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  • anmol2k4, on 11/14/2007, -118/+17do i look like this ?
    naaaaaah
    but IMO generalization == stupidity
  • CurtHowland, on 11/01/2007, -14/+298But... a PC is hardware, a Mac is hardware, and Linux is software.

    It should be, "I'm OSX. I'm Windows Vista. I'm Linux."

    • avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -12/+244Testify!!

      Although the PC guy does talk about putting 'Vista' on his hardware. So they could do a add where he puts Ubuntu on. But I don't think apple would want a script like this


      "Hi I'm a Mac"
      "and I am a PC!!!!"

      "Wha.. Why are you so happy PC?"

      "Noooo more Vista, gone! Out of here!!"

      "Sooo umm, are you back to XP?"

      "Nope, Ubuntu!"

      "Err Ban Too?"

      "Ubuntu. No surgery, no pain. Just a few questions about my name such and it was all working"

      "That's great, soooo what about your work, your photo's, your music?"

      "All taken care of! And none of that "Accept or Deny" gumbo either, security without the feeling of your teeth being pulled out"

      "Ubuntu?"

      "Ubuntu."

      *apple logo fades in*

      PC guy "You know, this smug feeling, it feels pretty good.."



    • turpenine, on 10/12/2007, -82/+10that doesn't make any sense, because whenever i try to use linux it always is not how people say it is. honestly people, make it work right for once. If you want people to use something it needs to be easy enough to use when you want to use it, but expandable when you need that too, without a huge gap between the two.
      oh wait
      that's osx
      my bad.
      (digg down for startling realization linux is less fun)
    • pwill, on 10/12/2007, -4/+53@turpenine
      Linux has worked great for me for years, as well as millions of other people. I'm sure somebody would be willing to help you get Linux working properly on your computer :-D
    • heffae, on 10/12/2007, -3/+24@avatarpalin
      Now that is commercial I would love to see. Thats the best comment I have read all week.
    • avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8@heffae

      Cheers.. Thanks for that... !


    • TheYellowMole, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9@avatarpain: I'm not really into pokemon...
    • avatarpalin, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2@TheYellowMole

      That's a shame. You should try watching 'Robotech" That cartoon had substance..

      Substance man...

      Or my video about 'EXTREME Bocce'
      http://www.metacafe.com/watch/401736/extreme_bocce/



      /shameless plug

    • returnofmalv, on 10/12/2007, -7/+7Macs are personal computers too.
    • StealthTomato, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1I commend Yellow Mole for his xkcd reference. w00t!

      Now, I must get back to my velociraptor research.
    • CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10BTW, the one where BSD shows up instead of Linux, and reacts with serious hostility to being told "You look just like Linux", is inspired.

      So how about another Linux script? Hmmm...

      Vista: Hi, I'm Windows.

      OSX: I'm OSX.

      Linux: And I'm Linux.

      Vista: I feel great! I just got a new suit, I feel so good now I'll call myself Vista.

      OSX: Looks like you're running all the same software as before. (starts to put on blue glove) Let's check to see if your security is any better...

      Linux: Hmm. Security? Let's see... (Linux takes out a bag of hats, maybe from his backpack, and by putting on different hats completely changes his wardrobe) ...enterprise, office, construction, small business, big business, web service (maybe a french maid's outfit), ah! Here it is, security. (Linux is now dressed in full military battle dress or maybe full Marine dress uniform, you get the idea)

      Vista: Hey! I can do that too. ...Just make a choice and have your credit card ready.

      OSX: Same here. Hey Linux, how much did that backpack cost?

      Linux: Oh, this? This is just the standard included applications, and there are more in here every day. It didn't cost anything. What standard included applications did you come with?

      Vista: Solitare. And Notepad.

      OSX: (someone who knows can insert something pithy here)

      Vista: (Locks up, standard system crash cliche...)

      OSX: Well, I guess we have to wait for Windows, again.

      Linux: No need. (puts on a stethoscope and is now a doctor, reaches into backpack and pulls out Dr. Barbie or some such) We can run a Linux image can on his hardware easily enough and see if there are any problems.

      (Dr. Barbie, live CD, Tux plush toy, whatever, is put on Vista, he turns into Linux with some kind of medical equipment. Beep....beep....etc.)

      Vista/Linux: Ah, here it is, data corruption. ...Done. Rebooting...

      Vista: Hey! You can't take over my hardware like that!

      Linux: Yes I can. I run just fine on your hardware. Same with you, OSX. Linux perfectly well on all PC and Mac hardware. Care for a free Linux boot CD?

      (Vista and OSX go running out of the frame in terror)

      ----------------

      Anyway, just off the top of my head. Enjoy.


    • benplaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I'm Darwin. I'm NT 5.2. I'm Linux.

