I've always been baffled by this sentiment
if you (by which i mean you the reader, not OP) use linux for no other reason than to be able to tell people you use linux, kindly get the fuck out of my community
the only thing I remember about that one is how verbose it was. sentences over 50 words long were not uncommon
many posts on reddit literally are from karma farming bots though. predictable username pattern, repost from half a year ago with the exact same title that gets deleted exactly 24h later...
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
Every couple of years I think to myself "Ubuntu can't be that bad, can it? I must be misremembering. Surely it's just some combination of my memory exaggerating how terrible it was and my lackluster Linux skills, which have since improved. Everybody still recommends it as a beginner distro, right? Why'd I stop using it?"
And then I download Ubuntu.
And then I remember.
This post goes out to like half of .ml
Microsoft realized they were losing basically the entire software development market to Linux so they started adding features like a pretty alright terminal emulator and a shell that almost looks POSIXcompliant if you squint (and don't pass any flags to its built in commands) and trying ineffectually to hide the fact that they were basically on their knees saying BLEASE COME BACK WE NEED YOU
what kind of config file is short enough to fit on a single screen with line breaks?
Yo where's my boy Jellyfin
this should be required reading before anyone is allowed to leave a comment on Lemmy about voting