And put down your phones!

this isn't true imo. not because it was never the case, but because nowadays arch is so easy to use it's a perfectly normal thing to do, "i use arch btw" isn't a shocking statement

the gluten free vegans of the computing world are NixOS users

I've met quite a few vegans and far as I know none of them avoid gluten. I also know someone with celiac disease, who would never even contemplate going vegan when he already has so many dietary restrictions to put up with.

They're not absolutely mutually exclusive groups, but pretty close to it I think. Slackware users who install everything through Snap are the real gluten-free vegans of the linux world.

Whenever anyone brings this up, I imagine a vegan sitting at a table with their new friends, refusing to eat any chicken wings, but also not saying why... And then everyone harassing them with a million questions like, "do you not like hot sauce? We can get barbecue", "are you on a diet?", "are you allergic?", etc, etc. Finally, after half an hour of this, they lose it and just as there's a lull in the music, they scream out, "look, I'm a vegan! I don't fucking eat meat! Fuck off!"

The whole bar goes quiet, staring, then one of the people at the table reaches for a wing, looks at the vegan, and says, "dude, chill, we get it, you don't eat meat, blah blah blah. You don't have to talk about it every 5 minutes! Here's some bread and butter."

Fuck that guy in the meme.

"You know what they say about Arch users, right?"

"That they're pedophiles?"

[Spits out drink in laughter because I expected them to say "they tell everyone"]

You do realize that people with celiac disease aren't just choosing to not eat gluten right?

I'm related to someone who's the same way with closed captions. Yes, I know you can understand every word. Yes, I can see how it makes you enjoy a show even more because you catch all of the little things. No, I don't want to turn it on this time when you're visiting.

Chuck Norris invented Arch btw.

I think FreeBSD users are the literal gluten free vegans of the Linux community. That is if you want to consider them part of the community.

They don't use Linux and they don't use glibc.

But what does an Arch using vegan who does cross fit talk about first?

Arch users know they picked one of the least usable distros with no upsides, so they have to constantly try to convince everyone else how much better it supposedly is. Classic post-purchase rationalisation, only the currency is the sanity of the user.