Five Things Linux Does Better Than Windows
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Does Linux best Windows in enough areas to merit serious consideration as your desktop operating system?
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Linux can breathe life back into an ancient machine as it is easy to find a lightweight distro that consumes a fraction of the resources that windows does.
This is an important one that i hope to be mentioned in a part 2. Lifesaver for my sibling's dying laptop
10 years ago I would have believed you but I tried Ubuntu on my IBM thinkpad r51 and it ran worse than windows 7
One important thing to note is that it will be slightly less capable for certain things. Not saying it's bad, just saying that lightweight operating systems are more harm than good if your system can run a more demanding OS.
@@reki353 To be fair, Windows 7 is perfection.
I had hoped that I could do that. I just got a free laptop. It was a ~12 inch Dell with Windows Vista. Sadly, even after installing Pop!OS, it's so old and terrible that just sitting on the desktop kicks the single 40mm fan into the second highest setting, and even opening a browser and sitting on the new tab page kicks it to the highest setting.
you forgot one thing:
people randomly asking how you got it to look like that when you screenshare something
y e s
relatable
very relatable
"what version of windows is _that_ ?"
@Ganer's-comment/post "you forgot one thing: people randomly asking how you got it to look like that when you screenshare something":
You just reminded me of something else:
In the [decade of the] 1990s: people seeing the [infamous] "desktop cube" and wondering [and/or asking you] "what version of Windows is THAT? O_O ".
And/Or (in the early-2000s), seeing the Matrix "green falling-code / green "raining"-code" screensaver on your computer-screen (or in this case, the computer-screen of the computer of the I.T.-department manager--&--system-administrator of my university) and asking "how do i get THAT screensaver?! O_O :-O ".*
*(I would like to add that I added this last part (ie. the part[/paragraph] about the "Matrix code" screensaver) because the manager/system-administrator told me it was Linux and the-distro-he-was-using came with that screensaver [preinstalled in it]).
(Unfortunately I *still* haven't been able to find-out *what* distro it was).
One of my favorite things about Linux is that it doesn't gradually slow down because it's been running for 3 days. I have one system (file server) that's been up for 290 days with no issues.
It still happens to me too with time, though it is longer (3 weeks vs 3 days). However, my linux vms that run services in them have been on for much longer without slowing down, as you said. So have my windows server vms, though. It is probably because of regular use, but I agree that linux is better at it.
@Mohammed Mesum Hussain Servers aren't meant to be rebooted though, they're supposed to be on for as long as possible.
@Mohammed Mesum Hussain Can you please elaborate?
@@3333218 There is some misunderstanding when it comes to the general sentiment that "Linux doesn't need to be rebooted". Brodie did a video on it recently which sort of represented the opposite opinion. Both extremes are right or wrong depending on the circumstance. *On the desktop* run your updates regularly and reboot right after, it's generally not worth overthinking it. On servers it may be worth paying more attention depending on the use case of the server. In any case, if the kernel doesn't get updated you don't need to reboot, you can just bounce the effected services. More specifically if there's not a kernel update that also resolves a security update that you are affected by you don't need to reboot. In the most extreme cases it's actually possible to live patch a kernel and almost never reboot. People can get in trouble though not testing the reboot sequence.
The majority of the sentiment originally stems from the win98 days when windows leaked memory all over the place and couldn't reasonably stay running over a day. Linux has always been quite good in this regard and yes technically capable of running for years without reboot. Though actually doing so is rarely necessary or a good idea for *other reasons*, security, and so on.
@@entelin Ty!
It is a really good programming environment. Everything from setting up webservers, compiling C++, to writing scientific papers is just way easier and faster on Linux.
Obviously it has some problems, but with a bit of a learning curve these become a non-issue.
"C++" check out rust. It's like C++, but with a built in package manager and build system. It's also memory safe without a garbage collector
@@firexgodx980 I've checked out and it's a solid language but considering the maturity of C++, Rust has a lot to catch on. I like the functional programming inspired syntax and the ownership model though.
@@PixelTrik Rust is promising but you're right. The ecosystem has to mature way more. Especially in UI librarys.
@@firexgodx980 Whats up with rust fanboys obsessed with everyone moving to their language lmao, rust is not at the level of C++a yet as PixelTrik said
@@firexgodx980 C++ honestly doesn't really have any problems with memory as long as you're using modern versions of it, instead of just writing C code with a C++ compiler, specially with smart pointers and such. haven't had to use a single delete statement with new projects.
And besides, C++20 introduced modules, which for now even though it's not widely supported, still exists, and is way better than includes, and if i recall correctly vcpkg can be used as a package manager that works on every OS.
One of the biggest QoL perks of linux, imo is the update system. It's much more sensible and fast, it never restarts or upgrades anything unless you tell it to, and just generally takes a fraction of the time it takes windows to run an update. And it doesn't require the system to sit for minutes at a time before shutdown or right after startup "applying" the updates. It just boots up, and the updates are done.
Windows can't delete or replace open files. That means it has to do all those tasks during reboots
Yes this
it can, but it's sometimes not good to do. I like fedora's shutdown, enter update mode, then reboot.
@@lukasm1293 that's another design flaw, forced restarts on updates are a fix for a problem windows itself created
No, sigh. Dependency redundancy... Nothing particularly complex on Linux hence simple updating. New software often buggy. No real reason to be cutting edge updated all of the time.
Just gonna add this here, Microsoft actually uses linux on their Azure servers.
every major player uses Linux for their business, they're also contributing tons of code and money to the Linux foundation :) Without support of big corps Linux would not be what it is today.
And they made WSL. It's clear MS cares about linux and open source (they own GitHub too) but Windows will probably never become OSS either way.
@@quinten01 Windows will become OSS when the copyright ends. As it is today, it will be 90 years, but as reverse engineering software isn't illegal some people are actually making an OSS windows version.
@@quinten01 On the surface it seems like that WSL was done out of love for Linux, but in reality, it was to keep more people on Windows, especially for devs who's main purpose of linux was development, especially if they are doing cross-platform development. It's just more convenience then rebooting your computer between windows and linux all the time. More time users spend on Windows, more $$$ from user data.
But jesus was it a godsend for developers using work-provided laptops. Not needing to use virtualbox or other virtualization software to do development on top of windows or maintaining an additional process for setting up a dev environment for specific projects which are usually much more complicated and error prone than setting up on linux.
@@nuculabs Doubt Microsofts contribution helps all that much. Most of the code is either sent in by colleges, or Linux community.
On the last point: it would be nice if people talking about open source software being free of charge also emphasize that it still costs time and money to develop programs, so people should at least be nice and consider donating if you can.
"🤓"
-🤓, 2022
@@kajojo2399no. They’ve got a point.
Developing such powerful software costs a lot of money, so donating is a good way to fund the development of things like Linux.
@@vas-poenitentiae-08 im broke so tasukete
I've been using Linux since November 2020. I switched from Windows 10 to Pop!_OS 20.10 to now Fedora. I love GNU/Linux for its simplicity and stability. I don't need my operating system to be integrated with services I don't use, and I love being able to choose basically everything about my setup. I can choose different desktop environments (like KDE Plasma, GNOME, or Cinnamon), different package managers (APT, DNF, Flatpak, YUM, Pacman, heck even Snap), and different development philosophies (Stability a priority? Go Debian or Ubuntu. Want latest kernel updates and packages? Go Fedora, Arch, or Gentoo. Want a noob-friendly distro? Pop!_OS and Linux Mint.) There is so much freedom in being able to do whatever you want with your software.
Ahh yes GNU/Linux
You have to know how to do everything YOURSELF to be able to take out services you don’t use. If you guys think Linux is the best and has all these fancy package managers and you guys know everything about computers you have to KNOW what YOUR doing and be able to rely on YOURSELF to solve your windows issues and know if it’s WORTH IT to switch to Linux. If you can get switched from windows to Linux so easily, you need to learn how to fix your windows issue’s by ACTUALLY trying and not going like “i give up im switching to Linux”.
Once upon a time, windows had an edge on linux, but nowdays there is Edge for both
LOL!
I installed edge from the aur once. It was filthy and dirty. I quickly ran back to surf.
Edge is crap
Boooooooooooooo
Wish I could like twice
I feel like Linux gives back what you put in to it. As someone who likes to tinker with the system it has given me an amazing customized workflow. The downside is that every time I have to use Windows or mac now feels like eating soup with a fork and pisses me off so freaking much.
"Eating soup with the fork" is the perfect analogy, those who have never used spoons will mock you for it, they claim that since everybody uses forks, it must be the better way, using spoons gives too much soup and you can burn your tongue, also you run out of soup faster and more soup is always better right?.....
........Wait is it the perfect analogy or is it just funny to imagine drinking/eating soup with forks
Old Windows (up to Windows 7) used to be bloody amazing. Even Vista with its flaws was a HUGE step forward for the OS. Nowadays though, Windows is trash.
@@arnox4554 Don't bring up Windows 7, it makes me remember its successor the tablet OS Microsoft released on desktops.
And also the glass look 11's going with, I actually prefer the 7's aesthetic.
