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For knowledge and awareness about what using Linux is really like and pointing at its cultish toxic community. We also cover FOSS /FLOSS failures, and issues with GPL since it relates to Linux. Moderation is heavy handed to appeal to our target users.

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⚠️Collection of Articles

⚠️Linux/FOSS can damage hardware or firmware

🪤Linux Community Advice Breaks Windows

🫃Mixing Apps Bloats LiGNUx

😎Linux running servers isn't a brag

👾Is Linux Running Games Near Windows Performance Impressive?

🚮Wasted Ram on Different Toolkits and Distro-Agnostic Packages in Linux

🛰️Critical ISS Systems do NOT run Linux

⚠️Abandoned Software is Dangerous (and common on Linux)

🧻FOSS Devs Quit and Sellout on Unappreciative Userbase

⚠️Firmware Flashing is Riskier on Linux

💊Linux Community Toxicity Ties Directly into Inferiority Complex Psychology

👍The Positives of Telemetry

👾Failures of Proton

⚠️How Linux Stores Browser Passwords is a Security Issue

💊The Psychology of Conspiracy Thinking

🤬Rabid LiGNUxers Ignorantly Get Angry at Devs

😳Does Linux Dominate SuperComputers? -Yeah, but So What!

😎Linux Myths Compilation

⛪The Linux Cult - Religious Parallels

😎Before Wayland: “Linux is secure, Windows is insecure.” -(Selective Dishonesty)

⏳Why Wayland is Taking so Long

😎Major Desktop Applications Missing on Linux

⚠️Sudoedit vs Edit as Root

😎Linux is NOT Great for Developers

😎Kernel Level Anti-Cheat is fine!

⚠️The Privacy / Security Paradox

⚠️Linux Storing Passwords as Plain Text

😎How to Continue Using Unsupported Windows Online on Old Hardware

😎Don't Trust Desktop Marketshare

💊Piracy is Less Harmful than GPL

😎The Most Influential Formerly‑Proprietary Projects that Became Important to Linux

🤬GNU Holds Linux Back (Directly)

💊It is Linux Fault -Why OEMs, Apps Don't Support Linux

🔐 Secure Boot + TPM 2 vs. Linux Alternatives

🛠️Checking for Linux Hardware Compatibility is Bullshit!

🤪Distro-Hopping Madness!

⚠️The Myth of Linux Security

👾Linux Gaming: The Roast It Has Earned

💊 Linux is Better for Old Computers?

💊Linux Sucks at its Core

💊Lies told about BSD to retain support of cult

💊FOSS Apps Run Better on Win/Mac

🤪Isolation is Dangerous!

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[–] thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 month ago

I use Linux and I never tell people that I use Linux

[–] VictoriaAScharleau@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

I love this community

[–] infinitevalence@discuss.online 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But how will you know that they are morally superior if they don't tell you!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's what the penguin shirt is for.

[–] madthumbs@lemmy.world -4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is a good area they don't divulge from the start. FOSS/Linux and the cult really boil down to its copy-left (commie) GPL (license).

We can jar them by pointing to KDE that uses MIT/BSD QT toolkit and why Linux isn't so 'customizable' because it doesn't work so well with GTK. (It's the less indoctrinated / more vocal noobs that are pushing KDE Plasma as the best, while the major distros ignore the noise and use Gnome.