 If you enjoy my tutorials and would like to see more, please think about contributing to my Patreon account at patreon.com forward slash metalx1000. Hello, I'm Christopher Acapinti. This is my friend Gabe. And today we're just going to be talking a little bit about Linux as normal. Now, Gabe here has been using, I mean, we probably, it's probably been a while since we've met. It's probably been like four years now, right? Doesn't feel like it's been that long, but four years. And about that time, you started using Linux here and there, right? Correct. Now, before that, you're primarily a Windows user. Correct. Did you ever use Linux before you met me? Very briefly, I think I tried some small distributions to fix people's computers, to fix broken Windows, to get data off of them. So, like, pre-installation environments and whatnot. So, I was vaguely familiar, but not nearly as familiar as when I met you and you introduced me to more of the community aspect of it. So now, besides the Linux use, before that, kind of a hobby of yours, you help people with computers. It's not your full-time job, but you help people a lot. And so, as you just said, you use Linux to troubleshoot some stuff, which is nice having the live CDs to boot from. Since then, though, you've installed Linux on a couple of your machines. Correct. Correct. Mainly Ubuntu. Ubuntu, Mint, I haven't doubled in too much other than that. I think at one point, we tried CrunchBang on one of your machines because Ubuntu wasn't detecting the wireless drivers. Correct. That was a couple years ago. There was an older laptop that we had trouble with the wireless. Which is just some distributions provide different wireless drivers. Sometimes, it's a legal issue, like with Ubuntu, who tries to be a little more commercial. And they're proprietary drivers, so you're allowed to download them and install them, but they're not necessarily allowed to distribute them. So Ubuntu has it where you can download them once you're connecting it, but you were still having issues with that. That particular version of Ubuntu years ago. You had got it to work for me. Yeah. Just with a little fiddling. Yeah, I think CrunchBang worked out of the box, and with Ubuntu, I had to add something to a startup script. It was something simple once we found out what it was. And currently, we were just over at your house a little bit ago. You were dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu. Ubuntu. And I haven't used Ubuntu in years. It was one of the newer ones because they had the Unity interface with the... I don't want to say omnibar, but that's what Google calls their bar. What do they call the quick search bar? Oh, the HUD. The HUD. The human... No, the heads-up display. That's what it stands for. And you had just done an upgrade on that system. Correct. And you were having an issue with... Your internet was connecting, but you were using Chromium, which is not the same as Chrome. It's similar, but a little different, which we might talk about here in a minute. It was crashing. It might load a page halfway and then crash. And I said, before I look at it, let's do an upgrade. And then we just did sudo apt-get, update, upgrade. And it had been a while since you did an update. And that fixed the problem. It seemed to have fixed it. Yeah. I mean, a little bit. We tested it. It seemed to be working. We had some HTML 3D stuff that we were looking at that was working fine. Definitely better than it was before. Yes. So definitely, word of advice. Whenever trouble shooting, make sure everything's up to date before going any further. Exactly. Scrapping the whole install and having to redo it. Yeah. Now, you were saying that you had just upgraded Ubuntu. I guess it has a feature now that... Back, I mainly use Debian SID, which is their unstable. It's the stable version of Debian I don't believe is a rolling release, but the stable is, which means it just basically continuously updates. I mean, there's checkpoints. Right. So very rarely do I ever have to... And I've always... I've never liked upgrading from one operating system to another. I've always just like, well, if I need to upgrade, I'm just going to wipe everything out. Not just like a clean system. That's how I am. Different people are different ways. And back in the day with Ubuntu, there was a way to do an upgrade to a newer version, but you had to do some fiddling with it. But you made it sound like nowadays it's just kind of a click a button and it updates to a newer version. I just saw the update was ready on the screen and went with it. I know there was one available. So I heard good things about the latest update. I think even today there's a later update that I do not have that installed just to clarify. This is the previous one. Yeah. I'm not even keeping the exact number. I'm sorry. I don't even keep track. Yeah, they have the names and... The version would be simple. For an everyday user, it was extremely simple to follow the update process. And then within 15 minutes it had a new version fully installed. Each version of Ubuntu has its own code name or whatever they call it, like Wally Walrus or something like that, which I can never