I finally abandoned Windows a few weeks ago. Recall was the last straw. Too much telemetry. Too many exploits. Too much bloat. All I need my OS to do is run quietly in the background, using as little resources as possible. I ran DaVinci Resolve under Windows for years. It is as good (if not better) than any of the bigger names out there.
Welcome to Linux. Super awesome having another new member join. I have been using Linux for 7 Months now. Now I just stream, make videos and game on it exclusively. I am a Mint user with the Cinnamon Desktop. Enjoy!
I love fedora KDE, it works just fine out of the box, has a mid tier expertise required, its cutting edge but also stable, great perfomance, a lot of packages and compatibility. Its the best for me and i dont see changing any time soon, maybe when i get the courage to install arch.
Start with mint bro. And do it when you have time to learn everything with it for abou a month. There is and always be a massive learning curve. But it's easier than Windows after that.
Great to hear your at least considering it, if you have some spare room on your PC make a small partition and install a Linux distro, Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distro like Pop OS or Linux Mint is probably best for a first timer as long as your hardware isn't from the last 6 months since they do staggered updates and thanks for the sub 😃
I would definitely recommend dual boot to start out and try switching some of your apps to more accessible open source alternatives to get a feel for whats available :)
I installed my first distro a few months ago and played my first game on Linux yesterday (Metro 2033). The graphical/video settings were either missing or broken with the native version, but running it through Proton fixed my problems. I learned Proton may be necessary and preferable for certain games.
A lot of games that have native Linux versions dropped Linux support entirely in favour of Proton and I can't blame them since it saves them development time (aka money) but also a lot of Linux ports performed worse and Proton is a good middle ground
Here's a tip for modifying config files in /etc: I'm not sure how dnf handles that, but in general when the package manager tries to update files with your custom changes, it can't really do that without your input. Pacman or APK will leave the file alone and install the new version with like a .pacnew suffix added and tell you to merge these manually. On Debian, APT will prompt you with every single conflict during a system upgrade. Overall, it isn't great and you kinda have to babysit it. But oftentimes besides the config file there's also a .d directory (like /etc/sudoers.d), where you can put so called drop-in configuration files. These are usually loaded in the alphabetical order after the main file and any option set in them overrides what was set before.
My changes to dnf aren't custom, they're officially supported options just not on by default since I imagine it can cause issues for people with slower connections and I have no experience with Pacman or APK so I'm unsure what your talking about since I'm still very new to Linux but maybe I'll understand the rest of your comment in time
@@ZolaKluke I'm not saying you're doing something wrong by customizing dnf. The point of config files is to configure stuff after all But think about what happens when you have modified your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and there's an update which brings a new version of that file. How is dnf supposed to update it? It could replace the current, modified file with the new version, but then your customization no longer applies. It could skip updating that file, but then you might not get a new default feature. And while this is very rare (I've never seen it happen) sometimes your changes might just be incompatible with the new version of the package. I've read up on it now, and it appears that each package can specify how dnf should handle such cases. Sometimes it will leave the file as is and install the new version with a .rpmnew suffix, sometimes it will rename your version to end with .prmsav and so on. The solution I'm suggesting is to put your customizations in something like* /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.d/90-make-it-faster.conf. Then any future updates can go smoothly as your changes will not conflict with the new defaults. * This is just an example. Support for this feature will only be available in the next major version of dnf and the path might be slightly different. But it already works for many other programs, for example /etc/sudoers.d/* vs /etc/sudoers.
@@mskiptr Oh okay I understand what you mean now, it never even crossed my mind that could be a problem. I just made that change since I saw it in a tutorial a while ago by TechHut ruclips.net/video/RrRpXs2pkzg/видео.html
@@ZolaKluke Yeah, It's not like that's a huge problem really. On Arch it's part of regular system maintenance. But it just gets annoying after a while so now I'm trying to migrate all my configuration to drop-in files like these. I believe Fedora tries not to ship distro configuration in these /etc/*.conf files now (so that it is left exclusively for the local administrator, while all "vendor" stuff sits in /usr/share/*.conf), so for modern packages just ignoring any .rpmnew files might be totally fine. Still, a lot of programs can only read configuration from like one file in /etc so if you're customizing these, that's certainly something to be aware of.
01:08 - Woah, that noise tickled my brain... I'm in the same boat as you! Having worked in Cyber Security, recall sets my hairs on end. They did mention it was saved locally, so perfectly secure, then someone found a vulnerability with it a couple of days later... YIKES. After distro hopping, EndevourOS seems to feel right to me. Arch KDE, but with a GUI installer and some extra things to help out. Thanks for the vid!
Yeah recall is literal spyware that comes with Windows now, it's Linux or nothing at this point, yeah even if it's local and now it's encrypted but whats to say someone decrypts it, Fedora KDE has been good but I may go to Arch with KDE eventually since so many people rate it
Fellow Aussie here. Fedora is definitely a good choice. For me it's either Fedora or Arch based distros. If you had to install it again I'd recommend formatting with Btrfs and configuring subvolumes as to be able to snapshot with snapper (btrfs) instead of with Timeshift and RSYNC. Trust me, it saves a lot of time. That including grub-btrfs so if your system breaks you can rollback from the bootloader.
@@PixelHamster X11 is good but it felt clunky for me with multiple monitors at least, but I also may have been doing something wrong, but Fedora doesn't ship X11 anymore but Wayland has been great so far
Go for endevour os, it's a well maintained user friendly option thats arch based, so you get all the benefits of the very large repository with the latest and greatest updates, not to mention the aur and the toolchains that easily let you compile and package basically anything that a arch user bothered to create a build file for.
I've heard of the AUR, but haven't looked into it much yet, I tried endevour os a long time ago and felt way in over my head but I also didn't know as much as I do now back then
Welcome on board man, try setting a separate home partition to hold your config so that you won't have to do all those customizations if you distro hope.
@ZolaKluke Yes, that is what a separate home directory is for, it hold all your data and configuration, it can even hold your flatpaks. You can still downsize you main partition and make another partition that will act as your new home partition without re-installing from scratch, the process need a little of know how but it is doable.
Congrats. I've been on Linux for almost exactly one year. It has treated me super well. I also started with a Fedora base and ended up on CachyOS. Hope that kernel treats you well.
@@fireflyslight8155 Yeah it’s been going well so far and the kernel does feel slightly snappier plus I’m getting kernel updates faster than Fedora releases them too
Fedora is a great choice, mint is what the community would say but personally i find it bad, ugly and think it gives a wrong image of what the average linux distro is like (edit: i'm not forcing anyone to switch or stating mint is bad, i'm just sharing my opinion)
@@_Yojo_ Mint is alright but being Ubuntu based updates are slow and caused me problems years ago, I picked Fedora as it gets bleeding edge updates and seems stable so far
Linux mint is best distro. Right next to arch and fedora. Do you know why? Programs integrate directly to the operating system instead of running on top with Flatpaks and snaps. Arch is still hidden gem with its aur repo with packagebuild scripts.
@@x0vg5hs1 I might try Arch at a later date but don't feel ready yet, as for Mint I've used it in the past and had issues with drivers due to only 2 updates per year and yeah Fedora is good with stable but frequent updates and I haven't had to rely on Flatpaks yet and obvious not using snaps
Fedora is solid. Bugs are fairly rare. The one fedora spin I had a hard time with, was their kinoite immutable version. Luckily, some dudes made Aurora, which is a more stable spin of Fedora Kinoite. Works well for gaming too, which I honestly didn't expect as I installed it mainly to run docker containers for parts of my home automation, mainly modules of my VPN.
Im using Nobara as my main distro but dual boot it with arch since like a month. I find myself using arch more and more. But i only have good words on fedora! Still using it on my laptop
I am in the same boat. been distro surfing for last 6months. Currently have 3 pc's .. Ubuntu 24.10 , Linux mint LMDE and fedora 41. just started the fedora one a week ago. the other two for the last month. Seeing what is the best way to switch completely over to windows. only time will tell. Welcome and good luck.
Don't know how often you get updates on Mint, but even on Ubuntu LTS you get updates days apart. Likely on Mint stability is the main feature, not updates.
@@airspeedmph Yes you definitely get updates but they’re usually 6-12 months behind if it’s a feature update, you’ll obviously still get new kernels but they’re also usually behind
@@ZolaKluke Well indeed, the newest shinny media player it may need to wait (or it may actually been frozen until the next release) until it proves that it doesn't introduce new bugs (especially on LTS where stability is the main target) but security updates are pushed immediately. The kernels follow the same idea, security updates are fast, new releases/features later. Though nothing prevents you to install kernels like xanmod or liquorix and even go for edge releases if you want them fast. But again, talking here about Ubuntu in general. Mint...I'm not particularly fond of it, though is probably what I would install for my grandma or for some appliance-like PC, where you don't want to fudge around too much.
@@airspeedmph I know that I’m definitely more likely to encounter bugs and I’m okay with that, I know those distros are more stable but I’m okay with being on a more experimental distro, if things break then I’ll just learn from my mistakes
About your slow boottimes, this is a reason to get in on a new platform when it is more mature. Updating your BIOS can help to some extend (eventually it might get slower but not in the first years) but in your case it probably also boots slower because it is a new motherboard (less mature) with new DDR-memory. 1 reason why I would recommend getting in on the 3rd generation of a new platform if possible. In this case it is probably smart to wait for Zen6 (3rd generation of both DDR5 and AM5) instead of buying Zen5 for example, it will give a better user-experience, the memorycontrollers on the CPU will be better, the motherboards will improve the DDR5-support, things like that. Anyway, congrats with switching to Linux, I did and I haven't looked back ever since. I fully dumped Windows, in extreme cases I will use it in a VM but only when I have no other choice.
