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Edit: missed the context. This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

Theres a lot more problems than that. Both GamersNexus and Louis Rossman have made videos on it.

Shady sponsor deals. Making huge mistakes when testing things from new small companies (one guy machining custom watercooler blocks), calling the device garbage because their own mistakes caused it not to work, refusing to return the prototype one they tested as they had agreed to, and then auctioning it off. Claiming all of that was just honest mistakes while making no efforts to make it right and doubling down on calling it shit. Many many cases of Linus just being an abusive bastard of a boss behind the scenes. Many cases of anonymous current and former employees talking about toxic workplace culture (coming from the top down), insane crunch, deadlines set too tight that cause issues in reviews.

Regular smaller mistakes in their reviews and videos with no standard company policy on how they should go back and edit them to inform viewers of the mistake. Numerous cases where they acknowledge the mistake privafely but refuse to even add a pinned comment to the video.

His team knew about the Honey extension, one of their sponsors, being a scam. It hijacked any links to online stores nd made them referal links to kick back money to Honey. While countless other youtubers made exposes about it he refused to say anything about it to his viewers and then had a tantrum on the podcast about how it was unfair to expect him and his team to say anything about it after he was called out.

Every. Single. Time. When Linus is called out on this stuff in a large enough way, he throws a very public tantrum.

At best, Linus is an overgrown child who is unfit to run a business of the size and clout his has.

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Your comment is pointless, this isn’t a thread about LTT.

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Torvalds and the tech tip guy share the same first name, but they are in fact not the same person.

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This was about Torvalds, not Tech Tips

Wrong again. I was comparing Pewdiepie’s video about Linux to LTT’s Linux challenge. Felix has shown a considerable understanding of Linux and relevant components that many “tech” entertainers (least of all Linus of LTT) don’t.

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I assumed this was the mixup because of the unexpected Linus but I can’t tell what’s going on anymore

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