 Okay, two people asked me where I work. Where do you work and what's your day job? I do not do computer stuff for a living. I am a firefighter with East Naples Fire Department. I've been a firefighter with them for just over nine years now. When did you start using Linux? I started using Linux probably about eight years ago. I think it was around 2005. Shortly after I started with the fire department when I started with them I was still on Windows, but probably within the first year I started using Linux. And the way that I started using it was I had heard of it in the past and I had tried it here and there, but every time I started to use it, it's like I would get frustrated going, ah, I just need to do this and I know how to do it in Windows and I don't have time to relearn how to do it. So finally one day I said, I am going to use Linux for the next two weeks. I am not going to use Windows. If I need to accomplish something, I'm going to figure out how to do it in Linux. I am not going to go back to Windows for two weeks and by the end of two weeks I decided I am not going back to Windows. I figured out how to do pretty much everything I needed to do in Linux and I learned a lot along the way and realized that once I learned how to do it, most of the things I needed to do were easier in Linux. So definitely, you know, definitely be prepared to try new things, be open to, to open source, you know, give Linux a chance. Don't go, oh, because I can't figure out how to do it. It can't do it because I hear that so much. Oh, Linux can't do this, open source can't do that and there's very very little that I have found that it can't do and the reason it can't do is because someone hasn't done it yet and maybe you could be that person. So yeah, after two weeks, the only thing I still use Windows for was video editing because I at the time was doing wedding videos on the side and I just need the video editors. Really the only thing available back then was Scenarella, which I did some tutorials on and I eventually did get comfortable with that enough to use it and I did a few weddings with Scenarella and at that point and if you look around now there are a lot of video editors that popped up for Linux that are open source. At the time, probably, you know, Caden live and OpenShop are probably the two ones, big ones that come to mind besides Blender, which is good for little clips, but not full video editing, like a full movie or whatever and Caden live at the time was touchy. Scenarella, I never really had crash on me. It was a little awkward using before until I learned how to use it and I'm sure if I want to use it now it would feel weird again because I just it was different. Caden live very unstable for the first year, year and a half, then it became very stable and now they've been adding more and more features and pretty much everything that I can think of that I could or would do video editing wise in Windows with I used to use Adobe Premiere. I used Adobe After Effects a little bit. By the end, I really liked Sony Vegas and I used 3D Studio Max for effects and 3D stuff. Everything that I would do with those programs I can do with Caden live or Blender. So eventually after a year to two years doing everything in Linux except for video editing I finally was able we got to the point where I could do stuff and now I have no problem you know, I still hear people saying you know arguments of Photoshop versus GIMP or you know video editing in Linux compared to video editing Windows. It's like I'm sure there are some things that like Photoshop can do that GIMP can. I'm sure there's some things that GIMP can do that Photoshop can't. Same with Caden live versus something like Sony Vegas or Adobe Premiere. I do feel like we're still lacking a little bit in like the After Effects area. Blender can handle can do a lot of what after probably everything after effects can do. It's just After Effects. I do I mean how I'll admit that from what I've seen as far as video tutorials and After Effects and then trying to do the same thing in Blender. I'm like I could do that but it's going to take a lot more work than After Effects. So so definitely definitely you know if you need once again I always say if there's the only time that's really acceptable if you ask me to use proprietary close source software is when there is no usable open source alternative. But in reality people argue once again Photoshop versus GIMP. It's like 99.99 percent of what you are doing in Photoshop can be done in GIMP. I the only thing I can think of that I used to do in in Photoshop that GIMP doesn't have is the record future where I could do a bunch of stuff to one photo and record those steps and then say take all these photos and do the same thing to it. GIMP has batched stuff where I can say OK adjust all the brightness and contrast all these photos like this it's not quite the same as the record feature. So if you really really need that record feature yeah you're going to need Photoshop but really most time if you're you know photographer try to avoid I think just using mass settings like that because you want to tweak each photo individually. And once again most of what you're going to use is going to be there in GIMP. The one reason you feel like it's not is because you haven't used it enough and you're comfortable with GIMP or Photoshop. Just like it took me a while to switch to Linux because I kept going well I know how to do this in Windows I know how to do this in Windows. It's like just because I don't know how to do it in Linux just because I don't know how to do it in GIMP doesn't mean it can't do it. And it aggravates me when people say that so and you're not as limited you can put GIMP or Linux on a flash drive bring it with you anywhere legally you can't do that with Windows and Photoshop. Anyway moving on the next question why did you start using Linux curiosity partially I was also at the time thinking I know at one point like oh it'd be really cool to make a video game. System and I was like how would I make my own system and obviously you know if you were to use Windows you'd have to pay all the license fee I was like I keep hearing this