To all the "Linus should know better from his server experience" 1. Watching Linus being a Linux wizard blazing through all his tasks would bring absolutely nothing to improving the desktop experience 2. Y'all underestimate how polished and user friendly server applications are on Linux. You know the OS that basically runs the Internet.

Linus didn't actually make a mistake with the digital signing. He was going about it the correct way so it would be legally binding. And as he is a businessman, I expect that.

I'm going to assume he knows how KVM works from the multitude of x gamers 1 cpu or similar videos he's done. Just my thoughts.

I think the reason for Linus' weird patchy Linux knowledge is because of his lack of free time to spend on developing a comprehensive Linux knowledge, but his open-mindedness to get deep into command line tools (despite what he says) allowed him to go down some of these rabbit holes.

I didn't take his take as Linux needing to "Windowsify", just that the vast majority of users are familiar with simpler, more streamlined OS experiences like, well Android.

I don't think Linus is advocating for Linux to be more like Windows, I think he's advocating for a better user experience

1:20 - "Linus' really weird range of Linux knowledge" - I think this might be because through the years he gets help from people like Anthony and (I can't remember the other guys name) to set up things like his home and work servers which I believe are both Linux. So for some years he has been grabbing bits of Linux knowledge which go quite deep.

When compressing: A cool alternative to producing a hidden temp file might be to notice that the temp file corresponds to the compression progress and show the progress bar behind the filename

I love linux, and really appreciate what they are doing with this challenge. That being said, there are a lot of developers especially DE developers that *NEED* this absolute kick to the nuts that Linus is giving them. Linux isn't user friendly. Pop and Elementary are the closest, Zorin being right behind, but they're still missing the point and way behind the curve.

The reason the CTRL+SHIFT+drag/drop is the shortcut to make a symlink/shortcut is because that is the exact same hotkey that has been used in windows for ages (at least since XP). however i do think nemo should have the make link option in the context menu too, which sadly it does not

The file copy thing wasn't that is hadn't flushed, he has a massive screen and the progress bar is in a stupid location, see bottom right of his screen.

In the us the act of signing is legally binding not the signature itself. Signatures are very easy to fake and very hard to detect if someone has faked one, So you generally have to sign super important stuff in front of a notary.

I think at the end you and linus are both right. I think he was trying to say if you want linux to grow problems have to have an intuitive answer like they do in windows, as in the intuitive answer must exist, not that it has to be the same answer as it is in windows. English is an awful language.

12:38 Yes. On Manjaro KDE, my screen would go black whenever I tried to fullscreen a video no matter what kind of video player it was (VLC included) BUT it only did that on secondary displays. On the primary display everything was fine.

The AUR thing with Manjaro is also just a long term issue going on, since a lot of the AUR stays on the bleeding edge when it comes to package versions. Manjaro holds packages back a week or longer, which leads to many AUR packages not being viable for use if that package is being maintained actively by its developer. So its caused a lot of the AUR to be unusable or even possibly dangerous to the users system due to the Manjaro teams decisions.

20:54 Brodie, I think that you and Linus agree. I didn't interpreted him saying to do the windows way, but to bare in mind that most of the people are coming with that experience and will try to find a similar way to solve a problem. Sure the solution is to improve UX.

For the record, in KDE, there's an "Install" button in the font viewer that pops up when you double-click a font file and clicking it will ask "Personal or System", and then you're done.