So the reason for my slow boot times was because it wasn’t saving the memory setting and had to train on every boot, after enabling that my boot times are great now, it was probably off since I bought my motherboard when Zen 4 released. And thanks moving to Linux has been great since it’s just so much snappier than Windows and yep I still have Windows around for like the 5 games with stupid anticheat otherwise my friends will hate me
@@ZolaKluke My X570 motherboard has been weird with memory since day 1. For 1-2 weeks everything is normal but then all of the sudden the CPU-fan ramps up longer because the RAM-initiation takes longer and the POST time also is longer (you can check that by typing systemd-analyze in your terminal). When I then change just 1 setting for my memory, no matter what, then it boots normally again. The only possible cause which I can think of: I have double rank RAM: 2*2*8 GB. That probably was not the best idea, it is a lot more difficult for Ryzen-CPU's to have 4 instead of 2 RAM-dies. In regard to Linux, I have been using a tiling window manager named dwm, it doesn't get snappier than that. The windowmanager itself is 86 kB for the executable, made from only C-code. On top of that I use dmenu (launching programs) and a clipboardutility in my systemtray (part of dwm after patching it). I make screenshots by using scrot and xclip. I have 1 game which I can't run on Linux because of anticheat, I just haven't run that game in the last 5 years. So be it. For me booting up Windows to just play that 1 game is too much of a pain in the butt and I also don't want to run Windows for a number of reasons. But I understand that if your friends play those specific games that you boot upt Windows, I might do the same in that case. People who are into those battlearena-games could try Apex, I play that regularly, it is a pretty good game. RTS-games are great if you like 1 vs 1 competition, racing is great for 1 vs many and most racing games don't get blocked on Linux. Other shooters which might be fun: Battlebit (not as much my taste but many people like it) and Shatterline (great shooter in my opinion).
the slow boots is memory training, i have asus mobo and its a b650 bet you do too, look in ram overclocking and scroll way down to memory context restore, skips the 30 seconds or more of memory training after that, when you apply and reboot it will train once more but that will be last time till you toggle that back off, my pc boots hella fast bro
@@CommanderBeefDev Someone recommended that to me but after enabling it my system became super unstable and kept on locking up/crashing so I’ll just wait the extra bootup time
To cut down on boot times, you should enable 'Memory Context Restore' and 'Power Down Enable' in your UEFI bios. Or if it's unstable you can set your RAM speed to 5200MT/s as this is the maximum non OC speed.
@@mokurai8233 I’ve been dealing with this problem since the CPU came out, I had Zen 2 prior and I thought that was slow but this was awful, I literally turn my PC on and do something else for the minute it takes to boot
@@ZolaKluke Yeah, I was also disgusted with the boot times after my upgrade from AM4. Just so you know: If you lose power to your PC it will retrain the memory once which will cause a long boot even with those options enabled. However, most restarts should be much shorter with them on.
@@ZolaKluke I mean, feeling like Windows isn't exactly the problem. Wouldn't you say that Microsoft's Copilot and data collecting is what makes people want to quit Windows? I think using an OS that feels familiar and safe is a good place to start. However, I also think the way some DE and distros operate can feel a lot better than something like Windows. Zorin OS will never be my main.
welcome, and congratulations, lately there has been a lot of people coming to linux, and you are one of the few that actually resarched and learned instead of trying to do things the wrong way and then complain.
Thanks, but I wouldn't consider myself new to Linux since I did daily drive Pop OS! 2 years ago (I made video about my Linux journey) but yes I definitely did my research and I made sure I was 100% set before I bailed on Windows since I use my PC every single day for many different tasks (discord, youtube, gaming, etc) so I needed to make sure I would have the most little downtime, but the video you watched is me setting up the system I am still using from scratch
I've dabbled with linux on and off for the better part of 3 years, first trying pop, then mint, then arch, and then spending the most time on Endevouros. Don't get me wrong, parts of linux are fantastic, but I always come back to windows. I think the biggest draw for me is all I do is gaming, really, well and some spftwsre dev but none of that is sensitive info. The biggest red flag for me was that when I ran Ghosts of Tushima on my Endevouros install I got around 30fps difference from 150 on windows to 120/100, and that flipped a switch in my head to ask myself if I really care about all of the data harvesting etc, when all I want is to come home and play games, and to play them at their best. I had other issues too like dealing with all sorts of the X11 issues with nvidia before the 550 drivers dropped, and again, I asked myself if it was all worth it, after all I had a 4090 and knew I wasn't getting the same performance as I was before, and that to me was the quarsion that I just couldn't shift. So, now I remain on windows, and I'm glad more all are moving away, but for me it's just not the right OS, atleast not yet.
That's entirely fair and each to their own, funny enough I've had performance boosts in a few games running them on Linux which was surprising, but I understand your situation too
Recall for "copilot+" laptops so we safe for now. I hope that in this decade Linux distros will completely suit for me and I will switch to it. Now I use linux mint only on my laptop
Fedora is a solid choice, especially if you're looking for rapid support for new things without the instability that comes from Arch. I've personally been using Debian 12 first when it was the testing branch then when it went to stable, mainly due to the stability itself. Running a 5950X and a 7900XTX with full driver support from the kernel. Personally, I haven't touched a bare metal Windows machine in the past 5 years and it's been so relaxing.
Nice to hear and yeah Debian is good but I’m willing to risk some stability if it means I get to have new hardware supported first and also try the new features coming from projects
You don't have to dual boot. KVM with Windows 11 LTSC. You get about 5-10% drop in performance. But if you have a modern systems it's not really noticeable.
@@andrei189 Yeah same, even though I’ve had many recommendations to go for super stable distros like Debian, Ubuntu, etc. I knew what I was getting into and I’ve had no problems and Fedora has been great also
This coming January will mark 20 years since I gave Windows the heave-ho in favor of Linux. A year ago, I started my own Linux distribution called F3OS (The Free Family-Friendly Operating System), a web-filtered distro based on Debian Stable, with your choice of Xfce, Cinnamon, or Openbox. Currently, I am working on new themes for it as well as setting up my own software repository and also plan to create MATE and KDE editions.
@@fredmckinney8933 Wow that’s a long time ago, I’ve been wanting to use Linux for at least the last 4 years but it just wasn’t in a state that was able to to do what I needed. Amazing to hear your making your own distro that must take a lot of effort and dedication to setup and run, hope it all goes well for you
I haven't yet fully tried it yet, but I have mained Linux Mint for a good while, but on a laptop... so non-changing hardware and I don't have a need for Wayland yet. For my newer systems (a 5 year old gaming laptop and my main PC), I tried Arch (Endeavour) and hated it, but Manjaro did a good job making it tolerable. I used to love using Fedora, especially the KDE spin, so if push comes to shove, I may return team fancy hat.
@@FlameSoulis Yeah Mint always seems super stable but due to slow updates it’s not good for gaming and I need Wayland since X11 doesn’t like high refresh monitors. Strange to hear you had a worse time with Endeavour OS than Manjaro since I hear the opposite and yeah KDE has been amazing especially on Fedora
ive also pretty much fully switched to linux. and i still use windows as vr runs like ass on linux with nvidia. idk if its nvidia specifically or something else. but i will complain about this to the end of time until vr runs better on nvidia or i get a amd card. so i use windows for vr and subsequently unity and blender. because it would be incrediblly inconvienient to switch to linux. make a thing. switch to windows. test that thing. switch back to linux to fix that thing.
I haven’t tried VR on Linux yet since I have to make room to use it and it might be an Nvidia problem but also an issue with your desktop environment since Valve has stated for best results to use KDE Plasma with Wayland as GNOME still doesn’t support what’s needed and X11 is probably a mess. And I assume you’re using Blender and Unity on Windows for VR Chat since I know all of that works on Linux except the issue with VR headsets
@@ZolaKluke no ive tried kde plasma with wayland. that didnt change anything. BUT i wasnt running the latest drivers as i now know. just the nvidia page recommended those drivers for my card so i used that im on opensuse now with kde and the option to use wayland. though im not using it currently as minecraft has a graphical stroke in the pause menu ill try on the latest drivers at somepoint and see how it goes.
Just saw rewatching the video at 10:29 that grub founds Windows Boot Manager. So you are dual booting Windows? Maybe you said that and I didn't listen to it 😅.
@@ZolaKluke That's why I don't go mainly on Linux. Because games like fortnite and Warzone are the only games that my friends wants to play and the anti-cheat said no.
I understand your worry about nobara, the guy who runs it is incredible, and you'll be using his patches anyway on steam. He runs Proton-GE! You're missing some kernel patches, but I was on fedora for years before switching to nobara. The performance difference wasn't even noticeable.
Yeah my Nobara worry is that it may not last forever unlike a mainline distro and I know who Glorius Eggroll is and his custom Proton patches and yeah the performance difference between Fedora vs. Nobara is almost non existant
@@skotz3336 Yeah the CachyOS kernel is apparently gaming focused and thanks although I am fairly new to Linux I have researched for a long time to make sure I was making the right decisions
I think a lot of it is possible via GUI, it's just the documentation I looked at refers to using the terminal and I felt that it is faster to do it that way also
You're not helping the linux user stereotypes with that wallpaper 😭 nah but fr id swap to linux but I almost exclusively play online games so the anti cheat stuff is a huge deal breaker
@@ZolaKluke so weird how much hate you're getting just for swapping operating systems It's not this serious bruh They do realize that you can use what you want and they can stick with what they want right?
@@ZepAnimations Apparently people on the internet love to push their agenda lol, if they aren't interested in Linux then they should never have clicked on the video
I put the processor into performance mode. It helps with the anticheat on steam. When your computer revs up when logging into steam it benchmarks your system. If the system uses too much over the benchmark then anti cheat flags you. In performance mode you get a higher benchmark.
@@eliinthewolverinestate6729 the problem aren't the Anticheats Most of the big anticheats have Linux support but the game devs or publishers make it so linux users aren't able to play There's also EA with their own Anticheat which also just flat out doesn't support Linux I think
@ Tip: DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT VIA A PACKET MANAGER! Currently, at least Arch repo of EDE is broken, therefore you should either do a source code build or install it via a python script, just take a look at the website.
Thanks, I've been reading into it a lot before I felt I was ready to make the full jump, but now I feel I know enough to get around confidently on daily use
@@ZolaKluke I did the bad thing and simply jumped into arch with no pre-knowlage, took me a week to be able to get something i was happy with, then i rewarded myself by playing games.
@@ymity4637 Nice, yeah I've run Manjaro which is Arch a long time ago and that almost killed my enjoyment for Linux, but since then I learned Manjaro actually has a lot of problems that Arch just does not have
i've been wanting to switch, testing things out like obs and gaming, running into issues. i like tinkering with things and linux just offers more customization
Linux is great for customisation which is also a reason why I left Windows and my experience is still great currently as OBS works the same as on Windows and games have been great, I even had no issues getting my racing wheel working for games
I finished migrating to Linux at Windows 10. Two final straws hit at about the same time for me: forced updates to incompatible drivers, and finding a "Microsoft data" partition I didn't make on my mass storage drive, at the cost of shrinking the NTFS partition on that drive. Files were corrupted. That convinced me that Windows had devolved into malware in and of itself. When your very operating system is malware, you don't have a chance other than to reformat everything blank and personally boycott the maker of that malware for life. So that's what I did.
