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He's doing it in the mindset of a non-techy person, and I can definitely see many people I know doing exactly that since a wall of text will fly over their heads every time. I can't believe so many of you are still not getting this. It makes sense why it takes so long for Linux desktop to become mainstream when pointing things like this out will just get you pushback from the community instead of them using it as a learning opportunity about how normal consumers work.
No. He went to significant lengths to circumvent the "non-techy" interface, drop into command line mode, disregard multiple plain English warnings, and manually override the safety systems, in order to force something that was clearly, obviously, undeniably wrong. That is not normal behavior, regardless of a person's tech skills. That is pathological behavior, the likes of which would lead to serious injury or death if operating a common household appliance.
And then, after all that, he had the nerve to blame other people for the result.
Believe what you want. I have no interest in arguing with you.
For the sake of other readers, though, I will say that Linus Sebastian is unfit to give advice about computers. He overestimates his skills and knowledge, does sloppy work, and behaves irresponsibly before an audience.
Well, you've just proven that you didn't watch the video. How about you watch the thing you want to criticise, that's an idea.
He literally started with the Pop Shop and it errored out when installing Steam. The only reason he ended up in the command line is because Linux users readily offered that as a solution to any problem, despite all repeated claims that the average person never need to use one.
Basically, you're mad that he used the command line despite the fact that he already tried not using it and the Linux community are the ones telling people to use it as a solution.
At the same time, you're mad that the person you wanted to not use the command line because it's too complicated for their skill level did not read a wall of text that they wouldn't have understood anyway because of that limited skill level.
Basically, you're acting like a Linux elitist despite the fact that you didn't even bother getting the correct fact before implying someone is stupid. It's irony all the way down and you don't even have the self-awareness to realise you're acting even worse than Linus when it comes to damaging Linux's reputation amongst casual users.
Are we talking about this: https://youtu.be/0506yDSgU7M ? I'll check that out but considering how „old“ it is (in tech years) it might be time for an update (and make him go immutable this time so he can't (easily) destroy the os 😸
Yeah, that's the one. And yes, an immutable OS would probably be best for people like Linus who are just curious enough to try out the CLI but not knowledgeable enough to know when he's deleting his desktop environment.
Immutable is perfect for me, I love being able to just boot into tge old install if in update goes South or something.