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PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) (www.youtube.com)
submitted 22 hours ago by TRex91@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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?

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[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 15 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 4 hours 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.

[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 15 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Installing Linux was a good decision.

I have not gone back to Microsoft Windows.

Don't listen to people telling you it's hard. I don't have an IT degree or engineering degree. Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.

[–] gnygnygny@lemm.ee 1 points 28 minutes ago

If you don't use many devices it's fine.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] superkret@feddit.org 6 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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 different screws instead.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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?

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

My wife is an Apple fangirl. :) She has the watch too!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Linux = Freedom, customizability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???

[–] Nyticus@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

Why should we care what a multi-million dollar youtuber uses for an OS? He can afford to build computers for each OS at their highest specs in his range. I'm not going to be brow-beaten by this chump either.

[–] sparkosthenes@lemm.ee 9 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (4 children)

That's not what Linux is at all. One of the main advantages of Linux is it can run on bad PCs, look up Raspberri Pis that have 4GB RAM and function flawlessly with Linux(I have one).

It can literally resurrect 10 year old computers.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It can literally resurrect 10 year old computers.

I've got a 14-year-old Toshiba that I used in college that runs a weird variant of Ubuntu called Kumander (it's designed specifically to look and feel like Windows 7, which I think is properly nostalgic for the hardware). As long as you don't expect the battery to last more than an hour (which about par for the course for a laptop from then) it's perfectly serviceable as a SOHO-type machine.

Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.

When I was at school they reckoned that I should be in the gifted program so I ended up getting one of the first laptops. This would have been in the very early 1990s and the thing weighed as much as a small whale and was built like a brick. I absolutely used it as a weapon.

It had a grayscale backlit LCD screen. It was seriously a terrible laptop really. It had an interesting mode on it where you could transfer files from it to another computer by plugging it in via a PS2 port, and it would declare itself to be a keyboard and it would just "type" whatever you'd written (of course you lost all formatting). Bit of a useless feature these days but it would have been a godsend back in the early 2000s when transferring files was still quite difficult.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 hours ago

Mint runs fine on a very old 1GB netbook I recently unearthed.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but you can also run Windows on the modern Raspberry Pi's.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Bro I know computers with 4GB RAM running Win 11 just fine

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 2 points 4 hours ago

I've seen Windows 10 run on computers with 8 GB of RAM. I can't imagine 11 running on just 4 though.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

Brother, at that point just put the computer down. Let it go to heaven.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

Same reason we have to care about literally anything Trump does or says: he's influential. Just in this case, it's a good influence.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 3 hours ago

That's the point. Guy can choose to get any pc he wants and any OS and chooses to go for Arch Linux and Linux Mint. He will probably start a big movement too.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

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

[–] Arose8334@lemm.ee 4 points 3 hours ago

This might have been partly true 10 years ago. A large majority of his audience is probably adult now.

[–] tengkuizdihar@programming.dev 3 points 2 hours 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.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip -1 points 17 hours 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.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world -3 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

Nazi YouTubers fuck off.

[–] sparkosthenes@lemm.ee 23 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 hours ago

It's long past being meaningless at this point.

[–] vzq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

We reserve it for the “hitler 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 just to be edgy you’re still a goat fucker.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de -3 points 7 hours ago

Cant imagine there are mature minded people that use Lemmy

[–] Zeoic@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (3 children)

What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 21 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 4 hours ago

I didn't know about any of this. I don't like him for completely different reasons and I suspect a lot of people will be like that.

Wasn't he big into that whole CS go gambling thing? I actually can't remember when that was that might have been pre-2017

[–] winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 20 hours 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

[–] PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz -1 points 19 hours 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