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People all over the world are trying out Linux for the first time and setting themselves up for failure. If you want to have a positive experience, I recommend everyone do these 3 things before you switch to Linux.
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I first came into contact with Linux in spring this year and I still haven't switched over yet. I've been distro-hopping and playing around with many distros for over half a year, and I still haven't made up my mind completely. The next step is trying to boot a live session from a flash drive (because to be fair, virtual machines have fairly limited performance, especially on a potato laptop like mine). I hope that I can make the switch soon this year!
Edit: I finally switched to Linux Mint soon after Christmas, and haven't regretted it yet!
I've been using Linux for about 3 years now and I've got a potato too. Like you I was also distro hopping but a time came when I realised that almost every distro is the same and that I could easily get a feature that on one distro on another. I use debian or any debian based distro. I decided almost everything I don't let the installer decide that. Guess what I got the OS to use only 100-200MB of RAM which is great as I only have 2GB of RAM. I run a windows virtual machine and give it 1.7-1.8GB of RAM... dude the first time I did it it was mind-blowing!!! It worked so well. If you have a potato laptop/pc don't worry there's a way to get it done on the potato. I didn't use official windows iso I used a super lite version. Just because there are some programs that I really have to use that is not on Linux or an alternative is not there... Just 1 or 2 programs really. The rest is all native
@@aadirajuthup how did you make your os use only 200mb ram? Are you not using any desktop environment?
@@azr_sd I'm using xfce and it's really minimal with no xfce-goodies package. I only install the stuff I need manually... I want to kinda move to kde and I'll do it soon...
@@azr_sd I'm using q4os it's debian based like almost no features of it's own. After install I stripped it down even more. It's already so lightweight that it only uses 200-300MB of RAM and with a little bit of tinkering I get it to go 100-200...
I started dual booting as soon as I tried out WSL.
just know one thing
linux is not windows
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Absolutely this. If you want the experience you get on Windows, stay on Windows. I remember when I switched to Linux back in 2014, I did it because I was fed up with Windows. Sure, there are some things Windows does better than a lot of Linux distros, but I wouldn't go back. Using Linux on my PC has really improved the way I do this on my daily routine.
And even though you can make it look and feel like Windows, it still isn't. And it will never be.
That's how I did it. I knew Linux wasn't like Windows. So I went in with a clean slate. Never brought over anything I knew about Windows. Linux is easy if you just do this alone. First I learn how to install and uninstall in Linux , then learn The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Just learning these two things first. You're on your way learning the Linux way. Don't even thinking bring over any Windows baggage. I went 100% Linux, including Linux applications and Linux games. Never gave up gaming, I just change how I game. I game with Linux games not my Windows games. No Windows baggage and just find all the alternatives that work in Linux. That's what I did and 18 years later, I'm still here using Linux.
The epiphany comes after the switch. Not only is it definitely not windows but *drum roll* it doesn't have to be! You can do anything you like, it can be what you want it to be.
If you need peer approval for everything you say here, that's a personality issue - deal with that as you need to but it's not relevant to a Linux discussion.
If you need to use Windows, then use Windows. Whether or not you personally decide to use Linux makes absolutely no difference to anyone who already uses it. Nobody cares.
Oh, and that's two things, not one thing - "Linux is not Windows" (note the capitalisation) and "My record of likes on CZcams" (note the capitalisation).
I hope you get the personality issues resolved.
Thank you, Brandon. This is exactly what did in the mid 2000s: used FLOSS apps, ran a few distros in Virtual Box. Then I installed Warty Warthog Ubuntu wiping away Windows and never regretted it. But very few people have followed my advice and tend to try the live environment, install, then just get used to the programs. Whatever works for the user, freeing them from being a mere customer/resource for the Borg and Poison Apple.
Great video with excellent information for anyone wanting to use linux without jumping straight into it. Well done. Your video's a calm, honest and actually entertaining to watch. One of very few CZcamsrs who never rages!!
Sensible advice but I have a feeling there are going to be lots of people who will switch much less sensibly.
First time it's occurred to me to use a virtual machine to test linux distros before installing instead of going through a multi-boot usb with live environments. Thank you for also linking the great tutorial!
Great job! Excellent suggestions, I would echo these for sure.
Really solid video TH, good one!
I recently jumped into linux my self and i settled down with Garuda KDE after a lot of Distro hopping.
20 years Windows user and i am not going back... Still learning my ways around and i do miss some applications but i am glad i made the switch.
