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[–] sp6 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

PC ≠ Windows

-Your local linux evangelist

[–] Caradoc879 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

How do you know someone is a Linux user?

They'll fucking tell you.

[–] cashews_best_nut 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, that's just Arch Linux users.

I use Arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

NixOS users too

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We just need the rest of the Linux gang to experience the glory of pacman+AUR, it's not our fault they don't listen.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know, that saying doesn't work nearly as well when the conversation is actually about people's experience with operating systems.

[–] Caradoc879 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, go to any tech related post and every thread quickly becomes about Linux regardless of what it was about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

almost like linux is really important and what an absurd amount of devices run, regardless of the task they ultimately perform.

[–] Caradoc879 -1 points 1 year ago

Concrete and steel are really important but construction workers don't tend to rant about it off the clock.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's because Linux is the solution to everything including issues like world hunger and war.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"pc has ads too!"

"No thats just windows, other operating systems dont do that. Linux has no ads, for example."

"AAAAAAHHHHHH LINUX USER LINUX USER!!! AAAAAHHHHH YOU SAID IT THE DEVIL WORD LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHH MOMMY MOMMY HOLD ME AAAAAAAHHHH THEY TOLD ME THEY USE LINUX AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH OH GOD OH FUCK OH GOD"

[–] Caradoc879 -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah bud, thats kinda the point

"Exaggerate for comedic effect" is one of the oldest comedy standards.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Truly the vegans of tech