- You love giving your data away
- You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
- You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
- You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
- You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
- You’d rather battle corporate tech support
- You’d rather rent your software than own it
- You think ads belong on your desktop
- You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
- You like rebooting for every little update
- You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
- You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
- You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
- You think the command line is only for hackers
- You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
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This is exactly the kind of shit that keeps people from switching to Linux y’all know that right?
Yeah, I read this as: YOU ARE FUCKING STUPID, I AM MUCH BETTER THAN YOU
That is really a good way to communicate.
Why should I care? Linux has enough users as it is, development is sustainable. I don’t want all users to switch at once because that would flood forums with noobs asking silly questions.
It’s their loss if they don’t use Linux. Why should I encourage them to do so? Just to have some shitty Electron apps more which I don’t use?
It’s much more painful for me that the places I work at don’t use Linux. They won’t be swayed by such an article anyway.
Are you serious? Do you really believe linux can’t get any better or that linux is perfect for you?
The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people and the more people use it.
Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?
As well the more people that use linux the more apps will be supported on it. Can you say with full confidence that there isn’t a single windows or macos app that doesn’t work perfectly on linux that you don’t want? Even if linux is perfect for you, you rely on the kindness of open source maintainers to maintain linux, can you really not reserve any kindness for other people?
As a long time linux user, antagonizing people who are unsure if the switch is right for them is very clearly a poor interpersonal choice that will not result in the change we wanna see in the world, or more people adopting linux
Fuckin seriously, we can do better than this circle jerk. As someone who cares deeply about software being kinder to people it pains me enormously how much of a dump stat interpersonal skills are for so much of the Foss community
If the authors wanna pat themselves for linux they can do it without creating a unempathetic, condescending, preachy culture that alienates people.
Just call the article “things we love about having switched to linux” so it finds the right audience and its fine, but this shit sucks and its exactly the kind of crap that has made so many of my friends resistant to hearing what I think is good and special about Foss software. They hear me out anyway, but I’d love for it to not be a fucking uphill battle because Foss people routinely emulate the same preachy, condescending, unempathetic interpersonal apprach that everyone bemoans about the worst vegan spaces online
Indeed
Well said
And here I was, thinking this was a well thought out article with actual, legitimate reasons why someone wouldn’t want to use Linux. Instead, it’s this smug, autofellating, condescending bullshit. Roland Taylor has some issues.
This is just masturbation.
No, because at least with masturbation, you have something to show for it at the end.
YEOMK
No that’s exercise
Oh, it’s just a list of pro Linux items but in reverse psychology… Kay.
I’m already a Linux user, I was kinda curious about a listing of actual reasons Linux might not be for someone.
actual reasons:
- want to use some specific program or game only available for another os
- lazy, dumb or afraid of computer stuff.
- can’t decide from 10,000 different distributions
#2 is the cause of #1 & #3 so you only really listed 1 reason.
Not just reverse psychology, I can’t imagine anyone agreeing with most of these. It’s definitely got a holier-than-thou attitude. Like who is this even written for other than people who already use Linux and just want to feel smugly superior?
Linux users? Being holier than thou? Say it ain’t so!
I use arch btw
Exactly, it just reads like a smug rant.
This is exactly the kind of shit that turns people off.
Good.
“Well if you don’t buy this car you are a moron who can’t see how much better this car is. So keep driving that piece of shit car you dumbass. So, have I sold you on this car?”
Please, article writer, be a little more passive-aggressive.
- You start making weird passive aggressive lists to shame people into your preferred…whatever…
If you have a job or are student you’ll know that using Linux usually results in a direct increase in corporate tech support battles.
Cool and all but stop the rebooting hate
- I just installed some random drivers, I guess without rebooting. Window is intransparent af, but I think so.
- Reboots are very important and should be done with updates. Atomic systems make sense!
Back on the 90s (I know, I know) the joke was that of your VCR was still blinking 12:00 Linux was probably not for you.
I just wish there was an OS that was bloated to heck and back, and tried to shoehorn AI into weird places.
Nah, that still feels like too much freedom. What if I get lost?
10: But honestly, with an immutable distro you are not that far off 😀
Its nice that it doesnt pester you at all to reboot or threaten to do it for you though. I reboot maybe once a month to apply whatever updates came through since most of my stuff are flatpaks that get updated live anyway.
Here’s a few more.
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You want to use multiple monitors without messing around.
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You don’t want to run an emulator for your games.
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You like being able to share software with people.
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You need corporate software for work or your own business.
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You’re looking for a computer that ‘just works’.
The monitor thing is very dependent on distro, I didn’t really have any issues at all with Linux mint or nobara
As others have said wine/proton is not an emulator and some games run even better on Linux, that being said a lot of AAA games have DRM that prevent you from running them on Linux, that would be your real argument there
Don’t like being able to share software? A ton of software on Linux is FOSS and available on windows, not all of it of course, but you could say the same about Mac
Depending on the corporation and software, you can use Linux, but yes, most places are windows shops, so that is difficult
But yeah,a computer that just “works” I concede most distros will not get you there. Nobara is definitely a bit unstable but I can deal with it because I was in IT for 6 years. Although immutable distros are close, but they definitely still take some knowhow to use, and have their limitations
Edit: misread part of the comment
#20 is what it is
I don’t understand the first two.
The first one is because at least on Mint, on the machine I have, multiple monitors just don’t work, and I’ve been told it’s not just me, it’s X11. The second is the need for Wine or Bottles (or whatever Valve has done).
Wine literally stands for “WINE Is Not an Emulator”.
That said, Proton is pretty transparent, you can just install any game off Steam right now and it’ll work 9 times out of 10 without you noticing that you’re using wine. I often can’t tell if I’m using proton or not and get surprised when I go into the game files for one reason or another expecting proton and am surprised to find a native Linux build. There has even been at least one time I’ve switched from a native Linux build to Proton because it ran better, and it was just one toggle.
Why the resistance to wine? Did you have an issue while using it, or is it the principle of using a compatibility layer?
A computer that “just works” nowadays is an android phone, windows has so much broken due to them replacing devs with AI that you can’t justify that as a reason nowadays.
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