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  • 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.


  • 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.




  • I’d be surprised if LTT ever say that Linux is to blame.

    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.


  • So now they seem a lot more positive about Linux. But don’t go here looking for anything Linux related.

    They are so childish and ignorant in their approach to Linux, like claiming that the lack of Photoshop for Linux is a problem with Linux and not a problem with Photoshop.
    The ignorance and lack of logical thinking is astounding.

    It’s OK to say you may have problems if you are depending on software that is only available on Windows or MAC, but that is not a fault of Linux. It’s the fault of those vendors that don’t support Linux. It’s like the blaming the victim logical fallacy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming


  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml[SOLVED] is LTT a good channel?
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    ABSOLUTELY NOT!!
    He is a fraud who use hidden advertisement. Apart from that he is an idiot, who will push false information people fall for.
    Almost the entirety of the content originally was product placement. Which is why if you go back to the beginning almost everything he reviewed was amazing!!
    NEVER NEVER NEVER trust him.

    Just his moronic ignorant approach to Linux should be telling that he is still a tech moron. Even now that he has economic independence to actually make quality content if he wanted.
    Instead he is complaining that Linux doesn’t support hardware, when it’s the hardware that doesn’t support Linux. He can’t even understand basic logic. It is not up to “Linux” to write a driver, it is up to the hardware manufacturer. And that is also how it works on Windows. But “Linux” doesn’t give him money. On Windows manufacturers even pay to have these drivers certified! So first they write the driver, then they pay Microsoft to certify them.

    Just seeing his channel mentioned pisses me off, because his popularity is harmful to the industry. Watch LTT and leave worse informed than you were before watching that crap.
    I have had ALL his channels blocked for years. Because everything he makes is worthless because you can’t trust any of it, because he is both ignorant and 100% a commercial channel.

    If you want real info, watch Gamers Nexus, Hardware unboxed, and similar channels, that are known for their integrity.








  • Weird that Apple has renamed OS X to Mac OS, my first thought opening the link to statcounter was NO WAY 8+% use an OS that was discontinued 25 years ago.

    WTF Apple?

    Opening Wikipedia it says Mac OS was introduced in 2001!?!?!!??
    WTF? That’s the year it was discontinued!!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacOS

    macOS (previously OS X and originally Mac OS X

    Mac OS X succeeded the classic Mac OS, the primary Macintosh operating system from 1984 to 2001.

    For fucks sake! No it’s not “classic Mac OS”, it’s Mac OS. It was never named classic. Just because Apple fucks up doesn’t change the name of the original Mac OS.
    And no OS X did not maintain the same version number for decades. It was introduced as OS X 1.0, 10 is not a version number, it’s part of the name like with OS/2 where the number is also not a version number but is part of the name, and describes something completely different, namely that it was meant as the default OS for IBM PS/2 computers.

    Sorry for the rant, but the stupidity of Apple removing the X from the name and not distinguishing properly between the original Mac OS and the new macOS is just such a piss poor decision IMO.
    For instance Mac OS does not have multitasking! But macOS does.