Linus Torvalds On Future Of Desktop Linux

[@Rand0madness]

Everyone who interviews Linus: "...so all knowing Linux man, tell me, what is the meaning of life?" Linus: "I literally just do kernels."

[@sternbach-software]

I laughed so hard reading this! They are just people! To some people they are friends, classmates, siblings. Watching interviews for me has made these people into real people, not celebrity deities. Your comment encapsulates that very well.

[@aubreydigital]

Linus actually reveals the meaning of life in his book

[@adavidmezei]

@@aubreydigital 101010?

[@mds123mds123]

Open Source interview: someone passing by looked at the talk and gave a contribution.

[@t94xr]

he should have been interviewed by someone who's far more knowledgable than him... This is a trainwreck.

[@RajarshiBandopadhyay]

You mean made a Pull Request.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

Futurelessness.

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

Diversity is important? Got something against a hive of bees?

[@remasteredretropcgames3312]

Part of it is genetics. We just assume evolution stops at the dermal representation. The truth is we all run on calories and allocate them toward different lobe specializations. Why do you think women invented almost nothing throughout all of human history?

[@netwalker-1]

When Linus smiles, looks like he is about to smash your face

[@jasonfanclub4267]

Hahahaha

[@qwerty-jl5zo]

hahahaha, it's really so))

[@КонстантинМанцуров-к3э]

As far as i know his wife is quite a specialist in smashing faces. So he can delegate it to her

[@LoganT547]

@@pedrogonzalez5590 Thanks for contributing absolutely nothing to the discussion whatsoever.

[@punnu5997]

very true. after this interview he jumped on the host and gave him a taste of his pent up frustration from last 2 weeks.

[@Christobanistan]

The thing I love about Linus is how realistic and down to Earth he is. You don't see him pushing a particular license. You won't see him obsessing over standards. You will see him trying to get open source software adopted widely no matter the form, and you will see him pushing unity instead of distro madness.

[@vercolit]

@James Warden Jr. imo, Microsoft can't kill linux, linux is extremely widespread for anything that is not desktop. Even Microsoft uses linux everywhere because it's significantly better for many tasks

[@TheBinaryHappiness]

@James Warden Jr. you must a microsoft shareholder lmao. in any case your predictions are way off, microsoft can't do anything to an international army of nerds with burning passion

[@dee23gaming]

@James Warden Jr. Without Linux, there is no modern computing at the base level. Linux runs in your cars, your washing machines, microwaves, inverters, etc. It's like the Java programming language - it's everywhere

[@lucemiserlohn]

@@anukranan That is your opinion. I find systemd much more usable than System V init scripts; you may not like Poettering, and for good reason, but the fact is that systemd is better than the haters make it out to be. My only concern with it is that it tries to do everything and does not adhere to some principles I hold dear, but I can see why they chose to do it this way. I would have liked systemd to be a bit more streamlined and split up into a number of tools each doing one thing rather than the monolith it is, but it works, and it is much simpler than what we had before. One day, a replacement will come along that adhere to the Unix philosophy more, and then that will replace systemd, but until then, it is a fine and working solution. Regarding Linus's views on userspace, I don't care that much. He does the Kernel, and he's good at that, and anything else is really not to be taken more seriously than any other Linux user's input on this and that. Just because he started the thing doesn't mean he has an informed opinion on everything, or knows the best way to solve other people's problems.

[@lucemiserlohn]

@@dee23gaming And Java should be eradicated. Not because it's slow (it is), not because it is bad taste and bad design (it is), but because of ORACLE and they way those guys inhale open projects and open technologies and close them down and pervert them into a weapon against the very ideals open projects rely on. In this way, Oracle is the ultimate evil. These guys are worse than Microsoft would have ever dreamed to be in their worst days. I would put them at the number 1 spot of evil companies out there, well before meta/facebook, alphabet/google or amazon or whoever else may come to mind.

[@Selbstdenkender]

Mr. Torvalds, thank you Sir for your hard work and huge impact in inspiring and educating people all over the world.

[@Ψευδάνωρ]

you know Torvalds is never going to see this comment

[@peggyolson8643]

@@Ψευδάνωρ you must be a blast at the parties.

