So wait, are we really saying it's newsworthy every time one person switches to Linux?
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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.
Elsewhere in the thread people say he's an "audio guy", so that's actually kinda neat if he's going to Linux.
We've made progress on the Linux gaming front, now we need to dispell "Y'but you can't use Linux if you're into sound." :)
Where have you heard that? The whole reason jack exists is professional audio
I've mostly heard it from musicians on various distro forums and such for some reason. You're right, there's JACK, and low latency versions of kernels and all sorts of other stuff. (LMMS is more than fine for my experience level lol)
Mainly I think it's because a lot of the fancy paid DAWs or plugins boil down to Windows, but I'm not an experienced musician myself to really know what their exact complaints are.
I think it still might just be FUD generated by frustrated people, because sometimes you gotta do a little more than "unzip and run" for a lot of plugins.
You really should check this guy out tho. He's heaps fun to watch!
This entire video is gesturing hands in front of an apple computer. So fun!
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.
The best way to encourage adoption is to be miserable as fuck about every topic and event.
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.
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.
Awww. The poor pkcell!
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.
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