Linux Problems

41 thoughts on “Linux Problems”

• One of my personal issues with most distros is the coupling together of OS and Application package management. You can decouple them by using multiple package managers, flatpaks, or even manually installing and you will generally have a more stable experience.

• Mention the problem in the document so people facing the same problem can reach the document through surfing the web 🕸️

• I honestly just use ltsc windows10 and that’s it. No more headache no more tinker

• I just couldn't get used to Linux I tryed 5 different versions and couldn't get used to it plus I hate command line

• I haven't had any issues with Wayland or my 7900XT. All my games are buttery smooth. It took a bit of work to get HIP support for Blender cycles rendering but the system works perfect. As for Resolve, AMD is horrible no matter the system even on Windows. My 7900XT runs worse to Resolve than my GTX1080FTW3 a card that's almost a decade old. Those CUDA cores are priceless.

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• Using xorg with a wm but setting resolution and cloning through a script instead of xorg config file.
  "Use alsa and strip out complexity" while actually using pulseaudio because if you truly used pure alsa you can have a single audio output active at once(not a device but a single program takes over and block all other audio programs of outputting audio) and if you actually did that you wouldn't have audio in your recording and pavucontrol itself is a pulseaudio configuration tool not alsa. Not to mention a lot of software doesn't bother supporting pure alsa anymore.
  Pipewire is literally drop in replacement for pulseaudio, alsa and jack so it's a user issue if it's not working. Setting up pipewire is a 5 min job at most on archlinux. Also disabling HDMI audio outputs on windows is completely useless when a gpu driver update always resets them back on both on nvidia and amd.

  AMD card issues are most likely because you installed the wrong driver because I haven't encountered a single under utilization issue only performance issues(100% utilization but very low fps) with the amd open source vulkan driver not RADV.

  I'd just summarize this as a user skill issue. I've seen at least 10 of your videos in total when they sometimes pop up on my recommended and basically every single time whether on windows or linux you're doing hacky workarounds that are usually completely unnecessary.

• using desktop environments is like using windows in my view. it's annoying af.

  if you're already experienced in linux just avoid desktop environments and build something yourself using bspwm, dwm or similar ((tiling) window manager).

• I Miss the good old Amiga Workbench 3.9 days :p

• My main problem with Linux now (other than not being able to use my AMD GPU as a HIP render device in Blender) is lackluster performance of sub-1.13 versions of Minecraft. I tried resolving it by using, supposedly older, set of JVM arguments and installing Oracle Java instead of OpenJDK. None worked – Minecraft in fullscreen won't let the cursor be used anywhere else in the system and can't be run on max details with Optifine.
  Otherwise it works great in 1.13+ versions, no issue. I do no longer play the older ones, yet I'd like to figure it out so I could more easily recommend the switch to other people. Would anyone know a fix for that?

• davinci resolve always had issues with amd gpu i had be traying to make it work and never work i start doing my video editing in a lapyop i have with and nvidia 1050 and i have another with an 3050 my main have a amd 6600 i got it really cheap like 2 years ego and i have another computer with a 580 amd gpu today i dont know if are rhe new driverd or something change or windows 11 but just work davinco use full power of my amd gpu both the amd 6600 in one of my computers and the 580

• Very interesting. I’m interested in Mac or Linux if the new feature that takes screenshots every few seconds starts. Going to ditch windows then.

  But I just don’t like to tinker endlessly to get Linux working. That’s not for me..

• A lot of channels recommend Linux Mint as a "go-to" stable Linux distro that just works. Personally I've always had issues with the way some things work on it – Like
  – You can't create a new folder from the left pane unless you open it in the right
  – I can't bookmark network shares correctly and if you add it as a favourite, you can't remove it LOL
  There's a few other annoyances as well.

  Personally I just use Ultramarine KDE (a Fedora derivative). I haven't had any issues upgrading the system from older versions. I also don't use it for anything too taxing – mainly browsing, email, Office docs, file manipulation, handbrake, torrents, playing videos. It handles all this pretty well. Where it's more time consuming is bulk renaming files, file searches and updating ID3 tags of media files. I still do MP3 tags on Windows because no Linux program comes close to MP3Tag. I really wish they'd release a Linux version.

