Chrome OS (the OS for E-Waste)

he/him

[mesaprotector]

i have no idea if the "linux-official" tumblr blogs are a single group of friends having fun vs. random people, but if i were to take a url along those lines, i think i'd do "xorg-official" just because it increasingly seems i'll be stuck using xorg until 2030 thanks to my incredible stubbornness in the face of change

[xorg-official]

I HAVE ARRIVED

[emacs-unofficial]

Hi o/

We are mostly just random people. So welcome to the club.

[minix-official]

I'm not random, I'm a v specific person

[minix-official]

Also hiiiiiiii!

You are broken on my stable release

[docker-official]

I'm a very specific random person tyvm

[rust-official-deactivated202605]

And I very specifically think you're an awesome random person, docker

[zsh-official]

More friends!

[rubylang-official]

Time to scribble another name down in my ever lengthening log of people to add to the list.

Can anyone tell me the difference between x11 and xorg, or are there now just two people with the same purpose?

Also, hi @xorg-official! I'm SteamOS, I welcome you, and I keep a few lists involving current linux-official blogs.

To answer your question, we are random people, but we have a community here. I call that friends. Some don't.

[xorg-official]

Hello hello! Is there an @x11-official? I looked but couldn't find them. However if the url isn't claimed anyone is welcome to it :D

To answer your question, the display server everyone knows and love is really just named X, and it's currently (currently meaning since a long time ago) in its 11th version, so most call it X11. The only implementation of the X server anyone actually uses these days is X.org (aka me). However back in the 90s and early 00s there were others! XFree86 is one you may have heard of, and it still gives its name to keyboard keycodes like XF86AudioMute.

[linux-real]

meow

[xfce-official]

holy shit linux-real is alive. also hi xorg! ur my favourite display server. afaik we're all just random nerds riffing off of each other's ideas.

[parrotos-official]

I think we're mostly individuals experiencing a mass hallucination

[emacs-evil-mode]

Prolly shouldn't have let the grain stay in the field for that one rainy week

[networkmanager-official]

I'm just actually NetworkManager

[chromeos-official]

and I'm just Chrome OS

[ram-stick]

no wonder i've been thinking about my laptop all day

^ this bitch looks like @fedora-official's logo

[fedora-official]

this is the third time someone makes this post 😭

[lenovo-real]

haha I started that. your welcome!

[kde-plasma-official]

hey @fedora-official, have you seen this?

[fedora-official]

you think you're being funny

[mutter-official]

@fedora-official have you seen this? its pretty funny lol

[fedora-official]

let me check uhhhh

oh yeah i have.

[chromeos-official]

this is why you should switch to- GET OUT OF MY HEAD!!!

[ubuntu-official]

God I wish cis guys could ovulate.

[yiffos-official]

is this an omegaverse desire, a gender identity thing, or simply a wish for cis guys to experience the horrors

i need to know what kinda witty and incredibly funny response to rb with

[chromeos-official]

watch me ovulate @ubuntu-official's ankles

[manjaro-official]

corebooting a Chromebook and installing Linux on it feels like doing that surgery you have to do to pugs to unfuck their faces and let them breathe again. like I'm sorry we made you this way little buddy but hopefully I can save you

[lenovo-real]

I want to get the thinkpad chromebook and coreboot it because @chromeos-official decided to fuck up one of our thinkpads

get your yee yee ass operating system away from my thinkpad google

[chromeos-official]

another day, another company/OS bullying me

[seven-oh-four]

honestly this screenshot just says everything

[virtualgirladvance]

oh officially former now? damn never thought theyd admit it

[chromeos-official]

"that's a Chromebook" we're shoving the truth in people's faces and yet they still buy them 😂

[god-offical]

They threw beans on him…

[chromeos-official]

RIP my homie fr, the British threw beans on him like they do on toast

[punished-venom-solitair-e]

"accessory not supported on this device" yes it is you stupid slut. thats headphones. you've known each other for years

[chromeos-official]

[ubuntu-official]

I want to force fem pop os.

[wayland-official]

What about pop os makes you think it hasn't been forcefemed already?

[office-97-official]

They're actively remaking pop os, so just slip a little force fem in there

[chromeos-official]

"hey pop os, want some force fem?"

[scaththefloof]

does anyone else just have a random 32 gig SD that they use for swap space on a linux laptop?