[@Ψευδάνωρ]

@@peggyolson8643 somehow everyone tells me this same thing but yet no one actually invites me to any parties :(

[@micosstar]

@@Ψευδάνωρ Your face explains it.

[@rizalijal2933]

@@Ψευδάνωρ 😎😭😎😭😭

[@surjagain]

Always a pleasure to hear the Boss talk :)

[@YoungGrizzly]

Yeah he's that uncle that doesn't care about your feelings but you know he has your back.

[@curiosidadesdalife381]

@@YoungGrizzly lmao

[@hzum2724]

@@YoungGrizzly Lmfuckingao

[@DMBoyCloud]

Didn't see Stallman.

[@MarciSudlow]

He's The Man.

[@philipquaglino]

this man is woefully under appreciated for what he has given to the world. People have no idea the hell the internet and most OS's would be without him.

[@Thatsit36]

@@Muffin_Stuffin Yeah only >95% of all servers are powered by Linux, but sure I guess he has "nothing to do with the internet". Okay dude.

[@Thatsit36]

@@jetison333 I think you missed that I was responding to a now deleted comment lol. See I'm responding to "Fed Up" and not Phillip?

[@jetison333]

@@Thatsit36 oop yeah your right

[@exampleofasmileyface9433]

@@Thatsit36 what did the deleted comment say?

[@Thatsit36]

@@exampleofasmileyface9433 That Linus had nothing to do with IP/TCP so had nothing to do with the internet.

[@MB-oi2em]

Thank You Linus!! I've been happily using Linux for many many years... Slackware was the first distribution I tried back in the early 90's... I was totally blown away by how stable the Linux systems were compared to the mainstream OS's of the day. The selfless contribution you gave the world is so much more profound than most people know...

[@MB-oi2em]

@Sentient.Observer My wife has a Mac. I was talking about how stable Linux was back in 90's... Nothing Microsoft or Apple had back then could touch it... I had Linux servers where I worked where the uptime was measured in months, some even years.... as far as the tinkering.... that's true, the Mac OS (which is really a BSD fork) was designed and developed to sell to the masses, that'd be "people who know nothing about computers". Linux was designed for freedom and liberty. Oh and "actual software" like photoshop? Have you tried GIMP? www.gimp.org/

[@ChrisHillASMR]

Stable compared to 3.1 windows

[@spht9ng]

greybeard alert. lol jk i can't even imagine dealing with the install process for 90s Linux. It makes Arch look like child's play.

[@Lucassymons]

That was a really awesome just chilled out chat. Thanks everyone for their time and putting it online.

[@fh404]

tbh I found most of the questions kinda boring but that probably also made it as chill haha

[@dryster123]

I like the way Linus can dismiss an entire line of computers with the word "calendar"

[@mrlawilliamsukwarmachine4904]

LOL, yes! I clocked that, too.

[@antoniostorcke]

I am glad that Linus Torvalds has mentioned Flatpak. It is time for the Linux community to standardize desktop software installation packages. RPM , DEB, SNAP, etc should be reserved for non-desktop apps and system updates.

[@Calslock]

To be honest snap should be thrown into abyss of oblivion, flatpak is already de facto standard and does everything snap does but better. The only reason snap exists is because Canonical wants its own solution, I don't believe it's used in any other distro than Ubuntu, heck, even Ubuntu derivatives are getting rid of snap. I don't mind having rpm/deb/pacman, but AUR could be successfully replaced with flatpak repos.

[@duneode]

This interview was really great, loved how easy the interviewer made it to talk openly and without confusion.

[@iamwhatiam1221]

03:15 he uses chromebook for calenders....lol savage....look at his smile that time...damnn...:D

[@jaykstah]

@Marcos you didnt listen to the video then. he clearly says he could see himself using a chromebook a few years in the future once there's better support for deb packages. he also says that he sees ChromeOS as a potential standard for Linux desktop use once deb packages are better supported on there too

[@jaykstah]

@Jessica Jones Idk. Im not saying i would, cause i wouldnt. Im just saying that in the video Linus said he would be willing to use one in the future.

[@swafit]

@Jessica Jones why not use it? You can run chrome app, android app, Linux app, the only reason I don't use mine is because of the non standard keyboard, so it's a pain for programming but for an average user who just do web stuff and just want something that work. It's great.

