30+ yrs Window user Switched to Linux Pros/Cons

this is TJ with tech Made Easy welcome to the channel and my channel is all about making things affordable practical and easy and today we're going to talk about my journey into getting into Linux and why after 30 plus years of a be using Windows that I went to Linux so let me just start off saying that I first started with the Linux Mint cinnamon um and then later on down the road uh I went ahead and looked at a whole bunch of other distributions put them on thumb drives kind of did a tour with them and then and the reason why I was doing that is I noticed that Linux by cinnamon the desktop seemed a little laggy to me I like the desktop but just seemed a little lagging me and then I just discovered I didn't I didn't realize that these different distros have uh different desktop versions and so I discovered that uh Linux Mint had x x fce and I tried that I really liked it it seemed more snappier and then of course later I found out that it's lighter on the system and so on and so forth and that's what I've been using since there was a point after maybe a year or more after using the Linux Mint that I decided to check out the distros again and I really did like some of the features of KDE um the plasma desktop and I tried different um disc drills with that desktop as well I want to see if there's really somewhere say they are better for gaming but I found that out I don't and this is just me personally I don't think those ones say that they're better for gaming do gaming any better than just a regular uh Linux distro Maybe I'm Wrong maybe that's just me I'm not a big gamer but I was looking for stuff that my kids could get away from Windows and start gaming on on Linux and so um I almost I I do use two computers so I was I put uh KDE Lee and neon um Plasma on my second computer I don't use that one as much so I thought I'll just play around with it and uh yeah I thought it was a little quirky um there's there's things that I like to do in Linux Mint that or a little harder to do um in uh Kitty plasma and so um anyway I just I went back to Linux Mint but I just want to explain my journey real quick and some frustrations pros and cons of going from Windows to Linux specs like being a Windows user for so long and everybody has the kind of user you are in Windows is going to differ my experience running Windows is different from somebody else I mean I have a home network I used to have a home business in my house as well so networking was a big deal I used to be in I.T 20 years ago and I have a video server and so um networking was a big deal to me and uh and I'll show you some quirky things that I discovered at first but uh um so I just I just want to share like what were my frustrations what are the pros and cons how did I overcome those frustrations because there's a lot of things that people don't tell you when you go to from Windows to Linux you expect some of the apps and programs to work just like Linux and and they don't but it doesn't mean that you can't find a comfortable app for that um little things like the image viewer in Linux they're really basic more in Windows you can and this is the thing that I wanted to talk about a lot of people that demo Linux they talk about well you now you got to use well is like Photoshop and a lot of people don't use Photoshop when I manipulate a photo I just want to change maybe the lighting the color the Hue and I want a simple interface for that well is not a simple interface and so I've discovered and I'm gonna I'm actually gonna make another video of of a journey of the of of the apps that I found that um were easy to use similar to some of the ones in Windows I'm not saying that all the apps and windows are great but they do have some that are really convenient to use especially if you just want to manipulate a photo really quick they're built-in photo editor is pretty good just for editing a photo but but anyway so my big deal was is I have some friends that that are that are Linux it guys and they really like Linux meth it says hey just go to Linux Mint um um it's great for new users and everything and I'd like no no no no I I have too many windows apps I don't want to give up my Windows apps and along the way I uh I started um I don't know maybe I could say I started getting bored of Windows and then what I started doing I really did want to try Linux though and so I started finding apps that were that I could use on Linux and on windows so when I made that jump to Linux it wasn't as painful and the first one I found was obviously Libra office because I needed something other than Microsoft Office and I'm not a big I don't do heavy spreadsheeting uh huge documents or anything like that but I still need a spreadsheet I still need I still need a document I don't I don't have to or a document writer like word um I don't I don't uh I don't get a lot of uh I don't get a lot of Word documents anyway and so it's like well it's no big deal as long as I can do some uh make up a document and and the fact that you can save it as a Word document is great you save you can say the the Libra spreadsheet as a Excel spreadsheet is great and I do use the presentation software sometimes so that was great so I just started looking at stuff that when I made the transfer um it would be easier I didn't know about my video editing because I've always created videos for the family and everything like that I really love my video editor and I'll talk about that when we get more into this and So eventually I made the move to Linux Mint and like I said when I first made that I thought Cinema there was something about cinnamon that was a little clunky to me it didn't react very fast and I I really I'm just I just love uh excess CE and I know that some people you know poohoo that but and just if you're if you're not a Linux person let me explain something about xsce the default system is really basic but you have these distros that go in and they modify it and make it really user friendly really nice and that's what Linux Spence has done is they made it they made it look like cinnamon so we'll get on the desktop and