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“People who use Linux are the vegans of computers”. Why would you say something so hurtful and so incredibly accurate.

Wouldn’t it be hilarious if I edited this comment so the only way people can find out what it originally said is by deciphering it via the replies? Lol

As an Arch Linux user, I loved this video. It's so refreshing to see a completely unbiased video explaining how Linux isnt perfect and giving them reasons why they should and shouldnt use it while also showing them that they can still do most of the things they did on Windows on Linux and that its not as hard as some might think. Being unbiased with this sort of thing is so important imo instead of the typical cherry-picking that most Linux users like to do. I also loved that this video is just straight up hilarious lol.

Something I appreciate about your take is that you focus on the average user. A lot of people on the internet assume that everyone is a power user or wants to learn every single thing about how their computer works, which really isn't the case. Most people just want to watch RU-vid, and have their games run without crashing.

I cannot fathom why someone would bash an os for being “too easy.” Making hard things easier is the entire reason I bought a computer. If I want things to be hard I can do basically anything a computer can do with an abacus and a stone chisel, and that stone slab is just as customizable as any Linux os if not more so. Being easy is the point.

Other than gaming, I know there's a certain selection of people needing Windows for school and/or work purposes. For me it's because my college classes require the Respondus Lockdown browser when taking exams. It only supports Mac and Windows.

Have tried many times to switch to linux but my necessity to run games and the adobe suite always gets me back to windows. BUT thank you for treating people like me (linux noobs) with respect, and not with contempt, like many other forums or videos i have come across. You have earned my respect and my subscription. Looking forward to more of your content. Thank you.

I switched to Ubuntu with most of my devices. That helped a lot when I had to start doing some of my computations at work on a server with Red Hat. Having to switch to a no-GUI OS at work would have been terrible without prior experiences using Ubuntu. And then, I got me a Raspberry Pi to play around with, which runs Raspbian Lite. If you invest a bit of time it starts to be real fun to do stuff with that.

As a music producer, the singular reason I haven’t switched to Linux is because of DAW’s. FL Studio, Ableton, Pro Tools, etc are all basically unusable in Linux even through wine (since they don’t have actual Linux builds outputted by the DAW developers). Same with VST Plug-ins. It’s a real shame. The only DAWs that are practically available on Linux are terrible.

My first experience with Linux was trying it out in a Virtual Machine. I really wish people in the Linux community recommended Windows users to try Linux in a VM before switching. They get to try different distros and get their feet wet without having to commit to switching their whole system.

I appreciate the sentiment. As someone who has dabbled a bit in command line and done some (very basic) computer coding, I'm not against getting deeper into Linux. But I would definitely like to start with something that, more or less, works out of the box and then expand my toolkit as needed.

Nice straightforward content sir. Subscribed

Using Windows or Linux boils down to two things for me: Windows software compatibility and anti-cheat. I use Linux on my laptops and Windows on my gaming machine. Hopefully Proton will get some quantum leaps in development once Steam Deck comes out.

"There's no three secret tips, there's only one: - make sure it's popular - make sure it's well supported - have a good time."

nice tutorial. I like your banter. no nonsense!

I've used Linux for over 10 years. I install Linux, then select what I want to have installed. With windows, I uninstall what I don't want, then install what I want.

you've nearly convinced me, however there's just so many 'but' statements like yeah you CAN do most things, but a good bit of them require workarounds & the other half aren't supported yet

Yeah, unfortunately for gaming, windows has the most support, and is the most well known OS. Despite the fact that for coding, Linux is the goat for me, I still prefer Windows for more gaming/casual things. It is easier to use than Linux imo

I'm really glad bigger ytbers like Muta are spreading awareness about Linux, it's a really good system and more people should know about it.

Its a joy to watch your vidz and very informative too. High five!

Linux probably will be greater in the future but windows is a lot more comfortable and has been for a decade or so, once Linux goes beyond mainstream then people might start considering it as a permanent option.

