Interview with a GNU/Linux user - Partition 1

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
Linux
Arch linux
linux enthusiast
gentoo
systemd
vim enthusiast
emacs
richard stallmann
free software foundation
GPL license jokes
dancing with a gnu
lennart poettering
luke smith
vim
linux torvalds
CC BY-SA
CC Humor
grub
nerd
nerd humor
pulseaudio
geek
windows vs linux
linux gaming
javascript
manjaroo os
webassembly
#programming
#jokes
#linux

[@Finkelfunk]

"That's a nice watch you got there, want me to turn it into a web server?" just absolutely sent me. This is so accurate it hurts

[@lilrex2015]

omg i was dying from that

[@Finkelfunk]

@@lilrex2015 "This pen is a webserver"

[@ninoivanov]

In particular, because CAN - on Android, with Termux, on iOS, with iSH...

[@lilrex2015]

@@ninoivanov .... yeah.... we can see why you're single and alone

[@ninoivanov]

@@lilrex2015 No, I'm simply not some uneducated random bum. 🙃

[@Vapour1o1]

As a Linux user I am offended by how accurate this is.

[@AdamJorgensen]

As a Linux user, I am saddened that my paunch is smaller than his

[@slickheisenberg8208]

Not really accurate.

[@nicolasturek7563]

not that much, ubuntu ain't only for beginners, if something will work, ubuntu usually can handle it, it's quite close to windows except it works better

[@dramaticnormanbates2605]

@x41ih10a It's intentionally inaccurate, this is the main trope of this genre. It exaggerates and caricatures reality, that's why it's funny.

[@fossforever512]

@x41ih10a lmao not lucky, it’s not hard to avoid the trash, just use the tech it’s good, ignore the communities as all communities become toxic at some point

[@gabe_dunn]

"ok i might have to fix something. it's not an issue of linux, really" this is the most accurate part of the video

[@zkdr6278]

"it's the hardware vendor's fault for not writing a good driver" why can't linux just have a windows driver translation layer

[@gabe_dunn]

@@zkdr6278 i'm assuming there's a good reason. If it was as simple as that then there's no way someone wouldn't have done it already.

[@tflsh]

linux does have a translator for windows xp drivers, only network drivers tho

[@tflsh]

its called ndiswrapper btw

[@zkdr6278]

​@@gabe_dunn you're right, I looked into it and apparently it's garbage. It makes sense, since drivers are (i assume, usually) very low level for performance reasons and needing to talk to the bare metal. I'm wondering how long it would take to write a driver for most essential equipment.

[@speedyfox9080]

Watching this from Gentoo, on a librebooted thinkpad X200 running dwm. I can confirm, Linux never breaks, especially the sound. Btw, why did you publish the video without sound?

[@automata_pi]

🤣🤣🤣🤣. Waching this on Arch linux. While my sound does function, I fear to put my machine into sleep because it could never wake up

[@syn3rman65]

How do you know someone uses arch? They tell you

[@mind-blowing_tumbleweed]

@@automata_pi aren't we all?

[@owoled282]

Writing this from Gentoo, haven't got any luck getting the speakers to work, headphones work fine. Send help

[@speedyfox9080]

@@owoled282 Are you doing a custom kernel or a genkernel/distribution kernel? Are you running Gentoo on a desktop or a laptop? Do you know your audio card?

[@billkendrick1]

As creator of Tux Paint, I am honored for the mention. 😂

[@pratikmodak5215]

wait really? 😶

[@danielcavanaugh5905]

That's awesome! I loved that program as a little kid. Thanks!

[@LordOfLemon]

Haha I remember spending many hours in my youth (at around 5-7 years old) messing with Tux Paint. Thanks for those memories!

[@Masda.X]

Legend

[@Simple-EDU]

thx

[@labilawal]

Linux User: "It's broken" Interviewer: "No it's called.. trap music" 🤣🤣🤣 That shit got me rolling

[@1ute]

HAHAHA

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@UnfaehigerKanal]

eww proprietary music

[@treakzy_9594]

the fortnite guy

[@77elvistheking]

and his confused face... lol

[@WJHopper510]

"GNU/Linux is just a small part of the systemd operating system" this man was sent from 3022 to warn us

[@unucellply4221]

Red Hat vs Microsoft

[@VinayKeerthiKT]

I use arch btw

[@kesavan12]

I do as well!

[@mariotabali2603]

Arch is my favorite distro by far. I use it everyday but Mac at work. Mac's fine too

[@Speykious]

I use arch btw

[@tainicon4639]

I used arch as a daily driver for 1.5 years when I needed Linux for work…. My coworkers couldn’t use my computer hahaha

[@anaselgarhy]

And me btw!

