PewDiePie goes full Linux! Year of the Linux desktop!
PewDiePie goes full Linux! Year of the Linux desktop!
The intro is great. He's got all the Linux meme's nailed
This guy just walks fresh onto the scene and starts dropping better observational comedy than I see from people with 20+ years of experience on both platforms.
IKR? My favorite part was:
Little baby windows "are owu sure you want to dewete candy crush?"
Linux: hands you a gun "Do it. You are god" Eldridge horror sounds
I expected it to be a silly video with lots of misinfo but he's just spitting for 20 minutes straight, really pleasantly surprised.
Yeah. I thought it would be a superficial video too at first but dude has drunk the koolaid and is several kilometers down the rabbit hole.
I'd like to preemptively direct prospective commenters' attention to rule 6 about public figures.
For the lazy
6> . (NEW!) Regarding public figures
We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations.
Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement. We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated. Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed.
Sure, we’ll all just ignore the fact that Tux tried to circumvent totally legitimate and logical tariffs because of rule 6.
Okay, buh-bye c/linuxmemes 😘
And nothing of value was lost
Can’t stand YouTubers but he isn’t wrong.
he was the most subscribed one for a reason
That’s like saying Fox is the number one news channel. There’s truth to that because they are number one in broadcasting…. Not cable, not satellite, not OTT, not internet. That viewership was only 2+ million. Number one doesn’t mean anything, except there could be a social problem. So what he was number one of the size of a small country. What does the rest of the world have to say about that? Makes you wonder….. at least should.
Haha! I started watching one Pewdiepie video, I dunno, five-or-ten years ago or something, and as soon as I started the video he started screaming. I turned it off and never went back.
You would be surprised to see the contrast lol. His videos these days are pretty chill and mostly just family vlogs around Japan.
Just because he's still got a big audience, I do wonder if we'll see any noticeable bumps in the number of linux users.
Probably gonna be temporary, but still makes me curious
Some people are going to bounce off, but this kind of publicity for linux from the once most subscribed youtube channel is great. Most videos about linux don't exactly fit the recommendation bill for a lot of Youtube viewers. Also not to mention that he emphasizes that he is "not a tech guy". And to add to that, his channel is a primarily gaming channel meaning people will not write linux off thinking it can't play any games.
If nothing else, I bet a good chunk of people will be crediting this video as the reason why they got into linux/FOSS and even STEM in general in the future.
That's a nice rice even, what the hey, kinda makes me wanna fuck around in wms again
the relapse is real
rare linux l
you misspelled w
what did he do that this picture makes people leave this community?
You don't need to worry about it. His new content is that of a completely different person, and it's been more than half a decade since his last controversy.
don't look
Again, I genuinely feel that Pewds' content has changed dramatically since his early days, for the better. He seems much more considerate, thoughtful with what he says, and mellower in general. I don't think anyone should feel bad at all for liking his recent content.
But you clicked this so...
I'm gonna stick to things Pewds drew controversy over that were actually on video. Not laying out accusations, just laying out why he's a controversial figure in an unbiased fashion.
Forewarning, some of this is heavy.
Pewdiepie was a very edgy youtuber for most of his career, usually laying out unfiltered hot takes. They were all pretty normal edgy guy things. Think Idubbbz in terms of flavor.
I will say that I personally noticed a major change in his content after his slogan "Subscribe to PewDiePie" was used in the Christchurch mosque shooting in 2019. I think he realized just how toxic portions of his audience were from that tragedy, and ended up changing direction because of that. That was also mostly not in his control.
There were something like half-a-dozen controversies directly caused by his own actions, such as when he payed two people on fiver who didn't speak English to hold up a sign reading "death to all jews", and calling it a social experiment to show how people will do anything for money.
Another time he faced backlash for saying the N word during a livestream.
He also said he joined ISIS as a joke at one point.
Most of his controversies are like this, where he does some edgy inflammatory shit, realizes he went to far, apologizes, then everything goes back to the way it was before.
He started YouTube in 2006, then again in 2010 under PewDiePie. It's been more than a decade either way. It's been 6 years since his last controversy. I wouldn't worry about how people judge him now.
What did he do to speed up the browser startup time?
Probably removed the Flatpak and installed native?
I seem to recall a way to run the browser as a background service so it’s essentially always running. You just "File > New Window" when you start it.
It’s hazy though… been a while and it was when I was using SwayWM