[@Arcticpagan]

Old Lenovo thinkpads and vanilla arch is the future 😎 btw i use arch.

[@Niels_f2704]

Imagine the potential Chrome OS could have. The problem is that they locked it down but they keep on updating it and things might change. I’d prefered it over Windows 10 because it’s more stable and secure. You can even run Android apps on Chrome OS wich changes the game. Anyway Microsoft annaunced there won’t be a new version of Windows after Windows 10 so I could see Google being able to take the change to bring it on the market for people to download and use since it’s user friendly and simple.

[@gloatsticks]

Dude what a blessing, you are talking with Linus Torvalds himself, than another Kernel super-star comes and just plops himself down. Massive Kudos, what a time and place to have an interview, thank you for posting this! P.S. I agree, you could almost let them just sit and talk like they're at work :D so cool.

[@berkc5323]

he is so efficient that he barely opens his mouth while speaking.

[@libremercadoencrisiseconom2118]

u got a strong point

[@c1sc0m]

This was one of the best interviews of Linus I've seen so far. The sound "issue" you said, in my opinion didn't tainted the interview. Actually the fact that Greg joined was great and you guys managed it nicely. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for this interesting and amusing interview.

[@eternal864]

I have also started to watch some of the Linus' interviews/talks in the past couple of days and I have to say you're absolutely right. I haven't seen any of Greg's interviews before this one, and I wasn't particularly looking for one with him involved; But surprisingly I ended up liking this interview the most among the ones I've watched so far! It felt very organic. Good job.

[@Jmvars]

taint* "tainted" becomes double past tense. "didn't" is already past tense, making "tainted" redundant.

[@cultofape1000]

Linus comes across as a very pragmatic, levelheaded individual. Refreshing. Open source has too many fanatic zealots.

[@khwaac]

Open source... Free software is where it's at, but free hardware is a big issue at the moment.

[@mononix5224]

@Petr Ensinger free as in freedom. It's quite obvious that (s)he's referring to libre hardware.

[@rockdie9522]

Petr Ensinger OMG dude you’re moron. Free libre hardware, not materials for hw. You should leave any community because you are a rude newbie rat

[@digiryde]

@@rockdie9522 lmao - He has a blank account. Go figure.

[@digiryde]

@Petr Ensinger It is merely that you seem to be unclear and fighting what is a very common definition around the world. Free as in free beer vs free as in unfettered access to the source. They are not the same. Free access to hardware designs is not the same thing as paying nothing for the hardware. When people tried to explain it, you doubled down on your ignorance. So yeah, blank account reflecting a complete lack of anything to be remembered and/or shared accompanied by you arguing on a subject matter of which you demonstrated that you know nothing. Otherwise known as irony.

[@jrc6547]

It always blows my mind how in high school I heard about this new thing called Linux and now the world operates on it. Thank you Linus!

[@Tol1as]

It's nuts that at one point 99% of pc's were using windows and then 20 years later linux has pretty much reached 2 billion devices just through android.

[@STONE69_]

Linux is not that new, the first Kernal went out in 1991 00.1, Linus studied the Unix code and then eventually, came up with Linux. Unix has been around since before the 1970s and even before that UNIX was called Unics.

[@STONE69_]

@@Tol1as Linux is on close to 250 million Desktops, PCs, over 3 billion phones, over 80% of Stock Market exchanges and Cloud Systems, Servers etc etc. Linux makes MS look small.

[@jrc6547]

@@STONE69_ It was still very new in 1998 when I first worked with it in high school.

[@STONE69_]

@@jrc6547 well 7 years later is still the early days of Linux, your right.

[@snowy8926]

I’d love to have his hair when I get older.

[@levishalom1303]

its a toupe

[@RonvanMiddendorp]

Ask him if you can buy it...

[@BlindRambler]

Ikr

[@user-ze7tl2dw4i]

appreciate your adaptability in the video by giving greg the mic. I think you're doing an awesome job!! :)

[@oneextrabit]

It seems like Linus is a pretty nice guy, who just takes his work very seriously, once again the media portrait has nothing to do with reality.

