 I am an open Susa fan. I used to be a Fedora fan boy and before that I was an Arch Linux fan boy I have obviously moved between different distributions a lot over the course of the last five years or six years I suppose now and as I moved through Linux distributions I became fans of those Linux distributions, especially when I stuck around for a small period of time I would become invested in that distribution I would talk about that distribution a lot either on the channel or in discord on masses on or on Twitter or whatever and I would become a fan boy of that distribution and I think that this is just something that a lot of people do now There is another group of people out there who have no Real attachment to the distribution Linux is just a tool for them. They could switch to another distribution and be perfectly fine It's just a tool. It doesn't matter to them whatsoever But a vast majority of us Linux nerds get very very attached to our Linux distribution We become fans or fanatics about our distribution and we tend to spread that fanaticism to others Or we try to spread that fanaticism to others by touting how great our distribution is We talk about how the package manager is better than all the other package managers and how the software repo that we use is the biggest ever and how the Distro we have offers the most desktop environments or window managers or whatever, you know, we we talk about the How awesome our distribution is and we want to see as many people use our distro as possible I know now that I've been using open Suza for over a month I'm beginning to be like that with open Suza every time someone asked me What should I hop to next and I say open Suza, of course because I'm an open Suza fan boy now You know, so being a fan of a distribution isn't wrong I'm not saying that what we do here is wrong but there are of course those people who take it a little bit too far that are very very pushy about their distribution and This does this is not limited to just one distribution You know we make fun of the arch fanboys and we have for 20 years But they're not alone in their fanaticism, right? We have a whole community of gentoo users who are very proud that they use gentoo very proud that they install gentoo and Would like to see everybody use gentoo because they consider it the peak of Linux evolution I'm sure that there is a very small portion of people out there who use Linux from scratch that are very Proud that they use Linux from scratch and have talked about it ad nauseam. I'm sure that those people exist There's not that many of them of course because most people don't have that type of patience But you know they probably do exist and there are people out there who are fedora fanboys and Ubuntu fanboys and You name it if you have a distribution that has any type of following you have some fanatics in that audience The latest and greatest of these of course is Nick's OS now Nick's OS has been around for 20 years It's been around for a very long time But it's recently become a distribution that is very much in with the cool kids, right? Every cool kid wants to use Nick's OS because it has flashy toys and has a configuration file Like those things are brand new like ooh And wait, I don't know about you guys, but we've been using configuration files for a very very long time This is not a new thing home. Nick's OS has been using. I mean, that's the whole point of Nick's OS It's not anything special. Okay, like just chill out, but I'm okay with that You can tell I've been being badgered about Nick's OS for a while And that's kind of my point of this video is that the fans of these particular distributions can be a little bit pushy from time to time I know that I can when I have discovered my fandom of a certain distribution I tend to push it on to other people as well and the Psychology behind this is that we all think that what we're using is the best Even if we have problems with the thing that we're using we still want other people to use it probably because we enjoy Having them suffer alongside of us So if you're using a distribution that you absolutely hate but you have to use it for work reasons or whatever Let's just say you work at some place that does use Linux But they they give you an Ubuntu laptop and you can't stand Ubuntu, but you can't change to a different distribution You want to probably see other people suffer alongside of you with having to use Ubuntu So it even applies to people who don't enjoy the distribution that they use and obviously this is not something that happens to everybody You know like I said before there's an entire group of people out there who have no interest whatsoever in their distribution at all It's just a tool for them and they just go about doing their work every day and then move off and smell some grass The rest of us Linux nerds are very invested in the distribution that we use and because of that investment We spend time customizing it and getting it set up their exact way We want to we get involved in the community. Maybe if we're talented enough we can start, you know Creating some code or some bug fixes or we start working on the documentation to help out whatever we get involved and we get very Invested in the distribution and the more investment we put into that distribution the more we're wanting other people to use it That fandom if you will can create Tribes now we've talked a little bit about tribalism Linux tribalism specifically on this channel before We all there is a I know some people argue as some Linux youtubers argue that there is no such thing as the Linux community I argue that there is such a thing as a Linux community and you can experience that no matter where you are Inside of it, but I also argue that the Linux community is fragmented just like Linux is fragmented every distribution has its own Subsection of the Linux community that is inside of it So you have the arch fanboys you have the people we installed gent to you have the Ubuntu guys You have the the Debian guys you have open Suza all the you know it's just a bunch of tribes within side of the Linux community and They don't always get along Who am I kidding? Of course They don't get along because they all want to do the things that they do in the way that they do them and They see that any other way of doing those things as wrong or stupid or inefficient or Horrible or dumb or whatever you name the adjective. They probably think it this whole idea behind being a fan of your distribution creates a sense of Belonging to that particularly small group of of a community and that allows people to Be very I was gonna say possessive But all I guess that word does kind of work But it also makes them protective of their distribution and also and this is a big one It makes them defensive about their distribution even if they play a very small role in the community They're just using the distribution, but they're really a fan of it They can be very touchy when you say something bad about their distribution There's many many examples of this right and it doesn't there's My bit my biggest example that I've experienced personally is the