My journey was like Ubuntu(I Left because of snap rumors) -> Arch (Because of overconfidence) -> Fedora (Trying to find balance) -> Debian (Somehow not proper on my computer) -> Ubuntu (Again because it was most comfortable for me).
Same but replace Ubuntu with mint for me I also learnt about Ubuntu snap and Ubuntu spying on its users So mint seem to me a better option if Ubuntu version of mint has any problem u can change to Debian version😂
same but i avoided arch for a very long time and then used it and ran into some minor problems which i never had in ubuntu , and i just went with ubuntu and everything just works and thats what i need beacuse i have better things than playing with a config lol
What the heck? I'll join in. 2012 - Kubutu - touchpad on new laptop would not work. Had to go to Slackware. (I did not know about kernel updates.) Loved KDE 4 and Slackware was great learning but... dependency resolution meant no Kdenlive. Went Mint KDE - Gorgeous! And I got Kdenlive and creating AMVs! Whhheee!!! Only Mint Dropped KDE. I live by KDE's user defined keyboard shortcut system. Went to Neon - Very good, very fast, very stable and KDE 5 but... Ubuntu scrambled printing when I REALLY needed it and Canonical just would not fix it! Neon became useless because printing was bust back then. I swore off Ubuntu based distros (this was not the first first issue but it was the breaking one for me with Ubuntu.) Went Debian based MX-Linux KDE and have been running happily since 2020. Rock solid and incredible user control! But I run a business and I need stability over cutting edge. Like anyone wants to know... Still, goes to show, unlike Windows, if a distro goes 'out' on you, you can choose. If your use case changes, you can switch DE and distro. Windows... not so much.
How does Ubuntu spy or snaps are problem how? I've been using Ubuntu for 18 years and I've used mint arch or whatever you can name but Ubuntu still serves me better than anything else. You were fed anti canonical propaganda and you fell hard for it.. @@palanidr1398
i also having the same problem on nvidia when install on Fedora, it wasnt really friendly when comes into installing nvidia. But it is a good OS for normal usage. At the end I resolve it using PopOS with nvidia driver. Install steam and epic games, works flawlessly. AntiCheat games also work without issues. despite which OS, don't be afraid of Distro hoping, find the one that suitable for you. I have hopping distro to distro, install all various application to test what is running and what is not. Then I settle with popOS. But not every machine is the same, I got 1 pc running popOS, laptop linuxMint, tablet Fedora, and 2nd PC running Linux Lite. They all works well in specific machine.
Don't use stock fedora if you require proprietary drivers and codecs, fedora takes foss seriously and strips that stuff out. Use instead a derivative like kinoite where people that actually know what they are doing add support for that in and make sure your system doesn't explode during updates(mixing official and 3rd party repos is never a going to improve cohesion and stability on any distro).
@sebastianbauer4768 it's not super difficult to enable the rpmfusion repos for proptietary codecs and drivers, though. Once you do that Fedora becomes S-tier.
hello, very useful video! 👍🏻 I have switched my computers to Zorin 17.2 Pro for a week and am very satisfied. Games run smoothly, RDR2, Cyberpunk etc. I edit videos with Davinci Resolve. I'm glad I took the step away from recall etc.
Just an update for Fedora. As of Fedora 41, Nvidia drivers have been added back in to the software centre, so it ahould simplify things for new users. The Universal Blue distros also have them built in. Theyre also atomic distros, so theyre really really hard to break.
Try running Nobara, Garuda, or Regata.. They are gaming based and have a lot of tools and software preinstalled.. and have good driver installers, etc. They are much better setup for newer users to use the GUI to install stuff.
I'm using MX-Linux which is Debian based and uses X11. I never get any issue with MX, either visual or audio. For those want to try X11 you can test run MX-Linux which got great hardware support too!
@@johanb.7869 You can make KDE look like any other DE.. It's completely customizable.. but by "looks better"- I just mean that it looks more modern, and your menus don't look like plain text menus from the old windows 95.... It works fine, it just looks really old, because it is. (the style)
@@johanb.7869 If you're too young and haven't used windows 95 or windows 98; then I can see how you wouldn't understand this reference and might think MX is a fairly new style.. But when I see those menus, it brings me back to high school in the 90's. lol.. a lifetime ago...... I do like MX tools though.. I'm putting MX on my oldest machine.
I've had the best experience on ublue Bazzite and Aurora so far. They take a Fedora atomic base and apply a suit of quality of life tweaks and patches. It's pretty hands off. It has been stable as both a gaming set up and mobile workstation laptop.
To many complain there are to many choices. After you find the one you like, that's your Linux OS. Choose that one and stick with that one. Which means there is only one for you. I like MX so MX my only Linux OS and my only one.
I am looking for work and game oriented distros, where I can freely and successfully use Photoshop, Illustrator (without replacing them with alternatives) and also play my games (even ones with anti-cheat like Apex Legends). Garuda and Nobara got my interest but I don't know which is better for the above mentioned usage scenario...
The day that I don't have to switch back to windows for literally anything. Will be the day that I switch to Linux. I have zero interest in boot swapping.
Then it will never, more user migrate to Linux world mean bug will be discover and get fix faster, dev will make a port to run on linux (mean ur productivity and game software gonna run natively, less hardware computing crazy)
@@Listening_auricles I've had success when using a separate ssd, one for windows, one for linux. I really want to just use linux but compatibility is killing me rn.
I left windows during the tpm fiasco and honestly just started using it. When i discovered a problem i turned to the forums and youtube and sure enough after solving enough problems it works for me. Like matt damon said in the martian “you solve enough problems then you get to come home” or in this case, use linux as your daily driver
Honestly at this point, there's barely any reason to still use x11 over Wayland, even if Wayland is technically still missing a couple of features. It's come so far in just the last 2 years it's actually incredible. Also nvidia finally kinda got their shit together and that works pretty well too in most cases. Aside from that, I know people on the internet get all up in arms about which distro + environment you use but it really doesn't matter that much. The only important part is that it works the way you want it to. Sure there's some key differences between major distros (ubuntu, fedora, arch, etc) but even then as long as you achieve the end result that you're looking for then you've made the correct choice for you. Like as an example: I like using window managers more than desktop environments (Hyprland is cool), and I also like Arch more than other distros, and I like both of these for the same reason. It's not because they work particularly better or anything, but both offer me the chance to do as much customization as I could possibly want to do, and for me that is the end result I'm looking to get out of it lol. If I wanted just a stable system that will work with anything I want to throw at it? I'd probably use any Ubuntu derivative too. (Probably Pop! OS, because I like what they're doing with Cosmic)
What was this "global hotkeys" problem? Is it fixed, can an application define a global hotkey by now? Can you drag something from a window in the background into a window on the foreground, without the background window popping to the front (hiding your target drop window)? The latter is a problem for 20 years on Linux. If Wayland won't fix it this time, Linux desktops will suck forever.
I was considering Arch+Hyprland as my incorporation into my dual-boot machines (MacOS and Win11/10). I assumed Arch *was* pretty stable due to the depth of configuration... But it's not? Should I go Debian/Ubuntu for work then?
@@Malumen I think it really depends on your needs. Arch can be rock solid, but you’re going to have to put more work into it to make that happen, and for a work system I’m not completely sure if that’s worth doing. I think I’m more likely to suggest one of those (or fedora) for work, yeah. The key is in how much, or how little in this case, those require to not only set up well but also keep running smoothly. Of course if tinkering with the setup isn’t a concern and something you’d like to be doing in your free time or something, then the answer changes a little and it’s really gonna be up to you which way you prefer.
@@Psoewish tinkering is no concern. These are all hackintosh machines, dual boot. Stability as in stuff works and doesn't crash. I wasn't aware that Linux is unstable and updates/breaks all the time, news to me. I thought Linux was supposed to save me from Windows BS...?
Fedora with Catchy OS kernel is a beast for gaming. Fedora itself is amazing. I recently tried after 24H2 BS many distros. Garuda, Ubuntu,Kubuntu,Arch Mint but Fedora is next level stable and with Gnome its a bliss. I use it as a daily driver from past week and Windows 10 LTSC for VR gaming as dual boot now. Cant be happy enough
Cachy os itself is pretty good for gaming. I tried nobara but it seems to me that fedora’s update system is really slow compared to arch. So i use cachy os as my daily
Zorin OS was one of my favorite Distros to test out and use. I've used Zorin, Cachy OS, Fedora, Ubuntu 24.10, Arch, Nobara, Garuda, and Vanilla OS 2. Went back to Zorin OS because I like the ease of use of it, works good to teach my 7-year old how to use linux, and I can live stream games and use Android x86 and run android games with 0 problems
The great thing about Linux is that everyone's free to do what they want. If you want to use Ubuntu, feel free to use it. I will not use it because of Snaps and Canonical being the Microsoft of the Linux world, but I also won't tell you not to use it. The statement that Ubuntu is better than everything else though, that is not applicable in general. It may have worked the best with your hardware and the packages you've installed (mainly Gnome 47), but for different users something else might be better. Personally I'm jumping around between CachyOS and Debian Sid and they're super stable and performance is awesome. It also depends on the usecase. But please be careful with general statements that are most likely not going to apply to literally everyone.
in my laptop while using chrome in linux.... the double finger touch gesture for Forward & Backward didn't work.....for which i again switched to windows💀
It really is weird how everyone has a different experience for any distro. I have Bluefin which is Fedora Silverblue-based and it's been painless (if I don't poke at the system). Tried Kubuntu before but after a week of using it, it's just felt really buggy and had a couple of random freezes here and there. I wish Linux isn't inconsistent like this in the future.
