Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"

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

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

I'm not a tech guy
Installs Arch
Installs Hyperland
Makes custom animated ASCII art for NeoFetch
Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
Creates a completely custom reactor-themed desktop
Yeah I think he's a tech guy...he just doesn't know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).

I’ve never watched any of his videos. They just don’t appeal to me and never have. However, given his apparent fame, it’s good for linux.
The more people acknowledge linux’s existence, the more engagement, the more growth.
Here’s hoping someday Windows will be a nasty memory.

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

First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux
- I hear Hannah Montana is a fan.
- And Ja Rule
- Ik ur being sarcastic but if i were someone who worked on linux id be pretty proud
- “If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. Except convincing people you have a brain"
- I wonder if glam Linux will run on Debian.

But which Linux?
- 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.
- The one I use

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.

Broken clocks are still right twice a day.

OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.

It is actually a competitor. Mean Microsoft have to improve if they want to keep the users. With the Windows 10 EOL soon they will give up on those users on those computers. Basically forcing anyone else to take care of them - Linux stands there welcome. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.
- Yeah, but providing that push at the wrong time... Maybe I just presented it the wrong way. I think there was some snootiness to how I advocated it. Like I knew more than them, which might be the case.. but it's still alienating.
  Maybe we can wait until they ask.

Should we really care about that guy's opinion?
- 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
  
  Has he done any pro gamer moves lately?
- 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.
- Yes, absolutely yes
- 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.
  
  I'd take him over Trump if those were the choices in an election I had a say in tbh.
  Wouldn't take him over someone with experience and sane policies, but definitely better than the MAGA folks.
- If you're a boomer, no
- generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux
- 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.

And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?
- The mistake people make is thinking there will be a year. It could be "the decade of the Linux desktop", and by that I mean that Apple and Microsoft have to consider them a legitimate competitor in the space because they have gained sufficient "marketshare" (if you can call it that) and OEMs have begun offering it as a discounted option across the board.
- I used to have my living room gaming pc on windows and switched to linux this year and its awesome. Sunshine/moonlight are two programs that allow you to stream games from your pc to any device and it's such a game changer!
- If you've made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
  
  Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.
  
  2009 was the year of the Linux...laptop
  
  Lutris, my beloved.
- I've switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.
  Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn't start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.
  For music production I also got most of my setup working. I'm having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn't actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we'll get there. For new projects it's mostly workable.
  Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.
  I use Arch by the way :3
- Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
  Go ahead. It's time.
  
  I also installed Bazzite and am missing several things (or at least have to do more research than I'd like to figure them out). Getting my peripherals working, CAD, system backups, pdfs that won't open from my file server, etc. The more I get into it the more problems I uncover. It has not been the seamless transition that so many make it out to be. It has worked for the games I've tried though.
  
  Depends on your personal needs, especially as it pertains to software and peripherals. Like I have a commercial printer at my workplace that has no Linux drivers, but yeah, absolutely, try a LiveUSB, and make sure it works with yours.
  
  I'm missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
  
  I too did an install on an old laptop just to check it out. It does throw an overwhelming number of options at you on first start.

I don’t think the video was bad and I’m glad desktop Linux is getting a good amount of attention this way.
But… I feel like he didn’t exactly show windows users what really expects them on Mint (which is a very similar but in many ways better and quite easy experience). This might be off putting to some unconvinced Windows users.
His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
- His Hyprland setup looks cool if you’re into that sorta thing but it’s just not what users just switching to mint, fedora, whatever might be looking for.
  I would not underestimate how much of a draw "it looks cool" can have on people who are not tech savy at all. If you think about what drives new phone purchases, their major version upgrades always include lots of things that are nothing but eye-candy and those are often heavily featured in their promotion material.
  If the goal is to get casual users to convert to Linux, I would argue that aesthetics is a lot more important than ANY talk about technical details, privacy, etc. If those users cared about those things, they would've switched already.
  Now my bigger worry is that those users will bounce off before they manage to get their setup to look as (subjectively) cool as his.
  
  Compiz flashbacks from late 2000s.
  
  Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It's an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
- he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor

Which distro he's using
- Mint on one computer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
  
  It's mint with hyprland
- mint
- I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.

Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
- Ditto
- eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he'll be the "spokesman" to anyone else.
  
  huge as heil
  FTFY
- Did I miss something?
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says "death to all Jews" https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
  and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn't intentional when he said of another player "what a ni--er" https://www.businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-using-n-word-matters-2017-9?op=1

Best argument for using Windows I've ever encountered tbh
- Geez people have no humor. Fuck that douche.

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.

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.
- ~~Again~~ Another elitist Linuxer. 🙄
  The guy has over 100 million subscribers on YT, and has been hugely popular for 15 years.
  Endorsement from such figures could get us closer to the mythical year of Linux. Why shun it...
  
  ….what? lol
- He's a famous youtuber with countless follower. Who are you?
  
  There once was a German leader with millions of followers. Even pewdipi was one of them. So obviously he must have been right.
  
  lol oh ok guy. Get real.