Anyone else initially confuse the founder of Linus Tech Tips with Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel?

[aramini]

Guilty.

[mahyar]

i did.

in fact i came across linus tech tips when searching linus torvalds

[aramini]

12 minutes ago, Benji said:

No one that I can imagine would come up with that idea. Looking five seconds at the content and the person immediately tells you that they're not related at all just because they have this first name and are in the same industry (not to mention that the name is not really that rare in Scandinavian countries, so it could've been any other Linus as well going by that logic...).

Well, I suppose I am an unimaginable person then , because I came up with that idea (and I'm probably not the only one either. And I'm also probably not the only one to confuse 2 notorious people with similar names in other industries...lol)

 

I Never saw a picture of Linus Sebastian. I found the forum via google search a yr ago when researching components (AMD vs Intel) for a new PC build. I was curious at first, then I googled "founder linus tech tips" and was straightened out by a Wikipedia article on him which included a picture of him. lol The article also states that he is Canadian and was born in British Columbia, Canada.

[Guest willies leg]

Nah, it's easy. We've got the good Linus and the evil Linus.

 

 

[aramini]

8 minutes ago, willies leg said:

Nah, it's easy. We've got the good Linus and the evil Linus.

 

 

Also good to know they aren't just two sides of the same coin!

[tikker]

In the very early days when I heard about it I mistook it for Linux Tech Tips, but 2 seconds in I knew I read it correctly