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submitted 2 days ago by MTK@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Saw a post without noticing the community and commented a genuine comment with good intentions.

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Original post:

My (removed) comment:

And yeah, the last comment was sarcasm.

I just don't really understand why is there a community for shitting on Linux? Like I can get not liking it, and hating the Linux die hard fans, but it really is an amazing thing that is integral to almost all modern computing... Kind of like hating social media by having a facebook page for it.

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[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

When I was on reddit the ones spouting the most linux hate seemed to fall into two main categories.

  1. those that tried it like 15 years ago and still hold a grudge.

  2. dudes who heard people rave about linux but they themselves struggled with certain concepts when trying it out. And rather than realize they need to read instructions and learn new things, instead would rather blame linux for not working as expected.

[-] gmtom@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

Unrelated but I got banned from the atheist memes community for calling one of the mods memes a boomer Facebook meme.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It turns out, mods are gods.

[-] agnomeunknown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

As an atheist, I cringe at nearly every post I see from that community. Makes me want to punch teenage neckbeard me in the face

[-] macattack@lemmy.world 3 points 11 hours ago

Same. I imagine it's how most Christians feel about their loudest supporters as well

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago

Yeah, that guy's not joking.

It's not some kayfabe act. He is sincere in all of that posturing assholery.

Block and move on.

[-] faultypidgeon@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

Seems like a year ago he was actually using Linux himself. Wondering what happened that made him feel so butthurt.

[-] Web_Rand@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

Linux is pretty advanced today. It's not a baby anymore.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

people who are new should be using immutable distros exclusively unless they're looking at this as a major project where they learn everything about it, IMHO

i've been helping people switch for a long time, all the dumbest things that have happened to people have been stopped by immutability.

[-] StanislavP@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I just switched from Windows to Linux recently. Have gone from Zorin to Linux Mint and my friend likes Ubuntu. I would like to think that I watched a lot of videos and read a lot of articles before switching, but I've never heard of immutable distros. Could you please explain that term?

Edit: Grammar.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yes, the short version is that immutability means that the filesystem (except for your home folder) is read-only and updated all at once.

This makes it so that updates never break the machine, and you can roll back to previous versions of the machine all at once, seamlessly.

For new people I always recommend fedora kinoite, but if you're highly experienced, immutability provides little value as you can always just chroot and unbreak the system yourself.

[-] spacemanspiffy@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

That whole community is just one guy posting memes. Some are funny but mostly its just odd how much he hates Linux.

Whatever :)

[-] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago
[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

No, it's one person who is so unironically salty that they post memes about how much they hate Linux several times a day.

Everyone has a hobby 🙃

[-] Breve@pawb.social 82 points 2 days ago

It's not a "community", it's one person making all the posts because I guess they wanted to make hating Linux their entire personality. 🤷

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[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 45 points 2 days ago

There was a time when there was an annual "Linux Sucks" presentation that I liked because it was a roundup of candid, yet constructive criticism of Linux (and then at some point the person running that went off the deep end and started yelling about woke agendas).

I wouldn't mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken when running linux, and we as a community then try to fix them or find workarounds.

But as others have pointed out, that community isn't a community, it's literally just one account hanging out by themselves.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

There is a guy that is a Linux dev, that maintains* a list of what sucks about linux, its very comprehensive--but a bit dated. He alao has same for Windows. I will have to look for the link

[-] drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 2 days ago

I wouldn’t mind there being a whole community devoted to pointing out shit that is poorly designed or just broken

But isn't that every linux forum?

[-] teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but I think it can feel too much like a circle jerk around here sometimes. I get that people want to win over new users, but some of it goes too far I think. The fact is Linux isn't perfect, and while no OS is, there are some critical things you can do on Windows that are still a pain in the ass on Linux. Some of that is a vendor/proprietary software problem, but a good chunk of it is just people being willing to overlook a thin layer of jank in their normal workflows.

I think we'd all be better off to all acknowledge and clean up the jank rather than try to pretend it's fine as is.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To be fair, Windows has its own jank. As someone who is forced to use Windows 11 for work, I'm much happier putting up with the minimum Linux jank I've experienced compared to the Windows jank.

If any of that made sense.

[-] electricprism@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago

For this exact reason i feel the fediverse should operate on #hashtags and the user should subscribe to their mods who will mark content for exclusion and filtration.

Meaning that instead of a ultimatum users can participate regardless of if bad mods ruin a community as per reddit /r/linux being ruined by loco mods.

This fiefdom format where topics are arbitrated and drum headded by fief lords is archaic and antiquated.

