Hey, DT! Why Choose Linux Over Windows? (And Other Questions)

31 thoughts on “Hey, DT! Why Choose Linux Over Windows? (And Other Questions)”

• I've heard it should be the size of your arm.

• My buddy said, "Linux is amazing it's fully customizable."
  Me 5 minutes later, the system won't boot anymore.

• i usually use swapfiles over swap partition. i only have 8gb ram on my laptop with 2gb swapfile. with blackbox it idles at like 300mb ram and the only time ive ever seen the swap used is with multiple vms running.

• Great, DT with glasses! Makes him almost an intellectual.

• Whole thing you talking about Windows is a ordinary LIE….so i am asking you why you LIED to people?
  Windows vs any Linux distro with same hardware work instantly when Linux lag and become lazy in everything.

• HEY DT ! Please explain why ARCH is not libre ?

• Why Linux? I still try to figure that out. Sure, it's faster but there isn't much to do while on Linux. There are no decent/easy to use software for my needs. So it doesn't mean that Linux is fast if I can't do much with it. Speed is one thing, but ultimately, some of us just want to run decent software to accomplish tasks, and I struggle finding good software for that on Linux.

• Hey DT here's one for you, hilarious YouTube short. I use Arch BTW programming language.

  https://youtube.com/shorts/ud7xI7UdfdU?si=UxgOxEVyfdPV__yh

• holy c that would be a 128gb swap. lol. of course not.

• hey dt i love your work how about you have a look at mine

• Considering the mechanics of an SSD and the limited life-span for writing-OPs I wouldn't want my SSD to handle SWAP (or /tmp – where most of the distros are thankfully switching to tmpfs)

• installing software is not better on linux. When i tried ubuntu installing steam and obs was a pain. the package management is so fragmented on linux, you have to learn about repositories, flatpaks, snaps, deb package to make apps work/install correctly. It is not easy as sudo apt install steam-installer. On windows choco and winget is so much better, it takes care of all the dependencies and there is only one type of package and it just works.

• How about taking a quick look at SDesk? Of course just if you want to. It's an Arch based Distro and there is a new version out. 2024_06_22. Just saw it on distrowatch.
  I'm wondering: Why are some new versions of Distributions called the "Release Date" as a name (like SDesk) and not a continuing number like Linux Mint having 3 or so "Updates" like 20.0, 20.1, 20.2, 20.3 and then 21.0, 21.1, 21.2, 21.3 (latest) etc…
  Would you like to give your opinion on the Release naming?
  Is it just a preference thing for each linux company or are there some benefits I'm not aware of with using those naming schemes?

  And last but not least: Why choose Linux over WIndows?
  One word: "Copilot+ PC"
  Nobody who is even just a little concerned about privacy want's this privacy evading data collector being there on every Win11 PC by any means.

  I run Win10 as my main OS. Every 30 days or so, the PC restarts for no reason. And then there are Updates that can't be installed, rolled back and after 30min, I'm finally able to use the PC. I definitely will install Linux and when I find my favourite LinuxDistro, I will make the switch. (I have around 30 or more virtual machines running different Linux distros on them for comparison reasons on a different 2nd HDD.). Maintanance is a nightmare. Every time I start a machine I haven't used for months, it always takes so long to make all the updates. Some things break and this frustrates me.

  So which Distro would you recommend? (Probably Arch)

  And which main Programs would you recommend? (This is the reason for me not to have switched yet. I want to have my programs or some decent alternatives running so that I can use those kind of programs like before). Haven't got the time for looking up those programs and for actually doing the installation.
  Probably I should get a 2nd NVME drive. That way if something goes horribly wrong, I have a way going back.

  Backup is another thing. My other drives are all linked. I have to find the stuff I like and transfer it or it would probably be locked and maybe not accessible on a new machine or even another platform like Linux.

  How about formatting external HDDs? Is Linux able to use NTFS, are there some filesize or other limitations and which format would you recommend for future drives? Btrfs probably I guess.

• Swap Partition is USELESS as way to extend your RAM, RAM is too cheap that you can add more RAM, instead of adding SWAP…. BUT Swap Partition is to be about < 100% of your RAM, so that you can do hibernate.. or disk sleep…. on your linux machine.

• Windows vs Linux… I thought I was going to switch my daughter over to Linux on her new computer. The plan was to back up her hard drive from the old computer and use one of my spare SSDs. Well, I grabbed a 1TB SSD off the shelf, put it in the new computer with a bootable Linux USB stick and forgot to make the USB stick the first boot option. Well, the hard drive was one a friend of mine gave me after he updated his wife's PC. He knew I was into using multiple drives in external drive cases for backup purposes so he gave me that drive. Well, I can say I have TONS of those drives so I just put it on a shelf and forgot about it. So I put this thing in my daughters PC and it was the first thing that booted. It has Windows 10 on it. It booted right up. My daughter was very excited about that. But even on a brand new PC, this thing had a bunch of stuff that my friends wife had installed onto it like security software and whatnot. So it takes a while for it to boot up even on this brand new machine. Windows is pokey on a BRAND NEW COMPUTER. I'm kind of sad for her because it's only going to get worse from here. Maybe she'll ask me to install Linux on it in the future. I mean, it is Windows 10 and it'll be EOL next year so… 2025 may be the year my daughter switches to Linux. She wants nothing to do with Windows 11.