remember. But then they also have release versions, which is very simple. Do you know how they version numbers work with Ubuntu? It's actually one thing I actually really like about Ubuntu because it tells you how old the version is. Like if it's 10.4, they release twice a year in April and October. So the release version is going to be the year and then the month. So if it's 10.4, it was released in April of 2010. So yes, it's now the end of April. So there was probably a release earlier this month. And the version you probably just updated to was probably the October version. So good and bad things people will argue over whether having a steady release dates like that is good or bad. It doesn't rush you to where you don't do good things, or if you don't have release dates, do you just take forever to complete stuff? That's a matter of argument. As far as the version numbering like that, I like it because I can go, oh, this is four years old. I don't have to go, oh, when did version six of Debian come out? I just be like, oh, this is the year. This is the month. I know it's a year and six months old. It's more than four years old. Definitely timed upgrade. I mean, that's a long release. So overall, you're enjoying Ubuntu? Yes. Well, let me say something else first. Like I said, you've always liked computers, but you find yourself more nowadays using your laptop less, and you do most of your stuff on your phone, which is Android. Absolutely. So even though you've been using Ubuntu for a long time, 95% of my time spent on my Android phone rather than boot up my laptop. So even though you've had Linux installed on your laptop for four years now, you're still kind of a beginner because you haven't really used it much. But overall, the Unity interface with the heads-up display, do you like that? I'm open to anything new. So it was easy to get a hold of. It's extremely user-friendly. For me, I liked it because it wasn't Windows. Yeah, I like that. Yeah. You understand? So for new users that know nothing but the Windows interface, that's why one reason they don't like or reject Windows 8, 8.1 is trying to help that. But they're so stuck in their ways, it's hard to get people to change. Which is true of humans in general, except for me. I like change. I've always said every couple of months I try a new desktop environment. I'll go from KDE to GNOME to XFCE. There's a new one I'm trying. I can't remember what it's called. I've been using it for like two weeks now on my desktop. I like the lightweight ones. I also like the heavy ones as long as it's a machine that can handle it. One of the things I've always loved was I got Compiz. That's how I say it. The 3D interface. Mainly, I could care less about, I mean, wobbly Windows is fun. But for me, I really liked the scaling where I could just hit a key or move them out a certain way. And it brings all my Windows down to on the screen. I can click on the one I want to go to because I'm a multitasker. I've always have multiple, multiple things going at once. And it's actually probably been a year since I've had Compiz installed and had that feature. And now that I'm thinking about it, I think that when I go back inside, I'm going to reset up probably XFCE because FXC, some Windows managers can't handle. Some Windows managers are Windows managers and desktop environments. And some are desktop environments with a separate Windows manager. And so Compiz is a Windows manager. So depending on whether you have a desktop environment that also is a Windows manager or if they're separate, it depends on whether you can use Compiz or not. Hope that made some less sense. So I don't think you use Compiz with flux box or Ice Windows manager, which is another lightweight one I like. But XFCE and I think LXDE are lighter weight ones that will allow Compiz. But at the same time, if you're going lightweight, why would you have Compiz installed as the argument? For me, it's just I like trying out different things. So I like the scaling feature. For a while, I used Awesome Window Manager, which is Tiling Window Manager. Awesome Window Manager. Have you heard of that? Definitely read how to use it before you install it because if you don't know how to use it, you're not going to be able to look up stuff on how to use it. Because there's basically no mouse to change Windows. Everything's keys and it's all Tiling. Depending on what keys you hit, the Windows are arranged to certainly on the screen. So there's no resizing or dragging. It's all done with keys. So if you don't want keys to hit, you don't know how to get to your web browser to search for stuff. So basically, I want to wrap up this interview. But Gabe, we'll be back in future videos. We were in the middle of talking about something though. Maybe we should wrap it up on a number. We'll get to Android stuff in the next video. So we'll talk about more about Ubuntu, your experience with Ubuntu and Android in the future. I do want to thank you for joining me today. Thank you for talking to all my viewers. And as always, please visit filmsbychris.com. That's Chris of the K. There should be a link in the description. I hope that you have a great day. Thank you.