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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (5 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] 33 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] TheTetrapod 6 points 3 months ago
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