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Chapters:
00:00 - Why I used Windows previously
00:57 - What changed?
01:48 - The problems of Dual Booting
02:41 - Why Linux is better than Windows
03:00 - What did I go with?
09:15 - Conclusion
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I am done with dual boot since windows 11 came out. After a couple of days I deleted windows and since then I am a happy Linux users.
You do realize Windows 10 EOL is years from now, and issues people have with 11 will likely be fixed?
@@madthumbs1564 the problem with win11, you do not own your pc anymore. It's a spy tool of Microsoft.
Same exact impetus for me. Once gaming got better, my windows partition started looking more like an annoyance than an alternative
I used windows 7 until it was not supported anymore. Windows 10 was laggy and bloated with telemetry and used network a lot while idle (just install windows 10 or windows 11 from official iso from microsoft in virtualbox and look at network indicator)
Same here been doing linux only for about 4months now
Well done for using a Linux based OS as your only ecosystem I really admire a person who had gone down that route and welcome to the Linux community.
I have migrated from OS to OS. I have used almost all the mainstream OS, Microsoft windows, Mac OS, Chrome but non gave me the freedom to make the OS act, look and behave I want it to like linux which also reminds me of symbian
@jernejj5 for me it's simple to use windows , most firmware update from oems is for windows . I tried Linux for a month on my thinkbook came back to windows boot drive and realised I missed a helpfull bios update that would have solved an issue I was having 🙃. Apologies for replying to a month old comment but this just triggers me .
As a long time Linux user (running Fedora/KDE since its first version) its been a complete joy seeing so many people on their journey of discovery. :thumbs_up:
Dude im like the 17th person to quit windows and immediately switch over to fedora wtf is going on
Fedora KDE just ended my distro dating. I think I going to propose.
@@SaintKines kde hurts my eyes for some reason. Idk what it is. The colors or something? Idk. But i use gnome with transparency effects and a win 7 wallpaper haha
@@lv1543 it might be video drivers. Ive heard KDE can have some weird stuff go on with graphics drivers.
FEDORA KDE YEEE! I just got into Fedora KDE recently.
About 3 days ago, I made the full switch to Linux, and I couldn't be happier getting away from Windows. I already mainly used Arch on my laptops and mainly used them because I like them more, but once I discovered that all my software worked, well... there was no stopping me.
Sooo, plugged in the Arch install medium in my gaming rig, cfdisked that Windows drive and wiped it clean, forever freeing the drive from spyware. Then banged my head on the keyboard for a bit until I got everything working. X3
Just as simple as that 😅
Dang you can install arch like that? Tysm, will try
@@kim-hendrikmerk4163 I mean, if it works it works. I guess it just works.
I've come to learn that desk-induced head trauma is a vital step in the Arch installation process.
@@trajectoryunown spare yourself
I've been full linux since I was 5 (thanks to a very based dad) and it's always great to see another person make the switch.
I'm glad you took the time to point out that there are stable Arch distros like Manjaro. I see a lot of intro videos from UA-camrs that put all Arch based distros in the same "bleeding edge / unstable" box, as if this was unescapable on anything based on Arch.
Yeah, just because something is based on something, does not necessarily mean that it works the same.
I ran Manjaro KDE for 8 months and never had any issues with it. I run Arco Linux on my desktop and the only time I’ve had it issues with it was when I screwed up something I had no business messing with. Ironically, Arch based distros are the only ones I’ve had any luck keeping stable
The internet goes on about bleeding edge and instability with Arch, Ive never had Arch issues. Its only going to cause issues if you tinker with stuff you shouldn't. But that is the case with any/every distro.
manjaro not stable broken after some time
@@MichaelNROH well I feel stupid for commenting before I finished watching this video. I was going to tell you about nobara. Though to be honest, it's still not quite as out of the box for me as something like Ubuntu, but that's simply for legal reasons. Like, RPM fusion isn't really installed out of the box, you basically press a button to do it for you. So you're still installing it, it's just easier. But it's nice when you don't have to do anything. Still a fantastic distro. What do you think of opensuse tumbleweed/gecko linux?
Arch is NOT bleeding edge. And on another note: the alternate to rolling release is 'point release' - not 'stable'.
Yea, not every repos play well on master branch. That's why Arch people not dare enough to make everything 100% bleeding edge. But compared to debian, Arch is a lot up to date
How is Arch not bleeding edge? Sure it's not Gentoo with the most recent commits but it's not like package software releases are extensively qa tested how they interact with the rest of the system?
