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    [–] M137@lemmy.world 15 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (3 children)

    A friend of mine had a party at her place on the most recent new years eve, there were several people who I hadn't met before there and we quickly realised we were all Linux users and, of course, absolute fucking nerds (I mean that with pride and appreciation).
    She is very much not a nerd in that way and most others there weren't too. It took about 15 minutes before she threw her hands up in the air and said "guys, this isn't fun for anyone else, if you really need to only talk about operating systems and shit like that you'll have to leave. Everyone else wants to hang with you guys too but no one can if you keep this in-group thing going."
    And, yeah, we all understood her view. Of course we put up a playful fight though, first acting all disappointed and then saying "ok, ok, we'll leave then. Have fun being all boring and stuff without us cool kids" etc. which it took her a while to realise wasn't serious, heh.
    For the rest of the night we had to stop ourselves several times from getting back into it, both among ourselves and with other people. All of it was great though, and made some new Linux geek friends!

    [–] spacesatan@leminal.space 2 points 6 hours ago

    That's crazy to imagine a party where you can be kicked out for having a conversation on anything 'too niche' especially where the bar is that low.

    [–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

    Irl The Big Bang Theory

    [–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.today 3 points 12 hours ago

    As I read through this I thought you were going to say y'all left and went to a bar together.

    [–] robocall@lemmy.world 34 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

    Linux people are polite enough to not react when I tell them I use Ubuntu.

    Windows people think I am a geeky nerd that knows how to code when I tell them I use Ubuntu.

    [–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 18 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    If you’ve been enjoying Ubuntu so far I randomly want to recommend Debian to you. ☺️

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 6 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    I'm here to start a flame war and say Debian is old and gross and Fedora is clearly the way forward. And fuck it while were here, dont use the regular Fedora workstation, use the KDE spin, GNOME bad!

    Tap for spoiler/j

    [–] SleepyPie@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    I didn’t realize spoiler links were possible and took the bait 🫠

    [–] Turret3857@infosec.pub 2 points 12 hours ago

    That is okay you are forgiven 🀣

    Debian is a fine choice.

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    [–] robocall@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    The only people that I know that use Debian are over 50 years old

    [–] magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 11 hours ago

    Not even dirty 30 yet baybee!

    [–] BartyDeCanter@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 12 hours ago

    Hey! I’m not 50 yet!

    Though not far off TBF.

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    [–] DylanMc6@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

    Windows 10 and Linux are pretty good

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 128 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

    Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?

    [–] teft@piefed.social 35 points 23 hours ago (14 children)
    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

    The Father -> Richard Stallman

    The Son -> Linus Torvalds

    The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux

    The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux

    [–] wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 75 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

    The meme said Linux users, not GNU/Linux.

    [–] nkk@programming.dev 43 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

    It also said operating systems, not kernels.

    [–] Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

    As a Linux n00b, now I need to know which is the kernel and which is the OS.

    For most users, kernel js kinda invisible. Whatever program you run interacts with the system via the kernel. Kernel manages hardware and links software with hardware.

    And all the other programs you can launch, built around the kernel which together make it functional is the rest of the OS.

    [–] meme_historian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

    ✨ Linchard Starvalds ✨

    [–] Zink@programming.dev 11 points 20 hours ago

    Bold move to combine their names and then give it those damn "we've forced AI into this" sparkles, lol.

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    [–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)
    [–] Psythik@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    I recommend to most people that you just BeYourself, so long as that means you won't Be an OSshole.

    [–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 hours ago

    Ah, a Plan 9 man.

    [–] teslekova@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 hours ago

    Yes! Maintain the rage!

    [–] Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    I thought Linux was a way of life. Not an OS?

    [–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 19 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    Linux is actually a kernel.

    [–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

    THE KERNEL OF TRUTH 🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧🐧

    [–] FauxLiving@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

    Uhh, it's GNU/Linux actually

    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

    If you wanted people to say the other part you shouldn't have given the other part a dumb name.

    [–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 hours ago

    It's not a dumb name, it's a recursive acronym. That's awesome.

    [–] Captain_Baka@feddit.org 67 points 23 hours ago

    Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with.

    [–] m3t00@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

    actually ... never mind

    [–] Reygle@lemmy.world 8 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

    Sloperating systems

    [–] j4yc33@piefed.social 50 points 1 day ago (9 children)

    I think if I were to spend the time analyzing my conversations over the last 6 months I would probably find I spend a lot of time having conversations about why people should explicitly never use a Windows OS.

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    [–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 5 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

    TBF, almost everyone I work with uses Linux. There's virtually no conversation about it. It's just what it is, like even the weather is more deserving of discussion.

    [–] Whitebrow@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

    Weather or not you should switch to this distro

    [–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 5 points 12 hours ago

    I work a job at an airport assisting the elderly and disabled with wheelchair assistance.

    I cannot tell you, literally cannot tell you how many people sit in my wheelchair, and IMMEDIATELY start talking about the weather.

    Uggghhhhhh!

    I would be pleasantly surprised if the conversation instead was like this:

    "So, hows your day going?"

    "I murdered my wife and kids last night. Then I ate their corpses..."

    "Really? That's fantastic. Hey, what operating system are you using?"

    [–] taiyang@lemmy.world 14 points 19 hours ago

    It's quite simple; we're trying to find our lost comrades. I had a magical moment when not one, but two people who joined my group on an MMO were using CachyOS. It's like meeting your triplets separated at birth.

    You only find out if you bring it up, lol.

    [–] AeonFelis@lemmy.world 12 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

    I'm willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers "upgrading" to Windows 11.

    [–] Agent641@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

    Windows 7 was peak Windows. It was all downhill from there.

    [–] calmblue75@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago

    Disagree. It was XP.

    [–] Shaper@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago
    [–] arch@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

    This is the way

    [–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 9 points 20 hours ago

    Maybe if there were a hundred different Windows 10s, and all of them were really good, we would be recommending Windows 10 distros to each other

    [–] devfuuu@lemmy.world 6 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

    Have you guys hurd about the new release for 64bits... πŸ™ƒ

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