As someone who has gone 100% Linux for years now it's useful to see what is holding others back. These are legitimate reasons. They luckily don't apply much to me since I'm a developer and gamer who doesn't mod much outside of Minecraft (which works great on Linux). Easy to forget how much more computing there is than the parts I use.
For me it's 4K Netflix streaming and Dolby Vision and Atmos. Luckily I switched most Apps years ago like from MSOffice to LibreOffice and so on. But the Media Quality is a big no go for me since I stream daily to my TV.
Playing MC via Prism Launcher right now, and it just works. BUT - with MC 1.20.5 java 21 is required and being on a Debian flavored distro (MX) I'm stuck with java 17 for now - I suppose I could upgrade if I really wanted, but the point of Debian is literally not to rock the boat.
Everyone uses their PC their own way and have their own reasons. After I started using Linux I have noticed that many people seem to think that there's no downsides whatsoever about Linux. And when I bring up inconvient things they attack me with all they got
16:12 That's the problem. The devs are waiting for people to move to Linux and the people are waiting for the devs to make their stuff work on Linux. But until someone makes the first move everyone is just stuck waiting forever.
there is nothing wrong with using windows, for some applications. why you need a full switch either way linux or windows? my part is gaming, but i use 2 different operating systems, hell yeah its even easiert with 2 pcs.
@@BlacKi-nd4uy There's a thing going wrong in Windows if Microsoft continues in their current trajectory, and this also endangers creators, because in the future you have unreliable operating system where your data is not safe on any partition you use to work on the OS. Another problem that everyone suffers from in current situation, and also has been bothering many folks before, is that with Windows you have corporate middleman there on your hardware all the time. It costs money, and gives little in return. Problem is that Windows itself doesn't really do anything that other operating systems can't do, it's just all the third party software dependencies that lock people to this costly OS. This is unnecessary.
@@BlacKi-nd4uy Well, maybe for "normal" people there's nothing wrong with that, but there certainly is for me. I cannot do anything productive on Window$.
@@jarivuorinen3878 That's why you use Windows for just the things you need, and without it being online, then switch to Linux if you need to do most any other work including online stuff.
As a full time linux user, this a very good video with well thought out and logical discussions about the shortcomings of linux and linux gaming 👍 . I too struggle with mods on linux gaming and the wide-screen struggle is real.
This might come off as a contentious (or rather extremely controversial) opinion, but I don't think tools like Flawless Widescreen are "flawless". In fact, I'd actually make the argument to say that they're poorly designed. It's literally no secret (in fact it's an open one) that the developer of Flawless Widescreen, Hayden, has a pretty apparent problem with ego, being denigrating towards others, and over-estimating their abilities, and they've openly had an anti-Linux and anti-AMD agenda in the past. I'm sorry, but anything that constantly has to run in the background, from startup (if you don't want to open it before you then open a game), as an administrator at that (Keep in mind it's injecting stuff into the game's memory), is bad design, and it's possible that it's a walking security risk, and it likely even affects games with anti-cheat or software that is very strict about background tasks and services. You need a third-party solution (SteamTinkerLaunch) to even get it working with a game running on Proton. I don't even believe they've made anything recently, at least I haven't seen them frequent WSGF on Discord in a while. I guess one of the few good things about FWGS is how it handles multi-display support, lets you toggle mods on/off when the game's running, and lets you adjust things like the FOV and see that when the game's running, but how's this any better from just putting that stuff into an ImGui overlay that behaves functionally similar to RivaTuner, Special K, the Steam overlay, or literally anything that wraps or hooks itself onto DirectX/GL/Vulkan when the game's done drawing what it needs? But I digress, Anything that relies on extra steps than just dragging and dropping some files into the game's directory (So you can contain it to the game's process, and make things streamlined and as easy for your average end user to run, so they don't go submitting support tickets asking for really blatantly obvious stuff when they can barely handle a file manager) is inherently anti-thetical to making a fix for a game that aims to fix a downside to the game that prevents it working optimally out of the box for the end user. Your average Steam forum user is a complete idiot (Not to denegrate them, they are good at finding problems, but not good at finding solutions), and not streamlining things is opening yourself to a ton of wasted time troubleshooting obvious issues for people who can't read a forum post. Some mod developers making fixes for games have realized this, and went out of their way to move things from external executable and Cheat Engine trainer solutions to proper DLL mods made in C++. Reloaded-II, despite all of my issues with it as a mod loader, at least puts it's configs in a clear location and they offer a DLL install of sorts which uses ASI Loader as a base, meaning it's easier to setup with games on Proton or if you want something that isn't entirely dependent on launching an external launcher. I have to even wonder why the script extender for Bethesda's games don't even bother with just using a DLL file that automatically injects what's needed when the game launches, because that would make it so all you have to do is launch the game through Steam instead of messing around with your file manager endlessly. Despite Special K having a background service/app that essentially behaves like a game launcher (And even imports your games from Steam/GOG/Epic/Xbox and then auto-injects into the game through the launcher), you can copy the SpecialK32.dll or SpecialK64.dll file from the SKIF's directory into the game's directory and then install it. Kaldaien has made efforts to make Special K (Which also includes his mods for Nier Automata and others) work on a wide range of setups, and that includes on Proton/WINE. If you can handle using Cheat Engine or x64dbg and making assembly patches, then you can handle writing a DLL in C++, so your mods are easy to install for the average schmuck. The game mod compatibility issue with Linux is entirely self-inflicted. I've made strives to move away from Cheat Engine tables and to write my mods as DLL files in C++ (Or in the case of Unity games, using BepInEx which opens the doors to what you can improve), and things are as easy as dragging some files into the game directory and setting a specific launch parameter in the Steam game's properties section with the DLL file in question (I.E: "WINEDLLOVERRIDES='dinput8=n,b' %command"), while also not relying on having to install the dreaded Visual C++ Runtimes in every game's Proton prefix (Thanks to just cross-compiling with MinGW, and using standard C++ functions rather than the ones from MSVC). I'm definitely not that skilled, I have a lot to learn about still, but looking inside, I feel like there's a lot more that could be done, even on Windows, the experience with game mods sucks.
as someone who likes to mod and load mods in games i feel that. some modding tools dont run on linux because they are broken in wine or dont work for some reason. and they dont have a linux build. i have to run a windows vm or have seperate hardware to do those windows specific tasks. which i dont mind but makes it far more annoying than it needs to be. i want to be done with windows.
I feel ya. I was testing Linux recently primary 4K and secondary 1440p. Even though the 1440p is generally used by a NUC, it still has the DP cable plugged in for if I need to dual screen my main machine. Linux was constantly trying to connect to it and having the login screen over there. Windows tries it once, then remembers that you've set to single monitor. My Linux trial didn't. I also found screen scaling and such seemed to come and go. For instance Steam, one time it would be scaled and fine, the next, text was teeny tiny. It all started to get annoying. LOL.
I feel you 100% on the lack of good music and media players in Linux. I went through the same journey through Clementine, Nightingale, DeadBeef, etc, and none of them stacked up to Foobar2000. I'm getting by with the flatpak someone made, but would love to have it natively running for all the reasons you mentioned. Maybe someday soon the dev will hear our pleas. Another category of software to mention are the myriad peripheral utilities for programmable mice and keyboards, and so on. I haven't looked in the last few years, but I remember there not being much. Perhaps that's changed, but hopefully we see more of that from manufacturers and/or the FOSS community soon. Also, absolutely digging your music. Keep at it!
Whenever I listen to things like this is that it never addresses the business world. Try doing your yearly taxes with a Linux app. Say what -- you can't - yep you're correct. Try running a robust Contact Manager on Linux (not just a shiny address book). Say what - you can't - yep you're correct. Try keeping track of your checking accounts with a Linux app. Oh I've looked but they are very weak. That is the big problem for anyone outside of people who only talk games. I've been a Linux user for a long time but I need to also have Windows on another partition. Wine just doesn't work well on proprietary software.
Yeah its usually just use their web application if available - I pretty much use Microsoft Teams this way. But it is a very fair point, if you can't run the app natively, and there isn't a web port, you are going to have to use some hacky workaround or run a Windows VM which can be quite complicated for the uninitiated (and this hasn't even touched on how to bypass VM detection for some apps that do so). What might seem easy to someone, is a hassle to someone else.
It really really sucks hearing how many people say the biggest issue switching to Linux is software. It all comes down to companies being expected to be exploitative and limiting to make as much profit as possible, not convenient or supportive. Why would adobe ever want to support Linux? They don't need to at all, they're making plenty of money on their locked in platforms, so why would they put in all that effort to support an open and free operating system that they can't entirely lock down? I just find it disgusting that the industry standard is to be as exploitative as possible.
Honestly (I should have gone into this more, but my audio section was too long already), even if FL studio and all my audio plugins natively worked on linux, it would be hard to move away from Windows (or MacOS)... The audio situation on Linux is average at best... Latency is almost always better on Windows and changing buffers and such isn't always easy on linux.
That's just how capitalism will always be, yea it sucks but the alternatives also suck, unfortunately perfection is a paradox, an impossibility, so this means every system will be exploitable in some way (just as any security expert) and the people to rise to the top of that system will be the ones willing to exploit it the most
@@teksyndicateI've heard of people getting less audio latency by working directly with ALSA instead of going through pulseaudio or pipewire, that might improve things for you
“My creativity is more important than my righteousness,” such an excellent summation of the issue for a lot of folks stuck on other platforms. I love Linux and it is my go-to for my casual machines where I just mess around, but it has yet to address the scope of my creative workflow needs.
The problem with that mindset is what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? Say the corporation who sold it to you says you have to pay an exorbitant subscription to continue using what you already paid for, or maybe worse, the corporation simply decides that nobody can use it anymore and anyone who purchased it is stripped of access in order to push them to buy a new product? What happens if the corporation goes belly-up and the lack of support causes the software to break on modern operating systems, and because the files use a proprietary format, you can't move your existing work over to a different piece of software? Do you truly own your creative works if your means of accessing them and creating them can be stripped from you by the whims of a third party? It's not just about righteousness. It's about thinking in the long term.
@@GANONdork123 "what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? " yar har, shiver dee dee! being a pirate is something to be! do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
@@GANONdork123 Thank you for your response. Your concerns are valid, but will be relative to the effected individual and their particular ‘poison’ of creative work. As with any work, the tools one employs are subject to reasonable availability, reliability, and replacement when necessary, fundamental aspects of tools digital and otherwise. For some, the game of ‘what if’ might be more relevant than it is to others, and in cases of tools disappearing, not working as desired, or being unreasonable in form, function, or otherwise, I’d argue the individual’s plight is indeed about preserving their process rather than righteousness (though, really, the two need not be mutually exclusive, do they?). However, as in instances referenced in the video, the best tool for the job is the tool that you have available and reliable and replaceable to you right now, at hand and ready to work or most immediately so, and in many instances that means indentured servitude to an evil that ought not be necessary but is. Don’t get it twisted-just like the video suggests, I’m constantly experimenting with open source options, Wine configurations, and ways in which I might manually rethink my workflow to limit my exposure, but sometimes you have a row of nails in front of you and only a hammer will do. I think anyone that suggests alternative platforms to others without taking the time to understand the workflow and creative in question is doing so with a degree of arrogance and ignorance, however well-intentioned. I feel like that’s the position of this video-not an attack on Linux or open source options, but an acknowledgement that there are about as many divergent needs and workflows as their are workers, and neither you nor me nor anybody else can possibly say for certain what may or may not be best from another stranger on the internet.
@@GANONdork123 I'll just pirate an old version... or, let's say FL Studio decides to switch and make their users pay a monthly fee... I'll block their servers with pihole.
@@GANONdork123 As someone who uses Clip Studio Paint, I just pay the subscription. If/when the company goes under, what I do next will depend on my situation and options at the time. That said, I want to ask, in your counter to "My creativity is more important than my righteousness", what is the final goal? I'm not quite following the mindset given the video topic.
A few things hold Linux back. 1. 100's of distros all trying to do the same thing(be Windows) but so differently they have compatibility issues with each other. (This deters developers from making native Linux apps/games when you need multiple of them for Debian-based, Ubuntu-based, and other distro-based distros that don't work 100% with each other. 2. The community is really, REALLY toxic towards newcomers, beginners, those who want to learn, or those who use a different distro. (This is what drove me away personally. Telling a games dev they "don't know how to code" because they don't want to use sudo commands isn't going to attract us) 3. Compatibility will stay poor until more people get into Linux (See problem 2 for this one) and no one will adopt it if there's no support for it.(see problem 1 for this one) And finally, they tout it as an OS that can run even the oldest, weakest hardware, but we don't want to optimise our games to run on your Core 2 Duo in 2024 even if you use Windows; it's not the win you think it is. This results in extra compatibility issues (see problem 3 for this one) and we don't want to have to waste time dealing with all these extra hurdles.
My target audience is Dreamcast, so I COULD optimise my games to run on a Core 2 Duo, but I'm in a very small minority here, and even then I'd rather not have to go that far for a system with no set spec because then if it runs on your Core 2 Duo, why does their Phenom 2 not run it? (PC architectures are very different from one CPU/GPU vendor to another, whereas consoles are consoles, and every Dreamcast will run every Dreamcast game the same. Also Paintdotnet has no equal on any OS, and relies on the .net framework to function(This is my personal reason for sticking to Windows)
Expanding on point 2. I don't want to use Linux anymore, but don't want to suck up 1-2gb of ram every VM for windows for a homelab server. Every guide out there assumes you have good knowledge of Linux based commands, or understanding to begin with. "yea just run this command and it'll do what you need" "That didn't work? Throws an error or command/package not available" "Install the package then..." "The 5 guides I found tell me to use apt install,but it doesn't work" "You're fucking dumb, use apt-get install. It also needs to be sudo" "Sudo isn't a valid command"... "This distro uses 'su' only, oh and add the user to the sudo group" More googling later...its just been endless, ENDLESS googling and unintuitive nonsense to get the damn OS even running... Need to mount an external nas drive? That's either installing 3 other things, with guides that don't cover remounting on reboot. Or having a stab at fstab. Everything is just soooooo much easier to do in windows...I don't want to configure files to mount my drives so I can see my smb share. Give me a GUI that let's me put a damn IP address in and the OS does the heavy lifting. (There probably is something for this, but god of can I find it amongst the 100's of Terminal/Shell gurus or hotheads)
@@ShuskiCross For real. Another thing they don't tell you is those commands differ depending on the distro. I tried Arch and instead of all the Sudo commands I'd mastered, it used "pacman" and then the commands were altered as well, so I had to re-learn everything and it was ultimately more hassle than it was worth. And having to know the specific package name was a pain. Instead of going to the web and downloading (insert browser here) it was "google-chrome-stable" or "google-chrome-nightly" and while it wasn't hard to do per se, it was definitely more tedious to do, I wound up downloading the appimage files or .deb files online and just using those where I could instead most of the time. Linux was fun for me, but it's definitely not ready for the big stage with Windows and MacOS yet.
I have a low-end Laptop with an iGPU and some old games like Half-Life 2, Portal 1 and 2 (probably any other game that uses DirectX 9-11) run like trash compared to running them on Windows. If we talk about their native versions then Half-Life 2 is the only decent port I've tried, so it's hit or miss too. I like using Linux for everything else though.
I completely agree with this video. I've tried numerous times to switch to Linux. I love it so much. Unfortunately every time I try to do something new I find that I've got to tweak the system too much to get it to work. I usually end up breaking the system and having to start over. So frustrating.
Affinity didn't have plan for windows originally, but due to demands they paused development on their Publisher to get the other software out on windows. So sometimes, demand works.
Oh man they really need to make Affinity available on Linux. I will buy the entire suite even at full price. Im not even bothered about Photoshop (even though I know it better).
for the modding point: on Linux ive modded Guild Wars 2, Monster Hunter World, Minecraft, Deep Rock Galactic and plan to mod a few more games. Works fine so far, GW2 just needed some wine/protontricks
@@plebisMaximus As someone who's a full time Linux user, I agree. The modding situation on Linux is not good enough. It's symptomatic of a general problem with Linux. If you put literally thousands of hours into it, you can make most things work, sort of. But most people don't have that option.
The Achilles heel of Linux for me is the tremendous lack of user friendliness. You feel that you need to spend a whole day just to get your web cam working (random example) an that will always keep the majority of people away.
@@repairman2be250 You assume wrong, I've been trying new distros for some time now. From Mint to Ubuntu, and so on. My point still stands. The broad range of Linux distributions is commendable and offers a lot of variety and flexibility, but gives a lot of headaches to newcomers, In the end there's only one Windows, and people in will always choose the easier and faster way and Microsoft knows this.
Yeah. Modding on Linux is the EXACT same thing as it is on Windows. I literally play RimWorld (windows game) and to mod it, you literally drop the mods in the mod folder. And I'm sure it is the same for DLL. If the game runs ,then it would recognize the DLL the same I have script mods for the Sims 4. I've never had a problem with these. I also play the Sims 2. A game that runs poorly on modern windows installments. (Sadly with this one, since I sandbox wine with user namespaces i have to install the media in the sandbox, not with the system wine thingy, because it writes specific registry code that makes running it sandboxed with a native install impossible. But that's about it.)
@@CodexSan it's almost the same, but not 100%. I recently had issues with RE4 tweaks and Silent Hill 3 camera mod, both dll mods. Had to tweak file names for them to even be recognized, and I think RE4 tweaks makes the game not load save files sometimes and I have to restart. Elden Ring mods, like Reforged, need special tweaks too (Reforged was adapted by the author, was not playable until some proton update).
Steam has give super clear signals what is the key for making people use linux: 1) ease of use 2) software I wish Linux devs would focus on those areas instead of making new distros and desktop environments
@@gabrielkolletalves493 if valve had accepted that mentality we would not had the steam deck and the state of linux gaming where windows games run as smoothly as native software. There a lot of things linux debs could do to attract developer support or even make them run without their support. But they do not do it because the majority of distros do not care or they are stuck in the mentality of everything has to be open source and ethical. They usually treat any privative software as the devil with a lot of warnings, or separate repositories for them and they want to develop their own open source alternatives that are not always on par. I am all for open source regarding the os, drivers and apis because that is where big companies fuck us, but regarding an specific productivity app or a game nobody cares if it is open source or even "native". Valve understand that and they are being pragmatic, linux debs usually are not although I see some are starting to understand.
I use Windows, Linux and macOS. I never told anyone to make the switch to either, because all three have their advantages and disadvantages. I do my video editing on macos, I game on Windows and code on Linux.
That's the problem with Linux, its not just software that solves a problem, its an ideology, and that's why Windows is losing market share to MacOS, but Linux never pass 3%.
I basically don't care, I use XenHyperVisor on my computer so I can run Windows and MacOS and Linux because I use software for what it does, not for ideology, I don't care about free software, I use open source when I have the need to change software. I actually prefer that I can't easily customize Windows, it prevents me from wasting time and actually use the computer to get actual real work done, instead of playing with the operating system like a game. I do play games on Windows, it has GPU pass-through and is technically my "DWM" as Linux desktop kind of sucks, so I use it only from the command line.
