You know what is funny? I have an Asus Xonar Essence STX card that Windows has never detected (from Windows Vista forward). I have always had to download the drivers for it and install them. Every single Linux Distribution has always found it and it works out of the box.
I have a few Chinese webcams/ video capture cards that won't work in Windows without a driver(which can't be found since it was made by a generic company then abandoned), but these ALWAYS are discovered and work well with the Linux Kernel.
The lack of a "works with GNU/Linux" notation on the packaging of a hardware product does not mean GNU/Linux will not easily work with it, often without a product-specific device driver.
And sometimes the vendor mistakenly will say on their website that it will NOT work with Linux, when it actually will. Have seen this more than a few times with basic computer components like Mice, keyboards, or UBS drives. These will work natively with Linux, but the vendor just doesn't want to offer Linux testing or support.
@@littlepeon the external drive housings that I bought explicitly stated it will not work with "Linux." After inserting the disk drives into one of the housings and plugging the USB cable into the computer, lsblk found those drives instantly.
I prefer working from 0500 to 1200 and having afternoons free for outdoor activities such as kayaking, hiking, cycling, etc. I found having a separate static sitting desk for writing/reading and a standing desk when using my computer to be better than a single sit/stand desk. The extra real estate on the static sitting desk is essential in my mind.
The political hate comments on non political videos are most likely bots. At least that’s what I like to tell myself, because I just can’t comprehend people who’s sole identity is their political affiliation.
11:23 the thing is, that proprietary video editors also have these issues, especially adobe software. All adobe software is notorious for having a lot of issues. I remember when I had to use adobe software for school and it crashed 7 times in one night and I wasted hours as I didn't save my project every second.
YMMV, With work, we use proprietary editors because they just work better with 4k video and larger files. We have just had too many 8+ hour renders fail with kdenlive or Davinci resolve on Linux (which is funny because there is no problem with the same video on Windows with Davinci)
The only reason I have windows on my laptop currently is because of song Vegas in my opinion it is just a beautiful video editor that never really crashes I'm just gonna wait till a Linux video editor gets not on par but just use able for big projects.
It took 2 days of troubleshooting plus a call to HP customer support to get my HP 5258 OfficeJet WiFi AiO printer/scanner to work on Windows 10. On the other hand, setup on Garuda Linux took about 30 minutes, and 20 of those minutes was me trying to learn the CUPS browser interface!
i installed garuda linux and used the built in automatic tool and got my printer working in less than 2 min. linux in general, especially garuda has impressed me more and more the more i use it
EDIT: About open source video editors; How's Blender's video editing functionality nowadays? ==== There do exist peripherals that only work on MacOS, so yeah, Windows users should also double-check the box before buying things like iPhone docks with advertisers automatic syncing with iTunes for example. Chances are those won't work on Windows.
Hot Tip for new Plasma users. DO NOT have more than 1 application launcher button on your panels (the equivalent to the Start button prettymuch) It is the buggiest mess that will start your application search in another start button for no reason after rebooting. If you want icon management similar to windows on the bottom on multiple monitors, the widget name is Icons-Only Task Manager. As far as "primary screens" goes. I still have yet to figure it out. But wherever you place the default panel is typically where stuff tries to go, but some programs just ignore it and search for "screen 1" and KDE doesn't seem to let you set it. Even tried different ordering and it just ignored me.
I just got an old Dell 5580 laptop and i was shocked that everything worked perfectly when i installed Fedora on it. Fedora even auto updated the bios for me which i have never seen windows do. I wonder if i just got lucky or perhaps Dell builds their laptops to support both windows and linux.
Hey DT! I discovered your channel few mouths ago, thanks for the work. I'd like to ask you and the community if anyone knows about other combo, file manager and terminal, like dolphin and konsole, who follow each other to explore the tree folder. I'd like to try other options and compare. Thanks again
Most Canon printers are supported now. There are just a few exceptions with the multi-function machines sometimes. My biggest gripe is that in Windows, it tells me when my ink levels and paper levels are low and I've never found a driver to do this with Linux! Also when a few of my wifi connected printers go into sleep mode, they drop connectivity with Linux and don't wake up connected where they do in Windows (never drop off the network during sleep apparently)
@@littlepeon can't you just check the paper lvl yourself?? for ink well, tough luck, also check it yourself ya lazy bastard/j, if you don't wanna do that, write a driver yourself, how hard can it be??
@@maskedredstonerproz Computers are meant to make life easier- the exact definition of "lazy". And while yes it seems to be quite easy for Windows developers to do this, as it's practically a standard feature with the dozen or so Canon printers I've used, seems elusive on the Linux platform. More upset over the network issue. Linux normally does great with network issues. Most times when the printer goes to sleep on wifi, have to restart whole network stack for it to be "found" again- disappointing.
Hey DT, could you make a video on selecting good PC parts that are best fits for a Linux desktop workstation? Nobody at Linux community makes good hardware compatibility videos.
I don't know your budget, but here are some recommendations: - AMD Ryzen. This is the only way for workstations. - AMD GPU (Any). Nvidia = bad - Pretty much any good SSD, but only Samsung and Kingston. - For the motherboard, go with Gigabyte or Asus. Insane.
Yes, but sometimes printer manufacturers skimp on hardware parts to save money. This created a long line of cheap printers that were known as Win-Printers as they made up for the lack of hardware control in the software drivers(something that the Linux Kernel couldn't reverse- engineer). Lexmark, and a few other inkjets were known to not work with Linux because they were so cheaply made.
