Comments by "Paul Frederick" (@1pcfred) on "Problems You will Encounter on Linux (and How to Solve Them)" video.

  1. No with Windows you're licensing the OS. The hardware is definitely yours though. Do you know what a computer without an OS is? It's a pretty good doorstop.
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  2. That's because generally you don't have to do anything special to be secure with Linux. But there are some common sense things you should be doing or not doing. Don't run services you don't need. Don't give your IP address to everyone. Don't run software from sketchy places. I think just that should keep you safe from the bulk of risks. If you're a low profile user your risks are minimal. If you're hosting a hate group public website you may need higher security. Might want to consider using a hosting service then. But you do you.
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  3.  @contra_plano  I would agree with that. The initial install of Linux can go very quickly. I wouldn't say it is faster to completely configure Linux how I like it to be though. I am very particular about some things.
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  4.  @imeakdo7  I never said Linux has to become dominant. Linux only has to matter. Plenty of corporations back Linux now too. Including Microsoft, believe it, or not.
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  5. He says in a comment it crashes on him.
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  6. I am just happy when my audio works in Linux. Trying to do anything beyond the basics can get complicated real fast. The documentation is sketchy and no one knows what's going on.
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  7. No people need to learn how to Linux. See Linux binaries use shared objects. If you're missing those library files then programs won't execute. There's utilities in Linux for dealing with dependencies. You can run ldd against a binary and it'll spit out all the libraries it is linked to. But when I was getting Resolve to run I didn't know what the problem was so I ran it in strace. I saw the syscall failing there. It took me a grand total of 2 minutes to figure it out. That's because I know what's going on. This is simple stuff. Learn how to do it and you'll be an amazing guru too!
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  8.  @robbraxmantech  Resolve is closed source and probably stripped. So it can't be debugged. Could be version mismatches. As I can recall it needed one wacky library I had to get out of the Red Hat repo? I isolated that and launched Resolve using a shell script wrapper and used a LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable to catch that one lib. One shall not taint their base system! That is the path to the Dark Side.
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  9. If GUIs are so great then why did you leave your comment in text and not pictographs? Is it perhaps because text is more expressive and flexible? Hmmm. The command line is very powerful. You may want to rethink your stance. Like this guy said in this video keep notes. Then you don't have to remember anything but where your notes are. Although knowing the basics of grep is useful. You can remember at least that, can't you?
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  10.  sjbrockhurst65  There's really only one or more often two parts inside a PC that can potentially shock you. That is the primary bulk filter capacitors inside the PSU. But even they should have bleeder resistors across them to discharge the electricity they can potentially store. You'll know them because they'll have 400V printed on the side of them. They can have up to 380V on them. Which would give you quite a wallop. But you'd have to have the PSU cracked open and plugged in. Which isn't impossible. But you'd really be going out of your way at that point.
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  11.  sjbrockhurst65  I doubt if hitting the power button on an ATX machine that's unplugged does anything at all. Because you wouldn't have standby voltage then. ATX is electronic soft start. The old AT machines had an actual line switch for power. ATX just has a little tactile switch that sends a signal to the motherboard. A modern PC that's "off" isn't entirely off really. That's how something like wake on LAN can work.
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  12.  sjbrockhurst65  actually the components that can hold a charge, namely electrolytic capacitors, are healthier with a charge than discharged. Eventually with no charge on them the capacitors will become unformed. They will lose the oxide barrier in them that makes them block DC current. Although generally it isn't anything anyone has to worry much about. There's more info on the topic on the net if you're interested in finding out more. Just look up capacitor forming. I've reformed capacitors. After they've lead a life of sin. You can't fix all of them though. When you turn something on and the capacitors just explode then it is a problem. It's also something you can't fix then either. Well, you can install new capacitors at that point. But if you'd reformed the caps they may have lived. Capacitor forming is a very arcane subject.
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  13.  sjbrockhurst65  it's no instruction. I just know some obscure things about electronics. It is a topic I have some interest in.
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  14.  @joroc  if you want things to work and they aren't then you're going to need to know something. That's for sure. Or at least someone that does know. Troubleshooting is a process and a methodology. Defining the problem, gathering information and formulating a solution. What's going on and what can I do about it?
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  15. DaVinci Resolve runs on Linux. If it doesn't work it's due to missing libraries. You can just run ldd against the installer and it'll list the libraries you need. Make sure you have all of them and install the ones you're missing. I figured that out by running the installer through strace.
