• umbraroze@lemmy.world
    125·
    4 months ago

    Plot twist: the “wolves” are just furries going to a major infosec conference, and will also talk endlessly about Linux

  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
    102·
    4 months ago

    Im gonna sit next to him with my headphones on so I can’t hear him crying as I use chrome on my windows 11 laptop.

    • flying_sheep@lemmy.ml
      162·
      4 months ago

      Laptop tries to reboot for 5th update of the day

      I can’t connect to the internet, Dave, I’m afraid I cannot allow you to start me up again

      You try to ignore helpful tips from the guy next to you, pretending your headphones are still active.

      You choke back tears as Windows had enough from your feeble attempts to boot and the power button stops doing anything.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    161·
    4 months ago

    Depends if the guy has social skills. There’s someone who recently joined at my work who seems to have some social development issues. He’s perfectly intelligent, but has no apparent filter and discusses topics that aren’t appropriate to discuss with people you don’t really know (about his feelings in awkward ways). If it was someone like that, I’ll take the wolves. If it’s someone who can sense when I want to take a break, Linux guy and I probably have some common interests.

  • udon@lemmy.world
    31·
    4 months ago

    Totally next to the linux guy. In fact, I was in such a situation on the train before. I was just there working and the person sitting next to me noticed I had a linux desktop (in fact, GNU/Linux, btw). They were curious and vaguely interested in switching to linux for a while, so we had a nice conversation about this.

    I would not bring this up myself, but it’s cool that this happens sometimes (i.e., once in a few decades of life so far)

    • cheddar@programming.dev
      16·
      4 months ago

      Totally next to the linux guy. In fact, what you’re refering to as Linux is GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

    • Here4CatPics@lemmy.world
      8·
      4 months ago

      This is the good interaction, I had the bad version:

      Long ago in highschool I was interested in Linux but was thrown off it by the “Tech” group of kids who, even though we went to the same nerdy Star Trek club, told me I would be able to understand it.

      I get that hurt people, hurt others; but duck those guys from 20 years in the future.

      I’m getting back into interest for Linux cause I just got a Steam Deck and I’m curious as to what else I can do with a full desktop.

      • udon@lemmy.world
        71·
        4 months ago

        Good luck! The way I see it: Linux has its issues, but so do Windows and Mac OS (and others). The cool thing with Linux though is that for many problems you can create/find some form of error logs, google them, and someone online will help you. In most cases they have solved that problem already.

        Windows problems often feel like black magic: Something doesn’t work, but all you can do is knock on your laptop, turn it off and on again, and pray. Unless you’re lucky and find a shady program online that you can download and install, hoping the programmers mean well.

        With Mac OS, you can often solve problems by throwing money at them. But sometimes that doesn’t work and then you can’t do anything about them and just have to accept the one way to use your computer correctly.

        So in that sense I don’t think Linux is “harder”. There are problems of course, but you learn to think differently about them and are often able to solve them.

  • voldage@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 months ago

    Oh, trust me, it’s not a coincidence that ALL wolves decided to sit away from that uncouth beast.