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swap out those mechanicals windows for mechanical linux and then we'll talk
I use Arch BTW.
Like just huge arches instead of windows or even doors, Arch is all you need.
I thought Emacs is all you need?
Real programmers use memes to program the machines of the world.
Tfw you come to your first day of work in critical infrastructure to maintain drivers and highly critical network applications and they're all written in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOLCODE
Just play Zork all day until you get fired. They'll think you're coding!
Incorrect, you need

https://youtu.be/urcL86UpqZc
According to this documentary, you're wrong!
I never thought about how a physical arch relates to physical windows. Interesting.
I am more of a hydraulic Linux person myself
You must feel compressed.
That's pneumatic Linux, though.
Actually it's GNUmatic Linux.
Likely not, the whole point of hydraulics is that the fluid is non-compressible!