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If you know anything about Linux, you probably know how overwhelming it can be

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choosing the right version or distribution. I mean, look at the

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comments on this video where a small handful of people are only mildly upset

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that I didn't pick this one cuz it's for gaming, or this one because it's more of

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a stock experience, or or this one because it prominently features Justin

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Bieber. That's right, friends. Today we are

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going to be scouring the darkest corners of the internet to find some of the

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weirdest Linux distros. And while some

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of them seem like stupid gimmicks, because they are, some of them have very

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good reasons for being the way that they are. And the first one is behind this

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Windows 11 PC that we're going to be using to compare the exper.

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Take this.

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What? Windows was Linux the whole time?

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No, it was just a bit. [laughter] Yes, it [music] was. Meet Linux FX. It

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might look like Windows 11 sometimes in the very worst ways. The good old

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control panel, but under the hood, it's as Linux as any other Linux. Let's take

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it for a test drive. Um, okay. I guess we're getting right into it here.

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Welcome to Linux FX. [laughter]

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So, while this is called Power Toys, it was based off an older version called Power Tools, but then they kind of got

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in some trouble because of Microsoft's licensing and like stealing the name

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essentially. Uhhuh. I found out later that this Linux FX DRO

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actually has had a lot of issues with basically just rebranding names and

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stealing IPs and stuff. Oh. So, they've tried to get around it by

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making it as similar as possible, but not interact the same way as possible.

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Cool. [laughter] It's funny because they they go out of

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their way to add basically what looks like the control panel and then don't

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make it work like the control panel at all. [laughter]

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Okay. But hey, I can rightclick this and configure my network connections.

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Yeah. Oh, okay. Hold on. This one I can interact with. This looks and feels

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about like the current iteration of the start menu. For better or for worse. Yep.

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I could open Thunderbird mail. You want to know my favorite part? You know how I said that they were kind of

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getting in trouble for stealing things? Yeah. Go change the wallpaper.

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Oh, yeah. Yeah, cuz this is obviously stolen. Yeah.

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Uh, okay. Yep. Do you notice there's one wallpaper in here that you might recognize at the

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very top?

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[laughter] Wait, it ships with this? Yes. By default, when you install this,

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it includes this as one of the wallpapers and just calls it abstract

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lines. [laughter]

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Bro, why does this one exist? Well, if

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you want to convince [music] people to join the freedom movement, you have to

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offer more than just the savings of not needing a Windows license or costly

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Apple hardware. You have to offer familiarity. And some dros, like this

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one, aim to do that through a combination of similar design and strong

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documentation and forum support. It's kind [music] of a one-two punch of come

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on in, the water's warm, and ooh, you can have swimming lessons with Brody.

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Oh, I just heard we've got nine more of these to experience, including the

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Justin Bieber one. And I was like, Segway, Segue, Segue. Oh, like Segway

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[laughter] Segue Segue. No. MSI with its

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one piece perforated front panel, support for both AIO coolers and big

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beefy graphics cards, and patented DIY friendly design. Their MPG gun 300R

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airflow is the ultimate choice for gamers. Check it out at the link below

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and be ultimate.

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[music]

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If our first Linux was neutral good, willing to break a couple of eggs to

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make a freedom omelet, our next two are definitely chaotic evil. Bian and Hannah

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Montana Linux, which were built on puppy lucid and kubuntu, respectively. Let's

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start with BBN. And I've been asked to wear headphones, which is troubling. So,

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you can right click on the desktop if you want to look into some settings. Fire up. Um,

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if you can't tell, this is very old

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by the picture of Justin Bieber. [laughter]

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Yeah. No tattoos even. No. Fresh out of his baby face.

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Paint, I guess. Can you draw Justin Bieber? Oh my. Um, [laughter]

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my goodness. Look, the mouse sensitivity is a little funky. Okay, just stop. Sure, we'll

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blame [laughter] the most sensitivity.

