Who should use Linux? - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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andreasvukman
Linux is not for everyone. It's for the people who have a lot of time. And when I say a lot of time, then I mean a lot of time. A lot. I used to use Linux between 1995 and 2010, and then switched to Hackintosh. Never looked back. Every year I give Linux a try, and every year I go back to my superior Hackintosh. MacOS is rock solid, it's Unix, a lot of open source apps have been ported to MacOS, and on top of that there are plenty of high quality MacOS apps that are not available on Linux. I have an Intel Xeon machine, 40 Gb of ECC RAM, AMD Radeon RX570 GPU, and 4 super fast SSDs. MacOS and Windows 10 fly on this machine, both take 10 seconds to boot, and apps open instantly. And Linux? It takes about 2 minutes for Linux to boot, and 2 minutes to start a browser on desktop. Two minutes to start an app? The trouble is I don't have time to fix the damn thing. I suspect it has something to do with my GPU, but It's impossible to install original AMD drivers, and nobody knows why. AMD doesn't give a shit about Linux. Some distros can't even recognize my printer, and without being able to print I am not going to use an operating system. Printer manufacturers don't give a shit about Linux either. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but with years I started to value my time more than before, so I'd rather play piano and compose music than compile Linux apps and troubleshoot. I want my operating system to be reliable, and MacOS is just that, a rock solid and reliable. It works.
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Linux is not for everyone. It's for the people who have a lot of time. And when I say a lot of time, then I mean a lot of time. A lot. I used to use Linux between 1995 and 2010, and then switched to Hackintosh. Never looked back. Every year I give Linux a try, and every year I go back to my superior Hackintosh. MacOS is rock solid, it's Unix, a lot of open source apps have been ported to MacOS, and on top of that there are plenty of high quality MacOS apps that are not available on Linux. I have an Intel Xeon machine, 40 Gb of ECC RAM, AMD Radeon RX570 GPU, and 4 super fast SSDs. MacOS and Windows 10 fly on this machine, both take 10 seconds to boot, and apps open instantly. And Linux? It takes about 2 minutes for Linux to boot, and 2 minutes to start a browser on desktop. Two minutes to start an app? The trouble is I don't have time to fix the damn thing. I suspect it has something to do with my GPU, but It's impossible to install original AMD drivers, and nobody knows why. AMD doesn't give a shit about Linux. Some distros can't even recognize my printer, and without being able to print I am not going to use an operating system. Printer manufacturers don't give a shit about Linux either. Don't get me wrong, I love Linux, but with years I started to value my time more than before, so I'd rather play piano and compose music than compile Linux apps and troubleshoot. I want my operating system to be reliable, and MacOS is just that, a rock solid and reliable. It works.
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Adrian
Titus you are one of the few people I like to follow on Youtube, but lately you have become very arrogant. For some (as in your case) Linux is something extraordinary. You can do anything, and for what you can't do, you take the time to solve and use it 100%. For others (as is my case), even if I like linux, I stay on windows every day just because I don't have time to worry and make any program I need into a linux compatible program. And there are others, such as my children, who simply enjoy what Windows has to offer and learn Linux just for a future job. You don't do well to judge the world by what they use, You don't do well to consider yourself superior to others (LINUS) because you use Linux and he doesn't want to use it.If I hadn't started with Linux in my youth, I probably wouldn't have known what it was at this time. Please be good and don't consider yourself the center of the universe anymore. Be a normal Linux user, not an arrogant one that people only hate when they look at the video clip thumbnail. A little editing and a little humility doesn't hurt.
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Titus you are one of the few people I like to follow on Youtube, but lately you have become very arrogant. For some (as in your case) Linux is something extraordinary. You can do anything, and for what you can't do, you take the time to solve and use it 100%. For others (as is my case), even if I like linux, I stay on windows every day just because I don't have time to worry and make any program I need into a linux compatible program. And there are others, such as my children, who simply enjoy what Windows has to offer and learn Linux just for a future job. You don't do well to judge the world by what they use, You don't do well to consider yourself superior to others (LINUS) because you use Linux and he doesn't want to use it.If I hadn't started with Linux in my youth, I probably wouldn't have known what it was at this time. Please be good and don't consider yourself the center of the universe anymore. Be a normal Linux user, not an arrogant one that people only hate when they look at the video clip thumbnail. A little editing and a little humility doesn't hurt.
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Lander1
A few years back I set up an Arch Linux installation on a 120mb USB SSD drive on my main rig so that I could make life easier on myself trying to partition the drives for my Raspberry Pi 3b+, Just for fun I installed STEAM and WINE and gave some of my games a try, and found alot of it was running smoother than on my Native Windows10 installation, not only that but the computer would boot up alot faster as well. I also felt more in control and more trust for Liinux than I did with Windows10 which seems bent on collecting information about me rather than doing what I want. I soon DD'd the installation to a 2TB drive and it has become my main driver. It took some time to set up but I rarely need to do anything drastic to maintain it, it simply works, smoother and faster and more trustworthy than Windows10 could ever hope to be due to it's focus on being a piece of big tek corporate spyware junk.
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A few years back I set up an Arch Linux installation on a 120mb USB SSD drive on my main rig so that I could make life easier on myself trying to partition the drives for my Raspberry Pi 3b+, Just for fun I installed STEAM and WINE and gave some of my games a try, and found alot of it was running smoother than on my Native Windows10 installation, not only that but the computer would boot up alot faster as well. I also felt more in control and more trust for Liinux than I did with Windows10 which seems bent on collecting information about me rather than doing what I want. I soon DD'd the installation to a 2TB drive and it has become my main driver. It took some time to set up but I rarely need to do anything drastic to maintain it, it simply works, smoother and faster and more trustworthy than Windows10 could ever hope to be due to it's focus on being a piece of big tek corporate spyware junk.