we'll talk also about the pros and cons of using Linux as a daily driver then we'll just maybe discuss like who who is Linux for who's who what user is it for and that is kind of a wide range open question um there are going to be some people Linux is not going to be for them they're going to always want to stick with windows stay with Windows and I'm not saying everybody should go to Linux either and so let's get on the desktop and we can discuss some of that as well why we look at some of these pros and cons and show you some of the things that were frustrating to me at first and then I worked through to start to enjoy Linux [Music] thank you okay really quick I'm going to go over Linux distros for a minute and uh this is going to be a complete thing on on Linux distros but there's Linux Mint you may have heard these KDE plasma Ubuntu Fedora menjaro the reason why I'm going over these because these distros can be pros and cons to Linux and so let's just talk about distrust for a minute so a distro or a Linux desktop is made of uh is made of two parts one is the Linux operating system itself some people call it the kernel but that's where everything is command driven it's all text based then on top of that you have the GUI interface that uh that this started putting on top of that command-based operating system and there's lots of GUI interfaces to choose from so just like 30 years ago uh you had dos well dos was an operating system and you had Windows the windows was just a GUI interface that ran on top of Dos then in 1995 they kind of combined it and when you installed Windows 95 it installed the Dos it it basically restructured it and so now you have you'd have to install dos anymore it all installed in one thing and windows became the operating system but underlying Windows is still the dos interface it's changed over time so Linux basically has three main interfaces and just they're like 30 years ago or not interfaces excuse me um three main Linux operating systems just like 30 years ago there was and there might have been more than these two but there was MS-DOS and Dr dos or Dr dos and you could run the windows GUI interface on either one of those so what we have today with Linux is the most popular Main operating system out there is a Debian Fedora and Arch but the commands not all of the commands but some of the commands between those operating systems are different and the commands for installing apps are different so you have to be aware of that when you go to those you can't just go from Debian to Art and use the same all of the same commands some of the commands differ as you go to different Linux operating systems and then you have the GUI interface and there's a lot of GUI interfaces that you can put on top of these and not only can you put these GUI interfaces on but you could modify those GUI interfaces to give your distro a different look than somebody else's so I'm gonna I have a Ubuntu down there because Ubuntu was basically one of the first ones to create a GUI interface for Linux and one of the pros and cons to all of these distros is that's the problem there's a lot of distros and when you're a new user coming from Windows to Linux you don't understand because you're used to Windows and Mac is the same way one company creates one interface and that's all you have but with Linux because it's open source and nobody really owns it you have all these different distros with all these different GUI interfaces but that's also the pro because then you can choose a distro that you like that sits your feeds your needs better than others and if you're really a Linux Guru then you could just do everything from the ground up but I'm not that kind of a guru I just I choose a distro that fits me the best so let's take a look here kdes are really popular a GUI interface Kitty itself also offers their own um Linux distro but then a lot of people use kitties desktop over their distros and so then you have um Ubuntu and Ubuntu I'm not an Ubuntu I don't like this interface if Ubuntu and they do have other interfaces or GUI interfaces but this is their main a flagship one but you haven't been to you have uh Elementary OS gives you kind of a Mac like interface and then of course Linux Mint which I use um now one thing I don't like about Linux Mint I don't like the look of it right out of the box I don't like this I don't like the the greatest black background and the icons are they've changed the icons now to kind of a yellowish color but they used to be green I didn't like that green and I think the reason why is because it was called Linux Mint and but even Linux Mint comes in cinnamon mate and and X fce which I use and here's my and so here's my Linux men desktop I've gone ahead and I've all I've done is changed the background change the color of the icons and the style of the icons and I've modified my toolbar just a little bit I mean all these things are easy to do in Linux one thing that did really intimidate me with Linux the reason why I didn't go to Linux because I always thought that it was really command driven and you're going to see as I go further into this that it you don't even have to touch the command line very rarely do you have to touch it sometimes you do but very rarely let's jump on the Linux desktop and before we do that I do have to apologize ahead of time when I I am going to be running so so I can demo a few things um I am running uh Linux Mint in a virtual machine and for some reason when my card records it it's not very clear it's clear on the screen but I don't know why it does that so I apologize for not being as clear as it could be but let's just jump on the desktop but I want to show you some other things that frustrated me at first when I was a user when I had to get over so let's jump on the desktop okay so here we are at Linux desktop obviously this isn't the one that I showed you at the beginning that's my personal desktop this is just one for demoing purposes for the video but what I want to show you here um you can there's a lot of customizing you can do with the desktop and depending on if you're running KDE or some of the others depends on how