 What's up zoomers? Bright and early on a Saturday morning here in the middle of the woods I want to talk about something that people often ask me about and that is so-called Linux Evangelism now as it ends up I do a lot of videos on my channel on Linux several hundreds at this point, but you know every once in a while someone will ask me to do a video on how to convince people to use Linux or You know what what the top five best things about Linux and top 10 reasons to switch from Windows to Linux or Mac to Linux or something like that and I've never done it and I probably won't ever do it now I've done I know I've done one video on why I personally do not like Mac OS, but When it comes to Linux evangelism, I'll just say I am not a big fan of it now Not not because I'm not I do think that the world would be a better place so to speak if more people were using Free operating systems Linux being one of them, but you know, I'm also pretty ambivalent to BSD or anything else But I just don't think that Linux evangelism is effective or or useful if those are different things Let me explain why now one of the facts about you know one of the things about the absolute state of modern society is That for better or for worse or probably for worse people have this kind of Sociological identity with the kind of computer they use Mac users have it Windows users have it Linux users have it and what I mean by that is let's say I'm a Windows user and That's what I you know, why do I use Windows? Frankly? I use it because you know, that's what I've done since I was born That's what everyone uses Windows is the most common OS and that means a lot of things are written on when Written for Windows like video games yada yada yada, you know the deal And so I use Windows because I'm familiar with it now You might be able to successfully Persuade a part of my brain that Linux is better to use because it is you know, Libre software It is also free of cost It's you know more a lot of it is better maintained a lot of it You know is more secure yada, whatever rational reasons or non-rational reasons I could be convinced at in some part of my brain to use Linux, but There is a sense in which if you use an operating system any any kind of operating system you identify with it in some deep way so if I'm a Windows user and a Linux evangelist comes up to me and Tells me all the reasons that Windows is stupid There's a sense in which I am going to be personally offended my heart is gonna go pitter-patter Because you know, there's a sense your the Linux evangelist is sort of telling me the Windows user that I'm doing something stupid or I'm being taken for chump or something like that And that is something that is emotionally harmful to people now I don't really care about emotional harm or something like that But I mean it in the sense of if you're thinking of if you're thinking of it in terms of what is an effective strategy to Convince people to use Linux that doesn't really work even if you're trying to be very nice If you go to a Mac user and we'll tell them oh you can do this all on Linux or something like that They are gonna make up the most Asinine reasons for why they have to you oh that track point is just so great or the track pad is great on Apple devices your you Linux users you just don't know and you have to look at it in The terms of most of what people are doing when they're justifying what OS they use or even what distribution they use in Linux are Sort of I mean they're just rationalizations. They're just sort of you know people feel a little bit Offended when they're not using the best thing so sometimes they make up reasons for it now I'm not I'm not calling. I'm not you know calling everyone irrational Or I'm especially not calling people who use Windows or Mac irrational because Linux users work the same way when they're talking about different distributions You know a lot of Linux users obsess over the minute differences when between distros when really it doesn't really matter that much Now I say this because if you know, let's say Well, actually this is true I do think that it would be nice if more people used Linux or other free operating systems I think that that you know if more people do to my channel use Linux or other free operating systems I consider that a good thing, but I will never do a Linux evangelism video because that sort of affins the ego of people what I do do on my channel is You know, I live by the mantra. I guess well mantra. It's a quote associated to Jesus That you should let them know you you buy your fruits and what that means is Instead of explaining to people why Linux is so great. I would prefer to just show them what you can do on Linux and That is for multiple reasons one. It's an argument in itself. You are you know people who use Mac OS or Windows are often afraid of the things that they think that you can't do on Linux or something like that or You know, they use this program for their Music player and they know it doesn't exist exist on Linux So they conclude that you can't play music on Linux that that's the mindset that or the they're You know, right rational sequence. They go through sometimes But when if you just show people what you can do It's an argument in itself and also it doesn't offend anyone's ego I can do a video on some program on Linux and no Mac user is going to get offended by that Or or anything like that. It's that's just not really how people work It allays their fears and it also shows them the kind of things that Linux can do. So that's my perspective I do as I said, I do think that that Linux. I think it'd be nicer if people used it more For pretty much everyone people would be more secure more private more free in the software sense And they'd also have to spend less money But I again my strategy is just to show them the good of it Now there's another thing about I mean aside from this sort of egotistical side that the social identity Since in which we identify with our distributions or our operating systems There's another sense in which people are just not familiar with Linux. They don't know how to do things So if you explain to them in pros about all the stuff you can do it's not really going to work out That's why again, I do what I do I make tutorials on things for Linux users and non-Linux users now Let me give you an example when I started using Linux I think at the period I was using Ubuntu or something like that I started using Linux full-time and I was in this mindset Which nearly every person who switches the Linux is in where their first goal is Trying to totally replicate what they had on Windows or Mac OS on Linux So for example on Windows, there's this particular program that I really liked and a lot of you guys I'm sure who use Windows like and it's called fubar 2000. It's a very nice music player It's proprietary, but it's very nice very customizable much more customizable than most Microsoft programs or I mean it's not a Microsoft program, but it runs on Windows And when I started using Linux I was in the Ubuntu app repository and I checked all the graphical environment music players and I didn't like any of them I they just you know Clementine or whatever maybe you guys like those things But you know, I just didn't like any of them. So what I ended up doing is just installing Fubar 2000 through wine took a long time to figure out how to do that Especially as a novice Linux user, but that's what I did and that is absurd The reality is when you're switching an operating system there is you you it's naive to Try and replicate exactly what you're doing on another system because if you really want to get what There is to get out of Linux. You have to do it the Linux way Now for example, I use the music player Totally unpronounceable. What is it in CMP? CPP that's what it is forget what that sent in incurses something or other That's a music player I use with the music player Damon and it is much better than Fubar. I would never use Fubar again I can't believe I use that program It is nothing in comparison to what I have now has a tag editor a huge library You can look through things by their file directories. It's fantastic. It's the best music player program I've ever used in my life, and I wouldn't switch to anything else But if I had been in that mindset where I'm constantly trying to do Windows things on Linux I would have never found it and so that that's my advice advice to people one is if you want to convince people to Switch to Linux one thing you just have to get through Your head is that you're not just going to sit them down and convince them They have to be really autistic to actually think about things like that normal people if you want to convince them Just show them what you can do make them jealous of your computer and make it look easy You know and the second thing is You know when you are using Linux if you're a novice Linux user and you're just trying to get things figured out Don't try and just recreate Windows or Mac OS on Linux There is a bunch of you know commonalities between what you can do on Mac OS and Linux But even then you know it's just different like the experiment with something new and you'll realize extremely quickly that it's actually way Easier this way there are the amount of you know There are these big programs that are written for you know Windows and Apple these huge corporate programs and suites and all this stuff But on Linux, you know, there's so you know every single repo on GitHub has just all these great things that you can try out and once you get in that mindset of You know using Linux as Linux It is much much better than using Windows or Apple. So I encourage you So anyway, just do that that's what I'm trying to say and that's why again, I'm not gonna do I might do a video on you know Ways that new users can approach Linux or something like that But I am not going to assail someone's ego by telling them they're dumb or even not even saying they're dumb or even just saying oh It would be better if you use Linux because XYZ. I am not going to tell you I'm going to show you That is it. So anyway zoomers. I will see you guys next time and I don't know. Hope you learned something or whatever I you know, you have to have something that you always say at the end of videos I'm still trying to figure mine out, but I'll see you guys next time