r/LinusTechTips

Do gamers not use the home tab on steam?

Do gamers not use the home tab on steam?

I was watching the latest WAN Show, and at 43:45 they were complaining that you can't sort your Steam library by last purchased (outside of Big Picture mode), and that browsing your library isn't fun.

Does nobody know about the Home tab? It seems to have almost every feature they said Steam was missing.

u/BudgetNo2819 — 5 hours ago

Microsoft automatically sets edge back as the default browser.

 went to setting and manually set chrome default for all the options. Today I clicked a linked and it opened in edge automatically and I see this.

To add insult to injury the "check settings" button takes you to the browser settings not the FUCKING SETTINGS PAGE TO CHANGE BACK THE DEFAULT FUCKING BROWSER.

u/Ktdbro — 5 hours ago

I can't be the only one to feel this way: Seeing a thumbnail with someone ridiculously pogging like this makes me so much less likely to watch the video

I know the team at LMG has a ton of analytics and data to use when deciding what a good thumbnail should look like, but is this really peak YT thumbnail design in 2026??

u/featherwolf — 13 hours ago

Upcoming Socks

On the June 26th WAN Show Linus announced the long awaited socks that they’d be making.

As someone who wears exclusively Darn Tough socks for more than half of my life I am very excited, but as someone who wears exclusively ankle socks I am disappointed.

He mentioned that if the crew length does well that they’ll consider ankle length & more so, knowing that, I hope that they do super well & that they’re at least as soon as Darn Tough’s so that I can buy a pair ::)! 🧦

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u/nmdcDrgn — 10 hours ago

Anyone else have issues with their recent LTT Store order?

I just received my truespec cable order in the USA from lime day sale. I ordered 6 cables, but I only received 4. There’s no indication on the order tracking page that there is or will be a second package. I’ve already filled out the contact form for missing items, but I just wanted to put this out here in case anybody else is having a similar issue.

This is my second or third order from LTT Store; no issues in the past.

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u/No-Interview319 — 10 hours ago

UniUni driver used Ai on it's delivery confirmation picture for my LTT Package

tl;dr: uniuni delivered my package in my community, but to the wrong house, with a completely different house number. took pictures, and used ai to change the numbers to show it as the correct address

okay long story, i live in a gated complex of 125 houses.

we have a main entrance, and a exit gate. I live near the exit gate, so if you put my address on google maps, it tries to take you into the exit. i have a controller so it's fine, but delivery drivers end up getting confused.

alot of times they try using the pedestrian gate and just leave the packages there at the gate.

the UniUni driver who delivered my ltt order decided he would try to be clever and walked to the closest house to the pedestrian gate, took a picture with the package, and just used AI to change the numbers to my house number. (probably because he didnt wanna walk to my house and didnt realize there was a main entrance for cars)

gonna have to edit the pics a bit to obviously not dox myself, but here's the proof:

removing metadata from pics hold on

uniuni delivery proof:

uniuni proof 1

uniuni proof 2

then here's the references REAL HOUSE

real picture of house

real picture #2

real picture #3

real picture #4

for reference...my actual house is a different color

gonna wait to submit a ticket to support tomorrow after i talk with the homeowner in case they saved my package. but im just shocked that this actually happened.

u/xd366 — 1 day ago

Microsoft Surface Hub

There's a Microsoft Surface Hub for sale on Marketplace just a few minutes away from the studio.

I've wanted one for years but can't buy that on a whim lol.

