I have some Linux problems, and I can't fix them all...

[@TheLinuxEXP]

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[@lotus-chain]

dude u have problems with apps, not with os. clickbait!

[@fredericjaquet3729]

Salut Nicolas ! Content que ta voix soit moins prise par la crève. Hier j'ai commandé un PC chez Tuxedo, que je voulais payer par carte de débit. Problème, il FAUT créer un compte paypal pour ça (ce qui implique de donner le numéro de ma carte d'identité !!!). J'ai quand même fait l'achat, mais je suis déçu qu'un constructeur orienté Linux, donc dont les clients sont enclins à préserver leur "privacy", ne permette pas de faire des achats chez eux directement par carte de crédit / débit sans passer par paypal. Il va me falloir détruire ce compte une fois le matériel reçu, et prendre un abonnement de type incogni pour effacer ces données qui ont fuité. Je pensais que ça pourrait t'intéresser et / ou intéresser tes spectateurs vu le problème de sécrité des données personnelles que ça implique. Sinon, j'ai eu Tuxedo computers au bout du fil pour une autre raison, et je leur ai fait mention que c'est par ta chaîne que je me suis orienté vers eux. Ils m'ont dit "ah oui, on le connais bien !". Voili voilou. Tout de bon à toi et salutations de Suisse !

[@LunarEchox]

best practice, keep your files and OS disk different so you can blow the OS away and reinstall without blinking

[@in-craig-ible6160]

Yeah, I've noticed the bugs in your audio for years. It makes you sound like you're French!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahah damn baguette bugs!

[@blackstar_1069]

Worse bug ever indeeds

[@hitechfl]

Some people, like me, might consider that a feature. I have a voice for print. 😂

[@kode4food]

He's French? Why doesn't he go on strike two or three times per week?

[@GoulartGH]

@@TheLinuxEXP buguettes?

[@peq42_]

I feel like the biggest problem with FOSS is: reporting bugs and making suggestions is difficult! The average user isn't used to git/github, they wont spend a bunch of time reading stuff to report a bug in a custom interface like that used in KDEs website. And even suggestions get ignored or immediately discarded because the community sometimes is just deaf to new or noob users

[@cameronbosch1213]

That's many GNOME devs in my experience... Also, KDE devs are so much better but their bug reporting system was a mess!

[@maya20484]

And more importantly, a lot of FOSS users and developers take pride in their choices, so (constructively) criticizing something about Linux or something on Linux is really hard - you get lots of people denying that there is an issue and completely dismiss your experience. You can't start fixing bugs or implementing suggestions without acknowledging that there is an issue at first place, which is something a lot of Linux users and developers refuse to do.

[@cameronbosch1213]

@maya20484 KDE developers do seem to listen to feedback though. GNOME developers on the other hand...

[@maya20484]

@@cameronbosch1213 there is a reason I use KDE... I love KDE and their developers' openness to criticism and ideas, it's a breath of fresh air imo.

[@sergeykish]

Reporting bugs on proprietary seems useless - trackers are often private, browseable trackers remove reported issues, no adequate search functionality. I had much more success with open source projects.

[@HORRORIPSVM]

Eight years working with Linux, Mint first then Ubuntu Studio. A few issues here and there, and way less now than at the beginning, but not ONCE a BSOD, not a single byte lost, not a single malware attack, and the few problems easily solved with help of the community -which, granted, some years ago used to be quite toxic but it's now way more cooperative.

[@christender3614]

@@HORRORIPSVM Plus no throwing away tech just because Redmond imposes random rules on which system can be updated.

[@sinan720]

I had the opposite experience. I installed Linux 2 weeks ago and i alredy had multiple black screens and glitches, my pc cannot wake up from hibernation, and google chromes hardware accelleration thread randomly crashes, causing video playback to lag. Spotify randomly stops playback. My bluetooth keyboard doesnt connect automatically and the linux bluetooth driver displays a error message on every boot. Upgrading to kernel 6.11.8 put me in an infinite boot loop so i had to restore my entire pc back to 6.11.7. I had loads of problems and i am only using linux for 2 weeks. EDIT: Yes, i am using the NVIDIA driver and Wayland, and thats probably the cause of most problems.

[@pathologicusmaximus]

@@sinan720 Damn! Which distro?

[@GBR9794]

@@sinan720 For most applications (Spotify, Chrome, Firefox, etc.), I just use flatpak with flatseal to contain any kind of bug from spreading. For hibernation on Linux, do not use it and do not enable it. It is guaranteed to cause problems and system instability. For bluetooth, I have the same problem so I stopped using it.

[@metaprotomecha]

Same question. Which distro?

[@bharatkumar6458]

if linux was developed for a single device it wouldnt had any of these problems because drivers for custom devices are basically reverse engineered , and some handful of developers cant cover like everything. until linux market share overnight jumps like 40% then hardware manufacturers will have to add the driver to linux proprietary / opensource.

[@mindaugasstankus5943]

Still be plenty problems with single device. OSes tailor made for single relatively simple computer/hardware (spacecraft, industrial computers, military etc) have plenty of problems. *desktop PC market share*, everything else already from 40% up to 100% and exception some niche places dominated by custom (RT)OSes. Problem no Linux [or insert you OS of choice]. Manufacture just crap at making hardware, writing device driver, firmware or giving away proper documentation someone to writer it. Multiple "standards", implementations, undocumented/locked firmware and plenty of other crap surround both hardware and software world.

[@lenOwOo]

Even console os made for a single device still have trouble once a while

[@pyepye-io4vu]

Even with high marketshare, manufacturers won't do that. They will expect Linux devs to do it. To understand, watch some factory tour videos. Then you'll get it. Hardware manufacturers have close to 0% Linux knowledge. (Same for game studios) Their entire factories are setup to test Windows only. They cannot disrupt that setup and lose millions of dollars (just from downtime) to support Linux.

[@machintrucGaming]

Computer not resuming from idle, computer not going to sleep, computer failling to wake from sleep. Gnome software failling to do anything, random keys with severe imput lag like 3+ seconds

[@fooboomoo]

sleep/wake are my biggest gripes and so hard to trouble shoot and each new kernel version has the potential to break everything again. i just leave my desktop on 24/7 and laptop stays on kernel 6.10

[@donkey7921]

Sleep is such a POS for me. It randomly doesn't wake from sleep, it restarts instead...

[@brianbowcutt249]

This nonsense is the only reason I bother with a Macbook, it only screws up the mouse cursor sometimes on resume with a running application instead of outright hanging/logging out of app/breaking ui elements and all the fun stuff the hardware wild west of window and linux generally throws at you. Still not great across all platforms.

[@DJgregBrown]

ON PC it fine for me, but then I fully shut down each time, I block suspend as power isn't a issue for my being main powered 7-25w. Also more security if you shut down instead of suspending as it take more steps to wake back up.

[@user-uf4lf2bp8t]

@@fooboomoo i had so many problems with sleep/idle and charge management on my old ideapad with linux. recently got a thinkpad x1 and it feels amazingly polished. sleep and idle work perfectly. it doesnt discharge at all during sleep or idle, unlike the ideapad, which would discharge within a few hours unless it was powered off. it doesnt overheat when charging like the ideapad. overall it feels like the software was MADE for the laptop.

[@raphajptube]

Given the level of effort hardware manufacturers give to Linux, I believe it's a miracle it can run so smooth.

[@DJDocsVideos]

It's simple, use server grade hardware when you can, avoid NVIDIA und the ALI Express garbage bin (unless you actually know what you are doing). There are compatibility lists out there for all kinds of hardware. I had a usb to sata device with a bridge chip from JMicron just the other week that was misbehaving. After 5 minutes it was clear that it needed a firmware update to run smoothly with a PI 4. Runs great ever since.

[@dashcharger24]

Especially Nvidia

[@jraulc]

@@DJDocsVideos Absolutely, for laptops the Lenovo Thinkpad series a lot of them works out of the box even the fingerprint reader if you go Ubuntu.

