Life After Microsoft Windows Which Linux Is Best

[@jcristina]

Microsoft Windows OS Alternatives. Life After Microsoft Windows Cutting The Cord Series has officially begun and today's episode covers How To Pick The Best Linux Distribution For You! Which Linux Distribution Is Overall The Best? Join me as I embark on a journey into the unknown a journey into the world of Linux. My goal is to give Bill Gates and his Microsoft Windows the one-finger salute but the question remains, can I use an alternative operating system (Linux) and install all the software needed to be a "daily driver"? Or will I fail and come crawling back to Billy The Kid and his telemetry-stricken, privacy-disrespecting, bloated POS spyware operating system? Do me a favor and place an emoji in the comments so I know you watched!Are you sick of MS Windows and are looking for an alternative? Would you consider Linux as a daily driver operating system? Which Linux Distro Do You Like The Most? Why did you select that Linux distribution? or... are you just here to see me fail and mea culpa? Tell the truth! Subscribe, Share, and Like if so inclined! Also, after watching, consider commenting! Can't wait to hear from you in the comments below this video! 1-Hour SpaceX Starlink Setup and Network Design Consultations are available at jcristina.com/product/1-hour-consultation Don't forget to join my Newsletter: jcristina.com/join Super Chats And All Channel Donations Are Warmly Welcome! Thank You! Get a massive discount with PureVPN by visiting jcristina.com/vpn I truly hope you enjoy the video and find value in it! If so, please consider Thumbs Up, Subscribe, and Becoming A Member Of The Channel! For Media & Business Relations Contact 📧 jcristina.com/contact Thank you for supporting the channel! Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. If you would like to get a FREE copy of the Prologue to "How To Create A Digital Fort Knox - Backing Up Your Digital Life" or one of my other FREE books, simply visit jcristina.com/books Consider subscribing to the channel, commenting below, and signing up for my newsletter at jcristina.com/join Interested in any products that I personally use? Visit www.amazon.com/shop/jcristina or go to the bottom of this description for direct links. Highlighted Starlink Hardware I Have Tested In The Past: Ubiquiti amzn.to/3qC554s NetGate amzn.to/3cXiTTv Peplink amzn.to/3OnTsHM UTT Router amzn.to/3nJBLaL TP-link Router amzn.to/3IjkyhP TrendNET Router #1 amzn.to/3nVukx0 Small Battery Backup For Starlink - amzn.to/3ScbcrZ TP-link AC Router - amzn.to/3so07J1 TP-link AX Router - amzn.to/3sf2or8 TP-link Managed Switch: amzn.to/3EQJKZy TP-link Unmanaged Switch: amzn.to/3FVbaih For High-Speed Access Points (ex. Starlink or Cable) TP-Link Control Module (Gigabit) - amzn.to/3rVBqEx TP-Link AC1900 - amzn.to/3Q28y6N For Slower Speed Access Points (ex. ATT) TP-Link Control Module (100Mbps) - amzn.to/3Lduaf3 TP-Link AC1200 - amzn.to/3OLhlsK [ Social Media & Additional Connections ] 📦 20% Off Everything jcristina.com - Code YT20 🆓 FREE eBook jcristina.com/ebook 🌒 Dark Moon Teas DarkMoonTeas.com 🎬 KZbin - kzbin.info 🔖 Twitter - twitter.com/JosephCristina 👀 Instagram - instagram.com/JosephCristina 👨‍💼 LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/josephcristina 📖 Facebook - facebook.com/joseph.cristina 📰 Creative Discord Server - community.jcristina.com [ Equipment Used ] 💎 MB ] ASUS - PRIME X370-PRO ATX AM4 Motherboard - amzn.to/2rmR9LT 💎 CPU ] AMD - Ryzen 7 1700 3.0GHz 8-Core Processor - amzn.to/2pSCx4S 💎 COOLER ] Corsair Hydro H115i Extreme Liquid CPU Cooler - amzn.to/2rfEpJ2 💎 GPU ] MSI - GeForce GTX 1070 8GB Video Card - amzn.to/2rndQ2o 💎 RAM ] Corsair - Vengeance LPX 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3000 - amzn.to/2qo8PIv 💎 SSD ] Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 500GB 2.5" SSD - amzn.to/2rmXqH8 💎 DISPLAY ] Dell - UltraSharp 34” Curved Monitor - U3415W - amzn.to/2s6pvTs 💡 Video Lighting - amzn.to/2qrDOnH 🎬 Sony ZV-1 - amzn.to/3rFkfFj 🎬 Canon EOS R & Kit Lens - amzn.to/3lEZIC2 🎙 Tascam Mic w/Recorder - amzn.to/39Xb50C 🎙 Electro-Voice RE-20 - amzn.to/37SoBQt 🎙 Zoom H4n Recorder - amzn.to/3oyF2bh 🎙 dbx 286s Compressor - amzn.to/39SLTYY The above are my Amazon affiliate links - if you purchase anything using the links above, you're supporting this channel at no additional cost to you! I appreciate your support!

[@243jakes]

Thanks

[@243jakes]

Thanks

[@CSMartin]

It's not fun when Billy puts his willy where it doesn't belong.

[@jameslewis2635]

Please make sure your voice channel is centered in videos. Having the voice only out of my left headphone is extremely off-putting.

[@therealcyber5]

I started on CP/M

[@louclawges9069]

3 yrs ago I dropped Windows 7. Didn't want to use 10 so I installed Linux Mint and have never looked back. As a business owner, I did have some software that I really needed to use as well. It took a few month of looking around, but I ended up either getting all my windows programs working under Wine and Proton, or I just found a Linux native program that filled the need. Even if those programs didn't look at pretty as Windows did, they worked and that's all I wanted it to do. I try installing a lot of Windows programs using Wine just to see if it will work. Older programs almost always work, but a few that I would love to relive just don't. So I move on, not the end of the world. As you said, I just want my operating system to be invisible and just get my work done and play a few games. I'm doing just that! And I had NO experience with Linux, so people can do it if they just give it a try. Thanks for the video!!

[@jcristina]

Fantastic. I hope everyone reads your comment.

[@Starlight-AG]

Agree. I'm 71 this year so If I can do it most anyone can. Years ago I set my 87 yr old Mom up with Mint and even she was able to do her e-mail, on-line banking & browsing etc. so, don't be afraid, if you can maneuver Windows, You can handle Linux Mint. Regards 😀

[@alexkt3400]

@@Starlight-AG A real legend, well done sir.

[@manuelrivera6778]

Thank God there’s also VMs to run a copy of windows and run programs through there that refuse to run on wine and proton!

[@antoniocardh]

​@@manuelrivera6778 Exactly 💯

[@Kline2000]

I installed Fedora and Mint. Played around with both but quickly made up my mind to stay with Mint. Very happy with it and wiped Windows off the drive.

