Never heard Brodie say "you fkn moron" in a video before :D +1 from me ... again, I will say ... I dunno why people in the Linux space even give any relevance to Linus ... Linus is clearly on a payroll to make Linux look more complicated then it is ... and is a absolute idiot, who only embarassed himself with his first few videos of Linux, by being apsolutely and totally clueless ... I don't even know his his team, allowed him to make those videos, the guy is writing apt-get on Arch ... or something like that ... and shitting on the Distro for him writing the wrong command, and that is just 1 of the examples i can remember, off the top of my head about Linus's idiocracy about Linux

"There are no problems" smash cut to "Yes, do as I say". I realize that there was a bit of train-of-thought mixing that led to saying that after mentioning the reply comments on the reaction video, but yeah like. When I wrote that comment about issues with Fedora 41, I was talking about an install I did literally *that week*. That was not a lie, nor something done 15 or 5 years ago. I even posted a photo of the PC on bsky shortly after I finished the build. But also I realize the ramble probably wasn't directed at *me* so ehhhh. The machine's working pretty nice for me right now after a few more updates though. So I do hobby dev on Fedora, game on Pop, and day job on Windows because I don't get too many options there before security locks me out of the network and reports every darn thing installed on the system to the manager and then we have this whole thing where I'm like "look I was just trying to reproduce the dev environment I use on Linux, can we really not waste hours on this"

I used to not believe in "People don't switch operating systems, they switch computers" because when I was a turbo broke college student I absolutely was putting Linux on PCs to keep them moving quick when I had work to do and Windows wasn't cutting it. But in the past 10 years of office work it has very much been "Hey guys this version of Windows isn't supported anymore, so we're all getting new laptops with the newest OS. Let us know if you've seen any good models."

Title makes me think incelgold fans bouta start crying about black people existing in video games

Wtf... TIL: GGG is owned by tencent.

"9,5 hours of compiling just to visit phub" that cracked me up

If you'd like to see the guide you can find it here codeberg.org/KyloNeko/Linux-Guide-to-Vtubing

It's 2025 and ppl still don't know what based actually means nor how to use it. This isn't based. No1 who's appeared on this channel is based. No1 mentioned on this channel is based. Cringe larp. Normie slop.

There are two types of rot in western games, the content (the part people focus on) and the delivery (account linking, kernel level spyware, external launchers, console exclusives, etc). Eastern studios are making amazing content but they still deliver it like western studios. I just hope Stellar Blade doesn't have PSN otherwise I'm putting on the black hat. I'm also still annoyed at not playing Wukong since game science added Denuvo.

An absolutely 100% correct take, especially the bit about Windows lusers being morons. If you use an "easy" distro, then you have no problems with setup. I'm on Slackware, which is often erroneously considered hard, and even I rarely have a real issue.

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Well is the same with php haters

ok its not that using the terminal is hard its how many things can go wrong if you dont have the right distro drivers everything you need. i used linux mint and quit after a week beacuse some things i just couldent figure out. some things where so convoluted and so out of the way (mostly VR) that i just gave up on trying to get it to work.

Have you ever thought that maybe you are the moron? Yes, I don't want packages because I've got other, real things to remember instead of commands. Windows gives me an installer and a GUI; I don't need a brain for a bloody OS that way. I can just read the installer's GUI and get it working. A 'gooey' installer is literally essential to get anything done.

maybe im the odd one out but when ive had people install linux they immediately run into like every problem ive never seen before half their games dont run, their computer lags, cant reboot, crashes, display bugs and this is when i recommend something like linux mint or ubuntu or whatever i still run into constant problems on linux and it can happen with any distro, just last week i was getting memory leaks in youtube and discord

windows users are a special breed.. now in 2025 they still prefer downloading arbitrary .exe files from the interwebs over installing arbitrary .exe files via winget.

I'll never understand Linux users thinking I only use my PC for gaming. That don't understand I have Apps that I use in Windows that don't have an equivalent in Linux. That I don't want to uproot my entire workflow to switch to a new OS just because some vociferous Linux user on KZbin thinks I should.

