"talking about 2025 as the year of Linux desktop which they've been saying every year I think" Me: totally (as a Linux user of 2 years)
@TechnoMinded-qp5in
3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile you can remain secure on Linux without the use of TPM 2.0 Microsoft doesn't even care then fine time for the switch goodbye Microsucks and good riddens!
@trajectoryunown
3 ай бұрын
I don't think the _majority_ of people are going to jump ship, but Linux is definitely going to get a big surge in users once Win10 reaches EoL. I've seen waaay too much disappointment in Win11 and corresponding curiosity about Linux for that not to be the case. So, the fabled "Year of Linux"? Probably not. But Linux could very well rival or even overtake MacOS by 2026 just from whatever percentage of Windows users decide to run Linux and stick with it. I believe that to be a reasonable prediction. If that happens, software companies like Adobe might actually start taking Linux support seriously, which will draw in more users. Then maybe we can finally get a modernized Discord release that uses Pipewire and handles screen recording properly under Wayland without relying on weird workarounds.
@Demonspeeding251
3 ай бұрын
@@trajectoryunown Definitely not since 90% have no idea that Linux even exists but there definitely are more and more moving over which is pretty cool to see.
@johanb.7869
3 ай бұрын
Mine started in 2017. Never used Windows again.
@craigtrish2011
3 ай бұрын
Couldn't even switch from borderless to fullscreen during a game on linux without it freezing. It's linux's inability to do basic functions without breaking that stop people. It's awful
@CrescentRollCarl
3 ай бұрын
I've been using it as my daily since 1999 and I love watching these types of videos. Great job. Obviously I think its worth it. It's been such a huge part of my life and its exciting to see the ecosystem continue to grow. If I can live in Linux for 25 years, I think most people can too. Even my 74 year old parents use linux now.
@TechnoMinded-qp5in
3 ай бұрын
NSA can get bent what they're doing is illegal it's a government Operating System don't use Windows in 2024!
@cholst1
3 ай бұрын
I once worked tech support for an internet company, and a 90 year old grandma called in wanting help setting up email, turns out shes running ubuntu, and only needed the pop/smtp info as she knew how to sort everything else herself. This was back in 2008-09. Personally daily driving since about that time myself, and boy has life gotten easier :D
@TerrorSyxke
3 ай бұрын
You gotta post videos
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Totally agree.. its great to see how far it has come. And also agree that for many "mainstream" use cases it is a great option for parents/grandparents. One of the things I worry about with other products is the feature they will enable and data they will collect and most users won't notice because they just want a simple machine that works. For now it seems like linux is a safer bet in that regard.
@crsv7armhl
Ай бұрын
Yep, I got my 80+ year old parents running debian with Gnome. My dad would install anything and everything in Windows which caused issues so it was nice to show him a GUI repo and say "install whatever you want thats in there"
@OspaykO
3 ай бұрын
Ubuntu has a KDE version called Kubuntu. Regarding your issues with Fedora, it is generally not recommended to manually install drivers like that precisely because it can cause issues with updated kernels later. For Fedora, the easiest way to install Nvidia drivers is to first enable RPM Fusion, which will add the Nvidia drivers to your repositories, and just install the Nvidia drivers via the package manager. This way you don't have to worry about kernel updates breaking drivers in the future.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Will check that out.
@luisele
3 ай бұрын
Exactly. And not only is it Ubuntu + KDE Plasma, in my opinion it is the best implementation of the Plasma desktop that you can find on Linux. Years with Kubuntu and it is wonderful.
@ThePlainEssence
2 ай бұрын
Also, remember not to reboot after updating immediately. Wait a few minutes first, because it will build the kernel module in the background.
@yigitorhan7654
2 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf If you do a reinstall, try out distrobox to get Resolve working.
@EremittV
Ай бұрын
@@ThePlainEssenceif you don’t do that it will just do it at boot. You just have to understand where the black screen comes from.
@MrAlhaines
3 ай бұрын
I've used Linux for 30+ years and started with Slackware 1.0 which came on 18 floppy discs. I now use Linux Mint as my daily driver and keep a spare drive for distro hopping. I have not found anything as smooth as Mint, it can be customized but works out of the box! If you still use Windows it may be time to try true freedom.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
You didn't have to use all of those floppy disks. Just the first two. Boot and root. The rest could be on other media. But I guess if anyone wanted the pure experience then floppy disks it is. I used to buy distros on CDs. But I did download Slackware 8 off the Internet using a dial up connection. That only took me 3 days to do. All 128 MB of it.
@NicholasBrownC
3 ай бұрын
For the AAC audio issue in your video editing section: You can use FFMPEG with a shell script to setup an automatic video ingestion workflow. Something that grabs your files from your camera, moves them to your Synology NAS and then re-encodes them in the background. Also make sure you're re-encoding just the audio. Takes much less time.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Agree.. I think someone else pointed this out as well.. I was reencoding the whole thing which is adding a ton of time.
@tuulikk2
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf I think I read a comment about Handbrake also could do the audio part quite fast. I have not tried, but I find it quite fast at reeencoding video files between formats and creating smaller file sizes at same quality. Other than that, one can also create a Python script to do things in batch.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf ffmpeg is the go to for encoding. But if you want it hardware accelerated I think you're going to have to build that yourself. I would characterize it as non-trivial.