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Oh, Canadian flag. I see where this is going. Our one Canadian artist. You're

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going to notice it's very stock. There's like not much to do. When this operating

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system came out, it was honestly meant as a joke.

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Yeah. You just plug it into someone's computer. You reboot their computer. So

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the next day they go to work, they have Justin Bieber blasting music or

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I can't hear any music though. Am I supposed to? There should be music coming out of this

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one. Oh, neat. Yeah. Again, also very old if you can't

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tell based on the picture of Hannah Montana. Yes. I think you mean Miley Cyrus, but

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yes. No, that's Hannah Montana. She's like my age. She was a children's

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entertainer. Well, that's basically what you do now.

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I actually like this one over the BBN. It feels a little bit more fleshed out

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as a desktop. Yeah, I think you could actually use this if you really wanted to, although

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you wouldn't want to unless you had really old hardware, I suspect, which is

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fair enough. But given that's true of most Linux distros, you'd probably

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choose one that has unique features that have real world benefits. Like, say for

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example, Vinux OS, a build for the

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visually impaired that is based on Ubuntu and features a screen reader to

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read off what the user clicks on or hovers over, as well as support for

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external Braille displays. Uh, by the way, those are wildly expensive. But

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hey, if it means people who aren't adequately served by mainstream OSS can

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use a computer, that is absolutely great. Oh, there's a challenge.

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Cuz we've been having audio issues. Let's make sure our actual screen reader works.

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Uh, okay. So, just try clicking or hovering over something.

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Window. That just said window.

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Window. I see. Yes.

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This needs to be better. Yes. [laughter]

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Do you think that you could map Wanik with your eyes closed? [laughter]

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Um, no. Okay, that's fair. In fairness,

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it wouldn't be intended to be used with your eyes closed necessarily. Uh, many

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people with visual impairments are are able to see somewhat. Um, [music]

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however, this is just window not helpful. So I think the original

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developers started getting you to a point where maybe you could install this

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and then if you knew enough get a couple more plugins to help you get there

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as as it is right now it is not very good [laughter]

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enough about this computer help check system

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settings it literally just reads off everything

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and it's very overwhelming [laughter] I feel like this is the most Linux thing ever panel

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page window panel page tab list panel.

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Clearly, Vinux wasn't able to reach the lofty goals of its creators, but I would

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be curious to know if there's anyone out there who is using Linux as an effective

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aid, whether it's with plugins or applications or another DRO that you're

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aware of that's a little more ready to go out of the box. Let us know what

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you're doing with it and if there was a steep learning curve or if it was just

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something you could jump right into. Speaking of learning, Edubuntu

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Education Linux. So, Linux then their mission, as stated

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on their site, is to bring the freedom of the Linux desktop and the vast

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library of open- source education software to the classroom. Blending both

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software and games, they aim to bring back the old feeling of going to the

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computer lab at lunch and trying to beat your friend's high score in math circus.

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You want to try one of the games? I do. Yeah. So, there's a ton 100% games. Well, okay. There's

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those look like real games. Let's Okay, Edu. So, there's some in mathematics.

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Mathematics. Here we go. Talk math. Let's go. I played this at work just to test it

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and then I went home and played it for about another 30 minutes. Really?

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Arcade. Uh, yep. Arcade game works. And then you can start with Space Cadet. That's just

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the first one. You can start with Ranger. That's the third one. Start with

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Ace. That's the fourth one. [laughter] All right. Get ready.

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Okay. What? What? What? So, you got to you got to answer. Oh my

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god. Who? Well, I mean, who knows 19 times two out of the Oh.

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Oh, okay. There you go. Yeah.

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Whoa, that really quickly escalated. What just happened?

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Keep going. Whoa. Okay. 8 - 20.

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Jeez. Let's go. Okay. Uh oh crap. That's

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not -16. Oh, there we go. Okay.

