Linux: you've been using it for years and don't even know it
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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
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Your computer needs a dose of FREEEEEEDOM
This seems to imply that Linux makes your computer produce oil
Uh I guess we'd need to extend it to Linux + FOSS in general.
Power users: I think we should steal whatever the latest IKEA marketing team have come up with because the appeal is kinda the same as IKEA furniture where you feel more ownership over something having built it from the flat packed box your self.
Average users: does a degoogled chromeOS exist? You just need a video of someone playing with a tablet like interface, then choosing to postpone an update with no dark pattern om the textbox prompt.
One line slogan: Did you ever wish the people who made your software were more passionate about the product than their next promotion?
Its my machine. I dont need to sign into Microsofts Terms and Conditions to be able to use my hardware.
- 'You can keep your old hardware, we won't force you to upgrade.'
- 'Your old GPU, yes, even your R9 Fury, still has a home here, don't worry, we won't leave you out in the cold unlike our competition.'
...Among other jabs at Windows in the spirit of the old Mac vs. PC ads, or to be more apt, in the spirit of Sega's old ads picking on Nintendo in the '90s.
Also....
- 'Linux does! What Windon't.'
Linux: "Freedom and innovation for all"
WHEEL OF LINUX!!! (I'll take Arch, by the way, Pat!)
Virtue by default, Linux.
"Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it's Linux, G"
From Hobby to Hero: Linux Powers the Curious
Linux: We never would have given you Klippy.
"Get judged by more advanced Linux users until you get good enough to do the judging"
The ultimate protection for your truck
Truck? Ask me if...
Linux: Our Code of Conduct says we have to let you join us.
more powerful than a speeding loco motive
From one of my memes (which compares the common 3 OS types): https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/3ad94e0f-c145-4b1b-9a41-16f3ebcfee1b.webp
It will hurt the whole way down. Please don't climb.
Also implies that you can actually climb it (metaphorical for "learning") and has the option to stay above or climb down. Based on the image, its an art project that just stays there for you to explore.
The only operating with so many names, but always the same experience... Linux!
For the Mavericks and Makers
improvements over the competition are black and white... and a little yellow.
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Linux: The home for Windows and MacOS refugees.
Your hardware Your choice Your style
Linux: The Vi delivery system you've been waiting for! /s
Linux: Where all your personal data already exists in the cloud.
"Be free"
Freedom.
Only if it's Mel Gibson "Frrrrreeeeddddooooooommmmmm"