Luke Smith is Wrong about everything
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- Опубліковано 5 лис 2024
- This title is blatant clickbait. Luke seems like a good guy, and if you're watching this channel, you probably already know about his. If for some reason, you don't check it out here: / @lukesmithxyz
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Please delete your channel.
Agreed.
Agreed.
Didn't agree.
Please pipe your channel to shred
> doesn't use funny arrow markers for no reason
> opinion ignored
how you dare opening Lukes channel on Windows?
It was fairly easy.
Lmfao
how he dare opening Windows
Make sense 😂
windows suck. walls better.
I also found his channel when I was learning LaTeX, his VIM and i3wm videos are also great. It was because of him that I started using i3. When you see a bald guy with a goatee on UA-cam, you know you're getting great Linux stuff, Luke is a cool guy ;)
I'm definitely all for the vi evangelism. Who else do you watch on youtube?
@@NicholasBernstein I get notified from Luke Smith, Kamran Azeem (His videos are in Urdu), from you and to keep myself updated on the web side I also watch Traversy Media. I prefer documentation and manuals more than videos but these videos gives me new ideas and then also I know what's going on around me. And also I like to listen to podcasts, Command Line Heroes from Red Hat is my favorite ;)
"bald guy" reminds me of DistroTube more than luke smith
@Its GNU /Freedom ohhh yes...
@@drishalballaney6590 He is hairless not bald :)
I see where your coming from, but Luke is a self proclaimed technology hater hence the unaboomer meme and even admits to not know too much about high level IT/sys admin stuff. He is obsessed with improving effeciency and using as much as FOSS and libre software as possible.
But I agree with you all your points, he is not a good source for IT & sys admin concepts, that's where you come in 👍.
Yeah, he seems like a good dude. I told him I was posting this when I did, what it was about, and he re-tweeted it. I in no way mean any criticism of him, it was just a fun clickbaity title for the video. :)
@John Brocksman cry me a river. You sound like a butthurt housewife. No one cares. Get over it.
@Jacob lmao
I don't quite see the point of this video. Luke's channel is obviously not targeted at server administrators. Also he shows and praises sed and awk in his videos and he's a supporter of knowing the standard stuff that's already on your system, as he mentions in one of his videos in the woods
The point was to caution people who are new to linux to try and learn more as a sysadmin and less as a power user. Luke has one of the first channels that you would find, and while customizing linux is great, it's something that people who are new to linux may not realize you should generally stay away from as a systems admin.
The point of this video is clout chasing.
@@NicholasBernstein so.... You think people who aren't sysadmins should learn as if they're a sysadmin because.... Why? That's nonsense.
Brb, installing LARBS on my company’s web servers. .
I remember I found him a very long time ago from his website, specifically his blog post about licenses (you know the one). I bookmarked the page because I thought he was based and I looked at some of his other blog posts. Never knew he had a UA-cam channel at that point. About 3 months later I found out about Mental Outlaw, at the time he had like 20k subscribers. Someone called him "black Luke Smith" and I was like "Hmmm where have I heard that name before..." so I clicked the channel. I watched some of his videos and I checked out his website. The reason I didn't recognize the website was because he completely overhauled the styling since I had last seen it. I decided to check out his blog and then boom, licenses blog. Full circle. It was around this time that I started watching his videos. I started using Artix and Vim because of him, I made my own website from complete scratch because of him, I started writing software in pure shell scripts because of him, etc. Cool guy.
No idea why this is downvoted so much. I love luke's channel. This man, made a valid and objective suggestion I agree with that isn't heated or emotional, and then made a funny title.
Luke has a rabid, sycophantic fanbase.
good thing we don't have any idea how downvoted it is anymore
I totally agree with you. But if your main purpose is just having fun with linux, being curious and customizing your personal computer, Luke is a great channel.
Completely fair, I agree
this comment did not age well, now he's ultra religious preaching about any form of leisure being terrible including the internet itself lol
@@pompomdomdom he is making the statement that people ought to have very little freedom in life and almost nothing should be enjoyed
if he held the philosophy for himself that wouldn't be an issue, but he is holding that philosophy onto other people and trying to say that freedoms of an individual shall be dictated, presumably rooting from his fanatical religious beliefs.
@@ChristopherGray00really? i thought he was pro freedom since he's an advocate for free software
@@wabbajocky8235 he in an advocate for open source software and computer user rights such as privacy but when it comes to any other lifestyle beliefs he generally seems to think that you shouldn't be having much enjoyment in life, that is at least my reading based off of watching his ramble videos although i would also view them for yourself, perhaps you may come with a different conclusion, that is just mine.
0:23 apology rejected...
