I had someone ask me what os I used, then when I said Linux he went "oh you could only go 10 minutes without saying you used Linux huh" and I'm just like dude you literally asked, wtf do you want from me
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Without knowing your dynamic or their tone:
They probably just wanted to poke fun and baited you into setting it up. It's kinda like updog or ligma.
Of course, it could also be ignorance, or malice, but personally, I don't randomly ask people what OS they use unless I expect them to even understand that question. Their reply suggests they are well aware that you're using Linux, so ignorance is unlikely, and if they knew your answer and didn't want to hear it, they probably wouldn't ask.
my friends do shit like that all the time like you were just saying "windows does stupid thing" and all I said was "linux does this instead they should be doing that on windows" and immediately the neckbeard with fedora gifs start flying
"We use NixOS", said all the urinals
Guy in the bathroom stall: ..... I use Mac!
Guys and gals pissing in the hallway, lobby, parking lot, bushes, behind the building and inside the office: ... we use windows 11!
Mac users shit outside, in a walled garden.
Itβs nice out here though.
Mac isn't really a walled garden in the sense iOS is without jailbreak. You can install unsigned code out of the box, have similar Admin privileges as on windows (but not as powerful as a superuser on Linux), and it integrates very well into an otherwise non-Apple household. You can use quickshare with android phones or windows PCs instead of using apple airdrop for example, which is something iOS users can only dream of
I prefer hackintosh over Linux on my Thinkpad, even though battery life is slightly worse (but still way better than it was out of the box with windows)
There is su on MacOS, I just didnβt ever need it for the kinds of dev work I did.
It runs bash(or zsh) and most of the rest of the things youβd use in a dev environment and (before docker was so popular) it was pretty easy (maybe 15-20 minutes from scratch with makes) to set up a new Mac to mimic a Unix server environment for local dev work.
Yeah, I meant unlike with Linux you can't change certain core functionality of your OS. Stuff like just entirely replacing the window manager for a different one. You can do a lot of powerful stuff with kernel extensions, but even those are limited (and apple made it a lot more complicated to install kernel extensions on Apple Silicon compared to how it worked on Intel Macs)
Yeah I meant to exclude those types of OS level changes, good point.
I quit web dev before Apple silicon took over (I bought one of the last intel laptops because Iβm a Luddite about losing my old apps and weird projects.
He thinks it's a bathroom stall, but he's actually shitting in a box with no doors
Except he's the box and Microsoft is taking the shit
Wow that guy on the left actually stopped mid-stream. That's dedication.
Who says he stopped
That dedication is how you know they actually use Slackware.
The question is: did they holster up for the walk? Or let it dangle?
C'mon it's Slackware, they're classy as hell. You know for sure he unpacked his balls over the seam
you know they hacked their pants to be like the self tying shoes from Back to the furture. Pants unzip, pinch ya off, pull ya back in, zip up, unzip again and pull ya back out all from a single sh file.
now this is a power user
Gotta let them know!
I'd say it takes more dedication to not stop
Slackware was my very first Linux distro (now I feel old).
Same here, I got hired as a "webmaster" at a place that had been using some Yahoo web services for their website and they had dialup Internet accounts for everybody in the office. For the same money I got them access to a fractional T1 and set up a server on an old 486 gathering dust in the back room. We served up their webpages from in-house. They thought I was a god, I was just a big fat resume-padded liar who stayed up reading Usenet all night lol. Those were the days and I'll never forget that distro:
36-Page installation guide...
I wish there was one that's up to date today. I'd pay good money for that.
If you install Slackware now, you can't open linuxquestions.org (the official support forum) because the Firefox version is too old for the Capcha. If you then do slackpkg upgrade-all and reboot, it won't boot cause you forgot to point the bootloader towards the new kernel. Things like that can really bounce you off the distro.
Whaaa?
I will admit, Iβve never run slack.
My first slackware install guide was a three inch thick book so 36 pages is like the absolute bare minimum.
Slack got me through college on an ancient (even at the time) ThinkPad 600e. Good times!
I had a suite of scripts to log in to the university Linux cluster, download the kernel source and out-of-tree modules (required for the PCMCIA WiFi adapter), compile it, and rsync it back to my laptop.
Me too! Slackware 1.0 installed by floppy disk ... so much faff the first time to get X to load, and then the only thing I could do with it was to run xeyes.
Emacs was 5 floppies, the C compiler was about 11.
Yes, this is how I feel. I would like to be tucked in for my nap now please, dearie
I don't know what either of those are, and stop talking to me while I piss.
LFS guys be standing there with dick in hand while everything compiles
Gentoo pissed itself waiting.
And then they touch weiners and let the streams cross!!
Fattest, loneliest, smelliest, basement livingest mofo this world has ever seen:
Struts up.
Squeezes right between.
Forces them to the adjacent urinals.
Adjusts glasses taped together.
Clears voice through braces that should have been removed years ago.
In an authoritative weezy voice.
I use LFS by the way.
Linus Torvalds pissing from the ceiling on everyone:
I donβt use Linux, I make Linux.
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I use Ubuntu and no I'm not going to switch to mint. I use Debian on the server though.
now kish
I use debian bt.... ouch. my laptop keyboard is burning my fingers because I'm too stupid to install the correct drivers and my laptop has started overheating.
That's a feature though
And thus spacemacs was born
(No, really)
The alt text is always good. Too many words to copy and paste.
But think of the children!
eh, I used to use slackware, then moved to gentoo, and then to manjaro, arch based but low maint = less tweaking time more game time.
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