Linux First Impressions: Step-by-Step Guide & Transcript

[00:00] Yeah, so we're going to try something a little bit different today. Basically, Linux is becoming more and more a thing that people are talking about. Windows 11 has started to do, like, some weird stuff. You know, stuff we don't want to have on our PC, like systems that you don't want to use.

[00:15] Like, you uninstall Edge, and all of a sudden you have Edge again. Like, it's like a weird thing that the world is, like, evolving into. And I think really, like, the best thing to do is kind of, like, looking into what alternatives do we have out there.

[00:29] Like, I recently gave up Adobe, which has been dominating the market. I've been using Adobe for, like, 15 years. Now I'm using alternatives. I'm using DaVinci Resolve for video editing. I'm using Affinity Photo 2 for, like, image editing.

[00:43] I know it's not, like, 100% replacing those software, but it gets pretty close. Linux is, like, I don't know, like, the next thing that we need to, like, experiment with, I guess.

[00:57] I've never set it up before, by the way. Well, that's a lie. I set it up like 10 years ago. Once I had to try it out, as soon as I got it booted up, I gave up on it because it was just so different from what I was used to.

[01:10] But I wasn't really mentally in a place where I was ready to give up Windows for trying something new. I'm kind of hoping that in the future, everything will start working on Linux. If that happens, I will probably most likely swap over to Linux permanently

[01:26] same thing because it's open source it's it's not like we don't have that greedy consumer thing on the top of our head like constantly like we do with like windows it's open source we can customize

[01:38] in any kind of way we want to i really hope that linux will have like every game working on it at some point and every software will work because then i can just like swap over what i've done right now because right now like i said everything doesn't work on linux and i do use a lot of

[01:55] everything. So I have a laptop in front of me here. It does not have Linux installed on it right now. As you can see, if I swap over to my capture card, which I've actually, this is kind of like a fun little thing. I didn't actually know you could take a laptop

[02:10] and then capture into your other PC from a laptop in order to record the screen. Like what you're seeing right now is me sitting with my little touchpad on my laptop and, and, you know, like, this is Windows 11.

[02:23] But what I want to do is try and install Linux on this laptop, because I'm not going to do it on my main system. Like, I won't be able to use it anymore. Like, this is, like, pretty much an experiment. I have absolutely no idea if Linux is going to be something that I like.

[02:37] I guess I have a USB drive. I don't know. Is this how you do it on Linux? Because on Windows, we install, like, a boot inside a USB drive, and then we just boot up Windows.

[02:50] How do you do it on Linux? Like I did Google it here. So how do you get it? Like what is the link? Like is there like a Linux website? Because there's a Windows website to get this from.

[03:03] So we have to get like the boot thing. Probably put in my USB drive. Okay, how am I going to do that? Because I'm using all my USBs.

[03:17] Let's see what I have. Oh, I have a boot drive for Windows 11 on it. That's kind of cool. So now I need to get the boot drive from a distribution service. Ubuntu! Install Ubuntu desktop. Right.

[03:31] Okay, so Ubuntu, from my understanding, is a Linux-based environment, which is what I'm using for creating websites right now. Because Docker, right, is Linux-based, so we have to use Docker.

[03:43] OK, so how to install Linux? Well, you'll need a laptop or PC with at least 25GB of storage space. OK, 30GB. As you can see, a lot of people are going to be triggered over my space.

[03:56] I just set up a new hard disk, OK, so I do have more space. I have a bunch of recordings that if I move from one drive to another, it's going to mess up my editing software. So I don't want to have to re-grab all those files.

[04:10] file. So it is going to be triggering until I get everything edited. Okay, so I do have this space. That thing, oh, there's a step two. Okay, well, I have that. Can we skip this? Because I don't want to sign up for a newsletter. Oh, it is downloading. Okay,

[04:23] I was like, oh, do I have to like do this thing? This is already like, I don't know. This is already what I don't want in Microsoft. It takes 15 minutes to download. Hopefully this is going to be a lot faster. I had enough time to go get something to eat. And I got

[04:39] something to drink. So we're ready to continue installing Linux. So I'm guessing it's like the same process of like, I don't know, like setting up Windows, you just kind of like double click it, put open a piece of

[04:51] software and it says, oh, where do you want to install this? And then we choose the USB drive. Security warning? Okay, is it Windows? Is that you trying to like prevent me from installing

[05:03] Linux? It's like, oh, oh no. Another person is setting up Linux. Gotta give him a warning, like this might be a virus. Yeah, it is the correct website. I just had to double check this wasn't like a scam website.

