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Linux too mainstream for some 🤷 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes

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[–] [email protected] 198 points 10 months ago (25 children)

Technically false
Gamer here, use Linux cause proton is good and I'm fed up with windows lol

[–] [email protected] 71 points 10 months ago (5 children)

This is probably an old meme. I use Linux as a dedicated gaming OS, macOS for everything else except when Linux is already booted or nothing is and I want to do something quickly.

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[–] camelbeard 25 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

I kind of really dislike the notion that you only use Linux because you are too poor for Apple.

I don't use Apple because I don't like to be stuck in a walled garden where a company decides what's best for me.

I know it's just a meme, but I think too many people actually think Linux is somehow inferior to Apple (MacOS) while I think it's the other way around.

[–] okamiueru 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Also. MacOS is absolute garbage. I've used it for 4 months now, and it pisses me off how inconsistent it is, and poorly designed and written. Two days wasted because of an almost bricked laptop because the monitor was set to 60Hz while installing an update. Just think about that.

I also had the misfortune of booting into windows after changing a motherboard. It was an absolute shit show there too, with broken drivers. Two hours of debugging. Had to use a long ethenet cable to even start fixing it, a flashback to a Linux experience I had in 2007.

Same system in Linux? Not a single second spent. WiFi drivers, microcode. Everything worked fine. Only thing necessary was fixing the grub/mbr partition that Windows decided to write over, on a separate drive. But that's also Microsoft being shit.

People just don't know how much more usable Linux is these days. Especially for power users. You can do so many things, so easily, that either works out of the box, or you can do with simple scripting. The only issue is software availability, but that too is mostly a thing of the past, and not really a fault of the OS.

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[–] cyberpunk007 12 points 10 months ago

Proton is so fucking good these days

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[–] superduperenigma 128 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Do you fear God?

Yes -> TempleOS

[–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

In puberty? Hannah Montana Linux.

Kim Jong Un is god? Red Star OS. There's a Linux distro for everyone.

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[–] deathmetal27 21 points 10 months ago

No -> https://ubuntusatanic.org/about

[–] Duamerthrax 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Do you make a furry comic from the 90's?

Yes -> Amiga

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[–] BambiDiego 75 points 10 months ago (7 children)

~~Are you rich?~~

Are you bad with money?

[–] SquirtleHermit 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Just because you're bad with money does not mean you can afford an Apple product.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Just because you cant afford an apple product doesn't mean you won't buy one (on credit)

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[–] ObviouslyNotBanana 47 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Linux gamer here

Works no probs

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This flowchart is wrong.

If I follow this reasoning, I should be running windows. I am not running windows, Ergo, either it is incorrect or I am incorrect. And I refuse to believe I'm incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That’s because this image is dated af.

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[–] richardisaguy 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is quite dated somehow

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This is Fedora erasure

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You can blame IBM for that...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

Fedora's still a good distro. I would always recommend it over Ubuntu and Debian for a home user with a bit of technical affinity.

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[–] Veneroso 31 points 10 months ago (2 children)

All roads lead to Hannah Montana Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This is a old meme

[–] [email protected] 46 points 10 months ago (3 children)

You can tell because it suggests Linux isn't for gamers but Valve has its own game console that runs on Linux. It'd be pretty stupid if a game console couldn't run games.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago

You can also tell just by how jpegged the image has become.

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[–] dipshit 27 points 10 months ago (2 children)

logic-gate-keeping

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[–] mathterdark 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am once again asking:

Do you fear God? —(yes)—> TempleOS

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I had a friend about 25 years ago who was very much into Quake Arena. His gaming setup ran on BSD. Now that I've been gaming on Linux for several years, I've really come to appreciate how much work it must have been to get that setup running smoothly in the late 90s. He died a couple of years ago. I sometimes wish I could call him up and get some advice.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This one didn't age quite as poorly as some of the others. I have gotten to the point of generally preferring Linux gaming now though. Bsd is still a bit lacking for my general computing but opnsense on my router is one of those 'where has this been all my life?' things.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My comment is still compiling from source

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (12 children)

Linux gaming is better than Windows imo. No tracking, random bsod, shit just either works or it doesn't. If it doesn't, you make it work.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How to tell someone is a Linux gamer?

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (1 children)

don't worry, they'll tell you all about it

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago (1 children)

As always my boy openSUSE left to the wayside :(

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[–] RIP_Cheems 12 points 10 months ago (8 children)

What is hoodie?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I am one of the few who once had BSD installed on a laptop, and GOD DAMN do I miss being that weirdo.

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[–] deleted 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I knew nothing about linux 2 years ago and started with installing Debian on my surface go 2. This explains why I couldn’t get the web cam to work to this day.