[@marksmithcollins]

Given the level of blaming except 'inner Linux code', I believe it's a miracle truly.

[@marksmithcollins]

@@DJDocsVideos Bend your purpose following your virtue

[@kevinkerkhoff6670]

I worked with all three major systems (Windows, Mac, Linux). The "good" news is everyone has issues. Pretty crazy considering that 20 years ago I never had any issues. To me it looks like everybody unlearned how audio can work easily.

[@reindeer8890]

Maybe it's feature creep. All of these substrates are getting moar and moar complicated.

[@sergeykish]

With Pipewire Linux Bluetooth audio works, HDMI audio works. I've noticed no issues. Windows has extremely high gain on Dell Latitude at least since 2014, and some Windows software resets level middle that's deafening.

[@ytbone9430]

@@reindeer8890 Certainly not feature creep, because current XFCE, KDE, Windows10 or whatever desktop does nothing extra compared to what we already had with Windows XP, despite the dark mode maybe.. o) Same goes for file managers in Linux e.g. (which are on 1994 level) or start menus, it's all ancient technology just changing appearance and losing features over time. If I look at "Directory Opus 5" (file manager back in the 90's on the Amiga), it's like the Linux developers never seen this or just slept for 25+ years. Directory Opus exists on Windows for 20+ years as well, and I am glad it's there, because the other things are just a pain in the rear to use for anybody with a little experience and background. Even the simple Windows Explorer beats all the file managers when it comes to basic tasks as browsing through a ton of text files or PDFs and previewing them in the preview pane (and you can page flip and scroll through the text, imagine that, whooa! o). I also did not find a text editor which beats EditPlus on Windows, Notepad++ is "meh", Kate is "well.. ", and VSCode is just ridiculous to use, compared to the real Visual Studio. Software is adopting (down) to peoples skill levels, it's not the other way around anymore. Can't speak vor the VI(m) crowd, I guess it cannot preview HTML you write, so it fails for me as well I guess, but I never really tried. I see no benefit in terminal applications, we moved away from the character based display and switched to rendering individual pixels for a reason. I kind of lost hope, but it's ok.. we had fun on computers 30 years ago, we can have fun and make use of them right now as well, it's just that I don't see anything improving for like 20 years in the grand scheme, individual nice applications pop up or enhance constantly (like Directory Opus), but in general. I mean look at Balena Etcher, it's a 100mb application with 3 buttons, we had an "image to device" writing application in a 5k terminal program back then, it was 10k if it included a GUI with 20 buttons and a preferences section with another 20 options (at least). It's sad to see how things get just big and bulky, but more simple at the same time.

[@ainmosni42]

To be fair, these days I have way more audio devices in my PC, while 20 years ago I had one single sound card.

[@DJDocsVideos]

Things get more complex and I'm pretty sure you do a lot more "exotic" things on your system than you did 20 years ago. Sound being easiy is clearly a false memory. I still remember a support case where a so called Sys Admin just installed every availabel sounddriver under windows AT THE SAME TIME and 100% reliably crashed the system every boot.

[@corvoattano8531]

I have the same webcam. It does work 4k plugged into a hub, but it MUST be a powered hub that ensure proper amps and volts (Watts) to all ports. Also you may want to stick with the thick usb cable from the original box or use one that is sure to handle the proper Watts.

[@sykoteddy]

I don't even know the cam but I don't think that the little amount of power being used by the cam isn't gonna be affected by the cable (I don't believe more than 2 amps is used by 5V USBs), instead it could be the shielding of the cable which also is making the cable thicker. It could of course still be both, the shielding and the cable itself. Most USB cables don't have shielding, or at least not much, and especially USB cables that is mainly used for power only.

[@corvoattano8531]

@ Perhaps. I am using the original thick one and it works 4k. But I know out of experience that USB cables are not the same, even if rated identically. You are correct about the hub being fed 5V, but in my case it is connected to a 3A charger, so it is a 15W feed. Thanks for your note. Have a great weekend

[@sykoteddy]

@@corvoattano8531 Weird enough, it doesn't necessarily have to mean that the hub accepts the whole amount. I don't really know how it works, but for example regarding powerbricks for laptops, they only draw what they need, and therefor universal adapters are possible. Have great one too!

[@ReidvinK]

@@sykoteddy usb cables come with a small chip that tells both devices which currents and modes it supports, if you ever had a samsung phone you might notice their charging has unusual settings so all your cables behave weirdly

[@sykoteddy]

@@ReidvinK I know some does, but I don't know if you can be sure all cables does. If it did, why does most cell phone manufacturers say you shouldn't use any other charger than the one that is coming with your phone? Better yet, a chip inside the device should be the only thing that is needed.. If all manufacturers took their responsibility serious there wouldn't exist USB-C cables that you have to turn 180 degrees to make them work.

[@techzone2009]

The community should report bugs to devs

[@notCAMD]

I like doing this.

[@jolness1]

We do. You should report bugs to devs.

[@Babobibanbonbin]

I honestly don't, i just rage quit

[@LELU-b2t]

@@Babobibanbonbin based

[@shib5267]

Ah yes I'm gonna report that Adobe photoshop doesn't work on linux. Hopefully it's fixed quickly 🙏

[@TommyCrosby]

This is the kind of videos we need more. People pushing Linux are too much over positive and based on the hate for Windows and just forget that no platform is perfect. Also, Linux users complaining about issues of their platform at least have a chance to be heard and making things change. This ain't something you will see on Windows/macOS side lol.

[@spitfire7170]

I try to be honest when talking about Linux but any time I talk about even a small little issue that took 3 minutes to resolve my friends say "see? This is why I still use windows" 😭

[@firestormjupiter]

meanwhile, me trying to fix CJK fonts on windows and spending 3 hours on microsoft forums, breaking a bunch of registry stuff, reverting all of it and solving nothing…

[@eat.a.dick.google]

As opposed to Windows users that live in a delusional bubble as to how crappy Windows is.

[@eat.a.dick.google]

@@firestormjupiter That's all too familiar to Windows users.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Usual reactions: "it works for me (you must be doing something wrong) " "Just don't use that" "Windows it's not better, for example..."

[@Nob1ej0n]

That webcam thing actually solved my issue. I was using a Logitech C920 for two years under Linux without issue. And then in the past couple weeks it stopped working. I thought it was an update that broke it, but you mentioned it wouldn't work in a USB hub, and mine has been plugged into a USB hub the whole time. Turns out plugging in my Elgato Stream Deck into the same hub sucked up all the power and prevented my webcam from working. Disconnecting the Stream Deck instantly fixed my camera issues. Glad you mentioned that. Learning that, I was able to muck about and get both working on the hub at the same time. I had some other stuff that didn't need to be plugged in there. So thanks for that!

[@Sailing-6655]

We use Linux on everything in our household. Except my wife's video editing laptop. She's been using Davinci Resolve under Windows and while on a trip with just my Fedora Laptop (she's very familiar with Linux) she decided to do some editing on my install of Resolve. Once she found out she can't edit directly from the camera files because of AAC audio, she laughed and said "nope, that's a joke"

[@gokhanersumer2273]

Its probably a catch-21 problem which is common on Linux. I was wondered why cant they just include aac support on Linux. Seems like its just $1 / copy but there is a $15K upfront processing fee. IDK how many copies they sold on Linux but apparently they dont think its worth to invest, not even just $15K

[@GBR9794]

@@gokhanersumer2273 what are you smoking?????? you don't need to buy any linux license.

[@334Bena]

@@GBR9794 Davinci does have a pro version, so yes it is about cost savings on BlackMagic's side because of how many pro licences they (didn't) sell on on Linux

[@gokhanersumer2273]

@@GBR9794 Wow! How did you know I'm a smoker ? Btw, Davinci Resolve has a paid version which still does not support AAC codec on Linux.

[@metaprotomecha]

Point taken but can't you just use ffmpeg to convert the audio codec to a supported format?

