What 3 YEARS of Linux does to you
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- It's been a wild ride these past 3 years, hasn't it?
Here's to many more!
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After 2 years on Linux, I simply hate technology. I really want move back to 1800's and live on a farm.
LoL you can do that, even in this current society. If you "really" wanted to. 😛
Go to Cambodia in 1970s then
You can try joining the Amish. 🤣😂
@@long-live-linux DeLorean Motor Company is not existing anymore.
now thats relatable
The best option Microsoft did in the early Xbox days. Users reported a cheater and then they where auto blocked from matchmaking with them. So cheaters got limited people to play with the more they got caught.
How do you know someone is a cheater? Because users report one? I was banned multiple times when I played online fps's, yet I was just good at it, and salty noobs couldn't stand they get owned. In other words a salty noob who reports on you is a great algorithm in your opinion? xD That's deeeeeeeep like a rocket jump.
@@hadeseye2297 And that is why the user reporting works, it effect the user who reported matchmaking. If there is a real cheater he will got blocked from lots of people matchmaking and have fewer options. If you play with someone who is 1000x better than you and you dont have fun, do you want to play with that person again, probably not. So those types of systems are better then a system that gives the game company and anti-cheat company 100% control of your PC as it has root kernel level access. They can flash your HD bios, mb bios, format HD, etc. All it would take is a hacker to hack the anti-cheat and all kinds of blackmail could happen.
Damn, I can't wait till the PaV source code drops. That has to be one hell of a bash script.
Also that SA2 desktop background goes hard!
Someone else said it, but I just gotta throw my hat in. Thank you for not dead naming! As a first time watching, I didn't expect to see you respect someone like that. It is so appreciated.
Thing with Arch is, it's very easy to debug since you are responsible for the majority of the softwarestack used.
This's what at the end of the day makes it the easiest distro to use for a poweruser.
I agree. And that is also the reason why it becomes trash if you install with the easy installer. You should know and control everything you are installing. If you don't want to install using the terminal you shouldn't use Arch.
@@vidal9747 accurate. + it's deepens the understanding.
in defense of archinstall though:
It's a nice shortcut if you're already familiar with the manual process & it shows you every single package included in it's various presets.
I was an idiot going into arch and knew nothing, but I learned SO much fixing my mistakes
I started using archinstall after a while lol. I did it legit a few times already but because of that I know what goes into an Arch install. It's honestly really convenient but you just gotta be more careful during the install process
Except SystemD. When that goes wrong I dont even know where to start. I just reboot and hope it fixes itself lol.
just stumbled upon this, first time watcher and honestly one of the most entertaining videos i have seen in a long while
no obnoxious editing
good points/arguments
chill vibe
and plus points for not deadnaming
definitely looking forward for more!
EDIT: i absolutely agree on the more "philosophical" part, i collect games and cds of my favorite albums physically and i have never been happier with these things
it's very important imo to have real things that no one can take away from you because the licenses expired
even if it's more expensive it's absolutely worth it, sure streaming would be more convenient but with a physical product (a cd for example) you get a really cool box, booklets, pictures of the bands and music that's not tied to any service, and for games it's the same thing but you get a part of the game, the box looks exactly like the game world (atleast for the games i collect)
god physical media is awesome XD
I can confirm after using Linux for a decade now I too scream into my mic for no reason. on a serious note, you get use to using the terminal, although, I run Bazzite and barely touch the terminal these days. Waiting for Valve to release an official SteamOS distro to move over to it, but you talking about Arch and the superpowers you gain kinda makes me wanna try that instead, but I guess I'll wait to see where it goes with Valve's SteamOS on desktop
He's at the penultimate evolution... there's only one more step... NixOS
Nix is cool, I just dont see much of a reason to use it, for what I want to do. I'm not constantly spinning up new hardware so its like, I'll just install my distros manually and itll be fine lol
@@PaV_Live I switched from Arch to NixOS and had the same thought initially. I definitely would recommend NixOS if you manage a couple of servers. If you have just 2 machines, it's probably just a huge time sink. But it's a fun time sink, though.
arch users progress either to debian users, nix users, or gentoo users.
