I'm learning a lot about the Linux Community... 

Flame which Linus though? :P

OMG it's Chris!

@@Mkoivuka Linus Pauling

you showed up!

Hey Chris you really ought to put out a video calming the situation down. Very few please in the community can ask a bunch of egotistic nerd to be nicer without talking down to them and calling them savages. Else the pitchforks and tin-foil hats are coming VERY soon.

Literally the opposite of my decade-plus experience troubleshooting Linux. Every issue was responded to with, "Works fine for me!"

Well i just went on walk came back to my linux mint PC after waking it up it crashed with artefacts like it usually do and them before properly booting i got... "blue screen" ... on linux. I mean that was jsut literally screen filled with blue but it's still hilarious for me i could get on linux something that i can describe as blue screen.

@Watcher Weird that you assumed I didn't. Why would you do that?

@Watcher Your experience is not everyone's experience. Is that a concept you've struggled with before?

@@MyNameIsBucket if you say "I can't get X to work" you'll get that response, but if you tell them it sucks because it can't do X thent heyll come to you with solutions

Yep, and from Luke's description I would point out to Gnome

Yes, and before that I thought the opposite

I use kwrite. I do not use KDE though.

yea man 🤣

you could have sussed it out earlier from his description of the 'show desktop' behavior ;)

For most things you can do it without the terminal, but it can be much simpler for debugging and people who have experience to use the terminal.

I actually disagree. It's not "user friendly", sure, but imagine if we had a way to fix issues with "here, run this command" and then it would be just solved. It would be way better than the current "open this configuration panel that's different depending on the OS version you're using and which language your OS is, then find this option..." Now, the other problem is that we **don't have** this "here, run this command that will solve everything", so that's part of the problem. This, and also the current state of drivers (that even on 2023 is still HORRIBLE) and the desktop environment that still have lots of bugs that people mostly ignore... yeah, we still have a long way to go...

@@MauricioSzabo At least in my experience most of the configuration panels in windows have had very few changes. I have to remote in to a lot of our client's servers at my jobs, and we have quite a few people still using windows xp, and I haven't noticed any substantial changes, at least for what I have to do. Additionally, while Microsoft's backwards compatibility has a lot of cons, it also means there are forum posts from the last 20 years+ that are still helpful. Maybe that's the biggest difference; window's stagnation has led to a lot of people encountering the same problems over and over again, asking for help and getting response over the last few decades, meaning there is just better de facto documentation out there for it. So if I have a problem, I can solve it today, rather than spend hours searching for a solution to a problem, being unable to find one, having to post something on a forum, then likely have to wait for a few days, and hope to god the people who respond aren't a bunch of gate keeping assholes (have had that happen on multiple occasions as well). So perhaps the actual solution is just to have really freaking detailed and good documentation, which is not written with the expectation that the person reading is a peer of the developer...yeah, I doubt that will happen either.

@@jacob_90s Yes, I agree with all of these too :). Arch and Gentoo's documentation are MASSIVE and help a lot, but they are nowhere "user friendly" as they could be, unfortunately. Which is really frustrating, because my wife is been using Linux for about 9 years now (since we married) and she NEVER had any problem - in fact, she can't use Windows that well anymore because, on her own words, "everything is so slow and there are so many popups asking me to do things, and things are not obvious", etc. That, basically, means: Linux is not _that user unfriendly_ as it was some years ago, but it could be _so much better_ honestly...

@@MauricioSzabo has no problems after "9 years" , their videos are for the new adopters who has been using the other OS

Especially so in the case of Linus. I am genuinely curious to see how his outlandish setup survived this transition, because that kind of setup is actually something me and the GF has been thinking about doing, to free up space on our home office desks.

+1

I agree here. My first experience was HORRIBLE but I'm now playing all my games, using recording software, editing, etc. I guess just pulling through and learning helps

yeah especially in a high intense working enviroment i want to use a os that will freak me out bc on how much "care" linux needs. you can just slap everything on windows and it will just run. espacially popular proprietary software... dont get me wrong, i really want linux to take off so i can switch as fast as possible from the shithole windows to linux. but right now its switching is far from reality to switch. i also kinda use linux everyday since my personal data is stored in a composed nextcloud docker container on a raspberry pi running ubuntu. and i already tried several times ditching windows but in the end i always came back to windows grimmingly bc of the above mentioned reasons.

