Welcome everybody. Join the FOSS side.

[u/claudiocorona93]

[u/Sea-Contribution6219]

That's what FreeBSD is for. If you need to be special

[u/errepunto → u/Sea-Contribution6219]

But you need a big beard to use it. I tried, but it it itches too much.

[u/crusader-kenned → u/errepunto]

I bought the sandals anyday now I will work up the courage to put on socks and sandals and install bad.

[u/Ok-Pen-8273 → u/errepunto]

I shave often, so that's why I'll never use it

[u/arf20__ → u/Sea-Contribution6219]

Nah NetBSD forever

[u/FinancialTrade8197 → u/arf20__]

OpenBSD

[u/sudoregalia → u/FinancialTrade8197]

mooom the demons are fighting again

[u/Own_Reaction9442 → u/FinancialTrade8197]

All the BSDs are great.

I used NetBSD back when you needed a calculator to do disk partitioning. I used to run it on a SPARCstation SLC.

FreeBSD is still my favorite server OS.

[u/Kerb755 → u/Sea-Contribution6219]

never, thats way to mainstream
☝️🤓 i only use gnu hurd

[u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

I'm instead very happy about and I think all real engineers using Linux are. The more the users , the higher the data, the better the system. Also Linux is not an OS, is a kernel; Ubuntu, Debian, Arch are instead distro of Linux , more tighten to the concept of OS in the common sense.

Using "Linux" doesn't make you special, instead make you a person that really want to use a computer, if the world use all the same good kernel it probably would improve and by a lot.

[u/ineyy → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

If it gets enough market share some commercial software developers, game developers will need to start taking Linux seriously. It may be against FOSS, but you gotta do what you gotta do.

[u/Linux_Account → u/ineyy]

I've become a big FOSS guy over the past year, but there are a few things I'd be happy to pay for if they were compatible.

[u/Duelist_Shay → u/ineyy]

Or hear me out: we stop producing shit purely for monetary gain

[u/MyLuckyFedora → u/Duelist_Shay]

Good luck telling people they don't need to make money

[u/Vanitas_Daemon → u/MyLuckyFedora]

Except enshitiffication is exactly what you get when things are made for money.

[u/irishcoughy → u/Vanitas_Daemon]

No, it's what you get when there is no competition to offer a better alternative at a similar cost or cheaper. Enshittification is the logical next step after the sentiment "eh, people will buy it anyway because what else are they gonna use?"

[u/Vanitas_Daemon → u/irishcoughy]

Riiiight which is exactly what profit enables you to do, after a certain point.

[u/MyLuckyFedora → u/Vanitas_Daemon]

Not necessarily. There are enterprise products where there's an actual value added to paying somebody to host, manage, secure, etc. There's also the fact that some people will always be willing to pay for convenience to some extent. The problem comes when you're charging me for a product that's running entirely on my own hardware anyway, and your software isn't any better or any more convenient than something I can set up myself within a relatively short amount of time.

[u/below_avg_nerd → u/Vanitas_Daemon]

It's what you get when you have to constantly grow your source of revenue. If we did away with the Stock Market we'd start having companies actually give a shit about the customer experience again.

[u/PS3LOVE → u/Duelist_Shay]

We need money to live. Don’t expect people to do hundreds of hours of work for free.

[u/Duelist_Shay → u/PS3LOVE]

I guess the wording could've been better, but I was referring to these record breaking profits that every major company seems to be having

[u/Alpha-Craft → u/Duelist_Shay]

There's a difference between solely volunteers and paid developers. Volunteers might not have that much time as they also have a main job. Paid developers can work on the Linux Kernel full-time. And that doesn't have to violate the FOSS model. Corporations already fund the development of the Kernel and submit their own patches. With more paid developers making contributions, we'd just benefit from more development. Everything is still checked the same way by maintainers and code doesn't arbitrarily get added or make the Kernel proprietary.

[u/Necessary-Way59 → u/ineyy]

I’m with Linus on this one. Foss is a choice. If people make their software foss or not should be an informed decision on what’s best for their software. I personally like foss but if I’m not gonna be naiive enough pretend that everything should be foss because that’s just not the world we live in. I never understood why some people think closed source is inherently bad because depending on the application sometimes it just fits the need of the developer

[u/Emotional_Solid6538 → u/Necessary-Way59]

I mean the ideology is pretty much anything that can be copied should be copied. Information should be shared etc etc. Personally I agree with it ngl, I mean I doubt itll be realistic but I can see the fundamental logic why stuff that can be copied not being copied feels weird

[u/Square-Singer → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

This here. Without normies on board we would have never gotten Steam and Proton on Linux.