It is wild that with my zenbook s16 hyprland with 6.12 rc4 is giving me more solid experience over kde plasma or gnome. I used Endevour no desktop and went from there. Cachyos was always locking up and couldn't get it to be stable. As for linux it self, only use it if you are okay with knowing it is more about the experience than being a better OS. Nothing beats windows, everything just works.
as i'm sure many have pointed out , there is no best distro. the best distro is what works best for you and its gonna be different for all. personally i will never use base Ubuntu because despite them making a lot of good decisions , they also make bad decisions that holds itself back (like snaps for example) Linux Mint is a great Ubuntu based distro alternative imo. for Arch based distro i use Manjaro , its essentially similar to what Ubuntu does in terms of not pushing out stuff before they are tested , however i had to turn that off and get the latest packages because of the way Discord handles updates (its bad) other than that , i love Linux and i love being on Linux and i can't wait to get a new Gaming PC to work mostly on Linux (and dualboot with a separate drive just in case there's things that won't work on Linux regardless of what i do)
Dude. Ubuntu is the best. I've been here for a very very long time but as much as you people say all this nonsense there's still no better overall distro that beats Ubuntu. Theres a reason its got the most users. And Ubuntu based distros are redundant, they offer nothing new that isn't already applicable to Ubuntu and sometimes even don't work as good as regular Ubuntu as you can't use secure boot or there's other hardware that won't work on them but just works when you run Ubuntu. Mint is trash, you can't even run some popular Ubuntu apps on it because it doesn't have snaps or wayland.
4:21 - Your NVidia driver installation seems to be broken, it should have more options. I'm not sure about it because you're likely using Wayland while I'm still on X11.
Hey can you make another video explaining about different linux distributions. As a new to linux, it's confusing about what different distros do? Which distro is the official as a linux
can you make a video installing ubuntu without deleting other partition (back-up drive) i'm using one ssd only.. thinkin now to switch into Linux.. Thanks!
Funny thing is I've been playing around with a TON of distros on VMware over the last few days in search of a competent lightweight experience on older computers and just about all of them have deal breakers outside of Mint so far (Tried all De's). Even that has shortcomings tho, even optimized for speed its still not noticeably better than a debloated/optimized Windows 10 LTS.
@@calholliThat would be gentoo or void. DEs aren't lightweight. If you're not a fan of tiling, you could try something like openbox. It runs on a pi3, it should work on some older computers so long as they aren't, like, ddr3 kind of old.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 All my stuff is ddr3. lol.. Even my gaming rig. Antix was only like 148M ram usage at idle when I tested it.. I'm not sure you need to get any smaller than that. lol.. (and yes, it looks old). But I get it.. People like to go to the extreme. I'm either going to stick with Garuda or run Nobara.. I'm not fully decided yet. But I like these fully loaded distros. they just tend to work and I can easily uninstall what I don't want and trim the fat down to how I like it. So much easier to deal with; everything I have is 16gb ram or more, so it's no big deal ............... (well, not all my stuff is ddr3: I did just get an MSI crosshair 17 for 400 bucks.. rtx3060, 11th gen i7, 32gb ram, 2x 500gb NVME. What a find.. He still kept everything in the box and always used the keyboard cover. lol.. It still looks brand new; and it came with an expensive MMO mouse with 20 buttons on the thumb side.. I Probably won't put linux on it for a long time though).
I landed on CachyOS myself. It just works for my uses. Also the software on windows just works, windows itself doesn't always work. I have had an increasing amount of issues with windows as an OS. Like explorer crashing more an more.
I used cachy for awhile and loved it then one day I had issues streaming with OBS and couldn't find a fix nor fix it myself so I've since been on nobara, But I agree Cachy is great.
If you want something that absolutely work out of the box, get Linux Mint. Also, most (if not all) of the problems you had is Nvidia's driver fault. (i use Arch btw)
Youve angered the anti ubuntu people who still can't swallow the fact that Ubuntu is the best overall distro. When will they just get it through their thick skulls that if theres no Ubuntu there is no desktop linux to use 😂
I have been using linux now for 4 years now. One thing i have learned it is not what linux distro you like it is what linux distro your computer likes. Ubuntu works but did not agree with my computer. Only 2 distro's my computer runs well on is linux mint and Fedora KDE. I Fedora kde on for the last 2 years. If you want to use linux i use AMD graphics card and it is plug and play. I sold my Nvidia graphics card could not getting it working well on any version of linux.
your linux videos motivated me to jump to linux. i only animate or browse so i installed antix. please make a video how do you go back from linux to windows because linux formats the disk to exFat and windows uses ntfs. also please share your knowledge on dual-booting on same harddisk or different hard disks.
you can access ntfs partition from linux but you can not access lunux partition like ext4 or btrfs from windows. And do not run windows game from ntfs disk it will probably not run on linux, just copy from windows to linux.
@@realUrbanPhantom ohh. thanks. well i dont game much. i am just trying to reinstall windows on current hard disk with antix linux and get a new drive for Linux and dual boot
Really bad avdice bro, Cosmic is in Alpha. I'm also trying it, but not as my daily driver (which is pop 22.04). Just wait for it to get there, then eventually we can recommend it.
@@TheYehat what is 22.04?do you mean you are trying the old version of pop os which is based on ubuntu 22.04? if anything it is the same gnome but remade. the current cosmic alpha 2 is written from scratch and i use cosmic de on cachy os and i think it is good
@@FedoraSilverblue Of course not 22.04. I'm testing the new one in a VM. It really looks good, but not complete. One can use it daily, but cannot recommend yet for newcomers.
how did you get the start button set to the left side? When I make the app bar from left to the bottom the start button is on the right side for me and I can't figure out to change it.
Windows just works, well said! Linux is not for any average user who wants to use computer. It is either Mac or Windows. Linux is overrated and complicated with no advantage over Windows.
Exactly why that Linux garbage only has 4% users. Even though there are user friendly distros the trash doesn't always work lil windows normally does. The more you do other than just programming on there the more issues you'll eventually find. When someone says they been using that garbage for 20+ years all they tell you is they don't use their PC for much other than bare minimum work lil like typing and watching UA-cam on one of their bootleg homebrew web browsers. 😂
Linux isn't perfect but to claim it has no advantage over windows is just flat out false. 1) It's more lightweight and efficient than Windows. 2) It's better for security and privacy 3) The free and open source nature of Linux gives the user unparalleled control over their system.
Wayland started development in 2008... It's 16 years later and it's still not ready and full of bugs... Which shows the basic problems linux suffers from. This would not be acceptable for Mac or Windows.
Everyone has different use cases - Using Windows or OS X shouldn't be something one should be ashamed of. People try Gnu/Linux out of curiosity, it's not because it does everything. There's no OS that doesn't has it's flows. The truth is currently Gnu/Linux could be used for everything a personal computer is used for except in some specific use cases which highly depend on propitiatory software. So if the applications you rely on doesn't support Gnu/Linux than i guess Gnu/Linux is not for you. After all a computer is a tool just like any other, if it doesn't serve it's purpose than simply switch to something that does.
mint is better then plain ubuntu... mint has drivers for say thermal lable printers that you wont find in just ubuntu unless you mess with the repositories... out of the box mint is really better but if ubuntu works for you that is awesome... but mint is ubuntu just it has more out of the box then ubuntu.
i still have zorin 17 on hdd resolution 1920 1080 was missing cus i wanted to have vga to hdmi adapter plugged in and i bought vga to hdtv which is for tv thats why i have problem and black bars on youtube and anime sites gonna buy vga to hdmi plus new psu soon
Yeah, more stable.. that's why the industry and business is using Arch on every desktop out there, right? o) My windows installations ran for a decade each (Win2000 and Win7) with all the software installed you can get for Windows. Thousands of standby / resume cycles, some reboots mixed in, once or twice a year. Windows is stable as hell if your hardware and the drivers are stable as well, which is the important part here. If that is fine, your Windows will run for years, my Windows server and laptop have 1 year uptime easily without any reboot. Not sure if there are Linux desktop users out there as well, who get along without rebooting for 1 year and constant day to day use?!
