I love that Linux is onto Wayland now and has gone back to square 1 again in terms of compatibility. I say love, I guess I just mean feel justified in me having the same sentiments as you do.

"MORE THAN TWO FUCKING PORTS!" LOL

yes after 30 years is still a total crap unusable system

Linux is great for learning programming and how operating systems works but it sucks for daily use and you cant use adobe, maya, unreal, unity on linux

Try to set my PC for crypto mining on Ubuntu its really pain in the ass

i got the same laptop. please help me to install macOS on it.

Actually, you should run Garuda.. since you like arch

Just run Nobara

Who says you have to choose? I use windows for gaming, macos for work, linux to tinker. I would hate to get locked into any of these choices.

You are describing "FEATURES" for Linux which Linux fanboys love - they need to troubleshoot something otherwise it is not a good distribution. I gave up with Linux. I use MacOS and Windows. I also use LMDE but prefer MacOS. Good rant video!

you need nobara lmao, its made for gaming and content reation

use kde not gnome use other distro not arch for begginers

Buen video, me acabo de dar cuenta que eres Español y te sigo desde que decidiste cambiar a un t480 sigue así bro

What do you think about XZ2 Compact? Wanna buy it cause my xz1c broken.

I have been using Linux since the release of Yggdrasil. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yggdrasil_Linux/GNU/X It's always been a piece of shit. It feels like freedom at first, but then you realize half the apps don't work, or you have to debug the whole source tree and recompile for things to work properly. If someone does not know what the terminal is, then they have no chance. Even with distro's like Zorin, it's a mess and has always been a mess. If we could bring the whole Linux community together to decide on a design, then work towards a single goal, lean and bug free, then we might have something similar to MacOS, but until then, it's a mess.

you would start with Mint, Debian 12 or even Opensuse Leap but naaaa.... better to be avenger and run Arch, just to show how profi you are right? Arch is not for noobs, even not for the average users, it's for nerds who love terminal, reading update notes and fighting with post-update disasters.

Using x compact

I have a couple of games that would run fine on linux if it wasnt for the anti cheat (which I TOTALLY understand and agree that we SHOULD have anticheat in multiplayer games) Example, rust. I can use rust on my steam deck but becayse I am not running windows natively, I cant load into any server, even if the server is local an the menu runs perfectly. That is one annoying thing about linux that does frustrate me, however, I am a linux noob and as I understand it, root level access of an application can be a no no.

Good man, thanks for speaking up! I've been trying to move to Linux since 2014 and only reason I might be able to finally stick with it is because I don't need to interact with Linux community, those people are delusional anti socials, but I guess it's a price you pay for being genius and sharing that with others. But that being said they're big donkey rears, now with AI tools I, a casual user, finally can setup Linux to work, because it does not work ! All the tech is there but Linux community refuses to interact with casual user even tho they state to thrive for a year of Linux desktop, which is lie too, they don't care about it. Linux is almost there honestly, mint looks so so good for user friendlyness it just need polish and then sweap of apps that works for creatives and it's gucci. But they're small team on low budget but still moving forward, they have the vision right I wish that wider Linux community would help them in development. Linux doesn't work unless all you need is browser, emails and music/video player then go for Linux mint 100% it is so good you wouldn't believe it.

I've been using Linux exclusively wherever I can. I love it and don't want any other system. You should probably stay away from Linux. It isn't for everyone, and sounds like it is not for you especially. I look for new videos of Linux all the time and the feed is constantly flooded with people complaining about Linux being too hard. It is like junk mail flooding your email. Stay in the walled garden of Apple or suffer through windows (which has it's own version of Linux now) and its never ending list of problems and security issues. just leave Linux to those who enjoy what Linux had to offer. It's really better for everyone.

For you people only, that small bus arrived (mac min) you can have all the ****ing ports

my esperience is so: used linux since 2019 but i kept one laptop with windows on it. this laptop has limited internet access and by limited this means: if a file or software is needed for the windows laptop i will use the linux machine to download the file, put it on usb and then plug said usb in to the laptop. i will not connect the laptop directly to the internet because windows is a contamination, windows is a security risk. it is to be treated accordingly.

