Who thinks Linux is better??

[amdorintel]

8 hours ago, Fredrik Svantesson said:

Is this thread even still relevant, correct me if im wrong but didnt they already make the video?

yeah they already made a video, but linus has to always upload videos to youtube plus there is only so much videos you can make so having a steady stream of videos means he will overlap. the human condition is amazing because people will forget what happened last year and that is where linus profits!

[Xrey274]

Is the video cancelled? It's been 4 months and not even a single mention of it.

[NickHeavy]

 

On 1/29/2020 at 9:34 PM, Xrey274 said:

Is the video cancelled? It's been 4 months and not even a single mention of it.

It's coming.... I've been tied up in other projects. 

[mr moose]

I love how over the last 5 pages there are 50+ posts by people with only 1 or 2 posts. Many of them read like marketing material. 

 

Not that I think any of them will be back to read this, but while the guys putting these videos together might not always say things you agree with and sometimes they might even be a little wrong (heaven forbid someone should make a mistake), but they aren't stupid and likely got all the info they needed from the first 2 pages of genuine responses.

 

 

[Bramimond]

I didn't see the magic of the terminal mentioned in the first two pages, though. Heck, I'm even doing image editing mostly from the terminal now (imagemagick), since it's just a smoother experience. GUI was a mistake.

 

On Windows, however, using the terminal always feels clunky.

[Mira Yurizaki]

There are some parts about Linux that I like. I like the command line interface for its relative simplicity. Updating apps and the OS itself can be a snap. And of course, there's plenty of choices of distribution so if you don't like what you got, you can find another that may suit your needs.

 

On the flipside, a glaring feeling I'm getting with Linux is a lot of development was basically "for experts, by experts." The freedom of choice comes with the chains of complexity.

[TrostAft]

I've been using Linux as my main system for about 5 years now; I just found out about this thread on the LTT forum (I haven't been here in a while). I'd be remiss if I didn't add a few anecdotes about Linux here, they might have already been said.

 

Personally, I switched over to Linux because I'm a scientist (computational mathematics), and the development environment is so much more mature on Linux than any other platform. Installing tools via package managers is a much better experience than Windows Download+Install style for maintaining your environment, and (from what I hear from other colleagues on Mac systems) a much better time than Brew. With Linux, you have a much lower-level access point to your system, which is important for people like me whose job is essentially to stretch the limit of what a computer can do. There's a reason why supercomputers run Linux.

 

Yes, gaming on Linux is a drag as compared to Windows. I maintain that this is mostly a function of Windows being more popular during the advent of major game engines, and the Linux community being much more fragmented back then. As of now, developing for Linux is not nearly as bad of an experience, and tools like Proton make it so that you might not even need to go through that! I game a lot in my off time, mainly titles like Kingdom Come Deliverance, the Witcher series, Skyrim, etc. you get the jist. I haven't encountered any titles I wasn't able to get running through proton (though I do admit I did have to trudge around a bit to get some working).  

 

Finally, my last reasoning for using Linux, over Windows specifically, is the GUI. This a bit contrarian, but whenever I do have to use Windows, it's so difficult to customize to desires as compared to the many desktop environments available to Linux. Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, Budgie, etc. For pretty much whatever you desire to have, you can find it. And if you can't, you can build it; go to /r/unixporn for a few examples. Personally I'm on Gnome, and I can cleanly say that the workspaces, search "bar", and even file management are strong wins for Gnome. This is subjective, I'm aware, but it's always a jarring experience when I look back.

 

A couple of more miscellaneous pros include strong performance on weaker hardware, and the fact that it's FREE. $100 is not cheap (and although I know you can get Windows for free, as the old adage goes 'if you're not paying for the product you are the product'. I highly doubt any non-telemetry toggles function as they say they do on the non-activated version). Oh and something like that wouldn't fly on Linux, because it's open source. No way that gets pushed into the Kernel.

 

In short, for me, Linux does development better than both MacOS and Windows, and in terms of basic desktop usage, it feels better to me than Windows (MacOS is comparable or better imo). Gaming is still obviously a Windows win, but you would be surprised exactly how much is playable on Linux, and it's getting better day by day. At least for my desktop, Linux is the clear choice. For my low power laptop basically just for web browsing and text editing, I'd say I'd be equally alright with both Linux or MacOS, and at that point my wallet chose for me.

 

I look forward to the video! LTT typically does a good job, and especially with Anthony on the team (and with the occasional collab. with Level1Techs) I feel good about this video. I'm aware that Linux probably isn't the solution for every user, but I'm certain that it is the solution for many that don't currently use it.