 Our team here at Linus Tech Tips may be world-class, but why can they ever be critical? Hey Linus, you spent ages on a fancy RGB reservoir, and then you covered it up with a mouse pad. Cool server rack, Linus. Why do you paint it bright pink? Well, I'm sick and tired of all of this nonsense, and it's time for me to hit back with some help from Luke. We got our staff to send in pictures of their battle stations at home, and we're gonna see how closely they follow their own CEO's advice. But there's a catch. We have no idea which setup belongs to which employee. Which means we're gonna have to guess. And it also means this video is sponsored by Origin PC. Their EVO 15S thin and light gaming laptop has this fancy HD UV printing, or you can get laser etching, which would make it really easy to identify people's computers. We'll do our best. Without further adieu, computer zero's looking pretty zero right out of the gate. That's freaking disgusting. This is worse than mine, and mine's pretty bad. This hair here though? That means they have airflow problems. It's trying to pull in through the gaps. What the heck? You know what's really gross about this? Is that this is actually a decent machine. Hard disk plus two terabyte. Wait, is there no SSD? You have a 2080, and you don't have an SSD? I don't see why. Like, I'm not, like, shaming you. I'm not being like, oh, you're too poor for an SSD. SSDs aren't expensive anymore. 2080s are. Oh, okay. Why even get tempered glass if you're just going to make it horrible the whole time? Why would you send this picture? Like, this desk setup is pretty sick. Nyanumpty. What the hell? Whoever it is, games, needs extra batteries. Vapes. Oh, wait, vapes. I have no idea. I'm guessing Dan. It's Scott. Scott, what a dick. Why don't you have an SSD, Scott? You know what? I should have known from the mug. It had to be someone with an accent. Foreigner. Sick rig, bro. Okay, this is a lot better. Wow. That's very clean. 3D series? Did I build this? Gotta love the der Bauer. Yeah, I built this. Wait, no, hold on. This isn't Nicole's room. Whose room is this? Are their blinds, like, shredded? I don't want to see the light. Whoever it is still lives at home because otherwise there's no way you put your TV in your bedroom. They're into records. Wait, oh, there's pictures. There's pictures. Okay, they're white. Hey, that narrows it down a fair bit. They also have sunscreens, so that backs that idea up. They're very white. SPF 50. Okay, definitely a creative type. I am saying Emily Seddon. I have no idea. It is Sven. Sven? I like your setup, Sven. I've hardly met Sven, so I wouldn't have had a chance. Sven works in sales. Okay, Luke, you got to start guessing. I have five. It's not even the last of the staff that's in the head. Yeah. Oh my God, I don't recognize any of these. I don't know. I have no idea. It's the writer of this video. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. The gruel's on the top. I'm starting to panic a little bit. Very fresh and clean. I don't think I'm going to get any of these. You'll get some of them. No, I'm not. I don't know who this is. I have a guess for this one. Wait, okay, hold on, hold on, hold on. This is like development stuff. Okay, who is it? Luke, help me out here. This has got to be your team. Oh, it's got to be Peter then. Yeah. Okay. We got one. We got one. This is too easy, Peter. Peter works on our internal inventory management system. This is a sick setup. It's also Nicholas Ploof's. I love that it is even worse, even more cluttered after I fixed it. There's a lot of things going on though. There's a lot going on. It's fun and interesting. Oh my God. Ploof, it's still not cool to clip your nails at your desk, and it's especially not cool to pluck at your desk. Ploof's one of those guys that manages to make things dirtier by cleaning them. I swear to God, I left this system looking pretty shiny. Look at this side panel. Yeah, I noticed that as you said it. He used a dirty ass cloth to clean his glass side panel. Or like a sweaty shirt or something. Nothing can surprise me after I saw that gross pizza board that he had though. It wasn't as dirty as this workspace, but it's dirty. So this is the keyboard building station. Yeah. You'd think you'd get bored of building keyboards. You'd think. It means right in the name. Okay, I got two. You don't have to open it. You don't have to open the dock. Why? It doesn't