Is Linux ready for the desktop in 2024? I believe it is! It does depend on what workflows you want it to support however. In this video I talk about my experience so far and what it was I needed help with from Linux as well as how it’s stood up so far.
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yeah kde + ubuntu is great people rag on uibuntu a lot but stuff works well and is stable more often than not
If you dont need anything special OBS is overkill and not the greatest. GPU Screen Recorder works great and with any GPU and gives you hardware recording.
You got my thumbs up as soon as you said, "Windows can just suck my 🐧". Seriously, though, solid video.
The anti cheat thing is just so annoying. I still have a windows install because of that one game I love to play online uses anti cheat.
I've even managed to get my favourite apps (affinity suite) working on my Mint system.
Linux for casual desktop use is fine for long, despite what everyone says.
Valve is the company that pushes desktop Linux currently the most, so as a gaming person, I quite happy.
try this one, built arch from scratch and went through kde, xfce and now gnome before ff16 updated and fixed its broken cutscenes lmao, 35th time was the charm just use proton experimental nothing else works
For many people, Linux is ready for the desktop since two decades already
Only Ai I want on my desktop is Ai I CONTROL. I like AI but run my own as mainly use it for Home assistant, as I am NOT allowing these megacorps to train their models off my data directly. been on Linux daily without windows for a year
welcome back to linux ?
Arch Linux is simply brilliant. I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly
Welcome to Linux! You've made a great decision of trying Linux and that just shows that you care about not only yourself, but open source technologies too. In other words, great video!
Linux is not unix.
People say Arch is hard. I stayed away from it for years .. until about 9 months ago. I took the plunge and I guess it's having used Linux since the mid-90s and being an SRE … I honestly found it easy and it's been very performant. I just got things the way I wanted them and committed the files to git. I don't tweak things, compile kernels weekly or all the other things folks who've run Linux for a week as a challenge seem to think is required.
I don't evangelize Linux … too old and lazy AF to do that. BUT neither will I take the ramblings of folks as gospel. Is Linux good for the masses? Maybe. I think once Nvidia gets their sh** together and makes things as easy as AMD does, it's probably. I know that KDE 6.x is absolutely ready.
Its not quite so smooth on Nvidia, Kubuntu is not the ideal choice because you'll be better off with KDE 6.1 or later and need to install nvidia drivers more up to date than the Ubuntu ones. At least if you want to use Wayland. A Fedora or Arch based distro works better in this case.
For me, the push away from Windows has to do with Microsoft turning their telemetry schemes into dependencies. For example, I just discovered that terminating the "MSEdge WebView2" process now disables some of the keys on my keyboard (chiefly F5, which I use to refresh web pages and Windows Explorer windows). Then it comes out that the Recall "Feature" is also a dependency which, if you disable it, breaks Windows Explorer even harder.
Then realize that only Windows has WebView2 as a dependency; Microsoft is baking their spyware into the OS — so, nope. No more Windows.
SHOW US YOUR FETCH!
I’ve also found Kubuntu 24.04.1 to be most helpful as a daily driver and for gaming. So much so I set up a separate Steambox strictly on Kubuntu with big picture.
I'm at the start of a very ambitious idea, and watching videos like this are a part of my research. A lot of very good points, and many of the drawbacks of Linux you mentioned, I am attempting to solve to my idea I am planning on bringing to market in the near future. The idea is to provide Immutable Linux systems with fully atomic updates to mainly business and their developers, although a non-business consumer could use the service. The idea is to take all the software, business requirements, and such, and to create a customized streamlined Linux specific for their business needs. It would take the effort of research, troubleshooting, and mass-deploying Linux to an external party, me! The hope is that the customizations for each business won't be overly complicated, and I can use a base image to start, then pile any business specific requirements on top of that. Once the initial image is designed, providing the business with atomic updates each week, and minor changes to the software as time goes on, shouldn't be too much additional effort. The added advantage of this system is that it is essentially zero-install, the business receives an immutable and atomic system image, much like how Android updates are given, and to perform the update, the system image just needs to be replaced with the newest version, then boot into the new version. If there is a bug or issue with anything in the new version, the business can effortlessly just select the previously working system image from the boot menu and contact me with the issues to quickly resolve. If you have taken the time to read this entire comment, then here is a treat. I have put together a basic marketing site which goes through all these points, and I have been dogfooding it on my personal laptops, and it made upgrading to a brand new laptop I bought as easy as dding the .ISO system to a USB Stick, and booting it up on my new laptop, and everything I was already using on my old laptop is all ready to go without any additional installations or even configurations. It just works, which is what I'd love to bring into the Linux world to make Linux so much more accessible to businesses and consumers alike. Here's the almost complete marketing site, if you are curious on checking it out, or even downloading a demo image to boot in a VM or on real hardware to see it's potential. It is based on the Linux Live CD/DVD idea to bring both immutability and atomic updates, but with the added bonus in that the images can be fully customized and aren't just general purpose Live systems, like you'd normally see online. I'm hoping to have a demo video very soon to show the initial idea and how it could work in a business setting to streamline PCs in a business and for developers. Website: https://www.hackers-edge.com/
I use Kubuntu or Ubuntu mate for HTCP. Linux Mint for gaming and production
0:21 LOL!
Watching on KDE Neon Linux
I just switched back to Arch on my main rig about three weeks ago. I go back and forth on Linux, but the changes Microsoft wants to implement rub me the wrong way.
Linux on desktop is not there for the average "layman". Ubuntu is the closest, but Linux is still held back by the terminal. If you have to go into the terminal to do literally anything at all for any reason, the average person is just going to give up. They're not going to learn, they're going to go back to Windows.
Well when you launch a game takes 10 minutes for shaders… on win it launches instantly.. also does not need a bunch of workarounds for it to MAYBE work.
I run linux servers and they are great but gaming is not a string point for linux its bad really bad
I've been using Linux since 10 years now. I use Windows only on work computers where company's apps require Windows to run. Managing files is so much better on Linux, so now, I do the necessary work in Windows and then switch to my personal, Linux laptop to do the file management work. Doing the same on Windows would be tedious, some things even impossible. The things I miss is the access to installed MS Office, as online version is too primitive. Libre Office is fine and does the job but it's not as advanced as MS Office.
I'm also DevOps Engineer and I love gaming after hours and only daily driver is OpenSuse Tumbleweed. I cannot imagine swiching to any other OS than Linux
Most of my computers since 1997 have been Linux boxes. Only cheap "win hardware" that is built for windows, which most of it out-date itself when Windows goes to the next version have issues. Kubuntu is not bad at all and the other flavors of Ubuntu I tested (I like Xubuntu on my old machines as it makes my 20+ year computers useful for things). Vavaldi is a bad port of Chrome and has lots of bugs their devs have not patched. Ubuntu distros have the most advanced upgrade system and software as well as hardware handling. The only thing you should get rid of because its Microsoft's quiet contribution to the Linux Eco-system is Zeitgeist.
Almost 3 years microsoft free here!
Never looked back since. Now if there are issues, they're usually caused by me, and even if I mess up bad, there's always googlable error instead of random numbers to look up that all end up on the same resolution of "just reinstall lol".
I've been using Linux exclusively for a bit over a year now and before that I used it on the side a bit for about another year. It's been a great experience. But I went into it wanting to learn something new so I have no idea how it would have went without that. On the other hand moving back to Windows would be harder for me now than moving to Linux was.
Wow conceded much! sheesh