One thing you did for me Chris is that you made me more comfortable in the terminal and saved me from entering the vortex of distro-hopping. Thank you

@HShango

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I'm not afraid of the terminal anymore either (I love it a lot)

@mikeboatright5349

Жыл бұрын

@@HShango I started in the MS-DOS days so the command line isn't a big deal. The command line works really well once you get over it. I know some newer coders just out of college think it's going to be really hard to figure out but once they use it it's great for them.

@ahuman4386

Жыл бұрын

@@mikeboatright5349 Yep. Same here with started in MS-DOS 5.01 here. Went from DOS to Win 98 (skipped the 95 and 3.11 years but did some use on them, just not as mine.) After XP and 7 and now 10, I did get lazy and like the desktop too much and was "scared" of the CLI in Linux. But after using it more and more over the past year or 2, I do my updates and installs with CLI more and more and love it. Just something warm and fuzzy with seeing words and numbers and symbols fly on the screen as it is working that makes it so cool again. Like getting back to basics.

@orkhepaj

Жыл бұрын

so where did u hop last time?

Another way to say what you seem to be saying about Arch is “if the right distro for you is Arch-based, you don’t need a recommendation from a video” 😊

@soulstenance

Жыл бұрын

Very true. I just switched to Arch as a sort of 30 day challenge but I absolutely love it. You learn so much, because you have to. Mint is amazing but I felt like I was stagnating - not learning anything new.

@hellomiakoda3782

Жыл бұрын

LoL! My linux journey started on Ubuntu. I learned there. Tried Fedora, hated it. Used Fedora at my precious job, still hate. (I'd take Fedora over mac or windows tho!) Tried Mint, but I was too far in my journey for it when I tried it. Used Pop for a good while. It's basically Ubuntu with easier nVidia drivers. And now, my main PC, and my secondary, run Manjaro. I have a little netbook thing that couldnt run Manjaro in any useful way, so its got Linux Lite. But Manjaro is as close as Id like to get to running Arch. I'm just not interested in all the crap I have to do.

@soulstenance

Жыл бұрын

@@hellomiakoda3782 Sounds like quite an adventure! I've heard some dubious things about Manjaro that make me hesitant to try it, like expired certificates and held back packages breaking the AUR.

@williamhansen9456

Жыл бұрын

@@soulstenance When I was done with ubuntu I chose Pop over Manjaro for this reason! Appearently it has been a thing for quiet a long time with no fix. I hated the popshop app manager though and ended up with MX and it's a keeper!

@soulstenance

Жыл бұрын

@@williamhansen9456 Pop looks pretty sweet, though I haven't ever installed it. My only issue with the Pop Shop was the lack of version numbers on apps prior to installing them. On Mint this was invaluable as it helped me decide if I wanted the flatpak or repo version of a particular app. The Ubuntu/Mint/Debian repos often have egregiously outdated apps.

5:40 . I agree. I want System 76 to be there as well. I'm personally glad they didn't release pop os 22.10 in favor of finishing their own DE , and can't wait to try it they're finished.

@LuisCaneSec

Жыл бұрын

I'm excited about it and I really want them to take their time to polish it. I'd rather wait for a quality product than get frustrated with an unfinished promise.

@vaisakhkm783

Жыл бұрын

Yes really excited, if it is snapier,fast and have tiling.. i stop using twm :) hopfully they do that

@gwgux

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, I have PopOS on my laptop and I'm eagerly waiting for it to come out when it's done. Depending on how good it is, I may switch the rest of my computers back to PopOS.

@skillzset1066

Жыл бұрын

I run PopOS as my daily driver also. I was distro-hopping before that. I'm also really excited about the new COSMIC desktop. But I reckon, initially after it's released, you would essentially be stuck with the default experience that COSMIC provides, right? Because currently, I think Pop has the best implementation of GNOME, however, I still changed the theme, the icons, the cursor and much more. And since COSMIC will be a totally new DE written in RUST, I assume you won't have themes, etc. in the beginning until other devs begin designing COSMIC-specific themes, as they do with GNOME, right?

@mikkolukas

Жыл бұрын

PopOS! is unstable. I have had it dump me with a malfunctional boot after doing a standard update the UI advised me to do. *That* is unacceptable behavior of a serious distro.

Honestly, on 'the year of corpo linux': I got to say OpenSUSE has been absolutely amazing, and every distro from them has a reason to exist and lots of unique things, instead of just packaging a bundle of things on top of something else. All of them have YaST (for us GUI inclined people), snapshots with snapper and btrfd, the OBS and their brilliant security features to name a few: Tumbleweed is rolling stable, you get fresh stuff and awesome performance; Leap is stable and goes by point release MicroOS in its current form is awesome for docker podman kubernetes etc., and a very capable release for people who want a "immutable" OS - which some people seem to think is the future of the linux desktop. They absolutely do not have the mindshare of other higher level distros (like debian-buntu-min, fedora, arch) but have the same if not higher quality - not to mention you can trust SUSE to be around for a long time, same as Canonical and Valve and RedHat and Google, they may be smaller, but they DO have contracts to extend support for some of their enterprise releases for like, the next decade - and as they are listed on the german stock exhange we KNOW they have the capital and manpower, as their financials are regularly released - they employ around 2k people and in terms of revenue are groing like, 25% yoy

@larsradtke4097

Жыл бұрын

I use OpenSUSE for 15 years now. Before always leap versions, because I was afraid of tumbleweed. But since I got a new notebook in 2020, I found that the new drivers and the support for both graphics were only available with tumbleweed, I am staying with tumbleweed. Absolutely positive surprised how good it works. Only the amount of updates can be a lot of course.

