[0:04]Oh, you little thing! Oh, you disgusting little thing. Oh, what happened to you? Look at yourself. You're the blob from I have no mouth but I must scream. Who did this to you? Was it Windows? Mac OS? Don't worry, I can save you. Install Linux! What if I told you you can look like this? Anyway, let me start this off by saying I am not a tech guy. You saw my PC building video.
[0:50]It's all bent. I'm surprised the whole thing hasn't exploded. It's like sitting next to a bomb every day. But what you did see was 0.5 seconds of the video, where I installed Linux on the thing and a lot of people just went, "What?" Some people seem surprised and confused. Something possessed him to put Linux on it. Some people were excited. At the time, I didn't know the power that I had. I was like a baby with a rocket launcher. For years I have been tortured by Windows. But now, at last, I am finally free. I escaped the Windows cave. I saw the sun, the shadows are gone. It blinded me for a moment. And now I'm speaking to you in the cave. Enough reference. Okay, so I'm gonna yap about Linux for as long as this video is, and you're gonna listen. I want to start off by going through the reasons why I switched to Linux. It's different for everybody. Number one, is how backlit this shot is. Number one, Windows talks to me like I'm a baby. Now, mentally I might be, but that does not warrant you want Candy Crush? You want Candy Crush on your computer? You want to use Bing? Are you sure you want to delete that file? Are you super duper sure you want to delete that file? That's how it talks to me, and I don't like it. Linux on the other hand, literally puts a gun in your hand and says, do it. You're a god now. My first sort of, "aha!" moment when I installed Linux, or I started using it was, "Wait a minute. It does exactly what I wanted to do!" And there's just a really powerful feeling about that. I do want to show you guys my setup as well, I will get into that. But first, reason number two. As an epic minimalist, the bloat, the bloat is real. It always bothered me. Anytime I installed a new Windows, I spent like an hour trying to uninstall all the pre-packaged BS that I don't want. Windows is like, I know you paid 100 dollars or whatever for me, but I'm still gonna put ads in here. Yes. Put a little AI in here, you want that, right? That doesn't benefit me. It's for you, the consumer. Bing, it doesn't benefit me that you use Bing, but please, use Bing. Microsoft is an annoying Swede, apparently. With Linux, nothing. Serenity, peace. Don't even get me started on the Windows taskbar. You control what's on your computer. Duh, it's obvious. How is this not a thing? Reason number three, customization. I discovered this afterwards. Customizing on Linux is a beautiful thing. On Windows, you can maybe change your wallpaper, change a little bit of colors, "whoop-di-doo." On Linux, you can change reality itself. Since Linux is built modular, you can swap out your GUI entirely. You don't even have to use one. You can cut off the head of Linux and it'll still be like, "Hey, I'm here. What's up?" Customizing on Linux is called "ricing", and I got way too into it. I got way too into it. I cooked hard. I can't wait to show you guys. Now, reason number four, gaming. Gaming on Linux is finally real. I actually installed Linux 15 years ago, that's right. I'm old. And I uninstalled it after like a couple days, as a lot of people do, when they realize, "Oh, I can't use the things I need on Linux." And for me that was gaming back then, because it's like, well, then what's the point? But now, gaming on Linux is real, at last. So Valve came in like Gandalf in Helm's Deep, riding a Steam Deck with Proton. So I think this is a perfect example how Linux benefits everyone. The fact that Valve as a company recognized, "Maybe Microsoft has a bit too much power." If they wanted to and started being shady, locking things down, taking cuts, they absolutely could, and it's not like it would be uncharacteristic for them to do. So Valve started improving gaming on Linux, boosting driver support, and they built on what was already there from open-source software like Wine. By doing this, Valve benefits, consumer benefits, ecosystem grows, win, win, win. It really feels like an alternate reality. This totally could not have been a thing. And it also makes me realize just how many things can be better if people just weren't so greedy. Can we just fix them? So thank you, Linux, and thank you, Gabe Gaben. Now I've gone through the reasons why I switched to Linux. Let me just explain why maybe not switching is a good idea. Because everything good comes with a sacrifice. If you're swapping to Linux, you'll likely have to give something up. I don't know what it is, but for me, it was Photoshop. I used Photoshop again for 15 years, all the shortcuts, all my workflow, it's all baked into my brain. The way I use Photoshop, it's I don't think about it. It's just there are the thumbnails. It's not beautiful, but I get the job done. Unfortunately, Adobe is a garbage company, and their software just won't run on Linux. A lot of artists are jumping ship, they don't want to use Adobe anymore because they realize it's a terrible company. Me, as well. I thought, you know what, it's time. I'll swap over. I know the open-source alternative is GIMP. I've heard about this forever, and I thought, you know, it'll feel good. I'll feel good leaving Adobe. So I, I'm ready. I go to their website, I click through the thousand pages, I crawl through the bushes just to find the goddamn unsubscribe button, and I was so ready. I was gonna be like, "Adobe, you un-subscribe!" You know what happens? They hit me with an un-subscription fee. Yes. Those, what? I'm sorry, what? I have to pay to not use your software?
