Operating Systems for Different Life Stages

I know it's a joke, I hate to be that guy. But this meme feels old and obsolete now. I can't remember the last time I had to tweak my Linux. The fun is gone

For real. I recently had to swap my window manager to xmonad just to feel something again.
Cool! Maybe I can challenge you. Can you help me figure out how I can get my Hyprland session back on my Arch install? I have a Radeon 7700 XT and I recently installed an RTX 4070 to assist with some compute tasks. With both cards installed GDM doesn't populate the Hyprland option. If I remove the 4070 everything goes back to normal.
(This is also a joke, you don't need to help me troubleshoot this.)
(Unless you actually know how in which case I can pay you $20 for your time)
- Hyprland session
  Wayland compositor
  RTX 4070
  Nvidia GPU.
- Upvoted, joke appreciated :)
By an Index and get into VR gaming on Linux. We livin on the edge ovar her. Shit breaks every day and there's a wonky python script you have to use if you wanna be able to put the base stations into sleep mode 👍
Time to do LFS
Can i interest you on the deep customization of nixos?
Jokes aside. I don't really use the deep patching nix enables. The area of customization i want: look and feel of applications. It's not something that's doable really. Desktops are just different ways to launch a web browser T_T
mint
You need TempleOS?
Last week for me lol.
AMD DRM bug in the kernel that prevents certain 3D rendering or something. Most games through WINE/proton was broken. Had to downgrade the kernel.
Wouldn't call that fun as it prevented one of the very few days per month I get to play games with some of my friends
- It's interesting to read people's issues on Linux. It seems almost all of them come from the graphic stack and gaming. Using an Intel card I haven't seen an issue in forever.
Upgrade to Fedora 40 was downright boring.

Do you have multiple monitors?
Yes - Don't buy a mac
No - Still don't buy a mac

I have a Mac with multiple monitors. It handles them a hell of a lot better than my PC at work.
I mean, yeah, don’t ever buy a Mac, but what’s up with the multiple monitors? Do they struggle with it?
- The base model chips only supports 2 monitors. The Pro, Max, and Ultra chips all support multiple monitors.
- macOS out of the box fucking sucks for monitor scaling with third party monitors. It's honestly laughable for a modern OS. You can install some third party software that fixes it completely, but it really shouldn't be necessary. I use an (admittedly pretty strange) LG DualUp monitor as a secondary, and out of the box macOS can only make everything either extremely tiny, extremely large, or blurry.
  Other than that, I've had no problems at all, and the window scaling between different DPI monitors is a lot smoother than it was with Windows previously.
- For me it's that compared to windows and linux, handling multiple windows between screens is always problematic, and is made worse by alt-tab bringing up all the windows for an application, which means they pop up in the other monitors too which isn't usually what I want. Maximizing is usually not as straightforward as one would hope, and the dock moves to any window if you leave your pointer at the bottom which can get annoying fast. As some point out apparently there's 3rd party software that allows you to fix these issues, but that's not an option for me because I use a locked-down Mac for work and can't install 3rd party software, so I'm stuck with the annoying base behavior.

    
$ pacman -Si god
error: package 'god' was not found

Take that, theists!

You don't need god, pacman is our god!

I can be as rich as god and wouldn't go for windows or apple. I would rather invest the money in good Foss development

Probably the reason as to why you aren't rich in the first place
- I can objectively state the contrary.
  Mac don't cause riches to customer.
  Riches cause Mac customer.
- Yes, my idealism is one of the reasons, another is severe ADHD.
That's fantastic, man! Congratulations, really!
Being a support person, if I was rich enough to frivolously buy systems, I'd have at least one of each as a reference system. Yes, I know, vms, but that's for saving money/space. Especially MAC I'd have some hardware too. Definitely not a main system though. I currently have a broken Mac and a cheap chromebook for that reason, though due to being broken the Mac is rather useless now. When it worked I often used it to help test/troubleshooting customer stuff.
For real I've put in a fraction supporting OpenSource then I had if I had to buy unfree software and I've gotten way more out of it.
I see it as a difference between owning and renting.

Everyone always forgets the "it just works," easy, normie distributions like Fedora. I guess people figure if you're looking for an OS like that, you might as well just use Windows, but I'd rather not.

There's something to practicing with the operating system family that most big commercial outfits use. Plus SELinux is neat, and there's no Canonical ads.
I use Fedora with home-manager, btw. After using Arch and Debian for years I really think Fedora (or adjacent like Nobara) is on its way to being the de facto starter distro.
- I've seen Fedora lauded for being so responsive, and I'd probably go for that over the super bloated Ubuntu. I know it's not debloated either but that is preferable over dealing with Arch which needs a lot of tinkering time which eats into my work time.

I have tried templeOS. It is amazing one guy built all that. It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell

It feels like it needs training sessions to make better use of it, and also it is wacky as hell
Seems the description of MS Office.
- Lol

This one seriously lack of Hannah Montana Linux.

Do you like ponies?

At first I thought this was cursed
No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch
Now I think it’s very cursed
EDIT:
Ok after investigating the kernel is forked from https://github.com/klange/toaruos so it’s slightly less cursed
- Damn I was getting excited about a kernel built in scratch.
Oh man, I'm so disappointed. The defaults don't even port over any of the "really good" MLP themes. Might be because DE versions have changed, but I remember there being a fairly well done (for a stupid gag anyways) Rainbow Dash theme for KDE4.
I mean, if I'm going to embrace the inner brony, why would I want the same generic looking "dark" theme every other offering has...

There is never a wrong time to choose Linux

Haha, it amuses me to no end that ever since I watched a "Down the Rabbit Hole" video on Youtube about TempleOS a few years back I have seen it crop up in varies places from time to time as I don't remember ever seeing anything about it before.

Makes me wonder if it was always there and I just didn't notice it until I was familiar with it.

"Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" or "frequency illusion."
- google trends shows a steady increase in popularity
There's a name for this phenomenon which I will notice all around me once I remember the name of said phenomenon.
- "Baader-Meinhof phenomenon" or "frequency illusion."
I think in this specific scenario you can attribute most of it’s popularity directly to that video

Where's Hannah Montana Linux?

This meme was obviously created inside of it.

ah yes, a fireship viewer.

Are you a space alien ?

PLAN 9

Hey in have a Mac and can confirm I am poor 🤣

Buying a Mac didn't help.
- I didn't buy it I've used Linux for 15 years its actually running Asahi Linux
Hackintosh
- No M2 Mac I didn't buy was a present lol

It's the storage prices. Any more than 1tb and you gotta sell a kidney.
My coworker does graphic design, and he paid $8k for his Mac laptop.
I honestly don't know if there's anything I could order in a Windows/Linux laptop that would add up to $8k.
I get great performance out of my $90 eBay laptop running Debian, by the way.

Are you rich question should also be applied to windows nowadays.

Low effort

missing bsd 9front and any device with Uxn support

My favorite line in the fireship video this is from goes something like "FreeBSD is the real answer but I like being able to Google things"
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  the fireship video this is from
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