Liking an OS isn’t a personality trait, but evangelizing for Free and Open Source Software which generally has no budget for advertising is a noble cause.

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.

I saw a post last night of a dude lamenting how difficult installing Windows was and listed a bunch of problems I find absolutely absurd. You're telling me you know how to remedy driver issues in Linux, but can't figure out how to in modern Windows, which does it automatically?

There are plenty of things wrong with Windows that you don't need to make shit up.

Did you know you could've made this meme on the FREE, OPEN-SOURCE image editor GIMP? Available now on Linux!

Just admit that you are paid by Big Open Source and move on to your next sponsor Air Up

I will have you know my entire online persona on Lemmy is basically a 24/7 "Barbie" movie advertisement, thank you very much.

I use Arch BTW.

I wish people were as into FOSS as they are AI. I fucking hate LLMs.

*shrugs

The Personal is Political.

Especially in regards to Linux, which with many of the most vocal adherents doing so because they reject corporate control over their lives and want to see the rest of the world do so as well. It is very much a political issue to them, and so it's not surprising that you see it crop up just as much as politically oriented posts, because the Linux-posting is essentially the same thing. It's "politics" for the nerd-set. Same with piracy. Some people involved with these have deep anti-corporate and anti-capitalist philosophical roots for their reasons behind why they live like that, and they're often not afraid to "preach" it to others.

So yeah, shitposts sadly aren't going to stop it anytime soon.

Hey the Linux community is active so they show up on All. Same thing with video game communities, it's a reflection of the interests of those who populate Lemmy. I don't care for either but we gotta start someplace. IMO it's largely due to the concept of the fediverse and instances and not simply an app you sign up to. FWIW, I barely get it. Folks here seem to be a tech savvy bunch

What is an "online persona"? Stop trying to turn my tech support forum into Facebook!

Disliking Linux memes is not a personality trait, OP!!!

That's a bold stance on this site!

(One that I fully agree with)

I use Arch btw

Hey! Have you heard of this OS called Linux? It's like windows apart from that it's nothing like windows, it's free and never ever hard to use at all!

Sorry non sorry for trying to advertice ways to avoid ending up in a digital dystopia.

So anyways, I run Arch on my main gaming computer, and Debian on my servers and laptops.

Hey...I also advocate for more solidarity within communities, growing your own food, using less plastic & cars, and Star Trek...Linux is just like 30% what I talk about.

I’m in this and I don’t like it. Reported.

This place in a nutshell 😄

Yes. And then, when you ask them 1 simple question they’re like "READ THE WIKI"

Dude/tte I don’t know anything about Linux. I’ve used the command line on my Mac 8~9 times and sometimes on windows and that’s it.

I really want to install Asahi (Arch) on my Mac as a VM before dual-booting but I’m failing for a week now and money‘s too tight atm to get even a cheap $50 laptop for testing.

Okay that is not going to stop me lol. 🤣

I think they’re fun

Have you seen the programmer socks?

Pretty much why I blocked c/technology from my feed. They could turn a post about a scientist studying crab migration into a debate about why the crabs aren't running fuckin Linux. Not everything has to be about an OS, you lot. They're basically Computer Mormons.

What operating system defines you as a person?

Jokes on you I spend my time hating on windows specifically

We are the Linux desktop advertising budget

Can you really advertise something that's free?

I think the right word is proselytize

not knowing how to read a manual isn't a personality trait either linux haters