oh btw. it doesnt seem like this markdown document is up on github yet

> I use arch btw Ever given NixOS a try? I can 100% imagine a noboilerplate video about the wonders of a declarative OS :) EDIT: Just seen that you've replied to another comment mentioning it :D

+1 I approve

are you sure #2 is an error? $300 is indeed 11x cheaper than apple's $3,300 upgrade cost

@@ME0WMERE I think he meant "is 11x as expensive" instead of "costs 11x more" , which... the version in the video is still what I'd say.

Microsoft works hard to make Windows worse every year as usual. But what's the problem with Macs?

@@sirbuttonhd egregious pricing, for one

@@rokiesensei it’s Unix

Apple's new hardware platform blows the socks of everything else though, I'm envious. This level of integration will be hard to replicate for the rest of the market, but hey - we're already _fast._

I started daily driving Linux shortly after the Windows 11 leak back in 2021. Thank you Microsoft. Thank you for making such a bad product that I started to reconsider using it. Now I am happily using Arch.

if it's for work, it's fine using not Linux. also it MUST be a separate device, not your personal one (I'm saying it because in a lot of companies you use your personal laptop for work, which I think is stupid)

SSH into your workstation from home at home?

What about virtual machines? Installing corporate spyware on your personal computer is terrible, if I were forced to do it then I would try virtual machines.

@@dr.c2195 But then the corporate only paid for spyware licenses that are made for Macbooks, so now everyone must work on a Macbook. No Linux allowed since the spyware doesn't work there, VM or no.

I was a programmer with IBM until 8 years ago, and unless there was a business case for remaining with Windows, all developers had been switched to SUSE Linux a few years before.

That's a great point!

Though you probly arent' getting wifi without power huh?

Cos mobile phones can't act as wireless hotspots...

​@@stephenhookings1985 The cell towers probably don't have power as well during these intervals. Assuming OP lives in a country where the government practices rolling brownouts.

I don't really know how different it is in your country, but in Europe or North America, solar panels are cheap. You make it seem expensive because you forgot to write: "Buying solar panels to power my entire house is expensive". Powering a single computer off of solar is very cheap.

Great news! Yeah, Bitwig, Reaper, and Steam will get you so far :-)

Hadn't heard about Reaper - thanks for the reccomendation! @@NoBoilerplate

Yeah, same with the music production part. So many plugin, vst just doesnt work or alot of hassle to work

Yeah for me the VST hassle still keeps me on Win, even though I only use Reaper and Bitwig.

That was a hold up for me only it was the XCode program on Mac, now I use Intellij which is paid and proprietary but is the same across my Linux machine, mac, and windows when I am forced to use them, and is essentially android studio so it's fine... problem is that Intellij and the android SDK especially are so large and inefficient that even a powerful desktop struggles to run them next to even a lightweight program like a browser displaying text.... or a music player, let alone the virtual android emulator. Wasn't always like this though. Once, long ago, I ran android studio and the SDK, and the emulator, and a bunch of heavy tabs on a laptop with minimal RAM and still had resources to spare. Now with a machine that has 4x the RAM, a dedicated GPU, and many many times more CPU speed, I can barely load one android reference wiki tab next to android studio or intellij with the android SDK. Seriously, how does a page with just text manage to consume more than half a gig of ram per tab? Google and Microsoft both have developer documentation that is so bad I have to print to PDF to save from running out of RAM... both on my 16GB laptop and my 32GB desktop. Most other pages, even youtube are way smaller and consume less CPU, and the android studio and sdk eating 12 gigs by itself isn't helping. I have JUST enough RAM for Linux, if I used Windows, I'd be even more screwed.

It can run, but can it complete before the sunset?

@@az8560 Accumulator Battaries exist for a reason

@@rotteegher39 makes sense.

To be thrown into the ocean?

It _is_ admittedly powerful - but you can't cheat physics, in the end. :D Of course, you _can_ set it up so that it renders in segments whenever there's sunlight... :D

As a student it is also the convenience of being able to everything from taking handwritten notes to 3d modelling on a single device that I can stick in my bag and take to lectures.

There is no such thing as a "gaming laptop". Laptops are never acceptable to game with, nor can they be made to game with. No, not even the ones that are branded as "gaming laptops" with a 4080 GPU in them. They are made to sit on your lap to type, code or for multimedia projects, that's it. No gaming, ever.

Corporate users also like laptops because of recent events, since your employees can bring their workstation home if needed.

@@spankyjeffro5320 Obviously you won't get anywhere near the same performance to cost ratio as a desktop but this is serious hyperbole. I render video, 3D models, and play AAA games on max graphics with my 3060 laptop I bought in 2021. I get at least 60 FPS with pretty much everything and thermals max around 80 in near-silence. Again, desktop better, but gaming laptops clearly exist. It's my only option in my circumstances and it's worked perfectly well for gaming so far. Asus Zephyrus G14 if you're wondering.

@@spankyjeffro5320 mfw I open a game on my laptop: 😈

Gnome software / Kde discover already exists

Most major distributions come with a GUI for the package manager, end users can just pretend it's an app store and use the computer like any other Windows/iOS/Android device. If you want to download and run things from the Internet there's AppImage which lets people package GNULinux software in a distro-independent way (basically how Windows software works, shipping with all required libraries), and WINE has gotten very good in recent years to the point that I barely find any bugs in the rare moment I need to run Windows software through it.

Ofcourse. Why would anyone bother typing/copying a command, which you first have to look up, if you could also click on a button that does the whole thing in the background. I use linux, but the whole 'using the console is so much faster and easier' is nonsense for 99% of users.

There is a built in and fairly good gui in most popular distros

@@G_unz apt isn't hard to learn. It wouldn't take you more that 10 minutes to learn the basic functionality. Typing is just certainly when it comes to installing things.

