PickVidsBest Linux & open-source ecosystems Videos
The 94 Linux & open-source ecosystems videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 4 introductory, 38 intermediate, 35 for a general viewer, and 17 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a talk. What they share is that one speaker finishes a claim, and the examples exist to hold that claim up. Channels you will keep seeing include linux.conf.au, The Linux Foundation, iX.
NixOS VM on Mac Setup
Mitchell Hashimoto walks through his setup for running a NixOS virtual machine on a Mac as his development environment, with a config repo on GitHub.
Linux HATES Me – Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1
Linus Tech Tips starts a series in which Linus and Luke move their home workstations to Linux.
ubuntu 3D Desktop (Cube) (KDE & Compiz Fusion & CairoDock) fullHD 1080p
A short screen recording of an Ubuntu Karmic Koala desktop running KDE4 with Compiz Fusion 3D cube effects and CairoDock.
Linus Torvalds - Backdoor In Linux
A short clip from the 2013 LinuxCon Linux Kernel Panel in which Linus Torvalds is asked about being approached to insert a backdoor into Linux.
Windows Was The Problem All Along
Dave2D reviews the Lenovo Legion Go S running Valve's SteamOS instead of Windows, calling it the first true competitor to the Steam Deck.
Every OS Sucks
A comedy song by onedeadtroll, from the Windows XP and OS X 10.3 era, lamenting that every operating system is bad.
GrapheneOS: Documenting Numerous Attacks Against CalyxOS,, Techlore, & More
A long Techlore video documenting what it presents as hostile conduct by GrapheneOS leadership and community members, including lead developer Daniel Micay, toward CalyxOS and others.
NYCBSDCon 2014: Serving one-third of the Internet via FreeBSD
Scott Long of Netflix presents the architecture of the OpenConnect content delivery network at NYCBSDCon 2014.
Linus Torvalds - Nvidia F_ck You!
A two-minute clip of Linus Torvalds at an Aalto University talk telling Nvidia "F_ck you" over its poor Linux support.
Why did Netflix use NGINX and FreeBSD to build their own CDN? by Gleb Smirnoff
Gleb Smirnoff explains why Netflix built its own CDN on FreeBSD and NGINX, and how Netflix and NGINX Inc.
Containers and Steam: Putting games under pressure | FOSDEM 2020
FOSDEM 2020 talk from Collabora on pressure-vessel, an experimental mechanism that puts Steam games in containers on Linux.
Linus builds Linus’ new PC!
Linus Tech Tips replicates the Threadripper workstation Linus Torvalds built for himself, discussing the parts such as the CPU and cooler.
Filesystem in Rust - Kent Overstreet
Kent Overstreet's Linux Foundation talk about writing a filesystem in Rust.
Qt 5 based 3D Wayland compositor
A short demo of a 3D Wayland compositor built with Qt 5 and QtWayland, mapping input to and compositing the output of Wayland applications in a 3D scene, also running on a Raspberry Pi.
Keynote: Greg Kroah-Hartman (Linux Foundation) - "I Don't Want Your Code"
Greg Kroah-Hartman's Linaro keynote on contributing to the Linux kernel, explaining why maintainers prefer upstreamed code and how they view contributions.
Terry Davis' TempleOS Brutal Take Down of Linus Torvalds
A compilation of Terry A.
Linus Torvalds: Nvidia, Fuck You!
A one-minute clip of Linus Torvalds telling Nvidia "fuck you" over its lack of support for Linux and open source.
The Mind Behind Linux | Linus Torvalds | TED
TED curator Chris Anderson interviews Linus Torvalds about his personality, his engineer's pragmatism, and the creation of Linux and Git.
RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite
Gamers Nexus benchmarks GPU gaming performance on Linux using the Bazzite OS, an exploratory first step toward establishing a Linux testing methodology.
Alan Kay on Linux
A one-minute clip of Alan Kay giving his blunt critique of Linux and the Unix approach.
Linus Torvalds - Nvidia F*** You! #Shorts [V237]
A short clip of Linus Torvalds giving Nvidia the finger and telling the company off over its Linux support.
WINDOWS VISTA AERO VS LINUX UBUNTU BERYL
A 2007 side-by-side demo comparing Windows Vista's Aero interface with Ubuntu running Beryl/Compiz, showing effects such as the desktop cube and burning windows.