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  • Опубликовано: 5 авг 2024
  • In this video essay I will consult various scientific sources such as Jordan Peterson and your dad to find the truth.
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  • @lowenheim
    @lowenheim 4 года назад +307

    stop accenthopping m8

  • @WolfgangsChannel
    @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +84

    As pointed out by Ed. L, Kurzgesagt have deleted their "Addiction" video due to insufficient research that went into it.
    Please don't refer to it for info on actual drug addiction!

    • @a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars
      @a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars 4 года назад

      You linked the archived video but is it worth watching?

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +16

      @@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars For general education, maybe? As I mentioned, I'm not a psychologist and can't attest to scientific accuracy of that video

    • @a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars
      @a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars 4 года назад +1

      @@WolfgangsChannel okay :)

    • @snowcode953
      @snowcode953 4 года назад

      Actually they still point out things that are really interesting anyway. Thanks for the link :p

  • @realsushrey
    @realsushrey 4 года назад +83

    Today I learned-Installing OS can become a dangerous addiction. 😅

    • @yohaneschristianp
      @yohaneschristianp 4 года назад +10

      That starts from Windows, getting worse after Ubuntu etc 🤣

    • @filth315
      @filth315 4 года назад +5

      @@yohaneschristianp *better

    • @oscwavcommentaccount
      @oscwavcommentaccount 4 года назад +4

      its the beet addiction. im starting an os install youtube channel.
      Edit: disabled caps

    • @filth315
      @filth315 4 года назад +1

      @@oscwavcommentaccount stfu

    • @haifutter4166
      @haifutter4166 3 года назад

      Since Windows XP was discontinued, I switched from Ubuntu to Linux Mint and now to Manjaro (for more flexibility). Linux Mint is still my favourite and is installed on PCs of family members.
      But I won't consider this distrohopping.

  • @SakkakuTamashi
    @SakkakuTamashi 4 года назад +128

    me: *stop distro hopping*
    also me: *have a different distro for every kind of device I have*

    • @vdochev
      @vdochev 4 года назад +1

      Me too, LOL! As soon as I customize it to my liking, I see something is missing. Damn, I want that GNOME app or thing and I buy a new SSD and start all over again :D

    • @opsdbguy3649
      @opsdbguy3649 4 года назад

      Technically yes, but no.

    • @10meisterballe
      @10meisterballe 3 года назад +1

      I'm in this comment and I don't like it.

    • @sheepdev
      @sheepdev 2 года назад

      lol same, i use arch on my machine but i get bored of pacman and the aur and all the arch stuff and i install fedora on my laptop lol

  • @hermannpaschulke1583
    @hermannpaschulke1583 4 года назад +84

    Honestly I stopped distro hopping the Moment I installed Arch

    • @jeetadityachatterjee6995
      @jeetadityachatterjee6995 4 года назад +6

      I installed arch (unsuccessfully) about 6 times. If that was not a virtual machine I would definitely just keep it their and never touch another live usb again. (This is my reason anyway)

    • @erics7004
      @erics7004 4 года назад +16

      Distro hopping is the disease and Arch is the CURE!

    • @phronessys
      @phronessys 4 года назад +11

      Btw

    • @oldominion8669
      @oldominion8669 4 года назад +2

      same

    • @kevinnel7038
      @kevinnel7038 4 года назад +2

      same

  • @burnzy3210
    @burnzy3210 4 года назад +200

    is it just me or is your accent different now? sounds more english/australian at times

    • @101stsurvivor
      @101stsurvivor 4 года назад +18

      I noticed too

    • @maxarendorff6521
      @maxarendorff6521 4 года назад +27

      He sounds half australian half swedish in this video lmao.

    • @KingZero69
      @KingZero69 4 года назад +1

      same

    • @linux923344
      @linux923344 4 года назад +8

      I think more British 😇

    • @marce3893
      @marce3893 4 года назад +2

      perhaps he's been watching too much Kurzgesagt lately

  • @WakeNbake
    @WakeNbake 4 года назад +17

    distro hopping gave me a nice overview of how linux works
    but once I knew what I really want, distro hopping wasnt the case anymore

    • @raphk1040
      @raphk1040 4 года назад +3

      i distro hop from time to time when I'm thinking of switching to another one or when I'm not satisfied with distro I'm running at the moment but I agree, once you know how it works most of what you need you can do it yourself in whatever distro you're running. I did recently move from Manjaro to Arch both of my machines though(tired of the bloat lmao and had minor issues from time to time)

  • @uncreativename9936
    @uncreativename9936 4 года назад +31

    Damn, Wolfgang such a baller he gives $0.05 instead of 0.02.

