He doesn't need to keep his system working, he can probably pay someone for that. He needs something that will maximize engagement, and a million "I use arch BTW" comments is exactly what he wants.
I don't think that was the goal cause he didn't post like a post, it's a story. Engagement on it is not visible and as far as I'm aware, it doesn't boost anything.
Also Linux would be the last place any influencer would go for engagement farming.
Assuming that's not some default config I just don't know, that's actually a rather competently built config for i3 or similar. If he did that hinself he should manage.
what the other guy said barely scratches the surface. he did so many things, shouting out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites was one of them. he's a pussy too, he always has this plausible deniability shit ready to go. but that only works if you're stupid. you can "accidentally" do nazi shit only so many times before people catch on.
He had a bunch of "Haha, I'm just being a nazi ironically and what even is a nazi, this symbol has lots of other historical usages" incidents, such as paying a foreigner to yell "death to jews" and doing a video where he was wearing a shirt with an iron cross on the collar.
I wonder if he'll make a video (if he hasn't already) on why he chose to switch to Linux; I'm quite interested to hear what made him decide to switch, and I'm also very interested to hear what issues, if any, he encountered along the way.
Definitely a one off thing case here. Last week he was on mint and now on arch with hyprland already. He doesn't upload that much so he's probably experimenting a lot.
It's certainly been gaining some momentum lately. Just within the past year I saw this channel coming out of nowhere with some videos about Linux, this famous animator finally getting rid of Windows and Adobe and also this guy talking about it.