And tech papers like Heise now include a test how Linux runs for new gaming devices. Is 2025 the year of the Linux desktop?
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!
Same, my gaming htpc got switched over to bazzite deck this year
If you’ve made the switch, that year was the year of the Linux desktop! ✨
switch
Deck, actually 🤓
2009 was the year of the Linux…laptop
Also good!
Lutris, my beloved.
Regular Steam and Heroic over here 👌✨
I ought to try heroic launcher. I had mitigated results with Lutris and I don’t know if it’s caused by i3wm or not.
Maybe the year of the Linux desktop was the journey we met along the way.
Definitely not the friends 🫥
Nonsense! We’ve got plenty of friends here:
I’ve switched a few months ago. Plenty of issues, but none of them major enough anymore to go back again. All games I play regularly apart from Assetto Corsa work, and AC should also be fixable as far as I read.
Just a few days ago I got the first racing sim working properly with my wheel. AC doesn’t start yet and Automobilista 2 does not match the irl steering wheel movements (this also happened on Windows sometimes), but ACC worked without much of an issue.
For music production I also got most of my setup working. I’m having a lot of issues with opening my old projects, but I wasn’t actively working on them anyways and with some effort I can get them back. Still some issues like the Vital synth CLAP version crashing when the window is opened and the Splice sample thingy not allowing drag and drop, but we’ll get there. For new projects it’s mostly workable.
Basically everything else I need just works. Games, photography stuff, everyday programs, and obviously my programming stuff because it was already on Linux.
I use Arch by the way :3
Installed Bazzite yesterday. Not missing a single thing from windows at the moment.
Go ahead. It’s time.
I also installed Bazzite and am missing several things (or at least have to do more research than I’d like to figure them out). Getting my peripherals working, CAD, system backups, pdfs that won’t open from my file server, etc. The more I get into it the more problems I uncover. It has not been the seamless transition that so many make it out to be. It has worked for the games I’ve tried though.
I’m missing SOLIDWORKS after converting my last Windows PC to Linux
Don’t know about your workflow but have you tried FreeCAD? It surely won’t be like Solidworks, but might work for you.
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.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.
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
On mine it was slow from the start. I’d click on a button and it would take 30-45 seconds to do anything. Every time. It took me like 4-5 minutes just to sketch a single rectangle.
I see. Well, at least you’ve tried. In this case, you either need a VM or dual boot at worst. It’s getting loosing up but professional programs will continue to be a pain for a while. Usually we get paid software alternatives rather than their Linux versions though. I hope EU can break this and these corporations get big customers who use Linux, so they end up making a Linux version as well. Otherwise we’ll need another good alternative to pop up or FOSS projects getting big donations like Godot had.
I do keep trying, but I miss what I’m used to. I’ve tried a VM but it’s too slow, and I fought with GPU Passthrough but gave up. I do hope the whole Trump situation pushes the EU to support Linux more, but I’m not holding my breath.
They’re late to the party but better late than never. Unless something happens radically, I don’t see these issues will be fixed until the next Windows version at least. Dual boot it is until then. I wish people noticed this before Trump.
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.
I’ve been making an album on Linux, anything I can help with?
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?
Yeah, unfortunately 1.0 is the version I’m talking about
I too did an install on an old laptop just to check it out. It does throw an overwhelming number of options at you on first start.
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.
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.
I DON’T CARE WHAT THIS NAZI BURNOUT THINKS
Oookie dokie… 👀
Seems like PewDiePie is a lot more open-minded than a lot of Windows users lol
Who? Anyways don’t do things because some clowning the interwebs is telling you it’s cool. Read documentation, talk to communities for multiple view points, trial and error. Best of luck.
He’s a famous youtuber with countless follower. Who are you?
There once was a German leader with millions of followers. Even pewdipi was one of them. So obviously he must have been right.
I didn’t say he must have been right. I said he’s popular.
Many people would jump off a cliff if he told them to. If many people would use Linux because of his content, then so be it. There’s no amount of complaining here that would change anything anyway.