    • @TheKsharm
      @TheKsharm 4 года назад

      Caught that too... Not sure if a language 'typo' or just a mocking of the phrase

    • @blickberg8404
      @blickberg8404 4 года назад

      Im sure it was deliberate.

  • @eduardoavila646
    @eduardoavila646 4 года назад +16

    We should create a ADH (Anonymous Distro Hoppers).

    • @whahala555
      @whahala555 4 года назад +10

      Make it on Discord, so we can have ADHD.

  • @CoolPupGaming
    @CoolPupGaming 3 года назад +6

    Distro hopping actually helped me a lot to pick a distro. I first made a list of 10 distros that interested me, spent a week on each one and recorded my experience with each of them. This helped me decided that Manjaro is the best choice for me, I also have Mint on another partition so I can try the Debian side of things every so often.

  • @TheJackiMonster
    @TheJackiMonster 4 года назад +23

    Remembers me to the time I started moving to Linux... I just tried out Ubuntu because I thought Windows was boring and ugly. Once I was at the time to look for tutorials coding an own kernel with simplistic bootloader in NASM and C... just to escape using Windows. Now I am pretty glad I have found a way to Arch which gives me the newest stuff and installing anything is basicly looking up AUR. I don't think I have to switch the operating system again or even hop to another distro because I found the right one for me.

    • @Mallchad
      @Mallchad 4 года назад +2

      Dude I feel this way so much. I tried out a few distros, researched other ones, tried arch, tried antegros. Once I started getting comfortable with Arch, I could never really see myself using any other distro... Ever. Raspbian might be an exception but hat's specific.

    • @Bjokac
      @Bjokac 4 года назад +1

      Yeeeeeaaaahhhh I'm not sure. I came to manjaro two months ago, unwrapped it and discovered arch, and though I'm VERY happy with all I learn, I'm not sure I want to recompile my VPN every time it updates, for eternity. There are good .deb and .rpm packages after all, so maybe I'll grow old and switch back to good ol' debian.

    • @TheJackiMonster
      @TheJackiMonster 4 года назад +1

      @@Bjokac Sure, the most of the AUR-packages have to be compiled to install. You could still use something from the official repos or search for a *-bin package in AUR... if it does not exist, you could create it using binaries from upstream. Using .deb or .rpm is probably possible too, since you can install dpkg etc.

    • @Bjokac
      @Bjokac 4 года назад

      @@TheJackiMonster I guess I'll settle for dpkg in the end, yes. So I'll stay :-)

    • @JosueRodriguez08
      @JosueRodriguez08 4 года назад +1

      @@Mallchad ARM manjaro

  • @einze2085
    @einze2085 4 года назад +4

    So nice to see you back

  • @TylersTechNow
    @TylersTechNow 4 года назад +11

    Yeah I'm currently being monitored by Dr's round the clock for the crippling addiction. Distro Hopping cost lives.

  • @freetobe3
    @freetobe3 4 года назад +7

    I've found my needs well met with Arch based, Manjaro since 2016 and yesterday I installed EndeavourOS and I can say it's really good and much more simple. I think I'll stay with this for the long run.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 2 года назад

      Did you?

    • @freetobe3
      @freetobe3 2 года назад +1

      @@folksurvival oh yes. still running it on all my devices.

  • @maisatanel
    @maisatanel 4 года назад +23

    your accent has changed slightly, i love it! keep it up
    luv ya

  • @ariathyf144
    @ariathyf144 4 года назад +1

    The skills and tools I've learned testing some distros really saved my workflow, important data and hardware at times..
    - Troubleshooting with Puppy Linux to get rid of some broken "Un-erasable" folders recently, booting it up in public places like net cafes without leaving a trace during travel, checking for hardware malfunctions without interfering with the previous OS.
    - Learning the command line flow of Parabola (Arch) helped me also to know more clearly about recent critical security issues.
    Communicating with the machines in such a raw fashion made me want to learn to code because as Luke Smith showed the philosophy/efficiency of coding as gone bloat for mainstream OS/ Programs. I see that a lot within the audio-video industry.. with their cancerous Cloud-DLC-RecurrenntBill thinking.
    - On the urgent workflow side of things (coming from windows since 3.1) I gravitate naturally around Mint / Solus (& now MX-Linux) desktop experience.
    Also there's a difference between distro hopping and distro testing.
    Hopping means you replacing your main OS.
    - distros themselves can evolve in unfortunate ways forcing peoples who were set to migrate (corp-buntu, the systemd debacle..)
    That's the result of bad / neglected ethics witch should lead to raise our standards and uplift the linux ecosystem.

  • @Bbookinn
    @Bbookinn 4 года назад +1

    Damn I love this channel's aesthetic. Great video!

  • @EdLrandom
    @EdLrandom 4 года назад +26

    Where do you getting that London accent?

