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Will we all be fucked or is there a Linus 2?

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[–] obinice@lemmy.world 264 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We've all agreed that when he dies it would be disrespectful to keep using Linux so we'll pack it up and switch to Windows from them on.

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The year of the netbsd desktop is finally here.

[–] RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

what's the bsd equivalent to arch

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think BSD is the BSD equivalent to arch.

[–] elvith@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

"I'm using netBSD btw...."

[–] nixcamic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah isn't Arch heavily inspired by the BSD way?

[–] crispy_kilt@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

OpenBSD, probably

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 4 points 1 year ago

Is it still maintained ? I'd probably go with FreeBSD if I'm switching to BSD at all. It has ZFS out of the box and has support for nvidia's non opensource driver. I have used it as a desktop OS for a good 3 months, it was pretty good (even though I couldn't game on it)

[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago
  • The year of Linux desktop finally arrives
  • Linus dies
  • Me: installs NetBSD and waits
[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago

I'll go back to HaikuOS, it should be ready by then. ReactOS will still be working on Win98 support.

[–] Jivebunny@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Time to start teaching Holy-C at uni.

[–] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

But what happens when Bill Gates is dead?!

[–] kebabslob@lemmy.blahaj.zone 41 points 1 year ago

We all become MacroHard

[–] Damage@feddit.it 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bill Gates will never die, he'll transfer his consciousness to the 5G network and control us all through vaccines

"You see officer, it wasn't me robbing that bank. Bill Gates did it!"

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All the vaccine microchips activate and we all become Bill Gates. ʘ⁠‿⁠ʘ

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

MSed day to you

[–] gunpachi@lemmings.world 7 points 1 year ago

That would be one helluva evil plan.

[–] pan_troglodytes@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

cheering in the streets? orgies?

[–] Diplomjodler@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago

I think I have a Windows ME CD lying around somewhere. Can I use that?

[–] backhdlp@lemmy.blahaj.zone -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That does sound almost kinda dope because that's a lot of developers who could make Windows suck a lot less

[–] Hexagon@feddit.it 20 points 1 year ago

Microsoft: we don't do that here

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 13 points 1 year ago

The point of non-free licensed software is that you cannot improve it.