 So, today I want to talk about why no emotionally normal human is ever going to enjoy and benefit from using Linux as a daily driver kind of desktop thing. Now, a lot of people are always asking, oh dude, when is the day of the Linux desktop coming? When is Linux going to go mainstream, man? Oh, I can't wait. I love Linux so much. Well, here's the problem. Linux, it's not just that Linux desktops are hard to use. They're actually getting worse and worse and worse, and in fact, the more effort that people are putting into making these desktops usable, quote-unquote, the worse and worse they are getting. Okay? Now, recently, I have a relative upon whose computer another relative installed Linux. Actually, specifically it was Manjaro, specifically, I forget which desktop environment. But now, I will say one thing about Manjaro. Almost six months to a year or so ago, I actually did a video where I said, if you're new to Linux, just use Manjaro. It'll work. It's a good distribution. Right? That video I now realize was actually in error because I was talking about the Manjaro Linux that existed five years ago. It does not exist anymore. Manjaro nowadays actually totally sucks. You have to, well, I'll explain why. Now, on this relative's computer, now, here's... I don't know what exactly is going through the Manjaro developer's heads. But of course, it's a distribution based on Arch Linux. However, they decided, oh, well, Arch Linux has Pac-Man. We have Pac-Man, but we're going to add in this new package manager. What is it like? Pamac or something like that. Now, in Pac-Man, are basically mutually incompatible. You can't run them at the same time. Now, you might ask, why? Oh, why do I care if I can't run them at the same time? Well, a lot of graphical wrapper programs will be trying to run one. If you try to run the other, that's going to mess things up at the same time. If you're a normal human who's following advice that you're reading on the internet, you're going to be confused when you realize, oh my goodness, this isn't working. They have this extra package manager. Of course, they have all the premier Linux soyware nowadays, like Snap and Flatpak. Either installed by default. I know that he has Snap on that computer. I don't know if it was installed by default, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were, because it's freaking taken over everything, because I don't know. Apparently, having just one package manager isn't enough. We have to have Pac-Man and Pamac and Snap and Flatpak and throw a couple app images in there, all of which are mutually incompatible. I mean, at least app images are just like files. Instead of having a five megabyte program, you have an 800 megabyte program. But still, at least they're just files. All the other package managers are just totally unjustifiable, I mean, besides the normal Pac-Man or whatever. Now, you might say, what does this matter to a normie? Why does it matter to him? Well, here's how it matters. If you want to install one single program and you have a graphical wrapper that's running some other program, running Pamac, and you want to install something with Pac-Man, that isn't going to work. You don't know how to troubleshoot that if you're a normal person. Additionally, I don't know what is with Manjaro, but apparently all of their post-install hooks, like whenever you update the Linux kernel, would just break his install every single time or break grub every single time. So I would basically have to go over and fix it every time he upgraded packages, which of course he was kind of conditioned against updating packages because of that. That means when I went to his house and he wanted me to set up scanning things on Linux, and that's a very easy thing to do. Even in a very usable way, you just install Xsane, which is a scanning program, but that's not possible if all of your package managers are screwed up and incompatible. You can't update because grub is going to freaking collapse and you won't be able to boot. If you can't update your package manager because you're afraid of it updating grub or you can't run it, you can't follow directions on the internet to install a very basic program. So that is not going to work. Now additionally, these desktop environments, and now this is one thing. Now the reason people are adding all these stupid package managers is because they think it's going to be easier, quote unquote. Oh my goodness, it's easier to install Steam using Snap. So we got to install Snap and screw up your LSBLK because we've got to have that. So that is the thinking behind it. They think that they're making things easier. But really, see, things would be easier if they were just actually making these things in the default package manager, or make it easier to use the AUR or something to install Steam, or you can just use the multi-lib, whatever. Anyway, most of these programs, that's the case. That's the sheer stupidity of Snap and Flatpak. They just do poorly what a pre-existing package manager already does well. But the people designing these operating systems, I just don't know what they're thinking because on this desktop environment that he had installed, I want to say the first week or so of him using it. He called me up and he's like, oh, I need to be able to click and drag from one folder to another. And I was like, how does it not have that ability? Well, I came to find out that Manjaro, or this desktop environment on Manjaro, actually installs two different graphical file managers. I forget which ones they are. But they're mutually incompatible. Obviously, you can't drag from one to the other. But if you press my documents or something, one would come up. And if you press some other shortcut, the other one would come up. And one of them couldn't click and drag at all. And the other one could only click and drag, obviously, to other copies of itself. So that's one of those things. It's like, what are people even thinking if they're installing both of those? Probably what happened is that one was packaged with some general desktop environment. And I don't even know. I'm just trying to say the people who are designing these desktop environments, they don't know what they're doing. They obviously have not, it's not like they haven't put any normie. Just get your freaking grandma to use this thing for two days. And she could have told you that all this crap was wrong. And this is, well, I will say one weird comment that I've gotten. You guys might know I have this thing. I have some scripts, larbs, at larbs.xyz, where you can have a fresh install of Arch Linux or Artix Linux, and it will pull basically my desktop environment. And it will install that. And it actually has documentation and stuff. So you know how to use it. I mean, obviously, everything's key bindings and stuff. But I've gotten weird comments about that that, oh, wow, this is actually better documented than most Linux desktop environments. And I always thought that was like a fake compliment whenever I'd get it. But now, after being experienced to all of these quote unquote normie friendly desktop environments, they're just so bad. And the worst part is they're getting worse. That's my big problem. So the reason the year of the Linux desktop is not going to happen is not just because Linux is unusable. It's because these stupid desktop environments, the people designing them, they're trying to make them accessible by adding new layers of complication, new package managers, new freaking programs that are supposed to work better, which they're obviously not testing. They're just putting whatever the new shiny thing is on this operating system, creating a bunch of complication. They don't have anything simple. Keep it simple, stupid. And keep it Linux, loser. That is the thing that I think people need to keep in mind. You don't want to produce some stupid Apple-like or Windows-like environment that's going to be just like what they're familiar with. No, like Linux has blatant superiorities, and you want people to be aware of those. Like honestly, I'm even for normie-centered desktop environments, I really think that people should be just installing programs on the command line. Why? Because it's easier than everything else. You can just open up a terminal and say, install this, and it will install. That is much easier than any other way of installing a program. I think that every normal human who's using Linux should be intimately aware of those superior aspects of Linux. But no, we have to make it look like freaking Windows. We have to make it look like Mac OS, and we have to install all these stupid programs, all this stupid soyware that just adds complication. It doesn't add functionality. It just makes things confusing, and it's stupid. So that is why I am bearish on the Linux desktop, and I don't really care about it because I don't think there's no who cares, but that's why no one uses it. If you want to make a usable Linux distribution, keep it simple. Have a desktop environment that you actually test out on normal humans, and don't add stupid layers of complication. Just have basic programs that have basic functionality, and that's it. That's all people need. The thing is, it's not so much. People are mostly bothered by things getting in the way of what they should be able to do. They're not actually bothered that much by not being able to do something or not knowing how to do something. They're more bothered by knowing how to do something and having stupid arbitrary bugs come up in their face. That is what all Linux distributions are now doing. So that's it. It's almost the 10 minutes. 10 minutes doesn't exist anymore on YouTube, but I guess my reflexes are so perfect that I can time everything to 10 minutes. It's now like 8 minutes or something. I forget what it is. For those who don't know, that's about the mid-roll ad thing. I might even monetize it on YouTube, but I don't even remember now.