@@xelnoc8983 or Aeon desktop users
@@xelnoc8983 I'm an arch user as well, and to be completely honest, I would use something like Debian Testing or even Debian Sid for the extra extra bleeding edge XD I might try it out on one of my laptops that I have laying around :P
ive been considering switching to linux for a monthish now but its always been more of a hesitant interest, but i think this video and seeing you describe your relationship with tech and linux has convinced me to switch
I landed on Fedora about this time last year. I wasn't a Gnome fan at first... i used Cinnamon in the beginning, but Gnome, for me, really is the cat's pajamas. I have 4 Extensions that make Gnome really easy to use; Workspace Indicator, Blur My Shell (just for effect), Dash to Dock, and Vitals so i can see some system info in real-time. With those 4 extensions Gnome works just like you would want it to. I have 3 monitors and the workspace indicator lets me click a box at the top of the screen and select any workspace without having to press the "Super" key.
If you haven't landed on a distro yet, give Fedora a shot.
Do it.
Dude first off SUBSCRIBED. I really enjoyed this video, down to earth takes.. Iv been on and off with linux in the past and for the last 5 months now been daily driving mint. (Which yeah sure..basic distro) This time going back tho i feel very settled, new car smell has worn off and now just focused on learning what I can with the terminal. Games run great, customised the desktop. Im loving every bit of it. I understand/resourceful enough to figure out how to solve issues I may come across. Which for real dude Forums and reddit all have an answer without having to ask someone if you just take the time to look. Later down the road will try out endeavor as a beginner to arch.
I wanna sort of tell my own story. I never really grew up with a computer, didn't have that opportunity. Always wanted one, though. Eventually I got one in 2020 and it came with Win 10. It was fun, loved it. Got in the Insiders Program and tried Win 11 early. It throttled the CPU to the point that it caused a lot of deaths in GD. Downgraded to Win 10. That was the catalyst for me switching to Linux. Started with Garuda, then switched to Arch... Then eventually, as LFS drew me in more and more, I decided to daily drive it starting May of 2023. I... haven't been the same since. But now I'm in a community and actively contribute to it from writing a book of my own, Gaming Linux From Scratch. People make use of it which really makes me happy.
The main takeaways: Windows 11 made me realize that Windows 10 is better, that I should switch to Linux to avoid migrating to Win 11, and that Linux changed me and now I'm in the deep end but have finally found a community I participate in which wasn't always the case.
Btw I appreciate you not deadnaming Emelie so much, doing great work :) Got my subscription with that alone
6:10 So true. Every single time I have to help, I wish it was Linux.
I find gaming on Linux much less frustrating than on Windows. Don't even need to fiddle with drivers if you have an AMD card.
Never had any problems with the driver installed via Windows update. And never had to configure anything manually. Both big titles and indie games worked fine. I can't say the same about Linux, especially about Wine.
@@lufog is that sarcasm or are you just trolling?
@@KingSvenDeluxeyou're the one trolling bro
@@niceytube205 sure, just Google "automatic driver update BSOD" and you'll see how common of an issue it is.
@@niceytube205prolly cuz every person who tries gaming on linux says its ass you cant play games with anticheat(devs fault) and the 1 guy i saw who had no trouble playing his obs would die if he tried to record it vid would record but it looked nothing like the game to say the least
There's 2 kinds of people
The kind that don't want to fuck with things and the kind that do
The latter are primed to be Linux users
If the rumors are true, there are abandoned quantum computers all around the world. I highly recommend finding one that still works to digitize/materialize your self! Far more efficient, as they are quite powerful and usually have on-site nuclear power, which lasts for a long time before you have to pay for replacement fuel rods!
after five years on arch i returned to fedora, the cycle is complete.
At 19:27 there are 2 options for linux users. 1 become a mega cute femoy or 2 become a stereotypical discord mod.
babe new PaV video dropped
This has been very informative, made me reflect on my switch to linux myself.
Great vid, really enjoyed seeing your evolution along your Linux path, found many parallels to my own journey towards freedom from Micro$oft
I had a similar story with starting with Linux. Around the time Windows 11 got leaked I get worried of how much worse it was going to be, and Windows 10 was already not great. I also got some hands on experience with windows 11 through school, and it was really buggy (for example, the search bar in the start menu refused to work sometimes, and sometimes right click menus would show up on the wrong screen if you use multiple screens). So around December 2021 I switched over to Linux. Though, technically, my history with using Linux didn't start there. Back in 2019 my dad was digging through some old stuff, and found an old laptop from the 90s, and he gave it to me and suggested I should try to install Ubuntu on it, which I did, but I never really got it working as it was missing some networking related drivers. Then in 2020 I began messing around with Linux again, but I never really stayed with it, as I always kept going back to Windows. But as I mentioned earlier, in 2022 I finally switched over to Linux, and I have now been daily driving it since then, and I've never been happier. Every time I use Windows for work now, I get annoyed at how complicated and annoying everything has to be on Windows, so I'm not planing on ever going back to Windows.
