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[–] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This video is terribly made. It doesn't answer the question. It doesn't even try.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    its a bad question. its a case by case thing. you can ask "does baldur's gate 3 use less ram on linux" and even that, to what extent? what causes the less usage? is it enough to drop a ram stick?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 weeks ago

    I agree. They could've just tested with 16gb ram instead to see how much the windows bloatware affects the performance. They do 32gb and use near 16gb ram and any good would use the remaining ram. It doesn't make sense why they mentioned the 16gb minimum requirement, play games that nearly require 16gb ram but on a 32gb ram.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 month ago (12 children)

    Sees thumbnail... skip.

    I DGAF who the creator is. If you use a video thumbnail that screams "engagement bait", then I'm going anywhere else.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    It’s Linus tech tips. They even have a video talking about how they don’t really want to do it, but it works, iirc.

    What a fantastic ecosystem that has been built!

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    Unfortunately thumbnails/titles are everything, and this style works. YouTube tried (and somewhat succeeded) in making it better by rewarding engaged views, but now they've taken a step backwards by hiding that metric.

    Of course, I'm the only one who watches YouTube the correct way, bookmarking the subscriptions tab, adding all of the videos from my creators to my watch later, then watching that playlist. I only hit up the home tab if I run out of stuff to watch.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    For me it was seeing Linus talking about Linux that made me want to skip... Wonder what he screwed up this time and blames the system instead of the user

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    he never blamed Linux, he put the blame on pop os for shipping a broken DE to stable, though he also saw issues with other distros which didn't make it fully in the vids.

    also let's be honest the steam thing was also stupid that it would brick his DE before. there's defending Linux against hate and there's defending poor UX and leadership choices against any criticism.

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  • I'm not a fan on the channel either generally, but as I remember they didn't do anything unusual? Just installed some things and the distro broke itself.

    If someone can break it by just doing average things a user would do, that's not really the users fault.

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  • [–] -4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    That’s a personal issue. The thumbnail isn’t to blame for that

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Not wanting to engage in or encourage the process of social harm is not a 'personal issue.'

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Calling a thumbnail you don’t personally like “social harm” is certifiably insane

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago

    It seems you don't understand what they're talking about. It's not about the individual thumbnail and personal taste regarding the one individual image. It's about the class of thumbnails that utilise/follow the 'clickbait' model, a system of manipulation developed and actively encouraged by the attention economy of ad-based media which has a broadly pleasant-feeling but long term negative effects on the users and society.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    I remember Linus making a video about setting up 2 unifi nanobeams. He made it sound like rocket science, whereas, in real life, it's easier than it sounds

    Also, same guy who gave away the billet labs prototype unit after he dissed it, and whose staff acknowledged they did a crap job after he was caught out by Steve

    So yeah... Nah....

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  • [–] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

    By the way, for anyone who hasn't set up point to point networks before, it really is just as simple as setting them both to the same SSID and pointing them at one another, and checking the RX strength and TX strength

    It definitely wasn't worthy of a long video...

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    [–] 22 points 1 month ago

    No one should care what he thinks.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago

    Ltt clickbait. Yes. But you can make it use more if you want.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago

    Ltt should just fade away and be forgotten. Don't spread their nonsense

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago

    Posting an LTT video is announcing you aren't serious about linux or technology.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Is it the old garbage video where they didn't even approach max RAM usage in either OS?

    checks crossposts

    It is the old garbage video. Their test system has plenty of RAM. Neither OS even approached saturation. Absolutely nothing meaningful can be gleaned from this video.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Dude is acting like this is magic. If you use double the RAM as Linux while idle there would have to be mad hat tricks to get it to use less while running anything really.

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    I'm a simple man. I see a LTT video, I downvote.

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    [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    LTT has gotten to the point that putting Linus in the thumbnail makes me less likely to click it.

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