ive heard some mixed things about ltt so i want to know if theyre actually bad or not

and im not watching them for linux help, i just like the content, but i also dont want to support a bad person

  • H4RL3Y@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    502·
    5 hours ago

    I used to watch them, but overtime they’ve become super corporate with none of the authenticity of the older videos; and also basically everyone I used to watch for has left.

    Then there was the whole situation with the sexual harrasment stuff that just put the final nail in the coffin for me.

    Every time it appears now in my feed its just so clearly clickbait view slop with no personality. They haven’t done anything like the large-scale projects like they used to in a long time.

    • H4RL3Y@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      292·
      5 hours ago

      Also, their attitude towards Linux has always been unncecessarily hostile; with Linus refusing to respect that he has to learn how to use a different operating system and just treating it like Windows which will naturally lead to instability and crashes.

      If you were to treat macOS like Windows the same would happen too.

      • hirihit640@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        121·
        3 hours ago

        To be fair the last time I saw Linus try linux, he tried to install steam and the package manager removed the entire desktop environment. This was PopOS, and PopOS clarified in the comments that Linus just so happened to be making the video when there was a big bug in their system. So I don’t fault Linus for being a bit put off

        • eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish
          94·
          3 hours ago

          It gave him a very visible warning that this will break his system and only to proceed if you know what you’re doing. He pressed yes I know what I’m doing and purged all of the desktop environment packages. You would get the same result on any operating system by disregarding a warning like that.

          • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip
            3·
            2 hours ago

            But that should’ve never happened. He did say very clearly that he isn’t going into the challenge as a tech savvy dude but as a naive enter smashing user. That was completely on pop os for even suggesting the option.

          • Fierro@piefed.socialEnglish
            22·
            49 minutes ago

            I’ve been told a thousand times that linux and linux gaming were finally easy before getting in, not in a thousand years would I have thought installing steam would kill my whole linux installation.

            Just my two cents. Also I’ve learned that linux people tend to lie through their teeth so I never take them too seriously, the same people that get angry when you criticize linux for difficulty or weirdness will crucify you for installing steam in the exact moment a once in a lifetime bug you couldn’t predict (as a newcomer) kills your os.

      • confuser@lemmy.zip
        1·
        2 hours ago

        Hmm I always thought Linus did this to try to stress test Linux and other things they review, because you know a tech youtuber would more than likely have no trouble making something happen if they wanted to even if they had to get someone else to do it or it took awhile…the idea is they want to help improve it by trying to make things difficult and if it fails to be difficult then they have succeeded. Same thing with their recent ai pc build video, he’s putting in unfiltered prompting to try to get answers and it half worked, which is pretty good thst this was able to work imo.

        • dieTasse@feddit.orgEnglish
          6·
          3 hours ago

          Guilty until proven otherwise? I think in civilized society its the other way around, right?

        • Zak@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 hours ago

          I was expected to post three tweets, two Instagram posts, and two TikToks per day. I was also expected to plan, film, edit, and post two Floatplane exclusives per week. This included wrangling people to be in them when they were also all struggling to get their work done.

          [edited for formatting]

          This sounds like a normal workload for a full-time social media manager. The article doesn’t provide any details about the sexual harassment allegation.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
        9·
        5 hours ago

        A former staffer made claims of sexual harassment. It is unclear how substantiated those were, but i guess there was something going on. Since then they made a very heavily publicised effort to do better, but it’s obviously hard to tell from the outside if that resulted in real changes.