Awesome Tips My Linux Curse is NOT Over… But It’s Getting BETTER – Pt.2 Linux 30 Day Challenge 2026
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I know we are WAY late on uploading Linux Challenge PT. 2…. Sorry about that. But in this video Linus, Luke and Elijah all break down the issues and the positive that happened within the first week of swapping over to Linux. Whether that was Linus picking PopOS, Luke swapping desktop environment, or Elijah trying to play some games. Each had highs and lows, also so people dont keep asking me, PT 3 was filmed the SAME DAY as this one so ideally you will see it soon!
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CHAPTERS
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0:00 Intro
1:25 LINUS WHY POP_OS!
3:26 Elijah’s Network Share Issue
4:38 Luke Trying Some Advanced Stuff
5:20 NTFS On Linux
6:18 Elijah’s Gaming Experience
7:00 Video Codec Issues
7:35 Who Should I Blame?
8:47 Linus Tries Other Distros
12:53 Windows Bad Also
14:38 Elijah discovers an Immutable OS
16:14 We Still LOVE Open Source!
17:00 Join in at Home!
17:33 PT 3 Soon I Promise
18:40 Outro
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7:56 I find this argument rather dumb these days. You can just start your projects with compatibility in mind – use vulkan, cross-platform libraries etc…
Also Linus, since you are such a noob and so used to microsoft, why can't you just install Mint?
6:25 So I have to subscribe now to watch the conclusion of this very same video? Some things are just hard wired! 🤣
4:30 OH MY FUCKING GOD EVERYONE DOES THIS, BAZZITE DIDNT MAKE KDE PLASMA!!!!!
Let's agree that Linux desktopa are just more Windows distros. To me the only thing that matter is if support the tools nd devices I use. Full stop. When games and devices I use have the same stability as on Windows I'll switch asap. Until then I really can't. I already use wsl for dev som don't need a desktop Linux for that.
I love that the whole time Linus is talking his monitor is bugging out.
8:18 It's ironic to critique Linux fragmentation, yet choose the most hyped beta distros instead of reliable "just works" standards like Debian, Fedora, or Ubuntu.
I said it many times and still stay by it: The open source community has a big attitude problem!
"Use it the way we want you to use it or get lost" mentality.
I tried to get into many open source apps: Blender, Gimp, Lazarus… at the end I got back to paying for commercial products. At least in their forums I dont get replies telling me the way I wanna do things is wrong and I should follow another path, you get actual help.
Without customers there is just no pressure to make your product accessable.
So often do people release tools for windows without binaries. It would just be another 2 or 3 clicks for the author but a lot of research for many users to find out how to compile that stuff by yourself. This is clearly gatekeeping. They dont want those users to begin with.
wow, I was thinking that my monitor is broke
i thought that the video is about "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Side of Linus" 😫😫😫
bro had the exact same with the steamos version of bazzite, such assholes
the question about these challenges is… WHY? Any of these distros adds anything to your experience. FACT
Damn, Linus screens were flickering all the time, for no reason xD
I have been using CachyOs for about 2 years now and Linux for 4.5. I can say it's not just install and everything works but it is a skill I have learned and I can not go back to Microslop ever again, it's about if you really want to or not and it is better to learn something new that to be stuck drinking from the poison that is forced on you by the likes of Microsoft.
No, we can blame someone. We blame MPEG LA by making h264 and h.265 proprietary! Another profit > people problem. Hopefully sooner than later AV1 will be the wide standard.
I think it may also be worth mentioning that troubleshooting comes with the COMPUTER experience, linux isn't a console, and you have to troubleshoot on windows too. Protondb makes it very easy to debug issues like this, and once you use proton-ge (which is now easier to install than ever) you'll never run into the issue again in any other games. This isn't a hobbiest troubleshooting problem, its a problem you'll run into on computers in general. The steamdeck is a device for general consumers and you would've ran into the issue there, too. I do think valve should do more to advertise protondb, though.
6:11 I managed to run games on arch linux using a shared NTFS partition. It's hard for Proton to accept it, but not impossible. I can't accept reinstalling games. I don't remember the process of fixing everything, but it depends on how you mount your NTFS partition in your /etc/fstab with the right driver that can be found in everyone's package manager. it's not out of the box. it's a headache for dual booters
Why not using actual popular distros … No wonder you run into bugs
try big linux and q4os which has kde
Idk I use specific OS for some kind of uses. There's distros for old PC. In my laptop I have Rocky Linux. But I think is for people with experience. After trying Arch Linux I move to cachyOS. I like how dedicated they are having the latest patches for the Linux kernel.
Recently I tried zorin os in a laptop, I was trying to install a background noise cancelling app (called noisetouch or something) which supposededly designed for Linux using the command sudo apt install. It just refused to get installed looked for help everywhere tried different solutions but it wasn't working after 3 hours I decided it wasn't worth the effort
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I've been wrestling with Davinci Resolve for a while (installing went fine but using it.. I'm a Sony/Magix Vegas person and the flow was.. so different)
I completely forgot about Kdenlive existing so time to try that 🙂
Also can't wait to see how angry Reddit will once again be after dissecting every syllable of this video.
Yuuuuuup. Been on Linux for a few years, and it's certainly amazing at some things, while it's really bad at others, but the crew hit Linux's biggest issue on the head:
I love Linux; I hate the Linux fanbase. So often someone will make a completely reasonable complaint or suggestion, only to get completely swarmed by neckbeards shouting "liNuX iSnT wiNdOWs".