I have desktop machines that run Windows, MacOS and Linux (PopOS, Fedora, and Arch). The order of hours used is: 1. Windows - Runs everything I need for work and gaming without issue and full support. By far the OS I use the most because it runs the most software. The signing security model is useful for trust versus downloading random stuff and assuming it’s all ok if it’s linked from a trusted source. 2. MacOS - Useful for iOS/MacOS development and Adobe products. 3. Linux - SteamDeck gets the most use followed by PopOS for hobby project development. The applications are usually not better. The best you can hope for is the same experience as another OS. Games are better on consoles/gaming PCs, client work software is also better on Windows/MacOS especially with WSL2 on Windows. The only reason I use Linux desktop is because it’s fun to try something different and the tiling Windows managers are great. For the OS differences, there are lots of annoying things about all three. But I don’t want to spend my time in the OS, I want to spend my time in the applications I run. There is time in the terminal but you get WSL2 on Windows so it’s a Linux terminal.

22:40 The Steam Deck OLED is actually for sale and on display in a GameStop in a mall near me.

Ray tracing is not worth the performance hit. I don't even turn it on and fail to notice any real difference. But then, I only game on 1080p so I suppose I'm in the minority.

You see, us L*nux 🤮 useds, have to manually type every bit directly into the CPU via the t*rminal for the pc to do anything, unlike WINdows where you can click 'next' and 'agree' and everything immediatly works without ever needing to use the CMD (superior t*rminal) or troubleshoot anything (check the Micro Soft Foruns if you don't believe me, no answers can ever be found there because there is no question WINdows always works). I'm glad Valve will save the L*inux desktop now by launching a distro that works on every pc ever without any hassle, but I don't get why they even bother since WINdows already exists

Most Windows users should have gone over to just using cell phones at this point.

It is so disingenuous to say there are "no problems" with Linux. You can follow the instructions to the T and something will still break. It's not an issue of "reading the manual", it's an issue with how unstable Linux is in general. Just because YOU don't experience any problems, doesn't mean no one else does. And clearly, it's very common. So for you to completely disregard someones experience because "things just work" on your end, doesn't mean they were doing something wrong. As a Windows user who switched to Linux myself, I am always running into new issues every single day. I know what I'm doing, I read the instructions carefully, but things don't work, so I need to troubleshoot it. Often times I'm missing some dependency that wasn't mentioned in the instructions. Sometimes even if I have everything set up properly, it won't work regardless. Look, I love Linux, but it is undeniable that Windows is just simpler for the average user. If it wasn't for privacy concerns, I wouldn't be using Linux, because I can't think of anything beyond it's FOSS nature and customization to be superior to Windows for the average user.

I tested the Long Dark on Linux. Like most games, you play first person and can occasionally use the mouse to access UI. But on Linux, the mouse isn't locked to the center. So when you open the UI, the mouse can be in any random position on the screen whereas on windows, it always appears in the center. That by itself made it unplayable for me. Maybe I could bug this small indie studio to give af about Linux. Maybe there's some magic package I could install to fix it. But FUCK THAT. Maybe I just want to play a game and don't want to deduce how to solve this problem. And this is ONE GAME. How many others will have a problem? All it takes is one small problem like that and the game is ruined

I'm using a variety of os's but I still have issues with Linux (and BSD). The problem is user friendliness. They expect my level of tech savviness from everyone. The average user (like my parent's) don't care at all about this stuff. If you use a command prompt "you are hacking". Just make a one click setup that works for most people. Add a GUI for most functions. Valve with the Steamdeck interface knows this. My main desktop is running Windows 10 (still doubting Windows 11), NAS is FreeBSD based TrueNAS (Need to upgrade to TrueNAS Scale, lot of work to replace jails/plugins with VM's/App's), Proxmox intel NUC (debian VM's), Couple Pi's running Raspbian (SSH acces only). My old system (render server) is on Ubuntu LTS 24. I've had a bunch of issues that took hours to fix. Example: Headless server with Ubuntu desktop installed to run software like Davinci resolve and shutter encoder. Basic stuff is command line. Command line = searching for the right command -Mounting a network share on startup. You need edit the fstab file with root (sudo) and then figure out what permissions and users you need to actually acces it. Then try again several times with more arguments because it didn't work as described. -Wake on Lan enable should be button instead of that long command. -Davinci didn't install at first. The required packages error is only displayed if you run it through the command line. Ubuntu LTS 22 wanted to upgrade to LTS 24. Sure, go ahead I said. -VNC is gone. I needed to plug in a monitor and keyboard to setup. it's only RDP now. -Bunch of broken stuff had to be reinstalled because of the update. Monitor resolution was stuck so low you can't click half the screen. Tab and enter on the keyboard worked to reinstall the Nvidia driver package. -Davinci couldn't be reinstalled because of missing packages. A package name was changed and Davinci didn't recognize it. I had to find a bypass from a random forum. -Shutter encoder still crashes with an unknown error if I leave hardware acceleration on "auto" instead of "none"

Hi Brodie: I first started with Mandrake in 1999/2000. Was run off by the toxic Linux community, came back with Ubuntu 16.04, then went to Mint and have been a Nint user since because it Just Works. I have a life, and do not have time to spend hours doing configuration olympics. The biggest issue on Linux adoption is our still toxic and unwelcoming community.

