This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?
Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
Go ahead. It's time.
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.
If you've made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
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.
Which distro he's using
I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.
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.
Did I miss something?
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
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.
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.
