Okay, I have read all of your comments. I'm gonna go through all of what you've said in a part 2 video, and I'll even make it on Linux. Deal? --- CLARIFICATIONS --- - I am not new to Linux. As I said, I've been using Linux for 4 years and I've used a bunch of distros. Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Endeavor, etc. I know my way around the terminal, ok? - At the beginning, I said "4 years" not 40. If you understood 40, that's my bad, my tongue just does that and I didn't catch it. - I use Arch (knowing that it's a very controversial thing to do) because of the Arch Wiki. I am aware that there are other easier distros around, but sometimes, things just don't work, and when you have to start troubleshooting, I find that the Arch Wiki always has a guide for it. - I do know *what's a DE*. That part was to illustrate how a new user might feel lost with all the jargon thrown around. I do understand said jargon. And yes, I use GNOME. Proudly. - I don't mean to hate on Linux. However, the Linux fanboys and FOSS apologists make it very difficult to ignore that every time I try to get help, the reply is "ew Fedora better why are you using this crap you're stupid" or something like that. - Don't be a fanboy. I know my title and manners are attacking what you make to be a personal thing, but accept criticism for what it is. Criticism. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and you can't pretend it is. I've also said such things with Macs and will with Windows, so I don't have anything against Linux in particular (in fact, i can complain even more about Windows, which is why I even bother with Linux). Do you disagree with what I say? Fine. That doesn't mean that what I say is immediately false just because you happened to come across an old Reddit thread that fixed whatever I complained about and I didn't find it. - "A normal person isn't complaining about this" ...a normal person just uses the web browser. By that point, they can just live with ChromeOS. C'mon, I'm trying to get more out of Linux. If you want to know more, I'll have a video out replying to your comments in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
@@ArnauDisrepair alr. Let's see how it goes. Try nobara and bazzite btw. Some other guy with similar requirements tried out Linux and those distros were the best
@RenderingUser TH-cam is really weird with comment filtering, and if I go to "Held for Review", there is nothing there. I haven't deleted or touched anything, so maybe it'll show up later.
1. Arch linux is not a distro that would be marketed as "terminal is not needed". Its more of "we are expecting you to know what you are doing, and you need to do it yourself. If something brakes, your fault, you shouldn't have updated to broken version". Anyway, the wiki is super useful though, but every solution will require you use terminal. 2. Scaling works fine on kde, i can so 125 or 150%. Gnome is at really bad state at this moment. And thats only after 3 minutes of video, i will probably write more after i watch it.
yeah.. fine.. but how the fuck should someone that simply wants to write an email with there computer recognize all this linux neckbeard shit. nothing fits together properly. linux is a mess. my hope is that valve will do a proper desktop linux one day. they patched HDR into wayland in weeks. meanwhile all the neckbeards still debating! linux is fine for tinkering, developing and testing weird github stuff but for productivity its a fucking mess. nothing fits together properly and they even added a new layer of compexity with all this weird container shit they deliver apps in nowadays. now i have no clue where the fuck the actual files are located. GJ! a linux system becomes more and more of a blackbox where NOTHING is straight foward anymore. you need to learn concepts on top of concepts on top of concepts. linux is fine if your hobby IS LINUX. but not if you only use your computer as a tool for other stuff!
P.2 - not exactly, if you install Gniome Tweaks then >Fonts -> Scaling Factor. I'm writing this from iMac with Gnome (debian 12) and the resolution 3840x2160 and all is upscaled in the mentioned place with 1,3 factor. Everything clear and well visible, believe me.
@@nahidahmed9153 nah give linux a go,and then you can switch to windows if you don't like linux... Linux is good,just not for everyone's taste...... Yet
Maybe instead of using a bleeding-edge distribution that is meant for someone more experienced with Linux, try a more beginner friendly distribution that is more configured out of the box to avoid these issues you are having. Arch Linux is known to be lightweight and to not work perfectly out of the box, so you will have to expect to tinker with alot of things to get it working fully to your needs.
@@SammyGoated I would say the same thing but you can use your eyes unless your blind if you are use the text to speech function built specifically to aid you.
@@asphalt2554 The moon is a cat playing chess with the ocean, moving tides like pawns across the board, while stars whisper strategies that only the wind can understand.
I know you probably already hear this, but the problem is your expectation. Linux isn't as good as Windows and MacOS at most things. Accept that, and use it for what it is good for. I'm not a great programmer. I struggle with it, and I use my Windows as backup for heavier tasks and gaming. But Linux had been far better in being a basic computer. For 90% of tasks that I use a computer for, it had been a much better experience.
>buy car with manual transmission >can't get out of parking lot >wreck transmission because no idea what that weird stick or third pedal is for >say car sucks
Saying Gnome = Linux will lead to even more problems than just pointing out that Gnome cannot do fractional scaling in most versions out of the box. Maybe try KDE instead.
@@draftofspasiba2 yeah I didn't say it because they said that they had some experience with Linux, and everyone can make their own decisions - how wise or not. For an absolute beginner I'd even say Nobara as that has already done a lot of fixes that you'd have to do yourself on Fedora.
@@draftofspasiba2Arch installer is bad. Installing Arch should be hard. If you don't want to learn to tinker and do so using the official way, you are not ready for Arch. I am not, that's why I use Fedora. I made the mistake of installing Arch using the installer a while ago. If you're scared by the official way, ARCH ISN'T FOR YOU. And that is fine. Use something based on arch (except Manjaro) if you want.
Fractional scaling doesn't exist? What? Oh, yeah, you're using arch... Arch is not user friendly distro, it's meant to be used by experienced people. So that's why things are not enabled by default and you're expected to use terminal commands. Any user friendly distro comes with fractional scaling as long as you use wayland
nah dude, even fedora had it behind a experimental flag until now. it seems to be enabled by default on the next release though. btw he could’ve used the GUI app dconf to enable the experimental fractional scaling instead of using terminal commands.
@@draftofspasiba2 kde is definitely very nice on desktop. I agree, probably many people would like it. looking at blender studio’s youtube channel, many artist there use KDE.
@@vsz-z2428 Dconf is not really a user-friendly app either, if anything it would be more difficult to explain how to change stuff in dconf than to just copy-paste a command. Tho to be fair it's still more user-friendly than Window's Registry Editor and Dconf is literally the registry editor for Gnome.
The very minute you said "crashes" I KNEW what your problems were! ........... you use ARCH! use a debian based distro and theres NO SUCH THING as "crashes"
I've been daily-driving arch on my 2 PCs and they never crashed. The only times one of my PCs crashed was because of a nvidia-on-wayland related issue that every other distro has. Debian is surely much more stable in terms of updates tho, I'll give you that, but I'm sure using nvidia on it would probably produce the same results on Arch.
NixOS or something else is probably a better choice, I personally dislike Debians approach to system stability because it compromises on updated software.
@@realtitedog Do not recommend NixOS to people that can't even use regular distros. NixOS has a specific use case and unless you want to invest time learning nix to have a proper declarative config, there's no point. It's way too much overhead for even many power users. You really don't need to have everything updated. Just use something like Fedora if you want the stablest but recent packages, otherwise just use a rolling distro like Arch. You can always use the nix package manager on any distro if you're desperate for bleeding edge stuff.
its funy how somebody who doest know what to do on linux use arch, its crashes and says thats linux foult, while he didnt do everything that needs to be done. And what also is funny he is talking about newbie expierience using distro for expierienced useres like arch, instead of using popos, mint, or endevouros if he really want to use arch. i love when youtubers new to linux 1. use arch 2.have problems 3.linux suck while it schould be 1 i instaled arch cuz reasons 2 i dont know what im doing 3 i doesynt work i didnt install something 4 arch cant be operated using only GUI 5 lets learn what im mising and what comands i have to use 6 i learned most of the things i need to use arch reading fucking manual 7 i dont have problems
When he chose a method to install that is explicitly not supported in the wiki he made his bed. Arch installation method is MADE to deter beginners from using it. You shouldn't use Arch as a beginner. It is obvious you need to use the terminal in Arch. They don't have a GUI installer. I am not gatekeeping. I don't use Arch. I made the same mistake. But instead of crying about it I started using a friendlier distro.
@@vidal9747 Even with GUI whatever installer majority of shit you would want to do on your computer is gatekeeped by using the terminal or simply not compatible. If you're streaming, gaming, editing, programming there is no reason to use Linux at all lmao.
another drop in the bucket Creators trying to use creative software on Linux and then telling us that we're all wrong for suggesting that people can use Linux as a general computing system. We understand that proprietary creative software doesn't often work. It is not recommended for people whose livelihood is entirely dependent on a proprietary ecosystem. I'm sorry that your experience wasn't great, but your experience is atypical of the average Linux user. It doesn't help *anyone* when you try to do unuspported things with your OS and then make a video to tell the world how bad that unsupported thing runs. The normal every day average joe desktop PC user just needs a web browser and a mail client because they don't WORK on their computer all day like some of us. Most people just consume streaming content and read news on their laptop, and there are hundreds of thousands of apps you can install at the drop of a hat on Linux for everyday computing needs. If they do work from it, 99% of that work is also through the web browser or a text editor. As far as gaming goes, it's actually incredible what proton will play, but it's not a perfect system and developers are less likely than ever to target native Linux executables thanks to how impressive proton really is. As you noticed, the main problem is generally nvidia drivers. In your case however, the main problem is Arch Linux. You expressed very clearly that you just want to USE your computer, not fix it all the time. You also said that people will come for you in the comments for picking the wrong distro. Sorry. I'm not blaming you for the mistake, but you can't want a laptop that Just Works and run it on Arch. That's not how reality folds. I don't mean to blame you for all the issues you dealt with, but proprietary creative software (adobe, davinci, affinity, autodesk, etc) is an unsupported use case and there's no way to slice "unsupported use case" such that you should be running Linux on your creative content workstation. And, I don't know who you're addressing in terms of Linux apologists. So far as my experience has been these past 5 years, Linux enthusiasts (not apologists, weird word to choose) instead are eager to work with you to solve those issues and overcome your problems with you. And no one is claiming you can uproot your life and move your entire workflow to Linux without a lot of headaches. I had to give up on a variety of games with unsupported anti-cheat for example. It took me many years to do that. You would have to adopt different editing software like Kdenlive or Openshot, which is (be honest) never something you would even consider doing, and even if you gave it a try you'd quit in 4 hours and switch back. Ain't a Linux problem. The problem ain't Linux.
I believe you have many valid points here But you don't HAVE to use terminal for enabling that fractional scaling, gsettings commands can be changed in dconf-editor which is similar to registery editor on windows and KDE plasma has fractional scaling ootb
No offence... You are running arch, not reading the wikis, not installing things the right way, using x11 software on unstable wayland and complaining that it doesn't work? This is not at all a review about linux, but a complaint that using arch the wrong way is hard. Well yes, ofc it is. If i were you, either switch to something more beginner friendly, or git gud with arch. Personally, since you have already started with arch, i would reccomend taking a deeper dive with it, since it can actually be insanely good if you do it right.
