Context: the creator of Linux is from Finland

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[–] 114 points 2 years ago (5 children)

He won't be allowed to perform at Eurovision with the Windows 95 name/trademark/logo, so it would be hilarious if he switches to a name like Linuxman during it.

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  • [–] 67 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Windows95man in the streets, Linuxman in the sheets.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    He'll resolve all your dependencies

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago

    It's still unclear if he's allowed to use the logo and such. The national broadcaster Yle (which itself has a strict policy against advertising) allowed it in the national show and argued that (quote) "Windows 95 is no longer a protected trademark today. The product is hardly used by anyone anymore. Thus the name and the costume are allowed"

    But EBU might have a different stance ofc

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  • [–] 31 points 2 years ago

    You may not like it, but this is what Peak Male Performance looks like.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago

    Linus gets that this is a joke, just like Windows.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Someone needs to crash it dressed as 90's Linus

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    On the day he won, he was accused for being a right-wing advocate on front page, but for some unknown reason those articles disappeared in just couple of hours.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I know I'm late but do you remember what those accusations were about?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    En kyllä todellakaan jaksanu lukea sitä :D menin iltalehden etusivulle ja ensimmäisenä vastassa otsikko jotakuinkin "huomasitko viisufinaalissa? Windows95Man ja äärioikeistolainen symboliikka" Ei sanasta sanaan noin, mutta noita sanoja käyttäen.

    Pari tuntia myöhemmim yritin etsiä uutista näyttääkseni sen kaverille mutta ei löytynyt enää mistään.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    No höh, ei löytynyt mitään kun etsiskelin. Varmaan mennyt peukkua näyttämään tai jotain yhtä dramaattista ja se sitten ylitulkittu.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Plot Twist: Windows95man is Linus Torvalds. Have you seen him lately? Maybe that's his thing now.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    they came in second last year and couldn't handle it so they have to go back being last.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    *second to last!

    The last spot is reserved for us, Germany.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    For a slightly better chance against Linux he should have called himself windows XP man. 95 was shit if I remember correctly.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Linux absolutely had a GUI. It ran X just fine. I know because it was my desktop at the time.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're forgettin literally all the versions of unix that existed at that time, solaris being prominent, but ibm had their own version, and so did many other companies, all of these ram x11 desktops, win95 was much farther from being the only option than windows 10 was before windows 11

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    I think Windows has been shit since it was an app that sat on top of dos. It's gotten a lot better now in countless ways, but overall, it's gotten worse than better. There was a time where I couldn't/wouldn't consider an alternative as a daily driver from 95 through to the end of 7 support really.

    The enshitification of windows got worse with 10 (11 is another order of magnitude) and the oncoming eos, drove me off again about 18 months ago and I've been happier for it.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That performance was peak Eurovision though! I have never been so entertained by an entry before!

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