[@msal]

"Then I prove them wrong... just to show them... that their code won't run anywhere" Powershell scripts in a nutshell 😂

[@stefanalecu9532]

I mean, nowadays PowerShell scripts can also run on Linux, so not quite the best example there

[@sheeplord4976]

@@stefanalecu9532 The joke is that the powershell script maker is saying their scripts won't run on linux when it won't run anywhere because it was broken from the starrt

[@davidwuhrer6704]

PowerShell scripts run in Linux, but nobody runs them there because Linux already has a simpler way for running shell scripts. PowerShell scripts don't run in Windows because they don't have permission. (VB macros in your word docs run fine in Outlook though.)

[@lawrencedoliveiro9104]

Someone tried to submit a bug report to Microsoft over trouble with Powershell scripts on Linux. Microsoft rejected it, on the grounds that it had to remain bug-for-bug compatible with the Windows version.

[@DavidCastillaGil]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Set-ExecutionPolicy Bypass is your friend. Yeah it's quite dumb, they tried doing it more secure but failed miserably. Like if the whole system is already insecure what's the point? And I actually used PoSh a lot for sysadmin tasks, it has great capabilities, but it is some sort of mix between a wannabe-shell and an OOP-lang, it can get confusing.

[@davidtimbwa9689]

"We don't have gang signs, we have distros" 😂😂😂 I'M DEAD

[@DannyEck]

My 2nd ROFL after "dancing in the GNU light"

[@phantomofnyx]

The pure panic of trying to cover up the xubuntu logo was priceless! loved it! This comment is now a webserver!

[@johnbruhling8018]

sudo pacman -S apache sudo systemctl enable httpd

[@phantomofnyx]

@@johnbruhling8018 Arch user detected WARNING!, ARCH user detected!

[@GSBarlev]

@@phantomofnyx Couldn't be. They didn't explicitly say they used arch (btw).

[@phantomofnyx]

@@GSBarlev Oh wait he didn't brag, you're completely right, must be someone who uses pacman on ubuntu, can't possibly be anything else ^_^ Or wait he could be from the new generation of steamdeck users who evilly ruined the arch experience by pre installing it and hiding it from their users invalidating the true arch users hard work! (Cough)

[@GSBarlev]

@@phantomofnyx As a Steam Deck user who has been getting a masochist thrill out of setting up compiler toolchains exclusively in userspace, I can't tell how much of your reply is humorous. 🤣

[@amosnimos]

"At this point gnu/linux are just small parts of the systemd operating system" great line

[@FrostByte112]

Haha, indeed.

[@markmesser4454]

😂😂😂

[@2bfrank657]

Linux isn't full of bugs like windows - it just "needs to be configured properly" all the time.

[@mariandecker3942]

Depends on the distro LMDE 6.0 for example runs great

[@liforra]

Not like windows, its full of bugs yes but windows is on a different level of bugs

[@mariandecker3942]

@@liforra yes Windows concept of "safty because people can't see bugs" is a really bad concept

[@wanderhillen2435]

It doesn't surpise me that he is a survivor of both the vim/emacs and also the vim/vim wars.

[@fish3977]

I fear they won't survive being drafted into the vim/neovim war

[@ianakotey]

Partition 1. Damn, you really had to hit us hard 😔

[@mythacker4365]

lol

[@kommentator1157]

actually, it should be /dev/sda1 or /dev/nvmen0p1 (or something like that, idk)

[@izd4]

@@kommentator1157 /dev/nvme0n1p1

[@andrejbartulin]

@@kommentator1157 sda is used for usbs, hddd, ssds which are not nvme, nvme0p1 is used for nvme ssds

[@kommentator1157]

@@andrejbartulin I know. I just wasn't sure how nvme ssds are named. Thankfully I don't have to touch that too often.

[@qchtohere8636]

Why is this marked as satire? This is an historically accurate description of Linux users interacting with newcomers.... And still a better experience than using Windows.

[@charlie4christ536]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/m5LXeq2nrKdlmqM Christ died for your sins and rose on the third day, showing that anyone who trusts in him for salvation, will have everlasting life. (John 11:25-26) "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?" (John 3:16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[@AdamVikingen]

He actually Wants to help you, unlike Microsoft and Apple fanboys.

[@MrSurfsAlot]

Nothing wrong with windows at all

[@yeppiidev]

@@MrSurfsAlot yeah do somethi- *BSOD!!!!*

[@xeon39688]

Funny, this is so incorrect

[@gnarflord4547]

"I use Linux as my operating system," I state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. He swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "Actually", he says with a grin, "Linux is just the kernel. You use GNU+Linux!' I don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "I use Alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU Coreutils, or any other GNU code. It's Linux, but it's not GNU+Linux." The smile quickly drops from the man's face. His body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth and drops to the floor with a sickly thud. As he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" Coolly, I reply "If windows were compiled with GCC, would that make it GNU?" I interrupt his response with "-and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. Even if you were correct, you won't be for long." With a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. He lies on the floor, cold and limp. I've womansplained him to death.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

I use clang, BTW.

