Linus Torvalds: We Don't Use Windows

[@vladimir945]

"Daddy, can I use Windows?" - "Shut up and compile your kernel!"

[@9876543210goodbye]

lol

[@轻扬123]

lol

[@dahui58]

lol

[@colgatelampinen2501]

Gentoo might be too much.

[@kingprone7846]

his son secretly dualboots windows to play them games for sure. His daddy just doesnt know it.

[@cgme7076]

He invented Linux and Git and he speaks three languages fluently. I’m glad we have him.

[@indrajithlal6160]

he invented GitHub just to host his linux kernel. what a madlad

[@socvirnylestela5878]

@@indrajithlal6160 github and git are two different things

[@johnduffy2777]

@@indrajithlal6160 Git and github are wayyyy different. Also the kernel on github is just a mirror of the real kernel git.

[@godfather7339]

@@tbird-z1r is that what your mom told you?

[@macchiato_1881]

@@tbird-z1r that's just your inferiority complex showing mate. Not our problem.

[@OnajTamo]

Why would you use Windows if Linus is your family member? You have an error with Linux? Well there is one person that will certainly fix it.

[@OnajTamo]

***** heh, define techie person.

[@nitrowad]

Basically - gaming... I personally use Mac everything work related (I've used Linux but it's a pain, especially with high-end ultrabooks and battery life/drivers, so I went the MacBook route), but you just can compete with gaming on Windows. I'm not saying Windows is a good OS, but it's the largest market for gaming and all games are optimized for it, plus GPU manufacturers don't really care about other markets (except AMD writing superb drivers for math crunching stuff for macOS apps like Final Cut Pro).

[@kingprone7846]

i think hes also a bit sour because he designed linux as a Personal Computer operating system and it's the one market where it unfortunatley hasn't been successful.

[@ledues3336]

I'm pretty sure being the creator of a kernel gives you more "techie person points" than knowing you way around ubuntu

[@ruinb0wzero852]

linus said he don't use debian or ubuntu, because he can't install it....

[@b-1battledroid674]

"dad im going to Nick's house for the school project, we will just copy from Wikipedia" "Son get this pendrive, and install gentoo on his computer when he isnt looking"

[@eduardorpg3329]

Wait isn't that common etiquette?

[@superslimanoniem4712]

He'll probably thank you later lol

[@gangatharan-r]

I literally installed mint on my friend's computer while he's asleep 😂

[@RokeJulianLockhart.s13ouq]

I am sure that your friend shall not be pleased.

[@olutukko2681]

​@@gangatharan-rshit did you at least back up his files?😂

[@curryeater259]

Dear Microsoft, Thanks for Windows 8! Love, Linux

[@sinharakshit]

Lmao.

[@NphiniT]

@@sinharakshit So help me understand why am watching this 8 years later!

[@sinharakshit]

@@NphiniT um... coz youtube recommended this to you?

[@NphiniT]

@@sinharakshit gug point LOL

[@giorgiannicartamancini3917]

@@NphiniT I guess you want to understand what the joke is, it's Windows 8

[@gmc9753]

"Linus, we have got to do something about our daughter. I caught her in bed this morning ...... using Windows. Could you imagine if the neighbors find out?"

[@MrHatoi]

She had the language set to English too!!

[@AUBCodeII]

@@MrHatoi Using a qwerty keyboard.

[@Vlad-1986]

Imagine now something else crazy, like for example, the representative of the Linux foundation, doing a presentation about "The future of Linux on the desktop"... on a Mac

[@didacusa3293]

@@Vlad-1986 they actually do not use it they use proprietary garbage and have been exposed for being the fatest hippos/Hippocrates

[@Vlad-1986]

@@didacusa3293 Yeah that was what I was referring to: He did two presentations on a mac. They don't even bother to pretend they use Linux and they are paid a huge amount of money to represent the OS. It is insulting. The Linux foundation is harmful and a joke.

[@TaiFerret]

"We don't use windows." Isn't it dark in your house then?

[@DubNation2016]

Light bulbs

[@matteroftim3]

TaiFerret A colleague of mine came by my desk and saw that I had a lot of windows opened. He stated that and he was like waiting of an explanation. So I said "It was getting really hot in here so....."

[@mr.anurag5487]

People across the globe had heard of Thomas Alva Edison even before Linus was born!