[@iaina3251]

Your brio webcam problem isn't just a linux issue. It's the same problem if you get on Windows too

[@elzabethtatcher9570]

yes, I thought that too. My guess is his USB hub has lower USB version than the cam itself, and that means lower throughput. Finding USB hub with decent USB cable included is not easy.

[@GBR9794]

@@elzabethtatcher9570 or just buy a dock from major brand and use thunderbolt4 cables which is usbc compatible.

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

I found out that had to use cameractls to turn off exposure priority in the webcam to expose 4k30, 1080@60, 720@90, 640@120 which I've been using with OpenTrack and AI track to do TrackIR injection with facial tracking instead

[@pacifico4999]

It's hard to find hubs that work well with webcams, let alone high end webcams. Definitely a hardware issue

[@Velai_Vai]

It's hard to know that when you're only using Linux

[@jackthatmonkey8994]

I have a laptop with Intel CPU/iGPU, i7 8th gen, and Nvidea Quadro P1000. Flawless install on Mint. Ridiculously flawless, even. I spend way less time f'ing around trying to get stuff to work. This includes games!

[@Osu930]

What kind of games? Aren't quadros workstation GPUs?

[@tablettablete186]

​@@Osu930Yes, quadros are workstation cards (but they aren't that different from consumer ones)

[@georgwarhead2801]

@@Osu930 well you can still game on them, they are just not that great at it

[@dafzor]

Had one too, couldn't get it to work with 3 monitors without screen corruption. Even with my new one with Intel Arc i still get screen corruption on chromium based apps, but at least it's "bearable".

[@jackthatmonkey8994]

@@Osu930 Deep Rock Galactic (iGPU only) Factorio GRIS Neva Civilization VI (windows ver took ~20 minutes) Supreme Commander Forged Alliance (took 1 hour, still less than on Windows) Valkyria Chronicles Deep Rock Galactic is the most demanding here, and requires the ironically more powerful Intel iGPU. The rest runs fine on either chiplet. The P1000 is connected to the HDMI port and runs as an accelerator otherwise

[@donkey7921]

The issue you're having the the webcam not working with the usb hub, might be because the usb hub doesn't carry enough power. I've had a similar issue with my microphone.

[@Sithhy]

That's the most likely explanation. I know that some USB hubs cannot supply enough power to have a mouse work properly without disconnecting from time to time, nevermind an actual webcam which requires much more power

[@hiddenlawyer]

I wonder if he checked his kernel log, I have noticed messages related to USB power in dmesg before that was super helpful...

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

1. I don't blame you for the audio woes. Linux doesn't really allow audio drivers to flag their preferred input/output channels or provide much additional context around hardware state. ALSA itself barely bothers with that critical information, and therefore, high-level audio engines like PipeWire and PulseAudio have to make a lot of educated guesses. All of the profile options displayed by the KDE audio configuration page are provided by pipewire-pulse, and inherited from PA. The "Pro Audio" profile just reveals all of the channels the driver has provided, and makes zero effort to label or categorize them in any way. In this mode, the input and output channels coming from apps don't get mapped automatically in any way to the hardware. Instead, you're expected to manually map them in any way you see fit by sending pactl commands (or the likes of qpwgraph). The Pro Audio mode is only intended for developers or audio people using really esoteric configurations. If you figure out a mapping that could be of use to the rest of the community, it would be nice of you to make a profile and contribute it for the rest of us. ALSA also doesn't _truly_ understand HDMI, so the switching logic that tries to remap the outputs after display devices change can, and often does fail. I don't think there's a solution here that doesn't involve rearchitecting every sound and GPU driver. 2. Huh. Never used a Mac keyboard, ever, so I have never had the need to investigate it. Given there's a driver flag to fix the layout, it's definitely a known issue with Apple keyboards specifically. Maybe they haven't figured out how to detect what variant of the keyboard it is, or maybe some part of the Mac setup process allows macOS to figure it out. The Bluetooth woes are because Linux itself does not attempt to find and reconnect any paired devices when Bluetooth goes live. Instead, it expects the peripherals themselves to do it. Most do, but many peripherals will only try to reconnect to their last host once after powering on. If Linux isn't up and ready at that moment, it will not happen. Both restarting the peripheral or manually clicking Connect in the Bluetooth panel will do it. There's probably a flag somewhere in bluedevil to fix it, but this doesn't bother me enough to investigate further. 3. This is probably Flatpak not expecting the new Vulkan backend, and the app permissions preventing GTK apps from properly accessing NVIDIA's Vulkan libraries. Probably won't stay broken for long, given the severity of the issue. The GTK framework Flatpak should've seen better testing before it was updated. 4. Launcher icons can be made available on the launcher menu by symlinking them to the standard folders. KDE might be following the symlink when creating the taskbar icon and making it point to the version-specific path. Or the filename might change between versions, I dunno. This might be solvable my making a new .desktop file that opens up the symlink itself, and then making a shortcut to that on your taskbar. This is probably easily fixable by a KDE developer. 5. Common issue with high-bandwidth USB devices. It's even explicitly referred to in the user manual of my old Oculus Rift. Never use bandwidth-sensitive USB devices through a hub. 6. Fuck these game studios. Seriously. One thing is to simply make a careless update and break Proton compatibility through an actual bug in Proton. Another is to actively block non-Windows users. Fortunately for me, I don't have any friends or anticheat games to worry about, and the kinds of games I do play are not mainstream enough to have these kinds of abominations added to them. But for everybody else, dualboot Windows, get a separate PC or get a gaming console. No way around shitty devs, and this sad trend in the gaming industry upsets me as much as it upsets anybody. Personally, I'm stuck with a really bothersome bug regarding Mesa, KWin and the i915 Intel GPU drivers. Some random Arch update messed with my graphics stack, and now my 6th-7th gen Intel CPUs have full, 3-second desktop freezes at random intervals that get worse under heavy load. I found that people did bug-report these, but they're still not fixed, and I have no idea where to even begin analyzing the issue.

[@popcat19]

Do you think using btrfs+snapper would make it convenient to troubleshoot some update-related issues?

[@joansparky4439]

Thx for posting this heap of insight

[@3lH4ck3rC0mf0r7]

​​​​​@@popcat19 I don't know. The issue began half a week before it was bugreported by someone else on the Mesa Gitlab. Arch keeps an archive of previous versions of packages, and you _can manually downgrade_ with some effort. It would've been feasible to bisect if it had been just 1 piece of software, but since it's a bug involving the interactions between 3 separate programs (the Linux kernel, Mesa and KWin), I unfortunately don't have the time to bisect my way through all the possible combinations of releases around the time the issues began and figure out what's to blame. Debugging something when it crashes is easy, but debugging a hang, especially a temporary one that might even be hardware or configuration-dependent, isn't. For starters, I don't even know if other people besides us reporting it were even able to reproduce it.

[@allanflippin2453]

Nick, This is why I'm subscribed to your channel. A few months back, you once asked "if you're not using Linux, I don't know why you're watching my videos?" Well, I'm not using Linux yet. I'm living on borrowed time with my Windows 10. Once it's out of maintenance I'll have to switch. I use Linux at work, but not really "use" it. I'm literate enough to navigate directories, run the software tools I need and get the results back to Windows as soon as possible. I've tried a couple times to do some Linux on my home system, but I wasn't really loving it. A big cause was the toxic Linux "community", full of RTFM types that think their precious Linux has no problems and other people are idiots. Your channel is consistently the opposite of this toxic environment. And that's why I watch, to educate myself for when the change has to take place. Also, I'm being optimistic that the Linux desktop experience has improved a lot since last I tried it.

[@sergeykish]

Copilot is not toxic. It helps me a lot with software development, should be as good for Linux novice. I have not encountered toxic community as I like RTFM, but today AI tools are like personal assistants.

