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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 69 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In my experience, Linux folks are just happy to find each other in the wild.

Hell, I'm just happy to meet people that are Linux-curious lol.

It's mostly online that the distro wars are fought.

[–] nullboi@lemmy.world 32 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I've never met a linux enthusiast or even a user IRL. So at this point if I ever do, they will achieve best friend status off of that alone.

So strange that an operating system has that affect on me

[–] Evkob@lemmy.ca 22 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You never knowingly met a Linux user. Statistically speaking, you probably have.

The issue is that OS-preference is not very common as a small talk topic. This is why you should name drop your fav distro in every conversation.

[–] nullboi@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I have "rm -rf /" tattooed on my left arm. I'm hoping one day I hear someone say "Hey you forgot --no-presrve-root or /*".

Met one guy (my therapist weirdly enough) that knew it was a *nix command. That was pretty cool.

[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

off to bring up gentoo penguins during every conversation i have

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

I've slowly been decorating my IT office with various Linux trinkets.

I just got a foam stress "ball" Tux recently, and I plan on getting a Debian coffee mug, maybe some Linux/FOSS related stickers lol.

[–] Bronzie@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I got a colleague last year, but he is the only one.

Super nice to have Proxmox/Docker/Portainer discussions at work.

Hope you find a new best friend soon!

[–] jrgn@lemmy.world 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It's the same with leftists in my experience. The fighting is worst online

[–] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah cause you have to say that insane shit to someone's face and you know you'll sound like an unhinged fuck