@brolinofvandar

Жыл бұрын

Originally, it was SuSE, German company, and it's actually one of the oldest commercial linux distributions, predating any of the ubuntu based systems. First SuSE release was in 94. I've been using it since around 99 or so. Opensuse came about after SuSE was purchased, and was its community release (like Fedora to Red Hat). It was owned by Novell at one point, so it's no surprise that the distribution has some solid networking support, including nice graphical Yast tools to configure just about any of it. I look at other distributions every few years, but I always end up staying with Opensuse. I can see no improvement over it from any other distro I've seen. I use it on everything, including my home server.

@ADeeSHUPA

9 ай бұрын

​@@brolinofvandar SUSe or Slackware

@TheSilverFX

Ай бұрын

@@larsradtke4097 I unfortunately had problems trying to make my docking station work with Tumbleweed... Never found what was the culprit in all this. I reinstalled the system twice, but none of the install were providing me with the dual monitor setup working as intented... Other than that, it's a fantastic distro

I've settled on Fedora KDE after distro hoping a lot. I use Mint for about 10 years at home but my job is using RedHat with KDE so Fedora works better for me with tools and the command line. Also, Fedora is pretty stable and has newer tools for software development. My company is now starting to move to AWS so we will see if we keep RHEL or go with something different. I also use to use Ubuntu Server and then just installed a GUI so I had all the server related tools which is nice. Love the channel! Lot of good info.

@aneemesh7524

Жыл бұрын

iirc Amazon Linux uses yum so you may be at home there, or at least a predecessor of home

For a long time I used to distro hop like crazy, from Manjaro to Fedora to PopOS back to Ubuntu and then I stumbled upon Chris's videos. I took his advice and switched to Mint, really learned to use Linux. And recently I have switched to Kubuntu and it felt really reassuring hearing him also recommending it in this video, and so far so good. I think i found my sweet spot with a Debian based stable system with the customizability of Kde Desktop!

I've used bunch of distributions lke Manjaro, Kubuntu, Fedora, Arco and others but I'm glad for finally making my initial choice to stick with openSUSE Tumbleweed after long haul distro hopping. Much of the packages I find here are almost new, great stability, well tested before pushed to users and breaks less than a typical Arch and other bleeding edge distribution do. Prolly this would be plateau of sustainability, at least for my case unless there's massive jaw dropping distribution in next linings, I would settle with openSUSE. Kudos to their team for incredible workings, their engineering matches to the same standard as German automobiles like Porsche and Audis.

@abruenin236

Жыл бұрын

@Ryan Simmons Yepp, OpenSUSE is not the distro you use, if you want to look cool. But it is an excellent work horse, I use it every day.

Chris, you are spot on with this. I consider myself an intermediate with Linux, and I have Ubuntu installed on my other PC, and I use it when I need it (which silly enough it is for creating ISO USB sticks). I have straight Debian on my Main Computer in a VM for browsing. I use Debian-based distros because I feel like I am not pressured to update my system everyday. There is a lot of us Linux users that just wants something that just works and not feeling like we got to do so many chores with our distros. Overall, It is basically the same. only difference is how it looks and what programs and branch of Linux it is from.

I would add to the list of good distributions, Opensuse. They do a phenomenal work with YaSt and you get both flexibility of either going with a rolling or a stable release distribution. I have found that fedora has not so good experience on KDE whereas I never had any problems with Opensuse and KDE.

@shanewallace2460

Жыл бұрын

Opensuse is said to have the best implementation of KDE. As u mentioned, Opensuse is also a solid distro from Germany.

@sourabhuwusingh

Жыл бұрын

@@shanewallace2460 They also have corporate backing so it should be there on the list.

@gogudelagaze1585

Жыл бұрын

Yup, it's definitely one of the better distros out there imo.

@themedleb

Жыл бұрын

KDE? Go OpenSUSE Gnome? Go Fedora

@basilcat3111

Жыл бұрын

@@themedleb openSUSE devs are paid by SUSE to maintain gnome and gnome is the default in SLE.

Totally agree with everything you said in this video. However, in my EARLY learning days, I found it very informative to practice installing different distros and checking them out and learn to distinguish the crap from the gold and see the commonalities between them and eventually learn to see and work on the underlying core OS and be better able to filter out all the noise and fanfare. Thank you for the video.

@JeffWF73

Жыл бұрын

Wow that was painful to read and I guess the mouse was on an endless spinning wheel and couldn't stop AND. LMAO

@realhumanist71

Жыл бұрын

@@JeffWF73 Even with that, it was an interesting comment, unlike your snarky reply. In the time it took you to come up with that attempt at humour, you could have posted an experience or comment that was helpful.

I'm really appreciative of your channel, it's like a gateway drug haha. I think what I appreciate most is that you provide content that is non-patronizing, and that actively maintains accessibility or relevancy with people who aren't already tech-whizzes. Offering education for how people can get into these things if they so choose to is great. You also seem to have a high degree of understanding on whether extrapolation is helpful or not--meanwhile, a lot of other people aren't interested in being relevant to people still in the process of learning certain things, ooor they kind of seem to want to show off despite advertising their content for beginners, which probably puts them at risk of losing some of that viewer base. I think right now you seem to be the biggest net being cast; you're gathering people who don't know so much about coding or linux and are basically providing accessible, non-patronizing ways of getting started, but your content also seems to be relevant to people who already are familiar with these systems, too. It's so helpful. Thanks for everything you do!

On point. So many distributions, so little innovations and real customisations. After some distro hopping I find it the best to take the most basic thing (clean Debian, Arch, whatever) and customize it by my preferences. And it's the true beauty of it. BTW, great job dismantling the basic postulate of consumerism ;-) (8:30)

@runninginthe90s75

Жыл бұрын

Same here, i really hate Linux distros, they all the same shit but different skin. Not to mention the awful toxic Linux community who are bunch of toxic arrogant elitist talking crap about distros you use. Linux easily the worst OS to use, it was pure shit.

@Sherlock385

Жыл бұрын

@@runninginthe90s75 I don't hate them, there are some that are nicely balanced, like Zorin or Mint, even Manjaro, but I still find it the best to start vanilla and add what I prefer. And yes, the "community" can be toxic, but it' like everything else in life. I must say that I wouldn't go very far if there weren't good people that helped me along with their knowledge and advices.

