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Would you say that Windows is cis and Linux is trans?

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I switched to Linux around the same time I came out to myself, so yeah…

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8 points

relatable

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19 points

I just switched to Linux. This’ll be an interesting ride.

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i switched to linux like 4 years ago. So far nothing has happened yet.

I’m starting to wonder if 50% of users end up realizing who they are, and the other 50% end up going on to do actual good in the world.

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7 points

c/unixsocks and c/unixporn seem to be rather trans dense populations as well.

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And Mac is gay

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15 points

Hey, no insulting gays!

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Mac is when you’re still small and don’t have a concept of gender

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Nah it’s androgynous.

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Seems to fit. The Apple apple in the logo was rainbow-striped between 1977 and 1998.

The colours were in the order 432165 though, so an argument otherwise might be possible. Is it possible to be agy or bselnai?

(And why does that read like Hungarian? I looked it up. “agy” means “brain”. this is a deep conspiracy! ~is dragged off screaming~)

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51 points

Kinda, pretty much all complete PCs you buy are assigned windows at sale

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20 points

New acronym just dropped (AWAS)

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No. Linux is an operating system. So is Windows. Hardware is hardware. They are not people.

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11 points

^ Found the real Linux user.

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Prolly just another person who doesn’t care what ya do but thinks this entire gender debacle absolutely moronic

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Linux is an operating system. So is Windows. Hardware is hardware.

errm, ackshually, as you said, windows and linux are both operating systems. therefore, they’re actually software, not hardware 🤓

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Erm AKSHUALLY, I was making a reference to the fact that different operating systems run on hardware.

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2 points

so what about a windows machine, that was later retrofitted with linux?

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You mean every laptop or desktop machine pre-System76?

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Linux is

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering 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!

[I’m sorry, could not resist.]

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59 points

message misunderstood, penis stuck in Linux user

Uhhh I… I’m a Linux user 😳😳😅😫

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7 points

Have you tried calling Kostman’s?

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

calling Kostman’s?

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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I wonder what percent of Linux users dual boot. I don’t think I ever have I’m just remembering getting a laptop from an employer and going through the effort of partitioning the disk drive down to a bare minimum for Windows and setting up dual boot - I don’t remember actually booting into the Windows side more than a couple of times. This would have been over a decade ago. Either I’ve had a Windows-only machine supplied by my employer, which I wasn’t allowed to mess with at that level; or I’ve had a Linux machine. Even the computers I’ve bought that came with Windows pre-installed, I haven’t even booted into Windows before wiping the storage and installing Linux.

I’m not some sort of purist; Windows just makes me angry when I use it - I’ve just always found it a frustrating experience, so I’ve never bothered with dual booting.

It makes me wonder what the distribution is. Are the majority of Linux users dual-booters?

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I used to dual boot for some games. Mainly VR stuff. But Windows is always a hassle and super slow.

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VR gaming on Linux isn’t ready, huh? Is it the drivers for the hardware, or game availability?

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I assume whatever I have to do to get it working is more effort than having a dedicated windows install.

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Notice the past tense there.

It should work. I used ALVR with my Quest 1. But I haven’t done it very often as I got too ill for VR gaming.

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VR is not good on Linux lmao. I have a valve index and when I used it on linux, it had super bright lights on the edges of the display. I ignored this and played for like 30 mins and after 1 month of no VR usage (busyness), I tested it on windows again and now the edges of my displays in my headset appear to be permanently tinged slightly lighter than the rest of the screen.

I’m not using my headset on linux again until people spend more time coding, because I don’t want to permanently ruin expensive gear that I have lmao.

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I have a number of IRL friends who daily drive Linux and we all at least have some small partition or drive installed with Windows on it just in case for that one program. I haven’t used it in over half a year and it was for some Need For Speed Underground 2 mod making tool that I used once and never needed again.

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Used to for one package - stupid tax filing software that won’t run under Wine, likely because it’s shitty garbage that was written in VB. The forms don’t reflow properly.

I had enough of the two systems trying to clobber each other’s bootloaders and this year am running Tiny10 in a VM instead. The forms STILL don’t reflow properly in anything except for VMWare. Don’t ask me why, it’s financial software and it always comes out broken and is patched just in time to file before the deadline.

Steam’s Proton and modern AMD drivers have been super effective in allowing me to do all my gaming on Linux now, and all my dev work always was. Don’t see much reason for Windows these days.

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just dualbooted by debian thinkpad with arch linux today. Gave me nvidia drivers, and modern packages. I’m not sure i like it or not. I could install the same drivers under debian, but with debs, which is no fun, and would also still require optimus shenanigans, so it’s just generally not fun.

Idk, fun experiment though.

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Which parts are you unsure about? I think one of the first things I install on a new Arch is yay - it makes package management so much nicer.

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im not particularly sure, it feels kind of clunky, mostly because dualbooting. I’ve been using arch on my main workstation for like 4 years now, im familiar with it. I think i just need to fully configure everything, and probably write out some form of dot file for setting it up lol. Then it’ll be very similar to my primary deb install on that system.

I did also find out that optimus sucks ass and is no fun. Setting it to dedicated nvidia graphics in bios helps significantly, though booting in optimus mode still leaves performance on the table, i assume due to overhead from the igpu. I’m not super familiar with hardware like this frankly. Like i said, interesting experiment, mobile hardware kinda ass though.

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I’m sorry to be the one who breaks this to you but linux is as binary as you can get. Ever wondered what 64 bit means? Bits are quite binary, that’s kind of the definition

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Build from source tho

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With the introduction of the number 2, we goin’ TRINARY!

Fun fact, the reason internet speeds are measure in Bits, not Bytes, is that 8 bits to a Byte is entirely arbitrary and could be changed if there was will to do so.

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internet speeds are measured in bits so they can artificially inflate numbers.

cause selling 100mbit sounds a lot meatier than selling 12mbyte.

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I mean, yeah. That too.

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100 milibits lmao

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5 points

Not quite, network speeds have been measured in bps since the day the first packet got out of its egg.

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Not really. It’s easier to measure a count of a thing than it is to measure a count of groups of 8 of a thing. It’s just easier to display when you’re not wasting the cycles to devide it by 8 all the time.

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the only realistic reason i can think of this, is to describe over the wire speed. Shits easy enough to convert once you hit the end point though, so meh.

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39 points

brb, going to rm -rf /bin

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Afterwards you will be running a 63bit system. I challenge you to find the others.

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64bit… no wonder there are complaints about too many genders.

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6 points

Linux on an analog computer

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i prefer my binaries to stay inside the computer. binary does not belong in brain >n<

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I… don’t get it. Is this a reference to distros?

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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no it’s just tumblr being tumblr, they like weird nonsensical comparisons like these

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