Lunduke: The Alex Jones of Linux
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- What happened to Bryan Lunduke, the Linux Sucks Guy?
Bryan Lunduke originally made a series called “Linux Sucks” back in 2009 and is on-going today. It went over the various things that Linux Desktop is missing or can improve on. While it exposed some of Linux Desktop’s early flaws, it also showed a lot of Linux’s charm. For me, it was my first exposure to the thought “Wait… I can use Linux as my desktop?!?”
Links: @BryanLunduke and lunduke.com.
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2021 Bryan Lunduke Interview: ruclips.net/video/9bcklm9Bu3k/видео.html
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I talked with Lunduke since this has gone live and going to jump on a podcast with him to discuss this video and other things that didn't make it in to the final cut.
Came here after hearing you on Lunduke's podcast😂
I loved every Linux sucks editions.
"Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject." - John Stewart Mill
The smug arrogant "centrists" and "pragmatists." Who decry their virtue as better than those who take a stand on injustices.
I may despise them more than those who take a stand in defense of perpetrators of injustices. At least from those I can find a worldview, and ideological framework from which they determined their stance. Even if I know they are wrong, and ignorant of the context. Maybe even moreso, since I know their position is from a lack of knowing. The centrist or pragmatist is arrogant from their ignorance. Acting as though it is a virtue itself. As though one need not know context, but demand compromise regardless.
We should all recognize specialization.
We are not all specialists in all things.
If we do not comprehend the specialty, we are not qualified to make judgements on it.
The "non-political" political pragmatists are everything wrong with discourse. They don't even pretend to need to know the details.
Some might even go so far as to identify them correctly as counter-revolutionary's. Small "c" conservatives, out of ignorance. Perhaps anti-structuralist institutionalists... The worst kind of ilk.
I like Bryan Lunduke. I became a Linux user by watching "The Linux Action Show", when it was on RUclips. Most of the time I use Linux, but I jump on Window 10 and 11 now and then to keep myself up to date on Microsoft's software trends.
Lunduke's story is repeated so many times since COVID, good people sucked into the mire, seemingly unable to disseminate the garbage that is now the bulk of the internet from what is real. It's like they still think the internet is like is was in the beginning, when real content far outweighed fake.
To be fair his overall stance seems to me to be “get your politics out of Linux, and if you try to bring your politics into Linux I’m going to call you out on it”. At least as of his latest videos. That’s a sentiment I can get behind tbh.
And it seems like he has been provoked by a few people.
Nah he's bringing in a lot of politics himself
@@adrianinsaval yeah its get yours out and listen to mine lol
@@adrianinsavalhow, he's not the one pushing politically motivated CoCs into every project
Theres nothing apolitical in this world, and Linux IS ALL about politics, the problem is that workers without class consciousness Will Go fascism and attack their own class, those who understand the class struggle Will Go marxism or anarchism.
Somebody has to report on the ungly side of tech. Lunduke has my respect 👏
Supporting racists is cringe
I just want to make this very clear and ask the important question:
Are you saying the leaked presentation and documents he publishes recently which show some insane stuff are factually false or fraudulent?
Or are you just saying you dont care and you only want him to talk about tech?
I dont follow him on twitter but on youtube he MOSTLY posts actual leaks and not his opinion.
Like I agree with you and I dont read twitter or political news but these leaks are so insane and happen in the tech industry that I found that relevant to know about.
First I heard of Lunduke was today, here from Chris. I went to see what Lunduke posted today: I found glee about a reverse discrimination story. In my view, the healthy response to such a story is sadness.
@@SFDestiny There is no "reverse" discrimination. It's just sexism/racism, and society happens to be okay with shitting on white men atm the way it used to be okay with shitting on blacks back in the day.
If you didn't watch the video, Chris talked about the Wiki leak article and how he found that really interesting. So No, he was not Saying the stuff was Fraudulent. He was just upset about how Lunduke's twitter Became more political.
@@SFDestiny 'reverse discrimination' is such a silly term. Just call it what it is - racial discrimination.
I think its more he's glad that the proof of illegal discrimination is there in black and white and that legal sanction might actually occur that will reign in companies embracing this toxic and divisive ideology, and the illegal discrimination it demands.
He (like me) is old enough to have been around for an internet (and to a fair degree in the 'real world' ) where people by and large didn't give a crap about shade of skin or whatever freaky flag someone flew, and no one expected to be universally praised for flying their freaky flag or having a darker shade of skin.
Whether it was a game, a technology, OS, movie, book series - whatever it was, the common ground you had in regards to that subject brought you together into community, and bringing up things that were off topic (OT) was discouraged because it lead to unnecessary conflict within the community.
I'm sad that style internet is largely gone.
@@SFDestiny - When every single major outlet absolutely refuses to cover the story at all, or when they do cover the story, do so incredibly dishonestly, I can easily understand being gleeful over the fact that it's going to HAVE to be covered and that the main villains are going to be brought to account.