I never had an issue on Windows with it forcing incompatible drivers but I heard they were doing that again recently with AMD GPU's and is the Microsoft data partition maybe the Windows Recovery partition? Either way it definitely is malware as well as spyware nowadays, it's just a mess, I sadly had to wait this long so that Nvidia would have good Wayland support along with just gaming working well in general in Linux
@@ZolaKluke Not the Recovery partition. That's on factory built computers instead of a copy of the Windows media and drivers media in case you need to re-install your OS for whatever reason, including sale of the computer to wipe your stuff off of it. This was an aging home-build which I've since rebuilt. The driver it nuked was for the Intel graphics baked into a 4th gen Core i5. That partition was added to a normally unmounted mass storage hard drive installed internally. There is no reason for it to be on such a drive. I only found it when I booted a gParted Live flash drive and took a look at all my drives and partitions just for the Hell of it. Since my Windows 10 system was updated from a Windows 8.2 retail copy, I called Microsoft tech support to ask them WTF. They refused to say what it was for, so I must only assume the absolute worst of intent on Microsoft's part. Fun fact, last time I went on an exploratory distro hop on my backup laptop, I noticed that both Pop! OS and Elementary OS also put "Microsoft Data" partitions on my main SSD. So I no longer recommend either of those distros to Linux newcomers. Just Zorin and Linux Mint.
@@bobpeters61 If it wasn't mounted then how did Windows have access to it that is extremely strange and I have used Pop OS in the past and never noticed that partition on my system but yeah a very strange scenario, nevertheless I sanity check my system a lot and my Windows install so far at least hasn't tried to hijack Linux (I've only used Windows twice in the last 4 months and it also managed to break itself lol)
I went on a similar journey from nobara to fedora as a my to go system. I tried arch, manjaro and ubuntu also. There's one distro i cannot recommend enough and it's linux mint especially if there are some problems with the hardware or firmware. It's by far the most stable os that i tried and it works reliably on systems that no other os did and It just keeps on running without crashes.
Yeah similar journey, I forgot to mention I have tried Manjaro and I don’t know if I did something wrong but that distro almost killed my enjoyment for Linux
welcome to the family my friend! I went full arch linux a couple months ago. never went back. Windows is just expensive spy ware constantly forcing changes you dont want.
Nice to hear you went with Arch I've been hearing a lot of good about that distro and yep exactly right about Windows being expensive spyware and I hate their changes, no freedom
Probably Bazzite if you're basic and just use steam, though Fedora's KDE spin will just work and be more of a typical desktop. Nobara is technically better than Fedora for gaming but it can break if something strange happens. I use NixOS for my computers and it saves several headaches but you probably shouldn't.
@@cromfrein5834 I also use NixOS, but it has a steeper learning curve, so you can't really take full advantage of it until you get a good grasp of Nix. I really like how it is easier *for me* to create a Nix package than on other distros.
@@cromfrein5834 I'd say NixOS is not for beginners. It's great, but requires a tad more knowledge than the blind dive which is allowed on Fedora/Ubundu and the likes.
I find KDE much more appealing to me coming from Windows but also KDE has much more customisation than GNOME as well and I think Fedora is thinking of making KDE the default or at least people have been appealing for it do be the default
it take a few sec to boot to ubuntu on my 7800x3d and recently updated my gigabyte firmware and upgrade the cpu to 9900x. maybe update the bios to lastest version speed up the load time
I think the long boot time has to do with the NVIDIA driver updating. I run fedora on a laptop w/ an nvidia gpu and i have to wait for akmods to build every time it updates.
Nah the boot times are genuinely slow on Ryzen 7000 series, it was over a minute long on the first BIOS my motherboard shipped with and yes the long boot time is on Windows too
@@Spectrulight I haven’t used CachyOS yet, but using their modified Kernel for Fedora makes it more responsive so I assume it’s really just an optimised version of Arch? Like I said I haven’t tried their distro yet
I've tried custom Kernel and yes they do improve the perfomance, to me about 20%, but i dont think its worth it, atleas for me its a lot of work, there can be problems with the patch, compatibility but if you dont care about it and just want sheer perfomance go ahead.
Fair enough, I will definitely try Arch in future but I dunno if I'll stick with it since I hear that it can have issues due to how bleeding edge it is since I believe Fedora has more testing and the AUR sounds cool but I have bad memories of it due to Manjaro
Yeah the Windows 11 requirements are crazy, I've used it so I know I meet them but so may good computers are going to "die" next year and nice I've heard that distro is good and Xfce looks nice too
Wow, I made the switch just a few days before this video dropped. Of course, for me it wasn't a first time thing, I've been on and off for years, so it's not a huge deal for me, but it's the first time in a while I daily drive Arch. Still have my Windows 10 drive and I intend to keep it, just in case there's stuff I need that doesn't work on Linux, but I've decided I'm not touching 11, just because I'm a pigheaded autist.
@@plebisMaximus I’ve been on the verge of Linux for years so I kinda had some knowledge beforehand but this was me full going in. I still also have a Windows drive for the few games that don’t allow their anticheat to work on Linux otherwise my friends would disown me lol
I have a ryzen 5 7600x cpu and sometimes the boot times are long, sometimes they are not, however with the latest kernel they are good, also could you try a tiling wm?(just try)
I’ve heard Hyprland is good but apparently Fedora doesn’t support is nearly as well as Arch, might try COSMIC when it’s more complete since that’s a hybrid of a DE and WM
@ZolaKluke I use it with fedora and it's very good (I use an already done configuration called dots-hyprland by end-4, also Fedora has a copr repo for hyprland related things and hyprland itself)
i tried almost every type of linux out there arch , debian, ubuntu, slackware. i settled on linux mint xfce and I never looked back. I had issues with support trying arch. Arch users a very rude. I didn't have a good experience with the others. debian isn't too bad. i play ps2 games and do some steam gaming on my late 2012 mac mini running linux mint xfce. I have linux mint xfce on my asus chromebook it runs great. minus a couple of problems I had to fix after install.
@@rickbaker475 I’ve heard of xfce but never used it myself, I just know it for being very light weight and great for older/lower end machines and is that an official Mint with xfce or did you just install it yourself?
@@ZolaKluke thanks bro now i am not going to fully abandon windows cause i share a laptop sadly and theres some software like rufus or adobe that dont work on it
Before you consider switching back to windows maybe give it a month minimum if there are no hardware failures because theres a massive learning curve. Well anyways gl.
@@ZolaKluke "glowie" refers to state actors like FBI, NSA or FSB. I think in this case the poster is complaining that Red Hat | IBM is funding Fedora, employs many of the maintainers and overall has some control over it. More specifically, because these are US companies, Fedora has some rather unusual packaging policies which is why rpmfusion is hosted in Europe (and why it was needed in the first place).
@@mskiptr Oh interesting, I didn't know about that which explains why Fusion exists, nevertheless I've heard they are funded by IBM but aren't influenced since they are technically independent and I doubt they have affiliations with the FBI, NSA or FSB and if they did well it'd obvious since it's open-source lol
@@switchedtowindows I’m not too knowledgeable on all the semantics in the community, I just wanted a distro that’s up to date and easy to use, I may go to Arch one day but I’m still worried about it due to my awful Manjaro experience
You are really dumb. Fedora is upstream for rhel. Red Hat will continue to support it. It is still free and open source. It is also community driven which is good.
@@ZolaKluke What kind of 'awful' experience did you have with manjaro? It had a good out of the box experience for me. Simple tip. Never use anything from the aur. Flatpaks are available. (I switched from manjaro because distro hopping.)
I'm aware it's an experimental distro and good to know you found a build you felt was stable for your use, however isn't Fedora 35 out of the support window?
@@ZolaKluke Sadly yeah, 36 was pretty good but released with audio issues due to pipewire switchout. Each one after were less polished each time in my testing. Haven't tried 40 yet.
@@TheOmegaDMM I tried Linux back in 2020 and Pulseaudio was useable but I feel pipewire had changed things for the better, especially with it being more than just audio
@@CommanderBeefDev I’ve used Nobara before and it was great but I want a distro that I know will be supported long term, since I know GE is also busy with other projects
@@FutureEyesOnly-be3do I haven’t had any thermal issues while using Linux, it seems to run cooler than Windows but that’s probably because it’s lighter than Windows also
@@ZolaKluke I have had issues with Linux Mint on my Asus F15 running Linux Mint. Since i disabled VMD my temps have dropped quite a bit but when i am on RUclips the temps spike to 135F. The fans kick in at 129F. Ihave tried many programs that are supposed to drop the temps. None that i am satisfied with yet however i will still continue to use Linux Mint 22.
@@ZolaKluke It has something to do with Raid. I turned it off and everything went from the high 60C to high 29C. This laptop has 6 Intel cpu's and a 4 gig video chip in it. It runs smooth as a kitten on all When i was running Windows but youtube really gets it warm. When i was running Windows the fan would spin as the temps hit 28C. I checked in the bios for fan control but did not find one.
Fair enough and to each their own, I don't mind GNOME but it's missing features I need without extensions which introduce their own bugs so I loose either way
Ok... You're gonna get a lot of suggestions here for tons of different distros. Listen to me now. Ignore them all and use MX Linux or a true Debian Stable based distro. Most of these people making distro suggestions have no idea what they're talking about. And no, Ubuntu is NOT based on Debian Stable. Fedora is almost full bleeding edge, only beaten out by Arch in that regard, and even if it works just fine now, chances are high that you're gonna run into breakages later. And when you're just starting out with Linux, breakages are the last thing you should be dealing with. As to drivers, MX solves this almost completely with the natively supported AHS kernel they offer.
@@ZolaKluke I mean... Technically, you already ran into two glitches right off the bat just making this video. lol But alright, I'll back off. Just remember my words!
