DaftBlazer

I've been using linux for around 10+ years now, I've daily drove every main branch of Linux (Debian, Ubuntu Fedora, Arch) except for OpenSuse. So a little while ago I decided to give it a try, idk why I never really considered it before, just overlooked it I guess. But the more I've been using it the more I wonder how this distro doesn't get a lot more attention. There's a Rolling Release (Tumbleweed) similar to arch except the packages are more thoroughly tested, making it a lot more stable to use as a daily driver. And also the traditional release (Leap) which gets a minor release at least once a year if you need something a lot more stable or just want less updates, which IMO is much more usable than Debian Stable for a daily driver. There's YaST which is like control panel in Windows so for a lot of things, you don't need to use a terminal (Linus complained about this). There's also BTRFS as the default filesystem and Snapper which automatically takes snapshots of the filesystem, So if you install/change something and your system breaks (Linus did this), you can just rollback to the last snapshot on boot, which is amazing. If you choose KDE as the DE, OpenSuse has an option to open Dolphin as SuperUser (Linus complained about this). I know the Ubuntu-based distros get a ton of attention and the Arch user base is extremely vocal, I just wanted to bring attention to this lesser known distro because there's so many QoL features and It's rarely mentioned and almost all the big linux youtubers don't really even talk about it. I'd love to hear your guys' thoughts

I would love to see Anthony do a video on installing Arch, but I wouldn't want to see Linus or Luke jump into daily driving linux with Arch. Arch is something you work your way towards, starting on Arch would give people the wrong idea that linux is really complex and deter people from giving linux a shot as a daily driver. In my opinion there are 3 "levels" when going down the linux rabbit hole. Level 1 - Beginner Friendly Distros Super simple, easy to find community solutions, package support Pop!_OS - My Preferred, Has better Quality of Life features over Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux Mint Level 2 - Intermediate Distros These aren't necessarily harder to use, they just aren't debian based so finding solutions online might not be as common, and they may use other package formats (ex. rpm) Fedora - One of my favorites, could arguably be in level 1, idk why its not more popular tbh Manjaro OpenSuse Debian Unstable - Better for desktop usage imo, debian stable is better for servers Level 3 - Advanced / Power User Distros For those who want a distro specifically designed for their system and needs, love tinkering and customizing literally everything. Arch - Every linux users "rite of passage" Gentoo Everyone is going to have their own opinions, but this is what I've seen and experienced. If you're a linux enthusiast it's worth trying out each of the major branches.

Its possible it could be the hard drive, but on my laptop it was 100% disk usage literally all the time even with no programs running, the cpu would spike sometimes as well. I did install an SSD on it and with a fresh Windows 10 install, and the problem is no longer there. Its worth a shot, ssd's are cheap these days

It didn't happen to me for a long time, then all the sudden things started breaking for me quite frequently. I've had it corrupt my boot partition, and it wasn't fixable so I had to reinstall the whole OS. Only a few days after that, on my other machine, Windows decided to do an update during a thunderstorm and the power went out and corrupted the OS. I got tired of always having to reinstall the whole OS, So I went back to linux, because if something did go wrong, it can be fixed without having to do a full reinstall. YMMV, you may not have any issues at all for a long time, but its hard to say

I feel like Valve may have just put SteamOS on the backburner for now. I think that once game compatibility with proton and native linux game support grows much larger, They may bring it back into focus for people wanting a console experience. I think they were too ambitious at first, hoping game devs would make linux ports because there were "game systems" running linux. I think they learned from that, So now they are focusing on bringing more games to linux first

I've used linux for a little over 10 years, and Ubuntu/Ubuntu-based distros have always been what I used. For someone who hasn't used Linux before, an Ubuntu based distro will probably be the easiest to learn. If you have an Nvidia graphics card, KDE might cause some screen tearing, but theres some simple fixes for that. I personally use Fedora as my daily driver, I find it's much more stable than ubuntu, and getting proprietary software to work is not really that much extra work. I used to not like GNOME, but since Fedora ships with Stock GNOME, I love it. I think ubuntu's GNOME tweaks tend to break things.