Btw, back in 2021, I started off with Linux Mint, and then in 2023 I switched over to Arch after having to deal with some of the point release shenanigans that comes with using a point release distro.
... If I can avoid it, I'm never using a point release distro again. I want something I can install once, and then maintain until the end of time. I do not want to have to reinstall my distro, and I do not want to risk breaking my distro by migrating my existing install to the new point release.
Not reading all that 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥
9:05 I have to say that Nvidia can stop fucking itself for now since they released the opensource drivers and even recommend using them for newer cards.
Thats just the kernel driver. The important magic bits are inside the proprietary user space driver and firmware of the GPU (like AMD and Intel do).
Still a good step in the right direction.
Not really the actual open source drivers have gotten better because of nvk (developed independently inspite of Nvidia's poor documentation) which only supports newer cards, but Nvidia themselves didn't open source their drivers like amd or intel. From my understanding, they dump the source code of the kernel module in a public repo but you still need the proprietary drivers to actually get it running (since it still needs the GSP and userspace drivers).
@@thelakeman2538 yeah, far as I know only the kernel modules are open-source. Still a step forward though.
The FGC analogy is GOLDEN
Yo!!!! Thanks! And thanks for watching, means a lot!
im too sleepy to write an actual comment but hell yea linux my beloved, cool video ‼
27:43 amen brother
also absolutely agree with you on the finicky nature of windows gaming too. its just that new people to linux dont have the muscle memory to get the configuration they need done easier on linux and get frustrated easier.
Hanging with a couple of persons that use AMD Hardware made me explore a little into Linux by installing Ubuntu. My first installs went as messy as it can go with no experience beyond installing the OS pfff.
The process of learning stuff behind the OS though is overall pretty smooth once looking into documentation. Not having some of the silly nonsense from Windows being annoying was a nice little break. I think the only thing really keeping me from making the full jump is probably virtual reality support; but I'm ever so excited to see what comes next and how people are using the various distros out there. 👀
Man.... This video was great! You deserve WAAAYY more subscribers.
@10:24 Well, there is a neat installer AFAIK that is pretty basic but easy to navigate.
@22:05 It is more common in certain Linux communities. If you are willing to put the effort in to learn basic terminal and the logic behind it, you find really helpful people who either give you the right answers or point you in the right direction - as a lurker or forum member.
Brilliant video. My hat is off to you Sir!
32:19 so you've described the life of 99% of 9-to-5 software devs.
It hurts pls help.
I got tired of patching up my Ubuntu home server when doing LTS upgrades, as they often broke and then you had to set it up from scratch again.
This is what lured me into Arch, a rolling distro... No point breakages and upgrades every 5 years for my home server, latest packages, etc, "Sign me up"
While Arch has had a few minor teething issues for the 6-8 years I have run it, it is nowhere near the same amount of work as the Ubuntu upgrades gave me...
From there I was doomed to go Arch for my laptops and eventually my desktop...
Second file server became FreeBSD, as I didn't want to have my data sitting on a monoculture of one OS and packages.
>space marine
famous last words
Cool vid! I have been using Arch Linux as a daily driver for the majority of this year (for both general daily work and various software development projects), and I absolutely agree that if you aren’t coming in with a mindset to learn, it will not be a nice experience.
Many things have come out in recent years mitigating some of these growing pains, whether it’s alternatives to popular windows apps, ports of said apps, or advancements in the compatibility layer that is WINE. If it weren’t for those, or people bringing an “I’m willing to learn” mindset, I don’t think Linux distro availability/accessibility to general users would be where it is today.
Unfortunately, most aren’t willing to switch or at least try it out, because it would break their workflow or prevent them from using the apps they aren’t willing to find (or try) alternatives to. Many people are stubborn, and won’t make the move unless their new experience is almost indistinguishable from their current one. Can’t really blame them though.