Fair point. But I think giving any kind of attention to this guy is a bad idea.
lol oh ok guy. Get real.
Lol, lemme know if I’m incorrect :)
Actually you are. Forgot to add an “s” to “follower(s)”. But manufacturing celebrities is incorrect to life. Touch grass.
But manufacturing celebrities is incorrect to life
I respect the hustle. Trolling down even to the grammar
But for real… when your username says deathray5, are we talking five death rays or death ray v5.0?
V5
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AgainAnother elitist Linuxer. 🙄The guy has over 100 million subscribers on YT, and has been hugely popular for 15 years.
Endorsement from such figures could get us closer to the mythical year of Linux. Why shun it…
….what? lol
Get your 67 year old ass back to the retirement home
Incorrect, get learnt.
a little reading comprehension could help a lot next time
Assuming makes an ass out of you not me. Sucks to suck.
But which Linux?
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.
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.
The one I use
OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
Ditto
eh, he speaks to his own audience, which is probably still huge as hell. I doubt he’ll be the “spokesman” to anyone else.
huge as heil
FTFY
Did I miss something?
His peak of popularity was in a different era of societal awareness. His humor had an edge that was often crude and immature 15 years ago and unacceptable today, culminating in him dropping the N bomb during a livestream several years ago, and even after apologies, people just can’t let go and are still trying to crucify him.
Some others are simply hating on him because he has opinions that don’t fully align with theirs. Others, simply for being popular.
Personally I don’t feel one way or the other about him, but the video is worth watching. He shows a deep understanding of the system and its components, and more expertise than Linus “Yes, do as I say!” Sebastian presented.
Was the N bomb considered a bad thing in Sweden at the time? Here in Estonia it’s the young people of today who see it as a bad thing, people in their 40s and up see it as completely normal because it’s just always been normal to use it. Like the word is in the dictionary and doesn’t have a “vulgar” tag
Not really, no. Today the aversion to it has been imported, but not 15 years ago. Of course when you use it in English you know it’s a significantly worse word but you also don’t have the cultural bagage to know entirely what it entails. From what I gather, Felix has improved upon his ways in many ways and isn’t much of an “edgelord” anymore.
Could be, I have no idea. I’m Hungarian (not a fact I like to advertise), and in my language, “néger” is the correct word. It’s not considered vulgar because the word simply doesn’t have the same historical context. The variant with two "g"s is still no-no. We also have a popular hard candy called “Negró”, so named because of its black color.
Because of his “edgy”, shitty provocative humour and how high profile he was, he’s generally considered one of the horsemen of the adpocalypse.
He did one too many nazi joke, articles were written, and suddenly all content creators had it a lot harder to get ad revenue, because announcers were all like “associating with youtube creators will ruin our brand”.
Pewdiepie may not be the only factor, but he was certainly a big one.
I mean, he did a little more than “one too many Nazi jokes.” Including, but not limited to, supporting white supremacists and advertising their social media and books on his channel and social media platforms.
The number of people that I’ve heard (especially teenagers) arguing that “it’s normal over there” was honestly disheartening. He was a major component of the MAGA pipeline in the years leading up to Trump’s first presidency.
Edit: missed the context. This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips
Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips
Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie’s video about Linux to LTT’s Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many “tech” entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don’t.
I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can’t tell what’s going on anymore
Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.
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Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.
The short of it is that he was an entry point for the MAGA pipeline years back. I don’t know if he still schills for white supremacist podcasts and the like anymore, though.
There is this video analysis which, while taking pewdiepie as a major example, it is about the online-gamer-manosphere-trolls pipeline that leads into weird shit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnmRYRRDbuw
It is in no way recent news about him, but some of the issues aound his past is somewhat related with what is exposed in this video.
Besides him giving a Nazi salute while he pays two guys to hold a sign that says “death to all Jews” https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/2/17/14613234/pewdiepie-nazi-satire-alt-right
and using the N word? Article sugar coats saying it wasn’t intentional when he said of another player “what a ni–er” https://www.businessinsider.com/why-pewdiepie-accidentally-using-n-word-matters-2017-9?op=1
That was 8 years ago.
