bit of both i guess? “normies need to get good” could be diluted into “do your research before going to linux”, which in most sensible online discussions is already the recommended way: test things out in a VM, try out different DEs, practice configuring things, finding alternatives to your current workflow, etc etc. it’s a harder sell than “just switch to linux” but IMO it’s absolutely necessary

but my comment is more of a reaction to influencers not doing that at all and making le funny challenge of jumping to linux blind and breaking shit because it’s good content and “trying out linux” is still trending

problem is they must be getting this idea that “linux is so easy and fun and seamless and you don’t have to research anything” from somewhere, which i do think is probably way more from people in their audience hyping up linux and not necessarily the wider linux community but these voices gotta be out there

the idea that you can just jump to linux with zero research needs to go

• no you can’t have every game and program you’re used to
• no you can’t translate windows or mac knowledge
• yes you have to know what partitions, desktop environments, distros, and other bunch of terms mean
• yes you may have to type terminal commands (no one complains about ipconfig when figuring out whether it’s ISP or DNS problem)
• yes there are a bunch of shit tutorials online with copy-paste commands that don’t work

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)