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With most of the big distros defaulting to Wayland and NVIDIA finally under control, I expect most new installs will be Wayland ( and stay Wayland ) by the end of the year. So the Linux noon numbers may be 90%. I would be surprised if Wayland does not hit 80% overall by the time we hit 2026.

Swing and a miss! Well, I can take solace in the fact that 99.9% of the packages you are using are in EndeavourOS too. So, I was mostly right. :)

I also wish we could replace Manjaro with a green themed EndeavourOS. So many people could be saved the pain. Manjaro is the next biggest Linux honeypot after OpenOffice ( which exists only to ruin the experience for people that should have used LibreOffice instead ).

Converting Manjaro to Arch in place is a labour of love. I have done it myself and it is was more steps than I expected it to be. Worth it though. Good friend.

How are you enjoying EndeavourOS?

NVIDIA is likely to be stable on Wayland next month. If you wait for other people to ship you code, it will arrive with the fall releases ( eg. Ubuntu 24.10 ).

Xfce is targeting 4.20 for full Wayland support. If you use Xfce 4.20 on kernel 6.9, you may break the Internet.

EndeavourOS has a UI of course ( currently defaults to KDE but there are many DE choices ). It even has a graphical installer.

Perhaps what you meant is that package management is text based by default.

If you really have to have GUI package management on EOS, yay -S octopi or yay -S pamac-gtk are pretty easy to type ( installation of GUI package managers ).

We save so much productivity finding better distros that we have 50% more time to distro hop. /s

Again, you seem reasonable.

I do think an option to suppress video content would be useful for people that really do not want to encounter it.

That said, this was not shared by the original content creator. This is not an advertisement. This is a Lemmy user sharing what they found to be interesting content with the rest of us. I really cannot be bothered by that.

I look to Lemmy to curate good content and let me know that it exists. How much time I have to dedicate to it is on my end. There are plenty of articles that I open and decide I do not have time for as well. Sometimes, I get value just from the comments.

If somebody else watches the video and leaves a useful comment about it, or starts an interesting discussion, that can be valuable and that can be read. So, I am not sure that getting rid of all video content would be a net positive for me even I never watch them.

At the very least, the comments here can be a gauge of what video content is most worth watching.

Definitely bias against XFCE.

EndeavourOS switched their default desktop from XFCE to KDE and I think it looks worse. They switched for toolkit reasons, not UX. The XFCE desktop look is heavily themed, very modern, and I think quite beautiful ( though a little purple for some tastes ).

I have another XFCE box that is practically pixel for pixel themed to look like Windows XP. This is just novelty value of course. Even if you do not like XP, it is hard to argue that it was a UI that normal people hated.

I agree that the “default” XFCE look is not great.

Here is the EOS XFCE desktop: https://github.com/endeavouros-team/endeavouros-xfce4-theming

Here are a few more themes including clones of both macOS and Windows 10: https://itsfoss.com/best-xfce-themes/

It matters a lot if it is Apple silicon or Intel. If Apple, you want Asahi Linux for sure.

On Intel, you have a tonne of options. Pick the desktop environment you like and pick the distro after that. GNOME, KDE, and Cinnamon are your realistic DE choices.

COSMIC is looking really great but it is not quite ready.

I would personally stay away from both Ubuntu and Manjaro but most other choices are fine based on your preferences. Linux Mint is probably the best choice if you like Cinnamon.

I like EndeavourOS myself.

You can be more than reasonably sure that AV1 compresses better than H.265. With AV1 you can use Opus for audio and that is going to absolutely destroy whatever your pairing with H.265.

At the video resolutions we are talking about here, the audio is going to be a big chunk of the H.265 file. Opus will make a huge difference.

Since you seem like a much more reasonable human…

For many kinds of content, I also prefer text over video for exactly the reason you say—it takes less time to read. In particular, if a company can choose a medium, I wish they close text more often. So, there is a kernel of a reasonable point here.

All that said…

Beyond just the totally unacceptable tone, even the reasonable part of the comment is misplaced here.

This is not a company, it is a single guy. Projecting onto his videos your thoughts on the motivations of the “marketing” dept seems a bit silly.

Most importantly, this guy is a YouTube content creator. His job is to create videos for YouTube. People ( regular people ) ask him to do that. Insulting a YouTube content creator for creating content on YouTube is….well…I do not not want to start the name calling but let’s just say the insults hurled above apply more to the person making those comments than they do to the guy who made this video.

As for the bigger picture, there is room in the world for both text and video. Have you ever watched television? Do you constantly rant that everything on TV should have been a book or an article? What was more popular: Game of Thrones or a Song of Ice and Fire?

Despite your preference, video has more reach. This has been true since there has been video.

There is a lot of demand for YouTube videos. There is enough that regular people are able to make a small business for themselves out of creating YouTube content. That is what is happening here. Telling somebody to stop creating content that their fans enjoy and that funds the life that they want is pretty hostile and not very smart.

YouTube is entertainment. This is not content you have to consume. It is not about efficiency. It is not content that would have been produced some other way. If you do not like it, don’t consume it. Please though, do not waste everybody’s time complaining that it exists.

Stupidest and most immature person on the Internet talks shit about how dumb and infantile people are. Stunning.