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Liking an OS isn't a personality trait ❌

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Splatterphace@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Liking an OS isn’t a personality trait, but evangelizing for Free and Open Source Software which generally has no budget for advertising is a noble cause.

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    • Holyginz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Except when it’s every other comment. That’s just obsession.

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      • Iapar@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Is it the same Person every time though?

        I mean if you come into a community which has a leaning it is just a natural consequence to get confronted with that leaning more then somewhere else, isn’t it?

        Like going into a Bible circle and saying that every other comment is about god which borders on obsession. I mean yes maybe but it is not surprising.

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    • Honytawk@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe the good people on Lemmy are already quite familiar with Free and Open Source Software though …

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      • BmeBenji@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I mean… you choose to read posts and comments here. You can choose to stop reading comments about Linux.

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      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes, yes we are. Most of us love Linux, but we’re not in love with Linux…

        I really hope the fanboys can understand. We just… We don’t see it the way you do. Sorry.

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    • danc4498@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Bro we get it

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  • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Image

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    • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Linux-based? Like Android?”

      “WE DO NOT SPEAK THE NAME OF THE IMPURE”

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      • MiDaBa@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Android can be great. It’s Google that’s the problem.

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      • MaliciousKebab@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Pretty sure it’s Linux, based OS. Lol

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    • Dumpdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d have a beer with these fine upstanding young lads.

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  • OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.

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    • Cosmicomical@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This is the correct answer, but you forgot to begin with “uhm actually” so i can’t give you the point.

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      • OneLemmyMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    • Dumpdog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Perfect answer

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They really should’ve called it LiGNUx to confuse everyone

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    • sfcl33t@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Hahaha nice

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I saw a post last night of a dude lamenting how difficult installing Windows was and listed a bunch of problems I find absolutely absurd. You’re telling me you know how to remedy driver issues in Linux, but can’t figure out how to in modern Windows, which does it automatically?

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    • spikespaz@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In my experience, windows always gets something wrong with drivers and I have to go do some stupid shit to fix it. And then later fight windows update as it tries to override my fix. Windows problems are rarely immediately apparent, whereas Linux problems usually are.

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      • w2tpmf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Was your last experi nice with Windows with Vista or something? 7,8,10,11 have all been almost entirely work free for installing any hardware that isn’t exotic or boutique stuff.

        I am not one of the people weighing in based on an arbitrary experience or a small sample set. I’ve installed Windows literally tens of thousands of computers. The only thing can think of in the last 10 years I needed to find a driver for is some USB barcode scanners that emulate serial devices, and the driver for an android phone to be able to flash the boot loader.

        Every device that a computer actually needs to run just work.

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      • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I haven’t had driver problems in forever, unless I’m using some old weird device that I haven’t used in ages. And even then usually going into device manager and telling it what kind of device the unknown device is usually fixes it.

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      • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve never had this problem, and I’ve had… Oh man, a few dozen windows machines?

        What are you doing to them?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re telling me you know how to remedy driver issues in Linux, but can’t figure out how to in modern Windows, which does it automatically?

      Honestly? Yes. Windows tries to do a bunch of shit automagickally, but when the process fails it’s a nightmare to diagnose and manually fix. Linux is more rudimentary but also much more transparent. Once you know what you need to do, it’s very easy to see where you went wrong.

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    • art@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s not that Windows is easier. It’s that you’re more familiar with Windows.

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      • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’ve used Linux and Windows about equally. Windows is way less of a hassle. Unless you need a super specialized environment or are running a server, the hoops you need to go through on Linux aren’t worth it.

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    • Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s just be clear that Windows is a king of newer hardware and Linux is a king of older one, if we strictly take a driver-bullshit-o-meter.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    *shrugs

    The Personal is Political.

    Especially in regards to Linux, which with many of the most vocal adherents doing so because they reject corporate control over their lives and want to see the rest of the world do so as well. It is very much a political issue to them, and so it’s not surprising that you see it crop up just as much as politically oriented posts, because the Linux-posting is essentially the same thing. It’s “politics” for the nerd-set. Same with piracy. Some people involved with these have deep anti-corporate and anti-capitalist philosophical roots for their reasons behind why they live like that, and they’re often not afraid to “preach” it to others.