@Sierra410
3 ай бұрын
If only the _audio_ codec isn't supported, you can just re-encode the audio alone without touching the video stream. Re-encoding audio takes next to no time. Hours of audio take, at worst, minutes. As for image editing: there's also Krita*. Compared to GIMP and Photoshop, Krita is much, much closer to Photoshop, in terms of both features and UI/UX (there's even an extension for it that adds machine learning image generation, à la Photoshop's Firefly!) *Yes, Krita is marketed as a tool for "digital art". No, it doesn't mean it's a bad general purpose image editor. Digital art includes _a lot_ if different techniques, so any good tool for digital art has to be capable of all types of image manipulations and then some.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Great points, thank you! And I will check out Krita.
@terranscope
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf About Krita..I am a graphic artist and used photoshop extensively. Since i started to draw i decided to try Krita and LOVED it. ITs really as close as you can get on a free app i think.
@nou712
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf I think you'd be better off getting photoshop to work under WINE. Like come on, WINE exists for a reason.
@_Enenra
3 ай бұрын
@@nou712 Can't tell if you are being sarcastic or not. In case you are not, have you actually tried doing it? Unless you are willing to settle for a really outdated version, it's straight up impossible. I tried everything from 2020-2024 and failed because the installer shows a blank white screen and freezes. Anyways, almost everyone's way better off using Krita. I really liked Photoshop for years, used it for thumbnails and game assets. Switching to Krita a few months ago was such a huge improvement. It's far more responsive, near instant open/close times, insanely good format support etc. I am not gonna pretend to be an expert photo editor or say that Krita is just better than Photoshop for everything, but so far, all the things I've tried have just worked better in Krita.
@minion3806
3 ай бұрын
@@_Enenra you can get a semi-recent version of photoshop to work, but not without issues all the same. If you search 'Photoshop for linux' you should find a result for a github page with a script installer to automate getting photoshop CC 2022 to work via wine. But again it's not issue free so krita may be better as it's natively supported
@EquaTechnologies
3 ай бұрын
30 days Linux challenge? More like 30 years!
@EricParker
3 ай бұрын
Some distros don't handle the NVIDIA drivers very well. Some distros get political about "nonfree" software such as NV drivers, which just makes the installation painful. Ubuntu is nice because it's a point release (not rolling, major parts of the system don't change within version).
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
I run Debian which is as political as it gets with FLOSS and Debian has the binary Nvidia driver. You just enable the non-free repo and you're on your way.
@OldManJimmy1
3 ай бұрын
I have migrated to Linux Mint on all my computers and am ready enjoying the change.
@TerrorSyxke
3 ай бұрын
Good pick, your computers will run till the hardware fails now
@CesarPeron
3 ай бұрын
@@TerrorSyxke
@SharockoRAZR
3 ай бұрын
What is your use case for Mint? I am so close to switching but theres just a few games that i really want to play that cant run on linux
@OldManJimmy1
3 ай бұрын
@@SharockoRAZR I am a gamer too, I found a setting in Steam that has allowed me to run almost every game I could in Windows. Go to the game in Steam, on the right side of the screen click on "Manage" or the gear icon. Then click on Properties and in the pop up window on the left side click on Compatibility and check the box to Force the use of a specific Steam Play compatibly tool. Then Proton will be used to make your windows game download and play on Linux. I am a 3D printer too and have found all my slicers in Linux versions one way or another. Cheers and happy Linux Gaming!!!!
@CesarPeron
3 ай бұрын
@@SharockoRAZR Dualboot and keep going
@darran311
3 ай бұрын
i started with libre office , but i found that only office has better compatibility with microsoft office , so if you do run into any issues at any point ....
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Thx, will check that out if the use cases get more complex.
@crsv7armhl
Ай бұрын
I am not understanding the Davinci Resolve AAC licensing issue. If it were licensing then Windows would also have the same issue
@aronhidvegi
2 ай бұрын
As a Fedora Linux user, I must agree that installing NVIDIA drivers on Fedora is a less-than-simple process. I recently wanted to switch from KDE Plasma spin to Sway tiling WM spin on Fedora 40 because I was getting more and more annoyed with certain things in KDE Plasma (these things probably wouldn't bother the average Joe) I installed Sway spin, and went to install my NVIDIA drivers using the instructions on RPM fusion. I have done this process before, but for some reason, NVIDIA decided it needed an active X server to work. All this nonsense resulted in me just giving up on tiling window managers, and made me go over to just using XFCE, which I chose for its lightweights and also for the near infinite customization.
@KevPez-IS
3 ай бұрын
I started to used Mint after the recent recall stuff by Microsoft. Apparently a chunk of our concerns are potentially less serious with Recall? For example, you need Windows Hello every time you access Recall, but not in the beta version that was hacked. That said, still lots of concerns. Legit enjoy using Linux! Intending to stay
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Yeah.. lot of concerns.. security appears to be an issue with msft right now and recall layered on top is not confidence inspiring.
@KevPez-IS
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf apparently recall is tied directly to Windows Hello now. So that makes it much much more secure in terms of hacks…but it’s still windows. And done trust Microsoft with this info anyway?
@craigtrish2011
3 ай бұрын
Recall isn't even gonna be available to the majority of pcs for a long time seeing as it's only made for snapdragon currently. Yall are just drama queen's
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
I would think they would extend recall to any pc with a reasonable gpu at some point..
