Why do Content Creators REFUSE to use Linux?

[@dqvide]

do you consider the new Mac mini m4 overpriced and underpowered? your statement was just false. Macs have com a long way since Intel in terms of price and power.

[@ThatCowBloke]

This is actually very valid, this script was something that I had planned about two and a half weeks ago, and I think some of the newer chips had their benchmark released not too long ago from the quick research I could do. The main focus was also on linux, and I dont have any exposure to the apple side of tech, so I didnt really so my homework on apples progress lately, meaning that alot of that opinion was based on much older hardware and as such is alot more outdated than I thought, although this is not an excuse for spreading what, in hindsight, might as well just be a lie. You are 100% right though, and I should have done more research on that before I even wrote the script, let alone recorded, tried to find a relevant graph, and uploaded it. I hope this didnt ruin the rest of the video for you though and you still might have enjoyed the linux discussion! I'll pin this comment so people can see this reply as I can see others pointing out my mistake aswell, and hopefully no-one takes this the wrong way, but I stayed up way too late where I am and am WAY too tired to write out a proper response to everyone pointing this out, so hopefully this is enough for people to understand that I am a dumbass who didnt fact check before he spoke, sorry about that man!

[@dqvide]

@@ThatCowBloke Oh okay alright thats understandable… Reading my comment now it sounds really angry loll. Just wanted to know ur stance on the m4 macs. sorry not my first language. keep up the great work!

[@ThatCowBloke]

@dqvide Nah man your all good, you raised a really good point that I completely neglected and should have covered better haha, and thanks man, I'll make sure to keep the work up and improve my videos even more!

[@bbblop4545]

It starts as a great deal, but if you dare want more storage and memory you can end up tripling the price of the mac mini very easily. 2TB of storage for 800$ is just crazy when a 2TB ssd of similar quality is 100$, same goes for the 400$ for an extra 16gb of memory. Apple has always had pretty solid value with their mini and even some of their macbooks but they instantly shoot themselves in the foot value wise if you want more storage or memory than the base model.

[@ruroruro]

Oh, boy, +200 usd for every 8 gigs of ram, +200 usd for extra 256 gigs of ssd. What a steal! Apple must be hemorrhaging money in order to offer such competitive prices.

[@EdyAlbertoMSGT3]

"Would you recomend Windows to your friend and family?" "No" "Why?" "You need to understand that people don't just recomend operating software in real conversations" "This person has never met a Linux user"

[@cericat]

Arch and Gentoo users remind me of Vegans and Mormons in particular thinking back on all my encounters since 2000.

[@Louis-L186]

"Would you recomend Windows to your friend and family?" "No" "Why?" "Recall, crapware, the inability to use without an offline account, pointless hardware requirement"

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

I knock on peoples' doors to ask if they've heard the good word of our Lord and Saviour, Ubuntu Mint

[@Redmanticore]

"you dare to tarnish my sensei Richard Stallman´s name by using micro$oft in my presence....?" *unleashes his linux katana* *whizzes his katana filled with penguin linux logo around, hitting his grandmother´s kitchen table* grandmother: "thats nice dear, but you should be using your toys outside.. but dont go outside for too long, dinner is almost ready.."

[@ForOne814]

@@Louis-L186 "And what do you use?" "Windows"

[@re-gaming3913]

Bro some content creators barely know how to operate windows. Some need a personal technician to tell them what cable is for the monitor. Most windows users haven't even considered to look at the settings menu. You can't expect a person like this to use command line

[@__-ix1lv]

Actually you can. Command line is way easier to operate than GUI. If smby can use chat bot than he can use command line. It is basically the same things. Question => Answer and that's all.

[@PenguinByte]

You do not need the command line at all to use Linux. It can be fully operated via the GUI, and is pretty user friendly if you choose something like GNOME.

[@TheBcoolGuy]

​@__-ix1lvNot everyone is utistic

[@Noer-e6j]

That is not the issue bro, the issue for most content creators is workflow. They aren’t “too dumb” to use the command line. They simply don’t have the time. They have to release videos on schedule so they don’t have time to spend on troubleshooting issues for various software and hardware problems and use the command line to fix it

[@g04tn4d0]

@@Noer-e6j Well, the thing is, Linux generally doesn't have a history of getting an update that bricks the entire system very often. Once you got a solid setup going, it's pretty much fire-and-forget. Every time I turn on a Windows 11 PC, I wonder if the next update will brick the system which has already happened several times. So, yeah, Linux setup might take a little longer, but once it's done it's generally done.

[@thilosaur2169]

I think dankpods is probably the largest (that i wouldn't really consider to be typical linux user) that uses linux

[@x_voxelle_x]

And even then he only rarely brings it up when it's to rant about Windows.

[@bacalhau_seco]

SomeOrdinaryGames uses linux too

[@piens51]

​@@x_voxelle_xisnt it the default? Like when you are make up artist or cooking chanel what OS they use isnt really revelant.

[@xb6xx]

@@bacalhau_seco he uses arch (btw)

[@colbyboucher6391]

​@@x_voxelle_xI mean, anything else would be odd. There isn't much reason to bring it up.

[@ArbiterofMoths]

"Why do non-tech KZbinrs never use Linux?" Is like asking console gamers why don't they ditch their console and just play on pc. It's because they personally see no reason to do so if it serves the same purpose for them and is less of a hassle (yes, ease of use and generally less friction. This might be a big shocker to most Linux people)

[@cericat]

The issues with OBS and audio piping didn't help people looking to switch either. Hell I switched to OBS on Windows originally because xsplit didn't have game capture the way it does and my overlays didn't need to be visible to viewers. But the idea that Kden (which I recall has always been less performant than the alternatives for some reason) or DaVinci are it is flat out wrong as 5 seconds searching would have proven.

[@cooleyYT]

Try editing on your console moron

[@Grogeous_Maximus]

@@cericat I use Ubuntu, and OBS runs better than it did when I ran Windows 2 years ago

[@JailerGamer]

​@@Grogeous_Maximus The experience is a lot better now compared to a couple of years ago. Windows has always been 90/10 with OBS. While linux used to be 20/80 even less with an Nvidia GPU

[@cericat]

@@JailerGamer yep though Wayland set things back a little on the audio side temporarily again which seems to be resolved. The joys of NVIDIA on Linux definitely don't help folks that prefer their GPUs even now since apparently there's more issues on that end popping up? Still until NVIDIA fix their end I can see why their fans wouldn't want to switch and lose things like shadowplay in the process as well.

[@JessicaFEREM]

Kdenlive's ripple delete is called "extract clip" for some reason, but yea it's there.

[@uis246]

Why it would be called ripple delete if it does not delete ripples?

[@luisortega8085]

the kde seal of quality ​@@uis246

[@phoenixrising4995]

@@uis246 If you use a Thinkpad its called nipple delete 😂😂

[@GamingKing-jo9py]

extract clip is a much better name than ripple delete, i had to google ripple delete

[@GabrielM01]

i dont see any resemblance to a ripple in that action

[@jan_harald]

uh, gimp is one, but...no mention of krita? at all? seriously? nowdays krita tends to be more popular than old gimp, even, especially for making art, but, well, everything else, too

[@MagikGimp]

Never heard of it. I wonder why. Yet another case of the name doesn't suggest anything about the software syndrome.

[@jan_harald]

@@MagikGimp krita is mostly oriented at creating art, while gimp is mostly originating as an image manipulator, much like how photoshop, well...is *PHOTO* shop, and evolved into something also great for creating images, similar with gimp krita's a lot more convenient for painting and switching brushes and adjusting brush color and quickly erasing something and all sorts of stuff like that

[@AbteilungsleiterinBeiAntifaEV]

​@@MagikGimpIt does, in Swedish.

[@FlooferLand]

@@MagikGimp Mm yes, can't wait to edit my videos inside Adobe VideoEditor 2024 with my Adobe VectorArtMaker 2024 characters i animated with Adobe 2dCharacterAnimator 2024

[@leoleonvids]

it's funny cuz krita has been on linux far longer than any other platform

[@Liofa73]

Linux is an operating sytem for people interested in computing. Content creators aren't interested in computing they are interested in the content they produce and getting it out fast. The computer is tool, not an interest. Even gamers just want the games to work. Linux requires too much fiddling to get a lot of things to work. And that fiddling and the joy of making things work on Linux is part of the enjoyment for Linux users. Even the easy installs of Linux really aren't that easy for less than savvy computer users. Getting packages, installing software, ironing out bugs aren't what the average computer user wants to deal with. And that's why Windows is king, everything is handed to Microsoft users. Even Apple users have a more difficult time with compatibility of games. Linux is for users with computer science and electronics interests. It's not friendly enough for the average computer user.

[@notjustforhackers4252]

Linux content creators use Linux.

[@Box_yld]

*shocked*

[@kab43]

he addressed that in the video anyway smartass

[@Deadl007]

Nope, kzbin.info/www/bejne/qKHXfKR_fNOiqKM And good luck telling otherwise.

