Nah more like the dive bar down the street from the brothel that’s open at 6am
i came to lemmy because reddit kept banning me for pointing out the elephant in the room. i heard enough about linux from my brother, who was talking about it back in 2006. he has a mac and PC now and no time to deal with an indie OS. you people are late to the party and also a little weird frankly.
indie OS
it’s the OS that virtually every server uses. even Microsoft servers slowly switched away from Windows roughly a decade ago. Today majority of their servers run Linux
it’s not indie- it’s big and corporate. the difference is there’s a weird serendipitous intersection of OSS and corporate interest that has arisen in a way that allows regular joe schmoe to run software you can actually control. so that your computer actually belongs to you
imagine with your car. would you be OK with ads in your rear view mirror? with your car constantly sending data about how you drive to some nameless corporation? your car randomly turning on and updating itself while you sleep? taking away features you may want or adding features you don’t?
that’s the path we’re going down with cars right now. and it’s partly because people are content to sit on their laurels and cede all of their collective power to companies like Microsoft
That really hurt the elephant’s feelings to be always singled out, so no wonder.
if only those people had seen reddit in the really early days
Can I complain there are not enough Linux users?
Yes that was always allowed
Only for a while, because I heard that it’s the year of Linux on the desktop this year, so… I guess the rest of the world will join us pretty soon.
Hey baby, I got all the distros and we can try them all, all night long.
Even Gentoo? 👉☺️👈
Even gentoo. Its so quaint and quirky.
Should have called it Linuxy
The only people complaining about Linux users are people who just got hired by Microsoft and are trying to convince themselves Windows is the best.
If you are bothered by those complaints, try Arch.
Lol… I was a religious Arch user for a long time. I miss running Linux as my primary OS in s lot of ways, although when I do it again it’ll be an ephemeral distro, but I had to get things done and the support and prioritization of apps that make me productive right isn’t there. I don’t blame open source developers though but large software companies that deprioritize and fudge cross platform software.
Despite Microsoft having done some contribution to open source, their culture is still very toxic and counterproductive. Graphics card makers have also intentionally locked vGPU support for consumers, almost like they’re intentionally preventing efficient Windows on Linux support.
Look, I got enough for two hours with one whore, or enough for 10 minutes with a dozen different whores.
I actually don’t know where I was going with that, but something a long the lines of so many different distros and only so much time in a day.
Lol I love this. @madthumbs@lemmy.world you idiot
I don’t care how many people use it, but it seems to pop up (unwarranted) in darned near every sub I’m in. Enjoying something is fine, but it’s best to not let any single thing become your identity or define you as a person.
That’s me but with US politics, I blocked a few communities and moved on.
Yep. Better to get to the finish line of life with no identity whatsoever. Life is meant to be left unlived.
Leaves grow upward because they would die in the depths, just as roots would die in the air.
What?
exactly what a windows user would say
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Do people REALLY complain about Linux? There are nutters everywhere but I don’t think this is really a thing.
No it isn’t a thing, I’ve seen a couple memes and a new community about how Linux sucks but I’m pretty sure it’s either parody or trolling. Mine was an actual shower thought when I was thinking about that, rather than a complaint
Complaining that linux sucks, and complaining that there are too many linux users is two vastly different things. I think linux sucks, but I also wish there were more users because then there would be more programs for it, and it would also be better.
Yeah, I kind of agree here. I’d love to switch to Linux as my every day driver, but some things keep me tied to windows. Gaming is getting better on Linux by the day, but I still can’t use Ableton on Linux, and that’s basically a deal breaker for me. I think the newest Push has Linux support though, so who knows? Maybe one day.
I don’t come onto Lemmy and complain that there are TOO MANY linux users…I generally make fun of the fact that the last time I heard, about 2 months ago, Linux is at an all time high userbase of about 4% of PC users. Linux has been around 30+ years, and has an all time high userbase of 4%.
How is that too many Linux users???
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! See, the funny part is when the defenders of Linux get their panties in a bunch and downvote, and say things like “ACTUALLY IT’S BETTER THAN WINDOWS!!!”
Which is just engaging in whataboutism. I never defended Windows. Windows is a flaming dumpster fire, which self admits to spying on your screen activity, and sending that data back to HQ to monitor your usage. They promote that as a FEATURE of Windows 11 that you can’t turn off. They even backported it to Windows 10. They have forced updates. Users are not the end goal of Windows.
…and yet people would rather deal with all that, then switch to Linux. Which just goes to show what Linux users CANNOT admit to themselves. That Linux is a worse operating system for the majority of people purely based on it’s core concepts and user culture.
Then I get to laugh as Linux defenders get SOOOOOOO angry!!!
…but I never said there were TOO MANY!!!
people would rather deal with all that, then switch to Linux
Most people would rather deal with nothing. Most have a passing familiarity with Windows because they had to use it for work or school. But it’s not like they went out and specifically ‘learned Windows’. Most people just don’t give a shit about how a computer works and want it to just do the stuff they want it to do with as little knowledge required as possible. If they have to let the corpos spy on them, oh well.
For the other 4% of people, there’s Linux!
You’re suggesting that 96% of the PCs on earth are all work related PCs? NOBODY has a personal PC at home that they could install WHATEVER OS they wanted on? I just want to make sure I understand you correctly before I laugh wildly at your suggestion.
Laugh away! Especially since I didn’t suggest anything!
Not who you were talking to but most people who have a PC at home aren’t installing an OS on it. They’re using windows cause that’s what came out of the box. Most of us windows users wouldn’t go out of our way to install windows if Linux came preprogrammed. It’s more convenient to not install any damn thing.
Sometimes baiting is just too easy
As long as there’s blackjack too.
I knew all those Linux users were dirty sluts.
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