Switching to Linux: My Fedora KDE Experience With App Troubleshooting Challenges

So, just recently, I made a decision that I'm going to be switching to Linux as my primary operating system, and I'm

going to be keeping Windows as my secondary operating system for running games and apps that doesn't work in

Linux. And I have been testing Linux for more than a month now. Finally, I have settled down with Fedora KDE. It's the

best Linux operating system for me and for my use case. I also did a video on that. If you haven't watched that video,

you should go and check out that video. Now, I have been using Fedora KDE for a while now. Yes, I boot into the system

almost every day. And yes, I edit my videos inside, also record videos inside. Okay, so just last video I

edited using Fedora. Okay, the files are missing. Don't worry cuz I haven't mounted the drive where my videos are. I

can relink them now. But, I can just close it. And look at this, how fast the application opens and closes, especially

DaVinci Resolve. It's a heavy video editing software. And look at this, this thing just opens, runs like butter. And

yes, I have been actually using Linux ever since I made my decision that I'm going to be using Fedora KDE as my

primary Linux operating system and then dual boot the Windows and all that. You got the idea. I haven't fully migrated

to Linux yet cuz I need to back up my things from Windows and then import it here. It takes some time. Almost

everything is ready. My files are backed up. Now, only thing I need to do is format my entire PC and just install

Linux and then install Windows, dual boot them, and enjoy the faster and better primary operating system for

browsing the internet, playing games, video editing. So, as I was just using, you know, Fedora, doing my research, I

found out about this app available at GitHub. It's called Voice Studio. It's the open-source, fully local 11 Labs

alternative. You can do voice cloning, voice design, video dubbing, direction, transcript, and audiobook creation in

646 languages, and it happens all locally. No subscription, no nothing like that.

And I was like, "Let's make a video about this." And I'm inside Linux, and this app is actually officially

available for Linux. So, I was like, "Let's first make the video about this app, and then I'll do the live stream of

me switching to Linux, plus do a tutorial video on how to do my Linux setup and all that." So, I downloaded

the Linux version of this app, very excited. I opened it. Oh, look at that. It worked. You might think this is

working. Let me actually show you guys something here. It didn't actually work out of the box. It just crashed, blank

screen, no error message, no nothing like that. But, luckily, KDE has something called crash process viewer,

where you can see the log of the application and know what exactly caused the app to crash, which sounds cool, but

for normal people, like coming from Windows, I have absolutely zero idea why this happened. So, the only thing that I

could do was to do a research online, find the solution, or fire up a AI, and AI will figure out. I chose the second

option cuz it's easier. AI will do the research and apply the fixes, which it did, but took almost 30 minutes. I think

almost an hour, so I'm just going to be a little bit generous. Going to say 30 minutes. According to AI, it was

something to do with the WebKit process something. So, AI was able to fix the app and I was able to launch it. I went

through the setup and then in middle of the setup, it crashed again. And I tried opening it again, but I was getting the

blank screen. And I rebooted the system and launched it again. Here I am. It's still loading. Last time it loaded

successfully, but when I tried to use the feature like audio cloning, just wanted to preview how audio sounds, it

crashed again. So, let me actually go to launchpad here. Right now, UI is loaded. Everything is loaded actually. Uh never

mind. It crashed again, I think. Yep. You can see the crash here. The WebKit web process crashed. Now, I was

going to make the video about this app instead of this video, but it took me so much time just to make the app run on

the system. I set up everything. There are huge model files that I need to download. I downloaded that. Everything

looked good, but now I can't use it. So, I was like, let's try this on Windows. So, I booted to Windows, downloaded the

app, launched it without any errors. Setup was complete. Tried it, navigating through everything, all the options. I

previewed everything. It just worked. Then I thought to myself, is it worth it? Like I'm trying to run a app that is

actually available for Linux, fully compiled. I just install this and start using it. But what if it doesn't work

and you have to troubleshoot the app? And what if it's for most apps that I'm going to be testing and using? You know

my channel, I try to find new cool softwares, operating systems, and just review them and all that. What if I

spent my entire day troubleshooting and making the app run and then spend another day recording the video? I feel

like it's not worth it. If it was easy, like let me give you one more example here. So, when something crashes in

