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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 1 year ago (1 children)

About your Crossfit addiction. The trifecta.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm a keto vegan CrossFit guy who uses arch. You wouldn't get it

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

They live mostly on gels and polymers I think.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apparently it's actually a thing. God knows how but they do exist

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 year ago (4 children)

One must understand that the operating system that you use does NOT come up in normal everyday conversation. Nobody cares. If you mention this you're going to be looked at as the biggest dweeb in a 100 mile radius. Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity. You will be forever shunned in social circles, and will likely never live it down.

So of course you mention Arch first!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I would have thought so. But you'd be surprised how often it can crop up. Somebody wears an old hat or shirt with a logo, or someone complains about a change at work or whatever.

It won't be often, but I've run into OS discussions maybe three times this year, and I'm fairly antisocial.

9/10 it's going to be someone bitching about win 11, and someone else saying "hey, south uses Linux something-or-other, go ask him." And then the conversation happens.

That other one time is usually tangential, where I'm talking about writing and the conversation moves to the programs used, which leads to questions about why I use libreoffice, and the fact that I use it on mint as part of explaining my setup.

Now, I don't use arch, nor do I usually bring it up outside of a few friends that have abandoned windows. But I have run into a few arch users here and there.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Every pussy will dry up in the immediate vicinity.

Does that include my own pussy too? That would be tragic 😔

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would also like to know. I use Arch everyday and have never noticed any dryness 🤷🏻‍♀️ I talk to my spouse about Arch (he also uses Arch BTW) and can't say as I have experienced any changes at all. Almost as though my pussy has no fucks to give about what distro I use.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except when you mention you use NixOS to your crush who uses gentoo (true story)

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

i don't even have to mention it. I bought the pullover "i use [arch logo] btw" so people come up to me and insult me

[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither.

I tell them about the ethical supply chain that produces my Fairphone.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is the main problem i have with fairphones. i prefer completely unethically sourced products

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess you unethically sourced this comment from your lower back.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 86 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Behold: I'm the archvegan!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I don't volunteer either piece of information, but sooner or later someone is going to overhear me ordering vegan food or see me opening my lunch and the dreaded conversation will have to happen. I wish people would just let me make my own food choices in private without making a big thing about it.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But they feel attacked. They want to continue living in blissful ignorance of how animals are treated or how bad it is for the environment. Same as windows users who don't want to be reminded what corporate cucks they are. Some even go so far as to become utter bootlickers (see also Elon Musk fanboys)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

What sucks is that you have to keep it for yourself, otherwise people will think negatively of you. Because for some reason caring about animals or the climate is cringe or something idk, like it's something to almost be embarrassed about. Which is doubly strange when animal abuse is often considered very bad by those very same people.

But I guess for many caring about other people in general is cringe as well, as long as they are sufficiently emotionally distanced, so ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯ I just wish it wasn't, and that caring for others was the baseline more than anything else.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the stereotype drives me nuts. Like, yes, food is a big part of day-to-day life and sometimes I need to explain when asked why I'm not eating if there's nothing for me at, say, a company event. I try to avoid it as much as possible and just say I'm not hungry.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Tell them your an Archvegan. That sounds cool.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Oh no.. The Arch Vegan is here! Run!

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago

I'm currently using Gentoo. That means I should also grow my own food...

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's the arch user equivalent of getting asked if a fish is an animal?

What's the vegan equivalent of getting asked if you use PC or Mac?

Vegan Arch user btw

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Also people who use pc as a synonyme for windows. fuck those guys and guydedts.

PS. Macs are also PCs as PC describes the hardware and the usecase unrelated to the producer and the installed os.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I forsee the creation of another arch based distro that is specifically designed for vegans that will solve this problem

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Call it "starch". The cruelty-free Linux distro.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

“I use argan. It allows me to user arch in a non-violent way to adhere to my vegan lifestyle” probably

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

I don't tell people. They infer both almost immediately from my physical stature and vocabulary. gigachad

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Easy: I'm Vegan, and by the way I use Arch.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

That I'm doing crossfit ;)

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

That they should really give CrossFit a try

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

That I use Sync for Lemmy of course.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Start with something neutral, like crossfit

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

That's how you get to be an Archdruid

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Nothing, someone will make this joke before they ever get a chance.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Have you ever tried CrossFit?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Their pronouns. Vegan/Arch

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Vegan/Arch/Atheist/Crossfit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

My CrossFit addiction

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

Let me tell you about Homestuck ...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

¿Por qué no los dos?

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