• kirk782@discuss.tchncs.de
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        11 months ago

        These people are another barrier on the road to Linux adoption. I personally had an issue with Void Linux, a systemd free distro whose manual is seriously lacking and lots of what is in Arch Wiki may not apply there. I went to their support server, detailed my problem and said that I had done what their manual said. The first response, I get is read the manual when it is just a page long(for the specific issue I was facing).

        Ultimately, it was boiling down to a wrong flag attached to the command that was listed on the official website that was not solving my problem.

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          11 months ago

          Support forums kind of suck all over. I’d imagine the systemd free distros are more elitest than the norm. Also jeeze, just meming on the internet, no need to “Those people” me sheesh.

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      11 months ago

      Bruh, computers are tools to accomplish a task, if you wanna obsess over jack shit, then stare at the toilet, dont gatekeep a hobby.

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        11 months ago

        Pick the tool without ads in your way then lol I’m not gatekeeping, simply saying get gud

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          11 months ago

          Bruh, saying “get gud” to someone incapable of doing so doesn’t make you cool, it makes you an unempathetic asshole, and a bad software developer.

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      11 months ago

      If you need skills in order to use an OS, then that is a bad OS.

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        11 months ago

        This is very true. There is a difference between being bad at using software, and software being bad. Linux just has an intrinsically bad desktop design.

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        You don’t need skills to use GNU+Linux, in the same way you don’t need skills to use Windows.

        It has different ways of doing things which needs to be learned, but that also applies the other way around. I’ve not touched Windows in years, and so it’d be quite an unfamiliar environment and I’d need to learn a new way to do things. That doesn’t mean it’s bad (it is, but for other reasons).

        Tl;Dr just because you’re not familiar with something doesn’t make it bad or inferior