[05:16] Okay, so I gotta like see what is going on here. Okay. For Windows, so I guess we have to download something else now to get this working. Oh, that's neat. I like that symbol.

[05:29] Look at that. It's like, it's transparent in the middle. That's cool. Okay, so Flash from File, which is what I want to do. So I want to grab the file. There, we got the ISO.

[05:41] So open that. I select the target, which is my USB drive, which has 31.5 gigabytes available. Guess I'm going to, like, uninstall this software afterwards. This is probably, like, the only time I'm ever going to do this.

[05:55] So, oh, who knows? What if I all of a sudden enjoy Linux? I'm going to have to do this again. I don't know why, but it's just something about, like, So I don't know if you can say, like, you own it, like, you own your operating system,

[06:10] but, like, there's so much going on nowadays about you not owning your stuff, like, your digital stuff, like games, for example. Games. I don't know why I said it like that. Okay, well, it's done.

[06:22] Flash another. No, we're done. Yeah, I guess we can close this down, and we have a bootable USB drive, right? Okay, so one of these are the bootable drives. So, I'm going to take it out.

[06:36] It's like behind my PC. Take it out. Put it inside. Let me get stuff going Okay So got it right here And we going gonna swap over to my screen capture because that I have my laptop I have absolutely no idea like what I need to press to get into the BIOS

[07:00] because that's what we need to do. At least it is, like, on Windows. Wait, am I... Wait, I have to hold down FN. There we go. It's updating now! Oh my god! Now I gotta wait for the update to finish

[07:12] just so I can like delete the update and install Linux instead. By the way, how cool is it? I'm sitting here like screen recording off a computer that has no OBS running on it.

[07:24] I'm waiting. I've been trying to beat this boss for so long. It's probably like a super easy boss, but for some reason I just can't beat him. Okay, well I already started up

[07:36] Yeah, this is how long the Windows update is taking, by the way. I'm not doing any sort of editing here. Like, I haven't edited down the update in the corner to make it appear like it takes a long time. Like, I'm seriously sitting here, and it's taking a long time.

[07:50] See, I'm not totally bad. I'm not... There you go. That again. This might have been, like... I was about to say, this might have been, like, the furthest I've ever gone.

[08:04] Then I died. Oh, wait! It's done! Windows is done! It signed perfectly! Okay, so it booted up my Windows again after like... how long did that take? That took like 10 minutes.

[08:17] F2 startup check. Okay, F2, F2, F2. You can't... did it say? Okay, there we go. Now that's hardware diagnostics. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh! It says 90! It says so!

[08:30] There we go, hey, we got it, okay So we need to figure out which one to boot from so we have the boot manager Which is Windows boot manager, and then we have our USB drive. That's the one we want to use

[08:43] There's a couple of different options here. You can't see anything that's going on right now, but it has like this very terminal looking interface, whether it's try or install Ubuntu, so oh you can see it now no need for photos

[08:56] That's what I've been looking at after I clicked install. There's a small X... Oh, actually there's a cursor. You just can't see it. Hey! What do you want? This is Alfie.

[09:10] You were bothering your mom, so dad has you now. Okay, we got something on screen. For some reason you have like... you can see the background, but I have like a preparing Ubuntu popup.

[09:24] that's loading right now. Oh, hey, it's done! I was sitting here reading about the installation process. Okay, you can't see. I'll take another photo for you. Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is installed

[09:40] and ready to use. I'm excited to see what software can use. I don't know. There's a lot of games that don't run on Linux-based systems. You can't see anything of what I'm seeing right now. This is so

[09:52] frustrating. Get started with more applications. So it's like recommending again, I gotta take a photo for you because you can't see anything. Oh, right. Oh, that's why you can't see anything. That's so annoying.

[10:04] Okay. It's viewing my recording as a second monitor. Oh, apply. I didn't see the apply button. There we go. Now I can see what is going on. That's annoying.

