As a software developer who works with open souce, Linux provides a richer experience and with certain distributions being light on resources as well . Another interesting use of a Linux bootable pen drive is recovering data from partially corrupted windows installations which won't boot or show the blue screen.

I think one of the biggest barriers to folks switching to Linux has to do with where people get their OS from. Most people get it on the computer they purchase. What do most OEMs install on their PCs? Windows, of course. If more hardware manufacturers released their computers with certain Linux distributions (like ZorinOS, or other very easy-to-use distros), I think more people would get exposed to how easy it is to use. People use their computers for browsing the web, checking mail, viewing pictures, and maybe playing some games. Most of what people use their computer for could easily be done in Linux, with a minimal learning curve.

I switched to Desktop Linux in 2014 from MacOS. I love it. I used Ubuntu 2014 to 2019. KDE Plasma from 2019 - 2021. Linux Mint Cinnamon since April 2021.

I found that the barriers of switching to Linux honestly dissolved quickly once I finally made the jump. It takes some time and adjusting your workflow for sure but it’s well worth it and there is so much great software available to fill in the gaps

Linux has been getting quite a lot of games (even AAA) in recent years, which surprises me given the fact it has few times less market share than macOS, which was weird before apple silicon became a thing.

the only trouble will be getting into linux for the fist time . if you use it and get used to it , theres no going back , unless you need that specific software thats not there in linux and is really important

One thing I think is 'lost' is where Linux was 'fitting' into peoples lives. Back in the 90's, we used to do 'Install fests' with older hardware where we helped people replace Windows and install Linux. Who were these people? Often you had your 'hobby' types but a lot of that was from people who just couldn't afford buying new hardware every time a new version of Windows came out. Folks that didn't want to 'throw away' that investment and still make some use of it. Sometimes it was just somebody who didn't even have a computer and had something 'old' given/donated. Aka: the rest of us we don't think about. So a lot of this was 'recycling' and getting something in the hands of folks that were 'left behind' in the "Intel givith, Microsoft taketh away" (aka: Intel would release better processors and Microsoft would release a new version of Windows that would 'kill' that performance gain... forcing you to buy new hardware.... if you could afford that... and end up right where you were... with a sluggish OS). Not everybody can just keep buying computers every few years and will keep what they have and know it won't support the 'next' version of Windows (hardware is fine, just not supported or will run awful on the next version of Windows). Back in those days, I used to have a side business and I'd go out to more affluent people business and homes and service their 'new' computers. I would ask folks if they had anything to recycle and often had a perfectly good, but older, system sitting in their garage and would be happy for me to take it off their hands. I worked with a recycler and if I that system was 'missing' parts and it was worth it, I'd put Linux with XWindows on it and give it away to people that had nothing and were left behind (would never be able to afford a computer). AKA: addressing the technology 'gap'. Generally, when a 'new' version of Windows came out, it meant that the 'last' generation of systems got really cheap. That's when I would pick up systems for myself 'cheap'. Even where I worked, those old systems were considered 'trash' and I could just 'ask' and fill out a form to just 'get it for free'. Fast forward, I was really excited when Windows 11 came out. Why? Because it didn't support systems without TPM and such and those system run on Linux 'perfectly' and much faster _but_ the demand wasn't there for them for 'Windows people'. So I've been picking up those systems cheap and helping folks that can't keep up with the Windows system 'churn'. A lot of desktop linux is in the 'after market'. I just helped 2 people spec out new systems that supported Windows 11 and they 'gave me' their old laptops after I got their files transferred over. I put Fedora Linux on the old laptops... runs better than it ever did on Windows.. and gave them away to 2 people who don't even have computer already or 'anymore' who can't afford to buy a computer. Generally, that 'focus' on Ubuntu is really no 'milestone' in the desktop beyond two things: One, it was a much improved desktop and two, it supported a lot of older hardware better so it quickly became a 'first choice' in the recycling distribution, usually the 'Mint' spin (because it was the distribution that 'worked' on an older system... I'd often try a few different ones on 'stubborn' systems to find one that would work). Talking about the 'after market' with linux isn't as 'sexy' as the 'latest and greatest' but that's really where a lot of desktop linux systems live (on recycled systems in the 'disposable' computer market place dominated with that proprietary OS... same with Mac's.... I've put linux on several PowerPC systems bringing them 'back to life' as well for people in 'need').

