osx worked quite well for me, what turned me away from it was its closed ecosystem. apple just wants you to do things the apple way, other ways don't work. linux is just a lot more flexible than the other two, you can make it look and act just how you want. Sometimes it can be a little trickier than on windows/mac because not everything is as polished
Left Windows behind 25 years ago due to various irritations, the details I no longer remember. These days, anything other than my own modified Openbox configuration just feels clunky and awkward.
as a college student, I payed part of my tuition with 20 hrs/week of minimum wage work. I payed for my music and I used itunes with a non apple mp3 player, when most of my friends were simply pirating music. One day I go to the gym and my music didn't play. Overnight apple had changed many of my songs to .m4p files, which can't be played outside of the apple ecosystem. I swore I would never pay apple another cent, and I've kept that promise for 13 years. I switched to linux a few months ago because of windows recall. Frankly, it's ultimately much better than windows, but you need to find the right software to replace what you're used to. Once you find it, most of it will actually be better
Welcome friend! Well said and done! This is where a lot of people lack, the right mentality and conviction to what we all know to be true and fair. If you pay something then it should be yours permanently and with no alterations. Indeed, Linux is a far better experience and ever evolving at a faster pace than windows or osx, just because there are more people working on it and building features they them selves would use for free and for their own benefit: no spyware, performant, reliant, up to date, useful, enjoyable.
Yeah, I was on Windows 10 as a daily driver on a multi-drive build. I used gParted to look at all the partitions on all my drives and found a "MIcrosoft Data" partition added to my normally unmounted internal storage drive. Creation of this partition shrank the NTFS partition. Files were corrupted. At that same time, Windows 10 started to persistently force-update my then-aging, "soon to be rebuilt anyhow" home build to an incompatible video driver. Since it was updated to 10 from a Windows 8.2 retail copy, I called in to have it out with Microsoft "Tech Support" about these issues. Their bottom line was that they wanted me to get them a newer computer of "mine" for their use. Within the few hours it took to re-copy all my backups, every NTFS partition I had was replaced with ext4. My takeaway was that it was worth sacrificing a DRMed iTunes library and the good negative scanner for my then hobby of film photography to complete my migration to Linux.
"Open source doesn't mean it's free" That's exactly what linux is about. I don't have a problem to have a really cheap monthly payment or one time payment as long it's a good software. Linux's contributions are either corporate backing, volunteer devs or user donations.
Switched from Windows to Linux (CachyOS) about 7months ago. Was mainly due to Recall being announced and all the other telemetry built in to Windows. But now that I have been using Hyprland since 555beta drivers, I don't think I could live without it :D
Heyheyhey i was JUST thinking about switching to cachyos AND hyprland as my wm but ive used linux in the past with kde and gnome and didn't like much but hyprland is really fun and eye candy but all the famous dots are too much for me i want something clean and minimalist. So um do u have your dots you can share 🥺🥺 i would really appreciate it. Thank you
Hyprland is crazy good, but it has its specific use and strong opinionated way of doing this. This is the power of Linux and main reason is the best ecosystem in the world! : D Good luck doing that with windows or osx....
The whole german government is switching to linux next year. I am switching to linux in oct 2025 or before.If i can figure out how to play the games i like on linux, cool. Otherwise i will have a windows partition that will be used to play games only. Only games will be played on the win partition. No web surfing, no documents will be written and nothing but games will be played on the windows platform. microsoft is starting to overstep their boundaries and i am not ok with a lot of what they do now.
China and Russia, for example, are on Linux since 2007 by law, and they required that all government institutions, schools, hospital, etc, are mandatory on Linux and as such they developed their own Linux desktop based on open source distros. Africa for the vast majority runs on Linux as well. We are talking of roughly 3 billion people using Linux, not to mention all of the Android devices.... I have another channel where I am only posting about gaming as I realized it is better to keep gaming separate as a topic and in here I will be posting only things related to distros in generally, how to install, setup, etc. Follow me here as well: www.youtube.com/@GamingWithLinux
That's what I'm doing. I got arch and windows in the same machine. I only use windows for gaming, and I feel like it's even better that way. Sometimes when I'm coding, I just want to hop on osu! and play a game or a game of data to chill, but then I get distracted and lose focus. Now that I need to restart my pc for gaming, I can do my work with deep focus and I can enjoy my games and just my games. You can dualboot your PC right fucking now it's very easy. Make sure you have backups tho just in case. Choose a distro that helps you with what you're doing and give it a go. Good luck!
@@achura6129 I did it like that for a while, until I had to reinstall W10 because of an idiotic update that failed and had to reinstall Linux as well, with all the dev env attacked to it. There for I went to a different approach: installed a new SSD where I installed Linux only and then I switched the boot order depending on what I wanted to run, Windows or Linux, but they were completely separated and independent of each other. This way if you ever install Windows no need to install Linux again. This worked for a while until Recall and the support drop for W10. On top of this, I do not enjoy upgrading my PC, expensively, everyu 2 - 3 years so Windows can run on it... Linux made my life so much better and I feel I can use the hardware I have for the next 10 year at the bare minimum without any necessary upgrades mostly. It took me maybe a month to get used to gaming on Linux, with settings and all, but it was worth it 100%. The games I do not play are as follows: - games who refuses their player base to run Linux and make anything in their power to do so - games who are poorly optimized by default and it'll run bad regardless of your OS - and games who cannot run on win-ge, Proton or Proton-GE A very surprising result: I spend less while playing quality and well made games : D
This is your first video i watched. Distrotube recommended some smaller linux channel and your was included. Really nice story and explanation. The only thing i would suggest, never take any poll data from Reddit as a realistic data. I am talking about survey which linux distribution is the most used. We simply don't know. Since majority of linix distros don't have any kind of telemetry, even the guys who made them don't have that info. And on Reddit you have a small very vocal community. I really don't care ehich one is the most used. I use a distro which i prefer. And i am totally fine with other user select some other distro they like the most. It's not a competition and a lot of users kind of forget that. The important thing is that we all use foss.
I diged a lot more and I found out that Linux is actually used by more than 1 billion people... I will com with a video and show the reality. We have been lied to and heavily suppressed to know this was a reality.
After Windows announced recall and how shady they're going about it, I'm definitely moving to Linux. Everyone keeps mentioning Linux mint but I'm not too sure? I just need it for gaming and coding.