endeavor OS guys. I made of this is stupid I made a top five arts based Linux distribution video probably about two years ago it did very well at that time and Endeavor OS was like number four on that list, you know of the many different art space distributions I put endeavor OS for and oh my god did that Pissed the endeavor OS guys off. They had form posts about me like they were calling me a fat idiot You know this guy this guy obviously doesn't know anything about arts Linux. He doesn't know anything about endeavor OS He's obviously never used endeavor OS. How could he possibly rank this thing number four? Oh my god the horror He ranked us four out of five out of a hundred, you know The people really seriously got upset about that video that so every time I think about this whole Tribalism fanatic fandom thing. That's what I remember because it was so weird like I Complimented endeavor OS in that video. I said it was really good. It wasn't the best one at that point I was an Arco Linux fanboy So of course Arco Linux was the first one on the list is the one that I had the most experience with It's the one that I liked the most and it was my list. So I could put him in any order that I wanted to he was Really cool. It's that it's really nice how that works, right? It's my youtube channel. I can do whatever the I want, but They didn't seem to understand that and it wasn't as if I said oh Number four is the worst one on the list, you know, it was it was just silly Linux users have this thing right and it's not just endeavor OS guys So I don't want to get no more forum posts about it, please It's not just them, you know, it's gent to you. It's you know, the regular arch guys Ubuntu fanboys exists Debian fanboys open Suza fanboys you name it, you know, they're out there and Man, do they get super defensive? Even if you say something good about their distribution But say it in a odd tone or you maybe you have a weird look on your face when you're talking about it You know that anything can set people off when they're so passionate about the distribution that they use And the thing is is that I'm no different, right? I I will say that I'm more transitory in my Interest in distributions than most of these fanboys probably are so I I move my fanboyish You know fanboyness fanboy fan My fanaticism that probably the word that I'm looking for I move that from one distribution to another As I start using them because I I do distro hopper You know I have in the past many times and right now I'm claiming claiming to be on the last distribution that I'll ever install But we'll see how long that lasts. I know that many people have zero faith that I'll actually last more than a week I'm pretty sure that there's a person in the last video that I said, well, you're not gonna last another week like I can do it but the point is is that as I moved from distro to distro I became a fan of that distribution if I used it for any amount of time And it was really good for that amount of time I became a fan of it and I tried to get other people to use it So I'm not immune to this fanaticism that other people have when it comes to their distribution I'm not immune to it and I think I understand it because like I said as you get more invested in something The more Protective and possessive and defensive about it you become it becomes yours Right, even if you play a such like I said, it's such a small role in it It feels like something that you've put effort into it feels like when you're a member of a community when you're a member of a club You want to protect that club? You want to have pride in that club? You want to have A sense of ownership over that thing and that sense of ownership can lead to friction when There are other clubs out there that are so very similar So linux is one big club We have subgroups right and they they don't mesh Together all that well and we're all It's not a war like we're not the gentu guys and the arch guys aren't going to start fighting each other But they are trying to convince the other side that their club is the best and all those guys in the arch side Should come over to the gentu side All the arch guys are trying to get the gentu guys to come over and say the arch is the best thing ever You know, we're all we're all car salesmen Trying to get the other Groups inside of the linux community to come use our distribution because we think our distribution is the best And we're all right. We're also all wrong, of course, but we're all definitely right So my little rambly video today was just to be Just to kind of put it out there to get people to start thinking about themselves when it comes to their fanaticism because I know it doesn't apply to everybody. Like I said, there are people out there who have They don't care what distribution they use. It's just a tool They open up their laptop for their eight hours a day at work or whatever And then they move on For the rest of their lives and that's fine. And that's the way most people do believe it or not linux Is not my entire life. I do other things outside of the computer So I understand that but for a lot of people in the linux community And I think the a vast majority of my audience it has it's not only a tool, but it's also a hobby. It's a interest It's something that we all have become interested in and have put, you know, research hours into and we follow youtube channels about About it and we go read blog posts and all this stuff We join discord servers and discourse forums and we get on Matrix and mast it on and whatever and we Talk to people and we meet people about and you know make friends in this community It's like it's it's something that I think we should all kind of understand about ourselves is that we do You know, we're part of the linux community but we're also probably part of another smaller community and that tribalism can lead to Friction it can also lead to Arrogance I mean to be honest with you We can all be quite arrogant about the distribution that we like so much So just kind of be self aware along the lines and Tone it down a little bit those of you who use nixos Tone it down a bit. Please. I beg you, please I'll get to nixos eventually. I promise But I don't need to hear hear about it every single day I know that there's somebody down in the comments section right now. You should really try nixos It's fantastic. I'm sure it is. It's the bestest forever, right? Anyways, that's it for that's it for this video If you have thoughts on this you can leave those in the comment section below if you haven't already Leave a thumbs up on this video. It really does help the channel You can follow me on masses on our odyssey those links will be in the video description You can support me on patreon at patreon.com slash linux cast links for paypal and youtube will be in the video description If you want to support me there as well Thanks to everybody who does support me on patreon youtube you guys are all Absolutely amazing without you the channel just would not be anywhere near where it is right now So thank you so very very much for your support. 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