Follow-up video to https://lemmy.world/post/32690521

Spoiler alert: the main reason he says the experience “hasn’t been great” is because shortly before posting the video his Linux install mysteriously broke and he had no idea why. Therefore, he recommended dual-booting Windows just in case.

Cue sea of comments explaining that the reason for the error he was getting was that Windows screwed up his bootloader (i.e. the problem was caused by dual-booting to begin with, LOL).

  • grue@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    82·
    3 days ago

    Computer users always get hit with big ominous warning messages that amount to nothing 99.9% of the time.

    This is yet another instance of blaming Linux for Windows’ bad behavior.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      3 days ago

      He said, on a topic, about a big ominous message on linux, that would have done nothing at all… if it wasnt for the bug known for months in the distro, that they refused to fix until it got bad press from a popular youtube video.

      But yes, its windows fault. /s

      • grue@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
        61·
        3 days ago

        Right, that’s my point: when Linux gives a big ominous message, it’s because it’s actually important. If the distro hadn’t had that bug, it wouldn’t have given the big ominous message.

        Remember, the bug wasn’t the warning message itself. The bug was removing the DE when installing Steam, which the message correctly warned about. The warning message was appropriate and warranted.

        It is Windows, and only Windows, that mis-trains users to ignore warnings because it issues so many spurious ones for benign situations.

        • dontmindmehere@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          imo the linus disaster was an unfortunate combination of

          • the unpatched pop_os issue
          • linus going TLDR (reasonable but that’s on him)
          • apt messages generally being long
          • linus not having a frame of reference on which long message is good (apt upgrade listing 50 updates) vs which are bad (apt install saying his DE is about to be nuked)
          • and yes, him playing it up for the video, and willingly ignoring his gut feeling that typing “yes, do as I say” can’t be doing anything good

          in the end i still think it was kinda irresponsible for linus to publish that, but the whole premise of the video was them going blindly into linux (which i also disagree but whatever)