These video cuts are extremely distracting.

Linux is not good for professional video editing. But I'm not sure most users need that kind of software. Most games, web browsers, emulation and everyday tasks work great. Yes, it does take some getting used to, but if you are not willing to do that, just use Windows. For me, I can't stand Windows anymore, so I have no choice. It's not that everyone has to switch to Linux. But everyone has a choice, and for some people it is worth it.

Just use KDE

Arch is for people who like to tinker. Just get Debian 12, Mint, or Ubuntu. Then you can continue having a mostly problem-free experience. Also snag an AMD 6xxx series GPU.

The reason your experience is horrible is because you're not trying to use it for sysadmin, engineering, etc type of work like you're supposed to. Manjaro is literally the best thing you could use as Arch for general usage. But to be fair even proprietary drivers work only best on Ubuntu/RHEL systems. To top that off, the Linux space was never meant for general users. It was meant for servers. Snaps from Ubuntu? Yeah they're meant to work best with server hardware.

Shouldn't use Arch. This is for people who can solve their own problems and know exactly what they are doing.. I use Mint... I've had no problems.. my computer is a tool to get 'stuff' done, with Linux Mint, this works... I'm 76 years old, yes I program and make 3D assets, for the last six years, using AMD CPU and AMD graphics card. My last Windows was Windows 7.... What ever OS gets the job done is the correct one for you.. Deal with your problems, as a growth/learning, experience... 🥳🥳

Linux is primarily a server OS, not a desktop one. Millions of dollara are poured into lonux development, but most of it goes to the server side.

gnome is the apple of linux, they take years to implement proper features because of many discussions before anything usually gets done, davinci resolve doesnt see the incentive of supporting linux properly so this isnt a linux problem, linux has the supported features for this to work and davinci could switch to a better package manager like flatpak, same goes for audacity, same goes for discord, we have thing called flatpak if you dont know also that can be installed on almost any distro and solves the depend hell, i use arch and use flatpak in combo so i dont deal with that crap, you also have to remember most people who are running linux arent going to be using davinci resolve or do certain things like in audacity, you can also solve one issue like discord with a application like vesktop that supports screensharing with audio, wayland, amd encoding i think we all know that linux is not perfect, but it is depending on the user, same goes for windows or macos my friend was bluescreening last week over a game and after many troubleshooting he gave up and installed linux/fedora for the first time and he is loving it, he doesnt do editing with professional applications so this doesnt matter the only way these issues will be solved is money and market share which is something linux lacks a LOT

Your first problem is that you don't even know what Linux is. Linux is not an operating system: it's a *kernel* . If you've used an Android phone, you've used Linux. Your second problem is that you are blaming everything you experience while running Linux on Linux. If you install some random program on Windows and it crashes constantly are you going to blame Windows or the program. All the problems you faced on the first half of the video are of GNOME, and you are blaming Linux. Here's a hint: don't use GNOME. The second half are problems with DaVinci Resolve. Why is it Linux's fault that they've done such a shitty job supporting Linux. Have you tried Steam? It works flawlessly because Valve has spent a lot of effort making it work correctly on Linux. Honestly it's really stupid to blame Linux when you yourself admit you are not a programmer, so you have no idea what was the problem.