Could you boot off of a portable external SSD at that point?

So bad isn't it!

The Jupiter Broadcasting podcasts call this the "strategy tax" - Companies will always make decisions in the interest of their overall corporate strategy and goals, even if that means making some aspect of an individual product objectively worse.

And that is true for all corporations. Always remember this, kids! They just want your best - your money. (This sentence works so much better in German...) And they're playing the long game.

Rent-seeking is basically another way to say someone is trying to exploit others. If someone expects you to pay them every month, there's a good chance they're doing something unethical.

@@ToyKeeper Hi TK, funny seeing you here! 😁 This was just the topic at my family's Christmas gathering... 🤔🙄

It's frankly rude!

​@@NoBoilerplate And of course Microsoft makes it easy to set Edge as the standard browser in one click!

You can basically cut all of it out in 30 minutes. Every OS has it's own trade offs. For Windows it's all about post-installation surgery.

@@CHEpachilo Yes, but it's for my dad. He is a simple man and he just needs Chrome with bookmarks for his tax program, Office 365 and the government's website for filing taxes

@@CHEpachilo I've already uninstalled/disabled every unnecessary program/service on my own Windows devices 🙃

For the most part a thing of the past, at least on Debian based distros, like Ubuntu, Mint, PopOs and such, but from what I hear it's similar for other package based distros, such as Fedora for example.

Lol yeah. I keep trying to use Linux nore but also keep finding myself frustrated in trying to do simple things. I cannot tell you how much time ive dumped into just getting it to use my preferred keyboard layout to login. I get people like to sing praises of it but when something that simple needs me to dig around for hours. And looking for help in online forums gets me insulted half the time. Tough sell

I think app distribution in Linux is fundamentally broken and user hostile. I believe this is because packages on Linux share so many dependencies. You casually want to remove a package and accidentally delete system critical dependencies and the system won't boot anymore. Or you cannot upgrade your system because a package you installed created a conflict with the new versions of system packages. The Windows approach of distributing apps with all batteries included is WAY more userfriendly. Linux slowly gets something similiar with Flatpak, Snaps and so on. But it was not mature enough when I tested some Snaps on Ubuntu.

Don't forget driver hell. I wanted to convert an old touchscreen netbook into a linux pseudo-tablet and it was basically impossible because I needed an internet connection to get the "non-free" drivers that machine needed, but needed the drivers to get the wifi chip working.

@@superslash7254 I'm sorry, but is Windows (or Mac) any better in that regard? If you need a specific vendor driver, you are out of luck, whether it's Windows, Linux or Mac. At least Linux kernel is coming pre-loaded with a bunch of drivers, that give you some basic functionality. For example, I have an old laser printer, and latest MacOS no longer has any drivers support for it. Linux has it out of the box.

gross! I love it!

Greatest analogy I've ever seen

I used Linux (Ubuntu) as a secondary OS from 2010 to around 2016. It wasn't as good back then, but now I would never go back to Windows after I returned to Linux, this time EndeavourOS (Arch with a GUI installer and a great community) when Windows 11 was released.

this is one of the analogies of all time, lol

this is like using notepad compared to vim

same!

Ikr, windows is just terrible now.

I dabbled in Linux a bit but I am still in the phase of finding a distro, what does the community recommend besides the user-friendly Ubuntu, I, 'm looking for the authentic Linix experience and don't mention Arch Lol

@@akiba2x0 Try Manjaro. It kinda combines the convenience of Ubuntu with the benefits of Arch. And since it's based on Arch, the great Arch wiki still 100% applies.

@@akiba2x0 Ubuntu is a great place to start, don't overthink the distro

seriously i hate these types of videos so much. when we got to the Linux part of the video I already got annoyed. Linux has its place and I use it for my home server but day to day I don't want to be bothered to use it. I do all my day to day work on my Windows desktop and M1 Macbook Pro because I don't have the time/desire to tinker with Linux on the daily. These videos get more and more tiresome due to the "Linux is the answer to everything, and everyone else is wrong" style like you said

Linux evangelists paint way too rosy picture of the software compatibility. I play iRacing using Oculus Quest VR with Thrustmaster wheel and also have Elgato streamdeck as a button-box, that's 4 different products from 4 different companies and none of them have any Linux support.

oh dang that would have been a really good point for the video! thanks!

That should be an option in bios. I'll take the risk if it means more fps

It's true, I learned from experience. Having a laptop on my lap running a game is like playing with fire.

Everything you wrote is wrong. EVERYTHING is factually INCORRECT.

​@@Ludak021you could've spent five minutes Googling before writing that. E.g. on AMD laptops there's STAPM -- Skin Temperature Aware Power Management. Thing is literally meant to keep chassis under ~45-50C, because at that temperature you already can get burns with prolonged contact. There's equivalent of that in smartphones as well, even more critical there.

Sure, but best bargains is to invest in some old high-end hardware, ancient generations of workstations. Real Tanks for the road, rock solid, and cheap AF, designed to last years or with so much connectivity they can still evolve, even as laptop formfactor.

They don't do that so much anymore. You're thinking the mid-2000s, when Dell was really bad about having their own PSU pinouts.

@@TheRogueXHave you looked inside an Alienware lately? IDK about their new stuff, but the Aurora was full of proprietary crap.

@@TheRogueX unfortunately still a thing with many client desktops from dell, hp, lenovo, but getting better. Even bigger workstations have proprietary psu (non modular) connectors and limited so you cant really swap stuff. You end up with that amount of connectors and cables for that amount of power. One would have to upgrade psu and motherboard to upgrade the machine in that situation

HP should just be avoided in general

Try hard to avoid distro hopping. Desktop environments are the mpst important choice imo and if you are lacking software you could install it with nix package manager, or maybe by adding repos or manually downloading packages or compiling from source. Otherwise the important features of a linux distro are stability, reasonable update frequency especially security and a file system with snapshots for rollback if there are errors during an update. ZFS is considered the most stable filesystem with snapshots and btrfs is known for having certain issues.

