A 37-year-old Colorado Springs man was cited for discharging a weapon within city limits after shooting his Dell computer 8 times with a 9mm handgun. The police report said that he "was fed up with fighting his computer for the last several months" and shot it in a back alley behind his home. What was not mentioned is exactly why he was so "fed up" with his computer. Could this senseless and violent tragedy have been avoided if his PC were running Linux instead?
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 22 2015, @10:23AM
It wasn't widely reported, but the man was actually running linux with systemd.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday April 22 2015, @12:23PM
They don't report it because it's "dog bites man" obvious. To put it in haiku terms:
systemd-pollinated ubuntu, mere days pass,
and a PC eight times gets shot.
Coincidence? I think not.
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