You obwiosly didnt try pop os. Its the first distro i tryed and am still on it, not planing to switch. I cant wait for new cosmic desktop to come out. Newer had any problem with it. About things that happend to you it may be that nvidia card isnt working good with linux but thats not linuxs fault its actualy nvidias fault entierly. Because they keep their drivers close sourced which is unaceptable. Amd on other hand have their drivers open sourced and ewerything works great. I didnt have problem with nvidia on pop os, newer had to install nvidia driver or anything, card just works normaly, but i switched anywaus to radeon and am wery happy with it, its better than nvidia in my opinion because for same amount of money i always see radeon have stronger gpu 🙂
"I cant wait for new cosmic desktop to come out." This is another aspect about Linux that I love. The updates are usually pleasant for the end user because they're only about improving the system. I always dread Window updates because they are intrusive and problematic. Many updates brought to Windows aren't designed to improve it but to exploit the end user.
I switched over to linux,games perform without a hitch and honestly i don't miss anything from windows at all. One thing i need to do is switch distro. Ubuntu isn't bad but i don't like cannonical basicaly forcing me to use snaps because official Ubuntu at some point may become snap exclusive distro. I want choice over packages i use so my choice is Debian because i feel comfortable using it.
This argument Is kind of getting played out since other distros force flatpaks onto you. And most apps coming to linux always go to Ubuntu first sooner or later snaps will only hold the good commercial apps that can convince people to switch over. Its already happening with Skype for example, they only offer it as snap now and don't have a flatpak or deb/rpm anymore. Leave Ubuntu and you leave usable linux 😂
Edge is a great alternative if you want a browser with many features and probably one of THE most optimised chromium browsers. Firefox to oppose the chromium monopoly, for better tools and functionality, and for actually working adblock. Arc browser is worth it ONLY if you use macOS, and even then ONLY if you plan to use it for a long time and never switch to anything else (because you need to put in a lot of work to get back out of the apple-like ecosystem), and trust the browser to survive long enough. Vivaldi if you want a resource-intensive but incredibly customisable chromium browser. Zen Browser if you want some of the best UX and UI from any browser, plus the advantages of firefox, but the trade-off is stability because it's still in alpha.
31:40 I've had 100x more random crashes on windows than on linux, maybe my hardware is more compatible, maybe Ubuntu is just bad (I've heard it has a lot of random crashes)
Do you hide / delete comments? I can't find some of my replies here anymore, which is a bad thing. I get notifications for new replies by email, but my actual comment is not there anymore - so something is not right.
@@eda2000-r8hyay and paru just call pacman through a wrapper. They don't replace pacman. Pacman is a dependency. Speed comes from mirrors and from the threads option in your /etc/pacman.conf.
Your example and Statement about Linux gaming shows that you either havent got the right Driver or should measure Other Things than GPU utilization. The temps are identical, that would be Strange given only 50%load on Windows. I switched my gaming PC to bazzite Linux and IT IS wayyyy better than Windows. Some Games dont run, but i Play None of them so...
i am using ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and it works for me 😘 i use microsoft edge on it and use it for learning python coding on vs code 😍 EDIT: Can you please make a tutorial on how to use Linux features and its terminal (command lines) that would be helpful for all of us 🙏
What? Steam deck is a console and not even a computer. No one wants to play games on a console, we play for playing on the computer. Also steam deck or any linux can't play any anti-cheat game, there are plenty of issues with linux still and gaming. There is even a site for it to see what games are good and not lmao. Windows is still best for gaming and a lot of software that just cannot be replaced.
@@lmnts556 But you're talking BS lol. First of all, Steam Deck is a regular computer with Arch Linux, and a graphical interface for games. Secondly games with anti-cheat don't work on Linux ?, it's very strange that somehow I run Gears Of War 5 for example lol. There are also many other games, but as always people who don't use Linux every day or have problems running. Because they don't know how to use Linux they give misinformation or repeat false stereotypes lol. Edit. For example here are games that have Easy Anti-Cheat, and work without problems on Linux. There are tons of others just check instead of talking BS. Halo: The Master Chief Collection Apex Legends Halo Infinity Black Desert Online DayZ Dead By Daylight War Thunder Warhammer: Vermintide ArmA NARAKA: BLADEPOINT Tom Clancy's The Division 2 STAR WARS TM: Squadrons Battlefield 4 Far Cry 5 Homefront Titanfall Star Citizen Fallout 76 Overwatch 2 Helldivers 2 WarCraft III etc.
@@timnowak8573 Well no, its a handheld console. Big difference, most people want to play games on their computer not a handheld console. Can just install steam on their computer anyway. But tons of games are outside of steam, a lot of the big ones are. You can't run league of legends, valorant, tarkov, PUBG, fortnite, destiny 2, COD. Literally a ton of the biggest online multiplayer games CANT be played on linux.
@@lmnts556 Console.. Since a console can run windows almost out of the box. Just look at previous generations, people call it a console because it has a built-in controller. This reasoning is marketing BS nothing more. Secondly, this is your opinion, just look at various charts, and surveys that reflect the facts. Not to mention that thanks to Steam Deck people finally noticed that it is possible to use an interface, a system that does not hinder, does not spy and is simply, convenient to use. Non-Steam games are not a problem at all, it can be easily resolved. Not everyone plays online multiplayer, besides it's not Linux's fault or the community's that large corporations are anti-consumer. You can also see patterns that everything can change for the better. Also if people don't start voting with their wallets or start reacting to the fact that large corporations are showing the middle finger to the consumer, nothing will change. But we can see changes in this as well. Returning to games with single player mode, you can also bypass security. There are tons of sites, and guides showing how to do it. Also answering the counterarguments that you have to work hard to operate on Linux. Only many people forget about the fact how much they complain, and scheme to avoid things that Microshit changes to the detriment of consumers. Somehow it is quickly forgotten, this is where their hypocrisy comes to light.
Ubuntu is the best choice both politically, workability, and for stability in the Linux world, you've made the right choice, but if you're not really a programmer, engineer, sysadmin, etc, you shouldn't really be on Linux.
As someone who is fluent with tech but mostly a newbie with linux, it took me just 2 weeks to set up fedora sway atomic to be mostly ready for general use all while daily driving it, and even so it obviously is far from the easiest starting point for a new linux user. I think the learning curve of linux is fine.
@@gaiusbaltar7122 : Yeah, you can install it in under 30 min, no sweat, but when you start delving in to software setup, drivers for printers, cameras etc, audio like dts which most modern laptops have you beter be well versed in the terminal and sudo commands. The problem that most of us have is we don't know where to find stuff and RTFM is not an answer because there is no manual for most things, I have run Fedora, Manjaro, Zorin, Ubuntu and Mint, all of them had problems, if I had to choose I'd say Zorin was my fav. with Manjaro a close second but not being able to get my audio drivers resolved was a deal breaker for me. On some of them I could get gigabit internet speed no problems on other it was limited to 10mbps. When a person wants to get stuff done it becomes really frustrating trying to resolve issues that are basic in either Windows or Mac. If Linux wants more market share they will really have to start catering for mom and pop needs and not tech savvy elitists, my goodness the Linux community cannot even agree with with one another on which distro is the best, that says alot. at least everyone that uses windows can agree that Microsoft are a bunch of you know whats but their stuff works although it's an unhealthy relationship with trust issues. My point is, is does not take 30min to set up a Linux Distro to acceptable usable standards, it's complicated and frustrating to try and resolve little things, at least include a list of beginner terminal commands in the distro's to get people started with common issues and guides in a basic pdf file, how hard can it be.
the problem that I have with Linux is the way they set up files. They install EVERYTHING on C: and I install NOTHING on C: except the main OS (Windows). When they change that, I might switch. For now, it's W11 till the end.
This has to be a bot post. There is no c: drive in Linux and he post itself makes no sense. Now sends these bots out to spread FUD on Linux? I am seeing more and more of them.
@@jedipadawan7023 You surely get the point he is trying to make! o) If you install anything with a package manager on Linux, your program will dissolve into any of these /xxx folders, mixing in with the other garbage already in there. You, as User, are not the first citizen in the Linux file system, you have no control over what folders are there in root ""/". I would prefer if all the system garbage get's dumped into /sys and we could think of that as drive C:\ on Windows, leaving the root of the filesystem more or less open for mounting your own partitions / drives there like "/dat", as an analogy to drive D:\ for your programs or let's have a folder /dvd which represents drive O:\ on Windows from your optical disc drive. This would enhance user experience greatly. I honestly don't know where to put my folder on Linux. I don't feel at home in /home/user, because all the programs put their crap in there, it's theirs, not my home. I also don't know where to put AppImages on Linux e.g. On Windows I have a full blown directory structure on drive D:\ which is always the same on each system. It's drive D:\bin\audio or D:\bin\game etc.. Drive D:\ is my place for programs, where to put it on Linux? Putting this folder structure into /programs seems cluttered, since there also is /etc, /sbin, /tmp and all the other stuff I don't need to see all day long. The Linux filesystem was not meant to be used directly by individual users on their own PC, it's a network operating system for multiple users and was designed that way back then. That's why you are placed inside /home/prisoner. Windows on the other hand always concentrated on single user experience in the first place, it was build for best experience for a single user and you can still see how it makes a difference in day to day usage (by popping in a new disk drive e.g., and it will be right there, fetching the next available letter and show up in your list of drives). Another example: I have yet to see a Linux file manager / desktop which will show my optical disk drive as being present, even if there is no disk inserted. The concept of "an empty drive" is not really something on Linux it seems (if there is, please let me know, I just miss my DVD drive in "the list" o).
