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There can be only one!
xD 😍 😅
The Linus in Linus Tech Tips is an awful guy
Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.
That case was a legitimate bug in the specific PopOS version he was using
It was bad luck on every side. Mostly because pop doesn’t update packages during install
Yeah, but he could have read the messages lol
If you don’t have Linux experience it would not have helped. That’s coupled with the way people help with Linux, which is often type this thing into the terminal that you don’t really understand.
He was just conditioned by windows and Macos asking for administration prompts for everything. Linux just lets you break a ton more crap way more quickly.
It definitely would have helped in this case, given the warnings he skipped were literally telling him that doing the thing will break his install. He literally had to type a full phrase in to get it to do it.
You don’t need Linux experience to understand that you should pause and reconsider when you get messages like that.
That’s not even tech literacy, that’s just literacy.
He had just installed the OS, I don’t think he was too concerned about the risk.
I think he’s not concerned about much besides himself.
yeah, though he is used to windows warning with every program install that it might break the pc so ignoring a warning isn’t THAT unexpected
The weird command was sudo apt install steam pretty much IIRC
He should’ve read the message, but it also shouldn’t have uninstalled his desktop environment, that should be a very damn safe command to run if we want Linux to be mainstream on the desktop. Sucks that a package dependency error like this managed to make it through QA.
This.
The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.
They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.
@squaresinger @boonhet typical apt…
It kinda is, isn’t it? Apt isn’t super stable.
@squaresinger but it stable trying remove unrelated software when installing steam or 32-bit software. Installing steam caused DE removal even more then ten years ago
It isn’t super stable, but it has super cow powers!
I like Zypper. When there’s a conflict, Zypper tells me I can keep obsolete packages, or break the system, or uninstall something. I’ve yet to nuke my system with Zypper, despite there often being conflicts.
Of course since I use OpenSuSE (Tumbleweed), it also has btrfs with snapshots enabled by default. So while I haven’t nuked the system because of anything like that, there’s been one or two times when a nvidia driver update among the other packages nuked my GUI. So I just went and loaded a previous snapshot, and tried updating again later.
I’ve used other cool package managers (heheheh Portage), but I think Zypper is the most user-friendly
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Off topic, but System76 is super lucky to have Jeremy Soller. Not because he fixed this particular bug, but because he’s an amazing engineer in general, and also brings visibility to the project because his name is attached to RedoxOS, currently the most fleshed-out OS kernel written in Rust.
I hope they treat him well enough to keep him around for a long time.
His voice is like a electric drill with a broken bit in my ear.
I watched the Steam Frame VR headset video of his, after not watching for a long time.
His voice was grating, sure, but the overall delivery was so much worse. He was like a cartoon character that couldn’t decide if they were doing an advertisement or a school report.
That’s the style that gets clicks on Youtube unfortunately.
I remember when Valve first introduced the Steam Deck, there were several youtubers present to film content about the Steam Deck for their own channels, and LTTs Linus was audible in all of them, he was that goddamn loud.
The difference is the things they drop.
One drops well deserved rants and ass-chewings.
The other drops expensive equipment.
Torvald’s behavior has improved a lot recently but the shit he used to send in the past is definitely not conducive to actually getting shit done.
It was good at setting fuckos straight
The one who makes
That annoying cunt
There are two wolves inside of your computer
My wolf is autistic and wants to play commander keen.
Both are hungry.
Linus vs lie-nus
Both can be very rude to people around them (from what is visible in public). I wouldn’t want either of them as my boss. Apart from that, both have their ways to entertain; I don’t mean by displaying bad behaviour to people; that is no entertainment I enjoy.
Sure, but one is rude to people that deliver bad work to him, the other is rude to people that don’t accept his bad work from him.
Absolutely, thx for clarifying (:
What happened now?
They collabed.
Are you joking…? I didn’t find anything online 😅
The video has been recorded, but is not out yet. Linus talked about it on the latest WAN show and on social media.
There’s a bts video on floatplane already
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I think it’s just that LTT drops everything he touches lol
The problem with this is that it gives legitimacy to an idiot YouTuber who has gone out of their way to discourage new Linux users.
And nevermind all the other garbage from LTT
Uhh, he promotes Linux at every step? You are free to dislike him and his content, but he’s absolutely a force for Linux adoption.
From what I remember it went like this, but I stopped following his crap years ago
- sees an error message, doesn’t read it
- starts pasting random shit into the terminal
- breaks the system
- Fuck Linux, it’s not ready for use
- after the Linux community has a meltdown, someone points out to him that he’s an idiot, but in a gentle way you’d tell your boss
- tries again, gives up again
- films another video on how windblows just works, while he, a certifiable tech genius, couldn’t get it to work
Truly “a force for Linux adoption”.
I rewatched the series finale now, and his conclusion seems as I remembered:
- He had great experiences gaming on Linux
- His kids used it too without problems
- “freaking amazing”
- “totally stable, no crashes”, he was playing multiplayer with a friend a lot
- Remote Play Together from Steam works great too
- He learned a lot, will give it another go in the future
- But it’s not for him yet as a big VR lover
- He really wants Linux to succeed because he hates the Microsoft monopoly
He didn’t even bring up his issue in the conclusion. If you can timestamp any “fuck Linux”, I would love to see it, because I really doubt he ever said that.
