Minor Spelling Correction & Clarification: 6:58 "complier" Should be spelt as "compiler" 35:30 Talking about the ARC GPU Choice - It was never clarified in the video because both Linus/Linus ended up continuing their conversations after being side tracked and never circled back. In our original email communications it is because Linus T drives 2 x 6K displays and needed something more than integrated graphics without being an annoying loud or power hungry "gaming" class GPU. It was suppose to be a Intel Arc B50 but we could not get one in time of shooting. Linus T clarified he was still more than ok at the time of filming with this GPU being used. Sorry this wasn't in video form, but they just had so much fun talking we all forgot to circle back to this point. - Elijah
Linux iso means pirated? There's tons of publicly available Linux distro isos. Linux distros are in MB size? Most modern distros require a bluray disc unless you get the netboot options.
11:30 "Oh, it's just a guitar effects pedal. It's a horribly bad one. You'd never use this in real life." 2036: The whole world runs on the guitar effects pedal
It's very typical for Finns. Even ouf former president used to enjoy playing ice hockey with regular people on an outdoors ice rink. People don't abandon their friends from childhood just because one becomes successful and the other one does not.
He's always like this which is so funny. Imagine him in these super serious keynote speaker interviews and the interviewer is trying to pry nuggets profound wisdom and guidance from him, and he is still just like this, super sardonic, cracking slightly off tilt jokes. I think this setting perfect because its essentially tech comedy. I think Thorvalds is a man doing very serious work that doesn't like to be taken to seriously. Great job guys.
Because he achieved something very few people in the History of human civilization ever did, which is changing the world for the better... And he knows it.
He strikes me as an introvert, but coming from finlands and having to "adjust" on a social level just to survive probably led to him being like that. If you had told me he was born and raised in the states, I'd have believed you. He had no accent to speak of, he was assertive and confident, and while knowing plenty was also the first to tell you there was plenty he didn't know and much he didn't care to know. The only clue to a neutral observer that he might be from another country is his education level. Specifically Americans are undereducated, with some even priding themselves on such a thing that.. quite frankly makes me embarrassed to be an American.. but whatever. He truly was a gem.
@BobDevVI think that was a bit because at the end when Fake Linus was discussing Linux ISOs he mentioned the Highlander bit was a request from real Linus
@joseph_at_9095fasl No, the initial response from LT to LS was a highlander reference, and LS didn't know what it meant so he had to go and watch the whole film to understand that it meant "yes".
Here's the thing about Linus: he's easily top 5 in the world in important people in tech, like WAY more important than ANY "tech bro" billionaire you hear about these days. A lot of those billionaires were enabled by Linux. Not only that, but to me Linus seems both very forward and a "no nonsense" kind of guy, but also very grateful/humble (when he ain't joking or just telling it like it is). Linus is the real deal from an era when you had to MAKE it happen.
Unless you want to run the PC online for months at a time with zero tolerance for memory errors, then you can safely save the money and go for faster speed instead. ECC memory is for very specific use cases (Like Linus). The only thing is does is save you from extremely rare errors that are caused by cosmic and electromagnetic radiation, which sometimes can cause a random bit to flip a value. So the ECC memory runs error correction routines to avoid those errors. It also makes them run a bit slower because they have to do this, and they're a lot more expensive. Also worth noting, if an error do happen due to a random bit flips because of an outside interference, it's just a soft error that will reset on the next reboot. ECC memory can help detect hard errors, but you will need to replace the chips if that happens.
It's been over 30 years. I was a broke CS student. My friend came over and said "Hey! someone released a free Unix." We dialed up the internet and searched. Few minutes later we were off to the computer store to purchase 100 floppies. Downloaded through the night. Suffered through bad discs. Then bam! Command Prompt and all the dev tools I needed. So yeah, Thanks Linus Torvalds, it was a game changer.
@helloukw The struggle was real, my friend! Back in those days we were tickled just to have a flashing cursor at a zsh prompt booted off the hard drive! That didn't even include a desktop GUI - Xfree86 display server came shortly after that and we fought with monitor timings and driver options for our VGA CRTs like it was a boxing match!
no doubt! I was doing chores around the house and kept restarting cause I wanted to at least hear it all... I think I just got done watching about 1.87 times (including some random pauses) and it made the past two hours feel like 20 minutes tops
Timestamp should be around 38:16. It took me a minute to figure out what this was in reference to. I work in IT. I told my employer essentially the same thing with regards to closed ticket metrics. If you can't figure out if I'm an asset without ticket metrics, I'm not a good fit and should save us both the time by finding another job. So far it's working out.
I love that he cared MORE concerned when asked "You do know who you said that about, right?" than when he realized who it was actually about, like "fuck that guy." Turned the (somewhat)accidental burn into a full on immolation.
I don't care pro or contra Elon, but if he really suggested software engineers should or at least could be measured by the amount of lines of code, he probably never did any actual software development, because smart people write as few of them as possible, yet as many as necessary.
@ssassb Let's ignore the 7-8 distinct ways to switch a branch with just minor differences, all done with different arrangements of commands, arguments and parameters...
@shapelessed the choice can be annoying but most of use cases is just a few commands. For the most part, you can use --dry-run to always check what works best for you. Previously, stackoverflow will give you some git 'pros' who can always do something in one line, but now you can have a small model on your local that can help you with commands to use to achieve results. Always dry-run first if you got it from LLM.
I really enjoyed the video with both of you, thanks! A little story from my side: I lived in Finland for a while in 1991. A Finnish friend showed me around Helsinki. At that time we were working for Vaisala, developing low-level software for weather systems. While we were walking past the university buildings, he told me that somewhere in one of those rooms there was a guy looking for developers to help test and develop his Unix derivative. His name was Linus Torvalds. I was studying software systems at the time, but I wasn’t exactly eager to go and say hello. 😎
I made the switch recently. Valve are also working very hard to get the gaming aspect up and running (until this point was what kept me on windows). Microsoft being Microsoft with windows 11, and making it very hard to justify to continue using it, and windows 10 going out of support. I think you'll find Linux will most used among enthusiasts in the coming years. With increased Linux usage you'll find many more utilities that you took for granted on windows starting to appear for linux.
@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water I've been mega impressed. The longest time as part of my build was sorting out the partitions. I logged on, literally logged into steam and was up and running with my games in about 40 minutes (and that time was waiting for the game to download)
he has a number of awards that some people would call similar to a Nobel prize for technology, but the original (and economics one) do have their own vibe, someone needs to make a prize for computer science (math too) the same way there's an economics one
@justsomenamelesssoul8097but as with Linux, you still have to know what you're doing. I've recently installed mint, and portal started, but wouldn't load any map. needed to change proton version. it works but hostility of it is still there
I’ve watched many interviews and public speaking events with Linus Torvalds, but I have to say that having this free flowing QA style mixed with open conversation involving his humor and general personality was thoroughly enjoyable. It gave even more insight into a genuinely interesting and highly consequential person who tries to be uninteresting.
