10 Weird Versions of Linux that ACTUALLY Exist

[@LinusTechTips]

Go to dayoneapp.com/ltt and use code ltt to get a limited-time offer of a two-month free trial with Day One Journal Premium.

[@cirkulx]

ok

[@Air377.]

How did bro pin this comment 17 hours ago when the video came 5 minutes ago? bro time travellin

[@iniquitousprime8747]

Linuxfx got malware.. not recommend.

[@klaxoncow]

Yes, freedom is so "overwhelming". Funny how, though, you don't say that PCs are "overwhelming" because there's so many models and options, from different manufacturers, available. Even though it's basically the same thing: anyone can create an "IBM PC compatible" if they want to and many people do. Anyone can package together the Linux kernel with a desktop environment and various apps and many people do. Because you can package an OS different ways for different purposes / priorities. So it's weird that Linus loves building weird and wacky PCs, but then installs "the One Ring(TM) OS" on them all. p.s. You'll mock comments about Linux distros, but where's the similar criticism of comments if someone's posting "AMD Ryzen is better than Intel" or "water cooling beats air cooling" and so forth? SAME THING. Dumb Linux distros? Exactly the same thing as the stupid PC builds you do, making a PC out of cardboard or whatever. SAME THING.

[@tom05011996]

Kodatchi seems to be an excelent personal security one.

[@MrsPig-fs3tu]

There should be an ltt Linux version, call it Linux Sebastian

[@janjuliusvannieuwenhuyze9853]

On it

[@lua-nya]

Anthony could do it in two days.

[@nandulalkrishna923]

processes drop randomly

[@brodiepasker9918]

This would make a great April fools joke

[@mrzeroskill]

One time for a tech project I made a (scuffed) concept for "Linus OS". My whole class loved it 😂

[@dontmindbeingblindd]

Linus, I need you to read this comment. Vinux is a very old distro that no one who is blind (like myself) or visually impaired uses any more. Most distrobutions are now accessible right out of the box, and support braille displays. You are correct that braille displays are expensive though. I would like to truthfully say, "I use Arch, by the way." I would like to add, "I also have no sight, and set it up on my own." I just want to let you and others know that most distrobutions are now accessible, and that almost no blind person I know uses Vinux. Some desktop environments are inaccessible, so inaccessibility is still a challenge. It would be nice if more developers payed attention to accessibility on all operating systems and applications.

[@williamcampbell9859]

FYI - when you say, quote, ""no-one", you are typing out K, N, O, W, Space, O, N, E. This word is actually spelled N, O, hyphen, O, N, E. This top may help make your writing easier to read for sighted readers.

[@dontmindbeingblindd]

@@williamcampbell9859 Thank you for letting me know my mistake. I should have double checked my spelling.

[@JohlBrown]

@@dontmindbeingblindd you are so right that accessibility is overlooked generally! I'm not even HOH but I ended up dropping out of uni because a subject I needed to pass didn't provide any closed captions or lecture notes! So awesome to have you as part of the community!!

[@JTCF]

Damn, installing Arch while being blind is quite impressive! Welcome to the club and best wishes in your life!

[@docscotty1992]

I'm surprised the Arch installer has accessibility support, it was a fairly barebones set of tools that required following the wiki to use properly when I last installed Arch Linux, though that was before System D was a thing, so has been quite a while haha.

[@DJ88Masterchief]

They really missed the opportunity to change the intro to Linux Tech Tips.

[@novaTopFlex]

Yes, his name is Linus Sebastian. Linus Torvalds, of course, was the person who named the Linux kernel, yet this Linus is not the same as that Linus.

[@rhysm.5915]

@@novaTopFlex They're the same guy. Don't @ me, god damn it.

[@catto-from-heaven]

@@novaTopFlex r/wooosh

[@Tideroo]

True but then they would have to render the whole intro again in After Effects or similar, it's a bit overkill

[@allyallyallyallyally]

At aaà QA QA

[@AlKohaiMusic]

Stellarium is genuinely a really cool application. Yeah you can check on the sky as it appears at your location at that moment, but its also extremely zoomable, it can also show you historical and future positions of stars, constellations, moons, planets, comets and such. If you wanna know what the night sky looked like the day you were born, or wanted to see the moon zip across the screen and infront of the sun on the next solar eclipse you can absolutely do that. Growing up not wealthy and living in a very light polluted area, Stellarium was a real dope piece of software to have. My peak was in middleschool when I used a salvaged projector to throw the night sky over a (admittedly small) section of ceiling.

[@marsovac]

It might be cool, but it probably isn't at all useful to 99% of users :P

[@fdphy]

@@marsovacIts really cool for education purpose. especially for astronomy. its not only about the sun. its about everything astronomy.

[@mrpiggy105]

KStars is pretty good too. Been using it for a while (along with Krita) for hobby purposes before I realised they were KDE things and before I was even into Linux.

[@Lambda_Ovine]

that's amazing

[@RenderingUser]

1:06 pls no one use Linux fx it's somehow worse than actual windows. On top of Microsoft accurate spy ware (gotta respect their effort to be like Windows as closely as possible) , that distro also has awful security and even leaked all user passwords once. And it's got some paid features you can pretty easily install for free

[@KuleGuy27]

They rebranded to Wubuntu and a lot of KZbinrs were talking about it a month ago.

[@Gregorius_]

yh, their license verification measure was connecting to a mysql database with passwords stored in a text file on the OS xD

[@MARUKU]

IIRC, the people behind them were literal scammers too, weren't they ?

[@Cavi587]

Yup. There are some great distros out there, but this one is not it. If you want something close to Windows, stick to Linux Mint or Zorin OS.

