It is actually a competitor. Mean Microsoft have to improve if they want to keep the users. With the Windows 10 EOL soon they will give up on those users on those computers. Basically forcing anyone else to take care of them - Linux stands there welcoming them. Users just need a push or someone saying try this for free.
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Even PewDiePie thinks you should install Linux on your computer after saying he was "tortured by Windows"
(www.xda-developers.com)
Broken clocks are still right twice a day.
Fuck that guy though. Probably get someone else to be your Linux spokesman.
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But which Linux?
The one I use
He was and forever will be an rich kid with internet so whatever is the most popular. When he was a teenager that was Mint, now its Arch. Which is why he has Mint and Arch+hyprland.
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OTOH the idea that Windows tortured pewdiepie seems like a point in its favor.