This is so irrelevant to me. To be honest I never watched a single video of this person.
First time Linux user
Knows nothing about the choices you make in Arch to personalize your system
“Yes, Arch is the one for me! Because I know everything about Linux already.”
Soon: “I don’t know why X is happening on my system”
He doesn’t need to keep his system working, he can probably pay someone for that. He needs something that will maximize engagement, and a million “I use arch BTW” comments is exactly what he wants.
I don’t think that was the goal cause he didn’t post like a post, it’s a story. Engagement on it is not visible and as far as I’m aware, it doesn’t boost anything.
Also Linux would be the last place any influencer would go for engagement farming.
If the steam deck keep growing in popularity, Arch is going to be the first linux for a lot of people.
Just because SteamOS is based on Arch now doesn’t mean that using SteamOS teaches you anything about using Linux or Arch specifically.
The SteamDeck literally obfuscates most of it and you have to choose to boot into desktop mode to even mess with anything.
Anyone who can install windows can install Arch using something like EndeavourOS (which, for people who don’t know, is literally just Arch, using a graphical installer and some sane defaults for a desktop PC (Plasma, pipewire, Wayland, etc etc))
You don’t have to do the intimidating “boot from Arch live install medium and install everything manually” on your first run (or ever). I really only do that when I’m setting up a server. For a desktop, EndeavourOS takes a fraction of the time to get going.
and you have to choose to boot into desktop mode to even mess with anything.
You say that like it’s a bad thing, but I think having the two separate modes is a fantastic setup. You get basically a console experience, smooth and straightforward and easy to use for just playing games, and you still have access to the underlying system anytime you want.
My point wasn’t that it’s a bad thing, my point was the vast majority of SteamDeck users are never going to boot into desktop mode.
And even then it’s atomic, IIRC.
Baptism by fire ¯\(ツ)/¯
All hail the wiki 🙌🏻
He started with Linux Mint from what I’ve seen.
Assuming that’s not some default config I just don’t know, that’s actually a rather competently built config for i3 or similar. If he did that hinself he should manage.
It says it is using Hyprland which is a Wayland-bases tiling window manager with pretty good defaults.
based
So Arch is basically Windows but with nerdnip.
Any conclusions drawn from a child’s personality can’t necessarily then be applied to a parent. Hannah Montana Linux was ultimately a Debian, but it was so far from stock Debian that the comparison makes no sense. The same, I assume, applies with the Arch-derivative that runs on Steam decks. We’re not in Arch-kansas any more, Toto.
The closest to “Windows with nerdnip” is probably Linux Mint, but even then that’s a fairly unkind comparison.
I use LMDE, btw.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
oh great, Linux certainly needs a nazi seal of approval
woah what
Many years ago he paid like 5 bucks to see if some Indian guys would write “heil Hitler” on a sign and hold it up for a video (they did}. He was doing stupid edgy humor and playing with like like many creators at the time. Many people canceled him “fully” a year or so after that when he had the “bridge incident”. He called someone the n word for camping or something while he was playing PUBG. He apologized and took responsibility for using the word…sorta. He continued to make content for a few more years and then he “retired” in Japan with his wife and child. They post update videos every few months but more or less he got his bag and dipped out after he pulled too many stupid moves and was seen as “toxic” to work with.
I don’t think he’s a bad person, but that’s just as someone who occasionally watched his videos over the years.
people here really hate him for something I see in the average TF2 lobby. Also to me it seems like he has taken responsibility and grown from it 🤷♀️
Impossible. You know damn well people on the internet can’t change.
Ivkenz I understand being mad at him for sure. It’s they staying mad at him forever that I don’t understand. People make mistakes. People change. He didn’t do anything worse than 90% of the guys I knew in highschool at some point. You grow up and you learn that behavior isn’t correct.
Changing is insufficient. Apologizing is only sometimes sufficient.
Sometimes to undo damage you need to actively push against the thing you did.
You don’t just say “sorry I said the N word, that was bad”. You educate people on why it’s not ok to say and call out others who say it. You put in the effort to make things better, not just good enough.
what the other guy said barely scratches the surface. he did so many things, shouting out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites was one of them. he’s a pussy too, he always has this plausible deniability shit ready to go. but that only works if you’re stupid. you can “accidentally” do nazi shit only so many times before people catch on.