Although I would have to say even though 95 is a version I have no memory of using since it predates well my existence, I absolutely love its look, and that is why XFCE is my favourite desktop environment.
Check out Chicago95 by grassmunk for XFCE
Eyyy a fellow tinker. I typically use arch to tinker and break my OS a lot... My fault of course and not the OS's fault. But the awesome thing is you can usually fix things you break fairly easy. Btw did I mention I use arch btw... btw?
same XD
This is a combination of all your reasons, but I used to constantly have to fix my mom's computer, over the phone or in person, until I installed Mint on it and only heard about it once every 6 months or so
Mint is a treasure
that's saying something when the one using is an old person lol, this might just convinced me to start learning to use linux
@@michaeltagor4238 absolutely, the hardest part is installing it, if you're just using the browser and opening documents like her. And distros like Mint are way more user friendly than advanced ones like Arch
lol best test one can make to evaluate OS reliability.
If you really want to ease out the transition, I would recommend to first start to use open source software on your OS. And there are projects you might really like that even if you won't switch, may continue to use: OBS studio, Blender, VLC, audacity, firefox, 7zip...
@Linden Reaper I was also only learning cross-platform apps intentionally even though I didn't have any idea on how linux is, didn't like the idea to lock myself to windows back then. Now happily using Linux :)
True. I use all of those programs regularly, except for Audacity and Blender.
chromium works too
Blender is my main work tool, didn't chose it 10 years ago because of Linux but I did because it was Foss (free and open source)
i used to use firefox but then I switched to microsoft edge as firefox uses 100% more recources then microsoft edge
in the early days of watching linus tech tips, i often got confused between linux and linus. it baffled me for years wondering how a man could become an operating system.
Jajajaja.
One is the Os for penguins, the second is the Os loaded in an agressive annoing nerd's brain.
More or less like that.
Linus is the founder of Linux. A different Linus than you are thinking of but still a Linus nonetheless...
@@a3aan__uit389 well this makes everything so much more complicated 😂😂😂
@@mikeoxlong4043 lemme give you an advice to make it less complicated
In Linus Sebastian's (LTT) PC build for Linus Torvalds (creator of Linux), LTT Linus pronounced Linux Linus as LEE-NUS. So we the LTT viewers have been calling Linux Linus LEENUS ever since
GNU/Linux*
If you're using AMD as your video brand, having a small linux install for running Open GL applications can be a quite decent bet, as the mesa drivers are insanely faster than the official drivers.
In my specific case with a vega 8, Heavy OpenGL applications do triple the performance when running on linux in some cases.
Isn't Mesa developed in large part by AMD?
In some cases. Citation needed.
@@deoxal7947 I have no clue, but that would make it very weird, as if it was the case, they could just use it on the Windows drivers and solve the performance issues there.
PopOS
For Vulkan apps too. All the drivers for AMD are first made for linux, as they are open-soure. AMD then port them to windows.
After the initial learning curve it quickly becomes really hard to go back to windows. Its weird and upsetting after using linux for a few years to load up windows 10 and find that the start menu is cluttered with apps i dont want, in the instillation i have to click no to tracking/cortana/location about 7 times and to download apps from the store i have to have a microsoft account for some reason. But i think my biggest issue with windows is just that i paid money for it. I paid the one off fee to download it and use it and yet they continue to shower me with ads, make me use there apps, stop me removing stuff i dont want (xbox app) and constantly try to force me to use their browser, all so they can show me even more ads! This really shouldnt be the case for something you have already paid for. I would be fine with it if windows had a free version with the issues listed above and a paid version with all that stuff removed but the way they treat customers who have paid for their product is unacceptable. Cant recommend linux enough! Its so much easier than you think and the internet is covered in helpful forums and video to get you through any issues you encounter.
Not only that, if you dare to run anything that scrubs the telemetry, other stuff breaks that really ought not to have done.
Like, Microsoft, I paid for this software, Leave me alone. Stop snooping at what I'm doing. My data is not your data.
I think i have developed some kind of windows-phobia over the years.
Everytime i have the misfortune of using a windows machine I feel uncomfortable and disgusted. It begins crawling under my skin and I feel like I'm having a light panic attack. The machine doesn't feel like a tool at my disposal, but an adversary.
I'm not kidding. Literal fight-or-flight reaction. Hate that thing with a passion.
To add to your xbox app comment. Why is the Xbox app not only install but the service actually running by default in enterprise edition Win 10? It's enterprise edition! If Windows didn't put food on my table I'd never touch it.
I am a bit late to the party but i have to agree. The only way that i found windows to be bearable is at work were we have huge enterprise licenses that cut down on the telemetry alot. I recently installed Windows on my sisters maschine and was shocked how bloated the home user experience actually is.
@@MattBooth No, it's not your data anymore. Read the Windows EULA. You'll find out that Microsoft can do whatever they want with your data. Every time you use a piece of Microsoft's software, you actually agree with everything written in the license. If you disagree, your only option is to stop using that software.
0:15 System stability
1:39 Linux is highly customizable
2:48 Security - Linux is more secure
4:26 Privacy, no tracking
5:18 Price
Linux's printer drivers are amazing, much better than Windows on the whole.
Yes they are ...........except for my crappy Canon printer. :-)
EDIT:
But I agree printer drivers for Linux are much better, and easier, they just apperently don't exist for my printer.
Yes agreed it can easily Detect and start printing decade old printers while on windows we've gotta go on a long quest to find which driver works for the printer that we own
yes and no. it's hit or miss out of the box but when it comes to community support Linux printing is the best on the market (thanks Apple and HP)
This is something I was seriously surprised about myself. I installed zorin on my girlfriends laptop and then, when I was done with the configuration of all her application, she dug out that oldass HP printer and said: "Oh could you install this thing too?" and I was like: "Oh jesus fuck please not a printer". But all I did was plug it in, zorin did some linux magic and the printer worked immediately. I never had such an easy experience with a printer EVER.
@@yoda6239 Broadcom be like: you want working drivers? Well too bad
I'd love to see the flip side. But it's crazy how overlooked and underappreciated package management
is in these kinds of discussions. Like, not having to worry about an app being outdated is amazing
Also, CUPS is great. Beats the snot out of using printers in Windows like, 50 times over.
A lot of app settings are somewhere in your home folder so you can easily move them and whatnot
Ironically most apps from the repositories and package managers ARE outdated.
"A lot of app settings are _somewhere_ in your home folder". You know that doesn't sound too good 😊
@@catriona_drummond This is an exact sort of problem I had in using Linux. I kept getting outdated software that wasn't working correctly from the package manager and often had to track it down somewhere else, defeating the point.
Microsoft has winget, it can also update software that wasn't installed with winget.
Intel, AMD, Nvidia if those 3 companies ditched windows and focused support on Linux, everything would be Linux within the decade.
Apart from Microsoft regularly scratching their back only other significant Windows advantage is the perceived security that comes with Microsoft. If a company suffers a loss due to a OS bug, they can sue Microsoft.
As a disabled user, using a controller to navigate the UI can be very helpful. Joy-Cons are perfect for one-handed navigation with smaller hands. It took a week of trial and error before I found a solution on Windows; I was set up in a couple of minutes on Linux with an app in the Mint repo. The flipside of Linux lacking proprietary drivers is that it will at least try to connect with anything, as opposed to the hostility of closed source systems towards competitor hardware.
Apple's OSes are still far superior for accessibility, with Android not too far behind, but Windows 10 is by far in last place from my experience.
Thank you for the story. I guess one of the best things of FOSS is that anyone can do anything about it. We don't need to beg the multimillion companies to listen to our humble wishes. One more reason to promote Linux. I wish some journalists can cover more similar stories!
Printing. Printing from linux is much better
Joy-cons? Like Nintendo Switch controllers?
So I've been using Linux for about 2 months now, and it's amazing. Almost my entire Steam library of games work perfectly fine and most of the games run even better on Linux even though they're made for Windows. Make sense of that, will you? I know why though. Windows Updater, Microsoft Store and Cortana eat up RAM in the background for no reason. And the Windows kernel is only growing larger and larger in size with more and more code being added to it.
What version are you using.
And what about windows softwares, how do i install them in linux or games.
@@kaizer8589 By "version" I assume you mean distro. I'm using one called Manjaro. In order to get Windows apps and games running on Linux, you have to use a program called Wine. This comes already installed with Manjaro, so I didn't have to do anything there. Only Windows programs I have installed are Photoshop 2021 and Clip Studio Paint. Although I'm trying to migrate from those to the ones we have in Linux (Gimp and Krita), because those are free.
@@jackthebeenstalker2492 manjaro is based on arch, a rolling release version of Linux, constantly updating and causing issues when a dependency updates before the software thst requires it does.
Not to mention arch can and will randomly delete itself. Happened to me 3x before I threw it away and installed pop os.
