Linus Comparison

Oh yeah, and disallowing employees from discussing their income, I think was another one.

Lots of anti-union behavior.

That's what most people took away from the drama. No one looked into it later to find out was made up because that's no longer interesting. As is usually the case with Internet drama.

(Emails eventually came out showing Billet Labs told them to keep the cooler, and then lied about it)

There were kinda three separate things that rolled together, mind you, I'm not especially in the know about any of them, so hopefully others can expand

1. the auctioned something that was supposed to be a small company's prototype water block or something, it wasn't theirs to sell
2. they started making too many errors in their rush to do large scale testing and when people make decisions based on the incorrect info you're putting out thats not great
3. there was an employee who used to work at LTT after being a fan who they built a PC for (maddison, I think?). When the other two items above were brought up by gamer's nexus and it turned into a whole situation where people were being critical of LTT, she shared that she had an absolutely horrible experience working there, crazy crunch time, I think there was sexual harassment or something, I don't recall all the details. She explained she didn't share it sooner because she expected people would just turn on her for criticizing LTT and it makes sense she would feel more able to share if people seem like they might be more receptive to criticism of a huge channel like that

The first two that were brought up in an bombshell gamer's nexus video were, imo, handled very poorly (EDIT: I should clarify, I meant the initial first reseponse), though again, I don't remember details (about the very first response I think I remember not being great, or otherwise 😅)

The last item I'm honestly not sure how it panned out but my impression is that nothing really happened with it. LTT was gonna transfer CEO to being a new guy with Linus being more of a face and direction guy, and the new CEO guy I think was the one who had an outside investigation of some kind conducted. I don't think there was ever an update about that investigation? I dunno. I didn't watch much before the whole situation and just kinda stopped watching when the initial criticism from gamer's nexus was poorly handled

I don't really watch LTT, but I think they we're pretty bad when explaining why they didn't make more fuzz about Honey stealing commissions when LTT found out.

toxic working conditions and sexual harassment (this article also mentions them doing sloppy reviewing that led to misleading videos, which is bad but imo nowhere near as bad as the rest, i kinda wish the article didn’t focus so much on it)

i also remember linus saying he’d refuse to let his workers unionize, saying it would "make him feel like a bad boss"

and he’s also said that floatplane (their video streaming app) would let anyone join no matter their politics, up to and including nazis, because "free speech"

I don't watch his other content but in that one video he was absolutely doing exactly what a typical user would do in his situation. He was trying to follow a tutorial, he ran into the sort of warning message Windows users are conditioned to breeze past, and followed the onscreen instructions without trying to understand the confusing stuff. They changed how it worked after that incident, as they should if mass adoption is at all desirable.

That case was a legitimate bug in the specific PopOS version he was using

It was bad luck on every side. Mostly because pop doesn’t update packages during install

The weird command was sudo apt install steam pretty much IIRC

He should've read the message, but it also shouldn't have uninstalled his desktop environment, that should be a very damn safe command to run if we want Linux to be mainstream on the desktop. Sucks that a package dependency error like this managed to make it through QA.

I watched the Steam Frame VR headset video of his, after not watching for a long time.

His voice was grating, sure, but the overall delivery was so much worse. He was like a cartoon character that couldn't decide if they were doing an advertisement or a school report.

From what I remember it went like this, but I stopped following his crap years ago

• sees an error message, doesn't read it
• starts pasting random shit into the terminal
• breaks the system
• Fuck Linux, it's not ready for use
• after the Linux community has a meltdown, someone points out to him that he's an idiot, but in a gentle way you'd tell your boss
• tries again, gives up again
• films another video on how windblows just works, while he, a certifiable tech genius, couldn't get it to work

Truly "a force for Linux adoption".

I very much so enjoyed their content where they attempted Linux only for 30 days straight. They documented their successes, struggles, and roadblocks. I think they did two different attempts, the first time they didn't recommend it and the second time they did. I might be misremembering the first attempt.

He honestly did a great service for linux in getting them to really start improving the user experience

All he did was make the maintainers of apt realize they need to account for the lowest common denominator. As in, really stupid people like Linus Sebastian who can't read. No one else had that problem.

but a mistake was made by someone in logistics at LTT so it wasn't put aside for return as it should.

And was subsequently sold, without Billet Labs' permission. What did I say that was incorrect?

That's not the story Billet told.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

https://vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/20518661

Are you joking...? I didn't find anything online 😅