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The classic Linux desktop boot experience, with a political twist
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The classic Linux desktop boot experience, with a political twist

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A screenshot of a tweet from the user 'SwiftOnSecurity' (@SwiftOnSecurity) on the X platform, displayed in dark mode. The tweet reads: 'Communists love Linux because they're used to terrible boot experiences.' This is a quote-tweet of a post from 'Theo - t3.gg' (@t3dotgg), which details a common Linux desktop frustration: 'Tried to wake from sleep. Sign in screen wouldn't accept inputs. Tried rebooting. It will no longer boot. The Linux experience 🤌'. The meme's humor stems from the combination of a relatable technical problem with a sharp political pun. Theo's tweet captures the infamous fragility of Linux desktop environments, where basic operations like waking from sleep can lead to catastrophic, unbootable states. SwiftOnSecurity's commentary adds a layer of dark humor, equating the technical 'boot experience' with the oppressive political 'boot' associated with communist regimes, creating a joke that resonates with developers who are familiar with both Linux's quirks and cynical political commentary

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Linux OperatingSystems Bootloader KernelPanic BugsInSoftware DebuggingFrustration

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The five stages of Linux desktop grief: denial that it's broken, anger at Xorg, bargaining with GRUB, depression when you chroot, and acceptance that you're reinstalling Arch this weekend
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    The five stages of Linux desktop grief: denial that it's broken, anger at Xorg, bargaining with GRUB, depression when you chroot, and acceptance that you're reinstalling Arch this weekend

  2. Anonymous

    Linux suspend is my favorite distributed system: systemd assumes the kernel has the lock, the kernel assumes ACPI has the lock, and the BIOS is in read-only mode - eventual consistency is achieved at the grub-rescue prompt

  3. Anonymous

    After 20 years in the industry, I've learned that Linux boot issues are like distributed systems - they work perfectly until you actually need them, then suddenly you're debugging why your laptop won't wake from sleep while your Kubernetes cluster is somehow still running flawlessly on the same kernel

  4. Anonymous

    The Linux desktop experience: where 'suspend to RAM' is really 'suspend to prayer' and every kernel update is a game of Russian roulette with your bootloader. At least when Windows breaks, you get a friendly blue screen - Linux just leaves you staring at a blinking cursor, contemplating your life choices and whether that Arch installation was really worth the street cred

  5. Anonymous

    Linux laptops: Sleep makes libinput forget you, reboot makes GRUB forget your root UUID, and the postmortem lives in journald on the filesystem you can’t mount

  6. Anonymous

    Linux teaches full-stack the hard way: when resume fails, your debugger becomes UEFI -> GRUB -> initramfs -> systemd -> display manager, and the root cause is a race between ACPI and Wayland

  7. Anonymous

    Linux boot: systemd's five-year plan, where one bad module mount starves the entire userspace

  8. @heisthenaz 1y

    I mean… https://github.com/Soviet-Linux

  9. @chupasaurus 1y

    That's what Linux and Path of Exile have in common - they show the barrier of entry early😁

  10. @nightingazer 1y

    I've seen the original thread from theo, oh my god. this was obnoxiously terrible and hilarious at the same time. is this really the state of web andys nowadays?

  11. @emil_wislowski 1y

    as a Linux user I had the same experience with Windows ;)

    1. @Araalith 1y

      Linux users are so hardcore, they can even break a Windows boot

      1. @emil_wislowski 1y

        😆

      2. @nepalymiynik 1y

        And also fix it

  12. dev_meme 1y

    It happened to me yesterday, then I realized I can't even get into the bios settings, afterwards I realized I shouldn't have enabled chinese fast boot setting (which ignores any peripherals lol), so I had to remove and re-insert RAM to get into bios and disable that shit, so the point is: it's not linux, it's you're an idiot that likes to play around and doesn't like reading manuals

    1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

      Real

      1. dev_meme 1y

        MSI bios moment🤪

        1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

          So you didn't read his message either?

        2. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

          Your opinion was declined then

          1. dev_meme 1y

            It's not an opinion, just a dumb story of a dumb person though

            1. @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 1y

              I am just trolling lmfao

    2. @Broken_Cloud_1 1y

      what do you mean by chinese fast boot 🤔

  13. @heito_r 1y

    Skill issue

  14. @Le_o_R 1y

    Penguins are hatched. Why do they have belly buttons?

  15. Max 1y

    Don't know, would have to inspect them a little closer 🤗

  16. @sylfn 1y

    https://www.tumblr.com/alpine-official/753000993394999296/i-use-linux-as-my-operating-system-i-state

  17. @lilfluffyears 1y

    I had so much more problems with windows than with linux :D No matter what i do, my pc keeps crashing with the blue screen

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