I look similar to RMS and I use Arch (btw). Whatever is going on in the picture requires more fashion sense than I've got.
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Obligatory not an arch user, but I have been thinking of potentially getting thigh highs if I can find purple and white stripped ones. Closest I got is a couple of pairs of soccer/football socks that I recently got, but I kinda wanna change that.
The higher the socks the downer the foo'
Fairly accurate. SUSE is more like an IT guy forced to wear a suit to work that is not tailored well.
This guy is Kali Linux or Qubes/Whonix/TailsOS:
Nixos
Cis straight male Arch user checking in. There's all kinds of us, everyone is welcome to wear what they like and feel what they feel.
Ask for help and help you shall have. (It'll just... it'll be someone giving you a link to a wiki page, or the wiki page, or saying "check the wiki", BUT YOU WILL BE HELPED BECAUSE THE WIKI IS GO(O)D!)
Migrating my workflow to NixOS right now, and itβs really made me realize just how good Arch Wiki is. NixOS and Nix are a bit disjointed in terms of documentation and learning resources. But Arch Wiki usually helps me gain intuition for which software does what and what traits Iβm able to configure.
Non-Arch-Linux Linux users should absolutely consider the Arch Wiki when troubleshooting or learning about the Linux ecosystem! Iβm not sure thereβs a better broadly-applicable resource out there.
There's dozens of us! Represent!
Don't forget the Gentoo crowd
I am sorry, but that notebook is way too modern for a proper Gentoo user. Anything above 500MHz is wasted energy with useless kernel flags
Hoodie, MX Master and Gentoo, that's literally my old stack, except it was a desktop not laptop.
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Nah. Mint users aren't babies, they're the most everyman user. You probably won't find them on a linuxmemes page because they installed it out of frustration with co-pilot and don't want to know what an operating system is.
Ubuntu is accurate. Arch is accurate and also how dare you. Fedora is slander. That's linus torvalds' distro you're dissing. Debian⦠Gonna go out on a limb and say nobody uses debian on a personal machine. If its installed on something its your set it and forget it machine. The webserver that serves your neocities ass looking website. or your company's email server. Its not for old people, its for old machines. Or machines that plan on growing old.
I was a mint user, a year later I am a void user and am trying other distros on other machines and plan on trying more OSes. First thing I did was learn to customize my cursor with custom icons I had from windows which took me days because I didn't know how to use the terminal. I somehow used flatpak wrong???
I am sure it is different for long term users but it was a good start and fun learning experience. I mean don't get me wrong I am still dumb but a bit less.
Debian⦠Gonna go out on a limb and say nobody uses debian on a personal machine
All of my personal machines run Debian.
Mint user and the image is perfect. This is because Mint allows me to rest like a baby that has all their needs met, free from anxiety.
Linux mint user here, I'm using it because I can't be bothered to spend my precious few spare time on fixing things my OS decided to break. I want something that just works, and mint fits the bill, and comes out of the box with most of the things set up how I like.
Speaking as an Arch btw user, my socks match, thank you very much. How rude.
Speak for yourself, asymmetry is awesome :3
CachyOS user
I installed it last week. If just kinda works, is there supposed to be something bad about it?
What's bad about the picture?
a distinct lack of thigh high socks
See this makes me feel like I should be using arch, but I'm an idiot whos practically slobering all over the keyboard. I just want my pretty ui and for inkscape and my browser to work and to not have to worry about things unless I'm choosing to tinker
If I have to use the terminal for an prolonged period of time I might cry. I almost got void fully installed and working, but I just wanted my new replacement laptop up and running after my old one broke, so I gave up π₯Ή
Meh...use what you use, don't judge others for what they use... unless it's windows, fuck those guys.
I just assume that everyone arguing over distros has been using Linux for less than 3 years. If you're an experienced user you're just happy more people joined the ~~cult~~ community.
I'm not sure that I'm what anyone would call "experienced". But I've used it for a long time. And people wetting their pants over one or another distribution seems like a total waste of time. they're all very similar.
I'm very much not happy to be associated with the community depicted in meme - i sincerely hope most of them are just taking the piss out of themselves.
I think even if there were quadruple the user base it's not going to materially change the number of developers making decent linux native programs. So you either use open source stuff. or webapps and wine stuff like that. Size of userbase is pretty irrelevant to me.
Distros are a matter of taste, and you shouldnβt judge someone over it. But a bit of friendly fun-poking is alright (e.g. βNixOS user spend all night configuring their PCβ). Insults directed directly at a person are never OK. And there are of course distros that are objectively bad (like Ubuntu), and you can criticize their creators, and maybe try to convince the users to choose something else (thatβs where Mint is from, kind of), but you cannot. hate. on. them.
TIL I'm a geriatric baby. (LMDE)
The real life Benjamin Button
As a Debian user... Yes
Same. I feel well represented as a Debian user.
I'm old and cranky and beat up, but I feel that pic is just touch too old as a debian user
I have limited experience here, but can confirm that being a sleeping baby is quite pleasant.
I too am new to Linux and love mint
I love Mint because I put my geriatric, non-techie dad on it 6 or 7 years ago and he's only asked me for help 3 times. And ΓΎe second time was because he bought a new (used) laptop and wanted Linux Mint on it instead of ΓΎe Windows it came wiΓΎ.
Idk about the mega neckbeard for opensuse. Every one I've met has been the most normal and least annoying. It just works and allegedly has some very nice convienence features.
Also the arch user could just as easily be copied to nixos.
Don't take it too seriously mate.
I've been on TuxedoOS for a while. Everything has worked so well I've managed to quell my distro hopping for a couple years now.
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This is me as an opensuse user
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I use OpenRC btw.
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