Windows vs Linux - What the Future Looks Like - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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The only architectural thing I love about Windows is the -high- RAM utilization; Windows uses mostly everything to make everything even faster, at least in my experience.
I sit here with 64 GiBs and -use- 26 to 36 in idle on fresh system with one browser only, the rest is marked unused but is used for caching, basically all 64 are in use all the time, caching of course needs some learning and runtime.
My Linux on the other hand just uses e.g. 2 GiBs, doesn't matter how much I have free, as long as I don't really use it, it won't get used.
I had sometimes extreme micro stuttering in Windows with only 32 GiB, (my second name is Multitask, ) even when it also only -used- half of it, upgrade to 64 everything is superfast no problems; I ran too many applications in the background, e.g. at least 500 Chromium Tabs and so on.
I already used Linux much, I run it on my Convertable Laptop, Servers and so on, but my workstation relied on Windows until yesterday, I would consider myself as Windows pro Poweruser, but Windows just killed itself, with no repair possible without reinstallation, no in place upgrade possible and much much more issues, a quiet fresh system.
I made one mistake in regards to the decryption key for my newest 2 TB NVMe SSD (third one mostly for games), it was lost, cause of laziness / time, I do everything too fast, I encrypt-archived the wrong - old - directory with the older drive decryption keys and put that on my encrypted cloud storage, so the key was lost - except of course in the Registry the FveAutoUnlock key, because the broken Windows did not de$troy most data on the encrypted system drive, but the keys in the Registry are encrypted with the user password; but the user was half connected with Microsoft account; used PIN and Fingerprint as login; Windows just created a random Hash, none of my passwords, PINs and so on were able to decrypt it, I even trained an AI brute force program to hack it with base of my passwords but it seems like I said above Windows just generated one independently; I found no source how to recover it with base of PIN and so on, no chance.
There are probably ways to reinstall Windows, override all user related things, login and decrypt it automatically, but I think I would have been the first person on the planet doing that kind of shit, I just deleted the drive, I hope I only installed games on it, but probably not only games...
Believe me, there was no recover option, I tried all of them and entered the Bitlocker recovery key for my boot drive at least 200 times...
I am a liiittle bit upset... It was planned to switch to Linux somewhere in the 10 year future on my workstation, with artificial reasons by myself for myself, like Windows only programs, much time to convert all app data to Linux, move everything to my satisfaction and much much more half true things, -but now the time has finally come for a change.-
Linux is coming.
Probably Manjaro with KDE or Gnome,
my convertable laptop runs Manjaro Gnome, but I think my non touch multi monitor 4k setup could run better with KDE.
I will probably use BTRFS and LUKS2.
Is it easy to increase partition sizes in that combination?
My laptop runs EXT4 with LUKS, at least with GUI no easy increase, I purposely didn't allocate 500 GB, and now can't do that easily; it would be enabled in the GUI if it is safu to do that; I wait until my current allocation is full, cause can't $hit backup storage or money.
That's my happy sad story, at least partially. :D
Last but not least, why is /bin a symbolic link to /usr/bin in manjaro (as well as lib, lib64, sbin and so on)?
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The only architectural thing I love about Windows is the -high- RAM utilization; Windows uses mostly everything to make everything even faster, at least in my experience.
I sit here with 64 GiBs and -use- 26 to 36 in idle on fresh system with one browser only, the rest is marked unused but is used for caching, basically all 64 are in use all the time, caching of course needs some learning and runtime.
My Linux on the other hand just uses e.g. 2 GiBs, doesn't matter how much I have free, as long as I don't really use it, it won't get used.
I had sometimes extreme micro stuttering in Windows with only 32 GiB, (my second name is Multitask, ) even when it also only -used- half of it, upgrade to 64 everything is superfast no problems; I ran too many applications in the background, e.g. at least 500 Chromium Tabs and so on.
