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if they didn't work properly, though. It's rarely used hardware and Linux sound systems are pretty meh in general. I've never had issues with wifi cards myself - probably because I seldom use wifi - but I've heard a lot about people having issues with them. I agree on that part - that is commonly used hardware and really should be well supported, but apparently is not.

hahahhahahhahahaha @Yndostrui

Most? Give me an example of another one, that is bullshit, except for number 3, which I agree is a bit off at least, all of his other points are legit.

@@HSHamster I said nonsense, not BS. I'll give more than one. No.2 is only true in specific cases. Most of the time, the software updates don't require restart, and only large OS updates require restart on win. No. 6. untrue. You can run windows on almost any hardware just the same. You can run windows on 80s computer. If you're now thinking (yeah, but it would be windows 1.0, not widows 10! Sure, same as you would need with linux, an 80's computer won't run latest ubuntu with all bells and whistles No. 7 You can fix broken windows installs with a bootable cd.. or usb.. or pen drive.. No 8. I can let software update itself without even a command on windows :D :D (not that I would recommend using it lols). But I guess it trumps the need for giving those pesky commands No. 9 ... very questionable... since it hangs on no.3, you might have to rebuild the kernel if you're moving the drive to another machine.

I had something similar But always fixed it by moving the mouse with the pad

@Nocturn Adrift 🤣🤣🤣

Yes, Broadcom is particularly well known for its non-FOSS license which makes it impossible for anyone to distribute and install OEM drivers... So if anything is installed by default it would be a reverse engineered (non-authentic) driver. And then, you'll need to install the Broadcom driver on your own.

I was so confused by this :D

Even more, you can't download windows' source code on linux! Checkmate penguins

Thats a thing of the past, intel are out and micropuff anounced the other day anti virus software losers are out too...

Strangely, my last windows vs Linux experience, I had a random WiFi card with a half broken antenna and Linux found and utilized it fine, but I couldn't get windows to discover it for anything. I tried downloading drivers, tried pulling drivers from the computer I ripped it out of, everything!! Mind you, this was a few years back as I haven't had a desktop personally in almost 6.5 years. I keep wanting to go back, but I can't ever find the money and the space at the same time.

crckdns Your spreading typical Windows FUD. I've been a Linux user for more than 20 years, and for the last 10 have almost never had to use Windows. My expereience with printers is that mostly the just work. HP & Canon have drivers you can download just like you can with the Windows ones. The difference is that the support runs out on Windows. Every single time I have had to fire up a new version of Windows to cope with helping a friend or relative printer and graphics drivers have been a deal breaker. I have a 2006 Dell Inspiron laptop running the latest version of Lubuntu. Trying to install Win 8 to dual boot, failed because there is no driver for the graphics card. I recently I helped an aunt upgrade to Win10, and had to revert to Win8 as there was no driver for her Canon printer! I have a nearly 20 year old HP LaserJet. It still works fine with ALL my Linux devices, but not with Win8 or 10. And the worst thing about Windows and printers? They still don't know how to set-up network printing properly. In fact Windows 10 still has what looks like the Win2000 network stack underneath. Linux has always had the best network stack and with CUPS network printer set-up is a doddle.

don't install it yet... see if there are any linux drivers for your hardware....video , audio , wifi , bluetooth ..etc i had the surprise to not be able to run linux because it's shit in terms of compatibility the guy in the video must have been talking about windows XP or 2000 ...almost all of his points are either crappy useless shits regarding updates or straight lies because he isn't familiar with windows 10 or 7

*But not GNU/linux

Its not the same thing.

Ben Ferguson no they won’t. Stick to windows if you need it for work and the like.

Thank you for letting me know,@@32gigs96

could you not have logged out and then back in?

@@SimonWoodburyForget I've found hardly ever.

@@SimonWoodburyForget Oh, I make changes, but still hardly ever have to reboot.

@@SimonWoodburyForget As I've said, I've hardly NEEDED to restart.

@@SimonWoodburyForget Well, I mostly use a laptop, so it's gets restarted pretty often. And I kind of know when I need to restart.

Atomkey Sinclair i mean you can completely uninstall xorg. As long as you have a ssh server running you got all you need

I have Pi 3 running Raspbian for my NAS and it does the job brilliantly and was doddle to set up but special cases don't make Linux superior to Windows for most people most of the time. I don't know why Linux evangelists like the one in this video have to tell so many lies. Why can't they just say "Linux is better for this, this and this and Windows is better for this, that and the other"? It would at least be true.

@@xxxggthyf Engineer Man never claimed it was better for most people most of the time. He claimed Linux did 10 things better than Windows, and he's right about the vast majority. In the years since he uploaded some things have changed, but it's still mostly true.

@@LabGecko You may be right but it's also true that I have Linux Mint as a dual boot on my desktop and rarely boot into it because Win 10 is still so much easier. That being said I brutally bludgeoned Mint onto my low spec, lightly used laptop which involved nuking the Win 10 on the pitiful 32gig SSD it has as its only internal drive. Partly because 32gig isn't enough for Win 10 to update properly but mostly for performance. Absolutely no regrets at all on that front even if it did take me several days to get past a bios that was determined to stop me.

Actually, Microsoft launched a basic version of Windows for the Raspberry Pi without the GUI... (Windows 10 IoT?) not sure why someone would pick that over Linux.

