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.
I refuse to watch a video with Linus Sebastian. I’ll get better tech advice from my cat tripping on catnip.
I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I’m more concerned about the sexual harassment.
Are you referring to the sexual harassment claim that was alleged to have happened via another employee, but never substantiated?
Yes, and I appreciate that you pressed the issue because I never heard what ultimately transpired, since I never really cared for the channel before that. But I see they hired a 3rd party to investigate and the conclusion was that none of the allegations were substantiated. Though I haven’t found any mention of a further response from the employee that made the allegations.
God damn the LTT hate is huge in this channel. I don’t really get it, but shit you guys really don’t like a tech review channel.
When I posted this, there wasn’t a single comment about the actual interview with Linus Torvalds. That’s a crazy amount of vitriol.
It’s a huge deal that a youtuber as big as LTT is promoting Linux. This is how we break into the mainstream.
Something gets popular, people have to demonstrate how unique and sparkly they are by going against it, it’s a tale as old as time. I watch their videos occasionally and understand he’s neither demon nor god. But try listening to their WAN Show podcast and tell me he’s not (mostly) genuine and open…
The channel has no technical depth and has had one too many controversies to be considered valid. It’s a way for large companies to “give” the newest most expensive shit to have it featured for viewers to see and want to buy the newest most expensive shit. He is a sales person.
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.
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.
If it helped you, that’s great. We can dislike LTT for our reasons and appreciate the positive impact when they have it.
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.
TLDW on his hardware recommendations?
- chill interview, recommended to watch
- hardware recommendations see below
The parts from the build according to the youtube description:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
Intel Arc B580 GPU
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU
ASUS ProArt Display PA32QCV 31.5" 6K HDR MonitorECC ram. Hardware stability was the main factor.
Real Linus mentions spending days hunting an instability bug in the kernel to have it turn out as bad ram on his pc.
That’s such a weird build, why have that PSU? That build doesn’t get even close to requiring 1600W, the CPU + GPU are at around 550W together
Torvalds likes his computer quiet so that psu with so much overhead, the fan probably won’t ever turn on.
Sounds like the type of builds I use to do. Generally looking for most bang for the buck so the power supply was more than necessary. Handy when upgrading unless a new socket comes out (ugh).
I dont get what the pc is built for. It can’t be a gaming PC, none of the parts make sense together.
The Intel Battlemage is an interesting choice. I’d put one in non-gaming PC if the price was right, but what is his reasoning? I have alchemist cards that have been running 8 hours a day on QA PCs perfectly fine for 2+ years. They sucked for the first couple months until Intel significantly improved the drivers.
Sound.
He isn’t gaming, so he didn’t need a powerfull gaming card that can get noicy.
He just needed something that can drive his two monitors (think they were 8k), and be silent.
I figured it out. It’s drivers. Intel provides open source Linux drivers.
You “figured it out”?
He literally says in the video it is due to sound.
Do you think he would use GeForce drivers?
I think the most interesting bit was his stance on ECC memory. Basically he says everyone should be using it.
Blame Intel for making that a bold statement. Their refusal to allow ECC on anything except expensive server SKUs for decades set data integrity back substantially.
Fuck Intel.
As a devil’s advocate; what if they allowed ECC by default and manufacturers became overly reliant on it to make certain RAM chips binnable that never should have been?
I can’t say I follow you. The price difference between ecc and nonecc should be so low as to make nonecc extinct, in a world where the marketing shits at Intel didn’t have their way. How would it end up being a negative?
What I was trying to say is they would just end up using ECC as a crutch, anyways. They already do this with solid state drives. Many reliability errors get swept under the rug because they’re caught by error correction. So much so that there’s doubt they would function without error correction. They would just do the same with RAM, force error correction for unreliable hardware so that it passes muster. I want the option to run ECC – via BIOS, not have it imposed. I want the exact state of my hardware to be known if it’s anything less than optimal. ECC would obscure these issues for the layman and make suboptimal performance that much more difficult to troubleshoot. Just food for thought. A month late, but better than never.
Worth stating that this video was much more about the interview, rather than giving hardware recommendations.
One of the best videos I’ve seen on youtube. Torvalds is just cool af.
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Why does any even watch Linus Tech Tips, it feels like most his facts are based on his opinion, rather than any grounded reality, while he will flaunts it as fact. Then goes and make noob mistakes with his setups, while acting like computer Jesus. A fake interview only perpetuates this state of him making up content, to what ever pleases his himself and his patron audience. Truth only gets in the way of a good story, and this guy seems to know how to spin the tallest of stories
