I use arch btw

  • ozymandias@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    1 hour ago

    this is the same corporate fueled viral joke as “vegans always telling everyone about being vegan”.
    maybe if windows wasn’t a vibe coded, microslop, death-by-1,000-papercuts, spycrosoft, torment nexus, then nobody would feel the need to tell people about linux?

    • nymnympseudonym@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      3 minutes ago

      One of my favorite jokes:

      Q: A Vegan, a crossfit enthusiast, and a Linux user walk into a bar. How do we know?

      A: They told every. Damn. Person. In the bar. Within 5 fucking minutes.

    • MissesAutumnRains@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      2·
      59 seconds ago

      People walk around smashing themselves in the dick with a hammer, complain about the dick-smashing hammer, and lament the future dick-smashing hammer update, and the moment someone says, “Hey, have you tried these non-dick-smashing, hammer-free pants?” And they say, “Hahaha, do you also do CrossFit?”

      This joke is stolen valor, I only just swapped to Linux like two days ago and I haven’t had the opportunity to blurt it out to people yet.

    • calango@programming.devOP
      1·
      33 minutes ago

      this line of reasoning seems right to me. Well, if Windows didn’t have all these problems, there wouldn’t be as much need to migrate to another operating system

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    38·
    2 hours ago

    I’ve never told anyone IRL that I use Linux.

    Nor have I actually spoken to anyone for more than a few words since I started using Linux.

    • pelya@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 hours ago

      People are boasting about Arch, but my first open-source OS was FreeBSD 4.2, fitting on a single CD-ROM.
      It included a tiny base system and C compiler, and practically every other package had to be compiled from source, using the ports system, which was just a collection of makefiles, one for each package.
      And you had to be careful to use gmake instead of make, because the default Make was BSD-specific tool incompatible with most of open-source software, which targeted Linux. And you had to make sure to use GNU versions of grep, sed, and awk, and remove all bashisms from shell scripts, because /bin/sh was of course incompatible with bash.
      You had only about 50% chance that a given package would compile. Package manager? What package manager? Just run suand then make install.
      And my PC was AMD K6, and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing. And I was very proud of my TEAC CD drive.

      • OwOarchist@pawb.socialEnglish
        6·
        55 minutes ago

        and it had Turbo button, which did absolutely nothing

        These old ‘turbo’ buttons actually did do something – they limited your CPU clock speed.

        Because some old games (and perhaps other software) relied on counting CPU cycles for timing the game. The faster your CPU, the faster the game would run, and the faster things in the game would happen. When CPUs got too fast for this, such games became unplayable because everything was happening in such fast-forward speed that the player could never hope to keep up. The counter-intuitively named ‘turbo’ button would bridge a jumper on the motherboard and change your CPU clock speed to a lower value, slowing it down so these old style games could still run at a reasonable, playable pace.

        Ironically enough, the ‘turbo’ button made your PC slower.

        (Personally, I think turbo buttons are due for a comeback, but as fan control options. Use a ‘turbo’ button to switch between fan control profiles – turbo off for quiet profile, turbo on for maximum performance profile.)

        • pelya@lemmy.world
          1·
          46 minutes ago

          The PC case with Turbo button was originally 486-DX, but there was no place on the new K6 motherboard to plug it into.

    • goatinspace@feddit.org
      3·
      2 hours ago

      Arch-based, the path you choose btw? Good. Big endeavour it is. Closer to the Force, you’ll feel… the more you learn.