The Tech Ecosystem Explained 

should've been Racecar Linus, Linus Sebastian, and Linus Torvalds.

This channel rocks. Fills a certain niche perfectly -- guarantee it will blow up soon

And remember: You're a racecar johnny in nearly every aspect of life

haha, car goes brrrr

"Autistic Brilliance of Richard Stallman"

This could honestly be applied to anything. Like politics or movies.

Nice video, but I think you give Racecar Johnny too little credit. He’s not some simpleton, he just chooses to spend his time on something else. We’re ALL Johnny when it comes to some skill. I think most of us get cocky being in the Enthusiast camp.

Beautiful thumbnail

Sometimes I wish I was just Racecar Johny. Ignorance is bliss.

>implying that Racecar Johnny doesn't change his oil and drive stick like a true man

"vroom vroom" lmao

Some people think being a Racecar Johnny is inherently a bad thing, but I don't. Not everyone has the time/energy/want to know the ins and outs, they just wanna get shit done so they can go on with their day, and that goes with any hobby.

The future will be like Idiocracy, not Matrix

“THIS GUY DOESNT EVEN KNOW WHAT A CYLINDER IS!” I died.

crazy that the tech RU-vidr Linus Tech Tips is the creator of the Linux kernel

Describes end user. Never have I been so offended by something I totally agree with.

I'm a racecar Sebastian. I fixed other peoples laptops, fixed my own, built my own PCs, delidded CPUs, installed custom watercooling, killed cortana, did open source home automation. Yet I'm running around with a stock huawei phone and watch, GPS always turned on, probably being spied on by half the world like...

Contrary to how others may think about this, the more often my motorcycle breaks down and I have to repair it, the more safe I feel driving it. To me, every time I have to actively engage with the inner mechanics of it, the the better I understand the functionality and the limits. That comforts me, knowing how the stuff works and thereby also knowing when I'm pushing my luck with the machine. And to those who think computers are fueled by magic, remember: Everything that works, works somehow. There is some underlying structure that makes it all come together, and it is possible to understand that structure, whatever it may be.

The problem is when the IT managers are Racecar Johnnies... Make bad choices and push them on others :(

Racecar Johnny drove so fast his nose blew off.

I myself, I am a racecar Johnny who is keeping one eye open. That's why I chose Linux Mint when my Windows 7 died out on me, I was dual-booting them 2 at the time and my Windows decided to refuse to boot up after one 'update'. Well, what could I do? My Linux Mint 18 worked without fail so I just copied all my files from my Windows partition and switched totally to the one OS that worked. And I have been down that road ever since.

"they usually have autism" i legit died Edit: thanks for the like. Amazing how the most unoriginal comment get alot of like

"A computer that opens chrome to find boobs and video games" that one killed me😂😂💔

Man, I just fell in love with you content recently. Your opinions and views on things really resonate with me. Right now I'm doing my bachelor's in computer science and I must say that C, assembly, inner workings of Unix etc. fascinate me. Just how much work has been put into those insanely complex systems made up by humans. And yes, I am maybe a little bit autistic. I love learning new things. It fills me with euphoria when I discover something new to be obsessed about. It also fills me with an overwhelming pride for humanity, what we achieved. I would love to share the same wonderous feeling with others, so I'm thinking of teaching once I retire from (hopefully) working in cyber security or something similar for some time. And IT is only one field of study, so much more one could learn if he had more time than just one lifetime...

Racecar Johnnys saying "memory" instead of "storage" fills me with an unreasonable amount of rage

Best thumbnail ever 😂😂😂

Linus can’t even get Linux running with Steam without bricking his own computer 🤣

Should have been called "The Tech Ecosystem Explained - Vroom Vroom Edition".

10:00 "You'll get stuck making software that you know is sh!t but the end user demands" And that's how Microsoft Windows was born

Your channel looks promising. All the best for future endeavours! I'll consider myself an early supporter xD Also, I am scared of Linus directly looking me in the eye

this video is a work of art. funniest shit i seen in a long time

i sent an email to Richard once in my lifetime , and answered back just immediately!!!very nice guy!!!

This is really funny and mostly I consider it true but racecar johnny could be very good in another field. Many friends of mine know nothing about computers and are just surfing the web but are brilliant in other realms.

Not gonna lie!! i clicked the video because i saw Linus's meme photo.

“Yo your computer only has 32 gb of memory??? My has 500 xD” God I hate normies

Although i agree with the basic idea, i still think this is heavily biased by your look from the enthusiast/developer side. We have to remind ourselves that this whole "computer stuff" is just a small part of most people's lives, AND there are other communities of such "weirdos" around other areas, the "car people" are a great example. But still, all most of us just care about is whether our car takes us to the job, to the market and back. Nothing more needed. There could be a whole another huge ideology like open source among the car folks, and we would barely know about it. This is my "proof of sanity", and i recommend everyone here writing it somewhere, because it's easy to forget, but so important.