@@monad_tcp Disagree. Linux doesn't gain market share because it doesn't sit on store shelves beside MacOS and Windows PCs. Need a major brand to actually try and sell them (not just make them hoping people will notice and buy as some have attempted). People don't buy MacOS, they buy an Apple computer.
@@monad_tcp Well, lack of customization is deal-breaker to me on windows. On W11 I can't even have vertical taskbar... And sorry to say, but if ability to customize things to improve your workflow is distraction for you, then that is very much problem with you.
You just reminded me how good your music is. Every now and again I go on a Zweihander listening spree while working and it's always a blast. Thanks, and please keep making albums!
Ex professional musician over here (more than 20 years of hard work), now a developer full time. I understand all you are talking about. My "sollution" (anyone does as it pleases and the way it pleases, it's just my choice) for this was to let it go when there is no way to port the apps/hardware (at least, for now) and embrace a totally new environment. From time to time I discover something that once was impossible or difficult to port, is now a lot easier. I also bought a lot of libraries and VSTs on the past, and I can use about 90% of it (even Native Access) with no problems on Debian (yes, the grandpa of distros). I imagine it would be easier in Arch, but I had my frustrations with role releasing distros on the past, so I stick with a stable one. My DAW (REAPER) is already compatible with linux for some time, so I think it was easier for me. Anyway, I can´t imagine myself without the customization and freedom that linux gives me today. (KDE, window managers, flatpaks, reliable repositories etc.) I really try to visit my Windows 11 hard drive from time to time and it's a lot of pain and frustration (my Audio Interface seems to not work properly anymore on Windows for example). So now, I´ m on the opposite side of the conversation, and I don't want to go back. I think it would be possible, but I'm a happy linux user now.
Yeah, mostly I hear in this video is whining about "bUt I dO nOt WaNt To LeArN nEw StUfF"... Besides, a virtual machine with win11 running passthrough and just run it inside that if the user absolutely HAS to use a specific windows application not available on linux. Heck, you can even play games doing that. I had no problems getting autodesk inventor running using that method. And that application is said to be "impossible to run on linux". I guess I am a magician then... xD
Well, yeah, in order to make an omelette, you gonna have to break some eggs. You wanna stick it to Microsoft for designing and monopolizing the market around their OS in such a way it's nigh impossible to switch? Yeah, you gotta suffer some, as you lose the access to that exact market, what can you do...
@@marcusjohansson668 Well - I think with a VM doing passthru it is less running on linux than running within linux. So maybe more stage magician than Gandalf. 😁
@@sociallyferal4237 Kinda my point, the "adobe can not be ran on linux" is something that should be squashed. Besides, people should not be using adobe anyway, unless they want to give adobe access to all their work. xD
I haven't watched the full video yet, but I can't switch over to Linux because I'm disabled and I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control the computer and to type. So far I haven't found anything which is as good. Edit: The homage was the game Blackthorne.
Linux is not in a great spot for accessibility right now, unfortunately. The old tools are all broken by the transition to Wayland, and the new tools largely aren't done yet. Might be looking better in a few years, though, hopefully.
@@psiah9889 In a few years, in a few years, you will see they will get there... 💤💤 30 years and still the same lame excuses. How many decades of gimp and still the maybe most unusable ui/ux out there. Where is HiDPI support in most of that awesome "alternatives" ? Multimonitor ? What about making that thing generally usable instead of producing 50 new distros a week. Or do most linux nerds just tweak their desktop, make a video about it, and then tweak the next distro ? A very unproductive way to spend your life on this planet.
@@kaisfp So... Remember back in the day when Windows Vista came out and it changed the way a lot of things worked and broke several things, but it was ultimately required for things to work well in the future because a lot of the old assumptions people made back in the 80's and 90's about what would be needed in the future weren't great? Linux is going through that a bit later... As in, right now. Wayland replaces X11, which is how Linux has done things for like four decades now, but was designed for mainframe type systems with multiple users accessing it at once. Stuff like multiple monitor support has been hacked in, rather than being a basic, intentional feature, and the old way was horrendously insecure, making keyloggers very easy to set up even if they were never as common as on windows. Wayland is the new version, meant to fix all that. It, for instance, actually supports running multiple monitors with different refresh rates, instead of just taking one giant virtual monitor and cutting slices out of it for different screens. It modernizes things, makes them faster, makes them support modern protocols better, and makes them much more secure. But security always comes at the cost of convenience. Easy keyloggers also meant easy screen readers... Now on Wayland, those are much more difficult to do. Not *impossible*, mind, but a lot of work and the devs largely haven't gotten around to it yet. So people who need those features are stuck on the old, insecure version that, notably, no one is really working on and fixing bugs and the like for anymore. Still, it's got like fourty years of time put into it, so it's also just pretty stable and relatively bug-free at this point in general. So, basically, tl;dr: Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, but there are still some missing pieces that affect accessibility software more than anything else.
The biggest problem with WINE is that there's no raw hardware access. So for some piece of hardware to work someone has to create a driver specific to WINE that talks with its Linux driver and the applications inside WINE.
Wow, this video has been coming up in my recommended list for days, I wish I clicked on it sooner. I'm watching this on my Linux daily driver. I do all my gaming on Linux. You make some very valid points here.
You have some more options: -dualboot, a PC of these days can reboot to an other OS under 15sec. So at least you can enjoy the free world after you finished the creative stuff. -you can run Windows in Virtualbox, with a shared folder between the two OSs. I did this to simply access my corporation's onedrive / sharepoint shares from Linux. *Debian with it's usually old packages may not be the best os for desktops. That may be the source of your problems with Wayland.
@@nathanp3366 I did not tried qemu yet. But so far vbox was fine for me, I did mostly writing and testing freepascal code with Lazarus. It's an easy way for me to test multiplatform code on a Linux host.
@@nathanp3366 I was gonna say, who runs virtualbox in windows when KVM/Qemu works a lot better? OP, if you haven't tried it, you should. It's amazing, performs better than VMWare.
1) if you're gonna end up being spied on windows, why bother dual booting at all? 2) virtual machine hit the performance like a truck. You're losing performance that you paid for what? Just for hating windows?
@@youravghuman5231 He? o.O 1 - We are using Altium Designer at work. Sometimes I had to work from home and no, the last years it was not working with wine. Previously it worked, but in a verry sluggish, useless way. 2 - Please don't bring hate to this conversations. I'm using vbox usually to write and test multiplatform apps. Works fine. *No, I do not like using Windows. I just have to time to time.
"I want to go to make things better, not sacrifice" So much truth in that statement. I feel like im sacrificing less now that I found Nobara, but there are still a couple of programs that keep me on windows. I have been able to switch a rig over to Nobara and run a windows VM, but I keep the other rig on windows when I need to do work on a more powerful setup. I think its closer for me than ever before, but there are still a few things keeping on that MS side.
Request to community: Don't just tell people which operating system a person must use rather it's more of a personal choice. Another thing is experimenting with different operating systems just lets you find your own one and the one you can actually work with. Operating systems are meant to be your assistaint.
This. I will also say to the community that if you feel bad that someone didn't made it to fully switch to the OS you're using and they stayed on their OS, it's none of your business. It's really a personal preference and what works for you might not work for others. Also, other people have less time to learn a new OS than you had when you managed to fully switch to Linux. People that seek help by searching online or looking at forums are the ones that had the time to learn Linux. If they don't, they obviously don't have time and there's nothing you can do about it. It's okay to make them try, but let's not push them if it's really not working for them.
The fact that for almost a decade, almost all desktop users worldwide used just one OS (Windows) for everything, kind of contradicts you. In the 2000s even macOS which was the 2nd most used had a pitiful minuscule market share. And I think that's precisely the problem with Linux desktop adoption by regular users(which is also the blessing for power users). Most ppl except the real few power users don't give a single f about the OS itself. They just want to do their thing in the easiest, shortest, most comfortable way possible. Not by distro hopping which basically means constantly reinstalling their OS, not by following changelogs, kernel releases, foss drama etc.
For photo editing, it is hard to move away from Adobe, especially the Adobe camera raw engine. Raw image processing is a difficult area of development, which is why it takes so long for new raw process versions to come out. To truly see the power of that development, try revisiting some of your old raw files, with newer algorithms to interpret raw files, you will see massive improvements to how far you can adjust things. Newer versions of the raw engine with very old raw files is able to improve highlight and shadow recovery (the latest engine can get very close to the technical limits of a specific raw file based on the mathematical analysis of raw files. Another area is the color management and processing, newer raw engines are able to handle adjustments in tricky color situations without clipping color channels as easily. Thus extremely good for concert photography.
On modding - if you have done it once you remember how to do it forever. You mention widescreen patches as an example. In 99.9% of the cases it's as simple as setting a dll override via WINEDLLOVERRIDES env variable to use the native version. By default wine tries to use builtin dlls for better compatibility with their environment and that's why some of them aren't loaded without explicitly specifying the override.
I did not expect such a detailed explanation. I am sorry that we are not there yet, for your use case. But there is one tiny thing that I believe you are mistaken: I use Aseprite and it offers a deb package. You do not have to build it. Also, I have not noticed any issues with it on Linux. It just works. I am also on Debian 12, but on X11 and KDE.
@@teksyndicatehaven't noticed any issues on Wayland with it or its Foss fork however you may run it through xwayland if you do end up encountering some
Just wanted to suggest another option. You could get a small micro PC like a Beelink and then a USB switcher for your keyboard, mouse and accessories. I use something like this for messing around with SBCs. As long as your applications don't require a large dedicated GPU, even AMDs iGPUs are very good nowdays. You could have your main PC run linux and have most of your programs/games, then your micro PC run windows with your music production software.
That would probably be ok for most of my music... I'm not sure about the symphonic stuff. The samples are MASSIVE... so I'd want to upgrade it to 64GB of ram... but if I did that, it's a good idea.
@@teksyndicate I recommend Minisforum UM790 or Beelink SER7 Pro, both come with 7940hs/7840hs CPU and have two m.2 slot available. You can slot a double-sided NVMe into one of the slots, but the other is obstructed (SER7 has a wifi card below the SSD), but if you take the wifi card out and connect via Ethernet, you can install two double-sided for up to 16 TB storage. Memory can be upgraded to 48x2 for 96 GB and possibly beyond in the future, however, as things currently are, none exist for laptops. Even on desktop side, outside of R and U DIMM, dual-channel non-ECC DDR is impossible to find. With the single exception of awful, proprietary magnetic connector on SER7 and SER6 pro, I cannot recommend these mini PCs enough. Geekom A8 is also fine but BIOS is pretty locked down. P.S. I recommend Tech Guy Beau, Iceberg Tech and level1tech's review of these machines. I wouldn't recommend anything prior to Meteor Lake on the Intel side, let me tell you that much. And Intel's offerings should be considered only when it's cheaper than the AMD ones (and they're not). If you've been following mobile CPU space and looked at the reviews of recent mobile processors, you should already be familiar with them.
@@teksyndicate I'm on the same boat, most of the hardware on my PC is for audio production (128GB ram, multiple 4-8TB SSD's for orchestral samples), though I do like the idea of just having multiple PCs and using switchers. Another idea I had was either running Windows VM on linux with passthrough (might require more research/config to get it working smoothly as I want) or using Synergy
One more benefit to you being stuck on windows is that you have been able to make a lot of great software tutorials to help the rest of us who are are also stuck on windows for creative software and need some deshitification tips for Windows.
I lightly disagree with the creative software locking you in to Microsoft Windows. While FOSS creative software applications of higher usefulness may be quite rare on Linux, the gaming aspect is even rarer on the systems.
Of Foobar, it doesn't have to be open-source. Or rather, it doesn't have to be OSI's interpretation; FB2K dev could use a model based on fair-code and have the _official_ build be theirs, and theirs alone. While FB2K is free and fair-code is a model which helps to financially support developers, in this instance the fair-code model is basically being used for the author to maintain full control of their specific build while people can fork it for use on other systems as their own projects. The premise here is that official, mainline FB2K is never to be touched by anyone else. The OSI + GNU model would require forked code to be attributed by its authors and integrated into the main branch, while this fair-code model would ensure the author doesn't have to touch GNU licensing, but basically release the code as being openly-available under a license that declares the author maintains sole control over the base software, but forks can _do whatever._ While no money is changing hands, the fair-code model would permit the author to restrict who touches the base while ensuring anyone who wants to make additions via forks can do so.
I have similar issues with going full time linux. My job is repairing and customizing modules found in a car. So I need to reprogram them a lot, which I do through an obd2 bench harness. The obd2 dongle I use and the software I use will not work on linux same with the software I use for this. I sunk hours of my life trying to make it work on wine but it just wont. Sure it works in a vm but that's a massive pain in the ass and find the IO through the virtualization layer is less reliable which can brick a module. Is my use case high specific? yes but a lot of the "anyone can use linux" fail to realize sometimes there's no linux alternatives, and more importantly, even when there is alternatives they're typically inferior and people don't want the software they use often to be more difficult to use even if it means putting up with the enshitification of windows
Love your music, man. Your channel helped me build my first gaming PC and decide on a mechanical keyboard flavor at 14. It's been ten years. I turn 25 in 6 days. Nitheren is one of my comfort albums and I love all the new stuff. I'm in the process of getting into the field and I'm switching to Linux in the coming days. It's ironic that I turned on my system today and found that it was trying to bully me into installing Windows 11 before I even signed in. While I'm afraid to take the plunge, I know Linux' beautiful community will take far better care of me. Spent a few months in class learning Linux CLI first. I'll have to join up on the forum soon. I have issues getting organized, if I'm honest. You might've sold me on the Zimaboard. I don't quite have the funds right now, but I will probably end up investing the same amount for a worse gateway or a PiHole setup or something. I just love the form factor without all the labor and research of the PiHole.
That pixel art animation with the shotgun is a homage to Blackthorn. Had a great time playing that ages ago. Brings back great memories of my childhood. :)
Hell yeah! I'm about to hire someone to help with tilemaps (I'll make some too, but I'm also working on the music and dialog)... hopefull we make something out of it!
I'm a film student who needs to edit videos very regularly, and I also make music in FL as a hobby. I also despise Windows. I used to use the Adobe suite but I cancelled my subscription and deleted my account after the TOS change controversy, so I'm on DaVinci Resolve instead of Premiere now, and even though there's DaVinci builds for Linux, it's not super straight forward to get it set up as they're meant for RHEL based distros, and I use an Arch based distro. I got it working through distrobox, but I don't feel confident in the reliability of that setup. As for FL, I got it working through Bottles (WINE frontend), but again, it's not a great workaround. So what I've settled on is a dual boot setup, on two separate drives so that Windows updates don't break GRUB (linux bootloader), and then a VM on the Linux install with the Windows SSD passed through for storage. That way I can use Linux 99% of the time, as I much prefer the experience, and I can reboot into Windows if I wanna edit videos, make music, or do something that isn't supported on Linux. If I wanna update Windows but use my PC at the same time, or if I wanna do something in Windows that isn't as demanding as video editing or music creation, I can boot up the VM and mess about while still being booted into Linux. My Windows install also isn't a consumer build of Win10 or 11, it's Win10 LTSC, an enterprise edition of Win10 that will recieve security updates well past consumer Win10's end of life, and has much less bloatware and background telemetry on a fresh install.
I've used linux pretty much all my life (my dad was a slackware early adopter), and some of my interests overlap with yours. I've been playing modded skyrim on linux since ~2014. I actually spent a summer writing a custom mod manager in python (it basically just used symbolic links based on your load order) because NMM and MO required dotnet 4.5. Having said all that, I think you're completely correct. Switch to linux if it enables you to do the stuff that you want to do. My creativity is in programming and tinkering with hardware (I'm a computational physicist by day), so the fiddling is a feature for me. Everything I need for work (gcc, gfortran, vim, python packages, emacs, latex) just runs out of the box on basically any linux distro -- if anything Windows/Mac would be more of a hassle. The only thing I take slight issue with is Reason 4. Yes, linux takes some fiddling, but it can be configured to work forever (just like you say it does for Windows). To give you an example: In my sophomore year of college (~2014/2015) I wrote a set of scripts for i3 and bash that configured my desktop and laptops _exactly_ the way I wanted. I mean, hotkeys, aliases, multiple displays, resolutions, color temperatures, python packages, library paths, the whole nine yards. I haven't changed that config at all since. In fact, I was driving to OH for a conference once and realized I'd forgotten to pack my laptop. No biggie, I stopped at a best buy in Toledo, picked up the cheapest vivobook I could find and flashed the custom image I have on my keychain. One git clone later, I'm as productive on my 20 minute old machine as my 10 year old daily driver. If that's not a config that "works forever", I dunno what is. I haven't tried this first hand, but I seriously doubt I could pull something like that off on a windows machine.
As a full time Linux user; Linux still has a long way to go. But most importantly, the Linux community still has a long way to go. Linux distros have traditionally been for tinkerers, and it shows. If Linux is to ever become popular it needs to be convenient to use for those who don't consider operating systems a lifestyle. Only then we'll see commercial software natively supported on Linux in any significant capacity.
@@PropaneWP Mind giving me examples of what you need to tinker with then? Unless you insist not using alternatives and try to force windows specific software - there is no reason to tinker.
7:00 - That basically explains my biggest problem with Linux. Usually it requires a lot more work, and I don't want to have to mess around with my OS any more either. Back in 2007, I'd spend all day messing with Compiz just for fun. I didn't mind tweaking Wine settings to get WC3 to work. Stuff like Proton, Lutris, and Bottles have brought gaming a very long way, but the reality is it's still not as simple as Windows, and sometimes it's way more fuss than I want to deal with. Yesterday I spent all day reading documentation and going through three different distros before I finally got WoW to launch. I love the fact that it works, but I hate that it took so long, because from past experience at any time there will be an update that breaks it again. And I don't think I will have the patience to stay on Linux. EDIT: I just realized WoW is capped at 75 FPS, even though I have it set to no cap. So I thought I had it working fine, but normally I'd be running 140+ on Windows. Yet another thing to fix when I could be playing.
Switched to Linux mint 5 months ago, For all the game I played only a few did I have to look up ProtonDB to find out which Proton/Wine to use. All the games work so far, I do not do Multi player online games that have anti cheat. Been able to mod my games using a secondary pc with windows. The problem I have had with linux is, it is not windows. You have to treat linux like learning a new game that does things differently, using that way of thinking has saved me a lot of time and frustration. Learn Virtual Machine so I can switch my wife over to linux she needs Microsoft office to work, the vm should do that easy.
