 It's happened guys. I think we've reached the point now where running GNU slash Linux as your desktop operating system is Normal, I think Linux now can be considered a normie operating system It's no longer something for elites, you know No longer do you have to be some kind of rocket scientist to get Linux installed and actually customize it and configure it and all of that Now I think we're to the point where Linux is just another operating system And that wasn't the case years ago I remember when I started using desktop Linux 15 years ago, you know One of the things I used to tell people is Linux makes you a better person when you run Linux It makes you a better person because back then you had to really learn some stuff. You had to also Learn some stuff about you as far as resilience and stick to it. If this right because there were gonna be some things That didn't work right initially that you were gonna have to fix your problems And I really think that Linux made me a better person having used it way back then But now it's to the point again. I think Linux. It's just a normie operating system It's nothing special now anybody can use it your grandmother can get Linux installed, right? And then start using it right away when I review all of these distributions on the channel I never come across a Linux distro anymore that I take a look at and go. Oh my god This is bad, right? They're all great and when I say there's some bad distributions out there But they're typically one-man distributions that are you know, not necessarily serious projects They're just something somebody throws together, right? But I'm talking about the ones that have some development team, right? They've got a little bit of a community behind them or in some cases They have corporations behind them those distributions all fantastic Every time I take a look at a new release of whatever you name the major version of Linux You know the major distribution every new release is always great You know for having a bad releases the desktop environments that we have We have so many desktop environments available to us on Linux And I think all of them now when I take a look at these new versions of Genome for example Genome 42 is the best version of Genome ever I think right now that is the best version of Genome ever KDE Plasma the same thing You know the version of KDE Plasma that I just took a look at I think it's the best version of KDE ever our desktop environments are the best they've ever been And I know some people will probably disagree and say hey, you know KDE 3.5 way back in the day That was great or Genome too, you know 15 years ago. That was really fantastic But if we're being serious Our desktop environments are much better now as far as look feel customization functionality and it's just a good time to be a Linux user So I really think we've kind of crossed that bridge now. We're definitely We're seen as normal people now When somebody's running Linux on their computer or on their laptop You spot somebody running Linux on their laptop when you're standing in line at Starbucks or whatever That's no longer weird and no longer do you immediately assume that that person is some kind of hacker. I Had to pause the video there for a second a train was going by I live in just about a mile from a railroad track So it always makes these backyard boomer vlogs kind of interesting because trains go by you know every 15 minutes 30 minutes or so and then my house is also in the flight path for an airport That's not too far from my house as well So between the planes and the trains making these backyard videos is always a little tricky getting back to the point of our operating system our Linux operating system now being kind of a Normie operating system. It's nothing special. Is that a good thing? I think it is because 15 years ago when I started in Linux, I remember the Lance community We all talked about how far behind Linux was it needed so much work. We needed better Drivers we needed better desktop environments. We needed more software companies actually developing for Linux And we're getting all of that like everything we've ever wanted. We've kind of gotten it None of us would have guessed we would get there, but now that we're there Does it make some in the community a little worried? Maybe a little sad? Well for the elitist out there probably because there are some arrogant elitist a-holes In the Linux community and some of them are probably getting to the point now with that They're getting fed up because you know now that Linux is so easy. It's not really a challenge to use You know, they're gonna move to BSD or haiku or some other operating system One of the various flavors of Unix. They'll move to something else just so they can feel like they're a special snowflake But that's not That's not what I want. I want a new slash Linux to be so fantastic and so user-friendly That it is the dominant operating system as far as desktop computers That's what I want. I don't think we're that far away from it. If you had asked me five years ago I'd said no way but now The way I'm seeing things going forward and the more I see things like the success of the steam deck I think we're on the right path. I think The future is bright. Everything is just up from here guys peace