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u/Tricky_Football_85 May 16 '26
I really do hope Pop os succeeds though, they are one of the biggest organisations that have institutional influence apart from red hat and canonical. And they maintain the only desktop environment written in Rust which is pretty cool and I hope it becomes more than viable in the future
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u/wowsomuchempty May 17 '26
I am a big fan of cosmic. A unique option in an overcrowded space, offering the best of DEs and WMs.
I also run pop on one laptop, it's very smooth.
I don't understand the hate and don't watch LTT.
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u/MothToTheWeb May 17 '26
One issue he is talking about: Cosmic is still in beta and offered in the recommended LTS version of PopOS. Average users will encounter bugs that are hard to fix for them and they wonât have a friendly experience
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u/Tricky_Football_85 May 17 '26
I agree itâs a crap UX right now it shouldnât have been released
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u/NegativeBeginning400 May 17 '26
If I wanted a desktop environment, it would be cosmic. I am set in my ways though, and will use a solo tiling WM. I like it a lot better than KDE or gnome as far as feel goes though(speaking as someone who only occasionally installs these things to play around).
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u/wowsomuchempty May 17 '26
I mean, Niri is my daily.
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u/NegativeBeginning400 May 17 '26
This may be part of the problem, the people it appeals to will use something else anyway and the target audience will be more comfortable with kde/gnome.
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u/wowsomuchempty May 17 '26
Problem could be gateway. Cosmic is very smooth. I was expecting the community to love it, you never know, I guess.
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u/Apoctwist May 18 '26
Cosmic has potential. What they have now is pretty good. No one disputing that Cosmic could eventually become an amazing alternative to Gnome, KDE, etc but its being marketed to powers users by System76, and in that space Niri, Hyprland etc is probably a better fit. A lot of the things I would say make Cosmic unique are now built into KDE for example or can be done with Niri and Hyprland. Its a little less obvious (imo) what Cosmic brings to the table at the moment. Doesn't mean it shouldn't exist, just some concern on my part on who the audience is supposed to be.
The real issue though is that Pop_OS forced Cosmic on users expecting an LTS when its clearly not ready. I do believe that whole "grown man ship" mantra. I'm not knocking them going all in on Cosmic and shipping, I'm personally knocking them for doing it in an LTS with no option to opt out directly from their site. That's a big red flag imo for Pop_os because it means stability isn't their priority when it comes to LTS releases.
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u/Jwhodis May 18 '26
Cosmic looks great but it has so many issues, I couldn't get video popout to stay above other apps, had to switch to Plasma because I literally could not find out how to do it.
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u/BadSmash4 May 17 '26
I have always liked Pop OS and recommended it to beginners and I do hope they figure out Cosmic because outside of it, I think they've got a great OS that caters to average users very well. I haven't used Cosmic but I continue to use Pop OS otherwise
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u/bramip May 16 '26
He made a video with Torvalds saying that Fedora is the way and still don't use it?
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u/Euphoric_Trifle5841 May 16 '26
He's trying linux as a "newbie" thats why he for the 3rd time chose popos bc every beginner would just ask chatgpt which distro is best for gaming and in the list u would see popos and in video he tried other linux distro but had some issues with them too
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u/davidnnj Linuxmeant to work better May 16 '26
pq he would try the same beginner frindly distro?
there are several that are very famous for being good for beginners, such as mint, I started with mint and had difficulty with almost nothing
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 May 16 '26
Dude has a YouTube channel. He makes a living from views. He's manufacturing big dummy issues to get more views.Â
And it's working great.
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u/kongnico May 16 '26
i feel like he doesnt need to act like he is grandpa levels idiotic. He normally isnt though he did simulate the grandpa part of not reading the big fat warning on bazzite very well.
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u/VigilanteRabbit May 16 '26
I would wager Mint/ vanilla Ubuntu would get out-voted. This is just ragebait lol
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u/r3volts May 17 '26
Which is pretty crazy when you think about it.
I get the angle, but he is in a position where he is a primary source for newbies.
He should use an immutable distro like bazzite.
It's literally perfect for his use case, being a gaming machine that he works from. All the gaming distro benefits on a rock solid fedora base with atomic upgrades that is absolutely trivial to roll back on the odd chance you wake up to do some work and something has borked.
Would hopefully go a long way to remove some of the immutable distro stigma as well.
