Linux is Easy, right?

When you do something every day, it becomes second nature. Whether that's driving, cooking a meal, or even riding a bike. But when you're just diving into a new hobby, it can be really tough to know if the issues you are experiencing are your fault or the fault of your tools, which is the premise of this video. Lionus, Elijah, and I are going to be completing tasks on our Linux computers. Are we the problem, or is there something about Linux that can make things more difficult? And our users range from lifelong Windows users to Linux dabblers to slightly longerterm Linux dabblers. And our tasks range from things that should be dead simple on Windows because we either know it already or because it's easy to figure out to ones that would require a bit of tinkering even if we were in a comfortable environment. So here we go. Starting with our first task. Segue to our sponsor, Whisper Flow. Whisper Flow is a voice to text that works in every app on every device. Wherever you can type, Whisper Flow works. Just speak how you normally would and Whisper Flow will do the writing and formatting for you. Learn more at the link down below. While a major focus of the Linux challenge is the gamer's perspective, a core benefit of choosing a PC over something like a game console is that you can do a lot more than just game on it. And if we want to make the argument that Linux is a valid Windows replacement, non-gaming tasks need to be relatively quick, or at least painless enough that the average gamer doesn't get scared straight back into Microsop's corporate embrace. With that in mind, then we had to lay out some ground rules. For instance, using a virtual machine with Windows inside of Linux to run apps is totally an okay thing to do for an average user. But is that really aligned with the spirit of the Linux challenge? You guys don't want to know how well I Windows. And besides, we're trying to avoid using Microsoft software, right? Our second rule is that we set a time limit of 15 minutes per tasks because like anyone else, we have other things to do today. And honestly, if it goes much longer than that, it's clear that either the hammer or the holder is the problem. chat GPT. Okay, meme about it all you want, but it's been an invaluable resource throughout the Linux challenge 2026. Add a startup program to pop OS. Let's go into my settings. A startup applications. Add an app. Put that amongus in there. Boom. Let's test it. Reboot our computer. I am the Linux users. Let's go. Okay, I found auto start. There's Discord, which says not running because I closed it, but does start up. So, I'm going to click remove entry. And now there is no user specified auto start items. Done. Um, let's just search startup. Auto start. Oh, auto start. That's probably got to be something. So, I see Steam. Let's add Discord. I can double check all that. Okay. Well, now we should test it. Okay. I'm going to reboot my computer. One moment, please. Oh, I saw it. I saw the startup. Start it up. It's just muted. Hey, there we go. Or it was just minimized. Task one completed. By far the best thing about me is just how Linux pled I am. When I get up, I eat open source for breakfast. When I go take a I that open source right into the toilet. And then the next day, I do it all over again. After sleeping, a restful sleep, dreaming dreams of open source. Hire me, Lionus Sebastian. My name's literally Lionus. I actually had to do this when I was on my trip in Korea. I'm already familiar with what to do. No, I don't want to charge. I want to transfer images. I actually had a little bit more luck with that than the transferring files one. Mind you, that was on my laptop. Samsung Android internal storage. DCIM. Boom. Copy and videos. Yo, when I go take a I that open source right into the toilet. Actually, I I misspoke. Uh, my body absorbs all the open source and gets rid of anything that was not open source waste when I go to the toilet. I'm sorry. That was Hello. Uh, I'm going to lie on my resume and see how that goes. I need a USB cable and that USB cable will honestly really help me with uh accomplishing this job. I'm going to do a really good job. Uh I have no experience in the field that I'm applying for because all the experience that I have is like stopping Lionus from walking off cliffs. Internal shared storage. Okay. Where's is it DCIM camera? I'm going to open file manager. Go to my videos area. Drag this into there. Copy here. It's there. And that's the video. Please consider me for the job. I'm very cool. I have a cat who's interrupting the shoot. Hi, buddy. He has water all over his nose. Apple iPhone 5. Not quite, but we'll we'll count it if it works. It's detecting it as a camera, though. It's not like detecting it as a file. USB device removed. I didn't touch it. I thought this one would be easy to plug an iPhone into Bazite, especially on handhelds like ROG Ally. AI overview. You suck ass. Where did this come from? I don't want to plug into the ROG Ally. Maybe there's a YouTube video. Someone telling me how to do this. The first result is about how to do it to Windows. That's not what I Googled, please. KDE Connect. Okay. Is that installed? Here it is. device synchronization. This might be an app I can download. Do you think that violates