Why I Can't Use Linux - My Top 3 Reasons 

For me it's 4K Netflix streaming and Dolby Vision and Atmos. Luckily I switched most Apps years ago like from MSOffice to LibreOffice and so on. But the Media Quality is a big no go for me since I stream daily to my TV.

Playing MC via Prism Launcher right now, and it just works. BUT - with MC 1.20.5 java 21 is required and being on a Debian flavored distro (MX) I'm stuck with java 17 for now - I suppose I could upgrade if I really wanted, but the point of Debian is literally not to rock the boat.

Developers don't count when going to linux because the system was made for developers.

​@@MaisistkeinGemueseDo you stream your desktop to the TV or is it an older tv with a PC attached as a media box?

Everyone uses their PC their own way and have their own reasons. After I started using Linux I have noticed that many people seem to think that there's no downsides whatsoever about Linux. And when I bring up inconvient things they attack me with all they got

there is nothing wrong with using windows, for some applications. why you need a full switch either way linux or windows? my part is gaming, but i use 2 different operating systems, hell yeah its even easiert with 2 pcs.

@@BlacKi-nd4uy There's a thing going wrong in Windows if Microsoft continues in their current trajectory, and this also endangers creators, because in the future you have unreliable operating system where your data is not safe on any partition you use to work on the OS. Another problem that everyone suffers from in current situation, and also has been bothering many folks before, is that with Windows you have corporate middleman there on your hardware all the time. It costs money, and gives little in return. Problem is that Windows itself doesn't really do anything that other operating systems can't do, it's just all the third party software dependencies that lock people to this costly OS. This is unnecessary.

@@BlacKi-nd4uy Well, maybe for "normal" people there's nothing wrong with that, but there certainly is for me. I cannot do anything productive on Window$.

chicken and the egg problem

@@jarivuorinen3878 That's why you use Windows for just the things you need, and without it being online, then switch to Linux if you need to do most any other work including online stuff.

Honestly (I should have gone into this more, but my audio section was too long already), even if FL studio and all my audio plugins natively worked on linux, it would be hard to move away from Windows (or MacOS)... The audio situation on Linux is average at best... Latency is almost always better on Windows and changing buffers and such isn't always easy on linux.

just stop supporting abode. way better stoftwhere out there.

That's just how capitalism will always be, yea it sucks but the alternatives also suck, unfortunately perfection is a paradox, an impossibility, so this means every system will be exploitable in some way (just as any security expert) and the people to rise to the top of that system will be the ones willing to exploit it the most

@@teksyndicate dunno what sound card you are running but i never have a problem with sound settings.

​@@teksyndicateI've heard of people getting less audio latency by working directly with ALSA instead of going through pulseaudio or pipewire, that might improve things for you

it's a fork and more of a downstream of WINE and Valve themselves contribute back codes from Proton to WINE's development

it's not even a fork. It's wine with more packages.

Proton is also worked on by wine developers that valve sponsors.

Proton is Wine.

theres a reason you can run regular windows programs in proton

demand - supply is how the world works

The day Affinity suite starts offering Linux version of their app, is the day I will fully move to Linux, but until then, I have no choice.

Oh man they really need to make Affinity available on Linux. I will buy the entire suite even at full price. Im not even bothered about Photoshop (even though I know it better).

I saw that Affinity works via Wine, I was going to test it earlier today, but got squirreled away by something else.

@@slaapliedje I got an older version working via Bottles at some point.

Now what can help the Linux community is to clone prism for x86.

This might come off as a contentious (or rather extremely controversial) opinion, but I don't think tools like Flawless Widescreen are "flawless". In fact, I'd actually make the argument to say that they're poorly designed. It's literally no secret (in fact it's an open one) that the developer of Flawless Widescreen, Hayden, has a pretty apparent problem with ego, being denigrating towards others, and over-estimating their abilities, and they've openly had an anti-Linux and anti-AMD agenda in the past. I'm sorry, but anything that constantly has to run in the background, from startup (if you don't want to open it before you then open a game), as an administrator at that (Keep in mind it's injecting stuff into the game's memory), is bad design, and it's possible that it's a walking security risk, and it likely even affects games with anti-cheat or software that is very strict about background tasks and services. You need a third-party solution (SteamTinkerLaunch) to even get it working with a game running on Proton. I don't even believe they've made anything recently, at least I haven't seen them frequent WSGF on Discord in a while. I guess one of the few good things about FWGS is how it handles multi-display support, lets you toggle mods on/off when the game's running, and lets you adjust things like the FOV and see that when the game's running, but how's this any better from just putting that stuff into an ImGui overlay that behaves functionally similar to RivaTuner, Special K, the Steam overlay, or literally anything that wraps or hooks itself onto DirectX/GL/Vulkan when the game's done drawing what it needs? But I digress, Anything that relies on extra steps than just dragging and dropping some files into the game's directory (So you can contain it to the game's process, and make things streamlined and as easy for your average end user to run, so they don't go submitting support tickets asking for really blatantly obvious stuff when they can barely handle a file manager) is inherently anti-thetical to making a fix for a game that aims to fix a downside to the game that prevents it working optimally out of the box for the end user. Your average Steam forum user is a complete idiot (Not to denegrate them, they are good at finding problems, but not good at finding solutions), and not streamlining things is opening yourself to a ton of wasted time troubleshooting obvious issues for people who can't read a forum post. Some mod developers making fixes for games have realized this, and went out of their way to move things from external executable and Cheat Engine trainer solutions to proper DLL mods made in C++. Reloaded-II, despite all of my issues with it as a mod loader, at least puts it's configs in a clear location and they offer a DLL install of sorts which uses ASI Loader as a base, meaning it's easier to setup with games on Proton or if you want something that isn't entirely dependent on launching an external launcher. I have to even wonder why the script extender for Bethesda's games don't even bother with just using a DLL file that automatically injects what's needed when the game launches, because that would make it so all you have to do is launch the game through Steam instead of messing around with your file manager endlessly. Despite Special K having a background service/app that essentially behaves like a game launcher (And even imports your games from Steam/GOG/Epic/Xbox and then auto-injects into the game through the launcher), you can copy the SpecialK32.dll or SpecialK64.dll file from the SKIF's directory into the game's directory and then install it. Kaldaien has made efforts to make Special K (Which also includes his mods for Nier Automata and others) work on a wide range of setups, and that includes on Proton/WINE. If you can handle using Cheat Engine or x64dbg and making assembly patches, then you can handle writing a DLL in C++, so your mods are easy to install for the average schmuck. The game mod compatibility issue with Linux is entirely self-inflicted. I've made strives to move away from Cheat Engine tables and to write my mods as DLL files in C++ (Or in the case of Unity games, using BepInEx which opens the doors to what you can improve), and things are as easy as dragging some files into the game directory and setting a specific launch parameter in the Steam game's properties section with the DLL file in question (I.E: "WINEDLLOVERRIDES='dinput8=n,b' %command"), while also not relying on having to install the dreaded Visual C++ Runtimes in every game's Proton prefix (Thanks to just cross-compiling with MinGW, and using standard C++ functions rather than the ones from MSVC). I'm definitely not that skilled, I have a lot to learn about still, but looking inside, I feel like there's a lot more that could be done, even on Windows, the experience with game mods sucks.