@@arnox4554 I believe both of these glitches are KDE related and not related to Fedora directly but I understand your concern, if I have a distro breaking issue or I get fed up with glitches then I’d probably consider, I know your looking out for me but I like to learn from mistakes
@@ZolaKluke And that's totally fine. Just know what you're getting into is all I'm saying. I technically don't care whatsoever what distro people use and Fedora could be a great distro if you know and fully accept its bleeding edge nature. Most people though don't know what the REAL stable newbie-friendly distros are, and they install and recommend distros like Ubuntu or Arch or Garuda, thinking constant updates automatically equals better. By the way though, while you are absolutely right that these are KDE issues, the Fedora team is the one in the end who decides which version of KDE to package and ship out, and Fedora prioritizes almost the latest stuff, regardless of current and/or potential future issues with it with only minimal testing. Hence, the issues you see with this version of KDE.
Certainly not saying i recommend it but this is one of the many things i love about portage on gentoo. You get to pick what version of a package to install on your system as well as which ones you want the stable or bleeding edge of. Since it's all compiled and linked locally as long as there's no ABI breaking differences(like adding/removing functions) you can pick and choose which you want or need of more or less recent software versions suit your needs better
i deleted my windows like 6 months ago and installed linux . and then got fell in love with WMs and i found out i3 . but i had to do all on my own . the magic of youtube algorithm gave me the LOML which isssssssss arch + hyprland ... so i use arch btw . hehehehehehe . this shit looks soo cool , how do people even like windows after seeing this shit
he we go again another one of you video that try to grift on this idea ,how many times did we seen this now on youtub ? no average windows user well switch to linux.
@@magnomliman8114 Funny you think that I’m an average Windows user, also I’ve dabbled with Linux a bit over the last few years but this is me going full daily using Linux now
@@عبدالرازقفيصل I’m not confident with Arch yet since I had a bad experience with Manjaro but I’ll give it a try in future as for CachyOS I heard that it’s less stable and still in development but I do use their modified kernel for Fedora
@@ZolaKluke i had the same bad experience with manjaro Vannila arch is better the problem with manjaro is they delay some packages and this make conflicts that brakes the system
That might explain the issues I was having with my system (I had to disable reply because your username was making me type from right to left? RUclips bug with your account name?)
Zorin OS looks good and has a nice ecosystem around it but it's Debian/Ubuntu based which means I'd be waiting months for updates, it's a good distro but doesn't suit me
What’s wrong with Brave? I was told it’s a good chromium based browser that has good privacy/security and I’ve seen at least 2 or 3 Linux RUclipsrs that also use it
Sigh, another user who switch to Linux because he doesn't realize that Microsoft Recall is made for Copilot+PC that runs on the ARM architecture... 😂😂😂
@@RandomQuebecer Supposedly they’re adding x64 support for it, nevertheless I don’t like Microsoft’s telemetry and I’ve been interested in Linux for a while and felt ready to move over
They made it so that Recall is a required dependency on Explorer, thereby people are unable to use Explorer if they remove Recall in the installation image.
@@oserodal2702 I also heard that which is extremely messed up, essentially if you remove recall you loose a critical part of your OS, why WTF Microsoft, I'm so glad I left when I did
Mint sucks ass and even though its based on Ubuntu you get updates years later 😂. Ubuntu is just better and gets backports. I havent used fedora in 14 years though so cant comment much on its current state
@@UbuntuPersonNoMint Yeah Mint looks great and is stable but if you want to stay up to date it’s not the distro to pick and Fedora has been great for me so far
@@ZolaKluke I've used mint. It doesn't look great. Its stuck in the past with an ugly color scheme. The only thing that saves it is having an Ubuntu base to make it easier than non Ubuntu based distros.
@@UbuntuPersonNoMint I don't mind the look of it but to each their own, it is Ubuntu based but they also have a Debian build now, but the updates are still too far behind for my liking since I use Nvidia on Wayland you need recent drivers to get a good experience
I understand why, but what you're doing is just ridiculous. Unless you are a sysadmin, an engineer, programmer, etc. Linux is not for you! It is a kernel designed with servers in mind, not regular users!
That may have been true 10+ years ago, but nowadays linux is becoming more and more desktop-capable. HDR, the rise of Wayland (finally), and Proton are just some indicators.
Oh give up, 30 years and still no desktop victory. Linux will never dominate the desktop because its users are clueless to marketing. Steam gives you a great boost and...... NOTHING!
Not 30 years, but I had the same feeling when they started with Wine. Now you can play a lot of Windows games on a Steam Deck with Proton. And we don't need a "victory", just a sizeable market share. Macs are still not the biggest population, but 3rd party support has improved a lot.
@@LivingLinux Yeah we don't need to be the dominant OS, but if you look in the last few years Linux has gone from 1.5% of marketshare to 4.5% which is huge compared to how slow it was moving before
I finally abandoned Windows a few weeks ago. Recall was the last straw. Too much telemetry. Too many exploits. Too much bloat. All I need my OS to do is run quietly in the background, using as little resources as possible.
I ran DaVinci Resolve under Windows for years. It is as good (if not better) than any of the bigger names out there.
Yeah recall, telemetry, etc was my final straw
as i recall, windows xp is still the best choice of windows
@@GBR9794 I feel like it’s Windows 7 personally but to each their own, they’re both greats operating systems
Welcome to Linux. Super awesome having another new member join. I have been using Linux for 7 Months now. Now I just stream, make videos and game on it exclusively. I am a Mint user with the Cinnamon Desktop. Enjoy!
Thanks for the warm welcome and glad to hear you’ve also had a great experience and Mint with Cinnamon is a great setup for pretty much anyone
@@ZolaKluke You are welcome
I love fedora KDE, it works just fine out of the box, has a mid tier expertise required, its cutting edge but also stable, great perfomance, a lot of packages and compatibility.
Its the best for me and i dont see changing any time soon, maybe when i get the courage to install arch.
All of those reasons are essentially why I went for Fedora KDE and my limited prior experience I feel comfortable in Fedora
great video, im low key considering Linux you have me thinking, i might give it a shot on a machine, ive only ever worked with it on a vm. subbed bro.
Start with mint bro. And do it when you have time to learn everything with it for abou a month. There is and always be a massive learning curve. But it's easier than Windows after that.
Go for it.
Great to hear your at least considering it, if you have some spare room on your PC make a small partition and install a Linux distro, Ubuntu or an Ubuntu based distro like Pop OS or Linux Mint is probably best for a first timer as long as your hardware isn't from the last 6 months since they do staggered updates and thanks for the sub 😃
do it
I would definitely recommend dual boot to start out and try switching some of your apps to more accessible open source alternatives to get a feel for whats available :)
lets go another first time linux video, bet it will be great
@@SanteyKhena I’ve used it in the past but the Nvidia issues of the past held me back, now the latest drivers are stable I’m jumping ship
I’ve never used it longer than a month and that was years ago
@@SanteyKhena Thanks
Welcome to the club!
Thanks
To the Penguin Club...
@@auag7208 yep
I installed my first distro a few months ago and played my first game on Linux yesterday (Metro 2033). The graphical/video settings were either missing or broken with the native version, but running it through Proton fixed my problems. I learned Proton may be necessary and preferable for certain games.
A lot of games that have native Linux versions dropped Linux support entirely in favour of Proton and I can't blame them since it saves them development time (aka money) but also a lot of Linux ports performed worse and Proton is a good middle ground
Fedora + KDE = pure awesomeness
@@hnasheralneam Yeah it has been a great experience so far
Here's a tip for modifying config files in /etc:
I'm not sure how dnf handles that, but in general when the package manager tries to update files with your custom changes, it can't really do that without your input. Pacman or APK will leave the file alone and install the new version with like a .pacnew suffix added and tell you to merge these manually. On Debian, APT will prompt you with every single conflict during a system upgrade. Overall, it isn't great and you kinda have to babysit it.
But oftentimes besides the config file there's also a .d directory (like /etc/sudoers.d), where you can put so called drop-in configuration files. These are usually loaded in the alphabetical order after the main file and any option set in them overrides what was set before.
My changes to dnf aren't custom, they're officially supported options just not on by default since I imagine it can cause issues for people with slower connections and I have no experience with Pacman or APK so I'm unsure what your talking about since I'm still very new to Linux but maybe I'll understand the rest of your comment in time
@@ZolaKluke I'm not saying you're doing something wrong by customizing dnf. The point of config files is to configure stuff after all
But think about what happens when you have modified your /etc/dnf/dnf.conf and there's an update which brings a new version of that file. How is dnf supposed to update it? It could replace the current, modified file with the new version, but then your customization no longer applies. It could skip updating that file, but then you might not get a new default feature. And while this is very rare (I've never seen it happen) sometimes your changes might just be incompatible with the new version of the package.
I've read up on it now, and it appears that each package can specify how dnf should handle such cases. Sometimes it will leave the file as is and install the new version with a .rpmnew suffix, sometimes it will rename your version to end with .prmsav and so on.
The solution I'm suggesting is to put your customizations in something like* /etc/dnf/dnf.conf.d/90-make-it-faster.conf. Then any future updates can go smoothly as your changes will not conflict with the new defaults.
* This is just an example. Support for this feature will only be available in the next major version of dnf and the path might be slightly different. But it already works for many other programs, for example /etc/sudoers.d/* vs /etc/sudoers.
@@mskiptr Oh okay I understand what you mean now, it never even crossed my mind that could be a problem. I just made that change since I saw it in a tutorial a while ago by TechHut ruclips.net/video/RrRpXs2pkzg/видео.html
@@ZolaKluke Yeah, It's not like that's a huge problem really. On Arch it's part of regular system maintenance. But it just gets annoying after a while so now I'm trying to migrate all my configuration to drop-in files like these.
I believe Fedora tries not to ship distro configuration in these /etc/*.conf files now (so that it is left exclusively for the local administrator, while all "vendor" stuff sits in /usr/share/*.conf), so for modern packages just ignoring any .rpmnew files might be totally fine. Still, a lot of programs can only read configuration from like one file in /etc so if you're customizing these, that's certainly something to be aware of.
A lot of tech influencers are leaving crappy windows, excellent choice.
@@TopTierTales-ux4se I’ve been interested for a long time, I think I showed Mint to my IT teacher back in Year 11 which was 7 years ago 💀
It was really just a matter of time until I felt I was ready and Linux was in a state that I felt ready to move
01:08 - Woah, that noise tickled my brain...
I'm in the same boat as you! Having worked in Cyber Security, recall sets my hairs on end.