Thank you for such thorought and unbiased (as possible) description and explanation. You even mentioned topics that are not covered in the video, but at least named them so curious viewers can search for them.

12:30 wayland is not a display server, it's a protocol. mir is a display server that speaks wayland, typically desktops have their own wayland display server. So really it's just a desktop on either x11 or their own wayland display server

Fantastic video as always, thanks Gary. I would be very interested to watch a video on security and malware and the differences between MacOS, Windows and Linux.

The main thing I didn't like about Windows that doesn't happen on Linux at all: IN WINDOWS: Copying or Extracting large files between hard drives through the Windows Explorer stops all possibility of multitasking until the task is complete. IN LINUX: it has a much better task scheduler, you can copy or extract files between hard drives and still multitask in the background with barely any performance loss.

Basically Linux has been successful in every place that is not the desktop, and anything related to the desktop. Anyway I think it's slowly changing since 10 years ago, and now it's not hard to find people using Linux in the office or at home. It has helped some excellent apps also available natively for Linux.

I am very interested in watching more about Linux and hearing about the technical differences.

"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional ..." *proceeds to make one of the most important software of modern times* chad

Fragmentation is only a problem if you call Linux *an* operating system, in reality Linux is *a family of* operating systems You can start to see this with the direction elementaryOS took it, linux "distros" are really separate Linux operating systems. It just so happens that a lot of linux operating systems are interoperable to a certain degree

I work as a computer consultant, and often people give me older computers that have become slow and unusable with Windows. I recycle these Pc's by installing Linux Mint or Mate, and then I sell them for $100 or less. Every time I do this, I am AMAZED how well it loads drivers, how fast it runs, and how well the OS runs compared to clunky windows. 95% of the time, there are no hardware driver issues with soundcards, wifi adapters, webcams etc. This includes printers, when I set these computers up at home, Mint goes out on the network and finds my two wifi printers and installs them without any deliberate attempt by me to do so. So I would dispute your claim that Linux doesn't have a good driver library, in my experience, it has the best driver library out there!

It would definitely interest me to dive deeper as with more and more cross plattform applications and better UI support and so on the deeper technical differences might end up the major thing that will set Linux and Windows apart in the future

I've always used Windows at work so I'm most familiar with it. I've used several Ubuntu based distros, have a Chromebook, and had a Mac for awhile. If I had to pick 1, Windows simply b/c it is everywhere and has drivers for most anything. Linux is the most fun and can work as well as Windows once you learn it, Chrome OS has very limited driver support compared to a Linux Distro, and Apple always gets a low grade from me as it doesn't play well with others. That was a great video! Thanks

A follow up video would be highly appreciated, and thx for this one… ;-)

gary still for president :) 260k subs now - wow - i remember being here from the very start. info on side: installed windows 11 on a 7th gen i5 the other day without tweaking anything. seems like MS pedaled back a little bit. greetz gary - you rock mate.

"MacOS is only available on Apple hardware." -sent via Hackintosh

I enjoyed the trip down memory lane. I started out with Aegis/Unix in the 1980s and never thought there would be a use for multiple desktops.

I would have loved if you covered cloud / container based computing more. I really think this has been a big win for linux. Docker, WSL, VMWare, VirtualBox, etc.

Using Arch + Gnome best decision in my life, great video sir... :) I love linux

I'd love a part two to this

I would highly recommend having both. windows is far easier to use, but linux does a few things far better and can be less buggy sometimes. Bluetooth audio and printing work on linux. Some games work better on linux through proton then they do on windows.

Very good information. Thankyou!

I have a different experience with printers, especially when windows ages. a lot of old (e.g. industrial) printers don't have drivers for newest versions of windows and the old ones do not work. I have found that linux supports them out of the box and they work fantastic. that said, it's true that someone needs to do research before buying a piece of hardware to make sure it works well on linux, although nowadays things are much better than it was a few years ago. most stuff work out of the box and that's the beauty of it. there is still incompatibility with rgb on peripherals and some streaming equipment.

I'm really enjoying this history of windows vs Linux.. great video..

I think the Desktop and Graphics pipeline fragmentation is the single biggest problem with Linux OS. On the one hand, having choice is nice, but it is a nightmare for developers. It causes no end of problems. Everything from Vsync problems, poor/degraded performance (having to choose a GPU heavy compositor to get a decent modern UI and give up performance or gain performance w/o a compositor but deal with Vsync issues and no effects), Mismatched theming issues with Qt and GDK applications, further worsened by containerized applications (FlatPak, snap), Issues with real games, Like inconsistent light and dark theme icons and windows, the list goes on and on and on.

