What advertising slogan would you give for Linux?

Your hardware Your choice Your style

Linux, when you want to tell the computer to shut the fuck up and just do it's job.

you don't even have to tell it 😎 Linux is the silent dangerous type standing in a shady corner

It’s yours.

Uh I guess we'd need to extend it to Linux + FOSS in general.

Power users: I think we should steal whatever the latest IKEA marketing team have come up with because the appeal is kinda the same as IKEA furniture where you feel more ownership over something having built it from the flat packed box your self.

Average users: does a degoogled chromeOS exist? You just need a video of someone playing with a tablet like interface, then choosing to postpone an update with no dark pattern om the textbox prompt.

One line slogan: Did you ever wish the people who made your software were more passionate about the product than their next promotion?

Its my machine. I dont need to sign into Microsofts Terms and Conditions to be able to use my hardware.

Linux: "Freedom and innovation for all"

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

valve's success is the rebranding of flatpak wine fsync and dxvk as steam runtime and proton. people fucking hate Linux and will only use it by accident

That's far too long. They could try and turn it into a ditty for an advert, but it wouldn't look great on their merch.

"Own your computer" and "Free your computer"

Linux: you've been using it for years and don't even know it

Forget the hardware

YOU deserve better

Linux: it ain't Windows.

Buy it, own it.

Linux. The Power of the Community.

I didn't come up with it and the picture is not mine. I just found it on the internet earlier.

"Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it's Linux, G"

"Linux...

"Because you don't have to be the product"

"No overlords"

"What spying?"

"Infinitely extentable"

Which one do you like best?

Join a Movement, not a Marketplace

Good one from back in the day (not mine): "In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?"

But it has a direct reference to it's competitors which won't be viable in 100 years when windows shuts down

"Your Computer".

I think that depends on the hardware but yes.

Batman runs Linux. Shouldn't you?

"For slogan, please refer to the according man page"

more seriously maybe "Software it your own way"

So, RTFM?
I recently passed Linux Foundation System Admin and they had a weird Debian that just slapped me with man not found or something like this

I like it, but I think proprietary can tell it too.

Yours to make, yours to break.

Good one!

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I would totally play that

RTFW

“If you knew what it was, you’d be using it already.”

Build a Legacy, not a Lock-In

"It does exactly what you tell it to do."

Remove kernel.

Ok.

It's a headache but it's your headache.

I could apply it to Windows too though.
- When you install Windows, you don’t really control your computer. Microsoft does.

Tailored for You, By You

"It's terminal"

Two out of 10 Linux users agree that insert name here is the best distro

It is in fact GNU/Linux.

What if I use Alpine?
- Then its Busybox/Linux
- Dont

With a bit of a double-entendre, "It powers the world", since it's the most common server platform.

More funny: "It's not an OS. It's a hobby."

"It just works"

..because that is the state of a mainstream modern distro, and it's not true of Windows anymore.

Alternatively "No nagging, no forced online account."

Everything I encountered that haven't worked:

Not supported hardware by manufacturer

Nvidia Drivers with Wayland
- And good news, Nvidia seems to have more or less fixed the second one a few months ago.

Live, Laugh, Linux

Fiddle, Tweak, Reinstall.

Free as in beer

Or

Free as in work after hours
- Free as in puppy
- Like some kind of prostitute lover.
That is more like a general FOSS than Linux

"I didn't want to play that game anyway."

More like use Adobe or Microsoft as I'm proud gamer since 2 years on Linux https://bazzite.gg/
For me that game was Rust and it was more 'Maybe for the best if I don't touch that game again'
- What happened? Rust used to have a native Linux client a few years back (i.e. last time I tried it).
Help this is real

Think ~~Different~~ Freely.

"We hope you like config files"

"I heard you like files... Everything is a file."
- Plan9 would have some opinions about that.

Be Your Own Tech Support

Hurts So Good

*Hurds

Sovereign Computing

Linux/GNU: We put GNU where it belongs.

Wobbly Windows in a Windows-less World

You can fix it, really. :)

From Hobby to Hero: Linux Powers the Curious

WHEEL OF LINUX!!! (I'll take Arch, by the way, Pat!)

Linux: We never would have given you Klippy.

Probably thing valve does where all the other players in the market are so shit, you doing very little garners huge public support.

If you don't read the man pages, we're going to ban you from the chat.

Arch, btw.

That's Arch Linux specific slogan I am afraid.

Do it yourself

Just DYI.

lol I was going to suggest "it just works"

I would not have suggested that before this year but it's definitely true now, or at least truer than for Windows/Apple.

I'd copy you and drop the hardware. Just: you deserve better

For the Mavericks and Makers

Take your digital freedom back!

Linux: Where all your personal data already exists in the cloud.

The only operating with so many names, but always the same experience... Linux!

Linux: Our Code of Conduct says we have to let you join us.

Linux: The home for Windows and MacOS refugees.

Linux: The Vi delivery system you've been waiting for! /s

Jokingly: "Linux is free if your time is worthless"

Though this tongue-in-cheek tagline takes the "free as in free beer" misinterpretation of the term "free software", I've always found it a fun way to describe the time investment you'll need to make if you've spent your whole life using Windows before making the switch.

This hurts in my first Gentoo installation. Sharp, precise, and accurate pain.

Can’t believe it’s not Windows.

The penguin is merciful.

When I started my own design for Tux I came up with "it's all about U" written on the repo where I've developed it (upstream isn't updated)

In hindsight it involuntarily highlights the difference between the open source and the free software movement pretty well, I'm definitely for the latter, but it is accurate to the product and its creator