Why I (Probably) Won't Switch from Windows to Linux 

Linux is a rabbit hole that once you climb in, you may never want to come out of. Trust me

People who switch to linux don't necessarily have an abundance of interest in the OS. What they do have is courage to take the leap into the unknown.

As a Linux User and HATE the Idea of tinkering because of this i choose Nobara save me a lot of time, and for the questions : ' U need spend some time learn how to use a OS again ? ' Yes, i need learn about linux, and some apps or versions of apps that make similar functions (Vesktop instead discord) but now, it's even better than when i use windows !

Having an old laptop that you or a family member doesn't use anymore is a godsend for someone who wants to try out Linux. I was fortunate enough to inherit an old laptop from my Mom and I tried out several different distros. My favorite right now is Kubuntu, since it's stable and the UX is very similar to Windows :)

Having used Linux (mostly for servers) for the last 10 years. I'm not here to try to convert anybody to Linux for their desktop. That being said using it in a VM or another PC is for sure a good way to get a good feel for it before diving in fully. I love the idea of a future that don't have to worry about paying Microsoft with either our data or money just to get work done or them trying to constantly wrestle away controls from power users.

linux might not be windows and might not be familiar but none of the necessarily means it's bad or even worse, i think you could end up finding out that the way linux does things is in some ways better than windows

As someone who uses both Windows & Linux, I can safely say that I still love my Windows 11 daily driver (customized & debloated by me of course), as basically all my workflow is either Windows exclusive, or more compatible with Windows. Happy to see a video like this! Keep it up!

i use Pop! OS BTW

It's funny I'm in the exact same spot lol. If the entire creative suite worked on linux it might actually make me move. BUT right now I'm also heavily into UE5 and Unity for games development and I did spin up endeavourOS to try and get things working. Mind you I've used linux before and learnt it in uni but there just seems to be some incompatibilities or bugs. It's a whole story in itself with the way linux ecosystem is evolving right now which makes it not such a great time to switch.

In my eyes, linux is more of a hobbyist os catered for computer geeks and programmers. It takes time to navigate the ecosystem and I understand why its not popular even though it has far better privacy protection and performance than windows. windows is intuitive, has access to various software because of its market value and easy to use unlike linux. linux becomes your friend when you finally understand it. linux is the definiiton of customization in the computer world, you mold it to how you intend it, the problem is you have to learn and it takes time to learn...

seeing youtube recommend a video with 58 subscribes and 525 views,even i not interested with linux nor watching any video about windows and linux is really a miracle

Davinci Resolve is in the Arch Linux AUR package manager. Just sayin'. It's pretty rare to find one piece of software that only works on specific distros. It's just the package maintainers may not be keeping up to date or slow to add new programs to their package manager. Just because I was curious I found several videos discussing installing davinci resolve on a Debian based system (That's what Linux Mint is btw, a Debian spin. Don't go by what the software developer says. I'd be totally down to help satisfy any questions ya got!

This video is so well made, I just stumbled upon this and expected you to have thousands of subs. Love your takes and style, keep it up!

I'm with you on this because me too I'm much more comfortable with Windows and I'm also kinda lazy tbh. Although I'm thinking for months to buy a Steam Deck and I think it's the best way for me and most people actually to get a foot into Linux so yeah.

I appreciate this video. The amount of times I've been told to just use Linux, and when I kindly explain why it's not pragmatic, get told it's my fault for developing a reliance on Windows 💀 I'm also a noob that started using Mint. It's fun to keep it in mind so I dual boot for now (:

Linux is great - however, I need to use Adobe software and other unsupported Apps. It's too much hassle for most of us ... I have tried several times to get into it and always end up back in Windows. In the future I might set up two systems - one for Windows (mostly gaming and off-line). Linux for all online activity and general media. A mini PC is ideal for this.

If you wait a couple more years, desktop linux is gonna be more common and easier to get into. But I'm sure adobe will be adobe no matter what.

