That’s exactly the kind of belittling behaviour I’m criticizing.
I’m a sysadmin. I’d just like to see everyone be free from extortion and am fed up with the alienating culture within the Linux- and, partially, hacking community. There’s of course nothing against learning, but a lot against expecting people who just want to be on a boat trip to somewhere to slowly become sailors and blaming them when they’re afraid of messing with core elements of the boat with specialized tools. They’ll rather go to the overly friendly but creepy guy on the other boating service (Windows), as with them they at least know they’ll arrive their actual destination.
They very well might even be fully preoccupied with being someone you as a sailor depend on and have neither time nor interest to divest from that.
Then of course there is the accessibility aspect for disabled people (which also includes GUI and not just screenreaders, different people have different needs), but that’s not a can of worms we should open or I may explode in your face.
Your meme isn’t the issue. Your expectations and the way you belittle people is.
I never said I, nor do I, expect shit from anyone. I don’t blame people for not knowing how it works. This is exactly why I teach people with patience and understanding. Your assuming a lot of things about my stance based of your image of certain linux people. Please read what people actually say, thank you.
PS.
People know I do computer stuff.
They ask me how to get away from microsoft.
I help them install mint.
timeskip
Mint breaks because linux always does (I love it, but it’s just true)
They expect me to fix it, so I usually just start by teaching them how to fix things in the terminal.
It’s just responsible linux ownership. I don’t understand why it’s different then knowing how to use a taskmanager gui in windows.
Can we please stop always pretending that people doing more then checking their email will be fine with linux without even touching a terminal. It’s just a lie we try and pedal to convince people to switch. It’s honestly kind of immoral tbh. It’s not fair the terminal is needed and I do love that teams are taking the initiative to make it accessable, but goddamn! Let’s stop lying about linux not being a bit finicky and sometimes requiring 1 or 2 lines of terminal code occassionally to work fine.
PPS.
There is a reason we teach people to change a flat tire if they own a car, and noone is yelling about that being “the reason noone wants a car”.
That’s exactly the kind of belittling behaviour I’m criticizing. I’m a sysadmin. I’d just like to see everyone be free from extortion and am fed up with the alienating culture within the Linux- and, partially, hacking community. There’s of course nothing against learning, but a lot against expecting people who just want to be on a boat trip to somewhere to slowly become sailors and blaming them when they’re afraid of messing with core elements of the boat with specialized tools. They’ll rather go to the overly friendly but creepy guy on the other boating service (Windows), as with them they at least know they’ll arrive their actual destination. They very well might even be fully preoccupied with being someone you as a sailor depend on and have neither time nor interest to divest from that.
Then of course there is the accessibility aspect for disabled people (which also includes GUI and not just screenreaders, different people have different needs), but that’s not a can of worms we should open or I may explode in your face.
Your meme isn’t the issue. Your expectations and the way you belittle people is.
I never said I, nor do I, expect shit from anyone. I don’t blame people for not knowing how it works. This is exactly why I teach people with patience and understanding. Your assuming a lot of things about my stance based of your image of certain linux people. Please read what people actually say, thank you.
PS.
People know I do computer stuff.
They ask me how to get away from microsoft.
I help them install mint.
timeskip
Mint breaks because linux always does (I love it, but it’s just true)
They expect me to fix it, so I usually just start by teaching them how to fix things in the terminal.
It’s just responsible linux ownership. I don’t understand why it’s different then knowing how to use a taskmanager gui in windows.
Can we please stop always pretending that people doing more then checking their email will be fine with linux without even touching a terminal. It’s just a lie we try and pedal to convince people to switch. It’s honestly kind of immoral tbh. It’s not fair the terminal is needed and I do love that teams are taking the initiative to make it accessable, but goddamn! Let’s stop lying about linux not being a bit finicky and sometimes requiring 1 or 2 lines of terminal code occassionally to work fine.
PPS.
There is a reason we teach people to change a flat tire if they own a car, and noone is yelling about that being “the reason noone wants a car”.