If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesn’t mean Linux isn’t for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means you’ve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.
  1. You love giving your data away
  2. You enjoy being tracked by your operating system
  3. You’re happy when your computer tells you “no”
  4. You prefer someone else deciding what you can run
  5. You feel uncomfortable if you get to have options
  6. You’d rather battle corporate tech support
  7. You’d rather rent your software than own it
  8. You think ads belong on your desktop
  9. You love being lied to about what’s “industry standard”
  10. You like rebooting for every little update
  11. You’re uncomfortable when software is transparent
  12. You think community-made tools can’t be “professional”
  13. You want intrusive AI everywhere, whether it helps or not
  14. You think the command line is only for hackers
  15. You never really wanted your computer to be yours anyway
  • Farnsworth@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Most of these are not about the Linux kernel, but about distro / personal choice. Android tracks you and doesn’t make you use the command-line a lot. Fedora / Ubuntu (and others?) like to reboot for every little update.

  • Hemingways_Shotgun@lemmy.caEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Oh shit! That’s what we were missing all along! That’s what has, all this time, been keeping adoption down and preventing the year of the linux desktop! A condescending prick talking down to people! We should have figured this out a long time ago! Thanks OP for setting us straight! Now our numbers are sure to skyrocket!

  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    “Well if you don’t buy this car you are a moron who can’t see how much better this car is. So keep driving that piece of shit car you dumbass. So, have I sold you on this car?”

  • Victor@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Oh, it’s just a list of pro Linux items but in reverse psychology… Kay.

    I’m already a Linux user, I was kinda curious about a listing of actual reasons Linux might not be for someone.

  • muzzle@lemmy.zip
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    5 months ago

    Back on the 90s (I know, I know) the joke was that of your VCR was still blinking 12:00 Linux was probably not for you.

  • njm1314@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    This is exactly the kind of shit that keeps people from switching to Linux y’all know that right?

    • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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      5 months ago

      Why should I care? Linux has enough users as it is, development is sustainable. I don’t want all users to switch at once because that would flood forums with noobs asking silly questions.

      It’s their loss if they don’t use Linux. Why should I encourage them to do so? Just to have some shitty Electron apps more which I don’t use?

      It’s much more painful for me that the places I work at don’t use Linux. They won’t be swayed by such an article anyway.

      • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        5 months ago

        Are you serious? Do you really believe linux can’t get any better or that linux is perfect for you?

        The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people and the more people use it.

        Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

        As well the more people that use linux the more apps will be supported on it. Can you say with full confidence that there isn’t a single windows or macos app that doesn’t work perfectly on linux that you don’t want? Even if linux is perfect for you, you rely on the kindness of open source maintainers to maintain linux, can you really not reserve any kindness for other people?

        • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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          5 months ago

          I did not say I don’t want more Linux users. I just don’t want them all to switch at once and make it unbearable for “community support” to help each other and improve the ecosystem.

          When everyone switches to desktop (!) Linux all of a sudden, it will make both the current users’ lives and the new users’ lives worse as the community can’t handle such a huge influx.

          Organic growth is fine. You don’t need to market Linux to the masses, as that would only lead to enshittification.

          I’d rather have Linux be imperfect and rough around the edges, but with sustainable, positive growth, than have everyone use Linux and flood bug trackers with so much work that maintainers give up and move to less demanding hobbies. Then the companies would take over and well, we know how it ends (see Windows 11).

          The more people that use linux the more donations it gets from people

          I don’t know if that’s true.

          Also if you think linux is so awesome isn’t it nice to other people to share that awesomeness with them?

          Sure, but I won’t force it onto them. They can choose to use it.

          Do you know what consent is?

            • Helix 🧬@feddit.orgEnglish
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              4 months ago

              Countless FOSS maintainers have lamented that millions of users use their software and nobody donates. (Lib)Curl for example is used in countless applications, basically all of them used by huge corporations, and they get flooded with bug reports for software they don’t even maintain, AI slop merge requests and pennies in donations (excuse the hyperbole).

              The lead dev of curl has some funnysad stories to tell: @bagder@mastodon.social 💔🫶

  • onlooker@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    And here I was, thinking this was a well thought out article with actual, legitimate reasons why someone wouldn’t want to use Linux. Instead, it’s this smug, autofellating, condescending bullshit. Roland Taylor has some issues.