They did mention it was saved locally, so perfectly secure, then someone found a vulnerability with it a couple of days later... YIKES.
After distro hopping, EndevourOS seems to feel right to me. Arch KDE, but with a GUI installer and some extra things to help out.
Thanks for the vid!
Yeah recall is literal spyware that comes with Windows now, it's Linux or nothing at this point, yeah even if it's local and now it's encrypted but whats to say someone decrypts it, Fedora KDE has been good but I may go to Arch with KDE eventually since so many people rate it
Fellow Aussie here. Fedora is definitely a good choice.
For me it's either Fedora or Arch based distros.
If you had to install it again I'd recommend formatting with Btrfs and configuring subvolumes as to be able to snapshot with snapper (btrfs) instead of with Timeshift and RSYNC. Trust me, it saves a lot of time. That including grub-btrfs so if your system breaks you can rollback from the bootloader.
Oh good to know, yeah so far btrfs has been great and haven't had to use timeshift but all I'll make sure to take make a note of this, thanks
"dont say it" "dont say it" I USE LFS BTW
I was thinking "linux file system" and was wondering how it's a flex. Using linux from scratch for practical uses is insane though...
Linux From Scratch 💀, but wow good on you, that's a real step in difficulty
...oml hold my joe, ill beat you better
Based.
@@mortadelaok Extremely, getting a running graphical system from LFS seems crazy
i switched 2 months ago! how has Davinci Resolve worked for you overall? i heared there are some smaller issues with it
I had no issues except for package conflicts on Fedora
Is NVIDIA on Linux good for you? Last time I tried on Arch and Fedora I had some problems with Wayland.
@@literally_Orso Wayland works great on Nvidia now, the newest drivers fixed the issues that made it unusable before
It is better now with 560 drivers but still not as good as X11
@@PixelHamster X11 is good but it felt clunky for me with multiple monitors at least, but I also may have been doing something wrong, but Fedora doesn't ship X11 anymore but Wayland has been great so far
@@ZolaKluke oh yeah you've to have basically identical monitors for X11 to behave itself.
@@PixelHamster Oh okay, yeah my monitors are anything but identical
Go for endevour os, it's a well maintained user friendly option thats arch based, so you get all the benefits of the very large repository with the latest and greatest updates, not to mention the aur and the toolchains that easily let you compile and package basically anything that a arch user bothered to create a build file for.
I've heard of the AUR, but haven't looked into it much yet, I tried endevour os a long time ago and felt way in over my head but I also didn't know as much as I do now back then
Fedora is fine if you want a mix of stability and up-to-date packages.
@@oserodal2702 Yeah that's exactly what I was aiming for, I want to be as up to date as possible but also be in a stable distro
The AUR is basically what fusion is to fedora, nit many differences except that it compiles on your system before installing most of the time.
@@somesalmon5694 Oh okay that's good to know
Welcome on board man, try setting a separate home partition to hold your config so that you won't have to do all those customizations if you distro hope.
Wait so your saying that I can partition my home directory separately and transfer it between distros?
@ZolaKluke Yes, that is what a separate home directory is for, it hold all your data and configuration, it can even hold your flatpaks. You can still downsize you main partition and make another partition that will act as your new home partition without re-installing from scratch, the process need a little of know how but it is doable.
@@KM-sv4dh Oh okay, I’m new to Linux but I may look into that in future
Congrats. I've been on Linux for almost exactly one year. It has treated me super well. I also started with a Fedora base and ended up on CachyOS. Hope that kernel treats you well.
@@fireflyslight8155 Yeah it’s been going well so far and the kernel does feel slightly snappier plus I’m getting kernel updates faster than Fedora releases them too
Welcome! (I use Arch on KDE 6.2.1 btw)
Nice, my Fedora is on KDE 6.2, I’ll probably have 6.2.1 soon since Fedora usually isn’t super far behind
Fedora is a great choice, mint is what the community would say but personally i find it bad, ugly and think it gives a wrong image of what the average linux distro is like (edit: i'm not forcing anyone to switch or stating mint is bad, i'm just sharing my opinion)
@@_Yojo_ Mint is alright but being Ubuntu based updates are slow and caused me problems years ago, I picked Fedora as it gets bleeding edge updates and seems stable so far
Linux mint is best distro. Right next to arch and fedora.
Do you know why?
Programs integrate directly to the operating system instead of running on top with Flatpaks and snaps.
Arch is still hidden gem with its aur repo with packagebuild scripts.
@@x0vg5hs1 I might try Arch at a later date but don't feel ready yet, as for Mint I've used it in the past and had issues with drivers due to only 2 updates per year and yeah Fedora is good with stable but frequent updates and I haven't had to rely on Flatpaks yet and obvious not using snaps
Fedora is solid. Bugs are fairly rare. The one fedora spin I had a hard time with, was their kinoite immutable version. Luckily, some dudes made Aurora, which is a more stable spin of Fedora Kinoite. Works well for gaming too, which I honestly didn't expect as I installed it mainly to run docker containers for parts of my home automation, mainly modules of my VPN.
Im using Nobara as my main distro but dual boot it with arch since like a month. I find myself using arch more and more. But i only have good words on fedora! Still using it on my laptop
I am in the same boat. been distro surfing for last 6months. Currently have 3 pc's .. Ubuntu 24.10 , Linux mint LMDE and fedora 41. just started the fedora one a week ago. the other two for the last month. Seeing what is the best way to switch completely over to windows. only time will tell. Welcome and good luck.
@@jefffawcette6031 Thanks for the welcome and wow you really are distro hopping, can’t wait to find out which distro works for you
Don't know how often you get updates on Mint, but even on Ubuntu LTS you get updates days apart. Likely on Mint stability is the main feature, not updates.
@@airspeedmph Yes you definitely get updates but they’re usually 6-12 months behind if it’s a feature update, you’ll obviously still get new kernels but they’re also usually behind
@@ZolaKluke Well indeed, the newest shinny media player it may need to wait (or it may actually been frozen until the next release) until it proves that it doesn't introduce new bugs (especially on LTS where stability is the main target) but security updates are pushed immediately. The kernels follow the same idea, security updates are fast, new releases/features later. Though nothing prevents you to install kernels like xanmod or liquorix and even go for edge releases if you want them fast.
But again, talking here about Ubuntu in general. Mint...I'm not particularly fond of it, though is probably what I would install for my grandma or for some appliance-like PC, where you don't want to fudge around too much.
@@airspeedmph I know that I’m definitely more likely to encounter bugs and I’m okay with that, I know those distros are more stable but I’m okay with being on a more experimental distro, if things break then I’ll just learn from my mistakes
oooo I hear hopes in dreams playing, nice touch plus one sub just from that alone being in this video lol
Thanks, I haven't played any Toby Fox games yet (probably should) but I love chiptune music and that song is really good
About your slow boottimes, this is a reason to get in on a new platform when it is more mature. Updating your BIOS can help to some extend (eventually it might get slower but not in the first years) but in your case it probably also boots slower because it is a new motherboard (less mature) with new DDR-memory. 1 reason why I would recommend getting in on the 3rd generation of a new platform if possible. In this case it is probably smart to wait for Zen6 (3rd generation of both DDR5 and AM5) instead of buying Zen5 for example, it will give a better user-experience, the memorycontrollers on the CPU will be better, the motherboards will improve the DDR5-support, things like that. Anyway, congrats with switching to Linux, I did and I haven't looked back ever since. I fully dumped Windows, in extreme cases I will use it in a VM but only when I have no other choice.
So the reason for my slow boot times was because it wasn’t saving the memory setting and had to train on every boot, after enabling that my boot times are great now, it was probably off since I bought my motherboard when Zen 4 released. And thanks moving to Linux has been great since it’s just so much snappier than Windows and yep I still have Windows around for like the 5 games with stupid anticheat otherwise my friends will hate me
@@ZolaKluke My X570 motherboard has been weird with memory since day 1. For 1-2 weeks everything is normal but then all of the sudden the CPU-fan ramps up longer because the RAM-initiation takes longer and the POST time also is longer (you can check that by typing systemd-analyze in your terminal). When I then change just 1 setting for my memory, no matter what, then it boots normally again. The only possible cause which I can think of: I have double rank RAM: 2*2*8 GB. That probably was not the best idea, it is a lot more difficult for Ryzen-CPU's to have 4 instead of 2 RAM-dies.
In regard to Linux, I have been using a tiling window manager named dwm, it doesn't get snappier than that. The windowmanager itself is 86 kB for the executable, made from only C-code. On top of that I use dmenu (launching programs) and a clipboardutility in my systemtray (part of dwm after patching it). I make screenshots by using scrot and xclip. I have 1 game which I can't run on Linux because of anticheat, I just haven't run that game in the last 5 years. So be it. For me booting up Windows to just play that 1 game is too much of a pain in the butt and I also don't want to run Windows for a number of reasons. But I understand that if your friends play those specific games that you boot upt Windows, I might do the same in that case. People who are into those battlearena-games could try Apex, I play that regularly, it is a pretty good game. RTS-games are great if you like 1 vs 1 competition, racing is great for 1 vs many and most racing games don't get blocked on Linux. Other shooters which might be fun: Battlebit (not as much my taste but many people like it) and Shatterline (great shooter in my opinion).
the slow boots is memory training, i have asus mobo and its a b650 bet you do too, look in ram overclocking and scroll way down to memory context restore, skips the 30 seconds or more of memory training after that, when you apply and reboot it will train once more but that will be last time till you toggle that back off, my pc boots hella fast bro
@@CommanderBeefDev Someone recommended that to me but after enabling it my system became super unstable and kept on locking up/crashing so I’ll just wait the extra bootup time
@@ZolaKluke that means your ram is bad and you need to try docp 2 then do what i said
@ My RAM has been fine since the day I got it and it’s in the correct slots for my motherboard
@@ZolaKluke dont listen its your boot times not mine lmao, good day sir
@ Umm okay?
To cut down on boot times, you should enable 'Memory Context Restore' and 'Power Down Enable' in your UEFI bios. Or if it's unstable you can set your RAM speed to 5200MT/s as this is the maximum non OC speed.
