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?
The amount of people crying about pewds is insane
PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)
Submitted 11 months ago by TRex91@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0
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Rin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
lookupgeorgism@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah why do people have such strong views against it?
Also Linux is a great anti tech giant alternative.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
superkret@feddit.org 11 months ago
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.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s called technology not Linux, I already blocked all the dozens of Linux communities, but the infection keeps spreading
Kolanaki@pawb.social 11 months ago
Now I really don’t want to install Linux.
Rin@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yeah and hitler used windows
zapzap@lemmings.world 11 months ago
PewDiePie? Is that really the guy’s name? Is that Slavic or something?
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
What is the point of this comment? If you have nothing to say just dont say it.
baduhai@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
His name is Felix, PewDiePie is just his yt handle.
astro_plane@lemm.ee 11 months ago
You know he’s a Linux user because he let everyone know he uses Linux without being asked.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
He was asked tho, he built a pc and installed linux on it without mentioning it and people started asking about it.
untakenusername@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I use arch btw
Tattorack@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Cool. I use Linux too, by the way.
Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub 11 months ago
That’s how we know he isn’t a Tool fan.
Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As a Tool fan I can tell you that you are correct.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
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
kcweller@feddit.nl 11 months ago
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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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
tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 11 months ago
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.
Arose8334@lemm.ee 11 months ago
This might have been partly true 10 years ago. A large majority of his audience is probably adult now.
dwazou@jlai.lu 11 months ago
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.
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
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.
gnygnygny@lemm.ee 11 months ago
If you don’t use many devices it’s fine.
Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What do you mean? I’ve never had any issues with multiple devices. They’re… Just different devices.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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
Slaxis@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
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
jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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?
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
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?
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
Linux = Freedom, customizability, usability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???
jordanlund@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My wife is an Apple fangirl. :) She has the watch too!
superkret@feddit.org 11 months ago
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.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
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.
Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Bro, shut the fuck up😊 Nobody cares.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
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.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Bruh, my username checks out. Admittedly not my daily driver, but run off a bootable every once in awhile.
astro_plane@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
3laws@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
amorpheus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
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.
vzq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Nazi YouTubers fuck off.
sparkosthenes@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
VerticaGG@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
nah
WormFood@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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
vzq@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
It’s long past being meaningless at this point.
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
Cant imagine there are mature minded people that use Lemmy
PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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
Zeoic@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.
lefixxx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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
Grostleton@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Woe is the day that I decide to take computer advice from a twitch streamer…