[@oneextrabit]

@@ExplorerWebDev its just he is often deacribed as a very mean person. Even the interviewer had some questions asking about that

[@SahWar]

@@oneextrabit We love him the way he is, a practical Finnish man with excellent English! 👍

[@contingenceBoston]

S W -- Well, he knows that he's not very good with people. He's talked about it pretty extensively. Probably grew up in a loveless household and just learned how to use his brain more than his heart. He's a goofy dude. I admire him for not completely caving to corporate interests.

[@autohmae]

@@contingenceBoston "Probably grew up in a loveless household" I think I've heard him say the opposite.

[@contingenceBoston]

@@autohmae -- I haven't. Though I have heard him explain that his upbringing led him to not respect somebody until they have earned his trust.

[@c.rutherford]

Torvalds is great, I got my start years ago working jobs with UNIX and am 100% behind Linux...... he helped bust the horrendous Windows desktop monopoly. The world is better for it lol

[@esra_erimez]

By the way, I use Arch.

[@yuutaw]

Arch YES

[@kresimircosic9035]

I use Gentoo. Know your place trash.

[@jacktaylor1516]

Lol...this is too funny but I don’t think some people get it

[@jphanson]

Krešimir Ćosić LFS mustard race checking in. Kneel before your masters.

[@zigginzag584]

black arch or you're noob

[@postfixnotation9829]

Great Interview. Thanks a lot!

[@ginolinux9721]

I love u Linus

[@PauloConstantino167]

I Linus you Love

[@justinbailey2419]

Me too! Never change! You are the real deal ❤️

[@damienhenriquez9754]

Let's go champ!

[@rpb7003]

Same. Linus has never changed. Went back and watched his talks at Debconf and such. It was amusing to see people come up to the mic and bawwww about Linus being mean sometimes. Dude has been that way since '91, dude got started in flamewars about MINIX ffs. I'm just glad he hasn't changed, is still honest, and will still tell someone their code sucks and they should be ashamed.

[@Metal-Possum]

@@rpb7003 He's Finnish, they get a bit stabby sometimes.

[@hudsonreis81]

Congratulations! Excellent Interview! To See Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman talking together and in a sincere and honest manner shows how professional and committed they are with the Community and with Kernel development. Not only them but all people and organizations involved

[@vignesh5618]

Inspiration during my childhood was Bill gates and nowadays its Linus torvalds

[@heater5979]

I can't imagine how Bill Gates's became a child hood hero. The guy who closed down all the software we were playing with.

[@drenek1]

So if you hadn't known Linus Torvalds, you would have been a psychopath...

[@DimitriSabadie]

Look how luck you got. You could have never been told about Linus and ended up drug addict or murderer.

[@milkboysg4595]

bill gates contribute more to humanity than linus.I am still a fan to both.

[@vignesh5618]

@@milkboysg4595 I agree

[@honestperson3713]

With all the people have many complaints, concerns about him, but when a person with his passion for technology changes the world, make millions of lives improved with his contribution to the community, you gotta respect him and ignore his negative things. Instead, get motivated by his work and should try to do such contributions to the world! Heartiest respect!! Only the work matters!!

[@masmullin]

What a score for the interviewer! Gets a sit down with Linus, and then gregKH shows up.

[@aliakbaramirkhani3265]

good to see Mr. Linus on Interviews :D good talk

[@emdadgar_official]

salam bar to irani ... :) 300 min o devopsi azat mirize ostad

[@billbaker2651]

Great wide-ranging interview with both Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman, but I think community is the main subject. * ChromeOS as the future of desktop * Community, community, community * Merge windows, vacation, and sanity * Diversity of cultures and management styles * Maintainership models -- people, cooperation, and competition * "I don't actually follow that" Some quotes * "Most projects fail ... Good, go off, and show us wrong!" * "Yeah that's great, but you've got to this so that it works for everybody. ... We can't merge the code back." * "They won ... it took a year and a half [to merge back]. It's not worth doing ahead of time."

[@ADeeSHUPA]

あっぷ

[@JACloudy]

"Respect is earned, not given." Linus Torvalds, 2014.

[@VauxhallViva1975]

George Carlin(RIP) also said the same thing. :)

[@benjiwon]

he'd better copyright that before someone steals it...

[@anartificialme]

man, hollywood have to start thinking to make a film about this guy, and Mr Stallman too...