do anything. If you're on an image, just use the left and right arrows. Well, whatever. No, I'll do what I want. How does everyone here have such like baller amazing rigs? The lighting's uneven. What am I looking at? Oh, this is Ed. Wait. No, it's not. Wait. Yes, it is. This looks like a setup that Ed would do and have. Yeah, but there's calipers on the table. This cable management is also better than Ed would do. But this desk pad hanging on one side off the desk seems deliciously Ed. So... Which side is the employee? I don't know. Esso's steal LTT store stuff all the time. It's good stuff. You should check it out. I only have like half of mine left. I'm sorry. I don't know. It's Callanen. Nick Callanen. So now go right. Use arrow key. Go right. Please roast it to medium rare. For the amount of space that they have, this looks pretty good. This is kind of sweet. It's really clean. You got that power play. You got that sick keyboard. Very few visible cables. Got the tissues right there. Man, this way you can reach them from the bed or the computer. I bet there's a VR headset in here. I don't know. You just... Matthew from Creator Warehouse. I didn't even think of that. Yeah, Matthew from Creator Warehouse would totally be this aesthetic. Whoever this is doesn't know how to use... You know, wait. What? What am I looking at? A Panasonic desktop editor? This iMac is a server? You're using a Drobo? This has to be Mark from the editing team. Yeah, this is Mark. Power... Power for access point... Wait, wait. This is a next level hack. Luke, do you see what's happening here? I do see what's happening there. Do you see what's happening here? They're using their built-in vacuum conduit to run ethernet. How big is this brain? Oh my goodness. This is quite the write-up too that you should have gotten to with arrow keys. This is my home server, my Daz. Direct attach storage for those of you who rightly are not familiar with anything other than NAS because it's stupid. Very cool vacuum cabling setup. Very cool. I love this setup. I hate the mouse pad. What? It's so small. Okay. Yeah, but it's cool. It's like unusably small. It's cool though. What's the wood thing? I guess just a shelf with nothing on it. Yeah, yeah. It's not holding the monitor up. No, it's not. Oh, that's interesting. It looks nice. It holds the PS4 and this hard drive. It holds them down. Got a hard drive there. It looks nice though. These look like real plants. So whoever it is, you know, cares about... It looks very nice, clean, fresh. I like the aesthetic. Don't like that the cooler's positioned weirdly. I mean, yeah, there's only so much you can do. Put the logo properly though. I know. And really you have a Blu-ray drive. Who would be enough of a medium? 4K off-road drive LOL. That's correct. Marcus. Marcus from the editing team. Okay. Yes. Eww. TIE fighter. Eww. Let's go. No, I don't like the horizontal dual vertical. I also don't like computers that don't have their monitors upgradable. I think this is... This doesn't have enough Nintendo to be Lloyd. Wait, startup disk Lloyd. Okay. It's Lloyd. Because I was thinking Lloyd. I like the TIE fighter. I'm down with the TIE fighter. I'm not down with the TIE fighter. I can't run it myself. It drives me nuts. I like one vertical on the side and then horizontal horizontal. Lloyd. This is no excuse. Get an LTT desk pad on there. Yeah, because your mouse pad sucks. It's also in a really weird orientation. Yeah. Acceptable cable manager. What are they watching? Is this a hint? Does this help us? I have no idea. Some kind of... Dota. Dota 2. Oh. Rockin' the laptop daily driver with the stand. Oh, speaking of laptops. I guess we should probably tell you a little bit about the sponsor of today's video. This Origin PC machine is sick. It's got a Core i7-12700H, which will boost up to 4.7 gigahertz, an RTX 3070 Ti in spite of its slim profile, 32 gigs of RAM, a terabyte of storage. It's of course our MP600 and probably most importantly, a 1440p 15.6 inch 240 Hertz display. So it's super smooth for gaming. Magic mouse pad with another mouse pad beside of it, neither of which are the LTT mouse pad. Whoa, someone's a hardcore Dota. Oh, oh, and LTT store is there. Okay, you should figure this out. Oh, this is another developer. I should have put this together like insanely faster. I apologize to who this is. Conrad? Yeah. Dota 2, man. He's like insanely good at Dota 2. Oh, okay. You