Surprising to see Youtuber PewDiePie (110M subscribers) publishing a video last night , "I installed Linux (so should you)" with a call to his community to join the platform, underlining the fun of customisation and DIY, in opposition to all the enshitification of Windows. His main point of friction for moving was Photoshop, and he explained how he made the effort to adapt GIMP to his needs. Always good to see initiatives like that shared to large audience.
Loy Hena
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in reply to Loy Hena • • •@loyhena Thank you for the information.
I thought about this eventuality and I thought I was cautious by visiting en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePi… before posting, but quickly haven't found any "controversial" chapter and after quickly browsing, I thought the guy was more or less ok. My error. I probably should have read all the long page ( now I see it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PewDiePi… ). A proof I don't know really the influencer except of being a "famous video game YouTuber". My bad!
Swedish YouTuber (born 1989)
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Loy Hena
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in reply to David Revoy • • •Swedish YouTuber (born 1989)
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in reply to David Revoy • • •Octavia Con Amore Succubard's Library
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in reply to Octavia Con Amore Succubard's Library • • •@OctaviaConAmore Thank you for the suggestion.
Yes, I thought about that. But then I thought maybe it's better to keep the video link to reference what we are talking about in this thread.
My reply under directly will be also federated wherever this post goes, so the complement of info will be available and around too.
Octavia Con Amore Succubard's Library
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in reply to David Revoy • • •I think it's done in bad faith that 6 years after the incidents which Felix has properly addressed and condemned, that people are still trying to portray him as a bad person (unless something happened recently).
bad apples exist everywhere, but I don't see how Felix is now responsible for it. he has changed.
Mark Dominus
in reply to David Revoy • • •"It does not of necessity follow that, if the work delights you with its grace,
the one who wrought it is worthy of your esteem." (Plutarch)
People do bad things and good things. This is a good thing, whatever this person did in the past, and you were right to say so.
Rickyx
in reply to David Revoy • • •If so, very few people could say good things. Could we therefore infer from the criticism of Stallman that his message is false, or immoral, or do we not accept his fans?
Yet the GPL says precisely that you are free, even to use Linux to drive a bomb (...already done) or to advertise fascism (... already done).
Not that I agree with it, at all.
David Revoy
in reply to Rickyx • • •@rickyx I understand, but it is an easy dilemma and all come down to: "should we praise the good actions of someone who did shitty stuff in the past (or continue to do it)."
I'm on the team of 'yes', especially if the action has impact, well done, and I think this is one path to escape a polarisation/manichaeism effect. But still! Acknowledging and informing about what this person did for context, and sharing about it is also important. My first post was incomplete in this regard.
lertsenem
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in reply to David Revoy • • •Been using #Gimp for (I want to say 10 years)...
...the only showstopper would be if you rely on all the custom filters and add-ons you may use professionally.
For most mortals, gimp is perfect.
Johnno
in reply to David Revoy • • •There are some applications that are rather tricky to get workign on a Linux platform. The technos will know how to do it but the ordinary punters like me just do without.
But - what I really like is being translated into the open source commons and all the other things that work on the basis of shared rather than locked-down knowledge.
Satin Thérèse
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in reply to David Revoy • • •Yes, I successfully installed a Linux distribution this week on an old 2009 MacBook Pro and gave it new life. Perfect technology to keep older machines very useful. Runs very well.
I will install on my newer MacBook Pro as well.
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in reply to David Revoy • • •Oh goody. Finally someone who speaks up for fascists is interested in Linux.
Hooray. What a huge win.
David Revoy
in reply to troy_friz_zell • • •@troy_frizzell 😅 To be fair, I had no idea about who was PDP and what type of audience he seduced in the past when I posted this. I quickly 'revised my copy' and added a reply to my post a couple of minutes after the rain of info about him.
Well, let's hope this entry in the Linux world about the most rotten part of his audience will open for them a world of wonder, with showing them basic mechanism of 'living well together' like observing a code of conduct, cooperating, and sharing. 😆
sahilister
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in reply to Thomas P. Moonis • • •This one did pop out of my recommendation, probably because I'm consuming a lot of Linux related content.
Damian Fajfer
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in reply to David Revoy • •You guys know he's a white supremacist?
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Jigme Datse
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in reply to Jigme Datse • • •Got this one in my recommendation probably because I'm searching often the keyword Linux.
I checked the video again this morning, 3 Millions view. Even if only 1% joins his call to action, that's suddenly 30K new GNU/Linux user. Impressive audience.
David Revoy
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