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Title: HPR4094: One year of Linux
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4094/hpr4094.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 19:32:40
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4194 for Thursday 11 April 2024.
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Today's show is entitled One Year of Linux.
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It is hosted by Daniel Persson, and is about 17 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, my experience of running Linux full-time for a year.
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Hello Hacker's, and welcome to another episode.
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And I'm going to talk about my experience of running Linux full-time for a whole year.
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And this experience was something that started with me running Windows,
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and not being really satisfied with the operation of the Windows.
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I was pretty much fed up with how Windows worked, so I said,
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OK, I will try Linux for a while and see how that works.
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I have already ran Linux in my work environment for many years,
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because when it comes to work, you need some system that is snappy,
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and can just do the things that you need to do in order to actually accomplish your work,
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and don't need any extra bells and whistles and so on.
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And I heard that Linux was better now when it comes to gaming.
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It was more suited to everyday tasks and so on.
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So I thought, OK, I want to try it out, and I want to run it for a year or so,
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and see if I like it and if I'm going to continue with it.
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So let's go through a couple of pros when it comes to running Linux in your desktop environment.
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So the first pro is the speed.
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Everything is so much faster.
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It boots faster and it's faster to use.
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Everything is snappy and it just works.
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I run a lot of virtual machines that they boot really quickly in Linux,
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and everything is just more in tune to doing work.
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And there isn't a bunch of background processes that you need to tune and remove
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because a bunch of different software is installing a bunch of stuff
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that you don't really have control over.
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So being able to actually install what you need
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and having a very lean environment and have something that is speedy
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is something that I really appreciate.
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Next up, we have stability.
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And the big thing here is that I can, in some cases, run really long jobs.
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So I can run some machine learning tasks.
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I might do some OCR.
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I might do a bunch of things that will run for a longer time.
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And I need the system to be stable and up.
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And the biggest problem I have had during the time now
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is that I have power outages sometimes.
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So my power has been a little bit wonky lately.
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So I'm actually going to try to fix that with the UPS for my machine as well
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because I'm running these kind of longer tasks sometimes.
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And in Windows, it will reboot you without asking any questions.
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And you can say, well, I'm a company.
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You should ask me at least 30 days in advance.
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But when that time is up, it will reboot your machine,
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even though you don't want it.
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And I think that that kind of sentiment,
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that kind of thinking is just not okay.
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If I don't want to reboot my machine,
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even though there is security updates and everything like that,
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I'm behind a firewall and I can make that choice.
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I know that some people and some users will never reboot their system
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if they are not asked to do so.
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And for those kind of people,
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I understand that it could be a good thing.
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But I should be able to turn it off.
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And I haven't found the solution for that in Windows.
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So that is a really big complaint when it comes to that.
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Next up is simplicity.
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I have spent so much time to get my machine learning tasks up and running,
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get QDAN installed and working in Windows.
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And there have been so much work going into just running basic tasks,
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compiling stuff and so on.
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And in Linux, everything just works.
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You can compile whatever you want, QDAN installed,
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your graphics driver, your work,
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and everything is just built in and stable,
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which is so much easier to work with.
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And there is no real hard problem there.
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And when I want to work with my other machine,
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I could bridge things with SSH and open Windows
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and use my environment much more simply.
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There is bridging software in Windows,
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but PUTT does not do a really good job.
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So you really need to figure out a bunch of extra solutions
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that you don't really need in Linux to accomplish the same thing.
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And one thing that I feel in Windows is that there is an application
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for everything, but you need to find it and install it.
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But much of the things that you need for the kind of work that I do
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is already available in Linux.
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So don't really need to hunt them down and figure out how they work.
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And it's so much easier to build products.
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I've already talked about that.
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And we also have a really good native support for Docker
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and rounding Docker images.
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So that is so much easier when you are testing things for work
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and you're building Docker images in order to make them production ready.
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You have that built in already.
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And the communication with my SEF environments,
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I have a SEF file system where I store all my Windows videos
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and everything else that I want to do backups for that is rock solid.
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There is a Windows implementation and it works sometimes,
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but it's not rock solid.
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So there again, another really great, really, really great pro
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for the Linux environment.
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And next up, we have no disturbances.
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And that is also extremely important for me.
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Because when it comes to the Windows environment,
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you have this notification bar.
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And I have turned it off so many times.
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And every update it turns on again.
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And you get a bunch of popups and a bunch of information
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all the time that you don't really need or want.
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And you get this with the widgets that you need to remove
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and everything like that.
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And all this extra information that you just don't need.
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In Linux, it's one button click.
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I'm not going to want to be disturbed.
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And everything just disappears.
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And you can focus on your work and do what is actually important.
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And if you need information, you can hunt it down.
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But you don't get hassled with it all the time.
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Another thing is that there is no annoying
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antivirus that is just removing applications for you
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that you are working with and so on.
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And one thing that I was trying to do earlier
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was download Spinrite in order to run it on my machine.
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And Spinrite was so new.
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It had this really great license
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and everything it was encrypted and everything
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was signed and so on from Microsoft.
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But it's still flagged it and removed it on my machine.
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So I couldn't even download it.
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So I have to go into Linux to download the software
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in order to install it, which is just so strange.
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It's one thing to warn you and quarantine thing
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but just don't say that you don't want to download something
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that is taking things too far.
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So that was a bunch of pros for the Linux environment.
