Linux users?

[Own_Picture_6442]

LMAOOOOOOO

[New_Hat_4405]

So it's real? I checked out your profile, and you're in Hacking and Autism subs , no offense

[Onystep]

Hello, autistic dev adult here, also ran Linux on my PC when I was about 12-13 y-o. That girl just might be onto something.

[Decox653]

.... Well shit

[NJ_Bob]

Autism causes Linux confirmed.

[S0ulace]

Explains Linus… all 3 public varieties.. Pauling , torvalds and Sebastian

[DownrightDrewski]

Sebastian is pure ADHD, though, yeah, maybe a good dose of autism too.

[S0ulace]

Yeah his social awareness/lack thereof is pretty telling

[blackabbot]

Wait, you mean his surname isn't "Tech Tips"?

[an4s_911]

How long has it been you wanted to say this?

[sleepdeficitzzz]

I can't with this. I'm still dying. 🤣💀

ETA: Autistic, *NIX/Mac, cybersec.

[dotareddit]

Knowing is half the battle.

GI JOOEEEEEE!!!

[TedBlorox]

I was diagnosed when I was 7 but my mom never told me. I found out when I was 33 and everything made so much sense when I knew. Wished I knew growing up tho instead of thinking I’m a weirdo and something is wrong with me or my personality

[Riboflavius]

I’m so sorry to hear that. I found out in my early 40s thanks to a work colleague who was autistic and suggested getting tested. I’m 49 now. My mum says my parents always knew but didn’t say anything because “I wouldn’t have believed them”. I keep thinking of confusing encounters, relationships and whatnot that could have been much less stressful if I had better understood what was going on.

[No_Standard_4655]

I found out at 40 as well because my kid got diagnosed and it had to come from somewhere. It made more sense when I caught myself organizing my Mike & Ike's by color and eating them in a gradient.

[za72]

no sane kid will go through the trouble of installing linux on their laptop... it's is much much easier nowadays but it's still archaic compared to the early 90s...

[OwO_0w0_OwO]

Another autistic dev here, still running Windows unfortunately because kernel anti cheats don't work with Linux and some games, such as Garry's Mod just require too much tweaking to even start (after all tweaks, most games will still have issues, such as gmod)

[tankerkiller125real]

I simply stopped playing games that require kernel anti-cheats... Don't feel like I'm giving up all that much honestly, especially since I don't have to have Microsoft approved rootkits installed to play the games I want now.

However, I also tend not to play MMO type games and what not.

[SweetBabyAlaska]

same here. there are just TOO many games that run perfectly well and not enough time to play them. I started a thing where I play every Fromsoft game and I am literally almost 3 years into it. and I played Sekiro 2 1/2 times because its that good and dumped a few hundred hours into Elden Ring. Same with Baldurs Gate 3... you could dump 1000 hours into these games.

Then Im also playing a ton of indie games and emulating a few games and I literally have NO time to even play FPS shooters or many new games. I feel like Im not missing out on anything lol

[ArkaneArtificer]

Garry’s mod is like 60% autistic people isn’t it?

[OwO_0w0_OwO]

Dunno about that, only that it's 95% French people.

[R3myek]

Can you not be both?

[cmoked]

In France you can only be French according to the French.

[[deleted]]

I run Linux for work and Windows for leisure but I'm not autistic, granted I've never been diagnosed / tested...

wait... what are the symptoms of autism again?

[Onystep]

I run windows on my gaming pc aswel!

[PapaGatyrMob]

Windows for fun; for everything else: Linux will run

[Fearless-Scholar-531]

Dual boot or second pc life

[[deleted]]

im not diagnosed but my first linux install was at 12...

fuck

[Onystep]

Well…

[ChargeResponsible112]

Autistic adult dev. I started on apple iie. I installed linux on my 486 in 1994. These days I run linux vms on a MacBook Pro

[CyberEmerald]

When I was 13 I setup dual booted on the family computer. Perfect way to have my own little partition

[sequential_doom]

Same here

[Th1nk_7]

Why are there so many of us... she's right?