2:20 The file copy process is still in progress. Linus would see that if he would use Gnome or Cinnamon. Long process are placed in status bar next to clock - what you see later in zip task. Player don't ask Dolphin if file is there - it just run command "player /path/to/file.mp4", but the file is broken (not copied) and player fails to open it. Probably can be even blocked for access. 4:30 The only right way to understand this is to add digital signature like Linus tried to do it. The way Luke made it is a case when someone send you docs in pdf and one to get it back with your signatures (for example for a company agreement) - the print it and it's done. This is equivalent of sending printed papers by post and sending back with signatures. Linus failed because he do not read second line of text in 4:00 - the blue link probably would help him. Anyway, I use pc for 25 years and never had to do it. 7:12 That's the first thing you should do it when you have problem. Period. Not only "with Linux". Always. More popular system or app means more good results and fast solutions. 8:35 I don't recall to have problems with printers. Maybe it is distro's problem? I used Debian, I use Manjaro and even HP with WiFi works. BTW: Printer model is in a movie. ;) 9:35 This is just KDE's thing, as I wrote above. 12:10 This is not Mint's thing. In general, all file managment tasks are belong to file manager app (do not depend on distro). In this case this is Nemo file manager like. I don't know if it works that way in any other file manager. 14:05 Show desktop button works just ok - in Cinnamon. I've tried KDE very hard, but there are just so many annoying bugs or doing "KDE way", that I just stopped. 16:50 Not "work" but rather like "school". This is just obvius that when you start to use someting new, you need to learn how to use it. You can't just run Photoshop, Gimp or whatever and start to create professional pictures. World do not work that way. If you use Android and go to iOS, you need to learn it. If you are Windows users since born, you can't just run Linux and be an administrator just like that. 16:55 No. Just an oposit - I would recommend Arch based distro for beginners: Manjaro Cinnamon. Debian based distro and KDE (don't mension Gnome and others) is the easy way to get crazy. Debian (PopOS) episode is the best example what "dependency hell" is - one second and you are on a black screen with blinking cursor. The same with KDE and Gnome where they reinvent wheel again (progress bar on status bar etc). I've tried PopOS, Elementary, Deepin, Fedora and there is always someting wrong - no statusbar icons, modified package manager with small amount of apps, bugs, problems - even on a simple machine like Intel Broadwell based laptop with no Nvidia in it, where all extension cards are by Intel. My last PopOS installation finished with desktop upside down on main screen on a laptop (no other screen conected). 19:20 Dolphin in general is not the best tool to do anyting. If I recall in last distro I had with Dolphin by default, I've replaced it with something else. 20:25 I can't agree... more. Maybe turning Linux into Windows will be better for Windows users, but not for Linux users and not for Linux it self. 22:04 I've recently tried Gentoo again after 5 years at least. Nothing changed - you still need to write wall of nonsense text that could be just placed in a basic installer (like in Debian minimal cd) or even in a shell script. One prefefined script could just replace 10 lines of settings - timezone, language, keyboard layout etc. I understand, that some config you need to set by your self, but what's the point of writing the same lines for everyone when you do chroot? 22:10 There is no such a thing like distro for professionals. Any graphical distro (not including Gentoo, Arch etc installation process) are simple in the same way. Main problem with Linux are new users - most of them never used DOS, Win 3.1 or even Windows 9x, so everything thay now about computers is Windows NT based, where everything you must do by clicks - because command line is hidden in a menu and any command line tools are not popular just like that. I bet that most of them will fail to use Windows 3.x and be frustrated with Windows 9x. 23:48 Yes, Anthony is missing here. I would like to hear his comments after every task or part of the movie.

The last video SEVERELY downplays Lukes issues with his desktop experience, especially with moving windows around on the desktop

09:08 yes he should have known that it takes a while to compress the files, but the UI is pretty bad. The progress bar should open in the middle of the screen and if the user wants to do something else in the meantime, he should send it to the background. I think Linus just didn't see the progress bar because it was in the right bottom corner and his screen is so big, that he doesn't that he doesn't notice what is happening down there if he is focusing on something in the middle. But even if someone uses a smaller screen this hidden progress bar is a bad idea for accessibility reason. If someone uses a screen magnifier, they can only see parts of the screen and the effects of a action should be visible in the magnified part.

