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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:00 Sponsor: Ground News 02:41 Linux Skill Level 03:39 Difficult things on Linux 06:12 Hardware issues 08:48 Software issues 11:17 Productivity 13:56 The Linux Experience 16:03 The community 17:59 What I learned 18:38 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 19:34 Support the channel
It seems like the vast majority of people who answered aren't beginners with Linux: 39% said they knew their way around Linux, and 10% said Linux had no secrets for them. The "middle of the road" answer, being "I understand how things wok, but I'm no expert" gathered 40% of answers, and only 10% of answers in total described themselves as what I'd call beginners, with 9% saying they had a lot to learn, and 1% saying it was a brand new world.
So, what is difficult to accomplish on Linux? What seems to be the most annoying thing to deal with is integrating Linux systems with other devices, 36% of people picked this as a pain point.
The second big pain point is "using existing hardware", 28% of people picked this as a problem, and finding compatible hardware was a problem for 24% of people.
Interestingly, installing Linux was not picked as a pain point, only 4% of people said it was a problem.
Most people who answered have experiences hardware issues on Linux. 44% said they had a problem they could fix, and 36% said they had an issue they couldn't solve.
In terms of the main problematic components, there were a few surprises here. First are GPUs: 34% of people said they had trouble with their GPU.
Also a surprise: gaming controllers and peripherals: 9% of people who answered said they had troubles here. Wifi and Bluetooth at 17% each are sort of surprising to me as well, I thought this was a thing of the past, but apparently not.
Now, as per software related problems, here again, Linux has issues. 48% of people who answered said they faced a software problem they could fix, and 35% said they faced one they couldn't solve. Only 14% said they didn't face any software related problems.
As per the problematic categories, the biggest offender is sleep / wake and suspend, 30% of answers pointed that as a problem. App compatibility is also a big issue, 29% of people said Linux wasn't a supported platform for the software they needed to use. Gaming is a sore spot, with 27% of people answering they're facing problems there.
So, 37% of people who answered said they could do most of what they wanted, but not everything. 33% said they could do everything, but some things were harder than on other platforms. 26% said they could do everything they wanted on Linux, and only 4% in total said many or most things they needed to do weren't possible on Linux.
As per the general experience of using Linux, most people seem to feel their system is very reliable: 56% said they have a few issues that don't impact their trust in their OS, 38% said they didn't worry about stability at all, and only 6% in total said they had frequent issues that make them lose trust in Linux as their OS.
71% of people who answered also said their experience with Linux was very good, better than other operating systems, and 6% said it was perfect without issues. 16% said it was good, and on par with other operating systems, and 6% in total said their experience was bad or very bad, as in worse than other OSes to downright unusable.
Most people also felt they absolutely needed the command line to fix problems on their systems. 50% said they had to use it a bit, and 28% said it was mandatory to get a usable system. Only 23% said they didn't need to use the command line at all.
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It comes with Intel 13th or 14th gen CPUs, up to an i9 14900, it can accommodate 2 M.2 SSDs and 2 SATA 3 drives, up to 24 terabytes in total. It can come with or without dedicated graphics, which can go up to a Radeon RX 7700XT, or an Nvidia RTX 4070. It can also get up to 96 gigs of DDR5 RAM, and it obviously has wifi and bluetooth, and it comes with Linux preinstalled, Tuxedo OS being the default.
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Bazzite
So, Bazzite is a weird one: it's based on Fedora Atomic, so it's an "immutable" distro, and it's built using universal blue, which is a build system that lets you create tailored distro images for plenty of purposes.
I ran all the games at the native resolution of my monitor, so 3440x1440. Horizon is run using the latest version of Proton from Valve, the rest are native Linux games. Everything was ran at their max settings, at the native resolution, without any resolution scaling. Everything ran under Wayland, with all the latest updates applied.
So, For Horizon Zero Dawn, running the benchmark gave me an average of 80 FPS at these maxed out settings. In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 105 FPS on average in the benchmark, and for Total War Warhammer 3 on the battle benchmark, it reached 56.4 FPS and 52.5 FPS on the campaign benchmark.
