@BrodieOnLinux you will not notice the difference while gaming using Proton

@BrodieOnLinux Nobody actually likes Gnome, they're just too lazy to configure KDE.

@BrodieOnLinux Oh, here's another:

Unixporn is just a collection of people who really, really, wish they were using MacOS.

@BrodieOnLinux nano is the best text editor.

@BrodieOnLinux Linux users are just as ignorant as Windows users, they choose to ignore their pain

@BrodieOnLinux My hot take is that the only reason Linux is actually succeeding on the desktop is not the community, but Valve and RedHat. Until the Steamdeck hit and Glorious Eggroll pushed proton even further... most people simply didn't care.

Although that's to say nothing about Microsoft cross-promoting Linux on accident by blowing up Windows with AI and ads.

Just my perspective... Linux user since 2002.

@BrodieOnLinux you do not need a fetch program

@BrodieOnLinux Cinnamon, Cosmic, Elementary exist because Gnome3 was very bad. But since Gnome 40 Gnome is quite good.

@BrodieOnLinux immutability and sandboxing don't provide extra security/privacy because they can still access my home directory and all I really care about are my files.

@BrodieOnLinux A decent chunk is only using Linux because it's not <insert mainstream desktop OS here>.

@BrodieOnLinux the amount of customisation available to desktop Linux is the reason it is always going to be too scary for newcomers to become mainstream

@BrodieOnLinux Most people using linux just play being special, and doesn't even learn how to use any of the features that makes it linux, and could just as well have used anything else.

@BrodieOnLinux Linux isn't hard and will work great for most people's needs. It's usually the distro that is the issue.

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online The performance benefits of using linux-zen over the default kernel on Arch for gaming are likely placebo.

@BrodieOnLinux systemd and wayland are necessary and good.

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online If ZFS was GPL'd nobody in their right mind would bother using btrfs

@BrodieOnLinux “Flatpak is not a distribution”

Source:

Hari Rana, “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak” https://tesk.page/2023/06/04/response-to-developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online The Audacity fiasco was nothingburger.

@BrodieOnLinux of course, its Clip Studio the one that its important.

@BrodieOnLinux Linux is popular because it does not allow users to do/install most things, and so prevents 99% of computer problems.

@BrodieOnLinux tiling window managers are overrated and you waste more time customizing than working (I was an i3 user)

@BrodieOnLinux Linux​ is not ready for regular desktop users

@BrodieOnLinux systemd is fine, Wayland is fine, gnome is fine, foss software alternatives to Office and Adobe CS are all at best meh.

@BrodieOnLinux These days, there's no much reliability difference between Linux and Windows Server.

@BrodieOnLinux its easier to make a game on windows and run it with wine than it is to make a native linux game

@BrodieOnLinux here's mine: Linux users are as lazy as Windows users - in fact, I'd go one step further and say that they're mostly the same.

You'll see the same kind of whining between both communities. They just whine about or ignore different stuff and for most of them, it's just arbitrary what they care or don't care about.

It's only when they encounter enough problems to stop being lazy and actually experience new stuff that they start to meaningfully change their opinions.

@BrodieOnLinux Too many to list but off the top of my head:
- Linux distribution snobbery & mockery of other distributions is very real (each to their own).
- Linux users who state they 'hate' Gnome/KDE/Systemd/Snap/Flatpak etc are very poor at explaining to others 'exactly' why that is (always seems a personal preference reason than any technical failings).
- Linux 'desktop' dominance race was over decades ago. The race finished & everyone went home & moved on (Windows won BTW, unfortunately).

@BrodieOnLinux most linux users don't know, or honestly don't care, what the kernel is.

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online yeah my take was pretty much yours. complaining about foss software like gimp, kdenlive, and other useful programs, does fuck all to fix them.

@BrodieOnLinux if gnome would introduce custom accent and folder colours, then I'd be 100% fine with the level of customisation avaliable in that DE.

@BrodieOnLinux gnome and KDE people are arrogant fucks who can't leave each other live in peace with each other's choice of DE

@BrodieOnLinux Linux is not usable for the average person because Linux people love to gatekeep stuff amongst themselves.

@BrodieOnLinux Present-day Linux and Windows are actually quite similar in terms of user-friendliness.

However, whereas a lot of people are "used to" Windows and therefore put up with constant changes including stuff being moved around; also a lot of people mentally freeze up at the mention of "Linux" and give up without ever even trying because it is not named Windows. If they tried, they would likely find all of the things they typically do working quite well on Linux.

Yes, exceptions exist.

@BrodieOnLinux
When someone says that window managers are inherently superior to desktop environments (as a blanket statement)

- or that WMs are some kind of natural progression for advanced users while only beginners stay with DEs.

But then spend hours trying to recreate types of functionality that already just work automatically and integrated well in the DE that they were mocking.

@BrodieOnLinux there’s no decent IDE nor email client on Linux

@BrodieOnLinux Ubuntu saved Linux on desktop

@BrodieOnLinux
How some people will seek out discussions with news about distribution or application they apparently hate (they always have a list)

- but then it turns out the only valid criticisms they have are recycled from years ago and since addressed

-then it turns out they never tried it recently

@BrodieOnLinux 1) Hating snaps is no longer driven by the merit of this technology. It’s simply socially unacceptable in the community to like snaps or even to admit some of them may have their use cases. 2) When people don’t like a distro, but aren’t able to precisely explain why, some of them say it’s “bloated” and consider it the end of the discussion.

@BrodieOnLinux Gnome developers are free to follow their own vision and the fact that they are that large and popular implies that it's good for a lot of people

@BrodieOnLinux systemd is good

@BrodieOnLinux

I use Artix Linux as my daily driver, which is basically just Arch Linux but without systemd. But I don't hate systemd tho, in fact I'm one of the developers of TROMjaro - a linux distro based on Manjaro. Oh yes, we forked Manjaro everyone! 😁 Here is the website - https://www.tromjaro.com

@BrodieOnLinux@linuxrocks.online Global Menu like macOS actually have a benefit of saving the screen estate (props to Unity). It is sad that most popular Linux DE that i have known always being edgy to their own niche and not following this UX that actually just works since the 80's.

@BrodieOnLinux the unix philosophy and posix compliance is a big reason as to why bsd is so far behind Linux development wise, and if we adhered to it we'd still be at 0% marketshare

@BrodieOnLinux Im sorry this is controversial? lol

@BrodieOnLinux
All of these things don't matter because normal people use whatever was preinstalled anyways

@BrodieOnLinux wayland by default is very bad and any distro that targets general population should never use it

@BrodieOnLinux You don't ACTUALLY need neofetch in your bashrc. Or at all.

@BrodieOnLinux Desktop environments are not necessarily simpler to use and configure than window managers.

I tried kde and it was hell. It's all so overcomplicated and confusing... I think it mostly depends on the user. Back to hyprland for me, which at least preserves my sanity. We're very happy and are going to make lots of baby tiled windows together.

@BrodieOnLinux Linux (and not just the kernel) is almost all corporation, and the independent stuff is used as free work for corporation

And people seems fine with it...

@BrodieOnLinux redhat is actually a good company