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LTT does another Linux Challenge
(youtu.be)
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this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
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The part of the video that's unspoken is that he spends most of his time trashing Pop!_OS while he is invested in a company that is competing against System 76.
I'm not saying that to dismiss the complaints against PopOS, many of which are totally valid. Cosmic is honestly not good enough yet to be shipping as the default DE on PopOS, and by doing so System76 are really undermining the reputation Cosmic, PopOS and their entire company. Own goal there by System76.
At the same time Linus is making questionable choices at best. Asking ChatGPT for distro advice may be the "normie" thing to do right now (although I'm not too sure about that), but it's not the smart thing to do and it did lead him down a bad path. On top of that installing his OS at a LAN party when people are waiting for him to play a game is just dumb and makes this entire the entire thing seem like a bad faith attempt.
With that said, Valve are to blame for not making sure their old games all work perfectly on Linux out of the box.
It's Pop!_OS that trashes itself in front of the camera. You people were recommending it for gaming for years, then Linus shown the actual experience.
And now you ignore, that LTT vid had shown Bazzite expreince as well, but boo hoo, Pop is bad therefore Linus bad, we hate LTT together.
Linux has worst, most tribal community in any sense possible. Any criticism ends up with hate and silent downvotes.
PopOS has been a good recommendation in the past, that doesn't mean it's a good recommendation right now.
The same thing is true when Linus reviews one generation of Intel CPUs well, and another generation ends up having catastrophic flaws.
The world isn't static, things change over time.
If he had consulted a human being with a brain, instead of an LLM without one, he would probably quickly find out that PopOS just replaced their entire desktop environment and toolkit with new ones (Cosmic and Iced, all written in a relatively young programming language in terms of GUI, Rust). I'm the first one to blame PopOS for shipping Cosmic in such as rough state as version 1.0, but Linus is absolutely playing dumb to the point of contrivance here by ignoring the community and relying on ChatGPT to advice.
I think I've been pretty vocal and I'm not hating. I think my opinion is pretty nuanced.
I don't blame him for trying PopOS because it has been recommended to him before. I do blame him for using LLMs and "listicles" for his research.
PopOS clearly is in a bad state right now and that is on them.
I dismissed it at the start years ago when I saw tutorial with some terminal wizardry supposed to enable gamepads over Bluetooth. I was right. Gaming distro my ass.