I started with Debian based distros (you can see in the tweet at the very beginning of the video). Most distros like Ubuntu and Fedora now come with Wayland, so why say that Wayland is unstable? X11 software doesn't work on Wayland? Not my fault. I can't fix that. X11 does not have fractional scaling, and my laptop is too small to use 100% scale.
@@ArnauDisrepair Wayland on arch is by design unstable. It's stable af on ubuntu and fedora. But as you are on arch, instability is to be excpected, and fixed by you the user if there's any issues.
if thats the case then why shiuld people use linux in general? even though windows is bloated atleast it gets the job done unlike stupid linux where u will face 100 error to run a popular software and if ur talking about other distro lol good luck with them with their own version of errors
@@ArnauDisrepair using fedora 40 uses wayland by default and it's stable out of the box. and has fractional scaling because gnome has that. yes on arch it wont so just try fedora 40 and see if that fixes your issues.
@@nahidahmed9153 Are you sincere in this comment? We are talking about amateurs, running a build it yourself distro (Arch). Building something that doesn't work, is not arch's fault. You were supposed to build something that works, and you didn't. I use arch btw, and i have used it since November 23 as my daily driver. I game on it, work on it, and stream to twitch from it. Zero crashed, zero issues with running hyprland, on a nvidia gpu. Why does it work? Because i understand linux down to the kernel level, and i built something for me that no other distro could provide. (Nix might of, but that's another discussion) Not everyone wants what i want, if you want something that just works, you have TONS of options in popOs, fedora, ubuntu that can run 99% of software without any errors.
It's like you bought a car with a manual transmission, then when you messed it up because you had no idea how to shift - or what shifting even _was_ - you blamed the car.
@@deckard5pegasus673 Um, no. Nothing in that analogy had _anything_ to do with desktop environments. Since you didn’t seem to understand the point I was making at all, let me spell it out for you: Unlike “hand-holding” distros like Mint or Ubuntu, which automate a lot of decisions and include a broad, pre-configured “everything-and-the-kitchen-sink” installation by default, Arch is - by design - a distro that starts you off with the bare minimum required to function, then expects and requires the user to know precisely what they need/want and install and configure it themselves. You’re expected to be ready and able to configure nearly everything by manually editing text files and willing to rtfm whenever there’s something you don’t understand. It’s very upfront about this, so getting upset about it is basically complaining that “Hard mode is hard!” Hence my car analogy of knowingly buying a manual, then getting upset that it doesn’t drive like an automatic and acting like it’s _the car’s_ problem - and not the dumbass who was told “You need to manually shift gears to drive this.” and went “Huh? Shift the what now? Uh, yeah, sure, whatever.”, then got in and immediately was like “Wait… wtf is this _third_ pedal for? And why doesn’t the stick have “park” and “drive”? I see “R”, but there’s also supposed to be a D, N and P. _Where the hell are the D, N and P!?_ What’s this “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” crap supposed to mean and why does this confusing thing move in _six_ directions? If you want a simpler analogy: If it’s your first time skiing, don’t go down a double-black diamond trail and then complain that it almost killed you 38 times. Anyway, addressing your completely non-sequitur reply about “the dumpster fire of the linux desktop environment”. What is _“The”_ Linux desktop environment? Plasma? Gnome? Xfce? Unity? Cinnamon? You’re going to need to be a little more specific. You certainly can’t complain about Arch’s default desktop environment _because it doesn’t have one._ Furthermore, depending on one’s preference, it doesn’t even _need_ one. For instance, I don’t have a DE _at all._ I’m perfectly content with i3wm for all my graphical window-management needs.
Been using Arch for a while with basically zero problems. The system does everything you want, but yours doesn't work? You want it to not work. Skill issues.
I pick arch because of its extensive documentation. I'm aware everything else is easier, but sometimes there is something that doesn't want to work, and reading the Arch Wiki always ends up being the quickest route
@@ArnauDisrepairpick an Arch based distro, like Endevour. You picked the hardest distro for beginners, bypassed the obvious gate preventing beginners from entering (Arch Installer) and complained that you have to use the terminal? In a distro that you ARE SUPPOSED to install using the terminal? Every problem you had was mainly from choosing a distro that wasn't intended for beginners and that has an obvious gate saying you shouldn't pick it up if you don't want to use the terminal.
this entirely your fault for using a non user friendly, unstable distro. i got davinci resolve up and running with an nvidia graphics card in 10 minutes and 46 seconds. also its important to remember that applications like this arent used by the average person
@@realtitedog it CAN be but generally speaking its a hobby branch and if your doing work on your pc of any kind its best to just use something with less chance of borking itself at random... if one needs "bleeding edge" there is still Fedora or Opensuse Tumbleweed both are rolling and close to arch speed wise just actually have money and eyes on stability. will say as a opensuse user zypper is slow as hell however lol but stable as can be.
Arch is fine, even if you are a newbie, but expect to read up before complaining. RTFM is an age old advice. Also, why people say to use Debian and other distros as a newbie is that they make decisions for you out of the box, such as apps and configs, which minimize the confusion and overwhelm of starting from scratch. There are way more things than you notice that is automatically downloaded for you on Windows and MacOS, in Linux a desktop environment like KDE will get you quite far, but you might still need to install a lot of things to get things working. This is further complicated if your hardware has proprietary components like Nvidia. If you don't know what to do, then do something wrong and bitch about it not working, then I'm sorry, its a skill issue.
A more corect title would be: Linux is bad for me, as a content creator. For me, as a programmer it's better than windows. I will dare to say, for casual users (most people) linux Mint is just fine, or better than windows.
I honestly think like fedora better as a beginner distro. I tried mint first and it's fine but I like gnome better and fedora 40 has alot more stuff out of the box like for my wifi card drivers and such.
@@Timely-ud4rm That's certainly an unusual experience. Fedora is kind of known for not having anything working out of the box and needing to tweak things. Most probably that means Fedora just has a newer Linux kernel which supports your wifi card.
@@deckard5pegasus673 skill issue honestly, as a dev I can just sudo pacman -Syu (or yay) anything I need and in five seconds it's installed and I can focus on actual development, on windows nothing works
@@Timely-ud4rm I don't get why people recommend Fedora to new users. They're too trigger-happy to add new stuff and throw "old" stuff. Makes for risky upgrades later. Though maybe it's just my impression.
@heinrichagrippa5681 I'm from Ireland where nearly all cars are manual because of tradition. Automatic cars are actually better for most people, unless you are a rally driver.
True. Discord just refuses to make the linux client on par with windows client. The ticket where people ask for audio in screenshare has been open for years and the functionality is nowhere to be found. Community made patched clients exist but we just want official support.
Thankfully there are great alternative Discord clients on Linux that work flawlessly. Tho for an average user the idea of an alternative client for an app is probably too complicated
I haven't used Discord in a good while, but I don't get it, why don't people just use it in a browser ? That's how I use Outlook and MS Teams and it's working quite good. Why bother with the app that comes bundled with an overly outdated embedded browser, is a massive security hole and apparently noone can make it actually run good ?
I get all of your criticism. I'm a video and photography editor and designer. I do have a lot of technical knowledge so doing things on linux isn't hard for me. With that being said: Linux does work for "normal" people. The main problem is the actual idea of "normal" I take that normal just means non technical people. But I'd have to disagree with that idea. I think it goes further than just non technical people. Anyone who uses highly specialized software is not "normal" a video editor? Not normal. A designer? Not normal. But then... Who is normal? Normal people are people like my mom. She didn't go to college, she has a simple job, she likes to cook and do bracelets and maybe somewhere to draw simole things. She just needs Office 365, a browser and somewhere to see her photos. Almost anything other than that is not "normal". Tuxedo OS is for normal people right out of the box. No terminal, no tecnical knowledge, no errors, nothing. She just needed help on how to install it, a thing that most people would need and most likely pay to get someone else to do it for them. Linux is not ready for specialized individuals. We don't have a good video editor, because we are not many, therefore companies like Adobe never pay us attention at all. Gimp? I'll say it. It fucking sucks. And still is not only the best Linux can do but anyone can do. Photoshop is miles ahead of anything else (a side from that web based Photoshop clone). Da Vinci resolve could easily have Linux support for AAC but they want to use their own solution instead of the one Linux already has. That's why Kden Live has support for it. But guess what. They don't care. I have installed some distros in others PCs. And I always ask: what do you use your PC for? Why? Because i know that a lot of people still could run into problems that they could not fix or that it would take me a lot of time to fix. I'm sorry you are not happy in Linux. We are doing the best we can, but I'll still show my support to the community since I believe will do better. The Steam deck was a blessing. But that topic is still young in OS time. Literally the only thing stopping us from having basically all gamers covered is the Kernel level anti-cheat. A thing that we absolutely don't need to have. Darktable is great. I love it. Kden Live is a little bit rough but it still can do most of the things premiere can. It's by no means industry standard or maybe even ready but it will I have trust. Not faith since I've seen what we are capable of.
I'm an academic researcher. I do 99% of my work on Linux. I think that Linux is way more user friendly today than it has ever been. Make no mistake though, it is not for the faint of heart. I also dual boot Windows, because sometimes I have to collaborate with others. If I did not have to, I'd happily only use Linux. But still, I would not recommend it to the average user. Because you need to understand the Linux philosophy/way-of-doing-things first. Start gently and tinker with it for a couple of years on a secondary machine. And stick to just one distro, like Ubuntu / Mint. But persevere! By the end of it you'll know whether it's for you or not. Part of why Linux gets a bad rep is because of commercial software or hardware vendors not supporting Linux. Luckily, I rarely have to deal with such issues. Someone coming from Windows/MacOS may not realize this and blame it on Linux, like you have. But also part of the problem is that some Linux enthusiasts pretend that it is ready for the average person. Linux is not for everyone, yet. I say this as an enthusiast myself.
So all these videos is just nvidia users who install arch and complain about it being hard, having to use the terminal, or things which are not the fault of linux?
You seem genuinely bitter to the point where you’re saying things that are outright untrue. Arch is obviously not for you, you’ve complained a lot about manual intervention in your system. Of course you’re gonna have to use the terminal and mess around with yay, etc. And no, Ubuntu is not as involved as Arch as you seem to implicate even if it has it’s dated packages.
