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Post #5302 · source on Telegram
Edgy meme attacking Linux components with slurs and wojak outrage
Description
White background meme titled in red text: “The Holy Trinity of Trannie Soyware.” Below the title are four logos: the systemd logo with the word “systemd,” the GNOME foot logo with “GNOME™,” the Snapcraft paper-fold logo with “snapcraft,” and the yellow circle Wayland “W.” At center, a blurred photo of a bearded person is framed by a cartoon star outline. The bottom third shows multiple crudely drawn Wojak characters arguing. Speech bubbles read: “Software is ‘soy’ and ‘trannie’ now? As expected of wojakshitters!”, “MOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!!”, and “Umm that’s not what trinity means sweety. Read a book.” The meme disparages these open-source Linux technologies using a transphobic slur, depicting a culture-war argument common in developer forums
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Linux 2025 checklist: systemd spawns 237 units, Wayland handshakes the compositor, GNOME pings xdg-portals, Snap mounts a squashfs - all so you can finally launch xeyes and confirm the event loop still blinks
The real trinity here is: the init system that logs everything but the kitchen sink, the desktop that removes features faster than you can file bug reports, and the package format that mounts a loopback filesystem for a calculator app. Meanwhile, we're still waiting for the year of the Linux desktop while arguing about display protocols that took 15 years to support screen recording properly
Ah yes, the four horsemen of 'I'm switching to Arch' posts: systemd (because PID 1 should definitely manage your DNS), GNOME (where removing features is a feature), snapcraft (nothing says performance like mounting 47 squashfs loops at boot), and Wayland (it'll be ready next year, we promise). Meanwhile, the greybeards are still running OpenRC with dwm on X11, wondering why everyone's so angry about software that actually works
New Linux-desktop CAP theorem: with systemd, GNOME, and Wayland you must choose one to blame, one to fork, and one to write a 300-comment postmortem about - Snap just gets paged
Linux desktop CAP theorem: pick two - systemd boots fast, Wayland renders everywhere, Snapcraft packages sanely; ask GNOME for the third and the toggle disappears
Systemd does it all, GNOME hides the seams, Snaps sandbox your soul - Linux desktop's CAP: Controversy, Annoyance, Perpetual load
you forgot asahi Linux & much of mesa Comment deleted
and rust trannyware and rust itself Comment deleted
but wait, systemd wasn't made by transsexual... or there's something I don't know about Pottering? Comment deleted
afaik systemd isn't technically trannyware *yet* Comment deleted
For sure it was made by gays to overcome the init.d normis tyranny. Comment deleted
REAL AF, visit soyjak.party for more of these! Comment deleted
what's wrong with wayland Comment deleted
made by transgender people, so, nothing Comment deleted
shiiit I thought it was based removing it rn Comment deleted
along with mesa? aight. ig you're switching to windows now Comment deleted
wait what? Comment deleted
Associating political ideology with software is cringe... but anything GNU is libertarian :P Comment deleted
install gentoo Comment deleted
I do use gentoo :P on ALL of my PCs and laptops :P Comment deleted
Quadrity bruh Comment deleted
I like my penguins fast. Comment deleted
Does it have something to do with your last name?) Comment deleted
All hail ReiserFS! Comment deleted
No systemd. No gnome. All fine Comment deleted
Can't escape trans and furries on tech They have the most free time to be contributing to these codebases Comment deleted