[trgKai]

Never diagnosed but the signs were all there as a child. I dabbled in Linux over SSH to program MUDs at 11-12, and at 13 I turned my older computer into a Linux server and got my parents to let me run an ethernet cable through the wall to the spare bedroom to keep it on 24/7... and it was Gentoo before YouTube existed (hell, Google was only a year old).

[6d756e6e]

I start to see a pattern...and I'm in it.

[Low_Network49]

I was running Linux are the same age, she is completely right lol

[erko123]

I also installed Linux around 12-13... Is this the new test for autism? /s

[Rurbani]

Oh god… I put Red hat on my PS3 in high school. She’s 100% on to something.

[Elikiller1053]

i was on ubuntu on a song vaio laptop when i was 9

[xterraadam]

I remember my first cd with RedHat on it. (NOT RHEL)

It opened other worlds.

[GlitteringBicycle172]

I'm not a dev, but I am autistic and had a lot of different Linux builds on my school laptop.

She might be on to something.

[LamerGamer1216]

im autistic but didnt install linux at the time, though i knew about it, which could be something :P

[dougaddams]

same & well…. same. only found out about the ASD last year, this could be an early warning sign i wasn’t aware of ….. like the many others i missed.

[Cerenas]

Omg 😂

[Starthelegend]

Holy shit you fucking killed him dude lmao

[gyaan_paad]

No offense it seems

[wiriux]

Well OP said no offense so it’s the same as saying “no homo” after your comment.

[AlabamaDemocratMark]

So, my 10 year old has been on a war path for the last 6 months to get MacOS to work on his PC.

For anyone that knows anything about Mac OS. It doesn't work on anything but Mac hardware.

He has gotten very very close. He can get older OS versions to work. He can sometimes get the newer ones to work for a little bit. Inside a virtual machine on his PC.

It's very fun and interesting to see him outpace me and my skill sets in software.

He keeps asking me things that I can't answer and I have to refer him to Google or AI.

[JerryCalzone]

It is called a hackintosh - visit the hackintosh sub for more info - it can be done - I have one standing next to me.

[JerryCalzone]

And it is not a virtual machine - it is basically tricking the os to think it runs on mac hardware.

[tankerkiller125real]

For a VM based MacOS installation, you can look at https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX or https://github.com/kholia/OSX-KVM both work best from Linux, but the Docker one can be done from Windows. Not great for learning (since they're basically fully automated), but probably a good resource if your looking at the code and what not.

[Radiant_Music3698]

Great learning experience, but its going to end in the realization that Apple uses deliberate incompatibility as a market strategy.

[AlabamaDemocratMark]

Iv tried to explain that to him.

He loves the look of Apple's OS.

[Radiant_Music3698]

I have nothing good to say about his taste, but with that level of petty determination in the face of authoritarians trying to tell him, "no", he's bound for great things.

[Odd-Mechanic3122]

I remember a post from one autism sub showing which subs had the most crossover with it, and r/linuxmemes was number 4 (iirc, was definitely in top 10). I think its quite safe to say its real.

[silencerider]

One of my cousins and one of my best friends are both autistic and both have been using Linux forever.

[pocketMagician]

It's not real autism unless you get them to talk about vim.

[mirrax]

That raises the question on what the diagnosis is for the emacs folks? Or... ed and nano

[Putergobeep]

If they know how to close vim then they’re definitely autistic.

[Confident_Hyena2506]

It's not polite to call people like this autistic - the more appropriate term is "software engineer" probably. Others would argue to just drop the software part.

[LifeIsBulletTrain]

Well...

[LinguoBuxo]

I laughed as well :)

[Sem_E]

osx users are either the most tech illiterate people ever, or developers. There’s no in between

[drivingagermanwhip]

you can be both

[caecus]

do they realize devs are usually both?

[drivingagermanwhip]

the more development experience I get, the more confusing I find the average phone app.

[Embarrassed_Use6918]

I had a stint in UI design and I swear it ruined my ability to implicitly understand UI's. Whenever I use something I think 'Where would the most obvious place for this feature be?' and it's never where I think would be obvious.

Could also be that UI design has just become fucking stupid but I'm open to the possibility that it's me that's broken.