• this is real year of linux, a lot of people will switch to linux because of recall spyware

• 12:48 I just switched to Linux. For now as dual-booted env with Windows. Generally from usability perspective – it's worse. Not much worse, but still. Games run not so well as on Windows, with Vulkan sometimes hanging the whole system so that I can't even switch to different virtual terminal. Java apps generally work worse and have occasional hang for 1-2 minutes (with settings identical as on Windows). Sound – I have ALSA, PipeWire, PulseAudio and each of them sucks. I want to record stereo mix, internal or external microphone in Audacity, without switching it in external program. Why there is anything more in my inputs list? I want to see all audio devices in all audio GUI programs. Why sometimes they disappear? I want to share screen on KDE Plasma on Discord and Skype. Why apps using X11 see any change and can't access the whole screen as they could before? There are many such annoyances.
  As of better things – Linux (quite "bloated" distro) starts faster.
  I don't like the whole idea of package management. I think that the job of packaging software should only be done once, by the creator. Of course nobody forbids anyone else from doing so. But on Windows I always download installers from the vendor's website, I never use sketchy third-party portals/repos/whatever. But repeating the same job for every single distro feels silly for me. Provide stable system API and let the programs just run. Moreover – how do I download program for airgapped computer for Pacman/Apt? On Windows it is just one .exe or .msi. On most Linux distros.. how do I do it (of course including transitive dependencies)?
  I like it, I can afford time to fix things here and there, but anybody preparing for swich should prepare for things breaking. Now the decision is easier as Windows also became something like rolling distribution with users as beta-testers.
  I don't expect Linux to respect me. I expect it to move out of the way.

• You can't apply a simple single multiple. The less RAM you have the more swap you need, proportionally. In my experience, 4GB swap partition is ideal for everything from 512MB to 4GB (on what is now considered retro/legacy hardware). More than 4GB RAM but less than 12GB? Swap space should match RAM. Once you get machines with 12GB or more (classic edgelord early adopter) you can get away with no swap, maybe go with a swap file rather than a partition just in case. I'm also assuming full-featured DE like KDE, Gnome, or Cinnamon. If you use something built on a lightweight DE (XCFE, LXDE, IceWM, etc,) you can probably stop allocating swap space at around the 8GB RAM level.

• I don't understand why anyone would chose Windows over Linux (unless you have games or Legacy software that strictly require Windows)

• Only reason I partially switched to linux is because of 2gb ram and Pentium dual core processor.
  I tried almost all main distros and finally settled on arch + cinnamon.
  Linux should have been mainstream long time ago but I think many developers lack common sense and with that mentality I doubt if it is ever gonna be default for normal people.

• Who uses swap?

• MANY distros lately create swap FILES in the root directory and will ignore swap partitions — especially with the 2024 distros

• Hey DT I’m really happy because you are using arch btw 😂

• hey dt, i wanna know from where do you get your wallpapers?

• In Debian stable default swap partition is 1GB and I have it like this, but it is basically not used because I set swappiness to 0 so it should be used only when memory is running out. But my Debian 12 with Gnome when I run Chrome with lots of tabs open just hangs, only hard reset helps, there is probably bug somewhere. It happens not once but all the time when I open few apps and lot of Chrome tabs.

• DT, just wanted to thank you for your videos. I wiped my Windows 10 NVMe drive this morning and installed Arch. So far everything is working! I'm glad I made the decision to leave the world of Microsoft.

• 7:43 google is proprietary

• @ 15:41 Agreed;… Ubuntu Linux gives U GR8 freedom;…
  That is until Crappy Google tries 2 take over;…
  Google use;… hide so many cookies;… try 2 block them & google makes life miserable…

• I don't use swap partition. I've set swap file and can change it's size by simple commands.

• LOL we used to have some simple calculation for the perfect swap size, now I just BUY MORE RAM!!! **LAUGHS IN DDR5**

• I don't fully agree with your take on FreeBSD. It's true that if you want all the latest bleeding edge stuff, it's the wrong choice. But if you want a STABLE desktop with a familiar environment like KDE, XFCE, you absolutely can rock it. It's less forgiving to mistakes, and the forums are less tolerant of "beggars" (people who ask poorly written questions or didn't show evidence they tried to look at the man pages). There's less hardware support, especially with laptops and wifi drivers in particular. Sound usually works, but I've seen some issues with audio over the video signal (HDMI audio thru a display port adapter, say). But those are the exception , not the rule. FreeBSD is absolutely taking a look at if you want a system that is stable, solid, and you don't intend to constantly be messing with. It would be a perfect way to recycle PCs for people who just want to browse the internet.

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