• Ulrich@feddit.org
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    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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      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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        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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          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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        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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    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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      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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        I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux

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          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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            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.

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              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.

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                  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?

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              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.

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                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

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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 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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    Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.

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      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.

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        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

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        You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.

        To make it simple use something like mission center

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        Stable means 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.

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          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.

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            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 kernel and syatemd 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.

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      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.

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    My windows partition forced me to do an update which has now broken the start menu and right clicking on pinned icons. Thanks Microsoft. Great job.

    I really can’t wait to be rid of it completely but unfortunately the building and construction industry is addicted to torture and refuses to move on from Autodesk.

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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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      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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      echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing

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    It is actually a competitor. Mean Microsoft have to improve if they want to keep the users. With the Windows 10 EOL soon they will give up on those users on those computers. Basically forcing anyone else to take care of them - Linux stands there welcoming them. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.

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    Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol

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    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.

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      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.

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      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.

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      he uses hyprland? amusing that fascist youtuber uses fascist-developed compositor

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      He was and forever will be an rich kid with internet so whatever is the most popular. When he was a teenager that was Mint, now its Arch. Which is why he has Mint and Arch+hyprland.

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        When he was a teenager it would have been Slackware. Not even Knoppix was released yet.

        And he didn’t use Linux as a teenager. You hallucinate things worse than ChatGPT.

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    Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.