much customizing you can do but just little things here like if I go into panel preferences um I have a 43 inch monitor and it's just too wide so I'll shorten I'll shorten the toolbar here so that the start menu is way closer to me and then I'll make these icons a little bigger and it just it just makes it more convenient so what I really want to show you here is one of the things that really frustrated me when I first because I was used to Windows and how networking Works in Windows and I personally have a home network we have our personal files on a file server and then we have a separate file server for our videos and so um anyway so when I had to hit browse Network um here's my my video file and we'll just log in to this and if I put my password in here and if I say remember forever connect password in okay see how it's telling me to authenticate um now when I go to reboot in Windows if you tell it to remember your credentials it remembers it when you reboot you don't have to log in again but with Linux you have to log in every time you don't have you you don't you aren't given to that one login screen you're just given to a password screen and I didn't really like that and there's another problem with that too that I'll talk about um so I'm going to go over here and uh um these and I need to back up just for a minute here because I forgot to explain why I have these both here Linux has file managers and they have multiple file managers they don't just use one and some are have different features than others and the one that comes with Linux Mint is the thunar one and I'm not a fan of the thunar one and this is the thunder one right here where my mouse cursor is I'm on the left uh the Nemo one is on the right um the Nemo one to me is more robust the more user friendly when I say use a friendly they're both user friendly but this one gives you more options and features um and so I'm going to go over to this one because I want to show you something really quick I'm going to go over to the server we just logged into and I I'm going to create a shortcut from for this test folder and I'm just going to drag this back down underneath these two right here if I if I was to reboot this computer um and I think there's only one file in here it's not there isn't very much in here um so if I was to reboot this computer I would not have access to this folder um and until I until I put in my my password and uh that's just I I didn't really like that because you don't have to do that with Windows if I put and I'm really big on shortcuts especially creating shortcuts to a certain section on my server um and so um I didn't really like that now there is another way to uh to do a network drive that isn't what we just did here these are basically uh these are basically browsing uh I want to say soft mounts so in Windows when we create a drive it'll be a letter it's not a letter in Linux and I had to get used to that as well um they call it mounting and windows it's really mounting too you just don't know that that's what it's really called um but uh I in Linux there's two ways to mount a network drive one is what I call a soft Mount and this is one I call a soft Mount right here the reason why I call it a soft Mount because when I reboot I still have to put in my password to get into it once I have the right password into it then I'm fine I just that's just right when I reboot now but if I want to not have to do that and have access to that there's a config file called the f-stab and you you and I'm not going to show you uh the command line for that you put it in there and then that'll make it a hard a hard Mount you know when I say A Hard Mount this is what I call it I don't know what they call it in Linux terms it will just automatically mount for you with the password and everything and you just you can just click on the icon and you're in it you don't have to put your password in for the first time after you mount mount it and getting used to mounts was something that was a challenge for me um because I wasn't used to the term uh it just wasn't used to doing that so that was a little frustrating for me at first when I got over it let's talk about uh shortcuts for a minute now if you're a window user maybe you use shortcuts maybe you don't I use shorts to cuts a lot especially I like to put shortcuts to my server and certain directories on my server and so when I when I got Linux I didn't know what a shortcut was I didn't they don't call them shortcuts they call them links and the symbolic link really is what it's called but if I go on here and I said create link it'll create this link right here and just put this out have access to it just like in Windows okay um but in Nemo here which is my my favorite file browser if you if I was to write my right Mouse click on this there is no create link why why is there no crate leak man it's like come on now I learned the the the I did learn the um I did learn the key I did learn the keyboard now I did learn the keyboard commands to do a symbolic link so it's not that big a deal anymore um so if I want to create a link with Nemo um I just do shift control and drag it out and it'll create that link right here and here's our link here I guess we pull this one down here that was something that frustrated me at first so obviously I got over it but now this is another thing that's frustrating let's go back onto my file server let's say I want to make a shortcut here create link yeah it didn't create it if I use my key command now created it I don't know why but within within the server it doesn't always create the shortcut when you say create link so it's real it's really weird sometimes I haven't with with the with this file manager the thunar one I can't even use the keystroke and pull this out okay so to be fair to Nemo but I didn't know this when I first started using it and again these are just little things but coming from Windows I I it was just a little frustrating um but if you go into preferences and if you go into the menus um make link is right here so now when I go on to create a shortcut or a link it's right here and it makes that but you know and