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The problem with GPU install on Linux isn't gaming IMO. It's that the driver package is split, so the Nvidia drivers are installed and gaming works fine. But then the cuda cores will not work in Blender because that's not installed WHY?? On windows it installs everything AFAIK

I have very little issue with Gaming and Office software, but it's Steam and Libre. It's pretty rare I mess with games outside of Steam. OK, so Valheim always uses the wrong sound output...but i eventually fixed it with...a completely ridiculous script to switch it automatically.

Bluetooth + Gamepad = A bad time. Bluetooth + Headset = A bad time. Honestly, Bluetooth, Wifi, and printers are THE WORST to troubleshoot regardless of Windows or Linux.

I think we need to be a little fair on Mac. Anybody that enjoys Linux would naturally hate a Mac... But many people that would enjoy a Mac would probably dislike Linux. Linux is about the freedom to explore. It's like people that enjoy dirt biking probably won't enjoy the same kinda thing as people who prefer just cruising.

Hi, I have a suggestion and also a hypothesis to explain why so many of your followers use Arch Linux. I am using linux for a long time, I use linux since the firsts versions of Slackware Linux Distro and Red Hat Linux, I am a Java and Java Script developer and what I like more about your channel is the Linux News, it is the News you choose to bring to your channel and the way you see the software market and the facts and the way you show it. So my hypothesis is it: Your followers who use Arch Linux they come more for the news. My suggestion is you to test this hypothesis in your next survey, you can just ask it to your followers. For me it is very important to know why Ubuntu is pushing the community to use snap and why it is not a good thing, why CentOS just became a Stream, why Node.js, Redis an many others free software had a fork and similar thing, Why Red Hat bought JBoss, why IBM bought Red Hat,etc. It help me to choose my tools. If I could give you one more suggestion it would be you should put more focus into to analyse the software market, because you have the skills for it and there are no so many good, realible and fun sources of this kind of information. At the least I would like to see more content about it. Thank you very much.

Are you describing Wubuntu my friend?

OK, now what about peppermintOS and VanillaOS? I have some Dell Wyse thin clients that need an OS that will work in a 32GB SSD and what about PuppyOS?

Already switched to Ubuntu to give linux one more shot. Tried Zorin OS and don't get me wrong, I liked it but it kept crashing a load of stuff and crashed the shit out of my web browsers and would be difficult with recognizing my 4070 Ti Super. Removed windows from both my laptop and desktop but gotta get some of my stuff off of one drive so I can keep the transition complete. I may be in my mid 30's and linux scared the shit out of me when I was younger but fuck it. Let's go!!! Windows time is over.

As a longtime Windows user with experience Hackintoshing multiple PC's, for example, the issue I run into is being unable to find info to fix certain problems in one area OR only finding like one person who has directions, but if anything at all doesn't go right with any step, it all falls apart and there's nowhere else to find any information. I've mostly had no issues with the limited gaming I've tried intermittently on Garuda on a few installs and now CachyOS. But I've been wanting to make the change from Windows to do audio recording on Linux. I've spent the past couple days trying various distros, sometimes more than once, and having no success at getting set up with some Windows programs that some others have been able to get working, e.g. EZDrummer and Amplitube. I've followed one person's CZcams install instructions video, and a step didn't work out, and I spent hours trying to find any workaround to no avail, tried to install with the remaining instructions, and no success. Even trying to install Wine and Yabridge on LMDE seems to have no worked out properly. Strangely, I found more information when Hackintoshing a z370 motherboard from multiple sources with various things that could be tried, and I've usually had success figuring it out. With Linux it seems that if you're going to do something like use Windows programs, you'd better hope to find numerous people interested in the same thing that might have any tips that could help. I got into Hackintoshing for a friend and am not really a Mac guy but see a bleak future with Windows. I'm hoping to get my Mac Mini M1 figured out for audio recording and will use Linux for gaming and for more general/simple things -- well, except getting back to making an Unraid server. :D I'd love to find clear information or enough information to piece together a successful way to run things on Linux and want Linux to be successful, but at this point I think it's good enough to say that Linux has come a long way regarding gaming. Hopefully more support and information helpful to audio and maybe some other artistic productivity will come along in the near future. I DO think Linux has the potential to have a bright future and don't want to appear to dis Linux, and I HIGHLY appreciate all those who contribute their time and resources in Linux as well as each person who has posted videos or messages to help others finding their way. Thank you all! :) I'm definitely a Linux noobie, and maybe I'll figure some things out that I just don't understand well enough or otherwise perceive at the moment.

I'm honestly not surprised these results are so comparable. At the end of the day, for the most part, it's relatively the same software running on the same hardware, with different packaging strategies, but still the linux kernel running the same translation layers on the same hardware.