[@jcristina]

Sweet

[@jeanbob1481]

I had Linux distros as dual boots for over 15 years but never really used them. Windows 11 I believe once windows 10 support runs out in 2025 or so will make a TON of people switch to Linux. I do not plan on supporting that fascist Bill Gates and his vaccines anymore and this is not only because his OS have gone to shit.

[@kroberts1964]

Linux Mint is by far the best os, I have installed it in a number of business's with no training, My 84 year mother uses it, and loves it.

[@KM-sv4dh]

Until you install it on a pc wuth last gen hardware or you just need fairly up-to-date software, then it won't be as a good experience as Fedora/PopOS/Arch for example

[@FedoraSilverblue]

@@KM-sv4dh Nix Os is better than fedora i think.Nix package manager very good and nix os stable and fast

[@jimmyking92]

You can pick newest Linux Kernel on Mint there is option

[@daleguenther5826]

😊

[@FedoraSilverblue]

@@daleguenther5826 😊😊😊😊

[@tator2345]

I switched to Linux Mint several years ago and its run flawlessly ever since. Very easy to learn, actually, there isn't much to learn, its very similar to Windows and I was up and running in no time at all. It does not slow down over time. I wished I had switched decades ago. You will not regret it. I would suggest wiping your drive 1000% and rid it of all the crap it has collected and doing a nice new fresh install of Linux. You will find almost any app you need in the software manager and they're all free. Enjoy.

[@jcristina]

Thank so much for the positive things thoughts

[@chuckintexas]

Except for 9NE Windows CAD app , I'm planning on making the change .

[@wileytraylor5404]

Which version of Mint? Cinnamon, Xfce, or Mate?

[@alexkt3400]

@@wileytraylor5404 Xfce is pretty lightweight, which is great if you're a resource scrooge. Cinnamon and Mate have a bit more bells and whistles as far as the interface is concerned. I'm using xfce on a workstation that doesn't need it and a bunch of older PCs, but I enjoy a spartan UI so it's great for me. Definitely check the other desktop environments out if you want some more pizzazz though

[@wil895]

@@wileytraylor5404 I jumped ship awhile ago now a big fan of mint, cinnamon. So easy to use...

[@RenderingUser]

My left ear loved this video

[@chuckintexas]

Right ear here .

[@pauldwalker]

@@chuckintexasme too, until i realized i had my headphones on backwards.

[@CaponeBlackBusiness]

Easy Effects ==> stereo tools ==> stereo-matrix ==> LR > LL (left monochannel)

[@RenderingUser]

@@CaponeBlackBusiness Thats literally what i did

[@adafrost6276]

I ended up instinctively turning my chair towards my left speaker to center the mix in the first few seconds and didn't realize until i read this comment that I wasn't facing my monitor anymore 🤣

[@CSMartin]

I literally just put Ubuntu on my laptop today for my recording studio. I had NO idea you were doing this. Windows kept bogging down my workload for everything I did, so I came up with the idea to switch last night. So far, so good.

[@jcristina]

Let us know how the software options go for what you are doing with it.

[@ranpat86]

As soon as Joseph started the series, I immediately went back and wiped windows off of my laptop. It is working perfectly for me and for the things that I do. My printer works and I can scan to my printer. Not a lot of need for terminal use because it has pretty much everything you would need on a day-to-day basis. However, for da Vinci resolve and things like that you may need to use terminal to install some that are required for da Vinci to work. Great series love it.

[@haplozetetic9519]

Are you using the Ubuntu Studio version? If not, it might be worth trying it as it includes software for "creative individuals in the areas of audio production, video production, graphics design, photography, and desktop publishing."

[@rbush2335]

I have switched over to Linux recently. Did a lot of distro swapping and found a few that do everything I need. Linux Mint, Garuda, KDE Neon 6 and MX all stood out. I am using Mint for my media center, Garuda for my gaming PC and MX on my laptop and work PC. They all work with my printers, scanners, wifi and bluetooth. There were others I really liked but they had annoying little bugs that I could not find workable fixes for.

[@miket.220]

I have switched between Mac and Windows over the years. My 2012 Mac Mini of course is no longer seeing updates and I like Android phones, so I made the plunge to Linux a year ago. Linux Mint installed on the Mini flawlessly. Only thing it didn’t recognize was the Wi-Fi card, but all I had to do was plug in a network cable to my router, fire up the device driver finder app, problem solved in 2 minutes. Can’t say enough about Mint, works beautifully.

[@ronkincaid9107]

JOSEPH - thanks for all the work you do testing various Linux OS & telling us how things worked out for you. That saves me time & trouble. Big time thanks.

[@jcristina]

Glad to help! But remember, your miles may vary and the OS that works for me might not work for you. 👍🏻👍🏻

[@TJPatek]

Love this series! Your mic is panned to one side…left I think. Cheap ear buds.

[@jcristina]

I think that is me.. Not you.. Sorry.

[@TJPatek]

It happens. I guess it’s it kick under the table from the wife. On to 1 million!

[@UltraMAGAMan45]

Voice audio is on the left only for me. HQ headphones. Music is stereo.

[@chuckintexas]

Both EXCELLENT choices 👍!

[@sirsuse]

Thank you Joe. Really enjoying this series. Been a linux user for a decade now. I really do like Fedora as well. The problem I have with it is that my laptop has dual graphics (Intel and NVidia). It never fails that an update will break the NVidia drivers and my system freezes to a black screen at boot. I have the same issue with Arch based OS's. I'm also an openSUSE fan. I haven't had any severe issues with. I love snapper. It is an amazing tool in my opinion. It's not as plug and play as Mint but I always find myself going back to it. As far as Linux Mint, it is still my favorite OS. I can run it for years with only an occasional hiccup. Anyway, keep up the great work!

[@DavidBelanger-xl8ep]

I have mad e the switch to Zorin back in April, took my ms drive out and replaced it with another. I can do everything i need and it just works including printer and scanner! Keep up the good work!

[@brianc5788]

Excellent video & advice. (From an oldy who can trace back to using MS DOS & all flavours of Windows!) Oh! I am a 'Mint' user as well😁😁👍👍

[@dfmuller2]

Oldies Unite! Been running DOS since the late 70's and still use the terminal in Win11 to get serious work done…

[@anthonyglaser929]

For what it's worth I am Unix software engineer and for my home systems I usually run either Raspbian for the Pi's and Mint for desktops and laptops. I threw out all Windows systems in 1999 and haven't looked back since.

[@robertthomas8831]

I've been following this closely. Thanks for the good work. I'm sure you have saved me many hours of testing.

[@ericbarlow6772]

I’ve used Debian which is what Mint and Ubuntu are based on for about 25 years. Back in the day, Debian was used by a lot of programmers and I’ve used it for that as well as lightweight servers. I have used it for an OpenVPN server, Plex server, pi-hole and dockers for my home LAN. I also have dedicated Debian VMs for software development.