@@iodreamify Bleeding edge refers to the latest development build, which may frequently break even basic functionality. What is in the git releases is not bleeding edge
@@kim-hendrikmerk4163 If Arch is not bleeding edge but cutting edge, then, is Manjaro simply edge? curated edge? 😆
@@ArcaneTuber broken dependencies edge
I settled with Manjaro since I prefer rolling release type updates but I have to do some adjustments to make it run like a dream. I replaced all pulseaudio components with pipewire components, switched my kernel to the latest linux-zen kernel, and I disabled TPM and increased APU memory to 8GB in the BIOS. These combinations of changes have gotten rid of the annoying audio crackling/popping sounds, stutters, micro freezes, and increased CPU/RAM consumption, etc. My Linux system is running so smooth now! 😁
Outstanding video! I did something similar with my computer around the first of the year. Went from dual booting to reformatting my hard drive and installing Linux Mint. I just wasn't using the Windows partition. So I reformatted and went fully Linux and haven't looked back since. You brought up some interesting points about different Linux distros that I imagine will help a lot of people. Keep up the great work.
I went with Mint a year ago on my PC and laptop after decades of fighting with various versions of Windows for decades.The bloat and obscurantism of Microsoft was a continual frustration, and Linux had reached the point of doing everything I need it to do.
dualbooting windows and linux: 👎
dualbooting linux and linux:👍
😀
Multibooting Gentoo, Arch and OpenBSD: 🤯
@@speedyfox9080 😀👍
For you Linux is best
Ubuntu is the distro I always come back to, I tried some other distros, but I just feel really comfortable using it. I prefer vanilla stuff most of the time, but I don't find the theming and extensions Ubuntu uses to be bad, I actually find the orange and purple kinda iconic
Everyone is entitled to their opinion and preferences, but Ubuntu does look really nice
I used Ubuntu for a while, and thought about using Pop!_OS, but now I am switching to Fedora.
What a coincidence. I just installed Nobara. Been using Fedora for several months, but when I heard about Nobara for gaming, I jumped into it asap.
This is nice to see. I still have Windows 11 with the majority of my stuff on it, but I do have a 1TB drive dedicated to Nobara Linux and I really like it. I branched into Linux for programming but I want to continue moving fully over to it!
I've been an exclusive Linux user for over five years. Windows use was so seldom over the last decade, there was little need to dual boot. Never looked back
I usually recommend Mint to new users, but Fedora seems pretty solid too. I like the subtle nod of having a fedora on the desk in the background. I personally use Slackware with KDE, but I wouldn't recommend that to new users. I also recommend not getting an Nvidia card if someone asks for advice on hardware because of their closed nature, though hopefully that's changing. I don't do any video editing, so my workflow is likely quite a bit different to yours, but I love that I can set all the shortcut keys I want and have multiple desktops even with only one monitor. I've got at least 4 dozen global shortcut keys to navigate around the computer, open apps and more.
There are people like me with Nvidia cards who kinda can't just up and get a new card though. And I use mixed refresh rate monitors so the experience has been pretty annoying.
@@justanotherpxrson True, though I've heard good things about the open source Nouveau drivers. Give it a shot with a live dvd and if it works then maybe consider using it on a more regular basis. Perhaps even installing it beside Windows. If it doesn't work from a live dvd then no harm, no foul.
I have a new 12th gen (Alder Lake) laptop with 3050 Ti GPU. It's running Fedora 37 KDE spin very well. Very recommendable. However, it's still using the nouveau driver. I've not had much success updating other distros to use the proper Nvidia driver (will try rpmfusion this time) and I've been putting that off which is not a great idea. There are a lot of concerning reports in the system log from the nouveau driver and bug reports from nouveau when I boot. The Alder Lake chip & iGPU is so good though that I'm not missing the Nvidia chip right now. Haven't tried any serious graphical usage yet either. In my Linux experience Radeon cards are much better and easier to work with because AMD contributes to the open source mesa driver; Nvidia does not contribute, notwithstanding their recent overtures towards the open source community: the important parts of their code will still be provided as an opaque blob.
I switched to linux early this year when I realized that the only windows application I was using was the calculator (not using edge, office, one note, etc... everything 3rd party like chrome, wps, google drive, etc...), and I never looked back. Using the same programs on linux without the Windows background processes and bloatwares associated with Windows is awesome and it just feels a lot more personal where Windows feels like you are renting a software. You can also do customizations on how your machine behaves, not just the appearance. I never did the dual boot option though, my plan was just create Windows in VirtualBox just in case I would ever need Windows for some reason which I have not opened up to now.
why not just switch to a dedicated casio calculator then?