Because Linux made me feel that my system truly belongs to me and i can tweak it the way I see fit.
It's a major rabbit hole to fall into but a really rewarding one 😁
Yep same here man, I've found Linux Lite to be my Distro of choice so far. It can be absolutely INFURIATING with some of the issues I've had to face (Especially doing what feels like pulling teeth to get Steam Proton to work) but it's SO rewarding once you figure stuff out and MAKE those breakthroughs man, it's just SO good. I'm done with Microsoft!
Thanks, this was very helpful.
Love this video with ONE exception: Make a good backup of your system just in case! Often I have run into unforeseen obstacles that were ONLY mitigated by a good backup of my system and data!
Yes, backup onto a removable drive and then unplug it.
I started out by installing Linux on my laptop while still using Windows on my tower for a couple years
Great job on this one, short and sweet. Straight to the point and just overall great guidance, I think if i showed tech noobs around me this video they wouldn't be overwhelmed or scared at all.
Very nicely done! It's about three years late for me but advice I wish I'd had. It's really funny in that I'm watching you on an old Lenovo ThinkPad. Otherwise , find an older system cheap and buy a couple of SSDs, then do the distro installs and explore each distro with no worries. Keep you favourite distro /SSD and use that other SSD for the next one. Be careful about the capabilities of other users vs the Linux distro you choose; for example both my wife and I found that could live with Linux Mint / Cinnamon desktop so that's what we choose to replace a 30 year + string of Windows based systems.
Gimp still neds CMYK for high quality printing to be a complete alternative for Photoshop. Also there is still no alternative for rendering software like AutoCad, Lumion and Sketchup if you are a architect you need those as well.
or DAWs - FL studio, Ableton etc...
So? For the average user Linux is a great choice. GIMP should be enough for about 99% of users and I'd argue that very few people even use more than its most basic functions. Also, there is rendering software for Linux: Blender and Maya.
FL Studio runs in wine tho
@@djsaekrakem3608 Bitwig is available for Linux.
@@ratatatuff There are various things, but as someone who has worked over 20 years in IT and in almost every industry, as well as someone that has used linux for that whole time. I can say that for desktop workplace adoption there are many industries that are basically locked on windows with no viable alternative. AutoCad and it's associated commercial ecosystem is one example, and often there are regulatory reasons related to all of this too. Professional's by and large cannot use gimp because of cmyk and other issues and ecosystems. But it's worse than that, because every industry has their little piece of shit line of business applications that are exclusive to windows and they depend on vendor support, who absolutely will not support it under wine. Some of this software is shifting to website versions, which in some cases open up the possibility to use linux in the workplace. For basic home users that really only open up a web browser, they might be semi functional in linux, but those users frankly would probably would be better off with a mac or ipad. Keep in mind that "average" users can't basically do anything on a computer on their own, and the moment something breaks they are calling their relative or support person, who odds are, doesn't know anything about linux. Gaming is shockingly good on Linux, but only because the norm would be for proprietary games *not* to work, and most still don't work perfectly. So for gamers that are interested in learning linux, it can be an option, but for many it wont be. Linux shines primarily for programmers, and people who are truly interested in learning and gaining the freedom it offers.
Good advice. Unfortunately, I didn't have the opportunity to prepare in any way. The automatic upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 bricked my computer and then I switched as I had nothing to lose.
Yes a lot of people followed that path. The Windows-11 boundary is likely to send some more over to Linux. Learning a new OS is enough of a pain without having to buy a new computer to do it. To learn all the quirks of the next Windows is just not worth it.
If you are able to, install an Ubuntu based distribution on a separate drive. Take out the drive with windows in it and then put it back in your computer after installing Linux.
Then just look for the exact commands but it's something like,
sudo os-probe
sudo update-grub or it might be sudo grub-update.
Done. Now you can SAFELY, without having to give up anything you can try or just use both Linux and windows. I have to use windows often but I prefer Linux so I dual boot without dealing with partitions or boot partitions....
Thanks for the Winget tip.
Near the time stamp 11:52, your recommendations about installing
Linux on an old laptop is sound advice.
If Linux seems hard to figure out, just remember the day you turned
on your first computer.
If you had a Guide sitting next to you that told you which button to
push next; lucky you.
With Linux, your imagination and CZcams videos are your Guide.
When you decide to go all in with Linux; lucky you.