@FutureChaosTV That man has far more power than Musk or almost anything. The computing world runs on what that man controls. In his case he's not on the internet, he is the internet.
@joer8854 What? Musk may not be a good person but he definitely has more power. And Linus' contributions are largely towards operating systems, not "the internet". He does not control Linux either, its open source. Sure maybe there would be some hiccups if he decided to quit Linux but it wouldn't be completely sabotaged.
@asdsdfadfsa Yes but the world runs on his decisions, you are overestimating musk and underestimating Linus contributions to the world today. The world runs on linux, nobody cares what your Home pc is running on.
@BobDevVAs someone working in education: while that is a very real, valid challenge that people face, it also ultimately shows that both that person specifically, and the group overall, failed a core element of any group project - learning to work together. Collaboration, delegation and team/project management are complex skills that need practice, and the cop-out solution of "I'm so much better, I'll just do it myself" does nobody any favours. That leads the more skilled person to be burnt out and feel exploited while simultaneously telling them that everyone else is just incompetent and they themselves have nothing more to learn, and it teaches everyone else to lean excessively on others fixing their problems - in short it teaches what is often called learned incompetence. Of course dealing with this is also something that's very difficult to do in a task-oriented environment (whether that is school or a job), but still: that should have been handled differently. Especially in an education-oriented environment, a worse product is often more desirable as an outcome of a situation like this, as that is more likely to be the product of someone actually trying to work together. That's a real missed opportunity for everyone involved.
I love that someone like Linus Torvalds seems to be such a grounded and approachable person. Really sends the point of FOSS home about "nerds helping nerds", and I absolutely love it.
It was a great contrast. Seeing how incredibly sweet he is with LTT after his reputation for brutally, absolutely ferociously torching errant developers on the kernel mailing lists.
As long as you don't waste his time, he's an incredibly nice person. And even then, you have to be callously wasting his time, not just making an honest mistake or something like that.
@CentiZen Not entirely true. He did go overboard and recognized it. He reflected on the problem and addressed it and is now a better person for it. But there was a time he would be very aggro without it being truly justified.
Linus of House Torvalds, the First of His Name, Creator of the Kernel, Father of Linux, Lord of the Open Source Realms, Master of Git, Bane of Proprietary Chains, Keeper of the Penguin Throne, and Scourge of Kernel Bugs.
I still don't like git. Sorry... Not really. I just hate that it doesn't easily and natively keep track of file attributes. For me that's important, but I know for many others it doesn't matter. Ok. That's all... I'm done. Merry Christmas.
Growing up, my family couldn't afford a PC, so I was stuck with a 20-year-old machine that was too weak to even run Windows. That forced me to discover Linux. I spent weeks struggling just to install it, but that 'hard way' taught me the open-source culture and shaped who I am today. I wouldn't be the person I am now without Linux. Thank you for giving this to the world, Linus.
I was one of those parents who couldn't afford to buy a PC. Grateful that Linux Distros were there to save the day! Yes- I salvaged a computer from the trash bin.
Almost the same story here, I'm so happy that my first computer was slow and it's kinda pushed me more to fiddle with hardware, OSes and other things... Thank you Linus, this operating system has truly changed the world and many people lives for good!
Knowing that the guy who created the backbone of almost everything important (technologically speaking) in the world is this funny was unexpected, what a great video
36:10 "What I do these days is I don't write code -- sometimes I write code snippets and send them out and say "something like this" in the hope that somebody else writes the final tested code and sends it back to me" So it turns out he has been vibe coding since the 1990s!
@TectonicTechnomancer no it's a transparent one, he told multiple times it's because of the compound used to glue those blares to hes teeth that discolors with time, rendering it yellow, everyone you had braces had yellow-ish braces once they got for more than a month
I love the snap back when Linus learned who he called an idiot that shouldn't be working in tech. "Apparently I was spot on." I love this. He's the GOAT!!!
It was a pleasure seeing Linus ( the real one ) share some of his precious time with us. I am definitely very happy with the video. Thank you Linus for the Kernel that changed the world!
To us software engineers, Linus Torvalds is an Icon, the goat, our own Michael Jordan. Forever a legend, every app, streaming device, anything tech related uses technology that he created (Git, Linux) and he published it on the internet for free. He never sold out, and will forever remain one of the most selfless humans on the planet. He is spicy lmao, but he has come to earn that right.
Exactly. When my girlfriend walked by while I was watching this I pointed at the monitor and said that this is probably one of the most important people in the world that you never knew existed.
I respected Linus Torvalds, although I don't think his actions were the main ones in the appearance of the Git. However, after he removed 11 maintainers from Russia in 2024, I realized that the "freedom" of his system and his vision was no different from any other American company. He did not remove the maintainers from the USA - how many countries has the USA bombed in the Middle Ages since the advent of Linux? He didn't delete the French, he didn't delete the Jewish developers. I could understand if, when doing this under pressure, he had at least expressed himself in a complimentary way, but on the contrary, he spoke rather insultingly about these people.
I was this many years old when I found out "Linux ISOs" was a joke reference and not actually some people who are wayyyyy more nerdy than I am hoarding random distros. 😩
I love that Linus' response to the "thank you for coming to us" was just that it made sense. Because it just does. One person travelling vs a whole studio crew+equipment. (unless staying home is necessary of course) And I appreciate that someone who does not like to travel does it anyway.
@juustolakana to be fair, Torvalds being blunt with what he says is just part of being a senior in anything (sometimes, interns do interns shit), plus being older does makes you a little short tempered as for Nvidia, they deserved it 🙃 (though to their credit they're starting to help now)
I’m still at 13:40 and I read that and imagined LinSeb banging LinTor’s head on the table. Edit: Actually, that’s not even too far off what actually happened. lol
Linus Torvalds is one of the few examples in the world of the old saying, "society grows when great men plant trees whose shade they will never enjoy" there arent many people like that left, modern comforts and temptations make being one of those selfless people incredibly difficult but they still exist. its always great to see them talk about it and how theyre just happy to have given to the world, to hell with the money or fame. theyre just glad they contributed. reminds you that we just focus on the negatives, the positives are out there, theyre just not very loud so we dont notice them as often.
