• @NegativeInf@lemmy.world
          0•11 months ago

          Nothing is really wrong with any distro. They each just have they general strengths and weaknesses. Different distros for specific tasks.

          It’s all just a flame war.

        • @FiskFisk33@startrek.website
          0•11 months ago

          Nothing really. Distros have different goals. Some distros have more access to bleeding edge updates than ubuntu.

          Some don’t like that ubuntu forces you to use the snap store, which is proprietary, with packages that are larger and run slow and hog a lot of memory compared to other package managers (such as apt)

    • @qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de
      0•1 year ago

      Come on bruh, if you’re gonna hate on Elon at least make your insults accurate/well-founded. Dude started and runs multiple massive companies, I think he can handle linux mint.

  • @Tudsamfa@lemmy.world
    0•1 year ago
    • Get everyone to use Linux
    • Buy Linux
    • Enshittify Linux with Ads until its almost as bad as Windows
    • Profit

    …what do you mean, “open-source”?

  • HexesofVexes
    0•1 year ago

    Quick, someone pretend to be “the Linux company” and convince him to buy it!

      • @LordAmplifier@pawb.socialEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        As the CEO of Linux, I’ve had long and intense discussions with Mr Musk about the future of the company if he were to buy it, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a very good and smart businessman. There is no doubt in my mind that our company will thrive under his competent leadership. The Linux Corporation™ is therefore proud to announce that we have decided to accept his gracious offer of 69 billion US dollars, payable in $100 Google Play gift cards.

        • HexesofVexes
          0•1 year ago

          You forgot to tell them that our head office is…

          300 Funston Ave, San Francisco, CA 94118

          …and all the play cards should be sent there!

      • @accideath@lemmy.world
        0•1 year ago

        Chromium was, however, a Google product from the very beginning that Google open-sourced themselves. Linux is too big with too many non-profit and for-profit companies and tons of independent individuals participating in its development for one person or company to control it outright.

        I mean, sure, for profit companies like Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical do have some influence but not so much that you can’t ignore their contributions if you don’t like them.

        For example, some ubuntu based distros (i.e Mint) circumvent snap from being installed the ubuntu way (without asking) because it goes against their philosophy. And if that’s still too much Ubuntu for you, there’s a Debian Edition of mint. And if that’s still too same-y for you, there are dozens of other distros based on slackware, rhel/fedora, arch, Gentoo, etc. There even are Linux distros without GNU.

        So, unless Muskiboy buys Linus Torvalds, I think the Linux community could easily ignore him building his own xOS.

            • @Jayjader@jlai.luEnglish
              0•1 year ago

              Maybe nowadays, with Elon’s imbecility so publicly visible.

              I’ve run Arch for close to 10 years, and was pretty jazzed by Musk in the early days of his presiding over Tesla and Space X. Then again, I was barely an adult at the time, and I hadn’t yet come across the first reports of terrible working conditions and his overall shittyness as a manager/exec.

              • @rwhitisissle@lemmy.world
                0•1 year ago

                A lot of people forget how overwhelmingly, insanely popular Musk was with way too online nerds. He was reddit’s golden child for years. Part of this is that whenever Disney started releasing the Marvel movies, beginning with Iron Man, Musk was front and center as the core inspiration for Tony Stark (yes, I’m serious, the director and Robert Downey Jr. basically went on record as saying as much) and he fucking milked that shit. It’s also important to understand that for a time he was seen as a forward looking entrepreneur whose business was “going to help save the planet by making electric cars so popular that every car manufacturer would switch to electric vehicle production to keep up.” If Musk was a genius at one thing, it was manipulating public perception of himself and his enterprises. It took years of him being a thin-skinned weirdo and massive corporate tool to undo the amount of positive sentiment he’d built for himself and Tesla.

            • @olutukko@lemmy.world
              0•1 year ago

              you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.

              to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.

            • cori <3 (she/her)
              0•1 year ago

              As a complete idiot who uses arch on her main PC, I can attest that you don’t have to be particularly smart to use it.

              • @0x4E4F@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
                0•1 year ago

                Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.

              • @GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
                0•1 year ago

                But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you’re smarter than you think.

    • cumEnglish
      0•1 year ago

      You say that, but I’ll be more than willing to try and sell him a copy of the source code.

      • Possibly linuxEnglish
        0•1 year ago

        I think he sees the decline of Windows like everyone else. He is in the tech space you know. It is kind of ironic that he is complaining about Microsoft. Tesla has its own issues.