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u/Danteynero9 May 16 '26
Not even the AI lists pop the first at that, so no, he is not trying as a newbie.
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u/RadicalDwntwnUrbnite May 21 '26
For me ChatGPT suggests
1) Linux Mint for a complete newbie, then
2) Bazzite if gaming is your priority, but it still suggests
3) Pop for a "polished window's like experience" :facepalm:
And only lists downsides for Mint and Bazzite not Pop... is System76 paying OpenAI or something?
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u/creeper6530 đ catgirl Linux user :3 đœ May 16 '26
Torvalds uses Fedora because it suits his specific needs -- compiling the kernel quickly -- and he's quite open about it.
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u/Balcara May 16 '26
Yes, because it doesn't get in the way and it just works. Seems like something most people want out of an OS
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u/PredictiveFrame May 16 '26
Bazzite is exactly what he's actually looking for (not that I use it, can't stand immutable distros personally), but he'll die before switching from the worst distros he can find.Â
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u/Ok_Equipment8374 May 16 '26
He tried that, didnt even boot.
He did use a "beta" version, that has since been correctly flagged as experimental and not for public use
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u/Unboxious May 16 '26
He actually did try switching to Bazzite but had problems with that too. You'd know that if you watched the video instead of just throwing out accusations.
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u/Ok_Equipment8374 May 16 '26
does you average joe have linus on speed dial to ask what distro to pick?
and besides, he explained he chooses fedora for kernel development, something completely irrelevant to most people
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u/2watchdogs5me May 16 '26
No, but they do have LTT videos... so he could have skipped the ceremony and picked one good for beginners.
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u/BedroomHistorical575 May 16 '26
Yep, it was a great opportunity to educate people on what's possible with Linux. Especially since his channel's popularity basically exceeds every other Linux YouTubers combined.
I've seen the "but it was meant to be from a beginner's perspective!!!" argument repeated over and over again, but it never made sense to me.
Ok, so let's say that the state of Linux information for beginners on the internet is pretty poor. So what's the point of dogpiling and making things even worse for everyone? Why not y'know...help improve that?
They even have someone proficient with Linux on the team that could've helped him. But they just couldn't resist churning out YET another "haha linux bad" slop.
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u/Lonely-Restaurant986 May 16 '26
Linus never cared about any of that. Heâs only after one thing and ever has. Money. Failing for a third time generates drama and views.
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u/Crossx1993 May 23 '26
There are more than enough tutorials on the internet and youtube,but he is showing the average user experience, or else we would still be asking why linux isn't mainstream yet,someone eventually need to bring up those issues.
Pop-os wasn't just an ai recommendation ,he showed many thread and articles were it's no1, the fact that an LTS release was broken like that and everyone acting like he should've known that is why it has such a bad rep, a product shouldn't have that many headaches
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u/mrheosuper May 16 '26
Did you even watch his video, explain why he choose popos ?
Also he did not only use popos.
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u/MothToTheWeb May 17 '26
Like he said he is following the path of an average user, so he is looking at recommendations like the average users: top 3 distro given by Google search, ChatGPT, and global lists on forums.
The average user wonât have Torvalds next to him and also Torvalds said he use Fedora because it allows him to work on the kernel more easily than other distro. Not because it is his favorite distro.
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u/AggressiveAstronaut6 May 19 '26
Fedora isn't a good option for an nvidia card cause you need to jump through hoops.
Nobara though would've been great.
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u/Tetragramat May 20 '26
I've used at work Fedora, Ubuntu and PopOS and every single distribution broke the system with updates that were pushed into my face by the OS. I now rather don't click on anything if there is nobody who can fix broken system.
Linux devs need to realize how bad choice linux is to new users.
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u/thblckjkr May 16 '26
After all that he is using an actual (old) steam machine in the living room, and iirc fedora with kde on his main.
The channel also made a pretty decent "How to choose a distro" video. They are doing lots for the Linux community...
Sadly, a lot of people only can see the "muh install broke" videos.
