The Truth about Switching to Linux 

How to use Adobe applications on Linux: 1. Get a job at Adobe 2. Work your way up to CEO 3. Tell someone to make it work on Linux

Most of the population sucks though, I'd never use them as a compass. Also let's not pretend that Windows is so intuitive, it's just habits that you learned while you were younger.

I think there's two things that determine whether a user will be able to fully switch to Linux. The obvious one is that you're not "married" to a Windows-only application/game. The second, more important one is whether or not you have a lot of time that you're willing to "waste" during the adjustment/transition period.

Windows 11 is pushing me to learn how to deal with Linux. I now have an old lap top running Linux Mint, and I am starting to like it. I even have a couple of Windows applications running under Wine. I will soon be installing Linux on my desktop as dual boot. The transition is slow but interesting, but I couldn't have done it without Microsoft's help pushing me forward with each "feature" they add to Windows.

I used to feel the same but over time i've figured out solutions to my issues and now i'm fine running linux full time.

Guess what? Linux isn't Windows, Windows isn't MacOS, MacOS isn't ChromeOS...........get used to it, that's the point. I own both a car and a motorbike, I know they're not the same.

It's just willingness to commit. Like you said, it's true commitment. You can use office with wine, xpdf is far superior, gimp will be no issue for a photoshop user. The gamer will be the person needing to keep a dual boot. Steam is kind of changing that though...

The easy distros are no worse to learn than Windows and there are fewer annoying surprises This was not the case 20 years ago, but now things are pretty smooth. Yeah, learning something is a pain for some people, for others it is a pleasure to use their brain for something other than to keep their skulls from collapsing from atmospheric pressure.

What I've primarily found switching over to Linux is that whatever I could do in Windows, I can do about 90% of that in Linux. Whether that be running open source programs that worked on both or finding an open source alternative to it's windows counterpart. That being said, there's just certain things that don't work on Linux and I'm still going to have to use Windows in some capacity. The best thing IMO for anyone considering the move is: - Start to use open source software to begin with (Libre Office, Firefox, Thunderbird etc) - Have a dedicated Linux machine and live in that for a time. There's two reasons for this: You'll work out what you need to run and if you come across an issue, find a solution then and there by searching and fixing it on the spot. You'll learn some things along the way. But I think 90% on Linux is still a better alternative than 100% on Windows.

I love that you're honest, this is a very unbiased and straight-forward opinion. RU-vid is being flooded with the "Switch to Linux if you hate all the windows 11 BS. It's /sooo/ easy." videos, and while I /do/ hate everything I hear about Windows 11 and MS, Linux might only be "easy" to certain types of people. People who don't have specific needs that only really good enough/work at all on windows, and either have very basic needs of just installing and running cross-platform applications/games like browser/office/etc software, or have enough technical know-how and patience to learn how to make things work and deal with annoyances popping up. They wax on about how there's alternatives to /everything/ when that's both true and false, just because there might be an alternative to something doesn't mean it'll be fully featured or stable, or doesn't look like like a kludged together solution spread across like a half dozen programs/config files instead of being mostly self-contained.

I use Ubuntu, and it's amazing!

I'm glad Valve pushes Proton big time. Sure it doesn't help with say Oculus VR headsets or external anticheat but it helps me staying on Linux most time if I feel that way. Thanks to winbtrfs, using the same Steam SSD for both Windows and Linux is possible but using both for twenty years... I got used to both as well and don't mind either side.