[@vikashkumarv]

For this cheap joke, you should have been "retrospectively aborted".

[@unlokia]

No one "uses" Windows, they just exist in the house to facilitate the inlet of light and ventilation, for well being and fresh air.

[@raz0229]

Robber: **tries to break in and searches for Windows** Linus Torvalds: _We don't do that here_

[@blendingsentinel4797]

Neither does my household. Glad I enlightened my house.

[@idjdbrvvskambvvv9007]

Robber : *starts chrooting*

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

What's root?

[@daneelaart]

robber: grabs a shovel and tries to access root

[@maddsua]

@@daneelaart and then proceeds with grepping and digging

[@cinemint]

Am I the only one who, despite being a Linux developer, thought his talk about languages at home was more interesting?

[@245trichlorophenate]

KZbin comments are a hell of a place to ask this question, but, how do you get into kernel development (specifically contributing to Linux)? I have a bunch of experience with high level languages and also some C experience. What are some things I could do outside of just trying to see if there are any issues raised on GitHub I feel capable of fixing?

[@PrateekSharmaTheKid]

I think C is his strongest language

[@AnilArya51]

Actually we don't need Windows and Gates in this Open world without walls and fences. Think about

[@afeef2152]

We dont need a fruit as well

[@mrarcticaaa1101]

i was ready to use Ubuntu dde or deepin on my laptop. The thing is, power management is horrible + touchpad doesnt work well + it doesnt switch automatically when i plug headphone jack and so on. I'm too lazy to solve all these sh*ts.

[@afeef2152]

@@mrarcticaaa1101 I agree, the power management and touchpad with gesture "can" be fixed but you need to do "some" things (or even lots) there on ubuntu

[@fabioa.8008]

@@mrarcticaaa1101 really? Man I even use wireless headphones and ubuntu never gave me trouble. What version you're using?

[@mrarcticaaa1101]

@@fabioa.8008 Well, headphone problem occurred on desktop actually. I use deepin 20 there. It's the most beautiful os so i keep using anyway :d

[@CRogers]

2:00 - The actual answer (before that is two minutes of talking about Finnish vs. Swedish language for some reason)

[@BransonnGames]

+C Rogers You da real MVP

[@souloftheage]

The answer to your question is that Linus is Funnish(opps mean Finnish. I look a LOT like Linus cause I'm of Finnish descent) and attended Helsinki University BUT comes from a southern area of Finland where folks speak Sweedish....so this question of "Why do you speak BOTH languages; Sweedish AND Finnish?" ALWAYS comes up.

[@CRogers]

That's... interesting... I guess? What's also interesting is the uploader decided to make you sit through that question, when everyone is here for some good old Windows bashing. Interesting choice.

[@wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20]

+michael allen It's the south and west coast area where is some Swedish speaking people. Not all in the south either speak Swedish, but it is the 2nd official language in the whole country, and about 5% of the population speak it as mothers tongue.

[@grapy83]

Thanks

[@isaacgentz3319]

Child: Can we get windows while we're out? Dad: we have windows at home Windows at home: wine

[@avro549B]

Torvalds is one of the calmest, most balanced individuals I've ever met, especially in the computer industry. This is an example.

[@Bokto1]

I know this comment is old, but try reading kernel mailing list xDDD

[@parrotraiser6541]

@@Bokto1 That's a bit different. If one is sufficiently deep into an obscure subject, the universe must seem full of babbling idiots who have to be repelled. Given the ordinary character of geek discourse, flames are a normal response to them.

[@Bokto1]

@@parrotraiser6541 while you are right, it's still funny :)

[@Stopinvadingmyhardware]

@@parrotraiser6541 You have no idea.

[@meghanachauhan9380]

His mails tho

[@-long-]

When you watched 2/3 of the video and still waited for the interviewer to ask questions about "windows"

[@shinycompi]

2:00

[@Callaghan552]

Thank god for "Most Replayed" nowadays

[@dim7ay]

it's 3 minutes chill 😭

[@MaynardFreek]

@@dim7aylol, late to the party

[@unformed]

sponsorblock highlights

[@SimplyMyAccount]

2:18 when you gotta scroll but MUST RETAIN EYE CONTACT

[@somMelon]

ahm ahm ahm

[@wesosdequeso8360]

Braille

[@Interestingworld4567]

Lol😆😆😆😆😅

[@pointerish]

Maybe it's not his tablet and his trying to avoid having it locked? Or perhaps he is just simply a psychopath.