From the perspective of a Cloud Engineer, you're absolutely right. I like Luke's channel, but it was a bit of a rabbit hole for me. I really dig his approach to minimalism with his DE, and use of FOSS. But I realized my time would be better spent learning DevOps tools such as Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible/Chef or a scripting language rather then spending that time configuring a DE. My job sort of relies on embracing a lot of new technologies, and I feel like Luke's philosophy is sort of the opposite (maybe? I dunno). A lot of the configuration Luke does is pretty arbitrary stuff where I am concerned, but I understand why it works so well for him, and probably others. That being said, I still watch his channel because I think he's an interesting dude.
TL;DR : I like Luke's channel and used to mess around with LARBS until I realized spending that time learning tools for my job/career was a better use of my time.
As you say, I think he seems like a really interesting guy, and I think he's spot on for what he's doing. I think minimalism is certainly something that can be combined with adopting new technologies, but I think it's usually a more effective use of people in an IT/DevOps role's time to focus on the technologies itself.
This was rather long winded. I mean, your point is correct, people preparing to be sys admins should get used to the standard tools for obvious reasons. The only weird bit was how long winded this felt.
Thanks Nice guy. I found this video 98% unnecessary .
Thanks for the input. I found your comment 99% unnecessary.
@@NicholasBernstein :xD
IT Professional/Linux Admin & Cybersecurity major here. I've been using flavours of GNU/Linux for over a decade, and have been in the game for almost 15 years now. I HIGHLY recommend that you learn Red Hat/CentOS and Debian-based systems, the entire command line, as well as Bash and Python, at least for scripting.
Also, don't use vi, use vim. Vi is proprietary and awful.
That being said, I support Windows, Mac and GNU/Linux users and constantly have to use software that I HATE, because of what the situation calls for. It's just part of the job. Been hoping for Microsoft to eat a bullet for quite some time now.
P.S. EVERY year is the year of the GNU/Linux desktop. You just have to stop whining and do it. Adobe doesn't have software for GNU/Linux! WAAAAAH. Seriously, stop crying and just switch. Everyone has difficulties. It's part of the experience. That's why there are communities and forums on the internet.
Kind of a loaded comment, but it addresses multiple demographics.
use neovim not vim
I agree with you about vi, you are handicapping yourself if you use it. Use vim.
The only reason to do so is for baking it into containers or embedded linux systems that are very starved for ram. But there are other options than that.
For servers edit on your machine and use git,scp,rsync to put it on the server. You are really going to want your highlighting and indent management when editing yaml for instance.
"Adobe doesn't have software for Linux" should be enough of a reason for the WORLD to switch to linux. Idk what the problem is tbh for most people. Smh for linux really
Oh thx uwu
Except that gui and ux in Linux is not yet at the macos level. It’s completely understandable, because it’s free software. Some DEs are pretty good, though. Personally I can’t use em. Just saying, until that one gets addressed, I can’t say it should be mainstream. But what do I know, I only use Linux for like one week
Fair enough. Lukes channel is more for desktop users who want to get more out of the Linux experience and use for stuff like humanities or academic use. Linux is not only servers. Some of us use it without any intention to be admins.
I get the point you're making, but at the same time doubt admin types watch Luke Smith's content thinking it's geared towards administrative types (though, I could be wrong). There may be bits and pieces to take away from his videos as an administrator (especially his videos on Vim).
But It should be immediately apparent to anyone with videos like: "setting up Void Linux, Libre Booting a Thinkpad x220, Ricing your i3wm, using Suckless utilities, Image viewing in ranger/vifm" - that he's not doing administrative work (at least not in the traditional sense).
The channel is geared towards people who are new to tech or trying to establish an IT career
haha! I saw the title and said, that's clickbait! Then, OK, I'll bite... I do like his channel and perspective, but also agree with your thoughts here. Thanks for sharing.
this video was surprisingly nice
You harp about how important it is to learn the standard tools that come with your system as a counter to learning from Luke's videos, but I mean, did you watch his videos? He has the same perspective. He also tells people to learn what's on their systems, he makes almost all his shell scripts POSIX compliant, he uses the standard utils like sed and awk and grep all the time. One of his main things is that Linux comes with great tools, so downloading more on top of them because you don't want to learn about them is stupid.
As a Linux lurker, considering the transition from Windows, I love this video! Luke definitely motivates you to try and build your rig from the ground up, but I like this measured approach to learn the basics first.
Join us! Start with literally any distro and just use it for productivity/general computer use. You won't regret ot, even if you end up switching back.
Being an armchair analysist is the easiest job in the world
apparently you did not get what his channel is about. stop wasting our time by clickbaiting people into this video. disgusting approach
Thanks mom.
