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That comes afterwards.

I personally think it has more advantages than disadvantages.

@LinuxRenaissance I used to think so as well, for close to six years now. My mind changed when I gave Windows 11 an honest try a few days ago. I'm a photographer and I run a RUclips channel, and while I was certainly and quite obviously very able to do that for years, what I realised now was that with Linux made me jump through all sorts of hoops before I could do my work. Furthermore, Linux is still very far from being a refined, mature and good-looking OS. Sure, it can look alright, but underneath the hood there is often a mess of config files and environment variables and compatibility layers and poorly maintained software that can't wait to break on you. I've come to a point in my life now and at an age where I appreciate simplicity, I like getting things done quickly and easily and Linux is just a lot more work. The nerdy part of me already regrets and misses Linux, but all the other parts are happy to have found a way to work faster, easier and more efficiently.

You are absolutely right, but the general perception I think is a bit different. Mint might just be Ubuntu or Debian, but as you said it prepackages latest Cinnamon. But then you have stuff like Devuan which is Debian but with a different init system. It’s very colorful

@@LinuxRenaissance well yes, but I made a simplified roadmap for somewhat technical newcomers. Systemd-hate shouldn't be the first step in my opinion, it's actually really useful for many things.

@ most people use systemd, myself included. What I meant with previous message isn’t hate but freedom to chose between different init systems. Meaning it’s not just different desktop environments.

That’s actually really good for Linux users

Arch brother. Welcome in

I never truly tried to use Linux without the CLI, tbh. I wonder to what degree is that possible.

@@LinuxRenaissance I believe it is possible. If you are just a "normal" PC user. Web browsing, videos, music, document editing... That sort of things.

Well, a lot of hardware just works! (On Linux) But sometimes people stumble upon parts that just don’t. Usually it’s fingerprint readers or something like that.

Cachy. Interesting!

To be honest I am a fan of the Unix philosophy, but Linux might be heading the way more tailored for you. Flathub app store, for example.

“Linux” needs to do as you said while at the same time keeping the flexibility for tinkerers.

Privacy is paramount

I might order one more :)

You and I both love the tinkering. Many interested people don’t, so I tell them to pick an easy distro

I am glad to hear that you have smooth sailing

Similar with my mother. She never heard of Linux but she uses it :)

Thanks! I used that transition the first time in this video, it’s not bad.

Yep, Hyprland is quite cool!

People are recalling Windows, yes.

Of course. The freedom is being free to chose one, other, both..

Thank you for the comment!

Thanks for the comment! Nice distro choices 🫡

Thanks! 🙌🏻

SystemD says hello.

I have “Xbox Wireless” receiver and it requires a little bit of driver setup to get working because if you simply plug it in it behaves like a regular WiFi dongle. So this is perfectly doable on Linux. But in general I just use usb cable with my Xbox controller, it’s much simpler as it “just works”.

I did a small video on Cosmic, recently, but besides checking out the progress I would not recommend it for daily use until the authors claim it’s finished and ready.

I too use LLM’s to help me remember how to do certain things on Linux and it was even more helpful when I started learning BSD as a new user. Thanks for the idea, I will see how to pass it forward to people without making too many of them mad. As for distro derivatives I agree with you very much. I mostly just use the top end ones, but there must be a reason why so many of them exist, right?

@LinuxRenaissance lol Good luck not making Linux users mad by trying to convince them to use, not just Google, but invasive Google propriety software. And sure, there are reasons why specific distros exist, but many are clones with nothing different but a few apps-apps that could otherwise be downloaded on pretty much any other distro.

@ here is a good example: I switched to Arch because I wanted their bleeding edge packages. And a lot of people are recommending me Endeavour OS over Arch and I still don’t understand why would I switch from Arch to EOS…

But the hat covers my bald head… 🤷‍♂️

@@LinuxRenaissance the bald head looks better

@ I will consider it. You can see me without a hat in my video where I talked to Hyprland developer Vaxry a couple of months ago.

The title could use some work, I agree. But I constantly meet a ton of people who keep asking me why should they switch to Linux and most of these questions come from the fact that a lot of people talk about their Linux experience. Linux has been a really strong buzzword this year, most probably thanks to Microsoft.