@@littlepeon I see. Is Lexmark still around? I have a vague recollection they were so cheap that you could save money by buying a new printer instead of replacing the ink cartridge
You raised some key points about Linux whether or not they were intentional. If people out there are serious about becoming acquainted with Linux, they really need to embrace reading in order to harvest the best experience. Whether it is reading the box of your hardware or reading the blogs, tutorials, and support content for the software. Windows and Mac are about convenience. Linux is about freedom. People are wise to make a careful decision about what their goals are in these principles or they are going to be shelling out money very unhappily.
Gnome already pull app menu with a super key, pop os modified one is even smaller one, like search bar that pop up on pressing super key. You only need one of many extensions to disable/hide dock. And extension to show opened app icons on the top bar.
Well, if it's on the box, it will be supported. It might not be mentioned on the box, because the company that build the device might not have made official drivers for it. But it's not uncommon for enthusiasts to hack together a driver that actually works. But the company that made the device isn't going to take responsibility in that case, and so you shouldn't expect support from them (you might even void your warranty) . So if possible, certainly use a device that says it's supported on Linux :-)
idk what you mean by "QubesOS needs a beefy machine", you are normally doing OS reviews on a VM with a couple cores, probably not doing heavy workloads on them. Qubes can run on pretty old hardware, a spare laptop should be able to do it tbh.
@@littlepeon possibly, I had upgraded my old laptop to 16 gigs long before even jumping the windows ship. that being said 8gb+ of ram certainly isn't a "beefy machine"
@@maskedredstonerproz again, does RAM indicate a beefy system? in that case my laptop with an i5-3210m and 16 gigs of (not that great timing) ddr3 ram, must be a powerhouse that makes everyone in this comment section tremble in fear. also this dinosaur ivy bridge box does run Qubes just fine, powerhouse laptop or no?
For the person that was looking for a distro with app running in the top bar, you can also use Linux Mint and change the position of task bar to the top of the screen. It is a lot simpler place to start than KDE both from a desktop environment and from a distro level if they are new to linux
i think u can make the bar be on top, side, or bottom with any desktop environment. i know you can do it on cinnamon, kde plasma, and xfce because ive done it on those.
@@bigmikeobama5314 just downloaded mate yesterday and I can also confirm you can move the bar to any position and monitor you would like, you can also change size and create more bars/panels
As a Windows and Linux user, the only things I've found that are not natively supported by Linux either through proprietary or open source drivers are my Asus motherboard fan control speeds and Miracast type wireless display features on laptops, which is part of the wi-fi chips. Well that and my old AverMedia HD capture card, though ironically my AverMedia HD 2 capture card doesn't work in Windows 7 at all (even though it's supposed to) but it does work in Linux (Manjaro) without any extra drivers to have to install.
I have an odd RGB daughterboard that for some weird reason will not work with Linux. I have no idea why, but that's the only piece of hardware I've ever had an issue with that wasn't fixed within 20 minutes of googling.
Good for you. I sadly have hardware issues with Linux, because I love VR gaming and have an old Oculus rift cv1, guess what Facebook never bothered to release drivers for Linux and openhmd is kinda crap, you can't use your controllers, so I'm stuck with dual booting. The rest of my hardware runs without any issue tho and I actually have more problems on windows with hardware than on Linux
@@marsimplodation oh vrhead sets... i admit i am too old school to use one. but i think there are drivers as I recall (i may be wrong) some games working on linux using Oculus head sets. Sorry... Peace be on you .
Some people own Unicorn machines that never have problems. Most do not. I have a few laptops with fingerprint readers and Linux drivers for those are pretty much non-existent (very Alpha software). Most of my machines are older, so there is no problem with Kernel/drivers, however I did work with some newer AMD CPU/MB/GPUs combos over this last summer that required the LATEST Kernel updates to work decent.
8:43 I only run into this issue in preview, but the actual render doesn't do it. I actually just used your Kdenlive tutorial to create my first pair of edited videos this month.
Preach it, brother! But you can't leave me hangin on what video editor you are trying out . . . . I'm a Kdenlive user who works with the bugs, and it's ok most of the time. Well, I guess I'll just have to wait for the video-reveal for the "next-big-thing" ;-)
@Hunter zone I've dual booted machines for the last 15+ years, and while yes there can be problems (especially after a MS update, as it sometimes tries to re-write Grub/bootloader) I've only had problems a few times.(less than 5 times in 15 years)
@Hunter zone some distros already support secure boot out of the box. debian is one of them. you can also set up secure boot support for Arch, probably for other distros too.
15:38 is there a Linux desktop environment or app which mimics the Windows 10 Start panel (displayed when you click the Windows key) and stores icons to commonly used apps and even collections of icons which expand to display multiple apps when clicked?
KDE is almost always the answer to making things look the way you want them to on Linux. I'd recommend searching RUclips on how to make KDE look like Windows.
everytime i watch you or learnlinuxTV you two have the Tara statue on the background and i get ads for inner peace/spiritual seminars and books...kinda creepy they scan the video now
damn that thing about not arguing with ppl, i did the same by deleting my facebook and not entering the twitter game in the first place. i feel so much more enlightened lol
@@littlepeon yeah I agree, bit the potential e definitely there, let's hope that it keeps being developed. Maybe as it gets more usage and support it'll get a bigger dev team as well.
12:14 I hate secrecy laden announcements... But I do hope it's gonna be CLI or a programmatically controllable video-editing such as Melt, moviepy, editly or Blender via its integrated NLE.
Hey DT, I am kde plasma user and it'd been few months since I am using fedora kde plasma. I want to have kde's media frame widget on any other desktop just for the sake of change , is there anyway we can have that widget (media frame) on any other distro or desktop environment?
Hey dt I have a problem I was trying to setup arch Linux but at end of the setup when I tried to start the desktop it said “Xsever is a beta version “ do you know how to fix this problem.