[@bacalhau_seco]

​@@Deadl007thats just 1 linux youtuber and theres alot of them

[@Deadl007]

@@bacalhau_seco who uses windows, yeah c;

[@Deveyus]

I think a big part of it is, they had a windows machine, they learend to work on it, and there's a lot of inertia, why change what isn't broken?

[@starlightdragon6862]

The big thing is Windows IS broken.

[@MrMetropolis]

"isn't broken" is a stretch, it's more like Microsoft comes to your house and beats your PC with hammers (but just barely not hard enough to fully break it) every once in a while just because they can & they know that you won't swap systems

[@Mario583a]

@@starlightdragon6862 Windows is only broken as the user in front of the keyboard.

[@litebands4349]

@@Mario583a windows might not be broken, but it sure as hell takes a ton of your data and is way more unoptimized then practically any linux distro.

[@Deveyus]

I just wanna chime in here: I am not saying Windows isn't bad, just that it doesn't directly interfere with what people are trying to do, and so it doesn't create pain points that drive them away directly.

[@CoolDudeClem]

It's because nearly all of the content creating software is only available for Windows. Hardly any of it is available for Linux. I would use Linux if it was'nt for so much of the software I use being Windows only.

[@uis246]

"Nearly all" \*lists adobe multuple times\*

[@henriquepicanco97]

Like what?

[@OpenSourceGuyYT]

And did you noticed? Almost all of them are PAID services. Big companies are paying them to don't release a version of their sofwares for GNU/Linux. For example, Adobe has enough power to develop a GNU/Linux version of their software, but they just don't. They don't care us. But the only thing which they care is, money.

[@UbuntuPersonNoMint]

Name the creator tools not available on mac?

[@UbuntuPersonNoMint]

​@@OpenSourceGuyYTdude. Do you have anything to back up your claim of companies paying devs not to develop for gnu/linux? It sounds very far fetched

[@jermygod]

Why do Content Creators REFUSE to use Linux? 1 - no adobe. 2 - a terrible reputation of a complex os for which you need to know console commands. and 98% of those who make content about Linux only do harm by promoting complexity. 3 - Open source and Linux in general attract programmers, so there are many programs with cool functionality. But does not attract designers, so these programs have crappy UI/UX.

[@BeefIngot]

Too many people do harm by pretending there is some nonexistent simple user who both hates the default and only needs to check their email. This is done to avoid facing how difficult many technical tasks are due to app compatibility and unfamiliarity

[@Gigusx]

I think there are 2 far bigger reasons: 1. 99.9% of computers ship with Windows by default. There is little reason for the average user to even think of another OS when Windows is all they've ever known. 2. Say what you will about Windows, but Windows just works out of the box and is stable almost all of the time unless you're messing with it (which don't forget would also make you an unusual user), because it's designed specifically for the average user. For almost anything almost anyone would want to do on his computer, things are just going to work, and any software they need will be easily available. So you have an OS that is ubiquitous and that always works for most people, meaning it doesn't give you a good reason to even start looking elsewhere. If you consider privacy and telemetry, it's also ubiquitous and normalized, people can bark but they've also always traded their privacy for convenience and it never really harmed them in any significant way. So that's not enough reason to change anything either.

[@jermygod]

@@Gigusx I do agree that people don't have much reason to change OS. but. linux also just works out of the box unless you're messing with it. because it's also designed for the average user. For almost anything almost anyone would want to do on his computer, things are just going to work, and any software they need(except adobe) will be easily available. btw my main machine is Windows, and the most UNusual thing I do on Windows is game servers. and it's a HUGE HEMORRHOID to deal with. It’s 10 times more difficult than raising a VPS on Linux to raise a personal VPN there using some easy text guide. Even if this(game servers) is considered an unusual use... then the usual is only a browser and Steam and sending files and editing documents? then Linux is 100% no worse and even better and simpler than Windows. Over the past 2 years, for me - Linux has had even minor breakdowns/errors literally 0 times(but have to admit that I use it 15% of the time). but Windows has bugs consistently here and there once every couple of months during relatively normal work, and I didn’t go into the console or the registry. just normal'ish use. ...still. Everything above is not important for the transition. What is important is the established habit to use win and lack of need do switch.

[@wta1518]

@@jermygod I'm sorry, but that's just not true. Linux does not work nearly as well out of the box as Windows. It always needs extra utilities and programs installed in order to do basic tasks.

[@vasiliynkudryavtsev]

@ColinCotterell I think this statement is too much overrated. Do you really think that designers are some sacred people with every touch making products flawless? There are lots of trash designers out there. It just happens so, that commercial business gets the best of the best because of money. The problem is different, open-source developers in the fundamental trade-off of design "simplicity/ease-of-use vs. functionality" would always select the later. Because they make applications not for sale but to solve their problems.

[@stewki]

most of the people dont care or think about operating sistem... they just use computer

[@kaaf9840]

It's not that they don't care, they are lazy. If they used linux, they would see how their PC wouldn't use 90℅ of its processing power just for telemetry and AI shit.

[@XDRosenheim]

@@kaaf9840 "see how their PC wouldn't use 90℅ of its processing power just for telemetry and AI shit" Which most people do not actually know about, and they do not see how much the CPU is working. That is why they just buy something new when the old computer starts to get slow, they do not know why, they just know it is getting slow. If they actually cared, they would ask questions as to why. They do not care.

[@yumri4]

@@XDRosenheim which is why I think when October 14, 2025 comes around lots of prebuilt intel and prebuilt AMD computers will be sold as Microsoft will either charge the user to continue to get updates for another year or they will buy a new system. Most do not even consider Linux as a possibility to move to.

[@SpahGaming]

@@XDRosenheim and 80% of the people that even do care, will just optimise windows, not bother about linux and move on with their day

[@pakane24]

@@kaaf9840 unfortunately most people don't know what a CPU even is. A lot of PC users see monitor and think that THAT thing is a computer and not that other box that you actually have to turn on.

[@EasyGameEh]

it's not content creators, it's everyone. in fact, since creative type people are one of the most reliant on specific softwares demographics them using linux should be even more rare.

[@savagesarethebest7251]

"An artist is not its tools". Also I have used some art programs that actually started out to be Linux exclusive, then ported to Mac and then eventually to Windows. It is just easier to get things done on Linux

[@EasyGameEh]

@savagesarethebest7251 well, if YOU say so

[@ohno5507]

​@@savagesarethebest7251not for the avergae person.

[@rabbitos]

You can make art with anything but lets be real here, watercolors are more pleasant to work with than broken glass. I briefly tried to use a Cintiq with Ubuntu circa 2019. It was a buggy mess in spite of Wacom products being "fully supported", so after a week I gave up and only used it on Windows. I currently run pop!_OS on my desktop but I've since switched to an iPad for drawing which has been an even smoother experience. I've had maybe 3 or 4 major issues over the course of 4 years as opposed to 3 or 4 per day. You don't know luxury until you use tools designed for your exact use case instead of having to use a hammer as a screwdriver.

[@Mario583a]

Simple: They want tools for the job that are easy to work with and not moderately difficult as with Linux.

[@FineWine-v4.0]

More like they're morons who don't want to learn & complain

[@forgotten893]

This is probably one of the best non-tutorial tutorials I've seen so far. Most people, on the DaVinci Resolve portion, would skip the entire thing and say, "It took me a couple of hours, it was a simple fix but I got it running. Let's continue!", without showing us the steps they took and without telling us the fix they used.

[@kendrakirai]

Biggest reason? They use equipment that Linux simply doesn't have support for, or the support for that they need. They're streamers with webcams, rather than just people who edit recordings. They may have professional level gear, which simply doesn't have linux drivers, sometimes *at all*, other times they just don't work how they should.

[@granatengeorg]

I think a lot of Linux users are fundamentally not getting that regardless of if it’s actual usefulness, average people will always opt for clicking through a ui for 10 minutes than opening a terminal and executing 3 commands for 10 seconds. As soon as any sort of command line stuff is involved, people just won’t do it, and will go to the options that provide a gui only way (that consistently works that is) instead, simple as that. That, and average people don’t want to customize their desktop until it’s perfect for them. They want one default, that works good enough, and that’s it. Almost no one on windows and especially not Mac changes their desktop environments in any way, besides maybe uncluttering the start menu a bit and removing ads from the taskbar.

[@rushinigiri]

As a Linux user - you have to really round out the truth to end up with this video. Something as simple as running a program can quickly become a bunch of trouble in Linux: It might not be friends with your window manager, you might get a sub optimized release and have to downgrade, there might be a problem with one of your dependencies, it might not behave as an app image, etc. These can happen in Mint, you don't have to be on Arch to experience this. (I still think people should use Linux though...)

[@Gigusx]

Yeah, good point. I recently installed EndeavourOS on my older laptop and it decided that it hates my ethernet connection and after hours of trying to fix things with common fixes it still doesn't work. When I installed Linux (Mint) for the first time there was a problem with installing Nvidia drivers. It didn't take long to fix, but it did need fixing. It also had some weird issues with my Bluetooth headphones whenever I'd pause the media and wait few minutes before resuming it (didn't bother fixing it since I was only playing around, but I'd need to restart BT to make it work again). For setups with multiple monitors people often need to make it work as well because different DEs will handle this differently. DistroTube has recently posted a video on using Hyprland and he mentioned that it took him hours to set it up, and that guy's been on Linux probably longer than he can remember.

