Windows 11 has three different distributions. They are; Spyware Home Edition, Spyware Pro Edition and the Super-Stratospheric Spyware Edition for people lacking any idiom of respect for their own or others privacy.
@@battlebuddy4517 You gotta start somewhere. I'd say starting with the OS is not a bad choice, as it has control over the whole PC (which is its actual purpose), which means it can grab literally everything you du with your PC.
i am a linux user myself my _friend_ got me over by recommending Arch after I used Ubuntu in school in like 2013/2014, so i was like "it can't be that bad" and now i will never go back to windows; Arch is just awesome
Arch is getting memed af but that's the funny thing! It's awesomeness makes it memable but at the same time, based distro base along side gentoooooooooo
@The 10th Dentist i am sorry that your experience with linux was bad, however what you say is objectively wrong: Debian, for example, is almost unbreakable unless you actively fuck something up. on the other hand, Microsoft pushes Windows Server updates that are untested and can fuck over a company wifi on a global scale (about 2000 users affected) because of closed-source, untested updates that only change things on domain controllers (which follow the update policy PROD and not PILOT). having software available on both systems usually doesn't change how it works, if it's thr same program. some are optimized for windows, some for linux (see GIMP for example). what is wrong is to associate cost with quality. most of the web is hosted on open source software and you would have never been able to post this comment or even watch the video without it.
Linux user here: I started using Linux back in February of this year and started on openSUSE. I was interested in Linux for the longest time and got a disc of it from a friend. I stayed there for 2 months but I kept experiencing weird crash issues after updating kernals so I moved away. I stayed at manjaro KDE for some time it wasn't my faveroute but my parents liked it so they stayed on it. I moved onto fedora and my poor 13 year old laptop couldn't run it above 5fps. It was a really pretty slide show at least. Then I tried manjaro gnome and a few other de such as i3 and lfce till I moved to stock arch. I run a i3 gaps windows manager and have been on it for 3 months ago now and I haven't had any problems and can now do anything from command line. I'm adoring Linux and never intend to go back to windows unless necessary but wine does everything u could possibley need or I can get it from the AUR normally Well there is my experience TL:DR I love the open source nature of Linux and it has improved my knowledge on the Hardwear and software I run (I use arch BTW)
Quick tip for getting proton to work for non-steam software, Click "add a non steam game", Click "Browse", Switch File Type to"All Files", go to /home/(username), navigate to whatever you want to run, click open, go back to the "add a game" prompt, and hit add selected game, and then find the software in your steam library, then got to compatibility, than click "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", then select whatever the most recent version of proton is (and if it has issues, go through the different versions of proton, also, check the launch options, to make sure steam hadn't messed up with spaces in the file directory)
In terms of running Windows software, I just want to point out a new-ish program called Bottles which makes managing wine stuff much easier and understandable. (you can select Proton as a runner there, or even lutris wine, regular wine or even their own wine fork which they claim offers even better compability)
Yep definitely more beginner friendly I'd say. As it also installs many dependencies. With wine or other wine based programs you have to manage that yourself which is hard to do when you don't have experience with it.
I'm a Linux user myself :P It is, in theory, potentially possible to use Proton for content outside of Steam via Lutris. Lutris is game-oriented, but it can be used to launch other things as well.
@@Aoitori365 afaik, PlayOnLinux is deprecated. i said in theory because I wasn't 100% certain and dislike claiming something is true if I'm not sure that it is. Since then I have a more definitive answer: Proton GE is available in Lutris.
I've been using Pop OS on my work laptop for a little over a year now, and I really like it. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a quick, easy and stable distro. :)
You can try Bottles to run windows apps. It lets you create different wine prefixes (bottles as they call them) and easily configure settings, needed libs etc. for the app you want to run in it. It's simple to use and gets updated with new features and better compatibility frequently.
I've been using Linux since 2015. Dual-booting on and off. Haven't used Windows on hardware for the past 3 years. I've had some issues with my gaming laptop but could overcome them. My PC was built with Linux in mind and required 0 configuration post-install. I'm a Dev and a Gamer. Never going back to Winblows. I think the last best version of Windows was 8.1 when combined with that open-source Shell that made it look like Win7. It didn't have the crappy updates of Win7 which always took hours and was more performant overall.
@@spicynoodle7419 I always felt that Win98 was the best Windows. WinNT and WinXP were super annoying and proved that Microsoft doesn't understand multi-user environments. Although admittedly, I've never used Vista, 7 or 8, and I've only used 10 on someone else's computer.
@@anon_y_mousse I'm a zoomer and the oldest version I've used is XP. I've only seen 95 on an antique computer at school. Although I'm inclined to believe you :D
I've been using Linux daily since March of 2020. I started with Linux Mint, Ubuntu LTS Gnome and now Pop!_OS. I tried Manjaro Gnome for a few weeks as well. I even used Ubuntu Studio 20.04 with XFCE to record a project rock album with my band. I went team penguin and never looked back.
You can use "Add Non-Steam Game" in Steam to add the .exe of any Windows program and enable Proton in it's properties.
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I think Debian and Fedora are most suitable for me, Debian leans towards enthusiast, hobby community. Lots of packages. Easy install and to maintain. Running Fedora now, leans towards enterprise and busieness due to being upstream from Red Hat. On both distros I handle maintaining Blender and Godot manually in /opt folder instead of via package manager so distro doesn't matter that much to me, on both Debian and Fedora I use xfce as desktop environment. A tip for developers, and if you wanna distro jump and test, is setting up virtual machines with Virtualbox or QEMU.
As of writing this comment, I have been messing around with Linux for ~10 years, on and off. Me and my brother would create an Ubuntu Server for media storage, messing around with webdev etc. Right now I have all my machines running Arch Linux (except my MacBook) and I can confidently say it is the best switch I've ever made. My kinda old PC is insanely quick, snappy. My server machine uses such a little amount of resources when idling it's insane. Even though software support is still spotty, switching to Ubuntu/Mint is a great start for anyone wanting to tip their toes in Linux waters. Also huge thank you for putting your software on Linux! More devs like you are appreciated :D
I have been on Linux for years I started Linux with fedora back in the core days so 04 05ish. I am now a soft dev making commits for Foss projects if you ever need tips or any thing let me know if I can help you get some of them apps running I will great video.
One correction you refer to the parts of Linux as kernels, these are only the core of it, software packages make up most of it each package is a collection of one or more programs compiled for Linux, packages could even just be a set of data files, all distributions use these software packages but each distribution may have a modified version of it but you can always modify build and install such software yourself
@@mynameismichael123 you put the entire description of what a kernel is😳😳 but yes, Linux it's just the kernel. You can even create your own kernel (from scratch), all you have to do it's to implement POSIX syscalls and you're done.
@@asatiirstales Yeah "Linux" is just a kernel, a component for an operating system. GNU and Android use Linux. What you are talking about it's just GNU operating system with Linux (GNU/Linux, the most used). But you also have things like GNU/Hurd, GNU/kfreebsd, GNU/Darwin, busybox/Linux, LibreCMC, OpenWRT... Well, GNU is just a pure frankenstein operating system, community driven, like in communism. The official GNU's kernel is Hurd, and has nothing to do with Linux.
I recommend using Bottles to run Windows software. Just install the flatpak version (Flatpak is similar to pacman or apt. It is used to install software) and create a new bottle. Every bottle is isolated from each other (It's similar to having multiple Windows-Virtual-Machines). The advantage of this is that you can tweak the settings in each bottle so the software you use runs perfectly and can't break software installed in other bottles. It takes a little bit of tinkering but I really recommend it.
I think Debian spins like Mint are in general the "best" for the more casual computer user. I get there are the computer nerds out there that are obsessive about having "full control" over their systems, but the large majority of people don't care or have any idea what or how to change things even if they were slightly curious. It's a huge amount of time and commitment that most people really don't have time or technical to do. They just want things to work out of the box.
7:25 Not quite. Windows software outside of Steam actually DOES work with Proton. Click "ADD A GAME" in the bottom left Select "Add a Non-Steam Game" Click "BROWSE..." Set the "File type:" to "All Files" so .exe files can be seen. Click on an .exe file Click "OPEN" Click "ADD SELECTED PROGRAMS" The exe should now be listed in your library. Right click it. Select "Properties..." Click the "COMPATIBILITY" tab And tick the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" box And finally click PLAY! There are also ways to run exe's with proton in the command line without even needing Steam to be open. You could also just run the exe's with wine but I find that wine doesn't work as well as proton. There are also other tools you could try like PlayOnLinux, Lutris, or Heroic Launcher. Some of these tools use proton sometimes.
It's cool to see more people moving to Linux. Hopefully, the more this market share grows, the more companies will realise, that there is money to be made by developing software also for Desktop Linux. A few things that might help you: - You can use Lutris to manage Proton-/WINE-configurations for arbitrary Windows programs. - There is a Linux version of Parsec available as a Flatpak via Flathub. - For some specific Windows software, you can use a script called "Winapps" to use them in a VM, but make it seem as if they'd run natively. The Linux Experiment on UA-cam has a video about this.
Yeah I moved to Linux several years ago. And have been very happy moved several friends and family over too. My main distro is Pop Os! Love the tools and how.its built out. It just works.with out.any major headaches. Most my freinds/family I have them on mint.