@@pushqrdx put a little sense on your reply 😂
@@pushqrdx ah, the classic "casio calculator" joke. A classic
@@R3tR0L0v3 Welcome to the GNU/Linux club, my friend.
@@softwarelivre2389 someone gets it
Welcome to the Linux world! I've been using Linux since 2012 and never thought about coming back to Windows. I personally prefer rolling release distributions so I run Arch Linux as my main distro and OpenSuse Tumbleweed as a fallback one, and that's the beauty of Linux: we have so many choices and one can always find a distro that fits you better.
Exactly!
What do you use a fallback distro for? Or how, even?
Opensuse TW user here with fedora 36 on a smaller ssd, soo multibooting with hackintosh, just because (for fun sake)
I feel boring as prefer normal Ubuntu lol, I have tried others but always end up back at Ubuntu due to stability issues.
My first Linux experience was in somewhat '93 on my 386DX - I think it was Slackware on floppy disks.
Since SuSE Linux 5.3 Linux has been a constant part of my life. Dual booting with OS/2 and later eComstation (which was primary) until christmas 2007. Now I'm running openSUSE LEAP on laptop, desktop, server and openSUSE Tumbleweed on my phone (dualbooting with SailfishOS).
I have gone through a lot of computer hardware in the last 3 years and after about the 3rd install of Arch, I looked at how much I enjoyed Fedora 34 on my dual boot PC and just installed fedora everywhere. The vanilla GNOME experience is almost perfect. However, it can be genuinely unusable without a system tray extension. In my opinion, it is one of the most out-of-touch design decisions I've seen in a desktop environment.
Ah, yes, GNOME is so cool and weird at the same time, I'm always in love-hate relationship with it, but I keep returning... :) I mostly really miss functional (keyboard-navigatable) and nice-looking GTK menu bars for those few programs that use them (like LibreOffice).
@@tomsmansvards I think we all are....I'd love to have a global menu everywhere for stuff instead of what happens now. (even firefox and a few others could support it if they'd stop being dumb....hamburger menu is just dumb and hides stuff I need....
why you should use fedora if you use arch? it's the same.
Fedora 36 FTW
I abandoned Windows 5 years ago and never regret it! Linux liberated my life!
If 25% users use linux it will all games support linux
It doesn't even need to be that high. If the market share surpasses MacOS then, with the help of Proton and such, it will be acknowledged.
Translation layers have a big advantage on Linux.
@@MichaelNROH i think steam deck it will help later mb
@@ALAK5555 If it is successful yeah. It provides a baseline for optimization which is great
@@MichaelNROH I was about to make the same comment about OSX. We arguably have more compatibility than OSX even with the lack of marketshare.
I ended up going the proxmox virtualization route on my HP Z620. I got two video cards running two Virtual machines at the same time. One, my win 10 for games, and the other, a Mac Big Sur for my music recording. I couldn't be happier with this setup.
I got rid of my dual boot the other day too. I never used Windows, but I always kept it as a backup in case anything happened, but going for a more or less consistent uptime even using Arch, I felt it was odd to keep it around, taking up lots of space on my drive.
yeah i keep my windows partition so i can make fun of it and laugh as the cockroaches starve and the partition gathers dust. RIP Windows!
Same here too. But since I never used Windows, I finally ditched it. That was a quite a few years ago. Basically been using Mint in the early years since 2013. Later Pops and now Fedora on two machines, Mint on the rest. Both are solid. Like the guy in the video, I tried quite a few. And like the guy, I like plain vanilla.
Mainly what I found out about the dual boot that one really uses only one OS as a practical matter... mostly for convenience of use (Bookmarks, tabs opening 'where you leave off', files saved, etc.).
When I built my first PC back in 2019 I didn't even try dual booting since I have a working W10 laptop. I installed Linux Mint 19.1, and I did enjoy using it, but I wanted a rolling release distro so I switched to Manjaro KDE roughly 6-7 months later. Now I use it mainly as my gaming/media server PC since I mostly play on a PS5, and most of my games library is on PlayStation(2-5) and Steam with half a dozen I bought on GOG years ago when W10 was still my main OS. The only reason I'd get a Windows 11 or Apple laptop is if my job requires those OS for whatever reason 😤. I installed Linux Mint back then as both a cost cutting measure and an experiment, and so far I haven't seen the need to switch back to Windows, at least for my home use, plus I actually have full ownership of my PC.
Welcome! I had used Windows since version 1.03 (yes, that was a thing!) I made the same decision and switched full-time to Linux at the beginning of 2006. I have used Linux Mint since 2008.