@richardsinclair7661

Жыл бұрын

@@runninginthe90s75 Sounds like you either had a bad experience (or a few bad experiences), or your expectations for what using Linux would be like were misguided. I'm predominantly a Windows user because it's what I know best, but I've been dabbling in Linux for about a year now and it's been really fun. It is a bit of a pain sometimes, but that's Linux in general. If you don't like solving problems, or aren't at least indifferent to them, Linux isn't for you. Also, the community can be toxic, but it depends on the places you frequent. Most Linux users I've come across have been super nice. Especially on KZread.

I very like the theme of challenging your thoughts and exploring the flip side of the coin, i hope you will always stay strong!

Thank you! I love that you play around with all sorts of hardware and software. Even when you know it's going to be a subpar experience, because you learn something in the journey. Seriously though, Linux has a perception problem. The masses (the ones that even know what GNU/Linux is) think you have to be a programmer to use it and that's always going to be a problem unless, sadly, a large company does their own unified version that gives you just a little bit of personalization features. Because at the end of the day, people really only want to change some of the colors and maybe have a dark mode.

Godspeed Chris, and thank you for questioning and challenging my status quo with every video! I sincerely believe I've had the most concentrated learning experience in a long time over these last six months thanks to you.

i love endeavouros because it is mostly arch linux but with a proper installer where you get to choose what parts you want for me it is gonna be kde & after the install i add pamac & discover to it

@marnixds

Жыл бұрын

it is not easy, especially when installing via yay (many unknown options) but I like it as well.

@brookedoesstuff

23 күн бұрын

same, it also has some extra installed components that allow for more compatibility without needing to download and install them manually, which is nice for laptops

And I thank you for that. i think that's why I was attracted to your channel. I was just a year deep into my switching to Linux journey and you challenged me to build my own gaming centric OS based on Manjaro. You challenged me to keep my Windows skills sharp even though I hated it but, I still need to support it as it is a functional and popular OS. You then challenged me switch to Fedora and Nobara for my gaming needs. And now that I need to rebuild my laptop desktop as an Arch Update broke it last night, LOL . I'm accepting your challenge to give base Debian a try. You make all this learning fun.

i started with mint in jan 2019. the reason i moved to manjaro on my daily driver is because i'm more into photography and i couldn't wait for the updates to be available after half a year. however, i installed mint to many friends and they all love it. even some elderly people that never before used a computer. i have one mint running on a mini pc connected to my tv set. it's awesome.

This video reminded me of how I first loved Linux because I installed Ubuntu and Kubuntu (in 2010~) and was impressed by their wierd differences when compared to Windows. Nowadays, all of 'em converging to a single predictable style so distros don't even seem different from each other. I'll make sure to pick out the distros that have some good thought gone into it from now on 🙂

Andy’s Ham Radio is this a great way to do an easy introduce to simple users to tools for beginner amateurs

I'm using Opensuse Tumbleweed, if it wasn't for the lack of software and the NVIDIA drivers issue, it would be the perfect distro for everyone. The updates don't break like Arch.

I started on Manjaro, the first one had a broken GUI package manager, and I broke it by changing partitions, the second install just didn't work at all. I am now on Debian 11, it was recommended by the only other Linux user at my school. Also, quick question if you see this, would you recommend that I install Debian with server tools, or Debian with the DEs in its installer (knowing me, I will probably find a way to break it)?

Chris Titus is the reason why I use Arch today and haven't logged into Windows for almost a year now, and am very happy. You're truly making a difference. Love your work man.

Love your work Chris, only stumbled onto the Win10 debloate recently, then checked out you channels other videos etc you have done. Me now, have been on and upgraded with Linux Mint for about 4 years due to Win 10 anniversary updates messing with drivers and hardware not working. Mint just works, very little fuss, minimal issues. My spare laptop is Win10, still need it for certain apps and programs. I run Ventoy on a USB stick, I tryed out some different distros here and there, havent really felt the urge to jump to any particular distro just yet except to load a light weight alternate RPi project based like machine. I am learning more now as I go, even had a hand-me-down Mac for a while during covid to play with. Linux is where I am happiest.

ive used linux mint and it's the distro that has caused me the least issues on my desktop system. I don't see myself switching ever, the software compatibility is very solid, the stability is excellent, and the development team is admirable. If i want to test distros from now on, I'm just gonna do it on my extra 120gb SSD in my laptop.

@ahuman4386

Жыл бұрын

Same here! I may venture on other distros just to try but always come home to Mint as my daily. Love both Cin and XFCE DE's and how clean they are. Though I am doing more in CLI and I love to make that look cool. lol

@Evgen13Great

Жыл бұрын

I use LMDE now with Windows 11 dualboot, nice distro)

@m4kulatura

Жыл бұрын

oh hi didn't expect you here

@burgerchild

Жыл бұрын

@@m4kulatura yuhh

I have trialed every single Distro i could get my hands on, and that would load (I have a list of ones that would stop partway into the install) . I have had Mint on the same machine since version 14. I have discarded everything except for Mint, Kubuntu, Fedora and POP OS. I like Manjaro (when it works) If the OS works reliably, then it is up to the user to make it work for them .

@themedleb

Жыл бұрын

(when it works) lol

This channel was the one that really helped me recontextualize my understanding of desktop Linux. I love my Linux update news and whatnot but your often unique (and frequently contradictory) perspectives are some of the most thought provoking I have seen. Keep making us all think.