[10:17] So we have some settings going on. Like this is the first thing I just right click like a wooden window I picked display settings and now we're in here. Can I make it look a little bit more like Windows since I'm like kind of used to it? Oh, there's some background stuff. Oh, oh, oh, this is so much

[10:34] better. I like dark mode. I mean, for you guys, I might have to do this because it's a little bit harder to see on screen, but dark mode is so much better. This is cool. I really like how this looks.

[10:46] And I, just like a side thing, I can kind of feel like, I don't know, it feels like when you use windows you press something it has a bunch of processes going on in the background it's like trying to like interpret and I know Windows has a lot of stuff in it

[11:00] it is more complex than Linux of course but it's just like just kind of like a side thing I noticed and you can change the appearance what about like the the taskbar over here can I customize it oh that's these I comes down there but if I

[11:15] Yeah, okay, so these down here are getting bigger. So, position of new icons, bottom right. So, it actually loads up new icons from the bottom right. That's kind of weird.

[11:27] Let's do top left. So, it's going to appear up here instead, right? Just like Windows. What I'm really trying to do here, I'm not trying to make it into Windows, but I'm trying to make it into something I'm used to, right?

[11:39] Because I've been using Windows for so many years. So, I want it to be, you know... Oh, the dock! This is the one. Also hide. It's not doing it. Icon size. There we go. Okay. I don't

[11:56] like it being like super big. I want it to be like this. Might be more difficult for you to see on screen, but I might tie him on the figure. Let's do this. Compromise. Precision on screen. Bottom. There we go. This is what I want. Now I actually want it

[12:13] to be smaller. There we go. Okay. So if I go out and open the app store, or app center, as it's called, like, is this how you install things? I mean, if you open a website, right,

[12:27] it has Firefox here as a browser. I should be able to just kind of, like, go through any kind of website that has, you know, like, software that has a Linux version and just download it, from what I'm guessing, or, like, install it through the console, if that's

[12:41] something that we do using Linux, because I do... Last time I installed Linux, everything was console-based, for some weird reason. Like, there's no, like, interface in the same way, but you actually have an interface now. This is so much better than what I remember.

[12:57] It actually has categories. Development, Games, Steam might be... Ah, right. Ah, what's it? Is that okay? No? Oh, okay, it's because I have the taskbar at the bottom. I guess I'm gonna put it on the side then.

[13:17] Because apparently it expects me to And now it fits the screen Another bug by the way Like the windows they need to adjust to where my taskbar is positioned I should have internet Hey Let go to YouTube Yeah so I do have internet It shows up here too

[13:39] Okay, you know what, I'm gonna close it down and I'm gonna open it again, cause clearly there's some sort of bug going on. Now it's loading in different things. It's not saying I don't have internet. Uh, manage.

[13:51] So these are the ones I do have in 12 right now, I'm guessing. But we do have some stuff in here. Development. So, blind text is in here. PyCharm. Code. This one I do actually need. Is this hooked up to, um, what is it called? GitHub. And then it installs directly from there. Oh, there's a password. Well, guess what that is.

[14:17] I'm going to reset my password after this because I didn't know we had to use it for apps. Okay, so there's actually some... It's not just for starting on your PC. Games. What do we have in here?

[14:29] I'm assuming it can install while I'm browsing. I wasn't really looking for, like... Oh, there we go. Game development. App bundles. Oh, this is cool. So we do actually have GIMP. And we have Godot and Blender.

[14:43] Game launchers. That's something I'm going to need, too. Just to test it out. It would be kinda cool to see what kind of game techniques were on this machine. I mean, this laptop is pretty crap. So it's not gonna run any games other than like, I don't know, Spiral Gear Valley or something.

[14:58] But just the fact that I can just see what I could if I wanted to. I know my wife, she's using Mac OS and there's a lot of games she cannot install.

[15:11] What if we go to Affinity Photo? Affinity Photo 2. Okay, so there's something called Vine. Some people have been talking about this. This is like a... Is that an emulator?

[15:24] Is that what you call it? Like, Vine is something that you can use like a container to install a thin-edged photo to. But I do also see people complain about it crashing a lot. Just for fun, let me actually try to install Steam

[15:37] and then see if I can get Stardew Valley installed on this. And then if... I can't talk right now. If I can actually play it, that would be kind of fun. And I should also have VS Code installed now. So if I go in here and I search...