I mean, for WoW all I did was install it through Lutris. Over on CachyOS (Arch-based) the only game I can't play in my library is Destiny 2. Helldivers 2 runs awesome thanks to Glorious Eggroll (check out his custom proton versions). I run Hyprland for DE, GPUs are Intel Arc A310 & A770. I have a VM with passthrough for Office though.
just hitting install is harder then on windows lol ok. opning up the app store i want this app install also very hard i assume. 2007 is long behind us.
@@ElMartilloBlanco any of them using the lutris app. in fact currently playing wow mop remix on fedora 40. can litterly drage the exe into lutris and it sees what it is and grabs the nedded scripts. or just add to you libary with the search feature.
My main issue with Linux is that there are just more knobs to fiddle with and more stuff that can go wrong and for the most part I just want shit to work honestly...
7:50 Yep, being creative has been hard on Linux with just this ONE roadblock - Affinity. I dropped adobe stuff a long time ago, but even the next best alternative I got used to was a hassle to get working. I did recently get it working because of someone's tutorial and a bit of poking around. The performance is basically halved and has some visual bugs, but that hasn't stopped me being excited that I don't need to launch windows anymore
I get the sentiment here, not sure I agree Linux is not for creatives. I ran a studio for years, very dependent on Adobe software. It was hard to leave that, and it required significant changes, but I can't say I regret those changes. I'm quite happy, having adjusted and learned new open-source tools.
Great breakdown. I'm in a similar awkward poweruser spot (though much less skilled). I'm sure 90% of my workflow ports to linux in some way, but the last 10% just doesn't, and of the "some way" for the previous 90%, it comes at some serious costs. There's just the initial context switching, which kinda sucks, even though I've gotten used to that over the years, but then there's allll the little sacrifices you get to make. At one point in time I used Excel seriously for my career, and not just the few features that everyone uses, but some of the heavy lifting stuff. Libre office calc, at least at that time, wasn't even close. I'm sure some of it was teething issues on my end (again context switching), but there were just functionalities that Excel was miles ahead of at the time. And that's before you get to the simple fact that your office environment is accepting xlsx only. Sure I could dual boot or whatever, but there's LOTS of these little edge cases. If you want to stream, browse the web, and play some games, linux is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was. The professional (obviously outside of areas like servers) and hobby landscape though almost always runs into a boatload of issues. And you 100% nailed the 'i want the OS out of my way' attitude. I program for a living and while i'm ass at it compared to many, I at least know how to handle debugging, testing, digging into repo issue lists, and so on. Everytime I try to switch to linux it reminds me of those windows 98-00 days where "oops yeah you got this card and this game it maybe it should work but something isn't so now you're hunting and maybe you'll find that forum post explaining your unique issue and...." I don't miss that, like at all. Linux, unfortunately, walks into those weeds way more than just running Windows or Mac these days. It's fine if you're super comfortable in the environment and like doing that sort of thing, but I really don't want to have to do the internet Easter egg hunt because oops that one thing I wanted to tinker with isn't really quite compatible.
To be honest, I think this story is applicable for computing in general. I worked with a team that refurbished hundreds of PC's from 2012-2017, and sometimes driver issues would come up where I had to go on an adventure to find that one forum post with the answer or the elusive link.
Mad respect to you man. Watched you in the early days and you taught me a lot. I've used Windows since the DOS3.X days. But I started with System 7 Macintosh Apple. So Unix. For more than ten years I've been removing Microsoft applications and gone open source. I fully agree with you all the games I play I mod. I also use video editing. Nobara ( based on Fedora) is my only recommendation for easy Davinci resolve installs. It might be time to do a Dual boot install with the best windows and distro together with a focus on how to transfer files easily to each folders. That pixel art is amazing!
All of these reasons you’ve laid out I absolutely relate with. I feel that I’m destined to dual boot for forever. I’ll miss your videos if you retire from YT, please update us every now and again, at least.
I've had to jump through hoops on every distro I've tried to get my sound card working in 5.1 and then I find that even still the games will only output stereo
Yeah Audio drivers have always been very RNG heavy. Thankfully I have no complex setup. So before 22.04 the only issues where the same as under windows but easier to solve, because I could automate the workaround. After that dist upgrade it shockingly just worked.
Creative cards are weird and map 5.1 incorrectly, I figured out how to fix mine based on a post from reddit. Had to tweak pipewire (which is actually pretty straightforward. )
@@slaapliedje yeah I'm using a sound blaster Z and have done a lot of reading like I said I was able to get it working properly but even with digital output the games will still only do stereo
@@qbertguy Huh, I know there are a few games recently (after I managed to get new speakers and have them set up properly in a 5.1 setup correctly for once) that just sound amazing. Valheim was one, if I recall. I'm betting a lot of the output depends on the game. The sad thing is, modern computing has a few things that irritate everyone on all operating systems. Sound is one of them. Oops, the sound is now trying to go out a monitor with no speakers. Oops, the mic in the laptop is active instead of the headset, etc. When you have 6 different sound devices, and each application has separate settings... you can see where it'd go wrong.
My problem is the accessibility software. Linux isn't quite there yet, at least as far as I've found. I have a visual disability so the Windows Magnifier and the text to speech that runs alongside of it is almost perfect for my situation. I wish I could find something as useful for linux.
This might be a thing specific to the desktop environment you use. I've heard of a game dev with visual disability getting involved in the space reporting bugs and stuff, and apparently, according to him, KDE Plasma in particular got into a pretty decent state in recent versions.
@@Kris-od3sj I'll have to check into that. My problem is kind of a paradox, I need screen magnification to look into anything I can use in linux. It's not like Windows where on any windows machine since Win7 I can hit the Windows key plus keypad + and start a pretty decent screen magnifier. I dual boot my machine with Win11 and Ubuntu and have the Zoom set up on Ubuntu but I just don't know enough about linux and how to set things up in it to be comfortable yet.
@@kortt I guess you can a listen to a podcast with said developer, where he talks about it. Check out Tech Over Tea podcast, episode 208. He also showed up in the most recent episode, but I haven't seen it myself yet; perhaps he mentions the changes he's made that I've heard of in the news here and there.
I finally switched to Linux several years ago now when I started having the mentality that... "If I can't get it to work on Linux, then it does not exist." You can't expect Windows or Linux for that matter to change because of the reasons you have. Windows won't change because they know you will never leave. Linux won't get better in the way you want it to get better because you are not using it. Simple as that. I can't even count how many bugs I helped to solve or how many features I have requested get added to Linux things and projects... because I am actually using it, making the bug reports, requesting the features, using the software, and actually interacting with the community. Linux is a community project. If you are not part of it, actually using it, then it will not get better. But by all means, many UA-camrs make a decent living of the constant up hill battle on debloating windows. I mean honestly it is endless content.
The Adobe suite is the biggest pain in the ass, but there are lots of closed source apps that run on linux, just rakes a bit of messing around. A big one that a lot of linux creators use is DaVinci resolve, which works natively. Photo editing software could take some time to research something you could use for your needs, but it definitely exists
I thought I was stuck on windows til I found how to GPU passthrough to a VM and found an app called looking glass.. I won't dare let winblows touch complete bare metal on ANY pc in my house any more
Oh, you please have to tell me more about the GPU passthrough. This is one of the things that are on my agenda to get done. What do you use for virtualisation?
Qemu works very well. I daily drive a similar setup using proxmox. You will need a iGPU or a second graphics card for the host if you still want to use graphics outside of your windows VM
@@leoniscsemthe best way to use virtualization is with qemu/virt-manager imo, then you would need a second gpu for gpu passthrough to work, so if you have an external graphics card and also internal graphics you can configure all of this for the windows vm to have complete and exclusive control of the external gpu and leave the internal graphics to linux, plus linux is better in the virtualization aspect because of kvm, you can investigate further or use chatgpt if you want, but i can assure you it isn't that complex at all, you just need guidance
@@jandramila We are using Proxmox in our business line, but actually are considering to ditch it in favour of native LXD/LXC, since Proxmox in fact also just uses the standards and adds bells and whistles to it. But speaking of Qemu and GPU passthrough, did you just add flags in your KVM config, or do you handle everything through Proxmox config?
I only play about 4 games regularly. 3 of them are completely borked on linux. Here's a curveball even: they're not online multiplayer games. But other than that, yeah, games usually do work.
@@mr.dingleberry4882 home versions of beatmania IIDX, sound voltex and DDR. Some fellas of mine even own an offline Rootage cabinet, and that one doesn't work either. DJMax Respect V and EZ2ON work though, but those needed quite a bit of tweaks and troubleshooting to work on linux, which is fun.
I've been thinking of swapping to Linux lately, but after watching this and discovering foobar you've convinced me to stay on windows. I've used itunes for years because it was the only thing I knew about that let me search just from looking at album art which is what I'm used to since I still have an old Ipod classic. Seems that feature is in foobar so I'm going to have to swap over to that soon. I'll check out your playlist for it.
Bro, Rock On! Nice to have in the Linux community. I do agree with the blockers you've mentioned and they are all valid. I do hope the music production side in Linux will get to a place where software dev, os tweaking, and gaming (almost) is right now. Using Windows as the OS is quite the pain point, but once, as you've said, all your tools are launched you are in the application layer and no longer interacting with the OS layer. Thanks for trying and I hope you'll bestow us with more of these informative feedback in the future. Glad to know that some of the things that work for you, you *have* given them your all and tried to make them work.
Thank you Logan for giving Linux an honest shot. I hope you'll give it another try a few years later, with the knowledge you've gathered it should be simpler and take less time. Debian 12 is great for stability but for stuff like Wayland you may want the latest systems packages because this stuff is still seeing rapid development and lots of bugfixing every day. I think linux would advance much quicker if it had more feedback and support from creative people but as has been tradition, the analytical and tinkerers crowd is overrepresented and so the discussions skew naturally towards that end.
I've been looking a lot at Manjaro, openSUSE, and Fedora this week... so I might switch to one of those on my laptop, because I'm getting really frustrated with a few programs that are giving me hell.
@@teksyndicateManjaro is, unfortunately, run by somewhat irresponsible people, and there's been some major problems with it in the past. It's not something I can really recommend. Fedora, meanwhile, is more or less what I use, but to be honest, you're going to run into media codec issues right away because of legal reasons, and the fixes can take a fair bit of work. I'm personally on Nobara, which is fedora based and handles that stuff automatically, but is also a smaller community which means you can't really rely on Google for support. Heard good things about OpenSuse, but I've never actually used it myself. I wish I could just say to use Mint because it's by far the easiest but they're still on pulseaudio, and since you've got so much music stuff going on you'll really benefit from something that uses Pipewire for audio. A problem I have with Linux distros right now is that even though you've got a million choices each and every one of them seems to have a caveat somewhere.
@@teksyndicate Give CachyOS and Nobara a look. I'd advise against Manjaro, as the devs are bad to forget to renew their certs every couple months and it's annoying.
@@teksyndicate I've been watching too much Linux stuff, so just passing the collected info along, openSUSE and Nobara (based on Fedora but with focus on content creation and gaming working out of the box, with custom patches) sound good. Manjaro has issues. For an Arch-based distro, EndeavorOS or Garuda are more recommended.
Probably gonna get flack, but I moved to MacOS in 2012 and never looked back. Since then I had a Mac Mini, iMac and now a Macbook Pro. I'm a graphic designer/artist working in Clip Studio Paint and it has met my needs and never had issues. It's a tightly controlled OS by Apple, sure, but for getting work done, it's a dream system. Retro games all work well via OpenEmu, and I even have a working Switch emulator which only fails if the game is too new and the devs haven't updated it yet. When it comes to Steam games, I use something called CrossOver which seems to work well, but not perfectly. I think with time it will improve. But I'm not a PC gamer anyhoo so for me it's not much of factor. If you're heavily invested into Steam then yeah I don't think I'd recommend MacOS. But for getting work done, any day of the week. And you can just go with the Mac Mini and it will serve well for years. You don't need to shell out so much money.
Ios and mac osx feels very clunky to me, but I can see how the usual customer would find it intuitive even, its just not for me, its too "do it the official way or you simply cant" sorta thing
@@MrDannylocoI get that. The problem is that you typically find that out after you’ve bought into at, at least that was my situation. I’ve been on Mac since 2014 and I’ve run into a few issues that I didn’t expect because I expect things to work a certain way.. I use Linux server and Windows for work. Not insurmountable, just a royal pain in the ass. A couple of them I still haven’t found a work around for… like roaming from one AP to another. There’s a certain protocol to handle it that isn’t supported by my network vendor.
Here to chime in with everyone else who wishes they could main Linux but can't. Like you, I'm a creative and some plug-ins don't work as well on Linux or aren't available at all and there's no alternative. And as a gamer, anti-cheat is the obvious problem. But other things too- I'm a Clone Hero/YARG fanatic, but the Riffmaster controller as far as I know has zero support and considering that even the Windows support involves community made driver and input translation, I don't have the intelligence to figure it out. And then dumb little things like NVIDIA support being historically terrible and not being able to afford a whole new AMD card (I have a 3080, it'd be a pretty penny to upgrade). Little things like this that seem small, but are major elements to my personal daily happiness. Currently as I'm writing this I've decided to dual-boot W10 and Endeavour. It's a pain in the ass and inconvenient as hell to switch, but at least it's a solution that's available.
Can't speak for anything else, but I bought an Nvidia card a couple of months ago and the driver seems fine now. I think the "magic" release was version 555.
The good thing about Nvidia drivers is that your card is Ampere and support of everything starting from Turing seems better than usual. The prorietary driver works great, but you can also try the official open-source driver (still in Beta, but you can give it a try). Just don't use nouveau if your card is supported by official drivers. There has been an issue on Wayland with Nvidia cards as the display adapter though, because the driver did not support explicit sync (please don't ask me what this is), but that apparently has changed. So give it a shot, but if you run into issues on Wayland and you don't find a solution, then switch back to X11.
Something I've noticed reading these comments, it looks like most of your issues with linux have a potential solution but it seems like the only reason you would ever find out about it is if some rando in the comment section makes you aware of it. You know your way around Linux well enough from what I can tell, but actually finding the various fixes for things you need would be very difficult if you didn't have youtube comments to tell you where/what they are. This is another issue with linux for some people, I just don't want to have to hunt for a solution for a niche problem because of my specific hardware and/or software and hope to stumble on it. Like you, I just want to DO the things I like to do on my computer, not spend a bunch of time setting up and figuring out. I'll give linux a real shot some day, but its gonna need a handful more work to be right for me.
My main rig is Windows. I run Sparky Xfce on my laptop. My rather large game collection consists almost entirely of physical copies and portable archives (zip files containing the folder contents of a previously installed game, or downloads that are ready to play without installing). Most Windows games I've tried running on Linux, via Wine and Play on Linux, don't work or they have issues that make them unplayable (too slow, glitchy, sound but no image, etc). Not a big fan of Steam. I don't want to buy the games I already own and possibly lose them if I do, because Steam removes a game or closes my account for whatever reason. In Windows, in my Start menu, I have Games, then I have folders in the menu for categories (RPG, RTS, Puzzle Games, Shoot 'em ups, Pinball, etc) and series (Star Wars, D&D, etc). I have so many games that I wouldn't want to put them all in a single folder where you have to scroll down, down, down, down, whoops, up up, no down down, etc, all to find that one game you want to play. But that's what you get with Linux. Okay, so there may be some unnecessarily convoluted way of using the terminal to make folders and transfer shortcuts over into them. But with Windows, I can edit the menu with a couple of mouse clicks, and drag and drop shortcuts.
Is there are a reason go to with straight Debian rather than Ubuntu? Using Ubuntu Studio, since I didn't have to bother installing many media apps. Plus I didn't know many of those apps existed.
@@potato9832 for my personal preference, i feel that Debian as the more pure distro and that it has more stable experience. i feel it's less bloated than other Debian-based distros.
As a gamer, the ONLY thing keeping me on Windows is VR. I know about ALVR and tried it but either because of my Wifi or maybe its my Quest 3...linux and my headset do not like each other. Outside of that, I'm so happy to mostly be a Linux user now.
@@Sebastian-bo7vj doesn't matter with a Quest headset. They don't have any video port at all. When you use a cable, it just sends the compressed image same as when you do it wirelessly. It just does it more reliably (depending on the cable)
Exact same situation, but with the quest 2. Haven't had success with streaming to the headset over wifi using linux yet. Would keep trying but at some point its like how much time in the day is there? Pros and cons. But for absolutely everything else I do, linux is a perfect system for me. But I just don't wanna give up the vr hahaha. Something awesome about laying in bed with a headset on, screen "floating" above you with your favorite game on it, without an annoying ass tether etc. I use Chris Titus' winutil script to take out some of the most annoying things about windows etc. but it still sucks having to use garbage.
It's not just audio, video, and music that does not work well. e-learning is a challenge. In the industry, we use programs like Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline. There are a couple of candidates that are not quite ready for professional use. Open e-learning is as close to Storyline and Captivate that I could find and given the development cycles of Open e-learning, it would take about two years for them to get caught up to where they need to be. They need to make it easy for the e-learning author to create custom templates for their e-learning. They also do not have a way to import PowerPoint and Impress slides into an e-learning module. These are very common tasks that need to be done. The workflow is slowly improving and am hopeful they can resolve these issues and make their tool a professional-grade e-learning development tool.
Instructional designer here. Keenly feel your pain on this one. Where Linux shines in this industry is in its ability to run local copies of server based e-learning suites. I used to create all kinds of content on this one bit of software called Ilias which is a really nice LMS but also lets you create content on it which is Scorm 2004 compliant. Since I had to set up a lamp stack in order to run this thing, I also used to run copies of Moodle and a few other LMS packages to test what I had created and they worked rather well. Not as pretty as what you can make on articulate though or Captivate.
Saying "profiting bad" grossly over simplifies what's actually happened here as there are plenty of profitable companies that treat their customers very well. But especially in Microsoft and Google's case, they're primarily driven by power and control at this point, which you can never get enough of. They see the population as numbers and statistics, which is the endgame of all the "ism's"
Musician here. The same goes for my reason to switch over to Linux 100%. All of my premium plugins don't work. I'm more in the progressive metal area and all of my paid-for amp simulators, drum libraries, etc, don't work or barely at all. Examples would be Neural DSP's library, most of the Kontakt libraries I use like GetGoodDrums, etc. And I'm also someone that uses Reaper! Surprisingly the native version of Reaper is worse than running the Windows version through Wine.
I was a hardcore Winamp user from Win95 through Win7 (that's when I jumped ship to Linux). Took me actual years to find a replacement I was happy with. There's a handful of Winamp imitations, but I finally settled for "deadbeef". Aside from the name, I'm very pleased with it.
Foobar does too much in one large program. That is the opposite of Unix philosophy. Everything foobar does can be done on Linux, it just takes multiple programs. I like that, I understand why non-technical people do not like it.
@@dominicdit What is "too much" in this case? Supporting multiple formats isn't exactly "too much" in my book. In fact, it's pretty darn nice to have a unified front end for a multitude of "format back ends". But maybe you have a different gripe; I'm not too versed in Foobar myself.
