Well... what can I say. You've got me feeling all nostalgic about the time I used Mint as a daily driver on my old laptop. Dual boot, as there was a few bits of proprietary software I needed (was a pain having to reboot in Windows on occasion!) but it worked great. I got a new PC, though and went back to Windows. Maybe I should give Linux another try! Maybe even Arch...
Well I am in that situation right now, as of now I haven't found a way to edit Canons .cr3 raw files on Linux, so that's my reason for still having a dual boot.
I've been lucky to have had linux in my life for three decades now, mostly on the server side though. Once MacOS went unix that made life easier for me to switch between the two on the desktop. Most of all I love how linux gives new life to old hardware.
16:02 After hearing how you like to stay close to the vanilla experience, I thought maybe Arch is more stable without much tinkering. But hearing how you used the same installation "for months now" reminded me of the people, back in the XP/Vista/7 days, would reinstall Windows every few months because something broke. Since you mentioned distro-hopping it's safe to assume there's a good chance that you tried Linux Mint. If so, what made you give up on it? One thing that can indeed be a problem for some people is falling behind with software versions for a while. Specifically for this reason I use extra _(but official)_ software repositories for a few software. Do you heavily rely on the latest versions? The reason I ask is that since I can get the latest versions for the few programs I need, I love the fact that I can stay with the same version of Mint easily for 3-5 years without reinstalling it. The reinstalls happen almost exclusively for a fresh start with the new major release. I know some people appreciate a challenge every now and then, but as a tech support guy I've had plenty of challenges thrown at me all the time. :) So at home I ended up with a "lazy and boring" distro that I barely customize - despite being pretty configurable (with Cinnamon). I'm just curious what made you with a bleeding edge distro. :)
You see, Arch is for me the one distro that has worked the best out of all I've tried. And yes, one can make the case that that's no merit of Arch itself, but rather of the fact that it's the last one I tried, years after first trying Linux and that by the time that I did I had already learned how to make stuff work... Sure, I wouldn't contradict this argument. However, moreso than not, the main reasons I use Arch are the fact that it is rather barebones and very close to vanilla and the fact that it has the AUR. While I don't necessarily need the bleeding-edge versions of all the programs I use, I do love the fact that the AUR is chock-full, rich with a variety of programs. It basically has EVERYTHING. Just today I searched pkgs.org/ because I've been flirting with the idea of switching to Fedora, just because. I was looking to see if I can find all the programs I need in their repos and I couldn't. The beauty with Arch is that between it's official repos and the AUR I can find everything that I need and I can install, update and maintain everything neatly, cleanly and natively. I know there's COPR and flatpaks and snaps and appimages and whatnot, but that's just not something I enjoy doing if I can avoid it. To this day, I am not using a single flatpak, snap or appimage on my system. Everything is either from the AUR, or a native Arch package. Regarding Mint, it's a distro I haven't personally used, although I know it pretty well since I used to maintain my wife's laptop which used to run Mint for a good while and I often recommend it to new users. I think it's great, but I don't personally like it. I have since switched my wife's laptop to Nobara, fwiw and I think it's great.
AppImage is sometimes I'm OK with for games, like OpenRA, which don't have to interact with anything on the PC in the first place, but I prefer regular packages. COPR for Fedora is just like AUR for Arch, though - compiled software packaged like the ones in the official repositories, instead of bloated all-in-one packages like AppImage, Flatpak, etc. And just like with AUR, sometimes there can be some bad packages that were not well tested and give you headaches. :D I wonder how the future of Gnome will look like. You mentioned how you like your apps looking the same even if they come from different places, and Gnome is close to making some radical changes that will affect the way the apps look. DaVinci Resolve has a known problem with Gnome because Gnome expects the apps to provide their own window decorations _(if I remember correctly)_ and because DaVinci Resolve doesn't do that, the window cannot be resized/maximized through normal means. I saw this in a recent video of a content creator who used a Gnome-based distro and he had to come up with a solution to maximize the editor's window. About Nobara, I'm not a fan of one-man-projects because they can easily go away at any time. I'd rather use Fedora with COPR, maybe make a script to set everything up easier after a fresh install.