@sociallyferal4237
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf Security is one of my concerns with Linux. Mostly the lack of security products. I know people go on about how safe Linux is because its not Windows, but a did see a security channel video which mentioned that due to all the Linux web servers, there are almost as many viruses/malware targeting them as Windows ones. As someone barely Linux toe dipping and used to decades of AV it feels quite the vulnerability that pure bravado feels a bit foolhardy. Though I am probably just missing technical info. 🤣
@_boux
3 ай бұрын
11:33 with the right ffmpeg parameters you can re-encode ONLY the audio portion of a video file. Which would only take a minute, if not seconds on a multi-gigabyte video file. something like "ffmpeg -i bigvideo.mp4 -acodec mp3 -vcodec copy output.mp4" I just tried with a 75 minutes long video and it took me about 25 seconds to convert from aac to mp3 it took me 5 seconds for the same 75 minutes video to convert from aac to flac, but the filesize is much bigger, I think the bottleneck was literally the write speed of my SSD
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@androth1502
3 ай бұрын
after living in linux for just over half a year, i came back to windows. while i can live in linux if windows were to disappear and i definitely will never buy an apple product, i find that there is no daily driver use case for linux that windows doesn't offer an equal or better experience. after trying out several linux distros, i found the best linux distro lived in the operating system that i have always been using. WSL on windows is just the best linux experience available... you get everything good about linux, with the the stability and hardware support of windows.
@qwerty-password
3 ай бұрын
everything good with linux includes privacy and control though. Not getting that with Windows at all
@Pyro-Moloch
3 ай бұрын
@@qwerty-password Yeah, pretty much the only reason I switched to Linux was because Windows 10 was pissing me off with the updates and then deleted some of my installed games/apps on 3 separate occasions. Using Windows at this point is like if you purchase a house, and then one day you're coming home from somewhere and there are people standing at the gate, not letting you in, saying they're doing maintenance inside. And when they finally go away, you go inside and find out that some of your possessions were stolen.
@sheldonkupa9120
3 ай бұрын
Agree to all you said, balanced opinions👍 I looked into linux in the early nineties, but what brought me back to actually using it was ubuntu in 2008. First time in my life my hardware was just supported oob. Thats what they perfected back then. And for my devices its still true. Fedora still doesnt support Macbook Air 2012 out of the box, Ubuntu since ever. Nowadays snap is a nightmare, but you can get rid of it. I am just testing how it holds up. In parallel i tested Debian, Fedora, Endeavour OS (like it😄) and a lot of others. They are all a little more in need of handcrafting. But you need a replacement once ubuntu takes even more wrong turns, so be prepared....
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
snap really is a pain.. this is my first experience with it and it has been disappointing
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
Ubuntu is a good starter distro but I don't think many would stick with it long term. I would characterize Ubuntu as a kitchen sinker. Ubuntu is going to throw absolutely everything it possibly can at you. Which is good if you don't know what you want. But eventually you may not want everything. Then it's harder to get rid of stuff than it is to just pick what you do want. Then it's time to move onto a more minimal distro and lay it up by hand.
@GraniteFaun
2 ай бұрын
9:30 yes this is also the case with any other cloud application on linux, like insync, onedriver or the nextcloud client. There is no possibility for virtual files like on windows.
@crsv7armhl
Ай бұрын
I will also say this was a very honest good review. I have used linux since 2007 and it is refreshing for someone to say "hey I have this weird stuff which of course doesn't work well without a lot of effort, but all these normal things work just fine."
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
29 күн бұрын
Thanks! It definitely is not all unicorns and rainbows, but has come a long way!
@0_0298
3 ай бұрын
The fact when you said linux is a games changes for old laptop instead of high cost laptop is very interesting
@GoldenBeans
3 ай бұрын
me: wait its a mainstream trend? i thought it was just my youtube algorithm catering to show linux
@rbush2335
Ай бұрын
For many months I have been distro hopping to find ones that suit me. Ubuntu an Mint worked fine out of the box but I wanted to try others first. Almost all of them had some annoying bugs which I was unable to resolve. I settled on Garuda for my gaming PC, Mint for my media PC and MX for my laptop and main work PC. KDE Neon 6 also worked well on all PC's and the laptop. Buggy ones--- (either buggy out of the box or after updates) POP OS, Nitrux (really liked this one except for the bugs), Zorin, Manjaro, Debian, Fedora. There were others but I don't remember them. I spent many hours chasing fixes and gave up in the end.
@zherka_pill
11 күн бұрын
Daily driver Linux for 3 months. Loving the customisation option. And I ended on arch + dwm not going back to windows
@MeraMadness
3 ай бұрын
I started to use Linux from 2007 to 2009, and then I switch to a mac from 2009 to 2016, and then I switch to a normal PC with Windows 8 until 2018, because I switch back to Linux with Fedora, and it was amazing, nowadays, I use Arch, because I'm too lazy to switch back Fedora.
@bitterseeds
9 күн бұрын
I just mount my Synology via SMB3 to ~/nas/ and then use rsync. I'm sure there is another way to sync but I'm very comfortable with rsync. I'll be honest, I like it mounted as a local directory and didn't even look at the Synology Linux apps.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
8 күн бұрын
The original tools often work the best.. don't they..
@ZeWekThor
3 ай бұрын
I've been running CachyOS for two months now and pretty happy with it. Tried TuxedoOS before on my desktop as I have a Tuxedo Notebook for work but it didn't really go together with my Nvidia graphics card. CachyOS just worked out of the box. For certain tasks I just have a Windows VM on hand (the occasional OneNote shenanigans for work) but everything else just runs better on Linux.
@Diggy22
3 ай бұрын
I’ve been using Linux Mint, Ubuntu MATE, and Lubuntu on my machines. For office work, photo editing, and web productivity, they’re great. I will say that gaming on Linux Mint has been a mixed bag. While older games play well, newer ones keep giving me a message about “Direct3D” needing to be detected, even though I installed the driver to my internal GPU. Small complaint in the long run, as everything else has been awesome.