[@samuelallan7452]

Bookmarking this comment

[@mr-boo]

Ive heard of mansplaining, but what is womansplaining? (Sheez, even my autocorrect recognized the former, but not the latter)

[@honchokomodo]

@@mr-boo imagine a man mansplaining but a woman is doing it instead

[@stickfigure31]

I recently got a cold reseption to the Alpine community, so I think I'll stick with GNU. I was trying out different distros in an attempt to rive my Powerbook G4 as a useable laptop again (in 2019 I was still able to use Ubuntu 16.04 + Firefox to stream youtube) I saw alpine had Firefox esr ported to PowerPC, but when I tried it from a live cd it failed to launch. So I asked on the subreddit and got chewed out about how I "shouldn't use a web browser on some thing meant for a server", so I just put Debian 11 on the Powerbook and have been in the process of building dependencies from source (some aren't in the repos and some are for the wrong 32bit powepc endian). I recently saw a video where someone with an older g3 mac with less ram got a modern browser working under openbsd, so I might try that over Alpine again.

[@John-po9wz]

"I fought in the VIM EMACS war" lmao!!

[@penta5421]

The vim-vim wars is hilarious too

[@noface_token6899]

this is honestly too good lmao you know they're in deep when they can't drop the gnu

[@winstonstrongarm8929]

"Linux is just a part of the systemd OS" 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davidwuhrer6704]

That's why I only use Devuan, Alpine, and Slack. And BSD if available.

[@owoled282]

OpenRC would like a word

[@betterwithrum]

deep cuts

[@kaantax8666]

Runit supremacy

[@degenyakuza]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Führer

[@pilot8720]

For the next one, do a Linux purist who has completely removed any trace of GNU from their computer (except for the license) (maybe this could be an alpine user)

[@pilot8720]

@x41ih10a Compilers, musl, busybox etc. a lot of these things exist to replace a lot of what GNU does

[@inedholp1565]

alpineOS, does not use any of the GNU core utils

[@pilot8720]

@@inedholp1565 knew i was wrong after i posted but forgot to edit lol.

[@lithiumwyvern_]

Artix is a systemd-less Arch with a custom installer. You're thinking of Alpine.

[@pilot8720]

@@lithiumwyvern_ never got around to editing my post but yeah i knew i was wrong, cuz i watched the GNU vs Alpine meme again

[@TheS0meguy]

This is so brilliant in so many ways... basically, thirty years of GNU+Linux summarized in about six minutes 👌

[@peterstefanov3594]

I love this. the web-server par was hilarious. Lets not forget about the dependency hell with package managers, the lock screen daemon that doesn't ACTUALLY lock your screen or the absolutely horrible amount of bugs in 'sudo'

[@DMSBrian24]

Flatpak, wayland, doas or immutable fs, all 3 problems fixed Another 10 problems created...

[@peterstefanov3594]

@@DMSBrian24 really? That's good to know. And I believe it lmao

[@DMSBrian24]

@x41ih10a i mean as far as I understand it when it comes to audio systems, there's just ALSA at the lower level and then there's higher level libraries that utilize it, nowadays pipewire and jack, the latter being essentially only for very low latency managing of audio interfaces, useless for an average person, pipewire is all you really need and it provides backwards compatibility with pulse audio, I'd say if anything the audio system has moved in a very good direction and it's quite trouble-free nowadays

[@DMSBrian24]

But yeah, while wayland is mostly very good, it also has issues (forced vsync by design, backwards compatibility with xorg when using nvidia, lack of ABIs for some basic stuff like global keybinds and compositor complexity), though a lot of them will be ironed out soon enough, flatpak surprisingly doesn't really have major drawbacks, doas is good but would need to be adopted by default by distros to be a serious sudo replacement cause otherwise there might always be some edge case bugs when replacing sudo with it, and immutable fs distros break more than they fix and are not worth even considering for the time being. Things are definitely moving in the right way and the linux user experience is better than ever tbh

[@Tachi107]

@@DMSBrian24 PipeWire still has some issues with automatic headphone switching and real-time scheduling, unfortunately

[@hippo_o_matic7985]

Can't wait to see the Rust interview where you break out the programming socks

[@hopperstreams4487]

The free software movement is such an interesting sociological phenomenon, and pretty sure other things like it rarely work in reality, we just got lucky with the tech field I guess

[@HeadsFullOfEyeballs]