5:10 In EU, any cryptographically signed document, with the government issued private key (for your usage) is as valid as you using your manual signature in the document

13:30 Yea resizing windows is horribly laggy for me, especially with picom running but also under gnome or kde from what i tested, and it gets even worse when running game or watching videos in browser, and yes using novideo card with latest drviers. Seems fine under wayland though so maybe when they finally get their drivers up to spec the user experience will get better.

12:22 It actually is VLC... also this doesn't seem to be happening to me with VLC (i use KDE and arch btw, nvidia-dkms drivers, linux-zen kernel)

A note: Dolphin isnt actually what is compressing the file. That would be ARK. ARK is slow.

I'm very certain Linus wasn't saying that Linux should be designed to work exactly the same as Windows.

It's called digital signature vs electronic signature. If you work in the medical or legal field you will be taught the difference. Typing your name like Luke did is NOT going to hold up in court or meet any regulations in pretty much ANY country. Including the USA and Canada.

I find it hilarious that while I dual booted mint, I experienced BOTH the weird double-display thing from part 1 and the window lagging issue. It could be Nvidia, it could be cinnamon, not sure, but I do find it quite strange that both Luke and myself had the exact same issues.

Me, a mac-user: Oh yes they do... THEY DO. "Why don't you have a Windows-key?" "Why does CMD+Q close my window? I just wanted to type an '@'!" [German-KB want you to press ALT-GR + Q to get to the @] In the 20 years since I used gentoo I feel that because of people like you the festering elitism seem to have become much better. It's most certainly still there, but to be fair, every community has those. Heck, Apple made commercials about it... I learned much about Linux/Unix through my failed Gentoo install, but till this day it helps me everything from Homeautomation to getting OSX to do stuff it doesn't want to allow users- almost seems like dolphin and Mac OS were made by the same people :) Do I think that the user-experience on Linux still has a bit more to go, yes- but comparing to 20 years ago it seems fantastic what the Linux community/developers have achieved. The only thing left to say is: Screw gatekeepers. They should fuck off- regardless of keeping people out of Apple, Linux or Windows (or even PC-Hardware in general), they are holding their communities back.

To be honest most of the complaints can be addressed because error boxes and status messages are not that “obvious”. That’s not trying to make it windows-like or mac os like. It just means that despite advances in linux distros, user friendliness still remains an issue that bars its adoption into mainstream use. I think it’s actually great that they made this challenge. And hopefully some linux distros would take some of the criticisms to heart because to be honest linux still remains close to my heart. I love the open source philosophy and the fact that linux can accommodate lower end systems better than windows or mac. But as it stands there are still a few barriers that can pave the way to linux being installed as the default OS on laptops or home PCs.

The black screen when making a video fullscreen is an issue with more than the program Linus was using on KDE. It seems to happen only when the program is already maximized, and then setting the video inside that program to fullscreen. I have this same issue with Firefox on Manjaro KDE. I just have to make sure Firefox is not maximized before setting the video to fullscreen.

Digital Signature means there is a cryptographic public/private key signature that is verifiable as to who and when it is signed, and requires a trusted third party to do the verification. It has no required visual component. Electronic signature is a digitised analogue/physical signature, which can be either a photo, a generated image, a fingerprint reader, a soundfile etc. Core of it, is that it has no proof against tampering or forging. A good signing utility would provide both, though, and not fake handwritten signature like Luke, nor be a pure graphical image of a analogue signature, but be cryptographically verifiable. Printing on linux, in my experience is considerably smoother, at least if your printer is a few years old, compared to the cludge and dependency on external software-riddled Windows. But that comes from Apple throwing money at the problem after adopting Next technology for their new Mac OS X system.

