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

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[–] paequ2@lemmy.today 75 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Hardware

AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
64GB ECC RAM
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
Intel Arc B580 GPU
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU

Fedora

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 28 points 5 days ago

looks at the specs

Yeah it makes sense they couldn't afford to put any ram in

[–] Lifecoffeegaming@infosec.pub 22 points 5 days ago (1 children)

64GB of EEC RAM. Can't remember the brand, but Linus T made a big deal about wanting EEC. (And rightly so for his usecase)

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

Kingston

[–] BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How much does that cost?

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 51 points 5 days ago

Today or tomorrow?

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 0 points 5 days ago

Its not about how much it costs. It about how much it saves...

PewDiePie

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 67 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I was very surprised that Linus (T) didn't knew about arch btw. And even didn't know about Linux ISO joke.. Come on.. Linus is really only looking at emails.

[–] kalleboo@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago

The only way to stay sane

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

I enjoyed it. Bit of a different way to do an interview.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

The Elon burn was epic

[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So the video is just the two of them pulling out a 20 year-old ThinkStation and plugging in a flash drive?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 18 points 5 days ago

Good luck building the kernel with that over and over

[–] MagicPterodactyl@lemmy.ml 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Haven't watched the video yet, do they kiss passionately with tongue?

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 28 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Looking at that still frame pic, that might just be incest.

[–] cole@lemdro.id 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

yeah, although Linus admitted he is gay

[–] Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Which one?

[–] Darkenfolk@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 days ago

Yes.

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

Linus (S) went extra annoying for 2/3 of the vid. He managed to be sort of professional and asked some decent questions, but for the majority of the time he was putting on a performance for the LTT crowd.

[+] SaltySalamander@fedia.io -17 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think I made it 5 minutes. Linus (S) can't be professional to save his life.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 52 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

You know the silly stuff at the start was actually Torvald's idea, right?

Linus (Sebastian) spoke about how he didn't even get the reference but Linus (Torvalds) prompted him to go and watch Highlander ("there can only be one!!")

You should've kept watching it. There's some good stuff there.

[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I laughed so hard at the highlander reference. It might just be that you gotta know the specific meme and culture to enjoy it. Even YouTube Linus didn't know the reference.

Seeing the two Linus's pulling out katanas on each other was hilarious.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 days ago

Different generations. They didn't get each other's cultural references.

[–] SaltySalamander@fedia.io -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Specifically referring to Linus's fan-girling all over Linus.

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

God forbid someone who's made their life tech is very excited that Torvalds has come to visit them and turned out to be a really nice guy.

Torvalds will probably be the highlight guest of his entire career, and he knows it. Of course that's enormously exciting.

[–] Lifecoffeegaming@infosec.pub 41 points 5 days ago (2 children)

You didn't last long enough. Really good flowing interview after the initial over the top YouTube shenanigans

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 13 points 5 days ago

I thought it was one of the better LTT videos for sure. Torvalds is much better on camera than he claims to be and it was interesting to see his outlook on a broad range of questions.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Well.. Not really. I watch it to the end. It still feels a bit off.

[–] SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It was off, it’s LTT. It was intertainment with some interview.

Still, L.T. had fascinating things to say, and a refreshing down-to-earth outlook on things like data storage (keeps no files really, just uploads to git and lets others worry about whether it’s worth saving or not), a.i. (important, somewhat inevitable, overblown hype, horrible business practices), and how he geeks out playing with hardware designs for things that are completely out of his expertise so it’s low stress (e.g. guitar effect pedals but he doesn’t play).

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

That joke, about just uploading everything and letting others decide what's worth saving, is one I first heard decades ago. Might still have been him who first made it.

[–] Lifecoffeegaming@infosec.pub 2 points 5 days ago

That's fair ltt is never going to be everyones flavour