 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel, this is Daniel Rosal and today's a video with a slight difference because today is a very very big day for a penguin, for an operating system and for computing at large it is the 30th anniversary of Linux and that's a massive massive deal. So in general I try not to be one of those people that talk constantly about Linux. I did actually start this YouTube channel talking about Linux, showing little screen tutorials I could do on the internet using Linux and about a year and a half since I kicked this channel off I really started getting into it and I've done it the whole way on Linux. So I firstly want to let anyone who cares know that Linux is 30 years old because that's a big deal and with that being said, time to put up my tuxterns 30 sticker if you want one of these for yourselves you can download them put them on your website linuxfoundation.org forward slash linux 30 I'll put the URL up there in a second but really Linux is amazing and I wanted to take the chance as I said firstly to let people know Linux is 30 guys and that's crazy I'm older than Linux, I'm 32 but it just feels like it's been around for so much longer than that and Linux has just done so much for technology but for those of us who just take from this operating system that really sort of intending to be necessarily digital freeloaders I just feel like we owe it so much I personally owe Linux so much for getting me interested in technology and more than 10 years later of using Linux every day I haven't used Windows or any other operating system on a day-to-day basis for more than 10 years is probably more like 14 years and there have been moments where I occasionally thought about giving up on Linux there have been frustrating moments but by and large Linux works and I'm recording this video on OBS Studio on Ubuntu Linux and it's got all the features that Windows and Mac have to the best of my knowledge I can edit videos in Caden live I can do my work I can do I'm not a gamer but I can get on the end I can do everything using Linux and there have been much much more positives the negatives over the course of the time I've been using it so genuinely I mean this as a heartfelt appreciation for Linux and that's the spirit in which I'm putting this out now I wanted to do a quick three myths about Linux to just try to do something constructive for this day and in honor of this day and just to break down some things now I really wanted to put this video out on to LinkedIn because I think if there's anybody who's more skeptical of Linux sometimes it's corporate users and that's why I want to start with myth number one that you can use Linux for work now the year of the Linux desktop has been talked about for many many years and it's sort of a running running joke in the Linux community at this point nevertheless the quality of the Linux desktop has advanced tremendously over the course of the last even 10 years I've been using it it's just gotten easier and easier nowadays if you have a need to access services and windows we have virtual machines that are really really easy to use there are different programs for running virtual machines and you can run a bunch of Linux full-time and just delve into windows when you need it to there's also a big advantage to knowing Linux and that's that if you know Linux on the desktop to know Linux on the server is an awful lot easier now there are differences between the two but if you're you know running a tech company and a tech environment I work for a number of companies that were actually Ubuntu centric and Ubuntu is a distro I've used for most of my Linux using career I know that the hardcore Arch and Gen 2 users will consider that easy but I personally had a great time using Ubuntu for for anyone who wants the rest of the details I use LXT E on Ubuntu I got into using it for light hardware and just kind of never looked back so yeah Ubuntu you can totally use Linux in professional environments and I encourage any forward-thinking technology companies to allow their workers to use Linux at work I've been very grateful to always have worked for companies now you're now I work for myself but I've never had an office job where I was forced to use windows and I can't tell you how much that meant to me honestly I really appreciated it so that's number one you can't use Linux at work yes you can use Linux at work hundreds of thousands of people do it every day we have great tools we have tools for using other operating systems it can work guys even video editing can be done to an extent in Linux we might not a premier pro yet but we have other things and all Linux use miss to all Linux users are developers I work in marketing I'm a marketing communications consultant spend a lot of my career to date writing and doing tech writing but I'm not a techie I don't develop I don't code so when people think about your kind of stereotypical Linux user that all Linux users are these kind of really really geeky people sort of dislikable people and they're all like devs none of these things are true Linux users are I'm not saying I'm not geeky for sure I'm geeky but Linux users are not a monolithic user group and you can find people of all careers path architects writers marketers salespeople developers all using Linux it's pretty cool I'm only fine final myth is actually this is what I want to just get off my chest all Linux users are computer geniuses I do not consider myself anywhere near a computer genius and I do go on to documentation on the internet for Linux and help resources and I'm absolutely blown away by the knowledge of some people in the Linux ecosystem so yes there are incredibly incredibly incredibly smart people using Linux but you do not need to be a computer genius to use Linux otherwise there's no way I could be using it you don't even need to know that much is the honest truth if you go for a simple distro like something like Ubuntu and you stick with GUIs graphical user interfaces instead of CLIs with your command line tools honestly I think there's a great argument that Linux can be more stable than Windows and actually easier to use than Windows believe it or not there are tons of stories online of grandparents who have been introduced to Linux unwittingly by their grandchildren because one of the beautiful things about Linux is that it's really really efficient in terms of how it uses hardware so lots of stories of old hardware that couldn't run Windows being almost miraculously revived by Linux and I've seen this happen first hand and it's actually beautiful you can use old hardware and Linux is so forgiving I'm using day to day today a Linux desktop and guess what's inside you might think you might think you know look at the RGB lighting going on the transitions I don't have anything fancy whatsoever I have an i3 an i3 like 16 gigs of RAM it's not high-end hardware at all and it's gotten me through five years of intense daily computer use and that's again pretty pretty amazing by the way I'm being sarcastic about the RGB light that's it this is the first time I'm trying it and so yeah that's what I have to say about Ubuntu Linux in sort of honor and commemoration of its anniversary it's a brilliant day for the community Linux has done amazing things there's an amazing Linux ecosystem ecosystems people interested in different facets of Linux both here in Israel actually also and around the world and Linux is brilliant let me just quickly before I wrap this up give a quick tour of if you want to find out more about Linux or just sort of join in the general celebratory atmosphere you can go to Linux foundation org forward slash Linux 30th and it says join us in celebrating 30 years of Linux celebrate on social media you can get yourself this lovely tux turns 30th sticker as well as this one and you have some cool facts about Linux that 100% this is actually a really interesting 100% of the world's top 500 super computers run on Linux super cool trusted by NASA and JPL to run a helicopter on Mars also super cool there's way more Linux that you're probably using than you're aware of Android for one is a fork of Linux and Linux is embedded in all sorts of computing technology and operating systems Linux is amazing I'm very proud to be Linux user I have no intention whatsoever of going back to Windows despite the occasional bug and Linux is great so if you want to get more info about Linux I've made lots of videos today on this channel about Linux and various aspects of Linux and I hope to be making more as I take on new tech challenges and figure out a way to make them work within the Linux environment thank you very much for watching and if you'd like to get more videos from me feel free to hit on that subscribe button