I totally agree with you Chris ! Your videos are really good to build up our mind about various subjects that are really difficult to understand completely. I also distro hopped for quite some time and I came back to my initial vanilla Debian, which is one of the two Linux types that deserves attention with RHEL stuffs (and maybe what Nix OS tries to provide) in my opinion. On the other side, I think you should make a video about *BSD OSes to completely tackle this (these ?) point(s). I personally tried FreeBSD, which looked fine despite some little hardware compatibily issues. My point is mainly about the "true" UNIX inheritance thing, its different philosophy about the kernel tightly coupled with its userland, licensing conflicts with Linux GPL... I was really surprised of how rock solid and well documented the whole thing could be and it might have some of the keys to solve the "too many distro" problem (which is a real cancer for the whole UNIX-like world that is really counter productive). I have no idea how you will be able to summarize this but it's a video I'd really like to see in order to continue my reflection about all this. They also have a nice community with some guys I'm sure you might like with their simpicity 😁. I also really like how you are able not to be tied to only one system with Windows and Mac OS content, which is why I think you might be that one guy that will be able to link BSD with the rest of your (good) work. Keep it up man ! Your content is really refreshing in our always more manichean and binary world 🙂

@soooslaaal8204

Жыл бұрын

>Started on Gentoo You've gotta tell me more, were you a Unix power user beforehand?

@MagikBoubou666

Жыл бұрын

​@@soooslaaal8204 I can't tell if I'm a "UNIX power user" but I like to know what my system is doing and how to maintain it in the long run. I also like to use everything I want when I need it. I use my computer to develop things, play video games, watch movies, emulate stuffs... so if using a versatile system makes me a power user so be it my friend ! I finally moved back to my plain old Arch Linux because it's what works best for me in the end. How is life on planet Gentoo ?

I definitely agree with this! Re-branding has to stop in GNU/Linux 😡

@NoNameAtAll2

Жыл бұрын

yeah, like adding "gnu" to already established name "linux"

@512Bytes

Жыл бұрын

@@NoNameAtAll2 If it uses the GNU tools is a GNU/Linux distribution, that's why Android and ChromeOS are not Linux distributions although they use the Linux kernel. Linux is just the Kernel, not the whole thing.

@slavyori

Жыл бұрын

@@512Bytes So Alpine Linux is not distro?

@ChrisTitusTech

Жыл бұрын

When I'm around elitist I like to call them out for using GNU/Linux and correct them with... SystemD/GNU/Xorg/Linux

@tanseby

3 ай бұрын

Saying making a fork of another distro is the wrong appropriate I think

Great video, I typically only go for distributions with something unique to offer. Started on Gentoo in 2009 which I ran daily for about 10 years before switching over to Debian for my daily desktop which I love. I agree that most really are just distros with slight differences. I wanted to like Fedora but dnf and networking is oddly slow for me. I typically recommend Mint/Ubuntu for most folk who want to start out. Arch I never got on with because I felt Gentoo did it better. NixOS is a great outlier with a surprisingly vibrant userbase

I know you like to customize your Linux. I'm just on the basics, Mint, and that works pretty good for me. I've got some other stuff running on pis, and I'm also in to the microcontrollers. I make it work without to much trouble. I still like these videos, because I should get out there and try to customize the environment much more, and these videos do show how to do that.

Hey Chris, just a quick question. How do you overcome keyring issues and errors when working with window managers? Since the keyring is the only thing that's holding me from using a window manager as the default desktop.

I make my own distro with Debian. Mint is awesome for new and advanced users.

@msinfo32

Жыл бұрын

Debian is great! Especially for compatibility too. Running under testing branch here myself and it's absolutely great.

@shanewallace2460

Жыл бұрын

Very true...Debian is rock stable and Linux Mint Debian Edition is noob friendly stability...

Linux nooby guy here, though I’ve dabbled in it since the 90s and currently have a Mint Cinnamon install running on my 5950x box. I appreciate this channel a lot for several reasons: You do a great job of “humanizing” the experience, you’re entertaining and easy to listen to, you know what you’re talking about, and so on, so it makes learning the subject matter a breeze and a good experience.

Two years ago I switched to Linux because I "wanted something different", and to me your channel was what made me challenge my self into learning what I could do with it, every day has been a learning experience, something new, something different, a new challenge for me to overcome and I can say for certain that your channel was one of the many things that helped me to just that. As someone said here on the comment section, your channel actually saved me from distro-hopping haha

Between yours and the French Linux Experiment channel - I really get my dosage of all things Linux :-D Thanks so much for continuing to take the time to publish this content and staying true to principles and ideals. I very much enjoy your take on most of the issues you take on. Cheers

Well you have a point and thank you because we are all here to learn. At the end of the day your system really determines what distribution you use really some will be great until the next update, some may not even boot up at all. What I would love is for developers to be more open with what is actually installed on the system and give users a choice.

@donaldmickunas8552

Жыл бұрын

If it is in the repository, you can install it. There is a fine balance between just enough software and too much redundant software (bloat). Some distros do give you a lot of choice during install. However, some find this too confusing while others love it. In other words, no matter what the developers do, they won't please everyone. Linux users tend to be even more picky than Windows and Mac users IMO.

@poseidon3032

Жыл бұрын

I would like more distros to be tailored to the specs of the system. Not just minimal requirements, but usable kind. If it has to be a basic window manager to run effectively, then so be it.

You are the person, who got me to try linux and stick with it . i use Pop-0s with kde , and also linux mint cin

Like Linus said on the Linux challenge videos, "most of the users wants a simple one way to do things and simply play the games", that's the reason most of distros are aiming to replicate the windows experience, but failing in the process when the desktop experience has it's flaws. I agree with the idea that developers must focus into create a cohesive and polish experience instead of building more distros and trying to reinvent the wheel. I'm glad that I found your channel and learning a lot of stuff that can be done into IT management and tricks that already solved some issues. Maybe isn't for everyone that wants to take a deep dive into terminal commands or taking the system that they're using to a next level. Still a red or blue pill decision.

