When you see stuff like this, people just randomly hating on something that just seems so out there it's usually because they're insanely depressed and/or their life is in shambles. So the guy is in a miserable state and lashes out in hopes he can somehow make others lives equally as miserable so then he finally, in a way, won't feel "alone".
I mean, it's no different than AI Sucks, FuckCars, and a ton of other communities here (and I say this as a 3-year exclusive Linux user).
Edit: lol at how many people are having to justify it to themselves that their pet communities centered entirely around hating something are totally different bro from the community centered entirely around hating something they happen to like.
If there's one thing that unites all of Lemmy, from the tankies to the libs to the anarchists, it's a complete absence of self-awareness.
Not really. People have reasons for hating AI and cars, and for going against the grain by doing so.
Linux is just... Linux... anyone who doesn't like it doesn't have to use it. It's just there, waiting to provide an alternative option to anyone who wants to break away from the proprietary mainstream...
Like the other comment implies, we don't get to choose to not live in a car-centric world, or one where AI companies aren't fucking everything up. For that matter, we also don't get to live in a world where Linux is prioritized over a corporate OS in the wider world. A FuckAI, FuckCars, or even FuckWindows community makes sense, in that we need to fight to change the status-quo to improve the world.
FuckLinux is fighting for the status quo. It is actively pushing the repressive option. That's how it's different. It is not trying to change things; it's trying to prevent things from changing.
(Also, Lemmy is FOSS. If you're advocating against FOSS then you should leave. How does someone like that even end up here?)
It's run by a person who has a hate boner for Linux and can't handle that they are forced to use it in their every day life and likes to lash out at people.
It can't be. Is that really MadThumbz? If anyone doesn't know, MadThumbz is originally from Reddit and does the exact same stuff there as here. Dude has been posting these anti-Linux things daily for multiple years. He is either very commited to trash talking Linux or is a very dedicated troll.
Not because communities like this exist, but because it seems everyone in the thread is failing to recognize obvious trolling. Have you kids never heard of flaming? This is the most egregious ragebait and y'all are taking it
I joined lemmy a couple of days ago, this whole community feels like the most autistic and socially inept part of reddit. Really weird to read the comments on lemmy.
Hey, I'm not trans, I'm just an ally who enjoys the egg_irl and related communities. And I'm barely even Aspergic. And only one of the four family laptops has linux on it, and it's not even Arch, it's Mint.
Fear not, because a single person doesn't constitute a community. And Madthumbs gets talked about every six months or so, when a batch of new users discover them. Everyone then completely forgets about them until the next cycle.
I mean Linux folks on Lemmy generally can be pretty toxic too. I get downvoted for saying I'd love to use Linux but my blindness prevents me from doing so. If someone said they'd love Linux if not for its users I'd probably agree.
As an IT, I can confirm we have to use the terminal for some sketchy workarounds every time we install Windows just to skip the Microsoft account thing
Recently I had to re-install and configure a bunch of software on 20ish machines.
All I had to type during the install was the hostname, and powershell scripts did the rest (granted, those powershell scripts contained all the bullshit to get windows to actually behave and work like a proper OS).
Uhhhh, are you not getting enterprise windows or whatever version is needed to be added to active directory?
I set up quite a few computers for my last job and I just had to click the thing saying I was adding the computer to a domain and then I skipped the microslop account.
you don't have to install it because it's already there
This sums up their knowledge in a single sentence, really. I wonder if they know they can build a computer and it won't "have" anything on it. Or that Apple computers exist.
Yeah, I really want a Nexus Mod Manager for Linux. They were working on one that would be universal, but that was killed IIRC. I think they may have said they'll try to make the existing one work on Linux, but I can't remember.
It's possible to get Vortox to work on Linux, but it's a pain in the ass. You need to run in in the prefix, and I think it even needs to be installed there to manage things properly for some reason (I may be misremembering this). Some pieces of it will never work, so you'll always have warnings, which is annoying. Magnet links also don't work, and you have to copy/paste the link into the download mod thing. Overall, it's a pain in the ass, but it's still sadly the best option for many games. Most games I just do it manually at this point, but Skyrim needs a lot of mods for me to want to play it.
Not to mention that more things run Linux than Windows including the router those people who hate Linux are using its running Linux.