While attending Benson Polytechnic High School in Portland Oregon, majoring in Electronics, graduating in 1984, back when it was "normal", I was a Tektronix Explorer Scout in Beaverton. I was even elected as President since no one ran against me. We were exposed to Linux at Tektronix. You have done a masterful job of explaining 101 things about Linux I never knew. So I intend to finally try a usb stick. Do you have a video on which usb stick for Linux to get. Thanks.

Interesting video Gary! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👍😎JP

Great video! A very comprehensive comparison between the beauty and the beast - which is which is up to the user! Linux for those of us who want more involvement with the computing experience ,Windows for all the others. There is much to be gained thru familiarity and consistency. IMO most people don't really like change it takes them out of their comfort zone, hence, Windows maintains that experience.....Linux not so much.

I tend to have a Linux distro running on most of my computers almost by accident. I started with a duel boot, then a separate drive for gaming and music software. Eventually I was buying hardware that would be supported before I could get to work, and building PCs with AMD graphics cards. slippery slope. I always have a windows drive in my main computers (music one and gaming one). Rarely use them ... but they are there just in case I need to get something done, with a random bit of hardware a 'friend' brings over or there is a bit of software that has no equivalent.

22:29 we interested Gary! thanks gor the videos

Maybe I missed it, but I didn't really see any information on the base power/efficiency of the core OS design. Like if you were to take away everything from the gui to bundled applications to any application released. Which OS would be more efficient build a UI, functionality components and code applications for from the ground up.

16:50 drivers on linux are baked in the kernel, word is over 70% of the linux kernel is a driver So on linux it either works out of the box or it doesn't

Gary. Thank you so much for this video. I just built a speed demon computer for my self. But Microsoft thinks otherwise. So instead of buying a MS approved motherboard I’m strongly considering some flavor of Linux So can you do a video on security and the issues you mentioned at end of this video. THANK YOU 🙏

My i7-8650U NUC runs Win10. My Qualcomm 7c ECS QC710 runs Win11. My Pentium Silver N600 MSI Cubi N runs Zorin 16 Core. Looking forward to the Raspberry Pi 5. Will probably run Twister OS (or Android). Gave my Chromebook to my daughter for her school work (she loves it, I didn't).

Switched from Windows to Arch earlier this year, was a bit of a learning curve but well worth it.

I think you jumped a little elegantly over the "its familiar, which means its compatible" thing. MS super power has always been that it had some compatibility for software made for earlier versions. This is not only about familiarity but also about technical support in ABI and API. Until the arrival of Flatpak and Snap, there hasn't really been anything like that on Linux or even Unix. So I think you could have mentioned that.

Windows has very good support for Raspberry Pi. People allowed people to install Windows 11 to be installed. Which I think its cool. Windows is needs more resources and tends to be slower than Linux but if the Raspberry Pi can run it. Thats awesome for a £70 computer that was made to run Linux or FreeBSD. :)

I dual boot - run Linux for work (engineering) and Windows for games. I used to run a hackintosh and really love the MacOS desktop environment - I would love it if someone rebuilt the MacOS DE for Linux verbatim. Gnome 4 is making strides in terms of UX which gives me optimism