: )
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2:31 yep, gimp was difficult in starting, even if u dont had any prior experience. but yeah, once i get used to it, now it just works awesome for most all things
Awesome video, i a on my 4th or 5th time on linux full time, ill go back to windows for 4 hours and realize why i went to Linux. for gaming, pop os just works for current systems. Its a happy learning time. search.... things to do after installing blah , helps alot
informative. great video
ive gone to linux 2 years or so ago. actually, i dont regret anything. i miss having good perf in some games tho, but having good perf in literally anything else is the most important thing for me. also not being able to use some windows programs, but because of that ive learned to use gimp, libreoffice and the terminal, which i cannot live without now
I have a MacBook Air M1 that I will be keeping but I just ordered parts to build a desktop Linux machine after playing around in a vm following your guide . My work flow is 90% Figma in Mozilla, sublime text, flutter and Xcode so I should be good but will need to keep the mac. Thanks for your videos.
Brilliant advice 👍
I haven't used Adobe products and used DaVinci Resolve as the closest alternative. Good to hear it works natively for Linux!
Great video. I just subscribed yesterday. My comment is I didn't know the software available on Linux. I had to switch first to learn about LibreOffice and VLC. I might add that KDE doesn't seem that light. It's not like Xfce or Openbox. Thanks for the tip about winget.
your editing skills has improved alot these days
Been looking at switching for a year now, and after getting the steam deck I'm set on switching on my main PC. Currently I'm looking at PopOS and ElementaryOS and am so excited to take the plunge
Been using manjaro for 8 months now. Although I would have preferred pop but manjaro and pacman are what I like better
I been using Manjaro for 4 months now. But I also like Mint, Pop, Fedora. And as for the second place I like MX, Void and Solus
Change the repos from manjaro ones to the arch official ones, might make you avoid having different issues with aur one day
@@ZuriPOL you mean issues with packages versions incompatibility? That Manjaro tests packages a bit before releasing unlike Arch?
Ok??
@@ZuriPOL what are you talking about? You'll get way less issues on manjaro than Arch even on AUR repos because they are more tested. Your advice is ridiculous
Sometimes I'm doing a hardcore Linux mode, forking a Lazpaint and make my own. Sometimes I broke my MESA driver and sometimes I lost my home folder, etc.
Some tips from me:
- make a plan, write it on paper - how will go about it, what step follows what, etc.
- if possible - buy new SSD drive and do not delete your Windows, just install Linux on the new drive (ext4 file system is perfect for most users), so you can dual boot and get back to Win, until you're confident to use only Linux (the Linux installer will make a boot menu for you, adding your Windows to it too!),
- backup, backup, backup (this is a good advice, even if you will continue to use only Windows for the rest of your life - always backup!),
- don't be tempted to look around too much, distro hopping is not a good thing imo, and don't choose some weird exotic distro. For new users and for most users it is really best to stick with one of the major distros. For newcomers - Mint (preferably Debian Edition - LMDE), Ubuntu, Debian is also good but I would recommend it only to people, who are advanced users and have already experience with Linux.
- !!! Don't give up! No matter what happens do not give up. If something doesn't work, try to find out why and how to fix it, there are tons of information on the Internet!
10:08 USB Booting without installing - hmm, that seems good option that kinda always skip my mind. thanks for sharing that here too
I’m using manjaro! It’s pretty good, I love it :)
I switched to Mint after Manjaro locked up for the 3rd time.
FYI, "nvidia" is not pronounced "nuhvidia", it's "en-vidia"
Really appreciate your videos. It's nice to get some info on various Linux topics without having to install and test a bunch of distros/tools myself.
I have yet to try windows 11, but I really like how you have the windows icon on the bottom left, and the applications centered. Was that easy to do ?
I noticed that most of the tools I'm using are all already Linux compatible, either because they have a Linux version or because they simply run in a browser, that's one reason why I consider switching.
The other one is that Windows is getting more and more aggressive with their data collecting, to the point that nothing works anymore without it, and that with a product I have to pay for. I really don't like that. They also seem to have stopped doing internal QA and just use paying customers as guinea pigs for their broken test versions to cut costs.
The Steam Deck is the perfect opportunity for me to try Linux, the hardware is inexpensive, there will be a bunch of people switching at the same time, to the exact same OS version, so I don't have to worry being left alone with a problem I get stuck on that no one else is experiencing, and the whole team behind the hardware has a major interest that things go as smooth as possible for people.
