anything is easy if you know exactly what you're doing but by the same token
anything can be difficult or even impossible if you lack the requisite
skills resources or knowledge that's the
basic premise of this video where Linus and i now three weeks into daily driving
some form of Linux on our personal gaming machines we'll change the gears
and attempt to complete 12 simple tasks
simple as long as we've actually been doing our homework to familiarize
ourselves with our Linux desktop environments
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while the main idea behind the Linux daily driver challenge is to evaluate
the Linux experience from a gamer's perspective even the most ardent gamer
will occasionally want to do other things on their pc like print out a
document or watch a video and those things need to not only be possible but
also fast and painless enough that they aren't immediately prompted to run back
to Windows so with that in mind we've set a time limit for each of our tasks
of 15 minutes compared to gaming basic
office work is much more mature on Linux and for anything that's not
straightforward there's a good chance that you can find a web app to fill the
gap these days everything from word processing to basic video editing or
even creating 3d mockups can all be done
in a browser and often for free in preparation for
this part of the challenge i practiced using play on Linux by installing
notepad plus plus and i hope that if i really need some other Windows
application that's going to come in handy for me if it doesn't i also have a working
Windows 10 virtual machine that i set up using kvm but
luke and i agreed ahead of time that using a vm that's running paid non-open
source software kind of violates the spirit of the challenge here even if it
is technically within bounds so there's going to be a half point deduction for
using that workaround i didn't install a vm or do any other form of special prep
but because i'm work from home most days i've been doing a lot of everyday stuff
on my machine already and i'm expecting this to be pretty straightforward
here are the challenges you must surmount in whatever order you please
cut and paste a file from one drive oh
man i was expecting them to come up with some stuff that's really challenging so
just like in Windows control x
and i will paste it to my kingston thumb drive
it is done 3.9 gigs playing it back
yes i do appreciate the irony of trying to play success.mkv and having it
just be a black screen i'm going to cut this
and i'm going to paste this
done okay step one complete i mean i really didn't
consider that this might take me longer than like a couple of
seconds just like it doesn't take longer than a
couple of seconds to go to lttstore.com check out our great merch this is really
annoying macOS does this too there's no refresh button in dolphin
so you can't you can't force it to refresh and i i know what the philosophy
is the philosophy is you're not supposed to need to refresh well sometimes i do
so you need to have the button sorry it's just i'm still angry about
this from like seven or eight years ago or whenever i did my macOS daily driver
challenge vlc is not even opening anymore
now i'm kind of afraid to touch anything nautilus reports a completely different
stuff okay
the file is here and for some reason
vlc launches now did it just take that long to cancel the move operation it did
i am grabbing a smaller file
trying to install teamviewer.txt
i'm cutting and i'm pasting it
success challenge two digitally signed this pdf
i have not specifically installed any kind of pdf reader so this is the
default digitally sign
oh this is looking promising oh draw a rectangle to indicate the signature
field okay do
a signature this size is too small to read
no i'm just going gonna sign it there are no available signing certificates
okay man i thought i was gonna be done this in like one minute
how to sign i'm assuming i'm not gonna be able to
sign it because i'm assuming this is just a reader
uh is there something on here document viewer
i know what i use on Windows for this is is sedged
okay sejda i'm gonna i'm gonna download sejda just in case this pdf mod
thing doesn't work okay this is what i use on Windows so
let's let's give this a shot
sign new signature
save um let me just verify that that worked
let's get out of here i don't need pdf mod pdf to sign signed
done now gyro ad pkcs
signing certificate oh you can get free trusted certificates
from the let's encrypt oh or we can use the mk cert tool
come on yes yes i know andy
oh blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah what commands
all right it's clear that this is a thing
that you can do and it's something that i could figure out if i had another
half an hour an hour but unfortunately it's not
something that is quick or easy
i guess i get zero points i should have bailed a couple of minutes ago and
switched over to my vm i failed challenge number two
export a chart from v excel
right click save as picture
an excel file this has got to be the chart we're
trying to right click export as image
did that work i've never done this before i wasn't even fully aware that
was a thing uh looks like it worked it has a
transparent background but uh it doesn't matter i don't think so this black
background is not the color of the cells the black
background is just an image
oh yes here we go here we go here we go okay
you just have to find exactly the right spot export as image hey
why is the name system volume information
okay why did it default to system volume information okay yes okay i needed a w
here and i i got it it's not quite right you can see it's
actually missing the borders on the right and bottom but everything else
