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    [–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)
    Make: command not found
    

    Capitalization is important on UNIX!

    [–] Gladaed@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

    Well. Could at least prompt the user "did you mean make?" Git does that. It's handy.

    [–] Draegur@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

    Linus is a spectrum.

    [–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 113 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    Guess we're all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?

    Saying he's the one who breaks is an understatement.

    [–] starman2112@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

    The one who steals prototype liquid coolers, fucks up installation, and slanders their manufacturers

    [–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 81 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    Oh yeah, and disallowing employees from discussing their income, I think was another one.

    Lots of anti-union behavior.

    [–] Credibly_Human@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    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.

    [–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    "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?

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    [–] JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

    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

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    [–] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)
    [–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 59 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

    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

    1. the auctioned something that was supposed to be a small company's prototype water block or something, it wasn't theirs to sell
    2. they started making too many errors in their rush to do large scale testing and when people make decisions based on the incorrect info you're putting out thats not great
    3. there was an employee who used to work at LTT after being a fan who they built a PC for (maddison, I think?). When the other two items above were brought up by gamer's nexus and it turned into a whole situation where people were being critical of LTT, she shared that she had an absolutely horrible experience working there, crazy crunch time, I think there was sexual harassment or something, I don't recall all the details. She explained she didn't share it sooner because she expected people would just turn on her for criticizing LTT and it makes sense she would feel more able to share if people seem like they might be more receptive to criticism of a huge channel like that

    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

    [–] fonix232@fedia.io 33 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

    Wasn't the Linus being replaced as CEO thing planned several years ago? I remember there being a video

    [–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    I think maybe we should stop short of saying we know for a fact what did or didn't happen with her. An outside investigation does absolutely help, and hopefully if anything was wrong it has now been rectified.

    But there are lots of ways that companies can clear their names, and bringing in a company to do an investigation could either be done in good faith, or be a very effective way of cleaning up an enormous PR mess.

    I think we should be warry of making snap calls about who was factually in the right in these kinds of situations unless there's hard evidence available to us. Often these situations are about our gut feeling of what happened, and our gut feeling isn't objective. And getting it wrong in either direction has the potential to be enormously damaging (though in this case I believe there was no specific alleged perpetrator for the allegations like sexual harassment)

    I feel this is one of those situations where nuance and being okay with not knowing exactly what happened is important. Though perhaps you know more facts about the situation than I do, and have more concrete reason to believe it was highly exaggerated

    [–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

    Thank you, it's refreshing to see someone adopt a sober mind about the situation. It's been a minefield of sweeping conclusions from incomplete information.

    I understand that parasocial relationships make it difficult to be objective but frankly establishing facts in an employment dispute ex post facto is a dubious endeavor.

    [–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

    I'm glad its appreciated ☺️

    Love your username! Hope you have a lovely day my friend

    [–] accideath@feddit.org 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    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.

    [–] lepinkainen@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    I stopped watching Tech Jesus videos because of their handling of the LTT drama

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    [–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 4 days ago

    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.

    [–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

    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"

    [–] accideath@feddit.org 18 points 4 days ago

    LMG claims that an investigation by a third party found the allegations of toxic work conditions and sexual misconduct as „unfounded and unfair“. It’s of course anyone’s guess what the reality looks like.
    They definitely have improved their reviews and seem much less error prone these days.

    That union thing is bullshit tho. Linus never claimed he would refuse to let his workers unionise (in fact, iirc, he couldn’t even legally do so in Canada), he just (repeatedly) stated, that he’d see it as a failure on his and his company’s side, if his employees felt the need to unionise in the first place. That’s a big difference.

    Can’t say anything to that part as I do not remember it. But I personally believe it to be a non-issue until there’s precedent. Politically, Linus generally seems to be fairly sane. He’s openly a huge fan of Lina Khan, for example and has openly critcised the current US-administration a number of times.

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    [–] FatVegan@leminal.space 37 points 4 days ago

    The one who makes

    That annoying cunt

    [–] rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 48 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    The Linus in Linus Tech Tips is an awful guy

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    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 40 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    There are two wolves inside of your computer

    [–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 28 points 4 days ago

    My wolf is autistic and wants to play commander keen.

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    [–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 64 points 4 days ago (2 children)
    [–] lena 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Lmao which video is this from?

    [–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 20 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    Just a screenshot ltt posted with the announcement, I assume it'll be in the collab vid

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    [–] poinck@lemmy.world 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

    Both can be very rude to people around them (from what is visible in public). I wouldn't want either of them as my boss. Apart from that, both have their ways to entertain; I don't mean by displaying bad behaviour to people; that is no entertainment I enjoy.

    [–] deltapi@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Sure, but one is rude to people that deliver bad work to him, the other is rude to people that don't accept his bad work from him.

    [–] poinck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    Absolutely, thx for clarifying (:

    I image it will be like having Gordon Ramsay as a boss.

    [–] fonix232@fedia.io 51 points 4 days ago (4 children)

    The difference is the things they drop.

    One drops well deserved rants and ass-chewings.

    The other drops expensive equipment.

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    [–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 points 3 days ago
    [–] Durandal@lemmy.today 31 points 4 days ago

    Linus vs lie-nus

    [–] Marzanna@scribe.disroot.org 3 points 3 days ago

    The one who drops

    [–] transfluxus@leminal.space 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)
    [–] kamen@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

    A relatively popular YouTuber who happens to bear the same name.

    [–] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 4 days ago (2 children)
    [–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 23 points 4 days ago (5 children)
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    [–] tyler@programming.dev 14 points 4 days ago

    I think it’s just that LTT drops everything he touches lol

    [–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (6 children)

    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

    [–] starman2112@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

    My favorite LTT nonsense was when he said ad blockers are piracy

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