If you have a notebook, even an old one, its great to install Linux and try some distros. I never tried any until this "Recall" thing started popping up and gave it a try. As I dont have a bunch of time to do it in one run, i had to go super slowly allocating about 1 to 2 hours of my days to try a new thing I was interested in trying. I use a ton of Adobe softwares in general so i couldnt simply jump entirely, but the learning curve is quite fast and can be somewhat addicting. I'm trying to learn more about VM and how to Passthrough my GPU to a fully working emulated and offline version of Windows and it seems to be possible, and when I understand how to it properly, no doubt i'll install on my main PC. But again, if you have a pc lying around, let it be a 1 hour daily hobbie and you will learn quite fast, the internet is full of content about it. My distro choice was Fedora.

This is a great video ngl because it shows the ongoing issues of people who want to try Linux to just try something new, only to be blocked by number of issues. So for me, I just accepted that I cannot play some games and not use certain programs on Linux. I 100% agree with you on the terminal aspect, I can't just force someone to open a terminal and expect them to not be scared or anxious. The thing about the terminal, while it is such a versatile tool, we are so use to using GUIs. I feel like a lot of people in the Linux community do not understand that. Some people just want to boot up their games and have fun. I completely respect that perspective. Linux users need to understand that when people see a crap ton of error codes, that can overwhelm someone into not using Linux. I remember going through a 20 minute tutorial on how to install overwatch 2 on Linux and I thought to myself "This would have taken me like 5 minutes on Windows". I do not know how we can find easier ways for people, but we can't just barrage someone for not knowing the difference between a snap package or a flatpak or something like that.

I use da vinci resolve on a few different distros it was one click install, it doesn't work just for Rocky. Be forewarned it does not work with integrated GPUs! That's only the real issue I've stumbled across. Regarding Windows familiarity, I've set up custom Rocky images for clients who were previously Windows users, and they love it. Once you put a Taskbar in with Gnome extensions, most of the panic goes away 😂. But if you rely heavily on the creative suite, then yea, I'd stick to Mac or Windows for that.

In my line of work, I need to know Linux, but I still also use Windows. I been daily driving Windows more than a year, and dont really regret it

I've completely switched to linux when I encountered random issue number who knows on windows. I was DONE. At least when something breaks on linux I know it's my fault))) But I couldn't live in bliss forever, I had to get a win11 laptop for some school work, and the wifi randomly decides it's not going to work from time to time (nothing I've tried fixed it). F Windows.

you mention davinci resolve only working on one distro and yeah atleast from my experience davinci resolve still has issues on linux it's codec support on linux version of davinci is really small so you can't import alot of videos into it without having to transcode them first and because I'm on a nvidia GPU it keeps giving me the "GPU memory is full" error every 20 seconds and won't display a preview of the video and no fixes I was able to find online have worked for me so far so yeah davinci resolve can be used on linux but not without issue on most distros I've only been using linux for 5 months tho so I may have just missed something or did something wrong but still

the only reason why I can't fully switch to Linux is Adobe products. I spent a lot of time learning Premiere and other Adobe products, and I don't want to learn another software such as Davinci.

I switched to Linux full-time around when they released Windows 8... While it hasn't been sunshine and roses *all* of the time, I definitely haven't looked back. The biggest concern for me regarding Windows was Big-Tech's push toward software-as-a-service. Eventually, Microsoft is going to charge you a subscription to use Windows --- regardless of how asinine that'll be. They've gotta justify all that OneDrive cloud space and AI API-call garbage, eh? Knowing that the fate of (basically) all of "gaming" rested in their scummy hands as well was enough to make me want to adopt an open-source alternative, despite the problems. And man, there were PROBLEMS back then! No Proton. Wine had pretty terrible performance on what *did* run. Nvidia drivers either worked beautifully or not at all. AMD's drivers were ass at the time (now they're *much* better). Oddly Minecraft was always pretty solid, though, lol. I'd say that if you don't understand nor care to understand how your computer works, you probably shouldn't switch to Linux. It gives you a LOT of control, but that comes at the cost of increased complexity. No, it's not as insanely difficult as some people make it out to be --- I'm an artist by trade and get along just fine --- but it is probably ~50% "more technical" than Windows is. And if you're interested in programming at all, Windows is a complete non-starter; the Linux tooling for software development is SO much better it's insane, and you'll be forced to use it in college anyway! As is the case with *any* situation in life where you choose to not understand something: you'll have to accept that you're being taken advantage of. A mechanic will screw you over if you know nothing about your car, and Microsoft will screw you over if you know nothing about your computer. For instance, if you spent a ton of money on hardware, doesn't it kinda suck to know that a decent chunk of performance is wasted on Microsoft's telemetry and ad services *instead* of being used on the games you actually bought it for? But you do have to pick your battles in life, and you won't have time to learn *everything* --- if you're "ok" with whatever Microsoft does, then that's just "the cost of doing business." The good news is, Linux isn't dependent on the well-being of a corporation, so it'll *always* be there if you change your mind!

