Nick @Nickiquote@mstdn.social
Sometimes people just want to be able to complain about Windows or iOS without being told about Linux.
Maybe it’s a work computer and it’s not their choice. Maybe they’re not a computer toucher and do not have confidence touching computers. Maybe they were perfectly happy using these OSs before some stupid new feature was introduced. Maybe they’re tired or stressed or have no time.
If the obvious reply to the post is “use Linux”, as a rule, do not post that. You are not adding anything.
image: A comic strip featuring two characters. The left panel shows the first character shushing another while holding their lips closed, while the right panel depicts the same characters with the first character continuing: “LET PEOPLE COMPLAIN.”
Oct 26, 2025, 03:27 PM
I use Arch, btw
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This has gotten so weirdly meta on the fediverse lmao
It’s not that deep my peeps. Sometimes nerds are gonna nerd and sometimes “normies” (cringed as I typed that) wanna bitch about the hostility of corpo hell. Both are valid, and both can be annoying ¯\(ツ)/¯
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
To me, this is not even about windows or linux: I just find it weird someone thinks it makes sense to tell the public to behave unlike themselves. Public’s gonna public regardless of our feelings & writing on social media means writing to the public for public discussion. That includes nuisances.
Knowing that, someone who dislikes the feedback their complaint on social media is gonna get perhaps should reconsider whether social media is the place for their complaint to get just the responses they deem kosher. We can control our output, not the public response to it.