I haven't used windows in 12 years as a personal user, at work I have to sadly.
Personally I’ve been using LMDE 5 for a few months now, and I love the out of the box usability of Mint, with the back bone of Debian.
I started experimenting with Linux around 2002 and nuked Windows from orbit on my PC back in 2006. I was already using Linux pretty much exclusively by 2004, but by 2006 I repartitioned and reclaimed all of that extra disk space for my OS of choice (Zenwalk at the time).
The termination of XP and the forced upgrade to Vista opened up my eyes to better horizons and a much more pleasant computing experience for decades... without having to get a new computer for the privilege. I ran that desktop machine for a full decade before upgrading it.
Vista was good
my first linux experience was with ubuntu 9.04, even that was a tall order to learn and get it working on my old laptop i cant imagine what it was like in 2002. now i am in Mint 99% of the time since the nuking of win 7
History repeats itself. I was a kid in 2004, I wish I knew GNU/Linux at the time.
@@softwarelivre2389 Well not all people will like linux
@@iamajustababa2000s did I say anything about other people?
PopOS is a great option for gamers who also need a workstation. I've used it for a while and really like it. I stopped distro hopping because of it
Fedora Gnome and KDE are great sane default desktops.. I went with the KDE release and love it. pretty sure though all their spins are default experiences so they are all great to build on top of what you want
Fedora uses default experiences without really messing with to much
Cinnamon and Mate are better.
@@folksurvival Its all personal preference. That's the beauty of it all. Choice.
openSUSE tumbelweed is pretty good for a premium vanilla kde experience
Can't go wrong with fedora. Decent gaming performance, intuitive gnome ui, overall solid stability.
I've been using it for years, and so is the rest of the family.
and a buggy installer since the beginning lol
@@sixdroid naa it's not that bad.
@@Vancha112 try to do a manual partitioning then you will see.and its bugged since years.i can post some links if you want.
@@sixdroid I didn't say there's zero bugs in the installer. Calling the entire Installer buggy however is a huge exaggeration.
It works fine for the majority of users.
Sure, maybe one aspect of the manual partitioning has an issue, but after installing fedora on about 5 computers, and reinstalling it multiple times after an update, I have never run into any installer bugs.
I'd say yes to sending those links, but if it's a well known issue I bet there's little i can do about it :(
@@Vancha112 they fixed some thing but was buggier for years.manual partitioning works better in other distro.even arch.
I am in love with Garuda Linux. it may be a small community and yes it broke 1 time on me because i am not the most experienced arch user. But the experience with the "gamer" edition, it preinstalling everything i need if i want to with a beautiful gui and even coming with discord, the zen kernel and Proton GE already usable with steam. it is perfect for someone rather lazy like me. The small community is something that is rather unfortionate. But i still love it 10 times above manjaro.
don't use that distros. use the originals.
@@sixdroid Nah use whatever the fuck you want.
@@justahumanwithamask4089 sure.use this stuff instead that arch and see if its the same.
Pamac and pacman being two different things that handle packages differently means that if you frequently mix which one you use for installing an uninstalling, you'll probably break a lot of dependencies. Even more so if you add AUR to the mix
I was talking more of a non-linear syntax (far more confusing than other managers)
Thanks for the video-it's really nicely done! And I'm glad that you chose Fedora, although, of course, there are many great projects and communities.
I feel happy seeing Linux become even more popular now with Windows 11 scaring off even more users. I still run Windows on one machine but I'm planning to finally kill it. Personally I live to experiment. I have lubuntu on a very old laptop and it runs great as it's supposed to be very lightweight. I run Arch based distros such as endeavourOS with the i3 window manager. I also recentely taken a liking to the GNOME version of Manjaro.
But there's also a place for Debian in my heart. I love it's stability. I have a customized XFCE Debian install that I really like working on.
I was able to convince some people (family and friends) to give linux a shot and most of the time I hooked them up with ZorinOS. It's very easy to navigate for people with prior Windows experience. A great transitional distro.
One branch I definitely need to look into more is Fedora. I used it for a bit but not enough to be able to say I know it well.
I've been fully switched for 10 years or so but have had to keep Windows in a VM for those moments when only Windows will do.
Interesting video! I switched to Mint with Cinnamon around 3 years ago and love the experience - don't really have to think too hard as the UI is so easy and familiar. Only thing that has irritated me is the kernel lags quite a ways behind other distros so I had to switch from LTS to more modern kernel versions to get my RX6600XT video card working (no driver support in the old kernel version). I have been tempted to try Fedora, but just haven't felt enough need to switch from Mint yet.