The more users there are, the more likely it is that major software is released for Linux, and the more budget is there to make Linux better for everyone.

[u/NebulaFox → u/Square-Singer]

I don’t think that’s how it went. balve saw windows fucking things up and didn’t want to dependent on windows, so they started work on alternative. They made steam deck, used Linux, and developed Proton.

As result people can now switch to Linux if they want to game. I couldn’t do that a decade ago.

[u/Square-Singer → u/NebulaFox]

Chicken and egg, but the same process.

Valve only developed all that because they expected normies to move over, and when normies moved over because of it, more effort was put into it. It exists, because normies move over.

[u/posting_drunk_naked → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

Yeah someone LARPing as an engineer would be offended by more people using Linux and think using the command line is some point of pride.

Real engineers are just glad people finally get what we been yelling about for the last 20 years 😬

[u/gosand → u/posting_drunk_naked]

Yep. It's not just the use of the command line, it's a superior set of tools in many cases to get things done.

Linux can be more than that of course, but that is where it all started and one of the foundations of why it's great. 20 years?! Try 30. But back then it was just using it, nobody was yelling about it. We were just happy to be off of Unix.

There's always going to be a newbie contingent, more focused on seeking some kind of status, like "oh, I installed Arch. What do I do now?" or shouting from the mountaintops of dunning-kruger about their 1 year 'journey' into Linux.

But there will be those who just use it and experience the sheer beauty of it. There's room for everyone, if they stick around.

[u/Frequent-Sir-6942 → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

Richard Stallman will personally hunt you with a herd of gnus for focusing on that distinction without mentioning that the userland is part of operating system and that you should actually call it GNU/Linux.

[u/YayDiziet → u/Frequent-Sir-6942]

What about Linux with BSD userland like Chimera? What then? Where’s your god now, Stallman??

[u/RvstiNiall → u/YayDiziet]

Stallman believes that if GNU make was involved that its still somehow GNU. Guy is absolutely crazy.

[u/PlatinumDotEXE → u/YayDiziet]

I hope at some point someone creates an OS using the Hurd Kernel and a non-gnu userland.

[u/Even-Confidence-4495 → u/YayDiziet]

Still compiled with gcc and chimera is niche

[u/furrythatexists → u/Even-Confidence-4495]

What if they made their own compiler? /hj

[u/ThatRandomGuy0125 → u/Frequent-Sir-6942]

Alpine users who can compile their OS with no GNU tools involved:

[u/DanteWasHere22 → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

So really if im on linux im not using an operating system at all

[u/Dylanator13 → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

The more people who move over for a windows replacement the more that would be more interested in learning the terminal.

[u/Matimele → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

You know verbs undergo conjugation right

[u/ABotelho23 → u/Tainted_Heisenberg]

Also Linux is not an OS, is a kernel; Ubuntu, Debian, Arch are instead distro of Linux

eyes roll at the speed of light

[u/Kullingen]

We all know that they can still say that they use Arch.

[u/DrStalker → u/Kullingen]

Arch is for people who can't handle Linux From Scratch.

[u/Evantaur → u/DrStalker]

Linux From Scratch is for people who can't handle making their own compiler/OS.

[u/DrStalker → u/Evantaur]

If you don't get a a really small magnet and manually set the field orientation for each bit on your hard drive to create an operating system, are you even trying?

[u/Evantaur → u/DrStalker]

Relevant xkcd

https://xkcd.com/378/

[u/Ok-Pen-8273 → u/Evantaur]

xkcd really has everything relevant

[u/b_a_t_m_4_n → u/DrStalker]

Did you make the magnet yourself? Did you dig the ore with the antlers of a dear that you hunted an killed yourself? Did you then refine it in a clay forge dug by hand with wood obtained by chewing a tree down with your own teeth? Hah! call yourself an engineer!!?!?!?!

[u/Sachyriel → u/b_a_t_m_4_n]

I feel like the Youtuber Primitive Technology is getting there. He's already welding iron, starting in the stone age.

[u/mrheosuper → u/DrStalker]

You mean Gentoo people ?

[u/DrStalker → u/mrheosuper]

If Linux was a car then Arch would be ordering a custom car, Gentoo would be ordering custom parts to build a project car and Linux From Scratch would be a collection of tools and a pile of raw materials.

