Updated Video here of my journey so Far th-cam.com/video/NWG4sI1UIfc/w-d-xo.html 90 days full time on Linux only! If you wanna learn more about Linux and how I got my desktop like this check out this playlist th-cam.com/play/PLd2rY36Ym3b9r1LJlm3HILctjBHDAuFsd.html hope you all enjoy and don’t forget to subscribe.
Matt...have you got any ideas or references on how to get around the dual gpu issues i.e. my CPU comes with an integrated Intel GPU and the laptop also has a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Linux Mint has a similar Windows feel and I am looking at some early 2000s distros that are very similar to Windows some of them be warned that you have to have physical disks to install rather than flash drives just buy a USB disc drive though to fix the problem which is what modern society is relating to to bring back the disk drive.
Hmmm when w10 eventually becomes unusable i will consider switching to fedora because of this video but i am so used to working with arch. Does everything in arch work with fedora or are the dependencies are too different? i should set up a vm to test everything (no idea why i don't make a test vm more often)
I started with DOS and Windows 3.1, raised a family building Windows labs and teaching children and educators Windows-based products. Retired and burned out on Windows. In June 2023, I loaded Ubuntu Budgie on a 2015 HP touchscreen PC. Today, Hyprland with Fedora 40 is on all my PCs. I like computers again.
Very similar story :) But today I am all in virtualization projects in my homelab (love to tinker in terminal). But after some attempts to switch on a desktop side, still can't make the final step. Maybe it's all about debian based distros that doesn't click? Need to try Fedora... :)
@@CHURCHISAWESUM It's not out yet!! Not even the alpha until a few weeks from now Itll be out by end of year i think But yes, that would be me TOP recommendation once it comes out. Im planning on switching there even
I must say this is the most comprehensive, non Linux fanboy video I have ever seen. You've honestly mentioned the real pros and cons of the Linux operating system without the Windows or Linux fanboy biases. I hope you continue making more videos like this where you help Windows expats get into the world of Linux without dealing with the Linux neck-beards that belittle non Linux fanboys just so that they feel better about themselves.
@@monki_sudo Dumping on Ubuntu tho is valid. It is bloated by default. Use literally any other major distro and you have less stuff pre-installed you don't need. Fedora is a good semi-rolling release with the latest drivers and whatnot, while debian is just the definition of tested and stable. Nobora is, as said in the Video, essentially this (nobora does have some optimizations in the Kernel so this is not 1:1)
Linux fanboys are really annoying. I saw a couple people shitting on a person's recreation of windows on their fedora machine. it honestly saddens me. I get the reputation of windows, but if you were to shit on something that must've take effort on then you don't deserve to say criticism that is purely uneducational for the person. I just don't understand. People use their computers how they want and they understand the risks. Can't they understand?
I put linux on a $286 Costco special HP laptop my sister was tossing because it was "so slow".I put linux on it and the laptop was instantly usable again. At that point I felt it was worth upgrading it as far as it could go (being am AMD A6 laptop with 4gb of ram...didn't have to go far) Got a 16 gb kit from ebay for $2 (yes... 2 dollars) and a 480gb Micron SSD for $15 and it was a whole new laptop. It was my linux workstation for 2 years while I still had a windows desktop. That was my start on linux. Now I daily drive linux on a decommissioned HP Z230 ssf workstation. The last windows machine I have will soon have an upgraded gpu, ram and SSD and be reborn as my casual "gaming" PC running Nobara or Bazzite.
Linux really shines with older hardware. I am not a computer nerd (civil engineer, to me a computer is a tool not an end in itself), but I have never understood a lot of the failed Linux conversions you see online (including LTT). The problems they give are unknown to me (and I first installed Linuxin 1997 or so, with Debian, before plug and play). I have never had problems with hardware, as my distro has always just found the best drivers for me for all the hardware, unlike any Windows installation I ever had to do. It took me a while to realize that it was because I wasn't a gamer nor a hardcore computer geek that was tryting to get the latest and bestest hardware and video cards. I was always economy minded and so moved just behind the curve. Getting mature hardware. It did server me well in the long run as I have rarely been frustrated with Linux. It just works for me. And that is why I was able to move away from Windows around the year 2000. The last version of Windows I ever owned at home was Windows 98.
That was me last week... Wiped my pc and started fresh, imagine me stumbling onto the forums with the "Hi I'm New" sticker. 8 days in... I am never going back to windows, period.
Haven't switched because my laptop has a GPU that's not supported. And roblox does not really work. And some apps I use for video editing is not on linix
I've been using Linux for about 6 months, i actually installed Arch fallowing a video you made, and i couldn't be happier honestly, specially after driver 555, now everything just wroks amazingly!
It's true. I'm using cachyOS and it's amazing the level it's at. After decades of using Windows, after the last update with Pilot, I decided to call it quits. The linux world has arrived evolving well for Nvídia users who need HDR.
I made the switch about 6 months ago as well and after playing with a bunch of different distros I also went with arch. Im waiting on 560 driver and plasma 6.1 to come out before updating and just using x11 for gaming for now.
Installed popos 9 mo ago seeing the writing on the wall to familiarize myself with linux. Currently backing up and reformatting and then off to Arch world.
And I don't have any pc but using linux-proot debian for like 4/5 months on my phone ,🐸 just a little problem is it doesn't use gpu...it only use cpu ..... I'm very hopeful one day someone will make it happen
I am a Linux Sofware Engineer and have been releasing packages for official CentOS since 2004. I have tried several times to quit Windows over the years, gaming was always why I had one 'gaming rig' with the latest version of Windows installed. Last week, I removed my windows boot drive and installed an new NVME and installed Nobara 40 on my gaming rig. If things blew up, I could always just put my old NVME back in and keep going another year on Windows. Well, things are going great. Proton-GE and/or Proton Experimental are running all the games I play just fine .. in fact I have a 5800X processor and 6800XT GPU and things are faster on Linux. Looks like this is actually the time. No more Windows for me.
I remember my "Removing the Windows partition" moment very well. As an extra dopamine bonus, I got a huge chunk of extra free space. I had been using Linux for a long time and found that I just didn't use Windows anymore.
Its honestly cringe how people like you are acting like you're in some sort of group meeting where you're talking like not using windows is some sort of heroic act
@@craigtrish2011 Sharing experiences is not cringe. If it was then it would also be cringe when you share experiences about your Tesla with other Tesla owners.
@@craigtrish2011 you clearly do not know what is at stake. Ceding your digital autonomy is no small thing. You only think it is. If it wasn't for us holding the line Microsoft would be even worse than they are now too. Because if they were the only game in town then they could do whatever they pleased. So you're welcome.
The Steam Deck is what got me using Linux. Shortly after buying a Steam Deck, I installed Linux on my Laptop. Now just a couple weeks ago, I finally have Linux on my PC. I still have Windows on a separate Drive just in case I need it, but I can pretty much do everything I need to do on Linux.
Recently installed and been using Fedora 40 KDE on my lenovo intel gen 13 laptop for the past two weeks. The best desktop experience i've ever had. Windows, while it still wins in APP compatibility loses in every other category..... KDE is just beautiful, customizable and better in every single other way
Been seeing a lot of "Switched to Linux" vids in my YT feed nowadays. It's nice to see. Not sure if more people are switching, or if the algorithm is just throwing more at me.
@@GraveUypo yes that's the definitely the yt algo. The world is a huge algo😊 switched the full household to linux on new year 24. Now i have alot suggestions in my feeds in the last months. This video too😅
I switched few days ago after using Windows for 20 years. I think it's good however some small things could be made better. I did the switch due to realizing that gaming on Linux is in a good shape and that there are distros with similar user interface to Windows. Earlier I believed that gaming is not possible on Linux + you have to know some programming shit to use it on a daily basis because that's what everyone else told me. I think that if only Linux Foundation made a special distro that would look and behave familiar to casual Windows user, invested a little bit in ads here and there, the desktop market share of Linux OS would go up a few times more at least. And that would force developers to do native versions of their software on Linux. But coming back to your thoughts - I think there is some movement towards Linux, we'll just see soon if the wave is big or just a small one.
I switched to Mint about 6 months ago to test the waters due to Proton and my huge Steam library...works beautifully. Microsoft has overstepped one boundary after another, switched exclusively to Linux several months ago, never going back.
@Mattscreative I had upgraded to Windows 11 because my main gaming pc, wanted to see if it would install so I would be able to upgrade to 12 later, 11 had issues, reinstalled 10. Ran 10 for 7 years and NEVER had MS cloud enabled, especially not by default, it is default now. I am in school for my job, welder for a federal contractor, they sent me here, MS deleted some of my homework off Win 10 machine as they synced homework folder to their cloud and told me "almost out of storage" (it was text tiles I spent hours on for homework for my paycheck) and between these 2 computers I have nearly 40tb of storage...I got all pictures, roms, military records, pay stubs, tax records, saved emails, nothing is on that paperweight Windows machine but my music production software and I haven't turned the computer on since that incident. Eventually plan to put Debian server on it with maybe a tiling window manager or KDE. Installed Fruity Loops in Mint and seems to work fine. Need to try getting Kontakt libraries to work.
That's what Valve thought too with the Microsoft Store; if it was actually sucessful Steam would have been in trouble so Valve hedged their bets by investing in Steam Machines, Steam Deck and Proton.
Started using Linux in 2008 and liked how niche it was. I used windows 7 allday every day. As soon as windows 10 borked some programs I was using for my arcade and Photoshop became a monthly subscription I've been using Linux on all of my PCs. in the last 4 years linux has really made some incredible strides.
The more people who are brave and move to Linux the better it will be for all of us. It is a up hill battle as there are still problems under Linux, but many things have been fixed or mitigated. Still need better anticheat, hdr, wayland, supports. There is some of that working already, but not fully or feature complete.
@@Mattscreative I only tested HDR on 6.0 release on my 4090 and it produced broken color and contrast. Plus you need Wine and Steam to support it fully.
the broken part wasn't nvidia it was just a plasma bug or should i say extremely rushed and limited testing of HDR before merging. wine and steam can both do HDR but you have to use gamescope which is now possible on nvidia
@@Mattscreative It should be possible without gamescope now but I haven't bothered testing. I'm still waiting for that elusive frame-gen support from NVIDIA which I use in SOME games. Also I wonder if Lossless Scaling (app) can be made to work under Proton.
All the anticheats that are worth supporting are already supported, and those that aren't are malware rootkits anyway. I don't understand the logic of wanting to use/switch to linux, but then carry over all the problems and garbage from windows.
I started learning linux out of curiosity about 6 months ago. Started on endeavouros and became hooked with the freedom that you dont get with windows. After a few months I wanted to try my hand at a clean "from scratch" install and followed your arch guide and everything works fantastic, especially with the new 555 drivers. I also deleted my old windows install about 2 weeks ago. Fully linux now!
