• inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Oh for fucks sake, so much neckbeard energy here dismissing this guys personal experience.

    When you’re a new user and don’t know what the hell the native app store application is, which doesn’t have all the programs a person would want to use and install there, and when a new user goes to find their old windows apps that have Linux install instructions, what’s the first thing that they have there? Guess. It’s always find your flavor of Linux and the first steps shown are always terminal commands with sudo apt get or sudo dnf.

    That’s everyone first time with Linux until they learn more about it so get off your high horse and condescending gatekeeping attitude.

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      13 hours ago

      Gatekeeping, I hate that word. So useless. In this scenario the author is gate keeping saying all the linux system management is the command line. Its “exhausting”. Well bullshit. Let me say it again: BULLSHIT.

      It is perpetuating a myth. This is not true. They are gatekeeping the users who don’t want to because they are saying it has to be this way.

      Look, I like the command line, I get why sharing information is so much easier by providing a command rather than a wall of screen shots.

      Yet at the same time, my travel laptop over here, two years in, has never had to have “system administration” and package installation from a command line. Depending on the distro it simply is not necessary.

      The user has choice.

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        9 hours ago

        Buddy, they literally do not know that choice exists, and you’re getting angry and calling them a liar instead of growing the community by teaching.

        The Linux community has a reputation for being filled with condescending dickheads, and that’s part of the reason why people are turned off from even trying.

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          9 hours ago

          Buddy, they literally do not know that choice exists

          Yeah, because people like this author keep repeating it.

          The Linux community has a reputation for being filled with condescending dickheads

          Yet another annoying myth. Look, I am saying it with a bit of vitrol here, but its basically to the universe as the author (as far as I know) isn’t here.

          Could I be a bit nicer? I suppose, but they were so wrong, and using strong words like “exhausting” to describe a practice they don’t even have to do is annoying. Read what they wrote, they said all admin tasks are command line. Nonsense of course. If they had said, I started out this way, or it was what I had learned, with just a tiny bit of journalistic effort they would know there are a variety of ways.

          I have gone back and read forums, from 10 to 15 years ago, just because I keep hearing: linux is so condescending and rude, and it wasn’t the way I remembered it, so I went to see. And guess what? Nothing but nice and friendly people trying to help each other.

          It gets old fast.