They really add that old computer look and feel. I wish I could afford a nice modern one and had space for it, and the strength to actually move something like that around (I can barely handle moving far lighter monitors).

Got this one for free! 😁 Family friend was getting rid of it. It’s not the best one out there, but I’ve always wanted one for my setup!

I wish my dad ever got rid of his old computer junk. It just all piles up in his basement. So no cool old junk for me to save from his trash and play with.

Damn! That’s a shame.

Exactly why I have a home server now with completely legally sourced movies and TV shows!

@@MKKomputing for me, it's more like "legally" lol

Yes this is the solution

I completely forgot that I had to do that. 😅 But I have tried getting Peacock working before using Firefox with DRM enabled a couple years back. Didn’t work then, either. But I’ll try it again and see if it’ll work now.

​@@MKKomputing Any update?

Yup! Just tried it. Still didn’t work.

What exactly?

This. Installing random crap is how you break your system and will not be able to remove the weird stuff again.

Good advice!

Understood! Thanks for the advice! I will adhere to that and make sure to spread it in the future! And I’ve got my shaver at the ready! 🫡

@@MKKomputing There are as in anything, exceptions. Ventoy comes to mind as an example. A good rule of thumb is this order: Distro repo > flatpack > other sources. I do not include git repos here, because that is a beast of its own that opens up a whole new universe when you figure out how that works. Combine that with a pyenv, and you have the knowledge to run AI:s locally. xD

I agree 100%!

I'm forced to use windows because of nvidia's tools and more advanced support. I'm a content creator (another channel) and linux is not good for me, unfortunately. I daily drived fedora 40 for like 3 week and it is far better than windows. But shitty nvidia forces me to use windows. Also I'm using GPU Undervolt, and I can't control my voltage manually in linux because of nvidia. this sucks.

​​​@@elrondforwin nvidia is launching the 560 driver and it will support some more stuff. Use an arch based distro or arch itself for fast updates. Fedora will receive the updates in a week or two later. Also, you need to manually enable the repositories on fedora for nvidia drivers. You could put some kernel parameters or compile a new Linux kernel to fix the underclocking issue. Obviously, you wouldn't be able to build your own kernel would ya? Just change the kernel parameters and for a better Linux experience, install it around August or September or the best time is when kubuntu 24.10 releases. By then, drivers would've been fixed by default . For most people who want to use fedora, use the kde version not the gnome one. Fractional scaling is not there. Triple frame buffering isn't great on gnome. Use only if you are ok with 100% display scaling.

It's a pain to use. I can use windows with no manual, but with linux...

@@Bender-official skill issue

Yeah, I completely forgot I had to do that. 😅 Thanks!

That’s awesome! Yeah, it absolutely has made some HUGE strides!

@@MKKomputing I forced myself into the Linux challenge unknowingly. I tried Ubuntu as a kid and failed. But this was also the era of Windows 7, which I consider to be the peak of Windows, I tried again as an adult, got a bit of experience, but it was still unusable for my gaming side. Then Valve came along and broke the barrier. I've been using Linux for over two years and I never want to go back to Windows. I refuse to go back. I don't personally care for having to use MS software or the compatibility layer but its way better than dual booting. If I have to pay a company, I'll chose Valve anyday.

I really appreciate that! I’m so glad you’re enjoying the channel. I’ve got more coming! Hope you like it!

Right?? It’s such a quick and easy way to do stuff! Just enter in a simple command and off it goes!

Ahh, my favourite part of people's switch stories... watching a future terminal junkie get hooked.

That’s great to hear!!! I’m glad that Linux was a solution for you and I hope it serves you well in the future! Oh, absolutely! I’ve got some more Linux related videos and videos about tech but not specifically about Linux. Really hope everyone likes my future non-Linux related content as much as they’ve liked my content so far!

