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Action Retro gives a rebuilt Touch Bar Mac an Ubuntu life
Sean Malseed's 2018 MacBook Pro gets working Touch Bar controls and a Steam gaming test after one Wi-Fi fix.
In short
On YouTube, Action Retro has 255,000 subscribers and 46,322,717 views in all, as of November 11, 2026. In the last 7 days it gained 305,012 views. Its most watched video of the last 30 days is "So I was in the hospital...", with 207,905 views. By YouTube subscribers it is No. 4,273 of the 5,393 channels on Trari, and No. 133 of 163 in category "Technology reviews and gadgets".
YouTube: The numbers today
subscribers
255,000
no significant change in the last 7 days
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,000 in the last 30 days
total views
46,322,717
▲ 305,012 in the last 7 days
▲ 1,208,210 in the last 30 days
▲ 1,208,210 in the last 30 days
views a day (current pace)
27,397
on a typical day: 39,432
Videos on the channel
428
1 uploaded in the last 7 days
Last upload
6 days ago
November 5, 2026
Views per subscriber
181
a new long video usually gets 109,295 views
a new short video usually gets 5,229 views
a new short video usually gets 5,229 views
Next milestone
500,000 subscribers
245,000 subscribers to go
YouTube: What happened lately
November 7, 2026 3.1x the channel's usual pace The whole channel ran that day at 106,369 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (34,538).
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.
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.
The video drawing the most views now
Installing Linux on a Touch Bar Mac (is EASY now!)
- Video published
- November 5, 2026
- Video views so far
- 144,643
- Video views, pace per day
- 6,283
- Views on its first day
- 75,778
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YouTube: Position on Trari and in the category
| Among all channels on Trari | In the category Technology reviews and gadgets | |
|---|---|---|
| By subscribers | 4,273 of 5,393 | 133 of 163 |
| By views gained this week | 3,835 of 5,274 | 120 of 163 |
| By views gained in the last 30 days | 3,816 of 5,043 | 128 of 163 |
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
Subscribers in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
Views gained this week in the category Technology reviews and gadgets
YouTube: Subscribers, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 254,000 subscribers → November 11, 2026: 255,000 subscribers
YouTube: Total views, last 30 days
October 13, 2026: 45,132,291 views → November 11, 2026: 46,322,717 views · average: 41,049 views a day
YouTube: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Installing Linux on a Touch Bar Mac (is EASY now!) | November 5, 2026 | 9:42 | 144,643 | 6,283 | 75,778 | 3,768 | 344 |
 When BeOS and Linux Collide... | October 25, 2026 | 12:46 | 94,068 | 273 | 66,843 | 3,672 | 237 |
 You Should Really Try MX LINUX | October 21, 2026 | 9:00 | 147,531 | 203 | 84,081 | 5,587 | 493 |
 So I was in the hospital... | October 19, 2026 | 5:43 | 207,905 | 103 | 124,550 | 12,298 | 2,177 |
 The New Haiku is Wonderful | September 30, 2026 | 8:23 | 138,234 | 173 | - | 4,849 | 377 |
 This Tiny 90's Macintosh Really Works | September 28, 2026 | 8:03 | 155,054 | 73 | - | 4,877 | 216 |
 Installing Haiku Beta 6 Until I Explode | August 31, 2026 | 15:39 | 124,522 | 53 | - | 4,608 | 475 |
 A Sound from 1939 You Haven’t Heard Before | August 18, 2026 | 0:20 short | 6,086 | 4 | - | 159 | 21 |
 PART 3: A Sound from 1939 You’ve Never Heard Before | August 18, 2026 | 0:04 short | 14,889 | 2 | - | 114 | 17 |
 PART 2: Sound from 1939 You’ve Never Heard Before | August 18, 2026 | 0:13 short | 4,373 | 2 | - | 67 | 4 |
 PART 4: a sound from 1939 you’ve never heard before | August 18, 2026 | 0:14 short | 4,288 | 3 | - | 70 | 10 |
 Mac OS 7... on x86?! | July 25, 2026 | 13:31 | 47,922 | 38 | - | 3,286 | 442 |
 Haiku Has Been Accelerated | July 11, 2026 | 12:50 | 84,276 | 116 | - | 4,946 | 448 |
 Vibe Coding 1980's Software | July 6, 2026 | 16:56 | 55,450 | 47 | - | 3,770 | 551 |
 The Hackable Pine64 SmartWatch | June 29, 2026 | 13:50 | 32,918 | 37 | - | 2,313 | 170 |
Audience engagement
- likes per 1,000 views
- 43.1 in the category: 23.3
- comments per 1,000 views
- 4.7 in the category: 1.3
- short vs long
- 4 short (up to 3 minutes), 11 long
average views per short video: 7,409
average views per long video: 112,047
YouTube: 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 |
YouTube: 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 |
YouTube: What happened on the channel in the last 30 days
The days when the channel's numbers left the ordinary.
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 106,369 views a day, 3.1 times a normal day (34,538).
- Views jumpThe whole channel ran that day at 321,340 views a day, 14 times a normal day (22,398).Read the story
Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube
Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.
Stories
This week on the channel +288K views this week
Action Retro gives a rebuilt Touch Bar Mac an Ubuntu life
Sean Malseed's 2018 MacBook Pro gets working Touch Bar controls and a Steam gaming test after one Wi-Fi fix.
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.
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.