I think your comparison is not fair on some points: 1.) GUI: First there are many more ways to program GUIs on Windows. You can use QT and GTK too for instance. I always find the Microsoft documentation of Windows APIs completely incomplete and not open in any way which makes it way harder to do stuff on Windows. There aren't even man pages guys! 2.) Fragmentation: Sure there is not a wide fragmentation in Windows but that's because it's essentially only one distro/desktop equivalent to Linux distros/desktop and users simply don't have a choice. I would not frame that as an advantage. Also, many Windows users don't even know there is a different choice (Sumatra vs AdobeReader for instance) and they don't have the urge thereby, but sure there is. My Windows setup was completely different to many peoples Windows setup for instance (used Chocolatey only, disabled many core functions like MS Store, Onedrive, used almost only foss applications like SumatraPDF). 3.) Drivers: That's simply not true. The open-source drivers for AMD cards are superior on Linux. Especially those crafted by the Mesa Project. Also, I always had troubles getting printers to work properly on Windows on wide range of hardware and software on both sides (Windows 7-10, several printers). On Linux it's so much easier to setup HP printers for instance. There is an text installer that's foss (hplip). It will automatically set up fax, printer and scanner. Most of my printers I use, do not even require drivers to be installed. Like my Samsung printer. I just connect via Wi-Fi direct, and scanner and printer are simply found and added automatically to every dialogue used for scanning and printing in consistent manner. This is true for many more products where I don't have to install drivers via CD or download fishy drivers via the internet with bunch of bloatware and advertisement like the Samsung drivers on Windows. The only problem on Linux is to know the right packages to install which is a breeze on Arch with the superb Arch-wiki or Ubuntu where everything is preinstalled. Wi-Fi was a pain for me though to be fair but nowadays, it's not an issue any more I feel because you can just buy Intel AX200 and that works. I even fixed some driver issues of the AX200 by chatting with the Intel support, which was up streamed to the Linux kernel. It's mostly ignorance and pure incompetence of the companies and people if there is no Linux driver. Like Nvidia always does something weird and stupid on Linux. Just stay away from Nvidia. Stupid company, pushing odd proprietary technology like CUDA and thinks it gets away. 4.) Gaming: Steam is available for Linux too, what's the point? Epic can be installed via Legendary. Anti-cheat is a problem but indie-games (which were the better games the past years) work flawlessly and even big and new titles like MH Rise work perfect or even better on Linux.

Nice video. I moved to Linux after Windows 11 came out and said you need an M$ account to even use the system. Then I started having issues with my games just crashing and not working. Under Linux (with Lutris) my games just work and my emulator (PCSX2) is faster and I can just use my system without it phoning home to Microsoft and thrashing my CPU with updates. Linux has better performance than Windows. Sure Adobe and Microsoft Office aren't available, but I can make due with GIMP and LibreOffice. Plus side? I no longer have to pay Microsoft and Adobe north of $15/month for office software anymore.

Agreed with almost everything said and especially had a chuckle about 3 friends running different versions. Very true. Where I differ slightly is the hardware support - having run Linux for about 14 years, I have seldom run into hardare support issues. Virtually all of my hardware has been fully supported over the years. Whilst there definitely is less support for Linux compared to Windows, I don't think it's as bad as it used to be in the past. That being said - I do check Linux support before buying and only once or twice have based purchasing decisions based on lack of support. Regarding fragmentation - It's a double edged sword. Ultimate customisability, but can be confusing to newcomers. As a first time user, I totally understand the bewildering choice which could be off-putting. But, the the longer I've used Linux, the more I found that I predered to customise it the way that I wanted and gravitated towards the lighter/simpler versions. At the moment I'm using Mint, but would be happy with Arch from scratch. On my Pi, I built a customised setup with Pi OS based and IceWM to be super lightweight.

*Nix System: No key-logging, no data collection, no pay-for-play subscription services, no ads in the file browser, no watermark on your desktop, complete freedom and privacy, powerful utils installed already, thousands of free programs of every kind etc...

You're great Gary!

Slight inaccuracy: LXDE is not based on Gnome, but on GTK+. GTK+ (at least originally) meant "Gimp Toolkit", as it was the toolkit created to develop Gimp (GNU Image Manipulation Program).

Wow Great stuff Garry . very nice video

Hey Gary, I am eagerly waiting for speed test g of new Qualcomm chip.

Having used Linux since v1.2 Caldera in 1995 (28 years), the drivers situation is vastly superior than any time ever before. It supported my ZenBook S13 natively except for the speakers. Windows 10 struggled with wifi + nvme at the start.

Isn't Mir now a compositor for Wayland?

I'm pretty sure there's a way to run some of adobe or ms office things on Linux though (through things like winapps).

I have a core i3 in my laptop and I run Windows 11 just fine. There's a registry entry you have to make too enable your system to upgrade to Windows 11 on an unsupported processor but it's an official Microsoft workaround you can get instructions for how to do it from Microsoft themselves so it can be run it just makes no sense that if they were going to release a workaround for it why they didn't just make it where it could run on those processors without having to go through the hassle

It isn't that common but there are cases in which there are no drivers for windows. Well, or more common when the software used to work on Windows but it doesn't anymore or it's just a PITA to make it run again. I had a case in which I wasted a night compiling old software and it still was stuff missing.. then I just popped in a stick with Manjaro and installed it on a partition on the computer of a family member, installed a cli tool that interacts with the the device from one of the standard repos and just did the stuff I wanted to do within five minutes on GNU/Linux...