[@FineWine-v4.0]

​@@Gigusxthen use the "Just works" type of distros

[@k9zxmr]

Some hardware is dependent on drivers that only works for windows or Mac. Elgato stuff is an example of this, which many creators use

[@softwarelivre2389]

Elgato's Stream Deck works on GNU/Linux just fine, not sure about the rest of their portfolio. Boatswain is the way

[@Some-guy-on-the-internet]

​@@softwarelivre2389The HD60S+ and Cam Link 4K are both platform-agnostic too because they use UVC instead of a proprietary protocol.

[@BekoPharm]

h264/h265 are a licence mess and DaVinci Resolve plays it safe, that's why it is not available with the free version. FOSS software can in theory ignore the licence fees since the fee does not apply to source code but only compiled binary - which is why the codecs are often not shipped with the installation of the system without adding further repositories. It becomes more complex when the [compiled] software is provided "free of charge" - which DaVinci is not really as their business is the Studio version. This is one of the major reasons to switch to "free" codecs like AV1, that do not have this caveat. To this date no case is known [to me] where an individual Linux user was dragged to court for using a pre-compiled h26x encoder/decoder though 🤷

[@CathrineMacNiel]

Oh hi citizen, fancy seeing you here o7

[@BekoPharm]

@@CathrineMacNiel smol verse o7

[@morxemplum]

Yes, H.264 and H.265 are patent encumbered, which means that you can't ship them as part of your software without paying royalties. Counterexample: OpenH264. Basically, if you use OpenH264, the company behind it (Cisco) is willing to pay for the royalties if you use their binaries. Blackmagic could simply use OpenH264 and avoid paying the royalties outright. The real reason why Blackmagic doesn't want to incorporate H.264 into DaVinci Resolve For Linux is because it is a codec that was primarily designed for content delivery, not for processing and editing. If you don't believe me, try using an H.264/5 video of 1080p or 4K on Windows and scrub through your timeline; you'll notice DaVinci will struggle for a solid minute getting all the frames that aren't "keyframes" (this is even worse with AV1, which is much more complex and demanding). Meanwhile, if you use a codec that doesn't use intraframe compression, such as Avid's DNxHR or Apple's ProRes, you'll be able to scrub it through the timeline like butter. And considering that DaVinci Resolve is industrial software that is used by movie studios, they're going to more cater to movie studios and support the codecs they use. I guarantee you most studios aren't using H.264/5 for recording and editing their videos.

[@katanasteel]

good thing that ffmpeg can expand your h264+aac to a format resolve will ingest and you could use ffmpeg again to nvenc_h264 the output... but that's a personal preference :D

[@undefinedCat]

i literally do not have any av1-compatible hardware😭, it's only h264 and h265

[@cammelspit]

Technically, Valve has been working on Linux gaming for over a decade now, late 2012 IIRC. then they were heavily investing in DXVK and other API projects to make porting way easier for games and this was before they started working on proton, a fork of WINE which has been around nearly as long as the Linux kernel itself, only a couple years younger, early 90s for both. Anyways, it has been a long road for Linux gaming, well over a decade now at least, but it is at a point now where Linux as a primary gaming platform is not only viable but IMHO desirable.

[@lenargilmanov7893]

Yeah, remember Steam machines?

[@fujinshu]

Yes, if you don't have NVIDIA GPUs, which is the vast majority of Steam users. Even though they have (finally!) created open-source kernel modules for their GPUs, it still doesn't support Valve's Gamescope, which to me is the gold standard for console-like gaming. And without Gamescope, why use Linux when you could just use Windows instead? Also, there are lots of features for NVIDIA GPUs that only work in Windows, such as RTX VSR and HDR, as well as (DL)DSR and RTX Broadcast. Not to mention that there are plenty of apps and standards on Windows and Mac that are NOT available for Linux, such as HDMI 2.1 (FRL), Dolby Vision/Atmos and even HDR10+ (though the former three are proprietary standards in contrast to the latter, which is an open standard).

[@no_name4796]

The answer is very simple: there is a learning curve to even install linux. Heck, when i dualbooted ubuntu for the first time, i was learning about linux at university, so i had a basic understanding of it, and it was still scary. Touching the bios is reeeeally scary for a newbie. And it's also NECESSARY to install linux. And once you install linux, your windows view of how computers work is completely broken. The spell is undone. Which was magical for me, but for most people it would actually be scary. It would be like realizing the 4th dimension actually exists, and that there are 4d creatures. And then tons of software doesn't support linux, so you need to know the alternatives. A lot of settings aren't in gui but you need to dig through the internet, man pages, wiki, reddit,... to find answers. Heck to this day i have NO idea how to setup mono audio on linux (i use easyeffect app, but it's such a hacky workaround)

[@BeefIngot]

I find it utterly absurd and so cringe worthy when people act like changing from one os to another is mind bending/world shifting. Fundementally, the os runs your apps. Every OS variant from the shallow end starts out with an intuitive enough interface.

[@no_name4796]

@@BeefIngot congrats for being the 1% who is a nerd and lives in a computer! Most people don't even know what an OS is. And descovering linux for the first time IS MIND BLOWING. gtfo you and your elitism

[@urisinger3412]

try to install windows lol, its the same thing but useally even harder, the only reason people think its easy is becuase it comes preinstalled.

[@no_name4796]

@@urisinger3412 GODDAMIT MAN, CAN YOU STOP WITH THE ELITISM? I know windows is even harder to install. BUT HERE'S THE THING: PEOPLE JUST BUY AND USE WHATEVER COMES PREINSTALLED IN IT. full stop. If you could buy laptops with linux preinstalled, a decent amount of people would be using linux now. And it's not even me spouting words. Chrome OS is literally linux, with all the negatives of linux and ZERO positives of linux. But someone chrome OS is more known and used then linux. YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE YOU CAN WALK IN YOUR LOCAL TECH STORE AND BUY A LAPTOP WITH CHROME OS PREINSTALLED

[@urisinger3412]

@@no_name4796 exactly

[@tutacat]

The reason KZbinrs use Windows is they generally have less time to use it, value their time a lot more. You could call it lazy, but it just means they don't want to spend extra time themselves doing something some programmer has already built in to software that already works on Windows. If it does it and it works, they have nothing to complain about. Many things feel very simple, people don't want to have to worry about it. You have to manually select Video Accelerated rendering on Kdenlive, by default the actual video encoding is done by software, unless you select the accelerated one. And for command line, you have to learn which options are needed for the thing you want to do. For example, to encode via the VA-API layer, you have to tell it which GPU device to use, or it won't do anything. And you have to tell it to give the frames to the GPU for it to decode.

[@FineWine-v4.0]

Then their PC bugs out

[@Kptn_kabaakal]

yea no matter how hard Linux community tries to convince people otherwise, desktop linux is still kinda garbage. Tried many distros, and none of them can even approach the ease of use of windows. I've tried switching to desktop linux every year for at least a month in the past 5 years. Everytime i ran into an infuriating issue that i wouldnt be having on windows and am forced to switch back. Now i just use AtlasOS to remove all telemetry bloat, adware, and spyware from my windows and never had any problems. Desktop linux will never be suitable for the average user. The moment an average user HAS TO open the command line, it's over. they are switching back. Every year people say "its good now" and ever year its nowhere near.

[@DaBoomDude]

That's more the problem of different users considering different things easy to use. Personally, as a power user who has used the command line for various tasks on both Linux and windows.I find Linux far easier to work with than delving through a thousand menus to find an obscure setting. (Something that's getting worse with windows 11 and it slowly migrating to the new settings app over the og power-user friendly control panel) Sure it's not perfect, but you can't really expect it to follow the same paradigm as windows does, as it doesn't follow anywhere near the same paradigm under the hood. Linux has - a strict permissions system - no registry - an eclectic mix of developers with completely disparate and different ideas on how things should be. - almost fully POSIX compliant environment. - a different file system paradigm to the drive letters of windows. It's a completely different beast. So people shouldn't confuse what they're used to with "easy to use" It's easy to use in its own paradigm, and if you can understand that, you can find workarounds and deal with its unique issues with only a little bit of know how. We use the terminal, especially when telling people how to do things because it's platform agnostic. Most commands run on all systems regardless of how it's setup. People don't like providing instructions in many other ways as there are so many different variations in setup it's almost pointless to do so without a tonne of work. Not only that it can result in faster results than diving through menus - it's a lot faster to touch type than it is to move a mouse around.