@@mokurai8233 I did not know these options existed, I’ll definitely enable those, it was my only gripe with AMD lol
@@ZolaKluke Yeah, it's a major PITA lol
@@mokurai8233 I’ve been dealing with this problem since the CPU came out, I had Zen 2 prior and I thought that was slow but this was awful, I literally turn my PC on and do something else for the minute it takes to boot
@@ZolaKluke Yeah, I was also disgusted with the boot times after my upgrade from AM4. Just so you know: If you lose power to your PC it will retrain the memory once which will cause a long boot even with those options enabled. However, most restarts should be much shorter with them on.
@@mokurai8233 Fair enough, thanks for the info
Zorin OS is the first distro that I tried and I installed it on my secondary PC.
Now, I’m considering trying Debian 12.
Zorin OS is nice to look at but it feels too close to Windows for me, there’s nothing stopping you from installing their DE on another distro
@@ZolaKluke
I mean, feeling like Windows isn't exactly the problem.
Wouldn't you say that Microsoft's Copilot and data collecting is what makes people want to quit Windows? I think using an OS that feels familiar and safe is a good place to start. However, I also think the way some DE and distros operate can feel a lot better than something like Windows.
Zorin OS will never be my main.
Welcome 1 more Penguin.
Thanks
my last straw was forced bitwarden coming.
@@pewgarpolls Forced bitwarden? I think your getting confused with something else as bitwarden is a password manager lol
Bitlocker u mean?
@@Aera223 That’s probably what they mean
welcome, and congratulations, lately there has been a lot of people coming to linux, and you are one of the few that actually resarched and learned instead of trying to do things the wrong way and then complain.
Thanks, but I wouldn't consider myself new to Linux since I did daily drive Pop OS! 2 years ago (I made video about my Linux journey) but yes I definitely did my research and I made sure I was 100% set before I bailed on Windows since I use my PC every single day for many different tasks (discord, youtube, gaming, etc) so I needed to make sure I would have the most little downtime, but the video you watched is me setting up the system I am still using from scratch
5:48 i had the idea of switching to linux from a long long time ago ago. And matt did a great job to encourage me to do so.
@@ThePhenoix504FI3D1 Yeah if it wasn’t for him I probably would never have tried Nobara or Fedora
I've dabbled with linux on and off for the better part of 3 years, first trying pop, then mint, then arch, and then spending the most time on Endevouros. Don't get me wrong, parts of linux are fantastic, but I always come back to windows. I think the biggest draw for me is all I do is gaming, really, well and some spftwsre dev but none of that is sensitive info. The biggest red flag for me was that when I ran Ghosts of Tushima on my Endevouros install I got around 30fps difference from 150 on windows to 120/100, and that flipped a switch in my head to ask myself if I really care about all of the data harvesting etc, when all I want is to come home and play games, and to play them at their best. I had other issues too like dealing with all sorts of the X11 issues with nvidia before the 550 drivers dropped, and again, I asked myself if it was all worth it, after all I had a 4090 and knew I wasn't getting the same performance as I was before, and that to me was the quarsion that I just couldn't shift. So, now I remain on windows, and I'm glad more all are moving away, but for me it's just not the right OS, atleast not yet.
That's entirely fair and each to their own, funny enough I've had performance boosts in a few games running them on Linux which was surprising, but I understand your situation too
Recall for "copilot+" laptops so we safe for now. I hope that in this decade Linux distros will completely suit for me and I will switch to it. Now I use linux mint only on my laptop
Supposedly they're going to enable it on non "Copilot+" devices so I ain't waiting around to find out
isnt it on the insider builds right now?
@@qdread For running Copilot and Recall on x64 I believe so
Fedora is a solid choice, especially if you're looking for rapid support for new things without the instability that comes from Arch. I've personally been using Debian 12 first when it was the testing branch then when it went to stable, mainly due to the stability itself. Running a 5950X and a 7900XTX with full driver support from the kernel. Personally, I haven't touched a bare metal Windows machine in the past 5 years and it's been so relaxing.
Nice to hear and yeah Debian is good but I’m willing to risk some stability if it means I get to have new hardware supported first and also try the new features coming from projects
I'll be making a linux/windows 11 duel boot system but not giving up windows for gaming.
That's fair, I do have a spare drive I can put Windows on if I need to
You don't have to dual boot. KVM with Windows 11 LTSC. You get about 5-10% drop in performance. But if you have a modern systems it's not really noticeable.
@@-iIIiiiiiIiiiiIIIiiIi- Don’t you need to have a second GPU to do that though?
I moved to Fedora a few weeks ago, and so far it has been a smooth transition.
@@andrei189 Yeah same, even though I’ve had many recommendations to go for super stable distros like Debian, Ubuntu, etc. I knew what I was getting into and I’ve had no problems and Fedora has been great also
This coming January will mark 20 years since I gave Windows the heave-ho in favor of Linux. A year ago, I started my own Linux distribution called F3OS (The Free Family-Friendly Operating System), a web-filtered distro based on Debian Stable, with your choice of Xfce, Cinnamon, or Openbox.
Currently, I am working on new themes for it as well as setting up my own software repository and also plan to create MATE and KDE editions.
@@fredmckinney8933 Wow that’s a long time ago, I’ve been wanting to use Linux for at least the last 4 years but it just wasn’t in a state that was able to to do what I needed. Amazing to hear your making your own distro that must take a lot of effort and dedication to setup and run, hope it all goes well for you
I haven't yet fully tried it yet, but I have mained Linux Mint for a good while, but on a laptop... so non-changing hardware and I don't have a need for Wayland yet. For my newer systems (a 5 year old gaming laptop and my main PC), I tried Arch (Endeavour) and hated it, but Manjaro did a good job making it tolerable. I used to love using Fedora, especially the KDE spin, so if push comes to shove, I may return team fancy hat.
@@FlameSoulis Yeah Mint always seems super stable but due to slow updates it’s not good for gaming and I need Wayland since X11 doesn’t like high refresh monitors. Strange to hear you had a worse time with Endeavour OS than Manjaro since I hear the opposite and yeah KDE has been amazing especially on Fedora
ive also pretty much fully switched to linux. and i still use windows as vr runs like ass on linux with nvidia.
idk if its nvidia specifically or something else. but i will complain about this to the end of time until vr runs better on nvidia or i get a amd card.
so i use windows for vr and subsequently unity and blender. because it would be incrediblly inconvienient to switch to linux. make a thing. switch to windows. test that thing. switch back to linux to fix that thing.
I haven’t tried VR on Linux yet since I have to make room to use it and it might be an Nvidia problem but also an issue with your desktop environment since Valve has stated for best results to use KDE Plasma with Wayland as GNOME still doesn’t support what’s needed and X11 is probably a mess. And I assume you’re using Blender and Unity on Windows for VR Chat since I know all of that works on Linux except the issue with VR headsets
@@ZolaKluke no ive tried kde plasma with wayland. that didnt change anything. BUT i wasnt running the latest drivers as i now know. just the nvidia page recommended those drivers for my card so i used that
im on opensuse now with kde and the option to use wayland. though im not using it currently as minecraft has a graphical stroke in the pause menu
ill try on the latest drivers at somepoint and see how it goes.
Just saw rewatching the video at 10:29 that grub founds Windows Boot Manager. So you are dual booting Windows? Maybe you said that and I didn't listen to it 😅.
Yeah I’m going to keep around Windows for like the 5 games that don’t work on Linux otherwise my friends will hate me
@@ZolaKluke That's why I don't go mainly on Linux. Because games like fortnite and Warzone are the only games that my friends wants to play and the anti-cheat said no.
I understand your worry about nobara, the guy who runs it is incredible, and you'll be using his patches anyway on steam. He runs Proton-GE! You're missing some kernel patches, but I was on fedora for years before switching to nobara. The performance difference wasn't even noticeable.
Nevermind you got a gaming centric kernel. You're doing really great for a new Linux user.
Yeah my Nobara worry is that it may not last forever unlike a mainline distro and I know who Glorius Eggroll is and his custom Proton patches and yeah the performance difference between Fedora vs. Nobara is almost non existant
@@skotz3336 Yeah the CachyOS kernel is apparently gaming focused and thanks although I am fairly new to Linux I have researched for a long time to make sure I was making the right decisions
I am not that deep into fedora (using arch since a year). But wouldn't many things you do in the terminal, be possible with gui? I'm just cuirous
I think a lot of it is possible via GUI, it's just the documentation I looked at refers to using the terminal and I felt that it is faster to do it that way also
You're not helping the linux user stereotypes with that wallpaper 😭
nah but fr id swap to linux but I almost exclusively play online games so the anti cheat stuff is a huge deal breaker
The femboy stereotype XD, but yeah most games with anticheat work great so far anyway, but yes I like femboys lol
@@ZolaKluke so weird how much hate you're getting just for swapping operating systems
It's not this serious bruh
They do realize that you can use what you want and they can stick with what they want right?
@@ZepAnimations Apparently people on the internet love to push their agenda lol, if they aren't interested in Linux then they should never have clicked on the video
I put the processor into performance mode. It helps with the anticheat on steam. When your computer revs up when logging into steam it benchmarks your system. If the system uses too much over the benchmark then anti cheat flags you. In performance mode you get a higher benchmark.
@@eliinthewolverinestate6729 the problem aren't the Anticheats
Most of the big anticheats have Linux support but the game devs or publishers make it so linux users aren't able to play
There's also EA with their own Anticheat which also just flat out doesn't support Linux I think
I absolutely love Arch with Equinox Desktop Environment, I made it look in vaporwave style.
I've never heard of the Equinox DE, I will look into it though since I do love vapourwave
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Tip: DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT VIA A PACKET MANAGER!
Currently, at least Arch repo of EDE is broken, therefore you should either do a source code build or install it via a python script, just take a look at the website.
gpu screen recorder. i heard in the past obs doesnt really encode well with nvidia. idk if thats still true
OBS is able to use the NVENC encoder on Nvidia but I do get a significant performance loss compared to recording on Windows
Welcome! Welcome! Dive into the rabbit hole, as far as you dare and have time for, make yourself a home in this burrow.
Thanks, I've been reading into it a lot before I felt I was ready to make the full jump, but now I feel I know enough to get around confidently on daily use
@@ZolaKluke I did the bad thing and simply jumped into arch with no pre-knowlage, took me a week to be able to get something i was happy with, then i rewarded myself by playing games.
