Ayyyy respect man. Yeah it does feel daunting at first especially with little to no experience but maaan o man it pays off. Good stuff and ggs! The penguin 🐧 is winning!
Garuda has been my favorite distro for a while now, I can't sing its praises enough tbh. It's all the appeal of arch- rolling release, pacman, AUR and all that, but it's also so out-of-the-box perfect at the same time. It's "meant" for gaming, but honestly in my personal experience anything that works well for games means it also works well for literally everything else too, and that has definitely been my experience here.
I've definitely heard of Garuda but I never really had tried it. But hey if you got the aur, rolling release and pacman like you were saying then hell yeah that's a juicy encompassing package. I might try it over Manjaro then on the other machines I have. Appreciate the recommendation 🙏
It's hard to say tbh. Mac only has about 14% while windows has about 73%. So I guess it's a significant number but dayum it's dwarved lol. We Linux folk on desktop are only at about 4%. I suppose we don't have many os' to choose from so I guess we just sort of accept it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Maybe people include mobile os in the discussion?
Debian legit is the goat. Was my main driver for 10 years. And I love the fact you can still do rolling or fixed release. You will never need another distro for life. Ggs (low key Debian is the most ironclad one).
I tried Linux when I had an elective at the institute 2 years ago. I liked it, everything looks beautiful. Everything I need is working well. My games are working. I don't see any reason for myself not to use it. Fedora Gnome
Ayyyy thats tight. I only recently started to try fedora and I've been so impressed. Legitimately I wish I had learned of it in my earlier days. It's awesome to hear all these success stories. Keep on rocking with the penguin 🐧!
deepin linux is technically chinese, "Established in 2011, Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Deepin Technology) is a Chinese commercial company focused on the R&D and services of Linux-based operating system." as another comment pointed out, ubuntu just has a chinese edition among many other editions, it's not actually owned or contributed to any more than most other distros
Yeah I'm hella eating it for saying the Chinese thing lol. I appreciate it though I need this type of feedback so I don't be spreading lies. Appreciate it mayne 🙏
Yeaaah that's fair. I guess if it works for people they should use it. It's got that icky Ubuntu essence though lol. Honestly at the end of the day if it works then it works.
I agree but to like a day 0 newbie small things like that are usually enough contention for them to quit. Im talking from the perspective of someone who has day 0 knowledge whose not going to have that context.
@@onibakuman_ Yes it can be a pain for newbies when the updates break because of the AUR. Most people need a bit of hand-holding with it at first. I would say for anyone new to Linux on any distro though. It's best to have someone, who is already using Linux, to install and set it up then they can be shown around it and explain how the updates and installing work. At lest then they can feel more confident knowing they have someone to call if there's something wrong or something they don't understand.
Yeah totally agree with this. That is the best way to go about it. Sadly us Linux nerds are hard to find lol. We're a rare bunch so inevitably some folks have to roll solo. So for the solo people they probably need something rock solid. Actually if you were to recommend one which would you do for an absolute beginner. I might be out of the loop tbh
@@onibakuman_ That's a very good question. I assume that most of the solo adopters are quite capable of creating their own bootable media on the premise that they can install Windows from a downloaded ISO. I'm leaning towards Vanilla OS, because its very easy to install and is hard to break, but if you can make and install your own Windows media then you're probably quite an advanced user. Arch is better if you can handle the command line and so is Alpine (and so is my wife). I can't really say that it's an issue with any distro. The major problem is that that the files system is mapped completely differently from Windows, and no matter what the distro is, a Windows user will use '\' and '/' differently in CMD ('terminal' for the uninitiated) and they will still be looking for drive C: \ It's so hard to single out one distro as 'rock solid' because every distro has it's own niche. When I started on Linux OpenSUSE as my daily driver, I got it on a cover disk of the monthly magazine PC Format, then I discovered that other distros existed and started hopping. Currently I run 3 different distros on my PCs and it's an 'as use-case,' meaning it runs best for me, on that hardware and for the purpose the PC has been designated. My advice is spin up Ventoy on a flash drive and just drop Linux Live ISOs on to it and try them, just explore whats on the ISO without installing. There are even some distros that are designed to run straight off a USB, like Porteus or Tiny Core, which are incredibly lightweight. My other advice is, Try out as many Linux distros as you can before installing one and trying to stick with it. When you install Linux, even if you dual boot, you will become like Elvis and leave the building.
