Objectively is the new Literally

Everyday I get older that word losses more and more meaning

I was like cool, finally a comparison without someone's opinion..... Ah, fuck

For a lot of normal people linux just doesnt offer any advantages they care about. If you tell them it can do everything windows can do, the question "so why should i go through the effort of switching" remains. There'd have to be something they really want, that they can't get from windows.
Though average users use mobile devices instead of desktops more and more, so I can see windows becoming mostly a thing that people use at work.

I love Linux, but I do generally consider it a special-purpose OS. Servers, embedded stuff, etc, I will always go with some flavour of Linux.

But for a daily driver I do struggle imagining using anything other than Windows. Like sure, I could probably get all my games and CAD software working in a Linux OS. But I can easily grab Win10 LTSB and have everything just work. I have to make a living from my machine, and ultimately I just need it to work.

If I was doing just web and office work, then it would be no harder really, but I've finally accepted that not everything should be a project!

I mean imo everything about the windows is terrible.

Maybe that's very subjective but I find that thought very hyperbolic. Windows generally is pretty good and for example have some nice features like complete system reset while preserving your files. Windows has some issues but so does Linux.

I only use Linux on my gaming+work laptop because I enjoy the freedom and I feel Windows is overly intricate and more and more "commercial" but Linux has its rough edges.

I can confirm the results above. Nontheless, you are right.

I'm guessing this video is for people thinking about switching to Linux from Windows. Mint is probably the best distro for most of them.

Similar one, try to change mouse acceleration. The last couple distros I had tried were completely lacking any config option for that.

There are already comments about how a GUI isn't needed or something like that, but Linux will never become remotely mainstream as a consumer OS with that kind of attitude.

https://github.com/simonepalmer/pipewire-controller https://github.com/wwmm/easyeffects https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/helvum https://kx.studio/Applications:Catia https://github.com/cyber-sushi/pipewire-sample-rate-config https://github.com/rncbc/qpwgraph

The first looks like it does specifically what you mentioned. I haven't tried any of these except Helvum, and I don't remember if you can change the bitrate.

I don't have enough patience (or need) to use a GUI for stuff like this - wpctl is fairly comprehensive - but if it's something you need to do a lot I get the appeal.

And, I hear what you're saying about hardware config tools. I maintain a cross-platform monitoring tool, and frequently get requests to support graphics cards; it's the most troublesome and difficult chore, because these devices all have bespoke APIs, and it's a PITA to support them - moreso because it's impossible to test the support when you don't have access to all of the hardware.

How DARE you ask about GUI controls! But seriously I'd love to see more of it. It certainly would make on-boarding of windows users much easier. All the CLI functions scare most away. It seems like every time I ask about a GUI for something I get shot down hard. Like I understand why CLI is more prevalent, way easier to troubleshoot and instruct people across multiple distros. But if you want to grow the Linux community, ease of use to the broad public has to become priority, and I think GUIs is the best starting point for that.

And having things built in would be a major help as well, instead of having to see if the software center has it, and then searching GitHub when it doesn't. Again, I get that some distros might have that, but that would be a niche distro for certain things. A nice GUI tool to adjust GPU parameters would be super (using coolero at the moment), a better audio device manager, gamepad device manager as well, task manager that's a little more user friendly.

I'm rambling and I don't want to sound like I dislike Linux. I made Mint my only OS on my laptop and two PCs in my house. I love it. I keep W11 on my gaming PC as a dual boot strictly for VR. That's all that's holding me back. I'm fine with CLI tools but I'd reeeeeeally like it if GUI tools became more prevalent.

Agreed. Last time I used my Wacom tablet on a Linux station, I had to type a bunch of commands every start up to get it to work in the correct aspect ratio because there was no GUI tool for that. Surely there's a way to register that kind of stuff for start up, but why do I have to figure this out ? I just need to get work done. Wacom tablets have been around for 30 years and are used by most of the digital artists out there, it's not some exotic peripheral. It seems like it should be easier

“I switched to Linux today, my life is completely different!”

And every single one will be met with "I spend 80% of my pc time gaming, my games don't run in linux as good as windows, end of discussion".

Also, comparing stuff to windows 11 is quite the low bar, 2 of those points don't apply to win10 and the 5th can be done with powershell and wsl1.0 afaik pretty fast. the 5th can be done in windows by running a python script too, and let's be honest, what is the use case of batch file renaming if it's not for programming? it's not a common issue.

So basically, it's about privacy, bloatware and security. Bloatware can be uninstalled if you are a power user, and let's be honest normal users won't even dream about using linux.

So yeah. I love it for work but it's lacking for my entertainment pc.

According to a recent announcement by one of the devs:

We also want to spend time on studying the pros and cons of Wayland and to assess the work needed in its potential adoption.

In other words, they haven't even started yet.

This is really nice. I've been using Mint for years and didn't know about it.

It doesn't work automatically.

Go to a youtube video There is an option to view the transcript of the video near to the description in three dot menu Copy the transcription and paste it into chatgpt.

I suppose it depends on your definition of "very little" but I would say that for most Linux users, "Windows 11 can have cluttered start menus with unwanted icons" is definitely accurate.

I did a fresh install of Windows 11 Home the other day and it had at least 10 apps that I manually removed right off the bat. Stuff like WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook Messenger, One Note, Xbox Live and a few freebie games were sitting front and center in the start menu, even though I had not agreed to have any of them installed.

Majority of people are buying prebuilt systems or laptops though.

What you're seeing in the Video is pretty much what the start menu will look like after a clean install of Windows 11, minus Audacity and Chrome.