I think the dude has matured since all those things happened. He hasn’t really been in the zeitgeist for about 5 years now.
The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Great Point
original joke
Sure, test it, but in a virtual machine first. Then read up what you actually want.
Which distro he’s using
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Mint on one computer, Arch with Hyprland on another.
It’s mint with hyprlandIt isn’t.
Ah you’re right, I got the neofetch showcases mixed up.
I believe he said he started with Mint then moved to Arch, partially because of the memes.
No, he has Mint on the desktop and Arch on the laptop.
Oh right, and then he said he loves using the laptop now or something like that
Yes, Linux is king. More stable, better hardware utilization. Better customizability. Linux just makes more sense.
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.
Of course this gets downvoted… Linux shilling is insane
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.
Stable mean 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.
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.
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
You dont have to restart your Computer, you can also just kill a task.
To make it simple use something like mission center
Steam does something weird when running a Windows game via Proton. I haven’t figured out which task to kill to kill a game it’s running.
There are many different ways to define “stable”. Linux is better in some, windows might be better in others.
This seals it, I should never use Linux again.
Should we really care about that guy’s opinion?
We shouldn’t give a shit about any social media influencer or celebrity or whatever’s opinion. Cool that he is promoting the change to Linux. And at least he uses a computer. But yeah, fuck em.
If you’re a boomer, no
generally no, but its healthy for the market to have more linux
No, fuck this guy.
He still has the 10th most subscribed channel on Youtube, him endorsing Linux is huge due to the reach he has. His video has 3.2 million views, other content creators are making their reaction videos to his video. You don’t have to like him to see how big this is for Linux.
I honestly think a lot less if Linux at this point… Not because of him, but because of comments like this, and the upvotes they have.
Fuck Linux.
Imagine thinking you’re so important that others should care about your opinion.
Based contrarian for the sake of it mindset
Yes, absolutely yes
This guy has a major following. He could be the next world leader because of brain rotted voters. I have seen kids obsessed this guy, like he could do no wrong. Now those kids are adults. That is pretty difficult to ignore for me.
I’d take him over Trump if those were the choices in an election I had a say in tbh.
Wouldn’t take him over someone with experience and sane policies, but definitely better than the MAGA folks.
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Nobody said that but you though lol
Ah yes because they are equally bad
Apparently he’s Swedish, so he’s ineligible. I have no idea what his policies are.
I’m not American either. It was an extremely hypothetical scenario.
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Swedes who move to Japan are in my experience pretty damn far-right leaning (as in, wants to be able to wear their SS cosplay uniform and wear swastika pins in public).
Ok, this is frankly racist and immensely stupid. If you are going to judge him, do it based on his character. You have plenty of things to criticize about him, but him moving to Japan is not an issue. Jesus…
Swedes arent a race dumdumb.
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Honestly youre more likely to be the common denominator here than any swedes moving to japan.
You might just be a nazi magnet. Ever looked yourself in the mirror and thought, ‘wow thats some nice stainless paneling?’
What? NRM? or the other fascist scums?
At least he reads books and tries to improve himself on the regular XD
From what I know, pewdiepie 2025 is nothing like old pewdiepie. Used to review memes, now makes vlogs with his wife and kid while enjoying new life in Japan. Basically retired
Has he done any pro gamer moves lately?
Hey Lois this is like that one time I said a gamer word flashback to the bridge
I mean, he switched to Linux and has advocated for gamers to do the same. So… Maybe?
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).
He did Linux much better than Linus of LTT fame.
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.
Wouldn’t be surprised if he paid someone else to do all that lol
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.
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.
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).
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.
Why is everybody hating on him ?
echochambers and then left will complain why they are loosing
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.
Not every country finds saying n word offensive and he’s not American.
Yeah, but as a swede myself I definitely know it’s a no no word especially as by that time other YouTube’s already had their own n-word controversies.
But it’s ok for other n’s to call n eatch other :D
In the USA
The PewDiePipeline: How racist humor leads to violence.
In case you have 30min to spare
