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  • Earth Walker
    151•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.”

    • @GustavoM@lemmy.worldEnglish
      75•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.

        • Cosmonaut_Collin
          35•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.

          • @superglue@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            11•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.

          • @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de
            1•7 months ago

            at this point i have utterly forgotten how windows works and when placed in front of a computer not running linux i just get frustrated that it won’t let me do things properly

            LET ME OPEN A TERMINAL AND USE REGULAR COMMANDS YOU OVERBUILT TOASTER

        • @JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
          11•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.

      • PHLAKEnglish
        5•9 months ago

        I’d argue this is a wash. Linux is more convenient in many ways but Windows is in others.

    • @exanime@lemmy.world
      8•9 months ago

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

      I offered my son (16) to get him an “office” computer for his room so he can do homework and emails and junk. He said he felt so comfortable with Linux because of the Steam Deck and we could instead just get a nicer monitor and a docking station and he will use the Deck as a gaming machine AND office workstation whenever our main computer (also Linux) is busy

      • Earth Walker
        12•9 months ago

        I think it should be really clear to everyone now that the Steam Deck is exactly the kind of thing that Linux needs: nice hardware with a well-integrated OS that is designed to be user-friendly and has some guardrails to prevent you from breaking it.

  • boredsquirrel
    55•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

    • @quink@lemmy.ml
      63•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.

      • swab148
        32•9 months ago

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

      • @Lemzlez@lemmy.worldEnglish
        23•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

        • boredsquirrel
          9•9 months ago

          Poorly, Kubuntu uses the broken Plasma 5.27 for a while until the next release afaik.

          Really that was kind of the plasma guys fault, but Plasma 6.0.2 or so was really stable. Perfect LTS candidate. Then the new features came in, now it is stable again (on Fedora).

          I used Kubuntu and the outdated Plasma and many packages were annoying. Nowadays snaps, and removed base packages.

          • @Lemzlez@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3•9 months ago

            I looked into distros using plasma 6 for a bit, but decided it wasn’t worth the hassle. It’s also a not trivial boot setup (dual boot with w11 and bitlocker + LUKS + secureboot) and the (k)ubuntu installer just handled it flawlessly (meaning not having to enter my bitlocker key on every boot)

            Works fine for me (except some weird locale issue, but I knew that in advance)

            • boredsquirrel
              4•9 months ago

              CentOS Stream 10 will likely use Plasma 6. That will be great.

              They always add features and in Fedora it is a bit breaky breaky again. After a few minor updates its fine again, and just getting better.

              Just the icons are missing I think, then it would be a great LTS.

              Kubuntu uses Calamares, which is a nice installer. But I managed to wipe a drive once! Because by default it loses the destination drive selection, I went back to check if everything was fine and it selected my main drive again, I continued without noticing. woops!

        • Phoenixz
          2•9 months ago

          Yeah, I was like wow! In so far behind, there is so many new distros!

      • boredsquirrel
        10•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)

      • navordar
        4•9 months ago

        Zephyr is an actual operating system, but it’s not Linux

    • LeafletEnglish
      11•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.

      • boredsquirrel
        3•9 months ago

        What? No. He

        1. 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.
        2. 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

        • LeafletEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          Good point about immutability and his comment about not wanting to break his system, i forgot about that when writing. But I disagree about Arch, snaps, those are technical details. Not sure which broken packages you’re talking about or why him using modified Gnome matters.

          The Universal Blue distros are cool though, though I’ve only briefly used their lightly modified main image.

          • boredsquirrel
            2•9 months ago

            GNOME has very little settings.

            I actually gave Fedora Silverblue a try, documented here. This was not beginner friendly at all and still lacked many features in the end.

            So this is the issue when GNOME doesnt allow basic things, like editing desktop files in a guided way, showing package names etc.

            Ubuntu has had broken packages for a lot of 3rd party software (when I last used it, a few years ago), for example SciDAVis which I used, and Libreoffice and more. Flatpak works without issues here. Beginners will not add Flatpak and have issues here.

            I didnt say anything about Arch I think. He also doesnt care about that. Using Arch as base really just makes sense for Valve, as it is neutral, not legally restricted etc.

            uBlue deals with the constant sync (and coordination) issues between Fedora and rpmfusion. When using Arch, this is not needed.

  • @GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
    27•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.

    • WIZARD POPE💫
      56•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.

  • @TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
    24•9 months 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@lemmy.ml
      34•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.

      • @TechnicallyColors@lemm.eeEnglish
        12•9 months 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.

  • a baby duck
    11•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.

    • @bigmclargehuge@lemmy.world
      16•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.

        • @dustyData@lemmy.world
          2•9 months ago

          He also has a nugget cars channel where he reviews and tinkers with cheap old cars (and does things that outright would be qualified as torture if cars were sentient), also a music channel where he shows his drum playing and of course Frank’s channel, where he shows his pet snake, Frank. He calls it The Garbage Network.

    • @Catsrules@lemmy.ml
      16•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.

        • @nexussapphire@lemm.eeEnglish
          3•9 months ago

          I guess you had to be there, he has some very fun videos. His garbage time videos are a lot of fun if you like watching people mess around with shit boxes. And if you’re into drums, he has the drum thing too.

          I guess if you’re boring and like watching others play games you could just play yourself. There’s hello, I’m gaming. He tries to make it more interesting but it’s gaming so.

  • @mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    2•9 months ago

    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.

  • @leadore@lemmy.world
    -3•9 months ago

    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.

    • thermal_shockEnglish
      3•9 months ago

      I felt the same a year or so ago when he went viral. some of it pretty funny, but it wears off quickly. I binged a lot of his videos, then haven’t watched one in at least 6 months. it’s a lot of high energy squealing and talking about his battery when he knocks it over.

  • @exanime@lemmy.world
    -7•9 months ago

    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!”