Careful Linus. This guy may start claiming he is a confounder of Linux any moment now.
Musk certainly is confounding.
What? You didn’t know he was Linus’s right hand man back the?
oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.
29.2 tweets a day?
At a rate of 10,658 tweets a year, I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
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29.2 tweets a day?
The brilliant businessman is clearly hard at work.
I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
Nope.
Last year’s winner was Amber Heard in Overwatch cosplay
a broken clock is right twice a day
No this dipshit just says whatever he thinks is going to be the most popular with the tech bros he is desperate to be in front of.
He could always learn it. Maybe go to his local community college and take a programming class. He could take an intro physics class as well. Might help him out.
If he had any part in Tesla productions, he already would. Or any part of SpaceX.
He’s a funny guy.
And, how does what you said cancel out what you responded to?
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Not sure what relevance a broken clock has to the discussion or the OP.
It’s an expression. In this context Elon is the broken clock and saying desktops should run Linux is one of the rare times he’s been right about something.
rare times he’s been right about something.
Started a space company, and an EV company. Both longshots, both wildly successful.
Bought Twitter. Laid of 80% of the employees. Still runs totally fine.
Your position is nakedly indefensible. I’d be curious what you think he’s actually wrong about.
I feel they are criticizing his actions morally rather than financially.
The nice thing about Linux is, he can’t buy it and fuck it up.
You say that, but I’ll be more than willing to try and sell him a copy of the source code.
For extra irony, sell him an NFT to the source code.
He can still fuck up the community.
How?
Let me put it to you this way.
Elon Musk fanboys, now running arch.
Just… Let that simmer for a minute.
Anyone smart enough to run Arch is smart enough to recognize Elon is an imbecile.
As a complete idiot who uses arch on her main PC, I can attest that you don’t have to be particularly smart to use it.
But do you recognize Musk as an imbecile? If you do you’re smarter than you think.
Take it from me, people who openly say they’re idiots usually aren’t. Socrates: I now know I know nothing.
you literally have to run installation script or follow instructions from arch wiki. slap some de to it and you’re good. doesn’t take a smart person to do.
to properly maintain it for longer periods forever though, takes some more skill.
Maybe nowadays, with Elon’s imbecility so publicly visible.
I’ve run Arch for close to 10 years, and was pretty jazzed by Musk in the early days of his presiding over Tesla and Space X. Then again, I was barely an adult at the time, and I hadn’t yet come across the first reports of terrible working conditions and his overall shittyness as a manager/exec.
A lot of people forget how overwhelmingly, insanely popular Musk was with way too online nerds. He was reddit’s golden child for years. Part of this is that whenever Disney started releasing the Marvel movies, beginning with Iron Man, Musk was front and center as the core inspiration for Tony Stark (yes, I’m serious, the director and Robert Downey Jr. basically went on record as saying as much) and he fucking milked that shit. It’s also important to understand that for a time he was seen as a forward looking entrepreneur whose business was “going to help save the planet by making electric cars so popular that every car manufacturer would switch to electric vehicle production to keep up.” If Musk was a genius at one thing, it was manipulating public perception of himself and his enterprises. It took years of him being a thin-skinned weirdo and massive corporate tool to undo the amount of positive sentiment he’d built for himself and Tesla.
NixOs has entered the chat
He’ll claim he invented it
Well, he at least invented X11…
Popularize among his follower base and make it cringe to use Linux
Just like chromium is safe from Google?
Chromium was, however, a Google product from the very beginning that Google open-sourced themselves. Linux is too big with too many non-profit and for-profit companies and tons of independent individuals participating in its development for one person or company to control it outright.
I mean, sure, for profit companies like Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical do have some influence but not so much that you can’t ignore their contributions if you don’t like them.
For example, some ubuntu based distros (i.e Mint) circumvent snap from being installed the ubuntu way (without asking) because it goes against their philosophy. And if that’s still too much Ubuntu for you, there’s a Debian Edition of mint. And if that’s still too same-y for you, there are dozens of other distros based on slackware, rhel/fedora, arch, Gentoo, etc. There even are Linux distros without GNU.
So, unless Muskiboy buys Linus Torvalds, I think the Linux community could easily ignore him building his own xOS.
He will release X-OS, a fork of Ubuntu, which is half broken, and has Grok integrated in it.
He’ll get sued by Apple for infringing on their OS X trademark, and he’ll invent laws claiming he’s in the right, and he’ll lose billions, and then he’ll claim he invented Linux and he’s a genius.
I kind of want to see this go down. There are a few companies you don’t fuck with. Apple is definitely one of them. I am sure their lawyers are just as smart and soulless as Disney’s
Musk has been using x.com since the Mac OS 8 days.
He’d easily have prior rights.
He sold it into PayPal, then bought it back from PayPal a couple years ago.
Not sure how trademarks work, but I think it gets stickier when it’s used for different purposes. like how there’s Starcraft trailers and the game.
Unfortunately, XOS has already been taken by Infinix, a budget phone brand that primarily sells in Africa, for its own ad-riddled bloated Android skin.
Is it going to be a Ubuntu from though? I can see his engineers coming to him saying we should fork Ubuntu for many very good reasons. Then he does to much ketamine and then tells them to use DistroX, because the X
(I can’t actually tell if DistroX is real. I could only find one reference to it. But hey is that going to stop Musk)
AntiX?
