 There is a phenomenon in YouTube where a YouTube creator gets online and asks their subscribers for questions And then they answer the questions. It's always appeared very lazy to me because it feels like a lazy video and I think it is but I'm a lazy guy So I thought I'd do one of these things was well a few days ago I put a call out for questions and I'm gonna answer those questions now. So let's go ahead and jump right in Now I should say that I did not go through and put names to these I'm just gonna put the question out there So if you ask this question, you're not gonna get credit for it, but you probably know who you are anyways There is just a few the first question that I got asked was where do you stand on the topic of extraterrestrials and My answer to this question is I think that it'd be very arrogant of humankind to think that we're the only ones out there of all the billions of Stars and hundreds of millions of planets or how many ever there are to think that we're the only one seems a bit arrogant But it's also possible that we're the only ones that's also possible that we're not the only ones I think it's more likely that we're not and that we just haven't you know stumbled across any other life forms yet, but Then again, we haven't explored that much of space I mean relatively we've just a very small smidge of space that we've actually been, you know able to observe either in person or you know through technology, so I think that We're a long ways away from being able to actually discover whether or not there are true extraterrestrials out there, but I think that There probably are yeah The second question I got asked was do you think Linux is a viable Windows replacement for the average PC user and My response to this would be to ask another question. What is the average PC user because? if you if you consider yourself like the person who asked this question you consider yourself an average PC user then yes somebody who can seek out a Linux channel and ask this question is If you consider that an average PC user then yes Linux is a viable Windows replacement if you're considering somebody who's more of a Luddite someone who doesn't have any interest in technology at all I would say no because the vast majority of those people don't know how to burn an ISO and That's the first stumbling block. You're always going to get to when installing Linux now Now there are obviously exceptions to that rule because many of those people have family members that can install Linux for them and That's the scenario I'm in with my father. He has you want to on running on his laptop. It's extended the life of his laptop for At least another year and it's still going so I think that in that scenario We're not really considering those people Users of Linux because they don't care what they're using. They just want to play solitaire and do jigsaw puzzles That's my dad does so To answer the question I think it could be for people who are technologically advanced enough to install Linux and To be curious enough to learn about it for the most part most people aren't like that. So they just want to use their PCs for as a tool and Those people probably aren't going to be happy with Linux or even know that exists So the next question I got asked was do you still think the edge is the best browser? And I don't know where I said the edge was the best browser I said I was switching to edge because Firefox has problems and I said that a couple weeks ago And I was on edge for a week and a half or so before erased all my data and I had to switch back to Firefox So do I think edge is the best browser? No, I don't think edge is the best browser I don't think there is a bet a best browser. I Don't know why my eye twitched when I said that but that's true. I think that they all have severe for a flaws Chromy chrome Google Chrome Has the flaw of being from Google? Chromium has a flaw of not having anything to sync with because they had to rip out the Google parts Vivaldi has the flaw of being slow and Proprietary Brave has the flaw of being well brave. I mean weird advertising a weird fixation on cryptocurrency and Overall just kind of general shadiness. I mean at least in terms of their PR abilities So that's brave Edge has problems that it's you know from Microsoft obviously, but also It seems to be in a perpetual beta for some reason on Linux. So that's a big problem Firefox doesn't render some websites properly and has a political stance that's out of the woke era so They have their own problems too. So and I'm using Q browser right now It has its own problem. So there I don't think there is a perfect browser out there You that's why so many people when I asked what browser to use answered with two browsers So they use two different browsers probably on the same operating system. So I'm one of those People who I really don't want to have to use two browsers But I have a feeling that I'm gonna end up doing two browsers because I really really like Q browser I switched to Q browser yesterday, and I'm really enjoying it man. It's like really good But there are some things that are just they don't work But tumblr won't work for whatever reason in Q browser at all like It stops all the keybindings from working when you visit tumblr and well, that's not a big deal I visit tumblr one today There are other websites that I'm sure I'm gonna discover that are exactly the same so For those websites, I'll have to end up using Firefox So I'll be one of those people who use two browsers as well So that's my answer is there's not a best browser and edge Definitely wouldn't be it if there was a best browser The next question is would you consider doing a review of the raspberry pi? Yes, I would if I had a raspberry pi I Don't have one. It's not that I don't have money to buy one because they're really cheap It's just that I haven't yet, you know eventually I'll get around to it I would love to create my own NAS using a raspberry pi I think that's would be a fun project the problem is Buying hard drive space right now. It seems a little bit overly expensive. So that's gonna have to wait into the future The the next question I got was How long have you been