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suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 4 days agoI have, quite a few in fact. Recently I got into a discussion with someone who was complaining about how bad Linux was because installing it from scratch took an extra ~20 minutes of configuration to set up drivers, meanwhile his Windows systems “just work”. What he didn’t mention, though, was that his Windows systems that “just worked” were pre-build machines that came pre-installed with Windows, in other words the manufacturer already did the hard part of getting all of the drivers installed ahead of time and baked into the image. Turns out he had never actually installed Windows on a bare-metal system before and had to deal with the absolute fucking nightmare Windows driver management is, so he had no basis for comparison, of course he refused to recognize that as a possibility though.
Draces@lemmy.world 4 days ago
That doesn’t sound like zealot as much as someone who doesn’t want to think about it though
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 4 days ago
In his mind, Windows works, Linux doesn’t, and nothing and no-one can convince him otherwise. That sounds like a zealot to me, but maybe you had something else in mind.
Draces@lemmy.world 4 days ago
And claiming that it works is zealotry? Sounds like he does like Linux, that doesn’t make him a Windows zealot. Apathetic is kinda Windows target demographic and the antithesis of zealotry
suicidaleggroll@lemmy.world 3 days ago
What are you talking about?
He doesn’t like Linux, he specifically said he doesn’t like Linux because it “doesn’t work” in his opinion, because it takes additional setup time that his Windows systems don’t take. He only likes Windows, and he likes it because it “just works”. However, the reason it “just works” is because he’s only using systems that have been set up for him, he’s never had to set them up himself like he was attempting to do with Linux. He hates Linux, loves Windows, and the reason he loves Windows is because he’s clueless on how much setup it actually takes. He’s not apathentic, he’s ignorant, and a zealot.