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Best Youtube channels for Linux content	Price	Website	Last Updated
-- Luke Smith	-	-	Sep 22, 2019
-- DistroTube	-	-	Aug 11, 2019
-- Switched to Linux	-	-	Sep 6, 2019
-- tutoriaLinux	-	-	Sep 10, 2019
-- Average Linux User	-	-	Aug 21, 2019

DistroTube

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Heavy on opinions, very light on why they're held

Good op-ed coverage doesn't just state opinions, it educates you as to why those opinions are well-founded. See More

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Covers a variety of Linux topics, and focuses mostly on different distros

BlurpleFedora's Experience

The channel covers many linux topics (and helpful). But, he really makes a lot of opinions that are heavy, but not much evidence. See More

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Extremist FOSS zealot

If you're not a FOSS zealot you can find his thoughts very extreme and sick. See More

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He is very helpful and friendly youtube dedicated to the GNU+Linux community

Peter J. Mello's Experience

DistroTube seeks to fill a real but treacherous void in IT journalism: editorial content. It's no surprise that a discipline like computer science, whose most elemental character is the quantification of everything, would be hostile to purely subjective, opinionated content. What this channel repeatedly fails to deliver are the anecdotal references and persuasive logical arguments that make such content useful and distinguish journalists from pundits. My experience in short is that any topic covered here is invariably covered better in many places elsewhere. See More

Average Linux User

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High quality tutorials

Bryan Lunduke

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Long forum interviews

Bryan Lunduke often creates long forum interviews content with popular figures with the Linux development community as well as industry experts. See More

Top Con

Some content behind a Patreon paywall

Some of Bryan Lunduke's videos are exclusive, and can only be accessed through Patreon. See More

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Educates the public

Bryan Lunduke creates content educating the public about Linux, privacy concerns related to digital tools, and current events specific to the internet or digital technology. See More

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Troll

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Bryan Lunduke is a software industry professional

Bryan Lunduke is a software industry professional which has worked for such companies as openSUSE and Microsoft. See More

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Covers Linux-specific events

Bryan Lunduke often covers Linux-specific events that might otherwise not be available online. He mainly covers events of which he has contacts attending or at which he is presenting. See More

DioLinux

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Language barrier

Their content is very dense and complete, but it lacks translation to English, so it's hard to understand everything completely since YouTube automatic translator doesn't work as expected. If you understand some Spanish, maybe you can understand some Portuguese and that's a plus for you. See More

Top Pro

Objective reviews and opinions

The host of channel Dionathan is pretty clear and professional in your reviews and always make the content acessible. See More

Edson C da Silva's Experience

One of the best channels you can find about Linux in portuguese, but not only Linux, the Diolinux channel cover a wide range of topics related with thecnology, gadgets and so on. I've became a ruge fan. See More

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Ubuntu/Canonical advocate

Dionatan is well-know for being an Ubuntu fanboy, even though he tries to convince the public he is not, it's kinda obvious. Never say bad things about Canonical or Ubuntu, or he will be harsh to you. Having a distro preference is not something bad, however, if you avoid criticism and only want to hear good things, it can be problematic over time. See More

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If you have fear of knowledge

If you love that circle of comfort around you, maybe this kind of content can hurt your feelings. See More

Level1Linux

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Events & guest coverage

They cover popular tech events and have meaningful guests on their channel. Guests: Allen Jude, John Bach, Ed Crisler, and others. Events: Computex, Penguincon, and others. See More

Top Con

Some Level1Techs videos may seem tedious or overly detailed

Some of the Level1Techs content can be overly detailed or specific, and may cover topics that some viewers don't - yet - have the experience to find useful. As a result it may seem very tedious for some viewers if topic doesn't directly relate to them, or if you just want a quick and easily consumable video. See More

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No 'hype clips' or 'click bait titles' without real content in the video

Wendell and the Level1Techs team have never produce content that doesn't cover in-depth topics, additionally any titles that seem like "click bait" will actually have some real content in the actual video. Some other Linux YouTube channels frequently suffer from content which only showcases Linux desktop environments in a 'hype clip' format, often without covering any functional or difficult Linux content in any detail. See More

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Proportion of other content vs Linux content

You could argue that Level1Techs doesn't produce enough Linux specific content in comparison to other topics. That being said Wendell and his team are really dedicated Linux in general by showcasing it on other channels to increase Linux awareness to new demographics, on their forums, contributing to open-source software development, participating with the Linux community, or producing tech videos that are useful to everyone including Linux users. See More

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They do not degrade non-linux users

Wendell and the Level1Techs team members never craft content with the intent of degrading people who use more common operating systems. They focus on creating content promotes the benefits of Linux such as open-source software, privacy protection, utility in enterprise, and community as well as its development. See More

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Partner with other YouTube Channels

They have partnered with several other tech channels to make content, such as: Linus Tech Tips, Gamers Nexus, The Linux Gamer, Paul's Hardware, jayztwocents, TechDeals, Joker Productions, Tech YES City, Tek Syndicate, Tech Showdown, EposVox, Louis Rossmann, as well as others. See More

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Wendell and the Level1Linux team

Wendell and the Level1Techs team manage to cover a verity of content topics, encompassing a large range of viewing interests and moods. They craft their Linux content to be sociable as well as honest about its practical challenges. See More

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