One of the things I have realized is that most of the problems Linus has with Linux is due to lack of feedback. The desktop is doing something but seems to provide no feedback on what it is doing or what the progress is. In KDE you should be able to see that in the lower righthand corner if you know what to look for but I have also had issues before where a file just shows as copied immediately when it clearly has not. This is probably something that cuts across all the challenges so far. Linux needs to get much better at feedback.

this part of the series was setup in the way OS-Firsttimer does theirs. The premise of that channel is basically he chooses a random OS for his mom or another family member to try out for the first time, installs it, and he then sets out a few basic tasks for them to do. sometimes said task is figure out how to render the OS unbootable. IIRC they might have even done one for microsoft bob. Don't know if it's still around, but it was very interesting to watch years ago. Unlike those videos however, there was nobody to keep Linus on track, or to help him and Luke in real time. This could have definitely been done better. As for the printers, I believe they have epson printers. I believe epson, cannon, and HP printers just sort of work out of the box on linux(and have for quite a long time) as well as a handful of large brother office printers. Honestly, when I had just started with linux i was surprised that it was about the only thing that I never had to fight with for hours to get working. this was about 2002ish. Sadly, his experience with linux community forums is the norm, and you're weirdly better off going to reddit. Hell, even 4chan might be less hostile than a normal linux forum. 🤣 Not that i'd recommend it regardless, but still. Those communities' reputation is well earned. For real help: Reddit, askubuntu, and youtube(either in video form itself or in your fav YTubers comment section).

2:08 thats not the issue here. His monitor is so large that he cant see that at the bottom right its actually showing transfer progress. He tried to open the file before the file had completed transferring. You can see the transfer window on his monitor in the video.

The shortcut to drag and drop a file to make a shortcut is pretty standard on everything. It may or may not be shift+Ctrl, but if you just start dragging and dropping a file, before you release it, try different combinations of shift, ctrl, an alt until you see the shortcut or alias icon by your mouse cursor.

For some reason Linux just doesn't want to let the user know of anything that is going on. For example, Windows; I open a folder (the address bar fills in green colour), I open a system directory without rights (prompts UAC for admin login), I move a file (window pops up with speed and time), I extract a zip (gives me the choice to open the folder after completion and time and speed). There are like endless QOL tweaks that are missing, the gui is basically a waste of everyones time.

Brodie: Never use anything but MPV or VLC. Chris Titus: VLC on Linux sucks.

oh god, the full screen video playback thing? I've had that. it's a manjaro-specific issue with nvidia cards, iirc

12:56 "This is just another reason not to use anything that isn't mpv or VLC" I'm pretty sure that Linus was actually using VLC, which I've honestly had issues with on Linux as well - the media player itself worked properly for the most part (albeit slower than mpv), but it seemed to add like 2GB to my X error log every time. (note that I'm on Nvidia and this was 2 years ago though)

From what I've found out about Luke's issue, of which I have had happen to me. I took a guess by looking at my system manager, and saw my ram, GPU, and swapfile usage going all over the place. I then tried removing the swapfile as a first step to fix this. That solution did end up fixing it for me. I think what causes this is that the Linux kernel is trying to free up resources so you can get better performance in the game, and so having a swapfile causes the kernel to try and continue to move the applications into swap and then immediately out of the swapfile, rinse and repeat.

5:50 In Windows digitally signing is pretty easy with the Acrobat Reader application. Acrobat Reader allows for both "digitally sign" (w certificate, under Tools -> Certificates) and "fill & sign" i.e. just a picture of signature (w/o certificate, under Tools -> Fill & Sign).

A fair review of a fair review. See, we can all get along !!

Saw the title of this video, clicked the link and saw exactly what I expected to see!

I recently had a problem where certain windows games (my guess is anything DX9) would lag like on Luke's (and im on nvidia for now) but in my case it was because i run Awesome as my WM and for whatever reason aRGB just didnt work with nvidia's drivers, at least for awesome, so i added a flag for it to not use aRGB and my games stopped lagging. Im wondering if theres a similar issue, or its a compositor problem. Drawback is i cant use transparency on windows, which is fine for me since i dont use it anyway.