You would think but this is what LinuxInsider said about it.
AntiX Linux: Not Pretty but Highly Functional
So no way could he use it.
This is the one reference that I found. I assume that if DistroX ever existed it is long dead.
https://softiq.io/a-comprehensive-guide-to-linux-distros-the-good-the-bad-and-the-quirky/
Based off the Ubuntu 24.04 release, which already seems half broken, it’s perfect.
Broken clock.
Elon just tries to get approval by finding a dominate opinion among a group of people and parroting back what they say and want. Kinda obvious and pathetic.
But maybe this one correct take negates the 517 instances where he made it look like he was a grade-A asshole last week alone.
Nah, it’s just the 0.004% probability coming out.
Number one argument to not use Linux
I think you are probably right in a way… Remember how android started as a weird Linux kernel (supposedly, rumors ran around at the time)? But today android is a piece of shit that everyone is enslaved on, and Linux still rules. That’s because you can’t be a dumbass windows user and just become a Linux user overnight. Well I guess it takes like 5 minutes to install, but you might end up frustrated staring at a screen. There’s lots to learn before you can get comfortable. Else android…or like me, Ubuntu. Sorry to Linux, but Ubuntu is where I gave up trying to recompile X for the 200th time.
are you that easily manipulated?
I don’t allow lunix in my house because it’s an illegal hacker operation system. I can’t believe an American hero like Elon would endorse something invented by the notorious Soviet computer hacker Linyos Torovoltos.
they are doing a bit
are you that dense with jokes?
I’ll gladly have you explain to me where the pointe is here…
Elon musk anonces X OS, wait …
Based on BS Distro
Wait, he may actually try this
The founder of Amazon is buying the discontinued OS made by Jean-Louis Gassée and porting it to IBM mainframe platform. He’s going to name it BezOS.
Required reading to get this joke:
And now using Linux is officially cringe.
Ir was always cringe, but we did it anyway.
Fine with me; can’t get HDR working in KDE, so I need a good excuse to give up and go back to Windows 11.
I guess I’m switching back to windows
are you that easily manipulated?
I get your a Linux user, but do you really not understand what a joke is?
A joke is some bit that’s funny…
He’s gonna do an enshittified distro, just you wait…
Well, if it acts as a gateway drug (like ubuntu), then we are on the good side, right?
Maybe. But it’s only really a gateway drug in my opinion.
I’ve only ever tried one distro. Please enlighten me on what’s wrong with Ubuntu.
Nothing is really wrong with any distro. They each just have they general strengths and weaknesses. Different distros for specific tasks.
It’s all just a flame war.
Nothing really. Distros have different goals. Some distros have more access to bleeding edge updates than ubuntu.
Some don’t like that ubuntu forces you to use the snap store, which is proprietary, with packages that are larger and run slow and hog a lot of memory compared to other package managers (such as apt)
This is starting to be some years back, but I was exclusively using apt when I was using Ubuntu, have they gone away from that?
yeah, many packages now defaults as snaps in ubuntu. firefox being a single but prominent example, the package on apt simply installs the snap now. You can get around that but you’ll have to add mozillas repository. It’s Canonical’s proprietary thing so I guess it makes sense.
Ubuntu is fine. But Caninical has made business decisions that are 100% inline with the typical foss intent.
Honestly I’d be funny to see
He’ll realise his own distro and call it OS X.
The lawsuits would be hilarious.
Realistically, he would call it ElonOS, hire a bunch of shitty systems programmers to cobble together a bullshit operating system mostly comprised of code stolen from other open source projects, insist that it be written in python because “python is critical to AI,” talk about how the OS integrates with AI seamlessly while having no actual AI in it at all, sell it with a tiered subscription that locked basic functionality, like being able to use the file system, behind a paywall, and then quickly abandon the project and fire everyone involved, having made no real money from the venture but still referring to it as a “triumph of engineering.”
All that, but he has said he loves the letter X maybe XlonOS.
If he wants to name it after something he loves, he could name it ApartheidOS, EmeraldMineOS, ApartheidEmeraldMineOS, etc. The possibilities are endless.
LinuseX
This is good work.
I really want him to do this. Could you imagine the fallout from the war between Musk’s lawyers and Apple’s lawyers?
LinX
Even a broken clock is correct once a day.
Could be twice if it’s a 12 hour clock and doesn’t mark am/pm.
so a regular analog clock. which is why the saying is actually “twice a day” not “once”.
I still maintain the correct version if the saying is a “stopped” clock. A clock can be broken in other ways that make it almost never right.
Also I’m not sure analog clocks should be considered “regular” at this point. If seems like they’re mostly decorative items now, and most actual timekeeping is done with clocks in phones and computers.
i said regular as a qualifier because i was expecting someone to point out niche clocks like a 24-hour one or whatever. plus if we’re talking digital clocks the saying falls apart anyway because most of them would just not show anything rather than getting stuck on one time.
I have an analog clock in my man cave. Its very steam punk in design. It is NOT accurate and is ONLY a decoration piece that gets corrected when I can spare the attention. It runs fast, if anyone cares.
Ultimately, my wife liked it, bought it for me, and put it up. Not gonna upset her over something I really don’t care about.
Sorry Elon you, specifically, have to go to space before getting involved in Linux. It’s the Shuttleworth law.
The Space Shuttleworth law?
There’s a saying about broken clocks