Yeah discord devs should support audio streaming for linux o_o

@@shadowrealms2676 it's honestly the only niche case that matters to me at this point? Ubisoft Connect? nah. Office 365? I have the browser version and LibreOffice/OpenOffice integration. Native steam gaming? Proton plays everything I want well or plays it better on Linux (yes, Windows 11 holds some games back that much). I really just need Discord to support audio streaming on Linux to feel completely comfortable to switch. Windows has become my backup OS, yes. However, it's one I still have to use on occasion for edge cases like this that still matter to me.

​​​@@shadowrealms2676 Its super simple for them to do so. Discord is based on Electron. The version of Electron that Discord currently uses is YEARS old and didnt support audio sharing on Linux yet. Electron does support audio sharing on Linux these days though. All Discord has to do is update to a more recent version of Electron; but for some reason they won't bother with it.

@@shadowrealms2676 that's one thing that holds me back from linux.

Oh! I didn’t know about TLDR! That’s awesome!!

@@MKKomputing Yeah I use it a lot. It's really good if you just want to find out what a "simple" command does without searching online.

There’s also “man command”

Nice! Yeah, I’m pretty sure I’ll also only need Windows in a VM for the few things that don’t work. VERY happy with it so far, though!

It's a lot better than it was two years ago I will say that. Personally it's my favorite distro, mostly due to a nice UI with good device support. It's one reason I was able to ditch Windows and still game

It’s the reason I chose it for this challenge! 😁

Thanks! It’s a pretty great and stable Distro. Glad you had luck with it, as well!

Thank you! That was actually my goal for this channel. A tech channel that all can enjoy! Glad to see I’m succeeding on that front!

is it not hard if you one of those lucky one with no hardware issue like me who the wifi wont workk under linux but only on windows :(

@@xgui4-studios sounds very oddly specific. Have you tried searching something like "(wifi model) Linux not working"? If anything, see if you can find something based off the chipset.

Again, he is too early in his experience to give some tips. Dont follow his recommendations blindly, a lot of things are wrong or insecure. Read the comments

Thank you!!

Yeah, I’m definitely still learning. But from the comments the three biggest things I’ve gotten wrong were saying that a .deb was the same thing as a .exe, forgetting to enable DRM on Firefox, and telling people to enable the Steam beta update. The .deb and Steam beta update I cleared up in a video talking about things I’ve gotten wrong or failed to mention. And for the DRM issue, I tried it on my own to see if it would let me watch Peacock, and it still didn’t work. Do I get things wrong from time to time? Sure, like I said, I’m still learning. But it’s not usually something that’ll steer people in the wrong direction and I make sure I correct myself when I do get something wrong. Should I be the end all be all of information regarding Linux? No, absolutely not. I don’t pretend to be an expert by any means. But I also don’t think I’m a bad source of information either.

Yes! I completely missed that when I was filming the video and a few people have brought it to my attention. I tried enabling DRM after a couple comments about it and it still didn’t work, unfortunately.

@@MKKomputing after enabling DRM, you should delete all site data (under the little lock icon) and fully refresh the page with Shift+F5 too.

Okay! I’ll try that!

I’ll have to try that out! Gotcha, I figured they were just skins for the browser versions. 😂

@@MKKomputing yeah as soon as the UI is drastically changed and doesn't seem to follow any standards like Microsoft's legacy, UWP and whatever they now have layouts, macOS's Aqua layout or the respective Linux DE's layout, then you can be 99% certain that the application is basically a browser, because HTML and CSS is basically complete freedom to the developers when it comes to the UI. But there's a catch.... browsers and their engines are patched each week at the very least, and application updates which include those patches are delivered very frequently. But these apps that rely on a specific browser engine (Chromium being the most prevalent) don't actually update their underlying engine that often. This comes with the advantage of the UI looking the same and has the exact same functionality across application updates, but security patches are left out as well. The Arch Linux package for Discord for example was horribly outdated for some time, I believe due to some licensing issues. But even then, the upstream application still used some basically ancient version of Chromium. It's kinda scary how many apps are browsers. Adobe Reader, Steam (or any game launcher for that matter).... really weird. But weirder is that the most native apps I've seen were Windows or macOS apps.