I had to ask for help with my school's confusing website and when the teacher failed she said "lets find someone who's tech savvy", like boi I resoldered the power connector on the laptop right in front of us. I had to hide how offended I was to not cause a scene.

"The message and ideas, they just pass right through" Yup... sounds about right.

How to get views: Put an awkward image of tech enthusiast in the whole video.

7:08 just fucking killed me lol

finally somebody that actually talks about how autism interacts with the tech world, as somebody who also has high functioning autism (diagnosed, not just saying that because I think so) I notice way too often that most people just skip that part due to thinking its too sensitive or not wanting to offend anybody, and by that often making people draw the wrong conclusions or even ending up actually offending more people than they would have when just talking about it, I know this video is two years old at this point but man does it feel good having somebody actually get to the fucking point about what is actually happening

while I appreciate this video, I think it's perhaps a bit too generalised? as a polymath engineer while I do see certain traits of autistic behaviour along with poor soft skills in my "group" we the "designers" are not one homogeneous "block" and are just as varied in terms of character/traits. In the end we're all just humans.

As a designer, there is an interesting play between the end user and the creation process. We need to know what features the end user wants, and how to make the system very simple to use. But the designer also needs to balance 50 other variables to make the system in the first place... I suppose the solution is constant feedback and improvement.

Some people don't choose ignorance, sometimes they're not aware there is better.

Your videos bring the light of knowledge to my ignorant end-using life. Thank you.

This is in my top 10 videos. Well done! This really hit home for me. Thank you.

Well there is the incredibly rare kind of person that is absolute genius but also has very good social skills. John von Neumann for example.

You are making high grade videos man. Keep em coming

I'd say the thumbnail showing Linus Racemixing Tips as the "enthusiast" aged pretty well.

This video is the Perfect description of the computer industry.

At 3:55 I laughed so hard. That's truly a great sentence.

the whole point of computers, is not having to understand everything behind it. One of the fundamental principles of modern computer science is encapsulation - do you look at the source code or the api? The 'api', for most people, is the intuition of the ui and the information that is immediately present in the ui. You may enjoy tinkering to some depth, and that's valid, but it's the opposite of an ideological necessity to include those sorts of features. the opposite also applies: it is not the duty of someone using tech to understand it. functionality first, users second, and anything else comes after. Technology is meant to be used edit: ooh glorifying neuroscience now? this channel is unhinged (no hate, I love it even if it's hard to take seriously sometimes)

As someone that’s on the autism spectrum (Aspergers)..... Thank you

your voice is weirdly similar to CammyCakes'. now i imagine him giving linux builds advices.

I think im in the awkward spot where racecar johnny will be like "holy shit you know so much about tech" and Linuses will go "you dont know shit lol"

Can’t really express how much ‘hiding your power level’ helps. Not just how it was implied in the sense it’ll be less off putting to the Johnnies, but also it help keep my dumb train of though from not just making tangents, but unnecessary ones that go far too deep when a ‘haha yeah’ would of been fine. Like now…

Honestly the idea behind this video seems quite shallow. There are countless inventions we use on a daily basis and yet we know nothing about their details. I use a fridge every day but I have no clue how each piece inside it functions nor do I know how they create computer mice or keyboards and yet I'm a professional in my field of studies and my line of work. We can't and don't need to know everything about everything :).

>Hide your power level this man knows

I have been building PCs since the very earlys 90s. Generally overclocked ,CPUs GPUs and watercooled systems especially since 2001, Frozen CPU was a big help. I had a 20ish yo guy run into me today, telling me his 3 GPU watercooled system when he was kid, he always has fond memories about it. Damn, that made me feel good. Fixing others virus infected system sucked

Turns out linus was a racecar johnny

Yeah, I'm Johnny Sebastian. I somewhat understand tech but I still kinda suck. Like, I do study coding, linux stuff and maybe a little networking but I'm still bad.

People are missing the point about race car Johnny. The leading personality trait of a race car Johnny is that he knows nothing, yet expects it to work flawlessly. And when it doesn’t, he blames the car.

“Smart enough to install Adblock or Ubuntu” Yes, a true measure of someone who knows their way around a computer /s

watched it at least 10 times and still can't stop watching, been a while since i saw video that is as accurate as this one

rms is god, when I sudo, I sometimes imagine a little richard yelling at my system to do it (and sometimes there's an esr that answer)

An applicable saying that is frequently misquoted is "a jack of all trades and a master of one". That is, the ideal is to be an enthusiast in all trades and a developer in one. (Or a developer in more than one if you can handle it, though that should be done carefully because you can stretch yourself too thin.)

I have never seen a more accurate description of the "Tech Tree" as I like to call it. This video is SPOT on.

Congrats on 500k!! :)

this video appeared 3 times in my recommendations.. So i gave it a try.. I am not disappointed. Now i think that i have autism. 10/10 Edit: As one guy pointed in the comments, i believe that this channel will blow up in popularity too, so keep it up.