A decent comparison of windows, linux, macos, android and iOS please. Thank you Gary.

Gary one of your better overview videos. 👍

9:95 not true, you need a zen+ CPU which is the 2000 series. The zen2 series are the 3000 CPUs.

Regarding drivers. I once got the news that Linux' drivers for printers improved and when I tried connecting the printer, to my surprise, it just did. When I pressed "print" it did. What caused my biggest surprise is that this same (hp) printer hardly worked on Windows, if I was lucky. Graphics drivers have come a long way. Old hardware is better supported on Linux period. Many devices work out of the box whereas on Windows I often need to find some driver on some shady website with a theme from 2002 and hope it works and isn't a virus. Only for some really obscure hardware you may find issues, but these days I'd say Linux is at least on par on the driver front if not better.

very balanced comparison.

It's amazing how far Linux gaming has come. I can almost blindly buy DirectX 11 (DXVK) titles and they will run OOTB. Biggest gamebreakers are DirectX 12 (vkd3d) titles as vkd3d is not as advanced as DXVK yet and of course titles using EAC and the like anticheat software.

Great Video, please do the "There is More!!!"

Windows11 now requires a microsoft account btw , it is like microsoft is trying to drive users away. I have been running Linux since 2005 - Slackware Linux, still using Slackware today.

As someone who had a Vista computer as a teen, I got to watch as Vista did hit its stride after it stumbled off the starting line, but it really seemed like MS moved swiftly along to 7 just as that finally started to show.

as a linux gamer i can tell you that windows programs have little to no issue running on the 4 linux distros i checked, maybe one or 2 got glitched but that can be fixed by trying other emulator since raw wine is not the only one, meaning that saying gaming is worse on linux is not a right statement just because some games aren't native, they run as well and most times even better on linux than on windows even if its not native

Why I use Linux: It's been a long time since I've used Windows, but I vaguely remember being nagged to buy Microsoft Office. I remember being forced to sign up for a Microsoft account. I remember every time I bought a new computer, I had to spend several days deleting bloatware. On my Android phone, there are apps I want to delete that it won't let me delete. None of those problems exist with Linux. It comes with a culture of free, open source software, and having complete control of your computer. I'm never nagged to buy or do anything. I'm not prevented from doing anything. Even if my version of Linux does something I don't like (like Ubuntu starting to use Snap packages), I can always switch to a different distribution of Linux (like Arch, which is my current plan). I started using Linux around 2008 (dual booting with Windows). After several years of that, I just deleted Windows entirely. I don't miss it. I was using Quicken money management software, which I had to give up, but it was a small price to pay for what I got in return. I don't play games. I mostly use the Firefox web browser, LibreOffice for word processing and spreadsheets, and Emacs, Vim, and VS Code for amateur programming. I've done programming in Python, Racket, Haskell, C, C++, Julia, Java, Rust, and Go with no problems (except Java with Eclipse). I don't try to convince people to switch to Linux. That is different but just as bad as the nagging that I experienced when I was using Windows.

Ok, I'll take the bait. Firstly Linux is officially GNU/Linux with the G in GNU emphasided. G-NU. In a similar way it is G-NOME as the Desktop Environment. One area I don't think you mention where Windows beats Linux hands down is on spying and telemetry. Even deselecting all of the options and making various registry tweaks doesn't stop Microsoft phoning home. Another one is browser selection, for example I set Brave as my default browser in GNOME and every link, I click opens in Brave. On Windows I set Brave as the default and if I click a link from an Office doc, Microsoft says 'let me open that for you in Edge.... it's more safe for you etc.' Finally your assertion that Linux is unfamiliar means you haven't used those distributions that try to ape mac os, Windows 7 or even Windows XP. My sister who has just bought a new machine can't make sense of Windows 11, having come from Windows 7.

I use Arch BTW 🐸

under KDE desktop did you forget plasma mobile the version of kde for phones and small tablets

interested in performance, very much so - kind of a shame that wasn't touched as part of this video 😔

I had a Windows phone, I couldn't even get a Domino's Pizza app for the phone

Great video!

Yes let's talk about the information is prying from your PC. Windows for ARM - How many of the LIbs are available for ARM64? Is it probably easier to develop ARM64 software on Linux than Windows? Would it make sense with vehicles like wasm to replace the desktop with a browser?