@@maccagrabme You don't need command line in some other distros. But it always helps, many people actually prefer it. This channel has a lot and also the channel's discord
@@maccagrabme what i recommend is using chatgpt for anything you don't know or don't want to learn. it's incredibly capable at troubleshooting linux, which is hilarious since microsoft kinda owns it now, and it's there 24/7. you can just tell it what you want and say something like "make a one-click script to solve this" and it'll do that for you
I've recently made the permanent swap from windows to nobara (Fedora 39). I've had a malware scare in my life that didn't feel too great and recently had a close encounter with a second. I'm tired of the cycle and being the easiest to target as a windows user so I've swapped to Linux to make it less of a possibility. My machine is performing better than ever before and using wine to still have my favourite windows applications work fully as intended with desktop shortcuts is all I could really need from a machine.
It‘s great to hear that you switched to Linux! But remember: Linux is not 100% secure against malware either. You will still have to be careful with which programs you execute on your computer.
That's good. But Wine is not the solution for everything. So not all applications are gonna work 100% or sometimes they don't work at all. Just adding this so people know that It's not something that you can always rely on. Sometimes you have to be ready to look for alternatives.
I switched to linux for this three main reason: 1. Every time windows adding spyware after spyware, the last "FeAtUrE" called recall will let me stick to linux for a WHILE. 2. I had cases where after i shutdown the pc the next day or the next boot-up i had windows completely destroyed and unusable. 3. The very difficult customization. I love to customize my machine to my liking and windows doesn't have that much customization to do. After that i like linux more than windows and i didnt find it to difficult to understand and i started with Arch (btw)
arch has ironically become an amazing beginner distro for people willing to learn; archinstall almost completely removes the barrier to entry, and I find maintenance to be very easy thanks to the incredible wiki and streamlined OS structure.
Windows customizable is terrible out of the box, but possible with third party apps and theme patchers. Look at niivu's work on Deviant Art for examples of what you can actually achieve for free. Still a terrible OS tho lol
This is freaking amazing Matt. I have just switched form Win11 pro to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and there's so much I can learn from your channel. Thank you for all the work you have done already.
I’m trying to do this as well on a very old laptop (My first laptop from childhood), in hopes of “reviving” it and learning as much as possible about Linux and Ubuntu.
You're one of the first youtubers I've seen who ACTUALLY switched to Linux and not just show the stock Fedora/popOS install and pretend like they've been using it for real. You actually show us what you're doing with it, your computer is full of stuff, that was a very nice video. Thank you.
I just made this switch as well. In one week I switched my company supplied work machine to a Mac and switched my gaming PC to Linux (ubuntu) just to see how easy my workflows would be. So far, in both cases, everything I need works and everything is better. I used to run Linux probably 20 years ago, regularly rebuilding the kernel, etc.. the desktops have come so far. All the apps I want are there and all the games I want work perfectly.
Mint XFCE user here, happy to see you're on a good path on setting yourself up in Linux. My reasoning to switch was due to how Windows has been a plague on many low-end devices and computers where I am, one of them being my Celeron laptop. Due to how drastic the performance issues were getting, and also the one time Windows Update broke my laptop for a whole 4 hours, I decided to hop over to Linux Mint back in late 2022. It's been swell and usable ever since, and I hope everyone who wants to make a switch for whatever reason settles down well.
thank you for this video, I completely agree, I don't feel like I can "do" Windows anymore. The spying on users and exposing people to threats and stupid ads because of their greed and data grifting is getting out of hand. I still haven't decided if a Mac would be better for me, but in the meantime I guess I'll check out Linux and hope that I, a programming noob, will be able to deal with it
Good video, switched to Mint yesterday after the Windows bs. Gotta say, the personalization is amazing, and just as you, the emulation runs so much better at Linux, im having a pretty good experience, no plans to change to windows again ever.
I did it in 2008, maybe? Not sure. did look back every once in a while, by helping out other people with their Windows computers. Each time I did, I was shocked to find that it was worse than I remembered.
I‘ts great that you switched to Linux and I love that you and your community are writing a couple of guides regarding many things that have to do with Linux. However, it would be nice if you could „publish“ them in a forum (maybe even make your own forum), in Reddit or make a small website for that purpose. This would help many more people, since the first instinct one has, when they encounter a problem on Linux, is to google it. But google can‘t display messages from Discord channels as search results.
What made me switch to Linux this year permanently was a few things. I installed a fresh clean install of windows 10 which was on a brand new USB, brand new SSD, Cleaned & re-slotted PC. Worked for a bit and I proceeded to get blue screen after blue screen I even ruled out the parts. No way I will touch Win 11, I switched to a distro I enjoy Linux Mint. Worked okay but started too have issues kept on working on it and attempting to figure it out. Bite the bullet and went back to Pop Os after not touching it since 2021, I mainly play games on my pc but I do multitask as well. But honestly I'm happy for the lack of random unnecessary notifications & more bullshit that Microsoft is shoving down the consumer. I hope your experience continues to go well, much like everyone who has started to change over.
Welcome to the world of Freedom and Penguins 🐧. Linux has really grown from its early days into a telar OS. I would have to love to join you in this Journey as I first strted dabbling in Linux in the 2000s. Nice setup you got there!
As a long time Linux user one of the greatest things in Linux is that the operating system does not fight against you. A good example of this is when I switched from Intel to AMD on my desktop machine: Take backups, swap the motherboard, boot and login. Everything just worked like nothing would have happened at all. I've seen this stunt being attempted on Windows couple times and they've all ended poorly. Even if you managed to get the installation some how not to BSOD out of reality due to driver mismatch all that awaits is a license deactivation hell.
I'm so happy to see how far Linux has come (for the general public). I have used Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and a few others, but there is one thing I cannot live without that even Windows struggles with.......... The Ecosystem! I know that Closed Source is repulsive to many of you in the Linux community, but I've spent valuable hours of my life and effort in configuring, transferring, copying, viewing/carrying multiple devices. Running Windows VMs for specific programs when running Linux as my DD, and Windows deciding to re-enable options I disabled after an update. My Mac/Macbook, iPhone, Apple TV, and HomePods allow me to set something up once and my preferences and data is made available everywhere else I am logged in. My shortcuts, notes, reminders, data, photos/videos, shows, music, and so much more are setup for me everywhere I interact with a device. It's simple, and I wish Linux could be that for me, but it just can't be.
I've been using windows since 3.1, and I've seen a lot of weird and strange things. The last one was windows making my laptop battery useless. The battery still worked, but windows said it was completely gone. Windows like doing things like that.
I moved to Linux because my heavily modded install of Cities:Skylines had GPU Memory Leaking in DirectX. I was lazy and didn't wanted to individually disable each of my around 6k of assets and 100 mods to check which one it is, than restart the game wait 30 min until the game has loaded all the data and repeat. so I installed the Game on Linux which was natively supported and the Memory Leaking disappeared.
I’ve been using Linux since I was five and macos and windows so the 25 year long journey was going from using Linux as a toy just to play around with to full-time
Lol love the windows deletion bit at the end - looks like you've got your system running nicely. that's the best part make it how you want - might take some extra work but once you've got it how you want it, it's awesome
I noticed that you didn't mention an office suit. And while there is Libre Office for that as well, in my opinion, MS Office is one of the main reasons for keeping me from going full Linux. Thank you for your informative video.
I dual boot both windows and Linux and agree for a fast productive fully featured office suite nothing on Linux compares to office. All we need is that and for gimp or for another graphic software to be as good as Photoshop. Modern clean look and feel GUI. Once Linux gets that it is game over for windows for me. For video editing Davinci resolve is great, it's not FOSS but it works perfectly fine for me. If we can get a foss version of that too even better. Especially now with gaming being as good as it is now on Linux. If we get that then it truly can possibly be "the year of Linux" in my opinion
I own a 12 year old Lenovo X1 Carbon. It was painfully slow on Windows, but I was emotionally attached to it lmao. It's been with me for almost a decade. I finally decided to install Mint on it, and my God. It runs almost like new again. I've been ignoring my gaming rig just because I finally love using my thinkpad again. I can see the point of Linux now haha
My 8 years old laptop with Windows 10 wasn´t working very well anymore and was so slow even after a clean system installation so I didn't use it anymore until I decided to give it a go with Linux Mint and now it works like a charm. After that I also ditched my Windows 11 OS on my main PC and that is now also a Linux Mint PC. I love it, after about 40 years using DOS and MS Windows I now have fun again learning new stuff, tweaking the desktop to my liking, using it for work and my daily things and all my Steam, GOG, Epic games work perfectly. I am so happy I made the jump to Linux!
I haven't kicked Windows to the curb yet, but I am well on my way. I've been using Windows since the DOS days, and into computers as a whole even longer. I'm talking green screens, man. That said, I am already running various versions of Linux on VM's and figuring out which one I like most. At present, I am really liking LMDE, but I'm still browsing. My goal is to be completely free of the disease named Windows in six months or less. The whole reason I liked windows was that I had so much more freedom compared to Apple (which is ridiculously proprietary), the fact that it was easy to use and I could run all of the apps I needed for work and leisure. Now Microsoft is pushing everyone to Win 11 which is by far the most intrusive and controlling OS I've seen from Microsoft in my lifetime. I get the sense that Microsoft wants the ability to spy on us, tell us what we can and can't do with out silicon, and then want to nickel and dime us for every little thing. The have become what I hate. So I'm done with Windows... for good. The only question now is what flavor of Linux will I choose for my silicon? 🤔🙃
@@Mattscreative I know. It's more me discovering through experimentation through VM's. Thanks for the upload, BTW. It pretty much echoes what a lot of people moving away from windows feel.
Edit: Seeing that Windows partition get wrecked was satisfying! It has only been since Windows 10 I had made attempts to switch over. I dabbled with it over the years, but it was around 2021, and 2022 I was able to fully commit. Windows 8 and later has been just garbage. I remember back in 2014 when I gave Mint a try and Garry's Mod ran at over 100 FPS where as on Windows 8, it ran at only ~40 fps max. NVIDIA 640GT. Windows 7 was the last MS OS I really liked. I use Arch-based (Endaevor, Garuda Lite, Plasma) as they usually have kernels where HDMI doesn't sound like chipmunks like it did on Ubuntu-based. (RX590)
I've been back and forth with Linux for a while. About 8-9 years ago or so, while getting into computer science for real for the first time, i did a fresh install of Arch Linux (which, for someone who was clueless, was a whole day's worth of work), eventually getting KDE to work and sitting on that build for a good while. This was before proton or the big push for gaming on Linux by valve, so i was really locked out of like half my library. Still, i was moving over from windows 8 at the time and i really appreciated it as the nerd i am. I ended up going to Windows 10 to play other games i wanted to and generally have less painful of an experience. When Windows 11 rolled around I took a look at the OS in general and committed to a swap to Linux as soon as Microsoft would force me to switch to it (basically when i upgraded my pc) That was about a year ago, and I've been running Linux since then I think your average user would be frustrated with the little details. It's not necessarily even trying to be seamless in the way windows or mac does, and i think there's an expectation of that from our technology. The biggest draw for me is that if I'm committed to it, i can fix any issue i have on my own devices, and most of the time it isn't Even that difficult. For your average user, I think it might be harder to find someone who can trouble shoot Linux for you, usually you'll just the information to do it yourself.
