 Hi everybody. If you are here, it means that you will like to listen to the three of us talk nonsense for a half an hour. So we might as well get moving. So the title of this, thank you Bipple, the title of this is the newbie perspective. I'd like to kind of take credit for the subtitle which really tells everything about what we're gonna be explaining. People who used to use Windows but then discovered Fedora and now like that more and how we got here not here here like this room but what brought us to using Fedora. So that's gonna kind of set the theme for us speaking today. So yeah what are we gonna talk about and why should you really give a crown? I'm gonna do an intro for a couple minutes then yep I'm gonna kind of waffle on for a few minutes then Anton's really gonna deliver what everybody wants to hear. Adam's gonna talk about gaming if there anybody left that's actually listening and then we're gonna do a wrap-up and Q&A session for probably not five minutes let's be honest. So who am I? I became the Red Hat intern for the CPE team all the way back to pre-COVID times which sounds like eons ago in January 2020 did that through my final year of uni and then kind of rolled into just being an associate engineer kind of slid in through the back door where nobody was watching in June 2021. I'm really really old but I'm also really immature so I don't know kind of balances out. Hello everyone my name is Anton Medvedev I'm really really young I'm on my third year of my bachelor degree and I'm working at Red Hat since February 2022 as an intern and I already used the Fedora half and year so I would like to share my experience with it things you can struggle to be sent something like that. Cool thanks guys you left me with no choice but I'm not gonna introduce my age here my name is Adam Piasecki. I recently finished the HGDP in computer science in Ireland with the technology joint Red Hat I was lucky enough to join Red Hat in January 2022 and this was more or less the moment when I started to playing with and on Fedora. Cool okay so it's my turn now you are all gonna stop and listen to everything that I have to say which kind of leads me to these screenshots this is when we were planning this talk and yeah again this is just gonna kind of paint the picture of what kind of a person I am and how weird I am. So let's go back let's go all the way back I think if anybody was listening to Matthew Miller's talk about the state of Fedora he actually mentioned something that I started laughing at because the first image you're gonna see is a computer that my dad rocked up with circa like 1988 which is a lovely block of a machine called the Apple II it came with a manual that was probably bigger than I was at the time and you could go through and enter code to get a game you could kind of write your own game which was basically a snake and it took an eight year old James probably the guts of about two to three weeks to enter all the code and if you made one mistake you had to start from scratch but I thought it was kind of cool. The next one if you're from the states or know somebody from the states and were alive back in the mid 90s you were basically issued a gateway computer that coincided with the advent of the internet kind of explosion and dial-up modems and stuff like that and then the next one I don't know why but my dad decided to trade in the gateway 2000 for Adele which was basically the exact same machine that had terrible video terrible audio but yeah he just thought that was a really good decision and then the last one was when I got out of the Navy in the early 2000s actually I was still in the Navy I was pulled into Singapore and decided slightly inebriated let's be honest that I'd grab a new compact laptop that probably weighed around 30 pounds came in a briefcase and I'm surprised it didn't have like a diesel motor attached to it to get it to run but yeah that was it now you might be asking yourself come on who cares who cares James yeah I know I know but all of this leads to this point this is me up until 2017 going come on there are other operating systems what's an operating system I think I've heard of Linux before something like that and the whole thing is leading up to 2017 I had moved to Ireland 2013 I had a background like I said in the Navy as a carpenter I was really really working hard to get a job and a career in the brewing industry kind of successfully and then around August 2016 it all kind of came crashing down with a wife and three kids at home so I made the great decision to say you know what I'm gonna go back to school for four years but I did and I did it fine got my degree in computer friends and security from the school here in Waterford and it was really my introduction to other operating systems the world of Linux distributions and it ran parallel to me starting to learn software development in a basic way and her instructors talk about Ubuntu didn't really know what that meant also like some stuff with Kali Linux again didn't really know that that meant at the time but as I got better at learning software development I started to realize that these machines give you much more control and it really ran parallel so for the last I don't know few years second year in uni something like that I had a dual boot machine with Windows because I was still very much tied to that Windows operating system with an Ubuntu and then I switched over to Fedora a couple of weeks prior to starting my internship really just to see what the difference was between Ubuntu and Fedora and just fell in love with it and learned a little bit more about software development learned what it meant to have a Linux machine and be able to really have control over everything that you're doing and why that was the big kind of kicker for me is knowing that what I'm doing with the machine and what kind of difference it's going to make to the machine and what I'm instead of just pressing different icons and running GUIs and not really understanding what's going on under the hood that all changed and I really fell in love with it and so now I work with the Fedora machine I also have another dual boot machine that runs Ubuntu and some Kali Linux for just research purposes I guess just to have some fun with the Kali Linux stuff so that was my journey that was my journey as a as an older guy coming to the world of Fedora late in life but absolutely enjoying every minute of it so that's me so what about me huh next slide please let me start by telling you a story of my scary past I was unusual kid which you went to the school and had a family had a friends