Are you not a Linux fan, or is it just cropping up a bit too much for you?
I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver for over half my life, so seeing Linux everywhere is just normal to me. I can understand how it must feel weird to someone who hasn’t or doesn’t want to get involved with it though.
Personally it’s the degree of fanaticism around Linux here. I use Linux on most of my machines but I’ve seen so much weird gatekeeping and elitism around Linux here. You’ve gotta use Linux but don’t use Ubuntu or Fedora because of what Canonical or Red Hat are doing. Oh but don’t use Arch because you’ll be required to tell everyone that you use it, btw. Oh, you chose a distro that uses systemd? Why do you hate the unix philosophy? It’s just exhausting.
Yeah, I get that. The tribalism can be a bit of fun sometimes but there are too many people who take it way too far. I don’t understand using it as a means of division.
At the end of the day, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We seek to empower ourselves and reject the ever increasing corporate control of our computing and digital lives. For some that means self-hosting their own cloud stuff and for others it is simply being able to boot into the OS and edit an Office document without needing ridiculous fucking subscriptions.
Yeah… I think I just figure everyone everywhere does that kind of stupid ‘in group’ bs. But overall, they’re pretty niche, useless, and not too intrusive.
Oh, this thread isn’t just an evaluation, this is from a [windows/mac/linux/amd/nvidia/republican/democrat/socialist/capitalist/lemmy/reddit/etc/etc/etc] fanboi.
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.
Not the dude that you replied to, but heres my view.
There’s alot of linux based memes present on lemmy, and lots of “Linux btw” posters. It’s pretty disproportionate compared to other online locations of discussion. Im guessing the fediverse in general draws more of this crowd due to the nuances of it and similarly to how linux operates openly, etc, etc.
As a sysadmin whos focus is on all types of systems, it definitely doesn’t bother or stick out much for me personally either, but there’s for sure a higher content % about linux compared to other places. Which might get anoying to some people.
I tried to switch to linux like 6 or so years ago and kinda gave up because most games i played back then weren’t compatible, or you had to jump through too many hoops. One day i’ll try again
Proton has changed things pretty significantly over the last few years in this regard. Gaming should be a much more pleasant experience when you do decide you want to give it another go.
The advent of proton on steam and all the stuff developed for the steamdeck has made gaming on Linux (at least in my experience) nearly indistinguishable from Windows. Very hapy I made the switch
Are you not a Linux fan, or is it just cropping up a bit too much for you?
I’ve been using Linux as a daily driver for over half my life, so seeing Linux everywhere is just normal to me. I can understand how it must feel weird to someone who hasn’t or doesn’t want to get involved with it though.
Personally it’s the degree of fanaticism around Linux here. I use Linux on most of my machines but I’ve seen so much weird gatekeeping and elitism around Linux here. You’ve gotta use Linux but don’t use Ubuntu or Fedora because of what Canonical or Red Hat are doing. Oh but don’t use Arch because you’ll be required to tell everyone that you use it, btw. Oh, you chose a distro that uses systemd? Why do you hate the unix philosophy? It’s just exhausting.
It feels like a weird geek version of virtue signalling – who can have the most ‘correct’ setup
Yeah, I get that. The tribalism can be a bit of fun sometimes but there are too many people who take it way too far. I don’t understand using it as a means of division.
At the end of the day, there is far more that unites us than divides us. We seek to empower ourselves and reject the ever increasing corporate control of our computing and digital lives. For some that means self-hosting their own cloud stuff and for others it is simply being able to boot into the OS and edit an Office document without needing ridiculous fucking subscriptions.
Yeah… I think I just figure everyone everywhere does that kind of stupid ‘in group’ bs. But overall, they’re pretty niche, useless, and not too intrusive.
Oh, this thread isn’t just an evaluation, this is from a [windows/mac/linux/amd/nvidia/republican/democrat/socialist/capitalist/lemmy/reddit/etc/etc/etc] fanboi.
Downvote and continue.
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.
Not the dude that you replied to, but heres my view.
There’s alot of linux based memes present on lemmy, and lots of “Linux btw” posters. It’s pretty disproportionate compared to other online locations of discussion. Im guessing the fediverse in general draws more of this crowd due to the nuances of it and similarly to how linux operates openly, etc, etc.
As a sysadmin whos focus is on all types of systems, it definitely doesn’t bother or stick out much for me personally either, but there’s for sure a higher content % about linux compared to other places. Which might get anoying to some people.
I tried to switch to linux like 6 or so years ago and kinda gave up because most games i played back then weren’t compatible, or you had to jump through too many hoops. One day i’ll try again
Proton has changed things pretty significantly over the last few years in this regard. Gaming should be a much more pleasant experience when you do decide you want to give it another go.
For me that day was a little over a year ago. It finally stuck! My games run! Even SteamVR works!
The advent of proton on steam and all the stuff developed for the steamdeck has made gaming on Linux (at least in my experience) nearly indistinguishable from Windows. Very hapy I made the switch
This. Linux is just solid now. There are tradeoffs, but fewer than going, say, Mac.
Some games won’t work. Most will, or will work after some light tweaking.
I tried, got sick if having to read multi-step instructions just to install some piece of software.