Linux Challenge Day 54 Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord
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- Microsoft Windows Alternative. Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord Series, today's episode covers My 54 Days Without Windows. Which Linux Distribution Is Overall The Best for me and all of the positives and negatives with the switch from Windows to Linux.
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Join me as I embark on a journey into the unknown a journey into the world of Linux. My goal is to give Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows the one-finger salute but the question remains, can I use an alternative operating system (Linux) and use all of the hardware and software needed to be a "daily driver"? Or will I fail and come crawling back to Billy The Kid and his telemetry-stricken, privacy-disrespecting, bloated POS spyware operating system?Do me a favor and place an emoji in the comments so I know you watched!
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Are you sick of MS Windows and are looking for an alternative?
Would you consider Linux as a daily driver operating system?
Which Linux Distro Do You Like The Most?
Why did you select that Linux distribution?
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Microsoft Windows Alternative. Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord Series, today's episode covers My 54 Days Without Windows. Which Linux Distribution Is Overall The Best for me and all of the positives and negatives with the switch from Windows to Linux.
Join me as I embark on a journey into the unknown a journey into the world of Linux. My goal is to give Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows the one-finger salute but the question remains, can I use an alternative operating system (Linux) and use all of the hardware and software needed to be a "daily driver"? Or will I fail and come crawling back to Billy The Kid and his telemetry-stricken, privacy-disrespecting, bloated POS spyware operating system?Do me a favor and place an emoji in the comments so I know you watched!
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Do me a favor and place an emoji in the comments so I know you watched!
Are you sick of MS Windows and are looking for an alternative?
Would you consider Linux as a daily driver operating system?
Which Linux Distro Do You Like The Most?
Why did you select that Linux distribution?
or... are you just here to see me fail and mea culpa? Tell the truth!
Subscribe, Share, and Like if so inclined! Also, after watching, consider commenting!
Can't wait to hear from you in the comments below this video!
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Great Video. Congrats on the hardware upgrade, like a boss. ( I used to D jump, now lately i just use Linux Mint, USed LM for years and Windows. I used to Dual boot.
Microsoft alternative for me is Deepin or ZorinOS which appear to have Windows software work out of the box why are we still on Windows when Linux doesn't need security software and only a Firewall?
We are currently exploring opportunities for when all of those windows 10 systems are no longer viable to go to 11.
An alternative OS that keeps the hardware going.
We have been doing this for some of our Mac clients non-m chip.
When Apple says they will not play with you anymore but it's still good Hardware it's a shame to just throw the damn thing away!
That's how it started but Microsoft picked up the Apple mantra of limited Hardware.
So here we go!!
Mint on Mac didn't fair so well.
Straight unbutu seems to be flawless on Mac.
Following your adventures as I have my own..
Did we meet at some point in Port St Lucie?
I want you to try out Haiku "BeOS"
Your "Life after cutting the cord..." series are some of the most informative videos on RUclips. It's an excellent service you deliver.
Linux Mint XFCE has been my personal poison of choice for 4 years and I love it. I can't see myself switching to anything else, short of some cataclysmic drift in functionality.
I deleted Microsoft and went to Linux Mint 22. As with most people, Recall was a breaking point for me. High points of Mint, everything is easy to find. Getting up and running was easy, Install was a breeze. The "checklist" at startup was a nice touch as an introduction to a new operating system. Low points, in my excitement, I installed version 22 on release. After going through many versions of Microsoft, I should have known better and waited a month to let the patches catch up. Overall experience 99/100.
Is there anything similar to microsoft remote desktop on Linux?? Cheers .
@@havmercy there are many remote desktop like anydesk many more
Same, I did it about 2 week ago
But now instead of doing what I suppose to do, I'm busy hopping from 1 distro to another. 😂 Not because their bad, but because they are awesome, am like a little kid in a chocolate candy shop.. 😅
For me Linux Mint is king.
@@LaughingFoxeditz thank u
3+ months on Arch Linux. Total of 5+ months on Linux overall. Not going back to Windows as far as I can see.
Hear hear. I've switched a year ago. Started with Nobara, ended up on Garuda. I really came to like Arch based distros.
@@Xaito Garuda is what introduced me to Arch. I then switched to base Arch and now I'm running CachyOS. I just like Arch but then I first started using Linux in the 90's with the SLS release, so I'm very used to getting down and dirty into the internals with Linux. 🤪 That's why I prefer Arch which gives me more choice in what to do, and it allowed me to learn how Linux works under the hood as it has changed a lot since the SLS and Slackware days of yore when I first started.