Nice video I do dual boot windows and my wife has a M1 mac and I can say Linux is where I prefer to be even tho I have used a lot of payedd for software but now that I'm getting back into playing guitar I have purchased Reaper as I do use some windows VST's in wine and the Linux version of reaper works good with them where aurdor keeps braking VST3 support and I do use Davinci Resolve also.
@@1kwords I'll have to take another look. I remember there were issues getting it to work because of the python2/3 compatibility issues. I currently have a box with Fedora Gnome. I had Arch based linux systems in the past but something always eventually broke.
I love Linux but a lot of software I use these days doesn’t work with it unfortunately. I wish Mr Beast would reskin something like MX or Mint as Beast Linux. Imagine how many mainstream software developers would supply Linux packages if that happened.
Why because you can period. BDW I use debian testing, and suse tumbleweed suse ;) Linux is free, yes but does not mean costless. If you work professionally on it, it would be nice if you drop a buck from time to time, to the developers of the software you use. They have families too. The problem with linux users is that we are cheap asses. Im in and out on linux since 2003 to 2018-19 im exclusively on linux since then. I donate to projects I use as much as i can whenever I can. Those software does not come from nowhere. If the developers stop to provide it, then it will me no free linux no free software. Then we will be forced to crawl back to adobe and pay crazy amount of money for software we rent not own.
Well... what can I say. You've got me feeling all nostalgic about the time I used Mint as a daily driver on my old laptop. Dual boot, as there was a few bits of proprietary software I needed (was a pain having to reboot in Windows on occasion!) but it worked great.
I got a new PC, though and went back to Windows.
Maybe I should give Linux another try! Maybe even Arch...
At least afaic, there certainly is a great feeling of coziness when I am on Linux. I feel at ease, I feel at home.
Well I am in that situation right now, as of now I haven't found a way to edit Canons .cr3 raw files on Linux, so that's my reason for still having a dual boot.
@@tifogra689 have you tried RawTherapee 5.9? Or Darktable? They're both supposed to open cr3 files.
I've been lucky to have had linux in my life for three decades now, mostly on the server side though. Once MacOS went unix that made life easier for me to switch between the two on the desktop. Most of all I love how linux gives new life to old hardware.
cool
16:02 After hearing how you like to stay close to the vanilla experience, I thought maybe Arch is more stable without much tinkering. But hearing how you used the same installation "for months now" reminded me of the people, back in the XP/Vista/7 days, would reinstall Windows every few months because something broke.
Since you mentioned distro-hopping it's safe to assume there's a good chance that you tried Linux Mint. If so, what made you give up on it? One thing that can indeed be a problem for some people is falling behind with software versions for a while. Specifically for this reason I use extra _(but official)_ software repositories for a few software. Do you heavily rely on the latest versions? The reason I ask is that since I can get the latest versions for the few programs I need, I love the fact that I can stay with the same version of Mint easily for 3-5 years without reinstalling it. The reinstalls happen almost exclusively for a fresh start with the new major release.
I know some people appreciate a challenge every now and then, but as a tech support guy I've had plenty of challenges thrown at me all the time. :) So at home I ended up with a "lazy and boring" distro that I barely customize - despite being pretty configurable (with Cinnamon). I'm just curious what made you with a bleeding edge distro. :)
You see, Arch is for me the one distro that has worked the best out of all I've tried. And yes, one can make the case that that's no merit of Arch itself, but rather of the fact that it's the last one I tried, years after first trying Linux and that by the time that I did I had already learned how to make stuff work... Sure, I wouldn't contradict this argument.
However, moreso than not, the main reasons I use Arch are the fact that it is rather barebones and very close to vanilla and the fact that it has the AUR. While I don't necessarily need the bleeding-edge versions of all the programs I use, I do love the fact that the AUR is chock-full, rich with a variety of programs. It basically has EVERYTHING.
