Comments by "xybersurfer" (@xybersurfer) on "Linux Is Free if You Don't Value Your Time" video.

  1. you don't fully explore your opponent's point of view. where to begin: 0:19 "Linux is only free if your time has no value" is actually a quote by Jamie Zawinski around the year 1998 3:02 this is a valid point. most users don't care how the operating system works. but that doesn't mean that it doesn't matter. someone more tech savy will have to solve problems for them, and they will be faced with the mess swepped under the rug. these tech savy people are also the first to try a new operating system. and if they don't like what they see then they won't spread a good word. 4:27 i disagree. a significant amount of time is not only required when using advanced distros. when you need to troubleshoot something you will quickly find yourself at the command line and in config files scattered throughout the system, at which point differences between distros start to fall away. 4:56 you don't have to create a microsoft account during the windows installation, which makes the rest of your tangent irrelevant 5:20 i think that as an enthousiast you may only be familiar with elite distros. and you may have a false perception about how easy to use "user friendly" distros are. i'm not denying that there may be a huge different. i'm saying that your "measurement" has been skewed. unlike you, i don't think that people are comparing only elite distros with windows. the fact that you assume this to me again shows that your "measurement" has been skewed towards normalizing elite distros 6:18 "newbs", "elite", "normies". do you hear yourself? your pride is blinding you despite having said that you want to understand your opponent's point of view 6:25 it just works and it never breaks down. i think you need to spend more time with "beginner" distros. there is always something that doesn't work. also in Linux Mint. then innevitable something will break after an update and there is no tooling to simply rollback (and then it's command line and config file time again) 6:30 i think that knowing that the end users are only in the browsers creates a false sense of security for you. it's not the only type of users to who user friendliness matters. 7:00 everyone losing time because they get hacked all the time is a strawman 7:11 you can't claim to argue about the value of time from your opponent's perspective and then use your own perspective as a hobbyists. 8:41 again the patronising TechLead by claiming he just plays candycrush on windows. is your hobby really linux, or is your hobby to feel superior? you come across as very disingenuous. my problem with config files and the command line as a user interface is that are not that open to exploration. it's fair to say that you learn more about how your computer works by using linux, but the problem is that you learn a lot more about how linux works. in my opinion more effort should be spend on making linux stay out of the way. linux caters to the hobbyists and to users that don't want to change anything, but nothing inbetween.
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  2.  @xGOKOPx  LadrilloRojo already responded to you pretty well, but let me say this: i agree that MS is tricking you into creating a microsoft account. and i don't like this direction either. but technically you only have to deal with this flaw during installation. about your last point: in the first minute he claims to take on the view of his opponent. if he assumes this view but then doesn't, then that is simply a contradiction of the form: if P then NOT P. no matter how much talking he does in between, to distract viewers
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  3.  @ladrillorojo4996  good reply. by the way: i know what intellisense is, but i'm not sure what you mean. is it my lack of capitalization or maybe i should have proof-read my post more, as it seems to contain some mistakes? i can appreciate feedback on my writing style
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  4.  @ladrillorojo4996  oh lol. maybe i'm subconsciously starting to mimic those
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