@@raycert07 It is based on Arch and semi-rolling. Meaning, the Manjaro team doesn't release packages before properly tested. I've never had any issues with it. And in terms of stability, it's actually among the most stable distros out there from what I have heard. Server distros not included. Because that'd make Debian a clear winner. But I've also heard that the distros that used to be considered stable (Ubuntu based), are not so stable anymore due to various decisions from Canonical. Snaps being one of them. And besides. When it comes to stability and security, every Linux distro is a mile better than Windows no matter how bleeding edge their packages are.
Yep one of my games in particular from 2009 that was an absolute pain in Windows, where it would constantly freeze never freezes in Linux with proton. I find that pretty amazing given that it was literally made for windows and nvidia. It uses NVIDIA physics and what not. The installation required one extra step, where I had to move a few files in the installation directory, but it works great. And like I said, in Windows, that game can be equally as hard to get it to run and once you do it has the potential to freeze. The game is called Sacred 2 Gold. To make it even better, that game has a save editor, why I couldn't install in my Windows VM because the NET Framework 3.5 installation kept failing. Guess what I got it to run with Wine in a Linux Mint VM. It's just hilarious. This right here completely sold me. I'm running fedora workstation btw with dash to panel.
On Linux, it's easy to disable execution from the user's directory, install all necessary software, and prevent the user from having administrator rights. This is a very good setup for grandparents to avoid sneaky malware and viruses.
Except the average WIndows user doesn't understand what "it's easy to disable execution from the user's directory" means so they can't do that on Linux for their grandparents.
And constantly phone you up because they can't do anything until you buy them a Chrome OS machine or Apple product instead like a real person.
My Grandma wants it simple, so she is not likely to use the terminal. I set her up with Linux Mint and she likes it.
@@MagikGimp Not in my case!
True you just might have to set things up for said grand parent
i switched to linux about 2 months ago on my main laptop that i mainly use for class and it's great. even got steam + proton + hybrid graphics working for BTD6 and it works fantastic.
edit: i use arch btw (imo great as a beginner if you want to learn. i went from win10 to arch and hope to never switch back)
Took two months to play Bloons Tower Defense huh /s
About the same here, but I gotta say, that graphics drives ware pure pain to setup for me, thanks to Nvidia's stupid linux drivers
Yep, me too. Although I don't game on my laptop. But for everything else its actually better and faster than Windows
BTD6? I read that as Battle Toads 6 and am wondering what game you’re playing, because I doubt it’s Battle Toads 6
Programming on Linux is my main focus and is a pleasant experience. I can run Python, C, C++ in almost all distros with the first boot. I can run Rust, Julia, Java, Ruby and MySQL with simple lines of code in the terminal.
I'm happy LTT has started to cover more Linux stuff even though their CEO breaks Linux distros by breathing in the same room
The move towards locked-down Linuxes based on containerized apps, such as Fedora Silverblue, will be amazing for some home users. It basically behaves like a phone: OS updates come all at once, and your apps are all sandboxed. Apps can't change anything about the OS even if they wanted to. You can decide per app what data and features they can access. And it also solves a lot of compatibility issues between Linuxes, as the sandbox contains everything it needs even if the OS doesn't. We're still in the early days of this approach but it's very promising.
"Because Operating Systems as a Service" is a serious problem that most people don't understand.
The ___ as a service trend is a serious problem as a whole now. You don't really own anything then.
@@avroarchitect1793 that's the end goal. "You won't own anything and you'll be happy!"
@@citizenkane2349 And the guy who leads that movement looks like a Bond villain.
@@citizenkane2349 its like the transition from slaves to employees.
@@citizenkane2349 yeah Claus Schwab and his minions -.-
When I tried Microsoft Edge on Linux, it was actually much smoother on Linux than Windows, while occupying lesser memory!
Well, edge is still a chromium browser, no surprise here
Then you realize, you're still using Edge, and you're still on Linux.
Why not use Firefox? Why use Edge?
@@TwoThirdsHuman I'm guessing here, but as they said "tried" I think it's most likely they just wanted to see what it was like not actually use it as their regular browser.
@@TwoThirdsHuman I used Firefox for years and while it's great, the issues I kept running into are it doesn't feel as responsive on a lot of websites. I know the problem is Google pushing closed Web standards and I really hate that, but that's still a problem the user has to deal with.
Started a Windows user. Switched to Linux during bachelor degree. Oh damn how I love it. I love everything about it. From the TTY over the terminal over dmesg to the ability to "rm -r" my entire root directory if I'd wanted to. Yeah it's not perfect - but neither am I - so we understand each other. 🙂
I love Arch Linux's package management and especially the AUR. Since it's so community driven, almost all programs I could ever want are on there.
average arch user
@@sliwka7889 HAHAHA true that.. it is a meme:
btw I use arch and 2nd AUR is my dream just became reality xD
- Gentoo User :)
Best package manager around.
yay
Once again I like that this team talks about GNU/Linux. Actually, reading comments is much more interesting then video itself, as it got many attention of Linux users, that sometimes say interesting useful things :)
Or bicker with each other which distro is better
@@BRAINIAC-V you can tell he means it because he double spaced every word, and broke contracted words into two, he even double spaced the period!
Please stop calling it GNU/Linux. It looks dumb and isn't even accurate. You can have a GNU-less Linux distro like Void
I have more Chrome code than GNU in my system, so it's Chrome/Linux
@@guest7329 true, kinda breaks the maxim of relativity. as if gnu ontop of linux is supposed to be seen as an oddity while it's the standard
Storage management, HDDs, usbs etc are easier to manage with Linux.
And best of all deleting partitions and then formatting in any type of format.
HOW?! Insert drive. Windows mounts it. Not there? Refresh or change drive letter. Done.
Linux- mount with command. Assign drive path from bewildering file system. Cross everything that you don't damage file system.
@@MagikGimp what are you talking about most distros come with gnome disks tool or gparted
@@MagikGimp What are you talking about. You are just oblivious to the disadvantages of auto-mounting it. On some DE's like Gnome it auto mounts it under /media/$USERNAME/random-name/ but on KDE Plasma a prompt comes up asking what if you would like to mount it. Sometimes, you plug a USB in to make a bootable partition, etc. For all those if it was mounted you would have to umount it. dd if=some-image.iso of=/dev/drive would be how to create a bootable USB from an ISO. You also might need to make a new filesystem such as ext4 or ntfs with mkfs which requires the drive be unmounted. You may also need to make new partitions / resize new partitions which require it to not be mounted. There are also tons of useful commands such as lsblk and lsusb which stand for list block devices and list usb respectively which can help you find the correct drive and or debug it. If you are looking to debug it, to run fsck which is a filesystem checker the drive requires to be unmounted. Not to mention Windows still lacks the ability to read and write to ext4 file formats. ext4 is a generally superior filesystem to ntfs as it has posix permissions and it is generally much more efficient with small and large files respectively. Your comment about "assign drive path from bewildering file system" just tells me you have never actually done it before. It is pretty hard to brick your system using the mount command, but like most Windows users you think doing anything will somehow break your system, but that is not how it is. It is easy for idiots to break their system when they are given complete control over the entire system and then complain that WIndows is better based on their incompetence.
@@MagikGimp bro. I use KDE plasma and it just mounts without me doing anything
I use arch btw, and linux has opened so many doors for me. One of the biggest things it showed me was what free and open source really means. Free as in freedom, any part of the system can be looked at, or changed. Windows owns their software, you're simply renting it like a car lease. With linux you can easily remove or add whatever you want (as long as you have the know how). Windows doesn't even let you REALLY select a primary web browser.
Same here, I love arch, but I use apt too from time to time thanks to apx(yay -S apx). But do you think it really matters? I mean whatever distro you use, it makes no difference does it? You can install anything that makes a distro special on another one. You can even rebuild the kernel no? So why do we have to say "whatever the distro is designed for". It's not the distro, it's what it holds. And as long as you dedicate yourself, you can make a distro whatever you want. Am I wrong?
I use Linux for work and Windows for my personal computer. I found that while overall system stability is better on Linux, it has many more small issues. Things like headphone audio not working, microphone sensitivity acting up and weird multi monitor behaviour.
Really? I find that multi monitor was completely broken and unusable up until Win10. And even now it is severly lagging behind multi monitor support on Linux.
Only wierdness I get is when an app is written for an older or very different desktop environment.
As for audio: generally also works much better on my KDE desktop than on Win10.
@@FutureChaosTV KDE is gold, the Smartphone APP of KDe is awesome :D completely underrated environment tbh :D
I started working in a PC repair shop in January 2022... The number of machines brought in because Windows Update made a mess and it either has to be fixed to recovery or a complete reinstall easily outweighs the number of machines brought in for hardware repairs.
And apparently Windows is still the greatest OS...
Not greatest, but biggest market share
I used to work in a GameStop. I don't think I ever saw an HD DVD come back from being damaged. Reason being it had such a small market share. Of course it's more likely you'll get Windows machines with problems it's got a much larger userbase and a lot lower percentage of Linux users are novices.
I'm guessing maybe 30 to 50% are desktop PCs with metal frames making them much harder to damage
One of the MAIN reasons I recently switched to Linux once and for all is was those SHITTY Windows updates. F&$k windows!!!!
@@quatjohn4375 You misread or misrepresented the OPs post.
