He now has a fancier PC, courtesy of LTT.
this post was submitted on 02 Sep 2026
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Worst and best Linus I "know" in one picture. And I know one more Linus.
He must have lost a bet
Isn't it a bit strange not to change your wallpaper to something different than the default Windows one?
For the Arch defaults, I find their stock wallpapers generally pleasing in a weird n-dimensional way. When I was a young microslopper, it was always whatever brought me joy from newgrounds that week.
Arch… defaults?? Are you thinking of cachyOS or maybe plasma’s defaults?
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Do people really use those standup desks? Can you get work done that way?
it depends on the type of person, I feel like. My company has offered those adjustable desks since before COVID. If you walk through our office you'll always see at least a few raised up. Most people prefer sitting down, but you'll see enough people getting use out of these that they definitely have some benefit.
When I worked at Fred Hutch I knew a guy who used his standup desk while walking on his treadmill. [I also knew a guy who sat on a big ball.]
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That's a nice standing desk tho.
But who can stand using one screen??
Me. But a wide curved one + sway/i3 window manager
You don't need multiple screens to code. You can split inside your editor if you need to look at two things, otherwise you just jump between things. Faster thank having to use multiple things
Yeah, I'm very much Team Lone Monitor. You can only see sufficient detail to work with text in a limited area in front of you. I can flip between desktops in sway faster than I can look from side to side. Honestly, my current monitor is already probably excessive in screen space for productivity stuff.
And the ergonomics are preferable if you're using secondary monitors much. You ideally want the display in front of you:
https://worksmarthub.com/monitor-ergonomics/
If you only change four things today:
Adjust your chair height first.
Raise your monitor so the top is at or just below eye level.
Position it about an arm’s length away.
Centre it directly in front of you.
These principles align with ergonomic research on neutral posture and reduced upper‑limb load (Rempel et al., 2007).
I remember working on a dual monitor setup split in the middle back in the 1990s, and while it was never a huge issue, after a day of working, my neck was stiff from looking to the left.
Added bonus of a single-monitor setup: less power use, and you can work on a (more-portable) laptop without extra screens without breaking your workflow.
EDIT: Note that this is just talking productivity stuff. If you also play games or something on the machine, then having stuff in your peripheral vision can have value, just as in real life. VR rigs push that even further.
EDIT2: If someone does come up with some sort of software that makes useful use of peripheral vision for office stuff, someone will be selling VR products aimed specifically at this in short order. I remember in...the early 2000s maybe, when Intel was trying to convince businesses to buy 3D hardware, and had ads talking about how 3D chart viewing would increase productivity.
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It's a matter of learning your desktop environment's shortcuts for managing windows. For example, I always set up a 3x3 grid of virtual desktops on KDE so I can play act at being those weird wall street people with 9 monitors:
Virtual Desktops
(also 3:2 superiority lol)
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looks at image with ten visible LED fans
I don't have a problem with people decorating their computers however they want. They paid for it. It's their computer. Everyone's got their own aesthetic preferences.
However, the last build I did, I was getting a little exasperated with how increasingly-hard it is to just find desktop components that don't have RGB lighting on them any more. I mean, to me, the desktop computer is a box that has a bunch of circuit boards in it. I'm generally not looking at my RAM sticks or motherboard segments, and don't have a glass window on the side to admire it (it gets dust in there, and I'd rather have a sturdier case without glass). I could do without the extra light pollution in my life. Most stuff can be disabled, but it's kind of obnoxious to be buying and figuring out how to disable hordes of little RGB LEDs.
I'd also add that where LEDs exist, they have multiplied over the decades not just in number, but also in brightness.
If I wanted to have my computer be a light show, which I don't, I'd get a DMX512 controller for it, and real lighting effects hardware.
Maybe going for rack-mount hardware is an option. It's something that I've thought about sporadically over the years, and it does have certain benefits, if you're willing to give up portability. But rack-mount builds generally command a premium due to the market being less price-sensitive, and noise is often a more of a factor, since datacenters don't care about keeping things quiet for employees.
Paraphrasing a tidbit of information from Northwest Repair, who's a guy on YouTube that does board-level repairs on computer hardware:
Apparently, reprogramming the firmware config and changing the RGB light status on a DRAM module are both done through the same SPI bus. Consequently, every time you change the RGB lighting, it has a tiny chance of accidentally bricking the stick.
So not only is RGB an additional upfront cost that consumers might not want, it could even contribute to long-term costs by reducing the lifetime of some components.
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