16:10 - there are "only" 278 linux distros - linux desktops comply with an underlying standard

After buying a badly designed Win Vista Dell desktop in 2008 (a 160GB HDD with 40MB/s throughput) I dual booted Windows Vista and Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. After retirement in 1-1-11 I switched completely to Ubuntu and now I run Ubuntu 21.10 on OpenZFS 2.0. In 2008 I had small WiFi driver problems, but afterwards I never had driver problems anymore. I still use Windows XP for playing the wma copies of my LPs and CDs. They also play on Linux, but for some reason I prefer WMP 11 with WoW and TrueBass effects. I'm a collector of Virtual Machines, so I have all Windows versions from 1986 Windows 1.04 to 2021 Windows 11 and I have all Ubuntu LTS versions plus the first Ubuntu 4.10 version; my first Ubuntu 5.04 version and the newest Ubuntu 22.04 Dev. Ed. I have many more Linux distros, but I keep mainly the latest versions of Garuda Linux, Fedora 33 & 35; OpenSuse 12 &15; Manjaro; Deepin; Linspire; Zorin; Linux Mint; MX 21; Peppermint 7, 9, 10 & 11 and FreeBSD 13.0. I moved my Apps to VMs and the Host OS is a minimal install of Ubuntu 21.10, next month I will move to 22.04 LTS. My most frequently used VMs are Xubuntu 20.04 (runing always with all office stuff); Windows XP Home (Jukebox); Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Encrypted for Banking and PayPal with snaps for the newest Firefox and LibreOffice); Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Try-Outs); Ubuntu Studio 20.04 LTS (Multimedia); Windows 11 Pro (Just in case). My $349 hardware is a Ryzen 3 2200G; 16GB DDR (3000MHz); 3 ZFS lz4 compressed datapools. Those datapools are: - 512GB nvme-SSD storing ~15 VMs for 95% of all IOPs; - 2 x 500GB HDD partitions (Raid-0) on 500GB & 1TB HDDs (~9 power-on years) with a 95GB sata-SSD partition as cache (L2ARC/ZIL), 2 datasets; one with ~20 VMs still receiving updates and one with my data (music; photos; family videos etc). That last dataset is stored with copies=2, creating a kind of Mirror/Raid-1 subset in that datapool. - 500GB HDD partition at the end of the 1TB HDD with a 33GB sata-SSD partition as cache (L2ARC/ZIL) for all my archives and for ~30 VMs without updates. I have 2 backups of everything, one on my 2011 laptop (2TB; new HDD) and one on my 2003 Pentium 4 Backup Server (1.21TB on 2 x IDE 3.5" and 2 x SATA-1 2.5"; with 2 to 4 power-on years). Both PCs are used for 1 to 2 hours/week.

I started with WindowsNT then went to xp(still the best MSOS) where I played with Linux but it was a nightmare then. Stuck with Windows til win10 and just lost all interest in MS. Switched to Linux then and it had changed so much. Daily drive BigLinux with KDE Plasma and it was the best move I ever made. Things run great and fast and there’s nothing I can’t do here that I could in MS without the constant pop up asking my to buy antivirus software constantly bothering everything I’m doing. I couldn’t even uninstall the thing. Some people prefer MS and some have to use it for work or whatever but for me, I’m done with that mess.

Whatever. I use whatever is available. SBCs running various Linux distris, SBCs running WIN ARM, Chromebooks, Linux notebooks, Windows Notebooks, Macbooks, WIN desktops, Hackintoshes, Linux desktops, and a Dual Xeon Hackintosh Pro with 96 GB as my dedicated A/V machine. They are tools and I use the best tool for the job.

Antivirus on Linux/win dual boot systems?

19:32 There's a typo :) Relies instead of replies ;)

Hum... Cannot agree completely about the driver statement, professor Gary! YES, cheap wifi dongles usually have a weird chip on then and no support in the kernel, OR even if they are something supported those cheap manufacturers change the Ida and the system can't recognize it (I have one of those) . HOWEVER printers and scanners are so we'll supported lately that I can't remember last time my system just simply added the printer upon connecting it. So when the kernel supports the hardware IT IS HASSLE FREE. Takes some research before buying new hardware but in the past 10y I haven't dealt with driver problems. On Windows in other hand, manufacturers provide you with drivers and all devices have drivers.... However it's upon you to install it. Open hardware manager and resolve problems, keep them updated and etc. Much less of a good experience. And at work I see people constantly having problems with network printers that are served on Linux , even though I keep saying that buying a raspberry pi this purpose would be much better.

