LTT does another Linux Challenge
2026-03-08 10:59 UTC
Replies (40)
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@marius@feddit.org 2026-03-08 11:02
Think of him what you want, but I think this nicely shows the problems that “gamers” will encounter when switching to linuxand gives a good view from outside the Linux community
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@PetteriPano@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 11:48
I studied computer engineering in Finland, so Linux is probably way overrepresented in my circles. Personally I just don’t see any other viable desktop operating system. But gaming is pretty far down on the list of things I use my computers for. If a new game doesn’t run, I’m fine waiting for the switch port a decade later.
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@MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-03-08 12:01
I actually super appreciate these videos. I’m absolutely convinced at this point that, regardless of compatibility issues, my next system will be Linux, but I have absolutely bounced off of it the last couple times I tried. Being able to see different people’s initial experiences with different distros feels pretty invaluable to me at this point. At the moment, I only have a laptop and can’t afford either a new system or for my current system to go down, though, so I’ve been hesitant about making any actual changes. That said, my laptop’s about six years old at this point and starting to really struggle, so I know it’s coming in the next year or so.
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@audaxdreik@pawb.social 2026-03-08 12:04
The biggest issue for most casual users starting remains picking a distro, and to that end I think we as a Linux community need to stop recommending flavors of the month. Even Bazzite has come up against some recent drama and having to break down distro drama for a new users is an absolute deal breaker. Based on their skill level and needs just get them into a bucket: Mint, Fedora, or Arch. They’ve been around forever, they’re stable, there’s plentiful documentation and there are no weird opinionated decisions buried in them that’ll go off like a landmine or confound troubleshooting. Install the Nvidia proprietary drivers, I’ve had less issues with those (until recently I dunno, we can revisit this point) but overall just everything simple and smooth for a transition. Once people are on Linux they can start to come up with their own informed opinions depending on how well they take to the environment but at the same time there’s nothing wrong with starting and ending with the above distros. (I actually don’t know much about Fedora, there might be a slightly better variant recommendation but it’s gotta be something analogous to Mint. I’m pretty adamant on vanilla Arch though, if that’s the route you want to go. Anyone who starts with Arch will be able to better determine an Arch variant down the road for themselves and are also more likely to do multiple installs. Doing so much as even a single reinstall may be a deal breaker for casuals).
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@twinnie@feddit.uk 2026-03-08 12:59
Most of them seemed to be giving it a fair go but Linus himself seemed to be treating it more like a Cheap Car Challenge from Top Gear. He was cracking (bad) jokes about “just Linux things” before he’d even started and he gave up pretty much straight away. The problems he was having with Discord seemed more like Discord issues than Linux issues.
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@azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-08 13:08
Sort of bad that we never tell newbies what to base their distro choice upon, but rather just tell them what we personally like. Maybe the installer ease of use is an important factor, buy not the most. Nobody explains the biggest difference which is how up-to-date the stack is (conservative base vs. rolling base) and that the choice of the DE is even more important choice than the distro. How come that pre-installed NVIDIA drivers are selling point even when their version is behind? I’m baffled on how many people recommend something like Nobara, just because they preinstall a ton stuff, while it’s just a hobby project with Discord server. Maybe they improved it now, but not so long ago it was very very bad at handling updates, so the system was super easy to install, but very difficult to keep in shape over time. Even if they fixed it now, this is NOT an established system that has proven over time that you can rely on it. In case of LTT, the choice should really be immediately cut down to just Fedora or Arch with Cachy or Endeavour as an options for “easier” Arch and Plasma as the desktop.
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@Tetsuo@jlai.lu 2026-03-08 13:53
I did the switch to full time linux gaming a few weeks ago. Initially I was on PoP OS but I wasn’t happy with it. I reinstalled everything on Cachyos and it has been very good so far. Here are the main “hurdles” that I think I should not have encountered in my “liberation” : I activated FDE in cachyos but the LUKS decryption prompt was never on my keyboard layout so I could never decrypt with the original key. I should not have to handle keyboard layout issues when decrypting FDE. This would be fatal to any beginner. I still think the tinkering with proton is too involved. Some command line arguments should be activated automatically depending on your setup. Players should be able to anonymously opt-in to sharing settings for all the game they start. Mouse sensitivity is wonky on many linux distros for gaming. Mouse acceleration should not be a default if you target gamers. I dont care if original Arch has this default. 99% of FPS players avoid it. That being said, leaving Windows makes me incredibly happy and I’m very thankful for the great opportunity the open source community has given me through great free software.
