"talking about 2025 as the year of Linux desktop which they've been saying every year I think" Me: totally (as a Linux user of 2 years)

Ubuntu has a KDE version called Kubuntu. Regarding your issues with Fedora, it is generally not recommended to manually install drivers like that precisely because it can cause issues with updated kernels later. For Fedora, the easiest way to install Nvidia drivers is to first enable RPM Fusion, which will add the Nvidia drivers to your repositories, and just install the Nvidia drivers via the package manager. This way you don't have to worry about kernel updates breaking drivers in the future.

I've been using it as my daily since 1999 and I love watching these types of videos. Great job. Obviously I think its worth it. It's been such a huge part of my life and its exciting to see the ecosystem continue to grow. If I can live in Linux for 25 years, I think most people can too. Even my 74 year old parents use linux now.

For the AAC audio issue in your video editing section: You can use FFMPEG with a shell script to setup an automatic video ingestion workflow. Something that grabs your files from your camera, moves them to your Synology NAS and then re-encodes them in the background. Also make sure you're re-encoding just the audio. Takes much less time.

If only the _audio_ codec isn't supported, you can just re-encode the audio alone without touching the video stream. Re-encoding audio takes next to no time. Hours of audio take, at worst, minutes. As for image editing: there's also Krita*. Compared to GIMP and Photoshop, Krita is much, much closer to Photoshop, in terms of both features and UI/UX (there's even an extension for it that adds machine learning image generation, à la Photoshop's Firefly!) *Yes, Krita is marketed as a tool for "digital art". No, it doesn't mean it's a bad general purpose image editor. Digital art includes _a lot_ if different techniques, so any good tool for digital art has to be capable of all types of image manipulations and then some.

I've used Linux for 30+ years and started with Slackware 1.0 which came on 18 floppy discs. I now use Linux Mint as my daily driver and keep a spare drive for distro hopping. I have not found anything as smooth as Mint, it can be customized but works out of the box! If you still use Windows it may be time to try true freedom.

Welcome back! Hopefully the more switch, the more work is done on making Linux usable for non-technical folks.

Nice to see a fellow sim racer, I switched my HTPC over to Linux when Windows 7 support ended. I had Linux experience from building my own NAS and eventually switched all my desktops over to Linux, except the Sim Rig of course :) I went with Mint to start which is a great distro but nowadays run Debian with Cinnamon for the DE, except my HTPC which is still on Mint because it works and I'm a bit lazy to change it to Debian :) I do run Windows in a VM on all my desktops just for MS Office.

If they just keep saying it's the year of the linux desktop eventually it'll happen right? In all seriousness i think it would actually be a terrible sign if they gave up. Motivation to rise up to the big guys is a major reason for the rapid progress of linux. I don't think it'll ever suddenly jump in popularity, but the rate it's going probably wont slow down. I give it two years to at least being as usable as windows, even if it doesn't achieve feature parity.

Yeah NVIDIA installation in fedora is a bit rough since it cannot legally give out drivers by default. Yes there is an easy way to install nvidia drivers in fedora that isnt that bad but it is a bit out of the way compared to Ubuntu.

after living in linux for just over half a year, i came back to windows. while i can live in linux if windows were to disappear and i definitely will never buy an apple product, i find that there is no daily driver use case for linux that windows doesn't offer an equal or better experience. after trying out several linux distros, i found the best linux distro lived in the operating system that i have always been using. WSL on windows is just the best linux experience available... you get everything good about linux, with the the stability and hardware support of windows.

Kubuntu works on everything if you really want the KDE desktop. I tend to use that on one of my laptops...

30 days Linux challenge? More like 30 years!