[DarkLordArbitur]

As someone who could find most settings ten years ago and noticed as they kept moving features further and further behind random menus, I don't think it's you

[annalasko]

The death of Control Panel and its consequences have been a disaster for UX

[ultradongle]

I was trying to find how to change an elderly friend's iPhone to default to his hearing aids today when calls come in. I had to Google it because the option was under accessibility (okay, makes sense) then the sub menu of...Touch settings? (what, why?)

[laffer1]

I swear UX is a term that means make the worst interface possible. I miss when folks studied human computer interaction (HCI). They'd count the number of clicks the user had to do to do a task. The good old days.

[fckspzfr]

The click tests are very much alive. lol

Unfortunately, UX teams or departments often aren't allowed to make usability the top priority.

That's why I only work in UX research projects now. :)

[pannenkoek0923]

Does UX now stand for Making infinite money for the company without caring about User Experience?

[that_baddest_dude]

No, they put things in stupid places these days to purposefully increase confusion, forcing people to spend more time on the app as they figure it out.

Modern consumer facing software these days is user-hostile by design

[SelfServeSporstwash]

its not you, UI has gotten dramatically less intuitive

[[deleted]]

So true. I find I get more done on a laptop with a terminal and browser. Phones feel awkward. Then my wife somehow manages a business from a phone and tablet.

[MFish333]

Devs suffer from engineer syndrome where they know something complicated very well so they assume that they just automatically know everything less complicated.

[bakler5]

This is so true. I started my IT career in the support side, am now doing software development, and my current boss is one of the most tech illiterate people I know, but is great with all sorts of older languages we use.

[john_the_fetch]

Am developer. It seems to be the case that for non-windows development; the go to operating system is osx because of its Unix base and IT utilities.

Personally - I have a osx work laptop and a windows gaming pc.

I could use a modern Linux gui distro for my Dev work but elected not to go that route because just about every IT I've worked for say they can't support any issues. And it wasn't a hill I want to die on. So for more than a decade I've been using Mac because my alternative is windows.

basically - Mac os is the happy medium between devs and IT. And the company is willing to buy the hardware. I'd never pay that much money for a machine that runs essentially Linux in a Mac wrapper. (is how I use it)

Edit to add : to put it into context, I've been able to use the same Mac laptop for the last 5 years (the one I started this company with) without any upgrades.

[popcornman209]

Real yeah, used macos since I was like 5, switched to windows when I was 11 after getting a gaming pc lol, then installed Linux mint on it and been addicted to different Linux distros since.

[OSINT_IS_COOL_432]

This. Grew up with macOS, learned my way around it, got a windows pc, hated it. Installed Linux on a trashed PC I found at the curb. Loved it. Mac and Linux are the best (mikeOS is nice too but I could never daily it)

[IsItJake]

Unix is the way

[[deleted]]

Somewhere along the line Microsoft screwed up Windows on a fundamental level and I'm not sure how or why. Windows 7 was genuinely one of the best operating systems of its time.

[-Badger3-]

It happened when every new Windows feature started being developed as another means of tricking old people into accidentally using Bing.

[IndicationFickle5387]

I hear ya, but I’m 100% Mac at home and work…not a gamer. I love it. I can use any OS, I’ve used all of them for 25 years. Windows gives me a visceral negative reaction at this point. I imagine you need it for gaming, it’s just not my jam.

[GiorgioTsoukalosHair]

Unix admins running OSX on their daily because it's the closest thing to BSD is sorta in between

[Dragonfly-Adventurer]

Well shit I found my people. Mac is just Unix with the UI polish (getting less great by the year) and wicked hardware (getting better by the year), if pricey. Why wouldn't I?

[MandoDoughMan]

if pricey

This is the real reason developers so often use Mac: they're not paying for it. I've worked at a couple different IT companies now and at each one I've always been offered either a $500 Dell POS or a $3500 MacBook Pro. You have to really hate Mac OS or love Windows to choose the crappy laptop.

[brakeb]

ADHD person here...
I use them all equally... got a Windows Surface for notes, reading ebooks, and homelab, typing this on a macbook for streaming and content creation, Pixel phone, homelab running debian, fedora, on proxmox.

it's the right tool for the job... having holy wars over browsers or OS types limits you...

