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Time for another community poll!
In this one, I ask all of you how important Open Source / Free Software is to you, and how much of your daily system is made of open source software.

I ditched Google Forms for Cryptpad, hopefully this works well enough! Poll will close next Wednesday, the 30th. Don't hesitate to share it widely so we have a solid amount of answers :)

cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/BvT5W22dNNspD405dLG…

4 days ago | [YT] | 431

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I’m getting a few comments about the music in the videos, telling me that it’s distracting.

I don’t have a preference either way, so what do you prefer?

1 month ago | [YT] | 383

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Time for a new poll on the channel, this time on how much, or how little you customize your desktop experience!

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdr9rDWwdqSwnC9Le…

I moved to Google Forms for this one, as Nextcloud Forms didn't let me split things into sections depending on a previous answer. Still no personal data collected on my end.

As always, I'll make a video about the results, to see whether desktop defaults are sane, or if people always change them :)

Share it widely to make sure it's as representative as possible, you can also maybe send it to other Youtubers and creators you know, so their community can answer (they can get access to the results as well if they want to talk about them, of course, they're always made public on these polls).

1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 513

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Since a lot of people seem to have completely missed the instructions on my previous Poll and just voted willy nilly on distros they never used, thus skewing the results, I'm redoing the poll for more accurate results.

As a repeat: you DO NOT NEED TO vote on every distro. Just rate the ones you used and either don't vote on the others, or click the "Never tried it" option.

Sorry for people who already answered / shared, please consider voting and sharing again sow e can reach a solid number of answers :D

nextcloud.thelinuxexp.com/index.php/apps/forms/s/Z…

3 months ago | [YT] | 805

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Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates it ! See you soon for a little fun video this week :)

4 months ago | [YT] | 927

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Ok, so a Vanilla OS 2 video will be coming early next week, Monday or Tuesday.

I had a bit of trouble using it with an Nvidia GPU on real hardware, as the Android app support (with Waydroid) didn't work, since the distro locks you to x11 with Nvidia drivers.

It's all fixed now (used a different PC, without Nvidia), but it does mean the video will be next week instead of this week!

Also, I was on a nice little call with System76 yesterday, with plenty of other creators and writers, and you can expect a first look at the Cosmic alpha next week. It's a alpha in name only, as it's already pretty feature packed!

8 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 1,000

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Should I cover Vanilla OS 2 in a video this week?

8 months ago | [YT] | 510