[@alligoodw]

I've used several of the name-brand Linux Operating Systems -- including those mentioned in this video. After using a year and a half and having no issues with it whatsoever, I'll stick with MX Linus (KDE/AHS). It has never crashed. Now, mind you, I am not a content creator; I am more into word processing, and I am not a gamer. My AIO Dell computer works flawlessly with this distribution -- all my attached peripherals work as well. In the future, this is something you may want to try. In closing, I deleted Windows a long time ago. An act I have never regretted.

[@EricDBrown]

All of them are a breath of fresh air, after leaving Windows. I use Debian for all things server related, and Alpine for all things containerized. NixOS will be my next distro to tinker with.

[@jcristina]

Fun!

[@RenderingUser]

NixOS is great. but personally i really like using nixpkgs on debian based systems

[@FedoraSilverblue]

Nix Os is very good os

[@rdvaughan70]

For general everyday home use, I nominate Linux mint, cinnamon, next I'd say tie with Debian fedora, both very good and pleasant ease of use, now pen testing KALI hands down

[@mack1541]

Joseph, while i was serving with the British Army, back in the 90's i was using Unix with the equipment that we had, it took a little while to get my head around but i found it easy to use and since then i always wanted to get away from windows but never found a Distro that grabbed my attention till now and what finally made me take the plunge was one of the Win10 updates that totally crashed my PC to the extent that i had to do a full reinstall. I've installed Linux Mint onto my Panasonic Toughbook laptop which has currently become my test mule and so far i've been quite impressed with it's layout and bar a couple of minor niggles i'm really happy with it and i can safely say i won't going back to Windows. I have only recently stumbled across your channel and i find your content very informative and easy to follow and not being blinded with science. 10/10

[@patpopov]

Fellow Toughbook owner here, although mine runs Void Linux 32 bit with Xfce. It's a very old Toughbook that won't be e-waste any time soon if I can help it. It has pride of place in my kitchen. Also, thank you for your service.

[@mack1541]

@patpopov mines a mk6 I5 toughbook so it's no mega old and at the moment it's running mint very well. Thanks for your wishes it's a shame the British don't acknowledge their veterans the same way

[@patpopov]

@@mack1541 Well, I'm British! 😁Mine's a CF-19 which should really be in a museum.

[@mack1541]

@@patpopov mines a cf-19 version 6 ex RAC laptop refurb that I got off fleabay at a pretty good price

[@Audulf-of-Frisia]

"Took me about 7 to 10 hours" JUST to get Affinity software working and it still could find 1 printer. THAT'S the problem with Linux and why I haven't moved yet. I'm not going to spend hours trying to get stuff working. It's frustates me to no end as I would LOVE to get rid of windows.

[@jcristina]

Absolutely. Completely understand. That’s why I say to make a list of must haves and wants. If you can get all of you must haves ironed out in any OS, you’re golden.

[@technautic-music]

"The OS doesn't need to do anything, unless you call on it to do so" That is a golden statement. Thank you for the vids! Take care!

[@RenderingUser]

I like how this video released. Moments after brodie's video on other people's Linux videos

[@jcristina]

Interesting.

[@Ramotttholl]

who's Brodie?

[@RenderingUser]

@@Ramotttholl Brodie Robertson. Random KZbinr that does videos about Linux

[@NoLuv4Hoz]

Subscribed! You won me over immediately by talking about Guild Wars 2 on Linux. It's pretty much the only game I play. The actual productivity stuff I need to do for work is 95% email and web-based so I need to try making this switch.

[@Psalms144_1_2]

Great video, Im happy with Linux mint, cinnamon,,, LOVE IT,

[@jcristina]

👍🏻

[@gadeane287]

👍👍👍👍👍 Thank you sir for this Linux prez. I'm about to get off of Windows 10 and am pretty sure I'm gonna use Linux Mint. I am, by no means, a terminal warrior. My needs are modest. Will watch more from you in the coming days!

[@jcristina]

You're welcome! And glad to have you in the community.

[@JDMorris81]

If you liked Mint, I recommend trying out Zorin OS. It's been my daily driver for a couple years now and I finally deleted Windows for good. Currently using MX Linux as a second OS and it's also pretty solid.

[@kyle9777]

Zorin runs excellent on my iMac 2011 with 4gb of ram, it reads everything

[@Jaxon-c4k]

If Windows and Linux had a baby it would be Zorin OS. 🤣

[@GiuseppeGavazzaAmbient]

First of all thank you so much for doing these videos, I've had a lot of good luck perhaps with Arch running through a distro known as Garuda Linux. Everything worked out of the box, Bluetooth, steam games, printer/scanner, even my SPDIF connection for inputs from electronic musical synthesizers and drum machines, multiple audio devices. I rarely use the terminal and it has utilities to do any system maintenance though the only thing I've done is update the system. This may not be the same experience for all systems though but it worked just fine for me.

[@SpiderMcGee]

I'm using Linux Mint Debian Edition. It's based on Debian instead of Ubuntu because recent events made them rethink that OS, and both are being released and updated concurrently. I'm happier with LMDE than I ever was with Ubuntu-based Mint, and it seems to be much more stable. I haven't had any problems running everything I used to.

[@jcristina]

I might give it a try.

[@Starlight-AG]

Agree 100%. LMDE has a slightly nicer 'feel' to it as you know. Recommended for anyone coming from Windows. I'm 71 so If I can do it, You can - don't be scared.

[@kyle9777]

​@@jcristina you'll love LMDE 6

[@iBolski]

I've been running Arch Linux for 3+ months. I went from base Arch to CachyOS over 2 months ago, and last week I finally nuked my 250GB SSD Windows drive and converted it over to use under Linux now. For me, I really didn't have to tinker much at all to get it working. Printers, a bit of work, but we have an HP printer, and it does provide the option to install HP drivers and it worked for us. But I can understand your frustration with it. I still think CachyOS is something some should look into because you never know. BTW, your voice is only coming out in the left channel, but the music and everything else is in both channels. Just an FYI. Keep up the great work!

[@garyhargett7677]

👍❤️. I to have found Mint to be very “smooth”. Thank you for all the effort.

[@jcristina]

You are so welcome!

[@joerinaldi5]

I really enjoyed that you covered Fedora,Red hat, and my favorite Mint. I'd like your opinion on Zorin and Manjero...thanks

[@marcusw86]

That’s a dedicated and loving dad! Going to bed at 3am, and getting up at 5am, unfortunately I know too many people who’s not that willing to to keep their kids as a priority. How challenging is it to learn Linux? I the kind of person who doesn’t like to tinker with the os, I just want to play games, do my online billing, invoices, and you tube, or Netflix..

[@jcristina]

Gaming is not an issue but if there are certain software packages that you must run I would reach those before wasting your time.