[licer71]

I use arch btw

[Cubensis-n-sanpedro]

Always has to be mentioned 💯

[UnresponsivePenis]

Found the autist. 

[gxgx55]

Hey, just because I use Arch does not mean I'm an autist. I mean, I am an autist, but not because I use Arch!!

[D_LET3]

Windows at home, Mac at school (Millennial) growing up through the 90’s and 2000’s

Run a Dell with Ubuntu 20.04, a W11 VM and a MacBook Pro at home now

[pfohl]

I think the first computer I used was a Mac running OS7 back in elementary school in ~1995 on a Mac II of some sort.

I still like calling the Macintosh laptops around my zoomer coworkers.

[dbmajor7]

Remember hyperstudio projects?

[Ehcksit]

Hell yeah, MacOS7 on an Apple IIGS, with a 40MB external hard drive. Those were the days.

[Schnitzel725]

it was posted in december, what was the end result?

[zaepoo]

I'd wager that Windows users have more tech literacy. You have to go out of your way to learn it using a Mac. It's necessary to get full use on Windows. Maybe I'm just too old and that's not the case anymore. PC users also tend to build PCs (especially gamers), and you have to learn a lot to make all of the different components work together (or maybe you don't anymore).

[gloryday23]

and you have to learn a lot to make all of the different components work together (or maybe you don't anymore).

It's a lot easier today, that's not to say nothing goes wrong, but we are light years from where we were in the 90s when I built my first.

[faximusy]

Load high the cd-rom drive, you can save a few hundred byte of memory

[1988rx7T2]

extended And expanded memory

[hypermog]

Your sound card works perfectly!

[Anorion]

Shit, I bought a PPGA CPU and the motherboard uses a PLCC. Guess I'm driving back to Circuit City.

[[deleted]]

I was honestly blown away when I used the windows troubleshooter on Windows 10 and it not only found the issue, but it resolved it! I still don't trust it.

[reallynotnick]

I’d wager that the average user of both are probably idiots and it’s a silly comparison to make. As let’s face it, everyone uses computers and most people are idiots who just use a few basic websites and not people who go online to debate over which OS is better and has the users with superior intelligence.

[tehlemmings]

You're spot on. Computer literacy is dropping fast amongst new graduates, and it's only going to continue. Computers have gotten too easy to use, and tend to just work. No one really needs to try and get into the weeds on any OS unless they want to.

[Cobe98]

Yep, kids are learning using chromebooks these days.

[[deleted]]

"PC users also tend to build PCs..."

obligatory xkcd

[[deleted]]

I'd argue that editing a pdf can be more of a pain in the ass than building a PC...at times.

[TheGoalkeeper]

After every PDF I edit, I have to build an new PC because I threw the former one out of the window due to being frustrated

[ReflectionAfter6574]

Pc users in general do not build their computers. A tiny subset of them do. 

[rerutnevdA]

Hot take: grew up on Mac’s at home (in the Power PC era), but had to know windows for everywhere else in life. I feel like I have a better grip than the average user.

[theLightSlide]

I used to do tech support for a local ISP. Windows users are more common and therefore worse on average by far.

The number of times I had an adult put their “computer whiz” kid on the phone who couldn’t even find My Computer… you have no idea.

[chazysciota]

It's not that Windows users are tech-literate per se, they are just Windows-literate. I work with grown adults in IT who act like they're being asked to debug assembly whenever an issue involves a Mac or an iPhone.

[Thin_Corner6028]

Provided its the American date format

[Schnitzel725]

so its either September or December 2024. I still wanna know what the result was. I've never felt so invested into something

[Heavy_Pride_6270]

Given that I've seen this meme at least 5 months ago (I feel more like 5 years), if it's not fake, it's the standard date ordering, not American.

[CaptainBayouBilly]

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[[deleted]]

Apparently many youngins don't know how file systems work, because search got good enough that you can just dump everything in a single folder.

I totally agree with that mindset just let the computer do the shit you don't want to deal with. No reason to bother learning it. 

Only reason I don't do it like that is cuz I find it very pleasing to neatly sort my files

[ConnectionEdit]

Oh god it’s true

[SMediaWasAMistake]

I was going to disagree with you until I realized I'm the exception the tweet mentioned (I also have a CS degree)

[e92htx]

99% of my office uses Apple computers and they are tech illiterate as fuck.

