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No thanks
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Fuck Linus
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No, I don't think I will.
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We’ve had Sad Linus, but what about Meth Linus?
I don’t follow this guy. Did he fuck up or something?
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Hate this guy.
There is only one Linus in Linux. Torvalds.
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Downvote for making me look at this person. Ick.
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Hate this guy.
There is only one Linus in Linux. Torvalds.
I'm also not a fan of this guy, but as far as I know LTT is aggressively anti Linux and doesn't claim to be representative of or even part of the Linux community. I think one of his team members is pro Linux, but I don't know anything about that person.
I will admit that the first time I watched LTT I did think it was going to be about Linux.
Maybe I'm wrong?
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Hate this guy.
There is only one Linus in Linux. Torvalds.
Why do you hate him?
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I don’t follow this guy. Did he fuck up or something?
wrote last edited by [email protected]His crew has claimed many abuses (supposedly he has been absolved, I don't have knowledge of or an opinion on whether that's justified).
He stole a prototype of a product then sold it for profit ("What Happened Between Linus Tech Tips And Billet Labs?" on this page).
Also on that page are other allegations of which I was unaware, most of which (at a glance) seem to be about improperly testing and/or representing products. I particularly like the one about claiming a mouse was poor quality after he failed to remove a cover from the sensor.
edit: I've been informed that my understanding of the situation with the prototype may have been incorrect. Reading the thread below may clarify matters.
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I'm also not a fan of this guy, but as far as I know LTT is aggressively anti Linux and doesn't claim to be representative of or even part of the Linux community. I think one of his team members is pro Linux, but I don't know anything about that person.
I will admit that the first time I watched LTT I did think it was going to be about Linux.
Maybe I'm wrong?
It's complicated, Linus at home wants the baby easy setup that just works, and in his mind Linux will only meet that need for him once steamos is out. He accidentally nuked his pop_os! installation setup if that tells you how software illiterate he can be sometimes.
There team is very different in opinions and it's not uncommon for them to be making an amazing server build that's clearly on linux. They use MacOS for their video editors. It's just more complicated than any one sentence can boil it down to.
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It's complicated, Linus at home wants the baby easy setup that just works, and in his mind Linux will only meet that need for him once steamos is out. He accidentally nuked his pop_os! installation setup if that tells you how software illiterate he can be sometimes.
There team is very different in opinions and it's not uncommon for them to be making an amazing server build that's clearly on linux. They use MacOS for their video editors. It's just more complicated than any one sentence can boil it down to.
I'd almost like to see the raw tape rather than the edited version of the episode where he nukes Xorg. I want to do an NTSB air crash investigation on it.
Linus installed Pop!_OS, got a working desktop, tried to install Steam via the Pop!_Shop, got an error message that says "Failed to install steam." He immediately goes on a rant about how Linux never works, you have to use the terminal.
Why did the Pop!_Shop fail to install Steam? It's just a front end for APT. Well, it turns out there was a bugged version of steam.deb, and not so much the software itself, but the metadata in the package was written in such a way that it thought it was incompatible with the Cosmic desktop, which was a rather new development at the time. So APT saw the package wanted to remove the entire GUI, and said "No we're not doing that" and failed with an error.
This was a known bug. And a fixed bug. At the time of recording, a newer version of the package with that bug fixed was available...but the apt cache that the image of Pop!_OS happened to have in the ISO pointed to the bugged version. And the Pop!_Shop doesn't do an apt-get update when launched, and it's very Apple-style not obvious in Pop!_OS as to how you do that. In the same episode, Luke installed Linux Mint which guided him through doing a software update. Pop!_OS doesn't.
Linus didn't google "popos failed to install steam" and learn to do an apt update and try again. Instead he goes on a rant about how nothing in Linux works and you have to use the terminal. Which he had to look up how to do. Most instructions I've seen will tell you to do an apt update before an apt install, but he either skimmed past that or found a source that didn't say to do that.
He then blitzed right past an allcaps warning that "THIS IS GOING TO BREAK THINGS. TO CONTINUE, TYPE YES DO AS I SAY." Windows constantly tells you that installing software might break the computer. Linux doesn't.
