Red pill
this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2026
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I was green for awhile but after booting windows for the first time in 4 months to use a scanner it started syncing my files with one drive without my permission (I never set this up). I did a hard shutdown and that was it.
I would rather rip out a molar then boot windows on bare hardware again.
Never did manage to get ReactOS working for me
ReactOS can vaguely work, but since it can't really run anything, it's of limited usefulness.
its not Windows + Linux dual boot, its Linux primarily with Windows dual boot as a backup just in case i ever need fl studio or adobe
+1 for this one.
I had a Steam partition for years.
Red pill please. Only Linux please.
Green Pill
Was green, then windows overwrote my boot drive. Am now fully red.
Been using Windows + Linux for 4 years atp and only 2 times it happened, but now I'm going redpill tbh.
Who dafuq is white pilling here outside of the developers? I've got questions
Red !
Can Reactos be run from a thumbdrive?
I have all of these at home! I'll take slackware 7 on a thrift store thinkpad please. I imagine that pill is probably beige.
Red. Currently in the process of trying to set up VMs on my Fedora workstation ( with virtmanager). It's a bit of a struggle getting them to save state right now, but once that's done I'm one step closer to never needing to go back.
Where is Redox OS
Green pill
Can "Linux" be another color? Red pillers are incel neo-Nazi douchebags.
Isn't red supposed to be commie symbol?
Do not let them take any color. Own it.
i mean in the truest and most original sense, the red pill represented waking up from the status quo. in a world owned by Microsoft and Apple, a red pill is what linux is
in its truest form, the red pill in the matrix represented estrogen. it's really funny that nazis chose that as their dog whistle
Pink?
Yes! (I'm a little biased since it's my favorite color.)
I would choose linux, if those were the only options, alltho i would choose freebsd over linux.
So just say freebsd lol it's the last pill shown
But freebsd is not NetBSD, they are very similar, but technically not the same.
Edit: first comment was NetBSD
No TempleOS? The Lord shall smite you for this wicked heresey.
TempleOS doesn't have a pill. It's just bread and wine.
Way ahead
The correct spelling is DBMS. The picture is accurate though.
Base Data System Management
Still technically means the same thing
One of them has to be inserted rectally, but I'm not going to say which one.
Ohh, and another one it's your decision.
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i need more weird ones. haiku, nextstep, inferno, oberon, alto exec, os/2 warp, z/360, vms, maclisp, colorforth...
KolibriOS and MenuetOS are there, but are so tiny we can't see them at all.
AROS was there, but the kitty mascot refuses every pill
OS/2 Warp!
Dont forget RedoxOS, long live the secure rust microkernel
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freebsd ftw
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