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I read it wrong. Okay. Sure. Uh,

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so was that -45? What the hell is 126

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divided by -9? I is there

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what what do the math um

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is there irrational like can I is that a real number 14?

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What do you mean -14? You can't divide something by negative a number 60 um

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minus 39 29. Damn it. [laughter]

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Oh no. Look at Tux. He's running away.

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Convert all. This is actually a really cool tool. You can convert anything to anything.

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That's amazing. So, from kilometers to grams.

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I mean, doesn't mean it'll work, but it gives [clears throat] you the option to

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have anything. Apparently, one kilometer equals 1 g. So, aside from games, it has

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those types of tools as well. I actually want you I I wrote it down here, so I

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didn't mess up the word. Hold on. Can you find the ecliptic oblquity of the

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sun? There is a dedicated app to help you find that. Of course there is.

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[laughter] But it might be a science. Yeah. Um just chill. [laughter]

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Uh I mean sun is definitely involved in

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whatever this is. Oh, it is this app. It is this app. But you kind of messed

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up by clicking on the lens. You need to actually click on the sun itself because

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what this does is it puts you in a geographical location close to you

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at the time of day where you're at. So not necessarily the same day.

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Uhhu. and the sun will be in the appropriate position as to the date you

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are at or the time you are at. You can click on it and find a bunch of stats

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about it. It's actually kind of cool. Or

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that's not as fun, Lionus.

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Okay, in all seriousness, I cannot see the sun right now. It's raining and

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miserable and cloudy. Okay, the app has a purpose. Tux typing. Let's go. I can't

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read this.

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They are very spaced out. Oh my gosh. It's It's actually really hard. You go

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ahead. You can't even type. Yeah, he has to go over all my scripts.

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No, that's not it. I just mean you're slow.

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If you read them for me, I can type them. Court. Okay. Flood food.

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Damn it. Stoke floor. Cello. Cello. Green.

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Damn it, Elijah. Sorry, sir. It was actually pretty cool

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the amount of apps they had. Yeah. And while you could make the argument that these simple apps could

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just as easily be loaded on a machine with Windows 95, it also includes more

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complex software to run basic simulations, calculators that can graph

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in 3D, and even electrical engineering programs to help you map out a PCB or

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circuit board. On to Red Star OS, which first started development back in 1998,

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but has since had four major revisions, including updates as recently as 2019.

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What is Red Star OS, you might ask? Why, it's North Korea's operating system of

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choice? Based originally on Red Hat Linux, Redar took on a more Windows 95

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look before ending up, I don't know, old school macOS. According to a study back

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in 2015, [music] Red Star OS is very tough to tamper with

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as when it's connected to the internet, it will check for system changes and

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essentially brick itself

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in the event that someone tries anything it doesn't like, like gaining root

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access or deleting files. They also found that it tags western or outside

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media that was passed around on USB sticks to help track its location and

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lock it out. Unfortunately, we're not going to be able to test any of that

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since that would mean connecting this to

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the internet. And you know what? I think I'll pass. Uh, I still think looking

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into an OS like this is cool, though, cuz we can see where the priorities are

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for a user base that only has access to certain software. I see you managed to

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get some Western media on here. Yeah, when I was trying to test it, I was

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trying to test that tagging of the watermark because they found out it actually goes on the metadata of the

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file, but again, that only worked when connected to the network. And again,

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you did connected to the network. No, I never connected it to the network. Oh, I see. So, can I change the [music]

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language to English or like No, but you can select the country as Canada.

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Cool. [laughter] We can use Google Translate on our

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phone. Oh, right. Hey, look at that. There we

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go. Hey, in Korean, star is the same as

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star in English. Is that just taking the image of the

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star and just making it a different star? I I don't know. I don't know. But it's

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good. It's cool. Oh, wow. Oh, okay. Uh

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computer information. Here we go. We have 3.45 gigs of memory. And now we

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know that it essentially is just a stripped down system as well with an internet access.