[@oscarmanuelcabreravidana6268]

Hahaha lol

[@Doomanoid1979]

I wrote all my degree work in Open Office, never used Word once, so I can agree with Linus here. It can be difficult to find Linux friendly printers though. My Epson all-in-one hates Linux, but it is a few years old and everyone used Windows back when I bought it.

[@owenmaule4176]

Brother printers are great for their Linux support. Recommended!

[@lonerider92]

HP makes Linux friendly computers too.

[@DubNation2016]

Most printers work now. If it doesn't then it is a bad printer and printer company.

[@lonerider92]

Yeah with proprietary software but there are some GNU/nuts out there who want a printer that doesn't require proprietary software. Personally I think the herd and RMS are clinically insane but that's just my opinion.

[@Doomanoid1979]

I haven't tried to get new printers to work with Linux yet.

[@pt1200]

finally an interviewer who doesn't impose his own agenda on the conversation.. refreshing!

[@MichaelLockhart]

I think the issue about computers and school is not which operating system to use, but which document formats. If the school is insisting on using closed Microsoft formats (that aren't even compatible from one version of MS Office to the next) then you've got problems. But most schools I've spoken to don't care: hand in your assignment in something they can read, formatting isn't important. One teacher mentioned plain text! Another PDF. They all said not Word: we might not be able to read it.

[@howtomundane3109]

Good news: LibreOffice (which I use both on Linux & Windows) now works perfectly fine with Microsoft's Word/PowerPoint/Excel files.

[@yunerious]

And Now Microsoft have taken over linus torvalds' github account

[@cipher32k]

Wha

[@aiosquadron]

For real?

[@sebebse9094]

@@aiosquadron (microsoft acquired github)

[@DOOMVXGA]

@@sebebse9094 Ohhh… that explains a lot >:/

[@84_CJ-7]

My dad has been using Linux distros since 1995 and I have used Ubuntu since my first pc in 2012. My mom wants to buy a new laptop because her laptop is "too slow" and she REFUSES to use any form of Linux. We spent days removing bloatware, upgrading her laptop to 16gigs of ram, a ssd, and a new display panel because she wants to use windows (also i was bored and wanted to throw 80$ at a 8yr old laptop for a project) linux would have taken a few mins to install, but trying to make windows a slight bit faster takes hours

[@shubhamkalikar5141]

is your mom gamer?

[@tomassacamacho7987]

"few hours" that depends on the person ;)

[@imbadatcod7208]

try something like windows ghost spectre, they remove everything that's bloatware and spyware from their custom windows ISO

[@deviroz]

You know what is really funny about it? When Microsoft starting making the Windows NT kernel (the one they used in all their desktops systems since windows 2000) they tried to emulate the way UNIX handled things... I guess they got it wrong...

[@blendingsentinel4797]

And destroyed the kernel in the process. Shocking how XP and 7 were actually stable somehow.

[@oliverford5367]

I heard that Dave Cutler who was the project lead hates UNIX? His motivation, as well as making money, was to fight UNIX

[@hwstar9416]

The window kernel isn't actually what's bad about windows, it's everything on top

[@meghanachauhan9380]

​@@hwstar9416 you mean the garbage they keep piling up everytime they try to monopolize the market and don't bother removing later?

[@ChrisStavros]

No, when Dave Cutler started heading the NT design project he had the idea to fix the way UNIX handled things that he felt were stupid and broken. He did not like UNIX and his aim was not to emulate it.

[@coompiler9029]

"Dad can I use Windows for gaming?" *"We don't do that here"*

[@belisariussmith9095]

After Steam made a Linux client, the library for Linux games has exploded.

[@runninginthe90s75]

@@belisariussmith9095 There are no such as Linux games, it just Windows games running on Linux. If you want to hate Windows you can do that, but just makes sure you don't use Wine, GVLK or sort of those bullshit to run Windows games or software, otherwise you are just the hypocrites Linux nerd.

[@ihate4chan]

@@runninginthe90s75 Lmao dude then youre a hypocrite if you translate a language? Like if you translated a sentence in English to German? Because that's what Wine does lol, It just translates the syscalls that Windows understands to syscalls that linux could understand. Also your first point itself is so ignorant, native Linux games exist lol.