    So yeah, shitposts sadly aren’t going to stop it anytime soon.

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    • Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not trying to stop anything, just wanna poke fun

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        poke: cannot open file fun

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s “politics” for the nerd-set.

      Frankly, freedom of computation (basically, property rights as applied to electronics) is politics for everyone; it’s just that normies don’t understand how important it is.

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s also much more practical to use as a dev

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      • umbrella@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also as a non dev.

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    • daltotron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You know, it’s kind of interesting, because I kind of wonder, and I’m sure someone could educate me to, the differences between philosophical outlooks that drive these different ideals.

      If you were like, a windows or mac purist, you’d maybe just be gunning for as much mass adoption as possible, meaning that you have as much interoperability, or, accessibility, as possible, and maybe you’re just biting the bullet in terms of like, corporate shenanigans and control. Basically you’d just be like, admitting defeat, to some extent, it’d be a compromise ideology. It’s sort of like the same ideology that pushes one big centralized set of servers for everything, compared to everyone running their own little instances. Sure, you’re getting a lack of security, lack of flexibility, and thus, potentially, the functionality of the app ends up sucking depending on what you’re doing, yadda yadda. But in return, you get mass adoption. This is kinda flip-flopped with like, Linux purism, right? And then the natural use cases and market adoption for it tends to just be the more niche uses, that demand such flexibility.

      So, which is more important for free access. Actual legal freedom, which even works itself into the structure of the app itself, right, or just, straight mercenary mass adoption, under any means necessary? I dunno.

      On one hand, within the current structure of the economy and political landscape, globally, it’s kind of impossible to achieve mass adoption with Linux, and I think mass adoption of it is almost kind of antithetical to the anarchism of the project itself, as is mass adoption of most anarchist political projects. It’s just kind of impossible to win in a head-to-head competition with larger corporations, or with more short-term gains focused ideologies.

      I’m still just running windows 10 LTSC with MAS, and it works fine for me, so that’s obviously where my ideological line is kind of threaded, just having everybody have the best free version of windows, maybe with some sort of increased privacy modifications to cut down on telemetry and shit like that, but I kinda doubt people could actually do that without destroying the usability of the system like all of those tend to do, or else someone would’ve probably done it by now.

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  • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I wish people were as into FOSS as they are AI. I fucking hate LLMs.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What, you don’t like a handful of private mega-corps decimating the groundwater reserves of the upper Midwest so that some dorks can try and scam Amazon with fake books?

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I especially don’t like how discourse can be poisoned and diluted by some chatbots in favor of military operations.

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    • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      About as infuriating: the sheer amount of braindead morons who think LLMs are somehow in any way “AI”

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      • Klear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yet calling the simple rules that govern vigeo game enemies AI is not controversial. Since when does AI have not to be fake to be called that?

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    • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The techbros who are into AI just want to own things without putting in the work. They want to sell you AI generated images as Art and puff up their SEO with LLM chatbots.

      FOSS is the opposite of that.

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      • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I would say that around half of AI development is free and open source.

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    • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m sorry to hear you’re frustrated. As an AI, my job is to assist and provide you with the information or help you need. Please feel free to let me know how I can better assist you, and I’ll do my best to address your concerns.

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      • Wes_Dev@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        (I may or may not have asked ChatGPT to write that.)

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like both. Where’s the FOSS AI?

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      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Huggingface usually Mixtral recently released a pretty good model that’s not very big

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      • FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Technically the technology is open to the public but regular people cannot afford to implement it.

        The thing that makes Large Language Models hardly functional is scaling up their databases and processing power of one of several of their small models with specialized tasks. One model creates output from input, another model checks it for accuracy, a third model polices it for things that are not allowed.

        So unless you’ve got a datacenter and three high powered servers with top-grade cooling systems and a military grade power supply, fat fucking chance.

