I installed Linux (so should you)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN mentions it as a sign of Linux reaching millions of non-technical viewers, with some finding it funny and others fascinating.
What it is
PewDiePie describes switching to Linux and encourages viewers to do the same. It is a casual, enthusiastic video aimed at a mainstream audience.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2025 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends mindcrash · 2025-09 · on “Jeena's Hyprland Demo”
> maybe in part due to DHH promoting it a bit Try PewDiePie. around 6.7M people now know something like Linux and Hyprland exists, and that in 2025 it might even work better than MacOS or Windows and whatever desktop environments on Linux came before. [this video]
Cites dijit · 2025-04 · on “Widespread power outage in Spain and Portugal”
Agreed. It's crazy how momentum can carry a business. To use a potentially controversial example, Microsoft products (Office, Windows) are still extremely entrenched despite the overwhelming majority of knowledgable people agreeing that they're on a steep downward trajectory and the alternatives have long since surpassed them.. leading to this[0] recent video from Pewdiepie... [0]: [this video]
Cites AlienRobot · 2025-05 · on “If nothing is curated, how do we find things”
>Actual businesspeople are pretty ruthless in getting people to using their product. Open source people aren't, by nature (except for Lennart Poettering) I watched that PewDiePie video[1] of him using Linux and I found it extremely funny that this guy was like "Linux is awesome! Freedom! (literal USA flag in the background) You are a god now!" and then every Linux-focused channel reacting to that video was like "yeah, you can play games, but not all of them. Yeah, it works, except... Yeah, you can customize but he will grow out of it when he needs to get work done..." Linux people are downers. It's like I was watching the second coming of Stallman selling to everyone the idea that you get to
Cites pizlonator · 2025-10 · on “What happened to running what you wanted on your own machine?”
> we could genuinely lose general purpose computing. > At the moment, anyone can use Linux; it's better and easier than ever. Maybe Linux will save us. This was a fascinating thing to watch for me (pewdiepie telling people to install Linux): [this video] My bet is that the momentum is strong enough that: - A critical mass of PC makers will continue to offer a Linux preinstalled option, or at least some path to installing Linux. - If Windows and macOS take more rights away, it'll just help Linux's market share. So Linux's share will probably grow not only because Linux is getting better but because the corpo OSes trying to take away general purpose computing