Linux Rules 2021

it is 2021 and it is time for the very first presentation i've ever done about linux and this one is about linux ruling 2021 and just dominating the computing world this year now that sounds ominous and it's not really quite as you think because a lot of people think of linux desktop that watch my videos but there's another aspect of it that's often missed this is also a response to this year's linux sucks series by brian lunduk which i love brian we always have like a banter back and forth a very good yin and yang type setup we often have conflicting ideas and i think that's fantastic it also inspires original thought so with that let's get on the desktop and start going over this presentation linux rules 2021 how linux is dominating now who am i i've been an it worker for 20 plus years i'm not a journalist i haven't been brought up with that i'm not a software guy i've always been more of the system admin and i t management side of things in my 20-year career and also i think another badly misunderstood question that people often ask is who uses linux and the answer to this is always everyone uses linux it's just most people don't know it and that's really the big thing so many people that talk about linux desktop and those types of things always wonder hey how's that differ from windows or mac and just know that everyone pretty much uses it or interfaces with it just very few users actually have it as a desktop replacement myself i use linux for my productivity as you see right here i am actually using it to present this using like free office on an arch-based install but i also am recording on a windows based machine because a lot of my stream utilities are compatible with linux and just work a little bit better and then i edit these videos typically on mac os so that is why i use all three operating systems i always say pick the best operating system for you and that's just kind of the who and why i do what i do and talk when i talk about linux just know that i'm not necessarily an evangelist where i just say hey everyone should use linux in my eyes everyone is already using linux it's just a lot of people aren't using it as their desktop how it's dominating well i've been in a lot of data centers over my years and i can tell you this much every data center is predominantly linux which means it is dominating the computing world servers are where it's at corporations love linux they just don't particularly care for linux desktop they love the fact that they don't have to pay license fees which 10 years ago when i'd set up a 444u rack and i'd have to do like an rdp server or something like that i would be spending upwards of a hundred to a quarter of a million dollars on microsoft licenses where linux has come so far that i can set up all of that it'll work better it'll be more reliable and it's completely free that is so powerful to so many and that is why it is dominating the business world so what's wrong uh in london's video he says the indus nye linux sucks and and that's very tongue-in-cheek which i do much the same a very dry humor very sarcastic person myself and i have to tell you there's certain things and illusions that many linux desktop users have about linux and i wanted to dispel a little bit about that some things that i thought well just not necessarily true the first being there has never really been any linux leadership uh i think a lot of people give linus torvalds or stallman and all these other people that had brilliant ideas geniuses i would say that created like the linux kernel in the linus torvals or the free and open software movement in stallman's case these were great ideas but these guys were never leaders and aren't leaders they never have been won't ever be they're technicians that have brilliant ideas that have been able to capture and create something that's truly unique and transforming the entire world if we rewind in the 90s i remember you had to pay for everything open software was pretty much just a dream at that point in time and now it's so much more mainstream and i just want to say front hey linux never really had leadership it just happened to be where so many great ideas came from but it's been very much a headless machine all along now having said that there is a lot of corporate influence the people paying many of the linux kernel developers comes from microsoft google amazon all these are linux partners part of the linux foundation that pays for a lot of the development of linux so there is some influence there and some of it's good and some of it's bad but this influence definitely has grown over the years where it used to not really be a thing it used to just be hey a cancer as microsoft put it in early 2000s by steve ballmer and then lastly most people always talk about either marketing or fragmentation this is mainly all linux desktop as a server admin i never really cared what version of linux i was on typically it was always either debian based or rel-based or red hat based i never really dealt with too much else i always would just jump on a server oh okay i'm using yum for a package manager over here or oh this is ubuntu based i'm using apt and i would just install my things set up my server and then i forget about it because the reason why people use linux is because of its reliability that's why most data centers have it in and that's why i did things also a lot of networking routers and those types of things that was where i first cut my teeth on linux in the mid-2000s but when it comes to linux desktop always people always are like the year of the links desktop all about linux what's so awesome about it and i would say what's awesome about it is also what's wrong with it and that's the fragmentation where you can do anything you want in linux if you thought it up it's probably already been done five times you want to change your wallpaper there's probably five or six or 10 or 20 different programs to do that i know i'm using like faye other people are using nitrogen and there's all these different applications some of it's just built into whatever desktop environment you're using there's just this whole array of different desktops you can use on linux that just makes it magical but that also means there's literally thousands of different configurations and distributions of linux that make it to where you can study it day and night and you'll just be sitting here for years still learning hey what's the best desktop for me or constantly refining your desktop for a nerd that is amazing that is super powerful for an average day user not so much and that's probably why it struggled to gain much adoption which is not necessarily a bad thing and honestly most the corporate influence loves the fact that it's so fragmented and nobody really uses linux desktop in that