maybe and maybe a symbolic links or shortcuts aren't that big a deal in Linux and that's why it's not an option that's already in the pull down menu but as a from a window person and I don't know how many window persons use shortcuts that was just me so that was just again just a small thing that was really frustrating I don't know why they just didn't include it in the in the menu why you have to go select it in the menu but that being said there are lots of reasons why I like Nebo and I'm not concentrating on that I think I'm going to make a video that goes over some of these things in more detail and some of the things that can make your life a little bit easier in Linux some apps that you that you need to get or just understanding how things work it just would have been nice if they would have in the menu without select any of the preference those are just quirky things for me now of course obviously I got over it and uh it took me I didn't know at first that the file managers there were different file managers and once I found out that there were different file managers I went and looked at all of them and Nebo is the one that fit me the best because um I have a video server and I'm constantly ripping videos and so I'm constantly having to change the names of folders and files and so what happens here is if I double click in this like it is in Windows now I can rename this to test I'll just put test five but over here in thonar you cannot double click on a text to change it now the keystroke for that is F2 and now you can so an F2 is the same one in Windows but why don't they make these things consistent now in in Nemo that is not the default the double click to edit text is on a file or a folder it's not the default you have to go in preferences and you have to click that preference which is fine I don't mind doing that but why does one file manager do it when the other one does it and that's the whole thing about Linux is that you have different people creating different things and there's no standard I mean it's not a huge deal with me but it does make it when you're first starting out um a little inconvenient and I know these are small things but but when you're used to these things just working in Windows and then you have to figure out how they work in Linux and it's it's a little pet PV of mine and it's not a big deal to me anymore but it wasn't first just because Linux was so new to me okay so that's just a few I've got the file manager and then you just shortcuts and the way networking works I mean I got over it um I'm actually glad I found Nemo because it really does um make a difference for me on I really like it a lot and I can just tell to do this small icons here like in Windows and you can do the same thing here but you got to do go through the pull down menu um so and that's the thing about Linux if if there's something that you're using that you don't that you're missing a feature you might be able to find it in something else um so even the picture picture viewer that's the default one I don't like that one but Linux Mint comes with another one so I made that my default picture viewer okay like I said at the beginning one of the things that I was resisting Linux for was is the command line I didn't want to live on the command line and I thought you had to live on the command line um in Linux I thought every app you installed was from the command line well when I saw that demo on Linux Mint I didn't realize that there were there were Linux store managers and so that's what I want to talk about right really quick now is let's go into the uh the Linux store manager real quick um and uh now one thing you got to lies and I might have mentioned this at the beginning of the video but a lot of the a lot of the third party apps that people use are actually on all three platforms Windows Mac and Linux and one of those apps and I'm just going to make this just a little bit bigger um and let's just go ahead and and put in Zoom their Zoom you'd be surprised how many apps you use on windows that are actually available in in Linux so I'm going to just put in Spotify here for a minute um and I do want to talk to you about Spotify you're going to notice here that there's two spotifys here the reason why there's two spotifys is Linux created what they call Flat packs I don't know how many years ago it's existed but flat packs are a little more secure and if you remember I talked about that there are different Linux operating systems like Arch and Debian and Fedora they keep all of their software in a repository and there's a separate repository for for our to separate repository for Debian and even your distros have their own suppositories so what it is if you're you if you if you uh install an app on Arch it has to come from the art suppose uh repository but if you use a flat pack the flat pack can be installed on Arch any of them it doesn't matter um it's not relying on the Arts repository and so that's why flat packs have become really popular they're kind of independent of which Linux operating system you're running and uh and they're actually a little bit more secure they take a little bit more room but and I don't want to get in to all the minutius of flat packs you have snaps on the Ubuntu side some Linux people don't like snaps because they they're they launch slower they maybe work a little slower they're trying to fix that it's canonical some people don't like canonical because canonical you you can't just create a snap pack and put it over there on canonical they control all that the flat pack is in that way you um and I personally whenever I can I always install a flat pack and so um I can't always install one sometimes you just have to install it from the regular repository which is fine um but that's that's kind of the difference there but I just wanted to show you a couple other things here like we go VLC oops let's type it in right so if we type in VLC again we're going to have a flat pack version and there's a regular version but again download oh and this is the thing about the flattack version flat pack versions they're usually more up to date than the regular