DankPods just switched to Linux!!!

scorp , 4 hours ago

the Steam Deck effect.

mariusafa , 2 hours ago

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.

mactan , 2 hours ago

it’s a very successful rebrand. people Ive talked to hate linux as a concept but will use a deck

grue , 1 hour ago

Damn who imagined that gaming would be the topic that made the FOSS OSes relevant.

Frankly, that’s been obvious for a pretty long time now. I’ve been hearing “but I need Windows for gaming” as people’s primary excuse for not switching since literally two decades ago.

TechnicallyColors , 1 hour ago

Gaming has been the only pathway to mainstream desktop since forever. I’ve been around for a hot minute and I remember that consistently, the “real Linux users” for years repeated “we don’t need gaming this is an adult OS go back to Windows and play with your toys” and then turned around and whined that no one wanted to use desktop Linux. Valve stepped in and casually created the year of the Linux desktop as a side-effect of just wanting an escape hatch for their business model. Now the casuals and elitists alike will have a better experience via the magic of Marketshare, and all it really took is not listening to people that don’t know what’s good for them.

umbrella , 49 minutes ago

always has been. the one complaint ive always heard for linux is that it didnt run games and photoshop.

most games run now, and photoshop is sorta workable on wine if you are not a professional.

boredsquirrel , 2 hours ago

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

quink , 50 minutes ago (edited 43 minutes ago)

I’m thinking he might be happier with Noridian, ZephyrOS, Sylvanix, or AetherForge.

I myself have been trying neoNova, specTRAos, and VortexLinux and they’re all pretty good.

…

All of these are made up, I think, I just can’t cope with everybody and their dog still rolling their own distros (and alternatives to GNOME 3, thank goodness for KDE), even after 25 years of observing it happen over and over again.

swab148 , 25 minutes ago

I’m saving your comment to name the next seven distros I make

that_leaflet , 5 minutes ago

He wasn’t praising immutable systems, arch, or KDE. He was praising a Linux OS maintained by Valve. Many people simply want to use a distro made by Valve regardless of the technical details.

earth_walker , 1 hour ago

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.”

GolfNovemberUniform , 4 hours ago

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.

Wizard_Pope , 4 hours ago

It is actually just an aussie looking at weird audio stuff. He started off with upgrading old Ipods but now he just does whatever he wants.

Confetti_Camouflage , 3 hours ago

I like his other channels for drums / drum history (Drum Thing) and cars (Garbage Time), but notably the main DankPods channel has 1.65 million subs which could bring a load of new people’s attention to Linux.

GolfNovemberUniform , 1 hour ago

I just checked his video about switching to Linux and I’d say it’s going to scare most potential users away more than attract them. His use case is extremely specific and even kinda creepy for a not savvy person.

Wanderer , 3 hours ago

Hey 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.

kbal , 3 hours ago

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.

HouseWolf , 1 hour ago

‘I’m turning into a penguin’

Good onya mate!

Blxter , 2 hours ago

No idea who this is but actually a great video.

BigDaddySlim , 2 hours ago

Onya, Wade, bring more people to Linux.

Slayer , 2 hours ago

Ubutu

Matriks404 , 1 hour ago

Not sure who that is, but great 👍

BoxOfFeet , 44 minutes ago

I think the worst way to sum up his channel is that he reviews MP3 players and bad headphones. You’d really just have to see it, he’s very funny.

FQQD , 1 hour ago

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.

TechnicallyColors , 1 hour ago

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.

MyNameIsRichard , 52 minutes ago

How did they end up thinking that everything must be done with terminal while using Ubuntu?

When asking for help in a Linux sub/forum/community, the answer will generally use the terminal because it works across desktops and even distros. It’s a lot easier to give one or two commands than it is to work out what distro, what desktop, and what settings the querier has, then describe the steps necessary in that particular GUI.

This may lead to the impression that the terminal is required for day to day use of Linux.

TechnicallyColors , 30 minutes ago

Maybe it needs to be more obvious that there are many ways to do things in Linux, and give new users a short “learning to learn” primer on how things operate differently in Linux-land, and where/how to look online for help. There are always first-boot popups but I imagine most people are conditioned to click out of them without even reading; forcing people to confirm a couple times that they want to skip “very helpful reading” may cut down on people that play the search engine lottery on what information they use for their first steps.

Also semi-related, I hope that mainstream Linux eventually “un-stupids” computers for regular people again. I get the distinct feeling that Microsoft and Apple have, at least somewhat intentionally, imposed ‘learned helplessness’ onto average computer users. “Oh computers are magic no one knows how they work. We are the only wizards that could possibly understand them and we will sell you the solution.” Windows/OSX/iOS/etc are so locked down that people have rightfully learned over time that if they run into a problem, there really is no solution. I suspect that’s permeating into the new user experience on Linux where people will encounter one problem and throw their hands up and say “fucking computers” instead of using basic problem solving to try another approach.

camr_on , 1 hour ago

onya m8