Watching his content should be enough to inform you of that.

Otherwise it is a very simple search on youtube, there are multiple very well known issues.

Spoon-fed opinions serve little purpose.

A lot of people interested in tech end up watching at least one of his channels due to internet searches confusing ‘best’ with ‘biggest’.

You will make your own mind up one way, or the other.

Linus is a trashtuber.

poogle (purple google) wants to be google, they even have the ai to prove it.

It isn’t about being elitist, it is about learning, and not repeating the same mistakes. People have a very bad habit of jumping from one train-wreck to the next online.

OP can choose not to use googles cloud, even though they claim otherwise.

Probably true, but anyone trusting an ai company to not scrape user data is ridiculously delusional, regardless of how the company portray themselves.

Reviews are a thing of the past due to manipulation, and now ai as well. Google reviews have been trash for a long time. It really is a pity, there was a time when you could do an internet search for ‘best’ and get decent results, long time ago now though, before all of the amazon links.

pcmasterchef

Humans are why we cannot have nice things. The internet was always going to get ridiculous, just like the usa was always going to prove back to the future right in the stupidest possible way.

ai slop

might be worth looking into

I’m not sure of anything, I would look into it further were I planning on using it, which I might do in the future, Garuda KDE lite looks like a decent distro.

From the little I have looked into it, it is all meant to be checked, adding an extra layer of protection, as long as your trust the people behind it (much like official I guess)

I only use official and flatpak, I wouldn’t even use flatpak if official had more.

Chaotic aur might be worth looking into if aur is what you want. Everything there is theoretically checked.

friends don’t let friends use the AUR

A good thing, but also a restriction I imagine, i.e. there are hardly any of them.

We always try to buy corded, or at least replaceable rechargeable battery items, but they are not that common these days.

I use cables, batteries are for ewaste.

I’m happy for linus to send his zombies to distro’s (other than what I use), but they will just annoy people on forums etc, and blame linux after they use ai to f*ck it all up. You can only watch trashtubers for so long without clearly being trash yourself. We all start somewhere, and internet searches push people towards the biggest/trashiest channels, but anyone who is genuinely interested in tech, and wants it to improve in meaningful ways, will soon move on from linus et al.

No doubt KDE appreciates the shout out for being “viable” …

linus

You are welcome to spoon feed all of the linus fans with the flavour of the month distro"s, or now I guess with steam os. Less than 5% of them will be worth it. It’s very ironic to end up at linux due to someone like linus.

faster than 75% of calculator watches

That isn’t true, der8aur is good too :P

linus goes wherever the money and attention is. steam fanboys click like a lot.