Plus the hardware itself is sick, can't wait, I'm excited.
You left out the fact that Win-11 requires many people to buy a new computer. Switching to Linux on the same old hardware is a lower cost alternative.
Brandon. Could you do a Hefftorlinux XFCE install/review? I've been trying to get it installed and it's not so easy. I'm getting quite a few install errors. Out of dozens of distros I've installed, this one's been a royal pain in the arse. It's a Arch based distro and looks to be a fantastic distro.
I was using windows for 15 years, 8 months ago i installed Ubuntu in one of my old Lenovo. I was surprised to see how smooth it was running. From there on I tried POPoS on VM and now I'm Linux user. I hated how windows restricts you. With Linux you could literally do anything with the operating system.
Both Puppy Linux and Mint Linux have perfectly good GUI package managers. There is no need to go to the command line for them.
The typical user will find everything they need to migrate from a Windows version.
This is a great video. You're the real MVP.
That's one of the best pieces of advice I've ever encounterded in a "Switch to Linux"-format: Before switching, make yourself comfortable with apps you might want or need to use later on. VMs are great for that, saves a lot of time and hassle. Then maybe a Live-system to test hardware compatibility. After that you could go for an external SSD or even a Stick. If it's still not for you or can't get your Win-specific tool to work (even with a Win-VM, it works both ways ;-) ), pull it off and your Windows is still where it always was.
There are also a lot of great little Linux-only apps that you only discover over time. In my 4 years of constant Linux (Fedora Workstation), I got to know my distro very well and I found a lot of tools through recommendations in videos, forum entries or blog posts.
I recommend CInnamon over kde for a windows user..
Hey, quick question as I just switched to Linux full time (16 years on Windows, almost 10 years on Photoshop and 5 years on Premiere pro)
The only thing I still was not able to resolve was - MP4 inside Davinci Resolve. Whole day of research just led me to "Buy Davinci license to import/export MP4", but that shouldn't be the case.
I am currently converting with ffmpeg all my MP4 footage to dnxhd but that's just nasty on my NVME as 100MB video becomes 4GB video.
How do you deal with this? Have you found a work-around for MP4 directly from free Davinci Resolve 17? Thank you!!
@@lucadipaolo1997 Thank you for the indepth answer. I thought DNxHR is for 2K+ (2k, 4k, 8k footage) and DNxHD is for 1080p and lower. But I guess that's correct because DNxHR will use higher bitrates when converting. Does that enlarge the resulting file size?
I've been using Linux since Windows Vista came along..and i never regreded it. Starting with Ubuntu, then Linux Mint and others. Now i'm stuck with MX-Linux and can't be happier. It is stable, lightweight and easy to use. But if you are a gamer or you need special photo-editing software..don't ditch Windows. And the best: with Linux you no need Antivirus software.
in Office i nee the cloud option so i can work easy on multiple mashines. it is sad i cant install anythink on my workplace thats need administration privilages is it not possible to use office over wine ? or some plugins for my linux ?
2. Use Winget :
* are things installed via there deep/force uninstallable? like i use revo uninstaller for uninstalling .exe installed things
* are their folder accessible? asking since the installs via MS Store have weird issues around them, and their install location is hidden
6:44 VSCodium, VSCodium; right there
6:59 ahhhh, soooo glad u suggested VSCodium :pleased:
Pro tip: Get used to the tought, it's in your hands, if you break something. LTT experienced this, because Linus didn't really thought about the "packages got uninstalled" at this uncommon point while installing theme. A GNU/Linux lets you break the whole system, if you don't think about the things you do. But you'll get a grown up user ... and some things just don't work the same way.
When I switched to Linux from windows, I just switched straight away, without thinking much, but as a result I had to face many problems and the worst thing is, I had a nvidia graphics card and I was not aware about installing proprietary graphics driver and faced many lags and stuttering in the open source drivers, my desktop was just not usable at that time, but then when I installed the proper driver it fixed many issues, still there are some issues, but Linux is working fine now. And I use Ubuntu, which is working fine for me. So I just want to say that before switching to Linux, you should get proper knowledge about basic things otherwise you will also face problems similar to which I faced. And if you have intel or AMD graphics you will have a easy switch to Linux and you will not have this kind of problem.
winget is good in general, but scoop is more like linux packet managers like pamac for tools for the command line, so, I recommend both, winget and scoop (I dont like chocolatey business model)
Oh these sponsor segways, almost as smooth as those from LTT 😁
So... not smooth at all? 😂
Had some weird audio problem in Windows 10 and Linux provided. I like both for different stuff.