Linux thing is I first time I had touched Linux was probably. Like 98 99 my buddy Austin had installed on his machine and I played with it with him for like 10 minutes it's like oh that's neat but I'm using Windows. So it's mostly mostly curiosity. Our next question is a favorite video game my favorite video game has been for how many years now I guess it'd be. I think 18 years now is original do and by id software I loved it back then really is one of the big things that got me into kind of programming because even though now doom is open source back then it wasn't but you still had tools to modify every aspect of the game how things worked you know how they reacted you can build your own. Levels put in your own textures make your own characters put in your own sounds and I used to do that all the time in fact back back in the mid 90s probably like 95 96 I spent $300 on a little black and white feed through scanner and the main reason I wanted it was I want to take pictures of my friends scan them into the computer and put them in the game I would actually scan in these photos they black and white goes as a black and white scanner. I bring them into Adobe photo deluxe which was like a dumb down version of Photoshop at the time and I would hand color them using like a highlighter tool or whatever and then put them in the game and have my friends walk around. So I think a lot of my curiosity and creativity when it comes to two computers was due to doom and even though obviously graphics and stuff have gotten way better since then just the feel and this nostalgia and just the atmosphere of doom is something I've always loved. And the fact that it's now open source even though the art and stuff is still proprietary under a copyright of there is still it's still my favorite game my wife and I play it together all the time. When it comes to doom one versus doom two which were basically the same game but doom two had more bad guys and textures and obviously different levels as far as gameplay I still prefer I would vote doom one over doom two for one main reason is I feel like doom two. They purposely made the levels a whole lot darker to try to make the game harder. I feel like in doom two there are some levels that are completely black like no lights at all just trying to make it difficult for you and I feel like you miss out on the scenery on the wall textures and how they build the levels. Now as far as editing definitely I would go doom two because there's already more characters and textures in there for you to modify. But definitely original doom I am not much of a gamer it's like games bore me but for 15 18 years now I could play doom all the time and still love it and have a great time. Did you go to college not for any computer stuff and really not not in general. Once again I am a firefighter I am also an EMT which I had to take a semester of EMT class at the local college and I've also taken a few firefighter courses. You know as for pump ops and engineering engineering as far as driving a fire truck and the only class I actually took at the college was the EMT the other ones were given by my department but I'm pretty sure I got college credit for them. So did I actually go to college not really other than one or two classes never went there for a degree just certifications. And I personally I'm not going to go off too much on this but I'm not a big fan of the way school systems are run. And although there are definitely some job fields where I feel like obviously you need to go to college like if you're going to be a doctor. Obviously you'd want to go to college but I feel like school nowadays is so much more about stretching it out and making you learn all this nonsense just to make the class long enough so they can charge you more. And I just don't like it I also learn better I think I think I've learned more from YouTube videos like Vsauce and Vertassium Vertassium I think it's name of the channel and Minute Physics. I think I've learned more from them in the last two years than I did the four years I was in high school probably my whole you know school career I just learned better from those because they kind of get to the point. This is this they make it entertaining not we're going to drag this on and there's a lot of other things I don't like about the school system. So definitely I mean college is good for certain things but I think a majority of people I think if it's you know either a trade school getting some sort of certificate you know just like to become a firefighter I had to go through the fire academy. Which at the time once again it's been almost 10 years since I went through actually it has been 10 years I went through in 2003 the it was a 480 hour class I did over six months period just three days a week. There are other places where you can do it and it's different from state to state and obviously other countries. But I went through it was class on exactly you know the career I want to be into I didn't have to go through four six eight years of school it was 480 hours and then passing state tests and even within that there was a lot of stuff that was just BS. It's like you learn all this book stuff that you don't actually do in the real world and they just kind of teach you some of it's interesting some of it's good to know but a lot of it is just stuff. It's like oh interesting but I'm not going to actually use that in real life and so I don't have any plans and going to college. I don't feel like I'm going to take any classes that I that aren't required by work and as a firefighter we do have classes. We have constant training either classes at work or they assign us a lot of online courses where we have to go through a course and take a test and we do that pretty much every other week. So definitely education is definitely a good thing I just not big a fan of the current school system at least here in the U.S. I don't know about other places so anyway that's it for the questions today. I thank you for watching please visit filmsbychrist.com that's Chris the K there should be a link in the description. Feel free to ask questions and comments below and I hope that you have a great day.