@Sierra410
3 ай бұрын
Direct3D is DirectX's rendering API, which is Windows exclusive. So, naturally, it doesn't exist on Linux natively and isn't going to be provided by any drivers. Stock Wine has a rudimentary implementation of the older APIs, but it's generally not suitable for playing the vast majority of games. What you want for those is DXVK (dx9,10,11) or VKD3D (dx12) which are projects that can translate d3d into Vulkan (naturally, the GPU has to support Vulkan). If you're using Steam's Proton to play games, those would be included by default. If you're using wine manually, you'd have to install them yourself. The easiest way is to use Lutris and let it install and manage everything.
@ze-ph9774
2 ай бұрын
Man, I could relate to the OneDrive issue. Multiple times I have disabled it and it just mysteriously turns itself back on again. That, and also other services I didn't want. Tested Linux Mint and found out that applications I use from work also have a Linux alternative. Decided to dual boot and made Windows as a backup for applications that do not work on Linux space. Plus, you can game on Linux now albeit not perfect but almost everything works in my use case.
@linuxMaggott
2 ай бұрын
Another photo editor for the linux that is over looked is Krita its more a paint/drawing program but it can be used to edit photos and there is also Inkscape to edit vector graphics
@matveyshishov
2 ай бұрын
Welcome back! Hopefully the more switch, the more work is done on making Linux usable for non-technical folks.
@dinkidink5912
3 ай бұрын
Nice to see a fellow sim racer, I switched my HTPC over to Linux when Windows 7 support ended. I had Linux experience from building my own NAS and eventually switched all my desktops over to Linux, except the Sim Rig of course :) I went with Mint to start which is a great distro but nowadays run Debian with Cinnamon for the DE, except my HTPC which is still on Mint because it works and I'm a bit lazy to change it to Debian :) I do run Windows in a VM on all my desktops just for MS Office.
@GIRGHGH
3 ай бұрын
If they just keep saying it's the year of the linux desktop eventually it'll happen right? In all seriousness i think it would actually be a terrible sign if they gave up. Motivation to rise up to the big guys is a major reason for the rapid progress of linux. I don't think it'll ever suddenly jump in popularity, but the rate it's going probably wont slow down. I give it two years to at least being as usable as windows, even if it doesn't achieve feature parity.
@takaruku8128
Ай бұрын
yeah unfortunately the Davinci window size issue, is a gnome issue. obviously a kde Ubuntu version would not have that issue but it's not something Ubuntu themselves would fix
@DVictor23
2 ай бұрын
Gimp is not good enough to replace Photoshop but there are actual good replacements like krita. And gaming on Linux is better than on windows performance wise.
@GoonyMclinux
3 ай бұрын
Im a normal average everyday dum dum with a GED and I have been using Linux as my main since slackware 1.0, the trick is don't expect linux to be windows.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it's the people that come from Windows and want Linux to be Windows that end up being disappointed. But slowly Linux is getting more like Windows all the time.
@samshort365
3 ай бұрын
I have been using Linux for 24 years and I'm still learning something new. The problem with Linux adoption isn't Linux, it's the fact that most people associate the operating system with the computer. Nobody can say I just bought a Linux PC, but everyone buys Windows PCs, due of course, to OEM deals and market monopolies. That will not changed anytime soon and would probably take unprecedented anticompetition deliberations government would never undertake. That only leaves individuals to make a change and sure a rain storm is made up of individual drops of water, but this momentum will never match the power of the corporate behemoth that drives the market. Nevertheless, I make it my goal to increase a Linux awareness wherever and whenever I can.
@satyamevajayate7263
3 ай бұрын
I use Fedora and I must say one should never try fedora when switching from Windows or Mac. Anaconda installer is not newbie friendly. Try fedora when you have a bit intuition and know how to do little troubleshoot by yourself. Fedora itself is one of my favourite distributions besides KDE neon.
@vamsi8669
2 ай бұрын
For the 80% zoom issue, try disabling the enhanced or advanced tiling in the settings, this may fix the issue
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
2 ай бұрын
Will try it!
@tuulikk2
3 ай бұрын
It's not like Linux is without Photo editors, it actually have quite a few. But they are more a Lightroom alternative than a Photoshop alternative. There are apps like Darktable, RawTherapee, Showfoto, Ansel (Looks to be based on Darktable with lots of rewrites and new stuff), Art (looks to be based on RawTherapee but simpler), Pixelitor.
@Danzkrr
3 ай бұрын
Linux in general may not be the best, but with community support and more recognition from companies, it can certainly become the best-not in the world, but for us now.
@TechnoMinded-qp5in
3 ай бұрын
Time to antitrust the NSA I'm done with this company screwing me over on a computer and I am not being baited this time to trash it I'm switching over to Garuda just to get away from Microsucks.
@itsL0F1
3 ай бұрын
I dual booted Ubunto,Mint,Garuda , fedora , cachyos and still cannot control the brightness of my laptop I can change value but no effects happening thats the only thing keeping me away from switching to linux :/
@themadoneplays7842
3 ай бұрын
Yeah NVIDIA installation in fedora is a bit rough since it cannot legally give out drivers by default. Yes there is an easy way to install nvidia drivers in fedora that isnt that bad but it is a bit out of the way compared to Ubuntu.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
Why can't Fedora distribute Nvidia binary drivers? Every other distro can. Does Nvidia just hate Fedora?