  • @sivadyert
    @sivadyert 3 года назад

    love how you worked JP into this video!

  • @thecameratherapychannel
    @thecameratherapychannel 10 месяцев назад +1

    The worse scenario is when you have ADHD. There was a time where I spent weeks changing one with another distro. At the end I didn't know which one to keep. I think I tried around 20 distros in just one week

  • @chrisbaubo901
    @chrisbaubo901 4 года назад

    Another good one. Welcome back.

  • @merelymayhem
    @merelymayhem 3 года назад +1

    i am LIVING for the contra reference !!

  • @SoftBreadSoftware
    @SoftBreadSoftware 4 года назад +2

    Tried many, stuck with Debian for 15 years. Their design and vision has always been consistent. Debian LTS has the latest compilers and drivers binaries before any other distro.

  • @biggun98056
    @biggun98056 4 года назад

    What distro do you like to use I currently have Ubuntu on mine thanks for the video

  • @GorimJack
    @GorimJack 4 года назад +14

    i really did not expect Contra here :v

    • @GorimJack
      @GorimJack 4 года назад

      @@DodoGTA yassss

    • @calcado
      @calcado 4 года назад

      @@Zeutomehr 4:41

  • @christianbaer2406
    @christianbaer2406 4 года назад +1

    This video kinda made me think. While I have installed lots of distros in my life (among them opensuse, which we use at work, Manjaro, which I use at home, Arch, Gentoo, Ubuntu and Debian), I don't seem to get the kick out of it that you describe. Somehow I am more focused on the actual work I have to get done and using a distro that allows me to do that with the least amount of effort (I am a lazy SOB, I guess). This kinda makes installing an OS more ball-busting to me than a happiness-promoter - and I am a guy who has used and loved computers pretty much all his life.
    Should I be worried? Do I need professionel help?

    • @sujalx86
      @sujalx86 2 года назад +1

      Definitely.

  • @rodolfomarques3683
    @rodolfomarques3683 3 года назад

    Spot on mate! Thanks for raising awareness about this

  • @filips_world
    @filips_world 4 года назад

    Thankfully I am not addicted to distro hopping, but a like to try new distros when I am board.
    @Wolfgang's Channel are you addicted to something and where do you find music for you videos?

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +4

      I'm not addicted, I can stop whenever I want :D
      I get my music from soundstripe.com

  • @qsam14
    @qsam14 3 года назад +1

    me when I went to Ubuntu, didn’t like the package manager, I hate apt-get. went to fedora, couldn’t rice it well, so I went to Void, couldn’t figure out how to use it, stopped.
    I think I’m a go back to Fedora

  • @christopherg9391
    @christopherg9391 4 года назад

    I want to know the name of your intro song :)

  • @comrade4664
    @comrade4664 4 года назад +1

    Couldn't agree more, I dropped distro hopping once I started working and because of that I have been sticking with fedora for months. Can't be bothered to waste my time anymore

  • @xthebumpx
    @xthebumpx 4 года назад +4

    I've finally stopped distro (and DE/WM) hopping after ~4 years of using Linux. Fedora Silverblue for the foreseeable future. Distro hopping was fun and useful, but now I'm ready to spend my time doing other things.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 2 года назад

      Two years later are you still on Fedora Silverblue (presumably with Gnome)?

    • @xthebumpx
      @xthebumpx 2 года назад +1

      @@folksurvival Close. As I started learning programming the Silverblue model really got in the way so now I'm using Workstation.

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 2 года назад

      @@xthebumpx Makes sense.

  • @encryptedkenyan
    @encryptedkenyan 4 года назад +1

    Nice video ! Whats that keyboard?! Also are you a Dev?

  • @user-zd7fi1fh6r
    @user-zd7fi1fh6r 4 года назад

    How about the search for perfection? Or for accomplishing the perfect (or as near to perfect) installation? Those, I think, would fall under the heading of hobbyist, but they have the practical side effect of making work, and/or, life, easier. Thanks for the thoughtful shows.

  • @arthemis1039
    @arthemis1039 3 года назад +1

    1- Understand that looks are not tied to a distro
    2- Avoid small and obscure distros, especially Ubuntu based, as while they are often appealing they are only made by a handful of people just putting stuff together for you and it will break
    3- Once you know how you want your system to look like, make the choice between stable, rolling, bleeding edge, and you will land on Debian or Fedora, Ubuntu or OpenSUSE, Arch or Manjaro :) Although once you are technical enough, Void, Solus, Gentoo etc can be your sweetspot.

    • @hopelessdecoy
      @hopelessdecoy 10 месяцев назад

      1- True
      2- True but don't understand especially Ubuntu based. Small projects are risky and die regardless of base.
      3- True but you can be technical on any distro. More like if you want to tinker with your OS move to those. I develop software for a living and for fun, I'm very technical but I use Linux Mint. Hasn't really ever got in my way of doing anything but I don't make OS libraries or components nor do I want to build my basic system from the ground up.