@@cruzer0561 I can why Linux might not be the greatest solution, and it is definitely not for everyone but I think it does have it's place. I think with the right amount of attention to it, people will start making software for Linux / better updated software for Linux. Although Linux might not shine as a desktop and rules as a server OS, I feel there is potential. I don't use my computer in a work environment, nor do I really have work applications so for my needs, gaming and video recording, I have no issues. Maybe at first, but as of right now, it's all sorted out. Like I said, it's not for everyone, and I get that but at least for some of us, it's okay because we don't need Linux to run production applications like AutoCAD or Premiere.

Don't forget Krita!

Kdolphin?

Kboomer

Kool

It does make it easier to tell what's a KDE-native app though. :-) And Kate, to this day, is my favorite source code editor.

I feel like you'll judge me for saying it but so is Windows...I've had multiple computers with so many issues with Windows that just aren't there with Linux or with MacOS...

That happens with most software tho, I've met a lot of smaller issues with games/smaller apps that had 0 answers over 5-6 years, but yes, it looks a lot worse when you get those with your OS (be it win or linux)

Personally I am having a much better experience overall with Linux than I had on years using windows. Windows would very often refuse, for instance, to copy or delete files and it drove me mad everytime. I also had many other minor issues that built up. Pop_OS for me just works!

@@NoOne-sc3fz i never had an issue with windows until my current laptop, it had constant bluescreens, then 6 months after i bought it msi fixed their shit drivers and now its back to my expected smooth desktop experience of never having an issue or needing to restart except once every couple of months or so for required restarts.

@@williamcameron1831 What? That is crazy. I'm glad that they at least fixed their drivers. Asus just abandoned me, lol!

UBUNTU!!!!!!!!!!! jk lol

Which is why it's such a headache for people new to Linux. Nothing is straightforward or simple. Its not friendly to newcomers

People pick Windows because it's popular, if you're coming from Windows it makes no sense not to do the same thing for Linux. If you pick Ubuntu you have a reasonable chance of being able to find answers to your problems. It's silly to pick some obscure distro unless you have a very specific need.

@@ssl3546 People pick windows because it functions without almost any extra knowledge required. I've used Ubuntu before, it is very user-friendly... *for a Linux distro* . I've also used Mint, one quite famous for being user friendly... and it still doesn't approach Windows level. I *hate* windows, but plugging your ears and going "la la la" to the fact that tons of things in Linux at a *base level* are harder and continuing to blame users rather than work on improving it is moronic.

@@ssl3546 I hated Linux for years because of Ubuntu. I tried Arch with KDE this year and I loved it.

yes they can't agree, even down to trivially fixable, obvious problems being open on bugtrackers for upwards of a decade with 20 pages of argument about why some guy thinks the obvious thing is objectively bad and illogical.

Yeah, Linux users in general are too comfortable using bash for everything to be able to make sure it's a good experience without it. It's good that it's an option for power users and advanced tasks, but in general shouldn't be the go to solution for everything and it often is.

This! I use Linux for work (Kali and debian) and would appreciate if there would be a push on increasing the usability for the standard user. Because at the moment it isn't.

God yes please. I want to like Linux, I really do, but from a new user standpoint with very little help it feel like any basic thing I try to do on it requires me to remember 5 different things about it and troubleshoot it for 15 minutes. I'm having to use Ubuntu for a college course and it's infuriating that all my coursework for that class takes twice as long just because I'm also having to troubleshoot Linux while troubleshooting my programs.

If Linux gets too mainstream it’s going to be ruined. It’s okay to be niche

Naw, it's already mainstream for servers, and its already kinda shit (36 million sloc). If it went mainstream, it would be just about the same. Alpine would still exist. Maybe Linus would bloat up the kernel even more, but the Linux community is so decentralized I think that will really be it.

They're incapable of learning. The 'community' sucks. No one needs desktop Linux.

@@denizenofclownworld48530 like bait to a year old comment.

I'm sure they will be nice, as in there will be only a couple of death threats, tops

@@frapuz lmao probably arch users with god complex

@Horamberg Similar attitudes exist in other technical communities like the software development community. You can look at stack overflow for a good example of passive aggressive behaviour that we really could do without, I guess the best we can do is set an example and hopefully others will follow.

@@WilderPoo especially software developers don't like offering help when you've clearly not done your due diligence. While this may come off toxic sometimes, it's the only way to avoid having your time constantly wasted, because people _will_ try to offload their work to you question by question.

@@parker7721 as a former maintainer of an open source project, we have actually always paid extra attention to our Linux users because their feedback is usually very on point and they are easily guided through the steps to help us retrieve more information about their issue and resolve it. The one exception is Arch users, the most polite thing I can say to them is usually "would you kindly mind sodding right off?" Never did say it though. The literal worst are Mac users though, for how small their number is, the number of demands that we resolve issues that are unfortunately outside our control is kind of off the charts.

