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He was approaching linux as an average idiot, like me, would.
and that is absolutely how it would have gone, and probably did go, for lots of people before it got caught on a camera by a big youtuber.. especially since, iirc, the issue was known to Pop OS for a while before hand.
For like my first 4 years in linux, all the support I could find basically boiled down to "if X doesnt work, paste this command and run it". So yes, I can totally see an average idiot doing exactly what happened in the video.. and I'd wager it happened quite a few times to quite a few people, before the this video made it famous and made Pop finally get off their ass to fix it.
I don't particularly make secret of my dislike for Linus, but I feel like the criticism on this particular topic is unfair. Shit like this does happen with new users with no IT/Sys Admin linux knowledge, And its most likely going to happen more frequently as more non-knowledgable new users come into linux and stumble into things weird niche situations and stuff... More monkeys smashing keys means more weird issues being found, afterall.
The only support I've ever been given with Windows was "go in this menu, click this button" or "open the Run dialog, type regedit, and change SOME_RANDOM_REGISTRY_KEY from 1 to 0." And editing the registry happened more and more when I left 7 for 8. What's the difference between typing a bash command and clicking some button in some menu?
Shrug, I dont know man.. personally, last time I had to dig into regedit was on..i think win98? maybe xp? and that was under guidance of the tech support I was on the phone with.. the why I long since forgot, I just remember them telling me it was okay and as long as I listened nothing would get broken (and that their thing would be unbroken)