repository versions and that's another reason why they use them but if you want say OSB so um you and if you if if it if an app isn't on here that you're that you're using then maybe you can find one that is like that app at any rate there's a lot of flexibility with the apps that you have there and I'm going to talk about what if there isn't a window app that you really want to use but it's not available on Linux I'm going to address that towards the end of the presentation okay one thing I need to point out here just because they're uh there's a software that you're looking for in Linux isn't in uh the software manager doesn't mean it doesn't exist not every single piece of software is going to be in the software manager uh so you you might have to Google that or you might have and you may have to go to a website that offers a Linux version of the software that you're looking for but just so you know not everything just because you can't find it in the software manager doesn't mean it doesn't exist okay so that was just I was showing some of the small frustrations I had obviously I worked through those I figured them out um but just to let you know if you're thinking about going to Linux just understand you're going to have some frustration at first and don't get me wrong I have seen people on YouTube try Linux for a month and totally give up in fact let me talk about Linus Tech tips um so Linus and Luke they wanted to see if they could do make uh Linux or daily driver and still game on Linux and if you've seen those episodes you might have first tried pop OS and had problems when you went to install Steam it was a new version and then they didn't realize there was going to be a hiccup with that person in Steam and so then he so then Linus made even a worse mistake and tried I guess he had heard that when Gerald was really popular but there's no way if you're a new user would I may have you go to Madero now Madera was one of the easier Arts based Linux distros to use but still you can have a lot of problems if you don't know Linux you're not going to solve those and he ran into all kinds of problems trying to get his gaming working on manjero and this brings up another and Luke actually did Linux Mint Luke actually fared out a lot better than uh then Linus did Lennox Smith and this is the whole thing when you go try to choose a distro and you're gonna go try and try Linux stick to a Debian based distro now when I say Debian if you go with Ubuntu Ubuntu is still a Debian basin distro Linux Mint uses the base of Ubuntu but again Ubuntu is based on W so you just want to make sure the commands there's a lot of help on using Debian a lot of commands that you can use out there if you need to find something I just would not suggest someone even no matter how user-friendly an arch distro is I wouldn't suggest a new user go to art for the very first experience there might be some Linux people out there that disagree with that there are some people Linux people out there that do disagree with it so just so be aware of that and also be aware if you're going to go to Linux you may want to check all of your peripherals in your computer and make sure everything is compatible with Linux Linux also actually works a little different because most of the drivers are built into the operating system into what they call the kernel and so you may have something new enough that isn't in the kernel yet but it may have a driver for Linux so it's not that you can't use it but you do have to kind of look at what you're bringing over to Linux to make sure it's all compatible because not everything is the second point I want to make up make is who is Linux for that's a wide broad question because uh one person may be for Linux and that exact same person may not be for Linux so it just depends on your needs it depends on on what apps you're using and what I do want to talk about uh Windows apps for a minute um so if you are running proprietary Windows software that's not available on Linux you have to you have to really think through whether you want to go to Linux or not or one of the things that you can do I don't like some of these options but they are options and people do do them especially people that do gaming they will dual boot so they'll install Linux and they'll do so what will happen is when their computer comes up it'll ask them do you want to boot into Linux or boot into Windows the problem is with dual booting that I don't like and dual boating has been around for a long time that dual boot can get corrupted once it's corrupted you don't have access to any operating system so be careful if you're going to do a dual boot the preferred way that I would do it at first is I would have a second hard drive that I would install Linux on and then through my computers um bios at boot up I would choose to uh I would choose to boot to either to Windows or to Linux that way it's a it's a safer way to do it that's another option there are there is another option some windows apps will run in what they call Wine um but some won't and so yeah the one the one the one windows program I wanted to use um that I didn't want to give up would not run in wine so that's why I use two PCS for a long time and they only the only reason or not the only reason the only time I use my window PC was when I was wanted to use my video editing software um and so it wasn't until recently maybe the last couple of months that I finally have been able to use my video editing software in Linux so let me explain so there's what's called virtual machines now those of you that are familiar with virtual machines know that things don't run as fast in a virtual machine especially the graphics your GUI interface the what some people do is they will do a GPU pass through where you're passing your GPU through to Linux so now Linux now has your 100 of your GPU but you can't run Linux at the same time as soon as you exit out of Windows and Linux comes back up or if you have two video cards then you can I don't have enough room from two video cards because I have other peripherals that are plugged into my slots that don't allow me to have two video cards