[@successmaker9258]

MichaelMJD made a deep dive on this. His channel has covered just about all of the distros in this video

[@publiusii4246]

The confidence with which Linus said you can't divide by a negative gives even more credit to how essential Yvonne was to the founding of LMG lol

[@XzTS-Roostro]

You can almost hear her disappointed sigh all the way from her office

[@frozencatcake]

Idk how do to that but ik u can

[@publiusii4246]

@@frozencatcake it's the same as dividing by a positive. The only special consideration you need to make when multiplying or dividing by negatives is if the two numbers have the same sign the result is positive if different the result is negative.

[@mqb3gofjzkko7nzx38]

@@frozencatcake Multiply both the numerator and denominator by a negative number. Now the denominator is positive.

[@frozencatcake]

thank you guys

[@KRiley129]

I think LTT needs to check out those braille displays. I've always been curious about them. Make a whole Accessibility Technology video.

[@veenmikki27]

That would be cool but they’re expensive asf

[@ruchirkaran6600]

I mean linus can use it as a tax write-off 🤣🤣🤣

[@plazima]

They aren’t that special. But what do you want to know about them? And I doubt ltt will do that since they cost up to $10000

[@KanawhaCountyWX]

But nobody there would no Braille, and it takes a long time to learn. And yeah they are very expensive, but I mean these folks could even just borrow it from a company, humanware is based in Canada and theyd probably be happy to partner with folks like these.

[@hershmysson]

@@veenmikki27I mean it makes them the perfect people to show it off right? they can shell out the money and can raise awareness of the tech existing bringing more attention and interest.

[@TheNabeshein]

I used TinyCore at a company I used to work at! We installed an RDP Client on it, setup a config file it loaded, and upon booting, it automatically connected and sat at the login screen. No licensing like WYSE clients, ran on much older hardware, and all it had to do was connect to the internet and draw.

[@floatyHorizon]

Hi, just want to point out that "LinuxFX" is not very liked because of couple of reasons. One of them being the breaking of the GPL license. It's also has been known to have spyware built in (at least in older versions, most likely in newer too).

[@trban8r]

Yep, MichaelMJD has a good video on it

[@Andrii-zc4dp]

yep, please avoid using linuxFX

[@zeendaniels5809]

Spyware built in? I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, it adds up to the overall Windows experience... 😂

[@KuleGuy27]

@@trban8r He made a video on "Wubuntu" but they are essentially the same thing anyways.

[@thestickmahn2446]

Just like Windows

[@Dudehaler]

Imagine Elijah going through life, thinking everyone calls him horrible things, but he is just slightly misshearing EVERYTHING... 😂

[@rodjacksonx]

I have a friend like that. It's actually just as bad for everyone else (when he gets annoyed/irritated) as it is for him.

[@ChrisD__]

He didn't even mishear him, what Linus said was just weird.

[@jeffyp2483]

self esteem

[@rexsceleratorum1632]

Why imagine, when that's the definition of a woke person

[@LJCG777]

You're the reson being in a coma exist.​@@rexsceleratorum1632

[@novh4ck]

There was also Rebecca Black Linux. That one was actually groundbreaking because it was one of the first Linux distros which shipped with Wayland support.

[@GavinFromWeb]

that's hilarious

[@gmc6790]

Did it only work on Friday?

[@katrinabryce]

And the last update to it at the time of writing was 17 hours ago.

[@hugevibez]

Explains a lot about the initial state of Wayland.

[@NeptuneSega]

​@@hugevibez Wayland has been around for a long time, not a current thing

[@MaisieSqueak]

"You cant divide something by a negative number" ... This man is smart everyone

[@TheEnder515]

Smart people can be dumb, too 😂

[@grgvv]

10:54 actually Stellarium is much more than that! It allows you to see stars and constellations in "real time" and can also time travel to a specific day and hour

[@realemolga6306]

yeah and you can line up shots in astrophotography and much more, makes me kinda sad that they didn't realize

[@Chaosdragon13]

Agreed. Stellarium is great. I have used it many times to manually find things with my telescope.

[@GideonMesser]

I used it to track the recent solar eclipse as I watched it.

[@The_1ntern3t]

And you can connect it to some telescopes and have them move/track objects you select!

[@brunofelipe2]

So, what you are saying is, Khonshu should have use it instead of angering the other gods?

[@yorkchr123]

This was fun to watch. Elijah is a silly, loveable guy, often slightly awkward but always being genuine. I absolutely love the crew LTT has put together.

[@L0CKW0OD]

yea

[@jonathanozik5442]

no

[@DiamondDawn9]

yea

[@aharnishpithva6455]

LinusOS must have - Steam pre-installed, - gyroscope support to scream Linus! when the device is dropped, - `rm -rf /` when motion blur is turned on in any game, and - contain icon theme/wallpaper with hidden Linus faces.

[@kingzach74]

The problem with -rm -rf when motion blur is turned on is many MANY games have it turned on by default. I still don't understand why developers make motion blur a default option. It is AWFUL.

[@TheOnlyBootlegger]

NATIVE Steam. Flatpak Steam is not acceptable.

[@Capp0]

​@@kingzach74 U should never play those games even without rm -rf / xD

[@xXRenaxChanXx]

@@Capp0Just because they have an awful graphics feature enabled by default doesn't mean the games themselves are inherently bad.

[@TheCommanderTaco]

Honestly would also say they should include some type of hardware diagnostics app just because it would make it feel more techy...maybe some would say it would be quick techy...anyone...?...

[@sparkspl]

"... a lot of the default apps will not even give you the option to delete..." so same as MS Windows.