This video really annoyed me. You are exactly the wrong person to do this survey. By your own admission you are a long time super user and you know where everything is and how to deal with everything (condescending much?). Almost every category you illustrated was a surprise to you and you never had a problem with it. You thought the issue had been solved a long time ago. I've been in the IT space for almost 40 years and Linux on the desktop has major issues for the regular user who just want's an alternative to Windows. In 2023 you should not have to dive into the shell to install something as esoteric or arcane as Wine, yet when you visit the WineHq website the instillation process is at least 8 lines of arcane code and what happens when it doesn't work for some reason. I installed Pop-OS onto my test machine with an RTX3060 and yes, I used the special Nvidia version of the OS. Moving windows produces frame tearing and there doesn't seem to be an obvious way to deal with it. Everything about Linux is a research project. Nothing is easy. Like I said I'm putting this on my test machine to try and get a a system that I can migrate to because Microsoft is pissing me off.

10:03 ahh nice All these days OpenSUSE comes with an additional desktop entry to launch Dolphin as root

The biggest problem I find as a new Linux user is that while there's lots and lots of how to's and guides, 98% of the time they seem to be made by people who have used Linux for a long time and there's a lot of really basic things that's assumed you already know. For instance, telling someone "run this command" is useless if they come from a Windows machine. Yes, with someone brand new to Linux, you really do have to specify that they need to open the terminal or shell, and what prompt they should be at to paste the command in. And always give them the complete command. I know that sounds idiotically basic, but if you grew up on Windows, you feel absolutely blind in the CLI like you're stumbling around for the light switch in a pitch black room. It's intimidating and you don't want to do anything wrong so damn explicit instructions are needed and 98% of guides are not explicit enough for new users.

Well yeah, everything works for YOU because you're a Linux youtuber. That means (1) most of your hardware is from your sponsors and designed to run Linux, (2) it's kinda your job to troubleshoot Linux stuff, and (3) you've built your workflow around things Linux can handle and not what it can't (note the massive dose of survivorship bias here). In the past year, all of the following have caused me pain and suffering on Linux: Wayland with NVIDIA, printer setup, bluetooth manager, headphone detection, high refresh rate monitors, updates requiring command-line intervention, broken sleep/hibernation, and network sharing. I think I speak for a non-negligible fraction of your audience when I say that Linux is a pain in the ass on a regular basis, and we only stick with it because some aspects are *amazing*, because we believe in free software, and because Microsoft is actively sabotaging Windows.

I got into Linux about a year ago, and distro hopped half a dozen times. Mint, Ubuntu, Manjaro, NixOS, back to Mint, and finally to Debian 12 Plasma. I think I've finally found a distro I'll be sticking with long-term. NixOS was a nightmare for a beginner. Ubuntu was okay. I liked Manjaro, and Mint was my main distro, and I really enjoyed it but still always wanted something "more" so I kept hopping. Debian has me hooked! Huge thanks to all of the devs, maintainers and contributors to ALL of these projects.

Whenever I had to slelect the kernel from a selection list, usually the best option was going for the oldest of the list that does not crash on boot with every newer version more things getting broken dunno maybe it was just the case for me on some odd devices and very early android smartphones where I got that selection to make.

I love Linux. I wish more work software was made for Linux

I wish x11 would just go away- it was horrible. Wayland has been flawless for me.

Linux developers (and you) need to spend time using 10 year old gear. Or everyone needs to stop saying "pull that old computer out of the back of the closet and give it new life".

Considering my Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 gets 2176 Single Core and 6733 on the multi core in my S24U, I'd say apple need to step up their game if a phone chip can keep up.

Although I do enjoy your channel, I must say you are completely wrong about printers in Linux! Try to connect HP CP1025 and run it... Good Luck! You must install latest version of HP Lip and download driver through HP lip. You cannot use all functionality out of the box either, You must create your configuration to print black separated from colors (or use colors to print black which is just stupid) or to print on glossy papers or specialty ones you need to create your own scripts to do so. So NO, Linux do not detects and run all printers, some of them will give you a huge headache to install and configure correctly, and creating a printer server.... Another issue...

My big Linux issue surrounds the system voice, (it's awful). On Windows: I use an Ivona voice to proofread my documents, it sounds real and the natural cadinene is the perfect tool for following the flow of my writing. There seems to be NO natural voices for Linux, and that's no matter how I form my searches, and on any search engine. BUT! - If anyone here can point me in the right direction, I'd be using Linux in a shot. Until then, .. Win10 is all I can use. Over to you Linux community.

I sure wish i could use KDA Plasma. Trying to get online is nearly imposable. It never populated the wifi channels. And i have an 8th gen i7 laptop also.

I have an Elitebook 830 G8 with i5-1135g7, 32GB DDR4 with Intel Iris Xe Graphics and no matter what I always have slow OS whenever I plug my 4K Monitor to it and try to watch CZcams videos I always get Framedrops. I would love it to work, but for some reason I had 4 laptops in my lifetime and none of them had a problemless go through with Linux.

