rainbowbunny 51 points a year ago

The Linus in Linus Tech Tips is an awful guy

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wilmo 31 points a year ago

Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.

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chicken 55 points a year ago

I don't watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.

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ozymandias117 19 points a year ago

The GUI wouldn't let him break it, so he tried the command line.

The command line required him to type, with punctuation "Yes, do as I say!" after a big warning.

If an average user will do that, the "fix" of needing to create a file before being able to type "Yes, do as I say!" isn't going to change anything

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skisnow 2 points a year ago

All I'm seeing there is he decided to deliberately did something wrong on behalf of an imaginary person and then complain that doing the deliberately wrong thing broke the computer.

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lepinkainen 38 points a year ago

That case was a legitimate bug in the specific PopOS version he was using

It was bad luck on every side. Mostly because pop doesn’t update packages during install

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prole 7 points a year ago

Yeah, but he could have read the messages lol

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festnt 20 points a year ago

yeah, though he is used to windows warning with every program install that it might break the pc so ignoring a warning isn't THAT unexpected

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boonhet 14 points a year ago

The weird command was sudo apt install steam pretty much IIRC

He should've read the message, but it also shouldn't have uninstalled his desktop environment, that should be a very damn safe command to run if we want Linux to be mainstream on the desktop. Sucks that a package dependency error like this managed to make it through QA.

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squaresinger 4 points a year ago

This.

The Pop_os team accepted that behaviour (installing steam uninstalls the DE) as a bug and it was fixed subsequently.

They also fixed the whole thing with the error message to make it more difficult to accidentally delete critical system components by installing software entirely unrelated to said system component.

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