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Linus is a tool. I've been saying this for a long time. The guy is good at marketing, but he's very far from what I consider a tech guy. I personally have no idea why his channel has the following it does, and I've no idea why some of my friends enjoy his content...which always staggered me because they know more about tech than he does. Hard R, amirite?!../s
I watch some of the videos from the main channel as well as Short Circuit and honestly I'm more there for the other hosts, even in this video Linus is the most negative of the three. Like actively uses Linux after the last challenge even if it's not for every device.
I watch Jake's channel now that he left and he's got more interesting things going on. Same with Alex.
Thanks for the insight