You nailed it, people really don't care about the operating system, they care about the software you can use on your pc. Windows has been the mainstay for decades and nobody minded it much, until they started to abuse their userbase (again). But even in that scenario, while people are now interested on Linux more than ever because of their recent moves, they'll go back for sure once they notice that their software, the stuff you _actually_ use on a pc rather than an OS, doesn't work (or requires some tinkering based on commands posted by a guy on reddit, and some stuff doesn't exist anymore in your distro). Things for sure are better in Linux, and I love it, but I get that isn't for everybody.
In the early aughts, a colleague took a ream of blank paper, stuck it in a lever arch folder and labelled it "Linux sound card driver installation guide". He was and still is not wrong, on many levels.
I'll try KDE. The last time I tried was gnome (on my main PC) and I prefer KDE I think... I run a weird setup. From left to right: Vertical monitor 1200x1920, main display 3840x1600, right monitor 2560x1600, side CRT 1280x960. I turn my chair when I want to use the CRT... it's on a side table with usb hub that's connected to a second mouse and keyboard. Works great for old games.
And does it remember the size AND position of the last time the window for an application is used? I have three monitors and routinely run six or more applications in certain positions and sizes. This works fine for Windows 10. I don't want to lose this feature.
I've been saying this for decades. Unfortunately the Linux fanatics ALWAYS say that I'm not trying hard enough or too demanding. They turned me off of Linux completely, to the point of not even wanting to consider it any longer.
I don't think you have the right to call Wayland "half-baked for 15 years" when it's run on Debian. For them it's couple of years less. I will accept "half-baked for 10 years".
@teklynkvideos No, that is not correct. Is the existence of WINE and Proton the proof that Linux is not ready and Windows is better? XWayland exist because Wayland and X11 are not the same thing. They do not work in the same way, thus a compability layer is needed for old Software that does not support Wayland.
@teklynkvideos I can give you a short answer, but I recomend that you consult other sources that can give you a more complete answer (DJWare has a good video about it). From my point of view, the two main issues that Wayland tackles are they way X11 protocol is structure and the sheer size of X11 that makes it very difficult to mantain at this point. Related to the first point are the security issues (any program connected to X11 can get the keystrokes or other input values) and the latency (mean for servers, so there is a lot of overhead and unnecesary interactions for modern desktop). Related to the second one we have the lack of modern features like HDR (there is one for wayland by Valve). There are other issues with X11 like the fact that there is no real multi-monitor support and if you have monitors with different refresh rate you are limited to the lower one. Wayland may not be ready for everyone yet and some development may be slower than it should, but it is for now the only path forward of the linux desktop, since X11 would not be supported or developt anymore (at least, that seems to be the case).
@teklynkvideos I can give you a short answer, but I recommend that you check other sources (DJ Ware has a nice video about it). In my opinion, Wayland is trying to solve two main issues with X11. The first one is the structure. X11 was built when most of the processing took place in a server or mainframe that you connected to using terminals. Because of this, there is a lot of overhead and communication between processes that is not needed in a modern desktop environment. The second one is the sheer size of X11, which makes it very difficult to maintain. I believe the rest of the problems that X11 has are derived from these two. Like the lack of security (in X11, all programs can get the values from input devices even if you are interacting with a different application), latency, lack of modern features like HDR (there is an implementation for Wayland), or no real multimonitor support (X11 kind of hacks is way around it, which results in limitations like only being able to use the lower refresh rate of all the monitors). Wayland may not be ready for everyone yet, and the development might be slower than it should in some areas, but for now, it is the only path forward for the Linux desktop since X11 is not going to be supported aside from security patches.
Installing davinci resolve on linux is a lot of work, especially on amd since the proprietary drivers is required. There has also been some issued with pipewire for audio on it. Also hardware accelleration is also kind of bad. Its reccomended by most people to use something like distrobox to even install it, so you can use the proprietary drivers for davinci resolve but keep using the open drivers for everything else : (. For some people it just works though, wish it was like that for me : /
15:02 the glorious Tandy Radio Shack Model 3 in the foreground on the right hand side. Excellent work - it looks great! That PC store brings back sooooo many memories... all good.
I've been wanting to switch to Linux recently, but I also need to use Adobe software for work, and Ableton for music. It really sucks that these companies are not releasing Linux versions, it feels like you're being kept hostage in windows.
One common way around this is to use Linux as your daily driver and have Windows available in a VM. Mac users used to do this too (before more software was ported to the Mac).
By setting up a Windows VM with sufficient resources to use Adobe Premier Pro. If you're using Linux and want advice about setting up a VM for this purpose just let me know.
@@mbsfaridi My bad. I was more referring in general to proprietary codecs... H.264 / H.265 do work in the paid version. AAC on the other hand is not supported in neither the free nor the paid version. You need some workarounds to work with it.Sorry for the misconception guys :/
Yeah sadly we creative peeps are stuck with Windows. I use Clip Studio, Toonboom Harmony, and now After Effects on a daily basis and none of them have Linux support. Playing around on with Plasma on my Steam Deck felt like the desktop was actually mine. We can always dream of escaping Microsoft.
Thank you for putting this video together. You have clearly done your research and considered making the switch carefully. It’s useful to see the sorts of incredibly valid reasons people are stuck on windows. I can only hope over time things continue to improve and people in your position are able to see moving to Linux as being a fully viable option. Ultimately computers are tools and if an operating system can’t fit the role you need it to then it is not the right one for you- at least right now 🙂
21:00 Wayland is half-baked because GNOME has a say about what goes into the official protocols and what does not. And because GNOME has an entirely different vision to basically anybody else of what a desktop should do and they don't wand protocols they don't like to implement in the official protocol list they just create a lot of fuss. So on Wayland even seemingly trivial things like letting an application set its own icon seperately on every window is made to look controversial and takes years and years to get everyone on board to finally get it approved. [EDIT]: By the way, even many people who like Wayland are annoyed about they Wayland committee always making a fuss about everything.
What about dual booting? Even though it didn't work for me, it may work for you if your workflow is compartmentalized. Maybe give it a try if you haven't already.
In my experience, when you have dual boot, you end using just one of the 2 OS's, and usually that OS is the one where you can do the most things, and that nearly always ends being windows.
@@Nik.leonardyep, that's the thing, if you're gonna end up being spied on windows anyway, why bother dual booting at all. People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it.
@@Nik.leonardfor me it ended up being Linux, because my particular use case lets me do everything on both, but... Yeah. I technically still have a windows install to boot to, I just... Don't, and haven't for years. I'll still need it if I need to update some samsung ssd firmware or something, but... Barring that... Dual booting seems less like a legitimate workflow and more like a fallback strategy for if something you wanna do doesn't work.
@@youravghuman5231 "People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it." i switched because i got fed up with windows problems
@@Nik.leonard Yeah, that's why it didn't work for me. But in my case I ended up using Linux because I only booted on Windows to play. This was back when gaming was nonexistent on Linux, btw.
Ditching the windows programs altogether was the best decision I've made that finally make me a full-time linux user. Cutting off the gaming was also necessary for my Health and TIME. Forcing myself to learn Krita, KDEnlive and SOOO many good tools was something I needed. I've been more productive than ever with the help of the DE like plasma5 still available in debian. I have a hard drive with win7 and my old programs but I did not feel the need to touch them for almost a year once I made Linux my home.
Not related to the video content, but I love that you have the Lego Spyrius Robo-Guardian on your desk. That was one of my first big Lego gifts I got when I was a kid. I still have that set (and many others from that era).
Windows on my Strictly gaming/social network/casual use pc. Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 on my Strictly financials laptop. I'm a total Linux noob and love LMDE6.
Linux is really trying my patience right now 😡 I do not want to use to use Windows for just one program, but at the same time I've borked my Linux install 3 times in a week, twice completely borked to a point I lost the hard drive and everything went corrupted 🤦 Fedora won't load now, Bluetooth just broke for some odd reason on the main install, and file management is becoming unmanageable with these super slow tranfer soeeds. I'm trying to transfer GB and its moving single digit MB 😡 come on already. Simple things are broken out of the box here quite a lot too. Everything I have to modify something to make it work, some even require I write a script, like no, just fkn work already 🙄
This is my main issue with Linux. Most software doesn't work unless you do a notable portion of the work that the developers should have done. One capable developer spending a few hours to fix basic functionality would save who knows how many people hours of browsing random forums trying to fix what the devs are too lazy to fix.
Exact same problem with the DAW part. I have a lot of recording software I spent tooooo much money on (Native Instruments) being one. But with the advent of windows 11 I had enough. I still had a good laptop with windows 10 on it. So I moved all my DAW stuff to it and put it in my studio away from my main machine. And on my everyday driver I installed Ubuntu using Plasma 5.? I love the setup. OBS seems to work great. I can play games via steam. Although I don't do modding like you. But the only reason I hung on to windows so long is the DAW. Now I wish I would have done this ages ago. The thing about Linux is it is always a work in progress. You are always learning and the longer you use it the more you understand things. Your knowledge doesn't get wiped out with the next new upgrade, it only expands. Where as windows just pisses me off with each upgrade. Its like "why change up the interface every time?" I just got comfortable with the last interface now you changed how to access everything for no good reason other than to look "NEW". I end up spending more time figuring out why something that I had working great suddenly stopped working only to find out it was some stupid auto upgrade bs. Man I hate windows. They had their time. But they don't give two s#!!@ about their customers anymore. I am so happy now to have switched over.
Here's what I do. There's a metal enclosure that holds the SSD to Windows I power down the computer, and hit a switch which turns it on. As far as it knows it is a windows machine which lives unplugged for long periods of time. It has full access to all computer GPU, can install whatever the heck it decides it needs. When I'm done with that windows program .. I turn the box off. Hardware disconnect. Zero connection to my real computer. Then I turn on the second metal enclosure that holds the M2 SSD for the Linux machine. The hard drive enclosures were not expensive and it gives each OS a physical prevention from one system messing with the other. I transfer files between the two with a external hard drive.
I switched to linux, I enjoy it but I do have things that frustrate me. I'm trying to learn my ways around them. I was hugely into modding skyrim, oblivion, morrowind, etc... now I can get things like MO2 to work in Linux but I hate having to jump through so many hoops just to get things to "just work" Like I said it's not to bash linux, it's just a lot of learning and work arounds.
This . VM with GPU pass through. You say it like its a first nature to do. Unless it has become easier to do, most of these solutions require at least 2 GPUs last I checked.
@@Theehannle It seems integrated graphics count, so pretty much any AM5 CPU comes with it. Might need the motherboard to support it too, idk if some don't
You CAN use Linux, but you need to learn a little more. I have two solutions for you, one of which I personally implement and is much easier to use, and one of which is more seamless and smooth, but also more costly. Here are your solutions: 1. Dual-boot Linux. This is what I do. It is not very expensive, especially if you have the free space on a hard drive already. Either use free space on an existing hard drive, preferably an SSD, or use a new hard drive. Get Balena etcher or Rufus (or ventoy if you're a distro hopper) and install an easy distro like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Mint. Pros: Easy to do, relatively inexpensive Cons: When you need to switch operating systems, you will need to reboot 2. Virtualization - specifically, KVM/Qemu. It is free, you just need to make sure Virtualization and IOMMU are enabled in your motherboard settings. Then, you'd install kvm/qemu, and virtualize Windows through it. You can either do Single GPU passthrough with hook scripts (very difficult), or you can do dual-GPUs and pass through one of them (easy, but costly). If you do that, you will only have about 1-3% performance decrease at maximum when you have it all set up right. Pros: You don't need to reboot to switch operating systems. You only need to launch an app called "Virtual Machine Manager" (the app name for KVM/Qemu) and launch Windows through it. Once done with windows, you simply shut it down in VMM. Cons: Harder to set up than dual booting. A few tips: -Don't worry about distros. Try as many as you like, but pick the one you are most comfortable with. I liked Kubuntu in the beginning. Now I run Arch linux. -I highly recommend trying dual booting first. It is much easier. -Only use Windows when you need it for those apps. Do not browse the web or play any game on Windows that you can play on Linux. -Do not be afraid of Linux, it is not complicated, it is just new.
Dual boot is a good approach. I try to shut off as many units needed bios options as possible so using a virtual machine won't work for me. Right now my issue with linux is that there are just so many of these little issues that appear between each application or game when using Linux. Scaling, stuttering, audio. It feels random between each program I use. Windows is still the most compatible in the long run. I think steamOS may lead the way to forcing better future compatability but i rarely boot into Linux any more.
> -Don't worry about distros. Try as many as you like, but pick the one you are most comfortable with. I liked Kubuntu in the beginning. Now I run Arch linux. This can never be understated. Soooo many people seem to get stuck on "yeah but there are so many versions, what should I use?" They're all pretty much the same. Literally just use Ubuntu or Mint unless there's a compelling reason for you not to (I've heard complaints about Ubuntu and privacy, maybe?) Arch is great but it's a pain to initially install, but newbies want to go to it because "it's the best/most l33t one". I use ubuntu at work and arch at home, and honestly, it's the same core experience. Just arch is more annoying to set up. Just install Ubuntu and pick the desktop environment that looks prettiest to you. @dangdudedan8756: you asked "why use Linux for things that work on both". Reason is because you should optimize linux above windows as it respects your privacy more, and also to get more used to Linux over time. I would *definitely* use only linux for web browsing.
While watching this video, microsoft's advertisement about Co-pilot came up. 2 beautiful ladies discussing about the future of enterprises & how Microsoft cares about their client's privacy 😅
Windows is garbage and Im trying to transition too. What annoys me is that thes linux distros dont focus much on the new user experience. If they want mass adoption, the devs need to realize this.
16:44 I'm kinda sad that 7-zip has no Linux version of its gui (only the CLI compression/decompression tool is available on Linux), so I took matters into my own hands and started recreating 7zFM on Linux, using the official 7-zip under the hood where possible. So maybe if enough people want Foobar2000 on Linux eventually someone will start recreating it.
@@SleepTime-Dark AFAIK it's a SNAP with a semi-broken 7-zip install in WINE inside it. At least I know it's broken, as the context menu in the file list doesn't work (just doesn't appear) and Unicode isn't supported. So my downloads folder, "Hämtningar" becomes "Hämtningar". And it doesn't honour my theme at all, always looking like upscaled Win9x.
As someone who has gone 100% Linux for years now it's useful to see what is holding others back. These are legitimate reasons. They luckily don't apply much to me since I'm a developer and gamer who doesn't mod much outside of Minecraft (which works great on Linux). Easy to forget how much more computing there is than the parts I use.
For me it's 4K Netflix streaming and Dolby Vision and Atmos.
Luckily I switched most Apps years ago like from MSOffice to LibreOffice and so on. But the Media Quality is a big no go for me since I stream daily to my TV.
Playing MC via Prism Launcher right now, and it just works. BUT - with MC 1.20.5 java 21 is required and being on a Debian flavored distro (MX) I'm stuck with java 17 for now - I suppose I could upgrade if I really wanted, but the point of Debian is literally not to rock the boat.
Developers don't count when going to linux because the system was made for developers.
@@MaisistkeinGemueseDo you stream your desktop to the TV or is it an older tv with a PC attached as a media box?
Everyone uses their PC their own way and have their own reasons. After I started using Linux I have noticed that many people seem to think that there's no downsides whatsoever about Linux. And when I bring up inconvient things they attack me with all they got
16:12 That's the problem. The devs are waiting for people to move to Linux and the people are waiting for the devs to make their stuff work on Linux. But until someone makes the first move everyone is just stuck waiting forever.
there is nothing wrong with using windows, for some applications. why you need a full switch either way linux or windows? my part is gaming, but i use 2 different operating systems, hell yeah its even easiert with 2 pcs.
@@BlacKi-nd4uy There's a thing going wrong in Windows if Microsoft continues in their current trajectory, and this also endangers creators, because in the future you have unreliable operating system where your data is not safe on any partition you use to work on the OS. Another problem that everyone suffers from in current situation, and also has been bothering many folks before, is that with Windows you have corporate middleman there on your hardware all the time. It costs money, and gives little in return. Problem is that Windows itself doesn't really do anything that other operating systems can't do, it's just all the third party software dependencies that lock people to this costly OS. This is unnecessary.
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Well, maybe for "normal" people there's nothing wrong with that, but there certainly is for me. I cannot do anything productive on Window$.
chicken and the egg problem
@@jarivuorinen3878 That's why you use Windows for just the things you need, and without it being online, then switch to Linux if you need to do most any other work including online stuff.
As a full time linux user, this a very good video with well thought out and logical discussions about the shortcomings of linux and linux gaming 👍 . I too struggle with mods on linux gaming and the wide-screen struggle is real.
Now what can help the Linux community is to clone prism for x86.
This might come off as a contentious (or rather extremely controversial) opinion, but I don't think tools like Flawless Widescreen are "flawless". In fact, I'd actually make the argument to say that they're poorly designed.
It's literally no secret (in fact it's an open one) that the developer of Flawless Widescreen, Hayden, has a pretty apparent problem with ego, being denigrating towards others, and over-estimating their abilities, and they've openly had an anti-Linux and anti-AMD agenda in the past. I'm sorry, but anything that constantly has to run in the background, from startup (if you don't want to open it before you then open a game), as an administrator at that (Keep in mind it's injecting stuff into the game's memory), is bad design, and it's possible that it's a walking security risk, and it likely even affects games with anti-cheat or software that is very strict about background tasks and services. You need a third-party solution (SteamTinkerLaunch) to even get it working with a game running on Proton. I don't even believe they've made anything recently, at least I haven't seen them frequent WSGF on Discord in a while. I guess one of the few good things about FWGS is how it handles multi-display support, lets you toggle mods on/off when the game's running, and lets you adjust things like the FOV and see that when the game's running, but how's this any better from just putting that stuff into an ImGui overlay that behaves functionally similar to RivaTuner, Special K, the Steam overlay, or literally anything that wraps or hooks itself onto DirectX/GL/Vulkan when the game's done drawing what it needs?
But I digress, Anything that relies on extra steps than just dragging and dropping some files into the game's directory (So you can contain it to the game's process, and make things streamlined and as easy for your average end user to run, so they don't go submitting support tickets asking for really blatantly obvious stuff when they can barely handle a file manager) is inherently anti-thetical to making a fix for a game that aims to fix a downside to the game that prevents it working optimally out of the box for the end user. Your average Steam forum user is a complete idiot (Not to denegrate them, they are good at finding problems, but not good at finding solutions), and not streamlining things is opening yourself to a ton of wasted time troubleshooting obvious issues for people who can't read a forum post. Some mod developers making fixes for games have realized this, and went out of their way to move things from external executable and Cheat Engine trainer solutions to proper DLL mods made in C++. Reloaded-II, despite all of my issues with it as a mod loader, at least puts it's configs in a clear location and they offer a DLL install of sorts which uses ASI Loader as a base, meaning it's easier to setup with games on Proton or if you want something that isn't entirely dependent on launching an external launcher. I have to even wonder why the script extender for Bethesda's games don't even bother with just using a DLL file that automatically injects what's needed when the game launches, because that would make it so all you have to do is launch the game through Steam instead of messing around with your file manager endlessly.
