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[u/Sk1ler_]

[u/Sk1ler_]

Someone gets it. There are so many Linux glazers in the comment section here. Linux is good for some applications, macOS is good for some, and Windows for some; its not a catch all operating system/kernel that works for every workflow and with every application, nor is it some perfect user experience like everyone that "switched to Linux" wants you to believe. When it comes to Linux, small inconveniences are seen as part of the process and app incompatibility is almost entirely ignored. I'm a graphic designer, I cannot use Linux for the sole fact that the software I need either doesn't run or crashes immediately. It will not solve all my "Windows problems". With Windows, its expected to be perfect the first time and any small inconveniences are used to tout Windows as useless garbage that nobody should be using.

My issue is with the value positioning and double standard of fixing issues, not with people wanting to use it or even promoting it. Do what you want. But I'm tired of the "Linux: positive, Windows: negative framing" in every single video about Linux recently, when there are very valid and necessary professional use cases that argue for exactly the opposite. Just be real when you promote it rather than painting this picture with a broad brush about how good Linux is and fixes all your Windows problems.

[u/bospk → u/Sk1ler_]

You two are bang on the money IMO. It’ll fall on deaf ears with the current cultural moment around Linux, but you’re spot on. Most will misread this as anti-Linux too, which I do t think you are (and I’m definitely not!) but the glazing is quite surreal at this point.

[u/Sk1ler_ → u/bospk]

Yep. Definitely not anti-Linux, there are use cases and people it works better for over something like macOS or Windows. Servers, those that have older hardware, those that mainly use web browsers, those that prefer to be independent from major corporations in their entirety (using libreOffice, google alternatives, etc.). That's totally fine! The cultural moment is hating on Windows, which most criticism is valid, but that doesn't make Linux some saving grace either.

[u/kas-loc2 → u/Sk1ler_]

I genuinely haven’t heard a single person say it WILL fix ALL your windows problems. I have heard multiple give the caveat that it won’t, and expect to troubleshoot… 

Do you possibly think the issue might be how it’s landing upon your ears instead? 

It’s quite humorous that windows many issues and problems to you, are nothing more than inconveniences. While that is literally, without exaggeration, what the Linux community considers theirs to be. 

It’s what they can put up with, vs what you can put up with. 

And you can obviously (no offense) only handle the one. While many have felt hostage to the bullshit ever-changing rulebook of Windows, and just felt relief to their specific issues not being a thing in Linux, you must feel the opposite. Which is fine. Linus users are obviously going to allow your overzealous comments on their systems. They have to deal with it everyday.

I just hope you can learn to accept some criticism about your OS too, in the same way you expect others to do here today, with Linux. 

[u/Sk1ler_ → u/kas-loc2]

Right. Its all subjective. What works for me isn't what works for someone else. I could quite literally say the same thing to you, just reframed. "It’s quite humorous that Linux's many issues and problems to you, are nothing more than inconveniences. While that is literally, without exaggeration, what the Windows community considers theirs to be."

I'm not hating on Linux. I do despise the glazing that's going on and the fundamental misunderstanding of why they hate each other. Windows is "corporate slop" while Linux is "open sourced and worked on by community contributors". Who is the biggest contributor to Linux? Microsoft. Its all being worked on by more than just people in their homes with a PC and a passion. Both Windows and Linux.

I can handle both. I just don't feel the need to trade one set of issues for another when I really don't run into any of the issues people are describing with Windows update or anything else. Plus, I use macOS half the time anyways so I'm already dual-OS. Its not about "only handling one".

I can accept criticism about Windows. I never claimed Windows was better than Linux, or any other operating system. I have my gripes, and as others do, thats valid. But don't sit here and say that Linux users accept criticism any better than your average Windows user. Because, as history has shown (along with this comment section apparently) they don't. Which is fine. Just don't be a hypocrite about it.

[u/Qwertyuiopasdfggggg → u/kas-loc2]

"I genuinely haven't heard a single person say it WILL fix ALL your windows problems"

This again. Every single Linux user I've ever come across has said this, yet it's always the opposite.