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

And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?
- 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.
  
  Lutris, my beloved.
  
  switch
  Deck, actually 🤓
  
  2009 was the year of the Linux...laptop
- Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
  Go ahead. It's time.
  
  I'm missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
  
  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 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 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.
- 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!
  
  Same, my gaming htpc got switched over to bazzite deck this year
- 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

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).
- Wouldn't be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol
  
  I mean, he's a retired guy with new hobby, it wouldn't seem too out of the question that he spent a good chunk of time following tutorials for things that have plenty of tutorials out there.
- 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.
- 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.
- Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
  Oh my God, a bash script. My kids were doing those when they were still in middle school. Only one of the three went into a technical career.

First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux
- I hear Hannah Montana is a fan.
  
  TempleOS is the one true distro.
- And Ja Rule
  
  WHERE IS JA?
- I wonder if glam Linux will run on Debian.
  
  Glamux.
- 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"
- Good point. We peasents don't even know what love is, let alone Linux.

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.
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Yes, absolutely yes
- No, fuck this guy.
- If you're a boomer, no

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.
- His original shtick when he was the biggest tuber was yelling at his streams.

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.
- 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.
  What got me back into Linux was seeing the unixporn screenshots on image boards. Chrome pulls people in.
- he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor

The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point

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.
  
  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
  
  You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.
  To make it simple use something like mission center
  
  There are many different ways to define "stable". Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.
  
  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.
- 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.
  
  Of course this gets downvoted... Linux shilling is insane

Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users 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
- Typical lemmy dumbassery. This behaviour is so fucking boring that the people still acting this way must be children that have a 1-bit processor acting as their brain.
- The PewDiePipeline: How racist humor leads to violence.
  In case you have 30min to spare
- Maybe because he's a bell-end? Fucking alt-right-adjacent edgelord. His opinion is worthless to me.
- I hate him because he's popular.
  Otherwise I don't really know anything about him.
- echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing

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.
- Most people will just raw dog it, and keep running their computer without windows support.
- They'll push back the date like they always do.
- 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.

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.

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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
- Ditto

Which distro he's using
- Mint on one computer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
  
  ~~It's mint with hyprland~~
- 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.

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.

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

Wait, this guy is still around and relevant?
- I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.
  The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.
  
  I don't watch the guy and even I know this is bullshit. Instead of saying dumb things, just say nothing.

Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.

I DON'T CARE WHAT THIS NAZI BURNOUT THINKS
- Oookie dokie... 👀

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.
- hes trying to come back as youtuber, eventhough he "retired", (due to being supportive of nazis)

This seals it, I should never use Linux again.

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.
  
  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
- 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.

I'll wait to hear the opinions of James Corden, Ellen DeGeneres, Shia Labouf, JK Rowling, and Will Smith before selecting a new OS, thanks.

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.

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

Rather that noobs stay on win tbh. If gnu/Linux become mainstream, the Adobe, MS etc etc will just move onto Linux. Just look at flathub - how many of the top downloaded programs are proprietary? A lot, e.g. Discord and Steam.
This is a genuine concern that I have.
- So, nobody should ever try a Linux based OS because large companies may start supporting Linux?
  
  No, that's not what I wrote. But I fear what will happen to the gnu/Linux/Foss community if Linux becomes a land for non-foss. My premise for my concern is that we should fight against non-foss in this space. This is a ideological stands which you may or may not agree with.
- I don’t daily drive Linux (though I use Tmux and Vim 8 hours a day if that counts for anything) so take this with a grain of salt. Would those companies jumping to Linux really be a problem? Steam is embracing Linux and it seems like it’s legitimized Linux gaming in a way that people never thought was possible. I hate Adobe, but how would Photoshop Linux edition prevent you from using open source alternatives?
  
  It wouldn't but since these software companies (Autodesk as another example) have a monopoly, I doubt that most windows users for some reason would switch to Foss alternatives - thet already have that ability with windows. I fear that Linux basically becomes windows in terms of what software is primarily used, i.e protritary software.
  My premise is that Linux and its user space applications should be free software and that the community should fight back against non-foss in this space.
- ....so? Did everything else vanish because proprietary showed up?
  
  No, but we haven't yet seen the influx of proprietary software on Linux.
  Say that Adobe, MS and Autodesk enters this space. You think that gnu/Linux will stay on the path of being Foss or will it become more proprietary and closed? Or will these companies fight and use their influence and money to e.g. push for permanent proprietary code in the kernel?
  All speculations of course.

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.