- Invidious, a privacy focused YouTube frontend: https://inv.nadeko.net/watch/?v=tF4AD2K0LPk
- YouTube: https://youtu.be/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 would at least pretend to learn from my mistakes. So when I skip the shader compilation, then experience freezes while shaders get loaded and the whole f***ing chat mentions it, letting them compile first and then seeing if that fixes the issue would be in fact the first thing I would try…
So no, this is not honest “showing common mistakes other people will experience” or “struggling with basics”. Because if it was honest there would be any mention of the underlying issue once he understood it. And he obviously did, judging by a later offhand comment about “yeah, shader issues…”
Are you telling me he does that on purpose?
No, you said these videos show common mistakes on purpose because real users would make them. Which is okay…
But it doesn’t matter if it was an honest mistake or one made on purpose because it’s a common thing.
Ignoring the chat telling him the problem (and that he caused it himself) and also not mentioning the problem’s origin anymore later was not an accident. Given the fact that he later made some offhand comment about “yeah, shader thing again” he understood the problem yet intentionally chose to not include the explanation in the video but leave it at “on Linux there are random freezes I don’t understand”.
Ehm, no that is not what I said. I mean he made mistakes that many people make, which is a showcase of common mistakes. Not that he made them on purpose.