so I was kind of in a conundrum what do I do here I want to be on Linux only I don't want to switch to my Windows machine well I finally found a VM that runs Windows almost 100 native without GPU passthrough and that's what I do now is I use that program I use that VM and I'm going to make a video on this VM because it's awesome uh so that's how I get around that now I tried BMS before to do my video editing with but it just was it didn't work but this VM is great and it's not qem it's not some of the ones you know out there that's one I'd never heard of um Anyway video upcoming on that so gaming on Linux oh man there's a lot of Linux gamers but you have to research on if you are going to move to Linux do a research on whether your game's run on Linux or not a lot of games run on Linux now a lot not all of them run though and one thing I will say and I might I don't know if the comments will explode on this but you have a lot of Linux user that are gaming and they say that their game's run better on Linux now I don't know what games are playing so I can't comment on that but I do do some gaming testing on Windows on some of my videos I'd always use the built-in benches for that and I tried it on Linux I have not seen those games run more efficient in Linux than Windows in fact they lose some frames per second by running it in but you can still play it in Linux but it's not getting the same or better performance in Linux as it is in Windows so that's all I'm going to say there now our kids game and I would love them to be on Linux but they also have the Xbox game pass and so that's kind of hinders me on having them game on Linux now if you paid for the game pass where it's cloud gaming that's an option right there and that's how some Linux users get around that they might have the the Xbox cloud gaming and are gaming on the cloud um so gaming again that's going to be up to you you got to do some research on that um but back to who is Linux 4 um it all depends on the person really and what their needs are if all you need is to search the web use a spreadsheet a word processor every now and then man why not use Linux you it's going to run better you can run it on older equipment and that's when the one thing I do want to talk about one thing I refuse to do is upgrade my equipment so I can run Windows 11. I do not plan on running Windows 11 now I may have to do that with my kids but I'm not going to upgrade theirs either there is a way around of installing Windows 11 on on uh on equipment that that really doesn't qualify for it um but I'm my computers are great they're powerful I don't I'm not going to upgrade to just so I can run Windows 11. um there are options there um but so you really have to decide and what what it's worth it to you to run um and so I can't really say who Linux is for because that's really broad statement but I will say if you're the type of person um if you're the type of person that's mostly doing you're mostly on the web most of the time doing social media whatever even if you're doing video editing because you can Video Edit on and you're not stuck in a on what you Video Edit on then that'd be cool then by all means go to Linux and one thing I will say about Windows even though you pay for a license you don't own windows that license is basically almost a rental license so that you can run Windows it is not does not mean you own windows in Linux I want to say 98 of everything is free including the operating system the distros the apps that you use there are some proprietary operating systems that you do pay money for or or apps and operating systems but that's very there's not very many that are like that and a lot of times if you're paying for the operating system you're playing you're paying for um support that's what you're paying for it distros which one to start with like I said I I would stick to a Debian based distro you might want to check out KDE plasma a lot of the distros use KDE plasma for their for their GUI me personally I have tried it I think it's a little quirky so I I don't use it um and then even for me I started out with with Linux Mint cinnamon and then I went to Linux Mint xsfce which I really do like um and uh just within the last nine months I went through another distro I did distro hop I just researched the distros and I have extra computers I can install them on and try them that way laptop and um I I do use two computers and so I thought my second computer I want something different this time so I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna use a distro that has KDE on it uh there's just some quirky things I didn't like about it so I have Linux Mint xsde on both of those um and I really I kind of recommend Linux Mint just because it has a Windows like interface to it and when I say windows more like Windows 7 so you're familiar with it um it's easy to use it's been around for a long time it's one of the more popular ones and I'm not saying just because something's popular you have to use it but it's kind of a safe way to get into to Linux later on down the road if you want to upgrade to something else to another distro or you want to try a distro with uh with KDE Plasma on it fine do that as well just make sure it's a Debian based I will say this much though the reason why I like um Linux Mint as well is it automatically sees what video card you have and and puts the driver in not all of them do that you have to install the driver separately it doesn't mean they don't have the driver available in that they just don't do it automatically anyway so sorry about all the little rants even though I did rant at the beginning of this video of the frustrations would I ever go back to Windows no way I love Linux now the long the more I use it the more I like it the more I yeah I enjoy it as a desktop so anyway this is uh TG with techmade easy thanks for coming to the channel I know this video is a little long but I hope it's helpful have a great day thanks now that was easy peasy foreign [Music]

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Length: 44min 4sec (2644 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 09 2023