• circuitfarmer
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    131 year ago

    Yeah, this irked me too. I get trying to be the average person (and Pop! was also bugged at the time), but I find it really hard to believe that the average person would approach linux and completely ignore serious warning messages.

    • AtomicPurple
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      271 year ago

      I work in IT. Average people tend to fall into one of two categories when presented with big scary warning messages.

      Category 1: They freak out and immediately ask for help, and tend to be very skeptical of anything you tell them to do until the message goes away.
      Category 2: They ignore the message and YOLO it like Linus did, then call for help hours or days later when something inevitably breaks.
      It’s rare for either group of people to read an comprehend the message in it’s entirety.

        • AtomicPurple
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          71 year ago

          I some cases sure, but a lot of the time it’s simple stuff like “Save changes before quitting?” or “You need to restart to apply updates. Restart now?” and they still can’t figure it out.

    • phillaholic
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      181 year ago

      I find it really hard to believe that the average person would approach linux and completely ignore serious warning messages.

      Have you met people? They do this with Windows.

      • circuitfarmer
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        91 year ago

        In that case, there’s no reason to pretend to be the “average person” at all, and Linus may as well have just learned how to use a system before reviewing it.