He mentioned hardware. More broken systems because of *WINDOWS UPDATE* breaking than hardware being defective.
THAT was his point.
@@FutureChaosTV I remember there was a joke line in the Justice League Cartoon where they blame the Flash for all marriages ending in Divorce or death. I was saying most of the computers he’s moving are windows and there’s not much reason for a computer to come back other than software/firmware problems unless it’s from personal damage like you drop it which isn’t going to be covered by most warranties and possibly not worth the price to repair
Its also more secure because for many applications you do not have to download the files somewhere from the web you dont know, and most applications are open source making them often more secure, less sketchy (most of the times) and not flooded with adware, spyware or things you forget to click away while using the installer.
Also most users are more tech savvy and are unlikely to download malware infested software, so its not really worth wasting time developing malware for Linux
Your still downloading from an unknown source from the internet. You just don't start the download yourself. You run the install script and it downloads and installs a file from a website. Open source does not mean more secure. It means the source files to build the application are public. That's it.
@@raycert07 @Raycert07 channel Thats neither it nor really true anyway and depends very much on the situation. Yeah in some instances that is what happens. But more likely you have instances where you either know that something was build with this sources due to automated pipelines, you may download and install the source itself like many AUR package do, or you get something from an official package repository that (most of the time) just precompiled the source for the user into a binary so users are more safe and get what they expect. Yes, open source is not per definition more secure, but in practice it is most of the time and it definitely is better than it is on Windows.
@@raycert07 They do are more secure tho, apt will only download from verified ubuntu repos , along with a myriad of other verifications along the way before you're able to download it
@@kraftyrevolution how do you know someone hasn't poisoned the water inside the repos. How do you know if you trusy Ubuntu repos, the same thing applies. Only trust what you think is safe.
I've used Linux and it's amazing but the major problems I've had were
- Lack of compatibility of some apps
- Installing few things can be iffy
I'd almost say that your first point makes the apps bad, and not Linux, but it is quite annoying that some of the big productivity apps or creativity apps don't support Linux, so you're forced to use wine or Win/MacOS
What about the installation process for some things makes it iffy for you?
@@TBTapion terminal do be spoopy doe
Do you remember when you first used Windows? You're still learning. That's not a reason to blame an OS though.
@@Ishan.khanna There is flatpak and snap that allows you to install a program from an web browser just by clicking "install" button in the website
I'm happy to see more videos of Linux going mainstream, I started to use linux because i love tinkering with PC hardware and software when I was a kid,
really awesome what a community can build, when I sudo apt-get or pacman -S, everytime I think of a DOOM guy coding the program and making it available for me for free
1) lightweight from the installation (no background updates, bloat installations...)
2) bootable from USB for testing a PC (no HDD, no network)
3) privacy and security
4) no need for debloaters (3GB+ on the desktop?)
5) update the system and the applications together
6) headless (via ssh vnc...)
7) usually everything works (wifi adaptors, printers, DACs...)
8) resurrects old computers (1 core
There's also the advantage of having less things running in the background. My line of research often involves leaving my computer for days on end doing intensive calculations and the performance difference between Linux (lightweight distro) and Windows is very noticeable. Comparing the performance on the same hardware, Linux was always at least 10% faster.
@@hindigente True, but I guess it was already mentioned with point #1.
@@BruceCarbonLakeriver Oops, I thought he was mainly referring to HD usage. Didn't mean to be redundant.
@@hindigente np :D
I understood it both ways so, but I guess this isn't a big deal :D
Take care!
One of the many good things about these open unix-like systems (*BSD included) is that since they don't have so much crap running in the background, they might perform way faster than Windows, especially on slower hardware.
Also, the ability to build your system completely from scratch (LFS) is quite amazing, even if you'll never use it for something practical. You'll learn about how operating systems in general work much better than any tutorial or class could teach you.
In security department I would definitely mention SELinux and AppArmor as good preemptive security measures. In some cases, it's better to assume that everything is a shitty malware and explicitly allow something to be executed/downloaded/etc than 'scan' something in the background hoping that you'll be able to deal with consequences.
And finally, I find systemd much more robust and easy to use for managing services than Windows give you in the form of quite shitty GUI, which (as I recently discovered) don't allow you to search for exact service you need (besides server manager, but it's only available in Server Editions of Windows).
No.
That "crap" is what makes Windows actually not fall to pieces because you need a GUI to get stuff done.
Building your own system is a nerd fantasy that governments can't even achieve. Why do I want to learn stuff that'll be out of date in 5 years?
Linux user paranoia strikes again. The courageous penguin freak against the whole world out to get him (when actually they just want to make an e-mail client or whatever).
TEXT INTERFACE FETISHHHHHHNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
@@MagikGimp so you really think that's true? I only need terminal to ssh into servers and managing docker or other dev tools. I use thunderbird for email, no text based tool.
Get off your weird stereotypes
@@MagikGimp are you mad or something? I've never said anything about government or telemetry, or even about editing text files (everything is a file is a horrible mentality, but it could be justified sometimes).
IMHO, if you want to learn how OS works, you need to start somewhere anyway. It wouldn't be much out of date even 10 years from now - I mean, NT still uses a lot of legacy code written in early 2000s (and, reportedly, carried over some bugs till recent years). Obviously, APIs will come, be updated and go, but the core 'What OS needs too boot and operate' logic probably won't change much.
Don't project your assumptions about group of people to everyone. It doesn't make you look smart (or sane).
BTW, in a lot of cases you actually don't 'need' GUI to make stuff done in Windows as well.
When I refer to 'crap' - I mean crap, like telemetry and other preinstalled shit. Look no further than Microsoft's own LTSB (or LTSC, I forgot which one is used nowadays) version of Windows. It doesn't have most of that 'crap', runs perfectly well, does everything you need perfectly well, uses < 1GiB of RAM and around 57 processes on a fresh system. And you can enable anything you want that's not there. Considering it still bakes some nice telemetry, it's impressive.
@@MagikGimp cope
Average Joe gets about one hour a day of personal computer time. They would never ever think about doing LFS or spending their precious time exploring Linux. They don't care or even want to care and that is not a strike against them.
Been an only Linux workstation user at home and work since 2002. Started with Mepis Linux on a Compaq notebook in 2002 and currently run RichARCH on a Razer Stealth. It has not always been easy, but as of recent years using a Linux desktop has been brain dead simple. I think the best advantage of Linux is something that you touched on the video and that is choice. Choice in computing is something that most people never really truly understand until they truly live it with an environment like Linux.
Thanks for making these videos. From a stability perspective, I can honestly say Linux takes the edge. Somtimes games running in Proton / Wine can crash pretty amazingly, but other than that, the number of random annoyances I have are significantly less than they have been lately in Windows 11. I recently got a new GPU so I've been enjoying that good ol' Windows gaming performance, but it hasn't been without its own cost. Linux is really getting there. We have our headaches, but it's starting to enter viability land for gaming as well.
My two favorite things have to be the package management system in Linux, making it insanely easy to not only install new software but to update your whole system and its packages, all with a few words from the command line.
Secondly, depending on the desktop environment, most distros are so much more lightweight compared to Windows. XFCE, for example, will only use ~500mb at boot compared to the 3+ gb used by windows.
i use 400 mb with kde
well yes, but actually no
windows 10 (let's not count 11 because it is currently unstable and still requires a lot optimizations, which might take a long time anyways lol) uses something 1.4-1.9 gb (with a little bit of optimizations of course) without many programs running in the background, also it wouldn't really matter how much memory is being used because you still need to fill something in memory so you don't want your SSD's lifespan to run out real fast by forcing it to work 24/7 and also to gain more performance.
surely having lower memory usage is considered to be good for how optimized and lightweight and non-bloat the operating system can be, but my points still stand.
@@user-ic5nv8lj9d considering linux is faster, to the point of basically reviving old hardware and making it far more comfortable to use, i'd argue it needs less RAM because it's just more efficient, meaning it probably doesn't read from/write to storage as much or as frequently (if it constantly made calls to the SSD/HDD, the system overall would likely be more sluggish than windows, which it isn't).
Package management is the main feature and bane of Linux existence. I can't remember how long I needed to search for a simple text editing application that didn't required 200mb of dependencies, or how one of dependency devs changed something and the software lost a feature (*cough* like hunspell year ago on Debian 10 *cough*)
And dear god, I don't want to do full updates every time I need to install something or risk system/software instability
Windows did finally add a CLI package manager "winget". Sounds like a joke but I'm honestly pretty impressed with it.
I changed from Windows to Ubuntu ,10 years ago.
Still using it today.