[@sandman4you]

@allanflippin2453 , you have articulated one of the key issues working against what is probably the single best opportunity to grow the Linux user base ever presented, namely migration from Windows 10, prior to it's upcoming EOL. My only suggestion is to choose a beginner friendly distro (at least to start with) like ZorinOS, or Ubuntu for example, which are both noted for their user friendly communities, documentation, and forums.

[@3-dog-solution]

As a noob, these sound issues are driving me mad. Debian 12, (no sound-at all). Mint 22, (flat sound - not no stereo, but not clear either). Q4OS, (the sound works fine, but only once I use the inbuilt equaliser to open a central level bar), and no: I've no idea what the middle one does. Also, that GUI equaliser program isn't on any other distro. Linux isn't easy! Thanks for the confirmation that it isn't not only me having issues.

[@danison]

webcam issue sounds like a usb hub issue rather than a linux issue

[@dashcharger24]

Yeah, try to avoid them or buy a really good one which in most cases are externally powered.

[@cameronbosch1213]

16:01 You mean the company that can't even get their laptops' fingerprint sensors working when Framework can out of the box!?

[@uuu12343]

Framework is the only one in your dataset, a sample size of 1 doesnt mean shit in statistics, also, it uses windows

[@AstoundingAmelia]

​@@uuu12343it's made to work with both, in fact it's on their page

[@joshuawaterhousify]

​@uuu12343 Framework also apparently works on Linux with the fingerprint reader working though, which is what they were getting at. I don't have personal experience with that yet, but I've heard multiple reports of that being the case.

[@nadiaholmquist]

Absolutely agree with the Mac keyboard thing, the Danish Mac layout is a lot nicer to use in terms of placement of symbols compared to the typical PC one, but sadly there's no option for it at all on Linux :( I also really wish there was a way to let me use the left option/alt key to type alternate symbols like on macOS, it's a lot nicer for my fingers when typing brackets than having to stretch my right hand to reach for the AltGr key. And yes of course I know that I can use the US keyboard layout to have easier access to symbols for programming, but I feel like I really shouldn't have to switch away from my native language's keyboard layout to solve a problem that Mac keyboards already solved well long ago.

[@christender3614]

True. One could consider buying a mechanical keyboard and separate keycaps for your language and switches. Choose a model with VIA compatibility and it’s a breeze to set everything up to your liking. As I said, I agree with you, so it’s just an idea.

[@WyvernDotRed]

One workaround you could apply is using input-remapper, keyd or kmonad to make the left alt act as the right alt. It's a workaround and requires some setup, but it does work well in the end. I personally have input-remapper running anyway for a scrolling modifier for trackballs and additionally use it to add some Unix-layout like elements to my keyboard. Mainly remapping Caps Lock to Ctrl, pressing both shifts for Caps Lock, ` to Esc and Context to `.

[@lucidmoses]

The worst thing about linux over the years is that you can customize almost everything. Problem is, If you do then later updates to your system will slime the machine out of the blue as the distro's update process wasn't expecting the changes you made.

[@christender3614]

@@lucidmoses I switched from Mint to OpenSuse Tumbleweed for exactly that reason. Haven’t had to redo or reconfigure anything ever since. Yes there have been massive problems twice in two or three years, but all I ever had to do was to do a rollback, wait a few days and then run the updating process again, they always fixed quite fast.

[@RogueRen]

I've had weirdly less audio issues on Linux. On Windows, every update would completely nuke my audio setup back to default and too low of a bitrate for it to work.

[@Slugbunny]

The streamer's nightmare, happened to friends all the time. Windows updates, rebuild OBS. 💀

[@EmiyaSyahriel]

​@@Slugbunny rebuilding OBS on Windows every windows update? That's new, what thing that windows update may cause your friends to need to rebuild OBS, could it be driver-related?

[@OraOraOra]

11:01 I love the cut, feels so immersive. Great Video, as always!

[@Error_00101]

The logitech camera problem also happens on windows. (Had the same issue there) so no linux is not to blame here

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Ah interesting!

[@simply-the-max]

I have the "webcam issue" on my Mac, too. When I plug a microphone or webcam in, it only works when connected directly to the machine without a USB hub in between. However, it seems to depend on the hub. Some work fine, most don't.

[@uliycezar12]

13:46 the hub itself maybe the issue. I had problem with a camera recording max 30fps via an usb-a to usb-c adapter. When I tried with another adapter of better quality the fps maxed out at 170, which it is supposed to be. So the hub maybe the problem.

[@sykoteddy]

I don't know if this can have anything to do with this problem, but I've noticed that some manufacturers don't realize that a USB-C is supposed to be working exactly the same, no matter how you put it in. I have too many times had to turn it 180 degrees and then it worked. When it don't work it can crash the whole computer and other problems can appear. God forbid it actually toasts your hardware.

[@pacifico4999]

​@@sykoteddythere have been cases of USB-C devices killing computers (Sabrent 2-Port USB Type-C KVM Switch) Many USB-C cables also killed phones back in 2016

[@sykoteddy]

@@pacifico4999 Yea it doesn't suprise me one bit. Maybe that Sabrent was one of them, I thought they were more of a quality brand because of their high price.

[@JacobOvergaardMadsen]

Thanks for letting me know, that I'm not the only one having struggled with audio on various Linux distributions. All I wanted was to get AC3 output. I wish installing PulseAudio / Pipewire on Arch Linux would install the alsa_plugins package as default. That would really have saved me a lot of time ... But - I now know, that "a52" and "ac3" mean the same - and I think I also now have a quite good idea of how the whole Pipewire / PulseAudio / ALSA system works ...

[@AddyEspresso]

I don't have any problems with linux but my art tablet, graphics card and microphone audio interface don't work natively. Linux needs more people reverse engineering devices and making drivers for them

[@ghost_of_you_tube]

How ? What learn?

[@kurushimee]

I bought a new laptop, and it turned out that a fix for it's audio card drivers was "planned" to be upstreamed for like 2 years already. So, it doesn't work still

[@m4sterred853]

Check if your tablet is supported on OpenTabletDriver. There are already a lot of them.

[@user-uf4lf2bp8t]

linux doesnt need more reverse engineering, hardware manufacturers need to stop screwing the people who pay their bills.

[@AddyEspresso]

@ challenge impossible

[@akinovax]

I would've loved a longer video, I need to take notes 📑 Seriously, keep up the videos!

[@Jean-PhilippeDube-Goupil]

5:46 As French is also my main langage, I know the pain of it all. But you know whats worse ? Using a French Canadian layout. Not only this standalone and non-mac type of keyboard is hard to find in North America (QWERTY with French symbols) but if you stick with a regular English Canadian keyboard you have to custom your keys with an apps like Autokey just to type « ».

[@legojenn]

Tabarnak!

[@genxguy8404]

I have also faced Audio issues in the past. I have searched for the solution in the forums(ubuntu, linux mint, others). One of the solution worked for me, it is by making tweaks in BIOS to select audio settings to the correct interface(HD audio or AC 97), by selecting the right interface in BIOS made my setup quite useful. I think similarly we could figure out solution for such audio issue. The main issue with using GNU/linux is not finding solution right away, however, I hope you will find resolution of your issue. Good Luck. 👍

[@DJDocsVideos]

On my old DELL Laptop the NVIDIA HDMI audio port started randomly misbehaving after sleep/wakeup cicles under WIN 10, Win 11 and Debian (KDE, bookworm) so I, as usual, blame NVIDIA.

[@genxguy8404]

@@DJDocsVideos Yes, I agree. Because I had a low profile Nvidia gpu on my old pc, there was no issue with the drivers when I use it on windows, but whenever I install any gnu/linux distros there will be issues such as choppy graphics, audio doesn't feel that great as compared to windows and so on. I think that there might be no issues or less issues when we are using AMD gpu on our rig.

[@prakhars962]

Linux almost gave me a heart attack. I used LyX to write my PhD thesis. When I was almost halfway writing my 270 pages thesis, some dependency decided to update itself on Ubuntu 22.04. Which stopped compiling my Phd thesis. After recovering from the sudden shock, I learnt docker and used it to create Ubuntu 20.04 docker image with LyX. And then I used that docker image to write my thesis in remaining 3 months.

