May your htop stats be low and your beard grow long. IRC web client: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.snoonet.org/#linuxmasterrace This subreddit was temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit's recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, effectively forcing users to use the official Reddit app. Founded 2013 · 352.7K members · links only
351.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached
16.3K upvotes, which works out to
46 per 1,000 members.
The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.
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Image 87%Link 8%Gallery 3%Text 1%Video 1%
The topics it labels
Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.
Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.
What is r/linuxmasterrace?
r/linuxmasterrace ("May your htop stats be low and your beard grow long") describes itself this way: IRC web client: https://kiwiirc.com/nextclient/irc.snoonet.org/#linuxmasterrace This subreddit was temporarily private as part of a joint protest to Reddit's recent API changes, which breaks third-party apps and moderation tools, effectively forcing users to use the official Reddit app. It was founded in 2013 and has 352.7K members.
How many members does r/linuxmasterrace have?
r/linuxmasterrace has about 351.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 190 of its posts; the biggest reached 16.3K upvotes, which is 46 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/linuxmasterrace?
"It just does what I tell it to do" reached 16.3K upvotes and 277 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/linuxmasterrace.
What subreddits are similar to r/linuxmasterrace?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/linuxmasterrace?
Of the posts we hold, 87% are image posts and 8% are link posts.
When is the best time to post on r/linuxmasterrace?
Across 190 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 08:00 UTC (5.8K avg upvotes), Friday at 13:00 UTC (5.3K avg upvotes), Monday at 17:00 UTC (5.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Monday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/linuxmasterrace?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/linuxmasterrace has 5.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty.
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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/linuxmasterrace, not everything the
community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is
weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong.
Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed.
See how we measure.