QA is an important but overlooked part of dev!

I never knew that about MX Linux. It was one of the distros I hopped around on when I started using Linux back in August. I kinda liked it, though it didn't last the weekend before I settled on LMDE on my main and regular Mint on my laptop. I may have to pull a switcheroo though since only 1 out of 7 of my controllers work on LMDE.

Good stuff! Subbed.

The vast majority of people don't want to buy "a computer". They're not interested in investing the time to learn how to install an operating system, and it could be argued that they should have to. The vast majority of people want to buy an "appliance", which is why Apple is the richest company in the world (well, among other reasons, but you get the gist of what I'm saying).

I wonder why people are dissatisfied with MacBooks? Love 'em or hate 'em, Apple really innovated and moved the needle with their M-series silicon. Personally, I would never buy a MacBook as I love Linux way too much, but for 20 years I've been dreaming about a laptop that's completely silent and yet powerful (and Apple are the only company so far who have managed to pull this off).

This is great news if it's true.

The world shall know Arch, btw.

love me a good lightweight distro, amazing video friend

Really good format! I like the intro, terminal demo, and direct instruction

friend, you have convinced me to hop to Endevouros my linux journey has been weird lol, from ubuntu to debian to arch to fedora, and now to endevour hopped from arch to fedora because of stability issues, and my DE breaking quite often but I missed the AUR a lot hope this time with EOS I can achieve a nice workflow without having so much trouble really nice video, thanks for the upload :)

yea good video i don't understand why these types of people came to mastodon if they clearly don't care about freedom .

One reason is that bluetooth has got a lot better in Linux Mint and Ubuntu. I have bluetooth headphones and ear buds & both work perfectly.

i dont use linux... because i cant find an empty usb stick

Hey I am running Opensuse Tumbleweed for over a year but I wanna use arch. The only reason I am hesitant is because suppose if I don’t update the system for one week will it break? In opensuse it never breaks even if I don’t touch my computer for one week and do a sudo Zypper update. Zypper doesn’t have parallel download and it’s damm slow that’s why I wanna use arch.

Right people tm do you watch sir sic by chance

Please get a better mic

This rise will be annihilated when people know about a RCE security flaw in Linux that ranks 9.9/10 on the severity scale...

Did you find a need to use `sudo`, or just use it because everyone says to use it, instead of just switching to root? From the second year of using Linux I didn't see any point in using sudo, and started switching to root with `su` when needed, and have been doing so for the past five years.

Saying that Apple's hardware should cost 4 times less is kind of insane. There's a reason so many people love their hardware. When people who don't like Apple buy Macs for the hardware, it obviously means it's worth it. The majority of OSX users from the drop in Dec 2024 went to Windows, as it can be seen in the statistics, the Linux graph is very stable and without any spikes. My best guess as to who's starting to use Linux, it's probably people who fall under the following categories (and they all do it because of Microsoft or Apple): - tinkerers - young people who are not too afraid to tinker - a friend or family member encouraged and helped to use Linux There are other categories, but these are likely the vast majority. It would be great if there were a popular proprietary distro. It doesn't matter what crazy/nasty things they'll do, since they will be forced to cater to the user, because the user can leave any time they want to another distro, so whatever becomes popular is the best thing for the average user. And either way they will bring value to the desktop Linux community, since there will be more users of FOSS, and companies will be forced to port their proprietary software to Linux due to the market share which which will increase even more because of this.

I like your video. I would like to see what you think of Garuda Linux after a few months of using it. It is currently my dual boot linux on my gaming laptop, but unfortunately, I don't use that laptop anymore. My son uses that now. Sacrifices.. =***((( I have two main systems. Both Ubuntu 24.04. One is my gaming PC... It works very well, but I now wish it was Garuda Linux. Unlike you, I love the Garuda aesthetics, and KDE. The reason this main gaming PC went Ubuntu instead of Garuda, is solely because I was afraid I would have issues with WOW, BDO and Star Citizen. The games I play. I now see that Lutris and Nvidia work well with Garuda, so I would have been ok! Hmmm.... I don't know Do I wanna go Arch on my gaming system? I am still undecided. My other Ubuntu 24.04 PC is an old AMD game system, I build 10 years ago. I run local LLMs using Ollama, do android app development, and school work on this PC. I figure I'll keep this one Ubuntu, because it seems like Ubuntu is the open source OS of choice when it comes to AI.

i like your chins.

