He even has a fave distro now.
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1092·
    10 days ago

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

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      1566·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      593·
      10 days ago

      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

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      495·
      10 days ago

      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.

    • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      10 days ago

      generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux

    • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
      112·
      10 days ago

      We shouldn’t give a shit about any social media influencer or celebrity or whatever’s opinion. Cool that he is promoting the change to Linux. And at least he uses a computer. But yeah, fuck em.

  • Enceladus [She/Hir]@lemm.eeEnglish
    251·
    10 days ago

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

    • Alaknár@lemm.eeEnglish
      259·
      10 days ago

      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.

      • lonesomeCat@lemmy.mlEnglish
        12·
        10 days ago

        Steam said it was running

        Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows

      • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
        42·
        9 days ago

        Stable means unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.

        I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.

        • Alaknár@lemm.eeEnglish
          52·
          9 days ago

          To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.

          I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.

          Lots and lots of little things like that.

          • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
            12·
            9 days ago

            That’s not the definition of stable.

            My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that’s because I was using a kernel and syatemd from Debian Unstable. When I’m getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there’s a security fix in one of those.

            I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren’t even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don’t expect them to change/get fixed.

            Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.

            • Alaknár@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              9 days ago

              How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.

              There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.

              That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).

              • bss03@infosec.pubEnglish
                2·
                9 days ago

                There was an update today.

                I didn’t get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can’t speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.

                I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then … I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for your safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.

                I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don’t consider that equivalent, but it is instability.

                Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don’t know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I’ll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don’t expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)

                (Honestly, I’d probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)

    • jaschen@lemm.eeEnglish
      105·
      10 days ago

      More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.

      Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.

      • ඞmir@lemmy.mlEnglish
        33·
        10 days ago

        Of course this gets downvoted… Linux shilling is insane

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    266·
    10 days ago

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

  • redwattlebird@lemmings.worldEnglish
    17·
    10 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.

  • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6147·
    10 days ago

    Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7724·
        10 days ago

        His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go and are still trying to crucify him.

        Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.

        Personally I don’t feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus “Yes, do as I say!” Sebastian presented.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          72·
          10 days ago

          Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            33·
            10 days ago

            Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        63·
        10 days ago

        The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don’t know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.

      • nekbardrun@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        10 days ago

        There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw

        It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.

    • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
      114·
      10 days ago

      He was and forever will be an rich kid with internet so whatever is the most popular. When he was a teenager that was Mint, now its Arch. Which is why he has Mint and Arch+hyprland.

      • x0x7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        9 days ago

        When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.

        And he didn’t use Linux as a teenager. You hallucinate things worse than ChatGPT.

        • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          I went with Mint because its the same one that I installed 15 years ago

          —Felix in his YT video.

          For accusing me of hallucinating you are the one that hallucinates stuff.

          • used » installed
  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    1317·
    10 days ago

    It’s hilarious of these folks defending this low life. How sad. Don’t give a moment of your life to an awful human being. And stop advertising for them for free. Get paid.

      • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        Looking into who this person is and seeing multiple apology video of stuff we evolved from multiple decades ago…… he has much to learn still.

        • OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          53·
          10 days ago

          as long as he grew from those mistakes and became a better person (as he evidently has) he deserves another chance, not that all that should be forgot (ofc not) but people learn from their mistakes and why should we let a few edgy jokes from 2015-2016 (which he evidently regrets) let us regard him in 2025 any differently?

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        9 days ago

        But your assuming he changed and not learned how to disguise his behavior better, which he’s doing with his vlogs. I don’t people look past his support for Nazis and shilling for youtube

        • OctaviaMeowzly@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          I just like assuming the best of people, I’d like to think that pewdiepie grew out of the edgy jokes and bullshit, but if it does turn out that he actually does support the 1930’s austrian leader (which is kinda unlikely but likely at the same time, idk how to describe it) I would have no faith left in felix and anyone still affiliated with him, I just feel like a majority of people who made jokes like that came to grow out of them

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      21·
      9 days ago

      Seems like he’s trying coming back to relevancy because the money was too good back then, can’t do much in Japan outside of vlogging about living there.

      • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zipEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        Multi millionaire that doesnt have millionaire hobbies can easily live till death without working a single day. Maybe the next 2 generations can live off his money if he already owns a house.

  • ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ@lemm.eeEnglish
    625·
    10 days ago

    and he bought land in japan. and learned surfing and maybe other things. everytime you mention pewds a microtransaction sends money to an american corpo. and nobody really wants that anymore.

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    1542·
    10 days ago

    Who? Anyways don’t do things because some clowning the interwebs is telling you it’s cool. Read documentation, talk to communities for multiple view points, trial and error. Best of luck.