Comments by "D. von N." (@D.von.N) on "DistroTube" channel.

I also need to correct you: Windoze does upgrade compatible OS free of charge too. My Win10 PC is compatible with Win11 and it has been offering me free upgrade repeatedly. No charge for it. On the side note: since I installed free Win11 iso on a usb as an OS I have been using it for a while, I have not been asked for a license key once. Whether it recognises that this laptop came with a Win11 originally, I don't know, it has LMDE installed on nvme. Maybe since the main income for Windoze comes from subscriptions, they aren't as heavy on OS license? I don't know. Another note: unless there is a widespread sale of new computers with Linux preinstalled, you cannot avoid paying for Windoze or Mac. It is included in the price. You paid for it when you got your machine for the first time.
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tbf I also have some facial blindness and I sometimes confuse the two of you. Both computer guys, linux focused, similar age group... we walk among you LOL.
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@AM-tu1rc Ever tried to skip the middle man Ubuntu and go with Debian based Mint?
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Thanks for sharing. I find your voice very listenable. My journey to Linux started last year spring time, after having serious issues with Win10, ending up reinstalling it, that after I had to use cmd and powershell for troublshooting, guided by AI and other online resources, even extending a recovery partition to be able to install some update. To cut a long story short, I got myself extra laptop with Win11, business class, my learning bitch. It has got a 4x larger nvme, installed LMDE and I have been playing with it ever since. Now having a dual boot with ubuntu, and Win11 in a VM on LMDE. Launching GIMP takes exactly one second, in contrast to eternity on Windows. Soon my Win10 will be LMDE as well, or something else. It also is Win11 compatible but no, Windoze only in the VM or from a usb. Done with the 💩.
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Some new update of Win11 24H2 is having BSOD issue these days. Oh my! 😂
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That's Cif where I live LOL
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Whatever the history, I am a new Linuxer in 2024 and just salvaged my old Asus laptop, ex Vista boi, with 64 bit Mint XFCE. I upgraded the RAM a bit, replaced a broken hinge, cleaned inside and reapplied the thermal paste (I think they used a pad previously), gave it a sata ssd, just need to sort out the terrible sound. I have managed to put it up, as the defalt was too low, but the quality of sound is still not what I would like.
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Just to say a lot of free software runs on Windoze, too. But yeah, a new Linuxer here and exactly for the corporate redundancy of millions still good to go machines, I decided to give Linux a go. And paradoxically, I started with it on a 2 or 3 year old Win11 laptop I bought second hand, for maybe third or quarter of the price of a new one. So I have the best of both worlds now, when the need comes. Win11 on a usb, Linux on nvme and another Linux on exVista laptop I myself refurbished and tried several distros, 32 and 64 bit, settling on Wilma. Microsoft has ditched that machine long ago, not sure it would run Win7 evven. But with Wilma it is a perfect machine, still with a dvd mechanics! It even burned its own Wilma installation dvd, as it won't boot from a usb, that old it is! Bios only recognises up to 3GB RAM.
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Earlier this year I also thought I won't switch to Linux. Never worked with it, myself in later 40s, no IT education... but the shenanigans of Microsoft made me to give it a go and I see my future on Linux. You are right that one of the factors why Microsoft is almost a monopoly is that it is one monolithic system. It is almost the same for everyone. The other reason I realised is (and many noticed it too) is that the vast majority of computers come with Windows, smaller minority are on Mac. Is there any other option for people? I don't see it, if not counting mobile devices and Androids, or Chrome book at most. Microsoft is almost a monopoly on the market and people never knew anything else so they go with what is available to them on the market. And for doing my work I had to reach to Ubuntu 20, as it is the latest Linux distro that has a client for Oracle remote access. Or some earlier Linux distro. Not the later ones either. And Ubuntu is half way from Linux to Microsoft, when it comes to proprietary software. There are other Windows users that depend on Microsoft, like for Teams, or complicate the system via emulation or Wine and Bottles, and that probably comes with other security risks. And although I will most likely go Linux as my main system next year after Win10 loses support, I will also run Win11 from a usb for those cases I need Windows. I hope the Linux community will make even greater effort to make Windows users to switch with a greater confidence in the future.