Edit... FYI: I am a Linux user. My home server is TrueNAS (Linux based but been using it since FreeNAS 9.1), my desktop is Ubuntu Cinnamon, I use android for phones and tablets, my router is OpnSense (which is FreeBSD based but still FOSS.)
Listen up, folks. We all know Linux sucks. It’s a fact. But I did some digging, and the conspiracy goes way deeper than just some neckbeard's broken desktop environment.
It turns out Linux has infected literally everything. And since Linux sucks, by transitive property, the entire modern world sucks and we need to stop using all of it immediately.
If you are a true Linux hater, it is time to walk the walk. Here is the hit list of things we need to boycott starting today:
1. The Internet
Yep, turn off your router. The Internet runs on Linux. The vast majority of the world’s web servers, DNS servers, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) are powered by Linux. Every time you open a webpage, you are validating Linus Torvalds. If you’re reading this post right now, you are part of the problem. Smash your modem. It sucks.
2. Smartphones (Yes, even yours)
Are you reading this on an Android? Congratulations, you are carrying a modified Linux kernel in your pocket. It sucks. Oh, you have an iPhone? Well, the massive server farms that Apple uses to sync your iCloud data, send your iMessages, and process your Apple Pay run on—you guessed it—Linux. Throw your phone in a lake.
3. Entertainment and Streaming
Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube: Their massive backend streaming infrastructure? All Linux.
Smart TVs: Most of them run on Linux-based firmware.
If you want to watch a movie, go outside and act it out with puppets. Digital entertainment is ruined.
4. Space Exploration
NASA sent the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars, and it was powered by a Linux distribution. Space sucks now. SpaceX rockets? Linux. We can’t even leave the planet to get away from it.
5. High-Speed Rail and Air Travel
Commercial aviation routing systems, air traffic control data feeds, and international bullet train networks rely heavily on Linux for uptime and reliability. If you want to travel, you better buy a horse. (Just make sure the horse hasn't been microchipped by a vet using a Linux database).
6. The Entire Global Economy
The New York Stock Exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and virtually all major banking backends run on Linux because they need "99.999% uptime." You know what else has 99.999% uptime? Garbage. Money sucks. Go back to the barter system.
Windows and Microsoft (The Ultimate Betrayal)
Oh, you thought you were safe because you only use Windows? Think again! This goes all the way to the top. The mechanism used to fix, patch, and secure every Windows machine on Earth—Windows Update—is powered by a Linux backend. Microsoft uses Linux servers and container networks to push out their own updates because apparently, Windows Server can’t even handle distributing its own code. So every time your PC forces a random reboot to install a security patch, a Linux server just handed Windows its lunch. Windows sucks so hard that it literally relies on Linux to fix itself, which means Windows is Linux by proxy. They both suck!
Conclusion: The Ultimate Protest
If we are going to be pure, we have to commit. I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of modern society until the entire global infrastructure is rewritten in pure, unadulterated Windows ME.
This is my final post. I am smashing my PC, disconnecting my power grid (because utility companies use Linux to manage the smart grid), and moving into a cave.
And while I was blocking the linux sucks moderator and posters something occurred to me. Most of the Lemmy instances are probably hosted on Linux as are the cloud providers among other things.
It they think linux sucks so badly they should cut it completely out of their lives and that means they shouldn't be using the internet.
It's just one guy who gets off on being contrarian and takes getting downvoted to oblivion every time as confirmation that he is fighting some kind of evil conspiracy.
Trolling, duh. I suppose there's a remote chance that someone just happened to turn... kinda strawman Linux evangelist-y about being anti linux, but I wouldn't put a ton of money on that.
And of course it's reddit-y, this whole place is bootleg reddit except a tad angrier somehow.
You really don't have to be tech literate to use the fediverse imo. To fully interact with it, maybe, but a former Reddit user can figure out the basics in an hour or two
Someone wiþ a less obviously pro-Linux history þan myself should post about how great Windows is because it's an OS created by a liberal, and how money spent on Windows goes to support vaccination efforts around þe world, how MSN has a great left bias, and how Microsoft has a history of supporting Progressive causes. All of which is true, and I wonder how þe mod would react.
It's basically one person, and I thought it was just an elaborate troll but the longer it goes on I'm starting to think this person is completely serious and mentally unwell.
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if corporations are releasing AI agents with vague instructions to improve their reputation/share value into the wild.
