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  • Script Kiddiescriptkiddie@anonsys.net
    Jun 27, 2026, 3:54 AM

    People think the #Matrix was about robots. It wasn't. It was about operating systems.


    #Windows is the blue pill.

    You take it, and everything stays comfortable. Pretty icons. Friendly sounds. A setup wizard asking if you want to save your soul to the #cloud. Updates appear at the worst possible moment like a Marvel post-credit scene nobody asked for. Your #PC reboots. You cry. #Microsoft thanks you for improving your experience.

    #Linux is the red pill.

    You wake up. You see how deep the #RabbitHole goes.

    At first, it is terrifying. The #terminal stares at you like Darth Vader asking if you know the power of the #CommandLine. You type one wrong character and feel like you accidentally launched nuclear missiles.

    But then something changes. You realize your #computer actually belongs to you.

    No ads in the Start Menu. No #AI assistant spying harder than a reality TV producer.

    No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks.

    You choose what gets installed. You choose when #updates happen. You choose what your #desktop looks like.

    You are Neo.

    Windows #users are still sitting in their pods, downloading the latest mandatory #update called KB-Whatever-Again, wondering why their printer suddenly speaks ancient Sumerian.

    Linux is not perfect. Sometimes Wi-Fi drivers behave like a side quest in Dark Souls.

    Sometimes you spend two hours fixing a problem just to feel smarter than everyone else.

    But that is the point. The red pill was never about comfort. It was about #freedom.

    And freedom means occasionally reading a forum post written by a Finnish guy in 2007 who solved your #problem and vanished forever like a #Jedi master.

    Welcome to Linux. There is no spoon. Only #sudo.

    #meme #choice #os #software #foss #floss #opensource #gnu #gpl #computer #user #nerd #just4fun #system

    matrix meme for OS
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  • CookieCookiemonster@chaos.social
    Jun 27, 2026, 4:46 AM

    @scriptkiddie
    "No mysterious background process eating half your #RAM like Pac-Man after three energy drinks."
    I actually had to laugh out loud 😀

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  • DoerkNebulaTide@bsd.cafe
    Jun 27, 2026, 6:32 AM

    @scriptkiddie To be honest I’m a bit concerned about the current tendencies to prepare the ground for age verification in Linux. I hope there are enough people fighting against it. We all have to resist and open source is the last bastion for those who do.

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  • RaRa
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:07 AM

    @scriptkiddie "...Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life."😃

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  • OffbeatmammalOffbeatmammal@mastodon.social
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:07 AM

    @scriptkiddie sadly my RaspberryPi 5 (Trixie) randomly loses wifi after a few hours and crashes every few days for no discernable reason. My rPi3B Bookworm only falls over if there's a power outage, and I also have a Debian PC that's rock solid so I blame the rPi in this case (the SSD hat seemed to be the start of the problems). Computers are why I need headache pills!

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  • O.Voãoovoao@mastodon.social
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:17 AM

    @scriptkiddie

    Easier said than done. How to get your company to switch? Especially, if you are not from the IT department or top management? 🤔

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  • 🔸Daniele Turra🔸RookieNerd@hachyderm.io
    Jun 27, 2026, 9:16 AM

    @ovoao @scriptkiddie it depends on the type of company you work for. Remember that unfortunately the skills needed to run Linux desktop for a large environment are not as common as Windows sysadmin, plus only certain distros (like openSUSE) have something native to manage deploys, applying policies w and so on. This being said, work your day through the IT department, show cost savings, present easy solutions, make sure you have allies, but in the end, these kinds of things are always political, so you need to have a clear grasp of the power dynamics. It might be a supplier or a client that uses Microsoft Teams all the time, and for your company switching to Linux could mean impacting operations and reactiveness too hard. Try to understand the current blockers, they could be many (lack of knowledge of what Linux is, existing commercial relationships, lack of skills, special features only available on Microsoft 365, lack of coherent alternative vision, and many more). For each one of them find a quick win and the related person to work it through. That's hard work :)

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  • Anders Gulden Olstadandersgo@infosec.exchange
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:20 AM

    @scriptkiddie The problem with updates, is that on certain platforms you don’t know what is going to break next. Patching should always be a quick and trustworthy experience. Zero days waits for no man.

