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I never heard of this project before but I just looked it up and it looks like it's about vintage MP3 player upgrading? Anyways nice to see more people, especially ones with niche jobs like this one, switching. Linux is slowly becoming a pretty major thing.
I like his other channels for drums / drum history (Drum Thing) and cars (Garbage Time), but notably the main DankPods channel has 1.65 million subs which could bring a load of new people's attention to Linux.
I just checked his video about switching to Linux and I'd say it's going to scare most potential users away more than attract them. His use case is extremely specific and even kinda creepy for a not savvy person.
I agree he didn't do a good job evangelizing Linux. He made a video about his experiences with it, but I do think it's representative of someone googling and first time trying Linux on their own without a guide friend to tell them, "oh you can do it this way now." Him ultimately sticking with it in spite of that for data sovereignty is kind of the whole point of Free Software so I can respect that.