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I've never read that about Torvolds, who I believe uses fairly standard GNOME. Could you be confusing him with Stallman who does things like use wget for browsi

I've never read that about Torvolds, who I believe uses fairly standard GNOME. Could you be confusing him with Stallman who does things like use wget for browsing the internet?

zote 4y ago
They may be referring to how he uses that specific laptop. > uses fairly standard GNOME. Last I heard he is(was?) a Fedora user
- boomboomsubban 4y ago
  >Last I heard he is(was?) a Fedora user Which uses GNOME.
  - nobody9999 4y ago
    >>Last I heard he is(was?) a Fedora user >Which uses GNOME. Fedora's primary distribution may have Gnome, but there are many other desktop environments that are available "out of the box", as I'm sure you know. I've been running Fedora on dozens of systems over the last decade and I've never used Gnome -- because it's annoying and supremely unintuitive. XFCE FTW.
- Mikeb85 4y ago
  Literally THE Gnome distro lol...
fweimer 4y ago
Linus' announcement is here: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0Xi0OEQ3H1uQgOdFvHgx0w@mail.gmail.com/T/#u https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wgrz5BBk=rCz7W28Fj_o02s0X... And more context (I am not sure if it's accurate): https://twitter.com/asahilinux/status/1553968394734813184 https://twitter.com/asahilinux/status/1553968394734813184 Driver support for bare metal use on the M2 Air was really, really poor at the time. Linus mentions Asahi Linux, so he probably wasn't running virtualized Linux under macOS. Maybe he SSHed into the box, or it wasn't an M2 model after all.