I wonder what the breakdown of OS market share by user age is. I think a lot of young guys would prefer to use Linux, if they could, and I suspect once people get onto Linux they'll be unlikely to switch back.

i just reinstalled linux 3 a few days ago, no need to thank me guys (i dont use arch btw)

I already use Linux Lite for my laptop. Works great! I'm still putting off switching over my desktop to a Linux distro because I don't know for sure if VR will work as intended.

if you include chrome os (which is just a fork of gentoo) linux is at 6.28%, plus another thing to consider is the fact that a lot of linux users do everything possible to avoid telemetry, meaning the statistics being gathered could be significantly lower than the actual number

We're rising up, boys! It's almost time to release skipidi against windows!

I think MX Linux is better for beginners than any other distro I tried.

You're proud of 4.55% market share after 30 years of develop start handing out those participation trophies oh to note that's longer than Microsoft

I don't know how I got this in my recommended, but I was trying to figure out where that chorus came from for a minute. Digging your vibe ^^

I have been using it for 9 months now. I switched to Breeze, but kept the layout and Icons. Other than that, it’s an amazing distro and appreciate a lot of the uniqueness you’ll find with this distro. It’s a great distro for all users. Being a seasoned Linux user doesn’t preclude them from user friendly features. It’s these features that make this distro truly unique.

I use arch btw ( i use arch btw )

Been daily driving this one for a year. I replaced the DRAGONS with a plain black background. The neon icons are kinda helpful for an older guy with less good eyesight. Other than that, it's been just great, zero complaints. Btw Firedragon is based off Floorp, itself a Firefox derivative.

I use Garuda since about 2 and a half years, and as a total Linux noob, I encountered a serious problem only once, literally. Pretty much stable to me. The neon clors hurts a bit the retina at first, but once used to it, it's pretty usable. Nice and honest review. Could have turned the music a bit down and your voice up though. Greetings from Switzerland ! EDIT : I just heard the last words "pray every day" and I totally agree, God bless you brother !

started using linux 2 months ago, never going back to windows

This distro looks really good i will defo install it just because i like the colors xD

By Market Share is meant Market Adoption right? Cause share implies something different.... Also do surveys like that account for the amount of UNIX based systems provided to schools?

Need Windows to play my multiplayer games with my boys. Until all multiplayer games, not some, not most, but all can be played, i doubt Linux as a main desktop is going to get even 10% market share

Bro you fuggin boogers in your nose. You need to reassess.

Loving endeavour os with xfce. Community and documentation are top notch for me.

I’ve only used windows and iPhones. Now I have a bootable Linux mint and am in the process of unloading my dependence on Apple services. In order to switch over to android in the not too distant future. We need free and open software with vehicles, too.

These days I run a mini-PC box as my browser/daily PC that has Linux on it, it exists solely to run the web browser and light programs related to it, for which Linux is perfect for. Then I have another separate PC for gaming connected to my peripherals and monitors USB switch and my monitor's features. This way I can shut off my gaming Windows PC when I don't need it, and keep the efficient mini-PC with Linux going. Switching between the two is a matter of pushing two buttons: One for USBs and the monitor. It's private as the systems are hardware separate and I can keep both of them up simultaneously, which wouldn't be possible with dual boot.

i use arch

9:09 I have actually seen linux systems, preinstalled, for sale on the show room floor in some stores. It's uncommon, but it's out there, and that was a year ago before it was even at 3%. So no doubt it will start picking up. What I think is significant is when it starts getting above 20, 30%, it starts becoming harder for big game publishers and those professional software to ignore. It's all just a waiting game.

To me what kept me from switching over it was that my GPU was not supported by the distro I had in mind. That was almost 10 years ago though. Everytime I worked with Linux it was great. Windows 11 is not touching my PC.

2003 will be the year of the Linux desktop. My next build will use Debian.

Last year, I bought a powerful miniPC preloaded with Windows 11 and switched it to Linux Mint.

we should get the governments to force OEMs to ship computers without an OS, and you have to buy the OS separately at the store. it would really make consumers think a lot more about what they're paying. like the consumer has to pay $200 to get windows or they could get a free version for Linux

Yippee!

Linux more like no thanks

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