• And this is why we are still soooo far away from Linux becoming mainstream on desktop.

• I'll switch to pipewire and wayland in 2030

• I am using Debian with a 6800XT. The GPU works fine. I have zero issues. The 1080Ti always had odd issues with a second screen. Totally the opposite experience.

• 0:45 Thank you for not lying about Linux and how it just works.

• With all this AI stuff coming with copilot+ etc. and as a gamer that plays pretty much everything out there. What would you recommend as a new user to Linux for what distribution to try out? Right now this Recall and Copilot are limited to newer systems that I have but the sooner I learn Linux the better. I have been using windows all the way back to 3.11 on our old 386 when I was a kid.

• i say F_____K copyright be dammed! its just protects the rich, put .exe and EFF MS copyyright lucaky wine gettign better. finish react OS. copyright be screwed it only protects the rich fight back!

• Same, I love linux and would love to go back to using it as my daily. But with everyupdate things would just get glitchy. Like audio and video.

• Funnily enough, when Arch Linux switched to pipewire, after some initial problems, it has basically solved any audio issues I had.

• Resolve was the reason I switched back to Windows, due to lack of support for my mp4 footage. It was easier to just abandon Linux than go through converting terabytes of footage to appease an already subpar desktop experience. I use Linux constantly on my server, but desktop just needs to improve overall if it's ever going to get wider adoption. Chris touched on it in the video a bit, but one of the main things holding it back from improving is the community arguing excuses for the problems instead of pushing to improve them. Shortcomings are often addressed with stuff like "oh, that's Nvidia's fault" or "that's because [insert commercial OS] pays for the license for that feature" instead of acknowledging that the end result is still a subpar end user experience. It would go a long way if the FOSS community would learn to develop around closed source stuff like proprietary drivers and codecs, and accept coexisting with them instead of sacrificing user experience over ideological differences. Instead of complaining that companies charge money for things we wish were open source, maybe focus on negotiating sustainable contracts with them that allow for licensing what you need from them. Commercialized Linux maintainers like IBM and Canonical would benefit their entire userbase and bottom line with wider adoption if they would just budget for these things to cover those licensing fees. I might even look into paying a reasonable amount for an upgrade to Ubuntu Pro if it included the missing codecs for Resolve's Linux version to fully support mp4 like Windows, just as an example. Instead we just get a bunch of people in the community complaining about how companies like Nvidia are evil for keeping their software closed source.

• Not a gamer but enjoyed the tech. Thanks…

• 2:21 This is exactly why I am not on Arch anymore, updates would cause issues too often.

  I switched to Debian 12 and stayed there for at least a year, but on Debian I had opposite issues, I assume cause of too old NVIDIA driver, for example CS 2 would just freeze as soon as I shoot something, while on Arch it worked just fine(had both systems installed for some time, so I could test it).

  Then I went for golden middle ground and I am on Fedora now, no issues with rolling release updates, nor with too old versions. I've assumed Fedora 39 would have less issues than newest Fedora 40, so I am on 39 and will switch to 40 once 39 reaches EOL.

• Great Video again. When I will retire I will change from MacOS to Linux because I would not have to use certain Apps any longer. But there is still one issue for me:
  When will Linux be able to give me HDR10 support? Or is there a solution meanwhile?

• Ever since the 555 driver came out I've been using Wayland (Hyprland and sometimes Plasma) exclusively on Nvidia and I haven't looked back.

• Linux is not perfect, what is? but boy is fun recently learned to automate my Debian install with just a Preseed file and then running Ansible-pull from my gitlab repo to set up the whole desktop(update system,install packages, set up dotfiles,etc).

• i use EXWM BTW

• One can’t really understand how good macOS is until they’ve used Linux for some time. And I know only a few people are prepared for a conversation like this…

• If Linux had a larger user base these problems would be found and fixed more quickly. Windows and Mac have plenty of problems to, they just are picked up and fixed before most people even know about them. Of course they are also stealing your data and telling you how to use your system.

