Why You Should Use Linux over Windows or Mac
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- Опубликовано: 11 мар 2023
- Why should you use Linux over Windows or MacOS? Here's my thoughts on the matter, having used Linux for several years. In the end, it has a lot to do with personal preferences and how you use your computer.
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Are you planning to use Linux or are you already running it?
Been using Linux for over 19 years now.
I daily drive it, I even use it to archive youtube videos like this one on my wii, I stopped using windows due to Microsoft being malicious with their spying and against our freedoms (such as forcing updates at the worst times) I can't afford a mac nor do I want one (and I believe they are also lying about privacy) and oh yeah microsoft hasn't opened sourced Windows XP or even 98
Not if I can help it. I want to get stuff done, not constantly fight Linux users on forums trying to get technical support for a million different issues.
@@hieverybody4246 I too want to get stuff done -- without fighting Microslop's nonsense, such as forced upgrades that leave you unable to use your computer while that's going on, lack of privacy (being forced to have a Microsoft account just to use WinD'OH!s), being prone to viruses, having to pay for an inferior OS each month, and so on.
@@fredmckinney8933 Forced upgrades? Every month or so a very quick restart you'll never notice and can delay for several days?? Are you stupid?
Lack of privacy? Nonsense. Nothing is sent to Microsoft other than non-personally identifiable app telemetry data.
You spend too much time on the internet, dude.
What a timely video. Windows 11 made me realize that it's time for Linux. Thank you . . . very informative video.
When Windows 10 hits end of life next year, expect a BIG surge in Linux.
I had been curious about Linux for some time when I got a popup on my Windows 10 PC, that's when I decided I would switch. I'm leaning towards choosing Linux Mint as my first distro since it's beginner friendly and Cinnamon seems like a nice DE
Your prediction may become true. Looks like Microsoft isn't willing to learn anything and keeps driving the Windows market towards the ground.
I just made my Lenovo laptop a dual boot machine with Linux Mint Debian. I have Linux also on an old desktop and it works like a dream. It can do 99% of what windows can do, but better and faster.
Really happy to hear it!
Keep drinking that Kool-Aid!
Windows has been utter rubbish ever since the demise of Windows 7,thank goodness we have Linuxand I have been using it for years and never missed Windows or Mac OS for that matter.
Unfortunately I kept using windows till it reached version 11, now ai had enough. Linux user for 3 months now and never going back
I used to use Ubuntu on my Lenovo laptop a few years ago. I’m not new to Linux as I’ve been using it off and on since 2005. I was using FreeBSD recently on said laptop but got tired of the constant Wi-Fi problems. Now working on getting Gentoo on it. Haven’t used Gentoo since 2015!
Welcome to Linux hell. Have fun fixing the next twenty driver and other issues.
Because it's not controlled by a big corporation. End of reason.
I use both. But to be fair, if you debloat windows properly, with a powershell script and a decent firewall coupled with Mulvad VPN you're good to go. Also, you can skip the bloat when you install windows 11 by selecting the language to world.
I'd rather be learning how to do things than learning how to stop my operating system from doing things.
@@flipflopski2951such a simple yet powerful phrase you gave and I could not agree more I'm definitely screenshotting that for all the complacent wind turd users who keep making excuses
I'm sorry but flip flop ski made a very powerful and simple fact-based point at the core of all Humanity once they wake up and realize what they are wasting their time doing versus what isn't a waste of time doing
If you have to spend time trying to get what is supposed to be your computer via the operating system that you technically don't own and you have a license volume copy of to stop doing stupid crap then that is the definition of asininity.... versus learning how a truly Freedom contributing operating system works in which won't take you but a few months tops to learn
@@motoryzen Can I play AAA games without headaches on linux? not really. for security I go linux. Games. Windows, portmaster firewall, chris titus's debloat script... hell if you're in trouble there is always Tron. Simple.
@nubfaceforthelose actually yes you can ..just depends on the game.
