Down the PENGUIN Hole – How Linux Changed my Life

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• I've tried switching several times. The way I've got Debian setup right now makes me feel like I could actually commit to staying on Linux this time.

• Long post
  *Typed on my circa 2012/2013 Dell Optiplex 7010. This machine is still rocking it with Linux Mint!
  *Just started tinkering with a home lab – learning about Ubuntu Server on my recent purchase of a Dell Precision T3610.

  I was exposed to Linux in 2012, when I dug out my old Micronic computer (original X86) with XP on it and saw how corrupted it had become while I was in Iraq, and my son did more than play Everquest or Command and Conquer on it while I was away.
  I discovered the 'Wary Puppy' distro, and started to fall in love with Linux! It breathed new life in that ancient beast!
  In 2013, our house burnt down and a friend gave me a 9 year old laptop from circa, 2005. I Installed Linux Mint and forgot all about Windows, until recently.

  My now grown son and my granddaughter started playing Everquest and Opa wanted to play as well. Linux/ Steam OS doesn't work well with Everquest (like not at all) so, Opa buys a budget gaming computer recently off Ebay that has Win 10 and RGB lights, Oh My!
  Opa has been in a rabbit hole of learning things about the hell called Windows and has exposed me to much more goodies from the Linux world, that has enticed me to possibly go for my A+ and Network + certs, just for self ego.
  I had endured a significant enough TBI in Iraq that has… lets say, made things challenging over the years. Apparently, the brain does "rewire", to a certain extent and I like challenging myself.
  I had left IT shortly after the bubble burst and 911 happened where I ended up in uniform as a trigger puller.

  As for Windows and Linux in 2024, IMHO…
  Microsoft/ Windows is a great gaming OS. I forgot how much I HATE Microsoft and Windows!
  The Bloat and constant and repeated molestation Windows forces on you – akin to a mouth breather pervert trying to grope you at every turn! …and that's just Win 10! … Windows 11 is even worse!

  Linux Mint is really no drama for simple everyday stuff. Gaming options are limited although, that appears to be changing.
  Having "exposed" myself recently again to Microsoft, has really made me appreciate Linux and the little to no drama with the distro of Mint, especially.

  If your a Windows user, who's machine is destined for the heap, thanks to Windows 11 in about a year; I highly recommend installing Linux Mint and get years more life out of that machine with little to no drama.
  If your a gamer – I'm feeling your hell right now!

• "Down the penguin hole" is why I'm no longer welcome at the local zoo. 🙁

• One of my favorite things about Linux is that i can look up my problem on the internet and someone likely has answered it. This is a massive difference from needing to rely on Microsoft's "answers" site which often lead to "Windows doesn't do that anymore. Your only option is a third party executable, but do that at your own risk – Microsoft expert not affiliated with Microsoft".

• 0:20: 💻 Exploring the impact of Linux on personal and professional life.
  3:53: 💻 Transition to Linux and its impact on the user's workflow and confidence.
  7:50: 🐧 The speaker gained confidence and new opportunities through using Linux.
  11:27: 🐧 The speaker discusses their experience with different Linux distributions and their preference for ones that don't require a lot of troubleshooting.
  15:20: 💻 The speaker describes how Linux has transformed their digital life by centralizing their music, isolating their banking systems, and creating offline backups.
  Recapped using Tammy AI

• I am an ex Windows user who has switched to Linux full time 18 months ago. I was using Windows 7 and 8 until Microsoft stopped supporting it. Then I found I could not get any software that supported 7 or 8 as Google Chrome has stopped support. So it was either upgrade to Windows 10 which I hated or Windows 11 which I hated even more. So I installed Linux Mint and I have never looked back. Updated are installed in minutes instead of hours as they took on Windows. I have not had any crashes or any problems installing the software I want. As well as that you are much safer on Linux as there are no viruses as there are on Windows. Also you save money as Linux is free to install and you can install it on as many computers as you want. Where as with Windows it costs you £200 ever time you have to upgrade or install a new version. Then you can only install it one one computer and you cannot get round this as you have to activate Windows. No such problems on Linux plus everything is much better. There is nothing about Windows that I miss and I will never go back to Windows now. Nope Linux is here to stay.

• Great video, thank you! Good to expand my perspective, easily, on Linux, beyond simple desktop replacement.