Here is my experience switching to linux about 2-3 years ago: (sorry if this is a little long, I hope this helps someone decide though...) 0. First of all, why I switched to linux. I had been using wsl for all my programming needs ever since wsl came out for the first time. I was there for the transition from wsl1 to wsl2 and had wsl break on me a few times, rendering my workflow completely useless. I was still only using npm at that time, so it was nothing I cant make use of on windows. I was also having some problems with windows updates, where they will fail several times before actually succeeding, and my laptop had just recently been completely wiped while it was updating with no way to recover any of the data (included some documents which I cant find to this day, I regret not instantly backing them up instead of waiting for my weekly schedule). All this while my keyboard layout would get switched to English International without me asking, and no way to get rid of it via settings. So I did some digging around and found some registry tweaks to solve this issue. Now this is where the problem happened, the keyboard layout was gone, but then none of windows core apps worked, not even settings. This is when I finally broke down, and installed linux mint. I did not even bother backing up my data, just a clean slate. 1. I was quickly able to get my dev environment working on linux mint. I installed npm and node. Python was already on there and I downloaded VSCode. I also started tweaking the cinnamon desktop and was able to make it look quiet pretty. Overall, I didnt have any issues with my work setup, but I did learn git cli and docker cli, which didnt take more than 15 minutes maybe. 2. On the topic of ricing, I switched over to bspwm and absolutely loved it. My workflow slowly started to feel like an extension of my body. I would think something and it would happen almost instantly on the desktop, my fingers were getting routed with good muscle memory. 3. I had used lutris before, on my chromebook. So I knew that gaming on linux can be somewhat viable. What I did not expect was valve and proton. The only game I missed was genshin, but my preferred genre of video games changed drastically as my schedule changed. I started enjoying more metroidvania style inde games, with occasional warframe or csgo. All of which worked perfectly. 4. I got a backup drive on my PC, and moved all my data over there. This is so I can make the switch to arch linux. I have been toying with arch in a vm for a while at that point, and was ready to make the switch. And switch I did. I have been very careful with updates and always trying to keep on top of news, so I have so far never bricked my system since using linux. TLDR: I switched to linux due to my windows workflow being absolutely unusable, and since I had an unusable experience on windows, I never felt that I was missing anything on linux. It always felt like an upgrade. I understand that I just got extremely lucky, and most people will have a tough time switching, but I do still recommend. Burning all the bridges (completely wiping my windows drive) actually did help a bit I think. I probably still would have not adjusted to linux if I gave myself the opportunity to dual boot and go back to windows.

I agree this 100% For me it was easy because I never really used proprietary stuff except Steam. I am one of those who love to tinker stuff and it feels good as hell every day. But if you don't have time and patience to learn new stuff Linux is not your thing.

This is sort of why I have trouble recommending people any linux OS for desktops/laptops. My workflow isn't theirs, so I have to start that conversation off with "what do you use your system for, and how do you go about it on your current one?". Nobody likes this question, and struggle to answer it. It never seemingly occurs to people that nobody has the same use-case, or workflow preference. It just breaks their brains, in frustrating ways. What's more is they won't always tell you ALL of the things they use it for. So even if I do give them a good recommendation based on info I have, they inevitably end up getting in touch with me complaining they can't do thing x,y or z(which they didn't mention was a thing they did regularly). I then often times have to give them the bad news, because i wasn't privy to VITAL, NEED TO KNOW INFORMATION! It's always something that if they had mentioned it prior, I could have told them beforehand that it wasn't going to work out for them and to just stay on windows. Competitive gamer? you're gonna have to do some asking around, because most have aggressive anti-cheat software, that the devs won't enable for linux. Casual gamer? you might be fine on linux depending on your game. All you do is browser related stuff? congrats, linux is more than likely a perfect choice.

A lot depends on your needs. I was using mostly free and open applications by year 2008, so a move to Ubuntu was pretty trivial. Unlike "windows," it just keeps running. What I didn't anticipate are the repositories. There's almost no need to hop around Web sites searching for software. If it's a distribution-approved application, it may already be installed. If not, the package manager will get it upon request.

I've used linux for years. I don't miss windows at all. When I get a new pc, the first thing I do is install linux by removing windows.

Linux Desktop sucks big time for a non-experienced user. I'm saying this as a Linux Desktop user of over 20 years, and a Linux Ops professional. The moment the usage gets more complicated than browsing web, an average (read: normal) person will go back to Windows/Mac.

Amen bro. I feel you on the workspaces. Its so damn satisfying to flip through workspaces.

I find it funny how most points would definitely also apply for someone switching between Mac OSX and Windows, thus being in fact pretty much unrelated to Linux per se, if you stick to a "beginner friendly" distro with a full blown DE. I understand that most people have a low tolerance for change of habits, but it speaks more of MS's commercial and cultural monopoly than objective superiority of the OS in terms of "quality of life". Given to children, GNOME per example doesn't make any less sense than Windows, at least in the 5 cases I witnessed. My grand-parents have been daily driving it for 4 years without even a small issue while they literally broke Windows three times in the same time frame before. Now they even actively keep their system up to date. I believe that some forms of Linux are actually much easier, more straightforward and stable than Windows or MacOSX could ever be for people with very basic computer needs (aka 90% of PC users). I believe users with a relatively good experience of another OS and much more specific needs and a very flawed or unreasonable idea as to how to fill them are the ones making up the whole "Linux is complicated and quirky" fable. There's indeed an argument to be made for proprietary software tho. But all it takes is more people to switch to Linux for software makers to consider Linux versions, it's that simple. Linux has, per example, become a MUCH better platform than MacOSX is for gaming with just a little corporate effort, I don't think it would take that much to get other sectors in line. That's the point of view of someone who's been exposed to all three OS's as a kid (starting at MacOS 8.6, Linux Kernel 2.0 on KDE 1.0 and Win98).