One of my reasons to not switch to linux, atleast on one of my machines, is that my microphone (Maono PM461) doesn't work at all, sometimes it isn't detected and sometimes it appears as connecting and getting disconnected intermittently. If someone had this problem and could fix it, I would love to read it.
Hey DT I'm using Kate for c coding. You're well good with doom emacs. Can you give a video on how to go about setting up doom emacs for c. I have seen different videos about cmake-ide and a newer option. Could you make a video for us to give real working doom emacs as a c ide or python too. Thanks
@make None cool. I have used atom and hated is absolute slowness. And love kates speed. But i would like to try emacs. But I would atleast like a good setup for it before I try to learn how to use it. Learning how to use software while also having no idea if it's configured right is a bridge too far.
@make None I'm using an old hp chromebook 14 until Christmas at least. And I don't know if its that fault I think it works the same on my sons 8250u. It's like if I sat at the keyboard and typed but some one else received my texted in another place and then they typed it back to me to appear on my screen. It feels disconnected I have never felt this in a program before. Atom is just slow and strange. Like GTA 4 when driving drunk in the car. I haven't used vim or emacs when I need terminal text editor o have been using nano. But I thought it would be nice to try it out. I assume doom emacs is using similar key bindings to vim. But wouldn't know how to set either one as a c and python ide.
Thank you Distrotube, could you please make a video about Pipewire, whether or not to swap out Pulse audio for it or about whether to upgrade to kernel 5.10. Thankyou
KDE is a bit more trendy and I guess you could say ambitious, but after having used it for a few years, I find Xfce more straightforward to setup to my liking and reliable. For people getting their feet wet who aren't necessarily looking to be power tweakers right away, I'd say go for Xfce over KDE, or you know, like Cinnamon with Mint or something. Gnome though... yeah, not for me. Let's leave that to the Ubuntu fanboys to have fun with.
what's the audio set up you're using? every one i know is saying that maiking audio on linux is ingthmare and i want to do it and i don't want to use any proprietary divers for the audio interface and stuff.
As a vegan and linux user i find the similarities between the two lifestyles very funny. I agree with what you said, here in the internet people will try to argue with other people for any reason, they will even take them out of context to do so. Better for one's own health to avoid arguing with others
I find Linux support to be fine on my PC, even my Radeon GPU works wonders without downloading a 500 MB driver installation file. But my WiFi card, is, for the sake of the supreme being, a Broadcom card. A pain to set up, and even installing the proprietary drivers makes it nominally work but it can't detect other networks. Maybe something in the configs is wrong.
Don't forget, that a crap load of hardware that doesn't have Linux support from it's maker, may still work in Linux if it follows standards, and many devices have a driver because some Linux developer reverse engineered it and made one. Always do a search with the brand and model of your device: "Use YOUR DEVICE on Linux", and you may just find a driver or way to get it to work, and many of those devices will be recognized by your distro. I know that on Debian based distro's I had to download and install a special driver for my EMU 0404 Professional sound card (An old but still great one), but on my Arch based distro EndeavourOS, it's recognized and the driver installed automatically. (
Yeah, my soundblaster Zxr is supposadely just a windows only card, but someone reverse engineered it and it's now supported in every kernel past 4.15 iirc.
On the politics, I've been very intrigued about this with you. You will literally speak positively and negatively about "both sides". Which is funny to me. I'm not one to make assumptions about people but I will this time and wager that you and I would see eye to eye on a lot and vehemently disagree on just as much. It's a good thing. We shouldn't agree on everything or even almost anything. We should each form our own opinions based on the information presented and after having an honest conversation with "the other". I see liberals, libertarians, conservatives, progressives and everything in between using Linux. That alone means that we have something in common.
Given the amount of keyboard warriors the right has i'm sure some of them have taken the time out of their busy schedule arguing with people online to learn linux. But I would say the left probably has more linux users as most the tech savvy fields are in pretty left leaning area's. What I would be most interested in is seeing a libertarians perspective of free and open source software. Do they see it like taking a dump on the free market? Or a viable alternative, a instance of voting with your dollars per say.
@@TheChemisch I introduce you to one. It's funny how people assume that FOSS/FLOSS is primarily a left thing. I've rarely met a left leaning individual, well not left by today's terms. I would agree if we are talking about the traditional dynamics rather than today's. As far as today's norms, I'd say that the average lefty is on Mac and Windows. It really is about freedom and control.
Probably because he knows how to use Gimp better so it works better with HIS workflow. It's not a comparison of the two products, but what he knows how to use and make work.
Get a treadmill desk then you can walk for 8 hours a day at your computer. Or you could get extreme and get you a bicycle generator and as long as you pedal your computer works and when you stop pedaling your computer shuts down, ok we'll be a little nice and put a 30 minuet UPS in-between the generator and the computer and this will also act as the inverter.
What I get from that part concerning that veganism is that if someone spends way too much time on the internet arguing about politics or whatever they start to get these trigger words that they only have to hear the word being said and they start acting like a robot immidiately. Like this person heard the word 'veganism' in a context that with a little bit of (intentional) misunderstanding could be seen as negative so they just lost their mind and turned into an internet bot. And in this comment section you see their counterbots, people trolling against veganism with quotes like "dat vegan needs a steak". So they fot triggered about a vegan apparently acting like a typical triggered vegan although his behavior wasn't even that bad or provocative: He was merely asking a question. But good for you for actively trying to stay as far as possible of these internet arguments I try to do the same but have the history of doing it and I fear it has permanately melted a part of my brain.