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  • Ronald Abadirabadi@mastodon.social
    Jun 27, 2026, 8:49 AM

    I have been using Linux at work since 2007. It has been almost a decade since I booted Windoze. And, lately I have been doing all my gaming on Linux as well. So, really there is no need whatsoever to touch that Micro$lop OS (Operating Spyware) from Redmond anymore.

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  • Dec [{(:no_ai:)}]dec23k@mastodon.ie
    Jun 27, 2026, 10:51 AM

    @yiorgos @scriptkiddie
    There might be a hint in the first thing that appears on screen at the start of the movie's first scene.

    As described in the script:

    Data now slashes across the screen, information flashing faster then we can read:

    "Call trans opt: received. 2-19-98 13:24:18 REC:Log>"

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  • PezitoPezito@mamot.fr
    Jun 27, 2026, 10:33 AM

    @scriptkiddie

    [cynism] But you will eat porridge in the sewers while the rest of 'em will enjoy their juicy steak in the matrix. [/cynism]

    Brilliant text tho, imma translate it and share it around. :)

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  • Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSCLordCaramac@discordian.social
    Jun 27, 2026, 11:20 AM

    @scriptkiddie I just installed an "AI" package on one of my Linux machines yesterday, an expressive speech synthesizer called supertonic that can create WAVs that sound like a real human being. Ten standard voices, five female and five male ones. Not an LLM or agent or assistant or anything like that, but I still put it into a virtual environment for safety reasons. I also have a couple of open source LLMs running under GPT4All, but I rarely use them because I find chatbots rather boring and unproductive, except for the occasional silliness like generating some weird electronic dada poems.
    So if you want to run your own AI on your own hardware, Linux is even better than Windows or MacOS or any other proprietary system.

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  • Chao-c'xChaos@f.cz
    Jun 27, 2026, 4:25 PM

    @scriptkiddie I am desktop Linux user for at least 25 years now, and longer on server. But it is not that easy, and I mean both ways.

    Matrix was about something else, than we thought in 1990s. Basically: it described certain psychedelic or psychotic states of minds, both ways, especially the original movies.

    Linux is like promise, which was never really fulfilled. Yes, it is very usable now, but end users can't be liberated... they would have to move to distros (like Android).

    Github, considered to be crucial for free software and Linux kernel development, is now owned by Microsoft, which is big irony, from my 1990's point of view.

    We still don't have anything better, than GNU/Linux. But the reason, why it is marginal, is that people generally want to be isolated from technical details as much asi possible. Which won't be solved by education.

    The complexity of desktop computing simply skyrocketed, without any real reasons why it should happen - most us actually use PCs for much less actual computing, than in 1990's, we mostly use PCs as media platform and less and less for creativity (not all, but I see this myself).

    I hope for some reconnection of FOSS community with ordinary end users, without corporations and so, but so many attempts have already failed. Let's hope, that Fediverse can change the situation... but we have to choose the parables wisely. Maybe move on from 1990's popculture (but where exactly?)

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  • Wish the sun to stand still 🌞tasket@infosec.exchange
    Jun 27, 2026, 5:31 PM

    @scriptkiddie What color pill is it when all the online help is CLI based and there are multi-layered cliques telling you to switch to distro a/b/c and desktop x/y/z (and audio server 1/2/3)?

    I predict more and more people will take the green pill – FOSS Android distros – which now have a reference (standard) desktop UI. Eventually they will surpass "proper Linux desktop" systems, if they haven't already.

    Regular users do not want the Unix experience.

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  • Arkivo YZarkivo-yz@hub.princeps-poesis.xyz
    Jul 4, 2026, 6:09 AM
    @Script Kiddie Trinity could have been using Linux during the hacking scene in Matrix Reloaded, though it wasn't obviously a real OS there, just an imitation of an X11 window manager.

    Nice analogy, though complicated by the fact that Microsoft and other corporations do have their fingers now in the Linux kernel, which is been gradually corrupted by this influence!

    I've switched recently to OpenBSD, it's got a better UNIX experience, better security, better documentation. Not a beginner-friendly experience, but its learning curve is fairly reasonable. Arkivo YZ and Princeps Poesis may occasionally post material that, according to Y.Z.,  constitutes fair use for educative purposes. If you are a copyright holder who somehow objects, contact Y.Z., who will oblige and delete.
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