Linux delays desktop release, blames remote work and alternative productivity priorities
Description
The meme is a screenshot of a Twitter post from the verified-looking account “Linux” (@linux), accompanied by the familiar Tux penguin avatar. The tweet text reads, “Sorry about no desktop release I've been working from home and having sex all day instead.” Below the text are the timestamp and source details: “10:53 PM · Jul 8, 2022 · Twitter for iPhone,” followed by metrics showing 3,457 Retweets, 191 Quote Tweets, and 43 K Likes. The humor riffs on the perennial 'year of the Linux desktop' joke, satirizing missed release deadlines while tying it to remote-work culture and tongue-in-cheek adult distractions. Experienced engineers will recognize the exaggeration of release postponements, the ongoing struggle to get Linux mainstream on the desktop, and the broader theme of productivity (or lack thereof) when working from home
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Sprint board says: 1) ship Wayland, 2) unify package managers, 3) resolve the “WFH-with-partner” race condition - guess which ticket keeps deadlocking the release branch?
Finally, an honest post-mortem on why the Year of the Linux Desktop keeps getting pushed back - turns out the blocker wasn't Wayland vs X11, it was work-life balance all along
When your Linux desktop environment has been 'two weeks away' for six months, but at least the maintainer is finally being honest about their work-from-home productivity metrics. Turns out the real blocker wasn't dependency hell or merge conflicts - it was just good old-fashioned human priorities. Still more transparent than most enterprise release roadmaps
Explains why Linux desktops stay in eternal beta: upstream's too busy forking processes of a different kind
Classic priority inversion: PersonalLife got RT FIFO, LinuxDesktop is stuck at nice +19 - still waiting for its slot in the “year of the Linux desktop” scheduler
The Year of the Linux Desktop blocked by a P1 dependency: non‑deterministic WFH tasks; the RCA hilariously cites “Twitter for iPhone” as the upstream
with myself Comment deleted
Right hand* Comment deleted
Nice try, but we all know that could not be real. Comment deleted
👍👍😂 Comment deleted
March 2020 meme Comment deleted
> linux > having sex something is wrong here Comment deleted
why? Comment deleted
nerds usually don't have anyone to have sex with, because the only thing they love is their computer Comment deleted
An old joke on this topic exactly: The Lord has descended upon an IT guy "having sex" with his computer. — Would you like to have REAL sex, my son? — Sure, my Lord! And so the Lord has created Windows 95. Comment deleted
THE ONLY THING I know for real There will be blood-shed The man in the mirror nods his head The only one left Will ride upon the dragon’s back Comment deleted
also absolute banger Comment deleted
Sure thing for a fulltime dev Comment deleted
So that's what has been delaying the year of linux on the desktop Comment deleted