Me too. Can't stand all those American hipsters full of clichés and waffle. Chris just gets on with it.

@@williamgiddings9636 Admittedly, the Belgian waffles are always better than the American sort.

Intentionally for sure! Ans I like it a lot 😀

Knowing Christopher's sense of humour and his cheerful chatter ‘Stanley the knife' 'Mr Scissors' and 'Michael The Screwdriver' I think it’s fully intentional. I somehow think that in the classes he teaches and his talks he does that he has everyone’s full attention.

@@williamgiddings9636 Don't forget about Canadian hipsters.

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One beauty of Linux is if you like how things were you can keep stuff that way. Linux is so customizable you have the option of using stuff as old as dirt if you want to. Some do too. I do myself. I know others who also use really ancient software on Linux. There's new stuff but the old stuff lingers. Some code just needs some porting to build today. It's different than the Windows world.

Been moving in positive direction when will it reach destination.

Steam Deck could be massive in this.

Own gaming, own the world.

Yep, i have pop os installed onto another drive in my pc. And just bring up the bios boot menu to select it. So i am tinkering around in popos see how to get games working, etc. I am learning a lot.

Linux Cu*k

Thanks for this. I was thinking that a video on drivers and printing should probably come next, so this is useful feddback. :)

@@ExplainingComputers And scanners! can't get mine to admit scanners exist. SANE is crazy!

And zorin couldn't find my network adapter.

I was worried I'd run into a problem with my wireless printer but Ubuntu found it with no issues or installing on my part. Was definitely a load off my mind.

@@ExplainingComputers Yes Christopher, more Awesomness!

Good man Dave! I'm 65 and I started to learn 2 years ago on an old computer that I didn't mind breaking. You can make the learning curve as steep or as shallow as you want it to be. I treat learning as a hobby to keep my mind active.

@@truthislam6481 That's good to hear - I'm 67 and have been in electronics all my adult life, used Windows since 3.1. As long as I can get Linux to operate my external monitors then it'll all be good! I'm going to set up Linux on an oldish laptop first and see what happens. The Windows 11 systems requirements are what finally decided my new course of action - even my 5 year old Lenovo does not qualify! 😖 Thanks for your comment.

Good man, Dave ... Hope it's working out well for you!

You dont have to do that the linux os will do all that for you. Just make sure you create an efi boot partition and install grub to that.

@@keibohow69 and if you remove this disk you can't boot Windows anymore.

Stephen, that's a good tip you give. You can also not use the GRUB menu at all and select OS by your BIOS select boot drive key. Saves some seconds by not displaying the GRUB menu if loading the default OS. E.g. at home i usually boot to Mint. Power on and don't touch anything. If i want Windows, after power on i press the BIOS boot drive selection key (usually F11, F12 or F9) and select my Windows disk. About dual boot on a single drive: The Boot Repair tool in Mint saved me a couple of times. And another case: if you removed your Linux partitions and you can't also boot Windows as a consequence, then you boot WIndows install media, click repair your computer, then command prompt and then you issue various bootrec commands

Basically, the rule is that Windows will NOT respect the bootloaders and partitions of other operating systems. Heck, they're so childish about this, they refuse to even name and identify non-Windows partitions - it won't say "Linux" or "Linux swap" (even though all such partitions fully identify themselves in a standard way and there's no excuse for Windows tools not to just look up the "type" of the partition from the well-known type numbers and report what's actually on there), but Windows tools will, at best, lie by saying "unknown" and, at worst, mislead by suggesting "unformatted / corrupt", when there's nothing whatsoever wrong with it. Due to this childishness, on a dual boot system, you should install Windows first and then install Linux second. Because Windows acts like it owns the place and it will just blindly overwrite the bootsector - which likely has something like GRUB on it from installing Linux first - with its own bootloader. it will utterly disregard whatever's on it and overwrite it. Yes, Windows causes the corruption and it's very much doing it purposefully, as there's really no excuse for this. Partitions clearly identify themselves and Windows DOES perform checks on the bootsector to detect previous versions of Windows. They could so easily bundle in extra checks for other known operating systems and ask "are you sure?". So, yeah, you install Windows first, then Linux second. Because Linux will respect Windows and not trash its bootloader. But the reverse is not the same. Windows will blindly kill anything that's not a Windows bootloader and install its own bootloader over the top of it. Furthermore, Windows Updates to the bootloader? This could potentially trigger it to do it later. So, yeah, install Windows and Linux on separate hard drives and make sure that GRUB is on the Linux drive. Windows at least respects not trashing things on some other hard drive (at least currently). And then boot by default to the GRUB / Linux drive, which'll also provide a menu entry to boot into Windows. (The complaint that this means you're dependent on the GRUB drive to boot into Windows isn't really true. Most BIOSes / UEFIs provide a "boot menu" - pressing F11 or F12 or whatever - and you can specify booting into the Windows drive directly or set it as the default boot drive from there.) It's Windows causing the "corruption". Let's be 100% clear on that. (Provably so. Install a dual boot system - Windows first, Linux second - and then, well, never boot into Windows at any point. Nothing will ever go wrong, as Windows is never given the chance to corrupt things. You can empirically prove this to yourself. Although, I do know directly - from dealing with disks and bootsectors and such - that Windows is doing this and it's the sole cause of the problems. But Microsoft is very good at FUD - fear, uncertainty, doubt - and casting aspersions that maybe Linux is at fault. Maybe. Look, these Windows' tools are saying "unformatted / corrupt". Which is just a lie, by the way. Heck, most Linux distros ship with NTFS filesystem drivers. Linux can read Windows partitions without any problem. It totally knows what's on that drive, so it wouldn't corrupt it, even if it was writing to that drive - which it absolutely 100% wouldn't do for any reason, unless the user initiated an action telling it to do so.)

