This video outlines the differences and similarities between simple tasks that can be performed natively in Windows 11 and Linux Mint Cinnamon.
Time stamps:
0:00 Intro
0:52 Similarities vs Differences
1:17 Fullscreen Screenshots
2:21 Selection Screenshots
3:41 Opening a File Manager
3:59 Navigating Through Windows
4:27 Snapping Windows
5:34 Copy/Cut & Paste
5:53 Delete
6:08 Renaming a Single File
6:26 Batch Renaming
7:27 Force Task Ending
8:06 Searching
Key thing to remember though is Mint (or any Linux OS) is NOT Windows, it has its own set of strengths and weaknesses. Some try to help you transition by being similar with a lot of functions but Mint has a lot of very good and bad differences to Windows. If anyone gives Linux a try because of videos like this go in with an open mind that this is a new eco-system with it's own history and design decisions that can be different than you are used to.
Mac is easier to learn than Linux and all it's "flavours".
@@lindenreaper8683 Funny enough, my first acceptance of macOS is actually by using it like a Linux, which it does since it's also a POSIX compliance OS.
@@lindenreaper8683when Linux can run auto CAD I'll switch.
@@lindenreaper8683 I hear u
@@lindenreaper8683 there has been a lot of talk about Linux better than windows I don't see that. No windows pull the Gpt card out. That Linux community won't allow in the command line interface. Wait till windows 11 is stable. Power tool is just the beginning of it.
8:04 worth noting, there's also an ability to "kill" process in the right-click context menu. This command gives a 100% guarantee that the process will stop.
I also added a tool to my menu bar that kills processes you click on. I think mint calls them snippets ? I forget the name but it's useful!
@@joshplaysdrums2143 don't know what snippets are, but there's the xkill command, which you can set to a keyboard shortcut, and it lets you kill programs you click on. Perhaps that's what you're referring to?
@@PyroNexus22 I got the name wrong, mint calls them applets, pretty much the applets in was thinking off gives a cursor to kill the process with. Helpful for me as its taking me a while to learn keyboard shortcuts lol
@@joshplaysdrums2143 oh, that's right, there is an applet like that. But setting a shortcut is not that hard either. You open the corresponding menu, select custom shortcuts (you can see it in the video where he shows how to set up a shortcut for the system monitor) and just enter "xkill" in the command line. I set mine to Ctrl+Del. There are guides on this on the internet to.
windows has powertoys which also has a feature to kill processes under "whats using this file?" in the context menu
Need a April fools day follow up where you do the same tasks but strictly in the terminal on Linux.
ok but when you compare bash/zsh and cmd/powershell windows loses on all fronts
@@ovi1326I just tried Linux for the first time today. what’s the difference, I thought cmd uses bash also? Bc l commands like ls and cd are the same
@@AkashPalukuri-tc5tt bash comes from unix shell while windows cmd comes from dos. they don't share much in ways they can be scripted, instead of ls you have dir on windows, in bash you can do actual ifs, loops and functions while cmd offers goto statements. you can use bash on windows (ie. mingw has one) the thing that sucks is most scripts expect a posix environment and it'd hard to make one in windows. Nowdays microsoft offers WSL though but I wouldn't call that a windows terminal since it's actually running a full linux vm. Also powershell is kinda cool but 1) it's not posix shell compatible, it does things in it's own way 2) almost no one writes scripts for that 3) check out nushell, it's just better
Thats like saying french and spanish are pretty much the same they both have si and la
@@user-zu6wg9wt8mno i genuinly didnt know then lmao
Another simple tasks that come to my idea would be: installing software, compressing and decompressing files, workspace organization (virtual desktops, overview of open windows, etc.) and maybe customizations (although that's its own rabbit hole).
And updating software/the OS itself.
@@cigmorfil4101that's like only a good experience in linux, though winget is a good first step
This is missing on video because SUDO for installing a simple program is just a pain in the and that's the reality of linux users.
@@carloseltopoquegira7454 Less of a pain than Windwos when I've just deliberately downloaded software and being asked if I really want to run it when I click on it. But if I just want to install it for my user only then I don't need escalated privileges and no need for SUDO. Because Windwos is really a single user system by backward compatibility design, you need admin rights to install any software. Linux was designed as multi user from the outset and so understands the need to separate OS files from application files. That's why escalated privileges are required to install software for everyone - you are bring a system administrator instead of just a user, and the Linux method helps you understand the difference. It also means it is much harder for malware to install itself without your permission.
@@carloseltopoquegira7454 It's neither a pain (it's literally just typing those four letters), nor is it required… All of the things I listed can also easily be done with a few clicks. Go spread your FUD somewhere else!
A subtle snapping feature in Mint not mentioned is that there is a slight bumper-snap between floating windows. If you bring two windows together and overlap slightly then it will perfectly butt them up against each other. It also allows sliding the two windows against each other. This can let you butt the moved one up against a third window. A perfectly screen filling floating patchwork of windows can be made this way.
