I DON’T CARE WHAT THIS NAZI BURNOUT THINKS
Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"
Submitted 11 months ago by Khuda@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/pewdiepie-install-linux-tortured-by-windows/
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BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 11 months ago
Why is everybody hating on him ?
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Maybe because he’s a bell-end? Fucking alt-right-adjacent edgelord. His opinion is worthless to me.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I hate him because he’s popular.
Otherwise I don’t really know anything about him.
easily3667@lemmus.org 11 months ago
He’s a huge cock and he shouldn’t have a following.
sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Typical lemmy dumbassery. This behaviour is so fucking boring that the people still acting this way must be children that have a 1-bit processor acting as their brain.
driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 11 months ago
The PewDiePipeline: How racist humor leads to violence.
I’m case you have 30min to spare
HereIAm@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s had some controversial things. In 2017 he said the n-word while live streaming a game. The other big one I know of is he made a video where he showed he has paid one of those fiverr groups of Indian children to hold up a sign that said “death to all Jews”. Pewdiepie didn’t think they would actually do it.
They are really not great situations, and the second one I mentioned he should have realised was a bad idea and not done at all. Back in that 2017 era he positioned himself as an edgier meme YouTube, but he has since apologized and vastly changed his content, and i personally believe he’s a very changed person from a decade ago. But the stigma has stuck around.
Airstrike99@lemm.ee 11 months ago
*Bangladeshi children
zymagoras777@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Not every country finds saying n word offensive and not American.
Allah@lemm.ee 11 months ago
echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Wait, this guy is still around and relevant?
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
[deleted]megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.
The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.
Croquette@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t watch the guy and even I know this is bullshit. Instead of saying dumb things, just say nothing.
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
This seals it, I should never use Linux again.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 11 months ago
I’m not sure anyone really cares about PewDiePie anymore, let alone what OS he uses.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
hes trying to come back as youtuber, eventhough he “retired”, (due to being supportive of nazis)
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 11 months ago
The people who care have always done so. They’re just 25 now. This is relevant to his target audience.
redwattlebird@lemmings.world 11 months ago
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.
Mio@feddit.nu 11 months ago
Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
I’m not a tech guy
- Installs Arch
- Installs Hyperland
- Makes custom animated ASCII art for NeoFetch
- Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
- Creates a completely custom reactor-themed desktop
Yeah I think he’s a tech guy…he just doesn’t know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).
futatorius@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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.
sheogorath@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.
Ulrich@feddit.org 11 months ago
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.
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
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.
CalipherJones@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wouldn’t be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol
Carrot@lemmy.today 11 months ago
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.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
His original shtick when he was the biggest tuber was yelling at his streams.
ytg@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Seems like he’s trying coming back to relevancy because the money was too good back then, can’t do much in Japan outside of vlogging about living there.
Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Multi millionaire that doesnt have millionaire hobbies can easily live till death without working a single day. Maybe the next 2 generations can live off his money if he already owns a house.
wildcardology@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He’s worth $45m him and his family will live a comfortable life in Japan without YouTube.
OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
it’s been 8 years man, people change
Ledericas@lemm.ee 11 months ago
But your assuming he changed and not learned how to disguise his behavior better, which he’s doing with his vlogs.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Looking into who this person is and seeing multiple apology video of stuff we evolved from multiple decades ago…… he has much to learn still.
Enceladus_One@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.
jaschen@lemm.ee 11 months ago
More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.
Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.
Amir@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Of course this gets downvoted… Linux shilling is insane
Alaknar@lemm.ee 11 months ago
More stable
Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.
I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.
Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.
Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.
bss03@infosec.pub 11 months ago
Stable mean unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
There are many different ways to define “stable”. Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.
John@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.
To make it simple use something like mission center
lonesomeCat@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Steam said it was running
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
But which Linux?
3laws@lemmy.world 11 months ago
He was and forever will be an rich kid with internet so whatever is the most popular. When he was a teenager that was Mint, now its Arch. Which is why he has Mint and Arch+hyprland.
x0x7@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.
sirico@feddit.uk 11 months ago
The one I use
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 11 months ago
OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.
slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 11 months ago
First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Good point. We peasents don’t even know what love is, let alone Linux.
friendlyghost@lemm.ee 11 months ago
And Ja Rule
the_trash_man@lemmy.world 11 months ago
WHERE IS JA?
bonus_crab@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Ik ur being sarcastic but if i were someone who worked on linux id be pretty proud
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
“If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. Except convincing people you have a brain"
Mio@feddit.nu 11 months ago
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.
figjam@midwest.social 11 months ago
Broken clocks are still right twice a day.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
Best argument for using Windows I’ve ever encountered tbh
yournamehere@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 11 months 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.
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
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.
Vanth@reddthat.com 11 months ago
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.
mrsingh@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Which distro he’s using
Guidy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
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.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
…so? Did everything else vanish because proprietary showed up?
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
No, but we haven’t yet seen the influx of proprietary software on Linux.
Say that Adobe, MS and Autodesk enters this space. You think that gnu/Linux will stay on the path of being Foss or will it become more proprietary and closed? Or will these companies fight and use their influence and money to e.g. push for permanent proprietary code in the kernel?
All speculations of course.
guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
So, nobody should ever try a Linux based OS because large companies may start supporting Linux?
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
No, that’s not what I wrote. But I fear what will happen to the gnu/Linux/Foss community if Linux becomes a land for non-foss. My premise for my concern is that we should fight against non-foss in this space. This is a ideological stands which you may or may not agree with.
moseschrute@lemmy.ml 11 months ago
I don’t daily drive Linux (though I use Tmux and Vim 8 hours a day if that counts for anything) so take this with a grain of salt. Would those companies jumping to Linux really be a problem? Steam is embracing Linux and it seems like it’s legitimized Linux gaming in a way that people never thought was possible. I hate adobe, but how would Photoshop Linux edition prevent you from using open source alternatives?
deczzz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
It wouldn’t but since these software companies (Autodesk as another example) have a monopoly, I doubt that most windows users for some reason would switch to Foss alternatives - thet already have that ability with windows. I fear that Linux basically becomes windows in terms of what software is primarily used, i.e protritary software.
My premise is that Linux and its user space applications should be free software and that the community should fight back against non-foss in this space.