@@iBolski I've had prior experience with ubuntu and redhat based server Linux, but I had close to no experience with desktop Linux. I appreciate Arch for what it is, but from a new desktop Linux User's perspective, it was a bit too much work for me to setup. Garuda has a sensible default config, update script and the Chaotic AUR. It let me start using the PC with a bare minimum of tweaking and tinkering. I like tinkering, but I prefer to not reinvent the wheel and then having to maintain my own hacky solutions to problems that got solved by people smarter than myself. ;)
At day 54 - you are officially free of microsoft windows...it now just experimenting and tweaking your linux system. I am at day 60 on life after microoft windows on all my hardware.
I'm 83 yrs old. I switched to Linux (SuSE 5.8 IIRC) in May 1998 and have been using Linux every since. For the last 6 or so years I have been running KDE Neon riding on the BTRFS file system. They have been faultless for me.
Fantastic.
24 years windows free. No BSOD.
I've used an 10 year old computer with windows 11 and I've never seen a blue screen than I can remember.. what do you mean!?
@@asrr62Twenty four years ago there were a lot more blue screens than there are now. Today the big problem is privacy
i fired up linux mint on my desktop after putting the windows installation aside.
what a difference. everything is so much faster and snappier. oh, and uses far less memory.
i’m actually beginning to think that linux is ready for the desktop.
there planning on removing kernel level anti-cheat
@@nikichashadow That's been misreported. MS wants to give companies more options for security solutions outside of the kernel but still plans to keep the kernel-mode option available. Brodie Robertson has a good video on the topic explaining the details.
Two Months with Debian 12/Gnome. I can do everything now that I could under windows. I can play all the games I care about playing. I haven't even thought about Windows since. Good times. You just need to put in a little time and effort to learn something new. It's easier than ever.
Linux Mint Mate has been my personal daily driver since version 18.x and I have never looked back... I still have to drive Billy the Kid's Windoze OS at work, and my 10 year old Latitude E series laptop with Mint runs circles around Windoze 11 on a performance 10 core AI NPU assisted laptop!!!
Day 54 for me was over two decades ago. I lost track of how long I've been free of Windows. It's been bliss.
Cool video. Switched to Linux as my daily driver and It's great.
Thanks for the Linux Distro review. Much appreciated. Just installed Linux Mint on my 2014 Macbook pro and it works perfectly. All drivers installed flawlessly. LM even works better than Ubuntu itself which I installed on a 2012 Mac Mini.
I'm on day 8500+ and I'm still tweaking Linux, testing new distros, trying alternative unix operating systems and loving very minute of it! I couldn't imagine doing that on Windows. Anyway, congrats on that milestone.
Over the past month or so Linux Mint has provided me with all I needed and even some extras. The extras whilst not essential, allowed for a “be prepared” approach. ( pdf editor , gimp editor, alternative browser….
I had only one issue, Bluetooth acted up and I needed a restart. Linux Mint is a 9.3 of 10 for me..
Hillbilly’s rule
Switched to Mint because of Windows 8, which I hated at first sight, that was getting on for ten years ago now :-) Though it did take me a while to find a propper alternative to Lightroom, which tunred out to be Darktable in the end. I really don't miss Windows for my home computing.
I'm apparently one of the few people who actually _didn't_ mind Win8. I wasn't particularly reliant on the "classic" start menu to begin with, and all you had to do was press the Mod key (aka "Windows" key) to drop back into the familiar desktop. If you were the kind of person who already used keyboard shortcuts for most things, your workflow remained pretty much the same going from 7 (or XP in my case) to 8. Though apparently for most people, the concept of using a finger to physically press a button on the keyboard rather than click on one - a button that both looks like and is positioned analogously to the start button - was just too much to handle and made the entire OS unusable. Funny enough, since I switched from Win8 to Arch a little over a decade ago and use i3 as my window manager, I _still_ need to push that button to do basically anything.
NVIDIA 3060 is brilliant in Linux. I'm using it in Linux Mint 22 Xfce Edition, as well as Xfce version of Cachy OS on my gaming PC. Both my PC's have the same specs. I have been without Windows for two months now fully. Have been using Linux for many years, but always had Windows for gaming. Proton came out in 2018 and I thought it would not mount to much, but now the Steam Deck is out and Valve is doing a fantastic job in getting games to run properly, plus Glorious Egg Roll's proton versions which gives performance of the game a bit more oomph. I am fully committed now to Linux now. Great video and I hope your journey into Linux keeps going well.