People don't get it. They just think that if you use Windows then you're an idiot who has no idea about technology, well they're not completely wrong, but, what if I know what I'm doing and using Windows? I don't like Linux. It wastes my time. Most programs I use don't work/buggy. I know, Wine and Proton exists, but it's not good. I don't know about gaming nowadays but I'm sure of something, it's not optimized. I don't love the look of Linux, it just doesn't feel.. great. I'm personally fine with using command prompt for almost everything, BUT! It is not IDEAL for me, it's just like I said, waste of time. And before you say that I'm just a noobie who used it for a few weeks then left, no, I used Ubuntu/Linux Mint for a whole year.

The biggest problem with Linux is it just doesn't have the same support from app developers and hardware manufacturers as Windows, and it doesn't have that support because not as many people use it. There's nothing special about Windows, it's not somehow a superior technology, it just has an entrenched, dominant position. There's nothing Windows does that Linux couldn't do with enough support from third parties.

I dont know whats difficult about linux. I installed arch following a youtube guide. I know the commands to update and how to fix basic stuff and use it as a daily driver with KDE. After setting it up once I dont need to touch it beyond once a week updates. All the games I wanna play I can (including new ones like atomic heart and Hogwarts Legacy). Dont really see the issue tbh

I came from a loooong period of MacOS to Linux. I migrated begin 2023. My best IT decision of over a decade! I am so happy!

How is it possible that only Google was able to turn Linux into a friendly end user OS for the masses? I mean, there are plenty of software companies in the world beyond Microsoft, Apple and Google. Why is that? Are the ones available so dominant that it doesn't worth to even try?

As a long time Windows user, I needed to switch to Linux for work. I can say, yes, it has a learning curve, but using Ubuntu helps a lot. Also you can find almost anything if you need it. Using a customized terminal using Nala and Starship. Customized almost the entire UI, and added some useful tweaks, by watching a lot of YT videos. Conclusion: Though it can be hard as a daily driver, Linux is growing on me. Found myself using the laptop with Linux a lot more when I'm not gaming.

The only problem with Linux is experienced windows users that try Linux. Give a Linux system to a tech illiterate and he will have no trouble at all

I would love to use Linux. But to actually replace Windows. Not to go on a rabbit hole trip.

I started out with linux back in the 90's and switched to windows when I started to game a bit. After that phase I went back to linux again. Your video is spot on, windows is pretty intuitive but kinda "locked down" unless you know what you're doing whereas linux is more like "If you mess something up it's on you". Linux doesn't treat you like a fool but trusts you... if that makes sense.

It took me the better part of 5 years jumping back and forth before I finally had a working setup and comfort to jump straight to Linux full-time. Like others here have posted, I use it because starting dev environments for the systems I use at work is an exponentially easier task in Linux than Windows. As far as application differences. I fell in love with Gimp on Windows because I didn't have the money for Adobe and didn't want to try a virus laden crack just to have a decent image editor. I've been lucky that the platform as a whole has moved into a more usable space for me and the apps I use daily. Most of the apps I use are cross platform (VSCode, Libre Office, browsers, putty for serial terminals, etc.) Even some of the niche software for various systems release a Linux client now. I even have several utilities that are windows only that tell you either what setting need to change; or just work in Wine. I still get frustrated daily, and tinker with a LOT of failures before getting some things right. Yes it's easier when you start learning where to look to troubleshoot on your system, but that's all learning curve. I steer friends and colleagues to Mainstream "easy" starter distros. I talk about what I use, but know that 90% of people are not going to be able to keep up on a system/knowledge I've built and tweaked over the decade since I first booted a live CD to play around. I think I still have a version 3 or 4 Ubuntu CD I purchased, hiding in some forgotten stack of CDs. A lot of people in the community tend to forget what it was like starting out. A lot of people have also gotten used to the struggle of doing something in a different way than what seems to be intuitive on the outside. Is it always easy? No, but is it better than having ads streaming directly to your start menu? I think it is. For me, it's worth the time and effort I've put in. If you're expecting a magic change for anything other than browsing the Internet a fraction more safely, then this experiment is not going to last long. If you truly want to ditch Windows and think it's worth the challenge, stick with it. Like most things in life, the fight is usually worth the gains you get along the way.

