The Unsolicited Sermon of the Linux Evangelist

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A two-part Wojak-style rage comic depicting the classic conflict between a Linux evangelist and a content Windows user. On the left, two distressed-looking characters wearing blue helmets adorned with Tux, the Linux penguin mascot, are knocking on a door. On the right, a long, rambling block of text extols the virtues of Linux: 'You should install linux it is open source and free we have lots of foss alternatives for proprietary software, no viruses, you can even run windows software using wine...'. The text continues, listing various package managers like apt, yum, dnf, and snap. Inside the door, a defiant Trollface character holds a shotgun and yells, 'I DONT WANT TO USE LINUX I DONT WANT TO USE LINUX'. At his feet are the logos for Windows 11, the game Valorant, Visual Studio, and Adobe Photoshop, representing the proprietary software he is unwilling to abandon. The humor lies in its accurate portrayal of the overly zealous 'Linux evangelist' trope within the developer community. These advocates, while well-intentioned, often overwhelm people with technical details and ignore the practical reasons for sticking with a commercial OS, such as native support for essential creative software or games with invasive anti-cheat. For senior developers, this meme is a nostalgic nod to the endless 'OS wars' and a humorous critique of the communication breakdown between open-source purists and pragmatic users who are locked into specific ecosystems

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The Linux advocate promises freedom, but the user knows true freedom is not having to recompile your kernel just to get your Bluetooth mouse to work during a production incident

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

The Linux advocate promises freedom, but the user knows true freedom is not having to recompile your kernel just to get your Bluetooth mouse to work during a production incident
Anonymous

After two decades of designing zero-downtime microservices, I’ve learned the real liveness check is convincing the Photoshop-Valorant stack that apt-get isn’t a root-level threat
Anonymous

The real tragedy isn't that they won't use Linux - it's that after 20 years, we're still pretending Wine is a viable solution while secretly dual-booting for that one proprietary tool our workflow depends on
Anonymous

The irony here cuts deep: after 20 years in the industry, you've finally achieved the perfect development environment - WSL2 for the Unix tools, VS Code with Remote-SSH for the ergonomics, Docker Desktop for containerization, and yes, Photoshop because GIMP's UX is still a war crime. Then along comes the Linux purist with their 'just use Arch btw' energy, completely missing that your toolchain represents thousands of hours of optimization, muscle memory, and pragmatic trade-offs. Sure, you *could* spend three weeks configuring i3wm, learning pacman flags, and debugging Wine prefixes for that one proprietary tool your client mandates - or you could ship features. The real senior move? Recognizing that the OS is just a platform, not a personality trait, and that the best tool is the one that gets out of your way. Though let's be honest, we've all been that NPC Wojak at some point in our careers, haven't we?
Anonymous

The Linux pitch is irresistible until your stack depends on Photoshop assets, a Visual Studio COM add‑in, and a kernel‑level anti‑cheat - then “cross‑platform” quietly becomes WSL and a reboot
Anonymous

Every “just use Linux + Wine” pitch dies on impact with kernel‑mode anti‑cheat, Adobe color workflows, and that one VS‑only MSBuild target - portability ends where the drivers and EULAs begin
Anonymous

Linux: 'Use OSS alternatives!' Architects: 'Sure, after we port our CUDA-accelerated ML pipelines from Nvidia's Windows SDK.'
@RiedleroD 2y

lmao, true at times 😅
@V0W4N 2y

so glad people do realize that windows has its own reasons for usage 😭
1. @noi01 2y
  
  For me the only reasons is fear of reinstalling os and gaming
2. @prirai 2y
  
  Yes absolutely. But you should exercise caution and perform manual cleanup of Windows images before installing them on your bare machine.
dev_meme 2y

Bing wants to control your machines and sniff all that private data. Embrace your fate of corporate slave 😈
@Hollow_Arigo 2y

I use arch btw
1. @noi01 2y
  
  Finally someone with taste
  
  @Br1ket 2y
  
  There must be someone with temple os, is not it?
2. @chooisfox 2y
  
  I use Arch btw …. Oh, wait ….
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I use Arch btw
3. @Br1ket 2y
  
  Nah, it has systemd, it isnt unix way
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  Unfortunaly yes. I tried Void Linux on runinit and now i wany kill myselft cuz i remebered how sufferd i am
  
  @Br1ket 2y
  
  Btw there is a arco linux
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  I heard it often brokes without reason
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  Linux is not Unix
  
  @ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y
  
  I am pretty sure it is. Unix was an OS by AT&T and because of some kind of law they weren’t allowed to make profit of it so the made it an open standard and linux is based on that standard. Yes they don’t share source code with the og unix OS but unix OS doesn’t exist anymore its a standard. Correct me if I am wrong. But macOS which used at least at some point Free/Open-BSD is also a unix operating system
  
  @L2CacheGay 2y
  
  thats very wishy-washy
@vrntctl 2y

unfortunately there is no cure for having bad taste, so it’s better to just leave the windows users be and make money off them (by writing malware and stealing their data)
@Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

i don't mind big corporations spying on me 🥰🥰 i feel less lonely that way
1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  OKay. let me spy your ballz
  
  @Kirby_POP 2y
  
  Are you sure you're corpo?
  
