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produnis @discuss.tchncs.de

2y ago

linux

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What this picture doesn't show is that Microsoft HQ isn't one building. It's like 1000 buildings. It's the size of a small city. You can drive for 10 minutes and still be at the Microsoft HQ. It's insane. They have their own mall, their own soccer field, their own bank branches, and their own shuttle system. The amount of money Microsoft has is truly mind boggling.

You know it's true because that dev only has one Friggin screen. No wonder multi monitor support is fucked.
- "that dev" is Linus Torwalds on his walking desk.
- "that dev" ? Bruh...
- If I remember correctly Linus uses i3 primarily, so instead of wasting 20% of the screen on UI and compensating with a second screen you only look at 30% of the time, it just tiles your windows so you can make more efficient use of the screen you have
  
  I thought he used GNOME on Fedora?
- I'm not sure what your experience has been like, but for me it's been basically plug-and-play.
  
  ...if you use Wayland. it's a hit or miss janky experience with some weird limitations on x11.
- Wow, that's pretty impressive, I had no idea. Imagine just being a stupid ring. (Sorry, I'm just an apple hater)

Arch isn't a building, it's just a pile of the construction materials.
- That sounds more like Gentoo. With Arch, you at least get the foundation with plumbing and electrical run to the site.
  
  I use Fedora Kinoite. When I want to rearrange furniture, I build a new house with correct arrangement and use it instead.
  
  Arch is buying furniture, Gentoo is Ikea and LFS is making everything out of plywood yourself.
- I am using Arch, btw
  
  Is Arch like the linux version of being Vegan? ie the running joke is people using Arch can't get through a conversation without mentioning it? I feel like I've see basically a carbon copy of this comment on so many posts about Linux I'm wondering if there's an "in joke" there I am missing, lol.
- With a gigantic Ikea instruction book titled "makefile"

Quaters

OpenBSD HQ

Red Hat has multiple large buildings around the world, but that doesn't fit the meme.
- https://i.imgur.com/s3FRMPm.jpg
- It's not what the joke is about, it's about the operating system headquarters not some random company which uses the operating system. Linus Torwalds on his walking desk is the headquarters is literary the Linux headquarters.
- IBM*
  
  Yes, IBM is the parent company, but I was specifically talking about Red Hat buildings
- https://i.imgur.com/s3FRMPm.jpg ;)

it's for the common man, and its relatable.

It's funny because it's true.
- ~~it is not true and you have pretty strange definition of "funny"~~
  i take that back, after an explanation, it is hilarious
  
  Ok I didn't double check if those buildings really are Microsoft and Apple but that doesn't make the unexpected contrast to Linus Torwalds on his walking desk less funny.
- Big company bad

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