Going from a R7 1700x to a R7 3800X will blow your mind ! We're talking something like 50% more performances overall !
Wow this is exactly how I was thinking and my current conflicts with windows and dilemma with switching to Linux. Such a great help.
What say you?
I agree, I don't want to be spied on and no that doesn't mean I'm a criminal.
Likewise. Great point.
Timeshift works really well. I use Mint version 21 and upgraded to version 22. Unfortunately my capture card, a Blackmagic, didn't work with version 22. It also appeared that OBS was only available as a flat pack which also doesn't work with the capture card. I spent a little time trying to get it working but decided it was easier to go back to version 21 which is still supported for another 2 years by which time hopefully everything will work. I done a timeshift update before the upgrade and used it to go back to version 21 and it worked flawlessly. Happily back on version 21 for now :)
ha! try that with windows snapshots.
Timeshift saved me once too.
This series has really made me think about trying out Linux on an older Mac I haven't been using much, just to see what happens.
Do it. You’ll be surprised how much better everything runs compared to the bloated Windows spyware.
This video for me was like listening to a foreign language. Not smart enough to understand it, but still enjoyed listening as you delivered the message with your typical passion, detail, and the obvious goal of helping the JC Team! Thanks again for everything you do!
In the long term it's always a good idea to check what companies support linux with drivers for printers, scanners and any hardware that's a bit more industry specific which most average people would not use. As it's the companies that put out the hardware that should be maintaining the driver support for linux, not users.
Great point. Going forward. For sure.
I'm using Manjaro Linux now solely for 2 years. Works as a charm.
Might have to test drive it.
Rocking Garuda linux for all most a year now. Love it with my 3060🎉 . So glad I took the ti,e to learn Arch and not give up. I started with mint but happily landed and love Garuda. Setting up qemu and virtualizing other distros is a real joy.
Great to hear!
Honestly, I would love to see a OpenSUSE Tumbleweed or Leap review.
I got fed up with the blood suckers in Redmond many years ago and switched to Linux. At one point are another I have used Ubuntu, Linux Mint, a couple of Arch derivatives, OpenSUSE and now use POPOs on a box built by System76. Your findings are about what I would expect. Many of the Ubuntu based are much easier to use, though specific distros will have different mileage. One point for any switching to Linux, make your list of what you need to be able to do on the computer (edit photos, edit videos, play games, etc.) but don't get hung up running specific software.
Awesome J Christina, Your videos gives me the confidence in switching to Linux full time. Thanks a lot!! 🙌✌💕💕💕💕
I'm so glad! Please keep us all updated to your progress.
Your Linux challenge videos are the most unbiased, sensible, informative videos I've found about switching to Linux and real world usage. A great resource to share with others. I've tried more than a dozen different distros over the years but keep coming back to Linux mint over and over again, where for the most part everything "just works". Have installed on my elderly parents 15 yr old desktop pc and they are happy with their new "windows" update! Lol😊
Truly appreciate that. So glad you’re enjoying my work. Nice to hear that your parents are able to use Linux and certainly don’t know the difference between Windows and Linux.
@@jcristina I gradually moved my parents onto libre office and Thunderbird and other cross platform alternatives available on both Linux and Windows years ago so the transition was fairly smooth for them, no more difficult for them to navigate than moving from windows 7 to 10.
Day 54 without windows, I installed 53 versions of the same operating systems using 32 package managers while only 1 printer worked..as bad as windows is, you spent 54 hours at min doing unproductive task (installing stuff and praying it works). Not a windows fanboy, but I have spent a ton of time getting basics to work in Linux when I could have spent the same time doing something productive. It’s fun, but at times I sigh and look at my windows usb and say this could be the day, one more package compile error, one more driver mismatch….lol could be the day
I feeeeeeeel you!! Honestly, WP years ago I would have not made it to Day 54. It a testament to the advancements and more over adoption by software companies. If Linux would hit the same market share as MacOS we would see a ton of drivers and even great adoption.
Ejected Windows about a month ago and downloaded Linux Mint. The first several downloads I managed to destroy with my attempts to adapt Windows games to them. I also found that not all download mirrors are created equal. Finally I have stable and reliable Linux Mint with no issues. I imagine I will botch them up, but that is the nature of experimentation. I am happy with the responsiveness and "feel" and plan to continue with it.
