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.
“High performers don’t waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work.”
Bro, you’re literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don’t prick yourself with that “Sheriff of Linux” badge you made it out that bottle lid.
Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn’t there when I last looked!
I love Linux. I read this rant. I still love Linux.
Some people derive a great deal of pleasure from hand configuring their system to reflect all their ideals. For some people, it’s fun. Leave them alone and let the enjoy their computers.
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!
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.
Lol, what a looser
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
Want more time? Just buy it back guys.
Haha this is some good pasta.
I almost didn’t notice the title.
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.
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. :)
Is swearing allowed here?
As far as I know. But if you really want to p*ss people off, deliberately self-censor when you do.
No. Not on the intern*t.
FUCK. Yep, it worked.
I fucking hope so.
Yeah because I never have random issues with windows, or updates, or compatibility with hardware. /S
Boring. 1999 called, they want their good, old Linux rant back. Seriously, I have heard every sentence of that before. Ten times and I have argued against all of it just as many times. Respect to everyone who still does but I have come to the conlusion that it’s just waste of time. Whenever I’m hearing these meticulous lists of complaints I know they’re not written by anyone who looks for solutions but just loves to complain and tell other people how stupid they are. That’s a lot more satisfying than feeling technically incompetent. You could just restart your system and be a happy Microslave ever after. There’s no need to bring down reasonable people who have kernels to compile and cryptic configuration files to edit on theiir green on black Tectronix terminals. Hahaha. Ha. Ha.