@themadoneplays7842
2 ай бұрын
@@1pcfred well it's an American-based distro and a high-profile one too. Its one thing for say a smaller flavor like MX linux to offer them (also American based) but fedora has ties to redhat.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
@@themadoneplays7842 Nvidia expressly grants distribution rights to OSI-approved open source operating systems in clause 1 d So are you suggesting that somehow Fedora is not an OSI-approved open source operating system? Red Hat is an OSI sponsor. So something tells me that OSI is cool with Red Hat.
@themadoneplays7842
2 ай бұрын
@@1pcfred you still have patents to contend with though, as that is why fedora cant distribute h264 codecs out of the box anymore. again, even if fedora has relations with Red Hat its still subject to patent laws. Its why debian doesnt ship the nvida driver support out of the box.
@1pcfred
2 ай бұрын
@@themadoneplays7842 of course Debian ships Nvidia's driver. I'm using it right now. I already told you it is explicitly allowed in the license. It's right there in black and white. Any Linux distro that doesn't have Nvidia's binary driver is doing it intentionally on their own. Not because Nvidia told them they can't.
@johanb.7869
3 ай бұрын
I already switched to Linux in 2017. But I don't game, code, develop or any of the things you do or others. Just e-mail and the world wide web.
@gagesilveira6694
3 ай бұрын
I appretiate your presentation of linux and your honesty. My personal linux story started in 2006 with ubuntu and i was hooked. I did my best then to run it as my main OS however, linux of the time was prone to hardware incompatability and it was not uncommon for updates to break things that my 13ish year old self could not fix. Combine that with very poor support for games of any kind even including some browser games i could never make a full clean break from windows. And i would switch back an dfourth many times over the years. I did however use linux as my main productivity OS during my time in college starting around 2013 using windows only for gaming. Around 2018 since i mainly used my pc for gaming i would ditch linux entirely and only run windows 10 for years. The exception to all of this has been on my home server pcs which mostly ran minecraft and file servers which were always some version of ubuntu server. Fast foreward to 2022 and i decided to give linux another shot and after distro hopping a few times and finding i no longer like the feel of ubuntu desktop. Not a fan of newer gnome and snap packages. Also missed the AUR from playing woth Arch. I settled on manjaro with i3 window manager and it has been everything my 13 year old self could have ever wished for in 2007 it is snappy fast and lightweight, customisable beyond belief and with proton and steam i can run all the games i regularly play as well as discord and my other regularly used applications. I can honestly say that if it werent for Call of Dutys ridiculous anti cheat i would completely get rid of windows as linux has simply worked with minimal issues for going on 2 years now as a desktop OS. The fact is that years ago when you wanted to be a linux user you had to dedicate a good majority of your time to making the operating system a hobby in itself and i feel that linux has moved to the point where you dont have to make the operating system your priority when using it. You can simply play your game or do whatever else you are going to do with the system and just forget youre using linux like you do with windows or osx. Also for servers linux in my experience is unmatched i run a rack server with nextcloud, multiple minecraft servers, openvpn, ntfy, and a osx virtual machine running a bluebubbles server so that i can use imessage from my android phone and all that runs 24-7 with almost no issues caused by the os and wothout the ability of linux to be so configurable i dont think i could do that. The tl;dr of my above book is that linux has finally gotten itself out of the way so you can just use your pc as a pc and not as a linux toy.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
"The tl;dr of my above book is that linux has finally gotten itself out of the way so you can just use your pc as a pc and not as a linux toy." Totally agree!
@gagesilveira6694
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hfI will add that the beauty of Linux is the ability to choose how deep you'd like to go. For some simply using base Ubuntu with the snap store will cover all their bases for others arch seems more appealing with it's all in approach. I find myself in the middle and have learned I have somewhat odd preferences for UI which I would have never been able to explore on windows or osx. My "hot take" though is I don't believe there will be a "year of the Linux desktop" the vast majority of people who even have contact with PCs are completely uninterested in the system itself. On top of that is I see far fewer people younger than me even using PCs at all. The majority of work can be done on tablets and phones now and a growing number of people younger than me only come into contact with PCs at work for their email. The only way I see that year coming is if PC manufacturers started shipping majority Linux PCs which I don't think will happen. It's been tried in the past. I remember dell used to have an Ubuntu option on some PCs and it never caught on. The steam deck is unique in this but most people will not recognize the fact that it is in essence a PC they will see it more like a Nintendo Switch or any other handheld console; As it's own entity. The people who care about operating system may start switching over though and that's as close as we'll get to a "year of the Linux desktop" but in reality that's a small portion of the market. That's all ok with me though as it seems things will just keep getting better for the people who care.
@richardbaker4974
2 ай бұрын
I would recommend Linux mint xfce or mate for beginners. Apple and windows have app stores. Ubuntu gnome for mac users. Most other distros are more difficult for beginners.
@AntoonStessels
3 ай бұрын
12:30 Are you sure this hasn't to do with Ubuntu's new tiling assistent manager extension? It sometimes makes my windows jump around oddly as well. You might want to try switching it off via the Extension Manager, or open up a Gnome Session (if you have it installed).
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Could be, thanks for pointing that out, I will give it a look.
@jakobw135
Ай бұрын
I've been using Windows since 3.1, and I don't remember EVER having to deal with any kind of RECALL. It seems that certain Linux enthusiasts want to blame EVEN the extinction of the dinosaurs - on Windows! 😂
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
Ай бұрын
:) I'm not thrilled with the idea of recall at all. To me they aren't clear about the roi on it. I am risking my data and privacy for what? Being able to find something faster.. seems like I'm risking much more than I'm getting.
