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I watched this a couple weeks ago and it just seems to have so little information density - like this guy talks and talks and talks and the actual content is like 15 minutes of this.

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Agree, I had to switch off the video, it was all talk and no content. I mean he’d got to “cover Linux on desktop only” and “search interest for Linux is declining since 2004” and that was 50% through the video. He should consider a career in politics being able to use this many words to say nothing...

Yeah, but TBH this is true about most of these conference talks: they are just mediocre attempts into stand-up comedy.

If you use the icons on YT scroll bar at the bottom to spot when the slide changes, you can get through to the useful content in less than 5 mn.

Yep, that!

Maybe you have some fun with BSD-Lore (Kirk McKusick):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEEr6dT-4uQ

Or Solaris/illumos (Bryan M. Cantrill):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc

The Illumos talk is fantastic. I especially enjoy his take on Oracle, 36:30 through 39:00.

The lawn mower ;)

Agree. The guy needs to get a room with himself, get over it, and come back with something to say. Linux also isn't for desk tops by and large.

I'll say it has some wins - it's become a much better development platform than MacOS for example since it's closer to what you deploy to. And you can run Chrome, Zoom, Slack more or less natively and things work.

I've used an Ubuntu desktop at work for a few years and it's a nice environment.

Same. I liked the previous iterations, however.

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