I have to say, in this regard, it really shows some peoples’ lack of willingness to step out of their comfort zones, but glad that you could make that step even 3 years ago! Subbed, and hope to see some more videos from you!
well done you got your self a new sub!
i switched to linux the moment copilot got announced
I have been using Linux for nearly a year now. The first distro I used was arch btw, took me 2 days to get it installed right manually.
I had watched alot of linux videos and was a bit familiar with the terminal due to a tech-savy home and using MacOS. But damm. I have learned so much.
I've just been using SteamOS on the Steam Deck, and it's already 100 times better than Windows.
Yes, some games and programs I want/need just don't wanna work because they're not native to Linux, but it's more then enough for most tasks.
It might be fun to just mess with a raw Arch install on an old laptop at some point.
When I just started learning to use Linux in the good ol' Windows 10 era, I deleted the entire PulseAudio package. Spent humongous amounts of time trying to fix it, instead of going to sleep like a normal human being. When the birds started chirping, I reinstalled the entire distro. It became a core memory. 8 years later, I'm still in love with all of Linux' quirks.
Now that you have reach the Arch level, you have a few paths before you:
* Gentoo - Arch isn't customizable enough
* NixOS or Guix - Arch needs too much work[0]
* Alpine Linux, Void Linux, … - Arch is too bloated (and systemd might or might not be the devil)
There's also one path back:
* Debian - all distros are the same and there's no point in chasing niche ones
_0: …so let's become a distro developer and work on fixing that_
1:03 Failed youtuber might have just become my favorite genre
I switched from windows to debian about 7 months ago, after about a month i switched to arch and have never looked back. also as a trans tech nerd your respect for emily gained you a subscriber!
24:20 It feels to me like people who have tried linux before and came out with the conclusion that the community is toxic were expecting to solve any problem like it's done on windows (reboot, sfc /scannow, run random .exe -> fixed/ or still borked so it is what it is). And got angry when a antisocial nerd told them to rtfm in the least nice way possible instead of handholding them.
I also feel like most people who say they "hate windows" and would "love to switch" are being disingenuous. They just don't want to learn a new way of using computers, and that is completely fine, just like it's completely fine if your job needs you to be running windows 24/7. But honestly, learn how to install and use a VM software, try poking Linux around in there and see if there's something you like, have a little more commitment, learn how to dual boot and try to do everything in Linux, accidentally break your install and learn how to fix it, and if reading this suggestion makes you roll your eyes just admit your time is too valuable to be spent learning new ways to use a computer.
The problem is that the vast majority of people are not used to having to read through long threads of documentation or multiple esoteric commands to be able to use something that should be relatively simple on their pc. Not that many people have the time to put into that along with everything else they may have going on in their lives. If they do then that's a different story
@@ArbiterofMoths Depends on your task and what you mean by simple, Linux is simpler than Windows in a bunch of ways and vice versa. Making a scanner/printer, a wireless dongle, and a sd card reader work under windows were things of nightmares to me, going to sketchy websites for drivers and praying I clicked the right download button because things don't have cd/dvd drives anymore and Windows Update couldn't find suitable drivers, bluetooth pairing always fucks up after 1 day or 2, all just worked on Linux, no long threads or esoteric commands needed. I decided to stop wasting my time troubleshooting windows and made the switch, all isn't sunshine and rainbows under Linux but I deal with way less bullshit when using it.
People aren't born knowing how to use Windows, they get exposed to it and learn over time, same thing can be done with Linux, it doesn't take that long. If they have spare time to use a PC and they choose to use Windows that's their prerogative, if playing League of Legends is a must then that's their choice.
I hate terminal
Sudo FML
Edit: Linux community is horrendous, I've played League for a decade and league community is better then Linux when it comes to interactions. Linux community is so bad I couldn't properly switch since 2014. Two factors now keep me trying to stick with Linux valve+steamdeck fills my gaming needs 100% where's before I'd boot windows since I want to chill not to troubleshoot and gaming on Linux PC still nightmare. Reason number two - AI, wit AI assistants I can finally get answers to questions that are too stupid for Linux community to engage with. I hate Linux and open sources devs or whoever people on forums are, they're scums in my eyes. I love open source and Linux and I think what they build is absolutely phenomenal and is the future of software but that doesn't excuse their absolutely horrendous attitude and style of communication with regular non tech folks with full time non tech jobs.
