 Okay, first I'd like to apologize. I didn't really feel like setting up the camera and backdrop and microphone everything So I'm just recording this video with my little flip camera on a mini tripod So I don't even know if I'm in frame right now and the pictures probably crooked And not as good as quality as some of my past videos, which may not always have been the best quality anyway I'm going to try to do my best answering just a few of the questions that you guys have asked recently Obviously I put out the video a couple days ago Asking for you guys to ask questions and leave comments and I'll do my best to a video to answer them Problem is reading through them. I feel like some of them I have really long answers for so I'm going to take them bit by bit and Answer a few of them at a time So today I'm going to start with the first question that came in and that question was What do you think about free BSD and other BSD operating systems? Have you ever tried or have you tried one yet? If so, what was your experience with it? If not, would you like to try one one day? Also, how is your kid doing? Okay, so first question What do I think about free BSD and other types of BSD? There's like dragonfly BSD and Open BSD and to be quite honest, I have very little experience with them Basically back when I first started using Linux the first year to two years like twice a week I was changing what distro I was using so I just wanted to try them all and within me trying all these different versions of Linux I did boot at least once a live distribution of BSD I couldn't tell you which one it is. I want to say dragonfly if dragonfly is a live CD then it was probably that one But basically I put the CD in I booted up the computer Spent maybe 10 minutes looking at and goes and I said gee this looks a lot like Linux, which I still have not learned I'm going to take my time and learn Linux better before I try something else and That was my experience with BSD. I have not gotten back to it. I hear good things I'm sure that it's great for certain things and not for others But I can't really speak upon that. Would I like to? Try them more. Yes when I have time. I would love to play with them some more and And as far as how my kid is doing my child ember is about seven and a half months now She's taking a nap right now, and she's doing great. Thank you for asking and now I'm going to jump ahead a few questions because it's kind of a on the same similar topic is someone asked What do you think about distributions like Arch Linux and gentoo and have you ever used a distribution like that? And I really don't want to start a distro war. I don't want to start any flame wars here But I'm going to express my feelings and and views and experience first off I'll go with gentoo. I really have no experience with it From what I've been told by people gentoo sounds like a distro that I would really like if I got into it And I have tried to install it two or three times. It takes a while to install At least when I was going through it because it had to compile stuff And I must have a short expansion attention span because every time I've tried to install it I've ended up getting distracted and moving on to other projects before it finishes installing So I have not actually tried gentoo I do think that I once tried maybe a live CD of it once again in my early stages of playing with Linux But having a live CD of gentoo kind of defeats the purpose of gentoo, isn't it? Since the whole point is compiling everything specific to your hardware Now arch a lot of people like arch I have a little bit of experience with arch and I'm not really saying anything bad about arch I think it's great But when it comes down to it, I am a Debian guy at heart. I like Debian or Debian based distros And I'll tell you my reasons for that and why I would prefer Debian over arch and once again This is not to criticize arch. It's just I prefer Debian and One of my issues one of the reasons I like about Debian and most Debian based distros is how stable and full the repositories are I Think most distributions are pretty stable right now and pretty full with their repositories But especially back when I first started using Linux. I found a lot of distributions It's like they would be missing the programs I need weren't in the repositories or if they were sometimes the repositories would break stuff And I did install arch Linux on one of my computers for about a month or so maybe a year or two ago and I found right away that a lot of programs that I use regularly Were not available in the default repositories And I hate going and installing Setting up other repositories other than defaults if I don't have to a lot of people recommended using the I think they're AUR repositories which are Something that they're they're users the community users that have been approved to Add to these repositories. I don't know much about it sounds very unsafe to me And I'm going to get a lot of flack about that in the comments. I am sure But if these people are really good enough to be maintaining packages for repositories, they should be within the Default repositories if they're not good enough to be working on the default repositories. I don't trust them. That's my view I'm not saying everyone who works on those are our vicious people and malicious people But I just one of the things I like about Debian is That it has the three versions constantly going it has unstable testing and stable and Although I do use unstable a lot It's nice