everything was unusual so there all of my friends we were running on Windows all my family members were running Windows because it was comfortable it was all people use it and people doesn't don't think about Linux in like usual people so after I finished this school one friends of mine which was also as me interested in computer technologies and computer science it was me to try Linux he he exploring me he explaining me some arguments but it wasn't a good arguments it was a imagination of of member of human being so it's it's not really good arguments but I tried to it I installed it was Ubuntu I don't remember correctly which version which version it was but after two months I decided to remove it from my computer and why it's basically because I hated it I hated a file system I didn't understand how it works I hated a terminal because I didn't know any commands to use it to run it and next part of my story placed when I started to go when I started to go to university because there almost all professors that was there on their elections were using a Linux it was different it were different versions different distribution of Linux but pretty much all of professors use it and every project that I I couldn't resolve without using Linux so I started to choose I started to think about what distribution should they install and why I chose Fedora it's basically because I read a lot of articles I saw a lot of videos and Fedora are using recent or or even latest version of kernel it it use it using a PM package manager is that Fedora use for installing for installing packages you using almost latest versions of upstream software and it's pretty modern and as a young guy I wanted everything modern so I decided to install Fedora and started to explore it and I defined for myself three level of of diving into it next slide please and next slide please yeah so first of all I was struggling in this terminal because I didn't understand how to use this tool and is this tool it's a pretty pretty much first things you need to know when you when you decide to run Linux I got some courses at my university about basic commands just renaming just moving just creation to the directories and stuff like that but when I started to read about it when I started to exploring how powerful this tool is I was really surprised because this tool gave you ability to do almost everything in your operation system you can edit your code in Vimtext editor you can move files you can connect to the servers and do the stuff stuff that all you need just literally all next slide please next level of my diving was customizing I started to try customize my Fedora experience I try different working environments like kitty like GNOME I stayed with GNOME nowadays but I tried a lot I tried even a Windows manager it was scary but but I like that some people might like it and it's a pretty good thing about Fedora because you can customize your experience whatever you want you you you can make your Fedora looks more like windows like machines with windows like operations you can make Fedora looks more like macOS operations my macOS so you can customize it you can customize almost all all of design this on this operation system and after the after this I started to understand Fedora deeper and next slide please and main part of using Fedora it's that you can run open source software and it it gives you a lot as a software firstly safety very safe you because everyone can you can see a source code of the software it perfectly runs on Linux like machines especially on Fedora because Fedora is the best and open source main thing in in open source in open source that why while you're using it you support open source community which is the best part of of nowadays because open source community makes our lives better the open source community creates new technologies that people can share a bit between between them and next slide please but recently I did a mistake a very huge mistake I wanted to play one-on-one game so I installed a windows again and it seems no longer comfortable for me because I started to hate it there there were no comfortable design and after two days I just deleted it completely from my computer just because why you need pay any money if you can get best operation system and best distribution for free and just using it so that's it thank you great stuff thank you gaming on Fedora is something I wanted to talk about because I remember gaming was something that was putting me off to use Linux for quite a long time but before I get into it I would like to explain to you how I got into the Fedora system in the first place next slide please so as you can now see first and that was quite a long time ago I started my computer journey with a Commodore 64 machine now that was a very unique experience as if I wanted to play a game for example I had to use my screwdriver in order to set up properly the tape recorder in order to sort out the frequency or whatever of the ways with the computer then load the game and that was quite an experience so that was about 1992 and couple of years later maybe around 96 I got the Amiga 500 with both systems I couldn't really do too much or I didn't have even resources to learn about doing anything else than gaming so you can see that I got into computers by playing some of the games few years later there was some around 2000 I got my first AMD K6 3D now version to 333 megahertz processor which on top of this is amazing name had also the logo of Windows on it so you can see we at the time we were kind of forced to use whatever we were provided with and in the circumstances that I was growing up with the internet was not that common at the time so I didn't actually have access to it so I didn't know about anything like Linux at the time next slide please so around 97 as you can see here I discovered Linux by reading some of the literature and some of the magazines that were released at the time I did my share of studying I had a background in geophysics to sign it to move on to finally programming around September 2019 where I started my HDIP in computer science in the meantime I got lucky somebody said yes and when I was bending my knee she got pregnant as well and in this with this fantastic circumstances I managed to complete the HDIP in computer science that was quite challenging as you can imagine baby and so on but same as James to start using Linux really I was convinced only when I started working on software engineering projects I just found it more useful more stable and much better than Windows for me as you can see here I have the basic tool