I think it's more that corporations have benefitted hugely from it in the tech field specifically, so they haven't lobbied to make it impossible/impractical like in most other areas.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs They have, actually. But they didn't succeed. UEFI bootloader signing, a clever way for Lenovo to install an undeleteable Trojan horse on their laptops (alongside Intel's own Trusted Processing Module in the CPU itself), was designed to make installing anything other than Windows and Mac OS impossible. But too much of the industry depends on unpaid free software, mostly Minix (for the Intel TPM), but also Debian and, in the case of the US military and the NSA, RedHat Linux. So they had to allow that, leaving only Lenovo with any advantage from UEFI. A more striking example of how much the industry depends on free/libre software is OpenSSL, which encrypts practically all web traffic, including web Banking and inter-bank commerce. It is maintained by two hobbyists in their spare time. Linux hosts 90% of all services on the internet, from mail servers to web servers to SaaS like Google Drive, Azure, and AWS. The remaining 10% are FreeBSD. Linux also drives practically a of robotics. And of course Linux achieved world dominance fast with the smartphone market, which eclipses the desktop market. Today, Microsoft is the biggest contributor to the Linux kernel in lines of code. Their WindowsPhone can now run Android apps, and their desktop OS can run some docker images. Linux is just a small part of the free software movement. MacOS X is built almost exclusively from free software, from the L4 microkernel to the BSD userland to the web browser engine forked from KDE's KHTML, built with the free/libre open source LLVM compiler (that Microsoft is also using for Visual Studio). The network stack in Microsoft Windows is a fork of the NetBSD stack, and the implementation of the SMB protocol (network neighbourhood, domain controllers, shared printers, etc) has been replaced with the open source implementation because their proprietary one had become unmaintainable. They also migrated their code repository from their discontinued own product to git.

[@twrk139]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Windows phone? Have you been living under a rock?

[@jonathan2847]

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs Also unlike most professions programmers will work then come home and do open source. Is a different breed.

[@BigChiken44]

@@HeadsFullOfEyeballs sure sure, it's evil corporatyions' fault that free stuff is almost never good)) My country 70 years lived under soviet regime where lots of things were "free" and there were no corporations. The result? Well, here's old anecdote: "What doesn't fit in your ass and doesn't buzz? Soviet-made ass-buzzer".

[@ishaqahmed._]

I didn't realize I was getting fatter after I got into Linux This video helped me realize it, great

[@benskev]

same

[@hochminus-iy7ro]

This is normal and rfc conform, your body is caching energy for debug compile cycles.

[@ilyasabi8920]

Same I was skinny no joke. Now I also have a beard. I'm morphing into the GNUman species.

[@OShackHennessy]

This was really good, excellent performance and fantastic editing! I had a good laugh.

[@impolitedirector3595]

the stallman aesthetic is amazing

[@gothicviceroy112]

The "Ubuntu is for beginners" then the long silence was perfect

[@manny9639]

I hope this blows up a lot, what an absolute legend

[@mistervanderveer]

"On Linux, you might just set up a DVD drive... if it's standard."

[@Ometecuhtli]

I was dissapointed of the new audio manager's lack of the infamous flat line noise until he said it doesn't work, what a relief!

[@JohnVance]

“you make it by rolling your own distro” my god it’s the truest statement ever made

[@PikminGuts92]

0:50 Always KGB's fault

[@TheMohawkNinja]

As someone whose first experience with Linux was getting an error about connected USB devices during boot... which was my keyboard and mouse, and therefore my only means of interacting with the PC, it took me a few more years before I could actually appreciate it.

[@harleyspeedthrust4013]

linux is great as a server OS. just a terminal and the operating system. but beyond that i'll stick to windows - linux as a desktop OS is not great imo

[@TheMohawkNinja]

@harleyspeedthrust4013 Honestly, I run Arch daily now and it works great. Gaming is where I still run Windows though.

[@laizalott]

@@harleyspeedthrust4013 If this was 1998, I would have to wholeheartedly agree with you.

[@Humuhumunukunukuapaa]

Never had trouble running games on mint. Between steam, wine, proton everything works.

[@ab.3800]

I’ve been waiting all month for this! Made my birthday month even better

[@user-qn2zf2lh4w]

Happy birthday!

[@ab.3800]

@@user-qn2zf2lh4w Thank you!

[@knightmarSPZM]

This is honestly the best and most beautiful linux themed video I ever watched (and believe me I watched a lot)

[@gabbiewolf1121]

Tbh the part about rolling a distro as a form of revolt/protest is unironically badass. Whenever possible, building something new and better is the best form of protest >:3c

[@rtr0spct210]

Not if it's new and not different in any meaningful way though.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@rtr0spct210 Why not?

[@GSBarlev]

(taking notes) "new AND BETTER." Always forget that second part.

[@colbyboucher6391]

@@rtr0spct210 Ehh, often the protest is more towards how something's managed nore than anything else.

