• Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      10 months ago

      inevitably run into a problem with Linux

      This has nothing to do with any of kind of Linux problem.
      It’s just Luddites crying because Linux is moving on from outdated flawed software that has a bunch of unfixable problems.
      Same shit happens with windows, my guy. “WHAAAAAAAA MY WINDOWS XP/98 WHAAAAAA”, at least it’s often partially valid for windows…
      Luddites are not exclusive to any particular OS.

      If someone is having a Linux issue, they just need to ask. Literally just ask me, or the vast major of other users, we’ll literally provide better tech support than Windows will ever have.

      • Kaity@leminal.spaceEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        yeah I’ve seen the windows support forums, every official response either misses the point of the question or the answer is straight up wrong.

        • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          What gets me is the replies like “just wipe it & reinstall the whole thing”.
          Yeah right, like I’mma spend an entire hour wiping, reformatting and reinstalling Windows, then varying additional time reconfiguring everything for a problem that likely has an extremely simple solution but they’re too lazy to gather the necessary information to actually solve it.
          Assuming that the Windows installer doesn’t fuck up and I have to restart the install process again, which has happened to me several times.
          At least Linux takes 5-10m tops to install for the user friendly distros.
          Even I, a Linux user who’s spent hours upon days debugging kernel issues for my hardware can see how fuckin stupid that shit copout advice is.

    • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      10 months ago

      Yeah, I don’t know why they devolve back to tribalism. I just installed the thing and the programs I had to use and just…kept using it since I didn’t want to pirate windows xd. No need to shout to others what’s my favorite fake non Unix distro or anything.

      • Rustmilian@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        10 months ago

        This is not tribalism.
        This is people crying because Windows moved from 95 to 98 for comparison.

        Xorg has a plethora of unfixable issues, and people are mad that we can’t & don’t want to stick to it for all eternity, crippling the hell out of Linux growth & innovation.