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I’m blaming someone who should have enough expertise to understand that that can happen and how to avoid it. I mean Luke literally brought it up himself as a criticism of Linus’ approach for that video in the WAN Show the other day.
You’re acting like Linus is just some nobody who has zero responsibility when he’s talking about Linux. That’s not true. For better or for worse, people will listen to his opinions and takes on things. If those takes are grossly uninformed, that’s his fault, and it’s irresponsible of him as an influencer. If he can’t be bothered to do more than an hour of research before spouting off his nonsense opinions, then he just shouldn’t be talking about Linux. Let someone more competent from his team do it.
I can tell you didn't watch the video properly, since he already said he doing it from an approach of someone new to Linux, as he always does whenever these challenges occur. Saying someone shouldn't use Linux if they didn't do an hour of research into it is painfully elitist. I'm sure many people like to deal with gatekeepers that judge people based on how much time they have to spend on researching their OS.
I agree. It’s a good thing I didn’t say that.
The right approach to reviewing a new kind of operating system is not to do one hour of research then complain to millions of people that the system isn’t doing what you’re trying to make it do.
IMHO, that is the worst kind of reviewer, one who just doesn’t know enough about the product or bother to research it enough to give an accurate review. Imagine if MKBHD reviewed Android by only taking a look at a Boost Mobile phone.
And it’s not gatekeeping to criticize someone for spreading misinformation about Linux. I’m perfectly happy with him using Linux. He can use it all he wants. I’ll never try to stop him. But when he makes these videos, he’s just being an idiot and an asshole. If he titled his video, “Giving PopOS One More Chance”, I’d be less disgusted by his behavior. Thank god for the other two for actually being the voice of reason.
Luckily, they never used the word review to refer to the purpose of the video, so your criticism is already out-of-place.
Again, their job was not as a reviewer, but as a tester for Linux in their specific usecase. In Linus's case, he added that he was doing it like an average user.
What misinformation? Did Pop!_OS not ship a beta software with their LTS release that caused all the problems that Linus faced? Did his google search not suggest Pop!_OS as a distro? Did ChatGPT not suggest Pop!_OS as a distro? Show me where the misinformation was in the video?
Yes, you're just unhappy other people are using it and finding problems.
Thank god the other two didn't find many problems? If they found a lot of problems, are they also now spreading misinformation?