At the risk of committing whataboutism, I find that Windows is actually worse in terms of weird things going wrong, getting bricked, or needing to bodge together stuff to get it to work.

Linux is a tool, not a toy. Pop os may be (idk), but thats not the fault of Linux. No one would expect to be able to operate a cnc mill without at least reading the quickstart manual. Not even if they already know how to operate one made by a different brand and especially not when they only know how to use a dremel.

There are a lot of beginner friendly guides out there, there are some really really bad rehashes of those guides made for content too. There is a (secret?) trick on how to avoid the latter: turn adblock on and javascript off and most of them magically just show a blank page.

Linux distributions usually aren’t meant to be idiot proof, since they don’t assume you are an idiot. Which, I think, is generally required for decent and respectful interaction.

Making it more difficult to actually break the system is a good thing, insofar as it does not actually restrict the freedoms of the users who know what they are doing. I think the fix introduced by PopOS:

To prevent such incidents in the future, Pop!_OS patched the APT package manager. Now, POP!_OS won’t be able to enter “Yes, do as I Say”. Instead, they will have to add a special a file to enable it (if someone really wants to remove the packages).

is reasonable, because the user can override the protection if they really feel they need to (and know what they are doing, of course).

The command line method clearly warned, “You are about to do something potentially harmful. To continue type in the phrase ‘Yes, do as I say‘”.

But people often do not care about warnings. Linus Sebastian went ahead with it and ended up with a broken system that cannot be logged in graphically.

It’s almost as though reading warnings / error messages is helpful! Imagine that! Sure, it may take an extra minute of one’s time, but that’s just too much, man!

It is not too much to ask people to read something prefaced by a warning label. Don’t understand it? Ask for help!

Roads have warning signs, cars themselves come with a booklet explaining the check engine light and its meanings, microwaves come with warnings about putting metal inside, and cleaning supplies have tons of labels about potential hazards in case of misuse. If one can learn to understand different warnings for these, one can learn to understand computer warnings.

But here’s the thing, many users won’t care for “warnings”, no matter how technically advanced they are. People just assume that pressing Y or other similar stuff is just part of the procedure without thinking twice.

I can agree with that sentence, but if a computer makes you type in “Yes, do as I say!”, you better make sure you’re not about to wipe out the human race.
Especially when it tells you within the same sentence that it is about to do something potentially harmful.

Like, I’m all for noob-proofing. I myself rarely read warnings properly. And I’m the type of idiot that closed the welcome screen on Linux Mint, because I didn’t need no stupid tutorial – shortly before spending 3 days having no clue whether it was even possible to install any software on this Linux thing.
But even I got tripped up when my computer asked me to type that in.

So, yeah, please do reflect on whether noob-proofing could be improved, but don’t take an entertainment video as genuine feedback. It’s simply more entertaining when the guy plays the more daring, more careless person.

I’ve nuked myself in Linux a couple of times, as well as in Windows (NTLDR? I don’t need that!) It was always my fault, though, not the OS.

I had been looking forward to the Linux challenge videos, but after that video I unsubbed and blocked any channel related to LTT. I honestly feel like he did that on purpose and played it up to try to make a point. If you point a loaded gun at your foot, turn off the safety, and pull the trigger, YOU CAN HURT YOURSELF!!.. Yeah, that’s disingenuous BS, at best.

As a relatively new linux user, Linux is right about a lot of UX concerns and it’d be really nice if people were more receptive. It should be harder to brick your system in Linux, just have a default where you can’t and power users can easily disable that block

I installed windows 11, and to be fair it was the beta version, it installed, let me do my thing, updated one day, and then marked everything on my hard drive as admin locked, meaning nothing would run, I couldn’t save files, my system was useless. It would not let me turn it off, it didn’t tell me it was going to do it, or why it did it. I only discovered the issue by chance whilst troubleshooting why nothing worked, a normal user would have just been screwed. Not that I wasn’t I guess, my only recourse was to reinstall and hope it didn’t do it again. My point being that you can’t expect things to always just work when it comes to computers. Any system is going to have issues, and coming in to a whole new experience like he is, is going to make those experiences feel worse. He’s even said as much himself. Personally I find running Linux to be very rewarding, I’ve had weird issues, but the solutions are always available somewhere. Windows is a black box, if things break it’s good luck and nothing else. Case in point I’m pretty sure if he read the warnings it even told him what command he would need to run to fix it if he did ignore the warning and it broke everything. Linux will work just fine for mainstream, if people are willing to learn how to use Linux, the same as they’ve learned how to use windows, or Mac. If you’re not willing to learn at all it’s not going to work.