[@HickoryDickory86]

For everything you mentioned, you can do perfectly fine on Linux with no tinkering. Gaming is perfectly fine if you typically game with Steam. If you use anything else, you may want to research a bit about Lutris and other programs, but usually there's not too much tinkering needed.

[@washingtonradio]

As far as tinkering, I use Linux full time and I don't tinker with it as I don't need to. Once installed the major distros will work similarly enough to Windows or Mac to be familiar to a user.

[@marcusw86]

@@HickoryDickory86 yeah, I only steam these. I gave on trying to install everyone else’s installers. Steam is also the most simple reliable, and largest.

[@marcusw86]

@@washingtonradio that’s good, I remember the the earlier days of dos, windows, and early Linux b4 the gui’s

[@andybrent8293]

I keep hearing rumblings of windows going to a subscription based service. I’m hoping you get a good system. I’m a system admin and I will be moving my costumer over to Linux with in the year, so I’m watching this seriously. I’m hoping I can find a distro my users will love the move. Thank you so much! I love your posts and have been watching your posts for a long time and recommend you to everyone I take to.

[@user-hi4ir7ms1f]

I've been using mint but decided to try Fedora 40. At first I liked it, but an update caused it to crash. So I think I'll go back to mint. Thanks for all your hard work - I agree that dinking around with linux is fun but time consuming!

[@jcristina]

Oh ya💀

[@Lucas2RC]

Welcome back to the world of Linux. Mint seems to be the future in terms of gaming, I might try it out myself. As I'm doing some programming, I've switched to Fedora/Ubuntu for testing. Mint is my next trial, might stick to it for gaming.

[@lexcelius6921]

The Funny thing about Cachy. People typically Recommend it over Garuda because Suposedly its Garuda without the Bloat but Garuda's "Bloat" is actually what makes it work.

[@jcristina]

😂

[@bertnijhof5413]

I have the easy solution: A default (minimal) install of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, the only major app installed is Firefox and I installed OpenZFS and VirtualBox. I use 4 Linux distro VMs for the main apps; one for social media; one for banking; one for multimedia of the family stuff; one for experiments and 2 Windows VMs, Windows XP Home and Windows 11 Pro in case I would need it. Two old VMs are special: - Windows XP Home as jukebox for the wma copies of my CDs and LPs and for Google Sketchup 8 with my house drawings. XP has been installed and activated more than 14 years ago and it survived 2 VBox owners; 3 desktops and 4 CPUs. - Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Expanded Security Maintenance for 10 years), used exclusively for banking, encrypted by VirtualBox, running the latest stable snaps for Firefox and LibreOffice (Calc). Often the LibreOffice snap in the 8-year-old OS is more recent than the deb files used by latest Ubuntu 24.04 LTS :)

[@wmwinfield1979]

Been loving the series and as a graphic designer Ive been extremely hopeful with a possible affinity solution. I've pulled the cord on Adobe.

[@jameshoward4979]

I've been in the Linux world as a sysadmin for years. I personally like Fedora mostly because its the same tree as the RHEL servers I use. However I've always recommended Linux Mint using the Cinnamon desktop for those just converting from Windows. It is very user friendly and most of the help videos/documents are debian based. I am SOOO very happy to seeing others interest in Linux these days. Thank you so much for helping others to see the light!

[@johnsmith-gs4qf]

It's like asking who's the most beautiful woman - Marilyn Monroe, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, your next door neighbor? My personal favorite is Linux Mint (for ease of use, nice simple interface, stability), but other people like Ubuntu, Manjaro, Pop!_OS, Zorin, and hundreds of other distros for similar and different reasons (they are ALL right if the distro fits their needs). You almost have too much choice in Linux, but I still think that's better than being limited to just Windows and Mac!

[@AniwayasSong]

I too am *SO DONE* with Microshaft, and all the BS that is now mandated into it. Diving into an alternate OS, though I'm as ignorant as a person holding two soup cans tied together with a piece of string can be (In this day and age)! :-) Greatly appreciate all the hard work and dedication you're putting out there for us to see and consider! Thank you, so much!

[@jcristina]

Thank you for your kind words.

[@Starlight-AG]

Go for it! You can do it. I'm 71 so don't sell yourself short because those tin cans on a string actually worked all facts considered. Yeah, I'm old. Regards to all. 😁

[@AniwayasSong]

@@Starlight-AG heh :-)

[@AniwayasSong]

@@jcristina yvw! :-D

[@danielvanhaften5779]

Thank you for your well thought out analysis. I have tried a number of Linux distros trying to get away from snoopy bloated Windows, and I also found that Linux Mint22 was the best of them all. As you say, "it just works". CachyOs installed on my Laptop, then would lock up for reasons I could never find. Nobara 40 turned my PC into a total turtle that couldn't get out of its own way. Also tried Zorin 17 and Q4OS, but they were clunky and I couldn't get the browser I wanted to work. So yeah, Mint for the win!

[@edrickblade]

Mint Mate or Cinnamon?

[@JonAnderhub]

I just want to install an OS, have it work with my graphics card, audio interfaces, midi controllers,wifi etc. and have software that allows me to edit video, audio, and compose music. Even Windows gives me grief but I don't want grief I just want it to work without spending hours or even days getting it to work.

[@jcristina]

Agree 1000000%

[@rickreed2785]

Great Video, there are dozens of versions of Linux, I tried a bunch but I have landed on Linux Mint. I am a I.T. consultant and Directory of I.T. at a museum. I have been moving clients off of Windows for the last 4 years. None, None of my installs have asked to go back. It looks just like windows. My brother than is technically scary just asked me today to show him how to put Linux on is only Windows box. Now if he can learn it and now is asking me to get rid of M.S. then anyone reading this can. There is a small learning curve but it is very small. It is great if all you do is check Amazon, webmail, banking, letter writing then switch! The more technical you need will mean a little more learning but you will get through it. So give M.S. the big drop and leave them in the dust.

[@HickoryDickory86]

You know, the frustration with trying to get Affinity to work on Linux would go away if Serif would actually listen to their customer base and *_put Affinity on Linux._* But no, they keep turning deaf ear to us. So, might as stick to free and open source (or web-based) alternatives, or else keep a Windows partition active. That is, until a company has the balls to develop a professional creative suite on Linux, take the greater market share, and become the new industry standard. I wish Serif would do that with Affinity, but if they're unwilling, then that's their loss. Seriously, everyone who wants to see Affinity on Linux should join the Serif forums and make your voices heard.

[@jcristina]

I would pay for a Linux Affinity just like I paid for the windows full Affinity suite.

[@pauldwalker]

porting to linux is not a simple deal. essentially you need to rewrite large parts of the software. it makes no financial sense unless there is actually enough customer demand to justify it, or they turn into a charitable organization with very deep pockets.

