Ya, I also have the same interest.

Neither abstract details of specific cloud (AWS,Azure,etc) away and requires rewrite tons of stuff when move to a different cloud provider, so what's the point of DSL anyway? Also there is a problem when specifying infra for 100+ lambdas, EC2 instances, policies and other cloud c**p. It takes thousands files in TF that multiply for each environment or/and region. It's terrible especially when you could generate all of that using procedural approach with just one file. About software changes fast... some companies still using Java 8. Cloud providers changing much more often.

How did you get your hands on a Control Tower? Aren't those unavailable nowadays?

You sound so much like Neil Buchanan from Art Attack

The Linux desktop community needs to address the fragmentation across its numerous distributions, as this fragmentation hampers progress and diminishes the overall user experience. In my opinion, the Linux desktop reached its peak about 10 years ago, but it has been on a decline ever since. Meanwhile, Windows and macOS continue to gain ground by offering more cohesive ecosystems, consistent user experiences, and superior support for both hardware and software. As you mentioned in your video, being an experienced user and a professional, you're able to navigate and tackle many of the challenges Linux presents. However, not every user has the same level of expertise, and the obstacles can be daunting, especially when it comes to security. While Linux desktop is often hailed for its security, this reputation doesn't fully hold up under scrutiny in the (overall ) evolving tech landscape. The lack of centralized innovation and slow adoption of modern security practices leave Linux vulnerable in ways that many users overlook. Windows, for instance, has introduced advanced security features like Windows Defender Application Guard, SmartScreen filtering, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, which proactively block malware and protect users from online threats before they can cause harm. Linux desktop, by contrast, still relies heavily on the user's vigilance and expertise, as its security mechanisms are often fragmented and inconsistent across distributions. This reliance on user skill leaves significant gaps, especially for less experienced users. Additionally, Linux's slower adoption of security features such as sandboxing and real-time threat detection means it lags behind the proactive defenses found in modern Windows environments. In general, the Linux desktop is falling behind not only in terms of security but also in compatibility and hardware support. Microsoft and Apple are driving rapid innovation, introducing comprehensive security measures and ensuring seamless hardware-software integration, while Linux struggles with internal conflicts and fragmentation, which hinder its ability to adapt and improve.rapidly evolving. Each day that passes Linux desktop is falling behind more and more because they simply can't keep up with macos or windows. Linux desktop is getting denied more and more by corporate and other instances because its too fragmented. Valve just like Linux Torvalds mentioned might be the only one to safe Linux but I even question that. It's kind of sad because I always wanted the whole thing to work, because who doesn't dislike Windows? I wouldn't be surprised if the majority of the Linux distro's will disappear as time passes.

My favorite distribution and desktop is LMDE - Cinnamon is wonderful. Zorin too is fantastic. I really like Kubuntu and Tuxedo OS for Plasma. Tuxedo is unique in that it is similar to Mint. Stable base of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with the latest Plasma desktop but way more reliable than KDE Neon. Also, Flatpaks are pre installed and Snaps removed but available. I may go back to Tuxedo. Good video!

Why not?

I wish more control engineers would point out the elephant for us and that is there is almost no compatibility for our software on Linux. I typically run Unitronics VisiLogic, UniLogic and U90 Series IDE. Now I have been playing with Arduino's PLC IDE. None of these have worked for me on Linux. All my C++ programming I do on my Linux machine but unfortunately at this time I am bound to Microsoft for the foreseeable future. I truly wish someone could either find a way to run these programs or someone had a compatibility layer that would work. I know many engineers who would fully transition in an instant if it wasn't for this. The gaming community is starting to get aid on their transition to Linux with the help of Steam and Proton compatibility layer. We industrial automation guys need to start voicing this more and perhaps we may start being heard. If any Linux Gurus out there can make the mentioned programs work, please please please let me know!

Played with Linux since 95, full blown Linux exclusive user since 2009! Ditched Windows, and all of Microsoft including my hotmail account that was not owned by Microsoft when I got it in 95, most of google and others too, and have been happy as a bug in a rug with Arch Linux with the KDE Plasma DE! Now I am not a gamer and therefor have nothing to say about that, other than that some of the graphics processing innovation stemming from it has helped other apps too I do use.

Ive been using plasma for a VERY LONG time, huge fan. Im gaming on an RTX 4080 and OpenSuse is my primary daily driver gaming OS with WIndows11 as a backup for the few mods and games that don't work on Linux. Very happy with the current state on linux, its come a VERY long way, I have a Valve Index and I play a LOT of VR, steamVR used to be sketchy on LInux, some apps would work, others not, now most of my VR games are playable on Linux and that includes the high end ones like Hubris and Halflife Alyx.. I also play Star citizen on Linux and it just works.

great video!