I have to say that this response is the fairest, and least salty review of the series I've seen. I like the way that you took a balanced approach, calling out things that you disagree with without being disrespectful, and conceding on stuff that you think is fair criticism. You have earned a subscriber!

So printing was one of the only things I was somewhat dreading when looking into switching my mom's old 32-bit pc (like actually 18 years old at this point, it's old enough to drive; old and weak, unable to keep up with windows and just normal usage), but turns out that bad printer+scanner we have works just fine; mostly anyway, the scanner does scan, but after finishing it reports "failed to initiate scan" (even though it actually did scan, and the scan can be saved and works fine)

Every KZfaqr has apparently had vastly different experiences with printers on Linux than I have. It's always just worked. And the one time it didn't, I just chose a similar model for the driver and it still just worked.

Quick word to the printers: I have seen the full spectrum. In my school I set up a Linux computer as a workstation and it was a hassle to set the printer up (at one point it could print the Ubuntu test print but nothing else came through, although I got it working after about an hour of tinkering with a driver manually downloaded) and the printer we have at home was a breeze to set up. I just typed the WiFi password into my new computer and mere seconds later a notification popped up, saying "New printer detected: **printer name** " and it worked flawlessly. I also had some inbetween, which had the driver in Linux but had to be manually selected.

12:50 It may depend on the video player. VLC never works for me in Manjaro KDE, I can use VLC to play music, but it always closes automatically without error or warning whenever I try to play any video. I looked up what it could've been, but the recommended settings I was supposed to toggle aren't showing up. I just ended up switching to another media player.

2 years later and we do have HDR on Linux! Yay! Happy HDR moment everybody!

in kde you can just drag a file somewhere & plasma will show you a menu to copy move or create a link

In Spain sign a PDF is done with certificates as Libre Office offers you to do.

I think he knows some parts of Linux really well due to his familiarity with servers and also the 6 Editors 1 CPU he did an year ago.. You should check out that series , it's pretty good...

3:30 Disagree. The large file showed up this bug/flaw, proving a point that these issues do exist and new users will misunderstand them and not know how to deal with them. Linux always has been designed to be used by linux users. If the community ever wants it to get above 1% usage, this needs to change.

Shift and Control is the same on Windows??

I just realized the ctr+shift and drag a highlighted file to make a link to it works on kali linux with the xfce DE so it must be more commonly implemented then i thought because i had never heard of that before.

I can sign documents with Adobe fillnsign. And I do it like weekly. Linus didn't not understand it, he just was mislead because signing can be two different things as you explained.

The weird window/screen stutter/locking issue is something I've experienced every time I use an NVIDIA GPU combined with Cinnamon and a Debian based distro, interestingly on Arch based distro with Cinnamon and the same hardware I've not had that issue. There is a way to fix it but updates break it and I honestly can't remember what the fix/issue is.

in italy, a digital signature of a pdf is what linus was doing, what luke had done is a graphometric signature.

13:30 I have the same issue. With Ubuntu 20.04, nvidia quadro T600, it happens when the OBS is start streaming or recording (regarding the encoder settings) If you move any window wich is connected to OBS all of the resources dispatched from everything else, including the stream encoding. I have no idea, this is an OBS or driver bug. Because no other program does this, under the streaming. Example I can move my Firefox window without any trouble. In the video he also move OBS window (some audio settings related).

tbf, I don't think Linus _intended_ to cryptographically sign the PDF it's just the path his default PDF app pointed him at, and he didn't stop to think if he should follow it. Speculation ahead: it's possible he assumed that all digitized signatures use certificates and that Windows/Adobe generates the cert automatically and put this app asking for one down to "eh, it's just a Linux quirk."

I had a similar problem on the 4k where my monitor resolution was defaulting to a crazy high value on each of 3 screens. That was where my mind went on the 4k video challenge

I've never felt happier to be a Thunar supporter. It just does everything that Dolphin and Nemo seem to miss. Right click open folder as root, right click create symlink, show progress of compression/extraction.

