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
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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. Luke 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.
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Off course he picks PopOS, because it bite him before. And off course PopOS is currently under a huge desktop environment change.
At least now he decided to SORTA own his mistakes…
Who would've thunk that chatgpt would give bad advise lol
ChatGPT advice here is basically regurgitating the Pop OS circlejerk. Pop OS is a horrible distro and it shows.
Linus also made a great point showing how all top articles recommend different things. Everyone is shouting to use their distro and when it doesn't work some other Linux zealot says "no you should have used the distro I use"
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Lemme guess, he runs into a very minor snag and then runs rm -rf -no-preserve-root / because ThAtS hOw NoRmAl UsErS wOuLd Do ThInGs.