He deliberately shitcanned his system to generate clicks. What are people going to say if an uppity linux fanboy youtuber shows himself deleting system32 and then crying about Windows is unusable for non-Windows gurus for daily driving? They're going to say he's an idiot and move on.
When I instruct my package manager to uninstall your desktop environment, and the package manager says, "You are about to delete critical system components. Are you sure? (yes/no)" and I type in "yes" I expect my package manager to uninstall the desktop environment. That is the correct thing for it to do. Anything else is the wrong thing to do.
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Let's not forget, that while he did kind of shrug and agree to remove everything... that was a problem in the packaging spec.
The package (Steam, if memory serves?) should not have had the other packages referenced as they were. The dependency/requirement resolution was faulty...
Then he didn't truly take in the message and this is the result we get.
There's plenty of "probably say no if you don't know what this means" in what he ignored. Fault is all over.
- His distribution of choice [or] the repository supporting it
- him for not reading and acting accordingly
- sheer chance
Had he chosen another distribution at random, there's little chance that would have happened.
If he repeated it on the same one now, it wouldn't happen. When you choose a niche distribution, you get niche problems.
My entire family manages fine on 'bleeding edge' Fedora, yet it doesn't market itself this way. Packaging is specifically in their domain of expertise
This isn't to say Linux is for everyone, but I really wish for a more fair representation.
As the reporters they should have dug in a bit more. They become part of the problem, in a sense, by not clarifying where there truly be dragons.
When I instruct my package manager to uninstall your desktop environment, and the package manager says, "You are about to delete critical system components. Are you sure? (yes/no)" and I type in "yes" I expect my package manager to uninstall the desktop environment. That is the correct thing for it to do. Anything else is the wrong thing to do.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." -Douglas Adams