Bruh just always when he makes such title for like I'm greeting him, for me it's like he greeting me in short by my full name.. so weird for me sometimes to see such notification. Danil Tiuhtiaev btw, or in short "I'm sorry who?.." xd
You're so right. It's so funny that I got hooked on this vid because of the veganism title, only to be positively surprised by you being absolutely rational. Hah. That's why I support you.Thanks for helping us understand this whole beautiful, fun Linux thing!
I get why gnome is limiting, but I personally think it's really good at what it does. In my time with gnome I developed a pretty efficient workflow. Now i'm an i3 user, but I still have gnome for my touchscreen laptop because I can't get i3 to behave well with touchscreens, and yeah, I just love the way gnome feels
and also in both cases (if you collapse veganism and vegetarianism into one spectrum), it's up to every vegan/vegetarian and every F/OSS enthusiast to choose whether and how they want to advocate, whether they should ever make exceptions in order to get along more smoothly with others, how strict their own adherence is, etc. There are harsh approaches and soft approaches, and different ones may be called for in different situations. You might get really worked up when you educate people about the practices of companies that do pharmaceutical testing on animals, but that doesn't mean you try to scream equally fiercely at grandma every year at the Thanksgiving table about the turkey she's eating. You might rant about the harms of spyware or the absurd DRM on John Deere tractors or the monopolistic practices of Microsoft or Apple, but that doesn't mean you tell your classmate he's a sucker rewarding bad behavior for buying Microsoft Office.
19:13 People always read between the lines and imagine you say something. It's even worse on twitter, because the character limit makes nuanced argument difficult. You could literally say 'the sky is blue' and someone is going to take offense to it.
Not even going to complete watching the video before watching (I will continue watching after commenting), but woow what was that condescending answer to the first question? "Yes there is, you're wrong, check harder lazyboy" is what your answer boils down to. Are you hearing yourself? Did he say specifically printers? Maybe it's not an issue for printers, but there are other peripherals and external devices he requires that DON'T show that info, and he'll have to check compatibility through searching online for people who tried to use it before or whatever. For example, Elgato's mics aren't technically supported on linux but can still work as standard USB mics on linux
Lastly can you run a GoFundMe or setup a fund for a beefy PC. I'd like to donate to that so there is a Linux RUclipsr that's prominent that can film anything.
i am curious, given the level of your devotion to "free, open source software" if you have ever [or do currently] make donations to the people who take the time to make the software you do use. i like free software, but i do use a lot of proprietary software [especially for work], but do, on occasion give/donate money to software developers i like, since i feel it is only fair.
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You know what is funny? I have an Asus Xonar Essence STX card that Windows has never detected (from Windows Vista forward). I have always had to download the drivers for it and install them. Every single Linux Distribution has always found it and it works out of the box.
When the company takes less care for their product than linux kernel developers. 😜
It was always that case for me too
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I had the same one and could not get it to run either! Just gave up and took it out of my system.
Time to search through my old stuff.
Sane lol
I have a few Chinese webcams/ video capture cards that won't work in Windows without a driver(which can't be found since it was made by a generic company then abandoned), but these ALWAYS are discovered and work well with the Linux Kernel.
The lack of a "works with GNU/Linux" notation on the packaging of a hardware product does not mean GNU/Linux will not easily work with it, often without a product-specific device driver.
it works, just needs to be tweaked. nd that's the beauty of it
And sometimes the vendor mistakenly will say on their website that it will NOT work with Linux, when it actually will. Have seen this more than a few times with basic computer components like Mice, keyboards, or UBS drives. These will work natively with Linux, but the vendor just doesn't want to offer Linux testing or support.
@@foreverghoul1575quite often no tweaking is necessary. This is no longer the era of the WinMODEM of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
@@littlepeon the external drive housings that I bought explicitly stated it will not work with "Linux." After inserting the disk drives into one of the housings and plugging the USB cable into the computer, lsblk found those drives instantly.
I prefer working from 0500 to 1200 and having afternoons free for outdoor activities such as kayaking, hiking, cycling, etc. I found having a separate static sitting desk for writing/reading and a standing desk when using my computer to be better than a single sit/stand desk. The extra real estate on the static sitting desk is essential in my mind.
It's rare to see someone actually use military time.
I use it all the time in development / system admin. I generally use UTC / GMT 24 hour format. Generally YYYY-MM-DDTHH:mm:ss
Same, it makes it easier to read across projects.
The political hate comments on non political videos are most likely bots. At least that’s what I like to tell myself, because I just can’t comprehend people who’s sole identity is their political affiliation.
That's a wonderful thought. I wish it were true.
11:23 the thing is, that proprietary video editors also have these issues, especially adobe software. All adobe software is notorious for having a lot of issues. I remember when I had to use adobe software for school and it crashed 7 times in one night and I wasted hours as I didn't save my project every second.
YMMV, With work, we use proprietary editors because they just work better with 4k video and larger files. We have just had too many 8+ hour renders fail with kdenlive or Davinci resolve on Linux (which is funny because there is no problem with the same video on Windows with Davinci)
The only reason I have windows on my laptop currently is because of song Vegas in my opinion it is just a beautiful video editor that never really crashes I'm just gonna wait till a Linux video editor gets not on par but just use able for big projects.
It took 2 days of troubleshooting plus a call to HP customer support to get my HP 5258 OfficeJet WiFi AiO printer/scanner to work on Windows 10. On the other hand, setup on Garuda Linux took about 30 minutes, and 20 of those minutes was me trying to learn the CUPS browser interface!
i installed garuda linux and used the built in automatic tool and got my printer working in less than 2 min. linux in general, especially garuda has impressed me more and more the more i use it
EDIT: About open source video editors; How's Blender's video editing functionality nowadays?
