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DankPods just switched to Linux!!! (iv.nboeck.de)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27756512

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[-] [email protected] 215 points 9 months 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."

[-] [email protected] 97 points 9 months ago

“I’m kissing convenience goodbye, I just want control."

He is in for a surprise when he realizes GNU/Linux is much more convenient than Winblows.

[-] [email protected] 53 points 9 months ago

Arguable

[-] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago

I don't think it's really much different. What makes windows feel more convenient is that everyone generally learns how to use it first. I think if you took a person that is not familiar with either, they would be able to figure out both OS at around the same time.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 9 months ago

it really just depends on what hardware you are on. For example my Dell pribter was plug and play on windows . It took me 6 hours to get it to work on Linux.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

This. In my recent experience on one laptop. Arch (Endevour OS btw) installed fine.

But LMDE would not boot. I got a system disk missing error every time after install. So much playing with EUFI settings in BIOS, boot back to live disl, multiple re installs, GRUB repair, remake the ISO (ISO was fine, installed on another PC with no issues). Gave up. Just could not boot to the OS.

Install normal mint. No issues.

And past the install? Bluetooth dongle works fine on arch, but so many issues on mint.

WiFi dongle A works on arch, but not mint. WiFI dongle B dosenr work on arch but does work on mint. Took me a while to work thst one out.

Headphpnes have some weird echo back to me when mic is on. Use pipewire config from archwiki. Worked, but reduced qualoty. Tried a few other configs. Didn't work. Must have broke something coz now the original config dosnt work. So will just deal with echo.

0 of these issues on windows. And 0 likely your regular user can easily swap to Linux.

Will stay on arch tho. Fuck ~~spez~~ windows.

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago

Assuming you don't need a windows only application for your workflow (admittedly this isn't very common), it's really just a matter of getting used to it. There's plenty of easy to use distros out there, such as Linux "I'm not buying my grandma a new computer" Mint.

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

It’s as complicated as you make it to be, and that’s gonna vary WILDLY per person lmao

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[-] [email protected] 155 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 75 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 29 points 9 months ago

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

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[-] [email protected] 80 points 9 months ago

the Steam Deck effect.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 9 months 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

[-] [email protected] 86 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Those are so legit sounding I didn’t even realise until the second part of your comment those weren’t real.

Granted, I just slap kubuntu on everything because I’m used to managing ubuntu servers and like kde, so my distro knowledge is limited, but still

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Those are not individual random 3rd party distros.

Please read up on that stuff first. I understand how oldschool users find this odd.

Fedora is the base distro. Legally restricted, not being able to preinstall crucial components. They also do a bunch of annoying opinionated decisions, like Fedora Flatpaks or Toolbx instead of Distrobox.
Fedora Kinoite: the immutable image of Fedora + KDE Plasma. Very barebones, not really user friendly out of the box, but a great distro. As an advanced user I use it daily.
uBlue Bazzite and Aurora: take Fedora Atomic desktops, make them compatible with NVIDIA, ASUS, Surface and more. Add a ton of packages, many call that bloat, but it makes stuff work out of the box.

(Btw. great Distro names :D)

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What? No. He

Wanted to configure stuff in a GUI (i.e. KDE, OpenSUSE with YaST does also a ton but often duplicated and distro-specific) and avoid needing the terminal for everything. GNOME is extreme here, as the settings are so restricted.
Wanted to be restricted in the ability to break his system. This is extreme on SteamOS, but just as stable on other systems like Fedoras Atomic Desktops

Those were pretty much literally the things he said

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[-] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

It's all discovery takes a while to realise what you want from a distro. Fully agree the the ublue projects sounded exactly what they wanted

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[-] [email protected] 37 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 85 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months 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.

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[+] [email protected] 35 points 9 months ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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[-] [email protected] 43 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago

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

Most guides on installing things or help on fixing things will offer terminal commands, so I can see how that could certainly lead to that feeling as a new user.

Also depending on the DE and stuff certain very basic obvious settings are not available in the GUI, like fractional scaling on KDE which has to be done by editing some config file first.

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[-] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

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 ...)

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 9 months 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.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

Not sure who that is, but great 👍

[-] [email protected] 28 points 9 months 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.

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[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago

No idea who this is but actually a great video.

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[-] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

What is a dankpod?

[-] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago

He reviews/discusses mostly audio related tech (mainly headphones) but also dabbles in more generic mainstream tech like smartphones and laptops. The past few years he's been expressing major frustration with the likes of Microsoft and Apple and I guess for the last few months has moved all his production over to Linux rigs, and even ditched his smart phone in favour of a modern flip phone.

Also he has a car channel called "garbage time" and a drumming stream called "garbage stream." Very funny guy who's definitely worth a watch.

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[-] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

When that person is a public figure I think it is news worthy. Because it won't be one person but a handful. As I am betting alot of people who follow them will want to try it out as well.

This is advertising 101.

Downside is if the public figure has a bad experience it will discourage many people from not even trying.

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