Shit...

oh look, its the same time as that stopped clock.
- At a rate of 10,658 tweets a year, I'd hope he tweets at least one useful thing
  
  I’d hope he tweets at least one useful thing
  Nope.
  
  29.2 tweets a day?
  The brilliant businessman is clearly hard at work.
  
  Last year's winner was Amber Heard in Overwatch cosplay

Put your money where your mouth is and open source the Tesla software. Do it. I fuckin' dare ya.
Edit: we want Falcon 9's landing guidance software too.
- Open sourcing the falcon 9 software would almost definitely be a violation of ITAR.... On second thought it would be fun to see him go to prison.
  
  Nothing could possibly go wrong open sourcing a ~~missle~~ rocket guidance system...
  
  Source code is protected under 1st amendment
- No, not just open, free it entirely. License the code under a GPL license.
  
  It'll probably be MIT... just like the rest of the corps.
- I want a world where anyone can go to space. It the thing I wanna do the most. But I'm not rich and I'm no super smart and I have awful health.
  
  I know what you mean, but if it’s any consolation, you are in space.
  
  We gotta figure out a better way than strapping ourselves to a continuously exploding bomb and pulling some serious Gs for 8 minutes.
  Wonder how some of those SSTO space plane projects are doing...there was a British one I can't remember. Used hybrid air-breathing scramjets, switching to internal oxidizer once it was going fast and high enough.
  Edit: here is is and I was mistaken it's not a SCRAMjet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylon(spacecraft)
- Do you really want countries like North Korea, Iran and China having access to software that would certainly be used for missile guidance?
  
  Why not. If everyone has it, everyone will be afraid to use it, because they know everyone else has it, but what they don't know is how many have developed a working prototype.

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?

Please don’t fucking touch anything to do with Linux Musk. Please.
- Crazy, rich South Africans is how we got Ubuntu
  
  But would you like to upgrade to Ubuntu pro?
  
  Ubuntu is a gateway drug to Arch.
  
  It's also how we got snap packages and apartheid, and I'm not even sure which of those is worse. (yes, I'm joking)
  
  Could you elaborate on this for those of us who don't know the context?
  
  Par for the course
- Linux Musk sounds like the evil counterpart to Mint. A fork of Red Star OS, etc.
- Linux Musk Cinnamon. Yours for a modest subscription.
- I mean Tesla cars are just x86 Linux machines

The nice thing about Linux is, he can't buy it and fuck it up.
- He can still fuck up the community.
  
  How?
- 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.
- 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.

Eww, we stepped in some Elon.. 🤢
- oh, so that's why its so musky in here

Welp, off to macOS now. Sorry guys I can't be a part of this community anymore.
- Too expensive for me. FreeBSD it is!
  
  Time to boot up the old windows 98 machine from the closet and start making my own modern app alternative.
  
  Plan 9, here I go!
- There's always BeOS.
  Remember BeOS and how it was going to be the future?
  Poor BeOS.
  (Yes, yes, Haiku. But who uses it?)
  
  I ran haiku on a laptop at one point, actually supported it really well

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.
  
  And, how does what you said cancel out what you responded to?
- 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.

He'll realise his own distro and call it OS X.
- LinuX
  
  LinuS
  LinuE
  LinuX
  LinuY
  
  Lynx
  (it's the British name for Axe deodorant)
- The lawsuits would be hilarious.
- This is good work.
- 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.
- LinuseX
- I really want him to do this. Could you imagine the fallout from the war between Musk's lawyers and Apple's lawyers?
- LinX

Broken clock.

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.
- 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?
- Based off the Ubuntu 24.04 release, which already seems half broken, it's perfect.

Quick, someone pretend to be "the Linux company" and convince him to buy it!
- Noo, I don't want Linux to be sold to Elon...
  
  As the CEO of Linux, I've had long and intense discussions with Mr Musk about the future of the company if he were to buy it, and I have come to the conclusion that he is a very good and smart businessman. There is no doubt on my mind that our company will thrive under his competent leadership. The Linux Corporation(TM) is therefore proud to announce that we have decided to accept his gracious offer of 69 billion US dollars, payable in $100 Google Play gift cards.
  
  But they're playing pretend

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?

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
- Windows: supports pride month Linux: doesn't support pride month The choice is obvious.
- are you that easily manipulated?
  
  I get your a Linux user, but do you really not understand what a joke is?

Is it purely because Linux has the letter "X" in it?
- First thing he'll do is write Torvalds and suggest a minor change to the naming.
  
  given Linus' flair for writing replies, I would love to see him rip into Elon.
  
  LinuX: in honor of the LinuX Foundation's new sponsor, X.
- He'll get very virulent in the X vs Wayland debate before he even learns what these mean.

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:
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS
  https://www.ibm.com/z

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?
  
  I've only ever tried one distro. Please enlighten me on what's wrong with Ubuntu.
  
  Maybe. But it's only really a gateway drug in my opinion.
- Honestly I'd be funny to see

https://analognowhere.com/techno-mage/
!unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org
- Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !unix_surrealism@lemmy.sdf.org

Sorry Elon you, specifically, have to go to space before getting involved in Linux. It's the Shuttleworth law.
- The Space Shuttleworth law?

Fuck off Musk.

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".

Letting this dude put you off something is just as pathetic as letting him put you onto something.
- That makes Twitter Superman64

A red spy is in the base! 🚨
- A red spy is in the base?!
  Hut hut hut hut hut!
  
