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    [–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago

    stupid sexy torvalds

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

    OP traumatize me with Ubuntu font

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

    The Ubuntu fonts are amazing

    [–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    My impression is that Torvalds is actually a really nice guy he's just very very honest?

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

    He has told people that they should kill themself. I'm not trying to throw a shade on him but that's the unfortunate truth.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    Context matters

    Its a very blunt statement but also the way certain people talk. I honestly don't think Torvalds wants the entire opensuse team tomkill themselves

    He didn't say "hey, go kill yourself".

    He said that if you're a dev and think its normal to require root password for changing time or connecting to a network, then please kill yourself.

    It's more than anything an expression of frustration in which I recognize myself. I have to deal with a provider from which I won't be able to leave for at least another year, which is extremely expensive and extremely incompetent, causing me literally days of work and I have wished in more than one occasion that they would all die in a fire because it's all incompetent managers who don't do the work they cause all the shit.

    When he talks to someone directly, he'll know, right, Mauro?

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

    I really don't think context changes a lot in this case. Being frustrated doesn't make statements like this acceptable. Neither does starting the sentence with "if" or being right (which he was).

    Believe me, my intention is not to attack or discredit Linus. As a SE and Linux enthusiast I have a great deal of respect for him. But this is not exclusive with acknowledging that he is just a human and has flaws like all of us.

    I brought this up to show that it's more complicated than just being "really nice but very honest", that's all.

    [–] [email protected] 92 points 1 day ago

    Torvalds has had anger management issues in the past. Not saying I don't understand with the shit he deals with.

    [–] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago (3 children)

    Is there a fetish community for people that want to be ripped apart by Torvalds' anger?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

    it's the internet; if you can think it, it exists.

    [–] [email protected] 104 points 1 day ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

    I'm soaked.

    [–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

    Oh man, since I know very little about developing at the kernel level, I bet I'd get some sweet and soul-crushing novellas.

    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

    Could have painted it as a punishment for him for he changed his ways.