• You have a great philosophical outlook. I feel very connected to your finding empowerment. I was interested in religion and inner healing of memories. I was amazed at how people depend on systems for religious enlightenment and emotional healing that don't empower power. I had mystic experiences in Christianity which gave me a pattern of self talk that I was "told" to study. It gave rise to a "distro" of inner mind communication the like the mystic path was empowering from within oneself. I am not against outside helps but we need to focus more on self empowerment. Now a days I don't claim to be any more than a practitioner of what I hope will always be free and open source in the way Linux is. It is a powerful system that in its primitive first form was practiced effectively by my own parents so long ago. Right now, I have a system that needs to taught practiced written about and used in a variety of ways. In my YouTube channel I always give links to your channel and to some of your recent videos. My thought is to spread more empathetic and aware practices around the world to help people get along and progress in more peaceful and fulfilling ways. I appreciate your philosophy and work and everyone should subscribe to your channel and share your videos to help with your work.

• 14:06 Says the man advocating for streaming over physical media in the same clip…

• 11:10 I dumped gimp for Asprite and I dumped liberoffce for well office 365 4 years ago and have not looked back. Because asprite just works gimp does not and Office 365 is on all my devices with all my flies liber office was bearly on one.

• Honestly linix can't as it does not have asscess to 40+ years of the internet like any windows machine just does… Liike you opened the video about how you had to find softwear that worked on linux… I just go and download anything I want and it just works… That is true freedom.

• Very few people realize that LibreOffice is a better software than Microsoft office. I am in the academia now. Sometimes I need to present something. If I use latex to generate the presentations, they are not good-looking. On the other hand, in Microsoft office, I cannot write the math well. LibreOffice has TexMaths plugin that lets me include the math easily while also getting a beautiful presentation with animation and everything with LibreOffice.

• i use openwrt (based on gnu linux os) for my router 🙂

• For me it was a similar story, a friend who worked at cybersecurity recommended me Ubuntu, at first I'd only use it on a VM but when I upgraded to Windows 10, I got all sorts of problems: from sudden blue screens of death to needing to reinstall the OS so I started dual booting.

  One day my windows install got busted and for some reason my laptop didn't wanted to reinstall windows (a problem with secure boot) so to have a working computer for the rest of my last semester, I installed Linux Mint and it worked like a charm, so kept using it and now it's been 7 years since I've been using Linux.

• Gimp runs on Windows too. Give it a spin.

• Great video!👍

• Around 2008 I started using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS and then Mint 6 Felicia why because I loved Computers and Vista was crap. I was also dual booting the Windows 7 Beta at the Time

• Have gou tried intel NUCs? Better than pi in every way

• I can identify with the "confidence" angle. I've been building computers since the mid 90's, when a 386 was still a viable option. back then, I would run DOS and Windows 3.1 and would read a lot of books to learn the various DOS commands, then Windows 95 and later came out, and I got into a rut where I wasn't really learning how the software worked, like I did in my DOS/Windows days, so a few months back I decided to try Linux for 2 reasons: 1 to veer out of my comfort zone and try something new, and 2 not having to spend a bunch of money on licenses for Windows on my builds. Now with Linux, I have the ease of Windows, with the terminal to give me plenty of new things to learn, since the commands are so much different than the DOS commands and how they worked.

• Great Video! Loved hearing the stories regarding your journey and being part of that journey. And remember some of those stories you talked about.

• I've been using linux for sixteen years and relying on it for ten. First, my foss-fanatical friends got me interested in tinkering with it. Then, I had to start using it professionally.
  It's all been downhill from there. Particularly in the area of running windows software and games, things are far worse now than they were then. Native alternatives don't exist most of the time; and when they do, it's invariably buggy and abandoned.
  A 🤡-fest of developers and users (which now includes most other linux toobers) are working hard to turn linux into a (national-)socialist 💩-show. Well, even more of a one than it already was, that is.
  Had I known ten to sixteen years ago what I know today, I would never have wasted so much of my life on linux. But since I didn't value my time, it was free. So here I am now – bitter, tired and jaded. Dual-booting BSD and windows, or even just using windows and live-USBs, has never looked more attractive. But surely, the year of the linux desktop is just around the corner…

• Hey Tom, thanks for making this video. This gave me a huge insight into the possibilities of the linux world. It also gave me some ideas regarding running my own home based hardware.. I'm new to the linux world and this channel is a God send. Thanks!

• looking at ..open source ecology

• At 70+ I happen to like those old games like Doom and Warcraft II, so good on you. Methinks that a computer you build should be your hardware and the OS should be your choice and do your work. Thus, we dumped Microsoft, used LineageOS on a refurbished smartphone and switched to Linux Mint on our last desktop builds. Think we'd make good neighbors.