as someone who likes to mod and load mods in games i feel that. some modding tools dont run on linux because they are broken in wine or dont work for some reason. and they dont have a linux build. i have to run a windows vm or have seperate hardware to do those windows specific tasks. which i dont mind but makes it far more annoying than it needs to be. i want to be done with windows.

Yeah, modding can be a bit tricky.. Unless it's on the steam workshop ofc, that works ootb.

Oh, you please have to tell me more about the GPU passthrough. This is one of the things that are on my agenda to get done. What do you use for virtualisation?

Qemu works very well. I daily drive a similar setup using proxmox. You will need a iGPU or a second graphics card for the host if you still want to use graphics outside of your windows VM

​@@leoniscsemthe best way to use virtualization is with qemu/virt-manager imo, then you would need a second gpu for gpu passthrough to work, so if you have an external graphics card and also internal graphics you can configure all of this for the windows vm to have complete and exclusive control of the external gpu and leave the internal graphics to linux, plus linux is better in the virtualization aspect because of kvm, you can investigate further or use chatgpt if you want, but i can assure you it isn't that complex at all, you just need guidance

@@jandramila We are using Proxmox in our business line, but actually are considering to ditch it in favour of native LXD/LXC, since Proxmox in fact also just uses the standards and adds bells and whistles to it. But speaking of Qemu and GPU passthrough, did you just add flags in your KVM config, or do you handle everything through Proxmox config?

Keep Windows at least 2m from bare metal and stay safe out there!

He says you need to build it in Linux! You don't need to build Aseprite in Linux; there are native binaries available, he just needs to download them!

@@ActionGamerAaron "He says you need to build it in Linux!" firstly, step by step instructions are given on how to compile. that said, i did run into issues when i did that manually tho i succeeded in the end. secondly, on linux distributions like nixos can install it directly. and nix package manager is something you can install on every distro i have nix package manager on kubuntu and i was able to install aseprite through that. nix has an interesting way of installing stuff. nix packages arent all installed the same way. some downloads, some compiles. but at the end of the day, all of it is automated and you only needed to give the install command

The last I checked, many things were just not working... I forget the details... but the interface was a weird size, things wouldn't resize easily... and windows were always way bigger than they should be. Maybe these were old wayland issues or something. I haven't tried on the latest version.

@@teksyndicate you can change scaling size in aseprite settings Also I prefer to not use wayland

@@teksyndicate Always keep up to date on changes on Linux in general, not just a distro or two you are interested in. The landscape on Linux rn can very well change for the better within a few weeks at this rate so if you aren't 100% ready to switch but still want to, I would at least keep an eye on it

Unfortunately, that's just not an option many times.

Yeah, mostly I hear in this video is whining about "bUt I dO nOt WaNt To LeArN nEw StUfF"... Besides, a virtual machine with win11 running passthrough and just run it inside that if the user absolutely HAS to use a specific windows application not available on linux. Heck, you can even play games doing that. I had no problems getting autodesk inventor running using that method. And that application is said to be "impossible to run on linux". I guess I am a magician then... xD

Well, yeah, in order to make an omelette, you gonna have to break some eggs. You wanna stick it to Microsoft for designing and monopolizing the market around their OS in such a way it's nigh impossible to switch? Yeah, you gotta suffer some, as you lose the access to that exact market, what can you do...

Yeah Audio drivers have always been very RNG heavy. Thankfully I have no complex setup. So before 22.04 the only issues where the same as under windows but easier to solve, because I could automate the workaround. After that dist upgrade it shockingly just worked.

Creative cards are weird and map 5.1 incorrectly, I figured out how to fix mine based on a post from reddit. Had to tweak pipewire (which is actually pretty straightforward. )

@@slaapliedje yeah I'm using a sound blaster Z and have done a lot of reading like I said I was able to get it working properly but even with digital output the games will still only do stereo

I didn't think about my soundcard. I always like to have an old soundblaster X-fi installed so I can use EAX in old games.

@@qbertguy Huh, I know there are a few games recently (after I managed to get new speakers and have them set up properly in a 5.1 setup correctly for once) that just sound amazing. Valheim was one, if I recall. I'm betting a lot of the output depends on the game. The sad thing is, modern computing has a few things that irritate everyone on all operating systems. Sound is one of them. Oops, the sound is now trying to go out a monitor with no speakers. Oops, the mic in the laptop is active instead of the headset, etc. When you have 6 different sound devices, and each application has separate settings... you can see where it'd go wrong.

How many of those 14 have kernel-level anticheat?

It's not about games it's about making money. With proprietary software and games if you're being payed for playing.

I only play about 4 games regularly. 3 of them are completely borked on linux. Here's a curveball even: they're not online multiplayer games. But other than that, yeah, games usually do work.

​@@Kolyasisan Which ones are those? Genuinely curious

@@mr.dingleberry4882 home versions of beatmania IIDX, sound voltex and DDR. Some fellas of mine even own an offline Rootage cabinet, and that one doesn't work either. DJMax Respect V and EZ2ON work though, but those needed quite a bit of tweaks and troubleshooting to work on linux, which is fun.

Hell yeah! I'm about to hire someone to help with tilemaps (I'll make some too, but I'm also working on the music and dialog)... hopefull we make something out of it!

@@teksyndicate I'll be eagerly waiting for your game to get released on steam! :)

I’ll just add that every time I’ve used virtual box the performance is absolutely horrendous but QEMU has been much better.

