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.
You’re not a developer.
shit, don’t tell my employer
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 love Linux. I read this rant. I still love Linux.
dude is salty after removing the French language pack
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.
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!
Lol, what a looser
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”
I almost didn’t notice the title.
Haha this is some good pasta.
ITT: Poes Law
Almost got me lmao
Link with better frontend: https://xcancel.com/j0hnwang/status/1935839092542963826
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
I just use Debian and it’s completely fine, I don’t need to build an install from scratch or to compile the kernel. Just use linux.
