My Complicated Relationship with Linux 🐧

After 12~ years of Linux on my channel, it's time to reexamine my relationship with the community that brought me to here in the beginning.

I'm not necessarily changing things with "le Linox"—that's my forever home. But the endless cycle of upgrades that break things that worked yesterday (rolling-release distros) and culture where showing off bugs gets you paddling (Linux YouTube)? That - I am done with.

What was meant to be a humble video which was meant to showcase the ease at which Fedora upgrades ended up failing spectacularly. I was incredibly frustrated and it clouded up the entire video. After that, I made my decision: I'm done with distro-hopping (spoiler: he then proceeds to hop to another distro).

But seriously, I put my differences and issues with Canonical behind me and dove back in to 'buntu-land. I'm on Ubuntu Studio: a distro meant for audio-first creators like me! And honestly? After bouncing through Debian, openSUSE, Arch, Fedora, and even my own distro... I forgot how good stable (not stale) actually feels.

I'm not ashamed to admit that my ideology matured. I used to care about "bloat" and package managers and ideological purity. Now I care about making things. Ubuntu Studio has been perfect in that regard.

What's Next?

I need to figure out what "make videos for my community" means haha. For so long my mind was always caught up in "how will the Linux community feel about this?". It self-censored me and I'm making 2026 the year I stop doing that.

Open source is still my love; that will never change! But Linux doesn't need to be my whole identity anymore. I've got so much more work to do!

btw - how did you like the new PNG Egee? He's a new staple on the channel!

Thanks for reading my little ramble-rant! And stick around—this channel is quietly becoming something new. 🕵️