Comments by "Juzu Juzu" (@juzujuzu4555) on "Arch User Reacts To Linus Tech Tips Linux Challenge Pt 2" video.

9:40 Personally I think anyone who doesn't know Git, or doesn't have the motivation to learn it, shouldn't be running anything from Git. At least this gives some sort of protection for the basic normies. If they have a friend who explains them to install something as it's safe, they will also help with how to do that. But the instructions on Git projects can be absolutely horrendous even for the developers, so I also agree with Brodie. I just don't agree Linus' views here.
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Linus' takes are based on his decades of Windows knowledge, internalized Windows' paradigms, his esoteric hardware causing problems, and himself causing problems. PopOS' issues was mostly PopOS' problems and a sad coincidence, just like all those totally bricked windows 10 computers after many different update cycles, but pretty much everything else is because of Linus complaining about things that are not fault of Linux. Hardware problems can be corrected when you buy new hardware next time. There are Linux compatible hardware on even the esoteric categories. Just look what works and what doesn't. But this whole challenge is pretty idiotic. Trying to run Linux with esoteric hardware and trying to play and stream games made for Windows, do this in a month with person like Linus who runs large business and have wife with 3 kids, and the change of this being anything but hell was certain. The challenge should have been with more people, have many people in LMG to join, keep them competing and filming the challenges, and make this challenge a year long, or as long as all have dropped. Give some prices for those who last the longest and some punishing for those who last the least. Linus should have been the referee, interviewer, etc. and the one running the challenge. That way it could have lasted much longer, and we could have seen the evolution of a Linux user. Now we see only the problems. Even without any problems you absolutely do not learn or get benefits from Linux's different paradigms in a month. On a year yes, but it improves further, unless you spend a huge amount of time on your computer learning things. That kind of long term challenge would be great, because it could actually lead to them leaving with Linux.
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In general these "how many Linux users are there" statistics are crap. Don't know how much there really are users, but I know Linux chads usually have all sorts of blocking for tracking and fingerprinting. You don't need to write drivers to distros but to the main kernel. Same with pretty much everything else, then it's distro people who will do the rest. Linux would grow a lot if certain software companies would create Linux versions for their software. On CPU intensive task it would be free performance, even on many of the GPU tasks. Also security would be better, and it would allow many other smaller benefits. The problem is really the software level compatibility between distros which makes publishing software for Linux that much harder. But lets hope SteamOS would become a hit, as that might get some standardization happening.
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2:44 If you do not know the package manager of the distro, you certainly are not equipped on handling it anyway. It takes one google search to find why "apt is not found" and it leads to learning the specific package manager. There is no point in trying to help people to use terminal through terminal in my opinion. Too much problems can rise from that.
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2:30 It's not the mistake here that's bothering, but the fact that it's somehow Arch's fault for not hand held users when they try to execute commands on the terminal that are not found. The mistake is understandable, but blame is 100% on Linus and he should have acknowledged that. Also this problem only happens for those that distrohop as Brodie here said.
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@JohnSmith-xf1zu I'm not wondering why people are not using Linux, because switching to completely different OS with different paradigms requires a shit ton of learning. It's the same thing with exercise, it's hard work, it would be beneficial, but I understand why people are not doing it. Trying to install and use Windows if you never had used it before would be incredibly hard and mostly not intuitive. The only group of people I wonder why they are not using Linux are developers and sysadmins. And one group that would benefit immensely would be those that mostly only use browser and who have ancient hardware. Lightweight Linux distro like Antix runs on a potato while delivers great experience. Problems with Nvidia are problems with Nvidia, not with Linux. There is nothing Linux developers could do about that. And I certainly didn't mean Nvidia with esoteric hardware. Though getting Nvidia to work with the proprietary drivers isn't hard. And there's open source drivers anyway, for gaming it's not really usable though. Linus is perfect example of someone who has no real motivation of migrating to Linux. Trying Linux will almost always ensure you only get frustrated and switch back, because you get all the shit at the beginning and the benefits would come on the long term. Migrating to Linux to just play games is absolutely moronic idea at the moment. Valve's patches to the kernel etc. bending updates are coming with 5.16 so about in January, so if the point was to check out Linux because of Valve's Steam Deck and SteamOS, then the timing was bad. This challenge should have been with LMG's staff where gamers could have participated, and there would have been some awards/punishments. And the challenge would have been a year long or as long as the last person would last. Then you would have seen how the user experience changes among that time, when you learn Linux's paradigms. Also the people would have had more time than Linus who runs massive business and have family with 3 children. But I get that might have been too massive undertaking. It's not Linux's fault that hardware manufacturers do not support it. At least there are tons of people doing these fixes the best way they can, but if devices have closed source firmwares, it's kind of impossible to write great drivers. If you have some esoteric hardware that requires some Git scripts and you are average user who is not committed to migrate, then Linux have failed. And there's absolutely nothing that anybody can do about that, except the HW manufacturers. I hope you see the problem here. There is NOTHING Linux developers could do better in these situations that you described. Obviously there are tons of things they can do, like get more intuitive UIs and get rid of bugs that nuke your X server when you install Steam, but on hardware issues it's mostly impossible to get things done better without some help from the manufacturers.
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@BrodieRobertson Funny how I was tech support when my family used Windows. Constantly had to fix their shit. Then after installing Linux, the only thing I had to do (after the initial couple weeks of helping them to handle things) was when I updated new LTS version for them. It would have worked perfectly from the phone, but you never know and because it wasn't anything that needed to be done before I visited them, there was no point for them to do it. Obviously I recognize this has been at least somewhat due to luck, and them having ancient computers in the first place.
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