Everyone who like to use command line already, already using things like chocolatey or other (it was couple of other repo managers...) or new winget from MS, or using powershell, scripting, all this stuff..
The most Office experience that Linux currently has is WPS Office, in my opinion. What I miss about Windows are services such as VSS and the rendering quality of its fonts, especially on the web
So WPS is better to you than LibreOffice?
@@k.b.tidwell Yes, especially in its interface, ease of use and productivity, even more coming from MS Office, and that without having so much development that the Windows version has or LibreOffice itself.
the open source version of vscode doesn't have all the extensions, if possible, always use the Microsoft binaries
I first switched to Arch Linux from Windows 2 years ago. Distro-hopping until i settled on Fedora
Thumbs up! 👍
On Linux I have almost always a terminal up. But on windows this feels strange for me. I have to try it though.
I rarely do stuff in a terminal other than run a script I have created. Bash is a perfectly good programming language for some things.
Wait how do you keep your start menu on the left?
I switched my laptop to manjaro, i was playing with it on a craptop i picked up from a yard sale and fell in love.
Helps i have a desktop gaming pc for vr qnd other things that wont work on linux
can u please give an alternative for visual studio for unity and no sry not monodev maybe vsc could do something but it's still not as cool as vs
0:42 what do you mean 'somehow'?
I've had this same problem happen to me twice with me on pop os.(I use Manjaro, I'm a long time linux user, I know what Im talkin' about)
This isn't New and isn't the user's fault.
If it's advertised by the community as a os that won't need updates should tell if it's needed to be updated before installing a program and not just remove xorg. And I don't know what's the relationship of the gui elements and installing something without updating.
And it isn't bricked btw
I only needed to have a hard drive crash and then to find out that the Windows 7 driver to recognize my monitor's size was no longer available.
0:15
I want to ask what happened on 2018? Why that drop?
Also grab a big USB stick and install Ventoy on it.
What taskbar-customizing tool are you using?
try it first on VM. familiarize yourself when you comfortable with it then you move to real machine.
Which is the best distribution for everyday use as a support consultant come developer in your opinion
Windows 10
I have an iMac 5k from 2015, and I started playing around with various Linux distros in VM's. But then got myself a little NUC computer just to try running something on bare metal. I could never dial in the settings in the VM's to get them to perform very well. Anyway, installed Fedora about 8 months ago and I've barely even touched the Mac. The only thing I keep the iMac for is holding a backup of my iCloud library, and honestly I found a python script to sync from the cloud to Linux, so the Mac just sits on my desk behind my other monitor..
@@kreuner11 you can. But I didn’t want to erase my main system and leave my ecosystem all at once. Kind of like this video is talking about, I wanted to take it slow and try it out. So I “switched” to a new computer and left my main one untouched so I could go back if needed.
Same here, i started thw linux journey from my macbook, now on arch 🙃 and ivent touched my macbook till then.
I have to disagree on the idea of switching to different apps, just like that. It might work for regular usage, but for heavy work related tasks, especially if you've been using the specific piece of software for years, switching to another app is often not an option. Gimp is not a matching replacement for Photoshop. Sorry - but it's true. Not in terms of functionality, file compatibility, integration with other pieces of software (think of the Creative Suite as a whole). I hate Adobe with a passion, but it doesn't change the fact they've set the industry standard and for a lot of people using an alternative product is plain impossible. Anybody who tells you they are interchangeable, probably doesn't do much outside of photo cropping and basic corrections, which, btw you cannot do in a non-destructive way (easily) in Gimp. Funny enough, the only somewhat viable alternative to the Adobe suite - Affinity (which, I use) is also not available on Linux. So you're kind of anchored to Windows, perhaps dual booting (like me). The situation is the same for a plethora of other applications - AutoCAD, CorelDraw, a variety of professional applications, MS Office, (hate on MS all you want, but they have the best office suite by a margin, hands down) and the list goes on. It pains me to say it, because I'd love to run Linux 100% of the time. But the "Oh, just switch your workflow from app X to app Y" is counterproductive.
As if so many people needed Photoshop or that "creative suite". I think the ratio of people who say they need it as opposed to the people who really need it is about 10000:1.