[@GudieveNing]

Bless! This is how us latte suppling in Starbucks MacBook Air toting UX designers envision Linux and security geeks. These videos are both hilarious and spot on! (Been in the IT community since 1981 when building a ZX-81.) I am sharing with all my IT / coder colleagues right now!

[@johnvodopija1743]

“This pen is running a web server” pure gold!

[@officialabdulrehman]

That *Nvidia* cry...... That hits home lol

[@schokicoder]

i started using GNU/Linux on a PC with a Nvidia card... so it's pretty accurate

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

I was laughing in the beginning but then it became a personal attack.

[@intrabratwurstparty3239]

Dancing in the GNU light 😂

[@chromejailer6799]

I was randomly recommended the VIM video. Even though I have no idea about anything Linux related, I really enjoy these videos. Very well made. I wonder if I will eventually become a Linux user if I watch enough of these. I'm leaving this note to mark a date before the potential switch. 19/09/2022.

[@tomatopotato4229]

Run a distro from your usb stick and find out if it would work out for you before switching :)

[@kabochaVA]

@@tomatopotato4229 Better: if you have a spare PC that consumes very little power, install some Linux on it and use that PC for some daily tasks (like web-browsing, emails, etc.) while keeping the other PC for games, or the tasks that you haven't figured out how to perform on Linux (yet). Slowly but surely, you will start enjoying how Linux doesn't bother you with pesky notifications, ads for other software or services, very long updates that require rebooting the machine, etc. That's how I migrated to Linux from Windows. I'm using Fedora with GNOME and a couple extensions (dash-to-dock is a must-have for me), but you can start with something like Ubuntu or Pop_OS.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

I use a RaspberryPi as my desktop.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

You are using Linux already, you just don't know it. Android is Linux. Most consumer electronics run Linux, including routers, television sets, and cars. Google runs under Linux. That includes KZbin. Microsoft Azure runs under Mariner-CSL, a Linux distro. Wikipedia uses Ubuntu, another Linux distro. AWS runs under Linux.

[@chromejailer6799]

@@davidwuhrer6704 Hold up. Android is Linux ? I mean, I do hate my android phone to the point I want to throw it out of the window, although that might be because it's a cheap xiaomi. Don't discourage me, man.

[@desktorp]

I went on a date with a girl the other night. I won't be seeing her again, but at least she knows what GNU/Linux is now.

[@jakecullimore1172]

2:22 dancing in the GNUlight hahaha

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

I met Stallman twice and he is a pretty nice guy actually. He lectured a friend about using proprietary drivers while having a beer with us after a talk at a pirate radio / anarchist squat house

[@raul0ca]

Was this at a certain island?

[@b00gi3]

@@raul0ca Every land mass on earth is a certain island, so unless they were doing all this while levitating above the sea or in the air or something, I guess it would be at a certain island.

[@soda3185]

@@b00gi3 The joke . . . . . You

[@kaitlyn__L]

Please tell me it included a reason why you should never do it even when they work better

[@raul0ca]

@@kaitlyn__LHurd will have zero drivers

[@vdown_fall8582]

When he said, "i've recently been getting into marxist stalinism" I knew this video had me clocked

[@NikeaTiber]

When I was in college 20 years ago I decided to compile gentoo from a stage 1 tarball. It took my computer (a 32 bit athlon-b) something like 85 hours to compile my configuration (once I had figured out how to get it to stop segfaulting). I did essentially the same thing with my buddies 64 core dual socket xeon machine a few years ago (it's for 3d rendering). I can't even remember how much ram it has; the thing is absurd. It crushed compiling a full gentoo system from source in under three hours. Not sure how long it took exactly, because I started my script, we went to lunch and it was done when we got back. Unlike my computer in college, which made people comment on "my matrix screen saver" for three days.

[@T3hBeowulf]

Same, except I did this on a modded original Xbox with a pair of 400GB HDDs. It took a little less than a week to finish compiling everything. But that Xbox ran as a NAS 24/7 for about 7 years before I retired it. Absolutely solid. Gentoo was the way to go too, highly tuned, meticulously configured kernel for lean operation. 64MB RAM, only 25MBs used at boot, on average.

[@abhishekchopra3674]

"As a GNU/Linux user you don't make your statement by going on street with a sign, you make it by rolling your own distro". Damn 🤣

[@CottidaeSEA]

This is the type of person who has 3 different distros installed for different use cases

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

Revisiting after spending about 2 days trying to make Pipewire stop crackling on Fedora 38 KDE. ALSA is a complicated and user-unfriendly mess and not even the writers know how it works, so pulseaudio was needed to make sense of it. Pulseaudio is ALSO a complicated user-unfriendly mess and nobody knows how it works, so Pipewire came to replace it. Pipewire is ALSO a complicated user-unfriendly mess that....