[@catto-from-heaven]

--That's a skill issue for not having your thesis synced on a cloud service--

[@prakhars962]

@@catto-from-heaven i had my thesis. the problem is, it was not compiling due to some dependency update. I can't submit half thesis.

[@catto-from-heaven]

@@prakhars962 Oh, my bad. I misunderstood as if you almost lost your thesis

[@rigierish3807]

Never. NEVER use automatic update. Even when I was still using Windows, I had problems with the updates happening at random times, particularly at times I didn't want it to happen. That's why I always deactivated it on Windows and I went out of my way to force disable automatic update.

[@CosmicCitiZenOfficial]

I am all murica windows 🙌🙌

[@aqua-bery]

The webcam thing seems like a bandwith issue even when there's nothing else plugged in it. The usb hub might not support the required usb speeds or it could have internal logic that manages usb bandwidth requests and it has a weird internal limit.

[@fooboomoo]

Lot's more work than window or osx, but i would never want to trade the UI/UX again. I like Gnome (I know, I am weird). I have disliked the windows UI with a passion since win95, stuck to DOS for as long as possible, went OSX with the first Intel Mac and to linux in 2013. Times are much better now!

[@michadybczak4862]

When dealing with Linux systems, we forget all the issues we had on Windows. Moreover, there were usually no clear solution, or they were very hard to track. Plus, Windows breaking itself without doing nothing, You can install Windows, not mess with it at all, just new browser, steam and some VERY basic apps, like VLC and so on. Then you update the system and... it can't. Then at some point it randomly resolves the problem and the with the next update, you have another problem. I also experienced a situation when Windows update broke completely system. Again, clean system, without much personalization. Games also crash and have various problems on Windows.

[@maya20484]

There are issues in Windows too, but the amount of issues is the difference. There still are some issues with basics that simply don't happen on Windows and macOS, and these can only be fixed if we acknowledge these issues and stop denying them.

[@michadybczak4862]

@@maya20484 Sure, but my point was, we tend to forget that the other side also has problems, although different ones. Simply, grass is always greener on the other side. I agree that many basic things works better on Windows, but there are plenty of basic things that work better on Linux. I'm currently working on both Windows and Linux. While I need windows for company apps, all other works I do on Linux, because managing files and images is superior. Sure, some of those things can be done in Windows as well, but not as convenient, easy or quick. Mass change names, mass convert images, filters, searches - all of that without installing some doubtful software which is often filled with Ads or limits. With better clipboard on Linux - it all adds up. Doing the same things on Windows would require more work or special setup.

[@BeefIngot]

This is some Linux propaganda. I now daily Linux but still have a Windows system. Windows has been far more consistent, largely because it has a bigger user base and Devs support it better but also because it doesn't have the toxic positivity of many Linux communities.

[@dafzor]

And I've experienced situation where an Update broke my Linux install to the point of having to chroot. If you update, things may break, be it Windows, MacOS or Linux

[@maya20484]

@@michadybczak4862 again yes other side have problems too, but (imo) not to the degree of Linux when in terms of basic desktop experience. So yes the grass really is greener on the other side in some aspects (like basic desktop experience). Either case that wasn't even my point, my point is that we are in a video about desktop Linux issues and the reaction is already "other OSes have issues too". Duh yes they do, but this is a video about Linux issues, yet we end up talking about the issues of anything but Linux. This simply does not happen when someone talks about issues in other OSes, and it is something us Linux users should overcome if we want things to get better. Because an issue can't be solved without being acknowledged and discussed first.

[@VIKINGSS3]

Actually those annoying issues caused by the GTK update aren't limited to just nvidia. They f-ed me up pretty good for a while too and I run arch on a amd gpu.

[@mhult5873]

Yes, these problems you mention in your video needs to be fixed within Linux. For info: in every distro I installed the software updater states everything is "up to date" when I start the updater. I have to manually press "check" to get a list of updates. Another problem: Creative Soundblaster AE5-Plus needs to be manually unmuted in Alsamixer after -every- reboot. Thank you for another, as always, great video! Br //M

[@TheEvertw]

I have recently been forced to work with Windows again, after a long hiatus, and I am shocked. Windows has not progressed at al the past decade, all the same old problems still persist, with some new ones to boot. Linux right now is simply better on all fronts. The software is better, the multi-media is better, the underlying OS is better. It is simply a better experience all ways around.

[@nimlouth]

exactly this has been my experience too, even for gaming.

[@deadinside777]

Been using Linux for several years now as my main OS. Problems have always been a given, but usually you can fix them or find workarounds until a proper fix gets released. Reporting problems can be a hassle however. First you have to figure out what the actual problem is, then find out to who report it. Can't tell you how many times I have been told "it's not a problem on our part, you should report it to X instead" only to then go to X and be told "please report the issue to Y". Fair enough, but it can be frustrating at times. I'm a fairly technical guy so I don't mind and usually do find a solution, but I can't imagine someone less technically inclined having a good time.

[@savagepro9060]

"RTFM" is the worse thing a newbie can experience. Linux's MAN files are already a mad-place just to navigate, much less understand and apply! Pass your Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam.

[@DxBlack]

And pages and pages and pages of flags with similar names or meanings but do different things just drive people to demand GUIs. gallery-dl or yt-dlp come to mind...needing an entire documentation to download something the way you need it WHERE you need it to couldn't possibly be made more convoluted when you also most likely need to configure your task in a file in a specific place....

[@ghost_of_you_tube]

Best show arch wiki

[@Edde1018]

tldr program

[@christender3614]

They are some nice tools for making man pages more accessible (there’s a great video from Bread on Penguins on that topic). But I have to admit that when I really have a problem (as opposed to when I just want to find out how to use a new CLI program) I just ask ChatGPT. It’s so easy to solve (many) Linux problems with AI.

[@toxiccan175]

If you don’t want to RTFM, use a noob distribution. It’s your job to educate yourself if you want to use advanced and complicated software

[@cubeskywalker4953]

Appreciate you're being honest about this. It makes me feel better about my stupid moments when I can't figure something out on my own.

[@retusrieben6487]

I switched from Windows 11 to Ubuntu LTS some months ago. I can not even boot it up… so my pc is now just a heater in my room until I have the time to fix it… haha xD

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Hahah that’s a much bigger issue than what I’ve ever had

[@cyberturkey77]

I'll come and fix it for free if you play Halo with me

[@georgechertkov4140]

@@cyberturkey77 the least based linux user

[@ghost_of_you_tube]

Ubuntu it's not more the "recommended" first. Mint is the main player now.

[@georgechertkov4140]

probably this cutie-patootie windows just randomly nuked an initial partition, responsible for dual-booting. you need to grab your flash with ubuntu and run grub-repair, you can find instruction on the first google page

[@danielagustinmorales5696]

Thanks for the sound fix!

[@liarus]

2:09 switch to tenacity !

[@davguev]

3:50 I gave up with Audacity. Switched to REAPER. 14:30 And this is something some people just don't understand. Friends. They're the reason why I keep a Windows partition as well.

[@TheWilldrick]

Nick, IDK if this affects KDE the same way it does on gnome, but if you go to pavucontrol you can disable the input and output devices that you don't use, and you can pick a specific profile so the DE always picks those first. I was having similar issues with my HDMI audio receiver, HDMI TV (I use as a monitor on a separate HDMI) and BT headphones. Hope it works for you!

[@chili209]

I have also experienced audio issues recently. My microphone wasn't working until I changed some settings and then changed them back after every reboot. It was fixed recently with an update but I had to revert back updates and keep myself from updating for weeks at a time because of similar audio issues. Most notably when all my audio devices just disappeared for no reason. These issues are really annoying when you have to work and attend meetings and I am using a tuxedo computer so hardware wise it should be linux friendly. If we could just have stable hardware support and a working ui (looking at you network-manager with vpns) things would be much better.