Mint is a good choice but yeah, sometimes some issues can occur on newer Hardware due to older Kernels.
Mint is decent, but Fedora is superior in most ways. If you have enough drive space, you could dual boot Fedora and Mint for a while and learn it and see if you like it.
@@AyaWetts that is true and a good point. I do have a spare ssd I can add for another OS install. I'm leaning towards trying Nobara for the additional media functionality. Next long weekend I get, I'l give it a try when I can dedicate some quality time to it.
I stopped dual booting and went full Linux back in 2014! I love it a lot!
I've thought of moving over to Fedora, hearing very nice things. Manjaro KDE has been my daily driver for some time now but alas, updates have dependancy issues more often than not. TimeShift is also a must! Had a Nvidia issue with the kernel the other day, thankfully I could boot with the LTS kernel and it solved the issue.
I have done the same thing. It took me a while to learn how to do everything on Linux, but now I do more on Linux than I had been doing on Win 7-10. I tried Win 11 only for a bit. Then I said enough.
Welcome to the community. I switched to full Linux when Microsoft announced Windows Vista. Zero regrets
Ive been messing with linux off an on, over the past 20 years. I could never fully switch over to it, for one reason or another. A while ago, I completely wiped windows 11 and installed Manjaro. Then I put windows 11 in a VM. This was to help me ween myself away from windows. Now, I don't even have windows in a VM, and I'm on Debian 11.4. I try out other distros in VMs to learn. I'll probably switch back to Arch linux, soon, but right now, this is set up exactly how I want it. Love not having *doze.
Nobara KDE sounds like a great option. That might be where I'll go on the desktop. Right now using regular Fedora 36 on gnome on the laptop
I've been working with debian and ubuntu servers for 2 years already and decided to make a desktop switch to linux (dual booting at least from the start to have stable backup in any case). And 14 days in Fedora 36 Workstation Edition, i've already counted around 20 issues that i can't easily pass and require long term research to develop a fix (not find one as none works).
Man about a year and a half ago I deleted everything and installed arch, I can never see myself going back now. I get that theoretically stable is more stable than rolling release but I haven't had any issues with arch specifically yet.
I have tried out all the distros you mentioned, and I keep coming back to Fedora, and continue to run Fedora 36. Great video, Michael!
Thanks
been switching and distro hoppin for the past 10 years.. sticking with fedora for now. It's just such a nice compromise between stability and compatibility. check out the nobara project if you guys want just some hasslefree ready to go gaming/everyday needs desktop linux
Until recently i had a laptop with windows 10 literally just for playing age of empires 2, for whatever reason games refused to work on Linux with my Thinkpad W520 (Nvidia GPU issues).
But I've recently upgraded to a newer Thinkpad P71 and so far games work great with Manjaro on that so I've now ditched windows entirely, still the win10 HDD sitting in a drawer but no longer have a reason to use it anymore.
EndeavourOS has been working great for me so far. If you want an easy arch distro it’s the one to go for, and it keeps improving. Good wiki and forums too.
Same. Kubuntu offers SO MUCH more customizability. Windows also had a lot of stability issues, like i would get BSODs randomly. You also had to be more careful with viruses, which isnt an issue in pretty much any distribution
Great video. This is something I have been meaning to do myself. I am currently using gentoo. I rarely use my windows partition. I really enjoyed the video.
I am still dual booted currently, using EndeavourOS as my distro of choice. Getting more and more tempted to format my windows drive, because I do not really use it.
Congrats to you. I've sure been thinking about it. Been a Win user forever, and there are just too many problems. Recently, like say year or so ago, one of the updates hosed my system. Well, I fixed some of it. But, still, my taskbar sometimes will not come up anymore, then I have to kill Explorer and reload it. But, guess what? Not all of the apps will then appear in the SysTray. And, also, my ALT+TAB switcher (swear to God) just doesn't flip much anymore. It takes (like) 10 to 15 seconds to flip between apps when they are loaded and everyting. Then, randomly (lately), Windows has been locking up. I was hoping some updates would fix it, but nope. Just gets slower and worse since that update. So, I sure am planning on thinking long & hard about what you did. Very good idea. Okay, now, I'll get past 0:17 of your video ...
Now, you should check out the BSDs. LOL. Seriously, congratulations on taking the leap. Fedora is a great distro and it has a lot going for it. Debian was my distro of choice for years. Now, I’m running Slackware 15 on one desktop with dwm and Openbsd on the other desktop with dwm. My favorite DE for years was KDE. It still is my favorite DE but I prefer Window Managers these days. The more I’ve learned, the more I’ve changed. Anyway, ENJOY!
i3 for me and can't ever see going back to a full DE.
