We are not the same - eviltoast
  • WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    181·
    2 days ago

    Linux distros are just the new “101 flavors of Protestantism,” complete with radical zealots who believe you will go to Hell for choosing the wrong one.

  • octopus_ink@lemmy.mlEnglish
    281·
    2 days ago

    No FLOSS loving Linux user is dead to me, not even the GNOME project team, and frankly I suspect it’s noobies and non-users pushing these memes lately.

    • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      I agree. I don’t think I’ve ever actually received or witnessed the hate that the memes espouse as the norm in the Linux community. I’ve seen some “oh really, I had trouble with that so I use blank instead” or maybe even “you should try blank” (mostly when people ask though). I think most of us are too busy hating Windows to really truly hate other linux distros. We have our favorites and we will happily share that with anyone that asks, and many that don’t.

      I’ve tried to stop talking about it all the time to friends and family as I don’t want to scare them off, but I am just using it everyday in front of them and showing them that I don’t have infinitely more problems than they do… Hoping it just seeps in via osmosis and at some point one too many “hey, you should buy a new computer, windows 10 is going end of life soon you know” pop-ups will set off that magical chain reaction.

      • zqps@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        14 hours ago

        I met a friend of a friend at an event and somehow PCs and Linux came up. He asked if I’m a Linux user (which I like to think you can’t immediately tell). I assume to build some nerd cred. I said “yeah, I technically have Linux with me right now”. He asked what I meant, so I pulled out the Steam Deck. He was unfamiliar and I briefly explained.

        When he heard it’s a commercial product (obviously), he actually pretended to faint. And then kept acting as if I had personally insulted him, not in a joking way. I had clearly failed the purity test in that moment.

        It was a strange experience. Not even in hackerspaces I’d ever had a conversation like that. So these people are rare but they do exist.

        • TheMachineStops@discuss.tchncs.de
          3·
          2 days ago

          Steam Deck is one of them best things ever created. It is a great way to market Linux to masses, this is the same way Windows gained its market cap. Windows made its dominance by being the default operating system for most PCs, normal users don’t know how to install operating systems, and probably don’t even know Linux exists.

          • zqps@sh.itjust.works
            1·
            14 hours ago

            Yeah. That kind of attitude is missing the forest for the trees. Open source gets better the more people use it, including the vast majority of casual users who don’t know or care about the GPL. Pretending that’s a problem is just gatekeeping to feel special and stroke your own ego.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          8·
          2 days ago

          honestly if I heard someone say “I technically have linux with me right now” I would expect them to pull out an Android phone and say that Android is based on the Linux kernel (it is, its just not what anyone means when they say ‘linux’, its a pretty good example of how ‘linux’ refers to the OS and not the kernel)

          • zqps@sh.itjust.works
            3·
            14 hours ago

            Yeah fair. I expected to chat about how Linux could displace Windows on Desktop, to which SteamOS and Proton on an x86 chip is a lot more relevant than Android.

        • Crozekiel@lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          Absolutely wild. Pretending to faint because a company sells hardware running on Linux? I feel like most of us want to be able to buy more computers that don’t just automatically come with Windows… That person sucks.

  • u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    103·
    3 days ago

    As an Arch user, whatever suits you.

    I installed Arch on my ThinkPad because.............................................................................................. uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhh.................... I had an Arch sticker and I felt like I couldn’t use it if I didn’t use Arch.

    Everyone has some reasons for their favorite distro.

    • Tyoda@lemm.ee
      46·
      3 days ago

      I use Arch, and I have an OpenSUSE wallpaper.

      Before this, I used Mint and had an Arch wallpaper…

      I live to offend.

  • comador @lemmy.world
    35·
    3 days ago

    As an old crusty Slackware user and UNIX admin, IDGAF what Linux distro people use; using any of them is a step in the right direction.

    • wookiepedia@lemmy.world
      3·
      2 days ago

      Couldn’t agree more! Hell, it doesn’t even have to be Linux. AIX on an LPAR? Cool. Irix on an old SGI workstation? You do you, man. MacOS and you use open source tools? Get it, man! Solaris on x86? You’re a sick fuck, but hey, it takes all types to make the world go round, you Larry Ellison supporting twat. Anyways, just use a unix variant, any of them.

      • comador @lemmy.world
        2·
        2 days ago

        What? No mention of the bastard child: Microsoft Azure (Mariner) Linux? You sick MS loving mutant!

        • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          That’s fair. Personally, I use Debian for my little home server, but it’s not a desktop OS for me.

          Nice thing about linux is we don’t have to agree. We’re free to use whatever we want.

          • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            3·
            3 days ago

            You would be genuenly suprised how good of a desktop OS it is, granted the packaged are old but keep in mind you can use repo packages for stability and flatpak for up to date software

            • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
              4·
              3 days ago

              I’m sure it’s perfecly fine as a desktop OS. It’s just not for me. I prefer more up to date software, so I recommend Mint to anyone asking, but use Endeavour (Arch, BTW) myself. I finally understand why people are always singing the praises of the AUR.

              Also, if I’m going to lean into Flatpak as a packaging system, I’m gonna use it as an excuse to properly try an immutable system and see how I get along with it.

              Now, all of this is purely my own opinion. Other people can use and like what suits them. I’m not trying to gatekeep or be an elitist. I’m an absolute noob myself.

                • L3ft_F13ld!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  In that case, I’d still recommend Mint or Mint Debian Edition unless the person knows what they want. Then Debian would be absolutely fine.

        • JustARegularNerd@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          I just use Linux Mint Debian Edition for my study laptop, sounds pretty much the same - in over a year of use, I have literally never had a single problem with it (other than things directly caused by me like leftover fstab entries for testing). I know it’s what Debian is renowned for but god damn that is a stable operating system.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      I currently have Pop_OS on a laptop, but haven’t run Ubuntu in a while. What is worse about it? So far (installed the other night) I just hate how slow the Pop Store runs. Terminal is quick and fluid, Firefox was good, Jellyfin setup all seemed to go quick. Installing the client for my VPN (PIA) went on forever and had issues so I just installed OpenVPN and set up a single Spain VPN gateway there. But for whatever reason that store just drags ass

  • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
    34·
    3 days ago

    I love it. This made me laugh.

    But, as this month’s chair of the of the Linux User Group for Letting Everyone Know We Hate Snaps (LUG LEKWHS), I want to clarify that we don’t have a problem with Ubuntu users.

    It’s Canonical we have a beef with.

  • Zeon@lemmy.world
    332·
    3 days ago

    Meh, I mean, Arch includes non-free software as well, so as a Trisquel user, you are all dead to me.

        • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 days ago

          I would never use MacOS myself but I get the ‘it just works’ aspect and the crazy energy efficiency of Apple’s hardware, also some tech youtubers I respect like Jeff Geerling and JDH use it

          Now, iOS on the other hand… (I was seeing if a family member’s ipad would work as a drawing tablet for Blender recently using the Moonlight app (which actually supports pressure sensitivity btw), but USB streaming doesn’t work because apple ties that to its hotspot and therefore having cellular, and the 3rd party apps are all removed from the app store, its just so stupid that I have the ipad and the cable and yet I can only transfer data over wifi)