  • @jj-icejoe6642
    @jj-icejoe6642 4 года назад +4

    I’m on Arch with Awesome and I’m so happy never want or even need to change !

    • @tetrapack24
      @tetrapack24 4 года назад

      install gentoo

    • @jj-icejoe6642
      @jj-icejoe6642 4 года назад

      tetrapack24 no thank you

    • @anonymoususer5402
      @anonymoususer5402 3 года назад

      @@jj-icejoe6642 I don't know much about Gentoo but is there any great advantage using it? I have read many comments like we need to compile things ourselves and sometimes compilation takes a lot of time and things may go wrong easily. Can you shed some light because I don't know anything about Gentoo.

    • @jj-icejoe6642
      @jj-icejoe6642 3 года назад

      Anonymous User ask it to tetrapack24

  • @TheKsharm
    @TheKsharm 4 года назад +8

    Working in the UK? Accent sounds like it very British... I say that as a brit

  • @akselwilhelmsen3677
    @akselwilhelmsen3677 4 года назад

    Looks like someone got a niu mini. Will there be a video on the ortho layout?

  • @bitcode_
    @bitcode_ 4 года назад

    i've been distro hopping lately because i can't seem to install my radeon wx 5100 graphics card on my power edge 710r, after countless tutorials i'm yet to be able to install the graphics card. tryharder i guess right

  • @Machine_gun_of_ideology
    @Machine_gun_of_ideology 4 года назад +1

    There was some criticism towards that kurtzgesagt video (pardon my deutsch) you reference. But I don't think it's too radical to put distroshopping under the umbrella of shopping addiction, where the same mental mechanisms are triggered/exited

  • @critterpower
    @critterpower 3 года назад

    got any tips on how to distro hop with all your user data + project/document folders?

  • @pedrobntto
    @pedrobntto 4 года назад +1

    every day a new distro, i can't get enough

  • @Techonsapevole
    @Techonsapevole 4 года назад +1

    I cured distrohopping with docker and Ubuntu LTS, but know I have to pick appimage, flatpak or snap sw.

  • @maxarendorff6521
    @maxarendorff6521 4 года назад +2

    Is that a niu mini keyboard? Pretty slick. I'm rocking a XD75 myself...

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +4

      It is! I have a video coming up on it

    • @maxarendorff6521
      @maxarendorff6521 4 года назад

      @@WolfgangsChannel pretty cool. looking forward to it.

  • @finoderi
    @finoderi 4 года назад

    I really like your sense of humour.

  • @fotografm
    @fotografm Год назад

    I still can't settle on the perfect distro for me. Every time a new version gets released I race to try it out. Am I a hopper addict ?

  • @atimholt
    @atimholt 4 года назад

    Is that that Kurzgesagt video that they apologized for making without sufficient vetting, or have the refilmed it yet?

  • @broganking9830
    @broganking9830 4 года назад +4

    I definitely distrohopped for a while. But it was an a search for "the one". Now I've found her, and we're deeply in love, Manjaro Cinnamon, and I couldn't be any happier.

  • @nilsemmenegger7770
    @nilsemmenegger7770 4 года назад +1

    Here's my experience with distro hopping.
    Ubuntu --- didn't use it at all so when I decided to check out this Linux thing after a year or two I chose to start fresh and installed ---> Debian --- I used their stable release (buster) which had kind of pretty outdated software which prevented me from doing some random thing I wanted to do and I didn't realize that it would make far more sense to just change to the testing or unstable release so I switched to ---> Manjaro ---> I installed a bunch of different desktop environments before settling on XFCE for a while before settling on i3 at which point I had developed a phobia of bloat and I decided to reinstall ---> Manjaro ---> except this time I used Manjaro architect and started off with a command-line install (no desktop environment) to minimize unneeded software
    In conclusion, Manjaro is great:
    - Rolling release so super fresh software even on stable release
    - Can use the AUR for obscure/proprietary software or patched versions of software (e.g. intel-gpu-tools, davinci resolve, chromium-vaapi-bin for in-browser hardware accelerated video decode)
    - Manjaro architect simplifies so many things yet has so many options (e.g. luks encryption, unorthodox filesystem choices such as btrfs, using the refind boot manager instead of the hefty and unnecessary bootloader that grub is) and as mentioned before you can install command-line only for minimal bloat

  • @HentaiNat
    @HentaiNat 4 года назад

    Saying people are indecisive by distro hopping is a bold statement. Who buys a car without test driving it, you can't say you like the look and feel of it without feeling it.