the spirit of like no cloud services if it's a direct peer-to-peer connection? I'll let you guys decide in the comments. Oh, wow. I found it right away. Discover devices. Basite to start pairing. Accept. Oh, there we go. On my iPhone, I want to send that's a picture of my passport. Editor, please don't include that. Oh, receiving file open. Hey, but it also doesn't change the fact that I wasn't able to connect with a USB just like that. It was for some reason showing up as an iPhone 5 PTP model mode. What does that even mean? I'm not going to lie, I did not try to edit any video throughout any point of the challenge on any of my systems. So, I'm just going to go straight for Da Vinci Resolve. Oops. No. Yeah, I ain't doing all that. You know what? Let's just try this. Oo, I'm going to go with Flowblade. I mean, that looks like a video editing interface. You got to be willing to try stuff. That is definitely something that I think has changed in my attitude since the first Linux challenge is in the first Linux challenge, I wanted to know the right way to do stuff. And this time around, I'm just like, I'm gonna click on. What's the worst thing that could happen? You could delete your whole desktop environment. The whole internet could get mad at you. Okay, there's my 24 second clip. By far the best. WOW. Blade delet. Okay, let's move this over. When I go to the toilet afterward, my body has absorbed. This is like the Linux equivalent to like Manosphere garbage. Okay. File export movie.mpp4. Let's go, boys. Take a when I go to the toilet afterward. My B. Okay. It's not a great edit, but that's uh that's user error. The point is I exported a video video audio functioning and it was that fast. You might say I was in my Flowblade state. The Pitiv video editor is what we're trying to go with. I have no idea how this thing works. Can I do it now? Oh, I'm going to try something else. Kaden live. Okay, I've heard of that before. I can probably just grab it really quick. Uninstall. It's in. I have it already. Transform effect. Cool. Yeah. Where is that? Transform. Got it. Now I need to cut it again cuz I didn't do that technically. Okay, that was actually way easier this time cuz now I know how it works. File, render. Rendering to crashed. Height not divisible by four. Okay, did it. I had to render out in a different format. Yeah, the format that I chose was not happy with something. I don't know. I'm not a video editor. I already talked in part two about how I needed to use like Kaden Live. That's where I'm going right away. I can't open my file folder. Unknown code error one. Just trying to open my files. Okay, let me drag in the video. Uh, sure. Transcode failed to create file. Thank you very much, Kaden Live. I want to cut out the part where he's got water on his nose. It makes Token look bad. Cut. And then I'll get me laughing when he leaves. Boom. There's no ripple delete. Okay. File. Uh, render. I'm just going to put it back on the desktop here. Hey, it's done. Okay. Let's go to my desktop and let's play it back. There. I cut out the part. Task complete. Easy peasy. Save. No, I don't need to save. Re-export. No, I don't need to save. I should have saved the file. What's it called? Flowblade. Flowblade. As soon as I start typing SMB slash, it gets mad. This could be a challenge. Ooh, SMB 4K. We're just going to try stuff. Man, I'm I know I'm on the right track here. Here's where it's going to mount to. I just have to navigate to it. What's the difference between location and IP address? Blah blah blah blah blah. Change path. Render. This was the first hard one. Oh, yes. We're good. We're so back. Okay. Play the video. Confirm. Play the video. Oh, I can play the video. Or wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Hold on, hold on, hold on. No, no. We have not actually confirmed yet. Okay, let's navigate to it the other way. Linus pill. Uh oh. No, it didn't actually go there. Oh, this is good. This is good. It's prompting me for my network credentials. This is good. Okay. Oh, dude, we're so back. Change path. Render. Okay, this time I got it. There it is. There it is. I know what happened. Basically, the interface was a little bit confusing for me for this like mount system. Uh when I mounted a new thing, I thought I assumed IP address was where I needed to put like the IP address, but actually it wants me to put that in location, which is also an IP address location. Like I don't know, they seem kind of redundant to me to to me. I thought location was like a label. Like I could just label it whatever I want. Um because unlike on Windows where your label is going to be like like A B CDE E FG, like through your drive letters, right? Um, in Linux it's more like you've got your mount folder and then you can like put stuff there. So I thought this would be like what I was calling it in my mount folder, but instead it just makes a name for me. Users minus minus pill on address. Sure. You know what? I'm calling that a W. I'm calling that a W. Okay. Well, I don't have a network drive that I can actually do anything with. But um what I assume I would do is go into pseudo nano uh/etc/fs tab and like mount it in here is what I think I would do. I don't think that's in the spirit of what they're asking me to do. And the birds