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If you gave a scrolling wall of terminal text to the average PC user and then asked "yes or no", they will just say "yes". The point of Linus's video was "is Linux ready for mainstream", so his actions were fair imo. Linux users forget how simple using a PC is (or at least was) on Windows and Mac.
When does Windows or MacOS allow you to purge your desktop environment? They would simply not install the software. They wouldn't give you the option to break your PC in the first place
As much as Linus tries to claim it whenever he fucks up in Linux, he is NOT the average PC User. Yes he is a Windows power user foremost but a lot of knowledge and concepts translate broadly. For example: if you get a warning you have to read it before pressing yes like a monkey.
I agree what happened to Linus should not have happened, but the fact that Linux distros just let you shoot yourself in the foot like that is part of the freedom Linux offers.
"You wanna remove THAT? Sure go ahaead" in this case they even put in a "You sure you wann do that? This will break things"
And with this attitude you are already far out of "average pc user" territory.
Which is my point exactly:
I think you understood the opposite of what I was trying to say.
Average PC users sadly do just click "yes" on everything without reading to make it go away.
Sorry I still feel like we have a misunderstanding here.
I was saying that Linus is not an Average PC user so he would not simply click yes. I feel like you're reasoning the other way round? I.e. an Average PC user would just click yes so Linus I not an averge PC user but that doesn't make sense to me since he did simply click yes?
I'm sorry I keep on about this and if I'm completely misunderstanding you I just wanna figure out what you mean
I'm saying he was deliberately trying to act like an average user to show the average user experience to his viewers. The same reason he refused to ask experts he knows via work for help and attempted to do research available to an average user.
OK. Finally got your point. That's a fair argument and I guess one strategy to approach it that way.
Though I do feel like the takeaway most people had from Linus's failure is "If Linus can't figure it out how can I ever?" So I would argue in that way the challenges sort of falsified the truth?
But yeah got your point now, sorry for being slow.
I mean not all distros need to do that. Immutable distros will not let you break them like that