Gents, 2025 is the year of desktop linux!
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Torvalds must be exploding of happiness! 
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Yeah I posted this over in the What were you watching Thread
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You’d be surprised by how many people heard of Pewds.
That hyprland setup is sweet…
@thefrog I felt like this deserves a thread 
I’m surprised that someone your age was the first one to post this. This just proves how popular he is.
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Oh, please, don’t get me wrong! It’s not my intention to rain on your party.
A jump up from the current ca. 4 % of market share for Linux desktop to, what should we say 4.2, 4.3…(?) due to all of these people who have heard of this “Pewds” dude switching to Linux is truly historic.
By the way, who is this dude?
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That was my first thought. Never heard of this guy until I started seeing reaction videos on YouTube. I guess he’s popular with more than 3 million YouTube subscribers.
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Guys, roll up your sleeves! We will have a heavy influx of new users coming in still thinking pacman is a video game from 1980s. YAY!!
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Pacman is a video game from the 1980s.
(I’m allowed to say that, I’m an old user. Hur, hur.)
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*110 million
He got popular by screaming while playing a horror game called Amnesia around 2010. Then he had the most subscribers on YouTube for years, currently he is at the 11th place… YouTube kinda shanked him for not being pc and advertiser friendly enough.
A lot of people still watch him, because he is still authentic and funny in a wholesome kinda way.
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I saw the reaction on Reddit /r/Arch. They’re basically horrified 
I really don’t blame them. Arch (and it’s children) are for people that want to learn about their system. I know that some people will be successful, but I also know that a lot will go away thinking Linux is absolutely horrible (because it doesn’t fit them).
And that’s even with PDP warning them to try Mint.
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who are we talking about?
oh pewdiepie
yea
I actually know people (friends mostly) that just wanna use their system for a purpose, and only learn what’s need.
Notable sample: Friend who’s doing Internet radio shows.
Him: “I can’t do what I want easily with my Windows.” (Ripping his CDs, organizing his music, easily crank off a live show besides all his other daily chores.)
Me: “Well, if you wanna learn a little (not much, promised), I could help you install another OS. Which do you want: Something rather stable, but you’d have to reinstall from time to time, like you know from Windows? Or something at the technological forefront, but it might just break from time to time, usually not for long?”
(I was thinking of Mint vs Manjaro, then.)
Him: “Weeell… Let’s go for the new thing then, if I have to learn anyways.”
He followed my installing Manjaro (few years back, that was), and started being happy. All worked, all was faster. (Libre)Office, even. Only called me a few times, when package rebuilds failed and he wasn’t sure what to do. His wife kept Win11, they always fought over their “obscure” choice of OS’es. Main reason? Wife didn’t like Manjaro color scheme. 
Lately, we switched him to EOS. He’s even happier now, doesn’t want to ever go back to Windows (although he still kept his Win7 desktop, “just in case”—but almost never uses it).
And guess what? His wife now also wants EOS! Reason: “It looks so nice. And it’s so fast. And my hubby is so happy whenever he uses it. I want that, too!”
Long story. Much less “helping hand” needed than feared. Happy beginner-level users. Sometimes, on the phone, I can hear him sing “lower.sh, lower.sh, …”—the first ever bash script he wrote (and still uses), which does nothing more than lowercase-renames files in current folder. Not only happy, but proud he is.
It can be done.
Although I, personally, could never live with PDP’s “reactor-type” Linux setup. 
And I can understand unaware Linux-Newbies being shocked by that, especially when they just want their work done.
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Always great to hear the unexpected type success stories.
I tried to promote a couple years ago, putting up flyers in the community college, grocery stores, etc for an install fest. No one came ;(
Been there, done that. (See Jeden Morgen steht ein Dummer auf, man muss ihn nur finden … - #14 by Moonbase59, in German).
Just never give up.
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never heard of this guy , maybe my teenage kids will know of him.
i watched a minute of the video …it was a pain
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lol i tell people at my work place i’m using Linux, EVERYONE’s like “what’s that?”
most sheaples only knows windows
I watched this Linux video, well some of it, and it was my first of his videos. Probably the last one too.
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