Comment on HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs
Construc_@lemmy.world 10 months agothe 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.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah, it’s not like people can read and there are several tutorials and manuals freely available all over the internet.
Construc_@lemmy.world 10 months ago
to a new person, those tutorials and manuals are the “random code and unknown commands” that i spoke about in the above comment. i thought i made that very clear. nothing is known until it is learned, and things cannot be learned without practice. practice leads to initial failure, and the frustrations with that are what the linux challenge was about.
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No one has never learned anything from reading? So, history must be a con from big paper to sell books, huh?
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Seems like you are purposefully misunderstanding Cora’s replies, so you… can be snide? win an argument? You never mentioned you understand the reasoning Cora is using.