Already made the switch in 2017 and never used it again. MX Linux Xfce.

You and I have very similar systems. Same GPU but I have a 5900X CPU. I've used Kubuntu a lot and it was my go to for a long time. But lately I am on Nobara because I game a lot and it has a bunch of settings preconfigured the way I like it. Star Citizen, for example works flawless on this system. Nobara is more bleeding edge than Ubuntu variants are. Once Windows 10 goes EOL I will be Linux full time again. I too have been using Linux off and off since the old Mandrake Linux days. If I could go back to Windows XP, I would. Those were the peak Windows days for me.

who wants not a AI on pc? so linux is nice you can put in it an AI and it runs really good and not so unsafe like wincrap11 REC all 🤣 easy stuff at linux command depends on terminal but: "update" or "sudo update" vs. winget update all WINNER IS LINUX! it just workes! at windows aka shell how was the name ehm... power shell or something idk anymore... it workes not really at all so its trash...

"Consul is .. well, google it"... ..ck outta here

My personal computer is a linux and my work computer is a windows. I use both. I love linux for its simplicity. I love windows for the games.

Interesting content. I like the idea to run a small own structure in WH. But before doing so I will check out your next videos first 😂

Kubuntu, good choice. Simple and easy. (Why are you using the lts edition? It is better to use the latest stable version.) As of now, ubuntu 24.10.

Still cant take linux users seriously when they complain about spyware and all this crap that isnt real or you can disable at setup, then pickup their android or iPhone that tracks literally everything and are ok with that.

Well, how about operators + external storage?

Compare what gnome disk manager (Better known simply as "Disks.") can do with what that pitiful similar-looking thing in Windows can do. The one included in most Linux distros and in the main software repositories of the others, such as Arch, wins that comparison hands down. For example, that Windows toy can't even restore a flash drive from an iso image. To switch to Linux from only having Windows machines, you have to find and install some third-party app to the system you're about to wipe to do the job. Disks in Linux not only does that, but it'll let you format the free space left over so you can save some cute file stored on that Windows system and store it back in your new home folder when you're done.

The only thing I can’t find a good solution for is electronically signing PDFs. How do others handle this?

You can do anything in the GUI in Linux, 90%+ of games are supported by steam/proton and anything else is a myth. Office 365 and Azure desktops can be used in a browser, Teams/VS Code/Edge are all natively supported and Adobe? Don’t give those scammers any more money use an alternative

I have an Asus Xonar Essence STX sound card, and in Windows, I always had to download drivers and install them manually for the card to be even recognized by Windows. And this has been from Windows 7 until now. But there is a known issue with the drivers for this Xonar card that occasionally, playing a streaming video file will result in a horrible screeching sound that can definitely damage your ears (if you're wearing headphones), and / or your speakers. It is so loud and unsettling, and I've been reading different message boards for years to find someone who has resolved the issue. No one has yet. And the issue also exists with Asus' new Xonar Essence STX II card. Keep in mind, these are $200+ audio cards. And are very good!! Meanwhile, in EVERY Linux distro I have run, it always has the drivers for this card, and that horrible screeching issue does not exist at all ever. Guess which OS I am using?

Welcone abroad, man. i wish you an enjoyable linux journey

yeah kde + ubuntu is great people rag on uibuntu a lot but stuff works well and is stable more often than not

If you dont need anything special OBS is overkill and not the greatest. GPU Screen Recorder works great and with any GPU and gives you hardware recording.

You got my thumbs up as soon as you said, "Windows can just suck my 🐧". Seriously, though, solid video.

The anti cheat thing is just so annoying. I still have a windows install because of that one game I love to play online uses anti cheat. I've even managed to get my favourite apps (affinity suite) working on my Mint system.

Linux for casual desktop use is fine for long, despite what _everyone_ says. Valve is the company that pushes desktop Linux currently the most, so as a gaming person, I quite happy.

try this one, built arch from scratch and went through kde, xfce and now gnome before ff16 updated and fixed its broken cutscenes lmao, 35th time was the charm just use proton experimental nothing else works

For many people, Linux is ready for the desktop since two decades already

Only Ai I want on my desktop is Ai I CONTROL. I like AI but run my own as mainly use it for Home assistant, as I am NOT allowing these megacorps to train their models off my data directly. been on Linux daily without windows for a year

welcome back to linux ?

Arch Linux is simply brilliant. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly

Welcome to Linux! You've made a great decision of trying Linux and that just shows that you care about not only yourself, but open source technologies too. In other words, great video!

Linux is not unix.