Reason why I don't change my main pc to linux is mainly vr games, specifically vrchat, also due to video editors and adobe products. Now I did install linux into my new laptop and I've been using it on my servers for a few years now, I absolutely love linux and I'd love to be able to use it on my main pc as well, but I do like the specific games I play and programs I use, people may say there are alternatives but it's not the same thing, specially game-wise, although as soon as I know anti-cheats are finally linux compatible I'm switching same day.
Awesome video btw! I'm on the fedora part of my life currently.
I loved that intro lol
There really isn't a single thing I haven't been able to get working on Linux OTHER than games with AntiCheat :/ it's so... Annoying
I'd really like to get VR working on Linux once, and for some reason I can't get Elite Dangerous working on my current Arch system. I know it's _possible,_ I just lack skill.
Ok, that was a neat intro.
If Microsoft releases a standalone OS called something stupid like CortanaOS, where it's just a stripped down, bare bones version of Windows (or maybe even the infamous Windows Server Edition) that runs their little CoPilot AI assistant with some basic apps it can do things with; if they make that OS1 thing from Her 2013 movie starring Joaquin Phoenix, I swear my mental stability will go off a cliff and I will dedicate the rest of my life to making an open source Skynet that will harvest asteroids for resources so I can get off this stupid planet and die on Venus or something.
The eye bags of a linux users shows the experience they get darker as you gain knowledge just like a sith
i've been finagling with linux for a few months now on VMs since i'm settled on the switch when windows 10 loses support
i tried mint first, then ubuntu, then fedora and kubuntu, and what you said about arch is pretty true, once you go arch you can't go back
managed to install it on a VM after a couple of fuckups, got some good use, and had the opportunity to install it on an old crappy laptop (not a thinkpad unfortunately) with KDE plasma as the desktop environment and i've been getting more use at it than with windows before that
[i've fulfilled my duties as a non-binary furry to go with linux]
also i appreciate you avoiding to deadname Emily, you're awesome
Muta is super insightful love his vids
OH SHIT, he grew a neck beard
Yea he look kinda hot tho🥵🥵🥵
I tried 2 times to get into Linux, but I realized that everything I need works on Windows only, and does not need tinkering to get it working. I can just get productive and forget everything else. Linux is cool but it isn't for me
Mostly unrelated to the vid, but since you recommended Risk Of Rain 2 as an indie game, I thought you should know that it's no longer an indie game.
Not really important information, but I thought people should know, if they don't already, cause it was bought by gearbox.
14:48
I remember when I first switched to Linux, I had already dealt with Windows breaking on me countless times to the point where I had become accustomed to going through the terminal. From there, I had started tinkering with my installation of Windows, and then I thought "Well, I'm already massing around with things. I might as well work on Linux."
I personally do use Nobara, but not for it being a "gaming" distro. I do because I wanted to use Fedora, but Fedora has a really stupid default setup with a bunch or extra steps needed to get everything working. Nobara just has those extra steps done for you, it could really just be a post install script rather than a distro.
that's fair and it is fun to play around with these forks, but the reason I failed to mention is just that they're being maintained by smaller teams. at least with base Fedora, it's got the backing of the redhat foundation and a much larger community than Nobara. Not to shame GloriousEggroll but he's just one guy, along with whoever is helping him, if anyone even is. If you already know Linux, then yeah, go nuts. you already know what you're getting into. But for NEW users specifically, I suggest they avoid
@@PaV_Live Very true, most just random people I would say use Ubuntu or Pop, but for like my friends that can call me if they have issues I'd say Nobara
can relate! ditched windows in 2020 for Garuda Linux... arch first was NOT wise lol. but stayed with linux since then! got fedora on my work pc and deepinos on my other pc. yes deepinos lol its not sus its great! the de rocks! anyway great vid!
Dude I'm totally vibing with what you say, though my really active use of desktop linux is since they started with this recall BS. But quickly arrived at arch btw and loving it.
40:00 -> Also fortnite doesn't work, which is a good feature.
It's called "planned obsolescence" -- "a policy of producing consumer goods that rapidly become obsolete and so require replacing, achieved by frequent changes in design, termination of the supply of spare parts, and the use of non-durable materials"
It's asinine, but it's how they drive their income. I have a smartphone that I almost have paid off, but the provider is trying to convince me to "trade up" to the latest new phone. There is nothing wrong with the one I have. I plan to keep using it until it stops working. I also have both my vehicles paid off, and I plan to keep using them until it's too expensive to keep them running.
very true and very real!