      A bit more accurate :P
  • cloakeddagger, on 11/14/2007, -26/+133your right, but it should have PC and Mac, and then a linux guy comes in and rapes them to show that he can run on both of them.
    • rmerrick, on 10/12/2007, -21/+155I am not a big fan of gay porn.
    • Nougat, on 11/01/2007, -13/+182You're just a small fan of gay porn then?
    • JonForTheWin, on 10/12/2007, -31/+21Then a sharp good looking girl/guy with an M4-Carbine assault rifle strapped to their back should come in and say "I'm OpenBSD" and then everyone runs away in fear.
    • rmerrick, on 10/12/2007, -5/+57@nougat
      Only the ones that you're in, sweet cheeks. :)
    • HsoKinees, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2assimilation, borg style?
    • sailor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"Then a sharp good looking girl/guy with an M4-Carbine assault rifle strapped to their back should come in and say "I'm OpenBSD" and then everyone runs away in fear."

      Then he coners the PC guy and tells him to "squeal like a pig"...
  • KevinJim, on 10/12/2007, -14/+7because Linux is for both PCs and Macs maybe ?
  • Djmc, on 10/12/2007, -7/+71out of them three I'd definitely pick linux! How cool is his suit?
    • Nogger, on 10/12/2007, -16/+39How about "not cool at all"?
    • typo180, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18The users are real!
    • BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9My 10th grade Geometry teacher dated him on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

      Videos here (she's the picnic one): http://www.tronguy.net/videos/
    • jmaynard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Well, I think it's pretty cool, but I'm a bit biased.
    • mdmadph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I notice that whoever created that pic has "smoothed out" that guy's package -- if you've seen the original pics of the tron guy, you'll know what I'm talking about.
  • wandm, on 10/12/2007, -13/+53WHOAA! Where can I download Linux??! This is f**king brilliant!

  • Masna, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4http://duggmirror.com/
  • briantech, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Dugmirror's not working either?
  • plasticgonads, on 10/12/2007, -5/+4someone upload it somewhere else?
  • drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -10/+36That Linux guy is more creepier than BK's king
  • Takuro, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Dead after 40 Diggs. Ouch...

    The funniest part of all: this is still continuing to get Dugg without any inclination whatsoever about what the submission was actually about before the Digg-effect.
    • Flummoxer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Or people could be looking at the mirrors...
    • darrin, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2I'm digging it so I can come back and check it out later...when it's not so dead.

      EDIT: or what Flummoxer said. :)
  • galegria, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1this is just cretin.
    • burke, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14When did cretin become an adjective?
    • Stonekeeper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You, sir, mean cretinous. For a definition, look at your comment.
    • pcrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm sorry. English isn't my native language. But yes you are probably right, I automatically became cretinous when I wrote cretin. Anyway, what I meant was, that this kind of crap, I'm sorry, this kind of jokes are cretinous, and I might add, not funny. The original is cretinous as well. Linux runs on everything.
  • omenmedia, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16I'm a PC, I'm a Mac, I'm Linux.... I'M DEAD
  • p014k, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/6959/1157960476967zi8.jpg
  • lunarworks, on 10/12/2007, -11/+39Dugg for accuracy.
  • playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/8318/11579604769673070ed15uz2.jpg

    Doh, beaten to the punch by p014k. Leaving it here in case imageshack starts getting cranky with all the hits from digg.
  • wilf_brim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9The Linux guy (the guy that got made the suit) made the front page a while back. If he represents Linux, you don't want any part of it.
  • glenmo, on 10/12/2007, -11/+5so -- the guy looks like a bad tron cosplayer...

    i don't understand what's cool about this...

    why is this anything?
    • prurigro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12because he both fits the stereotype and looks hilarious :)
    • ironbear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6In this brave new world, tights on pudgy guys with glasses will be REQUIRED!
    • regeya, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2@ironbear: Not funny! I don't wear glasses.

      ...
  • Takuro, on 10/12/2007, -17/+21Ok the Digg-effect finally resided. Lo and behold: it's a cheap photoshop job.

    This has to be the most pathetic Digg submission I've ever seen to reach the main page. Now excuse me while I go jump in front of a bus.
    • playerslight, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24Take your time. I wouldn't want you to trip on your way to the bus stop.
    • afreakinninja, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Why would it matter if it was photoshopped?
  • spliffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6you guys need to give it up. it's just a commercial. this is a news aggregator. no need to keep posting four variations of this everyday.
  • cosmotic, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1cliffzdude, you made my day.That video is so amazing I can't believe it actually exists. Unbelievably fantastic.
  • th3space, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Or, to be even funnier, they could have just put a parade of pictures of all of the crap that people have installed Linux on over the years (watches, toasters, refrigerators, PS2, PS3s, XBoxen, etc)...

