Guess we're all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?
Saying he's the one who breaks is an understatement.
Guess we're all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?
Saying he's the one who breaks is an understatement.
The one who steals prototype liquid coolers, fucks up installation, and slanders their manufacturers
Oh yeah, and disallowing employees from discussing their income, I think was another one.
Lots of anti-union behavior.
Im very happy to see people aren't downplaying what a shitty guy he is here.
Like the way you treat your employees and the people you work with is shit that actually matters.
I don't give a shit if someone is clumsy for entertainment, I give a shit when their workspace is a good ol boys club, sweatshop, and then when they decide to threaten a defamation lawsuit against a former female employee they brought in under very suspect circumstances in the first place all because they couldn't find evidence within their company they admit has an awful HR department.
Just a fucking mess, and I hate that shitty people just succeed nowadays.
"brought in under suspect circumstances"
Genuinely curious at what you're hinting at here. I thought I was fairly familiar with the story, but I thought that employee was mostly brought in because she was popular with viewers, is there something more sinister there too?
As much as I don't like LMG, I'd still suffer one of their videos if it had Torvalds in it just out of plain interest
Edit: seems my comment is being misunderstood - I know their collab video is happening, I'm saying that's why I'll watch it when it comes out despite not being a huge LMG viewer anymore
Well you're in luck, that should be coming soon.
What was the drama?
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
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
IIRC for the third item, the ex-employee who threw those accusations around turned out to be exaggerating things - but there was a whole ass investigation and Linus did step down as CEO, handing the reins over to a new guy who was literally brought in to fix these things (although to be fair I had the feeling that Linus has been wanting to step back for a while and this gave him an out).
Mind you I'm not saying that there weren't problems (any company that scales as much as LMG did in the past few years will have issues), but that the issues presented to the public by the disgruntled employee were heavily exaggerated.
This is true, but the CEO change had nothing to do with it. It was already happening before any of the drama, due to Linus wanting to have more time for making videos instead of having to manage the company.
They did acknowledge #1 and #2 as mistakes, miscommunication and growing pains and vowed to do better. I think it was a bit overblown and handled in bad faith by GN‘s reporting. Not that that’s an excuse but imo they did their best to rectify that situation. The reporting has been more accurate and bo other scandal of this type has happened, so far.
The investigation about the working conditions and sexual harassment concluded those allegations were „unfounded and unfair“, to use LMG’s words. They did not get into details and it is a he-said/she-said situation. It’s anyone’s guess what/whom to believe.
I think, all in all, Linus stepping back from the CEO position (which, to be clear, he did a little while before those problems came to light) improved upon most, if not all of the problems, as far as I can tell. I do still watch LTT on occasion but less so. Primarily though, because both, my interests changed as did their content.
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"
The Linus in Linus Tech Tips is an awful guy
Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.
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.
All I'm seeing there is he decided to deliberately did something wrong on behalf of an imaginary person and then complain that doing the deliberately wrong thing broke the computer.
tbf if your desktop environment gets uninstalled after "sudo apt install steam" it's not entirely the user's fault
The GUI wouldn't let him break it, so he tried the command line.
The command line required him to type, with punctuation "Yes, do as I say!" after a big warning.
If an average user will do that, the "fix" of needing to create a file before being able to type "Yes, do as I say!" isn't going to change anything
yeah, though he is used to windows warning with every program install that it might break the pc so ignoring a warning isn't THAT unexpected
The difference is the things they drop.
One drops well deserved rants and ass-chewings.
The other drops expensive equipment.
Linus vs lie-nus
There are two wolves inside of your computer
My wolf is autistic and wants to play commander keen.
The problem with this is that it gives legitimacy to an idiot YouTuber who has gone out of their way to discourage new Linux users.
And nevermind all the other garbage from LTT
Uhh, he promotes Linux at every step? You are free to dislike him and his content, but he's absolutely 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.

There can be only one!
Lmao which video is this from?
YES, DO AS I SAY
Why it broken >:(
The one who takes
Small companies' prototype GPU coolers and auctions them off without permission
I'm the one who knocks
"Yes, do as I say!"
Linus is a spectrum.
Hint: :q!
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