Windows is far worse, it forces all user profile directories on c: which is a terrible idea. Linux does not use drive letters it uses paths. By default everything goes under the root folder location / but you can override any path by setting a mount point. For example set your second drive or partition to have a mount point of /home and all your user profiles will be stored there instead of your os drive. It's a way better system than Windows.
Sorry, but this thesis has not been current for a long time. Valve has contributed huge progress in gaming on Linux. For lazy people there are tons of video materials on UA-cam dedicated to gaming on Linux.. Also there are a lot of channels dedicated to Linux, and showing how to play on Linux without a problem. There are also channels that are not dedicated to Linux, Gaming, but show how easy it is to play on Linux. There are also a lot of distributions that make it easier to play, for example the recently popular Bazzite Os. BWT. Anticipating the counterarguments. There are also games that don't work well on Linux, but that's the fault of large corporations. If people don't start voting with their wallets, nothing will ever change.
@@kilObit no it doesnt, you already have a gpu, you plug in to the motherboard for linux and you pass through the gpu. I fail to see how it gets expensive. "A lot of work"? sure but you're on linux what do you expect 😂. It's totally worth it if I never have to run windows bare metal
if you want to use ubuntu with nvidia use x11 because on ubuntu you will never get the latest nvidia driver and the latest wayland so you dont get possible fixes on nvidia you better off on distros based on arch or things like nobara,pika os or bazzite. And please dont say linux is not good for gaming because its not true i have over 100 games many triple A titles and only 5 dont work and its because of anti cheat if you do your research and set up your system properly it works and right now with windows 11 specially 24h2 gaming performance is not that great.
Linux is good for network engineer or cyber security , it is not good for gamers or graphic designer (I know the steam and etc!) . best os is windows and I switched to windows 11 again. If you have an old hardware or normal user or your job has connection with network or hacking linux is good for you, But windows has a lot of software, you just suffering with linux! I tested with ubuntu , fedora , arch , debian, manjaro,mx linux and ... they have bugs ... If you want to use linux , you can use it on VMware or WSL , this is best option for you if you want to learn linux. don't listen to someone who is saying Linux is awesome and .... Linux is nice and perfect with terminal and you can use it on WSL.
@@KavusHabibi Lol you are just spreading your misinformation, and stereotypes. There are many channels on UA-cam, including quite a few large ones, which use Linux professionally ( making music, editing movies, creating games) and for games. They often show live how they use Linux, these are facts.. Only in contrast to others, they are able to choose the right distribution, graphical environment or window manager, correctly install drivers if necessary. Generally, properly configure the system, etc. If someone doesn't know how to use Linux, that's their problem. Or If someone's hardware is not compatible don't blame Linux, and the community only large anti-consumer corporations. BWT. I personally use Linux, Mac and Windows for over 3 decades, maybe a bit more. And I can tell about the pros and cons, in contrast to Windows, Microshit fanboys.
@@timnowak8573 I know what you said , I like Linux to and I have it on WSL and VMware too. but for gaming and design windows is better! you are using 3 decades and you must know that! Linux is very difficult for normal users,I've never told Linux is a trash! If linux was user friendly as same as windows , now we were living at the world that 80% of people didn't use windows!
@@kilObit Whoa! I had better intercept! The best distro is the one that fits your use case - what works for you. End of. I run a small business and I need stability and I like the Windows 7 like workflow + keyboard shortcuts so I run with MX Linux KDE. Stable, fast, powerful but... it does mean out of date (though flatpaks can help.) I do not need state of the art much at all. Others, however, especially hard core gamers, do. Essentially, you need to research and try. Factors to consider are: Stability vs cutting edge. Debian based distros are ROCK SOLID but out of date by the time they are released. But newer, indeed rolling, means risk of things breaking. Arch based = rolling and cutting edge, preferred by programmers and techies who love to experiment and can fix if it goes wrong. Fedora (Nobara) is rising in popularity and seems solid. But note that is a testing ground for Red Hat so is the latest and greatest but not rolling. DE - VERY important. While GNOME is the de facto standard DE for Linux it has a lot of both fan and detractors. GNOME wins by links to big business and legally required accessibility options. If you get on with, GNOME, great but a LOT of people prefer XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon. I personally loathe the GNOME DE but I accept it's just my preference. Other people think differently. Get the DE wrong and you ruin your entire desktop experience. Fortunately Linux has choice! You should play, use a VM, test and get a feel. Remember, the best DE is the one you get along with and does what you want. Distro have different niches. There is no ONE best distro. Distrowatch can be helpful. Having said that, I always give out MX Linux KDE to newbies. It's rock solid, everything is tested, the backup and emergency recover tools are unparralleled and KDE means is there is a set up issue the fix is just a switch in system settings away! I get NO support calls or whatsapp with MX Linux KDE! But... it's not cutting edge and if you want Wayland a Debian stable based distro is NOT where it is at! If gaming is your thing there is a argument for going with an Arch based distro... and KDE. Valve use KDE and makes sure things with it. Best I can say. Use a VM and have a try.
You are a complete idiot. How can you expect a new user to learn Linux before they use it. Ubuntu is simple and very easy. Most people use their computers for work. Not for ricing. I use arch currently. (I am a frequent distrohopper.)
Ubuntu is my preferred OS and I’ve been using linux since 2008 or earlier. Went through a bunch of distros to return to ubuntu. I prefer it over any other distro.
My journey was like Ubuntu(I Left because of snap rumors) -> Arch (Because of overconfidence) -> Fedora (Trying to find balance) -> Debian (Somehow not proper on my computer) -> Ubuntu (Again because it was most comfortable for me).
Same but replace Ubuntu with mint for me
I also learnt about Ubuntu snap and Ubuntu spying on its users
So mint seem to me a better option if Ubuntu version of mint has any problem u can change to Debian version😂
same but i avoided arch for a very long time and then used it and ran into some minor problems which i never had in ubuntu , and i just went with ubuntu and everything just works and thats what i need beacuse i have better things than playing with a config lol
What the heck? I'll join in.
2012 - Kubutu - touchpad on new laptop would not work. Had to go to Slackware. (I did not know about kernel updates.) Loved KDE 4 and Slackware was great learning but... dependency resolution meant no Kdenlive.
Went Mint KDE - Gorgeous! And I got Kdenlive and creating AMVs! Whhheee!!! Only Mint Dropped KDE. I live by KDE's user defined keyboard shortcut system.
Went to Neon - Very good, very fast, very stable and KDE 5 but... Ubuntu scrambled printing when I REALLY needed it and Canonical just would not fix it! Neon became useless because printing was bust back then. I swore off Ubuntu based distros (this was not the first first issue but it was the breaking one for me with Ubuntu.)
Went Debian based MX-Linux KDE and have been running happily since 2020. Rock solid and incredible user control! But I run a business and I need stability over cutting edge.
Like anyone wants to know... Still, goes to show, unlike Windows, if a distro goes 'out' on you, you can choose. If your use case changes, you can switch DE and distro. Windows... not so much.
How does Ubuntu spy or snaps are problem how? I've been using Ubuntu for 18 years and I've used mint arch or whatever you can name but Ubuntu still serves me better than anything else. You were fed anti canonical propaganda and you fell hard for it.. @@palanidr1398
why did you leave Fedora?
i also having the same problem on nvidia when install on Fedora, it wasnt really friendly when comes into installing nvidia. But it is a good OS for normal usage.
At the end I resolve it using PopOS with nvidia driver. Install steam and epic games, works flawlessly. AntiCheat games also work without issues.
despite which OS, don't be afraid of Distro hoping, find the one that suitable for you. I have hopping distro to distro, install all various application to test what is running and what is not. Then I settle with popOS. But not every machine is the same, I got 1 pc running popOS, laptop linuxMint, tablet Fedora, and 2nd PC running Linux Lite. They all works well in specific machine.
Don't use stock fedora if you require proprietary drivers and codecs, fedora takes foss seriously and strips that stuff out. Use instead a derivative like kinoite where people that actually know what they are doing add support for that in and make sure your system doesn't explode during updates(mixing official and 3rd party repos is never a going to improve cohesion and stability on any distro).
@sebastianbauer4768 it's not super difficult to enable the rpmfusion repos for proptietary codecs and drivers, though. Once you do that Fedora becomes S-tier.
hello, very useful video! 👍🏻
I have switched my computers to Zorin 17.2 Pro for a week and am very satisfied. Games run smoothly, RDR2, Cyberpunk etc. I edit videos with Davinci Resolve. I'm glad I took the step away from recall etc.