Nobara
Next is Nobara. This isn't an immutable distribution, it's Fedora, plus a lot of kernel patches, addons, drivers and tools focused specifically on gaming and on improving performance
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 106 FPS on average in the benchmark. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 57 FPS on average, and 54.7 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Nobara got 80 FPS on average.
HoloISO
I also gave a shot to HoloISO, in its new immutable form, but it never managed to give me a bootable system, no matter how hard I tried.
Chimera OS
Chimera OS is an arch based distribution, it's an atomic distro, so immutable, and includes a bunch of emulation tools as well as optimizations for gaming. It defaults to GNOME as its desktop, compared to KDE for the other distros I tested.
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, I got 102 FPS on average in the benchmark, similar to other distros I tested. In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, I got 55.3 FPS on average, and 51.1 FPS on average for the campaign benchmark. In Horizon Zero Dawn, Chimera OS got 73 FPS on average, strangely lower than other distributions.
Tuxedo OS
Just for fun, I decided to also run all of these games on the preinstalled Tuxedo OS, to see if these gaming distros offer improved performance compared to a "normal" system. Here are the results.
In Horizon Zero Dawn, at the max resolution and max settings, with any upscaling, The Atlas S running Tuxedo OS got 81 FPS on average.
In Shadow of the Tomb Raider, at the max settings and resolution, Ubuntu 24.04 reached 106 FPS on average.
In Total War Warhammer 3's battle benchmark, at the max settings and resolution, I got 57 FPS on average, and in the campaign benchmark, it reached 54.9 FPS
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Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 00:39 Sponsor: Proton Pass 02:01 GNOME's 5 year plan 04:32 Qualcomm's ARM CPUs beat Apple's M3 06:13 Windows Recall looks like an absolute nightmare 08:54 Plasma 6.1 beta 11:48 Firefox has a roadmap 13:56 Gaming: Open source, self-hostable Stadia, Nvidia driver update 16:24 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 17:25 Support the channel
GNOME's 5 year plan
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Qualcomm's ARM CPUs beat Apple's M3
Windows Recall looks like an absolute nightmare
Plasma 6.1 beta
https://pointieststick.com/2024/05/17/this-week-in-kde-all-about-those-apps/ https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.0.90/ https://notmart.org/blog/2024/05/new-plasma-edit-mode-in-6-1/
Firefox has a roadmap
https://connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussions/here-s-what-we-re-working-on-in-firefox/td-p/57694
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:35 Sponsor: TuxCare 01:49 Linux Kernel 03:08 Generic Stable kernel 04:54 LTS Kernel 06:03 Libre Kernel 07:05 Hardened Kernel 08:09 Real Time / Low latency 09:48 Android kernel 11:05 Zen, Liquorix and Xanmod 13:00 TKG kernel 13:47 What should you use? 15:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:26 Support the channel
The "official" Linux kernel, straight from Linus Torvalds and all the kernel developers, you generally see a new version every 2 to 2 and a half months.
All stable versions of the Linux kernel are numbered in the usual scheme, so major number DOT minor number, but they also have really strange codenames. Some distros tend to modify these kernels with additional patches, or features that haven't been added yet, which is why you can see some kernel versions with a "-ubuntu" at the end for example.
Certain kernel versions are also marked as LTS, meaning Long Term support. These are versions that will be supported for much longer, up to 6 years. The Linux kernel project recently reduced that support window to 2 years.
Since both the stable and LTS kernels ship with some non free firmware, there's the Kernel Libre project, which removes all of that, to only ship software and code that is completely free, as in freedom..
Next, we have the hardened kernel. It's not an "official" project per se, it's a kernel version that certain distros ship in their repos, like Arch Linux for example. It's the stable kernel, with an additional patch set applied to it to make it more resilient security-wise.
Next, we have the realtime kernel. The goal is to reduce the latency between a task being assigned to the CPU, and its execution, and it's mainly meant for industrial applications, or for audio production. This, in turn, makes it less efficient for multi tasking, and it requires a lot more manual config to be efficient, and applications need to be specifically tailored to take advantage of this lower latency.
