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15 Signs Linux Is Not For You (itsfoss.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by petsoi@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
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[–] helix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I did not say I don't want more Linux users. I just don't want them all to switch at once and make it unbearable for "community support" to help each other and improve the ecosystem.

When everyone switches to desktop (!) Linux all of a sudden, it will make both the current users' lives and the new users' lives worse as the community can't handle such a huge influx.

Organic growth is fine. You don't need to market Linux to the masses, as that would only lead to enshittification.

I'd rather have Linux be imperfect and rough around the edges, but with sustainable, positive growth, than have everyone use Linux and flood bug trackers with so much work that maintainers give up and move to less demanding hobbies. Then the companies would take over and well, we know how it ends (see Windows 11).

The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people

I don't know if that's true.

Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

Sure, but I won't force it onto them. They can choose to use it.

Do you know what consent is?

[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree with everything. Except the donations part.

[–] helix@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago

Countless FOSS maintainers have lamented that millions of users use their software and nobody donates. (Lib)Curl for example is used in countless applications, basically all of them used by huge corporations, and they get flooded with bug reports for software they don't even maintain, AI slop merge requests and pennies in donations (excuse the hyperbole).

The lead dev of curl has some funnysad stories to tell: @bagder@mastodon.social 💔🫶