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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 263 points 10 months ago (6 children)

We've all agreed that when he dies it would be disrespectful to keep using Linux so we'll pack it up and switch to Windows from them on.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 121 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The year of the netbsd desktop is finally here.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 21 points 10 months ago (3 children)

what's the bsd equivalent to arch

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 81 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.

[–] elvith@feddit.de 12 points 10 months ago

"I'm using netBSD btw...."

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah isn't Arch heavily inspired by the BSD way?

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 5 points 10 months ago

OpenBSD, probably

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 3 points 10 months ago

Is it still maintained ? I'd probably go with FreeBSD if I'm switching to BSD at all. It has ZFS out of the box and has support for nvidia's non opensource driver. I have used it as a desktop OS for a good 3 months, it was pretty good (even though I couldn't game on it)

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago
  • The year of Linux desktop finally arrives
  • Linus dies
  • Me: installs NetBSD and waits
[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 19 points 10 months ago

I'll go back to HaikuOS, it should be ready by then. ReactOS will still be working on Win98 support.

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works 4 points 10 months ago

Time to start teaching Holy-C at uni.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 13 points 10 months ago (5 children)

But what happens when Bill Gates is dead?!

[–] kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 10 months ago

We all become MacroHard

[–] Damage@feddit.it 34 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Bill Gates will never die, he'll transfer his consciousness to the 5G network and control us all through vaccines

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

"You see officer, it wasn't me robbing that bank. Bill Gates did it!"

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago (3 children)

All the vaccine microchips activate and we all become Bill Gates. ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

MSed day to you

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 7 points 10 months ago

That would be one helluva evil plan.

[–] Salix@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago
[–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 10 points 10 months ago

cheering in the streets? orgies?

[–] GBU_28@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago

Return to monke

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 7 points 10 months ago

I think I have a Windows ME CD lying around somewhere. Can I use that?

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That does sound almost kinda dope because that's a lot of developers who could make Windows suck a lot less

[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 20 points 10 months ago

Microsoft: we don't do that here

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 13 points 10 months ago

The point of non-free licensed software is that you cannot improve it.