Reality check

If you are not talking about the past, present and future of Hannah Montana Linux I'm not even talking to you.

"Rewrite the internet in C"

- We could call it … WebAssembly! And now it’s a C compilation target, which means we can run Node.js in the browser, to get a javascript runtime :)
- Why does this look so authentic?
- Web Development With Assembly
  
  O'NO
This would somehow be worse than JS

I am the Excel/Ubuntu person 😳

I still love you
- Meh. I'd say we tie him to a post and burn the heretic.
Google Sheets/MacOS

They also all need to be using librebooted computers (Thinkpad and Optiplex)

s/librebooted/canoebooted/

it's honestly quite strange. The Libreboot term has been known for years to refer to the fully free bios project. Then they merged osboot and Libreboot so now libreboot contains proprietary blobs. Then they decided to make a new project canoeboot, which is basically the new libreboot.

so they went from having:

osboot

libreboot

to having:

canoeboot

libreboot

All they seemed to have done is confuse.
- Canoeboot was made as a joke to make fun of OSS enthusiasts.
corebooted chromebooks are more libre
- The problem is installing Linux on them is a nightmare and bring a risk of bricking them.

yea, no thanks - "the grind" mindset is just capitalism worming itself into your brain

yup, but the meme makes fun of that mindset and the original meme template in my opinion
We live in a capitalist society though.

Man, I wish there were more people around me who cared about discussing Linux and open source software. Only one person I know actually understands it, but he’s still running windows for games and programming.

windows [...] programming.

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- People drink the Microsoft Kool aid, it's called money, they generally want it.
- Yeah. He even has a server rack at home. But still uses windows for all his devices. Luckily he’s not crazy enough to run windows server.
- Windows is the most common operating system for developers
  
  https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2023/#section-most-popular-technologies-operating-system
  
  Visual studio which the the most used IDE after Visual Studio Code is only available on Windows and Mac.
  
  The Mac version will soon be retired though.
Then you‘re definitely in the wrong circle. Join a local computer club if that exists. Changes things dramatically.
- That sounds pretty nice actually. I’m based in Sydney, but I don’t really find anything like a computer club nearby.
  
  Maybe i just don’t know how to search for it.
We don't use open-source around here pardner.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.en.html
Luckily I even know 2 persons who are into Linux and FOSS.

Every day this sub is in the active feed and I could not be more removed from the intended audience lol

This will continue until you're part of the intended audience.

spoiler

Okay, it won't stop even then.

Where Nix/Lix/Auxolotl/NixOS?

there was only space for 5 things ( *** Debloat Mindset *** )
- I'll allow it. But I can't promise anything from the void crowd.
I’m running NixOs as a daily driver for a while now. It’s the first time I want to actively convince people to try out a distro. But then I realise most people around me would not want to bother learning how to configure it.
- Same. It's very elegant. But yeah: the lacking documentation makes the learning curve way too steep for most people.

I like Ubuntu 😐

Don't worry, once the others graduate school, break their arch install, and don't have the free time to reinstall it, they'll like Ubuntu too. 🙂
- TBF I'm branching out and I just installed Debian on my second laptop and I like that too. But Ubuntu's been mighty good to me for a lot of years as a reliable workstation and server VM in Proxmox.
And turtles?

DiCaprio would object to people older than 25 being in his group

What if we discuss Debian?

You're smart just not an elitist.
- What if I use Ubuntu but I'd rather talk about the kernel than distros?
Then you're in an elderly home

Wait, there's someone here aware of hardened gentoo? Well I'll be damned! Come out of the shadows, fellas!

I'm always hard when someone talks about Gentoo!
- Excuse me, sir, it's the Gentoo bits that are supposed to be hard, not yours.
  
  On an unrelated note - I'm building a binhost. Currently stuck on trying to figure out a way of building packages without instaling them and not using quickpkg>

People should be talking about void. Such bullshit. :p

Called it!
But how can you talk about it if it has no type and no defined sizeof

This is real. This is why my friends are lame now. Not the kids or jobs.

They're still on Windows

Nah, that way, I can be the Alpha-Nerd in my circle, getting all the clout when I help them out with a command-line-command that contains awk.

Jokes on you! I'm older than 30!

Ah, yes, ANOTHER post trying to make Linux seem impenetrable and elitist with an attack on Ubuntu - I swear you guys must work for Microsoft.

Ah, yes, another user offended by a joke posted to a community with memes.
- average 5 year ubuntu user
- Isn't it embarrassing using the same excuses as every 4chan racist and misogynist?
  
  You're affecting how people perceive Linux and doing so in a negative way, I'm not going to try and stop you or anything but I am going to say I think you're a bad person working against all the efforts and hard work of people trying to make a better world.
  
  How you feel about it is upto you.
  
  Oh and of course this was just a joke so you have to laugh and agree, right?
Ubuntu sucks. Not because it's for newbies, it's because better, new user friendlier options like mint exist.
Ubuntu is spyware.
- Pure FUD
What the fuck even is this meme lmao?

Me and OP can compare paychecks, I've never used Linux in my life.
- Paychecks? I am a self-made billionaire, all thanks to the Free Software Grindset
- OP and I*
  
  I've never used Linux in my life
  
  Acktually, it's GNU/Linux, Linux is just the kernel :)

Hardened gentoo was great when grsecurity had their kernel patches opened freely to the public, but now idk. I'm more into hardenedbsd than anything gentoo nowadays.

honestly open source software is important.

I am a Microsoft user (sorry) but don't think my company will allow use of other programs due to software policy.

Is there an open soursce excel and powerbi / powerpoint thing ?

LibreOffice Calc is pretty good. Your company can invest in a fork and it should do what you need.
- Power BI is a different kind of beast though. Soon only available as part of Microsoft Fabric, a SaaS analysis platform. Sure, the technically inclined can use Python/R/Julia with MongoDB, a set of SQL DBs, some CI and Plotly/Dash, but that effectively requires to have some Software- and Data Engineers on staff and some dedicated machines/VMs. Power BI / Fabric is much cheaper for small to medium sized companies outside of IT.

What's a ubuntoo?

20-30 is too old for Leo to be concerned with.

Well you’re half right, lol.

Why does nobody just use a basic Gentoo setup? Compiling custom kernels and using tons of use flags And cflags isn't actually going to make your PC faster. Just install the distribution kernel and use march=native.

Because that requires actually understanding the way a computer works.

I only take on gross work, as per rhyming conventions gross work is your gross worth.

Since this is sort of related, what are y'all using for a tiling manager? I really miss Fancy Zones from Windows and would literally pay for a clone on Linux Mint.

FancyZones was great, now I use Pop!_OS's tiling feature. It's a bit different, but I like the additional keybinds for controlling window movement.
For a GUI thing like that, KDE has had it since 5.27: announcment called Window Tiling, with its graphical Tile Editor that by default is opened with Meta+T
Some discussion on Reddit prior inclusion
- Thanks, I'll check this out.
Hyprland seems pretty popular these days. I want to use it (or sway) but didn’t have the chance to figure out how to run it with my nvidia card

who is Bill Yonere?

Are you using this format in an un-ironic way?... Why

nah, but in hindsight it may be a bit too subtle

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