I guess that I just got lucky. Mine just works. Was a windows 10 gaming rig. Originaly bought it for video editing. Missing a motherboard chip that would have allowed upgrade to 11. End of life for 10 happened. My windows 11 laptop got so bloated that it slowed way down. I got angry. Downloaded Ubuntu onto a flash drive. Rebooted my computer without pulling it out. And I haven't looked back! LOL
Hehehe! Well done my friend! It makes no sense to upgrade every two years your PC so an operating system can work on it...not to mention the rest of the crap it comes with.
I ran into that same exact problem with a brand new Ipad. I needed a 2nd device to reset my password which I didn't have. They told me I had to wait 14 days to use a brand new device since I didn't have a 2nd Apple product. I returned it immediately.
The Mac OS stuff i believe you but regarding the Recall and "update push"...that only applies to new Copilot+ PCs you have to buy in order to have this feature.
i already use debian for work, i had 200gb old ssd for windows 10 dualboot for gaming. recently that ssd died and i dont want to spoil a new ssd with windows 11 garbage. i also think i like the neat, separated work and gaming os idea. what do you think, shall i get arch or ubuntu for gaming space?
Indeed. I found that keeping a PC with Fedora for work and a PC with ChacyOS for gaming is the perfect way to go. However, one of the easiest options for those who have only one PC is to install the two different Linux distros on two different SSDs and boot between them. Debian is pretty nice for work as well, but I switched to Fedora after a while.
Not a gamer and I don't like KDE or Arch based. MX Linux Xfce does all I need. Works great on my refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini. Stable and quick.
I do not liek KDE either, I am using Gnome Xorg. Exactly! Linux makes older PCs or Laptops feel like it's brand new! : D Welcome to Linux community my friend!
I never expected YouTUbe would recommend my channel. All I wanted was to share my experience and how I managed to move to Linux. The more people I can help the better for all of us and companies who refused to move will have no choice but follow the trend. Linux already won, and I will make a video explaining why.
Well, after the recall situation I felt kind of ready to pull the trigger and at least try switching to Linux (in a form of a second system experiment) - thank you for the inspirational video! Unfortunately, Nvidia doesn't want to get its Broadcast to Arch, so the lossless transition is not possible at the moment
I am using OBS with decent settings and I love it. The thing is I value privacy more than the edge use cases of software. Also, I do not fee like training nvidia Ai on my voice and my life. One thing is for sure, Linux is picking up speed and there is no turning back: companies will start turning in.
Hello, very interesting video and I am intrigued. I'm quite normal, most ordinary person and even more conservative and somewhat outdated... I'm not happy with Windows, but there are things that bother me about Linux and I want to ask about them, relative to my usage goals and based on those Linux versions that you listed "CachyOS" and ""Nobara": 1. I have an HDR monitor and I moved from W10 to W11 because of the HDR functionality and settings W11 provide (AutoHDR that actually works great for me, ""Windows HDR Calibration" app, "DisplayHDR test" app etc.), so do you know how is the HDR experience in those Linux versions? In games with native HDR, or non-HDR games, that can be tonemapped like with the Windows "AutoHDR" funcion, or even HDR movie files on the PC? In W11 I had some problems with taking screenshots while HDR was ON (they were overexposed), but now there is a workaround fix which is an option in the "Snipping tool" app, that lets you take screenshots with "HDR color correction" applied. Also since I use Adobe programs for my work, there are some issues with Photoshop and some other programs that look awful in the menu (don't know how to explain it but the menu of the program itself is not correct, it does not look how it should) when HDR is ON and they are not reproducing the correct colors. Will all of this be better in Linux from that point of view? Is everything HDR related going to work in Linux as it should and do I have to be an "IT specialist" with "Terminal skills" to be able to set everything up? 2. In my free time I play mostly older games and one of them is Apex Legends, but since it is using anti-cheat, will I have problems on Linux playing Apex online (through Steam) with my friends? Also how is the game-modding in Linux (*like the good old Skyrim Nexus mod days), will I have problems with those kind of stuff working at all in Linux? Also can I install and play all of my games from my "EpicGames" library from my account there in the platform? 3. Aside from gaming, I am using Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, ArtRage, also XPpen software for my drawing tablet - so will all of that work as it should in Linux? 4. Also since I am a strange one and I am using Opera browser with several saved browser workspaces (named differently for different usage categories) with hundreds of opened tabs that are slept with "The Marvellous Suspender" browser extention (because I use them organized for my historical hobby-topics and several unfinished projects), will I have problems with using the same type of Opera functionality in Garuda Linux, using browsers the same way like I am doing it in Windows? 5. I am also using Kodi, Stremio and stream movies, tv shows, so will all of those work in Linux too? In Stremio there is an extension called "Torrentio" that I am using and you can guess what it does by its name. Will I have problems doing all of that in Linux?
I spent 20 mins typing out a response to this with TONS of info, but either the youtuber OR youtube does not want to let me post it even though there is nothing harmful in it, no links or toxic wording, 100% information answering all the 5 points. I wont retype it, sorry (probably get blocked again anyway). RUclips or the creator of this video does not want this channel to be a source of good information and support for linux users.
@@marcusjohansson668 For sure YouTUbe is banning you for long context. Just try to split the answer in multiple replies. I never deleted comments from people so far.
For point Q1. -> I think this would be good. displaycal.net/ Adobe software is not working by default in Linux and unfortunately neither does Affinity products. However, there are people who showed how you can run Adobe and Affnity software on Linux using Lutris and Wine applications.
Q2. Apex legends it seems is working via Steam, with compatibility mode activated and running Proton Experimental or Proton CahcyOS or what ever version is going to be available depending on the OS you are going to install.
3. As I said earlier, Adobe does not play well out od the box. you'd have to find options with Lutris and Wine installer. ArtRage and Clip Studio Paint can be replaced with Krita mostlym, I think. XPen, no idea.
