I guess I’m not that guy. I use arch Linux (had to say it for the memes)but I like coding, drawing, learning new languages, photography, and I’m thinking about picking up calligraphy someday.
I had never installed Linux before. Back in 2006 my old college roommate told me that he was reading about it. I used Solaris Spark workstations back in college, but never ran Linux before. My other roommate ran Slackware which looked cool but I never looked into it. Anyway I had recently built a custom PC and I was trying to avoid paying the windows tax, and was growing tired of having to reinstall the cracked version I was using of “corporate windows xp” so I pulled up the installation guide, printed it out, and proceeded to install the stage 1 tarball.
It definitely was a trial by fire. I learned a tremendous amount, and I don’t regret any of it.
I even was playing WoW under Cedega.
I did eventually pick up a copy of Windows XP to run in parallels for Linux, and unfortunately, had to give it up for Windows XP as the main os due to Blizzard banning people who were playing Linux at the time.
I miss it sometimes, but I don’t have the free time to properly maintain an install of Gentoo.
I usually run Linux Mint on my VMs and test bench hardware however because it just works.
I ran Arch briefly but my conclusion was that if I wanted Ck and bl torture, I would just main Gentoo again.
Definitely next to Linux guy. I’ve been working on Linux since very early days, so I don’t talk about it because at this point it is as core to my life as knowing how to brush teeth. Nothing would entertain me more than to spend a flight giving that guy the ole “ummmm…actually”.
Logically speaking, I would sit with the wolf pack. Airline seatbelts are not made for wolves and I fully believe they would not be held by such paltry restraints. This leads me to the conclusion that my demise is not only certain, but an inevitability. With this in mind I would much rather be the first victim, for my death will be quicker while they are hungrier, and I shall save myself the mental trauma of seeing them devour the poor linux user before I reach my untimely end.
Well this is lemmy, nearly everyone is the Linux guy. Personally I would definitely sit next to the Linux guy because I would love to nerd out with someone else about Linux for 10 hours.
That’s barely enough time to talk about best editor. Then there’s best DE, best distro, best shell, Wayland vs X, systemd, whether sudo needs to be replaced, Nvidia vs AMD etc.
What distro, terminal emulator, shell, and text editor does this person like? We might have stuff to talk about. If the answers to any of the above are Fedora, XTerm, Bash, or Pico then we have nothing to talk about and I’ll take the wolves