Sure buddy.

Shrug, I dont know man… personally, last time I had to dig into regedit was on…i think win98? maybe xp? and that was under guidance of the tech support I was on the phone with… the why I long since forgot, I just remember them telling me it was okay and as long as I listened nothing would get broken (and that their thing would be unbroken)

and yet you keep coming back, reading my post, and replying.

There there, no need to be so angry over having your bullshit called out.

And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.

He was approaching linux as an average idiot, like me, would.

and that is absolutely how it would have gone, and probably did go, for lots of people before it got caught on a camera by a big youtuber… especially since, iirc, the issue was known to Pop OS for a while before hand.

For like my first 4 years in linux, all the support I could find basically boiled down to “if X doesnt work, paste this command and run it”. So yes, I can totally see an average idiot doing exactly what happened in the video… and I’d wager it happened quite a few times to quite a few people, before the this video made it famous and made Pop finally get off their ass to fix it.

I don’t particularly make secret of my dislike for Linus, but I feel like the criticism on this particular topic is unfair. Shit like this does happen with new users with no IT/Sys Admin linux knowledge, And its most likely going to happen more frequently as more non-knowledgable new users come into linux and stumble into things weird niche situations and stuff… More monkeys smashing keys means more weird issues being found, afterall.

There was more that was going on with LTT than harassment.

Like receiving a loaned prototype that was meant for X card, using it on Y card, saying it was crap cause it didnt fit and didnt work, then selling it at auction… Then coming out and saying he had been in contact with teh company to make amends and they have accepted it, only for the company to immediately torpedo by stating they’ve heard nothing from him.

I’d wager things were not going well behind the scenes, either, with the mass exodus of major talent they had over the past year or so, either. Sure people drift in and out of jobs, but for you to have most of your big names all leave in a relatively small window… That hints at behind the scenes shit maybe not being so bueno.

And theres also the “just trust me bro” warranty on the stupid laptop bag, and him basically going on wan show acting offended and shittalking people who were calling him out for a long history of justifiable criticism against shitty warranties, only to pull the same… but hes gods special angel, so obviously its different with him and how dare you question his glory.

All in all, Linus just strikes as an insufferable twat… and sadly it doesnt seem to be fame going to his head either, because he’s been an insufferable twat on Camera since the goddamn beginning of LTT (I never saw his NCIX videos, but I would assume he was much better behaved on them, since he was representing someone elses brand and ran the risk of firing if he acted a twat), Especially when it comes to any valid criticism towards him, or his channel, or methodology.

You claim to have used AMD for over 25 years, with your comment of having used 5 CPUs for around 5 years each, straight AMD, which is about 1 CPU per each CPU family/generation

AMD has had more than one absolute stinker in that time frame. Bulldozer and its refinements were so fucking awful that it almost killed AMD as a company… it was only a desperate dice roll on Zen that brought AMD back into relevance.

So yes, arguing with verifiable facts to push the “AMD has always been the best 4 evar” is indeed blind, foolish brand loyalty.

its very clear blind brand loyalty has caused extensive brain rot.

These companies don’t care about any of us, intel or AMD. We, individually, are only rounding errors in their account books. They arent gonna ask us to prom if we ask them to be exclusive.

Buy whats best at the moment, What has the best bang for the buck, or what have you. Thats how you keep the market good, thats how you keep companies from sliding into complacency. Thats how you make them stay on their toes to constantly stay relevant and innovate, So they can capture your next purchase.

was such a good operating system.

Didnt need regular reformats to keep it stable/keep performance. was easy to use. stayed out of the way. you never had to even think about the OS cause it was just so transparent and invisible to everything you had to/wanted to do.

People are never interested in learning from history, they’d rather run face first into that wall.

Just saw a comment in a topic about steam machines about “why do we even need to care about the past, its in the past, it doesnt matter anymore”

humanity is devolving to a state dumber than the chimp that scratches its ass, sniffs its finger, and falls off the log in shock at the smell.

“Why remember the past, Just forget it and all the problems it had. They surely cant happen again, especially if we just ignore that they happened in the first place!”

Its no wonder the world is falling apart with people holding onto logic like this.

Cause if you dont give reality checks, you end up with shit like Theranos when idiots run wild with hype and hope, and fall to their knees with mouths wide open before even knowing WTF is going on or if it works.

All you had to do was make good and fun games. How do you fuck THAT up???

By treating their paying customers like worthless trash/criminals/scum/pirates/etc. Which is what Ubisoft has spent the past 10 years doing.

last windows install in my house was on my rarely used laptop, windows 10.

As soon as Win10 was end of life I threw linux on it. First time in…god…30 years? Theres not been a windows PC in my house… Ran Windows from 3.11 all the way up to 7 happily (and then my laptop came with Win 10 from factory and, well, thankfully I only had to use it when traveling… )

Main system has mostly been a breeze to use for years now, but I built it with Linux in mind and picked AMD parts and such to make the transition easier, which definitely helped me avoid major headaches.

Sorry for being an idiot, but what is an agentic OS?

Whatever it is, it sounds fucking stupid.

The OS doesnt need to be a focus. the OS is best when you completely forget its existence and can just do things without worry.

Which is why Windows 7 is the best operating system microsoft has, and seemingly will, ever produce.

probably should wait and see what the prices are before people start falling to their knees with mouths wide open.

wasnt there a guy that made a “Steamdeck controller” thats basically identical to this?

Protondb has a lot of old information on its thats not relevant anymore thanks to updated proton releases.

So there are a lot of games that suggest tweaks/tinkering that dont need it anymore… but people like me(random idiots that don’t have IT/Sysadmin experience to know everything about linux) still might do, because the reviews from 18 months ago say its necessary, because there arent many reviews and the one from 18 months ago is still only like 5 places down from the top.

So polls like that should be taken with a heavy grain.

But now Steam is the last man standing between us and corporate greed.

Man how quickly people forget what things were like before the lawsuits forced valve to make steam more consumer friendly and regulatory abiding…