Agree to all you said, balanced opinions👍 I looked into linux in the early nineties, but what brought me back to actually using it was ubuntu in 2008. First time in my life my hardware was just supported oob. Thats what they perfected back then. And for my devices its still true. Fedora still doesnt support Macbook Air 2012 out of the box, Ubuntu since ever. Nowadays snap is a nightmare, but you can get rid of it. I am just testing how it holds up. In parallel i tested Debian, Fedora, Endeavour OS (like it😄) and a lot of others. They are all a little more in need of handcrafting. But you need a replacement once ubuntu takes even more wrong turns, so be prepared....

Some distros don't handle the NVIDIA drivers very well. Some distros get political about "nonfree" software such as NV drivers, which just makes the installation painful. Ubuntu is nice because it's a point release (not rolling, major parts of the system don't change within version).

11:33 with the right ffmpeg parameters you can re-encode ONLY the audio portion of a video file. Which would only take a minute, if not seconds on a multi-gigabyte video file. something like "ffmpeg -i bigvideo.mp4 -acodec mp3 -vcodec copy output.mp4" I just tried with a 75 minutes long video and it took me about 25 seconds to convert from aac to mp3 it took me 5 seconds for the same 75 minutes video to convert from aac to flac, but the filesize is much bigger, I think the bottleneck was literally the write speed of my SSD

I use Fedora and I must say one should never try fedora when switching from Windows or Mac. Anaconda installer is not newbie friendly. Try fedora when you have a bit intuition and know how to do little troubleshoot by yourself. Fedora itself is one of my favourite distributions besides KDE neon.

I started to used Mint after the recent recall stuff by Microsoft. Apparently a chunk of our concerns are potentially less serious with Recall? For example, you need Windows Hello every time you access Recall, but not in the beta version that was hacked. That said, still lots of concerns. Legit enjoy using Linux! Intending to stay

The fact when you said linux is a games changes for old laptop instead of high cost laptop is very interesting

I have been using Linux for 24 years and I'm still learning something new. The problem with Linux adoption isn't Linux, it's the fact that most people associate the operating system with the computer. Nobody can say I just bought a Linux PC, but everyone buys Windows PCs, due of course, to OEM deals and market monopolies. That will not changed anytime soon and would probably take unprecedented anticompetition deliberations government would never undertake. That only leaves individuals to make a change and sure a rain storm is made up of individual drops of water, but this momentum will never match the power of the corporate behemoth that drives the market. Nevertheless, I make it my goal to increase a Linux awareness wherever and whenever I can.

For the 80% zoom issue, try disabling the enhanced or advanced tiling in the settings, this may fix the issue

me: wait its a mainstream trend? i thought it was just my youtube algorithm catering to show linux

If you added some music in the background, the watchability of this video would grow by at least 50%

I already switched to Linux in 2017. But I don't game, code, develop or any of the things you do or others. Just e-mail and the world wide web.

I have migrated to Linux Mint on all my computers and am ready enjoying the change.

Fedora is far better than Ubuntu- just turn on RPM Fusion.

It's not like Linux is without Photo editors, it actually have quite a few. But they are more a Lightroom alternative than a Photoshop alternative. There are apps like Darktable, RawTherapee, Showfoto, Ansel (Looks to be based on Darktable with lots of rewrites and new stuff), Art (looks to be based on RawTherapee but simpler), Pixelitor.

Welcome home BTW!

12:30 Are you sure this hasn't to do with Ubuntu's new tiling assistent manager extension? It sometimes makes my windows jump around oddly as well. You might want to try switching it off via the Extension Manager, or open up a Gnome Session (if you have it installed).

Lol, varjo. Regards from Finland

I’ve been using Linux Mint, Ubuntu MATE, and Lubuntu on my machines. For office work, photo editing, and web productivity, they’re great. I will say that gaming on Linux Mint has been a mixed bag. While older games play well, newer ones keep giving me a message about “Direct3D” needing to be detected, even though I installed the driver to my internal GPU. Small complaint in the long run, as everything else has been awesome.

