Linus Torvalds: We Don't Use Windows

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  • @vladimir945
    @vladimir945 Před 7 lety +10798

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

  • @cgme7076
    @cgme7076 Před 3 lety +2246

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

    • @indrajithlal6160
      @indrajithlal6160 Před 2 lety +82

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

    • @socvirnylestela5878
      @socvirnylestela5878 Před 2 lety +360

      @@indrajithlal6160 github and git are two different things

    • @johnduffy2777
      @johnduffy2777 Před 2 lety +40

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

    • @godfather7339
      @godfather7339 Před 2 lety +44

      @@tbird81 is that what your mom told you?

    • @ISCARI0T
      @ISCARI0T Před 2 lety +47

      I speak 7 languages, hope you appreciate me as well

  • @b-1battledroid674
    @b-1battledroid674 Před 3 lety +580

    "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"

  • @OnajTamo
    @OnajTamo Před 7 lety +3313

    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
      @OnajTamo Před 7 lety +31

      ***** heh, define techie person.

    • @nitrowad
      @nitrowad Před 7 lety +139

      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
      @kingprone7846 Před 7 lety +154

      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
      @ledues3336 Před 7 lety +123

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

    • @ruinb0wzero852
      @ruinb0wzero852 Před 7 lety +60

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

  • @gmc9753
    @gmc9753 Před 7 lety +1299

    "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
      @MrHatoi Před 5 lety +124

      She had the language set to English too!!

    • @AUBCodeII
      @AUBCodeII Před 4 lety +75

      @@MrHatoi Using a qwerty keyboard.

    • @Vlad-1986
      @Vlad-1986 Před 3 lety +41

      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

    • @diegomarquez3293
      @diegomarquez3293 Před 3 lety +7

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

    • @Vlad-1986
      @Vlad-1986 Před 3 lety +5

      @@diegomarquez3293 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.

  • @curryeater259
    @curryeater259 Před 11 lety +1803

    Dear Microsoft,
    Thanks for Windows 8!
    Love,
    Linux

    • @sinharakshit
      @sinharakshit Před 3 lety +16

      Lmao.

    • @NphiniT
      @NphiniT Před 3 lety +47

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

    • @sinharakshit
      @sinharakshit Před 3 lety +24

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

    • @NphiniT
      @NphiniT Před 3 lety +5

      @@sinharakshit gug point LOL

    • @giorgiannicartamancini3917
      @giorgiannicartamancini3917 Před 3 lety +19

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

  • @raz0229
    @raz0229 Před 3 lety +682

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

  • @TaiFerret
    @TaiFerret Před 9 lety +2780

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

    • @DubNation2016
      @DubNation2016 Před 9 lety +164

      Light bulbs

    • @matteroftim3
      @matteroftim3 Před 9 lety +60

      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
      @mr.anurag5487 Před 6 lety +1

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

    • @vikashkumarv
      @vikashkumarv Před 6 lety +7

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

    • @unlokia
      @unlokia Před 5 lety +7

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

  • @CRogers
    @CRogers Před 8 lety +416

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

    • @BransonnGames
      @BransonnGames Před 8 lety +9

      +C Rogers You da real MVP

    • @souloftheage
      @souloftheage Před 8 lety +8

      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
      @CRogers Před 8 lety +16

      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
      @wopmf4345FxFDxdGaa20 Před 7 lety

      +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
      @grapy83 Před 3 lety

      Thanks

  • @SimplyMyAccount
    @SimplyMyAccount Před 8 lety +657

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

  • @-long-
    @-long- Před 6 lety +233

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

  • @AnilArya51
    @AnilArya51 Před 3 lety +474

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

    • @afeef2152
      @afeef2152 Před 3 lety +31

      We dont need a fruit as well

    • @mrarcticaaa1101
      @mrarcticaaa1101 Před 3 lety +9

      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
      @afeef2152 Před 3 lety +3

      @@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
      @fabioa.8008 Před 3 lety +5

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

    • @mrarcticaaa1101
      @mrarcticaaa1101 Před 3 lety +1

      @@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

  • @avro549B
    @avro549B Před 11 lety +414

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

    • @Bokto1
      @Bokto1 Před 2 lety +155

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

    • @parrotraiser6541
      @parrotraiser6541 Před 2 lety +37

      @@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
      @Bokto1 Před 2 lety +8

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

    • @Stopinvadingmyhardware
      @Stopinvadingmyhardware Před rokem +4

      @@parrotraiser6541 You have no idea.