Try Solus XFCE, it's rolling release, light and very stable! Solus also has Budgie, Gnome and KDE Plasma spins 👍 Now Solus uses the same BORE scheduler as CachyOS. It's possible that Solus is more stable than CachyOS. Maybe someone can do an in-depth comparison of all the rolling release distros and see which one has the lowest number of crashes, memory usage etc. Solus doesn't have as big a repository of software as Arch, but it has everything a Linux beginner would require. The new Solus 4.6 was announced recently on 14 Oct 2024. Solus XFCE is still labelled a Beta, but it's working well on a cheap €200 HP laptop I have which became painfully slow on Windows 11. Lots of old laptops and computers could be saved from going to the landfill or getting recycled needlessly if more people save those machines by installing Linux on them! Thanks for your video 🙂👍 (Posted on Fri 18 Oct 2024 at 17:59 UTC)
@@GoonCity777 I'm quite sure there's a big difference among those 3 distros! Debian has older kernel etc Solus is rolling release but limited software repository. CachyOS is optimised for gaming and performance, with a better repository since it's based on Arch. (Posted on Sat 19 Oct 2024 at 14:06 UTC)
I would never consider to buy into apple ever again as I have explained the reasons for which I sold my macbook pro and the m2 mni. Best is to make your self a custom mini PC, like I did, and it will be powrefull and way cheaper than a m4 form apple, plus, you benefit form installing Linux on it. Try Beelink computers.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Why would you actually lie to buying m2 mac mini from shady retailer stuff for those installed the lockings, buy it from official apple or get second hand from authorized official retailer, this is first time you've had into problem into shady stuff from shady retailer is a funny business
@@dergonmcdragon3161 The store is an official Apple retailer, the device came in brand new sealed. Before you go ahead and reply again, search online, many people had the exact same problem. Apple has built in a certain money extortion schema to which I do not abide by, not do I recommend to any one. We, here, know exactly why we ditch apple...
I think nowadays both AMD and Nvidia are well integrated in Linux distributions, and thanks to Valve which pushed heavily the compatibility mode and Vulkan technology to replace DirectX, almost any gaming laptop should work. The question then comes down to what games you need to play? Simple 2d games? Complex 3d triple AAA games? This is what impacts your budget. I think a minimum viable gaming experience is a AMD Ryzen 5 with let's say a 2060 RTX and it might give you decency on almost all games. There is alwasy the Nvidia GeForce Now gaming platform where you need just any kind of laptop that can be connected to 500mb/s internet connection and you can game anything. Granted, it is around 17 USD/m, but hey, you are playing games on 4080 RTX or better in 1080p or 4k.
I am still fooling around and discover new dekstops flavors, while in the mean time I use Gnome with Xorg as daily driver. Most likely I may switch to something like Hyprland or Cosmic when they are in a more stable form. As I was saying, the power of Linux is diversity in its true form! : D
@googIesux It isn't all that hard as long as you do what the handbook tells you to. It is one of those distros where you only get in trouble when you watch videos instead of RTFM.
never heard of cachyOS before. thank you. and definetely agree with all your points, no doubt about it. always wanted to daily drive linux but always gave up, being for lack of gaming support (waaay before proton and steamdeck were a thing) or for native windows applications. but now... there is nothing we can do. in my windows machine i have updates, defender and recall disabled, and i'm not putting up with it anymore, no way. sure i'm not a typical windows user. since i do gamedev and use a lot of unsupported software, and in my dayjob i literaly have to use windows, i'll definetely suffer in the beginning but enough is enough.
I agree with you. Recall is baked into the core now, you have no option to turn it off any longer to my understanding, and I've seen people showing that is a fact. The only thing stopping any one from moving to Linux is them selves.
@@TheLinuxWayToday yeah... i have it "disabled" by not updating to the latest version of win 11 but i can't do this forever, even down the road i'm sure people will come up with a powershell script or something that will acomplish just that but by then it will be kinda besides the point. i mean if we have to go out of our way to disable core OS features like that, why not give linux another go at least. never thought i'd say this but i miss the Cortana days lol.
@@JeanRosa-qc3mb True! The main difference here is that with Linux you have proper documentation to enable or disable features, out of the box, and it was built as such so everyone could really own the system on their machines not the other way around.
My greatest gripe have been lack of my favorite softwaress: 1. could install Rhinoceros3d only after installing windows under VM 2.could install Bulk rename utility under WINE. But the lack of such renaming software in Linux platform is absolutely disappointing. 3. Some terreain and environment making apps could only be installed after installing windows under VM. Second greatest gripe is inconsistency regarding installation of softwares like: 4. App installed from the distro repository not working while installing from the official website solved it. 5. CLI installation method recommend by an apps official website doesn't match what the distro official forum suggests.
Thanks for joining here! It is much appreciated. Have you tried this one? github.com/cryinkfly/Rhinoceros-3D-for-Linux Nowadays I think most of software from Windows have in one form or another a way to run it in Linux. If you simply cannot live without something, yes, a VM with w10 is good enough. Terragen - planetside.co.uk/ To my knowledge I understand it works on Linux, this might help with the environment generation. The way I do it when installing is this: - go to official website of a software and see if they support Linux directly, follow the instructions - go to Flathub, AUR (or what other package managers you have and are suported in the OS) and see if it is the already. - go to Discord Linux communities, ask around - if no solution, try Lutris and Wine - w10 VM if all fail However, the current path I am on for the past two years is to learn new software native to Linux and work with those. I found a doze 3d CAD and more apps in Flathub. Take your time, see what's in there. Join Discord Linux community and ask around, there is a ton of software available. On a personal note, for me there is no substitution for privacy, and my life is not a product to be profit from by corporations.
@@TheLinuxWayToday @nekriomycin90000 For both of you, using "AppImages" of various applications might be a viable option as well, I primarily make use of AppImages, not a fan of Flatpak and native package management. They only allow a single instance of a program to be installed, using different versions of a program with independent settings, is also not really possible this way, so Flatpaks are not a good solution either (from my point of view).
switch to windows is not 1:1, if you intend to switch it might be easier to first try it out in a vm. then you see which apps are available. when you found solutions for all workflows then you can switch. when you find out after install it might be quite annoying.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Oh brother thanks for your detailed answer and extremely sorry for being so late to respond because somehow I missed your reply. Now getting onto the real things 😊 . Yes I tried to install Rhinoceros under Wine following someone who supposedly had made some hacks. But that didn't make it somehow. I don't know the link provided by you is the same I tried. But the tutorial I followed was so much disorganized that it was bound to fail and actually failed. But fortunately I could install it under VM Windows 🌝. As for Terragen I successfully installed it under Wine. Probably there is no purely Linux version available.