Linux is not a product that a company sold to you, all of the work is done by people who just want to build an operating system and no one owes you anything in any way shape or form. It's obviously fine and useful to point out things that need improvement, but complaining how something *should* be different is not really fair for something someone just works on in their good will. You are in the exact same position as the developers and maintainers, and you can just as well go and improve the OS, they bear as much responsibility for it as you or any other person does. It's like someone gathers a meeting for anyone to attend and you come there and complain how decorations suck and the building is far away from your home. Okay so for one thing, Arch is *the* distro for people who *do* want to maintain their operating system by themselves. If you wish to not tinker with configs and packages, a DIY distro is not a great choice. And also "yay", the AUR helper, well you're gonna break your Arch system eventually if you're gonna just randomly install packages from there without care. This program helps you easily install apps that were packaged by random users, which as you may realize is not the most stable thing cause people might make mistakes of simply abondon packages. Arch wiki warns users that AUR helpers are not an endorsed way to use AUR. Again, Arch is not for people who don't want to manage their system. Fractional scaling is implemented by default on KDE Plasma, but yes on GNOME it's only experimental hence not shown in graphical settings. Operating systems don't "support" applications, that's not how it works. Applications support operating systems, it literally cannot be the other way around because if the developer didn't compile their app for a specific OS, it's not gonna be on that OS, it has nothing to do with the operating system itself. The only exception to that are the open-source apps because that means other people can take the source code, compile and package to the operating systems developers didn't package for. Any program absent on any OS is not a problem of the OS, it's a problem of the program's developers. At the end of the day, I do think Linux users are overpushing it to everyone. It's not a commercial project and it's not gonna be a thing that just works in all scenarios for everyone. It does have many many many advantages, much better structure and decision making but without billions of dollars you simply can't make a buttery smooth easy experience for all users. If Windows and Mac does everything you need and you don't care about their unethical behavior or their anti-competitive practices or system ads or invasive tracking and personal data selling - there is zero need for you to change anything, just keep using whatever works for you. I switched not because I hated Windows, but because I just absolutely loved the fact that Linux's design and structure as the OS is just far superior, well Unix really. And then the freedom and values it gives is what won it to me over MacOS which is also Unix-like and far superior to Windows' OS design. If you do wish to experiment more, I'd say switch away from Arch to Nobara. It's Fedora based, you get fairly quick and recent updates of everything but the system is managed and kept stable for you unlike Arch. Nobara comes with all the little tweaks and whatever to make Resolve work out of the box, same for NVIDIA drivers, codecs and whatever else. It's default DE is KDE Plasma which I think might suit you more. It's more ugly and busy in my opinion but much more feature complete. Fractional scaling, VR, HDR, all that within graphical settings. Another good option is Pop!_OS, they always ship latest Linux kernel, NVIDIA drivers and other hardware support. Their other packages that are not hardware related are old, but since you're not a developer it doesn't matter, just install graphical apps in the store, the flatpaks come up to date. Resolve also works right on Pop if I remember right, since their installer is specifically supported on Ubuntu systems (that's why you had problems with it on Arch).
Oh and also, open-source nature of applications is meaningful not only to developers. For you as a user it means developer can't just go rogue and do whatever they want, because the community will always have the option to pick up the application and develop it on their own without the things they dislike. For example, when GNOME 3 released many people were unhappy about the direction the project was going and didn't want to use the new version, so several new projects spawned out of that and people who disliked GNOME 3 just switched to those projects who kept developing and maintaining the desktop in GNOME 2 way. Now these projects are MATE and Cinnamon. One kept 100% close to GNOME 2 design, the other took a bit different direction. Imagine if when Windows 8 was released, the people would be able to just pick up Windows 7 and continue it's development instead. Without the ads, tracking, and questionable Microsoft's design choices, while maintaining modern security, performance and features people do want. That would have been possible if Windows was open-source and many people would have benefit from that without being developers.
based comment. My question which distro would you suggest to a person who hates unethical commercial corpo practices and wants to leave windows but fail to see how can i trust companies like canonical (ubuntu and ubuntu based distros) or redhat (fedora and fedora based systems) or like any other company? I didnt even get into linux much yet but already know how controversial are these companies and i dont even want to trust their open source software like systemd. Because of that i ended up choosing some hardcore distros like void/artix/gentoo but they seem too hard for a newbie. People suggest me to use like bazzite (i want to play newest games) but immutable distros based on commercial company's distro (fedora silverblue or something) seems sus to me i want to control my system thats why i wanna leave windows not to trust another big corpo (owned by ibm) to ship everything for me with minumum customizations. Because of that im scared to even start and i dont want to start from ubunutu or mint or whatever. yes i know im weird i guess
@@desktorp The first time i was told about linux in any major way actually still uses GNOME to this day (and for some reason he calls is nome) and when i say he's really into linux, he's done LFS
@@jimlake6021 Gnome 2 was excellent. Gnome 3/Shell was a failed design. They try to erase the evidence, but their initial intent for Gnome 3 was, much like Canonical's Unity, to be a 'universal' UX that prioritized mobile devices. (I believe Unity used the word 'convergence') This would have been an acceptable change had mobile Linux devices ever materialized; they did not. And so the only real world application for these mobile-centric interfaces was conventional desktop/laptop systems. The interface for Gnome 3 was clearly designed for a touch screen. The vast majority of Gnome 3 users are not using touch screens. The only reason Gnome 3 has any userbase at all is because the Gnome project is connected at the hip with Fedora/Red Hat. It is therefor pushed on to people who otherwise would not choose to use it. The fact that they have had to slowly re-add features familiar to Gnome 2 just proves what a slow moving mistake Gnome 3 has been.
This not just a rant, someone voices his frustration with Linux, and I find a lot of it reasonable, a lot of his pain I felt myself. On the other hand, after several years running Windows on my gaming machine, I moved that one to Linux, because Windows has its own problems, and I just got tired of dealing with those.
I am willing to fight those installation battles for the freedom it provides. I don't pressure any if my friends into linux, each to his own. I've been using Linux daily since 2008 and love it.
As soon as you open a web browser, go outside into a public place or pickup your phone your freedom is gone.
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Man!!! You have more discernment than a lot of 40+ guys! I find Linux an awesome project I would really love to see a powerful Unix system become a standard so I could ditch Windows. Unfortunately the multitude of versions (distros) of Linux makes it almost impossible to have a standard to follow, so we must be pragmatic and use Windows or Mac. You learned all that very young. Congratulations!
@@ArnauDisrepair True, the problem is that, there's ALWAYS something wrong with Arch, you will NEVER STOP READING THE WIKI... That's the problem with Arch, it's a distro for DYI addicts, and masochists that absolutely ADORE being caught in an endless loop of troubleshooting! xD
The first issue with the scaling is a gnome problem not a Linux desktop problems that means that KDE doesn't have this problem. and why are you using arch if you don't want to use the terminal?????
Genuinely, No one is forcing you to use Linux for productivity in the first place, neither is anyone forcing you to use FOSS apps. The AAC codec is a patented license and unavailable to the free version of Davinci Resolve, the patent will expire in 2028 and that's when it becomes available for everyone, it sucks we know. Linux is not a replacement OS for Windows/MacOS. You're right in the fact that we do need standards, but the creation, and finally the acceptance of a de-facto standard is one of the more difficult parts to achieve, we're sort of making our way towards that with immutable distros? Nonetheless, with the lack of acknowledgement from companies to port their software to Linux/give support, granted they are not obligated to for a small userbase, it's still disappointing since most of them have the resources in order to do so.
That's the biggest problem in desktop Linux: installing apps. Linus himself acknowledged this. Things will improve in the future when Flatpaks becomes the norm, but for now, you're absolutely right. Linux on the desktop is just bad. And this is coming from someone who uses linux since 1999.
It's relativelly simple to move into Linux IF YOU PREPARE PRIOR TO CHANGE. 1) Start using just software who are present on Linux. 2) Purchase a laptop FULL AMD or Intel who comes WITH LINUX (even if you gonna use another distro) OR assemble an FULL AMD Desktop. 3) Uses Arch, Arco or BAZZITE (and on Bazzite use distrobox/flatpak to install software). 4) Use BTRFS on / and install timeshift, timeshift autosnap and btrfs tools so if/when things break you can rollback on grub.
The last moment of "I don't care about privacy and customization" is TRUE!!! I just want something that works out of the get go, not troubleshoot for hours! Only reason I want to move to Linux is because I hate Windows A.I and ads, but that's not enough for me to switch to Linux.
It is very much possible if you don't need Adobe lol. Also, Linux isn't "missing support" for them, Adobe is missing support for Linux. Apps developers support operating systems, not the other way around.
Good man, thanks for speaking up! I've been trying to move to Linux since 2014 and only reason I might be able to finally stick with it is because I don't need to interact with Linux community, those people are delusional anti socials, but I guess it's a price you pay for being genius and sharing that with others. But that being said they're big donkey rears, now with AI tools I, a casual user, finally can setup Linux to work, because it does not work ! All the tech is there but Linux community refuses to interact with casual user even tho they state to thrive for a year of Linux desktop, which is lie too, they don't care about it. Linux is almost there honestly, mint looks so so good for user friendlyness it just need polish and then sweap of apps that works for creatives and it's gucci. But they're small team on low budget but still moving forward, they have the vision right I wish that wider Linux community would help them in development. Linux doesn't work unless all you need is browser, emails and music/video player then go for Linux mint 100% it is so good you wouldn't believe it.
I love that Linux is onto Wayland now and has gone back to square 1 again in terms of compatibility. I say love, I guess I just mean feel justified in me having the same sentiments as you do.
As much as folks here keep complaining which Linux you used, the fact remains he is right about the ecosystem between Mac/Windows and Linux. Linux was never intended to be like the others but folks tried it anyways. So what we are left with is a mess of FOSS that folks made a religion around. Plus Linux Shell is more like how DOS and windows 1.x to 3.x was. The DE is an app on a CLI OS. Until Linux kernel is directly integrated into a full on GUI os this will always be the issue.
A few issues with this: 1: You seem to talk about a lot of issues specific to the GNOME desktop environment. Sadly, it's the default of most distros, even though I woulf consider it to be against some of the philosophy of Linux. KDE, even though it's slightly less stable, supports fractional scaling out of the box and is more configurable. 2. To install DaVinci Resolve, there's a tool called DistroBox. If you know what Windows Subsystem for Linux is, it's like a Linux Subsystem for Linux, and it lets you run other distros in your distro. This is useful because DaVinci Resolve runs better on Red Hat based distros, like Fedora and Rocky Linux, or even the special DaVinci Resolve distro. Granted, you need to use the terminal, but once you set it up you shouldn't have to touch it again for that.
TL;DR anything that needs to be done in linux needs to follow a long list, while a windows and mac users just need to double click. Linux desktop is a dumpster fire
My man, I'm using computers for more than 30 years. Home and professional user, I've used Amiga, Commodore 64, Spectrums, Apple, Windows, Linux, UNIX, BeOS... I've installed servers, workstations and home computers. And you are right. Linux is a hot mess for desktops. It's just "usable" in the broadest term you can imagine. Servers, it works. But not for desktops. OS X and Windows are just superior there. Long gone are the days when Linux was "more stable", that was in the days of Windows 98/Millenium. For users, what matter the most is APPLICATIONS. No one cares what is underneath if applications you need just work. And on Linux they just mostly don't, or are granulated, so for one job with one app on Windows you need three or four apps on Linux, one of them is command-line only.