@@gabfid3 i wonder why in linux mint my hardrives are getting SUPER BADLY HOT! like WORSE than windows when it used to be inverse, im guessing its drivers or something but dont know what drivers would have to use for my diffrent hardrives? it ALSO makes SSDs hot too! all "storage"

I use Debian12 - Bookworm

That is an important factor too, agreed. But we live in a world where every single machine should have 64GB of ram. It's nuts!

As much as I agree with you, I think having 64GB of ram by default would make things worse. I'm mostly coming from a gaming background, but I have been around long enough to see games x10 in storage capacity needs. A game like call of duty can require nearly 150 GBs of storage space and a not insignificant amount of ram despite not looking or playing much better than the game its a remake off 10 years ago that required a fraction of the hardware to run properly. With the crunch and pressure going on in development studios, especially in gaming, you take any quick fix you can get. Who needs file compression or coding a function yourself when you can import 500 libraries. back in the day people tried to reuse and cut corners anywhere they could because of hardware limitations. I remember seeing a UKposts video about a retro game Dev flipping individual bits to reach some weird computer science magic with a ruleset to modify textures on the fly in game instead of having to pack in more premade textures.

Maybe they shouldn't all come with 64gib of ram, but they should all come with a reasonably priced upgrade path if you need 64gib ram.

@@eccomi21On the other end of the spectrum, I support hardware with just 8192 bytes of ROM and 512 bytes of RAM, with low-power modes and low latency requirements measured in microamps and microseconds. It'd be nice if more programmers had to do this while learning, in order to learn how to write small, efficient code.

@@georgehelyarthis 💯

perfect!

I, too, aspire to do this. Apalrd has an excellent video on the topic.

@@NoBoilerplate In the future, maybe. For many people, running your own Cloud Server from Home to beam to your 4G connected Phone, Tablet, Laptop seems tricky and expensive. The other problem is exclusive content. No-one wants to miss out on the latest movie, show, game, and that also applies to software. But these Mega Corporations build curated ecosystems to lock you in, or lock you out. For that reason, I think the best tool is for the consumer to be wise about it. We can access all the major platforms, by differentiating them based on form-factor. We've got Phone, Tablet, Laptop, Desktop, and Console. And platforms of Apple, Google, Microsoft, Open-Source and Proprietary. Being wise is to match these up with their best optimisation.

@@NoBoilerplate Continuing on from my last comment: In the worst case scenario, you would have a Microsoft Phone, Open-Source Tablet, Laptop from Google, and an Apple Desktop. It's not even cheap, but the experience is very subpar. In the best case scenario, it would be an Android Phone, iOS Tablet, Windows Laptop, Desktop PC with Linux, and a Console by Sony. For my personal scenario, I'm saving up for: - Samsung S24+, with Razer JungleCat for a pocketable gaming system - iPad Mini 7, for the powerful M1 chipset, medium 8.7in size, with App Sideloading option (thanks EU). And combine that with the GameSir G8 controller. - Frameworks 16 AMD Laptop. It's portable but decent sized for work. It is well designed and upgradable. And Windows Software is very handy to access. - Custom Gaming PC build. Potentially running something like Zorin OS, maybe as a dualboot option. - Sony PS5 Pro. Worth it's cost for the graphics, longevity, and exclusives. ....this would work well for most people, but personal reasons can have people switching these around for other reasons.

Unless I missed something new in the last couple of years, SSHFS will freeze your mounted drives as soon as your connection drops, and you won't be able to reconnect them unless you restart your PC. Eventually you will lose data. Did this improve lately? Have you had any issues like this?

As someone who works in construction my office is always in a different place. I have my desktop at home, my laptop for when I'm on the go, and my phone for quick access to files on site. I keep all my work files in a directory on dropbox which is integrated into the filesystem of all three devices. Many of the applications I use are browser based so they automatically sync. I have no issues starting something on one device and finishing it on another. I always prefer using the desktop if I can, but sometimes I have to trade efficiency for accessibility.

not a suggestion but you can use VS code on a cloud VM, great for portability i use the free VM

yeah, here's hoping they follow Epic's example with fixing easyanticheat!

For me rainbow is the barrier as well but I just dualboot. At this point I can't even just browse the web on windows. It feels so slow compared to Linux that I find it easier to reboot to Linux, if I need to do literally anything besides gaming.

Yep. I'll change to Mint fully once Linux can natively play any game I want without needing any sort of VM or compatibility modifier like Wine. Until then, I have no choice; Linux simply is not currently a gaming contender.

@@spankyjeffro5320 I spotted a fallacy in your comment. So, you're ok with installing/using Microsoft's Visual C++ libraries, but somehow installing/using Wine's libraries is a no-no..? How come? Without Windows C++ libraries installed/updated you won't be able to play games or use software on Windows, same story with Linux (wine/proton libraries). They both need libraries (like .dll files on windows) to run software. Is it becouse they are pre-installed or auto-magically downloaded on Windows? Then you should try something like ZorinOS Linux, it comes with wine libraries pre-installed, just like how libraries are pre-installed on Windows.

I have noticed this myself after making the leap, the solution is to simply no longer play these games where the developer refuses to enable anti-cheat. They are generally terrible games anyway.

If you travel, a laptop's your best option, of course, and as you say, there's no finer machines than Thinkpads :-D

i started to use kali linux because ubuntu store were a pain to update (and to make work) so i end up using kali and flatpak for my daily activities and work, to play i just use my xbox series s or my nintendo switch, i think i am not going to use windows unless videogames are more a subscription than other thing, but for now i am fine like this.

@@omarjimenezromero3463 You really shouldn't be using Kali as a daily driver, it is not meant for that.