A thing I love about Linux is that it just gets better. I started at Fedora 36 KDE and it just gets better. It's gotten more stable and KDE 7 actually had me exited to update my PC. It just doesn't get stale and gets better. And if in the future Fedora gets worse I'll distro hop. Unlike with Windows which gets terrible privacy invasive features added, I can just decide that a distro is not for me.
If Microsoft wants to save itself. They should create a new branch of windows called something like Windows 11 Gaming Edition. They can give full control what features you want but for fhe most part should have everything needed for games to run at their best while removing all unnecessary services that gamers wont use on their computer. Basically an optimized version of Windows for gamers.
I already moved to Linux permanently in 2017. Started with Peppermint 8. I'm not a gamer. I settled on MX Linux Xfce. I want stability. I don't need the latest of everything. Only benefit of Edge is that it plays Netflix in 1080p. But like you said, you like it and that's what counts. Personally I prefer Firefox.
I’m primarily a Mac user, as I’ve been using Macs since a G4 eMac running 10.3 Panther. My main computer now is an m1 Mac mini that I absolutely adore , but I also have an hp laptop running Linux mint with Cinnamon. That laptop is for my 7 year old son, and I’ve installed on it a bunch of educational apps and have educational websites bookmarked in a browser. Happily, he hasn’t had any issues or headaches adapting to mint.
I’ve been using Linux for almost 20 years. Left Windows full-time 10 years ago. I can play my entire Steam library of 500+ titles no problems. Once Valve comes to an agreement with all of the anti-cheat providers, it’s a wrap for that argument. I’m still rocking Fedora 39 KDE. I’ll probably upgrade to 40 this week. Welcome to the club dawg.
It’s not really about valve coming to an agreement, a lot of anti cheat systems already run on Linux but the game devs don’t want to let their games run on Linux for various reason. Great example is how epic won’t let Fortnite run because epic hate steam… the anticheat they use on that game runs on Linux and it’s literally a toggle switch to enable when compiling game exe. The other problem is a lot of anticheat software install kernel rootkits such as RIOTGames or the EA one etc… The Linux kernel team won’t allow kernel rootkits plus as the Linux kernel is open source a rootkit anticheat would be useless and easy to bypass…
i think today was the day, i was utterly impressed after installing Linux Mint Cinnamon edge in my i5 12600k, wifi and lan working out of the box, the software manager allowed me to setup my work environment in minutes without the need of the Terminal (VScode, Arduino IDE, audacity, Sunshine/Moonlight, Jellyfin, emulators, etc), i was finally able to reliably pair my xbox controller through bluetooth using xpadneo, and Lutris streamlined the process of installing windows apps and games with wine prefixes and running the games using the proton compatibility layer, i only had time to try Dark Souls 3, Sekiro and Tunic but so far performance is the same as running them on windows, after 10 years and over a dozen ubuntu intallations i think i found my linux distro. great video man.
Even on a heavily locked and stripped out version of Windows, MS still manages to introduce new 'features'. I have seen advertising on my pc even after clearing MS Store and Edge from the OS. Windows is no longer safe for people and the company operates in a black box so you don't know what they are doing or where the data they are mining from you is being used. I'll be switching to Linux as soon as I can get my projects cleared and dropping the ever increasing subscriptions for FOSS (Free Open Source Software), where I'll give donations to them to continue developing. Hell, even the German gov has swapped to Linux from MS. Good practice anyway as the world goes online to not assume people can afford MS products.
I plan on switching to Linux some time after Win10 reaches EOL. The spyware, ads, bloatware, forced updates, and other annoyances is making Windows unbearable to use.
@@rpersen Funnily enough I'm actually typing this comment from my newly installed Mint distro. I installed Linux Mint a week ago in order to familiarize myself with how things work and it has been a fun learning experience so far. However, I'm not quite ready to delete windows yet. I'm also thankful to Valve for Proton because thanks to them Linux has become a viable OS for PC gamers.
@@rpersen Kubuntu wouldn't be my first choice for a Linux distro but everyone does have to start somewhere I suppose. I certainly do not run the first distro I ever ran today either.
I rarely comment on videos. I recently decided to finally make the full switch to Linux this past week, and I am starting the journey of mapping out the path to it (I had even made a list like you said before I had found this video). I've used windows as my main my whole life, but dabbled in Linux on my laptop with many distros from Mint, to Fedora to some other obscure ones. Gaming has always been the main thing that has held me back from switching. (And backing up important data to do a fresh start of an OS for the first time in 9 years). I have followed some other Linux channels for years, but I really like your take and opinions on it. I'll definitely be following your videos to help me with setting up Linux in my journey on this transition.
I would do the same if I didn't heavily rely on Ableton and music production plugins along with the Adobe Suite. The good news is, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise just released and it literally solved all my complaints about windows 11; no bloat, no copilot or recall functions, extremely few background processes and heavy optimization into stability and lightness. Basically a dream come true tbh, will be switching to it for now :)
@@Mattscreative yes i tried using yawbridge + wine on endeavour before, UAD plugins dont work, Pro Tools and all AVID plugins doesn't work due to it's license activation program, Cubase doesn't work because of the eLicenser and doesnt support ALSA, FFADO, Jack & other linux audio drivers, and ASIO has terrible buffer artifacting on linux. Audio is yet again still years behind gaming and graphical work sadly :(
Fedora is a nice pick. They're upstream from Red Hat and the Fedora team keeps the distro up to date with security patches and they have a release cycle of every six to seven months.
@@Mattscreative I like seeing Videos like these on the internet. This video came across my feed and I pegged you as someone just switching to Linux, my mistake. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future.
Installed Nobara 39 and currently in the waiting room for version 40. Anyways I tried a few games that are EAC and Battleye protected and while there are some exceptions (Destiny 2 for example) there's a decent amount that works great in Proton Experimental (bleeding-edge branch). So far Apex Legends, The Finals, and DayZ I tried and they all work great, with DayZ requiring a third party launcher to join community servers that are modded.
Thanks for sharing, I also have been making the switch to Linux since w11 was released, and Recall was just what solidified my choice to leave Windows. I have a small ssd with w10 with literally nothing but 3 games on it but can see myself deleting it in the near future.
This is definitely they way forward. Especially for the tech savvy amongst us. The level of control and customisation is really appealing now and more and more things are working on Linux now
The 'up and down' clichee for Windows versions honestly is a delusion of the lesser informed people. In reality it was a steady decline since Windows 2K. The wrong impressions stems from too many people only acknowledging the immediate visible surface - the GUI, while mostly not ever informing about what's going on inside (which for Windows btw. is the same continuingly modified base through all years!). And by fact, since the end of XP, Windows has lost a lot of very important features (for example low level stuff like Sound hardware acceleration being removed since Vista, or even some visible and important productivity stuff stuff like individual folder options per path, or even a properly useable UI at all which doesn't hinder the user by silly visual design, which has been lost since Vista) and only added utterly useless things plus all the spyware and ads.
Nvidia was the first hardware manufacturer to support Linux on the PC platform. So long ago I can't even remember when now. But I was using a MX 200 graphics adapter when I first ran the binary Nvidia driver. I ran the binary driver the first hour it was released. Nvidia devs got me up and going with it.
Started computing with Windows 2000, then XP, then Win7, then Win10... The HDD on my old HP Pavilion from 2010~2011 dyed out, so I replaced it with a Lenovo ideaCentre 5 and then when Windows 11 started rolling out in October-November 2021, I thought maybe it was time to get out while the getting was good. It was then that Mutahar of SomeOrdinaryGamers posted an Ubuntu tutorial, and I decided to start using Linux from there. I installed it, and I didn't look back. Since then, I've only hopped across three distros. I moved from Ubuntu to Kubuntu, as I learned I preferred KDE over GNOME. Now, I've stuck with Arch and could never imagine going back to Windows with all the recent events that are happening under the nose of the general public.
Just started my “Linux as primary” journey a couple weeks ago. Tinkered with it off and on over the last 20 years but it never stuck. MS has gotten so stupid lately that I just can’t take it anymore and am fully committed to moving away. Linux Mint and so far so good. The thing that makes it easier for me to move at this point is I quit gaming 10 years ago and the software delivery systems have gotten really good.
Linux is a dinosaur from an age long passed too. Linux is UNIX alike. Linux is an homage to an OS that was created in 1969. But UNIX is the one true OS.
Im tired of not "owning" my pc. And tired of Microsoft changing stuff on my pc without my permission (like my desktop wallpaper). Steam deck really opened up linux to me and its been fun learning the operating system. Its time I feel. I will still have to keep windows on the side for some games....maybe.... lol.
Been back and forth between Linux and Windows since about 1999. The only thing that made me keep going back to Windows was gaming, everything else was better in Linux. When Proton came about , that was the last thing. Have been on Garuda Linux for the past 3-4 years now
@@Mattscreative any Linux distro can run any Linux kernel. You just download the source and build it. Then install it and reboot. Which is admittedly easier said than done. But it can still be done. If it's something that you're worried about then it's worth the effort. Building a custom Linux kernel is the most Linux thing you can do.
I been a Fedora user since Fedora 34 and was on nobara 39 but flatpaks breaks for me so I moved to cachy os bc you reccomend it. What kernel do you use?
@@Mattscreative wierd guess my flatpaks was corrupted. Specifically whick kernel cachy PS has a lot of kernel thanks in advance, also thanks for your great content.
Switched to linux in October of Last year, and it has been incredible how much better my experience with my PC has gotten. I have control over what I see and what is downloaded ootb. And my RAM isn't fully used up just because one game is using up 4GB of it. The amount of customization options easily available to me plus a bunch of easy to acces dev tools which is a huge benefit for an aspiring programmer like me. It just is a flawless experience. I still have windows installed on a separate SSD and that is only for the handful of games that have kernel level anti-cheat and even then when I want to play those games with friends it is a nightmare to go through the sluggishness of Windows
The thing I love about Proton(wine) is that it is not an emulator or a hypervizor. It basically is an instuction app that gives links to windows programs and games to all the nesessary libraries they use to run which means it doesn't have the bloatness of programs that Windows run in the background by default, that's basically the reason why you get higher framecounts.
I appreciate you have Majora's Mask pinned to your taskbar. I do wanna switch from windows eventually, my issue is comparing a billion distros and trying to minmax the pros and cons of each
Any Linux distro can do what any other Linux distro can do. It's all Linux. But it is easier to do some things on some distros than on others. So compare distros by what package manager they use and their repositories. There's really only a handful of actual viable Linux distros to run. The rest are just weird stuff for edgelords.
