Microsoft recall bad recently Microsoft
has unveiled a new feature called spying
sorry I mean recall which saves
everything you've ever done on your
computer so that you can find that
random email you sent 3 weeks
ago now this new feature has really
stirred the pot mostly because people
are worried about their privacy the big
deal here is that after you click agree
on that enduser license agreement or Ula
Microsoft could flip a switch and make
this feature no longer optional but
mandatory and this is making people
worry about how much control they
actually have over their private info
and how it's used spoiler alert it's
almost none but Microsoft Reed so much
hate about this feature that they're
actually delaying it no not shutting it
down just delaying it which makes you
think about why they're still trying to
launch this feature at a later
date anyway people are on the lookout
for something other than the invasive
Windows environment and boy do I have
the option for you let me introduce you
to Linux if you're subscribed to my
channel you most likely heard of Linux
but if you haven't it's an open- source
and super customizable operating system
and it doesn't have any blow Weare or
Telemetry like the 4 squared OS has
forced upon you but I must admit Linux
is quite different from Windows in a few
ways you may have seen the many
different Linux operating systems which
are called distributions or dros these
are operating systems made from a
software collection that includes the
Linux kernel which is the core of the
Linux operating system acting as an
interface between the computer's
hardware and software and often a
package management system like flat pack
or snap is used to install applications
if you're moving two Linux from Windows
two dros that will most likely work for
you will be Linux Mint or zorin Os mint
is a Dro that I've personally used
before and coming from Windows I
absolutely loved it it's super stable
based on Ubuntu and it's very
userfriendly customizable and makes
sense to a Windows user while I don't
have personal experience with Zoran OS
like mint it's highly customizable and
has very familiar layout to Windows it's
very stable as well and an OS I would
personally use and very much recommend
to any one coming from Windows now let's
talk about the drive formats that these
operating systems use Windows uses a
format called NTFS and while Linux can
read and write to an NTFS drive it
doesn't work the other way around
because Linux uses a totally different
Drive structure called ext4 butter FS or
xfs I'm not going to go into the
specifics of why it works that way and
how these are structured because I just
don't think that it fits into the video
and it's a little too complex but I will
explain the process of installing
applications on Linux it's not the same
as downloading an appc through your
browser and then running through the
installation window while there may be a
few edge cases to that statement like
steam you'll have to use package
managers like flat pack or snap that I
mentioned earlier these are in a way an
app store for Linux they manage packages
which can be software files or
configuration files for those
applications they're also used to deploy
software that you find on these package
managers and speaking of software this
may be a determining factor for your
switch to Linux while there are plenty
of Foss apps or free and open source
software there are some that just plain
out don't don't work with Linux this
includes the Adobe suite and the
Microsoft Office Suite but there are
workarounds to these kind of things
though wine is a Foss application that
acts as a compatibility layer that
allows Linux users to run Windows
programs in the Linux operating system
along with wine you can also try and
find free software Alternatives like
Photo which I've used in the past and
will recommend as well as D venci
resolve which is natively supported by
Linux you can also dual boot both
windows and Linux if you absolutely need
those applications like the Adobe suite
or office suite but not everybody is
comfortable with this so I just
recommend using Alternatives but some
things you just can't use the
Alternatives of like Hardware drivers
there are a large amount of drivers
available for GPU compatibility in Linux
and other hardware and it's always
getting better but devices like printers
need specific Hardware drivers that just
don't support Linux and this is the
developer's fault not Linux another sore
Point can be gaming while many games do
natively run on Linux like Terraria CS2
and TF2 there are some that need a
little bit of help Pro is another
compatibility layer that was developed
by Valve to allow Windows apps and games
to run on Linux as if they were natively
supported it works great and until you
try and play a game that requires an
anti-che games like fortnite that have
an anti-che simply won't work on Linux
because the way the drives are
structured like I mentioned earlier
again I won't go into how this works
just because it's a little too
complicated for this video but for games
that do work you can use a game manager
like lutrus to keep them all in one spot
so you don't have to have 10 game
launchers spread across your system now
the last thing I wanted to mention in
this video is the
terminal please for your own sake if
you're seriously going to switch to
Linux do yourself a favor and learn the
terminal it may seem super intimidating
at first but once you get the hang of it
you realize that there's nothing really
to freak out about plus you never know
when you might need to use it for
something and you don't want to be
totally lost when you really need it and
the last last last thing is back up your
computer human error is always a
possibility and things don't go as
planned so if you're moving to Linux
please back up any of your drives just
to stay safe but if you are genuinely
wanting to switch to Linux and you want
to see the more dark and not so
userfriendly side make sure to go watch
this video
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