Reject Convenience Forum

PewDiePie encouraging you to ditch your big box OS and join the FOSS revolution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVI_smLgTY0

i love linuk

Was quite the fun Video to watch, especially representing it as an alternative, to an audience who only heard of Linuk as the Server OS or the Hacker OS and aren't Nerds .

It feels like more and more People are moving, like JamesLee and now Pewdipie.

I'm predicting a big influx of people switching to linux this year with Windows 10 losing support in October. I think Windows 11 is just bad enough that people will be open to alternatives.

SapphireFire wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:01 am I'm predicting a big influx of people switching to linux this year with Windows 10 losing support in October. I think Windows 11 is just bad enough that people will be open to alternatives.

We all thought the same thing about Windows 8. I'll believe it when I see it. Inertia is a hell of a drug.

SapphireFire wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 3:01 am I'm predicting a big influx of people switching to linux this year with Windows 10 losing support in October. I think Windows 11 is just bad enough that people will be open to alternatives.

I agree with Zonk on that, normal People don't care about EOL. I know of people still using Windows 7. But I do see a small Jump in Users for Linux (big for Linux but small for actual Market Share), in part of the Windows 10 EOL, but more because of Entshitification of Win 10/11 and Quicker loss of Software Support for Games and Similar on Win 10. Particularly the Tech Enthusiast and maybe a bit of the Gamer Demographic.

But hey 2026 will be the Year of the Linux Desktop.

zonk wrote: Wed Apr 30, 2025 1:32 pm We all thought the same thing about Windows 8. I'll believe it when I see it. Inertia is a hell of a drug.

It isn't just inertia. Users need to learn a new way of working, with new applications and new problems to solve. They also have to content with a world where Microsoft has spent decades and unfathomable amounts of money to make their OS the only OS. I tried Linux for a bit myself, but wound up sticking with Windows solely because it meant less headaches in getting devices to work and locating replacement software for what I'd use.

It is truly better than ever to switch to a flavor of linux, but that's not really saying a lot.

I'm always hopeful for more people to switch, one of my friends is planning on it once Win10 ends support and I've been using Linux since last year. I'm actually planning on getting a Framework laptop too cause they have good Linux support and my current laptop is falling apart

I've switched to Linux Mint since the begining of the year, and not going back. I enjoyed Pewdiepie's video !

However, I my solution has been dualbooting, and debloating my windows install. It has been running like a dream ! I don't have all of the necessary things that come with windows 11.

I'll probably end up making a video about it, because fully switching is not necessarily desirable, doable, practical or even necessary for the vast majority of people. I love linux mint and use it 90% of the time. But for example, Expedition 33 just runs 10x better on windows, so I'm kind of forced to play it on there.

To me, here's the order of what people can do depending on their priority and what they're able to do.

Debloat Windows 11 -> REALLY debloat Windows 11 -> Dual boot Linux Mint/Ubuntu & debloated Windows 11 -> Run only a distro like Linux Mint -> Learn a distro like Arch

But again, to me, Linux Mint + Debloated Windows 11 is really the perfect mix. There's just certain necessary things I straight up cannot do in Linux.

I disagree that Arch is the pinnacle or final destination of Linux distros. There are deep problems with Arch that the maintainers are unwilling to address. Foremost among these are the fact that updates can and will wreck your system if you just accept them blindly without first checking the News page on the website to see if manual intervention is required. It embodies most of the bad stereotypes people have about Linux: that you spend more time fixing and tweaking your system than actually using it.

I think Arch is valuable for precisely one reason: installing it manually will teach you a fair bit about the moving parts of a GNU/Linux system and thereby give you some intuition for troubleshooting other distros. It's worth a go if you've never done it before. Also their wiki has a well-earned reputation for being very thorough and informative, and I occasionally find myself looking things up there even though I don't use Arch anymore.

I'm running Fedora these days on the desktop. I think it checks the stability boxes people are looking for in something like Mint but with better maintainers. Mint has gone on record saying they don't really care that much about security updates (though I'm having trouble finding that blog post; it was some 8 years ago).

And for a bit of cheekiness: the final destination is transcending Linux altogether and switching to OpenBSD.