It's called window edge snapping and I really really really wish Windows had it. It's such an amazing feature for desktop organization.
i love edging my windows to one another
I've been using Linux full time since the windows 8 atrocity. I play all manner of high end games, routinely handle office files, edit photos and videos, and of course browse the internet. Have yet to find a single thing that I cant do on Linux that i could on Windows. Of course there are varying degrees of learning required to accomplish that at times, but this makes the computer fun to use again. The idea that I am in control of everything my computer does at all times is quite appealing :)
I have a few. There's no equivalent (not even close) to Photoshop. If you need photo editing, you're SOL. Same for good video editing. There's a few, but they're vastly inferior. If you need accounting software, you're screwed. If you need to use banking software, you're screwed. If you play games that use anti-cheat, you're usually (but not always) screwed. I could go on for a few hours. I do use Linux since Kernel 0.96, and pre-KDE/Gnome on Enlightenment. It's good for some things, good for the average illiterate grandparents, not so great in any serious office environment. Admittedly, gaming (via Wine/Proton/Steam) has improved a ton in the last 5ish years. The whole X11/Wayland mess on the other hand has just devolved the desktop into an infernal hellscape.
@@wombatdk if you are speaking of software.from Adobe or Intuit that require subscriptions to use them I'll pass everytime. If you absolutely MUST use them in a professional setting then get a Mac...they work better there anyway. I'm not speaking about the tiny percent of users who have those needs, I'm talking about the 95% plus who do not.
@lindenreaper8683 exactly.. I've never had a person I brought into Linux ask to go back 🙂
@lindenreaper8683 one side effect is many of my customers never call me again because their Linux machines do not crash and don't get viruses
@lindenreaper8683 I don't mind.. they trust me with anything else needed :)
6:20 About renaming: you can also click on the name of the file in Windows, and this will allow you to edit it from there. This wasn't the case in Linux Mint until the latest update, where it now mirrors that functionality.
It was always a setting
It has been possible on raspberry pi’s for at least 4 years and on mint for at least 2 years. Before that I do not have personal experience but I know for a fact you are mistaken, it happens
I don't know man, I've always pressed F2 to rename, so I can't tell.
i really hope linux mint devs look into this video because i really like their desktop environment. I hope you point out even more issues where the desktop can improve in the future.
Linux Mint has apparently been around since 2006 which will make it a retro Operating System but I want more iconic Windows computers and I am a retro computer collector. I turned one side of our basement into a makeshift retro entertainment center and a retro computer lab almost like how Schools set up their computers. I will eventually be putting every model gaming console known to man down their it will eventually feel like a makeshift museum for retro electronics.
i mean they implemented some changes but general look is about the desktop environment in linux.
It's worth noting that you will be using the system monitor a lot less than you would the task manager. Apps on linux very rarely hang or stop responding to commands. In Mint, specifically, if you stick to the applications in the software center then you are extremely unlikely to have those issues. It is a very stable distribution. This changes if you start tweaking and messing with the configs and generally experimenting with the freedom linux gives you but you know what they say, with great power comes great responsibility. :)
Lol true! Unless you're using wine / proton to play a game, then it might hang.
@@Triro Hasn't been my experience in the last few years of playing tbh
@@Triro Yeah, when I used to game on Linux, the launcher to my game would "hang" and fail to halt.
@@mikem9536Huh weird, only time that happens is when I play cities skylines, it will hang for a bit then come back.
I always has random stuff hanging, but not the problem with linux, it's me squeezing the specs down to an unreasonable level for my workload. And, it's still just hang not straight up crashing the entire OS
Very useful. A simple task that gave me some trouble at first was getting different language input running. Like when you want to type Japanese, Chinese or Korean.
It might be cool to compare a KDE Plasma distro to windows as well. KDE does many things even better than Windows, not on par like Mint Cinnamon. I suggest either KDE neon, or OpenSUSE Tumbleweed.
Tumbleweed had kernel sads with my Wi-Fi driver I compiled every time I updated and it rolls kinda fast, but yeah
Cinnamon might be simpler, but it's not a buggy mess like KDE. Don't ever suggest Windows users to use KDE, unless you want them to hate Linux.
@@PyroNexus22 As someone who daily drives Arch Linux with KDE no new user should use KDE, Sure it looks good by default and still has plenty of customization but you need to be willing to fix things when they break. Cinnamon was the first DE (in Linux mint) that I used when I permanently switched to linux.
@@sus-ln1nmThe 'old man' is right though. I love KDE but it still needs a year or two of polishing until i would be willing to recommend it to people that ain't into modifying (and fixing) their desktop. It might work good on some hardware, but more often than not KDE ends up being a painful hell on most systems for most users. No need to deny this fact... Unless you want to be an ignorant butt about it. Everything that has to do with the discover program in KDE crashes if you look at it too hard this day, also it's slow as hell.
i love that on KDE i can configure to zoom in the screen on command by just pressing Super+(= or -), no questions asked, or that to kill a window i can just press Ctrl+Super+Escape and then click the window i wanna forcibly close. while the start menu is way better than Cinnamon because of KRunner, i still find it to be laggy when loading up long lists of programs available as i hover through the categories in it. i'll be happy to recommend KDE when the team eventually publishes their version 6. Cinnamon is still a solid choice tho.