If you're only definition of a AAA game is any game that requires easy anti-cheat to play AKA online only then of course it's going to be a headache trying to get that working because the vast majority of those games software developers try to make it hard to run on Lenny's because they seem to think that everyone who's a black hat hacker only runs Linux
But the vast majority of games out there do work in Linux most of them without any headache some without much headache and a few with very big headaches to get working or get working correctly. That is the truth
Bottom line is making sure you have the correct video car drivers which is the same in windows, making sure you have Vulcan and Mesa installed and updated , then confirming if it is a native steam title or if there's another launching platform if applicable that you need to use or use a cross-platform alternative of. An example of this would be epic games launcher and windows would be heroic launcher in Linux. Otherwise wine by itself usually gets the job done if not then you can use lutris
Interesting subject! Great Job!
I was aware of most of your points. Actually, I downloaded Mint and have tried using it for a while. I'd like to use it daily, but I'm still struggling to transition, as I don't think my expensive music software will work on Linux. Still, I'm heading down the Linux path...I'm just taking my time.
There's lots in terms of DAW on Linux. Ardour, Reaper and Bitwig for starters. For DJing there's Mixxx. I'm sure you'll find more. Hope you'll get things working.
@@linuxlodge Thanks for the reply. Yeah, I know what's available, but it's hard to make the shift. I'm currently looking into using wine and yabridge... whatever they are 😅 (read about them after searching)
Anyway, I'm still heading towards using Linux more and more.
Well I respect your caution involving your expensive music software and whether or not it will work in the Linux world one way or another. My curiosity is have you tried installing Linux Mint on a separate SSD and downloading and installing him one way or another using that same music software be at natively if there is a native version or using wine or lutris?
@@motoryzen Thanks for the reply and suggestion. I'm pretty new to Linux, and have just been trying to figure out the basics. I have installed most of the software I want, mainly FOSS stuff, and am now looking into how to get various things (non-Linux software) running. Also, I've been familiarising myself with how Linux works (Bash, for instance) and how to do my work in Linux. I mostly use Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, OneDrive, OneNote, Outlook, etc.), Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Chat, GMail, etc.), and Zoom for work. I also use FOSS apps where I can (InkScape, GIMP, MuseScore, VLC, OBS) for work and personal hobbies. And I use DaVinci Resolve (free version), and the music software Reason Studios (and an assortment of paid plugins) for both work and personal hobbies, too. And, I have Steam games too.
Currently, I'm looking for Linux (ideally FOSS) apps/utilities for screen annotation/zoom for the online teaching I do.
Anyway, that's probably way more detail than I needed to give... 😅
Bottom line is, I've found most things work as standalone software or can be accessed via a web browser, so I can do almost everything I need to do for work. However, cloud storage (OneDrive) is less convenient on Linux. In fact, it's probably the biggest hurdle holding me back from switching to Linux for work. If I can overcome/work around that, I'll use Linux most of the time. If I can get my music software working, I'll be able to use it 90% of the time. The only thing left is games. I play mostly indie games. I'll try to get them working, but it's not a big deal if I can't. In fact, it might be a good way to stop me wasting time on gaming... though that's not a major issue for me, but when I start, I can tend to binge. And, as you can probably tell, when I start something, I tend to overindulge/binge. 😁
@@motoryzen Got it working with Wine, but the interface is very buggy, with (mainly) misaligned and missing text.
Just to play devil's advocate and get the other side - can you not say the greatest disadvantage of Open source is that people do it because THEY WANT TO.
And if one day they no longer do - the software is gone or modified.
Whereas in a corporation,there is more reliability because the programmers ARE OBLIGATED to give you the product advertised.
Not really, if the dev stops the software is still typically available (sometimes the distro does the patching to make it work with upgrades). Also, typically there are many similar types of software that are available. Last, you can always use most windows software on linux if needed.
Yeah but the thing about open source is that when someone stops maintaining a project, all the code is still available to everyone and people can fork it and keep developing it.
On the other hand if a company decides to stop supporting a closed source program you are out of luck. The source code is not there so you can't decide to build from it yourself. It just becomes abandonware.
When an open source project is abandoned, as long as there is a demand for it, someone will probably take over the job of maintaining it. In many cases, some other application can do the same job.
When proprietary software is discontinued, the code is no longer available, the application is gone, and sometimes the formats can't be read by other applications.
Open source applications can often open proprietary formats that the original software can no longer read, discontinued or not. Makers of proprietary applications often will not support open formats.
Given Windows 10 is going end-of-life next year and won't receive any further support or security updates (unless you pay for them), I would say going with a big corporation is no guarantee of longevity. There are quite a few current Linux distros that are older than Windows 10 (Ubuntu is twice as old).
