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.
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!
dude is salty after removing the French language pack
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.
You’re not a developer.
shit, don’t tell my employer
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
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, 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.
Quality copypasta!
It’s oozing brainrot juice, freshly pumped out from the LinkedIn cesspit.
Edit: also “high-performers” lol.
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.
Yeah because I never have random issues with windows, or updates, or compatibility with hardware. /S
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”
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.
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. :)
I have been using Linux since my mid-teens in the late 2000s (with interruptions). In the late 2000s and early 2010s I really did do a lot of tinkering with the computer, but nowadays I rarely even install new software and hardly ever think of my operating system, at all.
Heh, I posted a basically identical timeline in reply to another comment above.