​@@nathanp3366 I did not tried qemu yet. But so far vbox was fine for me, I did mostly writing and testing freepascal code with Lazarus. It's an easy way for me to test multiplatform code on a Linux host.

@@nathanp3366 I was gonna say, who runs virtualbox in windows when KVM/Qemu works a lot better? OP, if you haven't tried it, you should. It's amazing, performs better than VMWare.

1) if you're gonna end up being spied on windows, why bother dual booting at all? 2) virtual machine hit the performance like a truck. You're losing performance that you paid for what? Just for hating windows?

@@youravghuman5231 He? o.O 1 - We are using Altium Designer at work. Sometimes I had to work from home and no, the last years it was not working with wine. Previously it worked, but in a verry sluggish, useless way. 2 - Please don't bring hate to this conversations. I'm using vbox usually to write and test multiplatform apps. Works fine. *No, I do not like using Windows. I just have to time to time.

It's possible, but trying to work around with DLLs on Linux is a major pain in the ass. Tedious at best.

​@@plebisMaximus As someone who's a full time Linux user, I agree. The modding situation on Linux is not good enough. It's symptomatic of a general problem with Linux. If you put literally thousands of hours into it, you can make most things work, sort of. But most people don't have that option.

i mod Bethesda games no problem with mod organizer 2 in linux

Does the script extender stuff also work? ​@@motozappa225

ksp works really well!, and kenshi.

That's the problem with Linux, its not just software that solves a problem, its an ideology, and that's why Windows is losing market share to MacOS, but Linux never pass 3%.

I basically don't care, I use XenHyperVisor on my computer so I can run Windows and MacOS and Linux because I use software for what it does, not for ideology, I don't care about free software, I use open source when I have the need to change software. I actually prefer that I can't easily customize Windows, it prevents me from wasting time and actually use the computer to get actual real work done, instead of playing with the operating system like a game. I do play games on Windows, it has GPU pass-through and is technically my "DWM" as Linux desktop kind of sucks, so I use it only from the command line.

@@monad_tcp Disagree. Linux doesn't gain market share because it doesn't sit on store shelves beside MacOS and Windows PCs. Need a major brand to actually try and sell them (not just make them hoping people will notice and buy as some have attempted). People don't buy MacOS, they buy an Apple computer.

@@monad_tcp Well, lack of customization is deal-breaker to me on windows. On W11 I can't even have vertical taskbar... And sorry to say, but if ability to customize things to improve your workflow is distraction for you, then that is very much problem with you.

@@lifebarier RetroBar has been amazing for me on Windows... and it allows vertical taskbars... But I do wish I could customize things more.

The problem with that mindset is what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? Say the corporation who sold it to you says you have to pay an exorbitant subscription to continue using what you already paid for, or maybe worse, the corporation simply decides that nobody can use it anymore and anyone who purchased it is stripped of access in order to push them to buy a new product? What happens if the corporation goes belly-up and the lack of support causes the software to break on modern operating systems, and because the files use a proprietary format, you can't move your existing work over to a different piece of software? Do you truly own your creative works if your means of accessing them and creating them can be stripped from you by the whims of a third party? It's not just about righteousness. It's about thinking in the long term.

@@GANONdork123 "what happens when the product you use becomes unavailable to you? " yar har, shiver dee dee! being a pirate is something to be! do what you want 'cause a pirate is free, you are a pirate!

@@GANONdork123 Thank you for your response. Your concerns are valid, but will be relative to the effected individual and their particular ‘poison’ of creative work. As with any work, the tools one employs are subject to reasonable availability, reliability, and replacement when necessary, fundamental aspects of tools digital and otherwise. For some, the game of ‘what if’ might be more relevant than it is to others, and in cases of tools disappearing, not working as desired, or being unreasonable in form, function, or otherwise, I’d argue the individual’s plight is indeed about preserving their process rather than righteousness (though, really, the two need not be mutually exclusive, do they?). However, as in instances referenced in the video, the best tool for the job is the tool that you have available and reliable and replaceable to you right now, at hand and ready to work or most immediately so, and in many instances that means indentured servitude to an evil that ought not be necessary but is. Don’t get it twisted-just like the video suggests, I’m constantly experimenting with open source options, Wine configurations, and ways in which I might manually rethink my workflow to limit my exposure, but sometimes you have a row of nails in front of you and only a hammer will do. I think anyone that suggests alternative platforms to others without taking the time to understand the workflow and creative in question is doing so with a degree of arrogance and ignorance, however well-intentioned. I feel like that’s the position of this video-not an attack on Linux or open source options, but an acknowledgement that there are about as many divergent needs and workflows as their are workers, and neither you nor me nor anybody else can possibly say for certain what may or may not be best from another stranger on the internet.

@@GANONdork123 I'll just pirate an old version... or, let's say FL Studio decides to switch and make their users pay a monthly fee... I'll block their servers with pihole.

@@GANONdork123 As someone who uses Clip Studio Paint, I just pay the subscription. If/when the company goes under, what I do next will depend on my situation and options at the time. That said, I want to ask, in your counter to "My creativity is more important than my righteousness", what is the final goal? I'm not quite following the mindset given the video topic.

You think we don't need the 54774637th distro? Are you out of your mind?

​@@MyReviews_karkanlol 😅😆

That's not on the hands of the Linux devs at all. The compatibility problem totally depends on the app providing native support to the OSes.

Linux devs aren't making the distros or desktop environments. It's not one cohesive team, it's just random people doing what they find enjoyable.

@@gabrielkolletalves493 if valve had accepted that mentality we would not had the steam deck and the state of linux gaming where windows games run as smoothly as native software. There a lot of things linux debs could do to attract developer support or even make them run without their support. But they do not do it because the majority of distros do not care or they are stuck in the mentality of everything has to be open source and ethical. They usually treat any privative software as the devil with a lot of warnings, or separate repositories for them and they want to develop their own open source alternatives that are not always on par. I am all for open source regarding the os, drivers and apis because that is where big companies fuck us, but regarding an specific productivity app or a game nobody cares if it is open source or even "native". Valve understand that and they are being pragmatic, linux debs usually are not although I see some are starting to understand.

half baked for 16 years

The fact that XWayland exists kind of shows that Wayland is not ready. I am ok with X11 and have never experienced screen tearing or anything weird with multiple monitors.

