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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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[–] atro_city@fedia.io 51 points 4 days ago

"Linux Mint hides the terminal"

*immediately opens terminal to demonstrate*

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 29 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Uh oh, brace for the hordes of people complaining that some anticheat game doesn't work on Linux and therefore the whole thing sucks.

[–] TRex91@feddit.org 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe he doesn't play any Multiplayer games (anymore) so why should he care. But yeah I also missed that part since some big games could make problems like Fortnite or GTA V MP?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I honestly don't care about PewDiePie, I care more about his audience. And his audience is bound to expect everything to work if PewDiePie advocates for it, even if he explicitly tells them to temper their expectations. That's just how gamers are.

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

I love the Linux fanbois backtracking.

Hold on, when we said it was great and my grandma could use it, I didn't mean my actual grandma, just the metaphorical one we've been claiming uses ubuntu for 15 years. They shouldn't expect much from this.

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

I don't know about you, but my grandma isn't using her PC to play Fortnite.

? I've been very consistent in not overselling linux, and calling out that overselling whenever I see it. I've been 100% Linux for 15+ years, and I really want people to use it (more users = more likely for vendors to support it). However, if you oversell it, especially to gamers who have very little patience for things not working properly, it's going to backfire.

So yeah, I'm grateful that someone as popular as PewDiePie is recommending it, I'm just a bit worried about the public perception once people realize there are caveats. It's fantastic if you're flexible about what games you play, it's not if you really need that specific MP game to work.

Grandma is totally the right market here since it does basic computing stuff really well. Gamers however, as a broad group, aren't, especially gamers interested in streamers, which are often the more social type (read: more likely to be interested in anti-cheat MP games).

[–] IEatDaGoat@lemm.ee 13 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm so happy for him. He seems so excited about Linux and has done much more customization than I have XD

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)

I wonder what he did to optimise his Firefox startup time.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago
  1. Click the icon

  2. Make a cup of tea

  3. It's open and waiting for you

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 days ago

Probably just has it run at login in the background.

[–] lefixxx@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Something from https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Talk:Firefox/Tweaks

according to Brodie Robertson

[–] chrislowles@lemm.ee 7 points 4 days ago

Probably used some flag file like BetterFox in about:config

[–] nekothegamer@sh.itjust.works 21 points 4 days ago

holy shit this is massive news

[–] baduhai@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 days ago

I did not see this coming.

Haven't watched pewdiepie in years, glad to see he's still entertaining.

[–] the_q@lemm.ee 11 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Isn't this guy Nazi adjacent?

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 69 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Tasteless, immature, edgelord, yes. Actual fascist/Nazi, I don't think so. I've never really watched his content. And I will say this. From what I've seen in recent years, he seems to have matured a bit.

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't found him tastless in a long while. He seems to just be vibing living his own life at this point.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's generally my understanding as well at this point. That and he's had a child. And seems to be making a somewhat serious attempt at parenting. And perhaps starting to look at a lot of this stuff through the eyes of a father

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Having a kid/kids really does change a man. Or person. In many ways.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes it absolutely can. Here's hoping he continues down that path.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

Same. He really does seem a lot more chill nowadays since I last checked him out. Never was a follower but you can clearly see a difference between a single video like 5-10 years ago and this now.

[–] ParetoOptimalDev@lemmy.today 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The bar for matured for someone with his history should be higher, especially in todays world.

Like making a video speaking against alt right edgelords and Nazis.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

I didn't say he was mature. I said he's matured a little bit. I absolutely agree he should probably make some decent public apologies for the stupid s*** he's done / said. But by the same token. When people do make progress no matter how small it is we can acknowledge it.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Used the n-word on stream, promoted alt-right content, and some other racist shit.... Google it for details.

[–] missingno@fedia.io 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Quite frankly, Nazi-adjacent is bad enough, especially when he's made no effort to own up to the problems he's caused. It seems like he very deliberately tries to skirt the line of plausible deniability.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I agree. That said he has shown some small signs of maturing. Hopefully someday he will do that. I agree it's needed. I have a feeling as a young parent he's going to learn all about imitatable acts. And hopefully he will understand and think better about them.

[–] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He did a video shouting out 10 lesser known youtube channels that he liked and it turned out one guy who did movie reviews or something had some antisemetic social media posts.

[–] VitoRobles@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] bonus_crab@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Ok so it was anime reviews not movies. Nothing in that holds any factual information different to what i said, it just frames it aggressively.

The second was part of a video showing off fiverr. The guys he paid made a business of writing whatever outrageous stuff people wanted on a sign and posing with it. He had them write something outrageous on a sign and pose with it.

The mans uploaded thousands of videos as the most watched youtube channel on the planet. Any mistake hes made is easy carrion for vultures to farm outrage off of.

The important thing is that hes apologized and redacted any content and statements that could be construed as racism or bigotry, and has clearly stated repeatedly that thats not what he believes.

In the current political climate when the twitch is openly antisemetic and news networks (fox) are calling for genocide, i wouldnt take that for granted.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (15 children)
[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Why? He's like the best big time youtuber and isn't shitty

[–] easily3667@lemmus.org 11 points 4 days ago

Isn't shitty

Welcome out from under that rock you've been under. He's shitty.

[–] CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Because he's a racist shithead.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 13 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I've never heard of this before, would you enlighten me?

[–] WhiteRabbit_33@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

He's said and done a lot of antisemitic things and spread Nazi ideology.

https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right

https://www.newsweek.com/pewdie-youtube-nazi-t-series-racist-anti-semitic-youtuber-subscribers-1252695

Much like Mr Beast and other top YouTubers, he only cares about himself and has used controversies of other YouTubers to try to take the spotlight off the fucked up things he's done.

https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/11/16878068/logan-paul-pewdiepie-youtube

[–] Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I feel lucky that I never got into his content. I heard so much about him as a kid, and I only recently started hearing about the Nazi stuff.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago

Well fuck me

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If you don't know what he did, I have a specific gamer word and bridge in PUBG that I need to introduce you to

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