need a new mouse pad though. Oh, look at the wrist rest. Whoever it is has even an oilier body than you. Yeah. That's gross. That's gross. That's really bad. Oh, wow. It looks like, yeah, that one's bad. It looks organic. It looks like a 20 year old potato. Yeah, it doesn't look like a wrist rest. It looks like it grew from the desk and formed just where their wrist was. I do appreciate the honesty in the photos. Yeah. I think that LTT water bottle has like grime on the bottom. Yeah. No offense to you all, but like gamers should not own white things. We have three cats sue me. Okay. Well, it's Jonathan because he left his name. It's the screenshot. You know, for developers, our developers are not very subtle security conscious. Okay. Nice and this is which doesn't narrow it down that much. Honestly, I know Ed Emily and some of the logistics folks are into knives. I think Jamie's into knives baseball. Oh, Brock University. I look at all right. I was one of my three. It's Jamie got him. Where they're going to be records. You weren't even going to give me the records as a hint. Are those tires not getting the water ball? Those are tires. Are those tires? Wait, what? Why do you have tires in here? Bra? Not bad clean clean. I like the lighting. Oh, whoever this is knows how to take a picture. All right plays guitar. I'm convinced already is this Nick. Oh that cable management. I remember this thing. This thing was super cool. There was a period where there were motherboards that just didn't have enough USB 2 headers and they're just it seemed like there was this proliferation of USB 2 things like, you know, every RGB thing in your thing had to plug into a separate header. So this was a way to take one header and turn it into a bunch of headers. I also think it's kind of neat that they have their peripherals in there. If the connect if the connection is still good, then we're good. I'm like pretty convinced. I know who this is. Okay, you got to help me then. Jaden. Yeah, nice. I've been nailing. I think I've gotten everyone on my team so far. Your team's a lot smaller. Okay, we got the flex seal. We got the lube got candles. Oh my God. There's the trifecta. They've got that same stupid light that you have Brandon. What the hell also is that a power Mac g5 kicking with a legendary cooler in front of it. The chairs seem better days. It's okay. So is mine. That's an LG TV monitor got the color calibrator. Okay, I'm going to take the screwdriver hint. Maybe it's Kyle. I've never seen a setup. It is often Hoffman. Wait, what I was at Hoffman's place and the LG TV remote. How did I not get this? Oh, your teams much smaller except I've literally been in this location. I've never seen the system. I've never seen any of their setups before. I've never been to any of their houses. I got speakers. How did I miss this? That is embarrassing. Let's edit it so that it seems like I got it Hoffman. Are you editing this video? Can you edit this together? So it seems like I got it. This is an old system rock in the Z6 80s or no, this was the Z5 500 or whatever zoom out slightly Chronicles of Riddick. I think it's 2006. Yeah. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Got that logisys logisys case water cooling. Okay. So you're OG enthusiast old school nerd, San Diego got the code name. There's a lot of things in this photo that I thought were wicked at this time. Sick setup. Who's this? I thought you already saw your setup. Oh, you put in two setups. That's cheating. That's hacks and your external water cooler is stupid. Whoa, we got our first radio on gamer. Oh, I don't like this. This literally looks like it was thrown on the desk. Okay. You have a desk pad. So why would you be a fantastic like giveaway quality tiny mouse pad on top of it and Smurfs aren't cool. Okay. Now I'm in a bad mood and these little poppet things my kids play with those grow up. Hey, hey, okay. Hey, that's probably too. I've gone too far. I've gone too far. I'm a dial it back. I'm a dial it back. How do you get your chair in here? You got your router here. I think it's a perspective thing. I think the router is up on a desk and just barely and your monitor is broken in the pick of my monitor just does that sometimes like why is there this massive gap between your monitors? Yeah, that's pretty. What how do you even use your keyboard? Where do your legs go? Yeah, it's not like this whole set of driving me nuts. Is this