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Smart Linus dropping good natured zingers on Less Smart Linus was the tonic I didn't know I needed.
It was really fun to watch honestly, it flew by. I'm surprised how charismatic the smart Linus is on camera
cygnusI feel a debt of gratitude to people like Linus Torvalds and Ton Roosendaal. In a world full of greedy capitalists trying to extract every last scrap of rent they can from humanity, people like them show us that humanity can do better.
Is this enough to update the Fedora Linux wikipedia page, or is it still just "the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020)"? It isn't exactly confirmed but ... like what else is he gonna use. I don't know if he'd be caught dead using Debian or Arch, and OpenSUSE would be too wild a choice.
I mean, I feel like he outright confirms it in the video. It's his distro of choice since it allows him to easily use his own compiled kernels in testing. Anything else is an inconvenience to his work.
exuAh, but primary recountings aren't sources, you first need to write an article or book about it (according to Wikipedia sometimes)
Interviews do typically count, it just has to be citable. Videos are sufficient in that regard as well, not just articles or books. It would be different if Torvalds had edited his own wikipedia page, but an editor who updates the page and cites this video would not be in the wrong.
WeirdGoesProWhy would Debian be unacceptable?
Cause Debian is an out of date rock.
If you need a rock it's good
But it's still a rock for better or worse and rocks are a pain in the ass to do anything with that isn't just having it sit there.
Because holding back updates makes the system insecure and unstable.
Are you really saying that Debian is an unstable distro? Regarding security, can you name one security update Debian did ever fail to apply on time? Because it's pointless to compare feature updates and security updates.
The reason Debian is known to be "outdated" regarding features only is exactly why it's considered one of the most, even if not the most, stable distro. Because it's long time tested between upgrades.
Debian is a stable server distro, but in the desktop space users expect everything to just work and while Fedora is usually backwards compatible, Debian isn't always forwards compatible.
As for security updates, IDK.
I'm operating mostly of second-hand information I vaguely remember, I'm not an expert on these things so I'm not really the person to be discussing this with. There's surely a reason Linus uses Fedora over Debian though.
My subjective opinion: he uses it because of bleeding edge kernel version. And it is surely, for him more than anyone else, an important point. But it doesn't mean older kernels are not secure, they can be patched when needed. And the "needed" varies, for some distro it means it's just not the last one, for others that additionnal and interesting features are added. For Debian, it means patching vulnerabilities if there are, or take the required time to offer a tested and coherent pack of updates. Because otherwise there is for now, no need. Testing is a specific point that no other distro has ever did better than Debian, but the same reason why it feels old to many and not enough up to date, regarding features.
I'm obviously a Debian advocate, but I'm not saying it's in general the best distro, there are none. Only best for some usage, and not for others.
But it doesn't make it unsecure (that's partly why it's one of the most used server side) and "holding back" updates. :)
SibshopsProbably not, at least not until there is coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources. Wikipedia generally doesn't include trivia.
It was a really enjoyable video and it's the first time I see any video of the creator of a project I love. I also enjoy LTT videos even if people on Lemmy dislike him. I like the fact that he's trying to have another platform than youtube, even if it ain't the one I support (Peertube).
Why do people on Lemmy dislike LTT?
Mostly because he is a YouTube entertainer, and not necessarily an tech expert. He got some shitstorm a while ago because of the bad treatment of some of his staff, and other YouTubers called him out because his benchmarks where wrong multiple times, but he would never revisit and correct them. Some staff members said this was impossible for them to to accurate testing and reviews because of the high pressure to churn out new videos.
Personally I get the vibe that he is nice and entertaining in front of the camera, but might be a less chill person as your boss.
MoreFPSmorebetterMostly unsubstantiated rumors passed around about why certain employees no longer work there. Linus has on multiple occasions admitted he was doing everything for the first time and he didn't always get everything right as the company transitioned from some dudes in a house to a legitimate company.
Some don't like him because of his opinions on things (most of the apple fanboys don't like him because he regularly shits on apple and iPhones).
Some people don't like him because of drama with other YouTubers (mostly Steve from gamers nexus).
As someone who used to watch him daily back when it was just him and Luke doing stupid shit in a regular house and doesn't really watch him much anymore I don't think Linus is an outright bad person. All of us are flawed in many ways. He seems like mostly a good guy and those who have met with him and worked with him that I have met or talked to only ever had nice things to say about him.
