What this picture doesn’t show is that Microsoft HQ isn’t one building. It’s like 1000 buildings. It’s the size of a small city. You can drive for 10 minutes and still be at the Microsoft HQ. It’s insane. They have their own mall, their own soccer field, their own bank branches, and their own shuttle system. The amount of money Microsoft has is truly mind boggling.
You know it’s true because that dev only has one Friggin screen. No wonder multi monitor support is fucked.
“that dev” is Linus Torwalds on his walking desk.
“that dev” ? Bruh…
I’m not sure what your experience has been like, but for me it’s been basically plug-and-play.
…if you use Wayland. it’s a hit or miss janky experience with some weird limitations on x11.
Actually, I haven’t gotten around to trying Wayland yet! Mostly because i3 on X11 works well enough for me already.
I mean, I literally just plugged in my monitor, then went into Arandr and dragged the funny rectangles a little.
Edit: For reference, my multi-monitor setup is literally just 2 monitors side by side. In my case, I did have to change some settings, specifically set the left one as primary rather than the right one, and make them tile in a slightly different way. But I wouldn’t say it involved any “jank” — just some configuration, same as it would on any other OS. (Specifically, I dual-boot windows 10 for some rather silly reasons, and I found the multi-monitor configuration process very comparable in terms of jank or complexity.)
This is completely untrue in my experience. My X230T has two battlestations: One with an old, square Samsung VGA monitor, and another two hours away with a modern, DisplayPort, high resolution Dell. I regularly hot-swap monitors by unceremoniously pulling it off or slamming it on to either docking station while it’s running, and even transform it into tablet mode and flip the internal display output 180° without upsetting the external display.
All of this on Fedora 38 Cinnamon, firmly running X11. No “jank” in sight.
I mean X11 is a janky mess. Wayland adds a lot of improvements (I can finally do screen-based scaling with logging out!). The software support on DE side is just missing a bit (Tho it has gotten leaps better in the last 5 years, I am now using KDE in wayland mode with an intel iGPU without issues! Hussah!)
If I remember correctly Linus uses i3 primarily, so instead of wasting 20% of the screen on UI and compensating with a second screen you only look at 30% of the time, it just tiles your windows so you can make more efficient use of the screen you have
I thought he used GNOME on Fedora?
Ah crap. I think I was thinking of Eric S Raymond
Wow, that’s pretty impressive, I had no idea. Imagine just being a stupid ring. (Sorry, I’m just an apple hater)
Arch isn’t a building, it’s just a pile of the construction materials.
That sounds more like Gentoo. With Arch, you at least get the foundation with plumbing and electrical run to the site.
I use Fedora Kinoite. When I want to rearrange furniture, I build a new house with correct arrangement and use it instead.
Arch is buying furniture, Gentoo is Ikea and LFS is making everything out of plywood yourself.
I am using Arch, btw
Is Arch like the linux version of being Vegan? ie the running joke is people using Arch can’t get through a conversation without mentioning it? I feel like I’ve see basically a carbon copy of this comment on so many posts about Linux I’m wondering if there’s an “in joke” there I am missing, lol.
Yeah, it is a running gag.
But i am really using Arch, btw
Yeah these people are the worst smh…
Don’t look at my instance’s name
I am pretty sure I have to switch to the same instance you’re on.
I think I’m legally required to now.
@Crozekiel @produnis @RightHandOfIkaros
Nice to meet you and thank for posting this. Just so you know, I run Arch and I enjoy meat, titties and beer.
🤘 😎
With a gigantic Ikea instruction book titled “makefile”
quaters
“AC instructions” xD
OMG I wonder how old some of these SPARC machines are…
Quaters
Red Hat has multiple large buildings around the world, but that doesn’t fit the meme.
It’s not what the joke is about, it’s about the operating system headquarters not some random company which uses the operating system. Linus Torwalds on his walking desk is the headquarters is literary the Linux headquarters.
IBM*
Yes, IBM is the parent company, but I was specifically talking about Red Hat buildings
They should have building in a shape of hat
Yeah! What color do you think it should be? I’m thinking red.
it’s for the common man, and its relatable.
It’s funny because it’s true.
it is not true and you have pretty strange definition of “funny”i take that back, after an explanation, it is hilarious
Ok I didn’t double check if those buildings really are Microsoft and Apple but that doesn’t make the unexpected contrast to Linus Torwalds on his walking desk less funny.
I didn’t double check if those buildings really are Microsoft and Apple
that is not what i meant
doesn’t make the unexpected contrast to Linus Torwalds on his walking desk less funny
ok, that is truly funny.
the problem is that unless you know that the butt you are looking at the third picture is linus’s, it just looks like some “haha, rich companies and poor linux” joke (which can be pretty easily disproved)
Yeah ok, but it’s not the jokers fault if some of the audience doesn’t get the joke :). The more specific a joke is the more funny it becomes, which - yes - excludes some people.
so, by your definition, the most funny joke in the world is some inside joke between you and your spouse? i don’t think that is how it works ;)
I think it’s a great definition :D
regardless of your definition of funny, if you share such inside joke with general public and then wonder why they don’t understand, that is serious lapse in judgement.
same as when you share a joke that is only understandable to those who have already seen it and received explanation or have seen some obscure 8 years old video. that is badly crafted joke.
Big company bad
