Oh damn, I miss ascii text art from the mid 90s!

I’m glad to hear it’s changing for the better but I lost my patience with these techie dumbfucks a long time ago. If people respond with anger or impatience at technical questions, I tell them they deserve to be publicly executed.

This is the only comment I’ve seen in here that I’ve seen address this. The whole concept of RTFM is reactionary and ridiculous. That kind of thinking and behavior kept me at arm’s length from the Linux/tech community for many years. Still kinda does.

The criticism is pretty ridiculous. I can’t stand Stallman’s prescriptivist takes on language, but he was and is always right about the naming. I remember the people who insisted that it’s because the kernel was the most important part immediately called it Android and not Linux, then made a bunch of excuses.

Just be honest and don’t hide behind “I don’t use GNU so there!” kind of obnoxious stupidity. We say Linux because it stuck, not because the kernel is more important. Saying GNU or GNU/Linux or whatever was always a reasonable request that people rejected because they were either just too used to Linux or were actively worthless scumbag dumbfucks.

This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on Stallman and Linux lmao

He’s definitely a bit of an asshole. I appreciate his propensity to talk shit to people, I enjoy that myself, but he equates intelligence with technical skill and tells people they just need a thicker skin if they don’t like his abuse.