I remember in ~1996 as Yahoo was getting huge and the new words "dot com" were on everyone's lips, they ran a prize giveaway for the first person that could come forward with official government documentation saying their birth name could credibly be interpreted as "dot com".
The winner was this elderly lady "Dottie Com" who apparently was called "Dot" her whole life, and had never been on the Internet.
I just burned some Perplexity tokens and it can't find the story but I swear it is true
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!
It's a sort of pendulum effect. Lemmy as a whole is very Linux-focused, almost militantly so (see my other Linux-related posts and comments). So people who feel otherwise form their own knot of extremists, alienating people who don't feel strongly either way.
I've seen negative numbers show up before on here. It's usually a federation thing, like someone joining didn't federate properly but them leaving did.
I guess someone really hates Linux, and he wants his online space to find like-minded people echo chamber. Nothing wrong with that. Tbh, I think there is no issue with this (they are in their self-contained bubble) and I think it's problematic that the other side is actually reacting at all at this. By even reacting, you reduce yourself to that level.
Only hate speech allowed
Ban for every other opinion
"Non-toxic community"
Ok, just checked it out, I guess the guy couldn't afford therapy and created that instead. He's life seems really sad.
"Misery loves company"
When you see stuff like this, people just randomly hating on something that just seems so out there it's usually because they're insanely depressed and/or their life is in shambles. So the guy is in a miserable state and lashes out in hopes he can somehow make others lives equally as miserable so then he finally, in a way, won't feel "alone".
In this case, the company that the misery seems to love would be the Microsoft.
So... like people who think they are saving humanity by blindly hating on neural network technology
Lol yes that didn't make any sense. They should remove #3 to at least keep it coherent
They mean "non-toxic within the community, toxic to everyone who we deem isn't a 'true scotsman'"
I mean, it's no different than AI Sucks, FuckCars, and a ton of other communities here (and I say this as a 3-year exclusive Linux user).
Edit: lol at how many people are having to justify it to themselves that their pet communities centered entirely around hating something are totally different bro from the community centered entirely around hating something they happen to like.
If there's one thing that unites all of Lemmy, from the tankies to the libs to the anarchists, it's a complete absence of self-awareness.
Not really. People have reasons for hating AI and cars, and for going against the grain by doing so.
Linux is just... Linux... anyone who doesn't like it doesn't have to use it. It's just there, waiting to provide an alternative option to anyone who wants to break away from the proprietary mainstream...
Like the other comment implies, we don't get to choose to not live in a car-centric world, or one where AI companies aren't fucking everything up. For that matter, we also don't get to live in a world where Linux is prioritized over a corporate OS in the wider world. A FuckAI, FuckCars, or even FuckWindows community makes sense, in that we need to fight to change the status-quo to improve the world.
FuckLinux is fighting for the status quo. It is actively pushing the repressive option. That's how it's different. It is not trying to change things; it's trying to prevent things from changing.
(Also, Lemmy is FOSS. If you're advocating against FOSS then you should leave. How does someone like that even end up here?)
It's run by a person who has a hate boner for Linux and can't handle that they are forced to use it in their every day life and likes to lash out at people.
never ask madthumbs and ustheimheim what os their favorite website runs on
Or their phone.
Damn I wish I was forced to use linux in my every day life. All companies here seem to require windows for some reason.
Get a sysad job. There are Windows servers out there, but any competent organization will have their servers on linux.
I really think theyre fascists
"this is not a democracy" and banning talk of privacy alternatives?
I think their take is crazy, but calling them facists does a disservice to the word.
To be fair, I've seen their arguments outside of the Linux space, and they're very anti union, pro billionaires, and defend trump.
It is all circumstantial evidence, and they may be just trolling, but it's not a good look.
https://static1.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/An-old-lady-with-a-machine-gun-in-Hot-Fuzz.jpg
(I agree with you.)
No, this part is fine. They made a space to talk about their obsession and have no obligation to let strangers come and tell them how to.
Sadly there's also many notable examples of "this is not a democracy" on the left side in here.
Calling tankies "the left" is weird. They're just red fascists.
It's not exclusive to the tankies. Most communities here work that way.
They claim so at least.
Yeah, but the Lemmy anarchists embrace and boost them.
It's ragebait, and an incredibly effective one at that
Yup. See: This thread.
If they want to hate Linux, they're allowed to. And that may be a plural or singular they.