@onibakuman_ That's a very good question. I assume that most of the solo adopters are quite capable of creating their own bootable media on the premise that they can install Windows from a downloaded ISO. I'm leaning towards Vanilla OS, because its very easy to install and is hard to break, but if you can make and install your own Windows media then you're probably quite an advanced user. Arch is better if you can handle the command line and so is Alpine (and so is my wife). I can't really say that it's an issue with any distro. The major problem is that that the files system is mapped completely differently from Windows, and no matter what the distro is, a Windows user will use '\' and '/' differently in CMD ('terminal' for the uninitiated) and they will still be looking for drive C: \ It's so hard to single out one distro as 'rock solid' because every distro has it's own niche. When I started on Linux OpenSUSE as my daily driver, I got it on a cover disk of the monthly magazine PC Format, then I discovered that other distros existed and started hopping. Currently I run 3 different distros on my PCs and it's an 'as use-case,' meaning it runs best for me, on that hardware and for the purpose the PC has been designated. My advice is spin up Ventoy on a flash drive and just drop Linux Live ISOs on to it and try them, just explore whats on the ISO without installing. There are even some distros that are designed to run straight off a USB, like Porteus or Tiny Core, which are incredibly lightweight. My other advice is, Try out as many Linux distros as you can before installing one and trying to stick with it. When you install Linux, even if you dual boot, you will become like Elvis and leave the building.
Canonical took commission to make a version of Ubuntu that is native for Mandarin. The Chinese government nor companies own canonical. The Chinese government computers run on this version of Linux.
I was honestly being factious but I hella did double down with that lol. Either way canonical has been dropping the ball over the past few years so I sorta lost my faith in them as a whole.
Yeah tbh it's not even too bad. It's more about compatibility with display servers that gets to me. Hell even if you use your Nvidia cards for AI stuff you still typically will use Linux. Hell Nvidia gives a container runtime to use gpus in a container for this reason as well
man I love AUR once you get past the installation, and remember to -Syu never -Su (except only very shortly after -Syu), and check the arch news now and then, then it Just Works, and I can't leave it because AUR is just too dang good I've had about as many issues on artix (arch but alternative init systems, I don't like systemd) as on debian, lol (except a few times pipewire just broke because the config format was changed, lol, that that was like...once or twice, and it's the only thing I remember ever breaking)
Yeah dude the aur changed my linux life as well. It made things so much easier. Sure you might break things from time to time but the cool thing is you start off from a 0 config and build up from there such that if something does break you know exactly what to do (at least for me it felt easier). I never tried anything outside systemd but hell I might have to give it a shot one of these days. I've too drank the coolaid and it was too delicious. I'm stuck with it too hahaha
Yea i used it for like a good 10 years before switching to arch. A good ol net install and then build from there. its super good. but the main thing i liked about arch was the wiki. it was really nice to have a single juicy source for documentation. pacman + aur also was a big convincing factor. but debian sid is awesome too 100%. somethign else that ive considered is debian as a base + nix as a package manager but i havent tried it before.
@@onibakuman_ liv is a software that can superimpose my model over the vr game I am playing. The model is vrm. It also can take a camera and green screen and superimpose a person or what have you. It is one of the main bits of software I use. Also wireless vr is shaky. So basically I am stuck where I am.
@@onibakuman_ Not failing. Not existing is the issue. My current stack is Steam vr with FBT, liv which gives me the augmented camera. A screen that imposes my character into the games I play. All running through Virtual Desktop. Some of this works. Much better than Windows. Some of it is so finicky that I don't want to try it.
4:07 yes, linux and resolve. crashing. just like the guy complained about adobe crashing in the beginning. the real solution to the guy losing two days of his precious work was actually setting up a new way to back up his files, but instead he installed linux.
I think you're missing the point of his video if you're thinking the only reason he switched is due to the crashing. This is a fresh install and I've legitimately never run it on this machine so I might just be missing some dependencies needed for things to work (I just got new hardware and fully switched from Nvidia to amd. I don't fully understand all the nuances yet). That being said that was a shitty ass time for it to crash hahaha. Also you should be backing up your stuff anyways (which ironically enough is 9/10 gonna be a Linux nas anyhow lol). There are a lot of freedoms you lose when using a proprietary system. For example at end of life you effectively are stuck making a decision much like how win10 to 11 is forcing you to either upgrade or not. Also you're going to have to upgrade your hardware eventually due to planned obselence. Hardware support will eventually dwindle to the point you cannot use the driver's you once had. On Linux this is not the case. I still have my first computer from 2009 fully running and being useful due to Linux. So yeah if windows/mac works for you by all means go for it. But I'm not about to let some company dictate how I use something I bought and am running in my house. This goes for subscriptions like Adobe as well. Enjoy!
