I tried Linux…its not for me

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[see-sharp]

Oh, another "Linux isn't ready yet rage bait video"
If Linux isn't for you, please just never talk about it anymore instead of making rage bait videos, thank you

[cafairchild]

the Microsoft guy hovering over your shoulder and shoving AI in your face is gold 😂

[teaemperor]

The moment i heard Photoshop and lightroom I understood why he quit lol

[Yamartim]

The only mistake you made here is only playing league of legends while having a whole ass 4090 😭

[DavidEsotica]

The thing about YouTube creators documenting their Linux experiment is that they are professionally hooked into the Adobe ecosystem. So they're experiences are skewed in that direction. Someone like myself, it's perfect, because I actively avoid Adobe and most proprietary hardware, professionally I write, I browse the internet and I play single player strategy games. My experience is 1:1 without any diminishment.

[VincentVegas]

That hammer skit with ai annoyance just made me crack. So true! Love your sense of humor.

[handspiker]

Re: no wireguard Gui

There's no GUI for Linux because the configuration settings are built into the network manager. You just click the import button and select your wireguard config.

[clintbishop]

You complained about the same thing that lots of users have been for ages, mainly proprietary software...

[ToddSpatafore]

Integrating Linux into your existing workflow is the way to go. Can't wait for Part 3.

[dustinrouillard]

That obs not saving your settings thing happens on windows and mac too, it just has to crash or close ungracefully, it literally saves them to the disk on close, terrible design but not a linux exclusive problem.

[canonwright]

Maybe should have added an Apple guy offering an overpriced planned obsolescence hammer.😁

[majoraslayer]

Wow, you immediately hit the two reasons I abandoned Linux desktop last year: scaling issues on multi-monitor, and lack of codec support in the Linux version of Resolve. I've tried digging into it since then and was told that having different sized monitors is just too uncommon. Interesting how there are several others out there with this problem, this video exists, but NO ONE ELSE would need a fix for it. I also went with the dual-boot option because I knew a lot of my games wouldn't work. The problem is that the more I had to switch to Windows for my workflow and switch back, the more I realized there wasn't a part of my workflow that *required* me to go back to Linux. If I have to use Windows to get the job done anyway, why even bother leaving it?

The hammer comparison was great. The way I compare Linux is like a flat-headed screwdriver. Technically, you can use one on almost any screw and *probably* make it work. However, in most cases, unless you have a flat-headed screw that it's designed for it just makes more sense to use the right screwdriver. In that case, Windows tends to be that screwdriver with interchangeable bits; it may not always be the best choice, but in 99% of cases it's the path of least resistance to get the job done.

[Jermungand]

I use Wireguard for work on Linux... and it's not a standalone GUI, it's a plugin for network-manager (which is a GUI itself).
Not sure why you didn't find that googling about the problem, but I have no need for any console stuff to setup Wireguard, or during use.

[dereklomax]

Linux Mint was my first distro I used away from Windows. It's great!
I've switched to Arch now because I love the AUR and pacman.

[guy_autordie]

"you're temple OS" that's a nice one

[jbonn]

The detail of the dude watching your ever move and constantly pushing AI was friggin awesome! HAHAHA! Loved it! I'm a diehard Linux user, and have been for over 14 years now. It's my daily both at home and in my work life. That said, I sadly still need Windows for two things (both pieces of software at work that simply will not work with Linux). I don't try to force Linux on anyway. I remember all the research to figure out how to do things I could just so simply do within Windows. Not everyone wants that, and I get it. To me, it's like 3d Printers. I can buy some cheap, sub $200 printer and have a hobby that requires a bunch of maintenance, modding, and tweaking... Or... I could buy a Bambu, park it in the corner and just print my files. As someone who designs parts to fix things around the house, a 3d printer is 100% a tool for me. I just want it to print my files whenever I send them and I don't want to have to think about it.

[nobodytrulyimportant]

"Use the best tool for the job." Sometimes it can WIndows. Sometimes it can be Mac OS. Sometimes it can be Linux. The sky is the limits.

[hyprlab]

Thank you for suggesting at the end that one can use multiple operating systems 🤯🤯 crazy talk! lol

[chaosfenix]

I actually think that Linux Mint is a solid option. If you were looking for a different option something that uses KDE Plasma like Fedora KDE might be a good option. AAC is a licensing issue. As linux is a free operating system they can't really pay the licensing system. I am glad you are going over these items though. I really hope these issues can get addressed.

[rockoman]

I used Linux for over a year dual-booting with Windows. It's the longest I ever lasted, and I got almost everything working and a workflow I really enjoyed. League was working, Genshin was working, I even got games working that didn't have linux tutorials yet. Was feeling good. I used it in a dual boot setup with Windows for when I occasionally needed that very specific application. But for the first time, my retreat back to Windows had little to do with Linux itself. It had to do with the fatigue of managing a dual-OS workflow. The biggest annoyance was having to shut down everything I was doing in one OS and boot the other one just to accomplish a task, it was like using old single-program computers that didn't even have OS' back in the day (you'd have to shut the whole computer down and bring it back up to load another program). The second biggest annoyance was managing two file systems, one NTFS and one ext4. The amount this eventually contributed to my sense of disorganization and digital clutter became too much, and trying to move files between the partitions was always a problem. Windows does not recognize ext4 at all, and pretty much all third party programs that allow you to access an ext4 file system from Windows are a terrible experience. So if I wanted to transfer files between partitions, I'd have to do it on Linux, adding another potential reboot moment to my workflows AND creating a potential problem for data integrity because the NTFS driver on Linux is reverse-engineered and *is not perfect.* Eventually I got too anxious about my data and too inconvenienced by the split workflow that I just wanted to consolidate everything in one place again. And I would have loved to consolidate it on Linux. But even just those few remaining programs that don't work right on Linux means that I needed to consolidate back on Windows instead.

Additionally, I never felt my data was as safe on Linux, because the way programs, scripts, and the package manager often interface with the entire file system as root frequently causes infamous bugs which result in people's root directory getting nuked, or just accidentally doing it yourself with one bad flag or argument into a command. something that is made extremely difficult on Windows. Linux feels like a bit of a ship of Theseus in that regard, whereas Windows feels as though it has a solid immutable foundation and my data is protected by well-considered separation between programs, the system at large, and my user data. Windows is a ship and I can load it with cargo. Whereas on Linux, the cargo is part of the ship, installing programs modifies your base system and dependency changes can cause rippling effects on other programs, and if you use a rolling release distro especially, it kindof feels like the ship and everything on it are always falling apart (and hopefully regenerating) together. It made me appreciate how Windows' programs are designed to be more portable and self-contained, as that ends up making the system itself feel more stable. The tradeoff is that Windows file systems are not portable (reinstalling Windows is a huge pain), whereas Linux root directories are highly portable, which is better in the server space and for reinstalling or migrating from one machine to another.