[@Bonjour-World]

I know nothing about Affinity but a lot of windows application are built with dependencies on proprietary MS libraries. Moving those applications to another environment can be extremely difficult. MS still has the biggest share of the market so that is the environment that they target.

[@HickoryDickory86]

When you start with cross-platform in mind, it actually isn't that difficult. It takes a little extra set-up up front, and some periodic housekeeping along the way, but it's not that great of an investment overall. And that's true for all software, including games. To be fair, Serif did not start with cross-platform in mind. They built the original Affinity programs from the ground up for iOS, and then for Mac in general, before finally conceding to customer request and porting to Windows as well a couple years later. But you are parroting their same talking point, which is nothing but the same old and tire Catch22, the chicken and egg scenario. They don't want to port to or develop for Linux because "the Linux market share is so small," but the Linux market share is so small because the creatives who want to and would switch to it can't, because their software isn't available on it. And they say this, despite numerous customers requesting it and pledging they would buy it _again_ on Linux. And... despite the fact that many more KZbinrs and commenters on KZbin videos since then are now saying they wished it was on Linux as well ever since Adobe screwed the pooch, which was quickly followed by Microsoft. And as I've pointed out: Linux currently has no professional creative suite. I'm convinced that whoever offers one first will become the new "industry standard" practically overnight, because the creatives who would switch to Linux but can't right now finally would. Whoever offered such a suite first on Linux would dominate the market share in no time and would more than make up for their initial investment. And now that Serif has been bought by Canva, they have the resources to take that chance. With all that said, mind you, many software developers have internal Linux versions of their software already operational, even if they don't put it out into the market, because many develop on Linux. So, if that's also true for Serif and their Affinity suite, it probably would _not_ be as great an investment as they're making it out to be. Nor would it be as troublesome as Linux releases use to be, since we now how universal package formats like Flatpak, that run on any distro and have finally put to bed the dependency hell we used to deal with all the time.

[@VasiljMilosevic]

​@@Bonjour-Worldhmm, yes and no. Affinity is built for MacOS which has far less market share than Windows. Linux is rapidly approaching MacOS in terms of the number of desktop users. It's more of a lack of understanding of the users on Linux. Also one other thing is there are a lot of DEs and custom configurations they need to test it on. But they should just go with gtk + Wayland as it has most of the users and start with that. But they lack expertise as probably none of their employees ever tried booting non proprietary OS

[@Schneidvid]

Couldn't agree more! Excellent video. It's been my journey as well. Been up on LinuxMint on all my computers for at least the past 8 years. Keep in mind that the share of Linux desktop users is growing and is now up to 4.5%. The re-use of Windows hardware for Linux has also gone a long way towards saving us from the enviromental disaster of filling up landfills with discarded Windows computers and laptops. My current and best laptop was actually found by my wife in a trashcan discarded by someone else! Looks like something happend to the Windows load on it and the user just gave up and threw it away. Again, great job on the video! You asked for recomendations on another distribution to review. I would be very interested on your take on MX Linux which has been at the top of Distrowatch for quite some time. It seems to have quite a following. I've tried it but went back to LinuxMint. Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see why it is so popular. Granted, it is very efficient in terms of resources however LinuxMint just seems to be the most comfortable for me. I'd be interested in your take on MX Linux and what you see that has kept it at the top of Distrowatch.

[@billolmstead9317]

I started about a week after you. I had kernel problems with Fedora 40 also. I moved on to Nobara also and ran into problems. I wanted to try mint next and luckily you just posted this video. I am hoping you do a series on how to de-google your life. They are big into spying on your every move and breath just like Microsoft. Both have many heavy governnent ties. It really is not right how they want to invade and track like they own you. Sorry, probably saying to much. Thank you for putting these videos out to help those who want the same.

[@jcristina]

Love that idea.

[@FedoraSilverblue]

Try NixOs

[@xritics19]

Debian-Ubuntu based distros are better for stability. Mint is a good option if you like Cinnamon. For Gnome, Ubuntu is the best i think and it's my choice to use Linux.

[@richiereyn]

I started using Linux in 1998 in parallel with Windows 98, but by 2002 I had made the switch 100% and Windows was gone. I did the distro hop, Redhat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, and Ubuntu over the years, plus a few others I've forgotten, but it was fun and a great learning curve. I now use Q4OS, a Debian-based distro that concentrates on KDE, my preferred desktop environment. Based on the Debian stable branch, it is rock-solid, and for me, after years of tinkering, the yearning for the latest and greatest has gone, and I now prefer stability.

[@mwolfer1]

Thank you for this really nice and timely series. I'm a Linux supporter and user since the 0.9 kernel (yes I'm really old). A few thoughts. While this could start the usual religious wars, I'll still say it: arch Linux distributions are not really a good fit for most people switching from Windows. The learning curve is steep, and the support system is inadequate for beginners, including a general huffiness towards noobs in a lot of arch forums. Generally Linux Mint, elementary OS, PopOS, and a few similar Debian/Ubuntu based distributions are being recommended for people with exclusively Windows experience. The learning curve is flatter, the support system is very deep, and resources are plentiful, usually friendly and helpful. My personal favorite recommendation is LMDE - Linux Mint Debian Edition. It has the same beginner friendly user interface as Linux Mint, but it is built entirely on top of Debian stable, and so avoids the dependency on Canonical with their sometimes unique direction.

[@jcristina]

Great thoughts and I do like the LMDE idea too.

[@Starlight-AG]

Agree 100%. LMDE6.

[@erroneouscode]

First thing you do is try and appeal from authority "I'm a Linux supporter and user since the 0.9 kernel (yes I'm really old)" So henceforth you must know exactly what you're talking about, right. Truth is, there will always be people that have had really lousy experiences with Linux Mint and the other supposedly noob friendly Linux distro's with just as much time and experience with Linux as you have, and still disagree with you on your assertions with regards to them. It's not a religious war when people form and express opinions based on their different experiences with other distro's that don't align with yours. It's trying to incite one though when you don't preface "arch Linux distributions are not really a good fit for most people switching from Windows" and everything you said after that without including... 'in my opinion, for what it's worth'.

[@mwolfer1]

@@erroneouscode As predicted & TY for confirming my observations.

[@erroneouscode]

@@mwolfer1 It doesn't surprise me that you'll read any reply as to fit your own biased predictions and beliefs. That is after all what you sort to achieve with your bait and troll post with religious war nonsense and slander of other Linux distro users. You also apparently have issues with people disagreeing with your 'opinion' that you try to portray as fact. So many acts that are in stark contradiction of your claim that Mint users are a helpful and friendly community. If it takes dissing Linux users of other distro's to bring new users to Mint it says a lot doesn't it. It's not helpful, or friendly.

[@williamconnelly2571]

You have my sincere sympathy. Thanks for your efforts.

