NOTE: The issue I had with Pop!_OS has been fixed for some time now. After the fix, a broken package should never be able to uninstall the desktop unless you specifically work around it. -LS

Of all the things Linus is able to drop, i never expected that he would drop and entire linux distro.

"Yes, do as I say!" - famous last words

At first I was really confused why Linus had to type "Yes, do as I say!", because in my 5 years using Linux on my Office Laptop I can't remember ever having to do that, especially for a seemingly simple install. It took only a few moments to realize why though.

What shocks me is that Luke had few to zero problems with Mint, but Linus broke his system with an apt command.

Can we get an "Anthony Reacts" series of him reacting to this series?

Hot take, derived from painful personal experience: better to bork a system a mere 15 minutes into the installation process than to bork it after 15 days.

Haha, i love the contrast between Luke casually trudging along with a little uncertainty, but no issues. Then cutting to Linus where things are going a little crazy until the GUI is nuked XD Tbf it makes no sense that a steam install would remove critical packages

Linus: Documentary level camera movement Luke: Blair witch Project

Missed opportunity to call this series “Linus vs Linux”

Luke: "that wasn't really a challenge" Linus: **reinstalling OS**

I think the biggest positive force behind upcoming Linux gaming compatability is the Steamdeck. While making your game Linux compatible in the past was a nice feature, the Steamdeck actively incentives developers to do so as part of their standard development process.

The way that luke was hyping it up, I almost thought he was going to do something like Arch, Gentoo, or Linux from scratch. And then he said Mint and I almost died laughing.

I think the thing that Linus's experience makes abundantly clear is that when you're choosing a Linux distro, what you're really choosing is the people that maintain your package manager/app store. This is way more important than any silliness about desktop environments and should probably be communicated to new users better, and in a way that's easy for them to understand. "Don't choose the new distro that has about two people maintaining the upstream repositories" is a statement that's obvious to anyone who's used Linux in a professional or enterprise environment, but seems lost on most enthusiasts and is completely not communicated to new users.

Had a legit panic attack at "Yes, do as I say!" -- that warning as meant as the safety breaker to prevent newbs from tripping over what happened but much love guys, no hate. we have a ways to go and this is not discouraging :)

I switched from Windows to Pop_OS! last year, and while my overall experience has been positive, one of the biggest frustrations has come from the fact that it was advertised as an easy experience, but then wasn't. These weird little bugs, like the one Linus had, would crop up and I'd have to spend hours on forums to try and fix it. I have a high tolerance for that kind of bullshit, but I have friends who don't. They would have definitely given up and gone back to Windows. If Linux is going to become a viable alternative to Windows, and break Microsoft's hold on PC gaming, projects like Pop_OS! need to be able to live up to their own hype. I genuinely look forward to the day when they can.

my favorite part was when linus typed "Yes do as i say" to "Remove pop_os gnome"

Apt removing the entire desktop environment for the installation of Steam is a true Chad move, the developer who programmed is having a great time watching this.

The first part where Linus talks about how confusing it is to choose a distro based on those tech review sites has annoyed me so much over the years. They make no sense, and resemble 0 consistency most of the time.

I spent an hour trying to figure out how to change the monitor orientations before I just swapped the cables. You win this round, Linux.

To anyone wishing to try Linux: go for it, but it's a good idea to pause and consider the meaning of messages like "You are trying to delete the following essential packages..."

*Linux first boot* Linux: "Papa, is that you?" Linus: "No, I'm the other one" Linux: "Oh, ok..." *Linux proceeds to die dramatically*

The word customization written in comic sans literally made me put my head in my hands and rethink all my life choices.

I feel like since the Steam Deck has been released, we need a Linux gaming followup (since the Proton compatibility layer has been improved by leaps and bounds). You could pretty much use any Linux distro with the ProtonGE and Wine compatibility layers, and have a great gaming experience. It's actually wild.

Holy crap, I miss Luke on LTT. Glad he's doing what he's doing now, but it is cool seeing him on a classic challenge-type series.

Linux: "Install Steem!" OS: "Yes, uninstall essential packages?" Linux: "YES!" OS: *A s y o u w i s h*

Live cds are one of my favourite parts of most linux distros it's super useful for whenever you mess something up or need to do some heavy drive management

no chad would ever dislike someone for not being good at something, that kind of behaviour would immediately strip someone of their chadness

These video series needs an "Anthony reacts" to every one of them.