I have been using Linux on and off for some time now and honestly, as the years go on, the more I start to wonder if it's time for me to switch forever. Being forced to do a lot of things in Windows like making an MS account, force updates, etc, Linux just makes more sense. Plus all my games (mostly Steam and single player) work great
@Linden Reaper My only stopping force is a few Xbox games I play on Windows. But even then, I might make a Linux install with virtualization and GPU passthrough so I can run the 3 games that I have for Windows 10 that are throught the MS store
That and also I have to stay up to date on technology and Windows features (job stuff) but like I said early, virtual machines with GPU passthrough should work just fine
Three more things:
Usually less resource hungry - KDE Plasma for example looks like a nicer Win10 and is also full of features while while being way snappier on the same hardware
Printer support - yes
Great environment for developers/building software
It doesn't support many EPSON ones
Didn’t even cover my main reason for using Linux: control. My computer should do what I want it to do, when I want it to do it, and nothing else. With Windows, you have to wrestle with the OS to get it to, for example, not restart and update in the middle of you playing a game or working on an important thing. On Linux, it only updates when I tell it to, it only restarts when I tell it to, it only does what I tell it to. A computer is a tool - imagine the chaos if your power tools just suddenly had a mind of their own.
Edit: Jesus christ the replies have gone mad.
Let me make something clear: my problem is not with having to do updates. I understand why you should update your OS and software. My problem is with the fact that Windows essentially forces them down your throat when you’re in the middle of something, or perhaps have something important running overnight. And even then, here’s something folks: I JUST USED IT AS AN EXAMPLE. To make a point that, with Windows, you don’t have total control over your computer.
i know many imp reasons to use linux and the one you mentioned is the dumbest one
Updates and restarts while working ?
for a thing you have the option to disable auto-updates
and secondly even when you didn't turn off auto-updates and it installs it, it never automatically restarts, it gives you prompt to re-start now or later.
don't know wether you still using Windows XP or something.
This is so exaggerated. If you can't find time to update your system even once in a week, that's on you. Just install the updates when you're not using the machine. I haven't experienced this problem since win XP. Just update after you're done using the PC
@@rph_redacted what if he doesn't like it ? I can say most users can't be bothered to do that and don't be a windows fanboy
I found a fix for windows update, it now informs me of an update then I then click on update when I want to.
Do an search for this.
Make Windows 11/10 notify you before downloading or installing Windows Updates
@@arvind9438 if he doesn't like it, he can disable updates.
As simple as that, no one is Windows fanboy it's just that out of 100 reasons to use Linux he just gave the stupidest one.
In my personal experience, 3d applications like Blender, Maya and Substance Painter, run faster on Linux. I used Linux since 2009 and migrated to windows in Novemeber 2021... I can see the performance diferences. I can't imagine how those run if Nvidia really made a good driver for Linux.
@Linden ReaperTrue, however Maya and Substance Painter are not Opensource. :)
@Linden Reaper I know😊, I'm animator.
@Linden Reaper I use krita a lot to paint textures and sketches. :)
Hate Nvidia for not making a dam driver that doesn't overheat with Linux (at least Ubuntu)
@@ojussinghal2501
Or a driver that doesn't brick your system, requiring an os reinstall
I always have a netbook with linux and a forensics suite to recover old or half broken storage devices, if I tried this on Windows it would destroy the drive before I could access the data.
You can easily change the Windows wallpaper during the first boot after installing an unlicensed Windows, or doing a lil registry tweak afterwards.
I think for me the biggest perk is having a package manager like apt or pacman. It's so nice to have the vast majority of my software installed from the same place, making it trivial to update it all at the same time. Also, you don't need to restart to update your system.
I have been running linux as my daily driver since 2012 beginning with 12.04 LTS, upgrading every 2 years 14.04 16.04 18.04 20.04 I have also tried mint versions , ubuntu 22.04 due out soon , free you mind and your money will stay in your pocket.
LTS is the way. I used to get adventurous and try the xx.10 versions but moving from xx.10 to xx.04 is painful and dumb. I'll just wait.
I've been a Ubuntu user since 08.04 and it was only about 4 years ago I realised that the xx.04 and xx.10 are for April and October...
I switched to Linux (cinnamon mint) on my laptop because the HP drivers it came with for Windows kept crashing, specifically I was having to reinstall the touchpad drivers and rejigger its settings on a weekly basis. Here's a couple of linux pros you missed:
* No bloatware - I personally dislike having a ton of preinstalled apps. Wtf do I want xbox game bar for?
* Uses less RAM. Core system processes are consuming less than a GB, and even with plenty of Chrome tabs open barely pushing 8GB. This would be amazing for a lower end laptop.
Also way faster recognition of drivers for printers and other stuff... no bullshit.
This is just me, but I personally use Game Bar for the DVR and set volume levels for individual applications. Also when gaming I use LFG when playing games that don't have one built-in.
I also use 3D viewer(For Kinect scans and structure blocks in Minecraft) and Xbox console companion(for RDing into my Xbox), but I know I'm in the minority for actually using the pre-built apps
However there's still too much bloatware on Windows, I would love to remove "Your Phone", "Skype", "OneDrive", "News and Interests", and "Cortana", but most debloater scripts it's either everything or nothing, I'm also never upgrading to Windows 11 because it's worse on there in terms of bloatware and they removed 32-bit support.
@@techy804 Completely agree. That bloatware is not only annoying when it comes to being there, occupying space, but also because some of them are literally services that launch during startup. Everything is just there because "it needs to be".
@@zurkke You can disable most of them turning on on startup in Task Manager, the only one that a problem on startup that I have on on lower-end hardware that I have on is Windows Defender, on lower-end hardware, it takes 5-12 minutes for it to scan on a 5400RPM HDD and it does it every startup.
@@techy804 I did that already, and I've got an M.2 SSD, but it's still a bit of a bummer...
Built-in support for encrypting your boot drive without requiring a TPM and without having to pay extra. It's 2022, being able to encrypt the system drive on a laptop PC should not be a "bonus" feature reserved only for those who pony up the extra cash for a "Pro" variant of their operating system.
Bitlocker can encrypt the drive asking for a password on each boot via group policy.
As usual, people are making broader assumptions without knowing the details.
@@alexeysamokhin9629 you need windows pro to get bitlocker and it’s not a default feature, that’s everything he said in the comment I don’t know what you are inferring beyond that.
@@alexeysamokhin9629 Neither Bitlocker nor group policy editor are not available on Home versions.
@@gerowen There should be only one edition of Windows, but Microsoft wants to milk more from their business customers (because they can). I agree drive encryption should be available for everyone.
@@alexeysamokhin9629 Does that mean there should only be one distro of Linux?
Another advantage worth mentioning is the manner in which Linux manages storage devices: using mounts instead of drive letters. Say your computer has a mixed-drive configuration, where one of the internal storage devices is a fast but small SSD while the other is a large but slow hard drive. In Linux, it’s possible to (pre)configure the file system table (fstab) to mount the SSD as / and the hard drive as /home, for example, creating a best-of-both-worlds scenario of both performance and capacity. The fact that Windows uses drive letters instead of mounts by default limits Windows so it can’t do this.
Why desktop and laptop manufacturers haven’t taken note of this advantage as a reason to preinstall Linux on certain systems and preconfigure them in this way is clearly beyond me.
It's pretty easy to use an SSD to cache a software LVM RAID, as well.
Developing software on proprietary systems means, you're going to work around non documented bugs and issues.
Developing software on open source systems means, you're able to document and fix non documented bugs and issues.
One of those makes my job a cesspool of bugs, pain and misery to swim through on a daily basis.
The other fixed bugs in a constructive manner and makes my life as a developer rather pleasant.
As an end user, this is a benefit of open source I had never considered. Nice.
UP THIS :)
The only problem with some open source things(Musescore 3, ...) is that every feature relies on about 15 others, so by making 1 change you break everything!
@@gregglesthemaker1024 I didn't say that all open source project where build equal...
It's normal that today's software has a lot of dependencies, no point in reinventing the wheel.
The way it's implemented makes all the difference, many projects are sadly unnecessarily over-complicated...
@@gregglesthemaker1024 well this can very much apply to propriatary aswell, it's not neccesarly a issue of opensource as a whole
Well the biggest edge is the extremly fast development, everything in linux gets improved with lightning speed, while windows is usually pretty stagnent. And ofcourse choice, which is great there is always something that fits everyone, if you want stupid simplicity there is cutefish desktop, if you are a power user there is kde desktop etc.
The development of Linux is so extremely fast, HDR monitors have been supported since never 😂
@@Animatron11 well thats changing this year, there is already support for most hdr games in gamescope, currently I am enjoying Hogwarts Legacy in Linux with hdr on my 65 inch lg oled.
In college, I dual booted Linux and Windows on my laptop. Worked great. Not a viable solution for my current needs, but I do want to get a Linux laptop. Not a Chromebook, though. Not again.
I revived a Netbook with Intel Atom and 2GB of RAM with Linux Mint XFce
Although I still use Windows on my main machine, I wish to switch to Linux sometime in the future after I figure out the alternatives to my daily programs on Windows
Good on you! Even tho intel atom is the worst, still beter than becoming e-waste
A couple of months ago I revived an old laptop, also with 2GB of RAM with Linux Lite and I am very happy with it.
The few issues I had were easily solved when I asked about them in Linux Lite's own forum.
I put both batocera on a SD card and rasbian on a 40 gb hdd on my atom netbook and works really well. Like using windows XP but modern and secure. I even used it for some browsing. It's not the best but it's usable, also mine has more fans tho.