I know! Zentreya is super funny. 😁

I am thinking of covering VMs! Mainly to see if they can help get around some of Linux’s shortcomings.

​@@MKKomputingYou'll get things like MS Office and Adobe suite working, but anticheats will most likely still get angy at you. But feel free to explore that on your own, whether it'd be with VirtualBox or diving into the deep end with QEMU/KVM + Virt Manager. VMs and (especially) hardware passthrough are easy ways to stumble upon firmware bugs, hardware bugs as well as effects of artificial market segmentation...

Same here! It’s so much easier and quicker to just enter a command and have something installed and ready to go!

Zentreya! She’s a Vtuber (Virtual creator). Basically they stream using a motion captured model instead of a facecam. What you’re seeing is her model.

Taste, I'm assuming.

@@MKKomputing XD

@@MKKomputing I know what a Vtuber is I was just poking fun at it

@minibruh Oh! Sorry. 😅 I don’t run into a ton of people who do.

Hey! Welcome in! I thought I did say throughout the video that I was using a Debian-based distro and that the commands were for said distro. 🤔 I will be more clear about it next time, though! Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

Hey bro, I re-watched the video and yeah u did say that, my bad. I have a suggestion to help improve clarity, since now we have a lot of Steam Deck users and they may be confused, u can just add a friendly reminder that the commands you're showing are not compatible with Arch/SteamOS. 😊

Ah, gotcha! I’ll recommend that from now on!

You should, just get a spare drive and install mint. It probably works faster than your current OS!

Agreed!

Honestly it's kind of liberating, seeing what windows has become now. Been using Zorin OS for 4 months now, pretty smooth for the most part. The choosing a distro part is the hardest imo.

Awesome on your Linux transition! I definitely hear you on a few of those issues. Especially the dark theme sync and mail client. A few of my apps don’t always obey dark theme. I don’t have the same light sensitivity but it’s still annoying, and the best mail client on Linux right now is Thunderbird and it’s super outdated and not that easy to set up. I think a lot of my printer issues come from using HP Printers mostly (not my choice, when I got my own place I bought a Brother laser printer) and I always had to download some proprietary software for some reason or another, usually to scan stuff properly. On top of that I ALWAYS ended up having some kind of issue at some point when printing. Usually the print queue would freeze up on me and I would have to do some kind of combination of clearing the queue, restarting my computer, and turning my printer on and off.

@@MKKomputing Weird about the print queue. I used to work at HP as a dev many years ago and, of course all the printers were their own. But somehow there were never any technical issues with them. 😂 I've heard that when Linux drivers do tend to work better, it's because they lack a lot of advanced features that come with the Windows drivers, I think. IOW, they speak basic protocols, and eliminate the inevitable bugginess of fancy features. Anyway, good luck.

@@MKKomputing Oh, and yeah, Thunderbird is super outdated in the UI. Tabs are a terrible way to design an interface, forcing you to constantly close them. The fact that there's no horizontal line between emails in the list just drove me mad, though. I need contrast between items or it causes nausea. There was one email client called Blue(something), I forget the exact name. It was nicer than Thunderbird, and would even run in the tray. But it had too many bugs and irritants for me.

Reminds me of first learning about Linux a few years back. 😂

Thanks! Ooh! That sounds awesome!! I’ll have to check that out!

@@MKKomputing +1 for prism launcher, it beats pretty much every other launcher out there.

true, prism launcher is miles better than the official launcher, starts up way faster too.

Here’s the other channel: youtube.com/@michaelkrattiger?si=a3rmKDuTZcMjK0Kk It’s an old CRT TV a family friend was getting rid of! I’m sticking with Linux full time!!

I actually was going to explain that it stood for Super User Do! But I ran the script for this video by my brother before filming to make sure I got my information correct and he said I might want to leave that part out because while the community as a whole accepts that it stands for that, the actual creator of the command never confirmed that. So, I took it out to try and keep the video as accurate as possible.