Glad I found out about ghost spectre, no recall, no bloat, no spyware, custom isos is the future since linux users are and always have been such an alienated community.
Welcome to the Linux community glad to have you around I switched to Linux a few years back locked back a few times had to deal with a trash dual booting experience grub shitting itself and not being able to play fortnite witch i dumped because the new updates arent real updates and are just shitty collabs i never asked for i got into gaming vms witch were a pain to set up started with Ubuntu use Nixos now and i also think deleting windows from gparted is really satisfying
I started dual booting linux mint and windows on my gaming laptop. Playing games on linux, I've noticed, has a significant improvement in performance over my windows only desktop which blew my mind. Downloads are also significantly faster than windows.
Well i own around 2000 games and 99% are fully playable and ive tried others also playable without issue soo maybe what needs to happen instead is we gotta report what games do work instead of not reporting.
Moved to Linux (Fedora) last night on my laptop that came with Windows 11 (still use Windows 10 on my pc because Windows 11 is "not supported", despite being like 10x faster than my laptop). Love it. Might as well switch when this one game I play finally gets linux support because the devs are crazy and go from allowing wine, to just blocking it.
I quit cold turkey about 2 months ago. I still have windows on another drive because I wasn’t sure if I’d need to switch back again. After 2 months I haven’t needed to at all. Some small things I have given up but it has been so worth it for the experience and peace of mind. I’m so happy to not be on windows any more.
Thanks for your thoughts, a little long, but that's my opinion. I care nothing about gaming, yet it's clearly important to the masses, and thus I get why it's covered so much. Welcome to Linux, I have been using Linux as my family driving for over three years now coming over from macOS. God bless,
was way longer but it's better to be to the point instead of missing details and having questions asked what about this and that again i added time stables to save time
Welcome to Linux! A lot of Linux TH-camrs were predicting that this new feature was going to have some Windows users migrate over. Over the past decade, the Linux desktop has really been evolving and becoming much better overall. I started using Linux about 2 decades ago in the early 2000s, and only use Windows when I need to. Linux has been running more optimal from what I've heard from Windows users. I am still rocking a Thinkpad from 2013, I did upgrade it to an SSD, but it only has 4GB of RAM, and is still able to the latest release of Debian with KDE Plasma, along with the latest Firefox ESR and Google Chrome, all running nice and snuggly with only 4GB of RAM. Watched another TH-camr, a developer talking about how Edge needs about 8GB of RAM, which is quite crazy.
@@Mattscreative Wonder if this other TH-camr dev who mentioned it was over exasurating. I've personally never used Edge, although it is available for Linux, so my only insight is from people who have used it. I know Chrome can be a memory hog at times, or at least before when I was using it more heavily. Glad your overall experience with Linux has been great so far though. In terms of the network stack, it's been the way you mentioned for quite awhile, not sure why some distros you mentioned had poorer performance, could be some stuff those distros are doing, but in general, at least with stock Debian and RedHat(which would include Fedora), networking is very optimized.
Not gonna lie, as a MacOS daily driver i really loved this video. I’m a huge fan of Promox (used for my homelab), Ubuntu Server (Docker/Plex), & TrueNas Scale. Only time I see Windows is when I’m starting up my Win Server 2022 VM for some SQL projects (Console gamer by choice). You almost made me wanna give it a go as a Daily, but I’m too far invested at the moment 😂. Great Video!
On Linux Mint for about 2 years now, I've been loving it. The software and the developers follow the users! Happy to see so many people finally getting fed up with Windows. It used to be great now it's just using people and opening the door for so much scarier stuff! Moving work done in one program to another program never works 100%, If you start in Krita and use Krita then it's so much better than PS then Krita. (Krita is not PS though obviously)
Funny, the same reason I use Linux. The list of reasons Linux is superior is a mile long. Security is the biggest, I used to have to run anti-virus. Not any more. And even better, Microsoft doesn't have back doors into the system so they can drop software turds into my desktop, menus and browser in the form of advertisements. Or, change settings from the way I want without permission. So, if you are happy using an operating system that is itself malware and "just works" for MS, good luck. You're gonna' need it.
Windows recall made me jump from my seat and get to working, I was dual-booting windows 10 and Debian with KDE but after the windows fiasco I formatted my ssd and gave arch a try (it is super easy to install as of 2024) even though I was scared of it. Right now I'm a month into it and so long I've only had one trouble which I fixed really quick thanks to the arch wiki. For the people that are currently on windows and don't have any programs they can't use on Linux, give it a try!
I resisted going all in on Linux for a long time. At first, I only used it on laptops to remove the bloat that was Windows. App compatibility was always an issue, so I told myself that since I'm a gamer that it wasn't worth leaving Windows. Then Microsoft announced the end of support for Win 10. Windows 11 is now their main push. They've wanted to go subscription for a while and then they started talking about Recall. I run Windows 11 on my HTPC and for a while had it on my gaming pc as well. They made everything worse. I keep my start bar at the top of the screen so it works like a drop down menu. Win 11 removed that. They rearranged the settings again. I hate desktop icons, another term for needless clutter, and I would always move my recycle bin to the taskbar. I needed a separate application, Minibin, to do the same thing. I used to be able to use a little bit of Windows code and a shortcut to do it all. Great, system resources now used to do what a shortcut used to do as a base part of windows.The last straw was when I learned the game that I play the most, 7 Days to Die, runs natively on Linux and ProtonGE works for most of the rest of my Steam library, and then Windows's own update started causing problems with my system. Linux has its flaws, but it's far better than it used to be and Windows has stopped being the OS made to focus on user experience. Edit: I've been on Linux before. Used Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mint, MX Linux, and a couple of others that I forget the names of. I'm on Nobara now.
First of all: I've just discovered this channel and I love the content, the way you explain things, the music 🎶 in the background! Great job 👏🏻 I gotta subscribe! Second: am I the only one that whenever hears of windows and/or microsoft (intentionally lowercase 😂, they don't deserve Uppercase) starts laughing unable to stop ? Third: We gotta create a foundation that helps windows users to save their lives and their mental sanity. Help them all to get rid of windows! 👋🏻 Bye bye to all from far far Italy 🇮🇹
i'm glad to know black desert works, it's the only mmo that i play regularly, and the only game that i play with friends is league, which is the only reason that still keeps me on windows, and for my work every application works under linux. Really tempted to try out fedora, looks pretty good.
I bought a laptop and HP Z Book just for running Linux originally I was going to run Arch but kept running into issues I went to Fedora 40 and I love it my favorite one so far, great video!!
Thanks for your video! Great content! I've used Linux since August 2002. Up until very recently I did maintain a Windows 11 laptop. No more. I blew out my Windows installation in favor of Debian 12. Everything works as expected. It's great to be Windows and Spyware free. On my home LAN I'm running Void, Slackware, Debian, and OpenBSD. :)
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Updated Video here of my journey so Far th-cam.com/video/NWG4sI1UIfc/w-d-xo.html 90 days full time on Linux only!
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Matt...have you got any ideas or references on how to get around the dual gpu issues i.e. my CPU comes with an integrated Intel GPU and the laptop also has a discrete Nvidia GPU.
Linux Mint has a similar Windows feel and I am looking at some early 2000s distros that are very similar to Windows some of them be warned that you have to have physical disks to install rather than flash drives just buy a USB disc drive though to fix the problem which is what modern society is relating to to bring back the disk drive.
Hmmm when w10 eventually becomes unusable i will consider switching to fedora because of this video but i am so used to working with arch. Does everything in arch work with fedora or are the dependencies are too different? i should set up a vm to test everything (no idea why i don't make a test vm more often)
@@MrZiad32 I just bought an old Chromebox2 for $35, great for messing around when you just wanna play.
I use Zorin 17.1 for it windows like ease of use and support of windows 3rd party software.
I started with DOS and Windows 3.1, raised a family building Windows labs and teaching children and educators Windows-based products. Retired and burned out on Windows. In June 2023, I loaded Ubuntu Budgie on a 2015 HP touchscreen PC. Today, Hyprland with Fedora 40 is on all my PCs. I like computers again.
That’s one hell of a ride you were on
respect 🫡
Very similar story :) But today I am all in virtualization projects in my homelab (love to tinker in terminal). But after some attempts to switch on a desktop side, still can't make the final step. Maybe it's all about debian based distros that doesn't click? Need to try Fedora... :)
@@EdvardasSmakovastry Pop OS with the new cosmic desktop. It looks really good and it’s written in Rust so extremely performant
@@CHURCHISAWESUM It's not out yet!! Not even the alpha until a few weeks from now
Itll be out by end of year i think
But yes, that would be me TOP recommendation once it comes out. Im planning on switching there even
I must say this is the most comprehensive, non Linux fanboy video I have ever seen. You've honestly mentioned the real pros and cons of the Linux operating system without the Windows or Linux fanboy biases. I hope you continue making more videos like this where you help Windows expats get into the world of Linux without dealing with the Linux neck-beards that belittle non Linux fanboys just so that they feel better about themselves.
i will make more videos like this.
@@Mattscreativewhat's the background music? Wish it was in the description so I could find it myself.
@@monki_sudo Dumping on Ubuntu tho is valid. It is bloated by default. Use literally any other major distro and you have less stuff pre-installed you don't need. Fedora is a good semi-rolling release with the latest drivers and whatnot, while debian is just the definition of tested and stable. Nobora is, as said in the Video, essentially this (nobora does have some optimizations in the Kernel so this is not 1:1)
@@Mattscreativeyou talk much about gaming on Linux can I make money gaming in Linux. I need to generate income.
Linux fanboys are really annoying. I saw a couple people shitting on a person's recreation of windows on their fedora machine. it honestly saddens me.
I get the reputation of windows, but if you were to shit on something that must've take effort on then you don't deserve to say criticism that is purely uneducational for the person. I just don't understand.
People use their computers how they want and they understand the risks. Can't they understand?
I put linux on a $286 Costco special HP laptop my sister was tossing because it was "so slow".I put linux on it and the laptop was instantly usable again. At that point I felt it was worth upgrading it as far as it could go (being am AMD A6 laptop with 4gb of ram...didn't have to go far) Got a 16 gb kit from ebay for $2 (yes... 2 dollars) and a 480gb Micron SSD for $15 and it was a whole new laptop. It was my linux workstation for 2 years while I still had a windows desktop. That was my start on linux. Now I daily drive linux on a decommissioned HP Z230 ssf workstation. The last windows machine I have will soon have an upgraded gpu, ram and SSD and be reborn as my casual "gaming" PC running Nobara or Bazzite.