agree. If you remember from part two, one of the challenges that I struggled with was actually mounting my network share. And this is one of the key things, exporting files from or any other video editing software or just any software. I was having issues exporting it directly to my network share. I often exported it to my desktop and then dragged it over. But you know what? I got new NAS software recently. Maybe that'll fix it. I doubt it. I'm just huffing that copium pretty hard right now. I'm just going to save it to my root here, which will just be Mechamothra. We're going to title it network export and save and then render. I think Caden live crashed. I cannot even close it. As the industry says, I really this one up. Wow, it's really not happy. It's not even like letting me force kill it. I'm clearly gonna have to like retry or find a new method to export it to the network share. See, this is what I was talking about in part two, though. I can like find my network share right here. But I can't mount it. I can copy the location and then I can navigate to it. But can I mount this somehow? Oh, there's a video. Oh, I should have just gone directly to the Bazite documentation. I don't want to format. I don't want to make a partition. Nope. Automounting. So that's in like a dis manage disk location. But I don't think I can add a network share as a dis image. No, I can't. So this is a completely wrong video. Thank you for that. Like the average person reading this is going to make their head explode, dude. Like it's making my head explode. And I know a little bit about computers. Holy cow. My brain is starting to hurt. How much time do I have left? I have a minute. Feel like I've actually done nothing. Okay, I'm just going to go for it. We're going to do this paste. It just pasted in a completely different spot. Thank you for that. I I can't even undo. Um, okay. No. Okay, listen. I know that's my timer. Give me an extra minute. audience, you'll give me an extra minute, right? I assume you said yes. Okay. Windows or Linux? My ass. I can use my phone. That's a computer. Hold on. Where is this machine? I haven't actually tried to remote into this. I've remoted out of this. Seriously, when did just like the type in the ID thing go away? Why is this so complicated now? Oh my god. 590 405. I will have changed this by the time you watch this video. Don't bother. Save. This computer's or contact is already in your list. Well, where is it? Smart guy. Did I parse on here as well? Yeah, I did. Okay, I'm going to grab a computer. Yeah, hosting is still not supported in the Linux Parseek app or at least whatever version of it I have. Let me make it clear that nothing I'm doing right now should be considered an endorsement of Team Viewer or their nonsense business practices. How has this gotten so bad? Yeah, this just like didn't work. Okay. All right. I need desk. Here we go. Display server not supported. Ubuntu. Oh, great. Does not fully support Wayand. Disable Wayand in the Gnome display manager to force Xorg. Display. I mean, yeah, that's time. All right. Um, error. I I don't have another computer. Error. Yes, you do. Where? It's on your desk right now. My phone. Let's just randomly install stuff that Chatt tells me to do. Amazing. It doesn't exist. Uh, I forgot you can I'm pretty sure you can do this with like Steam. Are you just bringing your computer? Yep. Yeah. Probably not what you're looking for, but I am technically controlling my computer from my phone. Now, one of the ways I remote control my streaming PC when I'm away is I actually use Google Chrome's built-in remote management. I wonder if that works on Linux. It wants Debian Linux. Basite is not based off Debian. I'm still going to try here. Chrome remote desktop. This was from 15 months ago, but it is it seems like an official Bazite post of some sort. You will need an RPM package and hope they have way support, which I doubt. The same comment says, "We support Sunshine and Moonlight. Maybe we should try that." Open the terminal and type you just set up Sunshine. That sounds like an insult. Whoever wrote that command, you just set up sunshine. You just set up dash sunshine. Choose enable. Enable beta. Disable service. We're going to enable. Oh, it's still setting up. I think I launched sunshine too soon, but it's clearly doing something. It's installing a bunch of crap. So, I think while that's installing, I'm going to get Moonlight set up on my Windows computer here so I could hopefully remote into it. God, this looks so sketchy. Attention, Sunshine detected these errors during startup. We strongly recommend fixing them before streaming. Fatal. Couldn't bind RTSP server port. Address is already in use. Well, it says they recommend I fix it. I We Okay, let's try. That didn't work. Wait, I know my time just ran out. This is my streaming mouse. But as you can see, I am successfully controlling this with surprisingly low latency. Now, I'm pretty sure that's over the network, not my local intranet. I'm pretty sure this is going out through the internet, but I am successfully remote controlling this PC. I got that right on the buzzer. Holy cow. I'm counting that. I'm counting that because most of it was just waiting for it to download. So cool. I've never used Sunshine and Moonlight