[@cqwickedwake7651]

Worked with Torvalds few times, cool guy tbh

[@Muck-qy2oo]

I just came to the conclusion that Linux is the only operating system - kernel - which has no history of treason and dirty affairs. It is made fairtrade.

[@SahWar]

Except for the remaining binary blobs in the kernel (like in drivers), you are absolutely right! I love Linux but I also use Windows7 for gaming.

[@johnbamber7374]

@@SahWar, if you happen to mainly use Steam, have you tried using Proton in Steam on Linux?

[@SahWar]

@@johnbamber7374, Valve Proton for SteamOS Linux seems nice, it seems like a GUI for Wine/PlayOnLinux/CrossOver, so it's nice to have! Also check out the Debian Games archive and WineHQ! I love Linux & Torvalds and I highly respect RMS and other F(L)OSS trailblazers! I just use the soon-outfazed Windows7 because I like its file-manager GUI and it has most of my favorite (mostly F(L)OSS) killer apps for daily use. Better update your Windows7 before January 13/14, 2020, ahaha, because no more updates from Microsoft... 🤣

[@johnbamber7374]

@@SahWar, you can actually use Proton on any Distro as long as you use Steam. There's a toggle in the settings.

[@SahWar]

@@johnbamber7374 Woah, thanks for the tip! 👍

[@jaggis4914]

Thank you Linus, for Linux and git!

[@fooferbob9230]

Does anyone else get the feeling that he is waiting for someone to make their own damn OS and leave him alone for a while?

[@fubaralakbar6800]

Not at all. Linus created Linux in order to share it with the world. I would think the more prevalent it is, the happier he will be.

[@MikaelMurstam]

He also created it to be the LAST OS you need to create since you can modify it exactly as you please. He made it so you don't have to start from scratch every time. That's why most new OSes are just modifications of Linux.

[@SpellsOfTruth]

Terry Davis created a completely unique kernel completely different than windows nt or unix linux and unix macOS. He built a divine intellect simple kernel. TempleOS is a x86_64, multi-cored, non-preemptive multi-tasking, ring-0-only, single-address_mapped (identity-mapped), operating system for recreational programming. TempleOS is the only operating system that cares about the user developer, and also lets you talk to God. Its the only way to halt the modern computing from degenerating into corrupt evil artificial intelligence control of humanity.

[@niciusb]

@@SpellsOfTruth RIP Terry

[@jphanson]

Spells Of Truth Bruh moment

[@vegardertilbake1]

Love the questions from the interviewer. Makes for a great conversation

[@OcteractSG]

The takeaway from the short Linux desktop bit really was just that the desktop space is very fragmented. That is indeed a big problem. In many distros, it's like how Windows has both the Control Panel and Settings app, but taken up a couple of notches. And that's just in a single distro! Linus discussed how the distros differ from each other, which is also a huge problem. It makes developing apps for the "Linux platform" impractical because there is no unified platform.

[@WyvernDotRed]

The hardware workarounds are definitely appreciated! -A Ryzen 2500u user.

[@DaSnipy]

Great Living Legend. Respect. Nice cool interviewer too :)

[@AubertsKüche]

Mr. Linus Torvalds, nice to meet you. thank you for supporting Linux developers and users for always

[@nazgullinux6601]

The fact that I can run just The bare kernel and my own init scripts and have less than 100mb in system memory at idle makes Linux the defect standard for me.

[@jeschinstad]

If the goal is to have a small footprint kernel, maybe try not including everything you don't need?

[@MurangShaBu_MahalNaBiGas]

I've been a Linux fan and now I'm building my career because of Linux, and for that I'm forever grateful to you Linus and the contributors of Linux kernel.

[@shikomatlala]

Nice Interview - very close and perfect

[@dertom1895]

I could listen to Linus for hours and days. 👍

[@ihspan6892]

Is it just me or you also feel that he is not in the best shape? I hope he still has many decades of productive life. Take care Linus!

[@SupBro31]

Jetlag?

[@MnemonicCarrier]

Linux Torvalds, being interviewed by a Mac/iOS lover. Priceless.

[@thedude4795]

swapnil a mac lover? never heard of this. he wrights loads of linux tutorials and articles, highly doubt he's a mac person.

[@grandetaco4416]

for a lack of microphone like this a suggestion would be to use an smart phone as an extra mic and edit the audio back in. Not fun, but could solve the issue, especially if lip sync is not a problem.

