1y ago

If you were alone in the woods, would you rather come across Windows or Linux?

Posted with my thinkpad running Arch btw.

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If three astronauts are flying over the Gobi desert in a canoe and they crash, then how many pancakes does it take to shingle a doghouse?
The answer is purple, because ice cream has no bones.
Therefore, my answer is 42.
- Nice feet!
  I'd add the feet holding a globe, but okay..
  
  Globe... https://lemmy.world/post/15223983
If I was lost, Windows. More likely to get back to civilization by finding well adjusted users. Instead of one old graybeard that hasn't seen other people for days.
(I use Arch, btw)
- The graybeard would send you /home with a quick one liner.
TempleOS
- Stupid glowing-in-the-dark FBI agents!
- Gets eaten by bear from spamming the word from god command
  Turns out God was trying to use the word from god command to warn me about the bear
Windows, definitely
Then if it gets too hot I could open them
Windows. It would show me the way out while blasting me with Ads.
Linux, however, would do nothing but scream about how I should use it, and how it really is the best, all while giving confusing, complicated, and unhelpful info about its numerous distros. Then, when I say that's all too much and I'm just going to go talk to Windows, it spits on me.
iOS so I can use the premium metal build Apple likes to use and sharpen against a stone and use it to slit my own throat.
Windows. That would mean there's a building there, which means I might be closer to getting out of the woods.
I don't understand the question.
Linux.
But I don't understand the question.
- Its a meme reference to the Bear vs Man question going around.
How do you know a person is running Arch?
Either way, assuming I can find a large stick or rock, I'd have enough patience to do a manual physical uninstall and get back to my solitude. So I think I'd be pretty ambivalent.
I guess smashing the shit out of windows would be slightly more satisfying - but that's not really the main reason I'm alone in the woods.
And yes - before you ask the obvious follow-up - I have smashed the shit out of a thinkpad in the past, they're not as tough as people say they are; it's mostly false bravado. Don't be afraid to stand up to the bully (ymmv).
Which version of Windows?
- please don't say windows ME please don't say windows ME
  
  I had a solid version of ME, so long as I didn't defrag... ever lol. 2k couldn't come fast enuf
Is it hostile?
- No, just amorous.
  
  Then por que no las dos?
Windows. Because I don't hear how Systemd is the most evil thing in the history of computation...again.
PonyOS :D
- PonyOS is a classy AF choice.
  
  The Equestria font can be disabled from the bootloader menu.
Neither of these are physical entities, making the question pointless
- They are when you install them?
  
  No, the only time software actually becomes physical is if you print the source code:
- 39 buried, 0 found.
Windows. It's been too long since I used Linux so don't remember all the things anymore
On a computer? A disc? Or a physical embodiment?
I guess linux as its more likely to be a phone.
What about MacOS?
- I already said Linux.
  
  Hey! I will have you know that’s Darwin, which is very different to Linux!
Linux.
Who knows how long that computer has been there, but if it’s been a while and still has something less than Windows 10, nothing will work.
Linux, very obviously.
It runs inside so many wildlife cameras.
Linux if I'm using the machine.
I can maintain Windows. But I don't remember how to use it for everyday tasks.

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