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Reality check (programming.dev)
submitted 11 months ago by sus@programming.dev to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Ah, yes, ANOTHER post trying to make Linux seem impenetrable and elitist with an attack on Ubuntu - I swear you guys must work for Microsoft.

[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 29 points 11 months ago

Ah, yes, another user offended by a joke posted to a community with memes.

[-] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 11 months ago
[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Stalks my post history to find out I use Ubuntu for my daily driver. Didn't mention I've been using Linux since before the twin towers fell and am a long term open source dev and contributor...

Almost like you purposely chose to be deceptive or something. I know it wasn't a choice though, this kind of immorality comes naturally to you and maybe you're not even aware of it. You should try and work on it though, you'll be amazed how much better a life of radical self awareness is.

i think i have a 2 day streak of the twin towers being mentioned in a day.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -3 points 11 months ago

Isn't it embarrassing using the same excuses as every 4chan racist and misogynist?

You're affecting how people perceive Linux and doing so in a negative way, I'm not going to try and stop you or anything but I am going to say I think you're a bad person working against all the efforts and hard work of people trying to make a better world.

How you feel about it is upto you.

Oh and of course this was just a joke so you have to laugh and agree, right?

[-] sus@programming.dev 9 points 11 months ago

This is not a joke. If you don't wake up at 4 am to start harassing windows users, you will never become a GNU/Linux Trillionaire.

[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

I simply envy you because you live in some world where this is the problem worth discussing and getting angry. Or your head is full of shit. It's probably the latter, given that you put people joking about Arch Linux to the same category as racists and misogynists. In this case, I don't envy, but pity you.

[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

I clearly didn't put them in the same category, I said they use the same defensive arguing tactic to justify their toxic bahviour.

And no its not THE problem, I'm able to post a comment on a thread without it totally consuming my life.

[-] summerof69@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago

🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

[-] ultra@feddit.ro 23 points 11 months ago

Ubuntu sucks. Not because it's for newbies, it's because better, new user friendlier options like mint exist.

[-] lemmylem@lemm.ee 0 points 11 months ago
[-] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago
[-] lemmylem@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They're owned by a for-profit company, they collect data on you by default, they've already had privacy issues in the past, and they include non-free software by default. I would rather have a beginner start off with Debian or Trisquel. We shouldn't be trapping people into these distros because then they'll potentially get too comfortable and not make the switch. This is coming from someone who did start off on Ubuntu. Sure, it's more convenient, but we should be teaching people to value freedom over convenience. Even if the data collection is minimal, it's still data.

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