[6:52]It was like 65 bucks or some. It's insane. What the f... If anything, it just made me realize, "Okay, it's over. I'm never going back." So like I said, the open-source alternative is GIMP. And since this is Linux, open source, you can do whatever you want. I downloaded this icon pack, then changed the icons so they look like the Photoshop icons, that have the little bit. Then I downloaded a shortcut command list that matches the one on Photoshop. Boom, made it a little easier. You know, I'm still not 100% used to it, but the fact that I can do stuff like this really helps. For me, personally, a worthy sacrifice. I hope this doesn't sound like copium, but genuinely, it feels good that I was able to move on. At the end of the day, some tools are only gonna work on Windows and only gonna work on Mac, but what you gain on Linux is so much more. Freedom. Join us. I'm just praying that Adobe is not just gonna show up one day and be like, "There's another fee." I'll meet them in a dark alleyway, they'll be like, there's a little fee. Now that I've convinced you to swap to Linux, you have the wonderful choice of picking a distro. Yay, so many of them. I hear people going like, "I don't know which one to pick. What do I do? There's so many." Just pick one. It's a wonderful thing that you can choose. Don't you understand? The world is your flavor. Look at all these spices. I went with Mint because it's the same one that I installed 15 years ago, and I knew that it was a beginner-friendly and that it still holds up. It very much feels like Windows, just better, okay? You don't even need to touch the scary terminal if you don't want to. You don't have to. You should, though. Now, let's jump into my computer really quick. Oh, look at that. I'm recording with OBS. Open source is always the best source. Couldn't get Bandicam. They didn't have a Bandicam. I can't believe I paid for that s***. There's like free versions everywhere, that's so much better. Okay. All right, so this is the terminal. You probably heard about it in Linux. It feels a bit strange in the beginning. Let me just show you how it works. But first, wait. Oh, guess today's sponsor... 3, 2, 1, wrong, GFUEL! Wow, look at ASCII art. I love it. Beautiful Pewdiepie tub. Right now you get a free Pewdiepie shaker cup, which is amazing deal, if you order 50 dollars or more. Highly recommend, it's a great deal. This is probably the best deal you're ever gonna get with GFUEL. Please take advantage, I'm genuinely mean that. You get the Bootyshaker free, and 33% off all Pewdiepie products, if you use the code Pewdiepie. This is your final chance. Only get this deal for seven days, so take the chance now. Don't wait. Please. Brofist, thank you. Go to gfuel.com/pewdiepie, enter code Pewdiepie, 33% off. Thank you, GFUEL, for sponsoring this video. Okay, so this is my desktop. I called it Apollo, and then I have my laptop which I called Dionysus, 'cause I wanted to mess around with it. Dionysus is the one I really, really went hard on the ricing, but I just wanted to show some terminal commands really quick, just to get an idea how it works. I talked about this in my last video, but the first thing that really blew my mind with the Linux, I just noticed my computer that was booting kind of slowly. So I found this command called systemd-analyze and it tells you exactly how long it takes for your computer to actually load, and what part takes a certain amount of time. And it used to be like 45 seconds. I was like, "Dude, this is terrible." So then I found another command called blame, and then you can see exactly what part is kind of slowing down your system. Which got me into like really optimizing it, and I had so much fun doing that. And it just made me realize just like on Windows, if my computer is kinda slow, you just kinda deal with it. It's like, oh, okay. Well, what can you do? On Linux, it's like, the world is your oyster, you can fix it. Personally, I like that kind of stuff. The second thing that blew my mind with the Linux terminal was just how fast it is at searching. Searching on Windows is so annoying, it takes forever. Sometimes it doesn't even find the file, even though you type the name of it perfectly. And a lot of times they just Bing it. They're like, oh, you want to search for your file? Oh, maybe no, actually, you you want you want to look at it online. You that's what you want to do. It's like, no. Linux, you can find any file, whatever you want. This is searching all JPEGs on my computer. It's a bad example actually. The other thing that I love about it is that you don't have to just search the file, you can also search text inside the file. So let's say you forgot what the file is called but you remember roughly some stuff inside it, you can grep it, and ba-da-bing, ba-da-boom. What the hell is Spotify password text, balls deep? I did not do that. What? Searching files on Linux is super fast. It made me realize just how it should be on a computer, again. The most obvious thing with the terminal is that let's say you installed the operating system and you need to also put on the programs that you want to use on it. Usually, you have to go on the browser, Google it, look up their page, go to their download page, dodge all the fake ads and all that scrap. And do that and install and run each one. Wait for it to install. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It takes forever. On Linux, you just go sudo apt install. What do we want? We want VLC, Firefox, OBS Studio, boom, thank you. And now I can sit and look at the screen and feel like I'm a hacker. Yes, I know what all of this means. Every single letter, I'm soaking in with my brain. There's so much you can do with the terminal. It's insanely powerful. I can make a whole video about it, but I don't want to keep this too long-winded. And in reality, I just want to show you my rice on my laptop, to be honest. That's the whole reason I'm making this video. I had this old laptop. I mean, it's not that old, but I just never used it because I didn't really like using it. I mentioned before there's many distros of Linux, and I wanted to try one called Arch. Partially because of the meme, it's kinda become a meme because it's a little difficult to install Arch. So it's like a flex to use it. For some reason, I went on a god run, and I had no issue. I always get stuck on the dumbest s*** ever for like 12 hours. I don't know what happened that time. But I also wanted to download Arch because it's a minimalist distro. Whatever you put or at least 90% of it is there because you decided to put it there, and it's also very highly customizable, which are two elements that I love, so I knew I was gonna love it. All right, let's go into my laptop. I think it makes sense for me to show it without any customization first because that would just be confusing, and I need to talk to people that aren't haven't used Linux. My first favorite thing, which I have on Mint as well, is just shortcuts on my keyboard to open programs. Open terminal, open file manager, open browser, close it, whatever. It's all there. It's such a nice workflow and have a more keyboard-centric way of using your computer, especially on a laptop. But even in general, you know, the whole like, okay, let me click on the start menu and just find the thing. If I don't have a keybind, I can open rofi, uh, and just search for it and open it. I don't wanna overexplain things as well, but yeah, this is my terminal on, uh, this setup. I'm using Alacritty, and this is Neofetch, which shows my specs, and usually people have an ASCII art. It sounds like I'm saying ashy. Ashy, I'll call it ashy. Of their distro. And if you saw my Mint one earlier, I was like, oh, wouldn't it be cool if I do like my own custom ashy? And then I thought, oh, wouldn't it be cool if I do my own animated ashy? So I figured out how to do that. It took a little bit of tinkering and schminkering, but it's just so nice to look at. I love it. So I'm running Hyprland, which is uh, this beautiful tile manager. It automatically sorts it for me whenever I open something. This is such a nice workflow, and I can close it all as well. You can literally open these until infinite. When you're on a laptop when you have limited screen space, it's such a great way to work with it. The fact that they're always there means I never have to look for them, because I know they're there. And if my workspace is full, I can get, look at this, swap to another one. This is workspace number two, and workspace number four. I've been recording with OBS from here. Let's say I'm working on a project on workspace one, I can then work on another thing on workspace two, and go back and forth vice versa instantly. I love this way of using a computer. It's so sick. The first thing I really loved about this Arch Hyprland setup was just how quick and smooth it looks, at least. You know, like, boom. Oh, open. It's so nice. Uh, but then I open my browser, and it's like, Oh, you see that? Ew. Again. Oh, that took forever. And it loads so ugly. So my first thought, okay, well, maybe I can upgrade my SSD to make it snappier and quicker. But then I thought, I'm on Linux. I can do whatever I want. So let's run a time here. Firefox. Let's ignore the CSS errors. I tinkered a bit too much. Don't worry about it. What was that? Two seconds? Not good enough. So I figured out a way, and it's so dumb. I won't explain how I did it, but the fact that I was able to do it, boom. Instant. Boom, boom, boom. Boom! I love it. I love it so much. It's these small things that makes you really fall in love with using Linux. Anyway, the first thing I customized was Waybar. Oh, I forgot to say I can move it around as well if I want to. Anyway, and move them to a different workspace. Uh, see, yeah, this is my taskbar. It's like the Windows taskbar, except you decide exactly what's on it and customizing it. I put calendar, turn it on and off, internet, Bluetooth, quick access to all these things, you know? I really enjoy this as well. It's basically just tells me if I'm connected to NordVPN or not, and I can toggle by clicking on it, and it tells me which country I'm connected to. Up here it shows which workspace I'm using. Since I have these reactor in the background, I thought it'd be cool to