Working as IT deploying Linux on people's computer fills me with overtime and headaches for months, I just switched to Windows IoT Enterprise…
So basically as much as the community did, it's still too much time wasted to get things to run sometimes the way you need.
I ve been using kubuntu like almost forever, and it just works for me
You know what really makes Linux users steaming mad? Suggesting that ChatGPT and other LLM’s can answer simple questions to fix problems. No, they want you to post your question on the forum so they can ignore it.
what was up with the computer behind Linus? she was getting visual artifacts bad or was that just some video or effect lol?
recently I am trying Mint and so far pretty ok.
a few hiccups like having 0 sound but for the most part gaming has met what I needed.
next challenge is a weird one – Linux is strangely difficult about MIDDLE MOUSE CLICK!
I use my middle mouse button quite a lot in games and for an unfathomable reason Mint thinks it's the enemy to mankind and refuses to recognise it (Razer Naga Trinity btw).
I mean – in a world where everything about your pc is configarable with Linux – what's up with middle mouse click folks?
The main Linux problem is its community IMHO. There are tons of people advising Arch-based distros for newbies (including Arch itself) or some tiling window managers. These are ideal for people who live in the terminal, but they break the UX for Windows and Mac users, so it's the fastest way to make someone install Linux once and forget about it forever. Just my opinion: every user new to Linux should start with an Ubuntu-based distro (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) or Fedora. Everything else should come only after you're familiar enough to break your system without frustration.
I actually joined in as well. My choice for my main gaming PC was Nobara linux. As it was great for gaming and also great for sim racing. So far I am loving it. I was surprised that even though Epic does not have a proton thing, using Heroic launcher I could play Epic store games perfectly well. What also is just good, is the fact that Gemini often does help when I find my self in a situation that I can't find anything in the documentation. I have to add that I was already running a AMD Radeon card a RX 7600XT so no issues there.
My laptop I decided to gostay in the same sort of distro and went to the mainstream Fedora in a KDE DE, and it just works fine. I had a few issues with the Nvidia card in my laptop but that was easy to solve for the most part. That laptop I just use as a simple browser, light gaming and 3D printing and designing machine.
Linux time !!
Honesty and humility is difficult, even though it will make everybody life easier, clear warning would be enough
i solved the Davinci Resolve issue with Distrobox but it wont run the newest Beta Versions… so i run ZorinOS and after troubleshooting over and over again until i was kinda there what i want my OS to be like i am a bit exhausted cause on Linux you have to kinda worry that one System Update could f up your system completely… but i am greatful that there is an Microsoft alternative cause on Windows i ran constantly against performance issues… like unfixable microstutters and stuff (in Counter-Strike btw) and i have a Ryzen 9 5900X and a Radeon RX7900XT and i would expect the performance i should get… and since i ran Linux (ZorinOS) the issues were gone but many other issues arrived… like as in this video mentioned the audio and video codecs… i had to write a script that converts videos i wanna edit to a usable file format.. and yes i could just use a program for this but this dont really solve the main issue that you constantly have to wipe the a** of your linux distro to be good to go… but as i said i like linux very much and i would love to see someday that everything on linux is plug and play just like windows (setup, installing drivers and you are good to go)….. and everyone who wont be able to adress the main issues with linux is just a blindfolded simp to linux… yea i said it
I can't stand Ubuntu because of their built in Snap preferences. It's such a hassle to get a non Snap version of firefox installed.
And why would you not want a Snap version? Start up times, ridiculous start up times.
Install Warp Terminal and let it work that magic to work out all the bumps.
linus on his way to picking the worst possible distros
Im intrigued as ive recently loaded up Nobara for the first time and (touch wood), Ive not had a massive issue at all.
So uhh… I have an Nvidia laptop. What do I do? ._.
I also joined the challenge of switching, mainly it has been pretty painless after i got my dual boot ln mint / win11 set up to work and as a daily, running fusion360 orca slicer and other programs and games, i like it besides the random crashes, and battery life improved by a couple of hours too so that's a bonus (hardware Asus ROG Zephyrus g15 aka burner laptop)
7:46 it's on the developers, DRM harms users, and using restricted codecs just makes our lives worse for no reason.
So the problem I have with Elijah's take on the video codecs is that…. it's similar on Windows. Unless you're playing only recent releases you do have to jump through hoops to get games working. Everything from old codecs, specific DirectX dlls, etc. In fact I am pretty sure I've played games in the last 2 years that didn't work on Windows but did manage to run just fine with Proton on Linux. And I'd much rather get those DLLs using ProtonTricks than hunting for the Windows versions myself on some shady website.
The claim that supporting a fragment OS is also partially incorrect. Games run via Proton and even Steam games with Native Linux builds don't run directly on the OS. Steam bundles separate Linux runtimes that actually run the game. This acts as a sort of compatibility layer itself and this is what the Steam client will use in the future – meaning that Valve will basically be maintaining this runtime.
This will be way my Cosmic Pop OS will not work with my 1050 then lol, i had no idea cosmic was a beta either.
I for one, wish this challenge was dumbed down EVEN MORE. I want to use linux (I'm trying with the Steamdeck desktop) but everything I see about it seems to assume some basic knowledge I don't have.
what desktop is linus rocking there