Hopefully one of the writers or Linus sees it and considers it for a video. I knew a guy who prototyped it into a DnD table, so maybe that's a possiblity for them.

u/GallopingWalrus — 24 hours ago

I built my first PC

*These are converted prices from INR to USD btw*

CPU - Ryzen 5 7600X (in 178USD)

CPU Cooler - Thermalright Pearless Assassin 120SE (in 55USD)

GPU - Used Zotac Trinity 3080 OC 10GB (in 340USD)

RAM - 16GB DDR5 6000Mhz CL38 TeamGroup Delta RGB Ram (in 157.5USD)

Motherboard- Asus AYW B650M (in 85USD)

Storage - I bought storage for my laptop back in 2023 [1TB Western Digital NVME SN570 + 1TB Crucial P3 Plus NVME] (in less than 100USD for both)

PSU - Deepcool PN850M (in 65USD)

Fans - Jungle Leopard Prism 4RS x 4 Fans (in 36USD)

Case - Deepcool CH160 Plus (in 55USD)

So I have built a very compact PC and trust me coming from a laptop it feels so good, especially I can max out graphics and also experience ray tracing for the first time and not feel icky when I see the bad lighting. I had four laptops before making this pc, I got my first two laptops from my dad, one was HP Pavilion with i3 6th gen then I had Asus Rog G17 with i7 9th gen and 1650 then I bought Asus Rog Strix G16 which had a bad mobo so I got the refund bought Acer predator helios neo 16 with i9 14900HX and 4060 but i had to send it back to RMA due to faulty GPU (code 43 error - probably some bad VRAM or some other module for GPU) - Leaving all of the BS aside, when I sent the Acer to RMA in 2025 to Canada it took me till june to sell it, so I bought a MacBook Air for my studies in May and then I sold the Acer in june, started ordering my pc components and now it’s complete finally…..

I love it and I just wanna share my experience from a very bad luck owning a laptop to buying a PC.
I played FH6 everything at max with ray tracing at 63FPS avg and some fps games exceeding 300FPS-400FPS mark.

If you read the whole thing, hats off to you 🫡

u/AthleteOne1275 — 21 hours ago

Suggestion: A video on Richard Stallman, the Free Software Foundation, and the history of GNU/Linux

Hey everyone,

With all the Linux content LTT has been producing over the last few years, I think there is a massive piece of tech history that would make for a fantastic deep dive or Techquickie.

We all know about Linus Torvalds and the kernel, but it would be awesome to see a video dedicated to Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation. As we watch companies like Microsoft shift their focus to enterprise cloud services, it's highly ironic that their massive Azure infrastructure is fundamentally running on Linux. But none of that would exist without the GNU tools and the GPL license that the FSF championed.

Stallman is definitely an eccentric (and sometimes controversial) figure, but the philosophy of "free as in freedom" shaped the entire enterprise and homelab tech landscape we rely on today.

A video exploring the difference between open-source and free software, and the history of how GNU/Linux actually came together, would be a great history lesson for the audience.

Would you guys watch a history-focused video on this? Would love to see the LTT writing team tackle it.

Update: I had no idea about all these controversies. An LTT video strictly about the history of the Free Software Foundation and the GPL would still be super valuable.

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u/Tuxabyte — 22 hours ago

Preliminary reports suggest recent cybercrime arrest was made using Microsoft GDID an immutable Windows Fingerprint reporting back nearly everything to Microsoft

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/media/1450651/dl?inline

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2073427396535963967

As the court filing and humorous tweet by cyber security education site vx underground illustrate:
Windows Telemetry seems to go much further than previously widely known. Even with telemetry off, modifications to registry and a local account, Microsoft’s servers stored:

- great amount of internet activity / browsing history, with detailed timestamps
- assigned current and past IP addresses
- time stamped video game activity
- programs installed and used with timestamps

The GDID is only mentioned once in all documentation by Microsoft and is unique to a device, only able to be wiped by a complete system wipe

(Note, the press release does not mention methods and is only a primer for those unfamiliar with the matter, details are in the court docs page 12 and 33)

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u/Dangerous-Day-2943 — 1 day ago

Should LTT have made a TV Upgrade Guide with the World Cup?

A friend of mine messaged me because he is thinking about buying a new TV to watch his home country play in the World Cup. After giving him some recommendations within his budget, I realized that the World Cup is one of those moments where the general population decides to upgrade their TV, so it is kind of weird that LTT missed this whole global event. Should they have made a video?

Also I hate QLED as a technology name, designed to confuse users from OLED

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u/ImViTo — 1 day ago