[@techzone2009]

The company/users should support devs working on proton GE or other open source software developers.

[@dashcharger24]

The HDMI audio bug is something with Pipewire if I'm not mistaken. You could report it, but I actually believe it's correct behavior, as your HDMI can handle audio as well. Did you checked if you monitor has audio support? If so, try to disable that and see if the problem goes away. In my case I don't have this bug anymore on Gnome, but indeed needed to switch off HDMI audio as well, because my monitor would unmute the inbuilt speakers everytime.

[@IncertusetNescio]

My main issues with Linux so far are Win. compatibility related (games, a few software), a random wifi driver, my ported Win11 VM for some reason, Nvidia of course, and the odd software bug (often enough related to Nvidia). Nothing deal-breaking like W11 and its updates, un-asked-for features (recall + copilot to start, bitlocker ON by default for another), spyware, and choices made for me against my will WITH NO PROMPT/ASK. I'll put up with incidental bugs over deliberately adversarial problems. Tis also cool to see development happen on a weekly basis to make the ecosystem better! (flatpaks, appimages, Wayland dev time speeding up, Nvidia begrudgingly cooperating, Valve contributing to the Linux ecosystem heavily to improve game and software compatibility). 3-5 years ago Linux was harder to use for people who "just wanted to use their computer with minimal fuss". It's 80-90% there now and getting better often.

[@alessandrobalducci4961]

The problem with flatpaks not opening with the vulkan renderer was apparently due to a bug in the nvidia driver that was triggered after the update to GNOME 47 (many flatpaks use the GNOME 47 runtime even if you are on different versions/desktop environments). The problem should be solved on the latest nvidia driver (version 565), if you update, the workaround should no longer be necessary.

[@nikunjkhangwal]

And these are basic functionalities. One of major hurdles against mainstream desktop linux goal.

[@Juujian]

Well you would have to weigh it against Windows issues with basic functionalities. Or rather their "features," like build in advertising.

[@davguev]

@@Juujian Yes. And the vast majority of people prefer basic functionalities working at the cost of those "features".

[@nou4605]

You are acting like Windows doesn’t have issues. Why do people expect Linux to be perfect if it wants to replace Windows? That’s just silly. It will work just fine for many people. If people just want any possible excuse to remain on Windows then that’s their problem.

[@FredPilcher]

This is good stuff. No system is immune to bugs, and it's interesting to hear about what people are experiencing.

[@whiskeyshots]

9:14 Hello! IT. Have you tried turning it off and back on again?

[@sandman4you]

LOL!

[@markjones2349]

Yeah I run Debian so I NEVER have issues with anything EVER. Love it!!! So so many people run distros that are rolling or are based on other distros that are based on not so thoroughly tested packages and then wonder why shit breaks or acts funny for no good reason. I've never understood it. People love the new shiny broken things apparently.

[@badger-mr1fi]

Bluetooth is a total disaster on Linux. I have to remove the device the list of known devices and then repair. And that is everytime I want to use a bluetooth device.

[@TheEvertw]

No my experience. BT support on my Linux laptop is superior over the support in Windows 11. For instance, on Linux, I can happily share my headset with my laptop and my phone at the same time. Not on Windows. Windows hogs the headset and locks the phone out.

[@nrzx929]

Hey Nick, This keyboard issue (exactly this) happens also if you connect a simple Windows layout keyboard to a Mac. If I remember correctly the solution is very simple: You need to delete the connection between keyboard and computer than pair again (maybe 2 times..). After this it will work correctly every time ..on Mac. So you could try it.

[@Sjoerd1993]

10:30 Fedora is now shipping the 565 drivers that have solved this issue. Honestly the 560 drivers were a clusterfuck. This was not a minor issue, it completely broke hybrid laptops on GNOME 47. This should not have shipped in the first place.

[@sandman4you]

Wow. Thanks for that tip.

[@cheebadigga4092]

Some thoughs: - HDA NVidia / Pro Audio: Found an Arch Linux forums thread 'No audio over HDA nvidia' from 2021: 'SpiceyMilkUp' wrote what worked for them in 2022. Maybe try it out on your machine? Basically 2 'sudo echo' commands like what fixed your keyboard layout. Make sure to update-initramfs and reboot afterwards of course. It would be very interesting to see if the issue persists and if it therefore truly is 'the fix' - because then alsa is the culprit and the user must always teach it how to (not) load certain settings for certain modules. - Anytype panel integration: Had this problem with Google Chrome for years, and eventually it fixed itself. I guess it's an issue on the developer and/or KDE/Flatpak packaging side of things.

[@bylok92]

It's not perfect but it's honest work not like windows or apple

[@ryan_nstuff]

For the webcam issue, have you verified that your usb hub is 3.1? If it was a 2.0 hub or something of the like, everything else would probably work(other than storage being slow). Looking back at timestamp 4:37 I can see the usb up and it looks like an older usb 2.0 hub. I'd almost bet money that that's exactly what it is and not a linux problem.

[@dhillaz]

It's taken me years to realize as an end user - don't customize anything unless it's really important to you (regardless of your OS). I know it takes the fun away, but every time you alter something you are walking down streets that fewer and fewer other people have traveled, making it more likely others don't have a map, and aren't interested in making one either. I don't like change, but I've learned it's less work to adapt to hardware and software trends than it is to problem solve all the time. Much respect to those who enjoy tinkering with their OS, but for me it's a tool to assist me with my hobbies as opposed to a hobby itself.

[@dullahangaming5107]

Kernel 6.11 causes freezes after waking from sleep. Sad it hasn't been fixed in 6 months, and this was after it was broken just a year before and finally fixed.

[@thingsiplay]

Most problems in Linux can be traced back to Nvidia.

[@user-uf4lf2bp8t]

not really. most problems can be traced back to hardware manufacturers in general though.

[@thingsiplay]

@@user-uf4lf2bp8t Nvidia is a special offender, because they have a huge market share and for long time didn't care about Linux and Open Source. Its gotten Way* better (see what I did there?). Nvidia is the worst. It's not even close or funny anymore.

[@resolvanlemmy]

"Nvidia, f*** you" -Linus Torvalds (the creator of the Linux kernel)

[@foldionepapyrus3441]

@@user-uf4lf2bp8t With how few chipsets get into most hardware devices and most manufacturers at least putting in some effort most hardware does just work these days - not all, but most will work at least for the basic feature set. Where Nvidia stuff to get working at all tends to actively break the system as a whole, maybe not immediately but at some point in the near future...

[@mikespangler98]

Oh yes, the DRM that is not digital rights management. How to edit grub when your screen is totally black. What joy that was.

[@TranquilSeaOfMath]

Waking up from idle and getting past the security feature on a certain work printer are two issues I haven't overcome. I do like the flexibility that I have to do my own modifications, on my own machine, though. I also don't have some of the big tech oversight.

[@Slugbunny]

Audio: Very rarely, my desktop speakers will flip their channels. Rarely, some apps don't show in the mixer. :/ Keyboard: Technical symbols are a pain to input. So much so that I just copy-paste from a file like a caveman now. Not job-ready. :( Game compatibility: 9/10 updates bring bigger and better things. 1/10 tanks Helldivers 2. Other games more stable. :) Summary: I feel you on Garuda/KDE! Some systems are a little more chaotic than one would expect. Arch wiki ftw (once you learn to interpret their language and methods)

[@cameronbosch1213]

The funny thing is I had something similar with one of my tablets originally working properly under Linux but after a kernel update, the speakers won't go below 100% unless they're muted. Not great.

[@fooboomoo]

their wiki was the reason i went arch. i thought, with such good docs the distro can't be half bad.

[@fooboomoo]

​@@cameronbosch1213yea, kernel updates breaking things are my biggest annoyance. 6.10.x suspend/wake working perfectly on my desktop and laptop. completely broken on 6.11.x and 6.12.x. Always crossing my fingers on each update.

