149 points

I’m not a tech guy

  • Installs Arch
  • Installs Hyperland
  • Makes custom animated ASCII art for NeoFetch
  • Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot
  • Creates a completely custom reactor-themed desktop

Yeah I think he’s a tech guy…he just doesn’t know how to build computers (that was painful to watch).

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Makes custom bash script for his sponsor spot

Oh my God, a bash script. My kids were doing those when they were still in middle school. Only one of the three went into a technical career.

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23 points

He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.

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Yes but he’s obviously far more qualified. LTT was trying to give real-world impressions of someone with a technical mind but also zero experience with Linux. Yes, he did something dumb and was clearly not paying attention, but also he never should have been put in that position in the first place. Every distro probably needs to automatically force an update as part of the setup process.

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If he’s like really into it why use neofetch? Why not fastfetch or something? I like Crabfetch myself because Rust even though I’m not a programmer.

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By saying he’s not a tech guy probably just means he’s not a programmer. But with how he’s done everything he definitely has the chops to be one.

He seems to be a guy that really likes to tinker with things. And those are the kind of people that Linux, especially arch, really latches onto.

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9 points

I remember when he played minecraft and made a redstone contraption to auto-feed villagers or something. He started by saying that he wasn’t good at redstone and proceeds to show something so complex that I would have to follow a tutorial to make it.

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He has a degree in industrial engineering according to Wikipedia, logical thinking should come naturally to him. My high school decades ago teaches logic gates for it’s computer literacy curriculum. He might not be a programmer, but probably has exposure to these topics in general education.

I mean no offence to you. But education departments these days assume “kids have phones and iPads and must be computer geniuses” and stop teaching general computer courses. That’s a problem.

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5 points

I am a programmer, and I can barely put together a latch in redstone. Anyone that programs redstone is a “tech guy” to me (whether they can build a PC or not).

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31 points

Wouldn’t be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol

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I mean, he’s a retired guy with new hobby, it wouldn’t seem too out of the question that he spent a good chunk of time following tutorials for things that have plenty of tutorials out there.

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25 points

Why is everybody hating on him ?

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

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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.

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5 points

*Bangladeshi children

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14 points

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

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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.

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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.

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11 points

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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-21 points

Said the nazi supporter

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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

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He’s a huge cock and he shouldn’t have a following.

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-32 points

echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing

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135 points

First i need to know what Katy Perry thinks about linux

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I hear Hannah Montana is a fan.

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5 points

TempleOS is the one true distro.

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6 points

But its not Linux…

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20 points

And Ja Rule

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2 points

WHERE IS JA?

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11 points

I wonder if glam Linux will run on Debian.

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3 points

Glamux.

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4 points

That’s great, I hate it.

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3 points

Good point. We peasents don’t even know what love is, let alone Linux.

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6 points

Ik ur being sarcastic but if i were someone who worked on linux id be pretty proud

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6 points

“If you’re presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything. Except convincing people you have a brain"

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76 points

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.

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

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

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

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62 points

Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.

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31 points

Definitely not the friends 🫥

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switch

Deck, actually 🤓

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2 points

Also works! 😁

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8 points

Lutris, my beloved.

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5 points

Regular Steam and Heroic over here 👌✨

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6 points

2009 was the year of the Linux…laptop

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Also good!

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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.

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32 points

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

Go ahead. It’s time.

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13 points

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

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4 points

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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Same, my gaming htpc got switched over to bazzite deck this year

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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

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