CONCLUSION: I will stop watching them since all of these alligations and “false?” hardware testing makes me not wanna support them. Even if most of them aren’t true, i don’t want to risk it

ive heard some mixed things about ltt so i want to know if theyre actually bad or not

and im not watching them for linux help, i just like the content, but i also dont want to support a bad person

  • Lemmchen@feddit.orgEnglish
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    2 months ago

    For Linux? Not at all.
    For PC related tech? Well, I find it entertaining, but I don’t find their content useful anymore.

  • userse31 [it/its, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Anyone else have their head stuck in the “cheap nasty embedded computing” stretch of sand under the “tech sun”?

    …That was a really weird metaphor.

    Cheap famiclones excite me, not modern graphics cards.

  • hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    Entertaining, sometimes.

    Useful, not really.

    It is very click-baitybas many others have said. I can’t expect them to be the most knowledgeable on everything (or anything…) But watching their Linux videos they’ve been releasing have been nothing shy of facepalm after facepalm. Sure, there are a few useful nuggets of info in there but I wouldn’t take anything they say aa gospel.

    Its for entertainment purposes and not for in-depth information.

    I can get behind them exposing Linux to new users through their channel. But they could do it better.

    • goofsqueak@lemdro.idOPEnglish
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      2 months ago

      i dont watch them for info or anything, i just dont want to support them if they’re bad people

        • hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip
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          2 months ago

          They aren’t without controversy. Toxic workplace allegations, false/inaccurate hardware reviews, and I’m sure there are more controversies I am sure. Linus also seems a little bit Dickish too.

  • monkeyman512@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    They are more entertainment and light education. They are trying to target a very wide audience, so they can’t really do deep on things. For actually learning I like LearnLinuxTV and LawrenceSystems.

  • Rhonda Sandtits@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 months ago

    I’m pretty sure Linus doesn’t know how to use a computer.
    Hardware-wise, he knows how to put things together and modify it to suit his purpose but when it comes to installing and using software, he has no fucking idea what he’s doing.

    The two Linux challenges that he has participated in has made this clear for most of us Linux users…
    But it’s not just Linux he struggles with, he makes all the same fails with windows all the time.

    • brax@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      Glad it’s not just me that feels this way. He’s always come off a somebody who doesn’t really know shit about fuck but caters to people who know even less so he can pretend on the Internet.

  • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Most of the hate comes from Gamers Nexus, which is an extremely self-indulgent, self-aggrandizing YouTube that seems to pick fights with everyone and treats the Rampocalypse like every board partner is at fault. He is an expert at making hay.

    I wish someone could give him a hair scrunchy.

    I got into following the channel rather late, like, around 2017.

    Linus has absolutely said some cavalier things, and his channel has a strong history if admitting their faults when they are called out.

    They mostly stay in their own lane and don’t go picking fights, plus as a policy they don’t sue people they don’t have to, even when slandered, so being as popular as they are and being as passive as they are, thsts a pretty big bulls eye on their backs.

    Tl:Dr - - nothing reprehensible about the channel, just very advertiser-friendly and easy to snark on.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyz
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        2 months ago

        Who’s also anti-union

        And refuses to provide a proper warranty on his expensive merch, saying “we’ll figure it out on a case by case basis”

        and so on. Those are things I knew about LTT before the GN coverage.

  • poke@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I overall like it for entertainment. As far as I can tell, through the years of “scandals”, Linus doesn’t seem like a bad person. Just a person who means well but makes human mistakes sometimes.