The statement "there arent many people like that left" cannot possibly be true. There are way more people now than before and it's ridiculous to think that our world is so decrepit that people have stopped contributing to society out of good will. So we should expect that there are vast amounts of people planting trees whose shade they will never enjoy. More than ever. Our attention is spread across millions of things, though, so you might never notice these people, even the ones in your proximity.
This video absolutely flew by. It's impossible that it was actually 55 minutes! Congrats to the entire team for pulling this off. Linus was a delight, linus (see what I did there) was clearly turbo-nerding but was still a gracious host and his usual self, Elijah chimed in occasionally but kept things moving, and to everyone else behind the scenes as well. Fantastic job. Sorry, Luke.
This guy literally runs the world, all the servers that power the internet and the services that we used are only possible because of the software that Linus made, absolutely fascinating.
@jesse-does-tech maybe it would have cost everyone more money too, alternative choices of system software are not free, except some of their components... and BSD-based descendant systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD) or other kernel choices - GNU Mach.
LinusT has always been clear that all RAM shipped should only be ECC and for very good reasons. Love how he points out that unreliability of hardware is also the reason for a lot of windows creashes.
I think the main thing is profit and consumers If consumers want it they will raise the prices and then people wont want it anymore Sadly thats just how it is
@R__i_i_ii yeah like he mentioned he likes the dabble in the interface between hardware and software. I get the impression he is not easily impressed with the whole Arch “tech” crowd. Thats just posing
In my opinion, the main appeal of Arch is the AUR and not having to check if something is in your distro's repos or look for the alternative app formats. If LT doesn't really care about top-level software, why should he need that?
They aren't really posers, it's just that most arch users work in one or two levels of abstraction beyond what interests Linus Torvalds. Linus works mostly on the kernel, and a lot of arch users mostly mess around with config files and managing packages, building linux widgets or apps. It's like a car mechanic and someone who loves doing interior design and paintobs for his car. They're both car people, but they focus on different aspects of a car
@kaydee6716 I'm a software developer, I've used Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch and now I'm using CachyOS which is Arch based. Apart from Ubuntu which nuked my desktop environment during a version upgrade and seemed to have tons of problems before I switched from that, I don't have many bad things to say about the other distros, Gentoo back when I've used it required you to compile everything so it was unfeasible for me for the desktop as I don't have unlimited time for the world, Arch offered me the same things Fedora did - I've installed the packages I needed, configured stuff at most once using excellent docs and then I just kept updating the system. Fedora isn't rolling release but it has pretty fresh packages if you're updating when a major version releases anyway, Arch for me is great because it's rolling release. I will say to you and to anybody else: anybody creating a religion when it comes to Arch is really weird. It's a good distro, but so is Fedora and so is probably Ubuntu if you care about what their technical goals are with LTS releases. People really should use whatever they want, I'm 30 now and 15 years ago there was the same bickering about Arch and distros like it was now. Is it just me who uses like several? I also pay for Unraid for my NAS, people really should get over the notion of something being "just the best", all solutions are designed for specific problems, as long as what you're using solves yours that's the best It feels really weird when people become attached to distros like soccer fans. Just use what works for you. Personally I still run Fedora on my laptop
Minor Spelling Correction & Clarification:
6:58 "complier" Should be spelt as "compiler"
35:30 Talking about the ARC GPU Choice - It was never clarified in the video because both Linus/Linus ended up continuing their conversations after being side tracked and never circled back. In our original email communications it is because Linus T drives 2 x 6K displays and needed something more than integrated graphics without being an annoying loud or power hungry "gaming" class GPU. It was suppose to be a Intel Arc B50 but we could not get one in time of shooting. Linus T clarified he was still more than ok at the time of filming with this GPU being used. Sorry this wasn't in video form, but they just had so much fun talking we all forgot to circle back to this point. - Elijah
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unwatchable
I'm a nerd over 60 years of age and only have one question... HOW DID YOU CONVINCE HIM TO COME ON!?!?!?!
Here we fucking go, the hero has arrived
Linus why'd you get braces? Jc. I'm sure you could've went another route.
Backend Linus & Frontend Linus
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
💀
lol
Lmao nice one
that's what i learned in the restaurant industry many years ago, there are 2 kinds of people, front of house people and back of house people.
One of them is /home/Linus and the other is /root
underrated comment
especially with that capital L, classic windows style
😂😂😂😂😂
I am groot.
underrated comment
It's so cool how Linus's mother detached and changed her last name to Tech Tips.
ok I laugh 😂
😂
@Avieate underrated comment 😂
Lmfao 😂 good one
"Apparently I was spot on "🤣
Linux iso means pirated? There's tons of publicly available Linux distro isos. Linux distros are in MB size? Most modern distros require a bluray disc unless you get the netboot options.
@321dude You really didn't get the euphemism did you?
@SishirC guys, remember 20 year olds of today were born in 2005 and never burned a CD
@loopuleasa I burned one. I like how deleting files from a dvd, makes that part of the dvd unusable
@321dudei am sorry but what are you talking about ?
I am so glad you guys went for the full hour cut and not a 12 min video
they wouldn't be forgiven if they went for the paywall. 😝
They would not dare the backlash would sink a country :P
@blanana_m Nice to see you here randomly
I am glad too but work I have to attend in less than 30 minutes.
First thing I noticed. I appreciate them not trimming Linus down to nothing but tiny snippets.
bro is the sudo 😭
I'd say he's more of the u in sudo
underrated comment
S+ tier understanding
bro is the real sudo
sudo apt get-
Finally! 2linuses1pc
How the fq is this not the top comment? 🤣
That is some horrifying imagery. LOL But the way he kneeled down to get the book for him to sign, I though it might happen.
@frusanov absolutely top draw work sir!🤣
2 linuses touching tech tips!
@m4heshdI'm assuming the younger audience doesn't get the reference 😅
11:30 "Oh, it's just a guitar effects pedal. It's a horribly bad one. You'd never use this in real life."
2036: The whole world runs on the guitar effects pedal
@ClifffSVK he’d have 2 nickels
@MichaelCurry-l7l 3 nickels*
@NathanBoehm true, can't forget his arguably more important concept: git.
i would be so happy to get to use that pedal in real life lol
The Linus that dropped the most crucial piece of software in the world, and the Linus that just drops
Underrated comment 😂
One drops software the other drops hardware
@Tolgish95 computer* hardware. Very important clarification to make here 🌚🌚
You guys have it all wrong. One drops software. The other drops this segue... to our sponsor!
Which one?
I ran into Torvalds 3 years ago at a tech event. I said ‘hey,’ he said ‘hey,’ and that was it. Still the highlight of my career 😭🔥
@oliver-04 you had my stan lee experience.
hey
lmao
You said "hello" in Swedish - "hej"
Just being in the same room where Linus Torvalds is would be a lifetime experience!
