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191 lines
3.5 KiB
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## 🏆 Award 1: *The 'I Swear This Worked Yesterday' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Manjaro... sorry... not sorry.
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if the most accurate bug report you can give is…
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>
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> 'I didn't change anything.'"
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## 🏆 Award 2: *The 'New Project That Solves a Problem Nobody Asked For' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> **Every new Rust-based rewrite announced this year**
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**Tag:**
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> "It's faster, safer, memory-secure…
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> and does exactly what the old one did."
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## 🏆 Award 3: *The 'Why Is This Still Hard?' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> **Bluetooth**
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## 🏆 Award 4: *The 'I'll Just Script That' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> **Every Linux user in this community. Respect!!!**
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if writing a script took three hours…
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> and saved you 12 seconds."
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## 🏆 Award 5: *The 'I Don't Use Defaults' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Anyone who has spent 6 hours ricing, configuring, and scripting to personalize your UX
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**Line (pick one):**
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**Option A (Foxworthy-clean):**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if the first thing you did after installation was delete the desktop…
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> and call it progress."
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**Option B (extra spicy):**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if 'out of the box' is considered an insult."
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**Option C (community laugh):**
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> "You didn't customize Linux —
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> you replaced it."
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## 🏆 Award 6: *The "I Switched Platforms and Told You About It" Award*
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**(aka: "So What If You Switched from GitHub to Codeberg" Award)**
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**(aka: "Who Gives a Sht, Drew" Award)**
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**Winner:**
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> Everyone who migrated this year — especially the ones who wrote a manifesto
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if you didn't just leave a platform…
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> you announced it, justified it, defended it,
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> and pinned the post."
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**Tag (optional self-own):**
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> "Yes. I see the irony."
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> This one kills because you're in on the joke.
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## 🏆 Award 7: *The 'Linux Desktop of the Year' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Anyone who did a video or article on why THIS IS THE YEAR of the linux desktop and truly believed it.
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**Note:**
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> And to be clear - this award is peer-reviewed.
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## 🏆 Award 8: *The "My Favorite Video I Made This Year" Award*
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**Winner:**
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> [To be filled in]
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## 🏆 Award 9: *The 'Wayland Will Be Ready Soon' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> X11 — still refusing to die after 40 years
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if you're still waiting for your graphics driver…
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> to care about your screen tearing."
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**Tag:**
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> "Next year. Definitely next year."
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## 🏆 Award 10: *The 'At Least It's Not Snap' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Every other package format
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if you spent 20 minutes explaining why Flatpak is superior…
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> to someone who just wanted to install VLC."
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**Note:**
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> "This award is sponsored by arguments nobody asked for."
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## 🏆 Award 11: *The 'I'll Just Compile It From Source' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Anyone who has said 'How hard could it be?' before reading INSTALL.txt
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if 'missing dependency' is just the first level…
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> of a very long game."
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**Tag:**
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> "Four hours later: 'I'll just use the AppImage.'"
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## 🏆 Award 12: *The 'My Family Thinks I Work in IT' Award*
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**Winner:**
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> Every Linux user asked to fix a Windows computer
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**Delivery:**
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> "You might be a Linux nerd if your technical expertise…
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> is clicking 'Next' with more confidence than they would."
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**Tag:**
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> "But hey, free Thanksgiving dinner."
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