I remember when Slashdot became political. It was annoying. Lunduke uses locals for tech only talk. His Twitter bio says he uses Twitter for politics too so if you don't want that, then just go to locals instead.
I wanna think that Chris had that penguin suit and today was the pretext to use it
Or this was his pretext to finally buy it. ;D
I've been staring at it everyday for the past 2 years... Finally.
This says more about you than Bryan
The simplicity and accuracy of your comment is awesome.
Yes, as everyone's behavior, thoughts, and emotions do: they speak about how we react _to_ the facts of reality (Lunduke's behavior being one such fact) - which does not mean the guy above is wrong. Such an assertion would require an argument - which you did not give.
Sounds like anyone expressing political opinions (or dare I say opinions you don't agree with) gets labelled as an extremist. How very progressive of you.
That was a bot comment without any content. This is why AI doesn't scare me you see?
@@mopeybloke no i dont see because i have no way of knowing wtf you are talking about
@@mopeybloke "Every comment I disagree with is a Russian bot"
The only "problem" with him is that he has the wrong politics. He's hardly "far right". There are just certain topics you aren't allowed to talk about in America. Lunduke, for better or worse, has the courage to talk about these topics. What he's saying isn't "out there", he has the documentation.
I respect that he has courage to talk out about how there is anti-white male actions going on in tech. I don't think it is wacko or crazy to be against affirmative action; I think it is wise and for our survival.
@@cybernit3 - Affirmative action wasn't even meant to be a quota, nor was it to be a loophole to discriminate against white people. It was right to end segregation, and what the Civil Rights was supposed to be about was equality. Yet it all got lost and twisted. Those trying to call out how things went wrong get smeared for it.
Well, since the United States has ran by fascist at this point, and I mean the fascist left, I can kind of see Lunduke side
He runs a blog called "Conservative Nerds" where he parrots the talking points of Tucker Carlson; Lunduke is very much far-right.
@@HisVirusness I think you may be a bit confused. Tucker isn't "far right" either. Far right are Nazis. Tucker is more mainstream conservativism.
What a great guy, haven't heard about him before
I don't follow everything Lunduke says but so far he was right about everything I managed to see and check. Does that make him "far right"? What are we talking about?
This is such a passive aggressive and a hostile video for someone you say you consider a friend.
The hostile takeover of Linux has made it impossible to keep politics out of Linux discussion. The people who took it over certainly don't keep their politics out of it.
Amen!
... Did none of you know of how Stallman started his manifesto, or how Raymond put his views in the "Cathedral and the Bazaar"
The entire Free Software - Open Source movements started as reactions from two political spectrums, the anti-government hippie socialist left, and the anti-government anarcho-capitalist right.
Linux didn't get too "political", it got "normalized" in the last two decades only to polarize again with the rest of the world at the present times.
lol. Every corporation is doing this. Nothing to do with politics but more like they don't want to be sued or known for discrimination. Also to attract top talent
@timgibney5590 Really? Because RedHat / IBM is getting sued for the "acceptable" kind of discrimination.
People who say "ugh, why is so-and-so making things political?" only ever say that when the political takes don't mesh with their own.
Lunduke is not the problem here, people on the left claim the moral high ground and everyone who disagrees is "bad". It is mostly about attacking the person instead of a substantive debate. It also seems like the moderate left slowly disappeared in the past decade. We used to have healthy debates but nowadays it is all about identity and victimhood. I compliment you on the fact you did have a civil conversation with Lunduke about this video.
I do share a similar view of Lunduke, at least pre 2020.
I was there in the big glory days of Linux Action Show and TechSNAP when they were all going on video and were really great.
One of my fondest memories was the 1st of April joke show from another Chris "Windows Action Show" where they talked about Windows 8, really made me chuckle with that one.
Linux Sucks part was also really great, and now in retrospect, you can really see how far the Linux desktop has come.
The Linux action show, that brings back memories. He always had this charisma and passion and you could even see it in that video clip.
What happened to the old Lunduke? Nothing. He's still around. He just doesn't have the "correct" opinions, so he gets shunned by the community.
What happened to your video saying the open sourced MS-DOS, doesn't work? I can't find it!
MS-DOS 4.0 does compile but this was before the Unicode standard and when Microsoft uploaded it to GitHub it added a bunch of characters to the code that would cause it to fail. You have to strip the characters out and use a compatible compiler to make it work. I've seen video of people using FreeDOS and a script to strip out the offending characters.
Which distro to go with now? still Mint? or?
Still Mint.
Chris uses Arch, BTW.
@@mopeybloke Is there a valid site that lists all the distros and what they're good for?
The true test: Which distros allow you to use LibreSSL?
Alpine Linux is where you need to be.
