Insufferable FOSS/Linux nerds are ruining Lemmy.

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  • You probably fucked something up and are blaming Linux not “just working.” I’ve installed many distros on many machines, my servers, my laptops, my desktop I’m on right now… they all connected at full speeds. In other words, it just works.

    I literally clicked “install”. But yes, please, blame me. That’s how you push away new users, by blaming them, instead of understanding things don’t “just work” on Linux.

    My browser getting the full speed shows that it’s not my connection being set to half duplex.






  • Most average people are afraid of the command line, and really want a GUI for everything. Many of these people’s first exposure to Linux could scare them away depending on the distro they happened to choose, I think.

    Or it’s the fact the community is so toxic?

    Every computer, doesn’t matter brand or hardware, never works 100% out of the box on Linux. Doesn’t matter which distro.

    You ask online, and people scream at you to run terminal commands or go back to Windows.

    You run a terminal command that breaks your system, and people blame you for running random terminal commands…

    You go back to Windows, and people say “Linux is so friendly, you don’t even have to touch the terminal anymore if you really don’t want to!”

    Rinse and repeat.