Why I Run Linux I've worked in IT for 20+ years. Windows domains, macOS fleets, massive enterprise ERPs, large scale enterprise virtual environments. I've seen every flavor of locked down, vendor-controlled computing there is. I run Linux because I don't like asking permission. When I want software, I type one command. When something breaks, I read the logs and fix it. No support tickets or vendors. If things go sideways, I now have agents, which are better Linux administrators than I could have ever have dreamed of becoming. My OS doesn't spy on me. Doesn't show ads in the start menu. Doesn't force updates on its schedule. Doesn't declare my hardware "unsupported" because a marketing team wants me to buy new gear. All of my various servers have been running Ubuntu for years. I also use Docker spin up what I need. But the real reason is philosophical. Linux is the Bitcoin of operating systems. Open. Auditable. Community-owned. No CEO. No shareholders. No data harvesting business model hiding behind a glossy interface. Just software that does what it says, built by people who give a damn. You can't build a censorship resistant internet on a closed source OS. And you can't preach decentralization while your whole digital life runs through Redmond or Cupertino. I run Linux because the tools of freedom have to be free.

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oh hey maybe Bitcoin needs a foundation like Linux has ?? what a crazy idea! but it might just work... nah actually, Linux has been so successful just ossifying, I'm sure Bitcoin will also be very successful without any upgrades or changes
I've been running Linux off and on since 1996. I've probably ran dozens of distros over the years. I'm currently running Pop OS. I hated using Windows and fiat mining 😂
It's good, my only issue is the caps, like when you're typing and then do cap locks and then undo cap locks it still capitalizes the second letter.... I've had to slow my atyping down.... Idk if I can fix it some how But otherwise it's great and I'm not even missing Windows
Sí, es verdad que son buenas razones. Pero, el tema por el cual MUCHOS no quieren pasarse se resume en 4 puntos (según mi opinión): 1. Pereza: Windows es el sistema operativo por defecto en la mayoría de computadoras. Linus Torvalds ya lo dijo: cuando Linux venga pre-instalado en más computadoras, ahí es cuando Linux será aun más usado. Y, a pesar de que esto dudo mucho que pase, AUN ASÍ, Linux sigue agarrando cuota de mercado, año tras año. 2. Miedo: el proceso de instalar otro sistema operativo, aunque lo hagan sencillo para todo el mundo, siempre va a ser intimidante. Aunque, eso sí, sistemas operativos basados en Linux tienen MUCHA ventaja en cuanto a estos por las "live sesion": permitir que el usuario pruebe el sistema operativo ANTES de instalarlo es algo que da MUCHO gusto y seguridad (a diferencia del Ventanas...) 3. Desconocimiento: algunas personas, sencillamente, no saben que existe Linux. Solo conocen Windows y ya. 4. Percepción de complejidad: algunos saben que existe Linux, pero, piensan que abrir un navegador, buscar en Google o configurar un teclado o ratón es difícil. Esto es bastante fácil, la verdad. Y me gustaría decir: "no, no es complejo en absoluto", pero, estaría mintiendo si dijera que no he pasado algunas cuantas horas de sufrimiento lidiando con problemas en Linux que surgen, tanto porque tocas lo que no deberías, como también porque surgen DE LA MALDITA NADA. Afortunadamente, para esto último existe la IA que, personalmente, ha sido una ayuda IMPRESCINDIBLE a la hora de resolver estos problemas y, de paso, seguir aprendiendo sobre Linux. Y bueno, estas fueron las 4 razones, según yo, por la cual la gente no quiere pasarse a Linux. View quoted note →
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Afrstr 5 months ago
Okay, I've been toying with the idea of going full Linux. Thus is my sign. Now I just have to figure out how to switch without wrecking my machine (this has happened once before)
