In-case you didn’t know, Linus Sebastian of LTT media made a video with Linus Torvalds. If you watched the video, what are your thoughts?

BTW, he uses Fedora.

  • pipe01@programming.dev
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    1 hour ago

    It was really fun to watch honestly, it flew by. I’m surprised how charismatic the smart Linus is on camera

  • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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    Is this enough to update the Fedora Linux wikipedia page, or is it still just “the distribution used by Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel (as of May 2020)”? It isn’t exactly confirmed but … like what else is he gonna use. I don’t know if he’d be caught dead using Debian or Arch, and OpenSUSE would be too wild a choice.

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      18 minutes ago

      People in here like to hate, but there’s a damn good reason. The majority of the people who are vocal about distribution choice aren’t contributors, long-time users, or experts in the field. A lot of us who are just want a simple, quick installing, porting, “out of the way” (no heavy customizations) and functional distro with a large user base, and a solid team behind it. This means it’s not going to immutable, and it’s not going to to be by Canonical.

      A lot of us use Fedora for this exact reason.

      • FoundFootFootage78@lemmy.ml
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        6 minutes ago

        I’m considering distro-hopping from Kubuntu to Fedora Kinoite. I just am trying to figure out how it fairs in terms of application sandboxing, what they’re doing on supply chain security (re: XZ Utils) and whether I might want to give GNOME another shake.

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      57 minutes ago

      I mean, I feel like he outright confirms it in the video. It’s his distro of choice since it allows him to easily use his own compiled kernels in testing. Anything else is an inconvenience to his work.

      • exu@feditown.com
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        42 minutes ago

        Ah, but primary recountings aren’t sources, you first need to write an article or book about it (according to Wikipedia sometimes)

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          21 minutes ago

          Interviews do typically count, it just has to be citable. Videos are sufficient in that regard as well, not just articles or books. It would be different if Torvalds had edited his own wikipedia page, but an editor who updates the page and cites this video would not be in the wrong.

    • Sibshops@lemmy.myserv.one
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      48 minutes ago

      Probably not, at least not until there is coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources. Wikipedia generally doesn’t include trivia.