[@runninginthe90s75]

​@@ihate4chan Of course you are hypocrite you dumb, it just same like hating Android but you run android apps or games on your PC using emulator.

[@nonameee.e4668]

Yes we do

[@waynestewart1919]

Linus Torvalds, you are a legend. Thank you for inventing Linux! I use it on my PC & phone (no-longer Android, rather Ubuntu Touch from UBPorts).

[@marufbepary100]

By the way, Android is also built on Linux. I'm sure you knew but still...

[@Tapajara]

Unix was invented at Bell Labs. Linux is just a fork of Unix. It's Li(nus's version of U)nix thus Linux.

[@pentasteve9723]

@@Tapajara not really a fork, it was written from scratch separately from unix but yes it is considered to be unix like.

[@biolinux2307]

Android= Linux

[@tomassacamacho7987]

@@biolinux2307 android != Linux, android kernel = linux

[@salman-farooq-sh]

"...the school doesn't care and the kids don't seem to care..." XD

[@EnergeticWaves]

This looks like one of those prison interview shows

[@andreicapi3535]

😂

[@me_12-vw1vi]

lmao

[@aisPanais]

Why would you like this video? It is hugely irrelevant to its title.

[@WilliamStrealy1]

Who are you talking to, Sheldon?

[@_-noxxon-_]

But. We all love Linux!

[@EstebanPeralta]

"Linus Torvalds: We Don't Use Windows" You don't say!

[@Federico84]

it's sad that certain languages in europe are destroyed by that plague known as english

[@TOTiDAU]

I think it's the parents fault for putting the children on an english school in their home country. You don't need that, on this globalized world english is everywhere. I'm also in favour of preserving the small languages and nationalities. Peace!

[@Elite7555]

Language is nothing more than a tool for communication, and a tool is rated by how useful it is. Outside of Sweden and Finland, Swedish and Finish aren't useful in the slightest. The usefulness of a language is defined by how big the speaking community is, how scattered it is and how big the barrier of entrance for outsiders is. The Finish speaking community isn't thinly scattered, but it is small; so small in fact that everybody has to communicate with the outside world. The barrier of entrance is huge, meaning nobody will learn Finish if he hadn't got a really really well paying job there. In effect Finish will eventually die. Swedish's community is only double that of Finish's and the same downsides apply, so its chances of surviving history are also meager. English on the other hand is very useful! It has a huge speaking community and a relatively low barrier of entrance. So think of it as a plague if you will, but it is a very beneficial plague. And it would be really really good for the European Union to have a unified standard language. "But what about Japanese or Chinese? They clearly are not going to learn English!" True, because they don't have to. Japan has 13 times the population of Sweden and China accomodates for 1/7 of the world's population. Most of them have never spoken to a person outside of their country. And obviously the barrier of entrance for them is much higher that for any European. But that is also why those countries are relatively secluded. But they also aren't in any political and economic union like the European Union! And being a union obviously means being able to speak to one another.

[@cybro8925]

Elite7555 my man can use a semicolon but can’t spell “Finnish”

[@cgme7076]

Hey, English isn’t that bad.

[@GIGACHAD-qh1yi]

@@Elite7555 but we need to preserve culture its not just about the language its about the culture/civilization that spoke

[@MrCmon113]

Imagine being Linus' son. Secretly booting windows to play games.

[@devdylan6152]

"I have already compromised and let you use a desktop environment.... what do you mean you want to install windows? why?!"

[@Time4Technology]

Lmao. *daughter looking at an i3 wm*

[@cgme7076]

And you don’t just install Windows you buy it.

[@hexa3389]

GUI??? ABSOLUTELY P R O P R I E T A R Y. *GO BACK TO YOUR TTY NOW!*

[@Mario583a]

@@cgme7076 I mean, you can do basically both.

[@RoKishDubbz]

0:28 Linus and Cristiano Ronaldo as teens. How cute

[@chrysanthemum3]

lol

[@cestarianinhabitant5898]

Why would someone who worked so hard to create Linux, use Windows? He'd have no reason to keep maintaining linux so hard if he was ok with windows.

[@_-noxxon-_]

XD

[@KiyoSimp]

Dude, I've been on Linux since I was 11, it has been way more comfortable than Windows and drivers have never been an issue.