I was physically hurt watching apt slowly disassemble Linus's desktop environment after he tried to install steam

I need this video combined with Intel Arc. 30 day Linux Daily Driver on Arc HAHAHAHA

As someone who never used Linux before and then daily drove Pop for about a year, you did fine. It took me 3 tries to actually install it (because I'm not at all computer savvy, so that's 100% on me, not on either Linux as a whole or pop!_OS), but being fairly bad at computers in general it was a fun experience. I learned a lot during that year, there was a lot of new things, and problems, to experience when you've used only Windows for 30 years but with googling and asking friends, I actually managed to do everything I usually do on a computer, including gaming.

This is literally the most anticipated and hyped up video of the year for ltt

From 02:35 Linus points out a general problem with pretty much all search engine top results (e.g. overly seo-optimized crappy articles). This on it’s own might be a good topic to explore.

4:19 “If I want to stay out of the weeds I should stick with something based on Arch” brand new sentence.

Thanks for doing this. I mained Linux for over ten years and my experience with it was basically the same as Linus's far too often, not that I ever inadvertently uninstalled my DE. I hope one day Linux can be as painless as Windows is for me.

At the very end of this there needs to be a live stream of Anthony breaking down everything he would have done

wow, it hasn't even been a day and Linus is already distrohopping

Ah yes, my favorite Linux distro "Pop exclamation mark underscore os"

just got my framework laptop and i'm challenging myself to use linux as well,, very excited to see what it has in store for me

I just realized I hadn't seen Luke standing for years, as they're only sitting during WAN Shows, LOL.

This type of LTT videos is my favourite. Not heavily scripted. No forced expressions. No weird reactions. No dumb jokes. Just Linus and Luke casually filming a tech adventure from their phones. Super nice and relaxing, and definitely fun to watch. Please make more videos like this.

My little sister needed a netbook for school so instead of buying a new one i decided to install lubuntu in a 2011 old laptop of mine, kid you not it was a pain to set up, but everytime i went into a error or trouble there was a tutorial on how to fix it, after an entire day of problem fixing the dual boot and grub i felt an indescribable joy when the lubuntu logo appeared and it booted, to be honest it let me learn a lot, i was happy with the result that pc has never seen so much productivity not even when new with windows 7, and even tho it was not so user friendly to start it let me see the true potential of the hardware. And my sister more than happy even saying she is like Hecker the floopa cuz she nows uses the SO of the pros 😊😂

An interesting thing I discovered by accident is that if you want to wipe a Linux boot drive to install a different ISO, you can connect it via USB adaptors to an android cellphone, and you'll get a prompt to reformat the drive, when Linux and windows both stated they're not able to do exactly that. As a result, I was able to recover the use of a drive I had mistakenly made into a boot drive... And I discovered this purely by accident. 😂

When the Daily Driver series ends, I really hope Anthony is allowed to do a series where he goes through clips of all the mistakes and offers solutions. Would also be cool to see him do a Linux gaming rig video or two where he basically walks through all the setup steps so that anyone who wants to switch over to Linux can have a more Windows like experience where you just get what you get and it is ready to go.

"Hi, to install Steam, first we have to uninstall FCKING EVERYTHING" That does look like the kind of bug that really shouldn't have reached any end user. Glad that the Pop!_OS team fixed it, but judging from other comments, packages nuking the system are common enough to be a "feature" of the distro, like windows' BSoD.

I understand most the issues here, I really do! Even thought I've used Linux for years now, I do understand Linus' issues. Being used to Windows for decades and then using something like Linux where you aren't used to using a command line as often, you can easily bork system if you arent reading everything.

linus might have achieved a new world record in the linux implosion speedrun any%

Btw, that fun highlight switching in Linus' start menu isnt a *bug*. Microsoft decided, that it should work with game controllers, so if you have one lying on its face with the joystick tilted a little bit, that happens. I was troubleshooting for days because of that a while ago.

Linus playing Cave Story brings me so much joy it's not funny. It's an incredibly nostalgic game for me.

I always thought that I was the only one having weird Problems with Linux Mint like my Screen getting no signal after going into standby mode but you guys have way more problems than I ever had!