I'm a Linux user since June 2017. Currently Debian XFCE. Was using Cinnamon, but I prefer XFCE. It's quicker. I don't care about the latest and greatest because it's installed on a refurbished Dell 5050 Optiplex. Simple user. No gaming, only email and internet.
I might be late but For windows software give Bottles a shot, you can install it as a flatpak or from the AUR Also you mightve have noticed that when installing software as a flatpak, those software cant access external storage Thats where flatseal comes in, it helps you give access certain apps/software in a nice app For parsec give Moonshine a try Its based on some cool popular project and its vendor agnostic (you can use it on Nvidia Amd intel)
I would suggest against Manjaro (or Garuda), as it comes with a few fundamental issues that can mess up usability and lead to the install breaking. The main issue is how they handle packages in a delayed manner while not delaying kernel updates, which causes problems. Most the time I see a kernel panic issue, Manjaro is the distro in question. If any distro is being recommended as "Arch with an installer", it should be EndeavourOS which is basically just that. Manjaro and Garuda notably come with package helper software, but the issue with relying on a pacman helper is that it can be set up badly for long-term exclusive usage, especially in Garuda's case where they had an issue that forced updates, but no mirror syncing, every time you would install software. Leading the Garuda experience to be very frustrating for new users past a few weeks. The only starter distro I can recommend is LMDE.
I moved permanently to Linux in 2009. I've used Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian. After a few years of switching between Linux Mint and Ubuntu Studio, My permanent OS is Ubuntu Studio, as I'm a Graphic designer. Ubuntu Studio makes everything so easy as I can just install it and begin working immediately. Depending on your system, your computer can be ready within 30 minutes, and your back to work. Ubuntu Studio has everything I need out of the box including Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, Blender and more. If I need anything else, there's the software manager, or you can install any software by downloading and appimage of it. Don't need windows ever again because I completely stopped using Adobe Software for design in my business.
Try out Bottles to run your windows programs. They even have a youtube channel. I used Linux 10 years ago but when my PC broke I was back on Windows until Win 11 launched and I erased my whole pc to have a clean and only Linux install running on it. Currently on Zorin but might switch to either Mint or Fedora
@@iamajustababa2000s that is good for you. For me it takes to much ram (4.5GB compared to Linux with 900MB), to many things running in the background, no privacy, all the ms crap you can't delete and it just looks boring and is slow. Updates are a pain in the ass. Apps are not up to date and and and
you can use proton to run any .exe or .msi, you can install proton as package and run command proton *instaler*.exe should run normally the app installs in %HOME%/.wine/drive_c after you find the exe of your installed program you can make a .desktop application shortcu, put it in %HOME%/.local/share/applications so you can launch it as native.
I'm a linux user for 7 years, after windows 8 came out I knew I need to leave that sinking ship, then there were mint, manjaro, arch, gentoo, void, thousand of hours of exploration and learning, it wasn't easy but I did it. I'm now building a second PC from used parts with windows on it, mostly for CAD software, but the big difference now is that I no longer feel like being a slave to microsoft, I honestly don't care what they do with THEIR system, it isn't mine, I just use it as a launcher for some CAD software and occasionally for a game. Even if that PC gets into "installing update please wait" screen one morning, It would not upset me in the slightest. I think each OS is good for some things and the best way is to just use all of them depending on the thing you want to achieve. For example I would never trust a million dollar in bitcoins to a linux machine, only to a openbsd on an air gapped libre booted thinkpad. Similarly I would never put an important personal data on a windows machine, it's too dirty and insecure for that.
@@asatiirstales Well it feels like lighter weight Arch with some BSD flavor to it, definitelly not a beginner distro, they don't even have bash as an interactive shell by default, if you don't know how to configure almost everything from ground up in linux, void will be a steep clime to climb. But I wouldn't even go that route second time over, I've relaxed my views on lots of things lately, I think spending time on physical/mental health and personal relations is more valuable than configuring runit services, dwm or things like that, but of course it's very personal what I see valuable at this moment, such obsessions come and go like some stages of my life.
That's really good to know, I thought it looked really cool but I just wasn't sure how much I was invested in learning a whole new distro. Also good on you focusing more on what matters more (your health), have a good one
EndeavourOS here. I dual boot and use Windows for the odd game or app that won't run through proton. It's not an understatement to say that Steam has revolutionized the availability of Windows software on Linux in the last few years.
I've been using Linux as the only os in my computer for about 4 months now, I installed Manjaro for a while but changed to openSUSE TumbleWeed because Manjaro takes a lot of time to update KDE plasma (my favorite DE)
That's because KDE is so feature rich that some times staying to up to date on it can introduce some bugs. For example Kwin with multi screen support seems to break a lot.
@@frecio231 opens use is a good distro I have used it in vms in that past was the first to stick with btrfs and now fedora my distro uses it as well. KDE is a great desktop choice is what makes Linux great.
I think I have found the best of both worlds for my system, but it’s not for everyone and it’s is very cumbersome to setup. Basically when I switched to Linux I kept my windows partition and later on I found out that you can run virtual machines with gpu pass through, allowing for near native performance on the guest os. Also thanks to virtio you can pass through block devices (disks, ssds etc...). So now I can boot windows standalone, or boot into Linux and start windows as a virtual machine. The same windows that I can boot standalone. Since I have a dedicated gpu and an integrated gpu from the cpu, I decided to keep Linux running the igpu since I don’t do anything graphic intensive son it, and the dgpu is reserved for the windows vm. When I boot the vm up my main monitor switches to it (since it’s using the real gpu it will not render to a simple window but to a real monitor) so I have windows on one side, with near native gaming performance, and Linux on the other monitor with my coding stuff and all other software. I like to call this setup “hybrid” :D. Unfortunately I couldn’t manage to set it up with windows 11 with all the stupid requirements, so I stuck with windows 10 considering the setup was complex as is, and my host is Garuda Linux, which is based on arch.
@@iamajustababa2000s depends who you ask. Arch purists will say it’s blasphemy, while newbies will say it’s awesome. Of course that’s an extreme representation of reality though. Garuda is basically arch, without the hassle to install it, preconfigured to look (subjectively, not everyone might like it) very good and also to be plug and play for gaming. That last gaming part was the main reason I chose it back then, but then I setup my hybrid dual boot like I described above so it doesn’t matter that much anymore. However I’d still install Garuda just as much as I’d install arch. While the decisions and style that the Garuda team choose can be very opinionated, I find I often agree with them and they are pushing the Linux desktop forward into the future (for example they use btrfs by default instead of ext4) so that’s a plus too.
I've been meaning to, but isn't that specifically made for Nvidia machines? NUC is AMD based. Sunshine/moonlight will probably work better for my gaming rig
I've been using Linux for my work on a used laptop I bought. Started with Mint on a terribly old mid-2000's laptop which was too slow even for that supposedly lightweight distro. Now running Ubuntu Studio on a much faster laptop and its been a very stable experience, had more issues with hardware than Linux itself! Audio is still a big component I need to figure out, since I do voice acting. Linux is weird with having multiple apps sharing audio input/output, and that's a real hurdle if I want to do a live recording session. In Windows, that sort of thing 'just works'
Mint wasn't ever really that lightweight, Debian-based distros in general tend to be very bloated and Mint follows that tradition hard, especially if you were using any of the more heavy DEs like KDE or Gnome, OpenBox and XFCE are at least lighter but on limited hardware they still take nearly a gig of RAM in the best of cases.
If your miss parsec, checkout sunshine(server) and moonlight(client). It is an opensource project allwoing to stram your pc in low latency to moonlight, whcih is avillable on all platforms. Its not as easy to set up, but once done, it runs in my experience even smoother then parsec.
I started trying Linux about 4-5 years ago, but switched FT to Linux Mint in December 2020 and have not looked back, In fact I have converted to 2 old laptops, (Acer Aspire from 2013 and a MacBook Air from 2015) to Mint as well and all run quite well. I do still have a Windows PC (used almost exclusively by my wife) and a Windows laptop (HP Spectre 360 from 2015) which I only keep up to date as a "just in case needed" Windows machine. Both run Windows 10, but when I retire in about 4 years both will be converted to Linux as well and then all my PC's will be Linux based.
Windows me was the best version of windows I ever used... It also drove me to Linux instead of switching to XP like most did. So been using Linux for 20 off years now. Welcome to the free world.
I was talking about linux with my mom earlier. They were the ones who got me into it. They might consider switching back due to the recent chaotic instability of windows 10. Like windows xp and 7 were amazing, but that kinda went down the shitter and windows 10 got more updates.