I already used linux once, like a year ago, but I went back to windows mainly because of performance in some games and for not being able to play some online games I wanted to play (I used PopOS), but since then I've been curious to go back, because I really love new, different experiences and I loved the complexity of somethings in linux, like using wine and all of those commands (this might be some basic stuff for regular linux users, but for someone who used windows their whole life is really something big), and so today I went searching for a Distro that I would be comfortable with and that performed well in games, and that's when I found Nobara, so tomorrow I'll be wiping everything and beginning my journey on linux again, wish me luck XD
ps: sorry for the big text I get really excited
If you have a spare gpu you could also follow a tutorial to create a Virtual Machine to play those games that won't work with linux
ditched windows 2 years ago. never looked back and couldn't be happier
I'm on Linux for 7 years already (single boot), i went through lots of distros and learning. Now I'm building another machine with windows 11, and unlike 7 years ago I'm totally free of microsoft, I don't care if they ruin the usability or whatnot, it isn't my system, I just use it like in a library to run CAD softwere or things that I don't have in linux. switching is easy with kvm. No need to choose, use both, linux machine can be relatively old, without good graphics card.
Come to the Linux side, we have Package Managers!
So does Windows.
@@madthumbs1564 Wait what?!
@@speedyfox9080 conan, NuGet, chocolatey. But based on my experience, they're not really integrated well. I have to re-login for PATH variable become updated
@@KangJangkrik I think Winget is more popular. Not really sure. Haven't used Windows in months.
@@madthumbs1564 never use that too. I rather manually install programs on windows
I really like the cinnamon spin of Fedora with one exception, the dnfdragon package manager that's installed on that spin.
I like to play around with Linux but there's definitely some things preventing me from completely switching over. Would like to use mint/fedora/Manjaro as a main os and have a virtual box running windows. Maybe another running a Mac os lol.
Maybe, yeah 🙃
ahh
i wouldn't recommend most of ubuntu derivatives because they are pushing snap too much
i also wouldn't say snaps are bad but when user apt install sth and gets a snap version... canonical just shouldnt do it
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forgot to say good job for ur linux content :D
I agree on the snap problem. They seem to be forcing it far to agressive in my opinion
Well linux mint then
I've been dualbooting using Windows and Linux MX. I'll fully switch to Fedora when this Uni session ends.
I am one graphics card upgrade away from binning windows. The one item of software I rely on runs perfectly on wine. But the performance hit just about makes it unfeasible. So frustrating.
Used Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, GalliumOS(On a chromebook) and NixOS(Chromebook as well).
Only tried Fedora recently but I found LM to be my favorite if I want to throw something and have it work, it has some issues but I like using apt so I'm willing to deal with them later or ignore them.
NixOS on my chromebook with i3wm is fun, though. But I still don't really get Nix config aside from getting it to a state where I can daily drive it when I want minimalism.
I also tend to prefer the default DE setups with minor tweaking on my end.
MATE, GNOME 2, GNOME 3, GNOME4x, Unity, XFCE, LXDM(?), like a few versions of Plasma I've tried, i3wm and SWAY are the DEs I've tried. I found myself really liking MATE, and GNOME43 is probably my favorite implementation of Wayland. GNOME2 was really cool at the time, LXDM too when it was Linux Mint's default, it looks pretty ugly uncustomized though. XFCE is cool on weaker machines. i3wm is good if you're way more of a keyboard person and prefer to minimise using your mouse, I really like it but it does require configuration to work like you want it to(multimedia keys don't work without you specifying them in its config), so I don't tend to use it on my main machine over my secondary. Sway I don't like as much, either because I'm not familiar enough with Wayland and how it works, or the lack of tools like xkbcomp on Wayland makes it really rough. I didn't have the best experience with KDE, the two times I used it I ended up replacing it very quickly, I think I just don't like its default settings and default apps.
I WAS IN THE ALMOST SAME SITUATION, but I bought a Xbox Series X to play Destiny 2 and other games with anti cheat, I just can't with Windows anymore I am using Pop OS and I am loving it so much
I recently permanently jumped shipped as well! No more BSOD or invasive telemetry.
Endeavor - it's arch, and has less issues for me than Manjaro. I've had very few issues with it. But I do prefer plasma to gnome (although I've tried the gnome experience and it seems to work well).
use arch not that broken clones like manjaro etc
I switched 3 years ago to Arch Linux, I would recommend Manjaro as it breaks and d-doses the Arch repose, instead use something like EndeavourOS(using it for work).
