and he bought land in japan. and learned surfing and maybe other things. everytime you mention pewds a microtransaction sends money to an american corpo. and nobody really wants that anymore.
I DON’T CARE WHAT THIS NAZI BURNOUT THINKS
Oookie dokie… 👀
This seals it, I should never use Linux again.
Wait, this guy is still around and relevant?
He came back with his vlog channel after he left due to something about support Nazism?, I’m guessing he’s trying to come back in some form or another, the money is too addictive.but I doubt he would make a big impact, he can’t compete with the current top tubers.
I mean, he never really went anywhere, still gets like 2 to 6 million views a video, he just stoped doing news worthy edgelord shit for attention.
The stuff that was getting him in trouble was stuff like paying some kids on fiver to hold up an antisemitic sign, used some Nazi imagery in videos, shouted the N word on stream, and a bunch of other things. This was all between 2017 and 2019 and while he hasn’t made amends, he also hasn’t kept doing it.
he was just avoiding the consequences, typical of person like this to flee to a country where the controversy doesnt reach said country. just like the right winger at white supremecist rally that fled to UK to finish his business degree to avoid controversy.
I don’t watch the guy and even I know this is bullshit. Instead of saying dumb things, just say nothing.
Why is everybody hating on him ?
Maybe because he’s a bell-end? Fucking alt-right-adjacent edgelord. His opinion is worthless to me.
The PewDiePipeline: How racist humor leads to violence.
In case you have 30min to spare
I hate him because he’s popular.
Otherwise I don’t really know anything about him.
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echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing
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.
*Bangladeshi children
Not every country finds saying n word offensive and he’s not American.
Nobody really uses that word other that in the US. Everyone on the internet that knows that word knows it with the context already.
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.
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.
Have I got some news for you,
Im Australian aboriginal and grew up in Northern Australia.
Our uncles used to call us little niggers when we were young.
When they were kids just after we were recognised as Australians and allowed to vote people would refer to them as niggers too
Ironically no one cares about the word the way Americans do
It also means Brown in French
Furthermore here’s a Monash university excerpt with a link to the whole thing for your consideration
“case was brought by an Aboriginal man in relation to the name of a spectators stand at his local football ground -the ‘ES “Nigger” Brown Stand’. This name was displayed prominently on the stand and in addition was used in frequent announcements during football matches at the ground. The decision records that the stand had been named (in 1960) after a local football identity, ES Brown, who during his childhood in the early 1900s acquired the nickname ‘Nigger’. The decision also records that ES Brown was of Anglo-Saxon descent. In the view of the applicant, the word ‘nigger’ always carries a culturally racist meaning and there are no contexts in which it has a neutral or nonderogatory meaning.58 In this case, the respondent led evidence from other Aboriginal people to the effect that they were not offended by the name of the sports stand. The Federal Court judge hearing this case determined that the use of the word ‘nigger’ in this context did not have any racist connotation or message.59 After articulating that s 18C called for an objective test, the judge determined that the use of ‘nigger’ here was not ‘reasonably likely in all the circumstances to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate an indigenous Australian or indigenous Australians generally."jO Graycar’s work prompts us to ask how the judge formed this (objective) knowledge, particularly in the context of the conflicting opinions expressed by the complainant and Indigenous people called by the repondent.’ By what processes and mechanisms did the adjudicator here come to this understanding of the (reasonable) Indigenous response to the use of the word ‘nigger’ in this context” https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MonashULawRw/2004/2.pdf
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.
But it’s ok for other n’s to call n eatch other :D
In the USA
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.
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.
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Uhuh. Yep. I’m a fascist too? Why not say more of the buzzwords. Come on now, don’t be shy
Buzzword is a buzzword and fascist is implied by Nazi.
That said, the dude probably isn’t a Nazi, Nazis just love him, like a Tolkien for morons.
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Best argument for using Windows I’ve ever encountered tbh
Geez people have no humor. Fuck that douche.
Rather that noobs stay on win tbh. If gnu/Linux become mainstream, the Adobe, MS etc etc will just move onto Linux. Just look at flathub - how many of the top downloaded programs are proprietary? A lot, e.g. Discord and Steam.