[@hardVatsuki]

same thing, I did give a try to linux multiple times and it never got better, same pile of trash using terminal to install something is such a cringe, I guess it makes linux users feel superior out of nowhere just because they used keyboard instead of mouse

[@DaBoomDude]

@hardVatsuki look, I'm not saying that just because we use terminal that we are better than you who use GUI. What I'm saying is that both are equally valid ways of doing something. It's not out of a sense of superiority that I use terminal. It's out of just wanting to do shit in my way and be able to carry that way across distros and desktop environments if I decide to switch. Which if you value that kind of thing, terminal is the best option. It offers a sort of uniformity in a chaotic world where everyone has different graphical environments. In some ways I think calling the terminal cringe because you dont like it is cringe. Just like using the terminal out of a sense of superiority is cringe. The terminal is a tool, just like a gui is a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. You either hate it and walk away or be willing to understand that people use it because often it's the best option for the situation, and maybe even learn to love it. Even if you decide to never use it, there are graphical ways of doing things. The only problem is we have to ask you what setup you are running - what distro/desktop environment combination to even have a chance of helping you do what you want. Then we also have to be familiar with it so we can know where the buttons are. Like I know KDE uses Discover as a GUI for installing apps. Manjaro uses its own system, Ubuntu or gnome uses its own software center, pop os uses the pop shop, and every other distro uses its own system, and sometimes that system, like arch is the terminal. Our fragmented system tends to push towards the terminal as it's a catch all as it's mostly distro/desktop environment agnostic. A lot of Linux users can name the command for X distro, but not the equivalent graphical option in the GUI. Because that's what they're used to.

[@evilleader1991]

Try Nobara

[@professional_lurker]

"1 in 50 users have installed Linux" factoid actually just statistical error, average person runs Linux on 0 machines. Linux Georg, who lives in server room & installs over 10,000 Linux distros to his laptops each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.

[@Readesu]

The thing about linux right now. Everything eventually breaks for some reason. And fixing it is never simple.

[@Sprogster]

Something would always break for me with nearly every update. Honestly F**K linux on the desktop.

[@Seacle14]

Because people care that their games work without exception.

[@waynejoyner432]

thank you

[@HedgehogGolf]

Another thing is that Windows just... works more consistently compared to Linux when it comes to streaming. Like there are far fewer audio and video issues on Windows compared to Linux

[@WyvernDotRed]

I suppose everyone's experience can differ, but in my experience sound is the thing which works the most consistently in Linux, at least after the transition to Pipewire. Video capture and even general window rendering can be more wonky, since X11 has many glitches and Wayland still needs more polishing.

[@HedgehogGolf]

@@WyvernDotRed Using Audacity is always a tossup as to whether it'll play normally or just crackle a ton (sometimes out of the laptop speaker even if I'm wearing headphones) I've had many issues with Pipewire lol It's definitely gotten a lot better in the past year or so though

[@MidWitPride]

@@WyvernDotRed For as long as one uses on-board audio. I've had some absolutely miserable experiences with PCIe sound cards. I used one for a while as my motherboard's integrated one broke, and I happened to have one lying around. Some time later I switched to Linux and it took me so long to figure out that my mystery crackling issues across distros were because of the sound card itself and not because of some driver issue. On Windows it worked perfectly, which is why I didn't suspect it, and just assumed this to be some esoteric Linux driver thing that I can fix.

[@kerduslegend2644]

One word "convenience". People don't want to work an extra steps just to play their games or do their works. Everything you install will work. On linux you need to go and install/configure this n-th package before you can actually do something about the main package you wanna install. If i wanna play valorant, i don't want to setup and boot another VM just to play a match that's just going to end up eating my memory

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

That's a made up scenario that doesn't exist.

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

At the very least, it doesn't apply to games. Setting up a dev environment for the first time before bootstrapping everything, yeah, you might want to configure npm's defaults before you start using it to install other software.

[@epixerty]

i think its also mostly due to stability, if your job heavily relies on your pc you can't afford having your pc randomly breaking at some point and maybe losing all your data

[@keyboardwarrior6296]

@@epixerty thats not very likely to happen. I reboot like once a month.

[@Sk4lli]

​@@epixerty that's why I don't understand why people stick to Windows. Once Linux is set up and running it's much more stable than Windows.

[@peppefailla1630]

My bro started his linux journey with the most edgy things he could have ever think of 💀

[@awesomethegreatamazing2651]

He could have started on gentoo (despite how funny/based but also somewhat impractical it may have been). I’m glad that he cut to the chase and not debated which distro(s) to choose, as there’s already a lot of content on that already, so no need to rehash that sort of discussion when the video was about the content creation experience. Though you can make almost any distro into almost anything given you can change your desktop environment/window manager plus a plethora of other things depending on how much work you’re willing to put in. In terms of near out of box or in what way a typical user would use a distro, the usage in this video was more than fine.

[@mihailazar2487]

PRO TIP: When you are on KDE plasma, you can press F4 inside of Dolphin (the file manager) to get a terminal right under your files. You can toggle it back off with F4 again. Once you get used to that, most other file managers will seem completely stupid, as opening up a new window just to run one command and then closing it is really stupid.

[@dmitryvolkov7178]

I speak as a Linux user. They don't use it, because everything suits them on the current system

[@RogueRen]

I'm someone that swapped to Linux a few years ago, and have been making content on it for most of that time. Once you learn the initial setup stuff (like changing your audio encoder for videos, using AV1 or something to re-encode your videos like handbrake, how to set up audio devices) it's honestly a BETTER content creation setup that I had with YEARS of using Windows. On Windows my audio would break constantly, bitrates would get reset every update, drivers would have be hunted down and HOPE they were the right ones, stuff like my DS4 controller had to use 3rd party software just to work right in games, it was just a mess. On Linux my stuff does still mess up occasionally (like yesterday where my audio just didn't want connect to anything until I rebooted), the issues have been simple fixes like a reboot, run an update, change a config file, etc. And when it was a bigger issue, I was actually allowed to go as deep as I needed (or rather the person helping be because I still dunno what I'm doing most of the time) to actually fix it instead of hitting a wall because Microsoft deems this too dangerous for users to do xyz thing. It's not perfect by any means, especially since things are still being smoothed out with Wayland for a few still missing features (GIVE ME MY GLOBAL HOTKEYS BACK ALREADY) but it's SO MUCH BETTER than people think. If you are getting sick of how Windows is going, please just give it a shot. Pop!_OS is my go to recommendation especially for Nvidia GPUs, or if you wanna challenge yourself and aren't worried about screwing things up try Fedora for a more "advanced" user. The two can actually do pretty much 99.9% of the exact same things but Fedora gets updates a bit faster at the expense of needing more complicated steps to get a fully set up and working OS.

[@Liofa73]

Bust most people just want a computer that works out of the box. They don't want to learn "initial setup stuff" -- or handbrake, encoders etc. They don't enjoy fiddling with computers. Linux is for people that enjoy the fiddling. :)

[@RogueRen]

@Liofa73 everything has setup, even on Windows

[@violetiolite]

​@@Liofa73and you don't set up anything on Windows? The difference is that people are used to Windows set ups. When I boot up my Windows I have to wait a minute after it opens for me to be able to search "Bluetooth" on the search bar on the bottom left corner because otherwise the option won't show up? Ok. It's just a little thing. It has always done this. Yet, when someone experiences a small issue on Linux, which is most likely fixable unlike Windows who will send you to that program that supposedly tries to "fix" the issues despite the fact that I've never seen it working once in my life, people will complain. Because they don't want to spend time learning something new, so of it isn't perfect, and has the same names and ways of Windows, they don't wanna bother. This is the reality. I mean, I can't blame them too much. There's a bunch of people who know nothing of PCs and others who don't have the time and mental capacity to switch OS. To any OS really. However, there's still a lot of people who, if they just open their heads to change, will be able to change OS and end up having a much nicer experience they'd ever had on Windows.

[@nadtz]

@@Liofa73 You still have to set 'stuff' up on windows and 11 is SO much worse about it with the the new UI changes. I have mint on my laptop and haven't had to do any fiddling with it in the 2 or so years I've had it installed, I did have to put in more effort when I moved my desktop over to Linux earlier this year but after I got everything set up it's been pretty smooth sailing. Not saying everyone should switch by any means but depending on distro and what you want/need to do with your computer linux can be pretty painless now a days.

[@Sprogster]

With windows 11, I don't have to "figure out" how to do any of that.

[@Lemonator321]

One neat thing about Kdenlive is that you can import another Kdenlive source file as its own video clip, which effectively allows you to split a project up into multiple subprojects. This can help speed production up when trying to make long videos.

[@RynoWasTaken]

I had used linux before and even daily driven linux for half a year. But my main problem is I often ran into problem that are just frustrating to solve, and much quicker if I just went back to Windows all together. I believe that most people to choose to stick on Windows because they are lazy and they just want to have a functioning system that works right out of the box. But my experience with Linux is possive, I just happen to conclude that It's more convenient for me to not look for guide for some basic task that I need to do.

[@ThatCowBloke]

Oh, for sure, windows is ALOT more convinent when it comes to getting things working quickly, especially when it comes to gaming and making videos / content, I just wanted to try and point out the ways that its entirely possible to get Linux working for even a niche use case, with enough elbow grease of course haha (also I'm just enjoying my time using linux as my main OS so much that I just wanted to make a video on it)

[@UbuntuPersonNoMint]

It's easier when you daily drive Ubuntu.the most popular with the most users and software/hardware support means a large amount of resources for much quicker fixes

[@WyvernDotRed]

The opposite can also be true, as in my case after using Linux for 6 years, solving issues on Windows has become way more annoying than on Linux. This while maintaining a few Windows machines for family and running Linux on more temperamental older things, like an old laptop we use as a media PC. Windows 11 especially is annoying in how the settings got re-arranges to be downright nonsensical and the OS experiencing weird and annoying to fix issues on new and supported hardware. Like context menus taking a few seconds to open (in both the modern and old style, took an obscure registry entry to resolve) and the system forcing Edge down your throat.