way because then they can make their own spin and have it adopted by the masses and just basically claim credit case and point to this would be chrome os which has i think about six or seven percent adoption because of chromebooks this was actually based on gen 2 and that's a version of linux and they just kind of modded it out and then just wrapped it with all their systems and sold it as a product and it has done very well better than any other version of linux and actually has seen the most development and progress however that opens up a whole different can of worms with a lot of the adoption and other corporate influence that's come into linux we've had a lot of compatibility just in the two years i've been using linux desktop the complexity has grown immense but with that has come a lot more programs that weren't working on linux now do gaming is really starting to come in its own it's definitely come from about 30 usage or compatibility to like 70 or 80 percent it blows my mind to think about how linux was when i started and where it's at now it's absolutely amazing i can't speak more highly about how this has really transpired it's still not quite as good as windows per se because everything on windows is made for windows so of course it's going to work better over there but the fact that linux has grown as much as it has i view it as a good point i think this is amazing that you have all these new possibilities when it comes to linux and as far as the community goes this is something that i'm not really part of the community i've gone to linux fest i've talked to probably a handful of people back when i went it was 2019. i just been on youtube for a little less than a year i ran into a couple people that knew me but i think at the time i had about 40 000 subscribers over on youtube uh compared to today where i think now i'm approaching about 300 000 which is a little bit crazy to think about but i thought hey that would be cool to go to more of these in-person events and i'd love to but you know the world has thought differently and i love to hear during lunduc's linux sucks presentation he talked about all these fond memories for me all i have is this one memory and i was able to go there and learn certain things and i thought that was pretty cool and learn a whole new skill set like i think i learned blender and some other cool things at some of the the neat classes that they hosted and i think i only paid about 20 or 40 bucks to get in there and it was basically a college course that was given for free but in that same regard when it comes to the community you have forms wiki all these things to learn anything that you want to learn if you can think it you can do it on linux and that's the power of the community and that's never going away i don't see that happening i see it kind of transition from here to there certain communities have almost like a bit of tribalism that you get which can be a bad thing in linux a lot of people always talk about the toxicity but i look at it from a good point so many of these communities have different people that help and do amazing things where you can do anything you want and also in that same vein there's corporate spins of linux i already touched a little bit on chrome os but that's amazing that someone like google took it and made their own operating system and then shipped and sold so many chromebooks and i know my daughter's on a chromebook because that's what school districts doing and that speaks volumes to linux and his future because she's learning a lot of things about chromebook and linux as a side note but that is kind of a really cool in because growing up i only had windows well dos and windows but for the most part i was just using i think windows 3.11 was really my first version of windows and then i went from there to 95 98 and so on and i've been on every version since i think coming up you see all these other kids now having chromebooks from the shutdowns and those types of things this was good for a lot of adoption of linux in some regards a lot of the more hardcore linux users though look at this as a slippery slope because this gives google a lot more control where microsoft was the one in control before so it's uh one of those hey pick your evil and that's kind of where we're at when it comes to actual general desktop computing and speaking of google uh the domination and they are creating a linux replacement and i wanted to touch on this a little bit the domination of google i think they've harnessed open source and some for evil some for good i guess uh just depends on your viewpoint here personally i think google is far too big has far too much influence far too much power and whenever one person has so much power and domination they can do things that can be very immoral and just can be downright bad for society and i wanted to just kind of look back in history on this point and a good aspect to this is look into the late 90s when microsoft had that domination apple was about to go belly up microsoft had almost 100 of the market share i think was like 98 something in the late 90s they were able to put many businesses and competitors out when their microsoft office line came in to be they pretty much shut down word perfect when the browser wars started they pretty much killed netscape there's so many aspects of when a company has complete domination over a certain industry it is always bad for us users and it's something that we should be cognizant of but at the same time i'm hopeful because the one thing linux has done is it provided a means for anybody to fork it to take it to different directions to lead users to different places where back in the late 90s it felt like i was trapped i felt like all i had was windows and i want to say that is completely different maybe it's just because i'm older and wiser now that i can see all these different things where it comes to freebsd linux mac os windows all these are viable replacements now let's go into the future a little bit what does that look like and i have to say for a lot of the hardcore linux desktop crowd i don't see them staying on linux for a long time it's going to continue bloating up you're going to keep seeing this corporate influence and that's just going to grow as time goes you're going to see more compatibility you're going to see more regular folks come into the linux community and this is going to off put a lot of hardcore users and i think they're going to migrate to freebsd to be honest with you i looked at ghost bsd and a lot of the spins that they have over there and it reminds me of linux about 10 15 years ago while i probably wouldn't use it as my daily driver yet it could definitely get there and i think a lot of hardcore linux users that have been on it for 10 years it's already there for