So yeah Linux is a bit of a commitment, I do love working on free and open source stuff in Windows so my experience with Linux is great. But the main thing that has me just about ready to take the whole plunge is this: Windows ever since 8+ has been making my systems trickier and trickier to use, and at some point I don't want to keep fighting things like uninstalling stuff windows installs or editing registry to make my computer not send as much data back to microsoft or other things. I want my desktop to just work. Linux, unfortunatly, gives me that Windows 7 experience better than Windows ever could with KDE. Honestly with how Windows 11 is shaping up to be, I dont think Microsoft can do anything to win me back.

Thanks, Chris. But when I came to Linux I found it to be exactly what I wanted. But then I was using StarOffice, the GIMP, and whatever FLOSS I could find while using Windows. Warty Warthog Ubuntu was perfect and I installed over Windows and haven't used Windows at all since.

Kubuntu 22.04 is the closest thing to daily driveable Ive exp yet.

I wouldn't call my switch "easy", but it wasn't hard either. I don't play many multiplayer games, but games were a big wall for me. Once proton and wine started to kick more ass it was the perfect time for me, but it was like learning to use a computer from scratch all over again.

I converted over to Linux from the Mac with no regrets. A lot of open source apps are available on MacOS, Windows, and Linux. I researched and tried them all out while on the Mac, and ended up converting to them while still on the Mac. So I think seeing if one can accept the open source software alternatives first as a key milestone before considering a move to Linux. By the time I migrated over to Linux, it was just a formality, as almost all my apps were ready to go. I only had a select few that were new to me (Linux only). Doing as much of the conversion before switching out the OS was really helpful.

That thing about hating Linux desktop and Windows server and loving Windows Desktop and Linux Server I feel so much because wanting to spin up a server is the only reason I am even looking at Linux, I just want access to my files on all my machines without needing to upload my files to someone else's hardware and need to deal with the data usage back and forth as well as trust someone else's security, not that my security will be better but a corporate cloud is a bigger target than a little home lab.

I'm sick of their crappy Windows software. There is no big advantage, just visual stuff and beginner stuff.

I love how screenshots work in Linux, it's much better than windows (for me)

I always been afraid of relearn everything about operating system.. I switched to linux , became a power user in less than a month . Just go for it

Maybe I'm just a unique snowflake but I came to Linux because I was intrigued. Just out of curiosity. I also own a steam deck and I used the desktop at there for a while to tinker with some settings. I own a lot of games but I don't have much time to play. I only play dota 2 recently. I don't use adobe, I'm not a content creator, I don't stream. My work flow is pretty barren actually. All that I need is working since day 1. I had 0 issues so far. The exact opposite of that. I had to turn off and on my monitor before I was about to play or freesync would bug out for me. My external soundcard had to be turned off and on every reboot or I wouldn't had sound. My HP printer was only able to print in greyscale. And that is a known issue with that printer on windows. Since I'm on linux all these issues are gone. And I don't use the command line at all. And I am happy.

Linux is supereasy, barely an inconvenience

Former Windows user here. Chris is right. Unless you are some computer savant, there is definitely a whatthefuckamidoingwithmytime feeling for a few weeks. But obstacle is temporary. Once you *get it*, there is no going back to Windows. If you aren't a gamer or have specific Windows only apps that you need for work that your employer insists on, I can't imagine any computing experience worse than settling for Windows. Yeah, I said it.

It becomes mentally tiresome that we still even talk about this because everyone picks and chooses what works for this debate. No one is born knowing Windows, no one is born knowing office, know when is born know any Adobe program. But! At some point we take the time. Let me type that again! We take the time! Just like we have been taking the time to learn Android (Linux based btw) or the OS on the iPhone. Anyone can learn Linux and use it as a kick ass daily driver if you do what? Take the time!

Thank you for making a video that I can refer to every time switching to Linux comes up. This encapsulates it perfectly.

Chris, sometimes I doubt your commitment to sparkle motion

It seems to me that the only reason why people feel that Linux is difficult, is because they forgot how much time they spend doing the same learning, configuring, adjusting and finding software for windows. With no experience with neither of them (for example, if your only experience with operating system is android), linux is probably easier to figure out of the two. Windows is a necessity, if your software use require €300+ application. Enterprises need Windows. Professionals, who work with specific application need Windows. But regular user, who needs to read and write a text document once a month, or wants to edit photos from vacation, and rest of the time just browses the interned probably doesn't want to pay a yearly subscription for such application. All of that can be done on linux for free. And it will run on a cheaper machine. For a regular household, you can just have one laptop/gaming setup running windows just in case you actually need such application. And every other machine can run linux. Windows is like a pick-up truck of operating systems. It can do everything in case you need it. But do you actually need it, and are you willing to pay a price that comes with it? And does your household need 5 pick-up trucks?