Tech enthusiast: wants a smart home Tech engineers: doesn't want a smart home, because they know what they can do

i've never had to stare at that picture of Linus for more than a couple seconds on end, and it's actually quite unsettling after a while

1:38 oh no racecar johnnny went too fast XD.

im an electrical engineer (sort of) where do i fit in? i understnd the circuits in the devices in myhouse.

"Usually don't go outside that much" killed me

One of the best videos I've ever seen

Transitioning from light-Racecar Johnny to light-Enthusiast. Hell yea

This video is an Autistic Masterpiece!

Love the race car johnny analogy

I would like to give some unsolicited constructive criticism, really liked the video but I feel like this should be said: As someone probably somewhat on the spectrum I feel like you give an inaccurate picture of designers. While the proportion of designers that are autistic is probably significantly higher than the average (and even more so for “genius” developers), I still don’t think it’s even close to the majority of designers. Most of the developers I interact with are pretty normal and while it is sometimes hard to find a good communicator/ teacher, that’s true for everyone and not just autistic people.

Breath of fresh air 👍

"and downright obsession" *I felt that on a personal level*

Probably the best video I've seen with a still picture 😁

Just commenting to create some traction on this channel, keep it up!

You don’t feel bad for Racecar Johnny when he gets his shit rocked by a hacker? That seems a little bit insensitive. That’s like a UFC fighter beating the shit out of someone & you blame the person for not knowing anything about martial arts and “choosing to be vulnerable”

Mental Outlaw concludes Abstraction(in CS) and ASD(in Psychiatry) in 10 minutes.

calling out end users for not educating themselves is extremely based education is the best prevention :) edit: i can't spell apparently

This video is a hidden gem😂

I have Aspegers syndrome and i do spend a lot of time thinking about computers and reading about the next big advances and i started computers science and gave up... but... sigh i don't use ubutun because i want the compatibility with games, i can't negotiate that, i would say i am enthusiast, i do spend a lot of effort optimizing my PC... whatever i don't know what say.

Begins describing autism. Me: I already knew it, but I was just reaffirmed. Also, I’m definitely a designer-in-training. Will I be the good designer, who can play the roles of enthusiast and designer? Or just be the standard designer?

well this was the most respectful way I've heard anyone addresses autism in a while

We are all End Users, Even Devs eventually have to stop developing and designing everything and just use it.

this is a good analogy to people who different levels of responsibility towards their tech could be applied to other things as well. Thanks

the hell is this r9k rant i just wanted to learn about tech

That's a very well put video explaining the relationship between the tiers of the ecosystem, and the definition of this system is great! I don't really agree on the reasoning for the lack of communication between the developer and the end user though. While it's true that some engineers, especially the higher tier ones, have some difficulty communicating with others overall, as is the case with Autism, a much more significant reason for that lack of communication would be that they're almost always a part of very large corporations. (But companies of any size would be applicable for the logic I'm offering here) In almost all cases I can think of, these engineers are legally obligated to not talk publicly about their work or details thereof. Sometimes they are not even allowed to present themselves as employees of their employer, so as to prevent cases where their statements may be publicly perceived as company statements. I think that there's a gap between the end user and the designers because of how secretive and high risk this business is and how corporations manage this risk, not because individual designers have communicative difficulties on a personal level. To provide some context for what I mean in 'how corporations manage this risk" - Some companies may establish more communication channels with their users, such as good available tech support, social media channels with relevant material, etc - so they actually do try to establish a communication channel with Racecar Johnny. The degrees of success here vary wildly between the companies, for many reasons. Other companies may be unable or unwilling to make such investments and may only retain reduced communication channels, such as PR teams that generally only communicate with official partners and these enthusiasts. That is simply not enough to communicate with Racecar Johnny, both because there's simply too many of them, and because it would require some skill on how to actually communicate 'with the masses'. But again, those are corporate strategic decisions. The individual engineers, both autistic and not, are simply not allowed to speak to the public.

I disagree. The end user should have at least some understanding of the tech he's using. Look at Racecar Jonny. He may not know how combustion engines work, yet he knows which traffic light signals he must stop and wait at a crosswalk. And modern user is all like: "Eh? I bought this car for $2000! I Don't need to know no traffic rules! What? A driving licence? What am I to you, a joke! I put in money in this, so it must work! (claps twice) Hey, car! Drive to my friend! WHY THE FUCK IT'S NOT WORKING?!!!!"

Damn... hearing you talk about Racecar Johnny reminded me of that free and open source engine simulator from AngeTheGreat I watched recently. I bet Racecar Johnny would be interested in that sort of thing as the simulated engine also makes WRROOOOOOM! ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

Trusth is most Linux users can't fix anything. When the system they don't really know how to use (RICEing doesn't count) breaks they distro hop and make youtube videos about how much better their fresh install is than the previous one.

nice thoughts and very nice comment section - i liked, i followed :)

Missed opportunity to use the 2 Linuses

I'm a designer when it comes to tech, but a Racecar Johnny when it comes to cars. I went to Jiffy Lube recently and I'm pretty sure they ripped me off.