Linux User Patrick Bateman

I use a ThinkPad. And no, I'm not a femboy, despite programming Rust and Scheme. My name is Lukáš Hozda. I believe in minimal systems, in clean dependencies, in a rigorous unit system routine. In the morning, I login through TTY - no display manager needed. My Corne v3 keyboard macro handles that automatically. My system runs Artix with S6. I can write dozens of services now. After the TTY login, I launch Niri, my Wayland compositor of choice. For package management, I use a sophisticated blend of Nix and Guix. Then there's my void linux chroot, kept pristine and minimal. For pleasure, I run DragonflyBSD VM on a physical SD card, which I keep in perfect symbiosis with the host through bidirectional mounts. HAMMERFS2 is simply superior. There is no other filesystem like it. I always use a custom-modified font with international characters and lambda char, because proper typography matters. and I Lisp as my second language. For shells, I run fish on Linux, elvish on BSD, all with a misleading string "root" in PS1 to keep the opps guessing. My graphical setup is minimal - Firefox, Alacritty, Emacs, Telegram. Emacs is my everything, my config.el has reached 1500 lines. I compile my own kernel weekly, experimenting with cachyos patches and schedulers. And yes, I got Nvidia working. There is an idea of a Linux user, some kind of abstraction, but there is no real me, only an entity, something illusory, and though I can hide my poor cable management and you can feel my custom Corne layout and maybe even sense our programming philosophies are probably comparable, I simply am not there.

Patrick Bateman from American Psycho stares intensely above a long manifesto from an extremely dedicated Linux enthusiast. The joke parodies Bateman’s famous monologue by replacing his polished lifestyle with obsessive Linux customization, obscure software choices, and terminal-based minimalism. It is used as a reaction to exaggerated Linux elitism, especially when someone takes their operating system setup far too seriously.

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