The Linux Desktop That Windows 11 Wishes It Could Be DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Jeremy
Am I the only person who thinks Game developers should take advantage of WSL to develop games natively for Linux that can then be used as a Windows version by having an EXE that is little more than a bash script to launch a command prompt to launch an AppImage of their new game in WSL. I mean they could have the AppImage includ the display driver and a Windows manager to run the game through WSL on Windows and basically use the same AppImage to configure the idealized environment on Linux by configuring essentially KVM environment for the game on whatever Linux system it is running on. Have a little script in the AppImage that IDs the GPU and sets it up to passthrough the optimized settings. Am I crazy to think that Microsoft gave Linux a backdoor to take them out once an for all that we have just failed to exploit?
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Am I the only person who thinks Game developers should take advantage of WSL to develop games natively for Linux that can then be used as a Windows version by having an EXE that is little more than a bash script to launch a command prompt to launch an AppImage of their new game in WSL. I mean they could have the AppImage includ the display driver and a Windows manager to run the game through WSL on Windows and basically use the same AppImage to configure the idealized environment on Linux by configuring essentially KVM environment for the game on whatever Linux system it is running on. Have a little script in the AppImage that IDs the GPU and sets it up to passthrough the optimized settings. Am I crazy to think that Microsoft gave Linux a backdoor to take them out once an for all that we have just failed to exploit?
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Heffalompen
Problem is Windows becoming a resource hog (more than before). And the tracking / surveillance over the users has become -over the edge-.
I love my Windows 10 on my daily machine for gaming etc. Haven't almost had any problem with Windows 10 at all. Usually run windows tweak programs to disable all stuff I don't need it so for me it's not an issue. Microsoft has been slapping new features upon their old source code since forever so it will never be as good as a linux distro.
Too bad Linux will never be mainstream enough to compete with Windows, people can't even decide what distro they wanna use, so newcomers would be even more confused.
Also there is still too many small bugs within linux/unix which the -regular user- doesn't understand how to fix
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Problem is Windows becoming a resource hog (more than before). And the tracking / surveillance over the users has become -over the edge-.
I love my Windows 10 on my daily machine for gaming etc. Haven't almost had any problem with Windows 10 at all. Usually run windows tweak programs to disable all stuff I don't need it so for me it's not an issue. Microsoft has been slapping new features upon their old source code since forever so it will never be as good as a linux distro.
Too bad Linux will never be mainstream enough to compete with Windows, people can't even decide what distro they wanna use, so newcomers would be even more confused.
Also there is still too many small bugs within linux/unix which the -regular user- doesn't understand how to fix
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Aqua
Thanks for your Video DT. To be perfectly honest - I avoid KDE / Plasma like the plague - mostly because it is the flavor of the month.
Been into Linux since 1996 - Used to be a fan of KDE3 but not the increasingly bloated KDE 4 & 5 iterations Budgie - Cinnamon - Gnome - Mate - Openbox & even the newish Cutefish are all preferable to KDE and less likely to get things screwed. With Cinnamon (Current DE) it's really easy to make it look like Windows 11 (including centering the taskbar / panel). What I find is a surprise - is how so few linux users are even aware - just how easy Cinnamon is to transform.
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Thanks for your Video DT. To be perfectly honest - I avoid KDE / Plasma like the plague - mostly because it is the flavor of the month.
Been into Linux since 1996 - Used to be a fan of KDE3 but not the increasingly bloated KDE 4 & 5 iterations Budgie - Cinnamon - Gnome - Mate - Openbox & even the newish Cutefish are all preferable to KDE and less likely to get things screwed. With Cinnamon (Current DE) it's really easy to make it look like Windows 11 (including centering the taskbar / panel). What I find is a surprise - is how so few linux users are even aware - just how easy Cinnamon is to transform.
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acajoom
Yeah, windows has been taking ideas from KDE for many years. Most of the time implementing them half way. One of them that was taken and partially implemented was the ability to move tasks on the taskbar. We had that on KDE years before windows did, only for Microsoft to give a live presentation of this feature of windows and have the audience applause with excitement. Of course people thought how great Microsoft is for doing this. But on windows even now you cannot move 2 different file manager instances, it moves them all at once.