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Every new version of Windoze comes with a learning curve. Adding this up over time, with a stable Linux distro you have minimum additional learning as they don't turn everything upside down with every new upgrade, taking away features you loved and adding those you don't want or need. And then change stuff mid way when people complain, like with Recall, then customisation, then installing .exe forbidden because the stupidly primitive system flags them as malware, despite being a reputable software you always used. And don't let me started on how Windoze makes millions still good to go computers redundant next year, incompatible with Win11.
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Re adobe: I have made myself a gen2 usb with installed Windows, for cases like Adobe, which only use less than 2% MS users anyway. Not a big deal. Just boot into that usb and you won't even notice it isn't on a hard disc. Fast enough on my 16GB ram laptop.
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Looks nice and modern. Any suggestion why I should prefer this Zorin over LMDE, for example?
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Since you started on the political note: there was the time when a political dialogue was possible, plurality was beneficial and people could be friends across the entire political spectrum. That is no longer possible I'm afraid. Those on the shorter end of the string are literally fighting for life. This is not the time to be apolitical and walk into a disaster with closed eyes while chanting I am tolerant. The right wing is destroying America in front of our eyes, making enemies of friends and vice versa. Democracy is at stake and if you remain indifferent, you are enabling evil. I am not surprised that open source world keeps resisting the the right wing hijacking proprietary world. All those billionnaire bootlickers bowing down to the traitor in chief need a push back. People need to wake up or they might lose their freedoms altogether. The free open source is actually fighting for those freedoms for those who still sleep tight.
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@kukla-mukla6000 Since I am not an IT, I go with stable distros like Debian. Haven't had an issue yet, on LMDE, which comes ready to work out of the box after a few simple initial set ups (turning on firewall and timeshift). I created clones of the entire hdds in my machines, so it shouldn't need a rocket scientist to restore if something went terribly wrong. Linux has limitations, certainly, but for a general use of computer like the vast majority of the population use it, it is more than sufficient. And faster, more responsive, less surveillance and bloatware. It was exactly the issues I got with Win10 earlier this year that I had to learn more, even extend the recovery partition for Win10 to be able to do certain updates, and I said to myself, if I need to do stuff in cmd and powershell in Windows, I can as well try Linux and terminal. And I must say that I love the terminal, me, a naive PC user. Since this issue earlier this year I have learned more than I ever dreamed of, and I am still a novice.
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@zerotheory941 Not a fan of MS, but you decide whether you want to run this spyware on your system on setting up you newly installed system. It won't do it against your will. That majority users will probably turn it on and not knowing it is running in their system, is another thing. But I am sure the system will remind them to look at their history. At most, in theory, it could turn itself on after you turned it off, but if you are experienced, you should soon find out whether it was the case. The bastard will take up your memory. You should also be able to set it up what it can record and what it cannot, like exceptions. I am listening to other folks who are more knowledgeable. I won't have it in my system though. Set up my Win11 to stay on 23H2 and I don't have the copilot+ PC.
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@penguin2137 hm... if I understand it right, if I bought Mac, and installed Windows on it, then it would ask for a licence? Why did previously Windows demand licence key on computers?
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@Lucas-yh5zz OK so from my understanding, you can run any licenseless installation of Windows on any computer that came originally with Windows? Sounds quite convenient.
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@Lucas-yh5zz thanks, that explains a lot. I didn't give much thought to these details, just knowing OEM (or OED? lol) license was tied to a computer and was not transferable.
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I am not a tech but I utilised AI to help me go Linux. I am pretty much still a normie, just having a vague idea of what CPU, GPU and NPU mean, also TMP, swapping nvme, RAM and repasting the heatsink. Had a colleague coming to me in the morning that a particular work PC was unresponsive and cannot be used, despite checking all connections. I came there, screen black and the fan going berserk, endlessly. I had it before on that machine. No idea why it didn't boot, just I held the switch on button to hard shut it down and then switched it on again. It worked. That colleague has a PhD in science (not computers), I have a BSc in the same subject LOL.
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There is Mint on Ubuntu, like this one, and there is LMDE. I haven't had an issue yet with LMDE. Just don't do stupid things with it. Make sure you know what you are going to do.
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