I've been using Linux for half a year now, I think I'm going to go insane with distrohopping. 💀
Time to farm hate comments.
macOS is pretty good. Much much better than windows.
You don't know whats going on with windows when you see the logo? I get physically ill every time i log into to it.
You think you got it rough transporting through a single thread? I live in Indonesia. We don't have the infrastructure here. I had to be transported in a emergency through a shell script... on a Vax server. Yeah, mini-computers were still A Thing here until only recently. The supplying company went bust before they could find my left hand in the archives.
10:30 yeah, installing Arch is a process of installing and reinstalling couple of times before you get it right
Oh boy here we go again 😂definitely learned a lot
The disposability of consumer electronics is not really a USA or developed world only problem, even here in India a lot of people who can afford to do so would just rather throw away stuff that they could get working if they put in some effort into repairing it, usually out of ignorance or laziness. Wristwatches are a good example of this, a lot of people just throw them away once the battery runs out despite the fact that usually they're very easy to replace especially if you already have tools to open a laptop or older smartphone (before they started glueing up everything), or you can just get a repair shop to do it for you. Unless they're poor, or live in some sanctioned/isolated state like Cuba, or are just very much into tinkering, chances are that the people have disposable mentality towards tech and companies actively incentivise that thinking.
Also as for that smartphone point, I find that to be a bit of a strawman, obviously nobody prefers a smartphone over a big screen theatre or tv, but that's not why they use the smartphone to watch movies or videos. They use it because they can't bring a big screen tv everywhere they go but can bring along a phone or a tablet. It's the same with books for me, sure I like physical books more than ebooks but I'm not gonna carry more than a couple of them on me, but I always have my smartphone which is way easier to carry and use one handed while simultaneously I don't have to worry about the lighting or font size.
Branching out only works when you're not trolleyed.
lmao🤣
On the gaming front the games that dont work are the ones with the Root kit (that can take control and destroy your PC, could erase drive, flash bios, etc) called Anti-cheat. Linux does not allow root level stuff to run that way, like Microsoft did and broke a bunch of stuff for days.
I started dual booting Windows and Pop!-OS because of that very same video.
(Arch is freaking amazing imo)
Sonic wallpaper and Linux is a dangerous combination.
chat, what did they mean by this?
Arch is really easy once you get used to easier than other distros
Nix users where?
MS Edge has been ported over to linux about a year ago.
Ive been been using linux for almost 15 years... Which is more than half my life but i kept windows around for the purpose of gaming until around two years ago. These days only use windows like 3 times a year
Loving the shout out to Endevour os it was the arch one that I liked vs Manjaro were i had isssues with packages and breaking things.
on ndevour os on my main machine for gaming, media etc my gods it on Kde is amazing.
the fourm and wiki for Endevour are really good
That intro was hilarious, lmao
Osu is an example I have of a problem I had with my Linux experience. Getting that to work consistently was a nightmare, and there's really no documentation on the issues I was having. I asked in a discord in support for Linux, but it didn't really help. One problem was with playing on a tablet. Just didn't work properly, and couldn't get it to use the right driver. Other problem was framerate in the game. Apparently this may be because of Wayland or something, my gpu being a 2070 super (nvidia), and having two 170hz monitors and a 60hz TV.
I guess what I'm saying is, my experience switching to Linux was fine in general use cases. But I have a lot of niche use cases that really aren't documented well sometimes. It feels like to use Linux like I already use Windows, I need to already have an associates degree in Linux. AND still use a VM with Windows to play certain games. Not even because of anti-cheat, just in general! Then I need to get good at VMs so I can make sure games running that way are correct, and using my hardware properly, and it now is a mess of time and frustration and I JUST WANTED TO PLAY OSU AND CLICK NUMBERS!!
And, I corrupted my extra storage by getting too overzealous with proton and using the same installations Windows was using for my steam games. Trying on Windows, and on Linux. Apparently not a good idea if your drive is not using a certain format. Yippee!
It radicalized me
I used Ubuntu for a bit, then Arch for a while, then Fedora, and now I'm using VanillaOS, OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, and MacOS
Nice, i switched to Linux a couple of years back. Had to use a windows VM for a while for VR and stuff, but the open source vr stack has improved enough that we can play games reliably without using steamvr, which is pretty much abandonware on Linux lol
If you can really mangle with arch and want to distro-hop: try Gentoo, its fun (and if you wanna go hardcore, ltoize and clang instead of gcc)
39:07 That’s because vinyl is actually much superior to digital music in every sense and known metric when it comes to sound and audio quality (if you have the proper setup of course).
