IDK who he is, but I don’t want Rust on my PC :(
I never expected to see a lunduke in the wild
His haters make him famous
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.
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.
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.
I asked my roommate who that guy is. Showed me a 4 minute clip of rambling. Now I have brain cancer.
It is really a shame. His old stuff, wich you can find on YouTube was really good.
His YT comment section is an experience. They’re breeding a unique kind of right-wing, tinfoil hat Linux extremist, whose software usage is determined solely by esoteric association and “suspicious timing” like seeing widespread adoption during the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The phoronix comment section is a garden of rationality and level-headed thinking in comparison.
I watched a video of his a few years ago, and thought “interesting take”. Then I saw another video of his recently and thought “this guy’s nuts. Prob a flat earther too”
Oh hey, the Jordan Peterson experience!
Who’s that?
Bryan Lunduke, Linux Youtuber/‘influencer’ who went down the antivaxx rabbit hole and became a raving conspiracy theorist.
If only it was just the antivax. He went down in so many rabbit holes his garden looks like a slice of Swiss cheese