Started with dual boot but since switching to Linux I haven’t touched my windows can do everything on Linux. Always been in to tinkering my iPhone since the early days of jailbreaking so Linux is perfect for me.

The truth is Linux is not ready for everyone. The trush is also all the desktop environments are always buggy. And the truth is also wayland is not better, it is just for someone/something that needs rely on GL to make things. The last truth is Linux doesn't have a browser. Well, chromium (and all the others) is a free browser from the non-free chrome. Firefox had a lot of problems, and today it is still unusable for watching videos because the deconding is made throu the only GL part of the GPU instead of using the REAL hardware VIDEO deconding part of the GPU. But chromium/chrome is more efficient. Just a fake. That's (almost) all for me.

How cheap SSD nowadays......just dual boot your fav linux and install Windows 11 on the other SSD......

It's funny to me how people can understand that their Windows programs are not going to run on MacOS and vice versa, but fail to understand why Windows and/or Mac programs won't run on Linux. Mac and Windows use different software and Linux does too. As a new user who came to Linux last year who formally used MacOS and Windows, I thought this was clear. Apparently not.

I just dont want to be spied on!

2:30 Well, the list is mostly office and adobe, althought office has 3 nice replacements, libre(office), only (office) and wps (office), adobe being avaiable on linux would be a good way to make linux go mainstream, specially nowdays that gaming seems very possible and even better and windows keeps unsupporting perfectly capable hardware adding bloat and being a spyware fest.

Heavy Excel/Photoshop user here. Linux alternatives aren't simply good enough as on 2023. And even if they were, switching to Linux means I'll have to spend many months porting thousands of lines of VBA code. Also, for some things that I regularly do - like deskewing a badly photographed document - isn't as straightforward or accurate in GIMP when compared to Photoshop. Still, if it weren't for Excel, I'd have ditched windows a long time ago.

To be honest... wasted years on distrohopping.... Trying to find one, that suits all my needs and failing in most in the end. Still : made a list, that new windows convert should adhere : 1. Pick a distro that has a corporate tech support.... 2. Pick a distro, that has out of the box 3rd party software support. Picked a Pop. Never looked back: wonderful and POLITE thech support that does not get offended by stupid questions.... and out of the box flatpack support will not hurt either.

Except for the paid IT side which I know nothing about, I say, "A-men" to every word. Great truth and good job.

I like the Linux challenge. I don't think I will ever use Adobe and I game Linux mostly already. To new people interested, Operating systems are like buying housing. You can either rent (Windows) Build/Own your own house (Linux) Live in a temple

Learning cross compatible alternative software 1st would be sensible as you'll have that worked out before switching & obviously don't discard Windows/Mac until the switch is complete & make sure to dual boot with two separate drives. The switch was easy for me, I had free time, I wasn't married to Windows or MS Office, never used Adobe & I don't play games with intrusive root level anti-cheat. I love the fact I'm in complete control of my OS & not at the mercy of a $trillion corporation, my PC destiny is in my own hands!

This video perfectly reflects my experience with switching to Linux a week back. And I've come realize 99% of Linux content creators and users online are lying through their teeth. It's NOT easy to transition to Linux, and it's NOT intuitive. As a Windows user who didn't know the first thing about Linux, it took an entire week to get all my shit together and create my workflow. A week. And that's because I was committed enough because I care quite a lot about quitting Windows and protecting my privacy. And I'm willing to bet I'm more committed than most Windows users out there when it comes to switching to Linux. So, for a new user, Linux is really far away from being accessible or easy to get into. I would really REALLY want Linux users to stop it with the 'oh, it's so easy to transition to Linux nowadays.' Yeah, maybe it's easier than 10 years ago. But it's far from easy enough. And this is coming from someone working in IT who's very familiar with troubleshooting tech issues, installing my own OS, customizing it, and so on. Do I regret all the time spent on getting used to it? Hell no - I love Linux now. I uninstalled Windows instantly. Running Mint like nobody's business.

Tried again giving a Linux a go in 2023 and it was disappointing (Windows 11 to Ubuntu 22.04) I have weird CPU (and others) error messages in my boot menu, NVIDIA drivers are far from being up to date, text is blurry, lack of out of the box settings, CPU usage is over-the-top, Firefox crashes (...), no available drivers for my external audio interface, the UI looks like 2012 MacOS with a supplementary chromosome and terminal cancer, text is blurry-ish... On Windows I can still tinker my way throught without looking at a black window. I want tech to serve me and not me to serve the tech. Plus is installing Linux a shield for privacy ? Not so sure ultimately since the hardware itself isn't open source and civil encryption algorithms are basically military technology.

