this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2023
1150 points (92.3% liked)

linuxmemes

21143 readers
1408 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.

  • Please report posts and comments that break these rules!

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
     

    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

    top 50 comments
    sorted by: hot top controversial new old
    [–] [email protected] 266 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    The duck can't actually say anything because his sound drivers randomly stopped working.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    In recent memory I've had both a microphone driver bug in Linux and one in macOS with specific hardware. Only one of them was fixed with an update.

    load more comments (2 replies)
    load more comments (11 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I'm really triggered by the idea that Linux makes running old software easy. The bane of my existence is finding an application that depends on libButts.5.1, but my distro ships with libButts.5.3, which isn't backward compatible for some reason, and trying to install libButts.5.1 bricks the desktop environment for some reason.

    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I just searched for that lib, in an attempt to help you with the supposed problem. I won't deny, you got me there.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    And this is what is actually good about Linux. :)

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    No time for actual facts, only circlejerking /s

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    Appimage, Snap, Flatpak, Docker, Podman, Distrobox, Toolbox...

    load more comments (12 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    what you do is: you make a chroot environment that has libButts.5.1 , so it isn't really part of your system. you run your old app inside of it, so you can do your buttstuff in a safe environment

    load more comments (1 replies)
    load more comments (10 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    The last character: I can make you spend an entire day trying to install some software or configuring something specific

    load more comments (14 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Windows also doesn't let you remove system apps.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    You can totally remove them, but it'll just reinstall them back, or worst case scenario, you'll break a part of your system, because Windows is a giant monolith of decades of built-up stupidity

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Tbf, every moderately old software product is a collection of built-up stupidity.

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    Checkmate, atheists

    load more comments (4 replies)
    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Linux: I can't install steam without breaking my system

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Steam Deck: am I a joke to you?

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    Unpopular opinion: flatpaks enable lazy developers to keep old versions of required Python dependencies working longer.

    load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Maybe you and Linus can't...

    load more comments (1 replies)
    load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (29 children)

    Linux: "my users spend half their time troubleshooting"

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I am a Windows guy, but I occasionally have to work with Linux. I spend a lot of time googling weird problems with cryptic solutions. That’s my experience trying to do anything technical with Linux. I can’t really remember the last time I had a problem in windows, but that’s not to say windows is perfect. It’s taken a hit in usability recently, which is weird since they’ve had decades to refine things. I recently installed pop os as a dual boot and it’s been pretty great with the ability to play games. I haven’t really had to do anything technical and I find myself using it more than I thought.

    load more comments (4 replies)
    load more comments (28 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (18 children)

    I think we should stop trying to figure out what operating system is superior, and just focus on shitting on Microsoft windows.

    load more comments (18 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

    I don't have a printer.

    I don't like open ports.

    Decides to remove CUPS.

    "apt list -i *cups*"

    There are like 7 CUPS packages and dependencies.

    for each package "apt remove cups --simulate"

    Get to package 6 and decide 'Ok. No major issues, looks fine.'

    For the first 6 packages "sudo apt remove CUPS"

    This is easy and painless!

    On 7th ...

    Removing cups-pk or some shit.... Removing mint-common... Removing cinnamon-desktop...

    Oh, fuck

    load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "I can't build a steady userbase"

    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

    There is a difference between steady and small.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (20 children)

    Actually.... The Steam Deck runs on Valve's custom Arch Linux. To say there is no steady userbase is simply not true.

    load more comments (20 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yeah, you can run old app on Linux, as long as you compile it manually while solving a shitton of dependency problems.

    load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm predominantly a Windows user. However I dual boot with Mint as I am trying to get away from Windows. It's really not easy but I'm trying.

    I gotta say though these types of posts make me cringe. I really don't know why some Linux users put themselves on a pedestal all the time. You make these sorts of smug posts making out that Linux is perfect. I have never installed Linux and had it just work. There is always something that requires searching the web for a fix and firing up the terminal to start changing something in /etc/.

    I get it. You're proud of your technology. But vegans are proud they don't eat animal products. We don't need to keep selling it to the rest of the world.

    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    All three lines are incorrect, Amazing.

    load more comments (5 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

    Linux is smiling because he accidentally deleted the file system while trying to check how much space was free, but now he’s free from the hell that is modern computing.

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If I want to dd /dev/zero to my bootsector, goddammit, let me do it.

    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Re-creation of someone else's post because the original was removed and I found it funny when I first saw it

    If the original was removed, there's probably a reason.

    This "meme" chooses the dumbest reasons Linux is better when there are so many other options than "updates" and "old app"

    load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

    I had the opposite problem with Windows 11.

    My typical way of shutting down my machine was Alt-D, Show Desktop, then Alt-F4, which brings up a shutdown menu.

    For whatever reason in Win 11, they made this menu unable to trigger updates. So for the first several months of my Win 11 install it was quietly never receiving any updates at all.

    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I think it's humorous how many people are getting offended at such a silly post

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    Funny, what kernel does android run?

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    It’s always entertaining when people complain about not being able to stop Windows updates.

    Like, has it occurred to you that you are the reason the MS had to prevent you from being able to update your system?!

    load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Linux users are like Vegans. No one likes them and they won't stop bratting about being a Linux user.

    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Isn't Android just Linux under the hood? You are free to brick your device with root access.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yes, but a lot of devices don't support getting root access, or come with caveats from doing so (I remember at least on Sony devices in the past, doing so permanently erased the proprietary camera blobs which resulted in forever low quality pictures).

    That being said, you can disable system apps in Android (with exceptions, can't disable SystemUI obviously) which is about as good as deleting them. Since they're on the system partition which is separate from the user data partition, it doesn't actually grant you any usable free space anyways AFAIK.

    load more comments (6 replies)
    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

    No, obnoxious elitism breeds controversy - or more likely, indifference.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    You can stop unnecessary update on windows by using LTSC, on Android you can delete system app with adb or root

    load more comments (7 replies)
    [–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    On the plus side, even if you did need to update Linux, it's not like you are running anything on it anyways.

    load more comments (1 replies)
    load more comments
    view more: next ›