So I think Linus maybe using KDE Plasma. I now with a certain version of Plasma the devs made it default to reboot to fully install updates. Later that turned that "feature" off because so many users disliked it.

This was baffling to me. I use Gentoo, and pretty much have since I discovered Linux. (Aside from a couple brief trial installs of Red Hat and Mandrake back in the day...) I've had computers that I used as a desktop daily driver that I rebooted once every year and a half or so. Usually because of a power outage, or because I needed to change some kernel driver, or update the kernel itself. I've actually used my desktop environment (I'm a KDE guy) _while compiling its replacement in-situ,_ and only logged out and logged back in when I had updated the core libraries so much that new applications wouldn't launch anymore. I didn't actually reboot, I just restarted X.

Yeah, but the restarts don't take 5 minutes like windows lol

@@Maledis87 I am not sure about 5 minutes but if the option is selected you must reboot then the software installs. After the software installs it reboots again. The process can be lengthy if you have lots of updates. I simply turn the setting off.

@@Maledis87 My Ubuntu 20 definitely takes longer to restart than my Windows 10. And I need to restart Ubuntu more often

Why won't you confirm, then, that there's no real reason for 90% of people who switch to Linux to switch to Linux?

@@denizenofclownworld4853 because that's not correct? mate if we want to switch we obviously have a reason

@@saphirakai6396 Because you want to be a lolbertarian and a unique snowflake.

@@saphirakai6396 "because that's not correct?" Are you asking me a question or is that to show a lack of confidence in your conviction? Maybe you just have bad grammar. lol

@@saphirakai6396 most of these people just want to be edgy... like screw off, its the worse OS by almost every standard, you just cant justify it anymore

Windows managers exists

Super key + e to open file manager is the best shortcut ever Although you can do that in linux too

My keyboard doesn't have a super key :(

I tried that and it opens Dolphin on my Linux PC. Very neat Windows shortcut.

🙏

I am interested what a poll on that would actually result in. My best guess would have been Internet Explorer too.

@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece *This Linus is known as a Windows savvy guy. He already knew that IE is a thing of the past. So he just pulled a cheap stunt.* Personally I was 100% sure from the very 1st second he was referring to the file manager. Over the years as an IT admin I've got my own bunch of co-workers and whatnot unaware that the file manager is simply named Explorer. And each time I was talking about Explorer only to find out they were thinking I was talking about IE ... blew my mind. Also, believe it or not, it was not surprising at all to me when people started searching for Explorer in Windows 10 only to get "hinted" about the stupid Edge browser. Because that's the way Microsoft "handled" many, many, many "hostile software takeovers" throughout their history.

@@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece That is interesting. My first guess would have been file explorer.

Probably Luke expected Linus to open file explorer by using the keyboard shortcut

I just tried it and file Explorer was the first item.

Widows has a bunch of problems but people are already used to fixing them. No one wants the pain of learning something new :/. I'm not the most advanced user ever, however if you can read English you can understand the terminal it's not difficult for day to day use like installing stuff

I use Linux at work and Windows at home. I started out on Windows, and I will honestly say that Windows has been much more frustrating than Linux for the past handful of years. My point is, Linux stops being frustrating once you get it. Windows does not.

@ absolutely accurate

@ Totally agree. I run both side by side, and have used Linux for many years now, and I find that even though I would consider myself an advanced user of both Windows, and Linux, I find myself being irritated with Windows WAYYY more often. Wasn't always that way, in the beginning everything with Linux seemed like it took a ridiculous amount of time compared to Windows or MacOS. Now knowing it well, I can't imagine doing most tasks in any other OS with the same ease and speed.

And what are those things about Linux that are not up to par?