[@filkos1]

19:21 I really expected to see KolibriOS instead of TinyCore It has lower min specs and comes with more programs to try out Also after seeing uwuntu I was surprised they didn't also get AmongOS Edit: sorry didn't know kolibri isn't a Linux distro

[@Daniel_VolumeDown]

KolibriOS is veey interesting. It is not linux though, it is written in assembly

[@arnox4554]

Yeah, as Daniel said, it's technically not Linux based. My vote though is for AntiX. That distro will run on a toothpick AND it's actually usable and useful. Kind of the Windows XP of Linux, though you could also give that distinction to Q4OS as well. If anyone has any experience with Q4OS though, let me know!

[@MostlyPennyCat]

Kalibri will also be a descendant of LRP. LRP, it sits up there with RedHat and Debian

[@snjert8406]

I was surprised to not see AmogOS in this video too xD

[@dominuscado2839]

i use Antix linux on a single core 1 ghz netbook , it uses 100 mbs of ram

[@damlatorun6756]

1:04 you mean the linux fx that has microsoft-accurate spyware, awful security and paid features that you can easily install for free? They also once leaked all the user passwords.

[@akosv96]

Wow they got the Microsoft experience perfectly. Hats off to them

[@benjaminmiddaugh2729]

I thought they leaked the pro user database, got called out, and changed things in a way that also leaked the database. If I remember correctly, not paying them for anything was the correct option because there was no data they wanted to store.

[@lennyescott]

They talked about that in the video. Maybe you should have watched it

[@itsme_indira]

A complete recreation of the latest Microsoft Windows™ experience. 10/10

[@Peron1-MC]

@@akosv96 ill use my genuine microsoft experience thank you XD

[@KuruGDI]

*LTT needs more Linux content!*

[@SpaceGamblerJR]

This might be a dumb question but how did you make your text so bold?

[@KuruGDI]

@@SpaceGamblerJR using asterisks. There some limitations in combinations with other punctuation marks though. Example: .*This text would be bold if it wasn't for the dot at the beginning*

[@robertschneider4685]

​@SpaceGamblerJR ​ *just put text between asterisks* _ like *this* * or with _this_ _ or with -this- -

[@viniciusmedinarj]

Linux is trademarked

[@Nina-cd2eh]

@@viniciusmedinarj Not how this works

[@casperstouch]

Linux Tech Tips distro for all your PC repair test and check needs: Tools to test Hardware, recovery tools, speed tests, compatibility/upgrade ideas for common parts installed.

[@nandernet]

Maintaining a Linux distribution was my day job! If you're fine with keeping it close to stock like the Uwuntu, it's a relatively simple venture of changing the preseed configuration and building a disk image. If you're looking for deeper integration, you will need to build some custom packages/scripts/repos, but can still depend on up-streams to provide security updates. If you go this path, I'd recommend giving back by providing mirrors or financial support for the project(s) you depend on. If you really want to get into it, you can use more leading-edge up-streams like Fedora/Debian/Arch as a base and build your own packages, but I wouldn't start there! If you're serious about this and want to setup a FOSS project, I'd love to help!

[@ishantmehndiratta5460]

i am a school student and wants to make my own distrow. how can i learn it?? any free resource on yt with full explanation of how you do it??

[@norbert.kiszka]

I did such a thing, not for a PC, but rather for a oscilloscopes.

[@ninjacookies0]

​@ishantmehndiratta5460 Linux From Scratch isn't necessarily as a distro building resource, but it is a fantastic general linux resource that gives you a lot of the prerequisite knowledge (and a lot more) to build your own distro. You can even extend your LFS image into a pseudo distro of its own with enough work and creative thinking. Every distro followed essentially that process at some point in its development, where it was nothing but a kernel and a build system all the way to where they are now, even if they didn't restart from nothing for every release.

[@know_how_games]

out of curiosity, what do you maintain

[@rya3190]

Debian is nice for unusual hardware... like the Risc-V cpu I run.

[@vpxc]

This is pretty cool! You should do a brief overview of Linux distros that are weird on a **technical** level compared to other distros. Stuff like immutable Linuxes, distros based on purely functional package managers, hybrid distros like Bedrock Linux or blendOS, non-GNU distros like Alpine, etc. I don't think most channels could pull off a video like that for general audiences, but I think LTT could. Personal favorites that I'd love to see covered: NixOS, GuixSD, Bedrock Linux, Fedora Silverblue, GoboLinux, Gentoo

[@o.p.2594]

+1 for NixOS, which is my daily driver now

[@vpxc]

@@o.p.2594 mine, too :)

[@adammiller9029]

Really... he shouldn't. Linus is not a linux expert, he should not create media which would be better suited to some one who is, like Wendell. Linus already has problems spreading misinformation when it comes to the more nitty-gritty technical aspects of things, especially things geared toward business needs. He shouldn't normalize making content about subjects that he is not well equipped to have a truly insightful well educated take. Yes. I am gate keeping. He owns media company that claims to share accurate info. He needs to be gate kept.

[@vaelxn]

​​@@adammiller9029agreed. he has less than a basic understanding. someone who didn't Ctrl+alt+t and had to Google the cd command has no business showcasing any Linux distro's technical aspects. Linus has a bad habit of having strong opinions on things he completely misunderstands he's perfect for presenting distros with user-friendly GUIs that never require opening a CLI. if it's something he could do without too much trouble, it's something anyone with only Windows experience could do. not trying to insult LTT, I watch a lot of the content. it's just not a channel for serious PC nerds. it's for casuals looking to get into PC building or optimize their gaming rigs. nothing wrong with that. this channel was a great help to me, as someone who hadn't built a PC since 2012 and had only been tinkering with SBC's for a decade, which is the only reason I have a decent grasp on Linux. getting back into gaming, this was a great channel to get up to date on all the changes that have happened with hardware over the years. ntm water cooling, which was an expensive intensive process, and is now very accessible

[@szabotudor]

So LTT finally found Linux FX (or WUbuntu) lol The backstory and amount of controversies with this one is insane. I suggest looking up videos about it if you want to see a company make anything it can to be sued

[@snoopy1alpha]

I don't remember its name, but I used a linux distro that booted off a floppy disk, run in RAM and turned an old 486 PC into a router. The PC hat two(!) network cards but no hard drive. One network card was used for PPPoE (DSL connection) and the other network card was connected to the home network. It didn't use NAT but instead a technique called "IP masquerading". It also included a firewall. You could protect it by physically enabling the write protection of the floppy. It was amazing 🙂

[@Undoublethinkful]

MORE LINUX TECH TIPS

[@kubuntukowalski]

i love it!

