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.
Except when it's every other comment. That's just obsession.
Maybe the good people on Lemmy are already quite familiar with Free and Open Source Software though ...
"Linux-based? Like Android?"
"WE DO NOT SPEAK THE NAME OF THE IMPURE"
Android can be great. It's Google that's the problem.
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Android, is in fact, GMS/Android, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Google plus Android. AOSP is not an ecosystem unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Google ecosystem made useful by Google Play Services, monetization models, and mandatory telemetry components comprising a full OS as defined by Alphabet."
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.
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?
There are plenty of things wrong with Windows that you don't need to make shit up.
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.
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.
Did you know you could've made this meme on the FREE, OPEN-SOURCE image editor GIMP? Available now on Linux!
(Also available on Windows)
incoherent screeching
Just admit that you are paid by Big Open Source and move on to your next sponsor Air Up
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.
I wish people were as into FOSS as they are AI. I fucking hate LLMs.
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?
*shrugs
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.
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.
Not trying to stop anything, just wanna poke fun
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
What is an "online persona"? Stop trying to turn my tech support forum into Facebook!
It's like a fursona but boring and for normies.
Disliking Linux memes is not a personality trait, OP!!!
Sorry non sorry for trying to advertice ways to avoid ending up in a digital dystopia.
Constantly trying to get programs to work correctly is my version of a digital dystopia.
Do it yourself > Do all while watched
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!
The cursor is causing me mental anguish.
I use Arch btw
So anyways, I run Arch on my main gaming computer, and Debian on my servers and laptops.
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.
This place in a nutshell 😄
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.
I’m in this and I don’t like it. Reported.
Okay that is not going to stop me lol. 🤣
I think they’re fun
Have you seen the programmer socks?
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.
What operating system defines you as a person?
Jokes on you I spend my time hating on windows specifically
spoiler
Stupid devs never gave us aero back despite it being the second most requested feature on the stupid insider hub.
Then they magically added blur effects 5 years too late when their corporate overlords brought in the next team of intern graphic designers.
I still remember the windows 10 leak pic where the whole start menu and taskbar was clear as glass >:(
We are the Linux desktop advertising budget
Can you really advertise something that's free?
I think the right word is proselytize
This is such an emacs take
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