A new channel about Debian Linux/FreeBSD

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Manuel L

Hi there

I just would like to share a new YouTube channel that I made myself, this is to talk about Debian Linux/FreeBSD.

Here is the link about the channel if anyone would like to check it : https://www.youtube.com/@GNUBSD-404

Any feedback or any comment (good or bad) very welcome !

Regards

Manuel L!
 
Thanks for your feedback guys !, really apreciatted ! (I am not going to be with a discussion as this is something i don't want). The music may not be perfect but I will improve in the during the next videos since I am an amateur musician. The wikipedia pages, is to add information and resources for some people may does not understand some terms. Both things are better than nothing.
 
i have been making youtube video for about 9 or 10 years

on subjects like Kodi, ffmpeg, Emacs, dwl, Xmond, Linux, Freebsd, OBS, w3m and shell scripting

mind you i had to delete all the Kodi videos as Youtube kept taking them down 7 years after i made them
but i synced them to Odysee so i have a back up

Apart from RoboNuggie and GaryH Tech
there arent really any Freebsd specific channels

A lot of the Linux channel tend to be review type content

like heres a new version of Ubuntu let me click through the install in a vm ( like Distrotube )

News based like The Linux Experiment
or Brodie Robertson ( who just seems to read github comments )

gotbletu has been going for years and does make original content
based on scripts he has written

there are also a lot of right wind nutjobs making linux content as well
you can spot there videos because they have stupid meme drawings in the thumbnails

you have to think about it from the viewer point of view
and what your audience will want, what are they tuning in for

videos without any speech dont do as well
because there is no connection to the person making the video

trying to read webpages or large block of text in a video doesnt work well in my opinion

just my 2ps worth
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
Apart from RoboNuggie and GaryH Tech
there arent really any Freebsd specific channels
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BSDJedi

About me: I am a long-time FreeBSD user, since the beginning on the 90's. Studied electrical engineering, telecommunications and computers, and since about 2007 specialized in cybersecurity, which is what I do in my daily job :-) For more information, I think that Mr. Google can help you Oh...
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TECHMIMIC

Welcome to TECHMIMIC. Monkey see, monkey do! View - Imitate - Replicate and get on with your day. You have an issue to fix, you found us, we tell you how to fix it. Boom! The focus on this channel is on Linux (many different distributions), DaVinci Resolve, FreeBSD, sometimes the necessary evil...
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teetechtm

Hello I'm Tyler Monroe. My goal is to help people learn, discover and fuel their passion for technology. So warm up your CPU don't forget the heatsink, get your keyboard ready and execute /usr/bin/vi or C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe. While I take you bit by bit through all things tech. NOTE...
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Yet another SysAdmin

Hey everyone! I'm just another Sysadmin living in the digital world - for the most part. Let me give you all a very short description of this channel: Random tutorials and videos about Linux, BSD, Windows, Programming and IT in general (And maybe other things). Hope you all enjoy the content...
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Those serve FreeBSD a bit better (and sometimes OpenBSD as well), the type of knowledge is a bit deeper and IMO it's more interesting, but congrats to robbonuggie for doing this for years now, I was watching him before actually using FreeBSD ^_^

This one is great too but sadly he stopped.
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iBSD

I created this channel to share my love for all things BSD related (and occasionally Linux). If you appreciate this channel, please support me with Bitcoin: 32oCh37yyPkHQmEkZinaC9j4mtFbQ1qQkT As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
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Of course you won't be able to master FreeBSD by watching videos but I think it helps to discover things especially when you don't know yet FreeBSD and you want to see what it's capable of or just see it in action.
 
Hey man, love seeing your channel, taking the courage of putting yourself out there and I look forward to seeing your channel grow!

I also want to start a FreeBSD channel, but there is so much to do before that, that I will never get started haha.
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
there are also a lot of right wind nutjobs making linux content as well
you can spot there videos because they have stupid meme drawings in the thumbnails
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Unfortunately true. I would go so far as to suggest that Linux "communities" are seen as a vector into a mostly younger, mainly single male dominated area, which may also harbour disillusioned types.