I agree with Muta in principle, but let's be honest... Linux is largely for computer enthusiasts. Those who know what they're doing. Most people who use le 'poot are casual users i.e. not coders, not technological whiz kids, and who go to their IT department at work to solve even the most minor of inconveniences. If something goes wrong on Linux, people have to do the trouble-shooting themselves. Sure there are fabulous communities that post regularly to forums and are more than willing to help out fledgling Linux users, but let's be real... For most people? That's just too much effort and kind of annoying. People want things that work out of the box and, if something DOES go wrong, they have a fall guy who will pick up the pieces and fix everything for them. Most Linux distributions are fantastic and often times more stable than Windows, don't get me wrong! But, without that fall guy, without that clear line of financial responsibility, for most? It's a no-go. You are asking a lot from people if you expect them to go from paid services, which comes with all the legal requisites you'd expect, to freeware OS (Yes some distributions are sold, but most aren't. And yes some distributors do have support available, but again most won't have the infrastructure in place to help people in all the ways that Windows can). Also, as others have mentioned, Linux is in NO WAY as user-friendly as windows... If you think it is? You're the non-casual user I was just talking about and, although I'm happy you're having a great experience, those experiences are not going to translate over to nearly as many people as you think they will. Sidenote: Muta your point about terminal is null because, although Windows has clickable directives to do things instead of just having Linux terminal and that's it, you said it... They have PowerShell i.e. command prompts too? Those clickable buttons, pages, software etc etc are for those who require a user-friendly straightforward OS. If you don't need that and you're a power user? Well, use PowerShell then. No one is stopping you. (From both a casual Windows and Linux user, lmao)

One thing, that you might've shown to the new users is how to install software via a GUI software centre, since many people might struggle with the terminal being text only, spitting out dependencies, etc. and installing via a web page is not really showing the beauty of secure software installation. That's how you do it on windows, downloading viruses from sketchy websites. Otherwise a great introduction!

Problem with Linux isn't that it's complicated. It's that 90% of the time it won't support the software and hardware you want/need.

The biggest problem with Linux support currently comes from multiplayer game developers. Given how Linux operates it's hard for them to monitor other system resources for cheat software so they have a hard time supporting it for anything beyond single-player games. Maybe valve can solve the issue with their upcoming anti-cheat stuff but it will take some time for the big guys to want to test it on their AAA titles.

I'm not a gamer, but I have run linux since it was sold at my local CompUSA store, circa 1997. Been using linux ever since, and prefer Debian/Ubuntu/Mint. I'm running Ubuntu 21.10 on an RPi4B-4GB as my everyday desktop. Thank you for showing folks how easy Linux can really be. Your approach is excellent. Keep teaching!

Great video! The problem for me is that Dell sometimes releases bios updates with windows installers only.

I switched to Linux a few years ago and honestly, Windows feels like living in somebody else's house but Linux feels like home to me.

I'm so tempting to try out Linux one day and thank you Muta for making the introduction of Linux look so inviting and easy to use no matter what level of understanding that the person has. *Wow! I wasn't expecting my comment to make this much traction! Thank you for all the responses to this message!

For people looking to get into Linux, try using it on a cheap old laptop and just get a feel for it on there

The problem with using balina etcher is that when you format the drive you have to disk part, list disk, select disk, clean, mark active to get the full drive size back. Whats better is a program called "ventoy" can boot 20 different distros from the same grub

As a lifelong Windows user dating as far back as Windows 98 I'm very tempted to make the switch now. Windows 11 just might be the final straw for me.

The problem that always stops my switch over is simply the lack of products supporting linux versions. I am a writer and use Scrivener almost exclusively. Programs like Wine do a good job at trying to port over more popular programs for artists (mostly games tho lol), but it seems scrivner is pretty unfocused on. Really sucks, but its the only program I cant compromise on

i'm trying out the single gpu passthrough setup for gaming and adobe suite apps. honestly, there isn't much difference in performance so far. alternatively, you can install your secondary operating system on a sata ssd and use it with sata to usb converter as an external device to boot into whenever you need. good thing about creating a gpu passthrough windows virtual machine is that it allows me to install windows 11 even though my laptop does not support it, but in a vm, you can emulate tpm 2.0 etc.

One of many reasons why a lot of people don't even try to get their feet wet with Linux is because they do get attacked when asking questions from the know it all Linux community, so I do appreciate you saying that..

Imagine being married for 5 years and getting a ball razor for Christmas

I'm still using Windows because of the overwhelming game support. If Linux (someday) finally catch up I will migrate asap.

Fiddling in a Virtual Machine with any Linux distro is the best way to come acquainted with it. Increasing your windows virtual ram could help to make it run on a acceptable level.

