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Hilarious Ubuntu/Linux experience parody
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Rule 1 of the Internet: If it's described as "Hilarious", it isn't.
The concept is brilliant and filled with potential, but like every other joke on Uncyclopedia the delivery is pretty disappointing.
For example, they set up an awesome joke here:
For example, they set up an awesome joke here:
uncyclopedia@uncyclo-laptop:~$ help
--help Displays actual help.
--i question Interactive version of actual help
--omgwtfbbq Secret Feature
uncyclopedia@uncyclo-laptop:~$ help --help
NO HELP FOR YOU N00B.It was a strange mix of humorous and clever and 4chan-ish waste. The Xorg.conf-like entry for an LCD w/ five dead pixels was a highlight for me. It sort of mocked the slightly bygone era of having to know your syncs and refresh rates and hand-enter them amidst warnings that, in theory, being very wrong could destroy your perfectly normal monitor.
I think it's art and open to interpretation. To me, "--omgwftbbq" hints at the bazaar development, leading to inconsistency and unbridled enthusiasm about some features.
it should ideally be:
uncyclopedia@uncyclo-laptop:~$ help --help
Displays help about help.
uncyclopedia@uncyclo-laptop:~$ help --help
Displays help about help.
Yeah, exactly. The help command should also have a dozen useless esoteric options but no obvious way to actually get any help. Here are some suggestions :)
-B Don't not use non-buffered IO for not displaying output
-e Pipe help output through rot13 transformation
-G Display output in psychedelic ANSI format
-w Produce ASCII histogram of help task heap allocations.
-Z Format output so that the number of columns is a prime number
-Q Run help in daemon mode
-X1 Translate help to Klingon
-X2 Translate help to Esperanto
-X12 Translate help to Esperanto, then to Klingon
-X21 Translate help to Klingon, then to Esperantothat made me laugh more than the article itself
FYI, this is how you do a user-interface rant/parody : http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed.msg.html
Why does the title mention Ubuntu? It's interesting to see how people now associate Linux with Ubuntu. And that's a good thing. It means that the desktop revolution is on it's way!