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).
He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.
Yes but he’s obviously far more qualified. LTT was trying to give real-world impressions of someone with a technical mind but also zero experience with Linux. Yes, he did something dumb and was clearly not paying attention, but also he never should have been put in that position in the first place. Every distro probably needs to automatically force an update as part of the setup process.
By saying he’s not a tech guy probably just means he’s not a programmer. But with how he’s done everything he definitely has the chops to be one.
He seems to be a guy that really likes to tinker with things. And those are the kind of people that Linux, especially arch, really latches onto.
I remember when he played minecraft and made a redstone contraption to auto-feed villagers or something. He started by saying that he wasn’t good at redstone and proceeds to show something so complex that I would have to follow a tutorial to make it.
He has a degree in industrial engineering according to Wikipedia, logical thinking should come naturally to him. My high school decades ago teaches logic gates for it’s computer literacy curriculum. He might not be a programmer, but probably has exposure to these topics in general education.
I mean no offence to you. But education departments these days assume “kids have phones and iPads and must be computer geniuses” and stop teaching general computer courses. That’s a problem.
I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a “tech guy” to me (whether they can build a PC or not).
If he’s like really into it why use neofetch? Why not fastfetch or something? I like Crabfetch myself because Rust even though I’m not a programmer.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol
Why is everybody hating on him ?
He’s had some controversial things. In 2017 he said the n-word while live streaming a game. The other big one I know of is he made a video where he showed he has paid one of those fiverr groups of Indian children to hold up a sign that said “death to all Jews”. Pewdiepie didn’t think they would actually do it.
They are really not great situations, and the second one I mentioned he should have realised was a bad idea and not done at all. Back in that 2017 era he positioned himself as an edgier meme YouTube, but he has since apologized and vastly changed his content, and i personally believe he’s a very changed person from a decade ago. But the stigma has stuck around.
*Bangladeshi children
The PewDiePipeline: How racist humor leads to violence.
In case you have 30min to spare
echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux
I hear Hannah Montana is a fan.
TempleOS is the one true distro.
But its not Linux…
And Ja Rule
WHERE IS JA?
But which Linux?
The one I use
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.
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.
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 welcoming them. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.
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.
I’m not sure anyone really cares about PewDiePie anymore, let alone what OS he uses.
The people who care have always done so. They’re just 25 now. This is relevant to his target audience.
Wait, this guy is still around and relevant?
OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.
Which distro he’s using
Mint on one computer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.
No, he has Mint on the desktop and Arch on the laptop.
Oh right, and then he said he loves using the laptop now or something like that
Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?
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.
I honestly think a lot less if Linux at this point… Not because of him, but because of comments like this, and the upvotes they have.
Fuck Linux.
Imagine thinking you’re so important that others should care about your opinion.
This screams of a Bluesky user lol
generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux
Yes, absolutely yes
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.
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.
Apparently he’s Swedish, so he’s ineligible. I have no idea what his policies are.
I’m not American either. It was an extremely hypothetical scenario.
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?
Hey Lois this is like that one time I said a gamer word flashback to the bridge
I mean, he switched to Linux and has advocated for gamers to do the same. So… Maybe?
Broken clocks are still right twice a day.
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
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?
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.
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
Not really, no. Today the aversion to it has been imported, but not 15 years ago. Of course when you use it in English you know it’s a significantly worse word but you also don’t have the cultural bagage to know entirely what it entails. From what I gather, Felix has improved upon his ways in many ways and isn’t much of an “edgelord” anymore.
Because of his “edgy”, shitty provocative humour and how high profile he was, he’s generally considered one of the horsemen of the adpocalypse.
He did one too many nazi joke, articles were written, and suddenly all content creators had it a lot harder to get ad revenue, because announcers were all like “associating with youtube creators will ruin our brand”.
Pewdiepie may not be the only factor, but he was certainly a big one.
I mean, he did a little more than “one too many Nazi jokes.” Including, but not limited to, supporting white supremacists and advertising their social media and books on his channel and social media platforms.
The number of people that I’ve heard (especially teenagers) arguing that “it’s normal over there” was honestly disheartening. He was a major component of the MAGA pipeline in the years leading up to Trump’s first presidency.
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
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.
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.
it’s been 8 years man, people change
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.
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.
He’s worth $45m him and his family will live a comfortable life in Japan without YouTube.
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.