To me the command line is the opposite. You call it bullcrap and I see where you are coming from. But I understood how powerful it is when I used it to wipe edge and cortana off of my windows install with powershell. When I then understood that Linux is all about the command line and that 99% of the time any user interface like a GUI has any button that does anything it usually only does the console commands for you. In a sense, instead of having a thousand different programs, you can do practically everything from the command line alone. It's the one tool you really need, but it is an incredibly hard switch if you're used to messing with GUIs only

@@eccomi21 All of that is cool but more effort than just clicking shit

@@aniquinstark4347 depends. from a command line you can do practically everything in one place and once you know your way around it, its just as fast if not faster than a GUI (depending on the task) In windows for example if we choose the clicking route to update the system starting on the desktop you have to go to click windows > settings > Update and security > check for updates > Download In arch linux all i need to do is open the command line usually with a key combo and type "sudo pacman -Syu" then press enter when it asks you if you want to install a listed package. if you have yay installed just typing "yay" is enough. its a matter of seconds. i would argue the command line is way more effort to learn, less effort to use. that does not make it inherently superior from a user experience standpoint, but from a usability one

Unacceptable

possibly the most toxic subset of users i've encountered are dwm devs and users (though the venn diagram is almost a circle ;p). a perfect example of how it's good to have a product geared toward hardcore users, but that it doesn't excuse the gatekeeping less experienced people

Some of the people on RU-vid that popped into my recommended page when I just started out were super fuckin toxic and made me not wanna use Linux, I'm talking mfs who said shit like "Linux elitists are discriminated against" with a straight face

@@ashlyy1341 they are toxic by design, have you read the suckless page? iirc, having to configure dwm by editing the C source code keeps the user base "small and elitist" as a selling point. It's actually ridiculous and I'm not even mad lol.

Some are a pain. I'm switching from Windows to ElementaryOS soon, but I keep getting told by hardcore users that unless I use the command line for everything "I shouldn't be using Linux". Btw, it still has a terminal...just isn't a necessity.

I use ubuntu ussr both side want me to use their os I am fine with ubuntu plus pop os is a pain but manjaro fine still needs to be use to it.

i actually kind of like it when i run into problems on linux. the entire reason i got linux was for the freedom and privacy it has over windows, and the best way for me to truly see the extent of its freedom is for me to run into problems. when i have a problem, it usually means there's something i still haven't learned about my computer, and the problem lets me learn about it and even why its important, so i can then go on to potentially use what i learned elsewhere. on windows, many of these problems would be taken care of silently and without me even knowing whats going on, so its really nice using linux and learning so much more about how my computer actually works. if everything on linux had worked out of the box for me, i think i would've still been stuck more in a "windows mindset" of just sticking to whatever the default settings are, rather than actually going in and really trying to see how things work

everything is a pain in the ass when you start doing it, especially if you don't enjoy the process of learning.

@@realGBx64 You can enjoy learning, and yet the process can occasionally not be enjoyable.

Oh hi mark

Yeah, There are too many desktop enviroments and package managers that rely on different things. I mean choice is good, but for developers, especially GUI, it's a very big hassle.

For some reason calling him Linux Linus tickles my brain.

Agreed. This is why I’ve become more interested in other Unix-like operating systems. Linux: make 6 tools to do a job kinda well, and use 2-3 to finish it. Unix: create a tool to do a single job really well

@@classicrockonly rip plan 9

I cannot disagree more. One of the best things in Linux is the abundance of choice. You want a uniform way of doing something the same way across different distros? Command line is here to help you out. Don't want to always type long commands? Fish shell or zsh with autoprediction is your friend. People have different preferences regarding UI which is very well accommodated this way.

lol @ we. There's the problem.

X11. ;-;

KDE

@@_g3nss “KDE” automatically translated to “WHERE” lol

Or just "switch to Wayland"

It should have most of those behaviors preselected to what people use or like the most

I get his ultimate point about gatekeeping, but he gives them the ammo lol

@@proctoscopefilms agreed.

@@proctoscopefilms Just because you have ammo does not mean you need to actually use it. You have choices

@@lilkittygirl I think most reasonable people would agree with that

He is actually right with all that. Linux runs fine when it does and these days it is easy. But damn! Linux users in message boards - a system designed for helping people - are a toxic nightmare.

Yeah i hate this whole shitstorm, because all fucking os are horrible, what i hate about the whole situation is that what happened to linus can happen to everione in any os,

NVidia has closed source drivers which are a notorious pain point in the Linux community, and NVidia has made it fairly clear they don't give a fuck about Linux users. I'd recommend using AMD Ryzen graphics cards if you can. They are fairly well supported by the community and AMD themselves.

@@zwhitchcox I think I heard something recently about Nvidia making some parts of their drivers open source, just not all of it. Which doesn't fucking matter when you're like me and you have a GTX 670 setting in your computer since the open source bits only work on newer cards anyways. But yeah the Nvidia drivers for Linux are fucking terrible.

True. it turned me off back in the day. I lean more toward FreeBSD now because of the educational slant. but it is not easy for someone new to get started unless they are REALLY persistent.

I guess that him being famous will attract more toxic people than I did. But I have not had found a level of toxicity that justifies the memes.