Probably with the help of AI agents
"Victims of linux" Was bro touched by tux when they were young or what 💀
I think madthumbs is on the payroll
trying to bothsides the epstein files?
I'm almost more upset at his views on libraries
If businesses can't compete with often-underfunded libraries then that's their own fault lmao.
sTALiN aND MaO ARe oN ThE liST ToO!! 😭
On second thought it'd be a miracle if they even knew who Stalin and Mao are.
They're boogie men to a lot of America, so I'd assume they know the names, though probably not much actual knowledge.
It can't be. Is that really MadThumbz? If anyone doesn't know, MadThumbz is originally from Reddit and does the exact same stuff there as here. Dude has been posting these anti-Linux things daily for multiple years. He is either very commited to trash talking Linux or is a very dedicated troll.
"Victims of linux"
Who the fuck are they talking about, bill gates?
Nvidia when Linus flipped the bird at them.
I'm worried for the state of the internet.
Not because communities like this exist, but because it seems everyone in the thread is failing to recognize obvious trolling. Have you kids never heard of flaming? This is the most egregious ragebait and y'all are taking it
I joined lemmy a couple of days ago, this whole community feels like the most autistic and socially inept part of reddit. Really weird to read the comments on lemmy.
Well 90% of the users here are autistic trans furries soooo....
Hey, I'm not trans, I'm just an ally who enjoys the egg_irl and related communities. And I'm barely even Aspergic. And only one of the four family laptops has linux on it, and it's not even Arch, it's Mint.
Fear not, because a single person doesn't constitute a community. And Madthumbs gets talked about every six months or so, when a batch of new users discover them. Everyone then completely forgets about them until the next cycle.
My first thought was that this was a parody of /r/conservative
A single user making dozens of posts and rarely getting any response? I wouldn't call that egregious, it just seems ineffective to me.
Ragebait and trolling are fine for me, but there is imo one place where this doesn't belong: The rules section of a lemmy community
"We aim for a cohesive none toxic community"
Ha hahaha haha ha...
Oh wait, you're serious? Let laugh louder.
AAAAHHH HAHAHA HAHHA HA!
I mean Linux folks on Lemmy generally can be pretty toxic too. I get downvoted for saying I'd love to use Linux but my blindness prevents me from doing so. If someone said they'd love Linux if not for its users I'd probably agree.
No, you've been "downvoted" (actually you have been as much upvoted and ended up at a 0 points, not negative) for claiming Linux break every few days and that you must be "comfortable making your computer a hobby" to use it, which is clearly not at all representative of the general experience.
The proof is that the most upvoted answer to your comment exactly point that.
how are these people real? oh maybe they arent
As an IT, I can confirm we have to use the terminal for some sketchy workarounds every time we install Windows just to skip the Microsoft account thing
Just add an autounattend.xml answers file in the iso before installing windows.
I use https://schneegans.de/windows/unattend-generator/
Recently I had to re-install and configure a bunch of software on 20ish machines.
All I had to type during the install was the hostname, and powershell scripts did the rest (granted, those powershell scripts contained all the bullshit to get windows to actually behave and work like a proper OS).
Uhhhh, are you not getting enterprise windows or whatever version is needed to be added to active directory?
I set up quite a few computers for my last job and I just had to click the thing saying I was adding the computer to a domain and then I skipped the microslop account.
Microslop does not want you to install Windows without a
telemetry identifierMicroslop account anymore. Not even Enterprise edition.This sums up their knowledge in a single sentence, really. I wonder if they know they can build a computer and it won't "have" anything on it. Or that Apple computers exist.
Lmao, lol even. Imagine not having a monolithic kernel. Imagine having a micro kernel where drivers need to be installed.
It's not even PEOPLE there. It's one single sad dipshit with a goofy bone to pick.
Yeah, I really want a Nexus Mod Manager for Linux. They were working on one that would be universal, but that was killed IIRC. I think they may have said they'll try to make the existing one work on Linux, but I can't remember.
It's possible to get Vortox to work on Linux, but it's a pain in the ass. You need to run in in the prefix, and I think it even needs to be installed there to manage things properly for some reason (I may be misremembering this). Some pieces of it will never work, so you'll always have warnings, which is annoying. Magnet links also don't work, and you have to copy/paste the link into the download mod thing. Overall, it's a pain in the ass, but it's still sadly the best option for many games. Most games I just do it manually at this point, but Skyrim needs a lot of mods for me to want to play it.
