Why You Should Use Linux over Windows or Mac

foreigner, yes I know it's a strange name, it's because I'm Finnish. You know, in Finland they give Finnish names and they are weird to the rest of you, so I decided to start this channel. I've been using Linux for about 20 years. and I started with open Susie around 2003 and then I moved to Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu Ubuntu however you want to pronounce that, eh, it's been at least for quite some time the most famous and most used Linux distribution and I thought that since I started. using Linux and Linux distributions for quite some time. It may also have valuable information for you if you are just starting to get familiar with Linux things and wondering why you

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switch Linux, why you

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use Linux and what would be the best software to use on Linux what to do on Linux all that that's what the channel is about I had some issues with drivers there were some issues with xorg back in the day I think most of those issues have since been resolved and I started using Linux about two years ago again more intensely and it's been my driving force daily for about two years again, so this channel will be about a lot of Linux things, how to get started with Linux, what are the best apps to use with Linux. different use cases and maybe some more expert level to share as well, but I want everything to be as reproducible as possible for each audience, but to get into the topic of today's video, I was thinking of sharing with you the things why use Linux and maybe why you should too.

Frankly, I think Linux is easier to use than Windows or Mac OS. I even think it's simpler, it's easier to understand because you know what's going on, if you need to know what's going on, you can find it. When Windows starts applying those annoying updates it will just show you a screen that says apply updates but in Linux you can see what's going on under the hood and this will be very useful if you want to fix something that went wrong in At least for me I want to know that I need to be on the map of what is happening.

I don't want these things to be decided on my behalf, like undermining the Windows user by thinking that whatever they're doing is the best possible scenario for Well, maybe that's not the case and secondly, Linux is very lightweight or may be not bloated like Windows, as applications on Windows can take a long time to load, even entering the login screen can take quite a long time to load basic software. On Windows this takes too much time and consumes too many resources, for example if I want to load file explorer let's look at the files it shouldn't take long but on Windows it can take several seconds to load the file. explorer or just load the OS, frankly, and I think it's unacceptable in 2023 and Windows is preloaded with a lot of junk by default and you can't do anything about it, you install Windows and that's it.

I installed Windows with a bunch of software you didn't ask for. They didn't ask me if I would like to have a Windows app store. They didn't ask me if I would like to have two junk screen software. They didn't ask me if I would like to have two junk screen software. Ask me if I want to have any Xbox, gaming, or Solitaire features installed. There is all this excess and in Linux you decide what you put on your system. You are in control and that is why you can run Linux, for example, for 20 or even 30 years. old computer, no problem, no problem, you just choose the right software and that's it, frankly the story why I went back to Linux was because my MacBook Air started to get too hot and was getting incredibly slow.

I was wondering what I'm doing here. I paid a fortune to have this MacBook in the past and now it runs like garbage after every update it has run worse and worse. What is this? I didn't pay for this crap so I needed to look for some better solutions, frankly I know the late 2017 MacBook Air isn't a good fit to be any kind of production machine, but that was the situation I had. I was stuck with this machine. I needed things to work. I'm running a podcast, you know I need things to work, so it was getting infuriating for me to have your processor running at 100 degrees Celsius and everything running really at speed and the computer making a huge noise, so I decided I can't stand it. more so I decided to jump to lubuntu which is like the lxqt edition of Ubuntu meaning it's a version of Linux that is very good for old computers and that was an amazing change, an amazing change in performance, I was finally able to continue As fast as the processor and system wanted it to be, I was able to give most of the system power to the applications that were supposed to have that power, not in the way that the operating system itself would embrace most of the system resources and that way I wouldn't be able to continue with my editing tasks as quickly as possible, but Linux finally allowed me to do it right.

That computer exploded and now I'm using a Lenovo laptop. Fortunately, no, this is not sponsored by Lenovo at Anyway, I like the Lenovo laptop I have and moving on to the next thing, I think it favors openness and open source in general, which comes with the whole Linux experience , file formats tend to be open source, import and export functionalities. They are not serving large corporations with Linux, it is very difficult to unlock the software and what I mean by this is that you may have a lot of notes in your Microsoft OneNote on Windows and I understand that it comes with Windows by default.

There's a good chance you're just starting to use that note-taking app, but when the day comes that you want to quit OneNote and want to change your software, it's incredibly difficult to do so because you're locked into the file. OneNote formats, so what do you do now? You can export OneNote pages as page by page, which will take forever and won't be very useful if you want to move on to using some other software available, so this can be infuriating. thing later and there will be no default spying when you are on Linux. Microsoft today is buying you every step of the way since Windows 10. and they have made getting rid of tracking extremely complicated and even if you change all the tracking possibilities are that when there is the next big Windows update, all default settings they will default again without asking you anything, they just do that and you don't need to do it, you just do it because you want to like it.

There's no reason for that to happen other than day one to reset to default settings. There is also a system performance issue with this because there will be many background processes hogging your computer's memory and processing power and that is not okay. use that power for all the things you need to do. I think that, frankly, there are very few reasons not to use Linux today. First of all, it is free in most cases, it is absolutely free and it is open source as stated. and nowadays it's very easy to find replacement software for all the applications you already use on Windows.

Sometimes you can continue using the exact same application on Linux that you used on Windows. Some of the big problems when entering the Linux space have generally revolved around. With Adobe software, it can be difficult to run Photoshop on Linux and you probably won't even be able to use the latest version of Photoshop on your Linux, but guess what, okay, okay because there is software like no, but you can use krita. and I think krita for most Photoshop use cases, krita is enough and the way it looks and works is very similar to Photoshop, so it is highly recommended to be my daily photo editing software today in day if the company you work with to use Windows, okay, you're stuck with Windows if you're a sysadmin and stuff like that, then chances are that if you can't convince the entire company to migrate to Linux for you, other than That, honestly, I can't think of anything.

There is a reason why you would like to continue using Windows, except I admit that gaming may still be the reason you are using Windows and that's fair, but there have been a lot of advances in recent years in the space now that Steam has started . use their own version of Wine, basically Wine, which is like a Windows emulator for Linux and other Unix-like systems and now we're at a point where you can use it, you can run many of the native Windows games on Linux or Mac that exist. There are still problems to solve when you are about to buy a game, although you should always check if it is working well on Linux and it may be working very well, in fact it may be working somewhat well or it may be crashing all the time.

It may not be running at all, but there are websites for that where you can check how well the game you want to play is running on your Linux. Speed ​​is actually a huge factor here on Linux for me, like behind this camera. I can see, obviously, there's a Dell laptop that's about 15 years old. I'm forgetting the exact model, but it has or had an Intel Celeron processor and you know, it ran pretty decent with Linux and a fluxbox window. admin environment and well I have to say I took out the Intel Celeron processor and swapped it for the best possible dual core processor you can put in this laptop and to be honest it is working like a dream this basic web browsing and those things.

Linux is really good for your wallet in that sense, there you have it, the reasons why you should use Linux right now, are you already using Linux right now and if not, which Linux are you planning to use? use, do you plan to never touch Linux? God forbid, why would you make that comment below? You can also follow me on the flick clap podcast, also here on YouTube, the flicklab podcast where I talk about international cinema with my co-host, well, that's it. finish, see you next time