There are also strict hardware requirements for Windows 11, meaning many Windows 10 systems that are still perfectly adequate performance-wise won't be able to upgrade. Their users will either have to buy new systems, turning fully functioning computers into e-waste, or switch them over to another operating system (which is what I will be doing with my older hardware and why I'm looking at channels like this one)
You could also argue that people doing stuff because "they want to", are more likely to last than people who are "obligated".
Been running Linux for ~2 years now. Started with Manjaro, now sticking with Arch and a Windows dualboot that I occasionally use for a certain college class. I won't call it "the best decision in my life", but I don't regret it one bit.
Yes I can't stand modern Windows anymore, I first started my real true Linux journey only a few weeks ago, I was motivated by my new job, where I do some programming, I needed a laptop, I had an older laptop, my fiance had an older laptop, even my father gave me an older laptop, but Windows 10 ran really unbearably slow on both my fiance's and my father's old laptops, on my old laptop Windows 10 ran eh tolerable, but as you can guess none of them are eligible for Windows 11 next year, I didn't really have the money now to buy new laptops, and I felt I didn't specifically need to, only Microsoft tells me I have to buy new laptops, this made me try Linux on my fiance's old laptop only initially, just in case things wouldn't work just so I could continue working whilst working things out, it worked so well I installed Linux on the other 2 laptops in about a week time, now I even installed it on my old desktop pc that is likewise ineligible for windows 11, and I love it, if it works well for all that I do on those older machines and most in general why wait until support for windows 10 drops next year, why not move over those computers to Linux now I thought.
It's honestly such a breath of fresh air, finally control over my machines, finally no more spying, finally they run faster again, admittedly they might be able to run even faster if I'd gotten a more lightweight Linux distro, but even on the full fat Linux Mint Cinnamon they all run great, many times better then they did on Windows 10, and as it doesn't stop getting support next year that is just great.
Really using Linux for the last 2,5 weeks has made me realise what an unbearable disgusting mess modern Windows has become over the years, it's bloated to hell, it tries to force you to use awful programs like Onedrive or AI assistants and other crap I don't want, update is just awful, many times when I want to do something on my newer desktop (on Windows 11) I'll be just getting into work and it will come with the damn popup: updates have been installed Windows will reboot momentarily, ugh just piss off, I so love how Linux Mint notifies you there is an update but YOU decide when you want to install it and in the few instances it needs to reboot it's not going to try to do that for you, no, it again just notifies you that it needs a restart but leaves it to YOU when to do that, and the no trying to force an online account to log in to the OS, no installing random crap like candy crush shit for you, no changing all your settings back to their awful defaults with every other update (as Windows does do).
It's that there's a few things that I still absolutely need Winblows for, so it is going to stay on my newer desktop for now, but that will likely be seeing how much I can tolerate, as I've honestly started to hate what modern windows has become, the day I don't have to boot up Windows ever again is a day I will celebrate.
Note you don't have to talk to me to try to help me find alternatives so I can leave Windows behind completely right now, I know that some things I do don't work properly or at all now and I know why, they might get fixed in time, they might not, I might grow past these things, who knows, time will tell.
The fact sometimes things need a little bit more tinkering on Linux isn't a problem to me, I almost enjoy the tinkering to make for example a game work as much as I enjoy playing the game, I love that Linux gives me back the ownership of my machine and what happens on it, with everything Microsoft has been doing you almost start to wonder if the pc is yours or Microsofts, they do things as if they own your machine, and I don't like it.
Been using Linux since 1994. I use Windows 10 for games, music, internet, and use Linux for servers. Since Windows 11 I'm hating Windows, so planning on going total Linux.
Persevered for 30 years with Windows? Wow. Did you use SLS, Redhat, or Debian or all of them during the dark ages? Hope your transition will be smooth, and Happy Labor Day soon, if applicable.
@@linuxlodge I started out with Slackware, it was the only one there was at that time. I've tried about all Linux's over the years. My personal favorite is Slackware, but I like Debian and Rocky Linux too. Not sure which would be better for replacing Windows? Probably not Slackware. Remember having one hell of a time getting Slackware up and running properly at first. Felt like throwing the computer out the window a few times, lol.