Anyways nice video :)
for dual boot is better to have different disks and choose at boot time, NTFS games should be linked from another library, using the same one directly is a bad idea for many reasons, but you can do a symbolic link per game or per common folder in a library that has the ones you know are running with proton, yes I now, is a lot of thinking but I think is worth it, another thing, ntfs-3g needs a plugin to read xpress/lzx compressed files (if you use that)
Not anymore 😅
Yeah I got rid of windows about a year back on my desktop and laptop. Couldn't be happier. A life without windows is a much happier life.
Hey, installing Davinci Resolve on Fedora with Nvidia is kind of a hassle, I don't remember from the top of my head right now, but iirc you'd need to start it from the terminal and see which file was missing/conflicting, then either delete or download that file and voi-la!
Yeah, there is a dependency missing
2 months ago I banished windows into virtual machine hell and it feels so good. I usually boot up VM to play windows only games and it never triggers anti cheat for my usual multiplayer games. That's a huge win.
Not to mention my AMD card works like a charm and stable diffusion with ROCm is literally ten times faster than on windows. Virtual machine with passthrough does skew the performance results for windows but not 90% loss. That's an "AMD on windows" issue.
Manjaro is my main distro. Not too complicated as people say but same, pacman is my new nightmare. I just can't get to learn it, searching stuff and so on...
I fully swapped over a year ago and it has been one of the most liberating things i've done.
If you don’t play video games but need to use Windows exclusive apps from time to time you can always is install Win on QEMU/KVM and booting Win VM is less hassle than dual booting.
Super awesome! I'm still in that camp where I do 99% of stuff on OpenSUSE and Win10 is basically my "Ok I finally have time to game" OS. Especially for stuff that's multiplayer with friends.
For people who have a little bit of experience, I absolutely love OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. NVidia drivers are running no problem, everything works great, and YAST is super handy. I've had a FEW hiccups here and there from updates, but for a rolling-release distro it's crazy solid. I'm sure Leap works great too! The default experience with KDE is just nifty and I love it. :)
Now that you're 100% Linux, what are you using to edit your videos? :)
I use Davinci Resolve. Not open source, but a very solid, professional and free tool
I use Archlabs which is almost exactly like Arch Linux and I use the LTS kernel. Knock on wood, didn't have problems with packages breaking for two years already. It's quite reliable and stable and it is always rolling, so that ticks all my boxes.
I made the full switch too. My gaming pc is just an xbox now basically
I'm happy for you. Currently I still can't fully move to Linux yet for desktop because I need to use Parsec for remote gaming and work. I'll be happy to move to Linux once I found an alternative for Parsec in Linux.
For Hosting or Connecting to a Host?
Linux (Ubuntu at least), is supported by them for connecting to a Host
@@MichaelNROH Mostly for hosting because I played some of my games on my PC with my friends. Also I played some games portably sometimes from my Android phone. For client, I don't think there is any issue there.
If I'm recommending a Linux to a user I'd say Mint because as a derivative it's had all the tuning to make it perfect. However when I want a base OS for a project I'd used Debian and then chose what to install.
I'm running Pop_OS and Windows 7 because of Fortnite and Microsoft 365 apps and it was great choice for me to switch
GOOD FOR YOU BUD!! Now we gotta get you into a full arch user
You can try 😅
My last use for Windows is Halo: MCC because of EAC. But I've read recently that compatibility with Linux is being worked on, but it's not just a simple flip of a switch to fix.
It did already work previously with some tinkering I think. But now it's becoming official 🙂
@@MichaelNROH Yup. Before, it only worked offline. So you could play the campaign and local multiplayer. What's being worked on is EAC support so that Linux can for the first time play online multiplayer!
If I could get War Zone working on Linux I would use it full time, great video by the way!
I'm a gamer mostly, so I've been stuck with Windows... It's kind of difficult to get certain games I want to play working in Linux, specifically Assetto Corsa. I like Linux for the amount of customization you can do with the OS, but Windows just works better for gaming, even if it is a resource hog... I would love to give Linux some more tries to see which distro is best for me (I like the KDE desktop, so I look for distros with a KDE option), but my games hold me back 😞
Thats the beauty of Linux! You can choose whats best for you and your needs and NOT what somebody else thinks you want and need. I started out dual booting Pop! and Windows 10, then went full Pop!. Now I'm on Manjaro and I couldn't be happier.
