Screenshots from developers: 2002 vs. 2015 (2015)
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·December 6, 2025gentooflux
nighthawk454
On the contrary, I think that was a wonderful answer and reflects the POV well. Hard to imagine something more Stallman-esque!
DANmode
He’s…something.
bigyabai
The Trisquel website has some screenshots. The 7.0 LTS is from 2014 so it's likely he was probably running something like this: https://trisquel.info/en/7.0-screenshots
apetresc
I completely misread '2015' as '2025' and thought these were from this November rather than November 10 years ago. I couldn't believe so many people were still using what appeared to be Aqua-era OS X.
Retr0id
Linus Torvalds currently uses Fedora with GNOME, which was fun to learn because that's also been my personal choice for a while now.
(source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfv0V1SxbNA )
quantumfissure
It's been well known for awhile now that it's his preferred setup.
He seems to want as much stability as possible; while being as minimal as possible; with as little fuss to install and keep up to date as possible. Fedora meets those needs. Gnome is Fedora's main concentration.
preisschild
Yeah mine too (but using Silverblue).
After spending years with Arch/NixOS/Ubuntu/Sway Im quite happy with Fedora+GNOME now. It just works.
vzaliva
common theme: tiled layout, terminals, minimum fancy decorations.
jasoneckert
I echo this as well, and in retrospect, it explains why I use the Sway tiling window manager today.
RMS could have taken a photo of his screen, or done something cheeky like dump his screen to a padded ASCII text file and submitted that. Stick in the mud.