Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "" video.

  1. It can take a while to get to know what you want but once you do then you're golden.
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  2. The year of the Linux desktop is different for everyone. For me it was 30 years ago now. For some it'll be never.
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  3. Gimp isn't meant to be a drawing program. Gimp is just for editing images, not really creating them. The thing to do is to go back and forth between programs to do what you want to do. Would you build a house using just one tool? Cut wood with a hammer? I suppose you could. But it's not going to be the best experience doing it that way.
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  4.  @boomboompower  they's really cooling towers which are often related to reactors but are used for other reasons too. Those particular towers are related to heating. They're part of large central heating system. Which I don't think is actually nuclear powered.
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  5. You were institutionalized. Then it becomes hard to break away. Once I made up my mind to switch I made the concerted effort to acclimate. For a little while I dual booted but as soon as I could I ditched Windows entirely. Back when I switched things were a lot harder then. I switched 10 years before you even tried Linux.
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  6. Linux is a very deep rabbit hole. If you ever make it to the bottom you have the ability to dig even deeper then if you really want to. In fact everyone is encouraged to add to the warrens.
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  7. Success with Linux isn't so much luck as it is personality. Some are just the Linux type. You either love Linux or you hate it. Just how it is. There's some take it or leave it folks too. Mostly you find people hard on either side though. At least that's been my personal observation. Linux is polarizing. If you like the arcane and complex rule based games then Linux may be right for you.There's a lot of lore with Linux.
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  8. Debian has been getting woke lately. I may jump ship when I upgrade.
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  9.  @rodricbr  I haven't heard. That doesn't mean it isn't happening though. But not hearing is better than hearing.
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  10. Linux is what you can make of it.
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  11. The people that created technology were all your parents age. They were boomers or the previous generation to that.
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  12.  @IPnator  there's Linux without the GNU tools.
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  13.  @dentureadventure1490  yes running Linux it feels more yours.
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  14. Webcams work pretty good in Linux. You just plug them in and they work. As long as you have the driver for it. I just plugged one in: Apr 26 19:45:50 box1 kernel: [295062.511454] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (046d:0804) Apr 26 19:45:50 box1 kernel: [295062.554889] input: UVC Camera (046d:0804) as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5/1-5:1$.0/input/input27 Apr 26 19:45:50 box1 kernel: [295062.555139] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo Apr 26 19:45:50 box1 kernel: [295062.555143] USB Video Class driver (1.1.1) Apr 26 19:45:50 box1 mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 4: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-5" $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0804 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C250 There it is.
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  15.  @Peanutfiends  devices need drivers. Linux kernels just ship with a lot of drivers. Most drivers are modules so the kernel loads them as they're needed. Hardware devices have hardware IDs so that's how the kernel knows what things are. So if you plug in hardware that has a known ID and you have the driver the Linux kernel will load it up. Unless you tell it not to by blacklisting the driver.
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  16. There's no known virus for Linux in the wild. Although there are root kits and hacks. But generally security is more serious on Linux. Most of the world's servers run on Linux. So the stakes are higher on Linux. Virus software for Linux scans for Windows viruses. That's because Linux servers are passing data to Windows PCs. A Windows virus won't work on Linux. Because Linux isn't Windows.
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  17. It beats me. Once my browser has been cached it pops right up but I use Chromium.
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  18. Back in the day there was a process utility with a Doom front end. You could kill processes by shooting them. I don't know if it is still a thing or still around. But once upon a time it was.
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  19. The year of the Linux desktop is whenever someone decides to install Linux for themselves. If they stick with it then that's their year. My year was 1995.
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  20.  @aether32bit  you know when you know. Some can get Linux to work for them. Some can't. Apparently you can. That's good.
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  21. There's something called a virtual desktop which is basically a window into a larger area of desktop. If you move your mouse to the edge of the screen you can scroll. I don't like desktops I can't see all of. So I don't like virtual desktop workspaces. Or even multiple workspaces. But some folks like that sort of thing.
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  22. You can run any desktop on any distro. You just have to install it and use it. You don't have to use what a distro chooses as its default desktop. But in some distros if you do choose to use something different that may mean you do lose some functionality. Because some distros tie their utilities to their default desktop choice. They'll have written menus for you, stuff like that. You can run Gnome apps in KDE though and vice versa. But integrating the different widgets can be challenging. There's tools for doing it.
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  23. @pinguis_thorax how hard or easy Linux is depends on what you're trying to do. There's aspects of Mint that can be pretty challenging if you choose to go there.
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  24. Anyone that uses Linux and doesn't use the command line is just being goofy. There's no rational argument to support that behavior. There's good reasons why we gave up on pictographic languages. Many a program I've looked at the icons in them and thought, what does all of this mean? Trying to read online help for GUIs is an exercise in futility too. So inefficient and error prone and inaccurate.On the command line commands can just be written out in text. There's no ambiguity at all. Or if there is it can easily be sorted out.
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  25.  @DragoNate  I've fixed faulty drives by running gsmartcontrol on them. It doesn't always work, but it can. It depends on how bad off the hardware is.