    • @meghanachauhan9380
      @meghanachauhan9380 Před rokem +4

      His mails tho

  • @cinemint
    @cinemint Před 2 lety +22

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

  • @Doomanoid1979
    @Doomanoid1979 Před 10 lety +241

    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
      @owenmaule4176 Před 10 lety +23

      Brother printers are great for their Linux support. Recommended!

    • @lonerider92
      @lonerider92 Před 10 lety +18

      HP makes Linux friendly computers too.

    • @DubNation2016
      @DubNation2016 Před 9 lety +11

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

    • @lonerider92
      @lonerider92 Před 9 lety +9

      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
      @Doomanoid1979 Před 8 lety

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

  • @solitudeinteractive3226
    @solitudeinteractive3226 Před 6 lety +86

    And Now Microsoft have taken over linus torvalds' github account

  • @EnergeticWaves
    @EnergeticWaves Před 4 lety +69

    This looks like one of those prison interview shows

  • @pt1200
    @pt1200 Před 6 lety +122

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

  • @coompiler9029
    @coompiler9029 Před 3 lety +69

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

    • @belisariussmith9095
      @belisariussmith9095 Před 3 lety +20

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

    • @runninginthe90s75
      @runninginthe90s75 Před 2 lety +4

      @@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
      @ihate4chan Před 2 lety +23

      @@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
      @runninginthe90s75 Před 2 lety +1

      ​@@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
      @nonameee.e4668 Před rokem

      Yes we do

  • @MichaelLockhart
    @MichaelLockhart Před 11 lety +22

    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
      @howtomundane3109 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @aisPanais
    @aisPanais Před 10 lety +141

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

  • @deviroz
    @deviroz Před 12 lety +105

    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
      @blendingsentinel4797 Před 2 lety +11

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

    • @oliverford5367
      @oliverford5367 Před 2 lety

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

    • @hwstar9416
      @hwstar9416 Před rokem +14

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

    • @meghanachauhan9380
      @meghanachauhan9380 Před rokem

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

    • @ChrisStavros
      @ChrisStavros Před 6 měsíci

      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.

  • @waynestewart1919
    @waynestewart1919 Před 2 lety +62

    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
      @marufbepary100 Před 2 lety +14

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

    • @Tapajara
      @Tapajara Před 2 lety

      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
      @pentasteve9723 Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @biolinux2307
      @biolinux2307 Před rokem

      Android= Linux

    • @tomassacamacho7987
      @tomassacamacho7987 Před rokem +1

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

  • @lobaxx
    @lobaxx Před 10 lety

    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.

  • @salmanfarooq8570
    @salmanfarooq8570 Před 3 lety +39

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

  • @jendralhxr
    @jendralhxr Před 11 lety +5

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

  • @EstebanPeralta
    @EstebanPeralta Před 11 lety +23

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

  • @dvamateur
    @dvamateur Před 11 lety

    Would you recommend Slackware? Slackware was my first ever GNU/Linux distribution, but I haven't used it for like 15 years, should I go back by getting the Slackware 14 CD set? I have Ubuntu, but the system seems too commercial to me...

  • @iYeetz
    @iYeetz Před 3 lety +19

    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
      @shubhamkalikar5141 Před 2 lety +2

      is your mom gamer?