I think the issue with the laggy and stuttery window drag performance is resource allocation. I think the driver just sucks at scheduling and with the game running and capture running it can't figure out how to schedule tasks for the GPU correctly, result is that when it tries to follow the window and redraw it over and over again it ends up "dropping frames" and it does it everywhere not just on the window. However since the priority of the game and video stream are higher they experience less...Maybe I'm kinda guessing.

Luke mentions in an episode of the WAN show that the screen lagging he is experiencing has been a known issue since 2013 or 15...so now he's thinking about distro-hopping if they care that little about issues

14:06 I get this all the time around disk IO, specifically swap. Yes, I know more memory, but the entire system freezes on every disk access is just wrong. I've had this constantly from seemingly y2k till I switched from Gnome3 to LXDE.

Brodie, I wrote this in a comment to one of your earlier videos, but probably too late for you to see it. In the old days, it was well known by users of Unix systems that file operations are buffered by the kernel and you need to use the command `sync` to flush the buffers to the physical devices. Because this could sometimes take a moment, the idiom became to run the command twice, like this: "sync; sync", but the second one isn't actually needed (the first one is slow, the next one fast, because buffers are now flushed). So on Linux, issue the command "sync" to flush files to the thumbdrive.

In canada, for a lot of purposes, you have to digitally sign the way linus was doing it.

huh shift+ctl while dragging also works in plasma and the video player Linus was using is VLC

Sort of funny. My windows machine I use for work went to a blank screen after the video error linus had and I thought you had a little fun with the editing. Then my audio failed haha. Need to reboot and update for realtek updates lol

Printer: get a brother HP? HPlip mandatory, it installs proprietary Firmware for GDI printer, then they just work. If PCL usually no issue. KDE Dolphin: go to fonts:/ then copy font over. Shift control, it is always like that in Windows since Win95! The studdering, might be an issue if missing swap size. If the RAM runs full this happens.

I don't think that Linus meant that Linux should copy Windows. It's to tell people that "coming from a windows background" is the almost the default at this point and accommodations have to be made. I think he would agree with you that the distros should be more intuitive in their own way (the macOS is a great example).

When Luke was moving the windows around it made me think he was using llvm pipe for the actual desktop environment?

Get a Brother printer. They just work! (Generally laser printers tend to be better as you can fall back to generic PostScript drivers.) Printers that are horrible as they use proprietary blobs: Inkjets, particularly by HP and Epson.

I have that VLC problem too on Manjaro KDE. Its not just 4K videos but seemingly random videos that work and dont.

@12:00 AFAIK that's exactly the same keyboard shortcut that Windows has been using since at least Win2k: Ctrl+drag -> copy, Shift+drag -> move, Ctrl+Shift+Drag -> link

13:58 Today I tested a small OpenGL shader program which renders the Mandelbrot set. And if I set the number of iterations quite high such that the rendering of every frame drops to 1 FPS my whole desktop also has just that 1 FPS although that shader program runs in windowed mode. I am using Ubuntu Gnome with proprietary Nvidia drivers. Very annoying...

@02:23 so why isn't it being flushed from the buffer so it's completely on the disk without you as a user having to do stuff like refreshing file manager? why isn't there a notification about this fact "sorry, the file isn't ready, just a moment..." etc? This isn't user error, it's UX error...