[@nonameiskickass1319]

Have you ever played GTA vice City ?

[@alexzander4457]

@@nonameiskickass1319 yes i have played it !!!

[@anlexaify]

Half of the video is literally Torvalds saying he spoke Swedish in the old days.

[@AgentFortySeven47]

that dude at 1:48 just walks in as if he's not in the same room as a living legend

[@rippspeck]

Jeez, you FOSS guys and your cults of personality. Worse than Mac users when their messiah was still alive and kicking.

[@bright1402]

I used to be a market analyst who uses Excel for data analysis. Last year I started learning Python and its packages... I admit that I used Windows for Python programming at first. But after several weeks of studying using Linux on one Linux server, I noticed Windows is a joke🤣 Never use it when you are programming, just for games! That is OK~

[@kaiso7322]

@You Tube The comparison makes no sense

[@kaiso7322]

@You Tube I see, you are unarmed. Nvm.

[@howtomundane3109]

Thanks to Steam Proton you can play next to every game that's available on Steam runs well on Linux! Except for a few games that struggle with specific hardware drivers, I can't notice a difference.

I've have heard a phrase "We don't play with Windows" in a serious meeting in a respectable Swedish bank from a person (a respectable bank employee) that (I believe) hasn't seen anything except Windows on his computer screen (he had a Thinkpad). It was 6 years ago.

[@bigsmoke7168]

When someone uses windows at his home. Linus : We don't do that here..

[@gryphus4]

Not where i thought this was going. Very difficult follow up to Linus' comment about the kids speaking the language of their peers would have been, something along the lines of 'Do you feel this is why the masses hasnt adopted Linux, because their peers all speak Windows?'

[@Excelsoft]

regardless of Linus personality, this man changed the world, and many times :)

[@sanjacobs6261]

The actual question is asked at 2:02

[@jorgeayalaarce7712]

Juntemos voces para que el Sr. Linus Torvalds y Sr. Richard stallman sea nominado para recibir el reconocimiento de la Unesco como " La ciencia al servicio de la sociedad ", me parece que el aporte que el hizo para la gente es digno de un gran reconocimiento, soy un suario del grandioso Linux.

[@THE_PERSON4204]

plot twist: the kids dual boot windows alongside linux secretly

[@xhelloselm]

C# is actually cross-plattform. It is a language that is compiled into an intermediate byte code and can be technically run on any machine. It's just that the interpreter is not available for every plattform. But you seem to forget Mono.

[@Wooster23]

C# is good

[@Dogstep]

I really dislike Windows. It's a very insecure OS and if I could I wouldn't use it at all. The only reason I use it is for gaming.

[@kartikeykushwaha6312]

+Dogstep Ya, its also very annoying. And the most annoying thing in windows is the ' has stopped working '.

[@kartikeykushwaha6312]

+444suse Linux is my favorite! But which one I should choose? Kali Linux Ubuntu CentOS

[@Mcfry4]

+Kartikey Kushwaha Don't use kali, it runs as root and isn't optimized for anyone other than a pentester. CentOS is generally for servers. Ubuntu if fine, check out the other flavors such as kubuntu, Ubuntu gnome, and xubuntu. There is also other distros such as manjaro and mint. but if you are new, you might want to check out the Ubuntu flavors and find which you like best

[@kartikeykushwaha6312]

***** Why not Ubuntu?

[@kartikeykushwaha6312]

***** Is Fedora a good OS? I've never used it.

[@gregdvorkin]

Thank you for interesting details. I did not know Linus is native Swedish speaker though one could guess from his last name which is apparently Swedish.

[@Life_Is_A...]

It's a beautiful life you've had Linus. Kudos to you.

[@soapmeridius]

I use Debian for my home web server. I love it.

[@anantgupta7916]

He finds it hard to install

[@_-noxxon-_]

I recommend Lubuntu as: - pocket OS - playing some games in better fps - running a server... Maybe. Idk xd - Coding

[@Codestud]

Ive been a developer on Windows for over 20 years and Microsoft have effectively kept a roof over my head and food on the table. That has been a blessing for me. But I love my little Ubuntu server machine as well that runs on a Raspberry Pi. Since this video was made MS became a lot more friendly with open source and are not the enemy these days.