[@fakecubed]

When I first heard of Linus Tech Tips, I assumed it was a channel dedicated to Linux. Since that isn't what this channel is, I still have to support every Linux video you make in the hopes that someday the metrics will be good enough that you will indeed dedicate the entire channel to Linux-related content.

[@Gerton999]

Yoo same

[@zimboiii9025]

WHEN LINUX CHANNEL

[@creativecraving]

Lol! I was _so_ disappointed when I first discovered it. But --- like a barnacle that I allowed to stick around for too long --- the show has grown on me.

[@urip_zukoharjo]

Meanwhile here I am, thinking Linus Tech Tips was run by Linus Torvalds

[@fakecubed]

@@urip_zukoharjo It never occurred to me that anyone would have the name Linus except for Linus Torvalds. I didn’t think he had anything to do with this channel but I assumed it was a reference to him.

[@BBROPHOTO]

Haha, it's funny seeing Stellarium here. It's a very commonly used app for astrophotography with computer controlled telescopes. You can use it to click anywhere and then your telescope will move to that location - it's very helpful when doing lunar and planetary imaging. The whole being able to change the location / date thing is helpful as depending on where you're physically located, you can see different things at different times, but what's it's *really* helpful for is being able to see when transit events happen (like ISS lunar / solar transits, moon transits of planets like Jupiter, eclipses etc) and you can get exact times for when they happen, so future planning is possible.

[@MrThomaspop]

To add, the stellarium mobile app is very nice, though not free, iirc.

[@SFoX-On-Air]

The one thing Adobe really needs is a competitor. Specifically, one that offers a package of video FX, video editing, and graphic design software. Currently, Adobe holds such a monopoly, especially in the professional space, that they could charge $1,000 per month, and while media companies would complain, they'd still begrudgingly go along with it.

[@GSBarlev]

21:30 Nice to see System Rescue get some love. I keep a flash drive with System Rescue on me at pretty much all times-it is exactly what it says on the tin, plus is really great for drive cloning or preparing a fresh system without needing the command line.

[@Lampe2020]

6:27 I think I know why it said "Window". You hovered over the Unity dock, which is implemented as a kinda-window with no title. And because the screen reader couldn't figure out what it was except a window it called it "Window".

[@YOEL_44]

It's reading the type of element instead of the content in it.

[@miguelguthridge]

Tbh I think that it's likely due to the distro running an ancient desktop environment. It'd be awesome to see the kind of support you'd get from a more modern system.

[@gamiacode]

WIndow.

[@Lampe2020]

@@gamiacode My German kicked in there again so I wrote "window" with a capital W (it's a noun and in German all nouns are capitalized). Is that why you wrote "Window."?

[@AgentLokVokun]

It’s still a butt sucking experience that is easily outclassed by other Linux stock accessibility features.

[@p_serdiuk]

You missed Tails and Whonix, those too are very useful to carry around on an USB stick in case you need to use a somewhat untrusted system.

[@gannonbest7251]

I think you missed the point of the video tails is incredibly useful. These OS’s are not

[@benwu7980]

@@gannonbest7251 System Rescue is pretty useful, I've had that on cd and usb for at least 15 years

[@fishbotsid9771]

@@gannonbest7251 the system rescue cd is something i will genuinely use going forward though.

[@mycosys]

@@fishbotsid9771 it amazes me people dont know it, been round since XP. If you like the fast, minimal gui - its XFCE, i used to daily drive Xubuntu

[@GSBarlev]

Haven't they done a video on Tails?

[@nathan34914]

Install Gentoo

[@Apheleion]

i switched my windows 10 laptop to linux mint recently and i have been loving it, im hoping to continue my linux path into the future.

[@Cavi587]

Cool, Linux Mint is a good choice to get into Linux.

[@spiderron1463]

Linux Mint got me into it and Im still at it. Best OS IMO

[@Apheleion]

@@Cavi587 ya I was afraid of Linux for awhile because I thought I had to do a lot of coding to make it work. Couldn't be further from the truth, a few lines of simple code and done I even got Kodi and wine working through the prompt.

[@Apheleion]

@@spiderron1463 it's so stable and so simple to use I love it.

[@itsdokko2990]

excellent choice friend Welcome to the Penguin Club!

[@messagenorth]

Hannah Montana linux is finally getting the recognition it deserves after pushing the boundaries for years.

[@computingwithcoffee3907]

Elijah makes the videos so much more unhinged and I love it. The Linus and Elijah duo are just awesome.

[@nicsosa369]

cringe and cringerer

[@computingwithcoffee3907]

@@nicsosa369 exactly

[@cannaroe1213]

@@computingwithcoffee3907 ADHD except instead of Adderall they just gave him straight Meth.