@@LinuxRenaissance Yup, but as for me like I haven't met any single linux user in my entire life(except those few ubuntu server guys), and this experience might be specific to me as I am just 16.5yr(been using linux almost for 3.5 years), and as i can probably tell by my experience(india specific), that most people don't care much about these things, people prefer convenience like mac/windows and more GUI stuff easy to use stuff over, facing & fixing your problems and knowing things, which is fine upto some extent. But as for me unix based systems suits best my workflow & the freedom to do sudo rm -rf / :)

Theatrics because of the hat or the dragon? I mean the hat is not theatrics, it’s a part of this channel and it’s mostly invisible. Do you think I did a bad job with the content of the video or missed an opportunity to say something important?

@@LinuxRenaissance Neither of the two you mentioned. I sat and watched your video a few times over, but the first thing that struck me as being odd was the sheer Shakespearean monologue, seemingly engaging in a conversation with your own sub conscience, when it's just meant to be a heart-to-heart conversation with a friend, as if debating the subject matter over a glass of wine. That's the theatrics I was referring to. Your acting skills are great, but this is just makes me groan in utter exasperation, muttering to myself like a lunatic 'not another one!'. Microsoft foisting CoPilot and Recall, as the new additions to Windows, to basically have AI looking over your shoulder while you desktop activity is closely monitored and recorded by MS, as an extension of using your personal information as yet another currency, is truly abominable. So this is where their own WSL served as their own undoing, as it has, for better or worse, brought Linux out into the light and closer to the attention of all those Windows users. Those of us who are already in the Linux universe, can only hope that they can also see what we have long before they did. But Linux is nothing like Windows, and its interchangeable modularity, if misunderstood, will definitely lead to choice paralysis, as yet another harbinger of torment and wastage. Rather than just throwing your viewers into the more chaotic nature of what Linux is - which by the way, would be the best sure-fire way of discouraging them altogether, perhaps it may pay better dividends to explain instead, in broad, non-technical strokes, how Linux is different, how it may be a valid alternative to Windows, what is the best use-case-scenario, as well as the kind of knowledge they'd need to get beforehand, the kind of personal research is needed so that they can answer these two questions without sending their heads into Exorcist-like-vomit-spewing spins, to make that transition as successful as possible: whether Linux is for them and why this is something that they answer for themselves. Fortune favors those who are most prepared, and in the Linux world, even managing to avoid catastrophic simple mistakes is a decent measure of success. Linux simply just isn't for everyone. There are a lot Window programs that don't have an exact match in Linux - I'm thinking here of the whole Adobe suite (even though Linux often has alternatives that are just as good or even better than what Windows has), not to mention that there are a lot of licensing and contractual issues that prevent businesses and individuals from just simply being able to move over to Linux. Given how freedom of choice is paramount in Linux, it has also unfortunately made it too chaotic, too fragmented and too confusing. Also, when consumers buy computers, they'd be absolutely terrified if they knew that they also had to first familiarize themselves with how to download an ISO, how to put it on a USB stick or DVD, how to partition drives according their specific usage needs, how to change the booting order in BIOS or UEFI, so on and so on. Yes, most distro GUI installers let you to just select the default to do it all for you by using the whole drive, but what happens six months after when you realize that your /root directory should have been half the size of what it is now while the /home directory should be twice as big...or even just have each on separate partitions, just so that you can back up each separately, or upgrade your distro version without affecting your own stuff? Ever tried to explain to a Windows user what a kernel is? Or the difference between a desktop environment, a desktop manager and a windows manager? Or for that matter, how to avoid being eternally addicted to distro hopping? Exactly. ...and I haven't even mentioned the dreaded CLI. Yeah, good luck trying to sell anyone on all this when Windows just asks you to type in your name, create a new online account, sign away your soul for the next thousand years, and hit restart. From all the YT videos on Linux I've watched so far, I'm yet to see one that I could instantly point to as being the best intro to Linux. The trouble is that, all the Linux experts have either forgotten where they were before they got into it, or were never there in the first place, in the shoes of all those end users who've never heard of Linux, much less seen what it looks like. And so they all invariably end up talking about it in terms that just leave the uninitiated scratching their heads even more than before, hence my suggestion to leave out the theatrics.