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There do exist peripherals that only work on MacOS, so yeah, Windows users should also double-check the box before buying things like iPhone docks with advertisers automatic syncing with iTunes for example. Chances are those won't work on Windows.
Hey DT. You are an awesome human being. The world would be at a loss without you.
Hot Tip for new Plasma users.
DO NOT have more than 1 application launcher button on your panels (the equivalent to the Start button prettymuch)
It is the buggiest mess that will start your application search in another start button for no reason after rebooting.
If you want icon management similar to windows on the bottom on multiple monitors, the widget name is Icons-Only Task Manager.
As far as "primary screens" goes. I still have yet to figure it out. But wherever you place the default panel is typically where stuff tries to go, but some programs just ignore it and search for "screen 1" and KDE doesn't seem to let you set it. Even tried different ordering and it just ignored me.
I just got an old Dell 5580 laptop and i was shocked that everything worked perfectly when i installed Fedora on it. Fedora even auto updated the bios for me which i have never seen windows do. I wonder if i just got lucky or perhaps Dell builds their laptops to support both windows and linux.
i have the 5520 15r, inspron laptops are soo good bro]
Hey DT! I discovered your channel few mouths ago, thanks for the work. I'd like to ask you and the community if anyone knows about other combo, file manager and terminal, like dolphin and konsole, who follow each other to explore the tree folder. I'd like to try other options and compare. Thanks again
Just to note, I never checked if my printer was supported in Linux or not... It just did... It's a pretty common Canon printer though so...
Most Canon printers are supported now. There are just a few exceptions with the multi-function machines sometimes. My biggest gripe is that in Windows, it tells me when my ink levels and paper levels are low and I've never found a driver to do this with Linux! Also when a few of my wifi connected printers go into sleep mode, they drop connectivity with Linux and don't wake up connected where they do in Windows (never drop off the network during sleep apparently)
@@littlepeon can't you just check the paper lvl yourself?? for ink well, tough luck, also check it yourself ya lazy bastard/j, if you don't wanna do that, write a driver yourself, how hard can it be??
@@maskedredstonerproz Computers are meant to make life easier- the exact definition of "lazy". And while yes it seems to be quite easy for Windows developers to do this, as it's practically a standard feature with the dozen or so Canon printers I've used, seems elusive on the Linux platform. More upset over the network issue. Linux normally does great with network issues. Most times when the printer goes to sleep on wifi, have to restart whole network stack for it to be "found" again- disappointing.
Qubes OS does actually run inside KVM as long as your cpu supports nested virtualization.
Btw I use Vegan Linux.
Brocco Linux
It's Soy Linux for me with the SALAD Desktop Environment.
Arch aha
My bet for the video editor you will be talking about : Olive ? 🤔
Hey DT, could you make a video on selecting good PC parts that are best fits for a Linux desktop workstation? Nobody at Linux community makes good hardware compatibility videos.
I don't know your budget, but here are some recommendations:
- AMD Ryzen. This is the only way for workstations.
- AMD GPU (Any). Nvidia = bad
- Pretty much any good SSD, but only Samsung and Kingston.
- For the motherboard, go with Gigabyte or Asus. Insane.
@ExtraTNT idk what supermicro is, i live in Europe.
@@o.aggelos A massive company that makes server motherboards.
linux mint forum has a section on hardware.
@@trope584 he won't probably install mint
Regarding printer support, if the printer supports CUPS won't it always be supported, at least partially, in Linux?
Yes, but sometimes printer manufacturers skimp on hardware parts to save money. This created a long line of cheap printers that were known as Win-Printers as they made up for the lack of hardware control in the software drivers(something that the Linux Kernel couldn't reverse- engineer). Lexmark, and a few other inkjets were known to not work with Linux because they were so cheaply made.
@@littlepeon I see. Is Lexmark still around? I have a vague recollection they were so cheap that you could save money by buying a new printer instead of replacing the ink cartridge
Vegan question was hilarious.
Re your last point about people wanting to argue: People should check out the Monty Python Argument sketch. Brilliant!
You raised some key points about Linux whether or not they were intentional. If people out there are serious about becoming acquainted with Linux, they really need to embrace reading in order to harvest the best experience. Whether it is reading the box of your hardware or reading the blogs, tutorials, and support content for the software. Windows and Mac are about convenience. Linux is about freedom. People are wise to make a careful decision about what their goals are in these principles or they are going to be shelling out money very unhappily.
love the chill attitude DT! You're like ASMR for FOSS.
Truee lol, that's the reason I watch any DT video even pretty outdated ones
14:52 to 15:37. While you covered plumming and cars, anything else (ex / like electrical ) getting professional for?
Gnome already pull app menu with a super key, pop os modified one is even smaller one, like search bar that pop up on pressing super key. You only need one of many extensions to disable/hide dock. And extension to show opened app icons on the top bar.
Well, if it's on the box, it will be supported. It might not be mentioned on the box, because the company that build the device might not have made official drivers for it.
But it's not uncommon for enthusiasts to hack together a driver that actually works. But the company that made the device isn't going to take responsibility in that case, and so you shouldn't expect support from them (you might even void your warranty) . So if possible, certainly use a device that says it's supported on Linux :-)
idk what you mean by "QubesOS needs a beefy machine", you are normally doing OS reviews on a VM with a couple cores, probably not doing heavy workloads on them. Qubes can run on pretty old hardware, a spare laptop should be able to do it tbh.
Since it's running stuff in a VM, it needs that ability and probably 8+GB RAM. I've tried to run it on a 4GB RAM machine and it was a pain.
