• Avid Amoeba
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    God doesn’t work. Linux does. Prayers to God are left unanswered. Prayers to Linux are accepted via well defined interfaces and answered if you have the correct permissions.

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      Tbf, God might consider prayers based on how they’ll affect the underlying system as a whole, because any human being with sudo rights would be a massive problem in no time.

      Linux might be more appealing to some because by default it assumes you’re a god and fully understand the ramifications of whatever you’re asking of it. We’re wired to enjoy instant gratification, even if it leads to disaster. :p

  • المنطقة عكف عفريت
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    Religion is about shit that is not real. Linux is about good engineering and open source software.

    Big fat downvote for this pathetic attempt st being provocative.

    • Tiger Jerusalem
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      Religion is about shit that is not real

      “Year of Linux on Desktop”

      “Better than Windows”

      “Linux is easy”

      “You never need to use the terminal”

      “Everything you need runs on Linux”

      “Android IS Linux, therefore is the most popular OS”

      Yeah, sounds like religion to me.

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        Year of Linux on Desktop

        More of a meme than anything else

        Better than Windows

        Well yeah, it is in almost every way.

        Linux is easy

        It’s not particularly hard.

        You never need to use the terminal

        Yeah, that’s just a lie.

        Everything you need runs

        Depends what you need

        Android IS Linux

        Well, it is.

      • المنطقة عكف عفريت
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        Except all of it is true and tested. :/

        Ps: have you ever heard anyone say “Islam/Sikhism/AnyOtherReligion is easy”?

        No. Because it’s a really dumb comparison.

        • Tiger Jerusalem
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          Talking like a true believer, thank you for making my point.

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            Talking like a true believer, thank you for making my point.

            Remember kids, don’t hesitate to use the “elitism” card when you’re loosing an linux argument

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              Remember kids, don’t hesitate to use the “elitism” card when you’re loosing an linux argument

              I didn’t realise it was a competition. BTW, how do someone loose an argument? By making generic points? By making it less specific?

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        Android is crap and Linux is better not mentioned together with it. I want a true Linux phone with gnome-shell as a user interface!

        Sadly existing phones don’t fit in my pocket and have a very bad battery life.

    • @WaffelsonOP
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      I mean, people’s attitude towards linux here is similar to religion

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        This is a meme community, I’m not sure what you’re expecting.

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        Nope.

        The attitude here is the same as the attitude towards anything that really works and it works really well so people love to recommend it. This happens to many other things and products.

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    no, linux is the kernel. “free software” is the religion

    (but seriously, theres nothing here that could be called a religion, that would be like saying d&d is a religion or a cult because a lot of people like it, or like calling any community a religion. it makes no sense)

    • @[email protected]
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      The difference between Linux and a cult is that Linus Torvalds actually did what he said he’d do.

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        Yeah he doesn’t have a creepy harem while making promises about wacky rituals granting access to “The Ultimate Repository,” while telling you to cut ties with any non-Linux friends. (Yes, even BSD.)

        Then we could start worrying. Lol

    • Avid Amoeba
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      Even free software isn’t, because free software delivers objective, non-placebo benefits to people, whether they “practice it” or not. Even when they don’t consciously participate or are even aware of it.

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        yeah i put the stuff inside () because i want people to know nothing here and nothing related is a religion

  • @cloudless
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    If it is a religion, then it is a very fragmented one.

      • @Voyajer
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        This implies there is only one true distro and the rest are attempts to misguide you into using closed source software

    • @IsThisAnAI
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      My brother in Christ, have you seen the history of the 3 major religions on this planet?

    • @esc27
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      Do you have any idea how many denominations of Christianity there are? And most of them are open source.

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        I would rather say that Christianity is open source, but it’s distributed with the MIT license and every relevant implementation is closed source and plants DRM software all over the system

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    I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

    Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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    The Linux source, coc and governance continues to be improved upon, while the religious scripture and institutions mainly stay fixed

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    Where’s the Linux orgy’s guys? Cult’s are supposed to have orgy’s.

    • @Landless2029
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      Holy crap that’s actually a fantastic image in my head…

      Some people would think it’s a religion cause linux isn’t a household name.

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    232 months ago

    The true cultists are emacs users…and we keep getting stronger.

  • FuglyDuck
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    Torvold’s is still alive right?

    Cults are religions whose founders are still alive.

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        And Stallman took skin from his foot, and when he had given thanks, he broke it and gave it to his disciples, saying, ‘Take and eat; this is my body.’

      • FuglyDuck
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        Okay, so we have two prophets. Unconventional, I know, but I think you can see the advantages. For example, vacations in aruba.

  • @[email protected]
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    If Linux is a religion like Christianity then I expect Jesus to appear in front of me right now and double my fishes.

    Linux works, Christianity does not.

    • @Moshpirit
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      Replace Bash with Fish. Open two terminals.

      echo “Check mate”.

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          TIL it’s actually checkmate lol (I’m not a native English speaker).

          BTW, loved your response hahaha

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            Lol

            Actually, I ment mate as in romantic partner. “Checkmate” refers to a move in chess.

            Edit: I commented this without reading the full context, I guess I completely forgot about this conversation lol 😅

  • @Duamerthrax
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    Might be thinking of TempleOS there.

  • @Dasnap
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    Does using Linux, Windows, and MacOS simultaneously make me some kind of faith-exploring pilgrim?

  • @esc27
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    So which OS is which religion? Right now I’m thinking unix=Judaism (older, predecessor to newer oses), linux=Christianity (distros=demominations, roots in unix.), macos=Islam(jobs is their prophet, roots in unix). Not sure about Windows. I guess maybe it could be Christianity and Linux Hindu or Buddhist…

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      Windows can’t be Christianity, it’s not fragmented enough. It’s either Scientology because it’s tightly controlled and without meaningful denominations. Or Buddhism from a very western point of view (i.e. oblivious to the denominations and local variations).