• Ithral@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    9 hours ago

    He was famous for the Linux Sucks talks, and used to be pretty chill always signing off his vids with “be excellent to each other” often playing around with old tech, then idk suddenly brain worms.

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      5 hours ago

      Does he actually think Linux sucks? I’ll have to look up these “Linux Sucks talks”. I like Linux. I kinda like Rust too.

      edit: OK question answered in first two minutes of the first “Linux Sucks” talk. He likes linux and I guess these talks are about improving it.

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        5 hours ago

        No he is a big proponent of FOSS and quite likes Linux. His Linux Sucks talks were more of a state of the union on big Linux distros and supporting software just going over pain points and what needed improvement. He used to be the public affairs manager for Open Suse if i recall correctly.

        But yeah sometime in the last few years he went hard conservative and not in the classical don’t change anything way. These days he complains about trans people, insists Rust is a woke cult, and at one point called for his followers to document everyone in FOSS who has ever said anything about supporting anti-facism so he could report them as terrorists. Dude legit lost his marbles and jumped off the deep end hard.

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        4 hours ago

        No his “Linux sucks” talks were more like a roast of people in the Linux world. It was done in good fun and at most just poked fun at people.

        He went off the deep end a little while ago.