    Just imagine a Beowulf cluster of those ads!

    *duck*
  • Takuro, on 10/12/2007, -3/+13With all the variants of Linux out there, this joke could drag on for a very long time...

    "Hi, I'm Ubuntu"
    "Hi, I'm Fedora.."

    The list just keeps going and going...
    • October, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18You know what it needs? Some sex appeal!

      Instead of just "I'm Ubuntu. I'm Fedora... " It could also include "Hi! I'm Debi. These are my girlfriends, Suzy and Mandy. Got root? " ~wink~
      /cue Mac and PC guys drooling, speechless.
    • GMorgan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I'm Gentoo, are you guys -omg-optimized properly yet. With Gentoo I can blast random characters over your screen all day long and with -funroll-every-loop you can live life on the edge. (Gentoo runs away, being chased by the OSI for stealing and compiling the secret 2.7 version of Linux).
  • firepunk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+28I'm a PC. I'm a Mac. I'm not allowed out in public.
  • Ratteler, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3I thought Linux was Draco Malfoy from Harry Potter... and that he was learning.
  • LiterateWolf, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3More lame crap on Digg.
  • Snarfy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+51So the Windows guy, the Mac guy, and the Linux guy go to the bathroom.

    The Windows guy goes, but starts to have a seizure and pisses all over his leg.

    The Mac guy goes without pissing on himself, but only because his urinal has an extra funnel device on it so you physically can't piss on yourself.

    The Linux guy comes in, pisses in the toilet, and leaves without problems because knows how to use a damn toilet.
    • MeltedUFO, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14That's the best analogy since the "In the beginning there was a command line" book.
    • heffae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here is a link to the command line book http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html it's old now but still a good read.
    • gmflex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0Except it takes the Linux guy six hours to piss because he has to update 34 different libraries and recompile his kernel before he can actually start pissing.
    • bmartin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@gmflex: I've never had to recompile my kernel, or compile it, for that matter. Unless you're running Gentoo or a bleeding-edge server (or some custom kernel), you don't normally have to compile it. The Linux guy wouldn't necessarily have to download package updates before taking a *****; it's simple to set up a cron job to run your updates at 4 AM.
  • newsledbans, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Saw this on 4chan.org about a year ago. Good Digg!
  • Syphon8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+42*Crippled kids roll in on short bus*

    "I'm Solaris!"
    "I'm OS/2"
    "I'm a Banana!"
  • joeysum, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6I'm not sure about that Linux dude.... what they should REALLY have is a picture of Jessica Alba in a bikini instead.
    • mcrocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4See October's post about Debi, Mandy and Susy above :)
  • dtfinch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I laughed a little. Then I tried to clean it up, so that the Tron guy looks a little less like crap: http://mytsoftware.com/misc/linux2.jpg

    I'm running Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Herd 3 btw. Today I gave away my old XP machine to someone who needed it more, since I haven't used it in a long while. I still have an old system left running Windows Server 2003 (legally) though, which will probably stay that way.
    • MrUnderbridge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Today I gave away my old XP machine to someone who needed it more"

      I assume this wasn't a friend?
  • freetyme, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17wait, wasn't there an IBM commercial where Linux was that creepy kid who would just absorb information, Linux doesn't talk...it just watches you.
  • daxsymbiont, on 10/12/2007, -19/+3more like "and i'm linux running on both of yous"

    http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/7871/linuxau4.png
  • MuteMathSSR, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6thank you 7 Chan
  • JudgeDredd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Link is hosed. Using Windows, waiting for MS to send me an upgrade. I then will promptly either dual boot XP and Debian, or tri-boot Debian, XP, and Vista.
  • heffae, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16I recommend every one read Neil Stephenson's http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html . It's a bit dated now (He was in Love with BeOS) but it has the best analogy of Windows Linux and Mac OS and BeOS.

    "Imagine a crossroads where four competing auto dealerships are situated. One of them (Microsoft) is much, much bigger than the others. It started out years ago selling three-speed bicycles (MS-DOS); these were not perfect, but they worked, and when they broke you could easily fix them.

    There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sealed, so that how they worked was something of a mystery. . . .

    Linux, which is right next door, and which is not a business at all. It's a bunch of RVs, yurts, tepees, and geodesic domes set up in a field and organized by consensus. The people who live there are making tanks. . . made of space-age materials and jammed with sophisticated technology from one end to the other. But they are better than Army tanks. They've been modified in such a way that they never, ever break down, are light and maneuverable enough to use on ordinary streets, and use no more fuel than a subcompact car. These tanks are being cranked out, on the spot, at a terrific pace, and a vast number of them are lined up along the edge of the road with keys in the ignition. Anyone who wants can simply climb into one and drive it away for free.