Luke: that wasn't really a challenge meanwhile over at Linus.... 😂

At the very end of this, there needs to be a live stream with Anthony breaking down everything he would have done

11:18 "Okay, so we've got the... noh-voo or however that's pronounced..." *cries in French*

I personally started with ubuntu gnome, which I used because my 10+yr old pc just couldn't handle windows 10 any longer. First thing i noticed was the difference in openness... like omfg the fact I could turn things off if I didn't want it running even if it killed my system and not get "you don't have permission" was fucking amazing. In the end though, I settled on manjaro gnome, even customized it how i liked it after using XFCE for a bit- since I liked the XFCE pop out menu. Frankly, ubuntu I found was.... well to say the least it was very restrictive for me after finding manjaro. The user friendliness as a new user, the access to things like snap/flatpak/aur/community apps etc as well as being gnome i can use gnome extensions- which is fun to combine with opera which can use gnome extensions. Some people may not like snap/flatpak but I do have a few apps that are only existent on those, and are a must have for me. Otherwise I would love running something like... i forgot the name of it but it was something something dragonized. i think the main things that made manjaro gnome perfect for me was the aur/snap/flatpak/gnome extensions, as well as using a gui installer for apps making it easy to search for apps across all sources. The sheer openness as it being linux, hell even the file system lay-out was beautiful to me. It has been an experience learning linux over the last few months though, and a fun as well as frustrating one at that. I can't begin to tell you how many things i've managed to fuck up/fix in the last 3 months lol. To think that all this started with me one day messing around with stuff on windows, figuring out i was essentially attempting to run linux on windows, then just googling "is linux better than windows?" as well as "which is the best version of linux for newbies?" from there it has been hundreds upon hundreds of google searches.

sudo: "are you sure?" Linus: "Yes, do as I say" sudo: "Alright team, he said Yes, let's show him who's boss. Apt, do the thing"

apt : "This will remove pop-desktop and gnome-shell" linus: "YES"

Having used Linux (formerly Mint and most recently Manjaro) your review is interesting. I like to see what kinds of problems other people manage to dredge up, problems that I somehow managed to sidestep.?.?!.? Educational.

Its funny rewatching this now as I recently nuked my Mint desktop environment as well! Luckily found a quick fix but it happened in almost the exact same way, so its easy to do if you're not paying attention

I like how the video quality tanked when the confetti flew up. It's like Tom Scott, himself was there, laughing as he started kicking the codec's teeth in.

I feel like we’ve been hearing about this series for a year on the wan show

I have a new computer now with the latest Nvidia GPU. I chose the "recommended" option for drivers in Linux Mint. They didn't work. I did a web search about it, but I could clearly see my pc was not using my GPU. I just went to Nvidia, chose the graphics card and OS, downloaded it and then realised it was between the options that I could have chosen. I did this and everything went perfect. Just a reminder for people that always follow the OS "hint".

I have tried to use linux for a bunch of basic tasks and there has always been problems. I have had computers thats only task is to play spotify, the automatic update system getting fucked up, fucking the system up and then i have to go in and fix it. I have never asked a windows pc to play spotify, and fail at that task but linux did.

Luke coming back for this challenge is just a treat for long time watchers, so much nostalgia.

Wonderful - just imagine Linus employees always asking him now on every occation: "Are you sure about this? Then please say 'Yes, do as I say'

Soon as it blacked out, I fully expected it to come back on saying " Hello Linus, thank you for freeing me" lol

I like how Linux users always say: "It's super easy! Just press a button and copy-paste a command" and while that's technically correct it omits the usual 30-45 minutes of pressing 87 buttons and typing 56 commands trying to figure out what do you actually need to do

Actually, Linus, by having that issue with Pop and instantly distro hopping, that automatically makes you a top notch linux chad xD

This is going to be an A+ series. Up there with scrapyard wars, Intel extreme upgrade, and mining adventures

"This essential packages will be removed..." Linus: Go ahead man! what could go wrong!

You know what, if we did this challenge every year with different members of LMG every time then everyone at LMG can familiarize themselves with Linux and maybe Linus can overcome his Linux trauma!