I was never more happy to have learnt to use computers through a Raspberry Pi, as I thus am very familiar with how Linux works and when I did I could basically quit Window$ cold turkey without any big problems. And now that Window$ would be automatically screenshotting everything I do if I used it I'll stay the heck away from it as far as possible, thank you very much. MacOS is okay in my limited experience, as it's at least in the same family of operating systems as Linux, but I like Linux the most and have been daily-driving exclusively Linux for the last five to seven years and before that Linux on my RasPi and Window$ on my x86 computers.
OSX is doing the same thing as Windows, especially on iphones. Search online, people discovered the phones took photos of all they do every 5 seconds, with both cameras as well. You know exactly what their mentality it is and I strongly advise any one at this point in time to switch to Linux yesterday! : D
@@TheLinuxWayToday I rarely use any Apple products and the only one I own is an old iMac from 2017 that my grandmother gifted to me after its previous owner, my stepgrandfather, had died.
@@Lampe2020 Some times things are irreplaceable for they hold sentimental value. And if it stills work, why not. The good thing is you can use a VM in ti with Linux or install Linux as main os on it :D
@@TheLinuxWayToday That's actually what I did, as MacOS became so slow on it that even I couldn't deal with it anymore. For quite a while it was my main computer and I used it with Ubuntu Unity.
@@Lampe2020 There is a real reason: both microsoft and apple have planned obsolence and they are known to throtle the hardware to the point in which they make it more or less unusable. There's no profit for them into a reliable device. I am still amazed that given all we now know about these two corporations, their anticonsumer practices and evil schemas they pull, people still find stay in those operating systems. Linux is the solely sane choice no matter what you thing you are loosing exiting those two systems.
Linux is for everyone, as the channel shows in the banner: gaming, office work, development. Funny as it is, many devs still do not know how good Linux is and how easier it makes the life in development. : D Also, many devs are suckered into Apple ecosystem just to get slapped in the face like I was. Why not making the thumb in such a way it brings in as many people as possible to watch it? Thanks for asking my friend!
Install CachyOS, you will forget about Windows pretty fast. As it stands right now, I switched to Linux as main OS for work since 2021 and gaming and graphics intensive GPU since almost 6 months now. There is no software I miss and what I got from the FOSS community fulfills any needs I have, 2D, 3D, Video recording and Editing, Graphic Design, Digital Painting, animation, you name it. Also, you can run a lot of windows software on Linux using Lutris and Wine. Give it a try! : D
Never heard of lunacy before, Tnx! I also ditched Windows because is a piece of crap and now i am using Linux mint! In general i use open sourced software like blender,gimp,krita and gotot engine so there is no use for using Windows Anymore! Not to mention the customization that you can do in Linux is Just Crazy! By the way you sound Romanian :D! Subscribed!
RUclips is really filled with linux videos lmk what exactly do u need help with. Meanwhile fire up a virtual machine via virtual box and get the iso and install it and try to play with it
I strongly recommend joining Discord. Most of Linux distros have Discord communities, ChacyOS, Nobara, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc, plus many more other Linux dedicated communities. I'll make a video about this! : D
You learnt how to use windows. You learnt how to use android/IOS. You learnt how to use your smart TV software. You can do it, man. It's not rocket science.
I am a professional developer and ux architect and I;ve used Linux as VM to do my work fo rthe past 6 years and as main OS for the past 3 years. What you say is not really true : D
I've had to tinker with Windows more, lately to get it to not suck (and not spy on me)... It doesn't help that in Linux, problems are solvable by googling error messages The same can't be said for Windows's BS "error codes" that don't even help fix problems most of the time
🐧 - Thanks for watching! Let me know in the comments what problems you faced while using OSX or Windows and what made you switch to Linux!
osx worked quite well for me, what turned me away from it was its closed ecosystem. apple just wants you to do things the apple way, other ways don't work. linux is just a lot more flexible than the other two, you can make it look and act just how you want. Sometimes it can be a little trickier than on windows/mac because not everything is as polished
@@willi1978 And really important: the device truly belongs to you and no spyware (corpor or gov or otherwise.
Left Windows behind 25 years ago due to various irritations, the details I no longer remember. These days, anything other than my own modified Openbox configuration just feels clunky and awkward.
@@haplozetetic9519 Niceee@ You've been a long time at it! I regret I have not switched to Linux a decade ago my self.
as a college student, I payed part of my tuition with 20 hrs/week of minimum wage work. I payed for my music and I used itunes with a non apple mp3 player, when most of my friends were simply pirating music. One day I go to the gym and my music didn't play. Overnight apple had changed many of my songs to .m4p files, which can't be played outside of the apple ecosystem. I swore I would never pay apple another cent, and I've kept that promise for 13 years. I switched to linux a few months ago because of windows recall. Frankly, it's ultimately much better than windows, but you need to find the right software to replace what you're used to. Once you find it, most of it will actually be better
Welcome friend! Well said and done! This is where a lot of people lack, the right mentality and conviction to what we all know to be true and fair.
If you pay something then it should be yours permanently and with no alterations. Indeed, Linux is a far better experience and ever evolving at a faster pace than windows or osx, just because there are more people working on it and building features they them selves would use for free and for their own benefit: no spyware, performant, reliant, up to date, useful, enjoyable.
Yeah, I was on Windows 10 as a daily driver on a multi-drive build. I used gParted to look at all the partitions on all my drives and found a "MIcrosoft Data" partition added to my normally unmounted internal storage drive. Creation of this partition shrank the NTFS partition. Files were corrupted.
At that same time, Windows 10 started to persistently force-update my then-aging, "soon to be rebuilt anyhow" home build to an incompatible video driver. Since it was updated to 10 from a Windows 8.2 retail copy, I called in to have it out with Microsoft "Tech Support" about these issues. Their bottom line was that they wanted me to get them a newer computer of "mine" for their use. Within the few hours it took to re-copy all my backups, every NTFS partition I had was replaced with ext4.
My takeaway was that it was worth sacrificing a DRMed iTunes library and the good negative scanner for my then hobby of film photography to complete my migration to Linux.
Awesome stuff man! : D - super nice to see many more people switching to Linux for a better life.
