He even has a fave distro now.
  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1762·
    17 days ago

    And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?

    • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      17 days ago

      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!

    • gerryflap@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      17 days ago

      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

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      126·
      17 days ago

      If you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨

    • bananamuffinsurprise@lemm.eeEnglish
      342·
      17 days ago

      Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.

      Go ahead. It’s time.

      • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
        1·
        17 days ago

        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.

      • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
        13·
        17 days ago

        I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux

        • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
          62·
          17 days ago

          Don’t know about your workflow but have you tried FreeCAD? It surely won’t be like Solidworks, but might work for you.

          • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
            11·
            17 days ago

            I’ve been… Struggling with FreeCAD for a while. I really want to support it, you know, open source and all, but it’s really rough. Something that takes 10 minutes in SOLIDWORKS takes at least one hour in FreeCAD, not accounting for crashes, and complexity increases time exponentially.
            Importing and placing .step files is rather difficult, big assemblies tend to degenerate despite careful binding; I try to bind to the origin as much as possible, often sacrificing adaptability, but it still gets messed up after a while.

            • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
              3·
              17 days ago

              I’ve tried FreeCad on several systems and have yet to get it to run well enough to even attempt to use it. It either crashes constantly or just runs like ass.

              • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
                2·
                17 days ago

                It slows down A LOT over time, the bigger the file, the faster, it seems… I close and reopen it often, luckily it launches in an instant

                • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
                  1·
                  17 days ago

                  On mine it was slow from the start. I’d click on a button and it would take 30-45 seconds to do anything. Every time. It took me like 4-5 minutes just to sketch a single rectangle.

            • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
              3·
              17 days ago

              Have you tried it since 1.0? It’s pretty ok.

              What keeps me from making the switch is music-making. None of my plugins run on Linux and sound drivers supposedly are a huge mess.

                • Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtfEnglish
                  1·
                  17 days ago

                  Maybe my info on sound drivers is outdated… I play guitar and rely on low latency for my interface. I use neuralDSP plugins (not just for recording, also for jamming). Is it possible to get this running somehow? Any good DAWs you know of?

            • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
              3·
              17 days ago

              I see. Well, at least you’ve tried. In this case, you either need a VM or dual boot at worst. It’s getting loosing up but professional programs will continue to be a pain for a while. Usually we get paid software alternatives rather than their Linux versions though. I hope EU can break this and these corporations get big customers who use Linux, so they end up making a Linux version as well. Otherwise we’ll need another good alternative to pop up or FOSS projects getting big donations like Godot had.

              • Damage@feddit.itEnglish
                2·
                17 days ago

                I do keep trying, but I miss what I’m used to. I’ve tried a VM but it’s too slow, and I fought with GPU Passthrough but gave up. I do hope the whole Trump situation pushes the EU to support Linux more, but I’m not holding my breath.

                • muhyb@programming.devEnglish
                  1·
                  17 days ago

                  They’re late to the party but better late than never. Unless something happens radically, I don’t see these issues will be fixed until the next Windows version at least. Dual boot it is until then. I wish people noticed this before Trump.

      • GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        17 days ago

        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.

      • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
        6·
        17 days ago

        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.

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
      25·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
      126·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • x0x7@lemmy.worldEnglish
        22·
        17 days ago

        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.

        • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          15 days ago

          I went with Mint because its the same one that I installed 15 years ago

          —Felix in his YT video.

          For accusing me of hallucinating you are the one that hallucinates stuff.

          • used » installed
  • Guidy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8974·
    17 days ago

    Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.

      • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12228·
        17 days ago

        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.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          123·
          17 days ago

          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

          • KumaSudosa@feddit.dkEnglish
            102·
            17 days ago

            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.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            53·
            17 days ago

            Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.

        • brsrklf@jlai.luEnglish
          345·
          17 days ago

          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.

          • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            85·
            17 days ago

            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.

        • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          523·
          17 days ago

          Edit: missed the context. This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

          Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.

          Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.

          Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.

          His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.

          Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.

          At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            17 days ago

            This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

            Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie’s video about Linux to LTT’s Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many “tech” entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don’t.

            • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
              2·
              17 days ago

              I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can’t tell what’s going on anymore

          • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
            19·
            17 days ago

            Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.

          • rtxn@lemmy.worldEnglish
            344·
            17 days ago

            Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.

      • nekbardrun@lemmy.worldEnglish
        43·
        17 days ago

        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.

      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        63·
        17 days ago

        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.

    • Bezier@suppo.fiEnglish
      857·
      17 days ago

      eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he’ll be the “spokesman” to anyone else.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    387·
    17 days ago

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

    • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      524·
      16 days ago

      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.

        • HereIAm@lemmy.worldEnglish
          153·
          16 days ago

          Yeah, but as a swede myself I definitely know it’s a no no word especially as by that time other YouTube’s already had their own n-word controversies.

        • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
          171·
          16 days ago

          Nobody really uses that word other that in the US. Everyone on the internet that knows that word knows it with the context already.

          • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.socialEnglish
            1·
            15 days ago

            I can direct you to some Kipling stories where he calls everyone not a WASP the n-word. I can’t direct you to a modern Brit doing the same thing IRL but trust me, they exist.

            • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              15 days ago

              That’s not the case anymore. Now they’d use “wog” for that.

              One of our local members of parliament, a youngish woman who had clearly read too much Enid Blyton, responded to a constitutent’s query with the phrase “n**er in the woodpile.” It not being the 1930s anymore, this was greeted with derision.

        • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          95·
          16 days ago

          Decent human beings in every country find that word offensive (with the exception of the people of color slang culture saying it among each other). The people not finding it offensive are mentally ill hate-filled racists.

    • AbuTahir@lemm.eeEnglish
      739·
      16 days ago

      echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing

    • sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2414·
      16 days ago

      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.

    • futatorius@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      15 days ago

      Maybe because he’s a bell-end? Fucking alt-right-adjacent edgelord. His opinion is worthless to me.

    • Bieren@lemmy.worldEnglish
      153·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      675·
      17 days ago

      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.

      • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
        502·
        17 days ago

        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.

    • kepix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      231·
      17 days ago

      generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux

    • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
      2217·
      17 days ago

      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.

    • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
      813·
      17 days ago

      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

  • hornedfiend@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    771·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      16 days ago

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

  • ABetterTomorrow@lemm.eeEnglish
    1758·
    17 days ago

    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.

    • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.eeEnglish
      101·
      17 days ago

      The people who care have always done so. They’re just 25 now. This is relevant to his target audience.

    • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
      414·
      17 days ago

      hes trying to come back as youtuber, eventhough he “retired”, (due to being supportive of nazis)

  • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
    5162·
    17 days ago

    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.