 I've been using Linux now for four years or so. I started in 2017 and people have asked me why I started using Linux while time and the answer to that question is that I wanted to do a Linux podcast and decided I needed to switch and once I did I was very happy with how much I liked it and at that point even switching back to Windows kind of made me nauseous so I really truly fell in love with Linux and I've like I said I've used it for four years now but there are some things that I need to confess to you there are some things about me that you just don't know and they're kind of embarrassing so today I have five Linux confessions for you things that I feel embarrassed about or that I don't necessarily like talking about out loud or things that I just don't know so I thought I would go ahead and do this it's a it's a gag video so in the comments below if you have any confessions that you need to make I'll happily happily listen to them so the first confession on the list is that I once distro hops 12 times in a single 24-hour period and I shit you not that actually happened now this was when I first started you know using Linux there was a single day where I just kept hopping distros over and over again now I did circle back and install a couple distros twice I don't think I can go through and name all the ones that I hop to but I'm going to try so I started out on solus budgie I went to Ubuntu budgie and then I tried Ubuntu mate Ubuntu this is the regular Ubuntu I tried manjaro a couple flavors of manjaro I think I'm pretty sure I installed fedora at one point during that day and then I went back to Ubuntu again like regular Ubuntu although it might have been one of the flip no it was Kubuntu that's right that's what it was and then because that was my first taste of KD at that point I can't name the other other ones I'm I'm missing three or four I can't remember but the point is that day was exhausting and I got really good that day though at installing Linux and I didn't just or hop for any really negative reason I just was having fun I was experimenting with different distros and having an entertaining time trying out trying out different desktop environment combinations with different package managers for their distros or whatever and it was just a fun day I don't I'm pretty sure I settled on Kubuntu or the manjaro KD version I can't remember where I ended up with but that point in time in my Linux career I was hopping a lot like I hopped at least once a week like mostly for no reason but sometimes just a minimal thing would go wrong and at that point I didn't have any interest in fixing anything I didn't have any interest really in learning anything more than what I wanted to learn so when something went wrong I would just skedaddle to a different distro and hope that it fixed it I've sensed obviously learned better if something goes wrong now I do my best to fix it now I still have a tendency sometimes to say well you know I just really don't want to mess around with that problem so I'll just hop it happens from time to time especially with something that you know is truly broken like this last time that I hopped I hopped because I was having USB problems and my compete my keyboard kept disconnecting and I thought it was an arco problem turns out I'm having hardware problems but at least I you know managed to narrow it down a little bit so that's the first confession the next one is that I've never done a UEFI Linux install not a single time and the reason for this is that I've always used legacy BIOS now everybody probably knows this if you've installed Linux and at least at one point or another it was really hard to install Linux on UEFI there was a whole bunch of hoops you had to jump through and there wasn't at the time when I was first learning Linux there wasn't a lot of really good guides on how to do it and so I just learned to change all of my computers to legacy BIOS so I can install Linux on them and I just just to continue to do that so I've never had UEFI enabled on any of my computers for the last four years so that's another Linux confession I don't know if it's a big one or not but it just it seems like everybody nowadays just uses UEFI and there's a lot of guides now and it seems to be fairly easy I still have never done it my next one is a little more embarrassing I guess Nautilus used to be my favorite file manager for years and it's not because it has any good features or anything like that it was because it when you downloaded and installed themes they had the best themes and I still think this is true a lot of the GTK developers GTK theme developers do a really good job of making Nautilus just look so good and it just looks so good nowadays Nautilus is I think Nautilus is a bloated mess but back then I didn't care I thought it looked what looked pretty you know plus on budgie back then at least it was really fast to load I mean it was like super fast to load and I was very impressed with that I can remember I was coming from Windows where's in on Windows when you open up the Windows Explorer the file manager it takes a good amount of time for it to load no matter how many times you've you know loaded it before in the session it always takes a little bit of time to load with Nautilus it was just always so fast to load and I don't know why that was on budgie it's definitely not that way I can own or at least not anymore but it it was just very impressive to me I was very easily impressed at that point yes so yes Nautilus was my favorite file manager nowadays my favorite graphical file manager is Nemo and it's still fantastic because you can do dual pains now I know there are other file managers out there that allow you to do dual that allow you to do dual pain it was really hard to say but none of them are as good as Nemo and doing it like PC man FM does it but it has this weird highlighting effect on based on which pain is active and that's just a thing you can't disable it so yeah Nemo is my favorite these days and I think it's much better even though it is kind of bloated still all right anyways the next confession is that I often forget that man pages exist and this happens like across the board I sometimes forget that they're even there like I know man whatever exists I know it's there but I forget about it sometimes so I give a lot of flack to BS PWM for not having very good documentation on their website or their github page and for years I just thought that they had terrible documentation and compared to something like i3 or QTile they do have bad documentation but they don't have the horrible documentation I've always preached about because they actually have really good man pages but I've really forgot that they were there like I had for a while that I didn't even know that they were exist that it that those particular man pages existed and then one day I saw somebody making a video about BS PWM and I was like whoa where's this documentation coming from and it's not just BS PWM a lot of times I just forget that man the man pages just exist completely and it's a very weird flaw because I mean it man pages are very important for getting documentation a lot of developers put all their documentation there not on the web so I'm missing out on the instructions for a lot of programs but I continue to forget that they exist and the last one I probably not embarrassing or anything but I have no clue how to customize grub like I see a lot of people customize their grub pages to make it look pretty and it seems like something that I'd be into but I have no clue how to do it but also I have no clue how to get grub to recognize distros on separate hard drives I have no clue how that's done I've never even looked into it because it's just not something that I've ever done so recently I do have a second hard drive on my computer or in my computer that is has a distribution I'm testing open Susan right now and I realized that I have no clue how to get a single grub instance so that I can boot from one or the other I right now I'm relying on always hitting F12 at boot up in order to change the the boot go into the boot menu so yeah I have no clue how to do grub that's one of those things I need to learn same thing probably with UEFI because eventually legacy BIOS is probably going to go away and I probably should learn how to do the UEFI stuff so I think I covered all five of my Linux confessions so in the comments below if there are things that you've never done that you kind of feel embarrassed that you think everybody else has done or some other confession lead those in the comments below will be embarrassed a little bit together you can follow me on Twitter at Linuxcast you can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linuxcast before I go I'd like to take a moment to thank my current patrons Devon Chris East Coast Web Gentoo's Fun 2 Patrick L. 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