@@linuxlodge My very first OS in 1994 was Windows 3.1. Kept hearing people talk about Linux, so some months later I got Slackware on cdrom from Walnut Creek Cdrom. They had Slackware and FreeBsd on cdrom. Tried FreeBSD for awhile and liked it.
@@wjack4728 As far as I know, Slackware is pretty much a one-man show these days. Used to be that we had Debian in the prime time machine at home only and Arch in the Jurassic age computers. Right now, I use Debian everywhere.
@@linuxlodge Yes, Patrick Volkerding, The Man. He's the BDFL, Benevolent dictator for life. Hope he's around forever. I use Rocky Linux for mailservers, and Debian for Proxmox. I played around with Arch a bit, and it looks interesting, so I'll have to check into it more.
I switched to linux in 2001, and never look back
That's very early, lucky you!
Living happy with linux. wont turn back ever. Got rid of my windows image I'm that content with linux mint
I've got a couple of older Win 10 PCs I haven't used in years, and I'd like to set them up with Linux. They are both Intel 6th Gen CPUs (Skylake), one i5 (4C-4T) and one Pentium (2C-4T w/hyperthreading). I've never used Linux before, so I don't know what distros I'll need (I might use a different one on each computer), or what software I'll use, since I've just started looking into it. I'll need something secure, with a fairly easy-to-use GUI to begin with. I understand hardware, as I build my PCs myself, but I'm no programmer or IT professional, and I'm not very familiar with using command line, but I'm happy to learn the basics. I've got lots of questions, so if anybody knows of a noob friendly forum or sub-reddit (in English), please let me know in a reply. Thanks.
There are several "main distributions" around that would work for you. Overall Ubuntu is probably the most "straightforward" to set up, but Fedora or Rocky Linux would also be pretty easy to set up.
You may have to tinker with the BIOS settings - somewhere in there new ways of managing start-up were created (UEFI) and the mode that boots Windows won't boot Linux. You want to set it to "legacy mode" or something like that. Once you get that right, it'll come right up. I've always felt that Microsoft would like to get things to the point where we CAN'T install other OSes, but so far legal requirements have kept that from happening.
Linux Mint is also very easy especially coming off Windows, it runs great on my old machines that are all 6 - 11 years old by now, they run alot faster now then they did on Windows 10, and besides they can't go to Windows 11 anyway so whatever, with Mint only for more advanced things do I need the Terminal, you can do most things in the gui in Mint, and there's also alot of resources and forums etc for it, so you can consider Mint also.
Though I have not used their support, Zorin Linux has available paid support. I have had a nice experience with Zorin. Take a peek at that one.
I need to fix or find solution for many things before switching to linux.
First I need to find a solution for running Autohotkey or anything similar on linux
this is very important as I use it for many app launching keyboard shortcuts, text replacement, keyboard keys remapping and many other things.
I also need notion as I use it to organize basically my whole life.
I use ticktick and the lack of quick task add shortcut is a deal breaker
also a good spotlight like app like flow launcher on windows.
Every Linux desktop environment or window manager I've ever used lets you set up keyboard shortcuts. I'm not sure what you're getting at here.
@@fredmckinney8933 It's mostly text replacement shortcuts and key combinations to open an app or do some function
but it's not just keyboard shortcuts.
I'm talking about things like when I click on my mouse forward button and turn the wheel up ➡ that turns the volume up
and to lower it when I turn the wheel down
also the backward mouse button with the wheel makes you scroll horizontally
and a lot more functions that I can execute
Moving to a new OS eventually results in finding some of the things you want, and finding other ways of doing the rest, sometimes better than before. I suggest finding a basic description for each of the things you need and search the 'net for Linux replacements. For the rest, it may take a while to figure out.
From what I can tell, Flow launcher seems a lot like Krunner in the KDE/Plasma DE. Depending on the version and/or distro, it can be opened with either Alt + Space or Alt + F2. KDE/Plasma is also *very* customizable.
AntiMicro, Piper, and Solaar may help for mapping keyboard, game controllers, mouse buttons, and scripting. Solaar is Logitech specific.
If you are frequently opening files with various applications, for me, the easiest way is to have bookmarks in the file manager to the directories I often use. Just go to whatever place you want, double click or right click and select "Open With" and that's it. For this, a good file manager is helpful. Your preference may differ from mine, but I use the Krusader file manager. It has a lot of options that make things easier, although it will take a while to learn all of the details. Search "Krusader handbook" for info.