    The who thing is a great read especially for linux fans and it's only 70 pages or so.
  • BTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Funny enough, I met that guy at a Linux event in Michigan.
  • saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Where the hell do you get a Tron suit anyway?
  • reed311, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2Some folks have an unhealthy obsession with Linux. It's just an OS. It is your opinion that it is better than Windows. The majority of the world feels otherwise. There is no conspiracy.
    • prammy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Corrected:

      "Some folks have an unhealthy obsession with [Linux/*BSD/Windows/OSX]. It's just an OS. It is your opinion that it is better than Windows. The majority of the world feels otherwise. There is no conspiracy."

      Unless you are a BeOS or OS/2 user, in which case better put your tin foil hats on!
  • SteveDeGroof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11I figured Linux would be John Hodgman in a tux.
  • diecastbeatdown, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11***** lame.
  • TDR25, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Damn, what's with all the screwed up links as Digg as of late?
  • LIDPHI, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Mac sucks!!! Windows is cool. linux, useful... one person compiled a kernal that ran on a digital toaster.
  • DaManDOH, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5I'm confused. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought Linux canon read:

    "Yea, and did AT&T begat System V, and did Berkley University say unto AT&T, 'That's not a bad idea,' and, lo, did Berkley begat BSD and did BSD have many bastard children. AT&T did look upon the academic landscape and did a scowl lay across AT&T's face. 'Hey, we were using that!' did AT&T exclaim. So did AT&T mold UNIX from the commercially-torched ashes of System V, and there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth. So did the savior, Linus Torvalds, astride his mighty mount directory, take up the AT&T-forsaken kernel and breathe new life into it. Thus, did The Great Linus bestow Linux unto the unwashed masses. Did He then look upon it, and it was good."

    ...etc., etc., etc. Long story short:
    System V ~> UNIX ~> Linux ~> (Your Linux distro here)
    System V ~> NetBSD ~> Darwin ~> Mac OS X

    So, considering their shared genealogy, similar development, and common market, why can't Mac OS X be considered the first mainstream, tremendously successful *NIX; i.e. a friendly, commercial, and -- have I mentioned? -- tremendously successful Linux distro?
    • firepunk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Because then we wouldn't have a spiffy picture of a guy in a tron suit now would we?
    • grte, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Because Macs aren't tremendously successful.
    • smellinator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@DaManDOH:

      Good grief. The first tremendously successful *nix implementation? A Mac? HP's a $90 BILLION company (compared to Apple's "puny" $20 Billion) and has been tremendously successful in *nix for decades. Their HP-UX system has been out since about 1984 and has been their flagship product since probably 1993. Mac OSX has had a few years of moderate but growing success, but nothing in comparison to HP.

      Sorry, Apple isn't even in the same league. You need to move out from the desktop and look across the whole computer industry!
    • CurtHowland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@ DaManDOH,

      Ah, well, no. "Unix", if I can use the name to mean an OS designed around the published and well known standards that were first established in AT&T UNIX, has been written from scratch many times. Not only is the claim that "one leads to another" not required, it's been disproven often.

      I suggest you try "The Daemon, the GNU & the Penguin ~ by Dr. Peter Salus", http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=20051013231901859

      Linus Torvalds has stated in the past that if he had known about BSD, he wouldn't have bothered to create Linux in the first place.
  • GruntboyX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2best line ...."Shut the ***** up!"



    I AM ROOT!
  • wolver1ne, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2There can't be "I'm Linux" to begin with. Linux is communism.
  • Planar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1This picture is like 6 months old. WTF?
  • martypal2005, on 10/12/2007, -10/+5Hilarious!!!!

    Im a PC.
    Im a Mac.
    Im a Linux.
    PC: What is a Linux?
    Mac: ....
    Linux: What is Linux I am GNU/Linux or GNU and Linux as I prefer.
    Mac: ....
    PC: Whoever hacked you together must have been a real piece of work.
    GNU/Linux: Yes I grew up in a home with bald 30 year old males with no life that is why I am weird today. If you were to compare me to a persona it would be a hybrid between a serial killer and a trainspotter.

    GNU/Linux: You guys must meet my grandfather Minix and my uncle Minix 3. And also I got a lot of BSD cousins they are really cool. Hey they are related to u Mac. Aren't they?

    Mac: ...

    Bleh I cant come up with anymore. Gotta love Linux though. I use it every day and it makes my life easier.
  • johnnycornholer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1I had just begun learning linux. Then I enrolled in a .net programming language class in school and figured if I was to have any prayer at that I would be better off to switch back to XP for a bit.
    • sqrt7744, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I use Mono for .NET programming under Linux all the time. Believe it or not but you can too! Hooray!
  • MrTea, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2I can't believe this made the front page. This is so old.
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