• MossBear@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    This is all so foreign to me now. I’m not forced to keep anything on Linux.

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      1 year ago

      How to tell if someone uses Linux? Don’t worry they will tell you.

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        1 year ago

        The Linux and FOSS circlejerk will never end. I’m saying this as someone that uses Linux.

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          You know what, I don’t want it to end either. Its great entertainment, both the Linux circlejerkers constantly shoehorning Linux everywhere, and the responding circlejerkers making fun of them, as if the former doesn’t wear it like a badge of honor. Its circlejerking all the way down. A downwards-helix-jerking if you will.

          I use Linux btw.

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        1 year ago

        How to tell if someone uses Windows? Don’t worry, they will loudly bitch about how it sucks then proceed to shit on Linux users.

        (This isn’t you it’s just something I’m seeing a lot more often lately)

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          1 year ago

          I mean it’s relevant to windows like taco bell is to McDonald’s.

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            Plenty of people here don’t use windows so I guess you don’t want diverse discussion on a niche site. Okay makes sense.

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        1 year ago

        It should tell people something that so many Linux users are happy enough with it to want to talk about it.

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            1 year ago

            If meat eaters complained about meat as much as Windows users complained about Windows…

            I don’t understand why A) Linux users can’t be excited to share something they are passionate about and B) Windows users aren’t interested in hearing about an alternative when Windows sucks so bad.

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                Nothing actually, I was just making a stab at vegans because they get so much flak lol.

                I actually think the choice to go vegan is awesome, really it’s the ones that just shit on others that rubs me the wrong way, a good bit of Linux users do this as well. Personally I would never use windows unless it was absolutely necessary (I am a DJ and Producer in my freetime and I had a “pooprietary” controller that only worked with traktor, but now Mixxx has support for it so we cool now)

                Even then, whenever I did have to use windows for that specific use case, I had it on a dedicated machine running an extremely stripped down version of windows (ameliorated) and it wasn’t a machine that I connected to the internet.

                That being said though, I seriously respect people’s freedoms and even if I have different ideas or opinions than someone else, I’m not going to tell them they’re wrong unless it could harm them or something like that.

                That being said though, and this could just be me, I think going vegan would be more difficult than switching to Linux in today’s day and age. With Linux you just need to find alternatives and integrate them into your workflow (there’s layers to that of course). With veganism, you have to inspect every single product to make sure it doesn’t contain animal products (which also has layers to it).

                Hell with Linux, you can even use WINE to use windows programs, veganism doesn’t have anything like that! You can’t just wrap a cheeseburger in lettuce and call it vegan!

                It’s honestly pretty awesome, genuine vegans are really strong people, and although the radical ones had put a sour taste in my mouth at first, over the years as I learned the hardships of their way of life, they definitely have earned my respect!

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, I was painfully reminded of that when Ubuntu helpfully uninstalled xwayland for me on an ‘apt upgrade’…

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        I just googled “Linux distro without systemd” and google gave me a list of 11 right off the bat without even having to click any links. So yeah, not even systemd.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not forced to keep anything on Linux

      KNotes has entered the chat…

      Edit: apparently it’s not KNotes proper - just the built-in KDE sticky notes applet that is bundled with the environment and is impossible to remove if you want to use KDE Plasma.