[@tomykong2915]

linux, a lot of issues, it's a lot easier to fix it yourself, where as with windows, a lot of issues, you can just be incapable of fixing it, you've just gotta report the issue and hope microsoft fixes it, or if the issue isn't the OS, but the software you're trying to run, hope the devs for it fix it

[@sctech-tr]

protip: you automatically become a tech youtuber if you use linux, that's why no gamers use linux

[@spudd86]

Fun fact: Blender actually contains a non linear editor.

[@Wkaelx]

Fun fact: Blender is open source

[@softwarelivre2389]

Fun fact: Blender Video Sequence Editor is the best video editor on GNU/Linux.

[@DontBother_YT]

Found the DistroTube viewers. 🤣 👍

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@DontBother_YT does DT use Blender for video editor? Nice!

[@DontBother_YT]

@@softwarelivre2389 Not that I know of, but he DID do a brief overview video to make a case for using Blender as a valid editing software. He preferred KDen Live at the time, but he was able to do most of his usual editing stuff with Blender, with a tiny bit of a learning curve.

[@JamesRichardsPlays]

As a Linux user, my TLDR; it might take a bit to get installed, but there are distros that make it MUCH easier. Hardware support has also improve dint he last 20 years. The problem is that there are no equivalents to Photoshop and Premier. There is also poor support for various USB devices like desktop assistants and consoles that streamers use. Yeah, we have GIMP, but the UI is atrocious and intuitive. KDENLIVE is not as optimized and does miss a few effects that are built in to Premier. Gaming has and is getting better (other Linux users will remember how "fun" is was to use bottles and WINE alone to play games targeted primarily on the DirectX/Windows platform. However, I am doing better than Windows. I have a game from the XP era that runs just fine on Linux, but no one seems to be able to get working on Windows 10/11. I can STILL play my Windows 95/98 games on disc in Linux better than Windows 10/11. Also, people don't like change. 90%+ PC users out there grew up on MS-DOS and Windows. Lastly, the nVidia vs AMD thing is mostly gone now, but nbVidia can still be a problem.

[@ThatCowBloke]

Yeah pretty much, this is a really good summary of alot of the points I brought up, I didn't even think about usb device compatibility when I made this though! Also, there is an equvalent to Photoshop and Premiere that I talked about, Premiere's equvilant is Davinci Resolve, which outside of the codec issues which can get annoying at times, works flawlessly, and Photoshop's is photopea, which, i'll admit, is browser based and not an application, but it still does literally everything photoshop does while also having pretty much the same UI

[@JamesRichardsPlays]

@@ThatCowBloke I think USB devices will always be a problem. Windows' driver model is so different from Linux that you don't see all the errors that USB devices have,. they are much more transparent on Linux. It would pop your head knowing just how unreliable USB is and has been, but in the end, it "just works" 90% of the time. If a device developer make sit work "flawlessly" on both platforms, they have some skill worth "praising" ;)

[@alicealysia]

I wonder if there's a way to adjust the ui and install additional effects on kdenlive? I know there is for gimp (though admittedly, I just use krita and photopea for drawing and photo editing now)

[@JamesRichardsPlays]

@@alicealysia unknown. when I have done video editing with it, even when I was on Windows,. I used the effects built in. kdenlive does let you move the various elements around the screen, at least the version I am using on Arch Linux and KDE Plasma.

[@WyvernDotRed]

Instead of GIMP, Krita or Photopea are good alternative options. But the upcoming GIMP 3.0 update should also greatly improve it's interface. The experience with USB devices can differ, for example an audio deck I use just works on Linux, whereas it needs an unstable driver on Windows that needs manual interactions on every replug or restart. Nvidia still is a pain in the arse for me, but this is because I use an old laptop as a media PC, which requires the now ancient Nvidia 390 driver to function properly.

[@iisawsomerthanuandu]

Kernel level anti-cheats for the most part DO work on linux. I play Hunt Showdown that uses easy anticheat with no issues on linux, same with helldivers 2 and their anticheat. The problem comes from when developers out right deny linux because the anticheats are not quite as effective on linux and they'd rather not deal with it so they disable the operating system altogether.

[@ozelot131]

To DaVinci Resolve in Arch: It's in the Arch User Repository (aur), therefore you can install it easy with "yay -Ss davinci-resolve" or any other aur helper. This makes it also easier to update later because pacman -Syu updates also davinci this way. Also the Arch wiki is one of the best wikis, because it's quite big and contains for many programs installation steps, tips and tricks and solutions for several bugs. In the installation guide it says for nvidia GPU with proprietary driver it's "suitable, but working on cuda instead?". Therefore this would be the first thing to check after installing it

[@moussaadem7933]

pacman does not update aur installed packages, use your aur helper (yay, paru, etc..) to update your aur installed packages

[@ozelot131]

@@moussaadem7933 Thanks for correcting it. Yes yay updates everything, pacman not.

[@johndowson1852]

​ On the other hand, AUR helpers do install and update core packages, so you can just use them instead of pacman.

[@ozelot131]

@@johndowson1852 Yes, I only mentioned pacman because he said it in the video. Like the first comment said pacman also doesn't update packages installed by yay.

[@moussaadem7933]

@@johndowson1852 many air helpers do update official packages, and many others don't

[@woodwould]

Short Answer: Until Linux supports everything Windows can run, then they'll use Windows.

[@naumanahmad8022]

Fun fact: linux does support everything. It's softwares that don't support linux. Many due to philosophical reasons and restrictions (like kernel level anti cheat), licensing, and fragmentation (like obs will work well with pipewire and x11 but again fragmentation come that there's no standard of what protocol to use). Valve did try to overcome to centralize community around gaming but it's just a small impact atleast for now. Also it's chicken and egg problem, companies don't support linux because there's not enough user base and there's no user base because there's less software support

[@woodwould]

@ Okay I might also edit this. Us microsoft people want a UI that we can comprehend, Linux does that to an extent. Installing and launching software on windows is easier then doing the same on Linux. If you want to launch a windows .exe file on linux, you would need to use the terminal to install Wine and other resources that contents creators might not want to dip into. So, that is the reason why.

[@aronhidvegi]

​@@woodwould Are you saying opening a web browser, searching for a download page, downloading a file, then running it, hoping you don't get a virus is easier than just opening an app store and pressing the install button? And also, your UI on Linux is 100% customizable, and many distros look and feel similar to Windows or MacOS out of the box. Once one notices the true capability of such customization, they will never want to go back to Windows and Mac

[@woodwould]

@@aronhidvegi oh, it must’ve cut off the rest of my comment. I was saying that downloading and running files is easier to do in windows then in Linux, where you need programs like Wine, or use the Terminal to download things. If there was an repository for that kinda stuff with needs, then, well, id switch.

[@xIJudaS]

The answer is really easy. You were considering gaming channels so: Does every game work natively with no exceptions? No. Does every editing software (if you talk about youtubers) work on Linux? No Hey but you can use altern---NO. I don't want to overcomplicate my life with alternative software And i'm a guy that would use Linux if every software and every game was available for Linux

[@pflh2391]

After watching the video, I'm thoroughly convinced to not touch linux. Thank you.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

Linux people often forget these two things: - Their operating system is not convenient for 99.9% of users outside of menial day-to-day tasks. - People use operating systems as an application platform. As long as the apps and tools they need to use work as they should, it doesn't matter what's underneath.

[@WonderSealYT]

1:40 Vsauce music

[@stanimirnikolov159]

Or is it?

[@partlyawesome]

I'm surprised this comment is so far down

[@StavWasPlayZ]

There's a project called DavinciBox, which is basically a pre-made container for Davinci Resolve installs. Works on basically any distro, for any configuration - independent of system stuff. (well... containers!) I've edited numerous videos with Davinci on various Linux distros with this, and the experience is simply the smoothest. The whole setup is also essentially just a single command :D

[@nikunjkhangwal]

There's so many incomplete standards in Linux hence no consistency. Wayland isn't complete, GTK and QT apps look terrible in each other DE and so on

[@3rasmian]

YOOOO Content Creator that uses Linux here! Thanks for bringing this important topic up. It's something that I wondered if anyone noticed, given how monopolized the creation space has become towards Windows and MacOS, especially in gaming and videography culture (respectively). I use PopOS myself and have a System76 PC, and it has been the best purchase of my life. I will never stop promoting the use of Linux and FOSS tools - they give the most ownership and power to the user over not just their software and hardware, but also their IPs and privacy, especially for content creators. Again, thanks for your super important video!

