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.
Yup. “Linux sucks” was how I encountered the guy; he seemed like a friendly, goofy guy. Had a lot of fun watching his Lunduke journal videos regularly back then and they went along well with my beginner’s journey into the Linux world. He always seemed a bit politically naive and tryhard centrist/apolitical, whenever something remotely political came up.
Then I lost track of him for a while, maybe during one of his attempts to ditch youtube altogether. When I came back a few months into the pandemic: boy did this guy get off the rails!
It really saddened me to see, what had become of him.
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 his “Linux sucks” talks were more like a roast of people in the Linux world. It was done in good fun and at most just poked fun at people.
He went off the deep end a little while ago.
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 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!
Pretty much. It seems to be the way a lot of these grifters go.
Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things. Then YouTube’s algorithm did what it does best (you watch one new type of video and then that’s all it shows you for recommendations) and then I started to see the “real” Tucker Carlson and was grossed out.
Seems to be a common formula.
I remember seeing JP on YT when he wasn’t really that famous yet, arguing against that Canadian law about not using the correct pronoun for someone being a criminal offense when regular swear words aren’t and I thought okay, that’s reasonable I guess, inconsistencies are bad. Let’s see what else he has.
And then came the lectures about natural hierarchies or something and some other things where I went okaaay, I guess I don’t have the full context of his lectures. Suspense of disbelief and such.
But three videos in and it was clear. Glad I got off that train before it left.
Even Tucker Carlson. I’m Canadian, so I knew nothing about Carlson when I first saw some clips about him (like 8 years ago now). And in those clips he said some innocuous and fairly reasonable things.
oh look, it’s me with Prager U and their piece on Modern Art.
“These idiots are shitting in jars and putting balls in folmaldahyde and calling it art. That’s bullshit” You’re right!
“The true reason for art was for JEEEESSUUUUUSS” Fucking hell no.