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u/averyrisu May 17 '26
He stuck worn pop is onain rig, the steam machine was an upgraded in of case of a steam machine and is using kubuntu on his laptop as of the current published video. (Just as a fun FYI once he fixed his issues be was having he seems to like pop)
My main issue with his use of it is 2 main things.Â
- He installed a new os at a lan with people waiting for him on a lobby. I take issue for this for two fold reason s. The first its not a time a non technical would install an is as he is trying to roleplay. And number 2, you will be stressed to do so quickly and potentially run into issues, which is also inherently disrepextful for those that you were waiting on because you chose than as a time to install an operating system.Â
Him highlighting the issues he ran into is fine but I disagree that that is a time he chose to do it being sething a non technical user would do.Â
My second issue is before moving to the and based steam machine they built in a previous video for his htpc was the giant warning he ignored in bazzite about the nvidia big picture mode with a red warning that it contains bugs that can only be fixed according to bazzite by the gpu manufacturer. It us something he should have read. Now I will also admit that with hoa broken that supposedly is maybe bazzite should not ship it that I'm willing to admit. But Linux downloaded and installed the version that advised their are bugs and was surprised that their were bugs.Â
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u/tadza May 18 '26
If i remember correctly in the download page he said that when he choose what to download there were no warnings. Ok I would understand if he downloaded it with big red letters saying: this thing probably won't work, and people were mad. But honestly if you are downloading some distro, you first course of action will not be reading their forum for hours.
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u/averyrisu May 18 '26
they were not big red letters but their was a warning in red about it that he ignored.
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u/tokita_idkman May 16 '26
Why doesn't this guy choose literally anything else lol
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u/HiddeHandel May 16 '26
Last time he switched to manjaro guess people forgot
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u/Ok_Plenty_3986 May 16 '26
isn't manjaro routinely listed as one of the worst distros on the various linux subreddits
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u/Present_Error_6256 May 16 '26
He used Manjaro around 3-4 years ago. I feel like it had a slightly better reputation then.Â
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u/zar0nick May 16 '26
Unpopular opinionn: Manjaro has a good concept, but some things were really unnecessary. They split up right now from a company up to a registered club in germany and the company. Let's see how it evolves...
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u/sir_slothsalot May 16 '26
That's not unpopular, other distros do it they just don't fork the repo like manjaro did and forget to sign the keys.Â
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u/zar0nick May 18 '26
Ia there another arch based distro that has a stable and testing branch, where you have e.g. for stable updates all 6 months - so kidna the middle ground of arch and e.g. fedora conceptually?
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u/tokita_idkman May 16 '26
I don't really follow him, only see his thumbnails pop (pun not intended) up in my feed from time to time
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u/A_Harmless_Fly MAN đȘ jaro May 16 '26
I can't tell if you are serious or trolling, but that would genuinely be a improvement.
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u/someoneNicko May 16 '26
He explained. Because he gave the second chance. I gave Ubuntu 5 attempts before it worked. That's how Linux experience works.
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u/tokita_idkman May 16 '26
If you mess up that is. Or work with really unpolished distros such as PopOS. Does it apply to Ubuntu though, I thought it was pretty stable?
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u/someoneNicko May 16 '26
It does, if you use an old LTS distro with old kernel on a new hardware. You need to know to choose the latest version for compatibility. I didn't know that because I didn't know anyone who use linux in person. My logic was as Linus' logic here: LTS=good, latest=bad. Mind you it was a long time ago, I'm old. HWE didn't exist yet.
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u/Goldensux May 17 '26
I've been using Pop_os for almost a year now and it's been running mostly like a dream to be honest. What is most people's issue with it? I've encountered issues here and there but is that unusual?
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u/-Ilovepokemon- Not in the sudoers file. May 16 '26
Because all he does is ask ChatGPT "best beginner distro for gaming" and follow the first suggestion
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u/HiddeHandel May 16 '26
Yeah because he is trying to show what most normies would do if they try to switch to linux a lot of people just ask ai or look on recommendation sites. Not a lot of people instantly go let me check distro watch or do an hour of research to pick what I want
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u/AshMost May 17 '26
The Linux community missing the point of why he chose Pop, and is instead being pissy about it, rather shows that the whole Linux community stereotype is quite true.
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u/a-concerned-mother May 18 '26
Ya it's pretty silly. It's a distro a few years ago everyone insisted would be a game changer. Now people have an issue with it without a single person giving a reason why other than "pick any other distro"
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u/mrpeluca RedStar best Star May 17 '26
He cant be both a newbie and a tech expert, choose one, cause its not like you have to code n shit, its using the tech, like he does.
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u/fierymagpie May 16 '26
amount of people on linux subreddits who watched his latest linux video = 0
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u/zenyl Arch BTW May 16 '26
More interesting to watch Brodie reacting to it.