@@ymity4637 Nice, yeah I've run Manjaro which is Arch a long time ago and that almost killed my enjoyment for Linux, but since then I learned Manjaro actually has a lot of problems that Arch just does not have
i've been wanting to switch, testing things out like obs and gaming, running into issues. i like tinkering with things and linux just offers more customization
Linux is great for customisation which is also a reason why I left Windows and my experience is still great currently as OBS works the same as on Windows and games have been great, I even had no issues getting my racing wheel working for games
I finished migrating to Linux at Windows 10. Two final straws hit at about the same time for me: forced updates to incompatible drivers, and finding a "Microsoft data" partition I didn't make on my mass storage drive, at the cost of shrinking the NTFS partition on that drive. Files were corrupted.
That convinced me that Windows had devolved into malware in and of itself. When your very operating system is malware, you don't have a chance other than to reformat everything blank and personally boycott the maker of that malware for life. So that's what I did.
I never had an issue on Windows with it forcing incompatible drivers but I heard they were doing that again recently with AMD GPU's and is the Microsoft data partition maybe the Windows Recovery partition? Either way it definitely is malware as well as spyware nowadays, it's just a mess, I sadly had to wait this long so that Nvidia would have good Wayland support along with just gaming working well in general in Linux
@@ZolaKluke Not the Recovery partition. That's on factory built computers instead of a copy of the Windows media and drivers media in case you need to re-install your OS for whatever reason, including sale of the computer to wipe your stuff off of it. This was an aging home-build which I've since rebuilt. The driver it nuked was for the Intel graphics baked into a 4th gen Core i5.
That partition was added to a normally unmounted mass storage hard drive installed internally. There is no reason for it to be on such a drive. I only found it when I booted a gParted Live flash drive and took a look at all my drives and partitions just for the Hell of it. Since my Windows 10 system was updated from a Windows 8.2 retail copy, I called Microsoft tech support to ask them WTF. They refused to say what it was for, so I must only assume the absolute worst of intent on Microsoft's part.
Fun fact, last time I went on an exploratory distro hop on my backup laptop, I noticed that both Pop! OS and Elementary OS also put "Microsoft Data" partitions on my main SSD. So I no longer recommend either of those distros to Linux newcomers. Just Zorin and Linux Mint.
@@bobpeters61 If it wasn't mounted then how did Windows have access to it that is extremely strange and I have used Pop OS in the past and never noticed that partition on my system but yeah a very strange scenario, nevertheless I sanity check my system a lot and my Windows install so far at least hasn't tried to hijack Linux (I've only used Windows twice in the last 4 months and it also managed to break itself lol)
Tips the fedora my friend 🐧
@@alexdubstep2709 I knew this was gonna be an ongoing joke
I went on a similar journey from nobara to fedora as a my to go system. I tried arch, manjaro and ubuntu also.
There's one distro i cannot recommend enough and it's linux mint especially if there are some problems with the hardware or firmware. It's by far the most stable os that i tried and it works reliably on systems that no other os did and It just keeps on running without crashes.
Yeah similar journey, I forgot to mention I have tried Manjaro and I don’t know if I did something wrong but that distro almost killed my enjoyment for Linux
welcome to the family my friend! I went full arch linux a couple months ago. never went back. Windows is just expensive spy ware constantly forcing changes you dont want.
Nice to hear you went with Arch I've been hearing a lot of good about that distro and yep exactly right about Windows being expensive spyware and I hate their changes, no freedom
I used Fedora but switched to Arch because at the time I didn't know about protected packets in /etc/dnf/protected.d/
What does this folder do?
which is the best option for gaming in linux ?
Probably Bazzite if you're basic and just use steam, though Fedora's KDE spin will just work and be more of a typical desktop.
Nobara is technically better than Fedora for gaming but it can break if something strange happens.
I use NixOS for my computers and it saves several headaches but you probably shouldn't.
@@cromfrein5834 I also use NixOS, but it has a steeper learning curve, so you can't really take full advantage of it until you get a good grasp of Nix. I really like how it is easier *for me* to create a Nix package than on other distros.
@@cromfrein5834 I'd say NixOS is not for beginners. It's great, but requires a tad more knowledge than the blind dive which is allowed on Fedora/Ubundu and the likes.
@@cromfrein5834 Thnkx Brother Appreciated 😊👍🏻❤️
Yeah, it's Bazzite
Based to go with the KDE spin instead of the default gnome experience!
I find KDE much more appealing to me coming from Windows but also KDE has much more customisation than GNOME as well and I think Fedora is thinking of making KDE the default or at least people have been appealing for it do be the default
Yep!
Yes
it take a few sec to boot to ubuntu on my 7800x3d and recently updated my gigabyte firmware and upgrade the cpu to 9900x. maybe update the bios to lastest version speed up the load time
Someone told me that an option was off in my BIOS for some reason, turning it on improved my boot times a lot, something to do with the RAM
I think the long boot time has to do with the NVIDIA driver updating. I run fedora on a laptop w/ an nvidia gpu and i have to wait for akmods to build every time it updates.
Nah the boot times are genuinely slow on Ryzen 7000 series, it was over a minute long on the first BIOS my motherboard shipped with and yes the long boot time is on Windows too
Can you show us how to install windows?
No
@@ZolaKluke :(
What's your opinion on cachy os
@@Spectrulight I haven’t used CachyOS yet, but using their modified Kernel for Fedora makes it more responsive so I assume it’s really just an optimised version of Arch? Like I said I haven’t tried their distro yet
I recommend CachyOS or Fedora both in KDE flavors.
I’ve gone for a mix with Fedora but on the CachyOS kernel (supposedly boosts gaming performance?) and using KDE Plasma
I've tried custom Kernel and yes they do improve the perfomance, to me about 20%, but i dont think its worth it, atleas for me its a lot of work, there can be problems with the patch, compatibility but if you dont care about it and just want sheer perfomance go ahead.
@@Wkaelx So far the CachyOS patched Fedora kernel hasn't given me any problems
Fedora is the best in terms of stability and speed. The only reason is use arch is the AUR.
Fair enough, I will definitely try Arch in future but I dunno if I'll stick with it since I hear that it can have issues due to how bleeding edge it is since I believe Fedora has more testing and the AUR sounds cool but I have bad memories of it due to Manjaro
Great!
Thanks
You need new hardware to use W11, but is Microsoft paying you to get it? No. I switched in 2017 to Linux and never used Windows again. MX Linux Xfce.
Yeah the Windows 11 requirements are crazy, I've used it so I know I meet them but so may good computers are going to "die" next year and nice I've heard that distro is good and Xfce looks nice too
@@ZolaKluke I say it's a scam. Forcing people to buy new hardware just to use W11 while their current hardware is still working fine. Ridiculous.
Wow, I made the switch just a few days before this video dropped. Of course, for me it wasn't a first time thing, I've been on and off for years, so it's not a huge deal for me, but it's the first time in a while I daily drive Arch. Still have my Windows 10 drive and I intend to keep it, just in case there's stuff I need that doesn't work on Linux, but I've decided I'm not touching 11, just because I'm a pigheaded autist.
@@plebisMaximus I’ve been on the verge of Linux for years so I kinda had some knowledge beforehand but this was me full going in. I still also have a Windows drive for the few games that don’t allow their anticheat to work on Linux otherwise my friends would disown me lol
I have a ryzen 5 7600x cpu and sometimes the boot times are long, sometimes they are not, however with the latest kernel they are good, also could you try a tiling wm?(just try)
I’ve heard Hyprland is good but apparently Fedora doesn’t support is nearly as well as Arch, might try COSMIC when it’s more complete since that’s a hybrid of a DE and WM
@ZolaKluke I use it with fedora and it's very good (I use an already done configuration called dots-hyprland by end-4, also Fedora has a copr repo for hyprland related things and hyprland itself)
@ZolaKluke I use a preconfigured version of hyprland (dots-hyprland by end-4) and it's great. Also Fedora has a copr repo for faster hyprland updates
i tried almost every type of linux out there arch , debian, ubuntu, slackware. i settled on linux mint xfce and I never looked back. I had issues with support trying arch. Arch users a very rude. I didn't have a good experience with the others. debian isn't too bad. i play ps2 games and do some steam gaming on my late 2012 mac mini running linux mint xfce. I have linux mint xfce on my asus chromebook it runs great. minus a couple of problems I had to fix after install.
@@rickbaker475 I’ve heard of xfce but never used it myself, I just know it for being very light weight and great for older/lower end machines and is that an official Mint with xfce or did you just install it yourself?
Welcome in linux world 🥳
@@FreeOpenSourceLinux Thanks
me too i am just trying to get arch linux to work
Neat, hope that goes well for you
@@ZolaKluke thanks bro now i am not going to fully abandon windows cause i share a laptop sadly and theres some software like rufus or adobe that dont work on it
You seem to be on a decent track
Thanks
Before you consider switching back to windows maybe give it a month minimum if there are no hardware failures because theres a massive learning curve. Well anyways gl.
I've been running it for 2 months prior and had no issues but this video was me overwriting my Windows drive in saying I'm done
cachy, fedora is a glowie distro with issues with packaging and none free software woes
What do you mean by a glowie distro?
@@ZolaKluke "glowie" refers to state actors like FBI, NSA or FSB. I think in this case the poster is complaining that Red Hat | IBM is funding Fedora, employs many of the maintainers and overall has some control over it. More specifically, because these are US companies, Fedora has some rather unusual packaging policies which is why rpmfusion is hosted in Europe (and why it was needed in the first place).
@@mskiptr Oh interesting, I didn't know about that which explains why Fusion exists, nevertheless I've heard they are funded by IBM but aren't influenced since they are technically independent and I doubt they have affiliations with the FBI, NSA or FSB and if they did well it'd obvious since it's open-source lol
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Arch is Linux. Fedora is all tied up with the RHEL-devil.
@@switchedtowindows I’m not too knowledgeable on all the semantics in the community, I just wanted a distro that’s up to date and easy to use, I may go to Arch one day but I’m still worried about it due to my awful Manjaro experience
You are really dumb. Fedora is upstream for rhel. Red Hat will continue to support it. It is still free and open source. It is also community driven which is good.
@@ZolaKluke What kind of 'awful' experience did you have with manjaro? It had a good out of the box experience for me. Simple tip. Never use anything from the aur. Flatpaks are available.
(I switched from manjaro because distro hopping.)
@@bhargavjitbhuyan9394 Well it was the AUR on Manjaro that ruined my experience and almost killed my passion for Linux earlier this year
Are you monitiszed yet?