The Linux User’s Manifesto We refuse to ask permission to understand our own machines. We do not kneel before black boxes, sealed gardens, forced updates, rented software, or corporate priests who tell us convenience must cost us control. A computer is not an appliance for obedience. It is a workshop, a radio tower, a printing press, a laboratory, a synthesizer, a library, and a doorway to other minds. The user is not a tenant. The user is not a product. The user is sovereign. We choose Linux because freedom is not frictionless. Freedom has configuration files, logs, man pages, and sometimes a blinking shell asking whether we are willing to learn. We answer yes. The prompt is not an error. The prompt is an invitation. We believe systems should be inspected, modified, repaired, copied, shared, forked, broken, rebuilt, and understood. Source code is a public square. Documentation is a love letter. A bug report is a civic act. We honor the maintainers, packagers, translators, kernel hackers, distro builders, mirror operators, forum elders, and anonymous strangers who solved our exact problem twelve years ago and left the answer online. We reject artificial scarcity. We reject the idea that culture must be locked, knowledge metered, repair forbidden, and curiosity monetized. We reject systems designed to make helplessness feel normal. Architecture is politics. Protocols are politics. Defaults are politics. Encryption is dignity expressed in mathematics. Interoperability is a refusal of captivity. Network is a dance floor. The distro is the sound system. The kernel is the bassline. The shell is the strobe. The repo is the crate. The community is the rave. No kings. No landlords. No walled gardens. No silent telemetry. No forced obsolescence. No contempt for the user. We do not demand that everyone become an expert. We demand that everyone retain the right to become one. We believe beginners are future maintainers. We remember our first broken boot, our first permissions mistake, our first triumphant `sudo`, and our first realization that the machine was not magic. It was legible. We do not worship difficulty. We want systems that are humane, powerful, transparent, and hackable: desktops for children, servers for dissidents, laptops for artists, clusters for scientists, routers for villages, and old machines resurrected from the landfill. We run Linux not because it is perfect. We run Linux because perfection is less important than freedom, and freedom is something you can debug. Read the source. Share the tools. Encrypt the message. Patch the system. Fork the future. Login accepted.
Oh wow. You still run Slack? Legend. I used Slack in the 90s and then as a webserver in the early 00s. I haven't used it in probably 20 years.
I haven't ran GrapheneOS in probably 5 years now? In 2010 I got my first Android phone. I wanted the Google Nexus One, but it wasn't available on my carrier. Anyway, my first Android phone was the HTC Droid Incredible. A friens basically told me hey you're a tech geek you should run a custom ROM. And I had no clue what he was talking about. I headed over to xda-developers.com and went full Android nerd. For the next decade I ran ever custom ROM I could find, made my own, ran custom kernels and radios, etc. I started with MIUI, and moved around to CyanogenMod, ParanoidAndroid, AOKP, and several others. I mostly ran CM though. I did try Graphene and Calyx years ago as I mentioned. I don't run a custom OS now because I don't want to dick with my phone all day long. I don't have time. I want it to work when I need it. My phone is my #1 computing device and I need it to just work.
#2 image 1. Every cancer patient should get cured 🙏🏻 View quoted note → 2. Linux is the OS of freedom 🖥️ View quoted note → 3. Waze without the centralized tracking 😍 View quoted note → 4. Nostr is just for plebs who likes freedom 👇🏻 View quoted note → 5. Love and kindness is still exist on Nostr ❤️ View quoted note → 6. A huge difference between the communities of Nostr and X 👇🏻 View quoted note → 7. A nice life lesson from a nostrich 📖 View quoted note → 8. What do you think? 🤔 View quoted note → 9. Let’s help him to test and build Powr 🫱🏻‍🫲🏿 View quoted note → 10. Is Clave on App Store? 😍 View quoted note → 11. Do you think so? 🫵🏻 View quoted note → #community_nostr_recap
I didn't mean that you cannot use it. I meant that unfortunately Linux users are extremely against Bitcoin. In my experience every Linux guy I know all think this is so some of a scam and don't want even hear about it. They think nostr is the same type of scam. It is so sad!
Yes. I think in the last decade many people got more cornered in their circle of thoughts. And the freedom to listen to stuff one probably does not agree with got smaller. I think it has a lot to do with doomscrolling and overconsuming, which brings many people into a stress situation. They only react in a type of "fight or flight" mode. Most of the time it is not important, that we decide fast (fight or flight), but rather that we can find good decisions. I feel you.
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