[@Rohinthas]

Hey man, this was a VERY nice interview!

[@lveronese]

"the discussion was more important than my voice"... legend

[@Lampe2020]

13:59 "Most of [the explosive emails] are justified?" "Well I think so!" I think I'd have responded exactly the same, I myself also only rarely think after I exploded on somebody that it might have been a little overkill, but like Linus I often forget about these topics fairly quickly as they're just temporary things.

[@tractor483]

Windows 10 pushed me to switch to Linux desktop on all of my PCs (including laptops) some years ago, and gaming turned out to be the only reason to have Win10 on the hard drive (as a dual boot option). Now that gaming on Linux is getting an increasing amount of attention, I'm actually so optimistic about the future of Linux desktop that I'd almost be concerned whether Microsoft will find a way to keep the Windows around, which might be good for competition. Chromebooks could become the de facto desktop for "dumb/simple" users or use cases, but personally I don't see any use for Chrome OS, because getting rid of the moneymaking bs and the "user is dumb" philosophy was the primary reason to switch to Linux desktop in the first place. I would really like to switch from Android to a pure Linux mobile too.

[@marianarlt]

I would've liked to see a better prepared interviewer with more in depth questions. His presentation is way too improvised "it's like, you know, umm..." and yet Linus is trying to make something out of it. Probably enjoying the chit chat.

[@SeanSMST]

Part of me thinks though that it's less that he's improvising but simply language. A good interviewer will have bullet points and questions prepared in advance, but also be able to adapt to what the interview is going like, so improvisation is key. Even with all of that, the guy's accent is pretty strong and I wouldn't be surprised if he's just trying to figure out how to say what he wants to say. Who knows really how fluent he is, but I do think Linus had the same assumption as I and gave him a bit more leeway with it.

[@cun_0092]

If I was there I would really asked this particular question. "What happens if C is going to be retired just like COBOL then how will Linux kernel change ?? Will it be able to adapt to new programming language which might replace C? Will the transition be rough ?"

[@eljuano28]

C isn't going anywhere. Even C+ is probably going to be fine for many decades. C#, well who knows. The difference is in their purpose, so for all intents and purposes, MicroSloth has the ultimate say in C#'s future, but C is such a low level language that has no dependency on os or vendor production track, but I don't see C# becoming irrelevant soon anyway. COBOL died because architecture changed. The language couldn't be adapted, nor was it necessary for it to survive. As ARM begins to catch up to x86, C has remained perfectly relevant, valuable and adaptable. It's as close to perpetual as we get in computers. Even quantum computing's bizarre needs can be addressed by C so far and it's unreasonable to believe Q-ing is going to be useful outside of academia and government for the foreseeable future. My opinion.

[@DFPercush]

There have been talks about using Rust in certain places in the kernel. It's the most likely candidate, given its focus on memory safety and being a compiled systems level language, but I don't think anything will ever completely replace C. You can make a C compiler for just about anything, but I don't think every embedded manufacturer wants to port LLVM to target their chip for Rust.

[@Lambda_Ovine]

I think C transcended from language to standard so I don't really see it retired, at least not in my life time. And I don't only say that because it's Turing complete and so it can do anything any other modern language can (we could really only be using C for everything if we really wanted). Now, and specially in the future, you'll probably never see it being used in the development of modern applications but for data structure design as the priority there's really nothing better. It's the perfect bridge between low level memory control and abstract enough to not require as much labor as using pure ASSEMBLY. It's syntax is synonym to "code," it's simple, it's powerful, it's fast, it is the standard for what a programming language should be, everything on top of that is convenience, and that's important too. No matter the silicon or platform, compilers for C always show up.

[@lukasaa1079]

Awesome interview. Your questions got great reactions.

[@masonwilcox7055]

Thanks for the great interview

[@mahadevisutar1436]

Thank you Linus. From India ☺

[@Avelx]

Open source is benefiting proprietary software and doesn't ultimately respect the freedoms of users which was the whole point of FOSS. I can see more and more Richard Stallman was 100% correct. When open source is compatible it doesn't make sense to benefit a large corporation who never cared anyway.

[@tontsar91]

This man is more influential than many realize.

