PewDiePie uses Arch, btw

First time Linux user

Knows nothing about the choices you make in Arch to personalize your system

"Yes, Arch is the one for me! Because I know everything about Linux already."

Soon: "I don't know why X is happening on my system"

If the steam deck keep growing in popularity, Arch is going to be the first linux for a lot of people.
- Just because SteamOS is based on Arch now doesn't mean that using SteamOS teaches you anything about using Linux or Arch specifically.
  
  The SteamDeck literally obfuscates most of it and you have to choose to boot into desktop mode to even mess with anything.
He doesn't need to keep his system working, he can probably pay someone for that. He needs something that will maximize engagement, and a million "I use arch BTW" comments is exactly what he wants.
- I don't think that was the goal cause he didn't post like a post, it's a story. Engagement on it is not visible and as far as I'm aware, it doesn't boost anything.
  
  Also Linux would be the last place any influencer would go for engagement farming.
Baptism by fire ¯\(ツ)/¯

All hail the wiki 🙌🏻
He started with Linux Mint from what I've seen.
Assuming that's not some default config I just don't know, that's actually a rather competently built config for i3 or similar. If he did that hinself he should manage.
- It says it is using Hyprland which is a Wayland-bases tiling window manager with pretty good defaults.
based
I used Ubuntu for like a month then switched to arch 8 years ago never looked back... what's your point
- cry more
So Arch is basically Windows but with nerdnip.
- Any conclusions drawn from a child's personality can't necessarily then be applied to a parent. Hannah Montana Linux was ultimately a Debian, but it was so far from stock Debian that the comparison makes no sense. The same, I assume, applies with the Arch-derivative that runs on Steam decks. We're not in Arch-kansas any more, Toto.
  
  The closest to "Windows with nerdnip" is probably Linux Mint, but even then that's a fairly unkind comparison.
  
  I use LMDE, btw.

Gross

Fuck this nazi.

No, no, don't fuck Nazis ever. Punch them.
I may not be entirely up to date but why pewdiepie is nazi
- i have the same question
You all are still on that train from 2017?
- Do you think disliking nazis was something we were supposed to stop doing at some point?
- Depends, did he change and grow as a person?
- revealing much more than you meant to by insinuating that opposition to fascism is a trend line you hope to be on the edgiest side of.
- Enjoy your downvotes.

Is linux becoming this popular, or is this a one-off incident?

Definitely a one off thing case here. Last week he was on mint and now on arch with hyprland already. He doesn't upload that much so he's probably experimenting a lot.
- I see, yeah it didn't feel like linux would be popular enough to be on the radar.
It's certainly been gaining some momentum lately. Just within the past year I saw this channel coming out of nowhere with some videos about Linux, this famous animator finally getting rid of Windows and Adobe and also this guy talking about it.

I wonder if he'll make a video (if he hasn't already) on why he chose to switch to Linux; I'm quite interested to hear what made him decide to switch, and I'm also very interested to hear what issues, if any, he encountered along the way.

Who cares what a Nazi uses?

Care to elaborate? I'm not updated to PewDiePie's stuff anymore. I'm living under the fucking rock.
- He had a bunch of "Haha, I'm just being a nazi ironically and what even is a nazi, this symbol has lots of other historical usages" incidents, such as paying a foreigner to yell "death to jews" and doing a video where he was wearing a shirt with an iron cross on the collar.
- https://youtu.be/pnmRYRRDbuw

Hyperland and arch? Not what I expected

oh great, Linux certainly needs a nazi seal of approval

woah what
- Many years ago he paid like 5 bucks to see if some Indian guys would write "heil Hitler" on a sign and hold it up for a video (they did}. He was doing stupid edgy humor and playing with like like many creators at the time. Many people canceled him "fully" a year or so after that when he had the "bridge incident". He called someone the n word for camping or something while he was playing PUBG. He apologized and took responsibility for using the word...sorta. He continued to make content for a few more years and then he "retired" in Japan with his wife and child. They post update videos every few months but more or less he got his bag and dipped out after he pulled too many stupid moves and was seen as "toxic" to work with.
  
  I don't think he's a bad person, but that's just as someone who occasionally watched his videos over the years.
- what the other guy said barely scratches the surface. he did so many things, shouting out a straight up neonazi propaganda channel as one of his favorites was one of them. he's a pussy too, he always has this plausible deniability shit ready to go. but that only works if you're stupid. you can "accidentally" do nazi shit only so many times before people catch on.
You are a griefer.

Why should I care?

Do whatever you want bro, Im not your fucking mom

"I had to reinstall" in 3... 2... 1...

Anti Commercial-AI license

why does his status bar look better than mine :(

This is so irrelevant to me. To be honest I never watched a single video of this person.

I did nazi that one coming...

Not beyond engagement bait he doesn't. Fuck that guy

Engagement bait using linux is just laughably ridiculous. How many arch users do you think there are that also happen to use instagram.

Wasn't he hacked?