I've been running CachyOS for two months now and pretty happy with it. Tried TuxedoOS before on my desktop as I have a Tuxedo Notebook for work but it didn't really go together with my Nvidia graphics card. CachyOS just worked out of the box. For certain tasks I just have a Windows VM on hand (the occasional OneNote shenanigans for work) but everything else just runs better on Linux.

I have dual booted for the last 17 ich years since Windows Vista came out. The only thing that is left on Windows partition now is some Games because they don't work in Linux either because of anti-cheat or just not compatible yet, and then Adobes Lightroom and Photoshop since one of my biggest hobby is photography. 17+ years i have wanted to get rid of Microsoft 😅

i started with libre office , but i found that only office has better compatibility with microsoft office , so if you do run into any issues at any point ....

Something I want to say is that... while saying every year is the year of the linux desktop might be a little over the top, it's still accurate. Linux Desktop improves by leaps and bounds every single year. Even just waiting 5 more years from any point in the timeline will give you a much better experience than the last time you used it.

I appretiate your presentation of linux and your honesty. My personal linux story started in 2006 with ubuntu and i was hooked. I did my best then to run it as my main OS however, linux of the time was prone to hardware incompatability and it was not uncommon for updates to break things that my 13ish year old self could not fix. Combine that with very poor support for games of any kind even including some browser games i could never make a full clean break from windows. And i would switch back an dfourth many times over the years. I did however use linux as my main productivity OS during my time in college starting around 2013 using windows only for gaming. Around 2018 since i mainly used my pc for gaming i would ditch linux entirely and only run windows 10 for years. The exception to all of this has been on my home server pcs which mostly ran minecraft and file servers which were always some version of ubuntu server. Fast foreward to 2022 and i decided to give linux another shot and after distro hopping a few times and finding i no longer like the feel of ubuntu desktop. Not a fan of newer gnome and snap packages. Also missed the AUR from playing woth Arch. I settled on manjaro with i3 window manager and it has been everything my 13 year old self could have ever wished for in 2007 it is snappy fast and lightweight, customisable beyond belief and with proton and steam i can run all the games i regularly play as well as discord and my other regularly used applications. I can honestly say that if it werent for Call of Dutys ridiculous anti cheat i would completely get rid of windows as linux has simply worked with minimal issues for going on 2 years now as a desktop OS. The fact is that years ago when you wanted to be a linux user you had to dedicate a good majority of your time to making the operating system a hobby in itself and i feel that linux has moved to the point where you dont have to make the operating system your priority when using it. You can simply play your game or do whatever else you are going to do with the system and just forget youre using linux like you do with windows or osx. Also for servers linux in my experience is unmatched i run a rack server with nextcloud, multiple minecraft servers, openvpn, ntfy, and a osx virtual machine running a bluebubbles server so that i can use imessage from my android phone and all that runs 24-7 with almost no issues caused by the os and wothout the ability of linux to be so configurable i dont think i could do that. The tl;dr of my above book is that linux has finally gotten itself out of the way so you can just use your pc as a pc and not as a linux toy.

Linux Mint is tasty.

Just to add to your sim racing experience, sim racing works for me but it obviously depends on your hardware and what sims you want to play and all that. I might not have that super setup you have but I do sim racing just fine on Linux. I consider myself an entry level sim racer. In my case, using the Logitech G29 + Meta Quest 2 VR headset (using ALVR client) works fine on F1 23, Project Cars 2 and Asetto Corsa Competizione. iRacing is definitely off the table atm on Linux because they haven't enabled anticheat for it but it is supposed to run just fine. The devs just need to flip the switch.