@gogudelagaze1585

Жыл бұрын

The problem with this is that most projects seem to have people in charge that have egos the size of small planetoids. Certain Gnome devs come to mind, as well as Canonical regarding any tech they didn't write. And if you REALLY want to get people pissed off, perform a deep dive and analysis of the available UI frameworks or packaging systems from an application developer's point of view. hint: You'll end up saying Electron/Tauri/Flutter are far better than any native alternative. Then try to explain your findings to the userbase that keeps complaining about people using said frameworks and get based by 70-80% of people. The only people that will agree with you are other application developers (and Linus Torvalds himself, lol) IDK why, but the community itself has a very self-defeating mentality.

@Sumire973

Жыл бұрын

@@gogudelagaze1585 And then we have other non-Linux operating systems, like FreeBSD, that use the same UI frameworks, desktop environments, and display servers, the FreeBSD team is aiming to remove any GPL components from their base system, and if they start to focus on the desktop, they will have to reinvent the wheel since both QT and GTK are GPL toolkits..Because those operating systems share many of the same technologies and things like freedesktop specs, it will end up with the result that they will always influence each other and it will be impossible for the community to stick with one choice anyway. When PC-BSD/TrueOS died, Lumina Desktop was ported to Linux and the remains of TrueOS were moved to Project Triden, a Void Linux based distro, It did happen with Lumina, it can happen again, and not only with DEs, but also with toolkits and many other system components, you simply just can't fight the innate modularity of UNIX design And this goes way beyond a matter of ego, you can't ask Linux, *BSDs, Illumos and others to merge together to form the one and best FLOSS OS in the same way that you can't ask MIcrosoft, Apple, Commodore and others to merging to form the only and best proprietary OS (apart from the fact that the latter would constitute a full-fledged trust monopoly case) those alternative operating systems still have every right to exist no matter how much their mere existence causes issues.

@gogudelagaze1585

Жыл бұрын

@@Sumire973 I'm not very familiar with the BSD family, I must admit. I should probably give it a go at some time. Are IUP or Tk options they're considering? I ended up using IUP for one of my projects, and it was MIT/fairly nice to use. But what you're saying sounds like portability to BSD is going to be quite the nightmare going forward.. Still, that's an impressive undertaking. I'm not saying that all projects should pick one thing and use that, but I quite got the feeling there's quite a bit of "not invented here" syndrome, but I guess that could be just my impression as I'm not all that deeply involved with many projects. Still, this fragmentation will lead to developers packing in more and more dependencies, breaking the developer-maintainer-user chain. I've already seen some package maintainers complain about how this is impacting them. Thanks for your insight!

4:30 I do agree with you here but just to note that as an individual arch experience both my desktop (intel nvidia) and laptop (newer intel, nvidia) have been running flawlessly for years now. Only hiccup was to set up the laptop's discrete GPU to display image through the intel GPU. In fact this has been the best experience for me running nvidia cards on linux. I still keep expecting something to break every time I run updates and keep getting positively surprised that nothing of the sorts happened. Even after years of doing this without issues.

I agree with what you're saying to some point and I enjoyed and learned from most of the content you've made but I think there is a beauty in having so many distros and that's the freedom of doing what ever you want to do with your software. Also distros such Debian started like any other distro and who knows we might see a great new distro in your list in the future.

@donaldmickunas8552

Жыл бұрын

I don't know how long you've followed this channel but Christ use to be a huge Arch fanboy. His stance tends to change over time as he changes and grows. 😉

@GixoXYZ

Жыл бұрын

I think it's been 3 years. Someone who doesn't change is a dead person. I used to be more excited and a Arch/ Gentoo fanboy as well but now I think having a reliable and less time consuming system is more important. It's not to say that I don't love Arch anymore but it doesn't fit my lifestyle anymore and that's the beauty of Linux to have options tailored for your needs.

I'm curious about your comment on Arch not being used in professional environments. Do you lump Manjaro into that camp? I've been using a minimal install of it and some post-install scripts for years now both at the office and in my home work machines. Stability has never been an issue so I'm curious what your experience has been that led to your conclusion.

OpenSUSE is also pretty unique distro, it is stable and it has it's own unique packages and his own package manager. I used it around a year and I loved it. The only disadvantage that i found it's that it has a small community. I would REALLY appreciate, if you give a second chance. EDIT: I don't want you to review it, I just want you to try it for yourself

@kuhluhOG

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I prefer (and run) openSUSE Tumbleweed too. That's mostly because of their release method (aka, the one thing which you can't customize on a distro). It's a rolling release which tries to be as speedy as Arch when releasing packages while at the same time reducing the instability which comes form it through automatic testing (including automatic GUI testing) and have a fail-safe (thanks to snapper) in case it doesn't work.

I'm looking for distro's to run Linux on a few machines that holds audio plugins, so the DSP side happens on these 2 machines, via LAN they get loaded into my projects. I have special software to do that kind of work. So I have more recourses for my mixing and mastering PC for producing musical projects. Which do you recommend?

Love your honesty ! :D ive wanted to get linux on my desktop for a while now , but im playing ALOT of simracing with pedals and wheel. how are these working on linux ?

Went straight from Mint (still have it as my work distro) to Garuda for my personal distro. And as always - I have win10 as the ultimate fall back OS. Manjaro on my laptop, I'd recommend Zorin above mint as a starter. Or Manjaro depending on the person. Ilove them all, and glad there are people working on this for fun in the background.

@Tzalim

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I love Garuda, Garuda Lite is my fav.

Hi @Chris Titus Tech - thanks for all these videos! I installed a new terminal on Ubuntu (Tabby), and while it loads my zsh scripts etc. well, the default terminal and alacritty don't. Are these startup .zshrc or .bashrc specific to a particular terminal? Thanks!!!

I mostly agree with you, however my stance on distributions for beginners have changed significantly with newer releases of Fedora. They have made it much harder for an individual to make a mistake and they also have the installation process similar to Windows and MacOS where you install the OS then do a first time setup at first boot. This means you can install on a system and sell it without setting up a user account for the new computer owner to just setup an account and use the computer.