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  16.  @atticusherodes6648  in the end the only deciding factor between different Linux distros is packaging. The rest of it you can change and likely should. Packaging you're kind of stuck with though. It is the packaging that defines each distro from another. Any Linux distro can be made to do what any other distro can do. They're all Linux.
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  17. I don't use more than the stock aliases. I do like my shell scripts though. In the distro I run if ~/bin exists it is on my $PATH It's in an if fi conditional in ~/.profile I say this because it is important. You should have a ~/bin too!
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  18.  @fullstackdave4117  I just use command history for that. I've run those commands before so they're in history now. I don't preface commands with sudo either. I just run an interactive root shell. You can do that by running sudo -i. Then whatever you need sudo for you do in that terminal. When that terminal not doing anything I tail syslog. # tail -F /var/log/syslog to monitor the system. See, even less typing. I also mask commands out of history too. You do that by preceding a command with a space. Otherwise your history is very boring. Just lots of cds and lses. History has limited depth. 200 commands? Something like that. The command line was made for lazy typists.
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  19.  @Vitorfernandes83  I don't fix things running Linux. I just run Linux. Linux works good. If it didn't then I wouldn't use it. But occasionally I will noodle around with the system some when the mood strikes me. Then I'm glad that I run Linux too. Because Linux has a lot of powerful utilities for doing that sort of thing. If you ever really did need to fix something you stand the best chance with Linux. You ain't fixing jack in Windows.
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  20.  @Vitorfernandes83 it's true for me. Linux isn't for everyone. It takes a certain kind of a person to be successful running Linux. That's not most people either. Over time some aspects are getting easier. Some's harder than ever though.
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  21. Yeah Windows 8 was a wake up call for some folks. Realizing that some corporation can just pull the rug out from under your feet whenever they want to. Yeah Microsoft backpedaled, but they really didn't have to. They could have just told their users this is how it is, deal with it. Win 8 was what scared Valve into Linux. It made them see the writing on the wall.
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  22. Backslash is actually the escape character. At the end of a line you're escaping the new line. Certain characters have special meaning to the shell but when you escape those characters the meaning is stripped. If you escape new line it's like it's not there. The shell simply ignores it. But you'd also escape special characters in file names.
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  23.  @laylasmart  I never had it crash. But the poster of this video says it does for him. I've never used Resolve much either though. So mine might crash if I did use it more. I'd sooner use Cinelerra.
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  24.  @laylasmart  I said mine never crashed. The creator of this video had his crash. I don't use Resolve. I only installed it once because someone else couldn't. So I was just troubleshooting it for them.
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  25.  @laylasmart  I run Linux.
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  26.  @laylasmart  I never really used DaVinci Resolve. I only installed it and opened it up to verify it worked. I was helping someone else to install it.
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  27.  @laylasmart  no I installed it on my PC to understand the installation process. Then I told them what they had to do. We were chatting on IRC and it came up and it intrigued me enough I downloaded the installer to check it out myself. I like to get stuff to work on Linux. I ran the installer through strace to see why it was failing. It was obvious it was failing to find a library it needed to run. Once that library was installed it worked fine. That's all there is to it. Without that library the installer wouldn't run. It just wouldn't do anything. Or at least that's how it appeared. It actually was doing something. Just not enough to ever pop a window up. There was plenty of activity in strace before it did stop. When I told the person what I'd done they said, I should have thought of that. Sometimes you don't. Diagnosis is a process. Ideally the program would have popped up an error window. But it didn't. It didn't visually give any indication of what was going on. You'd run it and it didn't seem to do anything. Which isn't a whole lot to go on. But good old strace made it spill the beans.
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  28.  @robertprimak2407  I don't know what a sound stack is. My audio is decent regardless. I don't know what pipewire does either. But I have it and it's running. I just listen to audio really. Videos, music, games. So I only care about how it sounds.
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  29.  @robertprimak2407  all you really need for sound is ALSA and the right kernel driver. They're the only things that make sound happen. Everything else is going to go through ALSA and the kernel driver to make your audio hardware work. You can have sound with just ALSA and a kernel driver. Everything else is going to use ALSA and the kernel driver to access your audio hardware. We had sound before Pulse and Pipewire. I used to use the OSS driver from 4Front. I go way back.
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  30. You can handle choices. I believe in you!
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  31.  @dave7244  Chris is a rook
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  32. Linux was born on the Internet so networking is pretty important.