I have seen a lot of this over the years. The right usually try to capture an audience by taking a libertarian stance, raising legitimate issues of state sponsored surveillance for example.
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
didnt know about those other channels
just shows how bad the search on youtube is at showing smaller channels
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That's so true, and it mostly prioritizes newer content over older even it has nothing to do with what you are looking for.
Sometimes after many tries something finally pops up, only if your are lucky.
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
blackhole that analysis is spot on

Luke Smith is a prime example
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Ok, I'm not familiar with him.

What has become apparent is that there are Linux distribution forums / fansites that have become increasingly dominated by those with a political agenda. They employ weasel words to get a very "alt right", often racist, sexist and/or xenophobic, message across and it often all goes unchecked by the administration - posdibly because it aligns with their views - probably because they're volunteers who don't read/spot everything. This taps into a mindest among people, where they want to be part of a "community" more so than sharing technical knowledge or getting support for an OS.

There is, for example, a more generalised and well known Linux web forum which is currently harbouring a significant number of such people, including a member who is an obvious white supremacist, with very extreme and biased views, but who chooses their words carefully to stay off the radar, and is still spreading that message regardless. This member even links to their own political blogs by way of their signature. The blog content in itself proves that the suspicions regarding that person are well founded.

A certain Debian derivative project's forum which is operated by an extremist of a different kind also has a significant population of these right wingers. There are posts by members of a certain Australian group which were left up, and historic posts by another known racist right winger which are still present. All of this while the admin was locking threads which they had simply become bored with and chastising other members for minor misdemeanours, while all the time delivering ideological lectures. This approach has discredited the project generally and caused the vast majority of technically minded users to leave, resulting in the project suffering a severe shortage of maintainers.

In my view, this is what is dooming Linux at this moment in time - those elements which used to be GNU / Stalmanism focused are now very fringe and increasingly dominated by the right and conspiracy theorists. The rest, is very corporate.
gotnull said:
That's so true, and it mostly prioritizes newer content over older even it has nothing to do with what you are looking for.
Sometimes after many tries something finally pops up, only if your are lucky.
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I would say that Youtube search suffers from the same malady as google search - in that it's all based around consumerism, tracking and surveillance. E.g. you search for the tech, but are fed the product.
 
Uggh. I really don't like Debian. From my perspective I see that on Debian stable their ports are always very outdated. Because they are so old they have lots of patches, half of which are ugly Debian specific patches. They have their own bug tracking system which is a little isolated community with bug reports that reflect their ports that are several years old.

So anything about Debian I usually avoid.
 
NapoleonWils0n said:
if i come across a linux/freebsd videos with music and no one talking
i instantly stop watching and move on to another video

there is no one explaining what the video is about
and why you should watch it
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I'm not a fan of talking in videos as I feel it wastes time with information delivery; I have text in the description, a pretty good title, and the video itself showing what the title says :p

Here's me installing Old School RuneScape on Linux. No voice; just shows what I do to get OSRS up from nothing-to-playable with basic Wine, and proves that you don't need a 3rd-party client or huge Flatpak/Proton dependencies (I don't necessarily get why most people choose the bulk):

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dThU5GKjNRo


This FreeBSD video was more for fun, but I mainly wanted to be first to have a 14.2-R desktop vid :p No voice, some music, but gets the point across while being short:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MXV80q17ww
 
there isnt any right or wrong
people just have different opinions on the types of video they like

i just find videos without anyone talking rather soulless

they dont make good tutorials
because there is no one explaining what there are doing

you cant see the thought process someone went through to solve a problem
so you dont learn anything

i have been doing tutorials for almost 10 years on projects and code i have created
some of the projects have quite a lot of users, probably into the thousands

with subscribers all over the world

us, india, germany, uk, brazil, france, italy,
europe, middle east, far east, russia, ukraine, australia

most of the users are from the us, india, germany, uk and then brazil

i just dont think you are going to get a lot of viewer for tutorials without any speech
there just isnt any engagement with the viewer

audio is half the picture

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