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God doesn’t work. Linux does. Prayers to God are left unanswered. Prayers to Linux are accepted via well defined interfaces and answered if you have the correct permissions.

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God actually does answer prayers but they get blocked by ufw

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Praise be to the Omnissiah!

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Tbf, God might consider prayers based on how they’ll affect the underlying system as a whole, because any human being with sudo rights would be a massive problem in no time.

Linux might be more appealing to some because by default it assumes you’re a god and fully understand the ramifications of whatever you’re asking of it. We’re wired to enjoy instant gratification, even if it leads to disaster. :p

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Religion is about shit that is not real. Linux is about good engineering and open source software.

Big fat downvote for this pathetic attempt st being provocative.

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Religion is about shit that is not real

“Year of Linux on Desktop”

“Better than Windows”

“Linux is easy”

“You never need to use the terminal”

“Everything you need runs on Linux”

“Android IS Linux, therefore is the most popular OS”

Yeah, sounds like religion to me.

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Year of Linux on Desktop

More of a meme than anything else

Better than Windows

Well yeah, it is in almost every way.

Linux is easy

It’s not particularly hard.

You never need to use the terminal

Yeah, that’s just a lie.

Everything you need runs

Depends what you need

Android IS Linux

Well, it is.

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Except all of it is true and tested. :/

Ps: have you ever heard anyone say “Islam/Sikhism/AnyOtherReligion is easy”?

No. Because it’s a really dumb comparison.

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Lol none of that was true, though. That was the entire joke.

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Talking like a true believer, thank you for making my point.

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Naw

Yea

Get gud

Terminal is the shit

Well it could, fuck adobe

Ehh no not really

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Lol yeah, it’s JUST Adobe. Okay.

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StrawnmanOS released soon?

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Android is crap and Linux is better not mentioned together with it. I want a true Linux phone with gnome-shell as a user interface!

Sadly existing phones don’t fit in my pocket and have a very bad battery life.

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You seem like a fun person.

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I am fun, just not in the presence of bs and cheap jokes.

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I mean, people’s attitude towards linux here is similar to religion

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This is a meme community, I’m not sure what you’re expecting.

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Sure, but then your meme format isn’t reflecting that so clearly.

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Nope.

The attitude here is the same as the attitude towards anything that really works and it works really well so people love to recommend it. This happens to many other things and products.

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no, linux is the kernel. “free software” is the religion

(but seriously, theres nothing here that could be called a religion, that would be like saying d&d is a religion or a cult because a lot of people like it, or like calling any community a religion. it makes no sense)

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The difference between Linux and a cult is that Linus Torvalds actually did what he said he’d do.

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Yeah he doesn’t have a creepy harem while making promises about wacky rituals granting access to “The Ultimate Repository,” while telling you to cut ties with any non-Linux friends. (Yes, even BSD.)

Then we could start worrying. Lol

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Even free software isn’t, because free software delivers objective, non-placebo benefits to people, whether they “practice it” or not. Even when they don’t consciously participate or are even aware of it.

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yeah i put the stuff inside () because i want people to know nothing here and nothing related is a religion

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If it is a religion, then it is a very fragmented one.

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So, exactly like a religion.

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This implies there is only one true distro and the rest are attempts to misguide you into using closed source software

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(It’s void)

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My brother in Christ, have you seen the history of the 3 major religions on this planet?

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Do you have any idea how many denominations of Christianity there are? And most of them are open source.

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I would rather say that Christianity is open source, but it’s distributed with the MIT license and every relevant implementation is closed source and plants DRM software all over the system

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I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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Amen.

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