Linux rule

I mean it's also socialist, with how it's developed and distributed. Despite capitalists making use of it too.

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.

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.

It's the same with leftists in my experience. The fighting is worst online
- Yeah cause you have to say that insane shit to someone's face and you know you'll sound like an unhinged fuck
- The terminally online mentally unwell people make it a different experience.
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 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!

2025 would be the year of Linux, if we could finally agree, that:

Fedora,
rust,
systemd,
wayland,
pipewire,
gtk,
Gnome,
nano,
flatpak, and
light mode

is the perfect stack of technology and configuration and that we do not need anything else. But no, you guys just had to disagree, and here we are ...

I'm with you all the way, really, except that, truly, KDE plasma and dark mode are the superior choices, obviously :)
- Not to mention openSUSE Tumbleweed instead of Fedora :)
- You have just single handedly chased away some potential Linux users and prevented Year of the Linux Desktop 2024! Just with that comment! I hope you are happy now!
light mode???? 😂
- Better UI consistency. It's always really annoying when you have your nice dark theme and a bright white page pops out of nowhere and fry your eyes.
  For ease on the eye, keep everything black on white, and turn down screen brightness if the environment is dark.
For most people yes. The only things I would say are more personal choices are nano, Gnome, and light mode
So, i don't know if this is sarcasm or not
Surprised how, of all the people who took the bait, not a single one of them complained about systemd.
My beard isn't long enough to have an opinion about systemd. All I know is all my homies hate systemd for some reason.
- A lot of complaints I've seen is that it's bloated - it's not only a system manager but also has a DNS relay, network manager, container manager, and so on.
  That said, codifying service startup and managing them with cgroups is IMO MUCH better than init scripts that think running killall apache is a good way to stop a service.
I want the kernel to be more rusty!
Disagree on gnome and nano KDE and Micro supremacy
Fuck light mode
🍿
light mode? hello satan. also, let's swap gnome to cinnamon. and fedora to mint.
Nano ?!
Counterpoint it would be the year of the Linux desktop if we all agreed on
Artix
OpenRC
Wayland (but different implementation)
pulseaudio
non-gnome gtk
Hyprland
Vim
AUR
dark mode always
openSUSE better
yes (zig is good too)
dinit
yes
yes
Qt
cosmic (when it's done)
Emacs
flatpaks are good at their job, but I want system packages too
dark mode is infinitely better
I beg to slightly differ, but it's a good take overall:
Aeon Desktop or Fedora Silverblue, any sane immutable system, really
Zig + Rust + Scheme / Clojure
systemd,
wayland,
pipewire,
gtk,
Gnome,
nano / gedit / whatever y'all are using instead of glorious Emacs
flatpak,
distrobox
light mode
- Oh! So close, Honey. We're looking for vim and dark-mode. But thanks for playing.
nano with the new, alternative "GUI editor standard" keybinds or the old pico ones?
Kde is better tho
I will switch to Gnome when it can handle multiple workspaces on multiple displays properly. The fact that I can't have multiple independent workspaces for each display is a complete deal breaker for me.

Linux Developers: "Here's the thing, you're not going to force all of us to learn Rust."

This meme couldn't be any more fucking accurate.

Lol. If Rust fans want a Rust kernel, no one is stopping them from building one.
- It's hard to overcome the Hurd problem though. Although it would be fascinating to see how it would diverge on the design of the Linux kernel. How much can you still act like Linux while not being Linux? Or would it just be a direct algorithmic translation, basically doing the same processes under the hood with the same architecture? I'm sure there's more than a few things Linux is doing in C that the Rust compiler would frown upon.

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

Haha, how naive. Snap, systemd, desktop environments, immutable or not, the list goes on. Lots of linux people have strong opinions on some or all of them, myself included. Linux people will never stop arguing over all of those and that is fine. There is choice, there are options, there are different opinions and that is great.

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"

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

I haven't seen Linux users fights over distros... Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.

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
I see a lot of claims of gatekeeping, just never the actual gatekeeping lol
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. :)
Nah it's pretty common. Especially if someone brings up Gaming Distros^TM. You sometimes get passionate individuals that argue over them.

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?".