excaping to linux is hard.. it does take a bit of tinkering and finding a way to get past those must have apps your dependant on.. and yes you have to learn a bit.. but its not to bad.. then again i am a programmer... my main hang up was visual studio... visual studio code is almost but not quite as good... and you do some time end up having to make that sacrifice and settling for almost but not as good... But there are a lot of workflow wins once you settle in and get used to it. at this point if i went back to window for any god forsaken reason i am sure i would end up using subs system linux a hell of a lot.. and i would miss all the fun customization

Well, you are welcome to the linux world if you ever feel like tinkering with cool stuff. Till then, use what you are comfortable with. I know it might be hard to believe, but I use linux because i find it more comfortable for my workflow. So, use what works for you. Arch btw.

Linux isn't for everyone, nobaraos (Official) is one that I am going to switch to in the future. But for now shutup O&O (software to remove copilot and more) and explorer patcher (to get windows 10 features back into 11) are doing great for me. You definitely do not have to touch a command line if you don't want to with nobaraos (Official), but for specific software it is inevitable. I'm at the point were I'm just sick of microsofts shit, I will make the shift and learn just like I did on windows years ago. We as humans like to stick to things we are used to, and I think in this instance we should learn something like linux and adopt it. And not to mention the more users on linux will someday mean that anticheats will properly work in some games. But for now I am simply switching to alternatives for games that don't work on linux. I 100% see where you are coming from and not everyone should switch if I'm being honest. But eventually windows will become so full of bloat and spyware that I wouldn't want to touch it with a 10 foot pole. (Thanks again for the video I enjoyed it)

I dunno why my youtube been blowing up with linux vs windows , switching to linux from windows, why im switching to linux from windows and so on ,, what is even going on lmao

No hate, but how can you make this video and come to a conclusion when you said you haven't even installed or tried Linux? 3:29

I had some fun with it but it still needs a lot of work it's limited on everything including emulators if you play your backup copies have fun with playing them on an emulator plus I have a hard time staying on Linux because I am more used to Windows needless to say Windows 10 will be the last Windows I probably ever use.

- I have never paid for a copy of Windows, I have never paid to use an Adobe program, I tried Windows 11, it seemed like shit, went back to W10 with the ReviOS performance patch, it really flies. Never a virus, I play pirated games to decide whether to buy them or not. - The fact is that I have a dualboot with ArchLinux (Archcraft) which is beautiful and very fast but the lack of freedom to use everything I have in Windows is enormous, has a lot of input lag for games and although the performance is higher. Anyway, good video thanks RU-vid algorithm.

It sounds like you would be open to try Linux if it was more like Windows. I would urge you not to try it, even if someone comes along and presents for instance ZorinOS to you, as it would only lead to disappointment and time you'll never get back. Because Linux will never be a 1:1 replacement for Windows. Linux will always be Linux, and not Windows. At the end of the day, an OS is a tool, and if Windows does the job for you, be happy that it does.

