It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that’s where Linux falls down.
The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he’s coming from as a non-dev, it’s jarring and confusing but as a developer that’s the last thing you’d want. His complaint about GitHub’s interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that’s so intrinsic to Linux, it’s hard to get away from yet it’s something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.
Don’t get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says “just go here and copy/paste these commands”, not just because it’s unintuitive but because it’s also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it’s much more common in Linux.
That’s wrong. My 80+ year old grandma and my tech illiterate wife both use Linux, you do not need to be technical to use Linux. Linux is great for average users and Linux is great for advanced users. The problem is when Windows power users use Linux and realize that they are not computer experts, they are just Windows power users, and become salty about it. Then they say Linux is the problem when the problem is actually between the chair and keyboard, and when they continually try to do things the Windows way without understanding any reasoning behind their actions.
I haven’t watched the video for a long time, but I remember thinking he’s wrong or being dumb and completely unfair like every two minutes in it. So much so that I wanted to completely break that video down, but I just don’t care any longer. I unsubscribed, LTT content just isn’t good in my opinion. If people find it entertaining, great, but it’s not for me. It’s inaccurate, poorly researched fluff for the pcmasterrace types… WIndows users and gamers.
I’m going to bet your 80 year old gran isn’t playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.
No she’s not, but neither are all the other average users. The average user does almost everything in a browser these days. I worked for an ISP as an installer for 8 years… I’ve been in ~10, 000 homes. Maybe 1 in 30 people use their computer for serious gaming. Most gamers are console gamers.
But with that said, gaming on Linux has come a long way in the last couple years. Most games that don’t work are the ones with anti-cheat that install what is essentially a rootkit on your computer. Streaming has never been a problem with OBS.
I think you’re missing the point I’m getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.
You need to separate the “what’s doable” fun “what works out of the box”, it’s the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you’ve lost the audience that we’re talking about.
I didn’t get into to the specifics of what was wrong with that video, but there was a lot wrong with it and some of it was framing. When a video annoys me every couple minutes because it’s inaccurate then I’m obviously going to be put off by it. And that was the case for that video.