Yes I do! Polonium 💙

System D . . . .

it works on my machine

KDE Plasma 6.1 will be the best desktop environment ever! So strange to see that some Linux users are still using Cinnamon or MATE which are light years behind.

Linux for games and everyday computing is just a waste of time its great for projects and home or enterprise servers

You worry about privacy but then give the browser full power acces to the password directory 🤦 use a contained local manager, and copy paste is the secure way, otherwise, who am I to judge about the security and privacy risk. You want auto fill a hacker can use that to see your password, so I have to agree with the developers on xpass (those •••• won't protect you, that's java, and inspect element can reveal what's behind it 🤷🏻‍♂️)

Windows one Love💛💛💛Linuks dislike!

We Linux users love complaining. Usually when there's many applications doing the same thing, arguments gets split up between them. For something bigger and popular, it gets every argument targetted directly at it, like systemd. I hate KDE btw ;) Because... I don't know, I just don't like it.

I can't use Linux because HDR support isn't. I'm not giving up the ability to enjoy content the way I want. Even though I desperately want to move away from windows.

I've never needed a tiling window manager, but I use one anyway to make my friends think I am a productivity wizard and/or hacker god.

If you can provide a one-click solution to giving me the same control of my AMD CPU and GPU that windows gives with the same one-click, then i will say i dont have a problem with my experience.

I thought Windows was already 100% spyware!!! What a relief!!

im on debian 12.5 right now. and something interesting is, when i try to install the debian 12.5, if i choose to use KDE plasma desktop environment, it will fail on the "installing grub dummy" stage. a fatal failure. everytime. not until i change it to the "factory suggested" option which is GNOME. and that one install grub just fine. is it coincidence? or KDE plasma requires "special" grub configuration that my old hardware dont support probably? also, im following red hat/fedora's latest policy on my new debian , that is MAINLY using FLATPAK as applications. for thorough containerized apps. it has PORBLEMS, where applications would be going "out of bounds" on allocated memory for the apps and causing all kinds of trouble like audio crackles, UNTIL, i installed "FLATSEAL" and adjust some of the apps configs in it. which means, everybody who are using any flapak apps at all, should MANDATORY to have flatseal also installed for convenience. which makes me think, since fedora is now suggesting main apps should be flatpaks, they should have flatseal installed out of the box, right? and the old bugaboo problems is still WAYLAND. even in debian. it still breaks everything. really, performance impacts are still there. for those who says, "wayland is fine with me", they most likely running on more hardware headroom and dont realize how much performance they compensate. if only they compare it with pure X11 installation and find that the wayland stuff would have some 11-15 fps down to the X11 build. its still a problem. hasnt changed. and thats in both AMD and nvidia. so, maybe you are okay not knowing your wayland managed running program is actualy losing so much performance, so long it still feel smooth, right? who can tell the difference, right?. well, people with limited margin for hardware headroom finds out it is a problem. linux still a mismatch "lego". and all the users would constantly do a "quickfix" just to get things done.

You bought Framework Laptop 13?

Theming apps is not same as disjointed ui. You should be able to have custom theme but be coherent everywhere. But gnome actually wants to completely stop theming. Also libadwaita is not suitable for complicated apps. Also people in windows cant even theme. How can they complain about theming.

Also app grid like gnome layout is bad when you just want to open a single app. Its just annoying to not see when you are doing when you wanna open an app. So both start menu and app grid layout is needed for two requirements.

What happens when you get connect to SPICE? Seems like MacOS is the only issues. WIndows 11 worked fine.

No mention of /e/ OS 2.0? I'm disappointed

Part of the problem with hardware compatibility is not knowing ahead of time what will work. I wish there was an official "Linux Compatible" certification so I'd know something works before I order it. That might reduce the number of people getting burned by incompatible hardware and improve Linux's image.

And now Microsoft has a literal window to your PC :) I'm talking about copilot+

I too am surprised that Bluetooth, WIFI and GPU are an issue. I am using all kinds of handhelds (GPD) and they have no issue and are supported out of the box. I still use Windows on a second SSD because of gaming. As someone who values DRM-free and has all his games purchased on GOG, I did not find the Heroic launcher too pleasing back then. When I want to play a game, I do not want to start tinkering and having to take extra steps. However once Microsoft wants to force either a subscription or AI spyware that I can not remove onto my computer, I will switch to 100% Linux immediately. I love how much Valve is doing for Linux gaming, however I want to avoid Steam because of DRM reasons and as long as it is bearable, I'll stick to a dual boot setup.

I can't ever understand how it's even physically possible to be a genuine fan of Apple. It's just so bad. Then there's Windows, we don't talk about that...

Complete graphical corruption upon loading any one of the proprietary Nvidia driver versions recommended for my precise model of GPU by Nvidia or my distro.