As they say
Dont touch it if its working
Indeed. Install it and leave it alone.
Just an update for Fedora. As of Fedora 41, Nvidia drivers have been added back in to the software centre, so it ahould simplify things for new users.
The Universal Blue distros also have them built in. Theyre also atomic distros, so theyre really really hard to break.
Bro you just made a Movie on Ubuntu Linux distro , and i watched it completely from beginning to end without realizing
Try running Nobara, Garuda, or Regata.. They are gaming based and have a lot of tools and software preinstalled.. and have good driver installers, etc. They are much better setup for newer users to use the GUI to install stuff.
I'm using MX-Linux which is Debian based and uses X11. I never get any issue with MX, either visual or audio. For those want to try X11 you can test run MX-Linux which got great hardware support too!
Me too. Quick and very stable. Install and use it, done.
Just use Debian KDE.. it's the same experience, only it looks better. MX is good for lightweight though
@@calholli I don't like KDE and I disagree that it looks better. But that's the beauty of Linux, choice😉
@@johanb.7869 You can make KDE look like any other DE.. It's completely customizable.. but by "looks better"- I just mean that it looks more modern, and your menus don't look like plain text menus from the old windows 95.... It works fine, it just looks really old, because it is. (the style)
@@johanb.7869 If you're too young and haven't used windows 95 or windows 98; then I can see how you wouldn't understand this reference and might think MX is a fairly new style.. But when I see those menus, it brings me back to high school in the 90's. lol.. a lifetime ago...... I do like MX tools though.. I'm putting MX on my oldest machine.
I've had the best experience on ublue Bazzite and Aurora so far. They take a Fedora atomic base and apply a suit of quality of life tweaks and patches. It's pretty hands off. It has been stable as both a gaming set up and mobile workstation laptop.
+20y linux user here. there's no best distro overall but the best distro for you. use whatever works for you, unlike other OSes linux is yours.
To many complain there are to many choices. After you find the one you like, that's your Linux OS. Choose that one and stick with that one. Which means there is only one for you. I like MX so MX my only Linux OS and my only one.
i choose cachy os
@@FedoraSilverblue i wish more distros distributed binaries for modern archs
@@FedoraSilverblue There is no wrong choice, just choices. Enjoy CachyOS
I am looking for work and game oriented distros, where I can freely and successfully use Photoshop, Illustrator (without replacing them with alternatives) and also play my games (even ones with anti-cheat like Apex Legends). Garuda and Nobara got my interest but I don't know which is better for the above mentioned usage scenario...
The day that I don't have to switch back to windows for literally anything. Will be the day that I switch to Linux. I have zero interest in boot swapping.
It's risky with linux and windows dual boot, linux can corrupt windows drive also it can corrupt partition table if you have dual booted it
Then it will never, more user migrate to Linux world mean bug will be discover and get fix faster, dev will make a port to run on linux (mean ur productivity and game software gonna run natively, less hardware computing crazy)
@@Listening_auricles I've had success when using a separate ssd, one for windows, one for linux. I really want to just use linux but compatibility is killing me rn.
@@erebusthemortician Same here
I left windows during the tpm fiasco and honestly just started using it. When i discovered a problem i turned to the forums and youtube and sure enough after solving enough problems it works for me. Like matt damon said in the martian “you solve enough problems then you get to come home” or in this case, use linux as your daily driver
Honestly at this point, there's barely any reason to still use x11 over Wayland, even if Wayland is technically still missing a couple of features. It's come so far in just the last 2 years it's actually incredible. Also nvidia finally kinda got their shit together and that works pretty well too in most cases.
Aside from that, I know people on the internet get all up in arms about which distro + environment you use but it really doesn't matter that much. The only important part is that it works the way you want it to. Sure there's some key differences between major distros (ubuntu, fedora, arch, etc) but even then as long as you achieve the end result that you're looking for then you've made the correct choice for you.
Like as an example: I like using window managers more than desktop environments (Hyprland is cool), and I also like Arch more than other distros, and I like both of these for the same reason. It's not because they work particularly better or anything, but both offer me the chance to do as much customization as I could possibly want to do, and for me that is the end result I'm looking to get out of it lol. If I wanted just a stable system that will work with anything I want to throw at it? I'd probably use any Ubuntu derivative too. (Probably Pop! OS, because I like what they're doing with Cosmic)
I hate wayland it does not allow us to adjust touchpad gestures. Year 2024-2025 but it cannot be customized LOL!
What was this "global hotkeys" problem? Is it fixed, can an application define a global hotkey by now? Can you drag something from a window in the background into a window on the foreground, without the background window popping to the front (hiding your target drop window)? The latter is a problem for 20 years on Linux. If Wayland won't fix it this time, Linux desktops will suck forever.
I was considering Arch+Hyprland as my incorporation into my dual-boot machines (MacOS and Win11/10). I assumed Arch *was* pretty stable due to the depth of configuration... But it's not? Should I go Debian/Ubuntu for work then?
@@Malumen I think it really depends on your needs. Arch can be rock solid, but you’re going to have to put more work into it to make that happen, and for a work system I’m not completely sure if that’s worth doing.
I think I’m more likely to suggest one of those (or fedora) for work, yeah. The key is in how much, or how little in this case, those require to not only set up well but also keep running smoothly.
Of course if tinkering with the setup isn’t a concern and something you’d like to be doing in your free time or something, then the answer changes a little and it’s really gonna be up to you which way you prefer.
@@Psoewish tinkering is no concern. These are all hackintosh machines, dual boot.
Stability as in stuff works and doesn't crash. I wasn't aware that Linux is unstable and updates/breaks all the time, news to me. I thought Linux was supposed to save me from Windows BS...?
Fedora with Catchy OS kernel is a beast for gaming. Fedora itself is amazing. I recently tried after 24H2 BS many distros. Garuda, Ubuntu,Kubuntu,Arch Mint but Fedora is next level stable and with Gnome its a bliss. I use it as a daily driver from past week and Windows 10 LTSC for VR gaming as dual boot now. Cant be happy enough
Cachy os itself is pretty good for gaming. I tried nobara but it seems to me that fedora’s update system is really slow compared to arch. So i use cachy os as my daily
@@InnerFire6213 i too
i shifted to zorin and i love it
what do u do in ur pc btw? games. work?
Zorin OS was one of my favorite Distros to test out and use. I've used Zorin, Cachy OS, Fedora, Ubuntu 24.10, Arch, Nobara, Garuda, and Vanilla OS 2. Went back to Zorin OS because I like the ease of use of it, works good to teach my 7-year old how to use linux, and I can live stream games and use Android x86 and run android games with 0 problems
@@SaifAliShugan gaming , study notes, assignments etc
@@VetsVarietyChannel I can run android games too? How do we do that
@@GojouSatoro I'll work on a video for my channel and upload it or just do a live stream and show how its done.
The great thing about Linux is that everyone's free to do what they want.
If you want to use Ubuntu, feel free to use it.
I will not use it because of Snaps and Canonical being the Microsoft of the Linux world, but I also won't tell you not to use it.
The statement that Ubuntu is better than everything else though, that is not applicable in general. It may have worked the best with your hardware and the packages you've installed (mainly Gnome 47), but for different users something else might be better.
Personally I'm jumping around between CachyOS and Debian Sid and they're super stable and performance is awesome.
It also depends on the usecase.
But please be careful with general statements that are most likely not going to apply to literally everyone.
in my laptop while using chrome in linux....
the double finger touch gesture for Forward & Backward didn't work.....for which i again switched to windows💀
Gr8 setup. True gamer.
It depends on your hardware because MX Linux works out of the box too on my refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini. I installed it and started using it.
It really is weird how everyone has a different experience for any distro. I have Bluefin which is Fedora Silverblue-based and it's been painless (if I don't poke at the system). Tried Kubuntu before but after a week of using it, it's just felt really buggy and had a couple of random freezes here and there. I wish Linux isn't inconsistent like this in the future.
It is wild that with my zenbook s16 hyprland with 6.12 rc4 is giving me more solid experience over kde plasma or gnome. I used Endevour no desktop and went from there.
Cachyos was always locking up and couldn't get it to be stable.
As for linux it self, only use it if you are okay with knowing it is more about the experience than being a better OS. Nothing beats windows, everything just works.