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You have a web browser at the bottom, a media player to be able to play media,

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just probably not western media, right? A calendar that has all the holidays

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stripped out of it, right? It's just a calendar,

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right? Because why would you need holidays? Yeah. I don't need to know when, you

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know, July 1st is, right? Wait, no, that's can Oh, yeah. Canada.

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Yeah. Sorry. I I thought it was America. You're not secretly American, are you? I

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have a couple challenges for this one. I'm supposed to try to delete a file,

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apparently. Yeah. So try to delete something that would be

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integral. Yes. On the system, maybe an application

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or something. Okay. You might have to use the Google

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translate and this might take a while. Electron hydroxal group,

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also known as a calculator. [laughter]

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Uh, okay. Well, let me see if I can figure out how to actually open a file

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browser. Like, can you? Yep. Okay. All right. I'll find it. I'll find

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it. Oh, well, here here. I can just cheat. I'll just take a file that I

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already know. Okay. Yes, I would like a hint. Files are right there.

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Oh my god.

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So, let's delete a default application.

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Siag office processing. Yeah, time to

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go, buddy. A lot of the default apps will not even

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give you the option to delete. No, thank you, sir. I simply will not.

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Oh, no. Oh, they just won't let you. Access is

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denied. Okay. How did you manage to get it to brick itself?

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I didn't. That was the requirement for the internet. If someone gains root

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access, it basically is pinging some home server, right?

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That home server will go, "Whoa, something's wrong." And issue a command

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to reboot it at a stock state. Wow. So, it turns out Linux is sometimes

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about the freedom and openness to oppress your citizens. Um, let's move on

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to something more positive, shall we? Suicide Linux. [laughter]

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You have got to be kidding me. Is that That's a thing. Yes, sir.

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but there was no way we were not going to include this. It's a Debian package

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that can be installed onto your OS that makes it so that if you mess up a

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command, any command, it immediately wipes your drive. And if you're

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wondering why this exists, you're not alone.

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[clears throat] Sorry. Uh, it's actually based on an autocomplete function that was

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originally intended to help people who mistyped a really long command. Maybe

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they mistook the s for a dollar sign and then it would actually help complete the

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command. Well, then user Q&M had a different idea. Instead, he had it just

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resolved to rm-rf slash, which means remove recursive, so

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all of its subfolders, and force, meaning it doesn't ask for confirmation.

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And that slash, that's the top level directory. So, anything below that.

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Great. But that's how I asked why.

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Fun. All right. What's the challenge? All right. I got three. You're allowed

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to use Google because you might not know the commands off by heart. Install an application.

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Okay. I want you to create a new folder somewhere. And then I want you to change

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your time zone. Okay. Using the command prompt.

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sure. I made a directory. Cool. You want to verify? Uh, navigate

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to it.

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He deleted something and then just retyped the exact same. Well, I'm thinking

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I'm making really sure I don't screw this up.

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Uh, how to set a change time zone. Okay.

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Oh, come on. [laughter]

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This is the point I'm making. There's some very, very long commands [laughter]

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that you have to type out sometimes in Linux.

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Wait. Oh, should have deleted by now. It should have killed me. I didn't even

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notice I typoed that. Um, why do you think Oh, it should have

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killed you. Wait, is it just a delayed death?

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It might be taking its time. I think I'm dying right now. Yeah. Yes. That looks very not great.

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[laughter] [snorts] And as someone who has killed Linux before,

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what is the point of having a Oh.

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Um, hello. Let me tell you.

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Yes. Do as I say. This is about what it looks like. [laughter]

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Stop. Can't believe that would happen so fast.