I got into Linux some time in the mid 2000s. I pretty much started off with Gentoo, and it's still my one true love, even though things can be difficult at times. And Lunduke has always been there, making fun of me for that. He's always been a pretty important talking head figure when it comes to the things I care about.
Now, I do not agree with Lundukes politics most of the time, but neither do I need to. He speaks the truth and does good work. Am I annoyed because the focus shifted away from pure computer nerdiness and enjoyment more towards identity politics? Yeah, very much so. But it's not really just him. It's just the times we live in. Everything is identity politics. It is impossible to discuss anything on the internet without it getting political pretty much right away.
Differing opinions are ok, aren't they? What would be the point in having Freedom if it didn't allow people to be wrong? ;)
So, yes, I too miss the happy, nerdy Linux Sucks guy of old. :(
I feel like this is a fairly reasonable point of reflection. I see a lot of commenta here just blindly saying "uhhh Lunduke based???? Thanks chris", and I cant tell if half of them are facetious or not. Either way, i dont think those particular comments even watched tge video at all.
I appreciate this nugget of reflection, particularly because it seems like you have seen a beautiful passion in someone you consider a friend, and you dont see that anymore in him.
You may not care about politics, but it will eventually will care about you. Lunduke was driven from his home and cozy life by the crazyness in Portland, which was allowed to continue by the govenments, (local, state, federal), at the time. He finally realized like many people, most of the government doesn't give a poop about the law abiding citizen.
Even in OSS and especially Linux, people and large corporations are pushing divisive politics and control when the community should be at best neutral and professional. Lunduke gave more exposure to the racist shenangins at IBM/Redhat which affect everyone in the community. And most people are scared to call out these corporatations actions least they be shunned.
And calling people on the right "conspiracy therorists" is getting old, especially when almost all the so-call conspiracies are turning out to be uncomfortable truths to the powers that be. (Disregrading the wacko flat-earthes, Big Foot and alien nuts...).
As for OSS, I run Linux because it isn't Windows or Mac OS. I may move to BSD since both Microsoft and IBM have too much control of Linux.
Big foot is not real?
Would it be better to call Lunduke a supporter of treason/sedition? Since he definitely fits into that category with his Jan 6 stuff.
@@U1TR4F0RCE Are you vaxxed?
@@U1TR4F0RCE I'd be curious what your thoughts were on Trumps election in 2016, did Russian install him? Was that election illegitimate?
@@zuko9085 within the American system, he legitimately won the 2016 election.
If he's a really good investigative journalist... Makes you wonder what he found, to go full Alex Jones... 🤔
Brain worms from undercooked meat.
I can relate to what happened to this guy, and honestly, this kind of mocking the "Alex Jones" "Conspiracy theorist" kind of got old at this point (Even when done with respect and good intentions)... you did not even mention one of the posts you are calling "crazy"... MKUltra was crazy yet TRUE, Snowden files story CRAZY but TRUE, You don't like this kind of content and don't want to see it on your feed? Fine. But you might create a blind spot when there is actual valid information there, even if it does sound like a crazy story at first. I am not talking about flat earth, dragons, clones, or whatever other fantastical stuff they use to try to discredit people who talk about actual conspiracies, secret organizations, government overreach. It's a dark world when just mentioning the possibility of institutions might be doing something wrong or hiding information from the public is enough to label you a crazy conspiracy theorist or loose credibility. These terms are just effortless insults nearing hate speech sometimes. Just saying, that's a slippery slope, and free speech is there for a reason. No one should be ashamed of their personal beliefs, especially not when these strong beliefs come from traumatic events that have reduced their trust in a system or society. While it's okay to filter content, dismissing all "conspiracy theories" risks missing valid information. Labeling dissenting voices as "crazy" stifles important discussions. Free speech is crucial, and we should respect differing views. I agree that bombarding people with too much information at once isn't the most effective way to share such content. It can overwhelm them, triggering a defensive response or causing them to dismiss valid information due to cognitive dissonance. We live in a world where people create their own bubble of censorship not saying it's all bad, but it sure can lead to close mindedness.
@@SFDestiny When talking about Lunduke, what Lunduke does, outside of twitter is post / publish leaked documents and shows them to people. Like his entire thing is to mainly just show the evidence since almost nobody will show this stuff.
And for each case either you argue it's a fake or not. Or you argue the contents are not newsworthy.
@@khaoscero my deleted comment was about the weak logic of this comment. I'm happy to accept that Lunduke is not a crackpot.
Lunduke is absolutely right, and more people (youtubers) should be joining in on his voicing truth to power.
