Have it your* way.
*your way may involve several hours of configuration
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Make Mac style advert showing everything from a touchscreen experience with fully integrated apps to the most advanced computing one could image
'all in your hands, have it your way'
Linux, when you want to tell the computer to shut the fuck up and just do it's job.
you don't even have to tell it 😎 Linux is the silent dangerous type standing in a shady corner
It’s yours.
"Better learn to use the command line, kid"
Your computer needs a dose of FREEEEEEDOM
This seems to imply that Linux makes your computer produce oil
Replace OS before they replace you. Linux - the last adventure.
Uh I guess we'd need to extend it to Linux + FOSS in general.
Power users: I think we should steal whatever the latest IKEA marketing team have come up with because the appeal is kinda the same as IKEA furniture where you feel more ownership over something having built it from the flat packed box your self.
Average users: does a degoogled chromeOS exist? You just need a video of someone playing with a tablet like interface, then choosing to postpone an update with no dark pattern om the textbox prompt.
One line slogan: Did you ever wish the people who made your software were more passionate about the product than their next promotion?
Your hardware Your choice Your style
more powerful than a speeding loco motive
Good one from back in the day (not mine): "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"
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Fun facts:
- The backend of Microsoft's biggest money maker Azure runs on Linux: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-showcases-the-azure-cloud-switch-acs/
- The most-used OS inside Azure is Linux: https://thenewstack.io/microsoft-linux-is-the-top-operating-system-on-azure-today/
- Microsoft is the second biggest contributor to open source software: https://opensourceindex.io/
- Microsoft has published their own Linux distro: https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux
- Microsoft has published a support page on how to install Linux: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/linux/install
The OS wars are over, and Linux won.
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"For slogan, please refer to the according man page"
more seriously maybe "Software it your own way"
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I didn't come up with it and the picture is not mine. I just found it on the internet earlier.
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"It's terminal"
Its not windows
Join a Movement, not a Marketplace
"It just works"
..because that is the state of a mainstream modern distro, and it's not true of Windows anymore.
Alternatively "No nagging, no forced online account."
It just works (on my machine)
ftfy
Plural.
Can't be arsed fixing that for you.
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Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro
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"Own your computer" and "Free your computer"
The least annoying launcher for your web browser
Own your Computer
With a bit of a double-entendre, "It powers the world", since it's the most common server platform.
More funny: "It's not an OS. It's a hobby."
Batman runs Linux. Shouldn't you?
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