This is a genuine concern that I have.
I don’t daily drive Linux (though I use Tmux and Vim 8 hours a day if that counts for anything) so take this with a grain of salt. Would those companies jumping to Linux really be a problem? Steam is embracing Linux and it seems like it’s legitimized Linux gaming in a way that people never thought was possible. I hate Adobe, but how would Photoshop Linux edition prevent you from using open source alternatives?
So, nobody should ever try a Linux based OS because large companies may start supporting Linux?
…so? Did everything else vanish because proprietary showed up?
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.
Compiz flashbacks from late 2000s.
Wayfire is a Wayland compositor inspired by Compiz: https://github.com/WayfireWM/wayfire
Make desktop go cube brrr
Is life worth living if your windows don’t wobble?
Now we’re talkin’
Absolutely. Screenshots of 3d desktop cube on ubuntu more than a decade ago is what taught me linux existed. It’s an absolutely terrible and inefficient way to run desktop workspaces, but it hooked me all the same.
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.
What got me back into Linux was seeing the unixporn screenshots on image boards. Chrome pulls people in.
he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
Ditto
eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he’ll be the “spokesman” to anyone else.
huge as heil
FTFY
Did I miss something?
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.
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude 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.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can’t tell what’s going on anymore
Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.
Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.
Your rudeness is unwarranted, but you are correct. Easy enough to confuse the two streamers. Both are skinny blond nerds with similar face shapes and controversies.
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
That was 8 years ago.
I think the dude has matured since all those things happened. He hasn’t really been in the zeitgeist for about 5 years now.
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.
It’s hilarious of these folks defending this low life. How sad. Don’t give a moment of your life to an awful human being. And stop advertising for them for free. Get paid.
it’s been 8 years man, people change
Looking into who this person is and seeing multiple apology video of stuff we evolved from multiple decades ago…… he has much to learn still.
as long as he grew from those mistakes and became a better person (as he evidently has) he deserves another chance, not that all that should be forgot (ofc not) but people learn from their mistakes and why should we let a few edgy jokes from 2015-2016 (which he evidently regrets) let us regard him in 2025 any differently?
But your assuming he changed and not learned how to disguise his behavior better, which he’s doing with his vlogs. I don’t people look past his support for Nazis and shilling for youtube
Seems like he’s trying coming back to relevancy because the money was too good back then, can’t do much in Japan outside of vlogging about living there.
He’s worth $45m him and his family will live a comfortable life in Japan without YouTube.
Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.
More stable, haha. I was just randomly surfing around and my computer goes to sleep and can’t wake up.
Also randomly, my computer won’t go into sleep mode when I close my laptop. It works about 90% of the time, but that 10% is when I pull my laptop out of my laptop bag and my computer is on fire and fans full blast trying to cool itself. The OS came from IBM installed.
Of course this gets downvoted… Linux shilling is insane
I’m personally downvoting because it’s also an issue in windows as well. So it’s completely incorrect and unfair to complain that linux is “less stable” when the same exact issue is a problem on windows…
https://www.spacebar.news/windows-pc-sleep-broken/
It’s been an issue for years. And I’d argue that windows supporting this “new” shit standard probably makes new laptops suck for linux as well as vendors rip out older sleep states that linux uses that modern windows doesn’t.
More stable
Wellllll, I wouldn’t go that far.
I just had to reboot because clicking anything in the browser randomly started sending the CPU utilisation to higher 70s, which was triggering the fans to spin at full power.
Then I ran a game on Steam and Steam said it’s running, but it was nowhere to be found. Had to reboot again.
Both of these happened completely randomly after I changed nothing, just browsing the web.
You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.
To make it simple use something like mission center
Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.
Do you get a window? If so, you can xkill (or the Wayland equivalent, if you compositor provides one).
Failing that, yeah, it can be quite difficult to identify the right proc to kill. Sometimes showing the process “tree” and the full “command line” can help.
Beat of luck!
Do you get a window?
I run games in full screen mode, so maybe it would work. Seems like Wayland has
Ctrl+Meta+Escas the equivalent ofxkill. I’ll try this if it happens again.
