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The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 41 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Yes! The Linux coverage from LTT is positive and encourageing UNLESS Linus is in the video then he looks for any excuse to raise his voice and yell "this is stupid" or "its going to break on me in 5 minutes". Emily's very good coverage of PopOS back in 2019 ish got me into Linux and I have not looked back. Its disappointing to see how with many things (not just Linux) how Linus will change the direction of a video to be more entertainmenting/clickbaity at the cost of good information and quality.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    I think what becomes clear when watching a lot of videos is that Linus is more of a tech fanboy that is good at all the high level stuff and can sell it in an entertaining way. He is not however someone who is super into the weeds of a specific technology, tool or system beyond applying his „I’ve worked with technology before“ knowledge.

    They have other folks on the show for that.

    It that being said. I wouldn’t fault him for his experience with PopOS!. That was totally on the OS and not his fault.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    PopOs fucked up a bit leaving that iso live for so long with the steam cache issue, but Linus has to take responsibility here to. It was not "totally on the OS" there where many off ramps that where missed.

    For example:

    • On the pop shop GUI if he first installed the system updates that would have run a background apt update avoiding the issue. There was a red bubble indicator you can see in the video that should have drawn his attention if he was not in a rush.
    • On the pop shop steam page there was a list box that would have allowed him to install the flatpak version of steam, its not like it was hidden or anything it was right next to the install button and its was in fact bigger than the install button.
    • Most people googling the terminal way of installing apps in linux would have also run apt update but he either skipped this bit or just ran the first thing he saw on google.... He probably would have also typed in "rm -rf /*" if google told him to without a second thought.
    • He could have also just read what the OS was trying to tell him, pause, have a think and maybe ask some one like emily? But no he was in a rush so no time for that.

    He got into this issue mainly because he was rushing, it was more entertaining and created drama.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Totally agree on the first part though, he is a total tech fan boy.

    He is constantly taking his surface level knowledge of item X and extrapolateing it out to create new assumptions but he saying it with enough confidence that it sounds like a fact.

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