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He did EXACTLY that, just not about Photoshop, but a similar proprietary piece of software he used for his video editing that is very expensive and targeted ONLY to professionals. Which is not at all relevant for 99.9% of the people that watch his channel. So he basically failed Linux on issues that are irrelevant to by far the most people, either because he is an idiot or he is paid to do so. Which of those it is doesn't really matter. The point is he made a devastating conclusion for Linux based on a fringe use case that isn't representative, and he blamed Linux for not supporting the proprietary software and hardware he wanted to use, instead of blaming the vendors that have the responsibility for it, and are the ones making money on it! Because that's how stupid and misleading he is.
But this is no way near the only reason I have blocked his channel, it is also the blatant corrupt attitude when Ryzen was released, and his extreme favoritism of Intel, that then turned 180° shortly after Intel had announced they would decrease budgets for reviewers. We saw the same with GPU's where he didn't even review AMD cards, until suddenly he did, after AMD began paying for advertising on his channel.
The corruption is extreme, and it's all about which vendors pay him money, and not at all about the products or interest of consumers. Except he is good at pretending it is.
LTT is an advertising company nothing more.
Presumably you can point me to a specific video, since you seem so completely sure of it. I'm not scrubbing through potentially hours of footage to try to find something that I don't think exists.
As for your suggestion that he just reviews what he's paid to do, sure, that seems plausible. I'm not trying to argue that it's an impartial channel and people should be watching him. You certainly don't need to defend a decision to not watch it.
Of course I can, because obviously I keep track of links to videos of channels I have blocked years ago.
Idiot!!!
Use you own eyes from now on if you watch his crap. And maybe you will spot the problems yourself if you have a brain.
Falling back to insults when you can't provide a source isn't terribly convincing.
I can at least provide examples of them stating directly the opposite.
Adobe is very clearly the party being blamed here, not linux.
Interesting that the video you reference, Linus actually admit that he made mistakes in the review 4 years back.
Also interesting how he has turned 180° on freaking almost every single issue on Linux vs. Windows.
The reason for that of course is that he was basically wrong about everything he thought he knew about Linux.
Also interesting that he now consider freedom a feature, something he completely failed to understand previously, for instance when Skyrim was supposed to have paid mods.
Where Linus completely failed to understand the criticism of that.
IMO he is still a moron, but a slightly better informed moron.
The reason he was berated was because he was a moron, it is not our job of any community to embrace him and be nice to him when he is spreading basic falsehoods and misunderstandings.
No disagreement at all there.
I have no idea what you are quoting, as you never cite or link any source??? "I can't go back to Windows" is not a source?
Yes insults are appropriate when faced with moronic claims that what I write never happened unless I can provide evidence.
I know what I saw and I shared it here. You can believe it or not, just be sure to pay attention, and if you want to buy anything based on his advertising videos, be sure to double check his info, because LTT is not trustworthy. If you think he is, you are very very ignorant and naive.
Edit:
OK I opened a private window and I am watching the video now, clearly they have changed their mind, so now Linux is stellar and Microsoft is the "bad" guy.