One Linus creates Linux, one Linus destroys Linux.. It is the way of things.

I feel like "I broke this in under one hour" could be a whole series starring Linus.

I like that raised LTT logo though. That's actually something that I could see many brands wanting on their machines.

Quick tip nobody asked for: If you're booting linux and it's stuck on the logo, you normally can press ESC to see the terminal output to see at what step it stopped booting up. That way you can diagnose what's wrong with it. It's hilarious to me how linus manages to break linux without doing anything, although I have high suspicions that Eurorra fked with this. No way does a handcrafted, 80+ quality assurance steps laptop for $5000 have such blatant issues. The fact that Ubuntu errors basically from the boot up makes me strongly believe so. I believe the "custom" ubuntu simply means "we fked with things" ubuntu. It's hilarious though and seeing linus lose his mind over linux and breaks it whenever he touches it (or not heh) is just great.

Can we get a "is it faster to uninstall Linux, install Windows, download Steam, download a game and play it, or have Anthony fix Linux on this" follow-up video? Maybe call it Anthony vs Windows?

I say a series of “Linux Tech Tips” with Anthony is needed.

10:43 "A portion of the proceeds of each sale go to the artisan who worked on the shell." Translation from Hipster Speak: "We pay the person who worked to make the shell." Glad to hear they pay their workers! Otherwise I would have thought they worked for free!

I mean I was seriously laughing out loud at the effort and quality on the face stuck to the front. The commitment is just so hilarious and commendable. It's just such a solid meme that makes me laugh every single time. 🤣

Love how when LTT needs tech support, Anthony is the go to.

I love when a Sponsor goes out of their way to make their product look crap just to fuck with Linus! Colton has won another battle!!

I want "I broke this in under one hour..." to become a series or its own channel

Man I laughed so much, make Linus use Linux more often

I imagine Anthony setting up a Linux machine. He finishes. It runs perfectly. It games well. It handles productivity well. It's perfectly stable. Linus walks in the room. It immediately crashes.

Trivia fact : linus has already reviewed the same chassis 2 years ago, with an origin laptop who had a ryzen 9 3900 desktop in it. Having it, I can confirm:that's absolutely the same clevo chassis and even cooling system. 😎

This is hilarious, thank you for trolling Linus for our pleasure, and also, that’s a lot of cool stuff you shove in there

It’s such a breath of fresh air to see an old school laptop like this. A laptop with an ethernet port, user removable battery and upgradable ram.

I sincerely hope this shows up in a future Intel upgrade type video as a "borrowed" from work item.

As a Linux user, I felt this. I've been in a bunch of usability arguments as of late, and god, was it just painful how stubborn some people can be when you point out small issues that really should be polished and made easier for newcomers.

It deffinetly looks like a Clevo, probably they made the internals! Would be interesting to see if they come up with upgrade motherboards!

While I love Linux, Linux definitely has a ton of issues for the average consumer. NVidia support is lacking in most cases as they just provide the bare minimum to get a display output unless you are running a business grade GPU, and configuration can be a pain unless you want to learn how to use the terminal. Personally I enjoy how Linux works, but I can definitely see how it doesn't work for people that just want to be able to download any game and go

it always amazes me how linus is able to always run into every possible problem in linux

OEM: "We need someone to test the durability of our technology against breakage." LTT Team: "We have your man."

So much of this laptop is great, upgradeability, storage expansion, cooling, trackpad with individual buttons etc. Shame that the only option to purchase it is probably 2k more expensive than it could be because of the custom lid. EDIT: just found the other comment that reveals its about 2.5k more than the original version of the product for the custom lid. That's one hard pill to swallow.

Linus using Linux is how I look using any operating system lmao

Anthony standing there while his boss flips his lid at his new toy is tech humor gold. 😆

New video idea for ltt. Prepare 20 machines with different Linux distros installed . See how long it takes for Linus to ruin the installs :)

This is perfect for building hype around upcoming products and crash test prototypes for things you can't predict in a lab.