Awesome. Keep us updated!!!!
excellent info again. Thank you. Went Mint and wiped windows for good. No regrets.
still waiting on life after microsoft windows - t-shirt. love both kubuntu and mint....
Big Linux fan here. I switched to Linux as my main OS after Microsoft ended security updates for Windows 7. I've tried many distros and my favorites are MX Linux, Manjaro, Fedora, Tails, Gnoppix, and finally my favorite Linux Mint. Linux Mint isn't perfect (no distro is), but it seems to be improving with each update and pretty stable overall. You can't beat having almost every single app 100% free either! Game compatibility is even getting a lot better in Linux. I would never go back to Windows on my personal computers (work I have no choice but Windows). I was already suspicious of Windows privacy, but the final straw of 3 second screen shots made up my decision for good!
I am going on 3 weeks Windows free.
My Windows drive is sitting idle while I am learning and enjoying Linux and the challenges you are going to have regardless.
I'm one year windows free this month. I've mothballed my windows drive a month in after I realize I really don't need it for anything.
@@Xaito how did you feel about the complete dumping of Windows after your first month.
@@ThatGuy.75 Mostly surprised that I haven't found a single thing that would force me to keep Windows around. Gaming works ridiculously well, mostly thanks to Steam. For everything else the Glorious Eggroll (GE) wine/proton branch did wonders for windows compatibility.
Nothing much more to say really - once I settled in, it just became routine.
I am a week behind you and still going strong, I've run Fedora and Nobara, but, sticking with Mint for now, I even contributed with a script to "auto-install" a downloaded DaVinci Resolve zip within my first two weeks on Linux.
It feels great being part of something instead of having everything handed to you and not knowing what is being put on your own hardware...
But, my windows was gone the moment I switched and my ms accounts closed shortly after, there is no more going back for me...
Nice work! Love that!!!! I’m think of creating a discord room on my discord server for the Linux challenge.
I just installed Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon, and 15-20 minutes later I got everything updated and upgraded as well as the Nvidia drivers installed, and everything just works. It is dual boot for now but the way this is working atm I would not be surprised if I moved over to Mint 100% in the near future. It took me a minute to make sure I got the right NVME drive that I had partitioned in advance so I'd have the correct partition to make / and set up as EXT4. right now I got chrome installed because I want to be able to use my google synch options, as well as stream to my Chromecast. And that too works like a charm. No video or audio issues at all. The big test is going to be Steam. The client installed, now if I can remember my password that be great. 😃
Just want to inform you about Bluetooth. You made the statement that it should be turned on out of the box well for many Distrobutions having Bluetooth turn on automatically is considered a Security Risk there for Those distro's will ship with it just not enabled. A simple command will turn it on and keep it on. For many this is a Feature as we are security conscience.
I did get that issue with EndeavourOS
But for just 2 minutes of googling and only a single line of command it's solved!
And yes on the forum they say shipping the OS with Bluetooth enabled out of the box is considered a security risk for some distros
Good to know, thanks.
I left windows for good in 2008. I used Linux for the longest time, however, the industry forced me to move to Mac. There are too many proprietary apps which do not work with Linux (like Cubase, Logic Pro, and most importantly - Pro Tools). Unfortunately, Bitwig and Reaper are not an adequate replacements, if only because of the plugins they lack.
I'm embarking on a similar journey; the time has come! Windows Recall, while not on my computers yet, has pushed me over the edge, as I'm sure Microsoft will someday change things so that it is no longer a choice. Enough is enough!
I am still rocking Garuda Linux on day 30+ and even though I still have a dual boot of Windows, I have not booted into Windows once. Eventually, I will get around to removing the SSD Windows drive permanently like you did.
I've been using Garuda for about 2 years now. I'm still very happy. I only wish you had the option to install it on an Ext4 drive, but alas...
@@RianMeiersame. Its the Stablest Arch based Distro I know of.
You could also just reformat the Windows Drive into an EXT 4 or BTRFs Data Partition so you keep the Space.
@@lexcelius6921 I think you misunderstood. I installed it on a new disk. It wasn't an existing partition. I would have liked to have installed it as an ext4 install instead of a btrfs. I prefer it and am more familiar with it. Also at the time there weren't any tutorials that I could find on how to mount multiple disks (and use one as the home drive for instance). There were plenty on how to do this with ert4 though. This might have changed in the meantime, but at the time this was an issue I ran into.
