Interview with a GNU/Linux user - CD 2

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GNU/Linux Operating System
Interview with a GNU/Linux user with Richie Guix - aired on © The GNU Linux.
Programmer humor
Linux humor
Programming jokes
Programming memes
distro tube
Distrohopping
linux desktop environment
Linux
Red star OS
Hannah Montana OS
NixOs
Arch linux
linux enthusiast
gentoo
systemd
vim enthusiast
emacs
richard stallmann
RMS
free software foundation
lennart poettering
luke smith
vim
linux torvalds
grub
geek
windows vs linux
javascript
manjaroo os
webassembly
#programming
#jokes
#linux

[@Thomasfrank]

I'm still on HannahMontanaOS and I don't see what all the complains are about

[@NotJustBikes]

Thomas Frank is here?! For the record, my first Linux distro was Yggdrasil.

[@biomorphic]

I thought this was a joke, but the distro really exists... wtf

[@Tachi107]

@@NotJustBikes not just bikes here?!? This was definitely more unexpected than Biebian

[@cbhlde]

@@biomorphic The wallpapers are most lovely! ;)

[@Steerable6827]

had no idea you knew linux existed 😂

[@Malisteen]

"It has some spyware deep inside, but it's done pretty elegantly, doesn't bloat the os" killed me

[@beyondsingularity]

The other line is even better, "Microsoft has something to learn here"

[@ceterfo]

Both lines contribute to the greater good. Two claps.

[@ZigOutdoors]

"I have extreme opinions despite being educated." Low key best line 😂

[@crackwitz]

Implying that with sufficient education anyone can be made to hold perfectly average opinions, i.e. what everyone else says.

[@colinmcdonald6003]

@@crackwitz The truth is almost never found in the extremes.

[@crackwitz]

The truth doesn't care where it lands or what its neighbors are.

[@colinmcdonald6003]

@@crackwitz What does that even mean?

[@TheInfectous]

​@@crackwitz Sure but extreme beliefs tend to require ridiculous circumstances which makes them highly unlikely to be the truth.

[@avithedev]

"I use Arch btw" was so satisfyingly delivered 😂

[@drishalballaney6590]

Should have been GUIX btw xD

[@MelroyvandenBerg]

"It never breaks",,, "WHAT IS GOING ON???" hhaa

[@7DuRd3n]

I run manjaro btw

[@PySnek]

@@drishalballaney6590 Parabola

[@felipedidio4698]

Not to be the "I use Arch btw" guy, but he follows it with the boot stuck in a black screen with a blinking cursor, which I have just fixed and it took me a week to do so. These characters are so real, damn.

[@alzeNL]

"I wont forget my password I can just ask the government" had me laughing out loud.

[@mandradon]

"Microsoft has something to learn here" got me, too.

[@siliwhiz]

"No need to worry about encryption certificates, as HTTPS is forbidden" 😂🇰🇵

[@bedef923]

Missing a: "switched to Manjaro because arch breaks too often, it still breaks too often"

[@oczi1660]

when Manjaro isn't considered arch but actually has arch bugs too

[@HoloTheDrunk]

I switched to Arch because Manjaro breaks too often lol

[@hamyzschidenfeld3215]

@@HoloTheDrunk Fr, my first impression of Manjaro was it being broken after a reboot. Arch is now running for 2 years without any issue

[@connormaag3794]

@@HoloTheDrunk Same, it would always mess up my bootloader, switched to Arch and have only had one time when I updated and everything exploded, too be fair I was on the testing repos so I've learned my lesson

[@user-dd7ou6xw1o]

Still better then windows

[@DrathVader]

RMS would find this video humorous if it wasn't uploaded on a non-free platform.

[@aonemd6461]

and the page has Javascript

[@hanna_GG2]

And also the video format is probably non-free

[@MemberHomei]

@@hanna_GG2 mostly vp9 + opus though, both are free.

[@error.418]

Also if you could access it via SSH. "I do NOT use browsers, I use the SSH protocol. If the network requires a proxy for SSH, I probably can't use it at all." - Richie Guix

[@TheJayman213]

And if the person in the video actually mentioned a single fully free distro...

[@waltof2504]

Your country is only ever truly free if it has its own OS 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@maganashaker167]

Windows is American OS, that’s why it’s the land of the free🦅

[@blendingsentinel4797]

@@maganashaker167 that wouldn't make sense though

[@roseCatcher_]

@@maganashaker167 Red Star is North Korean OS, that's why it's the land of the free (🔪)

[@drishalballaney6590]

India has BOSS Linux, thats why its largest democracy 😂

[@KOTYAR1]

Can confirm. We have Astra Linux. In 2018, it was decided to transfer all computers in the military and defense sector to Astra Linux and to abandon Microsoft Windows. Though that balding leader of our country still uses Windows XP. No joke

[@gkail6980]

"As a contrarian I have extreme opinions despite being educated" - this is pure gold

[@TheUnkow]

Most of corporate friendly doctors during the Covid pandemic ... unfortunately ...