Better late than never 💪. I've been trying to preach this stuff for the last 15 years but people always said I'm dumb for liking the penguin 🐧. Now we are witnessing the Renaissance
In most cases it honestly does work. But I had a couple of things I had to do (which aren't a big deal but maybe are for a beginner): 1) I had to update both Manjaro and Arch Linux keyrings in order to update the system 2) podman containers that would work fine in other distros would seemingly fail due to permissions issues (which sorta defeats the purpose of containers). 3) adding new desktop environments and switching sessions just felt way more difficult to get to work right and I couldn't be bothered to figure out why. Now granted the first two probably got hashed out in updates but at the end of the day it unironically just felt easier to use arch. That being said I still use Manjaro on 2 of my machines and for oob experience it is nice to have. I've seen the repos get janked up in the past and it made me hesitant to use it. But hey if its being all nice and juicy for you 100% that's awesome. It's just over the years the conventional "just use Ubuntu" advice is no longer applicable. And for super beginners a small hiccup can mean no more Linux for life. So finding something ironclad is important for me
@@onibakuman_I used Manjaro as my daily driver for about seven years, before switching to Linux Mint at the end of 2024. I love a lot of things about Manjaro, but the near yearly reinstall because of janky updates just became too much for me. Mint feels weird after using Manjaro for so long, but it's stable and doesn't break some random component every time I run updates.
Mutahar grew one hell of a Mustache...
Loooooool. He's got that beard game down
Quit Windows around 7 years ago. Took less than 2 weeks to feel I never needed anything from Windows again.
Ayyyy respect man. Yeah it does feel daunting at first especially with little to no experience but maaan o man it pays off. Good stuff and ggs! The penguin 🐧 is winning!
DAMNNN THAT MOUSTACHE 🔥🔥🔥
Damn tysm hahaha 🙏
@@onibakuman_ your rockin it great 👍:)
Garuda has been my favorite distro for a while now, I can't sing its praises enough tbh. It's all the appeal of arch- rolling release, pacman, AUR and all that, but it's also so out-of-the-box perfect at the same time. It's "meant" for gaming, but honestly in my personal experience anything that works well for games means it also works well for literally everything else too, and that has definitely been my experience here.
I've definitely heard of Garuda but I never really had tried it. But hey if you got the aur, rolling release and pacman like you were saying then hell yeah that's a juicy encompassing package. I might try it over Manjaro then on the other machines I have. Appreciate the recommendation 🙏
Is Mac OS the only reason windows aint seen as a monopoly? (I’m a windows boi but still see how they dominate market)
It's hard to say tbh. Mac only has about 14% while windows has about 73%. So I guess it's a significant number but dayum it's dwarved lol. We Linux folk on desktop are only at about 4%. I suppose we don't have many os' to choose from so I guess we just sort of accept it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Maybe people include mobile os in the discussion?
@@onibakuman_ yeah maybe mobile OS counts
Fire reaction to a fire video. Thanks for sharing, man. Viva La Revolution. #Tech4Us
Thanks boss! Yea man dude's a beast. I'm so glad I was recommended it. 100% viva la revolution 💪
He's the new Max Headroom
He does look like him lol
I clicked and watched for that glorious moustache
Dayum ty hahaha. It's getting gnarly lol
That guy looks like Evan Edinger, but he acts like Jim Carrey.
Yeah I love his style. It's just that juicy combo of both. He's a badass
Yeah, jerky movements like Jim Carrey in The Mask
installed debian 12, hasn't broken yet
Debian legit is the goat. Was my main driver for 10 years. And I love the fact you can still do rolling or fixed release. You will never need another distro for life. Ggs (low key Debian is the most ironclad one).
I tried Linux when I had an elective at the institute 2 years ago. I liked it, everything looks beautiful. Everything I need is working well. My games are working.
I don't see any reason for myself not to use it.
Fedora Gnome
Ayyyy thats tight. I only recently started to try fedora and I've been so impressed. Legitimately I wish I had learned of it in my earlier days. It's awesome to hear all these success stories. Keep on rocking with the penguin 🐧!
deepin linux is technically chinese, "Established in 2011, Wuhan Deepin Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Deepin Technology) is a Chinese commercial company focused on the R&D and services of Linux-based operating system."
as another comment pointed out, ubuntu just has a chinese edition among many other editions, it's not actually owned or contributed to any more than most other distros
Yeah I'm hella eating it for saying the Chinese thing lol. I appreciate it though I need this type of feedback so I don't be spreading lies. Appreciate it mayne 🙏
Nice find, dude.
Ty. The dude is a legend. I love his style
Don't be a hater on Mint man. It's a nice point of entry. 😢
Yeaaah that's fair. I guess if it works for people they should use it. It's got that icky Ubuntu essence though lol. Honestly at the end of the day if it works then it works.