  • @toby3084
    @toby3084 3 года назад +1

    Ive distro hopped a ton but void and arch are the ones I use now

  • @Coconut7403
    @Coconut7403 4 года назад

    I like to look at how different distros handle different tasks and keep the ones I like. But I only do that on a second harddrive and have a main drive with Debian

  • @yoavm4482
    @yoavm4482 4 года назад +25

    20% of comments: psychology and distro hopping jokes
    Other 80% of comments: *your accent is kil*

  • @eduardoavila646
    @eduardoavila646 4 года назад +1

    I randomly hop distros, but aways end up bsck again in *buntu baseds.
    I try some that look cool on paper, but i endup hating something on it, or there is a huge problem with them and i just can't cope and aways comeback to the sudo apt get that i unconsciouslly do even when i try to update WINDOWS!
    I reality liked some, but or my hardware wouldnt work no matter what or somr obscure and shitty software i have to work with doesmt have packages nor tutorials on how to install in these distros. I don't quite like ubuntu and how some stuff work on it, but i'm stuck with it.

  • @ManishKumar-vc5zg
    @ManishKumar-vc5zg 3 года назад

    hey... which os is running behind in your desktop?

  • @joschafinger126
    @joschafinger126 4 года назад

    Tinkering is fun. And when you get to the point where your system doesn't really need any more work, and you can't get anywhere near all the computers you might like to play with, well, you may end up wondering about that distro everyone's talking about, or be tempted to break something just so you can fix it. I mean, I'm happy with Manjaro, but I'd kind of like to install vanilla Arch just for the heck of it.

  • @EdLrandom
    @EdLrandom 4 года назад +5

    This addiction video you reference has a lot of problems this is why it was deleted, it was based on a single ted talk and is under-researched.

  • @no_power
    @no_power 4 года назад +1

    Was that a contrapoints clip?

  • @hotroof
    @hotroof 4 года назад +1

    Distro-hopping is like test driving vehicles when ever you like, for as long as you like without ever having to buy the vehicle.

  • @talhaakram
    @talhaakram 4 года назад +4

    1:12 I use arch btw.
    ...and I have two very good reasons. AUR and the wiki, developing on Arch is much easier, most environments and setup related things are well explained in the wiki and come with sane defaults, you get access to the latest packages even some obscure packages are available through AUR. You don't need to google and hunt down header files whenever you need to build something. It just works™.
    Not only that, *it helped me get a job*, The PM taking my final interview liked Linux (and I have above average knowledge about Linux compared to the typical dev, heck, even compared to the avg. Linux user) and further still, I got scouted into the team with the highest opportunity for growth because of my knowledge.
    My work machine came preinstalled with ubuntu 18.04 LTS, and I have to deal with outdated packages and PPA hell. I am thinking of installing fedora silverblue on it instead (it has up to date packages and seems like a reasonable compromise), but I need the thing for work and cannot risk making a mess of it ATM (since I have not used fedora before, actually I would appreciate advise regarding this!).
    Arch is easy to install (installing it is not the hard part, making decisions on which packages to install and manually setting up an Graphical Environment with nice defaults is the actual hard part), the people who use Arch or any obscure distro for that matter are even more pathetic than what they think other 'normies' to be. Being able to use X does not make you intelligent nor is it any indication of being intelligent but using the right tool for the job, making yourself more efficient and saving your time might. If someone thinks having installed Arch Linux is a worthy accomplishment then what an uneventful life they must be living - just think about it, and the same goes for any distro or task of similar nature.
    Let the vocal minorities fight among themselves, meanwhile we - the thousands of (Arch) Linux users that actually use their system to get work done happily go on about their days.
    I get that my rant is rather long and not many will bother reading it but I do hope it makes a difference for someone and they change their mind even if a little. The only thing that triggered me is the stigma associated with Arch Linux and its community (which Wolfgang is enforcing), I really hope this goes away and people start seeing it as the amazing tool that it is and not as an accomplishment, which it most definitely is not.

    • @SoundToxin
      @SoundToxin 4 года назад

      Consider giving NixOS a shot at your work! Maybe learn about it at home first, but basically you get pretty up-to-date packages and the transactional package management means that you can roll back any update with a single command. Each full successful update is saved as a new generation. You can do this from the live system if you updated Firefox and it started crashing, but also if you reboot your machine and suddenly the OS doesn't boot or something more major is going on, you have the option of choosing an earlier generation to boot straight from GRUB. They all get listed in your menu.
      Another option is to run the Nix package manager on top of Ubuntu. This way you still get access to everything in nixpkgs and you can roll back anything installed from there, but then you lose out on the system-wide aspects, and anything installed with apt won't be rolled back with the nix stuff, so I think that NixOS is preferable.

