@26:07 he says as a business he’s considering Linux on his computers because of Windows privacy violations. It’s great to hear someone with such a wide audience talking about using Linux.
additionally, we can trust him to approach it seriously whereas LTT still treats Linux like an in-joke
LTT still treats Linux like an in-joke.
Well the only one who seemed to actually like Linux at LTT was
Anthony(don’t know her new name)Emily. Once she went to the background after her gender transition, enthusiastic Linux coverage more or less disappearedLinus mentioned that Emily (her new name) has been internally pushing for a Linux gaming revisit on a recent Wan Show, so hopefully something comes of that.
Also an upcoming tech upgrade video will be for someone who’s switching to Linux.
Hopefully the next Linux challenge goes well for them . From what I remember Linus somehow broke his fresh Linux install by just install steam lol . Can’t wait to see Elijah switch to Linux
I dont remember the specific details, but it was a bug in that install version that…
MintPop_OS! (Thanks Joo)? I think it was? was slow to fix until the video came out or something?Anyway, long story short, He did ignore a warning, but what happened shouldnt have happened regardless, and it was totally something a novice could do, especially since, as a novice myself, most internet searchable help for linux issues boils down to “run this command, it’ll fix it” with no real broader explanation.
That doesnt mean he isnt an ignorant cunt in a thousand other ways though.
Long story short, there was a bug with apt that Pop!_OS didn’t patch before the release. They did so after the latest version at the time was released. Had he updated his system before trying to install Steam, it’d never happened, that’s the worst part.
Should have updated the install materials or just automatically force an update upon install. Competency should never be expected from the end user.
The funny part, to me, is that the command he ran was so dangerous that Pop_OS required you to type out the entire phrase
“Yes, do as I say!”
With correct punctuation, or it won’t continue
If it was just an “Okay” box or a “Y” to continue, I don’t think he’d have gotten as much flak for that one
I honestly hope they don’t do another dumb Linux challenge. Linus and Luke both have pre-prepared excuses why a conversion to Linux will fail, for them personally. Stuff like “we can’t run Photoshop” level shit. Dumb “no shit Sherlock” type nonsense.
That means they won’t actually try, they’ll just “do it for the content” and give up again after a month or whatever. The videos will be well done but will ultimately conclude that “Linux still isn’t ready for us” and they’ll leave a bitter taste in any real Linux user’s mouth, because their excuses will be pathetic and the efforts put in will be demonstrably minimal.
The part you are missing is that they are making content that aligns with the majority of their audience. Most people will put in a similar level of effort. Most people don’t care, they just want it to work with the least effort possible.
I really miss Emily, hope she comes back soon, but I understand her wanting to be on her own for a while, but honestly her videos were the best ones always.
Emily has always been a delight in everything she’s done.
But even as she’s appeared in videos a lot less, It’s nice to know she’s still advocating for FOSS at LTT. Hopefully that will again result in more coverage of the kind of stuff she used to host before her transition.
Jake prefers Linux, too. He rolls his eyes all the time at Linus’ insistence on running Windows servers, and he’s the guy that maintains a lot of that side of the business.
Luke was also advocating for Linux. He said that it was much better in terms of productivity.
GN takes things more seriously than LTT in general. The better, more technical LTT videos are on par with GN’s baseline.
DankPods uses Linux on his gaming system, which I just found out recently. Seems like Linux is starting to gain traction in the content creator space now, which is neat.
That’s awesome, I remember him mentioning in much older videos that he wants to switch to Linux when its ready enough for him to game on. He also shits on Windows every chance he gets, so glad he got to switch.
In which video did he show he used Linux?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6fSalzLHJ8
At 11:55 you can see the Gnome top bar, and at 14:50 he mentions it.
Floatplane exclusive, a video about building a new streaming pc for The Drum Thing stream.
Which wouldn’t be the case if it wasn’t for Davinci Resolve, otherwise these guys would never switch.
Yep, with Linux being able to play most games (and growing) and Microsoft’s latest transgression, Linux seems like the logical bastion for anyone tired of features nobody asked for.
Unfortunately until gaming companies see their base users move to Linux I doubt any changes will happen. But this could be a very good step in that direction if YouTubers start promoting Linux is the way to go for games and web browsers. Some people don’t use anything else.
Hell even if all they did was commit to supporting Proton that would go a long way.
It’s a chicken and egg problem. Both users and devs need to move at the same time, in reality that means bit by bit.
Ironically, that is why I wanted Stadia to succeed. It would have forced many game companies to consider Linux.
But Google screwed the pooch.
Not just gaming companies, but pretty much all companies. Fuck all works on Linux, unless you’re into dev/IT.
