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    [–] [email protected] 149 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    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"

    [–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    If the steam deck keep growing in popularity, Arch is going to be the first linux for a lot of people.

    [–] [email protected] 90 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

    Baptism by fire Β―\(ツ)/Β―

    All hail the wiki πŸ™ŒπŸ»

    [–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

    He started with Linux Mint from what I've seen.

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    [–] [email protected] 81 points 2 months ago (3 children)
    [–] [email protected] 53 points 2 months ago

    No, no, don't fuck Nazis ever. Punch them.

    [–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You all are still on that train from 2017?

    [–] [email protected] 57 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Do you think disliking nazis was something we were supposed to stop doing at some point?

    [–] [email protected] 41 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago

    "He's actually a pretty cool guy."

    Parasocial relationship much?

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Depends, did he change and grow as a person?

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    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    I may not be entirely up to date but why pewdiepie is nazi

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 32 points 2 months ago

    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."

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    [–] [email protected] 71 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    oh great, Linux certainly needs a nazi seal of approval

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 48 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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 πŸ€·β€β™€οΈ

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago

    Impossible. You know damn well people on the internet can't change.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 24 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 67 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Who cares what a Nazi uses?

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Care to elaborate? I'm not updated to PewDiePie's stuff anymore. I'm living under the fucking rock.

    [–] [email protected] 50 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    He also followed a bunch of white-supremacist accounts (source) and then cried crocodile tears after getting called out

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    How many years ago was that. It sounds like he apologized and has taken a long break from YouTube and yet here come a bunch of actual screeching fascist saying, "Gross that he uses Linux! Arch is now NaziOS & we want to see him publicly executed still!"

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    [–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

    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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    [–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

    Not beyond engagement bait he doesn't. Fuck that guy

    [–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

    Engagement bait using linux is just laughably ridiculous. How many arch users do you think there are that also happen to use instagram.

    [–] [email protected] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Is linux becoming this popular, or is this a one-off incident?

    [–] [email protected] 35 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    [–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago

    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.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago

    Do whatever you want bro, Im not your fucking mom

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

    "I had to reinstall" in 3... 2... 1...

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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