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There is, of course, a couple of cons.
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And let's go through those now.
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So the main con of a Linux environment is the games,
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the gaming environment and so on.
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It's harder.
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I can't say anything else.
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It's harder to run games in Linux.
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Most of the games are supported out of the box.
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Most of the games, the only thing you need to say
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that I want to use this in a compatibility mode
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and just proton and it will work.
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I think you can pretty much forget about anything
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that has an online service where a bunch of kids
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are cheating all over the place.
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Because when it comes to that,
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the companies have built strong protections
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in these anti-sheet software
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and none of them work in Linux.
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So when it comes to older games,
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when it comes to games that are just normal offline enjoyment,
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then it just works for you.
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In some cases, you need to look at proton DB
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and do some small tweaks.
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But I have played a bunch of games,
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not the latest games, the games from this year
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or something like that.
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But I've played Cyberpunk.
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I've played Tomb Raider.
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I've played Assassin's Creed.
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I've played a bunch of different games
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and they just work.
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So there is not that much problematic
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problems to get games working,
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but you need to be a little bit more selective
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of what you actually play and check up
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if it actually works for you.
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The next con is video creation.
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And it's not really a bad thing.
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I can make my videos now.
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I'm using OBS and I'm using Davinci Resolve.
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Before I used Vmix and Adobe Premiere,
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I have changed applications totally
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when I went over to Linux.
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I think I started using Davinci Resolve
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a little bit earlier before I actually made a switch
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because Premiere was just so, so expensive
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to actually have a license on.
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And I really didn't want to pay for it anymore.
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And Davinci Resolve is, in my opinion,
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a really great software.
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Even the free license is really nice.
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And I have paid for the pro license as well
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because I use it a lot.
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But the sad part is Vmix.
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They don't have any Linux support.
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Vmix is a really cool streaming platform
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where you have so much functionality and so on.
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And I bought a license for it.
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And I bought this perpetual license.
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I actually have the license to use it
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until I think 10 years from now or even longer.
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So I have a really great license
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that I could use if I want to for Vmix.
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But I don't because I don't have Windows environment anymore.
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A little bit sad, but OBS works most of the time
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and does most of the work for me.
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There have been some glitches in upgrades and so on
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and they have the tendency to turn off my mic.
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It's very annoying to record a full video without sound
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and then have to go back and record it again.
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And it happens on every reboot.
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And it's, I don't know why.
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It's so strange that it's just when I reboot the machine,
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it stops working for some other reason.
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And another thing is that I can't run Windows native
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applications of course.
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In some cases I find a really cool applications
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that I want to try out.
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Can't run it locally so I need to start a virtual machine
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and run it there.
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And in some cases it doesn't even work there
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because it needs some access to particular drivers
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that are only available in Windows and so on.
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So some small things there have been a little bit annoying.
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So not a big, huge thing, but some native applications
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I would like to try out and they are only available in Windows.
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Next up we have a big one I think
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and this is the VR support.
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Not everyone has a VR headset.
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I have one, play a lot of Beat Saber
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and my kids also like to play VR from time to time.
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And this is an experience that I want to enable
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to my kids because I think that
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not perhaps the implementation that I have
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but I think that VR will be something
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or something similar will be something that is
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just an experience you have in the future.
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And having that experience early when you can,
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I think that is really great.
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I have had my headset in four years.
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It was present to myself a bunch of years ago.
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And so not running the games in Linux is a little bit sad.
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I can run Beat Saber but I need to run it
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in the old version before they switched over to using
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the new engine.
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I don't remember if they are which engine they went over to
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but the old engine works, the new engine doesn't.
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If I want I could probably figure out
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how to run the new game as well
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but it is a hassle because
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VR support is not really there in Linux at the moment.
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So currently when my kids want to play
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I have to reboot to Windows and go through
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all the updates and all the other things
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that I will need to do in order to get
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a Windows environment that works
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when you haven't touched it for six months.
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So that's a little bit sad.
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Then we have the familiarity con.
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And this is something that I'm not really familiar
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with Linux at the moment
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and with a little bit annoying to find
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setting sometimes.
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So settings files could be in strange places.
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Finding your steam directory was a little bit
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of a hassle in the beginning and so on.
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So it's not really that it's super hard
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it's just that I'm not a Linux native yet.
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I think I need a couple of more years
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or at least one year before I figure out
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where everything is stored and so on.
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It's really great that it can change
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all the configurations settings everywhere
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but sometimes it can be a little bit hard to find them.
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And last but not least bugs.
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Windows has bugs.
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I would not say that it's bug free
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but I have found more bugs in Linux.
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So I had some unstable updates.
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I'm not running a bunch of LTS.
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It's long time support.
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I'm running it in a way that I'm installing
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the latest of every time.
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And of course that means that I will get some bugs sometimes.
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So it's a little bit unstable in some cases
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and it's not really unstable in the way
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that applications crash or anything like that.
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But after an upgrade I can have some driver issues
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and so on.
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And I also noticed that my web camera
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sometimes bugs out after I've used some application.
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So when I come back to a conference call
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with my colleagues for instance,
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I might be required to turn the camera off
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and turn it on again in order for it to be found
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in Linux and actually work in that environment.
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So this was what I wanted to cover today.
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I have talked about my experience of running Linux
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for a whole year.
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And I hope that you found this interesting.
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I hope that you learned something today.
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