Windows 10 and 11 are bad.. If I could stick with windows 7, I would. but apparently I can't
I like mint. Tried fedora and few other systems on KDE, but KDE was a bit buggy. Cinnamon is very stable,
Because of all the control and customisation linux offers i can never go back to windows it doesn't work for me anymore.
as i'm sure many have pointed out , there is no best distro. the best distro is what works best for you and its gonna be different for all. personally i will never use base Ubuntu because despite them making a lot of good decisions , they also make bad decisions that holds itself back (like snaps for example)
Linux Mint is a great Ubuntu based distro alternative imo. for Arch based distro i use Manjaro , its essentially similar to what Ubuntu does in terms of not pushing out stuff before they are tested , however i had to turn that off and get the latest packages because of the way Discord handles updates (its bad)
other than that , i love Linux and i love being on Linux and i can't wait to get a new Gaming PC to work mostly on Linux (and dualboot with a separate drive just in case there's things that won't work on Linux regardless of what i do)
Dude. Ubuntu is the best. I've been here for a very very long time but as much as you people say all this nonsense there's still no better overall distro that beats Ubuntu. Theres a reason its got the most users. And Ubuntu based distros are redundant, they offer nothing new that isn't already applicable to Ubuntu and sometimes even don't work as good as regular Ubuntu as you can't use secure boot or there's other hardware that won't work on them but just works when you run Ubuntu. Mint is trash, you can't even run some popular Ubuntu apps on it because it doesn't have snaps or wayland.
4:21 - Your NVidia driver installation seems to be broken, it should have more options. I'm not sure about it because you're likely using Wayland while I'm still on X11.
For more stable experience, just minimize customizing or if you can just stick with the default.
Nah, that boring
Hey can you make another video explaining about different linux distributions.
As a new to linux, it's confusing about what different distros do? Which distro is the official as a linux
ill try
can you make a video installing ubuntu without deleting other partition (back-up drive) i'm using one ssd only.. thinkin now to switch into Linux.. Thanks!
Funny thing is I've been playing around with a TON of distros on VMware over the last few days in search of a competent lightweight experience on older computers and just about all of them have deal breakers outside of Mint so far (Tried all De's). Even that has shortcomings tho, even optimized for speed its still not noticeably better than a debloated/optimized Windows 10 LTS.
MX or antiX are probably the best for lightweight...
If you want it to look more modern, Lubuntu is actually really good.
@@calholliThat would be gentoo or void. DEs aren't lightweight. If you're not a fan of tiling, you could try something like openbox. It runs on a pi3, it should work on some older computers so long as they aren't, like, ddr3 kind of old.
@@keyboardwarrior6296 All my stuff is ddr3. lol.. Even my gaming rig. Antix was only like 148M ram usage at idle when I tested it.. I'm not sure you need to get any smaller than that. lol.. (and yes, it looks old). But I get it.. People like to go to the extreme. I'm either going to stick with Garuda or run Nobara.. I'm not fully decided yet. But I like these fully loaded distros. they just tend to work and I can easily uninstall what I don't want and trim the fat down to how I like it. So much easier to deal with; everything I have is 16gb ram or more, so it's no big deal ............... (well, not all my stuff is ddr3: I did just get an MSI crosshair 17 for 400 bucks.. rtx3060, 11th gen i7, 32gb ram, 2x 500gb NVME. What a find.. He still kept everything in the box and always used the keyboard cover. lol.. It still looks brand new; and it came with an expensive MMO mouse with 20 buttons on the thumb side.. I Probably won't put linux on it for a long time though).
I landed on CachyOS myself. It just works for my uses. Also the software on windows just works, windows itself doesn't always work. I have had an increasing amount of issues with windows as an OS. Like explorer crashing more an more.
I used cachy for awhile and loved it then one day I had issues streaming with OBS and couldn't find a fix nor fix it myself so I've since been on nobara, But I agree Cachy is great.
@@rakrimes I don't stream myself so that's not an issue. But the reason I switched to CachyOS was that I could get Wabbajack to work on it.
i use cachy os too
I use ubuntu too btw
If you want something that absolutely work out of the box, get Linux Mint.
Also, most (if not all) of the problems you had is Nvidia's driver fault.
(i use Arch btw)
Youve angered the anti ubuntu people who still can't swallow the fact that Ubuntu is the best overall distro. When will they just get it through their thick skulls that if theres no Ubuntu there is no desktop linux to use 😂
I have been using linux now for 4 years now. One thing i have learned it is not what linux distro you like it is what linux distro your computer likes. Ubuntu works but did not agree with my computer. Only 2 distro's my computer runs well on is linux mint and Fedora KDE. I Fedora kde on for the last 2 years. If you want to use linux i use AMD graphics card and it is plug and play. I sold my Nvidia graphics card could not getting it working well on any version of linux.
your linux videos motivated me to jump to linux. i only animate or browse so i installed antix. please make a video how do you go back from linux to windows because linux formats the disk to exFat and windows uses ntfs.
also please share your knowledge on dual-booting on same harddisk or different hard disks.
ill try, to get rid of linux you will have to formate the drive and then install windows
you can access ntfs partition from linux but you can not access lunux partition like ext4 or btrfs from windows. And do not run windows game from ntfs disk it will probably not run on linux, just copy from windows to linux.
@@realUrbanPhantom ohh. thanks. well i dont game much. i am just trying to reinstall windows on current hard disk with antix linux and get a new drive for Linux and dual boot
Actually, you call it Debian based OSes not Ubuntu Based OSes.
Best solution for gaming on linux. KVM with Windows 11 LTSC and you only take a 5-10% hit on performance.
unless you are playing online, most games run perfect if not better on proton than on windows.
Check out Cosmic DE. Similar to Gnome, but has really great window management.
Really bad avdice bro, Cosmic is in Alpha. I'm also trying it, but not as my daily driver (which is pop 22.04). Just wait for it to get there, then eventually we can recommend it.
@@TheYehat what is 22.04?do you mean you are trying the old version of pop os which is based on ubuntu 22.04? if anything it is the same gnome but remade. the current cosmic alpha 2 is written from scratch and i use cosmic de on cachy os and i think it is good
@@FedoraSilverblue Of course not 22.04. I'm testing the new one in a VM. It really looks good, but not complete. One can use it daily, but cannot recommend yet for newcomers.
You: "My first distro (Btw I use arch)"
Me: Oh, shi, here we go again.
You should try Fedora KDE spin...and enable Rpm fusion
how did you get the start button set to the left side? When I make the app bar from left to the bottom the start button is on the right side for me and I can't figure out to change it.
its in the arc menu extention settings
Windows just works, well said! Linux is not for any average user who wants to use computer. It is either Mac or Windows. Linux is overrated and complicated with no advantage over Windows.
Exactly why that Linux garbage only has 4% users. Even though there are user friendly distros the trash doesn't always work lil windows normally does. The more you do other than just programming on there the more issues you'll eventually find. When someone says they been using that garbage for 20+ years all they tell you is they don't use their PC for much other than bare minimum work lil like typing and watching UA-cam on one of their bootleg homebrew web browsers. 😂
Linux isn't perfect but to claim it has no advantage over windows is just flat out false.
1) It's more lightweight and efficient than Windows.
2) It's better for security and privacy
3) The free and open source nature of Linux gives the user unparalleled control over their system.
I use linux, kde flavor. My daily driver!
Yooooooooooo!!!! I am also a linux user.
You can Use remmina
Wayland started development in 2008... It's 16 years later and it's still not ready and full of bugs... Which shows the basic problems linux suffers from. This would not be acceptable for Mac or Windows.
Wayland is ready for use and from most surveys ive seen the majority of the linux community is already using it.
KDE best
Everyone has different use cases - Using Windows or OS X shouldn't be something one should be ashamed of. People try Gnu/Linux out of curiosity, it's not because it does everything. There's no OS that doesn't has it's flows.
The truth is currently Gnu/Linux could be used for everything a personal computer is used for except in some specific use cases which highly depend on propitiatory software. So if the applications you rely on doesn't support Gnu/Linux than i guess Gnu/Linux is not for you. After all a computer is a tool just like any other, if it doesn't serve it's purpose than simply switch to something that does.
mint is better then plain ubuntu... mint has drivers for say thermal lable printers that you wont find in just ubuntu unless you mess with the repositories... out of the box mint is really better but if ubuntu works for you that is awesome... but mint is ubuntu just it has more out of the box then ubuntu.
i still have zorin 17 on hdd resolution 1920 1080 was missing cus i wanted to have vga to hdmi adapter plugged in and i bought vga to hdtv which is for tv thats why i have problem and black bars on youtube and anime sites gonna buy vga to hdmi plus new psu soon
Using Arch since Nov 2022, no issues till now...Its far stable than Windows.
Well it just depends, you can't play any anti-cheat game on linux, pirate any software/game or use photoshop (no gimp is not an alternative) etc.
Yeah, more stable.. that's why the industry and business is using Arch on every desktop out there, right? o) My windows installations ran for a decade each (Win2000 and Win7) with all the software installed you can get for Windows. Thousands of standby / resume cycles, some reboots mixed in, once or twice a year. Windows is stable as hell if your hardware and the drivers are stable as well, which is the important part here. If that is fine, your Windows will run for years, my Windows server and laptop have 1 year uptime easily without any reboot.
Not sure if there are Linux desktop users out there as well, who get along without rebooting for 1 year and constant day to day use?!
