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Linus installed popOS at a friggin LAN, under pressure, and was rushing to get stuff working then got bent out of shape by comments on protondb about how to get his game to work. His colleagues sat at home, with all the time in the world to figure stuff out and were pleasantly surprised by their experience.

Linux has issues for sure, I run into them daily, but there's a big difference in giving it a fair shot and saying "could've happened on Windows" and making a video as it only happens on Linux. If Linux came on hardware by default, and people had no idea it was Linux, they'd be complaining about their computer, just like people complain about Windows. Linus acts like everything is a Linux issue whenany things are just computer issues you get used to.

The big problem is Linus decides to pretend to be some "average user" when he isn't one, and therefore ends up making absolutely bonkers decisions. It was super obvious in the last video because Linus was the only one participating who had major issues, and the only one participating who pretended to know nothing.

If they actually wanted to give Linux an honest shot and see if they can replace windows on one or more of their computers, the format would be entirely different. I think the format would probably start with a Q&A session with a well known Linux YouTuber like Wendel (who they still appear to have a good working relationship with) where they get the initial "here's what you need to know and what I recommend for the best experience right now" then a check in call after 24 hours, 72 hours, 1 week and 2 weeks where they touch base, discuss pain points and how to alleviate them. Such a format would give an easy transition as well as great advise for the audience, but still present plenty of opportunity to directly see real world pain points and rough edges but instead of those rough edges being "haha Linux bad" they can instead be "here's how to overcome them" or "this is an area that needs some developer time, anyone want to dive into improving this?" And maybe if they were really feeling crazy they could offer up some bug bounties for the pain points they find! Because that's the power of open source is if you have the knowhow you can go in and fix it!

I honestly suspect Linus just doesn't want to change, and that's why he keeps failing to actually give Linux a shot. This might be an unpopular opinion here but it's okay if he doesn't want to change, but he should not be trying to tear down the Linux community for content in the process

I don't think LTT's approach is bad exactly. I really just take issue with their argument that "there are thousands of 'switching to Linux' videos on YouTube, so we don't need to cover that ground again." It's ignoring the fact that, for better or worse, they have the biggest audience and furthest reach in the space. There's still room for "we're approaching this like normies would," but I really think they need to close it up with "if you want to do this, here's how to do it right."

On the other hand though, Linus isn't exactly an 'average user', having spent most of his life working in the IT industry. I'm not sure it's completely fair judging him as if he was a random clueless person either.

Weren't people giving him commands, and he was running them without understanding what they did? Or am I thinking of somebody else?

Yeah, but now they got that phone laptop. I am curious to see if Apple becomes the personal computer company again, or if this will be their chromeos.

I think these locked down phones were just too perfect.

Can't have these unsupervised conversations or, God forbid, something actually disruptive.

Linus managed to uninstall his desktop environment by installing Steam because there was an issue with deps on the package and he didn't really look at the list of packages that would be uninstalled either.

And now he's doing another Linux challenge and he picked Pop again. Which is now using COSMIC which is in Alpha stage at the moment, so a recipe for more issues lol

I have a working hypothesis, the short of which goes something like this:

windows makes one memorise orders of infinite submenus, while linux makes you understand the way it works.

It's a little crazy to me how the most popular tech youtuber struggles so much with Linux, meanwhile fucking PewDiePie, who's not known for being particularly bright, has been making videos about Linux and selfhosting and how fun it is to configure his system lol.

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It's on purpose.

Probably dropped it

Luke has had problems he mentions on the WAN show. But they two really arent comparable because Luke's use case is completely different hes much closer to the average person. He only uses a web browser and some light gaming.

"Hmmm.... testing branch. Sounds like the branch for me."

Yeah, that was fucking dumb.