You know what? I'm a Linux fanboy, and yet I completely understand, relate to, and agree with, a lot of the points you made. The lack of standardisation, the difficulty in getting things to work, Nvidia drivers, it's all just a jumbled mess in a lot of ways and requires fixing, but I doubt it will happen without a ton of backlash from pretty much all current Linux users, and that's a fact. Because there is a solution, but it involves dumbing down and limiting Linux in some ways, which will end up annoying, upsetting and making existing users very angry because it WILL break their workflows. I'm talking about immutability, of course.
amazing video sir. i was thinking it would be interesting to explore a video editing workflow with blender VSE and friction(friction.graphics). davinci is definitely very finicky to set up. also it has 0 support for intel AT ALL. as for the OS, arch is notorious for beeing terminal based. why not fedora? I’ve been using it and it seems more designed with non-technical users in mind
It's the classic chicken and egg problem. Linux needs more users so devs will start caring about supporting Linux properly and we need more software support so people will start using Linux.
This is exactly the same reaction from some unexperienced users making changes to Windows Insider or Windows fresh new rollouts and expecting to work out of the box. If you are going to use unstable OS don't expect everything to work out of box
Strange. I've tried Fedora 3 times in the last few years, and it always develops glitches. Within a couple of weeks DNFDragora fails to work and Firefox won't start. I started with Redhat 25years ago when a fair bit of manual configuration was required, and my hardware hasn't been a problem with Debian based distros.
I've been a linux user since 2022, how easy is it to install Nvidia drivers? ( I don't want to replace my GPU till the next GPU generation releases ) If it comes down to it, I'll move back to Pop_OS since I don't mind using X11 and not having access to HDR.
Sorry you had a bad time You need to give Linux a lot of time. It's very different from Windows and there's a lot you need to understand. There's a very good reason that I haven't installed Linux on my main system even tho on all secondary systems and family's computers, everything is now Linux. Been using Linux since 2020 but still am not confident about being able to troubleshoot issues on my main rig and have all applications work without issues.
my esperience is so: used linux since 2019 but i kept one laptop with windows on it. this laptop has limited internet access and by limited this means: if a file or software is needed for the windows laptop i will use the linux machine to download the file, put it on usb and then plug said usb in to the laptop. i will not connect the laptop directly to the internet because windows is a contamination, windows is a security risk. it is to be treated accordingly.
It's not necessarily that Linux uses other external libraries, it's just that Linux makes it more obvious than Windows or macOS do. The problem is specifically that almost all distro's dynamically link the binaries they put in their repositories in a way as if they were allergic to static binaries. Most of them even only distribute .so files, so they won't even let you statically link yourself unless you compile each individual library from source. If binaries were static by default, it would have solved 99% of all the dependency related problems (because the only exception is if your program depends on Vulkan or OpenGL, because you literally can't statically link in this case). The good news is that on Linux, at least static linking is possible, but most distro's won't do that because they want you to suffer and eat up all the bandwidth each time they update a library, because every single binary needs to be re-compiled and re-distributed in order for the dependency to work in all binaries it's used in. In macOS static linking is outright impossible, so their workaround is to put it all into a .dmg file, and then trick Finder into believing that a directory with a certain extension is an executable. On Windows developers include all non-system default .dll files with the binary On Linux they cope around the problem with the AppImage format, or containers like Docker, Kubernetes, Flatpaks, and Snaps, instead of just actually solving the problem itself. The BSDs allow for static and dynamic linking, and will almost always install libraries for both whenever you install a package, although the binaries from the ports tree will be compiled to dynamic binaries. As for Illumos, Haiku, and some others, they outright ban static linking, and even refuse to implement it whenever actual users request it, and then they wonder why nobody cares about their OS's.
On my thinkpad the touchpad on the hackintosh works much worse than on windows, what kexts and settings did you use? You mentioned that the touchpad on the hackintosh works better than on windows, but I have the opposite situation. On Windows it's extremely responsive and lag-free, a joy to use, on Hackintosh it's just a regular touchpad with lag and ugly cursor control.
Your opinion is important, even if others, like myself, disagree with it. I understand the frustrations, to me there really isn't anything else worth using except for Linux, but I am a programmer so you are right when you say that programmers are the target audience, even though that is starting to slowly change. We hope to win you back soon
i dont agree with you, right now the state of most linux distros are beginer friendly if they dont try using linux like windows and just use appmanagers instead of loking for apps on random sites or like in this video using arch btw.
I understand you. I used Linux mint. It works fine for my basic needs. Linux has improved but still lags a lot when compared to windows. Different community makes their own distro and programs. That is the beauty of Linux and that is one big issue it faces too.
You are describing "FEATURES" for Linux which Linux fanboys love - they need to troubleshoot something otherwise it is not a good distribution. I gave up with Linux. I use MacOS and Windows. I also use LMDE but prefer MacOS. Good rant video!
My use case is different to yours, but I found what you said to be valid. It's your experience, and that's what matters here. I basically just run Windows on my Computer and at work, but I have a Laptop with Linux Mint Debian Edition on it, that I only use to run updates on it; after I painstakingly went through distro hop hell to find an OS compatible with the hardware ( I spent as much time on this as it would've taken to just use debian or arch, but I was determined to find something that already worked out of the box); then spent time setting up to game on, have all of my most used programs etc. And I only use the thing to run terminal commands for updates.
I didn't try to like Linux. I simply hate Windows for so many reasons. I did not have help switching to Linux. I had the availability of help. Meaning, if I had needed help, I would have had it. Windows sucks for many reasons including the spying, invasion of privacy, locked in nature, forced updates, which mean forced reboots, forced loss of current working environment, and forced unreliability. It is very possible to go from it was working to it is now broken. Without you getting to chose if are ready to fix what might go wrong. I don't love Linux. I merely hate Windows!
Even programmers are not all-knowing. I don't want to fix other people's programs so that I can just start my own project. Linux on the server is great and if you user only a terminal with neovim it's great, but the desktop is a half finished mess. For the desktop I prefer Mac.
And his experience is similar to mine. Been trying to ditch Windows for Fedora or Mint. It never works out well, because while Linux is better than Windows if you know what you're doing, the software available on Linux is just mediocre and limited compared to Windows. Video editing on Linux is especially horrible as none of the open-source editors produce good-quality, bug-free renders while Resolve doesn't support H264/AAC. I'm just going to stay on 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 until support ends in 2032. By that time, I really hope desktop Linux will be less of a dumpster fire.
Well, in the case of Davinci Resolve, the problem isn't you or Linux in general, it is, that the developer chose to support Rocky Linux instead. And instead of packing his software in a regular RPM package, he decided to build a custom setup tool, similar to those on Windows. So the developer doesn't care, how software is usually distributed under Linux, even for today's standards. It would be more easy, if Davinci Resolve would be distributed as a Flatpak, with every dependency included, so you don't have to suffer like you described in this video. (On the other hand, this would only solve the problems with the installation, not with the codecs. ☹ )
Okay, I have read all of your comments. I'm gonna go through all of what you've said in a part 2 video, and I'll even make it on Linux. Deal?
--- CLARIFICATIONS ---
- I am not new to Linux. As I said, I've been using Linux for 4 years and I've used a bunch of distros. Ubuntu, Fedora, Manjaro, Endeavor, etc. I know my way around the terminal, ok?
- At the beginning, I said "4 years" not 40. If you understood 40, that's my bad, my tongue just does that and I didn't catch it.
- I use Arch (knowing that it's a very controversial thing to do) because of the Arch Wiki. I am aware that there are other easier distros around, but sometimes, things just don't work, and when you have to start troubleshooting, I find that the Arch Wiki always has a guide for it.
- I do know *what's a DE*. That part was to illustrate how a new user might feel lost with all the jargon thrown around. I do understand said jargon. And yes, I use GNOME. Proudly.
- I don't mean to hate on Linux. However, the Linux fanboys and FOSS apologists make it very difficult to ignore that every time I try to get help, the reply is "ew Fedora better why are you using this crap you're stupid" or something like that.
- Don't be a fanboy. I know my title and manners are attacking what you make to be a personal thing, but accept criticism for what it is. Criticism. It's not all sunshine and rainbows, and you can't pretend it is. I've also said such things with Macs and will with Windows, so I don't have anything against Linux in particular (in fact, i can complain even more about Windows, which is why I even bother with Linux).
Do you disagree with what I say? Fine. That doesn't mean that what I say is immediately false just because you happened to come across an old Reddit thread that fixed whatever I complained about and I didn't find it.
- "A normal person isn't complaining about this" ...a normal person just uses the web browser. By that point, they can just live with ChromeOS. C'mon, I'm trying to get more out of Linux.
If you want to know more, I'll have a video out replying to your comments in a couple of weeks. Stay tuned.
@@ArnauDisrepair alr. Let's see how it goes. Try nobara and bazzite btw. Some other guy with similar requirements tried out Linux and those distros were the best
I recommend using Linux mint.
It's like window, but better.
@@ArnauDisrepair I recommend bazzite
@@ArnauDisrepair I also recommend you lower comment filters cause my last comment was sent to the shadow realm
@RenderingUser TH-cam is really weird with comment filtering, and if I go to "Held for Review", there is nothing there. I haven't deleted or touched anything, so maybe it'll show up later.
1. Arch linux is not a distro that would be marketed as "terminal is not needed". Its more of "we are expecting you to know what you are doing, and you need to do it yourself. If something brakes, your fault, you shouldn't have updated to broken version". Anyway, the wiki is super useful though, but every solution will require you use terminal.
2. Scaling works fine on kde, i can so 125 or 150%. Gnome is at really bad state at this moment.
And thats only after 3 minutes of video, i will probably write more after i watch it.
@@hyplayer installing da Vinci probably still would be a pain right?
Anyway, there was second comment here but it got deleted, thanks yt.
yeah.. fine.. but how the fuck should someone that simply wants to write an email with there computer recognize all this linux neckbeard shit. nothing fits together properly. linux is a mess. my hope is that valve will do a proper desktop linux one day. they patched HDR into wayland in weeks. meanwhile all the neckbeards still debating! linux is fine for tinkering, developing and testing weird github stuff but for productivity its a fucking mess. nothing fits together properly and they even added a new layer of compexity with all this weird container shit they deliver apps in nowadays. now i have no clue where the fuck the actual files are located. GJ! a linux system becomes more and more of a blackbox where NOTHING is straight foward anymore. you need to learn concepts on top of concepts on top of concepts. linux is fine if your hobby IS LINUX. but not if you only use your computer as a tool for other stuff!
@@Arcidi225 arch is not officially supported by da vinci developers.
@@kalikkalam884 Nothing is except for red hat enterprise Linux and rocky Linux...
P.2 - not exactly, if you install Gniome Tweaks then >Fonts -> Scaling Factor. I'm writing this from iMac with Gnome (debian 12) and the resolution 3840x2160 and all is upscaled in the mentioned place with 1,3 factor. Everything clear and well visible, believe me.
There's is a reason why people brag about using arch 💀
I use openBSD btw
I use templeos btw
@@nezzled You're a real one
I use Mint btw ;)
@@VitharPLGET OUT
Bro just don't use arch💀
exactly
True.
dont use linux in general if windows gets the job done than thats the answer
@@nahidahmed9153 nah give linux a go,and then you can switch to windows if you don't like linux...
Linux is good,just not for everyone's taste......
