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HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs (m.youtube.com)

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[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

I know Linus is more of a hardware guy but c'mon. You learn git freshman year into any Computer Science-related degree. Failing that, 5 seconds of Google or ChatGPT even will set you straight. Maybe it wasn't intuitive, but I like think the biggest tech youtuber would have knowledge of something so fundamental to his field...

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As I recall he was trying to use Linux as if he was a regular non-techy person. So it could make sense for him to do that knowing it's wrong. (Which wouldn't apply to "apt install Steam" yes do as I say issue, which a regular user probably wouldn't have tried and ignored the warning even with jargon there).

I don't find it completly unbelievable even a techy could make that mistake because they do not use version control software like git.

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Why would a regular non-techy person need to run GoXLR on Linux

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Audio creation is a hidden magic I know little of, so the same reasons as on Windows but they're sick of Windows? Do you consider an audio enthusiastic a "techy"? Perhaps I should have said "computer techy".

[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I absolutely consider an audio enthusiast a "techy", and anyone looking to use GoXLR is definitely a "techy". Anyone who's found themselves on the GoXLR on Linux GitHub page and hasn't immediately closed the tab is almost certainly going to be knowledgeable* enough to navigate a git repository, or at least be willing to put in more effort than downloading a single file from the repository then giving up when it doesn't work.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You could be right, I don't know enough about audio generally or the audience for an GoXLR.

[-] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I really don't think he was acting or anything. Like someone else said, if he knew how it worked he could have used it as a moment to teach others right? Instead he just completely fumbled everything, said it was set up incorrectly and blamed the website for it. Which given recent events is such a Linus thing to do...

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I thought he made it explicit going into the Linux challenge but it's not stated clearly as such in the first ep (Linux Hates Me - Daily Driver Challenge Pt.1).

In the video Linus says:

he could use industry contacts/internal resources to decided which Linux distro to use for gaming but wanted to use the same resources as anyone else would have
Linux gets sold on it's customization but "speaking on behalf of normies, I don't want ..."
"in my defense a lot of that stuff was jargon that an average user might not understand" in regards to the PopOS event (apt install steam ~ type yes do as I say).

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