I got rid of Microsoft several months ago and I haven't had a problem I use Linux Mint I still publish my books I still do my graphic art everything that I did with Windows without the giant lags occasionally I do with Linux and haven't had any trouble so for the stuff that I do and I also make comic books I'm a cartoonist and author I haven't had any problem. I'm glad I moved from Windows after all these years.
I'm impressed, you took the time to do your do diligence and pick the right OS for you.
I also tested many and I loved Mint, but today I'm using Fedora, because as you said, if it works for you that is the most important part.
That is also why I love options, but I understand not everyone has 2-4 spare SSDs to test different distros.
Cheers.
Thank you for that. I wanted to test on bare metal instead of in a VM so I would get the true experience.
I'm an old-timer at this point. I switched to Linux as my primary OS in 2001 (yep, 23 years ago). I've gone through various distros and various desktops over the years (XFCE, Gnome2, Cinnamon) And now that the GNOME Project is intent upon breaking GTK+ (custmization and theming) I'm even looking at NsCDE (I was accustomed to CDE from AIX).
I had been using Linux Mint for many years, I had switched to Fedora because it related to my old job. Now that I'm no longer there I'm slowly dumping Fedora to go back to Linux Mint.
But don't feel too bad about your printer. Printing has ALWAYS been one of the major problem areas in operating systems going back *decades* .
Appreciate that. I know CUPS fixes a lot.
Like you CDE is nostalgic as I used it on SunSparcs back in the day. However, I would recommend using Cinnamon rather than NsCDE. I installed the latter on a Linux Mint desktop with Cinnamon just to try it out and the NsCDE setting bled into the Cinnamon desktop changing fonts, colours and some themes on specific apps. Also, you would have to be a die-hard CDE fan to want to go back. The Windows 3 GUI was based on CDE and it's functionality is arguably comparable.
Yes, true about the printers. I have an HP 1025 color laser and it works out of the box but only with Letter size (8.5x11") paper, it will not work with Legal size (8.5x14"). It's HP's fault as they use some proprietary Voodoo. and this is true for any distro I have tried. My Epson inkjet is fine with all sizes.
@@samshort365 I still mainly use Cinnamon, but the problem is the GNOME Project is intentionally and wilfully breaking theming in the core GTK+ libraries. They've decided to remove titlebars and menu bars and replaced them with their stupid "header bar". They force the UI to be flat and featureless, and even for Cinnamon that still has proper titlebars, you can't differentiate between foreground and background windows (GTK+ will render them all the same).
It wouldn't be a problem if all those changes stayed in GNOME, but they've decided if *they* despise customization, then no other desktop should be allowed it either. What do you expect from a project run by Microsoft fanboys?
It's time for all the non-gnome GTK+-based projects to move to CTK.
@@SenileOtaku I feel your pain and I totally agree. To tell you the truth I haven't really paid close attention as I'm jumping around between distros regularly. The cinnamon theme I am currently using on Mint is partially my own creation as I extensively hacked the CSS code of an existing theme to tweak it significantly. I'm also enjoying using KDE Plasma 6 after I customised that too. However, I also have Mate on FreeBSD and on OpenIndiana, both made to look like my favourite Mac OSes Lion and Jaguar respectively, as I detest the flat look on modern nacs too.
It seems You have not yet tried an Arch linux distro. - if You want to try that, I would suggest Arco Linux, or YOu could try Manjaro. I have had a good time with them both, However I prefer KDE Plasma as a DE.
just a note: if you use usb creation tool ventoy you can run unlimited linux distros of the same usb stick
That's what I do. Very convenient.
I’m not a fan of it. Feel like a low level “bug” to me. 😜. Thank you though.
THANKS
I have indeed a cup of tea before me, fit to sooth the elderly beast, who uses Linux Mint as a daily driver, and has since just before the first release of MS Windows 10. Good to see you looking chipper.
Great video... lots of new subscribers will join your channel.
Brother, you nailed it it. My hardware, and I do full hardware tests, is not your hardware. Likewise, I have tested many Linux distributions in the last five years. Several that just did not work, with many failing to boot after the install. It is great to see just how much the Linux distributions, and the kernel behind them, have improved. Currently almost all distributions I test do restart and work. The weird one I have running on the test system is W Ubuntu, and you might want to have a giggle over that one.
