Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"
He even has a fave distro now.
PewDiePie is a nazi shitbag who doesn't deserve publicity for this stunt or anything else he's done in his miserable, fascist excuse for a life.
this is a really wierd selection of distros
Whoa, I didn't know Sabayon was still around. I remember poking around with it in like... 2007 or 2008? It was one of the only ones with Beryl and I wanted to check out the silly eye candy
Lol
Okie Pew, show me an open source spreadsheet app that can do tables, I'll wait.
Or, let's see you install Debian in one try on any of my machines. Or worse, Mint. Machines that Windows has zero problem installing.
How about cad? Or running any form of CNC? or a million other systems that have zero support in Linux land?
Tell you what, Pew, maybe you should come to the real world where most of us don't have time to play with our asses to get standard hardware, like Logitech mice to work.
And I use Linux every day, as servers. But I'll be damned if I ever use, or recommend it, as a desktop. There are tools I need (like excel) that simply must work, as-is. Unless you want to pay to redevelop all the systems that have automation to output/input excel formats that have been operating for a decade or more.
If Pew was "tortured by windows", then I seriously doubt his technical creds, , frankly.
LibreOffice Calc?
Also, I installed Linux many, many times and it has been much smoother than windows. Even excluding privacy stuff. Even assuming one has a Microsoft Account at hand and internet. There have been multiple instances of drivers simply missing from the installer. Like Mouse/Touchpad drivers. Or disk drivers. Literally making it impossible to install Windows, without either great knowledge of the cmd, or traversing each and everything, including the traps and bullshit M$ placed into the installer on purpose, via keyboard. Debian, Pop, Arch and other liveboots worked perfectly fine.
There have been multiple instances of drivers simply missing from the installer. Like Mouse/Touchpad drivers. Or disk drivers.
This, 100% irks me to this day, but not as much as their broken reinventions of the wheel for an attempt to make it more 'user friendly' to install drivers automatically, that is if the user knows what Device Manager is, where to find it, etc. And then they broke that, and decided to include everything into windows update.
Did you know MS scans for drivers and uploads them automatically to their database, just to be paired based on the Hardware ID? I only see so much potential for malicious drivers with fake signatures its unbelievable, I am legit surprised no one has come with a PoC so far (and if you're interested on working on it, send me a message, I'm kinda interested too)
I really miss the old XP days were you knew you had a driver disc somewhere, and could pop it in after a fresh install and let it do its thing. And the disc came with your motherboard / new hardware directly from the retailer.
Funny of you to say that. I've got a Orange pi 5 MAX (which I'm pretty sure it can fall into the "not a easy machine to install Linux" category) and the experience, for the most part, was straightforward. (You've mentioned an issue regarding mices --I've got a "Ragnok 2 gun mice" and it "just werked" on it. No tweaks or "mental gymnastics" required.). Hell, even enabling hardware acceleration was very straightforward as is -- you just have to know where and what to look for.
I'm not trying to defend Pewdiepie -- just saying that Linux can be "user friendly" just like Windows if you know what you are dong.
Posting this in an explicitly pro-linux community on an open source federated social media designed for the purpose of seperating online social spaces from corporate control is silly behavior imo