That being said, while it’s obviously his fault for ignoring warninigs, it’s ridiculous something as basic as installing Steam got him into that situation in the first place, it’s pop os’s fault for shipping a broken package. And yeah, things like that really don’t happen on Windows.
He is a time poor impatient person. That is something linux will need to address for wider adoption.
I would argue that their example resulted in some very wide ranging changes in approach that was long overdue.
Linux was at risk of becoming an “OS for us” instead of a true replacement for everyone.
I suspect if they repeat the challange today, it would be a night and day difference.
Yeah exactly, same reason I stepped off of linux. I don’t have the time to fix shit and it works with minimal effort is something I need.
I will switch as soom as it there and I am glad that people are willing to pay the time tax for now so that we have good adoption in the future. It just isn’t for me and I think Linus is the same.
Bazzite was the breakthrough for me. All my stuff just worked. Only 2 things I had to fix was
1.adding 5.1 audio over Spdif, which was a single ostree command to make it permanent.
- Installing Proton-GE for one of my games that does not do well under normal proton.
Took about an hour to research and fix both.
I had tried to covert 4 times in the 5 years before. Ubuntu, linux mint and endevourOS would not play well with my hardware in years past.
Isn’t he an investor in Framework?
I very much so enjoyed their content where they attempted Linux only for 30 days straight. They documented their successes, struggles, and roadblocks. I think they did two different attempts, the first time they didn’t recommend it and the second time they did. I might be misremembering the first attempt.
They only did one?
I thought they did it once and then tried it again like a year or two later or something.
Then he’s changed his tune. I haven’t watched him for years at this point when I realized how technologically inept they are. I’m thinking specifically of the storage server video.
My favorite LTT nonsense was when he said ad blockers are piracy
He honestly did a great service for linux in getting them to really start improving the user experience for the not so computer people. Something that is necessary if Linux ever wants widespread adoption
He honestly did a great service for linux in getting them to really start improving the user experience
All he did was make the maintainers of apt realize they need to account for the lowest common denominator. As in, really stupid people like Linus Sebastian who can’t read. No one else had that problem.
Attitudes like this are what hold back linux’s potential.
Hardly, Linux adoption has been going up steadily for many years, and it’s accelerating. And for reasons completely different than this.
The one who takes
Small companies’ prototype GPU coolers and auctions them off without permission
Posted this to someone else here, so I’ll just copy that post:
You are of course talking about the Billet Labs prototype they has been told they could keep, but Billet Labs changed their mind after the video (valid, since LTT did fuck that video up), but a mistake was made by someone in logistics at LTT so it wasn’t put aside for return as it should.
And when it got known by LTT that it had happened, they first offered to get the prototype back from the person who bought it, which Billet Labs said no to, then offered to pay them back the cost of the prototype.
Is that what you mean by “steals”
but a mistake was made by someone in logistics at LTT so it wasn’t put aside for return as it should.
And was subsequently sold, without Billet Labs’ permission. What did I say that was incorrect?
And because one employee made a mistake, dozens were laid off.
I love Gamers Nexus, but that coverage got so many people fucked. Perhaps it shouldn’t have been AS negative as it was.
That’s not how you spell “steals”.
What did he steal?
wtf, why does clicking on the link give me an ad for voyager?
It shows the post he’s referring to, and it shows Voyager branding since he used the apps share option instead of sending the original link. At the bottom of the page there’s a link to the full context. I’m not a fan of Voyager for doing this.
Huh, voyager did not use to do that., I think
I’m not a fan of that either.
What alternatives do you recommend?
If on iOS I recommend Mlem.
I have Sync for Lemmy simply because that’s what I used before coming to Lemmy. However, I’d say just make sure you copy the original link (to lemmy.world for example) instead of the voyager link, should be easy enough
I’m looking into switching to Raccoon, which someone recommended
Maybe I’ll check this one out next. Although I like Raccoons Ui because it’s sleek, I don’t like that you can’t get rid of posts in /all, which is annoying since there’s always duplicates.
While yes there is a link to the original content, clicking it does not let me view it within my own app of choice. So not only is it an ad, but it forces you to view anything shared on web or voyager.
This is actually a bug that the link doesn’t unwrap when you paste it into Voyager. It should be fixed in the next release.
Edit: also if your app handles threadiverse.link links in app, you can ask them to handle vger.to links in the same way. Both services use the exact same link format so it’s no extra code.
You are of course talking about the Billet Labs prototype they has been told they could keep, but Billet Labs changed their mind after the video (valid, since LTT did fuck that video up), but a mistake was made by someone in logistics at LTT so it wasn’t put aside for return as it should.
And when it got known by LTT that it had happened, they first offered to get the prototype back from the person who bought it, which Billet Labs said no to, then offered to pay them back the cost of the prototype.
Is that what you mean by “steals”
That’s not the story Billet told.
I’m on my phone now, so I don’t have the links, but if you find Billet Labs reddit account and check their comments from around when this all happened, you will find a couple of comments where they admit they only asked for it back after the video, and that LTT offered to get it back for them.
The rest (why it wasn’t sent back) is from a wan shows from the same period.
Who even is the breaker?
A relatively popular YouTuber who happens to bear the same name.
Linus is a spectrum.
The one who drops
