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.
The guy never tried gnu/linux and thinks you need to compile it , dooooh just install and use it, i mean what is this baseless attack
Link with better frontend: https://xcancel.com/j0hnwang/status/1935839092542963826
You’re not a developer.
shit, don’t tell my employer
When the copypasta it’s so good people actually think you are stupid. Congratulations, this infuriated me even when I knew beforehand what it was. Peak writing. Please don’t do it again, to much pasta.
It’s oozing brainrot juice, freshly pumped out from the LinkedIn cesspit.
Edit: also “high-performers” lol.
Funny, I’m trying to think of the amount of times my 8 year old daughter asked me to switch to windows because Linux has too many issues, and I’ve got nothing.
The real copium is thinking Linux is poverty, just to feel good about windows.
Quality copypasta!
We might have found a victim of the “just install gentoo” prank
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. :)
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”
ITT: Poes Law
Almost got me lmao
Some people derive a great deal of pleasure from hand configuring their system to reflect all their ideals. For some people, it’s fun. Leave them alone and let the enjoy their computers.
True.
Let this lemming be the product of windows computer and their phone, instead of the product being their devices.
“High performers don’t waste their time arguing with the void on social media. Congrats, you just burned the only free hour you had after work.”
Bro, you’re literally just like those you despise. Talking of badges, don’t prick yourself with that “Sheriff of Linux” badge you made it out that bottle lid.
Edit: Sorry, where the hell did that link come from!? I swear it wasn’t there when I last looked!
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.
Haha this is some good pasta.
high-performers, high-output people, gtfo with this stupid shit.
