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TL:DW It's a 54:20 video of Fake Linus interviewing with Linus Torvalds. It goes over Linus's views on hardware choice, questions about Linux and several community questions.

The video is long, but it's a good listen.

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

TLDW on his hardware recommendations?

  • chill interview, recommended to watch
  • hardware recommendations see below
[–] teft@piefed.social 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

The parts from the build according to the youtube description:
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9960X
GIGABYTE TRX50 AERO D Motherboard
Samsung SSD 9100 PRO 2TB SSD
Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6 Cooler
Intel Arc B580 GPU
Fractal Design Torrent E-ATX Case
Seasonic PRIME TX-1600 1600W 80+ Titanium PSU
ASUS ProArt Display PA32QCV 31.5" 6K HDR Monitor

[–] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 months ago

ECC ram. Hardware stability was the main factor.

Real Linus mentions spending days hunting an instability bug in the kernel to have it turn out as bad ram on his pc.

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's such a weird build, why have that PSU? That build doesn't get even close to requiring 1600W, the CPU + GPU are at around 550W together

[–] waitmarks@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Torvalds likes his computer quiet so that psu with so much overhead, the fan probably won’t ever turn on.