You obwiosly didnt try pop os. Its the first distro i tryed and am still on it, not planing to switch. I cant wait for new cosmic desktop to come out.
Newer had any problem with it.
About things that happend to you it may be that nvidia card isnt working good with linux but thats not linuxs fault its actualy nvidias fault entierly. Because they keep their drivers close sourced which is unaceptable.
Amd on other hand have their drivers open sourced and ewerything works great.
I didnt have problem with nvidia on pop os, newer had to install nvidia driver or anything, card just works normaly, but i switched anywaus to radeon and am wery happy with it, its better than nvidia in my opinion because for same amount of money i always see radeon have stronger gpu 🙂
"I cant wait for new cosmic desktop to come out."
This is another aspect about Linux that I love. The updates are usually pleasant for the end user because they're only about improving the system. I always dread Window updates because they are intrusive and problematic. Many updates brought to Windows aren't designed to improve it but to exploit the end user.
i mean fedora is a nice distro
If u using amd gpu, nvidia....nightmare
Your solution could be dual boot.
i use arch btw
I switched over to linux,games perform without a hitch and honestly i don't miss anything from windows at all. One thing i need to do is switch distro. Ubuntu isn't bad but i don't like cannonical basicaly forcing me to use snaps because official Ubuntu at some point may become snap exclusive distro. I want choice over packages i use so my choice is Debian because i feel comfortable using it.
This argument Is kind of getting played out since other distros force flatpaks onto you. And most apps coming to linux always go to Ubuntu first sooner or later snaps will only hold the good commercial apps that can convince people to switch over. Its already happening with Skype for example, they only offer it as snap now and don't have a flatpak or deb/rpm anymore. Leave Ubuntu and you leave usable linux 😂
Bro.....im thinking of switching from chrome
which one should i try? Edge or Firefox?
try arc browser you can log with email and password and save ur files
Vivaldi or Firefox, in that order.
Zen Browser (Firefox based), it's similar to Arc browser but personally for me i think it has better user experience.
Edge is a great alternative if you want a browser with many features and probably one of THE most optimised chromium browsers.
Firefox to oppose the chromium monopoly, for better tools and functionality, and for actually working adblock.
Arc browser is worth it ONLY if you use macOS, and even then ONLY if you plan to use it for a long time and never switch to anything else (because you need to put in a lot of work to get back out of the apple-like ecosystem), and trust the browser to survive long enough.
Vivaldi if you want a resource-intensive but incredibly customisable chromium browser.
Zen Browser if you want some of the best UX and UI from any browser, plus the advantages of firefox, but the trade-off is stability because it's still in alpha.
Can you provide the wallpaper link
31:40 I've had 100x more random crashes on windows than on linux, maybe my hardware is more compatible, maybe Ubuntu is just bad (I've heard it has a lot of random crashes)
If Ubuntu doesn't work well on your hardware chances another distro will work better are slim
Do you hide / delete comments? I can't find some of my replies here anymore, which is a bad thing. I get notifications for new replies by email, but my actual comment is not there anymore - so something is not right.
I am using arch linux for 4 months now it is better than ubuntu because of pacman
Bruh, why u not switch to yay/paru for faster speed?
@@eda2000-r8h yes i use all three
@@eda2000-r8h yay and paru are helpers bro, they work along pacman by providing access to AUR. You can't "switch" to them, you use them along.
i use cachy os
@@eda2000-r8hyay and paru just call pacman through a wrapper. They don't replace pacman. Pacman is a dependency. Speed comes from mirrors and from the threads option in your /etc/pacman.conf.
interesting how your 99% gpu usage on linux runs at 81c and half of that usage on windows runs only 1c cooler lol
arch is the best
btw
Your example and Statement about Linux gaming shows that you either havent got the right Driver or should measure Other Things than GPU utilization. The temps are identical, that would be Strange given only 50%load on Windows.
I switched my gaming PC to bazzite Linux and IT IS wayyyy better than Windows. Some Games dont run, but i Play None of them so...
i am using ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS and it works for me 😘 i use microsoft edge on it and use it for learning python coding on vs code 😍
EDIT: Can you please make a tutorial on how to use Linux features and its terminal (command lines) that would be helpful for all of us 🙏
"linux is just not ready for gaming"
okay so valve made the steam deck to read ebooks or?
What? Steam deck is a console and not even a computer. No one wants to play games on a console, we play for playing on the computer. Also steam deck or any linux can't play any anti-cheat game, there are plenty of issues with linux still and gaming. There is even a site for it to see what games are good and not lmao. Windows is still best for gaming and a lot of software that just cannot be replaced.
@@lmnts556 But you're talking BS lol.
First of all, Steam Deck is a regular computer with Arch Linux, and a graphical interface for games.
Secondly games with anti-cheat don't work on Linux ?, it's very strange that somehow I run Gears Of War 5 for example lol. There are also many other games, but as always people who don't use Linux every day or have problems running. Because they don't know how to use Linux they give misinformation or repeat false stereotypes lol.
Edit. For example here are games that have Easy Anti-Cheat, and work without problems on Linux. There are tons of others just check instead of talking BS.
Halo: The Master Chief Collection
Apex Legends
Halo Infinity
Black Desert Online
DayZ
Dead By Daylight
War Thunder
Warhammer: Vermintide
ArmA
NARAKA: BLADEPOINT
Tom Clancy's The Division 2
STAR WARS TM: Squadrons
Battlefield 4
Far Cry 5
Homefront
Titanfall
Star Citizen
Fallout 76
Overwatch 2
Helldivers 2
WarCraft III etc.
@@timnowak8573 Well no, its a handheld console. Big difference, most people want to play games on their computer not a handheld console. Can just install steam on their computer anyway. But tons of games are outside of steam, a lot of the big ones are. You can't run league of legends, valorant, tarkov, PUBG, fortnite, destiny 2, COD. Literally a ton of the biggest online multiplayer games CANT be played on linux.
@@lmnts556 Console.. Since a console can run windows almost out of the box. Just look at previous generations, people call it a console because it has a built-in controller. This reasoning is marketing BS nothing more. Secondly, this is your opinion, just look at various charts, and surveys that reflect the facts. Not to mention that thanks to Steam Deck people finally noticed that it is possible to use an interface, a system that does not hinder, does not spy and is simply, convenient to use.
Non-Steam games are not a problem at all, it can be easily resolved. Not everyone plays online multiplayer, besides it's not Linux's fault or the community's that large corporations are anti-consumer. You can also see patterns that everything can change for the better. Also if people don't start voting with their wallets or start reacting to the fact that large corporations are showing the middle finger to the consumer, nothing will change. But we can see changes in this as well.
Returning to games with single player mode, you can also bypass security. There are tons of sites, and guides showing how to do it. Also answering the counterarguments that you have to work hard to operate on Linux. Only many people forget about the fact how much they complain, and scheme to avoid things that Microshit changes to the detriment of consumers. Somehow it is quickly forgotten, this is where their hypocrisy comes to light.
Valve is another capitalist business, I wonder how that will work in the future
Ubuntu is the best choice both politically, workability, and for stability in the Linux world, you've made the right choice, but if you're not really a programmer, engineer, sysadmin, etc, you shouldn't really be on Linux.
For rdp in linux
macOS is the best unix disto.
How many people can afford half a year to setup a os?
As someone who is fluent with tech but mostly a newbie with linux, it took me just 2 weeks to set up fedora sway atomic to be mostly ready for general use all while daily driving it, and even so it obviously is far from the easiest starting point for a new linux user. I think the learning curve of linux is fine.
He switch 100% from windows to ubuntu (no more dual booting) that why it take a lot of time
It takes less than half an hour to set up any linux distro.
@@gaiusbaltar7122 : Yeah, you can install it in under 30 min, no sweat, but when you start delving in to software setup, drivers for printers, cameras etc, audio like dts which most modern laptops have you beter be well versed in the terminal and sudo commands. The problem that most of us have is we don't know where to find stuff and RTFM is not an answer because there is no manual for most things, I have run Fedora, Manjaro, Zorin, Ubuntu and Mint, all of them had problems, if I had to choose I'd say Zorin was my fav. with Manjaro a close second but not being able to get my audio drivers resolved was a deal breaker for me. On some of them I could get gigabit internet speed no problems on other it was limited to 10mbps. When a person wants to get stuff done it becomes really frustrating trying to resolve issues that are basic in either Windows or Mac. If Linux wants more market share they will really have to start catering for mom and pop needs and not tech savvy elitists, my goodness the Linux community cannot even agree with with one another on which distro is the best, that says alot. at least everyone that uses windows can agree that Microsoft are a bunch of you know whats but their stuff works although it's an unhealthy relationship with trust issues. My point is, is does not take 30min to set up a Linux Distro to acceptable usable standards, it's complicated and frustrating to try and resolve little things, at least include a list of beginner terminal commands in the distro's to get people started with common issues and guides in a basic pdf file, how hard can it be.
the problem that I have with Linux is the way they set up files. They install EVERYTHING on C: and I install NOTHING on C: except the main OS (Windows). When they change that, I might switch. For now, it's W11 till the end.