@@littlepeon possibly, I had upgraded my old laptop to 16 gigs long before even jumping the windows ship. that being said 8gb+ of ram certainly isn't a "beefy machine"
@@SaxaphoneMan42 8+ more like 16+, I have 8 gigs and VMs run like crap on my PC, unless I'm running a linux distro in the vm that is
@@maskedredstonerproz again, does RAM indicate a beefy system? in that case my laptop with an i5-3210m and 16 gigs of (not that great timing) ddr3 ram, must be a powerhouse that makes everyone in this comment section tremble in fear. also this dinosaur ivy bridge box does run Qubes just fine, powerhouse laptop or no?
For the person that was looking for a distro with app running in the top bar, you can also use Linux Mint and change the position of task bar to the top of the screen. It is a lot simpler place to start than KDE both from a desktop environment and from a distro level if they are new to linux
i think u can make the bar be on top, side, or bottom with any desktop environment. i know you can do it on cinnamon, kde plasma, and xfce because ive done it on those.
@@bigmikeobama5314 just downloaded mate yesterday and I can also confirm you can move the bar to any position and monitor you would like, you can also change size and create more bars/panels
Funny because I made my Cinnamon look like Ubuntu's Unity. I don't think Ubuntu will have that layout on the new gnome
As a Windows and Linux user, the only things I've found that are not natively supported by Linux either through proprietary or open source drivers are my Asus motherboard fan control speeds and Miracast type wireless display features on laptops, which is part of the wi-fi chips. Well that and my old AverMedia HD capture card, though ironically my AverMedia HD 2 capture card doesn't work in Windows 7 at all (even though it's supposed to) but it does work in Linux (Manjaro) without any extra drivers to have to install.
Hey DT! Would there be a Tails/BlackArch Combination Distribution in the future???
Hey DT, is there a chance we'll see a review of Olive video editor on this channel? It's come a long way since the first version.
i have never had a hardware that doesnt work on Linux.
I have an odd RGB daughterboard that for some weird reason will not work with Linux.
I have no idea why, but that's the only piece of hardware I've ever had an issue with that wasn't fixed within 20 minutes of googling.
Good for you. I sadly have hardware issues with Linux, because I love VR gaming and have an old Oculus rift cv1, guess what Facebook never bothered to release drivers for Linux and openhmd is kinda crap, you can't use your controllers, so I'm stuck with dual booting. The rest of my hardware runs without any issue tho and I actually have more problems on windows with hardware than on Linux
@@marsimplodation oh vrhead sets... i admit i am too old school to use one. but i think there are drivers as I recall (i may be wrong) some games working on linux using Oculus head sets. Sorry... Peace be on you .
Some people own Unicorn machines that never have problems. Most do not. I have a few laptops with fingerprint readers and Linux drivers for those are pretty much non-existent (very Alpha software). Most of my machines are older, so there is no problem with Kernel/drivers, however I did work with some newer AMD CPU/MB/GPUs combos over this last summer that required the LATEST Kernel updates to work decent.
8:43 I only run into this issue in preview, but the actual render doesn't do it. I actually just used your Kdenlive tutorial to create my first pair of edited videos this month.
Preach it, brother! But you can't leave me hangin on what video editor you are trying out . . . . I'm a Kdenlive user who works with the bugs, and it's ok most of the time.
Well, I guess I'll just have to wait for the video-reveal for the "next-big-thing" ;-)
Hey, @DT. Some might say we don't have to make things up, but that we get to make things up. Peace.
I love Linux and am not leaving Windows. It's not easy.
No reason you have to choose one or the other...with a big enough hard drive, they can both exist on the same machine!
@Hunter zone I've dual booted machines for the last 15+ years, and while yes there can be problems (especially after a MS update, as it sometimes tries to re-write Grub/bootloader) I've only had problems a few times.(less than 5 times in 15 years)
@@littlepeon Yeah. I like dual boot, multi boot and it's a hobby thing now.
@Hunter zone some distros already support secure boot out of the box. debian is one of them. you can also set up secure boot support for Arch, probably for other distros too.
15:38 is there a Linux desktop environment or app which mimics the Windows 10 Start panel (displayed when you click the Windows key) and stores icons to commonly used apps and even collections of icons which expand to display multiple apps when clicked?
KDE is almost always the answer to making things look the way you want them to on Linux.
I'd recommend searching RUclips on how to make KDE look like Windows.
@@hrishikeshlearning3273 Thanks!!!!
everytime i watch you or learnlinuxTV you two have the Tara statue on the background and i get ads for inner peace/spiritual seminars and books...kinda creepy they scan the video now
damn that thing about not arguing with ppl, i did the same by deleting my facebook and not entering the twitter game in the first place.
i feel so much more enlightened lol
It's a bit early but I support and have had great results with Olive video editor.
Same here but is definitely sub-Beta software. It can and will crash alot. I've had lots of success with it, but also big failures.
@@littlepeon yeah I agree, bit the potential e definitely there, let's hope that it keeps being developed.
Maybe as it gets more usage and support it'll get a bigger dev team as well.
12:14 I hate secrecy laden announcements... But I do hope it's gonna be CLI or a programmatically controllable video-editing such as Melt, moviepy, editly or Blender via its integrated NLE.
Hey DT, I am kde plasma user and it'd been few months since I am using fedora kde plasma. I want to have kde's media frame widget on any other desktop just for the sake of change , is there anyway we can have that widget (media frame) on any other distro or desktop environment?
Love the T-Shirt! For me, it wasn't a choice :P
15:11 woah, DT fixes his mental health with free and open source tools such as meditation or walking in the jungle
Hey dt I have a problem I was trying to setup arch Linux but at end of the setup when I tried to start the desktop it said “Xsever is a beta version “ do you know how to fix this problem.
