About to plan to create a video series about FreeBSD to use as a Desktop.

ziomario, go for it!

Looking at RoboNuggie’s stats, at present his channel has 987K views and 391 videos. My guess is he has probably made about $3900 (supposedly it takes about 25K views to make $100). Even if he spent just an hour per video, that is about $10/hour. My guess is, the time to make a video is much more than an hour on average, when you consider research, shooting, editing etc. So to make money you’ll have to persevere a lot. But consider that as just paying your dues as you acquire a new, valuable skill!
 
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I think it's sad that a person who wants to promote or usage of FreeBSD as a platform is being put down by the very same community of the platform itself. Instead of offering words of encouragement; you're already criticizing and detracting something they haven't even started yet. I'm seeing a lot of Linux-like attitude in these forums lately. It's really pathetic.
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Ooh my god. Grow a spine. Look at all the posts of the OP and you will see a kind of working in an unstructured way. As a former teacher i know everbody is different but what you did not understood Beastie is that i wanted to prevent false hope.
Many people who want a nice looking easy working desktop just install Linux-Mint-Ubuntu or alike and don't even dare to touch freebsd, let alone make time for a long video about let's say configuring /etc/rc.conf and performing install,updates,upgrades of packages through console.
Opposite to it, people with technical background will diagonally read the handbook.

My final take on it, do it, make a video , try it, it's good learning. It can be an interesting journey. It advocates software I use.
But don't put hopes too high on number of views or becoming rich like Bill-Gates on it.

Sidenote:
-How do you define linux attitude?
-Please provide a complete list of linux attitudes on this forum you are referring to so we are able to confirm or disprove your statement.
 
In all honesty, I like OP's idea of videos. I do think that they should make a few points clear:
  • The Handbook is aimed at -RELEASE versions, not -STABLE or -CURRENT.
  • Following the Handbook is your best bet for success with FreeBSD. Kind of like, video evidence of entering the commands exactly as in the handbook, and the expected reaction.
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If the execution is right, with the right personality; it's probable. The guy I quoted in my sig is a great example. ;)
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Yeah, the vid may turn out to have a message that is too simple for OP's tastes (a la Apple demo vid) - but it's important to consider the audience. Sometimes, you gotta swallow your pride and go through with it, if you want results. It takes LOTS of self-discipline. ;)
 
chessguy64 said:
I've always read the handbook side to side, left to right. Is there some advantage to reading diagonally?
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If it's in Japanese, sure. ;)

I think that what Alain De Vos meant by 'Diagonal' is that technically inclined ppl who know what they're doing can afford to skip some steps, and still arrive at the same results.
 
Thanks Grivens for given the liberty of elaboration for the moment.
Sometimes when i don't find good answers, i go to youtube and type "keyword guide" or "keyword tutorial".
Sometimes this gives back very interesting video's.
For the OP, knowbody will have objection if a good video is uploaded to youtube and a link towards it is posted here.
Also the comments & feedback on it can be an interesting learning journey.
 
I search, when I want to find something, because I want to be able to find the part I'm looking for quickly.

If it's something new, has information in one place or has information not available elsewhere, a video is good. There's good informational podcasts and videos about FreeBSD. I go to them when there's a topic that I want to learn more about.

About making money, everyone needs money to live. Even for people who don't mind doing things.

Making money off of videos seems like a skill or talent. A presentation may look easy, whether it's easy or difficult. Monetizing something like that is exponentially more difficult than any project itself. Some parts may be or may become easy, but getting to that point where money can be made off of something good takes time, determination, resilience and a lot of work. Things like that take time to get rewarded for.
 
sidetone said:
Making money off of videos seems like a skill or talent. A presentation may look easy, whether it's easy or difficult. Monetizing something like that is exponentially more difficult than any project itself. Some parts may be or may become easy, but getting to that point where money can be made off of something good takes time, determination, resilience and a lot of work. Things like that take time to get rewarded for.
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I absolutely agree with this! I actually tried making a decent video to post on Youtube. It takes an eff ton of work to make one that allows people to continuely watch it. It's not as simple as it seems. It requires skills and knowledges of tools to make a Youtube video that people can digest. For example, one critical aspect to making tutorial videos is how you record your voice. That alone can be challenging, because your voice can come off as screechy and annoying. You would need to do extra work to make it tolerable through Audacity or similar tools. I can't stress enough how one cannot really "side step" this if they hope to make some income from posting Youtube videos.
 
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astyle said:
The Handbook is aimed at -RELEASE versions, not -STABLE or -CURRENT.
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From <https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-current/2021-September/000561.html>: "… documentation on our web site is mostly for -current, the state of the art of the code base. …"
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Why not make a video about experimental stuff. We live in a free world. Just inform "things not foreseen" can happen ?
Please allow me to become philosophical, because of errors we advance.
Meaning early adopters also make things go forward, if they don't spread noise in a wrong manner.
 
bakul said:
My guess is, the time to make a video is much more than an hour on average, when you consider research, shooting, editing etc
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Yes, it takes time to prepare any sort of presentation. Far too many people think they can just set up a camera and "wing" it. Someone with years of practice, experience and subject knowledge might be able to get away with , but everyone else needs a script or, at the very least, a set of bullet points to work from. The LAST thing you want is a stream of conciosness verbal spray punctuated every few words with "uhms" and "errs" :-) Also, remember that silence is an underused form of punctuation.

