• mrmaplebar@fedia.io
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    1 day ago

    PopOS has been a good recommendation in the past, that doesn’t mean it’s a good recommendation right now.

    The same thing is true when Linus reviews one generation of Intel CPUs well, and another generation ends up having catastrophic flaws.

    The world isn’t static, things change over time.

    If he had consulted a human being with a brain, instead of an LLM without one, he would probably quickly find out that PopOS just replaced their entire desktop environment and toolkit with new ones (Cosmic and Iced, all written in a relatively young programming language in terms of GUI, Rust). I’m the first one to blame PopOS for shipping Cosmic in such as rough state as version 1.0, but Linus is absolutely playing dumb to the point of contrivance here by ignoring the community and relying on ChatGPT to advice.

    Any criticism ends up with hate and silent downvotes.

    I think I’ve been pretty vocal and I’m not hating. I think my opinion is pretty nuanced.

    I don’t blame him for trying PopOS because it has been recommended to him before. I do blame him for using LLMs and “listicles” for his research.

    PopOS clearly is in a bad state right now and that is on them.

    • BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world
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      5 hours ago

      PopOS has been a good recommendation in the past

      I dismissed it at the start years ago when I saw tutorial with some terminal wizardry supposed to enable gamepads over Bluetooth. I was right. Gaming distro my ass.