Stop Doing Linux

Text on the meme

STOP DOING LINUX • DEVICES WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE REPRESENTED AS FILES • YEARS OF Linux yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for terminal emulators • Wanted to edit your system settings? We had a tool for that: It was called Control Panel • “Yes please give me X11 of something. Please give me systemd of it” - Statements dreamed up by the utterly Deranged LOOK at what Linux users have been demanding your Respect for all this time, with all the computers & software we built for them (This is REALLY Linux, done by REAL Linux users ): ????? ?????? ???????????????? “Hello I would like 🐧 apples please” They have played us for absolute fools

What it means

A satirical text meme mocks Linux users and Linux software by presenting terminal screenshots as bizarre, incomprehensible products. The punchline is the absurd request for “apples” from Linux, implying that Linux users have been fooled into accepting confusing interfaces and tools as normal computing. It is shared as a reaction to Linux criticism, overcomplicated software, or technically impressive but impractical projects.

Who

Tux (Linux)

Objects

Linux penguin mascot / маскот-пингвин Linux terminal screenshots / скриншоты терминала computer code / компьютерный код command-line interface / интерфейс командной строки system settings / системные настройки Control Panel / Панель управления terminal emulator / эмулятор терминала software interface / интерфейс программного обеспечения computer monitor / монитор компьютера text bullets / текстовые пункты red question marks / красные вопросительные знаки apples / яблоки black text / чёрный текст light blue background / светло-голубой фон