Black screen when you try open video is some time issue on OLED panels

Just my 5 cents here regarding the accommodation of Windows users. Comparing it to Mac having it's own way, or Android and iOS having their own way, is still slightly different case. The basic idea is, that Linus and Luke want more users to switch to Linux, so that it gains popularity. And as such, gains higher priority in software development. And then gets into this positive feedback loop, where it just grows more, gets more software and again more users. Yeah, there's a wall at some point, when the positive feedback loop becomes detrimental to the platform, but that is not the current issue. Lot of us are tired of Microsoft doing Microsoft things to the platform, and simply abusing their dominance. We'd like a better alternative. But the problem is that users need to "choose" to make the switch. And when there is a choice involved, people will choose the easier route (in general). With Mac, Android or iOS, you are forced to switch and learn that platform. Unless you want to go back to your old device, or get a different device. So, if it's only a UX issue on the UI side, I think there should be some development focus on having at least some distros and software behave in that manner by default. But if it requires changing a core functionality of Linux, then it should not be changed to work in Windows style (ie. windows registry). And I think there are / have been distros trying to do this, but the Linux community frowns upon it, when just mentioning Microsoft or Windows is almost a taboo. If the community doesn't support it, the whole thing dies off and we come back to square one.

I think the window lagging is from g-sync. When I've had a low fps game on one screen. It would effect refresh rate of other applications on Windows. Maybe the desktop environment is locking to the current frame rate?

REgarding printing, I've had great luck with the two Canon lasers I've owned over the past 12ish years. The scanner in my mf3010 even works painlessly despite thd linux driver saying "print only"

I think they addressed the moving window in an earlier video or maybe on the wan show, but it is a problem with Linux Mint Cinnamon. he switched distros or DE after this issue. I hope they go into which distro he switched to.

I have had similar performance issues as Luke using Cinnamon with Nvidia. Switching to KDE on Linux Mint fixed it.

13:50 I am also experiencing this on NVIDIA hardware. Sometimes even my audio gets distorted by this.

For the record, my Nemo context menu has a "Make Link" action, but I'm pretty sure I toggled something to make that visible.

My experience trying to print on Windows, Mac, and Linux is that Linux and Max work flawlessly every time, and Windows will fail to print about 50% of the time with the same printer.

>Any sensible compressor is going to make the file a hidden file until it's done. Technically, what Windows does is a bit better, because you can still encounter Linus' confusion if you have "See hidden files" enabled in your file manager. WinRAR and Windows' own compression utility creates a temporary directory in an obscure folder in one of the partitions where it extracts the files then moves them over when done. I was thinking of doing a merge request (don't have a lot of time to maintain a fork, so hoping that the devs let me put that in) for Ark that would do this in the ~/.cache folder.

Totally agree with you Brodie on the concept of making something intuitive. I worked as a human centered design consultant + Front End SWE. We kept track of how many key strokes users make in applications, how many screens they had to visit before getting to their goal, how many times they had to google something, how much time they are spending on each screen and why. etc. It takes like one of these areas to go wrong to literally lose a customer to a competitor. You hit it right on the nose with the intuitive comparison of macOS, android, or ios. also imo LOL: Terminal is not simplicity, its efficiency, it takes work to be well versed in it, to get that efficiency. It took me several years of managing virtual machines, and bringing up Kubernetes clusters to be well versed in Terminal. (i changed careers at some point in my life lol )

Hey Brody, I'm curious, why do you use Arch and not Gentoo?

File compression should, similarly like windows, bring up a progress bar that can be dismissed to the bottom of the screen. For new users, it's a nice to have notification. For power users, you're probably more likely to want it to be dismissed to the notification area. So a simple "don't show this again" should suffice.

Printers in Linux use CUPS which is something that I think Apple was funding. It's pretty seamless for wireless printing. I have had issues if I connect the printer directly. Also scanning is kinda weird. But printing wirelessly has always been fine (printing on both sides and more specific kinda printing might not work though) I'm not that surprised that Linus didn't know random extensions means it's temporary (that's how a lot of software do it, like for example your browser trying to download something, or your torrent client). I'm not surprised, because I saw him try to right-click and save a webpage. So, nothing shocks me anymore.

For the printer thing, I have a Canon Pixma wifi printer and it works right out of the box for both Android and Linux, and I only found that out because for some reason, Windows refused to work with it, and there are multiple Windows PCs in the house I live in. I didn't even have to install drivers on Linux/Android. Both simply saw the printer and just did what it was supposed to do.

