Comment on When you say you don't like linux on Lemmy
remon@ani.social 10 hours agoThere is definitely an overlap but I think Linux users are more like vegetarians, they cut out the commercial OS from their diet and are content with that. FOSS people are more like militant vegans … they won’t be happy unless everyone else has to use the shitty software they do.
i mean, there are degrees to everything
Just a year or two ago I would’ve said that i don’t even understand why linux exists. Now i’d rather say that windows should stop being a thing asap, as it brings nothing but problems and stagnation to consumer electronics, and nawadays it goes the same for any major proprietary software piece.
What can i say, i hope the era of corpos is nearing its end, and we’re the witnesses
Oh, I totally agree with that. I like Linux/FOSS.
It’s the people that post about it online that are insufferable.
currently
we’re the people
or at least i am :D
also, how would others know about all that cool free stuff that i found, that’s actually cooler that the paid one 🥺🥺🥺
foss doest have any marketing budgets, so of course foss users would blabber about it all over the place.
so, like, seriously, what’s the alternative here?
what do you think veganism is?
Mostly self-righteous virtue-signal.
But veganism isn’t widely accepted as a virtue, so who are we supposedly signaling to by being combative?
“is veganism a virtue”
sounds like a topic for a debate
like, it certaily is on paper, from a moral standpoint of causing less harm to the environmant
but “the environmant” is a really vague term. After all, by not allowing John Flesheater have his steak, you’re still technically harming an animal, just morally this time :D (and possibly in terms of health a bit, if there are some kind of external dietary limitations in a given local region)
Another problem is that farm animals don’t talk much about their feelings, ro we can’t really know if we’re actually harming them, thus we can’t say whether we’re helping them by stopping the process.
But that raises another question: “how one would know if they’re happy, if they never experienced happiness?”
I think veganism is a vanity that we can afford given the right circumstances, that some cultures also try to dress up as a virtue. So if one derives joy or piece of mind from it, they shoule do it as long as they do.
oof sorry, not coming drunk to lemmy again :D
But veganism isn’t widely accepted as a virtue
But is it?
shitty software
I feel like you’ve never had to deal with proprietary bullshit.
Linux users are more like vegetarians, they cut out the commercial OS from their diet and are content with that
Have you been on Lemmy, sir?
Using FOSS is like the first step towards using the FOSS OS.
Yeah, but I blocked all 372 linux communities.
should pou even be considered a lemmy user at this point? :D
lemmus@szmer.info 8 hours ago
“Shitty software”??? Basically most of non-FOSS software is shitty. Its not because we want to use shitty software, but we better use shitty software that gets better overtime, than shitty software that only gets worse. Also why everyone else has to use it?? Idgaf what you use, but I’m only angry, when you decide to pay for shit software, instead of donating the better and more free software, thats the only thing that makes me angry about people.
remon@ani.social 8 hours ago
Image
1984@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Love that pic. :)