Switching to linux was one of the most fun I've ever had, yes it's not flawless, it broke on me it a few times because of what I did but that's expected because it's so open. However, since most the crucial applications I use don't support Linux (Ms Office, Adobe, etc) I can't fully commit to it. I tried dual booting for 3 months but it's just not worth the trouble of maintaining 2 operating systems, so I switched back to windows. However, as a CS student, I do miss the terminal on linux. Fortunately there's this WSL2 which virtualizes a linux distro on Windows.

I used to use Ubuntu on all my refurbished PCs I built from parts laying around my house. It worked great for all the basics and kept an otherwise outdated PC running reasonably well. Although I'm not likely to use Linux on a main desktop (unless it gets more native support) anything old I throw together, Ubuntu is my go to Linux distro.

I'd like to thank the Linux community for giving people a great OS option that rivals Windows and MacOS for *_free!_*

After using Rufus and Booting into the installation for it to crash, I saw your video and used etcher instead.. everything works now. Thank you

Thank you, this was very informative.

Sadly I think I'll always be the weirdo in my group who uses TempleOS

As someone completely new to linux myself. The best solution to get me to trying it out was running it in a virtual machine, that way I keep my windows 10 for normal use since im fairly versed at it but can open an app and boot a fake computer running whatever flavor of distro id like. I use VirtualBox for my vm's.

The limits to games is the only reason i haven’t switched over fully to linux. I run dual-boot and i suggest doing this to anyone who plays games, but would like to start using linux as well!

For making a bootable USB drive, I use Ventoy. All I have to do is to copy as many ISO (or other disk type) images onto the flash drive. Ventoy then provides a menu to select which disc image to boot. It supports both UEFI and CSM (BIOS) booting.

The thing about Linux is that for most users this journey starts and ends the moment they realise their software and/or hardware doesn't work on Linux out of the box because barely anyone supports Linux, so they'll bail. That's the sad reality. On a side note, I would argue that Linux Mint is a better beginning distro. It has more Windows-like interface, and is based on Ubuntu.

All I always say is "if the Linux community really wants people to use Linux, they need to stop using the terminal for a month (don't even open it), write down all the annoyances they encounter, create tickets for each and every one of them, and actually fix them instead of de-prioritizing them and pushing them to the bottom of the backlog because there's some bleeding edge features that simply must be implemented immediately and the critical issues they introduce have priority, otherwise stop complaining that people don't use Linux" And that's not even talking about gaming because no matter what people say, there are many games that are not on Steam so Proton is not gonna save you, Lutris isn't gonna save you either and even with Winetricks, wine sucks, I don't want to spend half of my weekend creating a prefix and messing with it just to play one game, I just want to PLAY it. Create an Open Source alternative to Proton that works with any game in which the community can make custom prefixes so that games and software can run out of the box, and you'll have your gaming silver bullet. Until the Linux community gets it through their thick skulls that the average user is extremely intolerant to inconvenience and doesn't want to tinker, Linux is gonna remain a niche OS for nerds and Windows is gonna stay on top.

I installed mint recently. (Been using on and off for 9 years) 20.3. Didn't need to add driver to get WI-Fi dongle to work. It also adds wireless printers automatically that are on the network. Just works out of the box.

I've used Linux before (many years ago) and went back to Windows. I didn't find the advantages of Linux strong enough to justify its trade offs. As a developer, designer, and sound producer, I've tried the 3 main plainforms and I found Windows unmatched in terms of comfort and software availability. I'm just glad there are other options people can choose from; to each his own.

Gonna watch this in chunks cause of time but, love what I saw so far. I really think Valve is going to push a much needed change for PC gaming with the Steamdeck. The new SteamOS looks absolutely amazing so far and they've made insane progress for 'it just works' compatibility in such a short time. Even the big anti cheats. I want Linux to become big for gaming, and I see Valve making it being adopted VERY fast. I hope. Cause Windows is getting very shitty lately.

Muta: "You should stop using windows." Me, an MMO player: "Yeahhhh about them anticheats though...

BEST ad read I've ever seen there at the beginning. Hahahaha thanks for making it fun. Great video too keep it up

The Koala is taunting me.