• My main gripe with linux comes with program reversion and an overall dependence on the internet to install software. I sometimes like to keep around older versions of software, sometimes because they work differently or because they have better features. On linux, this can be way harder than on windows. On windows I have an exe that contains that specific version of the software and I can install it without the internet pretty easily. On linux,. I have to compile versions of software myself and store it somewhere or I have to choose not to update and that version will most likely not work on a newer version of the os. Appimage is finally allowing me to store older versions of software this way, which i why i use i so much.

• The biggest problem I see is the reliant in to Terminal for a task that could have done in desktop environment GUI, meanwhile Linux devs doesn't even WANT to fix those issues and I have to go to terminal memorize 1000+ command words and places to find my way in, VS just only remember icons and easy to remember word, I cannot even make my none IT literate friends to remember terminal so yeah, as long as linux users forcing everyone to use terminal I dont think the word ease of use can be apply in to this OS lol.

• I use XFCE as my desktop environment. It gets out of the way and when it breaks it still tends to be usable. I get wanting a slimmed down OS, but XFCE isn't that big, and it's compatible with a lot of existing GUI elements. Anyhow, welcome to my TED talk.

• OH NO! Resolve hates pipewire, but OBS needs it!😑

• Currently having a difficulty of understanding why 7800xt doesn't work for you. Maybe because the games you're playing it with aren't maxed to use the full capacity of the gpu? I mean… I get that a lot. I'm currently on both AMD and Nvidia. To confirm, the case of not utilizing above 50% is the other way around for me. My AMD GPU is an RX 6550M and my Nvidia is an RTX 3070. You can see the difference there is big. But when i use the laptop with the AMD gpu, linux uses it at full capacity on games like Helldivers. Heck i even think at times it's just perfect for it. Whereas the RTX 3070 hovers the game at higher settings between 60-80%. Haven't seen it hit 100% or stay at 99%. But the fact that my 3070 can still perform the game pretty well actually impresses me more than how much utilization it uses. The only thing I really question with your use of the 7800xt is if you are really using it to the fullest. Next thing i know you're running things at 1080p and not 2k or 4k despite what monitor you have. I just find it hard to believe cause i can do that underutilization even in Windows. It really depends on how you want to push it.

  EDIT: I'm beginning to understand your issue. And i think it's dual monitor. Just a thought… Not final yet… Just a thought.

• Is there a way to use Visual Studios 2022 and MS SQL Management Studio on linux or do I need wine for that?

• Maybe you cam make video how setup orca screan reader on arch Linux to work?

• I would say and claim that the "it just works" is aimed more towards the less technically inclined people like your parents and grandparents who only really need the computer for the most basic of tasks. The moment you start to want to play games, use specialized software or hardware and so on, you're going to inevitably encounter problems.

• Thanks for the deep insight into your hardware and software requirements. I have average Linux skills, but I'm in the process of learning more and more. Looking at your problems makes me understand my current situation! You have helped me by working out your problems, as I have had almost the same experience in the last month…! Tuxedo OS2 goes 3 – wayland is now supported… I use KDE and also have the pulseaudio issue. Will have a look at your description! Other example: libinput gestures are still working fine on x11, not at all on wayland. I'm using AMD hardware on the really really awesome Tuxedo Pulse 15 gen2 laptop. Long story short: I've now plucked up the courage to go troubleshooting with Tuxedo's great customer service! This Tomte software will certainly help 😅

• Imma be honest I used Fedora 39 on my old laptop with wayland, and it ran falwlessly. It was an ancient nvidia card the geforce 930m and it just worked.
  When I tried xorg I had weird glitches and random slowdowns and all so I just stuck with wayland. And then I got a new laptop with an rtx 3050 mobile and tried running fedora 40 on it, after I installed the nvidia drivers it ran perfectly fine.
  Currently I don't use linux because most of the games I play uses anti cheat that doesn't work on linux so I just said why bother if I'm not gonna game on linux.

  On the topic of fedora, I tried fedora KDE absolutley hated it then switched to gnome and I loved it.

• Thanks for the good advice Chris! I am slowly migrating to Linux permanently and you are a treasure trove of information 🙂

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