Cope

I'm using Arch (EndeavorOS) with sway, and this works for me: `QT_QPA_PLATFORM=xcb obs` No matter in what app I am, if I press Mod+F1, the OBS start recording.

I like how this clip has more comments than the whole episode it was cut from :D

So you spent your sweet time learning Linux because you got interested in it an now think people are morons for not thinking cli tools with no visual queues to how it operates (and parameters that barely tell what they are for) are easier than gui installer... I fail to see how the "morons" are the problem here And let's keep lying to ourselves saying gimp and libreoffice are pro-level replacements for office and adobe

2:39 typing implies you have to know what to type for each program. Meanwhile a gui offers you what to do with a simple click.

This kind of thinking is what really annoys me about the Linux community. Yes, you can get most things working, sure. We can google it, find the package name, install it with your favorite package manager and be golden. But the average person that buys a PC at bestbuy to watch netflix and play the odd game is not going to do that. And instead of accepting that and adapting to that audience by making things easy, like all the OS' that have a big market share, you just turn your nose up at them and say "Well you are just dumb. I dont understand windows users." And say somebody tries it. They ask for help in their distro forum and they get some ass saying "RTFM". Yeah good job attracting new people. If the Linux user base increases in any measurable manner, I believe it will be thanks to Valve and nobody else at this rate. They seem to be the only developers interested in making Linux accessible to even the most PC non savvy people.

I've always had issues with Linux on my PC (I have NVIDIA GPU and YES I installed the right Linux drivers). I've tried multiple distros and everywhere I've run into some issues/bugs that only one or two people have had... All I know is that these problems were caused by my hardware, and trying to fix them requires a really good understanding of Linux. Honestly, I've only used GNOME as my DE and I've always had issues with it, it just breaks after a week or two and the system becomes unstable. I mostly use the default settings and don't do anything other than install the apps I need for work. I might try Linux again with KDE or something, but I'm really frustrated and it won't happen anytime soon. Due to the constant need to fix some new issues, I've gone back to Windows where I can work with WSL (if needed) and play any games I want. It's stable and does its job, that's all.

Bro is crashing out

Counterpoint, Linux simply will not work for my use case. Why? showstoppers in software. Not even anticheat. I need a scaler for scaling old software on my 4k display. Then just use gamescope right? wrong, I have an nvidia card and gamescope crashes see gamescope issue 1662. Sometimes I like to play Alpha Centauri, I have for 26 years now, I love that game. It does not work on Linux without the sound breaking, no amount of scripts to reencode the sound files helps, I have tried. Some Linux users say it works perfectly, but having listened to a recording of them playing the game, it does not. I also like to play old arcade games through retroarch, specifically because of the sonkun shader set. But currently if you use retroarch with vulkan video backend on nvidia and wayland, it simply crashes on executing content. I like to play Warframe with friends, while it works under Linux, it looks kinda dull, so I use nvidia overlay to enhance the colors. The only way I can do that on Linux is through reshade, but that's a bannable offense on Warframe. So for these reasons Linux is not currently viable for me.

Windows is going to end up like Internet explorer, in that it's what you use to install the other software :P

I only have problem with using mods, trainers, something like cheat engine on linux, (in singleplayer, because i don't like farming sometimes or want to skip boring parts of the game) I currently use CachyOS for half a year, and Bazzite for 2 months on other partition, i love them both

Arch is easy... If you can read English and you have a basic IT background. My parents for example don't know jack about English and have 0 background with computers. Even Ubuntu can be problematic for them because the CLI is in English and most support forums or many many articles are only available in English, you can translate the page with pretty much every browser but you can't search for a translated text (at least to my knowledge, and regardless it's not something my parents would do). That's a massive barrier of entry for pretty much everyone that either doesn't understand English or is not a native English speaker. You talk from the perspective of an Australian but I'm Italian and people here have difficulty speaking even in their native language...