person really tiny? Are they really small? I don't know who this is. I'm assuming it's a small person. This is Emily. You know what man now I feel really awkward about thinking that Emily had some of those sick setups that I saw before Emily. Roasted. Kind of slobby not going to lie. Just just put things like together and stuff. I thought you were cool, bro. Whoa. What resolution of this picture? Yeah, what's with these tiny pictures? Big swooping desk, so you're sitting on a circle. Why did you just like nail the carcass of an animal to your wall and poorly? It's not even artful. It's like flopping over. It's just there. Those pictures are so not even. You didn't even try. Oh man. Dig the speakers that goes with the cool under table sound setup that really needs some cable management. This is cool. So we have another musician here. Oh my God. Is this that NAS chassis? With a pedal in front of it. Someone bought this. SLI because they didn't watch any of my videos. Ew. You don't even use a Mac and you use that god-awful Mac keyboard. And a turned vertical Mac pad. Yeah, what is that? That's what I was saying. Remember? What the hell? Are these 3090s? What the f*** is this computer? Hey, you did it right. Good job. Power rails or garbage? What are you talking about? It's Dan. It's Dan. Dan. Oh man. I should just start taking wild swings. What do you need all that power for Dan? I understand the audio setup now. That makes sense. But the graphics cards. Streamer. 100% Nice setup. I know this one. I know this one. I know this one. I know this one. You do? You have to guess. I'm 100% certain. No question. I know who this is. Crap. Well, I know one of the accounting people has this. Are those all pictures to the right of their desk that they have it hung? They should be fired for that. I love it. I love it. That's an exhaust. So that's after it's already gone through these fins. Like the front of this computer must be freaking disgusting. There isn't even a picture. Yeah, you knew better. No, hold on. This looks like a kid thing. They have kids. They have kids. Okay. Okay, wait. Okay, he's narrowing it down. That narrows it down a lot. Who has houses? How many people have houses? Who's the person who has the most houses? The most houses? Well, me. Okay, stop. Hold on. Who has the most houses? Oh my god. How did that not do it? How do you give a hint more blatant than that? Wait, is it Colton? Yes. Oh my goodness. Actually, it's true. Colton has a lot more houses than me. That's a stupid place for his computer. Well, I think he needed it for the baby room. Oh, his computer room is a nursery now. This is a sick setup. I like it. Are they in a loft? I really like this. I enjoy how this is like the fun and activity zone because they have like the computer and all that kind of stuff and then they clearly do some work or modification or whatever on the left and then more on the left from there. There's like board games and all this other kind of stuff. This is like the I'm going to come do stuff and have fun. I like this area. I like this setup. Got the screwdriver already. Most people don't have the screwdriver yet. Got the full LTT fan setup. That's pretty sick. I don't like again, the EK logo is the wrong direction. Oh my God. It bothers me. Get over it. Got the CRT back there. Stream deck with a nice streaming camera. LTX 2019. Rainbow Six Siege first place. So this is Chase. Okay. Cause nobody else who isn't David would have a Rainbow Six Siege trophy. All right. I got it. Yes. I needed a first place. Cool setup, Chase. Okay. Okay. Well, this is Brandon's. See you later. Okay. Car person. Wait, what? Wait, what? What the hell? Oh, it's got to be Andy then. It's Andy. Okay. Done. Yeah. That makes sense. I didn't. Okay. How do you not recognize the ones that you like did? Well, because it's changed. Andy didn't have a butcher block thing. He had a small, the small form factor machine is still here, but the Mac, the Honda thing here, the fact that he has that's awful light on his monitor, the wall mounted TV. I want to get the light now. I have no desire to have it, but I just want to have it to bug line it. Mike stand with no mic on it. Bit cringe. Yeah. Yeah. A very cool setup for back then. I like their older setup more than I like their newer setup. Yeah. Get wrecked. I don't think the old photo is going to help you. Well, the old photo tells me a lot more than this generic ass new