50 There Are Two Types of People: Linux Edition

There are two types of Linux users: those who have exited vim, and those still in there since 2019.

There are two types of Linux users: those who run rm -rf carefully, and those who have a great story.

There are two types of Linux users: those who understand file permissions, and those who chmod 777 everything to make it work.

There are two types of Linux users: those who read the script first, and those who curl it straight into sudo bash and trust the internet.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use sudo when needed, and those who sudo everything, including their feelings.

There are two types of Linux users: those who back up before the upgrade, and those now booting to a black screen and a blinking cursor.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use Arch, and those who haven't heard about it yet, because the Arch user is about to tell them.

There are two types of Linux users: those who say "it's a permissions issue," and those who are correct.

There are two types of Linux users: those who reboot rarely, and those whose uptime is a personality trait.

There are two types of Linux users: those who finally exited vim, and those who closed the whole terminal to escape.

There are two types of Linux users: those who read the man page, and those who add --force until it works.

There are two types of Linux users: those who recompiled the kernel for fun, and those who have a life, allegedly.

There are two types of Linux users: those who chmod 600 the key, and those who met "UNPROTECTED PRIVATE KEY FILE" and learned.

There are two types of Linux users: those who edited /etc/fstab carefully, and those who can no longer boot.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use the package manager, and those who built it from source and now own the consequences.

There are two types of Linux users: those who set up the firewall, and those who locked themselves out of the box over SSH.

There are two types of Linux users: those who name machines sensibly, and those whose laptop is "skywalker" and whose server is "deathstar."

There are two types of Linux users: those who use tmux, and those who lost a long job when the SSH session dropped.

There are two types of Linux users: those who check df before installing, and those who filled the disk and crashed the box.

There are two types of Linux users: those who write a tidy bash script, and those with a 600-line file called final.sh.

There are two types of Linux users: those who run apt update first, and those debugging a dependency from 2021.

There are two types of Linux users: those who grep what they need, and those scrolling 90,000 log lines by hand.

There are two types of Linux users: those who alias their long commands, and those retyping a 40-character command for the ninth time.

There are two types of Linux users: those who set a swap file, and those whose process got OOM-killed at the worst moment.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use SSH keys, and those typing the password fifty times a day.

There are two types of Linux users: those who mount the drive carefully, and those who wrote the image to the wrong /dev/sd and went pale.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use systemctl, and those who still type service and feel young.

There are two types of Linux users: those who set PATH correctly, and those getting "command not found" for a thing they just installed.

There are two types of Linux users: those who know what kill -9 does, and those who use it on everything like a hammer.

There are two types of Linux users: those who read the wiki, and those who asked in the forum and got told to read the wiki.

There are two types of Linux users: those who keep /home on a separate partition, and those who reinstalled and lost everything.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use cron correctly, and those whose job runs every minute and they don't know why.

There are two types of Linux users: those who check which shell they're in, and those whose script works in bash and explodes in sh.

There are two types of Linux users: those who configured the printer once, and those who gave up and emailed it to themselves.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use a config manager, and those who SSH into 40 boxes one at a time.

There are two types of Linux users: those who say "the documentation is excellent," and those reading the source to learn what it does.

There are two types of Linux users: those who set NOPASSWD carefully, and those who gave the deploy user the keys to the kingdom.

There are two types of Linux users: those who test in a VM, and those who tested on the only machine they own.

There are two types of Linux users: those who know the difference between > and >>, and those who just overwrote the file.

There are two types of Linux users: those who fix the root cause, and those who reboot it because it worked last time.

There are two types of Linux users: those who pin the kernel, and those whose Wi-Fi driver died after the update.

There are two types of Linux users: those who use ssh-agent, and those typing the passphrase into the void all day.

There are two types of Linux users: those who quit nano easily, and those who feel judged for using nano.

There are two types of Linux users: those who run htop and frown thoughtfully, and those who kill the 100% process and hope.

There are two types of Linux users: those who distro-hop calmly, and those on their fourth fresh install this month.

There are two types of Linux users: those who write the systemd unit, and those running the daemon in a screen session like a secret.

There are two types of Linux users: those who insist there is no GUI on this machine, and those who never asked.

There are two types of Linux users: those who say "RTFM" kindly, and those who say it the other way.

There are two types of Linux users: those who say "it just works," and those who spent the weekend making it just work.

There are two types of Linux users: those who solved it, and those who reinstalled the whole distro to avoid solving it.