Nope
Fedora is great but I found Fedora 35 was the most stable and got less polished with the new techs they added. Its an experimental distro so be weary.
I'm aware it's an experimental distro and good to know you found a build you felt was stable for your use, however isn't Fedora 35 out of the support window?
@@ZolaKluke Sadly yeah, 36 was pretty good but released with audio issues due to pipewire switchout. Each one after were less polished each time in my testing. Haven't tried 40 yet.
@@TheOmegaDMM Fair enough, I heard pipewire was an issue when it first released, but nowadays it seems amazing
@@ZolaKluke Yeah now its practically main stream choice! It is great!
@@TheOmegaDMM I tried Linux back in 2020 and Pulseaudio was useable but I feel pipewire had changed things for the better, especially with it being more than just audio
microsoft: you have recall nad you love it.
users: f u wer going linux
microsoft: oh noooo come baaak!
Basically a lot of the recent Linux users are in this category lol
nobara is awesome, do official nobara its fedora
@@CommanderBeefDev I’ve used Nobara before and it was great but I want a distro that I know will be supported long term, since I know GE is also busy with other projects
99% of people saying this are back on Windows in a month or less.
Linux isn’t for everyone but I’ve done my research and I know what I’m walking into as I have used Linux in the past when I wanted to test the waters
Source?
@@siz1700 Yeah I’d like to see their source because from what I hear it’s no where near that
If your computer gets hot running linux disable VMD in your bios. Not many know this.
@@FutureEyesOnly-be3do I haven’t had any thermal issues while using Linux, it seems to run cooler than Windows but that’s probably because it’s lighter than Windows also
@@ZolaKluke I have had issues with Linux Mint on my Asus F15 running Linux Mint. Since i disabled VMD my temps have dropped quite a bit but when i am on RUclips the temps spike to 135F. The fans kick in at 129F. Ihave tried many programs that are supposed to drop the temps. None that i am satisfied with yet however i will still continue to use Linux Mint 22.
@@FutureEyesOnly-be3do I should look into this VMD thing I guess and I don't understand Imperial units lol
@ I can’t find VMD in my bios, looking around I think this might be only be on Intel since I have AMD CPU
@@ZolaKluke It has something to do with Raid. I turned it off and everything went from the high 60C to high 29C.
This laptop has 6 Intel cpu's and a 4 gig video chip in it. It runs smooth as a kitten on all When i was running Windows but youtube really gets it warm. When i was running Windows the fan would spin as the temps hit 28C. I checked in the bios for fan control but did not find one.
I love to use kde but it's too buggy
Fair enough and to each their own, I don't mind GNOME but it's missing features I need without extensions which introduce their own bugs so I loose either way
i didnt switch because of the recall stuff i switched because i was bored
Haha that's fair, it's always fun trying something new
Ok... You're gonna get a lot of suggestions here for tons of different distros. Listen to me now. Ignore them all and use MX Linux or a true Debian Stable based distro. Most of these people making distro suggestions have no idea what they're talking about. And no, Ubuntu is NOT based on Debian Stable. Fedora is almost full bleeding edge, only beaten out by Arch in that regard, and even if it works just fine now, chances are high that you're gonna run into breakages later. And when you're just starting out with Linux, breakages are the last thing you should be dealing with.
As to drivers, MX solves this almost completely with the natively supported AHS kernel they offer.
Okay interesting, I may look into that if I feel I'm having problems
@@ZolaKluke I mean... Technically, you already ran into two glitches right off the bat just making this video. lol But alright, I'll back off. Just remember my words!
@@arnox4554 I believe both of these glitches are KDE related and not related to Fedora directly but I understand your concern, if I have a distro breaking issue or I get fed up with glitches then I’d probably consider, I know your looking out for me but I like to learn from mistakes
@@ZolaKluke And that's totally fine. Just know what you're getting into is all I'm saying. I technically don't care whatsoever what distro people use and Fedora could be a great distro if you know and fully accept its bleeding edge nature. Most people though don't know what the REAL stable newbie-friendly distros are, and they install and recommend distros like Ubuntu or Arch or Garuda, thinking constant updates automatically equals better.
By the way though, while you are absolutely right that these are KDE issues, the Fedora team is the one in the end who decides which version of KDE to package and ship out, and Fedora prioritizes almost the latest stuff, regardless of current and/or potential future issues with it with only minimal testing. Hence, the issues you see with this version of KDE.
Certainly not saying i recommend it but this is one of the many things i love about portage on gentoo. You get to pick what version of a package to install on your system as well as which ones you want the stable or bleeding edge of. Since it's all compiled and linked locally as long as there's no ABI breaking differences(like adding/removing functions) you can pick and choose which you want or need of more or less recent software versions suit your needs better
grats
Thanks
i deleted my windows like 6 months ago and installed linux . and then got fell in love with WMs and i found out i3 . but i had to do all on my own . the magic of youtube algorithm gave me the LOML which isssssssss arch + hyprland ...
so i use arch btw . hehehehehehe . this shit looks soo cool , how do people even like windows after seeing this shit
Yeah Arch and Hyprland might be my next stop, not sure yet though
Allah has guided you to Linux, Mashallah!
@@scrublord6476 lol
@@ZolaKluke So when will you be uploading a windows 11 installation tutorial
@@scrublord6476 Probably never
you know, most of new games are garbage anyhow these days.
True
he we go again another one of you video that try to grift on this idea ,how many times did we seen this now on youtub ? no average windows user well switch to linux.
@@magnomliman8114 Funny you think that I’m an average Windows user, also I’ve dabbled with Linux a bit over the last few years but this is me going full daily using Linux now
Why are you making this video in a nightclub?
If your referring to the music, sorry I like energetic music
Try cachy os
@@عبدالرازقفيصل I’m not confident with Arch yet since I had a bad experience with Manjaro but I’ll give it a try in future as for CachyOS I heard that it’s less stable and still in development but I do use their modified kernel for Fedora
@@ZolaKluke i had the same bad experience with manjaro
Vannila arch is better the problem with manjaro is they delay some packages and this make conflicts that brakes the system
That might explain the issues I was having with my system (I had to disable reply because your username was making me type from right to left? RUclips bug with your account name?)
@@ZolaKluke Manjaro sucks
EndevaourOS seems to be pretty well recieved for an Arch based distro tho, never tried it
@@VirtualizerExtreme I tried EndevaourOS not long after Manjaro but by that point I was kind of burnt out and never went back to it
I'm recommending you Zorin OS.
Zorin OS looks good and has a nice ecosystem around it but it's Debian/Ubuntu based which means I'd be waiting months for updates, it's a good distro but doesn't suit me
When is the Linux gulag happening So you can start ya Linux dictatorship
Switches to linux... uses brave..
What’s wrong with Brave? I was told it’s a good chromium based browser that has good privacy/security and I’ve seen at least 2 or 3 Linux RUclipsrs that also use it
Sigh, another user who switch to Linux because he doesn't realize that Microsoft Recall is made for Copilot+PC that runs on the ARM architecture... 😂😂😂
@@RandomQuebecer Supposedly they’re adding x64 support for it, nevertheless I don’t like Microsoft’s telemetry and I’ve been interested in Linux for a while and felt ready to move over
@@ZolaKluke It would be nice if you could provide official source for what you just said, about the telemetry tho I can understand you.
They made it so that Recall is a required dependency on Explorer, thereby people are unable to use Explorer if they remove Recall in the installation image.
@@oserodal2702 I also heard that which is extremely messed up, essentially if you remove recall you loose a critical part of your OS, why WTF Microsoft, I'm so glad I left when I did
@@oserodal2702 just use win10 then
This communist propaganda is great and upload more communism videos
Please elaborate.
@@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm my hairline hurts
@@morkoblooper7991 Come on, try...
@@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm He’s one of my friends, my friend group has been angry I’m ditching Windows even though 95% of my games still work
@@ZolaKluke Ahhhh... 😂👍
cope reason for not using nobara lol
Nobara is good and gets you a full working gaming distro faster, but I wanted to try the vanilla experience
Mint sucks ass and even though its based on Ubuntu you get updates years later 😂. Ubuntu is just better and gets backports. I havent used fedora in 14 years though so cant comment much on its current state
@@UbuntuPersonNoMint Yeah Mint looks great and is stable but if you want to stay up to date it’s not the distro to pick and Fedora has been great for me so far
@@ZolaKluke I've used mint. It doesn't look great. Its stuck in the past with an ugly color scheme. The only thing that saves it is having an Ubuntu base to make it easier than non Ubuntu based distros.
@@UbuntuPersonNoMint I don't mind the look of it but to each their own, it is Ubuntu based but they also have a Debian build now, but the updates are still too far behind for my liking since I use Nvidia on Wayland you need recent drivers to get a good experience
I understand why, but what you're doing is just ridiculous. Unless you are a sysadmin, an engineer, programmer, etc. Linux is not for you! It is a kernel designed with servers in mind, not regular users!
Linux is not that hard. Everyone can to basic things on linux.
That may have been true 10+ years ago, but nowadays linux is becoming more and more desktop-capable.
HDR, the rise of Wayland (finally), and Proton are just some indicators.
@@beneficialhistory that's not the point
That's still somewhat true today, however it's not ridiculous because its now usable and modified for the desktop. But yeah I somewhat agree.
Not true at all.
Oh give up, 30 years and still no desktop victory. Linux will never dominate the desktop because its users are clueless to marketing. Steam gives you a great boost and...... NOTHING!
Sounds like your part of the problem, if you were to try it then you using it would boost the marketshare which technically counts as advertising
@@ZolaKluke Wow not watching the gaming industry are you? Blaming the consumer NEVER works roflol!
Not 30 years, but I had the same feeling when they started with Wine. Now you can play a lot of Windows games on a Steam Deck with Proton. And we don't need a "victory", just a sizeable market share. Macs are still not the biggest population, but 3rd party support has improved a lot.
@@LivingLinux Yeah we don't need to be the dominant OS, but if you look in the last few years Linux has gone from 1.5% of marketshare to 4.5% which is huge compared to how slow it was moving before
macOS is better
Each to their own
How so?
MacOS is literally worse than Windows
lol Are you kidding me, man?
no one cares
@@wrx95pro well people definitely do if you looked at the comments
no one ask
@@PE7200 ok
OMG, that hurt - it hurt all of us! 😭😢😧😦☹
@@Hakushin68000 🤣