2mo ago

Which distro does Linus Torvalds use?

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Fedora. There's a video of him explaining why he uses Fedora instead of Debian.
Edit: Link to Fedora's pages and a Youtube video on why Linus does not use Debian (or debian-based distros)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Is_Fedora_For_Me#Other_People_Using_Fedora
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s
- Also, incase you're wondering, Richard Stallman uses Trisquel GNU/Linux.
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisquel#%3A%7E%3Atext=Richard+Stallman+has+mentioned+that%2Cpreviously+used+the+Lemote+Yeeloong.
  
  uses a version of Ubuntu's modified kernel, with the non-free code (binary blobs) removed.[8
  Why not just Debian without non-free, at that point?
  
  I once gave Trisquel a try back in the day. It's one of those FSF approved distros right? My use case was more ahem, standard rather than anything programming related. Either case, one evening, I ran into a dependency hell trying to install a simple Direct Connect client onto it and no matter how much I tried I couldn't succeed.
  I then decided to move back to Debian. Either case, most distros have Eiskaltdcpp (as one example of a client) in their repos, except for Trisquel. This was multiple years ago. I am currently on Void.
  
  That was long ago, I wonder if he might be using now GNU Guix, since it's a GNU project.
- This YouTube statement is 10 years old.
- Fun video that shows Torvald is not the best person to judge about if a distribution is good or bad - he’s just your average user.
- The wiki was last updated in 2021
  
  Maybe because his distro of choice still hasn't changed.
I'm not an expert, but I believes he codes the Linux Kernel on Asahi these days.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/linus-torvalds-uses-an-arm-powered-m2-macbook-air-to-release-latest-linux-kernel/
- I think he was only using it to work on the MacBook, Which, I really don't think is his daily driver.
  
  Could be! I have no idea.
He does not use any distro, he uses the Kernel directly :)
(joke)
- Git/Linux
  
  True! My bad 😅 How could I forget about Git?
- And a special keyboard with ~467 keys. One key for each syscall.
I'm more curious which is Stallman's poison of choice
- Hurd, I assume.
  
  GNU/Hurd
  
  Hahahahahaha. Good one.
- Triqusel??? I think
Come on. We all know he uses WSL.
I don't know about the distro but I know his keyboard only has 2 keys: 1 and 0

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