[@gkail6980]

@@TheUnkow The irony just died in your comment

[@Jonas-Seiler]

@@TheUnkow intelligence is knowing the course of action by most governments was a blatant and unnecessary overreaction, wisdom is realising that all realistic alternatives would have been much worse in the end

[@AlanJames1987]

The Richard Stallman foot reference at 1:38 almost had me throwing up with memories of that interview / video.

[@Phizev]

I was shown that video clip when I was first getting into Emacs. I will never use Emacs as I am nauseated by the association with that Stallman clip.

[@egorsozonov7425]

@@Phizev Good for you. Emacs is a hacky crap and a waste of time.

[@subsystemd]

I love the "WTF is happening now?" arch moment. As a daily driver of Arch for the last 4 years this has been my life at times x)

[@jimbarino2]

Very smooth arch flex, btw...

[@frysebox1]

As a daily user of getting up daily and communicating my daily routine of doing things daily, I give you 100 reddit gold Sir. So Epic.

[@subsystemd]

@@frysebox1 honestly, I did not realise how much of a snob that comment made me look like at the time x)

[@frysebox1]

@@subsystemd I am just shitposting bro no need for the self critique, the world is largely run by buffoons with zero self awareness and shame while decent and/or intelligent people self censor, so express yourself in any manner you want and disregard anyone telling you otherwise unless there's a clear valid reason.

[@heinrichagrippa5681]

@@subsystemd Eh, I don't think so. If you just bring up being an Arch user with no context aside from the subject being "Linux", then maybe. But if it's already being satirized in a way that's actually relatable you're just remarking on that, I don't see it as necessarily being a stealth-brag. If someone had said "lol I use Mint and that happens to me all the time", no one would think anything of it. It's just that "Arch btw" is such a meme that now everyone wants to jump on it. ...I use Arch btw

[@jkbenedict]

The boot speeds.... SO ACCURATE and the "minimalist reference" to Pop! OS is GOLD!

[@CDmc98]

Wow other people care about boot speeds, im not alone!

[@DesocupadoXtremo]

1:18 "this things were easly to fix, with only 1 or 2... weeks of internet searchs" 😂😂😂

[@casenc]

The GRUB final gag killed me

[@amcmillion3]

The only thing wrong is that you aren't using an old Thinkpad.

[@sirmclovin9184]

As a linux user, I feel offended.

[@Yupppi]

Umm I'm using my arch on an old thinkpad...

[@fredspipa]

I love the slow zoom in on the default GRUB menu, btw, I knew that meant Arch and that he wasn't going to be able to boot, btw. Was not disappointed, btw.

[@YuriyNasretdinov]

Imagine installing Arch on your only personal computer that wouldn't boot for a KZbin video :)

[@creativecraving]

I get what you mean, btw.

[@shaunpatrick8345]

Grub menu is for noobs. Pros boot to Grub shell.

[@jupyter5k647]

3:34 when I try to flex Arch in front of someone

[@nawzyah]

😂

[@macawls]

"I will have to reject that drink" 🤣🤣

[@GSBarlev]

... combined with the "Don't touch my Pepsi!" moment too. I feel like this must be a metaphor for some proprietary blob that's included with all but the hardest-line FOSS distributions, but I'm not sure what.

[@Pixel-sv1zv]

@@GSBarlev NVIDIA drivers probably?

[@AmstradExin]

'Pepsi is also closed recipe'

[@itsfoss5268]

I'd like to interject for a moment, what you are referring to as drink is actually, GNU/Drink. Or as I have recently taken to calling it, GNU + Drink.

[@SergioEduP]

​@@itsfoss5268 Drink is not a beverage unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully drinkable GNU package made useful by the GNU ingredients, bottle utilities and vital cup components comprising a full beverage as defined by "The Coca-Cola Company" and Nestlé.

[@Tweaker420666]

Man we need a disk 3, or tape 3 of this!!! Both parts are hysterical. Watched several times.

[@rahulshah1408]

I’m proud that I get a good chunk of the jokes. I’m mostly windows, but I didn’t realize how much Linux I have played with.

