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Why should we care what a multi-million dollar youtuber uses for an OS? He can afford to build computers for each OS at their highest specs in his range. I'm not going to be brow-beaten by this chump either.
Same reason we have to care about literally anything Trump does or says: he's influential. Just in this case, it's a good influence.
Not really. Youtubers are like celebrities. Has PewDiePie done anything significant to help make a better change? No, he hasn't.
Do you think celebrities aren't influential? I mean that's how Trump became President. He had zero prior political experience.
Doesn't matter if it's better or worse, the point is that he's influential. He's one of the largest YouTubers on the platform. But regardless, I would say that yes, he has, as in the video in the OP. Not just a Linux video, but a positive and comprehensive one.
Yes, he made a video about linux that got 4 million views.
Yes, he made a video about linux that got 4 million views.
That's not what Linux is at all. One of the main advantages of Linux is it can run on bad PCs, look up Raspberri Pis that have 4GB RAM and function flawlessly with Linux(I have one).
It can literally resurrect 10 year old computers.
I've got a 14-year-old Toshiba that I used in college that runs a weird variant of Ubuntu called Kumander (it's designed specifically to look and feel like Windows 7, which I think is properly nostalgic for the hardware). As long as you don't expect the battery to last more than an hour (which about par for the course for a laptop from then) it's perfectly serviceable as a SOHO-type machine.
Also it can double as a self-defense weapon cause it weighs like 10 lbs.
Bro I know computers with 4GB RAM running Win 11 just fine
Brother, at that point just put the computer down. Let it go to heaven.
Thats a computer for our class that our professor uses to show slides on the board
Mint runs fine on a very old 1GB netbook I recently unearthed.
My 2014 Mac mini server is running Mint. All in all it's a really nice setup.
Oh, and a 2011 mini that I use to give induction presentations at work.
That's the point. Guy can choose to get any pc he wants and any OS and chooses to go for Arch Linux and Linux Mint. He will probably start a big movement too.