mr. robot

Ubuntu in Nobody (slightly nsfw), great movie too.

It checks all the boxes. Pinging some random IP, checking their python version, installing pip updates, the output of ls -l /etc, all in a virtualbox VM. Clearly a professional hacker. /s

I mean, you see it a lot in local or low to mid budget network TV. They dress up the laptop to make it look like apple hardware (usually a pear logo instead of an Apple), but when you get a glimpse of the DE, it is clearly neither windows nor apple.

Tv writers and other liberal arts types tend to be cult-like in their devotion to apple, but I guess network TV prop departments have decided apple is too expensive, and installing windows is too much of a hassle.

In addition to the stuff already listed:

In the Swedish film version of “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo”, Lisbeth and the hacker dude use Ubuntu, especially in the scene where they recover the stuff from Lisbeth’s broken laptop. (In the US version, they decided to use Macs instead. And included a scene where she goes to an Apple store with the broken laptop and they helpfully tell her shit’s unfixable. Realism.)

I think it’s in the Rick and Morty episode where Rick is guarding his special toilet that shows his underground hideout computer booting Debian 3 or something.

Teacher of main character uses linux “TONIKAWA: Over the Moon for You” first episode 04:55 time

I swear there was some movie that actually showed off kali or its predecessor backtrack, but now I can’t remember

Also iirc the main control computer on elysium was a unix prompt and I’m pretty sure it showed some SQL adding citizens from Earth lol.