I have been a ThinkPad user for decades (in plural at this point). But they aren't what they used to be. Had to replace the motherboard on my T480 three times on extended warranty! Next time I will probably get a Framework laptop. I will miss the trackpoint for sure though!

Personally, I really want to get a FrameWork laptop when it comes to a travel machine, just because of the e-waste reduction. Pretty sure they don't do docking stations, but it's really easy to set them up for use with a proper monitor alongside mouse and keyboard, and I doubt they'd object to a third party making docking stations for them...

Of course you need drivers…. What are you even talking about lol

oh that's cute. try being a teen doing that time running nearly every different distro on distrowatch and even recompiling the kernel just because the brand new off the shelf hardware wouldn't work or that one pcmcia card wouldn't work.

@@JonathanTheZombie I thought it was obvious but if you want me to be more specific, by "i didn't need drivers" I meant "I didn't need to go to a website or run an update program to download drivers"

@@zekodun Ok guy, not trying to make it a competition.

@@zekodun Did you have anything relavent to say, or are you just bragging about your level of foolishness in wasting time and energy to solve problems that didn't exist (inability to run hardware which you didn't own). while running tons of different distros for... what purpose other than to waste disk space?

Oh so that's why a measly Electron editor needs 10 GB of RAM "because they used all they can use". Yeah no thanks.

@@roflmagister5 I'm pretty sure @KoltPenny was being sarcastic - if you missed it.

@@roflmagister5 Electron is just Chrome without an address bar

the problem is IT management - gaining more than developers and creating more (problems). But banks are happy :)

r5 yeah i have no idea what your talking about, never had vscode(ium) use more than 1-2gb of ram, also ram is really cheap these days just get more

Certainly, if you don't need any more power, then you're good. I'm the same when I'm writing or casually browsing. But npm install is quite slow, right? And 500ms re-bundling times add up over the course of the days and weeks! etc

@@NoBoilerplate True, but I would rather focus on being more efficient with my time first, and only look to upgrade my hardware once I start noticing it holding me back regardless. After all, it does not matter if a workstation saves me a couple of minutes a day, if the same amount of minutes or probably even more go to waste somewhere else. So whenever I feel like I have spent too long doing something, I reflect on that, so that it does not take as long next time around. And that to me, is more worthwhile than throwing money at a problem. However, if hardware is trully the limiting factor, I do upgrade. And if that means getting a workstation at some point, then so be it.

​@@sergiojimenez4595if you like you using the crappy laptop keyboard outside of your desk you are lost. Instead of switching from your desk to somewhere else with the small laptop screen and keyboard you should take a 2 minute stretch break.

!RemindMe 5 years. Stranger's back pain

I don't think a powerful desktop PC will be noticeably faster than a modern MBP for most web development tasks. Of course if you need powerful graphics or tons of memory then a desktop is the way to go. The point is that there is very little performance compromise since the release of M1 (at least for what I'm doing). It is nice especially as a remote worker to not be tied down to a desktop, you can hook up your monitors/kb for a full workstation setup at home/office and still have the freedom to work from anywhere if needed.@@NoBoilerplate

i double that, after getting accostumed to endeavouros on my laptop i am considering switching to it on my desktop too, but am worried my cheap interface and... ahem... legit vsts might not work as well as in windows

The company I work at just hands out old laptops and expects you to buy your own shit if you want an ergonomic workstation.

I manage our IT and we do the same. For ease of use, cost, and productivity reasons it's just about the only sane option with Hybrid, WFH, field service work, and customer visits all being a thing. Unless you'd like to complicate your infrastructure with cloud PCs and terminals... Which also isn't always possible when you have latency sensitive server applications that the workstations need to talk to.

Same when we switched to WFH, though I've found for 99% of my needs at home I can use Remote Desktop from my home desktop and get all the ergonomics of that setup without having to mess with any cables. Only thing I need to use the laptop natively for is testing if our code is currently working with 4k/variable DPI displays properly, as all my monitors are 1920x1080/1200.

Yeah that's how we do it too, all the developers have nicely specc'ed MacBook 16" M1's or a powerful windows laptop and our office has screens with keyboards that you can plugin with 1 USB-C cable. And you get a stipend to setup a home office so you can work comfortably there. I think this is the best of both world, because of the nature of our work we are also required to work/develop at clients so workstations would be out. But well spec'ed M1's are all the power I could ever need for development (unless you do AI or something). I have a top of the line gaming PC at home and a dock for my macbook that uses all my screens and it's great not to have to work in the cloud or have two machines you need to keep in sync.

Nah workstation and laptop as thin client. This is the way

2010 laptops are still insanely powerful for their size. The only thing they are not good at anymore is rendering modern web pages and anything 3d accelerated graphics.

@@youtubeenjoyer1743 yeah. God, webpages are incredibly bloated these days.

Depends. Once program compiles six minutes on Ryzen 5900X and slightly over hour on i7-7500U laptop (six times less cores, older architecture and frequency), it's not practical if your time has some value. For programming in Python or Javascript it's different. If you can work remotely it's fine.

@@pavelperina7629 are you compiling the Linux kernel with a billion modules?

@@youtubeenjoyer1743 No, large scale C++ Windows application consisting of roughly 150 projects/modules dealing with control of electron microscope, drivers for some third party detectors etc. and application specific tools and automatic procedures. Most modules use Qt, some use OpenCV, Eigen, Google Tests, nlohmann json, ... but there are not even that many 3rd party libraries. Actually much smaller project with more external dependencies and poor structure can compile just as long.

Based

You can see my comment for more detail but be warned, this may fail spectacularly. Be ready for WiFi to not work (has happened to me on 3 different laptops and for 2 of my friends). Have a phone nearby to google problems and mess with the CLI to solve it. Consider plugging directly into your router if this happens while you troubleshoot

@@2raddude I have Never had any WiFi issues, just as annoying as It Works on my machine, bringing up a very specific issue had is also Just as dumb, and pointless.