[@GapRecordingsNamibia]

So, on the webcam thing that is not a linux issue it is a hub port bandwidth limitation, it needs the full USB3 bandwidth to be able to run at 60FPS, as soon as it shares bandwidth with another device it has to drop it's frame rate because the data transfer becomes less when other devices are plugged in, hence the hub will reduce the amount of bandwidth that each device can use to accommodate all the devices the hub has space for. Windows will also do this, it is a hardware issue not software and there is no way around this, this is just how the hub works.

[@TroubledTrooper]

I feel like old heads need to hear this. The older Linux users get upset when people complain now because they remember how nightmarish a lot of Linux stuff used to be and so it feels like you are denying that Linux is workable which nobody is doing.

[@paolozago6123]

I agree, past are the times where I had to edit my monitor timing definition files to get Matrox graphics card to output correctly on my CRT under Mandrake Linux, today Linux is much easier and much "smoother", but with great smoothness come great responsibilities, because more people will start using it and they ask it to be _at least_ on par with Windows. And Linux is way ahead of windows in many cases, but if my bluetooth headphones don't connect, or my audio is jerky for some reason, the general user is going to complain with a good reason

[@joshua_lee732]

With wireplumber you can disable outputs and channels with priorities, but it can only be done via config file

[@gregf9160]

I must be blessed ... in 16 years of using Linux, I've never had any issues with audio, video, USB accessories like printers or scanners. I know they exist, but somehow all the hardware has _just worked_ These issues also exist for Windows users, and I've known far more of them complaining about this than Linux users. 🤷‍♂ A lot of these issues are down to the applications, rather than Linux itself, so _always_ feedback to the developers. If the application is any good, they should fix it pretty fast. If not, it's probably not worth using.

[@MutleeIsTheAntiGod]

I have a printer that gives me problems on both of my Win10 computers so it isn't just a Linux thing lol But yeah, count yourself as blessed

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@MutleeIsTheAntiGodPrinters are actually easier on Linux thanks to CUPS (for the most part).

[@C.Vitalizio]

As much as I love Linux, it's just not fair to compare it to windows. Most if not all hardware and software manufacturers make their product with windows in mind. The complaining about windows usually have more to do with the spyware it has become than anything else but good for you if you're blessed that way.

[@christender3614]

It’s extremely important to check for full Linux compatibility - ie including software and not just drivers - when buying new stuff like printers. Sure, that doesn’t help for what you’ve already got, but it’s important anyway. Though I got so fed up with Epson’s Linux software that I prefer printing and scanning from CLI now.

[@hollyc5417]

Bs

[@JollyDigitalServices]

Things were a lot more problematic in the 1990s. Today's distros are lightyears away from those days, thank god and thanks to all the developers for all their hard work.

[@pakhyeoncheol]

TLE: tries hyprland TLE: guys my setup is broken

[@Wkaelx]

>Tries arch >PC doesn't boot >Cries

[@adamk.7177]

@@Wkaelx just rebuild the kernel and don't change the grub configuration file unless you know what you're doing.. at least, in my experience 😂

[@GoldenAdhesive]

​​@@adamk.7177 I manually set up my drive mounting as KDE wasn't connecting the drives correctly. Safe to say I needed a usb bootable to fix my mess up 😂

[@mathisbuilder]

WHEN DID HE TRY HYPRLAND???

[@mchenrynick]

The biggest Linux bug I experienced this year was Audacity 3.6.1 as a Flatpak install. As you zoom in or out in the waveform, it will randomly disappear and all you'll see is the background. Change from regular window to fullscreen, it is visible again. Zoom again and it will randomly disappear again! Switch back to regular window size and the waveform is back. This was the #1 driving force to get me on Linux Mint 22, with the system package locked on version 3.4.2. I don't care that it's no longer the most recent version, just that it works without frustration!

[@pyepye-io4vu]

Don't use Flatpak.

[@mchenrynick]

@@pyepye-io4vuI don't have anything as a Flatpak now. This bug appeared when Audacity updated to 3.6.1. Even as an AppImage, you'll find the bug in this version.

[@avidwriter2882]

I used windows 3.1, 95, 98, XP, 7, 10 then 11. Yea it's not smooth always there either. However linux is the half year or so I've used it has probably been "smoother" then years of Window$ for a lot of reasons.

[@fooboomoo]

yea, "smooth" is a combination of many factors. all in all linux has been much smoother for me than win or osx.

[@kurushimee]

With a small exception of Windows 7. I dislike new Windows versions, I really like Linux (even though it's been a hella rough ride for me), but one OS that stays #1 in my heart will always be Windows 7. It was a simpler time back then.

[@borchen0]

In Windows I had a similar problem like your AppImage-icon problem; after updating Firefox the icon in the taskbar didn't function anymore and I had to remove it and put a new one in the Taskbar. The problem never occurred after updating Thunderbird...

[@noxiousophidian9634]

'hardware meant to run linux' using nvidia is just dumb.

[@BillyLavoie]

While I don’t disagree, they unfortunately have cornered the high end GPU market

[@Rafael-Morais]

Sometimes, Nvidia is cheaper than an AMD equivalent. At least that's my case when buying a new PC after switching to Linux years ago.

[@RandomGeometryDashStuff]

04:08 qpwgraph will show all pipewire links

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

There’s no such thing as an operating system with no problems.

[@Sithhy]

There is no such thing as code without bugs

[@veryCreativeName0001-zv1ir]

but there are OSes that just work and those that don't I've used macOS , windows & linux for a while now and linux is just sometimes irritating to use it's just wayy better to use a linux container inside docker on top of macos/windows

[@JamesJacob-lr5gt]

linux has much more problems

[@UltraCenterHQ]

Reducing the problem is the point. Leaving it "as it is" is just dumb

[@JeffHeon]

I’ve used an old Mac external keyboard with my windows work laptop till it broke (a good ten years) and I used an old Mac bluetooth keyboard (AA batteries) on an old iMac repurposed with Linux Mint for several years. Now, it’s being used on a windows machine again. In its place, I now use a keychron keyboard, in Mac mode, on Linux.

[@kittikajorns1811]

Linux dev see those problems are user's problems because they don't read documents well enough. In Linux, problem is program does not work as dev specification. It does not serve user requirement. From that Linux philosophy, Windows and Mac always win on most users forever.

[@duckrutt]

Key mapping can be fun. Swapping someones keys to be alphabetical and remapping so it worked the way it looked is always a good time.

[@Ex_impius]

2003 for me

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Nice!

[@Ex_impius]

I remember having to use Wifi driver wrappers to make windows drivers work on Linux because there where only a few wireless NICs that had native drivers on Linux!

[@UltraZelda64]

I recall getting interested in Linux by about 2002, toying around with it and trying to learn it using mostly live CDs and research/reading for about a year or two, dual booting by 2004, and finally wiping my hard drive and going all the way in 2006. Back then virtualization was only realistically possible for CLI installs due to hardware constraints; only had maybe 256 MB RAM to work with. The good old days... Zenwalk was the first distro I chose, and it's unfortunate that it just sucks now. Linux distributions have come a long way over the last couple decades, and so many have come and gone.

[@FlameSoulis]

For me, my Dell laptop's headset port: for the longest time, I couldn't use a headset, only headphones. Turns out, Dell's wiring is weird and with a single line, you can tell the audio manager to 'use the Dell profile" which then fixes it. At the same time, the webcams are a lost cause, being similar to a MS Surface. As for my gaming laptop, it has been much smoother sailing, but KDE's management issues make me want to just get back into coding and just fix the issue so I can stop worrying about it.

