Recommending Some Tech YouTubers Who Specialize in Linux and FOSS Topics

infoivonblog.nkfjt@aleeas.com (Ivon Huang) — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 13:00:00 +0800

My personal list of good Linux & FOSS YouTube channels.

Before we begin, here are two concise introduction images for Linux YouTubers. If you recognize everyone in these images, congratulations, there is no going back for you XD

Because I used rolling-release distributions for a while, Ivon’s impression of Linux is that it is changing at every moment, from the low-level kernel to user-space software, and even LTS systems are no exception. Unless what you are dealing with is a RHEL release with 10 years of support that sits still after installation, Linux things are constantly changing, and the iteration speed may be even faster than major Windows version updates. The point of saying this is that many people cling to the logic of the Windows XP era and believe that the way computers are used should be fixed. But that way of thinking obviously clashes with the vitality of the open source community.

Therefore, I do not really like learning Linux operations from YouTube, because it becomes outdated very easily. Tutorials on personal blogs online also have a high probability of becoming outdated, depending on the author’s willingness to maintain them. Personally, I include official documentation reference URLs so readers can feed themselves. So the most trustworthy sources are the software’s official documentation and Wiki.

So, apart from Linux tutorial videos, the Linux content I watch on YouTube is topic discussion.

Are there channels that are not overly technical, where everything is programming and data structures, but also not overly entertainment-oriented, like “ten iPhone features you cannot miss!”?

This kind of YouTuber is relatively rare in Taiwan. If you mean someone who specializes in Linux, there is basically not even half of one. So the people discussed here are all European and American YouTubers. Their videos are about Linux and FOSS topics 90% of the time. Not a single Taiwanese 3C YouTuber really suits my taste. I only watch them occasionally when I need to see a computer review, but their style is not strong enough to make me want to subscribe. I guess the reason is that the “Linux and Free Software” topics I want to watch are too niche. I really wish Taiwan had 3C YouTubers who talk about Linux and FOSS topics. Maybe we can see whether Bird Brother is willing to change careers in the future XD Instead, the space is full of mass-market influencers like Shaanxi Daren. There are not many whose videos have real substance without falling into traffic hype. Huan and Jing are very professional, but too hardware-oriented, while A-Zhe focuses on hyping phones. Even in China, there do not seem to be many uploaders in this area. Based on my past experience playing around on Bilibili, they do exist if you insist on finding them. Because China has so many people, even niche topics can get a certain number of views. But their subscriber counts have a hard time comparing with large uploaders, so naturally it is hard for them to be recommended by the algorithm.

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Recommending Some Tech YouTubers Who Specialize in Linux and FOSS Topics