This has to be a bot post. There is no c: drive in Linux and he post itself makes no sense.
Now sends these bots out to spread FUD on Linux? I am seeing more and more of them.
Linux does no such thing, and there is no C: drive. The partitions are well-split and I can transfer most of my entire system by copying 3 folders.
@@jedipadawan7023 You surely get the point he is trying to make! o) If you install anything with a package manager on Linux, your program will dissolve into any of these /xxx folders, mixing in with the other garbage already in there.
You, as User, are not the first citizen in the Linux file system, you have no control over what folders are there in root ""/". I would prefer if all the system garbage get's dumped into /sys and we could think of that as drive C:\ on Windows, leaving the root of the filesystem more or less open for mounting your own partitions / drives there like "/dat", as an analogy to drive D:\ for your programs or let's have a folder /dvd which represents drive O:\ on Windows from your optical disc drive.
This would enhance user experience greatly. I honestly don't know where to put my folder on Linux. I don't feel at home in /home/user, because all the programs put their crap in there, it's theirs, not my home. I also don't know where to put AppImages on Linux e.g.
On Windows I have a full blown directory structure on drive D:\ which is always the same on each system. It's drive D:\bin\audio or D:\bin\game etc.. Drive D:\ is my place for programs, where to put it on Linux? Putting this folder structure into /programs seems cluttered, since there also is /etc, /sbin, /tmp and all the other stuff I don't need to see all day long.
The Linux filesystem was not meant to be used directly by individual users on their own PC, it's a network operating system for multiple users and was designed that way back then. That's why you are placed inside /home/prisoner. Windows on the other hand always concentrated on single user experience in the first place, it was build for best experience for a single user and you can still see how it makes a difference in day to day usage (by popping in a new disk drive e.g., and it will be right there, fetching the next available letter and show up in your list of drives).
Another example: I have yet to see a Linux file manager / desktop which will show my optical disk drive as being present, even if there is no disk inserted. The concept of "an empty drive" is not really something on Linux it seems (if there is, please let me know, I just miss my DVD drive in "the list" o).
Windows is far worse, it forces all user profile directories on c: which is a terrible idea.
Linux does not use drive letters it uses paths. By default everything goes under the root folder location / but you can override any path by setting a mount point. For example set your second drive or partition to have a mount point of /home and all your user profiles will be stored there instead of your os drive.
It's a way better system than Windows.
what if linux for gaming? you knew linux never gonna make gaming better!
maybe it will thanks to proton I guess
For gaming use a console. It’s cheaper than a pc as well.
@@EricNantel wrong, for gaming use PC. even Sony started porting games to PC. Xbox is PC, and now Sony will be PC too.
Sorry, but this thesis has not been current for a long time.
Valve has contributed huge progress in gaming on Linux. For lazy people there are tons of video materials on UA-cam dedicated to gaming on Linux..
Also there are a lot of channels dedicated to Linux, and showing how to play on Linux without a problem. There are also channels that are not dedicated to Linux, Gaming, but show how easy it is to play on Linux. There are also a lot of distributions that make it easier to play, for example the recently popular Bazzite Os. BWT. Anticipating the counterarguments. There are also games that don't work well on Linux, but that's the fault of large corporations. If people don't start voting with their wallets, nothing will ever change.
Except games run better than wimdows
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this isnt ture at all, you have proton, you have qemu + virtmanager for gpu passthrough for windows
hey thats lot of work, + it gets expensive and troublesome
@@kilObit no it doesnt, you already have a gpu, you plug in to the motherboard for linux and you pass through the gpu. I fail to see how it gets expensive. "A lot of work"? sure but you're on linux what do you expect 😂. It's totally worth it if I never have to run windows bare metal
@@yugalkhanal6967 still can't game with anticheats
if you want to use ubuntu with nvidia use x11 because on ubuntu you will never get the latest nvidia driver and the latest wayland so you dont get possible fixes on nvidia you better off on distros based on arch or things like nobara,pika os or bazzite.
And please dont say linux is not good for gaming because its not true i have over 100 games many triple A titles and only 5 dont work and its because of anti cheat if you do your research and set up your system properly it works and right now with windows 11 specially 24h2 gaming performance is not that great.
Has a problem with crashing on Linux...
*Installs a Linux beta*
Linux is good for network engineer or cyber security , it is not good for gamers or graphic designer (I know the steam and etc!)
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best os is windows and I switched to windows 11 again.
If you have an old hardware or normal user or your job has connection with network or hacking
linux is good for you, But windows has a lot of software, you just suffering with linux!
I tested with ubuntu , fedora , arch , debian, manjaro,mx linux and ... they have bugs ...
If you want to use linux , you can use it on VMware or WSL , this is best option for you if you want to learn linux.
don't listen to someone who is saying Linux is awesome and ....
Linux is nice and perfect with terminal and you can use it on WSL.
I think you just don't know what you are talking about.
@@gaiusbaltar7122 I'm talking about that linux is bullshit for desktop user and you linux fans are lying to people
@@KavusHabibi Lol you are just spreading your misinformation, and stereotypes. There are many channels on UA-cam, including quite a few large ones, which use Linux professionally ( making music, editing movies, creating games) and for games. They often show live how they use Linux, these are facts..
Only in contrast to others, they are able to choose the right distribution, graphical environment or window manager, correctly install drivers if necessary. Generally, properly configure the system, etc. If someone doesn't know how to use Linux, that's their problem. Or If someone's hardware is not compatible don't blame Linux, and the community only large anti-consumer corporations.
BWT. I personally use Linux, Mac and Windows for over 3 decades, maybe a bit more. And I can tell about the pros and cons, in contrast to Windows, Microshit fanboys.
It must be strange to be so simple minded.
@@timnowak8573 I know what you said , I like Linux to and I have it on WSL and VMware too. but for gaming and design windows is better! you are using 3 decades and you must know that!
Linux is very difficult for normal users,I've never told Linux is a trash! If linux was user friendly as same as windows , now we were living at the world that 80% of people didn't use windows!
Telling ubuntu best proves you don't know linux🙂
then what is,,, I'm, talking a new linux user ,,,
@@kilObit Whoa! I had better intercept!
The best distro is the one that fits your use case - what works for you. End of.
I run a small business and I need stability and I like the Windows 7 like workflow + keyboard shortcuts so I run with MX Linux KDE. Stable, fast, powerful but... it does mean out of date (though flatpaks can help.) I do not need state of the art much at all.
Others, however, especially hard core gamers, do.
Essentially, you need to research and try. Factors to consider are:
Stability vs cutting edge. Debian based distros are ROCK SOLID but out of date by the time they are released. But newer, indeed rolling, means risk of things breaking.
Arch based = rolling and cutting edge, preferred by programmers and techies who love to experiment and can fix if it goes wrong.
Fedora (Nobara) is rising in popularity and seems solid. But note that is a testing ground for Red Hat so is the latest and greatest but not rolling.
DE - VERY important. While GNOME is the de facto standard DE for Linux it has a lot of both fan and detractors. GNOME wins by links to big business and legally required accessibility options. If you get on with, GNOME, great but a LOT of people prefer XFCE, KDE, Cinnamon. I personally loathe the GNOME DE but I accept it's just my preference. Other people think differently.
Get the DE wrong and you ruin your entire desktop experience. Fortunately Linux has choice!
You should play, use a VM, test and get a feel. Remember, the best DE is the one you get along with and does what you want. Distro have different niches. There is no ONE best distro. Distrowatch can be helpful.
Having said that, I always give out MX Linux KDE to newbies. It's rock solid, everything is tested, the backup and emergency recover tools are unparralleled and KDE means is there is a set up issue the fix is just a switch in system settings away! I get NO support calls or whatsapp with MX Linux KDE!
But... it's not cutting edge and if you want Wayland a Debian stable based distro is NOT where it is at! If gaming is your thing there is a argument for going with an Arch based distro... and KDE. Valve use KDE and makes sure things with it.
Best I can say. Use a VM and have a try.
You are a complete idiot. How can you expect a new user to learn Linux before they use it. Ubuntu is simple and very easy. Most people use their computers for work. Not for ricing. I use arch currently. (I am a frequent distrohopper.)
Ubuntu is my preferred OS and I’ve been using linux since 2008 or earlier. Went through a bunch of distros to return to ubuntu. I prefer it over any other distro.
Woah, hot-take
i switched back to windows 11. Everything just works
Nah, win 10 is wayy better
@@eda2000-r8h i hate the win10 design and squared of ui. Other than that win10 is great too
@@nathsabari97 well that true, win11 look a lot more fancy then win10 for sure (so did the ram consumption💀)
If everything already worked with Windows 11, why did you switch to Linux in the first place?
@@BlueSparkzVideos want to see for myself if their is any truth to what the linux users on the internet say