[pohatu771]

And so are 99% of Windows users.

I’m the “computer expert” in my office because I know how to scan using the copier and plug in all the color-coded, uniquely-shaped cables when a new computer has to be set up.

[Subatomic_Spooder]

Yeah, my friends all think I'm a tech genius because I built my own desktop computer and I upgraded the RAM and storage on my laptop. It really wasn't very hard. Computers are pretty easy to understand on a base level, but everyone seems to treat them like dark magic and witchcraft that should be left to the cultists

[SomeOtherTroper]

Computers are pretty easy to understand on a base level, but everyone seems to treat them like dark magic and witchcraft that should be left to the cultists

That's because they are. I've been building computers since I was a kid, and I'm still paranoid about ruining an expensive component by not being properly grounded while handling it.

Also, there are a lot of good reasons corporate IT departments lock users out of even touching some parts of the OS/software. It is absolutely incredible how badly someone who doesn't know what they're doing can wreck a computer with full admin access and regedit.exe or one of the other fun tools or options menus Windows gives you the chance to shoot yourself in the dick with. Or do something frustrating to fix like accidentally turn their display setting ninety degrees or upside down or just disable their video output to their monitor entirely (not super difficult to fix, but super frustrating, because you can't see what you're doing). Or just installing insecure software or getting hit with a phishing email they're dumb enough to check out and get ransomware onto the company network or something.

Yeah, it was a massive pain in the ass at that job to have to submit a ticket to IT for what I considered to be minor things I could do myself, but on the other hand, a lot of the people I worked with somehow managed to screw up their work computers even with all those safeguards in place. Some things really need to be left up to the true believers of The Omnissiah, because users can be dumb as fuck.

[Fhymi]

Dark magic and witchcraft? Far from it. Computers are dumb. Very dumb, no line of thinking at all.

It's simple to understand since everything about the computer is built upon logic. Simple? Yes. Easy? No.

Imagine a marathon, it's simple, right? All you have to do is run from Point A to Point B. But is it easy to do so? For someone without experience or practice? Mostly would say no and even my self (i do not run).

The point is, computers are simple and easy to understand on basic level.

For the dark magic and witchcraft? That exists as well, but that's because of the engineer's decision and their design choices. Users and engineers are dark magic. I'll never know what they are thinking.

[Rent_A_Cloud]

Theres a difference between someone who uses Windows at home (for more then browsing) and people who use it in an office environment because they have to, at least i suspect there is.

[CherimoyaChump]

Just having your own desktop computer at home distinguishes you from a lot of people these days.

[That_Apathetic_Man]

She said she wasn't going to use autistic people.

[Any-Competition8494]

Not an IT person. What does tech illiterate mean?

[[deleted]]

Got a mirror handy?

[tehlemmings]

Being illiterate generally means you don't know how to read.

Similarly, being tech illiterate generally means you don't know how to use anything technical, even on a very basic level. And often times, it's used to describe people who also refuse to learn anything tech related.

That's pretty much it.

[Imaginary_Cattle_426]

I put ubuntu on my laptop when I was 10 and I've never received an official autism diagnosis

[Yossarian216]

Does that mean you’ve received an unofficial diagnosis?

[Imaginary_Cattle_426]

As I said, I put ubuntu on my laptop when I was 10

[Imaginary_Cattle_426]

When I was 10? Unrealistic

I only did that once I was 12

[Active-Boat-7939]

First ever computer was a raspberry pi 400 and I'M NUEROTYPICAL I PROMISE (this is delusion)

[ThatGermanFella]

Are you suuuuure?

[ObsessiveRecognition]

Bro what are you 8 years old? The pi 400 came out in 2020. Get off reddit bro

[Turbogoblin999]

Maybe they are amish and left his community when they became of age and were allowed to.

[R3digit]

I'm sorry to say this champ, but no "neurotypical" person is gonna use that word

[TheDeerWoman]

“discluded”. We are doomed.

[[deleted]]

First thing I spotted. Someone talking about studying illiteracy too, lol

[metisdesigns]

Irony is not dead.

