Windows broke Linux dual boots, Google coerces reviewers, GNOME 47 beta: Linux & Open Source News

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Try out Proton Mail, the secure email that protects your privacy: proton.me/mail/TheLinuxEXP

[@LeeMaiden]

ProtonVPN is great, with the annual subscription You get a lot of things, 500GB storage, 30 different emails, password program, and a VPN that can't be beat, and great quick responses if you have a problem. in December my Unlimited plan will get renewed that's for sure.

[@DarrylMcGee]

Happy customer of Proton here! I can also recommend it.

[@Kanbei11]

Me too, using email aliases has been great. If only there were a Linux desktop client for Drive though

[@araz911]

Well, it's not a secret that GNU SLASH LINUX is garbage mixed with crap from OPEN SOURCE WIFE SHARING WORLd. Basically it is a set of SIMPS who 24/7 in front of pc without friends and life goal😂all they know is coding low quality lines and reinventing wheel of unsuccess 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 LOOOOOOOL

[@savagepro9060]

Linux Camp: "Dual Boot" Microsoft: "Duel Boot"

[@Zfentom]

💀

[@Mario583a]

Microsoft sending Linux to the Shadow Realm since 20xx.

[@sweetsweetkhajoor]

lmao

[@autohmae]

Microsoft will always win this battle if it's just because of technical reasons, because they are the larger desktop/laptop player and have huge control in how Secure Boot works.

[@savagepro9060]

@@autohmae isn't there Third-Party boot managers that can solve THAT?

[@Wampa842]

Windows Update borking my dual-boot setup's EFI partition is how I finally nuked the SSD and went full-time Linux. If others follow suit, I'll consider this an absolute win.

[@Tailslol]

my dualboot use a separate hard drive in mbr format...so no issue here.

[@someguy782]

We're nowhere near a large enough demographic to matter.

[@natejennings5884]

At 01:51 I have Windows 10 and Linux Mint 21.1 dual booted on all three of my rigs. I use seperate 1TB SSDs, with Win10 on one and Linux Mint on the other. I sat it up so when I power on my PC it starts in Linux GRUB, where I can select Linux or Windows, with Linux being the default. In your motherboard BIOS you gotta turn off "secure boot", then set up your motherboard BIOS to default on the Linux SSD/HDD/NVME.

[@Bagginsess]

Can't do that if you still need programs on windows for work.

[@ultimate9056]

​@@Bagginsesswine and VMs

[@midann]

When has Microsoft not broken dual boot?

[@zoorrn0]

Never

[@ss-xy2im]

When it was already broken

[@smashed_penguin]

When I first tried Dual Booting with Linux on my at the time Win 8.1 laptop, Windows would randomly do that even when there was no update.

[@softwarelivre2389]

Naive for y'all to think it wasn't planned beforehand.

[@fedpo6022]

Desde que windows 10 empezo a reescribir la particion de efi dejando el archlinux que tengo en otra particion inaccesible. Dejé de usar windows prefiero un SO que respete tus decisiones

[@WilburJaywright]

The new studio looks very close to the old one. If I didn’t know from what you said that you had moved, I would think you were just filming from a different camera angle and a shelf stand or two had moved. I guess it’s a good thing, great job re-creating the scenery!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Haha yeah, I tried setting things up in about the same position, because I like the sort of neutral, not too crowded background

[@Kris-od3sj]

It's good to see Wine making progress with non-gaming software. We need more of that.

[@Xeno911]

Am waiting for it so i can finally switch to linux

[@Art-of-War-y6g]

There is a project to overcome certain bottlenecks when it comes to gaming on Linux. This work focuses on improving gaming performance on Linux by developing a new driver that integrates Windows NT synchronization primitives directly into the Linux kernel. The driver has shown significant performance gains, with games running smoother and achieving higher FPS rates. It aims to address bottlenecks caused by NT synchronization primitives, which are crucial for high-performance games and applications. Benchmarks indicate average improvement rates ranging from 50% to 150%. Now that we're seeing similar, and in some cases better, performance than on Windows, just imagine how much further it could go with continued updates.

