To be fair I think there actually _are_ differences when it comes to the kernel. I could be wrong but I think some distros have their own customized kernels and also some backport features into the older kernels (as far as I know openSUSE does that with Leap).
Exactly! Too many distro "reviewers" show the install and then go through and open lots of that desktop's apps- they are the same on every distro. I especially noticed this with "reviews" of CachyOS. All but a few "reviews" of it were shallow and useless without getting into the nitty gritty under-the-hood stuff that makes it different. The same for many other distros that actually did something new and innovative but just got a useless shallow "review". An example of a good dive into a distro is the podcast (on TH-cam) where A1RM4X spoke with 2 of the founding developers of CachyOS for over an hour.
I really thought you were going to list OpenSUSE as the 4th, not Gentoo! I totally agree with your overall point though. A lot of times, they end up being DE reviews more than anything.
I agree totally, and I spin up a VM to see if they have Bugs or missing something important to me. The first issue I see is inability to run 4K monitors and get the scaling right, then issues with updates, repo errors, poor support for appimages, installing or connecting to them and general network issues. If reviewers ran the OS or Spin for a week or more, they would be useful!
As a POPos user I have been facing some issues lately like bluetooth disconnecting intermittently and mouse(wireless) not connecting during startup. So I decided to give Arch-Gnome a try and I love it. I find Debian too dated for my use case for eg I use nvim and it still runs on version 0.6 (in Debian) which doesn't have lua support like in 0.9. These minor issue can be fixed through Flatpaks but I guess for very basic softwares like vim I should not rely on Flatpak (imho) as it is hard to figure out the XDG path in flatpak builds(i am a noob) . Debian is Great but Arch seems to be more focused on home use and Debian on server use. I may be wrong as I am most often.
The problem is; If you go on simply showing the visuals and basics then that's what most people who want to get started want. If you go deeper into technical then you're either already a Linux guy who knows what these things are, or it gets so complicated that the average person can't be bothered. For example: Ubuntu uses GNOME. If you know GNOME then you know what it is and how it works, it's a GUI it's what gives you buttons and pretty pictures instead of writing everything. If you don't know GNOME. Then you're not very technical, most likely. Reviews are good baby steps. Unless you're going for Arch then the council of protein shake wizards is that way.
Oh you missed Slackware, it is different from the others....haha got you there. Who really uses irrelevant Slackware today 🙂, "nobody". Go ahead a flame me in the comments, but far as I have seen none of the lazy Linux Distro Hipsters have talked about Slackware. Mad respect though to those Slackware fans who have had a running system for decades without reinstalling. Got to be at least one system since the 90 that is still being updated.
Nobody needs to see a review of Kali, Whonix, Arch, Red Hat, Puppy Linux, Debian, Deepin or .......? It's all just makeup on a pig? I don't even understand the thought process behind that conclusion.
To be fair I think there actually _are_ differences when it comes to the kernel. I could be wrong but I think some distros have their own customized kernels and also some backport features into the older kernels (as far as I know openSUSE does that with Leap).
Exactly! Too many distro "reviewers" show the install and then go through and open lots of that desktop's apps- they are the same on every distro. I especially noticed this with "reviews" of CachyOS. All but a few "reviews" of it were shallow and useless without getting into the nitty gritty under-the-hood stuff that makes it different. The same for many other distros that actually did something new and innovative but just got a useless shallow "review". An example of a good dive into a distro is the podcast (on TH-cam) where A1RM4X spoke with 2 of the founding developers of CachyOS for over an hour.
Something on Reddit I can get behind
The thing I hate the most is when the half of "review" video is installation process. Like just make different video about it 😫
I think they come from user who never use linux but wanted to, so they just try to get a source of thrust for selecting distribution
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Cheers!
I really thought you were going to list OpenSUSE as the 4th, not Gentoo! I totally agree with your overall point though. A lot of times, they end up being DE reviews more than anything.
I agree totally, and I spin up a VM to see if they have Bugs or missing something important to me. The first issue I see is inability to run 4K monitors and get the scaling right, then issues with updates, repo errors, poor support for appimages, installing or connecting to them and general network issues. If reviewers ran the OS or Spin for a week or more, they would be useful!
You forgot opensuse and slackware...
Suse I forgot, Slackware was omitted.
As a POPos user I have been facing some issues lately like bluetooth disconnecting intermittently and mouse(wireless) not connecting during startup. So I decided to give Arch-Gnome a try and I love it. I find Debian too dated for my use case for eg I use nvim and it still runs on version 0.6 (in Debian) which doesn't have lua support like in 0.9. These minor issue can be fixed through Flatpaks but I guess for very basic softwares like vim I should not rely on Flatpak (imho) as it is hard to figure out the XDG path in flatpak builds(i am a noob) . Debian is Great but Arch seems to be more focused on home use and Debian on server use. I may be wrong as I am most often.
Make more videos please it's been too long.
The problem is; If you go on simply showing the visuals and basics then that's what most people who want to get started want.
If you go deeper into technical then you're either already a Linux guy who knows what these things are, or it gets so complicated that the average person can't be bothered.
For example: Ubuntu uses GNOME. If you know GNOME then you know what it is and how it works, it's a GUI it's what gives you buttons and pretty pictures instead of writing everything.
If you don't know GNOME. Then you're not very technical, most likely. Reviews are good baby steps. Unless you're going for Arch then the council of protein shake wizards is that way.
Oh you missed Slackware, it is different from the others....haha got you there. Who really uses irrelevant Slackware today 🙂, "nobody". Go ahead a flame me in the comments, but far as I have seen none of the lazy Linux Distro Hipsters have talked about Slackware. Mad respect though to those Slackware fans who have had a running system for decades without reinstalling. Got to be at least one system since the 90 that is still being updated.
This isn't a Gentoo video because you obviously never actually tried it
Are you alive?
Yeah, thanks for checking up on me. I've had two kids in two years. It's been sort of a whirlwind!
@@ambros470 great!
Hot take!
Dat into #1
Nobody needs to see a review of Kali, Whonix, Arch, Red Hat, Puppy Linux, Debian, Deepin or .......? It's all just makeup on a pig? I don't even understand the thought process behind that conclusion.