[@joemann7971]

Yes. They just released the beta a month or so ago. I'm glad to hear that you're using opengl. I look forward to seeing gaming on linux and more gaming across other platforms, not just windows. I guess thanks to windows 8, the push to bring gaming to other platforms will be greater. I hope to see more on linux than just games. I hope to see professional software such as photoshop and video editors to bring the mainstream over to the platform.

[@courier3567]

this aged like milk

[@joemann7971]

@@courier3567 you've clearly been living under a rock

[@courier3567]

@@joemann7971 how? you can't play a lot of games on linux and any game with EAC which is one of the most widely used anticheats and none of the software you are talking about is on linux just substitutes like before.

[@joemann7971]

@@courier3567 most games will run on Linux now. Sure, not all of them, but most of them do. Not to mention Steams upcoming Steam Deck is Linux based. Linux has come a long way since I posted this.

[@joemann7971]

@@courier3567 there are a lot more tools now to get windows apps running perfectly on Linux. I've pretty much accepted that Linux will never be as popular as windows or even mac but its certainly gained a lot more traction among power users. I haven't tried getting those two apps working on my Linux machine but I'm sure I can get them to work without resorting to alternatives. I was still dual booting 9 years ago. I certainly don't have to anymore. There is no need for it.

[@jendralhxr]

Yes, definitely! Also it hasn't changed much since then :) it just gets more powerful.

[@frustrateduser666]

Having used a computer for more than a decade and a half, I have never really had much of a need for Photoshop. You know, you can use your computer for other things too, like programming, creating simulations, computation, etc. Of course there are professionals who prefer Windows, but that depends on the profession. A professional might choose to drive a Chevy Impala over a Subaru Impreza WRX, but their profession most likely isn't racing.

[@TheHadMatters]

Thank you for the relatable car analogy; now everyone here surely better understands the benefits of Linux for programmers.

[@snoopyjc]

I met him a few years back at a conference - nice guy!

[@marjopardo7242]

linux is the best Open office or Libre office they're both usefull and i love it! yeah! linux forever! keep it up Ma Men Linus Torvalds

[@MelhodRiperton]

My Hero 😊❤

[@JavierPortillo1]

I always admired how in other countries you find diversity in language, and here in latinoamerica we barely speak Spanish and just a few of us can speak English.

[@shitbukkake]

how could you forget the huge portuguese-speaking community and the few french-speaking countries? there are also lots of indigenous languages, some of them, like quechua and guaraní, spoken by large amounts of people

[@spoderman15]

So how does he get sunlight into the room?

[@MLennholm]

Every time I complain to a Linux geek that Linux (any distro) is still too user unfriendly to get started with for a regular person, their response is always something like this: "Oh, but you haven't been following the latest developments within the community, now all you have to do is type in the following list of +ten commands (all abbreviated to an unrecognizable mess of course) and you're set... to start installing with 'yum install ??? ???'."!!?! Yeah, really user friendly.

[@MrAstygmatyk]

Hej Linus! Hälsningar från Polen. Alltid undrade om du faktiskt talade svenska, ett språk jag verkligen gillar. Har själv bott många år i Amerika och som många av oss använder engelska dagligen. Men för det, när jag bara kan, och helst dagligen, försöker jag läsa på svenska. Om det bara blir en enstaka sida ur en dagstidning.

[@rippspeck]

Are you really talking to a 10-year-old video as if the person was in front of you? That's kinda weird.

[@danielesquivel3155]

@@rippspeck

[@LiezerZero]

Gotta love Grub. Two Operating Systems or more on one machine. :)

[@ThatJay283]

Gotta love qemu/kvm

[@georgeohwell9514]

@@ThatJay283 i dont think it is wise to forget how Chechinsky, Uyugyur and Milkanovic saved all those passengers on July 13th.

[@hmdz150]

As a person who switched to Mac and Linux after 20 years of using Windows . It has been the best decision I have ever made.

[@VlingoVideo]

Linux is tha king !

[@ekrem_dincel]

I just wanted to send you a notification after six years you wrote this.

[@aiosquadron]

@@ekrem_dincel 7 now.

[@coytus94]

I don't use Windows either. It gets really dark in my room when the power goes out though...

[@scrimpmster]

On the subject of languages I have a similar issue. I've lived in England since I was 3. I'm noe and have an 11 year old sister. I only speak in Russian to my sister and my mum (sometimes get annoyed with my sister when she speaks to me in English lol).