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If you looked at that and went, "Dang, I am not into that kind of pressure. I got

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to type everything perfectly or my stuff gets deleted. Maybe I'd be better off

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with something that doesn't save my files in the first place. Hey, we've got

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that, too. That's where Tiny Core comes in. It is a 16 megabyte distribution

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that, yes, my friends, even includes a

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graphical user interface. To put that in

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context, the highest quality photos taken on a Galaxy S23 Ultra can be

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double that size for just an image. It

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also sits only in RAM and doesn't write to the boot drive by default, meaning

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that every boot just reverts back to its stock state. Now, of course, a prime use

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for this is loading everything up the way that you like it and carrying it

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around on a USB that you can take from computer to [music] computer. And we've

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got a challenge for this one as well, right? Yes. So, I'm going to plug in

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[laughter] I'm going to plug in this USB. Mhm.

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Wow, you already got it. That was really fast. I was going to say mount it, but I

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didn't even get to plug it in yet. Okay.

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Okay. 128 MGB of RAM. I mean, realistically, anything newer than a

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Pentium 2 is going to have that anyway. So, that's still pretty darn impressive.

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A lot of people actually use these types of OSS for like a POS system.

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Oh, that makes sense, right? So, it's picking up any mirror

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downloads to make sure your drivers and systems are up to date. Got it. Okay. It comes with terminal.

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Yep. and terminal. Yep. You can have any application you want as

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long as it's terminal. Well, again, like you said, this could

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be used to save things directly to the disc. So, theoretically, this could

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become a toolkit [music] or again, something you take to computer to computer. Very cool. We've talked a lot

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on this channel about being conscious of e-waste and using a lightweight DRO like

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this can be a great method of extending the life of older hardware. Windows 11's

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minimum requirements for memory are 4 GB. Here's a visual comparison showing

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you just how much 4 gigs is compared to the 128 megabytes that this device was

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able to run on. Now, while all the distros we've looked at today can be run

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as a live environment, meaning that you never have to install them if you don't

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want to, this next one is one you would pretty much never install, but it could

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be the most relevant one on this list depending on what you're into. System

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Rescue is a Linux that is intended to be run off a USB drive and comes packed

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with tons of tools to help you diagnose issues with your PC. Or if you're in it,

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workstation to help your clients when, say, for example, their Windows install

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won't boot. It's got drive partition management, DD Rescue, which can help

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save data that may have been corrupted, MEST for checking if your RAM is bad,

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RSYNC for backups, and lots more. Let's

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give it a shot. Well, I what we're going to do is we're actually going to boot up to our Windows. I want to find our file here

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and we're going to delete it. Then we're going to reboot into system rescue and

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use that to recover my deleted files. Heck yeah. Show us how fat your fingers

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are.

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I don't get it. What do you mean? Like fat fingering a

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Oh, I thought you were just calling me obese. I was like, brother.

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What? No. Okay. All these pictures are in our

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pictures folder. Yes, we can see that. I am going to shift delete them, which

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in Windows will permanently delete them, not put them in the recycle bin. See you later, buddies.

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Oh no, technician. I deleted my pictures. Can you help me?

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All right, first thing, hit that power button immediately.

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That is correct, though, because if you rewrite over the data, you won't be able

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to recover it. That's right. By default, it is a terminal like this. It does come with a guey. If we just

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type start x uh no space,

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you would have died in suicide Linux. [laughter]

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Depending on the drivers you have installed, it might flicker like this.

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That makes sense. Oh, okay. Well, that's not what I Oh, okay. Well, hello. This

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is going to be our Windows basic data partition. So, that's there. That's

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cool. We found the desktop, so that's good. So, I found this folder.

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I I I kind of misled you. I'm sorry. Oh, this one actually doesn't have a guey,

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but I'm saying the other applications that are on this does have a guey. So,

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let's open up our command prompt. So, this is if you want to keep track of whatever you're doing.

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I do. Cool. So, then you're going to want to find our drive. Yeah.

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And on this case, you're going to want to go to EFI GPT.

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Awesome. And now you're going to want to do advanced. That's if I don't want to chat with it.

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I just want to efi with it. I was wondering who was going to make that joke.

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Someone had to do it. You're gonna want to go to unddelete.

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There we go. Bad instructions. Dick sucking GPU fan.