Make sure you enabled zswap or zRam, so Linux will compress memory pages. Makes a huge difference on memory limited machines, and overall responsiveness.
just a reminder, few atom based netbooks (like my eeepc in this case) would NOT have sound enabled out of the box without removing pulseaudio, you'll have to rely on basic ALSA to control your audio
The driver support is pretty awesome. Got some obscure/old device that current versions of Windows shrug their shoulders at? Most of the time Linux will just handle it.
🤷 yeah dude I am mind blown to how come that lunix has the new drivers for old video cards but freaking window 10 has not the support.
This one good reason why I started to use Ubuntu 21.10 for example.
Yet stuff like support for floppy drives and 32bit hardware has been removed almost completely. Not that different.
@@jothain The floppy support has only been removed by default, you can still add it as a kernel module using DKMS or just use readily available patches.
And idk where you pulled the 32bit hardware part from, that is simply not true.
@@LORDSofCHAOS333 the OS does not support the device, the manufacturer does. Driver support is a manufacturer problem. If they drop support, it's dropped. They often don't drop support on Linux because there is nothing to add or manage on linux because most features don't exist there anyways and most things are universal.
Tip for people considering installing Linux: You don't need to remove windows as long as you have enough space on your drive. You can keep both Linux and Windows at once and select which one you want to use when booting up your computer. It's called dual boot.
That's what I did few months ago. I immeditally fell in love with linux. It even had features that I dreamed of on windows. (Activites with separate desktop icons and wallpaper [This depends on your Desktop Enviroment you are using, I'm using KDE]). The desktop is waaaay more costumisable.
Now I'm constantly using linux, and I launch windows very rarerly.
Another important tip: when doing an install: backup the entire drive so you can go back. If you are doing a normal install it will wipe your drive, and if you are doing doual boot you can accidentally break your windows install (it's unbootable)
Yes, dual booting is great to use if people are hesitant. But I would only reccomend it with debian based distros. Setting it up with arch was a pain 💀
@@arch357 living embodiment of "arch user btw" stereotype 😭
Installed Linux one year ago and cant see myself ever coming back to Windows, my Ryzen 5800 was already very decent in performance under Windows, and Linux made it lightning fast
4 months ago I bought a new PC specifically for becoming a Linux gaming/3D art developing rig. I have a 5900 XT, RX 6750 XT with 32 Gb of RAM running Manjaro KDE. Damn this system is really fast. Rock solid gaming at 1080p with ultra settings and very good performance on Blender, Inkscape, GIMP and Cura.
If you want something well optimized, integrated, and tested take a look at Fedora. It's a community release from the commercially supported Red Hat which has been around since the 90s. It uses the newest Linux kernels so you're less likely to run into unsupported hardware by the older kernels many other distros are stuck on.
Using the newest kernels isn't always the greatest idea (I've been using fedora almost exclusively for a while, though). I have a GTX 1070Ti, and I had to wait for a few days for Nvidia to release a driver that was compatible with 5.16. I was able to manually set my system to keep using 5.15, but your average Linux newbie would just have had a broken OS.
Although now that I think about it, the proprietary driver isn't included by default.
I prefer the LTS(long term support) kernels, but to each their own I guess
@@captain_ironbutt That's why almost all distros can have 2 kernel versions at the same time. If one fails, you can switch.
Fedora is unstable as it's on the bleeding edge.
@@arnox4554 Fedora is the IBM's lab
I love the concept of Linux, but as a user of specialised software (mostly audio production tools), I feel like I'm never in a position to commit.
@gilkesisking doesn't work if you use more popular DAWs like FL or Ableton
@@cosmic7019 You can just stop using them
@@cosmic7019 If you depend on software you're not a good professional, you're just a good X software user
I would advise you to watch the videos of "unfa" here on youtube. He has some really cool stuff and uses Linux for professional audio work and production. Just a tip!
@@talkysassis Ok, I get where you're coming with this actually, but I also don't think that's very fair. Like it or not, some tools, whether proprietary or open-source, are just better to use than others for whatever reason. Being a professional doesn't change that.
You came up with the same reasons I switched to Linux for my daily driver -- all the way back in 2011. I'm currently running Kubuntu 20.04, been using Ubuntu flavors since 2014, and before that I ran Mepis 11 on my newer machine and antiX on my older ones. I settled on the Ubuntu family because most apps that have a Linux version have one specific for Ubuntu -- and anything that doesn't care still works on Ubuntu as long as it's built for Debian based systems.
There is a learning curve to GNU/Linux, but I appreciate that you can understand and fix things when you do have a problem. Usually when something fails (if you know where to look) you can find information on why it failed. I don't know that much about windows but I usually just get a bluescreen with non helpful information.
"You're probably using window as the main operating system for your PC"
Me who has never used windows as a daily driver…
I did but that was around the time windows 10 came out . . . in 2015
For me the main thing was fallout new vegas, on windows it was so unstable no matter what I did, but on Linux it runs perfectly for hoooouurs, such a massive difference.
Never going back to windows, although I have to use visual studio for my software engineering degree but I just VM Windows 10 :)
Yeah I had the same experiance with alot of older games, they are crashing like crazy on windows, and in linux they are super stable. However on newer games they can actually crash more on linux.
Doesn't visual studio run like garbage on a VM? It is already quite slow on my PC using windows as a main, even though I got a 5900X and an SDD. I do have a linux mint in a VM it runs a lot better than what windows would in a VM, if I dedicate 6 or so cores to it. It's quite useful for testing and downloading things that I don't 100% trust.
@@silverwatchdog i literally only use a vm for visual studio on my second monitor and apart from one or to slowdowns it's been absolutely fine, Im sure if I ran morr intensive stuff Id have a few issues
@Mohammed Mesum Hussain I used to dual boot, but I only use VS for one module on my degree, everything else can be done on linux so I didnt see the point
I'm a DIY'er and love to tinker so Linux is right up my alley. I daily drive Linux but keep a win10 dual boot strictly for gaming.
3:04 I love how you marked MacOS as “other or unknown” XD
I would really like to see a videos on five reasons to try Windows, as long as it is not about Windows support for games.
here's a good reason. If you have too much money Microsofts licensing programs are a quick and easy way to throw your money in the garbage
Depends on which version of windows
Anything after 7 is not worth it
Easy to use since a lot of people have been using it for a lot of years and the basic UI is simple and has remained the same across various Windows versions. Mom needs to get on a Zoom call? Windows. Grandpa wants to use Facebook? Windows.
@@kokorochacarero8003 I honestly like Win 10 UI the best. They went and messed it up with 11 though.
Still I'd like if Cortana were gone. I'm running Mint now so not my problem anymore.
@@kokorochacarero8003 nah, windows 10 is fine. you shouldn't even be using 7 or anything older because you're literally just asking for trouble
Once all of the games I care about work fine under Linux, I'm migrating to it. I wanna see how Elden Ring will run
Elden Ring is a single player offline game so it would (should) work flawlessly under Proton. We'll see what happens.
Also, you might be aware but running rootkits on your system is a bad idea. EAC and BattlEye games run in ring 0 of your system which is absolutely TERRIBLE for your privacy. Those games have 100% control of what you do, what you see and what you hear on/from the system. Avoid such games and transition to Linux to enjoy your freedom and dignity.
The rest of From Software’s games work flawlessly. Dark souls 1, 2, 3, and Senior all work just great. Even the online features! So it’s pretty likely Elden Ring will work great.
Might be worth taking Linux for a spin to see if most of your games will work natively or using proton in Steam. Only around 10% of my steam library supports Linux natively but I was surprised how many games work on Linux with proton enabled. When the steam deck takes off that should help speed up gamer adoption of Linux.
funnily enough, Dark Souls 3 runs best on my PC with Linux instead of windows
Honestly it's the chicken and egg scenario, Linux does not have game support due to low market share but (altleast part of the reason, there are others like average users) many people don't want to use Linux becuase games don't work on it, not being some kind of a jerk but that is really not the fault of Linux but of the companies who don't want to support their game on Linux.
Thanks Linus Media group for covering more Linux related content! I would love to see more!
Now, software and ISA have become open source, I really hope that we get a good performing open source Desktop/ Laptop RISCV microarchitechture too.
Efficiency, resource management, updates, printers, freedom.
Those are 5 things linux does better than windows that I thought of for whole 20 sec.
There is more like security and safety, giving control to the user, and not being aran by evil corporation with a bloke on top that should be put into a guilotine and his head should be stuck on a stick for people to be warned.
Linux does pretty much everything better than windows, the only thing windows does better is not really a windows doing stuff better but a matter of PR, marketing and monopoly. Like games, linux run games better, when they are being written with linux in mind. But its not a fault of operating system that those are not being written with said system in mind, there is no programmed obstacle in the system forbidding games to be made for the os...
This is exactly the big problem with Linux, which isn't really linuxes fault. I'd love to switch, but there are so many small programs that I need, for updating devices that I own, or do specific things. And 99% of these programs don't exist for Linux.
@@Blockbuster2033 nothing wrong with sticking with what works best for you.