I watch quite a bit of Luke Smith and your take away from his channel is wrong. He's all about using the default *nix utilities over any kind of bloated method whenever possible. He talks about this a lot. But he's just not crazy about it to the extent that he'd torture himself by forcing himself to use vi or nano over vim. Also, you're a server admin who doesn't have the power to install vim so you think we should all use vi or nano? The package file for vim is literally < 1mb. This video is extremely confusing.
It's possible that my take away is wrong, but watching most of his videos they seem geared towards power users. Power users =/= systems admins or systems engineers. If you are going to be managing systems, you are likely to manage systems where you cannot install arbitrary software, not due to their size, but either due to change control restrictions or design for minimal operating systems. Anyway, the intent of the video is just to make sure that people who are new to linux and sys admin/sys engineering realize that while Luke is a very competent guy, and is very knowledgeable, he is coming at things from a certain perspective, and some of his recommendations may not make sense for someone who can't take their home directory with them, for example.
When you work the corporate drone jobs you don't get a lot of latitude unless you're higher up in the "command structure". You'll have base images that you are supposed to use, and sometimes even a whitelist of packages you're allowed to use. Generally you can setup your workstation however you want within reason. Any business can have it's own arbitrary standards and those will be unique. There's no person who can prepare you to work within some arbitrary set or rules and restrictions for some random company. Most of what he's saying is just nonsense because regardless of production standards enacted in your workplace you can still use whatever tools you want on your workstation.
You're spot on, when it comes to the system admin space - basic tools are crucial, and likely to be on all your production boxes.
VI was so central, it used to be on the Sun system boot prom. It was the very first tool I learned, when I started.
Save the customization for your personal environment.
I don't take advice from someone who uses a freaking windows
And that's why you are poor
@@francisnorthwood7862 wow that's compelling baseless argument.
this is not really a valid argument.
I agree but this felt pretty clickbaity, I saw this and I'm thinking, oh he has a completely different point of view to Luke's, I like Luke's point of view that will be interesting to see challenged and it wasn't.
0:23 apology rejected
agreed. But luke's channels are not specific to servers, from what i have seen. I agree with you one hundred percent. We should all first learn to use the gnu /default tools like awk, sed, etc. which i do. But At the same time, i maintain a couple of hosts here and have a server.
I would like to say that in the end, its all knowledge. We also make the choices of what we want to learn. And in the end more knowledge is more "better" :)
i just uninstalled vi, thanks for the tip... didn't even kow it was in my system
People are disliking it even before watching 30 sec. in
Yeah, it's been funny to see the reaction. ;)
I watched the full video and disliked it anyway.
I think his philosophy of minimalism at least tells you how the backed of these stuff works
While I understand your point, it is fairly incorrect. Yes, on a SERVER, you really shouldn't be touching schite. However, the point of doing all of this configuration on the desktop side is so you can see how these 'little programmes' can be used. You don't need to use SuperUltraEmacs to remove every instance of \s+$, that's what sed is used for, that's what sometimes awk is used for, and what you are really trying to say here, is wrong. There is NO FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE between how luke (and myself) treat the linux desktop, and how one SHOULD treat the linux server. As of right now, I don't need to haul my ass down to frankfurt to configure my web server, that's what ssh is for. When i'm in my server, I don't need to manually force everything to happen, I can bodge out these 'little scripts' that can quite literally do my entire job for me. Basically, you learn your system on a more fundamental level by breaking things, by being ABLE to tear it apart and put it back together again. Not everyone can, but everyone should try to break their system to keep THEIR server together.
Being wrong and right at the same time is too bloated. You have a point though. And a new subscriber..
Comments on videos are bloat. :)
Excuse me?
i agree with you sir,very wonderful video : )
I feel like you misunderstand his videos. It seems you think his videos are about how to use and manage a Unix system, but it is really about how to effectively use a computer as a tool for your benefit. You say the problem with his videos are that he doesn't teach Unix correctly, since his channel only teaches Unix for "power users" which doesn't apply to sysadmins, which is correct, but he doesn't claim to teach how to correctly use Unix or anything, but he just shows how to use a computer as an effective tool, aka how to use a computer for "power usage". Your criticism as I understand it is entirely based on the assumption that he tries to teach how to correctly use a Unix system.
The claims you make are entirely valid, but the problem I have with this is that you use them as a criticism. The video should really just focus on warning people who want to learn Linux for a job or something that Luke is probably not the right source and should not be formatted as a criticism. I'm fine with the clickbait though.
Also, his channel is not only technology related, but just about anything he feels like. As he himself said it (and I'm paraphrasing): "My channel isn't called Linux tutorials or something, but it's called Luke Smith." But that is only a minor gripe since you focus on his technology related content specifically.