[@JannatinNaimJN]

0:08 "Please don't watch this on your MacBook." me: ight (closes tab)

[@crism8868]

"I decided to go minimalist, and switch to Pop! OS" >gnome >minimalist lmao I'm dying. Funniest part as a distro hopper I will too rationalize my distro choices on "minimalism" or other such buzzword when I only pick a distro because I like their brand colors or whatever.

[@GSBarlev]

Cries in elementaryOS

[@vetrixfx9264]

I once used opensuse because i thought that the chameleon on their logo was cool

[@impolitedirector3595]

Microsoft should truly learn from RedStar OS.

[@addaedans]

Arch is the go to for me in the past 5 years...you just need to be careful and update regularly so not everything will break at the same time after a 1 year update...

[@oczi1660]

i use arch btw

[@MarkRuvald]

That can't even happen in NixOS

[@leonsvideos]

"update regularly so not everything will break at the same time" hahahaha

[@khaared]

Used Arch for 7 years. Worked quite well. But you have to reinstall it every 1-2 years or so, otherwise the accumulated mes.. state will cause problems at some time. I switched to NixOS 2 and 1/2 years ago. Can't look back, never had such a well configured System, and I can get the exact same state/configuration on any other machine by using the same configuration. Rollback an update, because it causes issues, no problem. Forgot what you had installed, just check the configuration. Want to try experimental stuff (like e.g. weird Window managers) just hack it together in the config, doesn't work as expected, no problem just get to an earlier state. In Arch you're stagnating at some time, because it gets to messy, in NixOS I'm doing stuff I would've never done in Arch...

[@trajectoryunown]

O_O "1 year update" Bro... I thought my 2+ week delay was bad.

[@DelkorYT]

The "what is going on?!" in the end nearly ended with my tea on the monitor

[@jezzamobile]

😹"

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

I will never forget the time I decided to be a special snowflake and install Arch from scratch. It worked great for a few days. Then one day I came home from a long day at college and work, ready to relax, and X11 shit the bed and refused to start. After hours of using a TTY browser to search for answers, I learned it was a bug with Arch and my window manager, and I had no choice but to wait for another update. I quickly ran back to Debian.

[@zyzsgy]

I love my debian box. Would you like a webserver put in your coffee machine?

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

​@@zyzsgy I put a Debian webserver on my parents old single core AMD K2 computer, it was incredible. Of course I had to get a new network card first because the drivers no longer existed. Debian server is so minimalist that it doesn't even come with Sudo or Usermod if I remember correctly. Switch to Devuan (Debian without systemd) and the memory usage is hilariously tiny.

[@henryfleischer404]

My first linux install, which I did a couple weeks ago, was Debian. I'm 90% of the way to not needing windows for game development at all.

[@callisoncaffrey]

What is "Arch from scratch"? You either install Arch or Linux from scratch. Installing Arch is quick and easy, LFS is a compile adventure.

[@Psychx_]

I love these parodies. What a great channel!

[@crackwitz]

These aren't parodies, good sir, they're documentaries

[@MrA6060]

NO WAY PAPAYA OS, that's the name i gave to my own OS (it's a basic os made from scratch for learning purposes, not an actual modified linux distro) that's so random but i wanted to share

[@Sean-fh9nj]

I love arch because it never breaks. Except that one update which bricked my system, so I switched to syslinux, which only took me 5 hours to get to to not work and switch back to grub

[@Yupppi]

I love how efficient linux users are. You can always find a distro that gets you there faster.

[@amateurprogrammer25]

I've been using Linux for 8 years and this is so true it hurts. I was cry-laughing through most of it

[@kirubeladamu4760]

"I won't forget my password, I can just ask the government" Had my dying🤣🤣

[@unfa00]

_Never breaks they say._ *_What is going on!?_* As an Arch user I can relate to that.

[@awoofythegreat6828]

User error UwU

[@theplaymakerno1]

What happened exactly that broke your Arch?

[@LMYS5697]

Arch never breaks, and when it does you're just doing it wrong.

[@fantodk6002]

This is gold, as always.

[@codebrick]

Dude, you did the eating something off your foot..... I'm dying

[@BlunderMunchkin]

I started with Slackware in 1993, switched to Red Hat around 2000, and have been using Ubuntu for the last decade or so. It really doesn't matter which one you use, unless you want to waste time on minute details.

[@jpierce2l33t]

LOL I was waiting for the Arch mention, and it was nailed perfectly as expected 🤣 those annoying SOB's deserve an episode of their own 🤣

[@MyAmazingUsername]

An Arch user unironically commented on this video saying how great Arch is because: "Arch is the go to for me in the past 5 years...you just need to be careful and update regularly so not everything will break at the same time after a 1 year update..." So let's repeat that: Arch is great because if you furiously update it frequently, you will only suffer many small breakages instead of one huge breakage of everything if you waited a while between updates. Truly the pinnacle of distros.