GPUs is a bit of a stretch, maybe on launch day you might have issues on occasion, but beyond that, getting drivers installed is fairly easy these days with native driver packages, hell it works out of the box with Pop!_OS. Now newish WiFi, on the other hand, can be a big pain in the ass, especially WiFi firmwares working with the driver. It's really a lottery as to whether your kernel is new enough or the firmware packages are in your distribution's software repository.

Seems like some major RedHat mile markers are missing from the history. In particular, when RedHat went public in 1999.

Every few months, I give Linux a chance in dual-boot config with Windows. Tried at least 10 different versions of Linux, being a different distro or different DE of the same distro. Diving deeper into OS mechanics is not a problem for me when I want it. From my experience, I can say that I always felt that I'm dealing with a product in alpha/beta status. Comparing to Windows, every single distro had problems right out of the box. Is it screen tearing, hardware monitoring apps missing great deal of sensors readouts, stubborn CPU governor plan resetting on reboot, monitor not going to suspend mode, or just changing preferences via provided and integrated graphical tools resulting with no response or very strange unpredicted behavior. My latest Linux adventure was with the latest Ubuntu Budgie and Fedora 36. Ubuntu software manager stuck on refreshing on its first run and Fedora refused to boot after a "wrong" choice of updates I choose. Yes I choose kernel update (among others) but I couldn't boot even by choosing the former kernel on boot screen. From the Windows perspective, this is not a final product. It is beta. I've run Win7 for several years then upgraded to Win10. It was year after before I decided fresh installation of a new version, not because problems but a principle that format-install is the best way to go for major hops. Having said that, I love the open source idea and I wholeheartedly support it. That's the reason I like to give a chance to Linux from time to time. But Linux is NOT a reliable system. Not because of its own logic but because it barely copes with Windows/Mac reality.

Purely for fun, for my first PC build, I didn't want to pay for Windows or use an unregistered version so I tried out Linux. Never gone back.

👍!

Gary, I forgot if you're a game developer. If so, what is it?

Being a 78-year-old, non-techie, guy I will stick with Windows even though I hate the monopoly Microsoft has. I tried Linux in Virtual Box using zorin OS core. I liked it and say that it was very much like Windows. Not only that, but I never even had to go into the terminal. But, when I tried putting it on my laptop using Ventoy I ran into a problem. Ventoy erased my Windows OK, but the Linux would not load to my hard drive, so I had to use it off the USB stick until I put Win 10 back on. Something about the partitions which is above my pay grade. Linux is great, but Windows just works for us non-geeks.

Can you do a video on Linux vs FreeBSD pls?

Can you please do a video on freebsd vs linux

Solus, Ubuntu studio, Zorin ❤️

I use Windows and Linux 50/50, and I couldn't be happier. I'm a programmer in the gaming industry, I work in Unity and Unreal, I also code and deploy custom linux-based servers. IMO it's pointless to argue which of the OS'es is best, as both are here to stay. If I'm coding a server or microservice, I use Linux exclusively, no one hosts on Windows. If I'm working on game code, I'm on Windows, exclusively, no one cares about desktop Linux.

20:40 this list can be shortened to "unfamiliarity, niche drivers and games" xd

Pff there's plenty of things where the windows driver is hot garbage or literally incompatible with modern windows, while the thing works just fine in Linux - LTT even mentioned a printer driver explicitly in their series on Linux! Personally I've got far more experience than I like with Windows requiring a magic text file to tell it to use _the driver provided with the operating system_ with a device that says it's that type of device - why??

Gaming on Steam has become pretty reliable on Linux. Everything I own works. Nvidia drivers have also come a very long way.

I use linux since 2003, Redhat 7.2 and Mandrake 6.xx. Then move to Ubuntu 8 in 2009, but I use windows for software development using .net. Miss linux since then but my family wont move from windows so.

I write my own software from time to time and linux or BSD is my preferred choice, although i've compiled a lot of shit with EMU too. Mainly because i was lazy in the moment or i didn't give a fuck, probably both.

7:18... not always... no windoes drivers for steam deck yet...

Linux compared to 25 years ago blows windows out of the water in many ways. It works wonders for older hardware too.

Happy with Linux - we are not going back to the delays, problems, costs, agenda and politics of microsoft. Windows 11 and it's lack of processor support on our machines was however, the main reason for the switch.