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- solidus636, on 07/18/2008, -5/+687Since the site is pretty much dead... :
I’ve been taking the train to work for 4 years now. It’s a 45 minute rambling ride in which I usually either read a book, sleep, or grab my laptop loaded up with Ubuntu and get some stuff done. Over time, I’ve collected a few funny remarks I’ve either over heard, or that people have said directly to me. Here are the 10 best.
1. That’s not windows, it’s a Mac! (One teenager to another).
2. Where’s the start button? (Asked directly to me on a train).
3. Random middle manager one: He must be in Marketing, he’s making a new picture! Random middle manager two: I don’t know, look how he’s dressed. (While using gimp).
4. Don’t turn your computer on Bill – that guy can look into it! (two business men).
5. You’ve got to work in IT. (said directly to me).
6. (Whispered)How did he get Vista early? (Two teens).
7. Yeah, I’m surrounded by yuppies, kids, drones and two guys using Linux. (Someone on a cell phone).
8. What the hell is that? (Pointing to my screen -followed by a 15 minute conversation about computers).
9. Can you game on it? (Guy with a Sony VIAO running Vista. He wasn’t impressed by Moria).
10. They stole that spinning cube thing from a Mac! (Two mac users sitting next to me). - Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 07/18/2008, -4/+376#7 "Yeah, I’m surrounded by yuppies, kids, drones and two guys using Linux. (Someone on a cell phone)."
That made my day. - radicaldementia, on 07/18/2008, -3/+330A couple weeks ago I was on the train with my eeePC (running ubuntu w/ compiz), and somebody asked me why I was using a kids laptop :/
- CheeseburgerBro, on 07/18/2008, -4/+306"Look, Elliot -- a virgin!"
- BDOUG, on 07/18/2008, -43/+260
Hmm, I think Linux is kind of neat, but I'm never 100% sure I really fully understand the mentality that goes behind collecting these types of ''observations"....
Potential Linux guy to himself, years ago: I want to be cool and not follow the herd or be a sheeple so I'm going to pick an obscure nerdy OS for my computer that doesn't look like 99% of the "IBM's" and Macs out there.
Same Linux Guy. years later (positioned on a train so everyone can see his laptop screen even though it makes it really hard to type on it): *snort* I can't believe all these noobs don't know anything about my ultra cool Linux distro that 99.9% of them don't use. They really should get clued in about the thing I intentionally chose to use because they don't use it. - dinkola, on 07/18/2008, -6/+221So why are you using a kids laptop?
- NinjaNato, on 07/18/2008, -1/+205My personal favorite which was directed at me while on the train by a teen a few months back: "Gutsy?"
- mrblue182, on 07/18/2008, -24/+224"THEY STOLE THAT FROM A MAC!"
I lol'ed - calebh, on 07/18/2008, -6/+198sudo killall stupid-person
- mohtasham, on 07/18/2008, -40/+191Sad but true. Linux is innovating more and more, but nobody notices it. Once MS or Apple implement the same thing on their OSs, everybody says that Linux is copying it from them. MS even threats to sue LInux for it lol
- Jarasmen, on 07/18/2008, -6/+132Yes, thank you, that is, indeed, part of the article. Good job. I'll mail you a trophy.
- gr3yn3t, on 07/18/2008, -3/+126is he hosting the server on his laptop?
- SifuMoKung, on 07/18/2008, -10/+117The last dumb-ass remark I got was, "Is that some old school version of Windows?"
- 6453893, on 07/18/2008, -9/+109I'd be guy number seven for sure. When I'm on a cell phone, I love making people uncomfortable by referring to them in unambiguous detail.
"I'd check that right now, but I'm sandwiched between a guy wearing a Nike shirt with a ketchup stain on it and a woman listening to a two or three year old iPod with only one headphone in. Yeah, I'll call you back as soon as that woman whose jewelry clatters against her laptop as she types gets out of her seat." - dudefather, on 07/18/2008, -2/+101"Can you game on it?"
good question! ;) - vitriolage, on 07/18/2008, -2/+89Using linux, in public? I think he was referring to your bravery.
I kid, my main is running Gentoo. - screamthenrun, on 07/18/2008, -3/+87hey.. at least that guy knew what linux was haha.. most people i talk to have no clue
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -1/+77Best one I had was when I called FIOS to set up my service and they asked my how many computers I was running and what were they running. I said, "Windows XP, Vista and Ubuntu." To which the puzzled customer service rep inquired, "What's Ubuntu?" and I said, "Umm, you know, Linux?" and the guy was like. "Hmm, never heard of it. Sounds expensive. I don't think FIOS will work with it, is that going to be a problem?"
When I stopped laughing, I told him not to worry about it. - marx2k, on 07/18/2008, -0/+73"...oh wait.. there's a guy getting ready to punch me in the back of my head... I'll call you back.."
- beersnob, on 07/18/2008, -0/+73Our local public library runs Ubuntu on all of its public access computers. Listening to people's reactions when they sit down in front of the screen for the first time is hilarious. You would think the icons were in Chinese or something. Most people are completely dumbfounded when they don't see the familiar Windows Start button. I feel sorry for the poor library staff members who probably have to answer the same questions 50 times a day.
- iJessicaRabbit, on 07/18/2008, -0/+69I get blank wide eyes a bunch and then "are you serious? You're using Linux?". I'm a girl with an eeepc which has been dolled up in Ubuntu/Linux stickers (I'm in love :)). Then I usually have to explain how Linux works, what it is, and how I actually DO know what I'm doing and that it's NOT windows :)
- kevyn, on 07/18/2008, -9/+72people like windows, maybe not people on digg... but the general public are happy with what they know, and fear change
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -2/+65If you want really weird looks, watch porn while you're on the bus.
