• Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    In my experience, Linux folks are just happy to find each other in the wild.

    Hell, I’m just happy to meet people that are Linux-curious lol.

    It’s mostly online that the distro wars are fought.

    • jrgn@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s the same with leftists in my experience. The fighting is worst online

    • nullboi@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’ve never met a linux enthusiast or even a user IRL. So at this point if I ever do, they will achieve best friend status off of that alone.

      So strange that an operating system has that affect on me

      • Evkob@lemmy.ca
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        2 months ago

        You never knowingly met a Linux user. Statistically speaking, you probably have.

        The issue is that OS-preference is not very common as a small talk topic. This is why you should name drop your fav distro in every conversation.

        • nullboi@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          I have “rm -rf /” tattooed on my left arm. I’m hoping one day I hear someone say “Hey you forgot --no-presrve-root or /*”.

          Met one guy (my therapist weirdly enough) that knew it was a *nix command. That was pretty cool.

          • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
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            2 months ago

            I’ve slowly been decorating my IT office with various Linux trinkets.

            I just got a foam stress “ball” Tux recently, and I plan on getting a Debian coffee mug, maybe some Linux/FOSS related stickers lol.

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t seen Linux users fights over distros… Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.

    • Sylvartas@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      It’s not uncommon to see people expressing disdain for other distros. I feel like it’s tongue in cheek 99% of the time though

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Was chilling with some friends of friends the other week and operating systems came up and one guy said he ran Ubuntu (I’m on KDE Neon) so we started chatting about that and a guy in the back seat said “Hey, aren’t you guys supposed to be fighting?”.

  • TimeSquirrel@kbin.melroy.org
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    2 months ago

    I mean it’s also socialist, with how it’s developed and distributed. Despite capitalists making use of it too. It’s one of the few things in this world the people truly own collectively.

    • JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      Capitalists making use of and profiting from socialist programs and structure is a tale as old as capitalism.

      Pharma as an example. Crowdsourced research, government funding with money from the people only to be bought by a capitalist corpo where they do the last 10% of the work by industrialization, jack up the price by 1000x, and take 100% of the profits and don’t even pay back their fair share in taxes, and then get a state-sponsered monopoly for an outrageous period.

  • mogoh@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    2025 would be the year of Linux, if we could finally agree, that:

    • Fedora,
    • rust,
    • systemd,
    • wayland,
    • pipewire,
    • gtk,
    • Gnome,
    • nano,
    • flatpak, and
    • light mode

    is the perfect stack of technology and configuration and that we do not need anything else. But no, you guys just had to disagree, and here we are …

    • pixelscript@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Surprised how, of all the people who took the bait, not a single one of them complained about systemd.

      My beard isn’t long enough to have an opinion about systemd. All I know is all my homies hate systemd for some reason.

      • ColonelThirtyTwo@pawb.social
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        2 months ago

        A lot of complaints I’ve seen is that it’s bloated - it’s not only a system manager but also has a DNS relay, network manager, container manager, and so on.

        That said, codifying service startup and managing them with cgroups is IMO MUCH better than init scripts that think running killall apache is a good way to stop a service.

      • Sunoc@sh.itjust.works
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        2 months ago

        Better UI consistency. It’s always really annoying when you have your nice dark theme and a bright white page pops out of nowhere and fry your eyes.

        For ease on the eye, keep everything black on white, and turn down screen brightness if the environment is dark.

    • The Hobbyist@lemmy.zip
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      2 months ago

      I’m with you all the way, really, except that, truly, KDE plasma and dark mode are the superior choices, obviously :)