The same goes for MS Office. Unless you need MS Access there are tons of viable and good alternatives. And the number of people who need AutoCAD is even smaller than the number of people who need Photoshop. I'm really tired of that argument that just because a small group of people needs a niche program that's not available for Linux it's not possible to switch to Linux at all. Yes, it is. And it's easier than people think.
Linus' "what is the point in- /oh/" is gonna become the computer nerds' "An' I *oop*!" lolol
Definitely lol
I know this is about Linux, but I have a question about the windows.
How did you get start menu like that
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Hey TechHut, I have pretty important (at least for me) question. I wanna to switch to Linux - Manjaro especially. My almost full 5 HDD's formatted in NTFS. It can cause some problems with compatibility or decrease overall system performance and/or transfer speeds with working with files on disks? 🤔
Actually you can use these disks without formating them (dont forget to take ownership on them via terminal ) and what about perfomance differences - i dont know 🙃 Maybe you can find a video with perfomance tests of different file systems on youtube .
The current NTFS driver, ntfs-3g, is slow but works. You can use it, but it's not very fast if you're copying lots of data. In an upcoming kernel release, I think 5.15, a new NTFS3 driver by Paragon will be integrated into the kernel. It is much faster.
I use an extra drive that I share with windows formatted in ntfs and I haven't noticed any issues or slowness
I never switched to GNU/Linux back in 2008. Instead, I transitioned to it thusly at my own pace:
- A primary HDD dedicated to Windows XP Pro SP3.
- A secondary HDD dedicated to Ubuntu 9.10 with the GRUB assigned to the Ubuntu drive.
- I used the BIOS' boot menu to boot between these two independent OS environments.
- Over time I gradually explored Ubuntu without being forced to cede my Windows comfort zone.
- Eventually Windows fell by the wayside as I grew impatient with its anti-malware rituals and inexorable slowdown -neither of which was suffered by Ubuntu.
- After not booting into Windows for nearly two months, and after having found workable GNU/Linux substitutes for every function which I relied upon Windows for, I reformatted the Windows HDD with Ubuntu's ext4 file system for use as additional storage space.
These days I run Windows 10 21H1 and Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon each on a separate SSD and boot between them via the UEFI's boot menu.
That was a long-winded way of saying, you still use Windows.
It's ok to want a good GUI for installing applications. GUI is the reason computers are so popular and usable now. But knowing the terminal as a backup is great and linux related guides are generally more applicable with just the terminal stuff. Basically just copy paste.
This is a really good informative video for newbs. Well done man.
A GUI is always nice to have but in few weeks people will likely end up using the terminal anyway because it's usually faster and more verbose :D
@@telldo8016 I use the GUI cause it's faster. Can't imagine how you'd do some basic stuff faster on the terminal, changing the destop background picture for example, or resizing a panel.
@@SoulRollerFINor double clicking a desktop/right clicking a desktop icon
perfect? still no sound for my imac 18,1 give me a solution
I installed Pop OS on a SSD and kept W10 on the HDD. For simple tasks such as Office and Web Browsing sure Linux works mostly great out of the box. Gaming on the other hand has been painful. Proton, while a great tool, doesn't work 100% with my games, even then "Platinum" games still have issues.
Proton also uses more resources of the PC, which is not great if you a low end machine. Emulation also hasn't been great so far. I tried two different versions of RetroArch and gave up until I installed the Steam version. It works, but i had issues with mute audio, and Cores not save progress in games and not reading save files I already had.
Linux still has a long way to go. Hopefully Valve will create a Distro that just works out of the box for games. If Google managed to make Linux great on mobile and low power education PCs (Android and ChromeOS), then Valve can create a good general purpose desktop Distro.
I recently bought Sega Bass Fishing from Steam, and with Steam Play turned on, it works flawlessly on my Manjaro Linux installation. It even detected my Xbox 360 controller.
i got retroarch to work but i needed to install cores through the terminal which instantly scares most people away
@@lucadipaolo1997 I'm playing A Hat in Time via Proton, a game with Gold Rating everyone on Protodb says it doesn't work very well, but for me it worked out of the box with Proton 6.3-7, without any launch flag '-' And with better graphics and performance than in W10!
My take is that Protondb is not a reliable source of information regarding game compatibility in Proton. The only issue i had so far was A Hat in Time hard crashing my PC with screen artefacts. I had to cut the power because the power and reset buttons were not working. I'm still trying to figure out what happened, but i believe the recent game update broke the game.