before, but that was pretty easy. Uh, games with easy anti-che on Linux. Elden Ring. I mean, how am I How am I even supposed to download a game in this time? Oh, dude, I forgot how fast my internet is. This going to be done in like 2 minutes. I got this. Boom. Play. Here we go. Okay, challenge accepted. Challenge There you go. I am playing Elden Ring. Oh no. Okay, it's doing this thing. This is like if I'm ever going to have a problem with a game, this is what's going to happen, which is that I click the play button, nothing happens, and we're just we're back. Okay. So, I'm going to try something which is where I run Steam from the command line and then I can kind of see what's happening on Steam's end through the command line window uh because of it doing this like silent error thing that's very annoying. See how it's like doing stuff over here. So, I'm going to click play. Try to see what happens. Okay. Something red happened. I think it's the drive that it's installed on. My internet's being super slow as it tries to redownload. We're only at 27%. We've been waiting here for a while. So, uh, this is clearly something you can do. I know for a fact that Arc Raiders runs I've technically ran Arc Raiders on this system before. I've just done a bunch of things since then and I didn't have a good version of it installed. Um, so maybe we'll maybe we'll update later uh with me self-capturing running Arc Raiders or something else. But this is this is something that does work. There are games that run easy antiche or other levels of heavier anti-che that do work on Linux. Those versions of anti-che just usually don't do as much. That's how they make it work. This one I feel like I have an unfair advantage at. There's actually a game I play regularly that has easy antiche that I know works on Linux. We're in We are in game right now. The game has launched. No issue. And I would boot up into a game, but we are working right now. Utilities discs intuitive format disc. Is this FAT32? Sorry, is this Um, that's not FAT32. Okay. KDE partition manager. Let's try this. FAT 12. FAT32. Create. Yes, I can create, move, copy. Okay. So, how do I do it? This file system does not support setting a label. Well, what which one is it now? Oh, apply. Sure. Apply pending operations. Okay. What did we do? New volume group partition. New. Here we go. Fat 32. Let's go. Fatty 32. All right. Hey, we're back on track. So, if I go into utilities, discs, it's totally there. I still can't copy anything to it, though. Failed to mount it for writing. So, clearly there's more that I have to do here to like make it cooperate. I No, no. I want I want 50% credit for it if it's a FAT 32 drive that actually works. I want 50% credit. 30% credit. I'll take 25% credit. Properties. Yep. File system fat 32. So, let's agree on 10% credit. Oh, I I put in a flash drive that was not supposed to be in the bin that it was in. Okay. So, KDE disc partition manager thing. Pretty good. I can see the flash drive right here. I'm going to right click on it. I'm going to unmount it. I'm go FAT32. I'm going to label it. Okay. And then click apply. Apply pending operations. I can see it's like redetecting it. Um, it just finished. It's reloading my drives. I see it here now. It's FAT32. I go in there. There's a removable drive. Here it is. Let's start by seeing if there's like a disk management thing here. There is. I see my thumb drive. I see GPT and MBR. I do not see FAT32 Bellina Etcher. Let's do this. Download Etcher. Downloading a lot today. It's one thing I've noticed. Uhhuh. I like how this one answer is, hey, how do I do this? I scroll far enough down it says you can do this on Windows. Thank you. Uh Kyle Ghostbow, I appreciate it. Of course, the AI overview gives me Windows results. Okay. Linux. Use Garted. I've heard of that before. Is that in the Basite store? RPM-OS tree. Install Garted. Oh, it's doing something. Checking out tree. A5408E6. It wants me to reboot. It even tells me the command to reboot. Let's do that. System control reboot. Okay, we got Garted. Oh my gosh, I think I did it. How do I see it? Where where where did it go? Wait. So if I like unplug this right now. Uh oh wait, why is it pending? What is pend? So wait, did that not actually do that? No, it didn't. Device FAT32 add. It's pending. Okay, we shall wait again. Oh, my timer's going off. And it's still pending. Did I do something wrong? Like why what what is what is taking it so long to to finish? Like did I not hit save? I don't It's not telling me like what it's doing. So I don't know if I did something wrong cuz if I hit close right now it's like oh this is still pending. I just tried to Well, I clearly couldn't do it. I got Garted installed. What do you guys think? Is that a point? Oh man. I mean, I should get to the point though. I should probably segue at some point to our sponsor, Whisper Flow. Talking is faster than typing for just about everybody. And Whisper Flow is a voicetoext tool that works with all of your devices on all the platforms that matter. Whether that's Slack, Gmail, Claude, Chat, GPT, Notes, iMessage, wherever you can type, Whisper Flow works. And what's cool about Whisperflow is that it can recognize the workspace that you're using. 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