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@funbaker Or maybe you just can't imagine dealing with anyone that isn't like yourself. Because I'm talking as someone who has introduced other people to Linux and you are talking as someone only thinking about your own use of it, and that's not what this thread was about in the first place. I have a computer science degree, I want to get people into Linux who don't.

Like 21 May at 22:31 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hackers.town

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funbaker #AssangeIsNotGuilty replied to lori

@lori much appreciate and good luck with that. but my issue was with the subpost here which calls linux users "not normal". I have a problem with that.

21 May at 22:32 | Open on chaos.social

funbaker #AssangeIsNotGuilty replied to funbaker

@lori and then image me being swarmed by people full of vanity.

21 May at 22:33 | Open on chaos.social

lori replied to funbaker

@funbaker I have no idea how you read a single thing here as vanity

21 May at 23:08 | Open on hackers.town

funbaker #AssangeIsNotGuilty replied to lori

@lori and you see no problem with people being called "not normal" either?

21 May at 23:09 | Open on chaos.social

lori replied to funbaker

@funbaker No, I don't think people who are using Linux terminals are The Normal PC User at all

21 May at 23:28 | Open on hackers.town

funbaker #AssangeIsNotGuilty replied to lori

@lori that alone may be something to be discussed, but this is not the issue here.

21 May at 23:29 | Open on chaos.social

lori replied to funbaker

@funbaker To me the issue is that you see people talking about how to get the average person on Linux and you want to call that "not being able to handle the freedom of it"

Which is going to get exactly zero people off of Windows

21 May at 23:49 | Open on hackers.town

funbaker #AssangeIsNotGuilty replied to lori

@lori so you choose to ignore the issue of people getting called "not normal". I'm not sure if that doesn't make you part of the problem, frankly said.

21 May at 23:50 | Open on chaos.social

lori replied to funbaker

@funbaker considering it applies to me as much as you I don't think there is a problem. I'm also not the normal computer user.

22 May at 0:05 | Open on hackers.town

Lykso replied to funbaker

@funbaker @lori "Not normal" isn't an insult, necessarily. "Normal" is that which common, or average. I don't think it was meant in a derogatory sense here. "Average" might have been a clearer word here, maybe? This is how I took it, anyway.

22 May at 0:14 | Open on tiny.tilde.website

congusbongusgames replied to funbaker

@funbaker @lori I wonder if there’s a language issue here; in some cultures “normal” is value neutral, synonymous with terms like “mainstream”, whereas others see it as a positive, so calling someone “not normal” is a put-down

22 May at 0:38 | Open on mastodon.gamedev.place