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  • Type: Video. Title: “I installed Linux (so should you)”. Author: “PewDiePie”. Publisher: “YouTube”. Published: 2025-04-26T21:29:28Z. Accessed: 2025-04-27T05:34Z. URI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0.
  • mastertigurius@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Not personally a fan of Pewds, but this is a good thing. Dude’s still got 110M subscribers, he can reach an enormous viewer base. Not only that, but he’s got a magical ability to reach younger people in a way that grumpy old farts like me can’t (I’m five years older than him, which makes me a fossil). If Linux has had one problem through all its years on the good, green Earth, it’s marketing. Pewds might be just what it needs for this to finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop.

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        9 hours ago

        I think he’s smarter than he lets on. Being a doofus for the whole world to see is for some reason highly profitable.

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          7 hours ago

          Definitely. Checks a bunch of marks:

          • wants to be in control of his computer
          • avid minimalist
          • doesn’t want to be spoken to like a child by his computer
          • not afraid to try things with his computer

          He’s definitely got a lot of sides, it seems. 😁

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      22 hours ago

      Like I commented on another post:

      If someone makes the switch to Linux today, then this is the year of the Linux desktop for them.

      What really defines “the year of the Linux desktop”, objectively? 🤔