[@Winnetou17]

Wine always made progress on non-gaming software. It's just that it's "less interesting" for normal folk, so it's less talked about.

[@skelebro9999]

I guess my habit of not updating my dual boot Windows did pay off, LMAO

[@no_name4796]

I straight up deleted my windows partition. It was just a waste of disk space lol

[@Dxic2k]

rule #1 with windows: disable updates after install

[@cameronbosch1213]

Rule #2: Disable all of the adware and spyware in Windows.

[@bojidarvladev4890]

​@@cameronbosch1213 How do you do that?

[@bojidarvladev4890]

​@@Dxic2k How?

[@arch800]

*Linux has just reached 4% market share* "Microsoft breaks Linux Dual Boot" Microsoft: Huh, something has gone terribly wrong, wonder why

[@maaren3150]

Linux is to windows what an ant is to a human, they don't care. It happened because they don't care, not malicious.

[@norbert.kiszka]

Not a problem for me, since I don't have Windows at all.

[@no_name4796]

That's the way! Until microsoft locks down even the bootloader like apple does. If that ever happens, we are fucked

[@hiru92]

@@no_name4796 only with microsoft hardware if any

[@cameronbosch1213]

​@@no_name4796Then our best hope might be Framework.

[@nxb00]

​@@no_name4796that sounds illegal asf

[@code96roblox]

@@nxb00I wish it was, but apple does it and many phone manufacturers have been known to do it.

[@SpamWare]

There have been issues with Linux and Windows dual booting for years now, I employed the very simple solution of deleting windows and I haven't had this problem since

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

I boot Linux from a NVME disk inside a USB enclosure, this way it's very flexible because it allows me to run Linux in every laptop I own.

[@Legion-495]

Wow. I was talking to one of my bosses who dualboots and was like: Ah I would not run this way because MS could break it anytime. This was like 2 days ago... Microsoft at it again. It is a running joke at the company that MS breaks stuff each update.

[@ek1582]

Because it's true... Even my RGB mouse stopped working properly on Windows, but on Linux it's all good

[@timinwsac]

Am getting ready to make the switch back to linux....it won't be with dual boot.

[@cameronbosch1213]

My Framework Laptop literally does not have Windows on it at all. It has two Linux distros though (Bluefin and EndeavourOS, the latter being my main OS).

[@MyReviews_karkan]

I love that WINE now has a store for drivers. You have no idea how sometimes I struggle to get a driver that a game needs installed.

[@coldbrew6104]

Dual boot works fine if you install Windows and Linux on separate drives :)

[@theviniso]

That's my setup and somehow it still broke

[@AhmedMohammed23]

Dual boot works fine if you install Windows and Linux boot loaders on separate boot partitions

[@tablettablete186]

​@@thevinisoSometimes, Windows or Linux reuse the same EFI partition. Why? Idk

[@bornFor1Thing]

Linux on bare metal, windows in proxmox 👍

[@Naz1Killer]

Both work fine with being partitioned on my 1TB SSD

[@gabrielmonpereveutpasqueje9018]

6:47 Although it is not directly mentioned like the Pixel case, Apple stop inviting content creators to their release events and stop sending them devices if they say bad things about their products. Google is clearly at fault but like always, Apple is worse.

[@tau4333]

If I had a product I would do the same. Sending your finished and manufactured products out to untrustworthy influencers pre launch is stupid. As it is stupid to believe anything a tech influencer says he likes.

[@KingKrouch]

I find low resolutions a fairly important thing to keep in Plasma, because I have a spare CRT that I occasionally like to use with retro games, and the fake scanlines just don't look the same to me. Windows doesn't let you go below 640x480, and in the case of GNOME not even 800x600. Now they just need the same functionality on Wayland that xrandr has in terms of custom resolutions, because EDID spoofing is such a pain just to get a high refresh rate on a CRT.