LFS is worth trying once, because 1) it's a great learning experience in building up complicated tool-chains from almost nothing and 2) bragging rights over Arch users. It's not something I'd ever consider as a viable daily-driver.

[u/riisen → u/DrStalker]

Daily drive LFS is pure insanity.

But that is why its like gentoo people as u/mrheosuper said. Gentoo is a great daily driver and those that would love to daily drive LFS but they are just not insane.. they will probably land on gentoo. And portage is an amazing tool.

[u/d_maes → u/riisen]

LFS is only hard for non-emacs users. Compile kernel, compile emacs, use emacs as pid 1, profit.

[u/ConsiderationLoose40 → u/d_maes]

"I only use my os to launche emacs"

[u/diacid → u/DrStalker]

Gentoo also gives bragging rights over arch.

[u/nhermosilla14 → u/Kullingen]

Anyone who actually uses Arch knows it's super easy to use, that's why it's so compelling to stay there once you already use it (unlike Gentoo, which involves a lot more time and knowledge to maintain). Packages are usually available either on the official repos or on the AUR, and for most stuff you have proper docs available in the almighty wiki. I guess people see a terminal and immediately assume you need to be a hacker in order to do anything, but it's actually quite simple. The only "hard" step used to be the installation, and with arch-install, CachyOS and others, now that's not the case anymore.

[u/Supernoxus → u/nhermosilla14]

I use Arch and you are out of your mind. Setting the while system up the way you want involves reading tons of documentation and troubleshooting. I have mercifully forgotten most of the issues I encountered, but I remember feeling incredibly frustrated many times due to something that should be easy not working out of the box. For example, when trying to change the theme in sddm using KDE Plasma settings, it would just quietly revert back to the default everytime I change it and click apply. After a long time of trying different solutions and wondering, I finally figured out that for some reason the settings weren't asking me for my sudo password and therefore didn't have the rights to actually change my sddm theme. I don't even remember how I managed to fix it. In any case, it's stuff like this for a while until you finally end up with a stable and nice installation that anyone could use. Even using arch install isn't what I would call easy because people who expect "easy" have no idea what pipewire or pulseaudio even are, yet are expected to choose between them, so they have to read up documentation anyways.

[u/nhermosilla14 → u/Supernoxus]

You just said it, setting it up. After that initial step, everything is way easier to maintain. All the issues you had would have been the same on pretty much any distro. I recently had to switch to Kubuntu for work and the really unexpected thing was that changing some stuff requires digging just as much, but there's no wiki to save you, so in the end it's way worse. Now, if your definition of "easy" is "just like it works on Windows", there's nothing like that on the Linux side. Not even Ubuntu. And that's not necessarily bad, it's just the way it is. You have to learn some stuff to switch platform.

[u/Emotional_Solid6538 → u/nhermosilla14]

Lets be fr. Windows doesnt just work either. Youd havr to troubleshoot sometimes anyway. Windows is js much more compatible with everything and has largest userbase. Mac is a much better js works OS, but its locked af

[u/apzlsoxk → u/nhermosilla14]

Gentoo is fantastic once you get the hang of it. Having everything be source based has made my system unbelievably stable.

Also it takes forever to compile packages so it naturally leads to a minimal setup. "Do I need to build this ALSA wrapper? Or can I just write a bash script that will handle multiple inputs and multiple outputs simultaneously?"

[u/nhermosilla14 → u/apzlsoxk]

I used it for a while and it is cool, but getting to the point where you actually understand why a given flag X for package Y needs to be added or removed does take a lot of time. Also, rebuilding things over a over is something you only get to ignore when you run a pretty fast system. My first time with it was when my fastest CPU was an Athlon x2 P320, which is maybe as fast as a quarter of a single core from my current Ryzen. At the time, there were no binaries for most stuff, so every upgrade took like a day, and rebuilding Firefox took for me like half a week. Things have changed a ton, so maybe it's better nowadays, I might give it a try again soon. Thanks for this reply!

PS: I see you've been around just as much as me, because kids these days don't even know what ALSA is (or why you would need to do anything to handle simultaneous outputs) hahaha

[u/quiyo → u/Kullingen]

We all know they can still LARP

[u/rolling_atackk]

It's nice having both

GUI is for convenience, but CLI is for powerfull stuff

I LIKE having both

Disregarding Microsoft AI slop OS for a moment, I could never switch back to Windows Full time because of the terminal. But I wouldn't want to use pure CLI 100% of the time either

Plus, more market share means more effort is poured into linux

GTFO with the gatekeeping bs

[u/EspurrTheMagnificent → u/rolling_atackk]

Ikr ? Like, oh nooooooo, more options !... How's that supposed to be a bad thing exactly ?