Pure nerd. Made and brought a guitar effects pedal, called it a piece of shit, then said he doesn’t even play guitar. A man after my own heart.
@binqerI'm pretty sure every software developer goes through an electronics/ICs phase at least once in their life.
ye, this or wooden works, half my team after covid started home wood working, me included
that part really makes me laugh so hard
i need the schematic
this absolutely resonated with me. i have drawers full of custom boards, all pieces of shit to do things i care nothing about.
Finally got to meet PID 1
you mean to say UID 1
He is not a process. He is a user lol
It’s refreshing to see someone so important that’s not full of themselves
Because he's not American or British or German ;)
wildly humble, so awesome
It's very typical for Finns. Even ouf former president used to enjoy playing ice hockey with regular people on an outdoors ice rink. People don't abandon their friends from childhood just because one becomes successful and the other one does not.
@GoalSquad666 honestly neither get the British nor German part of the comment.
Hard agree
Lifetime achievement unlocked: Having the original Linus
one of those "Meet the owner" badges
Both of them are actually named after Linus Pauling!
finally, solid linus and liquid linus
@Fran-q4b3p Brother! it's been too long...
NO! THAT IS NOT SOLID LINUS!!!
no, BIG BOSS and Venom
Who is solidus then?
When you can't even say my name
linus doesn't use arch btw
@nothxqo what does he use?
@mizra7 It's said in this video. Fedora
"My data storage approach is I upload it on the Internet and if it's worth saving somebody else will save it for me" LOL
oi... that sentence could be coming out the mouth of Kim Kardashian too...
or her whatever
"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)” Linus T
The fucking balls on this guy right? Lol
It's a very darwinistic approach
And it works because he live in a world where he invented git. If someone backed it up, he can just ask and can easily go back in time :))
Linus Torvalds is so goated that whenever he inputs "whoami" on a linux machine, it outputs "Father?"
@Griimnak lol nice one
😂
daddy 🤣🤣🤣
I should learn to code just to create a PR for this (and gets rejected).
😂😂😂e
Why is real Linus so unexpectedly naturally charismatic?
Bro’s just real. Like enough professional skills to not sound crazy, but enough craziness to show authenticity
He's always like this which is so funny. Imagine him in these super serious keynote speaker interviews and the interviewer is trying to pry nuggets profound wisdom and guidance from him, and he is still just like this, super sardonic, cracking slightly off tilt jokes.
I think this setting perfect because its essentially tech comedy. I think Thorvalds is a man doing very serious work that doesn't like to be taken to seriously. Great job guys.
Read some of his famous emails, he's always been based
Because he achieved something very few people in the History of human civilization ever did, which is changing the world for the better... And he knows it.
He strikes me as an introvert, but coming from finlands and having to "adjust" on a social level just to survive probably led to him being like that. If you had told me he was born and raised in the states, I'd have believed you. He had no accent to speak of, he was assertive and confident, and while knowing plenty was also the first to tell you there was plenty he didn't know and much he didn't care to know. The only clue to a neutral observer that he might be from another country is his education level. Specifically Americans are undereducated, with some even priding themselves on such a thing that.. quite frankly makes me embarrassed to be an American.. but whatever. He truly was a gem.
Absolutly diabolical of the editor who put '6' & '7' into Linus Torvalds hands at 40:01
lmao
well spotted!
Absolute Cinema ✋😐🤚
He wasn't sure if 6 or 7 was where he was going.
I didn't even notice lmao
Only thing missing that I *really* wanted to see: how fast does the Linux kernel compile?
they'll have to make a follow up video at Linus' home.
@JeffGeerling Huge missed opportunity!
I don't get it why your comment is not already in top of the list yet ! :D
I was wondering the same thing, thats the end goal and yet no answer...
Im more interested in HOW he compiles. What is his workflow like?
I was honestly surprised that it wasn't compiled on a seperate local server, although I don't know how long it would traditionally take.
Linus Torvalds is looking healthier than ever. The guy is aging gracefully.
its crazy what diet and moderate exercise can do.
n'wah he's 55, he ain't that old
@StackedCrooked Agreed. Looks like a better aged version of German singer Olli Schulz :D
its AI brooo
@poor_youtuber1390 he looked 55 ten years ago and looks 55 now, that's pretty impressive
Can't believe it was Linus Torvalds that wanted the Highlander reference. Love him even more now.
@BobDevVI think that was a bit because at the end when Fake Linus was discussing Linux ISOs he mentioned the Highlander bit was a request from real Linus
@joseph_at_9095fasl No, the initial response from LT to LS was a highlander reference, and LS didn't know what it meant so he had to go and watch the whole film to understand that it meant "yes".
@itskdogyeah that makes sense, because if I learned anything from WAN SHOW LS is missing a lot of movie history.
It was his "Spiderman" meme 😂😂😂😂
Highlander hasn't been relevant for over 25 years, it shouldn't be surprising someon isn't familiar with it.
Here's the thing about Linus: he's easily top 5 in the world in important people in tech, like WAY more important than ANY "tech bro" billionaire you hear about these days. A lot of those billionaires were enabled by Linux. Not only that, but to me Linus seems both very forward and a "no nonsense" kind of guy, but also very grateful/humble (when he ain't joking or just telling it like it is). Linus is the real deal from an era when you had to MAKE it happen.
@jonthecomposer he is the coolest one though. And I doubt there will ever be anyone cooler than him
I see what you did there with MAKE. Seems not many compile from source any more and just use a package.
I frickin' love his backup policy. Only Linus (the real one) could get away with "I put it on the internet and if it's worth saving someone will".
3-2-1 backup strategy. 3 torrents, but only 2 seeders. 1 direct download link on a dropbox account from some hero in the middle east.
@dsouth7754this is so funny
Making full use of the fact that "if something is in the internet, it stays on the internet".
There's so much music that got lost to a few file hosts shutting down that makes me think "I hope someone re-uploads this somewhere else".
So just make sure other people think it's worth saving... --> JennaJameson_Full_Collection.torrent
Linus Torvalds deserves a Nobel Prize.
But Richard Stallman before him.
Turing award
@sagmalrasmusFor peace xD
True. Unfortunately, there is no Nobel Prize discipline for software, not even for math.
He did win the Millennium Award thingie at least. It is €1M. And I got to see the acceptance speech in my university. Which is nice.