[@Ozzymand]

I hope KDE can find out a good amount of telemetry data. I personally give them all of it because I would like them to develop for what truly matters, and can therefore grow as a good DE.

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

I cannot enable telemetry on Linux Mint as it goes straight to Ubuntu aka m$

[@Ozzymand]

@@HenriqueDeSousa Hey man, that's fine, I'm all for hating on ms too, but I think the Mint guys actually receive the data, not ubuntu... or so i think. Just check around i guess?

[@privateagent]

@@Ozzymand No, it's an ubuntu package that can be removed with apt remove --purge network-manager-config-connectivity-ubuntu. Check the source if you're unsure :)

[@mrmc101]

recently switched to Linux on my gaming PC and performance has been night and day. not having the obscene overhead of windows eating into everything really helps

[@hmtechsvc]

Sound is ok man ty for your content as always!

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Nice to know, thanks!

[@savagepro9060]

Microsoft: "Update" Everybody: "UpBreak"

[@p0xygen]

stop spamming comments to farm likes bruh you commented like 5 different things or somethin

[@catto-from-heaven]

@@p0xygen It really hurts you, go touch some grass

[@savagepro9060]

@@p0xygen having problems with your Windows machine?

[@p0xygen]

@@savagepro9060 I do not use windows holy fuck you're annoying

[@champfrompostal]

Hotel: "Trivago"

[@KuruGDI]

The funny thing for me is that on my last dual boot system it was the Linux (Ubuntu) update that wrecked it. For me this kinda sounds like poetic justice.

[@Steve-b4t]

Linux on AMD is faster that Windows FOR YEARS for me. It's time more people talk about it. :)

[@LeeMaiden]

😂🤣😂 No, I would rather use my teeth to mow the lawn than talk about AMD is faster on Linux than it is on Windows.

[@rehhouari]

systemd-boot has a pretty straightforward secure boot guide arch wiki and it's built-in, i dont see myself going back to grub

[@mjdxp5688]

Always felt like the idea that you can't say bad things about a reviewers' review products was more of an unspoken rule, a "don't bite the hand that feeds you" sort of deal. All Google really did here is put it in writing. It's good to be skeptical about any review where the reviewer got the product for free because they'll naturally want to stay on the company's good side to receive more products to review.

[@michaelwright2986]

Depends on whether you regard reviewers as part of the marketing department, or journalists: are they looking out for the interests of the manufacturers, or the consumers. Proper journalistic reviewers, since the days of magazines, seem to have had the principle that if they don't have, really, anything good to say about a product, they don't review it. They will point out flaws in a basically decent thing, and get down to the point of going "Meh," but they won't slam it. The consumer can profit from this: big new product launch, loads of buzz. If one or two reviewers you follow don't have a review, you know they didn't think it was good. That's a bit different from Google (and doubtless other over-big companies) recruiting volunteer marketers.

[@terryforsythe8083]

I gave up trying to dual boot Windows and Linux long ago. Too often Windows updates would break it. Now, I run Windows on my work computer and Linux on my home computer. I use a KVM switch to jump between them.

[@mat_max]

People really hate opt out telemetry but i think kde is a good example of why opt out is so valuable

[@Gigusx]

People generally hate telemetry... despite that most companies don't give a shit about gathering their users' personal data or selling it, and the data is really used to improve the product. The big tech is largely at fault since they've set the malicious precedent that is now expected to be the norm for every company.

[@esra_erimez]

The audio sounds great to me

[@TheLinuxEXP]

Nice to know, thanks! I can hear the echo a bit, but it should be fixed completely for the next video :)

[@MarcCastellsBallesta]

4:09 Fair point. I don't remember the author but the quote "Don't atribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence" comes to my mind.