The low latency kernel variants do the same thing, but at a lesser degree: it still lets you pre-empt CPU threads like the real time kernel, but it isn't as regular as the realtime kernel.
The Android kernel is focused on supporting a specific category of devices, meaning that it has optimizations for these exact things.
The Zen kernel applies a few fixes and improvements meant to have the best performance and experience for linux desktop users. It's also packaged as the Liquorix kernel for Ubuntu or Debian, and other distros, although Liquorix isn't exactly like the Zen kernel.
Another version is the XanMod kernel, with sort of the same optimization as the Zen kernel, and a few more on top of that, with the same goal: improving the performance of Linux systems.
Finally, we have the TKG kernels, and I'm saying kernels, because TKG isn't a specific Linux kernel you can download and use, it's more like a build system that lets you choose a few specific patches and compile your own kernel with that.
Just for fun, I decided to try and imagine what a Linux distro would look like if it got hit by the enshittification stick that seems to affect every digital product of service these days.
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The main event in Ubuntu 24.04 is GNOME 46, it you improved notifications, that can be expanded, or collapsed, and they'll now show a little symbolic icon next to their title. More interesting, you get experimental support for variable refresh rate. It's not enabled by default, you'll need to use dconf to turn it on.
Fractional scaling also got better, with fonts now looking less blurry and properly aligned when using fractional scaling, and you can now login to a GNOME user through RDP, instead of having to remote into a session where someone was already logged in.
Nautilus, the file manager, now finally lets you edit the file path by clicking on the path bar, it will also search faster, and through the entire filesystem by default now, file transfers are now moved to the sidebar, and you can also change a folder's icon from the properties panel of that folder. Finally, you also get a new option to change how dates are displayed.
The main system Settings changed a bit as well, with a new "system" page, default apps have been merged into the main "apps" settings page, which also includes the default actions you can configure when you insert removable media.
The mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click, and there's a new mouse test page to make sure these settings work for you. You can also turn off the touchpad when typing.
The GNOME Online accounts also received some love for its backend: it now uses the default browser for authentication into accounts. You can also add a WebDAV account, or a Microsoft Personal Account as well, which will give you access to your OneDrive storage straight from Nautilus.
Ubuntu 24.04 comes with the kernel 6.8, the latest available right now. The main thing in here is the new P state drivers, meaning your Intel CPUs will be able to hit their advertised boost speeds, but also that using it on laptops should yield better batter life, whether you have an AMD or Intel CPU, especially since Ubuntu 24.04 now uses better power profiles based on these new P State drivers.
Ubuntu also moves to Netplan, a network management tool that shouldn't change anything for regular users that just connect to wifi, but will definitely improve the life of people who have to create complex network configurations.
For gamers, you're also getting a better experience here: the virtual memory mapping limit was increased by a factor of 16 in 24.04, meaning that games that could crash at launch, or after a few hours of play time will no longer do so, at least if the crash was related to them trying to grab a lot of memory. It's a change that Arch also recently made.
Another interesting change is that all services that are affected by a library update will automatically be restarted, to ensure that these services will be running with the latest security fixes apps one, there'slied. It's more important for servers than desktops, but it's a good change, that you can disable if you don't like it.
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Arch and Arch based distros seem to represent 29% of answers, way higher than Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros, at 22% including Linux Mint, or 16% not including it. It's higher than Fedora at 19% of answers.
Another surprising number is NixOS, sitting at 7%. Final thing that surprised me is SteamOS: it only got 39 answers, meaning virtually no one seems to use their Steam Deck as their main computer.
89% of people who answered the survey said that they don't use an immutable distro.
Plasma is, on the surface, the most used DE out there, it sits at 30%.Vanilla GNOME sits at 14%, but if we tally up all GNOME implementations, we land on 35%, beating KDE pretty soundly.
Tiling WMs gathered up 21% of votes, meaning that they're actually the third thing used by people, far above any other DE than GNOME and KDE.