I already used Linux much, I run it on my Convertable Laptop, Servers and so on, but my workstation relied on Windows until yesterday, I would consider myself as Windows pro Poweruser, but Windows just killed itself, with no repair possible without reinstallation, no in place upgrade possible and much much more issues, a quiet fresh system.
I made one mistake in regards to the decryption key for my newest 2 TB NVMe SSD (third one mostly for games), it was lost, cause of laziness / time, I do everything too fast, I encrypt-archived the wrong - old - directory with the older drive decryption keys and put that on my encrypted cloud storage, so the key was lost - except of course in the Registry the FveAutoUnlock key, because the broken Windows did not de$troy most data on the encrypted system drive, but the keys in the Registry are encrypted with the user password; but the user was half connected with Microsoft account; used PIN and Fingerprint as login; Windows just created a random Hash, none of my passwords, PINs and so on were able to decrypt it, I even trained an AI brute force program to hack it with base of my passwords but it seems like I said above Windows just generated one independently; I found no source how to recover it with base of PIN and so on, no chance.
There are probably ways to reinstall Windows, override all user related things, login and decrypt it automatically, but I think I would have been the first person on the planet doing that kind of shit, I just deleted the drive, I hope I only installed games on it, but probably not only games...
Believe me, there was no recover option, I tried all of them and entered the Bitlocker recovery key for my boot drive at least 200 times...
I am a liiittle bit upset... It was planned to switch to Linux somewhere in the 10 year future on my workstation, with artificial reasons by myself for myself, like Windows only programs, much time to convert all app data to Linux, move everything to my satisfaction and much much more half true things, -but now the time has finally come for a change.-
Linux is coming.
Probably Manjaro with KDE or Gnome,
my convertable laptop runs Manjaro Gnome, but I think my non touch multi monitor 4k setup could run better with KDE.
I will probably use BTRFS and LUKS2.
Is it easy to increase partition sizes in that combination?
My laptop runs EXT4 with LUKS, at least with GUI no easy increase, I purposely didn't allocate 500 GB, and now can't do that easily; it would be enabled in the GUI if it is safu to do that; I wait until my current allocation is full, cause can't $hit backup storage or money.
That's my happy sad story, at least partially. :D
Last but not least, why is /bin a symbolic link to /usr/bin in manjaro (as well as lib, lib64, sbin and so on)?
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Ricky
Linux have a lot of drivers problem like wifi, and Bluetooth. No support for proprietary software. A boomer way to use a pc. Sucks in gaming. 0 drivers for finger print, touch screen and al those fancy features that everybody wants. The worst Nvidia drivers support. The most toxic community in IT. Ugly looking UI. Recently the OS with most cyber attacks passing Windows. Not run well in every PC. People and companies use it because is free (Imagine the quality). Is a weak OS with not many apps out of the box. Poor people with old weak ass pc waiting for the hard work of other the get it for free and then call it (Open source). You can't make money in the linux market. Drivers by 3rd partys random guys from weird countries over your network hardware. Linux users live talking shit about windows, Microsoft and bill gate all the time, and they can't get that out of their heads and live in peace with their OS. Appstore looks so fake, poor, ugly with few ugliest poor programmed apps. File system sucks. No big companies apps like Adobe or Office or streamlabs, Icue. And I can continue and this come from an ex linux user (for 5 months and I switch back to Windows 10) The worst experience ever! -
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Linux have a lot of drivers problem like wifi, and Bluetooth. No support for proprietary software. A boomer way to use a pc. Sucks in gaming. 0 drivers for finger print, touch screen and al those fancy features that everybody wants. The worst Nvidia drivers support. The most toxic community in IT. Ugly looking UI. Recently the OS with most cyber attacks passing Windows. Not run well in every PC. People and companies use it because is free (Imagine the quality). Is a weak OS with not many apps out of the box. Poor people with old weak ass pc waiting for the hard work of other the get it for free and then call it (Open source). You can't make money in the linux market. Drivers by 3rd partys random guys from weird countries over your network hardware. Linux users live talking shit about windows, Microsoft and bill gate all the time, and they can't get that out of their heads and live in peace with their OS. Appstore looks so fake, poor, ugly with few ugliest poor programmed apps. File system sucks. No big companies apps like Adobe or Office or streamlabs, Icue. And I can continue and this come from an ex linux user (for 5 months and I switch back to Windows 10) The worst experience ever! -
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sam
I tinkered with Linux for a reasonable period in the past, a little with fedora, but mostly ubuntu based distros, but always went back to windows because gaming. I liked windows 7, and I refused to upgrade, even when support ended. Finally broke down and went to windows 10, and I had it for about a week before it somehow broke itself, even with automatic updates turned off, and wouldn't boot. I got so mad about it that I just ditched my windows install entirely. I don't dual boot, and I won't have anything to do with windows. I have been using Manjaro ever since, which was a learning curve because I only knew how to use apt, but I love it. I learned to do the things I need to do in linux, using alternative programs where I need to. Gaming is actually really doable now, and the overall experience after taking the time to learn it is far better than windows.
