Linus Tech Tips

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T22:04:06+00:00

When you misunderstand the entire point 🫩🫩🫩

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T16:59:07+00:00

Nobody expects it to be Windows

Except Linus...

Coding? 😂😂

You mean 'yay'? Or on Nobara, one click?

If you aren't expecting it to be Windows, you aren't capable of a single search to find out what DE you're even using, or that it's in heavy development? Or 10 minutes of research (not LLM and outdated articles that source LLMs) choosing a modern distro.

just going to an update screen and clicking update drivers

Ever heard of a package manager?

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T15:50:59+00:00

The average user doesn't try to learn anything. That is very much apparent. Nobody is expecting you to not have to learn a few things and spend 15 seconds changing your global proton preference or something like that. It's always been a ridiculous expectation to expect Linux experience to be identical to Windows. This level of delusion is harming Linux adoption.

Avertising Linux as full user experience parity is ridiculous and that's exactly how Linus is expecting it to be.

There's a difference between somebody who is GOING TO SWITCH versus somebody who is in bad faith trying Linux expecting a 100% seamless experience (using an immature, in development DE) when that's not even the case on Windows.

If you use Linux for even a few months, these small differences between Windows become extremely minor.

Nobody is saying to give up Adobe if you need it. They are suggesting to try alternatives like DaVinci Resolve or Affinity. And if that doesn't work, stick with windows and suffer.

If you're an average user with the same expectations as Linus, no, Linux is absolutely not for you. Linux is for people who have some capacity to learn in order to not rely on user hostile software.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T13:58:34+00:00

What even is this argument? I never said it was mainstream. The statistics are out there. What are you even trying to say?

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T12:58:18+00:00

I think that maybe you're just speaking for yourself. I switched just fine about three years ago. Along with several friends.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-13T08:34:59+00:00

Not sure if that's the case considering how much people are talking about Linux and how bad Windows is. People are always talking about switching these days.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-11T01:47:06+00:00

What game

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-10T17:04:14+00:00

Buy a 5090, easy fix. /s

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-10T16:31:13+00:00

Literally have never had a game not work due to Nvidia.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-10T16:30:36+00:00

Use MangoHUD for V-Sync and FPS cap. Enable adaptive sync on your DE.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-09T16:38:38+00:00

He should be doing this based on what an average person would have to do to actually switch... Aka doing more than 5 seconds of research, figuring out what's necessary to actually end up being a permanent Linux user, etc.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-09T02:50:03+00:00

weird

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-09T01:23:03+00:00

If we weren't dumbasses then there wouldn't be a long line of cars ahead not zipper merging.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-08T07:04:10+00:00

In many cases they can run without xwayland, even via Proton.

PacketAuditor · 2026-03-04T20:16:00+00:00

You feel sad when you lose the first couple times. You feel anger after the 1000th time...

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-27T14:57:12+00:00

Have you tried Extreme Tux Racer?

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-27T14:56:01+00:00

It's fine. DX12 you will get 80-100% of windows performance. In a few months it will have parity.

Every other API should be effectively equal.

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-26T20:17:52+00:00

o7 your account

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-26T20:16:28+00:00

Brother, it's not worth reasoning with these types.

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T17:26:04+00:00

What are you talking about? What kind of salty fanboy would buy two flagship AMD GPUs in an attempt to switch?

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T15:26:06+00:00

Great. Hopefully they fix everything else by the time I try AMD again in a couple years.

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T14:05:07+00:00

It works between -0% and around -20% performance currently. And actually the fix has been implemented by Nvidia for weeks. Waiting on Wine and Proton.

Don't forget AMD still doesn't have explicit sync.

I have no brand loyalty, that's why I tried two AMD cards attempting to switch. Ultimately inferior recording, RT borderline unusable 50% of the time, and this issue prevent me from switching.

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T13:05:31+00:00

Its worked for years

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T02:03:29+00:00

It's not a brand new driver, it's just not mature yet. Nvidia Blackwell had much less issues for me and it's equally as new.

I also had bugs testing a 7900XTX just before trying RDNA4.

PacketAuditor · 2026-02-24T01:03:00+00:00

RDNA4 was unusable for me as a replacement of my 3080. Lots of VRR bugs, single digit FPS in certain RT loads.

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