I Hate Linus Tech Tips

he wierdly started to appear more and more involved, when that drama hit between his employees,.

Who let's talent like that go when you have the money to hold on to them.

Some creative folks eventually want to do their own thing and no amount of money will change their mind. It is very authoritarian to try to use money as a form of control over others. Linus is many things but he is not a petty tyrant.

I've stopped because I got tired of them rushing cool ideas leaving me hanging because try had to make dozens of videos per week.

But HE BOUGHT A JET!?

The same guy who was playing fake humble with a shit bucket car before getting a Porsche and now he gets a stupid private jet. I guess I should have seen it coming.

It's so strange that he even tried to justify it and say it costed "$0*".

It's a ragebait expression.

I'll be devil's advocate and suggest that, if he fixed those problems later in the video, then he might have been doing it to be educational? Like "how do I rig my house with different types of tech from first principles" and teaching less tech savvy people (probably most of his audience) to identify those problems in the process

His competency was always mid to low. It was the people around him that knew what they were doing.

He was always a computer hardware guy and stumbled his way into other stuff without trying to master the knowledge.

I'll admi that I did bite the bullet and buy the precision screwdriver, and it really is excellent. The full-size screwdriver doesn't interest me, because I've never been happy with a full-size driver with interchangeable bits, but the precision driver is a really high-quality product.

He's an ass, but at least that one bit of merch is quality.

XD, yea. Yea He keeps spamming his merch and floatplane.

I think he got too big ultimately and success usually generates rot.

Happy cake day!

Have some more (not all 100% tech but tech-adjacent):

• Tech Ingredients
• Joel Creates
• Integza
• Tom Stanton
• bigclivedotcom
• GreatScott!

I already watch 3 of those, so I will definitely check out CuriousMarc next. Thanks for the recommendation!

ITS ALMOST XMAS THAT MEANS ITS ALMOST TIME FOR THE NEXT XMAS LIGHT VIDEO IM HYPED

I love LGR. As a long-time fan of the Sims franchise, I've followed him for years. When I've been on the fence about a new expansion, I sought out his review first and foremost to see if it'd be worth my money. As a result, seeing Duke Nukem get up to Sims hijinks has driven my gaming decisions more than any of the propaganda EA puts out.

how incompetent he was at trying Linux anything

I went off him a long long time ago. When he was building "servers" in the bathroom, balancing machines and generally being a useless hack. He is a home user, humping stuff together and never took the time back then to learn how to do it right. The excuse was always "you can't know everything at first" while never actually taking any time to learn, any time to explain what he was learning or any time to teach. So in the end, you get a poor uninformed opinion. It's interesting to see nothing has changed.

As I've developed my opinion on social media, it is a regular pattern. People want to glamorise having a rack server, they don't want to glamorise the time it takes to learn how to rack machines, wiring management, power management, heat dispersal, network interfaces, resource balancing and management. Planning skills, for power, storage, etc.

Hikers want to show amazing pictures of the top of mountains. Not the thousands of hours map reading, training, being exposed to weather.

Gym goers want to show the competition and the physique. Not the hours of sweat, eat, sweat, injury, recover, sweat.

Linus wants to show "wow LEDs dood" but not the time it actually takes to learn to build and use a computer to its best.

He doesnt read anything. He dutifully follows the command that basically says "Brick my computer's OS" and is surprised when it does that. Ngl that IS something linux should fix, and they need idiots to test it out so they can see things like this outside of their bubble... But why the fuck is the ceo and face of a tech youtube channel running into those problems and not catching it before release?

Its like your doctor getting sick from licking a public urinal.

In one of the rare cases I find myself defending anything Linus does, Linus was attempting to install Steam on PopOS and it bricked the OS. Yes, he should read the warnings, but also how the fuck does that even make sense?

A thread on r/linuxmasterrace about this event pegged the fault at approximately 1/3 PopOS, 1/3 the package maintainer, and 1/3 Linus, and frankly I think they gave Linus too much fault.

I never really watched any of their videos before, but over the last year as anti-Windows sentiment was on the rise I was watching a variety of "person tries out Linux" videos as a guilty pleasure and this ended up including the most recent attempt of LLT to switch to Linux. I was aware of how poorly it went when he had tried Linux before from general online sentiment and comments like yours, but only actually watched some of the new attempt (which ended up dragged out into multiple videos that I didn't care to try and keep up on).