Steam said it was running
Probably updating the client in the background, for some reason this is the default updating behavior on Linux unlike the visible progress bar on Windows
There are many different ways to define “stable”. Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.
Stable mean unchanging. Stable does not mean free of faults.
I don’t know anything about MS Windows anymore, but I tend to doubt it’s as stable as Debian Stable, since we are constantly getting accused of being “too old” because of our stability policies.
To me “stable” means: “fire and forget”. Maybe a reboot needed every couple of months because something broke, or having to kill a hung process. That’s my experience with Windows nowadays.
I’m on Garuda Linux, which is based on Arch Zen, and every now and again something random breaks. Network connection doesn’t stand up after sleep. Steam randomly breaks. Signal refuses to connect. One monitor’s brightness doesn’t go back to default value after the OS dimmed it due to inactivity. Uninstalled application still shows up in Application Launcher’s search results, even though I deleted it from the KDE Menu Editor.
Lots and lots of little things like that.
That’s not the definition of stable.
My Linux desktop required about a reboot a week, but I think that’s because I was using a kerne and syatemdl from Debian Unstable. When I’m getting both of those from Debian Stable, I only reboot when there’s a security fix in one of those.
I do have a couple of issues I work around on a daily basis, but they aren’t even bad enough for me to open a Debian bug, so I don’t expect them to change/get fixed.
Also, I refuse to blame Linux or Debian when I acquire and use software outside of the Debian repositories.
How about this - I configured Kate to have full Markdown support, with preview.
There was an update today. The Document Preview plugin got disabled and once I enabled it, it’s no longer able to display Markdown preview.
That’s what I call “unstable”. Shit randomly breaking for no reason at all. And I know it’s probably SOME dependency SOMEWHERE that got updated which broke a DIFFERENT dependency, but that’s kind of my point - things like this just don’t happen on Windows (since around Win10).
There was an update today.
I didn’t get an update today. That said, I believe you, but I can’t speak to the stability guarantees of your software provider unless you name (and shame!) them.
I doubt this would be considered a release-critical bug in Debian, so it is certainly possible for breakage like this to occur between releases. If it was a security issue, then … I hope you are assuaged that your old way was a vulnerability that needed to be disabled for your safety. While distributions and developers try to avoid such breakage, sometimes it is inevitable or just the result to trying to minimize the vulnerability window, chronologically speaking.
I do think that MS Windows users got surprised when their Notepad experience changed unexpectedly recently. Maybe you don’t consider that equivalent, but it is instability.
Anyway, my experience is that Debian Stable is more stable than the MS Win 10 laptop issued by my previous employer. And, I don’t know of any rigorous studies comparing the Linux stability with MS Win stability, so I’ll tend to prefer to be guided by my experience. (And, I don’t expect you to abandon your experience in favor of my anecdotes.)
(Honestly, I’d probably still be using Free Software even if it was less stable that Proprietary Software, but I am glad Debian Stable does focus on stability and I do support most of the policies they use to implement it.)
Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
original joke
Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.
And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop.
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
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!
Same, my gaming htpc got switched over to bazzite deck this year
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).
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.
I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
Don’t know about your workflow but have you tried FreeCAD? It surely won’t be like Solidworks, but might work for you.
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.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.
I’ve been making an album on Linux, anything I can help with?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
If you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
Lutris, my beloved.
Regular Steam and Heroic over here 👌✨
I ought to try heroic launcher. I had mitigated results with Lutris and I don’t know if it’s caused by i3wm or not.
Heroic is freaking awesome. I never had much luck with lutris though it’s been a long time since I ever tried it. With heroic. I use it to manage all the free games I get through the Epic store and Amazon over 700 now. And it works on both windows and Linux flawlessly for the most part. With the check of a setting it will even add games to steam for you so if you just leave it running in the background you can start and play games through Steam just like they were installed there.
Yeah bud, give it a shot!
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.
Definitely not the friends 🫥
I made many silly transfem fens :3
Nonsense! We’ve got plenty of friends here:
switch
Deck, actually 🤓
Also works! 😁
2009 was the year of the Linux…laptop
