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LTT's Linux Daily Driver Challenge Reaction Supercut

A bit over a year ago, Luke and Linus of Linus Tech Tips attempted to daily drive Linux for a month on their personal gaming rigs. The results were less than glamorous. Ironically, despite crediting himself for being “tech savvy”, Linus repeatedly demonstrated that he has next to no intuition when it comes to software, and this arrogance would cause him to make a great many silly mistakes over the course of this challenge. His genuine ignorance, on the other hand, reveals how silly and unintuitive Linux often actually is, even by the standards of battle-scarred Linux users. This compilation is intended to cut both ways; by offering insight into how users can improve their Linux experience, as well as how Linux can improve it’s user experience.

Note: I wanted to include the Twitter anecdote about developing for Linux, but I dropped it because it impacted the pace of the video too much.

@LinusTechTips’ Daily Driver Challenge:
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0506yDSgU7M
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E8IGy6I9Wo
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtsglXhbxno
Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rlg4K16ujFw

Youtubers by order of appearance:
@gardiner_bryant
@BrodieRobertson
@michael_tunnell
@SomeOrdinaryGamers
@PaV_Live
@niccoloveslinux
@ChrisTitusTech
@TechHut
@TheLinuxCast

Check out my Reaction Supercut of The Verge’s $2000 PC Build:

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26 thoughts on “LTT's Linux Daily Driver Challenge Reaction Supercut

  • Yo another super cut! I can expect the dame quality from the last.

  • "maybe in the future we'll have HDR support"

    *me, with plasma 6 beta and a tear in my eye*: we finally have it, guys 😭

  • its crazy how almost all reacters hace the same opinion on most of things

  • 45:55 Well, you got me dead to rights for using an ad-blocker, learned that from getting infected from ads in Windows.

    Way too distracting anyways and ads are not usually that good of a deal when it comes to quality.

  • I started using linux mint 21.2 on my new AMD dominated machine less than two weeks ago and it's been less annoying to use than windows. Only one issue has been with OBS but that was easily worked around. Sadly, the forums on the issue I was having were filled with barren, unaddressed, and locked posts with no solution in sight. Thankfully, I had support from my partners and implemented a 30 second workaround by adding audio sources manually.

    Mint Just Works.

  • Thanks for this video it was fun to see the different takes all mashed together. I didnt do a reaction to the 4th video of the challenge now I wish I had so you could have included it here 😎

  • Linux community has a fatal flaw of: "If you don't know what you are doing, you aren't welcome". I'm a god damn mechanical engineering who needs to go through thick bricks of complicated technical text, and I can't even bother to try to wrap my head around the bullshit of Linux using. I do some basic things, but anything beyond that comes crashing down when I will hit face first a brick wall of something being: "Oh yeah that is a bug/problem community has known about 10 years but it hasn't been fixed, so everyone just uses this complicated work around.".

    Also at 32:35 oh yeah! Such an intuitive and easy way to do! Anyone who doesn't know that this is the way you should do it just stupid and shouldn't complain until they learn to use linux and command prompts. Compare this to installing a font on Windows? Drop the file in to the folder and you are done. Honestly that time stamp is the reason people would rather not bother than turn to linux. I can't even read that command. It isn't human readable. The UI/UX perspective is just shit (as is the case with everything Linux in my opinion). It is one thing to have crypictic mess like that. If the command prompt was text rich like: "Copy FileName to FolderName. Thanks". And this isn't even unusal, there are machines and software that actually act like this. Particularly German designed. Where instead of enter you have "Bitte" or "Thanks". Like GrandMA light control systems, on the physical controls and software "if something doesn't work, you haven't been polite enough". Some german CNC and NC systems work like this too. I have programmed industrial automation from the remote controller and the interface is bascially: "Move to (point) with (Movement type) at (movement speed) and (Movement precision)" then next line can be "Wait 5 seconds. Call (device)"; "Do (action)". Now why would anyone want to code industrial automation with such "ineffcient" language? Because it is meant to be programmed by Danny the Welder, Jane the Technician and Bob the Engineer, without more than day or two of training in the use of the interface.

    If Linux wants to "become maintstream" the collective community needs to choose one distro to develop to be the "Windows of Linux", pour money and time to UI/UX and then make it usable as easily as your basic industrial systems.

  • The video is not really reflective of the current experience for linux. gaming is so much better. steam really has changed the scene

  • Funny enough, after installing Garuda and looking at it's aliases, I've found an alias for apt get that tells Ubuntu users that that's not how things work on Arch. I suspect Linus wasn't the first or last one to try.🤣

  • I think the big main problem of Linux is that there are so many ways to solve a single problem in Linux that at the end of the day, it leaves new users stumped on what to do. The freedom to do anything and the many ways to do them just makes everything seem like a big mess and that's why I think Linux isn't for people that just wants to have their job done quick and easy. I'm on a dual-boot with Linux and Windows because I can just do some things faster and easier on Windows than on Linux. Next, there's the problem of lacking software support on Linux. There are tens of thousands of packages in all of Linux sure, but for the average person, they're more inclined to use mainstream software like Adobe and Microsoft apps which Linux doesn't support. Lastly, there's the good ol' terminal which a lot of people have only seen on movies like The Matrix and some memes related to computers. With that pre existing knowledge, the average person will see the terminal as something overwhelming or unnecessary since they've used a computer before just fine without touching a terminal. However, nowadays it's totally possible to use Linux without opening and typing something in the terminal. At worst, you'll only have to open it every once in a while which even a 5 year old kid would be able to do in under a few minutes.

    If Linux a) shows only one and one solution only for any problem and b) had more support for mainstream applications or have alternatives that are on par if not better than those applications then Linux will definitely look more appealing for the average person for sure.

  • Who are these reactors? I'm curious about the dude at 0:28 with the stupidly long and fluffy sideburns, baby smooth face, and straightened underchin goatee.

  • Your videos always make me feel like I can conquer the world, thank you for that.

  • Brilliant video! Think we have all made some silly mistakes… 😂

  • can you make a squidward getting hurt compilation

  • What the Linux community (which I am a part of) really need to stop doing is blaming the end user for not using the software right. If Linux should ever hope to become mainstream then it needs to work with idiots who have no idea what they are doing. I see so many times people point criticism against a problem in Linux and getting the answer "Well why would you do it like that?" or "Well that is how it is supposed to work."

    Stop it.

  • Linux gaming was basically NOTHING just a few years ago. Only Valve Proton, Wine, DXVK, etc getting to the stage they have gotten to recently have opened up the Windows gaming world to Linux users. This has exposed other areas where the Linux gaming environment suffers (looking at you, nVidia) and there will be increased focus on improving those things.

    Give it some time and it will be amazing. Already is, to an extent.

  • Chris TItus and Michael has a very legit reaction. Others are all like "Oh Really?", "OMG!", "Oh I'm so gay" kind of reaction.

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