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He's an immature man-child.
He does not handle being told he's wrong very well. Granted, the people he surround himself with are no different. LTT was promoting take science products (aka scams) and when got called out on it by an actual scientist, lashed out.
The warranty for his (I think it was a) backpack, was trust me bro.
Until it was constantly complained about in comment sections, he would "joke" (as the then CEO) of firing people.
The warranty for his (I think it was a) backpack, was trust me bro.
To be fair, the warranty was proposed to be "trust me bro", the community very much didn't like that, so it actually came with a real warranty when it launched. So it never actually happened.
Or at least he actually applied a real warranty then. It shouldn't have taken people telling him that was a terrible idea for him to do that. But good to hear that people that buy at least got a real warranty.
Sexual harassment, poor work life balance, anti union, etc
w3dd1eThat and the thing where GamerNexus caught them benchmarking incorrectly, then selling off prototypes that they didn’t pay for. It’s not a good look for their integrity.
GN found a bunch of other errors but LTT won’t retest because of the aforementioned selling off prototypes they were given.
I think it looks good for the integrity of Linus that he took the blame and never revealed the identity of the logistics employee that made the mistake of misassigning the prototype for the auction. He could've easily thrown them under the bus and fired them instead, because their mistake did real reputational damage to the company.
That’s interesting. I’ll need to look it up.
I never really watched LTT even before the controversy. The story about the woman who moved to Canada to work there then got fucked over kinda turned me off so I started avoiding them. Something about it just felt icky but maybe I’m wrong about that.
I tried watching MKBHD but something about him feels off too.
Maybe I’m the problem.
Sexual harassment
It was found to be an untrue allegation by a third party. You can of course choose to not believe them, but there was never any proof and everyone who works there denies it (and a lot of women work there), so take of that what you will.
poor work life balance
Very true
anti union
Linus is not anti-union. He said he would consider it a personal failure if his employees felt the need to unionize, but he supports their right to do so.
It was NOT found to be untrue. Full stop.
It was found to be unsubstantiated. If you have experience with these types of investigations, that’s the most common outcome.
In order to substantiate it, there must be evidence multiple years after the fact.
Considering the poor data retention LTT has to it’s critical data, I seriously doubt their email/IM archives are much better. People forget, leave the company, etc.
They don’t interview former employees, except the subject/person who made the allegations.
These firms aren’t going to find evidence the majority of their investigations.
Considering the person who supposedly conducted th sexual harassment follows alt right manosphere people AND made a sexual joke during the sexual harassment meeting they had (I wonder why an employee recorded this meeting?) I’d consider the person who made the allegations is most likely to be truthful.
If you look at prosecution data of sexual assault, rape, etc you’ll see that the vast majority of cases go unprosecuted due to lack of evidence.
While this is slightly different, it is an interpersonal issue and hard records are unlikely
It was NOT found to be untrue. Full stop. It was found to be unsubstantiated.
You are right, I was imprecise. What I meant is that "it was not found to be true", not that "it was found to be not true".
Emyria~Once my arch system break I’m probably moving to fedora.
So like a week from now?
flying_sheepIs that some meme? My system has been rock solid for years.
Listen, if Debian users can take all the "Debian==old and bad" flak, you can handle a little ribbing about arch.
Oh yeah I have to deal with software that noticeably changes multiple times per decade! Spoooooky!
Except Debian packages do get very old. Which people often have to work around, leading to a less stable system. And Arch is quite stable.
Stable meaning “works without crashing or glitching” not “version numbers never change” (which is what stable means in Debian Stable).
Except Debian packages do get very old.
Except nothing. Not the point. You are taking this way too seriously. I'm not disrespecting arch, it's a joke.
Arch users... Every. Single. Time.
T4V0“version numbers never change” (which is what stable means in Debian Stable).
My interpretation of stable isn't just versions not changing, only that the bugs are known and newer ones aren't easily introduced, i.e. the state of the system is know. While rolling releases are fantastic for end users and to obtain the latest software, sometimes a particular bug or change will modify a user's workflow.
Arch breaks less frequently then Ubuntu at this point... Honestly I would put arch in the top 3 most stable and unbreaking options.
You have to go out of your way to break arch nowadays. The catch 22 is arch will happily allow you to do that. But it sure won't do it, it self.
Lol wut? I've been running the same garuda arch install for over 9 months without a single issue.