[@XAE_A_Xii]

no windows, no intruders

[@DavidAlsh]

Imagine coming across a bug in Linux that prevents you from handing in your homework - and then your dad releases a fix for it.

[@adityaruplaha]

Nice. This was recommended to me 10 years late.

[@NuclearBajskorv]

When I grow up I want to be like him.

[@safwanljd]

Considering that you grew up 9 years since you've posted that comment, I'm curious… Did you become like him?

[@NafaniaXD]

“Is this your dad’s operating system?”

[@crzyruskie86]

All my college papers were written on open office/ libre office ftw!

[@aratof18]

epic

[@hariranormal5584]

not sure if someone can say, but is it possible to contact Linus and get a reply from? not for a business purpose or something, just for fun

[@Sulfen]

I feel bad for their kids because they can't play a lot of games because they're windows-only. But I understand them. If my dad had such an amazing life achievement like he does I'd make sure to use his work rather than the competition otherwise it would be a big "fuck you" to him.

[@PavelPirogov]

Interesting what distro and DE are they using. What is recommended linux for kids?

[@franciscofuentes8916]

Linus must pay a huge electricity bill.

[@krimsonbun]

as a bilingual linux user, seeing a trilingual, and on top of it the creator of linux? Kinda poggers I'm bilingual btw.

[@goat813]

damn props to my parents for me knowing Spanish before I even got started in school in English!

[@TheCynicalDude_]

I know this video is old.. but which distro does Linus use?

[@TFiRio]

Fedora

[@TheCynicalDude_]

@TFIR: Open Source & Emerging Technologies Thanks for replying. The funny thing is, I googled it and read all about it right after I asked the question. You know, Fedora is one of the distros I've never used. I'm a debian man, myself... have been for many years.

[@TFiRio]

@@TheCynicalDude_ Linus and many other kernel developers use Fedora as they need to keep themselves at the cutting edge so 1) They have access to new underneath technologies - packages and tools 2) They themselves can use it as a target for the new technologies they are working on.

[@cagatay518]

@@TFiRio To have cutting edge and new technologies (new packages etc...) , they should use arch btw. 😅

[@joec3753]

I was thinking about moving to Linux from Windows 7. But is there a way to install cygwin in Linux? I need cygwin to run git and other tools for development.

[@timh6088]

Why would you need Cygwin under Linux? The idea of Cygwin is to bring a collection of GNU tools to Windows. Pretty much all of these tools are installed per default on Linux (depending on your distro) or can be added via package manger/manually.

[@joec3753]

So, perhaps a good way to think about it is that Linux is essentially a UI built on top of cygwin? I've always been a Windows user, and this Linux kernel stuff seems complicated. By package manager, I'm guessing this is like cygwin's installer where I can pick different packages.

[@mikestem3031]

You use git and develop and ask this kind of question? Wtf? Do you even know what git is? Or who created it? :)

[@vladimir945]

Jeesus Christ, this comment is hilarious...

[@joec3753]

After thinking more about it, I'll stick with running cygwin on Win7. In a way, cygwin is like Linux on steroids. I can run the latest and greatest Win7 apps, like Notepad++, IE11, etc. Also, cygwin just works. I've heard many war stories about Linux

[@lorenzogarcia-mb3hy]

in windows they use Visual studio for app programming, but in linux what IDE can i use for programming?

[@DoubleM55]

Eclipse or NetBeans are probably what you want...

[@George-lt6jy]

vim

[@lorenzogarcia-mb3hy]

how about ada gnat, what is that?

[@George-lt6jy]

compiler?

[@spartacuspro88]

Code::Blocks or vim are the best

[@ameypatil96]

Remember when this title was a good click bait. Now every one knows atleast one guy with a linux machine

[@StarLight_tu]

Count me too. Now it's 2

[@kisalli]

heh, you can run Linux in a virtualbox or even in your browser

[@tombert512]

Actually, they really can't shut down Mono. Mono was built as a fork back when .NET was open source, back in the 2.0-ish days. Novell took that code and updated it for awhile, and now Xamarin manages it to keep it mostly .NET compliant. My point is that Microsoft has very little to do with the state of Mono.

