PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

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    3 hours ago

    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 an IT degree or engineering degree. Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.

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    5 hours ago

    I have, we’re a multi-OS houshold. Linux, Steam Deck, Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android.

    Different tools for different purposes. You wouldn’t have just one kind of screwdriver, right?

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      4 hours ago

      No.
      But if I only need a specific screwdriver cause none other fit these screws, it costs $200 and plays ads while I hold it, then I’ll use different screws instead.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works
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    10 hours ago

    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.

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    7 hours ago

    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.

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      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.

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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      5 hours ago

      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.

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      10 hours ago

      What did pewdiepie do? Not defending him, I dont follow him at all, and I am just wondering.

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        10 hours ago

        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.

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        10 hours ago

        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

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      10 hours ago

      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