I have a Asus P43E-XH31. It came with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit. One day, [unfortunately], it refused to boot into Windows. I don’t know-why. It was working like-a-dream the day before. I press F8 upon boot (because the instruction-manual says to press F8 to go to the [preinstalled/preconfigured] Recovery partition). Nothing happens. I manage to create a LiveUSB of a Linux distribution, on a friend’s laptop, and in that laptop, I go to the Help chatroom for that distro to try to get help installing Linux in a empty unused “D”-partition that came in my laptop straight from the factory. I get assistance installing the-Linux-distro in there. After I do all the steps counseled by the Linux-distro helpers, I restart my computer and what-do-you-know?: The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader immediately-detects my Windows-7 “C” partition, the Recovery partition, and the partition where I installed the-Linux-distro. The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader even allows me to select [and go to] the Recovery partition if I want to. Linux basically saved my computer and made it usable again. P.S. I have since been-able to go to Windows again, without any problems, and if Windows doesn’t boot-up, I just go to Linux (which *ALWAYS* boots-up-on-me without any problems), and I access through-The-File-Manager the Windows-partition and get my files that I need (pictures, videos, music-files, Word documents, etcetera), and continue to work [/do my job] from Linux.
Answer to 07:02 Use Proton to run Your Windows software. "How" You might ask? Noob way --> "ADD a Game" Button in bottom left corner of a Steam Launcher. More advance way learn how to install and Use GE-Proton from linux terminal.
So about Manjaro… yeah they customize quite a lot. For some reason I had nothing but problems with it. For anyone new trying Linux and thinking about moving to Arch based distro that's easy to install and does not change that much from a mainline Arch, I'd highly recommend EndeavourOS
Just want to point out you can run any EXE with proton through steam. There's a "add non-steam game" button, just select your EXE and edit the properties to run with proton. I run all EXEs this way.
I am a linux user. I use mainline Arch and I have no regrets. I initially moved to arch about 2.5 years ago, and have loved my time there. I genuinely believe arch is out of the box more stable than all of the other distros
The testing repo is what keeps it stable. A bunch of people run from testing to test and/or abuse the software and generally make sure weird things don't happen. I believe the testing time is about two weeks iirc. It's in the wiki. Imagine pretty much any other distro doing that for *every single official package.* Not happening. If you check the news before updating you're pretty much gauranteed to have something stable unless you do some pretty crazy things. Also the wiki. The wiki is awesome.
I'm a gamer and the best distro I have tried when it comes to gaming that's garuda gaming edition. Everything gaming relates is installed out of the box and even better it's arch the only real problem I have with it is that it's a little performance heavy but i find it easier to get anything I have used up and running.
Im a long term user of Linux and what I see beginners make the mistake that Linux will operate like windows. But when people face the fact that windows is different to linux and actually try to use it as its own OS than you will have a better time. Yes, you might "break your system" but the fact is that the problem that you have in a particular system most likely happen to someone else and that someone else has explained how he fixed it. Not everything works on Linux for some reason or another, but most likely there is a alternative that works as good or better than the original, a good example in my book is Libreoffice compared to MSOffice, most of the people would not see a difference beside the slight difference in UI. Is Linux for everybody? No. Should at least give it a chance? Yes, but an actual chance, not "it does not run my adobe photoshop by default so I cant use this". Give at least GIMP a try
Could not agree more. Tge Unix like systems are way different then windows and most windows users are not use to all the different ways you can your system.
Indeed. For a few years when I was still using Windows I would install a bunch of open source programs and use those instead of anything that was Windows only. Makes it easier to transition, though to be fair I was also using Linux that whole time, so I mostly was using Windows for games and such. Now I can just use WINE and most things work.
My Windows installations broke way more often than my rolling release linux distro. Never had a total failure on the latter and most of the little issues I found were usually easy to fix by just searching info on the web.
On the LibreOffice point, does it have all the features you should ever really need, yes, but... If you need to share files around and if people insist on .docx over .odf, sometimes, even though they've improved compatibility, things don't translate 100% and text will move around and change size in presentations for example. On the plus side, you can have pdf figures in your slides, so don't have to worry about blurry pngs unlike o365. In terms of stability, I remember actually having issues with Ubuntu and Pop (not many, but some), Manjaro on the other hand has never failed me (or maybe I just don't remember anymore, because I'm more familiar with linux now) in its two years or so of being on my pc, even after copying all of the system files from an ext4 partition to a btrfs on a new faster drive. Arch is not necessarily any more powerful than other distros, or offers you any unique features really, but its a useful exercise, it encourages you to learn and on the odd occasion that you do have an issue, that insight into how things actually work behind the curtains helps you smoothly address it. The true benefit of arch is probably the freshest rolling release packages and full compatibility with AUR. Manjaro has made me love pamac though and its nice having that as an official package that updates with the rest (rather than installing from AUR on arch).
@@johanngambolputty5351 If a PNG is blurry for you, use a higher resolution. If anything it should make for a smaller file and cleaner image plus easier portability than a PDF. Of course, if you have to hand something to a Windows user, you can still print to PDF for them and ignore the whole DOCX versus ODF argument altogether.
I've really tried. I want it to work for me. But as hobbyist game dev, it just doesn't. So many things "just work" under windows, changing my audio workflow to use ardour is a pain and I seem to spend more time fiddling with things than working on actual projects. I use linux professionally, I'm great in the terminal, it's not like I've not put the work into learning it. I just feel that as much as it is objectively a better operating system, it's not the best operating system for game dev.
I am using linux pretty long (began with ubuntu since 2016) and also completely deleted my windows installation this year, since the support for most software that i need is given and i can't really use windows without seeing design flaws in every corner. My goto distro is Arch, because i like the imense potential to fit the system with whatever you like. Today i will probably install zen kernel for FSync. I once tried gentoo, but in my perspective its idiotic having to build every package on every update. Sometimes Games may run faster on linux, but sometimes they are a big pain to get to run. The good thing on this is that a huge amount of games do run on linux. The terminal in linux is the most amazing tool i ever use, it started to become the main navigation for me that point.
To be fair, windows has cmd and powershell too, but it almost encourages you to never learn these, it really seems to patronise the user. Also on the flip side, though it is a boon overall I think, linux does encourage the terminal inadvertently, either because you end up having issues or because theres so many outdated methods on the internet, to do things that could be achieved in guis. The terminal is great fun though and everyone should learn a little of it.
@@johanngambolputty5351 the reason why the terminal is that dominant in linux, is because linux is overly focused on server technology. The reason why even microsoft invest into linux is because running without a gui is its strength, but it's also it's weakness when it comes to the desktop.
@@lunalildragon241 I disagree, you can do more in the kde settings panel than in the window control panel I would say, especially if you compare against the modern stripped down setting (though you can acces the old control panel in windows).
@@johanngambolputty5351 the terminal is the important linux tool. You can see what went wrong and have full access to any tool you might need, in most cases it wont warn you in a notification. Windows on the other hand gives you everything on a gui, if a game crashes you know what went wrong because a window pops up telling you x.dll not found. I would surely love to have that for linux but in the same time i like the terminal attempt more. Linux is still far away from being gui only, but i can live with that because i love it that way. I think linux will never become a terminal less haven because without it, you wouldn't have a way to notice that your kernel loaded the wrong network driver.
@@lunalildragon241 I'm no fan of windows, but theres no fundamental reason you couldn't start a program from cmd in windows or use command line args and flags assuming the program implements them, its just not common practice, so many programs don't seem to bother. You could also use windows built in binaries to get system info (e. g. about loaded drivers) just as you use linux built in binaries... but they probably aren't as well documented, being proprietary. Whatever the os, theres nothing locking you down to text interface shell only, or gui only, but text shell is always going to expose more because its easier to expose that way, so it will allways be handy and get you further. Still, I like to use the gui for super simple things and start pressing META+T when I know its not going to give me what I want, or when I know it will be just a one liner. Edit: It's occurred to me thats not always a default keybinding and I usually use the kde shortcuts panel to set it up, go figure.
Been using Garuda exclusively for a year now any haar no thought of coming back. Yes, there are hickups here and there but developer experience is just so so so much nicer thanks to package management. I don't have to download libraries annually and deal with them either being included directly in the project and linked properly, i just sudo pacman -S lib{name} and I'm done (if it comes to c/++). System overall is faster and customization is something i can't live without, i use shit ton of gnome extensions that just make my life easier and more productive in my environment. Terminals/Shells are amazing as well, u can do practically anything with the system from there with very little overhead. And cmd/Powershell don't even stand a chance against bash/zsh/fish/nushell (which in currently using and it's very nice) in terms of usability and comfortability
There's a free program called Wavemaker that might be a viable alternative to Scrivener. I also used to use one called Manuskript, but I really don't know if it's still in development. It was in its early stages back when I used it.
I first started to use Linux back in 2001 (PHAT Linux 3.3 anybody?) but only just recently started using it again after I found out my laptop (which has a 7th gen Intel processor) would not support Windows 11. I didn't see any reason to potentially toss a perfectly good computer, so I started looking at Linux again. Currently running Zorin OS and I couldn't be happier! My only regret is that it won't play The Long Dark very well.
go and stick to gentoo with openrc and a non desktop profile. go for a tiling window manager like the suckless one, dwm, and you're on less than 512M of ram usage. if you like spending time, tweaking and digging you could run any software. still, if you would like to use photoshop other win only software you could setup a kvm (kernel based virtual mashine) witn win alomost native performance (gpu pass-through are also well documented). arch based distros in their minimal install are also a big deal if you don't care about unique builded software and you won't compile it but just going for ready to use binaris. (ignore my english mistakes) good video and editing by the way xD
I'm using arch btw I switched 1,5 years ago, because windows always decided to commit not live anymore after a certain amount of time. Anyways, I welcome you the world of Linux mate.