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад

      Are you saying I’m one of those toxic archbros 😭

    • @talhaakram
      @talhaakram 4 года назад

      @@SoundToxin that sounds interesting, but I was planing on staying on the mainstream distros, I don't want to stand out anymore than I already am, and also am looking for a 'boring system', less things I can tweak the less distractions I will have. Fedora seems to be doing something similar with os-tree, and since it is based on Fedora Workstation and caries the Fedora name, it wont standout as much (and I also expect greater reliability and support).
      Nix has been on my radar for quite a while now, it has a whole bunch of really cool ideas and I am definitely looking forward to trying it out, the only keeping me is my current setup using Arch is too comfy and I only have the weekends to myself now, rest of the week is really busy. You have definitely piqued my interest. Probably will try it out this weekend, along with silverblue. I'll have to also learn Nix Expression Language first if I want to give it an honest shot. You can really see the devops focus in Nix. Really cool.

    • @talhaakram
      @talhaakram 4 года назад

      @@WolfgangsChannel maybe 'enforcing' was a strong word, promoting (in this video) might have been better although not by much. The thing is, I do believe that you are not talking about all Arch users, and there simply is no easy way of discussing controversial topics like these. It is just that I don't want the toxic crowd to take away form the amazing bits of that distro (your somewhat association of Arch with them in this video is already proof of how strong an effect their toxicity has on the distro's image⁽ʰᵉʰ⁾ ). You can tell that I have strong opinions regarding these people from my comment, and me pointing out that I am triggered was my way of saying that I am being extremely biased in my statements. The thing is, Arch is a neat distro, I just don't want it to be become a NEET distro (sorry I couldn't resist).
      Edit: Love your videos BTW, keep up the good work 😊 👍

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад

      Oh, I see. Thanks for the feedback!

  • @urugulu1656
    @urugulu1656 4 года назад +3

    why is there a bloody macOS machine in the background?

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +2

      i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/264/842/220.png

    • @urugulu1656
      @urugulu1656 4 года назад +1

      @@WolfgangsChannel what apple devices being helpful call the Pope.

  • @gaweyn
    @gaweyn 4 года назад +1

    I used to distro hop a lot. Then I settled on arch. Then on Pop OS. Then on OpenSUSE. Playing with the thought of trying out either gentoo or LFS on my next holiday. My name is retgab and I am an addict.

    • @fotografm
      @fotografm Год назад

      Sounds like you were still hopping to me...

  • @aCatSiki
    @aCatSiki 8 месяцев назад

    It could, and it did. I used to spend 7-9 hours learning web development. After 300+ hours, I tried Linux because I heard that it's easier to work on Linux if you're a web developer.
    I've re-installed Arch for literally about 20x now, or even more. I've tried a few distros, and I'm thinking of hopping. I don't know why, as I already have bash scripts for my Arch setup.
    Having said that, it's way better than a gaming addiction. Contributing to open-sourced projects is addicting as well,and it's not that guilt-tripping like the time I waste in online gaming.

  • @franciskapsowe9183
    @franciskapsowe9183 3 года назад

    You deserve 10M subscribers

  • @andrewcarlssin4385
    @andrewcarlssin4385 3 года назад

    I tinker to stay relevant. I started building computers and networks in the late 80s before Microsoft using Novell and I still like hoping around in the tech space learning all I can.

  • @jafd7806
    @jafd7806 4 года назад

    Nice video bro

  • @kolombet3
    @kolombet3 4 года назад

    For me distrohopping was attempts to find distro which not breaks. Debian had too old packages, i had problems with installing software. Ubuntu breaks sometime on update. KDE based distros were too slow and clunky. I tried some minimal distro which were blazingly fast, but lacks features. The problem with linux were mostly lack of drivers and problems with software installation. Idea to have package managers or stores is good, but was designed with critical flaws. I can’t count how many times I broke apt-get manager. How many times servers were slow or down for me. So I ended my perfect distro search until I found elementaryOS. It was perfect until I tried to install i3 on it and broke system. So currently now I am on RegolithOS which is perfect for me out of box, blazing fast i3 and lenovo thinkpad laptop to have zero problems with drivers. Snap packages to install software. 2020 is the year of distro hopping stop, stable linux system hell yeah!

    • @folksurvival
      @folksurvival 2 года назад

      There are no "KDE based distros".

  • @jayrowe6473
    @jayrowe6473 4 года назад

    I started using Linux with Red Hat which I bought in Office Max around 1999. Several years later I installed OpenSuse 9.1 and stuck with it because I liked it. Ubuntu never caught on with me.