He gleefully told it to uninstall the entire GUI to include X11 and it dutifully dumped him to a terminal.
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His crew has claimed many abuses (supposedly he has been absolved, I don't have knowledge of or an opinion on whether that's justified).
He stole a prototype of a product then sold it for profit ("What Happened Between Linus Tech Tips And Billet Labs?" on this page).
Also on that page are other allegations of which I was unaware, most of which (at a glance) seem to be about improperly testing and/or representing products. I particularly like the one about claiming a mouse was poor quality after he failed to remove a cover from the sensor.
edit: I've been informed that my understanding of the situation with the prototype may have been incorrect. Reading the thread below may clarify matters.
"Stole a prototype" is unfair language, they made a huge mistake and auctioned off the prototype. Linus admitted the mistake to Billet Labs and paid them for the prototype.
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"Stole a prototype" is unfair language, they made a huge mistake and auctioned off the prototype. Linus admitted the mistake to Billet Labs and paid them for the prototype.
Ah, I never watched the video(s) so was just going off of what I've read elsewhere and previously. If my understanding was incorrect, I apologize; I certainly wouldn't want to spread misinformation. I'll add a note to my original comment.
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"Stole a prototype" is unfair language, they made a huge mistake and auctioned off the prototype. Linus admitted the mistake to Billet Labs and paid them for the prototype.
They also installed the product incorrectly in a test and shat all over it and the initial response on the controversy from Linus on the forum was pretty terrible.
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His crew has claimed many abuses (supposedly he has been absolved, I don't have knowledge of or an opinion on whether that's justified).
He stole a prototype of a product then sold it for profit ("What Happened Between Linus Tech Tips And Billet Labs?" on this page).
Also on that page are other allegations of which I was unaware, most of which (at a glance) seem to be about improperly testing and/or representing products. I particularly like the one about claiming a mouse was poor quality after he failed to remove a cover from the sensor.
edit: I've been informed that my understanding of the situation with the prototype may have been incorrect. Reading the thread below may clarify matters.
Most of these criticisms are from a time which they have at least claimed they're out of. They made a huge deal about apologizing, slowing down, and doing things properly. Have they done so? Hard to know without a look behind the scenes, but so far I haven't heard any new complaints.
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Most of these criticisms are from a time which they have at least claimed they're out of. They made a huge deal about apologizing, slowing down, and doing things properly. Have they done so? Hard to know without a look behind the scenes, but so far I haven't heard any new complaints.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I kind of feel for Linus. He is clearly NOT the guy to be in charge of a media company that recieved a 100 million dollar buyout offer and in charge of 50+ people. I genuinely believe he has good intentions and isnt trying to do anything evil or anti consumer.
Doesnt mean his fuckups dont have real world impacts for others though. Hiring a CEO to run the "business" for him was absolutely the smartest thing he has done in a long time.
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They also installed the product incorrectly in a test and shat all over it and the initial response on the controversy from Linus on the forum was pretty terrible.
True, they fucked up a lot.
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I'm also not a fan of this guy, but as far as I know LTT is aggressively anti Linux and doesn't claim to be representative of or even part of the Linux community. I think one of his team members is pro Linux, but I don't know anything about that person.
I will admit that the first time I watched LTT I did think it was going to be about Linux.
Maybe I'm wrong?
I'm a linux user and I regularly watch him. I would not describe LTT as "aggressively anti Linux". They talk about linux and its flaws and sometimes their info is a bit outdated. But they dont hate linux and might be doing another linux 30day video soon.
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I don’t follow this guy. Did he fuck up or something?
You dont get to where Linus has gotten without fucking up a few times. Most of his big controversies are due to bad practice of an employee and hes owned it and corrected it. The rest are due to his Spicy takes on the WAN show where he gives the 'ceo perspective' on consumer issues.
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Hate this guy.
There is only one Linus in Linux. Torvalds.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Same. I remember him like becoming a thing and then I saw a video where there was all this panic about losing a bunch of data since it was all stored on a striped array with no backup, and I’m thinking “this guy is giving tech tips?” I wasn’t sure if it was satire, but I thought it was dumb and found him / his staff just annoying.
