I've been using linux for like 4-5 years (Kubuntu) Gotta say the amount of time to craft a proper media workflow on linux is just pure abomination, compare to having Windows installed and took like 1 or 2 hours to remove stuff that you don't use. They just don't have time to deal with a myraid of hidden either compatibility issues or something randomly missing.

hey if you think linux is easy, would you like to try installing NMM on linux?.😁

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Windows is for people who do t k ow/care about cia back doors and Linux is for people who think they are safe from them

Such a small percentage of the general population uses Linux, there’s no reason to believe that the percentage would be any higher for regular content creators.

It’s because only 2% of desktop pc are running Linux, it’s not that hard to work out why you don’t see it very much. I also believe you’re the only person in 2025 who can call Macs under powered.

Some of the setup issues you point, that do take, are related to the choice of distro, and desktop environment and wanting to customize your experience a lot. If you use a distro that is created to provide a more out-of-the-box experience, and you don't spend time tweaking stuff for style and non-real productivity gain, that usually disappears unless you have a relatively uncommon hardware setup, that might require more attention. The cultural issue, and the change of applications, having to adapt and learn new workflows are indeed a very reasonable and valid arguments. People are just way more patient, and forgiven towards what is comfortable and known by them.

At the end of the day it's just not as easy to use - a lot of software is hard to install or plain unavailable for Linux. Even webcams aren't always plug and play - you usually have to mess around in the OBS settings to get them to work. Sure, it's possible, but I think it's unrealistic to think that less technical users will go through all of that when they can get mostly what they want from windows.

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I use Linux all time without DualBoot and I edit videos with Blender it has really cool video editing functionality The only thing I use Windows on is my PC repair USB

I have a Linux (I use Arch by the way) Laptop and a Windows 10 Desktop, Linux for gaming/content creators is almost there but the biggest limiter is the refusal of large industry standard software producers to port i.e. Photoshop, Premiere, etc. That's not to say there isn't industry standard software for Linux but it's definitely more on the side of development software as opposed to creative software suites

Non-tech people just want something that works. Windows is preinstalled and it works. It's really just that simple most of the time.

only reason to not change to linux for me is league of legends not being able to run on linux :c

I'm a woodworking streamer on Twitch, and my streaming setup is fully Linux.

my windows intallator refuse installing so now im using linux

Compatibility is the whole reason I avoid it. I don't want to worry about not being able to use something I may be required to by college or a job, and so avoid it altogether.

When I play games on my pc I do have a dual boot because after a certain windows 10 update all of my drivers stopped working properly. Whenever I play with friends or steam it’s on Ubuntu. Idk how it works but driver updates take a moment and everything just works.

Shut up about the terminal pls, you are making the normal people go always, that's the worth thing you can do if you want more people to try linux

Because they don't know, don't care, don't have to.

Fun fact for Arch users. If your sound card is detected with aplay, you have no audio and "systemctl --user enable pulseaudio" doesn't work; use "pulseaudio --start".

Or just install Nobara and you can skip 75% of that all. :D

Another free Video Editing software nobody even considers or even talks about because it's not known as a SW for video editing... Blender

While it's true most, even large majority use Windows, or Mac OS, but there are multiple use it.

I have to say that the KZbinr BlindIRL who does mainly videos about Dwarf Fortress, has actually done a video about switching to Linux and his experience in the weeks after. As far as I know he is now a linux user full-time.

obs linux has a missing feature that windos version has... did you know?

Because they are normies.

Some apps I use on Windows ban wine Linux for some reason

Why won't content creators with a tight schedule use Linux for their livelihood? "Spends one and a half hour finding a single line command for 1 out of 7 issues".

None of windows in my country went down

I use Linux

count me as a linux user that doesnt act like a linux user

I'm vtuber. Almost all software I use is developed for Windows. Technically, I can use wine, but why do I need that?

in my opinion it’s compatibility that’s all. i switched to linux and then switched back to windows because it was a massive pain the ass to try and play a large portion of my favorite video games.