Starting off by saying that I love your channel and content, and you are a very entertaining streamer/content creator. Watched the whole video before commenting, and you didnt really go into much detail. I did react to one thing specifically, and that was your list of things Lunduke got sucked into, like anti-vax, and far right. There are so-called lefties that criticize "the jab" as it was seemingly produced and distributed hastily. I did take 2 jabs, but since I worked as a commercial pilot, my yearly medical examination to keep my Class 1 medical certificate happened to line up 3.5 weeks after jab nr 1. Result? My hba1c was slightly elevated, but my bloodsugar was skyhigh. Type 1.5 Diabetes was the diagnosis.
Given my job I am predisposed to read up on issues I notice, and it didn't take long before I found a lot of clinical reports where medical personnel reported the same issues I faced.
I got the result from the blood-work after jab nr 2 for those wondering why I took the second.
End result: Being a good boy taking my jab left me with ruined health, lost my job as a commercial pilot/captain of 25 years and medical papers to prove my particular case. Ofcourse Im just random comment on youtube, so hard for you to really absorb, but there it is.
Again: love your content, but you should really avoid social commentary, since you don't seem to go into depth on this compared to your very clear passion for tech 😜
You should do an interview with Dave Plumber, that would be interesting.
WTF did I just watch?! 😕
An epitaph
@@Tb0n3 to whom
@@amosnimos I'm just stating that these kind of videos tend to be a " I miss this person but will never see them again" kind of vibe. Hence the epitaph. Feels like a funeral.
My bad change epitaph to eulogy.
this video is just someone complaining that another person has an opinion
Bro did a 9 minute video just complaining that somebody he knows has a different opinion 😭😭😭
And then goes on said person's channel claiming he "doesn't get into politics" yet he was willing to do just that in order to trash talk his "friend" lol. This wreaks of virtue signalling or manufactured drama for clout.
Imagine calling racism a simple "different opinion" lmaoooooo
@@francesay8478 Imagine saying that not wanting be excluded by racist hiring practices is racism lmaooooo
What I've learned over the past decade, whoever the big media and pop culture likes to bash, that's the one who's usually telling the truth. When I was on Linux forums and people were complaining about certain people not to listen to in the Linux world, those were the ones I seek out. I'd rather somebody be true to who they are vs. putting on a fake front because that stuff does tend to leak into your content over time. I also respect somebody who comes out and says I'm a Liberal, or I'm a conservative, but I'm going to try to remain neutral on the topic rather than sweeping it under the rug because it doesn't beat their parties drum. Honestly tech enthusiasts are a dime a dozen online. Lunduke bringing some conservatism into Tech is long overdue. Voices like Lunduke, Tom from Switched to Linux and even John C. Dvorak are a breath of fresh air from the Silicon Valley butt kissers that fill up the space.
Agree with him or not, it just sounds like you want him to change for your sensibilities. He doesn't owe you anything!
trauma will change you
you need to ground the tin foil hat, or else it became an antena!
OK so using Linux makes you crazy, gotcha, switching to Winbugs...
* living in an area that riots for 100 days straight because one person died can make you crazy.
-Corrected it for you.
@@techguydilan *died because of lethal amounts of a certain drug in his system
There's plenty from 2020 to give you a reason to don the tinfoil. It was a shit show. Even until now. So much needs to be questioned. I get it Chris. Many just want to turn it off and wish for normalcy.
The minimum these winners could do is to let the real Men take the lead.
@@buteos8632What's a man now? What's a man mean?
Is he rough or is he rugged?
Is he cultural and clean?
Now it's all changed, it's got to change more
'Cause we think it's getting better
But nobody's really sure
- Joe Jackson "Real Men"
How touching of you!
social media can be extremely bad for you because it favors the echo chamber
True and it makes everybody fall for a cult.
social media can be extremely bad for you because it favors the echo chamber
@@AA-bh3bz agreed too
Wow. Lots of politically polarizing buzz-words. Riding the razors edge here.
by the way. Alex Jones was correct./ I have been screaming at the world since 9-11
So you don't like his politics?
I don't like political extremism both liberal and conservative get crazy.
@@ChrisTitusTech But you then climbed into the mud pit with them just to make this video lol, you just stepped on a slippery slope and you don't even realize it. If I were you, I wouldn't have made this video and just hoped for the best for my friend.
@@ChrisTitusTech Then TALK to your friend about it, not your audience.
@@canoso But thats not how you make money.
@@ChrisTitusTech What did Lunduke say that was extreme? And by which criteria did you determine it was extreme?
He should do what the youtuber Shadiversity is doing. He has a main channel that is completely free of politics, and then he has side projects that go into the "controversial" political stuff. I know that some people still dislike him because of the political stuff, but IMO if you need to do that, this is how you should do it.
You know, I think I'm actually going to give him a follow for this. The "boo hoo this person doesn't follow the hivemind" bullshit is beyond ridiculous.
