Personally I believe this is a very poor take

96 points

This person uses an 8GB mac, and tried to defend Apple in the debate, going as far as to say that Apple hardware is “not that expensive”, and within 2 months regrets buying the 8gb mac.

They think Open Source is “overrated”, insecure, and not important. They think Linux users are “normies” and fakers, Linux is not a desktop OS, and have explicitly stated “F*** LINUX”.

That’s a lot of terrible opinions in just 4 months, especially for someone who calls the internet “stupid”, and supposedly doesn’t have any education.

This is either a troll account, or someone with less than zero credibility considering their opinions and statements.

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Something about that channel feels “off”, don’t know what it is. Maybe all the rants and abundance of negative opinions?? Perhaps it’s the culture difference in how he communicates on camera?

The only positive videos I’ve seen are him moving to macOS, the dell laptop one, and i guess the keyboard one, the other ones seem to be mostly opinion pieces & rants. There are other channels that do a better, more balanced job of this I think

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38 points

Rage bait and contrarianism are unfortunately pretty effective business models on YouTube. The less exposure we give people like that, the better.

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Yeah I think he must be a troll or a total fuckwit. Just checked out his video about the 8gb mac mini letting him down and it seems to just be a joke. The comments on his videos seem legit and in support of what he’s saying, I have seen videos from Apple fanboys, and I suppose Windows fanboys must be a thing. I don’t think he’s smart enough to call him a troll so I’ll stick with fuckwit.

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The comments are weird:

However, his videos are really stupid and often straight false. I wrote this comment from OnePlus Nord -12GB Ram - with LineageOS 21 using the NeverSettle Kernel (Not Apple!!!).

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6 points

This person uses an 8GB mac, and tried to defend Apple in the debate

This is more than enough for me to form an opinion about this guy.

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Summary

According to the video, open source software is not necessarily as important for servers and IT in the modern world as it was in the past. This is because software updates are now delivered electronically over the internet, making it less important to have access to the source code. Additionally, companies typically pay for service agreements with software vendors, which means that the vendor will fix bugs and update the software for them. Even if a company has access to the source code, they may not have the expertise to fix the software themselves.

I believe this is a perfect example of what I believe is called the Dunning-Kruger effect. In the same way that I’m glad amateurs are given a platform, I rue the fact that amateurs are given a platform as a little bit of research would’ve prevented them making themselves look so stupid. “Servers don’t need open source” with 97% of the top 100 servers running Linux looks like an odd position to take. Maybe they’re trolling.

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Making connections between open-source and updates is either really stupid or really sus. Open-source isn’t about that at all. I’d say that person is 99% an imp or a troll. In any case just vote him out.

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I just want to clarify as OP, I didn’t post this because I support it, I posted it because it’s stupid and just a taste of the very poor takes out there

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If it’s that bad, could you maybe give people a hint as to why we’d want to watch it and what it has to do with linux?

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I wouldn’t recommend watching it, but the central argument of this video is to do with software support. They argue that “open source” was more relevant prior to the internet (in servers?) due to the long turnaround time in getting a software vender (in this video IBM) to fix a bug in their software, arguing that by having access to the source code support could instruct the server maintainer what changes to make without them needing to send the tape to IBM to debug (apparently that was something they did, but it seems people in the video comments disagree with this hinting that the youtuber has no actual experience in this area). They argue that due to high speed internet support can release software fixes much quicker so having access to the source code isn’t useful as paying for support contracts is a better option for businesses rather than having people who understand the software they’re running. Apparently this is the only reason why open source is useful. They go on to argue that Linux is only popular on servers because RedHat’s support contracts are cheaper than Microsoft’s, something which I doubt and probably has more to do with the kernel and OS being easy to modify and control allowing it to be extended to a large variety of use cases instead of writing a new system from scratch.

There’s lots of issues with their argument and some have claimed it is trolling but I reckon that would be giving them too much credit. It is likely they are just an idiot fanboying for their favourite companies desperately trying to justify their irrational biases

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3 points

I wouldn’t recommend watching it,

So why are you giving him views by prominently linking it? It looks like you’re just bringing the rage bait here.

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Uh, you just have to take a look at recent developments with Unity and Adobe to see that closed-source software can be a huge problem?

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10 points

Might want to change the title a bit…

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10 points

Good idea, done.

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20 points

That youtuber is posting garbage for rage baiting to get interactions.

Just ignore him entirely. Might as well ask a dog for technical advice. At least a dog can’t give you straight up wrong advice

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15 points

thanks for the brain rot, op 🙏

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Happy to provide. YouTube gave me brainrot by recommending this idiot to me, now I pass the brainrot on to everyone else

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