What is a dankpod?
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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 ...)
To be fair, the paid version of Davinci comes with the missing codecs. It's only the free version that people have trouble with x264/x265.
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What exact GUI controls does linux lack that windows doesn't?
He's specifically using Ubuntu Gnome, which feels a lot less complete than even Linux Mint Cinnamon. Gnome doesn't want you to customize it at all. I'm surprised they give you a master volume slider.
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For what he said is more that when he search for something he only finds CLI commands, he just doesn't know about the GUI controls.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ , I can do every normal thing I wanna do in a GUI on Fedora
To be honest, a lot of system configuration is better done on the CLI or editing configuration files manually (see the majority of the audio stack). I like that approach way more than Windows but even the System Registry in Windows is more "GUI-like" than editing ALSA files or pam.d files manually (usually on the cli as they mostly require sudo). This scares people.
To be honest, a lot of system configuration is better done on the CLI or editing configuration files manually
and this is apparently a "problem"... people shy from the command line and fail to realize "we" continue to use it, not because there is no GUI alternative but because it is simply awesome!
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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.