@@teklynkvideos No, that is not correct. Is the existence of WINE and Proton the proof that Linux is not ready and Windows is better? XWayland exist because Wayland and X11 are not the same thing. They do not work in the same way, thus a compability layer is needed for old Software that does not support Wayland.

@@Siltprogramation What issues with X11 is Wayland aiming to address?

@@teklynkvideos I can give you a short answer, but I recomend that you consult other sources that can give you a more complete answer (DJWare has a good video about it). From my point of view, the two main issues that Wayland tackles are they way X11 protocol is structure and the sheer size of X11 that makes it very difficult to mantain at this point. Related to the first point are the security issues (any program connected to X11 can get the keystrokes or other input values) and the latency (mean for servers, so there is a lot of overhead and unnecesary interactions for modern desktop). Related to the second one we have the lack of modern features like HDR (there is one for wayland by Valve). There are other issues with X11 like the fact that there is no real multi-monitor support and if you have monitors with different refresh rate you are limited to the lower one. Wayland may not be ready for everyone yet and some development may be slower than it should, but it is for now the only path forward of the linux desktop, since X11 would not be supported or developt anymore (at least, that seems to be the case).

This might be a thing specific to the desktop environment you use. I've heard of a game dev with visual disability getting involved in the space reporting bugs and stuff, and apparently, according to him, KDE Plasma in particular got into a pretty decent state in recent versions.

@@Kris-od3sj I know it's being worked on, but no, I don't think that there is anything on the level windows provides for accessibility.

​@@Kris-od3sj I'll have to check into that. My problem is kind of a paradox, I need screen magnification to look into anything I can use in linux. It's not like Windows where on any windows machine since Win7 I can hit the Windows key plus keypad + and start a pretty decent screen magnifier. I dual boot my machine with Win11 and Ubuntu and have the Zoom set up on Ubuntu but I just don't know enough about linux and how to set things up in it to be comfortable yet.

@@Bureaucromancer Fair enough, my point of reference was just one person. Let's hope that support will improve among the desktop environments.

@@kortt I guess you can a listen to a podcast with said developer, where he talks about it. Check out Tech Over Tea podcast, episode 208. He also showed up in the most recent episode, but I haven't seen it myself yet; perhaps he mentions the changes he's made that I've heard of in the news here and there.

I haven't used it in a while, so I'll try again. I did test it with wayland, so that might be it.

I don't have issues with aseprite on Wayland! So probably something was weird with your setup, no idea ​@@teksyndicate

This. I will also say to the community that if you feel bad that someone didn't made it to fully switch to the OS you're using and they stayed on their OS, it's none of your business. It's really a personal preference and what works for you might not work for others. Also, other people have less time to learn a new OS than you had when you managed to fully switch to Linux. People that seek help by searching online or looking at forums are the ones that had the time to learn Linux. If they don't, they obviously don't have time and there's nothing you can do about it. It's okay to make them try, but let's not push them if it's really not working for them.

The fact that for almost a decade, almost all desktop users worldwide used just one OS (Windows) for everything, kind of contradicts you. In the 2000s even macOS which was the 2nd most used had a pitiful minuscule market share. And I think that's precisely the problem with Linux desktop adoption by regular users(which is also the blessing for power users). Most ppl except the real few power users don't give a single f about the OS itself. They just want to do their thing in the easiest, shortest, most comfortable way possible. Not by distro hopping which basically means constantly reinstalling their OS, not by following changelogs, kernel releases, foss drama etc.

​@@codyrap95this, but they are still gonna say linux gui is good enough for normal people for everyday usage which isn't true at all.

It's not like this guy is comfortable using Windows, he's actually in a bit of pain, he's been mentioning that a lot.

You. Must. Use. Windows. Vista.

Linux is not in a great spot for accessibility right now, unfortunately. The old tools are all broken by the transition to Wayland, and the new tools largely aren't done yet. Might be looking better in a few years, though, hopefully.

@@psiah9889 In a few years, in a few years, you will see they will get there... 💤💤 30 years and still the same lame excuses. How many decades of gimp and still the maybe most unusable ui/ux out there. Where is HiDPI support in most of that awesome "alternatives" ? Multimonitor ? What about making that thing generally usable instead of producing 50 new distros a week. Or do most linux nerds just tweak their desktop, make a video about it, and then tweak the next distro ? A very unproductive way to spend your life on this planet.

What is Wayland?

@@kaisfp So... Remember back in the day when Windows Vista came out and it changed the way a lot of things worked and broke several things, but it was ultimately required for things to work well in the future because a lot of the old assumptions people made back in the 80's and 90's about what would be needed in the future weren't great? Linux is going through that a bit later... As in, right now. Wayland replaces X11, which is how Linux has done things for like four decades now, but was designed for mainframe type systems with multiple users accessing it at once. Stuff like multiple monitor support has been hacked in, rather than being a basic, intentional feature, and the old way was horrendously insecure, making keyloggers very easy to set up even if they were never as common as on windows. Wayland is the new version, meant to fix all that. It, for instance, actually supports running multiple monitors with different refresh rates, instead of just taking one giant virtual monitor and cutting slices out of it for different screens. It modernizes things, makes them faster, makes them support modern protocols better, and makes them much more secure. But security always comes at the cost of convenience. Easy keyloggers also meant easy screen readers... Now on Wayland, those are much more difficult to do. Not *impossible*, mind, but a lot of work and the devs largely haven't gotten around to it yet. So people who need those features are stuck on the old, insecure version that, notably, no one is really working on and fixing bugs and the like for anymore. Still, it's got like fourty years of time put into it, so it's also just pretty stable and relatively bug-free at this point in general. So, basically, tl;dr: Wayland is the future of the Linux desktop, but there are still some missing pieces that affect accessibility software more than anything else.

@@kaisfp New display server.

Can't speak for anything else, but I bought an Nvidia card a couple of months ago and the driver seems fine now. I think the "magic" release was version 555.

I just set up a 3060 on Nobara, and so far no issues. Seconding what herrpez said about the magic driver.

I recently got a 4060 Ti, and it worked on pop_os right out of the box

That would probably be ok for most of my music... I'm not sure about the symphonic stuff. The samples are MASSIVE... so I'd want to upgrade it to 64GB of ram... but if I did that, it's a good idea.