[@bravefastrabbit770]

These just keep getting better 🤣

[@elbjorno]

Youre finally back! Hilarious as always, spot on!

[@tempacc9589]

The audio stuff had me laughing out loud for the first yt vid in a long time I once tried to get some wifi audio app working through my phone cause Bluetooth wouldnt work. Had to forward through like 5 pipes to get it to work. The audio part killed me haha. All I can say is that while on Linux it can be hard to do some stuff, on Windows they simply wouldn't be possible cause the interfaces are just closed off.

[@justadude8716]

… but they would just work so you wouldn’t have to

[@fredspipa]

He was referring to Pipewire, which kind of solves 99% of the issues I've encountered in Pulseaudio over the years. It's fantastic, and routing audio however you want is so much easier now, especially compared to Windows.

[@tempacc9589]

@@justadude8716 try splitting your audio to multiple outputs in windows. Linux is very modular and you can do really weird specific stuff customized to your own needs. In windows most stuff just works but if it doesn't you can't do it yourself.

[@justadude8716]

@@tempacc9589 I was just making a joke, so I don't mean to argue but to just share my experience. I used Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, Gentoo, and (tried, but failed) with Linux from Scratch. A lot of things people associate with Linux, like modularity and customization, is also relevant with Windows but people like to give it crap for no reason. I use both because I found for me personally Windows is hassle free for engineering/audio, but Linux is superior in programming/development. True, Windows hid away a lot of power user functionality from the unwashed masses, but it's still there (and will be for enterprise support).

[@davidwuhrer6704]

I used to have trouble getting audio to work. Then I purged PulseAudio and that solved all the issues.

[@budderdtoast8458]

as someone who spent a fair bit of time futzing with i3, polybar, nvim, etc and really getting nothing important done, "you want to know what games I play? I don't have time for games" really hurt my soul

[@4cps777]

"At this point, GNU/Linux are just small parts of the systemd operating system" Also, I use artix btw Edit: The first entry in the "black book" is hilarious

[@Finkelfunk]

As an Artix user I too congratulate you to having a massive wiener. Do you fold yours? I role mine up like a fire hose.

[@Tachi107]

Yeah lol, but it's also a bit sad that a lot of people are so ungrateful for all the tremendous work that that man has done for the Linux desktop (avahi, pulseaudio, systemd...) :/

[@4cps777]

@@Tachi107 Why should someone be ungrateful because they actively chose to not use his software because they have concerns for their security? Free software is about freedom, after all, and forcing people to use software is far from that. Moreover, it should be mentioned that Poettering is getting paid for what he does (currently by Microsoft iirc) and that PulseAudio had to go through a lot of fixing before it became usable.

[@jameshughes6078]

@@4cps777 He moved to microsoft this year

[@Tachi107]

@@4cps777 of course you can avoid using stuff he wrote, but it is undeniable that not everyone could, and without his work Linux wouldn't be where it is now.

[@Tweaker420666]

the vim wars 😂 i can't 💀💀 Need a part 3 for this, maybe tape 3 or disk 3 lol. LIGNUX!

[@arduinoguru7233]

As someone uses Arch Linux BTW, I found this so hilarious.

[@estudiordl]

As someone who emulates Gentoo inside emacs, I agreed. 😏

[@arduinoguru7233]

@@estudiordl so emacs can load entire Linux kernel now?

[@simonk7463]

I love 3:13 so much, laughing every time I hear it. It's so on point :D Great video

[@johnmidwest5650]

"Don't laugh too hard, you'll fallback on DNS servers"

[@bitcoinmechanic]

vim/vim wars. I got the scars.

[@dsagman]

youtube literally recommended a richard stallman video after this. agi is here and laughing along with

[@Mr.Finkel]

im afraid if i subscribe to this channel i'll end up watching these videos too many times and i'll become numb to this comedic genius

[@icaromendes1250]

The beard and the belly give you +10 on linux skills and make you invulnerable to steam summer promotions (nothing works).

[@tokernizer]

This is my favorite character of yours, please keep it coming 🙂

[@str0680]

Richard Stallman said he never installed gnu/linux, he gets someone else to do it for him. Also recently after a talk he give, he was asked by an audience about wine, he replied by saying that he doesn't know what wine is.

[@str0680]

@Hoxton RMS is an unpleasant person to speak to, is out of touch sometimes, eats his dead foot skin, makes questionable remarks about pedophilia and necrophilia and much more. Yet, I still take very seriously the ideas he preaches related to free software; ideas stand or fall on their own, and his ideas, I believe, stand. It's becoming more obvious how important they are as we move towards the age of surveillance.