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  33.  @reindeer8890  I said networking was important, not absolutely essential. But I would argue that networking is virtually essential with Linux. I wouldn't run Linux without an Internet connection willingly. Now as far as privacy goes Linux has the most advanced cryptography available. It's a pretty popular aspect of Linux.
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  34. I started running Linux in 1995 and X11 was around then. X is older than Windows is.
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  35.  @anonamouse5917  you only really need to know a dozen or so commands. Learn them and you too can be a computer guru and the envy of all your friends. The trick of course is which dozen should you know? You figure that out as you go along. I'll give you a key one to get started with. $ apropos <string> You replace <string> with what you're searching for in the man database and it'll return all it finds. Now you can find the other 11. Your ultimate goal is to be able to query the system for the info that you seek. Because what you want to know is in there. It is on you to find it though. To that end find, locate and grep are useful commands. Those are in the dirty dozen. Now you're a third of the way there. Pretty easy.
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  36. When I first got a flash drive I formatted it in EXT4 but eventually I realized that Linux usually used VFAT for removable media. So that's what I started to do. I don't know why Linux generally doesn't use a native file system for removable media. But it just doesn't.
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  37.  @robertprimak2407  Let's see what's in the drawer of bootable Linux flash drives. Here's Rescatux0.74 /dev/sde2 764 5755 4992 2.4M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32) It's vfat. What a surprise. There's 8 more drives in the drawer should I check another one? What are the odds another one's vfat too? Pretty good I'd say.
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  38.  @funnyberries4017  So you install the codecs. You can also use ffmpeg to change video encodings.
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  39.  @GapRecordingsNamibia  if a program needs the routines in a library then it needs them. I don't know how else to put it. Dependencies need to be satisfied. Understanding libraries and dependencies is important to mastering Linux. There's not much to it really. But a little.
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  40.  @joroc  so, when someone just hands you a farm and all of the equipment to run it you're just going to sit there and do nothing, are you? Enjoy starving I suppose. You deserve to.
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  41. Linux is bulletproof due to the GPL licensing. The GPL breaks any one entity from ever gaining control. We can sue them if they try.
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  42.  @eijentwun5509  Debian is better than both of them. Debian is testing that's been fixed. But I don't recommend Debian to new users due to Debian's policy. By default non-free is disabled in Debian. Enabling that is an extra step that new users don't need. Edit a conf file? What's that mean?
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  43.  @imeakdo7  but the more dominant Windows is in the market the harder it is to escape its influence. Because then its influence is just that great. We feel that when manufacturers only support Windows. When Linux is that insignificant then it is easily ignored too.
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  44.  @tschorsch  I think Microsoft is doing OK for itself. They're pivoting into other businesses.
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  45.  @fullstackdave4117  I used to use aliases. I had one for adjusting my time. It was a funky rdate command. Now my only custom commands are either shell scripts or links. One thing I have is a help file. When I type the command it runs a text file through less. It has the names of all the programs I've installed in my home directory along with brief descriptions. It's pretty handy. Because I don't remember all of that. Then if I type that command with an e I edit that file. I guess it could be an alias. But I use a script. If ~/bin exists it is on my $PATH ~/bin definitely exists on my PC too. That's a .profile if fi conditional. File making that directory under things everyone should do. But I don't know if every distro has that in .profile. It may only be a Debian thing?
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  46. That's why you were told to study so you could master the fundamentals. Once you gain knowledge then you can understand. Linux is a bit like a secret society with rituals. This isn't the sort of stuff anyone is born just knowing instinctively. You do have to learn it.
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  47.  @Vitorfernandes83  but you do have to take a course to learn how to use your oven. It is called culinary school. The subject is quite involved too. Didn't you know? There is more to life than just frozen pizza after all. r/whoosh!
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  48.  @Vitorfernandes83  if you just switch an oven on you are not going to get anything out of it. You have to put something into the oven for that to happen.
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  49. Generally either Ubuntu or Mint are recommended as starter distros. You can ask questions but you have to ask the right questions. There's a howto that's been written that you really should read. We got you dawg. It's called, "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way by Eric Steven Raymond" You want to be smart, don't you? Of course you do!
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  50. If I had problems like that I'd be using a different Window Manager. One that worked. You can do that in Linux. Change what you use. There's loads of different Window Managers. You can use whatever you like. They all work with everything. Linux is DIY. So feel free to mix and match. Customize.
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