Despite Special K having a background service/app that essentially behaves like a game launcher (And even imports your games from Steam/GOG/Epic/Xbox and then auto-injects into the game through the launcher), you can copy the SpecialK32.dll or SpecialK64.dll file from the SKIF's directory into the game's directory and then install it. Kaldaien has made efforts to make Special K (Which also includes his mods for Nier Automata and others) work on a wide range of setups, and that includes on Proton/WINE.
If you can handle using Cheat Engine or x64dbg and making assembly patches, then you can handle writing a DLL in C++, so your mods are easy to install for the average schmuck. The game mod compatibility issue with Linux is entirely self-inflicted. I've made strives to move away from Cheat Engine tables and to write my mods as DLL files in C++ (Or in the case of Unity games, using BepInEx which opens the doors to what you can improve), and things are as easy as dragging some files into the game directory and setting a specific launch parameter in the Steam game's properties section with the DLL file in question (I.E: "WINEDLLOVERRIDES='dinput8=n,b' %command"), while also not relying on having to install the dreaded Visual C++ Runtimes in every game's Proton prefix (Thanks to just cross-compiling with MinGW, and using standard C++ functions rather than the ones from MSVC). I'm definitely not that skilled, I have a lot to learn about still, but looking inside, I feel like there's a lot more that could be done, even on Windows, the experience with game mods sucks.
as someone who likes to mod and load mods in games i feel that. some modding tools dont run on linux because they are broken in wine or dont work for some reason. and they dont have a linux build. i have to run a windows vm or have seperate hardware to do those windows specific tasks. which i dont mind but makes it far more annoying than it needs to be. i want to be done with windows.
Yeah, modding can be a bit tricky.. Unless it's on the steam workshop ofc, that works ootb.
I feel ya. I was testing Linux recently primary 4K and secondary 1440p. Even though the 1440p is generally used by a NUC, it still has the DP cable plugged in for if I need to dual screen my main machine. Linux was constantly trying to connect to it and having the login screen over there. Windows tries it once, then remembers that you've set to single monitor. My Linux trial didn't.
I also found screen scaling and such seemed to come and go. For instance Steam, one time it would be scaled and fine, the next, text was teeny tiny. It all started to get annoying. LOL.
I feel you 100% on the lack of good music and media players in Linux. I went through the same journey through Clementine, Nightingale, DeadBeef, etc, and none of them stacked up to Foobar2000. I'm getting by with the flatpak someone made, but would love to have it natively running for all the reasons you mentioned. Maybe someday soon the dev will hear our pleas.
Another category of software to mention are the myriad peripheral utilities for programmable mice and keyboards, and so on. I haven't looked in the last few years, but I remember there not being much. Perhaps that's changed, but hopefully we see more of that from manufacturers and/or the FOSS community soon.
Also, absolutely digging your music. Keep at it!
Whenever I listen to things like this is that it never addresses the business world. Try doing your yearly taxes with a Linux app. Say what -- you can't - yep you're correct. Try running a robust Contact Manager on Linux (not just a shiny address book). Say what - you can't - yep you're correct. Try keeping track of your checking accounts with a Linux app. Oh I've looked but they are very weak.
That is the big problem for anyone outside of people who only talk games. I've been a Linux user for a long time but I need to also have Windows on another partition. Wine just doesn't work well on proprietary software.
I use Linux and Quickbooks and most tax software have online versions. Wine works exceptionally well for most of the commonly used Windows software.
Yeah its usually just use their web application if available - I pretty much use Microsoft Teams this way. But it is a very fair point, if you can't run the app natively, and there isn't a web port, you are going to have to use some hacky workaround or run a Windows VM which can be quite complicated for the uninitiated (and this hasn't even touched on how to bypass VM detection for some apps that do so). What might seem easy to someone, is a hassle to someone else.
proton is part of the wine project. valve said hey lets help make wine better.
Except proton just works while wine sucks most of the time
@@Anankin12 You don't know what you are talking about, obviously
It really really sucks hearing how many people say the biggest issue switching to Linux is software. It all comes down to companies being expected to be exploitative and limiting to make as much profit as possible, not convenient or supportive. Why would adobe ever want to support Linux? They don't need to at all, they're making plenty of money on their locked in platforms, so why would they put in all that effort to support an open and free operating system that they can't entirely lock down? I just find it disgusting that the industry standard is to be as exploitative as possible.
Honestly (I should have gone into this more, but my audio section was too long already), even if FL studio and all my audio plugins natively worked on linux, it would be hard to move away from Windows (or MacOS)... The audio situation on Linux is average at best... Latency is almost always better on Windows and changing buffers and such isn't always easy on linux.
just stop supporting abode. way better stoftwhere out there.
That's just how capitalism will always be, yea it sucks but the alternatives also suck, unfortunately perfection is a paradox, an impossibility, so this means every system will be exploitable in some way (just as any security expert) and the people to rise to the top of that system will be the ones willing to exploit it the most
@@teksyndicate dunno what sound card you are running but i never have a problem with sound settings.
@@teksyndicateI've heard of people getting less audio latency by working directly with ALSA instead of going through pulseaudio or pipewire, that might improve things for you
“My creativity is more important than my righteousness,” such an excellent summation of the issue for a lot of folks stuck on other platforms. I love Linux and it is my go-to for my casual machines where I just mess around, but it has yet to address the scope of my creative workflow needs.
The problem with that mindset is what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? Say the corporation who sold it to you says you have to pay an exorbitant subscription to continue using what you already paid for, or maybe worse, the corporation simply decides that nobody can use it anymore and anyone who purchased it is stripped of access in order to push them to buy a new product? What happens if the corporation goes belly-up and the lack of support causes the software to break on modern operating systems, and because the files use a proprietary format, you can't move your existing work over to a different piece of software? Do you truly own your creative works if your means of accessing them and creating them can be stripped from you by the whims of a third party? It's not just about righteousness. It's about thinking in the long term.
@@GANONdork123 "what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? "
yar har, shiver dee dee! being a pirate is something to be! do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!
@@GANONdork123 Thank you for your response. Your concerns are valid, but will be relative to the effected individual and their particular ‘poison’ of creative work. As with any work, the tools one employs are subject to reasonable availability, reliability, and replacement when necessary, fundamental aspects of tools digital and otherwise. For some, the game of ‘what if’ might be more relevant than it is to others, and in cases of tools disappearing, not working as desired, or being unreasonable in form, function, or otherwise, I’d argue the individual’s plight is indeed about preserving their process rather than righteousness (though, really, the two need not be mutually exclusive, do they?). However, as in instances referenced in the video, the best tool for the job is the tool that you have available and reliable and replaceable to you right now, at hand and ready to work or most immediately so, and in many instances that means indentured servitude to an evil that ought not be necessary but is. Don’t get it twisted-just like the video suggests, I’m constantly experimenting with open source options, Wine configurations, and ways in which I might manually rethink my workflow to limit my exposure, but sometimes you have a row of nails in front of you and only a hammer will do. I think anyone that suggests alternative platforms to others without taking the time to understand the workflow and creative in question is doing so with a degree of arrogance and ignorance, however well-intentioned. I feel like that’s the position of this video-not an attack on Linux or open source options, but an acknowledgement that there are about as many divergent needs and workflows as their are workers, and neither you nor me nor anybody else can possibly say for certain what may or may not be best from another stranger on the internet.
@@GANONdork123 I'll just pirate an old version... or, let's say FL Studio decides to switch and make their users pay a monthly fee... I'll block their servers with pihole.
@@GANONdork123 As someone who uses Clip Studio Paint, I just pay the subscription. If/when the company goes under, what I do next will depend on my situation and options at the time.
That said, I want to ask, in your counter to "My creativity is more important than my righteousness", what is the final goal? I'm not quite following the mindset given the video topic.
A few things hold Linux back.
1. 100's of distros all trying to do the same thing(be Windows) but so differently they have compatibility issues with each other. (This deters developers from making native Linux apps/games when you need multiple of them for Debian-based, Ubuntu-based, and other distro-based distros that don't work 100% with each other.
2. The community is really, REALLY toxic towards newcomers, beginners, those who want to learn, or those who use a different distro. (This is what drove me away personally. Telling a games dev they "don't know how to code" because they don't want to use sudo commands isn't going to attract us)
3. Compatibility will stay poor until more people get into Linux (See problem 2 for this one) and no one will adopt it if there's no support for it.(see problem 1 for this one)
And finally, they tout it as an OS that can run even the oldest, weakest hardware, but we don't want to optimise our games to run on your Core 2 Duo in 2024 even if you use Windows; it's not the win you think it is. This results in extra compatibility issues (see problem 3 for this one) and we don't want to have to waste time dealing with all these extra hurdles.
My target audience is Dreamcast, so I COULD optimise my games to run on a Core 2 Duo, but I'm in a very small minority here, and even then I'd rather not have to go that far for a system with no set spec because then if it runs on your Core 2 Duo, why does their Phenom 2 not run it? (PC architectures are very different from one CPU/GPU vendor to another, whereas consoles are consoles, and every Dreamcast will run every Dreamcast game the same.
Also Paintdotnet has no equal on any OS, and relies on the .net framework to function(This is my personal reason for sticking to Windows)
Expanding on point 2. I don't want to use Linux anymore, but don't want to suck up 1-2gb of ram every VM for windows for a homelab server.
Every guide out there assumes you have good knowledge of Linux based commands, or understanding to begin with.
"yea just run this command and it'll do what you need"
"That didn't work? Throws an error or command/package not available"
"Install the package then..."
"The 5 guides I found tell me to use apt install,but it doesn't work"
"You're fucking dumb, use apt-get install. It also needs to be sudo"
"Sudo isn't a valid command"...
"This distro uses 'su' only, oh and add the user to the sudo group"
More googling later...its just been endless, ENDLESS googling and unintuitive nonsense to get the damn OS even running...
Need to mount an external nas drive? That's either installing 3 other things, with guides that don't cover remounting on reboot. Or having a stab at fstab.
Everything is just soooooo much easier to do in windows...I don't want to configure files to mount my drives so I can see my smb share.
Give me a GUI that let's me put a damn IP address in and the OS does the heavy lifting. (There probably is something for this, but god of can I find it amongst the 100's of Terminal/Shell gurus or hotheads)
@@ShuskiCross For real.
Another thing they don't tell you is those commands differ depending on the distro.
I tried Arch and instead of all the Sudo commands I'd mastered, it used "pacman" and then the commands were altered as well, so I had to re-learn everything and it was ultimately more hassle than it was worth.
And having to know the specific package name was a pain. Instead of going to the web and downloading (insert browser here) it was "google-chrome-stable" or "google-chrome-nightly" and while it wasn't hard to do per se, it was definitely more tedious to do, I wound up downloading the appimage files or .deb files online and just using those where I could instead most of the time.
Linux was fun for me, but it's definitely not ready for the big stage with Windows and MacOS yet.
I have a low-end Laptop with an iGPU and some old games like Half-Life 2, Portal 1 and 2 (probably any other game that uses DirectX 9-11) run like trash compared to running them on Windows. If we talk about their native versions then Half-Life 2 is the only decent port I've tried, so it's hit or miss too. I like using Linux for everything else though.
I completely agree with this video. I've tried numerous times to switch to Linux. I love it so much. Unfortunately every time I try to do something new I find that I've got to tweak the system too much to get it to work. I usually end up breaking the system and having to start over. So frustrating.
For inserting a clip from Beavis and Butt-Head in Virtual Stupidity you get a 10/10 and that was an homage to Blackthorne
Affinity didn't have plan for windows originally, but due to demands they paused development on their Publisher to get the other software out on windows. So sometimes, demand works.
demand - supply is how the world works
The day Affinity suite starts offering Linux version of their app, is the day I will fully move to Linux, but until then, I have no choice.
Oh man they really need to make Affinity available on Linux. I will buy the entire suite even at full price. Im not even bothered about Photoshop (even though I know it better).
I saw that Affinity works via Wine, I was going to test it earlier today, but got squirreled away by something else.
@@slaapliedje I got an older version working via Bottles at some point.
for the modding point:
on Linux ive modded Guild Wars 2, Monster Hunter World, Minecraft, Deep Rock Galactic and plan to mod a few more games. Works fine so far, GW2 just needed some wine/protontricks
It's possible, but trying to work around with DLLs on Linux is a major pain in the ass. Tedious at best.
@@plebisMaximus As someone who's a full time Linux user, I agree. The modding situation on Linux is not good enough. It's symptomatic of a general problem with Linux. If you put literally thousands of hours into it, you can make most things work, sort of. But most people don't have that option.
i mod Bethesda games no problem with mod organizer 2 in linux
Does the script extender stuff also work? @@motozappa225
ksp works really well!, and kenshi.
The Achilles heel of Linux for me is the tremendous lack of user friendliness. You feel that you need to spend a whole day just to get your web cam working (random example) an that will always keep the majority of people away.
Ah, you tried to install Linux from back 1999! There are really good Linux Distribution out there. Perhaps you only ever used Windows.
@@repairman2be250 You assume wrong, I've been trying new distros for some time now. From Mint to Ubuntu, and so on. My point still stands. The broad range of Linux distributions is commendable and offers a lot of variety and flexibility, but gives a lot of headaches to newcomers, In the end there's only one Windows, and people in will always choose the easier and faster way and Microsoft knows this.
May I suggest, Linux Mint for windows users?
To be fair, it’s mostly the underlying hardware that is unfriendly. Pick smart.
idk what webcam you use but every generic webcam works ootb
But... Morrowind and OpenMW mods work on Linux, even the script-based ones, when using Proton/Wine.
Yeah.
Modding on Linux is the EXACT same thing as it is on Windows.
I literally play RimWorld (windows game) and to mod it, you literally drop the mods in the mod folder.
And I'm sure it is the same for DLL.
If the game runs ,then it would recognize the DLL the same
I have script mods for the Sims 4. I've never had a problem with these.
I also play the Sims 2. A game that runs poorly on modern windows installments. (Sadly with this one, since I sandbox wine with user namespaces i have to install the media in the sandbox, not with the system wine thingy, because it writes specific registry code that makes running it sandboxed with a native install impossible. But that's about it.)
@@CodexSan it's almost the same, but not 100%. I recently had issues with RE4 tweaks and Silent Hill 3 camera mod, both dll mods. Had to tweak file names for them to even be recognized, and I think RE4 tweaks makes the game not load save files sometimes and I have to restart. Elden Ring mods, like Reforged, need special tweaks too (Reforged was adapted by the author, was not playable until some proton update).
Steam has give super clear signals what is the key for making people use linux: 1) ease of use 2) software
I wish Linux devs would focus on those areas instead of making new distros and desktop environments
You think we don't need the 54774637th distro? Are you out of your mind?
@@MyReviews_karkanlol 😅😆
That's not on the hands of the Linux devs at all. The compatibility problem totally depends on the app providing native support to the OSes.
Linux devs aren't making the distros or desktop environments. It's not one cohesive team, it's just random people doing what they find enjoyable.
@@gabrielkolletalves493 if valve had accepted that mentality we would not had the steam deck and the state of linux gaming where windows games run as smoothly as native software.
There a lot of things linux debs could do to attract developer support or even make them run without their support. But they do not do it because the majority of distros do not care or they are stuck in the mentality of everything has to be open source and ethical. They usually treat any privative software as the devil with a lot of warnings, or separate repositories for them and they want to develop their own open source alternatives that are not always on par.
I am all for open source regarding the os, drivers and apis because that is where big companies fuck us, but regarding an specific productivity app or a game nobody cares if it is open source or even "native". Valve understand that and they are being pragmatic, linux debs usually are not although I see some are starting to understand.
I use Windows, Linux and macOS. I never told anyone to make the switch to either, because all three have their advantages and disadvantages. I do my video editing on macos, I game on Windows and code on Linux.
That's the problem with Linux, its not just software that solves a problem, its an ideology, and that's why Windows is losing market share to MacOS, but Linux never pass 3%.
I basically don't care, I use XenHyperVisor on my computer so I can run Windows and MacOS and Linux because I use software for what it does, not for ideology, I don't care about free software, I use open source when I have the need to change software.
I actually prefer that I can't easily customize Windows, it prevents me from wasting time and actually use the computer to get actual real work done, instead of playing with the operating system like a game.
I do play games on Windows, it has GPU pass-through and is technically my "DWM" as Linux desktop kind of sucks, so I use it only from the command line.
@@monad_tcp Disagree. Linux doesn't gain market share because it doesn't sit on store shelves beside MacOS and Windows PCs. Need a major brand to actually try and sell them (not just make them hoping people will notice and buy as some have attempted). People don't buy MacOS, they buy an Apple computer.
@@monad_tcp Well, lack of customization is deal-breaker to me on windows. On W11 I can't even have vertical taskbar... And sorry to say, but if ability to customize things to improve your workflow is distraction for you, then that is very much problem with you.
@@lifebarier RetroBar has been amazing for me on Windows... and it allows vertical taskbars... But I do wish I could customize things more.
You just reminded me how good your music is. Every now and again I go on a Zweihander listening spree while working and it's always a blast. Thanks, and please keep making albums!
Ex professional musician over here (more than 20 years of hard work), now a developer full time. I understand all you are talking about. My "sollution" (anyone does as it pleases and the way it pleases, it's just my choice) for this was to let it go when there is no way to port the apps/hardware (at least, for now) and embrace a totally new environment. From time to time I discover something that once was impossible or difficult to port, is now a lot easier. I also bought a lot of libraries and VSTs on the past, and I can use about 90% of it (even Native Access) with no problems on Debian (yes, the grandpa of distros). I imagine it would be easier in Arch, but I had my frustrations with role releasing distros on the past, so I stick with a stable one.
My DAW (REAPER) is already compatible with linux for some time, so I think it was easier for me. Anyway, I can´t imagine myself without the customization and freedom that linux gives me today. (KDE, window managers, flatpaks, reliable repositories etc.) I really try to visit my Windows 11 hard drive from time to time and it's a lot of pain and frustration (my Audio Interface seems to not work properly anymore on Windows for example). So now, I´ m on the opposite side of the conversation, and I don't want to go back. I think it would be possible, but I'm a happy linux user now.
Unfortunately, that's just not an option many times.
Yeah, mostly I hear in this video is whining about "bUt I dO nOt WaNt To LeArN nEw StUfF"...
Besides, a virtual machine with win11 running passthrough and just run it inside that if the user absolutely HAS to use a specific windows application not available on linux.
Heck, you can even play games doing that.
I had no problems getting autodesk inventor running using that method. And that application is said to be "impossible to run on linux". I guess I am a magician then... xD
Well, yeah, in order to make an omelette, you gonna have to break some eggs. You wanna stick it to Microsoft for designing and monopolizing the market around their OS in such a way it's nigh impossible to switch? Yeah, you gotta suffer some, as you lose the access to that exact market, what can you do...