[@James2210]

This is why I'm trying to run windows under KVM with GPU pass-through rather than dual-booting

[@StephenMcGregor1986]

I got sick of dual boot issues some time ago. Dual drives. One OS per drive. 2x ESPs (one on each drive). No more GRUB. Done. I blame the UEFI consortium.

[@theviniso]

Wait, dual boot without GRUB? I'm interested, how does it work?

[@boirfanman]

@@theviniso It'll probably still have GRUB or a Bootloader but you use the Del/F-key at start-up to choose the disk to boot from. You can set the OS you go into more often as the default and only need to press a key at start-up to choose the other one.

[@Naz1Killer]

​@@thevinisothere's systemd-boot

UEFI did everything right you can boot just with UEFI bootmgr e.g. with Linux efistub. The only thing they could be blamed for that you can only execute PE binaries.

[@rickyspanish4792]

@@theviniso on my BIOS you can press F8 to get a boot disk choice on startup, I bet most BIOSes have some key like that :)

[@motolineage7962]

Paradox devs have been quoted as saying their stuff just runs better in gnu/linux. They make gnu/linux native versions of their games. (hearts of iron, stellaris, Victoria 3, Europa Universalis, etc)

[@glenni83]

Hey, Vexy from t he CachyOs community here. I could give some feedback around the gaming right now as well. Benchmark each week, and test different distros monthly. There is a small unknown problem from time to time. We have had close communication with nvidia. Where DX12 and RTX on, is pretty much borked. Last week, we found around 50% performance loss by using this settings and raytracing. There is also made some videos about the findings, and reported back to Nvidia. This ofc, apply to full blown gaming systems. We ran Ryzen processors and a couple of 4090 cards etc in this testing. We had 25 sample of differfent games, where we could see the same patterns. Best thing you can do right now, is to game on DX11 if you want to maintain performance. Dual boot part I have not been affected my self, using rEFInd bootload with windows and CachyOs.

[@Klusio19]

And that's why you create seperate esp partition just for Linux bootloader. Problem solved.

[@middle_pickup]

I'm dual booting Windows 11, and Kubuntu 24.04. So far everything still works. I really hope my grub version is updated. Thank you for posting links to these stories so I can research further myself, and for rounding up the news like this regularly. I'm a new Linux user, and it's very helpful.

[@Batwam0]

First thing to check if whether you have secureboot enabled or not. If not then this won’t affect you.

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

Just use a different drive for each OS. Works everywhere with EFI, no GRUB is needed anymore.

[@mwolfer1]

0:10 Don't worry about the sound, it's fine: very natural, not over-dampened, sounds just like a normal conversation tone. 4:37 All of the above! 5:40 What happened to 'Don't be evil'?

[@Moonaticc]

Oh they removed that sign from their office a long time ago

[@mwolfer1]

@@Moonaticc I know, just being facetious. 😉

[@Rk3tSk8s-ut4yo]

Microsoft dual boot works fine if you don't install Windows. 👍 I use Linux for everything. No problems.

[@JeanPierreWhite]

I came across the SBAT error just the other day while fixing someone's Windows computer. At first I was successful booting Ventoy and thena linux distro to be able to test the computer hard drive SMART stats. It was fine so I determined after extensive troubleshooting that Windows needed to be reloaded. When I tried Ventoy for a second time to copy data off the hard drive I couldn't, SBAT error (Windows had applied this update as I was working on the system). I had to boot to a separate Mint USB to gain access to the data. I put it down to Ventoy not liking the new BIOS I put in, but it seems like a good 'old Bill Gates issue. Windows ain't done until Linux won't run.