Oh please let this channel become a Linux channel
I'm all for it Let's gooo
...and change the name to Chmod Tech!
@@ratlinggull2223xd
nah, i prefer it to be linux propaganda for windows user.
Nah, just a general OS channel, so Linux, Windows and Mac
For screenshot. You can just press the Printscr button alone and it'll give you 3 options on what you can do. No need to hold down the Windows key.
this was not the case until recently on Windows.
@@GinanjarUtomo Just pressing printscr will take a picture of the whole screen on any Windows version since at least 95 or 98. Windows 11 just added 3 options at the top on what you want to do after you press Printscr. I remember this because when you wanted to prank someone back in the days you just took a printscreen, pasted it into Paint, saved it and used it as the desktop while removing all real icons. Then you also just hide the start menu. I have never tried it on multiple monitors but it always worked like this with 1 monitor.
@@GinanjarUtomo it was the case since forever
@@sunofabeach9424no
@@GinanjarUtomo Это было всегда, сама кнопка об этом как бы говорит
Note the Windows Task Manager has one simplified main tab showing apps on the task bar so that normal people can kill apps easily. The Processes tab is a secondary tab showing all processes, similar to what Mint has.
However - it almost never kills apps easily. Which is the problem.
@@FullMetalGladiatorYes, it does. What are you talking about?
@@FullMetalGladiator Excuse me but what? Task Manager has a 100% assassination completion rating.
I think it might be interesting to see a 'cool' features in Linux mint video
Loving your videos, need more content on daily usage of linux.
excellent! plz make a whole series of these videos comparing win 11 to linux mint.
An interesting feature to compare would be on file operation conflicts, when copying or moving things to somewhere that already has the same stuff with the same name. From my previous use of Linux, I think Windows and most Linux distros work quite similar, bit macOS, mind bogglingly, gives the option to REPLACE the destination folder, instead of merging them.
Learned a few things. great video
It'd be nice if you also compare Gnome DE and windows.. I find it one of the easiest environment if one's not blaming it for not working as windows
i saw your video many times... but this video make me to subscribe your channel... good work
7:40 you can also end tasks directly from the task bar by enabling the kill feature in the developer settings
I just want to point out for anyone used to Windows file searching: Linux file search is _fast._ When I say fast, I mean that on my system, it managed to find a file down in the depths of a 1TB external hard drive in about 20 seconds flat, presumably _after_ searching through my 500GB main SSD. Try doing that on Windows, and you'd be sitting there for 5 minutes, minimum, before anything resembling a useful result came up. I have no idea why the difference is so big, but it is, and it's one of the reasons I switched.
Thanks for clearing it up!
I'm wondering if you did any comparisons in usb handling, I switched to linux mint on an old Samsung all in one and noticed that usb 3 speeds had gotten a pretty decent boost when transferring files from my external ssd and I'm wondering if you noticed any difference between the two.
Took two Linux classes but haven’t used it outside of there, been wanting to change that. Seeing that selection screenshots can still copy to the clipboard might finally do me in, that setting has become crucial to my entire existence LOL
0:30 which audio visualizer is it? I see it very often on KZhead
loved it you shoud do more this kind of video
As someone who's planning to at least partially transition over to Linux Mint in the near future, I'm very happy to see that batch renaming feature. I recently updated the names of a bunch of old music files to add artist names, and ended up having to look up PowerShell commands that could do it efficiently. Just having it built into the context menu sure is a lot more convenient.
What about Win+V, that uses clipboard history, that in theory should work between multiple devices with the same account?
I haven't had a WIndows install where the search index wasn't corrupted in a few years, resulting in continuous indexing...
such a wonderful video for a guy thinking to shifting to mint. thanks a ton
Quality and good as always
Great video.🎉🎉❤❤Thank you very much for sharing all the Information about the Linux mint and the overall comparison between Linux mint and windows 11🎉🎉❤❤I have actually learned how to create a screenshot, a selected screenshots on the screen in Linux mint.🎉🎉❤
Eyy good video and all, but where did you buy that beautiful keyboard?🧐
Hiya! I'm new to your channel - now subbed - like the content. I know everyone wants to be a critic, but just one thing... whatever microphone you are using seems to be losing all of the top-end, where I'm sat. Sounds very muffled. If no-one else is having the same issue, it's just me :)
Photo viewing and send it somewhere, maybe to a friend. Change wallpapper. Change time for sleep mode/screensaver. Installing Microsoft Teams or play a popular game. Setup backup to external drive.
