Submitted 5 weeks ago by TRex91@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0
PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?
Installing Linux was one of the best decisions of my life.
I have not gone back to Windows.
Don’t listen to people telling you it’s hard. I don’t have a computer science degree or engineering degree. Linux works just fine.
If you don’t use many devices it’s fine.
Or rely on software that is not available in Linux and can’t be emulated, which unfortunately applies to both my work and personal use
What do you mean? I’ve never had any issues with multiple devices. They’re… Just different devices.
I have 2 servers, 6 containers, a raspi, a desktop, and a laptop all running linux just fine. My two phones send notification updates to my laptop via kde connect
I have lots of devices on linux and they all play nice together
Currently the bar to installing it is in the tech savvy area. If you have enough knowledge about computers to be a gamer you can be a linux user. Of course if you have to ask your SO or child for help with a computer, its not for you but tbh windows is also too complicated for some people. Once you have it installed, someone with 0 computer knowledge will find mint easier than windows for example.
Nazi YouTubers fuck off.
Can we reserve that word for actual Nazis that want to commit genocide, not edgy 15-year old like personalities?
What he did with the sign was arguably very cringe, but it’s pathetic to compare that to someone who actually believes X group of people deserve to die.
If we label everyone a Nazi, the word means nothing and when actual Nazis show up(they are) we’re fucked.
It’s long past being meaningless at this point.
PewDiePie is the most basic kind of cryptofascist hiding behind a veil of edgy humour and he should not be welcome in the open source community
We reserve it for the “hottie did nothing wrong” crowd.
I don’t care if it’s edgy or ironic or earnest because I have no way to know that. Also, if you fuck goats ti be edgy you’re still a goat fucker.
Cant imagine there are mature minded people that use Lemmy
nah
What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.
So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don’t know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.
I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul’s disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don’t know what happened afterwards because I’m really not in that bubble but I don’t think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.
He said the n word a few (maybe even several, by now) years ago. Idk if that makes him a nazi but maybe he did something else I haven’t heard of
You will find two major incidents. The bridge incident where he said the n-word in PUBG and a edgy joke where he tried to see how far Fiverr creators would go and asked for a video of people to write “Hitler did nothing wrong” on a sign. He apologized and condemned the behavior for both.
I can see some ytbers be nazis, but not him. I know he said the n word, and even if he maybe had some alt right or similar views back in the day, but he is a genuinely good ytber nowadays imo
I admire the perpetual Linux optimism but man if I could make money betting against you I would (I’d feel a little evil about it, but I need the cash).
When corporate slop all around us is continuing to thrive despite lower and lower quality products and receiving government support now too, to think the big money makers will somehow lose traction in a meaningful way to open source enthusiasm is niave imo.
I’m not even sure Taylor swift could make Linux happen this year, nevermind this racist dirt bag.
I feel like the GUI’S and user experience have barely changed in the last ten years since I started using linux. You still need to use the terminal for basic things like installing WiFi drivers when your distro didn’t automarically install it and smooth scrolling on a trackpad has been garbage for years.
I feel like need to fiddle to install basic drivers on a 2012 macbook air is kinda unacceptable in this day and age. I had to pull put a USB Ethernet jack and go through three updates and restarts for the drivers to finally pop up. I like tinkering so I don’t mind, but a regular person with basic computer skills would have no clue what to do.
Your laptop may be 13 years old, but Apple is notorious for their walled garden and surely never officially supported Linux on it, or did they? So it’s probably the worst example.
NO MY WALLED GARDEN ANTI CONSUMER OVERPRICED APPLE PRODUCT DOESNT HAVE WIFI DRIVERS THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE NERDS THAT FIGHT FOR TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENCE OF BIG COMPANIES LIKE THE ONE I DECIDED TO INVEST IN WAH WAH
It definitely won’t happen as long as the corporate world is slaved to Microsoft. We actually have a few Linux computers on our domain at work and they’re a pain to administer as are the four Macs that we have.
Maybe, but you may as well try. Computers are going to be a core tool for humanity for a long time so we should be able to own them.
Bruh, my username checks out. Admittedly not my daily driver, but run off a bootable every once in awhile.
I have, we’re a multi-OS houshold. Linux, Steam Deck, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android.
Different tools for different purposes. You wouldn’t have just one kind of screwdriver, right?
No.
But if I only need a specific screwdriver cause none other fit these screws, it costs $200 and plays ads while I hold it, then I’ll use alternative screws instead.
I get having Linux and Windows, after all you need a backup solution for when you can’t use Linux. But why do you also have a Mac?
Then I guess iOS makes sense if you have a Mac, but why also have Android?
Linux = Freedom, customizability, usability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???
My wife is an Apple fangirl. :) She has the watch too!
If he’s doing it I’m inclined not to do it.
His followers aren’t exactly tech savvy so I’m not entirely sure this is going to have much of an effect. Most of his followers are kids who don’t even own computers they just have iPads
lets just say his audience isn’t tech savy. But somehow they try Linux and like it. I think its definitely a win, because even non tech savvy can enjoy Linux.
This might have been partly true 10 years ago. A large majority of his audience is probably adult now.
Most of Félix’s followers are the ones that grew up with him. Those are well in their 30s now. He doesn’t make kids content anymore.
You’re just hating for the hate. He’s made videos on stoicism, mental awareness, physical health and training. The times of “it’s peeeeeeeewdiepieee” are long gone and over, that’s what you’re still remembering.
I was thinking he’s not tech savvy, so he’s doing it for the view. I’ve noticed he’s been trying to come back on the YouTube scene, he’s been largely supplanted by other YouTuber over the years he was gone
Now I really don’t want to install Linux.
Yeah and hitler used windows
The amount of people crying about pewds is insane
Yeah why do people have such strong views against it?
Also Linux is a great anti tech giant alternative.
That’s 22 minutes of my life. I’ll never get back. But at least it’s interesting that somebody that popular has decided to go to Linux. On second thought, it wasn’t 22 minutes. It was probably more like 10 because I always use 1.5 or 1.75x speed.
Bro, shut the fuck up😊 Nobody cares.
PewDiePie? Is that really the guy’s name? Is that Slavic or something?
His name is Felix, PewDiePie is just his yt handle.
What is the point of this comment? If you have nothing to say just dont say it.
Woe is the day that I decide to take computer advice from a twitch streamer…
I have to bam communities on the daily, just so I can go one day on Lemmy, just one day, where Linux isn’t shoved down my throat to the point where I don’t wanna hear it anymore
If that’s what you want, I feel like this community would be one of the first you’d ban - instead of participating in the comments.
It’s called technology not Linux, I already blocked all the dozens of Linux communities, but the infection keeps spreading
astro_plane@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
You know he’s a Linux user because he let everyone know he uses Linux without being asked.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I use arch btw
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 5 weeks ago
He was asked tho, he built a pc and installed linux on it without mentioning it and people started asking about it.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 5 weeks ago
That’s how we know he isn’t a Tool fan.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As a Tool fan I can tell you that you are correct.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Cool. I use Linux too, by the way.