What is Linux?
Posted on 19 February 2010 by Abidoon
www.coverlesstech.com There seems to be a lot of confusion about what Linux is. I hope this helps you understand a bit better. For more information on Linux you can check out my channel where I feature a lot of videos about linux and also check out coverlesstech.com where I have articles for pretty much every video of mine.
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Linux Mint? Ok, I’ll look at that. Thanks
Never used it myself, as far as I could tell it’s more of a live CD for debugging. A friend of mine tried it and didn’t like it.
I suggest getting Linux Mint if it’s the first time you used linux.
I have something called Puppy that I have downloaded and am thinking of installing it clean on a computer. I am completely new to Linux. Is Puppy a good way to start using linux? Would appreciate your views. Thanks.
Commercial games. I said commercial games, may have even said new release commercial games; which I then referred to as games for short.
I’ve had to deal with a few to many kids saying Linux is shit because it can’t play the newest COMMERCIAL games. I’m just letting them know before hand that they probably can’t.
Just get out of here, no one wants your attitude.
Becuase you put emphasis on the part where you said it cant play any games at all. And it can play games.
Who pissed in your coffee?
The title of the video is not “Why most games don’t run in Linux”. I was never trying to explain that. And you honestly think I don’t know that? I’m a programmer and I know quite a bit of OpenGL ES. Also I never said there weren’t games available, I simply said most commercial games wont run natively.
Also from my experience working with new users of Linux they better understand the DE when described as GUI. Remember, this is for people who don’t know what Linux is
Linux doesnt play commercial games because they are coded to use DirectX which is a microsoft product for Windows. Linux uses OpenGL which is an alternative but the games have to be coded for it. That’s not Linux’s fault. That’s the game developers fault for going after the market share. There are tons of open source games that you can download and play for free and their not flash based. So shut up faggot you dont know what you’re talking about. And it’s not a GUI. It’s a Desktop Enviorment.
I hate Ubuntu with a passion, its so unstable, every release. Debian is what I currently use on my desktop quad core machine and my netbook that I’m typing this on right now.
Yes, just check out my dual boot videos. I also have an uninstall video.
is it as easy to install and uninstall on windows 7?
and
would it be possible to use it on a laptop?
Install PlayOnLinux, it will help you in your gaming endeavors.
Open source – The source code is included with the compiled version and modification or customization is actually encouraged. The software developers who support the open source concept believe that by allowing anyone who’s interested to modify the source code, the application will be more useful and error-free over the long term.
yeah it can, documents videos and music, sometime depends on what distribution of linux you download and install u might need to download codec to play video and sometimes music.
GNU is the OS Linux is the Kernel so Linix is not an OS its a part of an OS
actually, Mac OS X Snow Leopard is
Its very good that you spread the good word of freedom. Not telling people that they can access freedom is unethical, keep up the good work but.. here’s the deal. Before posting videos like this, please read up on what “open source” means and why “free software” is a better term. Open source does NOT give you permission to redistribute a spin-off edition of for instance Firefox. Free software does. See Stallman and the four rights for free software as a reference.
from within a GNU/Linux system you can access your files on FAT or NTFS file systems on your “window” harddrive. The problem is that microsoft dont add compability to other filesystems so accessing files on your extX filesystems will be impossible (if you dont find software for accessing your “linux” harddrive). I recommend against dualboot. Its better to install Debian GNU/Linux on a separate/new machine. That way you can familiarize yourself with Linux and still access tutorials via windows.
If someone dual boots a windows computer,
Will files be able to be shared thourout both?
Such as Documents, videos, and music?
Or should someone copy all the user’s data to a flash drive and plug it into Linux???
yes you can
because Windows has spyware built into it
its is the most unsecured unreliable OS in the world
Linux is the most reliable and secure and fast OS it kicks ass on Win 7
So you can get a computer without a windows license? And if you already have windows and you don’t play games, why switch to linux?
…What’s that? Just dual boot on my W7 computer? Yeah, I tried that. Worked fine with Vista, but when I tried it on 7 it freaked out and accused me of piracy
I *am* relatively new to Linux, having only started last year or so. I plan on sticking with Ubuntu until I get some Computer Science classes done. Then I can fully appreciate the subtle-yet-dealbreaking differences between the distros.
No matter what, I’d still recommend Ubuntu for any of you ‘non-geeks’ out there.
Can’t advocate Linux enough. Had an old XP laptop; it just started caving in on itself. Once it got to 20 minute boot times and ultra-slow programs, I put Ubuntu on it. Worked like brand new!
If you have an older computer like mine, I’d go with GNOME as a desktop environment. KDE, from my experience, can eat up your limited resources.
Sadly, though, I’m typing this on a Windows 7 computer. I’m a gamer, yeah, but also ‘The Man’ heavily influences what programs are used in college…
@CoverlessTech oh… kool
There is no “they”. Linux is maintained by the community that uses it. We are programmers and implement/fix things in the OS ourselves.
really!? then how are the so good at making an os?