Something else to keep in mind is that some of what you want to do might be done with scripts. A *lot* can be done with bash scripting. Once a script is written, just double click and it runs.
@@haplozetetic9519 Something you mentioned was what I did when I first decided to leave Windows -- I looked for software that was available for both Windows and Linux in order to familiarize myself with them.
@@fredmckinney8933 That's a good way to get started.
Just read the Microsoft EULA and you know.
I am using arch btw. 🙂6 years age I changed from Windows 10 to Arch Linux, and it is right for me.
Im using my Computer for Internet, light Office and Gaming.
I have been using Open/Libre office on Windows for many years. On the Gaming side I dont like online Games I only play offline singleplayer Games and im my Library
round about 800 Games 5 of them dont work at all, so for me over 99% of my Games work as they would on Windows.
Fantastic! I have nowhere near that many games but they all work!
If you like the GUI of Mac then install Fedora. If you like Windows then install Linux Mint. This is a very broad recommendation haha but both are superb Linux systems. I say SYSTEMS not Distros because they are both truly world class and work very well even on ten year old hardware. No need to waste money to buy new stuff!
While you're not exactly wrong in your mentioning a fedora in towards coherence of Mac desktop, if one is looking for a way to be a little more modular without having to go through a few more Hoops than one can install Ubuntu or Linux Mint mate and choose the Cupertino desktop graphical option in the particular settings menu
@@motoryzen thanks for your input. I just wanted to keep things super simple for people who want to try it. But your method is also awesome. It’s awesome we even have all these great choices thanks to the open source community 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 also Cinnamon is actually super cool and I like that more than the others actually 😆
Okay grasshopper, you forgot to mention that the minumum time investment to feel comfortable with Linux is about 1000 hours of intensive study, to fully understand all the nuts and bolts, including also D-Bus and those sorts of things. Don't ask how I know... Nevertheless it's totally worth it in 2024. Things are finally at a point where it's great.
That's one viewpoint to be called a grasshopper having used Linux for 21 years, on and off, but sure, I'm not a dev or a sys admin or other expert, nor do I seek all such knowledge out there. The main thing is that the days when a user needed to have 1000 hours of intensive study to get to the point where they could run their web browser and email on Linux is well over. For anyone like you or me, we can dive deeper in case interested. I do appreciate that you've taken the time to learn the nuts and bolts. I'm not a youtuber that has nothing else than Linux in their life (not to say that you don't have other things to do) nor am I likely to cater to D-bus fans, and I'm sure many users here would rather use those 1000 hours doing something else, like learning Chinese, or read the textbooks of William of Ockham, or hike in northern Sweden. Life is short. Follow your passions however wide-ranging, see what happens, maybe start a RUclips channel, write rambling comments like this.
Well, I retired so I have the time to do this. I found that in order to customize my system in any useful way, I had to learn these things. D-Bus has become core of IPC so there's no getting away from it any more. Python and javascript too. BASH and DASH were a real bear for me because of all the quirks and inconsistencies; total gong show. That in sum total is where the 1000 hours comes from. If Linux was as mature as Windows then perhaps the necessary investment will scale down for most people. I'm ready to take a break over summer and then deep dive into IPv6 and networking in general. That should be the last complicated step. IPv6 has a lot of extras in terms of protocol.
@@stepannovotny4291 That is some dive. Yes, it's easy to tell there's a lot of inconsistencies under the hood. I raise my hat sir.
that's a load of rubbish. my parents in their 80s use Ubuntu just fine and it didn't take them 1000 hours. maybe if ur super thick skulled and smooth brained.
Regardless of time spent, there's no issue in Linux you can't find an answer to in an Internet search engine. It's all about adaptability and the willingness to try. I agree that it takes time to be comfortable with it, but that's no different than any other consumer OS. I started with MS OSes, but long since washed my hands of that proprietary nonsense. And Apple never got their foot in my door because I knew from the start that they haven't been worth the money since 1984.
I will continue to use Windows. And Mac. And Linux. I can't think of a good reason to limit myself to one OS.