2:22 You've identified the problem, what are yous going to do about it? I'm convinced people are more intimidated by black terminals than white ones (whether they "should" be or not), but does any distro ship with white?

It's a matter of habit most windows users are more on the idea that apps are installed via clicking some stuff not typing it into an scary terminal the interacted with 0 times in their lives.

There is a lack of tea in this podcast/series.

I think it's the fact Linux is not yet in a state to just be installed and just "work" like windows has been all this time. I love linux but still run windows on my main rig because I know how much of a headache trying to play games would be. Your average user doesn't want to even have the chance a game or hardware will not work and have to search forums and github to find a hacky 3rd party reversed engineered piece of software to get something to work.

Yay 2⁸th episode!

i mean i just use fedora silverblue with the `bazzite-gnome-asus-nvidia:stable` image from ublue. and everything just works. literally just works. i mean silveblue is cool, because there are just images for what you need, and then it just works. you dont have to install anything afterwards do anything else or layer other stuff. it just works. nothing missing.

So much truth in such a small video. It's not about the OS. It's just the simple act of reading and understanding what is read.

Because real life is just an oversized version of highschool and guess what? Most people, the vast majority of people don't like nerd stuff beyond surface level and windows, mac, SteamOS, androidn, etc., offer exactly that, a surface level dip in tech that needs 0 mental effort. It is the nerds who get fascinated with in deep level with this and the moment you started to use funny words like "well documented package" you lost the non-nerd person. And then there is the social aspect, in life, nerds usually are at the bottom of social hierarchy because of their absolutely horrendous interpersonal skills, this is true in highschool and this is true in adult life unless the nerd somehow becomes rich, otherwise it just gets worse and nobody wants to be aasociated with the bottom of the social ladder, everybody wants to be associated with the quarterback, the cheerlader, the party animal, etc., and do as they do and they cerainly don't have any interest in nerd/tech stuff, they just use what is trendy or a show of status, like the apple products, which is another problem against Linux, it is free and frwe stuff is for losers, free loaders and neckbeards living in mom's basement and wear a fedora. That is the aspect you aren't seeing, the social hierarchy and interactions, it has never been "cool" or "badass" to have nerd interests, it only becomes cool when they pay off and you can use such interest to become wealthy but for every Gates snd Jobs, there are hindreds thousands of similar nerdy persons living an unfulfilling, poor to middle class lives, and more important, living in front of their computers doing nerdy tech stuff instead of getting jacked, going to places to fill their Instagrams with pictures, getting wasted and laid in parties and all the stuff that the cool peopel do, because, why woule we instal an OS? What are we? Nerdy neckbeards? That is what the guy we used to bully and wedgied in highschool is for.

I am very much an outlier: grew up with Windows, used the family Mac for a while (taught myself how to code on it with a "for dummies" book), bought my own Windows pre-built, built my own PC (Windows), been daily driving a Linux distro for a few months now. I game on it, dev on it, CAD with it and sysadmin/net-admin from it. I don't see myself ever crawling back to Microsoft. The only issue I've been banging my head against the wall with is SteamVR with Nvidia GPU on Linux; I know there's a way, I just haven't found/figured it out yet

give me absolute working of all, and i mean all without workarounds , of the games and applications, including all anti cheat systems, then we’ll talk linux

Few years is nothing. How often do you even think about changing your os? Unless you're enthusiast, basicly never. Maybe every few years when you change your hardware. No regular user that just wants shit to work is even going to check if linux makes sense. If it was shit back in 2019, it's no wonder it still didn't pick up. And is it really good? Isn't it still running the winx, or whatever the windows subsystem for linux was called? Doesn't that basicly mean you get yourself a linux just so you can run a mini windows underneath that ? I really like linux for work. I would never daily drive it. Grub likes to randomly just brick for no good reason, the support it's getting from both driver and game makers is scraps compared to windows and in order to make a switch with all of the data backuping etc I'd need to do with windows, there'd need to be a really damn good reason to do so. There's just not. Yeah some things in windows are shit, but they just work, out of the box, no maintanance, no matter how shit of a pc user you are and how much of shady software you just click run on, it just works.

4:50 that's easy, all change is hard. You have to think instead of just do what you are used to. Also: some of them may have never installed Windows, so they might not know how that works.