But the people who shoehorn Linux into every conversation are also the ones who spend more time finding acceptance online rather than actually being âfriendsâ with people IRL. Tbh, I have you coined for a stereotype I know and I apologize about that. I canât help it. I just know mfers who talk like you are commenting so my bad if I attach opinions to you, I really donât mean to. Thatâs why Iâm trying to ask questions.
Can you give an example of people shoehorning Linux into conversations? Usually the only comment I see is already on Linux, and itâs the Arch btwâs, which is a meme in itself. Maybe you need to search for subs you like, and subscribe to them, and have subscribed as the default view. All may not be your cup of tea, like all was never my cup of tea on reddit. Youâre not always going to be in the majority view, and that is fine.
barsoap@lemm.ee â¨7⊠â¨months⊠ago
âŚof the population of the people using it, mostly, yes. Of course, weâll never know what the lurkers think. None of it should be used for statistical analysis but youâll get a reasonable spread of opinions deemed acceptable in a particular place â for example, on lemmy youâll be hard-pressed to find Nazis or Trumpets as no admin wants to deal with that kind of headache. Tankies, too, can be readily seen to run a manipulative agenda and theyâre not entirely welcome. Frankly speaking influencing stuff just by posting is rather hard, to have to influence content discovery algorithms (which are dumb as bread in lemmyâs case and thatâs good).
Dude Iâve been running Linux as my primary desktop since the early 2000s, Iâm too old for that shit. Back in the days I was a freshly-baked programmer tinkering around everywhere, by now I largely simply want a system that a) works out of the box in a sensible manner and that b) I can mess with if required. I also have a windows installation for a game or the other and the occasional testing of builds and believe me it certainly doesnât fulfil a) and b), well, I donât know it well enough and the documentation sucks.
The usual context I see Linux mentioned in on lemmy is gaming, or in context of just what at shitshow Windows 11 is regarding ads and whatnot. Thatâs not shoehorning.