Why you need parsec? game streaming? if you have a Nvidia, look for the project called Sunshine, it's an appimage that enables streaming, you just double-click it basically, it has a web interface, and you can connect to it from a bunch of different devices and computers using Moonlight
I used to have the same issue with laptop charging up until I installed Kubuntu, which recognizes it’s charging immediately and has even improved the battery life from my previous distro (Ubuntu Budgie)
Wanted to thank you for a great vid. Helped a lot. I've been trying to get going in both soft soft and didn't get very far. TNice tutorials vid helped a
Try learning bottles, its a easier graphical way of setting up wine prefixes to run software, it even has options to create one prefix oriented to games or software
POP-OS on 2 Gaming laptops and 2 on old 6 and 7 gen Intel SFF PC's for home servers (DLNA and SAMBA). I Love that Linux is a non-Spyware OS, unless you are careless with choosing browsers like Google based Chrome/Chromium just stick with Firefox, Waterfox or LibreWolf or use all three of them :)
I put linux on a 286 pc got lucky installed and worked with the hardware of the time that the real trick to linux back in early days was match the right one it alot better today
Well, Ive been a Linux user for a while Now. Backstory: Originally, but in like 2016-2017, i was much younger, around 9-10, I tried Ubuntu on the family computer. It was great. As you can imagine i didn't really keep it around. Actually lost that pc for a while. It didn't boot or do anything But after a while I got my own computer. This is the current computer I'm on now. It came with Windows 10. And at that point I kind of forgot about Linux. Till 4-5 years later. In which i was reminded about Linux somehow. The start of this year, I switched all my computers over to some distribution of Linux (They are all running different distributions). And well went directly to Manjaro. As an Intermediate area. Then went and installed Arch Linux finally after a while, and that's where i am today
And i havent needed Windows really for anything. Wine has been good enough for me. I don't really have anything that doesnt work here on Linux. So it just happens that all my computers are prefect so is my equipment that i have.
And the software well, I dont really have much software i need. Really only one game kept me back: Well that was: Roblox. Sounds kinda dumb, but their player would boot, but some weird stuff would kick you and so on. This was fixed recently at the start of the year, Which kinda led me to install and run all of this stuff. All of my steam Library works just fine.
I switched to arch with dwm straight from windows 10 (because otherwise you are irrelevant the philospohy says) 😭😭😭😭it took me 1 year to get used to it and now I'm loving it
Pretty interesting video. I thought Linux was a no no for Game Developers. Interesting to see you try it, I've been using Ubuntu for a long time now, just because I like it more, and I'm more efficient on it.
I still have to use windows at work, im dual booting Windows 10 on my main pc becouse i want to play games. On my laptop i installed EndeavourOS and it is great.
I've been meaning to switch to Linux after not liking the direction that Microsoft is taking Windows. I've been a long time linux user at work, but not at home. I've switched my Dell XPS 13 to Manjaro Linux and I've been using it for 2 months now. So far it's great and I'm getting similar experiences to you including better battery life. My gaming PC is next, but I think I'll dual boot in that case IMO, your experience with Linux is greatly affected by your choice of hardware. If you choose an nvidia GPU for example, you'll not have a good time. Switchable graphics are also kinda flaky. Dell laptops tend to be very well supported however, and also AMD and intel GPUs.
Note that what I'm about to say (as you said) implies you're not using NVidia as in some cases it works but in others its a nightmare, hope that recent NVidia Linux thing will push them to correct this stupid issue. (but then again I hate NVidia and wish they'd die as a company anyway) Generally, outside of very special cases of only certain modern games, so long as they aren't running an intrusive anti-cheat and/or certain pieces of DRM (and excepting the games that have allowed you to bypass that issue which Easy and Battleeye do support) you may not even need to run a dual boot, funny thing is if you can run your games on Proton, there is a high likelihood that the optimal case will be more performant then Windows, the most common case for this relating to shaders because most Windows games don't natively cache the shaders whereas Proton will force most games to do that. In other cases I've found that frames in general on a properly functioning game to be well above the Windows bloatware by at least 10%.
Nvidia switchable (MUX-Less) is quite usable. Fedora for example uses Switcherooctl and it works quite well. But there are many others with mux & secureboot will block Nvidia drivers from being loaded and still need manual signing. On Acer laptops manual signing won't work either because their BIOS is just bad. So yeah. Pick your hardware from most common and popular ones.
I've been running fedora since about may this year. My only complaint is that I don't like gnome too much but I think they are the only ones who support touchpad gestures.
@@ethanrivers4057 No prob, man! Best of luck! It's really dependent on distro and desktop environment. Some distros have the touchpad packages built-in but some require a bit of tinkering and finding the right stuff to install. Tell me how it goes :)
7:39 for those wondering, objectively the best gaming remote desktop is called *sunshine moonlight* . it is 2 programs the server is called sunshine and the client is called moonlight. i say it is the best because it has both lower latency and wider bitrate range than parsec, of course as well as being fully open source from back to front and working perfectly on GNU/Linux. In my opinion the biggest downside is that the *sunshine* server is difficult to set up for the inexperienced. The *moonlight* client has a simpler GUI and is easy for any of your users to connect once you have set up the sunshine server for them.
It is such a relief to switch on Linux specifically Pop!_Os. My laptop is 9 years old and I need to use this for another 3 years for my study. Windows 10 gave me a LOT of headaches. Even though I installed an anti-virus software, it was still infested with viruses and malwares. The worst part was every time I powered up my laptop, it didn't boot at all and I'm always spending my time fixing it. Now that I am using Pop!_Os, I am able to use this 9 years old laptop without the stress and problems that Windows gave me.
I have been usinginux since 2020 and I love it. Also wine isn't that hard. You can use it with a front end like bottles or wine tricks. Honestly you can Have it set to oppen like you would a normal program a good trick to making things run better is to see what dependencies it needs to run it.
Windows 11 has three different distributions. They are; Spyware Home Edition, Spyware Pro Edition and the Super-Stratospheric Spyware Edition for people lacking any idiom of respect for their own or others privacy.
Yet you on UA-cam, a Google owned service you no different 😂
@@battlebuddy4517 Fight the system from within I say.
@@battlebuddy4517 You gotta start somewhere. I'd say starting with the OS is not a bad choice, as it has control over the whole PC (which is its actual purpose), which means it can grab literally everything you du with your PC.
@@battlebuddy4517 there is not really an alternative for youtube
No there is Enterprise LTSC version that only Enterprises can buy but it has no spyware
i am a linux user myself
my _friend_ got me over by recommending Arch after I used Ubuntu in school in like 2013/2014, so i was like "it can't be that bad" and now i will never go back to windows; Arch is just awesome
you forgot to say that you use arch btw
I use Arch too btw
Arch is getting memed af but that's the funny thing! It's awesomeness makes it memable but at the same time, based distro base along side gentoooooooooo
He uses Arch, btw 💪
@The 10th Dentist i am sorry that your experience with linux was bad, however what you say is objectively wrong:
Debian, for example, is almost unbreakable unless you actively fuck something up. on the other hand, Microsoft pushes Windows Server updates that are untested and can fuck over a company wifi on a global scale (about 2000 users affected) because of closed-source, untested updates that only change things on domain controllers (which follow the update policy PROD and not PILOT).
having software available on both systems usually doesn't change how it works, if it's thr same program. some are optimized for windows, some for linux (see GIMP for example). what is wrong is to associate cost with quality. most of the web is hosted on open source software and you would have never been able to post this comment or even watch the video without it.
Linux user here:
I started using Linux back in February of this year and started on openSUSE. I was interested in Linux for the longest time and got a disc of it from a friend. I stayed there for 2 months but I kept experiencing weird crash issues after updating kernals so I moved away. I stayed at manjaro KDE for some time it wasn't my faveroute but my parents liked it so they stayed on it. I moved onto fedora and my poor 13 year old laptop couldn't run it above 5fps. It was a really pretty slide show at least. Then I tried manjaro gnome and a few other de such as i3 and lfce till I moved to stock arch. I run a i3 gaps windows manager and have been on it for 3 months ago now and I haven't had any problems and can now do anything from command line. I'm adoring Linux and never intend to go back to windows unless necessary but wine does everything u could possibley need or I can get it from the AUR normally
Well there is my experience
TL:DR
I love the open source nature of Linux and it has improved my knowledge on the Hardwear and software I run
(I use arch BTW)
> (I use arch BTW)
That's why I'm here!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I use arch as well BTW!!!
Your Story about OpenSUSE is not True...
@@fabricio4794 I mean I was there when it happened so I can't really give any more evidence, I don't keep the crash logs either.
Quick tip for getting proton to work for non-steam software,
Click "add a non steam game", Click "Browse", Switch File Type to"All Files", go to /home/(username), navigate to whatever you want to run, click open, go back to the "add a game" prompt, and hit add selected game, and then find the software in your steam library, then got to compatibility, than click "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool", then select whatever the most recent version of proton is (and if it has issues, go through the different versions of proton, also, check the launch options, to make sure steam hadn't messed up with spaces in the file directory)
I hope they see this comment
also wine + lutris (or PlayOnLinux) do work good as well
I've only used Bottles so far to get modding tools (Mod Organizer 2) to work with Fallout New Vegas, so I can recommend that as a solution as well.