• Open source software has improved in leaps and bounds over the past 3 years. Gimp3 will be out soon and FreeCad 1.0 too. In another 2 years it will be silly for any power user to stay on Windows. I got so pissed off by Win11 last month that I switched to Debian on the spot instead of waiting for the Trixie release, and it's abundantly clear to me today that I will NEVER look back.

• im glad i found linux, yes im currently not using it but im not the most tech savy, im currently using a i7 2060 gpu so ik nvidia isn't the best, and after watching your video the other day about the tpp or whatever im wondering if thats whats making my drive not show up that has windows on it "because i'd love to erase windows and use the pc as intended its got 2 drives in the pc and i had an old laptop that i got linux on but its not useful for anything, but i'd love to find some people to help me learn some stuff how to delete windows and set up this crazy thing with linux.

• I use to enjoy watching Spatry's Cup of Linux until he went M.I.A, which left a void within, I then found NixieDoesLinux who I fell inlove with, Then she also needed time to take care of her own issues, I miss them both so much, Then I found you and your bosses that Meows for our attention which I've enjoyed watching, I laugh at your wacky SillyVille segments, I really do appreciate the effort Linux folks who try so hard to pass on things learnt from using Linux…. Challenge yourself by reviving the left for dead gNewSense distro that was so hard to get anything working as it's stripped right down of the P software that just about every other distro insisted on keeping as it actually made Linux usable… Meow. … I'm now using Nobara Official (KDE) just to play my favourite Windows based game called BeamNG.drive which ended up playing at higher FPS than what Windows was able to achieve.. Thank you GloriousEggRoll, Your work proves Linux is the best, I honestly think Microsoft will be dead and gone within 3 years.. I avoided KDE for over 10 years after KDE offended me once it removed the Red Bouncy Ball widget.. Now I'm back using KDE but I hate how it now seems impossible to install the very important things that KDE use to include back in the day, I really want AMOR creature as well as the Red Bouncing Ball widget back. I loved the little things… xPenguins, xBill, Exploding Windows, Airplane Windows, Cairo-Dock and the legendary Conky. .. Fedora MATE-Compiz ended up being a lot easier to learn and use compared to the Microsoft wannabee called Ubuntu. dnf is easier to use than apt-get or what ever Ubuntu used.. Fedora is end user friendly. Ubuntu isn't … Please don't shave the meows.. SillyVille lol xPenguins down the hole.. I miss them..

• Down in the penguin hole Using linux just makes me feel free with Windows it felt like having the legs of Michael Jordan but being told to use a wheelchair. Linux gives myself and my hardware full potential without needing visa details or having my data collected. Nice video always a pleasure watching

• Linux has changed my life, my computer experience now seams quiet and peaceful. I no longer say so many Fwords, with the pop ups and adds that keep popping out at a person in Windows. MS taking native Apps and controls away and turning the Operating System upside down. No more License keys to deal with. Non of that Garbage.

• Linux + FOSS is my way. I have a couple of thinkpads (win10) that I got dirt cheap. I don't hate win10 as much as I used to, but when w10 support ends: all Linux

• Excellent video! You definitely showed that you can travel with the penguin just as far as you want to go!

• Linux HAS changed my life, It all started with ol' Matthew Moore (he was my 1st look into messing with Linux) – It snowballed from there.

  Windows 11 is OKAY! but I'd ditch it immediately – My Windows Laptop is the fastest computer I own… my 3- Linux Mint 19.3 install is still running on my HP AIO also I feel at home when I boot up my RPI.

• If you want to get a taste of lineage, calyx, graphene os…. just get a pixel 3 which is pretty cheap and still a decent phone.

• Just read an article saying that Microsoft is talking about using a subscription based model on Windows 12….. I said I barely use windows 10 now switch to subscription model and I'll make sure I use Linux Mint on everything as I'm 95% there now…..

• Interesting. It certainly made my life easier, since I have to use a computer for much more than social media (which I don't bother with, other than YT). Windows was constantly irritating to use – click, click, click, all the time. It's also given me an increased feeling of independence, which is cool.

• down the penguin's hole

• Switched to Linux, did you see the piece today in Australian news that a farmer has had his business wiped off the map by Apple. Literally. He is no longer on Apple Maps. He is marked as "closed" and his road is not listed. That's the kind of thrall that big tech has put us into.

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