setup. This is VFX artists react. Are you, do you have anyone that does that a lot? That is also into keyboards. Oh yeah. Wow. Nice keyboard. Yeah. I don't know. Yeah. Antoine. Antoine. Okay. Yep. Antoine's actually our keyboard guy for labs. Wow. That's a little hard. Do not do that. Whoa. That's not cool. Hard drives. Don't angle them. I'm down. I'm down with, you know, being kind of not great with the mounting of drives, but don't angle it like that. Scrolling on the blades of the fans on those lower noctuos. Ew. Woo. Those look like webs. Does this thing turn on? It's dusting. I mean, no wonder you use industrial PPC fans because you're never going to dust your computer. Not once. Whoa. That's wide. What am I even looking at? Please don't do drugs. Okay. I have no idea then. Writing team. Writing team. Oh my God. It's gotta be Tanner. Oh, wait. No, this isn't Anthony's machine. Is it? No, I built Anthony's machine. Okay. Hold on, hold on. I'm going to shut the fuck off guys. I'm going around the room. Okay. We've got, oh my God. Adam, really? Yeah. But Adam's technical. I mean, they all are on the writing team. I hate it. We hired this guy to give people tech advice. Look for some cheats here. Okay. There's a big one. You were actually cool in high school and you're James. Yeah. Oh, shit. Got it. Where's your computer, bro? Is that down there? Maybe. My board got knocked when my wife blew the breaker before I got a UPS. Too soon, bro. Too soon. The company's not gone. Yeah. I know that Anthony has a huge collection of old console crap, but it's like back East or something. Some of mine too. Okay. We've got the legs in here. Got a bulge. How? Got a nice big bulge. So that's good for you. Oh, wait. Oh, this is David. Well, this is really awkward. Me talking about this right in front of you. That's why I said how. I was like, how does he not know yet? This is crazy. Well, no. How do you not know anything about the people you work with? There's other people that have old console stuff. So this one has a lot of hints. First of all, there's the clear Xboxes, which he's been tweeting about a fair amount. I don't follow you guys on Twitter. I don't know. I just do not open that tab. Spill the tea Linus. I only look at my notifications. That's it. If you mentioned me, I'll see it. But other than that, I don't see it. Okay. Then you literally see his legs and his setup. Yeah. No, the TV I recognize. The TV I recognize. And the fit legs. You got fit legs, David. And the bulge. Whoa. Oh, that's so cool. Whoa. And you couldn't even be arsed to send us some more pictures or do a write-up. Yeah. There's like no hints in here, but that's sick though. Is that half inch hard line tubing? What? That's wicked. Maybe Jake's upgraded. Head of the labs, former marketing manager for ASUS, repping the brand. Has a super cool setup. Makes sense? That's a super sick setup. I knew he went Threadripper. He was like, yeah, after being in charge of selling this stuff for so long, it's nice to be genuinely enthused for something for a change. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Where are these cables going? Okay. Maybe we could like dust for fingerprints here and see like, what is this? That's like, do you have, do you have like moisture problems in your walls or what? Look at this audio setup though. Wait, we already saw Dan. Look, they have it like suspended from, it's not actually attached to the ceiling. Shut up. That's like ACE tier audio treatment. Okay. Who takes this, this seriously? My setup before was pretty minimal, but kind of interesting. Is that a bone saw? Are you threatening me? This setup's really cool. And looks like very custom, which I'm totally into. My Vancouver setup. My stuff is still in storage. So I borrowed a computer. Oh no. Discover Canada study guide. So relatively new employee outside of the country, had to move local. Oh, Sam from the lab. I wish I had a checklist. So I at least knew which ones I'd seen already. Okay. Sick setup, Sam. Yeah. Love it. That's really cool. I love that, just mop. There's some clothes. Playing wow. External monitor. Yeah. Play some wow. No UI mods though. So that's cringe. Open backed headphones. That's a yikes. A hanging off this poor three and a half millimeter jack with an adapter in the middle of a kitchen. Submitting for the memes, call it the just moved in setup. I don't even know who moved recently. Angus. Angus. Oh, accounting. A