[@hochminus-iy7ro]

@@str0680 Thanks, fully agree. It hurts when there is made fun of a person which rightfully has warned and fought for privacy while the most people doesn't seem to care.

[@hazimdds]

Richard Stallman is actually harder to understand than this video.

[@fuckdyoud2734]

watching this man makes me realize why programmers keep making new languages and shit and confusing everyone. i love this guy

[@michaelraasch5496]

GNU developers communicate via TCP

[@haha-hk9tx]

no encryption? no paranoia?????????????????????????????????

[@Finkelfunk]

@@haha-hk9tx No, because everything they say is FOSC (free open source conversation)

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@Finkelfunk The LKML is open for everyone to read. They still don't send passwords in plaintext.

[@daniellittlewood8471]

The dig at outsider art is made even better by releasing the video as CC-BY.

[@OliverUnderTheMoon]

1:08 I lol'd The /Diet/ _Pepsi_ is such a nice touch haha.

[@dean-543]

“…I can view them and modify them to my needs…they don’t work very well…”. Yep, I concur.

[@jack_the_stripper]

As a Linux user myself, this is quite accurate for users who didn't turn their hobby into full time office job. As someone who did, I had to start taking shower and changing clothes and now I even date women instead of arguing about "Debian vs CentOS"

[@YuriG03042]

some words are missing from the first half of your text

[@hrvstmn31]

@@YuriG03042 Keyboard driver probs broke.

[@jordanbell4736]

Partially. However this is specifically parodying RMS. There is about 0% chance of you having stronger development skills than he does.

[@redacted6162]

This was literally the best video i watched in a while...

[@fanplant]

Royal RMS was at my uncle's memorial. You got it spot on dude!

[@a64738]

My experience with linux is that there is ALWAYS something that do not work and need fixing, and when you solve that problem a new one comes to take its place and so it goes forever...

[@NATIK001]

Which leads to why people who fall far enough down the rabbit hole end up making their own distro. Things tend to always be broken because whatever version you run, it was made by someone who left certain things out or put certain things in based on what they felt was necessary. It is sadly almost never what you think is necessary. At some point you realize it's just easier to start from the bottom and build something that works for you, than to try and adapt someone elses mess. I've dabbled in Linux since 2002 or so, and I've heard the "oh Linux is getting more user friendly, and will attract more people soon" spiel ever since then, but never bought into it. Every new "user friendly" distro only makes the problem worse, they add more bloatware, more ways to do the same things and more confusion for anyone trying to get anything that isn't bundled with the distro to work.

[@raz0229]

As a veteran of x Wayland war, systemd init war, flatpak snap war, windows compatibility open-source software war, functional procedural war, arch debian war, I can confirm the events depicted in this video are based on reality

[@davidwuhrer6704]

I use vim, BTW.

[@JohnDavidDunlap]

Flatpak vs snap is mutually assured destruction. Appimage is the only way.

[@kiasta1]

I went to a Linux get together (I don't exactly remember what it was for) probably 15 years ago. The people that were there are exactly what you would expect people to look like that would go to these get togethers. A lot of very intelligent people. But very little social skills. It was awkward.

[@the_01_guy]

my favorite portion : "let me just zshell, grep, cap, snap, aaanh!" and "so looooong" 🤣🤣🤣

[@Bunty793]

Love your content man🔥😂❤️

[@nathanielacton3768]

I wanted my media server to run on the smallest possible CPU footprint so it would be passively cooled. It was on an 800mhz C3 proc. So I downloaded gentoo, bootstrapped, compiled with the CPU specific flags and man that thing worked out great.... except for when I had to recompile due to the enormous dependency trees. Yeah, sorry kids, no Wiggles until march. Dad's recompiling the whole OS. Eventually I just stopped updating until the packages were so out of date I had to edit the C++ manually. Yeahh... up your Microsoft. Free software! 15 years later... [Written from windows 10]

[@MikeLevin]

I was skeptical and feeling superior at first but you won me over! Hahaha

[@matthewfountain2721]

I love how the title uses "Partition 1" and not "Part 1" like other videos.

[@WalkerLeite]

I am personally offended by not seeing NixOS being mentioned in this video

[@snipzmattio5887]

A fully functioning systemd OS

[@colbyboucher6391]

"Linux has multiple sound systems, each tries to fix the problems of the previous one" pain

[@danielbrunk9121]

This is too good That creativity. U got me at the first second haha

[@dreastonbikrain1896]

