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    Reality check (programming.dev)
    submitted 6 months ago by sus@programming.dev to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Ah, yes, ANOTHER post trying to make Linux seem impenetrable and elitist with an attack on Ubuntu - I swear you guys must work for Microsoft.

    [–] summerof69@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Ah, yes, another user offended by a joke posted to a community with memes.

    [–] DriftinGrifter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    average 5 year ubuntu user

    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Stalks my post history to find out I use Ubuntu for my daily driver. Didn't mention I've been using Linux since before the twin towers fell and am a long term open source dev and contributor...

    Almost like you purposely chose to be deceptive or something. I know it wasn't a choice though, this kind of immorality comes naturally to you and maybe you're not even aware of it. You should try and work on it though, you'll be amazed how much better a life of radical self awareness is.

    [–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 6 months ago

    i think i have a 2 day streak of the twin towers being mentioned in a day.

    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works -3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Isn't it embarrassing using the same excuses as every 4chan racist and misogynist?

    You're affecting how people perceive Linux and doing so in a negative way, I'm not going to try and stop you or anything but I am going to say I think you're a bad person working against all the efforts and hard work of people trying to make a better world.

    How you feel about it is upto you.

    Oh and of course this was just a joke so you have to laugh and agree, right?

    [–] sus@programming.dev 9 points 6 months ago

    This is not a joke. If you don't wake up at 4 am to start harassing windows users, you will never become a GNU/Linux Trillionaire.

    [–] summerof69@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I simply envy you because you live in some world where this is the problem worth discussing and getting angry. Or your head is full of shit. It's probably the latter, given that you put people joking about Arch Linux to the same category as racists and misogynists. In this case, I don't envy, but pity you.

    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

    I clearly didn't put them in the same category, I said they use the same defensive arguing tactic to justify their toxic bahviour.

    And no its not THE problem, I'm able to post a comment on a thread without it totally consuming my life.

    [–] summerof69@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago

    🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡

    [–] ultra@feddit.ro 23 points 6 months ago

    Ubuntu sucks. Not because it's for newbies, it's because better, new user friendlier options like mint exist.

    [–] lemmylem@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu is spyware.

    [–] VirtualOdour@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

    Pure FUD

    [–] lemmylem@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    They're owned by a for-profit company, they collect data on you by default, they've already had privacy issues in the past, and they include non-free software by default. I would rather have a beginner start off with Debian or Trisquel. We shouldn't be trapping people into these distros because then they'll potentially get too comfortable and not make the switch. This is coming from someone who did start off on Ubuntu. Sure, it's more convenient, but we should be teaching people to value freedom over convenience. Even if the data collection is minimal, it's still data.