[@BeefIngot]

This comment more than anything is a good example of why Linux won't be common place. Ive seen comments saying cli is easier than gui, or that one's doesn't have to use the terminal etc etc. That people are willing to blatantly lie with commissions or just lies betrays a truth: the biggest problem is that the community would prefer to lie to people to try to force them to like what they like or have grown to accept. I daily Linux with a backup pc btw, so I'm not speaking from ignorance. Things like anti cheat, app compatibility and how easily someone just typing commands can brick their machines kills the experience for a normal (even technical) user.

[@FineWine-v4.0]

Don't lie buddy

[@thermochemist]

If they use Linux, they'll definitely let you know about it.

[@ansonx10]

the (mostly arbitrary) limitations of the free version of davinci resolve on linux make angry. Most content creators don't want to learn how to even install an operating system. Some have had to reinstall Windows, but it's pretty easy to do. Running into ANY issues is going to deter anyone who enjoys creating content more than they do troubleshooting computer issues. (Which is not me, unfortunately) The moment you can't just download and install anything you want, it becomes an issue. I stopped using Windows at the beginning of 2023 and haven't looked back at all because I don't mind these challenges. For me, it's cooler to get games (or software) running on Linux that otherwise shouldn't, than to play them simply and easily on Windows.

[@illusionwaterII]

Because, unfortunately, less than 5% of computers use Linux so statistically content creators are more likely to use windows or mac than linux

[@rch5395]

Simple, they try to use DaVinci resolve, which no linux pro understands how to set up only the elite users do. Instead of using kdenlive, openshot, or literally any other video editor.

[@RenderingUser]

Yea but kdenlive is slow. I literally preferred blender to kdenlive

[@TheShitpostExperience]

Realistically, DaVinci should be distributed as a flatpak for linux as well as the other methods, would make things so much easier for everyone...

[@rch5395]

​​@RenderingUser rly? I didn't notice cuz I have a 13900h.

[@RenderingUser]

@@rch5395 you'd probably notice if you used a different video editor for the same edits

[@Kamion008]

It's available in the AUR

[@PanicOregon]

there's a lot of reasons and it doesn't require a deep dive into history/background etc. Linux is not prefect, and can be an absolute pain to work with. The know missing/conflicting/non-existant/etc drivers for random things like a Camera, a microphone, a capture card, etc is the first problem. So content creators can't just switch to Linux. Then we have the age old issues of random software, some people really want their windows software they know like the back of their hand, or etc x/y/z. Which leads to them trying WINE. we in the Linux world all know how that goes. Then the new users struggling with Linux and the always obligatory opening of the terminal to fix something, after all that's just a part of Linux. which leads to the next issue, for new users not actually reading the output. it is actually second hand of using windows to just ignore prompts outputs etc after all. so now we're at the issue of the user getting slightly frustrated, they begin googling their issue. generally searching it up as an actual question instead of key-wording their search. Now we're at the obligatory annoyed stage of the user. which can go as them giving up or persisting through it, Eventually finding their way back to the terminal and reading it out of whatever frustrated reason. Realizing there was something wrong like a missing library/package. Which then can be either one thing missing, or full dependency hell, We've all experienced it and enough said. Like these are just fundamental issues with Linux, and most of the time it's not practical or viable for content creators to invest their time or resources into switching to Linux.

[@ItsMeLMNHD]

Gotta say, this is possibly one of the best Linux first-time experiences that I've witnessed! I've been using Arch with KDE Plasma for about a year now and my experiences have been mostly the same. The system can work really well, when it wants to. Gaming has been a non-issue for me (except when Rockstar decided to suddenly bless their community with an anticheat on a 9 year old game), and using Lutris you can even get most games from the Epic Games store to work. However, being a software developer, I feel as if having that computer knowledge allows me to resolve issues a lot faster than people who don't have that knowledge (nor the time, as you stated). But, if you choose to stick with Arch for the time being, congrats! It's always great seeing more and more people that are at least somewhat unfamiliar with the landscape trying things out. P.S. Open source applications such as Kdenlive thrive out of user input such as this. It's way better for them to have unfamiliar yet understanding users giving them their experiences. Who knows, maybe opening a feature request on their bug tracker might lead to a ripple delete feature at some point!

[@fatoldhikki4837]

Because content creators need to create content, not sit for days over the console and forums trying to solve another linux bug

[@trold8424]

Until Linux becomes more user friendly and compatible with windows programs most people wouldn't switch to linux

[@shishka6614]

Linux has been pretty user friendly on distros like mint. Compatibility with windows programs is easily achieved with wine. People just refuse to accept that this is the case.

[@trold8424]

@@shishka6614 The problem is you need wine in the first place. Windows just lets the programs run while linux needs fixes which cost time and not everyone knows how. Until thats not the case i dont see common people switch to linux

[@sceerane8662]

@@trold8424 MacOS has no windows compatibility at all afaik, But people still use it. If people end up moving to Linux, It won't be because of some miraculous breakthrough with Wine. It will be because Microsoft did one too many Copilots, and made their OS utterly unbearable to use even for the most casual user. Nothing else could motivate people to learn a new OS and new apps.

[@lego_minifig]

I have not switched to Linux solely because I am a Graphic Designer. So many software suites are Windows and Mac only and I don’t have the time to troubleshoot issues that arise when running a compatibility layer. I hate windows and would love to switch, but there are no GOOD professional design suites out there for Linux. FontForge is a convoluted mess compared to FontLab and Glyphs. Gimp does not hold up to my workflow. Krita is only good at illustration. Inkscape is decent, but I still find it lacking in features. There is no equivalent to InDesign for Linux. Even if these software were comparable in features, they would be useless as soon as I had to collaborate on a project and share my files or use someone else’s files. It’s just not feasible to switch unless I want to juggle VMs or dual boot. If I want to also game, then VMs are a no go for games with kernel level anti cheats so dual booting is really the only option and that sounds very tedious.

[@Crazyfistish]

I admire the dedication and persistence to get this setup to work. However, putting in any amount of time to get something that should work immediately to have basic functionality is the exact problem. I have told every person in my life that they need to install Firefox/Brave and uBlock Origin and every single one of them just says “huh… yep…” and continues to watch ads on KZbin. That’s just an internet browser. Any change at all whatsoever and any challenge to their already established habits is too much, unless it is forced upon them like a new Windows or Mac operating system. Now imagining that it IS forced on users at their job and they need to copy and paste a document from one folder to another, except their Linux machine says they don’t have permission. That would be the end of Linux in the workplace before it even starts.

[@hardboiled7467]

Meanwhile, some ordinary gamer far far away

[@tutacat]

The free version of DaVinci does not allow hardware encoding except for some codecs and GPUs on linux specifically. I think this has to do with them paying for hardware encoding licenses, but they are not doing software decoding/encoding. The audio: It only support PCM (raw) audio and MP3 audio, not Opus or Ogg, even though they are free? If they support MKV video, they support the format.

[@tutacat]

It started _way before_ CrowdStrike. It was more about the Windows 10 ending, W11 recall, W11 AI abuse. And data harvesting for so many years. Microsoft and Windows is very popular. They have a very big market because they took over all the schools and workplaces.

[@mangiferaposting]

woww this guy is asking why no content creators use Linux and then there's OBS still not working with global shortcuts while using Wayland??? lmfao what

[@coffee-is-power]

Hyprland supports global shortcuts

[@squiddywtf]

ive been using linux as a content creator for a few months now and im in love with my desktop. at first it was the copilot scare, but the reason why i dont go back is the freedom to change EVERY SINGLE component about my desktop, its absolute freedom. ive had to jump through lots of hoops like you did in this video. currently i record in h264 and encode that footage into av1 files. davinci resolve encodes the edited av1 footage into h264, and that has to be av1 encoded before putting on youtube. creating content on linux, every step of the way, has taken 3x longer than creating content on windows. this video is awesome! i feel represented when i see you struggle, as bad as that sounds. for anyone whos curious, i have a 3070 and i use Nobara, a fork of Fedora. the grass is green on linux, and its only getting greener

[@SYN990]

Bro I am that person. I made my own distro mate. Nobody gives a shit about Linux that's what 7 years of hardcore development taught me. My system is fire and does gaming just fine.

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

You mean you did LFS? If so, then congrats on making your own system, but I don't think it can really be called a "distro" if it's not being "distributed" to anyone.

[@SYN990]

@@heinrichagrippa5681 It's a custom profile for archiso, with a complete set of custom dotfiles and pre-arranged array of packages, on github with it's own repo. A few people do run it.

[@SYN990]

@@heinrichagrippa5681 Pull the repo

[@billyhatcher643]

content creators for the most part are normies who barely know how a computer os works which is why so many of them dont know how linux works its not a hard os to use only issue with linux is it doesnt work with all apps they use on windows or mac i know how to use windows linux and mac and i prefer linux over mac cause im not restricted on installing whatever i want

[@BeefIngot]

These types of comments are so annoying and pretentious. _You_ barely know how your os works. They know how their os works at only slightly a higher level than you and they simply don't need to know more. Most software in the modern world is simply too complex for anyone to reasonably understand end to end. Sure you might claim you understand the skeleton of the kernel and system d and your de or window manager of choice but you don't know much more than their settings unless you develop for those specific things, nor would you need to.