If I could play some anticheat games (I bought them long ago) I'd ditch windows in a heartbeat

I only use Linux for all my content creation have done for 10 years, you couldnt pay me enough to use windows and im an MCSE, however people just dont care and dont have the drive to make the switch but Linux is now so good there is no reason to stay on Windblows.

Windows is better than Linux for gaming that's why. Don't get me wrong there are great things about Linux, it uses less resources, it respects your privacy, it even has been making progress towards app and game compatibility but windows works 99% of the time on games. Linux works 90% of the time but even that 90% requires you pasting commands in a terminal. Let's be honest there is a sizable amount of gamers are on console because even windows is too complicated to them. But if you just use Linux for browsing the web or using a few apps you know works, Linux is better. I use Linux on laptops because I don't game on them.

Can someone teach me how to install and run league of legends (yeah I know, I still play it) in Linux Mint? That's the only thing holding me from moving totally to Linux. I can't give up my League...

Although Red Hat/Fedora is my favorite Linux.... there are TOO many distributions with too many differences. The Linux works should settle on a version and roll with it. Until then, Windows and Mac will dominate.

for the formats issue in davinci resolve, you can use the command line tool ffmpeg to change the audio and video formats, though unfortunately it'll take a sec because it won't be gpu accelerated

because they don't want to have to mess with the terminal?

Really high quality and entertaining video. It stands out in the sea of “should you try Linux?” videos out there. Definitely deserving of more than 3k subscribers!

Ive been using Linux since 2010, happy with this, all my content is being created on it. Before was just for daily tasks, but now I’m making a lot more with it.

Because it sucks. Recently I wanted to be open-minded and thought of using Linux, so I prepared one of my hard drives by formatting it to exFat, because Linux users were foaming in their mouths that NTFS is very unstable on Linux. But when I decided to restart my PC, my BIOS just didn't want to go past the splash screen unless I unplugged that one hard drive. Yes, my motherboard is very old but people say that Linux is friendly with old hardware. What I'm saying that even to install Linux you have to do something that is hard to prepare for, as I have a lot of hard drives with important files on NTFS with nowhere to back them up to. So I gave up, since all what people say about "Windows is resource hungry" is a dumb gatekeeping, since we have debloaters for that one reason. Oh, also to make some people angry let me mention I use Win11 on unsupported 2011-2014 hardware and I like it and have no issues with it (except for a webcam driver but we're talking about essential hardware here).

The problem with Linux (for a lot of people) is a lack of support from companies, mainly Nvidia (they've been getting better but it's far from great) and productivity/professional software companies (Autodesk, Adobe, etc.). Linux is perfectly useable and easy for general computing (browsing, word processing, etc.) with a distro like Mint. Gaming is mostly there (80+% of games work, only issue is anti-cheat/DRM, which ties back into the support issue). If Linux had more support then (IMO) there would be zero reason to not use it over windows.

yo, your local arch linux vtuber here, whats good. we exsist...we're just far and few between

Straight to the point.

Where is a good place to steal... i mean borrow configurations?

I don't think it's as much a refusal as a lack of interest and time. Large content creators who follow schedules simply do not have the luxury to try out a new operating system for the sake of their craft. This may change over time as channels such as yours have influence, or if Windows messes up in such a catastrophic way that it would drive away a lot of people. For the big YT'ers, there is little incentive to move and experiment. There are of course a few people who will, but Linux still requires stepping out of your comfort zone, and if you don't have ample time to do that, why bother? I run Fedora myself, but currently I am running a Windows VM on-top of it as well for AutoHDR and a myriad of other AMD driver features. Gaming on Linux works fine, but I like my HDR (I am aware Plasma supports HDR, but AutoHDR which is a Win11 thing is something I do like to use).

i feel like the video title can be answered in about 2 sentences, without needing a 40 minute video.

As someone who has been recording and streaming on Linux for 5 years, I can say it works pretty well these days.