[@jpierce2l33t]

@@MyAmazingUsername LOL hell of a comment dude 🤣🤣

[@MyAmazingUsername]

@@jpierce2l33t Arch is that thing people choose after Ubuntu, when they finally know a little bit more about Linux, but haven't yet grown tired of fixing endless bugs. In the end, the smart ones end up back at Ubuntu or Fedora.

[@jezzamobile]

@@MyAmazingUsername ..or MXLinux. Sound as a pound, my workhorse for years now 👍

[@MyAmazingUsername]

@@jezzamobile Yeah Linux Mint and MX Linux come up often when people talk about reliable distros. :)

[@leonsvideos]

I hate that Fedora is called what it is, it's great for getting things done without worrying about stuff breaking but I feel like a neckbeard and when a normal person is asking I say I am using Ubuntu, there's less shame in that

[@ukaszwanczura9969]

well, soon you might just say you're using Nobara to avoid the fedora part XD

[@leonsvideos]

@@ukaszwanczura9969 going down the rabbithole, see you on the other side

[@jezzamobile]

With MXLinux you don't have to choose between reliability & a cool name 👍 You can say the name without the shame, give the impression you know what you're doing 😹"

[@THAT.RANDOM.GUY_]

Fedora is literally bleeding edge.

[@chuy2c]

Fedoras will always be cool. Don't worry. it's just the people who wear Fadoras that aren't cool.

[@HarryBallsOnYa345]

Screen not appearing when opening my laptop... Laptop not appearing when i open my screen... Yeah, we've all been their brother.

[@dakafaith]

“WHAT IS GOING ONNN?” at the start and end is how I know I can endorse this message 🤣🤣🤣 You never truly know what is going on!

[@alexandrcifer76]

That last "what is goin on?!" had me in tears, well done good sir

[@parallel041]

i watched maybe 30 times....looking forward part 3....this Linux guy is super funny:)))

[@kachekijaanlega]

you mean GNU-Linux

[@pt17171]

I have found out the hard way that most Linux evangelists are people who don't have any work to do but just love to obsessively fiddle with things.

[@millenialmusings8451]

🤣🤣🤣

[@Finkelfunk]

Hey now! That is... actually super accurate but I still don't like it!

[@mickantra]

yeah I reinstall my w8.1 whenever I need to get something done. Like print.

[@crazyeyes8962]

I have found out the hard way that there are still people who claim to know things about computers but don't seem to realize that their favorite _everything_ is hosted on Linux, including some Microsoft servers internally.

[@envo2199]

@@crazyeyes8962 what is your point? Nobody cares what is on the servers, they are good for that. For everyday use? Absolutely no.

[@CDmc98]

YES! boot times are mentioned. I relate to this on so many levels.

[@flipflap4673]

Great! Would love to see one on "Interview with a Golang Senior Dev".

[@IARRCSim]

Richard Stallman is looking younger than ever. The alias Richie Guix is a very veil to hide behind.

[@charleschilton3818]

I love linux, and I couldn't stop laughing the whole time.

[@c0de_lul581]

You mean GNU/Linux?

[@charleschilton3818]

@@c0de_lul581 No, because the distro I use, doesn't use GNU tools

[@omegaroguelp]

@@charleschilton3818 based

[@jezzamobile]

@@charleschilton3818 Linux Chad right there 👍

[@lilyliao9521]

@@charleschilton3818 VINEBOOM

[@windowsagent981]

"What linux do I use?" *slow zoom into GRUB screen*

[@natetronn]

No mention of [purposely leaving blank so everyone who's distro wasn't mentioned can fill in the blank]?

[@Jadinandrews]

Some of these hit home hard.. I spent days getting the indicator light on my hp laptop's TouchPad working.

[@stacychandler6511]

One of the best videos you’ve done sir! Hahaha

[@Yunix]

This was very good!

[@potowogreedo]

Why'd you have to go put my google history in the description cmon

[@tarekjrd75]

The 'Gentooooooo' part was dope 😂😂

[@EKOLegend]

Again. It's creepy how I relate to the guy's video and content, and how much parallel there is with my own experience . 😂. I remember also learning about Linux distros in the early 2010s, hoping from distro to distro till I settled on Mint. And the reasons I ran away from others are exactly what he's describing, lacking drivers and all. A+ top-tier content this man makes. To quote J cole "All good jokes contain true shit"

[@michalsvihla1403]

My experience with Mint was that it was slow. I kept having issues with screen tearing and laggy bluetooth. Switched to Fedora KDE X11 and I got everything working top-notch. My machine is a Huawei Matebook 13 with an 8th gen i5.