Hyprland seems to be very popular right now, at almost 48% of answers. We also have Sway, at 12%, i3 at 11%, and then a smattering of others, like AwesomeWM, bspwm, qtile, xmonad and more.
Speaking of which: Wayland got 66% of answers here, versus 34% for X11.
As per hardware, I asked people which kind of GPU and CPU they used. For CPUs, AMD and Intel are really evenly matched, at 50% for AMD and 49% for Intel, the last % being for ARM based CPUs.
As per GPUs, AMD takes the lead here, but not by much, we get to 39% of answers.
22% of people who answered only have an Nvidia GPU, so that's still pretty high, and if we add Nvidia GPUs as a hybrid configuration in a laptop, we land on 37%.
Pure Intel configurations, represent 22% of answers for integrated graphics, and 1% for dedicated Intel only, plus another % for people who run a hybrid config with a dedicated Intel GPU, so at most 24%.
As per the provenance of that hardware, a lot of people seem to build their own computers to run Linux on, at 44%. 40% of people who took the survey bought a PC from a major window manufacturer, with WIndows preinstalled, or no OS if the option was available.
Apart from that, only 4% said they used a computer from a Linux manufacturer, like TUxedo, System76, Slimbook, and the like, 2% use a mac, and, interestingly, 5% bought a computer from a major manufacturer with Linux preinstalled, so presumably from Dell or Lenovo, as these are the 2 main ones that have the option, AFAIK.
I paired that question with another one, asking how well Linux ran on people's computers, and overwhelmingly, it seems that hardware compatibility is great these days. 63% of respondents said they experienced 0 issues after installing Linux, and 23% said they did have small problems that they could fix. Only 13% said there's still hardware that doesn't work at all, and 1% said their computer performs pretty badly under Linux.
66% of people who answered use flatpaks mixed in with packages from other sources, and 6% only use this format, meaning we're at almost 3/4 of respondants that use Flatpaks daily.
The results are not as positive for other formats, with Snaps not being used at all by 84% of people who answered, and 54% of people not using APpImages at all.
On the topic of applications, Firefox seems to be the asbolute most poplar browser here, at 68%, with an extra 9% for Firefox derivatives like Librewolf.
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:32 Sponsor: SquareX 02:26 Big security flaw in a common package 04:07 Redis is forked after licence change 06:40 The future of the Linux desktop is looking good 08:26 Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming 10:06 Canonical addresses the scam snap problem 11:26 Flathub improvements and adoption 13:03 Gaming: new Nvidia driver, EA anticheat 16:31 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 17:51 Support the channel
Big security flaw in a common package
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users
https://www.phoronix.com/news/XZ-CVE-2024-3094
Redis is forked after licence change
https://www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-foundation-launches-open-source-valkey-community
https://redis.com/blog/redis-adopts-dual-source-available-licensing/
The future of the Linux desktop is looking good
https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2024/03/28/fedora-workstation-40-what-are-we-working-on/
Ubuntu 24.04 will be better for gaming
Canonical addresses the scam snap problem
https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/manual-review-of-all-new-snap-name-registrations/39440
Flathub improvements and adoption
https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]
Gaming: new Nvidia driver, EA anticheat
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:46 Sponsor: Proton Mail 01:54 The US sues Apple for abusing their dominant position 04:35 GNOME 46 is out 06:08 Plasma 6's Global themes can wipe your drive 07:45 10 more scam apps in the Snap Store 09:12 Mozilla stops providing location services 10:35 Mesa drivers have corporate issues 13:28 Gaming: Suyu switch emulator & FSR update 15:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 16:47 Support the channel
The US sues Apple for abusing their dominant position
https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/us-doj-sues-apple-iphone-monopoly
Plasma 6's Global themes can wipe your drive
https://linuxiac.com/usage-of-plasma-6-global-themes-may-pose-serious-risks/
http://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/kde-store-content/
GNOME 46 is out
10 more scam apps in the Snap Store
https://popey.com/blog/2024/03/exodus-wallet-part-three/
Mozilla stops providing location services
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/03/mozilla-location-services-axed
Mesa drivers have corporate issues
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-Revert-For-SPECViewPerf
Gaming: Suyu Switch emulator & FSR update
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nintendo-switch-emulator-suyu-continues-on-from-yuzu/
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:36 Sponsor: Squarespace 01:36 Desktop Improvements 04:59 Nautilus changes 06:47 New Settings 08:51 Apps changes 11:12 Parting Thoughts 13:33 Sponsor: Tuxedo 14:54 Support the channel
The main thing you'll enjoy here is some redesigned notifications. These will now show a header, to let you know which app spawned that notification, and they'll include a little symbolic icon as well. On top of that, notifications that are pretty long, or have action buttons can also be expanded, or collapsed.
