Flaky

First OS I remember, something in the Windows 9x range. Maybe Me. Linux distro, Ubuntu.

Oh I know Lunduke. Used to enjoy his Linux Sucks speeches before he went a bit down the deeper end. That being said, I don’t think said friend is really in-tune with that sort of politics in the Linux community, so I don’t know if that’s the case. It’s probably the fact Chris uses Arch as a main OS, while my friend tried it, hated it then used Fedora tbh.

I’ve had issues with iwlwifi just panicking but I think that’s just Intel being a bit shit, to be honest. Everything else - even the RGB on my system - works perfectly fine.

I think the bigger issue is software support. Even the “Linux desktop” is good. But if people prefer an app that’s exclusive to Windows or Mac, and the native alternatives aren’t cutting it for them, then adoption will become an issue for them. I’m in that camp because of MusicBee, it has these random bouts of lag on WINE that does not exist on Windows and has font redirection problems, so I’m stuck to Windows until WINE improves (though I have considered becoming a maintainer on WineHQ for that…)

Don’t know anything about Chris Titus Tech as a person (friend of mine says he’s a bit crazy but that’s it I guess?), but they probably see negativity about Linux and downvote. The title seems to be bad at explaining the video too.

(For those who don’t want to watch, Chris basically explains the issues he’s had with Linux for video production, and why his set-up is the way it is.)

This. Sounds similar to a problem I had on my Intel chip (AX210) though I found out iwlwifi was panicking using dmesg. Probably would’ve been easier to use journalctl.

Probably not for a few versions, I’m afraid, though vertical tabs (which was part of the feature set they wanted to add) is already in nightly so it’s worth giving that a test every now and again in case tab groups make it.

Ubuntu in the early 2010s, with GNOME 2 and Compiz. The Compiz era of desktops was real fun and I’d love for that to come back with a vengeance. MATE is working on Wayland support with Wayfire (essentially like Compiz but for Wayland) as the compositor AFAIK, so it might very well come back and be improved (apparently the Compiz codebase is… not great?)

I should give the immutable distros a try when I’m not reliant on VMware. Though all that said, I’ve been using Fedora KDE Spin lately, and it hasn’t really been a problem either.