I installed Linux Mint for a friend a couple of months ago and told him to ask me whenever he had any issues with his PC, or didn't know how something works. He just had one issue, and it's that he didn't understand how to download software at first lol. Once I told him that you have an 'app store' equivalent from which to install software, he loved it more than Windows. Haven't heard from his computer since. We're talking about a casual user here. So...I guess it depends on the use case? And the OS.

People need to make it clear for themselves WHY they switched to Linux. And if having a good machine and resources, who said they cannot have the best of both worlds? I have a relatively modern laptop with 16GB ram with LMDE6, and a super fast usb Gen.2 on which hosts Win11Pro. It isn't as fast as having Win on the main drive but it is good enough for me if I ever needed Windows for something. I am not a gamer. Just plug it in, boot from it (update if needed) and carry on. And why not having a dual boot? Or two machines?

I'm an IT Specialist. Windows is....confortable and ... boring... 🙂 I work with Linux of at least two Reasons. I hate the way that Microsoft goes with my data. And Windows is very unefficient. My daily PCs are an 11year old Imac (pimped with ssd and opencore), my bed-PC is an old i3 4150, tunet for Power-efficiency and playing youtube in Full-HD60p. My Server is an old AMD A40 Netbook with 1Ghz with Proxmox, Truenas and Pihole. That is efficient and i know no way to do this with windows on any way (cost for Licences, Hardware, etc. ) Only my gaming pc runs with Windows. The gaming implementation on linux has not (not now) the same expirience than unter windows. In two years, when Microsoft forces me to go to windoof11, maybe i switch completely to Linux. Sure, the learn curve is high. But as more i learn, as more i love my machines. I look for the best on all wolds (windows, linux, mac, android..etc.) Thanks for your service! I love your channel. (and your script to debloat windows) 😀💛💙🖤❤💛

I just upgraded my back up PC (Intel i7 6700k 4.0Ghz Quad w/64GB Ram) GTX1080 GPU from Windows 10 to Zorin 17.1 pro. As an old OS/2 fan boy I'm in heaven.

I think Linux users that make people that are new to Linux think everything is so easy do don’t have bad intentions. They are just on Linux for so long that they don’t miss anything. Of course not, if you’re been Linux for years and you do everything the Linux way.

"Aw god I need to develop on and for Windows frick", "Aw dood I can't install Nvidia drivers and AMD cards suck" that's exactly why I switched back to windows lol it has its applications though developing on Linux for linux is a ton of fun I miss the terminal

I have to disagree. I think Linux is way to niche. If I'm just surfing the web and reading email I would love to Linux. But the Office productivity suites SUCK in Linux and the game availability sucks in Linux (getting better), it's hard to go to university online with Linux (proctoring etc)... Even if you can make it work it's resource intensive, VM's etc.. Dual booting or two rigs is mandatory for most people.

I've tried Linux, it great for low-end PC's but to be honest it will never be as easy as using Mac and Window, NEVER!!! 99% of people will not have the time or the skills to learn it. The alternative app can not compete with windows base apps and majority of Linux users have a back windows PC because of that. until Linux become more user friendly. it will never reach mainstream audiences.

As a sys admin I use windows, MacOS and Ubuntu all 3 as both servers and clients (MacOS less these days). Trying to connect to a Mac from a windows box is like gouging your eyes out. Remote management sucks on Mac and is the only way to have a windows RDS equivalent for Mac. MacOS to windows is easy and smooth with the Microsoft remote desktop app and allows you to run a Windows VM on a cluster elsewhere, so you get the advantages of MacOS and windows. But now your primary OS is horrible and window management sucks. Ubuntu has remmina, rds connections work like a charm, vnc just works and is smooth. Window management is great because it can be customized to your liking. Linux is just plain better in the scope of compatibility in the modern age. Since moving from Windows to Ubuntu, my workflow has changed, but I believe that it has sped up my productivity. Although I do have a Windows VM and a Mac I can connect to

I don't know if not finding my MS sw in Linux is the issue. For example I'm installing Linux on an old machine to use Linux cnc... the problem with Linux is that everything is so damn difficult to do... to install a simple program I need to find a tutorial and follow through a lot of terminal commands (20% of them will not work and will require their own tutorials to sove). This is frustrating as hell... At the end, the final installed program is so ugly that it just breaks my heart. I don't know... sometimes paying for SW is not that bad (if you're not getting such a struggle and you're having a pleasant experience using it)

it seems to me this guy..titus.... is a microsoft fanboy. brained washed like 4 X.....from the rant on the beginning of the vid..lets get it straight .linux is way if not miles away superior to the anti privacy monger that microsft is...plain and simple....linux is catching up in gaming GARUDA being one of them...again switching to linux is a most for most smart ppl outthere and those that actually care for their privacy and ease of control...Again LINUX is the king and these fanboys try to follow bill gates A wagon...Linux is for those who care about .