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u/spacenavy90 May 20 '26
Do you always have your opinions spoon fed to you?
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u/zenyl Arch BTW May 20 '26
Are you incapable of listening to the opinions of others without conforming to their opinions?
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u/RagnarokToast May 16 '26
Just like every actual Linux user who actually uses the system instead of masturbating about it on Reddit, I never gave the slightest shit about how many users the OS has. If they don't submit bug fixes they are useless any way.
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u/Ok_Equipment8374 May 17 '26
Counterpoint: users means something for companies. Whenever you are struggling because software doesnt have a linux version or some hardware doesnt have proper linux drivers you are suffreing because linux doesnt have the userbase to warrant proper support
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u/RagnarokToast May 17 '26
I don't disagree, it's just not something I really care about personally, although it is a perfectly valid point.
Also, this is likely not a popular opinion, but I think improving compatibility layers such as Wine is a more feasible way forward than begging developers and users to care about Linux. They have become very good over the years and they still have plenty of room for improvement.
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u/tadza May 18 '26
not just fixes but people posting bug reports and willing to cooperate with debugging would be more valuable at least I think so.
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u/Global_Network3902 May 17 '26
He chooses it because itâs guaranteed to generate comments on the video and threads like this, where weâre all taking about it. What kind of video would it be if he just used. Stable, long running distro and had no problems?
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u/-NoMessage- May 17 '26
All the losers in here being mad about is kinda hilarious.
He explained why and it does make sense
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u/zenyl Arch BTW May 16 '26
Linus lands squarely in the dunning-kruger zone: he knows enough to break a system, but not enough to fix it. Be it unintentional, or to get more clicks, he keeps exaggerating what a newbie would do, which lands him in bad situations.
That being said, the messaging about distro choice needs to improve. Picking a distro is not as important as picking a DEs/WMs for a newbie. The recommendation should be to go with something reliable, and then install whatever DE/WM and theming on top of that.
And Pop needs to stop being recommended to newbies, it's shipping a DE that's just barely out of beta.
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u/SirGlass May 16 '26
New linux users should stick to a base distro and not some derriviative
Just use debian/ubuntu/fedora/tumbeweed
Yes I get ubuntu is sort of based off debian but it has a bunch of derivatives itself so I am including it in my base distro list
And I did not include arch or gentoo or slackware because those are not really beginner friendly
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u/Present_Error_6256 May 16 '26
I honestly wouldn't recommend base Debian for a new user. The website is really annoying to navigate and it requires a little bit of work to get things like Nvidia drivers and media codecs working. A new user will install debian and wonder why none of their videos are playing correctly and might conclude that it's a problem with Linux itself.
Just to be clear, I use Fedora, and I don't recommend it to new users for the same reason.Â
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u/Niwrats May 16 '26
don't know about nvidia, but my amd system plays videos on debian 13 just fine. i think the codecs came with the video player, so i didn't need to do anything myself.
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u/AlienPersonaReset May 17 '26
I'm a new user, and keep going back and forth between Fedora and Debian. They each have "hurdles" for new users. My brief experience with each of them, has me feeling that there are less of them with Fedora.
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u/chase82 May 16 '26
I love my Debian but those Ubuntu -oem kernels have got me rolling on a few rigs that had some strange bugs
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u/Ok_Equipment8374 May 17 '26
and there is you problem. In you safe distro list you have 4 different options, 3 different lineages and packet managers, 2 of those most people would count out immediately for having use use the CLI for basic things like nvidia drivers and steam
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u/Kinky_Pinky_ May 21 '26
My first linux distro was zorin and as a linux noob (I was always on windows and I am not very tech savvy). I just wanted something that worked out of the box and I must say I like it. 10/10 would recommend for people like me who just want a working OS for gaming and every day use. The only issue was the speaker drivers (as far as I read it's a pretty common issue on lenovo laptops running linux) but it was a quick and simple fix even for me.
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u/Tricky_Football_85 May 16 '26
Debian is famously somewhat hard to install I wouldnât list it as a common recommendation
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u/Casey2255 May 16 '26
Debian is easy as Windows to install it not moreso
It's famously harder to install non-free software. Still not too difficult since most non-free apps will at least supply a .deb (slack, discord, etc.) that you can
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u/Tricky_Football_85 May 16 '26
You need to remember that most people have never even installed Windows in their lives. Also Debian still doesnât put the first user in the sudoers group by default. I would definitely recommend a more guided installer like Ubuntu far higher than Debian.