[@RubenKelevra]

I can confirm the performance numbers regarding windows vs linux. I've played Witcher 3 for a year on WIndows 11 and the performance was really bad, but I wanted to play it and didn't want to spend more money on another system. So I ran it on my Samsung ultrabook with an Intel GPU. Framerate was about 25 frames on average on 720p, barly ever going above it and with a substantial input lag. Now under CachyOS the game runs with 35 to 40 frames while it's can also run full ambient occlusion plus anti alising and has more details enabled (because there was a game update which pushed a lot more details as minimum settings). If I would have set those details before I would get like 10 frames max under WIndows.

[@xviii5780]

I feel like Linux consistently performs better on weaker systems or if cpu bound. I have rtx4060 and i5 12400, and most games run either worse (especially recent ones) or the same, very rarely a bit better.

[@danbuter]

Sound is fine to me. I hope your new place is great!

[@Ironpants57]

I'm glad I stuck with disabling secure boot this many years..

[@floppa9415]

I feel like there is a severe lack of good phone reviews in video form. Like most videos are 10 minutes long and roughly go like this : "Performance feels fast, camera looks good, the phone feels nice, its very expensive however".

[@Gigusx]

Mrwhosetheboss' reviews are typically 15-25 min. with a decent number of pros and cons.

[@savagepro9060]

Nick moving to his new apartment encourages users to move from Windows to Linux!

[@fanshaw]

Don't dual boot - run Windows in a VM instead, if you must have it.

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

Or just use any old laptop you have lying around.

[@curt_3]

so, does dual drive dual booting windows and linux work?

[@coldbrew6104]

Yes, that shouldn't be affected. It's when Windows is on the same drive on Linux and where it screws with GRUB

[@Slugbunny]

Precisely why I went double drives... Windows doesn't even know about the mystery encrypted drive.

[@Space_Rat1]

not in this case, because windows updated SBAT policy so if you have secure boot enabled and have old Grub version then it wont boot even if you have linux on another drive. you can fix that by downgrading sbat if you want to keep secure boot enabled.

[@micaelviana]

Dual drives are the way

[@janzibansi9218]

​@@Slugbunnyyou would think that... i have a encrypted mystery spinny HDD in my pc. sometimes windows just decides its time to get that disk spinning.

[@AquaQuokka]

I love how this got recommended to me right after I finished setting up my dual boot with Linux

[@Hinipe]

Wine improvements is the most exciting news of the week in my opinion. Hopefully your Wine tasting, I mean, testing, goes much smoother in an year's time.

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

I agree. WINE is actually vital if you're into preserving software history. Too bad I don't game anymore 😅

[@whtiequillBj]

@7:23, people keep getting this wrong. Its not RTX and above its the GTX 1650 and above. but clearly no one actually looks at the list of supported cards and just goes on what the nVidia press release says.

[@cameronbosch1213]

It is RTX and above mostly, but GTX 1650 and above is also supported. It's Pascal and before that is the problem (especially Pascal and Maxwell, GTX 10 and 9 series respectively).

[@KSPAtlas]

Major difference since I own a gtx 1650

[@DavideDavini]

Not the 1630? I thought support started with Turing. Or is it just that the 1630 is too trash to even consider? 😂

[@whtiequillBj]

I'm simply talking about open source driver support. Functionality is a different thing entirely.

[@amthystxx]

Apparently I was just in time! I made the full switch from windows to arch as my first linux OS yesterday.

[@geekdomo]

8:00 I updated to 560 a week ago and I cannot play any games no matter what settings I change in Lutris or within the launch settings. Screen flashes black and thats it. I rolled back with TimeShift and it works fine. Going to have to wait a bit.

[@cameronbosch1213]

7:51 FINALLY! I had that issue on Plasma 5.27 & 6.0! (I haven't had that issue on Plasma 6.1, yet.)