It's either satire or else it's Microsoft doing guerilla marketing...
Yeah, that sounds like Windows... (which you're not allowed to bash, by the way!)
Only cmd.exe
🥁🛎️
LOL
how is a license damaging your firmware? and any os can do that
Ok, I know a lot about Linux and enough about firmware to answer that. So, here's the logic:
It's run by a moron troll, obviously. All you need to know.
yeah this is the reason you just block bs stuff.
Oh I did. After getting banned for the offense of mocking the community
Just spam them with FreeBSD stuff then.
FreeBSD and its derivatives ≠ Linux
Not to mention that more things run Linux than Windows including the router those people who hate Linux are using its running Linux.
Edit... FYI: I am a Linux user. My home server is TrueNAS (Linux based but been using it since FreeNAS 9.1), my desktop is Ubuntu Cinnamon, I use android for phones and tablets, my router is OpnSense (which is FreeBSD based but still FOSS.)
And this will be my last post on the subject. Look out for my post on c/linuxsucks.
https://lemmy.world/post/48179739
Listen up, folks. We all know Linux sucks. It’s a fact. But I did some digging, and the conspiracy goes way deeper than just some neckbeard's broken desktop environment.
It turns out Linux has infected literally everything. And since Linux sucks, by transitive property, the entire modern world sucks and we need to stop using all of it immediately.
If you are a true Linux hater, it is time to walk the walk. Here is the hit list of things we need to boycott starting today:
1. The Internet
Yep, turn off your router. The Internet runs on Linux. The vast majority of the world’s web servers, DNS servers, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) are powered by Linux. Every time you open a webpage, you are validating Linus Torvalds. If you’re reading this post right now, you are part of the problem. Smash your modem. It sucks.
2. Smartphones (Yes, even yours)
Are you reading this on an Android? Congratulations, you are carrying a modified Linux kernel in your pocket. It sucks. Oh, you have an iPhone? Well, the massive server farms that Apple uses to sync your iCloud data, send your iMessages, and process your Apple Pay run on—you guessed it—Linux. Throw your phone in a lake.
3. Entertainment and Streaming
Netflix, Spotify, and YouTube: Their massive backend streaming infrastructure? All Linux. Smart TVs: Most of them run on Linux-based firmware. If you want to watch a movie, go outside and act it out with puppets. Digital entertainment is ruined.
4. Space Exploration
NASA sent the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars, and it was powered by a Linux distribution. Space sucks now. SpaceX rockets? Linux. We can’t even leave the planet to get away from it.
5. High-Speed Rail and Air Travel
Commercial aviation routing systems, air traffic control data feeds, and international bullet train networks rely heavily on Linux for uptime and reliability. If you want to travel, you better buy a horse. (Just make sure the horse hasn't been microchipped by a vet using a Linux database).
6. The Entire Global Economy
The New York Stock Exchange, the Tokyo Stock Exchange, and virtually all major banking backends run on Linux because they need "99.999% uptime." You know what else has 99.999% uptime? Garbage. Money sucks. Go back to the barter system.
Oh, you thought you were safe because you only use Windows? Think again! This goes all the way to the top. The mechanism used to fix, patch, and secure every Windows machine on Earth—Windows Update—is powered by a Linux backend. Microsoft uses Linux servers and container networks to push out their own updates because apparently, Windows Server can’t even handle distributing its own code. So every time your PC forces a random reboot to install a security patch, a Linux server just handed Windows its lunch. Windows sucks so hard that it literally relies on Linux to fix itself, which means Windows is Linux by proxy. They both suck!
Conclusion: The Ultimate Protest
If we are going to be pure, we have to commit. I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of modern society until the entire global infrastructure is rewritten in pure, unadulterated Windows ME. This is my final post. I am smashing my PC, disconnecting my power grid (because utility companies use Linux to manage the smart grid), and moving into a cave.
Who is with me?!
Awww, I got banned.
And while I was blocking the linux sucks moderator and posters something occurred to me. Most of the Lemmy instances are probably hosted on Linux as are the cloud providers among other things.
It they think linux sucks so badly they should cut it completely out of their lives and that means they shouldn't be using the internet.
Or MacOS.
It's just one guy who gets off on being contrarian and takes getting downvoted to oblivion every time as confirmation that he is fighting some kind of evil conspiracy.
