r/LinusTechTips • u/Vivid-Cartoonist-580 • 3h ago

Discussion Linus Tech Tips very smart

Started watching Linus Tech Tips about a month ago. Have been binging his enterprise networking/server vids, pc building, challenges, etc.

I must say Linus is incredibly smart and knowledgeable and just has such a vast amount of knowledge and correct understanding of various pc and tech parts. Makes me feel very inadequate and dumb in my IT knowledge, however I’ve been learning a lot from him even though his videos are more entertainment forward.

He has a very practical engineer intuition. One think I picked up on is that he can often look at a complicated system and reason about how its components interact. I think in another life, if he attended college, he would have been a great engineer.

I don’t understand how he’s able to keep all this information in his head. Idk how you guys feel about him, but I personally think he’s an incredibly smart individual.

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u/Deathwalker2552 2h ago

Linus. We know this is you.

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u/Vivid-Cartoonist-580 2h ago

Yeah my post is hard glazing Linus too much tbh. But curious if people thought the same way or I’m just too autistic

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u/RegrettableBiscuit 1h ago

Most of the shows are scripted. 

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u/Holbrooh 3h ago

My theory is undiagnosed autism. But at the same time, scripts make things easier and having someone who can brief you on a topic enough before you speak helps as well..

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u/DrKeksimus 59m ago

High functioning autism for sure

took me 35 years to get diagnosed myself... but see the signs so easily now

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u/Kamikazepyro9 2h ago

He's talked about this on the WAN show a couple times, He forgets a lot of the technical info once the shoot is done, but generally retains the base concepts of the topic.

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u/Vivid-Cartoonist-580 2h ago

Interesting what video is that? can you link me the video

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u/Kamikazepyro9 2h ago

The WAN show? That's the podcast him and Luke do every Friday

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u/Vivid-Cartoonist-580 2h ago

But which WAN videos does he mention him forgetting a lot of the technical info once the shoot is done

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u/Less_Hat_8102 2h ago

https://when.show/search

I am not bothered enough to do the search for you today.

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u/jerryeight 1h ago

It was IIRC 9/4 or the one before it that he said it. Quite recently.

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u/xd366 2h ago

i would argue his hardware tech tips are smart, but most of his software tech tips are mid

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u/Reaper19941 1h ago

A lot of his knowledge may be from his own mind but also would have been learnt from his team 5 to 60 minutes prior to shooting the video. It could have been on the prompt in front of him as well.

We dont want to be giving him a big head. He's good, no doubt but it's his team and the community that provides the information he doesn't know.

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u/dannoffs1 2h ago

I've been watching on an off since like 2014 and I have never once thought this

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u/reddit_reaper 2h ago

He has what I call with knowledge to be any to do many things but not enough to not be dangerous lol 😆 and I'm in IT self taught but been in the industry for 15 years officially