C'mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time...
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Literally any time Windows is mentioned
Every time Windows is mentioned it's somebody complaining about some hostile thing that Linux doesn't do...
So yeah.
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That's not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.
Fewer than 19*
I've converted to Linux since.
Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I've NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn't ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.
... I worked for Microsoft.
... during the time they rolled out Win8, by dogfooding it through every employee and contractor.
I don't know anyone that hates Microsoft and Windows more than I do.
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(Also applies to "Lemmy users" on the top and "Reddit users" on the bottom)
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That's okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn't guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.
If I didn't have to use windows for work...
We don't really do the same thing, because Microsoft is forced upon us every step of the way.
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Yeah, it's Windows users going out and proudly exclaiming their love. Definitely never heard a Linux user bitch about another OS.👌👍
This has to be intentionally dense shit to trigger ACHKTUALLY type engagement right?
Windows users don't think about or even realize that other operating systems exist
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I keep my dislike of Linux to myself.
Its Linux bros who are constantly flooding any and all legit questions about Windows with 'just use Linux 4head'.
Go away.
I keep my dislike of Linux to myself.
Clearly.
When I complain about Linux it's in the hopes that some nerd will come along and provide actual solutions to the problems I'm having with it in an effort to prove me wrong. Unfortunately mostly I just get the "That's normal you just have to deal with it" kind of answers.
Or just fix it with this easy but entirely unreadable command in the terminal. Oh it did not do what I expected, welp you're on your own now. I want a complete UI so I can move my non technical family members over to it, but the Linux bro's think it's fine to have a half functioning UI and just do the rest in the terminal. And yes I know the terminal fix is faster and usually simpler to run, but I can't explain that to my non technical family members, nor do I want to cosplay as a sysadmin for them.
Windows has an issue or flaw: Just switch to Linux bro! It's so customisable!
Linux has an issue or flaw (like middle click copy/paste being forced): just live with it, it was a decision made in 1965 because one dude wanted it that way and it's so baked in we can't fix it.
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This is the most hypocritical post in the history of the Internet.
Nah, as a Windows user on the topic of Linux here in the fediverse I'll be totally honest: I mostly just feel like I'm looking at and a bit wishing I was smart and savvy and motivated enough to be one of the cool kids, but after my last disastrous attempt at switching (because apparently my video card just isn't supported I guess? whatever, I'm not looking for tech support here) I'm just happy enough to be at the cool punk party instead of predatory frat party (reddit, twitter, take your pick of corporate shithole) where I'm likely to get roofied.
I put off the switch for ages due to similar reasons, tried once that failed horribly. Later had a motherboard failure and Microsoft showed their whole arse. Reactivated the dual boot, channeled my inner old woman energy, solved the video issue and have been happily tinkering with the smaller issues as they come up. Still playing whack a mole, but now I'm getting things the way I want them, instead of disabling things I'm being told I want by some corporate nutcase.
And hilariously, I am spending less time maintaining Linux than I did for Windows.
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The joke is that 99% of the other stalls are also Linux lmao
My favorite thing is going onto the community for a game that explicitly supports linux with a problem just to have a bunch of replies to install windows from random chuds.
The lack of awareness from Linux nerds who think this is perfectly on-brand, I'm dying XD
I genuinely have never seen this take. Sometimes someone shares something like "I tried it out and it wasn't quite for me", and that's about as vitriolic as it get. And even that's rare.
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I wish all Linux "poofed" out of existence for exactly 24 hours (and then poofed back effortlessly) so that dummydumbdumbderps could learn just how much their Apple and Windows computers rely on them to ever communicate with any other device on the planet.
Dummydumbdumbderps? Ah the fediverse is such a welcoming place, I really can't understand why it's shedding users constantly
If the fediverse is shedding users, it's because we still haven't figured out a better way to explain federation other than "it's like email", the process of choosing an instance is vague and daunting, the process of moving to a new instance is vague and daunting, and people instance-police incessantly, creating a feeling that you have to choose the correct instance. That, plus the pervasive misogyny that rears its ugly head every once in a while.
I promise you though, people being "unwelcoming" by using silly terms is not why the fediverse is shedding users.
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"Linux is so bad it even broke the internet for one day. Windows managed to not disappear!"
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Quite literally the opposite of reality. Good shitpost.
This doesn’t happen.
Oh it does happen. I've had people tell me linux isn't a desktop OS multiple times and they listed ludicrous reasons that either are completely irrelevant or not true for like 10 years.
I've also had people tell me that PHP is a shit programming language and the reasons for them hating it were all outdated for like years or even decades. Once had some kid at a university I gave a lecture tell me "PHP doesn't even have classes wtf how are you coding in that shit?" my man classes were introduced in PHP 5 which was released 22 YEARS ago, you weren't even BORN when PHP5 was released.
Some people just want to hate something. Mostly if it's something that's "competing" with what they're using. And that's especially true in the tech world.
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