  Protect the briefcase!

Ugh no keep my Linux Elon free

There's a saying about broken clocks

These comments are insane. Even Hitler washed his hands. Are you gonna stop doing that just cause a piece of shit agreed it was good?
- Nah, probably not, lol.
  But I have been meaning to try some BSD flavors to be honest.

Just because a fool tells it, doesn't make it a foolish statement.
Edit: Corrected a typo
- It's not foolish, but the fool is filthy rich and with a big fanbase, that is where the problem lays.
  
  Even if 0.1 percent of his fanbase shift to linux maybe we can demand good software and hardware support.
  More likely we will have bunch of whinny fools just like him but hope springs eternal.

Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
- A broken clock is right twice a day.
  
  An ultra wealthy idiot sometimes says something correct by complete mistake

Fuck. That does it. I'm off to BSD.

I have been using Linux since 1993. Maybe it is time to move on.
- Where are you headed next?
  
  See you all in the Solaris community
  
  bsd?
  
  Open Mainframe?

he makes everything seem less cool.

Time to switch to BSD /s
- Actually, I have been leaning towards BSD for the past year or so, so it might not be such a bad idea.
  
  which bsd?

inbefore Musk-OS

X was already a thing in Linux before Elon had a dream.
Fucking go ahead and take it though Elon. Wayland for the win.

He's just mad Bill Gates is still shorting Tesla lol
- Especially since Gates won that bet, last time Tesla was that low is at the end of 2020

I mean I wouldn't mind if he bought a bunch of computer manufacturers and made them switch to Linux. Would be a better use of his money than whatever he's doing with it now.
- I her make it all paywall and subscription based. Probably laced with spy tools, new terms of use every few months followed by deactivation for some dumb reason

Get everyone to use Linux
Buy Linux
Enshittify Linux with Ads until its almost as bad as Windows
Profit
...what do you mean, "open-source"?
- Buy Linux How? Like he could buy individual OSs like Redhat or Ubuntu maybe but Linux :o ?

"Even a blind pig can find an acorn every once in a while."
- I thought it went, “Even a blind clock finds a nut twice a day.”

This thread is focusing on whether he's right, even while being a shithead. The problem IMO is not whether he's right or not, it's what his 'plans' are if the world moves in the direction he starts nudging. Guy's a psycho edgelord pro-fascist with Bond villain tendencies, but he's surfed on trends to carve monopolies before... Idk
- If I had to guess, he'd try to find a business selling enterprise supported distributions of Linux, buy them, then try to expand/convert them to develop "consumer Linux". He'd advertise it as getting out from under the thumb of evil corps (ie his competitors), then as soon as it gains even a modicum of traction start implementing privacy violating shit, ads, whatever, to enshittify it as quickly as possible for a quick buck.
  
  If it brings more people and support to the linux ecosystem I say sure, go for it. If more people start using linux, even a corpo version, over windows, doing a "side-grade" is more palatable than a change as severe for most people going from Windows to a FOSS linux, even if it is still unlikely for the non-technically inclined. It may also improve product/software support for linux in general, meaning everyone using linux already would benefit from a mainstream distro existing.
  Assuming of course it isn't a total trainwreck that tarnishes the reputation of linux, but even then, would broaden the awareness and discourse for linux so maybe not all bad regardless.
  My 2 cents anyways.

He's not wrong
- A broken clock is right twice a day?
  
  I think he sees the decline of Windows like everyone else. He is in the tech space you know. It is kind of ironic that he is complaining about Microsoft. Tesla has its own issues.

I hope now all those Tesla / Musk sycophants and influencers will start touting Linux as the "big new thing" Elon has invented. /s

Even the most garbage subhuman person in the wold can sometimes make a good point
As much as we may hate it

You don't have to like everyone that likes what you like.

Please tell me that’s not real. I don’t want him being a Linux fan boy. That would ruin the Linux community.
- I'm pretty sure Tesla cars dont run on Windows....
- It already sucks
  
  Not all communities from all distros, but from some dustros... yeah, gatekeepers and snarky comments are still very much alive.

I don't fall for this, I switch back to Windows

Like a fucking herald of doom I hear about new vulnerabilities on some Linux distros the day after I see this dipshit talking about it.
- Script kiddies also follow him 🤷.

Fuck anything this human garbage says
- Heartbreaking news, worst person in the world makes a good point.
  
  Then he pushes his company AI on Ubuntu and tries to get people to use it.

Time to switch to BSD
- So PlayStation os?
  
  Hey, if it works for gamers, it works for me.

He's not wrong

I cannot believe this post. This isn't real, right?
- Oh yeah, it is.
  
  How is this possible? Is linux really going mainstream now (If so, Musk freeloading on it is inevitable)

Like he could even attempt to use Linux himself
- Teslas run Linux. Not sure they finally comply with the GPL, though.
- Come on bruh, if you're gonna hate on Elon at least make your insults accurate/well-founded. Dude started and runs multiple massive companies, I think he can handle linux mint.
  
  He didn't really start anything, he just bought in mostly. Point stands though, thinking Elon can't use a stable distro is silly.

What's the best BSD distro? Asking for a friend
- For desktop usage, use FreeBSD or something that is based on it. For servers, you should use NetBSD or OpenBSD (my personal choice).
- GhostBSD looks kinda neat