"Photo viewing" has nothing to do with the OS though on the off chance to do with some proprietary media codecs, that Mint provides to you during the installation. The wallpaper itself is a window in the XOrg display server that Mint flavours use, and is completely exposed to a protocol called EWMH, meaning you can do much more than have a photo or video wallpaper. Theoretically you could make a live mathematical graph, rendering in real-time, be your wallpaper. Do you see any reason why "Microsoft" Teams is difficult to install on an OS that isn't "Microsoft" Windows? It's developed in Electron which is a cross-platform framework so what difficulty could there even be?? oh maybe it's the fact that they dropped linux support last December. In Valve's own words with association to their development on ProtonDB, "80% of Steam's top 100 games are now playable within Linux". is that a good enough metric?
@@bhavyakukkarI’m a Linux user and I enjoy Linux, but for the gaming part, I need to be realistic. 80% is not enough, especially if like 90% of the remaining 20% consists of online multiplayer games, aka the big hits that the vast majority of gamers care about.
@@bhavyakukkarI tried to mention some tasks that the average user might do with a computer. Will it be easier or harder to do on Mint? Teams is pretty common for work, Slack as well. With wallpaper I meant just setting a photo as the wallpaper, people like to see a photo of their loved ones on the Desktop. How easy is it to share a photo to a friend? Utilize the applications installed or do you have to search and install extra software to archive this?
@@Girgoo ah I see, that's embarrassing. people usually pick some of the things you mentioned to criticize linux and the instinct to defend kicked in. I apologise
There’s only TWO reasons why I still using windows in my daily routine. Office and gaming. Although for office I’m using wps, it’s a very compatible tool and all but still lacks some of the ms office components. And for gaming I just have to search for the Linux compatibility list in Steam. But for now that’s ok.
@@lindenreaper8683the problem is that single player games aren't the problem. Otherwise I wouldn't dualboot Win and Lin on the same PC just to Game and Work. I just don't want to pirate Office 365.
@@lindenreaper8683 are you an AI bot or something? I saw you text like this under other comments lol. Tell your developer to fix your text recognition or switch your theme of a talk. "Keep Windows offline", "MS Office is trash" stop spamming pls.
@@lindenreaper8683MS Office may be shit but one doesn't have much choice when your employer demands it or you have to keep fixing compatibility issues with your colleagues using office and don't care that it's crap Similar to how WhatsApp is inferior to signal I'm stuck using it because my contacts don't care enough to switch
fullscreen screenshot of the current screen you are on that goes to your clipboard: ALT + PrntScr
Note: if you hit Win+PrtScr on Windows, it will automatically save the screenshots on the Pictures/Screenshots folder
Great snapping in Mint works as expected, Win10 and 11 imposing you fill the space that is left while you didn't ask for it bugged me endlessly
Yeah agree. Sometimes it's convinient, sometimes it's not. In Linux (I use GNOME), I just use Super and arrow key like the uploader showed and to get another window resized, Alt+Tab and then super + arrow key again. It's almost as fast when you get used to it and you have much more control. And if I want complex tiling, I have multiple tiling extensions that far surapass what Windows offers, as they essentially emulate and full blown tiling window manager.
You can disable that (in Win10, at least). Settings -> Multitasking (Or type "snap settings" from the Start menu) uncheck "When I snap a window, show what I can snap next to it"
@@ratamacue0320 Nice, thanks! Never thought of looking for it in there (then again not much is where it's supposed to be in the control pan... sorry, settings)
@@patrickcardon1643 welcome 🙂
I would love if you did a video for macOS vs Windows too
I've been using Void Linux for years. But I appreciate the fact that there are distributions like Mint that are friendly to newcomers. I wish there was Linux Mint without systemd.
what's wrong with systemd?
@@arianitonline8748 it's bloated, it's not following UNIX philosophy, it complicates things, and just personal preferance not to use it. There always should be an alternative, but systemd became a 'system layer', and grown to be so mainstream that people bareley have any alternative. I prefer simple init scripts as opposed to 'services'. It's becoming more and more Windows'ish and less UNIX-like. Average GNU/Linux user shouldn't care though. Until it gets in their way somehow. But I've been running GNU/Linux distributions for over 17 years, and I like the older approach without systemd. Good thing that there is a big community that thinks the same, so here I am running one of the distributions that suits my purposes AND doesn't have systemd.
@@arianitonline8748 it does everything. Seriously, not only does it handle startup, but it can handle stuff like NTP through systemd-timesyncd and serve as a bootloader through systemd-boot. It does too many things.
@@arianitonline8748 あっぷ
well systemd is the mainstream choice even for advanced distros like Arch or NixOS so if you want non-systemd I doubt there's a newbie-friendly distro for you
nice video this video makes me wanna switch to linux mint
Switching to linux requires time getting used to, a good advice would be dual booting, but you decide
@@RayOfSunlight984An even simpler solution is to make a virtual machine. Sure, performance will suffer due to the virtualization overhead, but day to day tasks won’t make people notice that.