Huh, I actually didn’t know that! I’ll have to look further into this. Thanks for letting me know!

Didn't this bullshit with Netflix also affect Louis Rossman?

@@breakfast7595 Yeah. It's not only Netflix though. It's every streaming service as far as I know. It really makes it even more worth it to pirate.

😂 Either way, Linux has me here to stay! Thanks!! I can’t keep the waifu contained much longer!!! It’s too strong!

@@MKKomputing 🤣🤣

Not yet! Working on all of that, though! And thanks for subscribing!!

I agree! It’s gotten so much better in recent years! Even GPU support is so much better. So many things didn’t work for me before PURELY because I was using an NVIDIA graphics card. But now, I’ve had no issues at all!

@@MKKomputing Oh man, for SO long nvidia drivers were just crap on Linux; the nouveau and closed source drivers. Nvidia recently hired one of the devs of Nouveau, which is super promising. I will admit, over that last 2 or so years that i've been daily driving Linux (distros include OpenSUSE, Nobara, Arch, Manjaro, Pop!_OS

@derpaderpaderpader Thank you!!!

@derpaderpaderpader Thanks! And yes, I’ve been operating under the mindset that running Windows in a VM would go against the spirit of the challenge. But I don’t have to worry about that because come tomorrow morning the challenge is over! I will stay on Linux though. I won’t be switching back to Windows.

Thanks!

Oh, I agree. Problems in Linux can be very difficult to diagnose and fix and doing work through the terminal can be extremely tedious. I also agree that the average user should switch over to Linux. Most people just want to get in and have their computer work. Linux has gotten MUCH better at being able to do that, I wouldn’t feel comfortable switching if it wasn’t as good as it is now, but it’s still not completely there.

Sorry you didn’t have a great experience with it. I still think it would work great for some though! For me, I don’t really care about 4K, my monitor’s are still 1080p. I’ve had some scaling issues on some of my systems but right now I’m running two modern 1080p 144hz monitors and an old CRT tv and I don’t have any issues. Not trying to convince you to give it another go or anything. If you decided it’s not for you, then it’s not for you and that’s okay. But for some, it works just fine and you’ll never know unless you try it at least once. 😁

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Oh! That would be a good test! I’ll have to try that! Also, awesome that it was able to pick that printer up! That’s pretty crazy! Whoops! Need to enable DRM there. I’ll get it done right away!

Understood! Thanks!

I tried enabling DRM after a few people reminded me that I have to do that on Firefox. Still didn’t work. But there’s a few other things people told me to try as well, so I’ll give those a shot. But so far, enabling DRM did not solve the issue.

Just a cheap HDMI to RCA adapter from Best Buy. Probably would look even better if I ACTUALLY had an HDMI composite adapter. Future purchase though!

Oh and for Minecraft a launcher like Prism is far easier to maintain Java edition.

Right??? Gotcha! I’ll check it out, thanks!

Yeah, audio troubleshooting is a HUGE pain on Linux, luckily though I actually didn’t run into any issues with my DAC! But that could be because I actually use my PC’s optical out for audio and not USB.

Thinking about doing that in the near future! 😁

Oh! Gotcha! Thanks!

@@MKKomputing ye, np, also asside from maintenance there shouldn't really be a reason to use the terminal now a days, I think a lot of the websites that give terminal commands are just adhering to old standards or are assuming that you were having trouble installing it, though that's from the perspective of an arch user, could be that Debian based systems still require it for some software and settings

Awesome!!

Huh, I’ll have to try that on my setup. That’s a weird issue! Good thing I don’t usually record audio with DaVinci. 😂

She’s awesome!

Almost there!!!

👍

I hope we get it soon! I don’t really use HDR stuff, but I know it’s a pretty important feature for a lot of people!

@@MKKomputing HDR is amazing when it works. Most newer games are getting proper support for it now but in the past it was a badly implemented afterthought. Cyberpunk has some of the best HDR of any recent game IMO.

@gerarderloper Nice!

