He even has a fave distro now.
  • Mio@feddit.nuEnglish
    9·
    3 hours 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.

    • dzsimbo@lemm.eeEnglish
      22·
      3 hours ago

      Yeah, but providing that push at the wrong time… Maybe I just presented it the wrong way. I think there was some snootiness to how I advocated it. Like I knew more than them, which might be the case… but it’s still alienating.

      Maybe we can wait until they ask.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      403·
      5 hours ago

      From what I know, pewdiepie 2025 is nothing like old pewdiepie. Used to review memes, now makes vlogs with his wife and kid while enjoying new life in Japan. Basically retired

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      1405·
      7 hours 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.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      483·
      7 hours 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.eeEnglish
        302·
        7 hours 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.

          • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
            13·
            6 hours ago

            I’m not American either. It was an extremely hypothetical scenario.

          • Blinsane@reddthat.comEnglish
            79·
            4 hours ago

            Swedes who move to Japan are in my experience pretty damn far-right leaning (as in, wants to be able to wear their SS cosplay uniform and wear swastika pins in public). Got bad vibes from Pewdiepie the moment he moved from Sweden to the UK for “better internet”. At the time Sweden had way larger fibre coverage than the UK. Dude just wanted to avoid taxes.

            • TacticalCheddar@lemm.eeEnglish
              8·
              2 hours ago

              Swedes who move to Japan are in my experience pretty damn far-right leaning (as in, wants to be able to wear their SS cosplay uniform and wear swastika pins in public).

              Ok, this is frankly racist and immensely stupid. If you are going to judge him, do it based on his character. You have plenty of things to criticize about him, but him moving to Japan is not an issue. Jesus…

              • Blinsane@reddthat.comEnglish
                23·
                1 hour ago

                Racist? To whom? Swedes like me? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. And I know for a fact that not a single eyebrow in Japan is raised over Nazi “cosplay”. By “In my experience” I meant that I’ve known several of my fellow swedes turn Nazi and move to Japan because they’re not judged for xenophobia there (something you’d know if you had ever been). They still visit the embassy to vote for the Nazi party every election of course.

    • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      141·
      6 hours ago

      generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux

    • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
      113·
      7 hours 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.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1161·
    9 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?

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      12·
      3 hours 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) and OEMs have begun offering it as a discounted option across the board.

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      4 hours 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!

    • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      5 hours 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

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      69·
      9 hours ago

      If you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨

    • bananamuffinsurprise@lemm.eeEnglish
      252·
      9 hours ago

      Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.

      Go ahead. It’s time.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        27 minutes 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.orgEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Depends on your personal needs, especially as it pertains to software and peripherals. Like I have a commercial printer at my workplace that has no Linux drivers, but yeah, absolutely, try a LiveUSB, and make sure it works with yours.

        • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
          51·
          7 hours ago

          Don’t know about your workflow but have you tried FreeCAD? It surely won’t be like Solidworks, but might work for you.

          • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
            7·
            5 hours ago

            I’ve been… Struggling with FreeCAD for a while. I really want to support it, you know, open source and all, but it’s really rough. Something that takes 10 minutes in SOLIDWORKS takes at least one hour in FreeCAD, not accounting for crashes, and complexity increases time exponentially.
            Importing and placing .step files is rather difficult, big assemblies tend to degenerate despite careful binding; I try to bind to the origin as much as possible, often sacrificing adaptability, but it still gets messed up after a while.

            • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
              1·
              23 minutes ago

              I’ve tried FreeCad on several systems and have yet to get it to run well enough to even attempt to use it. It either crashes constantly or just runs like ass.

            • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              1·
              3 hours ago

              Have you tried it since 1.0? It’s pretty ok.

              What keeps me from making the switch is music-making. None of my plugins run on Linux and sound drivers supposedly are a huge mess.

            • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
              2·
              4 hours ago

              I see. Well, at least you’ve tried. In this case, you either need a VM or dual boot at worst. It’s getting loosing up but professional programs will continue to be a pain for a while. Usually we get paid software alternatives rather than their Linux versions though. I hope EU can break this and these corporations get big customers who use Linux, so they end up making a Linux version as well. Otherwise we’ll need another good alternative to pop up or FOSS projects getting big donations like Godot had.

              • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
                2·
                4 hours ago

                I do keep trying, but I miss what I’m used to. I’ve tried a VM but it’s too slow, and I fought with GPU Passthrough but gave up. I do hope the whole Trump situation pushes the EU to support Linux more, but I’m not holding my breath.

                • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
                  1·
                  3 hours ago

                  They’re late to the party but better late than never. Unless something happens radically, I don’t see these issues will be fixed until the next Windows version at least. Dual boot it is until then. I wish people noticed this before Trump.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 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.

  • lmuel@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    543·
    10 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.deEnglish
      583·
      10 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.

    • Noxy@pawb.socialEnglish
      49·
      5 hours ago

      he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor

  • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7559·
    11 hours ago

    Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.

    • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
      756·
      11 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.

      • nekbardrun@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        1 hour ago

        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:

        https://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.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9223·
        10 hours ago

        His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 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 and are still trying to crucify him.

        Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.

        Personally I don’t feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus “Yes, do as I say!” Sebastian presented.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          6 hours ago

          Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag

          • KumaSudosa@feddit.dkEnglish
            3·
            4 hours ago

            Not really, no. Today the aversion to it has been imported, but not 15 years ago. Of course when you use it in English you know it’s a significantly worse word but you also don’t have the cultural bagage to know entirely what it entails. From what I gather, Felix has improved upon his ways in many ways and isn’t much of an “edgelord” anymore.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            4 hours ago

            Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
          264·
          10 hours ago

          Because of his “edgy”, shitty provocative humour and how high profile he was, he’s generally considered one of the horsemen of the adpocalypse.

          He did one too many nazi joke, articles were written, and suddenly all content creators had it a lot harder to get ad revenue, because announcers were all like “associating with youtube creators will ruin our brand”.

          Pewdiepie may not be the only factor, but he was certainly a big one.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          420·
          6 hours ago

          Edit: missed the context. This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

          Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.

          Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.

          Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.

          His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.

          Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.

          At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            4 hours ago

            This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

            Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie’s video about Linux to LTT’s Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many “tech” entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don’t.

            • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
              1·
              2 hours ago

              I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can’t tell what’s going on anymore

          • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
            17·
            8 hours ago

            Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            283·
            9 hours ago

            Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
    622·
    8 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.

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    1342·
    8 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.

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    4451·
    11 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.