@@2raddude Yeah I've had some issues before, put Arch on the last laptop I had once it started getting slow and the audio drivers didn't work at all (literally spent like a month troubleshooting them and nobody on the forums could help either lmao) so I have some experience troubleshooting Linux things - not too worried about it, worst case scenario I just divert to Ubuntu and if that fails then I revert to Windows and live with the ~slow~

Get ready for your battery life to be cut in half when going from Windows to Linux. It's nuts

I mean, I understand you might be joking, but I thought I'd just say, these issues are really easy to fix (permanently). When they happen on Windows - they're difficult if not impossible (and often temporary).

On the bright side, it could mean 200 million fast and cheap Linux boxes.

Way back in time. I'd get pallets from biding on Compaq's from Las Vegas casinos when their leases where up. I cleaned and upgraded what I could. Compaq had the best service system till HP bought them and killed it off. Today they all want you to buy new and waste the old. Loaded them with CP/M. Gave them to elementary school my sons went to.

Considering there's people in the wild still using Windows 7 and business still using XP mechines I doubt they'll all flood in at one time. Windows 7 just finally lost support from steam since chrome stopped supporting it. And rather than switching to something like Linux Mint they're going out of their way to downgrade and block Steam's update lol.

@@trayvibez399 yeah, I'm sure there are also plenty of Android 4.x phones in use in developing countries where people can't afford to upgrade. All ending support will do is lead to a bunch of vulnerable devices in widespread use.

@@trayvibez399Imagine a country where the vast majority of its population uses an operating system with an ever-increasing number of vulnerabilities that will never be patched. Why aren't any governments viewing the sunset of Windows 10, the (unfortunately) most-used operating system in the world, as a threat to national security?

love Linux but am still learning how to not fuk everything up like never screw up when using rm command I tried using it to remove a backup file I did not want but my PC was zero byte at the time an now most my dowlaods files won't show up XD woops

@@senritsujumpsuit6021 There are utilities that use the trash concept you're probably used to from graphical file browsers to give you a safety net. I'm using one called 'trash' on macOS, but a quick web search lead me to 'trash-cli' for linux which seems to be similar. Then you can use this command instead of rm (or you can alias it if you want).

Just need Adobe software to work as well on Linux as it does on my M1 Air, then I’ll switch. (I use Premiere and Lightroom)

The biggest issue with Windows for me are the ENDLESS updates. Every time I turn on my PC, it starts downloading updates in the background which kills my performance.

@@abdelkarimouzzine5671 Are you bound to Adobe Software for work? If not there are good alternatives to them that are also free.

Ha! Sorry about that, the current meta on youtube is to rename and re-thumbnail your video a few times as views tail off, to get folks who didn't gel with the original title, so I renamed it to this one. In a few days, I'll rename it back to the original title, I prefer it :-)

And now that internet speeds have improved so much, it's possible to stream high quality video and interact with your desktop remotely through software like Anydesk and Moonlight. Networking is quite possibly the least recognized area of computing advancement for the average user.

Chromebooks slotted into that niche of a 'light work' laptop so nicely :)

Owning 2 computers and syncing them is a gigantic PITA, there’s almost zero reason to use a desktop today, if you want lots or ram and storage just buy a pc laptop

I'm typing this comment using the same desktop I built back in 2012. It's still running perfectly fine. Over the years when I noticed performance was slowing, swapped out the hard drive with an SSD once they came down in price, a few years later I added some RAM and replaced the graphics card with parts I got from friends for free, and a few years after that I replaced the CPU cooler. How many laptops would I have run through by now? At least two. Hell I started my job in 2018 and I've already been through 3 laptops there and I'm about to get my 4th.

@@DigitalNomadOnFIRE This is what I think too. But for me, portability is incredibly important and a desktop setup will not let me have that.

There's also loads of very expensive industrial-use software, like many CAD programs, where the developers just flat out refuse to support Linux because they believe there's no market there.

@@Lttlemoi Sometimes they did, for longtime, then dropped it for development cost reasons. Siemens NX was available on Linux, i.e. I regret they just used TCL/TK for its interface instead of Qt... In someway, they kept publishing NX for most Unices on the market, Darwin included (so yeah it was available on Mac too !).

@@Lttlemoi Absolutely; among a bunch of other things I do e.g. security print design as well as type design, two rather small industries that both use (sometimes decades old) software (the type community is more modern though) like Excentro (Mac only; $500) or Glyphs (Mac only; $200). Funnily enough these two examples are exclusive to Mac, so the classic Linux-Windows dilemma actually has a lesser known sibling, particularly for the various design industries.

It's funny how, in the academic world that I live in, this cuts in the other direction. A lot of our legacy software was originally written with the assumption that it would be running on some Unix-y system, and Linux is the best way to get it to run now.

Plenty of software is in use where the software vendor doesn't exist anymore. Maybe defunct or maybe bought out or just canceled the project. So you get no software updates, no Linux support, what you have is what it is. Even if the product did support Linux, I've had terrible experience with Linux application compatibility. Upgrade your distro and any Linux software that isn't shipped with your distro will no longer work. Windows backwards combability has gotten worse lately but it still is way better than Linux.

Welcome! Glad we have the same idea, and if Windows works for you, that's fine by me! I wonder if I could interested you in another video of mine: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/mnqCnmesgqqf1qc.html

winget is also great

Also 99% of people don't need extra power offered by a desktop setup and many don't make the decision about their computer hardware, their employer does that.

SSH

@@DryPaperHammerBro not everyone has so great internet connection. When I'm on a train, I may have the absolute best workstation at home, but SSHing to it would work like garbage.

