Alexeygridnev1993

PopOS is good as you can immediately download the ISO file specifically for Nvidia cards but, honestly, it's not hard on any other distro like Ubuntu or Linux Mint (both allow to install the proprietary Nvidia drivers from the GUI). So, it's totally a matter of personal preference and your past experience.

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

Law is often stupid. By law, it's not illegal for Jeff Besos to pay zero dollars of income tax each year, because he paid his lawyers to find necessary loopholes.

She may not want to fight it legally. At least one former colleague corroborated her story, one active employee sent a tweet out in support of her, and at least one former colleague liked her story tweets. Even if no actually laws have been broken, it seems very likely that all is not well at LMG.

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

He's got a history of calling out bad actors. Bad computer manufacturers, bad retailers, bad assemblers, etc. If you watched the videos he addresses that. It's for the consumer. Because bad stuff should be called out before people spend money on it.
 
He tried giving LMG the opportunity before and was met with Trust Me Bro. After that he said he would only treat them like any other company. 
 
So when LMG posts bad data and gives recommendations on bad data you call that out. When you find out that it took to months for them to own up to the business owners that they sold their prototype (and did it by saying "good news, it's not on a shelf somewhere!" you call that out as well. And when you make a shit apology, complete with a timeline that shows you didn't do right by that company, you call that out. 
 
GN has already said he's not going to bother commenting on LMG anymore, but I hope someone does because today's apology video was tasteless. Three sponsor jokes, one reveal of the prototype cost (against the wishes of the affected party), and one really out of place sex joke. Yeah, LTT/LMG need to do better.
 
Everyone should hold them up to a higher standard. That means people on this forum with no real voice, and it means people in the media with a platform. 

Because GN is in the same field of work and when he sees a horrible mismanagement in his field of work by someone else misrepresenting data and reviews he has to speak out??

Those are just the guidelines, not legal requirements. Plus, in a follow-up, Steve explained why exactly he didn't call Linus. Namely, he was concerned that Linus would start covering things up

Those are just the guidelines, not legal requirements. Plus, in a follow-up, Steve explained why exactly he didn't call Linus. Namely, he was concerned that Linus would start covering things up

Also, it's not like LTT has never been good at testing. They have been pretty reliable for years - until the last 1-2 years when they just started to release 20 videos a week and disregarded the quality completely.

Those are just the guidelines, not legal requirements. Plus, in a follow-up, Steve explained why exactly he didn't call Linus. Namely, he was concerned that Linus would start covering things up

I keep seeing this exact argument. They invested a lot of million dollars in a lab to do accurate data testing. How can you say they are just entertainment? People follow these channels, from which LTT has over 15 million subs, to get good information to make good decisions on their next purchase. You may find it pure entertainment and don't take it serious, but a lot of people do.

because if you haven't noticed it they always point out when companies does shitty things for the consumer... which LMG was/is doing... shitty/fake/wrong results and conclusions that can mislead people both into buying something that isn't as good as claimed (300% performance gain on the GPU test) or claim a mouse is utterly useless.... when it is the tester himself that is utterly useless... both cases hurt the consumer

viewers(consumers) have complained about it for atleast 2 years now... and Linus has brushed it off everytime...

now he got a wakeup call he couldn't just ignore because another sizeable channel called out the shenanigans... and when all those that have been bamboozled finds out what they thought was trustworthy reviews is pure garbage... then there is the uproar you see here...

and little fanbois like yourself is totally unhappy because someone told the truth about your lord saviour Linus

GN has gone after multiple companies with exploding powersupplies, self-igniting cases, burning graphicscards, bad warrenties and scamming winners from their price etc. etc. and LMG is just another large company... that did a poor job on their "customers" the viewers feeding them incorrect information...

information was served, with a dose of proof... and all the fanbois cries foul... and goes after the messenger instead of listening to the facts and demand that the issues are corrected...

end of story...

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

Good question. On one of the latest WAN show, Linus and Luke went into a lengthy discussion about how difficult it is to fact check things and blablabla... Except that it's not. You need just one thorough and punctual person whose full-time job would be to fact-check every script before the video is shot. And if that slows down the process of the video production... well, then the process should be slowed down to make sure the quality remains high.

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

Well, it's hard to do if Linus owns 50% of the company and his wife owns another 50%...

Too late for that. He had the chance in his first response. Any retractions made now would not look genuine to anybody.

201 pages of comments, this isn't dying down isn't it 🙂
Linus should do a mea culpa, and apologise to us and to Steve and hardware unboxed.
He should learn some  humility ...

Sadly we all know he is too stubborn to do this.

If you want to say something negative about Apple or Microsoft, you do it publicly in a review, not try to privately call Tim Cook or Satya Nadella to tell them about your concerns. Why LMG should be treated any differently? They are a big corporation with big profits and a big impact on the industry, not a bunch of goofy YouTubers making silly videos

Acknowledging the problem is only the first step. If you acknowledge the problem but then don't do anything to resolve it for months and months, it means you simply don't care.

Law is often stupid. By law, it's not illegal for Jeff Besos to pay zero dollars of income tax each year, because he paid his lawyers to find necessary loopholes.

Given that LTT has over 15 million subs and between 1 and 2 million views on every single video - yes, there is a very high chance that some of these people (maybe hundreds, in fact) did base their purchasing choices on LTT videos which had horrible mistakes.
 
And yes, Linus is not their financial or technical or whatever other advisor so he's not legally liable for their purchasing decisions. However, like with printed media, if you consistently give the audience the wrong advice, you eventually lose your reputation.

Given that LTT has over 15 million subs and between 1 and 2 million views on every single video - yes, there is a very high chance that some of these people (maybe hundreds, in fact) did base their purchasing choices on LTT videos which had horrible mistakes.
 
And yes, Linus is not their financial or technical or whatever other advisor so he's not legally liable for their purchasing decisions. However, like with printed media, if you consistently give the audience the wrong advice, you eventually lose your reputation.