Switching to Linux (one year later)

I've been using Linux for one year and a lot has changed. This is my experience.

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Lenny - Right Here
Lenny - 1 AM
Lenny - Unsaid Things
GenesisKeys - Summons
GenesisKeys - Drawing Board
Lenny - Slip Away

[jefftastic]

Nice update to the last video, still rocking Fedora myself given its cross of stability and updated apps, drivers, etc. Wish I could've offered better assistance with the updated driver install while we were both on Fedora 40, but I'm pretty sure Fedora 41 has rolled out now and it includes the 555 driver. Wayland is just peachy now on Nvidia hardware, both GNOME and KDE. No application lag or flickering, meaning I can actually daily drive Wayland with confidence.

I may follow in your footsteps and look into trying Arch (or a derivative) but outside of RHEL politics I really do enjoy Fedora all around. Probably my favorite distro with Debian following shortly behind. Don't know if I will ever switch though since I've stuck with it for a long time now.

[oYakate]

Welcome to the distro hopping rabbithole

[rlativ]

What a nightmare of an experience... I've switched to linux more than 3 years ago when I bought a laptop from System 76, and I'm still using the same laptop with the same PopOS system. It went through multiple updates and I never had to roll back anything even once. I get it that some people like distro hopping, but if that was a necessary part of being on linux I'd have been out after just a few months. I just want a system that works, not constantly reinstalling the OS!

[Dr-Zed]

Congrats, you've ended up with an Arch based distro like most of us did after a while of tinkering. While I am now a happy NixOS user, I really enjoyed Arch as well.

[leucome]

I saw it coming, people who want to do everything often end up on some Arch based distro with Plasma or a tilling windows manager. There is not much to gain from a locked outdated lts distro made for average office worker.

[HcJP]

honestly, this is the best summary of "2023-2024 linux" ive ever seen

[vpricot]

really glad i’m seemingly immune to the district hopping bug so far. i started with fedora and haven’t looked back since!

[Claude-tjud]

The only thing to learn in this video is that Fedora with Gnome was working great. And I don’t understand why he switched to other distributions.

[RitsuRitsu.]

your video made me switch myself

right now am runing arch linux kde

[nxone]

Right side vertical toolbar lets gooo!!! Great taste. One tip I have for you: you can change the clock format to make it stacked by writing spaces between mm dd yyyy etc. Its better visible that way.

[Black-lttl]

My favourite 2 distro what i use is CachyOS with KDE, and Nobara with Gnome.
Both is great in gaming and other stuff, easy to install and customize

[olliknecks]

you should change the title to "Switching to Linux (one year later)", would be a little less confusing imo

also another video in a year would be awesome, loved your first one

[EwanMarshall]

linux mint is based on ubuntu lts, not ubuntu stable, and it is usually a few months lag on the most recent ubuntu lts (which dropped in April this year). Would have recommended ubuntu then anyway (though I do prefer mint generally, the update later this year would be good).

As for the "windows boot corruption" CSM boots very differently, first 512MB of the disk is used for core bootloader. Windows expects it's bootloader here in such a case while grub is needed to be here, used to be a common pain when dual booting. UEFI, well, there is the EFI system partition (which is just a hidden FAT partition, though technically they respecified this in the specification as it's own partition type) and one can have as many bootloaders that fit as executable files, this can even be the linux kernel directly now. And windows can just stick to it's own files and same for linux.

[johanb.]

If you have screen tearing and you use Nvidia in the nvidia settings enable full force composition pipelining and disable allow flipping, to fix screen tearing.

[AvidBangerInspector]

Great video, thanks! Also used Nobara for a good month or so now. Today it decided to completely nuke my KDE desktop environment after an update and I didn't take a snapshot with Timeshift beforehand. I used the chance to switch over to Fedora KDE. Hope it's a little more stable with updates, but I'm gonna start taking snapshots before updates now anyway lol

[FluffyPuppyKasey]

So as of a few days ago, Nvidia on Wayland is basically solved on Fedora, and I have no issues on my RTX 3070 TI laptop GPU, plus KDE Plasma 6.1 adds even more Nvidia support. Gnome has had that support for a little while

[CristobalWatsonHernandez]

Ah yes, I remember distro hopping, good fun until it wasn't. I ended up using Fedora and just sticking with it, too many people put too much emphasis on their distro of choice, I think the key to being happy with Linux is to find a distro that works for you and just stick with it. Every time I have stepped away from Fedora I end up going back because it works well for me, maybe Endeavour will do the same for you :)

[ENNEN]

Distro hopping is the true way to open your third eye. Linux had a good bit of hiccups for me when I switched, but with it I finally felt like I had something I had never felt before on Windows: uncompromised freedom. I can do everything and anything I desire at any second with Linux. I CANNOT say that's something that I can say about Windows. Every hiccup led me to learning how the OS worked more and more which led me to realize that I only THOUGHT I knew how computers worked beforehand. I am currently pursuing network administration as a higher education option and am loving every second and I never would have gone down such a path if it "just werked like windows". Thank you based Linus.

[vmaxmadness]

Keep on distro hopping until you find what works with your hardware. During that journey you will come to know Linux very intimately and will be able to do installs with closed eyes. If by then you still want to use Linux, you've become a Linux fanboy. If not, you'll probably know a lot more about computers than when you started. My suggestion is to get an old potato and use it as a lab. Keep in mind Linux is not for everyone.

[bhargavjitbhuyan]

Wanna have a rolling release distro but want it stable? Use opensuse.

Wanna have a rolling release distro? Use arch.

Wanna have a stable distro? Use debian or Ubuntu.

Wanna have something in between? Use Fedora.