AVincentInSpace

you'll have to forgive me if I don't give this sentiment much weight when it's said by people who define "conservative" as "anyone to the right of Ursula K. LeGuin"

I've always been baffled by this sentiment

if you (by which i mean you the reader, not OP) use linux for no other reason than to be able to tell people you use linux, kindly get the fuck out of my community

that specific combination of things describes over 90% of lemmy

many posts on reddit literally are from karma farming bots though. predictable username pattern, repost from half a year ago with the exact same title that gets deleted exactly 24h later...

They're also similar in that if you tell them you use Linux but like Canonical and/or Lennart Poettering they'll yell at you and call you all sorts of names but if you tell them you're a Windows user they'll leave you alone

Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"

And then I download Ubuntu.

And then I remember.

Ah yes, the solarpunk high tech happy-for-everyone future in which artists no longer have jobs and are forced to do something they hate doing because otherwise they won't eat.

This post goes out to like half of .ml

Microsoft realized they were losing basically the entire software development market to Linux so they started adding features like a pretty alright terminal emulator and a shell that almost looks POSIXcompliant if you squint (and don't pass any flags to its built in commands) and trying ineffectually to hide the fact that they were basically on their knees saying BLEASE COME BACK WE NEED YOU

what kind of config file is short enough to fit on a single screen with line breaks?

Alright, the YAML spec is a dang mess, that I'll grant you, but it seems pretty easy for my human eyes to read and write. As for JSON -- seriously? That's probably the easiest to parse human-readable structured data format there is!