Just say no to Linus and his opinions …

  • @ArtilectZed@lemmy.ml
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    42 years ago

    I’ve nuked myself in Linux a couple of times, as well as in Windows (NTLDR? I don’t need that!) It was always my fault, though, not the OS.

    I had been looking forward to the Linux challenge videos, but after that video I unsubbed and blocked any channel related to LTT. I honestly feel like he did that on purpose and played it up to try to make a point. If you point a loaded gun at your foot, turn off the safety, and pull the trigger, YOU CAN HURT YOURSELF!!.. Yeah, that’s disingenuous BS, at best.

    • @monobot@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      Same like you, at first it was interesting but that it was obvious that it is staged for what ever reason, but definitely not sincere. (i do have ideas, like interesting coincidence with release of buggy win11, or just thought this will generate more views so i decided not to help in that further.)

      Linux has issues especially for newcomers and non experienced users, but Linus missed all of it and complained on something else.

      Not to mention that compared to win is much much simpler to install and use. Just imagine someone who never installed anything (os, drivers, software) and you give them linix live usb and windows install usb… linux will:

      • work and be usable without instal
      • have all the drivers instaled and working
      • have software to actually use that computer

      windows will have non of those, and will be unusable for normal person.

      • @ArtilectZed@lemmy.ml
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        32 years ago

        My big issue overall with him saying he just wants things “to work”, and to an extent, with what he demonstrated by not reading WTF was going to happen when he typed that murderous phrase in, is that most people don’t know what the hell they’re doing with their computers. They install so much garbage, more and more OS security has to be designed to protect users from themselves. Uninstall a bunch of “things” that I have no idea what they are? Sure, I hate my foot and want to blow it completely off my leg!

        How long until we get to Idiocracy style computers where we just get some Fisher Price toy style buttons to smash for most people to use their PC? We’re wandering deeper and deeper into an information driven age of humanity and the complete ignorance of most people who demand to use their expensive equipment to do their banking, manage their budgets, pay their home loans… it all just makes me shiver. Learn how your computer is actually working!

        • Helix 🧬B
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          12 years ago

          Why would anyone learn how their tools work? You don’t need to learn how a hammer works to hammer in a nail, you don’t need to know how a drill works to drill a hole and you certainly don’t need to know how an angle grinder works to make perfect cuts in flesh.

          • @ArtilectZed@lemmy.ml
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            32 years ago

            I would certainly hope you would learn enough about the angle grinder to understand that the spinning disc is meant to grind material out or or cut through metal before before you turn it on and start swinging it around, or that the hammer isn’t meant to be used on your leg. Linus saw a bunch of packages listed and just applied a tool without understand what that tool was going to do to his computer.

            • Helix 🧬B
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              12 years ago

              What’s the last word of that comment of mine? Do you think I was serious?

      • Tmpod
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        12 years ago

        completely unrelated to this topic, but happy cake day :)