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Ran Linux as a daily driver, many versions, on and off, for 20-years. Over all, it's a pain in the ass. Built several "little old lady" laptops for charity customers. Linux works a charm if all you need is FaceBook and email!
It amazes me that lemmy evangelizes Linux, then posts 100 comments about how this, that and the other Linux OS sucks, has security issues, how theirs is superior, and "why doesn't my $peripheral work?" And the answers are always the same, "You just have to $directions.* I don't need $directions for my shit to work on Windows.
Want to see how to collect angry downvotes? Visit a post talking about how Microsoft is doing some evil new thing or how they've broken a feature. Merely comment this:
"I don't have that issue. Never seen it."
No rebuttals, no nothing, just "fuck you for saying so". Angry new atheists.
I don't give a crap what OS you use. A lot of us aren't evangelizing anything, we're just trying to bring people up-to-date on the current state of Linux, which is pretty good to be honest. That is then misinterpreted as elitism because tone of voice isn't transmitted over text.
People are concerned about the direction Windows is going and a lot of us are justifiably mad about it. But mentioning Linux instead of linking to the debloat scripts and masgrave summons people that hate the Linux of 10-20 years ago.