Sanity, for me :D
Im still using Win 7, tried 10 and 11 and hate them, so when Win 7 dies completely, or when the programs and games i like stop working, i would like to try Linux
Isn't the FIRST & MOST IMPORTANT THING - the HARDWARE COMPATIBILITY - so that everything works as it should?
In that vein, is an all AMD system, or an all Intel-Nvidia combination, the best?
It depends, there is no simple black/white answer, Nvidia support in Linux has become alot better over the years, not always perfect thus it depends, which gpu and which distro, my old laptop and old desktop with both Intel processors and Nvidia gpu's work great almost ootb, all I had to do was change the Nvidia driver, which atleast in the Linux distro I currently use (Mint) was very easy to do, Nvidia has even started to open part of the source, still not all of it, but a part has already helped alot in getting things working as I understand it.
I've installed Linux Mint on 4 machines in the last 2 weeks, one laptop and one desktop with Intel cpu's and Nvidia gpu's, one laptop with just an Intel cpu on integrated graphics, and one laptop with an AMD apu, and it runs great on all 4, they are all around 6 - 11 years old btw, and they actually run better on Linux Mint then they did on Windows 10.
Sorry I can't give a simple conclusive answer, you'll have to do research on the Linux support for your gpu yourself I'm afraid.
Will move laptop not capable of Win 11 to Linux next year. Desktop with i7 processor not supported on Win 11 will follow. I am not going to be forced to buy new computers when mine are perfectly capable. Win updates have slowed down my PCs I believe.
With Windows10 going end-of-life next year and the strict hardware requirements for W11, I'm going to be moving all my older stuff to Linux for the first time. It's the perfect time to learn something new. I think the death of W10 will drive quite a few people like me to try Linux, rather than ditch hardware that still works well. I'll keep my W11 desktop and laptop for gaming, music production, and anything that requires more powerful hardware, or for which there is no Linux equivalent. But, for the less demanding stuff I'll use my older PCs and Linux.
@Pushing_Pixels I'm actually doing the same right now, started 2 weeks ago in fact, and I love it, don't want to go back to Windows
Hi. My biggest concerns are all my downloaded files, movies, my channel videos, my downloaded pictures , which are on a portable hard drive, will be lost or unretrievable once i change my laptop to linux.
Why? Linux can access portable hard drives just as easily.
Linux can read NTFS and FAT so you won't lose anything
Now truth be told from experience although what the other two commenter said is technically correct, I recommend first you back up all of that contents of that hard drive to a separate drive and on that hard drive that you're talking about formatted to exfat. That has proven to be Plug and Play cross-platform between Windows and Linux back and forth from my personal experience for over 10 years regardless of the brand of hard drive regardless of the version distro desktop package manager file manager Etc of the Linux world
Your files will be fine. I would just suggest to copy the files to another drive, one that you've first formatted to Ext4 or other Linux native disk format. Keep the Windows NTFS drive as a backup, or format it later to Ext4 as well, and copy your files over from your other Ext4 drive. Check the ext4 drive for any read/write errors before you wipe the original NTFS drive though - if you care a great deal about your files. Just in case.
While Linux supports NTFS and exFat, they're not native Linux formats and on the long term you might run into issues, and when you do, you won't be able to repair the NTFS drive unless you have a copy of Windows lying around. If needed, you can install a virtualized Windows, under Linux, to repair the drive as well.
Ext4 is a faster file format anyway. ExFat is especially dangerous long-term - as the files will get corrupted - as that's how Microsoft designed it.
If you decide to get obsessed about data integrity, I suggest to spend a great deal researching ZFS and BtrFS.
Like i say to all of you who have Linux or years, for us new users to convert we need a proper manual, not some website Linux a physical manual to able troubleshoot problems and fix them not have troll through yards of comments on a chat board. REEALLY PI ME OFF! When get oh swap to Linux it is easy no not not for us who are more analog in thinking!
Linux isn't new-user-unfriendly as it was in the 90's. The learning curve for Linux now is no different than Windows or OSX. The desktop GUIs available for Linux make it so familiar for MS and Apple people that if a person isn't willing to learn a few new ways to do things, there's not much a manual would do to help anyway, to be honest.
xubuntu is better than lubuntu, but best for older hardware is antix
Antix certainly is light and comes with interesting boot options out of the box.