here looks fine calling that a w add a
new font um i'm assuming this is just dragging it
into the fonts folder so just do this
nope i thought it was going to be as easy
as just dragging it into this folder to be honest
or use your share fonts true type there we go
i'm going to put a font in here
mission denied okay so open as root
done now if i load this again
i don't see it i'm just gonna copy it to my downloads
folder um what just happened did that just copy to
the why would it do that i drag this onto a folder
but because arc is some completely separate application
that doesn't integrate properly with dolphin it just goes it just dumps it into the
folder instead of specifically on the folder i'm dragging it to so i have to
open this folder then copy it
i can open night zone with
sorry what is this k font view oh install
do you want to install the fonts for personal use systemwide systemwide
yes i'm going to change my user interface
to it all right
i did not think this one was going to be difficult i don't know how much time i have actually i wasn't even paying
attention because i thought i was just going to blow through it so it can just go directly into fonts so
it could go directly into there i don't know i'm just going to put things
everywhere is it actually called a font
is it called night zone have i been done this whole time
okay i got it right i just didn't realize it was called night zone thanks
james oh my god okay sweet sick print the word doc
okay here's my word document file
print yeah theoretically i i haven't done any
setup for a printer um but this looks like a printer
so let's do it
okay a word document is printing um i'll be back
that's in my girlfriend's office we'll see what's gonna happen
that was probably the easiest and best printing experience
i've uh pretty much ever had i didn't i
didn't detect that printer i didn't install that printer i didn't do anything i know
from previously using mint i've seen the pop-up in the top right hand corner come
up being like this printer has connected um but i never did anything for it and
yeah printers
okay hold on what was that printer hp device manager
what is this do i even have an hp printer it's a samsung
that's going to be
are you kidding me there it is
samsung clp 310 series okay
that was wait oh it found a driver this printer is actually a pain in the ass to
get working on Windows because i think the last time it got a driver was either
vista or Windows 7. i actually have it
saved to a folder on my server because there's no other place that i can find
it or i can but it's a real chore you have to like extract it from some other
thing like it's a very giant pain in the butt um this just
worked as far as i can tell but until i actually see the page i'm not ready
to believe it we're connecting printer waiting for printer let's go andy let's
go andy the lights flashing it's flashing come on clp
i was gonna say i've never been so happy to see uh a page printed out of a
printer but actually getting something to print is one of
those things that pretty much every time you need to do it it's like
kind of urgent and kind of a pain in the ass so no no i've been through this a
lot success ah
challenge number six compress and send all the files on this drive
okay um compress
here as dot zip why is it dot zip dot u
q j q f u well that brings up
nothing why would it put that there goodbye
fail to open archive not a zip archive
it's a uqj qfu
nope it just is broken perfect i'm going to compress
to a zip right here create
let's uh let's check top
i'm going to make sure things are happening
7-zip is attempting to use 100 of my CPU
so things are happening holy crap andy you know what
i think i just fell for the same thing that i said i wouldn't fall for again
compress here as dot zip it was doing it down here
and i didn't notice so i guess the
the six characters or whatever here
is just random gibberish while it's a temporary file i should change this font
back says i like it let's do it oh dscu comic
there we go are these files going to compress at some point dolphin you're
embarrassing yourself okay let's try and do it in i forget what this one is
called it doesn't matter archive name at least it prompts me for
what i want to call it i don't see any kind of progress indicator
are you kidding me am i going to fail to zip a file
this is not uploading i was kind of hoping that i was going to
be able to do every single task in under 15 minutes
um the fonts task really slowed me down
because i didn't realize the font wasn't called a font uh and then this one is
slowing me down because it just took a long time to compress and now it's
taking a long time to upload but other than that these have all been
very easy so far and this one is clearly stalled
hold on maybe pzip's got me still hold on so this is this is all the stuff
okay copy then i can go into downloads
zip folder yes this is the workaround
oh my god 10 minutes remaining to copy these files
this is another thing that i definitely can do it just
had some issues wait wait
no i'm good i'm good the the first one i did in
dolphin it's done i think nice wait
no i didn't get the point i'm supposed to send them maybe i can
weasel my way out of this a little yellow what do you mean by compress and
send it email it or something well i mean there's a three Gigabyte file in it
so emailing it's not really practical
oh well i mean i already zipped the whole thing including the video because okay
i'm giving myself the points i could i could have emailed this to someone i
think that's fine okay all right
okay well i can i can do other tasks while i'm waiting yeah let's do that