This feels like a kid getting to play catch with his estranged father for the first time
"I use arch btw" mentioned
Actual Fact: there was a Torvalds Tech Tip in the video: "Get ECC memory!"
also Linus has been saying it for years, to the point LTT made a video about it 4 years ago and so did Tech quickie
Tip of the day: Given current prices, maybe hold that thought for a little while. 😂
Yes I always get ecc memory and also ipmi
Unless you want to run the PC online for months at a time with zero tolerance for memory errors, then you can safely save the money and go for faster speed instead. ECC memory is for very specific use cases (Like Linus). The only thing is does is save you from extremely rare errors that are caused by cosmic and electromagnetic radiation, which sometimes can cause a random bit to flip a value. So the ECC memory runs error correction routines to avoid those errors. It also makes them run a bit slower because they have to do this, and they're a lot more expensive.
Also worth noting, if an error do happen due to a random bit flips because of an outside interference, it's just a soft error that will reset on the next reboot. ECC memory can help detect hard errors, but you will need to replace the chips if that happens.
@-slasht I have:)
THE Linus Tech Tips
More like THE LINUX tech tips
Tech Tips = Linus^2
Linus & Tech Tips
Father & Son Linus Tech Tips
The REAL Linus Tech Tips
It's been over 30 years. I was a broke CS student. My friend came over and said "Hey! someone released a free Unix." We dialed up the internet and searched. Few minutes later we were off to the computer store to purchase 100 floppies. Downloaded through the night. Suffered through bad discs. Then bam! Command Prompt and all the dev tools I needed. So yeah, Thanks Linus Torvalds, it was a game changer.
that is actually a crazy story, thanks for sharing
I was there from the word Slackware! Thanks so much Linus Torvalds for this appearance and gracing us with some of your time!! 👏🏻
Wow, the floppy part made this an emotional roller coaster. Thank you for that!
This is why I paid my İnternet bills to read these kinds of awesome stories. Thank you for sharing ❤
@helloukw The struggle was real, my friend! Back in those days we were tickled just to have a flashing cursor at a zsh prompt booted off the hard drive!
That didn't even include a desktop GUI - Xfree86 display server came shortly after that and we fought with monitor timings and driver options for our VGA CRTs like it was a boxing match!
Man. It felt like watching a video of my grandpa.. such a genuine person.
I'm convinced Einstein would've done so many youtube appearances like this if he was born in our era.
Def. Einstein was cool af
Indeed pretty sure :)
Our Fathers if Eng - Da Vinci at least?
Then think about Feynman, ever the showman.
I read this three times and only on the third one did I realise you didn't say Epstein. I was so confused.
Fastest 1 hour that went by.
Seriously the dream of seeing the 2 together has come through.
I didn't even realize the video was an hour until I read this
Wow! I didn't realize that, I even went back to check the video's time.
@mirosilv0 I haven't watched a long format ltt videos in years, but this was special, went like a breeze.
I thought it was like 12 mins
no doubt! I was doing chores around the house and kept restarting cause I wanted to at least hear it all... I think I just got done watching about 1.87 times (including some random pauses) and it made the past two hours feel like 20 minutes tops
38:16 "oh, apparently I was spot on!" never change, Linus Torvalds.
Timestamp should be around 38:16. It took me a minute to figure out what this was in reference to.
I work in IT. I told my employer essentially the same thing with regards to closed ticket metrics. If you can't figure out if I'm an asset without ticket metrics, I'm not a good fit and should save us both the time by finding another job. So far it's working out.
He doesn't give two shits about who Elon is 😂😂😂
I love that he cared MORE concerned when asked "You do know who you said that about, right?" than when he realized who it was actually about, like "fuck that guy." Turned the (somewhat)accidental burn into a full on immolation.
I don't care pro or contra Elon, but if he really suggested software engineers should or at least could be measured by the amount of lines of code, he probably never did any actual software development, because smart people write as few of them as possible, yet as many as necessary.
@igordasunddas3377 Read the image on screen. "Suggested to query" is not the same as "totally fired them for it". Linus is talking bullshit yet again.
I've just learned over the past year who this man is, and how important he is to many things that we do today...
I'm in awe right now
This guy is a universal hero. Like the amount of help he gave this world in the IT sector is unimaginable.
@shapelessed make your own git then or submit a merge request with better code
@shapelessed It is not.
@ssassb Let's ignore the 7-8 distinct ways to switch a branch with just minor differences, all done with different arrangements of commands, arguments and parameters...
@shapelessed the choice can be annoying but most of use cases is just a few commands. For the most part, you can use --dry-run to always check what works best for you. Previously, stackoverflow will give you some git 'pros' who can always do something in one line, but now you can have a small model on your local that can help you with commands to use to achieve results. Always dry-run first if you got it from LLM.
@shapelessed Are people who understand how to use git even real
I am so happy that:
1. This video exists
2. You guy's gave RUclips decently large cut
3. You made it a pretty chill video in general
@jeremytrees7266 this is the Snyder cut
Love the calm editing, music, long takes and conversations. Much better then 10-20 Minute Videos that cover Projects that could fill hours
RUclips has been on a downward spiral of censorship and propaganda for over a decade now. They, as a company, deserve less than nothing.
@Bldenthekldsniffer I meant a video cut, not like money
@jeremytrees7266
I see. Did Linus start doing Patreon videos or something? I haven't watched him in a while.
That guy is so chill and at peace. Inspiring. Probably because he only reads emails and books.
@Sn0wiss or maybe because he lives on a life-solved country
he is NOT chill and at peace
@agustin6165he lives in the US these days I believe and has US citizenship.
@jayandjeff5749 he runs on rageful spite and that’s inspiring
@bionicgeekgrrl I believe that was his point, yes.
I really enjoyed the video with both of you, thanks!
A little story from my side: I lived in Finland for a while in 1991. A Finnish friend showed me around Helsinki. At that time we were working for Vaisala, developing low-level software for weather systems.
While we were walking past the university buildings, he told me that somewhere in one of those rooms there was a guy looking for developers to help test and develop his Unix derivative. His name was Linus Torvalds.
I was studying software systems at the time, but I wasn’t exactly eager to go and say hello. 😎
This is a goated interview disguised as a build a pc video
Linus is way cooler than I thought he’d be.
@samtherat6 legend personified. Aging like a fine wine.
i know! been watching him for years and he's only ever been this nerd who runs this 16 million sub youtube channel!
Yea, absolutely blind sided by 22:16
I know! Who'd have thought he actually knows Linus!
@samtherat6 which one?
Big creators like LTT and Pewdiepie encouraging Linux is a great win for the community. Thank you LTT and Torvalds!
Fr fr (agreed) 💯
I made the switch recently.
Valve are also working very hard to get the gaming aspect up and running (until this point was what kept me on windows).