@ I have read your answer and I think you deserve a proper reply from me which is going to have to wait for me to finish work. In the meantime I will kindly ask you to check out one of my oldest videos titled a practical guide to windows to linux switch. I would appreciate your opinion on that one.

I believe that you are experiencing a similar sentiment to mine. I used Debian with KDE for a while too! I still use that combo on a work laptop where I don’t want frequent changes.

Distrowatch is a measure of … honestly I have no idea what, but it is certainly not a measure of which distro is most used. But I do agree that Mint is a good one to recommend.

@@LinuxRenaissance- Thank you for your reply. Distrowatch say it's a light-hearted measuring stick - based on the number of clicks a distro gets. It's not an accurate measure of usage - but all the same - the number of those trying Linux Mint is likely to go up From my perspective - I can't think of a better distro to help disillusioned Windows users leave the Microsoft world behind.

I have no objections to your opinion. Welcome in ❤️

@ ❤️❤️

Can’t help myself… It’s just like tingling feeling of pride when some kind of unimportant program suddenly starts to work. Magic! Switch a year ago, and I don’t think Microsoft or Apple is bad. But they hide features and restrict users from maximizing the use of their own computers. Microsoft has also recently started lying about “Recall”, something I don’t support. But Microsoft among other great companies, have resources and also commits code to support Linux further development. To be honest, It seems to me that Linux is more for the average person if they know more about it, and Microsoft should stick to business.

@@NordyLeif nah ik im just being an asshole, you don’t need to justify your love of Linux to me lol. I just hate how certain people have a superiority complex because they use Linux and instead of understanding that everyone is different I generalize. Eversince I started programming and gaining knowledge on how computers work I respect more and more Linux and what it means. I just hate a small minority of Linux users

@@ramonpablito9154 I think the majority of Linux users are very decent. I just don’t like some Arch users. 😆

The good thing is that we still have the choice to use “AI” if we want, but the choice is mine!

@@LinuxRenaissance Agreed.

@@LinuxRenaissance BTW, Distrotube made a shout out to your channel. That was great of him. 🙂

@ a month or two ago, yes, I am grateful 🙏

From the desktop perspective Cinnamon is pretty good! I like it.

Thank you :-) Funny thing how I got this message right after someone else wrote me the hat needs to go 😆

@LinuxRenaissance 😂😂😂😂 sounds like that person is version of a walking windows 11 24h2 update 🔥 🚮👎🏌️💥

I was considering mentioning Lubuntu in my video. I am glad you discovered it for yourself!

Everyone has a tipping (breaking?) point. I think Microsoft went slightly too far this time.

@@LinuxRenaissance agreed

By “all hardware” I wanted to say old and new, as in … it doesn’t have to be a powerful CPU and a lot of RAM. But I really do believe that the Linux community is helpful.

@@LinuxRenaissance By and large, you're probably RIGHT - most are trying to, and want to help. 😁

If you are skilled enough to install Windows on your own then I believe you posses the required knowledge to do the same with easy linux distros such as Ubuntu or Debian with KDE. So, mounting a second drive shouldn’t be beyond just clicking icons. My opinion, at least. As for gaming, this is a large topic on it’s own. For me gaming definitelly is straightforward. But I only use Steam, for the most part.

Linux is not a Windows replacement, never was intended to be, and never will be. Linux is a fundamentally different operating system. Thats why we like it.

Certain distros help you get closer to that goal in turning it into what you want :-)

@@LinuxRenaissance And sometimes you need to tear things down before you can restore them.

Clearly, I agree with you! 😂

True that :-) but above all people don’t realize that friends usually recommend stuff which they have experience with. So if they would listen they would also get good support.

The more the better! something for every kind of user. Distro hopping is a hobby that all technical minded users should enjoy. I bought three $50 laptops from eBay and use them to enjoy Distro hopping on them! My main desktop runs Linux Mint 22 and has a 50' flat screen which we use instead of a TV; wireless keyboard and Logitech Trackball! It's great! LOVING IT!

Tinker, break, fix, make it better, share with others, tinker more, break more... :-)

😂😂😂 yes absolutly

​@@LinuxRenaissance but you have linux within windows... so you can do all that.

I done with tinkering and breaking stuff. Switched to Universal Blue a few weeks ago and now I do the tinkering inside a distrobox.