Just today I searched pkgs.org/ because I've been flirting with the idea of switching to Fedora, just because. I was looking to see if I can find all the programs I need in their repos and I couldn't. The beauty with Arch is that between it's official repos and the AUR I can find everything that I need and I can install, update and maintain everything neatly, cleanly and natively.
I know there's COPR and flatpaks and snaps and appimages and whatnot, but that's just not something I enjoy doing if I can avoid it. To this day, I am not using a single flatpak, snap or appimage on my system. Everything is either from the AUR, or a native Arch package.
Regarding Mint, it's a distro I haven't personally used, although I know it pretty well since I used to maintain my wife's laptop which used to run Mint for a good while and I often recommend it to new users. I think it's great, but I don't personally like it. I have since switched my wife's laptop to Nobara, fwiw and I think it's great.
AppImage is sometimes I'm OK with for games, like OpenRA, which don't have to interact with anything on the PC in the first place, but I prefer regular packages.
COPR for Fedora is just like AUR for Arch, though - compiled software packaged like the ones in the official repositories, instead of bloated all-in-one packages like AppImage, Flatpak, etc. And just like with AUR, sometimes there can be some bad packages that were not well tested and give you headaches. :D
I wonder how the future of Gnome will look like. You mentioned how you like your apps looking the same even if they come from different places, and Gnome is close to making some radical changes that will affect the way the apps look.
DaVinci Resolve has a known problem with Gnome because Gnome expects the apps to provide their own window decorations _(if I remember correctly)_ and because DaVinci Resolve doesn't do that, the window cannot be resized/maximized through normal means. I saw this in a recent video of a content creator who used a Gnome-based distro and he had to come up with a solution to maximize the editor's window.
About Nobara, I'm not a fan of one-man-projects because they can easily go away at any time. I'd rather use Fedora with COPR, maybe make a script to set everything up easier after a fresh install.
Nice video I do dual boot windows and my wife has a M1 mac and I can say Linux is where I prefer to be even tho I have used a lot of payedd for software but now that I'm getting back into playing guitar I have purchased Reaper as I do use some windows VST's in wine and the Linux version of reaper works good with them where aurdor keeps braking VST3 support and I do use Davinci Resolve also.
Nice.
Color calibration is a pain on linux these days. It getting there.
It is on Wayland, however if you're using X.Org it's pretty easy and simple. Works as intended. I've been using it for years.
@@1kwords what are you using? Last I checked DisplayCal had questionable support.
@@Being_Joe DisplayCAL is what I've been using for years... Basically since 2019 when I switched to Linux.
@@1kwords I'll have to take another look. I remember there were issues getting it to work because of the python2/3 compatibility issues. I currently have a box with Fedora Gnome. I had Arch based linux systems in the past but something always eventually broke.
@@Being_Joe I've also been using Arch for years and whenever it broke it was basically my fault.
I love Linux but a lot of software I use these days doesn’t work with it unfortunately.
I wish Mr Beast would reskin something like MX or Mint as Beast Linux.
Imagine how many mainstream software developers would supply Linux packages if that happened.
Haha, that's a crazy thought!
Why because you can period. BDW I use debian testing, and suse tumbleweed suse ;)
Linux is free, yes but does not mean costless. If you work professionally on it, it would be nice if you drop a buck from time to time, to the developers of the software you use. They have families too.
The problem with linux users is that we are cheap asses. Im in and out on linux since 2003 to 2018-19 im exclusively on linux since then. I donate to projects I use as much as i can whenever I can. Those software does not come from nowhere. If the developers stop to provide it, then it will me no free linux no free software. Then we will be forced to crawl back to adobe and pay crazy amount of money for software we rent not own.
I understand your point of view.
All you points are valid and I respect your judgment, but I raise you this: "Once you go Mac, you never go back!"😂
Maybe someday...
No. Mac is not good. I have multiboot with arch freebsd NixOS and QubesOS. 😉