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Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds - LTT (www.youtube.com)

submitted 1 day ago by the16bitgamer@programming.dev to c/linux@programming.dev

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TL:DW It's a 54:20 video of Fake Linus interviewing with Linus Torvalds. It goes over Linus's views on hardware choice, questions about Linux and several community questions.

The video is long, but it's a good listen.

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[–] ikidd@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He spent a lot of years shitting on Linux on his channel before he pulled his head out of his ass and got halfway conciliatory about it. The few times he tried Linux it seemed like the entire show was designed to fail using linux to push people away. And considering how mercenary he has been throughout the years, it wouldn't surprise me if he was paid to do that.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LTT was a big supporting factor for why I degoogled and switched to Linux when I did. It was partially because of their work I jumped over to self-hosting, open source, or other less "evil corpo" apps.

I'm not really interested in defending the channel or the guy, especially in areas so polluted with hate for the guy, but there's no way they were paid by Microsoft to slander Linux and tbh I never took their Linux videos as overly critical or completely thorough examinations of the Linux experience. Idk, just feels like over exaggeration on the part of people who have too much fear a bit of non-perfect coverage will hurt their darling product.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If it helped you, that's great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.

[–] gusgalarnyk@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Which is totally valid... And also the entire point of my comment. This video had Linus Torvalds in it, giving a pretty decent interview, while building a Linux PC and this thread was nothing but hate. Literally no appreciation for the positive impact LTT was having in a community that, at least on paper, should be over the moon.

I don't see much Torvalds stuff on camera, so this was nice. I'm not asking people to like LTT, it's just the dialogue around them on reddit and Lemmy feels extremely immature and outspoken and in this instance felt detrimental to the space and the supposedly shared hobby.