Oh no!

If only there was a non-Windows alternative.

OMG! Elon you should totally direct your minions of big brain programmers to create a new OS… XOS? About 6 months oughta be enough time to crank that out.

Ugh flashbacks of trying to install Slackware on my Pentium-based Compaq Presario (originally Win95)…

I do not look back fondly on those times.

It’s OK to personally “not understand” a popular meme (400 updoots at last count). Create and vote for content you really understand.

As a trans woman who exclusively uses Linux and 90% FOSS, avid wearer of thigh highs and skirts, it makes perfect sense.

Something for all of us.

You are waaaay overthinking this.

It’s a crossover meme from trans/gender-nonconforming spaces. We have ways of finding humor in what is often an frightening and deadly serious situation (being trans in this world).

One of the in-jokes we have that I saw quite a bit on reddit, is that especially trans women and femboys “are all programmers or IT people” and being technical minded, use Linux. (I’m a trans woman who uses Fedora… Hi)

I think there is also the political and economic association that comes with FOSS – it’s a sort of disruption of the norm in capitalism, which is to have proprietary secrets as a store of value. FOSS challenges the notion that the fruits of labor should be privitized. In that sense it’s a radical movement, always has been, even if it has been adopted by the world at large.

Trans folk are as a rule, politically left-leaning, it seems these days we must be to exist, and so FOSS like Linux naturally appeals to the community.

Obviously there are going to be many non-technical trans people, and tech trans people alike who use proprietary OSes; and conversely most Linux users aren’t trans or GNC. The meme isn’t meant to be taken literally or to change anyone’s beliefs or actions.

You think you can get the media again if need be.

Depending on how large your collection is, would you remember every item in it? How much effort did you put into organizing it?

IME it’s far more of an inconvenience and expense rebuilding data from scratch than properly backing it up. And the peace of mind from a robust, tried and true DR process is golden.

Upgrading to fedora 39. Finally set up FOSS home cloud server I’ve been planning and researching for years. Probably a lot more… wouldn’t mind testing out Linux on my phone.

Wow I didn’t know I needed this, thanks

So I just spent the last day reading the Arch wiki on butt plugs. It is now fully configured and ready for use 🥴

That’s racist

But also, please do this if you’re a true American patriot…