@@Dxntoo of course, but I hat having to use windows. I'd love to leave it behind once and for all, but it's simply not remotely possible for me personally.
Sorry but you clearly missed the mark on that one...
The 2 main reasons that Linux is different from windows:
File manipulation and text files editing is lightyears ahead in Linux and is absent entirely on windows. This is more useful for work applications
In the windows world you are a user of the system. In Linux, you are the chief executive officer... Do whatever you want to do, the system will not try to stop you and won't treat you like a child, you are in charge
Even when your decision means bricking the whole os :D but that's actually part why I love linux. You'll never make the same mistake again and it's always a great excuse to try an different distro
@@olutukko2681 Never bricked the OS with Mint.
I know it's possible to wipe out the DE like Linus did but that's actually kinda rare.
Not universally though, the default in Mint - Xed is as bad as Windows notepad.
What editor do you use?
Which is the main reason the _hoi polloi_ shouldn't touch it.
@@deoxal7947 yeah, mostly I only manage to make something not working and instead of fixing it it's just easier to reinstall the whole os :D nowadays it's even more rare but when I was like 13-15yo I managed to do it quite often
As an avid gamer, who has had nothing but problems with Linux on my gaming rig, I'd love to see a video with reasons not to try Linux. Most of my problems have been with hardware support, like sound, and video on a z390-F gaming motherboard, with an nvidia RTX2080 Super, while others have been compatibility issues with the games I enjoy.
My brother even games with a RTX3090 without issues although nvidia is a pain in the a$$ on Linux since their drivers are often crappy. He has a full blown gaming rig with a secondary graphics card for workstation stuff. Everything runs just fine. I can't see you point there tbh. Linux even allows to mix graphics cards brands such as AMD and nVidia xD
I tried that once in win10 PRO and it was a nightmare xD
@@BruceCarbonLakeriver I've been messing with Linux on and off for something like 20 years, waiting for it to be ready for me. My latest install of Linux on my gaming rig resulted in taking two days to get to a desktop, after fixing the blunder that was the graphics drivers. I also have no onboard sound, and many of the games I want to play are just not compatible. Not everyone has a great experience with Linux, and it is just not ready for certain gamers. I want to jump ship from Windows, because of the shady stuff that Microsoft does, but it's just not ready for me yet.
@@jasoncollege24 Don't get me wrong I was genuine surprised about your story. And I'm for sure no "Linux is the only way preacher"-guy xD Since I'm commenting from my Win10Pro Computer LOL.
"Not everyone has a great experience with Linux, and it is just not ready for certain gamers" - I never doubt that one.
But this is hard if you not trying LFS or Gentoo: "My latest install of Linux on my gaming rig resulted in taking two days to get to a desktop".
Regarding to your problems, which distro did you try and do you exactly know the issue? Sure nVidia drivers are .. erm lemme say not nice but they work. My brother runs Gentoo and I'm preparing to switch to Gentoo as well. But I'm fitted with Ryzen5800X and an AMD 6800XT. So I might have less issues.
Yet I'm wondered about such stories seriously, I'm interested what could be the issue tbh.
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@@BruceCarbonLakeriver My distro of choice has always been Kubuntu. I've experimented with Pop!, and Mint, but always came back to Kubuntu. I do use kubuntu on my home server, and CentOS on my online web server, but I use Win11 Pro on my gaming rig. I keep a dual-boot of Kubuntu on my gaming rig, which I need to reinstall, because I screwed up, trying to get audio working.
@@BruceCarbonLakeriver I do apologize for getting defensive. Some in the Linux community tend to not like it, when I don't praise Linux as the best OS for gaming, and I don't take kindly to it. Some are helpful in the community, but others seem high and mighty, which is the wrong approach, if the Linux community wants people to migrate from other operating systems.
Great vid, love seeing Linux content on a channel that reaches such a wide audience!
Thanks for the video.
My fav thing about Linux is updates, they happen when I want them and programs that I do not want do not bug me about installing them or updating them.
When all my games are on Linux then even my gaming pc will be using it.
Also no annoying forced updates or 'please do not turn off your computer' screens! Update whenever and you can literally keep using the computer (though some packages or kernel upgrade requires a restart still).
I would say Freedom is definitely Nr. 1 because you have the Freedom to do everything with nothing stopping you!
The "nothing stopping you" part isn't necessarily good. I mean, I love that, but does someone who just wants to use their device for writing and web surfing really need to even have the possibility to delete the entire system? Again, I don't think it's bad, I just think that this shouldn't be treated as a pure positive.
But only for small portion of people though
@Fashinqu A. I did't claim otherwise. I was merely referring to OP. Not Linux as a whole. _I know android exists_
@@SkyyySi Well yeah, but full access doesn't let you just brick your system, it can give you positives.
@@SkyyySi They profit of other people being able to do that because this freedom can lead to better software and more privacy and security
I'm really glad that you just talk about Linux, doesn't matter if good or bad things. People who are interested will typically do their own research anyway and maybe find out that it's a good fit for them!
One of my favorite little feature is the file explorer. You can open different folders in tabs, just like in the browser.
I know they are late but, in Windows 11 22H2, this is also possible now... FINALLY
Linux users be like: I have to hack the FBI to switch my audio output
Hmm, in Windows I have no Idea how to direct the browser audio to hdmi and the media player output to my headphones. In Linux that's just some mouse clicks.
I have to download the internet to connect to the internet.
I love Linux
Me too
Really researching Linux and how to use it after I started Tech school last year was one of the best decisions I made recently. I currently Dual Boot Windows 10 and Linux and especially lately I've been getting a much stronger grip over using Linux as oppose to Windows. Granted I still have to use Windows for certain tasks but most of the time I've found ways around issues. Hell, I even got Halo: The Master Chief collection running on Linux using Proton (Without the Anti-cheat of course still, so multiplayer is out of the question, but I mainly play the Campaign anyway.). I still get performance issues on games running through Wine that I have not been able to figure out but hopefully sometime here I can find a solution.
That’s the thing man if only linux had as much support as windows
@@slaydog5102 it's getting there. The Steam Deck release with Proton just made that day significantly sooner
5:09 In Ubuntu and some other distros it is an Opt-in situation so skipping over it doesn't make it automatic.
Tip for anyone getting into linux to decide a distro:
Pick a desktop environment you like the look of
Choose a (recommend debian/ubuntu based) distro with that desktop environment.
USE THE LIVE ENVIRONMENT. This using the live environment is the best way to test any hardware you have without the risk of bricking your system, as well as looking at applications that don't require a restart to use.
There aren't many noticeable differences between distros from an average user perspective. Using the built in gui package manager to install things will do just fine. You can always change what desktop environment you use, without distro-hopping all the time, and if you don't like the look, remember you can usually change themes and settings to make it how you want.
"Without the risk of bricking your system" Thing is your not going to brick your system if you install linux, if you install it on your main hard drive and you install fails or you delete the wrong package your system won't be bricked. You can always reinstall windows or linux and assuming your bios isn't corrupt you shouldn't brick your system.
I agree in almost everything except one small thing. There are significant differences, mainly between Arch and Debian distros. Personally I prefer Arch-based distros because of the ease of use of the AUR. I really dislike the ppa hell. Having to search for a ppa online, copy-paste it, add it, do a "sudo apt update" and then downloading the program, instead of searching in the AUR helper and download it, is really cumbersome for me. And the reason I don't use Debian-based. I like Debian's stability, but not the way it handles installs.
@@GalaxyTracker Yea, between arch and debian, there are a lot of differences. However, if you just use a gui to install things you won't notice them really, and tbh for a beginner going within debian, most distros are going to feel the same. Arch (based) imo is a bit more of a step up, and if you can tell the difference between the 2, you aren't really trying a distro out for the first time
@@TazerXI Yeah. For a complete beginner, I would argue that something like a Zorin, a Mint with Cinnamon, an Ubuntu or an Elementary (if he is a Mac user) is perfect. For an intermediate user, I believe something like Manjaro provides a good balance between ease of use, app install hassle, bleeding edge software and stability.
I've recently fully moved away from Windows.
My entire house is using Pop!_OS (the one that Linus somehow managed to break), it's bloody awesome! Especially with Proton Glorious Eggroll!
thats great if you dont want to play games i guess
@@Baka_Oppai there's an argument to be made that most of those games are security hazard, so you shouldn't be playing them in the first place.
@@Baka_Oppai I don’t think you know how linux gaming is now. You can run almost any windows games besides some that use easy anti cheat or battleye. If developers enable it, those anti cheat games work too. Dayz, Arma 3, and more currently work on linux with anti cheat without a native linux version.
@@Baka_Oppai or use most CAD software.
To be fair to Linus, it was a distro bug that System76 admitted and promptly fixed.
It's is a joy to use Krita, inkscape, blender and 3dcoat on Linux for digital art.
For a laptop or light weight use-cases Linux has been great (Pop OS recently). Twitch and UA-cam load faster, feel snappier and work just fine with 0 tweaking. If you just use the system for watching video and light Office use, its fantastic and free.