If you suggest SSH to someone who isn't already a computer nerd you've already lost. Hell, I am a computer nerd and that sounds like a terrible plan.

@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 I've been using computers in a pretty nerdy way since the early 80's, including various flavours of Linux and yes, it sounds a terrible plan for 99.99999999% of the users....

Yet MS and Apple still sells. I guess they are not good at advertising Linux at all

@@sepg5084Sadly linux is the best anti-advertisement for linux so it cancels out

@@sepg5084 MS is telling people how to install Linux. Only real problem are companies like Adobe that don't port their Software (that many bound to for work) over to Linux so that they run natively. That is holding many back to Windows or MacOS.

For me its when you had a stack of disk. 1st disk was compiler/linker the other 9 where Linux and basic applications. Took some time to get up and running. Only thing I did with windows was to do corporate support for clients. Now Linux is so easy to install for the every day user.

I love PopOS, I’m using it as a daily driver for my desktop. It’s mainly a programming / deep learning machine and I love it.

I'm really excited by nix and nixos, I try it out on a spare thinkpad every 6 months or so, and I get a bit further each time. One day I will be worthy!

One thing I like about NixOS is the ability to switch your desktop environment without much fuss, unlike other distros where you'll run into problems later on

you went from windows to straight for nixOS? I admire your bravery

True. It takes a lot of discipline to curate your packages against this. Even on Arch, it can be difficult to curate your own from-scratch desktop environment, but it's certainly easier than elsewhere @@magreev1111

can't recommend nixos enough, being able to temporarily install programs with no side effects is super nice, whether that's in your config or a temporary shell, it certainly feels a little jank but it's super nice

Thank you so much! It'll be 3 podcasts in a few weeks, I'm in post-production now www.spreaker.com/show/the-phosphene-catalogue

@NoBoilerplate seriously I wish I could learn to be as productive as you are... it's amazing

Is there a reason you felt it necessary to point out that your handheld was 'chinese?'

@@TheRogueX Didn't feel like spelling out which one, no other reason

Their roles are those in which people find them useful.

@@loganmedia1142 The point is the role companies advertise and the the role the product properly fulfills is not necessarily the same . Your "gaming laptop" will become a Word machine in short order if it has poor thermals and shit design that cripples the hardware. Companies have to design and market their product around a given role which cant account for every possibility of consumer use. And the role they choose to advertise is the one that makes the most financially feasible

I've just been using dropbox. It integrates with your filesystem so at work I just save my files in the dropbox folder and I can open them at home no problem

@@FalconFlurry There's something to be said for taking your work with you and saving state. Now I'm 100% WFH so it's not an issue, but at one point I had an identical dock/monitor setup at home as I did at the office, and I could plug my laptop in at either location and resume working with even the cursor exactly where I left it.

Nice! Check out Surge XT and Bitwig too!

Wonderful! Reaper and Bitwig are just incredible!

Any particular reason a video guy has to type away something in a programming language instead of actually filming and editing video? I'm doing media production for 20 years exactly because I'm functionally unable to tie the task algorithm to the language syntax. Also, you Rust knowledge will turn into rust in 2..3 years. From my experience with programmers (they often call me and pay me because they actually can't into proper video and sound), the only thing that isn't changing and there is always a demand, is C. Just plain old C. And I just can't devote myself to turning into a full-blown software developer - I won't have any time to do the job I'm paid for and I like much more than just rotting away in front of a home computer display. Yes, I actually like to do camera work and do streaming. Yes, it involves computers. Yes, there is even some Linux out there (with web interface), and I set those Linux things up myself. BUT DON'T TURN A CAMERAMAN INTO A CODER!

I don't know what you do but I used Reaper, then switched to Ardour and I never had a need to go back to any of the other programs. I began when Fruity Loops was Fruity Loops, Audition, Cubase, Reason, Live, I am missing some software from Sony that it later changed its name, then I ended up using Reaper, then tried a Linux, tried reaper, then Ardour and 5 years later I'm still using ardour in Arch and to get it all you have to do is install Arch Linux as your OS and then: sudo pacman -S ardour. Oh...check compatibility of your interface, I have a Tascam US 1800 collecting dust for the past 5 years

@@IgnatSolovey In no way was I suggesting that shifting to Linux or pursuing the ability to program is a requirement for doing digital media production, only saying that I and many others media creatives I know have enjoyed that journey. For me, constantly learning new computer media tech has been extremely rewarding and enjoyable career path that let me improve my workflow and automate many tasks, teach computer media production at an art college and build new software tools to enhance the 3d animation lab, and even develop and sell production software that helped other editors and videographers in their careers. In short, all the effort has paid off in much more freedom of choice and control over my tech, especially in all the Linux / FLOSS advantages. Looking forward to continuing to learn and grow and contribute more tools in the future, which learning Rust will definitely help me do!

@@arxaaron in my nightmares only I'm willing to exchange a camera for 3D animation. I'm living online since the age of 13 (of 42), and I'm with a computer since the age of 10 (most of the time I found gaming boring, by the way, and still do). I can build and configure a network, assemble and troubleshoot a PC, install and configure any software, turn a manuscript into a proofread book illustrated with photographs and vector graphics (PDF ready to be industrially printed, hard cover and all), and many more things - but 3D and programming were NEVER fields I am willing or able to venture to. I can't do 3D and software development. Maybe it's psychological, maybe my lifelong problems with math beyond basic equations. By the way, I found your github empty...

Ventoy changed my life omg

or a dozen random isos you keep around. Also still functions as a general storage device funnily enough

Works for Windows too. Installer and pocket-version always with me.

Horrible, if you don't run it on your own (hardware). You're not only depend your desktop on a mega-company but also all your data and access to it (!). Yes, Microsoft can just vaporize all your data for minor violations against their "guide lines". And yes, there have been people visited by authorities because their wife synced her phone with pictures of their child to Azure.

