You know why Linux OSes and apps will never ever have mainstream appeal and be seen as a true alternative to the capitalist hellscape OSes?Because the moment you tell a Linux fanatic what is not working properly for a user who is not a total tech nerd ...
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You know why Linux OSes and apps will never ever have mainstream appeal and be seen as a true alternative to the capitalist hellscape OSes?
Because the moment you tell a Linux fanatic what is not working properly for a user who is not a total tech nerd and just wants to get shit done, they either go into a hissy fit, scream at you angrily that you're WRONG WRONG WRONG or try to gaslight you into thinking it's actually your fault that this shit is incredibly hard to use (you don't try hard enough!). Then they clasp their hands over their ears and scream LA LA LA LA LA.
That's why. Linux fanatics are just as bad as the Windows fandom. Don't you even dare to suggest something could be done better. At least the MacOS peeps are just smug assholes about their walled garden (which, at the very least, works as intended). This is actually easier to bear.
That had to come out, sorry. And I love all you reasonable Nixers, Windozers and Macsters out there. 𧑠-
@orangelantern Linux people don't want it to be a mainstream OS. They want it to be their FOSS darling that only they know how to work with, and they flat out refuse to make it more user friendly if it stops being niche. They slapped a Windows style desktop GUI over top of what is basically a command line OS and called it a day.
Chrome OS and Android are arguably the most popular Linux distributions out there for a reason.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Nowhere Girl last edited by
@gwynnion @orangelantern Could you please not say "Linux people"? Some of us are trying really hard to counter the toxic culture you're talking about.
Fortunately there are quite some people in the right positions who're pushing for improvements. One example would be Flatpak and the combined effort of the KDE and GNOME teams to create payment backends and a proper environment for both users and devs. The direction it already goes is awesome.
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Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈreplied to Natasha Nox πΊπ¦π΅πΈ last edited by
@gwynnion @orangelantern That, the whole Flatpak ecosystem, GNOME and KDEs efforts for easier app development and integration as well as more and more hardware vendors who actually offer excellent hardware with full hardware support and hotlines where non-technical people can ask for help are a great development in the past years.
Unfortunately the toxic crowd you're talking about is still there. It gets increasingly overshadowed though, which is good.