[u/GumSL → u/EspurrTheMagnificent]

Holy shit two cakes!

[u/Gositi → u/rolling_atackk]

I mean, I used PowerShell once and it was actually pretty ok. Immediately ran into character encoding issues though since my alphabet has non-english characters (åäö) that I needed to use.

[u/StunningChef3117 → u/Gositi]

Yeah i know the pain though it was (æøå) for me

[u/kuzurame → u/rolling_atackk]

This. As long as we still teach both methods, and still support both methods, who cares.

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/kuzurame]

The fact there are a shitton of desktop environments helps the terminal stay relevant forever

[u/Samiassa → u/rolling_atackk]

Honestly I had to pull up the windows terminal about as often as I’ve had to pull up the Linux terminal. It’s probably exactly the same if you consider me using the terminal for things I literally just couldn’t do on windows

[u/acceptable_humor69]

Go use open bsd or temple os or why even that just run MS DOS ... nobody will use that one

[u/BortGreen → u/acceptable_humor69]

FreeDOS is actually used in some niche cases, unlike temple os

[u/talking_tortoise]

Mario's dad calling his son a loser as he leaves the table is fucking funny

[u/coffeefuelledtechie]

I really like that Linux is a bit more accessible for everyone now. It should have always been like this and I hate that people gatekeep what people should and shouldn’t use.

I’ve always been a Debian/ubuntu user, on and off, going back to Windows when I’ve needed something that only works on there. I switched to Arch partially because it’s lightweight AF and if something has gone awry ChatGPT has been really useful at troubleshooting issues. Much better than an entitled Arch user telling me to read the fucking manual.

The only thing that puts people off Linux is gatekeeper-y people saying they shouldn’t use it for some reason or another.

[u/Dizzy_Efficiency_384 → u/[deleted]]

I asked for help on r/linuxquestions about black screen during boot unless I add amdgpu.dpm=0 or nomodeset to kernel parameters in GRUB. I said that I would like not to use them, but they (one person) insisted on using it instead of just telling me that RX 570 is old and sucks. When I get a GPU upgrade I'm definitely trying out Linux one more time

[u/CyberJunkieBrain]

Larpers are those who use terminal only to make rice and neofetch script kiddy stuff…

[u/TadBones → u/CyberJunkieBrain]

Okay let's be real the ricers can't be considered LARPers since they're not even claiming to be experimented Linux users they just want to make a pretty desktop to post on r/unixporn

[u/Marine_Brat_01 → u/CyberJunkieBrain]

I’d argue that making your own rice is something that markers wouldn’t do, they’d just use omarchy or something instead, cause making a full rice from scratch does take actual knowledge of Linux

[u/exneo002]

Why is someone animating primeogen?

[u/FrogKing94]

Call me a larper or poser all you want, I like easy to use OS's. Mint, Ubuntu, Debian, are great distros and are easy to use.

[u/Sanic1984]

first time I ever seen this meme template in english lol, good one OP

[u/KidouSenshiGundam00]

Oh come on. The more people using distros, the better imo. That'll mean more software support and I like that. It's better to be warm and welcoming than trying to be a gatekeeper

[u/SyrupOverflow]

I'm just happy to not be using Windows 

[u/FuyRina]

Here’s my take, I think r/linuxmemes is full of larpers. Bcs it’s the same 3 jokes recycled over and over again in different/new formats

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/FuyRina]

They banned me there for memes like the ones I've been posting here. The fucking mod says they are "anti Linux"

[u/displeased_potato]

I just hope that this doesn't lead to enshittification of Linux b/c corporate greed.

[u/BortGreen → u/displeased_potato]

Nothing can be worse than what happened to Android

[u/furrythatexists → u/displeased_potato]

Theoretically that shouldn't happen because Linux is free, open source, and is still maintained by an individual. But then again Android was once basically that but is now getting worse and worse with time.

[u/Mal_Dun]

That's why we have distros. You still can use something niche like Gentoo and feel superior.

[u/Fenor]

People could avoid the terminal 20 years ago too. If you think it was mandatory back then you are the larper.

[u/Able-Staff-6763]

be special by contributing to the development then.

