Lie to your (insert relative here) that Linux is faster and you install SSD to their computer with a penguin on it.
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Can’t believe it’s not Windows.
Its (windows)10'oclock. Do you recall where your screenshots are?
Fun facts:
- The backend of Microsoft's biggest money maker Azure runs on Linux: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-the-azure-cloud-switch-acs/
- The most-used OS inside Azure is Linux: https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-linux-is-the-top-operating-system-on-azure-today/
- Microsoft is the second biggest contributor to open source software: https://opensourceindex.io/
- Microsoft has published their own Linux distro: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
- Microsoft has published a support page on how to install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
The OS wars are over, and Linux won.
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Switch to linux and your kids is call
At least it's not Windows?
Take your digital freedom back!
With a bit of a double-entendre, "It powers the world", since it's the most common server platform.
More funny: "It's not an OS. It's a hobby."
Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro
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improvements over the competition are black and white... and a little yellow.
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The penguin is merciful.
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Sovereign Computing
"It just works"
..because that is the state of a mainstream modern distro, and it's not true of Windows anymore.
Alternatively "No nagging, no forced online account."
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When I started my own design for Tux I came up with "it's all about U" written on the repo where I've developed it (upstream isn't updated)
In hindsight it involuntarily highlights the difference between the open source and the free software movement pretty well, I'm definitely for the latter, but it is accurate to the product and its creator
"It's terminal"
From one of my memes (which compares the common 3 OS types): https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3ad94e0f-c145-4b1b-9a41-16f3ebcfee1b.webp
It will hurt the whole way down. Please don't climb.
Also implies that you can actually climb it (metaphorical for "learning") and has the option to stay above or climb down. Based on the image, its an art project that just stays there for you to explore.
Jokingly: "Linux is free if your time is worthless"
Though this tongue-in-cheek tagline takes the "free as in free beer" misinterpretation of the term "free software", I've always found it a fun way to describe the time investment you'll need to make if you've spent your whole life using Windows before making the switch.
This hurts in my first Gentoo installation. Sharp, precise, and accurate pain.
"I didn't want to play that game anyway."
For me that game was Rust and it was more 'Maybe for the best if I don't touch that game again'
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lol I was going to suggest "it just works"
I would not have suggested that before this year but it's definitely true now, or at least truer than for Windows/Apple.
Good one from back in the day (not mine): "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
But it has a direct reference to it's competitors which won't be viable in 100 years when windows shuts down
Its not windows
And when you tell your OS to poweroff it... powers off. Wow.
“Capitalism kills”
"For slogan, please refer to the according man page"
more seriously maybe "Software it your own way"
I recently passed Linux Foundation System Admin and they had a weird Debian that just slapped me with
man not found or something like this
I like it, but I think proprietary can tell it too.
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