If you need something more windows like, linux Mint is the way to go. Also, WPS office is an almost exact clone of microsoft office. Just put your windows fonts on a usb and install them into linux (any office suite) later by right clicking the font in linux and selecting install.

the main issue with the adobe suite is that they made the installer self combust when running in wine, otherwise the whole app runs just perfectly fine. have been using linux mint for 4 years and even with the little problems i have, i dont even wanna install windows again. half of the time it wont even connect to my external screen when i boot my old windows install just to use it for some weird obsolote software that needs windows kernel *looking at samsung odin*

I dual booted Ubunto,Mint,Garuda , fedora , cachyos and still cannot control the brightness of my laptop I can change value but no effects happening thats the only thing keeping me away from switching to linux :/

2025 is the year of the linux desktop

Please someone packages DaVinci Resolve as a Flatpak 😭😭😭

I've been in and out of the Linux world for 20-ish years now, and I agree completely that every time there's a major paradigm shift at Microsoft people start saying 'This is the year of Linux!' It's not this time either. Linux isn't the 'unified' experience Windows is, and I don't think most people are willing to jump the hurdles they may run into to make it work for them. Some distributions are better than others, and I think poor installation routines turn more people away than any other single challenge. I'm not exactly a Linux newbie, but Fedora's installer absolutely borked my boot drive to the point I had to reinstall Linux and Windows to get both working again. I currently have Ubuntu 24.04 running on both my workstation and gaming PCs, and I have a Windows partition on the gaming machine as a Just In Case. Personally I'd advise anyone interested in trying Linux to get an alternate drive to experiment with and start on Ubuntu just for it's installer. Thanks for sharing your experience!

I prefer cachyos or biglinux or linux mint or kubuntu , u shouldn't have all those problems

Recommend Affinity and krita as Photoshop replacement not GIMP

Im a normal average everyday dum dum with a GED and I have been using Linux as my main since slackware 1.0, the trick is don't expect linux to be windows.

I tried Ubuntu smooth Great install but I won't use snap so no go for me tried fedora 40 same bumpy start but runing OK at the moment using Open suse on destop Fedora on laptop

Linux in general may not be the best, but with community support and more recognition from companies, it can certainly become the best-not in the world, but for us now.

nuhvidia?

Avidemux 😁

I started to use Linux from 2007 to 2009, and then I switch to a mac from 2009 to 2016, and then I switch to a normal PC with Windows 8 until 2018, because I switch back to Linux with Fedora, and it was amazing, nowadays, I use Arch, because I'm too lazy to switch back Fedora.

KDE welcome to bug city.....

I don't like GIMP at all, I've found Krita to be far superior and better than Photoshop. Sure, Photoshop might have some extra tools but for 99% of people Krita is the best. It's the only graphics editor I've found intuitive.

I've been using Linux since 2004. Was a Windows guy from win 95 to windows 7. Started using Mac in 2008. If you don't play AAA games Linux is a windows replacement. It does not come close to MacOS. My top Linux distros are Manjaro KDE, Zorin OS and Linux Mint. Maybe Ultramarine. These are FAR ahead of the rest.

I dabble with linux 20 years ago but it was buggy so I switched to window again. Recently I tried over 4 distro and some are still buggy as hell. It’s like 20 years and linux barely improved

3:15 Linux fans love to downplay things like this with phrases like "everything tends to work most of the time", but this is actually horrible and completely unacceptable for a desktop os. and if you listen to these Linux fans (take any youtuber) their day to day experiences are riddled with this bs.

Fedora 40 can be a real pain.. Which is why I think Nobara is better (Fedora 39 based). But, Pop Os is based on Ubuntu and if you need nvidia drivers there are Nobara, Pop and Ubuntu ones.. Nvidia is closed source so AMD cards work like a dream. The hardest part I've always found with Linux is getting is to work with your hardware.. Forget multiplayer games.. use Win10 fo those. But with Proton developed by the guy that does Nobara. It works great with single player. Productivity apps is where Linux can't compete. But thete is kdenlive, da vinci resolve, inkscape, etc...

You need to put a "Flashing Images" WARNING at the start of this. Flashing through/fast forward of screens does nothing for the eyes of some of us. Sorry, it is a shame, but I could not continue watching. A downvote just for this.