@jakobw135
Ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf But ACAIN, your're assuming recall, and I haven't, and don't, see any EVIDENCE for that.
@JohnSmith-lc1ml
29 күн бұрын
I hate how fedora doesnt ship common software and packages like other distro's
@reigan42
25 күн бұрын
Ultramarine does it’s based on fedora.
@JohnSmith-lc1ml
25 күн бұрын
@@reigan42 Yeah there are fedora based distros that ship sane default packages. I use nobara and its comes with all the codecs and packages you'd expect. But then people try base fedora and have issues due to missing codecs and packages.
@techofebd
3 ай бұрын
Welcome home BTW!
@SnowyRVulpix
3 ай бұрын
Something I want to say is that... while saying every year is the year of the linux desktop might be a little over the top, it's still accurate. Linux Desktop improves by leaps and bounds every single year. Even just waiting 5 more years from any point in the timeline will give you a much better experience than the last time you used it.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Agree.. it will be interesting to look at usage growth over the next few years and see if there is an acceleration in adoption rates.
@dragonballjiujitsu
3 ай бұрын
I've been using Linux since 2004. Was a Windows guy from win 95 to windows 7. Started using Mac in 2008. If you don't play AAA games Linux is a windows replacement. It does not come close to MacOS. My top Linux distros are Manjaro KDE, Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Maybe Ultramarine. These are FAR ahead of the rest.
@hannescampidell
Ай бұрын
Your problem with fedora is your GPU I use an AMD Radeon 7800 XT and it works fine without any trouble and no need for drivers
@craigcole9337
2 ай бұрын
If you need something more windows like, linux Mint is the way to go. Also, WPS office is an almost exact clone of microsoft office. Just put your windows fonts on a usb and install them into linux (any office suite) later by right clicking the font in linux and selecting install.
@tridens6708
3 ай бұрын
I tried Ubuntu smooth Great install but I won't use snap so no go for me tried fedora 40 same bumpy start but runing OK at the moment using Open suse on destop Fedora on laptop
@sociallyferal4237
3 ай бұрын
How are you finding OpenSuse? I realised the other day that for a top 10 distrowatch distro, most moving to and newbie linux videos rarely mention it let alone show it.
@lussor1
2 ай бұрын
@@sociallyferal4237its for business enterprise
@kibblestherexouium4775
3 ай бұрын
the main issue with the adobe suite is that they made the installer self combust when running in wine, otherwise the whole app runs just perfectly fine. have been using linux mint for 4 years and even with the little problems i have, i dont even wanna install windows again. half of the time it wont even connect to my external screen when i boot my old windows install just to use it for some weird obsolote software that needs windows kernel *looking at samsung odin*
@solidwire
Ай бұрын
2001 was the year of Linux. It must be true. I'd read it on the internet.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
Ай бұрын
Exactly
@lucolesco
3 ай бұрын
Please someone packages DaVinci Resolve as a Flatpak 😭😭😭
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Yes!
@Funcle
2 ай бұрын
Nobara Nvidia driver version works right out the box and is basically fedora
@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece
23 сағат бұрын
Installers are a bit Eh... Debian installer for example is over 15 years old now I think. Granted, 15 years ago they where ahead of windows. But now it's almost as annoying. It is very clear and you actually get to do something relevant. aka the settings actually do something meaningful and it's not the windows installer's: "I let you jump through hoops to give you the illusion of control." But if you compare it to Ubuntu it is a lot of: Wait for it to do something then set the next step. Wait and repeat. While __buntu lets you set a lot of things early and then just does everything. But with the speed of current computers and internet connection the Debian installer is not annoying anymore since it is still pretty fast. And they are probably and now reasonably just waiting the speed increases out. After all, if the setup is just fast enough that eliminates the wait times too.And installing from USB3+ to an M.2 SSD with 100mbit+ internet connection is already REALLY fast.
@OCBlanco
3 ай бұрын
Just to add to your sim racing experience, sim racing works for me but it obviously depends on your hardware and what sims you want to play and all that. I might not have that super setup you have but I do sim racing just fine on Linux. I consider myself an entry level sim racer. In my case, using the Logitech G29 + Meta Quest 2 VR headset (using ALVR client) works fine on F1 23, Project Cars 2 and Asetto Corsa Competizione. iRacing is definitely off the table atm on Linux because they haven't enabled anticheat for it but it is supposed to run just fine. The devs just need to flip the switch.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
That is great that you got sim racing working! And with VR too! For me I would need the varjo software, simlab to run the wheel and then fanatec drivers. Maybe as a side project I could get it working, but it is way outside the realm of plug and play.
@peterjansen4826
2 ай бұрын
20 years ago, that is quite early. I have only been using Linux as my main and exclusive OS in the last 6 years, 5 if I include having started up Windows for 1 particular game and only then (before 2019 I had a graphics card which was incompatible with Linux-gaming due to not being good enough with Vulkan). However, I also like to play videogames and I dislike consoles so I was stuck to Windows for much too long. Otherwise I would probably have switched to Linux in the early to mid 10's.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
2 ай бұрын
20 years ago it was kinda like.. compile the kernel and hope it works.. :)
@peterjansen4826
2 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hfLinux has come a lonng way, these days almost all hardware just works. There are some weird quirks, like a Sony camera not reliably connecting because Sony implemented it the right way but on Linux we adapted to Windows doing weird things (yes, this is a thing, you can fix it with a USB-config file somewhere in your /sys directory), for some hardware the support is hacky (Soundblaster soundcards with general drivers, Corsair keyboards which work but are not hotpluggable and are not as reliable in all VM's) but generally it just works. Imagine starting a new kernel in the year 2024, that seems impossible considering how much the Linux kernel has grown in just the last few years. It would be even more a Herculian task than that it was for Linux in the 90's, 00's and 10's. The computing world would be a dark place if we wouldn't have Linux and the *BSD's, we might be locked into proprietary for decades to centuries.