[@ethan-adam]

Hi Nick, could you do an updated video discussing Protons Suite comparing their ease of use with Nextcloud? As a longtime Nextxcloud user; their Proton Pass + Simplelogin integration is really tempting but no Contacts app for Android, lack of Linux clients and a required Bridge for Desktop Mail has me on the fence still. P.S. I only ever managed to get the courage to migrated to Nextcloud from Google due to your old videos about 3-4 years ago so thanks

[@irokese4124]

Best sponsor ever👍😉 Question: which specific update (KB no.?) broke the dual boot / GRUB 2? My Linux Mint 21.3 and Windows 10 dual boot system runs fine with the latest Windows updates.

[@kingklump]

I admit I don't have one of their PC's, but I use Tuxedo's OS on all of my current computers, and it's been amazing! Love them as a company.

[@kaixiii]

I'm not gonna lie I thought I did something wrong, I should have known it was Mikroshaft

[@9a3eedi]

It's a shame that the plasma telemetry isn't working out for them. I love the way the KDE team is handling it though and keep privacy first. I personally opted in because I trust the way they're handling it.

[@st0rmrider]

Congrats on the new studio

[@fixerage]

the sound is good Nick, and gratz for the change ^^

[@Dxic2k]

as if any windows updates ever get tested 😂

[@andrewrussell4938]

Sure they are! ... In Production 😅

[@Dxic2k]

@@andrewrussell4938 "sir, the new update is ready" "did you test it? What does it break?" "everything, sir" "perfect"

[@Gigusx]

They are being tested... by the users ;)

[@Michael201078]

Thanks for discovering Tuxedo laptops. I will buy a new one.

[@HyuLilium]

The only way to dual boot is using two separate drives and selecting from bios

[@Its-Just-Zip]

I don't get the point that Google was trying to make with this Team Pixel crap. Because the phones are good. They're good enough to stand on their own. Actual independent review, again from people like MKBHD and other outlets that are not part of this, show that these things hold their own against the latest from Samsung and Apple. And they're also much better than the 8 Which is really all they needed to be. This had no possibility to do anything other than backfire, and I don't know what executive at Google signed off on it. Also, these phones have started arriving in the hands of early pre-orders, and those are also posting pre-positive stuff on places like Reddit, mostly focusing with the improvements over the eight, which again, is really all these phones needed to be.

[@TeH.j0keR]

Half the Pixels are garbage though. Carrier locked and bootloader locked if you buy a prepaid one. I bought one falling for their marketing that every Pixel branded phone is supposed to be a developer device, and basically ended up with a phone I could barely do anything with like it was an iPhone or something. I've grown more and more pissed off with the last several Android devices I've bought being like that. Now you *could* tell me "pay more money pay more money and get the correct one that isn't scamming you into thinking you can develop with it," but I'm far more inclined to try avoiding purchasing their products any more after I've been scammed on the last several devices.

[@ardithconley2628]

Well Doc this is watz up. Your sound is great and your new studio look's great. I have been enjoining your videos. You have inspired me to switch my mini PC I have plugged int my TV to Linux...I am just not sure which version yet. I order a new m.2 to which I will replace the old one incase I want to go back . I set up Win11 to look and act like Win7 but everything gets wonky. with Win11. I thought, I mostly use Brave browser on that PC. Which why should I be forced to jump through so many useless hoops for no real reason. Brave browser works the same way on Linux than Windows. Just your PC does not have to jump through so many hoops doing it.

[@AndersHass]

I think the best reason for Proton to perform better is if translating old DirectX to Vulkan improves the performance

[@MrCrispy1991]

The new Wine is a game changer!!! It has allowed me to get so much more working.😊

[@jerryferreira8960]

Congratulations on the new place!

[@kensmith5694]

Others have commented that the GRUB on many of the systems that had trouble *WAS* the very latest with all the patches. It seems that the case that made the Microsoft code fail was if the Linux system was on a different drive. In that case it went and modified all of the GRUBs without asking. Since secure boot only protects your machine if someone gets physical access, for most users it doesn't protect them from much of a real threat.

