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."
- “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.
  
  Arguable
  
  It’s as complicated as you make it to be, and that’s gonna vary WILDLY per person lmao
  
  I'd argue this is a wash. Linux is more convenient in many ways but Windows is in others.
- “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
  
  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.

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.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  What do you mean by an escape hatch. Valve have been messing with hardware and Linux for way longer than the Steam Deck.
- it's a very successful rebrand. people Ive talked to hate linux as a concept but will use a deck
- 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 workable on wine if you are not a professional.
  
  Adobe's licensing model is also a paper sack of hot liquid shit. If you're gonna switch to an alternative it might as well work on Linux.
- It actually feels like in a few years, the year of the linux desktop will become real. Not even joking.

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 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.
  
  I'm saving your comment to name the next seven distros I make
  
  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
  
  They had us in the first half, not gonna lie
  
  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)
  
  Zephyr is an actual operating system, but it's not Linux
  
  Not all made up though. I've been following this one's mailing list for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zephyr_%28operating_system%29
- 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.
  
  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
- 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
  
  I hopped a ton. Mint, Manjaro, MX Linux, Kubuntu, KDE Neon, Fedora KDE, Fedora Kinoite. Happy landing, and hopping was not fun, it simply was broken all the time.
- I'd been meaning to try out atomic distros. I'm not an expert on Linux by any means but I've been using it on-and-off for about 25 years, and exclusively (at home, at least) for about 7. So I'm a bit more than a noob.
  I do worry if I'd feel restricted inside of an atomic distro. Might throw kininite on a laptop I've been meaning to give to my kid, tho.
  
  So...
  Concept of OSTree or image-based
  In theory "immutable distros" are safer to use. Not easier, but setting up stuff is less hard than fixing a system that doesnt boot or upgrade.
  I am only focussing on Fedora Atomic desktops, which use OSTree (which is a version control system like git, but for binaries) and in the future/currently in parallel bootable OCI containers.
  Both technologies have the same purpose, that your system is an exact bit-by-bit clone of the upstream system.
  Layering
  Now the system needs to have support for modding, doesnt it? Android doesnt, ChromeOS doesnt, I think SteamOS also doesnt? But this is Desktop Linux!
  While many distros use flawed and incomplete concepts, lacking an "escape path" (reset) back to normal (100% upstream with no changes) (for example OpenSUSE microOS, VanillaOS etc), all such distros allow you to change the system.
  The disadvantage of image-based is, that you always base of the unchanged image and then add your changes. On every update, you pull down the changes, open that thing up, throw in your changes, pack it again. This takes time and wouldnt be sustainable for example when using a phone.
  So you kinda need custom images like uBlue. The advantage here is, that all changes are done on a single system and all clients just clone that. Fedora for exmample has notorious issues with an understaffed rpmfusion team and problems in coordination, so you might get sync issues and a critical security update doesnt work because of a random other package conflict.
  or you might get a regression, uBlue could centrally roll that back.
  Apps
  Tbh the biggest issue is with edge cases of Flatpaks, like portals.
  I just now needed to create a signature containing an image in thunderbird. The solution is to copy that image to the internal ~/.var/app/org.mozilla.thunderbird/ container and paste the exact file path there, as portals are broken after app restart.
  Then adding an HTML as signature, it needs to be saved in the same folder and also linked exactly.
  These edge cases are issues. Let alone missing hardware key support, no filesystem sandboxing in Firefox Flatpak (and uBlue and Fedora people think that is fine) or outdated target systems, because Flatpak needs to work on Debian 11 e.g.
  There are also apps on Flathub that are broken, like QGis, or missing apps like RStudio, both known FOSS alternatives to stuff that people really use, and I couldnt even run those without Distrobox, which is also not preinstalled on Fedora Atomic Desktops, and toolbx lacks basic features like separated homedirs.
  Yup, it is a rough field. But the stability is worth it. Also, official Flatpaks are great.

'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.
- 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.
- 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.
  
  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.

Concept of OSTree or image-based

Layering

Apps