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[–] [email protected] 153 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

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.

He seems to be a guy that really likes to tinker with things. And those are the kind of people that Linux, especially arch, really latches onto.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

He has a degree in industrial engineering according to Wikipedia, logical thinking should come naturally to him. My high school decades ago teaches logic gates for it's computer literacy curriculum. He might not be a programmer, but probably has exposure to these topics in general education.

I mean no offence to you. But education departments these days assume "kids have phones and iPads and must be computer geniuses" and stop teaching general computer courses. That's a problem.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 4 days ago (9 children)

First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I hear Hannah Montana is a fan.

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (28 children)

And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?

[–] [email protected] 125 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (10 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Why is everybody hating on him ?

[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

*Bangladeshi children

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 86 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Should we really care about that guy's opinion?

[–] [email protected] 213 points 4 days ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 days ago (13 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

original jokeLink

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 85 points 4 days ago (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (11 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days 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.

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