Linux is getting better and better for an average casual user/gamer, it's just not there yet for many people. I know some of you may laugh, but it's really been a long way. It used to be much, much harder. We need to remember that Linux is basically a foundation of everything we do with technology and most of the software created for an average customer is based on it. But it's created by nerds, people deeply passionate about technology, people who are working with technology all their lifes, and not by for profit companies. And THIS is the root cause of its unpopularity among regular folks. Things that are plain obvious for nerds are sometimes black magic for everyone else. And if something is driven by passion, not money, it will never take into account limitations of people without this passion. I kinda like the enshitification and downfall of modern big tech companies, as it makes more and more people start thinking about learning more complicated stuff just to get rid of them from their lifes. And at the same time if pushes nerds to create more friendly GUIs, compatibility layers etc. and forces them to kinda start understanding the average user's needs. Just take it easy, don't wall into the traps of snobs and elitists, because when not taking some bad apples covered by RU-vid channels, Linux community is mostly very friendly and understanding. P.S - Adobe is something that will never work well on Linux because they clearly don't want that, it's their intention. I've learned to use alternatives. If you don't want to learn alternatives, don't use Linux, it won't work. There are a few highly technical solutions to make it KINDA work, but it's just not worth it.

Just try it... -Trust me (I use Arch btw.)

Try Steam OS bro its a linix in the back heavy steam modification on front. you can run games on it. it powers Steam Deck. Sorry if you are not a boy. I'm not sure with your voice

use ltsc no updates. doesnt use alot of resources. if you have a bad pc thats a game changer. or stick with what you like and works best for you. and your funny i am subbing

Try endeavorOS inside of vmware.

I use Arch, btw

I would dual boot Windows and Linux at bare minimum and even though Windows Recall is a huge reason why, this is not my main reason. Linux does better things than Windows by a huge margin, specifically with emulation. While compatibility is an issue now, it is rapidly becoming less and less of an issue every single day It is also more customizable and easier to customize than Windows with its bajillion registry keys and funny enough, it's so easier to do every day tasks since it's less likely to tweak out on you because of you forgot to update a driver a few hours ago. I actually had a BSOD happen because of outdated drivers that were a single month old, I wish I was making this up. I also had driver issues updating 3 times in a row before as well and had to DDU my drivers 15 different times. Even if it's with a throwaway laptop (Would recommend MX Linux for this and KDE for the Windows taskbar feel), at least try a distro out for a couple of days.

linux compatability is like the chicken and egg situation, devs wont make software for linux because its not popular and users wont switch to linux because the devs didnt make software for it, although the compatability layers have gotten so good that you can play some windows-only games on linux as for the tinkering, that usually lasts for a few weeks as naturally you wanna install programs and configure your os to suit you, after that linux is like any normal os

same tbh

As everything else, it is a tradeoff.. Linux offers a lot of benefits, with open source free tools and endless customization and performance. Windows, and apple in the other hand offers ease of use.. the tradeoff is that you are bounded to their pricing and their choices for the system, and be much more vunerable to viruses. The cost for linux is your time and effort to learn the damn thing. For my setup I use ubuntu, and run VMs (qemu/kvm) both for windows and macOS.. It has been a way better experience than dual boot for me.

tried linux once and that shi was like fentanyl. full time arch user. got rid of Clip studio paint pro switched to krita. got rid of office. got rid of spyware and most important quit league. :DD for me it was all a blessing so i hope you eventually try it out. Terminal is essential but you will get there (no need for an iq of 540) and most guides already cover the basics of it. also F adobe. freaking crappy software, even the cracked versions of it work a lil bit better cuz theyre lacking all that license checks and AI bs

time for valve to dropp steam os for desctops :P

If you decide to stay on Windows, even though they'll be literally recording your screen. That's 100% up to you. No judging here tbh. Hopefully we don't turn this into a "I'm a master race for downloading Linux" situation. Personally I did switch to Linux. Linux works for 99% of my needs and it has come seriously far in the world of gaming. But there's convenient things Windows has that Linux just doesn't. And I get that. Personally, I do think enough people have been switching to Linux that Linux will become way more viable for the majority of people in time. Which has been said by every Linux person since the beginning of time. But, I get it. I mean, I'm using Linux now because the Windows 11 pill was too much for me between the spyware, bad UI, forced ads, and continued banning of you altering your own settings. But I still have to have a Windows VM, because there's things in Windows I still need. Which if you go that route, Linux honestly is perfect. But I'm just ranting because I get it. I really do.

