“No, Karen, I won’t hack your WiFi.”
I use Linux because the Windows normies recoil from my computer in fear whenever I open the terminal, like a school of fish around a shark. Sometimes I even open
htopif I want the office to myself.sudo apt install hollywood
no seriously install hollywood and run it it’s hilarious
Is this the application that shows more and more code whenever you hit a key on the keyboard?
Not exactly. It splits the terminal into multiple tiles and each one contains a different Hacker screen. Anything from Matrix-style falling characters to echoing a random manpage to a filesystem tree to a character graphic world map.
That’s https://hackertyper.com/ that I know of
Thank you. I love it.
Works on Termux:
pkg install hollywood. Best in landscape, but does work in portrait.
This happens with my screensaver that cycles between error messages like bsod in different OS
That Linux distribution? Albert Einstein. Everyone clapped.
Wait, which of these Windows users are aware enough of Linux to have a formed expectation of Steam working under it or not? Like, they don’t know enough to understand what it is, but they’re super concerned that Steam, of all things, won’t run on it?
Are these Very Real Windows Users from Canada? Did they approach the poster with tears in their eyes?
Here is my take on their thought process:
“it’s not Windows, gaming under non-windows is crap, my main game point is steam, so can it run steam?”
Here’s my alternative proposal for their thought process:
“Linux?”
Alternately “I wonder what’s for dinner”.
People really overestimate how top of mind Linux is for the average Windows user.
It’s me lol and that’s basically my only concern as a potential newbie
When I switched from Windows to Linux, that was literally the first thing I heard from a colleague: "What about your games?
He knew what Linux was, but had never used it (until I convinced all my colleagues to switch to Linux).
I think they expect gaming on linux to be like gaming on macos which is actually awful. As someone who has spent like her entire life gaming on linux, I tried to help a friend figure out how to run a game on their mac and it took so long to get working and was so confusing
I don’t think they expect gaming on Linux to be anything. I don’t think they consider gaming on Linux at all.
Probably the only thing they know about Linux is from when the YouTuber Linus Tech Tips tried to install Steam and broke his computer. That’s why they’d bring up Steam specifically.
Man, scale is such a hard thing to get intuitively.
I mean, yeah, Linus Sebastian has a huge following. It’s a huge following of self-selected nerds, though. Most people have no idea who he is. Wouldn’t even know what he’s talking about if you showed it to them.
And that was one thing that he did once. That mostly nobody cared about unless they are an active Linux fan. Which is itself a tiny niche.
Humans just have a hard time parsing when things are big or small, particularly if it’s things they are a part of. This is not stupidity, it’s just how human perception works. It works both ways, too. A lot of mondern media is about having these parasocial relationships with huge media personalities and thinking you’ve found some hidden gem only to find out that your grandma follows them already.
It’s not that we’re dumb as a species, it’s that we’ve created this ecosystem built specifically to exploit human perceptual limits for profit and now it’s all we have. It kinda sucks.
Sorry, I went places there, but this whole thread (and honestly, the entire Lemmy linux community) makes me think about this constantly.
Its cute that Linux users think the average Windows users is even aware of the existence of Linux
No one ever asked me “Oh, are you using linux?” Even if they see that your Desktop Environment is different from what they’re used to on Windows, they usually don’t notice it’s anything else than Windows.
This has nothing to do with Linux and everything to do with using unfamiliar equipment and/or software. I’ve gotten those comments on seprarate occasions from having command prompt up and from having an IDE up in dark mode. Also from using an external HDD, external sd card reader/writer, wired mouse, and wired keyboard back when external hdds were relatively niche. Too many wires I guess.
The first time I ever experienced this was in a printshop with a bunch of older guys who were definitely not computer illiterate, but all gathered around the monitor for the server that ran our RIP/platemaker to watch commands appear in the terminal when I remoted in from my computer to do something or other. (They would go into the room and work directly on the machine, but it was loud in there and smelled funny, so I remoted in.)
They made jokes about me being a hacker, and although being distinctly boomer-ish, it was high praise coming from some of the smartest people I’ve ever worked with.
(I’ve worked with more accomplished people, and more highly educated people, but not with folks who had built a successful business that dealt with a variety of complex tech from the ground up with their own knowledge and effort. It was a bit charming to have them wowed by such a simple thing.)
Says yes to both
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in college almost none of my friends or classmates noticed I am not using windows, and almost all of them were CS students
Maybe they just didn’t care?
You are obviously not doing enough work with a full screen terminal being open… 😜
“So you’re really good at computers right?”
