Gee.
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Gee. Thanks Fediverse.
When I complain about Windows, I literally never thought about running Linux in my life.
As I stare at my shelf full of Linux laptops.
Or look back at my decades of working and playing with Linux systems.
Or the Linux stickers on my desk.
Or ...
Sometimes people just need to use Windows. Or Mac. Or Ubuntu. Or something else you don't like.
Stop being elitist snobs about it when someone complains about the tool they're using. I PROMISE you every single person on this corner of the Fediverse has heard "you should use Linux" a thousand times. They have their reasons to use something else. And they're allowed to complain about it.
This sort of shit is why I hate the FOSS community.
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Gee. Thanks Fediverse.
When I complain about Windows, I literally never thought about running Linux in my life.
As I stare at my shelf full of Linux laptops.
Or look back at my decades of working and playing with Linux systems.
Or the Linux stickers on my desk.
Or ...
Sometimes people just need to use Windows. Or Mac. Or Ubuntu. Or something else you don't like.
Stop being elitist snobs about it when someone complains about the tool they're using. I PROMISE you every single person on this corner of the Fediverse has heard "you should use Linux" a thousand times. They have their reasons to use something else. And they're allowed to complain about it.
This sort of shit is why I hate the FOSS community.
@JessTheUnstill - and also, "just switch to Linux" might as well be "use magic" for most computer users, by a very large margin. No, it is nothing like getting a computer from the store with Windows pre-installed & a wealth of places to seek help; I've said before that even just getting set up, let alone sustained regular use, without having to resort to the terminal is a wildly improbable edge case, which is a deal breaker even for me...
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@JessTheUnstill - and also, "just switch to Linux" might as well be "use magic" for most computer users, by a very large margin. No, it is nothing like getting a computer from the store with Windows pre-installed & a wealth of places to seek help; I've said before that even just getting set up, let alone sustained regular use, without having to resort to the terminal is a wildly improbable edge case, which is a deal breaker even for me...
@jwcph I've seen distros that are pretty straightforward gui driving appliances. Most of the time. And as long as you don't try to do something the distro makers didn't expect. Or an update breaks something. Or a device or driver burps.
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@jwcph I've seen distros that are pretty straightforward gui driving appliances. Most of the time. And as long as you don't try to do something the distro makers didn't expect. Or an update breaks something. Or a device or driver burps.
@JessTheUnstill "Most of the time" is already the bane of computer use, and with precious few places for a dumb user like me - who has only been a power user for nigh three decades & worked as de-facto D2D sysadmin at several previous jobs - to find Linux help I can actually understand, let alone act on...
