Best argument for using Windows I’ve ever encountered tbh
Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"
Submitted 5 hours ago by Khuda@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.xda-developers.com/pewdiepie-install-linux-tortured-by-windows/
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ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 hours 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 3 hours ago
I’ve you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 1 hour ago
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 hours ago
Lutris, my beloved.
dumnezo@lemm.ee 3 hours ago
Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
Go ahead. It’s time.
Damage@feddit.it 2 hours ago
I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 2 hours 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.
Guidy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
Bezier@suppo.fi 5 hours ago
eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he’ll be the “spokesman” to anyone else.
kameecoding@lemmy.world 28 minutes ago
huge as heil
FTFY
mitram2@lemm.ee 5 hours ago
What’s his issue?
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
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.
workerONE@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
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…
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
lmuel@sopuli.xyz 4 hours 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.
Mirodir@discuss.tchncs.de 4 hours ago
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.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website 16 minutes ago
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.
muhyb@programming.dev 3 hours ago
Compiz flashbacks from late 2000s.
Vanth@reddthat.com 4 hours 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.
oce@jlai.lu 4 hours ago
She uses a rowling disease distro.
victorz@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Bravo. 👊
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 4 hours ago
Keep my distro’s name out of your damn mouth!
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 2 hours 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.
lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Again elitist Linuxer. 🙄
The guy has over 100 million subscribers on YT, and has been hugely popular for 15 years.
Endorsement from such figures could get us closer to the mythical year of Linux. Why shun it…
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 50 minutes ago
….what? lol
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
He’s a famous youtuber with countless follower. Who are you?
yournamehere@lemm.ee 2 hours 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.
mrsingh@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
Which distro he’s using
rtxn@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Mint on one vomputer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
coherent_domain@infosec.pub 5 hours ago
mint
DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 5 hours ago
I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.
Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?
GoodEye8@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
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.
kepix@lemmy.world 11 minutes ago
generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux
IllNess@infosec.pub 1 hour ago
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.
boonhet@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
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.
Bieren@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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.