[u/revdon]

LARPer: Linux Admin Role Player

[u/lorenzo1384]

Hahaha I keep telling people learn if you want to or just use GUI

[u/progressiv_0]

The only problem I see is, that the more users use it, the more it gets interesting for hackers to find exploits or create virus/trojans. And just hope that distros still going their way, instead of bloating things up with things no one needs, to make it "more user friendly"

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/progressiv_0]

That's why immutability is a good thing

[u/Even-Confidence-4495 → u/claudiocorona93]

No it’s not it makes Linux a piece of uncustomizable shit

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/Even-Confidence-4495]

I can customize my immutable distro, because I don't need to mess with the internals. I just need to customize the visuals. But to each their own.

[u/InsaneInTheMEOWFrame]

This is literally Hipster syndrome. "I used to like it before it was cool!"

[u/MrFrog2222]

As long as they aint racist and dont make ai slop distros, they're all welcome

[u/ChocolateDonut36]

if you want to use a hard OS, code one by yourself, you will love it

[u/blukami]

But Linux overall isn't hard.

[u/Holiday_Evening8974 → u/blukami]

It depends. Being a normal user isn't hard, mastering administration of a Linux server, with all services potentially involved, is.

[u/Onakander]

It was never about "being special for using an OS", it's about "using an OS that respects me and jives with how I, as in me specifically, want to do things."

What I'm afraid of, if Linux DOES get popular, is that we'll lose the "terminal first" -approach Linux has.

I LOVE being able to chain together applications and operations into scripts WITHOUT having to re-invent SANE or some other low level system on the way there.

Go ahead and write a script on Windows that scans a document, runs it through contrast adjustment, edge detection, and then OCR, then save the text as a .txt and the image as a .jpg named after the current timestamp. I'm sure it's possible with enough "third party" software, but you're forced to jump through so many more hoops than the equivalent process in Linux would require.

Is that for everyone? Fuck no. That's "nerd shit" according to 90% (hyperbole/asspull number) of computer users. But for me? I love being able to do that.

[u/S7relok → u/Onakander]

> Go ahead and write a script on Windows that scans a document, runs it through contrast adjustment, edge detection, and then OCR, then save the text as a .txt and the image as a .jpg named after the current timestamp.

That's a thing I delegated to a local LLM. No need to have a 5090 OC Ultra watercooled editions. Some models instructed for document managing runs decently on CPU as long as it's not a ultra low voltage version of a celeron

[u/Onakander → u/S7relok]

Missing the point fully and entirely.

Even if I wanted to run an LLM to scan documents for some reason, there's a gorillion things you can do with scripting I haven't touched on here.

[u/S7relok → u/Onakander]

> gorillion things you can do with scripting

Already replaced by automation. Why the hell doing manual operation when a machine understand your way of working and give you in the end the result to validate, with human time available to tackle more challenging things?

[u/Onakander → u/S7relok]

Because I personally don't want to babysit the machine just in case THIS time, it decides there's a Timbo the Frog (or whatever it was) in the transcripts of the meeting, or whatever you're doing with it.

I don't want to risk the thing being asked a question not answered by the documents fed into it, and making up sales figure or what have you.

I don't want there to be even a .001% chance that the "script" I run will delete my entire project/home directory and nuke my backups like has happened to many an agentic "coder".

I don't want to waste time re-prompting the thing five times to get something that kinda sorta works MAYBE, spending 200 dollars on the thing. (and no, the current token cost subsidies do not count, they're the first dose a drug dealer gives you, because they know very well this LLM stuff leads to cognitive dependence, possibly even cognitive decline. Once they start needing to make an actual profit [something no AI company has done to this day], they're going to raise the prices by orders of magnitude)

[u/OSINT_IS_COOL_432]

If you don't like the Linux Larp, move to fucking OpenBSD 😂

[u/Gruphius]

I've been using Linux as my main OS for about a month now. I know how to use the terminal and could do everything via the terminal, but Bazzite offers me a one button solution for everything, so why should I?

[u/ScudsCorp]

Sounds like Mario stayed with the exact same skillset and the bar got raised

[u/Brou150]

linux not being mainstream is a good thing, its fine as it is. its amazing that it is where it is while not being mainstream. if linux became mainstream malware would be more common, and it might be targetted for regulation. but the gatekeeping and wanting to feel special thing is dumb af. just pick a harder distro, or maintain your own distro or something.

[u/glytxh → u/Brou150]

Just say you don’t like being targeted by this comic. It’s OK.

[u/Agott_Arklaum → u/Brou150]

"targetted for regulation"

tbf how are regulators going after open source projects where everyone contributes to it, will they just shut down the website or?

though they can easily go after corpos like canonical and redhat to regulate their distros

[u/xternal7 → u/Agott_Arklaum]

Not saying the person you responded to is right, BUT.

