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  • [–] 41 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Not necessarily. I know a guy who has been using Linux for 20 years but is dumb as a bag of rocks. It's me.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    From the description, I thought you were talking about me. But maybe you are me and we are just two instances of our shared mental instability 💖

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (16 children)

    The linux community is split cleanly in two.

    Those with way too much self-awareness and those with none at all.

    I say that as someon who uses a linux distro as my main OS. (Yes I am better than you).

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    uses a linux distro as my main OS

    As opposed to dabbling? Nah fuck that, I'm all in, to the extent possible. I have to use Mac OS for work, otherwise I'd be fully on Linux. Fuck windows with a rusty knife.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah my work computer runs Win 11 and god I hate it.

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    I agree, I just don't know realistically how many people use them anywhere near equally for very long. I've been 99% on Linux for 5 years. That 1% is basically just me keeping a windows partition for security. I end up logging into it once every 4-6 months but I don't truly "need" it almost ever.

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    You cant use both partitions

    Well you can with a hypervisor, but why bother when you can just run windows VM in linux... until you discover some game anticheats like battleye went out of their way to detect and block virtualization of any kind, so you need to boot windows natively sometimes. Of course you could go the other way and run linux vm inside windows but then all the flexibility of a linux system is lost in a rigid windows wrapper, which makes it kinda pointless....

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Ugh... I feel your pain.

    Linux full time at home, bazzite/steamOS for games. Mint for the media center. Debian on proxmox for homelab, and early attempts to not hurt myself with nix for the laptop.

    But I support windows/OSX at work, so I have to keep up with all three worlds.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    There's also a hierarchy. You run Mint? Lol ok kid, adults use Arch.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

    no way, sadists use gentoo. i vastly prefer arch because i often need libraries that are newer than most package managers get in a timely fashion. i use fedora on my server for the opposite reason, but for my workstation, arch wins easily.

    a linux beginner would probably need to be a sadist to use arch, but anyone who knows what they're doing will have a fine time.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    It's funny because it's true

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

    And if there's one kind of person who really pisses me off, it's the kind that use the wrong distro

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    I could care less what distro you're using, but if you're using the wrong desktop environment, I will have a real conniption fit and write a 31-page rant on why your DE is a bloated, rigid mess.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Half of people hate gnome and will bite your head off for mentioning it, the other half loves and uses it with little to no issue. I'm a gnome guy and don't like KDE (yes I've tried it multiple times) but if they fix a few things I could see switching.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    I think I'm the weird one who likes different DEs for different use-cases

    Gnome is great on a laptop with a track pad. It feels a bit like MacOS with its gestures and how it behaves. I did try also installing hyprland on it to try it out. I like the idea of a tiling WM but getting a setup 'just right' sounds like an exercise in patience I don't have when other solutions exist that are good enough.

    On my main desktop that I use a mouse to navigate, KDE all the way.

    On the few VMs that I run GUI apps on, I like LXQT (Lubuntu or Debian) for how few resources it uses.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    Nice! I'll bet this helps your neuroplasticity too. I should probably try to do something similar. One reason I'm attached to gnome is that I've built up a collection of knowledge and scripts around customizing it. I should probably be less picky regarding these customizations though.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    OpenSUSE:

    I promise not to make a nuclear weapon ✅

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Is this true?

    I mean funny meme hahaha windows sux but isn't the license agreement of Linux GPLv2? not to mention the license of the distro and all the packages?

    https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Only on the kernel ackshually. Most packages are GPL3 or BSD or Apache.

    If you don't plan to edit source files, Linux distribution licenses boil down to "do whatever just don't sue us"

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Yeah, but I just CachyOS

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    "I promise I am not a cuck bent over with my cheeks spread getting gaped by corporations and loving every second of it."

    FTFY

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    We kinda are though...

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    “…and I’ll get really pissy if anyone tries to tell me otherwise”.

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    [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    I hate being the smartest person in the room. I think it says a lot and nothing good about me that I find myself in the situation often.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    Actually it's that alternations to the source code must be shared under the same license.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    So if I have an inferiority complex, I’d be using Linux illegally?

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    You forgot to highlight the part of the Apple TOS about not using Apple Software on machines controlling nuclear devices.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This would actually not meet the criteria of free and open source software if it were real.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    This is ultimately incorrect. Using Linux just means i'm willing to risk breaking my bootloader. Linux doesn't stop me from running wine to perpetuate my dependence on closed source software. It doesn't even prevent forgetting aliases that aren't immediately broken and wondering why none of my services work anymore. I'm better than those people because my time isn't a commodity.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I personally like to joke that Windows users are masochists, Mac users are ignorant, and Linux users are arrogant. Obviously, these are the worst traits from a few bad eggs out of each basket, the majority are nice people who just use their computer for computer things.

    I personally run EndeavourOS, which is Arch-based!

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