Thanks for reading through my TED talk
lol first claim he thinks luke is wrong is he doesn't like thumbnails
I really do not understand why do you even compare yourself to Luke. I do not even understand what is Luke wrong in exactly? And why the heck do you assume everybody will be a sys admin. This is just crazy. This has nothing to do with Luke or the clickbait title.
He’s just trying to get some extra views by mentioning Luke. Yeah we get it. Don’t rice i3 on the company payroll server. Ridiculous video.
My honest opinion is that you should either get knowledgable or return to monke, don't use computers, and consoom tiktoks.
Good point man
Astute observations, speaking generally, of Luke S. & his work.
All valid points!
Going at the Luke Smith target demographic? Respect, lol. I see you felt a bit of the wrath of their ravenous nature. Subbed:)
Lol, I actually think Luke is great. It was pretty fun watching some of the reactions from people who didn't watch the whole video. :)
@@NicholasBernstein Nicholas Bernstein Yeah, I am not fan at all of the kind of environment he seems to be fostering over there, but he is an otherwise smart guy, that knows a good bit about Linux. TooEdgy4Me, I suppose. Or I am just getting too old to care about memes, lol.
I much prefer the tone of videos like yours. Speaking of...I think I saw one one of your vids pop up in my notification feed. Think I know what I should watch next;)
@@ritual301 I think memes are generally just the modern incarnation of people retelling jokes because they're not funny on their own. But I'm also old, and grouchy. :)
Luke Smith is Wrong about everything
2:39 Bruce Lee must have been way ahead of his time when he picked parts of martial arts that work for him and threw out the rest to make his own style
bro
I think your opinions are double plus ungood
These are the new wave of linux guys. Nixie pixel 5.0
I thought this video was about talking about how he pretends to be this armchair sociology expert
5:00 so why do hate EMACS? :)
Two completely different use cases. If Luke managed servers I’m pretty sure his approach would match yours, because it’s sensible. Sorta strawmanny video.
Stick to windows mate because your judgement doesnt seem to be any better than your indepth knowledge of linux lol
That's quite possible as my knowledge of linux is pretty extensive. :P
Sorry who are you?
this guy just want views.... so imma report so he doesnt get stuff from youtube
Why vi and not vim?
One less key
nice b8 m8...
^_^
Pointless, rambling video about how Lukes approach doesn’t work on the job as a systems admin. Wtf?
Windowscel
Apologize for click bait? No problem my friend, just unlike aaand next video
Well at least you apologize for the clickbait xD
I do not agree. Why would you want anything vanilla? As long, as you don't need anything specific, you can just learn anything, you are interested in.
It's stupid, to just learn something, which most people use, if you don't know, you will need it.
You should use, what you personally think, is best. And when using linux, you will most likely also learn most of the stuff, you need for server stuff.
And if know, you need something, but you don't know it, it shouldn't be a problem. Especially, when you learnt stuff before, which had worse documentation, a worse community or whatever...
Besides, I'm using linux for about 7 years already, and still don't know how to use sed. I know, it exists. I know, what it does. I exen know this syntax (sed -i "s/old/new/g"). But I almost always have to look it up.
@@porky1118 Because with servers you may be very limited in terms of what tools are available. You may need to have a security team approve a utility or tool being installed to debug something in production, so knowing the tools that are already there is useful. Of course you can't know everything, but if you are a professional, you are expected to have a solid understanding of most of the tools.
Luke
Ok zoomer
@3:33 I'm crying what?
2:35
U r soydev
mom, I keep asking you to stop commenting.
REEEEEEEEEEE
well said.
This video has made me cringe, and I've been trying to realize why.
I think the reason is how incompetent you think a potential sysadmins. You say that Luke Smith approach of confugring the desktop, installing programs, is bad for IT professionals, and they should be focus on the base programs.
This is painfully obvious: i have no knowledge of being in IT, but my friends tell me to installing new program is bad. Not only that, but it's obvious that none of his videos is focus on IT. idk why your potential audience would think to use Luke smith's practices onto an enterprise level.
The thing that makes me cringe is its obvious. His videos never even bring up ssh once.
Last, I dislike vi alot. Mostly because I got use to vim and the way visual works I stupid.
You seem like a smart guy though and I'll see your other stuff
Nah that guy’s a wanker
@@turolretar Jesus christ I didn't know but it's been three years since I looked back at that comment. Kek. Now I'm in IT
>"hes a pretty good dude"
Never look at his not related playlist I guess.
I don't need to agree with someone to think they're a good person.
We need more of that mindset in the world.