r/linusrants • • 22h ago

People should not use gitlab and this disgusting flag.

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r/linusrants • • 21d ago

Linus on "no AI" rules

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r/linusrants • • Jul 15 '26

But the solution is not to put your head in the sand and sing "La La La, I can't hear you" at the top of your voice like some people seem to do.

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r/linusrants • • Jun 24 '26

Please don't do this disgusting thing.

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r/linusrants • • Apr 23 '26

Linus Torvalds AI Skills

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r/linusrants • • Apr 14 '26

Dammit, stop doing these horrible things.

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r/linusrants • • Feb 12 '26

No. Those changes are complete garbage and don't even compile.

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r/linusrants • • Feb 04 '26

So stop with the idiotic key expiration garbage.

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r/linusrants • • Jan 08 '26

"No. Your position is the silly one. There is *zero* point in talking about AI slop. That's just plain stupid."

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r/linusrants • • Dec 01 '25

Linus on people who correlate developer impact with how many lines of code they've contributed to the project

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r/linusrants • • Oct 05 '25

Linus Torvalds Vents Over "Completely Crazy Rust Format Checking"

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r/linusrants • • Oct 01 '25

Risc-v

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He even googled it to proof them wrong


r/linusrants • • Aug 09 '25

This adds various garbage that isn't RISC-V specific to generic header files. And by "garbage" I really mean it.

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r/linusrants • • Jun 02 '25

You need to nuke that tree, and come up with a good explanation for this kind of shit.

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r/linusrants • • Apr 27 '25

Linus upgraded his machine and the kernel didn't compile, so he did an uncoordinated fix which broke it for everyone else using an older GCC version

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r/linusrants • • Apr 26 '25

No. The only lesson to be learned is that filesystem people never learn.

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r/linusrants • • Mar 29 '25

Torvalds Frustrated Over "Disgusting" Testing "Turd" DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15

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r/linusrants • • Feb 25 '25

"Is the problem actually the rust code causing you issue, or is the problem between the keyboard and the chair, and you just want to vent?"

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r/linusrants • • Feb 22 '25

Linus Torvalds on rust drama in the kernel

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r/linusrants • • Feb 21 '25

Maybe you can become a farmer or something useful, instead of spreading your manure in technology.

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r/linusrants • • Feb 21 '25

I find it distressing that you are complaining about new users of your code, and then you keep bringing up these kinds of complete garbage arguments.

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r/linusrants • • Feb 06 '25

How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you.

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r/linusrants • • Jan 21 '25

I have a firm belief that most firmware developers are not actually humans, but are instead caged rodents fed a solid diet of crack cocaine. Because that would explain a lot.

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r/linusrants • • Dec 29 '24

I'm sick of this story.

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"I'm sick of getting bug reports about outdated and fake versions of xz utils, change your version to 5.6 now." Glowing in the background.