This video confirmed one thing for me. The key to success and making a big contribution and staying sane is avoiding social media
KazelI don't know if Linus (Sebastian) knows, but the interject copypasta that he tried baiting Linus (Torvalds) into was actually Stallman so no wonder Linus (Torvalds) didn't react to his prods.
T (they/she)Speaking of Linus Tech Tips, here is mister sebastien himself just joshing with the folk at <checks notes> kiwi farms. And... telling them to use more slurs.
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1pbp23m/linus_the_other_one_posted_on_kiwifarms_to_talk/ and confirmed by mister tech tips himself https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1pbp23m/comment/nrsdlzk/
So... he has been a pretty mask off piece of shit for years. But... damned if this isn't a new world record for a collaboration to age into sour milk
☂️-linus (sebastian) is not a great person but cmon that's a big stretch.
What is the stretch? That he registered at kiwi farms and even got his account verified so he could shitpost with them, make fun of "lolcows", and tell them to use more slurs? Or that he himself actively did not deny it and even joked about how people who think that is a bad idea have bad teeth?
this kinda just shows he was affected by their trolling.
How does He know their lingo?
that's literally standard internet chud lingo, what does this have to do with anything
Very funny video
Didn’t know Torvalds was this chill
He's always been pretty chill unless someone is trying to merge code he doesn't like into the Linux kernel, then he'd throw 20 back-to-back emails insulting that guy and go back to the Linus we know.
De LancreHe's pretty chill, unless you break userspace. In that case, Linus will break you.
But pretty cool otherwise
sp3ctr4lMuch respect to Torvalds, but the LTT dude sets off my creep alarms.
Dunno if you are familiar with this. Supposedly it was resolved, but I'm not familiar with how or who conducted the investigation.
The gist of the allegations is in the last couple paragraphs.
Yeah, this whole thing was disappointing, even if it wasn't against the law per se.
Hiring a fan and then being playfully toxic with them as their boss was never going to end well.
Like yes, it gets overblown, but it was still a mistake on his part.
Why are LTT's teeth so... Yellow?
Edit: oh, he has braces with yellow rubber bands. I wonder why he went with yellow of ahh colors?
the16bitgamerAccording to other comments, they are supposed to be transparent… then he ate butter chicken or some food with dye.
That's gross, but TIL. Certainly he can afford new ones?
From watching wan show these bands are ones you need to have the orthodontist change, and he can probably not be arsed to change those just for a discoloration when they're changed on a schedule anyway.
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SkullgridMy god the (fake) Linus is annoying....barely made it through the first five minutes
boredsquirrelTLDW on his hardware recommendations?
- chill interview, recommended to watch
- hardware recommendations see below
teftThe parts from the build according to the youtube description:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
Intel Arc B580 GPU
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU
ASUS ProArt Display PA32QCV 31.5" 6K HDR Monitor
redjardECC ram. Hardware stability was the main factor.
Real Linus mentions spending days hunting an instability bug in the kernel to have it turn out as bad ram on his pc.
That's such a weird build, why have that PSU? That build doesn't get even close to requiring 1600W, the CPU + GPU are at around 550W together
Torvalds likes his computer quiet so that psu with so much overhead, the fan probably won’t ever turn on.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮Just don't put fans in to begin with. Run the rig in a container full of mineral oil.
It's a perfect build because it validates my personal choice to almost always use Fractal Design cases.
Previously I was primarily going off of vibes, but those have now been upgraded to objective truths.
Sounds like the type of builds I use to do. Generally looking for most bang for the buck so the power supply was more than necessary. Handy when upgrading unless a new socket comes out (ugh).
I dont get what the pc is built for. It can't be a gaming PC, none of the parts make sense together.
The Intel Battlemage is an interesting choice. I'd put one in non-gaming PC if the price was right, but what is his reasoning?
I have alchemist cards that have been running 8 hours a day on QA PCs perfectly fine for 2+ years. They sucked for the first couple months until Intel significantly improved the drivers.
Sound.
He isn't gaming, so he didn't need a powerfull gaming card that can get noicy.
He just needed something that can drive his two monitors (think they were 8k), and be silent.
artyomI think the most interesting bit was his stance on ECC memory. Basically he says everyone should be using it.
ikiddBlame Intel for making that a bold statement. Their refusal to allow ECC on anything except expensive server SKUs for decades set data integrity back substantially.
Fuck Intel.
