I'll die before I apologize for linux
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2025
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There's nothing to apologize for
Linux didn't work on my random hardware!
Linux doesn't have proprietary program X!
Linux didn't work with my online game that forces you to install spyware on your computer!
Linux doesn't let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!
Linux didn't make me agree to an EULA!
Something like that I guess.
Linux doesn’t let you know all the latest movies, products, and deals!
What does this mean? Genuinely Curious.
A lot of modern proprietary interfaces have started spamming people with ads about "the latest stuff" in the notification menu, the app launcher menu, and a few other places.
That sounds like quite a weird reason to prefer Windows, you can just follow an RSS feed with the "latest stuff" and not have it forced down your throat.
hell yeah!
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. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux 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. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
I use Ubuntu btw
GET BACK IN YOUR HOVEL RICHARD
Beat me to it 😂
I hurd you btw.
cope and seethe, redditor
I love that you called them apologists 😂
*Apostels
I use ubuntu by the way 🤓
I must be out of the loop. Are Linux apologists and tankies at cross purposes for some reason?
No but we (Linologists) would defeat them if we were
Okay fair enough, but if that's the case, do you know what this meme is about?
Theres a joke some instances are filled with tankies and it can be annoying for non tankies, when in reality theres actually an even bigger amount of linux apologists who are even more obsessed about their passion/hobby than tankies and talk about it more than they do, which is likely to be more annoying for non linux users. At least thats my takeaway
But there are three figures at the bottom. The other two are Trekkies and Furries maybe?
All 3 have an IT job
So this giant comes from a place where giant trees grow.
I use ubuntu by the way 🤓
Seems to be about memes and porn where I'm sitting.
The 100+ porn communities I've blocked agree with you
You can just turn nsfw off in your profile, no?
6 in one, half dozen in the other