Manjaro is fine if you either exclude the AUR or can edit the PKGBUILD files.
I agree but to like a day 0 newbie small things like that are usually enough contention for them to quit. Im talking from the perspective of someone who has day 0 knowledge whose not going to have that context.
@@onibakuman_ Yes it can be a pain for newbies when the updates break because of the AUR. Most people need a bit of hand-holding with it at first. I would say for anyone new to Linux on any distro though. It's best to have someone, who is already using Linux, to install and set it up then they can be shown around it and explain how the updates and installing work. At lest then they can feel more confident knowing they have someone to call if there's something wrong or something they don't understand.
Yeah totally agree with this. That is the best way to go about it. Sadly us Linux nerds are hard to find lol. We're a rare bunch so inevitably some folks have to roll solo.
So for the solo people they probably need something rock solid.
Actually if you were to recommend one which would you do for an absolute beginner. I might be out of the loop tbh
@@onibakuman_ That's a very good question. I assume that most of the solo adopters are quite capable of creating their own bootable media on the premise that they can install Windows from a downloaded ISO.
I'm leaning towards Vanilla OS, because its very easy to install and is hard to break, but if you can make and install your own Windows media then you're probably quite an advanced user. Arch is better if you can handle the command line and so is Alpine (and so is my wife).
I can't really say that it's an issue with any distro. The major problem is that that the files system is mapped completely differently from Windows, and no matter what the distro is, a Windows user will use '\' and '/' differently in CMD ('terminal' for the uninitiated) and they will still be looking for drive C: \
It's so hard to single out one distro as 'rock solid' because every distro has it's own niche. When I started on Linux OpenSUSE as my daily driver, I got it on a cover disk of the monthly magazine PC Format, then I discovered that other distros existed and started hopping. Currently I run 3 different distros on my PCs and it's an 'as use-case,' meaning it runs best for me, on that hardware and for the purpose the PC has been designated.
My advice is spin up Ventoy on a flash drive and just drop Linux Live ISOs on to it and try them, just explore whats on the ISO without installing. There are even some distros that are designed to run straight off a USB, like Porteus or Tiny Core, which are incredibly lightweight.
My other advice is, Try out as many Linux distros as you can before installing one and trying to stick with it. When you install Linux, even if you dual boot, you will become like Elvis and leave the building.
@onibakuman_ That's a very good question. I assume that most of the solo adopters are quite capable of creating their own bootable media on the premise that they can install Windows from a downloaded ISO.
I'm leaning towards Vanilla OS, because its very easy to install and is hard to break, but if you can make and install your own Windows media then you're probably quite an advanced user. Arch is better if you can handle the command line and so is Alpine (and so is my wife).
I can't really say that it's an issue with any distro. The major problem is that that the files system is mapped completely differently from Windows, and no matter what the distro is, a Windows user will use '\' and '/' differently in CMD ('terminal' for the uninitiated) and they will still be looking for drive C: \
It's so hard to single out one distro as 'rock solid' because every distro has it's own niche. When I started on Linux OpenSUSE as my daily driver, I got it on a cover disk of the monthly magazine PC Format, then I discovered that other distros existed and started hopping. Currently I run 3 different distros on my PCs and it's an 'as use-case,' meaning it runs best for me, on that hardware and for the purpose the PC has been designated.
My advice is spin up Ventoy on a flash drive and just drop Linux Live ISOs on to it and try them, just explore whats on the ISO without installing. There are even some distros that are designed to run straight off a USB, like Porteus or Tiny Core, which are incredibly lightweight.
My other advice is, Try out as many Linux distros as you can before installing one and trying to stick with it. When you install Linux, even if you dual boot, you will become like Elvis and leave the building.
Canonical took commission to make a version of Ubuntu that is native for Mandarin. The Chinese government nor companies own canonical. The Chinese government computers run on this version of Linux.
I was honestly being factious but I hella did double down with that lol. Either way canonical has been dropping the ball over the past few years so I sorta lost my faith in them as a whole.
