I feel like this is specifically targeted at the one user posting stuff on the linuxsucks community
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It has to be rage bait. It's too funny not to be
It’s hilarious and the older ones especially are riddled with references you’d find in the linuxmemes comm
He did try, years ago, to post cynical but inoffensive memes. I'm pretty sure I had to suspend his account at some point. He's also gotten himself banned from political communities for quoting holocaust deniers, using ableist slurs, and generally being a wanker. He's also posted some antisemitic remarks on his own community. The modlog his quite colorful.
Does he also think number generators are the words of God and is working to build his own OS from scratch?
Wrong flavour of insane.
Oh shit, madthumbs is back? He's always been a hilarious, but equally pathetic troll. I thought we'd lost him when he got all pissy and locked the community a year ago.
Wait, so he's been at it for years now?
I've had his posts in my feed somewhat recently and I was kind of in awe of dude's dedication to do full time posting on topic of Linux users having no life, but had no idea he's been doing it for so long now. 🌚
If your whole identity, personality, community or social group is based on hating something then you should reevaluate how you spend your time. This is only marginally worse than making your whole personality being a fanboy for a specific brand/product. Things are there to help you do stuff, so get on and do that stuff ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I mean this goes both ways. Someone asks for help diagnosing an issue in windows and inevitably some snarky Linux user feels compelled to say something unhelpful.
Inevitably?
My friend, the MAJORITY of the comments will be unhelpful Linux snarks.
This wouldn’t be a problem if you used Linux.
Instead you would have a different problem.
And someone would definitely comment that you wouldn't have that problem on their distro.
And even if you did... You can fix it yourself. And submit the fix for others.
Ignoring that 99.999% of people have no idea how to even begin to write code and believe the terminal to be "hacker mode".
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Sounds pretty inevitable to me.
I've seen variations of a snarky "I never had this problem on Linux" one-liner comment so many times that I have to resist the urge to write "I never had this problem on Windows" every time I see a Linux user asking for help.
I'll save you the trouble:
"Well linux is maintained by volunteers not a billion dollar multinational corporation that should have the budget to do that"
With a side of:
"That's because windows got in bed with PC OEMs and contracted to be the ONLY preinstalled OS they can use years ago (when it also sucked less), so it became the standard, and now vendor lock in rears it's ugly head, so the other multinational corporations cater to windows. Had any other OS done that you'd use that, you don't like 'windows' itself you like vendor lock in."
Yeah as a huge linux fan we gotta be honest with ourselves 😅 we're kinda fuckin insufferable at times
I think a lot of the technical folks who built the space made interpersonal skills kind of a dump stat- and to be fair, I benefit enormously from the technical ability they have in exchange for that lack of social skill. But it does define the culture of Foss spaces in a bunch of ways that aren't the greatest 😅
It's what convinced me to make a switch to Linux, two years ago by now.
I've seen it mentioned for years at that point. Did it feel annoying? A bit, especially when I was trying to solve something. But it was one post that pushed me over the edge. I've probably seen a lot posts/replies like that before.
I can't say why, I guess the stars aligned, but I'm glad it happened. I probably wouldn't do it, if it weren't for years of constant reminders that Linux is in fact an option.
Yeah I think its a balancing act. That's why with this kind of thing I prefer to just share my excitement with people without expectations that they wanna engage with it the same way I do
I think you can share what makes linux special and expose people to the idea without it needing to be badgering. Which I'm sure works for some folks who are open to the idea, but it also just fuels kinda tribalistic antagonistism and resentment in many cases
It took a long time for one of my friends and I to be able to have conversations about linux cause she got so burned out by the prosthelytizing she'd gotten previously that she was defensive, and I got defensive that I couldnt easily talk about the thing I'm excited about. I'm really excited that these days I can just tell her about the shit I think is cool without her feeling like I'm demanding something of her :) yesterday we had a lovely conversation about social media and the fediverse ☺️
Yeah, what I've been trying to do, on a rare ocassion where I chime in with the whole "just use Linux" (because it's usually not necessary to be 27th person with the same comment), is to at least add more relevant info, or mention misconceptions that I know were reasons why I didn't switch, or what I found cool.
I.e for me it was gaming, which for a long time used to be considered bad on Linux, especially if you had Nvidia. Which is no longer true in the sligjtest, and I was pretty surprised how smooth the transition was, so I just share a bit of my experience.
But yeah, it's a balancing act. And as always, if you can't add anything to the discussion that already wasn't said (i.e just use linux), it's better not to add anything :D
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I'm using Arch btw
It's because Linux is just objectively better.
That didn't take long.
Thank you for proving my point.
As a nearly sole Linux user, this is a strength for Linux. The ability to complain about features and push for improvements is exactly what sets it apart from having to submit to profit motivations. Maybe they're misguided, but I'd rather embrace it and chance at growing the community.
Arguably, the other stalls are all paywalled. So no, you can't just walk away from Linux.
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Unrealistic to believe the guy at the Linux stall would not come at him like John Constantine pulling out a demonic possession.
Every post on the fediverse is specifically directed at me, therefore I must respond when someone has the audacity to mention something I don’t like.
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Does this actually happen, or is this an argument someone had in their head?
On Lemmy…it happens more in reverse.
Example:
That’s in the Windows11 community.
Yeah, that's the smugposting we know and expect.
Seen it happen both ways.
Meanwhile the whole marketplace they're standing in is run on Linux servers
Plot twist: the person talking in the first panel is the Linux booth owner
This is a bit rich coming from the Linux community.
Me using krita: "i hate your liquify tool, why can't your vector tool behave normally? Why if i change a modifier key for one tool it messes up all tools?"
Krita won't open: PANIK
But but but Linux is not user friendly or something! You can totally generalize like that!!! And nevermind the fact that windows often breaks in ways that require technical knowledge to repair. That doesn't count for some reason!!!!
If Linux works well for you I'm genuinely happy for you, but it's incompatible with what I use a computer for so that's mighty unfortunate.
I'm stuck with beating windows with a pipe wrench.
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