Submitted 2 weeks ago by Khuda@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/pewdiepie-install-linux-tortured-by-windows/
I’m not a tech guy
Yeah I think he’s a tech guy…he just doesn’t know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).
Wouldn’t be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol
I mean, he’s a retired guy with new hobby, it wouldn’t seem too out of the question that he spent a good chunk of time following tutorials for things that have plenty of tutorials out there.
By saying he’s not a tech guy probably just means he’s not a programmer. But with how he’s done everything he definitely has the chops to be one.
I also don’t think he paid anyone. I’m not even a fan of his so I’m not blindly defending him. From the video alone he just seems like a guy that really likes to tinker with things. And those are the kind of people that Linux, especially arch, really latches onto.
I remember when he played minecraft and made a redstone contraption to auto-feed villagers or something. He started by saying that he wasn’t good at redstone and proceeds to show something so complex that I would have to follow a tutorial to make it.
He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.
Yes but he’s obviously far more qualified. LTT was trying to give real-world impressions of someone with a technical mind but also zero experience with Linux. Yes, he did something dumb and was clearly not paying attention, but also he never should have been put in that position in the first place.
Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
Oh my God, a bash script. My kids were doing those when they were still in middle school. Only one of the three went into a technical career.
If he’s like really into it why use neofetch? Why not fastfetch or something? I like Crabfetch myself because Rust even though I’m not a programmer.
Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?
He still has the 10th most subscribed channel on Youtube, him endorsing Linux is huge due to the reach he has. His video has 3.2 million views, other content creators are making their reaction videos to his video. You don’t have to like him to see how big this is for Linux.
I honestly think a lot less if Linux at this point… Not because of him, but because of comments like this, and the upvotes they have.
Fuck Linux.
Frim what I know, pewdiepie 2025 is nothing like old pewdiepie. Used to review memes, not makes vlogs with his wife and kid while enjoying new life in Japan.
Jason he done any pro gamer moves lately?
This guy has a major following. He could be the next world leader because of brain rotted voters. I have seen kids obsessed this guy, like he could do no wrong. Now those kids are adults. That is pretty difficult to ignore for me.
I’d take him over Trump if those were the choices in an election I had a say in tbh.
Wouldn’t take him over someone with experience and sane policies, but definitely better than the MAGA folks.
generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux
We shouldn’t give a shit about any social media influencer or celebrity or whatever’s opinion. Cool that he is promoting the change to Linux. And at least he uses a computer. But yeah, fuck em.
Yes, absolutely yes
No, fuck this guy.
If you’re a boomer, no
First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux
And Ja Rule
WHERE IS JA?
Ik ur being sarcastic but if i were someone who worked on linux id be pretty proud
“If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. Except convincing people you have a brain"
Good point. We peasents don’t even know what love is, let alone Linux.
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he’ll be the “spokesman” to anyone else.
huge as heil
FTFY
What’s his issue?
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says “death to all Jews” www.vox.com/…/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn’t intentional when he said of another player “what a ni–er” businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-us…
The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don’t know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.
There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.
Ditto
I’ve never watched any of his videos. They just don’t appeal to me and never have. However, given his apparent fame, it’s good for linux.
The more people acknowledge linux’s existence, the more engagement, the more growth.
Here’s hoping someday Windows will be a nasty memory.
His original shtick when he was the biggest tuber was yelling at his streams.
I don’t think the video was bad and I’m glad desktop Linux is getting a good amount of attention this way.
But… I feel like he didn’t exactly show windows users what really expects them on Mint (which is a very similar but in many ways better and quite easy experience). This might be off putting to some unconvinced Windows users.
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
I would not underestimate how much of a draw “it looks cool” can have on people who are not tech savy at all. If you think about what drives new phone purchases, their major version upgrades always include lots of things that are nothing but eye-candy and those are often heavily featured in their promotion material.
If the goal is to get casual users to convert to Linux, I would argue that aesthetics is a lot more important than ANY talk about technical details, privacy, etc. If those users cared about those things, they would’ve switched already.
Now my bigger worry is that those users will bounce off before they manage to get their setup to look as (subjectively) cool as his.
Compiz flashbacks from late 2000s.
Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
What got me back into Linux was seeing the unixporn screenshots on image boards. Chrome pulls people in.
I’ll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.
Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol
Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.
Broken clocks are still right twice a day.
Why is everybody hating on him ?
I DON’T CARE WHAT THIS NAZI BURNOUT THINKS
It is actually a competitor. Mean Microsoft have to improve if they want to keep the users. With the Windows 10 EOL soon they will give up on those users on those computers. Basically forcing anyone else to take care of them - Linux stands there welcome. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.
My windows partition forced me to do an update which has now broken the start menu and right clicking on pinned icons. Thanks Microsoft. Great job.
I really can’t wait to be rid of it completely but unfortunately the building and construction industry is addicted to torture and refuses to move on from Autodesk.
OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.
Best argument for using Windows I’ve ever encountered tbh
Who? Anyways don’t do things because some clowning the interwebs is telling you it’s cool. Read documentation, talk to communities for multiple view points, trial and error. Best of luck.
Which distro he’s using
It’s hilarious of these folks defending this low life. How sad. Don’t give a moment of your life to an awful human being. And stop advertising for them for free. Get paid.
This seals it, I should never use Linux again.
I’m not sure anyone really cares about PewDiePie anymore, let alone what OS he uses.
Wait, this guy is still around and relevant?
But which Linux?
Rather that noobs stay on win tbh. If gnu/Linux become mainstream, the Adobe, MS etc etc will just move onto Linux. Just look at flathub - how many of the top downloaded programs are proprietary? A lot, e.g. Discord and Steam.
This is a genuine concern that I have.
and he bought land in japan. and learned surfing and maybe other things. everytime you mention pewds a microtransaction sends money to an american corpo. and nobody really wants that anymore.
Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop.
victorz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’ve you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Lutris, my beloved.
TheBat@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Deck, actually 🤓
Cenzorrll@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
2009 was the year of the Linux…laptop
dumnezo@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
Go ahead. It’s time.
Damage@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Depends on your personal needs, especially as it pertains to software and peripherals but yeah, absolutely, try a LiveUSB, and make sure it works with yours.
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I too did an install on an old laptop just to check it out. It does throw an overwhelming number of options at you on first start.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 weeks ago
I also installed Bazzite and am missing several things (or at least have to do more research than I’d like to figure them out). Getting my peripherals working, CAD, system backups, pdfs that won’t open from my file server, etc. The more I get into it the more problems I uncover. It has not been the seamless transition that so many make it out to be. It has worked for the games I’ve tried though.
Ulrich@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
The mistake people make is thinking there will be a year. It could be “the decade of the Linux desktop”, and by that I mean that Apple and Microsoft have to consider them a legitimate competitor in the space because they have gained sufficient “marketshare” (if you can call it that).
drmoose@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I used to have my living room gaming pc on windows and switched to linux this year and its awesome. Sunshine/moonlight are two programs that allow you to stream games from your pc to any device and it’s such a game changer!
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Same, my gaming htpc got switched over to bazzite deck this year
gerryflap@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
I’ve switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.
Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn’t start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.
For music production I also got most of my setup working. I’m having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn’t actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we’ll get there. For new projects it’s mostly workable.
Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.
I use Arch by the way :3