• Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    21 hours ago

    I’m pretty sure Red Hat financed it, although it was a pet project of his.
    Last I heard Linus was using a MAC.

    Edit:
    Apparently Linus does use Fedora now.

    • Mountaineer@aussie.zoneEnglish
      10·
      18 hours ago

      His most recently stated preference is definitely Fedora: Linus Torvalds on Linus Tech Tips

      He specifically likes it (over say Ubuntu) because it’s easy for him to build/replace the kernel whilst at the same time, it’s a “just installs - just works” distro with no tweaking required.

      Edit: I see no evidence that Linus has EVER used MacOS as his daily driver, despite using Mac hardware several times.
      This is all way off topic, but “Even Linus I INVENTED LINUX Torvalds doesn’t even use it” is wrong.

      • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        9 hours ago

        Yes I was not aware he had done that, I have LTT blocked on Youtube because he’s an asshole, so didn’t see it.

        When I started using Linux in 2005 Linus was definitely using MAC, and I heard that a few times within the first decade. Linus also expressed that Linux desktop is not suitable as a daily driver.

        https://linux.slashdot.org/story/05/03/09/1314250/torvalds-switches-to-a-mac

        Torvalds Switches to a Mac

        I’m surprised it was a bit hard to find, and I had thought I’d find better sources on it, but apparently it’s hidden behind things that have happened since.

        • Mountaineer@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          9 hours ago

          And yes, he is running Linux on it ;)

          It’s literally right there.

          Edit: The article needs to be dug out of the waybackmachine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050309174306/http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/0,39023165,39183867,00.htm

          Torvald’s response came quickly and succinctly. “My main machine these days is a dual 2GHz G5 (aka PowerPC 970) - it’s physically a regular Apple Mac, although it obviously only runs Linux, so I don’t think you can call it a Mac any more ;)” he said.

          • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            8 hours ago

            OK then I’ve been mistaken for 20 years. 🙁
            But the context that he was running Mac and he criticized the Linux desktop for not being suitable for a daily driver, lead me to this obvious conclusion.

            For some reason I have never seen an article before that he uses Mac but with Linux on it??