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  26.  @MR-vj8dn  Linux worked 20 years ago. I know because I started running Linux 30 years ago and it worked then. Everyone's experience will be uniquely their own though. You can't run Linux successfully the same way you'd run Windows. So adjustments are required. There's similarities and there's differences. Trace Windows lineage back far enough and you'll get to where Linux came from. We share 60% of our DNA with a banana. Treat most folks like they're bananas though and you might not get too far.
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  27. OK b4llsd33p it is then.
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  28. Today if anyone wants to just try Linux you don't have to install Linux to run Linux. You can just load Linux and run it. You get something called a live image and boot off it in a flash drive. It'll load into RAM and run from there. Then when you reboot it goes away. The whole filesystem was just in volatile memory. Nothing was written into storage. There's some things you can't do in live sessions. But there's a lot you can. It is Linux. Initially new users are likely to break systems too. So if it isn't a persistent install there's no risk. I think live images and sessions are a great Linux intro.
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  29. Linux success is user based. It ain't Linux. Because Linux works just fine for a lot of folks. There's a lot of folks that just can't cope with Linux though. That's because you're dumb. Linux users tend to be high IQ individuals. But it also depends what you're after how hard Linux is. If you can boot up a default install and it has everything you need then you're all set. It wasn't always that way but it is now.
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  30.  @asghlv5841  some people are not very good at reading comprehension. There's times when it doesn't work for me. I made it to step 4 installing a screen door and the rest of the instructions just made no sense to me at all. I wanted to follow them but it wasn't clear. So I figured out something that I could get to work. The instructions did talk me through one part of the process I'd have never figured out on my own. Sometimes that's all you need. A push in the right direction.
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  31. What you want costs. So if you don't want to pay that'll cost you.
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  32. Linux can be very responsive.
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  33.  @Peanutfiends  Windows and Linux manage their kernels very differently. Microsoft isn't giving their code to their users to build for themselves. So the distribution models differ. Even if you don't have a driver in Linux it may just mean it wasn't configured to be built with your kernel. So you have, it but don't have it in a usable format. You just need to configure it and build it and install it. Then you'll have it in the right place where you can use it. Frankly I'm a bit mystified how the Windows binary model works at all.
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  34.  @tohur  the kernels may have it but there's no requirement for those drivers being enabled in the configuration. Linux would certainly work without that driver. If you don't need something you are better off without it too.
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  35. Felix has the money to hire devs. Or at least his own sysadmin.
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  36.  @ForkedMan  I think it's more of a skill issue. I've been running Linux for 30 years now and I can't say I've never seen Linux break but overall I'd still have to classify Linux is a very stable and reliable OS. I was on 103 days of uptime the other day when the power failed. My PC does need electricity to run. Not much Linux can do about that.
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  37. I don't think you quite understand what dual boot means. If you have two OSes installed on one PC and you boot back and forth it doesn't matter how many drives they're on that's a dual boot setup. The Linux boot loader can boot multiple OSes too. On multiple drives. Every time you boot up it'll give you a menu of every OS you have installed.
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  38.  @deantaevs8277  that works if it works. Modern PCs don't have a BIOS. At least one I just got doesn't. I was pretty surprised when I found that out.
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  39. It's pretty liberating. Then I follow the Windows drama for the schadenfreude. We have a big event coming up in October when Win 10 turns out the lights. I'm looking forward to it.
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  40. I could feel the excitement. Felix genuinely seems to be into Linux. Linux is more than a single project. Linux is many, many projects. In a way everyone that runs Linux begins their own project.
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  41. There's lot of Linux videos. I imagine there's going to be loads of reaction videos about this video incoming. Where people go into depth about everything Felix shows.
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  42.  @goose-lw6js  perhaps you're unaware but GTK stands for, Gimp Tool Kit. As in the Gimp team developed GTK. The Gnome team develops GTK now but they borrowed or rather stole it from Gimp. As Gimp predates the existence of Gnome. Gnome was a butthurt project because KDE used Qt. Which is a commercially licensed widget toolkit. That triggered open source zealots. REEE!
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  43.  @goose-lw6js  they may actually not be interested in, keeping up. If the changes don't benefit the project. I'm not keeping up over here. I don't have GTK 4. I don't need GTK 4.
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  44. So, you're saying Felix is going to turn into Terry Davis? He's already had his bridge moment so maybe? Glow in the dark CIA ...
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  45. As opposed to the C++ Boost libraries Linux already has? We have Boost at home.
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  46. It is not that Linux doesn't support, that game doesn't support Linux. Linux isn't developing or programming that game. Whoever is making that game is. They would have to choose to support Linux. They have chosen not to. There's not much Linux can do about that. Maybe there's a way to spoof the test? Make the game think it is running on Windows. But managing that would be quite a feat.
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  47. I've been using Linux since before Windows 98 came out. I ran the Windows 98 beta and said, nope, ain't going there.
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  48. Will this be bigger than Linus tech tips?
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  49.  @Ylerian  they forgot / but the command doesn't actually work for reasons.
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