I am crying right now 😂 great video so true. Story time: ----------------- I used Linux in the past for years with i3 and with standard Ubuntu. I riced the hell out of it and it was very pleasant to use. But only in isolation, if you want to play games it is just a waste of time so I was always dual booting. After a while, unfortunately not soon enough, I realised that the whole thing was just a big hobby that eat up a lot of time rather than it being useful. But I had stuff to do, university assignments, other hobbies, and when your OS breaks and it takes even just 10min to fix it, it is already a failure. Put that together with the fact that in most software companies you are required to work under Windows, I started relying more and more on my dual boot i.e. Windows. After I bought a new machine, I didn't even bother putting Linux on it. Windows is a giant mess, not really customizable, you don't really have full control, kinda. But it is still better than having as a full time job the management of the OS on your computer.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

Talks of ricing Ubuntu. Use Gentoo before you talk about ricing or spending time to customise your computer as a hobby. Ubuntu doesn't even make it easy to customise your package dependencies. You install it, it runs, end of story. You'd spend more time setting up a Windows machine. Out of the box, Windows doesn't even recognise any printers. Not to mention the two days of running the installer where Ubuntu only takes half an hour and has an office suite, photo editing, programming environment, and on-line manual pre-installed. With WINE you can even run Windows apps that Windows doesn't run anymore. And faster than Windows would on the same hardware.

[@lycanthoss]

Yeah, I recently tried running Ubuntu on the laptop I use for university and honestly it was just a pain. Eventually Linux will be better than Windows (hopefully), but as it is right now, I have no reason to use Linux over Windows. Windows 11 doesn't crash, it boots fast (and it would probably boot faster on Linux, but do I care about a few seconds? No) and everything just works. Also no way am I switching to Linux when running an Nvidia GPU.

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@lycanthoss Eventually was seven years ago.

[@lycanthoss]

@@davidwuhrer6704 not for most people

[@davidwuhrer6704]

@@lycanthoss I had to use Windows on a university laptop that has originally Ubuntu on it, for a project. That was in 2007. The irony was that the Windows-specific tools required tools and toolchains ported to Windows from Linux (via Cygnus) So I had to use software written for Linux in Windows on a laptop that had a Linux on it. It was painful. Everything made assumptions about the underlying system that were not always correct. And Windows was many times slower doing the same things as Linux. I was glad when I could switch back to the much easier to use Linux. Only recently did I have to use Windows again, for work, to ensure software compatibility. It is still many times slower to respond, it is still clunky to use, and everything still makes assumptions that are not always correct, and this time it's the Windows tools themselves that do that. Windows just gets in the way of work. Linux is a breeze to work with.

[@jackkraken3888]

I can't believe you got Stallman in this video!

[@mikeall7012]

I have no idea what this guy is talking about but I love every minute of it.

[@yusufsalk1136]

This is insanely accurate.

[@andrejbartulin]

For those who don't understand GNU/Linux community: GNU/Linux isn't just old pc with tty on it. It can be full operating system with mouse (if you are noob)

[@luxraider5384]

For those who don t know gnu linux fortnite and genshin are on of the few umplayable games on linux (fcking anticheat)

[@andrejbartulin]

@@luxraider5384 Valorant too because of anticheat but mostly I play games available on GNU/Linux

[@4m4n40]

@@luxraider5384 Don’t forget to mention their KERNEL level Anticheat doesn’t even work and it’s more effective as a Ransomware driver.

[@archusrtm6325]

@@andrejbartulin Even if Valorant ever got GNU/Linux support I refuse to play it because of its sketchy anti-cheat

[@sheeplord4976]

@@luxraider5384 I don't see the issue here

[@leeterthanyou]

I've been around since the 2.2 days - dude hits every nail on the head.

[@user-zc2vf2qe9y]

😂😂😂... You are amazing... I would love to see a parody of Theo de Raadt... founder and leader of OpenBSD and OpenSSH projects

[@mercster]

"People say Ubuntu is for beginners, because they want to feel superior. I also say Ubuntu is for beginners, because I also want to feel superior!" So true. I've been using Linux for around 30 years, and I find it hilarious how all the "cool Linux kids" (aka, hobbyists) look down their nose at Ubuntu. They run other distros with obvious downsides, but they do it because a) they want to feel superior (and tell everyone about it in the process), and b) don't really do anything serious with it.

[@carlwilde635]

Yep “I use , you’ve probably never heard of it” - gotta be hipster I guess; I use Ubuntu.

[@mehmeh1999]

Just use Debian like a normal person.

[@VacumOvale]

​@@mehmeh1999 To use debian after ubuntu is like using ubuntu after windows. For nerds, its fine, but new users cant do shit with debian.

[@kalelalves]

I cracked when he went to hide xubuntu's splash screen hahaha

[@AntonSlavik]

Genius. Went long for about a minute, but perfect

[@georgevidovich8881]

Haha so accurate man, former arch user here. I would like to come back to GNU/Linux user one day.

[@Yggdra666]

"At this point GNU and Linux are just small parts of the systemd operating system" Too true to be nice. This is why I am making this post from my new daily driver - TempleOS