Been dual booting Manjaro and windows for a while like this. No problems at all, gave priority to Grub of course.

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Good luck! :)

Yes, it's easy to get tired from this type of sh*t, when you work in the field. E.g. when Windows Update, which is supposed to make things better, breaks printing and you have to fix this on a number of clients' computers

Hail Technical Brother! My career began in the 70s as well (writing COBOL for a DEC PDP8E) and I agree: I want the simplest practical solutions I can get on lightweight hardware.

You cannot blame vendors if their customers constantly demand more complex technology. Everyone wants to live large and too much is never enough. Now if you can manage to get by with less yourself then you can manage to keep things relatively simple I suppose. Good luck finding your balance in retirement.

@@1pcfred Just one example. I saw a lot of po reassure from fashion freaks to constantly change languages used for development. Each switch increased development and maintenance costs due to longer development times caused by immature languages, obscure errors which should have been trapped at compiler, later IDE stage. Multi language installations meaning staff became generalists and dealing with errors took longer. Dumb customers was a big part of the problem, I agree. IBM used to say expect 8 lines of code per programmer per day. Those 8 lines could do a lot. Now it's barely a function call. Net result was my guys spending three times as long as they did ten years earlier to develop equivalents with each language change.

@@kevgermany I think I know what you're talking about. Change for change sake. Playing Devil's advocate we still don't know what we're doing at the dawn of the Information Age yet. As sophisticated as things may seem now we're really just getting started. There's plenty of evolution yet to come.

Most? I've never seen it any other way. That bit of the video did trouble me too.

@Betatroll you've lost control of your faculties.

@@1pcfred Me too but who knows what any one of the 300+ distros may do?

@@paulg3336 I think it is a X Window thing really. There's actually a daemon that works that way in the console too. It is called gpm. All distros do is package software up. Well, they screw with it a bit too sometimes.

Greetings Marci. :)

It had a very strange inside . . .

First 28 indeed! Another gold medal! :)

Thanks for watching. :)

I am surprised to hear this, as I have tried repeatedly to create a local account in the Windows 11 Home edition by disconnecting as you, and always on installation reboots it requires an account to be created before it will complete (unlike in Windows 10, where this indeed words). Being online is, after all, a requirement of Home installation. But I can believe there are hacks!

Wine on gentoo ? You're a brave one. Good luck !

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This is a great to hear -- and shows others it can be done! :)

Nice.

Your fear is justified. Linux is a lot different than Windows. Most cannot make the transition. The ones that can are the ones that can let go and embrace Linux for what it is. If you can't do that then forget about it. I tell people you gotta wanna. Linux will test your commitment often too. Yesterday I wanted to compile some software and the configurator was giving me a hard time. I couldn't figure out what it was complaining about. So I just commented out a section of its checks. Because they dealt with versions of a compiler that I don't use. It worked but it still gave me a moment of pause and doubt. Wasn't smooth sailing, you know?

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Yes, Grub has given me much stress in the past

Oh yes, notes are a must!

I agree it's the only way to go. The most important thing to do first is defrag the windows hard drive then backup everything. I watched quite a lot of KZfaq vids & took copious notes of how to install the system safely, use of the various terminal commands (nothing to be scared of) & how to repair grub using a live ISO and the terminal. I did several dry runs using the live disk before switching to a dual boot system (Linux Mint 17.3 & W7). I've never looked back

Keeping detailed notes was a technique I discovered for myself very early on. Trying to juggle everything in the mind may seem possible and perhaps it even is. But why make things harder than they need to be? Then if I ever need to refer back to what I've done computers are better at remembering than I am.

Not looking back is the key to moving forward. People who try to run Linux with excess Windows baggage struggle. I watched this video because it is something I know almost nothing about. I've run Wine a couple times briefly. Been running Linux for 26 years now.

@@1pcfred 26 years that must be a record? *Congratulations* Whilst Linux is now fairly easy, in the past, it could be a tad tricky. For me, that manifested itself in printer, scanner and WiFi areas. Today, most of my engagement and communication is online, but Linux still seems to have some issues with Bluetooth. As the mantra goes: Don't complain - get involved with the solution :) All the best, Beamer.

@@beamer.electronics I run into a lot of people that have been running Linux longer than me. OK maybe not a lot but a fair number. I am in the under 200K club though. Less than 200,000 had run Linux before I started running it. I never tried Bluetooth out. I have done Wi-Fi a couple times. Stuff does seem complicated from the get go. Getting my modem to work back in the day was no easy feat. I found a ncurses utility that helped me generate the required scripts. ppp-setup. Or something. Was a long time ago. I still remember the initialization string. AT&F1 That was the magic that made my modem work.

Great to hear!