I moved fully to Linux from Windows in 2020 - and I tried many distros... Pop_OS, Mint, Ubuntu, clear ARCH, Manjaro… Even later, I tried using the non-official SteamOS 3.0 - HoloISO
but still Mint seems like the best pick - yes, mostly because it was most "windows alike for me" but also since it is Debian / Ubuntu based - I can search for many things i am having problems with, without making search specifically for "Mint" I can search UA-cam or forums for same problem but writing "Ubuntu" in search and I have much more answers and tutorials :D
Only thing I am missing - is that I cannot play latest CoD because of the AC :<
Tho the size of the OS and how lite weight it is on the resources, makes me really happy with my "older budget" devices i am only able to build :D
i dual booted with windows and mx linux for about 2 months but found myself using linux a lot more not missing it one bit as for gaming most of my games i play run on my linux setup
I still have a windows 10 partition, but i plan to replace it with a vm soon, mainly because my friends want me to play some games that the anticheat doesn't work on linux yet
Be careful with VM's and Anti Cheat tough. Many game publishers and developers don't allow for the use of VM's and even if they won't detect it right away, it's still a bit risky.
@@MichaelNROH Idc tbh, if i get banned its one less garbage game for my friends to bug me into playing even tho they know its not possible on Linux
@@MichaelNROH if they wont give me any option other than running proprietary spyware in my pc to play their game then i guess i don't want to play their games
@@GabrielM01 Exactly. Their game should not be successful and by not playing you let it die hopefully giving them a hint. Gamer's need to unite and stop this cash grab madness this industry has become.
@@durschfalltv7505 that's the goal, vote with your wallet
"You don't know the power of the LINUX side..."
Coming from ChromeOS going to opensuse tumbleweed.
I literally cannot miss anything if there was nothing to miss in the first place
Yeah, I've been looking at the Nobara project too and I'm still pretty interested in it, but depending on one person (with the support of a few other people) doesn't seem very smart to me. Also, the distro is relatively new, which is another risk. I hope the distro grows and gets more support because Fedora, while pretty good, does have a few shortcomings. For example the lack of some very basic programs (ffmpeg, gstreamer) because of licensing stuff which makes it basically a requirement to add rpmfusion, which you will not find within the distro itself. It's not an easy button in the appstore to enable those. You have to go to their website and either click on random buttons on the website or use the terminal commands. That's simply not user friendly which is why I hope nobara grows bigger. Also the fedora installer is, in my upmost honest opinion, trash (But I know they are working on a new one and I've already seen screenshots and so far it seems much better).
I think the installer now has a toggle that enables rpmfusion now if am not mistaking.
@Ramdom Dude Agreeing with you here and why I not using it too. IMO, Nobara should just be a custom script to transform the lastest Fedora into its gaming counterpart, not a whole distro you need to download. There is no point in building a whole new distro when everything done is just a big customization of Fedora.
Nobara enthusiast here. After years of distro-hopping I finally settled on the RHEL family. Nobara for gaming, Fedora for most non-gaming desktops, AlmaLinux (a Red Hat clone) for older people. The last one for their 10 years release cycle.
Anyway, welcome to the fulltime Linux user group!
I'm already Windows FREE since 1997.
For those who think that Linux is harder than Windows is actually wrong.
I love the very simple GNOME setting compared to the complex Windows setting.
Regarding 5:02: The simplest way to get a vanilla gnome experience in Ubuntu is to install the "gnome-session" package. After reboot (re-login should also work), it's possible to select a GNOME session (X11 or Wayland) in the login manager and the GNOME desktop is running with the default layout. It's also possible to install "vanilla-gnome-desktop" which installs additional GNOME software.
Instead of the risks of dual booting, I got a SATA power switch module and just give power to the drive I want to boot from. I have a partitioned NVMe 2 terabyte data drive that Windows and Linux share- Windows has a NTFS partition on it and Fedora has a BTRFS partition. This setup works flawlessly without any problems from dual booting. And in Fedora, it takes less than a minute to install non-free codecs and drivers and they have a gaming spin.
I switched to Linux when I got sick of windows updates. I think it is good for new users to use something non Windows like so they will stick around.
Might be finally giving fedora a try soon... Just for the experience. I use Arch btw.
I dumped Windows in 1998 and still use it, but my normal work machines are macs now, it makes more sense for photo editing, but Windows has never re-entered my home. My linux favor is Ubuntu with KDE, it feels more professional than gnome.
You use what you need, but also want to support open source. I like it 😄
@@MichaelNROH I use Windows only because I have to for the office part of my job :-D Linux is the work horse and privately I have my herd of Raspberries and Macs.