I will give a little support to some of those saying it's a bad idea though. Videos about using an OS can be dry, boring and uninspiring because so often it needs a full screen presentation of the display with a voice over most of the time where it would really be much better suited to a web page. A video about using FreeBSD as a desktop will. in my opinion, need to be aimed more at the bits that don't lend themselves so well to static images and words. Demonstrating how to use Audacity to edit audio and maybe sttetch into the specifics of audio, mixers, devices etc specific to FreeBSD would be a better choice than a video about a comparison of firewalls and setting up firewall rules :-)

Whatever the OP choose to do, I wish him luck. Youtube is a swamp full of dross with a some hidden gems and it takes a brave person to enter it!!
 
I learned to configure my editor using a youtube video. I want to thank the maker of that video if I could.
Offcourse you can replace editor by operating system.
 
I agree with dave01 's post, he makes some good points. There's a reason why Apple's demo vids are so successful. I'm not a fan of Apple, but I have to acknowledge the skill of whoever made the demo vids. There's also truckloads of Linux training vids. Some are easier to adapt than others. There's also a lot of visual techniques to a video that can take a LOT of time to get right BEFORE they can be used as a template to deliver the message. For example, how to use the /bin/screen utility. There are good and bad ways to teach it. For example, just mounting the cam for a good angle is not enough, you need to figure out how to transition well to maintain viewer attention the whole time. You want viewers to be fascinated. But a poorly put together video will turn ppl off.
 
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I will give a little support to some of those saying it's a bad idea though. Videos about using an OS can be dry, boring and uninspiring because so often it needs a full screen presentation of the display with a voice over most of the time where it would really be much better suited to a web page. A video about using FreeBSD as a desktop will. in my opinion, need to be aimed more at the bits that don't lend themselves so well to static images and words.
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I'm not saying it's a bad idea. I'm letting OP know what his requirements are in his pursuit to making income from Youtube. It's a rough road ahead. And I don't know what would be boring about him doing screencasts using OBS Studio to demonstrate his tutorials as he shows in real time how to build and configure a FreeBSD desktop. He could use a virtual machine like bhyve(8) with a fresh FreeBSD installation as the base for his screencast tutorials.

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I learned to configure my editor using a youtube video. I want to thank the maker of that video if I could.
Offcourse you can replace editor by operating system.
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Give the maker a like and subscribe to his/her channel. That's the best way to thank them! ?
 
ziomario said:
Hello.

I'm planning to do a new and updated video series about FreeBSD 13.0 and 13.1 for the desktop usage. I use it since 1 year and I've learnt the basics to use it as desktop. I see that on youtube there aren't so much FreeBSD fresh video tutorials,so there is the needing to refresh them. I can do it,even because I need to earn some money and my hope is to be able to create a good amount of monetised youtube videos. For sure I want to be sure to follow the best practice,so I will ask here if you want to change something in the methods that I want to use to enable / install tools and services. I want also to link this nice place under the videos,inviting the users to ask for more explanations. What do you think about this idea ?
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It's a great idea !! A video by a user to users.
 
I'm thinking to make some innovation in the way I will explain what to do to install a tool or a service. I'm thinking to use some kind of tool that can creates scripts that when clicked,they will automate the whole procedure of installation and configuration. This has the advantage that the scripts can be modified easily when the FreeBSD developers will change something in the OS. I can even reuse them,adding minor changes. In this way I can use Youtube to cite sources or to show something that's more exciting than to learn.
 
ziomario said:
I'm thinking to make some innovation in the way I will explain what to do to install a tool or a service. I'm thinking to use some kind of tool that can creates scripts that when clicked,they will automate the whole procedure of installation and configuration. This has the advantage that the scripts can be modified easily when the FreeBSD developers will change something in the OS. I can even reuse adding minor changes. In this way I can use Youtube to cite sources or to show something that's more exciting than to learn.
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Who's supposed to be the audience for THAT?

If the audience is macOS users, that's complicated to explain.

If the audience is FreeBSD devs - they don't normally turn to Youtube, and will demand to see code that works. Yeah, automation is nice, but you gotta have something to demonstrate.

In any case, do you have a workable proof of concept? As in, scripts that actually work on a base install? If you do, then consider the audience before figuring out how to demonstrate it.
 
Tomorrow I will create a small script that configures something automatically on FreeBSD. The Audience of this idea could be who wants to learn and who wants to configure something creating some easy scripts at the beginning using them a lot of time. I don't think that the experienced users wants to create scripts which move the mouse and the keyboard keys on the screen. They prefer to use the a shell scripting,right ? so,this method is tailored for the newbies and maybe for the lazy users.The idea is about to try to capture the unexperienced users,giving them some graphical routines to study and to modify easily when needed. Later they will need for sure to learn some advanced scripting language,but later. And I want to use youtube as a place where the users can learn how to make these scripts and what's the goal of running them. In addition they can grab some scripts already created by me for each lesson I put on my youtube / FreeBSD channel.
 
Win10 has a similar kind of tool to capture steps graphically, and I think KDE has something like that. If you can find that KDE tool, and put together a demo to use it, that would be neat.
 
ziomario said:
I don't agree totally with you because I've realized by myself that the handbook is not tailored for everyone. It's very important to respect the different methods that the human brain uses to process the informations.
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No, be rude, the manual it themes the ability to give you more knowledge than any video on YouTube. Why are you exercising.
 
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