As a devil's advocate; what if they allowed ECC by default and manufacturers became overly reliant on it to make certain RAM chips binnable that never should have been?
I can't say I follow you. The price difference between ecc and nonecc should be so low as to make nonecc extinct, in a world where the marketing shits at Intel didn't have their way. How would it end up being a negative?
There's a parts list on the YT description.
lnxtx (xe/xem/xyr)Here it is (links excluded):
Check out the parts from the build:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X:
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard:
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD:
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler:
Intel Arc B580 GPU:
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case:
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU:
ASUS ProArt Display PA32QCV 31.5" 6K HDR Monitor:
Worth stating that this video was much more about the interview, rather than giving hardware recommendations.
the video was genuinely fun though. real linus has a rare nerd charisma.
God damn the LTT hate is huge in this channel. I don't really get it, but shit you guys really don't like a tech review channel.
When I posted this, there wasn't a single comment about the actual interview with Linus Torvalds. That's a crazy amount of vitriol.
I don't hate LTT but they are mostly an entertainment channel nowadays, not a review channel.
Their reviews are focused on sponsored products, sometimes wrong and most of the time don't go into much depth. Not to mention the countless ads, sponsorships and clickbait.
If somebody likes them, more power to them, but I don't go to LTT when I need information about something.
Sometimes I just want entertainment. I'm not always looking for the latest product to upgrade or build a PC.
It's a huge deal that a youtuber as big as LTT is promoting Linux. This is how we break into the mainstream.
No kidding, it's intense. I like the channel well enough, and find they've handled their various scandals to my satisfaction, at least. And yes, it's 100% more entertainment than deep technical content I'm gonna learn from, but whatever, guilty pleasures aren't some horrible sin, and it's a better use of my time than reality TV. Being such a large channel does also get them access to some really worthwhile stuff now and again, like major factory tours, or Linus Torvalds, and that is stuff that's really worth my time.
All of that said, I assume there's lots of people here like myself, but it just ain't worth jumping out of the woodwork for the guy. I like him, but not nearly enough to cast myself against this much vitriol for his sake.
This is the coolest video they've done in ages, and Linus Torvalds seems like such an excellent, genuine guy. He gives really thoughtful answers to even some of the silly joke questions, and it's great. I super appreciate his perspective, and he interviews excellently.
Something gets popular, people have to demonstrate how unique and sparkly they are by going against it, it's a tale as old as time. I watch their videos occasionally and understand he's neither demon nor god. But try listening to their WAN Show podcast and tell me he's not (mostly) genuine and open...
The channel has no technical depth and has had one too many controversies to be considered valid. It's a way for large companies to "give" the newest most expensive shit to have it featured for viewers to see and want to buy the newest most expensive shit. He is a sales person.
He spent a lot of years shitting on Linux on his channel before he pulled his head out of his ass and got halfway conciliatory about it. The few times he tried Linux it seemed like the entire show was designed to fail using linux to push people away. And considering how mercenary he has been throughout the years, it wouldn't surprise me if he was paid to do that.
LTT was a big supporting factor for why I degoogled and switched to Linux when I did. It was partially because of their work I jumped over to self-hosting, open source, or other less "evil corpo" apps.
I'm not really interested in defending the channel or the guy, especially in areas so polluted with hate for the guy, but there's no way they were paid by Microsoft to slander Linux and tbh I never took their Linux videos as overly critical or completely thorough examinations of the Linux experience. Idk, just feels like over exaggeration on the part of people who have too much fear a bit of non-perfect coverage will hurt their darling product.
Avid AmoebaIf it helped you, that's great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.
Which is totally valid... And also the entire point of my comment. This video had Linus Torvalds in it, giving a pretty decent interview, while building a Linux PC and this thread was nothing but hate. Literally no appreciation for the positive impact LTT was having in a community that, at least on paper, should be over the moon.
I don't see much Torvalds stuff on camera, so this was nice. I'm not asking people to like LTT, it's just the dialogue around them on reddit and Lemmy feels extremely immature and outspoken and in this instance felt detrimental to the space and the supposedly shared hobby.
Possibly linuxI refuse to watch a video with Linus Sebastian. I'll get better tech advice from my cat tripping on catnip.
tatterdemalionI'm more concerned about the sexual harassment.
Are you referring to the sexual harassment claim that was alleged to have happened via another employee, but never substantiated?
