Yeah, it’s Windows users going out and proudly exclaiming their love. Definitely never heard a Linux user bitch about another OS.👌👍
This has to be intentionally dense shit to trigger ACHKTUALLY type engagement right?
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?
This comic is about LGBTQI+
Linux/GNU BTQI+
C’mon, us linux users do the inverse all the time…
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.
Literally any time Windows is mentioned
windows 🤮
You see shit, you clean it up, plain-as.
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.
I was bitching about a shitty Windows thing to a happy Windows user just this afternoon.
Windows?? You just need to bring up Gnome
you just did 🤮
It’s not the same, when you are the minority/counter culture, you are allowed to advocate for yourself.
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 thing is - most windows user don’t even know Linux exists…
Most Windows users don’t know Windows exist.
i’ve run across some people around here who i would never have guessed knew about linux… and not only did they know–they ran it. and yea, more than one was ‘i use arch btw’.
Used and supported Windows for over 30 years at this point. I’ve NEVER been a fan, and started looking into Linux back in '99. It wasn’t ready back then, but two decades later and it seems like Linux does everything except anti-cheat, which I have no use for, better than Windows ever did.
If I didn’t have to use windows for work…
I have never gone to look for a windows community, is there one?
On the fediverse?!
Good luck with that.
Every post would be negative
Good
Not anymore. It was embraced, extended and extinguished.
We don’t really do the same thing, because Microsoft is forced upon us every step of the way.
Yes. Because we want native support from apps. Windows has the market share to not care. Linux is getting there but is nowhere near to even macOS.
I don’t use Arch, by the way.
My theory is you are a Windows user wearing a mask.
Quite literally the opposite of reality. Good shitpost.
At this point, it’s 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 don’t 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, I’d be feeling anxious about that.
Not that I’m a Linux fanboy: Windows is just better for some specific things. But still, I’m not going to either OS booth to complain.
The threadiverse is not a Linux stall.
Linux is pretty nice.
I have my issues with it, but they’re more on the UI side of things.
I love nixos, I really like Fedora silver blue, and I’m a huge fan of podman — it feels like all the right compromises.
Fastest save of my life. Applies to so many things too. I never understood the appeal of showing up just to say negative things. I’m guessing it’s some need to drag people down to your sad level or something but it’s not something I can understand.
You ever see one of those videos of a guy sitting alone in his truck, filming himself talking about something that’s bothering him even though nobody asked (or cares)? Same thing. They feel like nobody is listening to them and it just burns them up inside, and it fuels their bottomless sense of resentment.
Huh… I never thought of it that way. And I can see how they’re similar but I feel they’re different still mostly because these are usually trolls or just idiots that come to complain, whereas those people usually post on fb/utube/etc. where they’re easier to ignore. Feels less targeted.
Survivorship bias, those that move along don’t really get remembered
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.
This is some stoptalkingaboutpancakes-tier farfetchery
wait are you saying this is a shitpost
A fanatic will change neither their mind nor the subject
Ooh, that’s a good one! Is it a quote?
This doesn’t happen.
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.
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.”
Lol I am the opposite, if some language has classes I will try to avoid them as much as possible
Fair stance, but idk how you keep large codebases structured without some kind of classes man.
“Large codebases”? Pfft, if it hits 6k lines, it’s time to scrap it and start over. /hj
Don’t need classes to make functions (depending on the language of course).
yeah but then you have hundreds or even thousands of functions within the global namespace, that’s fucking terrible to work with and a nightmare for auto completion
Windows users complain and meme all the time about the linux fandom of the fediverse, which is what I assume OP was referring to.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Is the shitty package manager called “Microsoft Store”?
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.
I don’t hate Linux, it’s the people who use Linux that are the worst