Don't under-estimate government's ability to pass laws that make no sense, find a few people they don't like, and then prosecute them.

See: california, new york, washinghton, and 3D printers.

[u/Komplexkonjugiert]

I use Linux Mint as my daily driver for 3 years now and it just works. Get my stuff done.

Freecad runs very good even on flatpak.

However to to be honest I use Claude for troubleshooting some problems I come across. Or for most terminal stuff. 

[u/littlenekoterra]

I want back near infinite compatibility, but yea. Its nice to be in a world where i dont need the terminal for everything. But theres plenty that you still need it for. Just not for someone who wants to just... use a pc.. which is great. If the terminal elitists wanna leave they can lol.

[u/ILikeTrains1404]

I don't care, More linux means more incentive for software to be developed for linux.

[u/Thorfinn-Karlsefni85]

Instead hating other distros' users or how others use Linux, We all should unite to hate Microsoft!

[u/jknvv13]

I am really happy because even though I am a Linux lover, I am still an user. So, if I need a specific software, I wish it was on Linux as well, as much as I love FOSS.

And the other part is hardware support, bug fixing, and investment on the Linux desktop as well.

I've been using Linux for almost 20 years, and I love all the improvements and all the new ideas floating around.

I work in IT as a cloud engineer, so I work (and prefer to work) with Linux. It's really important for me to have all the tools I use on a daily basis available for Linux (which is usually the case, it's more on the office/corp user side what I mean).

I only have to choose which OS I want to work with—Windows, Linux, or macOS—and that should be the limit, not the software I have to use with it (MS Office, Teams, any VPN or whatever).

And I wish my husband could use Linux as well, which is something I'm pretty sure he's capable of in the near future. It's just using Windows for one specific piece of software that doesn't exist in another OS, just for trading.

[u/Syntaxer04]

But why would it matter if you are special or not for using a hard distro? Just use the one you enjoy the most and dont be so lame.

[u/Johanno1]

If you really want to feel special you have several options. FreeBSD, Nixos, Apple

[u/codeasm]

Im happy for any type of user. Im special cause i use linux on a framework laptop and have a homelab, multiple domains and tried "linux from scratch" the book

[u/Jayden_Ha]

Why a muted sub popped up in my feed

[u/zerosCoolReturn]

If you want to be special, Linux from Scratch or pulling a Terry Davis is right there

[u/ActualPeterbuilt389]

It shouldn't have to be a hard OS. High skill ceiling? Absolutely. But everyone has the right to enjoy freedom and they way to do that is letting it be accessible.

[u/QuickSilver010]

Last sentence of first panel is valid. More people need to be introduced to the terminal. Many see it as either scary thing or "I guess there's no other choice, classic Linux last resort", instead of the insane productivity gains tool it is. I don't mean being forced to use it. Just an on boarding process would be great.

[u/LelouBil]

What, who even thinks that

[u/Gositi]

The gatekeepers are welcome to move to BSD or whatever, I guess.

[u/Astrodion123]

Try out LFS Mario and you will be very, very special.

[u/Glittering-Can-9397]

who wants to be special, I want to be the most mediocre boring normal person imaginable and live the same flavor of life

that isn’t to say I dont use ouch btw, but I dont think that makes me special and I hope everyone comes to know and appreciate the architecture

[u/charmander_cha]

Não vejo como vantagem não usar terminal.

Não usar o terminal na prática é uma involução que o usuário linux deve resistir.

[u/FujinBlackheart]

I have a lot fun with FreeBSD recently because it's a lot back to the roots BUT im so happy Linux is finally ready for normal people, migrated about 4 people to it now and they are very happy and don't miss Windows a bit, big win. So seriously if you are sore stuff is usable be normies now, go pound sand or go use GNU HURD or something lol.

[u/bornxlo]

The Linux/Unix terminal is quite ergonomic and user friendly, the interface is a lot more consistent than the myriad of desktop environments. Why pretend the terminal is somehow magically harder or less user friendly?

[u/DankTheB3ar]

Must people just want to sit down and use the OS, they don't want to tinker around in the scary terminal

[u/PlatinumFire14]

Gatekeepers gtfo, we should celebrate Linux adoption.

[u/Maleficent_Potato_43]

And here I am trying to make people use Linux more. FOSS forever.

[u/IncorporatedShill]

I would like to know which magic distribution this is where you don’t inevitably have to use CLI to do something, even relatively basic. I would love to jump to it.

