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This “just use linux” mentality is peak broke-brain logic.
You think spending an hour every day troubleshooting and googling how to fix it is some badge of honor? Congrats, you saved $0 and burned the only free hour you had after work. Hope the "Freedom" was worth it.
Linux isn’t free. It costs time, energy, and attention — the three things high-performers guard with their life. Compile time, Maintenance, debugging, dependancies, cleanup — you’re bleeding hours to save pennies. That’s not frugality, that’s time poverty.
You’re not a developer. You’re a tired guy distro hopping at 10pm convincing yourself it’s “self care.” Meanwhile someone else paid $100 for Windows, finished a deck, hit the gym, and got 8 hours of sleep. But hey, you configured your system by hand. King shit.
And don’t even start with the “but privacy!” cope. 90% of y’all using Linux aren’t toppling goverments or hacking banks. You’re watching Youtube, checking Gmail, Twitter, and scrolling the same niche subreddit every night. You’re not optimizing for privacy, you’re optimizing for feeling morally superior while wasting time.
Time is the only real flex. You get more of it by buying it back. If that costs $100 for Windows, that’s a steal. If you’re in any field where leverage matters — CAD, Excel, Adobe — and you’re still compiling Linux from scratch like it’s 1999, you’re not serious.
This isn’t about being rich. It’s about understanding what moves the needle. High-output people don’t micromanage their PCs — they outsource. You want to be productive? Stop pretending Linux is a virtue. It’s not. It’s a time sink.
You’re not a developer.
shit, don't tell my employer
Funny. It had me up until paragraph 5 negated paragraph 3. When you can netinst Debian and do all the things in para 5 with iceweasel without doing a single compile or chore from para 3 it's a good reminder how far Linux has come in my lifetime. :)
It's oozing brainrot juice, freshly pumped out from the LinkedIn cesspit.
Edit: also "high-performers" lol.
When the copypasta it's so good people actually think you are stupid. Congratulations, this infuriated me even when I knew beforehand what it was. Peak writing. Please don't do it again, to much pasta.
Unpopular opinion, but I install Linux on my computers and they just work for like 5 years straight, with me spending exactly 0 hours each day fixing anything. Whereas I fix other peoples stupid printer issues and Windows becoming incompatible with the hardware or some nasty messages from some antivirus or strange software, multiple times a year...
I see however how some disgrunteled people would write something like this.
I installed Mint on my wife's computer last week, and we have had problems getting the printer to print, and then to scan. I've installed the manufacturer's driver a couple of times and it seems to do those functions okay, but some features still don't work.
I've been on Linux for a year and a half now with zero downtime.
I've been using it full time for 21 years, and dual boot for years before that. Early on it definitely took up a bit of time, but that's mostly because I was interested in breaking things and learning to fix them. Even 10-15 years ago I don't think I would have spent more than a few hours a month fixing things. These days it's a few hours a year, and that's only when I start messing around with something in a careless way.
Same. If I'm fixing something, it's because I did something I knew I shouldn't; which I rarely do. For instance, forced the upgrade of Ubuntu to 24.04 even though Canonical said that wasn't ready and had it disabled, but 24.04 was fine for new installs. I went out of my way to enabled the upgrade, let it break, and then I spent 5 minutes fixing the upgrade. Everything was fine after that. That was never my experience when I had to use Windows. It's like trying to start your carborated engine in the 80s. It's just a roll of the dice that things don't work with Windows.
Oh god, printer drivers are the fucking worst.
dude is salty after removing the French language pack
We might have found a victim of the "just install gentoo" prank
You lost me at "high-performers". Go back to LinkedIn with those mega-corp mouth-noises
high performer just means you got a staff of 20 to do the job of 5 people while you sit in meetings saying "KPIs" and "MVP"
my friends started saying "Linux moment" whenever I have an issue with anything so naturally insay "windows moment" every single time their game crashes or they "need to reinstall graphics drivers"
oh no! it's [insert excuse] not windows!
My computer "accidentally" installed windows 11 yesterday. So I spent all of today trying to fix all the stuff that broke. In the end it didn't work, so I'm finally moving over to Linux soon.
Same, my journey with linux started when windows took too much energy and peace of mind
Funny, I'm trying to think of the amount of times my 8 year old daughter asked me to switch to windows because Linux has too many issues, and I've got nothing.
The real copium is thinking Linux is poverty, just to feel good about windows.
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Bro, I average zero hours a day troubleshooting Debian. Shit just works.
The only troubleshooting I do is when I tinker and break shit, which the average user would not do.
Opensuse's freaking rolling release just works. This stuff is very mature. It is just different and that scares people.
People are still trying to use the same arguments they did in the 90s-00s, but they don't work anymore.
Funny how you can SOUND like a person who doesn't wash his own underpants. And a white male in his late 30's. And a high-performer but on a razor narrow and specificaly capitalistic set of criteria.
High quality copy-pasta
OMG it's actualy about cooking. Was it satire?
I hope it is.
Boring. 1999 called, they want their good, old Linux rant back. Seriously, I have heard every sentence of that before. Ten times and I have argued against all of it just as many times. Respect to everyone who still does but I have come to the conlusion that it's just waste of time. Whenever I'm hearing these meticulous lists of complaints I know they're not written by anyone who looks for solutions but just loves to complain and tell other people how stupid they are. That's a lot more satisfying than feeling technically incompetent. You could just restart your system and be a happy Microslave ever after. There's no need to bring down reasonable people who have kernels to compile and cryptic configuration files to edit on theiir green on black Tectronix terminals. Hahaha. Ha. Ha.
I almost didn't notice the title.
"High performers don't waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work."
Bro, you're literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don't prick yourself with that "Sheriff of Linux" badge you made it out that bottle lid.
Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn't there when I last looked!
ITT: Poes Law
Almost got me lmao
Honestly, I actually save time using Linux compared to Windows. The problems that I had, have and will have are infinitely easier to solve (search engine -> Ctrl+C -> Ctrl-V), instead of reinstalling the whole damn OS (and every single application, game, file, and so on and so forth) whenever the tiniest thing breaks. I actually gain more time to live, because my hair isn't going white and falling out due to seeing AI slop, ads and cookie banners on my OS all the time.
I love Linux. I read this rant. I still love Linux.
Some people derive a great deal of pleasure from hand configuring their system to reflect all their ideals. For some people, it’s fun. Leave them alone and let the enjoy their computers.
Haha this is some good pasta.
high-performers, high-output people, gtfo with this stupid shit.
Is swearing allowed here?
As far as I know. But if you really want to p*ss people off, deliberately self-censor when you do.
No. Not on the intern*t.
I fucking hope so.
FUCK. Yep, it worked.
Lol, what a looser