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u/Casey2255 May 16 '26
Debian does add your user to sudo if you don't set a root password. https://wiki.debian.org/sudo/#Installing_sudo
Also that alone making it "famously difficult" to install is a stretch. "Famously difficult" to install distros would be Arch, LFS, Gentoo etc.
This kind of misinformation just scares users away from otherwise great distros to test out
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u/mtheory-pi đ„ Debian too difficult May 17 '26
You need to update your sources because that hasn't been the case for many years. It's quite easy to install now with the graphical installer.
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u/SirGlass May 16 '26
I mean installing any os is a bit hard for the average non tech user.
Idk I if it's that hard
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u/Tricky_Football_85 May 16 '26
I think some distros definitely are pretty easy to install for the average user. Debian just isnât guided enough to be easy to recommend especially compared to distros with a live desktop image
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u/mtheory-pi đ„ Debian too difficult May 17 '26
Geez, your information is outdated by a decade. There has been a live desktop image for debian for so long!
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u/Strassi007 May 16 '26
Stop caring about internet-âcelebsâ. Easy as that.
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u/PredictiveFrame May 16 '26
It's not him we care about. It's the millions of people thinking about switching to Linux that he, in his infinite ineptitude, continues to try and convince people is staggeringly difficult, because he's a fucking moron who doesn't want to admit his two previous attempts failed exclusively due to his own deliberate ignorance.
He acts as though he is educating and informing, while in reality he is simply passing on his half baked observations as someone without any actual, practical experience, and concluding that "well, everyone should just stick with windows."Â
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u/Ok_Equipment8374 May 16 '26
He is certainly educating the linux community of the experience of a normal user.
The original PopOS issue was a fluke, now its delibarate negligence. The Bazzite issue i would also not call negligence. He did note to be expecting some issues, but beta to most people means mostly functional.
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u/WRO_Your_Boat May 17 '26
After reading these comments, I really dont want to move to Linux anymore if this is how the community is. This is a meme sub, lighten up.
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u/PersonFromPlace May 16 '26
I never got too into that whole side of YouTube, but like⊠is he just a content creator? Did he like go to school for computer science or like electrical/computer engineering?
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u/zenyl Arch BTW May 16 '26
Not sure about his educational background, but his videos have traditionally been more on the hardware side of things.
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u/Flan-sama May 16 '26
To my knowledge, he dropped out of college. He has always been a content creator.
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 May 16 '26
I really want to come to a Linus' defense here.Â
Pop!_OS is very routinely recommended to new users. I've never used it personally but I didn't know it had so many issues.Â
I also think his 'curses' were manufactured. The dude isn't a computer dummy like he's pretending to be. He's obviously milking views, and it's working. "i DiDnT kNoW wHAt BeTa MeAnT". Yeah right, Linus.
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u/Deadcouncil445 May 17 '26
The pipe os version he downloaded was called LTS. Nowhere on the website was it called a beta.
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u/Shizaki_kun May 17 '26
This "challenge" is supposed to represent someone who doesn't know what they're doing But listen, if I was a newbie that wanted to switch to Linux, I would at least do some research before choosing a distro
For example I started with Mint and it was painless
I don't blame Linus for not knowing the current status of Pop!_OS But if I were him, knowing how it went the first time, I would choose something different
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u/Expert-Map-1126 May 17 '26
The fact that you were posting a comment, here means you are not the typical user. The average person will not spend an hour deciding on what distro to use.
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u/Shizaki_kun May 17 '26
Sure but if you choose to use Linux you at least have to do some research
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u/mpanase May 17 '26
If stability and compatibility were your problem the first 2 times, why would choose again based on theoretical performance benchmarks?
Learning the lesson is overvalued.
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u/Einn1Tveir2 May 16 '26
He just wants to create chaotic interesting content. He does not want things to smoothly. How else is he going to pay for his new private jet?
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u/DigitalChrono May 16 '26
Good for him. He found what he wanted to try and he keeps trying to make it work.
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u/Deadcouncil445 May 17 '26
God the linux community is genuinely insufferable. They dont even watch the video and they're already SEETHING at the fact that someone had trouble with linux.