People say Arch is hard. I stayed away from it for years .. until about 9 months ago. I took the plunge and I guess it's having used Linux since the mid-90s and being an SRE ... I honestly found it easy and it's been very performant. I just got things the way I wanted them and committed the files to git. I don't tweak things, compile kernels weekly or all the other things folks who've run Linux for a week as a challenge seem to think is required. I don't evangelize Linux ... too old and lazy AF to do that. BUT neither will I take the ramblings of folks as gospel. Is Linux good for the masses? Maybe. I think once Nvidia gets their sh** together and makes things as easy as AMD does, it's probably. I know that KDE 6.x is absolutely ready.

Its not quite so smooth on Nvidia, Kubuntu is not the ideal choice because you'll be better off with KDE 6.1 or later and need to install nvidia drivers more up to date than the Ubuntu ones. At least if you want to use Wayland. A Fedora or Arch based distro works better in this case.

For me, the push away from Windows has to do with Microsoft turning their telemetry schemes into dependencies. For example, I just discovered that terminating the "MSEdge WebView2" process now disables some of the keys on my keyboard (chiefly F5, which I use to refresh web pages and Windows Explorer windows). Then it comes out that the Recall "Feature" is also a dependency which, if you disable it, breaks Windows Explorer even harder. Then realize that _only Windows_ has WebView2 as a dependency; Microsoft is baking their spyware into the OS -- so, nope. No more Windows.

SHOW US YOUR FETCH!

I’ve also found Kubuntu 24.04.1 to be most helpful as a daily driver and for gaming. So much so I set up a separate Steambox strictly on Kubuntu with big picture.

I'm at the start of a very ambitious idea, and watching videos like this are a part of my research. A lot of very good points, and many of the drawbacks of Linux you mentioned, I am attempting to solve to my idea I am planning on bringing to market in the near future. The idea is to provide Immutable Linux systems with fully atomic updates to mainly business and their developers, although a non-business consumer could use the service. The idea is to take all the software, business requirements, and such, and to create a customized streamlined Linux specific for their business needs. It would take the effort of research, troubleshooting, and mass-deploying Linux to an external party, me! The hope is that the customizations for each business won't be overly complicated, and I can use a base image to start, then pile any business specific requirements on top of that. Once the initial image is designed, providing the business with atomic updates each week, and minor changes to the software as time goes on, shouldn't be too much additional effort. The added advantage of this system is that it is essentially zero-install, the business receives an immutable and atomic system image, much like how Android updates are given, and to perform the update, the system image just needs to be replaced with the newest version, then boot into the new version. If there is a bug or issue with anything in the new version, the business can effortlessly just select the previously working system image from the boot menu and contact me with the issues to quickly resolve. If you have taken the time to read this entire comment, then here is a treat. I have put together a basic marketing site which goes through all these points, and I have been dogfooding it on my personal laptops, and it made upgrading to a brand new laptop I bought as easy as dding the .ISO system to a USB Stick, and booting it up on my new laptop, and everything I was already using on my old laptop is all ready to go without any additional installations or even configurations. It just works, which is what I'd love to bring into the Linux world to make Linux so much more accessible to businesses and consumers alike. Here's the almost complete marketing site, if you are curious on checking it out, or even downloading a demo image to boot in a VM or on real hardware to see it's potential. It is based on the Linux Live CD/DVD idea to bring both immutability and atomic updates, but with the added bonus in that the images can be fully customized and aren't just general purpose Live systems, like you'd normally see online. I'm hoping to have a demo video very soon to show the initial idea and how it could work in a business setting to streamline PCs in a business and for developers. Website: www.hackers-edge.com/

I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu mate for HTCP. Linux Mint for gaming and production

0:21 LOL!

Watching on KDE Neon Linux

I just switched back to Arch on my main rig about three weeks ago. I go back and forth on Linux, but the changes Microsoft wants to implement rub me the wrong way.

Linux on desktop is not there for the average "layman". Ubuntu is the closest, but Linux is still held back by the terminal. If you have to go into the terminal to do literally anything at all for any reason, the average person is just going to give up. They're not going to learn, they're going to go back to Windows.

Well when you launch a game takes 10 minutes for shaders… on win it launches instantly.. also does not need a bunch of workarounds for it to MAYBE work. I run linux servers and they are great but gaming is not a string point for linux its bad really bad

I've been using Linux since 10 years now. I use Windows only on work computers where company's apps require Windows to run. Managing files is so much better on Linux, so now, I do the necessary work in Windows and then switch to my personal, Linux laptop to do the file management work. Doing the same on Windows would be tedious, some things even impossible. The things I miss is the access to installed MS Office, as online version is too primitive. Libre Office is fine and does the job but it's not as advanced as MS Office.