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Okay yeah, thats a more accurate picture.

I honestly think im glad i missed his cringe douche phase. I actually hate that whole influencer youtube bullshit.

But he really is not like those twats now lol

I like that you like him now… But i don’t think the main reason he’s become cool now is due to him… not wanting to be cringe lol.

Obv yeah the audience n he grew but it sorta takes agency away from him by knowing its all bullshit haha. Like yes, he’s a huge YouTube star but he’s also now huge advocate of privacy, security and mental health.

He’s not just doing this cos he doesnt wanna be cringe.

This is such an idiotic take. Yes i get it, Brave do try to offer some bullshit features out of the box, but there’s not many (if any) that don’t. You are not supporting scams or homophobia by using Brave.

You can very easily and quickly lock down Brave to remove all their nonsense. This is just the same like you do with other browsers so all good.

Yeah, company is shady, but browser is still grand for now if you do your own lockdown of features.

If you wish a browser rec, please go with Mullvad.

I know Brave is a big no no in these woods but they offer an option to select your own Content Filtering lists and one of those is Youtube Shorts.

Fantastic privacy feature.

Also they have Paywall Blocker, AI Suggsstion Blocker… Etc etc

I totally missed him being a Youtube jackoff and only watched my first Pewdiepie video last year when he was degoogling. Because I was doing that as well. Then saw his Linux video and that made me realise Linux was for me.

So while people might think he’s some sort of douche, to me he’s just fucking brilliant! So funny and smart, and really wants to help people escape from the awful internet we have now, where everything is sucking up your data. He gives great advice on how to do that and does it in such a funny way.

People keep mentioning his redemption arc lol, but i’ve just seen the great stuff so for me, abs love his stuff! Highly recommended!

Best thing for Linux, having such a huge Youtuber praising it so much!

Pages for you to check further -

https://www.protondb.com/app/1985810?device=pc

From checking the instructions on fitgirl, the extra steps are really not good (for whether it works on linux) because the more weird stuff you need to do with the repack to get them working on Windows, means there’s even more ways for this to then break on Linux.

Definitely something you could try to get working. Best of luck with it!

Also if it is a bit of a struggle to get working or not, I hope you don’t give up on trying Linux. It really is a great operating system and the vast majority of games do run. Just so happens these types of anti cheat shooters are built to block Linux

Specifically answering the COD part, if you mean any of the new Call of Duty’s - almost certainly not. They will simply not work on Linux.

https://www.protondb.com/search?q=Call+of+duty

Have you tasted that shit?

Holy fuck, amazing!

Six seven

I first read of him in Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything (fantastic book). It really shows how awful this man was.

I also love this quote from the wiki article on his legacy -

He “had more adverse impact on the atmosphere than any other single organism in Earth’s history”.

Lol Heroes reference?

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2025/11/budget-samsung-phones-shipped-with-unremovable-spyware-say-researchers

I have to deal with tons of app issues in work, from users of Samsung and Xiaomi. I would honestly never buy either brand.

They are both filled with proprietary garbage, you have to use workarounds to try and disable and even then, these two companies are some of the worst for simply ignoring the workarounds and overriding them.

https://dontkillmyapp.com/

https://dontkillmyapp.com/problem

I moved a couple months back fully and have tried quite a few distros (before I figured out the hardware issue I was having on my Acer laptop). I have mostly used Pop OS (pre-Cosmic) and now Nobara is my daily driver.

Nobara is fantastic, it suits my use case perfectly and has everything ready to go essentially. The set up was very smooth and maintenance is a breeze. I did try Cachy too (when i still had my annoying hardware fault) and would love to try it again at some stage but I’m settled on Nobara and feel like the Fedora base is the perfect platform for learning more Linux in depth.

I was initially in love with Gnome and hated KDE for how it tried to copy Windows with the bottom left menu - I wanted something fresher. But i have used it more and customised it so its less like Windows and I adore KDE now as well.

I still use Windows on a separate laptop for work and its hilarious how shit Windows 11 is now, especially in comparison to using such a beautiful desktop environment on my personal laptop. So many things are broken and I just hate the fact that its almost entirely spyware, being filled with vibe coded ai shite and they still try and serve you ads when searching for stuff.

Fuck Microslop! Will never buy another Windows machine.

One thing I’d like to clarify too, it may have sounded like I was throwing shade on Garuda and Bazzite but didn’t mean that at all. I assume the issue was related to the same hardware fault I have been experiencing with all these distros. Definitely would like to try Garuda and/or Cachy at some point in the future when I’m more comfortable.

With Bazzite being immutable, not sure I’d be able to do the needed fix for my hardware to work okay.

This sounds awesome actually. I was looking through them by pressing up and going through one by one but can be a slog when there is a lot lol. I’ve been trying to make Joplin notes to myself for particularly useful commands but I’ve forgotten to do it quite a few times

Haha yeah I have noticed that slightly too. Bought a Raspberry Pi at start of December to try and set up a personal music server, so been learning ssh and docker etc on that side of things lol. I am very lucky with the server side stuff because a good friend of mine set up his own emby server during lockdown, so he is very knowledgeable about server stuff and is able to break things down for me to help explain.

I was also lucky to also get the RP4 for £60ish and then with the recent price hike caused by ram shortages its now up to £95 in my neck of the woods!

Lol i kept thinking of him too when typing GSP, he was one of the GOATs!