Microsoft being Microsoft with windows 11, and making it very hard to justify to continue using it, and windows 10 going out of support. I think you'll find Linux will most used among enthusiasts in the coming years.
With increased Linux usage you'll find many more utilities that you took for granted on windows starting to appear for linux.
@dahorn100011 Pewdiepie, LTT, Valve and Microsoft all work together to make Linux desktop more popular
@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water I was gonna insult you very hard. Then I understood why you put Microsoft in that list.
@Stay_away_from_my_swamp_water I've been mega impressed.
The longest time as part of my build was sorting out the partitions. I logged on, literally logged into steam and was up and running with my games in about 40 minutes (and that time was waiting for the game to download)
Had no idea that Linus trovalds was such a cool cat. Amazing. Keep that kid inside you Linus, you rock
The GOAT of all GOATs. Linus deserves a Nobel prize. The world would look vastly different with linux.
True
I think so, there should be one for groundbreaking tech
he has a number of awards that some people would call similar to a Nobel prize for technology, but the original (and economics one) do have their own vibe, someone needs to make a prize for computer science (math too) the same way there's an economics one
@artemis.nnnnnbbbbbmaths has the Field medal and the Abel prize
I'd agree, but the moment Linus gets his, they also need to give one to Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson (the creators of C)
The coolest thing in this video was watching Linus genuinely being excited by every single word.
Instruction was clear: smile all the time, dont be rude
he was just genuinely happy, it made me genuinely happy too
We need Gabe Newell X Linus Torvalds Collab
Y E S.
Announcing Half-Life 3 with perfect Linux support… that might break the internet in a way that hasn’t happened in YEARS
@carcistan Gabes's thing is moving the gaming industry forward, and that would do it.
@carcistanbut just so you know, it will have a perfect Linux support, know why? Cuz every Valve game does
Every single one works on Linux, natively
@justsomenamelesssoul8097but as with Linux, you still have to know what you're doing. I've recently installed mint, and portal started, but wouldn't load any map. needed to change proton version. it works but hostility of it is still there
Now I want to see a master hacker vs linus torvalds showdown
I don’t do social media - said the legendary dev who quietly runs half the internet.
the world would be in a worse place if half of the internet is windows.
hahahahhahahahhahahha half...
Half is an insane understatement, literally almost all the internet runs on Linux, it's only the users who browse it use windows
@Yin24251 You're right. My bad
the dealers never use thier own stuff
I’ve watched many interviews and public speaking events with Linus Torvalds, but I have to say that having this free flowing QA style mixed with open conversation involving his humor and general personality was thoroughly enjoyable. It gave even more insight into a genuinely interesting and highly consequential person who tries to be uninteresting.
Mr Torvalds is one of those rare people who can make a comment about anything and I will give it deep consideration.
The opposite of pretend people like Musk.
@FutureChaosTV That man has far more power than Musk or almost anything. The computing world runs on what that man controls. In his case he's not on the internet, he is the internet.
@FutureChaosTV What is "pretend" about Musk? The fact he uses a lot of marketing speak?
@joer8854 What? Musk may not be a good person but he definitely has more power. And Linus' contributions are largely towards operating systems, not "the internet". He does not control Linux either, its open source. Sure maybe there would be some hiccups if he decided to quit Linux but it wouldn't be completely sabotaged.
@asdsdfadfsa Yes but the world runs on his decisions, you are overestimating musk and underestimating Linus contributions to the world today.
The world runs on linux, nobody cares what your Home pc is running on.
Linus, Linus and Linux
That's a dual boot on LTT
L²TT ? ;-)
L^2 T^2
I have watched the other Linus in many interviews over the years. I have never seen him smile so much! Thank You.
x2
@ErnestoVillarreal I wonder if it might have something to do with the amount of people. Usually there are way more people.
Linus was making kernel at my age and I am still trying to balance switch between on and off, what a guy
That's actually kind of dangerous. It can cause arcing, which heats things up and can eventually lead to welding of the switch contacts together.
@l@linuxsbcmakes it that bit more fun
@linuxsbc Don't be like that. He's doing great.
@BobDevVAs someone working in education: while that is a very real, valid challenge that people face, it also ultimately shows that both that person specifically, and the group overall, failed a core element of any group project - learning to work together. Collaboration, delegation and team/project management are complex skills that need practice, and the cop-out solution of "I'm so much better, I'll just do it myself" does nobody any favours. That leads the more skilled person to be burnt out and feel exploited while simultaneously telling them that everyone else is just incompetent and they themselves have nothing more to learn, and it teaches everyone else to lean excessively on others fixing their problems - in short it teaches what is often called learned incompetence. Of course dealing with this is also something that's very difficult to do in a task-oriented environment (whether that is school or a job), but still: that should have been handled differently. Especially in an education-oriented environment, a worse product is often more desirable as an outcome of a situation like this, as that is more likely to be the product of someone actually trying to work together. That's a real missed opportunity for everyone involved.
is this a reference to his ted talk video comments?
The interview was absolutely unhinged, and I love it
I love that someone like Linus Torvalds seems to be such a grounded and approachable person. Really sends the point of FOSS home about "nerds helping nerds", and I absolutely love it.
It was a great contrast. Seeing how incredibly sweet he is with LTT after his reputation for brutally, absolutely ferociously torching errant developers on the kernel mailing lists.
As long as you don't waste his time, he's an incredibly nice person. And even then, you have to be callously wasting his time, not just making an honest mistake or something like that.
@CentiZen Agreed.
@CentiZen Not entirely true. He did go overboard and recognized it. He reflected on the problem and addressed it and is now a better person for it. But there was a time he would be very aggro without it being truly justified.
@dacharyzoo the difference is that the developers should know better and he treats them that way. This is a totally different dynamic.
Linus of House Torvalds, the First of His Name, Creator of the Kernel, Father of Linux, Lord of the Open Source Realms, Master of Git, Bane of Proprietary Chains, Keeper of the Penguin Throne, and Scourge of Kernel Bugs.
You forgot, "your god"
Center pillar of the World Wide Web
I still don't like git. Sorry... Not really. I just hate that it doesn't easily and natively keep track of file attributes. For me that's important, but I know for many others it doesn't matter. Ok. That's all... I'm done. Merry Christmas.
At this point I think our pumpkins are more famous than us 😆
@EvanAndKatelyn hello
oh you are the guys from the pumpink videos.
Great way to self promote
The like bots frying me
You gotta put "You could stab somebody with this and have fun doing it" somewhere official for that knife lol
It's like watching hardware and software in person
Growing up, my family couldn't afford a PC, so I was stuck with a 20-year-old machine that was too weak to even run Windows. That forced me to discover Linux. I spent weeks struggling just to install it, but that 'hard way' taught me the open-source culture and shaped who I am today. I wouldn't be the person I am now without Linux. Thank you for giving this to the world, Linus.