using Linux now? This is an interesting question because it has kind of two answers So I first discovered Linux in about 2002 ish maybe 2001 and I was working at Little Caesars, which is a nationwide pizza joint here in the United States for those of you don't know I Was working at Little Caesars as my first job ever I was in high school And one of the guys I worked with his name was Seth. He handed me a CDRW with open Susan That was my first experience with Linux and I installed that on my gateway PC that I'd just gotten in the year 2000 as my first real computer at home and It cost like that computer cost like $4,000 and came in like 25 boxes I shit you not. I remember the day that that thing comes I mean if you don't know about if for you youngins out there You don't remember gateway gateway came in these boxes that had Cow spots on them because the cow was their mascot and the UPS driver came and pulled them back into our driveway and was here for about 20 minutes Unloading boxes because it came in that many boxes. It was the dumbest thing ever I mean the keyboard came separately because I mean it was a huge as keyboard. I had an accessory package ahead the Gigantic tower which I swear was at least two feet tall. I miss you know, this is a year 2000 anyways in 2001 when I got that CD or that CDRW with open Susan, I brought it home and stalled Linux on that computer And I used it for a little while But at that point I wasn't as technologically Interested in anything really I was a high schooler who wanted to play video games and At that point there weren't any games for Linux outside of like, you know, Solitaire and a few things like that I mean there were a few but I didn't know how to get them Yeah, I wasn't as Technologically adept as I am right now So I didn't last very long on Linux at that point now In 2009 Me and to my friends started a technology podcast. It's had many Titles since you know, we started and slowly it has transitioned into us reviewing movies and stuff like that And just three guys hanging out but in 2009 we did that and we've been friends ever since we keep doing a podcast every once in a while but in 2017 One of those guys and I decided we were going to start a Linux podcast I don't remember why we decided to do it though like I don't remember why like I didn't use Linux I was a Windows user at that point But for whatever reason I decided I wanted to use Linux and I wanted to start a Linux podcast so Ricky and I did we started a Linux podcast we he and he had been using Linux for quite a while at that point He works in IT. So he you know knew a lot more about Linux than I did and So we just started to start the podcast and at that point I decided I was switching to Linux full-time now I kept the Windows partition But I just decided to start to switch to Linux and just use it full-time and the first destroy used was soulless budgie and I loved budgie was fantastic But the software availability even back then was not so great So I ended up hopping a lot like I mean that's what you do when you first start using Linux I hopped a lot And that kept on for a couple years. So I've been using Linux full-time since 2017 when we started the podcast And some of those early episodes are still up online in the feed if you want to go back and listen to them If you're really all that interested there Not great podcasts. I'm just gonna put that up the put that out there But they're there if you want to want to listen to them So yeah 2017 is the answer to the question the very long-winded answer to that question Okay, why do people hate system D and would you prefer would you ever consider running a system without system D? So I had this from a couple people the reason why people don't like system B D is because they think it's does too much people get obsessed with the Unix philosophy the whole Do one thing and do one thing well So they don't like system D because system D does a whole bunch of stuff. It's not just an in-it system It does a just a ton of stuff and They don't like that. That's the reason why they don't like system B. They think it's bloated. I think those people are fools Mainly because they don't understand that what system D actually is is an umbrella name for many different programs I mean, yes, we all call all that stuff system D But really it's a stuff. It's just many programs that lie under the system D name They all follow the Unix philosophy just fine. They just happen to all have the same name So I don't think there's a problem with system B And I think the people who don't like system D are actually just asking themselves to do more work Because when you you can switch to something to a different in-is system, but you still have to find tools For all the other stuff all the little stuff that system D does so you have to find things To do like I said to do all those little things and that just I mean all you're doing is recreating system D you know Without the name So you're not actually gaining anything when you switch to something like open RC or run it or whatever Because you still had to find other tools to do the things that system D does So personally what I consider running a district without system D for trial Maybe maybe for a video or something like that But would I want to switch to something without system D just because I hate system D. No, I think system D is great I don't care if it's bloated. I Think that it does what it does and it does what it does. Well, if that makes sense. Anyways, that's my answer to that question My next question is one that I get pretty much in every single video I think I get this question every single video every single live stream From people. Well, you know who you are. When will you try to gen 2 again? And my answer to the question is I will try gen 2 again when I get to my patreon goal That states I'll try gen 2 again, which I think I said at 350 dollars So I set that arbitrarily high because I don't expect to ever get there and That means I'll never have to try gen 2 again. So that's the answer to that question Stop bugging me. Eventually if I get to that point, I'll try gen 2 if not I'll stick an arch anyways arco versus arches the next next