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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?”.
I mean it’s also socialist, with how it’s developed and distributed. Despite capitalists making use of it too. It’s one of the few things in this world the people truly own collectively.
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.
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
From my experience, those discussions only happen when Distros are compared.
When I’m talking to other Linux people, there has never been any competition, and as long as you are using Linux you are a bro.
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.
I haven’t seen Linux users fights over distros… Ever. We just have lots of choices, and most of them are awesome.
Oh, just ask an Arch user about Manjaro.
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”