  • @skymer7471
    @skymer7471 4 года назад

    I've tried a lot of distribution, first ubuntu with gnome, but I disliked gnome, then I used debian ("too stable" for me lol), then I tested arch with kde (I also disliked it, too confusing and after a time it started to get buggy), I tried mint (too windowsish for me), popOs (too gnomish for me x)), then I tried deepin Os (it has a lack of customization, but it looks really smooth and nice). Then I knew I wanted a distribution with a lot of customization and small memory usage. I used arch, with gnome, kde, then I tried i3 (gaps and later sway (cause you know, wayland is cooool (no))), it did the job for almost 1 year... But yeah .. now I want to use a desktop environment "customizable and looking smooth"... I end up with xfce (really, this distro is a beast, once you customized it to your needs it's great, i use a dock bar and it's all fine) ... After 4 years, finally, I'm rid of this distrohoping shit :p

  • @victorprokop2240
    @victorprokop2240 4 года назад

    What's this comment section's /comfy/ distro?

  • @MaxTheFireCat
    @MaxTheFireCat 4 года назад +2

    i stay with windows just because i know it will happen to me, took me 4 days to choose a color theme for my IDE

  • @mentalmarvin
    @mentalmarvin 4 года назад

    I was a distroholic for about a year. Got tired of switching, it wasn't greener on the other side, and I recovered. I just received my 3 years sober badge. The reasons you list; boredom, pursuit of novelty & hipster, should be considered pulled up from your ass.

  • @LloydLynx
    @LloydLynx 4 года назад

    I got tired of Ubuntu so I got kinda reckless until it broke, I'm now on Fedora.

  • @hexa3389
    @hexa3389 3 года назад

    True for some people. But when I was trying to pick a distro I live booted distros. A lot of them. Like every single popular ubuntu based distro (pop, elementary, ubuntu+de, mint+de, etc.) Then some other ones like tumbleweed, manjaro+de, raspbian, debian+de, etc. Like I was just testing at live booted USB's for a whole 2 weeks untill I just installed Manjaro, and started getting into ricing.

  • @mawortz
    @mawortz 4 года назад

    I'm glad google algorithm recommended me your channel

  • @n0kodoko143
    @n0kodoko143 4 года назад

    The guy trying to jump through the Gentoo portal tho... XD

  • @Owczarekk
    @Owczarekk 4 года назад

    Have the same powerfix toolkit

  • @tronkel1
    @tronkel1 4 года назад

    In my experience, if your hobby then becomes a job, you lose the hobby. Working in some activity that was previously a hobby is the fastest way to lose that hobby. You'll have to sacrifice the hobby for as long as you have it as a job. If the job comes to an end, then there is at least a chance that one day you will get your hobby back. This happened to me personally when I started working in the photographic trade - I totally lost interest in photography as a hobby. Now that the job exists no more, my interest in photography is fortunately now even stronger than ever! Work is the biggest pleasure killer for any activity. My other hobbies are distro-hopping and collecting watches. I'll never work in any of these sectors for fear of losing the psychological pleasure-kick that these hobbies provide. Yes, you could say that hobbies are really addictions, distro-hopping included. That is why you found that working at the job and not doing the hobby seemed to "cure" your hobby addiction. I think that this is generally the case and is to be expected.

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад

      But that’s the thing, I don’t use Linux at work. And it’s not like I lost interest in using computers altogether

  • @harrymason1053
    @harrymason1053 3 года назад

    I have a USB disk drive docking station so I can easily load 3 partitions plus a swap on an ebay, used hard disk. That's fun but also I have lots of thumb drives and MicroSD so that's fun too. However, I have 4 computers with Windows 10 and --oh yes, I'm a retired programmer. To me, it's just fun. I don't consider it an addiction, any more than keeping your lawn mowed really well is. I enjoy it and I'm doing this at 2:00 in the morning so what's the problem?

  • @annie3606
    @annie3606 4 года назад

    Feeling of accomplishment for installing arch? Sounds kinda awkward to me xD even my first arch-install wasn't too hard for me(well I used a de back then so setup afterwards wasn't annoying either). And while installing gentoo I even felt dumb for taking this much time xD So personally I can say I don't really get a feeling of accomplishment out of installing such distros xD Maybe lfs would make me feel that way but I don't have enough time for that rn.
    But I'm sure there are ppl who feel that way and thats perfectly fine ^^

  • @danielhughes284
    @danielhughes284 4 года назад +3

    The realities are the most distros are 99.9% the same

  • @Dan96XD
    @Dan96XD 4 года назад

    Dude, did you hackintosh your TP???

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад +1

      Yes.

    • @Dan96XD
      @Dan96XD 4 года назад

      @@WolfgangsChannel was it worth it?? Never thought about hackintosh any of my pcs.