Yet
@@nahidahmed9153 nah try linux first,before speaking nonsense
Maybe instead of using a bleeding-edge distribution that is meant for someone more experienced with Linux, try a more beginner friendly distribution that is more configured out of the box to avoid these issues you are having. Arch Linux is known to be lightweight and to not work perfectly out of the box, so you will have to expect to tinker with alot of things to get it working fully to your needs.
maybe use windows coz it gets the job done even though its bloated but if ur using a pc from 100yr ago then use linux anyway goodluck
@@nahidahmed9153 bro forgot about the lack of privacy in windows
Nah just use Windows.
@@SammyGoated I would say the same thing but you can use your eyes unless your blind if you are use the text to speech function built specifically to aid you.
@@asphalt2554 The moon is a cat playing chess with the ocean, moving tides like pawns across the board, while stars whisper strategies that only the wind can understand.
I know you probably already hear this, but the problem is your expectation. Linux isn't as good as Windows and MacOS at most things. Accept that, and use it for what it is good for.
I'm not a great programmer. I struggle with it, and I use my Windows as backup for heavier tasks and gaming. But Linux had been far better in being a basic computer. For 90% of tasks that I use a computer for, it had been a much better experience.
>install arch
>everything breaks
>say linux sucks
Me installing arch for the 5th time*
I usually recommend two distros and I'm still using one of them the most.
Ubuntu (Linux distro that I used the most currently) and SteamOS.
>buy car with manual transmission
>can't get out of parking lot
>wreck transmission because no idea what that weird stick or third pedal is for
>say car sucks
@@Romactu My two recommendations are Debian and Fedora. I used Gentoo for two years but after a while I finally snapped lol
Classic TH-cam video about Linux.
Only distros are Arch and Ubuntu.
Fedora or even Mint is lava, and SteamDeck never existed.
Saying Gnome = Linux will lead to even more problems than just pointing out that Gnome cannot do fractional scaling in most versions out of the box.
Maybe try KDE instead.
Also not arch, Fedora KDE should be a good choice for begginers.
@@draftofspasiba2 yeah I didn't say it because they said that they had some experience with Linux, and everyone can make their own decisions - how wise or not.
For an absolute beginner I'd even say Nobara as that has already done a lot of fixes that you'd have to do yourself on Fedora.
@@Maitreya3001 Also Nobara is said to be a great choice for gamers
@@draftofspasiba2Arch installer is bad. Installing Arch should be hard. If you don't want to learn to tinker and do so using the official way, you are not ready for Arch. I am not, that's why I use Fedora. I made the mistake of installing Arch using the installer a while ago. If you're scared by the official way, ARCH ISN'T FOR YOU. And that is fine. Use something based on arch (except Manjaro) if you want.
@@vidal9747 yeah that's why I daily drive EndeavourOS, I think it's as close as arch, but with also stable and with GUI installation.
Fractional scaling doesn't exist? What? Oh, yeah, you're using arch... Arch is not user friendly distro, it's meant to be used by experienced people. So that's why things are not enabled by default and you're expected to use terminal commands. Any user friendly distro comes with fractional scaling as long as you use wayland
Real
nah dude, even fedora had it behind a experimental flag until now. it seems to be enabled by default on the next release though.
btw he could’ve used the GUI app dconf to enable the experimental fractional scaling instead of using terminal commands.
@@vsz-z2428that's why KDE Plasma should be the go-to DE for previous Windows users.
@@draftofspasiba2 kde is definitely very nice on desktop. I agree, probably many people would like it.
looking at blender studio’s youtube channel, many artist there use KDE.
@@vsz-z2428 Dconf is not really a user-friendly app either, if anything it would be more difficult to explain how to change stuff in dconf than to just copy-paste a command. Tho to be fair it's still more user-friendly than Window's Registry Editor and Dconf is literally the registry editor for Gnome.
The very minute you said "crashes" I KNEW what your problems were! ........... you use ARCH! use a debian based distro and theres NO SUCH THING as "crashes"
I've been daily-driving arch on my 2 PCs and they never crashed. The only times one of my PCs crashed was because of a nvidia-on-wayland related issue that every other distro has. Debian is surely much more stable in terms of updates tho, I'll give you that, but I'm sure using nvidia on it would probably produce the same results on Arch.
NixOS or something else is probably a better choice, I personally dislike Debians approach to system stability because it compromises on updated software.
I use arch and no crashes so far. When it crashes it is a me fault not arch
@@realtitedog Do not recommend NixOS to people that can't even use regular distros. NixOS has a specific use case and unless you want to invest time learning nix to have a proper declarative config, there's no point. It's way too much overhead for even many power users.
You really don't need to have everything updated. Just use something like Fedora if you want the stablest but recent packages, otherwise just use a rolling distro like Arch. You can always use the nix package manager on any distro if you're desperate for bleeding edge stuff.
this.
its funy how somebody who doest know what to do on linux use arch, its crashes and says thats linux foult, while he didnt do everything that needs to be done. And what also is funny he is talking about newbie expierience using distro for expierienced useres like arch, instead of using popos, mint, or endevouros if he really want to use arch. i love when youtubers new to linux 1. use arch 2.have problems 3.linux suck while it schould be 1 i instaled arch cuz reasons 2 i dont know what im doing 3 i doesynt work i didnt install something 4 arch cant be operated using only GUI 5 lets learn what im mising and what comands i have to use 6 i learned most of the things i need to use arch reading fucking manual 7 i dont have problems
@@hyplayer any other distro than arch would work better (dont include gentoo, linux from scrach, nix or any other similar distro)
First lesson about choosing a distro,
you always choose the wrong one. (just pick one and be happy)
When he chose a method to install that is explicitly not supported in the wiki he made his bed. Arch installation method is MADE to deter beginners from using it. You shouldn't use Arch as a beginner. It is obvious you need to use the terminal in Arch. They don't have a GUI installer. I am not gatekeeping. I don't use Arch. I made the same mistake. But instead of crying about it I started using a friendlier distro.
@@vidal9747 Even with GUI whatever installer majority of shit you would want to do on your computer is gatekeeped by using the terminal or simply not compatible. If you're streaming, gaming, editing, programming there is no reason to use Linux at all lmao.
@@vidal9747 i swear, i feel like I could refute this by showing you a 10 minute arch install but then I realise Im not starting from scratch...
It's like getting a job. they all suck anyway.
@@SammyGoatedhorrible bait, try installing git on windows next time boy
This guy failed Linux LOL Try a stable Distro such as Mint, Zorin, Tuxedo, or an Immutable such as Fedora Silver Blue.
another drop in the bucket
Creators trying to use creative software on Linux and then telling us that we're all wrong for suggesting that people can use Linux as a general computing system. We understand that proprietary creative software doesn't often work. It is not recommended for people whose livelihood is entirely dependent on a proprietary ecosystem.
I'm sorry that your experience wasn't great, but your experience is atypical of the average Linux user. It doesn't help *anyone* when you try to do unuspported things with your OS and then make a video to tell the world how bad that unsupported thing runs. The normal every day average joe desktop PC user just needs a web browser and a mail client because they don't WORK on their computer all day like some of us. Most people just consume streaming content and read news on their laptop, and there are hundreds of thousands of apps you can install at the drop of a hat on Linux for everyday computing needs. If they do work from it, 99% of that work is also through the web browser or a text editor.
As far as gaming goes, it's actually incredible what proton will play, but it's not a perfect system and developers are less likely than ever to target native Linux executables thanks to how impressive proton really is. As you noticed, the main problem is generally nvidia drivers.
In your case however, the main problem is Arch Linux. You expressed very clearly that you just want to USE your computer, not fix it all the time. You also said that people will come for you in the comments for picking the wrong distro. Sorry. I'm not blaming you for the mistake, but you can't want a laptop that Just Works and run it on Arch. That's not how reality folds.
I don't mean to blame you for all the issues you dealt with, but proprietary creative software (adobe, davinci, affinity, autodesk, etc) is an unsupported use case and there's no way to slice "unsupported use case" such that you should be running Linux on your creative content workstation. And, I don't know who you're addressing in terms of Linux apologists. So far as my experience has been these past 5 years, Linux enthusiasts (not apologists, weird word to choose) instead are eager to work with you to solve those issues and overcome your problems with you. And no one is claiming you can uproot your life and move your entire workflow to Linux without a lot of headaches. I had to give up on a variety of games with unsupported anti-cheat for example. It took me many years to do that. You would have to adopt different editing software like Kdenlive or Openshot, which is (be honest) never something you would even consider doing, and even if you gave it a try you'd quit in 4 hours and switch back. Ain't a Linux problem. The problem ain't Linux.
There's a reason why Arch Linux is never used in production environments my bro
If it breaks You're holding your -phone wrong- Arch Linux wrong.
I believe you have many valid points here
But you don't HAVE to use terminal for enabling that fractional scaling, gsettings commands can be changed in dconf-editor which is similar to registery editor on windows and KDE plasma has fractional scaling ootb
@@AnAppealToRakka lmao imagine trying to reboot your pc only for it to update to a new version with a gb more of bloat on an already +40gb OS
@@veeloth don't use flatpak if you don't like bloat
No offence... You are running arch, not reading the wikis, not installing things the right way, using x11 software on unstable wayland and complaining that it doesn't work? This is not at all a review about linux, but a complaint that using arch the wrong way is hard. Well yes, ofc it is.
If i were you, either switch to something more beginner friendly, or git gud with arch. Personally, since you have already started with arch, i would reccomend taking a deeper dive with it, since it can actually be insanely good if you do it right.
I started with Debian based distros (you can see in the tweet at the very beginning of the video).
Most distros like Ubuntu and Fedora now come with Wayland, so why say that Wayland is unstable? X11 software doesn't work on Wayland? Not my fault. I can't fix that. X11 does not have fractional scaling, and my laptop is too small to use 100% scale.
@@ArnauDisrepair Wayland on arch is by design unstable. It's stable af on ubuntu and fedora. But as you are on arch, instability is to be excpected, and fixed by you the user if there's any issues.
if thats the case then why shiuld people use linux in general? even though windows is bloated atleast it gets the job done unlike stupid linux where u will face 100 error to run a popular software and if ur talking about other distro lol good luck with them with their own version of errors
@@ArnauDisrepair using fedora 40 uses wayland by default and it's stable out of the box. and has fractional scaling because gnome has that. yes on arch it wont so just try fedora 40 and see if that fixes your issues.
@@nahidahmed9153 Are you sincere in this comment? We are talking about amateurs, running a build it yourself distro (Arch). Building something that doesn't work, is not arch's fault. You were supposed to build something that works, and you didn't.
I use arch btw, and i have used it since November 23 as my daily driver. I game on it, work on it, and stream to twitch from it. Zero crashed, zero issues with running hyprland, on a nvidia gpu.
Why does it work? Because i understand linux down to the kernel level, and i built something for me that no other distro could provide. (Nix might of, but that's another discussion)
Not everyone wants what i want, if you want something that just works, you have TONS of options in popOs, fedora, ubuntu that can run 99% of software without any errors.