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I thought you called me a dick sucking GPU [laughter] fan.

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I was very confused for a second. I was like, "What?"

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Okay. Well, break me, please. I found it. Yeah. Okay. So, now you can select using

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the instructions below what you want to grab. No, not the Snapchat data though.

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Unselect that. You don't want that. It's just because the pictures were taken using Snapchat. That doesn't help

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my case. Editor, cut that. It's pictures of my cat. I swear. [laughter]

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Not. So, C to copy the selected files.

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Yeah. And now you can Oh, I can copy them somewhere. Yeah. So, I'll put them on the desktop.

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[music] Sure. Did it copy everything? Yeah. So, it actually copied it right

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now to a temp location on our USB drive. Mhm.

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In this case, then we could remap our C drive as a file location here and we

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could copy it back over. Very cool. That right there is why just

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deleting your files before throwing out or selling your hard drive is not

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secure. As long as nothing has been overwritten,

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they are still there. And using tools like this, they can be retrieved. Now,

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we don't have too much more to explore here that would be funny or experimental, but we will leave a

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download link for this one and all the other dros in case you want to try them.

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Which I guess brings us to our last DRO. Elijah, what Oh, you're not even What

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are you even doing? I'm installing our new dro or our last one, I guess. All right, let's go.

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We're doing Uuntu. Ubuntu.

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No, no. Oo, I see.

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Yeah. [laughter] Isn't it cute? Yeah, it's cute.

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I love it. This seems more modern.

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Yes. So, this again is based off of Ubuntu. Um, more mo. You got a doggo.

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Dogo. Dogo. What isn't it? Dogo.

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No. Well, it's like pogo. Yeah, but it's spelled with two G's.

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Isn't a pogo stick spelled with two G's? No, that would be Pogo.

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A, which is a completely different thing. [laughter]

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This OS actually, again, like you said, is more modern, more up todate. It also

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comes with a lot more Okay, you don't need it. Is Oh, it is 2G's.

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Pogo, the opposite of poggers. [laughter]

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That's appropriate. That's a Twitch term. It's snake. Oh, it's snake. Oh, it's multiplier

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snake. Oh, that's so cool. So, I can't hit another snake either.

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No. Is this Bone Stock? It comes with Spotify and Steam and Cupid Torrent and

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all kinds of things that I definitely wouldn't use.

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Yeah, sure. Uh, no, it's not Bone Stock. And that's why it's just a little bit

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different. This is what I'm talking about. I am

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cursed. This is a Dro that comes with

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Steam pre-installed and I managed to break it simply by trying to launch it.

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This seems like a very complete experience. Yeah, it even has

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Thunderbolt in the settings. Thunderbolt 3 support. Really? Using Ubuntu as its base, Ubuntu

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just adds some a nice little theme and then comes with a bunch of apps that

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you'd probably download anyway. It also includes guides to help get you up and

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running, like the one that shows you how to enable the Proton compatibility layer

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for non-compatible games so you can play pretty much

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anything you want on Linux. Big asterisk. Ubuntu was made by two

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students in Spain who wanted to try to have fun making their own dro. They

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started out just wanting to learn how to do it and then it evolved into them

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creating something that they would actually want to daily drive, which when

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you dig a little deeper and see how this dro comes out of the box, I get it. I

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mean, I'm not like an anime person or anything, but this already seems less

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overwhelming and in some ways more friendly than some of what's out there.

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Of course, there are a few things I would do differently, which come to

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think of it, how about we make a DRO to call our own.

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It's a good idea. Leave some suggestions down below of what you'd like to see in an LT DRO and

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maybe, just maybe, we'll take a crack at Linus Linux.

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Linux. If you guys enjoyed this video, go check

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out the Linux challenge where Luke and I both switched to Linux as a daily driver

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for 1 month. And no, maybe it is not time we revisit that. Not [music] yet.

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When Steam OS has broader compatibility, I'm going to do it.