I installed Arch Linux with KDE and stable LTS kernel it's working great on my old hardware. Fast and bloat free.
Awesome! Yes, works a lot better, doesn't it?
I was waiting for apple fan to show up and say you were using it wrong.
Give it time my friend :)))
As you said, really own the computer, and I also prefer open standards to avoid vendor lock-in.
Indeed! This is the issue most of people fail to see and understand. Together we can finally make the change.
@@TheLinuxWayTodayi agree!
Both of those 100%
"Open source doesn't mean it's free"
That's exactly what linux is about. I don't have a problem to have a really cheap monthly payment or one time payment as long it's a good software.
Linux's contributions are either corporate backing, volunteer devs or user donations.
And all o fit while still being open to every one on the planet and beats the hell out of windows or osx enclosure.
Switched from Windows to Linux (CachyOS) about 7months ago. Was mainly due to Recall being announced and all the other telemetry built in to Windows. But now that I have been using Hyprland since 555beta drivers, I don't think I could live without it :D
Heyheyhey i was JUST thinking about switching to cachyos AND hyprland as my wm but ive used linux in the past with kde and gnome and didn't like much but hyprland is really fun and eye candy but all the famous dots are too much for me i want something clean and minimalist. So um do u have your dots you can share 🥺🥺 i would really appreciate it. Thank you
Hyprland is crazy good, but it has its specific use and strong opinionated way of doing this. This is the power of Linux and main reason is the best ecosystem in the world! : D
Good luck doing that with windows or osx....
The whole german government is switching to linux next year.
I am switching to linux in oct 2025 or before.If i can figure out how to play the games i like on linux, cool. Otherwise i will have a windows partition that will be used to play games only. Only games will be played on the win partition. No web surfing, no documents will be written and nothing but games will be played on the windows platform.
microsoft is starting to overstep their boundaries and i am not ok with a lot of what they do now.
China and Russia, for example, are on Linux since 2007 by law, and they required that all government institutions, schools, hospital, etc, are mandatory on Linux and as such they developed their own Linux desktop based on open source distros. Africa for the vast majority runs on Linux as well. We are talking of roughly 3 billion people using Linux, not to mention all of the Android devices.... I have another channel where I am only posting about gaming as I realized it is better to keep gaming separate as a topic and in here I will be posting only things related to distros in generally, how to install, setup, etc. Follow me here as well: www.youtube.com/@GamingWithLinux
That's what I'm doing. I got arch and windows in the same machine. I only use windows for gaming, and I feel like it's even better that way. Sometimes when I'm coding, I just want to hop on osu! and play a game or a game of data to chill, but then I get distracted and lose focus. Now that I need to restart my pc for gaming, I can do my work with deep focus and I can enjoy my games and just my games. You can dualboot your PC right fucking now it's very easy. Make sure you have backups tho just in case. Choose a distro that helps you with what you're doing and give it a go. Good luck!
@@achura6129 I did it like that for a while, until I had to reinstall W10 because of an idiotic update that failed and had to reinstall Linux as well, with all the dev env attacked to it.
There for I went to a different approach: installed a new SSD where I installed Linux only and then I switched the boot order depending on what I wanted to run, Windows or Linux, but they were completely separated and independent of each other. This way if you ever install Windows no need to install Linux again.
This worked for a while until Recall and the support drop for W10. On top of this, I do not enjoy upgrading my PC, expensively, everyu 2 - 3 years so Windows can run on it... Linux made my life so much better and I feel I can use the hardware I have for the next 10 year at the bare minimum without any necessary upgrades mostly.
It took me maybe a month to get used to gaming on Linux, with settings and all, but it was worth it 100%. The games I do not play are as follows:
- games who refuses their player base to run Linux and make anything in their power to do so
- games who are poorly optimized by default and it'll run bad regardless of your OS
- and games who cannot run on win-ge, Proton or Proton-GE
A very surprising result: I spend less while playing quality and well made games : D
@@TheLinuxWayToday Having an separate SSD for Linux is definitely the way to go.
This is your first video i watched. Distrotube recommended some smaller linux channel and your was included. Really nice story and explanation. The only thing i would suggest, never take any poll data from Reddit as a realistic data. I am talking about survey which linux distribution is the most used. We simply don't know. Since majority of linix distros don't have any kind of telemetry, even the guys who made them don't have that info. And on Reddit you have a small very vocal community. I really don't care ehich one is the most used. I use a distro which i prefer. And i am totally fine with other user select some other distro they like the most. It's not a competition and a lot of users kind of forget that. The important thing is that we all use foss.
I diged a lot more and I found out that Linux is actually used by more than 1 billion people... I will com with a video and show the reality. We have been lied to and heavily suppressed to know this was a reality.
After Windows announced recall and how shady they're going about it, I'm definitely moving to Linux. Everyone keeps mentioning Linux mint but I'm not too sure? I just need it for gaming and coding.
linux mint is fine
it's very stable
if you want to have a little bit later stuff though you could do fedora or opensuse
ChacyOS and Nobara are the main two distros for gaming out of the box setup. Install it, launch Steam, play!
I went with Fedora Workstation and it's working perfectly.
If you want a desktop like Windows you can try their KDE spin. It's a glorious system.
BTW, I was using Fedora for coding and design solely, but now I have moved to CachyOS with all options, coding, design, gaming.
Which Linux distro do you use?
Hi there. I am using two distros. Fedora 41 for development and design work (mostly UI web related) and CachyOS for gaming and recordings.
I guess that I just got lucky. Mine just works. Was a windows 10 gaming rig. Originaly bought it for video editing. Missing a motherboard chip that would have allowed upgrade to 11. End of life for 10 happened. My windows 11 laptop got so bloated that it slowed way down. I got angry. Downloaded Ubuntu onto a flash drive. Rebooted my computer without pulling it out. And I haven't looked back! LOL
Hehehe! Well done my friend! It makes no sense to upgrade every two years your PC so an operating system can work on it...not to mention the rest of the crap it comes with.
I ran into that same exact problem with a brand new Ipad. I needed a 2nd device to reset my password which I didn't have. They told me I had to wait 14 days to use a brand new device since I didn't have a 2nd Apple product. I returned it immediately.
that is very stupid. do they expect people just to buy more products?
