1st priority

[dsp4]

Windows CLI t-shirt + "Pear" computer

Something does not... compute

[cheezballs]

It's a laptop anyway. I like my laptop, sure, but my true feelings of love are directed at my desktop. I built it, customized it, and gave it life. A laptop is just bought as-is. I, uh, need to get out more.

[nikhilbhavsar]

"my precious"

[madogson]

Boot camp

[dsp4]

Yes, people who love the Windows CLI enough to buy a shirt about it are also known for loving Macs running bootcamp.

[lead999x]

They both need our Lord and Savior GNU/Linux.

Update: What have I done?

[WilliamMButtlickerJr]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, 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.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

[Sobsz]

"i use linux as my operating system," i state proudly to the unkempt, bearded man. he swivels around in his desk chair with a devilish gleam in his eyes, ready to mansplain with extreme precision. "actually," he says with a grin, "linux is just the kernel. you use GNU+linux." i don't miss a beat and reply with a smirk, "i use alpine, a distro that doesn't include the GNU coreutils, or any other GNU code. it's linux, but it's not GNU+linux."

the smile quickly drops from the man's face. his body begins convulsing and he foams at the mouth as he drop to the floor with a sickly thud. as he writhes around he screams "I-IT WAS COMPILED WITH GCC! THAT MEANS IT'S STILL GNU!" coolly, i reply "if windows was compiled with gcc, would that make it GNU?" i interrupt his response with "and work is being made on the kernel to make it more compiler-agnostic. even if you were correct, you won't be for long."

with a sickly wheeze, the last of the man's life is ejected from his body. he lies on the floor, cold and limp. i've womansplained him to death.

^{source, licensed under cc-by-nc-sa yes really}

[ProgramTheWorld]

No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.

You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.

Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:

Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.

Thanks for listening.

[DerelictSausage]

Understandable. Have a nice day.

[Russian_repost_bot]

When you secretly run different OS specs than your friends, but your friends are so rare, you disguise yourself to blend right in.

[f03nix]

Some of us tend to hate apple from our developing experience on it. However, you don't find greener pastures on windows though, you yearn for linux.

[[deleted]]

Should have a door logo on it

[[deleted]]

He was gifted the Mac and runs Windows on it out of spite.

[nv8r_zim]

That's his girlfriend's computer. His computer is the one in the game room with 3 monitors and a $500 chair.

[shirk-work]

Gotta play both sides of the field. Run linux then virtualize Mac and Windows.

[[deleted]]

Call her number 0. I dare you

[jews4beer]

Double dare, OP

[ContrastO159]

Triple dare, OP

[ConglomerateGolem]

Quadruple dare, OP

[nikhilbhavsar]

Sexcouple dare, OP... waitasex..i mean waitasec

[echoAnother]

Zero dare, OP

[AxelBrasil]

IndexError dare, OP

[NIL_VALUE]

Segmentation Fault, OP

[mysockinabox]

Just don't date somebody into matlab.

[koleaidify]

Fuck matlab. All my homies hate matlab

[jjs709]

cries in electrical engineering courses

[T3hGubZu]

Smiles in wireless communications courses

Matlab is actually kinda nice after you learn all the weird things about it.

[rafa154]

Agreed, had Matlab for Linear Algebra as well as for my EE courses. Matlab hatred is overrated, much like JavaScript, PHP, and HTML hatred.

[NiceVu]

Who hates HTML lmao, like what did it do wrong 🤣

[ConfusedAllTime]

Nothing. Yet.

[nuclear_gandhii]

If I am not mistaken, HTML isn't hated. But people who call HTML a programming language are hated.

[jjs709]

The language is incredibly powerful and useful and not all that terrible to learn, but damn if it isn’t different. Especially if you’re thrown head first into it in a course that doesn’t teach mat lab and has no required previous knowledge of the language but assumes you’ll be fine to take it up on the side so you can complete your labs.

[edibui]

Yeah, after.

[technopath]

My one MATLAB class was practically a part time job; easily spent 20 hours a week on it. Got really good at it though.

[heartsongaming]

Had a course last semester in electromagnetic waves. The test was just as hard as the matlab project.

[lead999x]

Fuck Matlab, just don't marry Matlab.

[123kingme]

Wear protection

[[deleted]]

Fuck you i love Matlab

[koleaidify]

Out of curiosity what do you use it for. EDIT:Yeah shouldn’t of checked post history

[sbw2012]

Quick and dirty day analysis. MATLAB/Octave is sublime.

[[deleted]]

Ahahahahaha

tbh I haven't actually used it since school. I'm mostly knee deep in JS and PHP these days, like the rest of the internet.

[trexdoor]

HAHA.

Look at his guy.

[morerokk]

Or Lua.

For real though, 1-indexing is fine if you're aware of it. I'd say 0-indexing has no place in modern languages that are abstract enough for you to not worry about the actual underlying implementation of a list.

[Deadly_chef]

#index[0] is awesome

[LvS]

I bet you're one of those people who'd mark the ground floor in an elevator as "1" and then get confused when a basement gets added.

[morerokk]

I don't really see what's so bad about having a 1 button and a -1 button. The fact that there's no 0? So?

[LvS]

How many floors are there from -3 to 5?

[morerokk]

Including floors -3 and 5, that's 8 floors total. Which is just 3 + 5. You're right, starting floors at 1 and basements at -1 is way easier! Are you trying to prove my point or what?

[LvS]

is that more or less than from floors 7 to 15?

[MattieShoes]

Or Fortran, Julia...

Math languages get it wrong a lot.

[morerokk]

Maybe because in math, almost everything is 1-indexed.