When FOSS isn't enough for people who primarily champion FOSS. I hope you realize that both sides of any issue can support FOSS. The linux desktop or server has nothing to do with your fantasy of bringing handmaids tale into reality. And yet it is still incapable of banning you for this, why? Because it's free and open source software.
a lot of Linux devs support pol pot and Stalin but that is socially acceptable since they never reached America and western Europe anyway
Is that real?
I strongly disagree with your characterization of Lunduke. You should aim to be more like him.
nope
It's not so much left and right but those who value the American Constitution and those who are pushing Globalism (Imperialism). I am Australian, I understand "Make America Great Again" is to promote "Liberty for ALL" which is still being perfected since inception. Stop being divisive!!!
Imagine you had to leave your home because of crime&riots and the entire media pretends there is no problem whatsoever. You would go crazy as well.
I almost moved to Seattle. Two separate times I almost moved there with women I was dating.
Why? Several reasons. Music that came out of it. Booming tech sector there, but most importantly it was the cleanest safest large city in the USA for most of my younger life. When I broke it off with my fiance she went because it was a promotion for her.
Before it all happened I realized there were a lot of aggressive homeless people.
Then... the autonomous zone happened.
People want to pretend there isn't something very wrong in every major city in this country, but I live outside one of the worst and I promise you there is.
Yeah, bro, the whole country sucks-it doesn't matter if you live in the sticks or the city. Also, for the guy speaking of many homeless people in cities, it's because in many rural areas controlled by conservatives, it is pretty much illegal to be homeless. In Texas, for example, outside of Houston, Dallas, and Austin, and maybe San Antonio, you'll see no loitering signs in front of nearly every business, which will be enforced, plenty of signs under brudges or on the side of busy roads to not have people selling items (homeless people used to sell newspapers or drinks by the side of the highway in Houston), ot you can even be thrown in jail for sleeping in a public park. I really hope neither you or your fellow responder go homeless and learn how truly cruel this society is. That is why most of the crazy homeless people are in big cities or the West Coast, because it's that or be in jail, since Reagan defunded all the federal mental institutions keeping these people you see as aggressive and crazy out on the streets.
@@drownthepoor "Seattle [...] was the cleanest safest large city in the USA for most of my younger life."
And now that you have enough perspective to know better, do you still believe that was true back then?
@@Mendaz They have no loitering signs because people don't want to deal with the homeless everywhere. Austin is full of homeless people.
Maryland is not conservative, and we don't let people live all over the streets.
They have camps in the woods. I know because when I was a kid I would hang out with them and pay for their liquor because they'd buy it for us.
The whole country never used to suck though. In fact, it wasn't that long ago everyone knew that we had it better than most of the world, but then we started letting everyone in.
Import the 3rd world and you'll become the 3rd world. Canada, Europe, and Australia are all doing the same thing, and they're seeing the exact same results.
The country sucks because of all the bad decisions being made, and people want it to stop now.
@@kpcraftster6580 It wasn't that high of a bar to begin with, but it was true yes.
Seattle was noticeably different from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York.
San Diego and San Francisco were also major examples of safer and cleaner big cities.
Oregon a few years ago decriminalized all drugs, and they are now undoing that because it wasn't the brilliant idea they thought it was.
But policies matter. If you let things happen they will continue and get worse.
Grab em by the Kernel
I feel politics is destroying everything in today's society. There is a time and place for it, there is no reason it has to be everywhere 24/7
I hope this isn't the start of commentators and individuals being pressured to publicly disavow wrong-thinkers for the basis of purity testing within the FOSS community. I'm an ideas man, not a people man and what Lunduke has said in recent times seems to correlate with my own observations over recent years.
And that's why the need to shun him!
You must've been asleep the past twenty years, as disavowing wrong think is pretty much all they do now.
@@buteos8632 You can do that individually. What I have an issue with is other people pushing their beliefs on others, demanding deplatforming and censorship for those they disagree with while labelling them "dangerous", "extreme" and "hateful" whilst shaming others who refuse to comply with guilt by association rhetoric.
There's a weird op going on. I think one of the KDE devs started it. He apparently wants to go after every Linux content creator deemed not being on the left politically. I remember seeing a few names on their hit list: Lunduke, Luke Smith, DT and Switched to Linux. I'm sure there are others.
@@tgheretford lol I was being sarcastic, if the bigtech wants to ostracize us we can/should just boycott them all, I don't need to go on personal attacks on anyone, I don't wish to destroy anyone's life's, career, etc. And on that not, to be clear, Titus just did a not so nice thing to someone he calls a friend...like I said, I'll boycott them all! There is no need to demand anything.
Basic pattern recognition is for conspiracy theorists, you know.
Titus was and never will be the brightest bulb.
As long as Leo Laporte isnt spouting Andrew Tate.
I used to enjoy Twit, but that whole network deteriorated into Liberal Silicon Valley butt kissing time. Not to mention, Leo couldn't keep his personal life and work life separate. Pretty much ran off all the good will audience and hosts that he brought over with him from Techtv.
