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PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you) (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

You know he's a Linux user because tells everyone he uses Linux without being asked.

[–] untakenusername 14 points 1 month ago

I use arch btw

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

He was asked tho, he built a pc and installed linux on it without mentioning it and people started asking about it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's how we know he isn't a Tool fan.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

As a Tool fan I can tell you that you are correct.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Cool. I use Linux too, by the way.

[–] Imgonnatrythis 22 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It definitely won't happen as long as the corporate world is slaved to Microsoft. We actually have a few Linux computers on our domain at work and they're a pain to administer as are the four Macs that we have.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I feel like the GUI'S and user experience have barely changed in the last ten years since I started using linux. You still need to use the terminal for basic things like installing WiFi drivers when your distro didn't automarically install it and smooth scrolling on a trackpad has been garbage for years.

Needing to fiddle to install basic drivers on a 2012 macbook air is kinda unacceptable in this day and age. I had to pull put a USB Ethernet jack and go through three updates and restarts for the drivers to finally pop up. I like tinkering so I don't mind, but a regular person with basic computer skills would have no clue what to do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Your laptop may be 13 years old, but Apple is notorious for their walled garden and surely never officially supported Linux on it, or did they? So it's probably the worst example.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I get having Linux and Windows, after all you need a backup solution for when you can't use Linux. But why do you also have a Mac?

Then I guess iOS makes sense if you have a Mac, but why also have Android?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (9 children)

Linux = Freedom, customizability MacOS = Usability Windows = ???

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Windows for interoperability.

Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

(My wife hates it when she hits websites that don't work properly and starts swearing, then I ask "Are you using a real browser or just Safari?" - "FUCK YOU!" Somehow we're still married. 😀)

[–] zarkanian 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Try job hunting without a Windows machine. Good luck!

I don't have any problem job hunting on a Linux box. Why would that matter?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Requires Windows to apply? Easily in the “nope” pile. Which is a privilege, I realize.