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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

(Apologies if the link doesn't work; Google are dicks)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ubutu

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[–] [email protected] 155 points 2 months ago (29 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 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] 34 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

He's 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] 80 points 2 months ago

the Steam Deck effect.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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] 85 points 2 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] 6 points 2 months ago

@hellfire103 I switched over a few months back to avoid all the new M$ bullshit.

No regrets.

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