• stephen01king@piefed.zip
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    9 hours ago

    The right approach to reviewing a new kind of operating system

    Luckily, they never used the word review to refer to the purpose of the video, so your criticism is already out-of-place.

    IMHO, that is the worst kind of reviewer

    Again, their job was not as a reviewer, but as a tester for Linux in their specific usecase. In Linus’s case, he added that he was doing it like an average user.

    And it’s not gatekeeping to criticize someone for spreading misinformation about Linux.

    What misinformation? Did Pop!_OS not ship a beta software with their LTS release that caused all the problems that Linus faced? Did his google search not suggest Pop!_OS as a distro? Did ChatGPT not suggest Pop!_OS as a distro? Show me where the misinformation was in the video?

    I’m perfectly happy with him using Linux.

    Yes, you’re just unhappy other people are using it and finding problems.

    Thank god for the other two for actually being the voice of reason.

    Thank god the other two didn’t find many problems? If they found a lot of problems, are they also now spreading misinformation?

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      8 hours ago

      Do you honestly think this video was not a review of Linux? Just because they call it a challenge doesn’t mean it’s not a review. But fine, we’ll call them testers. IMHO, that is the worst kind of tester.

      Multiple times while he’s talking about his experience, he’s attributing bugs in Cosmic to everything except Cosmic. Cosmic’s compositor, especially, has a bunch of bugs, and he’s hitting them, while blaming them on Valve and Linux. He doesn’t understand where the bugs are coming from, which, sure, is a bit of an excuse, but, he’s still spreading misinformation. And the best you can say is, well, he’s only spreading misinformation because he’s ignorant. But how does he not realize that it’s his distro when the other guys never see those bugs??

      The fact that you didn’t realize that what he was saying was untrue kind of proves my point. He’s spreading misinformation.