Must be a trick they picked up from Linux. Because Linux was running live off removable media years before Windows could.

@@1pcfred It's not a trick. PE's date back to Windows ME. They are just not easy to find. They are mainly for development and OEM use.

@@ChristopherCobra Linux live images have always been easy to find. I got 526 days of uptime running one once.

@@1pcfred I think both you and the video miss the point. It's not factually correct to say you can't do it. Like a number of things in the video, it seems to be comparing Windows and Linux from 1998. But there is a bigger problem. I have gone close to two years up time in the past with a win box. It can be done (as can a number of other things the video would imply can't) - but for 98% of windows users, they don't care - it requires knowledge they don't want and they turn off their machines off at night anyway (GASP!). They don't care about repairing their OS - they just run recovery or nuke and pave because it is easier. Drivers not included with Windows are also not generally included for Linux distros because they are new hardware - and in Windows they will often BG DL - other driver are already there. You can in fact hot swap drives in Windows (not with OS usually - but I have), but users won't. Point is - the video is not speaking to typical Windows users, it's speaking to Windows power users who are well aware that many of the points are exaggerated or not true. Some are totally legit - to be sure, but not enough to make me switch for instance. All that said - I really do like Linux - and long for the days when I had more time for it - and used it as a "go to". I have Debian in Hyper V running under Windows 8.1Pro. I need it for a few specialized programs, but generally, productivity demands trump figuring out how to get the most from Linux these days. The vid would be far more effective I think if it stuck to "Try it out - it's free, and you don't even have to install it to try it!" And it should push a distro with a good GUI - because asking a typical modern Windows or Mac user to drop to the CLI = no way! This has been a philosophical issue that had plagued Linux distros for so very long. And maybe push the privacy/security and fact that you are breaking free of "the man". I'm not sure most distros really want typical user popularity though. They seem to have other goals.

@@ChristopherCobra you think a lot has changed? It seems like more of the same to me. Windows is Windows and Linux is Linux. My PCs have a life cycle. For a while I'll constantly upgrade them. Then I run them for a period of time. Then I finally retire them. This rig I'm still adding to. A few more upgrades and it'll be what it's going to be. Then I won't have any reason to shut it down and I can try to rack up some good up times with it. No one is going to get very far in Linux if they can't handle the command line. Issuing commands is the essence of power user. It is not a philosophical issue either. Expressing concepts with words is a time honored tradition. Trying to do stuff in a gui is like playing Pictionary. I'd rather just spell out what I want to do. The right command is like an incantation, it is magic.

You can do the same thing on a stripped down version of Windows. What's the point?

@@nilpo19 The point is I don't have to run a stripped down version of Linux. I'm running a full version of Linux and that machine will do all the things my six-core, 3.8 GHz, 16 GB machine will do, albeit more slowly.

More than enough power... I am guessing the machine is so power inefficient that a modest upgrade would save money and the planet lol

Exactly the same as with BOX Windows licenses. Come on: Linux is free and opensource and Windows is proprietary. You pay more, you have more. You pay less, you have less. It's that simple.

Have you tried it under wine? It might work. Issue with linux and audio is the confusing drivers. There's ALSA and PulseAudio and JACK.. They are highlyflexible,but confusing to set up.

Most people get viruses by downloading and running software they shouldn't. If one downloaded a virus intended for Windows it wouldn't even run on Linux to begin with.

I use a j5create usb C dock. It's got 100w PD passthrough, 3 usb A 3.0 ports, a usb C port , a couple of card readers, 10/100/1000 nic, headphone jack, and an hdmi output. I've use it mainly with windows laptops.. but I've also used it with macs and I have a usb stick with linux mint on it that handles it just fine on my laptop (which is good since the wifi card isn't supported in Linux).

When I run Linux, I don't go to suspicious websites and download directly from them. I only have to do that when I run Windows. That's because the sorts of programs you get from those suspicious websites are part of the Linux distribution's repositories so you get them from official sources.

Thats good practice. I wanted to bring up the email attachment thing too because linux cannot save you from a browser exploit sometimes because they can be cross-platform. Stay safe!@@jonathanguthrie9368

This is not true. Email lists are a constant target. Hence, the "have I been pwned" service growing exponentially since its inception. Also consider that it is not about you being a target, but someone in your circles who you frequently email being compromised as well. You only have to open a suspicious link once to be compromised. Im saying too much here, however, let me end by just saying never trick yourself into lowering your defenses by thinking "this won't happen to me". stay safe!@@theblankuser

@@theblankuser Well thing is linux is much more under watch of security experts/hackers then windows. You have to remember that linux kernel works on android and heavy majority of servers in the world run on linux. Now hacking average user having windows you have limited gains - even if you access somehow bank account there is 2-factor authentication etc. But hacking server gives you way way more possibilities.

the only problem thoughwindows is more prone to virus. because of downloaded apps or even a file. unlike linux it cannot run that unless you point out what apps will open that file. if you point that out as a installable deb file then your screwed up.

Typical, really... Some people here commenting quite recently haven't even heard of wsl.

Clean install its easy download the iso from mint download Rufus which you will use to create your live mint USB. Then boot into advanced startup from windows setting and boot from USB then follow the installer instructions. fossbytes.com/install-linux-mint-19-tara-guide/