No, you’re fine! It’s a decently hard thing to miss…which I, in fact, did. 😅 It’s been so long since I had to MANUALLY enable DRM (I mainly use Chrome and it doesn’t ask for that) that I completely forgot that was a thing. But I have tried watching Peacock in the past as well, and I tried using Firefox WITH DRM enabled and it still never worked for me.

@@MKKomputing Oh, that is quite sad :(

Sure thing!

usually those .tar (dot some compression algorithm) contain the source cdoe itself for distribution maintainers to compile, not a ready to install version of the program. I believe this is the case for the "firefox tar.gz" folder you are referring to

@@mega_gamer93 Oh, I didn't know that. What's weird is I was still able to open it normally if I double clicked firefox in the folder. a but I could not figure out how to create a symlink or whatever to make it open.

@@eray5991 turns out that firefox actually does *also* ship pre built binaries, in a .tar.bz2 file, so in this specific case I was wrong. I'm not sure why you wouldn't be able to make a symlink to it though. I don't use graphical file managers so I can't help you with the GUI. Does running ln -s /path/to/firefox-bin ~/Desktop/firefox not work?

@@mega_gamer93 I'll try it when I get home and report back, I'm currently away right now.

Yeah, that’s the unfortunate thing with Linux. When it doesn’t work. It REALLY does not work. Sorry you’re having those issues. :(

I’ve still got some Linux video ideas! But I’m also gonna do some more general tech videos. I have one planned the first gen Microsoft Duo.

not rlly useful in my opinion. newbies wont understand anything anyways and the parallel downloads arent significant enough for rare usage. also when googling something it may be confusing

I actually don’t think I’ve heard of Nala. I’ll have to look into that!

You should use apt, nobody uses dpkg and it doesnt resolve the dependencies well or something

Yeah, double clicking is normally what I do for Pop!_OS. I didn’t know you could install them with APT though! I’ll suggest that from now on for distros that don’t have something like Eddy like Pop has.

Understood! Will do that from now on!

On the newer versions ofdeb-based distros there are gui tools to do it as well so you can usually just double click it in the file manager meaning you don't even need to use the terminal (though ironically I think there have been some issues with it on the most recent version of ubuntu)

Which is very problematic

Speaking of which, i use firefox on mobile, and i was browsing the meta website. It would not stop telling me to enable drm content, despite the total lack of content on that site that would even require drm

drm is proprietary as far as i know. thats why they dont include it by default

I actually enabled it after a few people called it to my attention that I didn’t when recording this video. Still didn’t let me watch Peacock, though. ☹️

Thank you! Been having fun so far!

Completely missed that it was there. 😅 I’ve actually used Manjaro before! Contemplating giving it another shot. 😁 And thanks!

@@MKKomputing no problemo, I was like the button is right there haha 😂 Yeah it's a great distro and definitely a better option for users especially new users compared to Debian and Ubuntu based distros I think you should definitely give it a try 😁👌 No problem I'm happy to see more positive Linux videos showing off Linux to the masses and helping them move, I've had my family and even grandparents on Manjaro for years after they were on Ubuntu for the longest time

@frosty295 Nice! I tried getting my grandparents on Pop before they passed, but they were not as receptive. 😅

@@MKKomputing haha oh that sucks, I'm sure they would have if they had the chance to learn it

That’s great!!! I’m glad it’s working out for you!! And hey, I might be joining you on arch soon! Depending on how much I like EndeavorOS. 😁

Oof. But that's one of the best parts!

Oof! That would be difficult!…And now you’ve got me ACTUALLY thinking about doing that…

I actually didn’t. 😅 Thanks for letting me know! I’ll look into that!

Not too much, actually. I split the cost with my Wife’s family. Her brother pays for a couple, her Mom pays for a few, I really only pay for Discovery + and Max since those are the two I use the most. Although, it’s getting harder to keep that going with these companies cracking down on password sharing. Which is I why I now have a home server with completely 100% legally obtained movies and shows, that I definitely purchased…with money.

Use a bootleg ass community made os and get bootleg results 😂

I actually didn’t know about that! I’ll look into that!

