Linux is an operating system mostly associated with the hacker man meme of Ramy mik and Loosely known for its utility of keeping the modern software ecosystem alive the average Linux enjoyer when not correcting me that it's actually ganu plus Linux started their journey in the awareness phase in this phase you're basically just a normal human being until you look into those mesmerizing penguin eyes and it changes the trajectory of your life but that's a later problem whether you heard about Linux at your college classes or when using the urinal of a shap lady bar and
a man in Peculiar headwear comes to the stall right next to you and Whispers so softly in your ear I use Arch by the way fundamentally you're aware that Linux exists and may be aware of the benefits but you're still going to go home and boot up your spyware of choice whether it's America or China stealing your data to train llms it doesn't really matter to you you still want to live in the walled Gardens of whatever scop you choose the worst case scenario in the awareness phase is that you subscribe to this mindset and
eventually your wife leaves you you go on a downward spiral or by the stroke of some miracle from God you become the Normie the Normie uses Linux in some capacity maybe you're an engineer whose manager told them to go do AWS stuff it would be a good learning experience when in reality the last funding round didn't go so well and now they can't afford an actual devops engineer or you're using it for my personal favorite reason penguin look cool whatever your reason you're most likely on Mint or popos two completely fine dros you're probably a
pretty decent programmer or systems administrator this is the most sensible and rational place to be if you're a Linux user here's the thing Normie has such a negative connotation around it that you're probably angry if you fall into this camp but I mean normies have it pretty good imagine not carrying the burden of how billion dooll companies hijack your brain and The Wider society around us normies have the best of both worlds penguin look cool terminal look cool this is the stage I recommend to anyone leave and forget the wider ecosystem you still have a
shot of living a relatively normal life until you fall into the pipeline phase pipeliners are people that went a bit too far with Linux and unfortunately Linux has many pipelines you can fall into you can start with the drro hopper as hard as it is to believe I was once young then I learned about drro hopping now I'm no longer young nor do I like using Linux drro hopping is a chronic addiction suffered mostly by Linux users in their early stages of an existential crisis in the beginning it may manifest itself as a clever and
practical way to learn about new systems and package managers but eventually the adrenaline of installing a new drro wears off leaving the user to find the most intricate problems within the system to justify another fresh install eventually the drro hopper does realize that most dros are just Ubuntu or Debian with a different desktop environment but only after burning through a 100 different dros and nitpicking every last core utility it's at this point they enter the rer pipeline the rer is an artist and the desktop environment is their canvas for most people an operating system is
a means to an end a utility for the Riser the main purpose of any distribution is to install as much software as they can to have the most interesting looking setup to post on r/ Unix corn they gave up on useless things like system administration programming leaving the house or having hobbies in favor of I3 gaps I mean can you blame them the socks pipeline many users actually just Arch users for reasons unknown tend to adopt these socks now the final stage of being a Linux user user Gen 2 if you're in this Camp you're
unlikely to be watching my videos you're happy living off your farm and feeding your free and open- Source chickens every interaction with technology is accompanied by a firearm so is every interaction with wider Society you definitely have the skills and capabilities of being a senior devops engineer but you won't deal with most companies because they pay in Fiat and not blockchain coin this is the final stage of Linux usage where you've not only given up on software but society as a whole you realize that we live in a world designed to be suboptimal we must
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