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Add to SafariWhen comparing freeCodeCamp vs DistroTube, the Slant community recommends freeCodeCamp for most people. In the question“What are the best educational channels on YouTube?” freeCodeCamp is ranked 6th while DistroTube is ranked 184th. The most important reason people chose freeCodeCamp is:
Free for anyone who wants to take the camp.
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Question Ranking
Pros
Pro Completely free
Free for anyone who wants to take the camp.
Pro Open source
Due to freeCodeCamp being open source, you are able to contribute to the program that helped teach you how to code in the first place. It's a great way to give back and gain experience.
Pro Self-paced
There is no set schedule with freeCodeCamp. You can work through the program as fast or as slow as you want.
Pro Browser-based
All courses used by freeCodeCamp are done in the browser, rather than students having to set up their own environment. This makes it much easier for beginners to get started.
Pro Actively developed
They are frequently updating courses and adding new material.
Pro Welcoming, active community
freeCodeCamp strongly encourages interacting with other learners and experienced programmers. They provide chatrooms which are always active and full of members happy to answer any questions you may have. Pair programming (programming with another user) is encouraged as a great way to work through some of their coding challenges.
There are also meetup groups where you can code in person with other freeCodeCamp students.
Pro Six certificates available
There are currently six certificates available that you can get once you've completed all the projects:
- Responsive Web Design Certification
- Javascript Algorithms And Data Structures Certification
- Front End Libraries Certification
- Data Visualization Certification
- Apis And Microservices Certification
- Information Security And Quality Assurance Certification
Pro Gain real world experience while helping nonprofits
Once you've completed all the courses and practice levels on freeCodeCamp, you are able to participate with other learners on developing software for non-profits. It's an amazing way to gain experience and build your portfolio as a developer, while helping out a non-profit organization.
Pro Full stack certificate
There is a cool Full stack certificate
Pro He is very helpful and friendly youtuber dedicated to the GNU+Linux community
Pro Covers a variety of Linux topics, and focuses mostly on different distros
Pro Publishes content about new, lesser-known, and alternative software, including usage and configuration
DistroTube is a great place to go to discover interesting and useful pieces of software or to discover alternatives to software you already have. Beginners to GNU/Linux will appreciate the in-depth videos on how to use and configure different pieces of software.
Cons
Con No longer offers opportunity to build projects one-on-one with nonprofits
There are no nonprofits to help upon completing the program.
Con Learning material is not in-depth
The teaching content provided by freeCodeCamp tends to act more as an introduction than a solid learning resource. Unless you already have some prior experience, you won't have enough knowledge to get through the coding challenges and development projects without using outside learning resources to fill in the gaps.
Con Massive time waste
Content mainly focuses on trivial concepts and is very sparse in those few areas that inch beyond 'complete beginner'.
Con Is an email list generator
Early focus isn't on programming. It is on signing up for all of FreeCodeCamp's social media and getting looped into their newsletters. The content is trivial. It is all just a massive marketing scheme to get email addresses of aspiring programmers to affiliate sell to by pushing novice developers to blog posts containing affiliate links.
That is until they sell to a 3rd party. Read their disclaimer. Whoever buys them out gets all their user data, email lists, etc.
Con No offline version
Con Excessive focus on the basics
This platform focuses too much on the basics.
Con 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.
Con Turning into Luke Smith
His content is becoming more like Luke's, who is the worst role model to follow in all of video sharing.
Con Anyone using Distrotube as a legit source is delusional
The guy just isn’t well informed or smart about anything. And he has randomly dissed enough people in the community that no one really likes him. Even the super friendly gang at BDLL and laid back guys like English Bob actually DESPISE Distrotube, because he will just randomly criticize people out of nowhere.
Also, the dude gives off a weird vibe. Like a restrained anger of some sort. Hard to put into words, but it wouldnt surprise me if Derek made the news for some crazy action.
Con Doubles down on terrible takes in a variety of areas, oddly self-referential
One of the worst Linux resources out there. He basically comes up with a simple opinion on something, phrases it at an 8th grade reading level, and repeats it over and over until the video ends. His takes on topics range from uninformed at best, to horrifyingly wrong at worst. He also posts very strange self-focused videos, like playing trombones, himself at the gym, talking about craft beers, as if we are supposed to value him as a friend instead of a Linux resource.
He also joins a lot of Youtubers in the "a lot of you have been asking me" Club. When a Youtuber says that, you know exactly ZERO people have been asking them, and they just want to talk.
Also, he either started or continued the tradition of filling every corner of the screen with kitchy Linux stuff like Matrix screen savers and branded mugs. He apparently even loves his audio mixer so much that he mounted that behind him so we always see it. A three monitor workstation with 2-3 camera mounts? For a Linux Youtube channel? That's sort of like delivering pizzas in an Imperial Star Destroyer.
Con Hypocrisy
In some videos, complains about toxicity in Linux community. Then in another video is toxic towards opensource projects he doesn't like.
Con Heavily political
He is a conservative, and occasionally brings said rightist politics into his videos.
Con Not technical / in depth enough
Con Level of Linux knowledge very low, not a lot of worthwhile content
Even a slightly advanced beginner will find nothing of value here.
Con Pace too slow
The pace would be more tolerable, if the material was covered more in-depth.
Con Extremist FOSS zealot
If you're not a FOSS "zealot" you can find his thoughts very extreme and sick.