When the wrong man uses the right means, then the right means work in the wrong way.

Its our job to create systems that prevent this as much as possible through good design.

[-] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 6 points 1 day ago

That's how aether works kind of.

It's P2P/decentralised rather than federated.

Anyone can make a community. With enough participation in a community one can become a mod. Mods can be impeached by vote of active participants.

Anyone can see nod actions and anyone can decide to disable the actions of any mod.

I love the system, I was active there before moving to Lemmy. I wish it had taken off/absorbed some of the Reddit fallout rather than Lemmy.

AFAIK it is not maintained or at least updated much less frequently than Lemmy/ActivityPub.

[-] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 days ago

Hummm... Guess you're to sensible? I mean I'm die hard linux lover for 3 years now and will never switch back to Windows... EVER!

However, I found some of those posts quite funny !

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Some of them are funny indeed

[-] shapis@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

Pretty accurate meme though.

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Yeah.. I am in my Arch comfort zone, till I was forced to move on as the newest kernels of Arch triggered kernel Panics at my Starlite V device. Even the LTS version (and for some weird reason the rt kernel was the only one working without panics).

So someone said "Use NixOS, its great"... it felt cool at beginning, but sucked very soon as everything should be written into stone if you want changes on your system, and then reboot, because the switch command didn't really trigger enough changes. Netbeans was without Maven till I rebooted. I thought I sucked at adding it properly. Frustrating it was.

Then I tried MX Linux, just to realize that Debian has Ancient packages with many many bugs, like Okular having a broken Pinch-Zoom which is fixed after 23.31 or smth. Debian had version 22 of Okular. And I disliked that MX Linux used Plasma 5...

Another one recommends Void Linux, Gentoo, KDE Neon, OpenSuse Tumbleweed. Holy fuck pls filter it by Systemd only Operating Systems. (But still cool having lots od Linux users in my university group)

I finally decided to Install Kubuntu and actually... it feels like it will last forever (till a new Ubuntu Update comes in and destroys itself by its own Updating system. It never worked for me)

[-] hangonasecond@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Gentoo has systemd instructions right alongside openrc through the whole installation handbook. Pretty sure opensuse is systemd also.

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[-] Enkers@sh.itjust.works 44 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Apparently it was against the rules of that community and I was banned.

Sounds like they've done you a favour. Now you don't have to see their random hater circlejerk community again.

[-] lurch@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

don't you have to block it back to not see it?

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[-] Default_Defect@midwest.social 31 points 2 days ago

I don't understand why so many people take the existence of linuxsucks communities so personally, the reddit version has more linux users defending it than actual hate, but that one was more meant as a "legitimate grievances against linux" community as opposed to what the lemmy version seems to be.

Just block and ignore like anything else. Its okay if there are people that don't like the thing you like.

[-] MTK@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I didn't take it personally, just confused and amused at the situation

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[-] brianary@startrek.website 12 points 2 days ago

It's the same argument I've heard about the "complexity" of Mastodon: too many choices, which is I guess why people largely stopped going to websites outside the major social networks. Monopoly over competition, it's like everyone is pining for a monarchy.

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[-] radswid@feddit.org 18 points 2 days ago

My guess: the mod is sittin there posting memes on his gentoo-machine and laughing his ass of, because someone's taking his community serious.

[-] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
[-] ghashul@feddit.dk 6 points 2 days ago

I acquired the yarn, but i can't figure out how to compile it.

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[-] pathief@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

It's like going to a vegan community saying "meat isn't so bad". You're obviously not going to get good responses.

[-] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

We all thought the community was satire or at least self deprecative humor.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)
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[-] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

So: you posted a serious contribution in an unserious community, and got treated unseriously. It's not very newsworthy.

As for that community's existence, why is that even up for discussion? As a Linux user I'm happy for people to say what they like about Linux. If the jokes are funny, all the better.

I use Ubuntu btw and it doesn't suck. Well, not that much.

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[-] matcha_addict@lemy.lol 8 points 2 days ago

Deciding Linux isn't for you is one thing. Even deciding that you hate Linux is... Digestible. But what kind of internal self esteem and validation issues do you need to unironically participate in a community called "Linux sucks"?

Hating Linux is one thing. Putting in extra effort to justify to everyone that Linux is hate-able is a different kind of crazy.

[-] Kintarian@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

I'm not sure if it's related but there was an annual symposium called "Linux Sucks". It was a gathering of mostly Linux developers. The idea was to find the ways Linux sucks and develop ideas to fix the suck.

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