    • @tomassacamacho7987
      @tomassacamacho7987 Před rokem

      "few hours" that depends on the person ;)

    • @imbadatcod7208
      @imbadatcod7208 Před 10 měsíci

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

  • @devdylan6152
    @devdylan6152 Před 4 lety +70

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

    • @Time4Technology
      @Time4Technology Před 3 lety +1

      Lmao. *daughter looking at an i3 wm*

    • @cgme7076
      @cgme7076 Před 3 lety

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

    • @hexa3389
      @hexa3389 Před 3 lety +2

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

    • @Mario583a
      @Mario583a Před 3 lety

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

  • @AgentFortySeven47
    @AgentFortySeven47 Před 2 lety +4

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

    • @rippspeck
      @rippspeck Před 2 lety

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

  • @gregdvorkin
    @gregdvorkin Před 8 měsíci +1

    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.

  • @snoopyjc
    @snoopyjc Před 3 lety +9

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

  • @xhelloselm
    @xhelloselm Před 10 lety +3

    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.

  • @PavelPirogov
    @PavelPirogov Před 2 lety

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

  • @RoKishDubbz
    @RoKishDubbz Před 4 lety +13

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

  • @cestarianinhabitant5898
    @cestarianinhabitant5898 Před 3 lety +24

    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.

  •  Před 9 lety +3

    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.

  • @bright1402
    @bright1402 Před 2 lety +15

    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
      @kaiso7322 Před 2 lety

      @You Tube The comparison makes no sense

    • @kaiso7322
      @kaiso7322 Před 2 lety

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

    • @howtomundane3109
      @howtomundane3109 Před 10 měsíci +5

      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.

  • @Fernando-wz6no
    @Fernando-wz6no Před 3 lety +6

    I compile my own kernel since 1991

  • @jorgeayalaarce7712
    @jorgeayalaarce7712 Před 3 lety +5

    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.

  • @anlexaify
    @anlexaify Před 2 lety +5

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

  • @scrimpmster
    @scrimpmster Před 7 lety +2

    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).

  • @sleepingeye
    @sleepingeye Před 10 lety

    then what would you recommend as an alternative to .NET for windows programming

  • @bigsmoke7168
    @bigsmoke7168 Před 2 lety +4

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

  • @KiyoSimp
    @KiyoSimp Před 10 lety +9

    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.

  • @Akmeds301
    @Akmeds301 Před 5 lety +1

    Very humble dude tbh

  • @MelhodRiperton
    @MelhodRiperton Před rokem +1

    My Hero 😊❤

  • @goat813
    @goat813 Před 4 lety +3

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

  • @joemann7971
    @joemann7971 Před 11 lety +63

    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
      @courier3567 Před 2 lety +17

      this aged like milk

    • @joemann7971
      @joemann7971 Před 2 lety +16

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

    • @courier3567
      @courier3567 Před 2 lety +6

      @@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
      @joemann7971 Před 2 lety +13

      @@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
      @joemann7971 Před 2 lety +3

      @@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.

  • @GrandmaterP
    @GrandmaterP Před 10 lety

    does it not run with "wine"?
    most stuff runs quite fine with "wine" on non windows platforms....

  • @spoderman15
    @spoderman15 Před 7 lety +1

    So how does he get sunlight into the room?

  • @crzyruskie86
    @crzyruskie86 Před 11 lety +6

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

  • @soapmeridius
    @soapmeridius Před 10 lety +27

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

    • @anantgupta7916
      @anantgupta7916 Před 3 lety +1

      He finds it hard to install

    • @_-noxxon-_
      @_-noxxon-_ Před 3 lety +1

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

  • @tspradling76
    @tspradling76 Před 10 lety

    Yeah, I've used Mono all the time. But not everything is compatible. There's a lot of libraries I use that aren't portable.

  • @Ackongagya
    @Ackongagya Před 3 lety

    So smiling man!!!

  • @Excelsoft
    @Excelsoft Před 11 lety +20

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

  • @mukilkrishnan
    @mukilkrishnan Před 10 lety +5

    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
      @TheHadMatters Před 2 lety

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

  • @MajorBee
    @MajorBee Před 9 lety +1

    thank you Linus

  • @crzyruskie86
    @crzyruskie86 Před 11 lety +1

    You should be able to find any sort of plug in to render pretty much anything but if it gets really down to nitty gritty especially for clients you have no choice sometimes. When I was in college though like I said, did everything I needed to with no costly software needed, it wasnt just me giving the middle finger to conformity I really wanted to save money so I found my ways to do so.