I like these stories
this is so cool
Linux really shines with older hardware. I am not a computer nerd (civil engineer, to me a computer is a tool not an end in itself), but I have never understood a lot of the failed Linux conversions you see online (including LTT). The problems they give are unknown to me (and I first installed Linuxin 1997 or so, with Debian, before plug and play). I have never had problems with hardware, as my distro has always just found the best drivers for me for all the hardware, unlike any Windows installation I ever had to do. It took me a while to realize that it was because I wasn't a gamer nor a hardcore computer geek that was tryting to get the latest and bestest hardware and video cards. I was always economy minded and so moved just behind the curve. Getting mature hardware. It did server me well in the long run as I have rarely been frustrated with Linux. It just works for me. And that is why I was able to move away from Windows around the year 2000. The last version of Windows I ever owned at home was Windows 98.
Nice!
Very nice.
Welcome new linux users!
That was me last week...
Wiped my pc and started fresh, imagine me stumbling onto the forums with the "Hi I'm New" sticker.
8 days in... I am never going back to windows, period.
Haven't switched because my laptop has a GPU that's not supported. And roblox does not really work. And some apps I use for video editing is not on linix
Cheers fam!
I use arch now btw
@@roqeyt3566 Mint for me.
He will be back to Windows when he realises how much productivity he has lost moving to Linux.
I've been using Linux for about 6 months, i actually installed Arch fallowing a video you made, and i couldn't be happier honestly, specially after driver 555, now everything just wroks amazingly!
see see it's magic
It's true. I'm using cachyOS and it's amazing the level it's at. After decades of using Windows, after the last update with Pilot, I decided to call it quits. The linux world has arrived evolving well for Nvídia users who need HDR.
I made the switch about 6 months ago as well and after playing with a bunch of different distros I also went with arch. Im waiting on 560 driver and plasma 6.1 to come out before updating and just using x11 for gaming for now.
Installed popos 9 mo ago seeing the writing on the wall to familiarize myself with linux.
Currently backing up and reformatting and then off to Arch world.
And I don't have any pc but using linux-proot debian for like 4/5 months on my phone ,🐸 just a little problem is it doesn't use gpu...it only use cpu ..... I'm very hopeful one day someone will make it happen
I am a Linux Sofware Engineer and have been releasing packages for official CentOS since 2004. I have tried several times to quit Windows over the years, gaming was always why I had one 'gaming rig' with the latest version of Windows installed.
Last week, I removed my windows boot drive and installed an new NVME and installed Nobara 40 on my gaming rig. If things blew up, I could always just put my old NVME back in and keep going another year on Windows.
Well, things are going great. Proton-GE and/or Proton Experimental are running all the games I play just fine .. in fact I have a 5800X processor and 6800XT GPU and things are faster on Linux. Looks like this is actually the time. No more Windows for me.
I am so very proud of you
I remember my "Removing the Windows partition" moment very well. As an extra dopamine bonus, I got a huge chunk of extra free space. I had been using Linux for a long time and found that I just didn't use Windows anymore.
very nice
I don't remember when I switched too good today. Because it happened a pretty long time ago. I deleted Windows in 1997.
Its honestly cringe how people like you are acting like you're in some sort of group meeting where you're talking like not using windows is some sort of heroic act
@@craigtrish2011 Sharing experiences is not cringe. If it was then it would also be cringe when you share experiences about your Tesla with other Tesla owners.
@@craigtrish2011 you clearly do not know what is at stake. Ceding your digital autonomy is no small thing. You only think it is. If it wasn't for us holding the line Microsoft would be even worse than they are now too. Because if they were the only game in town then they could do whatever they pleased. So you're welcome.
The Steam Deck is what got me using Linux. Shortly after buying a Steam Deck, I installed Linux on my Laptop. Now just a couple weeks ago, I finally have Linux on my PC. I still have Windows on a separate Drive just in case I need it, but I can pretty much do everything I need to do on Linux.
btw, I've been using Nobara, which I'm sure you know is branch of Fedora.
hello decker lol
Recently installed and been using Fedora 40 KDE on my lenovo intel gen 13 laptop for the past two weeks. The best desktop experience i've ever had. Windows, while it still wins in APP compatibility loses in every other category..... KDE is just beautiful, customizable and better in every single other way
until you break it.....KDE looks and works great but if you tinker with it too much it gets really finicky
On Lenovo laptops Fedora works like a charm
I f-ing love KDE man. I've been using it since KDE 3. (I use Fedora KDE too.)
Been seeing a lot of "Switched to Linux" vids in my YT feed nowadays. It's nice to see. Not sure if more people are switching, or if the algorithm is just throwing more at me.
Well Linux just works and let's you do anything you want so it's a smart move these days
it's the algorithm unfortunately. for every one that switches there are a thousand that don't
@@GraveUypo yes that's the definitely the yt algo. The world is a huge algo😊 switched the full household to linux on new year 24. Now i have alot suggestions in my feeds in the last months. This video too😅
@@BobDevV - EXACTLY *_RIGHT_* !
I switched few days ago after using Windows for 20 years. I think it's good however some small things could be made better. I did the switch due to realizing that gaming on Linux is in a good shape and that there are distros with similar user interface to Windows. Earlier I believed that gaming is not possible on Linux + you have to know some programming shit to use it on a daily basis because that's what everyone else told me. I think that if only Linux Foundation made a special distro that would look and behave familiar to casual Windows user, invested a little bit in ads here and there, the desktop market share of Linux OS would go up a few times more at least. And that would force developers to do native versions of their software on Linux. But coming back to your thoughts - I think there is some movement towards Linux, we'll just see soon if the wave is big or just a small one.
I switched to Mint about 6 months ago to test the waters due to Proton and my huge Steam library...works beautifully. Microsoft has overstepped one boundary after another, switched exclusively to Linux several months ago, never going back.
im glad that old man os works for you Kappa but ya Microsoft needs to be sued for anti trust
@Mattscreative I had upgraded to Windows 11 because my main gaming pc, wanted to see if it would install so I would be able to upgrade to 12 later, 11 had issues, reinstalled 10. Ran 10 for 7 years and NEVER had MS cloud enabled, especially not by default, it is default now. I am in school for my job, welder for a federal contractor, they sent me here, MS deleted some of my homework off Win 10 machine as they synced homework folder to their cloud and told me "almost out of storage" (it was text tiles I spent hours on for homework for my paycheck) and between these 2 computers I have nearly 40tb of storage...I got all pictures, roms, military records, pay stubs, tax records, saved emails, nothing is on that paperweight Windows machine but my music production software and I haven't turned the computer on since that incident. Eventually plan to put Debian server on it with maybe a tiling window manager or KDE. Installed Fruity Loops in Mint and seems to work fine. Need to try getting Kontakt libraries to work.
That's what Valve thought too with the Microsoft Store; if it was actually sucessful Steam would have been in trouble so Valve hedged their bets by investing in Steam Machines, Steam Deck and Proton.
very similar story here down to the timing.
Started using Linux in 2008 and liked how niche it was. I used windows 7 allday every day. As soon as windows 10 borked some programs I was using for my arcade and Photoshop became a monthly subscription I've been using Linux on all of my PCs. in the last 4 years linux has really made some incredible strides.
And loads more to come!
The more people who are brave and move to Linux the better it will be for all of us. It is a up hill battle as there are still problems under Linux, but many things have been fixed or mitigated.
Still need better anticheat, hdr, wayland, supports. There is some of that working already, but not fully or feature complete.
Wayland check and hdr check
@@Mattscreative I only tested HDR on 6.0 release on my 4090 and it produced broken color and contrast. Plus you need Wine and Steam to support it fully.
the broken part wasn't nvidia it was just a plasma bug or should i say extremely rushed and limited testing of HDR before merging. wine and steam can both do HDR but you have to use gamescope which is now possible on nvidia
@@Mattscreative It should be possible without gamescope now but I haven't bothered testing. I'm still waiting for that elusive frame-gen support from NVIDIA which I use in SOME games. Also I wonder if Lossless Scaling (app) can be made to work under Proton.
All the anticheats that are worth supporting are already supported, and those that aren't are malware rootkits anyway. I don't understand the logic of wanting to use/switch to linux, but then carry over all the problems and garbage from windows.
I started learning linux out of curiosity about 6 months ago. Started on endeavouros and became hooked with the freedom that you dont get with windows.
After a few months I wanted to try my hand at a clean "from scratch" install and followed your arch guide and everything works fantastic, especially with the new 555 drivers.
I also deleted my old windows install about 2 weeks ago. Fully linux now!
Hey Welcome, fully to Linux! We’re in a club now. I’m glad I managed to help you. And I’m glad you’re very happy with your choice.
When you say learning do you mean using commands? If so could you recommend anything in particular that a new user should learn? Thanks
@@maccagrabme You don't need command line in some other distros. But it always helps, many people actually prefer it. This channel has a lot and also the channel's discord
@@maccagrabme what i recommend is using chatgpt for anything you don't know or don't want to learn. it's incredibly capable at troubleshooting linux, which is hilarious since microsoft kinda owns it now, and it's there 24/7. you can just tell it what you want and say something like "make a one-click script to solve this" and it'll do that for you
I've recently made the permanent swap from windows to nobara (Fedora 39). I've had a malware scare in my life that didn't feel too great and recently had a close encounter with a second. I'm tired of the cycle and being the easiest to target as a windows user so I've swapped to Linux to make it less of a possibility. My machine is performing better than ever before and using wine to still have my favourite windows applications work fully as intended with desktop shortcuts is all I could really need from a machine.
I’m very glad to hear that
It‘s great to hear that you switched to Linux!
But remember: Linux is not 100% secure against malware either. You will still have to be careful with which programs you execute on your computer.
That's good. But Wine is not the solution for everything. So not all applications are gonna work 100% or sometimes they don't work at all.
Just adding this so people know that It's not something that you can always rely on. Sometimes you have to be ready to look for alternatives.
I switched to linux for this three main reason:
1. Every time windows adding spyware after spyware, the last "FeAtUrE" called recall will let me stick to linux for a WHILE.
2. I had cases where after i shutdown the pc the next day or the next boot-up i had windows completely destroyed and unusable.
3. The very difficult customization. I love to customize my machine to my liking and windows doesn't have that much customization to do.
After that i like linux more than windows and i didnt find it to difficult to understand and i started with Arch (btw)
100% true
arch has ironically become an amazing beginner distro for people willing to learn; archinstall almost completely removes the barrier to entry, and I find maintenance to be very easy thanks to the incredible wiki and streamlined OS structure.
Windows customizable is terrible out of the box, but possible with third party apps and theme patchers. Look at niivu's work on Deviant Art for examples of what you can actually achieve for free. Still a terrible OS tho lol
This is freaking amazing Matt. I have just switched form Win11 pro to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and there's so much I can learn from your channel. Thank you for all the work you have done already.
Glad to help! Just be patient with linux OK
@@Mattscreative I'm going to do my best. Thanks again Matt
I’m trying to do this as well on a very old laptop (My first laptop from childhood), in hopes of “reviving” it and learning as much as possible about Linux and Ubuntu.
krita is more used by ilustrators than people doing image manipulation, a lot of ilustrators prefer it over photoshop.
i know who and why people use it but it does other things also
Yeah. Krita became my very good alternative to Clip Studio Paint, after I switched to Linux, for drawing purposes
krita is so good, I use it on windows as well
@@paulj505 Is there any way to get Clip working on Linux?