@@marcusjohansson668 Well - I think with a VM doing passthru it is less running on linux than running within linux. So maybe more stage magician than Gandalf. 😁
@@sociallyferal4237 Kinda my point, the "adobe can not be ran on linux" is something that should be squashed.
Besides, people should not be using adobe anyway, unless they want to give adobe access to all their work. xD
Linux becomes mainstream when we stop having to talk about Wine.
Linux will never become mainstream, you just have to make sacrifices to get out of microsofts greedy grip
@@markojovanovic9651 never? mmmmm I don't know lol
I haven't watched the full video yet, but I can't switch over to Linux because I'm disabled and I use Dragon NaturallySpeaking to control the computer and to type. So far I haven't found anything which is as good. Edit: The homage was the game Blackthorne.
Linux is not in a great spot for accessibility right now, unfortunately. The old tools are all broken by the transition to Wayland, and the new tools largely aren't done yet. Might be looking better in a few years, though, hopefully.
@@psiah9889 In a few years, in a few years, you will see they will get there... 💤💤 30 years and still the same lame excuses.
How many decades of gimp and still the maybe most unusable ui/ux out there. Where is HiDPI support in most of that awesome "alternatives" ? Multimonitor ?
What about making that thing generally usable instead of producing 50 new distros a week.
Or do most linux nerds just tweak their desktop, make a video about it, and then tweak the next distro ? A very unproductive way to spend your life on this planet.
What is Wayland?
@@kaisfp So... Remember back in the day when Windows Vista came out and it changed the way a lot of things worked and broke several things, but it was ultimately required for things to work well in the future because a lot of the old assumptions people made back in the 80's and 90's about what would be needed in the future weren't great?
Linux is going through that a bit later... As in, right now. Wayland replaces X11, which is how Linux has done things for like four decades now, but was designed for mainframe type systems with multiple users accessing it at once. Stuff like multiple monitor support has been hacked in, rather than being a basic, intentional feature, and the old way was horrendously insecure, making keyloggers very easy to set up even if they were never as common as on windows.
Wayland is the new version, meant to fix all that. It, for instance, actually supports running multiple monitors with different refresh rates, instead of just taking one giant virtual monitor and cutting slices out of it for different screens. It modernizes things, makes them faster, makes them support modern protocols better, and makes them much more secure.
But security always comes at the cost of convenience. Easy keyloggers also meant easy screen readers... Now on Wayland, those are much more difficult to do. Not *impossible*, mind, but a lot of work and the devs largely haven't gotten around to it yet. So people who need those features are stuck on the old, insecure version that, notably, no one is really working on and fixing bugs and the like for anymore. Still, it's got like fourty years of time put into it, so it's also just pretty stable and relatively bug-free at this point in general.
So, basically, tl;dr: Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, but there are still some missing pieces that affect accessibility software more than anything else.
@@kaisfp
New display server.
It's odd that aseprite is mentioned. I use it all the time in Linux. I don't quite know what issue specifically that you're facing.
5:51 pretty sure they forked wine. They didn't make Proton from scratch, did they?
it's a fork and more of a downstream of WINE and Valve themselves contribute back codes from Proton to WINE's development
it's not even a fork. It's wine with more packages.
Proton is also worked on by wine developers that valve sponsors.
Proton is Wine.
theres a reason you can run regular windows programs in proton
The biggest problem with WINE is that there's no raw hardware access. So for some piece of hardware to work someone has to create a driver specific to WINE that talks with its Linux driver and the applications inside WINE.
Wow, this video has been coming up in my recommended list for days, I wish I clicked on it sooner. I'm watching this on my Linux daily driver. I do all my gaming on Linux. You make some very valid points here.
You have some more options:
-dualboot, a PC of these days can reboot to an other OS under 15sec. So at least you can enjoy the free world after you finished the creative stuff.
-you can run Windows in Virtualbox, with a shared folder between the two OSs. I did this to simply access my corporation's onedrive / sharepoint shares from Linux.
*Debian with it's usually old packages may not be the best os for desktops. That may be the source of your problems with Wayland.
I’ll just add that every time I’ve used virtual box the performance is absolutely horrendous but QEMU has been much better.
@@nathanp3366 I did not tried qemu yet. But so far vbox was fine for me, I did mostly writing and testing freepascal code with Lazarus. It's an easy way for me to test multiplatform code on a Linux host.
@@nathanp3366 I was gonna say, who runs virtualbox in windows when KVM/Qemu works a lot better? OP, if you haven't tried it, you should. It's amazing, performs better than VMWare.
1) if you're gonna end up being spied on windows, why bother dual booting at all?
2) virtual machine hit the performance like a truck. You're losing performance that you paid for what? Just for hating windows?
@@youravghuman5231 He? o.O
1 - We are using Altium Designer at work. Sometimes I had to work from home and no, the last years it was not working with wine. Previously it worked, but in a verry sluggish, useless way.
2 - Please don't bring hate to this conversations. I'm using vbox usually to write and test multiplatform apps. Works fine.
*No, I do not like using Windows. I just have to time to time.
"I want to go to make things better, not sacrifice" So much truth in that statement. I feel like im sacrificing less now that I found Nobara, but there are still a couple of programs that keep me on windows. I have been able to switch a rig over to Nobara and run a windows VM, but I keep the other rig on windows when I need to do work on a more powerful setup.
I think its closer for me than ever before, but there are still a few things keeping on that MS side.
Request to community: Don't just tell people which operating system a person must use rather it's more of a personal choice. Another thing is experimenting with different operating systems just lets you find your own one and the one you can actually work with. Operating systems are meant to be your assistaint.
This. I will also say to the community that if you feel bad that someone didn't made it to fully switch to the OS you're using and they stayed on their OS, it's none of your business. It's really a personal preference and what works for you might not work for others.
Also, other people have less time to learn a new OS than you had when you managed to fully switch to Linux. People that seek help by searching online or looking at forums are the ones that had the time to learn Linux. If they don't, they obviously don't have time and there's nothing you can do about it.
It's okay to make them try, but let's not push them if it's really not working for them.
The fact that for almost a decade, almost all desktop users worldwide used just one OS (Windows) for everything, kind of contradicts you. In the 2000s even macOS which was the 2nd most used had a pitiful minuscule market share.
And I think that's precisely the problem with Linux desktop adoption by regular users(which is also the blessing for power users). Most ppl except the real few power users don't give a single f about the OS itself. They just want to do their thing in the easiest, shortest, most comfortable way possible. Not by distro hopping which basically means constantly reinstalling their OS, not by following changelogs, kernel releases, foss drama etc.
@@codyrap95this, but they are still gonna say linux gui is good enough for normal people for everyday usage which isn't true at all.
It's not like this guy is comfortable using Windows, he's actually in a bit of pain, he's been mentioning that a lot.
You. Must. Use. Windows.
Vista.
For photo editing, it is hard to move away from Adobe, especially the Adobe camera raw engine. Raw image processing is a difficult area of development, which is why it takes so long for new raw process versions to come out. To truly see the power of that development, try revisiting some of your old raw files, with newer algorithms to interpret raw files, you will see massive improvements to how far you can adjust things. Newer versions of the raw engine with very old raw files is able to improve highlight and shadow recovery (the latest engine can get very close to the technical limits of a specific raw file based on the mathematical analysis of raw files.
Another area is the color management and processing, newer raw engines are able to handle adjustments in tricky color situations without clipping color channels as easily. Thus extremely good for concert photography.
What is wrong with Rawtherapee?
But is it still legal Adobe?
On modding - if you have done it once you remember how to do it forever. You mention widescreen patches as an example. In 99.9% of the cases it's as simple as setting a dll override via WINEDLLOVERRIDES env variable to use the native version. By default wine tries to use builtin dlls for better compatibility with their environment and that's why some of them aren't loaded without explicitly specifying the override.
env variables? In this video? In this comments section? Are you crazy?
(Kinda funny when to remember Wendell started in this channel.)
I did not expect such a detailed explanation. I am sorry that we are not there yet, for your use case. But there is one tiny thing that I believe you are mistaken: I use Aseprite and it offers a deb package. You do not have to build it. Also, I have not noticed any issues with it on Linux. It just works. I am also on Debian 12, but on X11 and KDE.
I haven't used it in a while, so I'll try again. I did test it with wayland, so that might be it.
I don't have issues with aseprite on Wayland! So probably something was weird with your setup, no idea @@teksyndicate
@@teksyndicatehaven't noticed any issues on Wayland with it or its Foss fork however you may run it through xwayland if you do end up encountering some
Just wanted to suggest another option. You could get a small micro PC like a Beelink and then a USB switcher for your keyboard, mouse and accessories. I use something like this for messing around with SBCs. As long as your applications don't require a large dedicated GPU, even AMDs iGPUs are very good nowdays. You could have your main PC run linux and have most of your programs/games, then your micro PC run windows with your music production software.
That would probably be ok for most of my music... I'm not sure about the symphonic stuff. The samples are MASSIVE... so I'd want to upgrade it to 64GB of ram... but if I did that, it's a good idea.
@@teksyndicate Fortunately, there are micro PCs that do offer support for 64GB of RAM
@@teksyndicate I recommend Minisforum UM790 or Beelink SER7 Pro, both come with 7940hs/7840hs CPU and have two m.2 slot available. You can slot a double-sided NVMe into one of the slots, but the other is obstructed (SER7 has a wifi card below the SSD), but if you take the wifi card out and connect via Ethernet, you can install two double-sided for up to 16 TB storage. Memory can be upgraded to 48x2 for 96 GB and possibly beyond in the future, however, as things currently are, none exist for laptops. Even on desktop side, outside of R and U DIMM, dual-channel non-ECC DDR is impossible to find. With the single exception of awful, proprietary magnetic connector on SER7 and SER6 pro, I cannot recommend these mini PCs enough. Geekom A8 is also fine but BIOS is pretty locked down.
P.S. I recommend Tech Guy Beau, Iceberg Tech and level1tech's review of these machines. I wouldn't recommend anything prior to Meteor Lake on the Intel side, let me tell you that much. And Intel's offerings should be considered only when it's cheaper than the AMD ones (and they're not). If you've been following mobile CPU space and looked at the reviews of recent mobile processors, you should already be familiar with them.
@@teksyndicate I'm on the same boat, most of the hardware on my PC is for audio production (128GB ram, multiple 4-8TB SSD's for orchestral samples), though I do like the idea of just having multiple PCs and using switchers. Another idea I had was either running Windows VM on linux with passthrough (might require more research/config to get it working smoothly as I want) or using Synergy
One more benefit to you being stuck on windows is that you have been able to make a lot of great software tutorials to help the rest of us who are are also stuck on windows for creative software and need some deshitification tips for Windows.
I lightly disagree with the creative software locking you in to Microsoft Windows. While FOSS creative software applications of higher usefulness may be quite rare on Linux, the gaming aspect is even rarer on the systems.
Of Foobar, it doesn't have to be open-source. Or rather, it doesn't have to be OSI's interpretation; FB2K dev could use a model based on fair-code and have the _official_ build be theirs, and theirs alone. While FB2K is free and fair-code is a model which helps to financially support developers, in this instance the fair-code model is basically being used for the author to maintain full control of their specific build while people can fork it for use on other systems as their own projects.
The premise here is that official, mainline FB2K is never to be touched by anyone else. The OSI + GNU model would require forked code to be attributed by its authors and integrated into the main branch, while this fair-code model would ensure the author doesn't have to touch GNU licensing, but basically release the code as being openly-available under a license that declares the author maintains sole control over the base software, but forks can _do whatever._ While no money is changing hands, the fair-code model would permit the author to restrict who touches the base while ensuring anyone who wants to make additions via forks can do so.
I have similar issues with going full time linux. My job is repairing and customizing modules found in a car. So I need to reprogram them a lot, which I do through an obd2 bench harness. The obd2 dongle I use and the software I use will not work on linux same with the software I use for this. I sunk hours of my life trying to make it work on wine but it just wont. Sure it works in a vm but that's a massive pain in the ass and find the IO through the virtualization layer is less reliable which can brick a module. Is my use case high specific? yes but a lot of the "anyone can use linux" fail to realize sometimes there's no linux alternatives, and more importantly, even when there is alternatives they're typically inferior and people don't want the software they use often to be more difficult to use even if it means putting up with the enshitification of windows
Love your music, man. Your channel helped me build my first gaming PC and decide on a mechanical keyboard flavor at 14. It's been ten years. I turn 25 in 6 days. Nitheren is one of my comfort albums and I love all the new stuff.
I'm in the process of getting into the field and I'm switching to Linux in the coming days. It's ironic that I turned on my system today and found that it was trying to bully me into installing Windows 11 before I even signed in.
While I'm afraid to take the plunge, I know Linux' beautiful community will take far better care of me. Spent a few months in class learning Linux CLI first. I'll have to join up on the forum soon. I have issues getting organized, if I'm honest.
You might've sold me on the Zimaboard. I don't quite have the funds right now, but I will probably end up investing the same amount for a worse gateway or a PiHole setup or something. I just love the form factor without all the labor and research of the PiHole.
That pixel art animation with the shotgun is a homage to Blackthorn. Had a great time playing that ages ago. Brings back great memories of my childhood. :)
Hell yeah! I'm about to hire someone to help with tilemaps (I'll make some too, but I'm also working on the music and dialog)... hopefull we make something out of it!
@@teksyndicate I'll be eagerly waiting for your game to get released on steam! :)
I really like the music you create man, I hope you can dully delve into it and make it your main thing.
It'll be that and gamedev... as soon as I can afford to do so.
@@teksyndicate Best wishes upon your future endeavours. 💪🏻
I'm a film student who needs to edit videos very regularly, and I also make music in FL as a hobby. I also despise Windows. I used to use the Adobe suite but I cancelled my subscription and deleted my account after the TOS change controversy, so I'm on DaVinci Resolve instead of Premiere now, and even though there's DaVinci builds for Linux, it's not super straight forward to get it set up as they're meant for RHEL based distros, and I use an Arch based distro. I got it working through distrobox, but I don't feel confident in the reliability of that setup. As for FL, I got it working through Bottles (WINE frontend), but again, it's not a great workaround.
So what I've settled on is a dual boot setup, on two separate drives so that Windows updates don't break GRUB (linux bootloader), and then a VM on the Linux install with the Windows SSD passed through for storage. That way I can use Linux 99% of the time, as I much prefer the experience, and I can reboot into Windows if I wanna edit videos, make music, or do something that isn't supported on Linux. If I wanna update Windows but use my PC at the same time, or if I wanna do something in Windows that isn't as demanding as video editing or music creation, I can boot up the VM and mess about while still being booted into Linux. My Windows install also isn't a consumer build of Win10 or 11, it's Win10 LTSC, an enterprise edition of Win10 that will recieve security updates well past consumer Win10's end of life, and has much less bloatware and background telemetry on a fresh install.
I've used linux pretty much all my life (my dad was a slackware early adopter), and some of my interests overlap with yours. I've been playing modded skyrim on linux since ~2014. I actually spent a summer writing a custom mod manager in python (it basically just used symbolic links based on your load order) because NMM and MO required dotnet 4.5.
Having said all that, I think you're completely correct. Switch to linux if it enables you to do the stuff that you want to do. My creativity is in programming and tinkering with hardware (I'm a computational physicist by day), so the fiddling is a feature for me. Everything I need for work (gcc, gfortran, vim, python packages, emacs, latex) just runs out of the box on basically any linux distro -- if anything Windows/Mac would be more of a hassle.
The only thing I take slight issue with is Reason 4. Yes, linux takes some fiddling, but it can be configured to work forever (just like you say it does for Windows). To give you an example: In my sophomore year of college (~2014/2015) I wrote a set of scripts for i3 and bash that configured my desktop and laptops _exactly_ the way I wanted. I mean, hotkeys, aliases, multiple displays, resolutions, color temperatures, python packages, library paths, the whole nine yards. I haven't changed that config at all since. In fact, I was driving to OH for a conference once and realized I'd forgotten to pack my laptop. No biggie, I stopped at a best buy in Toledo, picked up the cheapest vivobook I could find and flashed the custom image I have on my keychain. One git clone later, I'm as productive on my 20 minute old machine as my 10 year old daily driver. If that's not a config that "works forever", I dunno what is. I haven't tried this first hand, but I seriously doubt I could pull something like that off on a windows machine.
As a full time Linux user; Linux still has a long way to go. But most importantly, the Linux community still has a long way to go. Linux distros have traditionally been for tinkerers, and it shows. If Linux is to ever become popular it needs to be convenient to use for those who don't consider operating systems a lifestyle. Only then we'll see commercial software natively supported on Linux in any significant capacity.
Disagree, if you don't want to you do not need to tinker with modern linux distros. Just use it out of the box.
@@lifebarier Sure, if all you want to do is to watch youtube and play Steamdeck-ready games every day, you can do that just fine out of the box.
@@PropaneWP Mind giving me examples of what you need to tinker with then? Unless you insist not using alternatives and try to force windows specific software - there is no reason to tinker.
@@lifebarier thats what this video is about, bro...
@@dangdudedan8756 My replies are to comment, not video, sis...
7:00 - That basically explains my biggest problem with Linux. Usually it requires a lot more work, and I don't want to have to mess around with my OS any more either.
Back in 2007, I'd spend all day messing with Compiz just for fun. I didn't mind tweaking Wine settings to get WC3 to work. Stuff like Proton, Lutris, and Bottles have brought gaming a very long way, but the reality is it's still not as simple as Windows, and sometimes it's way more fuss than I want to deal with. Yesterday I spent all day reading documentation and going through three different distros before I finally got WoW to launch. I love the fact that it works, but I hate that it took so long, because from past experience at any time there will be an update that breaks it again. And I don't think I will have the patience to stay on Linux.
EDIT: I just realized WoW is capped at 75 FPS, even though I have it set to no cap. So I thought I had it working fine, but normally I'd be running 140+ on Windows. Yet another thing to fix when I could be playing.
Switched to Linux mint 5 months ago, For all the game I played only a few did I have to look up ProtonDB to find out which Proton/Wine to use. All the games work so far, I do not do Multi player online games that have anti cheat. Been able to mod my games using a secondary pc with windows. The problem I have had with linux is, it is not windows. You have to treat linux like learning a new game that does things differently, using that way of thinking has saved me a lot of time and frustration. Learn Virtual Machine so I can switch my wife over to linux she needs Microsoft office to work, the vm should do that easy.
I mean, for WoW all I did was install it through Lutris. Over on CachyOS (Arch-based) the only game I can't play in my library is Destiny 2. Helldivers 2 runs awesome thanks to Glorious Eggroll (check out his custom proton versions). I run Hyprland for DE, GPUs are Intel Arc A310 & A770. I have a VM with passthrough for Office though.
just hitting install is harder then on windows lol ok. opning up the app store i want this app install also very hard i assume. 2007 is long behind us.