Linux mint runs great on old apple hardware. I have a imac with c2d running it since version 13. My macbook mid 2012 runs it and my intel nuc5 runs Virginia very well it does not Dissepoint. Linux mint just works. I can reconmend it to people. And it very easy to use for most people.
I went through similar distro hopping...
And kept on going back to Kubuntu...
Currently on Kubuntu 24.04 LTS
I prefer KDE Plasma interface
great stuff and info. thanks for sharing
The best distro you could try next is stop distrohopping for a second and figure out fix for that printer on Fedora (or whatever problem you have on whatever distro). While it might require a little more effort than slapping yet another ISO on pendrive of yours and spamming F8, it's much more rewarding because of the things you can learn while troubleshooting. After all you can figure out that different distros don't make big difference as long as they offer complete and recent enough repos.
Great points. I do like the fact that Mint is an upstream of Ubuntu which is upstream of RHL and most drivers are written for Ubuntu. If they work. Now that’s another story. 😂
@@jcristina Drivers aren’t really written for specific distros, but vendors tend to support something like Ubuntu by providing native packages for easier installation (which quite often is still problematic or they only work with out of date OSes and the support ends there). That being said, there’s nothing preventing us from repackaging whatever they provide for any other Linux system.
If it’s a printer driver, those drivers aren’t even platform specific to begin with as they come as PPD files that can be simply imported in printer setup manually.
Other than that, I just wanted to tell you that I'm very happy that more people give Linux a shot and showcasing it, keep it up!
I am REALLY loving PikaOS. It has been my favorite distro to date by a wide margin. Thank you for the recommendation .
So glad that you’re enjoying it.
JC, why you dont use a couple of external USB3 M.2 enclosures so you dont need to stick the M2 drives in and out plus the screw in your testbed PC, with the extrernal usb enclosures is just matter of plug the USB cable and VOILA!!! you save several minutes!
Thanks for the extensive checking, JC. I can't afford to take down production systems and screw around for two months to see what might work. I need to plant my butt in front of any corporate computer and just USE IT. Which sadly means microshaft, for now. As it has for the last 25-30 years.
But I'd love to see you find a better way.
Appreciate you be here while I go on this journey.
Running an arch-based distro here, it feels so much faster than Windows 10/11, and doesn't make my laptop stay in the high temp range too.
Even though you had a negative experience with Cachy OS, would you review Garuda Linux, which is a version of Arch, that is reputed to be both beautiful and functional?
Who knows - you might be pleasantly surprised!?
with the 3060 his experience with CachyOS will be drastically different, and hence Garuda will also be fine now.
Though it still is possible on CachyOS to use X11 and have the same playing ground as on Linux Mint.
J doesn't intend to be a distro reviewer, as far as I can tell, but if he decides to fairly compare distros, these are the things he should be checking out and test with the same technologies.
@@Maitreya3001 He said in one of his videos, that he wants his viewers to send him suggestions that he will try out and get back to them.
People always hype up Ubuntu based distros because they hate on canonical but in the end Ubuntu just works. Everytime those distros fail I install Ubuntu and it just works.
"Guh-nome" sounds like a non-native english speaker didn't realize the G is silent, but doubled-down and insisted that it's intentional 😅
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Adobe has made a lot of people made with their recent terms of service and EULA, which would allow Adobe to use the art of everyone using Adobe without compensation or royalties. Everyone realizes Adobe will use it to train AI. Open source developers and artist need to use this opportunity to polish alternatives!
Don't know if you have ever heard of this, but you don't have to switch out hard drives every time you want to try out a new distro.
Install Boxes on your machine, and then when you have downloaded an ISO of a distro you want to test out (say, MX Linux or something), you can create a virtual machine and have another full OS running at the same time as your original mint -- no hardware swapping required! Runs pretty good, and with your setup, you could easily get it going in 10-15 minutes (minus download time for the ISO).
You still call Fedora your hands down favorite, except for the printer issue which you solved on Linux Mint. As a Fedora user since the early 2,000's, Here's my suggestion...
Reinstall Fedora 40, run updates, then do this;
Open the virtualization program BOXES. Create a new box and install Linux Mint on it. Keep in mind that you can only assign half the RAM to the box as you have on your main system, per virtual instance. This should give you full operational capacity for all your needs. Alternatively, you could dual boot Fedora and Mint. This would give you double the RAM for your gaming as with BOXES.