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@TrickDacy@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 14:34
Lemme guess, he runs into a very minor snag and then runs rm -rf -no-preserve-root / because ThAtS hOw NoRmAl UsErS wOuLd Do ThInGs.
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@comradegodzilla@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 14:38
I don’t understand how these tech people can be so bad with researching things and then installing a distro.
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@hornedfiend@piefed.social 2026-03-08 16:13
Oh no, not this clown again. Is he running out of content? For sure. No one ever asked him about linux things, yes he still wishes to share his imbecile opnions with the world. What a joke!
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@Xavienth@lemmygrad.ml 2026-03-08 16:23
I always love the responses to these videos because it’s invariably a bunch of skilled Linux people showing their entire ass trying to justify why the average user would somehow have had a magically better experience and the OP is uniquely bad at computers. Get fucking real. Sit down, shut up, and take notes. It’s never going to be the year of the Linux desktop if you ignore the issues encountered by new Linux users.
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@sinextitan@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 16:33
for a moment I’d like to disregard Linux. fuck this bleached asshole and his bullshit. fuck his viewpoint on unions, fuck his viewpoint on worker rights, fuck his viewpoint on warranties, fuck his missinfo peddling of a company and fuck his company a 2nd time for allowing employee misconduct. recall when GN called them out on their shit in private but they did not give a fuck? then when they got exposed did they finally get their panties in a knot. any1 else notice the typical corporate response? oh we just had a major controversy? time for the CEO to step down to a totally diff C suite position (trust me bro) and it’ll all blow over. Linux ain’t the only thing to get bashed by this particular soyboy. any1 watch the GrapheneOS video? don’t bother. the thumbnail still depicts those that use it to be criminals (so did the title b4 they got backlash). I will judge a fucking book by its cover cuz fuck you. now for our beloved Linux. most of PewDiePie’s career used to be shitposting, but then he built a damn PC and installed Linux on it w/o announcing it. and sm how this corpo cocksucking sleazebag despite being in the industry for alleged 20 yrs doesn’t know jackshit on how to operate a computer running a different operating system? hand me a laptop running FreeBSD and watch me figure that shit out in 3 days w/o having ever used it. oh right he’s a corpo cocksucking sleazebag.
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@PanArab@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 17:22
Using GNU+Linux is not much of a challenge, I have been doing it for 20 years. I want another ReactOS challenge.
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@rolandtb303@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 17:26
is he still gonna try it on that jank ass setup that i know he’s still using then whine to the OS when nothing works right? Haven’t watched it fully but Luke was more reasonable imo, Linus was just a whiny little shit.
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@scala@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 18:29
Fuck LTT. Won’t click the video for this twat.
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@CoryCoolguy@lemmy.myserv.one 2026-03-08 18:49
He picked PopOS again??? Look, I have nothing against people who prefer Pop. But the issue with Steam last time around gave me a very negative impression of it. A few months ago I organized a local Linux install party and tried giving it a chance. I could not get the damn thing to install, even after trying multiple ISOs. You can say “skill issue” but if you want a headache-free distro, which Linus very clearly does, my recommendation is to try something else. If Pop works for you, again, more power to you.
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@eruchitanda@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 20:54
At least now he’s sort(a) owning his mistakes I guess…
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@eruchitanda@lemmy.world 2026-03-08 20:57
At least now he decided to SORTA own his mistakes…
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@PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 2026-03-08 21:25
There’s a hidden upside to him being a dumb fuck: it keeps the equally-dumb parts of his audience from clogging up the support forums and git issues with stupid shit. In case you can’t tell, I really hate this particular Linus.
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@geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 2026-03-08 23:42
Great video showcasing Linux still has many issues for averafe users. Pop OS is garbage too. The amount of cope here is unbelievable.
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@DonutsRMeh@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 00:03
This seals it for me, Linus picks bad distros on purpose for views. Wtf, why would you pick pop os again? Distro is in a huge transition right now.
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 00:37
I’m so mad he chose popos again. I really hope he realises how bad it is and just uses something else for the next videos. I’m really happy with Luke and Elijahs distro choice, Bazzite and cachyos actually seams perfect for each of there use cases.
