• dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    And the 35 or so odd well adjusted linux folks around that find anime, fishnets, thinkpads, (and all associated memes) to be annoying AF. Esp anime / manga / uwu /waifu / and everything in that microcosm of artistic styling if I’m being honest.

    I just like the software composability discussion in plain English, man, not the side of fries.

    Edit: And anyone who disagrees uses stock Ubuntu unity and unironically thinks it’s both beautiful and just as good as any other distro :P

  • hoanbridgetroll@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    I just hated that Windows had become a privacy cesspit and I wasn’t afraid of breaking things in Linux. Also, I accept that sometimes you just have to format and reinstall your sins of stupidity away.

    • middle aged cishetguy

    PS - You Lemmy bastards did get me into Star Trek though. Maybe it has begun…

  • Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    There are exactly two kinds of folks in IT, soon to be or fully out anime queer folks and furries, and 60 something industry gurus who all always wear polo shirts and live in an upper middle class house despite apparently being rich as sin, also they are so hard for home security measures their backup security footage server in Montana has its own backup in a bugout bunker in New Zealand.

    I was neither so I ended up being a number cruncher for a solar company instead.

    • bier@feddit.nl
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      1 year ago

      This is just the lastest thing, it used to be the old IT guys and the ones with a beard, long hair and a metal shirt.

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      When a linux user is born, a random path is chosen. They will either become a hot femboy, a bald polo shirt guy or a domestic terrorist.

      So anyway there’s a feee blahaj over there.

        • bier@feddit.nl
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          1 year ago

          Am I the only one that just did

          Loves computers -> got an engineering degree -> had coworkers I looked up to all using Linux -> started using it myself -> wife and kids

          • DerpyPlayz18@lemm.ee
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            1 year ago

            For me it went Minecraft fan -> technical Minecraft nerd -> computer nerd -> furry -> Linux nerd

        • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          I worked at the NOC for a media company with over 3K employees. They made us use MacBook Pros 13" for our day to day sysadministrative tasks.

            • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              Laptops. Apple laptops. I don’t know but that does not sync well with administering linux networks with for me, personally. God those things were horrible. I don’t ever write it out on my CV that I can work those things, I will actively state in interviews that I have zero X/iOS experience.

              I was a Macintosh fanboy up to circa 2000, after that they changed everything and I can’t stand them anymore. I call them Apple, because Macintosh is a thing of the past.

              • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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                1 year ago

                The way that I see it is that they’re unix-like laptops that have decent support contracts. Given the choice of an Apple or Windows work laptop, I go with the former. Not because I like Apple (I don’t) but because it’s a unix-like OS which doesn’t require any extra tools to ssh into things plus, it is far more stable than Windows without things constantly breaking after update Tuesday.

                I mean it when I say that I use it as a glorified ssh client. I do all of my work on a remote Linux VM via ssh. The reason that I decided to use Kitty in the first place was to make more use of the laptop hardware because it feels like a bit of a waste of their capabilities. The only other things outside of the terminal that I use with regularity are Chrome and Firefox.

            • frazorth@feddit.uk
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              1 year ago

              FFS, they are awful SSH clients. You can’t even easily split the screen up with multiple terminals, and by default it fucks around with the order of your desktops.

              • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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                1 year ago

                Maybe the default terminal but that does have tabbing OotB (GUI+T) though, you can just open multiple windows. If you want more than that or something aestheticly pleasing, grab iTerm or Kitty. If you want terminal multiplexing, grab tmux via homebrew. Tiling WM? Amethyst works nicely.

                Plus, you don’t need any abstraction or local VM to scp local files. Bonus: The OS clipboard keys are different than the terminal control sequences.

    • EuroNutellaMan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      For me it was learning some basic python -> making some basic programs -> getting tired of having to move stuff to the WSL -> installing Linux -> being a privacy advicate

      Whike at the same time:

      Getting randomly harassed by some dude who thought I was a lesbian (I’m a cis guy) -> becoming even more politically active -> punk -> Joining a party

      And then both paths merged into -> interacting with more queer people -> idk

  • hardcoreufo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    IDK about that. Everyone I know who uses Linux is pretty vanilla. Or maybe my perspective has just shifted…