Watching Linus struggle with Linux for 15 minutes always puts a smile on my face.

I need an entire series with Anthony delivering Linux Tech Tips

1:32 Linus be proud of that hand- crafted, non-removable, wide Linus cover IT’S A MASTERPIECE…. For the next generation of Memes

I'm surprised that Linus didn't fire Colton at 5:35

4:38 it seems like Linus has finally experienced first-hand the incredibly stable experience that is GNOME extensions

5:56 - "unusual in the electronics industry" - literally legally required in most of Europe. The EU has 2 years minimum but many countries go further than that.

I love at 9:17 he started whispering so as to not disturb the delicate thermal paste placement lol.

Love how he takes it apart on and plugged in 🤣

A big Thank you from all at Eurorra, our business partners and artists. Special thank to Colton for his pick of art eventually. If you dont mind we will give details as you probably missed some as they wore in details.

on the plus side, Eurethra brand can now use the "Might be the worst thing I have ever seen." - LTT / ShortCircuit as a promotional slogan in their marketing efforts.

1:57 "I see the light..." Thank you for letting the case speak so boldly 🤣

It would be interesting to see someone else put this through some tests. See what FPS it can get with Windows, what temps etc.

Ubuntu? With an NVidia GPU? It would've been more surprising if it didn't break.

Shipping it with Ubuntu 21.10 is a big mistake. Giving them Linux is one thing, not shipping it with LTS version is inexcusable. Should have at least given them 20.04. With the whole new transition to Wayland, it’s very tricky on 21.10 even for seasoned Linux users picking it up for the first time. Although this also sounds more like Colton’s fault, so fire him

For future references check out glances for temps and inxi for specs.

Linus, you've reviewed the same chasis for at least twice. They are the same chasis with customisable hardware. Also, it's from last year. I've been using the same chasis.

Laughs with obligatory 3 year warranty on almost everything electronic in Portugal/Europe.

Gotta love it when anthonys linux troubleshooting hit the "did you ever do something to a penguin?" stage...

Nice touch to show the "Hotel Aurore" sign in Counterstrike @ 12:13.

This was comedy gold! I could almost guarantee Linus was weeping right after the shoot.

Pretty impressive, but Id have rather seen more effort put into things like the keyboard than the superficial carbon fiber lid.

oh yes, nvidia and linux...in a laptop, that is the ultimate combo

14:00 segment: I've had this sort of issues with laptop GPUs all the time (except back in the Core2Duo switchable GPU of the Lenovo T400 with ATI), The reason is because a lot of laptop manufacturers don't actually use a true switchable GPU solution, that is, the dGPU is essentially like plugging a GPU into the PCIe slot then plugging the monitor into the motherboard VGA and expecting a performance boost, because that's exactly what that is. Games were later designed for this "GPU as a mere co-processor" configuration and games old enough cough up blood at these configurations that is modern laptops' "dGPU". Usually the games need the driver to report dGPU support to use the dGPU as a co-processor dangling off the side of the PCIe headlessly. So full GPUs don't get reported as supported and thus doing laptop-style dGPU on a desktop, whilst possible with the correct programming, doesn't happen (seemingly intentional). It would be easier if some laptop manufacturer somewhere actually used a DisplayPort multiplexer and literally switched from CPU iGPU DisplayPort to dGPU DisplayPort... To get around eDP not wanting to work with normal DP, using a basic 1-to-1 monitor chipset with all features stripped out so to leave the pixel data untouched would be simple enough to implement.... This would make for the ultimate laptop that would have 100% desktop performance given decent cooling. How I know this stuff? I looked at enough schematics, went back and forth to CEX trying to find a true switchable graphics laptop (so I can use the "return in 14 days" to test every laptop and get my money back... because I'm cheap like that.)

you should do an outdoor gaming setup with the jackerys you pimp out all the time

Nvidia drivers and linux, surely a combination that will go well. Also once the driver is installed, nvidia adds a tool (i forget the name) that can monitor temps and clocks. I forget if psensor picked it up, but if i remember right it did.