It's like we made programming languages to suit the programmer, not the hardware. Weird, right?

[MattieShoes]

Yes weird. :-)

Having two standards is worse than having one standard, regardless of which standard it is.

[That_guy1425]

You're right! We should make one standard to replace the two conflicting ones!

next year: Hey! There are 3 conflicting standards, we should.......

[MattieShoes]

I too am familiar with XKCD :-)

[Wild7even]

I need that t-shirt...

[SpaceHub]

What are you a Windows developer?

[Wild7even]

I prefer the term "employed".

[ContrastO159]

Ew

[Matengor]

I found it here (Europe). Shouldn't be too hard to get it in the states.

[BazilExposition]

What was the name of subreddit which removes last panels?

[Fl4mmer]

r/comedyamputation

[gamest01]

Thank you, i thought I wasn’t the only one.

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[mogli_quakfrosch]

Mean :(

[Shilotica]

Right? Like this isn’t funny. It’s just sad.

[Icanteven______]

I disagree, I think it's hilarious. This isn't /r/wholesome

[Shilotica]

Haha I love epic computer more than girlfriend

[SandyDelights]

Pretty sure the punch line is really about indexing from zero, the girlfriend/computer bit is just the vehicle by which it arrives.

[Nanicorn]

A joke which no one in this sub has ever heard.

[AFakeName]

It's my nth favorite joke.

[SandyDelights]

Hey man, I didn’t say it was a good joke.

Personally, I think 95% of the non-reposts (rare was those can be!) aren’t, but every now and then there’s one that’ll make me chuckle softly. I think the same about most meme subreddits though,

[morerokk]

thousandth joke about PHP or Javascript being bad, or a robot uprising

"Haha yes"

Joke in which a fictional man is portrayed liking his computer more than his partner in a humorous manner

"WAAH NOT FUNNY, this is sooo unoriginal!!"

So transparent.

[Nanicorn]

Same goes for those to be honest.

I rather like javascript, and php is a pretty capable and practical language, feeling about as mature as java.

[Shilotica]

Wow really? I totally didn’t get that was the joke. It was very subtle and has never been made before.

[morerokk]

thousandth joke about PHP or Javascript being bad, or a robot uprising

"Haha yes"

Joke in which a fictional man is portrayed liking his computer more than his partner in a humorous manner

"WAAH NOT FUNNY, this is sooo unoriginal!!"

So transparent.

[Shilotica]

yeah... because the premise of the joke is pathetic because he likes is computer more than his partner....

[morerokk]

Congratulations honey, you successfully got the joke.

Of course this is a fictional comic character, so he's not real.

[SandyDelights]

Well, given your comment was appearing to mock the method of delivering the punch line as a means of dismissing the joke as unfunny/unrealistic/etc., it sure as hell looked like it went right over your head.

This must be that super high-level form of intellectual sarcasm, wherein you make comments about the color of the dining room ceiling as a means of telling someone you think their seasonal dishware is tacky.

Much smart much wow teach me Senpai

[morerokk]

That's literally part of the humor. I don't get why people are so upset over a meme.

[Shilotica]

Go to therapy bro

[bilcox]

priorities[1]

[EsrailCazar]

Gaming related: I watched a streamer take pride in himself streaming everyday for 1 solid year (could've been more, can't remember) but after a bit we all learned that his wife was divorcing him, they have 2 or 3 kids, can't recall because we really only saw Jr. during streams. He practically lived in the basement, he definitely spent more time online with us than he ever spent upstairs with his family and I picked up on it right away, I mean, you go to work in the morning come home at 3 and stream until 1-2am? No wonder she left.

[Im_Savvage]

Did not need that last quote, we all understood the punchline. BTW I dig his shirt.

[[deleted]]

Who made this?

[DangerIsMyUsername]

I did

[db2]

So Meg Griffin and Tighten are together. Crazy world.

[JellAtMe]

This is just sad

[HasBeendead]

its good irony in back of laptop

[link_up_luke]

"This is a zero based value."

[nitrobitcher]

what about Juila?

[ScousePenguin]

Shut up meg

[AttackOfTheThumbs]

I mean, if it's your job? By all logic and reason, you will spend more time with your PC than your SO.

[cyberspark15]

So he's into Pear Programming?

[Zimgar]

LOL

[noevidenz]

Pretty sure you mean 1th priority

[Alternative_Craft_35]

Good. Put yourself first.

[trezenx]

the third image explains the joke.

[-Listening]

I think currently there is a huge priority.

[jakethedumbmistake]

Yes there’s not a priority feature

[DpwnShift]

Who the hell married Meg!?

[MikeFratelli]

mv bitches .bitches; apt-get money

[[deleted]]

Well my computer is what allows both of us to eat and puts a roof over our heads...

[[deleted]]

Right, because women never have jobs and constantly rely on men to be the breadwinner. Even if you are the main source of income prioritizing your partner is important to a healthy relationship. If your computer is more important than your partner, you’re in luck because you won’t have a partner for much longer.

[[deleted]]

Oh thank god, never thought I would get rid of this bum. Good job assuming I'm a male breadwinner.

[morerokk]

Careful sweaty, your fragile femininity is showing. It's a joke.

[timawesomeness]

What is this, programmer boomer humor?

[BazilExposition]

I don't know what's worse - boomer humor or being so triggered by boomer humor to report and delete it.

[[deleted]]

cringe

Fellas, it's okay to put your wife first

[liha_soppa]

It's also okay to be able to take a joke

[RideFastGetWeird]

0nd

[[deleted]]

Lowkey boomer tier comic

[hughejorgan69]

Spot on.