okay so take a screenshot screenshot i
can do whole screen i can do current window i can do area to grab i'm going
to do area to grab and i'm going to screenshot
this bang it just shows up right here i'm gonna
throw it in the Linux challenge folder and there it is
there's a screenshot i'm gonna wait for
make a shortcut i didn't read this line before i started this i don't have a
network share set up discord app to open on startup
there's probably a startup applications add one choose application
discord that application done this skirt's on
startup now watch 4k content i'm assuming that's
this the uh video google unveiled the pixel 6 and 6 pro
today but we already knew everything about it to be good at everything okay well i guess
i did that this is done
that just got finished insert files using drive
Linux challenge okay
one person view send got it
this is really cool if i search for a snipping tool it actually is like haha we don't have
that but we do have spectacle which is a pretty cool little screen shotting tool
so you just click take a new screenshot and then you can
drag a little thing press enter cool
i did it
now i have to make a shortcut oh man i got this too no you can't right click it
to where you want it and make a shortcut so no i will
find another way to do that link to file or directory yes this is a much better
way of doing this haha name for new link okay can i copy the location
yes i can haha
hey done i've like never made shortcuts
i don't make shortcuts in Windows either i can hold the shift and control keys
highlighting and dragging a file or folder okay it seems a little weird but
let's make a shortcut of a video
that looks like it's a shortcut
yeah it's a it's a link it's a shortcut nice connect to a network share this is
actually crazy easy because while i am using samba on my Linux
nas it's a Linux nas so
yeah so network shared folders smba
oh does it want me to like map a network share i mean that's not really necessary
i can just add a shortcut to this right here see
i'm going to call that good enough so now every time i open up dolphin
i just click Linus and it will go to my
share just like that
i have received confirmation from james i don't have any network attached
storage devices at my home right now so
he said it is okay if i set up a folder
for sharing i'm gonna go into property oh sharing options let's try that
samba needs to be installed appropriate firewalls let's do this this is the first one
where i haven't done anything with this at all yet i've used samba but it was 10
years ago share this folder is on
allow others to create and delete files in this folder and let's do guest access
as well add the permissions automatically
cool it is now a network share you can see
a little thingamajig there i think that's it so in the end that took me
less than 40 minutes in total uh the majority of that time was waiting for a
file to compress waiting for a file to upload waiting for a response from the
taskmaster himself etc not doing the
actual tasks i think that would have taken me a very similar amount of time
in Windows actually the print of file
portion probably went better than it would have on Windows
to be completely honest so yeah overall
no problem really easy compressing and files failed copying
failed yeah thanks a lot dolphin you suck
set up discord app to open
on startup i think it might just do that by default
the first thing i'm going to do then is just test that i'm feeling good andy
i got this
hey okay apparently i had already configured this
so another point for Linus
watch 4k content avideo.mp4
where'd it go hello wait it goes black in full screen
that's a nice feature
why i grabbed mpv media player the
official repository community version
because that seemed like the most credible one and then i was able to
immediately open the video in mpv player
and boom full screen solved look at that gorgeous guy
challenge number 12 watch HDR content as
far as i can tell this is basically just james rubbing in that i
have not been able to consume any HDR content this month here's an article
from a month ago redhead has announced that wants to hire
an engineer well that's a fail but um
everyone's going to fail so i feel pretty good other than digitally signing
my pdf i managed to complete all of my possible challenges but
that doesn't mean that the road to get here was as painless as what you just
saw i've had a very frustrating issue where any amount of Windows movement
especially if i dare to have an even low performance game like ftl running will
be very laggy i've had a few fixes suggested to me that maybe helped a
little bit i can't really tell none of them have fully solved the problem i
could distrohop and try something else but i'm hesitant to do that even if it
would solve the problem as that means a lot of additional work just to get
caught up to where i am now and it's possible other things will break anyways
meanwhile on manjaro kde i've had a relatively smooth experience i do have
little complaints like that the show desktop button doesn't actually minimize
anything and as soon as you grab a focus application everything comes ripping
back onto the screen or that the application labels are underneath the
window previews when you cycle through with alt tap making them harder to read
but overall if all i needed to do was
run a web browser do some basic word processing i wouldn't have anything to
complain about installing and managing applications on the other hand has made
me wish that my popos experience hadn't been so discouraging manjaro has a
graphical package manager called pamac that allows applications to be installed
in a couple of clicks but by default it contains only some of the things i need
