People wearing their linux distribution on their profile like a badge of honor. Why
Maybe sometimes it feels heroic to have conquered the most unusable piece of software in the world, I get that.
But mostly it's just... showing off how much of a tech elitist you are. That's how I read it, at least.
Yes this is coming from another linux user who has experienced all the ugliness (and beauty) since the nineties. No, I'm not jealous that you are running arch 😆
@Jules the most frustrating thing for me used to be that linux geeks would tell me that it was super easy to install and use, so i felt even more lazy and useless for not finding the energy and time to do it.
@distelfliege exaxtly, that is not helping anyone.
"It's easy" or "It's trivial" (academic style) can go into the garbage too
@distelfliege How is anyone so entitled to call something "simple" without knowing how it actually is for other people? (don't answer that)
@Jules but i have to admit that probably they meant to encourage me. it's only that I'm not encouraged by false claims how easy something is, I'm encouraged by explanations as realistic as possible, but with good hints how to get there. in fact, when told how easy it supposedly was, I dived into it and couldn't even make sense of anything on any fucking website i read, lol
@distelfliege yes, this! Every person who is thinking about getting someone to use linux that way should read your toot.
@Jules haha, should i write my Ubuntu there? 😂😂😂
I just don't think this whole attitude is being helpful to anyone. If we want free software and alternatives to corporate spyware in general to succeed, we NEED to make it better. And just throw this "the harder the better" mentality out of the windows... wait, that doesn't make sense.
okay I said my tech piece for the month bye