It's like you bought a car with a manual transmission, then when you messed it up because you had no idea how to shift - or what shifting even _was_ - you blamed the car.
uh? that is your way of covering up the dumpster fire of the linux desktop environment?
@@deckard5pegasus673 Um, no. Nothing in that analogy had _anything_ to do with desktop environments. Since you didn’t seem to understand the point I was making at all, let me spell it out for you: Unlike “hand-holding” distros like Mint or Ubuntu, which automate a lot of decisions and include a broad, pre-configured “everything-and-the-kitchen-sink” installation by default, Arch is - by design - a distro that starts you off with the bare minimum required to function, then expects and requires the user to know precisely what they need/want and install and configure it themselves. You’re expected to be ready and able to configure nearly everything by manually editing text files and willing to rtfm whenever there’s something you don’t understand.
It’s very upfront about this, so getting upset about it is basically complaining that “Hard mode is hard!” Hence my car analogy of knowingly buying a manual, then getting upset that it doesn’t drive like an automatic and acting like it’s _the car’s_ problem - and not the dumbass who was told “You need to manually shift gears to drive this.” and went “Huh? Shift the what now? Uh, yeah, sure, whatever.”, then got in and immediately was like “Wait… wtf is this _third_ pedal for? And why doesn’t the stick have “park” and “drive”? I see “R”, but there’s also supposed to be a D, N and P. _Where the hell are the D, N and P!?_ What’s this “1, 2, 3, 4, 5” crap supposed to mean and why does this confusing thing move in _six_ directions?
If you want a simpler analogy: If it’s your first time skiing, don’t go down a double-black diamond trail and then complain that it almost killed you 38 times.
Anyway, addressing your completely non-sequitur reply about “the dumpster fire of the linux desktop environment”. What is _“The”_ Linux desktop environment? Plasma? Gnome? Xfce? Unity? Cinnamon? You’re going to need to be a little more specific. You certainly can’t complain about Arch’s default desktop environment _because it doesn’t have one._ Furthermore, depending on one’s preference, it doesn’t even _need_ one. For instance, I don’t have a DE _at all._ I’m perfectly content with i3wm for all my graphical window-management needs.
This guy has no clue, what he is doing, his first mistake was his choice of distros, and he is trying to use a paid app for free.
Your analogy sucks. Shut up, fanboy.
@@deckard5pegasus673 linux isn't a desktop environment
Been using Arch for a while with basically zero problems. The system does everything you want, but yours doesn't work? You want it to not work. Skill issues.
Picking arch and complaining you are not being handheld? This video has to be a ragebait
I pick arch because of its extensive documentation. I'm aware everything else is easier, but sometimes there is something that doesn't want to work, and reading the Arch Wiki always ends up being the quickest route
@ArnauDisrepair try something more stable like Pop_OS or Fedora 40. Pop_OS is what I started with and I may move back to it.
@@ArnauDisrepair At least try something like Manjaro then, which is still Arch-based
@@ArnauDisrepair You can use the Arch Wiki for many problems in other distros too
@@ArnauDisrepairpick an Arch based distro, like Endevour. You picked the hardest distro for beginners, bypassed the obvious gate preventing beginners from entering (Arch Installer) and complained that you have to use the terminal? In a distro that you ARE SUPPOSED to install using the terminal? Every problem you had was mainly from choosing a distro that wasn't intended for beginners and that has an obvious gate saying you shouldn't pick it up if you don't want to use the terminal.
this entirely your fault for using a non user friendly, unstable distro. i got davinci resolve up and running with an nvidia graphics card in 10 minutes and 46 seconds.
also its important to remember that applications like this arent used by the average person
what distro are you using
Arch is not unstable?
@@realtitedog it CAN be but generally speaking its a hobby branch and if your doing work on your pc of any kind its best to just use something with less chance of borking itself at random... if one needs "bleeding edge" there is still Fedora or Opensuse Tumbleweed both are rolling and close to arch speed wise just actually have money and eyes on stability. will say as a opensuse user zypper is slow as hell however lol but stable as can be.
@@realtitedog Running perfectly on my computer.
Arch is fine, even if you are a newbie, but expect to read up before complaining. RTFM is an age old advice.
Also, why people say to use Debian and other distros as a newbie is that they make decisions for you out of the box, such as apps and configs, which minimize the confusion and overwhelm of starting from scratch. There are way more things than you notice that is automatically downloaded for you on Windows and MacOS, in Linux a desktop environment like KDE will get you quite far, but you might still need to install a lot of things to get things working. This is further complicated if your hardware has proprietary components like Nvidia.
If you don't know what to do, then do something wrong and bitch about it not working, then I'm sorry, its a skill issue.
"no such thing as 125% scaling" GNOME moment (kde lets you set scaling in an increment of 5% between 50% and 300%)
A more corect title would be: Linux is bad for me, as a content creator.
For me, as a programmer it's better than windows. I will dare to say, for casual users (most people) linux Mint is just fine, or better than windows.
I honestly think like fedora better as a beginner distro. I tried mint first and it's fine but I like gnome better and fedora 40 has alot more stuff out of the box like for my wifi card drivers and such.
@@Timely-ud4rm That's certainly an unusual experience. Fedora is kind of known for not having anything working out of the box and needing to tweak things. Most probably that means Fedora just has a newer Linux kernel which supports your wifi card.
Linux is bad for anyone who needs to get something done.
@@deckard5pegasus673 skill issue honestly, as a dev I can just sudo pacman -Syu (or yay) anything I need and in five seconds it's installed and I can focus on actual development, on windows nothing works
@@Timely-ud4rm I don't get why people recommend Fedora to new users. They're too trigger-happy to add new stuff and throw "old" stuff. Makes for risky upgrades later. Though maybe it's just my impression.
Alternative Title: Arch is a bad choice for most users.
"Why Cars With Manual Transmission Are Terrible"
-A guy who doesn't know what a clutch is
@heinrichagrippa5681 I'm from Ireland where nearly all cars are manual because of tradition. Automatic cars are actually better for most people, unless you are a rally driver.
Americans think A Manual Transmission is an anti theft device.
And also this is not a problem with wayland or X11.
This is a problem with frickin discord itself!
True. Discord just refuses to make the linux client on par with windows client. The ticket where people ask for audio in screenshare has been open for years and the functionality is nowhere to be found. Community made patched clients exist but we just want official support.
Thankfully there are great alternative Discord clients on Linux that work flawlessly. Tho for an average user the idea of an alternative client for an app is probably too complicated
@@temari2860Which one do you recommend?
I haven't used Discord in a good while, but I don't get it, why don't people just use it in a browser ? That's how I use Outlook and MS Teams and it's working quite good. Why bother with the app that comes bundled with an overly outdated embedded browser, is a massive security hole and apparently noone can make it actually run good ?
please blink twice if you're being held hostage by Microsoft
hhahahahahha
I get all of your criticism. I'm a video and photography editor and designer. I do have a lot of technical knowledge so doing things on linux isn't hard for me. With that being said:
Linux does work for "normal" people. The main problem is the actual idea of "normal" I take that normal just means non technical people. But I'd have to disagree with that idea. I think it goes further than just non technical people.
Anyone who uses highly specialized software is not "normal" a video editor? Not normal. A designer? Not normal. But then... Who is normal?
Normal people are people like my mom. She didn't go to college, she has a simple job, she likes to cook and do bracelets and maybe somewhere to draw simole things. She just needs Office 365, a browser and somewhere to see her photos. Almost anything other than that is not "normal".
Tuxedo OS is for normal people right out of the box. No terminal, no tecnical knowledge, no errors, nothing. She just needed help on how to install it, a thing that most people would need and most likely pay to get someone else to do it for them.
Linux is not ready for specialized individuals. We don't have a good video editor, because we are not many, therefore companies like Adobe never pay us attention at all. Gimp? I'll say it. It fucking sucks. And still is not only the best Linux can do but anyone can do. Photoshop is miles ahead of anything else (a side from that web based Photoshop clone). Da Vinci resolve could easily have Linux support for AAC but they want to use their own solution instead of the one Linux already has. That's why Kden Live has support for it. But guess what. They don't care. I have installed some distros in others PCs. And I always ask: what do you use your PC for? Why? Because i know that a lot of people still could run into problems that they could not fix or that it would take me a lot of time to fix.
I'm sorry you are not happy in Linux. We are doing the best we can, but I'll still show my support to the community since I believe will do better. The Steam deck was a blessing. But that topic is still young in OS time.
Literally the only thing stopping us from having basically all gamers covered is the Kernel level anti-cheat. A thing that we absolutely don't need to have.
Darktable is great. I love it. Kden Live is a little bit rough but it still can do most of the things premiere can. It's by no means industry standard or maybe even ready but it will I have trust. Not faith since I've seen what we are capable of.
TL;DR Linux is great for people who don't need a computer.
I agree.
I'm an academic researcher. I do 99% of my work on Linux. I think that Linux is way more user friendly today than it has ever been. Make no mistake though, it is not for the faint of heart. I also dual boot Windows, because sometimes I have to collaborate with others. If I did not have to, I'd happily only use Linux. But still, I would not recommend it to the average user. Because you need to understand the Linux philosophy/way-of-doing-things first.
Start gently and tinker with it for a couple of years on a secondary machine. And stick to just one distro, like Ubuntu / Mint. But persevere! By the end of it you'll know whether it's for you or not.
Part of why Linux gets a bad rep is because of commercial software or hardware vendors not supporting Linux. Luckily, I rarely have to deal with such issues. Someone coming from Windows/MacOS may not realize this and blame it on Linux, like you have. But also part of the problem is that some Linux enthusiasts pretend that it is ready for the average person. Linux is not for everyone, yet. I say this as an enthusiast myself.
Almost all his problems are because he is using Arch 💀
that is probably true
You pick the wrong distros. Maybe choose Linux from scratch.
It is more documented and user-friendly than Arch.
So all these videos is just nvidia users who install arch and complain about it being hard, having to use the terminal, or things which are not the fault of linux?
If you read through the video, you will see that I am not using an Nvidia graphics card.
In fact, I would be better off with Nvidia.
You seem genuinely bitter to the point where you’re saying things that are outright untrue. Arch is obviously not for you, you’ve complained a lot about manual intervention in your system. Of course you’re gonna have to use the terminal and mess around with yay, etc. And no, Ubuntu is not as involved as Arch as you seem to implicate even if it has it’s dated packages.
Linux is not a product that a company sold to you, all of the work is done by people who just want to build an operating system and no one owes you anything in any way shape or form. It's obviously fine and useful to point out things that need improvement, but complaining how something *should* be different is not really fair for something someone just works on in their good will. You are in the exact same position as the developers and maintainers, and you can just as well go and improve the OS, they bear as much responsibility for it as you or any other person does. It's like someone gathers a meeting for anyone to attend and you come there and complain how decorations suck and the building is far away from your home.
