This just in: Why I'm staying with my husband that doesn't beat me, doesn't gaslight me, doesn't rape children or explain daily why rapists should run our country. He helps with chores too. The reason will shock you.
this post was submitted on 15 Apr 2026
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It's his dick, obviously
Alright, I'm lost in the analogy now. What's the dick in Linux?
That sense of superiority for using Linux? The 'btw' those arch folks use?
btw I use arch is what you say when you show your partner your ikea shark and stripey socks
Cool desktop customisations, obviously.
Maybe they meant the Linux mascot, the duck named Dux right?
Xenia for sure
My dick; I fuck Linux so hard
Or maybe his tongue.
What surprises me more is that someone feels the need to justify staying on Linux at all. That’s a conversation that shouldn’t even exist.
The question has almost always been the other way around: why use anything else?
I mean I kinda get it. BSD is pretty cool in its own way.
I mean, I bet that cute lil' daemon mascot makes it worth it. :D
I was waiting for "I use Arch, BTW."
Yes. I have used Linux for 26 years. Never have I ever considered leaving.
Why 'still'? Linux is only getting better and other options are getting worse.
Maybe a "Youtube-like title" for the fun (or dare I say, habit) of it?
I would explain why I still use my butt to poop in 2026, butt I assume you already know the most likely explanation ...
The linked blog has a normal title.
Bro still buttin', ohio hand-squish rizz fr rn
Steam has reported record number of linux users in their os survey! I made the switch this year too!
Same. I'm enjoying the experience. I was surprised how seamless it went.
I've had discussions with my friends about using Linux full time. I got one of them to move their mom's old All-in-one to Mint since it couldnt move to Win11. Most of them worry about anti-cheat and such, but I tell them consistently "the games we play all work, how do you think I play with y'all?"
I've started moving everything I do to FOSS, or at least respectful, alternatives. My whole world has become more intentional and free the more detached from the "convenience" of big tech solutions.
Just had a conversation at work about using Linux full time. Coworkers asking me what issues I have and what games I can play.
I mean it's not all sunshine and rainbows...but I told them my Start Menu opens every time I need it. I don't have explorer.exe randomly crashing. I can search in my Start Menu for things and they actually come up properly. Oh and with btrfs snapshots I can update whenever and if it breaks I just rollback and wait for a fix. Which has happened...once in the last 5 months of using Cachy+Plasma.
I feel like I can actually use my computer now. With Windows I dreaded doing updates. With Linux I update whenever I want and it doesn't fucking bother me at all.
I’ve said some negative things about KDE Plasma feeling like three desktop oses taped together, but the latest version the fixed all that and it’s pretty good.
I still want to destroy all the hotksys and window decorations, but it just works, and it works well, and it works for edge cases where Gnome and Cosmic crash or fail silently.
KDE is pretty good, and I say that about a very small amount of software.
Also: I just switched to Nixos and now I can actually setup systemd units without wanting to shoot myself in the face. So that’s nice.
You know you can change the hotkeys and window decorations right? That's the great thing about KDE. You have choices.
Sure, but being good out of the box is very important for normal users. Power users love the crazy customization. Normal people don't really care.
Fair point, but out of the box KDE has pretty sane defaults these days. It's a very inoffensive desktop.
I have just a couple customizations that I do immediately on a fresh install, but it certainly wouldn't kill me to use it as it comes.
Better still, in the Nix world there's https://github.com/nix-community/plasma-manager which allows you to set up all the settings exactly once, and then auto-apply them on all the machines!
I use chezmoi and chezmoi_modify_manager to keep my dotfiles (including some KDE configs) in a Git repo, and it works well enough.
I tend to just copy my dotfiles over between machines. I'm not a fan of declarative management and even less of immutable OS'es.
I'm a huge fan of tiling window managers, and i3 is still the king of getting the hell out of my way and letting me work/play. That's the beauty of Linux systems, everyone gets to set things up how they want.
I was a longtime KDE user, but the lack of reasonable trackpad gestures drove me up the wall on my laptop, so I've been using niri+noctalia for the last couple months. It just feels so right, it's lovely. Still some edge cases, but overall just so good.
Why I still drive a Ferrari instead of the poop smelling ice cream truck.
Windows 11 is less of a poop smelling ice cream truck and more of a Kaiser's Coffee Shop van. And you ain't in the driver's seat.
"coffee, black"
"Apologies, all our coffee come with creamer loaded with corn syrup. We've got matcha though! Also with corn syrup."