Fedora user here, since 27, same install upgraded to 36. No issues, good workflow. At the end of the day, use what doesn't mess with your work. Press on switch, and off we go to build.

I really like your channel, and I'm very impressed about your videos. There is many unique characteristics in your videos that makes me impressed and keep watching. You always go direct to the main point. I don't like videos that reveals the (secret) at the end of the video. Give me the point, don't waste my time. You always encourage to be on my own way, which fits me, and the way that works and suitable for me. Not to be forced by other opinions. I have watched most of your video in the last 3 years. Maybe I didn't apply more than 10% of what you have showed in all the videos. But I think that's the point. I want to be myself, not others.

I have spent last year and this year distro hopping, went back to Linux Mint and will be staying with it for the long run. Great vid as always Chris, thank you.

Love your videos Chris!! For doing an RDP into a windows machine at a remote location where there is no Internet - is there a wifi solution? Do you have a video on the interconnect options - hotspot, WAP, router, LAN, etc? Sincere thanks!

What books you recommend to start learning about Linux OS system for some one that has no knowledge of any OS systems and once to start picking up new skills

Do you have a video on QEMU/KVM? Migration of VM's etc? I was thinking of setting up a Ubuntu Server VM for the sole purpose of handling my bots for discord and obs, that way I don't have to think about the constant reinstall of them, every time I need to re-install my computer, because I keep forgetting what I need to install in order to get them working. Feels a bit strange to have the bots have their own OS to live on though. If only I knew how to create a docker, that might probably been a better option.

Interesting video. I've tried a number of different distros in QEMU VMM and frankly, I don't really see why many consider themselves a different distro. I started out with Ubuntu in 2008 and switched to Kubuntu a year later just to try it out, and I've stuck with it ever since. Linux Mint was a nice experience virtually, and ]Fedora looks good as well, although I'm not a fan of Gnome. As you said, there are just too many clones and copies which don't really add to the Linux desktop experience.

Two weeks ago I watched a couple of videos about your experience using ChromeOS and you even said that you would never use it. Well that encouraged me to try it and 5 days later I completely changed Windows 11 Pro from my new laptop to ChromeOS, I don't think you'll like that but the point is that it was you who aroused in me that curiosity to try something new. I have been a Windows and Linux user since the beginning, but I had lost that curiosity, that spark to discover new things, to try new things, until I saw your videos. I bought this computer to use it in the degree in data sciences that I am studying and ChromeOS perfectly covers all my needs in that regard. The truth is that there is still a world to discover and these days I felt it again like when I watched Computer Chronicles as a child. Greetings from Argentina.

whats your advise for newer ryzen hardware? i mean if u want check coretemps and more u need 5.17+, most distros dont have such new kernel like debian e.g. tumbleweed work good so far for me.

@vholes2803

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Eh, that should be debian "bookworm", YT won't let me edit for some reason.

I periodically distro hop, but always come back to Sparky Linux. It isn't pretty, but it's based on Debian Testing, and has great tools that make it easy to customize how you want. Thanks for all your videos.

There are 5 books on the shelf behind you I am wondering what they are. The 4 on the left which appear to be a set and the on on the right with the front cover facing out.

Thank you for taking the time to explain your reasoning behind your suggestions. You answereda question that we have always wanted to ask you! Kind Regards

Great content, as always! Thanks for providing a challenging perspective that encourages us to learn for ourselves :)

I won't lie, I just installed debian yesterday on a vm to try out linux for the first time, because you said it was what you used, and it has been a very enlightening experience. I think it is so much nicer to just not have to make so many decisions trying to get into it, just picking one that they say is good and then rolling with the punches for a while. It really seems like there is so much you can do if you just learn how Linux actually works at it's core instead of just chasing shiny objects and new distros.

Hey Chris, thanks for the video! What you think about nixOS as desktop os?

Kudos to you Chris, this really echoed to me because yes I think the essence of using Linux as a driver or some sort is really the knowledge and "the bed" you make from it. It just reinforces the pusedo-cheeky response that the best distro is the one you use really holds up. If you're productive and it lights the fire of I want make cool shit for my self and potentially other users, the distro ultimately doesn't matter. Edit: Corrected typo

Longtime Windows and Mac user here. I toyed with Linux here and there over the years, but never could stay for a number of reasons. I recently took the plunge and installed Linux Mint 21. Wow, what a difference from past distros. You are 100% right about it - Mint is a beautifully cohesive experience for a Linux distro. I'd say it is every bit as polished an experience as Windows. I installed it on a 2012 Mac Mini and everything worked right out of the box. The only hitch was the wifi card wasn't recognized initially. But a quick plug onto ethernet, fired up their driver manager, and within 5 min my wifi connection was up and running. Linux is, of course, a bit of a learning curve from Mac and Windows. But Mint has made it a lot easier to deal with and hasn't discouraged me like past distros.

I can say I've tried Linux Mint for a few OS installs. My biggest issue was that at some point the updates stopped installing, which is not acceptable. It may have been something I did (not sure). However the real frustrating part was the lack of support evaluating what the cause was & how to fix or repair the issue. I did like both the GUI & Terminal interface

HA! Chris, that ending I was about to tease you about the "think differently" slogan but beat me to it! Got to say, I made it to Fedora and enjoyed it for about a month. Then an update happened and slowed down 3 of my pc's of varying ages and types. As I am not as advanced in finding the issue and other Fedora users hadn't said anything about it, I did some digging around and all I could find was, "Yeah, mine too. Don't know what happened." So, as I wonder around the Linux experience, I always come back to Mint for the stablity and "It Just Works". I am not good enough to grasp Debian yet but it is a journey so maybe someday I will get it right. It is hard to fully switch to Linux as I like to have a game going in the background to switch to in th down time working on other things at the same time. And some of the games are not even in the "Gold" level for Proton, Lutris, Wine, etc yet. So I have to use Win10 Pro in the mean time. :( But all my other PC's/laptops/PC Tablets are Linux and love it. :D

Chris, this is my most favorite channel on Linux, and I learned a lot from you. Thanks a lot for that. Hugs.