  • @LiezerZero
    @LiezerZero Před 11 lety +20

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

    • @ThatJay283
      @ThatJay283 Před 3 lety +3

      Gotta love qemu/kvm

    • @georgeohwell9514
      @georgeohwell9514 Před 2 lety

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

  • @Federico84
    @Federico84 Před 4 lety +31

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

    • @SkepticRaider
      @SkepticRaider Před 4 lety +5

      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
      @Elite7555 Před 3 lety +18

      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
      @cybro8925 Před 3 lety +9

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

    • @cgme7076
      @cgme7076 Před 3 lety +2

      Hey, English isn’t that bad.

    • @GIGACHAD-qh1yi
      @GIGACHAD-qh1yi Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @watanglipuhadjar2654
    @watanglipuhadjar2654 Před 2 lety

    i choose to be in the middle. i positioned the door and window side by side and had to greet the owner in English before going inside. i ❤️ linus and bill 🙏🏼

  • @DMalenfant1
    @DMalenfant1 Před 11 lety

    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.

  • @JavierPortillo1
    @JavierPortillo1 Před 9 lety +15

    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
      @shitbukkake Před 3 lety +1

      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

  • @NuclearBajskorv
    @NuclearBajskorv Před 12 lety +5

    When I grow up I want to be like him.

    • @safwanljd
      @safwanljd Před 3 lety +7

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

  • @sanjacobs6261
    @sanjacobs6261 Před 3 lety +1

    The actual question is asked at 2:02

  • @hariranormal5584
    @hariranormal5584 Před 3 lety +1

    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

  • @VlingoVideo
    @VlingoVideo Před 10 lety +43

    Linux is tha king !

    • @ekremdincel1505
      @ekremdincel1505 Před 3 lety +4

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

    • @aiosquadron
      @aiosquadron Před 3 lety

      @@ekremdincel1505 7 now.

  • @joec3753
    @joec3753 Před 7 lety +6

    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
      @timh6088 Před 7 lety +15

      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
      @joec3753 Před 7 lety +1

      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
      @mikestem3031 Před 7 lety +6

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

    • @vladimir945
      @vladimir945 Před 7 lety +12

      Jeesus Christ, this comment is hilarious...

    • @joec3753
      @joec3753 Před 7 lety +1

      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

  • @HackThePlanet
    @HackThePlanet Před 10 lety

    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.

  • @wida123
    @wida123 Před rokem

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

  • @dniam9859
    @dniam9859 Před 6 lety +4

    2:03

  • @czos9239
    @czos9239 Před 3 lety +4

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

  • @MrAstygmatyk
    @MrAstygmatyk Před 2 lety

    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
      @rippspeck Před 2 lety

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

    • @danielesquivel3155
      @danielesquivel3155 Před rokem

      @@rippspeck

  • @coytus94
    @coytus94 Před 2 lety +1

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

  • @franciscofuentes8916
    @franciscofuentes8916 Před 3 lety +6

    Linus must pay a huge electricity bill.

  • @Sin0pa
    @Sin0pa Před 11 lety +5

    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
      @jimmyneutron129 Před 11 měsíci +1

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

  • @donopatay
    @donopatay Před 11 lety

    try gparted and google on resizing partitions using gparted.

  • @SinedWOLF
    @SinedWOLF Před 3 měsíci

    Человечище! Хотелось бы побольше о нём узнать.

