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Choosing a Linux Distro | Beginner's Guide to Linux (peertube.wtf)

submitted 2 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Thanks for sharing.

With "Beginners Guide to Linux" in the title, I don't think the video is suitable for anyone who hasn't already tried Linux.

There's not even a mention of what a "distro" is, and if I had never used Linux before and watched this video, I'd run away as fast as I could. It's way too complex, and mentions way too many things that I've probably never heard of before.

That being said, I don't know who his demographic is. I'm always glad to see some effort into helping people discover Linux, but I fear this might have the opposite effect.

[–] monogram@feddit.nl 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I mean it’s on peertube it never going to be shown to anyone who isn’t running Linux already.

[–] Lazycog@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I wouldn't say no one who isn't running linux isn't going to see this:

I know that I switched over to linux because of the sheer amount of advocacy and info posts for beginners on lemmy. I used to only use linux servers at work, but lemmy convinced / helped me to switch fully to linux! :)

Edit: just to clarify: I mean this post will get shared around on spaces with noobs like me, even if its on peertube and im not "on it"

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 3 points 2 days ago

It's on YouTube as well.

[–] jlow@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Never thought about this before, what's the Manjaro logo supposed to be? It kinda spells "ril" but that's probably not what they're going for?

[–] neshura@bookwyr.me 3 points 2 days ago

It's a stylized M, hard to see if you're not looking for it though