PewDiePie just made a big move — switching to Linux. In this video, I react to his video and break down what it means from a tech perspective. Whether you’re a Linux user, a PewDiePie fan, or just curious about open source, this deep dive brings insight and commentary from someone who lives and breathes Linux.
Original Video = https://youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0
Buy my shirt = https://store.tuxdigital.com/products/linux-is-everywhere-tee
Links:
- Original Video = https://youtu.be/pVI_smLgTY0
- Getting Started with Linux (picking your first distro)
- This Week in Linux (my news show)
- Destination Linux (my podcast)
- My Fedora videos
- Fedora 42 = https://youtu.be/AEWtq81eeV0
- Make it beginner friendly = https://youtu.be/nXUbnfMz65w
- Playing Games on Linux
- GIMP 3.0
- Universal App Formats
- “Is Arch Linux Stable”, explaining Linux release styles
- My Review of Linux Mint 22
- Support the channel
Chapters:
00:00:00 Intro
00:00:13 Pewdiepie’s intro (tried to make it less painful)
00:00:42 The beginning
00:01:35 Pewdiepie comments on the reactions
00:02:18 Reason One: for why he switched to Linux
00:04:58 My suggestions for getting started with Linux
00:06:06 Reason One … continued
00:07:34 Reason Two
00:09:59 Reason Three
00:12:41 “Ricing” your system
00:13:58 Reason Four
00:15:21 “Linux Benefits Everyone”
00:19:32 Compromises for some things
00:21:14 Instead of Photoshop…
00:22:34 Photopea
00:24:36 GIMP
00:27:31 Pickcing a distro
00:27:47 My reaction to picking a distro
00:28:15 My analysis for the distros he shows as examples
00:28:39 Arch Linux
00:29:10 Debian
00:29:32 Fedora
00:30:19 Foresight Linux
00:31:24 Gentoo
00:31:58 Mandriva
00:32:17 Linux Mint, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu
00:32:42 Slax, Slackware, Sabayon
00:32:52 Red Hat
00:33:27 PCLinuxOS
00:33:44 openSUSE
00:34:13 Pewdiepie chose Linux Mint
00:35:23 Terminal tips from Pewdiepie
00:41:07 Installing apps, in the terminal
00:41:55 My comments and Flatpaks
00:43:39 Arch Linux
00:49:57 Hyprland
00:53:26 Now for the Ricing stuff
00:55:30 Pleasantly surprised by this
00:58:57 More Arch comments from me
01:02:13 My reaction to the vibes
01:03:19 Linux is more power efficient too
01:05:12 Flexibility of Linux
01:05:44 “Linux is not perfect”
01:09:39 Pewdiepie: “I need you to install Linux”
01:11:06 Linux is Everywhere (buy my shirt!)
01:12:52 Trying out Linux and how
01:14:55 sudo rm -rf joke
01:16:26 My takeaways
