They are going the way normies would, which includes asking the LLM of choice for a recommendation. But as they just regurgitate listicles inhaled from the web, that is what you get.
Bazzite and Cachy are the more sane choices, though Luke is by no means counting as a Linux noob
They are going the way normies would, which includes asking the LLM of choice for a recommendation. But as they just regurgitate listicles inhaled from the web, that is what you get.
This is the “defense” they use, but I don’t think it holds up. LTT knows exactly how the internet works, how SEO garbage is a massive internet problem, has nothing to do with Linux, and that nobody in the Linux community could ever possibly fix this. He’s the one with a megaphone and the ability to guide users towards good resources and offset those problems, but instead he plays the usual clown role to create his own low-effort clickbait and memes. I don’t think it’s some anti-Linux bias or anything like that, just regular influencer attention-whoring.
The guy installing Bazzite seemed like the only one genuinely representative of what the video was trying to do (Luke didn’t count IMO since apparently he was already a Linux user), but I think Linus’s clown show steals the spotlight. Like, he literally tried to install it in the middle of a LAN party while people were waiting for him to start the game. WTF
You have a point, but most normies aren’t even aware that an operating system is just a piece of software their computer runs that can be swapped out for a different piece of software. They see the OS as an integral, immutable part of the system… which of course is totally wrong, but that’s seriously how they see it.
The people you describe are a step higher on the food chain, so to speak. They definitely exist, and I think they make up the majority of people who are getting into Linux, but let’s not forget how little the average person knows or cares about technology works.
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