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@pineapple@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 00:43
We need to agree on a better way to get new users to easily chose a new Distro without having horrible choice paralysis. Asking AI doesn’t work, asking reddit or lemmy just starts a massive debate and gets the person asking nowhere. Perhaps just refer everyone to nicks latest tier list although that is really for his use case, I mean he doesn’t even have bazzite on the list when it’s a good choice for a lot of people. Maybe there is a website that asks questions and recommends a distro based on that, or maybe I saw a cool flow chart photo that seamed good, but it’s an image so it won’t update itself when people come back to it later and the recomendations change.
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@thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 00:50
Off course he picks PopOS, because it bite him before. And off course PopOS is currently under a huge desktop environment change.
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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 02:50
ffs stop using popos Put Fedora gnome workstation and be done with it. Heck, put Linux Mint XFCE and I guarantee he wont even need to reinstall the OS unless the hardware breaks
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@PointyFluff@lemmy.ml 2026-03-09 05:04
Can he not. He’s a moron.
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@noxar_ad@thelemmy.club 2026-03-09 07:49
He really can’t find pop os on a good day huh? It’s hilarious how he wants it to work. I think it’s the pre-installed Nvidia drivers he wants to take advantage of (even though installing drivers on most distros is simply using the package manager) which I don’t understand why he fears driver installation, even windows doesn’t come with Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I don’t get why everyone is hating so much, it’s not like he simply made a video about only his experience. Elijah and Luke are actually good view of what the average user might encounter (minus multi screen configuration). Also wtf is chimera os? The only 2 times I’ve heard of it are in their videos.
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@sekki@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 08:25
What I would like to see is a Windows challenge, where they try to achieve privacy as close to out of the box linux as they can get. That would probably genuinely be entertaining.
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@PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 08:42
I’ve watched Linus some 10 years ago and it always seemed like he’s more of a face and a presenter and has others do research and tell him what to do. They give him some minimum info and let him go and make content. He knows more than the average person and apparently that’s enough to make content. I wish he took it more seriously. He has a huge platform and can reach a lot of people and he often rather uses it for his own enrichment instead shining a light.
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@mazzilius_marsti@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 11:03
the only way i would consider popos is that it has a built in recovery mode. So literally you can reinstall your OS or just general troubleshoot without using a usb. Very handy. It is something I’ve been trying to get to work on other system without success lol.
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@Fokeu@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 11:06
Give me a break with this clown
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@MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 13:23
If I went to macbook, tried my windows knowledge of CTL+alt+del, and it fails. I don’t blame the macbook.
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@LiveLM@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 15:11
WHY. IS HE. ON POPOS. AGAIN???
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@Nibodhika@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 16:19
Honestly, I think lots of people are hating on him just because. Pop is still highly recommended on a random Google search, and his reasons to pick it are legit. Plus he acknowledged that last time the issue was user error + unimaginable level of bad luck, and removing that there would be no reason for him not to use it. Also if you saw the WAN show he also installed Bazzite and Kubuntu on two other systems and got two other issues. As much as I want to say he did something bad like last time, this time I don’t see it, his issues are legit and to dismiss them because he’s using an “unstable” (that is the default and recommended) DE or because he chose a distro that is in the top recommendations on every site out there is disingenuous.
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@dasrael@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 16:40
Linus is a tool. I’ve been saying this for a long time. The guy is good at marketing, but he’s very far from what I consider a tech guy. I personally have no idea why his channel has the following it does, and I’ve no idea why some of my friends enjoy his content…which always staggered me because they know more about tech than he does. Hard R, amirite?!../s
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@Stellar_n0va@lemmy.zip 2026-03-09 17:00
Linux is not a tech guy and it shows
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@Obin@feddit.org 2026-03-09 17:30
It seems when you have a terrible attitude of entitlement and no willingness to learn, you’ll never be happy with anything. Huh. In that case, I’d rather have him stay unhappy on Windows and not make those videos anymore.
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@Auth@lemmy.world 2026-03-09 18:08
The reaction of the linux community to this video was fucking embarrassing.
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@livingsimnpc@lemmy.today 2026-03-09 18:10
Who would’ve thunk that chatgpt would give bad advise lol
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@BigMike@lemmy.world 2026-03-10 05:41
Jesus Christ this place is toxic as hell