I’ve been seeing a few posts about this, and judging by comments I’ve seen on posts related to this, there’s been bad sentiment building up with LMG for some time now that has culminated in this recent dispute. Anyone have a brief catch-up of events?
Gamers nexus released a video criticising Linus tech tips for their quality of videos. Highly recommend you watch it if youre familiar with LTT or are into tech in general
Tldr
It’s just a bunch of controversy surrounding wrong data, incorrect facts in videos, poor quality assurance, giving products a bad review because they didn’t follow instructions etc. They also auctioned off a one of a kind prototype sent in by a small company, who actually wants it back but they can’t for obvious reasons.
Linus responded saying he’s not going to talk about it in the WAN show (his podcast), and that his statement is enough. Said statement was apparently a bunch of nonsense. (I didn’t read it thoroughly myself but that’s the general consensus from others discussing)
I wouldn’t necessarily say that Linus’ response full of nonsense. It doesn’t contain what we would normally expect out of a response, but it does give us nuggets of insight into his mindset and philosophy toward the issue.
My takeaway is that he’s not a bad person, but he’s well over his head in terms of managing his company. I think he knows that too, which is why he wants someone else to take the CEO position
Yeah I did wonder isn’t that what Linus wanted to avoid with a new CEO?
Nice one, thanks! I tried watching the start of the GN video about this, but it felt like being dropped in the middle of the situation and it assumes you have some prerequisite knowledge. I’m only loosely familiar with LTT.
I’ll go give the video another chance now.
He recently introduced LTT labs, a lab that tests hardware and see if they perform to their advertised specifications. He tests a whole bunch of stuff like headphone audio, monitor visual quality, colour accuracy etc
The controversy is mainly that the data produced from the lab has a lot of errors that should have been caught before uploading
Yeah, the gist I seem to be getting from GN’s video is that there is a lack of due diligence and journalistic integrity at LMG w.r.t. testing products, primarily because they’re unnecessarily rushing content out.