[@LiezerZero]

Just remember to Install Windows first then Linux.. Works out better that way. If you install Windows after Linux, Windows will overwrite your boot menu that Linux has set and you will only be able to boot into Windows since its installation does not check for other OS's on your system, Unless its a Windows OS... Most Linux installers on the other hand actually take that aspect into consideration and configures the boot loader to allow you to boot into Windows or Linux or anything else.

[@jimmyneutron129]

still the case lmao

[@olutukko2681]

​@@jimmyneutron129propably the case after another 11 years

[@AlkoholOgerLeonElektronik67]

The school certainly cares in what office program a document is written in, if you value your performance in school! You do have a problem when the teacher wants to see the documents and then in Microsoft Office your document (that you made in Open Office at home) looks inaccurate compared to Open Office... giving you a bad result. So if you don't have Microsoft Office and wanted to finish your document for school properly, you had to pirate Microsoft Office because there weren't free alternatives at the time that get the job done correctly.

[@ponjadito23]

Or you could export it to PDF, that way it looks the same on all computers.

[@1337snake888]

I was a windows fanboy, but tried Linux when I was twelve and now use it.

[@minotaurus91]

Are you still using it ten years later?

[@meghanachauhan9380]

​@@minotaurus91 i believe everyone will eventually be on Linux simply because it you don't like something about it, you can change it. Windows is more like for dimwits and managers

[@CesarPeron]

Nobody: Tordvalds is hot, please open the windows Tordvalds: We don't use Windows

[@JonathanHarbour]

Whoa, Linus talking about himself endlessly..never seen that before.

[@abhinavsravanipriya1939]

Dear Microsoft , Thankyou for Windows 7 Love , Eternalblue

[@k-c]

Linux is only hard to you because you probably started off with MacOS or WindowsOS first, similar to how learning a new language is harder than the language you grew up with. After Linux you feel the true freedom of actually being able to control the aspects of OS and your own data that you possibly cannot even try on proprietary software.

[@codingforing1404]

You are right.👍

[@kvin9210]

I didn't like using Linux. Not sorry but it was a terrible experience.

[@HackThePlanet]

And what if what I am looking for is not in the app portal? high/backwards compatibility and ease of installation are two of the strongest arguments for Windows.

[@Sin0pa]

I wish more people could understand/learn that. Not only that but Canonical (Ubuntu) is heading in a direction where they almost don't even want to mention that their operating system is a Linux operating system. One last thing. Ubuntu is starting to smell more and more like MacOS. There are a lot of good Linux operating systems out there. Debian being one of them :)

[@jimmyneutron129]

"Ubuntu is starting to smell more and more like MacOS." Not even close

[@DMalenfant1]

There is also Serif. You also have to remember, Adobe has a lot because it has been out for a while, then there are people who made plug ins for free.

[@Ethonf90]

Skyrim works perfectly on Linux.

[@mainmantarkin]

But does Skyrim itself work perfectly

[@viniciush.6540]

Hi, i came from the future, and at this point, Bethesda made sure that there is no electronic device that skyrim does not work with

[@mainmantarkin]

@@viniciush.6540 but does it work perfectly on everything

[@viniciush.6540]

@@mainmantarkin no, because Skyrim itself doesn't really work perfectly

[@mainmantarkin]

@@viniciush.6540 that was my point

[@lobaxx]

I remember it being so that while C# written for mono will compile in .NET, the same is not valid the other way around. Kinda like C-code not written for the windows compiler will not necessarily compile with gcc.

[@czos9239]

_"Windows?"_ *WE DON'T DO THAT HERE!*

[@MichaelDomer]

*_"Linus Torvalds: We Don't Use Windows"_* My condolences.

[@Pyhantaakka]

Linus speaks Finnish with a slight accent (at least looking at old videos) like many Swedish speaking Finns. However that's just the accent, it's perfectly good Finnish. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5Ckc5Jrba-gb7M

[@theburntcrumpet8371]

If your dad wrote a kernel, it's only polite to use it

[@hdcreator9834]

what mean GNU?

[@Sal-zi4tu]

Dam Truong A wild beast. As wild as Richard Stallman's beard.

[@Car_Mo]

+Dam Truong It's another nerdy wordplay; where an abbreviation is used as a word; GNU = "Gnu is Not Unix". It's the same thing with "Wine" = Wine Is Not an Emulator

[@wida123]

If you work on industrial system such as scada on power plant, you must learn unix/linux os.