Honestly that's the only thing that's making me apprehensive with switching.
Krita has become my go to choice lately. So light weight too.
You're one of the first youtubers I've seen who ACTUALLY switched to Linux and not just show the stock Fedora/popOS install and pretend like they've been using it for real. You actually show us what you're doing with it, your computer is full of stuff, that was a very nice video. Thank you.
Ya i deleted windows its gone linux is my ho now haha
I just made this switch as well. In one week I switched my company supplied work machine to a Mac and switched my gaming PC to Linux (ubuntu) just to see how easy my workflows would be. So far, in both cases, everything I need works and everything is better. I used to run Linux probably 20 years ago, regularly rebuilding the kernel, etc.. the desktops have come so far. All the apps I want are there and all the games I want work perfectly.
Very nice
Mint XFCE user here, happy to see you're on a good path on setting yourself up in Linux. My reasoning to switch was due to how Windows has been a plague on many low-end devices and computers where I am, one of them being my Celeron laptop. Due to how drastic the performance issues were getting, and also the one time Windows Update broke my laptop for a whole 4 hours, I decided to hop over to Linux Mint back in late 2022. It's been swell and usable ever since, and I hope everyone who wants to make a switch for whatever reason settles down well.
Mint XFCE truly is peak. I love it. On both low-end and high-end systems.
@@Synkronist It is! I customized it a lot by now despite how limited it can be towards that, turned it into a Windows XP look alike lol
@@acronym.4328 I like how it starts off simple and can be made almost whatever you want, without much effort.
thank you for this video, I completely agree, I don't feel like I can "do" Windows anymore. The spying on users and exposing people to threats and stupid ads because of their greed and data grifting is getting out of hand. I still haven't decided if a Mac would be better for me, but in the meantime I guess I'll check out Linux and hope that I, a programming noob, will be able to deal with it
You will find your way
@@Mattscreativeexactly, I switched to linux in 2023 and found a way despite having ZERO programming experience
Good video, switched to Mint yesterday after the Windows bs. Gotta say, the personalization is amazing, and just as you, the emulation runs so much better at Linux, im having a pretty good experience, no plans to change to windows again ever.
Great to hear!
I stopped using Windows around 2010 and I've never looked back.
lucky you back in 2010 it would have killed me
I in 2017 and never looked back either.
I did it in 2008, maybe? Not sure.
did look back every once in a while, by helping out other people with their Windows computers.
Each time I did, I was shocked to find that it was worse than I remembered.
2018 never looked back.
I‘ts great that you switched to Linux and I love that you and your community are writing a couple of guides regarding many things that have to do with Linux.
However, it would be nice if you could „publish“ them in a forum (maybe even make your own forum), in Reddit or make a small website for that purpose. This would help many more people, since the first instinct one has, when they encounter a problem on Linux, is to google it. But google can‘t display messages from Discord channels as search results.
i can't i only have so much time in the day to enjoy my self and make videos and work on healing from my past
What made me switch to Linux this year permanently was a few things. I installed a fresh clean install of windows 10 which was on a brand new USB, brand new SSD, Cleaned & re-slotted PC. Worked for a bit and I proceeded to get blue screen after blue screen I even ruled out the parts. No way I will touch Win 11, I switched to a distro I enjoy Linux Mint. Worked okay but started too have issues kept on working on it and attempting to figure it out. Bite the bullet and went back to Pop Os after not touching it since 2021, I mainly play games on my pc but I do multitask as well. But honestly I'm happy for the lack of random unnecessary notifications & more bullshit that Microsoft is shoving down the consumer. I hope your experience continues to go well, much like everyone who has started to change over.
Ya linux isn’t so sensitive with somethings but with others like monitor cables it can be
Welcome to the world of Freedom and Penguins 🐧. Linux has really grown from its early days into a telar OS. I would have to love to join you in this Journey as I first strted dabbling in Linux in the 2000s. Nice setup you got there!
It’s been a fun 25 years on linux so far and it’s only getting better
As a long time Linux user one of the greatest things in Linux is that the operating system does not fight against you. A good example of this is when I switched from Intel to AMD on my desktop machine: Take backups, swap the motherboard, boot and login. Everything just worked like nothing would have happened at all.
I've seen this stunt being attempted on Windows couple times and they've all ended poorly. Even if you managed to get the installation some how not to BSOD out of reality due to driver mismatch all that awaits is a license deactivation hell.
I'm so happy to see how far Linux has come (for the general public). I have used Fedora, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Manjaro, and a few others, but there is one thing I cannot live without that even Windows struggles with.......... The Ecosystem! I know that Closed Source is repulsive to many of you in the Linux community, but I've spent valuable hours of my life and effort in configuring, transferring, copying, viewing/carrying multiple devices. Running Windows VMs for specific programs when running Linux as my DD, and Windows deciding to re-enable options I disabled after an update.
My Mac/Macbook, iPhone, Apple TV, and HomePods allow me to set something up once and my preferences and data is made available everywhere else I am logged in. My shortcuts, notes, reminders, data, photos/videos, shows, music, and so much more are setup for me everywhere I interact with a device. It's simple, and I wish Linux could be that for me, but it just can't be.
my windows 11 nuked its own boot partition so was a good reason to main linux lol
It saved you the time it deleted itself
Well, I've seen some weird stuff. Never seen a healthy OS accidentally eat it's own boot partition. At least not something with a real protected mode.
I've been using windows since 3.1, and I've seen a lot of weird and strange things. The last one was windows making my laptop battery useless. The battery still worked, but windows said it was completely gone. Windows like doing things like that.
How does an operating system nuke it's own partition?
@@Kali_Krause Don't know how but Windows does that.
I moved to Linux because my heavily modded install of Cities:Skylines had GPU Memory Leaking in DirectX. I was lazy and didn't wanted to individually disable each of my around 6k of assets and 100 mods to check which one it is, than restart the game wait 30 min until the game has loaded all the data and repeat. so I installed the Game on Linux which was natively supported and the Memory Leaking disappeared.
Welcome aboard from a 22-year full-time desktop Linux user! :)
I’ve been using Linux since I was five and macos and windows so the 25 year long journey was going from using Linux as a toy just to play around with to full-time
Fedora, my favorite distro and the heavyweight champion of the Linux Ecosystem. Always a good choice!
indeed
i would use fedora, feels great , rn i use win 10 ltsc iot
Lol love the windows deletion bit at the end - looks like you've got your system running nicely. that's the best part make it how you want - might take some extra work but once you've got it how you want it, it's awesome
Been at this for 25 years i know hoe yo tune my linux and so far its been perfect
I just switched to cachyOS with Hyprland and am blown away at how good it is
Left Windows seven years ago, and I'm not looking back.... I don't miss it at all...
I noticed that you didn't mention an office suit. And while there is Libre Office for that as well, in my opinion, MS Office is one of the main reasons for keeping me from going full Linux.
Thank you for your informative video.
Well, you see I don’t use office or anything like it so I didn’t really need to mention it but yes, there are many alternatives
@@Mattscreative Thank you for your prompt answer.
If you are a power user of MS Office, switching to LibreOffice or maybe MS Office Web can be hard.
I dual boot both windows and Linux and agree for a fast productive fully featured office suite nothing on Linux compares to office. All we need is that and for gimp or for another graphic software to be as good as Photoshop. Modern clean look and feel GUI. Once Linux gets that it is game over for windows for me. For video editing Davinci resolve is great, it's not FOSS but it works perfectly fine for me. If we can get a foss version of that too even better. Especially now with gaming being as good as it is now on Linux. If we get that then it truly can possibly be "the year of Linux" in my opinion
If it’s that make-or-break, you could run office in a VM if you have the hardware to do it.
I own a 12 year old Lenovo X1 Carbon. It was painfully slow on Windows, but I was emotionally attached to it lmao. It's been with me for almost a decade. I finally decided to install Mint on it, and my God. It runs almost like new again. I've been ignoring my gaming rig just because I finally love using my thinkpad again. I can see the point of Linux now haha
You saved it
My 8 years old laptop with Windows 10 wasn´t working very well anymore and was so slow even after a clean system installation so I didn't use it anymore until I decided to give it a go with Linux Mint and now it works like a charm. After that I also ditched my Windows 11 OS on my main PC and that is now also a Linux Mint PC. I love it, after about 40 years using DOS and MS Windows I now have fun again learning new stuff, tweaking the desktop to my liking, using it for work and my daily things and all my Steam, GOG, Epic games work perfectly.
I am so happy I made the jump to Linux!
@@gerkostuff598 if you ever feel like using real Linux give pikaos 4 a try or cachyos both are extremely better out of the box
I haven't kicked Windows to the curb yet, but I am well on my way. I've been using Windows since the DOS days, and into computers as a whole even longer. I'm talking green screens, man. That said, I am already running various versions of Linux on VM's and figuring out which one I like most. At present, I am really liking LMDE, but I'm still browsing. My goal is to be completely free of the disease named Windows in six months or less.
The whole reason I liked windows was that I had so much more freedom compared to Apple (which is ridiculously proprietary), the fact that it was easy to use and I could run all of the apps I needed for work and leisure. Now Microsoft is pushing everyone to Win 11 which is by far the most intrusive and controlling OS I've seen from Microsoft in my lifetime.
I get the sense that Microsoft wants the ability to spy on us, tell us what we can and can't do with out silicon, and then want to nickel and dime us for every little thing. The have become what I hate. So I'm done with Windows... for good. The only question now is what flavor of Linux will I choose for my silicon? 🤔🙃
No idea that’s something you have to figure out
@@Mattscreative I know. It's more me discovering through experimentation through VM's. Thanks for the upload, BTW. It pretty much echoes what a lot of people moving away from windows feel.
Matt gave the only real answer, you have to make the decision on your own. Give the various distributions a try, and pick the one you like.
After what happened today with the Crowdstrike update taking down a billion Windows (and Windows ONLY) machines, your vid seems even more relevant!
Edit: Seeing that Windows partition get wrecked was satisfying!
It has only been since Windows 10 I had made attempts to switch over. I dabbled with it over the years, but it was around 2021, and 2022 I was able to fully commit. Windows 8 and later has been just garbage. I remember back in 2014 when I gave Mint a try and Garry's Mod ran at over 100 FPS where as on Windows 8, it ran at only ~40 fps max. NVIDIA 640GT. Windows 7 was the last MS OS I really liked. I use Arch-based (Endaevor, Garuda Lite, Plasma) as they usually have kernels where HDMI doesn't sound like chipmunks like it did on Ubuntu-based. (RX590)
I've been back and forth with Linux for a while. About 8-9 years ago or so, while getting into computer science for real for the first time, i did a fresh install of Arch Linux (which, for someone who was clueless, was a whole day's worth of work), eventually getting KDE to work and sitting on that build for a good while. This was before proton or the big push for gaming on Linux by valve, so i was really locked out of like half my library. Still, i was moving over from windows 8 at the time and i really appreciated it as the nerd i am.
