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.
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Nefyedardu@kbin.social 10 months agoI 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.
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
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.
Construc_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
the problem with a lot of these recommendations though is that to a non-linux user: all code is random, and no commands are understood. you only learn by doing, and if you cant do until you know, you’ll never get anywhere. you gotta make a few mistakes to learn anything, and thats what happened. yea he paid the stupid tax, but so does everyone else while they learn a new thing. that was the entire point of the challenge: how hard is it? and it turns out, quite! info is scattered, theres lots of commands and code that sounds like it’ll do what you want but is actually a bad idea (as evidenced by the recommendations you point out), and things can break easily. thats the video.
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!
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.