But I appreciate that info. Ty!
the only problem is the driver performance with Nvidia cards imo. i dont give a chicken about ai stuff right now
Yeah tbh it's not even too bad. It's more about compatibility with display servers that gets to me. Hell even if you use your Nvidia cards for AI stuff you still typically will use Linux. Hell Nvidia gives a container runtime to use gpus in a container for this reason as well
man I love AUR
once you get past the installation, and remember to -Syu never -Su (except only very shortly after -Syu), and check the arch news now and then, then it Just Works, and I can't leave it because AUR is just too dang good
I've had about as many issues on artix (arch but alternative init systems, I don't like systemd) as on debian, lol (except a few times pipewire just broke because the config format was changed, lol, that that was like...once or twice, and it's the only thing I remember ever breaking)
Yeah dude the aur changed my linux life as well. It made things so much easier. Sure you might break things from time to time but the cool thing is you start off from a 0 config and build up from there such that if something does break you know exactly what to do (at least for me it felt easier). I never tried anything outside systemd but hell I might have to give it a shot one of these days. I've too drank the coolaid and it was too delicious. I'm stuck with it too hahaha
I use arch btw
Hell yeah 💪
Debian Sid convince me more than Arch, I feel it too bleedy
Yea i used it for like a good 10 years before switching to arch. A good ol net install and then build from there. its super good. but the main thing i liked about arch was the wiki. it was really nice to have a single juicy source for documentation. pacman + aur also was a big convincing factor. but debian sid is awesome too 100%. somethign else that ive considered is debian as a base + nix as a package manager but i havent tried it before.
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Unfortunately, mixed reality in Linux at this time is garbage so can't move yet.
Like augmented reality stuff? What kinda stuff is failing for you if you don't mind me asking?
@@onibakuman_ liv is a software that can superimpose my model over the vr game I am playing. The model is vrm. It also can take a camera and green screen and superimpose a person or what have you. It is one of the main bits of software I use. Also wireless vr is shaky. So basically I am stuck where I am.
Ahh I feel you. Yeah sometimes we don't have everything on Linux sadly... Whelp one day we can hope 🙏
@@onibakuman_ Not failing. Not existing is the issue. My current stack is Steam vr with FBT, liv which gives me the augmented camera. A screen that imposes my character into the games I play. All running through Virtual Desktop. Some of this works. Much better than Windows. Some of it is so finicky that I don't want to try it.
4:07 yes, linux and resolve. crashing. just like the guy complained about adobe crashing in the beginning.
the real solution to the guy losing two days of his precious work was actually setting up a new way to back up his files, but instead he installed linux.
I think you're missing the point of his video if you're thinking the only reason he switched is due to the crashing.
This is a fresh install and I've legitimately never run it on this machine so I might just be missing some dependencies needed for things to work (I just got new hardware and fully switched from Nvidia to amd. I don't fully understand all the nuances yet). That being said that was a shitty ass time for it to crash hahaha. Also you should be backing up your stuff anyways (which ironically enough is 9/10 gonna be a Linux nas anyhow lol).
There are a lot of freedoms you lose when using a proprietary system. For example at end of life you effectively are stuck making a decision much like how win10 to 11 is forcing you to either upgrade or not. Also you're going to have to upgrade your hardware eventually due to planned obselence. Hardware support will eventually dwindle to the point you cannot use the driver's you once had. On Linux this is not the case. I still have my first computer from 2009 fully running and being useful due to Linux. So yeah if windows/mac works for you by all means go for it. But I'm not about to let some company dictate how I use something I bought and am running in my house. This goes for subscriptions like Adobe as well.
Enjoy!
why are you guys so late to the party?
Better late than never 💪. I've been trying to preach this stuff for the last 15 years but people always said I'm dumb for liking the penguin 🐧. Now we are witnessing the Renaissance
There's a reason some say that The Year of the Linux Desktop isn't any specific year, but it's the year YOU make the switch.
💯
I don't have any problems with Manjaro KDE. It just worked out of the box for me.
In most cases it honestly does work. But I had a couple of things I had to do (which aren't a big deal but maybe are for a beginner):
1) I had to update both Manjaro and Arch Linux keyrings in order to update the system
2) podman containers that would work fine in other distros would seemingly fail due to permissions issues (which sorta defeats the purpose of containers).
3) adding new desktop environments and switching sessions just felt way more difficult to get to work right and I couldn't be bothered to figure out why.
Now granted the first two probably got hashed out in updates but at the end of the day it unironically just felt easier to use arch. That being said I still use Manjaro on 2 of my machines and for oob experience it is nice to have. I've seen the repos get janked up in the past and it made me hesitant to use it.
But hey if its being all nice and juicy for you 100% that's awesome. It's just over the years the conventional "just use Ubuntu" advice is no longer applicable. And for super beginners a small hiccup can mean no more Linux for life. So finding something ironclad is important for me
@@onibakuman_I used Manjaro as my daily driver for about seven years, before switching to Linux Mint at the end of 2024. I love a lot of things about Manjaro, but the near yearly reinstall because of janky updates just became too much for me. Mint feels weird after using Manjaro for so long, but it's stable and doesn't break some random component every time I run updates.