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[–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm on year 5 of fully committed to Linux everything (minus work) and I still assume "oh yeah I can probably just sudo force the thing I want. Reading logs takes too long" and yeah it bites me in the ass sometimes.

Its weird to hold Linus (Tech Tips) to such a high standard for no other reason than he makes tech YouTube videos.

I'm a fucking sys admin and I make the same mistakes. Its human. I'm glad he's at least making Linux seem accessible while also bringing to light the realities of how different the troubleshooting strat is from Windows to Linux.

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I do think Linus should be held to a higher standard than the average joe, but yeah. IMO he should have done his due diligence to do things right. It was just very low effort for a guy whose professional life revolves around tech.

    Some people go way too far with lambasting him though.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    I have to disagree, the point of the video was to try how Linux was for someone to switch over to. People engage with Linux like that and pop os changed the error bypass command as a result. It was a net positive for desktop Linux.

    Now ltt as a whole? Yeah, no. Reviewing coolers on the wrong GPU, auctioning off prototypes instead of returning them, recommending people use insecure windows debloaters, etc. is completely unacceptable.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    There's a personality cult around Linus Torvalds and a hate cult around Linus Sebastian. Neither are as perfect or imperfect as their respective cults make them out to be, and Linus Sebastian isn't anywhere on the level of fame or merit that Linus Torvalds is. That's pretty much it.

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