• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yes. People have been trained to ignore warnings like this.

    Android makes you jump through a hoop and tries to scare you when you want to install apps from outside the playstore.

    Windows has some similarly serious-sounding warning messages.

    People have got used to rolling their eyes at warnings when installing software. Like it or not, that’s the way that it is. Users are used to seeing a scary warning when installing, and they’re used to just powering through it without much thought.

    Linus was following a tutorial on the PopOS website, followed the instructions, and borked his install.

    I have problems with LTT in general, but the PopOS thing was entirely understandable, and people pretending that wasn’t a usability problem in PopOS are delusional.