Just what I expected, Zoidberg using Linux!
i run kali linux on my old laptop. it's an older 8th gen i5 in an ultrabook. lightweight and portable. great for pentesting.
@@BaconSenpai are you always anti-Semitic? or is it just when you're behind a keyboard?
@@mopioline65 Wasn't talking to you, script kiddie.
@@BaconSenpai idc who you were talking to. Run your mouth like that irl and you know somebody is bound to hit you in the mouth. That’s why you’ve gotta do it online. Soft.
I'd be interested in seeing a video on recommendations for using linux for productivity. Like what software would be a good linux alternative to MS Office products.
Maybe only office or free ofice, they look a lot like MS Office.
Libre office is quite a powerfull tool and it is built for compatibility with MS office
The 1 to 1 comparison would be LibreOffice, it's honestly the same quality as MicrosoftOffice (to which I say both are really bad), but visually it just looks a lot clunkier and older.
@@jamhamtime1878 I tried Libre Office and Open Office on Windows before and if I remember correctly, I found LibreOffice to function slowly took even longer to load up than MS office and any funtions or actions I used took time to complete, rather than being fast and seemless) and Open Office had a lack of features. I dont know if it would be a better experience on Linux.
Unfortunately I think there still is considerable caveats to the open office or libre office when compared with MS Office. You know, Excel still does visual basic very well for some "power users", so to speak, and there's no thing quite like it on Linux, unless you're a professional programmer and can make stuff on python or C that behaves like those macros and VBA add-ons.
Nice to see OMGUbuntu as one of your screenshots! The owner/operator Joey has been pushing out tons of high quality content for years! It was anyways my #1 source for Ubuntu news, tips and tricks when I used to be a die-hard Linux user.
I've been wanting to switch to Linux as my main desktop driver for many years now, but I've always went back to Windows. Both OSes are frustrating to use but with Windows 11 being the way it is, I may actually finally make the change. I wish more developers would make native software for Linux. There's not really much if any reason not to do so.
@Linden Reaper The thing is it's not just about the software. There are some issues with features, for example, I use the brave browser with multiple profiles. On Windows, I can create a desktop icon for each, but on Linux, that's not possible. Not sure if it's a Linux limitation or if Brave is just poorly made there. It's a lot of little things like that.
@Linden Reaper I've tried Garuda KDE Dr460nized, Xfce, Linux Mint, and a few other things. At the time I tried (Less than 6 months ago I believe), there was no option built in the browser to do so. Didn't know you could use a command for it but it's the fact that Linux wants a command for everything that is such a hassle. I'm really not going to remember most of them when I only use it once a year or so.
As windows server admin in past ways about 2003 - 2007, and pro user of Win 7 on its days I can say it is possible to make windows stable and fast, but it costs a lot of knowledge time and digging in to MS DLLs. Since 8 years I am 90% on linux site for business, operations, coding and private usage. What Linux is still not for, it's photo and video editing and gaming. I hate it but in this area's I am still not able to convince my self for Linux. Hope it will change some day :)
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and last but not least, my Linux is much preatier than Windows ;)
Same deal here, and thats why I run a linux desktop and a mac laptop. Photo / video on the mac, everything else on the Linux box.
As a small printer and moving into video producing, I'm still on Windows but I have migrated my apps to Open ones. Gimp is quite capable for photo editing, Scribus is great as a page layout program and Shotcut is serving me well for Video work. 2 things that keep me on Windows
- VR
- Maschine by Native Instruments - Ironically they have Maschine 3+ which is a stand alone beatbox which runs on ARM version of Linux but N.I. are not doing anything about their other software for Linux. Reaper as a DAW on Linux is a good fit though.
Hoping OpenVR will bring some joy to my Pimax headset down the track but it would be nice if Pimax actually opened up their PiTool software for the community to work with. So much potential.
You have a point. Kdenlive and Gimp are great and can get the job done, but people have to relearn how to do a lot of the same tasks they do with other software to be able to use them effectively. Plus there's the disaster situation with Audacity and audio editing that's still unresolved as nobody knows where the forks will be going for sure anymore. Then there's gaming...Valve's great, Lutris is making lots of progress...but it's still a Windows dominated thing.
These things aren't Linux issues at this point IMO. This is really about company support. Linux systems are more than capable of doing these tasks on a technical level. It's just that the software/games people want are native to another operating system and ecosystem and sometimes even an entire different way of thinking compared to how Linux systems work.
- Davinci Resolve
- Darktable/GIMP with UFRaw
- I can't speak for all games but,
Minecraft, XCOM2, X3, Cities: Skylines, Factorio to name a few just run fine on Linux as does Steam as a whole.
@@gwgux for audio, there are Ardour, Harrison Mixbus, Reaper, and loads of audio plugins. That you don't know it doesn't mean there are no pro level tools to work with audio.
Something I really don't like about linux is one pro that you list in this video, that it doesn't allow users to mess with system files. My experience with windows has been great but it wouldn't be so if it couln't be modded the way it is. I expect that flexibility out of all my operating systems
What are you talking about? You can mess with pretty much everything in Linux down to the Kernel Level if you're brave enough and know what you're doing. Just login as root (which i would NOT advise) or use the "sudo" command. Or install "doas" if you find sudo beeing bloated. Pick your Poison but don't assume such things. Thanks. :D
You don't need to dig through system really. Sure if you have a Window Manager you need to change stuff in the config file, or in dwm's case you need to compile it from source to make changes cuz suckless. But in KDE for example you just right click your desktop and go into edit mode and you can do whatever you want.
I should clarify: Maybe my knowlege of linux simply isn't enought. I just want to replace system files at pleasure
What are you referring to as "system files"?
In linux, everything is a file, including your processes, even the kernel itself. And yes, you can edit pretty much everything...
Windows is much harder to actually edit the system files in since they're not as modular. In linux, there's the /etc directory which basically holds everything you'd want to configure
@@jamhamtime1878 I know, just took it to make it easier to understand
You can use the OS while it's updating. Seriously I have never understood why Windows, macOS, iOS & Android all need to make me wait to use the OS while updates install but Linux can just install an update in place while you're using it. At most you might have to do a brief reboot if there's a kernel update.
0:24 The Windows NT kernel is a very well engineered piece of kit. What makes the "kernel" buggy is actually typically the drivers, I haven't encountered one blue screen that wasn't intentional or didn't come from a driver, and I've used Windows for years. Although Linux does tend to have fewer bugs due to its open source nature, it also has fewer people trying to exploit it due to its small usage share on personal desktops.
I think Linux is actually more fun to use over Windows, and in my opinion it's hands-down the better server platform for more reasons than I can count. However, if time is money, on average I find Linux to be more 'expensive' than Windows. I'm greedy and I just use both simultaneously for entirely different reasons.
how? The best party of running Linux in professional environment is setting it up and only fiddling with it when I've got the time to spare. No unexpected surprises waiting for me there the next morning
It is more fun and it is fun to learn. I have become dissatisfied with Windows. Microsoft had reached it's peak with Windows 7 and I sorely miss Windows XP. You recall you had the glass look with 7 and now you have this flat bland interface with 10, I don't have this problem with Linux
@@ApurvJyotirmay ShiltoCrarpo didn’t mention a professional environment, just that Linux was a better server platform.
Linux can be very expensive time-wise for personal use. If you want to use a program not in your distro’s repositories, you may need to add a repo run by the developer to your package manager. If they do not offer a repo specifically for your distro, you may need to add a repo for your distro family (ie add a Debian repo on Mint). Failing that, you’re downloading standalone DEBs, RPMs, etc. Maybe you’re running an install script you didn’t read through before you ran it via a WGET command you copied and pasted off a website (you know you didn’t read it, don’t lie). Maybe the program you need is only available on Windows, so you get to play with Wine or Proton. You can quite easily run into problems that could take hours to troubleshoot before you get the program running. That is, if you don’t break a dependency required to boot or get into your desktop environment.
One common answer is (but shouldn’t be) to switch to a different distro. Fragmentation is a killer issue for the year of the Linux desktop, and it’s not one you run into on Windows, or MacOS for that matter.
I have a Pi 4 running PiKVM. I have a home server running a Linux distro for Samba, Plex, and two KVM instances. I have a low power Celeron NUC for PFsense. All of my desktops and laptops though, run Windows.
the year of Desktop Linux (attempt number 32)
any moment now
You mean, the Year of Linux on the Non-Workstation Desktop?
That’s like the Year of Linux Auto in the Three-Wheeled Car Market -- unfortunately, it is overqualified for that.
Linux apps mostly store their confing in user home folder. Which means distro hopping or just plain reinstall is so easy. Just move your home folder into new Linux installation and all app configs will move with you.
As you already mentioned that Linux is customizable so we can also optimize the boot time by kicking off devices (device drivers) we never gonna use. This also saves us from the more attack surface.
I use the Pop_OS! distribution and I had no problems doing my stuff, DarkTable, GIMP and Blender work pretty good on Linux.
Uh, exclamation mark is after Pop, lol
@@ralsei7170 hahaha that’s a funny mistake