That I hate Linux Desktop etc etc is exactly how I feel (with FreeBSD thrown in there for good measure), but windows 11 has caused me to hate windows more than I hate Linux so I'm finally working on switching my main desktop (already have my laptops).

I would modify that from "just use Linux" to "just try Linux". You may be pleasantly surprised. But hey, right tool for the job, right? For me it's Linux, for a LOT of other people, it's Microsoft Windows. What you're saying is quite true, if it boils down to if you have the time or inclination, it's great. But if you just never seem to have the time to redo your workflows, yeah, much as I hate to say it, it's very, very tough to say it's for you.

well shit *proceeds to stop existing* bye everybody. there was nothing strictly windows that i did on windows when i transition to linux except games but actually a surprising amount of my games where already compatible with linux. the only reason i stuck with windows at all, ever. was because i liked windows 7's UI, it was simple and functional while also being somewhat flexible. windows 8 and past that completely stripped these qualities out, the UI is complete and utter garbage now over on window AND! windows 10 is a Trojan virus so ya... windows had made my transition quite easy indeed.

What you need to do is stop using proprietary software on windows, get used to all the free stuff. And then it makes no difference if it's windows or Linux under the hood

I would say Linux is for Developers/Programmers. If you are into software engineering you should only use Linux to learn more about what completes your desktop environment. More you know about your Surrounding more you can survive same applies to Software Engineering if you are more knowledgeable about your pc you can pin point best solutions to problems.

IT pros see Linux as a plain tool to maximize efficiency and reliability for specific systems and tasks. Myself, as a home desktop Linux hobbyist, see Linux as a wonderful, infinitely tinkerable, work of art/ art as in theming, but, more importantly, art as in being able to "tinker towards my ideal of perfection" in every aspect of the system.

There's no point of switching to Linux from Windows. It just adds complexity and limitations. But for linux fanboys maybe they should!...

i tried daily driving linux for about of half a year. first, i had to drop gaming 100% temporarily, but the reason is i was stranded on a weak machine, so it's not on linux. second, i managed to run everything else i needed, mostly natively and one app through bottles. the issue is - why would i do that? there's no real incentive. best case scenario - it's not at all better, just the same. some things are inferior ux-wise if not functionally. some things need tinkering to run (those wine-dependent cases). you basically make your life harder with no real life benefits, philosophical reasons don't count. the only way it'll become strictly mathematically speaking optimal is if ms and windows start pushing against the user experience, which they do, but not hard enough yet. and at the end of the day it is still pyrrhic victory if you've won because the competition became worse than its own baseline and not because you made it obviously better.

Daily driving fedora for a week now, and am having a hard time optimizing the power usage of my laptop 😥. Thus the only thing that's bothering me about fedora (Linux)..

I made the switch a few months ago and so far I haven’t found anything I can’t do, but it has been a bit of a learning curve. I’m really enjoying the experience though.

For normies switching to linux requires two things patience to learn the system and a bit bigger knowledge of his/hers pc and thats it. Desktop environment is not really an issue these days in advent of smartphones and linux terminal is basically cmd & powershell which even in windows is a mandatory requirement ever since the disaster known as windows 8 was released. Basically the biggest blockade to wider linux adoption rate is the hardcore linux community that talks about things like for example the high level of customization while most PC users as far as customization go change their default wallpaper and maybe a colour scheme to dark on the file explorer.

I recently made the switch and most things for me were a seamless transition. I use edge for work and it works well with Linux, same with teams and vs code. Getting my git repo synced on linux was easier than in Windows, so was syncing up AWS codecommitt

Honestly, I can't get 2 displays to have decent scailing on Linux. One is 1440p and the other is 1080p Such a pain

With many things turning cloud and browser-based, for many people, it will barely matter whether one is on Linux or Windows. The more we advance, the less manual labour will be required.

Most of the time windows just works. no issues with setting up shares on servers or group permissions, or single sign on to applications and the admin tooling in windows is better. That being said getting nickeled and dimed for every core and the telemetry and not forced AI is getting old. How about the degraded performance in windows until you install the next update. Linux has many usability things it has to clean up. Then again linux was not meant to be a polished OS. That is what mac and windows were built to do.

