• Nefyedardu
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    422 years ago

    I used to like LTT up until their “Linux Challenge” videos which were just a pain to watch. Shit like this coming from the biggest tech channel on youtube just drives me up the wall.

    • sj_zero
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      52 years ago

      I loved watching him type out “yes I understand the thing that I’m about to do is going to break my computer” and then complain that the thing that he did broke his computer!

    • @Postcard64@lemmy.world
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      372 years ago

      After this happened, GitHub added a Download button to their for preview pages. So they themselves considered it was enough of a problem/inconvenience to not have a download button.

    • @Deathcrow@lemmy.ml
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      182 years ago

      ohh boy, I almost forgot about that. That was super painful. It’s a website linus, not a file browser.

    • @catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca
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      162 years ago

      That bit made me cringe. You go to the file, and can download using the Raw button or using wget. It’s not hard, it’s ignorance.

        • @frezik@midwest.social
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          62 years ago

          GitHub shouldn’t be a method of software distribution, but a lot of FOSS devs take the easy way out. Understandably so; they’re volunteering their time. Still, Linus is in a position to show how it works rather than complaining.

        • @ours@lemmy.film
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          62 years ago

          And to prove the point there was a website dedicated to taking GitHub links and turning them into download links.

        • Nefyedardu
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          02 years 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
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            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.

      • GreyBeard
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        462 years ago

        It also has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with how Github works. I actually give him a pass on nuking X while installing Steam, that shouldn’t happen(although he did get a nice big warning, but that warning was far from user friendly). But some of the other stuff they ran into was “This doesn’t work exactly like windows, therefore is bad.” type stuff.

        • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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          In that video he did everything that everyone recommends not to do when trying out Linux:

          • Never copy paste and execute random code from the internet.
          • Never execute commands on the terminal you don’t fully understand what they do.
          • Never say yes or okay to any dialog prompt unless you understand what the dialog is asking about.

          He is stupid, he paid the stupid tax. Linux didn’t do any of the things that went wrong in that video, it was his own stubbornness and ignorance.

          • Cora! :D
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            312 years ago

            the problem with a lot of these recommendations though is that to a non-linux user: all code is random, and no commands are understood. you only learn by doing, and if you cant do until you know, you’ll never get anywhere. you gotta make a few mistakes to learn anything, and thats what happened. yea he paid the stupid tax, but so does everyone else while they learn a new thing. that was the entire point of the challenge: how hard is it? and it turns out, quite! info is scattered, theres lots of commands and code that sounds like it’ll do what you want but is actually a bad idea (as evidenced by the recommendations you point out), and things can break easily. thats the video.

            • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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              -12 years ago

              Yeah, it’s not like people can read and there are several tutorials and manuals freely available all over the internet.

              • Cora! :D
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                22 years ago

                to a new person, those tutorials and manuals are the “random code and unknown commands” that i spoke about in the above comment. i thought i made that very clear. nothing is known until it is learned, and things cannot be learned without practice. practice leads to initial failure, and the frustrations with that are what the linux challenge was about.

                • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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                  -32 years ago

                  No one has never learned anything from reading? So, history must be a con from big paper to sell books, huh?

                  • @Chee_Koala@lemmy.world
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                    32 years ago

                    Seems like you are purposefully misunderstanding Cora’s replies, so you… can be snide? win an argument? You never mentioned you understand the reasoning Cora is using.