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Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds - LTT (www.youtube.com)
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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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[–] 19 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (20 children)

TLDW on his hardware recommendations?

  • chill interview, recommended to watch
  • hardware recommendations see below
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  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (11 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

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (4 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

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The Intel Battlemage is an interesting choice. I'd put one in non-gaming PC if the price was right, but what is his reasoning? I have alchemist cards that have been running 8 hours a day on QA PCs perfectly fine for 2+ years. They sucked for the first couple months until Intel significantly improved the drivers.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Sound.

    He isn't gaming, so he didn't need a powerfull gaming card that can get noicy.

    He just needed something that can drive his two monitors (think they were 8k), and be silent.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    I figured it out. It's drivers. Intel provides open source Linux drivers.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think the most interesting bit was his stance on ECC memory. Basically he says everyone should be using it.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Blame Intel for making that a bold statement. Their refusal to allow ECC on anything except expensive server SKUs for decades set data integrity back substantially.

    Fuck Intel.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    As a devil's advocate; what if they allowed ECC by default and manufacturers became overly reliant on it to make certain RAM chips binnable that never should have been?

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I can't say I follow you. The price difference between ecc and nonecc should be so low as to make nonecc extinct, in a world where the marketing shits at Intel didn't have their way. How would it end up being a negative?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    What I was trying to say is they would just end up using ECC as a crutch, anyways. They already do this with solid state drives. Many reliability errors get swept under the rug because they're caught by error correction. So much so that there's doubt they would function without error correction. They would just do the same with RAM, force error correction for unreliable hardware so that it passes muster. I want the option to run ECC -- via BIOS, not have it imposed. I want the exact state of my hardware to be known if it's anything less than optimal. ECC would obscure these issues for the layman and make suboptimal performance that much more difficult to troubleshoot. Just food for thought. A month late, but better than never.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    There's a parts list on the YT description.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago*

    Here it is (links excluded):

    Check out the parts from the build:
    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:

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