TLDW of this video from ChatGPT

The video highlights the following main points about why Linux Mint is considered better than Windows 11:

  1. Start Menu and Customization: Linux Mint’s menu is more organized and customizable than Windows 11’s start menu. It offers three columns, resizable icons, and customizable labels.

  2. Taskbar (Panel) Features: Linux Mint’s panel is more flexible, allowing repositioning, resizing, and creation of additional panels. Applets enhance functionality, offering features like quick desktop access and window behavior customization.

  3. Privacy and Telemetry: Linux Mint is privacy-focused, avoiding telemetry. Certain apps’ telemetry can be manually disabled. Windows 11 is criticized for lacking privacy.

  4. Bloatware and Pre-installed Apps: Linux Mint has minimal bloatware, including useful tools or open-source alternatives. Windows 11 can have cluttered start menus with unwanted icons.

  5. Batch File Renaming and Management: Linux Mint’s file management includes advanced batch renaming with insertion, removal, and case conversion. Windows 11 lacks similar features.

  6. Security (Future Topic): Security is mentioned as a potential future topic, with Linux Mint considered more privacy-oriented than Windows 11. Discussions about security are acknowledged.

The narrator encourages viewer engagement and discussion on the covered topics.

  • flashgnash
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    1 year ago

    The game ready drivers I hadn’t considered, that said I’ve still not had an issue running newer games. Ran diablo 4 flawlessly on high settings on linux with an Nvidia card

    Nvidia broadcast is good but Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too I think

    You’re talking about emulation, I’m assuming you mean wine/proton and not just trying to game in a VM. LoL I can understand being a competitive game, I’m kinda confused by path of exile looks like an old single player game

    I have exclusively played witcher 3 on my steam deck and it ran flawlessly, maybe it was something to do with your distro/setup?

    As for the windows shit sure I could go through every process in task manager disabling things and fighting windows (you can’t get rid of cortana without digging deep into your system for example) but Linux comes free of all that crap out of the box and doesn’t make me run around removing stuff from my system

    (Also, I am the worst for not uninstalling things ever but now I’m on NixOS I basically just remove everything I don’t need anymore from the config file and it’s gone)

    Out of curiosity, when did you last try gaming on Linux and on what distro?

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      Yeah, ofc I’m talking about wine/proton, proton is wine+ and wine is an emulator whose name translates to Wine Is Not an Emulator, funny. PoE is not an old game at all, and it’s quite hardware demanding, the leader of the non casual ARPG market.

      Krisp and noisetorch are perfectly good too

      Sadly, krisp can’t even compare to the level of noise reduction I get from broadcast/rtxvoice, it completely eliminates annoying sounds (dogs barking, fan noise, random high pitched shouts from annoying friends. I can even even rub my beard to the mic while talking and what others hear is just a slight distortion in my voice. I have not tried noisetorch so I don’t know, but I would be very surprised if they get the level of reduction that I have from nvidia.

      The last time I played with linux was about 3ish years ago. I might install linux on my old SSD when I upgrade my pc and get new drives, just to have dual boot to test stuff without fear of breaking anything (it’s nbd to create partitions and to expand a drive and all that stuff, but it feels like working at home), but lutrix and/or proton were already running quite high and mighty when I tried.

      There’s other stuff too, although this is quite minor, the propietary programs to control the lighting of my keyboard/mouse are not on linux, and those are VERY important (/s).

      it’s not that I’m viscerally against linux, it’s just the reaction i get from the lemmy linux evangelists :sweat_smile:

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        It’s come a ridiculously long way for gaming in the last 3 years thanks to the steam deck’s popularity

        Depending on your peripherals I believe there are open source alternatives for RGB, pretty sure someone’s made an icue one

        Path of exile was released in 2013 (10 years ago, sorry to make you feel old lol

        Pretty sure wine is more of a translation layer than an emulator hence the name

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          Sure, as stated (or maybe it was another chain) I’ll test stuff when I upgrade the mobo, and with it add new m2 cards for extra space.

          About PoE, that’s not really a good metric since the game is being updated constantly with extra content and graphical improvements. You wouldn’t really say League of Legends is old, right? It’s from 2009 though.

          About wine… Emulators are command/operation/api translators lol.