them and it just depends on you as a person so that's the future for the hardcore crowd but for the regular crowd we're still going to be using linux servers i know there's nothing really even close when it comes to the linux servers being replaced with anything else there's some different things that have happened a good example of this is dropbox did drop i think most of its linux servers and moved to a bsd alternative because their netcode was a little cleaner and it was just a little bit faster but in general most people love the convenience of linux most cis admins already know linux and it being free when it comes to the open source and also the payment model of it i i just don't see this ever decreasing for years to come it's just one of those things if anything we're going to just see it grow more in the business world while the desktop world you might see some new spins coming from bigger companies much like chrome os probably moving away from linux i think someone will be there to fill that gap and as far as windows dominance i do see this continually just kind of chipping away here in five years it could be down to 50 percent or 60 unless microsoft switches courses i've done a lot of videos over windows and a lot of the negativity and problems that it has but frankly it's just so long in the tooth these days and they've done so much to bloat it up that when you install linux it just feels like a breath of fresh air for pretty much anybody that understands knows linux the big difference here is a lot of people don't know what linux is don't understand it and that is why linux still or why windows still has a massive market share which is kind of the way i think it it is is but at the same time it's not like it was in the late 90s where it was 90 percent market share and or 98 market share at its height where now it's i think in the mid 80s which i can live with actually i think it's even dropped more because mac os has actually picked up market share and i think it's actually crossed the double digits now into 10 11 depending on where you're you're getting those numbers i think i last time i checked market watch it it looked something like that i say all this because where a lot of people get caught up in the negativity surrounding things and it kind of puts a dark damper or dark light on linux the future is very bright we have the tools and the cat's out of the bag and we can go and do whatever we want and when i say if you can think it you can do it i mean you don't really even have to try that hard you can do and build pretty much whatever operating system you want in the linux ecosystem if you want your operating system to just be a tiling window manager with none of the shenanigans none of the bloat you can do that if you want to build your own kernel and really strip out all that extra crap they've thrown in and just say hey i only wanted to do this one thing you can do that if you want all the fixins and you just want to install a massive like ubuntu desktop spin you can do that and frankly if you want to keep using windows or if you want to keep using mac or if you want to just use all three you can do that the future gives us the options the options are here today and i only see more options as a good thing when it comes to operating systems there's haiku and other offshoots that are you know definitely obscure but the fact that open source has come as far as it has and someone like me can just jump into the linux community and be able to do all these cool things is magical that means anyone can do it and uh you know anyone with the the aptitude and the want and the drive to learn linux can do it i should specify asterisks there but the future is very very bright and that's one thing where yes linux desktop might see a shortfall here in the next couple years but it never really had a dominance it was always just kind of an obscure desktop environment or desktop that some folks used myself included i'll continually use it for my production but i'm also using windows i'm also using mac and i'll definitely try out whatever comes out but to say linux is going away tomorrow i think is a misunderstanding about where linux really dominates the market today and as far as contacting me you can always reach out through all these different sources you see on the screen i will say i'm not the most responsive person right now i have about three jobs i still do i t work i'm currently getting blown up because of all the winter storms here in texas and my day job is having phone issues we've had prolonged power outages that outlasted my ups's all those things have happened in the past year and it's definitely one of those things so i still have that i'm still making content either here and i'm doing it on lbry youtube all over the place i'm not picky on usually where i put my videos i just make sure i don't have them in one platform as i just don't trust any companies and then also i do some investing on the side i talk a lot about cryptocurrency and other things uh sometimes i know on that aspect of things cryptocurrency stuff i'm kind of keeping off of youtube just because it's so toxic over there and uh it's something that i'm still passionate about and i've i've been passionate about that for about four or five years and lately it's where most of my income has actually come from and i've really enjoyed that endeavor so definitely reach out to me if you can if i don't respond just know hey i might get to you in about a week or two weeks sometimes or sometimes it's just too much don't don't usually type a wall of text to me if it's past a couple paragraphs usually i just don't have the time as i usually get anywhere between three and 500 emails per day in my inbox and uh it's something that i try to filter out the spam and do all that jazz it's just hey that's a good problem to have usually when you have so many people reaching out that aren't just bots and things and with that i'll see you all in the next one and if you haven't already go check out i'll put a link in the description for london's linux sucks series that's kind of where i based this presentation off of it is where i based this presentation off of i just thought i had some different viewpoints that i thought some other people could appreciate why i made this little presentation and as always thank you all for watching the videos supporting me and also just giving me feedback i love having this conversation and talking with like-minded people out there it's what makes the internet so awesome why i love doing what i do and with that i'll see you in the next one

Channel: Chris Titus Tech

Views: 61,816

Keywords: chris titus tech, linux sucks, linux sucks 2021

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Length: 21min 58sec (1318 seconds)

Published: Tue Feb 23 2021