In terms of running Windows software, I just want to point out a new-ish program called Bottles which makes managing wine stuff much easier and understandable. (you can select Proton as a runner there, or even lutris wine, regular wine or even their own wine fork which they claim offers even better compability)
I had better luck with Lutris, Bottles never worked for me
Bottles is good but many freezes and lag.
Yep definitely more beginner friendly I'd say. As it also installs many dependencies. With wine or other wine based programs you have to manage that yourself which is hard to do when you don't have experience with it.
I'm a Linux user myself :P
It is, in theory, potentially possible to use Proton for content outside of Steam via Lutris. Lutris is game-oriented, but it can be used to launch other things as well.
I downloaded Lutris a while back but never got around to try it out. I might after reading this though! Thanks
@@asatiirstales For things that aren't games and are just programs, using bottles is much better for this. It's a very nice app worth checking out!
it's not a theory you can use proton in steam lutris and playonlinux probably some other things too just might take a bit of googling
@@Aoitori365 afaik, PlayOnLinux is deprecated. i said in theory because I wasn't 100% certain and dislike claiming something is true if I'm not sure that it is.
Since then I have a more definitive answer: Proton GE is available in Lutris.
You can also just compile the proton source code.
I've been using Pop OS on my work laptop for a little over a year now, and I really like it. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a quick, easy and stable distro. :)
We need more users on the Linux camp!
I've been gaming on Linux since the inception of Tuxracer :D
You can try Bottles to run windows apps. It lets you create different wine prefixes (bottles as they call them) and easily configure settings, needed libs etc. for the app you want to run in it. It's simple to use and gets updated with new features and better compatibility frequently.
+1 for Bottles. It's a pretty solid way to set up an environment especially for games and software to work together using the same wine prefix.
I've been using Linux since 2015. Dual-booting on and off. Haven't used Windows on hardware for the past 3 years. I've had some issues with my gaming laptop but could overcome them. My PC was built with Linux in mind and required 0 configuration post-install.
I'm a Dev and a Gamer. Never going back to Winblows.
I think the last best version of Windows was 8.1 when combined with that open-source Shell that made it look like Win7. It didn't have the crappy updates of Win7 which always took hours and was more performant overall.
The only time I use Windows nowadays is when my Uni forces me to do ancient crap like MFC and WinApi-heavy libraries. That's it.
@@spicynoodle7419 I always felt that Win98 was the best Windows. WinNT and WinXP were super annoying and proved that Microsoft doesn't understand multi-user environments. Although admittedly, I've never used Vista, 7 or 8, and I've only used 10 on someone else's computer.
@@anon_y_mousse I'm a zoomer and the oldest version I've used is XP. I've only seen 95 on an antique computer at school. Although I'm inclined to believe you :D
I've been using Linux daily since March of 2020. I started with Linux Mint, Ubuntu LTS Gnome and now Pop!_OS. I tried Manjaro Gnome for a few weeks as well. I even used Ubuntu Studio 20.04 with XFCE to record a project rock album with my band. I went team penguin and never looked back.
You can use "Add Non-Steam Game" in Steam to add the .exe of any Windows program and enable Proton in it's properties.
I think Debian and Fedora are most suitable for me, Debian leans towards enthusiast, hobby community. Lots of packages. Easy install and to maintain. Running Fedora now, leans towards enterprise and busieness due to being upstream from Red Hat. On both distros I handle maintaining Blender and Godot manually in /opt folder instead of via package manager so distro doesn't matter that much to me, on both Debian and Fedora I use xfce as desktop environment. A tip for developers, and if you wanna distro jump and test, is setting up virtual machines with Virtualbox or QEMU.
As of writing this comment, I have been messing around with Linux for ~10 years, on and off. Me and my brother would create an Ubuntu Server for media storage, messing around with webdev etc.
Right now I have all my machines running Arch Linux (except my MacBook) and I can confidently say it is the best switch I've ever made. My kinda old PC is insanely quick, snappy. My server machine uses such a little amount of resources when idling it's insane.
Even though software support is still spotty, switching to Ubuntu/Mint is a great start for anyone wanting to tip their toes in Linux waters.
Also huge thank you for putting your software on Linux! More devs like you are appreciated :D
I have been on Linux for years I started Linux with fedora back in the core days so 04 05ish. I am now a soft dev making commits for Foss projects if you ever need tips or any thing let me know if I can help you get some of them apps running I will great video.
I just moved from Win7 to Manjaro not too long ago. Had a couple small hiccups getting setup, but everything is generally very smooth now.
One correction you refer to the parts of Linux as kernels, these are only the core of it, software packages make up most of it each package is a collection of one or more programs compiled for Linux, packages could even just be a set of data files, all distributions use these software packages but each distribution may have a modified version of it but you can always modify build and install such software yourself
Yeah I was sure I was going to get that one wrong
@@mynameismichael123 you put the entire description of what a kernel is😳😳 but yes, Linux it's just the kernel. You can even create your own kernel (from scratch), all you have to do it's to implement POSIX syscalls and you're done.
@@asatiirstales Yeah "Linux" is just a kernel, a component for an operating system. GNU and Android use Linux. What you are talking about it's just GNU operating system with Linux (GNU/Linux, the most used). But you also have things like GNU/Hurd, GNU/kfreebsd, GNU/Darwin, busybox/Linux, LibreCMC, OpenWRT... Well, GNU is just a pure frankenstein operating system, community driven, like in communism.
The official GNU's kernel is Hurd, and has nothing to do with Linux.
Good to know you have realistic expectations
I recommend using Bottles to run Windows software. Just install the flatpak version (Flatpak is similar to pacman or apt. It is used to install software) and create a new bottle. Every bottle is isolated from each other (It's similar to having multiple Windows-Virtual-Machines). The advantage of this is that you can tweak the settings in each bottle so the software you use runs perfectly and can't break software installed in other bottles. It takes a little bit of tinkering but I really recommend it.
nah lutris for me panned out better.
@@angryteapod1765 I'm not just talking about games. Even though I hadn't had good experiences with lutris either.
I think Debian spins like Mint are in general the "best" for the more casual computer user. I get there are the computer nerds out there that are obsessive about having "full control" over their systems, but the large majority of people don't care or have any idea what or how to change things even if they were slightly curious. It's a huge amount of time and commitment that most people really don't have time or technical to do. They just want things to work out of the box.
7:25 Not quite. Windows software outside of Steam actually DOES work with Proton.
Click "ADD A GAME" in the bottom left
Select "Add a Non-Steam Game"
Click "BROWSE..."
Set the "File type:" to "All Files" so .exe files can be seen.
Click on an .exe file
Click "OPEN"
Click "ADD SELECTED PROGRAMS"
The exe should now be listed in your library. Right click it.
Select "Properties..."
Click the "COMPATIBILITY" tab
And tick the "Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibility tool" box
And finally click PLAY!
There are also ways to run exe's with proton in the command line without even needing Steam to be open.
You could also just run the exe's with wine but I find that wine doesn't work as well as proton.
There are also other tools you could try like PlayOnLinux, Lutris, or Heroic Launcher. Some of these tools use proton sometimes.
It's cool to see more people moving to Linux. Hopefully, the more this market share grows, the more companies will realise, that there is money to be made by developing software also for Desktop Linux.
A few things that might help you:
- You can use Lutris to manage Proton-/WINE-configurations for arbitrary Windows programs.
- There is a Linux version of Parsec available as a Flatpak via Flathub.
- For some specific Windows software, you can use a script called "Winapps" to use them in a VM, but make it seem as if they'd run natively. The Linux Experiment on UA-cam has a video about this.
Yeah I moved to Linux several years ago. And have been very happy moved several friends and family over too. My main distro is Pop Os! Love the tools and how.its built out. It just works.with out.any major headaches. Most my freinds/family I have them on mint.
I'm a Linux user since June 2017. Currently Debian XFCE. Was using Cinnamon, but I prefer XFCE. It's quicker. I don't care about the latest and greatest because it's installed on a refurbished Dell 5050 Optiplex. Simple user. No gaming, only email and internet.
I might be late but
For windows software give Bottles a shot, you can install it as a flatpak or from the AUR
Also you mightve have noticed that when installing software as a flatpak, those software cant access external storage
Thats where flatseal comes in, it helps you give access certain apps/software in a nice app
For parsec give Moonshine a try
Its based on some cool popular project and its vendor agnostic (you can use it on Nvidia Amd intel)
I would suggest against Manjaro (or Garuda), as it comes with a few fundamental issues that can mess up usability and lead to the install breaking. The main issue is how they handle packages in a delayed manner while not delaying kernel updates, which causes problems. Most the time I see a kernel panic issue, Manjaro is the distro in question. If any distro is being recommended as "Arch with an installer", it should be EndeavourOS which is basically just that.
Manjaro and Garuda notably come with package helper software, but the issue with relying on a pacman helper is that it can be set up badly for long-term exclusive usage, especially in Garuda's case where they had an issue that forced updates, but no mirror syncing, every time you would install software. Leading the Garuda experience to be very frustrating for new users past a few weeks.
The only starter distro I can recommend is LMDE.
