“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
According to many Linux users, Windows isn’t Linux (Which just means they don’t want to fix X cause it’s not a problem for them)
Therefore, Linux isn’t popular.
I’ve unironically seen people in forums say that Linux doesn’t need to grow, that it already acvomplishes its purpose which I guess is serving a bunch of specialized geeks. They don’t think mass adoption will bring anything good, as if FOSS could be enshittified instead of getting more support from those interested in contributing to something that works.
To me it feels like the ultimate “fuck you I got mine”. It would be different if they said something like “we would like to do this, but we lack the resources”. That would be understandable, but they appear to be straigth up hostile to adding stuff that would get more people to use Linux. It feels like classic gatekeeping (which is dumb cause Linux can’t enshsittify).
There’s always someone willing to tinker, if these people grow up with Windows, I think the tinkering “window” might be lost or wasted on a restrictive OS. But who would want to tinker in order to get working something that should work already? Tinkering should be fun and optional, not a task scheduled at every tuesday.
What was the website? I just had books in '95 and later, Geocities wasn’t great for chat, IRC and network news groups were the best places to get help
The web was pretty small in the '90s
I spent my time in newsgroups in role playing game flame wars
It was Experts Exchange. Then they paywalled everything like greedy idiots - hiding decades of useful community knowledge.
Then everyone moved rapidly to StackExchange, which had coexisted but been quite small until EE did their thing.
Ah, software developing nerds and expertsexchange. A story as old as time.
It starts with innocent questions, then thigh highs during long coding sessions and… you know the rest. It’s all in the name! 😅
StackOverflow
Go to any linux forum or help site today and you can experience it right now.
As a masochist, I enjoy the freebsd forum
*freebdsm
It was right there.
“Oh, someone had the same problem” as I see forum thread in search results, followed by finding out that thread turned into a gaslighting session on why OP’s problem wasn’t actually a problem, and no solution was provided as result. 🌝
Why would you want to X? Dont X. Problem solved 😊
$currentYear was meant to be year of the Linux desktop! Why isn’t it?? 😡 Those oafs should be on here by now
Windows is popular
According to many Linux users, Windows isn’t Linux (Which just means they don’t want to fix X cause it’s not a problem for them)
Therefore, Linux isn’t popular.
I’ve unironically seen people in forums say that Linux doesn’t need to grow, that it already acvomplishes its purpose which I guess is serving a bunch of specialized geeks. They don’t think mass adoption will bring anything good, as if FOSS could be enshittified instead of getting more support from those interested in contributing to something that works.
To me it feels like the ultimate “fuck you I got mine”. It would be different if they said something like “we would like to do this, but we lack the resources”. That would be understandable, but they appear to be straigth up hostile to adding stuff that would get more people to use Linux. It feels like classic gatekeeping (which is dumb cause Linux can’t enshsittify).
There’s always someone willing to tinker, if these people grow up with Windows, I think the tinkering “window” might be lost or wasted on a restrictive OS. But who would want to tinker in order to get working something that should work already? Tinkering should be fun and optional, not a task scheduled at every tuesday.
That smiley at the end. I laughed. 😂