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    [–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago

    No.

    You get to break windows and get to freedom.

    [–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    It's wild you assume I even have windows.

    [–] [email protected] 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You're quite bold to assume that linux users haven't built their houses with doors instead of windows.

    [–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Oohh that's good!

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago

    I'd think they'd be happy to exit windows

    [–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I compiled my own house so no windows to escape to. Actually it was never structurally sound

    [–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

    You could always make your way outside.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I bet it smells like shit in there though

    [–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

    I keep my shit containerized, no code smells here. Except that one time when a kernel panic annihilated my 2nd floor

    [–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It's ok, I'll use the arch

    [–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

    Watch out for the bleeding edge.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Then afterwards you can summon the archmage to fix things 👍

    [–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago

    Nah, it's fine. The Windows are made out of WINE bottles.

    [–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago
    [–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

    frantically tries to install Wine

    [–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

    Oh please... Real Linux users know how to ESC in any situation. Even vim!

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    I was under the impression that there was no escaping vim, or is that vi?

    [–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

    We rather make a deal with a daemon.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    My social circles are filled with Linux / Unix die hards... and most of them are engineers first, pragmatists second, and linux just fills the philosophy.

    They ALL, each and every one, have windows available to them (or macos). If nothing else then dual booting, for games, for family, etc. (Some may deny it, but if you really dig into it, they have the ability... or a VM laying around, for those one offs,, oh its for Work (tm) so it doesn't count).

    The online Linux or Die is a very vocal, but niche viewpoint that I never encounter in real life.

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

    oh its for Work (tm) so it doesn't count.

    Well, I got a windows laptop from work and didn't have a say about it. I don't do anything private on it. Does that really count?

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

    It's totally fine. I'm a pro Linux guy myself. Well pro BSD really. It's just some of the technical topics we discuss on Lemmy, have some very unhelpful people pop out of the woodwork, and just say don't use windows at all. Without addressing the topic at hand. That's a little tiresome for me.

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

    Imo it's not as tiring as the amount of people popping into Linux communities to tell Linux users they have to use windows...

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    I was planning to write, "I only use Linux on my computers", while that is technically correct, I also have a few Windows VM's and my partners PC is running windows, that came in handy when my Samsung laser printer forgot it's network settings.

    So I can as well admit it, I am: Engineer first, Pragmatist second, and Linux is a good caulk for the rest.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is nonsense. I--and a great many other Linux users--don't have a Windows partition on any of their computers.

    My kids were given Windows laptops for school but that's the only Windows in the house. For work I just login to a virtual Windows desktop (though honestly I'd work much more efficiently if I had a Linux desktop) 🤷

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    Guess I'm the exception - no way to access Windows currently. I used to have a VM, but I recently switched to a new system and I'm too dumb/lazy to figure out how to make a Windows VM there. Luckily I only used it for Photoshop which I don't need that often.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    You have to be a pragmatist first convenience second kind of person thats willing to truly commit to a philosophy at the cost of other things. This kind of person is uncommon, most just want their computers to work and do the thing they want and don't care about things like microsoft treating them like garbage with forced apps, os level spyware, and forced windows updates for 'security'. If a few of your favorite multiplayer games don't work on linux, most will stick with windows because they don't want to give up their social escapism. Some people do actually say 'nah, you can keep em' and nuke windows anyways.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    I very much doubt their house even has windows so this seems incredibly untrue.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    More impressive they set an igloo on fire.

    Must have been a dependency maintained by some guy living in a hut in Eastern Europe.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

    Of course its on fire, its a firewall :)

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

    Oh that's fine, I'll just leave through the Open Big Super-cool Door

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

    Quick! Recompile the furniture to replace the burning version! House deamon - kill all fire!

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

    Thinking about putting a fire extinguisher inevery room.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

    When the 5 key "shortcut" to put out fires doesn't work

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    rm -rf ~/fire

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Fine now I won't burn my house down

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    Yes. RIP Henry. Died a Martyr for what he believed in.

    [–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

    This is what I needed to see as I start my day. Made me smile.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
    [–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Yes, this is true... in the way that a lot of money was paid to sell you the delusion that everything is about Windows and that people not using them are obviously stupid and self-destructing. Any actual Linux user will just exit through a door, because he's not a brain-washed moron believing that there is only the one right (proprietary, and tightly controlled) way.