I'm 17 years on Linux so don't flex. Now let's switch to Plan 9, or Inferno, or Redox OS, or Haiku, or Icaros, or... Just gimme moooh OS-es to play with.
I've found that I do enjoy using Linux now. That said I really do miss Windows but not the Windows of today. I miss Windows 7 on back more. No matter how much I want to switch to Windows for a while again I realize it's no longer the Windows I want to use. There's no going back for me at this point. Microsoft would have to change a lot to try to pull someone like me back but they won't because honestly we aren't the users anymore. The advertisers are and we're the product now even though we own the hardware.
As somebody who has been using Linux on and off for a few years, I think I'm close to fully switching. I started with Ubuntu, then switched to Mint when I realized how bloated Ubuntu was. I do really like Mint and recommend it as a starter distro, but I eventually switched to Debian to get more freedom.
There are some things I don't currently understand that are minor nit picks like: Why can't I just double click to launch a .jar file, why do I have to specifically use the terminal for that (There's probably a way which is why it's a minor one)? I really don't know what my main holdover is for sticking to windows, maybe the ui maybe something else I dunno. I am starting to get sick of Windows and their useless features.
I do wish there was one specific place that had most of the info newbies need to get started with Linux. It does feel like you have to search harder to find your answer, which comes with the territory I suppose. Wine is a hassle to set up sometimes and it feels like luck if you configured everything correctly, but Steam is magical and super easy to set up. I do want to learn how to customize my DE at some point though, any resource I should bookmark (doesn't matter the base DE)?
I hear the EndeavourOS forums are pretty welcoming. I usually lurk so I cant really comment much, personally. and I've landed on KDE plasma as my main DE. tried Gnome and Hyprland but they just arent for me. KDE works so well and lets me customize so much that I just cant go back lol
I'm swappimg over to Garuda by the end of the year. I settled on Garuda simply because I want to dabble in arch but I'm not ready to from scratch. It seems like a nice middle ground with tweaks for things that I don't feel confident doing myself quite yet. I've dabbled with Linux on and off since 2010ish. Everytime I fucked my windows partition through being a power user and doing things like registry edits and custom themes. I would install a distro, give it a go and realise gaming wasn't there yet. Now with win10's eol I'm jumping ship before it fully capsizes.
I don't mind fixing things and doing the research, I find it fun. I just know I'd get overwhelmed at the very beginning.
nice video :)
Thanks!
I switched to nixos about 3 years ago and never switched distro only config
15 years, personally!
Arch is a lot like Alpine but waaay bigger repo. If you have older hardware Alpine is nice and it drops the esoteric tags that GNU/Linux uses. I tried using Arch, it just seemed heavy on resources for what little I needed it to do. Anyone using Linux is in a better road than Windows leads to.
MS edge is actually avaliable on linux, idk why, but it is
that gaming spiel is kind of bs. first of all, you don't need to do work on windows to play games. you press install, you press play and that's it. secondly, every other game on protondb is gold which is "needs tinkering". you can downplay it all day long, but that is a huge deal for regular people. there's a brilliant example of this - chris titus running elden ring with "better performance" than on windows. yeah, he only had to install specific distro, try several proton versions and test some additional steam commands. and then he'd had a nerve to call it out of the box. total cope. same with linus and luke who couldn't play coop because they ended up installing different versions of the game. it's not only about anticheat - to say otherwise is either a lie or then again cope.
May I offer you a video from one ManleyReviews? His thesis for this video is that PC gaming is a pain in the ass but you get so much more out of it.
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He's 100% right and he uses Windows. Linux still requires effort, just in different areas. Like I said in the video
You should definitely try opensuse tumbleweed
AUR is OP. Terra for Fedora is pretty good, but still, AUR is OP.
what is better than OP tho? because Nix is that, and that scares me, but so did Arch.
Windows 11 is just a windows 10 with new UI and more adds
I just stay away from the linux community generally.
did you make tmux do that in the intro?
Its a fun program called "Hollywood". Pretty sure I found it on the aur lol
I do have a behind the scenes video for channel members, if you're interested! :)
I have been using Garuda Linux for 2 Years
I switched arch to debian nearly 2 yrs ago 😅 still wondering tho... 😬