Yeah I feel like anyone who blames Linus for this is missing the point. Was it dumb, yes, but if we want the average (or even a bit tech-savy) Windows gamer to transition to Linux then the distro they use needs to be resistant to this. Most people don’t read shit, they just want things to work so they can play their games. And they’ll happily click through multiple warnings to get there.
And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.
Yeah I feel like anyone who blames Linus for this is missing the point. Was it dumb, yes, but if we want the average (or even a bit tech-savy) Windows gamer to transition to Linux then the distro they use needs to be resistant to this. Most people don’t read shit, they just want things to work so they can play their games. And they’ll happily click through multiple warnings to get there.
And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.