I ended up going to Windows 10 to play other games i wanted to and generally have less painful of an experience. When Windows 11 rolled around I took a look at the OS in general and committed to a swap to Linux as soon as Microsoft would force me to switch to it (basically when i upgraded my pc)
That was about a year ago, and I've been running Linux since then
I think your average user would be frustrated with the little details. It's not necessarily even trying to be seamless in the way windows or mac does, and i think there's an expectation of that from our technology. The biggest draw for me is that if I'm committed to it, i can fix any issue i have on my own devices, and most of the time it isn't Even that difficult. For your average user, I think it might be harder to find someone who can trouble shoot Linux for you, usually you'll just the information to do it yourself.
I can teach linux to people to be seamless it’s not hard
A thing I love about Linux is that it just gets better. I started at Fedora 36 KDE and it just gets better. It's gotten more stable and KDE 7 actually had me exited to update my PC. It just doesn't get stale and gets better. And if in the future Fedora gets worse I'll distro hop. Unlike with Windows which gets terrible privacy invasive features added, I can just decide that a distro is not for me.
Correction: KDE 6
Your app startup time seems bonkers and no more flashbangs.
If Microsoft wants to save itself. They should create a new branch of windows called something like Windows 11 Gaming Edition. They can give full control what features you want but for fhe most part should have everything needed for games to run at their best while removing all unnecessary services that gamers wont use on their computer. Basically an optimized version of Windows for gamers.
True
They should just remove all the spyware
that already exists… but for governments. looking up windows G.
I already moved to Linux permanently in 2017. Started with Peppermint 8. I'm not a gamer. I settled on MX Linux Xfce. I want stability. I don't need the latest of everything. Only benefit of Edge is that it plays Netflix in 1080p. But like you said, you like it and that's what counts. Personally I prefer Firefox.
That wicked
I’m primarily a Mac user, as I’ve been using Macs since a G4 eMac running 10.3 Panther. My main computer now is an m1 Mac mini that I absolutely adore , but I also have an hp laptop running Linux mint with Cinnamon. That laptop is for my 7 year old son, and I’ve installed on it a bunch of educational apps and have educational websites bookmarked in a browser. Happily, he hasn’t had any issues or headaches adapting to mint.
well kids are like old people early one so it fits lol but all jokes aside ya if mints fits someone needs it's great
I used Linux from 1996 until 2008 when I switched to MacOS for audio production. Two years ago I got fed up with MacOS and switched back to Linux.
@@andreasvukman3932 welcome home
I’ve been using Linux for almost 20 years. Left Windows full-time 10 years ago. I can play my entire Steam library of 500+ titles no problems. Once Valve comes to an agreement with all of the anti-cheat providers, it’s a wrap for that argument. I’m still rocking Fedora 39 KDE. I’ll probably upgrade to 40 this week. Welcome to the club dawg.
Been here for 25 years between 3 os mac and windows and linux and this video was making a choice as i stopped macos last year and now windows.
It’s not really about valve coming to an agreement, a lot of anti cheat systems already run on Linux but the game devs don’t want to let their games run on Linux for various reason. Great example is how epic won’t let Fortnite run because epic hate steam… the anticheat they use on that game runs on Linux and it’s literally a toggle switch to enable when compiling game exe.
The other problem is a lot of anticheat software install kernel rootkits such as RIOTGames or the EA one etc…
The Linux kernel team won’t allow kernel rootkits plus as the Linux kernel is open source a rootkit anticheat would be useless and easy to bypass…
i think today was the day, i was utterly impressed after installing Linux Mint Cinnamon edge in my i5 12600k, wifi and lan working out of the box, the software manager allowed me to setup my work environment in minutes without the need of the Terminal (VScode, Arduino IDE, audacity, Sunshine/Moonlight, Jellyfin, emulators, etc), i was finally able to reliably pair my xbox controller through bluetooth using xpadneo, and Lutris streamlined the process of installing windows apps and games with wine prefixes and running the games using the proton compatibility layer, i only had time to try Dark Souls 3, Sekiro and Tunic but so far performance is the same as running them on windows, after 10 years and over a dozen ubuntu intallations i think i found my linux distro. great video man.
All that can be done on any distro these days
welcome to the club :D
Even on a heavily locked and stripped out version of Windows, MS still manages to introduce new 'features'. I have seen advertising on my pc even after clearing MS Store and Edge from the OS. Windows is no longer safe for people and the company operates in a black box so you don't know what they are doing or where the data they are mining from you is being used.
I'll be switching to Linux as soon as I can get my projects cleared and dropping the ever increasing subscriptions for FOSS (Free Open Source Software), where I'll give donations to them to continue developing. Hell, even the German gov has swapped to Linux from MS. Good practice anyway as the world goes online to not assume people can afford MS products.
ok
I use KDE Neon, it is my happy place. 🥰
Thanks for clearing the air for people that might be uninformed otherwise.
💯
I'm sure some people will appreciate this.
I hope that they do and thank you for the very kind comment
Definitely 27:18 the best part of the video lmao
dude, deleting windows? More like OBLITERATING windows
I plan on switching to Linux some time after Win10 reaches EOL. The spyware, ads, bloatware, forced updates, and other annoyances is making Windows unbearable to use.
It would be good to have you
switch now and avoid the rush.
Why wait? I shared your opinion, but I nuked my Windows install last week and installed Kubuntu. Works like a charm.
@@rpersen Funnily enough I'm actually typing this comment from my newly installed Mint distro. I installed Linux Mint a week ago in order to familiarize myself with how things work and it has been a fun learning experience so far. However, I'm not quite ready to delete windows yet.
I'm also thankful to Valve for Proton because thanks to them Linux has become a viable OS for PC gamers.
@@rpersen Kubuntu wouldn't be my first choice for a Linux distro but everyone does have to start somewhere I suppose. I certainly do not run the first distro I ever ran today either.
I rarely comment on videos. I recently decided to finally make the full switch to Linux this past week, and I am starting the journey of mapping out the path to it (I had even made a list like you said before I had found this video). I've used windows as my main my whole life, but dabbled in Linux on my laptop with many distros from Mint, to Fedora to some other obscure ones. Gaming has always been the main thing that has held me back from switching. (And backing up important data to do a fresh start of an OS for the first time in 9 years). I have followed some other Linux channels for years, but I really like your take and opinions on it. I'll definitely be following your videos to help me with setting up Linux in my journey on this transition.
amazing im glad you switched and welcome
I would do the same if I didn't heavily rely on Ableton and music production plugins along with the Adobe Suite. The good news is, Windows 11 IoT Enterprise just released and it literally solved all my complaints about windows 11; no bloat, no copilot or recall functions, extremely few background processes and heavy optimization into stability and lightness. Basically a dream come true tbh, will be switching to it for now :)
yawbridge google it
@@Mattscreative yes i tried using yawbridge + wine on endeavour before, UAD plugins dont work, Pro Tools and all AVID plugins doesn't work due to it's license activation program, Cubase doesn't work because of the eLicenser and doesnt support ALSA, FFADO, Jack & other linux audio drivers, and ASIO has terrible buffer artifacting on linux. Audio is yet again still years behind gaming and graphical work sadly :(
Fedora is a nice pick. They're upstream from Red Hat and the Fedora team keeps the distro up to date with security patches and they have a release cycle of every six to seven months.
I know I’ve been using it for a very long time
@@Mattscreative I like seeing Videos like these on the internet. This video came across my feed and I pegged you as someone just switching to Linux, my mistake. I look forward to seeing more of your content in the future.
Installed Nobara 39 and currently in the waiting room for version 40. Anyways I tried a few games that are EAC and Battleye protected and while there are some exceptions (Destiny 2 for example) there's a decent amount that works great in Proton Experimental (bleeding-edge branch). So far Apex Legends, The Finals, and DayZ I tried and they all work great, with DayZ requiring a third party launcher to join community servers that are modded.
Nice thanks for letting me know!
I just need Reflex for Apex Legends and im all in lol
Yes, I am out too. I am convinced that someone WILL use the recall to spy on me. I am so done with Windows.
well recall was confirmed for X86_64
Thanks for sharing, I also have been making the switch to Linux since w11 was released, and Recall was just what solidified my choice to leave Windows. I have a small ssd with w10 with literally nothing but 3 games on it but can see myself deleting it in the near future.
Thanks for sharing
@@Mattscreative "Taylor Swift's a freaking tyrant". Lol facts
This is definitely they way forward. Especially for the tech savvy amongst us. The level of control and customisation is really appealing now and more and more things are working on Linux now
The 'up and down' clichee for Windows versions honestly is a delusion of the lesser informed people. In reality it was a steady decline since Windows 2K. The wrong impressions stems from too many people only acknowledging the immediate visible surface - the GUI, while mostly not ever informing about what's going on inside (which for Windows btw. is the same continuingly modified base through all years!).
And by fact, since the end of XP, Windows has lost a lot of very important features (for example low level stuff like Sound hardware acceleration being removed since Vista, or even some visible and important productivity stuff stuff like individual folder options per path, or even a properly useable UI at all which doesn't hinder the user by silly visual design, which has been lost since Vista) and only added utterly useless things plus all the spyware and ads.
yuppers
Thanks to AMD I made the switch in 2016. Pls link me that wallpaper is gorgeous.
the wallpaper is in my discord
Nvidia was the first hardware manufacturer to support Linux on the PC platform. So long ago I can't even remember when now. But I was using a MX 200 graphics adapter when I first ran the binary Nvidia driver. I ran the binary driver the first hour it was released. Nvidia devs got me up and going with it.
Bravo!
Started computing with Windows 2000, then XP, then Win7, then Win10... The HDD on my old HP Pavilion from 2010~2011 dyed out, so I replaced it with a Lenovo ideaCentre 5 and then when Windows 11 started rolling out in October-November 2021, I thought maybe it was time to get out while the getting was good. It was then that Mutahar of SomeOrdinaryGamers posted an Ubuntu tutorial, and I decided to start using Linux from there. I installed it, and I didn't look back. Since then, I've only hopped across three distros. I moved from Ubuntu to Kubuntu, as I learned I preferred KDE over GNOME. Now, I've stuck with Arch and could never imagine going back to Windows with all the recent events that are happening under the nose of the general public.
Just started my “Linux as primary” journey a couple weeks ago. Tinkered with it off and on over the last 20 years but it never stuck. MS has gotten so stupid lately that I just can’t take it anymore and am fully committed to moving away. Linux Mint and so far so good. The thing that makes it easier for me to move at this point is I quit gaming 10 years ago and the software delivery systems have gotten really good.