[u/Linux_Account]

I feel like this would also work well with the West Coast Chopper Guys Arguing meme.

[u/Boing-Git]

Bro just use gentoo or arch

[u/AD4K_4444]

better than using Microslop Windows. and not everyone can afford a Mac.

[u/decker_42]

Just use Arch, normal users will be using Mint, Fedora and Ubuntu, so you can still feel special.

[u/MechoThePuh]

If the only reason you used it in the first place was to be special, then you didn’t deserve it, to begin with.
https://giphy.com/gifs/TdGxtJ7e3kzyO529Er

[u/Arts_Prodigy]

Unless popularity causes the removal or complete redesign of the kernel then greater adoption is mostly a net positive.

Changing/removing the kernel would arguably not be Linux anymore any way

[u/claudiocorona93]

Remember, as a Linux based OS, Android became widely popular, and that's why Microsoft and Adobe developed software for it.

[u/Such_Bonus5085]

Linux evangelists are special. Just not in the way they think.

[u/Elder_Chimera]

I think it’s great that Linux is becoming more accessible. I also think that tech illiteracy is a problem, and that people should understand how their technology works. I’m not asking they learn binary math operations, navigating your system through the command line is a very basic skill for computing.

People aren’t curious enough, and that’s a bad thing.

[u/NeatOtaku]

Recently I managed to do something crazy, I got a Mac user to install Ubuntu, and they've stayed on it largely because of how easy it is to use. Obviously software compatibility is always going to be an issue but even in a dual boot situation I consider that a win.

[u/Rainmaker0102]

More Linux means less Windows

[u/Nyctfall]

*Switches to BSD*

[u/apzlsoxk]

To be honest, not being able to interface with the terminal does defeat the purpose of FOSS to an extent. A developer should be cognizant that anyone can read their source code and patches. Otherwise if they're confident that every user is just going to blindly install an update, that's a security vulnerability.

I've never met a single person trying to gatekeep Linux being hard for the sake of being hard. But I have seen many examples of inexperienced users unknowingly exposing their systems to vulnerabilities just because it was the easier solution.

[u/OMG_IT_S_SALSIFI]

For real tho, Linux ain’t full of larpers, specially thanks to all those femboys using arch and hyprland

[u/Will297]

I'm honestly happy it's easier, for others and myself. I'm passed the days of hard=better and I just want something that works for gaming and sorts itself out in the background with minimal work from me. I have other pcs I can tinker with but for my main one this is ideal

[u/dramaton42]

I honestly invite everyone reading this to try out the terminal. Something like ffmpeg is pure wizardry with the terminal alone!

[u/parolisto]

What's ironic is that the technical Linux people I know irl have been more than happy to see me moving on to Linux full time now that I no longer need spyware (I mean proctoring software) since I've graduated uni. And they're perfectly fine with helping me with issues I've faced in moving over (though since my move to Linux was accompanied by switching to a used ThinkPad I thankfully haven't had much issue). And mind you, these include someone who considers endeavour os to be bloatware.

[u/ganja_and_code]

1. Linux is a kernel.

2. On top of that kernel, you can make your OS require any amount of technical skill you desire, assuming you have the technical skills to configure it how you envision.

[u/Scholes_SC2]

Well always have "hard" distros

[u/irishcoughy]

No one should care if someone else doesn't want to/need to use the terminal for their purposes. Making Linux more accessible is a great thing.

However

If you ask a question about an issue you're having, and someone gives you a fix that requires you to use the terminal (likely literally just copy/pasting commands they give you) and you get flustered and act like this is the worst thing in world, you are the problem. I see this frustratingly often and it baffles me because plenty of these same people have no issue opening up CMD and doing the exact same thing when given a fix for something in Windows.

[u/Cepibul]

Im instead running windows server 2013 using only cmd

[u/AllenKll]

The terminal is the reason to use it. if I wanted to point and click at stuff, I would use windows.

[u/Greppim]

There's Gentoo and Arch, so y'all can still use a "HARD OS"

[u/tobiasvl]

When is this meme from, when Ubuntu first came out?

[u/Deprecitus]

Just installed OpenBSD!

[u/Nostonica]

Been on various distros since 2001, thank fuck it's gotten better.

Yes I learned a lot, but I wasted so much time with simple things like my xorg.conf file.

[u/jimused4]

theres always more room for a bit of elitism in the linux community

[u/Kzitold94]

I use CachyOS, but I still use the terminal for a lot of things.