@@teksyndicate Fortunately, there are micro PCs that do offer support for 64GB of RAM

@@teksyndicate I recommend Minisforum UM790 or Beelink SER7 Pro, both come with 7940hs/7840hs CPU and have two m.2 slot available. You can slot a double-sided NVMe into one of the slots, but the other is obstructed (SER7 has a wifi card below the SSD), but if you take the wifi card out and connect via Ethernet, you can install two double-sided for up to 16 TB storage. Memory can be upgraded to 48x2 for 96 GB and possibly beyond in the future, however, as things currently are, none exist for laptops. Even on desktop side, outside of R and U DIMM, dual-channel non-ECC DDR is impossible to find. With the single exception of awful, proprietary magnetic connector on SER7 and SER6 pro, I cannot recommend these mini PCs enough. Geekom A8 is also fine but BIOS is pretty locked down. P.S. I recommend Tech Guy Beau, Iceberg Tech and level1tech's review of these machines. I wouldn't recommend anything prior to Meteor Lake on the Intel side, let me tell you that much. And Intel's offerings should be considered only when it's cheaper than the AMD ones (and they're not). If you've been following mobile CPU space and looked at the reviews of recent mobile processors, you should already be familiar with them.

@@teksyndicate I'm on the same boat, most of the hardware on my PC is for audio production (128GB ram, multiple 4-8TB SSD's for orchestral samples), though I do like the idea of just having multiple PCs and using switchers. Another idea I had was either running Windows VM on linux with passthrough (might require more research/config to get it working smoothly as I want) or using Synergy

Mac OS for the win! Most stable!

Been a Mac user since the 90's, almost never had problems with it.

\m/,

It'll be that and gamedev... as soon as I can afford to do so.

@@teksyndicate Best wishes upon your future endeavours. 💪🏻

kde multimonoter is like the gold standerd.

I'll try KDE. The last time I tried was gnome (on my main PC) and I prefer KDE I think... I run a weird setup. From left to right: Vertical monitor 1200x1920, main display 3840x1600, right monitor 2560x1600, side CRT 1280x960. I turn my chair when I want to use the CRT... it's on a side table with usb hub that's connected to a second mouse and keyboard. Works great for old games.

@@teksyndicate you relly wont have problems if you are running amd. nivida can still make gamers cry on linux.

@@teksyndicate I only run 2 at the moment: Resolution: 1920x1080, 3840x2160 but no issues. I had 3 a while ago, worked fine too.

And does it remember the size AND position of the last time the window for an application is used? I have three monitors and routinely run six or more applications in certain positions and sizes. This works fine for Windows 10. I don't want to lose this feature.

That's extremely impractical and you don't need to stick with Windows for long. Things are changing rapidly.

im still on 10. screw 11

@@ActionGamerAaron It really depends on what you are doing. If yo are like me and don't need internet to run any of my programs, then I can stay on Wind10 and just disconnect from the net. Use another computer like a Linux one, to handle going online for things like email, shopping and such.

@@loyaltabk I am stick with 10 as well and will be looking in the different options for online security. I have been want to play around with Linux and do have a few old PCs.

@@DigitalPawWorkshop if I switch to 10 LTSC I have until 2032 to get used to Linux

I've been looking a lot at Manjaro, openSUSE, and Fedora this week... so I might switch to one of those on my laptop, because I'm getting really frustrated with a few programs that are giving me hell.

​@@teksyndicateManjaro is, unfortunately, run by somewhat irresponsible people, and there's been some major problems with it in the past. It's not something I can really recommend. Fedora, meanwhile, is more or less what I use, but to be honest, you're going to run into media codec issues right away because of legal reasons, and the fixes can take a fair bit of work. I'm personally on Nobara, which is fedora based and handles that stuff automatically, but is also a smaller community which means you can't really rely on Google for support. Heard good things about OpenSuse, but I've never actually used it myself. I wish I could just say to use Mint because it's by far the easiest but they're still on pulseaudio, and since you've got so much music stuff going on you'll really benefit from something that uses Pipewire for audio. A problem I have with Linux distros right now is that even though you've got a million choices each and every one of them seems to have a caveat somewhere.

@@teksyndicatea good list but be careful with Manjaro, they have a bad reputation because of past amateurish mistakes.

@@teksyndicate Give CachyOS and Nobara a look. I'd advise against Manjaro, as the devs are bad to forget to renew their certs every couple months and it's annoying.

​@@teksyndicate I've been watching too much Linux stuff, so just passing the collected info along, openSUSE and Nobara (based on Fedora but with focus on content creation and gaming working out of the box, with custom patches) sound good. Manjaro has issues. For an Arch-based distro, EndeavorOS or Garuda are more recommended.

Having mod managers in the first place is sometimes a bigger issue than not having them at all. Sometimes it's just easier to manage things yourself. Mod managers shouldn't do much more than copy/paste or redirect files at all (and update them ofc). All it should be is a package manager for the game mods. Code hooks and other business should be handled in other ways (such as DLL/.so hooking, which usually just tends to work). This includes making some form of an interface for modding. The problems you're describing usually stem from mod managers that try to do everything all at once, which usually fails miserably for maintenance and compatibility.

​@@xan1242 It's weird it's an issue, because a mod manager like Vortex is really similar to a package manager, which is commonplace in Linux. It is much more convenient when you're installing 50-100 mods to not have to do them all manually. Also, I don't do a TON, but when I was doing Daggerfall Unity, it looked like all it needed to do was download and extract to a given folder. At least that's all Vortex was doing, except makes you click a lot more if you don't pay them. It would actually be a step above what they're doing if a program did it properly, and moved the mods into the correct folder instead of just blindly extracting them expecting the mod to be in a "mods" folder, which some weren't and had to be moved manually to get them to work.

@@Aeroxima Yeah I wasn't specifically commenting on Vortex, that I do not know exactly why it's behaving like that. Could be a plethora of other issues in that instance, really. (paths being processed in a funny way for example) But if a mod doesn't work even after manually installing then it's a bigger issue overall. I know at least from my experience making my own code, mods loaded by an ASI loader are usually fine (unless there's something very specific that doesn't work on Wine). Things that use the .NET runtime for loading the libraries (or even code injection), for example, may break because of the way it operates and handles memory. However, things that mostly rely on Win32 and adjacent C/C++ APIs work a good chunk of the time (unless that also relies on some exotic library for whatever reason). So, for example, mods for GTA3/VC/SA and NFS games tend to work fine, while mods for Skyrim and Persona 5 Royal might be a bit problematic. It's a mixed bag of things and it all boils down to Wine/Proton doing the magic sauce to get it working. For my part, I always think to try it out once in a while to see if anything broke in Wine, but it's been pretty reliable so far!