Okay so for one thing, Arch is *the* distro for people who *do* want to maintain their operating system by themselves. If you wish to not tinker with configs and packages, a DIY distro is not a great choice. And also "yay", the AUR helper, well you're gonna break your Arch system eventually if you're gonna just randomly install packages from there without care. This program helps you easily install apps that were packaged by random users, which as you may realize is not the most stable thing cause people might make mistakes of simply abondon packages. Arch wiki warns users that AUR helpers are not an endorsed way to use AUR. Again, Arch is not for people who don't want to manage their system.
Fractional scaling is implemented by default on KDE Plasma, but yes on GNOME it's only experimental hence not shown in graphical settings.
Operating systems don't "support" applications, that's not how it works. Applications support operating systems, it literally cannot be the other way around because if the developer didn't compile their app for a specific OS, it's not gonna be on that OS, it has nothing to do with the operating system itself. The only exception to that are the open-source apps because that means other people can take the source code, compile and package to the operating systems developers didn't package for. Any program absent on any OS is not a problem of the OS, it's a problem of the program's developers.
At the end of the day, I do think Linux users are overpushing it to everyone. It's not a commercial project and it's not gonna be a thing that just works in all scenarios for everyone. It does have many many many advantages, much better structure and decision making but without billions of dollars you simply can't make a buttery smooth easy experience for all users. If Windows and Mac does everything you need and you don't care about their unethical behavior or their anti-competitive practices or system ads or invasive tracking and personal data selling - there is zero need for you to change anything, just keep using whatever works for you. I switched not because I hated Windows, but because I just absolutely loved the fact that Linux's design and structure as the OS is just far superior, well Unix really. And then the freedom and values it gives is what won it to me over MacOS which is also Unix-like and far superior to Windows' OS design.
If you do wish to experiment more, I'd say switch away from Arch to Nobara. It's Fedora based, you get fairly quick and recent updates of everything but the system is managed and kept stable for you unlike Arch. Nobara comes with all the little tweaks and whatever to make Resolve work out of the box, same for NVIDIA drivers, codecs and whatever else. It's default DE is KDE Plasma which I think might suit you more. It's more ugly and busy in my opinion but much more feature complete. Fractional scaling, VR, HDR, all that within graphical settings. Another good option is Pop!_OS, they always ship latest Linux kernel, NVIDIA drivers and other hardware support. Their other packages that are not hardware related are old, but since you're not a developer it doesn't matter, just install graphical apps in the store, the flatpaks come up to date. Resolve also works right on Pop if I remember right, since their installer is specifically supported on Ubuntu systems (that's why you had problems with it on Arch).
Oh and also, open-source nature of applications is meaningful not only to developers. For you as a user it means developer can't just go rogue and do whatever they want, because the community will always have the option to pick up the application and develop it on their own without the things they dislike. For example, when GNOME 3 released many people were unhappy about the direction the project was going and didn't want to use the new version, so several new projects spawned out of that and people who disliked GNOME 3 just switched to those projects who kept developing and maintaining the desktop in GNOME 2 way. Now these projects are MATE and Cinnamon. One kept 100% close to GNOME 2 design, the other took a bit different direction. Imagine if when Windows 8 was released, the people would be able to just pick up Windows 7 and continue it's development instead. Without the ads, tracking, and questionable Microsoft's design choices, while maintaining modern security, performance and features people do want. That would have been possible if Windows was open-source and many people would have benefit from that without being developers.
based comment. My question which distro would you suggest to a person who hates unethical commercial corpo practices and wants to leave windows but fail to see how can i trust companies like canonical (ubuntu and ubuntu based distros) or redhat (fedora and fedora based systems) or like any other company? I didnt even get into linux much yet but already know how controversial are these companies and i dont even want to trust their open source software like systemd.
Because of that i ended up choosing some hardcore distros like void/artix/gentoo but they seem too hard for a newbie. People suggest me to use like bazzite (i want to play newest games) but immutable distros based on commercial company's distro (fedora silverblue or something) seems sus to me i want to control my system thats why i wanna leave windows not to trust another big corpo (owned by ibm) to ship everything for me with minumum customizations. Because of that im scared to even start and i dont want to start from ubunutu or mint or whatever. yes i know im weird i guess
Those are mostly GNOME problems. GNOME should stop being recommended fro begginers.
GNOME should stop being recommended to anyone.
@@desktorp The first time i was told about linux in any major way actually still uses GNOME to this day (and for some reason he calls is nome) and when i say he's really into linux, he's done LFS
@@desktorp I agree
@@jimlake6021 Gnome 2 was excellent. Gnome 3/Shell was a failed design. They try to erase the evidence, but their initial intent for Gnome 3 was, much like Canonical's Unity, to be a 'universal' UX that prioritized mobile devices. (I believe Unity used the word 'convergence') This would have been an acceptable change had mobile Linux devices ever materialized; they did not. And so the only real world application for these mobile-centric interfaces was conventional desktop/laptop systems. The interface for Gnome 3 was clearly designed for a touch screen. The vast majority of Gnome 3 users are not using touch screens.
The only reason Gnome 3 has any userbase at all is because the Gnome project is connected at the hip with Fedora/Red Hat. It is therefor pushed on to people who otherwise would not choose to use it. The fact that they have had to slowly re-add features familiar to Gnome 2 just proves what a slow moving mistake Gnome 3 has been.
All of your issues seem to be caused by Gnome as a Desktop Environment. I suspect you'd have a much better experience on KDE
This not just a rant, someone voices his frustration with Linux, and I find a lot of it reasonable, a lot of his pain I felt myself. On the other hand, after several years running Windows on my gaming machine, I moved that one to Linux, because Windows has its own problems, and I just got tired of dealing with those.
I am willing to fight those installation battles for the freedom it provides.
I don't pressure any if my friends into linux, each to his own.
I've been using Linux daily since 2008 and love it.
As soon as you open a web browser, go outside into a public place or pickup your phone your freedom is gone.
Man!!! You have more discernment than a lot of 40+ guys! I find Linux an awesome project I would really love to see a powerful Unix system become a standard so I could ditch Windows. Unfortunately the multitude of versions (distros) of Linux makes it almost impossible to have a standard to follow, so we must be pragmatic and use Windows or Mac. You learned all that very young. Congratulations!
"Arch is easier to fix" it is not theres a reason why people recommend using a linux mint or ubuntu to new people.
Yeah, Ubuntu and Mint are easier, but when something really doesn't want to work, the Arch Wiki always seems to have a guide for it.
@@ArnauDisrepair True, the problem is that, there's ALWAYS something wrong with Arch, you will NEVER STOP READING THE WIKI... That's the problem with Arch, it's a distro for DYI addicts, and masochists that absolutely ADORE being caught in an endless loop of troubleshooting! xD
The first issue with the scaling is a gnome problem not a Linux desktop problems that means that KDE doesn't have this problem.
and why are you using arch if you don't want to use the terminal?????
Genuinely, No one is forcing you to use Linux for productivity in the first place, neither is anyone forcing you to use FOSS apps. The AAC codec is a patented license and unavailable to the free version of Davinci Resolve, the patent will expire in 2028 and that's when it becomes available for everyone, it sucks we know. Linux is not a replacement OS for Windows/MacOS. You're right in the fact that we do need standards, but the creation, and finally the acceptance of a de-facto standard is one of the more difficult parts to achieve, we're sort of making our way towards that with immutable distros? Nonetheless, with the lack of acknowledgement from companies to port their software to Linux/give support, granted they are not obligated to for a small userbase, it's still disappointing since most of them have the resources in order to do so.
That's the biggest problem in desktop Linux: installing apps. Linus himself acknowledged this. Things will improve in the future when Flatpaks becomes the norm, but for now, you're absolutely right. Linux on the desktop is just bad. And this is coming from someone who uses linux since 1999.
Did you try Linux Mint perhaps?
based pfp
skill issue
Real
On the developer side
@@ELEC7RO no
@@ThePr0_0149 I respectfully disagree
@@ELEC7RO how is the linux dev at fault?
It's relativelly simple to move into Linux IF YOU PREPARE PRIOR TO CHANGE.
1) Start using just software who are present on Linux.
2) Purchase a laptop FULL AMD or Intel who comes WITH LINUX (even if you gonna use another distro) OR assemble an FULL AMD Desktop.
3) Uses Arch, Arco or BAZZITE (and on Bazzite use distrobox/flatpak to install software).
4) Use BTRFS on / and install timeshift, timeshift autosnap and btrfs tools so if/when things break you can rollback on grub.
only after i decided to try using Linux as main desktop OS for over a year made me really appreciate Windows
this guy has used linux for longer than hes lived
the rule about linux is that it's never linux's fault
I'm seeing that a lot in these comments.
the rule about Math is that it's never Math's fault for many people not getting it
@@Henry-sv3wv Linux users always come up with the best excuses!
Quite literally, none of these problems are the fault of the Linux kernel.
@@Wahaller what do you think the problem is then? It seems to me other OS's don't have these problems.
You're saying "Linux". Bro you should say the name of DE and Distro.
And don't use Arch then omg.
The last moment of "I don't care about privacy and customization" is TRUE!!! I just want something that works out of the get go, not troubleshoot for hours! Only reason I want to move to Linux is because I hate Windows A.I and ads, but that's not enough for me to switch to Linux.
I love Linux and use it daily for 90% but it is impossible to use it for 100% because of missing support for Adobe and Affinity support.
Affinity is working 90% now on Linux, there is no official suport though you need to use a specific version of Wine and do some other stuff
@@murillodaniel9208 I didn't know it's finally working on Wine. thanks for letting me know!
@@murillodaniel9208 no one’s gon do that though 😅😅
It is very much possible if you don't need Adobe lol. Also, Linux isn't "missing support" for them, Adobe is missing support for Linux. Apps developers support operating systems, not the other way around.
@@temari2860 you are right, my brain was upside down
Gnome scaling sucks ass
Almost 2025 and gnome still have scaling issues, whilst KDE Plasma implemented fractional scaling ages ago.
Good man, thanks for speaking up! I've been trying to move to Linux since 2014 and only reason I might be able to finally stick with it is because I don't need to interact with Linux community, those people are delusional anti socials, but I guess it's a price you pay for being genius and sharing that with others. But that being said they're big donkey rears, now with AI tools I, a casual user, finally can setup Linux to work, because it does not work ! All the tech is there but Linux community refuses to interact with casual user even tho they state to thrive for a year of Linux desktop, which is lie too, they don't care about it.
Linux is almost there honestly, mint looks so so good for user friendlyness it just need polish and then sweap of apps that works for creatives and it's gucci. But they're small team on low budget but still moving forward, they have the vision right I wish that wider Linux community would help them in development.
Linux doesn't work unless all you need is browser, emails and music/video player then go for Linux mint 100% it is so good you wouldn't believe it.
Why every linux sucks video must be a skill issue show?
Cuz youtubers lies about how easy and ultra super friendly linux is ,when users take the bait they seethe about how frustrating the experience is
I love that Linux is onto Wayland now and has gone back to square 1 again in terms of compatibility. I say love, I guess I just mean feel justified in me having the same sentiments as you do.
