stephen01king

That’s not the reality and you know it. If the fact that humans are generally stupid is news to you, you are just being ignorant. And thinking that your common sense applies to everyone is what makes you elitist.

Man, you’re really missing the point of that video. I guess when you want to hate on something, most people turn off the logical part of their brain.

Most people who has never dealt with Linux will ever understand that having to type a sentence signifies that it is an important message that needs to be read thoroughly. Its more likely for them to think its just a quirk of using Linux distros, such as using sudo.

Honestly, the average person would never figured that out unless they’ve had experience with it before. Most people can’t even read short error messages after something has gone wrong, let alone lines of text full of technical terms they have never seen before in the process of figuring out something as mundane as installing Steam.

I seriously think you guys are a bit out of touch with how non-technical people deals with their OS. The fact that you think its arrogance that made him not consult people instead of him playing the role of a non-technical person really says a lot about your own comprehension skills.

Again, when you have no idea how much the command line can do, and the instructions is literally for something as basic as installing Steam, nobody would expect to nuke their DE.

You’re also expecting that people should be able to parse an long ass message full of technical terms that they are unfamiliar with the first time they see it.

You guys really overestimate how competent the average person is. Linus was playing the perfect role of a “knows just enough to be dangerous” noob.

Complaining about Linus doing things like an inexperienced user when that is the whole point of the test is pretty stupid, honestly.

I would expect someone who knows just enough to follow troubleshooting using the command line but not knowing how powerful it can be would do the exact same thing in his position.