Can't wait for an employee to take this home and have it show up in an extreme tech upgrade 3 or 4 years from now.

I almost clicked away from the video as the ad was in such an odd place! Just lucky I happened to hover over the video and see the marker was not near to the video's end.

That "i see the light" got a chuckle out of me =)

Let’s appreciate the repairability of this laptop for real

I love that Eurorra decided to troll Linus with the meme lid and sending him Ubuntu. 🤣

this makes me want a game console form factor PC built like this

Poor Linus, so fresh and full of that trademark enthusiasm yet by the end of the video it looked like he was on the verge of tears.

This video sums up my whole experience with Linux over the years. Every single time I gave it a chance, from Mandrake to Linux Mint, my experience has been like: "Oh why the fu** this happened?", "What? Why did this break by itself?", "Yesterday it worked, WHY IT ISN'T NOW??", then proceeded to search for solutions on Google, ended up in some forums where people suggested to enter some lines in the terminal that solved nothing, spent tons of time trying to fix things that I never broke to begin with, and finally giving up and returning to Windows. Maybe I'm cursed like Linus, or maybe Linux doesn't like me... but for sure I'll give it a shot again in the future.

It takes a few days to mold and create a 8k euro carbon bike frame that requires much more engineering. I think the 'handcrafted' carbon fiber laptop might be over-exaggerated

should make a part 2 with windows installed, I'm curious what it can do.

Little tip: CSGO on the menu has a lower capped FPS compared to in-game. Great video!

i loved the cameo from anthony, he's the best

To be fair, that is the linux laptop of my dreams. Including the "wide Linus"" artwork on the lid.

@9:18 Love how Linus starts whispering when the laptop cooling is free and in his hands. Those things are fragile - wouldn't want to scare it too badly

9:53 - Reminds me of the Eurocom Panther, one big chungus of a laptop which also had a desktop CPU in it

I recommend using Klim Cool + vacuum to help remove heat. It gets toasty if you upgrade the cpu (desktop)

1:05 eeehh . . Yeah, thanks, I didn't wanna sleep tonight anyway . . .

It blows me away how much of a hard time Linus has with linux. I can't tell how much of it is my own blindness to issues in linux because I've just gotten used to the jankiness, how much is Linux actually being a mess, and how much is just bad luck. I feel genuinely bad for him, this looked excruciating to troubleshoot on camera lmao.

Thank you for 1:52 to1:58 - I haven't laughed so much in years. When you check the analytics some time down the line, all the replays on that section will be from me. Love this, more kind of this wacky comedy, *PLEASE*

10:29 Feel you there, but with windows.

2-3 years warranty is pretty common in Europe.

The moment someone makes Linux "Linus proof" (what a mouthful) Is the moment is ready to go mainstream

As someone who's worked in tech support, helping someone like Linus is my worse nightmare

Well... it would have been cool to see what this can do temperature wise while gaming in Windows.

it's worth noting that Nvidia optimus (what's normally used for switching cpu igpus and dGPUs) is some very weird software on linux

i laughed so hard when linus was talking about the restarting because a couple of times you could hear him almost crying like a little kid would when hes worried and trying to explain something

Goodram! Wow, it's refreshing to see a polish brand here. And it's not surprising as Eurorra is a company from Slovenia and Goodram (if Wikipedia is not outdated - which it probably is so take this with a grain of salt) is the only remaining RAM manufacturer in Europe. But -as seen in the video - they also make SSD's and other stuff. Not the best of the bunch, but for it's price it's great. Cool stuff.