Yes, and I appreciate that you pressed the issue because I never heard what ultimately transpired, since I never really cared for the channel before that. But I see they hired a 3rd party to investigate and the conclusion was that none of the allegations were substantiated. Though I haven't found any mention of a further response from the employee that made the allegations.
I watch it for the same reason I watch William Osman. They do a lot of fun bullshit videos like trying to watercool a server rack with a swimming pool.
john_tDo you mean buying computers worth thousands of dollars doesn't make you a computer expert? I'm shocked. Shocked!
You know, I was fine with LTT for a while (many years ago). I knew they were clowns, but they seemed genuine and well intentioned. Their first Linux challenge made me raise my eyebrows at them, because I was a long time Linux user and knew much of what they said was either off the mark or disingenuous.
Then their storage server video came out and I almost fell off my chair with the levels of bafoonery I had watched. Even the real experts that helped them out had a hard time keeping their words civil while discussing the postmortem of the situation. That's when I lost respect for LTT and Linus Sebastian as a tech "expert".
Then all the other stuff about the lies, the made up metrics, the years of garbage test data from negligent and lazy practices, and the cherry on top which was the Billet Labs thing. The arrogance of Linus Sebastian to do the test in bad faith on a GPU that was explicitly stated by Billet Labs to not be the target device, and then Linus whine on the WAAAH Show that it would cost him too much money to do a proper retest, and then just selling off the prototype. Then doubling down twice in a forum post that LINUS SEBASTIAN is somehow the victim in all of this! Poor Poor Linus Sebastian.
And the moron couldn't even do an apology video without making some wise-ass joke. Couldn't read the room the one time he needed to do it.
He's just an ass-hat.
Thanks for summarizing all that. I knew most of it but forgot some of those details. He is an asshat indeed. I've been saying that for a couple years. Somehow every time I comment about him online multiple people jump in to say he did nothing wrong. Surprised that's not happened here yet honestly.
He's also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.
Arguably he's also pro workplace sexual harassment, but hey, he made an apology video so that's no big deal.
He’s also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.
I hear this all the time but people who say this can never seem to find a source for it. What he has said is that if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer. He's gone on the record as pro-union many times.
Arguably he’s also pro workplace sexual harassment
This one though, that's new. I don't suppose you have a source for that one either?
DataproletThat's an entire post about nothing but the testimony of a single employee.
if his employees felt like they needed to form a union, then he would have failed as an employer
This is a standard anti-union line. It aims to maintain a union-free status quo. Employees in a non-coop union-free workplace have very little leverage to get more of the profits they generate. The workplace environment might be alright, employees might be paid alright. That doesn't mean they're paid fairly for the value they create. When there's no union, employee pay is set by the labour market, regardless of how much value they create for the employer. If an employee creates 10x what they're paid and they ask for triple pay, their employer would say there's another candidate to take their place, that it would be a bit of hassle to train so they'd give the employee some marginal raise, to not deal with that. A union on the other hand creates the negotiating leverage to get much more of the value employees create, by threatening a significant financial and reputational loss for the employer. Linua doesn't want that. Most employers don't.
This is a standard anti-union line.
I mean, it may be, combined with other anti-union sentiments. It's also completely fucking true.
I understand how unions work but thank you for the mansplanation.
He's also vocally anti-labor organization and anti-union.
Arguably he's also pro workplace sexual harassment…
Untrue on both counts, but I’d love to see a source that proves me wrong
You realize that most of us here have watched plenty of LTT content, right?
I don't know if you would call it a regular occurrence, but on more than a few videos I've watched he has made explicitly anti-union comments, including saying that organized labor is unnecessary.
And looking at your comment history, you're an avid LTT viewer, so you already knew that.
Burden of proof is on the accuser.
I can’t prove a negative, but he has stated multiple times that he is pro union.
Additionally, the 3rd party law firm that investigated the ex employee’s claims against LMG (the company) found that:
Claims of bullying and harassment were not substantiated.
Allegations that sexual harassment were ignored or not addressed were false.
You should also note that the former employee never accused Linus Sebastian (the individual) of being a sex pest. Certain people lie about this constantly on the internet, and others believe it is true without verifying the facts
kuroThen don't watch it I guess
I don't really see a reason to announce it here
Is there somewhere i can watch this without giving Fake Linus monetary gain?