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I tinkered with Linux for a reasonable period in the past, a little with fedora, but mostly ubuntu based distros, but always went back to windows because gaming. I liked windows 7, and I refused to upgrade, even when support ended. Finally broke down and went to windows 10, and I had it for about a week before it somehow broke itself, even with automatic updates turned off, and wouldn't boot. I got so mad about it that I just ditched my windows install entirely. I don't dual boot, and I won't have anything to do with windows. I have been using Manjaro ever since, which was a learning curve because I only knew how to use apt, but I love it. I learned to do the things I need to do in linux, using alternative programs where I need to. Gaming is actually really doable now, and the overall experience after taking the time to learn it is far better than windows.
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Jay
I just agree with the first portion of this video up in two minutes 57 seconds. I think most people use windows because new Linux distributions are pretty easy to use; if Chrome OS or Mac OS Doesn-t show that people are willing to learn. I feel the main reason why Linux is not adopted is that windows comes on the computer and the license is included in the price of the computer so you don-t really have a choice in that respect. In the average person is not going to uninstall the operating system and reinstall a different operating system on the operating system they have works good enough if Linux distributions were available on mainstream computers as a default option I think the adoption rate would go way up
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I just agree with the first portion of this video up in two minutes 57 seconds. I think most people use windows because new Linux distributions are pretty easy to use; if Chrome OS or Mac OS Doesn-t show that people are willing to learn. I feel the main reason why Linux is not adopted is that windows comes on the computer and the license is included in the price of the computer so you don-t really have a choice in that respect. In the average person is not going to uninstall the operating system and reinstall a different operating system on the operating system they have works good enough if Linux distributions were available on mainstream computers as a default option I think the adoption rate would go way up
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Peter
There's a few peeve's I have with Windows and having two versions of the same settings menus is one of them. It just makes it confusing. And yes, not a big fan of the new ones for the fact you have to click on multiple settings to get to what you want to change. Whereas on the old ones, they're just all there as they should. Having to setup a new Windows install on a new laptop (as a Windows 10 update bricked the last laptop - good on ya MS), it's amazing how many settings you have to customize to get it back to where you're comfortable again (uninstall the garbage, fix the privacy etc). Realising this after the Win10 update fiasco and seeing how Linux has improved even more, it might be time to revisit.
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There's a few peeve's I have with Windows and having two versions of the same settings menus is one of them. It just makes it confusing. And yes, not a big fan of the new ones for the fact you have to click on multiple settings to get to what you want to change. Whereas on the old ones, they're just all there as they should. Having to setup a new Windows install on a new laptop (as a Windows 10 update bricked the last laptop - good on ya MS), it's amazing how many settings you have to customize to get it back to where you're comfortable again (uninstall the garbage, fix the privacy etc). Realising this after the Win10 update fiasco and seeing how Linux has improved even more, it might be time to revisit.