Linux, it doesn't always give you why it crashed. Luckily, we have built-in tool in KDE, which gives you error log, which

is good, but it doesn't exactly tell you what it is for non-Linux experts. Where if something crashes or if something

doesn't work in Windows, it will actually give you some kind of hint or download link. Like, for example, let's

say there is a app that needs some version of .NET that is not installed in your system. It will prompt you with

that that you need this .NET version to run this app. You just click on that download link, install it, and then run

the app. Done. Now, I have this app called WayDroid settings. It also didn't work out of the box. I had to use AI to

fix this. It wasn't a big issue. It was using the older dependency, which is not available in the system. So, I had to

configure the app itself to use the newer dependency. So, what if system could tell you like this is missing or

this is what it needs? You just need to do this. Kind of like a user guide or proper error message, so user can

understand and fix it quickly. That is something missing in Linux. Basically, Linux is not noob-proof. Yeah, I'm not

going to call myself expert. Even if you're expert, I don't think you'll be able to remember all the commands and

all the error messages solutions. It's not possible. Okay, you'll have to do some kind of Google search about that

error message, and then dig through thousands of online guides, and then probably you'll find the answer. Or

instead, you should just use AI. To be honest, AI is probably the best tool for Linux. And it doesn't have to be a

premium AI tool. Okay, you can use Open Code. That's something that I have been using and it is working flawlessly. So,

from this experience, what I have learned, okay, this app is loaded. Let's actually try to test it. Okay.

I want to Okay, the app froze again. And after thinking a lot, I don't think it's worth it. Like

you'll be spending most of your time troubleshooting the app or system for certain level, like setting up the

system properly. Yeah, it's worth it, I think. Out of the box, no Linux is perfect. You have to do some tinkering.

So, same thing goes for the Fedora. I even have some guides written for me for few important setups, so

system can run smoothly. One is for the secure boot cuz I want to use secure boot. And then GPU info for setting up

my Wayland compositor. I actually did so much. This command

environment variable if I remove this and save this and run the DaVinci Resolve, DaVinci Resolve

will throw me an error. I found a solution. Yes, it probably took couple of hours, but no big deal. Once you have

the solution, you can apply it easily. Now, I can right click on the DaVinci Resolve, edit application, enter the

variable. So, this is a environment variable. I'm going to copy this. This is very important file for me or command

for me. I can't remember it or I can't type it. I just have to save it as a text file cuz it's pretty long. I can

just put that there now, save it. Look at the animations. Look at the app launches. It's so smooth. And this is

the reason why I want to switch to Linux. Now, I launch the DaVinci Resolve. Okay.

Look at how fast this launches. Now, I open my project. Kablam! No errors, no nothing.

Easy. Yes, I have done so much work to make my Linux setup

perfect. But, at the same time, what I have noticed is that, again, it's not noob-proof. Meaning, if something goes

wrong, you have zero idea what happened on your system and how to fix it. For that, we have AI, which also takes some

time because it also needs to do some research and all that. You're just spending your entire time fixing that

instead of doing actual work. Now, I have finally realized why most people don't want to use Linux because they

just don't want to spend their time trying to fix the problem. It's not like the problem is not fixable. It's not

easy. That's it. Right now, with the help of AI, yeah, it's a little bit easy, probably 50% easier, but it still

takes so much time. Now, I understand some famous Linux memes. Random stranger, go touch

grass. Me, sudo touch grass. You need to dedicate more time to Linux, not just to learn. Learning is a

different thing. Troubleshooting, that's the biggest problem. As soon as someone in the Linux community decides that

they're going to make Linux errors noob-proof, like give them the proper error and solution every time something

crashes or doesn't work, then I think it can actually be really good alternative to Windows. Right now, if you're willing

to use apps that just work on your system, no other things, like me, like testing out new things, yeah, I'm just

going to say it. Linux is better than Windows in terms of look and feel, customization, performance. You get way

better performance in Linux than Windows on same application. On the other hand, Windows is like fully automated system

and it's like noob proof. Almost everything just works. So, even though I like Linux, I'm mean still using Linux.

It's been almost a week. I'm steady stable on Fedora KDE and I love it. Okay? I just love how responsive,

how good the system feels to use. Like I open any application, it just opens instantly. No freeze, no crash, at least

on working application. And I'm like, I can't go back to Windows. But doing a experiment, trying out different new

things didn't work. I have only one thing to say. Hope Linux becomes full noob proof in the future. Rest, it's

actually pretty good.