which was available on Commodore Amigo as Windows eventually Ubuntu I had some history with the with the backtrack Linux but it was more that I would install for example a repo I would run like dual boot system on my computer the Linux system would be always installed but I would never use it because I didn't really know what to do with it until I discovered Fedora can you move on James please a couple of years ago when I was installing the Linux systems I was trying for example Ubuntu and when I was trending graphic cards I remember how what kind of pain it was to properly installed graphic drivers for the Linux systems not even mentioning the fact that the games available for the Linux at the time maybe even six years ago were basically not available you could I could play games like Pacman I could play something something simple like snake but I couldn't really find anything that was playable or an entertaining for the for the Linux system right now things change so much that with the three lines of code that I presented here on this slide basically and video graphic card is auto it's installed and it's ready to go and that doesn't take more than a couple of minutes probably doesn't take much less time and it's any less complicated on a Windows machine so it's just something that I'd like to share can anyone the gaming is something I always enjoyed I still enjoy even though I don't have as much time at the moment but there is a couple of platforms that provide gaming for both Windows and Linux users and in here I'm presenting only two these seem to be to me like the most common ones currently used and as you can see the list of games for the Linux system on the left hand side is quite large and impressive now I'm not saying that all of these titles on this list are available for the Linux aiming but things are definitely improving especially with the development of the latest scene that platform next line please here you see another alternative to steam called epic games this game is presented only and only for Windows operating system now it's not something I would be interested in don't really like lawn mowing simulators therefore I choose to play on Fedora and on Linux the games seem to be much nicer from my perspective but then again here installation of the platform takes literally two lines of code copied paste into the terminal and everything works like a dream and I think it's a great alternative and I was actually quite shocked to discover that epic games and steam work perfectly and fluently on Fedora next slide please now that is another problem that I faced over the years of gaming and the card that you can see the cards you cannot see at the moment but the image that you see is presented by the use of the GTX 970 this card is about six seven years old and about five years ago I was not able to after what I thought was a proper driver installation receive any significant results if it comes to frames per second on the screen of any sort of game currently as you can see on the very old graphic card considering the current graphic card market I reached a score of nearly 170 frames per second now I'm not saying that this is a stable but stable on the medium settings with the game that is presented is easily above 150 FPS the same game tested on the Windows machine was not performing as significantly and it is not only chosen because I'm using no Fedora this is what I observed across a couple of games that I played with so simply by using Fedora by using the limits made system on the steam for example platform the performance that we're getting is much more significant than the performance that we would get playing on the Windows machine now this is only my opinion this is only my observation I didn't run any scientific tests on it but the image speaks for itself can I have another site please please okay now this is a place where we wanted to put something important and I think we managed this is very important by some that's about as intelligent as we get yeah yeah yeah yeah so thank you very much again for everybody tuning in and listening to us for this couple of minutes if you want to reach out here's our details and you know that was a good talk I think we have one question in the Q&A from Sandro says how do I get my son to embrace the terminal he's been using Fedora and pop OS all his life but he uses it like a Windows user point and click and depends I mean I would say Anton touched on it first and then Adam went on to it a bit more I think the customization is a main thing and then if he's at all yeah my son okay if he's at all into games and being able to use some of those commands those terminal commands take to get either Steam Deck or heroic to work properly you know that's like the first introduction because once he starts using the terminal really for for anything to do with any sort of customization it will grow you know it can be something as simple as just running his update code you know in the terminal just to make sure that his system's being updated properly and then figuring out how to install new apps anything you know that's that would be my recommendation list the lads have something else yeah I found myself that like the biggest problem with this is the fear of trying the terminal because it kind of might look scary at the beginning but I noticed that it kind of looks the same way but instead of mouse click I would use control C control V and at the very beginning what I would do I would have a list of comments that I use quite frequently and simply if I wanted to do something I would just copy the comment I want to execute and paste it then in the terminal that would just simply solve a lot of my problems if that helps yeah my point of view that you can make try for example name of name of your son it's Michael or whatever for example you may learn Michael how to use some commands and after after some meeting where he will be with his friends you just would say like Michael did a really great job in terminal and his friends will be surprised about it and he maybe will start to think that it's cool to use terminal and switch to it it's my recommendation but it's might not work I think we are oh wait do we have another Q&A yeah we do in the tips for using NVIDIA and Fedora it works for me on Lenovo P1 in Weyland but it's not able to work with two or more external monitors one external is fine okay I'm not really getting a question there but that's a good tip so that's cool okay yeah I think we're out of time thanks everybody enjoy the rest of the nest see you guys around the social yeah see you guys bye bye