The thumbnail is 100% clickbait. Linus is doing his normal thing. But he was very understanding generally. Luke "by the way" has really gotten way deeper in than just experimenting with mint. Daily driving now. Even the newer hire is generally positive of the experience this far.
I'd say despite the thumbnail Linus's issues were of course niche but valid for anyone installing on random hardware. Actual things that need to be looked at and worked on. And part of the reason really green users should be pointed strongly to Linux system integrators first. Rather than random distribution on random hardware.