[@jcristina]

😉

[@dlbrooks2658]

Its been a month since life after microsoft - and it been great - love ubuntu and mint has been ok on an old i5core laptop

[@jcristina]

Sweet

[@albikes8484]

ive been a linux user since 2008. As my daily driver. Ive been through my Redhat family of distros and my Arch based Distros and have settled on Debian based distros like Ubuntu and Mint. For the plain and simple reason,,That its simple.And im lazy. Ubuntu and its Flavours of every style desktop all seem easy to get around. I dont distro hop around as much as i used to.But when something new or exciting looking comes around i will load it up and give it a try. I feel your pain. I understand were your coming from. I feel your much further in than most people will go. I dont see you going back to windows as a full timer. But i can see situations were you might for certain things. My first few months on linux i dual booted just incase i needed that windows software. I found myself not booting into it less and less as i found alternative softwares. Thanks for the fun content.

[@Dragon_Slayer_Ornstein]

I think you misunderstand what Arch Linux is, It's supposed to be a DIY OS, you can install as little or as much as you like. You might not need or have Bluetooth on your system, so why have it installed, same with printers. It's for the people who want only specific things and not everything.

[@jcristina]

Thanks for that.. Appreciate it and that could be the case.. I personally just think the the BARE MIN, should be installed... Bluetooth I think would go into my bare minimum list.

[@daniellbrinneman]

Best explanation I’ve read about why people use Arch.

[@AlphanPeter]

Linux Peppermint works great on my old laptop. Nice light.

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

@@jcristina And if you're one level more obsessed/psychotic about starting from practically nothing as a bare foundation to build _exactly_ and _exclusively_ what you want, you use Gentoo ;)

[@TheLonelyMoon]

Top 5 Linux distributuons for new users/ex Windows users 5. Debian. Its stable 4. Arch Linux: Steam deck is based on Arch so it can't be hard 3. NixOS: even got Calameres installer. It's so intuitive to use you just gotta tweak the config files for everything 2. Gentoo: you get to choose everything. Set use flags? Building from source? Don't know what they mean? It is like DIY Build a Bear Christmas gift 1. LFS: you don't even need to download an ISO this time. Just a tiny PDF file. Detailed instructions let you learn everything, perfect for people who've never used Linux before

[@LynnDippel]

Hi Joseph. I’m liking Linux Mint. Could ya Please run Affinity and photo programs. I also use Stream Yard, OBS. I’m a non-computer programer. 😅 Thank you for making this.

[@jcristina]

Stream yard / OBS are no problem

[@DustinHarms]

Cool video and very helpful to go through all of this to help people find a distro that works for them as a daily driver. I will say, though, if you're trying to A-B compare gaming performance, using an MMORPG is probably the worst test case you could possibly do. MMOs are not constant - you could have been in an instance with very few other players, or an instance that had just started up, or even just the MTX of players around you, or even the possibility that some graphical features weren't even working correctly....all could dramatically affect performance. If you're going to continue to test gaming performance, I'd highly recommend using a stable single-player game that you can very reliably reproduce a situation, without any variables. Maybe even one with a built-in benchmark to make it easier. It should also use a graphics API that ensures all of the features are working, so a game on Vulkan would probably be best. Unfortunately, any comparisons using GW2 aren't really going to give a good picture or comparison, just as the results you reported show. It is funny that you mentioned GW2 not being optimized, because it's actually one of the best-optimized MMOs on the market, where even very low-end PCs can still get great visuals out of it, in spite of its age. As a game developer myself, it constantly impresses me what they manage to squeeze out of their engine. Again, thanks for the video and putting in all the work!

[@SuperUbuntudude]

Microsoft = Linux mint =✔✔✔✔✔✔✔✔

[@jcristina]

🏴‍☠️🚀🚀

[@anthonyleecollins9319]

I've been going back and forth between Windows and Linux since the late 90s (for many and various reasons), but I am not going to use Windows 11 (for obvious reasons). So, I've been doing some testing and research, and it's Linux Mint for me.

[@volcanvs]

If you have to distro hop again then for your next hop I would recommend OpenSUSE

[@jcristina]

🚀🚀

[@marclapointe4471]

I'm very happy to see I was not wrong about Mint, I liked it a lot, easy to use and looks good. Thanks for your hard work.

[@ralphhardin1861]

Good stuff thanks

[@jcristina]

👍🏻

[@leopard3131]

First the drivers are generally the kernel. 1. Always test with a live distro. Honestly if your hardware does not work you generally have to start kernel hacking. It is far far better if you are changing OS, change hardware. 2. Honestly if you are needing windows apps, dual boot or run windows. 3. For games you should probably run steam deck. 4. With so many distros i generally advise using a main OS. Fedora, arch, Debian, ubuntu. 5. WINE is a pain and always subject to regression. You often have to configure a wine container for each app.

[@charlescole-p9v]

You talk WAY over my head when it comes to computer stuff. However I ditched Microsoft 10 tears ago for Linux because it is FREE and I really don't do much (as the amount of 'things') on the computer. I do, however, use the computer 16+ hrs a day and Linux has been really easy and I'll never go to anything else.

[@jcristina]

Great info!

[@microwavedsoda]

Last week I caught one of your videos in this series and finally pushed me to try Linux. Luckily, I chose mint and was super surprised how easy it is to set up. I am having a few issues with a choppy audio on videos from a tv monitor with hdmi. I will need to try a few things to make that work. I love the software manager in mint too. Just sleek and smooth. Thank you sir for helping me jump over from MSisasshoe

[@jcristina]

Great to hear! So glad you’re give Linux a shot.

[@csh9853]

linux mint is still on x11 until they feel wayland is ready and the other distros you tried might be using wayland. could be the difference you was seeing with your fps. my best guess.

[@jcristina]

Interesting though. You could be right.

[@LeeMaiden]

I've been Linux Mint since 2011, the Cinnamon desktop is my favorite of all I have tried, even Debian and Ubuntu runs their versions, but it's not fully Cinnamon unless it's Linux Mint. Now if you like the Debian 12 Bookworm, that's the base that Linux Mint builds their LMDE 6, and of course it has the Cinnamon desktop. Linux Mint is easy for people just changing over, or old Linux geezers like me. The newest version Linux Mint 22 is just brilliant, It's what I have running on all my machines. #LinuxMint22

[@alanwakeup3344]

7:55 Wouldn't Red Hat be downstream of Fedora, as in Fedora gets updates first, then they propagate down to Red Hat?

[@_Lumiere_]

Yeah, he got it a bit backwards. Fedora isnt a free, revamped version of red hat linux (which is an enterprise OS). It's a testing bed for red hat, but also its own community project. It's an OS that red hat later pulls from, after testing. So fedora is upstream from red hat.

[@richardlaurenson1054]

I been linux since 2008 and win8. Linux mint mostly. Occasional virtualbox.windoz. very happy with LinuxMint.😊

[@jcristina]

Thanks for sharing!