another drop in the bucket Creators trying to use creative software on Linux and then telling us that we're all wrong for suggesting that people can use Linux as a general computing system. We understand that proprietary creative software doesn't often work. It is not recommended for people whose livelihood is entirely dependent on a proprietary ecosystem. I'm sorry that your experience wasn't great, but your experience is atypical of the average Linux user. It doesn't help *anyone* when you try to do unuspported things with your OS and then make a video to tell the world how bad that unsupported thing runs. The normal every day average joe desktop PC user just needs a web browser and a mail client because they don't WORK on their computer all day like some of us. Most people just consume streaming content and read news on their laptop, and there are hundreds of thousands of apps you can install at the drop of a hat on Linux for everyday computing needs. If they do work from it, 99% of that work is also through the web browser or a text editor. As far as gaming goes, it's actually incredible what proton will play, but it's not a perfect system and developers are less likely than ever to target native Linux executables thanks to how impressive proton really is. As you noticed, the main problem is generally nvidia drivers. In your case however, the main problem is Arch Linux. You expressed very clearly that you just want to USE your computer, not fix it all the time. You also said that people will come for you in the comments for picking the wrong distro. Sorry. I'm not blaming you for the mistake, but you can't want a laptop that Just Works and run it on Arch. That's not how reality folds. I don't mean to blame you for all the issues you dealt with, but proprietary creative software (adobe, davinci, affinity, autodesk, etc) is an unsupported use case and there's no way to slice "unsupported use case" such that you should be running Linux on your creative content workstation. And, I don't know who you're addressing in terms of Linux apologists. So far as my experience has been these past 5 years, Linux enthusiasts (not apologists, weird word to choose) instead are eager to work with you to solve those issues and overcome your problems with you. And no one is claiming you can uproot your life and move your entire workflow to Linux without a lot of headaches. I had to give up on a variety of games with unsupported anti-cheat for example. It took me many years to do that. You would have to adopt different editing software like Kdenlive or Openshot, which is (be honest) never something you would even consider doing, and even if you gave it a try you'd quit in 4 hours and switch back. Ain't a Linux problem. The problem ain't Linux.

Linux is bad for content creators but there's a lot of people out there who are using windows/macos as a chrome bootloader.

What watch are you wearing ?

Even programmers are not all-knowing. I don't want to fix other people's programs so that I can just start my own project. Linux on the server is great and if you user only a terminal with neovim it's great, but the desktop is a half finished mess. For the desktop I prefer Mac.

Bro conviced me to buy a thinkpad, thanks man!

With Thinkpads it's mostly used cheap ones.

I have it, black as well. Bought it two years ago for 100€, still love it, I use it as mp3 player, and to play some games sometimes, it can handle 10-15 min of modern high quality games at Ultra settings... It is a perfect phone. I have 128GB memory card in it.

The last moment of "I don't care about privacy and customization" is TRUE!!! I just want something that works out of the get go, not troubleshoot for hours! Only reason I want to move to Linux is because I hate Windows A.I and ads, but that's not enough for me to switch to Linux.

You know what? I'm a Linux fanboy, and yet I completely understand, relate to, and agree with, a lot of the points you made. The lack of standardisation, the difficulty in getting things to work, Nvidia drivers, it's all just a jumbled mess in a lot of ways and requires fixing, but I doubt it will happen without a ton of backlash from pretty much all current Linux users, and that's a fact. Because there is a solution, but it involves dumbing down and limiting Linux in some ways, which will end up annoying, upsetting and making existing users very angry because it WILL break their workflows. I'm talking about immutability, of course.

Use linux mint wtf? Using hyperland BTW

Skill issues /thread

I would like to say, there are issues right now (the x11 and wayland hell), but its all about distro hopping, i mean *REALLY* distro hopping, if you dont like a distro after you get the gist of it, try a different one, i distro hopped for a few weeks, and i found what i liked, a few months is what some people need, if you dont have the time, just stick to windows or mac. I'd personaly recommend dualbooting, but its not for everyone.

I don't use arch be the why because I just need some that works out of the box. Because I am just user

I have used linux for 25years and I can't remember when I could not scale the resolution via the GUI

I'm using Kubuntu (i tried zorin os and i didn't like it much, same with linux mint) and it works fine, maybe switch to a more stable distro than arch linux or switch to a diff desktop environment like KDE Plasma

I am on mint and it never crashed once in the last 10 months of use.Mind you, my laptop is a 2014 model with a 4th gen i3

I love the look and compactness of this phone

It's the classic chicken and egg problem. Linux needs more users so devs will start caring about supporting Linux properly and we need more software support so people will start using Linux.

Can you put your laptop specs here?