I was a hardcore Winamp user from Win95 through Win7 (that's when I jumped ship to Linux). Took me actual years to find a replacement I was happy with. There's a handful of Winamp imitations, but I finally settled for "deadbeef". Aside from the name, I'm very pleased with it.

Foobar does too much in one large program. That is the opposite of Unix philosophy. Everything foobar does can be done on Linux, it just takes multiple programs. I like that, I understand why non-technical people do not like it.

@@dominicdit What is "too much" in this case? Supporting multiple formats isn't exactly "too much" in my book. In fact, it's pretty darn nice to have a unified front end for a multitude of "format back ends". But maybe you have a different gripe; I'm not too versed in Foobar myself.

@@dominicdit not all programs that run on unix-like operating systems have to follow the unix philosophy

@@dominicdit(whispers in your right ear) “wait until you learn blender.”

Switched to Linux mint 5 months ago, For all the game I played only a few did I have to look up ProtonDB to find out which Proton/Wine to use. All the games work so far, I do not do Multi player online games that have anti cheat. Been able to mod my games using a secondary pc with windows. The problem I have had with linux is, it is not windows. You have to treat linux like learning a new game that does things differently, using that way of thinking has saved me a lot of time and frustration. Learn Virtual Machine so I can switch my wife over to linux she needs Microsoft office to work, the vm should do that easy.

I mean, for WoW all I did was install it through Lutris. Over on CachyOS (Arch-based) the only game I can't play in my library is Destiny 2. Helldivers 2 runs awesome thanks to Glorious Eggroll (check out his custom proton versions). I run Hyprland for DE, GPUs are Intel Arc A310 & A770. I have a VM with passthrough for Office though.

just hitting install is harder then on windows lol ok. opning up the app store i want this app install also very hard i assume. 2007 is long behind us.

@@gogereaver349 Which Linux distro can I install WoW by "just hitting install"?

@@ElMartilloBlanco any of them using the lutris app. in fact currently playing wow mop remix on fedora 40. can litterly drage the exe into lutris and it sees what it is and grabs the nedded scripts. or just add to you libary with the search feature.

One common way around this is to use Linux as your daily driver and have Windows available in a VM. Mac users used to do this too (before more software was ported to the Mac).

should i need windows, I multi boot via another ssd with windows 10 ltsc.

​@@ecu4321window 10 ltsc and x11 are faster than Linux.

Is there are a reason go to with straight Debian rather than Ubuntu? Using Ubuntu Studio, since I didn't have to bother installing many media apps. Plus I didn't know many of those apps existed.

@@potato9832 for my personal preference, i feel that Debian as the more pure distro and that it has more stable experience. i feel it's less bloated than other Debian-based distros.

+1

regarding folders/drives, etc, symlinks in linux are awesome even if different things are in different physical drives, all things related to music appear on the music folder via the file explorer or to any and all software, including things running in wine, example all SF2/SFZ files and samples are on the big harddrive, but plugins and stuff are on the fast ssd, but to reaper everything is on the music folder

It's getting painfully common in gaming as well... Between a marginally supported native build and wine the odds of wine being reliable are a lot higher. This was the standout question in my mind through the video... The issues with wine were spelled out for Foobar, and that does sound like maybe a blocker for this use case, but I have the general impression a lot of the other creative stuff mentioned actually is ok on wine.

I fussed with it for a while. I forget what made me uninstall it. Most linux apps didn't have good support for my video game music files. I use VGM files or the native formats as often as possible... and there are plugins for foobar for SFC, VGZ, gameboy audio, etc. So, maybe that was it.

tauon is not in the package manager on linux unless you use Arch. I don't want to use Flatpak for a music player

I think that's just the free version

@@aeleequis Yeah. Paid version DOES support it

@@Aepigon No

@@Aepigon Searched around and it seems it doesn't support aac in linux.

@@mbsfaridi My bad. I was more referring in general to proprietary codecs... H.264 / H.265 do work in the paid version. AAC on the other hand is not supported in neither the free nor the paid version. You need some workarounds to work with it.Sorry for the misconception guys :/

Agreed. I use windows VM for work, and its much more useful than dual-booting.

How do you set that up?

I think VMs are a big thing for it, but it does take some serious setting up that might beyond what a lot of people are likely to be doing. For some of it it seems like you need some slightly more expensive hardware, for the motherboard specifically and possibly making sure to have integrated graphics +GPU, or a second graphics card. Otherwise idk if it can work but it'd probably be a lot harder. But that's what I'm aiming for for those special cases. VM to run stuff in a way that it looks like a normal window in the OS, that just happens to be in a VM. I still think there's difficulty when it needs to communicate with other programs outside the VM though, which could take hacky workarounds (if doable).

@@Aeroxima You can have shared clipboard (2-directional) and shared folders. Also VM's IP address is accessible. USB devices can be linked directly to a VM, including crypto keys. Basic 3D acceleration works just good enough to run 3D modelling software, and it doesn't require a second GPU. Though if you want full-speed 3D, you have to install a dedicated GPU for that. So most complaints like "cant run winword, cant run photoshop, cant run visual studio" are covered just fine, in cost of extra RAM while the VM is running. Still, competitive gamers have to dual boot.

​@@SergeyVolkov Something more specific in my case is running Unity for gamedev. There aren't a lot of code editors that support it well, it's mostly Rider (paid, no longer free for early access), VSCode, and visual studio. (Maybe some others with plugins and extra work.) If I run visual studio in a VM, I'm not sure how that would work with Unity unless it was also in the VM. I'm still not sure how to set this up yet, I haven't looked into it deeply. I might end up just using VSCode in native Linux, but even in Windows I have problems with it (minor ones but still). I mostly just care about it having proper intellisense (or whatever it's called), for Unity objects. But debugging might be good later in too.

In my experience, when you have dual boot, you end using just one of the 2 OS's, and usually that OS is the one where you can do the most things, and that nearly always ends being windows.

​@@Nik.leonardyep, that's the thing, if you're gonna end up being spied on windows anyway, why bother dual booting at all. People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it.

​@@Nik.leonardfor me it ended up being Linux, because my particular use case lets me do everything on both, but... Yeah. I technically still have a windows install to boot to, I just... Don't, and haven't for years. I'll still need it if I need to update some samsung ssd firmware or something, but... Barring that... Dual booting seems less like a legitimate workflow and more like a fallback strategy for if something you wanna do doesn't work.