The thing that had stuck out to me the most was Linus' insistence on using an LLM to decide what distro to use and how to start. He said that searching this online got too many disagreeing answers and that the various listicles he found before steered him wrong before (though much of his poor experience seems to come from the attitude you mentioned) and that the everyman was just going to ask a LLM what to do anyway (despite likely being trained on exactly the same sources he was critical of).

And on this attempt at Linux, other members of his staff were participating - some even used Linux of their own volition before - but he remained obstinent about not asking anyone for advice and just taking this everyman approach he decided on in an attempt to offer multiple perspectives on the challenge, as he chose to put it after negative reaction. It was just so off-putting to me, you can still make your own decision after asking for an opinion online or in person or after spending a reasonable amount of time doing research online (let alone if it was your job). It gives the impression that, yes, he doesn't really care to actually read into these things and that he had enough of an ego to not want to change his stance.

I had no idea about the rest of these controversies until today though, and it's definitely making what I saw make more sense.

I thought Gamers Nexus was the guy who left people to die on the mountain

You should have seen what he said about the Steam Machine, it's a good workstation but it's missing some things but good thing it's a gaming device and gamers don't care about it but it's an amazing workstation and works perfectly for, chrome, vlc, obs and even the calculator app, truly an amazing workstation or gaming device, depending on the missing features. And that review was mostly on KDE Plasma.

MegaLag - Exposing the Honey Influencer Scam

Gamers Nexus - The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, & Responsibility

Head Pluck - A perfectly balanced mouse review. (Pwnage x Shortcircuit / LTT Edit)

Vex - Linus has a WEIRD Problem

Linnus Tech Tips - The Gamer Jet is Real! and it Cost $0*, The Highest PC Build EVER - World Record

"Not everything has the right to my opinion of it.". I always liked that one

Naomi Wu

Uh, I don't think the system that promotes Linus is the same system that silences people like Naomi Wu, unless the CCP is behind YouTube.

From the getgo. Never understood his popularity

the channel owners always try to suppress the drama, or blame it on something else. ignorance is bliss. thats why there are willing defenders.

"I'm using company money to deck out my house and call it a company expense for making videos"

Ignoring the ethics of it being his house in particular for a moment, I think the premise and how that worked was still good - it created a space to test/review things like smart home gadgets in a real home, show how they panned out (see him having to replace his smart light switches because the first ones sucked at even connecting together), while also leaving space for more ridiculous projects like cooling servers with a swimming pool. It did create content, no idea if it was profitable in terms of "using company money", but it makes some sense.

But yeah, there are problems. The ethics of doing it in general, overpromising on the premise of the videos only to rush something halfassed in one workday and tell you to stay tuned for the next video. Also pulling his kids into the videos, having them help assemble their rack-mounted PCs on camera for example, feels wrong.

His "fans" are at fault too. After all of this people still buy his merch, watch his videos and support him.

day one

Uh 20 years ago when he was working at NCIX explaining hardware basics to people?

You could try DeArrow. It has the benefit of changing the thumbnail, so you don't get clickbait.

But it also has the drawback of changing the thumbnail, so you might be accidentally supporting clickbait content :P

Are they the thumbnails with wide eyes and mouth and pointing at something?

I stopped watching all of DankPod's channels, and James channel, because of how they promote Linus.

True, but there are some actual quality videos there, fortunately not every one is like that. I've tried some alternatives but they are not as big. I would love more alternatives to YouTube.

Nah he was a presenter / media person for a large retailer

Creaters advertised for Honey with an affiliate code, Honey would swap out the affiliate code with their own at checkout essentially stealing money from creators.

Linus was at least partially aware that something fishy was going on but, decided not to share what he knew.

Honey was a browser extension that promised to use affiliate codes and such to find better deals when online shopping. The general premise is "Install this browser plugin, save money online shopping."

What's the business model? How do THEY make money from this?

Have you ever heard a Youtuber say "Click the link below or use code Aggravated at checkout for 10% off your first purchase?" What Honey did was swap out the creator's code for their own, meaning creators didn't get paid for the promotions they'd negotiated.

And Markiplier called it.

Alex's channel is way more informative because he is knowledgeable on what he does, while Jake's current content is not his specialty. He just stumble through his way to rebuild the farm (but I like the content still).

You don't need to like cars to like Alex's channel. And he also has a 2nd channel with tech content (Zip Tie Tech i think?)