[@entelin]

I use systemrescue pretty regularly for various things. Most commonly to break into windows and linux systems, including into bitlocker encrypted volumes (when I have the recovery key obviously). But also for various forensics tasks, I've used ddrescue off failing disks to build images for later analysis with winhex for example. Also I've booted compromised systems off it, started the ssh server, and used that to copy files off the compromised system without having to take out the SSD or launching the OS, etc. Very useful tool, can't say I've ever tried it's gui though.

[@RenderingUser]

No flippin way. Linus back at Linux? After 2 years we're finally back

[@smorrow]

Oh. I must have been permanently banned from /r/linux two years ago at this point then. (I was banned for commenting "drink window cleaner" as the forfeit to the Linux daily driver challenge. Cause you know, "Windows")

[@RenderingUser]

@@smorrow bro wat 💀

[@BigDogHaver]

@@smorrow Bit unprompted to tell people this but uh, yeah that sounds like a reasonable ban bud.

[@smorrow]

@@BigDogHaver lol what? is the joke really that unobvious?

[@xp7575]

9:45 you CAN divide things by negative numbers That's step 1 to writing them off your taxes

[@smorrow]

x/y is "what do you multiply y by to get x", and everybody knows multiplication by a negative.

[@xp7575]

@@smorrow you got woooshed hard here 😂

[@SEBithehiper945]

@@xp7575 Poe's law applies here

[@JohnneyleeRollins]

“That’s basically what you do now” - in reference to Hannah Tech Tips

[@orlagh277]

Isn't the joke that he called Linus a children's entertainer?

[@eni3892]

@@orlagh277 Yes it is indeed.

[@semperinumbra]

seeing Linus google basic ubuntu commands in an effort to not make a mistake feels extremely cathartic for me

[@JamesJones-zt2yx]

It's also a step forward for Linus from the "do what I say" stage.

[@Skiman__]

5:28 sick burn Elijah lmao 🤣

[@Scootz_]

Stellarium is a genuine stargazing and astronomic tool

[@saskapriest]

Agreed - Came here to say this also. It’s incredibly useful and completely cross-platform.

[@bgezal]

I have it on Windows and Android.

[@saskapriest]

@@bgezal It also works nicely in MacOS and iOS (though for iOS there is a fee to unlock all the features. Very much worth it for helping with my astrophotography!).

[@colemanroberts1102]

On Android, I can point my phone at a celestial object I want to identify, and it will correctly orient to show me what's up there.

[@fishbotsid9771]

yeah. i have used it for almost the entirety of the time i have spent on the hobby.

[@PrussianJaeger]

Nobara Linux is a distro that essentially takes Fedora and adds a ton of kernel and driver tweaks that would probably be too verbose for the average user to install; they’re geared toward gaming performance and modern hardware stuff like HDR and they actually achieve decent results. It’s developed by the same guy that makes Proton-GE (Glorious Eggroll) and it is kept as up-to-daye as it could ever be. It also has a custom steam install with more performance tweaks, and comes with some other preinstalled apps and drivers and such. I will note that generally, one wouldn’t want to run things like UwUntu on their genuine main computer due to only having 2 maintainers that might quit at any point, but people generally regard Nobara as fine for production due to how close to stock it is an the reputation of the maintainer.

[@creativecraving]

"up-to-daye as it could ever be" That's a bit redundant. You already mentioned that it's based on Fedora! ;-p

[@Enixious99]

Throw back to me as a 13 year old in 2013 seeing "LinusTechTips" on KZbin, thinking that was the same as Linux, and also thinking that was the same as MacOS, therefore I hated it. Needless to say his camera presence grabbed me then, and still does to this day. Thank you for all the years team

[@DenzoNL]

I would love to see you guys cover NixOS, it has so many cool concepts you don't see in any other OSes.

[@Spined]

Could you do a video about Video Encoding/Codecs? Like AV1 h26X and so on? Details: Maybe compare all the codecs with several bitrates, what works best for storing movies, holiday videos, game recordings and maybe go into detail what codec is "the best" and why or why not streaming services use one or the other. That'd be a classic Tech-Video I'd watch.

[@Omalleypike]

Fedora Silverblue (now called Fedora Atomic Desktop) is worth checking out. Nobara is worth checking out if preinstalled Steam and Nvidia drivers are important

[@BaronCAD]

Yes, Nobara is a must. Excellent gaming experience, and the maintainer is also the creator of Proton-GE. I'd caution you about nVidia drivers right now, however, as nVidia seems committed to dragging Linux users over the proverbial coals in the name of a graphical DRM feature called 'explicit sync'. You'd be well served by installing it on a rig rocking an AMD GPU.

[@dvdmuckle]

I would caution folks about jumping in the Nobara train. It's supported by one dev that has many other projects in flight. I personally had a hard time with Nvidia drivers, even with the Nvidia driver install tool, as it didn't blacklist nouveau. It also had a weird glitch where the login screen was just a stark white screen. Personally, I recommend just using Fedora and installing the drivers you need yourself. Rpmfusion makes it pretty easy these days.

[@sideeffectdk]

Bazzite is another great alternative, very much in the same vein as Nobara, ChimeraOS, HoloISO, SteamOS. It's also based on Fedora Atomic, Universal Blue, with batteries included, and lots of compatibility tools pre-installed and a choice of KDE Plasma or GNOME for your Desktop Environment. Nice community and documentation too

[@Gramini]

@@MrGamelover23 "DRM" in this context means "Direct Rendering Manager", which is part of the kernel that handles graphics stuff. But it's an important feature indeed. That other guy might not know what explicit sync is/means, or also thought about the other DRM that's bad and thought that explicit sync must also be bad.

[@ThatLinuxDude]

To be fair, DRM has two meanings. Direct Rendering Manager Digital Rights Management They likely meant the former.