@xanderplayz3446
2 ай бұрын
I personally use Waterfox or Mercury. They both are Firefox forks.
@cameronfrye5514
3 ай бұрын
I've been in and out of the Linux world for 20-ish years now, and I agree completely that every time there's a major paradigm shift at Microsoft people start saying 'This is the year of Linux!' It's not this time either. Linux isn't the 'unified' experience Windows is, and I don't think most people are willing to jump the hurdles they may run into to make it work for them. Some distributions are better than others, and I think poor installation routines turn more people away than any other single challenge. I'm not exactly a Linux newbie, but Fedora's installer absolutely borked my boot drive to the point I had to reinstall Linux and Windows to get both working again. I currently have Ubuntu 24.04 running on both my workstation and gaming PCs, and I have a Windows partition on the gaming machine as a Just In Case. Personally I'd advise anyone interested in trying Linux to get an alternate drive to experiment with and start on Ubuntu just for it's installer. Thanks for sharing your experience!
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Agree, definitely not as unified but linux has come a long way!
@sociallyferal4237
3 ай бұрын
I've been spending my last month or so trying Linux over the weekends. Usually installing getting frustrated, installing Windows, thinking and some light research then trying again. First 6hrs and 4 distros, then 8 hrs and 2 distros, then 24hrs on one. Throw in the NUC I purchased to test had an ARC gpu, Intel and Linux are friends right? Worked fine. . . on integrated. Never did manage to get it 'using' the ARC. But its now a Windows media PC running netflix for me. Sadly, the game it was to be a secondary for to play with overseas family keeps crashing. So back to fiddling with my gaming rig. Decided I will try dual booting this time, since I don't want to buy yet another machine, and need to game in Windows and properly try Linux. Though in last test, mouse cursor kept moving off center in maps and inventory screens. 4K monitor, not sure if scaling or mouse hardware accel to blame, since I turned off both and the glitch stopped. Will try next weekend after new drive arrives. LOL. Gaming is much better these days though. Not sure I am keen on flatpak and snap. The sandboxing seems to stop basic feature. Steam wouldn't see extra drives. Browsers never remembered last folders. Might try ubuntu this time. 😁
@cameronfrye5514
2 ай бұрын
@@sociallyferal4237 Sometimes it does still take some trial and error to make things work, and there seem to be pretty major differences in distributions. To me, Ubuntu has been the cleanest and most trouble free of the distros I tried. Other than my all-in-one printer/scanner everything worked as expected out of the box more or less. I'm with you on Snaps though.. sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. The nice thing about them is uninstalls work well, and in Ubuntu the built in App Center gives you the option to filter a search by Snaps or Debian packages. Usually if the Snap doesn't work but a Deb is available, the Deb works. That's how I got Steam working, and gaming through Steam has been without hitches for me. Your mouse issues... that is one thing I've noticed is that mouse acceleration seems to either work differently or not at all in Linux. My Windows trained muscle memory still occasionally notices the difference, but it gets less noticable the longer I avoid Windows. It's been a full month since using Windows on anything but my work laptop, and I think next weekend it's time I reclaim my gaming PC's Windows partition.
@bluesquadron593
3 ай бұрын
Lol, varjo. Regards from Finland
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
That was one expensive VR headset that was quickly deprecated... gulp.. I hope it doesn't break.
@ThePsychoticWombat
28 күн бұрын
What even is "year of the linux desktop?" To me it's every year, haven't had windows installed bare metal for 7 years now, some vms though, but windows 10 was just awful after 7.
@Pyro-Moloch
3 ай бұрын
If you added some music in the background, the watchability of this video would grow by at least 50%
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
You think so? I was never sure if music added something to videos..
@icantcomeupwithnames469
2 ай бұрын
Why not play some music quietly in a different tab? I don't like baked-in music, it gets in the way if you're trying to do something else with the video off to the side.
@Pyro-Moloch
2 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469 yeah, why not I just produce the entire video while I'm at it?
@DavideDavini
Ай бұрын
I stopped using Windows right before 8 came out. 2010, maybe? At first I used FreeBSD, then after a few years I moved to Ubuntu. Nowadays I use MacOS for work, because I love Apple Silicon and it works best with MacOS. I still use Linux almost on daily basis, for gaming. Cheers.
@DavideDavini
Ай бұрын
I’m still fond of FreeBSD but I came to the realization Linux is easier and in the end that makes it better. That’s why I stopped using FreeBSD on our servers as well.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
Ай бұрын
Agree I switched to MacOS recently with the M3 chip and the overall experience has been amazing.
@walter_lesaulnier
3 ай бұрын
Fedora is far better than Ubuntu- just turn on RPM Fusion.
@Lizard_of_Linux_Lane
3 ай бұрын
Linux Mint is tasty.
@TheBecke1983
3 ай бұрын
I have dual booted for the last 17 ich years since Windows Vista came out. The only thing that is left on Windows partition now is some Games because they don't work in Linux either because of anti-cheat or just not compatible yet, and then Adobes Lightroom and Photoshop since one of my biggest hobby is photography. 17+ years i have wanted to get rid of Microsoft 😅
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Vista was a rough one :) Wasn't that the version with the "extra" features you could pay for like video backgrounds? I paid for that and never got my waterfall background.