I think the only "seamless" experience I've had with linux is using my Steam Deck. That desktop mode is the literally the only time I would recommend sticking with the Linux experience to a windows diehard fan. My favourite experience though has to be the custom Ubuntu install with the dock replaced with marking menus and programs visually burning up when closed on my Surface Pro 7.

I want my fridge to play music like that whenever I open it

Ubuntu to Linus is like water to cats. His look is just priceless when Anthony suggests he reboot after driver update.

Serious question - Why does this look exactly like the XMG Apex 15? Like literally everything, battery, I/O, bottom shell, keyboard, right down to the stickers on the left hand side of the touchpad. I'm using one right now, it looks identical in every way aside from the carbon fibre screen chassis.

Just to clarify. what happend at 10:40 is a pretty normal behaviour. Ubuntu starts up into the overview (Kinda llike the windows search thingy). In that instance it seems as if obs and steam were configured to run at startup and so that happend. You can turn it off

I would imagine that this laptop would benefit greatly from one of those lga 1700 brackets that gamersnexus tested

As soon as I saw the error screen I knew he would call Anthony

I'm always amazed at how screwed over by linux Linus gets, for me I used ubuntu for a month and didn't like it, and then switched to pop and I have not had an issue since

Can we PLEASE have a video of Anthony fixing & explaining the Linux issues for Linus?

they just wanted to torture you in the most spectacular way by shipping you a laptop with linux given your sad track record with penguins AND TO ADD INSULT TO INJURY they shipped it with intel and a nvidia card... KNOWN TO HAVE THE WORST DRIVERS.... man this people is even more mean to you than dbrand lmfao

4:45 - Don't worry, some package decided to have explosive diharrea and the distro gets mad sometimes

You can hear his pain at the end when he restarted the machine again

Linus, it’s important that you disclose your investment in Framework every time that you discuss a laptop. Most of your community knows but it’s still necessary to include

I challenge Linus to the Ultimate Linux Challenge (for brownie points): Build and use Gentoo Linux on a gaming PC. The challenge is won if and only if Linus can boot and run, say, GTA V, at Ultra-everything at 4K, 144 fps, and try to have his PC hold at that, but dip to no lower than 120 fps minimum, for 1 hour of actual playtime (no benchmarks). Linus has to start with nothing but the PC parts, a USB stick containing an Ubuntu installer (for installing Gentoo, cause I find it easier to use than the official Gentoo bootable “installer”), an Internet connection, and Anthony. Extra points if Linus cosplays as a 90s elementary school kid and Anthony as a big, burly, bearded Dad character.

Kudos for Linux for not killing Colton on the spot for the horrific picture on the top of the lid.

I want a hand crafted carbon fibre wide linus sticker thing

From what I could gather when I first started to use a laptop with nvidia optimus support, the only "decent" implementations come from PopOS and Arch Linux, so yeah they def trolled Linus by shipping it with ubuntu without the nvidia kernel modules and without primerun, which is one of the many reasons why Ubuntu sucks

At first I was a little skeptical about the 250 hours of work for the carbon fiber work. Then I thought well the whole chassis could represent some issues when you're doing custom work and not mass production. Then I realize 250 hours for the screen lip only.... alright. Probably way too many hands in the line of process for it to amass to 250 hours.... I could see 40 hours to get the molding right for the lip and then another 20-30 for making sure the finish product is nice and smooth. But 250 for just a computer screen lid is insane.

The restart thing is still something that isn't necessary that often. Kernel update, yes. Driver updates, yes, but not always (if it's a loadable module it could be reloaded). Changing the GUI to always use the dedicated gpu? Restarting just X / Your Wayland compositor is enough, for example.

I've been trying out Linux since 2005 hoping that'll get good, it never gets better

This was doomed the moment they shipped an Nvidia laptop with Ubuntu on it (seemingly without even installing the proprietary drivers). Might have been better if they at least used the Nvidia version of Pop OS. Tho I personally don't use Linux on Nvidia machines anymore, too much hassle