​@@kolz4ever1980Hey at least It doesn't force me to install random crap they call as updates and nuking my entire printer and usb drivers in the procress That why I moved here in 2020 Sure some stuff don't work but it's getting better and better and I am more than happy to wait a year or two

​@@MKKomputingNo problem asking for my friend who watches all that , I visit the dark side for my entertainment purpose 😂

Actually, the OS itself is made by some actual companies like Canonical who make Ubuntu and Red Hat.

Yup! Unfortunate, but there’s not much I watch on there anyway. And if I really need to, I can use my tablet or smart TV.

@@MKKomputing great choice with pop os that is like my favorite distro along with endeavor os

Thanks! Funny enough, I’m actually thinking of switching Distros to one with a rolling release, and Endeavour is one of the ones I’m looking at!

@@MKKomputing I use Arch. It's a clean base, so you can customise it as you wish. If you are going to look towards arch, Garuda is a good Arch based distro which is gaming centric. It has a lot of GUI menus to help you set it up how you want as well. There is also ArcoLinux, which is Arch based too, and also worth checking out. My suggestion, if you are going to try Arch, is to go in at the deep end. Arch isn't as scary as it's made out to be, even installing it isn't as difficult as you may thinks. You have 2 ways to install pure Arch. Following the wiki guide and doing it manually, which can teach you a fair bit about disk partitioning and such. Or by using the Arch iso's built in "archinstall" script, which simplifies the install. KSKRoyal here on youtube has some great tutorials for installing both ways, worth checking out. The arch install script allows you to also install Nvidia drivers and a desktop environment at the point of install. Which again simplifies everything to get up and running. The install script can install Gnome, KDE, Hyprland, Sway, LXQt, XFCE, Cinnamon (and a couple others). So you can basically have any flavour of desktop environment that you want. If you are unsure about trying pure Arch, its worth trying inside a virtual machine at least. All Linux distros are considered as a type 1 hypervisor for running virtual machines, as they have KVM in the linux kernal. You want to look towards QEMU/KVM + Virt-Manager for running virtual machines in linux. Sorry for the info dump, great video.

Agreed!

Are…are you in a cult? Blink twice if you need help!

@@MKKomputing i really appreciate that you respond to viewers bro

Of course! This is a community after all. Everyone should feel heard!

Because not everyone has a computer that runs hundreds of watts that they might want to watch Streamed content on. And because I usually stream tv shows while I’m doing something else and it’s a lot easier to just open up a second browser tab on my PC, where it’s already feeding audio through my headphones, than to use a separate device to do the same thing.

@@MKKomputing Fair, but are you using a 2nd monitor for the streaming? If so, a streaming stick could be plugged into that monitor. That's one way to avoid the linux issue.

@fearsmasher1299 Yeah, but I still have switch the input over to it and the sound won’t be coming through my headphones how I like it to.

@@MKKomputing Have you tried installing the Windows version of a browser with Wine?

Not yet, but I definitely will try it!

Nice!! Considering switching OS’s soon. Fedora is one of the ones I’m looking at! 😁

@@MKKomputing try the kde edition. KDE supports triple buffering and fractional scaling and can be customised to your liking.

Was thinking of doing just that!

Well, duh! You forgot to add in what you’re commanding! Try: sudo wmn allow docking (THIS IS A JOKE! DON’T EVER SAY THIS TO SOMEONE!)

That’s so stupid!!!

@@MKKomputing Anti-consumer AF if you ask me.. if enough people complained to regulatory boards in the US it may change as like said NO other streaming service does so.. I legit have to watch peacock in either my windows VM or on my Xbox!

Yes I will!

​@@MKKomputing Great bro! I also switched to Linux and it was way too better than Windows!

That’s awesome!!! Glad it’s been working out for you!

Might be joining you soon!

@@MKKomputing that's great!

boths a compressed file/folder

Yeah, this is the point I was trying to make. Which is why I said it BEHAVES like a .zip.