Tried a bunch of distros including Mint, Pop, Ubuntu and Fedora. Never been tempted to switch from Zorin Core. It's so slick and modern. It's what made me switch from Windows after 30 years. Protip: Stick with Chrome, if you are using it. Makes the transition easy. Just install the Linux Scroll Speed Fix extension.

Less common but arch is the most popular option for professional use when it comes to graphics card use or when you want the latest drivers. Nvidia for example uses arch for their arm+nvidia development. Dxvk is primarly developed on arch too and thats why steamos is arch based. Greg hartman who is the maintainer of the linux stable branch (basically linus right hand man) also uses arch for testing software as he needs the latest systemd version.

@umop3plsdn

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also the point that no one ever brings up when saying Arch rolling bad is that NO ONE is forcing you to do updates. Even if you wanted a stable environment using Arch is definitely an option not to mention access to the AUR. I'm not saying that's me because I update every day when I turn my machine on it's like friggin christmas

I have eventually settled on Mandrake, and I haven't had any problems with it. I 100% agree with you that Mint is a great starting point for new users. I'm primarily a gamer though, so it's Windows, and Linux is a hobby.

I use Windows and am I'm okay with that (years of training and experience with it). I tinker with Linux on the side and find use cases for it, but I still have very little experience with it and still dislike using the cli. I have absolutely no plans to switch to Linux for my daily driver as Windows does what I need it to do. I find this channel refreshing as it has a different take on using linux to solve your objectives and I learn stuff in the process. I tried a number of distros but eventually landed on Debian as my preferred out of box desktop distro (it can be just a server with a desktop if you want it to be), though Mint was my launching point. One observation is that I find it very 'distracting' (in all OS's) when all the bits and pieces in the gui space do not look or work consistently depending on your desktop window manager, etc (example: managing wifi connection profiles in a kde app running on a gnome window manager). Shame I see so much effort going into creating 'the next best distro' rather than making the bits and pieces better at the source (which I consider Debian to be, given how many other distros are forked off of it). I like the concept of atomic distros in particular when combined with self repairing COW file systems ("oops, it broke" == "roll it back, carry on").

I used to to do distro hopping every week and I've finally settled on WSL2 with ubuntu

I love your explanation. Why you never talk about openSuse distribution. I think it is most under rated Linux distribution, but my personal experience it is the most reliable Linux system. What is your thoughts on OpenSuse Tumbleweed or OpenSuse Leap. Keep up the great work.

As a hobbyist, I'm looking at installing Gentoo and LFS to learn more about Linux. (I'm a pretty advanced user already)

What to do after Debian? What do you think about Slackware & derivatives like Salix OS?

Had my first experienced with chromeOS recently and I can definitely say I want a bit more choice for my experience with computers. That said, I could see me doing long commutes on a local train and doing some (not too important) work and communication with it.

Yeah, that's what switching to Mint felt like to me... _"Falling in love with computing..."_ like I did so many years ago, when I was first introduced to computers with Windows 7... just a computer, no nagging walls in the way when I want to do something...

@folksurvival

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>first introduced to computers with Windows 7

I missed open Suse (Leap and Tumbleweed). What do you think about them?

Hey Chris I really enjoy your videos. Have you ever used gentoo?

I've been hopping onto Linux and off for over 20 years now. I so wish the community would spend the time to resolve many long standing issues, rather than spinning out a yet another: - Desktop environment - Package Manager - Linux Distro I tried so many times and just can't make the switch full time because it always lacked certain things that I use in windows. I always hit always a heckin road block or some setting or update nukes my installation. I like Mint and I adored Suse Linux in the early day. But support for non Debian distros has always been challenging. Overall the Linux Desktop works wonderfully if you mainly code. Things that always gave me issues: - scanners - adobe Lightroom to edit photos - Microsoft Office (Libre Office is stuck in the year 2000) - Photoshop (Gimp is just weird) - 4k screens as screen scaling is broken - NTFS support for external hard drives is still am issue - native Network sharing is just a nightmare - a central store or repo for software with up to date software since most repos are hopelessly outdated - no breakages with updates - NVIDIA graphics function - easy ability to have different mouse speed on my touch pad vs my mouse - larger mouse pointer and pointer highlight - linux remembering my screen positions - simple battery/ power management And the list goes on.

Amen brother.. Amen ... Although I maintain one of those Distros, I totally understand where you coming from. I never recommend my distro for the n00bs simply because it's based off of Arch one of the most unstable bases out there. I could have based it on Mint or Debian, at the end of the day I used what gave me the most freedom at a huge cost of stability.. We all are different coats of paint on top of something that already existed. The worst thing to say is that our creation is good for everyone. We created it for ourselves in the end, we share in hopes to increase the amount Linux users. But it's perfectly fine if they decide to stick with Windows if it's what works for them. Stop hating on Windows users.. We use what works and that's the end of it. Sorry for lengthy comment but you hit me where it hurts the most buddy... LoL ;)

@youdontknowme2508

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Yeah exactly. This is just another Linux user's rant tbh. I usually see this stuff people arguing about distro choices on reddit forums lol. And this video is no different from that. It's okay to recommend something I would say but straight up saying something is bad is no different from the ones I've mentioned above. Let the people choose whatever they want to. And btw continue the nice work you're doing. There are people who love you and your work.

@XeroLinux

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@@youdontknowme2508 Yessir, let the users use what they want.. Our job is to set the right expectations. Once that's done, let them roam free, use whatever works best for them. In Linux there will be a lot of experimentation before finding right "Distro". Choices are basically few main ones with countless iterations of them.