[@RealTechnoPanda]

The last time I used Linux was in the year 2003. I'm glad to find out that none of the problems have been fixed! Same old issues that I encountered in 2003 😂

[@scarm_rune]

they get closed by entitled devs because you didnt make an essay describing a small problem

[@DriftingSands]

The logitec webcam issue is likely the USB-hub's fault. You need to use USB 3.0 (I think) in order to stream the 4k video from the webcam. Older USB version are too slow. You Hub might actually be okay to do this. I see plenty of hubs that have one or two 3.0 ports, and four 2.0 ports for example I had this issue with another webcam and I was using a longer USB cable I bought, but it was a USB2.0 cable so I could not get the full resolution. Also make sure you plug into a USB 3.0 port.

[@SydBat]

To be fair, the gaming issue has nothing to do with Linux. It has everything to do with the game developers.

[@Lxx00Jxx00]

with yay and pacman on arch there's no need to flatpack or to appimage. i really like it

[@user-uf4lf2bp8t]

switching and being able to get REAL PACKAGES that keep up with versions is so refreshing after being stuck with either snap or compiling by hand

[@shavitush]

i still use flatpaks on arch for some apps despite them having upstream or flatpak packages. for example firefox crashes sometimes on my end when i close tabs and i couldn’t figure out how to reproduce it for a bug report, but the flatpak doesn’t have issues. betterbird from AUR refuses to have the application icon i assigned it through the .desktop file and instead shows the wayland icon, while it’s flawless on the flatpak build you really just get a very consistent system by using flatpaks where possible for user facing apps. i started using fedora silverblue on my laptop the other day and fell in love with flatpak since

[@Lxx00Jxx00]

@@user-uf4lf2bp8t it was my experience with ubuntu. i'm on endeavour for about 2 months now and it is FLAWLESS. really, never going back to anything else

[@ytbone9430]

Really? o) So how do you install 3 instances of chromium e.g., because you need separate profiles, settings and independent instances running? Or how do you use an application with version from 2024 and the same application in a version from 2020 (because it had more features and not just a different GUI)? I almost only use AppImages and don't make use of regular package management for applications. Regular package manager is kind of ok for the OS, but for running a lot of different applications, old and new and multiple and portable and from network or USB thumb drive, external hard drive, regular package manager is a big FAIL if you ask me. o)

[@Lxx00Jxx00]

@@ytbone9430 every single thing i needed was on pacman or aur, yac reader, thunderbird, libre office, skrooge, xivlauncher (haha) etc. i don't use any chromium browser, but i'm using zen browser and it is awesome with the containers from firefox and the profiles at the same time i like the idea of appimage and i actually have one emulator on appimg. i honestly think it is more easy to use than flatpak, which i don't have any installed. nor snaps ofc

[@savagepro9060]

The thing with Linux, you MUST learn to get your hands dirty when the system FAILS! From the beginning Linux was for 'geeks'. That stigma has prevailed! Welcome to the learning curve!

[@draco10111b]

And there's the double standard. If something goes wrong on Windows it the app developer's fault and they need to fix it. If something goes wrong on Linux it's Linux's fault and YOU need to fix it. Many of these problems happen in Windows as well, it's just where people initially put the blame that matters. It's part of what makes market share so powerful.

[@AnubisZeev]

Errr no... That should not be how things work. I work in IT, I can't tell to the customer when something blows up on it's own, oh, just fix it yourself. Neither would you tell that to any other OS dev or software maker in general. This mindset needs to go away from the community if they expect that usage levels on desktop/laptop will ever go over 2% adoption.

[@georgechertkov4140]

@@AnubisZeev yay and nay. Responsibility for your doings is the very meaning of freedom. when you go to linux, you are free, but responsible for your os as well

[@ghost_of_you_tube]

​@@AnubisZeevyeah, as "advanced" Linux user and tech enthusiast can say the same. It's no user problem. This is why Android works ... every thing works fine on android ... but in desktop world ... need a "fix" in some level. Thing that a normal user don't care or don't have time to work on it.

[@AnubisZeev]

@@georgechertkov4140 How can you as a user be responsible when a kernel problem is backported 2 versions down? Patch it yourself? It's fun only the first time, then you pat your self on the back and flex to your work buddies. Second time, you just say, hell no.. A normal everyday user says hell no right away.

[@michaelwright2986]

ISO keyboard problems. I've just bought a MacBook Pro 2015 with an ISO keyboard (English language). On Linux Mint I have the same problem with the two keys interchanged that you mention, so thank you for that. When it came to me, it was running MacOS, of course, and the keyboard was even more confused. I'm just discovering how nice it is to run Linux on MacBooks of about 2010-15: Linux on e-waste, but deluxe e-waste.

[@albatross7]

Linux people: "Linux is so advanced now, guys. Terminal is not even required, everything can be done in GUI, believe me guys." Also Linux people: 8:00 10:32

[@tablettablete186]

LMAO

[@grantschilb8019]

Unfortunately for me, I have to use terminal in every OS. Yes, even macOS

[@cameronbosch1213]

Try cleaning a drive, using chkdsk, or sfc without the command line in Windows... Oh wait, you can't! 😂

[@albatross7]

@@cameronbosch1213 I don’t ever need to lol

[@cameronbosch1213]

@@albatross7 You won't until Windows 11 forces a broken update down the pipe. And then you'll need it!

[@d.wolfin152]

In regards to shortcuts, this will be an issue with how they are done. It sounds like they are linking to files which have the version number in the filename, so every time that file name changes, the shortcut breaks. As for the Web cam resolution, it will be either a bandwidth bottleneck with the usb hub (yes, even if it is the only thing plugged in), or the hub is creating interference with the communication between the camera and the computer. A specific driver that tells the computer this device support these resolutions may fix it for Windows, but I don't care to test it. I have had this exact issue with a powerbank. It turns out, you need a data link between the powerbank and computer to charge at the highest rate, and placing a usb-c multimeter (or whatever they are called) between them to measure the power can cause this communication to fail. As for audio... audio is shit on Linux. Even if you never touch it, it will eventually fail

[@ChairmanKam]

3:55 my latest upgrade I ran into an issue where an MSI MoBo just won't read audio Jack output at all.

[@XoaGray]

Sometimes the type and quality of a USB hub makes a big difference too. Some usb devices are just really picky about what they’re plugged into. My ElGado for instance has fits on any OS unless it’s plugged either directly in, or with just one particular hub I have.

[@marcusfleuti2672]

EA killed Apex Legends because of Anticheat. To say it in Pirates‘ wording: Arrrrrrrr!!!!

[@eliotcole]

I would say one thing ... at least it is not deciding for you (that audacity thing sounds like audacity is allowed to change that information) what things can/are/should be ... One of the BIGGEST reasons I left Windows 11 was the lack of control that I had over what my operating system was actually doing.

[@eliotcole]

What I'm trying to say is that Audio and (especially) Video in Windows (10 and 11) is fucking *horrible* ... so ... so ... SO ... horrible.

[@_modiX]

7:17 also happens with the German keyboard and any ISO MacOS keyboard when bringing it to Windows or Linux. It's also noticeable when working with VMs in MacOS. Thanks for the fix.

[@TheEvertw]

Audio on Windows isn't everything you want either. With Linux (KDE), there is an integrated mechanism for connecting apps to audio. In Windows, there are several competing mechanisms including those built-in to the application software. Bottom line is that I am not able to use my bluetooth headset from some conferencing SW where it is trivial to use under the Linux version.

[@ytbone9430]

This is probably because the software makes use of a cross platform framework, which fails to handle audio on Windows properly. I would say the Windows audio is kind of tidy organized and flexible, I don't miss much. Maybe Bluetooth on Windows is, what I have problems with, it never really worked for me in a predictable manner. o)

[@rogeramu]

Plus one for the Arch Wiki! Just found a solution to an NVME that kept disappearing from the system with an error message about superblocks. Alright, searched for and tried fixes for that to no avail. Started to think it wasn't a superblock problem. What else does cause trouble with harddrives? Sleep and power. Yes, Arch Wiki tell of a problem with the firmware on Kingston A2000 and here are the kernel parameters you need to fix that. Which it did. Fun fact: the Kingston wasn't the NVME that disappeared... Games borked on Linux because of updates? Have fun with DCS World.