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jeffhykin @lemm.ee

5d ago

PewDiePie goes full Linux! Year of the Linux desktop!

The intro is great. He's got all the Linux meme's nailed

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Just because he's still got a big audience, I do wonder if we'll see any noticeable bumps in the number of linux users.
Probably gonna be temporary, but still makes me curious
- Some people are going to bounce off, but this kind of publicity for linux from the once most subscribed youtube channel is great. Most videos about linux don't exactly fit the recommendation bill for a lot of Youtube viewers. Also not to mention that he emphasizes that he is "not a tech guy". And to add to that, his channel is a primarily gaming channel meaning people will not write linux off thinking it can't play any games.
  If nothing else, I bet a good chunk of people will be crediting this video as the reason why they got into linux/FOSS and even STEM in general in the future.

Haha! I started watching one Pewdiepie video, I dunno, five-or-ten years ago or something, and as soon as I started the video he started screaming. I turned it off and never went back.
- You would be surprised to see the contrast lol. His videos these days are pretty chill and mostly just family vlogs around Japan.

This guy just walks fresh onto the scene and starts dropping better observational comedy than I see from people with 20+ years of experience on both platforms.
- IKR? My favorite part was:
  Little baby windows "are owu sure you want to dewete candy crush?"
  Linux: hands you a gun "Do it. You are god" Eldridge horror sounds
- I expected it to be a silly video with lots of misinfo but he's just spitting for 20 minutes straight, really pleasantly surprised.
  
  Yeah. I thought it would be a superficial video too at first but dude has drunk the koolaid and is several kilometers down the rabbit hole.

What did he do to speed up the browser startup time?
- Probably removed the Flatpak and installed native?
  
  I'm thinking he runs a script that opens the browser as a window minimised at startup. So any browser window he opens is just another window and Firefox doesn't have to startup every time
  
  not really, native ones are still as bad and heavy as the containerized ones, especially web browsers
- I seem to recall a way to run the browser as a background service so it’s essentially always running. You just "File > New Window" when you start it.
  It’s hazy though… been a while and it was when I was using SwayWM

I'd like to preemptively direct prospective commenters' attention to rule 6 about public figures.
- For the lazy
  6> . (NEW!) Regarding public figures
  We all have our opinions, and certain public figures can be divisive. Keep in mind that this is a community for memes and light-hearted fun, not for airing grievances or leveling accusations.
  Keep discussions polite and free of disparagement. We are never in possession of all of the facts. Defamatory comments will not be tolerated. Discussions that get too heated will be locked and offending comments removed.
  
  Lmao. What an unbelievably stupid rule. "Just pretend everyone is cool even if they're a total loser or whatever"
- Sure, we’ll all just ignore the fact that Tux tried to circumvent totally legitimate and logical tariffs because of rule 6.
- Okay, buh-bye c/linuxmemes 😘
  
  And nothing of value was lost

Can’t stand YouTubers but he isn’t wrong.
- he was the most subscribed one for a reason
  
  That’s like saying Fox is the number one news channel. There’s truth to that because they are number one in broadcasting…. Not cable, not satellite, not OTT, not internet. That viewership was only 2+ million. Number one doesn’t mean anything, except there could be a social problem. So what he was number one of the size of a small country. What does the rest of the world have to say about that? Makes you wonder….. at least should.

Next year he'll probably do a homelab tour.

That's a nice rice even, what the hey, kinda makes me wanna fuck around in wms again
- the relapse is real

what did he do that this picture makes people leave this community?
- You don't need to worry about it. His new content is that of a completely different person, and it's been more than half a decade since his last controversy.
  
  Doesn't sound really controversial, just stupid
- He's the most viewed YouTuber. It's apparently impossible for a decent person to achieve this level of success in the hate machine that is the YouTube algorithm.
- Said the bad n word on stream.

rare linux l
- you misspelled w

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