As much as folks here keep complaining which Linux you used, the fact remains he is right about the ecosystem between Mac/Windows and Linux. Linux was never intended to be like the others but folks tried it anyways. So what we are left with is a mess of FOSS that folks made a religion around. Plus Linux Shell is more like how DOS and windows 1.x to 3.x was. The DE is an app on a CLI OS. Until Linux kernel is directly integrated into a full on GUI os this will always be the issue.
even for developers i recommend wsl on Windows rather than using desktop Linux.
A few issues with this:
1: You seem to talk about a lot of issues specific to the GNOME desktop environment. Sadly, it's the default of most distros, even though I woulf consider it to be against some of the philosophy of Linux. KDE, even though it's slightly less stable, supports fractional scaling out of the box and is more configurable.
2. To install DaVinci Resolve, there's a tool called DistroBox. If you know what Windows Subsystem for Linux is, it's like a Linux Subsystem for Linux, and it lets you run other distros in your distro. This is useful because DaVinci Resolve runs better on Red Hat based distros, like Fedora and Rocky Linux, or even the special DaVinci Resolve distro. Granted, you need to use the terminal, but once you set it up you shouldn't have to touch it again for that.
TL;DR anything that needs to be done in linux needs to follow a long list, while a windows and mac users just need to double click.
Linux desktop is a dumpster fire
My man, I'm using computers for more than 30 years. Home and professional user, I've used Amiga, Commodore 64, Spectrums, Apple, Windows, Linux, UNIX, BeOS... I've installed servers, workstations and home computers.
And you are right.
Linux is a hot mess for desktops. It's just "usable" in the broadest term you can imagine. Servers, it works. But not for desktops.
OS X and Windows are just superior there. Long gone are the days when Linux was "more stable", that was in the days of Windows 98/Millenium.
For users, what matter the most is APPLICATIONS. No one cares what is underneath if applications you need just work. And on Linux they just mostly don't, or are granulated, so for one job with one app on Windows you need three or four apps on Linux, one of them is command-line only.
The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one.
You know what? I'm a Linux fanboy, and yet I completely understand, relate to, and agree with, a lot of the points you made. The lack of standardisation, the difficulty in getting things to work, Nvidia drivers, it's all just a jumbled mess in a lot of ways and requires fixing, but I doubt it will happen without a ton of backlash from pretty much all current Linux users, and that's a fact. Because there is a solution, but it involves dumbing down and limiting Linux in some ways, which will end up annoying, upsetting and making existing users very angry because it WILL break their workflows. I'm talking about immutability, of course.
"already niche os" insane LOL
I have used linux for 25years and I can't remember when I could not scale the resolution via the GUI
amazing video sir. i was thinking it would be interesting to explore a video editing workflow with blender VSE and friction(friction.graphics).
davinci is definitely very finicky to set up. also it has 0 support for intel AT ALL.
as for the OS, arch is notorious for beeing terminal based. why not fedora? I’ve been using it and it seems more designed with non-technical users in mind
It's the classic chicken and egg problem. Linux needs more users so devs will start caring about supporting Linux properly and we need more software support so people will start using Linux.
This is exactly the same reaction from some unexperienced users making changes to Windows Insider or Windows fresh new rollouts and expecting to work out of the box. If you are going to use unstable OS don't expect everything to work out of box
There is so much to using Linux than just the experience of Arch users.....
honestly linux isn't ready for video/audio editing. windows/macos just handles it infinitely better because they have better overall codec support.
if you have arch, but your arent good a linux, try fedora
Strange. I've tried Fedora 3 times in the last few years, and it always develops glitches. Within a couple of weeks DNFDragora fails to work and Firefox won't start. I started with Redhat 25years ago when a fair bit of manual configuration was required, and my hardware hasn't been a problem with Debian based distros.
I've been a linux user since 2022, how easy is it to install Nvidia drivers? ( I don't want to replace my GPU till the next GPU generation releases )
If it comes down to it, I'll move back to Pop_OS since I don't mind using X11 and not having access to HDR.
Make a video complaining about Linux. Does not know the basic.
Skill issue
Ngl, a lot of the issues this guy kept going on about, I've not ran into while using Mint, and I've been using it for close to three months now :3
Arch is specifically designed to be newbie-unfriendly. Use a more newbie-friendly distribution. Stop expecting every distribution to be Windows.
>use Arch
>complain about using terminal
Bro wtf?
What is X, what is Y?
It's 2024 ask GPT and check his responds on internet.
Ask too complex questions and GPT tells you BS
You either don't understand $#!T or you haven't watched the video. Otherwise you wouldn't have left this braindead comment.
dual boot problem solved 😇
Buen video, me acabo de dar cuenta que eres Español y te sigo desde que decidiste cambiar a un t480 sigue así bro
The only people who use Linux are people who already use Linux.
Sorry you had a bad time
You need to give Linux a lot of time. It's very different from Windows and there's a lot you need to understand.
There's a very good reason that I haven't installed Linux on my main system even tho on all secondary systems and family's computers, everything is now Linux. Been using Linux since 2020 but still am not confident about being able to troubleshoot issues on my main rig and have all applications work without issues.
4 years in and still expecting ui to just work :) the one and only app on Linux rock solid is terminal :)
Sure, unfortunately, you need to learn an entirely new language in order to f**king USE it, lol!
"Holy sh*t, it runs" lol
my esperience is so: used linux since 2019 but i kept one laptop with windows on it. this laptop has limited internet access and by limited this means: if a file or software is needed for the windows laptop i will use the linux machine to download the file, put it on usb and then plug said usb in to the laptop. i will not connect the laptop directly to the internet because windows is a contamination, windows is a security risk. it is to be treated accordingly.
It's not necessarily that Linux uses other external libraries, it's just that Linux makes it more obvious than Windows or macOS do.
The problem is specifically that almost all distro's dynamically link the binaries they put in their repositories in a way as if they were allergic to static binaries.
Most of them even only distribute .so files, so they won't even let you statically link yourself unless you compile each individual library from source.
If binaries were static by default, it would have solved 99% of all the dependency related problems (because the only exception is if your program depends on Vulkan or OpenGL, because you literally can't statically link in this case).
The good news is that on Linux, at least static linking is possible, but most distro's won't do that because they want you to suffer and eat up all the bandwidth each time they update a library, because every single binary needs to be re-compiled and re-distributed in order for the dependency to work in all binaries it's used in.
In macOS static linking is outright impossible, so their workaround is to put it all into a .dmg file, and then trick Finder into believing that a directory with a certain extension is an executable.
On Windows developers include all non-system default .dll files with the binary
On Linux they cope around the problem with the AppImage format, or containers like Docker, Kubernetes, Flatpaks, and Snaps, instead of just actually solving the problem itself.
The BSDs allow for static and dynamic linking, and will almost always install libraries for both whenever you install a package, although the binaries from the ports tree will be compiled to dynamic binaries.
As for Illumos, Haiku, and some others, they outright ban static linking, and even refuse to implement it whenever actual users request it, and then they wonder why nobody cares about their OS's.
Using linux mint and yeah it's bullshit that I don't need the terminal
Do you know, how to copy and paste LOL The cry babies.
I use Nix btw
Who says you have to choose? I use windows for gaming, macos for work, linux to tinker. I would hate to get locked into any of these choices.
On my thinkpad the touchpad on the hackintosh works much worse than on windows, what kexts and settings did you use? You mentioned that the touchpad on the hackintosh works better than on windows, but I have the opposite situation. On Windows it's extremely responsive and lag-free, a joy to use, on Hackintosh it's just a regular touchpad with lag and ugly cursor control.
Your opinion is important, even if others, like myself, disagree with it.
I understand the frustrations, to me there really isn't anything else worth using except for Linux, but I am a programmer so you are right when you say that programmers are the target audience, even though that is starting to slowly change.
We hope to win you back soon
i dont agree with you, right now the state of most linux distros are beginer friendly if they dont try using linux like windows and just use appmanagers instead of loking for apps on random sites or like in this video using arch btw.
I understand you. I used Linux mint. It works fine for my basic needs. Linux has improved but still lags a lot when compared to windows. Different community makes their own distro and programs. That is the beauty of Linux and that is one big issue it faces too.
Finally new video after 20 years xd
Lol the linux bots are hilarious!
You are describing "FEATURES" for Linux which Linux fanboys love - they need to troubleshoot something otherwise it is not a good distribution. I gave up with Linux. I use MacOS and Windows. I also use LMDE but prefer MacOS. Good rant video!
Sure it feels like 40 years sometimes
My use case is different to yours, but I found what you said to be valid. It's your experience, and that's what matters here. I basically just run Windows on my Computer and at work, but I have a Laptop with Linux Mint Debian Edition on it, that I only use to run updates on it; after I painstakingly went through distro hop hell to find an OS compatible with the hardware ( I spent as much time on this as it would've taken to just use debian or arch, but I was determined to find something that already worked out of the box); then spent time setting up to game on, have all of my most used programs etc. And I only use the thing to run terminal commands for updates.
I am on mint and it never crashed once in the last 10 months of use.Mind you, my laptop is a 2014 model with a 4th gen i3
I didn't try to like Linux. I simply hate Windows for so many reasons. I did not have help switching to Linux. I had the availability of help. Meaning, if I had needed help, I would have had it. Windows sucks for many reasons including the spying, invasion of privacy, locked in nature, forced updates, which mean forced reboots, forced loss of current working environment, and forced unreliability. It is very possible to go from it was working to it is now broken. Without you getting to chose if are ready to fix what might go wrong. I don't love Linux. I merely hate Windows!
Man, if you "have" to run Arch, why not Garuda? It puts a lot of polish on the turd.
Even programmers are not all-knowing. I don't want to fix other people's programs so that I can just start my own project. Linux on the server is great and if you user only a terminal with neovim it's great, but the desktop is a half finished mess. For the desktop I prefer Mac.
Your Linux experience is true and the real. Every comment saying otherwise is just copeium.
And his experience is similar to mine. Been trying to ditch Windows for Fedora or Mint. It never works out well, because while Linux is better than Windows if you know what you're doing, the software available on Linux is just mediocre and limited compared to Windows. Video editing on Linux is especially horrible as none of the open-source editors produce good-quality, bug-free renders while Resolve doesn't support H264/AAC. I'm just going to stay on 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 21H2 until support ends in 2032. By that time, I really hope desktop Linux will be less of a dumpster fire.
Well, in the case of Davinci Resolve, the problem isn't you or Linux in general, it is, that the developer chose to support Rocky Linux instead.
And instead of packing his software in a regular RPM package, he decided to build a custom setup tool, similar to those on Windows. So the developer doesn't care, how software is usually distributed under Linux, even for today's standards.
It would be more easy, if Davinci Resolve would be distributed as a Flatpak, with every dependency included, so you don't have to suffer like you described in this video.
(On the other hand, this would only solve the problems with the installation, not with the codecs. ☹ )
Linux is primarily a server OS, not a desktop one. Millions of dollara are poured into lonux development, but most of it goes to the server side.