Channel & sponsor updates, 2 weeks of cooking & what I played - Patroncast S03E20

That's a very good reason! I guess if all you want is a Unix based system, but don't care too much about privacy, FOSS and the like, macOS is the best option! Linux definitely suffers from a lack of coverage in more "mainstream" channels and websites, that was one of the reasons I wanted to cover it on my own channel (well, that, and I had no money so I bought a laptop without an OS and installed Linux on it :D). It's also very random: some people will have the best of experiences, with everything running smoothly, and for other users, it can be a nightmare of compatibility problems and issues, which means it's always hard to recommend when you don't know what the person will run it on!

The Linux Experiment

I'd love to join, but they decide who can get onto the platform, and they never asked!

The Linux Experiment

MacOS user here! I listen to both the podcast and patroncast exclusively on my phone - if other macOS users do likewise, that could maybe be skewing your results. Then again, being a macOS user myself who is only now finally switching to Linux, I have a theory for why your channel might be so much more popular with Windows users. I think the fact that macOS is Unix under the hood might actually dull some of the natural interest people might have in Linux. For me personally, I was obviously aware of Linux and heard good things from people who used it, but Linux evangelists tend to mostly talk about the ways that Unix-based systems were better than Windows. On macOS, I already didn’t have to worry about all of the nonsense people put up with on Windows, so I always saw most of the benefits of Linux as things I already basically had - and because macOS has a very coherent ecosystem, is perfectly supported on Apple hardware, and is in all honesty kind of childproofed, I always thought of Linux as a thing that would only make sense if I wanted non-Apple hardware or if I decided to become a full-on sysadmin. The only thing that convinced me to switch was that Apple finally made one too many decisions that I just hated, and I assumed that I was in for a moderate nightmare of fighting with compatibility issues and having to do way more on the command line than I did previously, in order to get my new system up and running the way I wanted it, but oh well, I was so fed up with Apple that I was willing to do it. Of course, I was extremely pleasantly surprised - Linux on the desktop is really great now, GNOME is everything I liked about the macOS desktop environment but better, and I really doubt I’ll ever switch back. But I definitely think that the fact that I was already so used to a Unix system held me back from making the jump. If I’d known more about what was good about Linux /other/ than the fact that it was a Unix-like OS, I think I would have probably switched years ago

Have you thought about nebula.tv? Lots of creators there and TLDR they get 50% of the subscription quota/minutes viewed for each user. Seems higher revenue than YouTube.

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