You could also install it on a USB 3.0 flash drive if you are very limited on disk space. You have three different ways to give Linux Mint a shot with losing Windows, each with it's own advantages. Good luck! 🐧
@@johnettipio That works too
@@johnettipio replying so that OP can see, i recommend this, booting from a USB flash drive. this is what got me to try linux with no strings attached, and then i could go back to my computer without having anything changed. it's what charmed me to linux.
Any idea why print screen key on my Linux Mint doesn't make screen shot? Is there any option in system that i changed by default? i didnt change that on purpose.
You might want to compare KDE as well, as it's also very similar.
Is win+prntscrn a shortcut that really no one uses? Why would you not use the fastest way to take a screenshot?
What icon pack do you use on mint?
App and file shortcuts, creating and using. Can I run a Python script file by clicking on it?
yo that's actually a nice video.
The search of files in windows (at least for me) is sometimes very slow, is that the same in mint?
Seems you might need a hard drive checkup as the Windows search feature mechanics called indexing, pre searches your computer and sometimes file content then displays it super fast. If that isn't working for you out of the box, I'd suspect you have either hardware issues or system file corruption.
Buy an ssd
On Windows there's the "Everything" program that searches your files pretty fast And yeah, natively Linux mint searches files a lot faster for me. I can also recommend "Catfish" search program, it's nice
I would love to see tasks in the video but in comparison with KDE and GNOME vs Windows, since those DEs are leading in desktop linux
Definitely so, but I see why OP chose to use Cinnamon, as a newcomer would likely have mint recommended to them. I’d personally recommend Mint to noobs too.
@@steventechno i usually recommend Fedora because it is stable and has the GNOME desktop environment which has great support and looks very polished. I installed it on my gf's laptop
While KDE and GNOME lead the Linux desktop, Windows leads the entire desktop market.
@@ettoreatalan8303 well not really, if you look at the stats you'll see that a portion of the market belongs to Apple, BSD, Linux and other variants
@@ettoreatalan8303 that's because they bribe every desktop maker to preinstall it, and defaults matter.
On Windows 11 if using a touchpad you can also show all windows with 3 fingers swipe up and select the window you wanna switch to. Touchpad gestures are really nice. I know GNOME has them though but not sure about Cinnamon.
Touchegg
Yeah Linux mint have gestures it got added in 21.3
when they switch to wayland they'll include all the gestures but even more smoother.
How about "how" the file system works and desktop applications for Linux? I want to transition myself to Mint, but because of my experience with Ubuntu, I kinda got a headache and went back to win10.
5:29 Don't use a DE if you want tiling, use a tiling WM!
What kind of keyboard is that?
how changing workspaces work in linux mint? Touchpad gestures?
why is mint's system monitor and trash icons in the thumbnail switched...
Simple taks: Watch a movie in Dolby Digital Audio Windows: does it without problem Linux: Cant do it
Can you make a video where we can learn to bring the best of window 11 or 10 in linux or which apps to install in linux to do the same.
You have to hold down the Windows Key while pressing PrtSc now? Oh I see, it's because they assigned PrtSc to open snipping tool. That's... arguably more useful than putting the whole screen into the clipboard. I pretty much never capture the whole screen anymore now that they added the ability to select an area.
Maybe in another video try and explain some basic linux terms to beginners. Like terminal, packages, distros, etc.
8:47 I think that only shows recently used files and folders
EndevourOS each is based on Arch Linux, have similar functions as Mint or they are diferent ?
Does anyone know what icon pack he use in Linux Mint?
We back!
I always after installing Windows, searching in searchbar "Print Screen" to setup Sniping tool lauching as default when I press "prt sc" / "print screen" button.
I just switched to mint from windows a few weeks ago!! Cant recomend it enough, if you have a spare hardrive i can easily recomend flashig mint on it. Now im already thinking of reclaiming my windows harddrives for linux lol. Also gaming is very easy (if you have amd gpu). I have nvidia and it is now running just as well as it did on windows but freesync is goddam jank, im hoping xorg gets some fixes eventually but theres always workarounds in the meantime. In reality it just means ill get an amd gpu when i next upgtade though thats no time soon
@lindenreaper8683 The Steam Deck also still uses X for the Plasma desktop.
1. the screen capture tool in Windows 11 seems horribly buggy with multiple monitors at different screen resolutions, and it is slow. And I think it worked in previous versions. 2. Does Ctrl-Insert and Ctrl-Delete work with the clipboard in Linux Mint? 3. Does Linux Mint have tabbed file manager windows? 4. For my 25+ years of Windows experience, the search feature has been horrible. I swear it has a less than 50% success rate and I assume MS knows this from all the metrics data I must be sending back to the mothership.