[@MrSuvvri]

Because they want to create content, not fight the OS every now and then when a weird update hits the repos. I am saying this as a Linux user

[@mihalious]

If you need to create content and don't want to fight weird updates, then don't update?? Thankfully you have absolute control over PC and you can choose the exact time when updates apply(unlike on windows) It's not necessary to have while (true) { pacman -Syu } running 24/7.

[@AdamMiceli]

Gave Linux an honest shot for content creation... but I ended up switching back to Windows because: - many of my peripherals didn't work properly (like my Blue Yeti giving me uneven sound when trying to record with OBS) - can't install DaVinci resolve in a reasonably simple fashion (even though I spent days learning about containers) yeah... mainly those 2 things. Things are generally a bit less reliable... and glitches were more frequent than windows for me. The thing is, my Windows computer works perfectly fine. I'm competent enough to tweak it in a way that doesn't have all these popups and stuff. As a content creator, I can't afford to be fighting against my equipment. I need things to be as plug-and-play as possible. I don't have time or interest to invest 100s of hours into troubleshooting all kinds of unexpected errors. Hey, btw, I really like Linux and I have a couple of machines that run it. It's fun and interesting for tinkering with my personal laptops and computers. But my work computer stays on Windows. That's my view and experience. Just wanted to share :)

[@Samson1]

Until Adobe (Resolve lacks features), Pro Tools, drivers and ancient Wndows programs can run on Linux, and Linux doesn't passively imolode, I'm stuck with Windows. -Ex Xubuntu user

[@timothyt.82]

You can't use Linux like Windows. Sometimes when you install video editing software, and you can't encode your video the way you want, more likely than not it's because you have to do some additional setup on your system. It sucks, but sometimes the files you want to encode to require licenses that your distribution won't arbitrarily install for you because of, so you have to go and install the package to encode to H.24 for videos.

[@TheOfficialKiro67]

yo, what the hell was that at 1:12 ? its the coolest s&*t i ever seen.

[@specialfred453]

Looks like Kando, a pie menu that can be used as an app launcher

[@TheOfficialKiro67]

@specialfred453 is it avalaible for windows ? thats kinda cool and would change to linux in a year if its not available for windows

[@Zeni-th.]

​@TheOfficialKiro67 Probably not. Come to Linux (I use arch btw)

[@2k_sevyumt]

@@specialfred453 Kandos tested on Windowes

[@alicealysia]

​@TheOfficialKiro67 as a linux user who has to use windows for work... Basically none of the productivity tools or ui customisation I'm used to is available in windows.

[@Kirschi__]

I'm a content creator, explicitly a gaming channel (not a very successful one tho lmao), and I switched from windows to linux about 11 months ago and I don't intend to ever go back - we're few, but we exist

[@firstlast493]

No SOFTWARE - no Linux users. Don't suggest that I use Gimp instead of Photoshop or Affinity. Mac OS is expensive, non-customizable, and it has no games, but even it has more users than Linux.

[@tomykong2915]

photoshop is bad by comparison to krita, but krita expects you'll want to customize it to be as optimized for your personal workflow, so the UI is different, and some tools specifically connected to the adobe servers are unavailable the reason mac has more users is because it comes with devices, and those devices have a lot of compatibility with other pieces of apple garbage, and apple garbage has bad compatibility with anything that isn't apple garbage, so it leads to anyone who has apple getting stuck on apple only, and using anything but mac on a mac device is not gonna go well usually even on windows, you should alternatives, and avoid adobe, as adobe absolutely sucks

[@hprxd]

@@tomykong2915 i'm not 'stuck' with macos. i love it. it has all the software, the stability, the support that you just can't get with linux. and macos is UNIX-compatible, which makes it very convenient for me, since i used linux before switching to mac. been a happy mac user since 2018 and never coming back. i also have a google pixel, which works fine with mac. it would've worked the same with windows LOL

[@ggsap]

...? just install photoshop on linux then, it works, and quite well

[@johndowson1852]

Photoshop users love paying their subscriptions so much, it's insane.

[@cericat]

​@@johndowson1852Adobe has always been a pretty crappy company, I was talking with my mother about a month ago when they took over PageMaker from Aldus and how rapidly it turned to crap on Windows she pointed out how the workflow changed in negative manners mostly. But then nearly all our software went to pieces with the then current builds, ie WordPerfect for Windows was a spectacular piece of crap versus any DOS version, very crash happy even if you can legitimately argue WYSIWYG is better generally for pagesetters.

[@shrobbyy]

Just Cause 3 music, I see you're a man of honor

[@Sk4lli]

Why did you install DaVinci Resolve manually and not just install it from the Arch User Repository? (AUR) This can also be done via GUI with Pamac.

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

Or Yay, Aura, Paru, Argon, Trizen, Pikaur, Pakku, etc. Or even just regular, old fashioned "makepkg -si" with the PKGBUILD file. Honestly, I'm surprised that after going with Arch he didn't leverage the AUR, as that's arguably the most useful thing Arch has going for it.

[@robnergal575]

OpenShot video editor. And yes, very few barriers to doing 99% of the average KZbinr workflow on Linux instead of Windows. Plenty of us already do, but I still appreciate you bringing the potential for the workflow into the spotlight.

[@cookieface80]

Because most people in general refuse to use Linux.

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

And with the constant politics BS that's currently happening in FOSS, even more people will refuse to use Linux.

[@mihalious]

​​@@BrunodeSouzaLinowhat politics lol? If you're NPC with OS as bootloader for browser, you use whatever was preinstalled If you're content creator or gaymer™, or any other kind of rootkit enjoyers, you use windows, because linux is garbage If you're developer/have to interact with any system or piece of tech other than desktop PC, you use linux, because windows is garbage That's it

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@mihalious Various code of conduct changes and recently Russian developers have been banned from working on the kernel.

[@mihalious]

@@BrunodeSouzaLino based, should've been done way earlier

[@BrunodeSouzaLino]

@@mihalious And you will be the one of the Linux loudmouths which will help destroy Linux. Laugh in your xenophobia while you can.

[@KeritechElectronics]

I'm a teeny tiny electronics youtuber with half your number of subscribers, and I used Debian for all my recording and streaming from the very start. Yeah, it has challenges. It can be frustrating, but in my experience, Windows was even more so. Using OBS with a distributed multi-webcam setup that uses two small computers that put the camera feeds on my LAN using NDI. It took some work to get going, but I really like it. I use Shotcut for editing but will be moving on to DaVinci Resolve; still, I aim for a single take with all the mixing and transitions done in OBS, and only resort to post-production when I really need to. And I use GIMP for thumbnails too - cursing a lot when having to do all these steps to make something as simple as outlined text.

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

im gonna skip your 40 minute video and cut to the chase: THERE ARE ARGUABLY NO GOOD OPEN SOURCE EDITING SOFTWARES!!!!!

[@hardVatsuki]

just generally open source software sucks (there's exceptions, of course), closed off software looks and works better no matter how many time being dumped into its foss alternative

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

​@@hardVatsuki i really wish I didnt agree, yeah. Things are starting to sway, there are examples of great open source software of course, but nothing powerful enough to make a difference. but 2025 is totaly gonna be the year olf the linux desktop i swear

[@TheSmokeOfSolidarity]

Not open-source software, but davinchi resolve is fully compatible and functional on linux and I prefer it to Premier pro

[@FoxyAnimater]

points to openshot and kdenlive as examples as to why you are wrong.

[@cupofdirtfordinner]

​@@FoxyAnimater openshot sucks and kdenlive is slow (for me!) and I don't jive with either of them. Shotcut is just okay enough for me to use, but it's not good by any metric

[@Hadvy]

The hardest part about using linux is choosing a distribution, there is so much choice it becomes overwhelming

[@vaxryy]

Welcome to the Hyprland cult mate, enjoy your stay

[@sifsen]

hello Vaxry

[@Herr_U]

Long term (couple of decades) Linux user here. I really enjoyed this video, it was a pleasant look into how a modern content creator might use Linux, and it also taught me a few things about content creation.

[@JaegermeisterCoomerstein]

People have jobs and have no time to fiddle with a broken mess just to make it barely usable.

[@jvmgang]

which is why they should quit using windows!

[@fujinshu]

@@jvmgang Easy for you to say when you have no job.

[@GalaxyVinci05]

hey that's me in the video! anyways the thing is most large content creators are just focused on doing their job and don't really have the time to try new things out. Once you've dug enough through Linux most of the times you'll manage to come up with a better workflow than what you could ever achieve on Windows, but that's just not something large content creators have the time to deal with unfortunately

[@gglivetv]

Because content creators need to get things done, not wasting time to undersetand HOW to do it.

[@crashoverride1788]

Exactly, Linux is not as polished as Linux, nobody wants to waste time learning terminal commands, people just want to use the PC in a simple and easy way!

[@gglivetv]

@crashoverride1788 i love tinkering and changing stuff and customize and so on but not when I need getting the things done

[@ForceGamerrr]

I can only speak for myself, but I haven’t had to tinker at all. I’m a stubborn GUI-only user and Fedora has worked well for me…

[@Mario583a]

@@crashoverride1788 Aw yes, Linux is not as polished as Linux. I think you mean some distros?