7:00 - Except, that political stuff is incredibly dangerous. I find it extremely disturbing that, if you have the 'wrong' political views, you're basically excommunicated from conferences and projects. This kind of nastiness needs to be brought to light.
Maybe the reason he sounds like a Fox News outlet is that you have an extremely tribal outlook on things and can't tell the difference between news and propaganda. You've gone in for the "all propaganda" view, and if it doesn't make your tribe look good, it's bad and "right-wing".
Honestly, seeing the Portland riots, if I didn't already know that the left had become extremely broken, that would've been a turning point for me as well. Setting fire to the mayor's apartment building, trying to trap police officers inside a building when you set it on fire, and nobody prosecuted and given a life sentence for these things? It's insane.
As non-American, first things first I had to do is to google who TF OG Alex Jones is :D
I'm sorry you had to take that in.
@@Kitsune44X Essential internet lore. I feel sorry for everybody, that has never seen the "frogs" clip, lol.
And google probably repeated the same old propaganda against him
@@spacemonkeyentertainment6413 OMG thank you kind sir this is why I love the internet 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@ashwinrawat9622 There is a lot of lies going around about old AJ. Sad how so many people believe the lies instead of just going and looking at his actual work.
I'm a big fan of both of you and it's great to see this stuff. 😃
Nah he's basically right recently.
That intro 😂
So Lunduke is a political cringe …
but you don’t say why? Just throw a crazy tag on the who thing…but the riots, they were just “unfortunate???”
This guy got to see something first hand and got to see how liberal media and Fox’s “accurate” reporting differed from what he saw and experienced.
You do a massive disservice Lunduke by taking the safe route and throwing him under the bus.
If your his friend just delete this video and do more political homework on the American left, right, Communist, Anarchics, and Conservatives in this country.
Correction the safe route would be to never make this video and let Lunduke be left to the fringes of the internet. This was not a safe play by any means.
If he wants me to delete the video I will and never talk about him on the channel.
Looks like you're trying to shame him into shutting his mouth.
Why would anyone speak up about issues impacting the well being of their family?
Why would you NOT?
@@ChrisTitusTech
If you wanted him to stay focused on his surrogate activity, the goons in the street shouldn't have been allowed to endanger his family.
Brian Lunduke is awesome. My favorite Linux guy
I totally agree. Im a life time subscriber to his locals but now I barely go there because of all the political shenanigans. I subed for the glorious geeky content but ehhh ... It hurts a little bit to feel screwed the same way subs to bigger plateforms do.
So basically he learned the truth and had the courage to share it. Much respect to him and Alex.
holy based he sounds like a great guy thanks for the recommendation
Imagine, seeing a hacker wears penguin, instead of plain ordinary dark hood.
I don't know who he is or who he was, but it seems like he goes down the rabbit hole pretty far, but not far enough. I'll check out his latest stuff, thx for sharing.
Again Titus drama 😂😂😅
Pigeons go with the crowd just because that’s where the crowd is going. Not all are pigeons.
The reason why he's so focused on the political side is, because things suck right now and when this downward spiral continues onward, it'll lead into a great depression. You can still try to ignore it and keep your eyes closed, but reality will get hold of you eventually.
No one can tell the future, and everyone has been declaring "the end times are upon us" for decades. The thing is, our world view becomes what we fixate over. Just live your life as best as you can, as that's all the control you'll ever have.
@@juanmacias5922 History proves you wrong. While you are living your best live others get wrongfully prosecuted or their life destroyed? Sorry, but an NPC take :D
@@minementalx NPC? Ah, an incel out in the wild, here's the thing, and you'll eventually find this out, the only thing you can control, is your own mind, and actions, if you stare into the abyss, it'll eventually stare back.
@@juanmacias5922Crazy how you called someone an incel without knowing anything about them. Is this what being an NPC Twitter user does to you?
@@juanmacias5922 now I know he was correct to call your take an NPC take, simply by the fact that you responded by calling them an "incel". You're such a hilarious stereotype, I don't think you even have any idea how ridiculous you come across.
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largely nothing wrong with Lunduke, at least these days
I agree
And this political video did something? No hypocrisy
Hey Chris, hey CTT community, I know this is offtopic, but:
I am curious what is the best distro for gaming Windows games on Linux for 2024.
currently I am on debian with KDE and NVIDIA and have installed the latest proprietary driver.
some games are working fine while others don't. And all this fiddling is annoying. I will tweak my system in about 3 years from now on, but I really want to just play my games and stop dual booting into Windows for games like CS that are meant to run natively on Linux. I know about protondb and such, but not very helpful tbh. I just lack way too much knowledge about Linux in general.
I have tried out quite a few distros on and off over the last 10 years.
Debian: very raw, much tweaking required
Arch: messing itself up with updates
Fedora: pretty much against everything I stand for and why I like Linux so much, being open source.