  • @CatzNGaz
    @CatzNGaz 4 года назад

    I like how you critique YTers misuse of 2 contrasting, extreme behavioral patterns, buzz phrases over- or mis-use dwindle meaning:
    0:55 paralysis by analysis
    3:40 addiction
    to disillusion the hipster stereotype associated to these tinkerers, or to break the bored, straw man, first world problem of distro hopping. I think "hipster" is also misused in a lot of contexts these days.
    This may be way far off the nose, but my mind was personally wandering after I watched Kurgesagt's "addiction" vid: when I was codependent with pot, I realize, in retrospect, that the effects of capricious decisiveness are precisely what further attenuated my confidence and inert willingness to reach my goals: it was a paralysis by cannabis, and that's why I am not a real man :)

  • @carlod1605
    @carlod1605 4 года назад

    Nice video :)

  • @cafecorali
    @cafecorali 4 года назад

    Used to distro hop until i came across Slackware. Been using slackware for over 20 years now and never looked back. Sure, i tried in between in a VM stuff like ubububu and sorts, but nah. I'll stay with slackware for ever.

  • @testingstuff6111
    @testingstuff6111 3 года назад

    love the beer bottle , very good to store home made tomato juice

  • @RACAPE
    @RACAPE 4 года назад

    In 2 weeks I will start my new job as an Web developer, so I did distrohopping for last 3-4 days, because I can. ***Do distrohopping when you are free.*** Ubuntu 20.04, Linux Mint, Pop_OS, Solus, KDE Neon, and now I stopped to Fedora KDE Neon. Distrohopping should be an olympic sport. :D I hope that fedora will be the last. I don't know what I am searching, but I think I found it on Fedora. Pop_OS was perfect, but my mindset isn't :))
    Distrohopping god be with you!

  • @1roOt
    @1roOt 4 года назад +4

    04:44 DORIMEH !!!

    • @WolfgangsChannel
      @WolfgangsChannel  4 года назад

      Interimo adapare

    • @1roOt
      @1roOt 4 года назад +1

      @@WolfgangsChannel ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つAMENO༼ つ ◕​_◕ ༽つ

  • @klauslubinus1433
    @klauslubinus1433 4 года назад

    4:00 shade on luke smith?

  • @PyroNexus22
    @PyroNexus22 4 года назад +1

    I installed Cinnamon and now I'm themehopping

  • @uncannysnake
    @uncannysnake 4 года назад

    Peterson meme song sauce?

    • @shauno6893
      @shauno6893 4 года назад

      ERA - Ameno
      ruclips.net/video/6xUnSVTh8fI/видео.html

  • @josebarona271
    @josebarona271 4 года назад +1

    I went from distro hoping to Hackintosh :(

  • @ericcornish1983
    @ericcornish1983 4 года назад

    I used to distrohop back in the late 90's I started out using Redhat Linux 5.2 lol I know I'm old! I then moved on to Mandrake Linux 7.0, yes that's Mandrake Linux, it eventually changed its name to Mandriva. Then I went on to try Ubuntu in its first release ever didn't end up liking it and then started using old school distros again for a while which was Debian 2.1. A friend of mine had said to me if I liked Debian that I would like Gentoo so I tried it for some time, I liked it just didn't stick with it. I did eventually go with a permanent distro and that was Debian in its later year's I would say around version 5.0 onward and I generally stick with Debian. I did have at point a slew of PC's just for the purpose of trying out different distros at one point as well, just some older PC's for small little projects and such. I don't think distro hopping is a bad thing necessarily it's just when theres so many flavours of Linux out there it's hard not to try them and also someone is just trying to find that right one for them, everyone has different tastes afterall and not everyone is easy to please, this that's whys there's a billion and half distros out there.

  • @nonenothingnull
    @nonenothingnull 4 года назад +2

    I distrohopped until I was happy with what I wanted to get

  • @OnthimOSObserver
    @OnthimOSObserver 3 года назад

    This is exactly what I have been doing since I discovered Linux when I was kid, my first Distribution was RedHat 7.1 😂

  • @blyaticon8190
    @blyaticon8190 3 года назад

    The worst case distro hopper: the guy that installs different distros on his friends' Laptops, but never touches his on PC because he is too comfortable with his settings
    been there done that

  • @panz__
    @panz__ 3 года назад

    1:27 very cool reference

  • @mattslivar5174
    @mattslivar5174 3 года назад

    I used to distrohop alot now I just use debian for over 5 years and my overpowered gaming rig runs windows 10 which I upgrade it once a year to even better rig

  • @dominik2327
    @dominik2327 3 года назад

    funny that I've been distrohoping like crazy when I was teenager and now I'm Linux sysadmin/devOps. Nowadays I don't even think about altering my positively boring Arch installs unless I absolutely need to.

  • @forzahorison6870
    @forzahorison6870 4 года назад

    Well, I tried linux bcs I'm..
    poor :'(
    Couldn't buy newest machine and my pc is too old for win 10.