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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Unsubscribed from the LTT channel now. To be honest, I mainly followed it because I was amused this "tech influencer" borked his PC trying to install Pop_OS.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

"Yes, do as I say"

Any video I saw of LTT just boiled down to "look at all this money I just spent, so much money guys and no practical use cases"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Their Linux series seemed a little one sided. It's not like Windows is a perfect replacement which runs without issues.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah Linus just outright also lies to his audience about his experience:

At 2:04 he mentions that pacman? tries to install a dependency for "apt" and then quietly fails afterword and starts an infinite loop. This is the most absurd thing to mention because to my knowledge, nobody else was able to replicate this at all and theoretically this can't happen either because apt-get is not in your PATH on an Arch system.

He so benefits from his reputation and since general knowledge of POSIX and the current GNU/Linux software is virtually non-existent in his audience, he wasn't called out on it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I watched LTT a lot until recently but that Linux challenge seemed like the first sign to me that they don't look at everything in good faith. "Why doesn't Manjaro tell me it doesn't have APT installed" It's another OS, he acted like it's something you can just jump into without doing research. I know that wasn't his belief but it was his action. Nobody in the Linux community will say it's as easy as Windows, even Linux Mint requires a good bit more know-how than the average "savvy" Windows user. Windows doesn't follow POSIX, Linux and its tools at least try to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nobody in the Linux community will say it's as easy as Windows

They do tho. Often.

I've read so many times that you are supposed to install it for your grandma cause it's easy and doesn't cause trouble.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Cause grandma has someone to go to when things go wrong Not to say that's right anyway