• Hyperreality@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Man, this is the kind of “Reddit” comment I wanted to get away from when moving away from Reddit.

    Can we please instead make comments that don’t just boil down to “Reddit bad”?

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      1 year ago

      Actually, you’re right. Scratch Reddit. Every single Linux meme community I’ve seen on the internet so far eventually boils down to repetitive “Windows bad” memes.

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        1 year ago

        I was joking, but you are of course right.

        It’s one of the reasons why people like me are put off using linux, especially when you have to ask those same smug linux users for advice when your first install hits a snag or you have an issue installing drivers.

        It’s very human behaviour, it’s nice to feel special because you’re part of an in-group which you deem superior, but yeah.

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          smug linux users

          That might have been me 20 years ago, but these days I don’t give a fuck what you use. If Linux is your thing and you have the passion, you’ll gravitate towards it yourself just like I did. I don’t need to push anyone into the cult. We aren’t all like that.

          The cultish people are most likely still in the honeymoon phase. The veterans know how annoying and sometimes rough the OS is, and acknowledge it, but stick with it anyway.

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            1 year ago

            And yet… this meme popped up in my feed despite not being subscribed to linuxmemes. So there are still plenty of snobs.

            It’s normal human behaviour. From vegans, iphone users, xbox gamers, ford owners, owners of automatic watches being snobs about quartz watches, …

            Still annoying and unwelcoming for outsiders though.

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      1 year ago

      And here now I was hoping to avoid comments that smugly borrow verbiage from the OP as though that automatically makes it a sarcastic grand slam 😊😊😊