[15:51] Oh, it's actually right there. This is Studio Code. Oh, it's running! PIN 2 DASH. This is Studio Code's been pinned. Okay, I don't need to...

[16:05] Choose password for new keyring? I don't know what that means. Actually, you know what? I'm going to use a different password. I learned from my first mistake.

[16:18] Okay. Welcoming screen. I would like to not have this pop up every single time. I'm actually inside Visual Studio Code right now doing stuff.

[16:30] Like, this is so cool. I honestly didn't know the interface was going to be this intuitive when it came to Linux. The Vista Resolve for video editing. Actually, let me check if they have that one because that's kind of important.

[16:43] This is, by the way, a video editor I highly recommend, especially if you don't pay for Adobe. Because this is, like, in my opinion, this editor here for video editing is free.

[16:56] It does have a pro version, but it's, like, advanced features, right? Like, the free version is better than Premiere, in my opinion. Like, it's just so, so good.

[17:08] There we go. Okay. Free version. it has a linux version oh my god i feel like a hipster whenever i like try out linux and i

[17:21] replace adobe products and you know like it's like i don't know obviously adobe products are superior to whatever other products out there obviously microsoft is more superior as an

[17:33] operating system but it's like it's like you feel like big brother's watching you kind of like they put all these arbitrary things on top of whatever you have so when you have windows 11 you also get advertisements when you use adobe products they keep pushing new things

[17:49] for you to like buy or something like it's and it's like you don't even own the software it's like there's just so many business practices like people are just not really seeing them they're just kind of like they're just happy with using it right they're sitting here they're using windows

[18:05] and they just try to blind eye to everything else. I do that too when I'm using Windows because, you know, it's what I have. I can't sit here and use something that I use constantly every day and just be so, like, frustrated and unhappy with it.

[18:19] Okay. Loading up. Hopefully it's not showing anything private. Yeah, that is my Steam tag, okay? For things, people, I came up...

[18:32] It's one of those, like, you know, when you make your first email back in fifth grade and you have to come up with something silly, it's the same thing here. Is there anything else I could play on this? Like, something, but the question is, do they actually work? Like, if I wanted to play Elven Ring,

[18:48] yeah, available for Windows. So this is, like, unfortunately the harsh truth when it comes to Linux. Game developers are developing for Windows. Like, that is the primary thing,

[19:00] and this is like the big obstacle that is preventing me from installing Linux on like my main machine. Again, this is my laptop being just absurdly slow. It's installing a game and it wants me to browse at the same time.

[19:14] Oh my god. Linux. Oh, I think I saw something. Steam OS plus Linux. So there's actually a bunch of games you can play on Linux. But are all the popular games here Counter-Strike this year?

[19:26] I don't play it, but for people who do, you can do it. Oh, oh, oh, oh, we got game. We got game. This is going to be audio, but you might be able to hear it into the microphone.

[19:40] This is really cool. This laptop, by the way, it cannot, like I said, play any sort of advanced games. So I'm probably going to keep Linux in this machine because it can play at least the one game that I've played together with my wife.

[19:53] And then I can test out things, like installing Affinity Photo. Like I might do just like a separate video just trying to install that and see if that works. Because this video is already... I think I've been recording for like two and a half hours now.

[20:05] A lot of that time was waiting, but double checking my recording over there to see... Oh, it works! Wait... Do I have to click Oh okay it WASD This is Linux by the way It not Windows it not Mac this is Linux On a crappy laptop by the way Can I farm these I don have a rock in my hand how do I This is so cool

[20:34] Okay, so it's just like a tester, but like really? If any of you are just like playing Stardew Valley and that's like the only thing you're playing, it's not gonna be an issue for you. By the way, let me just fix this one thing, because I did this for you guys, but if I'm

[20:49] gonna use this myself, it's not gonna look like this. It's gonna be... It's gonna be dark mode, because this is way better. Right? Come on. There we go.

[21:01] I love the little phasing in. This is so cool. I love how it looks. I don't know, it's so responsive. I can't feel like, I can't sense. I'm using a crappy, cheap laptop right now. It is actually being super responsive, which is great.