Yes Linux Mint have tabbed file manager windows
1. On linux mint screenshotting will screenshot every screen 2. I don't think so, but I don't know what these shortcuts are supposed to do. 3. Yes
2: idk what ctrl+ins is supposed to do but Ctrl+del does work (deleting words to the right of the cursor, instead of single letters. 3: yep. Mint's default file manager is named "nemo", which supports tabs. Other file managers like nautilus and dolphin also do. 4: can confirm and relate
Largely the only thing thats been keeping me from going to Linux is the gaming. Which I've been told has gotten a lot better thanks to Valve. I hope that it's has gotten even better by the time that support for Win10 is dropped.
Windows 10 IoT LTSC, it's officially developed by Microsoft, comes debloated, and has support until 2032.
@@cbtillery135 you can't get it legally though, that could be a problem for someone
8:30 hmm, that (searching for individual settings) come a lot handy in windows 10. but that's partly 'cz it is fragmented in soo so many dialogs. i have heard that linux settings app are much more coherent, and most all things are available in that app itself - so, this won't be too much of an issue in that land either.
And when you are not enough with Cinnamon, you go to kde or xfce if you crave these megabytes of ram. If you want something more you go to tiling managers or Gnome for clearly a brand new never seen before experience
In rare cases your system may freeze. In Windows, if I remember correctly, you enter it with alt+ctrl+supr and in file explorer you click restart. In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart.
Yeah no. In Linux, if it froze, it did so completely. Couldn't even get to a TTY. Forced hard restarts.
@@MichaelDustter I mean not always. I've had systems with 2 or less GB of RAM lockup because of Linux's shitty RAM MM and you could still unfreeze them most of the time.
> In Linux Mint, if this happens, press Alt+F2, a small box will appear and type "r", and the cinnamon interface will restart. only on Xorg sessions. this is not supported by Wayland.
Are you using gnome 45?
23H1 now has the option to use the win print sc to automatically open the snipping app. Which is now set to be defaulted on. Making it, imo the best all rounded print screen. Really nice.
@@lindenreaper8683 don't be so quick to bash windows, it's not like the original print screen had no use. For one I'd say it was easier for regular people to understand than the new snipping tool. People are quick to ignore that not everyone is as smart as they are. As a support technician I can say the average user would still prefer the old method.
@@jamesreid6778 It can have use. But for that, people must stop being so super-lazy and make better for themselves.
@@lindenreaper8683 least toxic linux user
Im just started using linex last week, 8nstaled it on a laptop and found it dificult to do some basic stuff, that im used to do in windows, for start, partitioning the disk, you only discover that you did something wrong when u press install and a message pops up, for easy of use, the installer should have some presets pre configured (like garuda have, but still not very user friendly). 2nd thing was trying to copy some files to an external hdd into the laptop, i did setup the home partitio into a small separated disk (optane disk with 24gb) so i didnt whant to drop the files there, i was very dificult to figure it where to drop the file as many places didnt gave the option to paste the files, only after installing steam i learned that the user/tmp folder seems to be adequate to drop files. Also having a file manager as an app is weird for a usual windows user, and not beeing able to see your hdd devices and most folders just like you can do in windows makes it all so confusing.
Snipping tool is great if you don't know keyboard shortcuts or you are working on touch screen - does Mint have similar program?
i dont know about mint, but using KDE you have "spectacle". does the same thing, arguably even better
Or Flameshot.
idk why people still think u need to hold ctrl/alt/win + prtsc in windows, just a single tap of the prtsc btn has worked since xp or vista if i'm not mistaken
Yeah, I've played around with Linux Mint for a while. It wasn't really the /basic/ stuff that I had trouble with, though occasionally even basic stuff I ran into permission issues, which is good because it's more secure. but annoying when you don't know how to get around it, or have to /constantly/ jump into a terminal to get around it. Stuff like editing config files. There might be some menu option or hotkey or something to do it, but it's not very obvious. My main problem was when I wanted to do something less basic, like getting proprietary drivers running an old GeForce card that even Linux Mint seemed to drop support for, I had to find something online to hack it into working, and even then it's not fully integrated, and also had trouble with the old tv I was using as a monitor cutting off the edges of the screen which I think was called either underscan or overscan. Then there was installing drivers for a wifi adapter since I haven't run ethernet all the way upstairs, though I've considered it. I had to jerry-rig something with an old router and setting up a network bridge with the wifi from my main pc. I managed to mess things up and think I had to do a reinstall, and then try to remember what I did to get certain things working again. Frankly it wasn't really worth it as the old desktop I was using didn't really have the horsepower/RAM to do anything more heavy, which is why I replaced it in the first place. I was able to get it working kind of like a server, got jellyfin running on it, though I had to direct install because my clumsy and amateurish attempts at installing in a container failed because I really didn't understand how the file system and mounting a drive works. Tried to do it in a command line/config file but only got it to work persistently from the GUI. I think I /later/ after the reinstall got the container working under podman but the cpu is so old it doesn't have hardware acceleration that transcoding a single stream on low quality pretty much maxed the cpu for several minutes, and I think I would need to replace the thermal paste or something if I truly intended to use it since the one core was heating up noticably compared to the second one. A basic file server worked pretty much flawlessly as it's not a complete potato, but it was drawing over 60 watts at idle so leaving it on all the time just for occasionally streaming something from my very limited media collection didn't seem worth it. It was kind of fun but also frustrating. I might have much better luck with my main pc if I installed it to a separate drive and dual booted, but that's annoying. After 2+ decades on windows reaching somewhat expert levels, going back to having little to no idea how to do something beyond the bare basics is very frustrating. I will admit though that people who only use a computer for basic stuff like web browsing and office software, even light gaming, should have little to no problems. I just personally feel that's a pretty low bar for my own personal use. Even though I have to admit that's mostly what I use it for these days, but when I have the urge to do more I'd feel pretty frustrated, though it's starting to get to that point now as it's only a matter of time before they drop support for everything before the latest windows and I'll either be forced to buy a new Windows computer, or install Linux on this one, or both. Or try one of the hacks to install Win11 on unsupported hardware, but I had trouble even getting Win10 to work with random blue screens that baffled me and didn't provide any useful error messages that would help track it down to something specific.