I addressed my problems with Manjaro in my other videos, I'm now on Fedora for quite some time
I moved permanently to Linux in 2009.
I've used Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, Debian. After a few years of switching between Linux Mint and Ubuntu Studio,
My permanent OS is Ubuntu Studio, as I'm a Graphic designer.
Ubuntu Studio makes everything so easy as I can just install it and begin working immediately. Depending on your system, your computer can be ready within 30 minutes, and your back to work.
Ubuntu Studio has everything I need out of the box including Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, Blender and more. If I need anything else, there's the software manager, or you can install any software by downloading and appimage of it.
Don't need windows ever again because I completely stopped using Adobe Software for design in my business.
Try out Bottles to run your windows programs. They even have a youtube channel.
I used Linux 10 years ago but when my PC broke I was back on Windows until Win 11 launched and I erased my whole pc to have a clean and only Linux install running on it.
Currently on Zorin but might switch to either Mint or Fedora
You hate Windows 11?
@@iamajustababa2000s windows in general but Win 11 was a good point to delete everything
@@xperience-evolution why I mean honestly I like windows 11 it is fast and has good improvement
@@iamajustababa2000s that is good for you.
For me it takes to much ram (4.5GB compared to Linux with 900MB), to many things running in the background, no privacy, all the ms crap you can't delete and it just looks boring and is slow. Updates are a pain in the ass. Apps are not up to date and and and
@@xperience-evolution which Linux Destro you using?
you can use proton to run any .exe or .msi, you can install proton as package and run command proton *instaler*.exe should run normally the app installs in %HOME%/.wine/drive_c
after you find the exe of your installed program you can make a .desktop application shortcu, put it in %HOME%/.local/share/applications so you can launch it as native.
I'm a linux user for 7 years, after windows 8 came out I knew I need to leave that sinking ship, then there were mint, manjaro, arch, gentoo, void, thousand of hours of exploration and learning, it wasn't easy but I did it. I'm now building a second PC from used parts with windows on it, mostly for CAD software, but the big difference now is that I no longer feel like being a slave to microsoft, I honestly don't care what they do with THEIR system, it isn't mine, I just use it as a launcher for some CAD software and occasionally for a game. Even if that PC gets into "installing update please wait" screen one morning, It would not upset me in the slightest. I think each OS is good for some things and the best way is to just use all of them depending on the thing you want to achieve. For example I would never trust a million dollar in bitcoins to a linux machine, only to a openbsd on an air gapped libre booted thinkpad. Similarly I would never put an important personal data on a windows machine, it's too dirty and insecure for that.
What was void like? It looked pretty cool but I was pretty settled by the time I first heard of it
@@asatiirstales Well it feels like lighter weight Arch with some BSD flavor to it, definitelly not a beginner distro, they don't even have bash as an interactive shell by default, if you don't know how to configure almost everything from ground up in linux, void will be a steep clime to climb. But I wouldn't even go that route second time over, I've relaxed my views on lots of things lately, I think spending time on physical/mental health and personal relations is more valuable than configuring runit services, dwm or things like that, but of course it's very personal what I see valuable at this moment, such obsessions come and go like some stages of my life.
That's really good to know, I thought it looked really cool but I just wasn't sure how much I was invested in learning a whole new distro. Also good on you focusing more on what matters more (your health), have a good one
EndeavourOS here. I dual boot and use Windows for the odd game or app that won't run through proton. It's not an understatement to say that Steam has revolutionized the availability of Windows software on Linux in the last few years.
I've been using Linux as the only os in my computer for about 4 months now, I installed Manjaro for a while but changed to openSUSE TumbleWeed because Manjaro takes a lot of time to update KDE plasma (my favorite DE)
That's because KDE is so feature rich that some times staying to up to date on it can introduce some bugs. For example Kwin with multi screen support seems to break a lot.
@@chrismcdonaldracing fair enough, but I still like openSUSE more. Just because zypper is like the best package manager.
@@frecio231 opens use is a good distro I have used it in vms in that past was the first to stick with btrfs and now fedora my distro uses it as well. KDE is a great desktop choice is what makes Linux great.
@@chrismcdonaldracing agree
The day after i tried openSUSE the package server crashed, made my choice very easy. But in itself opensuse is a nice beginner friendly distro.
I think I have found the best of both worlds for my system, but it’s not for everyone and it’s is very cumbersome to setup. Basically when I switched to Linux I kept my windows partition and later on I found out that you can run virtual machines with gpu pass through, allowing for near native performance on the guest os. Also thanks to virtio you can pass through block devices (disks, ssds etc...). So now I can boot windows standalone, or boot into Linux and start windows as a virtual machine. The same windows that I can boot standalone. Since I have a dedicated gpu and an integrated gpu from the cpu, I decided to keep Linux running the igpu since I don’t do anything graphic intensive son it, and the dgpu is reserved for the windows vm. When I boot the vm up my main monitor switches to it (since it’s using the real gpu it will not render to a simple window but to a real monitor) so I have windows on one side, with near native gaming performance, and Linux on the other monitor with my coding stuff and all other software. I like to call this setup “hybrid” :D. Unfortunately I couldn’t manage to set it up with windows 11 with all the stupid requirements, so I stuck with windows 10 considering the setup was complex as is, and my host is Garuda Linux, which is based on arch.
Arch btw?
Garuda Linux is good?
@@iamajustababa2000s depends who you ask. Arch purists will say it’s blasphemy, while newbies will say it’s awesome. Of course that’s an extreme representation of reality though. Garuda is basically arch, without the hassle to install it, preconfigured to look (subjectively, not everyone might like it) very good and also to be plug and play for gaming. That last gaming part was the main reason I chose it back then, but then I setup my hybrid dual boot like I described above so it doesn’t matter that much anymore. However I’d still install Garuda just as much as I’d install arch. While the decisions and style that the Garuda team choose can be very opinionated, I find I often agree with them and they are pushing the Linux desktop forward into the future (for example they use btrfs by default instead of ext4) so that’s a plus too.
linux is like a homebuilt car . it will run, but you have to be willing to do stuff that a normal car would not need and requires some exotic fuel.
7:38 For Parsec Alternatives, Have you Tried Sunshine ( on host machine ) + Moonlight ( on client machine )
I've been meaning to, but isn't that specifically made for Nvidia machines? NUC is AMD based. Sunshine/moonlight will probably work better for my gaming rig
I've been using Linux for my work on a used laptop I bought. Started with Mint on a terribly old mid-2000's laptop which was too slow even for that supposedly lightweight distro.
Now running Ubuntu Studio on a much faster laptop and its been a very stable experience, had more issues with hardware than Linux itself!
Audio is still a big component I need to figure out, since I do voice acting. Linux is weird with having multiple apps sharing audio input/output, and that's a real hurdle if I want to do a live recording session. In Windows, that sort of thing 'just works'
Even on windows I was predominantly using Audacity and Reaper for audio, both are available on Linux too
Mint wasn't ever really that lightweight, Debian-based distros in general tend to be very bloated and Mint follows that tradition hard, especially if you were using any of the more heavy DEs like KDE or Gnome, OpenBox and XFCE are at least lighter but on limited hardware they still take nearly a gig of RAM in the best of cases.
If your miss parsec, checkout sunshine(server) and moonlight(client). It is an opensource project allwoing to stram your pc in low latency to moonlight, whcih is avillable on all platforms.
Its not as easy to set up, but once done, it runs in my experience even smoother then parsec.
That sounds like exactly what I was looking for, I will definitely check it out
@@asatiirstales glad that i could help you
there! Thanks a lot for the help, I'm going to subscribe to your channel and keep up with all the videos!
TPM is not for security it is for locking down your computer so you can only use windows
I started trying Linux about 4-5 years ago, but switched FT to Linux Mint in December 2020 and have not looked back, In fact I have converted to 2 old laptops, (Acer Aspire from 2013 and a MacBook Air from 2015) to Mint as well and all run quite well. I do still have a Windows PC (used almost exclusively by my wife) and a Windows laptop (HP Spectre 360 from 2015) which I only keep up to date as a "just in case needed" Windows machine. Both run Windows 10, but when I retire in about 4 years both will be converted to Linux as well and then all my PC's will be Linux based.
Windows me was the best version of windows I ever used... It also drove me to Linux instead of switching to XP like most did. So been using Linux for 20 off years now. Welcome to the free world.
I was talking about linux with my mom earlier. They were the ones who got me into it. They might consider switching back due to the recent chaotic instability of windows 10. Like windows xp and 7 were amazing, but that kinda went down the shitter and windows 10 got more updates.
Windows Bugdate downloads the Microsoft's bugdates.
As an experienced Linux user its so interesting to see how others got their feet wet in Linux 💪😎🙏
I hope you get what you're looking for!
Welcome to the community
I have a Asus P43E-XH31. It came with Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
One day, [unfortunately], it refused to boot into Windows.
I don’t know-why.
It was working like-a-dream the day before.
I press F8 upon boot (because the instruction-manual says to press F8 to go to the [preinstalled/preconfigured] Recovery partition).
Nothing happens.
I manage to create a LiveUSB of a Linux distribution, on a friend’s laptop, and in that laptop, I go to the Help chatroom for that distro to try to get help installing Linux in a empty unused “D”-partition that came in my laptop straight from the factory.
