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[–] neveraskedforthis@lemmy.world 121 points 1 year ago

No.

You get to break windows and get to freedom.

[–] Honza@iusearchlinux.fyi 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's wild you assume I even have windows.

[–] akash_rawal@lemmy.world 53 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.

[–] Eczpurt@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oohh that's good!

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago

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

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

You could always make your way outside.

[–] SuckMyWang@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bet it smells like shit in there though

[–] camr_on@lemmy.world 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

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's ok, I'll use the arch

[–] dukk@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

Watch out for the bleeding edge.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

Then afterwards you can summon the archmage to fix things 👍

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 36 points 1 year ago

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

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 33 points 1 year ago
[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 year ago

frantically tries to install Wine

[–] Endorkend@kbin.social 17 points 1 year ago

We rather make a deal with a daemon.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 17 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!

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] WindowsEnjoyer@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.com 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cypher@lemmy.world 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.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

Of course its on fire, its a firewall :)

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 9 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.

[–] lugal@lemmy.world 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?

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 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.

[–] Crozekiel@lemmy.zip 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...

[–] BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 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.

[–] riskable@programming.dev 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) 🤷

[–] rikudou@lemmings.world 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.

[–] Smokeydope@lemmy.world 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.

[–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] eldain@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] creditCrazy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Fine now I won't burn my house down

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] luciferofastora@lemmy.zip 2 points 11 months ago

rm -rf ~/fire

[–] azurefirefly@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] Ooops@kbin.social -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.