Well done my friend!
The Mac OS stuff i believe you but regarding the Recall and "update push"...that only applies to new Copilot+ PCs you have to buy in order to have this feature.
Digg a little deeper in regards to Recall... MS will do what ever fits their agenda, regardless.
last windows 10 update I got randomly installed copilot without asking
I use Fedora with full disk encryption, great for business use cases.
Well said and true! I use Fedora for my work as a developer and designer, with Visual Studio Code community edition and Lunacy, Inkscape, Krita.
i already use debian for work, i had 200gb old ssd for windows 10 dualboot for gaming. recently that ssd died and i dont want to spoil a new ssd with windows 11 garbage. i also think i like the neat, separated work and gaming os idea.
what do you think, shall i get arch or ubuntu for gaming space?
Indeed. I found that keeping a PC with Fedora for work and a PC with ChacyOS for gaming is the perfect way to go. However, one of the easiest options for those who have only one PC is to install the two different Linux distros on two different SSDs and boot between them.
Debian is pretty nice for work as well, but I switched to Fedora after a while.
@@TheLinuxWayToday thanx :)
Not a gamer and I don't like KDE or Arch based. MX Linux Xfce does all I need. Works great on my refurbished Dell optiplex 5050 mini. Stable and quick.
I do not liek KDE either, I am using Gnome Xorg. Exactly! Linux makes older PCs or Laptops feel like it's brand new! : D
Welcome to Linux community my friend!
Nice video I am glad that DistroTube recommended your channel.
I never expected YouTUbe would recommend my channel. All I wanted was to share my experience and how I managed to move to Linux. The more people I can help the better for all of us and companies who refused to move will have no choice but follow the trend. Linux already won, and I will make a video explaining why.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Just to clear confusion - DistroTube is another much older Linux channel which recommended yours :)
Well, after the recall situation I felt kind of ready to pull the trigger and at least try switching to Linux (in a form of a second system experiment) - thank you for the inspirational video! Unfortunately, Nvidia doesn't want to get its Broadcast to Arch, so the lossless transition is not possible at the moment
I am using OBS with decent settings and I love it. The thing is I value privacy more than the edge use cases of software. Also, I do not fee like training nvidia Ai on my voice and my life.
One thing is for sure, Linux is picking up speed and there is no turning back: companies will start turning in.
Hello, very interesting video and I am intrigued. I'm quite normal, most ordinary person and even more conservative and somewhat outdated... I'm not happy with Windows, but there are things that bother me about Linux and I want to ask about them, relative to my usage goals and based on those Linux versions that you listed "CachyOS" and ""Nobara":
1. I have an HDR monitor and I moved from W10 to W11 because of the HDR functionality and settings W11 provide (AutoHDR that actually works great for me, ""Windows HDR Calibration" app, "DisplayHDR test" app etc.), so do you know how is the HDR experience in those Linux versions? In games with native HDR, or non-HDR games, that can be tonemapped like with the Windows "AutoHDR" funcion, or even HDR movie files on the PC?
In W11 I had some problems with taking screenshots while HDR was ON (they were overexposed), but now there is a workaround fix which is an option in the "Snipping tool" app, that lets you take screenshots with "HDR color correction" applied.
Also since I use Adobe programs for my work, there are some issues with Photoshop and some other programs that look awful in the menu (don't know how to explain it but the menu of the program itself is not correct, it does not look how it should) when HDR is ON and they are not reproducing the correct colors.
Will all of this be better in Linux from that point of view? Is everything HDR related going to work in Linux as it should and do I have to be an "IT specialist" with "Terminal skills" to be able to set everything up?
2. In my free time I play mostly older games and one of them is Apex Legends, but since it is using anti-cheat, will I have problems on Linux playing Apex online (through Steam) with my friends?
Also how is the game-modding in Linux (*like the good old Skyrim Nexus mod days), will I have problems with those kind of stuff working at all in Linux?
Also can I install and play all of my games from my "EpicGames" library from my account there in the platform?
3. Aside from gaming, I am using Photoshop, Illustrator, Clip Studio Paint, ArtRage, also XPpen software for my drawing tablet - so will all of that work as it should in Linux?
4. Also since I am a strange one and I am using Opera browser with several saved browser workspaces (named differently for different usage categories) with hundreds of opened tabs that are slept with "The Marvellous Suspender" browser extention (because I use them organized for my historical hobby-topics and several unfinished projects), will I have problems with using the same type of Opera functionality in Garuda Linux, using browsers the same way like I am doing it in Windows?
5. I am also using Kodi, Stremio and stream movies, tv shows, so will all of those work in Linux too? In Stremio there is an extension called "Torrentio" that I am using and you can guess what it does by its name. Will I have problems doing all of that in Linux?
I spent 20 mins typing out a response to this with TONS of info, but either the youtuber OR youtube does not want to let me post it even though there is nothing harmful in it, no links or toxic wording, 100% information answering all the 5 points.
I wont retype it, sorry (probably get blocked again anyway). RUclips or the creator of this video does not want this channel to be a source of good information and support for linux users.
@@marcusjohansson668 For sure YouTUbe is banning you for long context. Just try to split the answer in multiple replies. I never deleted comments from people so far.
For point Q1. -> I think this would be good. displaycal.net/
Adobe software is not working by default in Linux and unfortunately neither does Affinity products. However, there are people who showed how you can run Adobe and Affnity software on Linux using Lutris and Wine applications.
Q2. Apex legends it seems is working via Steam, with compatibility mode activated and running Proton Experimental or Proton CahcyOS or what ever version is going to be available depending on the OS you are going to install.
3. As I said earlier, Adobe does not play well out od the box. you'd have to find options with Lutris and Wine installer.
ArtRage and Clip Studio Paint can be replaced with Krita mostlym, I think. XPen, no idea.
Try Solus XFCE, it's rolling release, light and very stable!
Solus also has Budgie, Gnome and KDE Plasma spins 👍
Now Solus uses the same BORE scheduler as CachyOS. It's possible that Solus is more stable than CachyOS.
Maybe someone can do an in-depth comparison of all the rolling release distros and see which one has the lowest number of crashes, memory usage etc.
Solus doesn't have as big a repository of software as Arch, but it has everything a Linux beginner would require.
