I will say this, and some may consider this my hot take; I feel like Linus needs to step back from responding to community feedback as well. I get that it's his company and he probably feels responsibility to respond, but he does not respond well to criticism. The biggest tell on how his employees feel was Luke's face during the video. It was obvious even without him saying anything that he knew the hot take response was not going to turn out well. These situations are part of being a CEO not an owner and Linus needs to show that he trusts the new CEO enough to respond accordingly. Linus continues to handle this problem in the exact wrong manner when he shouldn't be handling it at all m

I'm somewhat conflicted on the entire matter. I felt like their quality was slipping for some time and it's been difficult to watch them.

Linus has handled almost every community crisis extremely poorly because when under pressure he gets defensive and speaks without thinking often pouring gasoline on the fire.

At the same time I can understand his motivations as the livelihoods of his now very large number of employees depends on it.

I think if LTT had responded officially and earnestly to the criticism addressing and laying out of roadmap for remediation it would have bought a lot of goodwill. I think Linux needs to be removed from LTT public relations but I don't think that will ever happen.

Truly a sad day, glad we have GN

Seems Linus is in love with money now.

Finally? He's been tech jesus for years.

"We may be pumping out trash, but at least the trash pumps are running strong with huge throughput. We're ℙℝ𝕆𝔻𝕌ℂ𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼!

Yes I think this was the main point that Steve kept coming back too. Moving too fast. And not focusing on accuracy and quality. LTT realistically has always been much more about entertainment. And I still watch them for that. Gamers Nexus Etc has always been where you go if you want the straight dry news and facts with as little opinion thrown in as possible.

Linus has a vision of what he wants to become. And I am there for it. There's undeniable possibility and niche for what they want to do. But it relies on being methodical, accurate, and focused. Several things they've been owning themselves on for a while. It can be fixed. But I think George Harrison put it best.

It's gonna take patience and time, mmm To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it To do it right

Linus is both knowledgable and a good entertainer. The problem is he's grown from a casual reviewer to running a 100+ employee business, pumping out multiple videos a week with his face on it - He simply cannot possibly know anything about the product besides what's on the script.

When he is interested in something, it really shows. The way he talks about the LTT Screwdriver or the Framework laptop for example almost never even has a correction, let alone errors. Linus just has no ability to upscale that quality.

He's does not have a technical background and he's said as much, gaming and computers are just a passion for him.

He's an entertainer, not an authority. But he speaks so passionately it's easy for a non-technical person to believe he's an authority.

Linus himself has no engineering background, but his team has many engineers. They do not make mistakes for lack of knowledge. What they need is more quality control over their videos

LTT is just an infomercial

He doesn't. He's just being a computer technician for as long as he has worked.

It used to be an unboxing channel.

Just like you said. I only watch gn before purchases. They're so damn dry and boring I just skip it wholly and fully otherwise.

"we did what we did because no matter what the temps are, we thought it was so expensive that none of our viewers should come away from this video wanting to buy it"

He's built a $100,000 gaming desk in the past year, as if he couldn't see a market for an expensive cooler block.