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Yeah, windows has been taking ideas from KDE for many years. Most of the time implementing them half way. One of them that was taken and partially implemented was the ability to move tasks on the taskbar. We had that on KDE years before windows did, only for Microsoft to give a live presentation of this feature of windows and have the audience applause with excitement. Of course people thought how great Microsoft is for doing this. But on windows even now you cannot move 2 different file manager instances, it moves them all at once.
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Michael
Fighting the battle to be the best OS is already conquered by Linux, this video is just one of many evidences of that; however, even though I wish to format my laptop and install Ubuntu or similar, I cannot do that because I use my laptop to produce music (Ableton + Presonus Studio One Artist) and edit photos/videos (Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects)......, so the only option is to keep watching these videos, expecting for the day when these companies port their products into Linux natively.
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Fighting the battle to be the best OS is already conquered by Linux, this video is just one of many evidences of that; however, even though I wish to format my laptop and install Ubuntu or similar, I cannot do that because I use my laptop to produce music (Ableton + Presonus Studio One Artist) and edit photos/videos (Adobe Suite, Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects)......, so the only option is to keep watching these videos, expecting for the day when these companies port their products into Linux natively.
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Robbie
It's fun watching Microsoft play catchup to every other operating system out there while doing it as inefficiently as possible by making thier os use more ram more cpu time and in general everything wrong honestly the only reason I use windows is cause it's easier to download and go for games and apps up next snowfall on your desktop they'll be happy about that taking as much ram as possible too innovation on windows died with 7 possibly before that
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It's fun watching Microsoft play catchup to every other operating system out there while doing it as inefficiently as possible by making thier os use more ram more cpu time and in general everything wrong honestly the only reason I use windows is cause it's easier to download and go for games and apps up next snowfall on your desktop they'll be happy about that taking as much ram as possible too innovation on windows died with 7 possibly before that
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technoway
I-ve been developing software for over 40 years, and I know Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like OSs.
To be blunt, this guy is wrong. The aesthetics he mentions are easy to set on Windows.
Linux is great, but it-s designed for technical people. Windows is far easier for non-technical people. A Mac OS is even easier.
Until Linux developers realize that, Linux won-t compete with Windows to the public.
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I-ve been developing software for over 40 years, and I know Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like OSs.
To be blunt, this guy is wrong. The aesthetics he mentions are easy to set on Windows.
Linux is great, but it-s designed for technical people. Windows is far easier for non-technical people. A Mac OS is even easier.
Until Linux developers realize that, Linux won-t compete with Windows to the public.
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George
You keep asking in your videos -why would someone want windows?-. Please stop pretending. Linux is great, but third party software is not. For example I need Cubase for my work and drivers for Apollo x8p interface. None of these exist on Linux. Until that day comes, I can't have a desktop that depends on Linux. That simple
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You keep asking in your videos -why would someone want windows?-. Please stop pretending. Linux is great, but third party software is not. For example I need Cubase for my work and drivers for Apollo x8p interface. None of these exist on Linux. Until that day comes, I can't have a desktop that depends on Linux. That simple
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Bruce
Why go throw all that? That was useless.
Why not just use Mint?
Or even better why not put cinnamon on MX Linux?
It is way easier than what you just did.
KDE plasma is good, but it is no big deal.
Cinnamon is much more user friendly and is windows like for the crossovers.
That is why I donat to Mint.
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Why go throw all that? That was useless.
Why not just use Mint?
Or even better why not put cinnamon on MX Linux?
It is way easier than what you just did.
KDE plasma is good, but it is no big deal.
Cinnamon is much more user friendly and is windows like for the crossovers.
That is why I donat to Mint.
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fplancke333
Tastes vary but I'm nonplussed by the supposedly better esthetics of KDE Plasma over Windows 11... It's all slightly cold and gray and rigid compared to my happy Windows 10 experience (but I came here with an open mind, if Plasma was that much really better than Windows, I would have been happy to see it).
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Tastes vary but I'm nonplussed by the supposedly better esthetics of KDE Plasma over Windows 11... It's all slightly cold and gray and rigid compared to my happy Windows 10 experience (but I came here with an open mind, if Plasma was that much really better than Windows, I would have been happy to see it).
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