@@youravghuman5231 "People are switching to linux because ideology, not because they really need it." i switched because i got fed up with windows problems

@@Nik.leonard Yeah, that's why it didn't work for me. But in my case I ended up using Linux because I only booted on Windows to play. This was back when gaming was nonexistent on Linux, btw.

I haven't tried VR ( quest 2 ) on linux, but I think using a direct wire connection, might work.

​@@Sebastian-bo7vj doesn't matter with a Quest headset. They don't have any video port at all. When you use a cable, it just sends the compressed image same as when you do it wirelessly. It just does it more reliably (depending on the cable)

@@ZedDevStuff sad, I will find a way though

I don't see many people telling random dentists offices to drop Windows, because there's still obvious use cases where that may still be necessary, specifically legacy applications. But for your average user that doesn't do a lot of specific use cases out of their computer, maybe they would be better off considering instead of endlessly complaining about Windows becoming enshittified (The cycle of Windows users saying the latest one is the worst one ever, just for the next one to drop and for them to say the previous one was "better"). For your average schmuck that only browses the web and watches videos, you'd ironically give them a better time with a Chromebook, iPad, or an Android device rather than Windows, especially if they don't have an adblock and keep clicking random crap that gives them malware. Yes, for specific use cases, that may be the case, but that also doesn't apply to a fair chunk of people.

It's impossible to make it 100% windows compatible unless you get windows source code somewhere. Thus windows is in better position because it can emulate linux just fine with wsl, or just recompile open-source software like Thunderbird or GIMP for windows.

WSL is just a linux virtual machine with some fancy integration. Regardless of how hard it is it's what needs to happen. It's not impossible. Though hardly a fair comparison, think about all the console emulators out there that are actually better than the original systems thanks to the features and ease of use they add around the core ability to run the games.

@@SergeyVolkov Even if you get it, you cant look at it or you'll get sued. Windows source code has already been leaked, but none of the people who develop wine are ever allowed to look at it.

​@@entelin What you need is for everyone who doesn't need any Windows exclusives to switch to Linux. That alone would create such a huge shift in marketshare that Linux will become a prime target for app developers.

What's wrong with multiple PCs. I have Windows 11 and Fedora Linux on another PC. I just use an HDMI switch. Not a big deal and no sacrifices either.

@@riseabove3082 they usually cost money

@@riseabove3082 Oh dear. That would be very pricey for a 15 year old like myself.

@@oglothenerdalso, virtualization can be slow and GPU passthrough is needed, idek how to do thst

@@oglothenerd Agreed, not workable system for people who can't afford two PCs...but great system for someone who can. For what its worth, though, Linux can be installed on very old hardware and work fine. So if a friend is throwing out an old laptop, you can always offer to take it for free (or pay like 50 bucks or less) and install Linux on it as a hobby project.

Agreed I installed it after Linux Mint and I like LMDE6 better.

Gaming on debian 12, seems fine. I know some games are not compatible, but all games I play work fine.

GIGACHAD

Ah yes, switch to Linux and then run Windows in Linux instead of you know just using Windows directly.

Drivers??

​@@grandsome1 the point being not having to deal with Windows' horrible UX and privacy while still being able to use the small number of applications he can't or doesn't want to replace.

@@yugen042 do you fail to see why casuals and non-devs would rather not go around setting not one but two machines in a Russian doll way just to run their apps on top of migrating their whole pipeline to FOSS software. Virtualization is not the solution for Linus adoption, at least not the way it is setup to be currently.

​@yugen042 if you use Windows in a VM you are still using windows. Not to mention you need GPU passthrough. It's really dumb. Either you go full Linux or you dualboot

Maybe VM with GPU passthrough?

This . VM with GPU pass through. You say it like its a first nature to do. Unless it has become easier to do, most of these solutions require at least 2 GPUs last I checked.

@@Theehannle It seems integrated graphics count, so pretty much any AM5 CPU comes with it. Might need the motherboard to support it too, idk if some don't

Why are you using a windows machine to do something an nvidia shield could do?

@@VengFPV because I still use my Laptop for Office, Work and other tasks as well? I have two Hubs, one at my TV and one at my Desk and I use the Laptop for everything Multimedia and Work. And I can use it in Bed or on the go as well since it has a 4K Panel with HDR (and Dolby Vision) as well. I have one Device for all my Stuff, that's how I like it.

@@MaisistkeinGemuese Fair enough, I guess that's where the issue lies - Linux can't support all use cases under a single piece of hardware because of software limitations. I use separate devices for almost all use cases so never really experience that.

@@VengFPV I also write regularly Mails to Netflix and Dolby because imo it's not Linux not supporting them - it's those companies gatekeeping it. But not many Linux users care about this so I guess demand is really low and the pressure is simply not there. :(

There's literally no reason for them not supporting Linux. It's not like browsers on linux don't support drm.

There IS in fact a 7zip gui version. It's called p7zip-gui. It's exactly like the Windows version.

@@SleepTime-Dark AFAIK it's a SNAP with a semi-broken 7-zip install in WINE inside it. At least I know it's broken, as the context menu in the file list doesn't work (just doesn't appear) and Unicode isn't supported. So my downloads folder, "Hämtningar" becomes "Hämtningar". And it doesn't honour my theme at all, always looking like upscaled Win9x.

@@Lampe2020 LOL, imagine using Ubuntu. I use arch BTW and the package works fine from the AUR.

@@Lampe2020 BTW, ark is much better.

@@SleepTime-Dark It is maybe better, but it's not the same GUI as 7zFM. And the only goal of my thing is to recreate the 7zFM GUI on Linux.

Also for game mods, typically the issue is they're not launched as a winedlloverride, like with my sonic game mods. R2modman works natively, hedgemodmanager has WINE support, any game with steam workshop, unity games you just add the new .dll as a winedlloverride, etc.

Linux numbers won't grow until the community makes a usable product. It is not the customer's fault that linux desktop isn't suceeding.

@@kintustis all points in the video are not the fault of the system, but of applications themselves that do not show interest due to the current marketshare. There is a bit of blame on Wayland in what was pointed out, but it is a recent and very positive change. I've been using Arch Linux for 5 years as my main system, I needed to change some applications, I stopped playing Fortnite, in the process I discovered incredible applications like Krita and KiCad. Over time I saw that it was a good decision and I should have done it sooner.

