Sick! We need more Linux stickers.

Ironic. Most Linux desktop distros now don't set up a root password, and they make you reboot after many updates.

Excellent. Where can I get these stickers?

No idea unfortunately

Officially, I'm not sure.

But Linux is open source, so you can just print out the image above and slap some double sided tape on it...

Bonus points if you straighten out the mild trapezoid distortion and maybe apply a little contrast on it using GIMP. 🐧

Please tell me which

The only one I saw is Fedora, and that's it. Even with something like Silver blue you can Live-apply the updates

Make you reboot? More like "suggest a reboot", and not after "many updates" bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment. Typically, the latter can also be handled on the command line, and the reboot suggestion is for less tech savvy users

Cool, but to be fair Linux is made to not make you root.

In most cases a sysadmin somewhere is root, and you may only pledge to him by email and wait weeks for when he decides you waited long enough for a reply.

User permissions are quite strict in Linux.

I'm still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

Make you reboot? More like “suggest a reboot”

They tell the user to reboot, and they don't phrase it like it is optional. It's been a while since I've used Ubuntu, for example, but my memory is that they say that a reboot is required, or something along those lines. There is nothing wrong with my using the phrase "make you reboot" for those cases.

not after “many updates” bit after installing a new kernel or graphics drivers on a running graphical desktop environment.

When I was using Ubuntu, I'd get a reboot request like once every couple of weeks to a month. Maybe you don't think that's "many updates", but the point of the sticker was obviously to compare to other operating systems, and in that regard, it was similar to Windows, probably more frequent.

I want that on a T-shirt

Seems like some made it on a t-shirt, although it probably comes from irc or a forum I guess.

• This one
• and this one
• and also this one

I.mean, I love Linux but I do need to reboot often.

Yea, it's a completely different security model, due to coming from Unix (a multi-user system) while Windows started as a single-user system.

Windows is user-centric security, Linux is file/process-centric.

Linux is arguably better, but it also requires more management.

yeah, same :')

Mind you, on my own Linux machine I can become root while on Windows all I can be is someone with admin rights (but subordinate to SYSTEM).

Unless IT has blocked it you should have share options for your Public Folder. At least that's how it was when we ran it at a company. Every user had access to their own public share to share as needed. It was part of the Unix Model.

Ok two things here:

1. don't use Ubuntu, canonical began enshittification years ago
2. automatic updates will trigger more frequent reboots - and are typically not a good idea in my humble opinion

I'm still pissed there is no way for a user to decide to open a shared folder to other users which enforces base permissions without root doing that.

can't you?

you can assign a preexisting group to a folder as a secondary owner. or you can do it per-user with ACLs

The fact that the Linux source code license is open doesn't give permission to another work about Linux.

An analogy would be a park - you can use it, go running, etc with no issues.
But if you setup your easel and make a painting of the park, that painting is an original creative work, and it is protected under copyright laws.

The same for that sticker. Even with the image of Tux being made "free" (attribution) by its creator, this stylized combination of drawing and text is still copyrighted, so we'd have to ask their permission for the stickers.

I read this in Arnold Schwarzenegger's voice.

I don't need to reboot, I can leave it on however long I want. I just don't want to figure out which services need restarting, so they all get restarted.

Have I got great news for you.

https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Linux-Born-To-Be-Root-Not-To-Reboot-by-DvCreations/105726431/lrcw

I’m sure whoever created this really cares.

That's unrelated to OPs point that because Linux is FOSS, so is the drawing. As an advocate for open source, I try to clear up this kind of confusion.

Logging in as the root user hasn't been the way to "be root" on Linux systems in decades. sudo/doas/whatever are there for that purpose and you can use those to set a root password if you want. This isn't ironic at all and you have full control of your system.

Would you prefer a long winded explanation of which services need to be restart and what it means that your kernel version was updated along with a description of kexec and when/how to use it? I think it makes more sense to recommend a reboot and let people who know those lower level details do as they please.

Do you understand the idea of how reading something in context is different from taking it out of context? The sticker is bragging about how Linux is better than Windows, but the specific things they called out are virtually indistinguishable from Windows. That's the irony. They were essentially saying, "Pick Linux over Windows because of these two things that it does the same as Windows." It's similar to how your comment is ironic, confidently explaining something incorrectly.

Never have I seen a public folder on a Linux system, neither personal nor the ones I use for work.

Either way, it would not solve the problem of me myself deciding to share a folder with a set of selected people who can write files in the folder which I then can modify or delete.

I can get to the point of them reading, modifying and creating new files; but the fact that I can not delete files by someone else in my own folders really pisses me off.

If you use a TV as a monitor, you will reboot often.

Tried ACL, it kind of works. However users first respect the creation umask, which is generally 022. Which means they can create files in my directory but I can not delete them.

You can force everyone working with you to set their umask to 000, which clearly is not a really nice solution. However, even this does not solve the problem, since if they copy anything over which does not have 666 permissions then you can not edit it or delete it.

Then you're stuck with a bunch of files by someone else who left you their things that you can not delete.

I still have 1 TB of stuff somewhere from a user which has long been deleted from the system, I have no other way to delete that stuff than contact the system administrator.

You can assign a group and then set permissions to 660 and do some ACL magic which hopefully works to enforce a umask of 0 on group; however you can not create a group without being root, which does not really solve the problem.

To be fair, I would appreciate if users were allowed to create their own groups.

I've used Fedora for ages and it has never forced a reboot.

Why?

If the creator of this sticker was worried about posting their username, I'm sure they probably would have..

Is this a dig at the current minor Gnome 50 drama with the Log-Out button..?

Power button sends shutdown/startup signal through HDMI.

I just started unplugging it when I turn it off.

I only reboot when I want to as well. Usually about once every 2 weeks. I check for updates and then reboot to update the kernel.

Do tell. What's this drama?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcJJ7UldMc8

Copy Fail

How legit is this site? Considering the purchase. Lol

You can ignore these HDMI-CEC instructions to make your pc sleep instead. I've configured this before but I'm currently on a phone and too intoxicated to look it up.

there was a bot pandemic on reddit several years ago. where when people commented "I want this on a shirt" and similar phrase, bots will reply with random links selling shirts with somehow that exact design appear on the reddit post.

nowadays it still gives me redflag vibes when someone ask such question about design & t-shirt and replied with a link 💀

Meh? Redbubble is very adequate for things like this. The shirts aren't super great quality - but if you really want the shirt badly, they have shipped shirts and mugs to me in the past.

Just be real careful washing (cold, delicate, and inside out) and for the love of God hang to dry.

Not a bot, I swear.

I was looking for the sticker for myself, and only found the redbubble shirts. Strangely, the "designer" only put it on shirts - typically redbubble people will slap their shit on everything - mousepads, mugs, shirts, sweaters, you name it.

All the Linux installs I've done have a public folder in the user home directory as default.

And for example in Gnome settings you turn on the sharing option/password.

I realize that doesn't give you samba sharing with user name access though.

It most likely a known issue. If I walk away for some amount of time, sometimes a few hours, sometimes overnight, I come back to a blank screen and totally unresponsive machine. It's something to do with the power and sleep mode signals confused between the TV and the graphics card.

Your toilet has a door? Mine uses a lid

Ime Linux doesn't handle power saving mode gracefully for basically any hardware. I normally disable it when I do a new install

Don't forget to restart the kernal

Ubuntu forces reboots constantly