@TheBecke1983
3 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf Yeah i think it was the Ultimate edition or something, it´s been to long :)
@incremental_failure
2 ай бұрын
I don't like GIMP at all, I've found Krita to be far superior and better than Photoshop. Sure, Photoshop might have some extra tools but for 99% of people Krita is the best. It's the only graphics editor I've found intuitive.
@Spiderfffun
3 ай бұрын
2025 is the year of the linux desktop
@jaxonswain3408
3 ай бұрын
It is for me. I plan to switch to it before 2026 but will continue milking W10 for now. W11 is an abomination and I will never willingly use it.
@V1CT1MIZED
2 ай бұрын
They said that in 2007 when Vista came out. They also said it in 2012 when 8 came out. Let's see if that happens and is not just empty words as usual.
@Alibaba-r2y
2 ай бұрын
KDE welcome to bug city.....
@peterjansen4826
2 ай бұрын
I missed the OneDrive shenanigans. 😆Man, what a trainwreck. First forcing users to tie an emailaccount to their Windows-install by abusing trickery and then sending their private data over the internet. Yikes.
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
2 ай бұрын
Yep total trust buster..
@PatRose
2 ай бұрын
I've been wanting to switch to Linux so badly for some time now, but it's just not there for me yet so I'm staying with sh1tty Windows
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
2 ай бұрын
What's missing for you?
@ceecrb1
3 ай бұрын
nuhvidia?
@nihorothereal
10 күн бұрын
Weird experience. I had a bit worse one some 20 years ago, then something similar around 15 years ago. But since some 10 years ago Linux just works. Everything. Sad that someone still has such issues, I have not seen them long years. Of course, before I make a choice of buying anything, I look if the maker is good with Linux or to say more correctly, good with standards. I simply do not buy random shit. And everything works always. P.S. Promoting recall ... that is an ad. No sane, unaffiliated person would do that.
@xpistolbaked
3 ай бұрын
Fedora 40 can be a real pain.. Which is why I think Nobara is better (Fedora 39 based). But, Pop Os is based on Ubuntu and if you need nvidia drivers there are Nobara, Pop and Ubuntu ones.. Nvidia is closed source so AMD cards work like a dream. The hardest part I've always found with Linux is getting is to work with your hardware.. Forget multiplayer games.. use Win10 fo those. But with Proton developed by the guy that does Nobara. It works great with single player. Productivity apps is where Linux can't compete. But thete is kdenlive, da vinci resolve, inkscape, etc...
@JvsEvil
3 ай бұрын
I prefer cachyos or biglinux or linux mint or kubuntu , u shouldn't have all those problems
@killerr15
3 ай бұрын
+1 for cachyos, amazing distro with amazing developers
@outforbeer
3 ай бұрын
I dabble with linux 20 years ago but it was buggy so I switched to window again. Recently I tried over 4 distro and some are still buggy as hell. It’s like 20 years and linux barely improved
@SonoranTech-hf5hf
3 ай бұрын
Interesting.. definitely seems different for each person and distro. I would guess that none of the distros have the resources to do the breadth of testing across hardware combinations that a large company does, resulting in experiences like yours.
@daigo120
2 ай бұрын
Seems like a skill issue
@outforbeer
2 ай бұрын
@@SonoranTech-hf5hf the problem is with the nature of linux. Bugs are never fixed because from the programmer point of view, its working on the distro they're on just fine. They blame the distro, while the distro blame the app authors
@lussor1
2 ай бұрын
@@outforbeerExplain your bugs
@EasyGameEh
3 ай бұрын
3:15 Linux fans love to downplay things like this with phrases like "everything tends to work most of the time", but this is actually horrible and completely unacceptable for a desktop os. and if you listen to these Linux fans (take any youtuber) their day to day experiences are riddled with this bs.
@icantcomeupwithnames469
2 ай бұрын
I've never had any issues like that, but I use Arch btw.
@EasyGameEh
2 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469 that's not how examples and counter examples work. there're tons of life long smokers who live long enough, but the damage smoking does is statistically significant and proven.
@icantcomeupwithnames469
2 ай бұрын
@@EasyGameEhIt's always worked on my machines, and I don't think I've heard of many Arch users with issues like that, either. It's usually people using distros with stronger stances on non-free software, and those that attempt to have more pre-configured for the user. Using Linux isn't smoking. There is no equivalent to tar buildup in your lungs from using a computer.
@EasyGameEh
2 ай бұрын
@@icantcomeupwithnames469 you're completely missing the point and the analogy. it's not that linux is smoking, it's that the one or several examples of everything being fine don't prove that there're no problems overall.
@icantcomeupwithnames469
2 ай бұрын
@@EasyGameEh Bad analogy then, but sure. Then you have to work on diagnosing the actual cause of the issue. Everyone who died of smoking-related issues also drank water, after all.
@jgaming2069
3 ай бұрын
Avidemux 😁
@spoonikle
2 ай бұрын
Pop_OS
@daviddupoise6443
2 ай бұрын
Not helping. Do better work and don't conform to the algorithm
@asphalt2554
Ай бұрын
baaaaa
@tonywise198
2 ай бұрын
You need to put a "Flashing Images" WARNING at the start of this. Flashing through/fast forward of screens does nothing for the eyes of some of us. Sorry, it is a shame, but I could not continue watching. A downvote just for this.
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