Does anyone watch Bryan Lunduke?

Chudix · 2024-08-31 17:38:08

He covers open source from a perspective that is broadly anti-identity-politics ("both sides are wrong"), though his lack of cursing and vocal patterns reminds me of Millennial Christians I went to school with.

Here's one of his spicier videos, which seems like the core of his message:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhttDZ99aiA

However, the Gnome Foundation insta-bans anyone who mentions his name, which IMO is a sign that he is a productive actor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEr6nO5G2Cg

Here's a video where he covers the Pop!_OS lead dev apparently trying to cancel Linus Torvalds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLecOfjME_s

On the more technical side, here he talks about how Linux or Mac could be CrowdStrike'd:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJVjYhe0yh0

ltuyen · 2025-05-18 12:17:45

Yeah, i just watched an video from Bryan Lunduke.

Still hasn't replied since September 2024

alphalpha · 2025-05-18 17:54:14

i think his annual "linux sucks" series is quite entertaining

zapper · 2025-05-19 05:55:20

Anti identity politics my foot...

He is a fascist clearly, as only fascists use woke as a negative. Also, only fascists use alex jones as a positive. So... yeah

Woke means your aware of systematic oppression. and alex jones is a conspiracy nut

This all being said, the gnome foundation can suck it for their persecution of Stallman. Especially considering the majority of the people who signed their rms cancel petition were corporate goons.

Also, just mentioning his name is not a good reason to instant ban someone.

That is like saying he is hitler or trump. He isn't on that level, yet.

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Kristof12 · 2025-05-19 11:27:57

Yeah

greenjeans · 2025-05-19 14:15:30

Having spent a fair chunk of yesterday trying to fix yet another one of gnome's really stupid mistakes, I can safely say i'm not a fan either.

It sucks because now and then they do have some good ideas. Their deployment however, even of the things that have merit, tend to just be crap.

So here I am again, doing stuff I shouldn't have to do...it's like working a stinky onion that's bad on the outside, peeling off layer after layer of stupid and stinky trying to get to the core which is still fresh and useful, then taking that core and combining with other fresh ingredients to make a nice tasty meal.

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zapper · 2025-05-19 16:15:34

When Gnome started forcing systemd to be a dependency for GNOME 3, they lost all credibility.

They became worse than every other DE.

Although, I don't have respect for any DE but Lumina Desktop. However, I primarily use JWM, because it has everything I need with jwmkit as an option. Although I would still be using it regardless of jwmkit's existence. It has the functionality dwm has but doesn't look as awful and uses less cpu power.

What else can I say?

brocashelm · 2025-05-19 20:36:22

The Lunduke Journal is one of the few open-source spaces on the Web that has enough clout to directly fire back against the leftist manifestation and corruption of GNU/Linux and free software in general. Bryan Lunduke works hard to expose the rats infiltrating the community, which is a brave effort on his part.

Besides, he even gave his thumbs up to Devuan for not being a political distro (unlike the majority of the non-Systemd ones heavily focused on woke ideology). Lunduke is a legit guy, and no, not a fascist at all. In fact, he's admitted a couple of times that he is Jewish himself.

The fact that Lunduke manages to piss off the very people in GNOME, Red Hat, and whoever else is whipping out their CoCs on software means that he's doing something right.

As for the DE question, the answer is to either build or install Xfce 4.12 (GTK2 only) on your system, and switch whatever else you can back to GTK2. GTK3 and newer belong to GNOME's stinky foot mascot. Qt is not the solution.

greenjeans · 2025-05-20 12:36:26

The whole CSD thing really shows the childlike hubris, narcissism, and arrogance. Many of those people do NOT belong in Linux as the things they do and their attitude does not belong in the open-source community.

Bottom line: If it's open-source, i'm gonna mess with it. If you don't want people messing with it, go work for Microsoft or Apple, where you can get paid to write lousy buggy code and make ugly-as-s**t interfaces.

I spent a good chunk of yesterday working on a script to do the one thing I was previously using a gnome program to do, yet another program that refuses to abide by the system theme and looks pants-on-head retarded with it's superfluous min-max-close controls and such. Thankfully with some help I now have a working script, just need to add some dialogs to make it GUI friendly, and i'll be flushing that gnome program from my projects for good.

Hell, maybe gnome is actually doing some good....they got me to get up off my butt the last couple days and fix some nonsense they did, lol.

Love me some real Linux I tell ya, Devuan really is one of the keepers of the flame, can't thank y'all enough for keeping it rolling!

zapper · 2025-05-25 21:25:06

@brocashelm If he isn't fascist, he shouldn't use phrases like woke in a negative or use alex jones as a positive, because that is what fascists do.

@greenjeans Gnome shouldn't be dependant on systemd though. This is not the only reason I dislike it though.

The main reason is it has many stupid dependencies beyond that. That is just the cherry on top.

No DE or window manager worth anything should depend on dbus, polkit, pam, systemd, networkmanager, pulseaudio or pipewire. Another words, if it depends on very bloated redhat software, its crap.

Also, GNOME feels like windows 8 all over again. That design was trash. Then again, I dislike most DEs.

LXDE and Lumina are fairly decent. LXDE however alas, requires polkit for some unknown reason. (No idea!)

pearmypie · 2025-05-27 07:46:14

Being a fascist has nothing to do with being Jewish. Fascism is the reaction of the bourgeois class against a strong, mainstream workers' movement. Does such a movement exist in the United States? No, so there is no fascism, just regular capitalism. Lunduke by a accounts is petit bourgeois.

His videos are almost unwatchable, they are too full of dogwhistles ("Nazis were socialist, that's left wing", he really said it) and ragebait, which I'm sure is absolutely delectable for his intended audience. He's just making idpol content for idpol victims.

Sidenote: To all people who think that by fighting "leftism" or the woke movement you're fighting against identity politics, guess what? You are just another puppet of identity politics. Identity politics is another divide and conquer tactic of the bourgeois class to divide the working class. There is no fundamental difference between an overworked straight white male truck driver or a queer they/them black Starbucks barista. Society is built on their backs -- they work, are paid a wage and the "entrepreneurs" collect the so-called "surplus-value"

ralph.ronnquist · 2025-05-27 09:12:37

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