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I just realized /c/piracy is the most subscribed community in the lemmyverse! (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I used to be part of the memes community but it sucked so much ass that I just returned to reddit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

there's a lot of Linux memes... don't get me wrong I've had a chuckle at a couple Linux memes before but tbh most of the time it's just a reference to Linux and they forget to include a joke.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Those people are weird. I’m saying this as someone that has a Steam Deck and runs Proxmox and Opensense and 13 VMs and containers on my network, so you know I understand the value: Linux should never be prescribed to Normies. This is not the year of the Linux desktop. It might be your year of the Linux desktop, and that’s great! But to blanket prescribe it to everyone with a slight problem in Mac or Windows with the phrase “Just Use Linux!:tm:” like all of their problems will go away if you just move to a new OS is the most asinine, fanboy shit I’ve ever heard of. And it doesn’t have anything to do with “skill issues” or whatever, it’s that normal people don’t fucking care, just want shit to work

But I get it, we’re in the fediverse, where people have a higher proclivity for open source, open protocol, open hosting, open bars, etc. But if you’re reading this and getting upset, please understand there’s a whole lot of other shit to care about, and someone’s choice of OS has as much to do with you as their sexual preferences: none at all.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think if somebody could benefit from it, I'm going to recommend it. Taking the attitude of "You're a normie, so obviously you can't appreciate Linux like I do" is condescending.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It’s not that I don’t think they can understand or appreciate it.

Think of it like this: coffee snobs can spend all day explaining to you the intricacies of the chemistry, the way the beans are grown, the way you grind them and the way you distribute them and the way you boil the water and pour it over or French press or whatever.

But at the end of the day, I just want a decent cup of coffee, I’m not picky. I don’t care. I understand what the coffee snob is trying to explain, I just don’t care.

In the same sense, a regular person can grasp Linux perfectly well. I can explain to them all day the benefits on open source and having ownership of your OS and full control over what packages end up on your machine and the g-g-goodness of a decent package manager. But at the end of the day, they’re not picky. They don’t care. They understand what I, a tech snob, am trying to say, they just don’t care.

The same way they may have a hobby or job in medicine or gardening or construction or whatever, they have things they care about that aren’t Linux, and there are millions of things in the world a person can care about. But a person that believes the thing they care about is more important than what other people care about is just fucking insufferable, and constantly telling others they should “Just Use Linux” is no different than a stereotypical vegan trying to get everyone to go vegan or a craft beer snob using it as their only personality trait or a gun nut that actually just has a snuff fetish or that person that constantly tells you “do you have a moment to talk about our lord and savior”, except in this case, your Lord and Savior is just Linus Torvalds.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

constantly telling others they should “Just Use Linux” is no different than a stereotypical vegan trying to get everyone to go vegan or a craft beer snob using it as their only personality trait

Okay, wow. So what you're saying is actually much worse than what I originally thought. You believe that saying "Torturing animals is wrong" is the same as saying "Craft beer is better than mass-produced beer".

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Holy shit you’re an idiot and completely missing the point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes, using Emacs is more important than the OS.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Nah obviously using vim is more important.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Which one? The lemmy.ml community sucks because there are so many tankies, but according to the Community-Browser there are at least half a dozen other general meme groups.