Just say no to Linus and his opinions ....
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My big issue overall with him saying he just wants things "to work", and to an extent, with what he demonstrated by not reading WTF was going to happen when he typed that murderous phrase in, is that most people don't know what the hell they're doing with their computers. They install so much garbage, more and more OS security has to be designed to protect users from themselves. Uninstall a bunch of "things" that I have no idea what they are? Sure, I hate my foot and want to blow it completely off my leg!
How long until we get to Idiocracy style computers where we just get some Fisher Price toy style buttons to smash for most people to use their PC? We're wandering deeper and deeper into an information driven age of humanity and the complete ignorance of most people who demand to use their expensive equipment to do their banking, manage their budgets, pay their home loans... it all just makes me shiver. Learn how your computer is actually working!
Why would anyone learn how their tools work? You don't need to learn how a hammer works to hammer in a nail, you don't need to know how a drill works to drill a hole and you certainly don't need to know how an angle grinder works to make perfect cuts in flesh.
I would certainly hope you would learn enough about the angle grinder to understand that the spinning disc is meant to grind material out or or cut through metal before before you turn it on and start swinging it around, or that the hammer isn't meant to be used on your leg. Linus saw a bunch of packages listed and just applied a tool without understand what that tool was going to do to his computer.
What's the last word of that comment of mine? Do you think I was serious?