So many of us share the same story my bro!
Hear hear
I was one of those parents who couldn't afford to buy a PC. Grateful that Linux Distros were there to save the day! Yes- I salvaged a computer from the trash bin.
Same story here got a very old hp laptop and that got me into Linux I’ve never looked back
Almost the same story here, I'm so happy that my first computer was slow and it's kinda pushed me more to fiddle with hardware, OSes and other things...
Thank you Linus, this operating system has truly changed the world and many people lives for good!
Knowing that the guy who created the backbone of almost everything important (technologically speaking) in the world is this funny was unexpected, what a great video
been waiting for this
same
Since a long time
Yup same
We all have
We've all been!
36:10 "What I do these days is I don't write code -- sometimes I write code snippets and send them out and say "something like this" in the hope that somebody else writes the final tested code and sends it back to me"
So it turns out he has been vibe coding since the 1990s!
This is such an amazing way to view it, delegation of programming to non artificial intelligence should still be counted as vibe coding!
37:35 "Apparently I was spot on"
Glorious! The OG Linus never gave a shit and still doesn't
He was so real for that😂
He cooked him 💀
sad thing is elon is on the same level as Linus Torvalds he just has daddy issues.
@z-0669 bruh seriously said Musk is on the same level as Torvalds smfh
He's so eloquent and funny! What a lovely person, it was a joy to watch.
yellow braces got to be the worst color for braces lol
he said they got stained from eating food
it was probably white, it looks good, until it doesn't, that one, and the multi-color ones are my only regrets.
@teddylucas2608 the best colour is purple
@TectonicTechnomancer they were clear
@TectonicTechnomancer no it's a transparent one, he told multiple times it's because of the compound used to glue those blares to hes teeth that discolors with time, rendering it yellow, everyone you had braces had yellow-ish braces once they got for more than a month
THIS IS SO AWESOME. I can't believe you got him to come on your show!
The strongest Linus of today
Vs
The strongest Linus in history
😂😂
I understood that reference.
Gojo vs sukuna.. Nice one
bwahahaha, nice ref 😂
nah id compile
I always thought the real Linus was a bit hot headed. But here, he is calmness itself. Great guy.
same. I really liked him
He calmed down over the years :)
anyone else know the "we do not break user space" rant he did?
that's what comes to mind to me whenever i think of "pissed linus"
Because you only hear about him in the news when he gets angry. But the fact that this makes the news tells you that it's not the norm.
He has calmed over the years. If you do some dumb shit or break user space he can still spit fire.
I love the snap back when Linus learned who he called an idiot that shouldn't be working in tech. "Apparently I was spot on." I love this. He's the GOAT!!!
lmao i hope you get a brain one day :)
Didn't even feel like a burn. The man just speaks the truth.
@theaypisamfpv oh no, we can be much more emphatic ❤
It was a pleasure seeing Linus ( the real one ) share some of his precious time with us. I am definitely very happy with the video. Thank you Linus for the Kernel that changed the world!
No freaking way it's Linus Torvalds AND it's an hour long. Christmas come early!
It's a Hanukkah miracle!!
It's a winter solstice miracle!
gotta do Gaben next on his super yacht
@mobilesuitfang yachts*
Gaben, Torvalds, Gates. If they can get that trio it would be awesome, but might have to settle for Dave Plumber?
Gates? Don't ruin a good thing.
@chris-hayes You are right. Wozniak would be better.
building his PC for HL3 release amirite
The Linus cooperation we all needed!
In other news: DDR5 RAM so expensive now that creator of Linux has to get his new PC from popular RUclips channel
@danielw4778 Real, but I'd imagine any tech guy in general would jump for joy at helping him out lol
Cheaper than the 1st class flight.
Watching Linus build Linux PC with Linus on Linux
To us software engineers, Linus Torvalds is an Icon, the goat, our own Michael Jordan. Forever a legend, every app, streaming device, anything tech related uses technology that he created (Git, Linux) and he published it on the internet for free. He never sold out, and will forever remain one of the most selfless humans on the planet. He is spicy lmao, but he has come to earn that right.
Exactly. When my girlfriend walked by while I was watching this I pointed at the monitor and said that this is probably one of the most important people in the world that you never knew existed.
@taestott I'm sure she was impressed.
Our Michael Jordan is Terry A. Davis
I respected Linus Torvalds, although I don't think his actions were the main ones in the appearance of the Git. However, after he removed 11 maintainers from Russia in 2024, I realized that the "freedom" of his system and his vision was no different from any other American company. He did not remove the maintainers from the USA - how many countries has the USA bombed in the Middle Ages since the advent of Linux? He didn't delete the French, he didn't delete the Jewish developers. I could understand if, when doing this under pressure, he had at least expressed himself in a complimentary way, but on the contrary, he spoke rather insultingly about these people.
@bazilevskii I am guessing Middle ages was supposed to be Middle East, and autocorrect screwed up the sentence.
A bad DIY guitar pedal from Linus Torvalds himself would sell.
110% I'd buy
@samm9397 count me in.
Sign me up would be the only effects pedal I'd ever use.
35:35 Linus Torvalds smashing his head against the table gave me 100 years of live.
Linus Torvalds is so fricking cool, i cant believe you did this with the real Linus
I was this many years old when I found out "Linux ISOs" was a joke reference and not actually some people who are wayyyyy more nerdy than I am hoarding random distros. 😩
What do you mean "You don't hoard linux ISOs"
He might be referencing that some people use the legal example of seeding linux ISO's for justifying the existence of bittorrent.
i mean i legit have ~40-60GB of actual linux ISOs (and a win10 22h2 and win11 24h2 iso) and keep them up to date
@dewd471proud of you dewd… never change!
Na, it's about one of the few legitimate uses of the downloader software used.
Linus the Kid vs Linus the GOAT !
@UzairW
Junior Linus and Senior Linus
Linus the dropper vs Linus the dapper
The greatest Linus of today VS the greatest Linus of history
Such a great pun, good job.
And Linux is their son
its really nice seeing linus reach out to smaller creators like linus and giving him a platform
did u just say linus two times without really clarifying which linus is which tysm for ts
@Amanlovespythonthatsthejoke.jpg
Wait ... I see what you did there
Oh, yeah. The "original" humor again.