@@lindenreaper8683bro out here giving the best advice ever "just change hardware 🤓" stfu bro
@@lindenreaper8683 the fuck you talking about cope bro I'm saying if your answer to a guy having issues with Linux is "buy a new computer" then don't say anything, if the guy wanted and/or had the means to buy better hardware then he would. I know better hardware does better with shit, obviously, but it's so fucking useless to respond to a guy saying he's having a hard time with older hardware with "then use newer hardware lul", like no shit you idiot
@@lindenreaper8683 dude i'm not gonna respond anymore after this but you're misunderstanding me completely. i really don't give a shit about Nvidia or AMD or whatever man, also I have no idea which is better for Linux, I'm sure you know better than me, I've only tried to use Linux a couple of times, I was calling you a dumbass for responding to the guy having issues with "just use different hardware" as if that's even remotely helpful, like if Nvidia sucks for Linux and a guy is having issues with it, it's just annoying to say "shoulda been using AMD" because even if it would be better with amd, the guy is already using Nvidia, you're just being an asshole
how about mouse pad tab, desktop and etc switching??
I haven't watched every moment of this, but I would point out, that's Windows v Mint + Cinnamon. I'm a Mint + Mate user, have been for a very long time. There's also an XFCE version. Windows only has one desktop. Linux has about 8 common ones and a few that are obscure. Many major distros have a selection of desktops you can install them with. Cinnamon is designed to be (far as I understand it) a soft landing for people who just got here from Windows. If you're an older Windows user, like '95 / 2k / XP stuff, then Mate is a very familiar experience. There are also a number that mimic the Apple desktop very closely. If you don't LIKE the way Windows does things, tough luck. But if there's something you don't like about your Linux distro a) there are over a hundred others, and b) you can very likely change it yourself.
im on linux mint, but for some reason i don't have the alt-tab settings menu, even tho the shortcut works, does anyone know how to fix this
He shows the Cinnamon Desktop Environment. If you have a different DE installed, the options and features available will be different. It's also the latest Mint, 21.1 Victoria. Older menus might be different.
@@Leo0718 nah i have the regular cinnamon de, and i am on linux mint 21.2
Just wondering, will all the hardware on the laptop work out of the box after installing LM (like webcam, sound card, wifi, bluetooth, trackpad, etc etc) ??
@@lindenreaper8683 wow, that sounds inconvenient at best, and disconcertingly disruptive at worst. And this is supposed to be one of the "easier" distros, noob friendly & all??!! Is there a better one that'll just work with everything?
Personally I've never seen Mint not work on anything, it has packaged in drivers for most components, and if not it'll probably still work with a similar one. Even if there's a conflict it can't solve by itself there's a 'Driver Manager' program that makes working with drivers super easy, for ex. you get an option to use opensource Nvidia drivers or the proprietary ones, just one click away!
@@PerpetualPreponderer Please dont listen to him. He's a troll spreading misinformation, and I'm guessing you're his sockpuppet that he's roleplaying with. In the event that you're not, my apologies, and here's something to know about linux mint: I have a dell G3 laptop, I need a graphics tablet to work for my art studies, and i was tech averse. Installed linux. Everything seemed to work, except some weird latency with my mic input. granted i havent texted everything, but it took me less than a weekend to get my set up up and running.
