I think it can be more than one thing and the name has never helped.

Man, respectfully, for those of us constantly in online spaces a logical answer like this seems to make total sense. In reality, that's ridiculous and totally impractical. And it's ridiculous when a software program that's intending to replace a mainstream commercial program doesn't consider the branding. GIMP has been around for decades and are steadfast about this name, but you are deluding yourself if you truly believe that they wouldn't have made considerably more progress toward broad adoption if they had a better name.

Like Jesus, what do said people do when their OS upgrades versions?

Man oh man, let me tell you: some people just never upgrade

It’s because companies aren’t run by Joe Business anymore, who founded the company and has been in the Business business for three generations. It’s a hedge fund now and the 40 layers of middle management just need the line to go up. Then they get a bonus and a pat on the back for crushing their KPIs.

Would REALLY love to de-surveillance my vehicle if anybody has any tips (please quietly make the "buy an old car instead" jokes to yourself)

I donate to them regularly, or at least I did until I found out they were going to spend my donation on union busting.

It's not for everybody and it's certainly not nuanced or pointed humor at all, but it's funny and it holds up.

Man, I feel like I went 15 years without anybody talking to me about using Gentoo but now THEY'RE BACK! Glad to see you.

City Lights is a great example of this but it is ALSO a great example of the opposite of this, specifically with all the jokes where drunk driving is the punchline

I will never miss an opportunity to say that libraries are fucking awesome and one of the few unambiguously good things in this world.

I always thought Debian stable was basically just for the ISS

Hello friend, welcome to the next ten years of explaining to people that being 29 and being 39 are not the same

If your cat isn’t the first entry in /etc/sudoers I’m not sure I want to know you

As far as I can tell, the first thing you have to do as an Arch user is convince yourself that you're smarter than the package maintainer.

I recently decided to set up CachyOS after a long break from Linux. I was kind of astounded at the experience of using an Arch-derivative. I went back to Debian the same day. Sometimes shit just works fine even though it worked fine 20 years ago.

Anecdotally, I've noticed the same thing, but I think it might have something to do with the type of gatekeeping and "well akshually" apparent in the original post.

It’s because most people do their browsing on their phone and so when they use a computer browser the internet just looks “normal”

But it’s such a good album tho

Can you believe these nincompoops can’t even boot into DOS?

Excuse me, mine is a skeletool. Very futuristic. Very manufactured by Leatherman.