DiabolicalBird

That's quite an escalation, and you demonstrated my point excellently. You're not gonna bring more people to your point of view by being nasty, you're only driving them away.

The problem is when said research runs you straight to a bunch of nasty people over and over. Really dampens enthusiasm when trying to get into something. Veganism is not something I personally want to get into (I'm not opposed, I just read threads to get other perspectives on things in general), but I observe the same behaviour in vegan threads as I do in other communities with die-hard enthusiasts for things that I am into. The same behaviour is also in Linux communities which makes me hesitate to recommend it to people, because it has a toxic shithead problem.

Kinda like when you look up a problem and the first thing you run into is a guy telling the op that they're a moron and to just google it

Gatekeepers are the fucking worst. Every time I start reading up on something there's always a handful of miserable condescending shitheads being nasty to people because they're 'not 'doing it right.'

Most vegan threads I come across usually has some of these, insulting anyone that's not 100% on board even if they're trying to get into it. Audiophiles are pretty much on the same level as hardcore vegans when it comes to being obnoxious (recently saw someone ask why the op was bothering setting up a music system if they didn't have thousands of dollars to spare, for example). Linux users on support threads is a coin flip of whether they'll be helpful or insulting.

Let people ease into things, stop demanding perfection right out of the gates!

I might, it needs to be able to do SATA passthrough. Does Boxes allow that?

An update to CachyOS broke VirtualBox which is setting me back in some projects. All the help threads I've found don't fix the issue, so I'm stuck waiting for another update to maybe fix it. Apparently the kernel driver isn't installed anymore. The command VirtualBox suggests doesn't exist, and the package all the advice online suggested did nothing. Guess I'm SOL for the time being.

VMs were my solution to some programs that simply don't work on Linux, but if I can't have it working reliably I have to keep a spare Windows SSD.

It's always fun when there's a GUI tool for something (in my case, trying to set up wireguard with gnome) that just doesn't work, and all the posts online about it just say "yeah that's literally never worked, here's the cli command"

Or colour profiles for your monitor in Wayland, you can change them in the gui but nothing will ever apply.

I find myself having trust issues with Linux GUI tools as actually functioning seems to be optional. But the switches sure look pretty...

From my own experience with Lemmy, I can absolutely see why it's declining.

Lemmy is packed full of miserable people constantly calling for violence. 90% of the feed is packed full of US politics, it doesn't matter how many filters I use I still see that greasy orange cunt's face every time I open Lemmy.

The amount of hostility towards outsiders just getting into Lemmy is astounding, and I've absolutely seen the whole "quality over quantity" crap that only drives people away from the platform. The IT tech snobbery is also incredibly offputting to people who aren't tech enthusiests.

In short, Lemmy has a toxic shithead problem that a platform this small can't afford if it wants to survive long term.

Revolt has apparently been renamed to Stoat after being sent a cease and desist for the name

So, your solution to "ease onboarding" is to give newcomers more work? For a platform with far less content that's already confusing them with just signing up, let alone figuring out transfering or self hosting?

I think you VASTLY overestimate how many fucks people have to give, and also how tech literate the average person is. The average person can barely figure out how to change their web browser, and most really don't care about the awful shit big companies do.

This idea of yours would drive engagement through the floor and a respectable distance into the Earth's crust.

Ease of use should be the #1 consideration when it comes to onboarding people to something.

Because I'm not allowed in the morgue anymore.

Is it "working splendidly?" They're getting almost everything they want, so clearly it's working for them.

Been using the premium version of the launcher for years, absolutely love it. Won't use anything else at this point, I'm even starting to make my own full tile images