Nah, as a Windows user on the topic of Linux here in the fediverse I'll be totally honest: I mostly just feel like I'm looking at and a bit wishing I was smart and savvy and motivated enough to be one of the cool kids, but after my last disastrous attempt at switching (because apparently my video card just isn't supported I guess? whatever, I'm not looking for tech support here) I'm just happy enough to be at the cool punk party instead of predatory frat party (reddit, twitter, take your pick of corporate shithole) where I'm likely to get roofied.
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Yeah, it's Windows users going out and proudly exclaiming their love. Definitely never heard a Linux user bitch about another OS.๐๐
This has to be intentionally dense shit to trigger ACHKTUALLY type engagement right?
Windows users don't think about or even realize that other operating systems exist
Or they value an os that works out of the box with the vast majority of hardware. Even valve and steamos is on proprietary hardware has a ton of issues. Windows is God awful but I didn't have to run a script on every boot up to set my HDMI device as a default. Or have to reboot my device every time I turn off my TV because HDMI can't connect. And none of my controllers, 8bitdo, ps5ds, xbox360, work wirelessly without latency issues ๐คทโโ๏ธ.
The stubbornness of the community to acknowledge this continues to hamper improving the situation.
I give money and use bazzite+ my steam deck to support foss, but I'm not blind to the numerous issues that need to be fixed before Linux is less ignored.
Most people are also just not going to bother changing their OS lol. Most steam deck users are using Linux and most PC users are using windows.
I think it's like why people don't change the engine in their car, sure you could could get a better one but most people are happy with their engine and don't want to mess with it
You've never been to a LAN party when those where bigger. Completely unprompted, windows users will shit on mac and linux users.
You are barking up the wrong tree. mohaa, dota (the mod) big game hunters, ns, cs (again before the stand alone or steam).
You're friends were correct back then. Linux was mostly worthless unless it was your job. Triple so for gaming.
My only remaining real problems are:
- The community often pushing more "elitist" solutions over easier ones, see all the Vim fanboys.
- Coming from the aforementioned issue, your only viable debugger is either GDB with its obtuse TUI or some GUI hackjob on top of that.
This comic is about LGBTQI+
Linux/GNU BTQI+
What the fuck does the threadiverse even want for itself? Do you see yourself as an enshittification-resistant replacement for Reddit, or a communist Linux forum? This comic only makes sense if it's the latter.
Could that be a bit of a hasty reduction to make based on one post in a shitpost comm?
You do realize you can just walk to another stall, right?
Not when all the stalls are just different flavors of Linux!
Sir, this is a shitpost community.
C'mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time...

How dare you come at me with self awareness!!
That's okay because unlike Windows, Linux isn't guilty of market capture, adware, spyware, bloat, and any number of other things that are wrong with windows.
It happens when MS does something that annoys their userbase. Then Linux nerds jump in and tell how much Linux is better.
Exactly, never complain. We lead the way to a better future.
Literally any time Windows is mentioned
I promote linux, not complain about windows, every time someone has a an enshitification problem, which is incredibly common now.
windows ๐คฎ
windows ๐คฎ
no we don't also windows is stupid you should install gentoo
Every time Windows is mentioned it's somebody complaining about some hostile thing that Linux doesn't do...
So yeah.
You see shit, you clean it up, plain-as.
That's not true. Linux users do this waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more than Microslop users. Microslop has billions of users, but fewer than 20 fanboys, worldwide.
Fewer than 19*
I've converted to Linux since.
The threadiverse is not a Linux stall.

Quite literally the opposite of reality. Good shitpost.
At this point, itโs just insecurity about stuff not working right on Windows now.
To that point:
At the moment, on my dual boot desktop, hardware acceleration and video playback are busted in Chromium browsers on Windows. But it works perfectly fine in Wayland linux. And I donโt really know why.
This is fascinating to me, as the situation was reversed about a year ago.
And if I were Windows only, without years of experience under the belt to make Linux seem less daunting, Iโd be feeling anxious about that.
Not that Iโm a Linux fanboy: Windows is just better for some specific things. But still, Iโm not going to either OS booth to complain.
My favorite thing is going onto the community for a game that explicitly supports linux with a problem just to have a bunch of replies to install windows from random chuds.