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!
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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.
Irl The Big Bang Theory
As I read through this I thought you were going to say y'all left and went to a bar together.
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.
If youβve been enjoying Ubuntu so far I randomly want to recommend Debian to you. βΊοΈ
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
I had a very niche problem on Fedora once that I was personally unable to solve, therefore the entire project is trash and everyone should use CachyOS which I haven't managed to break yet!
I didnβt realize spoiler links were possible and took the bait π«
That is okay you are forgiven π€£
Debian is a fine choice.
The only people that I know that use Debian are over 50 years old
Not even dirty 30 yet baybee!
Hey! Iβm not 50 yet!
Though not far off TBF.
Windows 10 and Linux are pretty good
Do you have a few minutes to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Linus Torvalds?
Richard Stallman*
The Father -> Richard Stallman
The Son -> Linus Torvalds
The Holy Ghost -> GNU+Linux
The Holy Temple -> Arch Linux
Holy Temple is of course Temple OS.
The meme said Linux users, not GNU/Linux.
It also said operating systems, not kernels.
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.
β¨ Linchard Starvalds β¨
Bold move to combine their names and then give it those damn "we've forced AI into this" sparkles, lol.
I thought Linux was a way of life. Not an OS?
Linux is actually a kernel.
THE KERNEL OF TRUTH π§π§π§π§π§π§π§
Uhh, it's GNU/Linux actually
If you wanted people to say the other part you shouldn't have given the other part a dumb name.
It's not a dumb name, it's a recursive acronym. That's awesome.
I recommend BeOS
I recommend to most people that you just BeYourself, so long as that means you won't Be an OSshole.
Ah, a Plan 9 man.
Yes! Maintain the rage!
Never before have I been so offended by something I one hundred percent agree with.
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.
Sloperating systems
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.
actually ... never mind
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.
Weather or not you should switch to this distro
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?"
I'm willing to recommend Windows 10 to someone who considers "upgrading" to Windows 11.
Windows 7 was peak Windows. It was all downhill from there.
Disagree. It was XP.