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Looking for a new laptop distro, recent Fedora and popOS news, and Youtube changes - Patroncast S02E39
🕑 Added 2022-10-03 08:50:23 +0000 UTCHey everyone,
I hope you're all doing well! Here is episode 39 of the weekly podcast!
In this one, I talk about:
- 00:59 Sponsors not answering, preparing for my holiday, and looking for a new laptop distro
- 09:30 Fedora's codec issue, and popOS's new Rust toolkit for apps
- 17:32 How Youtube could change anything and still grow
I hope you enjoy listening to this one!
Best,
Nick
Comments
Usually I'd recommend Zorin OS but for some reason it's still stuck on GNOME. If you'd be ok with upgrading and patching the errors manually it still works, but to be honest that sounds like a pain in the ass. And for YouTube, it really comes down to the creators for me. I watch YouTube with an ad-blocker or through NewPipe, since the YouTube platform feels pretty unusable OOTB for me. Too many ads, too little ethics for me to want to use it as-is. I've been considering Nebula since some of my creators are there, but not all of them. I think a lot of people agree here, and are willing to swap once a platform grows big enough for a certain community of creators move there.
The Linux Experiment
Fedora is really good, yeah. I enjoy it on my desktop, and it would be a good fit on the laptop as well. Maybe I'll give Nobara a go, to make sure the GPU is put to good use for gaming! Yeah, that's the main issue with alternatives to youtube: not everyone is there, and honestly, if they were, and people all moved, creators would just close up shop, because these platforms don't offer the same monetization opportunities :/
