this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
658 points (94.5% liked)

linuxmemes

21355 readers
2533 users here now

Hint: :q!


Sister communities:


Community rules (click to expand)

1. Follow the site-wide rules

2. Be civil
  • Understand the difference between a joke and an insult.
  • Do not harrass or attack members of the community for any reason.
  • Leave remarks of "peasantry" to the PCMR community. If you dislike an OS/service/application, attack the thing you dislike, not the individuals who use it. Some people may not have a choice.
  • Bigotry will not be tolerated.
  • These rules are somewhat loosened when the subject is a public figure. Still, do not attack their person or incite harrassment.
  • 3. Post Linux-related content
  • Including Unix and BSD.
  • Non-Linux content is acceptable as long as it makes a reference to Linux. For example, the poorly made mockery of sudo in Windows.
  • No porn. Even if you watch it on a Linux machine.
  • 4. No recent reposts
  • Everybody uses Arch btw, can't quit Vim, and wants to interject for a moment. You can stop now.
  •  

    Please report posts and comments that break these rules!


    Important: never execute code or follow advice that you don't understand or can't verify, especially here. The word of the day is credibility. This is a meme community -- even the most helpful comments might just be shitposts that can damage your system. Be aware, be smart, don't fork-bomb your computer.

    founded 1 year ago
    MODERATORS
     

    Cheekily "fixing" this post

    top 50 comments
    sorted by: hot top controversial new old
    [–] OpenStars@discuss.online 76 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I was going to ask when has it ever made sense to run Windows, but then I noticed how old those logos are. Carry on!:-)

    img

    [–] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    What are the current logos then? Did Linux's change?

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 57 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Windows: Just four blue squares

    Apple: Same shape, no colour whatsoever

    Linux: 🏳️‍⚧️

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I always think it's so funny that the old stereotypical gray haired man or neckbeard linux user got replaced by the new stereotypical transfem linux user. Now that there's less need to compile our own software there's more time to compile our own genders

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    My (entirely anecdotal, based on like three human beings who I'm acquainted with) impression is that the Trans-Chick linux user is the neckbeard linux user. She just started HRT in her 30s and lost a lot of weight.

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 month ago

    talk about an unexpected overlap

    [–] LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    If the stereotype is to be believed, why is this, do you think? Why would Linux and open source software attract such a disproportionately high number of transfrem individuals?

    And would it be causative or is it or non-causative?

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 20 points 1 month ago

    As long as we're being arm-chair-y -- At the core of being into FOSS is the following thought: "Don't tell me what I can and can't do" -- Getting into Linux means going out and exploring, deliberately learning something, and all because you don't want your computer to decide things for you.

    .... Transgender individuals are similarly breaking out of the "conventional" and making themselves "outsiders".

    It's not causation, but correlation. Anyone who's into FOSS will most definitely not be one for conforming to social standards, and transpeople are not people who are conforming to social standards.

    [–] JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    As the meme points out, Linux attracts the autistic crowd, and there have been some studies done that have found a correlation between autism and being transgender. Namely that people who are autistic tend to care less about gendered norms, and therefore are more likely to explore their own gender

    [–] nzeayn@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

    yes, and. lets not forget this discussion is happening on lemmy. this place is just autistic as fuck. even those of us autist around here who are straight tend to be the ones who find most other straight people obnoxious. we've self sorted into an audiance that, as another comment hilariously points out. most of us probably know a genx neckbeard linux user who used to be really gumpy. but she's pretty chill and happy now.

    [–] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

    I think it's just that computers and programming are a really good escape from the world around you and that attracts anyone who feels in some way trapped or unseen in real life, especially with open source software where you really are free to make your computer into your own customized personal little world where you feel safe.

    [–] exu@feditown.com 8 points 1 month ago

    Oh, there are still enough neckbeards in Linux. Especially in the YouTuber sphere.
    The transfem is an additional route, officially merged when Linus Torvalds confirmed he was woke on Mastodon.

    [–] OpenStars@discuss.online 21 points 1 month ago (8 children)
    load more comments (8 replies)
    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] taiyang@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I do miss Windows 95 sometimes...

    [–] OpenStars@discuss.online 13 points 1 month ago

    I mean, compared to Win 3.1, and before that, DOS...

    img

    [–] thefartographer@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    I disagree. I use Linux but have depression. I'm upset that y'all left me out of this photo

    [–] Cenotaph@mander.xyz 17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    New distro coming to shelves near you: Depression Linux

    [–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    With microsoft edge preinstalled

    [–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    and an all-snap packaging system

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place 7 points 1 month ago

    The default background is black. The colors are all muted. The cursor is slow. The computer shuts down for 12 hours a day. The sounds sound compressed and muffled. When you try to open a program/app, it prompts, "For what? What's the point?"

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 1 month ago

    Oh shit, a multi boot diagnosis.

    [–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    You made this image with a green pepper? That's impressive, great work.

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    LONG LIVE THE GIMP BELLPEPPER

    [–] wdx@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

    Green Is My Pepper

    [–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

    Ohhh... I'm a Krita enjoyer so I didn't know this about gimp. TIL, haha

    [–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 34 points 1 month ago
    [–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Akshually it's called Autism Spectrum Disorder

    [–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I can't speak for all of us, but I prefer "Autism" as a blanket term (that we hopefully all understand covers a wide spectrum anyway) over "Disorder". Yes, I get that we deviate from the neurodevelopmental norm, but "Disorder" feels condescending to what I perceive as simply a different way of working.

    I also understand that some with higher support needs may differ from that perception. My opinion is not universal.

    On the other hand, I'm perfectly fine with calling my ADHD a Disorder. Shit's chaotic as fuck.

    load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] bokherif@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago
    [–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 month ago

    As an autist can confirm

    [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

    BeOS, Haiku OS, Temple OS, NeXTSTEP, OS/2, DOS, AmigaOS(ok, that's just a single furry right now).

    [–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    There's a furry using AmigaOS?

    .......... What for?

    [–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    https://www.sabrina-online.com/

    It's a pretty safe for work comic. I haven't found a citation, but supposedly it started in a Amiga magazine before moving online. It also stopped in 2016, so no one is using Amiga now I guess.

    [–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 4 points 1 month ago

    I keep wanting to buy a 500 or something a bit newer for nostalgia, but that's hard (a) from Japan where they never really got off the ground and (b) as time goes on they get fewer and more expensive. Not a furry, however.

    load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

    wait we can't play tuxcart anymore??? Why even use linux then????

    [–] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

    Myself using Linux and home and having to use Windows at work... Seems accurate to me....

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] peto@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago

    I'm also depressed though.

    [–] naught101@lemmy.world 10 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

    20 year Linux user here. Definitely more depressed than autistic (but not claiming to be 100% NT).

    Also I just got given a macbook for a new job. Feels weird.

    load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] SaintWacko 9 points 1 month ago

    Crap... I use all three

    [–] mavu@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

    Well, can't argue with that, my doctor agrees.

    [–] SirSamuel@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
    [–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 1 month ago

    I got so depressed it seems I developed autism to solve it.

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] Fleur_@lemm.ee 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

    Windows is for masochists, Mac for subs, Linux for doms

    load more comments (1 replies)
    [–] 10_0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago
    load more comments
    view more: next ›