[@pernydev6844]

14:30, in the open source world, free doesn't mean as in it doesn't cost money, free means freedom. So a proprietary software would not be free. Just a small thing, though it'd mention

[@jasoncravens1124]

Open source means completely free software, friend. Sorry, that's just not accurate. Linux has proprietary software, not everything is open source. You cannot look at the code for proprietary software, therefore, the source is not open to you. Open source cannot be anything BUT free. You can look at the entire code base.

[@pernydev6844]

@jasoncravens1124 I'm a little confused by your comment here. Firstly, the Linux Kernel and all its dependencies are fully open source and free. I also feel like you're mistaking Open Source with Source Available, two different things. All mainstream Open Source licenses are compatible with FSF. If you could clarify your argument, I'd be happy to talk about it.

[@jasoncravens1124]

@@pernydev6844 If the source is available, then it's free, even if you are opposed to modification or commercial use, if the source is available, it's free software. Proprietary code is never available, if the software is free or not. The "free" version is not what anyone recognizes as free software. It's a convoluted conception of shareware, an intentionally restricted and/or crippled version in which the only thing that it's free of is usability. It's crippled with the full intentions to extort you of your money. To even release a video editor with h.264/265 blocked from use is just laughable.

[@pernydev6844]

@@jasoncravens1124 that's just not true. According to FSF, with free software you're able to: - Freely run it (some source available software are behind a paywall) - Freely modify the source code (most times source available doesn't allow you to modify anything) - Distribute copies (most times not allowed) - Distribute modified copies (almost always not allowed) So the people who have made the definition of free software, define it such that source avaliable is not free.

[@jasoncravens1124]

@@pernydev6844 FSF? I'm referring to FOSS, FOSS is an inclusive umbrella term for free software and open-source software.[a] FOSS is in contrast to proprietary software, where the software is under restrictive copyright or licensing and the source code is hidden from the users. Wikipedia page on "open source": "Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose.[1][2] Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner. Open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration, meaning any capable user is able to participate online in development, making the number of possible contributors indefinite. The ability to examine the code facilitates public trust in the software.[3] Open-source software development can bring in diverse perspectives beyond those of a single company. A 2024 estimate of the value of open-source software to firms is $8.8 trillion, as firms would need to spend 3.5 times the amount they currently do without the use of open source software.[4] Open-source code can be used for studying and allows capable end users to adapt software to their personal needs in a similar way user scripts and custom style sheets allow for web sites, and eventually publish the modification as a fork for users with similar preferences, and directly submit possible improvements as pull requests."

[@GhostGenGaming]

Well i use linux for content creation and stream on kick, twitch, yt. I use RHEL and Arch and yes very few people outside of CS and IT are aware of Linux and FreeBSD and Unix. We do work with FOSS tools like davinchi resolve gimp kitra obs shotcut. Heck my channel since day one was built on FOSS. Ive been rocking with FOSS since 2018. And yes i agree its rare to not have a linux user to not talk about linux. Considering you have to know everything to have a linux mindset. Yeah going through that isnt easy. And i had cancer, so i feel like i can say if something is easy. Anyway welcome to Linux. Meet Tux and Xenia. Any linux distro is valid. I dont know what else to say.... please pin

[@guard13007]

The video recording and editing issues are exactly why I haven't been using Linux for content creation. That said, Windows has recently gotten so much worse. I'm so close to abandoning it forever.

[@brimstoner982]

Could be because premiere pro, photoshop, and other software that's needed for content creation doesn't have a native linux version.

[@cericat]

Not needed, you're just too lazy to look at anything that doesn't come with a brand logo.

[@Toei-Rei]

As a longtime Linux user and sysadmin, gotta say it can be tough for content creators to make the jump. Hardware drivers for streaming gear are often spotty, most games are Windows-only, and latency issues can really mess up live streams. Real-time kernels in 6.12 are a step in the right direction, but still lagging behind Windows. Wine and Proton are workarounds, not real solutions, and while a split setup (like I do with two PCs) works for me, it's not realistic for everyone. Plus, anti-cheat systems can be problematic on Linux, especially with signed modules - it's a whole other headache as well as other proprietary (Nvidia) drivers. Also the grasp of Adobe or Davinci on stuff doesn't help with Linux on cutting. Shotcut and other open source software are nice once you get used to it which is the biggest hurdle in general for people: you have to learn new software and it's all about willpower ;)

[@Benadryl_Overdoser]

Honestly I switched to Linux about a year ago and kinda ended up loving it. No bloat (that isn't my own), no telemetry, and I can customize anything how I want. All of my games, apps and my VR work good so I've been completely fine staying on it. Although with some aspects of it, would not recommend for everyone.

[@Shadowcat]

No bloat and telemetry can be achieved on Windows with short powershell script from github that switches few registry keys. Customization can be done through things like openshell menu, windowblinds and windhawk.

[@Benadryl_Overdoser]

@@Shadowcat Yep I’ve used them before, but still I dislike the OS as a whole. I’d rather have less ram usage and faster boot times than have accessibility to a few apps/games I don’t use or play. No matter how much you try windows is still pretty bloated on its own, and you can’t really 100% stop the data collection.

[@alexwr]

Because Windows is the default. They don't refuse to use it. Over the years it is simply better optimised for all the software people are familiar with. Why does this need to be 40+ minutes, and why are we all watching this? We know the answer.

[@ThatCowBloke]

True, the video is more 40+ minutes long because I more just wanted to show that there are ways around problems if you have enough willpower and time, also I wanted to take a look at Linux in a specific use case (creating gaming content) and see if its possible / practical to use for that specifically

[@TheGoldenPro]

​@@ThatCowBlokejust wanna say, great video 👍 I always find it interesting and entertaining watching new Linux users actually put in effort to try out Linux. Keep up the work. ⭐

[@noname-uf4je]

You are asking the wrong question. You are asking - why. I would ask - what for? I often used Debian at work, but on my personal laptop - I can't imagine why I would need to remove Windows from there? It just works. And if I need to do something - Windows is enough. that is, you need to ask - why do people need Linux at HOME - if they ALREADY have Windows\MAC installed....

[@Cylyx]

Because not everyone is a transgender.

[@Egon_Freeman]

@30:00 It should be noted that this is by no means a failing of Linux. All of these formats are _proprietary,_ and the rightsholders are _not_ willing to release them to Linux, at least not without Linux changing its modus operandi (i.e. a free, open-source system anyone can use and contribute to). Same with HDMI, actually - the reason you don't see HDMI on Linux much, is because the HDMI Forum (i.e. the companies participating in the standard) is _unwilling_ to allow HDMI on Linux. AMD even spent a ton of time developing an HDMI driver for their GPUs, which the Forum then _vetoed._ Same with VOD services, which will happily sell you a 4K package, and stream _up to 720p_ on Linux. Why? Because they _can't guarantee their income._

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

12:57 posting without finishing; Use mangohud to insert an FPS and whatever you want overlay in Linux. I use it to overlay the current time and GPU/CPU usage and temperature fwiw

[@ThatCowBloke]

Yeah, I've done some further testing using obs-vkcapture and that seems to (in most cases) record only the game, even making sure not to capture the default steam overlay, which is fantastic, I'll need to look into mangohud, i've seen the name popup but haven't tried it out yet

[@uis246]

Or GALLIUM_OVERLAY if you want overlay on OpenGL games

[@Sk4lli]

If I remember right GIMP just released the RC1 for version 3.0. So it's close to a new release. One of the big changes is non-destructive workflows similar to Photoshop.

[@Amoral-uu3nf]

The problem with Linux as a whole is that people who are new to it don't see it in a different light to Windows. LINUX ON THE DESKTOP IS NOT TRYING TO BE WINDOWS, and you should keep your expectations as such. No matter how experienced you are you can't be sure that you won't run into an issue when booting it up on a new pc. As much as I say that if you are willing to spend some time figuring out the issues (which most people sadly don't have the time for), Linux can be great.

[@Mario583a]

But there are Windows skin for Linux, so it must be a carbon or close-enough copy and I expect all the key commands of Windows to just work. /s btw ~~ Moms, or people that yearn for ye olde customization, usually.

[@francisquebachmann7375]

Good then let people use Windows instead of trying to convince them to switch like a freaking vegan.

[@hardVatsuki]

> LINUX ON THE DESKTOP IS NOT TRYING TO BE WINDOWS then why so many 0 iq people demand that we should switch to linux the second we have minor inconvenience with windows?

[@iplyrunescape305]

@@francisquebachmann7375 it's evangelization, not forcing anyone. we preach

[@itsshauta]

@@iplyrunescape305 Ah yes, everyone's favorite outside social experience: street preachers. And you guys wonder why people aren't receptive lmao

[@AvidSonicFan]

It's not just you; I also observe peoples' desktop operating systems all the time whenever they show up. And not just that, I also pixel-peep what applications they actually have on their Taskbar (or Dock if they run macOS)!