One of the biggest reasons I switched was of all the MS telemetry bullshit. That and I don’t know if I ever legally paid for a copy of Windows and I was tired of playing the key gen / cracked ISO game.
I’ve used Debian flavors of Linux for servers before so switching to it as my full time desktop OS was not hard. That, and, I don’t really use my desktop for stuff that uncommon. Most of the stuff I need I can get out of the box from the software center.
I mean, can’t it be both?
Not if you want to apply the “we are not the same meme” format. That… Like a sith… Only deals in absolutes.
So, this meme is a sith?
Nah, he played like an imperial dude in The Mandalorian, but not a sith.
Move the h in “sith” two characters to the left. Then I’ll agree with your statement
linux is not mainstream 😂
You’re clearly not running servers.
if we are counting servers linux was never not mainstream
The internet existed before Linux
Linux gotta mainstream wen?
Time to switch to bsdIt’s close to 1 in 20 PCs nowadays. It’s growing very quickly, and has been adopted in non-irrelevant amounts for a few years already.
Solaris tho
shutters
shudders
No shutters:
No, shudders:
I am already learning to use FreeBSD. I definitely recommend reading the official handbook, it is even a pretty great introduction to Unix overall.
It’s almost time to roll out your own OS, posix is becoming too mainstream
Drew DeVault just did a Unix clone as a break from “real work”
People like this, by simply existing, make me feel like a real dumb piece of shit.
My breaks from real work are video games, TV, and this sort of shit posting we’ve got going on in this thread right here.
While he’s no doubt very high intelligence, I think there’s a combination of personality, personal interests, and drive that these outstanding people have. For some people, the work is what they want to be doing AND what makes them happy/fulfilled.
Like you, I am not like that. A productive day at work can feel great, but I’m never sitting at home thinking I’d rather be working on some idea for an app or game.
Society has taught me that what I SHOULD want to do is that “productive” stuff. Work long hours, strike it rich on my own or climb the ladder at work, etc. But the wiring in my brain does not get fulfillment and happiness from that stuff. But spending that time on family, pets, and hobbies has greatly increased my quality of life over the past few years.
Yeah, it’s the same for me. Work is so I have the money I need to live, but free time is so much more valuable to me.
I like to consider what I would or wouldn’t regret when I’m older. I’ve heard plenty of successful people lament not being a better parent while focused on their career. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard somebody regret spending time with their family instead of their work.
Heard me out
FreeDOS
There’s always TempleOS
Praise!
That’s why I plan to move my servers into an L4 clone.
I applaud this future thinking. you need bare metal or whatever you consider L4 to truly rice a system. Gone are the days where superior performance was a couple of finely tuned cpu flags away.
Plan9 from bell labs?
I’ve used FreeBSD for about a month in 2005, and still can’t stop talking about it.
I dual booted it as a desktop for about 6 months around the same time, but honestly all I did is use it as a desktop and browser. I could hardly figure out how to do anything else. I’ve forgotten everything about the experience, and anything I happen to accidentally remember I try to also forget.
I switched in the late 90s to attract women. I still think it’s going to work someday.
“Come back to my house! There’s no windows! No wait- not like that- don’t go!”
If you’re also a woman, this may work!
That’s not a bad strategy. Just gotta add some leftist politics to the mix.
Any time now surely
Well, theres been a push to get more women into Tech so that works in your favour.
Your job is now to lure them away from the Microsoft bros
I use BSD ‘cause it’s not Linux.
Sorry about Wayland users
I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as BSD, is in fact, FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, BSD-based operating systems. BSD is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning BSD-based system made useful by the BSD kernel, libc, and other essential components of a complete OS.
Many computer users run a modified version of the BSD system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of BSD which is widely used today is often called “FreeBSD,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the BSD system, developed by the FreeBSD Project.
There really is a BSD, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. BSD is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. BSD is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with BSD added, or GNU/BSD. All the so-called “BSD” distributions are really distributions of GNU/BSD!
New copypasta just dropped
This is a spicy retelling of the lore. I hope it catches on.
