• Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    341·
    13 days ago

    I’m more surprised at PewDiePie, tbh. Jason runs a Mastodon instance, with the account notjustbikes@notjustbikes.com (I’m hoping that by leaving out the @ sign before the local username, that won’t send him an unwanted notification), so the fact that he’s also a Linux user is less surprising. I don’t watch PDP, but I gather he has a very large and impressionable audience, so him promoting Linux should be good!

    • Mio@feddit.nu
      1·
      13 days ago

      I was surprised to see him promoting Linux as well. People should not be shy about this.

      • Natanael@infosec.pub
        2·
        13 days ago

        He doesn’t do a lot of gaming videos now, but it does seem so. He talked about Proton and running OBS, so for anything Linux compatible via Proton is likely that’s what he’s doing

    • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
      14·
      13 days ago

      Ok I love bike lanes now

      Ok but if you haven’t already, you really should watch the channel’s videos. They’re insanely good, and show why good city design is good for bikes, but it’s not just bikes.

    • state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      12 days ago

      I just checked and it was 1996 for me as well. I started with DLD and a 2.0 kernel. Man, those were hard times. There was no internet, I could only dial into a BBS, where I could chat with people who were using Linux. If I had problems setting up dial-up? Well… Also getting a printer to work still haunts me to this day.

  • Victor@lemmy.world
    4·
    13 days ago

    Hot take (?): For anyone who has made the switch, it was the year or the Linux desktop. 🤷‍♂️

      • Victor@lemmy.world
        1·
        13 days ago

        Same 🙂 Around 2004 ish I started experimenting with live CDs of some KDE distro. I managed to also corrupt one of my hard drives doing so. Not a fun day I remember. But I learned some valuables that day, for sure.

    • Rose@slrpnk.net
      2·
      12 days ago

      I remember it so clearly. “Ooh, multiple desktops. It’ll take forever until Windows gets this.” (It was 1996. Newbies should try messing with fvwm. Now that was configurable.)

    • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      1·
      12 days ago

      Mine will be this year, I only have 1 system left to put Linux on.

      I’m just currently learning some RAW photo editors before I cancel my Lightroom sub.

      Fusion360 was dropped a few months ago when FreeCAD went 1.0 (after I learned it enough of course)

  • GluWu@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    13 days ago

    If '25 isn’t due to people knowing win10 is going to die, '26 will be when they realize it’s dead. Started during <10.whatever Ubuntu but have been running windows because I own a nvidia GPU that I want to use to play games. I’m confident in bazzite to go full time this year but I honesty want steamos on my main PC. I’ve used it for however many years since first batch steamdecks arrived and I love it. I promise to be a fanboy if steamos can do nvidia egpus and vr headsets with less that 5 minutes of tinkering.

    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
      01·
      13 days ago

      Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it and worst case they’ll get a new computer when they get a warning that their hardware is no good anymore.

      You need a minimum of tech knowledge to care and there’s only two generations with a higher % of people who have that, the X and millennials. Zs and Alphas use mobile devices and hit a wall when they need to use a computer.

      • LouSlash@sh.itjust.works
        1·
        13 days ago

        Lulz, normal people don’t give a crap about Windows 10 not being updated anymore, they won’t even realize it

        To this day, many “normal people” use Win7 (and even XP) despite it being dead for a long time.

        Nonetheless IMO MS will somehow keep W10 on life support for quite some time after october of 2025 just for those people to finally switch to W11

        • Zagorath@aussie.zone
          1·
          13 days ago

          Yeah I also expect MS will see W11’s poor uptake (iirc, W10 actually increased market share over the last 12 months) and will see it as necessary to extend. Probably more to reduce the risk of bad press from a serious security incident, rather than because they’re afraid people will switch to Linux.