They’re even defending their decision to because it somehow isn’t relevant to the article enough for them. Its a cult.
Comment on Linux's Sole Wireless/WiFi Driver Maintainer Is Stepping Down - Phoronix
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days agoIt astounds me that people who support linux get personally offended if you say you’re not sure linux is for you.
I watched a video where a guy installed linux, and then installed a new desktop environment that caters to touchscreen. He got a bunch of errors. So he said “Ah, that’s alright! I’ll just bring up terminal”
And then he types
sudo add do willywop bojanga -l -r ♧¿¤☆▪︎●
And I’m like “ok, hold on. How the fuck does he just KNOW that exact string is what will fix it???”
If you don’t speak terminal, that shits confusing as hell.
And now this story is like smokey the bear. “Only YOU can maintain wifi protocols. Seriously. I’m done. It’s just you now. The professionals are sick of this shit.”
So it’s reasonable that non-techies are like “I had some issues before, but now I’ll have MORE issues if I comd back…I better stick with what I kjow works.”
Meanwhile lemmy users are like “BOOO WINDOWS!!! BOOOO I SAY!!! WHY DON’T YOU JUST UNDERSTAND THE THINGS YOU DON’T GET???”
And thus…you have downvotes for saying logically reasonable things that piss off obsessive types who would downvote each other over which distro is best.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 days ago
But…your comment LITERALLY is based in the fact that switch back to linux would frustrate you BECAUSE OF THE WIFI SITUATION THE ARTICLE IS ABOUT!!!
clearly getting aggitated at life
Humans are stupid.
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 days ago
What boggles my mind is they WANT more people to join them them obliterate anyone who may try to and wonder why no one wants to bother. Like an OS where I’m going to need to learn things is one thing, but one where I need to learn from people like them . . . yeah I see why they don’t have success with people outside comp sci fields.
Takumidesh@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m not disagreeing with you, I just want to say, the reason the terminal is helpful in these types of scenarios is never communicated properly in my opinion.
The reason when you ask people for help or Google stuff and get terminal commands back is because they are clear, concise, and reproducible. It’s really hard from the perspective of the people helping, to communicate, usually over text, how to navigate UIs that are ever changing and cart depending on the users hardware and setup. This is true for windows too, and it’s why getting any help beyond very simple troubleshooting will devolve into powershell commands.
As for this scenario, it’s just inflammatory on purpose, would anyone mention or care if one person at Microsoft who was a project lead retired after decades of working? There are literally thousands of contributors to the Linux kernel, this is just one of them retiring. A maintainer is only one role in a project and can (and will) very easily be replaced. If not by a volunteer, then in a paid position from one of the many companies that pay developers to maintain the Linux kernel. Regardless, there is already people maintaining the the ath10k, ath11k, and ath12k drivers. This is really just a non issue of a temporary vacancy for one position, the same thing that happens at every single software organization every day.