What a sick sad little loser.
OF COURSE he’s a MAGA incel, that makes a ton of sense
Trolling, duh. I suppose there's a remote chance that someone just happened to turn... kinda strawman Linux evangelist-y about being anti linux, but I wouldn't put a ton of money on that.
And of course it's reddit-y, this whole place is bootleg reddit except a tad angrier somehow.
The head mod is a Trump supporter, of course they would be against anything that isn't straight up capitalist
That's so weird to me, what's the intersection of "techliterate enough to use the fedi" and "politically illiterate enough to support Trump"?
You really don't have to be tech literate to use the fediverse imo. To fully interact with it, maybe, but a former Reddit user can figure out the basics in an hour or two
Oh, that just means it's definitely trolling, apparently definitely working rather well, too. That's just too ham fisted tbh.
Someone wiþ a less obviously pro-Linux history þan myself should post about how great Windows is because it's an OS created by a liberal, and how money spent on Windows goes to support vaccination efforts around þe world, how MSN has a great left bias, and how Microsoft has a history of supporting Progressive causes. All of which is true, and I wonder how þe mod would react.
Another casualty of skill issue
indeed
Wait, is this a joke community?
unfortunately not
Yes, and the joke is on the people taking it seriously, like every other form of "look how intensely dumb I am" trolling
Even if it is not, it looks like an excellent source of Linux memes.
It's basically one person, and I thought it was just an elaborate troll but the longer it goes on I'm starting to think this person is completely serious and mentally unwell.
Lol, we'll soon find out that it's an astroturfing instance led by Microsoft agents
Wouldn't surprise me in the least if corporations are releasing AI agents with vague instructions to improve their reputation/share value into the wild.
Fire the competititionkeeper missiles!
Fuxking love grandmas energy in the 2nd panel. Really captures the feeling of 90s internet
I remember in ~1996 as Yahoo was getting huge and the new words "dot com" were on everyone's lips, they ran a prize giveaway for the first person that could come forward with official government documentation saying their birth name could credibly be interpreted as "dot com".
The winner was this elderly lady "Dottie Com" who apparently was called "Dot" her whole life, and had never been on the Internet.
I just burned some Perplexity tokens and it can't find the story but I swear it is true
LOL is that still a thing? I remember roasting that com from my Lemm.ee account and getting instabanned
I thought it was like a meme community but I guess they’re serious?
EDIT: I must be banned or something because all I found was this:
Could you give a link to that community?
Does the owner knows his instance runs on Linux?
That's....a very specific fetish
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 think you are forgetting about Systemd/Linux
... intentionally
We run OpenRC/Linux. :3
-- Frost
So are they like, really into Windows?
Nah they run BSD
TempleOS
theyre really into windows and mac
Buy T Freebsd or Netbsd or
Mental illness of some sort.
One of the only disadvantages of lemmy is that any moron can start an instance or community lol
Could have been a fun community to meme and shit on linux elitists but the creator is either seriously angry about it or rage baiting.
Isn't that the idiot who managed to get banned by the automod bot?
Besides, the Unix Haters' Handbook is always worth a read for laughs. Some stuff still hasn't been fixed (looking at you,
rmand uselessmanpages)Not the first troll community here, won't be the last. There are a few really popular ones that are far worse though - this one just sounds unhinged.
Sounds like its been taken over but some MAGA idiot.
They are probably just bad faith actors, trying to get people away from the good stuff.
It's a sort of pendulum effect. Lemmy as a whole is very Linux-focused, almost militantly so (see my other Linux-related posts and comments). So people who feel otherwise form their own knot of extremists, alienating people who don't feel strongly either way.
Definitely a bait community
How does a community have negative 2 subscribers?
I've seen negative numbers show up before on here. It's usually a federation thing, like someone joining didn't federate properly but them leaving did.
Windows psyop
Least contrarian Lemmy mod
No it isn't
I'm having a chuckle because I know who exactly this is offending and it's showing in the comments.
Can't be bothered to check it.
Is it:
1
Crying about it on Lemmy out of all places is sure interesting
yes
This is troll
I guess someone really hates Linux, and he wants his online space to find
like-minded peopleecho chamber. Nothing wrong with that. Tbh, I think there is no issue with this (they are in their self-contained bubble) and I think it's problematic that the other side is actually reacting at all at this. By even reacting, you reduce yourself to that level.thats a good community