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"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

by morb 11y ago

angersock 11y ago
No openbox? Scrubs.
- deleted 11y ago
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MarcScott 11y ago
This was the only "tech" part that I found cringe-worthy. I was able to watch the rest of the show without jumping out of my seat and shouting "That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works."
- mattstreet 11y ago
  It's kind of weird, because people I know would have opinions about KDE vs Gnome and they didn't say anything exactly wrong, but I've never heard anyone ever talk about it like that.
  - mikegioia 11y ago
    I agree, they should have done Distros, i.e. "Oh, you run Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself". I have never once talked to anyone about the window manager nor would I comment on it.
    - morb 11y ago
      Now that would be unrealistic. You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second. You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those are mostly used with their respective distros. People don't usually have output of cat /etc/os-release on the screen easily visible for people passing by to see. There isn't that much visible difference between distros if you aren't working as root.
      - _lce0 11y ago
        "Oh, you run Gnome, is that Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself" that would be something credible, but hey they are getting really close!
    - baghira 11y ago
      FWIW I've basically had the conversation seen in the show, albeit with a friend, not a stranger. He was running XFCE because it was the default in Debian, and I was running KDE (have been for twelve years). So I found the exchange at least plausible. I think it boils down to the fact that, some people find DE quite uninteresting (unlike editors), while others have strong feelings about them.
- zxcvcxz 11y ago
  Why was it cringe-worthy?
  - MarcScott 11y ago
    It just didn't seem like a natural conversation. We all have out favourite desktop manager, but we wouldn't talk about it in that fashion.
    - lawl 11y ago
      Depending on who you're talking with, that might not be exactly true. Honestly, I've seem flamewars that were on the levels of emacs vs. vim. So I actually found this to be one of the more belivable scenes. Quite in constrast to the Tor scene at the beginning.
      - mijoharas 11y ago
        I think an emacs vs. vim convo between them would've been more believable.
    - moron4hire 11y ago
      Maybe the point was to make the scene awkward?
      - mercer 11y ago
        Yeah it felt like it was more about the guy trying to find some excuse to assert his dominance ('what you do is not magic to me'). Which I thought was clever because it's exactly what I imagine a 'geek' evil manager would do. Part of what makes management manageable to me is that what I do is voodoo to them, so it gives me some leverage.

"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

by morb 11y ago

"I see you're running GNOME" snippet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQM5fU7V-MM

angersock 11y ago

No openbox? Scrubs.

deleted 11y ago
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MarcScott 11y ago

This was the only "tech" part that I found cringe-worthy. I was able to watch the rest of the show without jumping out of my seat and shouting "That's not how this works, that's not how any of this works."

mattstreet 11y ago
It's kind of weird, because people I know would have opinions about KDE vs Gnome and they didn't say anything exactly wrong, but I've never heard anyone ever talk about it like that.
- mikegioia 11y ago
  I agree, they should have done Distros, i.e. "Oh, you run Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself". I have never once talked to anyone about the window manager nor would I comment on it.
  - morb 11y ago
    Now that would be unrealistic. You can't really guess which distro someone is using just by glancing over their screen for a second. You can tell which DE they are using but not distro, except in the case of Unity and Pantheon, those are mostly used with their respective distros. People don't usually have output of cat /etc/os-release on the screen easily visible for people passing by to see. There isn't that much visible difference between distros if you aren't working as root.
    - _lce0 11y ago
      "Oh, you run Gnome, is that Debian? I'm a SUSE guy myself" that would be something credible, but hey they are getting really close!
  - baghira 11y ago
    FWIW I've basically had the conversation seen in the show, albeit with a friend, not a stranger. He was running XFCE because it was the default in Debian, and I was running KDE (have been for twelve years). So I found the exchange at least plausible. I think it boils down to the fact that, some people find DE quite uninteresting (unlike editors), while others have strong feelings about them.
zxcvcxz 11y ago
Why was it cringe-worthy?
- MarcScott 11y ago
  It just didn't seem like a natural conversation. We all have out favourite desktop manager, but we wouldn't talk about it in that fashion.
  - lawl 11y ago
    Depending on who you're talking with, that might not be exactly true. Honestly, I've seem flamewars that were on the levels of emacs vs. vim. So I actually found this to be one of the more belivable scenes. Quite in constrast to the Tor scene at the beginning.
    - mijoharas 11y ago
      I think an emacs vs. vim convo between them would've been more believable.
  - moron4hire 11y ago
    Maybe the point was to make the scene awkward?
    - mercer 11y ago
      Yeah it felt like it was more about the guy trying to find some excuse to assert his dominance ('what you do is not magic to me'). Which I thought was clever because it's exactly what I imagine a 'geek' evil manager would do. Part of what makes management manageable to me is that what I do is voodoo to them, so it gives me some leverage.