That was great, up until the part about GNU. GNU hasn’t had anything to do with BSD for over a decade. Maybe use POSIX instead. 😊
How about:
There really is a BSD, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. BSD is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. BSD is normally used in combination with POSIX-compliant software and utilities: the whole system is basically POSIX with BSD added, or POSIX/BSD. All the so-called “BSD” distributions are really distributions of POSIX/BSD!
To each there own
I use linux because, in the 90s, Redhat shipped with a Star Trek game. We are not the same.
It did? Which one?
I’ve been trying to remember but it hasn’t come back to me. It was a 2D, top down, space battle game. Its possible it wasn’t named after Star Trek, but you pilot a grey ship with a saucer section and nacelles to fire torpedoes and phasers at green bird of prey looking ships so…
No, but it was my gateway into Netrek.
Tux Racer go brrrr
Tux racer go b…r…r…r
I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)
Oh, I hadn’t thought of Tux Racer in ages. I think I need to play that again.
That all sounds very familiar. The one I played was full color but it must have either been a late version of Empire or something heavily “inspired” by it.
I use Linux because of compiz fusion cube desktop. We are not the same.
We are not. When I want a cubic desktop environment I reach(ed) for BeOS.
and NeXT for the cubic computer itself
I use Linux because the Steam Deck convinced me that gaming on Linux is a thing. Before that i was hesitant to make the jump, even though I’ve used UNIX before Windows 3 even came out
Windows 3? If you weren’t so old you could have become a Masterjodler69
Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
It makes me happy to read this same basic message repeatedly. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast since the late 90s, but back then it definitely felt like it was never going to be a mainstream replacement for Windows due in large part to gaming.
I know Valve isn’t getting nothing out of their investment, but all the same I’m so appreciative that they didn’t abandon their Linux efforts after Steam Machines didn’t catch on.
This is why I didn’t switch until this year. Valve really did a great thing by driving this adoption and I feel like with Proton in the state it’s in, there’s really not much you’re giving up by going to Linux these days.
The list of actual pain points is ever shrinking now. I can’t imagine switching back in 95. You had to put up with so much inequity for a lot of that time.
Least contrarian Linux user.
I use linux because it looks better
We are not the same
I use Linux because Docker doesn’t run natively on Macs.
I don’t give a shit about our relation because I have a life.
It’s available in homebrew though
what do you mean?
Do you not use homebrew on macos?
Yes I do but how does the install method change the fact that Docker containers cannot run without a virtualisation layer like they do on Linux?
No idea, I just saw that there is a docker cask available, so I assume it works
Docker on macos runs in a virtual machine, for some people that might not be desirable.
Then what’s the point of it lmao
Some devs like macos, stuff still needs to be deployed to linux servers, possibly using docker containers.
Suction stays winning
For me it is very weird, no one introduced me formally to Linux(no one I knew run or heard of it), it felt like it was a legend. I never really got to know how good it was and always felt MacOS and Windows were lacking, never really in control of your system, never happy with my system, always patching stuff. The years went by and my curiosity only became larger as Mac and Windows experience was getting worse and worse. I already had experience Jailbreaking iPhones and flashing custom ROMs on Android since my school days, so last year I bought a PC and installed Ubuntu. Next thing I know my computer is breathing again, the grass was definitely greener here. So I switched for both reasons.
Mmmmm fresh pasta.
For me it is very weird, no one introduced me formally to Lemmy(no one I knew run or heard of it), it felt like it was a legend. I never really got to know how good it was and always felt Reddit and Twitter were lacking, never really in control of your memes, never happy with my content, always downvoting stuff. The years went by and my curiosity only became larger as Reddit and Twitter experience was getting worse and worse. I already had experience shit posting and trolling on 4chan since my school days, so last year I signed up to Lemmy and posted my first meme. Next thing I know my feed is breathing again, the grass was definitely greener here. So I switched for both reasons.
I use Linux because Hackintosh is a dying platform and it only takes about 800 hours to get it almost as good.
This brought me memories. In college I had a Dell Mini with Intel atom 1st get. It was useless to run engineering apps like matlab or solidworks
I installed OSx86 and those apps ran a lot better using parallels than running natively on Windows, I was even able to play some games on it
I left for Linux because Windows bad, stayed on Linux because Linux good.
I use Linux because it’s great and better than windows