What is your theme? the title bar is so slim. Thank you
video description the gnome 46 video
yo that ricing looks so coool is that nobara with gnome or kde ???? (nvm it's gnome) . a video about ur ricing ?
Description the gnome 46 video
Oh and all the extensions can be found in extensions manager so flatpak install ExtensionManager
Windows is a dinosaur from an age long passed....Linux is the future and Linux is free.
true
Linux is a dinosaur from an age long passed too. Linux is UNIX alike. Linux is an homage to an OS that was created in 1969. But UNIX is the one true OS.
Im tired of not "owning" my pc. And tired of Microsoft changing stuff on my pc without my permission (like my desktop wallpaper). Steam deck really opened up linux to me and its been fun learning the operating system. Its time I feel. I will still have to keep windows on the side for some games....maybe.... lol.
Been back and forth between Linux and Windows since about 1999. The only thing that made me keep going back to Windows was gaming, everything else was better in Linux. When Proton came about , that was the last thing. Have been on Garuda Linux for the past 3-4 years now
Well said!
I’m learning Debian 12 I’m happy I’m away from windows now and never again will I go back nope I’m staying with Linux or Debian
ok i do not have good memory's of Debian 12 it was too slow and dated and i lost a ton of performance due to the outdated kernel and drivers
@@Mattscreative any Linux distro can run any Linux kernel. You just download the source and build it. Then install it and reboot. Which is admittedly easier said than done. But it can still be done. If it's something that you're worried about then it's worth the effort. Building a custom Linux kernel is the most Linux thing you can do.
Dude. I am more than ready to dump Microsoft. Apple isn't much better now.
Free range computing. Damn it.
DO IT!!
I been a Fedora user since Fedora 34 and was on nobara 39 but flatpaks breaks for me so I moved to cachy os bc you reccomend it. What kernel do you use?
cachyos kernel also nobara changed nothing for flatpaks
@@Mattscreative wierd guess my flatpaks was corrupted. Specifically whick kernel cachy PS has a lot of kernel thanks in advance, also thanks for your great content.
I just started a 30 day challenge to stay on Debian to make myself learn Linux better. Thanks for this great video.
Switched to linux in October of Last year, and it has been incredible how much better my experience with my PC has gotten. I have control over what I see and what is downloaded ootb. And my RAM isn't fully used up just because one game is using up 4GB of it. The amount of customization options easily available to me plus a bunch of easy to acces dev tools which is a huge benefit for an aspiring programmer like me. It just is a flawless experience. I still have windows installed on a separate SSD and that is only for the handful of games that have kernel level anti-cheat and even then when I want to play those games with friends it is a nightmare to go through the sluggishness of Windows
Thank you for sharing your experience seems a lot of experiences like that
The thing I love about Proton(wine) is that it is not an emulator or a hypervizor. It basically is an instuction app that gives links to windows programs and games to all the nesessary libraries they use to run which means it doesn't have the bloatness of programs that Windows run in the background by default, that's basically the reason why you get higher framecounts.
i get higher fps because i took the time and got the right kernel and settings
Bye Junior and hello Nvidia
not nvidia but linux
I had a computer named Junior but it died by messing it up so much that is dead I am moving to tablet and phone s and linux
I appreciate you have Majora's Mask pinned to your taskbar. I do wanna switch from windows eventually, my issue is comparing a billion distros and trying to minmax the pros and cons of each
I have a video in the works about that
Any Linux distro can do what any other Linux distro can do. It's all Linux. But it is easier to do some things on some distros than on others. So compare distros by what package manager they use and their repositories. There's really only a handful of actual viable Linux distros to run. The rest are just weird stuff for edgelords.
Glad I found out about ghost spectre, no recall, no bloat, no spyware, custom isos is the future since linux users are and always have been such an alienated community.
oh you poor thing
Welcome to the Linux community glad to have you around I switched to Linux a few years back locked back a few times had to deal with a trash dual booting experience grub shitting itself and not being able to play fortnite witch i dumped because the new updates arent real updates and are just shitty collabs i never asked for i got into gaming vms witch were a pain to set up started with Ubuntu use Nixos now and i also think deleting windows from gparted is really satisfying
I started dual booting linux mint and windows on my gaming laptop. Playing games on linux, I've noticed, has a significant improvement in performance over my windows only desktop which blew my mind. Downloads are also significantly faster than windows.
Love the Gerudo Valley music in the background, wasn’t expecting it but it’s a welcome surprise
If there was better general support for games under Linux i'd move over in a heartbeat.
Well i own around 2000 games and 99% are fully playable and ive tried others also playable without issue soo maybe what needs to happen instead is we gotta report what games do work instead of not reporting.
Moved to Linux (Fedora) last night on my laptop that came with Windows 11 (still use Windows 10 on my pc because Windows 11 is "not supported", despite being like 10x faster than my laptop). Love it. Might as well switch when this one game I play finally gets linux support because the devs are crazy and go from allowing wine, to just blocking it.
Welcome aboard
I quit cold turkey about 2 months ago. I still have windows on another drive because I wasn’t sure if I’d need to switch back again. After 2 months I haven’t needed to at all. Some small things I have given up but it has been so worth it for the experience and peace of mind. I’m so happy to not be on windows any more.
@@_cul8r_ grats I'm glad
Thanks for your thoughts, a little long, but that's my opinion. I care nothing about gaming, yet it's clearly important to the masses, and thus I get why it's covered so much. Welcome to Linux, I have been using Linux as my family driving for over three years now coming over from macOS. God bless,
was way longer but it's better to be to the point instead of missing details and having questions asked what about this and that again i added time stables to save time
Welcome to Linux! A lot of Linux TH-camrs were predicting that this new feature was going to have some Windows users migrate over. Over the past decade, the Linux desktop has really been evolving and becoming much better overall. I started using Linux about 2 decades ago in the early 2000s, and only use Windows when I need to. Linux has been running more optimal from what I've heard from Windows users. I am still rocking a Thinkpad from 2013, I did upgrade it to an SSD, but it only has 4GB of RAM, and is still able to the latest release of Debian with KDE Plasma, along with the latest Firefox ESR and Google Chrome, all running nice and snuggly with only 4GB of RAM. Watched another TH-camr, a developer talking about how Edge needs about 8GB of RAM, which is quite crazy.
i have never come close to using 8gb of ram on edge even with 300 tabs
@@Mattscreative Wonder if this other TH-camr dev who mentioned it was over exasurating. I've personally never used Edge, although it is available for Linux, so my only insight is from people who have used it. I know Chrome can be a memory hog at times, or at least before when I was using it more heavily. Glad your overall experience with Linux has been great so far though. In terms of the network stack, it's been the way you mentioned for quite awhile, not sure why some distros you mentioned had poorer performance, could be some stuff those distros are doing, but in general, at least with stock Debian and RedHat(which would include Fedora), networking is very optimized.
Not gonna lie, as a MacOS daily driver i really loved this video. I’m a huge fan of Promox (used for my homelab), Ubuntu Server (Docker/Plex), & TrueNas Scale.
Only time I see Windows is when I’m starting up my Win Server 2022 VM for some SQL projects (Console gamer by choice).
You almost made me wanna give it a go as a Daily, but I’m too far invested at the moment 😂.
Great Video!
Thank you!
On Linux Mint for about 2 years now, I've been loving it.
The software and the developers follow the users! Happy to see so many people finally getting fed up with Windows. It used to be great now it's just using people and opening the door for so much scarier stuff!
Moving work done in one program to another program never works 100%, If you start in Krita and use Krita then it's so much better than PS then Krita. (Krita is not PS though obviously)
Great to hear!
I just used Linux again and wow. I love windows even more because it just works.
Funny, the same reason I use Linux. The list of reasons Linux is superior is a mile long. Security is the biggest, I used to have to run anti-virus. Not any more. And even better, Microsoft doesn't have back doors into the system so they can drop software turds into my desktop, menus and browser in the form of advertisements. Or, change settings from the way I want without permission. So, if you are happy using an operating system that is itself malware and "just works" for MS, good luck. You're gonna' need it.
ya i love how linux just works at everything i do
Windows recall made me jump from my seat and get to working, I was dual-booting windows 10 and Debian with KDE but after the windows fiasco I formatted my ssd and gave arch a try (it is super easy to install as of 2024) even though I was scared of it. Right now I'm a month into it and so long I've only had one trouble which I fixed really quick thanks to the arch wiki.
For the people that are currently on windows and don't have any programs they can't use on Linux, give it a try!
I resisted going all in on Linux for a long time. At first, I only used it on laptops to remove the bloat that was Windows. App compatibility was always an issue, so I told myself that since I'm a gamer that it wasn't worth leaving Windows. Then Microsoft announced the end of support for Win 10. Windows 11 is now their main push. They've wanted to go subscription for a while and then they started talking about Recall. I run Windows 11 on my HTPC and for a while had it on my gaming pc as well. They made everything worse. I keep my start bar at the top of the screen so it works like a drop down menu. Win 11 removed that. They rearranged the settings again. I hate desktop icons, another term for needless clutter, and I would always move my recycle bin to the taskbar. I needed a separate application, Minibin, to do the same thing. I used to be able to use a little bit of Windows code and a shortcut to do it all. Great, system resources now used to do what a shortcut used to do as a base part of windows.The last straw was when I learned the game that I play the most, 7 Days to Die, runs natively on Linux and ProtonGE works for most of the rest of my Steam library, and then Windows's own update started causing problems with my system. Linux has its flaws, but it's far better than it used to be and Windows has stopped being the OS made to focus on user experience.
Edit: I've been on Linux before. Used Ubuntu, OpenSUSE, Mint, MX Linux, and a couple of others that I forget the names of. I'm on Nobara now.
Eh well said!
First of all: I've just discovered this channel and I love the content, the way you explain things, the music 🎶 in the background! Great job 👏🏻 I gotta subscribe!
Second: am I the only one that whenever hears of windows and/or microsoft (intentionally lowercase 😂, they don't deserve Uppercase) starts laughing unable to stop ?
Third: We gotta create a foundation that helps windows users to save their lives and their mental sanity. Help them all to get rid of windows! 👋🏻
Bye bye to all from far far Italy 🇮🇹
Haha
i'm glad to know black desert works, it's the only mmo that i play regularly, and the only game that i play with friends is league, which is the only reason that still keeps me on windows, and for my work every application works under linux.
Really tempted to try out fedora, looks pretty good.
I bought a laptop and HP Z Book just for running Linux originally I was going to run Arch but kept running into issues I went to Fedora 40 and I love it my favorite one so far, great video!!
Thanks for sharing! And thank you for
Thanks for your video! Great content! I've used Linux since August 2002. Up until very recently I did maintain a Windows 11 laptop. No more. I blew out my Windows installation in favor of Debian 12. Everything works as expected. It's great to be Windows and Spyware free. On my home LAN I'm running Void, Slackware, Debian, and OpenBSD. :)
Thanks for sharing!