it can be unlocked to search for flat pack snap and aur packages which
dramatically increases its usefulness but if this manjaro developer is to be
believed these non-official sources can
result in downtime and if they do everything is working as intended
fortunately i haven't really encountered that yet though i have only been at it
for a few weeks but it's this kind of
hit or miss functionality that is turned using my
computer from something that i do for fun into something that feels more like
work okay here's one miraculously the browser
source plug-in that i needed for obs was available in pamac through the arch user
repository but the thing is i ended up only
stumbling upon that by finding a post referring to it
as i was fighting my way through attempting to manually copy the plugin
files into the appropriate system folders which in fairness to me was
based on a guide i found and actually got me really close i was able to launch
obs but as soon as i tried to actually use that source it would crash
now i understand that this is totally a power user thing to do but it's also
absolutely something that a gamer particularly a game streamer might need
i wasn't able to install the browser source plugin as easily as Linus was i
did figure out how to get it to work eventually but in the hardest way
possible because using my Windows brain i installed obs by following the
commands on their website rather than using my distro's package manager if i
had actually started with that the main obs install would have just included the
browser source plugin to begin with
in my opinion it's an unintuitive user experience to not include the browser
source plugin by default for all the main ways of acquiring obs people have
been using this thing for years it's in there by default on Windows
it is buried under the build instructions tab but
come on honestly some of my dumbest problems have been caused by my default
file manager dolphin among other things it does not allow the user to copy
anything into a folder that requires administrative privileges with no
obvious way to override it in the gui and i've run into this twice so far
adding insult to injury the community responses to this user who shared my
concern that not everyone wants to copy files using the terminal and that Linux
should allow the user to do what they want to do with their computer were some
of the most painfully condescending and stubborn things that i've had the
displeasure of reading throughout this challenge now i lost my link to the tweet
unfortunately but i saw an interesting criticism of this series that basically
accused me and luke of intentionally smearing Linux and its developers
because we were gonna come into this with a basic Windows gamer perspective
and try to do things the way that they do things
well news flash guys that's most people and if you
legitimately like in your heart of hearts want Linux desktop to grow
you need to accommodate those people so
you can sit there and go am i out of touch
no it's the users who are wrong but you are you're literally a meme at
that point the only question is whether you're self-aware or not well that
depends i strongly believe that enthusiast distros for advanced users should stay
advanced there is immense raw potential and an unfettered experience it is
important for new users wishing to eventually achieve mastery of a system
and for current masters of that system to be afforded full control and
responsibility in order to maximize their ability to learn grow and realize
potential that being said not everything fits under that umbrella there are
distros out there more for gamers or inexperienced users so for those systems
we really hope that there's a lot of good that can come from us doing this we
also don't want to paint everyone in the Linux community with the same brush
because it's a diverse bunch of people with a wide range of experience with
Linux people like wendell from level1tx jc nevangelo from Linux for everyone and
gardner bryant from gardner bryant have been inviting and supportive not just to
us but to fans of the channel following in our footsteps which is super cool
but something that the good eggs in the Linux community need to understand
though is that you guys are great and there's lots of you it's just that it
only takes a couple of toxic gatekeepers to turn people off like you gotta
remember it's not always easy for people to reach out and ask for help and if a
literal developer of their distro goes out of their way to type extra
unnecessary words to be condescending when they could have just pointed the
user to the resources that they needed it is extremely damaging to the good
work that the majority is trying to do and there has been so much of that good
work on display throughout this project i mean getting my Windows vm which i've
only ended up needing to ingest some audio using rode's weird
unnecessary utility and to configure my audio interface
was kind of a nightmare between incomplete guides meaningless error
messages accidentally installing a version of virtualbox that was made for
the wrong version of the Linux kernel and needing to enable an additional BIOS
option that it didn't tell me i needed it took me literally hours
but i got there and it's worth noting that it can be a
real hassle to set up a vm on Windows 2 especially for an inexperienced user and
hey at least on Linux it's incredibly powerful and it's free now there's a lot
more that i could say right now but i feel like most of it is better suited
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previous parts it is it is a heck of a ride this whole series
it's been a lot of work but it's also been a lot of fun