We're actually already doing that with LLM's. Even if you can get your hands on the actual model, those things require some very beefy hardware. Plus, unlike that failed attempt at cloud gaming from a few years ago, AI is a workload that actually lends itself to being offloaded since you're fine with waiting a few seconds

@@kalebbruwer I don't think if the cloud gaming was a failure. I had geforce now and it was greate. would definitely use it again

The issue I have with that is so many travel locations have terrible connections, planes, cruise ships, public wifi, very low upload speeds especially can cause VPN issues.

how about mini pc? small, mobile, upgradable and powerful. A power plug is almost everywhere these days so battery is not a problem. Well actually I'm thinking about owning nothing and just borrow someone else's computer LOL

I came for the package manager, but stayed for the rice!

Thabk you for telling me, yeah a few people have pointed that out - I wonder why they did that? Pianoteq is life! Native Linux vsts always get my money omg

Honestly, the whole rtx 40 series is a complete joke with its names and prices

The RTX40 series is optimized for laptop applications because that's where the money is. You can game on an RTX4070 with zero throttling on most gaming laptops. They're pretty good. The 'joke' is when you compare against RTX30 series on desktop. Desktop gamers got shafted but mobile gamers got a huge upgrade. @@aylim3088

@aylim3088 Not sure what was the point of the RT 4030 card. Raytrace is meanless at that low of a spec, and it doesn't compute enough to make it a compelling value to similar tier 30 series

@@Demopans5990 A way to use bottom of the barrel silicon that's binned so poorley that it should have just been scrapped instead? "Just cut it down till it works, those suckers will buy anything!"

or Manjaro

Or Pop!_OS

Linux is free though, so not really a commercial :D

@@G-ra-ha-m free stuff can have commercials as well.

@@WannaKnowMyName Adverts :D

Yes, to bad! Casually skipping all the con's...

Did you read the title? 🤔

Had that problem with Fusion 360. I moved to OnShape. Never came back

It's kind of the chicken and egg scenario: many apps aren't offered on Linux because (comparatively) few people use Linux. Few people use Linux because there is limited software available. So the more people start using Linux the more developers are gonna pay attention and start making software for Linux

I'm so sorry that nVidia are harming your experience. You don't need a different distro, you need a hardware manufacture that doesn't have contempt for open source :-( I recently traded in my 2060 for the equivalent-benchmarking AMD card, and it was like night and day! nVidia is better on Windows, AMD is better on Linux. Sorry about that :-/

@@NoBoilerplate Yeah; it is a pretty big caveat considering the marketshare of both companies. One of my friends is upgrading her computer soon and will be giving me her current GPU, which I believe is an RX 5500. Still doesn't help my VR situation much, as I believe AMD GPUs struggle there, but we'll see. This is also something that's only comprised maybe 5-10 hours of my troubleshooting on this machine. Most everything else was resolved, but boy was it a struggle to find out what was going awry, even sometimes stumping those on forums and the Discord server. Even though I'm a full-time developer, there's lots of little hurdles to overcome on Linux I often don't have to on Windows, and while the same is true in reverse in some scenarios, it definitely crops up more often.

General Nvidia GPU compatibility on Linux is not ideal, and they've been at this level of half-baked for such a long time that they were actually better than AMD GPUs back before the open-source AMD drivers were created. They weren't better then than what they are now; it's just that AMD was so much worse in comparison, and also, Wayland wasn't a thing, so technically their conformance to the Linux graphics stack was more complete before. What I want to get to, though, is that X11 (which is the only option available on the MATE and Cinnamon desktop environments) has always had problems with vertical sync. So, that is why I suggest you try a Wayland compositor like KWin (KDE Plasma) or Mutter (GNOME), where vertical sync is a fundamental property of the protocol (which has actually made some gamers angry as you can't disable it to allow tearing unless your app supports the tearing protocol, of which there are basically none, but I digress). As times have changed, AMD GPU compatibility on Linux has long since surpassed NVIDIA GPUs, especially regarding Wayland specifically. However, I don't want to be the guy to say, "Just buy AMD," which is why I want to highlight that Nvidia drivers have still improved a lot lately. Both KWin and Mutter seem to run fine with Wayland and should be more than sufficient for just video playback to a TV.

IMHO Linux Mint is the distro that Just Works, I don't know why are advicing against using it, as it solved driver problems and you could use up-to-date software (unlike more user-friendly ones, ahem-ZorinOS-ahem) where things are getting fixed. But yeah, Linux requires you to be able to maintain it. I want distro like ChromeOS - fast, simple, unbreakable.

@@saiv46 I was a Mint diehard for a number of years in the early-to-mid 10s. It Just Worked when Canonical was getting all weird and experimental and sus with Ubuntu. But it went through a period of stagnation around the 16.04-18.04 years (on the ubuntu side) and other distros leapfrogged it. These days, I'd suggest Pop for a new linux user who wants things to Just Work, or Xubuntu for a power user who wants the GUI to be as small as possible but still be useful. I gather that Mint has started offering a build on top of Debian. That might be a good alternative to Pop, depending on what a user wants to do. It updates very slowly, but that can be a good thing if you prefer stability over cutting-edge.

geforce now works GREAT for me, all that is required is a chrome browser. They've got a free tier to test out, too!

Wonderful!

My two problems with MacOS: 1. The insistence on not using the same standard for keyboard shortcuts as Linux and Windows. Mac-key + s rather than Ctrl + s breaks my muscle memory. 2. You have to buy and use Apple hardware in order to use it.

@@c99kfm The shortcuts I get. It also bothers me when I switch between mac and windows, but what's your problem with the hardware? Aside from the ridiculous premium they charge.