I get assistance installing the-Linux-distro in there.
After I do all the steps counseled by the Linux-distro helpers, I restart my computer and what-do-you-know?: The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader immediately-detects my Windows-7 “C” partition, the Recovery partition, and the partition where I installed the-Linux-distro. The “G.R.U.B.”-Bootloader even allows me to select [and go to] the Recovery partition if I want to.
Linux basically saved my computer and made it usable again.
P.S. I have since been-able to go to Windows again, without any problems, and if Windows doesn’t boot-up, I just go to Linux (which *ALWAYS* boots-up-on-me without any problems), and I access through-The-File-Manager the Windows-partition and get my files that I need (pictures, videos, music-files, Word documents, etcetera), and continue to work [/do my job] from Linux.
Thanks so much for making tNice tutorials video! You really broke it down well.
Once you are more comfortable, you should check out fedora!
Answer to 07:02 Use Proton to run Your Windows software. "How" You might ask? Noob way --> "ADD a Game" Button in bottom left corner of a Steam Launcher. More advance way learn how to install and Use GE-Proton from linux terminal.
yours is perfect. These are going to takes loads of ti off the learning process.
So about Manjaro… yeah they customize quite a lot. For some reason I had nothing but problems with it.
For anyone new trying Linux and thinking about moving to Arch based distro that's easy to install and does not change that much from a mainline Arch, I'd highly recommend EndeavourOS
Just want to point out you can run any EXE with proton through steam. There's a "add non-steam game" button, just select your EXE and edit the properties to run with proton. I run all EXEs this way.
Thank you, It was really helpful.
Windows 10 updates made want to switch to Linux. I'm glad I did it has been great. I've been a Linux user for about 3-4 years now.
Have you try Windows 11?
Ive started with Ubuntu, went over to Manjaro then to popOS and i settled with Fedora for quite some time now :)
I am a linux user. I use mainline Arch and I have no regrets. I initially moved to arch about 2.5 years ago, and have loved my time there. I genuinely believe arch is out of the box more stable than all of the other distros
The testing repo is what keeps it stable. A bunch of people run from testing to test and/or abuse the software and generally make sure weird things don't happen. I believe the testing time is about two weeks iirc. It's in the wiki. Imagine pretty much any other distro doing that for *every single official package.* Not happening. If you check the news before updating you're pretty much gauranteed to have something stable unless you do some pretty crazy things.
Also the wiki. The wiki is awesome.
I'm a gamer and the best distro I have tried when it comes to gaming that's garuda gaming edition. Everything gaming relates is installed out of the box and even better it's arch the only real problem I have with it is that it's a little performance heavy but i find it easier to get anything I have used up and running.
Im a long term user of Linux and what I see beginners make the mistake that Linux will operate like windows. But when people face the fact that windows is different to linux and actually try to use it as its own OS than you will have a better time.
Yes, you might "break your system" but the fact is that the problem that you have in a particular system most likely happen to someone else and that someone else has explained how he fixed it.
Not everything works on Linux for some reason or another, but most likely there is a alternative that works as good or better than the original, a good example in my book is Libreoffice compared to MSOffice, most of the people would not see a difference beside the slight difference in UI.
Is Linux for everybody? No.
Should at least give it a chance? Yes, but an actual chance, not "it does not run my adobe photoshop by default so I cant use this". Give at least GIMP a try
Could not agree more. Tge Unix like systems are way different then windows and most windows users are not use to all the different ways you can your system.
Indeed. For a few years when I was still using Windows I would install a bunch of open source programs and use those instead of anything that was Windows only. Makes it easier to transition, though to be fair I was also using Linux that whole time, so I mostly was using Windows for games and such. Now I can just use WINE and most things work.
My Windows installations broke way more often than my rolling release linux distro. Never had a total failure on the latter and most of the little issues I found were usually easy to fix by just searching info on the web.
On the LibreOffice point, does it have all the features you should ever really need, yes, but... If you need to share files around and if people insist on .docx over .odf, sometimes, even though they've improved compatibility, things don't translate 100% and text will move around and change size in presentations for example. On the plus side, you can have pdf figures in your slides, so don't have to worry about blurry pngs unlike o365.
In terms of stability, I remember actually having issues with Ubuntu and Pop (not many, but some), Manjaro on the other hand has never failed me (or maybe I just don't remember anymore, because I'm more familiar with linux now) in its two years or so of being on my pc, even after copying all of the system files from an ext4 partition to a btrfs on a new faster drive. Arch is not necessarily any more powerful than other distros, or offers you any unique features really, but its a useful exercise, it encourages you to learn and on the odd occasion that you do have an issue, that insight into how things actually work behind the curtains helps you smoothly address it. The true benefit of arch is probably the freshest rolling release packages and full compatibility with AUR. Manjaro has made me love pamac though and its nice having that as an official package that updates with the rest (rather than installing from AUR on arch).
@@johanngambolputty5351 If a PNG is blurry for you, use a higher resolution. If anything it should make for a smaller file and cleaner image plus easier portability than a PDF. Of course, if you have to hand something to a Windows user, you can still print to PDF for them and ignore the whole DOCX versus ODF argument altogether.
I've really tried. I want it to work for me. But as hobbyist game dev, it just doesn't. So many things "just work" under windows, changing my audio workflow to use ardour is a pain and I seem to spend more time fiddling with things than working on actual projects. I use linux professionally, I'm great in the terminal, it's not like I've not put the work into learning it. I just feel that as much as it is objectively a better operating system, it's not the best operating system for game dev.
I am using linux pretty long (began with ubuntu since 2016) and also completely deleted my windows installation this year, since the support for most software that i need is given and i can't really use windows without seeing design flaws in every corner.
My goto distro is Arch, because i like the imense potential to fit the system with whatever you like.
Today i will probably install zen kernel for FSync.
I once tried gentoo, but in my perspective its idiotic having to build every package on every update.
Sometimes Games may run faster on linux, but sometimes they are a big pain to get to run. The good thing on this is that a huge amount of games do run on linux.
The terminal in linux is the most amazing tool i ever use, it started to become the main navigation for me that point.
To be fair, windows has cmd and powershell too, but it almost encourages you to never learn these, it really seems to patronise the user. Also on the flip side, though it is a boon overall I think, linux does encourage the terminal inadvertently, either because you end up having issues or because theres so many outdated methods on the internet, to do things that could be achieved in guis. The terminal is great fun though and everyone should learn a little of it.
@@johanngambolputty5351 the reason why the terminal is that dominant in linux, is because linux is overly focused on server technology. The reason why even microsoft invest into linux is because running without a gui is its strength, but it's also it's weakness when it comes to the desktop.
@@lunalildragon241 I disagree, you can do more in the kde settings panel than in the window control panel I would say, especially if you compare against the modern stripped down setting (though you can acces the old control panel in windows).
@@johanngambolputty5351 the terminal is the important linux tool.
You can see what went wrong and have full access to any tool you might need, in most cases it wont warn you in a notification.
Windows on the other hand gives you everything on a gui, if a game crashes you know what went wrong because a window pops up telling you x.dll not found.
I would surely love to have that for linux but in the same time i like the terminal attempt more.
Linux is still far away from being gui only, but i can live with that because i love it that way.
I think linux will never become a terminal less haven because without it, you wouldn't have a way to notice that your kernel loaded the wrong network driver.
@@lunalildragon241 I'm no fan of windows, but theres no fundamental reason you couldn't start a program from cmd in windows or use command line args and flags assuming the program implements them, its just not common practice, so many programs don't seem to bother. You could also use windows built in binaries to get system info (e. g. about loaded drivers) just as you use linux built in binaries... but they probably aren't as well documented, being proprietary. Whatever the os, theres nothing locking you down to text interface shell only, or gui only, but text shell is always going to expose more because its easier to expose that way, so it will allways be handy and get you further. Still, I like to use the gui for super simple things and start pressing META+T when I know its not going to give me what I want, or when I know it will be just a one liner.
Edit: It's occurred to me thats not always a default keybinding and I usually use the kde shortcuts panel to set it up, go figure.
7:24 - for that try Bottles is Wine manager that uses Wine with Proton patches
Been using Garuda exclusively for a year now any haar no thought of coming back. Yes, there are hickups here and there but developer experience is just so so so much nicer thanks to package management. I don't have to download libraries annually and deal with them either being included directly in the project and linked properly, i just sudo pacman -S lib{name} and I'm done (if it comes to c/++). System overall is faster and customization is something i can't live without, i use shit ton of gnome extensions that just make my life easier and more productive in my environment. Terminals/Shells are amazing as well, u can do practically anything with the system from there with very little overhead. And cmd/Powershell don't even stand a chance against bash/zsh/fish/nushell (which in currently using and it's very nice) in terms of usability and comfortability
doing well and thanks again!
Iirc, you can use parsec on linux... There is a client available on the AUR for arch/Manjaro (parsec-bin)
He's talking about hosting it on linux, not using a client
There's a free program called Wavemaker that might be a viable alternative to Scrivener.
I also used to use one called Manuskript, but I really don't know if it's still in development. It was in its early stages back when I used it.