I recently was downloading a zip file from a pixiv fanbox and I was extremely surprised that the photoshop file had a logo in the file manager, and then even opened in gimp and was displayed properly. Another time after installing ubuntu for my grandma I test printed a document and without setting up anything. It detected the printer from 50 metres away (in another building), over bluetooth and perfectly printed. That kinda scared me.

13:50 I can confirm this happening too on my RTX 3070 and KDE. It's some issue with the compositor, I couldn't fully figure out what exactly (VSync maybe) but what I did observe is the following: If you switch the rendering of the game to another GPU (in my case an RX560) and display it on the NVIDIA the lags go away. Or if you switch the display output to another GPU (but leave compositor and the games to render on the NVIDIA), the lags also go away. Secondly, I can confirm that these issues also go away if you use Wayland, so in the end it'll be fixed by Wayland due to different window rendering methods I guess.... As to why it happens exactly I have no idea.

Well setting up kvm in linux is similar to setting up other virtual machine solutions in windows from what I've experienced.

Not sure if someone has commented already on the problem with Luke's system lagging when moving the window, but it could be an issue with how Nvidia handles changing between 2D content mode for the desktop, and 3D content mode for the game. I've run into a problem on Windows where having my wallpaper set to change at short intervals causes serious system lag when it changes while playing a game because of this changeover.

I am using 'brother' printer. Has Linux drivers. When I was buying the printer I made sure the producer had Linux drivers beforehand. It has some quirks, but overall it works.

I've been loving the challenge and all the reactions. I am both learning and noticing new things with each. For example, now. Let's go: - Linus doesn't know about apt on Manjaro but sets up a KVM. Also Linus, who is the master of hotkeys and shortcuts doesn't know you can refresh with... F5?. I've always used F5, I swear lol. I don't understand why you'd look for "refresh" in a contextual menu BEING LINUS. Being your mom or whatever it makes total sense; Kinda awesome your mom would know about refreshing. That said, the fact that it _isn't_ in the context menu is kind of a problem and dumb decision. Also, that said, I've been copying from SSD to HDD folders with 4.5Gbs of files (avg) and they're done in like... 2 minutes. And they would be much faster I think, if I had a better PC and more importantly, super fast SSDs like Linus probably does. As for the printers, they both say and show what printers they have so I mean, go watch the video again? Lol Linus talking about file extensions in previous videos and literally going "delete dis, .zip is done!" in this one was hilarious to me. I also don't understand why that happened to Linus. As far as I'm aware, Manjaro ships with VLC. So that should've worked without problems. You recommend VLC, funnily enough Chris Titus recommends Celluloid because VLC works badly for him (and he shows it on the video). I tried both, they're ok. I tried Haruna too. And yes, you can pretty much "configure" and "show alternatives" for almost everything on KDE. That's why I like it, and you can configure the show desktop button to minimize everything. The "On the bottom" text is... a dumb complain. That's just him not liking it, is not an issue. I moved from Manjaro yesterday because I didn't want to deal with "arch stuff", installed Zorin because it looked like it would do the job but then I realized I hate gnome and nautilus. So I just deleted again and installed KDE Neon lol. Still need to finish configuring it, but so far so good. One of the biggest issues Manjaro has imo, even though it's very user friendly, is that Arch needs its own packages and then you have flats and snaps as well (and aur!). Is too much to keep track of if you run into problems later. I like Dolphin a lot, though I do agree that there should be an option to get admin privileges, at least with a warning screen of "hey you gon break stuff if u done goof!".

In the first challenge (cutting and pasting) I think he just didn't notice the progress indicator on the bottom right. He does the same mistake again later in the video with zipping some files. You can see that the size of the file is still growing. KDE's progress indicators are just badly designed.