  • @marjopardo7242
    @marjopardo7242 Před 10 lety +29

    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

  • @ameypatil96
    @ameypatil96 Před 5 lety +5

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

    • @StarLight_tu
      @StarLight_tu Před 3 lety

      Count me too. Now it's 2

    • @kisalli
      @kisalli Před 3 měsíci

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

  • @tspradling76
    @tspradling76 Před 11 lety

    obviously. But seeing how Mono doesn't have all certain classes I use, it makes it difficult to use it. So like I said

  • @AlexanderJansen
    @AlexanderJansen Před 12 lety

    Although we may use our own computers sometimes, it often isn't worth it because the public wireless network is slow

  • @LapinPete
    @LapinPete Před 4 lety +3

    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. czcams.com/video/I_AB_58Jm9Q/video.html

  • @JonathanHarbour
    @JonathanHarbour Před 9 lety +13

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

  • @DanialGhofrani
    @DanialGhofrani Před 4 měsíci

    Torvalds you are one of my legends

  • @grockiery
    @grockiery Před 5 lety

    Great, Torvalds! When Linus Torvalds will use only Kali linux??

  • @pengxinshun
    @pengxinshun Před 3 lety +3

    I still love Ian and Deb. I need more xwindow frame.

  • @Ethonf90
    @Ethonf90 Před 12 lety +10

    Skyrim works perfectly on Linux.

    • @mainmantarkin
      @mainmantarkin Před 3 lety +1

      But does Skyrim itself work perfectly

    • @viniciush.6540
      @viniciush.6540 Před 2 lety +1

      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
      @mainmantarkin Před 2 lety +1

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

    • @viniciush.6540
      @viniciush.6540 Před 2 lety

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

    • @mainmantarkin
      @mainmantarkin Před 2 lety

      @@viniciush.6540 that was my point

  • @linuxdemy
    @linuxdemy Před rokem +1

    Linus is blessing.

  • @adityaruplaha
    @adityaruplaha Před 2 lety

    Nice. This was recommended to me 10 years late.

  • @1337snake888
    @1337snake888 Před 11 lety +10

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

    • @ilmionomeenessuno5504
      @ilmionomeenessuno5504 Před rokem

      Are you still using it ten years later?

    • @meghanachauhan9380
      @meghanachauhan9380 Před rokem

      ​@@ilmionomeenessuno5504 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

    • @IAmTahazzot
      @IAmTahazzot Před rokem

      ​@@ilmionomeenessuno5504 He has probably lost his account password at this point 🤣

  • @Dogstep
    @Dogstep Před 9 lety +94

    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
      @kartikeykushwaha6312 Před 8 lety +3

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

    • @kartikeykushwaha6312
      @kartikeykushwaha6312 Před 8 lety +1

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

    • @Mcfry4
      @Mcfry4 Před 8 lety +2

      +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
      @kartikeykushwaha6312 Před 8 lety

      ***** Why not Ubuntu?

    • @kartikeykushwaha6312
      @kartikeykushwaha6312 Před 8 lety

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

  • @williamkwesikwesh
    @williamkwesikwesh Před 9 lety +1

    Great

  • @joemann7971
    @joemann7971 Před 11 lety

    i seriously doubt it but at least all the ports for mac should be easy to port to linux since mac uses open gl as well. what im hoping is that devs start using opengl for future games but maybe im being too hopeful as well. :(

  • @anandhustechventures
    @anandhustechventures Před 3 lety +3

    Our government schools are only using linux.. when i was in school i used to think why we study linux when we have windows.. and our teachers frequently used to remind us that its open source.. i am not sure if they actually knew what it meant back in those days... 😅😅😅 anyway dont worry linus our schools are using linux....😊😊👍

  • @Sulfen
    @Sulfen Před 7 lety +3

    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.

  • @ali2k4
    @ali2k4 Před 11 lety

    my ubuntu root keeps running out of space i installed it twice now first time it asked how much space this time it just installed and partitioned only 20 gb i believe, so annoying moved back to windows 7 for now...and getting printer drivers and installing it was a hassle..i would love to move to linux but i want better driver support and photoshop NO WINE..how do i expand the damn root folder akmfdejnfkamd;lknmsiufnr..

  • @optimizeRu
    @optimizeRu Před 11 lety

    I did think about that, nonetheless I heard that having 2 OS' is not a good idea