OpenSUS

@@GradyBroyles Thanks, it's a quite a infuriating meme that others put on the Linux community. But when Mac and Windows users behaves the same way they don't get a bad rep.

@@GradyBroyles I remember being frustrated so many times trying to learn & the answer you get is RTFM. But for those where reading is problematic, that didn't help; But that was back in the day. Today we have all kinds of Videos out there to help but the confusion of it all sometimes. Like Linus said one or two ways to do stuff is cool for a beginner, but like 20? It gets rough for the beginner.

Thanks, sadly the toxic community label has been given to the Linux community by Windows and Mac users. Sure we have toxic users in our community still but would say percentage wise it's no better or worse than any other OS.

@@Zandman26 Naah, Linux community used to be realllllllllly toxic before they started being called out by everyone Things have changed lately

@@RamkrishanYT I've never been a forum dweller, usually only go to the wiki. But during the 10 years I've used Linux I've never had issues with the community. But I think it might have been some more rough edges in the community back when I started.

@@Zandman26 depends in my experience. In most Debian based distros ppl are reasonably helpful, but any arch based districts is just “ew normie? Reeeee computers aren’t for you!!!!1!!1!1”

@@alfiegordon9013 It's probably a person to to person thing. I'm very involved in the process of making the Linux community a helpful environment, but I'm also a Arch user. However as I said, i've never been a big forum person. So when I run into issues I always go to the wiki first, then possibly a search that might take me to a forum.

Unfortunately, what you don't realize is that in that amount of time since you cast aside Windows, you would have gotten so much more done just by sticking with it. I pity you, I truly do.

@@RetroBleck you literally have no idea whether that's true. I picked up Linux in a week back in 2010 and have been using it for professional work, exclusively, every day since then - and I'm a professional illustrator, not a tech guy.

Gedit is better named . Nautilus no so much.

can't wait for someone to go "what's nano? tf is vim and vi? HOW DO I QUIT VIM PLEASE HELP"

@@18earendil Gedit better than Kate? I don't second that. There is no better file manager than Dolphin, on any OS.

Gedit is being replaced with gnome text editor anyhow. It’s a quite nice replacement I find.

@@larsradtke4097 I've never said that. I said it had a better name.

or you can just remove the icon from the panel altogether and just use the keyboard shortcut.

I've had this issue for a while but it was one of those problems I couldn't be bothered to articulate into a search engine. Thanks!

...Or you can just edit the button's behavior. There's always a way to customize this little things in KDE one way or another.

@@jonnygotagun trufax

Your SSD / HDD issue seems to be more a thing your BIOS might be doing, a full Windows install asks you what drive you want to use, just like almost any other OS install

totally relatable. my friends kinda make fun of me for using linux but honestly i have so many problems with windows. like every time there's an update (which of course are not optional*) my pc won't boot. it crashes and has to restart a bunch of times until windows decides to "fix" the issue by, i guess, rolling back those updates. also that thing with having to unplug the hdd sucks so hard. you can only install windows on the drive that's physically connected to the first sata port on the motherboard, like wtf. so if you plug your hdd to port 0 and the ssd to port 1 you have to unplug the hdd. *i know you can disable them through the registry editor but i'm lazy

Honestly? Me too, inverse. I use Firefox and barely see the problems people seems to have with it.

@@YOEL_44 No there actually is a "problem". Let's say you have 1 HDD and a new ssd, also you have both plugged to you PC. If you try to install windows on your ssd, Windows will use the bootloader of the HDD and install the rest on the SDD. So, when you boot, you have to boot the HDD to then access the SSD. Solution? Unplug the HDD during installation or wipe or HDD (these are some that I know of).

@@tablettablete186 windows installer should give the option to install the bootloader on another device rather than the first found device , its kinda dumb

EVERY DE SHOULD HAVE WOBBLY WINDOWS. So sad that I'm on Gnome now and can't have me some wobbly windows.

That's probably what they are talking about at 12:49

oh yeah. Wobbly windows are almost necessary to me. It somehow makes the desktop feel more natural, if that makes any sense. It's a feature I didn't expect to like so much.

@@OLucasZanella i heard that there's a gnome-tweaks thing that does it.

I TELL ALL MY FRIENDS THAT TRY PLASMA TO DO THIS SO TRUE BESTIE

Every community has toxic people and though I rarely encounter them myself, there are some socially maladjusted people in the Linux community who will definitely cause a hassle.

/naive

the developers are more likely going to laugh at this pompous ass for pretending he's a new user...