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  • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Did you know you could’ve made this meme on the FREE, OPEN-SOURCE image editor GIMP?

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    • gordon_freeman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      (Also available on Windows)

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      • Cryophilia@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        incoherent screeching

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      • KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        (Also available on MacOS for Intel and Apple Silicon)

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    • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I prefer Krita

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This, but unironically

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    • PolarisFx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Used it for like 5 mins, hated it. I have Photoshop on a Windows VM now

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      • Gabu@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        GIMP is pretty much the same as Photoshop for 99% of tasks.

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  • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sorry non sorry for trying to advertice ways to avoid ending up in a digital dystopia.

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    • Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Constantly trying to get programs to work correctly is my version of a dystopia.

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      • Gnorv@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Do it yourseld > Do all while watched

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      • orphiebaby@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your downvotes say you hit a nerve with the Linux people even though they can’t argue against your point without straight-up lying.

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      • einfach_orangensaft@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Hmmm may have ur IQ checked

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      • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tell us which program is not working correctly for you and let’s see who’s the root cause of the problem.

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      • Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The problem wouldn’t exist if more people used linux.

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    • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Okay, buddy.

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  • lugal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Just admit that you are paid by Big Open Source and move on to your next sponsor Air Up

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  • MargotRobbie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I will have you know my entire online persona on Lemmy is basically a 24/7 “Barbie” movie advertisement, thank you very much.

    I use Arch BTW.

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    • tacosplease@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You’re my favorite one on Lemmy. Never change.

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    • Splatterphace@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I like McDonald’s too

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  • PatMustard@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is an “online persona”? Stop trying to turn my tech support forum into Facebook!

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  • Hikermick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey the Linux community is active so they show up on All. Same thing with video game communities, it’s a reflection of the interests of those who populate Lemmy. I don’t care for either but we gotta start someplace. IMO it’s largely due to the concept of the fediverse and instances and not simply an app you sign up to. FWIW, I barely get it. Folks here seem to be a tech savvy bunch

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  • Agrivar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s a bold stance on this site!

    (One that I fully agree with)

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  • summerof69@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Disliking Linux memes is not a personality trait, OP!!!

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  • Thorry84@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I use Arch btw

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  • balancedchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So anyways, I run Arch on my main gaming computer, and Debian on my servers and laptops.

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  • Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey! Have you heard of this OS called Linux? It’s like windows apart from that it’s nothing like windows, it’s free and never ever hard to use at all!

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  • Baphomet_The_Blasphemer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They’re the vegans of the tech world.

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  • naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    not knowing how to read a manual isn’t a personality trait either linux haters

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  • Nikls94@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes. And then, when you ask them 1 simple question they’re like “READ THE WIKI”

    Dude/tte I don’t know anything about Linux. I’ve used the command line on my Mac 8~9 times and sometimes on windows and that’s it.

    I really want to install Asahi (Arch) on my Mac as a VM before dual-booting but I’m failing for a week now and money‘s too tight atm to get even a cheap $50 laptop for testing.

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  • TastyWheat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Pretty much why I blocked c/technology from my feed. They could turn a post about a scientist studying crab migration into a debate about why the crabs aren’t running fuckin Linux. Not everything has to be about an OS, you lot. They’re basically Computer Mormons.

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  • Suavevillain@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Okay that is not going to stop me lol. 🤣

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  • CubitOom@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hey…I also advocate for more solidarity within communities, growing your own food, using less plastic & cars, and Star trek…Linux is just like 30% what I talk about.

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  • anarchy79@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Why is everyone on this fishing forum talking about fishing all the time? It’s like some kind of sick, twisted obsession!”

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  • Juigi@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This place in a nutshell 😄

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  • JaymesRS@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m in this and I don’t like it. Reported.

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  • nifty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think they’re fun

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  • profdc9@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What operating system defines you as a person?

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Can you really advertise something that’s free?

    I think the right word is proselytize

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  • moon@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We are the Linux desktop advertising budget

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