The new Solus 4.6 was announced recently on 14 Oct 2024. Solus XFCE is still labelled a Beta, but it's working well on a cheap €200 HP laptop I have which became painfully slow on Windows 11.
Lots of old laptops and computers could be saved from going to the landfill or getting recycled needlessly if more people save those machines by installing Linux on them!
Thanks for your video 🙂👍
(Posted on Fri 18 Oct 2024 at 17:59 UTC)
Can't wait to test them all : D
Doesn’t seem there’s large daylight between Debian and solus and cachyos
@@TheLinuxWayToday cool, looking forward to that video from you 🙂👍
(Posted on Sat 19 Oct 2024 at 14:02 UTC)
@@GoonCity777 I'm quite sure there's a big difference among those 3 distros!
Debian has older kernel etc
Solus is rolling release but limited software repository.
CachyOS is optimised for gaming and performance, with a better repository since it's based on Arch.
(Posted on Sat 19 Oct 2024 at 14:06 UTC)
thoughts on the new mac with the m4 chip?
I would never consider to buy into apple ever again as I have explained the reasons for which I sold my macbook pro and the m2 mni.
Best is to make your self a custom mini PC, like I did, and it will be powrefull and way cheaper than a m4 form apple, plus, you benefit form installing Linux on it.
Try Beelink computers.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Why would you actually lie to buying m2 mac mini from shady retailer stuff for those installed the lockings, buy it from official apple or get second hand from authorized official retailer, this is first time you've had into problem into shady stuff from shady retailer is a funny business
@@dergonmcdragon3161 The store is an official Apple retailer, the device came in brand new sealed. Before you go ahead and reply again, search online, many people had the exact same problem. Apple has built in a certain money extortion schema to which I do not abide by, not do I recommend to any one. We, here, know exactly why we ditch apple...
Hi, do you have any recommendations for a gaming laptop that can run Linux?
Thanks for the video.
I think nowadays both AMD and Nvidia are well integrated in Linux distributions, and thanks to Valve which pushed heavily the compatibility mode and Vulkan technology to replace DirectX, almost any gaming laptop should work. The question then comes down to what games you need to play? Simple 2d games? Complex 3d triple AAA games?
This is what impacts your budget. I think a minimum viable gaming experience is a AMD Ryzen 5 with let's say a 2060 RTX and it might give you decency on almost all games.
There is alwasy the Nvidia GeForce Now gaming platform where you need just any kind of laptop that can be connected to 500mb/s internet connection and you can game anything. Granted, it is around 17 USD/m, but hey, you are playing games on 4080 RTX or better in 1080p or 4k.
Based take after based take 😍
CachyOS stopped me from distro hopping
Same for me : D
I was using Cachy OS. I heard good things about Ubuntu 24.10. Tried it and loved it.
I may be sticking on to it for a while.
it was NixOS for me.
I too feel that cachos and gnome are the best choices. I try KDE when gnome is not working well, but usually I get worse and revert back.
I am still fooling around and discover new dekstops flavors, while in the mean time I use Gnome with Xorg as daily driver. Most likely I may switch to something like Hyprland or Cosmic when they are in a more stable form. As I was saying, the power of Linux is diversity in its true form! : D
I use Gentoo, btw.
Nice! : D
Someday hopefully soon...
@googIesux It isn't all that hard as long as you do what the handbook tells you to. It is one of those distros where you only get in trouble when you watch videos instead of RTFM.
never heard of cachyOS before. thank you. and definetely agree with all your points, no doubt about it. always wanted to daily drive linux but always gave up, being for lack of gaming support (waaay before proton and steamdeck were a thing) or for native windows applications. but now... there is nothing we can do.
in my windows machine i have updates, defender and recall disabled, and i'm not putting up with it anymore, no way.
sure i'm not a typical windows user. since i do gamedev and use a lot of unsupported software, and in my dayjob i literaly have to use windows, i'll definetely suffer in the beginning but enough is enough.
I agree with you. Recall is baked into the core now, you have no option to turn it off any longer to my understanding, and I've seen people showing that is a fact. The only thing stopping any one from moving to Linux is them selves.
@@TheLinuxWayToday yeah... i have it "disabled" by not updating to the latest version of win 11 but i can't do this forever, even down the road i'm sure people will come up with a powershell script or something that will acomplish just that but by then it will be kinda besides the point. i mean if we have to go out of our way to disable core OS features like that, why not give linux another go at least.
never thought i'd say this but i miss the Cortana days lol.
@@JeanRosa-qc3mb True! The main difference here is that with Linux you have proper documentation to enable or disable features, out of the box, and it was built as such so everyone could really own the system on their machines not the other way around.
My greatest gripe have been lack of my favorite softwaress:
1. could install Rhinoceros3d only after installing windows under VM
2.could install Bulk rename utility under WINE. But the lack of such renaming software in Linux platform is absolutely disappointing.
3. Some terreain and environment making apps could only be installed after installing windows under VM.
Second greatest gripe is inconsistency regarding installation of softwares like:
4. App installed from the distro repository not working while installing from the official website solved it.
5. CLI installation method recommend by an apps official website doesn't match what the distro official forum suggests.
Thanks for joining here! It is much appreciated.
Have you tried this one? github.com/cryinkfly/Rhinoceros-3D-for-Linux
Nowadays I think most of software from Windows have in one form or another a way to run it in Linux. If you simply cannot live without something, yes, a VM with w10 is good enough.
Terragen - planetside.co.uk/
To my knowledge I understand it works on Linux, this might help with the environment generation.
The way I do it when installing is this:
- go to official website of a software and see if they support Linux directly, follow the instructions
- go to Flathub, AUR (or what other package managers you have and are suported in the OS) and see if it is the already.
- go to Discord Linux communities, ask around
- if no solution, try Lutris and Wine
- w10 VM if all fail
However, the current path I am on for the past two years is to learn new software native to Linux and work with those. I found a doze 3d CAD and more apps in Flathub. Take your time, see what's in there. Join Discord Linux community and ask around, there is a ton of software available. On a personal note, for me there is no substitution for privacy, and my life is not a product to be profit from by corporations.
@@TheLinuxWayToday @nekriomycin90000 For both of you, using "AppImages" of various applications might be a viable option as well, I primarily make use of AppImages, not a fan of Flatpak and native package management. They only allow a single instance of a program to be installed, using different versions of a program with independent settings, is also not really possible this way, so Flatpaks are not a good solution either (from my point of view).
