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Was chilling with some friends of friends the other week and operating systems came up and one guy said he ran Ubuntu (I'm on KDE Neon) so we started chatting about that and a guy in the back seat said "Hey, aren't you guys supposed to be fighting?".
In my experience, Linux folks are just happy to find each other in the wild.
Hell, I'm just happy to meet people that are Linux-curious lol.
It's mostly online that the distro wars are fought.
I've never met a linux enthusiast or even a user IRL. So at this point if I ever do, they will achieve best friend status off of that alone.
So strange that an operating system has that affect on me
You never knowingly met a Linux user. Statistically speaking, you probably have.
The issue is that OS-preference is not very common as a small talk topic. This is why you should name drop your fav distro in every conversation.
I have "rm -rf /" tattooed on my left arm. I'm hoping one day I hear someone say "Hey you forgot --no-presrve-root or /*".
Met one guy (my therapist weirdly enough) that knew it was a *nix command. That was pretty cool.
off to bring up gentoo penguins during every conversation i have
I've slowly been decorating my IT office with various Linux trinkets.
I just got a foam stress "ball" Tux recently, and I plan on getting a Debian coffee mug, maybe some Linux/FOSS related stickers lol.
I got a colleague last year, but he is the only one.
Super nice to have Proxmox/Docker/Portainer discussions at work.
Hope you find a new best friend soon!
It's the same with leftists in my experience. The fighting is worst online
I mean it's also socialist, with how it's developed and distributed. Despite capitalists making use of it too. It's one of the few things in this world the people truly own collectively.
Capitalists making use of and profiting from socialist programs and structure is a tale as old as capitalism.
Pharma as an example. Crowdsourced research, government funding with money from the people only to be bought by a capitalist corpo where they do the last 10% of the work by industrialization, jack up the price by 1000x, and take 100% of the profits and don't even pay back their fair share in taxes, and then get a state-sponsered monopoly for an outrageous period.
They're also similar in that if you tell them you use Linux but like Canonical and/or Lennart Poettering they'll yell at you and call you all sorts of names but if you tell them you're a Windows user they'll leave you alone
From my experience, those discussions only happen when Distros are compared.
When I'm talking to other Linux people, there has never been any competition, and as long as you are using Linux you are a bro.
Free Software is Leftism because it has got us great software and maybe the only bad thing I can say is that release schedules aren't a thing
Open Source is Capitalist Friendly because, ummmmm, extremely shitty Community Editions and putting everything cool in proprietary side, uhhhhh, random license changes to shit that isn't actually OSD compliant, unghhhhhh, need of constant vigilance against license violations.
Like I am happy cheap hardware vendors have adopted OSS components but why are they frequently so shitty about everything
It really isn't. It is just a kernel
It's not just a kernel, it's a lifestyle.
For what it's worth, I recall some turd at r/graphic_design swearing at Inkscape because it was "communist"
I haven't seen Linux users fights over distros... Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.
Oh, just ask an Arch user about Manjaro.
Haha yeah. Well I'm an arch user for at least a decade, and i saw manjaro come.. It was very popular in the beginning. Then they started making strange decisions, but I think many people are still happy with it. Otherwise I think endevourOS is doing good. :)
I see a lot of claims of gatekeeping, just never the actual gatekeeping lol
It's not uncommon to see people expressing disdain for other distros. I feel like it's tongue in cheek 99% of the time though
Nah it's pretty common. Especially if someone brings up Gaming Distros^TM^. You sometimes get passionate individuals that argue over them.