lol. I hardly ever read his rumor posts. I do check up on the site, because in general it is an easy way to keep up with non gaming Linux news.. but he does post some of the most obviously "click bait" articles I have ever seen.

It just frustrates me that I want to like the guy, but the repeat non-sourcing and reporting rumour as fact ruins his work.

Agreed. I mean how hard is it to just add the word "rumor" to you headline? EVERYONE likes rumors whether it is about a game or who your friends mom is screwing lol. So it's not like it would detract from his page views.

Well, he was reporting a while back that Steam will come for Linux. No one believed it and he was mocked and ridiculed aggressively.
He was right after all.

It's easy to say x will come out for y and claim you're right about it if it does eventually happen. Yes he was right, but it took how many years?

Could be, but the article was not made at random hoping that someday will become true somehow.
IIRC it was based on Linux bits added by Valve in their earlier Linux works found in Steam's code.
What does it matter how long it took? He was right from the very beginning.

I have deep respect for this guy, he goofs occasionally and he's annoying at times but overall he is doing a great job for the Linux community.
It could be me though, I tend to be very forgiving about people that are really doing something.
The work he is putting in that benchmarking suite alone is quite something to admire.

Yep, I checked a bit the timeline and he spoke about it earlier than what I remembered.
Yet he was onto something.
He does some annoying things sometimes and he is not what I would call a reliable journalist.
But overall he is a valuable contributor to the Linux community, both because of his site and benchmark suite...heck, the guy is like one of these Duracell powered toys.

And yet, I don't really get what's with all the hate and disdain he receives.
And it troubles me that I see signs of it even here.

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Quoting: dubigrasuCould be, but the article was not made at random hoping that someday will become true somehow.
IIRC it was based on Linux bits added by Valve in their earlier Linux works found in Steam's code.
What does it matter how long it took? He was right from the very beginning.

I have deep respect for this guy, he goofs occasionally and he's annoying at times but overall he is doing a great job for the Linux community.
It could be me though, I tend to be very forgiving about people that are really doing something.
The work he is putting in that benchmarking suite alone is quite something to admire.

He was incorrect from the very beginning. It was being reported as official, but there was no word that it was.

Here's the source of most people's hate for him dubigrasu. That one part of Mirv's reply summed it all up, including the original topic here.

He constantly reports things as fact, when they aren't even remotely fact. Baiting headlines, confirmations with no sources.

He doesn't link to sources (like us), but has no problem using quotes from other websites (like us) without any attribution.

It's extremely disrespectful to me and others who take time to speak to game developers, to use what they say to us without sourcing us, and Mike does this a lot to us and other sites.

I've spoken to him over email, and he sounds like a nice guy, but even after nice chats he continues to poach information we gather directly, and not source us.

.....did I stepped without knowing in a feud here?

There is no feud, just stating facts.

I don't hate the guy at all, just think he needs to change the way he reports things.