Great news! I love the project

Yeah, I think YouTube will be the last Google service I let go also, a lot of content I enjoy is the exclusively there as far as I know. But I have also decided to get rid of Google, meta and such as thoroughly as I can, so I do hope some combination of nebula, peertube and/or whatever else google free I can find will suffice. I am mostly annoyed by the similar things you were when it comes to yt. Thanks for the Tom Scott shoutout, I wasn’t aware he started making new stuff. You’d think YouTube algorithms would let me know lol.

Alright, thanks for taking the time to comment. As I said, I’m pretty much already going to give it a go, but hearing people’s thoughts on it is appreciated. The thing about actually knowing you’re contributing to paying the people whose content you like does sound appealing.

I have been on the edge for a while now, I’ll probably end up at least trying it after my vacation. Do you really think it’s worth the subscription price?

We almost had ships made of mostly ice a while ago, but it never took off https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Habakkuk

Most stuff worked great out of the box for me. I had some quirks with power management, specifically for my wifi card, resulting in bad wifi, but there are so many resources and so many people willing to help out that it was not even a big problem to solve. I haven’t used Ubuntu, I am on arch, but the great thing is, most problems and solutions don’t really care what distro you’re on, so I am no stranger to ubuntu forums when researching something. And as cliché as it is to recommended, the arch wiki is an amazing source of information, so definitely give it a look.

I wish they release the new deck by the end of the year, but it’s not happening. I am getting a steam deck for Christmas either way, but would be cool to get a newer one than the current versions. The current generation will do me great though, even if it’s a bit under powered, so no big deal.

Tbh you can probably make a Linux install act like windows if you wanted. So that’s another point in favour of switching for people who are undecided. It can be as slow and bloated as your windows install if you want it.

Thanks! I’ve seen that there’s a lot. Just haven’t gotten to it all yet. Peertube especially seems worthwhile, I should get the app and check it out on a break at work or something.

Thanks, I love you too. Jokes aside, I am also new here, mostly just browsing. I love it too, makes me feel good.

That is true, but I think that this way they get the most that they can. Some people will go the direct route, and I think that a lot more will just go through steam. So it’s good that they have this option too.