Don’t think I’ll use Linux when nearly 90% of things I use are windows native

It's funny that people make fun of others that want something "easy". Simplicity and ease of use has always been the key to success regardless of what product you are making. Yet these elitists are out there complaining if you don't make your life a headache.

This might've convinced me to switch to a Linux distro on the next PC I get. I'm not rich, it's gonna be a while until I get that silicon, but I'll look into Linux stuff.

F*ck...no wonder you have 3.63 mil subscribers. Good value, laughs, informative and very helpful. Got it in one, man !! Cheers from Aussie in Cambodia :)

So after watching a ton of Muta’s videos about Linux, and keeping up with Luke and Linus’s updates on the WAN show, I decided to give it a whirl myself. Installed POP!_os on my VR PC as a test bed. Hey, Beat Saber ran on my Index flawlessly. So I’ve now got a drive with POP! installed in my main gaming PC, and I’ve been “dual booting” ever since… Except it’s been in there for a few days and I haven’t actually booted back into Windows for anything… And I’m hoping I won’t have to. Honestly loving it so far. It’s my first real experience with Linux aside from playing around with Mint about five or so years ago. I’ll be sticking with it, I think.

im going to keep using windows on my computer and you cant stop me

i used to run ubuntu as my daily driver when my vista distro took a crap on me back in the day (was a celeron laptop with 1 core and 2gb of ram) and i ran it on my netbook too. I didnt go back because of the experience with gaming, i think im willing to go back to it now

This is a great video, however, I do think Mint is the better option than Ubuntu for first-time users. They're incredibly similar distros, as both are debian-based. Mint has a bit of a cleaner and more simplistic interface with the default Cinnamon desktop imo. But mostly the resource usage on Mint is better than Ubuntu, which is why I tend to lean towards it as my recommendation for new users, especially if your computer doesn't have too much processing power or RAM.

Gaming is the only reason I still use Windows. Yes, I know about wine and proton, but anti-cheat software doesnt cooperate with it.

About gaming, one thing many don't consider is they're expecting Windows games to work on Linux. It's honestly amazing the amount of support that's available considering. It's only going to get better.

Holy crap, Muta! As much as I enjoy your normal content, This one might be my favorite. I needed it about 18 months ago, though. So you're telling me, I don't need a VM, a Linode account, my own domain, Docker(?), a Synology NAS, a Raspberry Pi, cloudflare tunnels, F--- w/my ISP's gateway? My Chrometop has NO info at all besides "turn on developer options" (this will install Ubuntu) - That's about it. Everyone else starts the tutorial like you, but then slaps you with "just do this", "don't worry about that", "at 12.99/mo. you're getting a LOT". The only streamers that regularly talk about this stuff all have something to sell us. ♠I've had my MerkinMower 4.0 for 'bout a year now. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen of S.O.G. - or S.O.P. for the SOPPERS.

BRO...you're the ONLY ONE on the entirely RU-vid that doesn't make me skip merchandising.

If valve can pull off steam play, I’m literally going to switch in a heartbeat

I'd love to switch to linux. The issue is I have no guarantee my tablet software and my art software will work with it. As far as I understand CSP doesn't support linux in any fashion.

Thank you for this easy to understand tutorial. You are of great value and credit to the community at large. I truly appreciate you.

Last time I rocked with Linux was in 2010. It's made leaps and bounds in changes. Thank you so much for this video! I'll have to give it a try again.

I don't use windows (10) because its simple, I use it because I can play video games without worrying about compatibility. I would love to switch to Linux if it wasn't for game compatibility. I know I could duel boot or emulate, but id rather not restart my pc anytime I want to play a game. ❤

If there was a way to install drivers for Elgato 4K60 Pro and Wave XLR, I would switch right away..

Muta: "People use windows for one main reason" Muta: *lists two reasons*

Homestly, I like how Muta just said "Windows Bad" and procceeds how to tell even iPhone 17 users how to download, flash, and install Ubuntu. I haven't used Ubuntu except for setting up some Company Workstations. But A Good Distro I know of because of working on only 2 distros. Linux Mint seems to work really well, especially if you need to throw it at someone who only knows Windows Edit: Ubuntu Is good to start i dont disagree with Muta but just my person preference that I think For End users/ Home Users Mint Cinnamon is good for people staring out too with basically the same installation proccess

Damn, I've always been bothered by my "gaming" laptop. it sucks when playing games, it would stutter like heck. This video is really tempting me to try this out.

