- Invidious, a privacy focused YouTube client: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch/?v=tF4AD2K0LPk
Another one bytes the dust. Vex is a YouTube (gaming oriented) tech channel with over 200k subscribers. He just switched and started his journey to Linux. It’s a 46 minutes video, so there is lot of coverage. I think its always interesting to see of someone switching to Linux and documenting it in public, especially someone with lots of followers (OK its not a PewDiePie… but still).
Video description:
I’ve had this Windows laptop, the Zephyrus G16. It is fast, has a beautiful display, lightweight, well-built… but it runs Windows 11. That has always been nagging me that it is holding it back, and I have only heard amazing things about Linux for the efficiency and customizability. So let’s see what it can actually do.
0:00- Windows 2:27- why stay? 5:49- THE DISTRO 7:32- installing Linux 11:20- onboarding 16:29- attempting a game + Davinci Resolve 20:45- idle power consumption 21:53- window management is incredible 24:12- fixing the brightness 24:52- Davinci Resolve... STUDIO 27:13- choppy audio 27:52- webcam is ugly 28:31- adding 120Hz! 29:24- DLSS Upgrades 30:17- boot times have been BAD 30:37- GPU switching sucks 31:12- it keeps freezing 32:02- modding a game 32:25- playing a WINDOWS game, but not in Steam 32:57- My Pros 34:34- my downsides 36:30- GAMING vs WINDOWS 41:37- creative apps... 42:33- my experience 44:09- am I keeping it though???
I recently had the power cut off suddenly, and the computer subsequently couldn’t find the boot drive. I went into the UEFI and tried selecting different partitions, hoping that some kind of boot process was stored there. I found one that seemed to have a boot record, and it dropped me into a Windows recovery prompt, despite me having nuked Windows long ago.
I was able to use a Linux install drive to mount the boot partition, drop the necessary boot files in the respective folder, and I could even clean up the leftovers from Windows. Drive now boots fine, and I learned something.
Let’s see Windows do any of that. Moving to Linux was the best thing I’ve ever done for my computer.
I discovered this bloody annoyance in XP I believe, or maybe was 98. The way I used to get rid of it was to start the install of whatever OS, format the drive in one large partition, reboot, then install whatever OS I was going to install and partition accordingly. Took a few extra minutes but well worth it vs doing the whole install and remove files later/tell current OS to ignore other files.
I’m a “Loonixtard” now, according to someone that jumped on my live lol. I don’t talk about linux, unless someone asks, I just have some tags that state I’m on linux