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I though of:

Your hardware deserves better.

Also you can give some more realistic ones like my friend:

It just (not) works

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[–] Jank2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 6 days ago
[–] janus2@lemmy.zip 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Have it your* way.

*your way may involve several hours of configuration

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago

Make Mac style advert showing everything from a touchscreen experience with fully integrated apps to the most advanced computing one could image

'all in your hands, have it your way'

[–] Presi300@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] SitD@lemy.lol 3 points 5 days ago

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

[–] hamburger@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 5 days ago

It’s yours.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago

"Better learn to use the command line, kid"

[–] bigbuckalex@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

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!

[–] Mwa@lemm.ee 15 points 6 days ago

"Own your computer" and "Free your computer"

[–] MITM0@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Your computer needs a dose of FREEEEEEDOM

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

This seems to imply that Linux makes your computer produce oil

Linux: "Freedom and innovation for all"

[–] vane@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

Replace OS before they replace you. Linux - the last adventure.

[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

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

[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

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?

[–] AndrasKrigare@beehaw.org 7 points 6 days ago

Because it's your computer

[–] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 days ago

Forget the hardware

YOU deserve better

[–] mactan@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] Babalugats@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] VinesNFluff@pawb.social 6 points 6 days ago

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

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 3 points 5 days ago

Your hardware Your choice Your style

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

more powerful than a speeding loco motive

[–] beeng@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

"Linux...

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

"No overlords"

"What spying?"

"Infinitely extendable"

Which one do you like best?

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Linux: it ain't Windows.

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

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

[–] FilthyHands@sh.itjust.works 83 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] superkret@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Fun facts:

The OS wars are over, and Linux won.

[–] mub@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (2 children)

In the server world, yes. The desktop is the place that needs to be won over.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] mub@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 days ago

I think the desktop is evolving, and may one day become effectively irrelevant, But there is still a long way to go before local compute goes away, which means a local OS is still needed.

[–] COASTER1921@lemmy.ml 0 points 5 days ago

WSL is sufficient for many Windows users and developers without privacy concerns motivating them to switch to a full Linux distro.

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[–] InnerScientist@lemmy.world 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

That would be the slogan.

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[–] haerrii@feddit.org 44 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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

more seriously maybe "Software it your own way"

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[–] JustVik@lemmy.ml 41 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yours to make, yours to break.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

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