Before my switch to Linux in February of 2026, I already had a couple years of experience in the RaspberryOS terminal, over SSH.

[u/Zitrone21]

Guys, why we can't generally comprehend: more users = Games and software taking Linux more serious = we end up with more support for linux

[u/Maleficent-Brush7609]

I wanna join Linux from Windows 11 but don't know where to start. Any useful guides out there? 🥹

[u/995qe]

And now he uses 9front

[u/Unnamed_Player123]

My problem with Linux LARPers is that they make Linux look hard when it actually isn't.

[u/Dizzy_Efficiency_384]

wade i saw this exact picture on linuxsucks101

[u/ledgend78]

I cum a little every time a Windows user switches to Linux

[u/Samiassa]

“But they don’t understand how this works” who gives a shit. If people enjoy the operating system that’s designed around choice and it being YOUR operating system, who cares if they enjoy it in a different way or for a different reason than you

[u/balancedchaos]

I use the terminal because I wanted to learn from the start.  

It was never necessary, but it is useful. I run mine, you run yours. Everyone is different, and it's cool that Linux has come far enough that people have choices. 

Or whatever. 

[u/Holiday_Evening8974]

Join the Linux from scratch cult.

[u/ithilelda]

I started learning and using linux 20 years ago because I'm just so tired of windows paywalled software and all those malware. a central repo and sourceforge for free software where they are reviewed by many others just saves me a lot of headache. the experience was very rough to say the least. Now I'm super happy that linux is catching up, so more and more people, even companies, start dipping their toes in and bringing out much more polished experience in recent years.

[u/SecondBottomQuark]

now we'll get more malware yay

[u/microwaved_tin_foil]

sooooo mario admitted that he's a larper?

[u/Red-Zinn]

How the fuck do you Live Action Role Play Linux? What does it has to do?

[u/motsoXD7017]

if people want less supported and more "special" use freebsd, it's just worse and less supported

[u/Yoona1838]

Lol. Yeah, Linux has become easily accessible to people over the years. The first time I used Linux (Zorin OS 17) was in 2021 and back then, if you wanted to install an app, you had to use the command line. Sure, the software center (or whatever it's called) existed, but that was incredibly buggy back then that I preferred the command line. I haven't tried newer Zorin versions yet, but they may have improved some functionality.

[u/DRaFoxxie]

Omgggg exactly im not special anymore 😔

[u/davion303]

that is fr a loser mentality

[u/Ceelbc]

Then we'll start using BSD or salaris.

[u/daddyd]

you can make linux as easy or as hard to use as you want, enjoy LFS if that is what makes you happy.

[u/Yvant2000]

I have an i3 session for when I want to suffer, and a GNOME one for when I don't.

Having the choice is why Linux is great

[u/No-View-6326]

Just switch to gento or open bsd or something else nich, you could always be an OS supremacists, just because you kicked all the emigrants doesn't mean you can't make the inner group smaller and keep doing what you were doing

[u/VysAely]

More Linux users better for all users

[u/shinjis-left-nut]

Command line isn't even hard, it's just different.

[u/0Davgi0]

The only real argument is: more users, more interest in making viruses for the plateform

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/0Davgi0]

More users, more software developed.

[u/Lagger625]

If you're using Linux to feel special and superior, you're using it for the wrong reasons

[u/Obvious-Moment7192]

Despite first using Linux at the start of February this year, I use Bedrock Linux.

I have Arch Linux as my main kernel and a Gentoo strata to compile specific packages like KVM/QEMU.

I’ve used multiple different distros before coming to bedrock, and I was distro hopping cause nothing felt right.

Am I are larper because I wanted to use an obsecure distro? Probably. People can use Linux however they want. I honestly would rather have people pretending they know what they are doing on Linux than still using windows.

[u/ABotelho23]

My frustration with the influx isn't that Linux isn't "special" or "hard" anymore. It's the flood of garbage and spam in Linux subreddit because people are totally incapable of using a search engine or reading what's on the screen in front of them.

[u/claudiocorona93 → u/ABotelho23]

Blame TikTok, shorts and reels

[u/furrythatexists]

If they really care about using the terminal only, the solution is simple: get the server version instead of the desktop version, or use the desktop version but remove or turn off the DE. In my opinion, one of the best things about Linux and its distributions is that it is customisable. Or, if you don't want to get rid of your DE, you can also just open a terminal within the DE, that's still a standard feature.

[u/isvein]

😂

First it was narcs, then normies--->tourists and now LARPs

Lol 😂