Of course it is. No sniggering at the back, there. We don’t mean “funny” as in “peculiar,” or “I can’t believe he did that: he was always such a nice, quiet, polite young man. Always waved at me from the basement!” Nope: funny. As in possessing a sense of humour.
I’ll start with the current offerings, and add more as appropriate. Minimal trademarks associated, because nothing more needs to be said.
Fourth exhibit — Dr Roy, because he has to be invited
Other examples of (intentional) Linux humour hereby solicited.
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(4 July) Just realised I missed out on Linux comic strips. How could I? Here’s one of the better-regarded ones:
I’m not entirely sure, but from the lousy pun, I assume it’s meant to be funny.
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(10 August) With the return of Linux Victim, I present with great pleasure his comparison of Windows video promos and the Linux equivalent.
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(14 August) And now, for your delectation, FunnyAsInTeeShirt.
Dear God. You people just aren’t trying, are you?
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“Windows NT Air
Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes. “
So… can one assume they still haven’t tried anything after windows 98?
“Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful”
Nor linux apparently.
“Fully adjustable seat?” Would this be a seat for Gnomes or for KDEs?
From the third exhibit:
“Notice: Copying this article to your website is strictly NOT allowed. However, if you like this article, you can use the HTML code below to directly link to this article”
Well, that’s one joke right there and there. You just don’t get it, do you, Dr. Loser?
From the fifth exhibit:
“Linux Air[...]”
A more accurate version of this is as follows:
“A bunch of basement-dwelling nerds have somehow convinced themselves that they, too, can run their own airlines AND airports. They pave their runways with unevenly mixed concrete and bitumen that make them jagged and rough and demand new, special landing gear after each repaving. Every airline of theirs runs planes of different configurations but ultimately the same bog-standard made and model. Before each flight, you are given a seat, four bolts of mismatched sizes and a how-to guide with the length of the Delaware Aqueduct. The seats appear to comfortable at first but will give you a severe back pain from the second hour onwards. An upgrade from economy to business or first class in all airlines requires the reconstruction of the whole cabin if not the whole plane from the ground up, and a passenger is allowed to switch from the regular meals (which are awful and decorated with garden gnomes) to vegetarian ones if only said passenger is willing to cook all the ingredients on one’s own. The viewing of in-flight movies requires a BYO display device for each seat and, depending on the device in question, each passenger is expected to experience video tearing or complete black-out. Complaining passengers are advised to join a public forum in which they get laughed at, humiliated and thrown out by the airline executives, whom are none other than the few basement-dwelling nerds themselves.”
Linux humor, which is really a euphemism for “put penguins in poses, rip off pop culture and bash MS”, has never ceased to be utterly lame. It’s just one more weak point in a culture of recursive acronyms and names like “Gimp”.
I really hate Tux. He’s sooo overused. But the Freedomites don’t understand even if you’re trying to make a “joke” funny, it doesn’t help using a cliché.
Actually a Linux plane wouldn’t fly, since it lacks driver support for the turbines.
And if it did, the plane would be controlled over SSH and be controlled as a moonbuggy clone for planes.
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