As a side note, you can also use BOXES to test other distros as you see fit. Hope this helps.
Thanks for this informative series, and we should thank you for blocking the AI-war whitch is going on right now.
( the winner takes all)
Microsoft does not have other options than checking your behaviour, it is not a matter of advertisements but your behaviour and thoughts witch give them the power with AI, if they win that is, as Google does the same..
" every 3 seconds" made me decide for Linux definitely, and I am on this journey right now.
Thanks again, subscribed!
Have tried using a type 1 hyper visor like prox mox? You could spin up as many distros as you want and no swapping NVME drives.
Very good video, very smart angle to testing different distros.
Glad you liked it!
Using Linux Mint 22 is an awesome experience. While a few games still take occasional fiddling to get working smoothly (Monster Hunter World on Steam is my biggest issue right now), everything else works like a charm!
That’s awesome. Only one issue is a WIN
Thanks for very informative (and LOL truthful sounding) review of "the big rebirth" which I intend to do cos of W11 h'ware strange requirements. You've inspired me to do it now. Only sticking point is getting spider, freecell & minesweeper (yes old versions) working. I'll experiment with wine.
Yes!!! Wine / Proton / etc.
From what i heard in this video i have formed the hypothesis that the reason that Linux Mint is the only Distro where both of your Printers have worked (that you have tested so far) is simply that Mint is the first Ubuntu based Distro that ships with both the HWE(HardWare Enablement) Kernel, which is a Kernel version made by Ubuntu specifically to support more Proprietary Hardware, aswell as most Ubuntu Libraries still intact. I suspect the driver for your Printer needs either something in the Kernel or one of those Libraries, which most of the specialist Ubuntu Distros do not ship out of the box. This basically means that you would probably have an OK time with any generalist Ubuntu based Distro aswell as Ubuntu itself.
I have made it 38 days on Debian 12 of my personal 30 day challenge, glad to see you have moved on from Windows.
Luv your Pac-Man light running in the background.
I've used Endeavour and Cachy, and printer support definitely doesn't compare to that of something like Mint. However, during install you have the option to enable printer support out of the box, via checkbox. They have "Printing Support" and "HP Printer Support" in the optional software list. That doesn't mean the software will immediately work very easily after install as there is still the manual set up process, but it does help.
I like Cachy quite a bit, it's very similar to Endeavour and has some tools that remind of me Manjaro. There was another Arch release years ago called Antergos which was similar as well. Right now I'm just running my own build of Arch but if and when I upgrade my hardware in the next few days I'll probably wipe and try Cachy with all its performance optimizations.
Endeavor ❤️ my favorite arch distro
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good video as usual... keep them rolling!
Thanks, will do!
I switched to Linux about 2 months ago as well. I have settled on Nobora 40 Gnome. Happy I switched.
Been using Linux for 20 years started with Ubuntu 4.04 I think. Used to dual boot, but in last 5 years or so I haven't bothered. Introduced many friends to it, and none of them have any issues. Nobody misses the mess that is Windows. Actually, I have less calls for tech help from people compared to when they used Windows. Every now and again have a slight issue (like running SP Football Life) but nothing that a quick Google search can't help with.
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2 months on CachyOS on gaming-PC and 3 years on Linux mint on Laptop. Won't go back to Windows.
A friend sent me the link to your video. We'll done! I'm planning on installing LM so I can ditch MS Windows. Thanks again for the info. 😊😊😊😊😉
That really makes me happy that people are sharing my video with friends and family. Many blessings and keep us all update to your progress.
Thanks Joe
Happy Wife, Happy Life! THANK U UBUNTU 😊
She left Windows 1 year ago and I'm very happy she is HAPPY.
PopOs == Giant Robots. Not my favorite. ArchLinux == as much as I like it I can't really get it to work correct without lots of research that I don't want to do. Linux Mint == good for me. Thanks for trying to get people to swtich from the dark side!
Absolutely. Does not matter which you like. The switch the Microsoft is the goal.
After i got a Steam Deck OLED and saw how well it ran games i switched to Linux to. I am running Fedora 40 now and have had no issues with it for my usage so far.
And when my dad needed a new desktop a few weeks ago i even installed Fedora on hes new machine, but with KDE as hes more used to older Windows. Hes old printer had a minor issue, but besides that everything works. I was slightly worried about him getting used to it, but so far hes only called me 1 time and overall he likes it.