@Amanlovespythonbeyond it being a joke, they explicitly state in the video LinusSeb reached out to LinusTor, so not that hard to figure out anyways
I can't believe he managed to get the real Linus on here. That man is a legend, without him I wouldn't be able to say I use Arch btw
I love that Linus' response to the "thank you for coming to us" was just that it made sense. Because it just does. One person travelling vs a whole studio crew+equipment. (unless staying home is necessary of course) And I appreciate that someone who does not like to travel does it anyway.
hes such a good guy
@hyperkun say that to the linux kernel devs (or nvidia) that get blasted by Torvald
yep
@juustolakana to be fair, Torvalds being blunt with what he says is just part of being a senior in anything (sometimes, interns do interns shit), plus being older does makes you a little short tempered
as for Nvidia, they deserved it 🙃 (though to their credit they're starting to help now)
36:14 I never thought I would see Linus banging his head on table.
Someone please gif that 😂
It was too cringe for him, he had to remove it from his neurons.
For real lmao
I’m still at 13:40 and I read that and imagined LinSeb banging LinTor’s head on the table.
Edit: Actually, that’s not even too far off what actually happened. lol
@kaustubh_kp I believe that is a natural behaviour you came up with when working on Complex IT problem in front of your desk for hours🤣🤣
0:14 feat Linus Sebastian
if there was the LTT intro in this video that should definitely have been the subtitle
This video need to be kept for eternity in the hall of fame for future generations to look back on in awe.
Probably my favourite LTT video of all time. The diss on Musk from this legend had me dying.
It was brutal how he doubled down on it when he realized it was musk he was dissing.
100%!
Which part of the video was this?
@Mike2332137:34
@Mike23321 37:35
Linus Torvalds is one of the few examples in the world of the old saying, "society grows when great men plant trees whose shade they will never enjoy" there arent many people like that left, modern comforts and temptations make being one of those selfless people incredibly difficult but they still exist. its always great to see them talk about it and how theyre just happy to have given to the world, to hell with the money or fame. theyre just glad they contributed. reminds you that we just focus on the negatives, the positives are out there, theyre just not very loud so we dont notice them as often.
The statement "there arent many people like that left" cannot possibly be true. There are way more people now than before and it's ridiculous to think that our world is so decrepit that people have stopped contributing to society out of good will. So we should expect that there are vast amounts of people planting trees whose shade they will never enjoy. More than ever. Our attention is spread across millions of things, though, so you might never notice these people, even the ones in your proximity.
i think y’all just found an incredible interview format show/podcast. like nerdy hot ones or last meals
Fake Vs. Real
Building computers with tech minded celebrities is classy.
They should do more
Didnt expected him to have so good punchlines 🙃
Poor luke not being involved with this video
he got both a signature on his name plate from good linus and evil linus
@PlittHD Anyone missing something with linus sebastian isnt missing much lol - Linus T on the other hand, thats sad
If you watch the mid november wan show, he was really livid.
whos luke
@RajPatel-rb7rpoh my
This video absolutely flew by. It's impossible that it was actually 55 minutes!
Congrats to the entire team for pulling this off. Linus was a delight, linus (see what I did there) was clearly turbo-nerding but was still a gracious host and his usual self, Elijah chimed in occasionally but kept things moving, and to everyone else behind the scenes as well. Fantastic job. Sorry, Luke.
Poor Luke 😥
yeah exactly
@Divis0R Whats about him?
He could not be there the day of the shooting
This guy literally runs the world, all the servers that power the internet and the services that we used are only possible because of the software that Linus made, absolutely fascinating.
You forgot to mention Android, which is built on top of Linux. Probably the closest implementation of Linux is to the general public.
and other people and the Web - Tim Berners-Lee I think.
@TheReal_XiJinpingtrue but we wouldnt have AI, cloud computing and cloud storage, social media etc if it weren't for Linus
@jesse-does-tech maybe it would have cost everyone more money too, alternative choices of system software are not free, except some of their components... and BSD-based descendant systems (FreeBSD, OpenBSD) or other kernel choices - GNU Mach.
what i was wondering 10 years ago, now they are finally in the same video
LinusT has always been clear that all RAM shipped should only be ECC and for very good reasons. Love how he points out that unreliability of hardware is also the reason for a lot of windows creashes.
can't remember who, but it doesn't cost much to be ecc as well
I think the main thing is profit and consumers
If consumers want it they will raise the prices and then people wont want it anymore
Sadly thats just how it is
@mahomisawa4172 so charge people for something didn't cost a penny ??
@RachedNoureddine Yes, that's how it works. More reliable hardware means less hardware bought. Because it's gonna last much longer.
@RachedNoureddine with current ram prices?
48:32 Maybe his biggest tech tip is using ECC RAM, and maybe fedora too
He does not care about fedora. ECC RAM was the tip
"Linus doesn't use Arch/Gentoo/etc because he doesn't care about anything except the kernel" is surprising yet makes so much sense
@R__i_i_ii yeah like he mentioned he likes the dabble in the interface between hardware and software. I get the impression he is not easily impressed with the whole Arch “tech” crowd. Thats just posing
In my opinion, the main appeal of Arch is the AUR and not having to check if something is in your distro's repos or look for the alternative app formats. If LT doesn't really care about top-level software, why should he need that?
They aren't really posers, it's just that most arch users work in one or two levels of abstraction beyond what interests Linus Torvalds.
Linus works mostly on the kernel, and a lot of arch users mostly mess around with config files and managing packages, building linux widgets or apps.
It's like a car mechanic and someone who loves doing interior design and paintobs for his car. They're both car people, but they focus on different aspects of a car
@IronpeckerTrue
@kaydee6716 I'm a software developer, I've used Ubuntu, Fedora, Gentoo, Arch and now I'm using CachyOS which is Arch based. Apart from Ubuntu which nuked my desktop environment during a version upgrade and seemed to have tons of problems before I switched from that, I don't have many bad things to say about the other distros, Gentoo back when I've used it required you to compile everything so it was unfeasible for me for the desktop as I don't have unlimited time for the world, Arch offered me the same things Fedora did - I've installed the packages I needed, configured stuff at most once using excellent docs and then I just kept updating the system. Fedora isn't rolling release but it has pretty fresh packages if you're updating when a major version releases anyway, Arch for me is great because it's rolling release.
I will say to you and to anybody else: anybody creating a religion when it comes to Arch is really weird. It's a good distro, but so is Fedora and so is probably Ubuntu if you care about what their technical goals are with LTS releases.
People really should use whatever they want, I'm 30 now and 15 years ago there was the same bickering about Arch and distros like it was now. Is it just me who uses like several? I also pay for Unraid for my NAS, people really should get over the notion of something being "just the best", all solutions are designed for specific problems, as long as what you're using solves yours that's the best
It feels really weird when people become attached to distros like soccer fans. Just use what works for you. Personally I still run Fedora on my laptop