If you do these 5 things... You should NOT use Linux

Dislike button is removed from Youtube... Time to make some waves! These 5 things are reasons NOT to use Linux. .

[timidgoldfish]

"Linux community over promises and under delivers." Sometimes I think people using Linux are so used to finding workarounds or accepting less convenient alternatives that they forget it's a skill one needs to develop.

[roku-toiletpapersquad]

0:36 Gaming
4:38 Microsoft Office
5:31 Photoshop
7:15 Ecosystem of Linux
9:39 Hardware compatibility

[DanLabute]

Music production is another area where I think Linux is still behind Windows. Not necessarily because of DAW software - Reaper runs fine on Linux for example, but plugins, virtual instruments and the like are often windows and mac only.

[avelord]

Now what about a video like "5 things you should use Linux for!"

[TheRealGigaCat]

As a hardcore linux user. You are on point. It is what it is. And we should work forward to make it better hopefully.

[ronguin]

totally agree. What I tell everyone is if a Chromebook handles all your computing needs then you can probably put mint or ubuntu on a thrift store pc and do your deal. If you need to use specific software or hardware for a workflow your better off getting a $15.00 OEM key and go winblows. I have likes and dislikes for every platform. I played WOW for a year on mint and the game ran fine but it was a knife fight in a closet every time my addons were updated. my game rig is windows (and you help me keep it debloated), I have a raspberry pi with your OS to run discord and light browsing next to my game rig. another raspberry pi with open media vault for NAS, my wife has a windows rig for her work, and my old bulldozer rig is our pop os w/ cinnamon desktop test machine for trying new things or just browsing the internet. We actually use a bit of everything. I have repurposed old PCs for friends and family and put mint on them and they still use the machine because all they do is browse the web and email. There are many makes and models of vehicle and its the same with consumer tech. Remember the price point for each and make your choice from there.

[horatioh]

After using Linux every day since Mandrake 5. I would, and have given many people the exact same advice. Also, I have never been on any Linux machine/distro for more than half an hour without opening a terminal.
What you say is just reality. To be honest I've never met any one of my windows or mac computer using friends that I would even think of suggesting they use Linux.
I'm not a gamer, but have some friends who game exclusively on Linux, but they are people who are extremely proficient in managing Linux - well beyond the abilities of ninety percent of desktop linux users.

[jonathansturm]

When I retired from the IT industry I still had friends/relatives who expected me to provide support for their PC issues. Fortunately, most don’t do much beyond web browsing and lightweight word processing/graphics. I managed to transition almost all of them to Cinnamon Mint and have consequently reduced their demands on my time to almost zero! I spent more than a year doing everything possible using Mint and only running what was only possible in Windows in a VM. As you say Chris, over-promising and under-delivering is the big downside to Linux, but then that’s been the norm in the computer industry since the very beginning!

Heartfelt thanks for your W10 debloat script BTW. Your blood’s worth bottling as we say here in the Land of Under.

[vaderchief]

I appreciate your honesty. A lot of Linux people would try to convince you that the alternatives are just as good or better, but the reality is, in most cases, their simply not, for your average person.

[OneTwoFf]

avoid Linux if you want to do these things:
1. gaming
2. use microsoft office
3. use photoshop
4. hate terminal
5. using windows only hardware

[ItsVictorTube]

Can you please tell me why the registry settings in windows 10 reset whenever I go in troubleshoot and advanced settings and CMD and type regedit so any registry changes that I have made to the registry's will be undone when I reboot?

[DonZapple]

Thank you for this, it honestly makes my experiences with using linux feel credible. Everytime I interact with people who are more "hardcore" users I mention I have hardware work on linux and what they say is buy new stuff. I do love linux but I can't fully switch like people say to do.

[brandonpeterson]

this is a timely video considering the second episode of Linus's linux series. I think it is important for people to talk about these things and become educated on all the pros and cons no matter what platform you choose to use.

[osgrov]

I fully agree on everything you say here.
One thing I'd like to add is the lack of backwards compatibility. Linux evolves so quickly that it's pretty common for old applications to just break randomly unless they're actively maintained. That is a huge problem for some people, particularly corporate IT. Welcome to my life.
This is a big reason why many software companies do not publish Linux versions of their apps. They know all too well that if they do, they're signing up for a lifetime of product maintenance across multiple distros, and that'll just cost too much money for little to no gain. Besides that, pretty much nobody (in the corporate world) is asking for it either. I've been in big tech since the early 90s, and today pretty much everyone runs Linux (or BSD) on servers, and pretty much noone on desktops/laptops.

[pushqrdx]

Simply if you switch to Linux, you already acquired the "Tinkerer" badge, not using the Terminal is just refusing to level up your experience. I love how honest this video is, i hate FOSS advocates who just shove GIMP down anyone saying PS throats, it is not always an option, Use whatever gives you the most value for your life, I personally use Linux because i like control, i like tinkering around and i like how fast and lightweight i can make it

[soundman_caraudio]

Thanks Chris! I’m new to Linux. I would love to jump the “Mac/Adobe ship” for privacy reasons.
I need to edit video, I’m thinking of trying Davinci Resovle on Manjaro.
Do you have a video showing what hardware is best for building a Linux box?

[pulkitsharma]

I am waiting for your reaction on linus linux challange 2

[alexberezin]

I run ALL my games on Linux, and there are many of them. And something in me really, like really wants to dislike this video, regardless of the counter, because... Well, it works. But I can't. Because what Chris is saying is true: SOME games are not so simple to get going. It's not a showstopper by any means, but you need to keep in mind that tinkering WILL be REQUIRED at least at some point and with SOME games. And if you don't LIKE doing that, you might get annoyed and rage-quit... Well... The whole OS. And when you do like doing that and just getting a game working is a game in itself for you, it's quite easy to forget that many people are simply not like that. Giant kudos for Valve for making this easier on the less tech-inclined user.

[fragalot]

is it normal for a Linux distro live boot to not give a display after boot when the monitor is using display port on an nvidia GPU? I have a monitor that only has a single display port, I do get the POST screen on the monitor, but when trying to use three different distros (manjaro, Mint, ubuntu) refused to initialize the monitor, but I know the OS booted up since I can hear the chime that it booted to desktop. So I connected another monitor to HDMI and got a display. Why would it initialize the HDMI port with nothing plugged into it when I booted?

[noxiousophidian]

I just switched fulltime to Manjaro-KDE from dualbooting Linux Mint and Windows for over a month. I briefly switched to Linux last year but I had some scientific applications that could not run and I was a noob so I rage quit after a few attempts. Now, I have configured a virtualbox with all the software I need. As none of them are cpu/gpu-intensive, they run smoothly on the VM.
I love the feel of using Linux and learning to use to terminal really gave a lot of confidence towards this switch.
Now, I can proudly say I am no longer a noob and I like where I am. And spending the extra five-twenty minutes where I get stuck, I just fall in love with the learning process.