  @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  no, bcs im a wizzard
  
  @callofvoid0 2y
  
  probably if they are more than one person corporating on doing that
2. @azizhakberdiev 2y
  
  as long as you don't use browser you are safe
  
  @Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y
  
  wdym all of my software are browsers in disguise
3. Deleted Account 2y
  
  i could be wholesome for the view point if you could talk with like someone from Microsoft to discuss different things.
  
  @M4lenov 2y
  
  just call Rashdi from tech support
@Kirby_POP 2y

Aight, that's actually more painful than you think
1. Deleted Account 2y
  
  not as painfull as deppresion.
@affirvega 2y

those are not my glasses 👀
@Hollow_Arigo 2y

Can't see the linux haters
@Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y

i tried Linux once when i was about 14. It didn't had any games so i insta-downloaded windows
@affirvega 2y

i have it installed as second system but it's not configured and i'm confused and can't work
1. @Sp1cyP3pp3r 2y
  
  cat with laptop experience
  
  @affirvega 2y
  
  meeeeeeeeeeee
@Hollow_Arigo 2y

Nice try! mending to your ass!
@AmindaEU 2y

Inaccurate. We hsve VS Code and PowerShell on Linux.
@kitbot256 2y

> No viruses Haha lol
@AmindaEU 2y

🐾
@Vlasoov 2y

best anticheat won't let you play anime counter-strike just because
1. @Hollow_Arigo 2y
  
  中國對您沒有向他提供您的個人資料和系統核心的存取權限感到不高興。中國禁止你玩動漫射擊遊戲
@MDSPro 2y

😂
Max 2y

Dunno, mine was Fedora in 2006. Hosted my website via apache. But… that was created in Dreameraver on Windows, which also ran Morrowind <3 Guess it’s just a choice of the right tool for a task. Website was down at night cause I had to game and sleep 😅
1. @Le_o_R 2y
  
  OpenMW, my friend.
@qtsmolcat 2y

Me who just likes when my hardware works w/o fuss on windows
@Le_o_R 2y

Guys! 2024 is the year of the Linux desktop!
@Le_o_R 2y

I know it's a joke, but I've been using Arch derivatives for over a decade and I never had issues. When I was using Ubuntu or Debian, every version upgrade was a pain. Hopefully that has changed by now. Edit: and I even use Arch testing.
@sylfn 2y

@purplesyringa its your turn to abandon the derivatives of debian
1. @purplesyringa 2y
  
  how about i abandon derivations entirely
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  You can still use Alpine/Arch as your main system
  
  @chooisfox 2y
  
  Well, there is always lfs
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  ah yes, the Linux File System
  
  @chooisfox 2y
  
  Nah, I meant Linux From Scratch, but I guess Linux file system might work for you too
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  realistically i'll just abandon the idea before it works
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  I'm only using Ubuntu 'cause that's what I've been using for ~8 years and it works for me
  
  @chooisfox 2y
  
  As for me, i’ve been stuck with Ubuntu for like a few years, cause Nvidia Jetson NX has no native support for any other distro (and they use fucking safe boot). This was like the worst experience I had with Linux over the years. Multiple times I was not able to compile something, cause for some fucking reason, the last gcc versions is like 9, WM was eating like 70% of cpu and compilation of everything took hours (I also had Orange Pi 5 plus at the same time with a YiffOS on it…. , it was like 4 times faster. Both boards had 8GB ram and similar CPU in terms of performance)
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  I am not that red-eyed!
  
  @purplesyringa 2y
  
  you are darling
  
  @sylfn 2y
  
  why
@chooisfox 2y

Well, I don’t use it as my main device, I use it as part of my job (as for why I am compiling stuff on it, onnxruntime is very hard to cross compile with proper cuda support)
@chooisfox 2y

Not only devs of Onnx are ML guys, they are also from fucking Microsoft
@M4lenov 2y

wait is this real
1. Deleted Account 2y
  
  yes.
  
  @M4lenov 2y
  
  well... i guess i do have to change my primary OS after all..
2. Deleted Account 2y
  
  techlinked and ordinary gamers (mutahar) made a video about it.
@ZgGPuo8dZef58K6hxxGVj3Z2 2y

Lmao
Deleted Account 2y

I use windows btw
Deleted Account 2y

Jkjk
Deleted Account 2y

I just went into Arch Linux 🫦

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