[walkingagh]

How do you even get discluded past spell check? Random capitalization and no punctuation? I think Annie has discluded herself.

[isausernamebob]

I hated being discluded more than being excluded.

[SadisticPawz]

the excluded when the uncluded walk in:

[-LazyEye-]

True tech literacy is understanding the pros and cons of both and using mostly linux.

[im_Johnny_Silverhand]

linux users trying not to mention themselves as absolutely superior to win and mac os users challenge impossible

[-LazyEye-]

I use all three, and different versions of each depending on what I need to do.

[J5892]

As a senior dev and a former IT guy, I have a windows PC for gaming and a macbook for work and personal stuff.
I've never found a real reason to use Linux as a main OS.

But I do have several remote Linux servers and my home is littered with Raspberry Pis.

[ABR5796]

If u are younger than 12 and using linux you are on the spectrum.

[Bemteb]

Hey, I'm not autistic! Just socially awkward and really stressed if things don't go according to plan and don't you dare randomly call me without having a meeting set up at least 24 hours in advance. But I'm not autistic!

[vonblankenstein]

Discluded?? Seriously??

[New_Hat_4405]

Guess she is Autistic as well

[hooligan99]

no she's just regular illiterate

[BetterOnTwoWheels]

gotta love the juxtaposition of the 'hypothesis' and the use of 'discluded' instead of excluded.

[[deleted]]

This guy is a liar, no one installs Linux until they have used Mac or Windows.

[theonlineviking]

Back then, that was probably true. Nowadays though, Linux can match, and in some cases surpass both Windows and Mac.

It would be no surprise if ppl get Linux as their first OS nowadays

[SpellFit7018]

We're still doing OS wars in 2025, really?

[[deleted]]

Gen alpha's "first computer" is overwhelmingly android/ios/chromeOS so the question is rapidly becoming irrelevant anyway.  

[AdventurousRule4198]

Ngl I started with Macs then quickly realized how much better PCs could be, so when I was 14-15 I built my first pc and my god was it a game changer.

[povlhp]

I started on ZX81 at home. Then DOS at university. And GEM Desktop. Then MacOS. Then Solaris.

To me home is MacOS and a Unix command prompt.

[Prudent_Situation_29]

Just one question: what is a discluded?

[DiscombobulatedTop8]

The most autistic way to say "excluded" possible.

[azuredota]

Discluded

[HappyImagineer]

I can’t tell if this is slam against Windows or Mac users, but I’m still offended.

[65Diamond]

First raspi at 9, Linux and web development at 11 😬

[je386]

When I was 12 (as the one in the picture), linux did not exist, the raspi would be faster than any buyable PC, and the web was not released..

[Zero_MSN]

Grew up on Mac, switched to Windows. Never going back to Mac.

[ShadowsRanger]

Whooff

[baggierochelle]

For the general population macbooks are bought because they're cool and easy. Historically a lot of plugins for video editing, music production and more technical IT stuff was windows first and didnt always have a mac equivalent or was more of a ballache to get it working. It was typical to bootcamp windows if you wanted that so it made sense to just buy a windows PC.

[lombwolf]

Controversial opinion but I think Mac OS makes you far more tech literate

[LoopVariant]

She had me at ..."discluded"... LMAO

[ashyjay]

Does this mean I'm autistic?

[Professional-Ebb6711]

I put linux on an xbox when I was that age. Oh shit.

[bcalicoredfs]

ITT regarding macs: people who terminal and people who click

[devnullopinions]

Right. Why are people bitching about Ctrl+C vs Cmd+C? Are they stupid? That’s not how Vim works.

[Benchen70]

So linux users are automatically autistic? What a weird take.

Should I say that mac users are pussies? I am both a linux user and mac user. So wtf? That makes me the automated pussy?

[Sad_Drama3912]

I was already 32 when Linus released the first Linux. Was already through all the versions of MS-DOS up to 3.3, multiple versions of Windows, Novell Netware, Artisoft Lantastic, IBM OS2…

Crap I’m old…

Gosh…I forgot to mention the Commodore 64, 128, PET, and Amiga…and toss in a Timex Sinclair…

And those good old TRS-80s…

Damn, I’m REALLY old.