Anonymous
6/19/2025, 9:33:33 AM
No.105638617
Luke Smith, The Tragedy
When I'd first watched Luke Smith, I thought that it must some kind of parody or satire or something. I thought he was making fun of the Linux community, especially with some of his videos, like the one where he complained about how Linux will be completely ruined by SystemD. But, then as I watched more, I began to wonder, how can he make fun of the Linux community, when he obviously is good at Linux and probably uses it himself outside of Youtube? He uses Artix, he is clearly good with Bash commands, he himself is obviously savvy to the community. I thought that this couldn't be a parody, he must be really like this. Maybe he really doesn't use any proprietary software at all, maybe he really didn't go to a single restaurant at all for a year, maybe he really is into all this Christian religious theo bro stuff. But now, I think I understand his channel. His channel is a work of art, a tragedy. The tragedy is this: we don't have control over many things, and at the end of the day, many of the things we do and talk about are completely meaningless. It is not the wild west, where you can rob a train and blow open a bank. Instead, all we can do is drink onions and edit our dot files. He is embracing the Linux zeitgeist, while being ironic at the same time. He realizes that some things the Linux community does may be silly or funny, but he embraces it anyways. He is saying: "Yes I know that it is silly to be so obsessed with le free software and le cringe SosytemD and le minimalism, but at the same time, I accept that it is a little silly, and that Linux is not something super important in the grand scheme of things, but at the end of the day, we can't constantly act as if we only do things are really important, we all are a little silly and do things that don't matter sometimes just for fun, so why not make silly Linux videos." Maybe, this is a red pill.