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acajoom
You got to know something not mentioned in the video by using a phrase mentioned in it -stop making linux act like windows- is exactly what I saw in the linux presentation of it. All the games that are not native for linux are because the developers of those games did not even bother to make a linux version (the reasons is another talk). Many companies out there do make a linux version and more do every day. Until then, we can only blame the companies/developers and not linux. I see no reason to convince people to drive a free ferrari when they prefer a painted paid donkey only because it will take them home when they are drunk.
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You got to know something not mentioned in the video by using a phrase mentioned in it -stop making linux act like windows- is exactly what I saw in the linux presentation of it. All the games that are not native for linux are because the developers of those games did not even bother to make a linux version (the reasons is another talk). Many companies out there do make a linux version and more do every day. Until then, we can only blame the companies/developers and not linux. I see no reason to convince people to drive a free ferrari when they prefer a painted paid donkey only because it will take them home when they are drunk.
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Izzy
I prefer linux but I mostly use windows, because game compadibility is still not quite perfect and for me it has to be exactly aqurate because I do speedruning. Also Livesplit the speedruning timer is very janky and dosnt allow auto load removing or autospliting which is required for a lot of games. so unforentitly I have to use windows for that. Linux on my laptop however and no issue. Plus I try to keep windows as unbolted as possible using your debloater and uninstalling things like xbox, windows media player and edge
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I prefer linux but I mostly use windows, because game compadibility is still not quite perfect and for me it has to be exactly aqurate because I do speedruning. Also Livesplit the speedruning timer is very janky and dosnt allow auto load removing or autospliting which is required for a lot of games. so unforentitly I have to use windows for that. Linux on my laptop however and no issue. Plus I try to keep windows as unbolted as possible using your debloater and uninstalling things like xbox, windows media player and edge
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Lukas
My take on it was -My OS is fine as long as it doesn't get in my way- and previously Linux got way more in my way than Windows did, but lately Windows makes my pretty decent PC (AMD R5 1600-3,8GHz + RX 5700XT + 16GB 2660MHz RAM + 1TB NVME SSD) feel sluggish and it just gets really annoying (the install is only 6 months old), meanwhile linux makes my PC feel like a brand new gaming pc (and I get wobbly windows thanks to KDE, which is something I now can't live without anymore).
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My take on it was -My OS is fine as long as it doesn't get in my way- and previously Linux got way more in my way than Windows did, but lately Windows makes my pretty decent PC (AMD R5 1600-3,8GHz + RX 5700XT + 16GB 2660MHz RAM + 1TB NVME SSD) feel sluggish and it just gets really annoying (the install is only 6 months old), meanwhile linux makes my PC feel like a brand new gaming pc (and I get wobbly windows thanks to KDE, which is something I now can't live without anymore).
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Timothy
The problem is people don't run operating systems. They run programs. What is the point of running Linux if you're an accountant who uses QuickBooks, Oracle reports smartview for Excel, and SAP. If you're a professional photographer and advertising professional who makes marketing material then what value is Linux? Unless you're an IT professional or an ocd autistic nerd I see no value unfortunately who just wants to tinker then I see no value
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The problem is people don't run operating systems. They run programs. What is the point of running Linux if you're an accountant who uses QuickBooks, Oracle reports smartview for Excel, and SAP. If you're a professional photographer and advertising professional who makes marketing material then what value is Linux? Unless you're an IT professional or an ocd autistic nerd I see no value unfortunately who just wants to tinker then I see no value
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serge
But in gaming u double click and that's it your gaming on Linux I still can't sit that workout finding searching down fixes like that's just a waste of time and even that can break with an update I don't like that it's rediculous . I also don't like the scaling it looks too small on my laptop . It's just not working without doing extra work without for sure that y will even get a good outcome
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But in gaming u double click and that's it your gaming on Linux I still can't sit that workout finding searching down fixes like that's just a waste of time and even that can break with an update I don't like that it's rediculous . I also don't like the scaling it looks too small on my laptop . It's just not working without doing extra work without for sure that y will even get a good outcome
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