• dustyData@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    In that video he did everything that everyone recommends not to do when trying out Linux:

    • Never copy paste and execute random code from the internet.
    • Never execute commands on the terminal you don’t fully understand what they do.
    • Never say yes or okay to any dialog prompt unless you understand what the dialog is asking about.

    He is stupid, he paid the stupid tax. Linux didn’t do any of the things that went wrong in that video, it was his own stubbornness and ignorance.

    • Cora! :D@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      the problem with a lot of these recommendations though is that to a non-linux user: all code is random, and no commands are understood. you only learn by doing, and if you cant do until you know, you’ll never get anywhere. you gotta make a few mistakes to learn anything, and thats what happened. yea he paid the stupid tax, but so does everyone else while they learn a new thing. that was the entire point of the challenge: how hard is it? and it turns out, quite! info is scattered, theres lots of commands and code that sounds like it’ll do what you want but is actually a bad idea (as evidenced by the recommendations you point out), and things can break easily. thats the video.