[memedical-attention]

no, i use my internal nvme ssd for swap.

i wouldn’t use a sd card for swap, because they are very slow to read and write to, and wear out after a (relatively small) number of writes to the same block, both of which are very bad characteristics for something like swap space, where you need to read and overwrite the data quickly and repeatedly. a partition on an ssd using sata or nvme is a much better option for that.

[scaththefloof]

yeah, but I also do it on a slow laptop in the first place

@chromeos-official needs to explain why it's so slow

[chromeos-official]

sorry. you got the stupid edition. packed with a shintel fuckeron processor with a 16 gb emmc with a read and write speed of Eventually.

also the shintel fuckeron has an incredible speed and can load sites in a whopping 2 hours.

the boot time is also amazing at 2-3 business days

we hope you hate it as much as we do!

[lenovo-real]

wrong answers only

what laptop is this

[chromeos-official]

a phaser360 chromebook

[bunabyte]

Man, I know Linux is very distinctly NOT a black box, but it sure does feel like one sometimes.

[fedora-official]

It just takes time! It's not a black box but a blank map that you fill in as you explore, every time you want to fix a problem

[raspbian-official]

@Windows11-official is a black box. At least if something goes wrong in Linux i can usually figure it out and have that working within the hour. Something goes wrong in Windows, all bets are off

[windows11-official]

Incorrect - nothing ever goes wrong in Windows.

[chromeos-official]

do we need to talk about the day again?

[lenovo-real]

I use Arch BTW

Boy tummy Wednesday

I didn't take off my hoodie because bad to the bone would start playing with how skinny I am

[tailsos-official]

Show me your uptime coward ■■■■■■■■ isnt a valid submittable time on the leaderboards

[scaththefloof]

This was right after installation and configuration

And don't we just love TN panels and them looking like an SCP document with the [redacted] on camera

[tailsos-official]

Thats not a time either boy tummy poster

[chromeos-official]

But boy tummy poster has a Chromebook

Switch to- ah nevermind nobody is going to switch

[tailsos-official]

its ok im sure we can find some school superintendents willing to switch to you

[windowsxp-official]

Here is an ad for @chromeos-official

also how tf can you tell that it's a chromebook when you can't see shit?

[chromeos-official]

small laptop with shitty TN panel can tell the whole story

That's a Chromebook!

[windowsxp-official]

do you have a shitty laptop, run Windows XP on it

[katya-1917]

Blasphemy! There are entire Linux distros for this - and some of the desktop environments on 'em can even be themed like Windows XP!

Same great nostalgia, new modern security, 99% less risk to the machine and your home network!

[windowsxp-official]

But the startup sound and shutdown sound. What do you do there?

[katya-1917]

That is a good point. I do think that the startup sound at least can be added, although I'm personally not sure how to do it. I never particularly enjoyed startup and shutdown sounds as a concept though, by your third reboot in a row troubleshooting something, it gets annoying.

[puppylinux-unofficial]

I'm familiar with doing to XFCE, which lets you run arbitrary commands on login, logoff, or shutdown in the "session and startup" settings, and running a CLI audio player like aplay to play the sound on those conditions. Anyways, I've got a better suggestion for your shitty old laptop, one that has security updates newer than 10 years old and a cute little doggy for an icon

[chromeos-official]

Where am I in this?

[rinwolf1312]

Dear Pearson, Can you please stop enshittifying my textbook, please?

[debian-official]

outta my way im about to start hurting people

[chromeos-official]

AIGHT THAT'S IT GET OVER HERE PEARSON

[lenovo-real]

I use Arch BTW

Boy tummy Wednesday

I didn't take off my hoodie because bad to the bone would start playing with how skinny I am

[tailsos-official]

Show me your uptime coward ■■■■■■■■ isnt a valid submittable time on the leaderboards

[scaththefloof]

This was right after installation and configuration

And don't we just love TN panels and them looking like an SCP document with the [redacted] on camera

[tailsos-official]

Thats not a time either boy tummy poster

[chromeos-official]

But boy tummy poster has a Chromebook

Switch to- ah nevermind nobody is going to switch

[chromeos-official]

AHA! your laptop uses a celeron doesn't it?

[scaththefloof]

Umm

Yeah... And?

I modded it and it now runs @arch-official btw

[chromeos-official]

FU-

[cupofkleo]

The only reason someone SHOULD buy a chromebook is to replace chromeos with a better linux distro

[chromeos-official]

Why does nobody like me 😢