I installed linux on my dad's laptop and he loved it! He only uses it for a few simple things and he was glad that all the "bullshit" that comes along with windows was gone

Word of warning. Use Rufus, not BalenaEtcher. Balena Etcher fucks with the partitions while writing to the USB which can soft brick your USBs. Please upvote so Muta sees this!

You missed the opportunity of mentioning two distros whose names are both common ice cream flavors: Vanilla (a newer immutable distro) and Mint (Ubuntu-based, with a UI very similar to Windows)

I've been using MX Linux (and sometimes Debian or Mint) on all my work and personal machines for over a decade. That said, I use Windows in my recording studio. I am a software developer by trade, but find that I don't want to be a PC tech while I'm playing and recording music. I just want all my gear to work seamlessly. Music's hard enough. I would love to see this change. Several software outlets offer Linux versions of their software, but the real problem is the hardware and lack of drivers.

One of the big things for newbies is look and feel. They don't want a big shock to the system. So desktop environment choice is a big deal for them. The other things is software and hardware compatibility. People don't want to buy new hardware or shift away from all of their daily software.

At 15:38 you're recommended to restart after an update. Not everything in the system is up-to-date whenever you update the system while it's running. You have to restart your computer for certain changes to take effect. In fact, Steam OS will require that you reboot after every update before it applies changes. Of course, your computer won't restart like 17 different times like on windows. It's one restart and you're completely good to go.

I'm personally pretty happy with the state of VR on Linux All my games work, if not natively then it's perfect through Proton. Some of the Steam UI stuff is a little lacking like desktop mirroring but it's still more than good

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Great tutorial Mutahar! However I would be a strong advocate for backing up all your important data on an external drive before jumping into Linux for a new user. Data loss is a serious risk if users don't know what they are doing. People interested in Linux, please please please backup your files first before doing anything, or you're gonna have a bad time.

This whole comment section is just "I would love to but I can't" I am also in the same position.

Ubuntu can be a bit bloated for some PCs, especially older ones. MX linux is a good choice for most computers, with the added advantage of many built-in 'how tos' to guide new users. Puppy linux is also really easy to use and master, with the advantage of bult in persistance to mod the distro to your needs.

Thanks for the content as always...high point for many a day. Be well

My 2 cents: I've used Linux as my daily driver laptop os since 2004. I have always needed to have a Mac or windows computer in addition to the Linux machine (either dual booting or a seperate box). The biggest issue that Linux has isn't compatibility with other software, it's compatibility with ITSELF. Fragmentation is a real issue, and it's much much worse on the desktop than it is on the server. And for anyone saying "it's gotten much better in the past few years" I've been hearing that since... well, 2004. Don't take this as disrespect, I absolutely love Linux as a hobby, ive done some amazing things with it that you cant do with anything else, and yes I use a Linux desktop still as my daily driver to this day. But the most accurate thing I ever heard about it is "Linux doesn't have games - Linux IS a game". If getting your computer to just work doesn't sound like a fun hobby, Linux is not for you.

"Fisher-Price computes" is by far the best description for a Mac I've ever heard

I absolutely love the video personation!! Also and around 20:20 I realized you (he) was drinking while making this video...lol 😂 Love it!!

I’m already using winget to download my software packages on windows. It’s not that big of a change from Linux. But It’s the compatability that I will always have to fight. As soon as someone shows a quick and easy way to use windows under Linux. I’ll have a much easer time trusting and investing my time switching over

Creators of any kind still can't justify the move, Linux is good for sure but we'll need A LOT more support or A LOT more open tutorials on how to use everything we normally use.

Muta 'bout to preach to everyone about the glory of Arch Linux and Virtual Machine.

I might try this out. Ive been on mac the last few years but I have a spare PC in the shop

I'm gonna be building my first PC in a few months, and this video (after doing a lot of research on the topic) has convinced me to make the switch to Linux

Imagine Using Windows or Linux or MAC for your computer. I use Native American smoke Signals

Muta has slowly gotten more extreame when it comes to windows lol

Been daily driving popOS on my desktop and laptop. I have windows in a vm with gpu passthrough for games. It is also segregated on my network to prevent telemetry from phoning home.