Yeah, but, DAE LE WINDASS WINDOWNS BAD??! LOL LE MICRO SHIT USERS LOLOLOL XD XD EGGS DEE MI$RO$OFT IS BIL GAETS DIK JOKE. Seems perfectly welcoming to me, especially the heavy insinuation that absolutely everything is PEBKAC, even if you're on a fresh install of something allegedly intended for mainstream - following verbatim, explicitly appropriate instructions. If you're really lucky, someone might deign to link you an LMGTFY.
This stuff truly has helped make Desktop Linux a force to be reckoned with over the years. So much so that Year of Desktop Linux has been... pretty much every year of the past 20, I think.
On Windows, we all know it's spackled together shit with shoe strings, spit and duct tape - probably still involving some tech out of the 70s-80s or at least tech debt from back then. We tend to not pretend it's flawless because no software is.
Rogue@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Most of the Linux communities are the same.
often the content isn’t even related to Linux it’s just tirades of anger against corporations. Doesn’t even have to be Microsoft, any commercial that dares make any move in the Linux space - Canonical, red hat, oracle get derided.
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Proposers of a piece of free and open source software, an ideology created by an anarchist-socialist software engineer, tend to lean left on the political spectrum. More news at 11…”
Rogue@feddit.uk 1 year ago
Not to forget this is Lemmy which has a development leadership so left leaning that the CIA are likely already working to destabilise it.
lud@lemm.ee 1 year ago
To be fair, Oracle seems to be ridiculed by everyone.