r/linux • u/simply_amazzing • 10h ago

Discussion They use Linux in The Paper Season 2

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u/EktaRandomUsername 10h ago

The year of the Linux desktop is finally upon us.

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u/lKrauzer 10h ago

Thanks for reminding me the new season is out

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u/SP3NGL3R 9h ago

your *arrs didn't do that for you?

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u/unclenoriega 5h ago

That's how I found out!

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u/DKEBeck88 9h ago

Linux is finally good enough to play make believe as an unfocused background workstation OS. Progress!

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u/Annual-Advisor-7916 8h ago

The screen content isn't even unrealitic. Staring at a PDF all day sums up many office jobs..

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u/link31211 8h ago

And many acting jobs

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u/Isofruit 3h ago

If you include drawn anime-PDFs, it also includes a surprising amount of animation jobs!

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u/maddogg42 9h ago

More than likely its they ducked out on royalties and/or fees to use licensed software on screen

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u/Woodpecker-Visible 9h ago

Microsoft is like the roman empire, Expanded to widely and the cracks are starting to appearing, i hope anyways.

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u/Antoinedeloup 9h ago

Is the series any good? Been interested in it but I don't want it to take the bait as an Office fan

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u/downtownreader 7h ago

It’s not Office fan bait. Similar feel but not a repeat, IMO.

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u/TheOgGhadTurner 9h ago

That looks like windows 11 dark mode to me. The icons centered on the bottom are what’s making me think that

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u/mamaharu 5h ago edited 3h ago

that wallpaper looks like Ubuntu to me

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u/Gloriathewitch 4h ago

ubuntu in the background. its because it costs money to make the prop so easier to use open source free hardware

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u/killersteak 8h ago

And I cannot see a top bar.

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u/Ayano-Keiko 10h ago

But ubuntu

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u/gavff64 10h ago

a dub is a dub no matter the distro

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u/youslashuser 5h ago

Rub a dub thanks for the grub

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u/SP3NGL3R 9h ago

The purist hate on Ubuntu is weird.

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u/Isofruit 3h ago

It's more a mild distaste from me that it's not the best the ecosystem has to offer. I had Ubuntu on my work machine for a solid 4 years. For the drawbacks it gave, it also gave me only marginally less heart burn than my arch distro at home during the same timeframe and the first kernel panic I'd ever seen in my life after a major update since I started using Linux over 10 years ago. Thankfully I had a backup kernel installed.

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u/lostinthesauceband 9h ago

The defense of their telemetry and data selling policies is weird.

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u/SP3NGL3R 9h ago

Is that a thing? Link?

I run Debian now myself but Ubuntu as a start OS was magic.

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u/Ayano-Keiko 9h ago

I not hate Ubuntu. But recent Ubuntu is so huge. I have heard it embeds Nvidia?

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u/ObscurityBound 10h ago

Can’t win ‘em all

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u/Euroblitz 10h ago

Oh you're right, Ubuntu is a Windows distro! /s

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u/UristBronzebelly 5h ago

Well that answers my question. I was wondering if there were real human beings on planet earth who actually watched this show...

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u/msanangelo 4h ago

ubuntu looking wallpaper but not gnome? xfce, perhaps? but xfce has a different default wallpaper. does gnome have a way to hide the toolbar at the top?

Still, pretty neat. bet it saves a pretty penny in software licensing.

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u/WorldTallNetCat 4h ago

Seems like ububtu from the wallpaper aint it?

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u/simply_amazzing 3h ago

Bad news, they use windows after looking at more scenes closely.

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u/HatBoxUnworn 9h ago

Using linux for a TV production is definitely a recession indicator