Its funny how familiarity works. I think doing simple stuff in windows in infuriating now that im used yo Linux.
I’m not talking about simple stuff. That’s the problem with Linux - it’s only usable for simple stuff.
So CAD is simple stuff huh. So does CFD, mathematical modeling of a complex control system, robotics… Man, if only mechatronics is so simple. I daily drive arch btw.
CAD doesn’t work on Linux, lol.
KiCAD is an extremely competent suite of programs with full linux support, maybe get your head out of the dirt, lol.
Except that it’s not a CAD, just an electric circuit modelling tool. I mean technically it can be called CAD, but you can’t do shit in it except for circuits.
Really? I would say it has less simple stuff and more complicated stuff, although it obviously has a lot of both.
I guess you mean that a lot of proprietary ‘professional’ software doesn’t work out of the box? I guess that’s true, but I wouldn’t call all of the alternatives ‘simple’ lol
I’m not a dev or into IT and I’m on Arch Linux playing games and working without any problems. My sister has more trouble getting some games to run on Windows than I do on Linux.
Only time I reinstalled Windows on a laptop was when I was trying to get an ODB2 over USB connector to work, and the program (FORSCAN) couldn’t automatically read the device in Wine. You had to run a series of commands to find the device and then create a symlink in that Wine prefix. I was not going to tinker around like that while sitting in a hot car upon the hope I get it right and don’t fuck up the instrument cluster.
But besides those weird edge cases, it’s been pretty easy for me too, and I still reinstalled Linux after that little project!
Now that I think about it, I wonder if a Windows VM would have worked…
A VM would normally work if USB passthrough is properly configured. That said, on operations just like that, I normally just boot to my small Windows partition that I keep around for just such an occasion.
Cool story, bro.
Huh? How am I able to daily drive it on multiple machines for audio production, gaming, and workstation use.
I must have accidentally installed Windows…
99% of things people do on a computer just require a web browser, and those definitely work on Linux.
People who only do these things do them on their phones. When you actually need a PC to do shit, you either have to use Windows or MacOS.
And what shit is that?
Lol, sheeeh, the ratio!! I’m a (sadly) Windows-focused sysadmin in higher education and I agree with this, Linux is amazing for servers but normal business users can’t do shit with it : (
This was definitely true ten years ago! I’m sure you’ll catch up to the modern linux experience soon though.
2025 will definitely be the year of the Linux desktop :)
The year of the linux desktop was when AMD open sourced their drivers around 5 years ago and Valve partnered with codeweavers to drop Proton. Its only been uphill from there.
Normal business users are fine if the Company hasn’t deep-throated Microsoft. Our Company does all the business work with no windows machine in the whole company.
Being locked-in on Microsoft Office is a thing and not the fault of linux
I kinda doubt they’ll fully migrate to Linux since they depend on many proprietary software tools that aren’t available outside of Windows.
Yup, their business is doing hardware reviews, which involves benchmarks and whatnot on Windows. So at least those machines will stay Windows, and probably their editing machines.
They might convert a handful of other machines, but I doubt it’ll be that many.
It would be nice to see Linux benchmarks for new hardware too. Love GN’s content but I basically ignore his benchmarks as they’re done on Windows. It shows the relative strengths of the hardware but not real world Linux performance.
Would be nice, but that’s a lot of work, especially when the majority of his viewers are probably on Windows.
He could take a bit of a gamble, do some Linux as a comparison and see if that draws viewers too, maybe some attention from those that are curious about Linux but not enough to actually delve into the topic themselves (or deterred by the reputation of Linux being complicated).
Choosing a suitable distribution might be a challenge, particularly because some distro elitists will inevitably come to dunk on his choice and he might not want the comment section to be clogged by distro wars (particularly if the majority of viewers, as you suggested, are Windows users and will find that off-putting).
Lol why are you in every space I’m in XD
My main hope for this is that their feedback helps the development of benchmarking and profiling tools on Linux. They do have quite a bunch of experience with them that could be really useful.
Gamers Nexus + Phoronix
I’d love to see Presentmon get ported to Linux. Especially if it gets updated to understand what Proton or DXVK are doing.
Would be amazing if they could help contribute to NVK.
That would be great
The idea is mentioned only briefly, in a single sentence.
Direct link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsVbYZcZ4U&t=1568s
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Astrid does too! She is vey niche tho
GN Linux distro when? 😄
LTT was talking about it on the last WAN show also. I’ll dig it up later and post, or you can just look up the time stamps.
About Steve considering Linux? Or Linus considering Linux? I doubt abojt the latter given his past experiences 🤣
His past experiences weren’t an indicator of how much he likes Linux. Just how complicated it is.
BlindIRL seems niche, but he has more than 50.000 subscribers.
