• Obin@feddit.org
    33·
    18 hours ago

    It seems when you have a terrible attitude of entitlement and no willingness to learn, you’ll never be happy with anything. Huh.

    In that case, I’d rather have him stay unhappy on Windows and not make those videos anymore.

  • Auth@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    18 hours ago

    The reaction of the linux community to this video was fucking embarrassing.

  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
    21·
    20 hours ago

    Honestly, I think lots of people are hating on him just because. Pop is still highly recommended on a random Google search, and his reasons to pick it are legit. Plus he acknowledged that last time the issue was user error + unimaginable level of bad luck, and removing that there would be no reason for him not to use it. Also if you saw the WAN show he also installed Bazzite and Kubuntu on two other systems and got two other issues.

    As much as I want to say he did something bad like last time, this time I don’t see it, his issues are legit and to dismiss them because he’s using an “unstable” (that is the default and recommended) DE or because he chose a distro that is in the top recommendations on every site out there is disingenuous.

      • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
        5·
        4 hours ago

        Tell me you didn’t even saw the video without telling me you didn’t even saw the video. But you want an extra one? This one, here’s the link to the pinned thread on this same community where the top 3 recommendations for beginner distros are Fedora, Mint and Pop: https://lemm.ee/post/37682729

    • Manalith@midwest.social
      7·
      15 hours ago

      If you’re going to get Windows users with limited tech iCal knowledge to switch over Pop makes quite a bit of sense given they can go out and grab a System76 PC and not have to think about how to use Rufus to make a bootable USB.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nz
        1·
        1 hour ago

        He would still have these issues on system76 hardware. The problems were cosmic and valve not supporting their old games.

  • dasrael@lemmy.zip
    17·
    19 hours ago

    Linus is a tool. I’ve been saying this for a long time. The guy is good at marketing, but he’s very far from what I consider a tech guy. I personally have no idea why his channel has the following it does, and I’ve no idea why some of my friends enjoy his content…which always staggered me because they know more about tech than he does. Hard R, amirite?!../s

    • Manalith@midwest.social
      6·
      15 hours ago

      I watch some of the videos from the main channel as well as Short Circuit and honestly I’m more there for the other hosts, even in this video Linus is the most negative of the three. Like actively uses Linux after the last challenge even if it’s not for every device.

      I watch Jake’s channel now that he left and he’s got more interesting things going on. Same with Alex.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
      16·
      16 hours ago

      ChatGPT advice here is basically regurgitating the Pop OS circlejerk. Pop OS is a horrible distro and it shows.

      Linus also made a great point showing how all top articles recommend different things. Everyone is shouting to use their distro and when it doesn’t work some other Linux zealot says “no you should have used the distro I use”

    • toor@lemmy.world
      4·
      12 hours ago

      This is what bugs me every time I see LTT Linus talking about Linux. He spent decades learning Windows. He immersed himself in it. Now he’s older and doesn’t realize the small amount of researching and “RTFM” for Linux is nothing compared to the energy he spent learning Windows stuff.

      On the positive side - seeing stuff like this in others has helped me realize when I start exhibiting the same negative thoughts and behaviors.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world
    33·
    1 day ago

    I’ve watched Linus some 10 years ago and it always seemed like he’s more of a face and a presenter and has others do research and tell him what to do. They give him some minimum info and let him go and make content. He knows more than the average person and apparently that’s enough to make content.
    I wish he took it more seriously. He has a huge platform and can reach a lot of people and he often rather uses it for his own enrichment instead shining a light.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      13 hours ago

      I do agree - years ago he was doing some good case reviews and I’d pick his videos to compare against others, but I do agree with other comments here that he’s getting click-baity and I tend to skip his vids now

  • sekki@lemmy.world
    32·
    1 day ago

    What I would like to see is a Windows challenge, where they try to achieve privacy as close to out of the box linux as they can get. That would probably genuinely be entertaining.

  • noxar_ad@thelemmy.club
    27·
    1 day ago

    He really can’t find pop os on a good day huh?

    It’s hilarious how he wants it to work. I think it’s the pre-installed Nvidia drivers  he wants to take advantage of (even though installing drivers on most distros is simply using the package manager) which I don’t understand why he fears driver installation, even windows doesn’t come with Nvidia drivers pre-installed. I don’t get why everyone is hating so much, it’s not like he simply made a video about only his experience.

    Elijah and Luke are actually good view of what the average user might encounter (minus multi screen configuration).

    Also wtf is chimera os? The only 2 times I’ve heard of it are in their videos.

      • mko@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        10·
        1 day ago

        ChimeraOS predates the current Arch based iteration of SteamOS by several years. The first release on GitHub is dated 2019 (then called GamerOS).