CrisWhy does any even watch Linus Tech Tips, it feels like most his facts are based on his opinion, rather than any grounded reality, while he will flaunts it as fact. Then goes and make noob mistakes with his setups, while acting like computer Jesus.
A fake interview only perpetuates this state of him making up content, to what ever pleases his himself and his patron audience. Truth only gets in the way of a good story, and this guy seems to know how to spin the tallest of stories
melroyI was really surprised surprised that Linus Torvalds didn't knew about arch btw as well as Linux ISO meme.
I mean, come on. Linus is really only checking his emails.
rozodruin previous interviews he's pretty much said in the past that outside the Kernel he has no clue what's going on as far as the entire Linux ecosystem. I watched an interview from awhile back where he didn't even know what NixOS was. Time and time again he's said all he really does now is read emails and compile the kernel to check for bugs. I believe he only uses Fedora, doesn't like Debian and thus isn't a fan of Ubuntu either. in an interview from a few years ago he said the only reason he prefers Ubuntu over Debian is it makes Debian "usable". He pretty much always states he prefers a distro that allows him to easily work on the Kernel (that's all he cares about) and so he uses Fedora.
Well and Linus wasn't lying about it. He is the person who ironically knows least about the whole Linux ecosystem which we have today..
At this point I think he's not even aware of Valve Steam Machine. Not following the news on distros. Not following any discussions. Not into gaming. Not into memes. Not into anything, other than compiling the kernel.
It's not a real interview, it's AI
This is now a second time I've seen a comment like this. Got any evidence or just purr LTT hate?
thingsiplayFor someone who is famously not a people person, Linus Torvalds is surprisingly nice and chill.
(BTW, he lost a lot of weight. Does his treadmill actually works?!
jlow (he / him)I found it interesting that Tech Linus is such a fan of Linus Torvalds but doesn't seem to use Linux (except for maybe for server stuff, not sure) or does he?
He tried once. Poor judgment and reading comprehension resulted in him breaking his OS installation. He then loudly complained about the tools that had repeatedly warned him not to do what he chose to do anyway.
He's doing it in the mindset of a non-techy person, and I can definitely see many people I know doing exactly that since a wall of text will fly over their heads every time. I can't believe so many of you are still not getting this. It makes sense why it takes so long for Linux desktop to become mainstream when pointing things like this out will just get you pushback from the community instead of them using it as a learning opportunity about how normal consumers work.
He’s doing it in the mindset of a non-techy person,
No. He went to significant lengths to circumvent the "non-techy" interface, drop into command line mode, disregard multiple plain English warnings, and manually override the safety systems, in order to force something that was clearly, obviously, undeniably wrong. That is not normal behavior, regardless of a person's tech skills. That is pathological behavior, the likes of which would lead to serious injury or death if operating a common household appliance.
And then, after all that, he had the nerve to blame other people for the result.
I can’t believe so many of you are still not getting this.
Believe what you want. I have no interest in arguing with you.
For the sake of other readers, though, I will say that Linus Sebastian is unfit to give advice about computers. He overestimates his skills and knowledge, does sloppy work, and behaves irresponsibly before an audience.
No. He went to significant lengths to circumvent the "non-techy" interface
Well, you've just proven that you didn't watch the video. How about you watch the thing you want to criticise, that's an idea.
He literally started with the Pop Shop and it errored out when installing Steam. The only reason he ended up in the command line is because Linux users readily offered that as a solution to any problem, despite all repeated claims that the average person never need to use one.
Basically, you're mad that he used the command line despite the fact that he already tried not using it and the Linux community are the ones telling people to use it as a solution.
At the same time, you're mad that the person you wanted to not use the command line because it's too complicated for their skill level did not read a wall of text that they wouldn't have understood anyway because of that limited skill level.
Basically, you're acting like a Linux elitist despite the fact that you didn't even bother getting the correct fact before implying someone is stupid. It's irony all the way down and you don't even have the self-awareness to realise you're acting even worse than Linus when it comes to damaging Linux's reputation amongst casual users.
Are we talking about this: https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M ? I'll check that out but considering how „old“ it is (in tech years) it might be time for an update (and make him go immutable this time so he can't (easily) destroy the os 😸
Yeah, that's the one. And yes, an immutable OS would probably be best for people like Linus who are just curious enough to try out the CLI but not knowledgeable enough to know when he's deleting his desktop environment.
Great video, probably the best I've seen from LTT.
I really enjoyed this video!