[@SomedooodCreator]

One day closer to jumping on linux

[@CraigBoyer086]

So glad I turned off secure boot before installing Linux. No problems here. 😊

[@HenriqueDeSousa]

Unfortunately if you want to dual boot with BitLocker on the same drive it's a pain in the rear if you disable secure boot.

[@fuseteam]

4:00 Hanlon's razor :p

[@WilburJaywright]

11:00 That 80% is mainly because X11 support is basically dead in Plasma 6. I had to remove it just to install updates on Fedora 40.

[@LeeMaiden]

It didn't mess with me, I don't use the Secure boot, or the TPM for the Windows 10 Pro I fire up once in awhile. I booted into it the other day to just take a look and see if it caused problems, it hadn't and it had been 2 months since I had previously fired it up.

[@LeeMaiden]

[sudo mokutil --set-sbat-policy delete] fixed it, so it looks like it really jacks with Ventoy on the mokutil file they have you put in the UEFI/BIOS.

[@funniegaminstuff]

windows: im doing this to help you. linux: you bastard! me: windows so your the punk who broke all my attempts to distro hop.

[@eduardom800]

Don't have that problem, linux only system.

[@Tall_Order]

Regarding Microsoft, I question sometimes rather Hanlon's Razor even applies to them. They've shown themselves to be both malicious and incompetent at times. Same for Google and Apple too. lol

[@daniels-mo9ol]

I've basically always assumed Microsoft would mess up dual boots. I never dared to install Windows side by side like I do with Linux distros. You can't choose where Windows put their MBR, it will completely disregard your target storage during the installation.

[@Wkaelx]

the new studio is amazing

[@LeeMaiden]

It will be nice when Linux Mint works out the bugs and has Wayland on their systems.

[@LeeMaiden]

It's there as experimental that you can switch to on Login, but last time I looked at it months ago, it gave buggy the name buggy.

[@finitecrystal]

This week's Windows Update was absolutely terrible. It also installed Copilot on my machine without my consent and bricked my iTunes for no reason. It's also worth noting that Debian's GRUB may very well be patched even if the version number is lower than whatever Microsoft is looking for. I haven't checked the changelog but Debian cherry-picks a lot of security patches to be backported to whatever version they originally shipped.

[@guss77]

Gaming performance: Level 1 Tech's Wendel had discussed this in a recent video. The issue is quite complex, but in short: if performance is CPU bottlenecked, and there are no driver/DX translation issues, the virtualization security sandbox that Windows 10/11 uses to isolate games, has a serious performance impact that allows Linux to have better CPU performance.

[@benoitrousseau4137]

As impressive as the Linux gaming results may be, I think it speaks more about the current state of Windows. Windows 10 and 11 are bloated with background processes running like defender, telemetry, windows update, one drive sync, and soon the copilot bullshit taking screenshots. This has to take its toll on the system's performance. In the days of Windows XP and 7 when the OS wasn't full of this nonsense, I don't think these results would have been possible.

[@laughingvampire7555]

talking about that pixel program is so easy to put it correctly. “we want to create a reward system for our most avid fans among the influencer community, this opportunity is available to you if and only if, the pixel is YOUR FAVORITE, if not, please abstain, let’s be honest with our customers” but no, they chose Legalistic bullying

[@AlexandreDuarteDM]

This is why I change configs on UEFI, when dual booting. I thought SB was supposed to protect the user, not to block him. Note: I use Kubuntu and Windows 11, both with different M2 SSDs. Only Linux can see all of them, Windows can only "feel" the other "idle" drive.

[@stranded_mariner7695]

I have Windows and Fedora on one machine dual booting to separate drives, but I use the motherboard's boot menu instead to choose. Since I started using bottles, I have rarely booted into Windows these days.

[@1234enzor]

I use Linux and Windows dual boot, there is no such update that has dual boot issues, always fun when people make videos on fake news.