Experimental support for variable refresh rate is here, it's turned off by default, and you'll have to use dconf to turn it on. Once you do that, you'll get a switch for that feature in the Display settings, provided your display supports it, with a "preferred refresh rate" list.
(gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['variable-refresh-rate']")
Another change is in how fonts are rendered using fractional scaling: they're now less blurry, and will look more consistent.
Other, smaller changes include the ability to press control + super and a number to launch the associated app from your dock. You also get remote login using RDP.
The file manager, Nautilus, got way better in this release. First, you can now click the path bar to edit the location manually, instead of having to press control + L to do so.
Next is search: it now performs much faster than it used to, and the search button now does a global search directly. When transferring files, the progress bar has been moved to the bottom of the sidebar. Changing a folder icon is now much easier as well, you can just open its properties, and you have a little edit icon.
In the settings, there's a new "system" page. The mouse and touchpad settings now let you configure how you trigger the right click. You can also turn off the touchpad when typing, or disable that setting if you don't like it.
The GNOME Online accounts also received some love, notably for its backend: it now uses the default browser for authentication into accounts. You can also add a WebDAV account to get access to contacts, calendars and files, and you can add a Microsoft Personal Account as well.
GNOME Software, the app store, now shows the Verified badges on Flathub applications that have them. GNOME Calendar gained performance improvements, which it sort of needed, and it now displays the current month a lot more visibly in the month view, so you always know where you are.
The image viewer, Loupe, now has a keyboard shortcut to permanently delete an image, it's shift + delete.
Epiphany, the web browser, now automatically retrieves app names and icons from websites using their progressive web apps manifests if they have one, so everything will already be nice and tidy when you create a web app from the browser. It also fixes some issues with how it syncs with your Firefox account, and it gained support for smart card authentication as well, meaning you can authenticate using USB devices while using Epiphany.
GNOME Maps moved their controls to the bottom of the application, and gained improvements to the vector map layer, although this one is still experimental. It also improved how favourite places work, with a default empty state explaining what favourites are.
Finally, GNOME Music has been ported to use the latest libadwaita widgets, and it removed support for Last.FM scrobbling, and the song list view. it also gained a preferences dialogue, which doesn't contain much, but still lets you set the repeat mode, enable replayGain, or inhibit suspend when playing music.
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Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:44 Sponsor: ProtonVPN 02:01 Linux passes 4% market share 04:44 Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session 06:17 Apple makes a mess of the EU's new laws 10:03 Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project 11:36 Big French company fined for violating the GPL 13:05 Gaming: x86 emulator, AMD & NVIDIA drivers 16:55 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers 18:08 Support the channel
Linux passes 4% market share
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide
https://linuxiac.com/linux-crosses-four-percent-market-share-worldwide/
https://www.zdnet.com/article/5-reasons-why-desktop-linux-is-finally-growing-in-popularity/
Fedora GNOME drops the X11 session
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-No-GNOME-Xorg-Install
Apple makes a mess of the EU's DMA
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/07/apple-epic-dev-account-dma/
https://www.epicgames.com/site/en-US/news/apple-terminated-epic-s-developer-account
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_1161
Yuzu developers fold and shut down the project
Big French company fined for violating the GPL
https://heathermeeker.com/2024/02/17/french-court-issues-damages-award-for-violation-of-gpl/
Gaming: AMD changes, open source Nvidia drivers get good
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-Firmware-Blobs-HDMI-2.1