I hope you guys can provide me with some, and hopefully other people who want to use a Linux based Distro as their main to-go OS on the desktop.
I think I will have to learn Arch (maybe Manjaro?), as all the signs point in that direction. But I first want to know your opinion
Nobara, but I guess you don't like that since it's Fedora-based.
Garuda maybe? But that's Arch-based, not sure how stable it is.
Maybe stick with Windows for gaming?
If you don't mind the SystemD AIDS, and you have an RTX 2000 series or better, your choice in distros is going to matter little in the next 6 months. Nvidia Open drivers are going to be the norm. The only real difference between any of them is a package manager that matters less and less as the Poettering behemoth continues to swallow all of userspace.
> I think I will have to learn Arch (maybe Manjaro?)
I strongly recommend against Manjaro. Either just Arch, or another "easy" install of it like EndeavourOS, Garuda, or CachyOS.
It's so weird to me that we live in a republic yet most people are deeply uncomfortable with being political. There's many things in life more important than tech, especially for someone like him who saw how dangerous politics can be as a witness to the 2020 riots. I think we're gonna see a lot more people like him as time goes on.
What is bro yapping about???
Mostly everything labeled far-right, including the people arent even on the "right". Its just a disagreement towards the left.
Is is me or does this video feel like it just end abruptly? I feel that there is more to be said about this guy, good or bad.
It did. I actually recorded about 30 minutes worth, but during the edit... It was just too political. Bias or not there was no way to present the content without stepping on a bunch of landmines. There is a bunch of both for Lunduke: Good that was political and he was right about, but also bad that just were terrible takes. Hence the title: The Alex Jones of Linux.
@@ChrisTitusTech You already stepped on enough, bud. Bad takes.
@@ChrisTitusTech Thanks for clearing that up. I was listening to it, getting into it and bam its over. I thought something happened to my internet, LOL.
@@ChrisTitusTech Fence Sitters, as you're now learning, get justifiably attacked by both sides.
I remember him when he was sane. 😞
edit: As a non Yank i watched this vid but i won't be dipping into Lundukes insanity... got plenty of local insanity to take up my time. 🙃
ok, so he is pretty based. I am listening.
what desktop environment does he use!.. can anybody?
He’s using DWM currently, I believe.
Does he ever denounces conservatives banning books?
Tell me you're a victim of hoaxes without telling me you're a victim of Hoaxes.
Btw, did you see how California Liberals banned "To Kill A Mockingbird"?
By the way, I do enjoy your channel. Don't go political, but be aware of what is going on.
One astronaut:Wait, Linux is political?
Other armed astronaut:Always has been.
Please say it’s not *that* true. I’m relatively new to the Linux space and the lack of political commentary, in favor of professional/argumentative discussions on how to progress software and privacy, around the community has been a breath of fresh air. I don’t know what I’d do if Linux devolves into a political hell-hole like soo much of the other parts of my life. 😢
That said, maybe I’ve just been intentionally avoiding/ blinding myself to such conversations in the space (taking the blue-pill, as it were) since I began this hobby. I had a little hope when Chris continued to use Thorium and when others continued to talk about Hyperland (despite that big FOSS organization denouncing the project), but the recent mutterings about DT with that drama, and now this video, my faith is starting to shake a bit.
@@tellsackett4572 Linux is by definition a political project given its focus on open source (free as in beer and/or speech) and licensing requirements(GPL,MIT, etc) produce a legal outcome, that by definition is related to politics.
As far as culture war stuff, that inevitably comes up because those things inform a direction for technology to move, see ethical software licenses.
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Yes, I understand. I just hope the community isn’t / doesn’t become soo politically volatile that the individuals within the community start en-masse shunning / exiling people for something like stating their political parties, for example (as opposed to actually causing immediate harm). Or, at the very least, if we do: then make it a community-based thing (so that new communities can form and meld dynamically), not one driven by governments / organizations whom are too powerful for the common man to influence (that’s supposed to be the big benefit of the FOSS, and subsequent Linux, communities).
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Although, perhaps I’m talking in circles. I do, I think, largely agree that the way you’re portraying the scenario is, in fact, the truth.
@@tellsackett4572 Linux wasn't always political. But it is become so. BSD is still relatively pure, but will eventually go the same way.
Lunduke being in Oregon, he's seen plenty of forest, and trees up close. Like me in WA, and people in Northern CA, not only was 2020 coof restriction hell in our lovely leftist controlled states, not only did we have riots in Portland and Seattle, including the whole CHOP/CHAZ thing where several blocks of Seattle were taken over by crazy leftists. Since you shrug those things off, I don't think you've seen enough of the forests to have even seen trees, and especially not the dry rot in them. Are there even even enough trees to make a forest in TX, btw?
He did not go far right, he was exposing the truth.