I'm actually considering Obsidian, but I need to use it first and try it out
I first started to use Linux back in 2001 (PHAT Linux 3.3 anybody?) but only just recently started using it again after I found out my laptop (which has a 7th gen Intel processor) would not support Windows 11. I didn't see any reason to potentially toss a perfectly good computer, so I started looking at Linux again. Currently running Zorin OS and I couldn't be happier! My only regret is that it won't play The Long Dark very well.
go and stick to gentoo with openrc and a non desktop profile.
go for a tiling window manager like the suckless one, dwm, and you're on less than 512M of ram usage.
if you like spending time, tweaking and digging you could run any software. still, if you would like to use photoshop other win only software
you could setup a kvm (kernel based virtual mashine) witn win alomost native performance (gpu pass-through are also well documented).
arch based distros in their minimal install are also a big deal if you don't care about unique builded software and you won't compile it but just going for ready to use binaris.
(ignore my english mistakes)
good video and editing by the way xD
Been using Linux since 9 years, from that 7 years on Manjaro (the same install).
I've lost count of the number of years I've been using Linux. I use Arch Linux with KDE Plasma. I feel so at home with Linux.
I'm using arch btw
I switched 1,5 years ago, because windows always decided to commit not live anymore after a certain amount of time.
Anyways, I welcome you the world of Linux mate.
Why you need parsec? game streaming? if you have a Nvidia, look for the project called Sunshine, it's an appimage that enables streaming, you just double-click it basically, it has a web interface, and you can connect to it from a bunch of different devices and computers using Moonlight
For my game work, I sometimes need access to my more powerful PC remotely. It's AMD-based so I doubt it will work
@@asatiirstales steamlink works with amd, there might be another way tho, you can also setup a vm with pass-through, bit annoying but it's a way
I used to have the same issue with laptop charging up until I installed Kubuntu, which recognizes it’s charging immediately and has even improved the battery life from my previous distro (Ubuntu Budgie)
LOOOL YESSSSSSSS TNice tutorialS COMNT IS FELTTTTT
Wanted to thank you for a great vid. Helped a lot. I've been trying to get going in both soft soft and didn't get very far. TNice tutorials vid helped a
Try learning bottles, its a easier graphical way of setting up wine prefixes to run software, it even has options to create one prefix oriented to games or software
POP-OS on 2 Gaming laptops and 2 on old 6 and 7 gen Intel SFF PC's for home servers (DLNA and SAMBA). I Love that Linux is a non-Spyware OS, unless you are careless with choosing browsers like Google based Chrome/Chromium just stick with Firefox, Waterfox or LibreWolf or use all three of them :)
Try using Sunshine/moonlight instead of parsec? maybe worth a shot!
Switched back in 2016. Settled on Manjaro KDE
linux is life
i use arch btw
I put linux on a 286 pc got lucky installed and worked with the hardware of the time that the real trick to linux back in early days was match the right one it alot better today
Opensuse tumbleweed is a very decent destro for beginner. its bleeding edge without all the issue like arch.
Well, Ive been a Linux user for a while Now.
Backstory:
Originally, but in like 2016-2017, i was much younger, around 9-10, I tried Ubuntu on the family computer. It was great. As you can imagine i didn't really keep it around. Actually lost that pc for a while. It didn't boot or do anything But after a while I got my own computer. This is the current computer I'm on now. It came with Windows 10. And at that point I kind of forgot about Linux. Till 4-5 years later. In which i was reminded about Linux somehow. The start of this year, I switched all my computers over to some distribution of Linux (They are all running different distributions). And well went directly to Manjaro. As an Intermediate area. Then went and installed Arch Linux finally after a while, and that's where i am today
And i havent needed Windows really for anything. Wine has been good enough for me. I don't really have anything that doesnt work here on Linux. So it just happens that all my computers are prefect so is my equipment that i have.
And the software well, I dont really have much software i need. Really only one game kept me back: Well that was: Roblox. Sounds kinda dumb, but their player would boot, but some weird stuff would kick you and so on. This was fixed recently at the start of the year, Which kinda led me to install and run all of this stuff. All of my steam Library works just fine.
Sorry for kinda all the comment spam, but thats really the story, and yeah
You probably will miss this comment but try an App called "Bottles" It's Wine + Proton manager with nice UI making it easier to manage.
I haven't, I have an upcoming video addressing bottles. Thanks though
I switched to arch with dwm straight from windows 10 (because otherwise you are irrelevant the philospohy says) 😭😭😭😭it took me 1 year to get used to it and now I'm loving it
That feeling that 12 year Lenovo thinkpad could run windows 11 while mines gaming laptop from 2017 couldn’t.
Pretty interesting video. I thought Linux was a no no for Game Developers. Interesting to see you try it, I've been using Ubuntu for a long time now, just because I like it more, and I'm more efficient on it.
It is very good for indie developers, mainly for those using the Godot Engine.
I still have to use windows at work, im dual booting Windows 10 on my main pc becouse i want to play games. On my laptop i installed EndeavourOS and it is great.
"Arch linux is known to have a really steep learning curve"
me an arch user for the first time using nixos : "hol up"
you can also try 'bottles' . I prefer lutris to be honest but bottles frontend works
I'm surprised you didn't go for Fedora, love the distro, and ships with vanilla gnome
And I probably would have, but I found some really good footing on Manjaro and I'm very happy with it
I've been meaning to switch to Linux after not liking the direction that Microsoft is taking Windows. I've been a long time linux user at work, but not at home. I've switched my Dell XPS 13 to Manjaro Linux and I've been using it for 2 months now. So far it's great and I'm getting similar experiences to you including better battery life. My gaming PC is next, but I think I'll dual boot in that case
IMO, your experience with Linux is greatly affected by your choice of hardware. If you choose an nvidia GPU for example, you'll not have a good time. Switchable graphics are also kinda flaky. Dell laptops tend to be very well supported however, and also AMD and intel GPUs.
Note that what I'm about to say (as you said) implies you're not using NVidia as in some cases it works but in others its a nightmare, hope that recent NVidia Linux thing will push them to correct this stupid issue. (but then again I hate NVidia and wish they'd die as a company anyway)
Generally, outside of very special cases of only certain modern games, so long as they aren't running an intrusive anti-cheat and/or certain pieces of DRM (and excepting the games that have allowed you to bypass that issue which Easy and Battleeye do support) you may not even need to run a dual boot, funny thing is if you can run your games on Proton, there is a high likelihood that the optimal case will be more performant then Windows, the most common case for this relating to shaders because most Windows games don't natively cache the shaders whereas Proton will force most games to do that. In other cases I've found that frames in general on a properly functioning game to be well above the Windows bloatware by at least 10%.
Actually switchable graphics card thing is mostly solved on most distros in the last one or two years. It was a mess when I first started though
Nvidia switchable (MUX-Less) is quite usable. Fedora for example uses Switcherooctl and it works quite well.
But there are many others with mux & secureboot will block Nvidia drivers from being loaded and still need manual signing. On Acer laptops manual signing won't work either because their BIOS is just bad.
So yeah. Pick your hardware from most common and popular ones.
I've been running fedora since about may this year. My only complaint is that I don't like gnome too much but I think they are the only ones who support touchpad gestures.
KDE Plasma is getting good support for touch gestures. Pop!_OS as well is getting better on that front as well!
@@Jazztache maybe I'll try it then thanks!
@@ethanrivers4057 No prob, man! Best of luck! It's really dependent on distro and desktop environment.
Some distros have the touchpad packages built-in but some require a bit of tinkering and finding the right stuff to install.
Tell me how it goes :)
(1) In "Edison" it would be possible to create and play Loops in Any Order we like. Example. Loops=(2, 6, 8, 1) or (12, 1, 3, 6.10,) and
You can install wine sistem wide, by doing this you can launch .exe files just by double clicking them in the file manager
Scrivener is in the AUR and there are free and open source alternatives for Scapple.
I'm currently going through Obsidian, it has its own mind map thing, it's neat
7:39 for those wondering, objectively the best gaming remote desktop is called *sunshine moonlight* . it is 2 programs the server is called sunshine and the client is called moonlight. i say it is the best because it has both lower latency and wider bitrate range than parsec, of course as well as being fully open source from back to front and working perfectly on GNU/Linux.
In my opinion the biggest downside is that the *sunshine* server is difficult to set up for the inexperienced. The *moonlight* client has a simpler GUI and is easy for any of your users to connect once you have set up the sunshine server for them.
I recommend Fedora for beginners and advanced users alike
It is such a relief to switch on Linux specifically Pop!_Os. My laptop is 9 years old and I need to use this for another 3 years for my study. Windows 10 gave me a LOT of headaches. Even though I installed an anti-virus software, it was still infested with viruses and malwares. The worst part was every time I powered up my laptop, it didn't boot at all and I'm always spending my time fixing it. Now that I am using Pop!_Os, I am able to use this 9 years old laptop without the stress and problems that Windows gave me.
I have been usinginux since 2020 and I love it. Also wine isn't that hard. You can use it with a front end like bottles or wine tricks. Honestly you can Have it set to oppen like you would a normal program a good trick to making things run better is to see what dependencies it needs to run it.
You can use Proton outside of steam with playonlinux, Lutis or PortProton