I'm actually impressed by the number of distro's you are trying😂
I would have quit at Linux Mint. Because it just works. Out of the box. They make compatibility and functionality their priority. They are usually #1 or #2 on Distro Watch's DL rankings for a reason.
I also seem to remember that Arch distro's work better with the KDE desktop environment. But Arch "is" for people who like to tinker. Just not for me either!
Thanks for keeping this fun, and good luck looking for the "perfect" camera, I mean distro 😂
The Linux journey for me started back in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I have been using it sometimes, mostly to test out a few things. I did dual booting and sometimes VM. Your videos inspired me to use Linux as my main OS for a week (Pop_OS) which worked well with nvidia discrete graphics. Had to dual boot with Win 11 afterwards because I need it for work, but for most of my casual computing, it's a bit better and faster than Win. Yes, Linux has a few weird quirks, but you get used to it somehow.
It has come a long way for sure.
@@jcristina True indeed. I really enjoy the fact that we have a free alternative.
Linux mint needs to be a better pressed Operating ‘System for the average person and everyday users, we need a broadchurch when it comes to Linux Mint. I hope you will get better soon, from the flu.
I've been saying something similar to this for awhile. Linux Mint has more or less won the evolutionary battle of "best overall Linux distro" and the Linux community should really get behind the idea of exclusively recommending Linux Mint as everyone's starting distro, while developers should also target Mint as the default distro for seamless integration into the Linux eco-system. Not saying other distros are useless or not needed, but life would be a lot easier for everyone if normies started associating Linux with Linux Mint in their minds.
Thank you or doing these. They are very informative.
I want to get away from Windows so badly, I can't begin to describe it...!
My biggest hold up is peripheral drivers.
I'm a gamer. I'm also disabled; Multiple Sclerosis.
I recently bought an Azeron Cyron keypad, and the change it has made in my gaming enjoyment is unmeasured!
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be anything available at the moment to make it compatible with any of the Linux destros. I'm not willing to have a $260 paper weight on my desk and go back to fumbling with trying to hit the correct controls instead of getting to enjoy playing the game.
Maybe one day...
I keep hoping.
That is a good reason to stick with Windows. Sadly. Not all companies embrace Linux. Hell. It was a long while for them to embrace Apple.
Switched to Linux Mint a year ago, from W10. I keep an old 2009 MacBook around to update my iPad and serve BlueBubbles so I can get iMessage on my Pixel phone. Otherwise, Mint does everything I need.
Nice!!!
Great video! Are you using Linux Mint with Cinnamon? Also check BIT (back in time) backup program, focused in your data instead of system...
He's Currently Distro Hopping.
Arch is a build it your own distro. You have to understand that first before jumping into an Arch distro. They're still Arch, but right out of the box they don't work the way you want it, unlike Arch. Have tried most of the distros mentioned. To me there's nothing like Arch. Have 3 machines running Arch now, oldest one been running for 64 days with no problems.
¡Gran trabajo! 🥇
Microsoft gives you Windows, Linux gives you the whole house =)
Love it❤
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I switched to linux mint cinnamon about 6 weeks ago. It's soooo much better than it was when I tried it a couple of years ago. So much so that I'm never going back to windows.
Can’t agree more.
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Glad you enjoyed it. Truly appreciate the kind words. .
8 years strong on strictly linux, and almost 100% opensuse (though it has its quirks and may not be for the first time transitioning users). But to clarify linux isn't Unix, it is a ground up project to recreate Unix as open-source software. Also, many linux distros use btrfs, which support snapshots, allowing you to go back in time to undo changes, something to look into if you aren't already aware.
Been on fedora since v18, last time I used windows was when I worked for them, also changed that too!
😂 love it.
💩(You told me to do it.) I've been following your series with interest since the beginning. I also settled on Linux Mint and have been very happy with it. And, I set up Timeshift to take a snapshot I can roll back to every time I try something that I think might be risky, like when I installed CasaOS on top of Linux Mint, even though it isn't officially supported. I'm apparently the only person in the world, but I'm actually interested in how Recall turns out. Maybe it will be amazing. Who knows. That being said, I don't plan on being the guinea pig (not that I have a computer with an NPU).
110% agree.
This video deserves more than a poop emoji, here have a 📷emoji instead 👍
Interesting observations on Pop! OS. I've been running Pop;! on a System76 laptop for a couple years now and happy. though only one printer.