@@gogereaver349 Which Linux distro can I install WoW by "just hitting install"?
@@ElMartilloBlanco any of them using the lutris app. in fact currently playing wow mop remix on fedora 40. can litterly drage the exe into lutris and it sees what it is and grabs the nedded scripts. or just add to you libary with the search feature.
Oooh! You showed the basic shooting animation and I thought "maybe...?" But then you showed the Easter egg, and it became "Not maybe! Blackthorne!!!"
\m/,
My main issue with Linux is that there are just more knobs to fiddle with and more stuff that can go wrong and for the most part I just want shit to work honestly...
7:50 Yep, being creative has been hard on Linux with just this ONE roadblock - Affinity. I dropped adobe stuff a long time ago, but even the next best alternative I got used to was a hassle to get working. I did recently get it working because of someone's tutorial and a bit of poking around. The performance is basically halved and has some visual bugs, but that hasn't stopped me being excited that I don't need to launch windows anymore
I get the sentiment here, not sure I agree Linux is not for creatives. I ran a studio for years, very dependent on Adobe software. It was hard to leave that, and it required significant changes, but I can't say I regret those changes. I'm quite happy, having adjusted and learned new open-source tools.
That would have been a significant effort . 👍
The “Make it open source” plea is great, especially with good license that disallows forks from using the same name from existing (like gpl!)
Great breakdown. I'm in a similar awkward poweruser spot (though much less skilled). I'm sure 90% of my workflow ports to linux in some way, but the last 10% just doesn't, and of the "some way" for the previous 90%, it comes at some serious costs.
There's just the initial context switching, which kinda sucks, even though I've gotten used to that over the years, but then there's allll the little sacrifices you get to make. At one point in time I used Excel seriously for my career, and not just the few features that everyone uses, but some of the heavy lifting stuff. Libre office calc, at least at that time, wasn't even close.
I'm sure some of it was teething issues on my end (again context switching), but there were just functionalities that Excel was miles ahead of at the time. And that's before you get to the simple fact that your office environment is accepting xlsx only.
Sure I could dual boot or whatever, but there's LOTS of these little edge cases. If you want to stream, browse the web, and play some games, linux is leaps and bounds ahead of where it was.
The professional (obviously outside of areas like servers) and hobby landscape though almost always runs into a boatload of issues.
And you 100% nailed the 'i want the OS out of my way' attitude. I program for a living and while i'm ass at it compared to many, I at least know how to handle debugging, testing, digging into repo issue lists, and so on. Everytime I try to switch to linux it reminds me of those windows 98-00 days where "oops yeah you got this card and this game it maybe it should work but something isn't so now you're hunting and maybe you'll find that forum post explaining your unique issue and...."
I don't miss that, like at all. Linux, unfortunately, walks into those weeds way more than just running Windows or Mac these days. It's fine if you're super comfortable in the environment and like doing that sort of thing, but I really don't want to have to do the internet Easter egg hunt because oops that one thing I wanted to tinker with isn't really quite compatible.
To be honest, I think this story is applicable for computing in general. I worked with a team that refurbished hundreds of PC's from 2012-2017, and sometimes driver issues would come up where I had to go on an adventure to find that one forum post with the answer or the elusive link.
Mad respect to you man. Watched you in the early days and you taught me a lot. I've used Windows since the DOS3.X days. But I started with System 7 Macintosh Apple. So Unix. For more than ten years I've been removing Microsoft applications and gone open source. I fully agree with you all the games I play I mod. I also use video editing. Nobara ( based on Fedora) is my only recommendation for easy Davinci resolve installs. It might be time to do a Dual boot install with the best windows and distro together with a focus on how to transfer files easily to each folders. That pixel art is amazing!
All of these reasons you’ve laid out I absolutely relate with. I feel that I’m destined to dual boot for forever.
I’ll miss your videos if you retire from YT, please update us every now and again, at least.
When groupie people marry proprietary vendors, solutions or specific technologies/niches (like digital music), they simply belong to those vendors.
I've had to jump through hoops on every distro I've tried to get my sound card working in 5.1 and then I find that even still the games will only output stereo
Yeah Audio drivers have always been very RNG heavy. Thankfully I have no complex setup. So before 22.04 the only issues where the same as under windows but easier to solve, because I could automate the workaround. After that dist upgrade it shockingly just worked.
Creative cards are weird and map 5.1 incorrectly, I figured out how to fix mine based on a post from reddit. Had to tweak pipewire (which is actually pretty straightforward. )
@@slaapliedje yeah I'm using a sound blaster Z and have done a lot of reading like I said I was able to get it working properly but even with digital output the games will still only do stereo
I didn't think about my soundcard. I always like to have an old soundblaster X-fi installed so I can use EAX in old games.
@@qbertguy Huh, I know there are a few games recently (after I managed to get new speakers and have them set up properly in a 5.1 setup correctly for once) that just sound amazing. Valheim was one, if I recall. I'm betting a lot of the output depends on the game. The sad thing is, modern computing has a few things that irritate everyone on all operating systems. Sound is one of them. Oops, the sound is now trying to go out a monitor with no speakers. Oops, the mic in the laptop is active instead of the headset, etc. When you have 6 different sound devices, and each application has separate settings... you can see where it'd go wrong.
My problem is the accessibility software. Linux isn't quite there yet, at least as far as I've found. I have a visual disability so the Windows Magnifier and the text to speech that runs alongside of it is almost perfect for my situation. I wish I could find something as useful for linux.
This might be a thing specific to the desktop environment you use.
I've heard of a game dev with visual disability getting involved in the space reporting bugs and stuff, and apparently, according to him, KDE Plasma in particular got into a pretty decent state in recent versions.
@@Kris-od3sj I know it's being worked on, but no, I don't think that there is anything on the level windows provides for accessibility.
@@Kris-od3sj I'll have to check into that. My problem is kind of a paradox, I need screen magnification to look into anything I can use in linux. It's not like Windows where on any windows machine since Win7 I can hit the Windows key plus keypad + and start a pretty decent screen magnifier. I dual boot my machine with Win11 and Ubuntu and have the Zoom set up on Ubuntu but I just don't know enough about linux and how to set things up in it to be comfortable yet.
@@Bureaucromancer Fair enough, my point of reference was just one person. Let's hope that support will improve among the desktop environments.
@@kortt I guess you can a listen to a podcast with said developer, where he talks about it. Check out Tech Over Tea podcast, episode 208.
He also showed up in the most recent episode, but I haven't seen it myself yet; perhaps he mentions the changes he's made that I've heard of in the news here and there.
I finally switched to Linux several years ago now when I started having the mentality that... "If I can't get it to work on Linux, then it does not exist." You can't expect Windows or Linux for that matter to change because of the reasons you have. Windows won't change because they know you will never leave. Linux won't get better in the way you want it to get better because you are not using it. Simple as that. I can't even count how many bugs I helped to solve or how many features I have requested get added to Linux things and projects... because I am actually using it, making the bug reports, requesting the features, using the software, and actually interacting with the community. Linux is a community project. If you are not part of it, actually using it, then it will not get better.
But by all means, many UA-camrs make a decent living of the constant up hill battle on debloating windows. I mean honestly it is endless content.
If you need wine for music player, stick with windows. Wine shouldn't be default thing to go to. Native apps should be the first thing to go for.
The Adobe suite is the biggest pain in the ass, but there are lots of closed source apps that run on linux, just rakes a bit of messing around. A big one that a lot of linux creators use is DaVinci resolve, which works natively. Photo editing software could take some time to research something you could use for your needs, but it definitely exists
I thought I was stuck on windows til I found how to GPU passthrough to a VM and found an app called looking glass.. I won't dare let winblows touch complete bare metal on ANY pc in my house any more
Oh, you please have to tell me more about the GPU passthrough. This is one of the things that are on my agenda to get done. What do you use for virtualisation?
Qemu works very well. I daily drive a similar setup using proxmox. You will need a iGPU or a second graphics card for the host if you still want to use graphics outside of your windows VM
@@leoniscsemthe best way to use virtualization is with qemu/virt-manager imo, then you would need a second gpu for gpu passthrough to work, so if you have an external graphics card and also internal graphics you can configure all of this for the windows vm to have complete and exclusive control of the external gpu and leave the internal graphics to linux, plus linux is better in the virtualization aspect because of kvm, you can investigate further or use chatgpt if you want, but i can assure you it isn't that complex at all, you just need guidance
@@jandramila We are using Proxmox in our business line, but actually are considering to ditch it in favour of native LXD/LXC, since Proxmox in fact also just uses the standards and adds bells and whistles to it.
But speaking of Qemu and GPU passthrough, did you just add flags in your KVM config, or do you handle everything through Proxmox config?
Keep Windows at least 2m from bare metal and stay safe out there!
I have 2000+ games in my steam library, only 14 of them are borked.
How many of those 14 have kernel-level anticheat?
It's not about games it's about making money. With proprietary software and games if you're being payed for playing.
I only play about 4 games regularly. 3 of them are completely borked on linux. Here's a curveball even: they're not online multiplayer games.
But other than that, yeah, games usually do work.
@@Kolyasisan Which ones are those? Genuinely curious
@@mr.dingleberry4882 home versions of beatmania IIDX, sound voltex and DDR. Some fellas of mine even own an offline Rootage cabinet, and that one doesn't work either.
DJMax Respect V and EZ2ON work though, but those needed quite a bit of tweaks and troubleshooting to work on linux, which is fun.
I've been thinking of swapping to Linux lately, but after watching this and discovering foobar you've convinced me to stay on windows. I've used itunes for years because it was the only thing I knew about that let me search just from looking at album art which is what I'm used to since I still have an old Ipod classic. Seems that feature is in foobar so I'm going to have to swap over to that soon. I'll check out your playlist for it.
Bro, Rock On!
Nice to have in the Linux community. I do agree with the blockers you've mentioned and they are all valid.
I do hope the music production side in Linux will get to a place where software dev, os tweaking, and gaming (almost) is right now. Using Windows as the OS is quite the pain point, but once, as you've said, all your tools are launched you are in the application layer and no longer interacting with the OS layer.
Thanks for trying and I hope you'll bestow us with more of these informative feedback in the future. Glad to know that some of the things that work for you, you *have* given them your all and tried to make them work.
Thank you Logan for giving Linux an honest shot. I hope you'll give it another try a few years later, with the knowledge you've gathered it should be simpler and take less time. Debian 12 is great for stability but for stuff like Wayland you may want the latest systems packages because this stuff is still seeing rapid development and lots of bugfixing every day.
I think linux would advance much quicker if it had more feedback and support from creative people but as has been tradition, the analytical and tinkerers crowd is overrepresented and so the discussions skew naturally towards that end.
I've been looking a lot at Manjaro, openSUSE, and Fedora this week... so I might switch to one of those on my laptop, because I'm getting really frustrated with a few programs that are giving me hell.
@@teksyndicateManjaro is, unfortunately, run by somewhat irresponsible people, and there's been some major problems with it in the past. It's not something I can really recommend.
Fedora, meanwhile, is more or less what I use, but to be honest, you're going to run into media codec issues right away because of legal reasons, and the fixes can take a fair bit of work. I'm personally on Nobara, which is fedora based and handles that stuff automatically, but is also a smaller community which means you can't really rely on Google for support.
Heard good things about OpenSuse, but I've never actually used it myself.
I wish I could just say to use Mint because it's by far the easiest but they're still on pulseaudio, and since you've got so much music stuff going on you'll really benefit from something that uses Pipewire for audio.
A problem I have with Linux distros right now is that even though you've got a million choices each and every one of them seems to have a caveat somewhere.
@@teksyndicatea good list but be careful with Manjaro, they have a bad reputation because of past amateurish mistakes.
@@teksyndicate Give CachyOS and Nobara a look. I'd advise against Manjaro, as the devs are bad to forget to renew their certs every couple months and it's annoying.
@@teksyndicate I've been watching too much Linux stuff, so just passing the collected info along, openSUSE and Nobara (based on Fedora but with focus on content creation and gaming working out of the box, with custom patches) sound good. Manjaro has issues. For an Arch-based distro, EndeavorOS or Garuda are more recommended.
Probably gonna get flack, but I moved to MacOS in 2012 and never looked back. Since then I had a Mac Mini, iMac and now a Macbook Pro. I'm a graphic designer/artist working in Clip Studio Paint and it has met my needs and never had issues. It's a tightly controlled OS by Apple, sure, but for getting work done, it's a dream system. Retro games all work well via OpenEmu, and I even have a working Switch emulator which only fails if the game is too new and the devs haven't updated it yet. When it comes to Steam games, I use something called CrossOver which seems to work well, but not perfectly. I think with time it will improve. But I'm not a PC gamer anyhoo so for me it's not much of factor. If you're heavily invested into Steam then yeah I don't think I'd recommend MacOS. But for getting work done, any day of the week. And you can just go with the Mac Mini and it will serve well for years. You don't need to shell out so much money.
Mac OS for the win! Most stable!
Been a Mac user since the 90's, almost never had problems with it.
Ios and mac osx feels very clunky to me, but I can see how the usual customer would find it intuitive even, its just not for me, its too "do it the official way or you simply cant" sorta thing
@@MrDannylocoI get that. The problem is that you typically find that out after you’ve bought into at, at least that was my situation. I’ve been on Mac since 2014 and I’ve run into a few issues that I didn’t expect because I expect things to work a certain way.. I use Linux server and Windows for work. Not insurmountable, just a royal pain in the ass. A couple of them I still haven’t found a work around for… like roaming from one AP to another. There’s a certain protocol to handle it that isn’t supported by my network vendor.
Here to chime in with everyone else who wishes they could main Linux but can't. Like you, I'm a creative and some plug-ins don't work as well on Linux or aren't available at all and there's no alternative. And as a gamer, anti-cheat is the obvious problem. But other things too- I'm a Clone Hero/YARG fanatic, but the Riffmaster controller as far as I know has zero support and considering that even the Windows support involves community made driver and input translation, I don't have the intelligence to figure it out. And then dumb little things like NVIDIA support being historically terrible and not being able to afford a whole new AMD card (I have a 3080, it'd be a pretty penny to upgrade).
Little things like this that seem small, but are major elements to my personal daily happiness. Currently as I'm writing this I've decided to dual-boot W10 and Endeavour. It's a pain in the ass and inconvenient as hell to switch, but at least it's a solution that's available.
Can't speak for anything else, but I bought an Nvidia card a couple of months ago and the driver seems fine now. I think the "magic" release was version 555.
I just set up a 3060 on Nobara, and so far no issues. Seconding what herrpez said about the magic driver.
I recently got a 4060 Ti, and it worked on pop_os right out of the box
The good thing about Nvidia drivers is that your card is Ampere and support of everything starting from Turing seems better than usual. The prorietary driver works great, but you can also try the official open-source driver (still in Beta, but you can give it a try). Just don't use nouveau if your card is supported by official drivers.
There has been an issue on Wayland with Nvidia cards as the display adapter though, because the driver did not support explicit sync (please don't ask me what this is), but that apparently has changed. So give it a shot, but if you run into issues on Wayland and you don't find a solution, then switch back to X11.
Something I've noticed reading these comments, it looks like most of your issues with linux have a potential solution but it seems like the only reason you would ever find out about it is if some rando in the comment section makes you aware of it. You know your way around Linux well enough from what I can tell, but actually finding the various fixes for things you need would be very difficult if you didn't have youtube comments to tell you where/what they are.
This is another issue with linux for some people, I just don't want to have to hunt for a solution for a niche problem because of my specific hardware and/or software and hope to stumble on it.
Like you, I just want to DO the things I like to do on my computer, not spend a bunch of time setting up and figuring out. I'll give linux a real shot some day, but its gonna need a handful more work to be right for me.
My main rig is Windows. I run Sparky Xfce on my laptop. My rather large game collection consists almost entirely of physical copies and portable archives (zip files containing the folder contents of a previously installed game, or downloads that are ready to play without installing). Most Windows games I've tried running on Linux, via Wine and Play on Linux, don't work or they have issues that make them unplayable (too slow, glitchy, sound but no image, etc). Not a big fan of Steam. I don't want to buy the games I already own and possibly lose them if I do, because Steam removes a game or closes my account for whatever reason.
In Windows, in my Start menu, I have Games, then I have folders in the menu for categories (RPG, RTS, Puzzle Games, Shoot 'em ups, Pinball, etc) and series (Star Wars, D&D, etc). I have so many games that I wouldn't want to put them all in a single folder where you have to scroll down, down, down, down, whoops, up up, no down down, etc, all to find that one game you want to play. But that's what you get with Linux.
Okay, so there may be some unnecessarily convoluted way of using the terminal to make folders and transfer shortcuts over into them. But with Windows, I can edit the menu with a couple of mouse clicks, and drag and drop shortcuts.
Debian 12.5 using xfce. Using brave browser. Never been happier. Its like a modernized windows xp.
should i need windows, I multi boot via another ssd with windows 10 ltsc.
@@ecu4321window 10 ltsc and x11 are faster than Linux.
Is there are a reason go to with straight Debian rather than Ubuntu?
Using Ubuntu Studio, since I didn't have to bother installing many media apps. Plus I didn't know many of those apps existed.
@@potato9832 for my personal preference, i feel that Debian as the more pure distro and that it has more stable experience. i feel it's less bloated than other Debian-based distros.
As a gamer, the ONLY thing keeping me on Windows is VR. I know about ALVR and tried it but either because of my Wifi or maybe its my Quest 3...linux and my headset do not like each other. Outside of that, I'm so happy to mostly be a Linux user now.
I haven't tried VR ( quest 2 ) on linux, but I think using a direct wire connection, might work.
@@Sebastian-bo7vj doesn't matter with a Quest headset. They don't have any video port at all. When you use a cable, it just sends the compressed image same as when you do it wirelessly. It just does it more reliably (depending on the cable)
@@ZedDevStuff sad, I will find a way though
Exact same situation, but with the quest 2. Haven't had success with streaming to the headset over wifi using linux yet. Would keep trying but at some point its like how much time in the day is there? Pros and cons. But for absolutely everything else I do, linux is a perfect system for me. But I just don't wanna give up the vr hahaha. Something awesome about laying in bed with a headset on, screen "floating" above you with your favorite game on it, without an annoying ass tether etc. I use Chris Titus' winutil script to take out some of the most annoying things about windows etc. but it still sucks having to use garbage.
It's not just audio, video, and music that does not work well. e-learning is a challenge. In the industry, we use programs like Adobe Captivate and Articulate Storyline. There are a couple of candidates that are not quite ready for professional use. Open e-learning is as close to Storyline and Captivate that I could find and given the development cycles of Open e-learning, it would take about two years for them to get caught up to where they need to be. They need to make it easy for the e-learning author to create custom templates for their e-learning. They also do not have a way to import PowerPoint and Impress slides into an e-learning module. These are very common tasks that need to be done. The workflow is slowly improving and am hopeful they can resolve these issues and make their tool a professional-grade e-learning development tool.
