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Inspirational or utterly unwatchable—certainly controversial—YouTuber PewDiePie's latest ruse is one you might actually be interested in. He's deGoogling and using a Steam Deck of all things to help him along that path.
"The past couple of weeks I've completely deGoogled," he says. "I don't use any of Google's so-called free services. Except YouTube, I literally can't escape."
Article continues belowThe rather convoluted solution is to use his Steam Deck for that and to use a clean install of the Arch distro which he also has on his desktop, despite the fact that SteamOS itself is based on Arch. Whatever, the result is that he has his "notes app running beautifully."
If that seems like a lot of effort for one app, he also added an extension so he can run his Deck over ethernet, so that it uses less power. "I thought it'd be kind of cool to use the display, so I can use that for monitoring. I run Tmax and Btop on it and it looks so cool."
"And before you ask, yes I can still game on it all right. It runs 2% of my cpu. It's like this weird home lab abomination at this point, but I love it," he adds. His overarching point with the Deck he says, isn't that it specifically is essential, but that, "if you want to deGoogle, you can use whatever you have at your disposal."
Without doubt, this particular has given plenty of cause for concern over the years in terms of political views. And his delivery will be an instant turn off for many. But there's no doubting that this is an interesting take on and guide to de-Googling, an idea that's only becoming more relevant.
1. Best overall:
Asus ROG Ally X
2. Best budget:
Steam Deck
3. Best high-end:
MSI Claw 8 AI+
4. Best big screen:
Lenovo Legion Go
5. Best compact:
Ayaneo Flip DS
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