[@TheHillmom]

A Linux distro is such a personal choice, as is the desktop environment. I personally use Manjaro with KDE Plasma (desktop and laptop). I have my Dad on Elementary OS, in laws on Fedora, and my kids are running several different distros. The kitchen system has most recently been on Blend OS, with Garuda on the kids gaming system. Some distros come very custom, while others are super vanilla. The distro hopping stage is the most difficult. Once you find that distro that just works for you, Linux life is smooth. At least, that had been my journey with it. It has been at least 8 years since I told Windows to shove off...

[@Starlight-AG]

Hey Joe, great work. I have been with Linux for years (I'm 71 this year). Like you, I settled on Mint. Tried numerous distros - liked some, not others but have always seem to come back home to Mint. I prefer The Cinnamon desktop. I have Mint 21.3 (based on Ubuntu) on one machine and Mint LMDE6 (Linux Mint Debian 6 -based on Debian with no tie to Ubuntu) - also Cinnamon Desktop. While they both work great, I would prefer LMDE6. It just have a slightly nicer feel to me. Not so much different than the Mint Ubuntu but just a slight feel. I would recommend either one. I have an HP colour laser (1025NW) and it works fine in Linux - with Letter size paper but not with legal size. No distro has worked with that printer & Legal size paper. It is the fault of the printer as HP does some proprietary stupidity. HP does NOT provide Linux drivers and I will not buy HP again. I also agree with you on flatpacks. I have no trouble with them. A while back when flatpacks were a newer thing, the odd one gave trouble but not these days and the flatpacks will be the latest current version of the software. Like you I have a windows machine for a single software I cannot yet replace but will hopefully find something down the road. I always back up to a NAS, and have full disk images so if anything should happen, in 10 minutes I'm back up & running as if nothing ever happened. Again, great work and keep 'em coming. Regards to all. 😁

[@jcristina]

Awesome comment. Appreciate you taking the time and glad to hear about your experiences.

[@iPossum]

Keep rocking! Amazing staying being a pack leader instead of part of the sheep of MS😂

[@claytonchilders2568]

Thanks

[@michaelmacho1]

Great video 🎉 I tried the daily driver of Linux. Liked mint a lot. Was also sick of windows and blue screens. I ended up moving to a MAC. Run a VM of Linux mint also.

[@daviddesrosiers1946]

I'm a quasi Linux user. I own a Steam Deck.

[@jcristina]

Yes you are!!!

[@JamieStuff]

Even better... you can say that you use Arch! (SteamOS is based on Arch.)

[@joshgibson3618]

Great video, thanks! Have you ever tried Ghost BSD? or Nomad BSD?

[@aaronbeaty3980]

When they capture the wrong medical information: HIPAA. Microsoft is done.

[@acorn2oaks]

Love all the effort you are putting into this plan. I'm a little behind you! I'm making my list of everything I need when I leave Windows. BTW, my experience has been Mint! I love it too! I do have one question. What are you using instead of Affinity? You might have said, but if you did, I missed it!

[@jcristina]

GIMP / KRITA / PHOTOPEA.

[@estried86]

@@jcristina RawTherapee and Darktable are always highly recommended.

[@therealcyber5]

I've never had good luck with WINE

[@jcristina]

Point well taken.

[@RenderingUser]

Personally i have. ive been playing ultrakill with wine for a while now

[@Bonjour-World]

I had lots of luck with wine .... all of it bad.

[@emjaycee]

Like you, I'm a Mint/LMDE and Fedora lover. Fedora takes a bit more work for sure, but it's worth learning to go that extra step as well. Someone below mentioned MX Linux as well, which is based off Debian, and it is also a reliable distro with a lot of extra tools available for those that need to use them. I'm almost loath to mention this distro, lol, but Manjaro Gnome might also be something you want to look at. Manjaro is 'Arch-based' more than Arch, but it is also in many ways 'Arch made easy'. In Arch/Manjaro, you can enable the AUR, and there is a 'chance' that you might find printer drivers to suit your label printer in the AUR. I do use Manjaro at times, and when the major updates come - every fortnight or so - I tend to update via TTY as I just find it more stable that way. Good luck on your Linux journey :)

[@JohnnyThund3r]

This is why I keep saying Linux Mint is Linux default... it simple comes down how much time are you gonna spend in Linux getting things to work? For new users they are gonna spend the least amount of time in Linux Mint trying to get stuff to work for ~98% of the things they wanna do. For that last ~2% of people you're gonna need to use Arch Linux, but how many users are gonna be doing cutting age A.I. training on their computer or other things at the high end of development work? For the overwhelming vast majority of humans, Linux Mint is enough. For the rest of us, we use Arch.

[@jcristina]

🚀🚀🚀🚀

[@kwaki-serpi-niku]

Linux distros are so varied and great in number, that choosing one is often like having to be a kid in the candy store. I have five computers in my home. It's far more than I would ever need, but I've turned all of them into dual boot PCs of varying types. So I've got Linux mint, Garuda, Manjaro, endeavor, nobara and Solus. They all work. Of all of those though, the one that seems to work on the most hardware without problems or issues that I have to fix is Garuda with Linux mint being a close second.

[@jabronilifestyle]

Your vocal audio is panned brochachosaurus rex

[@jcristina]

I think I found the problem.. Should clear up on the next video.

[@spc1503]

Enjoyed this one. As a retired software developer who was tired of Windows, I switched to Mac years ago for home use (programming things I want to do at home). I selected Linux Mint as my next fall-back, if or whenever the Mac becomes too iPad-like (looks more like it all the time). Will be interested if you stick with Mint.

[@GungaLaGunga]

I chose Fedora with the KDE Plasma desktop. AWESOME! MS Windows sucks now. Stop spying on our every keystroke and file.

[@jcristina]

Nice!!!

[@TheGhostofPirateBob711]

I have been holding on to Windows for one thing only.. Guild Wars 2. That is where my friends are and sooo much time, etc invested. I saw a program called Lutris yesterday that looks promising. Hearing you got it to work and got improved frame rates is very encouraging. Thank you for this.

[@jcristina]

Absolutely Bob.. It works through Steam on every Linux Distro I've tested but Linux Mint gave me "personally" the best FPS.

[@TheGhostofPirateBob711]

@@jcristina Thank you. Mine is not a Steam account version, but I saw I can add it to steam with a edit. I am done with MS spyware OS. I will try Mint. I bought the pro version of Zorin, but Mint seems sleeker and I am sure updated more often.

[@protaginets]

This is a topic you really shouldn't have touched. There is no "best" distribution. The point of Linux is that it depends on the user.

[@jcristina]

That was my point. Like I said on my first video. Make a list of must haves and wants. Pick an OS that provides all of your wants. Nothing new here. Did you watch the videos?