[@elbjorno]

Fantastic video! - Sent from my Macbook Pro

[@FadyMegally]

Awesome videos man .. You gotta make a video about OOP .. would love to see your take on it.

[@eagle_rb_mmoomin_418]

The very last bit was absolute genius

[@Khushpich]

Dude you're hilarious. Thanks for the laughs.

[@user-gb6nm2zp5y]

"what is going o..." Ah, so familiar!

[@gregt0m]

These videos are gold.

[@jon_009]

It's been 10,000 years of searching google. Ive asked on kali developer forums and many others but i still dont know why the wifi isnt working...

[@LMYS5697]

Are you using Intel 6e? AX210?

[@tibo1671]

This guy is such a genius

[@mrrolandlawrence]

the list of distros is awesome.

[@sajidghuman]

Really nice and helpful... Thanks!

[@sudocheese]

"I left because it has some spyware deep inside, but it's done pretty elegantly; it doesn't blow up the OS. Microsoft has something to learn here" :D

[@Littlefighter1911]

1:06 This isn't even satire anymore. This is just pure real talk.

[@natnael6931]

The whole series is Pure Jem!!!

[@nirualleer4482]

as a german CS student I remember old bearded friends of my parents repairing my first gaming pc and ranting on Windows telling me Linux is better.

[@2bfrank657]

This hits so close to home for me 😂

[@Ciubix8513]

I use Arch btw

[@TheOneWhoHasWallnuts]

"This is how I boot my PC nowadays" got me good. 🤣 Literally how I have to boot the Windows™ machine cause if I just let it run it will try to boot a non-existent Windows™ installation.

[@theplaymakerno1]

I like the years to find a solution part

[@azerty_42]

seems like arch pushed a faulty grub image on this user as well lol

[@isaiahdavis5435]

Please give us an ArchLinux user interview!!

[@jimbarino2]

A true Arch user wouldn't take the time to answer your Noob questions.

[@lance_c1323]

Glad he mentioned my fav distro, MX Linux 😂

[@stickfigure31]

Richard Stallman's real issue isn't with you watching him on a Macbook, it with sharing videos of him in formats requiring non free software, on sites that use java script (KZbin), and on sites that have Ai face recogintion (Facebook). As long as you running GNU on your Macbook I doubt he'd care, he'd might request you scratch the apple logo into GNU logo though.

[@kitersrefuge7353]

"no leave the Pepsi".

[@bouncehouseofficial]

did you guys ever do one for Temple OS (ala Terry Davis?)

[@AmIThePresident]

1:38 Killed me! No wonder the Gnome logo is a foot

[@Frosthernheim]

That ending broke me.

[@kxuydhj]

"never breaks, like most people say." "WHAT IS GOING ON?"

[@socketlicker]

"I left because there's spyware inside. It was done very elegantly, doesn't bloat the OS" This man has his priorities straight XD

[@paulsaulpaul]

He got the Stallman foot eating at 1:38. Brilliant.

[@CraftMine1000]

"I decided to go minimal and run popOS" XDxDxD

[@zebraheem]

You need to do a Microsoft stan...from the 90s

[@linuxbrad]

Easily fixed with 1-2 weeks of internet searches. Oh how I feel this pain.

[@thewitheredstriker]

Incredible.

[@spoddie]

You need to be selling merch

[@Hrkdntbsid]

easy to fix in one to two weeks of internet searches ..FACTS ( I installed arch the other day and spent the whole day trying to get wayland to work )

[@rahulshah1408]

Partition 1 to cd2. Genius.

[@wibu_berkata]

"Pepsi also close recipe" 💀

[@lllllMlllll]

When he talked about the flickering 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@AntThinker]

But seriously, why do I get screen colors garbled under Kali, and much less often in Xubuntu?! Using the same open source Intel drivers.

[@supernenechi]

"Never breaks like most people say." And then the screen stays black... I know that feeling all too well

[@c0de_lul581]

"What is going on?" Probably didn't play Pacman frequently enough.

[@Philbertsroom]

The eating of the toenail... a classic!

[@gmailcuy]

RMS is so iconic!

[@user-zd9cz1lq6b]

the black boot screen gave me PTSD

[@ley._.]

1 - 2 weeks of internet searches was way too relateable.

[@gmailcuy]

You missed Linux From Scratch (LFS), for the second take please make a hardcore *nix user video ;)

[@pedroalbuquerquebs]

Now do one about BSD.