DankPods just switched to Linux!!!

Some of my fav quotes:

"Ads in an operating system that you've paid for from a company that owns ridiculous amounts of money is so offensive."

"data, it's like the new gold to people"

"I got the confidence to really jump into Linux after the Steam Deck."

[regarding the terminal] "You just see text going across the screen, they're working at lightning speeds."

"I'm kissing convenience goodbye, I just want control."

Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant. I don't agree on all that steam does but, they really nail it with the Steam deck and Steam Os.

A lot of people have steam deck and it helps realize that GNU/Linux is an amazing OS.

On the other hand Microsoft and Apple are doing their best to try to give more reasons to switch.

the Steam Deck effect.

Funny how he praises immutable Arch + KDE and then uses Ubuntu (Snaps, broken packages, themed GNOME, not immutable)

I hope he finds his way to Bazzite, Aurora or plain Kinoite, as this would suit him way better

'I'm turning into a penguin'

Good onya mate!

I never heard of this project before but I just looked it up and it looks like it's about vintage MP3 player upgrading? Anyways nice to see more people, especially ones with niche jobs like this one, switching. Linux is slowly becoming a pretty major thing.

Their rough new user experience is concerning though. From what they described I suspect many of their "problems" are not actually "real", but it doesn't really matter because they still ended up in a scenario where they thought there were problems. How did they end up thinking that everything must be done with terminal while using Ubuntu? I know in the last ~10 years there's been a big focus on the new user experience, so what more can be done to prevent this? My gut says there are too many online resources that are confusing new users when they try to onboard themselves - especially resources that are old, written for other distros, or written for people who just want to find the command they can copy-paste to do something.

He's ranting about Windows for over a year (technically even longer) now and was promising a video about Linux, glad to finally see it after waking up.

I didnt like very much his video. "You need the terminal to install vlc" wait what ? Ubuntu software library is here...

Also he says he will migrate to davinci resolve once he needs to, but oh boy I've been seeing a lot of videos about resolve on Linux and how painful it is to use (missing codecs, no pipewire support, hates Wayland ...)

It's perfectly normal I guess but I'm still not quite used to seeing so many people who don't know much about linux talking about how they use linux.

Not sure who that is, but great 👍

I love that he finally talked about it. He shortly mentioned the switch to Linux a while ago, in a gaming video, and Im excited to see if this makes Desktop Linux a bit more popular.

No idea who this is but actually a great video.

How weird, I was just thinking about this guy yesterday after forgetting about him for probably ~5 years. I got pretty into buying, repairing, and modding broken iPods for a little while thanks in part to some of his goofy but informative teardown videos. Still have a small box of parts somewhere.

Haven't watched the video yet, but I'll be a little surprised if he doesn't immediately fire up Shrek to test whatever media player came with his distro.

What is a dankpod?

So wait, are we really saying it's newsworthy every time one person switches to Linux?

Onya, Wade, bring more people to Linux.

Ubutu

onya m8

What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn't?

@hellfire103 I switched over a few months back to avoid all the new M$ bullshit.

No regrets.

I assumed he was big on Macs for their own sake. It's a thing, for music geeks - and obviously he's a fan of iPods, specifically. Surprised to hear his objectively correct summary of Windows versions.

OK I was with him for the first 4 minutes about why Windows is unusable, but this was so irritating to watch. Hyperactive videos like this drive me nuts, someone talking loud and fast and editing so there is not even a millisecond gap between sentences. But the audio aspect still isn't hyper enough for this guy, no! the video has to be the same way, showing just his hands, gesticulating wildly the whole time. UGH.

So anyway, once I got to where he finally gets to the subject of Linux and immediately launches into the typical bullshit where he says to use Linux, you have to use the terminal and know how to write scripts, I quit watching. Most of these "I tried Linux!" videos are like this. I only clicked on it because the title said he actually switched to Linux.

Gotta love these videos... they can be summarized as follows:

"I hate Windows so I will try Linux with no prep... Linux is not identical to Windows in x, y, z and therefore Linux is still deficient... Looks like I cannot do everything I could think of without reading a single line of documentation, conclusion, LiNUx iS nOT ReADy!"