I haven't tried in a while so I might be wrong but one thing that bothers me in Mint is deleting stuff from a USBstick or an external harddrive because regardless of the method of deletion with will not delete the file but create a directory in the USBstick or external harddrive where it stores the deleted file, basically like it's creating a recycling bin from scratch
@lindenreaper8683 ... because you told it to? You plug in a USB stick with a file on it, you decide you don't want that file anymore, you tell the OS to delete the file... this... should result in the file being deleted, one would expect?
i thought you had to do ctrl + delete or something
rm (-rf if necessary)
@3:27 I woud love to see here, direct upload to somecloud and get a link to share the pic
is there something like the -everything- programm for linux? This program indexes the whole ssd and makes searching for files instant
@@lindenreaper8683 Thanks I will check it out
And is much more efficient at searching. Though you can use the terminal easily as well. sudo find pathname -type f -iname searchedterm, so for example => sudo find / -type f -iname pulse would find you every file in root that matches the name "pulse", or a partial name like "pulseaudio".
Cool.
Do try this with KDE Plasma as well
Kinda surprised you don't mention making a rich text document or extracting an archive. Both are very common tasks if you ask me. I do them almost every day lol
I moved from Windows to Linux mint three years ago because I got tired of Windows approach to updates. I decided to give Linux a go for a year to see if i could "survive it" for that long. Never went back and never going back. I use Windows at work and those updates are still a killer,. Linux just get on with it and politely asks for a reboot only if the kernal has been upgraded. It won't force you though. A reboot on my system takes just 27 seconds with Mint so I don't mind doing one. As an added bonus when the system comes up it's using only about 800mb of memory! The applications are all free and also very memory efficient. Oh, and it never crashes, freezes or blue screens, even if you leave it running overnight or for a few days (yep i did that once) So Microsoft ... Why? ... just why ... why can't you do this?
Why? -ans is profit
I usually left my windows laptop sleep and rarely get blue screen Also nowadays you can just shutdown without installing updates on windows
@@Fataha22 Two things about that, the first is that if you work in a corporate environment updates are pushed and not optional, the machine will shut down on you. The second it that if you don't take updates you're not addressing vulnerabilities in the system thereby leaving you open to attack and new and exciting viruses. So while you can on a private machine, it's not wise.
@@ravenmadd1343 so shutdown when work is done and left!
@@Fataha22 Well work sets the shut down time for the windows machine not me. Even if you do shut down and walk away there the "Applying updates" rubbish that's waiting when you turn it back on again, I had to wait over 30 minutes for that to finish one day while it took a security patch. Windows will also leave the remains of an upgrade all over your disks just taking up space and doing nothing. Linux is just better at updates and does everything I need so I run it on my own machines at home and the only Windows machine I have is the one I have to use for work.
My peeve was creating desktop shortcuts in Mint. It was klunky. Is there a better way?
@lindenreaper8683A year ago, you could not drag and drop an app or document to create link/shortcut. You had to create a file in the terminal, and type in the mapping. Windows has been stealing ideas from Linux and everyone else for decades... But Mint couldn't make life easier for Ex-Windows users with that small feature?
Swaywm and shortcuts/rofi
4:01 What about Win+Digit?
Man, Mint's Start Menu brings me back to the horizontally aligned Windows XP/Vista/7 Start Menu though not the exact same given that there's the Windows 10 esque leftmost icons. Unfortunately i already picked Manjaro with the KDE Plasma (which somewhat resembles Windows 10 start menu) because Linux Mint is based on Ubuntu and i didn't like Canonical (Ubuntu maintainers) decision such as their plan to phaseout x86 support.
My favorite part about most Linux distros is that you can make it look nearly exactly like any one of those windows versions.
isn't mint debian-based?
@@UJustGotGamed i got mixed source, some said its based on ubuntu and some said its based on debian. Either way the only linux i ever use so far is ubuntu, but after 2019 i will make sure won't touch anything canonical
Linux Mint Debian Edition is for you my guy
Something i miss when using linux is start+V option and start+. option
Make a video on the current situation of the Internet and many sites and companies suddenly paywalling their services e.g Twitter, Reddit, Unity etc. and how can deal with it.
Mastodon Lemmy Godot
@@bhavyakukkar I was asking for a deeper analysis but ok.
@@bhavyakukkarlemmy is garbage, run by pro-CCP people who censor all criticism
I never new half these screen shot short cuts existed...
8:00 You forgot to mention the Ctrl+K which I think is the true force end.
can i nstall programms via GUI in mint? or do i need to use the command thingy with sudo-wahtever shit?
@@Kosinsinsinsinsin so i can only install the software that is avaible there? Or can i just download something like an .exe and install like in windows? Linux feels so limited if you dont use command line
It's not a god damn rocket science to figure not, I'm in no way any coder or programmer myself and could get the hang of it easily. Are people seriously this dumb, stuck and unwilling?
@@MichaelDustterPeople coming from Windows might find CLIs scary because theyve never had to use one so dont judge them.
@@quinniwe As I didn't, ever, and it really wasn't that hard to adapt.
I liked the idea of the video, truely it's fantastic. Can you do a Chrome vs Edge?
So you want a Chrome VS Chrome video? Kek
Recently I was surprised that Mint lacks the simple right button dragging. A task as simple as creating a shortcut on the desktop turned out to be complicated. Shure you can do it with CLI but this is ridiculous