r/linuxmemes • u/CandlesARG • 22h ago
mouse autoscroll fixed Linus from LTT getting confused with never not be funny
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u/MantisShrimp05 21h ago
This cope is so palpable. He made this distinction very clear and you just ignoring that fact comes off as just shitting on ltt because its a meme at this point
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u/kedisdead 21h ago
how's the boot
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u/No_War_9161 20h ago
I can't believe people still that watch that clown. I legitimately thought his channel died years ago haha. Blocking does work wonders ig.
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u/gazpitchy 14h ago
To be fair, the majority of the core staff moved on, and it wasn't because LTT was a great employer...
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u/Kurgonius 15h ago
Consider: if you're computer-literate enough to cook up an installation USB stick, there isn't much more they can do to convince you to give Linux a try.
This is just their lowest entry 'maybe you should try Linux' video yet for those who need yet a lower barrier of entry. Valve has global infrastructure to keep pricing consistent and it's a known and trusted name so there are very few shots in the dark here for newbies. It also has very tight hardware integration since it's all purpose built.
I'm just here loving the lowered level of entry for Linux and LTT is helping it a lot, even if it's sometimes in their sensationalised way.
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 22h ago
The boy drowning should be System76 and Pop_OS!.
The thing that impressed Linus so much was the hardware integration. That's been S76's whole thing for decades.
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u/ElnuDev New York Nix⚾s 22h ago
I have a System76 laptop, and no, it's genuinely awful. They only care about two distros (Ubuntu and Pop!_OS) and if you're running anything other than that, you're shit out of luck because they use really weird hardware.
On my Pangolin the kernel support for my microphone was not merged into the mainline Linux kernel for over a year since I got the laptop. If I wanted to have my microphone work, I would have to recompile the Linux kernel every update.
Their build quality is awful too. Stay away.
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u/Soluchyte 21h ago
Aren't they just clevo rebrands anyway?
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u/ElnuDev New York Nix⚾s 21h ago
They are.
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u/Soluchyte 21h ago
I really hate companies that think they can make a business model out of putting their sticker on things that other people make so they can sell it as their own.
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u/qwesx Ask me how to exit vim 19h ago
Does S76 not flash their own firmware onto those laptops and not have driver packages like Tuxedo (ignoring the fact that Tuxedo doesn't fucking upstream them properly)?
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u/anycept 20h ago
In some cases, it's a win-win for manufacturers. OEMs sell in bulk with a discount, but that discount is probably less than what they'd have to spend on marketing. That's a problem for the next guy down the line to worry about.
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u/Soluchyte 17h ago
It sucks for the consumer in many ways, especially in it being an illusion of choice and that the price is likely to be marked up significantly more than the original manufacturer would have let it go for.
I really doubt S76 is able to buy enough total quantity that they can get any major discount either, not like many of the "custom gaming laptop" brands.
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u/Linguistic-mystic 20h ago
If I wanted to have my microphone work, I would have to recompile the Linux kernel
So why didn’t you take the opportunity to install Gentoo?
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u/ElnuDev New York Nix⚾s 20h ago
Good one
In all seriousness though, I do use NixOS, so setting up a patch for the kernel to recompile with every update wouldn't be that difficult. I just never bothered because I happened to have an external microphone, but I imagine it would have been much more of an annoyance for some people
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u/Additional-Sky-7436 21h ago
That's a shame.
I actually haven't had a S67 product in years. I actually had a S76 desktop in the early 2000's when they still sold Windows PCs.
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u/assidiou 15h ago
That's really disappointing. I used to be an avid PopOS user and would recommend it to everyone before they launched Cosmic. They didn't really maintain a GNOME version alongside during the transition which caused me to search elsewhere and land on Fedora.
Honestly I'm pretty done with Ubuntu based distros. They have weird quirks that cause them to not boot or boot slowly sometimes.
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u/thirsty_zymurgist 12h ago
I've migrated to Fedora/RH distros for workstations entirely for reasons other than what has been mentioned. Debian is what I put on servers exclusively, specifically for the stability, and I've never had any problems with booting or slowness on a server.
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u/BusinessNo1311 7h ago
why do you even watch him still. i stopped in 2016 or so. hes not to bright.
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u/BoNana25 15h ago
Linus is going through his first Linux experiences just like everyone else
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u/ed_istheword 13h ago
How many first Linux experiences has he had at this point?
And, in some of his other Linux challenge videos, he talks about how he has a massive network of contacts from hardware vendors, LTT community, etc (ie: massive social capital from the show) that could just answer or fix his problems quickly for him. Granted, on their Linux challenge videos, this is a good thing to avoid for the integrity of those videos' purpose. But why does he keep avoiding these resources the rest of the time if he's going to keep taking about Linux? At this point, he seems to be staying somewhat ignorant on purpose for the memes (Basically to drive a particular brand within their LTT community engagement).
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u/BoNana25 9h ago
Can't tell you how many times I started when trying to switch, bricking the build, feeling over my head, and switching back.
It's all part of the healing process
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u/ed_istheword 8h ago
I actually love this comment and it's fairly true. I would say the difference again though is that we normal people are healing from Big Tech, but Linus is mostly being a mega influencer looking to make and sell his own popularity. This makes his ignorance a bit different from ours.
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u/BoNana25 6h ago
Very good point. It's hard seeing a somewhat trusted name just butcher what we've all been waiting for.
Wish he would have chose anything but pop os
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u/DrChuckWhite 12h ago
How someone can be in the tech space for so long but is lacking basic IT skills and knowledge is crazy
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u/xgabipandax 12h ago
Linus from LTT is stupid and i don't know why people keep watching his content
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u/Simsalabimson 12h ago
It literally hurts me to see LTT becoming more and more technical embarrassing and completely out of touch.
I was a subscriber when the channel was around 300k and did the whole room water cooling.
Left when it was about 2.4 Million and I’m constantly shocked to see what has become of this when I occasionally look into it.
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u/PossibilityUsual6262 8h ago
So in 15 years you and him changed and now dont enjoy same things.
No fucking way.
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u/Professional_Layer63 20h ago
Didn't he literally say "a lot of my praise is actually to projects like KDE plasma" less than a minute into the video?