Instructional designer here. Keenly feel your pain on this one. Where Linux shines in this industry is in its ability to run local copies of server based e-learning suites. I used to create all kinds of content on this one bit of software called Ilias which is a really nice LMS but also lets you create content on it which is Scorm 2004 compliant. Since I had to set up a lamp stack in order to run this thing, I also used to run copies of Moodle and a few other LMS packages to test what I had created and they worked rather well. Not as pretty as what you can make on articulate though or Captivate.
I personally just want to add accessibility. Such a mood, I feel these sentiments on so many levels. Great video, awesome details and really in-depth!
15:42 Blackthorne. That was a godly game.
Saying "profiting bad" grossly over simplifies what's actually happened here as there are plenty of profitable companies that treat their customers very well. But especially in Microsoft and Google's case, they're primarily driven by power and control at this point, which you can never get enough of. They see the population as numbers and statistics, which is the endgame of all the "ism's"
Musician here. The same goes for my reason to switch over to Linux 100%. All of my premium plugins don't work. I'm more in the progressive metal area and all of my paid-for amp simulators, drum libraries, etc, don't work or barely at all. Examples would be Neural DSP's library, most of the Kontakt libraries I use like GetGoodDrums, etc.
And I'm also someone that uses Reaper! Surprisingly the native version of Reaper is worse than running the Windows version through Wine.
I make metal music with my dad and my Perfect Drum Player VST do not work & crash instently. That's why i'm forced to stay Windows for this job.
Foobar2000 not having a Linux port or a 100% alternative after all these years is a travesty.
I was a hardcore Winamp user from Win95 through Win7 (that's when I jumped ship to Linux). Took me actual years to find a replacement I was happy with. There's a handful of Winamp imitations, but I finally settled for "deadbeef". Aside from the name, I'm very pleased with it.
Foobar does too much in one large program. That is the opposite of Unix philosophy. Everything foobar does can be done on Linux, it just takes multiple programs. I like that, I understand why non-technical people do not like it.
@@dominicdit What is "too much" in this case? Supporting multiple formats isn't exactly "too much" in my book. In fact, it's pretty darn nice to have a unified front end for a multitude of "format back ends".
But maybe you have a different gripe; I'm not too versed in Foobar myself.
@@dominicdit not all programs that run on unix-like operating systems have to follow the unix philosophy
@@dominicdit(whispers in your right ear) “wait until you learn blender.”
You nailed it, people really don't care about the operating system, they care about the software you can use on your pc. Windows has been the mainstay for decades and nobody minded it much, until they started to abuse their userbase (again). But even in that scenario, while people are now interested on Linux more than ever because of their recent moves, they'll go back for sure once they notice that their software, the stuff you _actually_ use on a pc rather than an OS, doesn't work (or requires some tinkering based on commands posted by a guy on reddit, and some stuff doesn't exist anymore in your distro).
Things for sure are better in Linux, and I love it, but I get that isn't for everybody.
In the early aughts, a colleague took a ream of blank paper, stuck it in a lever arch folder and labelled it "Linux sound card driver installation guide". He was and still is not wrong, on many levels.
Multiple monitors even with different resolutions work very well. On Debian 12 as well as on Fedora. I can only talk KDE though. Are you using gnome?
kde multimonoter is like the gold standerd.
I'll try KDE. The last time I tried was gnome (on my main PC) and I prefer KDE I think... I run a weird setup. From left to right: Vertical monitor 1200x1920, main display 3840x1600, right monitor 2560x1600, side CRT 1280x960. I turn my chair when I want to use the CRT... it's on a side table with usb hub that's connected to a second mouse and keyboard. Works great for old games.
@@teksyndicate you relly wont have problems if you are running amd. nivida can still make gamers cry on linux.
@@teksyndicate I only run 2 at the moment:
Resolution: 1920x1080, 3840x2160 but no issues. I had 3 a while ago, worked fine too.
And does it remember the size AND position of the last time the window for an application is used? I have three monitors and routinely run six or more applications in certain positions and sizes. This works fine for Windows 10. I don't want to lose this feature.
I've been saying this for decades. Unfortunately the Linux fanatics ALWAYS say that I'm not trying hard enough or too demanding. They turned me off of Linux completely, to the point of not even wanting to consider it any longer.
I don't think you have the right to call Wayland "half-baked for 15 years" when it's run on Debian. For them it's couple of years less. I will accept "half-baked for 10 years".
half baked for 16 years
@teklynkvideos No, that is not correct. Is the existence of WINE and Proton the proof that Linux is not ready and Windows is better? XWayland exist because Wayland and X11 are not the same thing. They do not work in the same way, thus a compability layer is needed for old Software that does not support Wayland.
@teklynkvideos I can give you a short answer, but I recomend that you consult other sources that can give you a more complete answer (DJWare has a good video about it).
From my point of view, the two main issues that Wayland tackles are they way X11 protocol is structure and the sheer size of X11 that makes it very difficult to mantain at this point. Related to the first point are the security issues (any program connected to X11 can get the keystrokes or other input values) and the latency (mean for servers, so there is a lot of overhead and unnecesary interactions for modern desktop). Related to the second one we have the lack of modern features like HDR (there is one for wayland by Valve). There are other issues with X11 like the fact that there is no real multi-monitor support and if you have monitors with different refresh rate you are limited to the lower one.
Wayland may not be ready for everyone yet and some development may be slower than it should, but it is for now the only path forward of the linux desktop, since X11 would not be supported or developt anymore (at least, that seems to be the case).
@teklynkvideos I can give you a short answer, but I recommend that you check other sources (DJ Ware has a nice video about it).
In my opinion, Wayland is trying to solve two main issues with X11. The first one is the structure. X11 was built when most of the processing took place in a server or mainframe that you connected to using terminals. Because of this, there is a lot of overhead and communication between processes that is not needed in a modern desktop environment. The second one is the sheer size of X11, which makes it very difficult to maintain. I believe the rest of the problems that X11 has are derived from these two. Like the lack of security (in X11, all programs can get the values from input devices even if you are interacting with a different application), latency, lack of modern features like HDR (there is an implementation for Wayland), or no real multimonitor support (X11 kind of hacks is way around it, which results in limitations like only being able to use the lower refresh rate of all the monitors).
Wayland may not be ready for everyone yet, and the development might be slower than it should in some areas, but for now, it is the only path forward for the Linux desktop since X11 is not going to be supported aside from security patches.
@teklynkvideos zero, they are reinventing the wheel instead of improving the wheel.
Installing davinci resolve on linux is a lot of work, especially on amd since the proprietary drivers is required. There has also been some issued with pipewire for audio on it. Also hardware accelleration is also kind of bad. Its reccomended by most people to use something like distrobox to even install it, so you can use the proprietary drivers for davinci resolve but keep using the open drivers for everything else : (. For some people it just works though, wish it was like that for me : /
15:02 the glorious Tandy Radio Shack Model 3 in the foreground on the right hand side. Excellent work - it looks great!
That PC store brings back sooooo many memories... all good.
I've been wanting to switch to Linux recently, but I also need to use Adobe software for work, and Ableton for music.
It really sucks that these companies are not releasing Linux versions, it feels like you're being kept hostage in windows.
One common way around this is to use Linux as your daily driver and have Windows available in a VM. Mac users used to do this too (before more software was ported to the Mac).
@@blahdelablah How you can use Premiere Pro in a VM??
By setting up a Windows VM with sufficient resources to use Adobe Premier Pro. If you're using Linux and want advice about setting up a VM for this purpose just let me know.
@@blahdelablah And how you want to use GPU, nvidia cuda, etc?
@@pantarei. You can use GPU acceleration with VMs.
One of thing to note DaVinci resolve don't support AAC audio in linux
I think that's just the free version
@@aeleequis Yeah. Paid version DOES support it
@@Aepigon No
@@Aepigon Searched around and it seems it doesn't support aac in linux.
@@mbsfaridi My bad. I was more referring in general to proprietary codecs... H.264 / H.265 do work in the paid version. AAC on the other hand is not supported in neither the free nor the paid version. You need some workarounds to work with it.Sorry for the misconception guys :/
"I play all my games no problem with steams proton compatibility layer."
Good for you. Unfortunately other peoples games don't.
Tbh, sometimes I need to tinker. But if you look at the protondb webpage and look at your game, people will post steps on how to get it running.
Yeah sadly we creative peeps are stuck with Windows. I use Clip Studio, Toonboom Harmony, and now After Effects on a daily basis and none of them have Linux support. Playing around on with Plasma on my Steam Deck felt like the desktop was actually mine. We can always dream of escaping Microsoft.
Thank you for putting this video together. You have clearly done your research and considered making the switch carefully. It’s useful to see the sorts of incredibly valid reasons people are stuck on windows. I can only hope over time things continue to improve and people in your position are able to see moving to Linux as being a fully viable option. Ultimately computers are tools and if an operating system can’t fit the role you need it to then it is not the right one for you- at least right now 🙂
21:00 Wayland is half-baked because GNOME has a say about what goes into the official protocols and what does not. And because GNOME has an entirely different vision to basically anybody else of what a desktop should do and they don't wand protocols they don't like to implement in the official protocol list they just create a lot of fuss. So on Wayland even seemingly trivial things like letting an application set its own icon seperately on every window is made to look controversial and takes years and years to get everyone on board to finally get it approved.
[EDIT]: By the way, even many people who like Wayland are annoyed about they Wayland committee always making a fuss about everything.
What about dual booting? Even though it didn't work for me, it may work for you if your workflow is compartmentalized. Maybe give it a try if you haven't already.
In my experience, when you have dual boot, you end using just one of the 2 OS's, and usually that OS is the one where you can do the most things, and that nearly always ends being windows.
@@Nik.leonardyep, that's the thing, if you're gonna end up being spied on windows anyway, why bother dual booting at all.
People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it.
@@Nik.leonardfor me it ended up being Linux, because my particular use case lets me do everything on both, but... Yeah. I technically still have a windows install to boot to, I just... Don't, and haven't for years. I'll still need it if I need to update some samsung ssd firmware or something, but... Barring that...
Dual booting seems less like a legitimate workflow and more like a fallback strategy for if something you wanna do doesn't work.
@@youravghuman5231 "People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it." i switched because i got fed up with windows problems
@@Nik.leonard Yeah, that's why it didn't work for me. But in my case I ended up using Linux because I only booted on Windows to play. This was back when gaming was nonexistent on Linux, btw.
Ditching the windows programs altogether was the best decision I've made that finally make me a full-time linux user.
Cutting off the gaming was also necessary for my Health and TIME.
Forcing myself to learn Krita, KDEnlive and SOOO many good tools was something I needed. I've been more productive than ever with the help of the DE like plasma5 still available in debian.
I have a hard drive with win7 and my old programs but I did not feel the need to touch them for almost a year once I made Linux my home.
Not related to the video content, but I love that you have the Lego Spyrius Robo-Guardian on your desk. That was one of my first big Lego gifts I got when I was a kid. I still have that set (and many others from that era).
Thanks for talking about the lack of usability of Linux when it comes to audio production. Linux fanboys can’t seem to understand it.
Windows on my Strictly gaming/social network/casual use pc.
Linux Mint Debian Edition 6 on my Strictly financials laptop.
I'm a total Linux noob and love LMDE6.
Agreed I installed it after Linux Mint and I like LMDE6 better.
Gaming on debian 12, seems fine. I know some games are not compatible, but all games I play work fine.
GIGACHAD
Linux is really trying my patience right now 😡 I do not want to use to use Windows for just one program, but at the same time I've borked my Linux install 3 times in a week, twice completely borked to a point I lost the hard drive and everything went corrupted 🤦 Fedora won't load now, Bluetooth just broke for some odd reason on the main install, and file management is becoming unmanageable with these super slow tranfer soeeds. I'm trying to transfer GB and its moving single digit MB 😡 come on already. Simple things are broken out of the box here quite a lot too. Everything I have to modify something to make it work, some even require I write a script, like no, just fkn work already 🙄
This is my main issue with Linux. Most software doesn't work unless you do a notable portion of the work that the developers should have done. One capable developer spending a few hours to fix basic functionality would save who knows how many people hours of browsing random forums trying to fix what the devs are too lazy to fix.
Exact same problem with the DAW part. I have a lot of recording software I spent tooooo much money on (Native Instruments) being one. But with the advent of windows 11 I had enough. I still had a good laptop with windows 10 on it. So I moved all my DAW stuff to it and put it in my studio away from my main machine. And on my everyday driver I installed Ubuntu using Plasma 5.? I love the setup. OBS seems to work great. I can play games via steam. Although I don't do modding like you. But the only reason I hung on to windows so long is the DAW. Now I wish I would have done this ages ago. The thing about Linux is it is always a work in progress. You are always learning and the longer you use it the more you understand things. Your knowledge doesn't get wiped out with the next new upgrade, it only expands. Where as windows just pisses me off with each upgrade. Its like "why change up the interface every time?" I just got comfortable with the last interface now you changed how to access everything for no good reason other than to look "NEW". I end up spending more time figuring out why something that I had working great suddenly stopped working only to find out it was some stupid auto upgrade bs. Man I hate windows. They had their time. But they don't give two s#!!@ about their customers anymore. I am so happy now to have switched over.
Here's what I do.
There's a metal enclosure that holds the SSD to Windows
I power down the computer, and hit a switch which turns it on.
As far as it knows it is a windows machine which lives unplugged for long periods of time.
It has full access to all computer GPU, can install whatever the heck it decides it needs. When I'm done with that windows program .. I turn the box off. Hardware disconnect. Zero connection to my real computer.
Then I turn on the second metal enclosure that holds the M2 SSD for the Linux machine.
The hard drive enclosures were not expensive and it gives each OS a physical prevention from one system messing with the other. I transfer files between the two with a external hard drive.
I switched to linux, I enjoy it but I do have things that frustrate me. I'm trying to learn my ways around them.
I was hugely into modding skyrim, oblivion, morrowind, etc... now I can get things like MO2 to work in Linux but I hate having to jump through so many hoops just to get things to "just work"
Like I said it's not to bash linux, it's just a lot of learning and work arounds.
Maybe VM with GPU passthrough?
This . VM with GPU pass through. You say it like its a first nature to do. Unless it has become easier to do, most of these solutions require at least 2 GPUs last I checked.
@@Theehannle It seems integrated graphics count, so pretty much any AM5 CPU comes with it. Might need the motherboard to support it too, idk if some don't
You CAN use Linux, but you need to learn a little more. I have two solutions for you, one of which I personally implement and is much easier to use, and one of which is more seamless and smooth, but also more costly. Here are your solutions:
1. Dual-boot Linux. This is what I do. It is not very expensive, especially if you have the free space on a hard drive already. Either use free space on an existing hard drive, preferably an SSD, or use a new hard drive. Get Balena etcher or Rufus (or ventoy if you're a distro hopper) and install an easy distro like Ubuntu, Kubuntu, or Mint.
Pros: Easy to do, relatively inexpensive
Cons: When you need to switch operating systems, you will need to reboot
2. Virtualization - specifically, KVM/Qemu. It is free, you just need to make sure Virtualization and IOMMU are enabled in your motherboard settings. Then, you'd install kvm/qemu, and virtualize Windows through it. You can either do Single GPU passthrough with hook scripts (very difficult), or you can do dual-GPUs and pass through one of them (easy, but costly). If you do that, you will only have about 1-3% performance decrease at maximum when you have it all set up right.
Pros: You don't need to reboot to switch operating systems. You only need to launch an app called "Virtual Machine Manager" (the app name for KVM/Qemu) and launch Windows through it. Once done with windows, you simply shut it down in VMM.
Cons: Harder to set up than dual booting.
A few tips:
-Don't worry about distros. Try as many as you like, but pick the one you are most comfortable with. I liked Kubuntu in the beginning. Now I run Arch linux.
-I highly recommend trying dual booting first. It is much easier.
-Only use Windows when you need it for those apps. Do not browse the web or play any game on Windows that you can play on Linux.
-Do not be afraid of Linux, it is not complicated, it is just new.
"Only use Windows when you need it for those apps. Do not browse the web or play any game on Windows that you can play on Linux." why
Dual boot is a good approach. I try to shut off as many units needed bios options as possible so using a virtual machine won't work for me.
Right now my issue with linux is that there are just so many of these little issues that appear between each application or game when using Linux. Scaling, stuttering, audio. It feels random between each program I use. Windows is still the most compatible in the long run. I think steamOS may lead the way to forcing better future compatability but i rarely boot into Linux any more.
> -Don't worry about distros. Try as many as you like, but pick the one you are most comfortable with. I liked Kubuntu in the beginning. Now I run Arch linux.
This can never be understated. Soooo many people seem to get stuck on "yeah but there are so many versions, what should I use?" They're all pretty much the same. Literally just use Ubuntu or Mint unless there's a compelling reason for you not to (I've heard complaints about Ubuntu and privacy, maybe?) Arch is great but it's a pain to initially install, but newbies want to go to it because "it's the best/most l33t one".
I use ubuntu at work and arch at home, and honestly, it's the same core experience. Just arch is more annoying to set up. Just install Ubuntu and pick the desktop environment that looks prettiest to you.
@dangdudedan8756: you asked "why use Linux for things that work on both". Reason is because you should optimize linux above windows as it respects your privacy more, and also to get more used to Linux over time. I would *definitely* use only linux for web browsing.
While watching this video, microsoft's advertisement about Co-pilot came up. 2 beautiful ladies discussing about the future of enterprises & how Microsoft cares about their client's privacy 😅
Your pixel art for your click-and-point game looks awesome!
Windows is garbage and Im trying to transition too. What annoys me is that thes linux distros dont focus much on the new user experience. If they want mass adoption, the devs need to realize this.
16:44 I'm kinda sad that 7-zip has no Linux version of its gui (only the CLI compression/decompression tool is available on Linux), so I took matters into my own hands and started recreating 7zFM on Linux, using the official 7-zip under the hood where possible. So maybe if enough people want Foobar2000 on Linux eventually someone will start recreating it.
There IS in fact a 7zip gui version. It's called p7zip-gui. It's exactly like the Windows version.
@@SleepTime-Dark
AFAIK it's a SNAP with a semi-broken 7-zip install in WINE inside it.
At least I know it's broken, as the context menu in the file list doesn't work (just doesn't appear) and Unicode isn't supported. So my downloads folder, "Hämtningar" becomes "Hämtningar". And it doesn't honour my theme at all, always looking like upscaled Win9x.
@@Lampe2020 LOL, imagine using Ubuntu. I use arch BTW and the package works fine from the AUR.
@@Lampe2020 BTW, ark is much better.
@@SleepTime-Dark
It is maybe better, but it's not the same GUI as 7zFM. And the only goal of my thing is to recreate the 7zFM GUI on Linux.