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submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/linuxmemes
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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

So there are two points:

  1. don't shit on people who donate their free time to make a product you can use for free with no warranty whatsoever, unless they treat you like shit
  2. many FOSS communities are toxic: I wholeheartedly agree. Fuck those that are. Ain't nobody got time for that.

Still point 2 does not invalidate point 1.

I've had to deal with toxic ubuntu, debian, arch, nixos, rust, java, python, ... communities. The ones that piss me off the most are linux communities that treat newcomers like gutter-filth, refuse to endorse GUIs, good documentation, and just a generally better newcomer experience, then wonder why there's no "year of the linux desktop". I hate those gatekeepers with a passion. "If you use Linux, you must learn to use the command line", no how about you fuck off to whatever CLI cave you came from and learn to be a productive member of the community?

As I said, I get it. But again, writing an angry bug report, demanding a new feature be implemented, writing a tirade about "how bad opensource software is" or whatever? Nah. Not OK

Remember that joke? Ask for help and you get no response; Say linux sucks because you can’t do X and you get dozens of apologetic posts explaining step by step how to do stuff.

Turns out there’s some truth behind that joke.

Sad but true.

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