[@Jess-qp3nv]

Elijah is hilarious, your chemistry with him is great Linus

[@NithinJune]

“You can’t divide something by a negative number” - Linus Sebastian

[@gonzalolog]

22:15 a villain origin story almost occurred 😭😭😭😭 -i don't get it 🥺

[@Gergith]

Ooo. I thought you were just calling me obese! I was like Brother!?

[@StarcrossTV]

14:10 "Unsubscribe from Linus" 😂

[@First_Grafter]

Omg I hadn't noticed! 🤣

[@robertschneider4685]

Yeah, though it's still a translation problem

[@thornedoesstuff6363]

What?

[@SergeySedlovsky]

Well at least some people noticed

[@jonathanward3633]

Good eye! I missed that

[@John_1-1_in_Japanese]

Edubuntu seems silly but the idea of Linux in computer labs itself seems great. Being forced to spend a school year familiarizing yourself with Linux would certainly make you more comfortable with a PC overall

[@DeviceBAR]

I miss those days where we get Linux Distros on CD / DVD with tech magazines.

[@LordManhattan]

Indeed. That was how I got into Linux WAY back in the day. Ordered a CD with Ubuntu on it, and that pretty much got me into Linux. Can't remember exactly when this was, but around 2008.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

What magazines ? I guess I was reading the wrong ones. Still I used to like trying different distros. For the longest time I used a bootable CD of Knoppix to help fix people's PCs.

[@swetuxisrazz]

that is still a thing. but i find it kind of useless. They are coasters at best.

[@benwu7980]

@@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments Knoppix was shipped with an issue of Linux Format as far back as 1999. I never actually subscribed to that magazine, but when Amiga Format fell, my yearly subscription had me receiving the Linux mags until cancelled.

[@mr.m2675]

here in germany i can still buy a magazine with a cd on it 9 distros to try out they sady sit behind others usually kind of hidden and i have no idea who buys them (exept me a few times) but they are always up to date, neat

[@m3nguele]

18:57 love Elijah just trolling Linus for the infamous "DO AS I SAY"

[@dsouth7754]

2:45 That's gotta be one of the slickest merch plugs ever done, lol.

[@FXVNDER]

22:10 this moment LMFAO WHAT I was also sad they didn't show Stellarium, spent so much time on it please release an LTT distro, I'd die for Linux content and putting people's minds on it. I believe with the right mindset we could really make Windows and Mac users feeling like they're missing out, which is true!

[@pengie_]

3:12 Brodie Robertson mention???

[@Beryesa.]

Sneaky xP

[@GSBarlev]

I guess Brodie's reaction video to the Linux Challenge made an impression 😉

[@p99chan99]

"Children's entertainer" cmon, he's really good at it tho!

[@roamthesurface8410]

Linus and Elijah's chemistry is hilarious 😂

[@enderger5308]

In a LTT distro, I’d love to see either the Nix or Guix package manager. They provide some really useful features like being able to roll back most screw ups.

[@_BlackSpectrum]

Try Zorin OS Also if you're making a distro then make it like we saw that UI on baldy's laptop when Pepper was trying to copy files from it in Iron Man 1!

[@orlagh277]

He prefers being called "the dude", baldy is kinda offensive

[@arnox4554]

What's so quirky about Zorin OS?

[@zxuiji]

For that Linix distro you were talking about at the end, I would like to see benchmarking software on there. In the distant future when I've actually got my project in a release ready state I would love to see it on there too. It's call PAW for Platform ABI Wrapper. The idea is to put an end to the *.exe vs *.elf vs *.etc of operating systems and consoles being the target of development. Instead PAW is targeted and the *.o / *.a object files outputed during compile along with a custom makefile are what are distributed to users who then use their local install of PAW to launch them. PAW will then run the makefile 1st to let the makefile decide what of the local object files PAW provides are linked to the compiled object files to then make the final binary (APP_EXT/LIB_EXT variables used to indicate .exe/.elf/.etc). The entire point is that apps developed for PAW are cross-platform by default while the native stuff remains an option via the appropriate directory. If no OTG_DIR variable is defined then PAW will set it to be in the user profile directory (~/ on linux) for the launched app and expect all the apps & libs inside a subdirectory called ".paw" (with relevant subdirectories for each CPU and data model). This will also simplify app and library management for users as they don't need to keep a list of apps and libs to reinstall whenever they need to do a "factory reset" on their desktop since the only thing they'd need to reinstall would be PAW itself. The apps and libraries would just be restored alongside everything else they backed up from their home directory.

[@zxuiji]

@@MrGamelover23 It appears my reply was deleted by YT, possibly because I made a link in it. For the blog, no, not yet anyways. I'll start that after the release of the 1st version of paw & libpaw (always a pair). If you want to keep an eye on it's progress you'll just have to lookup the gitlab repo awsdert/paw. I'd link it but links don't seem to be allowed on this channel.

[@Tristinus]

New Challenge for Linus and Luke: Whoever can use UnAlive Linux the longest without getting his Computer wiped.

[@_fremdkoerper]

3 minute video at max

[@electricalbatross5797]

26:32 - nothing is broken! It's just telling you that if your gamepads don't work, you have to install an additional package. That's IF, in my case I've never had to.

[@AndyHerbert254]

Yes, make a video attempting making a custom Linux distro! Even bring in the Linux queen Emily back for that! It would probably be one of the most difficult guides or things this channel would do but it can also really show one of Linux 's biggest strong points, being fully customizable

[@mirmarq429]

​@@uhohoverflowshe was in the April Fools video, and had a voice cameo recently as well. Definitely still around, just not hosting for the time being

[@benwu7980]

I, for one, am hugely down with that. I'm from the era of doing stuff with WinPE, but have not actually made a custom Linux distro. Not sure quite why, I think it was that certain ones already existed with everything I might use ( like the featured System Rescue). Having Emily return with a full guide for how to actually make a distro, and talk about the Rufus or Ventoy stuff, would be amazing. She is missed, but having read a lot of comments by *insert words* since she left the videos, I'm not surprised.

