“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
$currentYear was meant to be year of the Linux desktop! Why isn’t it?? 😡 Those oafs should be on here by now
Edit: it really highlights the two kinds of patriots. “My country is the best country, anyone criticising can get away from us” and “I am proud of what my country has and has achieved and I want it to be even better; here’s how we can make it better because we lack X,y and z”
According to many Linux users, Windows isn’t Linux (Which just means they don’t want to fix X cause it’s not a problem for them)
Therefore, Linux isn’t popular.
I’ve unironically seen people in forums say that Linux doesn’t need to grow, that it already acvomplishes its purpose which I guess is serving a bunch of specialized geeks. They don’t think mass adoption will bring anything good, as if FOSS could be enshittified instead of getting more support from those interested in contributing to something that works.
To me it feels like the ultimate “fuck you I got mine”. It would be different if they said something like “we would like to do this, but we lack the resources”. That would be understandable, but they appear to be straigth up hostile to adding stuff that would get more people to use Linux. It feels like classic gatekeeping (which is dumb cause Linux can’t enshsittify).
There’s always someone willing to tinker, if these people grow up with Windows, I think the tinkering “window” might be lost or wasted on a restrictive OS. But who would want to tinker in order to get working something that should work already? Tinkering should be fun and optional, not a task scheduled at every tuesday.
You’re right. I updated my post just before your reply.
I spent some time in the mid 00s installing various modification programs on windowd to modify it with stupid shit I found on deviantart. It would have been better if I got to do it on Linux.
Although some enshittification is happening for certain viewpoints on Linux, with some propriety things being allowed and the systemd DOB debacle, and AI on fedora.
Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
Why would you want to X? Dont X. Problem solved 😊
$currentYear was meant to be year of the Linux desktop! Why isn’t it?? 😡 Those oafs should be on here by now
Edit: it really highlights the two kinds of patriots. “My country is the best country, anyone criticising can get away from us” and “I am proud of what my country has and has achieved and I want it to be even better; here’s how we can make it better because we lack X,y and z”
Windows is popular
According to many Linux users, Windows isn’t Linux (Which just means they don’t want to fix X cause it’s not a problem for them)
Therefore, Linux isn’t popular.
I’ve unironically seen people in forums say that Linux doesn’t need to grow, that it already acvomplishes its purpose which I guess is serving a bunch of specialized geeks. They don’t think mass adoption will bring anything good, as if FOSS could be enshittified instead of getting more support from those interested in contributing to something that works.
To me it feels like the ultimate “fuck you I got mine”. It would be different if they said something like “we would like to do this, but we lack the resources”. That would be understandable, but they appear to be straigth up hostile to adding stuff that would get more people to use Linux. It feels like classic gatekeeping (which is dumb cause Linux can’t enshsittify).
There’s always someone willing to tinker, if these people grow up with Windows, I think the tinkering “window” might be lost or wasted on a restrictive OS. But who would want to tinker in order to get working something that should work already? Tinkering should be fun and optional, not a task scheduled at every tuesday.
You’re right. I updated my post just before your reply.
I spent some time in the mid 00s installing various modification programs on windowd to modify it with stupid shit I found on deviantart. It would have been better if I got to do it on Linux.
Although some enshittification is happening for certain viewpoints on Linux, with some propriety things being allowed and the systemd DOB debacle, and AI on fedora.
That smiley at the end. I laughed. 😂
As a masochist, I enjoy the freebsd forum
*freebdsm
It was right there.