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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know this trailer wasn't targeted at me, but it didn't tell me anything about the distro.

If I had a friend say "I've been holding off on switching to Linux, but you know, that vanilla os trailer really made me reconsider," I would think, that's great...but none of it is specific to vanilla, all of that has been widely available in every Linux distro for years.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm confused by this video (which is from nearly a year ago, btw). It looks like a gnome shell overview more than anything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Also 22s of it's already brief 102s runtime was just Assassin's Creed gameplay lol.