More prominent is the myopia of some as regards Linux users. People are people.

Until the terminal goes by the way side in terms of fixing issues instead of writing a GUI for everything, it will NEVER be mass adopted. Most people don't even know what file systems are, let alone using the terminal to solve problems. I love Linux to death, but non tech people will never understand the terminal and therefore that strikes against it's ease of use. Ease of use allows for mass adoption and ease of use basically means developing the system to be idiot proof. Most snobby Linux developers refuse to do this which is why it will never be mass adopted until they do.

@@adamrush8360 @Adam Rush App Compability is the biggest issue for me. OS should work for everything you want to do in your pc. In Windows it's guaranteed to work and supported, on Linux you have to do detective work and asking forums. I just don't bother yet to do those in my personal OS

@@adamrush8360 no ease of use is how simple using it is but its bad when it goes against advanced users linux is simple and easy enough to use for 90% of people but complex enough for advanced users to love it

@@yudhok eh not really an issue the only time app compatibility is ever a problem is games or adobe and incredibly specific things for work

I know, I’m pretty confused. I never have to restart. Glad Luke can attest to this.

Maybe the wording is misleading. It should notify you that there was an update and it will take effect after a reboot. It shouldn't make you feel like you have to reboot right now.

I remember doing this while I was experimenting in LXLE, I could do incredible waves of updates and changes on the fly and never ever restart.

I've only ever seen that in server distributions, though.

@@_invencible_ This is probably it. My arch boxes never even hint at a "hey, reboot plz", but my kubernetes cluster runs on Ubuntu and whenever I update the hosts in an SSH session I get a nice big fat red screen screaming at me that "OMG WE UPDATED THE KERNEL YOU SHOULD MAYBE REBOOT NOOOOOW!" etcetera. I mean, yes, when I update those I _am_ going to reboot them. Calm down... XD

I was using Mint to burn a CD a few weeks ago and just seeing how much better the built-in audio players and controls are versus Windows was nearly enough to push me to switch

I thought exactly the same. Still trying to figure out what Linux went for

@@savvepk manjaro kde is no good?

@@EsmeraldMaster manjaro bills itself as for beginners but is really more of an intermediate distro. You are going to have to use the terminal for some things and that just shouldn't be required on a beginner distro. also the fact that its arch with stuff set up for you kind of makes it frustrating to do a lot of things on. as someone who was trying to use manjaro as an advanced distro as someone with not a great amount of experience it felt like the reconfiguration got in my way. maybe a more advanced user than I has a different opinion about it but that was my experience both using it and helping a beginner linux user use it.

I think luke is using pop os and linus is using endeavour os with plasma 🤓

yeah me too, but 99% of users don't want to have to google command lines just to get simple shit working...

@@MrShitthead maybe 99% now, but tomorrow it can be 95%, then 80%. You can both make things easier by improving Linux over time, as well as educate more people on how OS work. This is how progress is made, remember, there was a time where only "nerds" used computers at all!

I tend to forget these googled solutions ultra quick because its usually some bullshit presses in real cryptic bash commands no regular user should ever need to remember.

If Google was around when you started running Linux then you're a newbie.

@@MegaManNeo it's OK to copy commands to a text file. I always save all the really neat ones I find. The latest one I saved is $ xkbprint -ll 1 :0.0 -o shift_level_1.ps That makes a graphical Postscript file of your keyboard layout. You can view it in a PDF reader.

LUNIS tech tips

Linus said he won't get help from veterans and try this from a new user's pov

@@akibahmed1956 lunis*

True, however it's easier to tell users to reboot the computer than to reload the DE or WM, or run a command on the cli to make use of the newly updated parts...

it's just better practice to just make users get on the latest security patches as quickly as possible, but yes fellow vanilla debian user I never reboot either 🤣

@@Shadepariah I technically reboot daily since I don't let my pc running at night, but back in the days when I was running windows it was pretty annoying when it just did random stuff it could also just have done in the background when I wanted to shut down my pc

I havent had many issues with the need to reboot. Both pop and Manjaro have handled the situation very well. The only time ive needed to rebooted was purging nvidia or a kernel update. My biggest issue with Pop was that Pulse would just stop working completely or would get static and i would have to just restart the daemon

Yeah I kinda wish Linus would’ve started with Debian or Ubuntu-I see those as a lot more beginner friendly (especially their communities). Personally I use Debian for my dev vm and I love it

Yeah. Been using it as my daily driver for almost 10yrs myself. I do find it funny how thin some peoples skins can be regarding things... To me it's find the information needed, ignore any "personal" jabs, make fun of arch purist and move on 😂.