lot of laptops set up. A lot of laptop setups, but there's also a desktop. So yeah. Controller for each console. What the? Are you guys trying to mess with us? I mean, this one's more square in fairness, but the graphic. I think, I feel like it's time. I feel like it's time to disclose the real purpose of this. All the people who are monstrous enough to put their mouse pad like this are fired. Yeah. Yeah. Good. Good. And you too, Adam, for that hard drive. No cable management because my girlfriend rearranges her apartment every few weeks. So it's just a hassle. Honestly, I liked the rest of it more. So maybe that's her input because the like plant and the little thing that's on the wall and stuff is actually kind of nice. Yeah, that's all fine. And the setups like definitely not the desk I would go with. I hate really, really, really tall desktops. This looks really uncomfortable. Yeah. That mouse pad. You have so much room on your desk too. If you just move everything slightly left. They're just sitting there. Yeah. Move them here. Yeah. Sean. You can do better, Sean. Sean from the business team. It's not your girlfriend's fault because she's moving the apartment around. You just didn't put the stuff on your desk properly. Yeah, it's on you. And you can get a new mouse pad. Is this a Power Mac G3? This is a 10 out of 10. This is, is that a bunk bed? Yes. Legit. That's the only one you're gonna give us? Come on. You know what? There's no one around this location. No, Jonathan Horst. Okay. Got it. I know he has a hackintosh. I remember that from his interview. That's pretty cool. Oh. Herman Miller. Racing sim thing. I know who this is. Yeah, okay. There we go. If I know the cat's name. Jake, don't take this the wrong way. Your cat's fat. Looks like he's gonna break this butcher block desk. This is definitely stolen from work. This has gotta be stolen from work too. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. 100%. You did a good job on that, didn't you? 100%, 100%. Okay. This is easy. Robert. Hey. Dude. This though looks like you've probably had it since you were like 12 and your parents probably got it for you. A lot of things here look like that and I'm down with that idea. What the? Except for that. That's horrible. Why is this a theme? Okay, did you guys conspire to do this? I literally didn't know anyone did this. I didn't know anybody ever did this until now. Remember that first wave of gaming laptops that had the touch pad vertical? Yeah. And how outrageous that was. And it was stupid. How stupid it was? This is the equivalent to that. This looks like fake. This looks like it's rendered. I already guessed Lloyd, right? Yes. Okay. This is also someone you've never guessed. This is someone I've never guessed. Is that a pool? Is this just someone messing with us? Cause this looks like fricking a tropical oasis out here. Yeah. I'm telling you, it looks like a render. They could live at like an apartment that has a pool. Who has these Photoshop skills to blow the window? I don't know. Anyone in the editing department? Oh, I was so distracted by how nice everything else looks. Your mouse pad. Come on. I understand that our mouse pad probably wouldn't work in this setup aesthetically. So that's fine, but neither does that one. Mercedes Benz. That's the, so this person watches F1, I think. Cause that's the Mercedes driver. Oh, Lewis Hamilton. Oh, this has got to be Maria. The fact that it's all Mac all the time. I actually talked to her SO at a work function and he gets so triggered by her just like Apple fanaticism. We like made fun of her for a while. The setup looks nice though. I think he'd be more comfortable with a bigger mouse pad. I'm going to die on that hill. Whoa. This is a cool setup. I love this. I love it. Got the 3D printer. This is great. Love the PC setup right next to the work on things setup. Really? You took a picture of your fish. Who cares? That is a clean setup. Like literally clean. Or it was cleaned for this. That is a lot of hard drives. Also, yeah. Oh, this is well, this is the server. Oh, that makes sense. Okay. This is a labs person. I don't know any of the new ones. So there's no point in me guessing them. So sure, Jake. I like your setup, Tim. Oh, it's so obvious now. Okay. I didn't really think of Tim as labs though. He's only sort of labs. He's like mostly done video stuff so far. 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