[21:20] Can I filter? I just want to see, like, can I go in here? I can. Show only games that run on Linux. Okay, I just want to see some of my Alien Isolation runs on Linux.

[21:35] Again, you can see I have a big Steam library right now. Please let there be some really awesome titles in here. Red Out. I've actually been playing that one.

[21:48] Grand Theft Auto 5 Half-Life Hitman The Last of Us Part 1

[22:01] I can play on Linux? Why wasn't that under like top recommended games when I went to browse the store? Probably because I own it already Outlast can be played

[22:13] Resident Evil 4 Wait, is that the remake? It is. I can play it on Linux. Can I play all the Resident Evil games on Linux? That would be freaking awesome.

[22:26] Star Wars, Jedi Survivor, SOMA, so the Amnesia games, I guess. Undertale, Valheim. Okay, so there's like, obviously there's a, like, I think maybe like a fourth of my games can be played on Linux.

[22:46] But Red Dead Redemption 2, that actually blew my mind. I did not expect them to, and Resident Evil, by the way. Is it only Resident Evil 4?

[22:59] Resident Evil. Yeah, okay, so Resident Evil 2, unfortunately, only Windows. So basically, what are my thoughts on this Linux system? You've heard a lot of my thoughts throughout the video, but...

[23:13] there are some games that cannot be played on Linux. There are some software that cannot be used inside Linux, like Affinity Photo, Adobe.

[23:25] Like, you kind of have to do workarounds to get those working. If there's, at some point, it's going to be, like, full support for basically all the stuff that you can install on Windows as well. Like, let's say all of a sudden they found some way to play every single game inside my Steam library

[23:39] and also use Affinity Photo 2, I would like that swap over to Linux on my main PC. I don't know this is just amazing. I think this is so cool

[23:51] that it's open source I know Ubuntu is probably some company that is utilizing Linux open source and they make it into their own thing it's kind of like a sub operating

[24:03] like a branch operating system in itself. It's not really truly raw Linux but it is Linux but someone else took it and made it more user friendly so to speak. I think that's what's going on here. You might correct me in the comments.

[24:17] Again, I'm not a huge Linux expert. I don't fully know the technical things going on in the background here, but Linux has been a much better experience than I thought it was

[24:30] going to be. I was ready to sit here and type in terminals. People don't know what I mean by that. Like if I go in here, get the terminal, this is what I'm talking about. Like if I

[24:42] wanted to access a folder on my computer system here, I would have to write CDs and something else, you know, to access the content directory of like home. It's like, can I do that? Yeah,

[24:55] okay. So I have to go to my desktop and there's like some sort of way to do that. Is it, I I don't remember. There's a way to do it. I really do think that this is like, it just has those two things.

[25:07] If we can fix those two things, I'm going to be a Linux person all the way. But unfortunately, it's not. Listen to me. I'm sitting here like being a gamer, talking about playing games on Linux. Like, that is a big thing.

[25:19] Like, people who use computers and use Linux, like, they play games. I think a lot of them. So, you know, it is just kind of cool to see how this is just so easy to set up. Like, it really was easier than I thought it was going to be.

[25:33] It was very similar to setting up Windows. So what do you guys think? I've been sitting here recording now for like three hours or something. I've cut a lot of it out, so you don't have to sit here and listen to me ramble a bunch of things.

[25:45] That's not boring to listen to, but I think this was kind of like a fun little video just to kind of like see what Linux was, get the impression, you know, like first-hand impression for someone who has never really used Linux before

[25:59] to see what it is and what you can do with it. So I'm definitely a fan. I think this is amazing. It just needs those few things. I hope you enjoyed this video.

[26:11] It's a little bit different. YouTube has been, well, not YouTube. Content creators on YouTube have kind of been hit by a bombshell for the past year or so because of AI.

[26:24] You know, a lot of stuff is really hurting YouTubers in terms of guides, tutorials, those kind of channels. They are really suffering right now. We have to start thinking about what we put up on our channel, basically.

[26:39] I thought this might be a fun video to put up on the channel, trying to dip back into my roots a little bit about what I find interesting interesting and maybe make a video about that. So I hope you enjoyed. I'll see you guys next time.