cross-posted from: https://subscribeto.me/videos/watch/ce1f1edd-8a06-4584-a501-b516aeb63480

JayzTwoCents has had it rough with Linux lately... join me as we review his latest Linux video for commentary and criticism.

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[–] 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

No offense to Jay, but he seems to be a bit bone headed more often than not with things he's not familiar with and refuses to research or get outside help when he needs it.

He can make great hardware/watercooled builds and overclock really well, but any video outside that skill set is just... Painful.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I somewhat agree with this.

    Personally I view Jay as the better version of Linus from LTT but still in the same camp of "I dunno if I should fully trust his info".

    No offense to Jay. I think he's genuinely trying to learn and my opinion of him was improved after he asked GN's Steve and crew in trying to improving their benchmarking process.


    If possible I would still prefer if he delayed making some vids about topics outside his field of expertise until he had a good foundation to talk from.

    Sort of like:

    Late is just for a little while, suck is forever.’ Right?

    • Gabe Newell
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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago*

    I would agree with that. Gamer's Nexus is setting the standard on how to do benchmarks right. Jay is only marginally better at it than a random guy with a webcam and a bedroom rig.

    Jay is good for the builds and side projects, yes. I don't bother watching his hardware reviews.

    And yes, the variance between his Windows and Linux benchmarks seems too large.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've seen that kind of thing out of Linus Sebastian too, with the infamous 30 day Linux challenge, and I remember when they took a young woman on their staff who was there as I think a graphic designer and they had her spec out and build a PC with no coaching.

    Chin first no reading no help no think only send. Color me not impressed.

    Do things like that, but have someone experienced do some coaching.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Save your minutes, skip all reaction videos.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Does anyone actually have any evidence that the benchmarks are wrong? If raytracying is enabled I can definitely see there being that much of a pref gap.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ugh another "reaction video". Downvote and make original material.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Wouldn’t call it a reaction video. It’s a commentary on a video.

    It’s not the dumb shit where someone watches a movie and then “reacts” lol.

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  • Fair enough, I just can't imagine for me anything Jay could have put in that video that I would need any commentary done on it. Jay is a Windows/hardware guy making a Linux video for fun, trying to make it something it isn't is disingenuous, and if I even knew who this guy was I would avoid his content going forward as he clearly is scrapping the bottom of the barrel.

    But I guess to each their own, a lot of people watch the slop which is why the bots/AI bros are flooding YouTube with videos. This is just one more video added to the mix.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Not sure you needed to duplicate the entire video description as it's mostly self promo.

    Really just the chapters is actually useful for the vid


    I'm temporarily downvoting primarily because the majority of the post's quotes aren't useful or relevant for Gardiner's vid.

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    [–] 12 points 1 year ago*

    Everything from Jayz feels off to me. Blocked him and never looked back.

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