like larp as if each workspace was each reactor. I'm on Reactor A, uh, there's Reactor B, and C, and D, where it's recording OBS. Then I have my battery bar, which is ASCII, I keep calling it ASCII. Which is ASCII art. I got the volume, and you know, look, look, if my volume goes too low, it gets red. It's critical. Just to really larp the whole nuclear reactor UI. To me, it's cool. I like it. All right, the second thing I did was making widgets with eww. Eww was a nightmare, I'm not gonna lie. Here we go. Let me also change the wallpaper really quick, wasn't it? All right, so this is my desktop. Let me play some music actually. Nothing to see here. So first I added this visualizer, 'cause I just saw a lot of people doing it. It's using Java, but I changed it again with ashy, so it looks a little more matrix-y. Here we have my uptime, just how long it's been running, and how much until my battery is out. I should probably charge my laptop. CPU temp, I should probably, uh, change, cool it down a bit. All of this is, uh, it changes, uh, it's not just like visual flair. Well, it is, but CPU load, which changes, RAM usage, storage. This tells me which workspace I'm on. Right now I'm on Reactor B, power consumption, completely useless, but I needed it to look cool. And then we have my two fans for CPU and GPU, and then this little spinny fan thing to show it. Upload and download, latency, and then just another VPN thing, it's kinda pointless. And then, uh, basic weather. And then finally, to make it sort of all work together, I added a script that basically scans if I'm using a window. So if I open or close it, sorta transitions in and out of waybar, because I don't need it on both. That's just like too much information in my opinion. So this is on my desktop, it's just a nice vibe here. We just chill over here. And then when I'm in workflow, it blackens it all out. And I can just get going on my swingy thingy. Oh, and and in the middle here, the my, I forgot to say my it has power profiles, my laptop, so I thought it'd be cool to change them. It's silent, balanced, or power mode, but I changed it to razgon, which means overclock. You see my fans are spinning, and these are faster as well because uh, the fans are spinning more. This is so sick to me because I'm remembering what this laptop used to be running Windows. I never wanted to use it. I hated it. Now it went from a hardware that I never used to my favorite piece of hardware because it not just looks great, it runs great. I love it. It's so sick, I had so much fun customizing this. It was just a blast. Yeah, I hope you guys appreciate it as well. I've been doing so much more. I built this camera as well. Like I mentioned earlier, you can communicate with Linux even without a graphical user interface, GUI. That made me so excited 'cause I'm like, wait, that means I can use other computers at my disposal. For some reason, to me that's just like really cool. And I wanted to try what I could do with it. I want to show this in another video maybe, 'cause I feel like it's too much yapping. But my point is, I've been having so much fun. Just tinkering, messing around, feeling like a hacker. But I gotta be real as well. Linux is not perfect. There's a lot of issues. A good example is again my laptop. When I first installed Arch, none of my F keys worked. Actually, sorry, three out of 12 worked, out of the box. So I had to spend a long time bringing them back to life. For me, it was kind of fun. I was like, oh, got another one working, like, okay, let's move on to the next one. But I can imagine for a lot of people that just want things to work, you know, maybe this is not for you. And maybe it should work, you know? I think since Linux is not as popular on desktop as Windows or Mac, this is just the reality, there's just not enough support for it. On Linux, if something doesn't work, it's kinda up to you to fix it and, uh, and yeah, that's just how it is. I was trying to update my drivers for my GPU, and I got a black screen six times, and I had to do a hard restore every time. It's, you know, not the most fun thing in the world. There are other things I could rather be doing. Which is why I need you to install Linux. So the more people we can get together, the better Linux becomes. And I get it now, like that's why people were so excited about me using Linux, because Linux is not a product, it's a platform. And it also already exists everywhere. NASA, SpaceX, it runs on Linux. All the supercomputers, your TV, your smart fridge, your phone if it's Android, it's all Linux, baby. I think it's just so cool the fact that that all happened because one Finnish guy in like the what was it, the '90s, just decided, hey, I can write a better kernel. Finnish naivety. Typical Finnish behavior, they think they can do anything. But without that, you know, things would have been very different, at least there wouldn't have been an alternative, and I, I just think it's so cool that people saw what it did, got excited, and wanted to join in. So please, consider joining in. Now, if you even just a little bit curious, I recommend trying Linux. Maybe try dual-booting it if you're not sure, you can still keep your Windows or whatever. You're gonna kill it later, you might as well kill it now. Test it out, break it, get up, upset. On Linux, I feel alive. You might too. Bye. No.
