imo the linus disaster was an unfortunate combination of

• the unpatched pop_os issue
• linus going TLDR (reasonable but that’s on him)
• apt messages generally being long
• linus not having a frame of reference on which long message is good (apt upgrade listing 50 updates) vs which are bad (apt install saying his DE is about to be nuked)
• and yes, him playing it up for the video, and willingly ignoring his gut feeling that typing “yes, do as I say” can’t be doing anything good

in the end i still think it was kinda irresponsible for linus to publish that, but the whole premise of the video was them going blindly into linux (which i also disagree but whatever)