Pretty much this. Running desktop Linux is fine these days but don't go to forums, subreddits and the likes as these are the worst bitch fight you might ever encounter and everyone waits for their chance to pull you in.

@@MegaManNeo when you poke the bear be prepared for the results.

back in 03/04 I was running suse 9.1 as a daily.. I find I actually have MORE issues running it as a daily now due to me having more "bleeding edge" hardware and less mainstream hardware. It's definitely frustrating ...

@@AlanDike that's why I'm never quick to upgrade my hardware.

I agree. I tried Plasma as my second DE because it looked a bit more familiar, but I got overwhelmed by the options it got. Thanks to it though that I discovered budgie, my favorite DE so far.

Gnome seems like a great UI for ease of use.

from my experience using a bunch of different DEs, Gnome has to be the most cohesive one, especially if you use a distro that automatically installs the tweaks/extensions app. It's quite different from other operating systems, but once you get used to the workflow, it's cleaner and more intuitive than anything else. Pretty sure Luke is using Pop!_OS, considering the ease of encrypting your drive.

Opposite for me, on KDE Plasma as convoluted as it is, at least i can find all the options i need, you just need to dig deep, the more you spend time with it, the more you get used to it. In GNOME i feel like a lot is simply missing even compared to Windows or macOS, Cinnamon fixes a lot of Gnome specific issues.

@@skaftiTH Try Settings -> Display and Monitor -> Compositor -> Screen Tearing Prevention.

The Show Desktop widget on the panel is actually a small square thingy with an underline, you can right click it and select Show Alternatives (arrows pointing in opposite directions) and choose Minimize all Windows and hit Switch. This will give you the expected behavior while using Alt + Tab.

Can you elaborate what you ran into? I've never experienced that...

Today Linux for the masses and tomorrow neurosurgery! Makes sense to me.

Go pay your $100, like Windows, and you'll get a support that is super nice to you. That's your solition. Apart from that, you are dealing with people investing their time for free. They can do that on their terms. You might not like those terms, but that's where I point you back to companies you can pay for help. Your bad experience likely has something to do with your approach. At least that's where I made the difference when we helped people make the switch in 2012. If you expect to be spoon fed, you will have a hard time finding someone willing to put up with you.

@@pelic9608 But people who don't care about combustion engines still want to drive cars. Until Linux creates an automatic transmission for non-technical users (like Linus and Luke) to leverage their engine, noobs will constantly bombard the Linux community with "spoon-fed" requests which provoke abrasive responses. I'll stick with a manual transmission myself, but I'm also a CPSC major who willingly wanted to learn internals as an investment into my career and to satisfy my curiosity. Personally, I think the Linux community enjoys the learning curve, the difficulty, and the gotchas that force you to be a part of the community if only for the help. The consequence is a knowledgeable, driven userbase which also edges out a more significant portion of the population.

@@arimill1045 It's a merit based group; simple as. That's what always was the actual difference between Windows and Linux users. I'm cool with people just wanting to edit their files and not caring beyond. But those also aren't trying to be the cool hipster hackers, using Linux, while not being willing to put in the time. Stay in your lane, or at least don't complain when you bump into others while blindly changing it as if everyone just waited for you to come. (Generic "you"s, by the way. No idea what your actual attitude is; obviously)

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What is wrong with using a terminal? Most consider moving from cave wall paintings to written text an intellectual advancement for the species at large.

if they doesn't like GUI they should stay to windows :))) i prefer the terminal way of doing things, don't get me wrong, i m not that saying that it will not gonna be a good idea to make more GUI apps. I m just saying that linux doesn't need to copy windows in order to please the new users, i m saying that linux should have its own way of doing things, not just ,,a copy of windows" or ,,an operating system for poor people/A windows version for poor people" i think linux should remain as it is - i mean perfect (for me) and if the new users if they doesn't like linux they should go back to windows, natural selection baby. After all, all linux user was an new user at one point... i mean all of us (people that use linux full time, or just use linux... sometime) were new users... and what make us stay? - what make you to stay to linux (if you are a linux user) ? - in my case was that it was nice, and different, it was the fact that if you want you could use the terminal, and i did used a lot :)))... and i come from windows, and i was a kid back then... i didn't like to play games, for me linux it is and it was better than windows... BUT...but... i think there is no point of having ,,a war" against windows user... there is no war between windows and linux... everyone use what they want... if you prefer windows its ok, understandable have a good day, have fun!! i like linux and i also have a good day and fun! everyone use what suits their needs!