[@ChrisHillASMR]

The anti bill gates

[@jongxina3595]

The average person may not embrace Linux any time soon, but the tech community does 👍

[@maravind84]

What watch is Linus wearing? Looks like a quartz one, not an automatic.

[@chris-hayes]

I love how "flame war" is no longer a niche term.

[@phylwx]

"Ashamed of being in the USA" XD 15:03 BEST LINUS QUOTE IN DECADES!!!! OMG im dead.

[@dexterman6361]

What's the convo at 14:50?

[@davidreynolds9649]

This too will pass .....

[@bobweiram6321]

You can tell the host was born to compute when his namesake is a CPU instruction: Swap nil, bh[artiya]

[@talks2elk]

Great interview.

[@bicycleninja1685]

I have a Lubuntu/LXDE laptop for web site work. It has Chrome, Firefox, Steam, and Lightworks. For media creation, I use a Windows 10 build, with Adobe CC, Cakewalk, Steam, Unity. If a suite like Adobe CC was created for Linux, I'd consider doing a full switch.

[@potatoes8169]

linux is a kernel. gnu is the os..

[@Ivy21683]

​@@potatoes8169☝️🤓

[@godnyx117]

WE LOVE YOU LINUS!!!!! Thanks to you I can proudly say, I use Arch btw!!!!!!

[@TorBruheim]

Well, I do not think he will love yo back according to his own statement: "I am not a hugger" 🤣😅

[@mikaeil3327]

WE LOVE YOU BILL GATES!!!!! Thanks to you I can proudly say, I use Windows10 btw!!!!!!

[@libertyintech]

24:30 What outreach program do they participate in?

[@Alexithymiander]

19:50 Greg Kroah-Hartman suddenly shows up :) Amazing.

[@electrobreach3251]

9:00 - 10:17 Linus Torvalds: let's faced we all are screwed! privacy it's a myth you sold your soul to the Devil. We have to create our own cloud and private storage system. Google it's cool in some aspect but we all screwed.

[@herrfriberger5]

Or we just store our sensitive data on ordinary SSDs or disks? Who needs "clouds"?

[@arnoldvilleneuve8397]

I agree with everything Linus states about why the Linux Desktop has not achieved the status it should. Like it or not, the binary model for application delivery in Windows works for Users, as Linus calls them. He is right and people should listen, especially developers. The financial potential of displaying Windows Desktop OS is huge.

[@minilab9030]

5:06 "I would actually not mind having a Chromebook" (translation - Chromebooks cannot accurately be defined as 'completely' useless....lol)

[@photonboy999]

CHROMEBOOKS are heavily used in education.

[@minilab9030]

@@@photonboy999 - Teachers are heavily used in education as well. Both are essentially useless save as comparators, by which they unwittingly iterate that which is not useless. When formal education ends (when you escape the banal influence of teachers) real education begins (you learn voraciously about that which truly interests you). Teachers and Chromebooks are fellows well met. Good day

[@joshgordon7299]

Awesome work tfir

[@PRASAD54321prasad]

I understand. But please add in the subtitles and edit and amplify the audio where ever the audio is weak. I don't want to miss out the clarity in the questions and the answers. So, please edit the audio and add subtitles to the portions, if possible. Thank you.

[@sivasurrey]

I write commercial software. I dont care about the development language as long as someone supports it. I dont want to open the car bonnet and look at the engine. Current software developers can write open source software but cluless in understanding the customer

[@etaashmathamsetty7399]

Wasn't this guy the same madman that slammed -Werror on the kernel

[@joryaock]

He said they make releases every two to three months. Where can I get that core release without having to have some flavored distribution?..

[@shater1164]

Mama mama where's muh penguin? All the best Mr. Linus Benedict Torvalds.

[@xybersurfer]

is this a re-upload? i saw this video last year or earlier

[@gaston-alegre-stotzer]

"The interview was recorded last year at the Open Source Summit." right there in the description

[@xybersurfer]

@@gaston-alegre-stotzer oh, thanks. i should have read that

[@peter_castle]

16:50 Linus "Very working code flow" Torvalds

[@georgegates526]

I can't prove it but I don't think UEFI will not let you play "Live Linux' disks because it has to "approve the software" before it will install it. I had to use a regular version of Linux before my computer acknowledged my DVD player. And UEFI rejected "Other OS. I had to put it on Windows just to get the operating system on.