Hey DT! Can you make a video on customising IceWM
One of my reasons to not switch to linux, atleast on one of my machines, is that my microphone (Maono PM461) doesn't work at all, sometimes it isn't detected and sometimes it appears as connecting and getting disconnected intermittently.
If someone had this problem and could fix it, I would love to read it.
Hey DT I'm using Kate for c coding. You're well good with doom emacs. Can you give a video on how to go about setting up doom emacs for c. I have seen different videos about cmake-ide and a newer option. Could you make a video for us to give real working doom emacs as a c ide or python too. Thanks
@make None cool. I have used atom and hated is absolute slowness. And love kates speed. But i would like to try emacs. But I would atleast like a good setup for it before I try to learn how to use it. Learning how to use software while also having no idea if it's configured right is a bridge too far.
@make None I'm using an old hp chromebook 14 until Christmas at least. And I don't know if its that fault I think it works the same on my sons 8250u. It's like if I sat at the keyboard and typed but some one else received my texted in another place and then they typed it back to me to appear on my screen. It feels disconnected I have never felt this in a program before. Atom is just slow and strange. Like GTA 4 when driving drunk in the car. I haven't used vim or emacs when I need terminal text editor o have been using nano. But I thought it would be nice to try it out. I assume doom emacs is using similar key bindings to vim. But wouldn't know how to set either one as a c and python ide.
Thank you Distrotube, could you please make a video about Pipewire, whether or not to swap out Pulse audio for it or about whether to upgrade to kernel 5.10. Thankyou
Blender has a video editor. But I don't have good experience with it lol.
Hey DT,
What's your thoughts about metaverse ??
Nice shirt!
KDE is a bit more trendy and I guess you could say ambitious, but after having used it for a few years, I find Xfce more straightforward to setup to my liking and reliable. For people getting their feet wet who aren't necessarily looking to be power tweakers right away, I'd say go for Xfce over KDE, or you know, like Cinnamon with Mint or something. Gnome though... yeah, not for me. Let's leave that to the Ubuntu fanboys to have fun with.
what's the audio set up you're using? every one i know is saying that maiking audio on linux is ingthmare and i want to do it and i don't want to use any proprietary divers for the audio interface and stuff.
What is with the shiner?
As a vegan and linux user i find the similarities between the two lifestyles very funny. I agree with what you said, here in the internet people will try to argue with other people for any reason, they will even take them out of context to do so. Better for one's own health to avoid arguing with others
Being vegan and use arch is the ultimate superiority complex. I'm vegan and I use arch btw.
I might be wrong, but can't you record with a capture card? 3:50
talk about Log4j problem,,,,open souce is bad???
Best shortcut for kde ALT+SPACE
The only difference between vegetarians and vegans is the political overemphasis.
Enjoying Linux & Bacon at the same time, coexist 😁
olive editor is the best and getting better all the time... imho
Working on a farm during the day forces people to have good posture. I recommend it to anyone not imprisoned by city life.
What's your problem with veganism? 😉
Hey, DT!
If there was a problem
Yo, he’ll solve it
Check out the hook while our DT revolves it
17:00 Raspbian.
Raspberry Pi OS, has the Windows Bottom Bar on the TOP!
Wondering if it's the Olive video editor you are going to do a video about?
I find Linux support to be fine on my PC, even my Radeon GPU works wonders without downloading a 500 MB driver installation file.
But my WiFi card, is, for the sake of the supreme being, a Broadcom card.
A pain to set up, and even installing the proprietary drivers makes it nominally work but it can't detect other networks. Maybe something in the configs is wrong.
Don't forget, that a crap load of hardware that doesn't have Linux support from it's maker, may still work in Linux if it follows standards, and many devices have a driver because some Linux developer reverse engineered it and made one. Always do a search with the brand and model of your device: "Use YOUR DEVICE on Linux", and you may just find a driver or way to get it to work, and many of those devices will be recognized by your distro. I know that on Debian based distro's I had to download and install a special driver for my EMU 0404 Professional sound card (An old but still great one), but on my Arch based distro EndeavourOS, it's recognized and the driver installed automatically. (
Yeah, my soundblaster Zxr is supposadely just a windows only card, but someone reverse engineered it and it's now supported in every kernel past 4.15 iirc.
On the politics, I've been very intrigued about this with you. You will literally speak positively and negatively about "both sides". Which is funny to me. I'm not one to make assumptions about people but I will this time and wager that you and I would see eye to eye on a lot and vehemently disagree on just as much. It's a good thing. We shouldn't agree on everything or even almost anything. We should each form our own opinions based on the information presented and after having an honest conversation with "the other". I see liberals, libertarians, conservatives, progressives and everything in between using Linux. That alone means that we have something in common.
Given the amount of keyboard warriors the right has i'm sure some of them have taken the time out of their busy schedule arguing with people online to learn linux. But I would say the left probably has more linux users as most the tech savvy fields are in pretty left leaning area's.
What I would be most interested in is seeing a libertarians perspective of free and open source software. Do they see it like taking a dump on the free market? Or a viable alternative, a instance of voting with your dollars per say.
@@TheChemisch I introduce you to one. It's funny how people assume that FOSS/FLOSS is primarily a left thing. I've rarely met a left leaning individual, well not left by today's terms. I would agree if we are talking about the traditional dynamics rather than today's. As far as today's norms, I'd say that the average lefty is on Mac and Windows. It really is about freedom and control.
Why can’t you run qubes in a vm? You do know VM nesting is a thing. Has been for many years.
I watched all 22 minutes of this video and never once did he finally spill the tea about Haiti
I'm still looking for the free and open source guns.
why you use gimp for logos and thumbnail when you can do your work easier with inkscape?
