He's roleplaying as a newbie nontechnical user, which he always does. Asking ChatGPT is normal for an average user, at least from my experience of an average user. You're suggesting that one bad experience should be enough for anyone to completely write-off a distro? Isn't that a bit of a toxic approach to things?

And the playful incompetency and antics are part of the identity of the channel. I get it. Its Top Gear for PC and tech related topics.

OK, so you do know. That's good.

But in this video it just feels like he has zero interested in the challenge and openly tries to make Linux look bad.

That's the part I don't get. Where is he openly trying to make Linux look bad?

I'm sure somebody will argue he just plays a fool to provide a cautionary how not to approach a switch to Linux.

Because he does that regularly.

But i dont see that. The video isnt setup like that.

Because the video isn't meant to be that, but Linus does that anyway. You can see from the other two presenters that they don't aim for that. Linus just thinks that's the way he should approach it to give the video more value and anyone that is familiar with him would know that.

He seems genuinely surprised that when you install an OS with which you arent experienced with in middle of a LAN party it wont work out.

Are you suggesting that any OS would break when installed in the middle of a LAN party when done by someone inexperienced? Can you explain this thought process a bit better? I just don't see how the problem he is having is caused directly by his inexperience or the fact that he is at a LAN party. Isn't it mostly due to Pop!_OS shipping a beta DE in an LTS release?

While beeing the organizer of the party AND beeing filmed for a video. Yeah, no shit it didnt work out.

Again, I don't see the relation between those and the problem he experienced.

The reason they have 16.8 million subscriber is because they cater to the average tech-interested user and not tech experts. Not including the experience of an average person that hasn't done a ton of research would be to exclude their biggest demographic. Besides, it's not like they only show one perspective. People seem to love ignoring the fact that the other 2 presenters had an okay time with their Linux install and can serve as the alternative route to Linus's own painful experience.

So don’t go in online Linux communities. You can just read the docs and get by without ever interacting with anyone online. Also, the Linux community is like tens or maybe hundreds of millions of people. There’s no way to ban toxicity across hundreds of millions of interactions without a centralized moderation force.

Yes your aunt is 1 in a million.

I don't really understand why so many on Lemmy believe that the most useless person they know is representative of the average person or "most people." My own experience is more like yours.

Kinda, but I think your quote is even more apt when applied to the people shitting on Linus by letting their strong feelings get in the way of the facts.