There is KBulkRename that developed by KDE. Yet, you can install in all distros.
switch to windows is not 1:1, if you intend to switch it might be easier to first try it out in a vm. then you see which apps are available. when you found solutions for all workflows then you can switch. when you find out after install it might be quite annoying.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Oh brother thanks for your detailed answer and extremely sorry for being so late to respond because somehow I missed your reply. Now getting onto the real things 😊 . Yes I tried to install Rhinoceros under Wine following someone who supposedly had made some hacks. But that didn't make it somehow. I don't know the link provided by you is the same I tried. But the tutorial I followed was so much disorganized that it was bound to fail and actually failed. But fortunately I could install it under VM Windows 🌝.
As for Terragen I successfully installed it under Wine. Probably there is no purely Linux version available.
I was never more happy to have learnt to use computers through a Raspberry Pi, as I thus am very familiar with how Linux works and when I did I could basically quit Window$ cold turkey without any big problems. And now that Window$ would be automatically screenshotting everything I do if I used it I'll stay the heck away from it as far as possible, thank you very much. MacOS is okay in my limited experience, as it's at least in the same family of operating systems as Linux, but I like Linux the most and have been daily-driving exclusively Linux for the last five to seven years and before that Linux on my RasPi and Window$ on my x86 computers.
OSX is doing the same thing as Windows, especially on iphones. Search online, people discovered the phones took photos of all they do every 5 seconds, with both cameras as well. You know exactly what their mentality it is and I strongly advise any one at this point in time to switch to Linux yesterday! : D
@@TheLinuxWayToday
I rarely use any Apple products and the only one I own is an old iMac from 2017 that my grandmother gifted to me after its previous owner, my stepgrandfather, had died.
@@Lampe2020 Some times things are irreplaceable for they hold sentimental value. And if it stills work, why not. The good thing is you can use a VM in ti with Linux or install Linux as main os on it :D
@@TheLinuxWayToday
That's actually what I did, as MacOS became so slow on it that even I couldn't deal with it anymore. For quite a while it was my main computer and I used it with Ubuntu Unity.
@@Lampe2020 There is a real reason: both microsoft and apple have planned obsolence and they are known to throtle the hardware to the point in which they make it more or less unusable. There's no profit for them into a reliable device. I am still amazed that given all we now know about these two corporations, their anticonsumer practices and evil schemas they pull, people still find stay in those operating systems. Linux is the solely sane choice no matter what you thing you are loosing exiting those two systems.
Is there a verson of Linux with really good steam support?
all of them
There is a distro called Nobara Linux that I recommend for easily setting up Linux for gaming.
CachyOS has Steam out of the box. As you can see in the video I am gaming on it :D
@@RellisLCT Yes, Nobara as well. FYI, Nobara is based on CachyOS.
Nobara
I want to switch i just having hard time figuring out the os
Get nobara
It will take a few days to accommodate but it is totally worth it. Can you tell us what you find difficult?
@@vikaskyatannawar8417 Yes, Nobara is just as a good choice. FYI, Nobara is based on CachyOS.
@@TheLinuxWayToday Isn't Nobara based on Fedora instead ?
@@Louis-L186 yes it is, isnt CachyOS inmutable distro?
what is significance of VS code logo in thumbnail? i dont want to reduce the vid's engagemeyg rating rating by playing and skimming over
Linux is for everyone, as the channel shows in the banner: gaming, office work, development. Funny as it is, many devs still do not know how good Linux is and how easier it makes the life in development. : D
Also, many devs are suckered into Apple ecosystem just to get slapped in the face like I was. Why not making the thumb in such a way it brings in as many people as possible to watch it? Thanks for asking my friend!
Epic
Thank you my man!
both os are better than the other in different areas. i mostly use windows but use linux on my homeserver
Install CachyOS, you will forget about Windows pretty fast. As it stands right now, I switched to Linux as main OS for work since 2021 and gaming and graphics intensive GPU since almost 6 months now. There is no software I miss and what I got from the FOSS community fulfills any needs I have, 2D, 3D, Video recording and Editing, Graphic Design, Digital Painting, animation, you name it. Also, you can run a lot of windows software on Linux using Lutris and Wine. Give it a try! : D
Never heard of lunacy before, Tnx! I also ditched Windows because is a piece of crap and now i am using Linux mint! In general i use open sourced software like blender,gimp,krita and gotot engine so there is no use for using Windows Anymore! Not to mention the customization that you can do in Linux is Just Crazy! By the way you sound Romanian :D! Subscribed!
I am Romanian, true : D
Indeed, level of customization is the power of Linux, plus the fact that they do not spy on you as windoaz or ossx does : D
Good video!
Much appreciated my friend!
I wanted to search but I have no idea how to use linux :(
RUclips is really filled with linux videos lmk what exactly do u need help with. Meanwhile fire up a virtual machine via virtual box and get the iso and install it and try to play with it
I strongly recommend joining Discord. Most of Linux distros have Discord communities, ChacyOS, Nobara, Fedora, Ubuntu, etc, plus many more other Linux dedicated communities.
I'll make a video about this! : D
You learnt how to use windows. You learnt how to use android/IOS. You learnt how to use your smart TV software.
You can do it, man. It's not rocket science.
@@octopusonfire100 When you put it that way, you right lol
@@LXM10 It does look hard at first, but overtime it gets pretty easy. Kinda like a bumpy road that flattens out overtime.
nice vid man great info
Much appreciated! Welcome to the channel! : D
Figma Nuts
You would never bride me to use Linux OS
That's OK.
Because you like to infinite tinker your setup without actually getting any real work done...
I am a professional developer and ux architect and I;ve used Linux as VM to do my work fo rthe past 6 years and as main OS for the past 3 years. What you say is not really true : D
I've had to tinker with Windows more, lately to get it to not suck (and not spy on me)...
It doesn't help that in Linux, problems are solvable by googling error messages
The same can't be said for Windows's BS "error codes" that don't even help fix problems most of the time
Tinker with what? Even in the odd cases I've had to tinker (unusual drawing tablet brand) once it worked it just stayed working...
Bad clickbait
I wish it was... : D