[@Starlight-AG]

Agree Joe. Your 'job' is to give us a look at some differences and your experiences from a 'regular user migrating to Linux' point of view. IMHO. That gives us a starting point. I'm 71 and Mint Debian is my choice so if I can do it so can most people. Don't be afraid, cut the cord from Microshaft and have fun and enjoy your computing experience instead of fearing the next Windows update that breaks your build. Regards to all 😉

[@stevebogucki5494]

Really enjoy your channel - clear, understandable, no holds barred. I'm about a month into my exodus from Microsoft as well. I tried Mint years ago when people started to give me their old laptops - they'd bring tham to me to fix, and when I told them what it would cost to repair, they mostly said, Keep it, I'll get a new one. I put linux on all of them, simply because their Windows version were unsupported. Now in preparation for the death of W10, I've decided that that's it: move to linux. Methodically, I downloaded Mint and played with it from a pen drive. Noticed that in the INSTALL OS, it gave the opportunity to leave W10 alone, and install Mint alongside. I let that wait while I was distracted for a few weeks, and when I came came back to it, they had an newer version which I downloaded. It didn't give me the choice to install alongside! I played with a few more distros, which didn't impress me. I went out and bought an SSD, installed it in my desktop box, unplugged W10 and installed Mint 21.3. Works like a charm, printer found and worked immediately, and fast? Hell yes! I installed the same version on my laptop, keeping windows. That worked - notice that a learning curve is in effect. I'm reading a lot of how-to's, forum entries, and watching KZbin. Some things are replaced with alternatives (Evernotes, Serviio) and some I fought hard for (XP's Solitaire - go ahead and laugh.) I'll be doing this on my wife's laptop, and office desktops eventually, so learning is essential. For these, it's not a question of specialized software. When friends ask me "What laptop should I buy?", I ask what will you do with it? If the answer is email, web browsing, and storing photos (and that's usually all it is), I answer it doesn't really matter. I don't game, and gamers don't ask me. But now I recommend moving to Linux. Keep it up, sir. 😎

[@serakithaisi4517]

In South Africa tired of constant change that requires money from Billy the kid. I'm looking for a total new computing formation . This helped me a great deal 🤝

[@gil_L]

Thanks for the video! I’m using Rocky 8.10 as my daily driver. It’s basically a clone of Red Hat. The only “pain” was the Nvidia drivers but a quick type in ChatGPT took care of that. I hate how the Annacanda installer doesn’t have this off the bat. It is very stable for me and everything just works with out any issues. I’m not distro hopping. I have a test machine when I want to try other Os. So far I’ve tried Ubuntu 22.04, Linspire 14, Oracle Linux, and Euro Linux Desktop which is probably my favorite for its design.

[@jcristina]

Sweet!!

[@Timithos]

What do you mean by a quick type in ChatGPT? Did you ask it to write some code, or just point you in the right direction?

[@gil_L]

@@Timithos you can literally ask it help me get the Nvidia drivers for Rocky and it will give you the commands for terminal.

[@LumpyMoose]

I love this video series and your presentation. However, every single issue you’ve had can be solved by using macOS instead and everything would work flawlessly out of the box with a much better user experience with software like the affinity suite and everything else you do. Good choice with Linux Mint for your hardware though, I’ve been distro hopping in VM’s and on my older computer too and I’m rapidly coming to the same conclusion.. that for x86 hardware, linux mint is best.

[@bhutchin1996]

I ran Linux Mint for a few years. I currently run EndeavourOS, an Arch-based distro. It's very minimalist, but you won't get a lot of bloatware either. Garuda Linux is another Arch-based distro. I've heard it has a lot of bloatware, but that it's also very performant and they have a version for gaming. EndeavourOS is very good, but it might not be for you. Recently it didn't pick up on my flash drive, and I had to install something and reboot to make it work. The Arch User Repository is the reason to use Arch and Arch-based distros. The AUR has a ton of stuff, and it's usually on the cutting edge and up to date, even more so than Linux Mint or MX.

[@spooky-30000]

I got lucky, I was already using a lot of open source software in the software manager, and whatever didn't install or run on Linux I was able to either use the in browser web app versions and just about tech savvy enough to create an isolated portable version of windows with the non-web windows specific apps installed to use in an offline state and transfer the files out on another usb. But even games worked for me on Linux as I use Steam for all my games. I know there's the memes about what distro people use but honestly if I encountered another person coming from Windows I would recommend Mint, hands down it just is friendly to computer users who are casual or low on spoons.

[@jcristina]

Ansolutely.

[@mchenrynick]

I'm also on standard Linux Mint 22. What I don't know is what issues there are on the LMDE version -- Linux Mint without Ubuntu backing.

[@NiTeMo0dZ]

Thanks Joseph, for all the hard laboring hours you are putting into this series. Was hoping Mint was on this list, and you came thru. Thank You once again

[@simonworthington7979]

Just installed Mint this week. Really enjoying it and can't see why i won't stay with it.

[@wendygrant2735]

Mr C. I thank you for the hard work of testing the different distros. Many of us will leave windows sooner or later. "If you're still here...". Yes I was still there and further. You know what, don't bother viewers with these notifications. We will give you a thumbs up anyway as we like your stuff. Otherwise we would have been long gone.

[@davidgodwin8734]

I'm so proud of you for taking your life in your hands speaking out against Microsoft Windows. I've been dabbling with Linux since Microsoft Windows 7, because I saw where Microsoft was heading. I've been using Linux exclusively since 2010. I'm merely a high school graduate with no advanced education, but using Linux has been easy enough for me to learn. If I can do it, ANYONE can do it.

[@moi196872]

Another great video, as a matter of fact, I am currently trying Linux mint on my computer. So far, so good!

[@hiru92]

try these, ubuntu dist < fedora dist < arch dist

[@nallemanstankarochfunderin5962]

Grandfather of Mint is Debian, the worlds most widely used Linux Cernel, and the one used by Linus Thorwalds. That’s why it works so good. The optimization and compatibility is unmatched. Still, if you’re up for it, I would like to see your take on Manjaro. Thanks for your videos.

[@frankyvee1]

Really enjoyed watching this video on Linux Distro. I would like to see what the outcome of Affinity on Mint goes. The wine emulator is definitely going to take a hit on performance since it's not running native. Wine is basically in the middle like a translator slowing down the communication process. The only time linux apps run fast is when they run natively for that particular Linux distro. Also there has been somthing similar to FlatPak called Docker Containers. But basically the same idea behind FlatPaks where the application runs within a container with all it's dependencies so it is Linux distro agnostic. The main disadvantage to docker is it can get resource intensive.

[@jcristina]

Great point.

[@frankyvee1]

@@jcristina Just FYI. I folllow a Tech Guy on KZbin called Chris Titus ...very smart dude. According to him Rocky Linux gets the best results with DaVinche Resolve.