The truth is considered far right these days because it does not often align with the Grand Narrative
Dude, you sound totally confused. "Trans rights"? He is not a leftist ideolog, he has the guts to speak out the obvious truth that everybody else sees but is quiet about just to not offend anybody, while the building is falling apart.
If you think Lunduke is 'far right', you need to recalibrate your political radar.
Libs don't even know what far right is, it's just them name calling using far right to mean the bad guys.
I absolutely disagree.
ok
The guy thinks people protesting against genocide and ethnic cleaning are “pro-Terrorist” so, no he’s pretty far out there.
The fact that many others are also aligned with him doesn’t make it less of an extremist position.
@@Rushil69420 who attacked 1st? war is nasty stuff. you attack plan on getting wiped out.
from where did you get the suit?
Lunduke was right about the depop juice that came out in 2021.
Well, you can disagree with his political opinions, but he's not wrong about some of the things he says in that area, for example the criticisms that he makes about the DEI stuff in the tech companies.
It is about time you, you reevaluate your stance on Lunduke's Anti-Whatever, given that only recently the 'miracle treatment' was withdrawn world-wide. Perhaps it is you who is missed the plot, not Lunduke, and maybe you owe him an apology for it?
link -> Search Independent for Wednesday 8th of May 2024 14:30 under News/Science
I used to follow Lunduke because of his Linux Sucks talks. After seeing what he actually believes in, I couldn't anymore.
Not just out of good conscience; anyone who thinks Tucker Carlson is a reliable source is someone who I cease to take seriously.
Anyone who thinks Jake Tapper, Rachel Maddow, Joy Reid, or Joe Scarborough is a reliable source is someone I cease to take seriously.
@@SosumiInc Okay.
@@SosumiIncGood for you dude, better seek non mainstream media sources for info. Instead of those puppets.
And look for different perspectives instead of locking urself into whatever reinforce your current Views. That's how you end getting manipulated by those clowns thinking blindly ur right.
I'm a fan of Chris's channel, but I strongly disagree with Chris on this one. I really appreciate Lunduke's willingness to tackle the political extremism taking over the tech world, head on. No one else is doing that. He's one of the only true journalists in the tech space -- maybe the only one. I think Lunduke is doing excellent work and hope he continues exactly what he's doing nowadays. He has my highest respect.
No one's taking over anything. Seek help with a psychiatrist and get medicated.
@@kakekikoku537 Stop trying to gaslight us while trying to exclude us at the same time. 🤡
@@kakekikoku537gaslight all you want, communist figureheads historically practiced and promoted entrism and continue to do so
You mean, he's slowly but surely being proven right on most issues?
No . He buys into an us vs them narrative very uncritically.
I wouldn't call him Alex Jones , that is to much.
And I must say it makes me very sad to see from a guy that was reasonable before and had humour get a point across
Always a shame to see a person fall off the deep end. Alex Jones and other rage grifters claim another one.
Well as you said it all seemed to change when he was affected by a highly divisive and politicised event in 2020. I am not American but politics has completely divided your country and a lot of the world and there seems to be no tolerance for opinions that deviate from the socially accepted and people get demonized for trivial things. Usually people don't mind when politics are involved when it aligns with their views, but they will be quick to say how wrong the other person is when it doesn't.
People change, their political and philosophical views will change especially when events have altered their perspective or priorities. The best thing is to be more tolerant towards other people and if you don't agree with them, so be it. We are way too quick to judge others and run people down because of their different views, where we should be encouraging people to be original and voice their opinions within reason.
I used to watch Lunduke many years ago and I still watch many youtubers and read articles that I strongly disagree with on a daily basis, but I try to respect their freedom to express themselves and their opinion and just skip past some or move on to the next video, there might still be something to learn or take away from. As you said he is your friend and you might want to try wake him up or get him on track again which I respect, but also know he has been in the public for a long time and people change, for the good or bad.
I admire Lunduke's courage for taking the hard route and putting his reputation on the line to voice what he believes in. Good video, respectful and opinionated and I hope good comes from it. Cheers.
It's simple; He became a political activist, and I am sure people can figure out which team he represents.
You simplified it too much so now it makes no sense. It probably makes sense to you.
If I had to limit what products and services I use based on "do the creators share my exact political positions", I would be incredibly bored, homeless, and likely die of starvation.
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Far right is when you notice things
The noticer
Far right apparently is when you say things 2 years before mainstream media admits them. Like with experimental injections.
Horse shoe theory.
but the issue isn't that. taking joy in bad events and using them to make money, that's Lunduke. the joy is a clear sign of a psychological wound, it is socially corrosive, and should be healed -- not exacerbated and rewarded... what makes them "alt/far right" is the self-reinforcing grouping around a wound. that they also notice things is not the point.
Here you are noticing the noticers
So... he's based?
Alex Jones was right