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  • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
    196·
    2 days ago

    Yeah, I maintain that it’s not realistic that a person new to linux would do what he did here. I mean, sure, some people might, but the warning on the screen is really fucking clear it’s not a good idea, and it’s not the kind of “OK” modal that people are used to safely dismissing without reading.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0506yDSgU7M%3Ft%3D638

    • vithigar@lemmy.ca
      224·
      2 days ago

      Counter point: The removal of your desktop environment should not under any circumstances be within the possibility space of side effects for trying to install a common piece of desktop software, regardless of the warnings provided or confirmations required.

      This was an issue with the OS, and the Pop_OS! team fixed it in an update very soon after this. A month earlier or later and Linus would not have encountered it.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zipEnglish
        43·
        19 hours ago

        Tell me, when should you ever have the need to nuke your OS in this way?

        Does it hold any value to have this feature in your OS?

        Because to me, it doesn’t. So it sounds like a Linux problem.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
        125·
        2 days ago

        So he nuked the OS on purpose and then blamed Linux.

        No, he nuked the OS because he’s one of those people who shuts down all thought when they’re outside of their depth and smashes buttons. His impression of OS’s is that recovery will always be there to save you.

        For a beginner, he had no business digging that deep into the terminal without reading. They were trying to speedrun using Linux with no knowledge.

        And this was early in Wayland, a lot of shit didn’t play nice yet. Hell some of it still doesn’t play nice.

        If his goal was to install an OS, install steam, install OBS and play some games, he NEVER should have run into most of these issues.

        At the time he installed it, there was probably a dep issue installing steam from his package manager. He could have installed it one of a dozen different ways. He wasn’t intent on making it work he was intent on showing it was out of the reach of the command user.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
        55·
        2 days ago

        Exactly. And for the record I’ve been gaming on pop os since around the time he made the video I linked in this thread and I did not run into that error he got, nor did I ever get presented with a choice to possibly nuke my OS. I don’t get what weird thing he did here.