Windows users complain and meme all the time about the linux fandom of the fediverse, which is what I assume OP was referring to.
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Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This doesn’t happen.
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
I’ll openly admit that I’ve made comments that could be interpreted as this comic. That said, I don’t hate Linux or look to “dunk on” people, I just see a lot of really uninformed takes about Windows being tossed around and can’t help but try to correct people.
Like someone said something abysmally wrong and very confidently, I asked them when the last time they used Windows, and they said it had been over a decade. I get that people pull that sort of thing online all the time, but when I see it it bothers me.
So I end up making the occasional comment defending Windows from blatant misinformation in a Linux thread, or insisting that the Linux experience still isn’t as smooth as it needs to be for non-tinkerers.
Usually someone will pop up and call me uninformed or something, which is rich given I’ve been casually messing with Linux since before USB thumb drives were ubiquitous, and I have a little more than a decade of career experience in IT support and systems admin/engineering/architecture neck deep in a Microsoft environment.
I love Linux and open source software. I want it all to succeed. But Windows does have its place, it is valid for certain use cases, and is not anywhere as awful as it’s made out to be. Especially if you have the tech chops to switch to Linux, de-crappify-ing Windows is of comparable difficulty and I have not had any of the supposedly unavoidable Windows issues people regularly cite in around a decade.
Switching to Linux is a more than valid choice, but I hate to see it happen only because someone isn’t getting good troubleshooting information for a Windows issue.
I also have a seriously hard time keeping my mouth shut when Linux users claim daily driving a Linux Distro as a smooth process. It is leagues better than it used to be. Mind bogglingly so, and getting smoother every day. But it is still inevitable that you will hit a point of major friction and have to get deep into tinkering, and you will still likely need to make concessions in terms of hardware feature support.
I’m no stranger to tinkering. No stranger to compiling things myself, or even troubleshooting an error all the way down to a specific line of source code and making a PR to correct it.
But I’ve reached a point in my life where I don’t want to be spending hours troubleshooting things that in my mind should “just work”. I want more control than Apple offers, and less tinkering than Linux tends to expect.
So I keep up with the Linux space, use it on VMs personally semi-regularly, and maybe once a year give it a serious try as a daily driver. For now, stripped down/customized Windows installs on my gear is more than good enough.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Same here. I’m firmly in the camp of “I wish Linux was better and easier to use.”
I’ll probably get people telling me I’m wrong.
dlsloop@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I quite literally just saw a post about liking Windows over Linux on Lemmy today… In fact, one of the comments used a version of this meme in reply.
Brkdncr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I saw one today too, so I guess it does happen. You have to wade through a lot of “windows sucks use Linux” posts to find them though.
Windows users generally don’t like windows. Linux has a decent amount of rabid fanboys though.
4am@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Someone made a c/linuxsucks somewhere but they banned a shitload of people and then stopped posting so I dunno
They did memes like “imagine using a shitty package manger and having to do all that work when you could just click update and be done”
And I’m not sure if that’s meant to be trolling or tryharding TBH
Frenchgeek@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Is the shitty package manager called “Microsoft Store”?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
No he’s still posting daily. I just got banned from there for correcting misinformation.
Drewmeister@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I think the majority of Windows users know you can buy an Apple or a Windows, and that’s all they know or care to know. The percentage of Windows users who know enough about Linux to decide they don’t like it has got to be pretty low.
On the other hand, most Linux users know the other systems well enough to have a strong preference. This meme should be reversed.
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Oh it does happen. I’ve had people tell me linux isn’t a desktop OS multiple times and they listed ludicrous reasons that either are completely irrelevant or not true for like 10 years.
I’ve also had people tell me that PHP is a shit programming language and the reasons for them hating it were all outdated for like years or even decades. Once had some kid at a university I gave a lecture tell me “PHP doesn’t even have classes wtf how are you coding in that shit?” my man classes were introduced in PHP 5 which was released 22 YEARS ago, you weren’t even BORN when PHP5 was released.
Some people just want to hate something. Mostly if it’s something that’s “competing” with what they’re using. And that’s especially true in the tech world.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Lol I am the opposite, if some language has classes I will try to avoid them as much as possible
realitaetsverlust@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
Fair stance, but idk how you keep large codebases structured without some kind of classes man.
diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
“Large codebases”? Pfft, if it hits 6k lines, it’s time to scrap it and start over. /hj
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Don’t need classes to make functions (depending on the language of course).
HeHoXa@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Me excited to just now learn PHP has classes now
shame dog
hardcoreufo@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I had someone tell me you can’t do work on Linux… If pretty much the entire internet, your router, your TV, your phone, your NAS, your car etc run on Linux then what is real work? They defined it as content creation and specifically adobe apps which can’t argue don’t run on Linux, but also are not what I consider “work.”
BCsven@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Yep, I heard the same. Theres that animation studio that solely uses Linux. And I explained we work on an enterprise Product Lifecycle software that runs on SUSE or REL and it has high end CAD CAM FEA apps for desktop Linux. I worked on it for many years until Wayland and X11 started to swap which was default, then the parent company halted the GUI version of the software…you can still run the CAD CAM FEA as a headless app for solving and automating workflow, but I’m hoping once Wayland is sorted 100% and they see Linux went from 1% to 5% that they’ll drop the GUI back in.