Did I spot a pixel 6/pro on the desk? :)
The first thing you need to do is determine why you want to use Linux in the first place... And understand the system... And better be ready mentally to learn something new... The main thing is leaving the windows and Mac state of mind behind so to say... In other words I would go to a different country and complain that's it's not like America......
I tried multiple distributions, but once i enter, live environment they just don't respond. I have an old i3 processor. What do you think is the problem?
Go for a light weight distro. Puppy Linux is an example.
Well, Let me say it this way. I been a long time Linux User since 2010, as well before that, used Mac OS X, so with that its helpful already to have a UNIX background experience. Some people don't even know that Mac OS X is UNIX. So yea just in case you that reads this didn't know that.
Biggest problem I see here is that DaVinci Resolve may decide to bail on you when moving to Linux... couldn't get it to work on Pop, ubuntu or debian (with the make debian workaround, couldn't get it to work on centos which supposedly is compatible with it). All in all though, this video is what I needed to see before trying to switch to Linux :C So many good reccomendations.
Resolve definitely works in Linux. I use it with Pop!_OS. The unfortunate thing is that they do not give full codec access in Linux. I do not comprehend the reason for this, but it seems to be a Da Vinci issue, not a Linux issue. There are work-arounds using ffmpeg, etc that work well.
@@lucadipaolo1997 Except that I am using the Studio version. The only codec reference table I can find is from 15, but from what I see operationally, nothing has changed.
How expensive where these SpaceX Heatshield Tiles? :D
Get a windows VM or your desktop PC with a solution to use it for windows only Task. Then do the rest of your digital life on your laptop without worries about compatibility.
dont forget to backup your files...
i cant count on fingers how many times i lose my files by acident trying to install an OS
Mailspring doesn't really support text-based emails, which is a killer for me.
I sit in a weird situation. As someone that is moving down a career path of IT Tech > IT Pro > Cyber Security (probably SOC) > Incident Response, I am very unlikely to ever really ditch Windows in favour of Linux. I need to maintain a very solid understanding of Windows and how things work at a deep level. Needless to say, a lot of my clientele are, and will be, Windows users.
Linux and Windows will always need to coexist in my workflow. It is sad, but a necessary evil. I have been an avid Linux user for about a year or so, and continue to love it.
I will likely always be platform agnostic.
Whatever works for you. I'm fortunate enough to work in cyber-security and just work on Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers. I can keep my hands clean and dump all the "Windows crap" on someone else.
Switched to linix a long time ago
You made excellent points but did you really called kde plasma “lightweight”?
i mean, compared to windows it can be
Unless you install the whole suite I'd say it's on the average side. It isn't the best choice out there but it is usually good enough if the PC isn't very old.
@@telldo8016 Believe me I’m familiar with KDE, i just found the use of lightweight with it rather humerous.
"you know whats easy making a switch to"
TechHut is becoming Linux from LTT
After using fedora for a while now I am so used to the ui that I'm a little annoyed with windows now. Only problem is I do need MS office for my work and there isn't any proper alternative, which is so sad. I do need to learn to use wine.
As a Linux user, for the first time in a decade I was forced to use MS Office to work. So I put Windows in a virtual machine and open it whenever I need it.
@@marcelorauber8397 I used to do that.. but I do a lot of power point stuff, so images screen shots etc are in the base system and transferring it to vm always becomes a pain. Also I want to start using Autocad and stuff.. I wish there was something like WSL for Linux to run windows apps - which was a little easy to setup.
Hey look a new TechHut video
5:33 used pac man what do you mean by that you mean this yellow face the eating dots ?
this is the way
What do you think of Thunderbird?
What's the word?
Thunderbird!
What's the price?
A dollar twice.
What's the action?
Satisfaction!
damn that ad plugin was smoother than linus
1:12 he learned from Linus!
I'm distro hopping since August, and TBH I really liked it, although I'm facing more problems than windows but it makes me satisfied... I haven't switched to Linux fully, so many many thanks for this video...
Also I was about to switch to KDE Plasma from xfce in my endeavour os setup, and I just gotta know that it's windows like desktop environment... 😂😂
3. Virtualization :
* I tried to use Android-x86 with VirtualBox last year, and the experience was not good.
* but yeah, i understand that bad experience was prolly due to Android-x86 and not due to VirtualBox.
I just switch to linux 3 months ago I started with arch(btw)
I tried to back to windows it felt dogshit and couldn't use it
I can't imagine my self using it again
I feel like I own a computer now after installing linux