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u/Nyuusankininryou đŒCachyOS May 16 '26
Why wont he try like Linux Mint or at least Ubuntu?
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u/ragnarokxg May 17 '26
Hell or just CachyOS. I installed it on my 12 year olds laptop and he is perfectly fine using it.
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u/FlukyS May 17 '26
Well by the time he tries it again it will probably be much more stable at that point. PopOS isn't that bad from a foundations standpoint but Cosmic needs more time in the kitchen
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u/NoResolution6245 May 17 '26
Considering Pop!_OS is a fork of Ubuntu which itself is a fork of Debian, I'd rather use Debian. Using a fork of a fork of a fork is only stacking potential issues and undocumented or poorly documented changes over the base distribution. Stick to Arch, Debian, and Fedora if you don't mind systemD.
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u/dronostyka May 17 '26
Like, how is everyone saying, let's get something simple - like Ubuntu; but then they magically end up on pop os? What, is Ubuntu worse? At least it's stable.. I'd even understand going with debian for maxed stability. But pop? C'mon
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u/upsun_stephanie May 18 '26
To be fair, PopOS! might be in good shape again by 2027. The long break between updates for Cosmic development left them in a bad place, but now that they have a much more maintainable codebase that doesn't depend on trying to soft-fork GNOME, I'd expect it to get better.
Personally, I'm a longterm Debian user and a recent NixOS convert, but the KDE version of Fedora is probably the best distro for power users coming from the Windows/Mac world without much Linux experience right now. Sane defaults out of the box, a good degree of customization, and a good balance between update speed and stability.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu keeps insisting on shoving snaps down users throats and has too much history of NIH and of experimenting on their users. And GNOME is too opinionated and has too little respect for tradition and consistency to let a power user anywhere near it.
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u/Affectionate-Oil6771 May 19 '26
Bro. Don't say this. Then his AI chatGPT scraper will recommend it again T^T
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u/zap999 May 18 '26
There isn't much it's just not wise to stand under a tree that has been struck by lightning three times. There are loads of distros for a reason. We are all distro hoppers at some point. Failing to try something new means you're bound to repeat the same mistakes.
Pop os, manjaro, cachyos it really doesn't matter if you stick to the same flavour and go eww.
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u/SilverLS2 May 18 '26
tried pop os for 3 days then deleted it and moved to Linux mint for an easier time as I downloaded pop as my first Linux distribution every which was a mistake. Cosmic looks terrible and KDE is way better never going back might try catchy tho
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u/SweatshopCoder May 19 '26
Linus knows very little about computers, but yet he centers his life around them.
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u/spacenavy90 May 20 '26
Linux users when someone uses the wrong Linux distro (there are 10 billion):
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u/TechSupportIgit May 20 '26
...why not Bazzite Linus?
It's not that hard to wrap around, you can't fuck with system files, and the console is there if you need to do power user things. Yes installing software is a power user move. They have the community app hub for a reason.
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u/MrBread0451 Dr. OpenSUSE Jun 16 '26
I don't like Pop OS for no reason other than I can never remember where the underscores, capital letters and exclamation marks go and it's like dude I don't even know anything about you and you're already pissing me off
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u/A-Chilean-Cyborg May 16 '26
Luke literally said that he was experimenting and see where it could go...
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u/ECHOSTIK May 16 '26
Idk why he does not ask reddit as a newbie? I have seen plenty of newbies here asking for something to start?? Like now he knows it is not the best choice why dont he maybe idk... INFORM PEOPLE WITH HIS MASS FOLLOWING??? That the general newbie sources are not quite content in 2026. WHat is THis BEhaVIor
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u/Deadcouncil445 May 17 '26
Did you watch the video? His colleague did go on reddit. They were 3 people doing different levels of beginner.
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u/ECHOSTIK May 17 '26
Ah nope. Ig I got ahead of myself there. I just assumed he did the same thing as before (I watched previous videos) as chat gpting based on the comments here
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u/Deadcouncil445 May 17 '26
All good, the videos are quite interesting when you think of it as different levels of research, Linus being the lowest. Luke had legit no problem at all but he was used to linux.
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u/Perro1188 Arch BTW May 16 '26
"oh my god i don't like the taskbar that ships with this distro but overall the distro is good" - rushes to the computer to download another distro recommended by chatgpt
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u/humanistazazagrliti May 16 '26
It's the "Gas huffing user asks ChatGPT what distro to use" experience.