I used to like LTT up until their "Linux Challenge" videos which were just a pain to watch. Shit like this coming from the biggest tech channel on youtube just drives me up the wall.
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buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months agoIt’s not just the Billet Labs thing, GN showed a pattern at LMG of rushing out bad test data and therefore wrong conclusions to keep up the frankly ridiculous volume of videos they put out.
Nefyedardu@kbin.social 10 months ago
Postcard64@lemmy.world 10 months ago
After this happened, GitHub added a Download button to their for preview pages. So they themselves considered it was enough of a problem/inconvenience to not have a download button.
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.
greybeard@lemmy.one 10 months ago
It also has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with how Github works. I actually give him a pass on nuking X while installing Steam, that shouldn’t happen(although he did get a nice big warning, but that warning was far from user friendly). But some of the other stuff they ran into was “This doesn’t work exactly like windows, therefore is bad.” type stuff.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In that video he did everything that everyone recommends not to do when trying out Linux:
- Never copy paste and execute random code from the internet.
- Never execute commands on the terminal you don’t fully understand what they do.
- Never say yes or okay to any dialog prompt unless you understand what the dialog is asking about.
He is stupid, he paid the stupid price. Linux didn’t do any of the things that went wrong in that video, it was his own stubbornness and ignorance.
transistor@lemdro.id 10 months ago
How would someone who doesn’t use GitHub or linux know how to do that?
ours@lemmy.film 10 months ago
And to prove the point there was a website dedicated to taking GitHub links and turning them into download links.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
GitHub shouldn’t be a method of software distribution, but a lot of FOSS devs take the easy way out. Understandably so; they’re volunteering their time. Still, Linus is in a position to show how it works rather than complaining.
sj_zero 10 months ago
I loved watching him type out "yes I understand the thing that I'm about to do is going to break my computer" and then complain that the thing that he did broke his computer!
Bootheal0179@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Linus shits on entrepreneurship with his continual BS with easily caught bad data. No reputable companies should touch him. Anything he pushes to his viewers should be suspicious. I’ll be wondering how much LMG gets under the table for posting positive reviews.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 10 months ago
I’ve seen videos where he’s just basically repeating the script marketing have given him… zero difficult questions. No doubt they’re quite lucrative.
linearchaos@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unfortunately they’re his most accurate ones.
fireflash38@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s the sort of thing that makes me really, really sad for the people working there. That crazy breakneck pace cannot be good for mental health.
buckykat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
This is the kind of thing a union (which Linus, of course, has said he’s very against) would help with
MonkCanatella@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I kept thinking about that watching GN’s last video and how it’s so perfectly in line with what GN exposed.
jwagner7813@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Unions, the bane of rich people that take advantage of their workers via positions of power.
GravenImages@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They somewhat recently did a “what do lmg employees really think of working here” video, and it seemed like the #1 complaint was the pace. I really hope they take this criticism to heart and just… Slow down for a bit
CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 10 months ago
But they won’t. Cos $$$.
galloog1@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Part of the equation here is the transparency. It’s good that they are transparent and I do think they listen. Part of the interesting side to watch is the interaction with the community.