[…] [he shouted] out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites […]
Do you have a source?
You are a griefer.
Fuck this nazi.
No, no, don’t fuck Nazis ever. Punch them.
I may not be entirely up to date but why pewdiepie is nazi
i have the same question
He has a long history of incidents like, “Hey, why are you following those white supremacist accounts on Twitter and promoting their books?” or “Oops, I was wearing an iron cross just as a joke!” and “I paid a dude to yell, ‘I hate Jews!’ as a prank, bro.”
If only there were some way to search the internet for info. 🤔
You all are still on that train from 2017?
Do you think disliking nazis was something we were supposed to stop doing at some point?
Disliking actual Nazis, instead of wasting your anger on this guy. He’s just used to be edgy. Not to mention he’s not even edgy anymore. He’s actually a pretty cool guy.
“He’s actually a pretty cool guy.”
Parasocial relationship much?
I can forgive people for being edgy back in the day, IF they apologize and explain why what they did was wrong. Pdp did nothing and just brushed it under the rug.
That is not true though. He has apologized, and has shown remorse, and has never done anything similar since. So he has learned from his mistakes. If you search for it, he has a video about the whole thing.
I don’t care enough about pewdiepie to search for it, but if you link it I’ll watch it.
maybe one time is fine. this dude did it again and again. you can only go “oops I accidentally nazi’d” so many times. plus even if you’re not a so-called “actual nazi” there’s not much distinction in why exactly you use your platform to push or normalize nazism. I don’t give a fuck what’s in your heart; ironically fucking a goat is still fucking a goat.
That’s why I fuck goats unironically, so there’s no question about my intentions
that’s more respectable than nazis hiding behind jokes
Depends, did he change and grow as a person?
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He did more than make fucked up jokes, though. He was pushing white supremacist accounts that he followed on social media at one point to his young and impressionable audience. The proof is in the pudding, as they say, and he hasn’t done anything to rectify that situation one way or the other. Given the evidence we have, he could’ve simply started wearing his iron cross behind closed doors instead of on stream.
Having lived long enough to see the edgy teenagers making 4channer jokes grow up to and have those become their actual beliefs, I believe in Philosophical Inertia. You say something often enough, and it becomes what you truly believe. And until you prove otherwise, I am going to assume that your beliefs continue on that same course.
revealing much more than you meant to by insinuating that opposition to fascism is a trend line you hope to be on the edgiest side of.
Enjoy your downvotes.
Is linux becoming this popular, or is this a one-off incident?
Definitely a one off thing case here. Last week he was on mint and now on arch with hyprland already. He doesn’t upload that much so he’s probably experimenting a lot.
I see, yeah it didn’t feel like linux would be popular enough to be on the radar.
I agree. Wish youtubers like Drew Gooden and Danny Gonzalez try linux. They have been extremely critical of modern tech and are very popular among non tech-savvy millennial audience.
It’s certainly been gaining some momentum lately. Just within the past year I saw this channel coming out of nowhere with some videos about Linux, this famous animator finally getting rid of Windows and Adobe and also this guy talking about it.
Who cares what a Nazi uses?
Care to elaborate? I’m not updated to PewDiePie’s stuff anymore. I’m living under the fucking rock.
He had a bunch of “Haha, I’m just being a nazi ironically and what even is a nazi, this symbol has lots of other historical usages” incidents, such as paying a foreigner to yell “death to jews” and doing a video where he was wearing a shirt with an iron cross on the collar.
Not beyond engagement bait he doesn’t. Fuck that guy
Engagement bait using linux is just laughably ridiculous. How many arch users do you think there are that also happen to use instagram.
I did nazi that one coming…
why does his status bar look better than mine :(
Gross
I wonder if he’ll make a video (if he hasn’t already) on why he chose to switch to Linux; I’m quite interested to hear what made him decide to switch, and I’m also very interested to hear what issues, if any, he encountered along the way.
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Gross
“I had to reinstall” in 3… 2… 1…
Why should I care?
Do whatever you want bro, Im not your fucking mom
Hyperland and arch? Not what I expected