When I bought my very new thinkpad T15g a couple of years ago, I tried a BUNCH of distros. And the only one that I could get to reliably work with my multiple monitor setup with mix resolutions (FHD, WQHD and UHD) was linux mint cinnamon. Some others _almost_ worked but had issues I could not solve, from the kernel to the desktop environment. Linux Mint Cinnamon, once the initial couple of boots where you get the nvidia drivers to actually work are done, is rock solid, and with kernel 5.15 it's even better. Before that, I had been using Linux Mint Mate. It just cannot handle the monitors. The only other environment that could handle the monitors was the more recent Gnome, but I prefer Cinnamon. Distros with Gnome had other issues with my hardware, mainly because of the kernel used at the time. I do not advise experimenting with unofficial kernels on workstations. You should use something official from your distro unless there really is no other solution. Updating unofficial kernels will often leave you with broken nvidia drivers. You can maybe get away with oem kernels, but it may also be hell.

I think I got your point here. So many distros and they all seem to be worried about theming only. Linux, actually, can look like anything you might imagine, esthetically. It can look like Windows, like Mac, even like an old Unix machine or a tabbed DOS-like multi windows in one screen. I was a distro hopper once. I decided for a package manager that would feel my needs, and after that I started looking for a well polished themed and rolling release distro. Once i found this combination, I started changing some stuff to make it mine. And I love it so much now that I don't need to reinstall everything on every new distro release anymore. Rolling release is freedom too! 😊

My distrohopping voyage stopped in the shores of Kubuntu LTS along time ago . Gnu-linux is slowly being more and more popular. There are a lot of channels and info about it, there are a ton of distributions, icons sets, applications, tools. It is a computing school in your room.

Thumbs up for this clear words, Chris. Reminds me of those days when Apple had this approach beginning with this "1984" and later "Think Different" commercials - Ironically this brought me to the REAL big thing in 1996: Linux (which brought aesthetics and cohesiveness to the command line rather than to the DE until today)

I agree with your thinking. I used to work as a Unix and a bit Linux sysadmin but I have bin out of it for a few years and now I’m getting back but I’m using windows Mac and Linux fedora I like your vids tips tricks exploration new ideas new different views. Keep up the great work greetings from the Netherlands

I also wanted to say thank you Chris for getting me more curious about just USING Linux and not just "playing" with it. And, just like Echenim John said, you are one of the ones to get me to love CLI more and more everyday. I tip my hat to you, good sir. (If I wore a hat I would but still, I tip something!)

This was an awesome video, where Chris spoke from the heart about what drives him and his channel to do what he does. Much thanks for his honesty and his continuing work in challenging folks like me to think different, to be better.

I use Mint, but when I had to upgrade from 19 to 20, I couldn't simply upgrade. I had to install a brand new install and then reinstall all my apps and reset all my preferences. It was a huge pain in the @$$! If Mint does that again from 20 to 21, I'm switching to Debian.

Thanks for your comments! :-) Your topic is also a main reason why I love FreeBSD (any in general the BSD way) and use it nearly everywhere 🙂 So: if I would choose Linux, I also would take something like Debian, Centos or Arch... And tailor my system to my needs 🙂 all the best, Norbert

When I worked as a dev, I used Gentoo as my daily driver. I loved it, but its very time consuming to work with. Now I mainly use Mint and Windows.

I appreciate and agree with your opinion... especially about vanilla debian. There is definitely a reason why there are so many distros out there based off of it.

I use Linux Mint LXDE (20.3, based on Ubuntu 20.04, for software compatibility reasons), and it has been a great OS. I would grade myself an intermediate Linux user, and look forward to, at some point, crafting my own version from the ground up - maybe using NixOS. Thanks for the great videos! I've learned a lot from them and look forward to learning more...

@johanb.7869

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Mint LXDE???🤔 Mint has 3 desktop environments, Cinnamon, Mate and XFCE all based on Ubuntu and there is LMDE Mint Cinnamon based on Debian.

@wingflanagan

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@@johanb.7869 D-OH! I meant XFCE. Four letters, X...I blame it on old age...

@johanb.7869

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@@wingflanagan 😉

I agree on Ubuntu based OSs. I have 3 different ones I am trying out now and it all comes down to whether you like the desktop or not (granted you can change from the original desktop to something in each OS you prefer).

Ahoy, great commentary. I use Debian stable (Bullseye right now) with the good ole LXDE desktop. I customize LXDE to work the way I like. LX Panel has great options & widgets so I see all the info I need and have the buttons & menus where I need them. Some people say I'm in a rut but it is best for me. I can do a new install and customize the desktop in about an hour. Then I don't have to think about what to do 95% of the time. My friend Bobby B. is a Gentoo snob and spends more time compiling and tuning than he does working. To me an install is a nesessary task but the less often the better. Thanks again, fascinating talk. daveyb

I am starting to be in the same boat. I am new to linux and after a couple months, I have figured out that I can run kde plasma or cinnamon under arch or debian or manjaro or reborn. And today I found that kde can be made to look like gnome or xcfe so yeah, they are just like fast food. They do a good job sometimes likes manjaro of giving you a mix and its well supported but some of the others are nothing but a click away from changing your theme and ending up with garuda lol.

big respect on making this video this is a very good explanation on what youre about and also brought up linux for each level for linux enthusiasts

I would recommend Fedora because it is fairly vanilla, up-to-date, and appears to have the best hardware driver support as far as I know. For example, compared to other distros (like Manjaro, Pop, Zorin, Elementary, Endeavour) Fedora is the only distro that works fully out-of-the-box on the Framework laptop (it works for things such as fingerprint sensor, trackpad, graphics/scaling, wifi, etc). My assumption is that hardware support is generally better, and the experience may be smoother on more hardware.

When I first started watching your vids, I sometimes found your directness to be a little off-putting. Then I recognized it for what it really was: AUTHENTIC. You unapologetically take us on whatever tech adventure you believe in, whether it's about linux, windows or macOS and I really really appreciate that. I've learned alot from your channel in just the short time i've been subscribed. Thank you!