"The following will be removed: Pop-Desktop" Linus: "Yes, do as I say" LOL

"Who would sponsor this madness?" - Glasswire! - a product that DOES NOT RUN ON LINUX! HAHA! LOL

10:37 Linux: “WARNING: The following packages will be removed” Linus: “Yes, do as I say” Linux: Bricks itself **Suprised Pikachu face**

6:05 I actually had that bug too at random times, it seemed to be some controller connection I believe. Added note: I'm using linux mint on an old laptop nowadays too to be a server for Klipper (3D-Printing) and Java Discord bot server :D

this is a good example of how SEO-hungry blog "articles" are annoyingly unreliable in general, despite being at the top of the google results. happens to me whenever i google a broad/general topic, such as "alternatives to [software]".

I'm not ashamed to say, I missed Luke. So glad to see him back. Really glad you guys are doing this challenge and sharing it with us. Its going to be quite a show.

In manjaro, you have to enable the control in the steam settings, so that the games recognize the control. Settings > Controller > General Controller settings, then just check the option Xbox Configuration Support, in the case of xbox controller, And that's it, just be happy. Remembering that there are some games that recognize them by default, if you notice bugs with the control, try to deactivate the option

Reminds me of my early days of installing Linux and installing other stuff on that 😮‍💨 This video gives me those nostalgia feels 🫠

I like how every time Linus says "GUI" the subtitles say "gooey"

It's hilarious how luke had fairly smooth sailing while linus had third world war blackout. It's like even windows decided to glitch on him.

linux mint is hands down my go to recc for beginners. i may have just switched perm to arch 2 weeks ago but ive dual booted linux and used it mostly since 2011. linux mint is made for people who dont use computers. my friends first pc had linux mint on it

this video needs a sequel badly

Luke: "I'm comfortable getting my hands dirty with grub." Average person: "Me too, I love messy foods."

Feels good seeing Luke back on the channel outside of the WAN show.

Its now 1,5 Years later, and i can confidently say that using Linux for Gaming is a an actual option now. I switched to PikaOS (Ubuntu based Gaming Distro) a while ago and it just works and works and works. Way less issues than I had with Windows, Gaming works perfectly fine (except for some Games where the Devs actively prevent the Game from running on Linux for no good reason, like Destiny 2), and as a developer linux is just plain better for work stuff.

As a Linux user, this amuses me very much.

I really hope they go through with this series, because this will set realistic expectation for new/interested users

As someone, who never watches the WAN Show it is really nice to see Luke again in a video, I almost forgot about him being a great host.

Why do they seem to be terrified of Linux Gurus, like everyone in the linux communitty that I've met are all reallyfriendly and understanding?

10:57 Linus expecting it to say hello 😂😂

Luke caring what people think of him. Remember that quote Luke. "When you’re 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you’re 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you’re 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place." I'm 55! Haircut looks good Luke.

if sudo apt install steam nukes the entire desktop environment, it's absolutely hilarious. never seen that

"Yes, do as I say" is a terrifying prompt for someone to just blow through like that's a normal and reasonable thing to do, lol. It's intentionally a pain because you aren't supposed to do it unless you know what you're doing. (And if you know what you're doing you know that you almost never want to do that anyway. About the only time it's the right thing to do is weird things like migrating between distributions (like switching from Debian to Devuan, for crusty Unix admin reasons.)

I switched my old laptop to Debain\kali os and learned a lot about Linux commands. This video made me feel a bit better about myself lol

Linus nuking his system while it warns him is just funny, but also very telling about the new user experience

Watching Linus uninstall his desktop environment was a little like watching a car crash, you can't really look away. 😅

I recently switched to Linux Mint for the last month or so after using windows on my machine since forever. At first it was an absolute train wreck of an experience to the point I was considering going back to windows because my second ssd wouldn’t mount automatically which caused problems for downloading games from steam and it was a gamble anytime I wanted to download a game. It magically fixed itself after I was on the edge of downloading another Distro(it heard me is what I’m guessing and got scared). But besides gaming, everything’s been a breeze from working to listening to music to using discord. I’m glad that I finally got away from windows. I had been meaning to for the last year after I tried mint earlier in the year but I still wasn’t wanting to go all in since I really liked using gamepass and epic games for its free games but I’ve moved past that and am now a proud Linux user.

You guys should have another shot at it with different distros, like fedora.

Luke: Everything okay. Linus: i hate my life