Oh, And for the brave maybe hentai too - That would get some epic responses. - diggit08, on 07/18/2008, -6/+66Mirror: http://www.demotivate.info/2008/07/18/mirror-10-th ...
- tekproxy, on 07/18/2008, -7/+66Linux users stopped being special and cool when it became possible to install without personally calling an existing Linux guru. I mean, what is all this business with wifi and sound working with no problem in a few minutes? No long hours recompiling your kernel because you forgot to add NTFS support? No days and days scouring forums to get your to work?
Linux is for tools, now. I only use BeOS. - diggit08, on 07/18/2008, -2/+60Mirror: http://www.demotivate.info/2008/07/18/mirror-10-th ...
- Kamujin, on 07/18/2008, -4/+59So funny since Mac stole its ticket out of technological extinction from UNIX and open source.
- plr4ever, on 07/18/2008, -18/+72Thank, you, for, all of the, commas
- employeeno5, on 07/18/2008, -0/+48I'm a Linux user and I totally agree. I actually saw this on Reddit yesterday and left my comment on the blog actual site.
What I was saying in it is, that I too get comments all of the time on my Linux laptop in coffee shops and airports, but the comments are never ignorant or rude and are usually good conversation starters.
Most people don't know what Linux is, or they just have a vague idea of it from ten years ago. When someone is curious if it's something I've done to Windows or just don't even have a clue what to think, it's a great opportunity to share something cool with them.
I simply explain that it's a completely different operating system called Linux and it's free. Usually they want to see and hear more. if they don't their curiosity is peaked and they'll surely be Googling it later.
Regardless they're usually pretty excited and interested in seeing something that's different and new to them. Particularly with regards to the way a computer can work. After all, whether they're "into computers" or not, they have to use one everyday.
I started using Linux because somebody friendly and cool introduced what's great about it to me. It ended up being something that I really value. I'm happy to share that with anyone who's curious.
Even if they love their Windows and don't want t something different, they've at least learned something new and there's certainly no reason to be anything less than polite. It's a computer. Jeesh. - EvilJelloMan, on 07/18/2008, -0/+43I remember BeOS using the spinning cube effect as a demo of how powerful it was. It could render a bunch of MPEGS on the surface of a spinning cube in realtime. It was pretty damn remarkable given how slow and crappy computers were at the time.
- stevensj2, on 07/18/2008, -3/+44You're in love?
So are the thousands of guys who have just e-met you through Digg :P - rockwithme000, on 07/18/2008, -37/+77"Don’t turn your computer on Bill – that guy can look into it! "
- FormulaVette, on 07/18/2008, -0/+38When I install linux on someones computer (usually because they screwed up windows really bad a couple of times) who only uses the internet/office, I switch the name of Firefox to Internet, and Open Office to Office and tell them its the new latest and greatest.
No more virus troubleshooting for me after that! - tonyDigger, on 07/18/2008, -2/+38Thanks a ton solidus.. I was just going to ask someone who have read it to repost here since the site has been burried
- tiuk, on 07/18/2008, -0/+35A real soul-crushing experience is when people see you running linux in a CS class and ask what it is.
- plr4ever, on 07/18/2008, -7/+42Default Gnome under ubuntu sure does look like it...
- Waiting2awake, on 07/18/2008, -2/+36Actually I switched to Linux for financial reasons.
If I can do something for free - why am I paying someone $400 for it? And for the privileged of paying $400 for nothing, I get to spend more money and computer resources running various malware scanners, virus scanners, and the like - so that I can do what?
The same thing I can do with a little bit of effort and learning - and the end result is that I have a system that I truly know, and don't have to relay on some company, that is in bed with American corporations locking down abilities of the system that I bought - but apparently don't own. - Veni_Vidi_Vici, on 07/18/2008, -26/+60I agree. But I had a really hard time digging your comment simply because you ended it without punctuation and used the word "lol". Unfortunately I dugg it anyway.
- pootedesu, on 07/18/2008, -4/+38Or, you could say they "Copied" it from Xerox.
See what I did there? - wiresjr, on 07/18/2008, -2/+35...or maybe 3D-Desktop (with a cube switcher) has existed since 2002.
http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php
Check your facts before correcting others, please. - zcreem, on 07/18/2008, -0/+32How how I love people on mobile phones in public places especially as most of them think it's a megaphone and not a telephone..
- bradleyland, on 07/18/2008, -3/+35Jesus Christ, it's a ***** cube. No one gets a Nobel Prize for thinking up a cube with your window manager drawn on the sides.
- NCg8r, on 07/18/2008, -0/+30The guy who sets up my plumbing doesn't need to know how I shower... Just get the water flowing and let me worry about it!
- Vegabondsx, on 07/18/2008, -5/+34BurgerPunch is right, but it's hardly the same as using it with virtual desktops.
- mllawso, on 07/18/2008, -0/+29He dun did sayed that.
- inactive, on 07/18/2008, -1/+30Well, it was correct grammatically. Plus, it added to the effect, viz., that rockwithme000 is a moron.
But people love criticising others (I just did so myself). - Tenoq, on 07/18/2008, -1/+28I thought I'd conquered mine right up until I read your post, chesss.
- Rentiak, on 07/18/2008, -0/+27You clearly don't have it set up correctly
- rugabug, on 07/18/2008, -0/+27Maybe not for you.
- mahdaeng, on 07/18/2008, -4/+31First of all, there are no girls on Digg. Secondly, no girls use Linux.
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