Action Retro

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What happened lately

October 23, 2026 14x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 321,340 views a day, 14 times a normal day (22,398). Read the story

Views jump 14x the channel's usual pace

Action Retro tries MX Linux on a 2009 MacBook

A plastic-bodied Apple laptop gets a modern operating system as the retrocomputing channel draws far more views than usual.

Channel: Action Retro · Story of October 23, 2026

This week on the channel +195K views this week

Action Retro's 2001 voice assistant has a CRT connection

A thrift-store device shares the active catalog with Haiku experiments and a tiny working Macintosh.

Channel: Action Retro · Story of October 11, 2026

The video drawing the most views now

You Should Really Try MX LINUX

Video published

October 21, 2026

Video views so far

113,594

Video views, pace per day

15,636

Views on its first day

84,081

Position on Trari and in the category

The ranking by views counts only channels whose weekly number is available.

The channel's share of the category

0.0% of all views the category's channels gained this week

Subscriber growth this week

0.4% on this channel, 0.0% on the category's middle channel

The channel's latest videos

The last 15 videos uploaded to the channel, with today's numbers. Click a video to play it here.

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views	Per day	First day	Likes	Comments
You Should Really Try MX LINUX	October 21, 2026	9:00	113,594	15,636	84,081	4,881	456
So I was in the hospital...	October 19, 2026	5:43	188,370	6,949	124,550	11,697	2,102
The New Haiku is Wonderful	September 30, 2026	8:23	134,337	455	73,257	4,776	385
This Tiny 90's Macintosh Really Works	September 28, 2026	8:03	150,211	542	80,410	4,785	211
Installing Haiku Beta 6 Until I Explode	August 31, 2026	15:39	122,722	161	-	4,574	477
A Sound from 1939 You Haven’t Heard Before	August 18, 2026	0:20 short	5,885	19	-	156	21
PART 3: A Sound from 1939 You’ve Never Heard Before	August 18, 2026	0:04 short	14,798	7	-	113	17
PART 2: Sound from 1939 You’ve Never Heard Before	August 18, 2026	0:13 short	4,297	8	-	64	4
PART 4: a sound from 1939 you’ve never heard before	August 18, 2026	0:14 short	4,235	5	-	69	10
Mac OS 7... on x86?!	July 25, 2026	13:31	46,995	82	-	3,268	447
Haiku Has Been Accelerated	July 11, 2026	12:50	82,748	82	-	4,928	448
Vibe Coding 1980's Software	July 6, 2026	16:56	54,057	82	-	3,753	548
The Hackable Pine64 SmartWatch	June 29, 2026	13:50	32,142	44	-	2,311	170
The New RayNeo Air 4 Pro #Sponsored	June 25, 2026	0:48 short	20,544	25	-	248	15
We Have VR at Home… #sponsored	June 24, 2026	13:33	25,935	13	-	1,411	265

Audience engagement

likes per 1,000 views

47.0 in the category: 24.1

comments per 1,000 views

5.6 in the category: 1.2

short vs long

5 short (up to 3 minutes), 10 long
average views per short video: 9,951
average views per long video: 95,111

Most watched videos (not Shorts)

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
Tiny Core Linux is Basically Magic	February 1, 2025	14:23	1,127,079
Modern Ubuntu is KILLER on old Intel Macs!	July 8, 2023	18:37	1,036,681
The New Ubuntu on Mac is EXCELLENT	November 1, 2025	12:01	646,207
Installing Linux on Apple's Stupid Trashcan	September 9, 2023	14:36	579,681
Installing Linux, But Smol 🥹	March 30, 2024	14:30	554,723

Most watched Shorts

Video	Uploaded	Length	Views
When you forget the BIOS key	February 2, 2024	0:11	4,646,879
Exploding capacitor 🎉	February 2, 2025	0:08	1,836,850
30 Floppy Disk RAID	July 9, 2025	0:30	866,383
Here's Why Tiny Core Linux is So Good	July 3, 2025	0:48	352,684
A totally normal USB device	October 27, 2025	0:14	227,893

What happened on the channel in the last 30 days

The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.

1. October 23, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 321,340 views a day, 14 times a normal day (22,398).Read the story
2. October 3, 2026Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 134,660 views a day, 4 times a normal day (33,396).