​@@alextheshinymonkey First of all, check out Louis Rossmann's UKposts channel, he'll tell you all about why Apple hardware is not something you want at all, regardless of premium costs. Second, that ridiculous premium is a big factor. Third, as is touched upon in this video, how you cannot upgrade your systems if your needs change or aren't met is a big turn-off. Fourth, sometimes I just want hardware to fit a specific use-case not available through Apple. A form-factor, thermal envelope and/or gaming performance just not available in that combination from the Apple-store.

@@alextheshinymonkey Maybe the fact that their hardware is the most consumer unfriendly pile of garbage to ever exist? Try changing your SSD, RAM, CPU, GPU, Display or whatever else. And then they have the audacity to charge you such an enourmus premium for it.

@@lonelypotato3001 You can't upgrade any of the components, I get it. But they are good components. Their target audience isn't tinkerers who want to build their own PC. Most people just want to buy something that works and stick with it for as long as possible. If you want to swap parts and mess around with your machine please don't buy apple, but aside from that I see no downside.

custom pc build: ryzen 9 with 64GB ram and 2TB m.2 ssd for less money than an entry-level macbook air m1. Though if you're not comfortable building yourself, the mini pc in the first part of the video is INSANELY fast.

Something like a NUC might be an option. You could screw it to the VESA mount holes, but it takes up so little space anyway I have trouble finding whenever I move. (I also keep misplacing the external DVD drive because it looks just like a CD jewel case.) The inside of a NUC is mostly empty space, like the demonic button enclosure in Button, Button, so it cools well.

@@shaggygoat NUC's are slower and less efficient than laptops, but much cheaper to start with. I mean, sure you can get an external gpu, without losing that much money, but the bottleneck for the external gpu would be too much of a hassle unless you are willing to do it.

@@nushia7192 Hehe. Strapping a GPU to a NUC sounds as perverse as using OpenGL over Ethernet (as it was originally designed).

Same, I remind myself to poke around every now and then, and find entire new ways of using it each time!

Reaper is not Logic or ProTools. If you are working in a professional audio production environment, you need to use industry standard professional tools. Reaper ain't that.

Ardour is pretty nice, too. I came from Protools on macOS and don’t miss it.

@@gcvrsaThat depends on the type of production you're doing. I've been doing different types of music production, but not film scores or things like that. Over the last 20 years I've tried Reason, FL, Ableton Live, Reaper. Mostly been using Live (for live gigs) and Reaper (for mixing/mastering/radio production). When you're not doing many things video related, plus not receiving/sending projects for collaboration, it all comes down to the tools that make you most productive and efficient. Had a chance to work several times with Cubase (got an LE version long time ago with audio recorder), Logic and Pro Tools, but that's not my thing (either didn't like, or they didn't fit my workflow, style of thinking). At the end of the day, the only thing that matters is the end result. I heard that there are some scripting capabilities in Logic too, but since I'm not using Macs anymore, didn't even bother to do a proper research on that. Anyway, just wanted to say that from all the DAWs I tried, Reaper turned out to be the most customizable + built-in scripting capabilities are amazing (from my perspective and personal flow). Tools are just tools :)

I can only apologise for having very good ideas :-P

@@NoBoilerplate i would've done the switch a long time ago, if not for the fact desktop linux sucks massive ass. like honestly, it's missing half the software i'd want or need, it's terribly optimized for battery life on laptops, every single distro i've tried feels opensource in the worst possible sense of the word, it has incredibly poor touchscreen support, and no, apt is not the ultimate way of installing software, since you still have to add custom repos to it, and good fucking luck finding anything. Installing drivers for bespoke hardware, that's not supported out of the box, sucks even more, than the rest of the experience, the way 'security' is set up is mind-bogglingly stupid for anybody sane, you're always one bug away from completely bricking your system, often the developers do it themselves with updates, and i could go on for hours. Every single time i tried switching, i ended up burning myself on it and ended up going back to microsoft, sadly. Also you've been using the wrong laptops, current gen AMD CPUs and Nvidia 40 series graphics are simply incredible in midrange gaming and workstation chassis. Take Lenovo Legion 5 Pro, MSI GP or even GT, select XMG stuff, or Asus ROG Strix Scar as an example. Yes, they still have around 200-230W of combined power limit on the motherboard, but the amount of computing power in there is probably equal, if not more, than an average Threadripper workstation from 3-4 years ago. Sure, bleeding edge desktop hardware is powerful, but whenever portability is of any concern, modern laptops are a miracle compared to what was before. Of fucking course cramming an Intel i9 into an XPS will yield no results besides overheating. But it will look good on paper, so the stupid consumers will gobble it up. And my policy towards Macs is that they *always* have to be purchased used, if at all. Issue with them is that their own silicon performs roughly the same across both laptops and desktops, there's just no point of getting a Mac Mini over a Macbook Air, unless it's going to be constanly plugged in.

I dev on a desktop these days and have done for over a decade. Only using laptops in consulting/mobile jobs.

One day I will be powerful enough for Nix and NixOS, I try it every year and get a little further! You might look at eGPUs - they work perfectly on modern linux for both gaming and ML processing, all with a single thunderbolt connector - what a time we live in!

I can recommend dual-boot with both Linux and Windows. That way, you can dip your toes into Linux without giving up a backup solution.

I'd recommend using KDE Plasma over Gnome through. And, if you're a little more experienced with tech, Arch-based stuff is better than both. You get a better package manager, up-to-date packages, the Arch User Repository for packages not in the main repo, and an amazing wiki for tweaks and workarounds, among other things

I'll second Linux Mint as the go-to for newbies. Or oldies, I've been using Linux since the 90s and Mint just doesn't get in my way.

and it has no proprietary snap garbage either, only flatpak and debs, amazing distro for newbies.

Mint isn't just for newbies.

@@gcvrsa I dont think anyone was saying such a thing, mint is a great distro for all skill levels, just in this case we are talking about recommended distros for beginners