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John
I think I am seeing more of the pattern. Just like Windows bash MacOS users on how MacOS is so lock down everything and can't do xyz; Linux users say the same thing to Windows users. But at the same time, how MacOS users bash Windows users on how certain things crashes all the time and is not tightly integrated, Windows users complains about how in Linux so many things don't work out of the box and one has to manually tinker everything. It is about the amount of control. Similarly, on how MacOS users complain that Windows' default look of the UI is so boring or is not intuitive, Windows users often complain how Linux default apps look terrible or lack of certain intuitive functionalities.
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I think I am seeing more of the pattern. Just like Windows bash MacOS users on how MacOS is so lock down everything and can't do xyz; Linux users say the same thing to Windows users. But at the same time, how MacOS users bash Windows users on how certain things crashes all the time and is not tightly integrated, Windows users complains about how in Linux so many things don't work out of the box and one has to manually tinker everything. It is about the amount of control. Similarly, on how MacOS users complain that Windows' default look of the UI is so boring or is not intuitive, Windows users often complain how Linux default apps look terrible or lack of certain intuitive functionalities.
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o2yry5
Well as car mechanic you probably use Windows XP most of the time and if you are Engineer/R&D you use Windows 10 for CAD programs (Catia, NX Graphics) and if you program microcontroller you use Windows 7/10 (for Siemens software) + Linux (for programming hardware). BTW I am big fan of how things work under Windows from user perspective around Windows -you need to install correct driver to make your hardware work at all on this system- era when changing shells was possible and you could did true magic from registry level (obvious security flaw), the days when dlls and other low level stuff was more friendly for tinkerers and less friendly to normal user.
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Well as car mechanic you probably use Windows XP most of the time and if you are Engineer/R&D you use Windows 10 for CAD programs (Catia, NX Graphics) and if you program microcontroller you use Windows 7/10 (for Siemens software) + Linux (for programming hardware). BTW I am big fan of how things work under Windows from user perspective around Windows -you need to install correct driver to make your hardware work at all on this system- era when changing shells was possible and you could did true magic from registry level (obvious security flaw), the days when dlls and other low level stuff was more friendly for tinkerers and less friendly to normal user.
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FableBlaze
The thing is that most computer users in my opinion do not view an operating system as source of enjoyment in of itself. Instead the source of enjoyment is the applications you run on top of the operating system, and if you look at it like that then it does not really matter how customisable the operating system is, it just has to be stable, reliable, and something that you relay do not even think about much. The same by the way also applies to web browsers, they are just tools to display web pages, like an operating system is just a tool to use and manage applications and files.
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The thing is that most computer users in my opinion do not view an operating system as source of enjoyment in of itself. Instead the source of enjoyment is the applications you run on top of the operating system, and if you look at it like that then it does not really matter how customisable the operating system is, it just has to be stable, reliable, and something that you relay do not even think about much. The same by the way also applies to web browsers, they are just tools to display web pages, like an operating system is just a tool to use and manage applications and files.
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Michael
maybe a good idea to enjoy more the experience of using a Linux desktop is to just to have all OSes at your disposal. I bought a Galago Pro to do all those 'creative' things you mention and I broke the OS already a couple of times. So at the end I use it only tor tinkering, tweaking, programming from time to time, knowing that I'm going to break it, and I'm going to set it unstable. If I need to do something fast without worrying that the system will crash for all the hacking I did to it, I just jump to the more boring but stable OSes.
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maybe a good idea to enjoy more the experience of using a Linux desktop is to just to have all OSes at your disposal. I bought a Galago Pro to do all those 'creative' things you mention and I broke the OS already a couple of times. So at the end I use it only tor tinkering, tweaking, programming from time to time, knowing that I'm going to break it, and I'm going to set it unstable. If I need to do something fast without worrying that the system will crash for all the hacking I did to it, I just jump to the more boring but stable OSes.
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Gabriel
I think this is a particular point of view centered in the sole operating system. Another perspective can be that those who care about freedom of information and privacy, can improve their overal experience by using a well chosen Linux distribution, and also a well chosen browser and search engine. Those three things can make a huge difference when it comes to get the information without behavioural filters and commercial interests.
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I think this is a particular point of view centered in the sole operating system. Another perspective can be that those who care about freedom of information and privacy, can improve their overal experience by using a well chosen Linux distribution, and also a well chosen browser and search engine. Those three things can make a huge difference when it comes to get the information without behavioural filters and commercial interests.
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demon2441
I think this could also be said for building your own computer vs. using a pre-built. Your get much more control over what you want. However, with that said I think that we will soon reach a point where Linux market share will decrease because of the barrier to entry. Unless you have an easy method of getting people in, which Google of all companies may do except with the same problems people wanted to run away from in Windows.
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I think this could also be said for building your own computer vs. using a pre-built. Your get much more control over what you want. However, with that said I think that we will soon reach a point where Linux market share will decrease because of the barrier to entry. Unless you have an easy method of getting people in, which Google of all companies may do except with the same problems people wanted to run away from in Windows.
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Red
-0:11 If you are a gamer you should use Linux, too. Unless, you play games that aren't supported enough or require major tweaking but ... I don't play those games. - Saying if you are a gamer you shouldn't X, Y, Z platform makes no sense, unless you play games that aren't supported or always play the newest shit with the newest hardware available. -
-1:16 Unless you don't like the company and its corporate politics.
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-0:11 If you are a gamer you should use Linux, too. Unless, you play games that aren't supported enough or require major tweaking but ... I don't play those games. - Saying if you are a gamer you shouldn't X, Y, Z platform makes no sense, unless you play games that aren't supported or always play the newest shit with the newest hardware available. -
-1:16 Unless you don't like the company and its corporate politics.
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