to know that I can install Debian on someone's machine and know that if somehow a malicious program got into the repositories Which I've never heard of happening, but let's say it did The chances of getting all the way through it the stages and into the the stable I feel is very unlikely not impossible. I'm not saying it's not going to happen But it could and I mean you just look at something like Android, which is Linux I mean people talk all the time about how Linux doesn't get any viruses Well Android is Linux and there's malicious software for that the reason because Google Let's just anybody post to the Google Play Store and it shouldn't be like that You should have package maintainers that maintain and compile these packages And I know a lot of people are going to write comments saying stuff But that's just how I feel a another time that I used arch I used arch actually for a little over two years on my pogo plug Which actually Somewhere around here my original pogo plug which I ended up killing a few weeks back and ended up buying a new one Luckily, they're only $15 now the new one I installed Debian on and I'm very happy the first one I ended up installing arch just because for that particular model the instructions were We're out there for arch and I had problems from the get-go on that and I think the main reason I was having problems with that is once again And I could be wrong about this but from what I've read Arch itself the default arch does not support arm processors the arch Distributions that are designed for arch processors the arch architect or I'm sorry arm architect Are there it's not designed for arm processors Those are completely Maintained by the community and I I love that when communities get involved, but there needs to be in my opinion a you know a central location that filters stuff out and Right away a few weeks after I installed arch on my pogo plug I Would go to install or update something using Pac-Man, which is their pack package manager And it would ask me Oh Pac-Man needs to be updated if you like to update and if I did it would break the system And I would have to reflash over the image to that drive And that wasn't just me if you read online That was a common issue with the arm version of arch for the pogo plug and Then there are certain packages that if I want to install the same thing It would just completely break and from my understanding It's because arch does not officially support arm processors Debian once again supports a number pretty much every processor Architect that I've heard of you know that's still around and some that aren't and And I have run Debian on many arm devices. I have it running on three pogo plugs actually. I'm sorry three well actually four Raspberry pies I have it running on my pogo plug. I have it running on My Android phone and two of my Android tablets whether it's in a dual boot or through a chur route I had it running on my previous phone the Nokia and 900 and I had Debian running on my on my phone before that which was the neo free runner and I never ever had any issues with it as far as you know the package manager Being broken and just break in the system if I tried to update something It's always been up to date and everything's always been working So to answer questions. What do I think about arch and gentoo gentoo? I can't really say much on But as far as arch I think it's great probably better than a lot of other distros, but just comparing it to Debian Those are my technical reasons. I feel like those aren't really Personal views. I feel like those are legit technical reasons. I think that Arch I will say has great great documentation in fact No matter what distribution I'm in if I need to figure out how to do something I end up going a lot of the times to the arch documentation their wikis to read how to set something up Even if I'm not using arch. I think that they had a great Community working together. I think they just need some sort of centralized location That's better founded for within a better foundation for Sorting through stuff and and just making things proper and I know I know that I'm going to get a lot of Comments below and I just want to straight say that you know if if there weren't Debian based systems I would probably go to arch before I would go to a red hat or a gentoo or a slack wear Distribution so really it's it's probably the next step outside of all the Debian based distributions and Those are just my reasons you can disagree. I Hope that all the comments below aren't just on that comment Because that's just how I feel and I feel like my feelings are justified. So enough of my apologizing to you for how I feel So that's it for this video. I will be posting more videos answering more of the questions. I've got at least you know 16 to 20 more questions and as you saw these two simple questions here ended up taking up a quite a long video And I just want to break them up. So I'm actually going to record the next one right now I'm just splitting them up so that we don't have super long videos. So thank you for watching Feel free to comment below ask other questions below And I will do my best to answer them, you know as long as you post questions and comments in the next week or so You know as I post new videos, I'm not going to keep checking the comments on these old videos So check the date on the video if it's recent feel free to Comments and ask questions below and I will do my best to answer them. 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