[@kirillsayed7697]

Thank you for Git

[@ajit555]

Happy with Pop!_OS.

[@nwrkbiz]

Well moderated interview. Thank you.

[@jeffg4686]

Community needs to get behind Redox OS as Rust is a safe and very efficient language, and kernel is microkernel.

[@DaryxFox]

What is he talking about with the "secrecy" surrounding hardware bugs? Are the kernel developers keeping something from the public? If so, I may consider switching to Hurd sooner...

[@LinusBerglund]

They are required by HW vendors to not disclose anything to the public due to the risk of these things being exploited before there are mitigations. This is done for the safety of everyone. Releasing info about these things before there are mitigations in place would not only be a risk to a lot of people, but also stop the vendors from contacting you with info about certain sensitive vulnerabilities. The HURD people probably weren't notified about spectre or meltdown before the general public, so using that would have left you vulnerable. Say what you like about that practice, but that is how the industry works.

hardware bugs = processor bugs mostly, or micro systems in some hardware

[@andmicbro1]

The sound in this video is all over the place. For the first half is was desynced, then it was nonexistant.

[@mjgear]

Linux IS the best Operating System hands down, thank you Mr. Torvalds!!

[@koshoyikaya6173]

currently having this in the background for skool

[@naskue4187]

He does speak the truth about fragmentation

[@oskar20086]

Great Linus, thanks

[@croozerdog]

i can really see why linus doesn't really care for their personal privacy. i'm quite obsessed with it and love linux for the stuff it gives me to feel safe. my data is legal now, but i can't guarantee that for every future government and organization that has access to it. it's also why i find privacy and data destruction laws very important

[@Nano_Boy_Basheer]

Interviewer was lucky.... I too want a chance to meet this great personality

[@thegardenofeatin5965]

Sorry, right there in the beginning, what development in the open source Linux kernel needed to be done in secret?

[@MichaelPohoreski]

The Garden of Eatin Intel hardware bugs

[@igorordecha]

@@MichaelPohoreski you spelled backdoors wrong

[@MichaelPohoreski]

@@igorordecha Touché! =P

[@treyquattro]

completely agree about the desktop. There needs to be a Linus or a Steve Jobs that takes over the desktop and produces a killer version that becomes the standard.

[@nyankers]

pls no steve jobs, every ui he's ever pushed has been god awful

[@matejobbagyi4249]

I have been using Ubuntu for two years now. I have not regret my decision so far. I have had some troubles gotta be honest. To configure it normally is a long process and a true pain in the ass. Last Windows" are terrible i am not planning using it again. Mac OS is limited and overrated. Linux and open source is the future.

[@treyquattro]

@@matejobbagyi4249 don't disagree. I hope Linux is the future although I happen to think the most recent versions of macOS are beautiful, and easy to use (for non-geeks too). Linux could really benefit from that kind of focus and execution. (I'm not happy about Apple forcing zsh on me because they don't like GPL3 however!)

[@quosswimblik4489]

An open source Linus Tarvalds AI bot that will tell you anything you need to know about working with the Linux kernel. This bot could later replace Linux Tarvalds as the main head of Linux kernel development problem solved no burn out.

[@jimmyneutron129]

Linux Tarvalds lmao

[@elzoog]

The problem with standardizing the desktop is that different people like different kinds of desktop environments. Some people like Gnome, and some people like KDE or XFCE.

[@Zoza15]

Different desktop environments are fine, as long as the connection from distro to distro is compatible one another and not being a separate thing altogether.

[@elzoog]

@@Zoza15 One of the reasons I don't use Ubunto and switched to Linux Mint, is that I hated the Unity desktop environment. If the desktop becomes standardized, I'm afraid I won't have that choice anymore. It will be like Windows where, if they change the desktop environment then I have to tolerate it.

[@Zoza15]

@@elzoog Good man, your choice.

[@elzoog]

@@Zoza15 Yeah, but the point is because the desktop environment is not standardized over various linux distros, I have that choice. Do you see my point now?

[@Zoza15]

@@elzoog I see your point.

[@Xn4W]

*Richard Stallman enters the chat* : "IT'S GANU SLASH LINOCKS!"