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    [–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Lol, is this meme for real? Most mac users would never touch Linux. Like, yes, they are both based on Unix... But come on now, this is just intellectually dishonest.

    Most Mac users, in my experience, have no idea how to operate anything without an apple logo on it.

    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Linux users are in the (well constructed) tent camp in the local park that Mac users ride their electric scooters past while desperately trying to avoid eye contact.

    [–] TotallynotJessica 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Linux users are the homeowners who build and fix everything they can, but look down on people that don't find craftsmanship fun, claiming that they're saving money by doing the work themselves. Good on you for having that hobby, but if you don't enjoy it, spending time to learn those skills costs time that could be spent earning more money than you'd save. Paying an expert to do things you don't enjoy is usually the cheaper option. They can be found almost anywhere, similar to how Linux users use Apple or windows products from time to time.

    Mac users are suburb dwellers who view their way of life as what everyone should aspire to, ignorant to the downsides of sprawl and reliance on cars to go anywhere. Commute times suck, while walkable neighborhoods with public transit make most people healthier and happier. There's an important classist component, often bundled with racism, that underscores this ideal.

    Windows users are people that live in urban areas for work, trying to find reasonable rent or home prices as unchecked capitalism makes everything worse, but unaware why things suck. They get annoyed when people share their passion for handiwork, and dislike suburban folks for thinking they're superior rather than the downsides to suburban life. However, because most people live this way, and live this way for work, they usually don't have strong identities like suburbanites or handy homeowners.

    Homeless people are those who can't afford computers, overlapping with actual homeless people, and rural people are those that don't use computers more than they need to, socializing face to face and literally touching grass.

    [–] Smokeydope 8 points 1 year ago

    This is a very interesting analogy, thanks for sharing

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] CynicRaven 4 points 1 year ago

    They're totally, definitely, absolutely not Jessica!

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

    I think it still works. The user you describe doesn't care about Linux, they just don't like windows. So they would not wash their hands

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    A lot of software development in a corporate environment is using a Mac as the host. Not to say it's the target build env. So id say some Mac users know Linux far better than you think. In my experience.

    [–] kamenlady 3 points 1 year ago

    Some, that's the point

    Where i work, we all use macs. I'm the only developer and all others are designers.

    They all look at me very oddly, when i open a terminal on their Mac and change some settings from there. They check if my changes are working and still keep that look, like if I've done something strange to their mac lol

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

    My Mac is such a slow piece of shit on Mac OS that it's nearly unusable without installing Linux.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Generally I agree, but specifically a little fact - the most qualified person at my work is a Mac user.