[@andrewbullen9730]

It kinda sucks that Emily is choosing not to be on camera for the time being. She was a great host and her and Linus always had a fun dynamic. That being said, I can see why she would choose to step back, KZbin comments sections being what they are.

[@LumiLumiLumiLumiLumiLumiLumiL]

Anthony.

[@BlueSparkzVideos]

I was so confused. I just did a search and ..whoa. When did all this happen?!

[@daniwalmsley611]

7:57 I'm blind and Ive found the most effective way of using my computer isthrough the command line. I don't know how effective you'd be able to test screen readers as they take practice and as elijah pointed out can be very overwhelming but if you guys want to do a video about accessible computing like you did with the xbox accessibility controller I'd be happy to share my knowledge/experience

[@fakecubed]

I bet large language models are a real boon for you. If you run Ollama locally on your own machine, you basically have a search engine in your terminal without having to deal without having to sort through whatever web pages served up as search results that may be set up really badly for accessibility.

[@daniwalmsley611]

@@fakecubed personally, I'd rather deal with the accessibility issues than the hallucinations and such. But the machine learning boom in general has been amazing, many blind people are using AI image recognition to descibe things for them (I still have enough sight where I don't find it all that useful) but there's huge potential in the LLM space. What would be really useful from an LLM is web page summaries with a guide of where the navigation elements are, basically a LLM powered screen reader

[@Felix-on9dr]

For people with vision the command line is small and hard to read, but blind people whith a screen reader or on a braille display the text is easier. I never thought about it that way

[@fakecubed]

@@daniwalmsley611 Oh yeah, that'd be really cool. I find that LLMs are really good at summarizing and other textual analysis like identifying tone and such. I find the image captioning ability of things like stable diffusion a bit iffy at times, but it'll probably get much better over time.

[@florinadrian5174]

This is a worthy suggestion. There are 80 million people in the EU alone (16% of population) who would need some kind of assistance to use a computer and/or the web.

[@gabrielbraga7670]

No AmongOS?

[@ICE0124]

i was fully expecting it to be in this video

[@NyarchLinuxYT]

And no Nyarch! Unacceptable

[@Aimero]

LTT Linux definitely needs an animation where windows that you drag with your mouse will occasionally fall down on the bottom of the screen

[@katanah3195]

Oh yeah, it dropping windows and you having to pick them up would be hilarious.

[@BringusStudios]

Mark my words I will play Half-Life 2 on Hannah Montana Linux someday

[@Muddledclient]

Lol

[@GumaKulkae]

Do you still plan that bringus

[@noredine]

LTT Distro should have LTT intro as a startup sound/video

[@39zack]

and lots of Linus meme backgrounds

[@Kvaasten]

I would like to see you talk about security related distros like Kali/Parrot (pentesting), QubesOS (Run your apps on seperated VMs) and tails (Tor enabled distro).

[@midnite59]

Add a sponsor app that randomly plays one of your sponsor clips when clicked on😊

[@benjamincarr9233]

Great video guys. Just came to say thanks for the flickering warnings. That's not something that many channels do, and is much appreciated.

[@heyspookyboogie644]

I just used Stellarium the other day to figure out how high in the sky the total eclipse would be from where I planned on going so I’d know how open of a space without tree cover or mountains I’d need so it wasn’t blocked.

[@mastroitek]

Amazing program, I always used it for planning my astrophotography

[@timplacke1521]

Yes, thank you. Stellarium is actually a great app and you can do A LOT in terms of astronomy and astrophotography

[@lorduggae]

I like seeing more Linux coverage! Any and all distros have there place and use. I'm currently daily driving ArcoLinux.

[@lukas2_029]

Ok, I love this video, now rate actually useful distros like Garuda or EndeavorOS

[@SubHumanGaming]

2:36 idk if they intended for that back monitor to be used as a way for us to still see what their doing despite going fullscreen camera, but i really like it 😂

[@ooTruffle]

Its the Screen Capture pc

[@-lobotomo]

As far as I'm concerned any video with either [A] Linus and Elijah's disappointed dad/son energy or [B] David's b-roll is comedy gold.

[@Fenrasulfr]

Man it would be really cool to have Emily and other Linux enthousiast at LTT build an Distro from scratch to show what goes into all the hard work that has to be done.

[@pranavanand9818]

whos emily?

[@Fenrasulfr]

@@pranavanand9818 She used to be called Anthony Young.

[@pranavanand9818]

@@Fenrasulfr oh ok

[@Dungeon47]

I would LOVE to see a head to head competition to complete a list of tasks as fast as possible via cli using suicide Linux. Also, please do an updated Linux challenge with Luke using Nobara and Garuda so you can see how far Linux gaming has come.

[@laudedbattlecry]

That’s basically what people do with the distro these days. You hold competitions to do more and more complex stuff until someone messes up.

[@Scio_]

I want to see NixOS covered. Surprised it wasn't already. Not only is it fascinating, but it has SO MUCH comedic potential!

[@tbard]

Went into the comments just to find the first comment pushing for NixOS and CoreOS and upvote them :D

[@1.0]

"come on, you can have swimming lessons with Brodie" killed me. Applause to the writers

[@mtarek2005]

hope that Brodie reacts to this

[@Kumimono]

@@mtarek2005 That wasn't a Jaws reference?

