10 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows

what's going on Engineers got a cool video for you today 10 things you can do with Linux that you can't do with Windows let's go number one you can download the source for Linux that's right folks you can go over to github comm slash Torvald slash Linux and you can download all eight hundred and ten thousand five hundred and twenty eight glorious commits for Linux you can see everything that's ever been done on Linux all the way back from its inception now if you're one of those people who are saying yourself well this isn't really important to me maybe I'm just a Linux user but I'm not a programmer or anything so why would I even care about the source well the reason you're gonna want to care is because there are people who are constantly looking at the source for things like bugs and security flaws and various other matters with Windows it's completely closed source which means you're putting a hundred percent of your trust into Microsoft developers to check their own stuff and make sure it's okay if there's a flaw there's no independent researcher that can uncover that flaw in the source they can certainly uncover it other ways but the easiest way of course is to look at the source so even if you don't care about the source know that there's a lot of people who do care and they make your experience better as a result additionally in addition to the links kernel being open source almost all software on Linux that you get from official repositories are also open source you can go get that source as well number two you can install updates without rebooting your machine this is a this is a game changer for cloud environments because imagine if you have a Windows server you upgrade software and now you got to take your whole thing down and then put it back up and then now your users have downtime with the Linux you can update almost anything without a reboot and for kernels version 4.0 and beyond you can even update the kernel in place that's super sweet of course on the windows side anybody that's used Windows for any amount of time knows that a lot of things you do it immediately pops up and says you must restart your computer for these changes to take effect and that's windows number three you can plug devices in without worrying about finding and downloading drivers the only time this isn't true is with highly specialized devices and what makes this possible because the whole point of the Linux kernel is to connect hardware to software and in the Linux kernel there's been according to my source 16,000 unique developers across 1,400 companies working on Linux and allow what they're doing is they are people from companies that have hardware and they're writing their drivers into Linux and that way when people use Linux it's just automatically there it's not an extra step to go out and find the drivers they're built into the kernel of course on Windows you buy a new printer you hook the printer to your computer what's the first thing you do you go to the printers homepage and then you go to support and drivers and download the right driver and all the other stuff on Linux you plug in the printer and you're done and one additional note about contributors there's so many contributors in the Linux kernel that github has an infinite symbol next to the contributors there's not eat it can't even render the number of people that have worked on this project number four you can run Linux from a pendrive cd/dvd or really any kind of medium on the keychain that has my car keys I also have a pendrive and on that pendrive is the latest version of X Ubuntu just in case I need ever need Linux for something on Windows there's no such thing there's no there's no such option as a Windows Live CD number five you can run Linux for literally years without rebooting and it will not degrade in performance because Linux is ultra stable and has way less memory fragmentation and it simply doesn't become slower over time and I'm not even kidding when I say years I have a production server right now that has a one thousand and two days uptime I've never rebooted this thing because I can make all the updates on the fly I can update the kernel and it runs just like it did one thousand and two days ago for one reason or another you're just simply not going to find that kind of uptime on the windows side number six you can run Linux on almost any hardware and when I say any hardware I'm referring to both different types of hardware as well as hardware from various date ranges there are fully functional Linux installs that are in some case less than 32 megabytes in size so go into that closet dust all the dust off that old computer from 1993 and breathe new life into it by putting Linux on it you just can't do that with Windows as Windows gets newer it becomes more resource intensive and the minimum requirements go up but with Linux you have distributions that are extremely small and extremely huge and you can pick the one that you need for your particular application number seven you can fix broken Linux installs with a live CD DVD or pendrive additionally you can even fix broken windows installs with Linux in some cases the reason this is possible is because the Linux kernel runs entirely in memory so you can use a CD or pendrive or DVD to load that kernel into memory and then go into a chroot environment on your broken system and then you can use that broken system as if it were functioning and then you can take whatever action you need to get that system working again on Windows you have to go through the windows system repair whatever process that is and if that doesn't work well reinstall windows number eight you can update all of your software often with a single command unlike sent OS and Red Hat you run yum update on Ubuntu actually bun two and so on you run apt-get upgrade but on Windows you either use the built-in updater for the software if if such an update or exists or you go back to the site to download a newer version oh and by the way maybe you got to pay money now for that update put on Linux type nee type update and you're done you can even say it to run once a week if you want and update your software automatically number nine you can move a hard drive from a1 Linux machine to another this is largely made possible by the fact that all the drivers are built-in so moving it over it doesn't matter it just it sees all your new hardware and it just works like it was in the previous machine on Windows not only would probably not work but windows will see that you have different hardware and then suddenly your copy of Windows is now non genuine and they want you to pay them more money number 10 you can customize quite literally anything you can customize fonts and icons you can download themes there's even Windows and Mac themes if you want to feel we're right at home you want a custom boot animation you got it you want to customize your taskbar with whatever you got it you want to put your taskbar right in the middle your screen and then take a second one and put it up and down so it's blocking all your view well you got it you can definitely do that on Windows some customization is available but it's not near the extent of Linux and here on engineer man you know we always go above and beyond so number eleven you can install software without worrying about viruses and malware now this isn't to say that Linux is virus and malware proof it's just to say that it's a lot harder for viruses and malware to be on your system and that's due to two things number one it's harder to escalate privileges on Linux for just a normal user and number two most of the software that you download for Linux comes from official repositories and those are guaranteed to not have any kind of malicious software viruses additionally it thinks on Linux don't auto run like they do on Windows so on Windows when you put it in a USB key or disk or something like that if there's an autorun thing in there it's gonna just Auto run the stuff and that's not true of Linux at all this also implies that there's no antivirus software needed on on Linux and of course that saves you in some cases money and it also saves you the performance impact of running such software on your computer and we're done that's ten things plus one bonus thing on things you can do on the Linux that you can't on Windows hopefully some of my viewers watching are getting slowly convinced that they should try out Linux so if you've decided at this time that you'd like to get started it's very easy you can download VirtualBox from the first link download X Ubuntu from the second link create a new VM select the ISO that you downloaded from the second link boot it up and then follow the instructions on the screen that you can get started with Linux it's totally commitment free if you decide that you hate it and you don't want it you can just you can delete the entire Linux install and you can delete VirtualBox and it's like it never happened however I think you're gonna find that you really like it and that Windows is just not necessary outside of gaming and really specialized software that's not available on Linux if you have any questions about the video let me know in the comments below or if you want to chat more about Linux come - my discord server link in the description and there's a Linux channel there I'm always on and you can chat with me about it and hopefully I'll see you there otherwise I'll see in the next video

Channel: Engineer Man

Views: 647,569

Keywords: linux, windows, linux tricks, engineer man

Id: JOOkfGv58u0

Length: 9min 4sec (544 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 13 2019