I use linux because, in the 90s, Redhat shipped with a Star Trek game. We are not the same.
I use Linux because of compiz fusion cube desktop. We are not the same.
We are not. When I want a cubic desktop environment I reach(ed) for BeOS.
and NeXT for the cubic computer itself
Tux Racer go brrrr
Oh, I hadn’t thought of Tux Racer in ages. I think I need to play that again.
Tux racer go b…r…r…r
I only had access to ex-corporate office hand-me-down motherboards as a kid. This was about 1 potato per 3 seconds of rendering performance (I’m 34)
It did? Which one?
I’ve been trying to remember but it hasn’t come back to me. It was a 2D, top down, space battle game. Its possible it wasn’t named after Star Trek, but you pilot a grey ship with a saucer section and nacelles to fire torpedoes and phasers at green bird of prey looking ships so…
No, but it was my gateway into Netrek.
Xtrek would be what pops to kind for me, possibly?
That all sounds very familiar. The one I played was full color but it must have either been a late version of Empire or something heavily “inspired” by it.
I think my mother played that star trek game on a time shared minicomputer.
Linux gotta mainstream wen?
Time to switch to bsdIt’s almost time to roll out your own OS, posix is becoming too mainstream
There’s always TempleOS
Praise!
Drew DeVault just did a Unix clone as a break from “real work”
People like this, by simply existing, make me feel like a real dumb piece of shit.
My breaks from real work are video games, TV, and this sort of shit posting we’ve got going on in this thread right here.
While he’s no doubt very high intelligence, I think there’s a combination of personality, personal interests, and drive that these outstanding people have. For some people, the work is what they want to be doing AND what makes them happy/fulfilled.
Like you, I am not like that. A productive day at work can feel great, but I’m never sitting at home thinking I’d rather be working on some idea for an app or game.
Society has taught me that what I SHOULD want to do is that “productive” stuff. Work long hours, strike it rich on my own or climb the ladder at work, etc. But the wiring in my brain does not get fulfillment and happiness from that stuff. But spending that time on family, pets, and hobbies has greatly increased my quality of life over the past few years.
Yeah, it’s the same for me. Work is so I have the money I need to live, but free time is so much more valuable to me.
I like to consider what I would or wouldn’t regret when I’m older. I’ve heard plenty of successful people lament not being a better parent while focused on their career. I’m not sure I’ve ever heard somebody regret spending time with their family instead of their work.
That’s why I plan to move my servers into an L4 clone.
I applaud this future thinking. you need bare metal or whatever you consider L4 to truly rice a system. Gone are the days where superior performance was a couple of finely tuned cpu flags away.
Well, ok. I don’t really plan to do that. It was a joke.
I do wish it was something viable, though.
I’ve used FreeBSD for about a month in 2005, and still can’t stop talking about it.
I dual booted it as a desktop for about 6 months around the same time, but honestly all I did is use it as a desktop and browser. I could hardly figure out how to do anything else. I’ve forgotten everything about the experience, and anything I happen to accidentally remember I try to also forget.
It’s close to 1 in 20 PCs nowadays. It’s growing very quickly, and has been adopted in non-irrelevant amounts for a few years already.
Solaris tho
I am already learning to use FreeBSD. I definitely recommend reading the official handbook, it is even a pretty great introduction to Unix overall.
I switched in the late 90s to attract women. I still think it’s going to work someday.
Any time now surely
If you’re also a woman, this may work!
Well, theres been a push to get more women into Tech so that works in your favour.
Your job is now to lure them away from the Microsoft bros
Least contrarian Linux user.
yay gatekeeping!
Yeah this post is pretty cringe lol
I honestly hate this meme template. It’s barely ever used for anything smart and mostly just being a gatekeeper.
The guy saying he uses Linux because of some ‘90s game is way better.
Let’s not repeat the mistakes of (some!) old Unix-Heads and just welcome all newbies, please <3
the correct greeting is “I use Nix BTW”, Arch is so yesterday
I use ubuntu by the way 🤓
I use Debian BTW 👴
Both? Both is good
Stop stealing my brainwaves!!!
But you are correct, nonetheless.
My one thing I feel like I can brag about in tech circles is that I switched to Linux in 1995 (Linux kernel version 1.2.1), and I haven’t looked back since. This was even before Windows 95 was released.
Yeah, but, like, I use Arch btw
ah, but did you use Stage 1 Gentoo? huh? huh?
I use Linux because Hackintosh is a dying platform and it only takes about 800 hours to get it almost as good.
This brought me memories. In college I had a Dell Mini with Intel atom 1st get. It was useless to run engineering apps like matlab or solidworks
I installed OSx86 and those apps ran a lot better using parallels than running natively on Windows, I was even able to play some games on it
People used Linux because Windows bad in the 2000s
Have you seen windows 11?
Not really any different than 10
You’re absolutely right. Microsoft has systematically killed every reason I have for having their software on my pc. I’m not switching to linux because linux got better (although it certainly has). I’m ditching windows because windows now sucks more than I can bare.
I use Linux cuz Linux looks cool
I’ve been occasionally giving Linux a shot since bubuntu 5.04 and it would never stick. I guess many things aligned at some point in 2017-18 when I just gave up on windows and microsoft in general. I’ve been sticking to my beloved gnome, fighting it to do things it wasn’t built to.
And then came 2019 and sway 1.0 got released. It felt like reddit imploded. Decided to finally give this “tiling nonsense” a try. A week or so later it finally clicked and I’ve not been fighting my system anymore.
Fast forward a few years and I’m now a Gentoo, OpenRC, OpenRC-init and Hyprland nutter :)
bubuntu
That needs to be a real thing
I thought it was! Didn’t even second guess it.
I am also an on/off Linux user since Debian. Windows 10 has been fine for me and I would live here forever in the blissful ignorance of OS apathy but when support for it stops in 2025 and I am force marched into the Windows 11 I may jump ship and run off into the wilds of Linux again.
I’m laughing.
Tiling nonsense!
Tiling is …the best.
¿Porque no los dos?
I use Linux because the Steam Deck convinced me that gaming on Linux is a thing. Before that i was hesitant to make the jump, even though I’ve used UNIX before Windows 3 even came out
Windows 3? If you weren’t so old you could have become a Masterjodler69
Now get off my lawn, damn kids!
It makes me happy to read this same basic message repeatedly. I’ve been a Linux enthusiast since the late 90s, but back then it definitely felt like it was never going to be a mainstream replacement for Windows due in large part to gaming.
I know Valve isn’t getting nothing out of their investment, but all the same I’m so appreciative that they didn’t abandon their Linux efforts after Steam Machines didn’t catch on.
This is why I didn’t switch until this year. Valve really did a great thing by driving this adoption and I feel like with Proton in the state it’s in, there’s really not much you’re giving up by going to Linux these days.
The list of actual pain points is ever shrinking now. I can’t imagine switching back in 95. You had to put up with so much inequity for a lot of that time.
