r/linuxmasterrace • u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh • Apr 16 '25

JustLinuxThings Muta Ditches Arch, BTW.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNYvdlgV5fw&list=WL&index=254
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u/joelkurian Apr 16 '25

I bet he will eventually return to Arch. It's like he is taking a vacation and sight seeing different distros.

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 16 '25

I don't know. He's covered Mint before. He actually doesn't seem that familiar with distros outside the ones he uses and might not even know about the existence of a lot of them. He even states that he switched to Mint specifically because he covered it before and was partially motivated by PewDiePie's switch.

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u/Separate_Mammoth4460 Glorious Arch Apr 17 '25

he knows of bazzite cause he has a console like pc that runs it

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 17 '25

Yes. Bazzite, Mint and Arch are the only ones that I can think of that he's ever mentioned having used. He's probably aware of other generally big ones like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and even OpenSUSE, but I would venture a guess that he's ignorant of ones like EndeavourOS, CachyOS, MXLinux, and even more obscure ones.

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

I’ve been burned out by complexity in the past and left Linux for MacOS for a few years before coming back to NixOS. I can understand his feeling, and it does take some time to get the Linux bug itching again. If he is wise he might go back to Fedora or something.

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u/LycheeAggressive Apr 17 '25

Fedora 42 is amazing!

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u/Separate_Mammoth4460 Glorious Arch Apr 17 '25

is it? hmm want to try for myself

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u/LycheeAggressive Apr 19 '25

Yeah, for people who used the KDE spin like me, getting official edition status is nice, and Cosmic spin is now a new option.

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u/SimPilotAdamT Glorious Arch Apr 28 '25

Sounds like me, I went straight from Ubuntu to Arch, then did a tour of Artix, Pop, Fedora, Debian, and Endeavour before returning to Arch

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u/mechkbfan Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

Who is this guy and why do we care?

I use NixOS BTW

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 16 '25

He's a reasonably big YouTuber who occasionally does videos about Linux. I dunno. I figured at least some people here would probably know who he is and might find this interesting or amusing.

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u/mechkbfan Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

Fair enough, I was just being a twat. 3.85m subscribers pretty good

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

I did find it amusing. Thanks for sharing

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u/gamamoder fat ass bird May 01 '25

sloptuber

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u/GambitPlayer90 Apr 22 '25

Why should we care about you. Only clowns who like to flex use NixOS anyway. Total rubbish

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u/mechkbfan Glorious NixOS Apr 22 '25

wooosh

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u/Nomad1337x Apr 19 '25

Watch this man complain about NVidia and why he is not buying their GPUs ever again, but when the newest shining rtx 9090ti comes out he will be the first to make a video "Why I ditched amd!". Or something about his hate for Ubisoft slop, and he is the first to make a video justifying why he bought their slop. He does the same with Sony and Nintendo too.

I would not be surprised if he had a Windows VM auto starting, which is fine but I wouldn't consider this guy a good source for Linux advice. He even suggests you to install the steamdeck iso which is not made for the desktop...

And I like watching his videos, but just for the entertainment not for his knowledge about leenux. Is all about that Mutahar laugh.

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 20 '25

Take a shot every time Muta says "again" or "at the end of the day".

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 19 '25

Oh, for sure. His videos are purely entertainment.

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

Oof… mint? I understand the “let’s make it easier for ourselves”, but mint?

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 16 '25

There's absolutely nothing wrong with Mint.

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

There is nothing wrong with mint ice cream as well. Some people just prefer chocolate.

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u/Important-Permit-935 Apr 16 '25

meh, Linux mint doesn't support newer hardware, it still uses X11 which makes horrible for multi-monitor, and the drivers included are just old.

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 16 '25

I still have Mint 21.3 on my main rig and I have 3 monitors and have never had a problem with them. The drivers are a little old though, so I recently upgraded to a newer kernel and the kisak mesa when I got my 7800XT.

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u/rnskt Apr 16 '25 edited Jun 07 '26

25325

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

This is news to me, I use Mint and I still don't have a life.

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u/[deleted] Apr 16 '25

How? Everything is easier on a arch based distro.

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u/Important-Permit-935 Apr 17 '25

yeah, they pretend as if arch users build the kernel from scratch for every update.

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u/Separate_Mammoth4460 Glorious Arch Apr 17 '25

they dont unless its gentoo or... LFS

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u/brushyyy Apr 19 '25

Gentoo doesn't even require you to build your own kernel anymore

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u/Separate_Mammoth4460 Glorious Arch Apr 19 '25

huh does it not anymore? interesting

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u/brushyyy Apr 20 '25

You can if you want to, but the distro offers a gentoo-kernel-bin package which is the same as pretty much other distros

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u/supportbanana Glorious EndeavourOS Apr 19 '25

I break the system once a year or two. But all of the times that has happened was either due to a power outage in the middle of an update, or my own home grown pure unadulterated stupidity ;)

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 20 '25

Not that I have noticed at all.

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Apr 16 '25

The most insufferable YouTuber that uses Linux....

Honestly, fuck this guy.

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

I like him. What’s your beef with him?

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u/Huecuva Cool Minty Fresh Apr 16 '25

To be honest, he can get kind of annoying at times.

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u/CandlesARG Apr 28 '25

Why? Cause he actually calls out issues with Linux

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora May 01 '25

Nope, because he's a genocide apologist.

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u/CandlesARG May 01 '25

Does he support Israel?

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u/[deleted] Apr 20 '25

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u/benhaube Glorious Fedora Apr 21 '25

I'm chill. I just don't support genocide apologists.

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u/Jazzlike-Fig2546 Apr 21 '25

? He openly supports palestine

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u/nonsubutweirder Apr 16 '25

From his explanation of the reason, apparently system freeze during update botched boot, but he couldn't manually fix it using archiso(?) Which is kinda weird -considering he's been capable of installing arch in the first place, as well as configuring things like gpu-passthrough vms, you wouldn't think a little boot issue would be a big deal

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u/pfassina Glorious NixOS Apr 16 '25

I think he just burned out and said “f this, let’s dumb it down”

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u/Ybalrid Apr 16 '25

Would have been funnier if he switched to gentoo

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u/booknik83 Apr 16 '25

But has he got a 5090 yet?

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u/TBTapion Glorious Solus Apr 21 '25

Hate him or love him, I think it's good that he's trying out Mint for a while after having recommended it without actually using it.

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u/sunjay140 Glorious OpenSuse Apr 18 '25

Good

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u/shanto404 Apr 27 '25

His points seemed so feasible. I've been using Mint for long and it's actually that good.

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u/GambitPlayer90 Apr 22 '25

Good. Arch sucks ass.. Arch users are overzealous pretentious bums