Probably because he knows how to use Gimp better so it works better with HIS workflow. It's not a comparison of the two products, but what he knows how to use and make work.
BALD BY CHOICE 💪
Hey DT Have You Tried Kodachi? Would You Do A Video On It?
Get a treadmill desk then you can walk for 8 hours a day at your computer.
Or you could get extreme and get you a bicycle generator and as long as you pedal your computer works and when you stop pedaling your computer shuts down, ok we'll be a little nice and put a 30 minuet UPS in-between the generator and the computer and this will also act as the inverter.
Dt merry xmas an happy new year.
16:40 What is the "super key"?
Depends on the keyboard. On most keyboards it's the Windows keys.
@@user-he4ef9br7z THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I keep hearing super super super with no definition. Thank you for clearing this up.
What I get from that part concerning that veganism is that if someone spends way too much time on the internet arguing about politics or whatever they start to get these trigger words that they only have to hear the word being said and they start acting like a robot immidiately. Like this person heard the word 'veganism' in a context that with a little bit of (intentional) misunderstanding could be seen as negative so they just lost their mind and turned into an internet bot.
And in this comment section you see their counterbots, people trolling against veganism with quotes like "dat vegan needs a steak". So they fot triggered about a vegan apparently acting like a typical triggered vegan although his behavior wasn't even that bad or provocative: He was merely asking a question.
But good for you for actively trying to stay as far as possible of these internet arguments I try to do the same but have the history of doing it and I fear it has permanately melted a part of my brain.
Bruh just always when he makes such title for like I'm greeting him, for me it's like he greeting me in short by my full name.. so weird for me sometimes to see such notification. Danil Tiuhtiaev btw, or in short "I'm sorry who?.." xd
what
@@qwoolrat how
Get a standing desk to fix that posture issue.
You're so right. It's so funny that I got hooked on this vid because of the veganism title, only to be positively surprised by you being absolutely rational. Hah. That's why I support you.Thanks for helping us understand this whole beautiful, fun Linux thing!
Printer support: it's CUPS, Apple pays the CUPS developer(s), ergo if it works on a Mac, it should work on Linux.
But printing to a PDF and going to Fedex/Kinkos has been cheaper. They used to support IPP which could go through CUPS.
Xfce + xfdesktop(?) could do that superkey thing. Delete all the panels, tweak bindings.
Video games got boring. Run, shoot, find the key, repeat.
...a skilled debater will knee cap your argument and make you think.
...maybe i should sign up for karate.
from what I know blender has a good video editor, but I've personally never used it.
I get why gnome is limiting, but I personally think it's really good at what it does. In my time with gnome I developed a pretty efficient workflow.
Now i'm an i3 user, but I still have gnome for my touchscreen laptop because I can't get i3 to behave well with touchscreens, and yeah, I just love the way gnome feels
Nice t-shirt
I'll be happy to argue with the vegan for you. :-)
Hey DT. You should do a video review on Alpine Linux on RUclips.
As a vegan, the comparison is entirely fair lol. It is a major lifestyle change and the two communities are often equally zealous on the internet.
and also in both cases (if you collapse veganism and vegetarianism into one spectrum), it's up to every vegan/vegetarian and every F/OSS enthusiast to choose whether and how they want to advocate, whether they should ever make exceptions in order to get along more smoothly with others, how strict their own adherence is, etc. There are harsh approaches and soft approaches, and different ones may be called for in different situations.
You might get really worked up when you educate people about the practices of companies that do pharmaceutical testing on animals, but that doesn't mean you try to scream equally fiercely at grandma every year at the Thanksgiving table about the turkey she's eating. You might rant about the harms of spyware or the absurd DRM on John Deere tractors or the monopolistic practices of Microsoft or Apple, but that doesn't mean you tell your classmate he's a sucker rewarding bad behavior for buying Microsoft Office.
19:13 People always read between the lines and imagine you say something. It's even worse on twitter, because the character limit makes nuanced argument difficult.
You could literally say 'the sky is blue' and someone is going to take offense to it.
never argue with stupid people. they will bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Not even going to complete watching the video before watching (I will continue watching after commenting), but woow what was that condescending answer to the first question? "Yes there is, you're wrong, check harder lazyboy" is what your answer boils down to. Are you hearing yourself?
Did he say specifically printers? Maybe it's not an issue for printers, but there are other peripherals and external devices he requires that DON'T show that info, and he'll have to check compatibility through searching online for people who tried to use it before or whatever. For example, Elgato's mics aren't technically supported on linux but can still work as standard USB mics on linux
cant wait till kdenlive can catch up to davinci resolve
And I can't wait for Davinci Resolve on Linux to catch up to the Windows version. There is a night/day difference gap there.
@@littlepeon Can't even get davinci to work on my laptop in the first place, so I just have to stick with kden
The title and thumbnail combination to this video made me worry I had a stroke.
15:38
Just use stock gnome and remove all of the favorites from applications.
Lastly can you run a GoFundMe or setup a fund for a beefy PC. I'd like to donate to that so there is a Linux RUclipsr that's prominent that can film anything.
He already has a Patreon and has listed his Crypto currents wallets in the description of you want to make a donation.
Hey DT is it possible to review my little project? My goal is to help new people coming to Linux.
i am curious, given the level of your devotion to "free, open source software" if you have ever [or do currently] make donations to the people who take the time to make the software you do use.
i like free software, but i do use a lot of proprietary software [especially for work], but do, on occasion give/donate money to software developers i like, since i feel it is only fair.
DT donates to free software all the time, including Kdenlive. He talks about it a lot in his videos
How do you tell if somebody is a vegan?
You won't ever need to, they will tell you multiple times.
DT finally got it he is bald