politics and economy are not separate worlds. capital, monopoly or not, is political power greater than any vote or government seat

what sense does it make to say you’ll keep the ruling class in check while letting them keep their power?
can you make a benevolent mafia by taxing the racket and breaking up mafia monopolies?

it’s lightweight and still looks pretty good, and you can have plenty of fun fighting bots, surprised more people haven’t mentioned it

the idea that you can just jump to linux with zero research needs to go

• no you can’t have every game and program you’re used to
• no you can’t translate windows or mac knowledge
• yes you have to know what partitions, desktop environments, distros, and other bunch of terms mean
• yes you may have to type terminal commands (no one complains about ipconfig when figuring out whether it’s ISP or DNS problem)
• yes there are a bunch of shit tutorials online with copy-paste commands that don’t work

imo the linus disaster was an unfortunate combination of

• the unpatched pop_os issue
• linus going TLDR (reasonable but that’s on him)
• apt messages generally being long
• linus not having a frame of reference on which long message is good (apt upgrade listing 50 updates) vs which are bad (apt install saying his DE is about to be nuked)
• and yes, him playing it up for the video, and willingly ignoring his gut feeling that typing “yes, do as I say” can’t be doing anything good

in the end i still think it was kinda irresponsible for linus to publish that, but the whole premise of the video was them going blindly into linux (which i also disagree but whatever)