I would love to only use Linux but I have written several programs in C# which are essential to my busines and to port them to Linux seems time consuming and simply not worth the effort.
Have you tried running them in wine? You might not have to port anything.
Never thought of that. Has wine matured? (no pun intended)
@@nielderfp yeah, it's what allows us to run all these windows games on Linux nowadays
@@nielderfpwhat wine along will not run often lutris will
Linux is also better for the environment due to it's lower power use. there was a great video i watched years ago on youtbe about that, and i think it's was produced by some tech giant like IBM, but i'm not sure.
I switched from Linux. I don’t really see the point for regular people to use Linux. Most people don’t care about the OS. I use a pc when I want to game and I use a Mac when I want to surf the web and use Lightroom and Final Cut Pro.
The real difference isn't whether or not someone is a "regular" person, the difference is in how much a person truly loves computing itself. There are people who would rather spend large sums of money on their dream sports car, and those who would rather enjoy the experience of mechanically enhancing a car themselves. I fell in love with computing on an XT286, which was originally running 3.20 MS-DOS. I did all my initial exploration on MS OSes. But now that I "know what I'm doing" I will never go back to Windows, as it is a waste of time, money, privacy and is the Fisher-Price version of a computer operating system in 2024. And Apple? Everything that is great about their OS these days is just borrowed (stolen) from Unix and Linux. Apple hasn't truly innovated since the Macintosh. They didn't create the first mp3 player nor the first smart phone, they're just REALLY good at marketing.
On off from ca 2007, but daily drive from 2020.
It is frightening to know that an app like VSCode that wasn't able to run smoothly on Windows 10 is working smoothly on Linux Mint on exactly the same machine. The same Dropbox app that took 4 minutes to fully load on Windows 10 and (loaded CPUs to 100%) takes only 10 seconds to load on Linux mint. And so are many apps that can run smoothly on a lightweight operating system but Windows doesn't allow them to.
Windows wastes so much system resources and cpu time that I think Microsoft does it on purpose to benefit hardware manufacturers.
Yes, it is seriously disturbing how wasteful Windows is. There's many things at play. I've read that NTFS is designed so badly that it makes the storage drive also do several unnecessarily complex tasks during read/write.
I loved Linux than hated it when Windows 7 came out with Gorgeous graphics and fonts and now 13 years thinking of installing Debian bookworm with cinnamon since gnome 3 was atrocious 13 years ago!
But Windows too has regressed too sadly like modern gnome and kde4.
But what about apps??
Linux desktop environments have improved _a lot_ in 13 years, and Debian 12 is a good choice. What's your concern with apps?
Dude...these days MS and Apple steal ideas from the Linux community, not the other way around.
yeah man! unacceptable windows. not cool what they do with our data. totally not cool. privacy matters man! you broke my heart microsoft. you broke my heart.
I liked the video just for your name. I like weird stuff
You've come to the right place.
No good for the average person like me, it’s too complicated.
Are you sure sir? It would seem that Windows is harder to use these days. Have you seen ZorinOS and Linux Mint?
I just opened File Explorer on Windows. It was instant.
Frankly, most of the crap he says is total nonsense.
I'm happy that most people still want to use Windows and Mac. That keeps the malefactors away from Linux in general, which is a nice bonus for us nonsensical crappers.
@@ArrayPointer LOL that just leaves fanbois.
You haven't seen instant until you've used Thunar or PCManFM, let alone ROXfiler ;)
@@linuxlodge On Windows File Explorer couldn't get quicker. No noticeable delay.
How do you install Adobe Suite on Linix? I am looking of the CC download link? Please supply
AFAIK, nothing Adobe runs on Linux. Mostly, running Linux means using Linux applications.
Yeah if you need adobe, stick to windows
@@loftypancake There are probably some similar things that run on Linux, but less polished. IIRC, Adobe is moving things to web apps. Maybe these could be used on Linux.
There is no Adobe Suite for Linux, as Adobe hasn't released a Linux version.
Use instead (as an example):
Krita (for Photoshop)
Inkscape (for Illustrator)
Scribus (for InDesign)
Kdenlive / DaVinci Resolve (for Premiere)
Darktable (for Lightroom)
Natron (for After Effects)
Won't be identical. Learning curve obviously exists. Won't include all the same features. But these will get many such tasks done.