The solution.... Install windows and use that as the boot os...do the things you do better on it or at all.... And run Linux on virtual machine.... and have that be your main desktop environment Minimize and maximize the window....

That was a good video. It is true I sometimes forget how hard Linux can be. My daily driver is windows but I have been useing linux for all most 25 years. it has taken me that long to get to where I am now with Linux. I am not a young man anymore but you can steal learn Linux.

I could not stand Windows so much that I've switched my job from C++ to web development in 2008 - so I can use Linux at work.

So if I have 500 Gib free space then my partition can be this way: /boot 2 Gib /boot/efi 2 Gib / 496 Gib Is it Ok?

I couldn't disagree with this more. I put Linux on my mother's computer in 2008 and she used it daily until the computer died in 2015.

As a software developer, I spend 100% of my time in Linux desktop.

If microsoft wasn't so deadset on making the windows desktop so intrusive and annoying then i would probably be using windows with WSL right about now.

After tinkering with the steam deck I came to love kde more than windows desktop, and the excitement of constant improvements, my big hurdle was making non steam supported games work, but with lutris and no knowledge outside tutorials and copy paste in terminal I have my windows cake and im eating it lol without windows lol and in every area that's not windows reliant is better

I always find it strange when people talk about high skill requirement to use Linux. I have daily driven Linux for a few years and I feel like my knowledge level would maybe be a 5/10. I use an Arch distro and have tested a number of Debian distros along the way. I have found even as a new user, the amount of struggle I have had to actually be less than that of my recent Windows experience. But maybe I'm just lucky, but I doubt it.

This is why I still have a Windows install on a separate SSD just for Warzone LOL. I've never even opened a browser on it.

I would say that almost nobody really loves Windows. I think there are the people who are not technical enough to care and there the people who don’t like it because of its many problems but can’t or don’t want to get away from it.

Testing Zorin OS which is an improvement over my previous trial of Ubuntu to see if I can switch to Linux and avoid Windows 11 and avoid trashing my still good hardware. Don't have coding experience and am so dependent on my Windows 10 setup that it is a slog. I have tested a setup of Zorin OS and Win 10 dual boot and another test of Zorin OS 16 with Win 10 running in Virtual Box which works well but I still have run into roadblocks which I am still working through. Some days I just want to give up and buy a new computer running Win 11 and say forget it.

A few days ago I switched to linux, started with arch and im already getting the hang of it, using awesomewm its also my first time using a wm, its not windows and I’m happy about that, it I ever need to use windows I have a wm

i think i like the idea of using linux more than actually using it or bothering with it. 10 or 20 years ago i might have thought differently as i was trying to get as much tech stuff into my brain as i could and i was embracing all that stuff. but nowadays my view on tech changed alot. the older you get, the more valuable time becomes. and we hit a point in the tech world aswell where it is basicly impossible for a normal person to keep up because its changing so fast and my body and my brain is just burned out of that stuff. it feels like you are not allowed to just sit in your garden for a day watching trees grow because then you re allready behind again and need to catch up. i have a limited amount of time on this planet. do i rather want to do my stuff, get done with it and then have time with family and go out and stuff like that? or do i want to ''waste'' my time on relearning a lot of things just so i can do the same stuff differently, that i am allready able to on windows and whatnot? ontop it also makes everything more complicated because most of the companies you work for use microsoft ecosystems so allways need to jump around and.. it just makes everything more time consuming. i think the answer is clear on that one. i just dont have a reason to. and also in the privacy department and getting off grid of those big bad companies like microsoft or apple or google... its allways just about time. does the time i spend on something justify the stuff i sacrifice? Yeah Google or microsoft knows alot about me... but have microsoft ever actively... harmed me in any way with those informations or has google ever actively harmed me for using google maps? no... so ... is it worth it spending all that time? no probably not. and once youre dead at some point...it doesnt matter that google knows what music you like anymore either. and using linux wont change the outcome of that. it just has to do the job, and i m okay for ''just'' being a user/consumer. and as long as i dont need linux to do the job because windows cant do something i need, why bother. i rather be a user and have fun with my family than to become a hobby-developer, trying to troubleshoot and fix and workaround my own OS. If i put a nail into my wall... i just use a hammer, that doesnt mean i want to learn how to build a hammer myself

Tried to install Zorin OS on bare metal desktop with 4 monitors. Never got it working after spending an entire weekend trying.