[@marsimplodation]

​@@KumimonoBrodie is a popular linux youtuber, so probably not

[@Its-Just-Zip]

I don't know if I want swimming lessons with Brodie... He lives in Australia and I will have to go down there for it. I don't think I would survive the experience

[@godarklight]

The only problem is we don't have water down under.

[@Gramini]

One use-case I've heard for that "UnAlive Linux" is for job interviews. You give the interviewee a task where they likely miss-type a command, the system breaks itself and you get to see how they deal with stress situations.

[@Jujukungfu]

That's actually genius but also a bit cruel lol

[@el_teodoro]

What do you expect them to do? Throw the PC out of the window?

[@salia2897]

Sounds stupid, like all these fake "stress situations" in job interviews.

[@niksardesai3883]

22:10 "Show us how fat your fingers are" I laughed out loud when he thought it was an insult of him being fat

[@benzhere]

Thanks for the intro animation! It makes me sad every time it isn't included in a video.

[@TheTekknician]

"Unsubcribe from Linus" 14:11 - That made me laugh :)

[@gabrieylgonzalez7817]

Thank you for continuing to popularize Linux, even when you guys don't use it on the daily, you still give accurate info and great content. Something I'd love to see is an example of the CPU hotplug feature in gentoo! if you guys could make a vid about that id be so cool to try and understand that.

[@arnox4554]

Isn't that just a general Linux kernel feature?

[@alexrno8l9ek27]

I use Linux daily and this video is trash they mostly feature outdated and meme distros

[@lalnablehector1285]

@@alexrno8l9ek27 HMMM its almost as if the video is titled "10 Weird versions of Linux" HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM wonder what that could entail. Fuck me.

[@schalla-bills6618]

Best Segue so far this Year, perfect execution and it had that "please stop dad your embarrassing me" feel 10/10

[@LeonSteelpaw]

Red Star OS CAN be used, so long as your virtual machine is deliberately configured to NOT have net access I think it was Michael MJD that did a video on the OS awhile back

[@averyoriginalname1547]

"You can't divide something by negative a number!" I guess we know why the Linux challenge failed

[@dawnbanks986]

Thinking of unsubscribing until Linus gets his GED. Not knowing basic arithmetic is shameful

[@ninjadev64]

yes lmaoo

[@Maitreya3001]

I was actually hoping for an LTT Linux video (and I miss Emily) since I recently took the plunge and installed some distros on a 2nd drive on my computer. It seems a lot has changed since your last attempt and there seems to be a bunch of really beginner friendly distros nowadays. I also tried to replicate your challenges from your series and managed to do them on my first day of using Mint. I'm sure the devs have seen your videos :D Using Mint, the only issued I had was when switching from Windows to the Mint after a reboot, Mint wouldn't get internet because Windows doesn't release the IP address. I of course reinstalled not knowing that... But yeah I think it would be cool if you would try it with something like Linux Mint, Nobara or CachyOS, while the latter one probably isn't as beginner friendly as it's Arch-based.

[@U1TR4F0RCE]

Ooh Nobara would definitely be a good choice, I do think that there is a chance that it is partially Linus proof.

[@psiah9889]

​@@U1TR4F0RCEeh... As a Nobara User, it's Linus Proof until it isn't. If you use the built in update script and occasionally check the actual Nobara website for fixes to specific bugs... But I've seen it get fairly broken by people running a dnf update instead of the updater script, and a lot of scripts for things will just run stuff like that. More or less I don't trust Linus enough here to read the documentation and look things over and understand them first before just... Running whatever's convenient. So something more user-proof like Mint is probably a good call, even though he definitely needs wayland for some of the things he'll want.

[@soejrd24978]

What happened to them?

[@Vancha112]

​@@soejrd24978many things, both major desktop environments have had major rewrites, gnome the larger of the two had a complete graphical overhaul, and kde the second biggest one had one of the biggest updates on years with loads of new features. They now have (at least partial) HDR support too.

[@westcoastcaper]

A distro loaded with troubleshooting tools and benchmarking apps could be fun

[@charliegolf2730]

Love seeing more Linux content! Would be great to see you do a piece on the differences between the "base" distro that most use, Debian, RHEL/Fedora, Arch etc, and maybe even some of the more specialized distros like Debian EDU/Skolelinux (same as Ubundu edu but different) or distros made by service providers for their own internal use

[@BlueRey2]

Elijah videos are my favorites as of late, he's just really likeable and has really good chemistry with anyone he's hosting with.

[@StormWarningMom]

The Linux challenge is what brought me in as a regular LTT viewer. Loved this episode too... can't wait to see what you come up with. (I suggest basing your distribution on Debian)

[@CaseyConnor]

10:43 a hilarious underselling of Stellarium :-) My heart breaks for those developers. It's like opening blender and saying "meh, you can rotate a cube!". :-)

[@Durayne]

Regarding your Question: Your Challenge took care I switched to Arch on my gaming mashine. Staying there since your Linux Challenge with my gaming rig. Used Mint before for everything not gaming related. Arch was a little rough compared to that though, but I learned quite a lot doing so.

[@Mr.Morden]

Back in my day you had to build the kernel yourself while walking 5 miles in the snow! j/k about the snow part

[@Elkarlo77]

It's called Gentoo today.

[@mycosys]

In 25y the only time i remember HAVING to build a kernel was for PPC

[@Mr.Morden]

@@mycosys I had to do it for PCMCIA support on my laptop.

[@mycosys]

@@Mr.Morden Yep, that'd do it, we actually had a tower server we had to do that for - we had WaveLAN internet in the late 90s, but it needed a PCMICI card lol. It didnt get kernel updates much XD. Forgot that, was never me that did it.

[@David_Quinn_Photography]

I love Linus's 1st interaction with Stellarium, I use this app when star-gazing or when doing astro photography