Sounds more like you are holding back despite you are all excited. On the other hand, you have very valid reasons to stick with Windows.

at least try in a virtual machine, then at least dual boot, and then at least use windows only in a kvm i'm at that last step, it was a long road to get here, but it got easier. still not there for VR, but i'm excited to see what Valve is cooking up with those standalone vr leaks... Microsoft said that Windows 10 was the last version of Windows tho. I'm holding them to it, when Windows 10 dies, Windows as a whole is dead to me. Careful what you wish for, Microsoft.

I can understand the main point of not switching to Linux, but many of the reasons you provide are shaky at best.

Linux is not there for you, hopefully one day, I tryd linux 20 years ago and only switched 2 months after my steam deck, about 2 years ago, I strongly relate to this video, but I love tinkering and am raising my 3 kids using linux they don't have any experience with windows lol, but no it's not to the ease of use of windows and is a lot to learn, it's like relearning to use a computer and then some

You WILL switch to linux. Only time will tell. 😇

It all comes down to how much you hate Microsoft. If you hate them enough, you're fine tinkering a bit with your Linux. I've run Manjaro for 1,5 year now, and it honestly haven't been too bad. It's the first time I didn't immediatly reinstalled windows after like 3 days. Only had a few problems, and yes, I just live without the games and programs I can't run (which isn't a lot actually. idk I feel kinda privileged that I don't play much games with proprietary anti-cheat).

Linux is great and all but if you have an older CPU and an Nvidia GPU before 20 series, it's kind of a pain.

while I do see many frankly stupid comments I would say that most long time linux users forget how it is for the average person the average user doesn't want to play around in their nor is he/she used to the terminology of other operating systems, especially that of linux. many long time linux users are far off of the average user, they are tinkerers and they most of the time don't take into account what the average user is like (me included). same problems are persistent into the development of distros and software as most devs ask for bug reports to be on github, well formatted, logs and all info included, this leads to a feedback cycle where the only people giving feedback to the devs are other devs or technologically knowledgeable people, isolating the average user. and while the video makes some points that are non issues, it is understandable since they stem from the wording on sites/resources (like the davinci resolve issue or every "best linux distro" article pointing to the same recycled points from 10 years ago) also nice vid you got a new sub

I ran DaVinci Resolve on Nobara and any other distro I want. And Linux is as easy as Windows.

Linux isn't refined enough to be ready for casual use. Super basic things are broken that would otherwise be fine with windows or Mac OS. I admire the patience and devotion of anybody who insists on using Linux

If all you do on computer is programming and playing games (except vanguard games), you won't have to dualbooot, just use linux. And almost everything will be better and more painless than windows. Advantages of linux are too many to list. After you learn how to use linux of course. For me it was a month to be way more productive than i was on windows. But I have a programming background. I do not recommend any linux distro at all for someone who does not do any programming or is not interested in learning and tinkering. Stick to windows. No linux distro is better than windows or mac for average consumers. I dont know anything about how abode programs work on linux. If you use them profesionally, just use windows. If you don't, there are free alternatives to them.

if you want raytracing in your games it will suck on linux

so based. i do linux daily, but not for fun (other than "fun-programming" aka torturing myself). i want stuff to work and for development linux is a bazillion times better than windows. but usage? fuck no. YOU DARE and want to game?? its easier to rekindle ones will to life. I use PopOs, where it is supposedly easy, but its all lies/not tested well enough. I actually dont think linux is gonna take over the desktop any time soon. ChromeOS has a chance because Google is backing it, but the UI sucks donkey, and yay big corpo. Other distros just cant keep the polish/testing up, even if there are companies behind them (looking at Ubuntu, Pop..).

Until linux has 100% compatibility with games/software I use then I'll probably never switch. 😢