@@AdrianoSilva-xe5hi they are faults in application compatibility that come as a direct result of the system underneath

​@@kintustis "application compatibility" so application fault. It's not as if there was something missing in the system that would prohibit them from being ported, they are proprietary closed source applications, it's not something that depends on the community but on the companies. For example, the Adobe suite, it is possible to run through wine, far from perfect but enough to show that it is totally possible if Adobe just wants to do it.

@@AdrianoSilva-xe5hi It may feel obvious to point out, but yes application compatibility is a feature of the os, not the application. I shouldn't have to tell you that linux is not windows, but windows runs programs that linux cant. It is not the customer's fault, and it is not the developers' fault. Linux isn't some diet that you should shame people for giving up on. It's a tool that people will ONLY use if it makes their life easier. It is not some grand conspiracy against open source software that apps aren't ported to linux. It isn't that "kids these days don't wanna work anymore" that prevents people from spending years of their lives learning every single module of their OS. People are all different, and they are all looking for the most effective thing for the job, and they will use linux if it is proven that one or more distros are sensibly designed, UX tested, robust, and "just work" to the average grandma. If I have to explain to grandma what a flatpak is, I might as well hand her a mac. I would argue that chromeOS PROVES beyond a doubt that people will use effective turnkey OSes even if it sacrifices app compatibility. But it's only because chromeos is reliable, not fiddly, relatively bug-free, and coherently designed. There is no chromeos rabbithole: you just install it, log in, and you dont give a flying fuck if it uses systemd or not. If "the average joe should use linux because everything is in a browser these days," guess what? Google does it better for the average joe. What does linux do for them? And I despise google as much as the next guy. I only run phones that I can root and ROM and remove gapps entirely. but you can't deny that it took a real company like google to make BOTH of the only widely successful, relatively open source, consumer oriented linux spins (until steamos takes off as its own thing independent from the steamdeck, I won't count it yet). You can cope and seethe as much as you want. You can blame everyone except yourselves, but you don't need me to show you how little success that brings.

Ah, you tried to install Linux from back 1999! There are really good Linux Distribution out there. Perhaps you only ever used Windows.

@@repairman2be250 You assume wrong, I've been trying new distros for some time now. From Mint to Ubuntu, and so on. My point still stands. The broad range of Linux distributions is commendable and offers a lot of variety and flexibility, but gives a lot of headaches to newcomers, In the end there's only one Windows, and people in will always choose the easier and faster way and Microsoft knows this.

I make metal music with my dad and my Perfect Drum Player VST do not work & crash instently. That's why i'm forced to stay Windows for this job.

"Only use Windows when you need it for those apps. Do not browse the web or play any game on Windows that you can play on Linux." why

Dual boot is a good approach. I try to shut off as many units needed bios options as possible so using a virtual machine won't work for me. Right now my issue with linux is that there are just so many of these little issues that appear between each application or game when using Linux. Scaling, stuttering, audio. It feels random between each program I use. Windows is still the most compatible in the long run. I think steamOS may lead the way to forcing better future compatability but i rarely boot into Linux any more.

> -Don't worry about distros. Try as many as you like, but pick the one you are most comfortable with. I liked Kubuntu in the beginning. Now I run Arch linux. This can never be understated. Soooo many people seem to get stuck on "yeah but there are so many versions, what should I use?" They're all pretty much the same. Literally just use Ubuntu or Mint unless there's a compelling reason for you not to (I've heard complaints about Ubuntu and privacy, maybe?) Arch is great but it's a pain to initially install, but newbies want to go to it because "it's the best/most l33t one". I use ubuntu at work and arch at home, and honestly, it's the same core experience. Just arch is more annoying to set up. Just install Ubuntu and pick the desktop environment that looks prettiest to you. @dangdudedan8756: you asked "why use Linux for things that work on both". Reason is because you should optimize linux above windows as it respects your privacy more, and also to get more used to Linux over time. I would *definitely* use only linux for web browsing.

Adding on. I just discovered your music through this video! 🎉 Damn, these are some vibes for someone that grew up playing 80s and 90s adventure games. Fucking great.

Yeah, Wayland is definitely not yet ready at this point. There is a big issue with screen recording, so streamers can't use Wayland. Should just use X11 for now.

litterly nobody works on xorg anymore. so you get alot of its just old issues. wayland has its problems but as of late i havent ran into any.

​@@dddux not sure what you're talking about here, since this is literally something I've been doing with Wayland. Wayland / Pipewire screen recording has been a thing for quite a while. Maybe it's still an issue if you've got pulseaudio still though?

@@dddux it wasent a issue of wayland could not but how it instanced everything. capture softwhere nedded updating.

Tbh, sometimes I need to tinker. But if you look at the protondb webpage and look at your game, people will post steps on how to get it running.

Disagree, if you don't want to you do not need to tinker with modern linux distros. Just use it out of the box.

@@lifebarier Sure, if all you want to do is to watch youtube and play Steamdeck-ready games every day, you can do that just fine out of the box.

@@PropaneWP Mind giving me examples of what you need to tinker with then? Unless you insist not using alternatives and try to force windows specific software - there is no reason to tinker.

@@lifebarier thats what this video is about, bro...

@@dangdudedan8756 My replies are to comment, not video, sis...

Funny how at one point I've reached the same status on Linux. I can't move to Windows now cause I can't get the same stuff I have on Linux

I think the Free Software cultists are kind of cringe, but much like anything else, you shouldn't let a vocal minority of people affect your own enjoyment or use of something. Seems a bit like a strawman argument considering there's Linux distros that ship proprietary firmware, codecs, or drivers. Or at the minimum gives you the option right out of the gate to enable that stuff if you need it (like for networking or if you have an NVIDIA GPU).

to be fair Stallman types, programmer types dont use creative complex programs, so they wouldnt know. the fact that many of them pretend gimp is good tells you everything

@@khaoscero "programmer types dont use creative complex programs" you literally cant say that about the same people that use vim or emacs 💀 also, personally, id reccomend photopea

@@RenderingUser There's stuff like KVM and Dolphin that I strongly prefer on Linux too, as opposed to the offerings on Windows, but that's the magic of dualbooting. You don't have to sacrifice anything. I would love to be in your place though, like I said, the workflow on Windows just isn't great.