PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)

The amount of people crying about pewds is insane

Yeah why do people have such strong views against it?

Also Linux is a great anti tech giant alternative.

PewDiePie? Is that really the guy's name? Is that Slavic or something?

His name is Felix, PewDiePie is just his yt handle.
What is the point of this comment? If you have nothing to say just dont say it.

Woe is the day that I decide to take computer advice from a twitch streamer...

You know he's a Linux user because tells everyone he uses Linux without being asked.

He was asked tho, he built a pc and installed linux on it without mentioning it and people started asking about it.
I use arch btw
That's how we know he isn't a Tool fan.
- As a Tool fan I can tell you that you are correct.

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 any IT degree or engineering degree

Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.

Currently the bar to installing it is in the tech savvy area. If you have enough knowledge about computers to be a gamer you can be a linux user. Of course if you have to ask your SO or child for help with a computer, its not for you but tbh windows is also too complicated for some people. Once you have it installed, someone with 0 computer knowledge will find mint easier than windows for example.
If you don't use many devices it's fine.
- What do you mean? I've never had any issues with multiple devices. They're... Just different devices.
- Or rely on software that is not available in Linux and can’t be emulated, which unfortunately applies to both my work and personal use
- I have 2 servers, 6 containers, a raspi, a desktop, and a laptop all running linux just fine. My two phones send notification updates to my laptop via kde connect
  
  I have lots of devices on linux and they all play nice together

Nazi YouTubers fuck off.

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.
- nah
- PewDiePie is the most basic kind of cryptofascist hiding behind a veil of edgy humour and he should not be welcome in the open source community
- It's long past being meaningless at this point, other than just a red flag of a toxic individual.
- Cant imagine there are mature minded people that use Lemmy
- 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.
What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.
- 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.
- 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
- You will find two major incidents. The bridge incident where he said the n-word in PUBG and a edgy joke where he tried to see how far Fiverr creators would go and asked for a video of people to write "Hitler did nothing wrong" on a sign. He apologized and condemned the behavior for both.
  
  To me it seems like the source of a lot of the negative quick opinions come from a bad article WSJ did on him.
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

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.

I feel like the GUI'S and user experience have barely changed in the last ten years since I started using linux. You still need to use the terminal for basic things like installing WiFi drivers when your distro didn't automarically install it and smooth scrolling on a trackpad has been garbage for years.

Needing to fiddle to install basic drivers on a 2012 macbook air is kinda unacceptable in this day and age. I had to pull put a USB Ethernet jack and go through three updates and restarts for the drivers to finally pop up. I like tinkering so I don't mind, but a regular person with basic computer skills would have no clue what to do.
- Your laptop may be 13 years old, but Apple is notorious for their walled garden and surely never officially supported Linux on it, or did they? So it's probably the worst example.
- NO MY WALLED GARDEN ANTI CONSUMER OVERPRICED APPLE PRODUCT DOESNT HAVE WIFI DRIVERS THIS IS THE FAULT OF THE NERDS THAT FIGHT FOR TECHNOLOGY INDEPENDENCE OF BIG COMPANIES LIKE THE ONE I DECIDED TO INVEST IN WAH WAH

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.

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.
- Not really. Youtubers are like celebrities. Has PewDiePie done anything significant to help make a better change? No, he hasn't.
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.
- My 2014 Mac mini server is running Mint. All in all it's a really nice setup.
  
  Oh, and a 2011 mini that I use to give induction presentations at work.
- 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.
- Mint runs fine on a very old 1GB netbook I recently unearthed.
- Bro I know computers with 4GB RAM running Win 11 just fine

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.

Bro, shut the fuck up😊 Nobody cares.