PewDiePie made a video on why he installed Linux and explained why everyone should do it too. Due to his number of followers, this might be the year of the Linux Desktop? Hooray?

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    85·
    24 hours ago

    I honestly don’t care about PewDiePie, I care more about his audience. And his audience is bound to expect everything to work if PewDiePie advocates for it, even if he explicitly tells them to temper their expectations. That’s just how gamers are.

    • easily3667@lemmus.orgEnglish
      63·
      19 hours ago

      I love the Linux fanbois backtracking.

      Hold on, when we wait it was great and my grandma could use it, I didn’t mean my actual grandma, just the metaphorical one we’ve been claiming uses ubuntu for 15 years. They shouldn’t expect much from this.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        18 hours ago

        ? I’ve been very consistent in not overselling linux, and calling out that overselling whenever I see it. I’ve been 100% Linux for 15+ years, and I really want people to use it (more users = more likely for vendors to support it). However, if you oversell it, especially to gamers who have very little patience for things not working properly, it’s going to backfire.

        So yeah, I’m grateful that someone as popular as PewDiePie is recommending it, I’m just a bit worried about the public perception once people realize there are caveats. It’s fantastic if you’re flexible about what games you play, it’s not if you really need that specific MP game to work.

        Grandma is totally the right market here since it does basic computing stuff really well. Gamers however, as a broad group, aren’t, especially gamers interested in streamers, which are often the more social type (read: more likely to be interested in anti-cheat MP games).