[@1234enzor]

update to my responce after i watched video a second time, CachyOS which is Arch based runs all my games at 15-60 fps more then windows, my system 7800x3D 32gb 6000mhz cl30 ddr5 ram 4080 super, also CachyOS can start with secure boot and TPM activated no warning or anything on both Grub and Systemd, i am using plasma as Hyprland dont work in they installer, i only have Windows on my machine cause wife and kids play League of Legends and they want me to play with them. My games are : Oceanhorn 1 and 2 Minecraft Diablo 2 Ressurected World Of Warcraft Fallout 3 -NewVegas-4 and League of Legends, League of Legends can only run on Windows cause of they Anti Cheat.

[@TheArakan94]

I recently found out that Elden Ring runs much better on Linux than Windows despite being DX12 game - on Windows, I was getting horrible stutter while on Fedora, it was smooth (think max frametime being around 35ms on Linux and 200+ ms on Windows)... Average FPS seems to be very similar ( I do have it unlocked) but on 100+ FPS that no longer matters very much. Still, it's incredible how well does Proton run.. It'd be great to do deep dive and proper testing.

[@duckrutt]

Windows updates have messed up grub for ages. Usually they change the MBR pointer so it just boots windows rather than really screwing something up.

[@sprinklednights]

When I switched to Linux, I did not dual boot with Windows. One of the best decisions I ever made.

[@nogamenolife9182]

I'm glad I have my linux setup on an external SSD.

[@okunamayanad]

I had dualboot with ubuntu and windows, and I wanted to switch to vanilla os yesterday. i thought this was going to be

[@okunamayanad]

it was 24.04 btw

[@OOO-mn1ds]

I wish tuxedo made linux phones, that'd be really cool

[@techmouse.]

Don't you guys get it?? The update is for *SECURITY* Windows must be the most secure OS on the planet by now! Just look how often they break Linux things for *SECURITY!* We all love winblows and so do you!

[@kolz4ever1980]

Must be since it took a Ms engineer to figure out the xz exploit when it wasn't his job. Funny how that worked out huh ? ;)

[@laughingvampire7555]

I am using Linux for gaming, all the games I play, work great on Linux, even if they were not made for Linux.

[@JustLinuxMan]

So using arch linux and updating everything myself was a solid idea for once? Sweet!

[@deathdoor]

Can someone explain why PiP still doesn't work on Wayland? Why the little popup doesn't stay above other windows? What's the obstacle?

[@Hinipe]

KDE telemetry should be neither opt-in, not opt-out, just "opt" as in no pre-checked box. Maybe this way they'd have more willing participants (thence data).

[@seltsamerjunge3642]

That's called opt-in

[@lucolesco]

Isn't opt-in what you just said?

[@Hinipe]

Oh, I suppose you two are right. 🤔

[@Kanbei11]

6:47 maybe but the threat of cutting off free review units is often enough to say good things about it. The only difference in my eyes between Google and the others is that the former were explicit about it. There's an English saying known as "don't bite the hand the feeds you" meaning you shouldn't be ungrateful to someone who is doing you a favour (is there an equivalent in other languages?) I would also add that a savvy viewer would see that the unit was a freebie for review purposes and see a red flag being raised in effect meaning the reviewer is assumed to be not entirely honest until proven otherwise

[@DryPaperHammerBro]

Why do you not use GNOME OS on a spare laptop to try out the next GNOME release?

[@sultanofcardio]

This information about Team Pixel is incorrect. The agreement is meant to prevent influencers promoting the Pixel while really daily driving an iPhone or Samsung phone like they’re always caught doing. If you’re promoting one thing but it’s clear you don’t really use it, that’s bad for both you and the brand you’re promoting

[@Chris-fx5sw]

Great Video ... i think better performance on Linux rather than on Windows could be because Proton does not run a whole Windows .. just the things that are needed to play a game. Linux itself does not run so much stuff in the background. That could be the simple reason for this.

[@justliberty4072]

Just one reason I moved Windows either to a VM or to a separate hard drive.