question the answer to this question is easy Arco is the best answer to this question I use arco all the time. No, there's nothing wrong with arch. I like arch based distros I just happen to think that the community surrounding arco is a little bit better a little bit friendlier I also think that the tools that arco provides is just fantastic and I'm also a lazy person So maintaining arco feels just a little bit easier So that's the answer to that question. Next one is Firefox or Brave Firefox. I don't like Brave. I Have a stupid complaint against Brave I don't care about the cryptocurrency stuff or the the ad stuff whatever you can turn this stuff off But when you download something in Brave, there's a little this huge ass downloads bar that comes up at the bottom This is a feature in Chrome too, but it's smaller in Chrome and Brave whatever they made it huge And you can't get rid of it until you dismiss it and you can't just you can't turn it off It's the stupidest design decision ever and I know they like said I know they inherited it from Chrome But why they made it bigger. I don't know It's dumb. I hate it. That's why I don't want to use Brave and it's a stupid reason not to use a browser But I just can't get past it The next one alacrity or kitty alacrity is the choice. I would make there. There's nothing wrong with kitty I just have used alacrity More often. I also like the auto update feature of alacrity better than kitty All right, so snap versus flat pack neither. It's called the AUR bro Next one. We're kind of in a lightning round here How do you believe Firefox will end up as the next question and the answer to this question could get me going for a long time? but I think that eventually Mozilla will have to fire everybody and just be a browser company and they may not even be a company at that point I think that it's possible that Firefox will just get spun off kind of like Thunderbird did To the point where they're kind of supported by Mozilla, but it's very much a community project And at that point more people probably actually use it because they'll be more interested in it instead of it being a corporate-backed project And I said the reason why I say this is because eventually Mozilla is going to run out of that four hundred million dollars to get from Google and they're gonna have to stop paying their CEOs and COO's and stuff like that millions and millions of dollars to literally make a browser and Then all these other small projects that don't make any money or any sense Eventually that's gonna happen and they're gonna have to figure out something to do with Firefox don't know Do I think Firefox will go away? No, like I said, I think either it will get spun off or will get forked or something To the point where it's just community Supported at that point. It will probably be very very small. I mean, I mean, it's very very small now, but There's still hundreds of thousands if not millions of people who use Firefox But at this point, I think when it does it get spun off, it'll probably be much much smaller than that The next one question comes from I I didn't write the names of these down by guarantee I know who wrote this one and Peter asks Do you believe in the Church of Emacs? The answer to that question is no it's pronounced them Then and the last one is another one coming back to the the whole edge fiasco That I started a week or so ago and why edge and not chromium the answer to this question is very interesting I think the edge is actually better than chromium for many reasons. So for One the design of edge is better You can get vertical tabs You can have this feature where it will actually put tabs to sleep so that they take it take it right out of memory It doesn't take up a whole bunch of memory. I love that feature It also has built-in functionality for finding you coupons and such like that, which is just I mean you can get Every time I say these features Somebody's out there like well you get extensions for that like yes You can get extensions for that for Firefox and chromium and all that stuff But that means you're adding another piece of software from another vendor that you don't necessarily trust I mean, it's just a random Joe Schmo off the internet to install into your browser where you enter passwords and credit card information all the time and These extensions and stuff like that aren't supported or vetted by Firefox or Google or Microsoft. They're just put into a store anybody can do it That mean they may get scanned for viruses or whatever But how do you know none of those extensions are stealing your in your information? I'd much rather Microsoft steal my information, which I know they do And sell that to advertisers then some random guy off the internet steal my credit card information and steal my identity and run up, you know Thousands of dollars in credit card bills Microsoft at least isn't going to do all that far So that's the reason why I chose edge instead of the chromium because I like some of the features in edge that I Couldn't get in chromium without adding all these very insecure Extensions now all that being said I love extensions that there's many extensions in Firefox that I use But I try to limit them to Extensions coming from vendors that I can at least somewhat trust. I Do admit that one of the things I miss in cute browser the most is ad blocking because ad blocking cute browser is terrible and I also like the easy functionality of having my bit warden stuff built right into the browser So I have to actually use the bit warden client separately and it's kind of an extra layer of extraction So that's one of the things that I don't like about cute browser. So That is it for the questions that I had this time if you have a question, you'd like to ask me you can either leave it in the comments of this video below and I will answer them next month when I do another Q&A video or You can email me you thought you can find the email on my about page on Linux on the on YouTube or you can Tweet them to me at the Linux cast on Twitter You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash Linux cast before I go. 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