@@1pcfred Terminal is a wall painting. What's more clear: "xinput --set-prop 11 301 0" where 11 and 301 can change between reboots depending on phase of the moon or a slider named 'mouse acceleration ' always located in the same panel?

@@etopowertwon my mouse has two buttons on it that change its acceleration. I have a Razer DeathAdder Elite. Are you saying your device IDs move when you reboot?

@@1pcfred I am saying that my mouse works fine on windows but on Linux it moves too fast. Property id definitely changes for me between 297 and 301 at one point, I don't remember exact device id, it might have changed too. Originally i had script with hard-coded values, but it broke after a reboot at some point and that's when I discovered id have changed. Now I have a bash script which calls xinput three times in combination with sed to find device id first, property second and change accel speed value. (There actually might be gui setting, but on forum I found only answer about running xinput, so instead of fixing issue as normal user, I have a script in ~/bin as a nerd)

It also _literally_ takes up less space that way.

*Sometimes it's all about some stupid ego. Dolphin is the KDE devs "ego response" to Nautilus, the GNOME devs ego. And in order to "complete" this ego bs we also have .. Nemo, the Cinnamon devs ego. And so on ...*

@@Smjork every Desktop Environment has its own File Manager. If it didn't it wouldn't be a DE. There are certain core apps associated with being a DE. Otherwise it's simply a Window Manager. So it isn't ego it is convention.

And that's okay. It's okay to be wrong. --Tantacrul. Using the terminal is quite often the faster, easier, better way to accomplish something. And Steve Jobs managed to brainwash three generations into not being able to believe that.

@@thegardenofeatin5965 Thanks for proving my point, gatekeeper. Ya'll REALLY think ya'll superior cuz you type letters instead of clicking buttons LMAO. What a big COPE.

@@thegardenofeatin5965 I wouldn't want to do any sort of creative work in a terminal, even writing since there is no formatting.

"My ignorance is your gatekeeping!" Keep huffing that copium my dude.

@@theoriginaldylangreene Wow, you got mad just because someone said the truth? I know how to use a terminal and I know that it's the easiest thing ever. I can update all my apps and drivers with just a few lines , the terminal is truly useful. The truth is, you sweaty nerds aren't the majority. The majority of users don't use terminals and just want to watch youtube the way that they're used to, clicking stuff. The reason I said this comment is that I love linux and I want people who are interested in it to not be scared. With you sweaty NEETS at the frontline, Linux will never be widespread. That's the truth. Gatekeeping does.not.work.

Yeah, I was quite perplexed by their comments too. I was 100% sure that it was Gnome since that asks me to reboot on Fedora, if I allow it to do the installation rather than manually. But then there is the mention of Kate. Yet for you..very strange.

Don't say wide ass open dude 😅

@@Lambda_Ovine I’ll say what I want!

In a more literal sense its probably more mac users

Not every arch user only recommends arch and not every vegan is annoying. If you are an experienced Linux user and have the time, arch can be a great distro.

Hey bro you should try arch I’ll send over my neofetch

@@fabianthe_communist8201 found the vegan/arch user

@@fabianthe_communist8201 I've dated many vegans and many of them say they don't care if you're vegan, but whenever I've reported my progress to veganizing they flip out and ask why I'm not 100%. They're not tolerant they're just outwardly polite for a limited period of time.

Linux Mint is ubuntu based and I haven't had any issues with reboots, I wonder what distro they are using

@@williamrose3413 is not Linux mint based on Debian ?

And even on Ubuntu, you don't really "need" to restart. It's just that any kernel updates only take effect after you restart. That's the only type of update that requires a restart.

I've tried a lot of distros, the one that just seems the best is Manjaro KDE. Amazing experience.

I only need to restart on my arch when i do a Kernel update

Very true, even on Discord it's pretty much a plague of entire Linux community. For now I just pretend I'm not using 'Linux' and just using 'just another operating system' lmao.

i love Ubuntu community but you'll see toxic people from Arch Linux community.

@@gx1tar1er true, as much as arch is neat the community is sooo toxic, one of the big reasons I switch to void myself

There are too many graphical UI options and they often change. The command line (config file editing) continues to work for a long time, and consistently on many/all system configurations.

@@MachoMaster can you set your linux system audio to mono? on macos it's an accessibility setting, not sure about windows but you can toggle it somewhere in the audio settings i think. to answer this question i've seen users suggest you go buy materials at a hardware store and take out your soldering iron.